The Wingham Advance, 1905-02-09, Page 2Sunday Se'hoot,
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Jiin*s at the fool ot Ilethesda,John 5;1.15.
Wail John 0:1.47.
Introduction ---It has been about three
months sines the nobleman's son at Ca-
irernaum was healed by Jesus at t.aua.
At is supposed that this interval was
ocupied with labors in Galilee of widen
no record is left. Andrews thinks the
diseiplee went to their homes during this
time. When the Passover drew near,
desue, in common with many Jews, went
froni Galileo to Jerusalem to attend
Heretofore there has been but little evi-
dence of Ilostility to Christ, but from
now n opposition h 'm o a to hi willb
tre-
quently seen. Truth and love provoke
contradiction and enmity.
Commentary. -1. Jesus at the feast,
tvs 14). 1. After this ---"After these
things,"R. V. Some think that 'when
John is telling some event which follows
immediately after the last narrative, he
uses tbe expression "after this idling."
A feast -There has been much differeace
of opinion as to what feast this was,
but it is the opinion now of the best
writers that it was the Passover. The
Hebrew tongue -Hebrew bete means Ar-
amaic, the language spoken at the tune.
not the old Hebrew of the Scriptures.-
Ibid, Bethesda -'.this name does not oc-
cur elsewhere. It means "house of
mercy'." The site is not identified with
certainty. 3. Multituue-The sick con-
gregated here in great numbers. Wait-
ing, etc. -The last part of verse 3 and all
of 4 should be omitted from the text, as
it is not a part of the Bible. Whether
there was in reality any healing power
in the waters we are not told, but the
omission of verse 4 in no way weakens
the truths taught in this lesson.
II. Jeaus heals an impotent man (vs.
5.0). 5. An infirmity -The original
implies rather a loss of power than a
positive disease; probably it was a
nervous disease of paralytic type. -Ab.
bott. Thirty and eight years -The dura-
tion of the illness is mentioned, either
to show how inveterate and difficult it
was to heal, or explain the deep compas-
sion with which Taus was affected on
beholding the unhappy man. Godet.
6. Knew -The word "knew" in the or-
iginal indicates one of those instantan•
eous perceptions by which the truth be.
came known to Jesus aeording as the
task of the moment demanded, . Verse
14 will show that the whole life of the
sufferer is present to the eye of Jesus,
as that of the Samaritan woman was.
Wilt thou -Why does he ask a question
to which the answer was so obvious ?
Probably in order to arouse the sick
man out of his lethargy and despond-
ency. It was the first step towards the
man's having sufficient faith; he must
be inspired with some expectation of be-
ing cured.
7. No man -He was friendless as well
as sick, is troubled -This spring, prob-
ably the fountain of the Virgin, le in-
termittent to this day, and various tra-
velers have seen it suddenly rise from
five inches to a foot in five minutes.-
Peloubet. Whedon thinks that the mov-
ing of the waters arose from an under-
ground .connection of the pool with the
city waterworks. "The occasional and in-
termittent disturbance of the water is
not to be understood as a regular oc-
currence, but as something sudden and
quickly passing away. Hneee the man's
waiting and complaint.
8. Rise, etc. -Commands like these
would test the man's faith and obedi-
ence. "As in the case of the paralytic,
Christ makes no enquiry as to the man's
faith. Christ knew that he had faith;
and the man's attempting to rise rnd
carry his bed after thirty-eight years of
impotency was an open confession of
faith.
III. Persecution by the Jews (vs. 10-
13). 10. Not lawful -Jeremiah had com-
manded, "Take heed to yourselves, and
bear no burden on the Sabbath day"
(xvi. 21), and the Jews interpreted this
as forbidding the carrying of the lightest
weight. But Jeremiah's meaning is made
clear by Weh. xiii. 15: Treading wine-
presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in
sheaves, and lading asses," etc. "To for-
bid this man from carrying his bed was
like forbidding a modern man to move a
eamp-stool or a chair."
11. He.... said -"Unquestionably the
words seem to say that one who could
do such a, wonder as healing me, must
certainly have the right to tell me what
to do. He had been authorized by one
endorsed as sent from God. And this
was indeed the very ground which Christ
Himself took." 12. Who is the main (R.
V.) -They ignore the miracle, and at-
tack the command. Knew not (It. V.) -
Jesus had been in Jerusalem but little,
and the gran who • was healed had prob-
ably never seen Him. Conveyed himself
away -Better, withdrew.
IV. Jesus gives advice and warning (v.
`4.)
14. Afterward -Probably soon after-
ward; in a day or r0. Findeth
Jesus had Itis eye on the man; His
work with him was not yet finished;
this meeting was not accidental.
