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The Huron Expositor, 1899-08-04, Page 1TR -9-9 ed in the *......w."•••••••••*.w..ent.+••••••••••....••••1 o LINERy iff BONNETS :ATS ISTS RSETS tIVEAR GLOV_h8 [-NTS ES 1-)S LS ES :;IES tONS 'LINGS LUNGS &e. 4U .st Cask Store , I. success in his" company wpm ial host and hie. their 'handsome id for their bu- s in. these "rid !hen their Oar auccesa of h „ rristerli, coulee/ /r,t. R. H. Cal itlx Al2C,arthy, Osi 1 15184t her of the past rm and dry. --e of the day it'. 'ell leis gone te• aka watt' friend .at 84nday last line.—Mrir. D, ond, Minnesota, r Geiger, teach, _Michigan, are a orne.-a-A4hor M. ,iting frenc1s in t;race, Torrance maitre attended nventfon while ,,, , eisitieg f lends h wain at v , alk - his brother.--, day brought to f wheat grewn a of +hien had is a good place ohuelke, astor d Mesers Fred. legates, a tend- '. convent on in. ,Mr. end .Mrs. -months a o for aave -retiirned il, and enjoyed et, 41avlio went ,. - ,- arghter, Alra.P, likep Zurich .t.f.c1 he re. She - tee H. I>eirie. of John 'Deichert. I been visiting to Za ra. He - :al Eh ee, who ecarge Merrier iron. 'Hie new idly. Mr. and eturrt d from Ma:. rrnick is - cl, which adds. G. Trott, VXieI(1, but will r. and Mrs. J. and Mrs Kib- - of Golurnbnee Lativesi.here.— aigana paid our ik.---i-lair. 'Wrn- e ow aicquaiut., ,;(1,-',-N, Ir. Louis 1h, ,if 11)etroit, r„...,mi.. Harry , few days ago* ' el haa none t() a arid Mrs. M. 1- here visitang a's I or Mandel', . .Uarty years' rheroorrhage of sehich he nev" r'a death, the I, Andrew . W- Wilker, enck r some week* in, which re - him great o eath relieved' ,the early Bet- e in. Mitchell art a. native ef '''ainada when, NqVr Tram- ntlia Kismet ianroediately - Logan, The- a timber, but al the wilder- ;iixteen yeare :e which tinle, 'biding citizen roma monthn, [ on the deg laughter* THIRTY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,651. SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1899. McLEAN BBOSIII Publishers. $1 a Yearin Advance. BC 1111--= Fruit they Bear. /4.40111WANYIAAAWANeselhAAN% Like everything%lse in life, business and business men are judged by the fruit they bear; or, in other words', the manner in which they live up to the claims they make, and it is quite right and proper that this should be the case. A man is not worth much if he is not as good as his word, Our word—and we have been pledging it regularly once a week for years—has been given where the results once in a while were not in strict accord with that word. This is only na- tural that we, as well as all •others, should makemistakes, but—and that but is important—it cannot be laid at our door that having pledged our word, we ever refused. to rectify to the fullest extent any shortcomings between word and re- sult,and so the everlasting motto is the same, "what is not right we will make right." Such policy has brought grist to our mill in the past, it is a w-orking power now, and it is like- ly to live to a good old age. ' 1 Last week we me tioned that we were ellen g some fifty odd suits at specia prices. These priceswe e men's waits at $4.44. and $6.6 There is a full assortment of sizes, and. it is an opportunit for any dne wishing to obta n a 'good knock -about suit at an ncustomary price. Think of, the wean g quarties of buckskin pant When one man, whO does oonaderab1f threshing, said : "1 wore my last buokskin pants a t elve r4onth, with and without under- clothing, andII must_ say that I never bought anything that equalled them at the money," land the price a pair is $1. In the race for trade it is utterly impossible to stan I still; to improve or to retrogade is optional, to remam st tionary—never. We undertook, a few y ears ago, to sell th people of this vicinity the best knee' pants for boys Oich was possible to sell at, the pike we asked, viz.: 75a a pai This season we are outwitha, pure worsted pant, Made b our own tailors, lined throughout, and a fit never failing, an the price as before -75c ; we have to see the equal. Is it too much to say,that you have rarely seen, if eve a more complete or artistic stook of men's furnishing goods_? Or, have you seen this, and roa,B.e a mental note of it whe:.i you. wished to buy a tie, collar, cuff, handkerchief, hosiery, shirts, underclothing, hats and. caps, and the many other articles which go to the comfOrt and adornment of 'men's costume. In concluding this week's -‘alk, there is an important item which we think •deserves 'eSpecial mention, that hping the suiting we are selling at $15, made to orderf A 'short description will suffice to give you a fair idea of what the ma- terial is like, and then the qualily of the same. In the first place, it is a pure West of England worsted, and as rich needs no further comment on the merits; then it is a ark shade of navy blue, and when finished it makes as dressy and stylish a snit as any one would wish to wear. So far as our ordered work is concerned, we guarantee everything. 