The Huron Expositor, 1898-01-07, Page 44
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THE. HURON EXPOSITOR
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SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, Jan. 7tn, 1898
The,Provincial Pigarium.
The Prenincial Pigarium, or the Humber
Piggery, as it is more easily called, has re-
ceived & notoriety which has been denied to
many more meritorious institutions. For
this notoriety the pigs and Pigarium are in-
debted to Mr. St. John, the raember for
West York in the Legislature. To this
gentleman, is due the credit of bringing the
matter before the country, as but for him,
the history of the institution would never
have become a question of Public discussion,
and much less would it now stand a` chance
of descending to posterity as a unique chap-
ter in the political history of this Province.
As it bas become a subject of political con-
troversy and will likely be an issue in the
forthcoming election, it may not be out of
place if we give an impartial and truthful
history of the affair from its commencement
until the present time.
The Governmenthave, in connection with
each of their asylums and- other public in-
stitutions, a piggery, in which are kept- a
number of the porcine species. The object
of doing thians that the refuse from these
institutions may be utilised in some profit-
able way instead of being burned or buried or
in sozne other way destroyed. An institution
of this kind was maintained in connection
with the Toronto Asylum, the Central
Prison, the Mercer Reformatory and other
similar itietitutions in the city. The city
authorities, however, passed an ordinance
that ten such institutions should be main-
tained within the city limits. The Ontario
authorities had, therefore, to abolish all
their piggeries within Toronto. They con-
ceived, the idea of erecting a large piggery
in the adjoining county of York,_one which
would be sufficient to consume the refuse
from all the institutions under their control
in the eity. But when they set to werk to
carry Out this proposition they were met by
anothei prohibitory by-law in York county,
bat ainer considerable negotiations they
were permitted to erect their propoaed pig-
gery in certain places. This required them
to pay more for the site and to make a
selection in a less favorable locality than
they would otherwise have done. However,
they purchased the lot, erected. the piggery
and stocked it with a requisite number of
pigs, and engaged ,a man -to take charge Of
the institution. Az it is necessary, also, for
the manager tolive.near the piggery, th ey
had to erect for him a residence. Shortly
after the piggery was erected, stocked and
got in proper running order, hog cholera
broke out among the swine housed in the
piggery. The dealing with diseases of this
nature devolves upon the Agricultural De-
partment of the Dominion Government:
Mr. Noxon, the Provincial official under
whose charge the piggery was, promptly
notified the, Dominion authorities. Dr.
Smith, the Dominion. Government inspector,
at once visited the institution, and after a
thorough examination of some of the ani-
mals decided that they were affected by the
cholera,and taking charge of the institution,
as was his right, ordered that all the ani-
mals be slaughtered at once, and those
found to be diseased to be burned, and that
any that were sound could be soldnnfor hu-
man food. These instructions were carried
out to the yery letter Under the direction of
Mr. Hunter, a gentleman who is engaged to
purchase cattle for use in the Government
institutions, and who is universally admit-
ted to be an expert in his special business.
Some one hundred and twenty of the hoga
were killed and the carcaeses burned, the
remaining ninety were dressed and sent to
the cold storage room at the Central Prison,
and.after being inspected by Dr.Sweetapple,
Dr. Sinith's assistant, were told t� a Mr.
Harris, a large dealer in Toronto. Tri e
building, or the greater part of it, had to
be torn cliewn and burned, and the whole
place was quarantined until it was supposed
the seeds of the disease had disappeared.
So soon as they received permission from the
Dominion authorities, the Provincial author-
ities rebuilt and restocked the institution,
and the Humber Piggery is now in full
operation again. We had almost forgotten
to mention, however, that one pig of the lot
had been saved, as it was found not to be
diseased, havingbeen isolated from
the others at the time the
• disease broke out, - and we believe
that this animal is still alive and well. The
whole coat of the building and grounds,
from first to last, including the rebuilding
of the piggery, the purchase of the land, the
caretaker's house and all other accessories,
amounted to seven thousand and some hun-
dreds of dollars.
Now, Mr. $t, John's first charge was,
that the cost was too great, tha money had
been wasted and that the. manager had been
- kept for a whole year, being paid a large
salary, for simply attending to the one lone
surviving pig. When he brought the mat-
ter up in the Legislature, and made his
charges there, Mr. Davie, the Provincial
Secretary, under whose department the
business was conducted, explained the
whole proceeding, supplementing his state-
ment by documentary evidence, and showed
that theexpenditure had been judiciously
incurred, that full value had been received
for every dollar expended, and that the in-
stitution when it was in operation returned
to the Province a profit at the rate of two
thousand dollars a year, and that the mana-
ger, whom Mr. St. John said was paid a
large salary for superintending one pig, bad I
been employed at other work until his ser -
vices were again requiredin-the reconstruc-
tion of the piggery building.
