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.A »v<~j'~‘.“‘"" .KW‘ ._ _. __ ___.___WW“‘ i: v High N“ THE VERY hATEST FROM _ ALL THEWORLD OVER. 52-.- W3 Items About Our Own Country. Greet Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Buy Reading. u-eâ€"- CANADA. People in Winnipeg are enjoying libigh rides. John Gaynor was sandbagged at Car- berry and robbed of 8590. Montreal is compelling users of steam boilers to provide smoke-consuming ap- paratus. There are several cases of diphtheria. among the pupils of the Hess Street School. Hamilton. The Canadian General Electric Co. are building a new power and pump house at. Peterborough. An important discovery of fire clay has been made in Nipissmg on the farm of Mr. Thomas Whittaker of London. Charles Pedler. an eighteenâ€"vear-old Hamilton youth, hanged himself on acâ€" count of a. dispute with his father. The Bank of Montreal's statement for the half year ending October_ 81 shows that business has greatly im- proved. Roland Gideon Israel Barnett was sentenced at Montreal to three years in the penitentiary for stealing a note for $750. The C. P. R. is seeking from the Queâ€" bec City Council a refund of “taxes amounting to 850,000 paid Within the past 11 years. A young man named Norman Mitâ€" chell shothimself dead witharlfle at Montreal on acoouut of disappomtment in a love affair. A C. P. R. box car arrived at Hamil- ton from Toronto with a lot. of blood- ctained clothing in it, and the police are investigating the mystery. There is a possibility of the Montreal rolling mills moving to some Eastern Ontario town before long. Trenton ls making a big bid for the works. The Department. of Inland Revenue is conzidcring the advisability of al- lowing the use. under certain restric- tions, of spring scales or balances. it is reported that Hon. C. H. Mac- kintosh‘s resignation as Lieutenant- Governor of the Northwest Territories will take effect on the 131: of January. According to the transfer books of the Richrlieu and Ontario Navigation Company, stock to the value of three hundred thousand dollars is held in Toronto. James Huton, who killed his son. Toronto, with a air of shears on Halâ€" lowe'cn. and w 0 was convicted of manslaughter, was on Tuesday sent~ enced to five years in the penitentiary. The bridge over the Ottawa river from Ncncan Point to Hull, to which the Dominion Government promised one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, is to be commenced forthwith. Owing to the renewed outbreak of smallpox in Montreal. Dr. Laberge. the Iica‘fh Officer is determined ‘..o put in force the law ordering the compulsory vaccination of children. Mr. J. L. Larke, Dominion commerâ€" cial agent in Australia, complains that his efforts to promote trade between the two countries are frequently ren~ dered nugalory by the dilatoriness of Canadian firms. It is stated that an excursion of four hundred families will leave Hull and Ottawa in the spring to colonizelands which the Quebec Government. is open- ing up for settlement in the Gatineau district. The Department of Railways and Canals has taken over the contract on the Soulanges canal held by Mr. Ar- chie Stewart. of Ottawa, and the work is being carried on under the control of the Government. Ex-Mayor Stewart. of Ottawa, who aft. Liverpool on Saturday for New York, announces that his business in wnnection with the completion of the Ottawa and Georgian Bay canal has risen finished successfully. G itEA’I‘ BRITAIN. Dean Hole attributes the election of a Tammany Mayor in New York to the irreligion of the city. resulting from instruction in godless schools. Thirty British army officers started last week from Liverpool for Lagos on the west coast of Africa, and thirty more are expected to leave this week. Mr. \V. S. Fielding. who is at pre- sent in London, is impressed with the importance of the British demand for an effective insolvency law in Canada. Dr. Darby. secretary of the Arbitra- tion Alliance, has presented to Lord Salisbury a memorial with more than sixty four thousand signatures in fav- our of an Anglo-American arbitration treaty. Mr. Gladstone has in contemplation a work embracing the lives of most of the modern diviues, but his physical genith is rapidly breaking up. lie ‘ as been ordered to the ltivrcra for the winter. An interesting experiment is being tried in a Dublin hospital upon adis- charged soldier. whose eyelids have been destroyed by ophthalmia. The doc- 20” m” til-“I‘M in “1“” NM” “19, to the liquidation of the Russian war, eyelids of LI. ncwiy killel pig. l‘Nl'l‘El) S'l‘.