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- DOUBLE DROWNING TWO WINNIPEG SOLDIERS MEET DEATH IN THE ASSINI- BOINE RIVER. ROW BOAT STRIKES A BRIDGE AND THE OCCUPANTS ARE THROWN INTO WATER. As the result of a mistake in steering, Private Espie and Trump- eter Davey, of the Canadian Mount- ed Rifles were drowned in the Assini- boine river. The double tragedy happened on the afternoon of the 23rd inst at the Main street bridge, Winnipeg. Private Cuiston, also of the C. M. R., was the third occupant of the boat, and he escaped by a miracle. i Hatless, coatless and in his bare feet, Cuiston told the story of the iragedy soon after he landed {rom the river. "Espie, Davey and myself," he said, "had been bathing. We decided to go for a row in a boat of the C. M. R., and Espie and Davey took the oars. 1 was sitting in the back of the boat. As we approached the Main street bridge I called out to the boys who were rowing to look out for the second pier. There was no steering apparatus in the boat. and the other boys were steering with the oars. At my warning they tried to turn the boat to' one side, but it was too late. The boat was caught by the current and hit the pier side- ways. It all happened in a second. The boat turned over, and I never saw the boys or heard them. As I was sinking in the water I managed to kick ofi one of my heavy boots. Had it not been for this I do not think T would ever have got to the 'shore. As it was I was at my lasv gasp. When I got to shore there was no sight of either men or boat. No one seemed to be on the bridge or in sight at the time, except some young ladies. Anyway, the whole accident happened so quickly that no could have come in time. x Cuiston appeared terribly exhaust- ed, and spoke under deep emotion. After he had told his story he start- ed to walk barefoot up the C. P. R. L1ack, where half a mile above other men of the C. M. R. were bathing. Trumpeter Davey has just returned from London, where he was one of the ©. { Coronation contingent. He had be- longed to the C. M. R. for a year and a half. He was a man of about '26 years old. of English descent. Private George Espie was a some- what older man. He had been with the C. M. R. since March, 1892. Ile was a Scotchman and well educated, being a graduate of Glasgow univer- sity and Edinburgh high school. His father was a solicitor in Glasgow. Cuiston, who escaped, comes from Manitou, Man., where his people re- side. CONDENSED NEWS. i Two clever pickpockets were ar- rested on the 24th inst., at the Win- nipeg Fair grounds. A system of wireless telegraphy will be installed between Chicago and Nova Scotia. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of America will hold their next annual meeting in' Winnipeg, Methodists will erect a central headquarters across from Westmin- ster Abbey, London. The cost of the site was £330,000. Chicago defeated Manitoba in the Cricket match at Winnipeg on July 23rd. i General Booth comes to Winnipeg ir: December, and will spend some days there. Thirty thousand people attended the Winnipeg fair on Wednesday, 23rd inst. A lion escaped from its cage in Jabour's menagerie and caused con- siderable excitement. Thomas McClellan, brother lieutenant-governor wick, is dead. of the of New DBruns- King George. of Saxony is ill with pneumonia. Harry Tracey, the Oregon convict, has gain been located. General Botha, in a speech at Cape Town, advised 'all to work 'in har- mony to build up South Alrica. Joseph Chamberlain, colonial sec- 1etary, says that the government would allow only those of African birth, who had fought in the recent mony to build up South Africa. POLICE ON WHEELS. Chief Detective Carpenter of Mon- treal, has organized a bicycle squad in his department. Six or eight ac- tive detectives will be employed in patrolling the city on wheels during the night and will report themselves at short intervals at the different police stations, so as to be constant- ly in touch with headquarters during the night and be ready at all iimes to go on reports. My IT. reproschivatives on tho KALAPORE CUP. Won by the Australians at Bisley-- Canada Third. The team that represented Canada in the "'Rajah of Kalapore lmperial Challenge Cup" match, between Can- ada, Great Britain, Australia, and other British