10S0V1A0V101WA,WeAAIVSAANY1110 Greig & M Clothiers and I3ui nishers On the Wrong Side of the Street, STRONG BLOCK, EIFORT11 There has been a Gre Number of Enquirers Who desired to know the dat s of any of the next Farm Laborers' Excursions: o the West, all that can be said, so far, is that there is no definite inf r - Elation to hand. Numbers of People Who are adopting the Dominion Express Money Order system of remitting is steadily on the in- crease. You can buy an order at any hour ; a receipt is given; the charges are a mere fraction. Up to $3, 3o; up to $5, 4o; up to $10, 6e ; up to $20, 10e. These orliers are payable any place in America. The [4 , C. P. R. AGENT,' Seaforth. SOME ftlii.A pNs P1011 TH PRESENT GOOD IMES. tweitten 1or The Expo toga The very substan iel Wore* in our us - tome revenue whioI f llowed the reduo ion in duties in 11897 aid r1898 should' allay the fears -of thos who asserted that such re- duetions would rem It in a loss of reve ue and force the Government to resort to's me 'foim of dit ot tex tion. As it beoo es generally kn wn that a reduction in ro- teative dutie ' no Ma ter in what con try enforced, rea Its in an increase of reveque, the main obj ction,1ad fat as Canada is don - (Aimed, of go ting ha 'k to a revenue tariff • will diminia We have b t to tIics e the influence such r 1 reductions m at Alava on effective demand to- underetan whilit is that -an increased revenue from impo ta results. To do this We must kee ' in mind two well established facto, namel , that about , 90 • per cent. of the people are wage-earners, and that about the same proportion live up to their income. 4 good deal of tie confusion which sur- tounds many econOmio questions might be voided were these two facts kept in mind. With our eyes epee to our .surrounding, and these factshefore us, a simple but logical explanatien . of, the seemingly &no., Maly is possible. . We all know t t after the Fielding tariff was brought down e general sealing down of prices tbok placei I In 1898,when the prefer., ential duties wen, nto lull force this scaling down process was f peated. Now in as much aa 90 per cent. Of the people spend all the money they have, hether prices are high or low, the soalinig down would immediately give rise to a proportionate increase in ef- fective demand. i To supply the increased quantity demanded would certainly require 'am increase in the number o persons en- gaged in production and dist ibution—thus decreasing the number of the unemployed. A decrease in the "limber of t e unemployed invariably forces ages to rise We have, there ore, as a ne essary result , of the lowering o the tariff, an enormous increase of the n naber in rece pt of wages, and an actual inc ease in the verage wages of those who wer employed p ior to the re- duction. The degree to hich these mprovenients in the position o the wage arners must have influenced ectiye de and, may be uncleratood when e °onside the simple, but not very well nderatood, fact that all the wealth of thins produced each year by the community, epresents, less a email 'fraction, the anlou t of wages paid for their actual production ' nd distribution. Judg- . ing frotoan estima e of the annual produc- tion of our farms ade by an official of lhe i $ agricultnral depa talent, the ann,ual p 9- duction 'f wealth om all sources in Can do. must be n the nei hborhood of 1,00,00&. 000. N w, as thi sum roughly represen wages p id by em loyers and wages paid those •Who empl y themselves and p themselves out of he proceeds of the thin they produce, it ibeasy to understand w an increase in the average number and p of the wege earners under contract), and increase in the purchasing power bf wages generally, which a decrease in the price of commodities necessarily involves'must have ,:iproduce the .business activity that has chaiacte iied the last, and the first ten months, of the present fiscal y ar. The general i' crease in the wages an1 in the number f people in receipt of vages, en- ables thd community, as a whole, o spend more money in the purchase of t e cheap- ened cominodities than they could possibly spend when wages were lower, w go earn- ers fewer, and !prices higher. Imports I would hacrease in proportion to the in- creased purchasin power of the pe ple. f Allowing for al conditions und r whieh production is oar ied on, it is eae t see that the Fielding tariff must have nor ased the purchasing p wer ofwagesful y 2 per cent. Assuming he aggregate an ual pro- duction of wealth to be $1,50 ,00 ,000, prior to the redu tion of the tariff this in• crease of 20 pezj cent. in the p rchesing power of wages, would give ris in the course of a year t a demend over nd above what, un to this oint, had been ailed for of some $300,000, 00 worth of cornmodities. The extra hand necese ry to