-\'l‘ES. The Dana estate which is valued at a million dollars. is left alum-‘1 in ils entirely to Mrs. Dana. .-\n Opinion handed down to the United States Court of Appeals holds that the boycott. is not a legal weapon. ~.\ combini- of companies engaged in manufacturing insulated wires and «mice for electric purposes. is mooted. A Washington dcsputch says the rati- fication of the liauaiian annexation treaty by the l'uited States Senate is assured. The United States Government has lecided to send the revenue cutter mg fleet sand to he destitute and ice~ bound in Behring Sea A bill is to be introduced in the Legislature in Maine. to l unish sports- mm who accidentally shoot and wound or kill men in the woods John A. “'illard a tanker of Menâ€" kato. Minn. has assigggd with liabili- ties. at nearly 31.000. and assets. chiefly real estate, worth 82,000,000. :Denver. Col.. has passed an ordin- ance fixing a license fee of one thous- and dollars for all dealers in cigarettes. The ordinance will be immediately con- tested. The Canadian Society of New York has appointed a committee for the pur- pose of raising a relief fund for the fiidémn of the recent fire in Windsor. It is reported at Warren Ohio. that a fortune has been left in Scotland to the famil of which Mrs. McKinley. mother 0 President McKinley. i3 3 member. _ The announcement that Chinamen Will be placed in the mines of the Northern Illinois coal fields has caused an immense amount of excitement among the white minors. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers has purchased the Meadow Lawn farm in Illinois for $17,450, on which a. home for dependent engin- eers, their widows and orphans will be built. The theory that the railway bed at Garrison. the scene of the fatal wreck on the New York Central railway,\\'as destroyed by dynamite has been aban- doned. and it is now believed that the disaster was due to a washout. Miss Frances E. W'illard. presidentpf the W .C.T.U., announces that she wrll contribute three thousand dollars of her own money to start the fund of three hundred thousand dollars which the temperance people needto hold control of the Temple property in Chicago. At the meeting of the. Knights of Labour, held in Louisville, Ky., Mr. James R. Sovereign. who has been General Master \Vorkman for the past four years. was somewhat summarily dismissed. and Mr. Henry A. Hicks, of New York, elected in his stead. Durrant. of San Francisco, the murâ€" derer of Blanche Lamont. who was convicted of the crime two years ago and sentenced to death, has obtained a new lease of life, as under his re- cent appeal he cannot be executed be- fore the second Monday in January. According to reports from New York changed climatic conditions during the past few days have helped materially to improve the general trade confli- tions. There has been a marked 1nâ€" crease in the demand for winter goods of all descriptions. and rapid orders for immediate delivery have created a rush in many of the wholesale branches of trade, and a corresponding added demand for labor. On the other hand there is in many quarters a con- siderable shrinkage reported as caus: ed by fever and quarantine. There has been a comparatively large con- sumption of iron during the past month. and boot and shoe making has surpassed all records. GENERAL. The financial crisis in Venezuela is so acute that trade has practically ceased. ‘ Official returns show that French im- ports and exports for the past ten months have increased. ' Irrigation by artesian wells in the Bourke district of New, South \Vales is proving a great success. Mount Vesuvius is in great activity. and two wide streams of lava, are flowing in th edirection of Vitrova. It is understood that the Reirhstag will be asked for a vote of three mil- lion marks for naval improvement. \Vith the exception of suffering from slight facal neuralgia. Prince Bismarck is enjoying good health. Large bands of well-armed disciplin- ed rebels are scouring Madagascar. and cutting off isolated French de- tachments. As a result of General chler's pol- icy of driving women and children of the insurgents into the cities of Cuba, thousands are dying of starvation. The French Minister of W'ar has deâ€" clined to reopen the case of Captain Dreyfus, serving a life