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The Huron Expositor, 1899-09-08, Page 1npo eS7 ets t to ,have ri con )lete wee in, is Co.L. test as stor are a onderful ta.kea p aaure ia 3 merit to any -On Sunday last, ensall, aed Rev. I pulpite.-Ie St. Mr. Aylward, of g morning and in amiIton, f Gode- th Agricultural So - 7. A. Edwards as.• ir feteleer, Mr.. Lair a to be - and Wednesday, year's show wan 7.ery effort will be all plat exhibite. ()retinues and as a re going dry. -A never Wall known ser a inontle-A. a, was doing the ,st week t He said egland, and could t well ' too. -The -ery bad indee& fire to keep it d fire wood. -To - lust a few from comes the small he Maitland river a pool instead -of ry to hear that fen off a scar - himself very bad - 'nature is getting Ft>. L Whitley, who. lanitobs., will re- veninge-Messre. -ent a car load of week, and they rip on Tuesday of Guelph, ei week. -Miss E et. Sunday with pson has rented • lately occupied Irs. Melville, of at the home of s. J. Kirk spent eter Doherty, of me of Mr. .R. on the sick -Mrs. William Manchester this id, who has been peet couple of -wound again. - i- Sunday last n e. t auction ;tele of . E. L. Fern - Prices for: cows • while spring h, audi other h Mr. Thomas aa anet4eneen, his ability in' Ilea • M. P., met t on Wednesday'. ee-ed will never with him at the irneeif docs net d had gene to tly been kicked ersee Awl red - le in this condi - ramped on him. •onsciotieness, ha owing he had 'tied what hap- . Fis lower neck and arm the jaw meat 'k, and the other (-eased by the dedical aid waa e wounds, while dangerous, Were lc:Witten is ele- cted tinder the yoeng men of taken advantage oba. Of those' • Wm. Wile" er otends ston- e loonier wi.11 e wills visit ha, THIRTY-FIRST YEAR. WHOLE NUMBER, 1,656. I SIEAyOR 11:1 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,- 1899. 1 McLEAN EROS..1 Publishers. $1 a Year in Advance. Our Best Efforte vookAAMANwAfor•AAAAAA~ The new line of Boys' Pants are now on sale, and we are satisfied that the article that we have produced this time is the biggest value that we have ever 'offered the peopl of Seaforth. The price of this season's is as in former seas ns, the difference in the value hes in the Material. W6reas, in former years we sold a Tweed Pant at 75c, this season we offer a Solid. Blue Worsted.—of course they are " our own make"—sewn with linen., lined with a cotton worth 10c a yard. See this line before you attempt any home-made , work. There are other lines at 50c and 65c in Tweed. rl Talking about attempting things, we are fully persua4ed that a man can accomplish anything Within the range of human possibilities—provided you have 4 full knowledge of the difficulties you are undertaking.. We undertook some years ago now to do a man's Cloth- ing business, establish a store, wherein every Clothing Want might be found. in good quality and in pleasing variety, with the result. Well! It would take a long story for the whole result, but there is this continuing daily result, that when we make a customer he abides with us. We are not the lowest priced place in this district --in fact we would be ashamed to admit it if we Were. Its no credit to sell trashy goods, we always give value accompanied with a fair profit to pursel Among the values we have at the present time we i mention a new shape of Christy Stiff Hats-Lselling at $2. A bright idea in Boys' Caps—the price 25e. A new Fedora Hat at 95e. 1 We will have a special window of odd lines of 'lie sold under -one price, viz. : 19c each. We are justly proud of the value we have produce in Men's Suits at $10. "Our own make" still retains its old meaning, being a by -word for all that is straightforward in Clothing. You can pick up something nice in -ilinirner Underwear for 75e a suit. The stock you have may need a suit to fi ish out the balance of the warm weather. This then is a cha ce to do so.: ki, _ There is a time when fond mothers wish to have tl eir boys look nice, between the ages of four and eight, be ore they want to ape their big brothers; This may be done, we have a large stock just opened Up in the fancy Eton styl — sailor collar, braided and plain. The vest and pants have all the little trimming which adds so much to attractivenes i,of small boys' clothing. The prices for the better lines range from $2 90 to .