colonies at Bisley, was as follows: Pte. Peddie, 5th Royal Scots; Sergt. Major Richardson, 5th Regt. C. A.; Capt. C. N. Mitchell, Winnipeg; Sergt. Smith, 43rd Regt. Stafi-Sergt. Boyle, 10th Royal Gren- adiers;. Capt. R. Rennie, Queen's Own, Toronto; Col. Sergt. Moscup, 6th Regt.; Lance Corporal S. C. Mortimer, 6th Regt. The score at the end of the $200 yards shoot in the Kalapore match was:-- Mother Country New Zealand ...... ...... hl 262 Canada Rhodesia Australia ... se MEA Natal bans Rha Guernsey India ...... At the end of the 500 yards' shoot in the « Kalapore Cup contest the scores, including the 200 yards' shoot, was:-- ' Canadn, fo iat Ln Cah, 260 Australia 257 Natal 257 Rhodesia 253 GUIBINSEY id i RE SES 251 New: Zealand ...... 248 244 India ...... 234 West Indies 203 The XKalapore was finished in the following order: Amstralia' 0 Lai a an deli 770 Bhodesth 00 in i des ei 758 Candda Lh, Si DL wis 757 Mother, Country ..... +... oiled 775 0 TE UR ATL, SE NR 748 NALA i Bn iver wine vision su, TED New Zealand «.... sic som wenn, TAA India ,..... ...... hs 708 Westh Indies uv wun audi 602 TORONTO MYSTERY. Diug House Employees Die Under Suspicious Circumstances. The Toronto police are working actively on a mysterious affair con- nected with Kvans & Sons drug warehouse where two employees have been found dead lately under somewhat startling circumstances which have received further coloring of suspicion from the fact that a most deliberate ana ingenuous at tempt at robbery was lately made on the premises and apparently an in- cendiary was narrowly averted {rom causing a serious destruction. The government has ordered an analysis of the stomach of Whaley, an cm- ployee who died there Saturday. There is some suspicion of poison. 'The police connect the death with an attempted robbery on May 30, but how or why if they know, they will not say and the public is ignorant. RUN DOWN BY A TROLLEY CAR. David A. Hall Meets Instant Death In Toronto. David A. Hall, lamp-lighter, of Toronto, employed by the Carbon Light & Power Co., was instantly killed by a trolley car near the cor- ner of Queen street and Dovercourt road on Tuesday He was aged about fifty years, and was wheeling just behind the car, 'which he tried to pass on the other track, but was run down by the car coming in the opposite direction, the car 'passing over his head and causing instant death. ONTARIO HAY ROTTING. In Ontario there is a general ex- pression among farmers that owing to the apparently never ending {fall of rain, between Toronto and Lake Simcoe and in several other sections the hay crop is rotting in the fields. Farmers: are unable to take it in and if fine weather does not come soon the whole crop will be ruined. The present outlook is exceedingly gloomy, but weather reports at last point to more favorable weather con- ditions in the near future. TORONTO FIREMEN'S FUND. The Toronto city council has pass- ed a vote of $25,000 to the fund for the relief of families of firemen killed or disabled while on duty. This makes the total fund $44,140.25. ' SONG WRITER SUICIDES. Alex. McKay, composer of Scottish songs, jumped into the northwest arm, at Halifax, yesterday, with stones. bound to his feet, and was drowned. KILLED 'BY THE CARS. Edward Dodman, Jr., of Thames- ville, went to sleep on the railway near Bothwell, and was killed by a train. Joseph Chamberlain has recovered from his recent accident. | get them. DUNDONALD A®' QUEBEC. New Commander-in-Chief is Delighted to Come to Canada. The steamship Lake Champlain arrived at Quebec on Thursday, July 24, having on board Lord Dundonald, now com- mander-in-chief of the Canadian forces. When asked for his views on Canadian subjects he expressed pleasure at the prospect of assuming command of the Canadian forces, and having had under him in South Africa some of its repre- cona Horse. Of that fine body of men he could not speak in sufficiently high terms. It had rendered signal service on the veldt, and he was quite confident that his relations with the militia as & whole would be most cordial. $ / While acknowledging that good work had already been done in the way of spreading = information concerning the country he could not but feel that the best way of making it known was to give free passes to homesteads