sentence for treason. He claims to be innocent. it. has been decided to appeal to Eu- rope ilnd America to raise the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, with which to relieve the terrible distress existing in Greece. A man named Dreyfus, living in Paris, who recently suffered losses on the Rourse, his wife and thrce young daughters. all committed suicide on Monday morning. Owing to sudden frosts the ports in the Sea of Azof are freezing. and con- sequently a considerable quantity of grain which was prepared for export cannot be shipped. The Viceroy of India has ordered a Court of Enquiry to investigate the disastrous reconnaisance of Gen. “'est- mncolt to the summit of Saran»Sar mountain inst. Wednesday. The condition of the members of the Turkish Embassy in lleriin is deplora- ble. They have not rcreived any sal- ary for more than a year. and they are being harassed by their creditors. The authorities at Rio Janeiro are iconvinccd that the. attack on Presi- Edent Morales and the killing of Gen. -Ritlcncourt. late Minister of -'\\'ar, were the results of a widespread con- spiracy. . The Russian Embassy at Constanti- nople has notified the Ports that the ,: ircek war in'lcmnity must beapplicd 8 WHAT WILL BE DONE AT THE EN~ GEN. wssrnacorr’s COLUMN was l l l I GINEERS' CONFERENCE â€" lets - Cellon Operatives \Yill .lrbltrnte â€"Coete' Shares lower. A desputch from London saysâ€"It is tion and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers it will be found that the combatants are disposed to end the dispute. The terms under which the conference will be held amount to the defeat of the engineers. the discussion. while the lockout no- tices given by the employers will not be withdrawn. {It is probable that work will be resumed next week. The employers are expected to give their consent to a reduction of working hours if there is acorresponding reduction in wages. The union leaders may ac- cept these conditions in order to be able to say that they secured some- thing in return for the immense expen- diture of funds by the Engineers' Soâ€" ciety. but the rank and file will pro- old terms rather than to accept any reduction in pay. An indication of the weakness to which the Amalgamated Society has been reduced is that it has applied for admission into THE FEDERATED TRADES. Shares of the Coats, as the great thread monopoly company is known, dropped eleven points on Friday on the presentation of an unfavorable annual report, showing that the profits during the past year have fallen off $500,000. On June 24, 1896, it was announced that J. Sr. P. Coats, Clark & Company. Jonas ,Brooks & Bros. and James Chad- wick 8; Bros, all big thread manufacâ€" turing concerns, had amalgamated under the name of the Coats. and it was added that the company would raise the total nominal capital from $28,850,000 to $36,500,000. At the \Vestminster Police Court on Friday a woman who gave her name as Florence Stansfield and an address in the St. John's \Vood district of London was .arranged on a charge of black- nialllng Earl Carrington, Joint Here- ditary Lord Brest Chamberlain of England. She is a fine-looking woman pf distinugished manners. The proceed~ ings developed the fact that she had sent letters to Lord Carrington de- mending money. But in court to-day her counsel apologized on her behalf to Lord Carrington, and explained that his client had written the letters un- der a mistake as to identity, as Lord Carringtou was not the man who had represented himself to her as leing that. nobleman. Lord Carrington de- nied ever having seen her until to-day. The Scotland Yard officer who arrestâ€" ed her deposed that she told him she had known a man for many years who went; under the name -of Lloyd and whom she had all along believed was EARL CARRINGTON. The Magistrate declined to-allow the case to be withdrawn. and committed the prisoner for trial at the Crimin- al Court. Old Bailey. According to a despatch to The Daily Mail from Cairo, the advance of the ’Anglo-Egyptian expedition to- ward Omduirman on the Nile, oppo- site the site of Khartoum, where the Khalifa has concentrated his troons for a final stand will be resumed in January. The Egyptian troops willbe used. as it is not practicable to spare the necessary British forces. John Bagnold Burgess. member of the Royal Academy, and a distinguish- ed painter, died on Friday in his 68th year. The late Mr .Burgess was born