$5. The increasing demand for Ordered Clothing, which we have noted 4n the steady employment of our entire staff through the slackest month of the. year is in itself a sure in- dication of the values that we offer in this department. Among the many interesting values the West of En -gland Suiting at $16.50- may be taken as a fair sample of the other values throughout the rest of the Ordered Clothing Branch. To talk of Furs this weather is almost enough to make one perspire more , freely than ever, and yet the time is not far away when the subject will be a very interesting one. All that we will venture to say on the subject is that the stock we are daily receiving is, if possible, ahead of the qualities of 1-)evious years. We hold the reputation for sell- ing the best in Fur Goods and it is a safe conjecture that we will maintain that position.' es. Lay yooiosesovvvvvwvoAAAAANNA0 koig•& lodollal Clothiers and Furnishers SiAFORTII On the Wrong Side of the Street, STRONG BLOCK, INsommamiummommimemma C. P. R. HOrvest Excursions Aug. 29th and ance is by no means confin persons. Their whole ed SePt 12th 1899 9 try to the detriment of a TO GR ATER NEW ;YORK [ ritten for The Expositor.) About th first thing a great many peo- ple ask you after returning front New York is whether r not you have been down to the Bowe . Why people have such a, hankering a ter the miserable, oi-, more pro- perly, the tough" side of life, is hard to comprehend. Yet how few men go to New York that t ey do not take their very lives in their ban is, and visit this sink hole for criminals ? A couple of young fellows, who had been oz the excursion, went to see the sights tiler one night. We net one of them the 1 ext day, and &bruit the only description re could give of it was that they got there, g t frightened, and tobk the first ear out. Although I cannot [speak from personal ex Hence, I imagine that that is the extent t which the majority of the in- quisitive go, and wii ely so. Although not on the Bowery prop r, we quite accidental- ly got into e part of the city that is acknow- ledged to be even" ougher." We were at the battery one c ay, and having gone through thelexcellen acquarium there, and taken a egiiint at " Citetie Garden," we were looking arounc for some new fields to investigate. [ Brook yn bridge caught our eye, and wis started to walk to it. We sauntered of along the street running par- allel with the docks in the hope that we might see elorne of the ocean liners. We hadn't gone 'very far however, before things looked pret(y queer to our unaccustomed eyes. There. were (Tidy stores and dirtier looking eating anc. lodging houses, the haunts of the lower lass of sailors, while on nearly every! door st p were a crowd of fel- lows, -just the kind you wouldn't want to meet in the dark alone, -some of them sleep- ing, others ;leering at passers by. Every few paces we would meet a big Iellow with his shoulderhunched up to his ears, his hat over one eye, end a face that didn't actually inapire confidence. About that time a peculiar sensation would 'come' over you; you saw something very linteresting ahead of yoa, and you felt that important business impelled you to hurry. Even though it was day time, we did not feel overly safe, but it mighty soon drives all desire for a night visit out of one's mind. If you mind your own business and don't get to gawking around, they are not apt to molest you. I On this street is the great fish market. Herdly would it whet your ap- petite for sea fish, yet it is a most wonder- ful place -a ,place of continuous bustie, with a marvellous amount of traffic in the vicinity. Here you see sea fish of all kinds and all sizes, from the very smallest to the largest. One doesn't care to make a very long visit ; the odors are not enervating, and as they are continually flushing the place, a greeny is apt to be initiated by a doucing of water. This part of the city, steeped in vice as it sufficee, after all, to disgust rather than entice. It is the gilded aide that cauies the trouble. Perhaps not morally elevating, but interesting to the inquisitive one, anxi- ous to see life in all its phases in a great city, one must "go the rounds" by night, because it is only Mien that the Bohemian life exists. Accompanied by two former Canadians, we stepped off the car one night at Broadway, and hadn't to go far before a glittering sign attracted our attention, and this is only a beginning of many. You must see as many- as possible, so that a minute or- so in each suffices, awl yet day- light begins to break, andsyou are told there are any number more. But they all depict the same glittering, thoughtless lite, and to see a few means only a repetition in the others, with perhaps degrees of badness to lend spice, as it were. At all these places it doesn't cost anything to go in, but, like the country garden party, you have to pay.be. fore you get out. To look back over it one wonders how any class of people can con- tinue such an existence. Do they ever think of anything better? I think I hear Borne person ask why the police don't inter- fere. The police are the smallest danger; Tammany ruler', and, so long as they get a "rake off," what dothey care. Like on the Bowery, one does not need to be _Naturally timid to feel uneasy. I know that in a good many places I sat mighty close to the door, the easier to make ah exit. , The blissful ignorance of the general pub - lie of anything ou side the city or the United States, par ictularly of Canada, is very often amusing. One young fellow, thirsting for kndwl dge of Canada, asked me one day why- it was that a stranger always had his " t ings "1 searched while walking