produce and distribute this in reased quantity is suffi- cient to account for the decrease in the number of the unemployed, and consequent increase in wages which has occurred since the tariff was put in force. This increased demand has kept o r ow6 engines of pro- duction and distrib ition lousy beyond their ability to supply it thus forcing us to in- creese our orders broad. Hence the in- cre sed revenue fro imports. A 'WARNING A D A PREDICTION. A any influences re at work under the &in itions produce< by our yet excessive pro ective tariff, wi ich will tend to check the expansion of onforeign trade f�' the nex year, and mus shorten the pried of our present sp 11 of prosperity, . he moat infav rable circumstance we hav to contentI wi h at present is the eapid exp lesion of o r p otected industries, and the formation cf tru ts arid combines known to be going on. All 'protected menu- fac triers and their edvo ates, both in and out of parliament ma ntain that in the absence of protectiv tar ffs, their prodects would sell for lees t an it °mite to prodnce them; end there ca be little doubt of the truth of this ocinten on. ' 1 This oontention o the manufacturers be- ing true; a consider le per centage of the total out -put of all r protected industeial establishments mu represent an actual deritruction of the - : lth of the community. Phis destruction ,of alth is repreeeuted by the difference etw e cost of production under protecti n an hat the selling price of the same eod ts would be in the absence of prot ctio Assuming th out t of our protected in- dustrial establi inn" e to be $500,000 000 for the curren fiso; I ear, (about the total for 1891) and- he i erenoe between cost of production under protection and the selling price in the b erne of protection to be 10 per cent., th ealth destroyed by these protected1 est+li hments would ,equal $50,000,000 duting th year, thus contract- ing the purchasing tio er of the community to that extent. Urid r present conditions we know the out p4 o thee° industries to be increasing enorm usly, necessarily re- tarding the expansio of the profit pro- ducing undertakings, from which all the disbursements of the community must be drawn. It should be kept inmind that the pro- tected industries are, 1 ke the Government, i the idle and indigent, a charge on those citi- zens in our midst w io devote themselves to the production of t i gs Which would sell for more than cost of roduction in absence of protection. _ Knowing these fa Writ may be predicted with some degree of certainty that our revenue, on imports for, the next fiscal year will show less boya oy and trade generally experienced during leas expansion than the past two years. Could we get the iff below the protee- tive point, our expsinsion in population, wealth, manufactures and trade would be • rapid beyond the dreette s of the most sa-- guine. Under such co ditions all industriea would add wealth to the state, for those that did not would be quickly abandoned. , ' H. WASHINGTON. OTTAWA, July 28th 1899. r • Huron Notes. —Huron central fair Will be held at °lie ton on September 19th and 20th. —Miss Emma Webb, of Clinton, fell th other day and fractured her left arm abov the elbow. — Mr, George Bielb,y, of Grey, has passe his examination at the Normal College Hamilton. —It is said that 258. bicycles have been sold in Goderioh this season. T lot of money. —A daily mail servioe is short tablished between Lucknow AehfielI township. —Th Goderioh Organ ian Com ceived menta —Th voters' eligible —Mr to the is pret at means a y to be mi- nd Lanes, ny hae re- n order for one of their est instru- om a party in Brazil. re are 1,015 names on , list, and of this num to serve as jurors. 1 Breen, of Auburn, &mit ill on Tuesday of last early for this county. Thomas Bell, of Wingh dibendi g next winter in Cain() interests of his health. ° — Jame e Holland has sold h concession 3, township of Ashfi to Joseph Goldthorpe for $4,000 • —The voters' list for Colborne township published. It c ntains 683 m 450 ere eligi le to serve as e Clinton 300 are ew wheat eek. This er m, intends nia in the s farm on ld, E. D., has just bee names, of wh jurors. —G. F. wa,s entered some k nivel; boots stolen. - —Mr. J. has been app model &shoo cants. oungblut's etor t Auburn, y burglars the o f night and and spoons, anc x pairs of I' . McRoberts, o Dungannon, inted principal 4f the Mitchell . He was on of 37 appli- . --eDiamond'i slaughter ho se, in Wing - ham, was burned down on Monday afte - noon of last week. Incendiariam is suppose to have been the cause. —Walter J4 Ross, a Stratford boy co v cted of stealing several articles from th p4oderiCh opera house, wee senteneed by th . lice magistrate to a three-year term i e Penetauguishene reformatory. —Mr. Sidney Clark, north of Winchelse bas sold his farm of 50 ares to Willie, Trequair, for! $3,250. Mr. James Garret has bought 7@ acres of the vil'Vagle prOpert 3,150. t 6ontains 79 mes of 679 pe he in Usborne,_for the sum of —Winghain's voters' li municipal voters and the na sons entitled to vote at elentionte for me hers a the Legislative Assembly. Th number is 81. ero2fpeirsons qualified ' to serve jurors a —Hofriok vOters' lise is eompleted. Th township has 1,243 voters, 633 Of whom ar qualified to eel:areas ju ore. The East W wanosh list is eleo co pleted. 