V. The man bears testimony (v. 15).
15. Told the Jews, etc. -In reply to the
inquiry they bad made of him a short
time before, partly in obedience to the
autborities. and partly to complete his
apolo yy for himself. -Alford. He ex-
pected, probably, in the simplicity of bis
heart, that the name of flim whom so
many counted as a prophet, if not as the
Messiah Himself, would have been snf-
ficient'to stop the mouth of gainsayers.
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS.
Faith is the way of man's approach to
God; the link uniting the human and
the divine. Unbelief shut ntan out of
Eden. Faith brings man back to union
with God. A solvent bank honors every
draft presented for payment. God hon•
ors the faith of every man. "According
to your faith" is a true, unfailing maxim.
"Wilt thou be made whole?" (v. 6).
This question is put to a poor paralytic,
waiting by the troubled waters at the
poet of Bethesda. It was the time of
the feast of Purim, a feast. celebrated by
works of beneficence and gracious gifts.
Christ entered into the spirit of the
feast.
"I have no man when the water is
troubled to put me in the poop" (v. 7).
• All earthly hope was gone. Only the
divine Son of inan could help this hope-
less cripple. Such cries eome to some
lives. Such a crisis came to the railroad
evangelist, Jennie Smith. She bad been
a helpless cripple for sixteen years, much
of the time suffering intense agony. One
limb, subject to awful spasms, was con-
fined in a strong box, often held by
heavy weights. One flay, after unusual
suffering, a few friends gathered about
her es she lay in her extension chair,
She says: "The evening was devoted to
a prayer, led by Pastor Everett After
the first hour some were obliged to
leave. One brother, whore I had not met
before, on leaving, said: "My sister, you
are asking too inuelr; you are too anx-
ious. The Lord elm make bettor use •of
you on your cot than on your feet' 1
turns thankful for the brothers words.
I looked searchingly into my heart.1
honestly answered, 'Teo, 1 am not anx-
ious to get well. If the heat of the.
furnact wan inereit!lyd a fhousand•foicl,
I eotrid say, Thy will be done, and pain
would bo tweet if fully drown to me
thatit b v'
is the Fattier willthat u
rl % Ilho id
suffer. AO I believe the time has -coma
torewe to know that will' up- to this
point there WAS not that oneness of
mind that I felt there must be. I said
to those who remained, 'Can you tarry
with inc until the, morning, if need be?
by waiting, our Father Will give us the
blessing. Are we of oue accord?' My
physician! I)r. Morgan, waft the first to
say, 'I will stay, and I fully agree with
you.' They gathered about my chair.
Never can that little group forget that
season. It was after 0 o'clock. We con-
tinued waiting before the Lord. Occa-
sioualiy one would quate, without cont.
intent, an appropriate text of scripture,
or engage in a brief prayer. I lay in
quiet expectancy, still suffering, but
with a remarkable sense of the divine
presence, hutch of the time almost ab•
liviatts to my surroundings, so engaged
in communion with my heavenly Father.
About 11 o'clock I vocally offered my-
self too in freshconsecration,a
Gd 1 s
ing: 'I give this body anew -these eyes
to see, these lips to talk, these ears to
hear, and, if it be Tidy will, these feet
to walk -for Jesus. All there is of ire
--all, all that is thine. Only let Thy
precious will be lot e. After a brief
f
silence
there flashed upon me a vivid
view of the Healing of the withered arm.
I seemed to see it thrust out whole. The
Holy Spirit bestowed on my soul a faith
to claim a similar blessing. I felt defin-
itely the strength conte into eny back
and into my helpless limbs. Laying my
hand on the chair arms I raised myself
to a sitting posture. The Carrigue bro-
thers sprang forward to assist ine. This
wee not neeeesnry lir tlnrsnn atennn.'
forward and let down the footboard, and
I rose and stood on niy feet. Sister Fan-
nie was so startled she threw up both
hands, exclaiming, "Oh, Jennie!" No
words can express my feelings. My
being yet thrills with praise as I think
of that hour."
"Jesus findeth him in the temple" (v.
14). This mail was found in the temple
praising God for his wonderful deliver-
ance. To praise is the natural instinct
of a redeemed soul. A Hindoo mission-
ary was once remonstrating with a na- ,
live Christian who was singing at the.
top of his voice. "Sing softly, brother," ;
he said. "Sing softly," was the answer;
"is it you, our father, who tells me to
sing softly? Did you ever hear us sing
the praises of our Ilindoo gods? how we
threw back our Beads and shouted, And
now do you tell us to whisper the praises
of Jesus? No,sir; we cannot "-Abbie C.
Morrow.
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PRINCESS VICTORIA l
OTHERWISE FAIRLY WELL.
i at 53.50 per owt.
PASSES A RESTLESS NIGHT, BUT
A London cable: The bulletin issued
this morning by the physicians attached
to the Princess Victoria who was oper-
ated on for appendicitis at Buckingham
Palace yesterday says she passed a rest-
less night, but otherwise is as well as
can be expected.