At this juncture,,Mr. St, .Joha seems tP
bave changed his ground. He evidently
abandoned his charge of extravagance and
adopted one of undue parsimony. He
charged that the pigs which had been
dressed and sold were diseased and unfit
for human food. and accused the Govern-
ment of knowingly selling diseased meat:
This latter is the more serious charge of the
two, and is now in couree of investigation
by the Public Accounts Committee. In so
far as the evidence in support of this charge
has thus far been given, it looks as if the
accuser will fail as ignominiously in estab-
lishing this charge as he did in the other.
The first witness examined was Mr. Noxon,
the inspector, who detailed the circum-
stances as we have given them and also said
that the whole responsibility of stamping
out the disease and the disposition of the
animals diseased and otherwise, was assum-
ed by the Dominion officials and that their
instructions were carried out to the letter,
thus freeing the Provincial Government and
their officers from responsibility in the mat-
ter. The second witness enamined was a
young man named Newton, who killed the
pigs. He told a terrible story. He said
that all the pigs, some 260 in number,' were
diseased, and that those dressed and sent
to the Central Prison store -house and after-
wards sold, were very seriously diseased, so
much so that he cut- diseased pieces from
the carcases, some of which, were moat of-
fensive, and that he did this under the -di-
rection of Mr. Hunter and other Provincial
officials. At this juncture the case looked
well for Mr. St. John and black enough for
the officials. Bunother witnesses were ex-
amined which rather changed the complex-
ion of affairs. Dr. • Smith, the Dominion
inspector, swore that only a portion of the
hogs were diseased, that his instructions
were that those which were nos diseased
might be dres3ed, and after the carcasses
were inspected. they could be sold, and that
so far as he knew his instructions were luny
• carried out. Dr. Sweetapple, Dr. Smith's
assistant, swore that he inspected the car-
casses in the Central Prison store -house,
that none of them were mutilated is de-
scribed by Newton, that they were all
sound and fit for food and he would heve
no hesitation in using them in his own
family.. He would not swear, however,
that he had inspected all the hogs that
were sold, although he had inspected all
in the store -house. Mr. Harris, who pur-
chasen the hogs, swore that he hen paid
the regular market price for thew, that he
had inspected every carcass and saw it
weighed, that they were perfectly sound
and were not in any way mutilated as New-
ton had described in his evidence, that he
had sold the pork to Toronto wholesale
dealers and that he had received from them
no complaints as to the unsoundness of the
meat. Next came Mr. Hunter;under whose
supervision the killing and dressing had
been carried out, and who sold the pork to
Mr. Harris. Mr. Hunter said that he had
engaged Newton and two other men to kill
the hogs and that he had distinctly instruct-
ed them to burn all carcasses after the pigs
were killed that showed any signs of disease
and not on any account to dress and send
to the'cold storage loom any that showed
signs of disease. That himself and Mr.
Sweetapple had thoroughly inspected all
the hogs in the cold storage room and that
were sold, with tbe exception of five that
were removed before he came in the morn-
ing, and that the doctor and deputy inspec-
tor had given their permission for the hogs
to be sold as round pork and fit for human
consumption. That he had sold the pork
to Ilarris accordingly and that he had paid
the regular market price for it. He also
swore that the statements of Newton to the
effect that these pigs , were diseased and
mutilated were false, also that he had paid
Newton for his services in slaughtering the
pigs $1.50 per day, that he was dissatisfied
with that and wanted considerably more,
which he refused to give him. This is as
far as the evidence has gone at the time of
writing. The case, therefore, now stands
thus: We have the evidence of Newton to
the effect that the pork sold was diseased
and that the Government officials knew it tc
be diseased and actually connived at the
disposal of it for human food. In. opposi-
tion to that we have the evidence of Dr.
