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If-.. '29:: llls'llâ€"IIIHHI ms VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. t-.â€"- loteruuu hem: About Our Own Country. (Inn: Ii-riuin. the‘Unlted States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. - CANADA. Offers are being received for the street railway franchise of Stratford. Dairying in Prince Edward Island is Uleiding the most satisfactory results. The export live stock season in Mont- real was one of the worst on record for the shippers. The Grand Trunk is considering the question of doubledracking its line from Hamilton to Niagara Falls. The by-law in favor of the civic own- ership of the waterworks was carried in Winnipeg by a vote of 1.346 to 83. The Department of the Interior is being urged to have artisan wells sunk in the more arid districts of the North- West. The Canadian Pacific Railway re- ports in. good outlook for shipments via St. John. and a growing confidence amongst a :ippers in the allâ€"Canadian line. Dr. McEachran. Dominion Veterinâ€" ary Inspector, will open a station at Outremont. near Montreal, for investi- p'ning tuberculosis and other ills of cattle. - It is reported at Winnipeg that Limb-Governor Patterson. of Maui- toba will succeed I.ieut.Govornor Mackintosh in the Northwast Terri- tories. The report 0: criminal statistics for the Dominion. recently issued. shows that there were three hundred and thirty-five less indictable offences dur- ing last year than during the prev- ious year. Mr. McLeod Stewart. who has return- ed to Ottawa from London. says that the Ol‘awa and Georgian bay, canal is an assured success, as the. scheme ' backed up by an abundance of English capital. Another case of smallpox has been reported to the Montreal Health. Offi- cer. It is that of Sister McDonald, of the Pensionnat Ste. Catherine, where there have been four case; of the dis- ease lately. ~ The Government dairies in the Reâ€" gina district have hada successful year, having made about three hunâ€" dred and fifty thousand pounds of butter. which will net in the neigh- borhood of sixteen cents a pound. GREAT BRITAIN. The Scottish Butchers' Union is ex- tending its boycott to the Canadian steamship lines. ' Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore, K. C. B., retired. is dead. He was sev- entyâ€"five years of age. I Mr. Swinburne, the poet laughs at the idea .of establishing an English Academy of Immortals. Lord Mount-Stephen was married on Saturday in St. Margaret’s church. London, to Miss Giana Tufnoll. The Marquis of Salisbury and’ Mr. A. J. Balfour spent Sunday. with the Prince of Wales at Sandringham. ‘A new quick-firing gun, invented by Mr. Hiram Maxim, was tried at Ports- mouth. It showed effective results at 16.000 yards. The Queen gave a birthday party at Windsor on Tuesday for Prince Alexan- der of Battenberg, the eldest son of the Princess Beatrice. ~ The London Daily Mail says that the fire fighting equipment of the city is antiquated. and entirely inadequate to cope with a large fire. Lady Ann Coventry and Prince Dhu- leap Singh are to be married on Dec~ ember 29. The Indian Government has agreed to settle upon the bride the sum of $10,000 annually. Mr. Rudyard Kipling made a happy speech at a medical dinner in London in which he gave some remarkable exâ€" amples of the heroism of members of the profession. . At the Central London Court on Thursday. "Capt." James Henry Irv- ing Cruickshank pleaded guilty to hav- ing obtained by false pretences fifty thousand dollars from Lady Ran- dolph Churchill and others. He was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. UNITED STATES. M. Paul Jobert. the celebrated French painter arrived in New York on Sat- urday night. The Northern Illinois coal strike has ended and twelve thousand men have returned to work. San Francisco theosophists are peti- tioning Gov. Budd to commute the sen- tence of Murderer Durrant. It i aproposed to hold a pan-Ameri- can exposition at La Salle. on the Ni- agara river. the year after next. Charles Serswell. telegraph operator. has been acquitted at Cheyenne. \\'yo., of the charge of killing two soldiers. Self-defence. Col. Blackburn. a candidate for Con- rcss in Georgia. is an advocate of ynchiug, because it was necessary to keep Southern homes pure. The man who committed suicide in Newark. X. J.. on Wednesday night. has been identified as the Marquis Vit- ellcschi. one of the oldest: families in the italiun nobility. James Cliarnley. jr.. son of Charles M. t‘harnley. defaulting treasurer of the Presbyterian Board of Aid for Col~ logos. ummitted suicide at Milwaukee on Tuesday. being unable to bear the diagram. Mr. H. Maltland Korsey. the Ameri- can agent of the White Star line. whose namc has been prominently mentioned in connection With a gigantic mining scheme, Gularcs that. he knows nothing of any such proch Accordin little practical change in the condition of business in the United. States. The feature of the week