October 21. IP30. at Chelsea, and re- ceived his artistic education 'at the Royal Academy, of which he was elect- ed an associate on June 18, 1877. and made R. Q... in 1889. Among his best known pictures are “Easter 'Life." "Brave Tom," "The Barber's Prodigy," “Licensing tho l’eccars of Spain." “The Letter \Vriter," “The Studentin' Disgrace." and "The Meal at the Foun- tain." The cotton Operatives have consent- ed to submit. the questions in dispute between themselves and the employ- ers to arbitration. ARBITRATION TREATY. Arrival of Mr. (tremor in New York â€" HI» Monster of l’c'lllon Signed by British Workingnicn. A dispatch from New York says:â€" Mr. W. R. Cremer. the Englishman who has been agitating the subject of an arbitration treaty between the Unit- ed States and Great Britain for the last ten years, arrived here on Satur- day on the American liner St. Paul. He has come with a long petition signâ€" ed by a great number of Englishmen, urging Congress to take some initiative step toward forwarding an internation- lindemuity, and not Spent on navaltll-i treats" “8 says “mt if Congress armament. The Pope has despatchs-d two spe- Ecial agents to convey instructions to Him l~'rcn:-h electors. enjoining them to frankly accept. the republic and to oppose monarchial aspirations in the approaching elections. ANOTHER USE OF IT. Oh. dear! I wish i had money en- ough to be charitable. And if you had? I'd take a trip to Europe on it. AS FAR AS HE VENTURED. Do you read fiction? I sometimes look over the weather ' report would act the English House of Com- mons would follow its lead. lie wishes Americans to understand that it. is not the classes, but rather the masses. in England who desire the treaty. and‘ he expects to be herc through the coming session of Congress to agitate the sub- ject. He visited this country ten years ago. and again two years ago. on the same mission. Mr. Cremcr was formerly the mem- ber of Parliament for the liaggerston division of London. and is first secreâ€" tary of the international Working- men's Association. and secretary of the international Arbitration League. He will present to every linited States Senator an address. signed by seven thousand workingmen. each of whom is an officer of a trades union. repre- sentin more than two and three-quar- ter mi lions of British workingmen. in favour of arbitration between the Unit- ed. States and Great Britain. UNDER FIRE. The .Ien Gradually YlelJl-g lo the Mun navy Bruin. m";_ n om“, .ld Nave Men Kissing â€"-l-‘irly lien Lost. Official despatches received at Simla expected that when the conference is on \Vednesday from the British camp held between the Employers' Federa-, in the Maiden valley tell of a recon- naissance in force by the British. The movement was commended by Briga- dier-General Westmacott. and the Bri- tish force engaged consisted of the Dor- setshire regiment. the Nothampton- ‘ . They are ‘50! shire regiment. a regiment of Sikhs. Withdraw the" Strlka DOtii‘e Prior {:0 and two batteries of artillery. This col- umn moved yesterday to Saranâ€"Bar and ME LATE. GABLE NEWS. SERIBUS RE VERSEIII INDIAlTlils WAS BRITISH PLUGK. res GALLANT Eases or ran cannon meanness. _â€"_ Without Waverlna They Rushed Into the l-‘lre lone at barge! Rldxe- ocean and lien Allke Displayed the Greatest‘ Bravery -- Pa‘eclpllnto High: or the Tribasmen Before the Killed Regimens The newspapers of London. have just received graphic details by mail of the recapture of Dargai Ridge by the Gor- don Highlanders on October ‘30. dur- ing which that regiment exhibited re- markable dash and courage. After the fighting on Monday. Oo- tober 18, between the column of Brit- ish troops commanded by General Sir Yeatmanâ€"Biggs. and the tribesmen reached the summit of the mountain 1 from Chagru, on the Samana Range. with little resistance. There the i the British retired upon Shinware. and troops found a hastily evacuated camp. l the enemy. greatly reinforced. reoccuâ€" and soon after retired upon the main l pied Dargai Ridge. On Wednesday fol- body. This movement. however. was lowing General Biggs sent the second attended by serious losses to the Bri- division to dislodge the tribesmen. tish. The insurgent tribesmen follow- ed after the column in strong force. swarming from behind the rocks. The position was a very strong one. the enemy occupying the summit of a, precxpitous hill. The top of this bill showing wonderful audacity