FEWER LEPERS.
Superintendent of Hospital at Tracadie
so Reports.
Ottawa, Feb. O. -Dr. Smith, medical
superintendent of the Leper Hospital at
Tracadie, N. B., presented his annual re-
port. Tho register of the institution
shows the names of fifteen inmates, ten
males and file females. Classifying the
lepers in the lazaretto the number in
the first stage is six; in the second, sev-
en; and in the third, oue. The youngest
patient is 1U and the oldest 62 years of
age. There were four deaths during the
past twelve months, and three new cases
were admitted, one front without the
Province. Of those on the register nine
are of French, three of•Icelandic, and
three of English origin.
During the year Chaulmaagro oil, in
combination, introduced two years ago,
has been freely used by the inmates and
with very beneficial effects. During a
recent tour of investigation through ad-
joining parishes the doctor found one
undoubted ease of leprosy. This person
has not yet been admitted. He alsb
found three persons showing suspicious
premonitory symptoms. Notwithstanding
this, he has again to report that leprosy
14 rapidly decreasing. As ,a result of
careful investigation Dr. Smith is more
and more convinced of the eommuniea-
bility of leprosy through contagion.
CZAR RECEIVED WORKMEN.
Promised to Visit the Works Where
They Are Employed.
London, Feb. 7.--A news ngeney de-
spatch from St. Petersburg says Em-
peror Nicholas to -day received al Tsar•
skoe-Selo a deputation of five workmen
from the State printing works. Itis Ma.
jesty questioned each nian closely re-
garding the diameter of the work ti:,
hours of employment, expressing satis-
faction with those who had conscien-
tiously performed their duty, and said
lie liopeci to visit rho estabhs linen t in
person. The audience took place in the
great hall. The Emperor was 0.00041.
periled by Minister of Finance Kolcow
soff and Prinee Solitzitre, manager of the
printing works. When Itis Majesty ex-
pressed a desire to eisrb the printing
plant the Minister of Finance said the
establishment was well worthy this
mark of Imperial favor.
11is Majesty, in dismissing the dele-
gation, asked thein to convey tlanl:a
in his name to their comrades, who Karl
clone good work in the service of the
State, De expressed satisfaction with
Ma hearing of the delegates,
At the conclusion of the interview
the delegates were given permiesion to
visit the palace buildin;;a, and after-
wards were entertained at dinner,
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"',"'"""' ,1 TEN OMEN WERE KILLED .ar et c onsl
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The Week. I They Begged in Vein for the Driver Not
Toronto Fanners' tearkets.
The grain receipt@ to -day were fah•, with
little ebaugo in prices, Wheat firm, with
.44104 pt Goa bwibcl3 of white and red at
407, and 100 bushels of goose at 91 to
92c. Cats unohnnged, 700 bUstiels Weileng.
et 41 to 413¢e. Barley firm, 900 bushels of
malting felling at 51 to 52e.
Dairy produce quiet and firm. Choice but-
ter retails at 20 to 24e per lb., and eggs
at 30 to 350 for new laid, and at 23 to 200
per dozen for held stock. Poultry quiet a
firm prices.
Hay in moderato supply, there being
Bales of '26 loads at $9 to $10 a ton for
timothy, and at $7 to $$ Yor mix@d, arra
Etna one fond c 1
, slip At 10 A ton.
g $
Dressed hogs are unchanged at26 t
��77 7ti, the lattr for light. g'
kept, new, bushel .......5 107 to $ 0 00
Do., red, bushel. .. .. ,- ,. 1 07 to 0 00
Do., spring, bushel ;II 46 .. 100 to 103
Do., goose. bushel .. .., ,. 0 91 to 0 92
Oats, bushel ., .. .... ... 0 41 to 41:4
76 to (10
64 to 00
of to u4
0000 to 1 00
00 to ea
00 to 00
to Cross the Tracks.
Darnellsville, N. Y., Feb. 11. ---This city
is in the deepest gloom owing to the
terrible accident to the sleighing party
of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Uni.
: vernal •Clurclr at a grade crossing of the
Pittsburg, Sltawmut & Northern Rail•
way, in which ten ladies were killed and
t 'three injured, There leave been no fur.
Thor deaths, and it is now believed that
w all of the injured, with the possible ex -
option
of Mrs.4
� R. Rowley, . I R ` who i.
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Y,
o suffering from two fractures of the legs,
ono a compound fracture, and internel
injuries, will recover. The bodies of the
victims are being removed •to their late
,tomes as fast as they aro viewed by Me
coroner, who has arranged to begin an
investigation at once, No definite ar-
rangements have as yet been made for
the funerals of the vietims, but, there is
talk of a general funeral, during winch
the business houses of the city will be
closed,
Y. e bus
hel
-
Buckwheat,, bushel .. .. .,..
