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€838 1'8 iAY MARKETS E LINDSAY WATCHMAJ nu, Sept. 21th, 1892 bushel, old. so 00 ton ............ 000mm ........... ooocoo king Was ‘ Glassefiv hstaqqs’ ......... ’95 35c s 59. .1060“. BROS. 00. The Champion Gold Medal Oil for all Machinery. iCCOLL’S - 'â€"'_'i n SILVERWARE suitable for Buying the coming Exhibi- .ion ".79 mwte all o_1_1r frlend§ and .J. PETTY, The Jeweller. YLEY’S HARDWARE -â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"FOBâ€"-â€"â€"â€" 19 7110110 generally to call and re ear stock. Remember we are 00nd to none in the county. We e receiving songg speeial agoonds U/L DE]? 5, WE me BALSAM [g [A’BOTHflMS 86 Kent St, Lindsay. 3H5 AND COLDS. c"TLEEEEI JE W ELL For Horses and Cattle. GDNDITION POWDER, 25c. or 5 for $1.00, at HIGINBOTHAM’S V. Number 40 OLD ENGLISH is the bet in the Dom iniOn. FORâ€"-â€" INVITATION PRINTING, . PETTY, DRUG- STORE- BEFORE. FROM 1.1;: DER - OIL Next the Daly House. AFTER. Try it. TORONTO. and Pigs,e. For Sheep On Saturday night Ernest had bought a new serge suit, and George had done so, too. The boys had taken the bicycle off in the afternoon for a. ride and did not bring it back. On Monday two gentle- men had called at the house to see the wheel which they wanted to buy. On Monday night, the one before his death, he was unusually quiet and in reply to Mrs. Aldridge’s questions said he meant to sell the wheel for $50. He was accustomed to read the paper aloud to her, but did not do so and seemed very quiet, but when he went to bed he went in and talked to her boys for a. while. At breakfast yesterday morning he was quiet. but seemed in good spirits; Mrs. Aldridge urged him to try and come home to dinner at noon. He said he would come that day. It was amazing to Mrs. Aldridge that he should have written the letter to his brother Frank. which he must have done before he came down to breaktast. He got her son Walter, a little boy of ll, to accompany About a. month ago Ernest rode up to the house one day and asked how she liked his new wheel. He said he had traded off the old one and got $5 to boot; she gave him a. slight rebuke for selling what had been a present from the gentlemen at the bank. Ernest took OE the iron guards over the wheels and the tool bag, which are now in the room he used to_ occupy. His motheF is awidow, now in the hos- pital, and up to a short time ago the brothers had boarded together. On Sept. 15, however, Ernest went to board with Mrs. Lizzie Aldridge of 51 Trinity-square. Mrs. Aldridge was seen by a re- porter last- evening and stated that she became acquainted with Ernie through his friendship for her son George, a boy in the employ of the Queen’s Hotel. The two were almost inseparable and she had got to look on Ernest as ‘her own. He had had a bicycle for veral months; she had once asked Geoge how Ernest came by it, and he said that the officials of the bank had given it to him. Long before he came to board with her he had been in the habit of leaving his bicycle at her house when he did not have it at the bank. Frank Knowland at once hurried down to the bank to see if his brother was there and found that his life was already taken. Popular In the Bank. Ernest Knowland’s duties were those of messenger boy, and he had to regis- ter the time that every employe came in the mornings. He was very popular among the bank oflicials. He was a stocky-built English boy of fair complexion and small for his age. He was formerly in the employ of the Great North- western Telegraph Company. 7, Frank immediately ran with all speed to Charles Stark Co.’s to find out about it, not realizing that his brother might kill himself at the bank. He saw Mr. Wells and heard the following story, which indi- cates the cause of the boy’s taking his life: The Story of the Bicycle. On Sept. 7', a Black Prince bicycle, with Laforce tire, belonging to Mr. Bruce Rob. inson, was stolen from the hallway of Charles Stark Co. The matter was re- ported at police headquarters, and Detec- tive Slemin took charge of the case. It could not be located until on Sunday after- noon, Mr. W. J. \Vells, an employe of Stark’s, who sees every bicycle which passes through their hands, met Ernest Knowland riding the wheel in Queen- street. As there are only one or two such wheels in the city he made no bones about interrogating Knowland as to where he got it. He told a straightforward tale to the effect that he had it on trial and was going to purchase it, paying $10 down and instalments of $5 per month