aloes the treets in a Canadian town? By things he meant his valise. Whether he placed the Csnadians in the, same class with pira es or riot, it was hard to discern. He had his impressions from a brother who had once crossed from Detroit to Windsor, and his chattles had, of course, been examined by the cust" ms authorities. When they examined his " things " there, he came to the conch ken that the same process was gone through every plaee you came to, and was en• tirely ignorant of the fact that one was subjected to thesame e amination going into the States. I Was tal ing one day to a commercial traveller, and he conversation drifted to Canada. His id as of this coun- try were quite as va ue as fhat of the boy. He had once been at Windsor, and from that had gained rather an unfayorable opin- ion of us. When I told !him that Canada was several thousand squire miles larger than the United States, a d several other little items that placed our fair Dominion in a better light, he appeared non -plumed, and feebly enquired if Manitob and tbe North- west were a part of Cana a, This ignor- d to these two cation Seems to tsnd to the glorification ollf their own poun- ther.s Whbther this indifference to other ountries guiles them quite as oblivious of their neighbor's presence or not, I don't k ow, but it cell- tainly would seem to. To s, of more stay ed natures, the sights one ees on the ear at nights, as the crowds re coming •ome from their pleasure exc rsions are most amusing. Every girl has her best f How, and of all the goings on ! But then they don't know any person and no person knows them and what's the custem goes. was vastly amused one afternoon while oing over Brooklyn bridge. 5auutering leis rely ahead of us was a couple, and quite u con- scious of the .smiles and knowing lo ks of those they met or passed, they went their way with their arms around each •ther. For all it was fun, it made me feel like telling them to go home and behave them- selves. But they were off for a holiday and perhaps they would look back on that as one of the bright days in a good many dark ones. kAAAAAAAAAAAivs"AnAewtswAi TO Winnipeg, Deloraine, Reson, Estevan, Bin Scarth, Moosomin, Cowani and Return Regina, Moosejaw, Yorktoin and Return Prince Albert, Calgary and Return Red Deer, Edmonton and Return MIN FOR $28 $30 ,$35 .$40* septTemri icteets!italilng August 29th, good returning until October 28th, 1899. Tickets going 1 returning until November llth, 1899. Stop -over will be allowed at bryderi, Onta;gio,° acrid at 'Winnipeg, or any point West thereof. CHOICE OF ROUTES :-All Rail via North Bay, or Lake and Rail via Owen Sound. The public have good reasons why they should patronize the great Canadian Pacifie • Railway Routes -both Eest and West -instead of other lines. Tickets issued and bag- gage checked through, direct from Seaforth to points in the Northwest. DOMINION _EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS, Ete., can also be issued to all parts of this Continent and Europe at a trifling cost. Your patronage respectfully solicited. J. MACDONA C. P. R. AGENT, Seafortb. • • -Mr. James Callan, of North has a curious relic in the shape of which is fifty-three years old,' an history, too. In the first place ported, and from -the Emerald Is having been born in county D landaarid being probably of the e if not indeed the previous yea DAWN. Easthope, a potato, it has a it is irn- e at that, liege', Ire. op of '46, . the olden days the good housewife in winding up balls ot yarn needed a starter, and the potato in queetion being about the right size, Wile used for this purpose, by Mrs. James Killpatkick in the old land. In 1847 the famil . Came to Canada, locating in North Ea thepe township, and the yarn - and hence he potato -was brought_ along. , ,s Kilpatrie 'ouse when this particular ball The yarn as knit into stockings in Canada, and Mr. alli , whose family had come out the year b fo , and who hintself was but a young ma at the time, happening to be he was being us d, captured the potato, and has it to t is ay. • Can; • a's Experimental Farm. An Ott wa correspondent, who has been visiting the Ea.perimental Wen there, says : The pia tat on at the Experimental farm planted elves years ago is now flourishing, some of t e tuiees being twenty feet high. The princ pal varietiee'repres nted are the hard and soft maple, the lack walnut, Scotch pi e, larch, birch and elm. Obser- vation as shown that the trees planted five feet apart hrove better than thee planted ten feet a art and the authoritie believe this is amp e proof that the trees or the common shad and natural increased growth should be planted dote. For purpesee Of. shade it has been shown that the soft maple is Superior to the hard. The plantation is three quarter% of a mile long and extende along the bend. The suc- cess which has attended this braneh of the farm work is proof that it would repay the average f rmer to do likewise. When the forests ef the country have been depleted they can