ll llllllllll . THE VERY ilrssr FROM ALL ms WORLD OVER. as htcruflu items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States, and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CAN ADA. Commercial failures in Canada last Week number 27 against 51 a year ago. Sir Sanford Fleming has been re- elected Chancellor of Queen’s Univer- Bity. Kingston. ' The City Council of Victoria, BC. is urging the Dominion Government to improve the harbor of that city. Manitoba provincial elections will likely take place shortly after this month’s session of the Legislature. Jacquot Lepage, of Ste. Barnabe. ï¬lmouski county, has just had his 23rd child baptised. The father is 84 years 0 d. Sunday night's C.P.R. train for To- ronto was detainedlin Hamilton for a time by a landslide near the city ceme- tery. Gen. Gascoigne, Commander-in-Chief of the forces in Canada, is visiting Wliï¬lliugton. accompanied by Mrs. Gasâ€" coigjns. The infant daughter of Thomas Hard. of Hartoey, Man., died there on Friday from the effects of swallowing morphine pellets. The Canadian Locomotive‘ Works. Kingston, has closed a contract with the Minister of Railways for thencon‘ struction of several engines for the Intercolonial Railway. There are now only 7:23.068 bushels of wheat in elevators at Port Arthur and Fort William, where there were over 3,000,000 bushels a year ago. General Manager Hays of the G.T.R. head-5.9. syndicate applying to the Govâ€" ernment at Ottawa. for the right to bridge the Detroit River between \Vind- 301‘ and Detroit. ORR. land sales for February ag- gregate 21,000 acres, for which $66,000 was realized, a sum three times as large as that received during the same month last year. Mr. Mackintosh is still the Lieut.- Governor of the Northwest Territories. He tendered his resignation, to take effect on January 1 last. but it has not yet been accepted. I The Mllnis-ter of Public \Vorks states that this liiabi'lity incurred in connec- tion with the improvement of Toronto harrimr during this year ending Januâ€" ‘ary 1,1898, was $16,936. Geological Survey reports show the production of coal for the year 1897 to have been $7,386,000; gold, $6,190,000; (ulvcr. $3,322,000; nickel $1,400,000; lead 81,896,000; cbpper, $1,501,000. Tho Klondike rush is having a good effect on the customs receipts, and col- lections at Vancouver last mont'h. reached 345,884, am increase of $15,380, as compared with February, 1897. Alfred Gurewu, a. lumbermwn 'has (lis- appcared from one of the camps on the Upper Gatiineau. He has not been Seen since the big snow storm and it is feared he has perished. He bleonged b0 the. Lower 'l‘owiu. Ottawa. Mr. G. C. Jones, Superintendent, and a number of Grand Trunk despatc'hers and other officials were transferred from London to St. Thomas on account pl the Wabash spourilalg running pow- an over the Aitr Line. A plebiscite was taken in Van‘couve‘r rupon the question whether a liquor liâ€" should be issued to the Music @3111. Eight hundred and eighty-one .wbes were polled against the proposal and only four hundred and live in fav- or of it. Hon. P. O’Rei~lly has been retired from the position of Indian Reserve Commissioner at Victoria, B.C., and the office has been united with" that of the Indian Superintendent. Mr. Vowell, [udian Superintendent, will henceforhhi hold both‘ offices withou‘t increased re- m'uneration. Major-General Perry of the Yukon Mounted Police, who raised the British flag at Summit Lake, claimed as Am- erican territory. declared at Vancouv-r or on Friday that the summtts of the, urday afternoon. Braun is a. German; in this way. at Summit Lake is on the Canadian ll. e of the summit. The commissioners appointed to inâ€" uu‘e into laborers' grievances on e Crow’s est Pass Railway are at :Vv'ardner. B. C. ’llh‘ey have found few causes for complaint.oxcept that some of the employment agents misrepres- ented the cost of transportation, and gasses define the boundary line and there is an absence of medical uttend- r ance. GREAT BRITAIN. 'l‘he Marquis of Salisbury. who has been suffering from a slight. attack .of Influenza. is now ruovering. The original of “Reuben Dale.’ (MIC of the principal characters i1 Marie, Mighty Atom." * Corolli's book. "The as just died at Combo Martin. near ‘ fracombe. Devon. He was sexton ut the parish church. his real name being James Norman. . The question of Canada‘s new Gov- ernor-General is being discussed in of- ficial circles in London. and the Re- tormers are urging that the choice be made from the inn“ 0â€ch 0f young? it. down with fearful force against the l treaty was signed._u“ve Saw man without handles to their names. non. Mr. Canon and Hon. Mr. Low- ther are mentioned. UNITED STATES. A number of United States Senators and Congressmen have gone to Cuba. minu- failures in the United States last week number 2413, against 262 a year ago More 600 striking ample as at Ya: Corporation, Blddotor M... iii. 3 to 0am. m‘ £40: 2:63! Club has “W resolutions of sympathy for Emile Zola and M. Perreux. The United States Government re- WILL IT YET END Ill Will ? lief expedition to the YlLkOD 1138 been abandoned as unnecessary. A special from Norfolk, Va., reports the loss of the powerful tug Under- writer of Boston. in a storm off Hat- horas. Lorenzo Barnes was hanged at East Cambridge. Mass, on Friday 'for the murder of John Dean, an aged farmer,‘ 011' December 17. The Gloucester fishing schooner with her crew have been given up for lost} She left Gloucester for Newfoundland on December 9 and was last reported on December 16. ‘* Cyrus F. Breder, former cashier of the First National bank of Bethlehem, Pa., who pleaded guilty to the embez- zlement of over $120,000 from th". bank, has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Twelve Englishmen from London have arrived at. New York on route to the Yukon. with 50 tons of supplies. including a large steel river boat, which can also be used as a sledge. 1 United States nail manufacturers have combined andformed the Ameri- can Steel and \Vire Company. with a capital of $10,000,000, and headquarters at New York. The remains of George \V. 'l-‘erri<, builder of the Ferris wheel at the (‘hi- cage \Vorld’s Fair, are still held at the cromatory in Pittsburg for the contracted unpaid funeral expenses, over a year ago. Chris. Keenan and Frank Shane,night watchmen, employed by merchants of Menominee, Mich†fought a. duel with revolvers there on Tuesday. Keenan was wounded in the wrist. Shane gave himself up to the officers. A fire in a four-storey tenement house, 171 Harrison avenue. Brooklyn, damaged property to the extent of $30,- 000 and made seventy families tempor- arily homeless. Several smaller tene- ment houses were destroyed. A num- ber of persons were slightly injure by falling walls. ‘ . The entire system of Government in- spection of meat which has been es- tablished in the packing house of the United States has been declared to be unconstitutional. ineffective and void is an opinion handed down in the United States District Court, Kansas City, by Judge John Rogers. GENERAL. The Czhrina. ill at Vienna, is im-1 provmg. ‘ Spain has reduced the duties on wheat and. flour. The deadlock in. the Newfoundland Parliament over railway legislation continues. Emperor William has sent a message of congratulation to Prince Hohenlohe. upon his diplomatic success in China. The Carlists have issued a manifesto announcing their intention to takel Part in the coming elections in Spain. The Prince of \Vales, while on his way to‘ the Riiviera, called on President Faure at Paris, and. the latter return- ed llhe Prince's visit. FIGHT OVER SOKOTO.‘ â€"_ lo we Old Feud Growing Out of We.“ African Rivalry Soon to Reach a (This? Is it true that two French expedi- ; tions have advanced toward Sokoto, in 3'\\'estern Africa, and have thereby ‘aroused. the wrath of patriotic Eng- lishmen. who claim that the British alo'ne possess any jurisdiction over the Sokoto territory? M. Hanotaux says that he has no knowledge of any such proceeding. and he even insists that the story cannot be true, for the reason ‘that there are no French troops in «j that region. The report. if true, is interesting. not only because it is a signal evidence °f that Demistent and far reaching DOlicy pursued by the French since they first set foot our the dark contin- ent, but also because it may be the prelude to a. new and sensational Franco-British feud. The story as it reaches us by cable is Simple enough. The French, we are told, advanced toward Sokoto and mét with no check until the Sultan of that country sent them word that they must hall; within. forty miles of the Capital. The