until paid for. Mr. \Vells was inclined to believe the story, except that the boy said he knew nothing of the owner of the wheel, neither his name nor address, but thought he lived in Markham-street. He told Knowland that it would be worth his while to find’ the man who wan‘ed to sell him the wheel, and at 5.30 on Monday evening Knowland telephoned to Wells that he would call on him that evening. He had not come. h"‘See Mr. Wells of Chas. Stark Company about t. 15." The letter had evidently been written at home and shoved through the letter slip as Ernie went down to the bank at 8.30. Scribbled in blue pencil on the envelope, apparently at, the last moment, were the words : How “is Brother Got the News. His brother, Frank Knowland, who is employed in W. A. Badenach’s office, reach- ed his place of employment at 9.15 and found the following letter sealed and ad- dressed in lead pencil: DEAR. FRANK: I am going to commit suicide because I have got. mixed up in a. bicycle scrape. Good-bye. Good bless you. I hope to meet you in Heuren. Don’t. tell xnamma. E. A. KNOWLAND. .On the we.“ wriiilen on a. piece of wrap~ ping paper was found this message: Oct. 4, 1892, 9 am. To the omcers of the Imperial Bank and my Brother: The reason I have for dying is because I am mixed up in a bicycle affair. I hope to meet you all in heaven. Good bye. Please tell my brother, Union Insurance Company, Leader-lane, I have the paying teller’s revolver. I leave my keys for my brother Frank. Do not tell my mother. I know it will cause her death. I am going straight to heaven; yes, I am going home. Keep it from my mother. E. A. KNOWLAND. He Wis found by Caretaker Griffin at the north end of the cellar, while yet alive, with a bullet hole in his temple. He linger- ed for about an hour, but was in an un- conscious condition. Was in Possession of a. Stolen Bicycle and Feared to Face the Expo-ureâ€" ’Cyc1mg 0n the Brainâ€"The Books the Boy Read and the Company He Kept. TORONTO, Oct. 5.â€"Ernest A. Knowland, 16 years of age, and employed as mes- senger boy by the Imperial Bank, commit- ted suicide by shooting himself in the cellar of the bank at about 9 o’clock yesterday moaning. A MERE ZYOUTH USES A PISTOL UP- ON HIMSELF. SIXTEEN , AND A SUICIDE LINDSAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6th 1892. Sr. Pmt II Class. â€"-Lillie Blaylock, Johnnie Gray, V‘ illie Pcwers, Fred Shaw, Ernest Beid :1 9sepfih Powers. Sr. II Class.â€"Bernard McGeough, Dane Magee, Arnold Rpa. Jr. Part II Class.â€"â€"George Magee, Nellie Powers. Mabel Feir. I Class. â€"â€"Norman Roddy, Percy Pogue, Katie POWBIS, Me1v111e Wilson. J. N. Mormm, Teacher. Third Class.â€"â€"Lillie Magee, Thomas Magee, Isaih Blaylock, Melville Corneil John McNevan. ’ fr. II Class.â€"Bruce McNevan. Annie B1aylock~ Finlay Blaylock, Mabel Pogue, Arnett gogueLYiqgent ngpe. Sr. I Class.â€"â€"Gertie Rea. Bertha. Wilson, Emma F eir. Fourth Clawâ€"Lillie McGeough, Frank Rea, Deborah Shaw, Wilfred Rea, bheri- dan Rea. The following is the standing of the puplls of 8.8. No. 9 Ops, for the month cf Seflteml‘oeg Special to the WATCHMAN. His wife handed him some medicine in a. glass, when he grabbed it and struck her in the face, cutting her badly. He also tried to cut his throat with the broken glass, mangling himself badly. In Despair He Tnes to Kill Himself and His Wife. BUFFALO, Oct. 5. â€"J ohn Neumann, one of the Lake Shore switchmen who went out on the strike last August, has been trying to get back to his old position. Failing in this he went crazy yesterday and attempted to kill his wife and himself. A Blcyclist Fatally Hurt. NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 5.â€"\V. Richard Norman, treasurer of the Connecticut Cycle 00., was fatally hurt by his bicycle colliding full tilt with a dump cart in Shel- ton-avenue. The Gazette concludes by saying it is to be hoped that royalty will set the ball of prosperity rolling. An announcement that the Duke of York was about to marry would have a magical effect upon trade. The betrothal of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Princess May created a new style of goods, which was no sooner produced than all demand for it was blast- ed by the death of the Duke, and the dealers were left with thousands of miles of finery on their hands. The absence of a London season added to the troubles. The greater houses found it necessary to extend the credits of the smaller dealers in order to prevent them from becoming bankrupt. This extension of credit was overdone, and unless trade revives by Christmas acollapse will be inevitable. If one big house goes it will drag others with it. This depression was badly felt last Christ- mas time, when some of the largest drapery shops in the West End did not for days re- ceive a single customer. Many firms in de- spair dismantled their windows and packed their fancy goods away with a View to hold- ing_them over until next December. 