has been the heavy export of wheat, ill having been larger than in any corresponding week of any previous year, and the trade in corn has also been enormous. The ex- ports of manufactured products also have been very large. Imports are smaller than they were last year. The Eastern cottop goods trade is de- pressed. as buying is slaw. There is a fair movement in woollens, clothes, shoes and boots. and a few Special lines of fancy groceries. Iron and‘steelare in slow demand, and prices are lower. though orders on hand will quite last ‘out the present year. The commercial ‘failurss in the United States for the week just closed were 236, as compar- ed with 300 in the correSyionding week last year. GENERAL. An expedition which left Tromsoe in search of Andree has returned unsuc- cessfuJ. It is reported that a contract for four new ironclads for Turkey will be given to Herr Krupp. Advices from Japan state that no progress has been made in the Hawiian emigration trouble. Emperor William is sending more men and ships to Chinese waters to seize more territory and to forestall England. It is intimated that France will shortly ask for the denunciation of the treaty between. the United States and nuts. A duststorm swept over the north- west portion of the colony of Victoria on Friday evening, and did a great deal of damage. . Emperor Francis Joseph has arrived in Vienna to take steps toward reâ€" pressing the turbulent members of the Reichsrath. The Madrid official Gazette on Sat- urday morning published the royal de- cree granting autonomy to Cuba and Porto Rico. Mrs. John Morrow, the mother of Princess Chimay, says there is no hope of her daughter being reconciled to her husband. ' It is said that Prince Henry of Prus« sia, brother of Emperor \Villiam. is to ,3 take command of the German squadron in Chinese waters. Mr. J. F. \Villard. a resident of Bar- lin, and a nephew of Miss \Villard. has started on an expedition to 130k- bars. and Asiatic Russia. The blackguardly conduct of the members of the Reichsrath is making. Austria :1. hissing and a bye-word among the European nations. li'uring the first twelve months of the electric railways in Cairo, just completed, there were one hundred and. forty persons killed or injured. Notiwithstanding thn Russian pro- test against fl‘vurkey spending money on armament. the Ports has ordered one hundred and fifty large cannon in Germany. There is excitement at Athens over the defeat of the Government on the question of appointing a. committee of inquiry to inquire into certain in- cidents of the war. It is stated that the powers are dis- cussing the advisability of a. naval de- monstration to the Dardanclles to com- pel the Sultan to withdraw the Turk- ish troops from Thessaly. The German Government considers the land occupied by the forces at Kine-Chan bay, in China. to be insuf- ficient for a naval station, and pro- poses to enlarge its holding there, dip- lomatically if possible. It is announced that experts have unearthed in the colonial archives at Georgetown. British Guiana, a series of volumes containing memoranda givâ€" ing a running history of the Dutch settlement of Guiana from the mid- die to near the close of the seven- teenth century. fully confirming the British boundary claims. OVER THE FALLS. ~ A Young Englishman (‘ommltts Suicide â€" llc Considered Ills idfc u l’nilnrr. A despatch from Buffalo says:â€" There are reasons to believe that Ver- non Smith. a waiter for the past three weeks employed in the railroad Y. M. C. A.. has thrown himself over Niagara Falls. Smith was a young Englishman .of robust build. but of nervous tempera- ment. On Sunday afternoon last Mr. F. W. Thatcher. secretary of the Y. M. C. A.. received a telegram from Niagara llalls signed "P. Jones." en- quiring if a young man named Smith worked there. Mr. Thatcher answer- ed in the affirmative. and asked ifany- thing had happened to him. Later an- other tclcgram. having the same signa- ture was received. It stated that Smith had committed suicide by throwâ€" ing himself over the Falls. Mr. That- chcr went to Niagara Falls and invesâ€" tigated. The writing on the telegrams corresponded very closely with Smith's. Confirmation of the telegrams came in the form of a letter received by P. Albert Lisette. of this city. a friend to Smith for four years. In this letâ€" ter. which was received at noon on Monday. Smith tells of his strivings, his sufferings. and. his dissatisfaction with his own life. He announces his determination to throw himself over the Falls. and asks Lisette to notify his sister in London. Eng. From his knowledge of Smith's disposition. Lis- ette believes that the young man has destroyed himse‘f. ms t-‘..u.i:wnLL.