Smith, who is, perhaps, the highest veter-
inary authority in Canada ;_ of De. Sweet.
apple, his aneistant, who is an expert in the
inspection of meats; of Mr. Harris, who
purchased the meat, and who is the largest
dealer in pork in Toronto and one of the
largest in the Province, and last but not
least, the evidence of Mr. Hunter, of whom
it was said by Mr. Crawford, a leading col-
league of Mr. St. John, that he Was one of
the beat judges of fat stock in Canada and
that none who knew him would for a mo-
ment doubt his judgment and wield unhesi-
tatingly accept his statements, in so far as
veracity is concerned on any Subject. We
think the Government may very safely rest
its case right here, and in view of such
testimony the charge of Mr. St.r John that
diseased meat had been sold, 9iil not have
much weight with sensible neople. Had
the Government destroyed all the pigs, in-
stead of 4aving and selling those that were
sound, Mr. St. John and his colleagues
would have been very ready to charge them
with extravagance and wastefulness, and
under the circumstances, they would have
good grounds for the charge. But in this,
as in all other cases, the Government have
proven that they have acted with great
prudence and that they have been extreme-
ly careful of the people's property.
valued at $40,000, were destroyed. On
November 10 the Yukon froze over, and
since then about 3,000 persons have started
out over the ice between Dawson and
FIRE IN DAWSON CITY.—According to
news receiv'ed in San Francisco from Da,w-
eon City, under the date of November 25,
the Klondike mining camp has twice been in
danger of destruction by fire. On November
22 two front street log houses were destroy-
ed by fire.One of them was used as a lodging
house on one floor and a church. on the
other. The lodgings contained food and
outfits for ten men, and nothing was saved.
Steps have been taken to relieve the desti-
tute. The fire was caused ny the overturn-
ing of a lighted candel. A fire from a similar
cause broke out on November 25 and the
Opera House and two saloons were burned
to the ground. The snow on the roofs saved
the rest of the front street from destruction.
A large quantity of proeieions and liquors,
THE ONTARIO LEGISLATURE.
TORONTO, January 4th, 1898.
The Legislature sat last week on Tuesday,
Wedneently and Thursday, On Thursday
evening an adjournment was made until to-
day, Tuesday, when the legislative mill will
again commence to grindandwill continue
to grind ntail the close of the last session of
the present Parliamentary tenni is reached.
This will likely be some date between now
and the first of February. During the past
week several important bills Were intro-
duced and advanced a stage, and although
none of them have yet become law, and
the prospectis are that some of them, those
introduced by private members, never will,
we may refer to those that are most likely
to find a lodgment on the pages of the
statute book. In the first place, we take
up a somewhat important measure intro-
duced by the Premier in response to the
large number of petitions presented to the
House asking for changes in the
Montreal, who made a profession Of running
these fraudulent games at the fall fairs. An
effort had been made to stopethem, but it
would take an army of men to,
watch them.
A provision had been put in the lave that
any agricultural association whieh suffered
these fakirs on their grounds would forfeit
the Government grant, but even this, had.
but
-but little effect. He also condemned very
strongly so-calledL speeding contests, or in
other words, how racing at agricultural
shows, as all these so-called " attraotions "
have a demoralizing influence upon the pub-
lic and tend to destroy the real usefulness of
the show, as they detract the atiention of
the people from the meritorious features
which are instructive and centre the inter-
est on that which is merelyexciting and
pernicious, and he hoped the time will soon
come when it will not be necessary for show
managers to give "attractions", of the nature
indicated, in order to swell • the gate re-
ceipts. The bill provides that any person
practising any gambling devices on an exhi-
bition ground or within half a mile thereof,
will be subject to heavy penalties.
LORD'S DAY ACT.
Its purpose is to give effect to what the
Government believe to have been the origin-
al intention of the framers of the Lord's
Day Act,but which is not borne out by the
interpretation of the courts. Decisions
have been given by the Court of Common
Pleas and the Court of Appeal holding that
the act does not apply to corporations, the
result being to throw open apparently the
whole question of labor on Sunday, and put
it outside of the law. The act was passed
long before these corporations had the same
standing in the community or did the busi-
ness which they carry on at the present
day, and therefore no special provision was
made governing them. The ground upon
which the courts held that the law did not
apply to corporations was that penalties,
involving fire and imprisonment having been
provided for, it was impossible to imprison
a corporation. Therefore, it was assumed
that the ifW did notapply to corporations.
The proposed amendments made the appli-
cation of the act to corporations plain, and
provide penalties for infractions in the ehape
of fines. Another point in regard to which
the present act is held to be weak ie that by
enumerating certain classes of occupations,
it limits its application to these particular
occupations, notwithstanding the fact that
the inclusive phrase of "alt persona what-
soever" is employed in the wording. The
conveyance of travellers, the carriage of
Her Majesty's mails, the selling of drugs
and -medicines and works of necessity and
charity are the things that are allowed to
be done on Sunday. The courts have given
diverse opinions as to the meaning of the
word "traveller." It is not proposed to
touch that question in the present bill nor
to attempt to define the meaning of the
word, the Premier believing that it is better
to leave the task to the courts. The amend-
ing bill will therefore be confiriedto two ob-
jects : It will remove all doubts as to the
application of the law to corporations, and
it will do away with the formal designation
of the classes of persons to whom the act is
applicable, and simply apely it to "all per-
sons." There being, • however, by common
consent certain occupations which must be
carried on on Sunday, the bill excludes
them from the operation of the act. In ad-
dition to those already mentioned there is
the delivery of milk and ice, the transmis-
sion of messages by telephone and tele-
grapb, the hiring of livery horses and con-
veyances for purposes other than ordinary
work or business, such work as is necessary
for the purpose of bringing out the morning
issue of a daily newspaper, and necessary
work in binteshops. The main purpose is
to prevent the ordinary occupations of men
being carried on on the Lord's Day and thus
restore to the law the original intention of
the framers.