0n the Vex-:0 of Failure. LONDON, Oct. 5.â€"Rumers have been in circulation for several days past that a. large drapery house in the \Vest End of London is hopelessly involved. Comment- ing upon these rumors Monday The St. James Gazette says tha t several great drapery firms are tottering under the severe general depression, which has affected all ranks of sogietyr The Clyde miners have also been notified that their wages will be reduced Sixpence per day on and after Oct. 10. It is said that 15,000 hands, who were employed in various capacities about the yards, are idle, and those who are still at work are working on short time. To make matters worse for the employes the masters have now decided upon a general reduction in wages, and have announced that en- gineers, iron founders and ship'huilders will henceforth receive 10 per cent. less money for their labor than heretofore. This reduction is to take etfect on Dev. .10. LONDON, Ont. 5.â€"â€"The labor outlook in the large manufacturing and ship-building centres of Great Britain is very threaten- ing. A crisis is probable in the cotton trade that promises to have more widespread re- sults than any of the previous troubles which have occurred between the masters and operatives, and in the sl'iip-huilding trade of. the Clyde only one~third of the berths are occupied and no new orders are in hand. It THOUSANDS W ANT WORK P <mm< w>U OC4FOOX mow F>wOw .2 03m)... ww_._.>_2. ' It looks as if'thére was some third party who was primarily responsible for the bicycle steal mentioned above. Manager \Vilkie said last evening that he was unaware of a. bicycle having been giwjex} to. the bqy_by the bank. A reporter was afforded a view of the room where Ernest made the resolve of ending his life. It was neat and of good size. A number of books and magazines were there, which it was his habit to read in bed. There was not‘ one dime novel, but all the books indicated a boyish and whole- some taste for adventure. One was a pre- sent from Mr. J. H. Eddis, an official of the bank; another from Williamson Co.,who bank at the Imperial. He seems to have had cycling on the brain. A great many copies of Cycling and numbers of The Boys' Own Paper and Outing showed the trend of his thoughts. him part- of the way to the office and had pressed his watch upon him, asking him to keep it a. while for him. is Said That Fifteen Thousand Ship Builders are Idle and Those Who are Still at ‘Work Are on Slur-ct Timeâ€" Drapery Houses in London Tottering Under the Depression. A STRIKER GOES CRAZY. S. S. No.9 Ops. The minutes of the former meeting were read and approved. The report of the principal of the Collegiate Institute for September was read. Number of pupils on roll, 188; there being 112 from the town, 57 from the county of Victoria, and 19 from out- side the county. Report received and fyled. The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Education was held on Tuesday evening. Present : Chairman McNeillie ; Messrs. Stewart, R. Kennedy, J. Kennedy, McLaughlin, Pilkle, Deacon, Anderson, Walters, Macmurchy, and Matthews. The fees collected from pupils of the Institute during September amounted to $160. Dear Sinâ€"In your article on cheese in your last week’s issue, you state that the shipment up to the close of last week were 1,085,161, an increase of 137,364. Do these figures include American cheese, that is made in Wisconsin, and shipped into Canada this year, and re-marked and exported to England as Canadian cheese ? If so, your statement does not give a correct account of the make Of Canadian cheese. I am informed that the American mark is removed and the Canadian mark is put on while the cheese is in transit through Canada. Is it not easy to see what will be the result of this operation '2 I am informed by a. buyer and shipper who is a reliable man that the practice referred to is now common, and that by some Of the largest shippers in the West. I am. yours truly. A DEALER WEST OF TORONTO. In the shipments from this port are included American cheese in bond, the same as the shipments from New York include Canadian cheese on through bills. The report of the principal