and keepâ€" could be reached only by a single ing up a heavy fire at. short range up- Pa-th: along which the attacking force. on the British troops. Only the 841- at first consisting of a Ghoorka regi- Westmacott of his troops saved the rear guard. The General personally held the men together and saw all the wounded taken away before he retired himself. On the way back to camp the transport of the wounded was greatly' hampered by the fact. that the troops had to retire over fearfully broken countr , surrounded on all sides by swarms o the enemy's skirmish- ers. The route was intersected every hundred yards or so by deep ravines, and it. was while the troops were on- gaged in passing through this ground that the tribesmen rushed upon the troops, fearlessly making their way up the ravines to close quarters. Thel Northamptonshire regiment suffered the most, their casualties being mainly incurred while saving their wounded. All the wounded reached camp at about dark. and it is still hoped that a. missing officer and twelve men will reach camp safely. The loss of the British’was about 50 men. Of this number the Northamptonshire regl-w ment lost Lieutenant \Vaddell and four killed. and Lieutenant MacIntyre of this regiment and twelve men are missing. The Northamptonshire also had Lieutenant Trent and 30 men wounded. Mercer and six men wounded. The Sikhs lost. two men killed and had six men wounded. LATER, Simla, Nov. 11.â€"\thn the British reconnoilring force returned to the camp in the Maidan valley after a retreat from the summit. of the Saranâ€" Sar mountain. Lieut. McIntyre and 12 men belonging to the Northampton- shire Regiment. which had suffered most severely while saving the wound- ed, were reported missing, but. it was hoped they \\ ould suCCeed in reaching camp. A despatch from the Meidan valley, however. shows that the lieu- tenant and his companions have been, killed. Their bodies have been found and it is said to be evident from the position in which the corpses rested that the little detachment fell gallant- ly fighting to the last. Every man of the party died from rifle bullet wounds. ___â€"â€"â€"â€"a.â€"â€"â€"-"-â€"â€" A BREAD FAMINE. Mr. Broomhnll Says That. the Wheat Crop In 25 Million (luau-[ers Short of Require- ments This Your. ‘ According to Mr. 'Broomhall, the statistician of the English grain trade, Europe is in danger of a. bread famine before the next wheat. crop is avail- able. His annual statement of the world’s resources has just been is- sued. Mr. Broomhali says that the EurOpean crops amount to 140 mil- lion quarters compared with 185 mil- lion last year. The deficiency as com- pared with the so-called famine year in 1891 is 10,000,000 quarters. North and South America. he reckons, produced 93,000,000 quarters ofwhich the United States raised 74,000,000 as compared with 59,000,000 last year. The produc- tion of the Americans in 1801 was 101.- 000.000. Asia, Africa and Australia are reckoned somewhat in excess of last year, but fully 11,000,000 less than in 1891. The world's production this year is 278,000,000 quarters. compared with 298,000,000 in 1896 and 308,000,- 000 in 1891. The reserve visible in Europe the United States and Canada amounts to 10,000,000 quarters, as com- pared with 15.000,000 in 1896. Thus the aggregate production and reserves fall 25,000,000 quarters short of the estimated requirements of the cur-' rent seasonâ€"310,000,000. or 28,000,- 000 in excess of the total production and reserves. The conclusnon is that nothing but a plentious yield in Ar- gentina in the coming harvest can pre- vent an absolute dearth of breadstuffs in Europe. ___â€".â€"-â€"â€"- A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. _â€" A Bridal Party of Tliirly Crashed Into by a Train on the level Framing. A despatch from St. Petersburg. says: â€"â€"There was a terrible accident near Bielostock. Russian Poland, resulting in the death of 30 persons. A wedding party of that number was returning from the church to the home of the bride. All were in one waggon. a huge vehicle drawn by eight horses. The road along which they drove crashes the railway track on the level. and the driver, either through carelessness or ignorance of the train scheduled, pushed his horses upon the crossing, but as the express was coming u . ‘he locomotive struck the vehicfe squarely. killing man ' memlers of the party outright. an mangling the others so that they soon