'This tow ship has 652: Voters, and 141 are leg 1 jurors. - — Mr. Robert :Husto , of Lueknow, wh had beereill with consumption for the pas year, died at the resideince of; his brother Mr. David Huston, mil Thursday mornin of last week. Decea ed; who was we I known and greatly res eoted; , was just i the prime of life, being only in his fortiet year. 1 —Mr. George Steep, erich township, lost day last week,the ani well that was in the st about six feet I deep, a with his head first an they managed to haul the hay fork rope while trying to ha out. . —The school board of the Wallace ur Roman Catholic separate sc ool ha en gaged P. Welsher, of Brussele,i, as plinaipa l for the next year. Mr: Weishiar has ta gh the second department of 13reliesels publi school for the past year euccessfully, an resigned to better himself financially. H will remove his family to his ew home i the course of a month. —On Wednesday of last we k, as Jame Girvin, of Nile, was lau !ding a load of hay two cif the wheels get into a drain. Mr Girvin stepced across to the igh aide t steady the load, but it upset, t rowing hi into the wagon. The doctor being sum moned, it was found that he w r in a ver3 precarious condition. His hea was badl cut, supposedly by the hub o the wheel and required seven stitches. —Tuesday morning of last " eek, Rober Warwick, of the 2nd line, Morris, met wit a very painful accident. While drivin from the barn to the road the horse too fright at the upraised top of the buggy, an dashing down the lane, came in contac with the gate post. The driver was throw. out, -receiving an ugly wound on the head. The doctor being called in, found it necein sary to put in three stitches. —On Wednesday afternoon of last week, John McLean, whose farm is close to, Due- gannon,, met with a serious accident where- by he will be prevented from working fo in his hay, and was stepping from the moi several months, Mr. McLean 'was haillin to his wagon, when he missed his footin and fell to the ground. with great fore. A doctor was soon on tne ground, when it was discovered that Mr. McLean's collar bone was broken. — Mr. William McKenzie, who left Luck - now a couple of weeks ago to visit his son at Guelph, died there on Wednesday of last week. Mr. McKenzie, who was aged 84 years and three Months, had been in Poor health for some time past, and intended go - mg to the Gue1pi ospital for treatment, but was taken s rionely ill at his son's eel - deuce and passe aWay in a few days. Mr. McKenaie had been a resident of Luck novr -for about seven lyears, and yeas greatly re- upected by all w o knew him. —Wherever they may locate, Huronites always climb t e ladder to fame. In ;this connection we a e glad to notice that R. O. Ennis, son of th h well known Thos. Ennis, south of Cranbrook, is the nominea for Beautiful Plaine constituency, in Manitoba, in the Liberal interests. He is a well-to-do -business man with a large circle of friends, and we expect to see him get i there and oo- oupy a prominent place in Manitoba Prdvin- oial politics. Adr. Ennis' many old friends in Huron can'tavote for him, but they wish him the successbis energy deserves. , — What might have retained in a sad drowning accident occurred at the home of Mr. Chris Rau; of Crediton, on Monday of last week. It seems Mrs. Rau had put her fifteen -months' old baby deWn for a few minutes while she did some sewing. i The little one crent around the floor and eventu- ally got out into another room unnoticed, where -stood a tub containing a quantity of water. Natur lly enough the ohild got dabbling in the water and finally fell into the tub, head dow • Mrs. Ran heard the little fellow making noise, but had no ides what had happened, and on going out into the other room to her great surprise, found the youngster struggling in the tub almost 'Me- lees. She iminediately removed the little 9th concession ,pod valuable hor'd on al falling intl th ble. The wel 1 wa d the horse fell i was dead bi3for t out. 1 They brok 1 i • Writings.. Materials NOTE P PERS In all .zee, col- ors and shapes. ENVELOPES To math in all styles. INKS area PES From allthe leading nakra. ALEX. WINTE • , Am----SEAFORT MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED. No witnesses required.' dufferer, but it was with , considerable diffl- ulty that the little fellow was resufiei- ated. i • —While Mrs. George Lingard; of the th conoeesion of Uaborne'and Mrs. Henry! quires,of the south boundary of .I.Thborn , ere,driving on Main street, in Eater, �n edneaday of last week, and when in front f Messrs. Ross & Taylor's planing Milli, t e wheel came off the buggy and the two eoupants were thrown out with err& f rce, Mrs. Lingard sustaining a painful cut n dne leg and was rendered unc�nucious, hit* Mrs. Squires received a painfikli Wick e e, and both women were badly Shaken up. .. The Montreal Gazette ot Monday says: e M. C. Vallee, of the Queen's hotel, has retulrned from a fortnight's trip in tha Minn koke district, during which be Mpleted the purchaire • of the Hotel St. Jo eph, on Lak Huron, and some 23 milee fro Gode- rich, Ontario. The purchase also ocludes a large tract of land, Wild and i proved. The price paid for the whole is $50,11`,/0. A new wharf is in process of constru:tion at St. Joseph, and railway communi:ation is contemplated. When these are 00 pleted, St. Joseph, it is anticipated, will be e very popular summer resort," —tem oars of fine three year ol steers • ere afield last week by Alexan er and obert McAllister, 3rd concession, erey, to esers. Dulmage & McDermid. h 1 cattle a eraged 1,300 pounds, which will not , be e eily beaten, when it is taken into ccount t at there were 40 head. At $63 e:leh, the n at little sum Of $2,520 was paid f r them. he Menne McAllister have about 80 head o cattle yet on their pasture fiel sa The A °Allister folks operate 325 acre I on the 2.d, 3rd and 4th concessions, tnd 1 0 acres ✓ nted, upon which Mr a McAlister, sr., ro- r4f wer, met with an accident n TT Luries a des at Ethel. ; —Laura, daughter of Mr. o last week, which might 1 eve esulted s riously. She, together. _wibl4 a nu bee ;of o hers, was playing on thej agri ultal g ounds, and while endeiivori g t see, re t e eggs from a bird's nest at t e to of the ' crystal palace," accidentally step •ed on a loose stick, causing her to fal to he fikior below,, a distance of about t rty f et. ! In the fall she woo rendeked unc nscio s, 0,nd sustained a severe out in o , leg which necessitated several stitches, and he was otherwise badly shaken up. 1 —During last week Joh and Charles Dadds, of London, England, v ited cousin residing in Ashfield. They ad • ot seen him for about five yearn ey re on a pleasure tour through the Ilominion and the United States, and ex raw them- selves as pleased with the par s of Ontario through which they travelle , ad state that the appearance and im rove entq in this section of country and inther part of Ontario where they have b en, e -cee ed their anticipations. They int nd ts talje a tour through . the- Maritime rovi ces nd portions of the United States on heir re- turn homewards. " On Wednesday morning of In t week, wh le the Exeter lacrosse team w re jdur- ne ing home from Seaforth, tliey in t With a lathcr unpleasant experience, hereby they were compelled to walk part of the way home. When within a few miled of home the bolt in ono of the whiffietrees gave way, causing one of the hordea ;o kick, when both broke frotn the rig and ran anaay. The boys were now in a quaiidary what to do, butfinally decided to wait horn°, and about two o'clock in the Morning they could have been seen trudging down the London road, hauling the rig after them. —A Tuckeramith young man, in the per- son of David Albert, fourth son of J hn rind Martha White, concession 212 , died at ilia age of 27 years, 5 months and. j 5 days. The young man had received an injury some two years ago, and from whichhe never fully recovered. Upon examination by several medical men the cause was found to be tab- erculosis of the liver and bewe s. 'He was a young man of excellent abilities, and was the fourth of a family of Six sons. He will be greatly missed at thel fa ily teble, as well as by the large circle of f iends be hiid. He was a faithful adherent o the 'Metho- dist church. The funeral was held from his late home on Thursday lafternoon of test week, to Turner's cemetery. —Andrew McNichol, of ru sels, depart- ed this this life on Friday e en ng, 21st tilt. His death came as a surpri e ti many, as he had been about the da p eviou For nearly a year he had been in Or h failing ealfh from an internal trouble, hysi- mane could do ittle or n thing, a, (nigh the best were consulted. De eased1 waii a former well kn wn residen of Grey town- ship, living nenir Cranbroo . 