~ Brown Sailor Jack leaned o'er the gate,; To bid his loss adieu; She wept because relentless fate Must part the pair in two. Heart. up! my lass! hesaid; don't cry! l But like a bonnie bride. Just give your Jack his last. good- by! Tar. ta“! she faintly cried. to despstches, there is TALE or srssvarios. ill-en From Dawson Say That the Food Supply la Giving on and Crowds Are Pouring tn. A despatch from Seattle. Wash, says- â€"Twenty-five men arrived here on Saturday, on the City of Seattle. direct from Dawson City. They were divided into two parties, the last one of which left Dawson City, Oct. 16. They came out over the Dalton trail. They are reported to have among them sixty thousand dollars in drafts and two hundred thousand dollars in gold dust.- All tell stories of a food short- age in Dawson that, is almost a fa- mine. The last person to leave Dawson was Jack Dalton. \Vhen Dalton left the steamer Alice and Bella had reach- ed there loaded lightly. It is 'said that the Bella's cargo consisted of whiskey and billiard balls. She brought no provisions. The Canadian Govern- ment mounted police chartered the Bella and gave all who‘ wished a free passage to the Yukon. The Bella is reported to have left about Oct. 12 with 200 men. According to the state- ments made by members of the Dalton party, there is liable to be trouble of the most serious kind this winter in Dawson. Billy Leak told one of the men in the party ahead of him whom he met at Dyea. that all the people talk about at Dawson is the food fam- ine. Men were gathering in groups and cursing with might and; main the new comers who were constantly ar- riving in the Klondike loaded wrth scarcely any provismns. THE MOUNTED POLICE. were offering free transportation to the grub placers further down the Yukon to Fort Yukon, but to the countless hundreds who had labored hard all through the summer accumu- lating a grub stake the prospect was uninviting to say the least. The men figured that it would take all their earnings in gold to pay their llVng expenses at Fort Yukon during the winter, and that in the spring they would not even have enough left to pay passage moncyback toDawson, to say nothing of: purchasing enough food to subsist on until they could get started again. To these poor fellows the offer of the mounted police was no better than. the prospect at Dawson of being compelled to live on half rations until the supply boats could reach the dig- gings in the spring. John \V._ Brauer. the United States mail carrier, who left Dawson on Sept. 27. saidzâ€"“Thero is only one salvation for the miners who are now at Dawson City, that. 13 for them to undertake the awful Win- ter trip from Dawson to Fort Yukon, a distance of 400 miles. There is no food at Fort Yukon. there is none at Dawson, and just as sure as the stars shine terrible suffering will be the fate of the Dawson miner unless he leaves there before spring. I Will make the statement that when I left Paw- son the men who were there had on an average four months' supply. Some did not have amonth's supply and some had four or five. The restauâ€" rant closed the night I left. It had been selling nothing but beefsteak. for which the hungry paid $2.50. _._â€"â€"-â€"-.â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" THOUSANDS or LIVES LOST. l‘orrlble Destruction ti rought by a Typhoon in the Southern Oct-nu In October lust. The typhoon which swept over the Philippine Islands on the 6th of Oct- ober was the cause of one of the worst disasters that has been reported from the southern Ocean in many years. Thousands of lives were lost, includ- ing those of many Europeans and the damage to property was something ap- palling. Telegraphic advices concern- ing the calamity have been very mea- gre. The difficulty of getting news from the islands is great at any time, but owing to the remoteness of some of the provinces visited by the hurri- cane full details of the storm did not reach Hong Kong until the lat of Nov- ember. The steamer Gaelic from the Orient. on Saturday. brought letters and papers which contain accounts of the ravages of the tidal wave and the winds. Several towns were swept, or blown away. Fully four hundred Eu- ropeans were drowned, and it is esti- mated that 6,000 natives perished. The hurricane struck the Island at the Bay of Santa. Paula. in the Province of Samar. It devastated the entire south- ern portion of the island. and cut off communication with the rest of the world for two days. On the 12th the hurricane reached Leyla. and struck the capital of 'i‘acloban with great fury. In less than half an hour the town was a mass of ruins. The natives were panic.- stricken and tried to make their way to clear ground. Four hundred of them were buried beneath the debris of wrecked buildings. and one hundred and twenty-six corpses of Europeans were recovered from the ruins when the native authorities instituted a search for the dead. Reports from the south- ern coasts were received which claimed that a score of small trading vessels and two S dney traders were blown ashore an the crews drowned. The sea at Samoa swept inland nearly a mile. destroying property valued at several million dollars and causing a great number of deaths among the na» tivee. COLUMiBUS‘ MISTAKE. Teacherâ€"Did Columbus know that he discovered a new continent! Classâ€"No. he thought it was India. Teacherâ€"Correct. Why did hethink ho had found India! Bright Boy-I s'pooe it was 'cause the inhabitants was Indiana. ._~____*__._.