Sultan presumably relies on receiving assistance from the Royal Niger Compwny. of Great Bri- tailn. in case it should be necessary for him to use force against the FIenCh- On the other hand, some well informed Personsin London think that the Sul- tan is not as sincere in his warlike inâ€" tentions as he would'have the British believe. ’ However this may be, the Royal Nig- er Company will certainly not count- enance this alleged aggressive act on the part of the French. In Madagas- car aml other places. the French have had their own way, and to the average Englishman it is only too clear that they are now preparing to play the same game in “fast Africa. If so. they may find more obstacles in their path than they now look for. AN' OLD QUARREL. After all, this is but the latest stage in a. quarrel which is now nearly thir- ty years old. There were frontier dif- ficulties between France and Great 5‘. there is other evidence to show that the Sultan. of Sokoto is rather an ac- complished 'I‘alleyraind in his way. Consider his position a. moment. He holds toward the Mohammedan States of Nigeria the pmitions held in the last century by the Great Mogul foâ€" ward the Mohammedan States of 111‘ die. Naturally, therefore... when the British chastised his rebellious vas- sals in the Nupi campaign of last year. he felt somewhat humiliated at the knowledge that he was more or less dependent on a foreign Power. A \YILY PUPENTATE. Three courses were open. to him. He could either make friends with the rebel Rabeh anl bid defiance to Great Britain and France alike. or he could listen to the advances of France and obtain through French influence a l 3'51 NEWS FROM THE KLUND’IKE FOUND DEAD WITH 3160.000 IN GOLD ON THEIR BODIES. .._.â€"q turning Klondlkrr. Laden With For- lunr. Frozen to Death â€" The Horn-om of Sknguny â€"- Fifteen Dead .Vlen Dally. 3rd edition. A despaich from Victoria, B.C.. says. â€"It.is said by passengers on the steam- er Islander. just arrived here from Alaska, that several days ago two Canadian Mounlod Police came into Skaguay with two sleds in tow, over which were strapped two dead men. The attention of the Mounted Police at supply 0f arms wad ammumu‘m' “men i ’l‘agish was attracted by the dismal would enable him to rally the subsidi- ary Nigerian states in a revolt against England. or finally, he could reaffirm the peaceful relations which had pre- viously existed between him and the Royal Niger Company. At first his policy was that of stub- born resistance. After some corres- pondence of an unsatisfactory nature with the company he declared that he could not sanction the British policy during the late revolt, and he declined to receive the annual instalment of the subsidy of £3,000 which the comâ€" Daany had by treaty agreed to pay him. At the same time he sent messages to the chiefs of the subsidiary states, callâ€" l'nzg upon them to throw off the comâ€" Pany's rule. Most of these chiefs were at logger- heads with the Sultan. and they at once forwarded his messages to the com- Pany. Of the others some might have Proved dangerous had the Sultan tak- en the field, but such a thought never seems to have entered head. Any- h‘OW. it soon became apparent that there was no danger of a revolt. The Sultan himself saw, after a. few months. that the British wore too strongly in- trenched to be lightly disturbed, and he again announced his intention of adhering firmly to the Brilish alliance. At the same time he stated that he had refused overtures made to him by the French. and that he would never again attempt to stir up Mohammedan fana- ticism against the British. The question now is, Has the Sultan, after all these specious promises, allied himself with the French. or is he fav- oring their aggressive policy in the hope that he may thereby be enabled to free himself and his country from Bri- tish' domination? A... ITALY’S JUBILEE. --- King Humbert Reviews the Troops am! Thu: Makes a Speech 10 [hr Asscmblcd odicluls. A dcspaltc'h from Home, salyszâ€"Tihe Britain as far back as 1868. In 1s70ijubm’3e “miVeTSm Of the “an†90‘“ negotiations were opened for the séttle- Stï¬tuï¬m was ce‘lebrated 0“ Friday with The city was filled . . l m . ml rejoicings. meat of the respective frontiers of the g‘fnem. . two countries in \Vestern Africa on ixvrlth v1s1tors. who thromged. the