Barley, bushel .. .. .. .
Peas, bushel .... ., ....
Hantimothy, *Ma .,
straw Do„ mixed, ton .
..
Seeds
Aisike, No. 1, bushel ....... 625 to
Do., No. 2, bushel 5 0 to
Do., No. 3, bushel .... 4 00 to
Red clover . .. .... 6 00 to
Timothy
yhegs . , .... 7 00 to
Apples, per bbl.. .... .. .... 1 25 to
Eggs, rper dozen .. .. .. .. 025 ttoo
Butte,. dalry.. .. .. ... 021
Do., creamery . .. . 0 24 to
Chickens, spring _... ., .. 012 to
Ducks, per lb .. ...... 0 13 to
Turkeys, per Ib. . .. .. 016 to
Cabbage, per dozen .. .. .. 0 35 to
Potatoes, per bag ,. .. .. 0 85 to
Cauliflower, per dozen .. .. 0 75 to
Onions, per bag .. .... .. 1 00 to
Celery, per dozen .. . .. .. 0 30 to
Beef, hindquarters .. .. .. 7 50 to
Do., forequarters .. . . 5 00 to
Do., choice, carcase ...... 7 00 to
Do., medium, carcase . .. 6 00 to
Mutton, per cwt.........6 00 to
Veal, per cwt.. .... .. 7 00 to
Lamb, per owt.. ...... 8 00 to
.. ., •..
0@
75
50
00
30
G0
24
27
13
16
50
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40
i.0
25
25
30
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Toronto Live Stock.
Receipts of live stock at the City Markel
to -day were four carloads, composed of 175
hogs and 59 sheep.
There was a good demand for good cattlo
but common to medium classes were slop
of a ale, Drovers were conlpiaining of hay
Ing to sell for less money than they paid i,
the country.
Exporters -There were no straight loads o
shipping cattle offered. A few lots picks,
from loads of butchers' cattle sold at 54.2 r
to 4.60; export bulls were slow of sale at
to 53.50 per cwt.
suchors-There were few good butchers i
cattle offered. The best sold at $4 to $4.1.1 i
per cwt., and few brought these prices •
Medium to good sold at $3.75 to 53.90; comma,
53 to 53.50; inferior, $2.50 to 53.
Feeders ansi Stockers -There were fes
feeders or stockers offered and prices were
unchanged. One load o1 900-1b. teeders 3011
1 Milch Cows -About 23 much cows and
springers sold at 530 to $49 each.
1
Veal Calves -About 40 veal calves sold 1r
firm prices; good to choice, $5 to 56 per cwt
• and medium to common at $3.60 to 54.50 pm Q 6
1 o Sheep and Lambs -Deliveries were light A Huge Lake From h is h N. �✓ � o r k i i i
• 319 sold as follows: Ewes at 54.50 to 55 pe, 1 �
to bucks at $3.60 to 53.76, lambs at $5.61 Get its Water l} 6Y �
to 56.50 per cwt. ,j� Water pp v y
1 Hogs -Mr, Harris bought about 2,700 hog;
at 55.60 for selects and $5.25 for lights and
fats.
Ilton (tassels, 'eta appoint a Damm 401
to go to Boston and examine hire. 1
Ler G, Eddy."
"I'll do nothing of the kind;" said Ma-
gistrate Denison, "because I think if .site
was in this country mho would be pro
cuted for fraud."
On
lit• I gift
Dr. A. J. Johnston, chief coroner, said
to est -mortem showed that the de-
ceased ,rad died from exhaustion, and
Buffalo, . N. Y. Fob. 2. -As that ho was just recovering from a inept
special to attack of typhoid fowl, as the ulcers
the NowafromlIoritelleville says: "Mrs, were healing, and everything pointed in
Rowley has made an aute-mortein state- that direction. The heart muscles were
anent, m which.she blames the driver for incapable of performing their duty, as
the disaster. She said: "The ladies beg- they wore excessively soft. ``'heir action
bed (wick not to drives on the trael s, might have been stimulated by means
ut he paid no attention to them. The of medicine.
train was in plain sight, and anybody ' "Do you« know any law," aekeri Dir.
could see that we could not beat it Robinette, Clint coinpela a man twenty.
but Quick kept right on, el- one years of ago to take medicine 7"
though everybody was screaming to hili "Ont the law of common sense,' ve-
to stop, and those in the first sleigh• plied the witness,
ever shouting a sl tit n tohim i In not to cross." g
Assist o
Assistant Coroner J. M. Catton said
Ten Women Killed, ' the patient would, have been better if
Two mothers and two
he had been kept quiet, nue had stem -
Two
the p
vo dnunliters were huts administered `at the proper time.