FOREST RESERVES.
A measure of no little importance was in-
troduced by the. Commissioner of Crown
Lands, and which received the approval and
commendation of members on both sides of
the House. This bill is for the establish-
ment of Forest Reserves. In introducing
it, Mr. Gibson explained that the bill was a
further step in the direction that was taken
when the office of Forestry Clerk was creat-
ed. During the past few years there had
been an accumulation of valuable knowledge
with respect to the question of reforesting
in this Province, and this had been supple-
mented by the inquiries and experiments
made in various States across the border.
We had not. in this country felt the full
evils of the denuding of watersheds as they
had been felt across the line, in the shape of
violent floods by which :enormous damage
had been done. Nevertheless, there were
other branches of the question with which
we were beginning to be concerned. This
bill, of course, only provides for operations
in the newer parts of the Province. There
are parts of the Province unsuited for agri-
culture, where limits: had been abandoned
after the removal of the timber, and other
portions which had been run over by fire--
brule lands—which were well fitted for the
work of reforestation. In some of this the
procems of reforesting had begun naturally,
and all the Government would leave to do
would be to provide means of protection
from fire or any other enemy that might
threaten the destruction of these growing
pineries, and in a comparatively short time
there would be merchantable timber on
them. It might be said that this was work
which was for the most part in the interest
of future generations, but it was work ,
which the Commissioner thought we ought
to undertake.
PRESERVING WATER, POWER.
Another bill introduced by the Commis-
sioner of Crown Lands on behalf of • the
Government, received the commendation of
the Opposition,
as well as the friends of the
Government. The object of this bill is to;
reserve to the Province `and for the benefit
of the public such water powers on Crown
Lands as may be of considerable mercantile
value. It has been ascertained that on each
side of theheight of land, 'It was known
that there were a great number of water.
powers, some of which would undoubtedly
be found to be of commercial importance,
more especially in view of the mining pos-
sibilities in adjacent districts. It was pro-
posed in making any grant of public land to
except such valuable water privileges as
might exist thereono The Meaning of the
bill, in fact, is that private individuals shall
not be allowed te get the absolute ownership
of valuable water powers for a song. It
will be best for industry and for the public
interest that these should remain public
property. Each day goes to prove the im-
mense wealth of the great heritage which
this province nas in its Northwestern dis-
trict, and there is little doubt but in a very
few years there will be a perfect hive of
manufacturing industries where as yet the
foot of man has scarcely erod. The mineral
and timber wealth will cextainly inaure this,
as these will not much longer lie dormant,
and when that time comes these water
power privileges will prove a source of no
little value to the income of the Province.
The Government seems to be fully alive to
these great possibilities, and are taking
every precaution to protect.the iaterests of
the whole people.
GAMBLING AT SHOWS.
Another Government bill was that intro-
duced by the Minister of Agriculture,
which is intended to prevent the run-
ning of wheels of fortune and other gamb-
ling devices for extracting coin from the
pockets of guileless youths at country f airs.
Mr. Dryden said there were a nuinber of
men, whose headquarters were Toronto and
THE NEW COUNTY COUNCIL ACT.
. A somewhat lengthy and not an interest-
ing discussion took place on a bill introduc-
ed by a private member, Mr. Smith,of Peel.
The principal clause in this bill provides for
the doing away with the clause in the
county councils act of 1896, which prevents
an elector to give two votes for one .candi-
date, and providing that an elector can only
give one vote for each of two candidates. As
the law now is, every elector has two votes
and he can give both votes for one candidate
or give a vote to each of two candidates.
The amendment proposes that the right to
give the two votes to one person be done
away with. This double voting privilege
was placed in the bill as protection to min-
orities. The Opposition took advantage of
the introduction of this bill by a supporter
of the Government, to make a general on-
slaught on the law. The concensus of
opinion, however, was, that the act as it is,
is giving good satisfaction ; that the work
of county councils is now done for a great
deal lees money than under the old system,
while the work • is as well done by the
smaller bodies as by the larger and more ex-
pensive, and that it is too soon yet to make
any changes in the law, as it has not been
long enough in operation to have a fair trial.