to repre- sentative British farmers. From the coming of twelve British editors he ex- pected much good. Lord Dundonald is an affable man, of fine presence and of much apparent activity. --_--_-- A BOLD HOLD-UP IN MEXICO. American Thieves Go Through an BEx- press Car and Escape With $50,000. . A dispatch from El Paso, Texas, says: A daring hold-up took place on the Mex- ican Central on July 23, just after the train had left Bermijilo, At that point three Americans boarded the train, two secreting themselves on the blind bag- gagecar, and the other entering the third class coach. As soon after the train pulled out the two riding on the out- side entered the express car, and cover- ing Messenger Buckner with their revol- vers, ordered him to throw up his hands. The messenger offered no resistance, The safe, securing $50,000 in currency con- signed to the Banco Minerco at' Chihau- hua. They also took what other money packages were in the safe, and remained '| quiet until the train slowed down, mak-' ing a hasty exit and dropping off the train before it stopped. They then dis- appeared into the darkness. CONDENSED NEWS, King Edward's health continues ex- cellent. . The trappist monastery at Oka, Que., was destroyed by fire on July 24, A Brantford Plow company will erect a 50.000 warehouse ig Chicago Cricket team won the North- western championship at the Winnipeg tourney. : The United States has backed down on the Marcus Island controversy in favor of ;Japan's views. Mr. John McKinnon, of the Lake Dau- phin district, was injured by an electric car in Winnipeg. The C. P. R. and the Elder-Dempster and Allan lines tendered on fast Atlantic service between Canada- and 'the old country. Hon. J. I. Tarte has decided to re- commend that $1,000,000 be spent on Fort William's waterways improvements will also be made to Port Arthur har- bor. Masked men in Wyoming have malic- iously slaughtered thousands of sheep. A cable from Johannesburg says the home government has decided to send parties of Boers to Canada and Austra- lia to study agricultural methods there, own farming, med. Mrs. Ketchum, wife of E. B. Ketchum, a prominent citizen of St. John, N. B., was instantly killed near St. John, on July 24 by the outgoing Canadian Pacific freight train. = She left home a few minutes before the accident and was walking up the track. Describing the Canadian exhibit at Wolverhampton, the Newcastle Daily Leader, says: 'The show is on a large scale, and so satisfactorily reflects the vast possibilities of the Dominion, that for the first time in our lives we have adequate impression of what the posses- sion of Canada may mean to this right little, tight little island. We learn how our Canadian cousins house us, clothe us, feed us, and the toothsome luxuries which they are preparing for us in the days when we are wise enough to ask for Dominion dainties and see that we We are disposed to be envious of the Canadian government, for, if the arrangement of this show be any criter- ion, it is obvious that the Dominion has a more efficient type of administration than we are at present blessed with on this side of the herring pond." CHINESE IMMIGRATION. The revenue from Chinese imm:yra- tion to Canada for the year ending June 30 amounts to $364,972, ccin- pared with $187,704 during the pre- vious year. The poll tax last year was increased from $50 to $100. The number who paid the tax was 8,525. compared with 2,518 in 1901. sentatives in the shape of the Strath- robbers then went leisurely through the with a view to the improvement of their A man named Peter McGill was badly injured near the elevator dock at Yort Arthur on July 24, He fell between a sand scow and the dock and got jam- her summer home at River Bank, fifteen miles from TERRITORIAL CROP REPORT. Prospects are Bright for an Abund- ant Harvest. Reports recently received by the 'department of immigration from agencies in the Northwest Territories present a more favorable outlook for an abundant harvest than appear- ;ances of a few weeks ago would war- rant. At that time heavy rains were falling in places, which threaténed to prove excessive. However, the be- 'ginning of July brought the fine weather that the settlers had been hoping for, with the result that the crops are rapidly recuperating