of the public schools for September was read. The total number of pupils on the roll for the month was 847, and the average atten- dance 748. Received and fyled. Mr. Macmurchy presented the report of the management committee which was adopted . On motion the secretary was instructed to advertise in the Toronto papers for a modern language specialist to take charge of that department in the Collegiate Institute, after January lst. The board adjourned. Returns issued by the Manitoba Gov- ernment respecting the prohibition pleb iscite show 19,637 votes for and" ,115 against. The question of establishing a. night school during the Winter months was referred to the management committee, with instructions to report at a special meeting of the board to be called for that purpose. The report of the education depart- ment on the late mid-midsummer exam- inations in connection with the Collegiate Institute was submitted. Referred to the visiting committee. Mr. Stewart presented the report of the finance committee, which was adopted. The Commercial Bulletin assumes that the box of cheese in question was shipped by a Canadian firm, although our contem- porary furnishes no proof that it was not shipped by a New York firm. According to the above statement, the bottle Was found while in the hands of the retailer or cutter in England, who would naturally enough immediately repair to the English importer from whom he bought it, and the latter would, as a matter of course. report by first mail the nature of the dis- covery to the firm on this side which shipped the “bottle" cheese from Wiscon- sin, and it does seem strange that a New York firm should be the recipient of the original manuscript enclosed in the bottle. \Ve do not say whether the cheese was shipped by a New York or a Canadian firm ;‘ but, assuming that the name of the Wisconsin factoryman is genuine, he is the party who can tell to whom he sold the cheese, or through whom he shipped it. Since the above was written we received the following from a well-known cheese operator, west of Toronto, which Seems to favor the impression that the Wisconsin cheese containing the glass bottle, was sent forward either by a Canadian or Western States shipper :â€" To the. Editor of the Trade Bulletin : “The receiver of this cheese Wlll please do the favor and answer this, and. write us .name and address, price, what he paid for it, and how it is." The communication is dated at a town in Wisconsin, and signed by the factoryman. It was enclosed in a bottle and placed in the middle of a cheese, where it was discovered, as the finder was cutting up what he had purchased as Canâ€" adian cheese. One or two points must be quite obvious in this matter. It shows that the Canadians do not hesitate to sell the States’ product as their own. and also carries the impression that some of the Wisconsin makers evidently hope by underhand means to open communication with English buyers and negotiate for direct shipment. Furthermore, it appears almost criminal to place a glass bottle in the centre of a cheese, where in case of breakage by cutting, small particles of glass might remain and cause injury and even death to the consumers. The whole proceeding is contemptible and dishonest.” “()ne of our local cheese exporters has received from his people 111 England the oxiginal of which the followin” is a copy: â€" The New York Commercial Bulletin has thg following :5â€" Who Shipped the Bottle Cheese? Board of Education. mam. 50 Cents per This last assertion Bergen fully proved, for, on being arrested at Galt, he fought desperately, and tried to shoot the con- stable. At the trial he offered to prove an alibi on the charge of burglary at Rev. Mr. Erb's by bringing Witnesses from a thieves’ den in Detroit. This was not allowed, and he was accordingly sentenc- ed. He also gave his opinion as to where his two companions in crime could be found, which is only known to the detec- tives. The people of Canada may congratulate themselves that such a desperate criminal as Bergen is safe within the” strong walls at. Kingston. Valuable Facts as Well as the Conclu- sion Arrived at the Commission to Be Given. The members of the Dehorning Commis- sion met yesterday afternoon in the Rossin house. Hon. Charles Drury occupied the chair. These commissioners were present ' Richard Gibson, J. J. Kelso, Henry Glen- dinninz, D' M, McPherson and Dr. Smith; The commissioners have finished the tak- ing‘ of evidence and held a session Tuesday only to consider the nature of their report which