hue Ihe renewed. All the grain crops, with the exception of the corn, are safely housed. About 30 va- rieties of corn are under cultivation, and close 'wal oh is kept on the results -proeured from the me of the different fertilizers. The ne eseary excavation is being made at the E perimental farm for the new root - house. hie buildiog will be 100 feet long and 30 f et wide. It will be eight feet unlergroJund and a story and a half above. This bui ding, whichis being built on the site of t e old roothouse, is the largest in this part of Canada. It will have a capa- city for 400 tone of roots, etc., whereas the form:r one held but 250 tome The basemen alone is intended for tbe storage of root c ops. The first floor will be - used to house the implements, and the attic to store gr in for seed purposes. It is ex- pected t e new building will be completed in about six weeks. The t o new monster -silos have just been eo plated. They are in shape, 30 feet in heigh , 17 feet across and will each hold 150 tons of ensilage. Theserare modern in their wa .. , • ost on Lake Huron. A dee etch from Goderich dated Septem- ber 4th says: " The schooner Lisgar, of Toronto was lost on Sunday afternoon about 6 miles from here. Her crew, all of whom it is feared were drowned, numbered six men nd one woman. Captain Freeman, of St. Ctharipes, was in charge of Abe Lis. gar. The captain's wife was cook ; Owen Gallagh r, of St, Catharines, mate a. Pat Joice, o the same place, and Frank -Al ol- lett, of ingston, deck hands. There were two oth r deck hands, one from Tonawanda, New Y rk, and one from Buffalo, whose names a e unknown. With the schooner Grimsby, the Lisgar was in t w of the steam barge Clinton, bound for Deps ti Harbour, and loaded with coal from Buffalo, when, shortly after noon, at a point 3 miles north-west of Southampton, they we e caught in a gale of wind, and the Lisgar, hich was in the middle, suddenly sank, a °tad loss_ It was all the crews of the oth r boats could do to cut themselves clear of he wreck. The inton made this port at midnight, and im ediately upon her arrival the tug Evelyn- as sent to search for members of the Lis ar's crew. The 0 inton and Grimsby proceeded to Parry 5 und as mon as some slight damage was rep ired. - The loat schooner, Lisgar, belonged to the Matthee line, of Toronto, and the Clinton andGriiisby were of the same fleet. The Lisga.r wjae an old And rather hard looking craft, h t was considered perfectly sea- worthy. She was tied up at IVI illoy's wharf for eever 1 weeks at the beginning of the season, a d before leaving she was freshly caulked. • The est Huron Local Election Trial, Before Mr. Justice Osier and Mr. Justice Rose, o Tuesday morning, at Osgoode Hall, To onto, a couple of 'affidavits in the West Hu on election petitisn were present- ed. Me ere. W. D. McPherson and Diakin. son repre ented the petitidnerr, Mr. Joseph Beek, a d George H. W teen, Q. C., ap- peared fo the respondent.. After the read- ing of th affidavits and a rief end unim- portant &emission, the cou t adjeurned un - i til Septes ber 30th. Mr. Di kinson read an a davit made by himself, i which he set forththat the house fo merly occupied y Linklater,, in Wingharne wa,s now vacant and Mrs, Link - later was in Black Rock, New York State. A Mr. Broadfoob, of Seaforth had met Linklatei in Detroit, but 3oullI not now give infor nation as to where he was. He had hear that the man was in Buffalo, and a man amed Carruthers saw Linklater there. Ihe latter told Cniauthers, it was said, tha when the present petition was disposed f he expected to get an office from the Onta io Government. On Saterday last Mrs. L nklater returned to Wingham, after having been absent from home sin e July. She restimed occupation of the ho se, but her husband did not ac- company her. The affidavit was closed with the tatement that the maker's belief was that 1 inklater was keeping away until the petiti n had been disposed of. In the ffidavit it was stated that Link- -later wa a comparatively poor man, de- pendent n his wages, and not sufficiently well sup lied with funds to travel or spend money fr els,. Robert Tennant, owner of the hou e in Wingham, where Linklater lived, ma e an affidavit to the effect that all the furni ure was still in the house. The rept had •een paid up to July last. The last paysant had been niade by Linklater's mother. The rent for .August'was not yet settled. • Close Call at Sea. A Ne York despatel'a dated September 4th, givi» the following thrilling particulars of the al ost miraculoua escape of one of the big 11 e ships from Liverpool to New York Itaays :The Anchor liner City of Rome st amed into port this afternoon with 997 than ful passengers aboard, and a story of an ene s unter with an iceberg a thousand miles fro • port. About six o'clock on the evening sf August 31, when the ship, owing to a den e fog, wa i steaming at less than quarter peed, and most of the passengers were at inner, the -look -out shouted, "Ice dead ah ad." Captain 