Irom the effects of too much moisture and are advancing favorably toward ma- turity. Extracts from recent reports read as follows : Edmonton--The crops of this dis- trict are in first class condition. The 'extra fine weather of the past fow | weeks has had the salutary effect de- sired, and the average yield will be fully up to if not greater than last season. Tast year's total yield in this district was: Wheat, 767,400 bushels; oats, 4,900,480 bushels; barley, 380,776 bushels: rye, 18,000 bushels; flax, 7,000 bushels. Total' acreage, 122,940. This year this will be increased by about 25,000 acres. Farmers from all parts of the district say crops are looking well. Homeseekers visiting the fair here were much impressed with all they had seen.' Vegraville, Alta.--The approximate acreage in this district is 2,200; the weather has been fine; 'prosperity reigns and prospects for harvest are very bright. Red Deer--Land entries at this of- fice are greatly in excess of last year. Acreage under cultivation about the same. Notwithstanding excessive moisture crops are in excellent con- dition. A larger area of new land wil] be broken up than last year and new settlers are all well pleased with the district. Fort Saskatchewan--Crops at pres- ent are looking well and promise a heavier yield than last year. The acreage under crop is 15 per cent. greater than last year, and is sown approximately, 50 per cent. into wheat, 30 per cent. to oats, and 20 rer cent. to barley. There is a big improvement all around in stock in horses, cattle, sheep and pigs. Land entries are about the same as last year. The reason for no increase be- ing that so many of the new settlers are foreigners, and we have no inteér- preter here so they locate at Edmon- [ton. Settlers who arrived here be- lore June 1 have some crop in and are now busy breaking up new land for next season. Strathcona--There is a wonderful improvement to be noticed in all stock in this section. I.and entries at the office here are 55 per cent. more than last year. Considerable breaking is being done. Leduc--Crops in this part of the country are doing splendidly. The acreage is increased fully 25 per cent over last year, and is sown mostly to oats. Land entries show an in- crease. Stock is improving wonder- fully and considerable breaking is being done. Wetaskiwin--Crops around here are good; 75 per cent of acreage is sown to oats. Land entries show an in- crease of 75 per cent. Stock is all improving. Ponoka--Crops in this district will be heavier than last year. There is about 50 per cent. increase in acre- age and about 70 per cent is sown to oats. ' Stock shows great improve- ment. THE DAIRY TRADE. Some in the butter trade in Hast- ern Canada were surprised when the information was made public not iong ago that some of the steamships country are supplied with butter which comes from Normandy, to the exclusion of Canadian makers. The | steamship companies explain that:al- though this butter costs fully 25 per cent more than Canadian would, they were still obliged to use it becanse oi its splendid keeping quality. They explain that this Normandy butter ic the only kind they can ohitain which will keep its quality during a {warm voyage. This is rather hard on our Canadian creameries, which have been so well pleased with their products during recent years. A suggestion made at a recent meeting of the Winnipeg board otf trade, to the effect that the members of the House of Commons 'at Otta- wa, and also the senate, should make a trip through Western Canada for the purpose of becoming better ac- quainted - with the resources and minion, its needs and requirements, is likely to be adopted. Louis N. James, 19 years of age, is amateur golf champion of the Uni- ted States. ? | : re esters eae "Tis not that I forget thee gone from here. All things on earth are speaking still of thee; but thou-- what sight or sound can bring earth near? Soul of my soul, canst thou remember me?