expired in frightful agony. Not a member of the party escaped- The dorsetshire _regiment; had Lieutenant Ingram, Lieutenant. bably prefer to return to Work on the miral disposition made by General i mentthe Derbyshire regiment and the lDorsetshire regiment, was obliged to climb in Indian file, while three bat- ‘ teries of artillery shelled the entrenchâ€" -ments of the hillmen. Dargai Ridge, from the direction of i the assault. presents' a frontal ofabout 1a mile, the left end of which is rock lfor 200 yards. In spite of the diffi- culty 0f the ascent, the movements of the British troops were fairly well cov- ered. except in the case of a dip, or small valley. 100 to 150 yards wide, sabout half way up the ridge and ex- lposed to direct fire from the cliffs. WVhen. the Ghoorkas reached this fire zone, immediately, the top of the cliffs BURST OUT INTO FLAME. Lfor a thousand tribesmen had reserv- ed the fire of their rules until that ' moment. 1 Though decimated, the little moun- :tameers struggled across the dip and lreached the shelter of a few roaks. E'lhen. led by their officers, they made a cash for the cover of the ,cliffside. But the others could not. follow1 and the enemy. with true military instinct, ‘ reserved their fire. Though the remainâ€" ‘qder of the Ghoorkas. the Dcrbyshircs ;-and the Dorsetshires appeared. on the lfrmge of the dip, yet 'to step into the {fire acne meant death. But. the Dorâ€" iselshlrcs again tried to advance to the support of the Ghoorkas. Thirteen men struggled into the open ;s_put.-c., only to drop before the other {side could be reached. Already the little ldlp was strewn with corpses. and so bloodthirsty were the enemy that a wounded man had but. to move a limb to become the target; of a dozen marks- men. lleluctanlly the senior officer hello« graphed down to the main body of the -Bri.tlsh troops that the passage could. lnot be made. At this juncture General Kempster ordered the Gordon Highlandch to the front. It was then 4 o'clock in the afternomi. and over 100 men had al- ready fallen. The enemy woreshout- mg their defiance and waving thrir standards confident of their position and certain of success. But the Gordon Highlanders had yet to be reckoned with. Rapidly forming his brave menand after his now historic speech. “Men of the Gordon Highlanders, our Gen- eral says that pos'iiinn mustlw. taken atall costs. The Gordon Highlanders wdl take it." Colonel Mathias. the commander, dashed out at the blind of his regiment. in a moment theyI were across, carrying everyone with them in their on rush. STORIMJNG THE RIDGE with a revolution‘ that was resistlesa. and beating down all opposition. \‘i'hen Colonel Mathias gave the or- der to advance the pipers of the High- landers followed. striking up "Cook of the North." and, with a shout, the leading company of killed men was into the fire zone. A stream oflead swept over. through and past them. ibulletq churning up the dust, which ,half hid the rushing men. ‘ Piper Findlater was among the first to .show the way across the deadly strip of ground, and when.’ after tra- versmg but a few, yards. he was laid low by a shot: through both legs, he managed to prop himself upagainsta boulder, and continued with unabated energy. the stirring music of hispipes, Men kept pouring into the passage, and the leader struggled across to the cover. Then there was a lull. and. as one paper remarks. "One had time (a: how cruel had been theaiaugh- r. Then. with a second cheer. the mixed troops streamed across, and the EDI-nly' seeing the barrier swept away. luff. theirdoopholcs and rock barricades an i fled precipitatelv down the rc'mrso Sim.- s, without waiting for the‘ line of Mai .Ltci-l which was then nearly on llll'lf‘l‘efif of thr- bridge. I’ipcr Findlater has liccn remin- mcnded for the Victoria Cross, (.‘ap- tiun Rol-inson. of the Ghoorkas, acted With. the greatest gallantry. After leading him nan across the fire zone to the cover and finding the force ~ibere insufficient. he returned over the death trap alone. and WM mor- tally wounded Whils- leading the second rush of Gliuorkas to sup- -pnri the first body of. that rcxzi~ meat. I CONSTITUTIONALLY DOUB'l'FUL Browneâ€"We are a cynical lot. Townsâ€"Why do you say that! Browneâ€"When a Klondiker says it is folly to attempt to gr-t out there we think he wants it all to himself. and when another tells how rich the finds are we think he wants to sel? e claim.