______.___ - â€".___.......-_.___.__..__....____...... A DESPERADU’S FATE. IANDTHEB LABOUR. Will. TRAGEDY ON A LAKE IN THE NIPIS- SING DISTRICT. BRITISH COTTON OPERATIVES MAY GO ON STRIKE. qua t‘olllslon or Steamersâ€""Lord Salisbury and the Channel Islandsâ€"The Stnlrlnl Engineers and Their Employers â€" Lon don School Board Bleetlon. A despatch from London. says:â€"The British steamer Baron Ardrossan. from Bombay. on October 14, for Ant- werp and Havre. collided with the Aus- trian steamer Jokai at midnight on Thursday night off Dungeness. with the result that the Jokai was so bad- ly damaged that she sank shortly after- wards. Four of her crew were drown- ed and nineteen others were rescu-i ed by a pilot cutter. The Baron Ard- rossan had her how stove in. Lord Salisbury, 'replylng to a corâ€" respondent who asked him whether there was any foundation for the reâ€" port widely circulated in the channel islands, to the effect that the British Government contemplates coding the \Vhen the canoes were about two or iglands to France: Characmrizca “19 three hundred yards from each ohor"1'5' as absurd- they saw the man let up paddling A count Of the 1m“003 Cast in a mfi~ . _ no Opened Fire on No no: In a Canoe -â€" They Try to Escape a‘nd are Forced to Shoot In Selfiberencc. A despatch from Mattawa. Ont.. says: «On Thursday, November. 18th. Mr. Samuel Tongue. and Mr. \Villiam Bell. two of our prominent citizens. started out to get to Lake Taillon and adjoin- ing lakes to look after two valuable dogs that had been lost some days pre- vious. After paddling their canoe for some miles over the lake. they were crossingabay where the bush is very heavy. no settlers being on this part of the lake. They saw coming at a dis- tance. paddling towards them, a canoe and man. Thinking they would be able to get some information as to where their dogs were. they paddled towards the approaching canoe. not thinking there was any danger in store for them. draw out his “’inchester, and, taking Jorilry 0f the COtton Spinning diSll‘iCtS good ahm firgd at them. This was $113. of Lancashire upon the question of the ceeded by two more shots in succession, accepmnce 0f “16 reduction Of “11898 Which were low and did not take ef- Proposed by the employers: 3110‘“ “4‘ feet. overwhelming majority against the proposal of the cotton manufacturers to submit the wage question to arbi- tration, and a general strike of the em~ ployes in the cotton industry now seems inevitable. (The employers. a month ago, stated that the emergency. demanded a. reduction of five per cent. in wages, asserting that without a re- duction of expenses their business could not be continued at a profit. If the cotton masters are firm in their intention to impose the five per cent. reduction it is impossible to see how1 in general strike, involving 200,000 opera- tives, which will paralyse the grcatcsb industry of the Empire can be averted. The conference between the repre- sentatives of the employers and the delegates of the striking engineers, which began on Wedncsdny morning behind closed doors, after many weeks of negotiation, has taken a decided. step toward asettlement of the points in dispute by an acceptance on both sides of the general principle of non- interference in the management of workshops. Au adjournment; was tak- en to Tuesday ncxt, when a discussion of details will proceed. . The result of polling for the elec- tion of 55 members of the School. Board for London yesterday is a clear ma- jority for the Progressive party. The elections are triennial, and this is the first instance since 188;! where Progres- sives have dominated at the polls. Mr. J. R. Diggle. the leader of the Mod- erates, and for many years the must influential member of the School Board. has been defeatsd in Marylo- bone district. In spite of tremendous excitement among the advocates and opponents of additional religious teach- ing in the schools. the voting was gen- erally light in all parts of the metro- polis. A number of independent can- didates were put forward. The issues were somewhat involved. and the Mod- erates, who are, generally speaking. the Church party. were divided into two camps. under loaders whose perâ€" sonal ambitions and special controverâ€" sies resulted ininwssanthickerings for some months before the elections. The Tory press, which has supported the candidates of the Moderates. repeated- ly warned them that the results of the quarrellings of their leaders would be to confuse the minds of the voters, and .to incline many either to vote the Pro- gressive ticket or to stay away from. teh polls. THE LAST SHOT. just striking very close to the how of the canoe. They account for the three shots not taking effect by the jolting of the