'Young signalled to reverse se engines at full speed, and the 6 NEW AUTHORIZED . . . SCHOOL BOOKS —FOR— PrITIBLIC .41./VID IEE1CI-13 SCIELOL)I.JS Scribbling and Exercise Books, Pencils and Pens IN tINDLESS VARIETY. ALEX, WINTM SEAFORTIL MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED. No witnesses required. wheel had been thrown hard over to Steer the vessel to port to avoid the berg. The City of Rome had been going forward at only three or four knots an hour, but she had travelled into the berg almost before she began to feel the backward pull of the propellor blades, and just as she had begun to veer off in reidionse to the rudder. LIFTED INTO THE AIR. There was a crash and a crunching, then the big ship began to rise five, six, seven feet into the air. The crunching became loude' r she listed to port e bit, and then sank down as graeefully as she had come up, and in less time than it takes to tell it the fog had closed in about tbe berg, and it was lest to view. In he part of the ship where the passen- gers were there was fright that they will not forget as long as they live. Here and there passengers grabbed life priSservers and made for the deck with them', others fell on their knees and began to pray. The officers and the 297 members of the crew were in their places ready to man the boats before the women had a chance to scream. Those[whose duty it was to -attend to pas- sengeis in case of accident were running hitherand thither, shouting that there was no dar, ger, and doing all they could to avert panic., Examination showed the ship to be un- damaged. The passengers were finally quieted. • tianada. -Teventy cases of typhoid fever were re- ported in Hamilton last week. -At Halifax on Monday evening a sail boat Was upset in a squall and seven people I were rowned. -C arlee Rose, chief of police, Brock- ville, as been appointed as successor to Detective Masson, by the medical council. -While sitting on the dock at Toronto, on Sa urday, waiting for a boat, P.Fallahee, of Bulfalo, dropped dead of heart failure. -A boy named Tenon, of Belleville, who was rifling a bicycle barefooted, had one of his toes cut off by the Inrocket wheel. -Mr. James Isbister, a prominent rail- way oontractor of Ottawa, died at the Hotel Leland,. in Winnipeg, on Saturday, after an illness of two weeks. -John W. /tnilerson, charged with rob- bing the Molsons Bank, is still in the Pro- vincial gaol, at Winnipeg, not having pro- vided for his bail, which is $20,000. -Profesior Smale, lecturer in chemistry, at Toronto University, has resigned, to take a position with the William Davies Com- pany, . -Hon. Senator Price, of Quebec, died on Thursday of last week. He was a Conser- vative, and was called to the Senate in 1888. _while starting a fire with coal oil, Mrs. Mulcahy, of Toronto, was fatally burned. Her clothing caught fire, and before the flames were extinguished she had received injuries which caused her death. - When the members of John Christie's family, of Montreal, returned from their holiday trip they found the youngest son, Fairbairn, dead in the house. It is sup- posed he was asphyxiated by gas. -At the gates of the Toronto exhibition grounds on Monday night, a newsboy was crowded off a trolley car, and. falling fell be- neath the wheels, he was run over and in- stantly killed. -Dawson City now contains a school population of between 300 and, 400. There are no schools, teachers or books in the dis- trict. An order for books has been placed at Winnipeg, and several Manitoba teachers will leave shortly for Dawson City. -Francis Boin, a highly respected St. Norbert farmer, while driving an unruly team home from Winnipeg, fell from the seat beneath the wheels which passed over and crushed his head. He was found dead by his son next morning. 1 -Roy Stevenson, the four-year-old son of Mr. George Stevenson, carpenter, of Tudora, was bitten on the calf of the leg by s. kissing bug on Thursday of last week. Dr. McDer- mot was called, but, despite his best efforts, blood -poisoning set in, and the child died. -Lady Parker, wife of Sir Melville Par- ker. who died at the family residence, " K.nople," Cooksville, on Thuridaye of last week, was a daughter of the late Mr. John Hector, of London, Englavd. She was 79 years of age, and had been sick about eight months. -The electrical power house et the Nia- gara Fella Park and River Reilway, situ- ated a few rode above the Horse She Falls, in Queen Victoria park, Niagara !' Ils, was totally destroyed by fire Mondey ivening, together with all the valuable ma hinery. The loos is $75,000. -George Brooks, son of Captain George Brooks, of Kingston, has died in Dakota, the result of an accidental crushing of his left hand, followed by blood -poisoning and lockjaw. Deceased was 32 years of age, His wife was a daughter of the late Rev. F. Prim,e, of Kingston. - Two young ladies were drowned at the Little River, just outside the city bf Que- bec, a few days ago. They were the daugh- ters of Mr. James Gillespie. a