The bill, however, passed its second reading
and will come before the,municdpal commit-
tee, where it will, in, all probability, be
slaughtered, as there is an over -whelming
feeling among membera that the law should
not be changed as proposed until it -has had,
at 'met, another trial. It was evident from
the discussion, however, that the Opposi "on
intend making opposition t� the law on of
the planks in their platform at the next
election, although why a matter of this kind
should be made a party issue no man can
say.
THE SAN JOSE SCALE.
• The Minister of Agriculture secured. a
second reading of his bill for the prevention
of the spread and the effectual stamping out
of the San Jose Scale, a new and destructive
pest, which, if not checked, will, in al/
probability, do immense damage to the
fruit and other trees in the country. The
bill gives wide powers to the Department of
Agriculture. It provides fortheinspection
on orchards, of fruit and of nursery stock,
and wherever symptoms of the disease are
found, the trees or fruit must be immediate-
ly destroyed. Compensation to equal
twenty-five per cent. of the value of the
trees or fruit destroyed will be paid by the
Government. The ,Opposition, while ad-
mitting that some such imeasure is neces-
sary, thought it too drantic and far-reach-
ing. They thought spraying the trees
would be sufficient, that the matter should
be left inthebands of the municipal coun-
cils to be carried out and enforced by them
and that no compensation should be given
by`the Provinee for the • stock destroyed,
and that the importation of fruit and trees
from the United States where the disease
• exists should be stopped. In opposition to
these objections, Mr. Dryden replied that
he would be glad to leave the enforcement
of the law' to the municipalities, but he
was.convinced that it would not be effec-
tual. Experiments in Canada and the
United States had shown that while spray-
ing would check the spread of the disease it
would not absolutely destroy the pest. He
expressed a desire to have the co-operation
of the municipalities in carrying out the act.
Ile admitted that there was ' danger of the
introduction of the pest by the importation
of fruit, but it, he said, was remote. He
would, however, be prepared to bring his
influence to bear upon the Dominion Gov-
ernment to do something to limit whatever
danger there might be in this respect. He
also thought when the destruction of a per-
son's property is necessary in the public
interests and the destruction is inforced by
law, that it is only fair and just that some
compensation should be made to the person
who la so unfortunate as to have his property
,destroYed. He also believed that compen-
sation would stimulate owners of orchards to
co-operate with the authorities in stamping
out the disease and emphasized the neces-
sity of immediate action to stamp out this
dangerous pest, which has worked such de-
struction among the orchards of the United
States. Not only did it threaten fruit trees,
but all the trees of the forest, except pine
and cedar. The bill, he said, had met with
almost universal approval on the part of
those engaged in fruit culture, the only
criticism being that it was not stringent
enough. The bill is one of great importance
to the fruit -growing interests of the coun-
try and if ita operations will result in stamp-
ing out this terrible pest it will prove a
money-maker for the Province.
THE DRUGGISTS AND PATENT MEDICINES.
A bill has also been introduced to permit
druggists and others, under certain condi-
tions, to sell patent medicines without be-
ing liable to the penalties of the liquor
license act. Prior tiniest session druggiets
could sell not more than six ounces of
liquor without a dbetor's certificate. It
was represented to the Government that in
some few cases the privilege was abused,
and that liquor was sald not for medicinal
purposes but as a beverage. Last session,to
make that impoesible, the Legislature paased
a law that there could be no sale of liquor with-
out a medical certificate and without regis-
tration. It was not intended by the Legis-
lature to restrict the sale of patent medi-
cines containing a certain percentage of
alcohol, bat informations were laid and con-
victions were obtained for such sales.
The new bill legalizes the sale by
druggists and others of patent medicines
containing a certain percentage of alcohol
and in origipal packages.
• PUSHING BUSINESS •
It will be noticed by the above that the
Government are well to the front with
their own measures and that they utilised
the brief session between the holidays to
have _ them advanced as far as possible.
Most, if not all, of these Measures will now
be paased without much discussion, so that
with the estimates nearly through, the
work remaining is not heavy. It is possible,
however, that a good deal of time may yet
be token up in the discussion of "motions
of want of confidence," which it is said the
Oppositime have to propose, and if they per-
sist in having the Humber Piggery and
other kindred subjects discusaed, a week or
two may Very easily be added to the ses-
sion in this way. But, we are inclined to
the opinion that the Opposition will be
fully as glad to get through With the ses-
sion as the Government. They have very
little material to find fault with and what
they have will stand discussion a good deal
better on the stump where they will not be
face to face with men who can pin them
down and answer them on the spot.