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among those killed, Mrs. Coates was the
mother of Mfrs. Shaw. Mrs. Pateken was
the mother of Mrs. Hallett.
The party was given in honor of the
birthday of Mrs. Graves, who was 15
years of ago. Slio was mother-in-law of
the liveryman who furnished the team
and sleighs, Sho was killed, being one of
those who rode in tho last sleigh.
ADMIRAL TOGO'S WIFE.
GENERAL STOESSEL'S WIFE.
NFIN COMM_ DAM
COM IT[.
British Cattle Markets.
London, Feb. ` Live cattle are quoted
et 11 to 12o per io.; refrigerator beef, 9%e
per lb.; sheep, 12 to 13c per lb.
Bradstreers on Trade.
Montreal reports to Bradstreet's say:
For some little time country roads
throughout the province have been more
or less snowbound. Taken all together
the wholesale trade is fairly active. Sort-
ing lines in groceries are meeting with a
moderately active trade, and the outlook
for the dry goods trade is good. The
outlook favors an active trade in hard-
ware. There has been some improve-
ment in remittances during the past
generally continue firm. Wools fare
scarce and high, leathers are firm, and
the prices of sugars are expected to again
advance.
Bradstreet's advices say the wholesale
situation at Toronto is satisfactory. The
movement in trade generally is as good
as can be expected as this time of the
year. Orders for spring dry goods are
coming forward briskly. With the ad-
vent of Milder weather building opera-
tions will be commenced in great valu-
ume, and hardware houses and lumber-
men are preparing to take advantage of
the trade which will thus be- created.
There is a good retail trade being done
throughout the country. Money is com-
i ing forward fairly well. A feature in
, the money markets is a decline of the
price of time and call money from 6 to
43d per cent.
l At Quebec, trade in most lines is re-
ported quiet, but it isexpected to bright-
en up as the season advances. Winter
goods are in moderate demand. Collec-
tions are still slow and renewals are
reported being asked. Outside of a few,
the shoe manufacturers are not busy.
Winnipeg advices say: There is still
a quiet tone noticeable in most lines of
trade, but a steady improvement is per-
ceptible in hardware. Retail stooks of
dry goods are light and an improved
wholesale movement is looked for soon.
There is little change in the general
trade situation. Money is not Coming
in any more freely. Remittances have
been rather better than in January of
other years. There is still paper to be
taken up, but dealers here have no fear
of the ultimate result.
Reports of Bradstreet's from Victoria
and Vancouver say: Trade continues a
little quiet along the coast, There are
signs of better times for the lumbering
industry and the past year's mining op-
erations were the largest on record. The
demand for staple lines of Wholesale
goods for the interior is good and there
spring delivery. Payments are generally
fair.
According to Bradstreet's reports the
volume of trade at Hamilton is fairly
heavy. Sorting orders are not large, but
there is considerable activity in trade
for spring delivery, Collections are fair
and the outlook for trade is bright, •
London reports a normal bush
doing in all lines of trade. Retail trade
in the surrounding country is good,. and
z the manufacturers continue busy. In -
()lotions are for a good spring trade, al•
though there is not much improvement
in this respect as yet. Values of tom.
I moeities are steady to firm, ;
Ottawa advices to Bradstreet s say
there is still a quiet tone to wholesale
. trade here, but the movement of retail
, stocks is good and as the month ad•
winces it is expeeted trade with the
i wholesalers will improve. There is fair
i activity among the industries" and some
improvement is noted in the flow of
is an adtivo business being done for
money from country and city retailers.
The Sap as a Fighter.
There is no State In existence whoae sol-
dlore would encounter the victors of Port Ar -
week. City collections are fair. Va ues
r goodLess
that in aqua! numbers frith any certainty of
victory. Indeed, there have been mordents
'
in the siege, like the stoma of Nanshan or
of 201 -Meter 11111, which have cempolied e'c-
perlerneed seldlors to doubt whether the Japi-
1 anese nre riot the fincrt seldlors in the world
and whether Kourepatkln le not right in de
mandlodt a ptrand superiority in numbers as
the
any fvrist,orid the •eropts ialundeodhsAofm
nand.
,judgment was given against the Bank
of Montreal in the suit brought by the
3)otninion novermmmet to secure the
mmneunt of the 1Tartfneaatt frauds,
New York, Feb. 11. -The new Cornell
dans, near Croton -on -Hudson, in West-
chester county, the largest piece of ma-
sonry in the world except the pyramids
el Egypt, is practically complete, after
ten years of labor and expense of $90,-
000,000, says the World. The flood gates
were shut down for the first time yester-
day, and it began filling with water. It
is estimated by the engineers dist it will
require about two years for the dans to
fill When the water reaches the baso
of its coping,. it will make a lake six-
teen miles long. For the first year Now
York's principal supply of water will
conte from the overflow of the old Cro-
ton dam, The old dam will then be
flooded, and the water will rise thirty
feet above it. The new darn will hold
30,000,000,000 gallons of water. Closing
of the immense gates and the flooding
of the sites of half a dozen abandoned
towns in northern Westchester attract-
ed ninny people desirous of witnessing
the beginning of the inundation whiolp is
to change the snap of the country and
cover their former homesteads and old
landmarks.