handâ€" the basis of a mutual exchange of ten-150mEly decmutw Streets' At 8' O’CIOCk ritories, the principal being that In view of the warlike preparations French influence and authority should being made by Chili the Argentine Government has decided to purchase three warships and arms for 150,000 men. ‘ There is food in many Provinces of Spain. The price of wheat is high, and bread riots an; appalling scarcity of where it is feared that material law will be proclaimed. The condition of the Crown Princess be confined to the north of a certain line, while Great Britain should have a free hand south of the same line. A a result four agreements ware made ‘within the next ten years. One of these dealt partially with Sierra Leone; the second with various disputed points in Gambia, Leone, the gold coast and Legos; the Stephanie, of Austria, grows worse. She third with the Niger region“ and the is suffering from inflammation of the lungs, a result of an attack of influen- za, and it is spreading to an extent which makes her condition critical. Baron Von Gautsoh, the Austrian Premier and Minister of the Interior, 'has reported to Emperor Francis J os- eph that the Socialist movement among the Hungarian peasantry has so far abated that the danger may be con- sidered past. ..__â€"â€"‘â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"¢~ MURDER AT SING SING. Mrs. Brnun Goes to Sec ller Husband. it ...~ Convict, and Is Stabbed Io Dram in Sight of a Guard. A despatch from New York says: â€" i Adrian Braun, a convict in Sing Sing iprison. murdered his wife, who was paying him a visit at the prison on Sal.- aro of daily occurrence at Salamanca, 35 years of age», and a cigar-maker. He zwas sentenced on August Slst -of last lyear to serve a two-year sentence for , assault in the. second degree, and was i received at Sing Sing on September lst. (He was con.icied of having beaten his wife, bul. notwithstanding this, ‘ Mrs. Braun forgave her husband and l . . (‘Xpl‘CSSCd great. sorrow because of his l imprisonment. Mrs. Braun decided to visit her husband Friday afternoon, _ and arrived at the prison at. 3.20. When glhe two met they kissed each other land were very friendly. They sat for lhalf an hour conversing only a few ‘ feet away from the desk of Detective Jackson, who was present. Finally De- tective Jackson informed Braun that . his time was up. but Bmun pleaded for l a little longer. saying. “Can't we have I a few minutes more 7" Because of the ' trouble Mrs. Braun had taken to pay her husband a visit the plea was granted. Suddenly Braun raisad his , arm and the detective saw the glitter lof a long, thin knife. Braun brought l i i 'left side of his wife's neck. One cut covered the great blood-vessel, and al- most instantly the woman was dead. Detective Jackson sprang upon Braun, but the convict had time to gash the woman's head several times more. Two other convicts who were in the corrid- or oamo to the detective's assistance and the murderer was subdued. ..‘.>._. . 1.â€"-I‘m thinking of dabbling a little to am. What'- a thing to put your mom: in! B.- our inside Mat ‘ fourth with the interior fronlier of Sierra Leone. By the third agreeâ€" ment the Kingdom of Sokoto v~ as usâ€" I signed to the British, and by the fourth the Hinterland was assigned to the French; , In spite of these agreements. howm lever. there has been constant friction , between the two countries, mainly owâ€" , flag to. the inability of the Boundary iffcmmlssioners to agree on many dis- ‘puted points, and to the absence of 01’ Say. autumlu of 1894. The French, appar- ently intent on establishing a great African empire, extending from Al- geria. to the basins of the Congo and the Upper Nile, had desputchcd Com- mandant Decoeur to Nikki, the capi- i tal. of Borg-u, with instructions to nego- ' hate a treaty. The Royal Niger Com- pany, however, was not. to be fooled . Promplly it instructed lCuptain Lugard to go to Nikki with all speed and to negotiate a treaty with its ruler. He did so and carried off his treaty three weeks before M. Decoeur arrived there, A SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENT. That Sokoto is within the British ,sphere of influence seems fully proved i'l‘ho first treaty of the Royal Niger i Company was dated at Wurnu June 1. 1885, and was confirmed by u secoudi ', treaty, dated April 15, 1890. 