farmer, and lost their lives while attempting to rescue a eousin from drowning. The latter was 4aved through the efforts of anotheT cousin, who could swim. -Wm. M. Grieves, of Ottawa, I died on Thursday of last week, in an Ottawe. hospi- tal, from tetanus, which developedas the tesult of a Blight accident. Five days be- fore he was getting into his rig, andIslipped, atriking his knee egainst the steel step. The wound was a slight one, but ! tetanus I developed, and he died. -Mr. Neil Mies, of Ailsa Craig, was struck by the engine of a mixed !train at Forest, on Thursday evening of lalst week, while walking on the tut& toward the etation, and shoved off to one side, injuring his foot so severely that it had to bi ma ampu- tat-eda r. P. S. Dollar, of London,;England, at the directors' reception at the , Toronto Induetrial Fair the other day, said that he had never seen so perfect an annu 1 'how. He had come part cularly to see th exhibit of horses. He had had a knowIedgi of the Canadian horse foe the past 25 pars, and wae, he believed, the first man in London, Eogland,o purchase them. During that time he had bought and sold many good Canadian ernes, but believed that he could do better in the future after an examination of those shown at the Toronto Fair. So far he was particularly well satisfied, and in his opinion the Canadian horse trade with England was bound to become a most im- portant industry. 1, -Rev. D. Hutchinson, pastor of the Park 'Baptist church, Brantford, has receivadea call from the Bsptist ehurch of Moncton, New Brunswick, one of- the largest and wealthiest 'churches of the Baptist denomin- ation in 'Canada; at a salary of $2,400 per year, witiii a manse, but has declined the cal: hen tlif workmen quit work at the Canadian acific Railway dock at Owen 'Sound, Monday morning, John Cole and others were coming along the dock, when Cole stumbled and fell into 20 feet of water. It being very dark, 18 minutes elapsed be- fore the body was recovered. Life *as ex- tinct. The deceased was unmarried. -Mr. T. Mansfield Smith, son of Mr. W. Thdinson Smith, of Strathroy, died last week, after t lingering illness. Deceased was only 2,3 years of age;and was on the point of completing his studies for, the magical profession. While in Chicago ' for ' h°:it developed into the disease which caused hi cles pth.al work, be contracted a cold which , -Mr. S. Wooley, insurance agent, of Tilsonburg, met with an accident Saturday night, which resulted in his death. He WEIS coming down the steps at the Imperial hotel and turned to wave his hand to a, friend going past. He missed his footing and fell, striking his head on the pavement. He Was piked up insensible and carried to his borne, Where he died, a few hours after. He 1 aves,a wife and four children. -While on his way to take part in the Leber demonetration in Totem°, on Mon. day, Shad ach W. Hughes, a cigarrnaker, met with a serious accident, from which he afterwards died. The deceased, who was a cripple, eli Fred while °rimming the corner of Albert and Elizabeth streets and fell heavi- ly to the ground. The / shock ruptured a blood vessel in the back of his head, from which he died. -Thomae Vaughin'1a young maa em- ployed in the Montreal Royal Electric Works, camo very near being killed the other night. He was working at one of the dynamos and turned the wrong switch, With - the result that he received a current of 10,- 000 'eoltS.IVaughin fell unconscious, but when taken to the hospital revived, and mayirecover, .-Early ne morning lately, the second child of M . George Patterson, near Nor- wood, a aged two years and six monther found and te, at his grandmothers home some rolled oats that had considerable rough -on -Irate mixed with it. In spite of medeal isi'd, the child died about eight o'efoek tha evening, after lingering in agony for eirport o Great Britain, A wooden box adopted a tandard case for apples intended -.The I epartment of Agriculture has ,. all day. 1 10 bY 18 b 12 inches deep s fitted with four elidiag drawers, made of cardboard, each 1being divided into 24 squar i cells. This en- sures uniformity of size aus immunity from hruieing- NO requisites to good prices for :i t lapple3 in t elEnglish mark . The case will contim 12 Caen apples. I ----pae day: recently Miss Lizzie Drysdale, of Rtagsto ,Ifourteen yea old, met with an adeiden which may c use her death. White riding a bicycle she tan into a van in that: city, 1 rolled under the wheels and one Of the passed over her breast. Her collar -bone Was brokn, her rm cut aid her bodyibruis d in many places. Attending physicians hold out very lit le hope of her recoVeryl -A sad drowiiing accident occurred at Durham 10 i Friday. Two sone of Mr. Robedt We her, of Bentinek, were return- ing from se Ool, and the younger of them entered the river where the current was pretty strong, and was taken off his feet. The Older brother went promptly to the rescue, and managed to help his brother to the abutment of a bridge, up which the lit- tle