The dam will supply both the city of
Now Yorlc and Sing Sing prison with
water.
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SUSPENSION i 6[ COLLAPSED
9
And a Detachment of Dragoons Was
Precipitated 9nto the Frozen Waters.
St.. Petersburg, Feb. 6. `Tie suspen-
sion bridge spanning the Frontanka
rc
River collapsed this morning while a
detachment of dragoons was crossing.
Thirty men and horses were precipitated
into the frozen river, together with a
number of cabs, wagons, etc. The ice at
that point being weak, the greatest ex-
citement prevailed, but speedily help
was forthcoming, and.the victims of the
accident were rescued, with the excel-
tion of one dragoon. The chains on both
banks broke, and the bridge fell bodily
with the whole traffic that was upon it
at the time, The ttrrified cavalry Horses
jumped over the railings of the bridge
on to the ice, which gave way. The
river is narrow at that point, and the
men managed to scramble, ashore, with
the assistance of witnesses of the acci-
dent.
The For`anka is a river six miles long,
utilized with other waterways, includ-
ing canals, to drain the marshes south
of the Neva River.
PROBLEM FACING FRANCE.,, cipM products. They don't ask it on
all, but they do ask that that advan-
The Separation of Church and State Will tags should be given them on corn,
Not Down., meat, dairy products and fruit. In
order to give it to them we should
'Paris, Feb, 7. -Senator nd fernier have but �a small tax on these articles.
Premier Celebes, in accepting to -day the
They don't want a big tax. All they
Presidency e the Republican groups in ask is for a turn Qf the scale in trade
the Senate, said the Cabinet change As no one knows better than the great
must not permit delay or abandonment industrial and manufacturing concerns,
of the task of separating Church and the majority of which are entirely in
State. The opposition against which lie fairer of this policy, the turn of the
had long struggled was now flattering scale is a consideration,"
itself that it had indefinitely postppned
the project. Therefore it was noes- PRIEST SEEKS DAMAGES.
sary to ask the new Cabinet, without
further delay, to make a precise declare- Alleges a Separate School Commissioner
tion removing all equivocation end Slandered Him.
doubt upon this essential question. Oa Ottawa, Feb. 0. -The case of Rev,
ly upon the condition that such a de a rate
rather Croteau, of Buckingham,finite declaration is made would the a ainst C. W. Pearson'
groups of which he was President glen School Commissioner of Otho town, for
adherence to the new Ministry. $5,000 for public insult and slander,
The new Bouvier Ministry held an in- was heard to -day in the Iiull Superior
formal meeting to -day to go over the
question of the separation of Church Court. Tho action had its origin in the
nd State, and ngreed upon the general trouble some time ria over the employ
form of a new measure which will be went of the Christian Brothers. There
h
presented to the Chamber of Deputies
had been a meeting in connection with
next week. the matter after mass, at which Fath -
The following Friday at a meeting of
CLOSER TRAD>;.
Mr, Chamberlain Points Out Its
Advantages.
London, Feb. 0.---Ifon. Joseph Cham-
berlain, speaking at Gainsborougle
urged upon his audience the desirabil-
ity of thinking imperially, without re-
ference to antiquated conditions of
themselves or their country. Referring
to colonial support during the late war,
he said it for the first time made pos-
sible an organized union of all the dis-
feront parts of the British empire for
:`Ito chances for Ilia recovery would have
been very good if
the.proper
roper
m
edical at-
tendance badbecn given . The
way in
which he bud been neglected contributed
to cause his death.
PAY FOR ASSASSINATION,
Seven Thousand Dollars Offered for Five
Lives in New York.
New York, Feb. 7. -Rewards aggre-
gating $7,000 for tlio assassination of
Tom Lee, "Mayor of Chinatown,' and re-
puted Bead of the On Leong Tong secret
society, as well as for four principal
members of the On Leong Tong, have
been scattered throughout Chivatown,
according to a statement to -day to Mag-
istrate Pool in tate Tombs Police Court
by Leo Moy, Tom Lee's secretary and
right-hand num. Lee Moy was a wit-
ness in the examination of Yee Fong
in Mott street last Tuesday.