will be made to the Ontario Govern- ment next month. The report promises to be a valuable document: It- will contain over 200 pages of printed matter, and will supply extracts from all the legal decisions bearing upon the point delivered in Eng- land, Germany, France, Canada and the United States. A report also will be given dealing with statistics, showing the effects of dehorning upon the export and dairying' trades, The commissioners have communi- cated with the managers of'the agricultural colleges in the United States and obtained their opinions as to the practice. These will be published, as also will be the evi- dence of the Witnesses who appeared before the commission. The document will con- clude with a summary of the meetings which have been held and the conclusions arrived at by thepcommissioners. ed with the booty without detection. The stolen watches were Sent to a sister in Chicago, where they were quickly disposed of. Nothing of any account was accomplished after that by us for about two months, till one day we arrived in Woodstock, and, being short of money, we broke into a butcher shop while all the workmen were away to dinner, and procured $160 in cold cash. The next week was principally taken up with roving around the small towns and boozing to a large extent. When we arrived in Galt we had a high old time there, and spent $40 in one night, in drinking and making merry generally. We came to Berlin next day, and, upon making enquiries about the different people in town, decid- ed to burglarize the residence of the Rev. Mr. Erb, who, we supposed, had a large amount of money in the house. We hung around until about 2 o’clock in the morn- ing, when my two companions told me to stand guard while they forced an entrance. The next thing I knew the lady (Mrs. Erb) came running down stairs and opened the front door to scream for help. I shoved my revolver in her face and told her it she screamed I’d kill her- I then pushed her back into the hall and closed the door. The next minute I heard a window up stairs at the side of the house open, and Mrs. Erb immediately began to call for help. Fearing.r that the neighbors were aroused, and seeing lights in all the neighboring houses, I gave our peculiar alarm and started to run up King street. I think the other two went up the side street by the house (Cameron street). I then went to Preston, and afterwards to Galt, where I was arrested for pointing a revolver at Kress, of Pres- ton. When I and the two others started out we determined to make a living, even if we had to kill to do so, and also deter- mined to die fighting rather than be captured.” Benjamin McCance, having served four years in the Kingston penitentiary for abtaining money on false pretences, was released last week. He was met at the gate and arrested on a charge of bigamy } r315; red in Toronto. A great sensation was created at Home- stead, the Carnegie works, on Friday night by the arrest for treason of several members of the Advisory Committee of the strikers. The secretary, Mr. Kelso, has received a large number of petitions of late, praying the commissioners to report against the practice. Most of these were from Mon- treal. Hamilton, Niagra Falls and London. Mr. Kelso stated that he had received a petition from Messrs. York 8:. Elliott. the defendants in the London, Ont., dehorning case, requesting the commissioners to recommend the Ontario Goverment to pay them $100 expenses incurred during the trial. The commissioners decided not to comply with the request. a tour through Canada, Visiting the principal towns and cities while plying our ‘profession.’ We repaired at once to Toronto, where we began operations by breaking into a large jewellery store, getting over $500 worth of wathches. We were luckier in this piece of work than in some succeeding ones, and escap- _.1 ‘ . ' ‘ ‘ ’ __2LL ‘7 and7 his three companions. He says : “We met in Degroi; and decided to make He Says he Was the Blind Man in the Erb Robbery. BERLIN, Ont, Oct. 1.â€"George Bergen, the notorious burglar, who was sentenced by Judge Lacourse to 10 years in Kingston penitentiary for being an accessorary to the attempted robbery and murder of Rev. Mr. Erb about seven weeks ago, has made, a confession that he is guilty of the crime, thereby supposing that: he would have a few years of his sentence knocked off. In his Confession he gives complete details of the doings of himself T HE DEHOR NING REPORT. COUGHS AND COLDS WHITE PINE BALSAM HI GINBOTHJJIFS BERGEN CONFESSES. FOR 1 Advance [$3