fellow climbed, but the lder's strength mustlha.ve become exhausted, as he sank and Was -drowned. --Actirig-Crown. Attorncy Walker, of Chathamhas begun proceedings against Willie Itoeston, charging 'him with man- slaughter. The charge arises from the death of the late Lyell Stephens at Erie Beach. High -Const ble Coogan was sent out with the sworn information to Bien - helms but it is unde stood that Magistrate Cosnell, of Blenheim refused to act, on the ground that it is net in his territory. -The barn of 11 r. Murtie McCoy, of Springhili, Sydenha , was burned to the ground last Thursday night, together with its contents, including this year s shay crop, 1,600 bushels of grain, and a threshing ma- ehine betooging to gr. Arthur Torie, who had been threshing at the farm during the day. The fire was discovered in the mid- dle of the night. It is supposed to have originated from a spark from the engine. -.A serious runitaway accident happened at Glencoe on -Wednesday night of last week, in which Mr. McCrae, of Dulwich township, wee seriously, injured and may not survive. A hasty 'examination shows the.right arm broken close to the shoulder. The horse became unmanageable through the lines getting ueder his tail, and at once started kicking, and, coming into serallision iVith a tree at the corner, threw Mr. Mc- Crae violent-ly to the ground. -A bold robbery was perpetrated by two Buffalo thieves in the township of Raleigh, near jhatham, last week. The men were riding through the ountry on oicycles, and stopped tit the home of Mr. John Crowe. Finding no one at home, but the table set for dinneri they appropriated the victuals to their own use. They then rantaeked the house, carrying off -watches and a quantity of jewelry. Mr. Crowe returned home, caught the burglars in the act;, and he and a young man mrn e the thieves prisoners and brought them t Clhathare, and they were sentenced to th ee years at Kingston Peni- tenti ry. - ev; D. uff died at Cedarville, on Thursday of la t week. Some weeks ago he went on a vi it to his, sister, who maiden in that village, and while there occupied the pulpit in th - Presbyterian church and was taken sick :during the service. Mr. Duff was a grad Late of Knox College, Tor- onto, and had h d charge of West Bentinck and Brant Pres yterian congregations for over thirty year . Previ us to taking up the Work at Ma eolm he had labored as a missionary in British Col mbia-he was the flat Presbyterian mi sionary in that country. -The pilot Mound S ntinel has this to say about crop prospects' in that part of Manitoba: Royal weather has favored the farmers in harvesting op rations this year. The wheat crop is practir' .11y all cut save a few late fieldss and both he. yield per acre, and the quality of the g ain have turned out better than anticipat, d. In fact there will be little or no inferi r , grain tributary to the Miran& this year Barley has also turned out good, while the oat crop, which the farmers are now busy cutting, has more than excelled itself. The !yield has been good, the sample the best ler some years, while those marketed BO far have averaged 42 pounds to the bushelsome farmers cleiming as high as a hunthe acre, while others think t will be in the fred bushels to neighborhood of 50 or 70. So tar there has been no trod severe enough to mar the pleasant outlook. i -In March, 1897, a youig Englishman I named George Edward Hartwourt arrived I in Montreal, and stayed for i some days in 1 the city with a friend. He Was supposed to . start for Dawson City, but about a year ago 1 Mayor Prefontame received a letter from 1 his father, asking his wher about', as he had never written a line hon e to Iris farnily i m Liverpool. All trace of he yOling ATOM , was lost, and, despite most areful enquir- !ies made by the detectives, 1 s could not be !found. A few monthe ago It r Ilarneourt, , ars, died, end the missing young man is I heir to -a, very large fortune, estimated at . :C100,000. It has been learned quite recent - 1 ly thee young Harneourt reached Dawson, i and there formed a partnership in which he rnade a lot of money. He rint to Vancou- ver for some purpose, and then left to re- turn to Dawson. Since that time there is ' no tidings of his whereabouts. -The Exhibition reporter of the Toronto , Globe, in his Saturday report, says: "Con- siderable excitement prevailed around the 'cattle stables during the afternoon, *wing Ito the sudden death of no 131111 them tight ;excellent cows. In the fine Jersey herd, brought over by Miller k Sibley, from Franklin, Pennsylvania, four cows died 1 ;within a couple of hours, each being ill less I than an hour. Mr. Robert 'Davies, of Tor. onto, also lost four from his Thorneliffe iFarm herd, two being Jerseys and two Ayr - ;shires. One of Mr. Davie Jerseys was li"Maitland Belle," which had the record of a milk test of 20pounds of butter per iweek. This animal was sick only half an hour. One or two other cows from Miller l&-Sibley's herd are also sick, but I.:nay pull 