0nd treaty was a ain confirmed by a , third treaty, whic was negotiated on June 210, 1894, with Abdu. the successor of Umoru, The sixth clause of this {treaty reads as follows:â€"â€"â€l recognize Ethan the company receives its power 3 from the Queen. of Great Britain. and 'that they are Her Majesty's represen- tatives to me. I will not recognize any other white nation, because the com- pany is my help." If these treaties are not sufficient l proof, study the following passage from g a. letter which the Grand Vizierpf So- ‘koto wrote to the company in April. 11894. a few months before the last your 'paper with the messenger. “'1: saw and we understood it. They say in it I that we have made a treaty with Mon- l tell. a Frenchman. On account of that we write you this letter to tell you ithat we have made a treaty with no one. All that Monteil may have said was a. lie. We will make no treaty with any one coming from your parts. W's will make no treaty with any other from the white mon'e comm except , with the Royal Niger Company. They ‘aro the fri of the treaty." l These we 1' alnll; swims, rode to the Sam Marco esplanâ€" ifbtlll, where he reviewed 8,000 troops of l l l any boundary line to the southwest, Serious trouble came in the. This sec- ' |thle great bell all; the Capitol signalled Ithc opening of the fetcs, and an hour later Kimg Humbert on horseback. ac- ,csolmpauibd by the Count. of Turin and s g the {broiqu military attaches and the iMimlistur of \Var, attended by a brilli- the garrison. The Queen viewed the Sierra'murCh past 0f mm troops. and their IMajesties met with am eutlhlusiasiiu re- oeption from the crowds present. Kilng :H'wmbert made a speech from the ithrono lo the Senators, Deputies and iMuyors in this capital, during which his Majesty safd:-â€"â€""l"rom the summit of the hill, consecrated by immortal :glllory, my first "thought ascends to my ‘mzlgmnnirmows ancestor. V‘cior Emman- uel» father of his coum'try, for his lalb‘ ors achieved in the national resurrec- ilm, Our faith in resuscitated liafvy led us to Rome, and wdll guide us 10 stix'll loftizer destinies. I salute those gl-nerous men who consecrated their .lilves to the futhlerland. l wished you 310 meet here. at bhe Capitol, from §whiuh you can admire the magnificence :of the Eternal Cllty, which has spread Let: us continue to look to God, who :Vt'lillhfd. the uzuillvy bf Italy in order that ; the fatherlurud might be great and pros- perous." King Humbert concluded, say- I dug :â€"“As at the dlulwn of our resurrec- tinn all classes of cillizens Wore welded -t‘og:.+ther to secure the country's frec- jdom. so toâ€"day they are united and mu- gtuzilly aï¬xl'i'ng one another. ’l’he indis- isolvublu union of my house with the (le- isllnibs of the. people. based on concord i l l l i of ideas and strengthened by past miss; fortunes and glories. will be [he mosl .sccuire bulvwark of the llal.an father- ?la'nd." Tilt-so, concluding allusions lo :tlm dynusly were greeted with prolong- ‘o-(l cheering and shouts of "Long live ithe King." lposimg. The great hall of rho was splendidly decorated. and all the A reception lul- .loma'ts were preseul. His hfnjcsly lowed the King's speech. lfrom the Qullrimnl to the ('apiiol 'through the troop~l£lned streets. x PLAYING w: ill ruse. .._.â€" lnonnuonc Sailor. Imper‘ll a Brut-h ('rnlurâ€"I-‘lrr in the Mull-Room. A despatoh from Portsmouth, says: â€" The British first-class armoured Cruiser Australia, twelve guns, 5,600 tons, had a narrow escape on Wednes- day. Two seamen were playing with a fuse in the shell-room. when they set fire to some stores. The flame: were extinguished by the prompt flooding of the apartment. .â€".â€".-â€"â€"-.