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steamship lines. doin ndon 'will visit " Sept. 7th, in will be built for Letter of Credit Taken From His Pocket in Montreal, A despatch. from Moritreal says: . A daring robbery was commitied on Wed: Tiesday, when General De Negrier, of Paris, a guest at the Windsor Hotel, was relieved of his wallet, containing a letler credit for a large amount, while he | was altempting to board a slreet car. trial at General De Negrier, who is well-known in' French army circles, having had com- g | mand of the French troops in Al was ; ing -on Saturday; IC New armories at $50,000, has been Dumais & Lachance, of ; The Railway ion. has raved Ne plans of the GTP, C ort Gi in the Rocky Mountais, & ge "The pi New Brunswick has 1000. for ond Monireal at a i «'D. Davidson, a western rea] Be apalit, has Wired Ottawa that ; es wes wi Holal 95,000,000 bushelss hes Sfp wil 8 A clerk in an Oltawa dry goods store, pr apparently 'a young Englishman, was 'Psuspecled of purloining articles, and on Being searched was found to be 4 wo- an, + Lord" Sirathicona's _report on British states il + continues to improve, and good fimes "are g the - fumers fastidious, a fact that Canad ; orters Should notice, » Sundpust, . of Davidson, k: thile looking "for hay 'on the Praies and a human on, surpaseqd. fo be of an:English' homesteadér named Ig for two years. sentenced at i mn. peni- ay Cars, teals BRITAIN. reading of the pure food i5- passed the Hobie ot Lords. 'Second 'reading o décensed | ie ¢ nisicr blll has passed the House of i x > British Admiralty 'will saorifics one of its older submarine bogis to lest « ithe: action of torpedoes and mines. Abe drastic amendments of 'Lords; 'the British Government has ded "lo abandon: the Scottish land h House of Cam tots had d 1o a fmendments made Lords 10 'We. evicted Irish ten. ap-| ticular altention io it, is on & visit to Canada. & considerable sum on his letter of 'credit, by those who eventually siole his wallet. After leav- ing the bank and while trying fo board a car, In' order to return to the hobel, he felt himself pushed, but paid no. par- At the time his hip pocket, and same pocket were the wallet was in his right in the and the missed the money and the 'wallet, which contained the letier of credit, which is of no negotiable value H except fo: the general himself. rei Mees EX-JUDGE DECRIES OLD AGE. Eord Brampton at 90 Years Regeets His Leisure, A despatch from London, England, Says: One of the present "silly season" Newspaper topics, tow 10 live to be a hundred years old, has shown that the pepular idea is still strong that it is 8 good thing 0. live to a great age. 'This view is' controverted by Lord Brampton, 'formerly. the 'famous crim- inal judge, Sir Henry ~ Hawkins. He is ninety, and having retired from {he bench on a pension has the leisure to enjoy the evening of his life, but he dees not find it particularly enjoyable. "Old age has very few compensations. Leisure is not pleasant. It fills me with regret that 1 am no longer able to tale an. active part in the life of the world." eei-- ei CROPS ON PEACE RIVER. They Promise Well and Harvest is t A despatch from Edmonton says: TI. K:€Cornwall, a well-known trader, who came {to the city on Friday from Peace River, says the people in, that section arc now in the midst of harvest, The frost "of Honday night was not felt in the: north. . The ¢rop promises to be a good one in thal section, and fully equal to a large colonization party being taken roeth by Mr. Lampan at Slave Lake. He says the men were well pleased with the rip and enthusiastic at the pros- pects: : ee in FIFTH WARSHIP TO BEAR NAME, Temeraire 'Is Successfully Launched at teh' frant - Davenport, that of last year, Mr. Cornwall met |T Eng., | Thomas | d of | dow cleaner at the. Traders Bank -buiMd< July ho: volume of 'expof jump of $11,174,081, th, $27,723,509. Sill Capsized in Lake in Hastings A despalch. from Madog says: Aj drowning accident occurred at Gilmour,] aboul thirty miles north 'of * here, Wednesday - afternoon, when three: dren of Mr. Norman A. Green, agénk: tha Anglo-American Iron Company foi North' Hastings, and resident. of 'this lace, were drowned ini. Wadsworlh's ke, where Mr. Green has been spend}: ing "the Summer with 'his family. On Wednesday afternoon Mrs, Green and Ang hy the house pulling the baby ta sleep, On the shore of the lake, © to the house; was a new. skiff, which Mr. Green purchased -this summer. thought that. thé. children: got the boat into the water, climbed in, and pushed oul from shore. When about 45 or 50 coe, was in he had gone out to join the ot in their play, when he was horrified to sce the skilf floating boltom upwards, an the 'children nowhere to be seen. T news of the drowning soon spread, and neighbors from miles around came 10 a8~ sist in dragging for (he bodies. That of the little girl, Helen, was the first to discovered, Her body was found about seven o'clock, three hours after ihe acci-! dent, "The body of Burnetf was recovered, al 7.30 the following morning, and tha of Willie an hour later, ro fen PHILIP GILBERT SHOT AND KILLED, Shocking Midnight Tragedy. in a Suburb of Wiarton. A despatch from Wiarton says: Phili Gilbert, an old and well-known citizen, was shot and instantly killed by Mrs. Thomas, one of a pair of dissolute wo- men who were housed in a tent in a suburh known as Voganville, The secs tion in question has Jong beef troubled with houses of a questionable characler, and Mrs. Thomas was warned away rom there more than once. .She.always returned, however, and when she came back last week ii is said Gilbert organ- ized a gang of men and boys to raid the {ent where she resided, The tent was pulled down by a mob estimated at from twenty-five to fifty men and boys, some with blackened faces. The two Women' were pelted: with stonés and rotten eggs, and it is said Gilbert struck Mrs. 'homas, However, the woman fired several shots in the air to frighten the raiders away, but the last shot struck Gilbert and death followed almost in- slanlaneously. OSHA eri, HEAD SEVERED FROM BODY. Window Cleaner Decapitated" in Blevad ? for Shaft, 3 i from . Toronto says + Davidson, employed as 'a wine pletely severed, Coming ms odntact with} valor shalt on Saturda; decapitaled