News of the Week.
FA tINES ARE COSTLY. —It is officially an -
noun ed that theerecent famine cost the In-
dian treasury £800,000, while loans to
agric lturists and suspensions of taxes,
main Y 'repayable'absorbed another 4400,-
000, rrespective of charitable contributions
appr aching nl, 750,000.
M Goensnmen's Binnuonne—December
29th being the birthday of the Right Hon.
Wil lam E. Gladstone'the usual congratula-
tion were sent to llawaaden and Cannes,
whe e Mr. Gladstone is immoving, though
still suffering from neuralgia. Mr. Glad-
ston was born December 29th, 1809, Re-
plyi g to a Christmas greeting sent to him
by he National Liberal Club, Mr. Glad-
sto e says that his health has been greatly
ben finted by his stay at Cannes, and that
he opes to be back at work again at Haw-
ard n by the middle of February. He
ad s that Mrs. Gladstone's health has also
im roved;
men JUDITH'S DEATH. —In the little
fro t parlor of a frame house in Brooklyn,
"Aluntie" Judith Moore died. She was 74
ye re of age, and was the first colored
wo an to enter into full membership in
He ry Ward Beecher's church, Old Ply-
mouth. This was at about the close of the
wa . Henry Ward Beecher received her
gl dly, and from that day until her death,
ah became an institution of Plymouth
ch rch congregation.
LAZE IN DETROIT.—Fire broke out at
mis night in the Heineman building, one day
1 t week, occupied by the Detroit Free
P ess Printing Company. Before the flames
co ld be subdued the Heineman building
W gutted and the stock of the Free Press
Pnnting Company was heavily damaged.
m. C. Jupp, wholesale paper dealer, and
C arles L. Roch & Company, wholesale sta.
ti ners,occupied the Heineman building.The
to al cost was $75,000.
ANTIDOTE FOR , POISON.—Major Ternan,
w so has just returned to London from
U anda, reports that during the recent
fl hting Dr. Macphereon discovered an anti -
d te for the poison in which the native
a rows were dipped. The antidote consists
ju injecting a solution of strychnine. Hither -
t people wounded with these arrows have
al • ay s died, but Dr. Macpherson succeeded
in bringing the wounded men around in
about two hours.
TROLLY CAR HELD UP.—A trolley car of
the Schuylkill Valley Traction Company was
held up by four highwaymen at Swedeland,
near Norristown, Pa. Conductor Charles
Galloway, of Norristown, refused to give up
his money and was shot dead. Three shots
'were fired at Motorman Matthias, but none
• ok effect. After rifling the body of the
d ad conductor id the money and a gold
wteh and chain, the robbers escaped. There
w re four. women passengers in the car
•b t the robbers made no attempt to rob
t ein.
sm
HENRY HAVELOCK -ALLAN. —The mu -
ti ated body of General Sir Henry Havelock -
A lan,it is announced from Fort Ali-Minnid,
C lcutta, has been found, and is being, con-
veyed to Peahawur. It appears that after
visiting Lundi-Kotal, Sir Henry Havelock -
Allan, coming from Ali-Musjid with an
adequate escort, left the latter in order to
hurry to Jamrud. Sir Henry was always
prone to take rash chances. It is not
clearly *known whether his body was or was
not mutilated.
THE UNITED TATES KLONDIKE EXPEDI-
Troic.—Hon. Clifford Sifton, Minister of the
Interior, and J. A. McKenna, of the same
• department, by invitation of Secretary
Alger, arrived in Washington last week to
confer with the Secretary relative to Klorn
dike relief measures. The Secretary origin-
ally intended to go to Ottawa,but has been
suffering from an attack of grippe, which
confines him closely to his home. Secretary
Alger hopes by a personal conference with
the Canadian officials to arrange for the
iesue of a permit from the Canadian Govern-
ment for 50 armed United States troops to
serve as guards for the relief expeditions to
psss through Canadian territory. Another
object of the conference is to adjust some
customs questions that are involved in the
• sending of the expeditions, as for instance
the remission of duties on the food supplies
that are to be sent in. Another object is to
secure the co-operation of the Canadian
Mounted Policennhich it is not doubted will
beef the greates value throngh the thorough:
familiarity of Iheae1 hardy ' men with the
coantry througl which the expedition must
pans.
' The Muioipa1 Elections.