1' e was tborn In North Etas] hope, Pe th eounty, ilnd moved to Grey about 18 years ago, when he built the lith4 kiln at Cranbroole,1 now owned by V. ijamm. In th year 1870, the subject l this notice as united in marriage to Mies Jessie MoTa ish, of Worth Easthope, and she, with four s ns and five I 1 daughters, survive. i • Canada. — Wm. Henderson a Toronto is was probably fatally stabbed bygone known person Friday night. The only son of Mr. Thos. Dena Peterboro', was drowned while bat Friday. - —Burglars entered Hicks' jewelry and J▪ ohn fferin Perth, early Friday mornin off about $200 worth of jewelr - MoNab, daughter of governor of Guelph jail, is 01 blood poisoning. She ran the point into her finger. —Dr. John McKay, ex- . P. Woodville, was nominated by I the of North -Victoria, as their nandid the Commons. —The city of London has peid the the expenses of the militia call;d !int during the strike. It amounted 4o over $3,000. —Mr. J. Wilkinson, editor nd proprietor of the St. Thomas Times, has sold he inter- est to Mr. A. E. Wallace, of t e Atlas Lean Company._hAeavy over Hamilton on Seturd wind and rain term parked af ernoon. Several windows were broken by t e arind and in the bay a number of b ate w re tw- eet, but no person was drowne . At Toninto a henry wind storm raged. large number of people, boating on the ba , had tiarrow hetet.; e ei nr of g, 012 ore, in areied !! from oNab f ijin P4 of ibetals te Ifor bill for _ ail, escapee. A man named William Sort, was swept off the docks and drowned. —Mr. William Cociir e, assistant bursar in Kingston hompital for the -Insane, has been appointedi bursar at Belleville Institute for the Def and Dumb in the plaee of A. Matheson, resigned. 1 —The Ontario Gevernment will grant $3,000 mimed y toward, the main mance of a technical *cahoot in Toronto, under ner- tain cendition. 'governing the conducting of the mehool. , —To perp�tuate the Memory of the late Archbishop Waleh, a bindsone memorial window has beenpla ed in St. Mary'a church, Toronto. It was in t in church the reverend gentleman was ordained. 1 _..D4 A. Wilson, of Wilkerville, has put. - chased 60,000 pound of ' tobacco on Pelee Island, and be intends to ship the weed to Prince Edward Ialsed, where it will be I manufactured into chewing and smoking tobac . —Tho ! e total amount of deposits in the Government savings bankis on July 1 last, was $1 ,470,110, as against $18,593,743 at the beginning of the year. Thus $3,123,635 was withdrawn last year and put into circu- lation. I I —Is the Dominion Parliament last week Hon. *r. Sifton stated that the number of Austridiane, including Galicians, who have etime to Canada since Jul 1897, hi 11,560, and the number of Doukh hors 7,300. 1—Thursday evening the fourteen/ear-old 89n of Chas. Ewart, Baget street, Kingston, fell from the branches of an apple tree, breaking both wrists at the joint. The acci- dent, beside!, being painLil, is a m eta' un- usual one. , —John AfeKeough died rather suddenly at his residence, in Chi'thain, on Wednesday evening. Mr. MeKeough was one of the first merchants of that city, and he and his brother for 40 years carried 012 a large hard - Ware business. ' I • —Trackmen on the main lines of the Grand Trunk, have received an , increase of - ten cents a day, but 110 inereme has been given those OD the branch lines. This arrangement is unsatisfactory to the Men and it seems probable that, trouble may nein arise. —The bank Ville Merle, doing business principally in the province of Quebec, • has closed its doors. The trouble is said to have been caused by heavy defalcations by one of the tellers. ,The depositors are principally farmers. —Harrold, the 7.year-old son of Quarter- maater-Sergeant Walker of Stanley Barracks Toronto, met ,a bad and sudden death 'Sun- day evening while riding a horse on the practice grounds. The horse fell, throwing the boy to the ground, and then rolled over on him, crushing him to death. --James H. Fraser, Q. C., of London, (lied suddenly on Friday morning at Fern - (11210, Muskoka, Whether he hadgoneabout three weeks ago withihis . family. Mr. Fraser was born in Westteinster to ship in 184, and wa one of the best best known lawyers in Western Ohtario. -r-Mrs. Thornieroft of Lambeth, died en Friday from the effects of injuries she re- ceiVed while working ai it hay preis a few days previous She was d etving a horse at- tached to the press, when the the drew bar ii 'taped out, the arm of the preae struck her 'ith great force in the adone _ -I —Four of the stables it! the Winnipeg xhibition grounds were toally destroyed y fire at noon Sundayi T e fire started in a straw pile to the west 1f them, and a south-west ;wind took the ames straight down. Only the hard Work of the firemen sexed thd remainder of th Enables. The s tiles had ieach a capacity for about 100 head,and were frarne build" ge. .--tien grapher Cranford as filed with Judge iFe, poen the evicieno taken in the t oaten rial.ji The evidenc cov re 11,150 p ges So tain ng over 350,00words, and is e elusive ,of the a.ddr es d coun el. The evidence is for , use in the tri: 1, which will come before° &mailer Boyd at Co ourg, on September 19. 