--FEdith M. Thomas. plying between Montreal and the old prospects of this portion of 'the Do-. NEW KIND OF MOTOR. The Inventor Claims Wonderful Econ. omy. A change in the method of street railway propulsion is the possible re- sult of a trial that has been made in Chicago of the invention of P. W. Lefiler, a local mechanic and elec-- trician. Small electro-magnets are used to pull the.cars. The electro- magnets are placed in the ground in. a line half-way between the rails. Attached lengthwise to the bottom. of the car is a long iron bar, cut up into feet and so attached that the ends are within an inch of the tops, ol the magnet boxes. Rach magnet is connected with main feed wires, heavily insulated and bringing elec- tricity from the power house. But, when the car is not running over them the magnets are not magnetic. In other words, tiey are not in the. circuit except when the car comes over them. In the car, by the use of a small storage battery, the polarity of the feet of the armature, and their attraction for the magnets, are con- trolled. The operator of the car can with one movement of his one lever, stop or reverse. 'The great saving which - the inven- tor claims, is in the amount of the electricity required. He says seventy- five amperes will suffice for forty cars, while with the present trolley system 'seventy-five amperes are re- quired for one car. It is also claim- ed that the cars can be run faster than under systems now operated. TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT. Great Britain, Corsa and Japan Ar- rive at a Conclusion. A special dispatch received at St. Petersburg from Seoul, Corea, an- nounces the conclusion of an import- ant agreement between the British and Japanese ministers to Corea on |one hand and the Japanese Council- lor Kato, special adviser of the Cor- ean emperor, on the other, by which Great Britain and Japan mutually guarantee Corea's independence andi pledge her their support and assist- ance in all important questions al- fecting her internal and foreign pol- icy. Corea in return agrees to raise her naval and military establish- ments to a footing sufficient for her own defence, and also in case of rais-. ing a foreign loan she agrees to re- strict herseli to the markets of Great. Britain, Japan and the United States. She further agrees that no, {loreigners will be appointed to posi- tions in the Corean state service, that measures shall be immediately. taken for the protection of Corecan. territory, and that a protest shall immediately be made against any state or persons attempting to erect works or buildings situated so as to, prejudice €Corea's scheme for tional defence. DESPERADO. CAUGHT. Frank Sabeans, the Terror off Nova, Seeotia in the Tails. Frank Sabeans, the Anpapalis: des-. perado, who has for five: years ter-- rorized the Land of Evangeline by his deeds of outlawry and depreda~ tion, was captured on July 25 by Chief of Police Anderson, of Bridge- town, N. S., just as he stepped from the train from Yarmouth. Sabeans: was returning from Boston, whither he had fled a year ago to escape the: officers of the law, who were hot on his trail. He was under the influence of liquor when he. arrived at Bridge town, and that accounts for his easy capture. He was recognized as he strolled up the street and; pointed: out to the chief of police. When; ihe. officer approached him Sabeans struck him a vicious blow, but the: latter promptly knocked the desper- ado down, and with assistance soon. landed him in jail. Sabeans is want- ed for numerous offences, including '"'moonshining," cattle stealing and: burglary. When arrested he had in his pocket a ticket from Boston to. Waterville, King's county, where his aged mother resides. Numerous at- tempts have been made to capture Sabeans during the last four years, but witheut success. He had a re- 'treat in the fastnesses of the moun- tains of Annapolis, and there he de- fied his pursuers to take him. Te was a desperate character; and his capture has caused a feeling of relief throughout Annapolis valley. The: government of Nova Scotia offered a; . reward for his arrest. rE EE The total number of cases of chol- era at Cairo and at Moucha, near Assioot, Egypt, since July 15, is 307, of which 227 proved fatal. John Wilson, a farmer on the town line of Wyton, a few miles west of Thorndale, Ont., was found dead im a ditch on the roadway near Wyton, on Wednesday afternoon. It is sup~ posed that his team ran away. An American syndicate has pul-. chased 50,000 acres near Winnipeg. The condition of Governor Ross of Yukon, continues to improve. na-.