The following ils a list of the successful
eapdid &tea for m nlcipal honoi a in the various
municipal' 'e
t the elections on Monday
last:
CLINTON—Mayor—R. Holmes. Council-
lors -4. P. Doherten Jacob Taylor, W. Bo wers,
J .PleTlirod. ma,. _
Mac'
14or—Wm. Ryan; Reeve,
7
John Whyte,jr.; Deputy reeve,Fred.Dufton.
South Ward—Walter Thomson, R. Thorne,
W. Martin. North Ward—J.Coppin, I. Hood,
A. Burritt. West Ward—F. Davis, F. B.
Holtby, J. Boyd (by acclamation).
G0DERI011.—Mayor, Robert Thompson;
Reeve, Wm. Campbell; Deputy reeve;
James Wilson; second deputy,reeve, D.
Holmen Councillors—St. David's ward, J.
Colwell, Charles ,Tweedie,W. C. Goode; St.
Patrick's ward, A. P. McLean, F. J. Prid-
I ham, J. C. Martin ; St. George's Ward, M.
Nicholson ;St.. Andrew's Ward ,D. Cantelon,J.
Craigie, R. Radcliff, all elected by acclama-
tion.
EXETER—Iteeve, T. B. Carling; Deputy
reeve; W. G. Bessett. Councillors—W.
Harding, E. Christie and John Evans,
BRUSSELS—Reeve, W. H. Kerr. Council-
lors—George Thompson, George Baeker, R.
Leatherdale, J. Warwick.
COLBORNE—N.Kernighan, 160; Peter Mc-
Ewan,211 • James Taylor, 167; II. J. Morris,
149 ; A. Millian, 149; Alexander Robertson,
116. The first three ate elected. Reeve
Young and.deputy Johnston by acclamation.
I USBORNE—Reeve Thomas Hawkins, 266;
John Delbridge, 217; majority for Hawkins,
49.For councillors, Ward No.l.john Hunter;
Ward No, 2. Walter Keddy ; Ward No. 3.
William Delbridge ; Ward No. 4. Alfred
Malkin, all were elected by acclamation.
• TURNBERRY—Reeve, William McPherson,
acclamation; deputy reeve, William Cruick-
shank, acclamation ; 'councillors, Bolt, 81;
Coupland, 204; Mama, 171 ; Mosgrove,252;
Mitchell, 192; elected, Mosgrove, Coupland,
M
EAST WAWANOSH—Reeve,Matthew Lock-
nart, 148; David Robertson, 216; deputy
reeve, Walter Scott by acclamation; coun-
cillors, Wm. Bone, 244 ; Alfred B. Carr,173-
John Coultis,sr., 137 ; Ftobert G. McGowan,
117; George , Quinn, 66; and_Wm. Suther-
land,164 ; Robertson for reeve, Scott deputy
reeve, and Messrs. Wm. Bone, Alfred B.
Carr and William Sutherland, councillore.
• BAYFIELD.—Reeve, James Burns, 56;
George Erwin, 90; councillors, Richard
Bailey,61, Thome Clark, 70, Thomas
Elliotn, 93, John McDonald, 68, Richard
Stanbury, M. D., 104, James Thomson, 62;
trustees, . Thomas Cameron, 102, John Fal-
coner, 61; John Pollock,102;John Whiddon,
121; council elected, reeve, George Erwin;
councillors, Thomas Clark, Thomas Elliott,
John McDonald, Dr. Stanbury ; trusties,
Thomas Cameron, John Pollock, John
Whiddon.
ASHFIELD.—Reeve, Parrish, 364, McKen-
zie 424; 2nd deputy, Dalton, 481, Griffin,
234 ncouncillors, Barkly, 504, Hunter, 447,
, McIntyre, 284.
W2kST WAWANOSIL—The council was re-
' turned by acclamation, with James Gibson
reeve. Robert Lockhart past reeve resign-
ed.
• —James Smith, of Manitoba, ns visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, of
St. Marys. Mr. Smith has not been in that
town for seven years,
JANUARY 7,
Year,
AT THE
8.
EOPIZS BUSY ST
• • • mmm • mm Iwo mmmmm
'"elt
- I
Now that the holiday rush is over—the next thibg rn
order is to close out the ,balance of our WintOr Stock, so
that when: stock -taking time comes, Which will bb -th last}
of this mouth, there will be very few past season's go
carry forward.
s to
• We have yet some good things to sell, and durin1gj the;
next two or three Weeks, we will give a considerable di c?unt
off from the regular price. This will be a chanct3, to iebtire
something extra at a comparatively small price.