To -morrow is tho Chinese new year
day, and Toni Lee, according to his sec-
' retary, fears that among the •many vis-
itors who have come to New York for
1 the ocasion may be Chinamen hired to
make way with him. Lee Moy told
Magistrate Pool thatfor the last few
days proclamations believed to have
originated with the Hip Sing Long,
a rival secret society, have been scat.
tered throughout Chinatown, offering
x$.'3,000 for the asassination of Tom Lee
and $1,000 each for the killing of four
lower officers of the On Leong Tong.
Lee Moy said Tom Lee already has ask-
ed the police for a personal guard.
Tho On Leong Tong has been repre-
sented as the back of the gambling fro-
ternity in Chinatown, while its rival,
the Hip Sing Tong, has the reputation of
being opposed to its practices.
NINE SETSOFTRIPLETS.
Mrs. Dunnville, of Yankton, S. D., Bore
Twenty-seven Children,
Washington, Feb. 7. -President Roose-
volt will be introduced next week to the
father and mother of twenty-seven
children, and it is expected he will pre-
sent them vvitir an autographed pboto-
graph.
Geo, W. Dunnville, the father, is but
forty-three years old, and his wife thir-
ty-eight. They live at Yankton, S.
D. They expect to arrive here on it
visit next week ,and the senators and
repWhreseniteHotativuse, will take them to the
es
The twenty-seven children are nine
sets of triplets. Twouty-four of them
are boys and three are girls. The chil-
dren v1j11 not be hero.
DETROIT RIVER TUNNEL. •
The Vanderbilt Interests Will Under-
- take Its Construction.
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 6. -It is stated upon
reliable information that as a result of the
unification of the New York Central, Lake
Shore, Michigan Central, and Big Four sys-
tems, a tunnel will be immediately con-
structed under the Detroit River to facilitate
the transportation of cars and avoid the de-
lays that aro caused by the ice every winter.
The tunnel will be built by the Vanderbilt
interests, independent of other roads.
All necessary data has been gathered for
the construction of the tunnel, the equip-
ment of which is to be the finest that engin-
eering'skill can devise. The Michigan Con-
tral right-of-ways on both fides of the river
will be used for the tunnel, and there will be
no changes in the present terminals.
It is also said that within this year every
mile of single track left between Detroit
and Chicago on the Michigan Central will
be double -tracked, and a block system estab-
IIshed
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CANAD.IAN BUTTER ON TOP. .
The Imports by the United Kingdom
Are Third in Size.
London, Feb. 7. -At the annual dinner
of tbe Bristol District Grocers' and Pro-
vision- Dealers' Association, Mr. C. H.
Slade, the President .of the Provision
Merchants, Assoolatioit, said be was
pleased to say that in Canadian im-
ports of butter the stood third in the
United Kingdom. They were third be-
cause they cultivated the trade. Up to
last year they had to draw their sup-
plies of Australian and Now Zealand
butter from agents in London.
Ile had written scores of letters point-
ing out to shippers the disadvantage of
sending goods that way,and showing how
the Canadians had succeeded in selling
their goods on the coast, freight and in•
surance basis. This year more butter
bad been sold on the c.i.f, basis than
ever before. They must urge that some
of these huge shipments of butter and
cheese must be shipped to Bristol.
B. C. MINER MURDERED,
His, Body Inas Been Found in a Tunnel
at Tonopah.
Vancouver, B. C., Feb. 6. -George Me
Donald, a former resident of 'Greenwood
this Province, is reported to have been
murdered in the now •famous Tonopah
c
the Separate School Commissioners. e
Chairman Lahaie invited the reverend :lI
gentleman to speak, but :the
ob-
jected, saying that the priest "had lied
and made a fool of himself," on a Soria. t
Cr occasion. la
This statement of the school commis- lf
sinner the reverend gentleman claims a
to have done hint injury, and henee the e
suit. _ a
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CASE. in
11
Mrs. Stuart, Head Demonstrates, Evad- a
ing Subpoena, b
ountry, Nevada, the region of the tat
st gold exeitement.. J. D. Sword
E., formerly of Greenwood, sends th
ews. Ile says:
"George McDonald, of Boundary dis
riot, was paid off some $1,500 or $2,000
.st August, and was never seen again
lis s body was found a short time ago
n old tunnel." McDonald was a min
r, who was well known in the Slocan
nd Boundary districts, where he work -
d, for some years. When . the exeite-
ent at Goldfield, Tonopah, broke out
o was grubstaked by two nine owners
t Greenwood and sought the new sage
rush camp. IIe left for the south in
the company of II, V. Fuller, a well-
known mining operator. Fuller refuses
to behove that McDonald has been
murdered. Ile thinks it will be found
that the body discovered in the old tun-
nel was not that of his friend. Ile was
told McDonald lied sold Isis interest In
a lease for $1,500, and had left for Reno,
whence lie intended to go to Michigan..