1, i ---The death of Mrs. E. B. Hobb , "(rod - se ck, ocouare at an early hour at rday to ming. Dec aaed hadlbeen a gre t err erer for some week as the intuit of an accident. O.ver two men s ago In. Hobbs fell on a g rdeh rake,. I e of, tho sharp iron prongs penetrating ti. e kne ap. Shor ly after b pod-poisoeint develo d. —Another age of didn't-kno -it-was- 1 laded" has o curred a,t Bobea,ygeon. Harry ewman, mon •f Thos. Newman, of North ;mule ' was ceident Ily Shot by Spencer evit a th residence of Wm. Devit, a near n ighbo r.Saturday evening tbe two boys ere fo ling with a loaded gun, when youag Devit i4ccidcntally discharged it, and the content entered Newman's aide, killing him instantl • ; —At upperVille Saturday every painful accident happened tbat may prove fatal. James annione, a resident of Chatham, was helping to , shingle the roof of a barn, when without any warning, the scaffold gave away. Mr.iltannons fell to the ground, a distance of about twenty feet, striking on hie head!, Hislakun was fractured, and he also sustained e broken -hip, besides other i juries. 1 —Detiletivo Wasson, of Toronto, (Fed at rchard Bee° o Lake Simcoe, where he had ding his holidays. His de th re - 8 been a had from 8 netro &e. ; He was one of the beet known detectivee 1 in Ontario, 1aving acted for many years for the Ontario Medical ounzil, His wife was killed three ye ra ago by failing down an elevator shaft. in orotate and shortly afterwards a da ghtar died very suddenly. 1 —Wednesd y night about 11 o' lock, while George Little „of Trenton, 15 yea s ol WBS wheeling omeWards, two men at pp d him andi aake4 him to bey a ring. II re- plied he had o ly 51centis, and started o get w on hie heel again,when when the men dr w r velvets and flred at; him. The bullet s rue Little on the left aide of the head, en rin the sealas and grazing the skull, comin• oiit. of the ear, The w undie not serious. Th men hieJe been arrested,. —Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Isaac Br WO, of the lith concession of Dover, arid a n igh- bor drove1into the orchard io get oma apples. I The horse was tied to a ree, and ' the seven -Mon s' old :baby of Mrs.1Brown was left inthe rig. The h me; standing uneasily from the flies, threw the baby over the dashboa , and it fell beneath the liorse's feet. Belo -e the horror-stricken mother eould reaoh her baby she!saw the horse pile's, t one of its! east on the infant's head, crushing its bra is and life out. . —Detective Ward, of London, has been for over a week inve tigatiiiig thecattle- stealing ,eases reported .oentily in Middl tex, and be found that wit a a few Weeks fully 100 fat battle, ready j r, t &butcher, have been stolen from farm re in Middlesex and adjoining counties. he thieves are evi- den ly well -organized, nd ork systemati- cally. .Adelaide town ip farmers have bee among the heaviest, au erer , seven of thein having reported the 1 e of from five t4 fif. teen cattle each. T st�len cattle have been driven into a lar sw tap in Ca adoc townshO, and .eared t1here until they could be slaughtered d cl" posed of safely, presumably to local b token. The detec- tives believe they eta tit t eir bends on the right parties, and are only waiting to mut* complete evidence. —Daring is heavy thunderstorm whick passed over Lancaster, Thursday morning of last week, the residence of Mr. A. Mt - Ewen was struck by lightning. It ciente down the chimney, entered *chamber in which a daughter of Mr. McEwen, Mr'. Budd, Of Montreal, was sleeping with her four children. The window •ing open, it passed out, shattering the casiegs consider- ably and breaking six panes of glass. Be- yond a slight shock none of the occupants duffered any injury. —A sad accident occurred at Salmon Island, Stoney Lake, Thursday morning, when Hattie, the 9 -year -old -daughter of R. J. Stuart, Grand Organizer of the Canadian Order of Foresters, lost her life by drowing. While playing on the rocks she fell in and ber little 5 year-old brother jumped in after her. The father through excitement became helpless, and all three would have been erowned, had it not been for Percy Clark, who came to their assistance' but too late to save the life of the little girl. —Patrick Caffrey, an old resident of St. Catharines, was found drowned in the min rime in rear of the Packard Electric works' Sunday morning. His head and shoulders were caught in the flume gates, his body thus being prevented from sliding into the canal. Caffrey was secustorned to taking a bath every Saturday night in the race -way, winch runs behind his house, and it is sup- posed he got in over lite depth and waif car- ried by the swift current about a mile, going over the flume at MoDemmett'a foundry and getting fast in the flume gates, where the water empties into the canal. Perth Notes. —Thomas J. Woods, oldest son of John Woods, Logan, died on Saturday, 22nd from the results of appendicitie. Deceased Was 22 years of age, —Mrs. Owen Fisher, 14th concession Elma, an old lady of 80 years, feH one day last week in the berry patch and badly sprained her right arm below the elbow. It was very painful and had to be dressed by the doctor. —At a barn raising on the ninth line of