•
The greatest discount will
be upon such goods
as
• Ladies' Astrachan Jacket
Ladies' Cloth Jadi ts
Ladies' Cloth Capes
Ladies' Seal Capes
Ladies'Astrachan Oaks
Ladies' Muffs and Collas
Ladies' Caperines, Gauntlpts,
Caps, de. etc.
A considerable discount
will be given off
all
• Heavy
Dress Goods,
Ladies' Jacket Cloths,
Shawls and Wraps,
Millinery, etc., etc.
If you are needing anything in Winter Godds of any
description, it will pay you well to give ug a 011 anytime
this month. •
g -t.11'
cFA
DRY -GOODS COMPAOY,
eafiorth's Greatest Cash Dry Gods Store.
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—
JANI-1
NO.—Mr. Jo
near here, has pur
from his father a
own homestead, gi
all. Mr. Volland
laee, large enomel
spare days in e
S. Deitz and Mr.
known contractors
ed a very suceesst
work in view for t
have already con
bank barns, beside
'more in sight. T
are generally thron
P. McKay, of Tore
versaey services in
ehurch, -on Sund
McKay is an abl
and will undoubte
sations.—Quite a
folks took in the. e
on New Year's ev
good time with da
kinds.—Mr. Peter
has moved to Bla
Inn baek as he is
.S. Booth and Mrs.
'Tavistock, are vial
cinity.—Master A
if S. Kipfer, on 8
.Albricht is home o
years' stay in Main
man, of Pigeon, Me
'31e looks hale and
truber has Eold ihis
to a gentleman in
.figure.—Mr. Wm.
spending it abort ti
home last Wedn
left on Monday for
tends studying at t
Percie, 0. Miehigan
Dinsmore'. —Mr.
'of his farm to Mr.
handsome figure.—
left on Tuesday I
thene is a situation
-beg her. We are s
was one of our mos
—Misses Olive Wel
left on Tueaday to r
Seafortb and -Mato
-George Edighoffer
were united ila mar
Donald, of Varna.
;happy and prosper
stream of life.—On
-J. MeOlinchey,
Amelia Wagner, of
marriage by Rev, 3
En
Tencrions.—Ele
in our village, the
for the reeveahip,
.quhart, J. H. Bee
they were all activ
together with tbei
the interest thro
and only subsided
eived for closing
were counted,the
that Mr. InUrquh
hanpolleddsiejD"nUitY
vote
; Henry Cook,
reeve was very wa
the honor tonferre
evening was sere
new council will
upon their -duties
Herman as an
wtiliie
tiring
ot inigeneralneiidid
and eerved our ra,
hope the present
experiencessf the
'nigh as niuMi for
during the past ye
Wneennee —A V(
at the residence
-this village, on M
here refer to th
daughter t Mies M
Kay, the effieient
echool. Tile •care
o'clock, by Rev,
extvilU
haesrAChtnh
COline ts r Aactlitai the
Al
bride'the groom
brother, Mr.AleX.
The bride, who is
loge, was made tt
• handsome present
beautiful silver ten
members •of St. P
tion of the willing
had for Many yew
unite vtla
iteParbterghen
ti
Mrs. McKay, in n
tinned happiness.
HI3IEFS.—MiSS1
the village this '
Mureloelen—Mr.
-Shipka, who were
Hannan's sister, t
many friends die
'been quite seseriou
well be pleased tt
ing nicely and wa
-spend New Year
Parr line Hay,
Thaminei'-nhgeriodruaduties
eu
isvisitingcounty.—Mt iseoituinngffzaled
hi :,
rm
fipazaieol banyameartitih.
week for 33exentui
Infaca,rtleuris heal'
-several weeks tt
Ailsa Craig, wat
spending a few
Roacb, of Detron
Mr. Duncan
painful accident
.one afternoon Is
livered a stone
and in falling bai
shoulder out of
• quickly summoni
he is nowdoing
of Dungannon a,
brother Mr. re r meeninGil
t'Ceushtrieon who
schator b
itt
kileanuseeet:t:Asstitotaelarbl::.:besil
-China and exhi
teresting: rain
• Murdock Mendel
visiting
hia T.
ilt:rehew
ua' retuirull
'the interests el
been good here
will remain in 1
Exete.r, was in
his son-in.la-w
' John Blatehlo
recently prese
class with a bes
tion of her stern
as I teacher in ti
—Dr. McLeod
*pentefitttseNewImhro.m,a na seYd
palti°f last
—t4
friends
Humeston
. times seriouo1.
young friends I
and Mrs. Robe
New Year's ev
enjoyably vele
edvhbeny Malt' Fdtin]
homes, vas' hint
happy and pro