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Ziggsbyâ€"Tbbre goes I. fellow who :. Perksbyâ€"Ah. ho‘ Who is boi’ them think ihat it was- their intention wflstfés at danger. must be a brave fellow! m Vâ€, plumb“. but] Ziggobyâ€"A locvmotivo driver. -M§mistcvrs, leading authorities and dip-. howls of a dog. Afth a short. Search they found the bodies of two men. They had been frozen to death. It is said they were returning Klondikers, and had in their possession $100,000 in paper and gold dust. Their names are not known. FLAG AT SUithlT LAKE. Passengers on the Islander confirm the report that the Canadian flag has been raised at. Summit Lake: also,that the Canadians will establish a Cus- toms house at Crater lake. Martial law has been declared at Skaguay, and the United States troops who went up on the Queen are enforcing law. The attempt to float the steamer Corona has so far been a failure. Captain Goodall, who has been con- ducting the wrecking operations, has gone with divers to make an examinaâ€" tion of the Cottage City. TERRIBLE PLAGUE. The death rate at Skuguay averages 15 daily, one of the latest victims being the postmaster. It is also slated by passengers on the steamer lslander that the Dyea trail «is strewn with dead mules. Capt. O'Brien. of the steamer Rosalie, reports that there are about 12,000 peo- ple in Skaguay and camped along the \Vhile trail for a distance of six miles from the town. Many are going over the passes, but a far greater number' are arriving daily. En route down the Rosalie passed’ twentyâ€"nine vessels bound for Skaguay and Dyia. There is little or no abatement of the epi- demic of spinal meningitis at Skaguuy. TROUBLE FE’ARED. Adespatch from Scuttle,\\’asb., says: â€"â€"Five steamers arrived from Alaska. on Thursday, the Utopia, Hucncme, Del Norte, Protection and Queen. The Queen brought the latest news, havâ€" ing left Skaguay last Sunday. The most important news was a confirma- tion of previous reports that a Can- adian official had. raised the British flag on what is regarded as American soil, and trouble at Skaguay with long- shoremen, who objected to lndians un- loading freight; from steamers. The presence of United States troops alone prevented serious trouble. A compro- mise was made with the white men to perform the work at 50 cents per hour. It is feared that serious trouble will grow out of the Canadians attempting to collect duty on the summit of the White Pass and Chiicoot Pass, and the Americans will resist the payment on what they consider American ground. Last summer, the boundary line. was at Lake Bennett,thcn ut Lin- dermann, and now: at the summit. of the mountains, which is only twelve miles from salt water. Two days before the Queen left Ska- guay the wind, which had blown from the north constantly for seven weeks, shifted to and began to blow from the south-west, causing a general thaw to set in. The change in the weather caused hundreds of people who had been detained by the severe cold to start over these trails from lzoth Ska- guay and Dion. and when the steam‘ re left 11. general exodus from both towns was faking place. Both trails are reported in excellent condition. On the trip down the Queen passed the Cottage City a short distance _ , , :south f Wrai .l N'r‘ v.. 'l'h: 1al.- 1lll'.s lighrt throughout the entire world. ' 0 lg? d 10‘ a ‘ tor ship evidently had trouble, as he: bow was smashed in and covered with canvas to keep out the waler. ATTACKED BY HIGHWAYMEN. Mr. Allllon and ltccvi- Brown llrumlly .usnnllml Nem- l'hmlmm. A despatch. from Clinlhuinsaysz~ Richard Ailiwn. a respectable farnm!‘ residing on the fouth concession of Norwich. was driving along the town iinn between Ilurwicli and Howard Win-n he was attacked by four men, who lpllllflll him out of his rip' and lwat The scene was most im-. Capitol . . , . , bull] r inlet \Vlldl the most mithuszustu: greet.» A imgs from the p91)pr while or; his way. i ‘druvo along the road a short distance him and kicked him almost inlu insen- sil-iiiiy. The assault took place uv-ar Lungford‘s farm lwtwoon Kunl Bridge an I the river rnzul. “'liile Alliwm was kicked and pounded, Reeve Brown drove along. and the men undo off. Mr. Allison and Reeve Brown when they were both attacked. two men tackling each. Mr. Brown was pulled out in the road and nlt'r('llt"s§l)' lullab- ored, his assailaan yelling. "Kill the dead." The noise of an ap- proaching team scared the four scouml- rels and they disappeared into the woods war by. Friday morning Alli- son came into the city and laid an in~ formation. against three men. and a fourth person unknou n. charging them with the assault. The case was plat-ed in High Constable Coogau's nimls and ho effected the arrest of the accused. Both victims of lhe outrage suffered .te- verve injury. but are glad they escaped with their lives. They declare that the actions of the attacking party made in. kill mm outright. .___.»