It is learned from ether sources that
frightful conditions prevail tie Tonapalt
camp. At Goldfield diphtheria, small-
pox and black pneumonia are raging, It
ie almost Impossible to .get medicines,
and water and food are Beane. Men
die in a night of pneumonia, and no ef-
fort is made to isolate the smallpox
patient5.lfundreds of then court death
by Sleeping in thin into, Holdups are
of almost nightly aecurrenee.
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on ','own and U'arm Property,
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Night calls answered at oBice.
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Special attention paid to'Dissasss of wore,
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Dentisttry, Prieeammoderate all
Satitiesfaot5 branches-Al
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Dental Surgery of Ontario. ,
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CAUGHT IN THE FLAMES.
Two Men Perish While Endeavoring to
Rescue Their. Coats.
•
Montreal, Feb. 0. -Two inen were,
instantly' killed and cremated - titin
morning in a fire which broke out in '
the premises of the Montreal Ilido and
Calfskin Company, at 752 Frontenae
street. There was wool all aroundl
the store spread to dry. This caught,
fire, and the flames • spread rapidl3-.
Tho employees fled In all directions;,
thirty of them dropping out of the
second storey windows, unci reaching
safety by outside staircases, An Eng-
lishninn named 1'. 5 imh'r, end a lttrn-
sian named Louis Sehnare, rushed hat:k
into the building to recover Ureic
coats. .
A moment later the roof f
ell in awl .
lik
nothing more was seen of them. Wheat
the firemen arrived they were told that
everyone had escaped, but after the
return blow had sounded and the fine
reels had gone back to their respectiv,s
stations, a foreman returned and sah
that two men had gone back to get Wile
coats.
The firemen were instructed to searth
for the bodies, which were fouiul and
taken to the morgue. Tho toes on the
etock end plant amounted to about $40.-
000, covered by insurance to the extent
.pw,vvu.
SHOT WIFE IN .ITIS SLEEP.
A. Somnambulist's Very Strange Deed in
e London,
London, Feb. 0.--11,c Daily Express,
• publishes the following: One of the.
most remarkable eases of somnambulism: _
' ever recorded °centred at Stockwell.,
when Mr, Francis Lance an ex -secret
service agent, rose Irons his bed'auci shot
his wife twice with a revolver witioui.
being eonscionns of what he had done.
Mr. Lake'had for five months been
' living Happily with his wife and chil-
dren -a boy ten years old and a b>t,l>v
only two months old -in romps in Kay
road, not far from Brixton station.
Above five o'clock Mrs. Lake was
awakened by two loud reports rind sat
up in bell find her husband standing;
At the bedside with a revolver aimed
all-night tit htoer.
Ills oyes were closed, his teeth were
firmly clenched, and he seethed to be•
dcheaulinesperate sig that ationh° .was in soot•; terribly'
tu
Though two bullets llnd Dimwit the
bed clothes and entered Airs. Luke'r..
right leg, one ging through the tingle
And the other loaning
above the knee..,
- Mrs. Lake was able, 115'l) to the great
pain. to seize t.ho rrvolvei•, throw it oitt`•
of the roost into the passage, and leek
the door.
LattMir. T,alce wa:1 :df 111 aghrelt, ami Mira.
er. had to sbnl:'e hint for nearly fivt�r
minutes before. lie ntv„1e,
cmon obj, 11l�aid the Toronto reports More evidence was
remniomles of SirectstVitfrul0g
In.nurier,quoteilia'. produced by Crown Attorney Curry in
Dcaicht, n»cl the lata Cecit Rhodes, deal- tint Police Court yesterday to substan-
iir;f with tie colonial offer. ' lie said: bate the manslaughter charge agni,ist
"We offer to meet you and make a Mfrs. Isabella Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth See,
treaty w
treat us and we will treat you a little
beter than we both treat tie foreigner.
,deferring to tie growth of foreign
ttade Ott the colonies, Mn Chamberlain
proceeded: "I want to bring you all
the trade the colonies can give. 1: want
to bring about eloser intercourse • be.
tween the colonies and .ourselvs in
order that our great empire may
maintained, What do the colonies ask
front you in return for this? They
tti you by vvlrieh you shall Mrs. Sarah Goodfellow and William Bur•
drett, who nre charged with havig he•
n:l• that certain advantage should be
given to them on some of their pria-
,leetrd to give proper attention to Wal-
lace Goodfellow during his illness which
terminated with his death. After the
evidence of three witnesses lead been
taken the Crown Attorney asked for n
renrnrtd, Paying that Mrs, Stuart, the
]read demonstrator of the Christian Sei-
eitlstu in Toronto, had been evading ser-
vice of a subpoena. "I have inetruetedd
a
man to wait at her Retire until she re-
turns."
"I ask your Worship," said Mr. Ilam-
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