canoes by the strong breeze that was then blowmg. Mr. Tongue and Mr. Bell recognized the desperado at once. and it “as a case of life or death either by drown- ing or shooting unless they could es- cape from 'him. The shore not being far they made all efforts to reach it and escape from this man if possible, but from all appearances he was de- termined to finish them if possible. and made after them. Both canoes landed very near the same time, but Mr. Tongue, being somewhat the quickest to strike land. and seeing no cScape possible. turned and took good aim and fired at the dosâ€" perado. the ball entering at the pit of the stomach and coming out at the back, as shown now that the body has arrived. They wore excited. and on seeing he did not return the fire they got into their canoe, and made for Muttawa, where on their arrival on Friday they laid an. information, and the chief of police. with some specials. were de- spatched on Monday to go after the desperado, dead or alive, but Mr. Tongue, being an expert shooter. was quite positive that he would be found either very badly \VOUNDED OR DEAD. By the appearance of the body after its arrival at Mattawa, in charge of Chief Fillio-n, and the way he was found, he could not have lived longer than a very few minutes after being shot. The man's. proper name was James McConnell. and no doubt this shooting will recall to memory his past career, having only a few years ago been on trial to; doing away with his\father on Lake Nasbonsing. There were also a number of warrants for his arrest for shooting at various people, cattle, etc. He was a very large and power- ful man, of 48 years, very heavy black hair, with sandy whiskers, very poorly clad, as he only had on a pair of over- alls and shirt to face a cold winter, and had not been known to come out from the bush for the past few years where he would expose himself to be arrested. There were found at his but seven boxes of cartridges. :1 little flour, salt, and plenty of deer meat. All the farmers and settlers in the vicinity where he roamed are very well pleased to hear of his death, as they more or less had a great; fear of him. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€".â€"â€"â€"_ BRITISH VICTORY The Plum 0: Ida: nontcd After a Hot En .uremonl Adesgmtch from Brass. Guinea Coast, says:â€"’I‘he column of troops command- ed by Major Arnold, consisting of 180 men belonging to the Niger Constabul- ary. with fieldâ€"guns and Maxim guns, which was sent to subdue the slave- raiding Prince of Idau, who was en- trenched in a place four days' march from the river, and who for a month previous to the departure of the troops had been raiding the Akpoto tribes for 00 miles around his headquarters. landed at Etobe on Nov. l-ith. and marched direct to the Prince‘s strong-1 hold. The-latter was defended by 400 guns and 100 rifles. There wasahut engagement in front of the town. The Houssas of the Brit . I y ish force charged up to the eight-foot meat. was kllled. and Lieut- “045011, wail surrounding the place, and cumâ€" Of the same regiment: “'33 Severely pletely routed the defenders. 'i'he wounded. during the, operation neurDa- Prince fled to the bush. =qu the town mi. under Sir William Lockhart. was burned and evacuated on Nov. 18th. The. enemy lost hcavily. The British force had two men killed and twelve men wounded. ADVANCE TO DATOI. .â€"â€"- March “’ltlu Loss. A despatch from Simla sayszâ€"Gcn- eral Sir “'illiam Lockhart, with the fourth brigade of the British punitive expedition operztaing against the insur- gent tribesmen. has reached Datoi, af- ter having traversed three miles of dan- gerous defilcs. Lurkily few of the one- my wcre encountered. The British loss amounted to only 10 men. According to a dcspatch to the Lonâ€" don Times from. Bugh. a town of Be- loochistan. Province of (.‘utch-Gundava, at the south entrance of the Bolan pass, Lieut. Jones. of the Yorkshire Regi- A Perilous it Very Slight DECLARING HIMSELF. Do you like the half as she turned it slowly on the pink tips of her fin- gers. More than i can tell, but I WANTED A wimfuh Jon [ see that you're going to leave the 10V“ “:3 police force at. the first of themonth. darling little owner. ‘ Tim How sweet It belongs to “Stet 1’” Yes. sir it's lml slecbiu' out in can ber' winter. ANOTHER liO\\'L. NO HAM" hil-IASI'RES. I believe in meeting people half way- now’l So do I ; but. my molln-r-inâ€"law would BeCauso he can't get as much for scold like the dickens if [didn’t go wheat here as they’re paying at thg clear to the station. Klondike. What’s old Calamity howling stout _ A JEAI.()US BOSS. KNO‘VS ‘VHEN To BOAST' Why did you dimharge Darrow ? Did.- What's the matter with Bingleyl Ho n't he do his work satisfactorily? used to be eternally blowing what an Oh. yes, he attended to business all expert wing shot he was. right, but my typewriter got to think- Oh, he always does that during the ing the blamed fool we.» tho belt-look- clma mm ing man In town.