Mornington, on the farm of R. -Barret, a rating farmer named Edward Loney was killed inetantly by a beam falling on his head. He was married about a. year ago. —The many friendsof Mr. Alex. Matheeon, formerly editor of the Stratford Beaton, but now bursar of the Deaf and Dumb Thistle tute, at Belleville, will regret to learn that - he is in poor health, and as a consequence - has resigned his position in that insti- tu—ti°ni Ms. Malehowiof Rostock, is dead. The deceased lady bad been in poor health, for some time, and on Monday of last week she passed away at the ripe age of 76, Her re- mains were interred in the Lutheran ceme- tery. She leaves three 80328 and three daugh- ters to mourn the 1013S. ' —Rev. Mr. Fear, of Atwood, met with a painful accident recently which might have resulted in the loss of an eye. He was pass- ing out of the doorway when his face came in violent contact with & steelyards hanging hard by, the hook of which penetrated his face close to the eye and made an ugly gash. The doctor was summoned, who drew the wound together with several stitehea. It will be very painful for some time. —The death occurred in Shakespeare on Saturday evening, 22nd ult., of Mr. Wm. Thomson, an aged and respected resident of that village, at the age of 79 years. The deceased gentleman, who was a native of *Wand, had been ailing only a shore time, but hie death was not unexpected. His - wife predeceased him only about two months ago. He leaves one daughter, Mr.. John Lippert, to mourn his demise. —An accident which may be attended with serious results happened to Mrs. Ed. ward- Scott, of Ellice, Wednesday of 10.11t week. She was engaged in white -washing the kitohen and in order to facilitate the work she had erected a sort of scaffold, from which in some unknown way she fell and alighted upon a chair, one of the rungs of which penetrated her body, causingeo severe a hemorrhage that it WO8 feared she would bleed to death. Medical aid was quickly summoned and her injuries attended to. ,—The Mitchell Advocate says : The town has been worked up teaever heat this week over the mysterious disappearance of Mr. James Wilson„buteher. He was in the em- ploy of the Whyte Packing Co., and worked up to Wednesday eveningoflast week, when he took the 6.10 train for Stratford, and ndthing since has been beard ot him. His accounts were all right, and he was on the best of terms with -his employers. He was ari old resident of Mitchell, and for years was a member- of the town council. Some three years ago he became financially em - hemmed through endoreing, and this has ever since worked on his mind. Others at- tribute the trouble to matters of a different nature and believe that he bas shaken the son of Canada off his feet and returned to England, where many relatives are still liv- ing. He was a quiet citizen, and had a wide circle of friends who deeply regret his mys- terioua disappearance. —The Mitchell Recorder ,of last week says : A very interesting visitor called at the office on Saturday morning last frotn the far west, who dropped into town to take a look at hie birth place and call upon many of the old friends of his father and Mother. The stranger was the third son of Mr, David *Monies, of Lyons, Nebraska, who left here about twenty years ago when tibia eon Charles was about three years old. There was a time when Dave MeMonies was one of the most popular names in the community. It can be well imagined that any family re- presentative of an old and popular citizen like Mr. D. McMonies would meet with a warm welcome here among those that are left of his lather's old titne friende. Mr. Charlie could not see the town as his father aAd mother knew it, for twenty years has made great changes even in 00 1110W a place as, Mitchell. __onFriday evening, cancer of the stom- ach carried off 0110 of the oldest and most esteemed resident* of Sebrineville, in the Orson of John Warriner. Deceasedwas rn at Point Levi., Quebec, about fifty years ago, but when two years old his par- eets removed to Toronto, an during the next eleven years they changed their resi- dence about a dozen times, living for per- iods in Woodstock, Eitibro, Harmony, Strat- ford, Varna, Clinton, Seaforth, Zurich, Morrie Sebringville and Egmondville. At the leder place his mother died, and he, then a little lad of thirteen, went to live in Brantford with an uncle, where he remained for four years. He became a permanent re- sident of Sebringville when 17 years of age, at, which time he began to learn the milling litheness under the instruction of his father, who was head miller for a number of years Mr the late Andrew Goettler. After the Dexter's purchased the mill he took charge o the engine and held this position tip to • ort time previous to his death. He was married nearly 20 years ago to Mies Louisa Vauch, who with a .family of seven children, four boys and three girls, survive.