'through. Various conjecturee are afloat as Ito the cause of their deaths. Some wild :rumors of poison or drugs in preparation for Ithe Exhibition milk tcsb were current, but I the opinion of the veterinary surgeons seem - ; ed to be that death was either caused by the Iheat of Wednesday and Thursday, or by !overfeeding with new oats. As Friday was !judging day, and also by nO means as hot as it had been previously, the latter theory ix probably the correct one." 1 es -Those who happened t i exhibition grounds in Toronto on Sunday afternoon laet had an ente tainment which was not on -the programme. Superintendent IJOhnson and "Spider" Kelli of Hagenbach's itnimal show, took "Jolly,' the performing elephant, and the big perfo ming polar bear to the lake tor a swim. A ound both ani- mals were tied strong ro es, heId by a number of men. Neither iad had a fresh 'water bath before, having een used to salt water. No trouble, howeve , was apprehend- ed, but as soon as they go into the water ,both broke Ioose and startei to swim south- ward. Johnson, Kelly and Loll. Fred Woods, with all their clotoing on, went after them and succeeded in climbing i g 1 Jelly's" back. ; After much difficulty they were su;,cessful in , getting 4' Jolly" to turn 1r. Bruin shore- ward, and finally got both animals to land. ,Kelly was almoet drowne4 and was a con- siderable time in reeoverin . On getting to shore " Jolly " acted in an jigly manner, and despite tbe efforts of the show staff, sue- ceeded-in tearing up half a dozen of the shade trees along the lake front. At la,st both animals were brought into the tent and ehained down. , • -Mr. John Hinz, of L an, delivered to Mr. John Heal, of Mitchell, on Wednesday of last Week, eight head of cattle, which netted 11,050 pounds, and for which were I paid $524.87. -Rev. M. L. and Mr& Leitch, of Strat- I ford, who have just returned from their va- !cation, which was spent in eastern Ontario, I were each presented with an address and a I able gold watch and chain by their congre- i gri_tionh l. ese other evening while Mrs. Josiah , , Thompson, 6th ooneessioa, Elma, was en- gaged milking the cow kijocked her -over land trampled upon her, braking the wrist of her right hand, and ot erwiee severely injuring her left hand ani bead and face. . The cow was in the stable and she -waft in i . the act of tying it, when t e brute was so bothered by the flies that it kicked yioleatly 1 with the above result. , -On Thursday afternoon, 2411 ult., Mrs. Andrew Monteith, widow 1 the late An- drew Monteith, ex -M. P., assed away at ! her residence on the St. Mu pa road, town- ship of Downie. With pa Lent endurance : she withstood for months back repeated : attacks of la grippe, which ith- the grow- ing infirmities of old old age gradually gained the a,cendaney, ubtil Thursday, when she went to her rewerd at the well matured age of 72 years. 1 -Mr. Arthur Bernard, B. A., of Handl - ton, is spending a week in Mitchell, with Mr. AIL Hord, B. A. Mr. 3arnard is tot- ally blind, and has been so rom -childhood, and yet he has taken his university course and graduated. He acquire4 all his scholar- ship by having Ms eister, dr some person employed, reading to him. /Ile is an expert type writer, and performs literary work in that way. Ayong boy about fo r years old, a son of gr. Benjamin Kaufm n, of Listowel, was run over by a wheel of In grain separ- ator on Saturday night and badly injured. Hie father was on Keso's traction engine, and passiog Ms house his boy ran out to him, to see his father or get 3. ride. He fell between the engine and the separator and a wheel was over him before t e engine could be stopped. The poor lad had both thigh bones and the pelvic bone br kern -The bicycle races hek at Staffa, on 1Monday evening of last wee , were largely lattended, and much enthusi em was mani- fested. The result of th races are as :follows s Quarter mile, firs heat-lst, W. i Dawson, 2nd, A. Good. Qu rter mile, sec- ;heat-lst, Taylor; 2nd, 33 own. Quarter 1 1mile, final heat -let, Te tor; 2nd, W. et)awson. One half mile -1st, W. Stone - than; 2nd, Taylor. Ten Mile road race, (handicap,) for cup, -1st, William Gold- , ing, 5 points; 2nd, Albert orris, 4 points; 13rd, W. Stoneman, 3 point; 4th; A. Tay- lor, 2 points ; 5th, W. Daws n, 1 point. 1 -An accident that al est terminated , fatally happened the other day to Harold, I the rieven-year-old son of J hn Phillips, of the 6th concession of Ellice. 1 The little lad 1 m 3. was herding cattle, and wh' e driving the through die bush was kicke in the faoe. Hie upper lip was badly c t, several teeth were knocked out, while he was stunned for a while. The only one wit1 him was the _ younger brother, a little 1d of five, who was badly frightened at th accident and cried bitterly. When Hare d came to him- self he made for home, where he arrived three hours after the accident had taken place, blood dripping from the wound all the time. The doctor says it is a wonder he did not Milted to death. ' be around the