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; Say persons in ran were engin- 'Williams 'of avolock "and bag- eman Emer Winters of 14 Ima avenue, 2B Both were on the west-bound train, which was travelling at a rate of 25 miles an SIX BURNED ! TO DEATH. udden Fire in Business Section of Lennox, - Mass, A despatch from Lennox, Mass., says: Six people lost their lives, {three others were badly burned, and a property loss of between $200,000 and $300,000 was caused by a fire in the heart of the busi- ness section of this town early on Bunday. Four business blocks, two dwellings and two other structures were destroyed. The dead are: Edweard C. Ventress, electrician; Mrs. Edward Q. Ventress, Miss Les- lie Ventress, Miss Alice French, bookkeeper; Miss Isabel Cook, bookkeeper; Mies Mary arks, school teacher. The death of Miss French wis one of the pitiful tra- gedies of the morning, * While the fire was at its height, a woman was seen to climb out of 'a flame- filled room onto a verandah on the second story, with her night cloth- ing and hair ablaze. - Staggering to the railing she leaped to the side- walk, landing in a heap within five "or six feet of 'the blazing walls. Bome of the horrified onlookers at- tempted to rush in to drag her out but the: intense heat drove them back and not until several hours later, was the body re¢overed. PASE HILL TO ENTER WINNIPEG. Great Northern Will be There by Beptember, He Says, A despatch from Winnipeg says: The Great Northern Railway filed plans for its entry into "this city, and : President Hill * on Thursday made a positive declaration that his road would run into Winnipeg by September '1 next. This is one of the most important commercial incidents' that could well be imag- ined, if the new line affords compe- tition, which now is lacking under the. joint freight arrangements. Many big firms will save thousands of dollars, provided the Great Northern will give through rates fiom the east on the same basis as now prevails to 8t. Paul. AION ELEPHANT RAN AMUCK. Killed Keeper at Des Moines--40 Bullets Shot Into. Him. A despatch from Des Moines, Towa, says: "Tom,"' sn elephant in the winter quarters of the Yankee binson circus, ran amuck in «Thursday. night, and, seizin i keeper, Charles Bellow, Selsing ois him + high into the air and then trampled him to death. The excited beast i then ran through the animal pak, tiprooted small trees, .destro "three pircus waggons and demoligh- "ed a bridge across a lagoon. Forty bullets were shot into the Slophaht 'before he was subdued,' MOUNT ETNA ACTIVE. . Inhabitants Fear Aj Another Destruse . tive Eruption." ; Sesgoich from Rome says: 7] Mount tna: was again in active | tai eruption on 8 morning, the erater belching great clouds ds of smoke and cinders. = The inde: 2 Goscenden in a Sarg ba . mountain side. e inhabitants another destructive eruption Lo Both both ny a but' ons was alightly off the tr ¥ PEMBROKE BLOCK IN ASHES. i Most Dangerois s Whes Fire Hit Ammunition in Hardware Store. says: The entire block occupied by Dunlop and Co.; 'hardware mer- chants, and four houses belonging to Fenton and Smith; were bur {0 the ground on Sunday morning, The fire made great headway be- fore the department could approach it, as the loaded shells carried in stock in the hardware store ex- ploded, and bullets were scattered in. all directions, inflicting consid: erable damage to "property. = No one, however, was injured, In ad- dition to the premises destroyed, considerable damage was inflicted upon several stores in the neigh- borhood. The loss is estimated at £100,000, 'with insurance abont $70,000. : --ge PULLED TRIGGER WITH TOE. Italian Committed 'Suicide--Could Not Get Work. A despatch from Montreal says: Another tragedy in the Italian ¢ol- ony was revealed on 'Thursday morning when the detective office was notified that there had been a shooting affray on Bison street, a side street running north from Bt. Antoine street, just west of Wind- sor.. Detectives hurried to the house and found the body of An- toni Lalli, a lady about 16 years of age, lying across a bed, with a double-barreled shotgiin beside him! and a wound over his heart. One| barrel had been discharged, there were marks on the wall as though the shot had gone through the body. "The boy had beén unable tn get work since last fall, and it is supposed he became despondent and 8 ob himself by pulling the trig- ger. of the gun with his foot, Stom which the boot had been taken sg KING ALFONSO0'S AUTO. Collided With That of His Queen ~No One Injured. A despatch from: (Madrid says: King Alfonso and Queen Victoria recently had 'a narrow escape From injury. ~The King was leaving the palace courtyard and "the was entering in their autom when the, machines chime. liston in' the' Saris automobiles yer y but their Malbation were not hie Son AN AERIAL CRUISER. French * h Winisor 0 tol "War for Best Design, RRL Picquart, Minister of War, has of- fered: ») tige of $1,000 for' the best 'an 'aerial cruiser. ship, which must be able to speed of at feast 31 Hour or 15 "hours, with 'six pas- sengers. Its total volume is not to tal Tength. 90 + meters, - height | metres and diameter through th A despatoh from Pembroke, Ont, 4 ORG Ho : Charles Cook, a tw boy, was conor 'to upsetting of a load of ersham, Mr, Justice Cannon pointed commissioner by Government "to Montreal civic affairs. Conductor Harvey, w charge of the train the Windsor Btation, Mon Peso dismissed. ii dah i A e two-year-o a of A. Krienke was killed by & ist while galking in" her sleep ab Southey, William Smith, from Hamilton, was killed at Lethbridge b from 'the bridge being col by the ©. P. R. GENERAL, Four men were shot 'down by v carbineers in Calabria while taking part in an anti-tax riot. 1 France will collect & on foreign balloons French territory. or The violent speeches '¢ leaders' in 'Paris have fears®that a bloody insu p imminent. : The Coar of Russia is Planning an extensive foreign toursfor the summer, which may incltide Eng- and) la A new riaturalization law promul- fared at Pekin 'makes it impossible or a Chinaman SH adopt' foreign citizenship, iis GREAT BRITAIN. Algernon Charles Swinburne ie , died at Putney, Englan ed The karl of Carrick, who se againit the Fenians in 'Canada 1870, is dead. Lord Charles Beresford has clined nineteen invitations to, for Parliament, i: The Grand Trank halt-yearly port shows £443,078 available dividends. The net: profits. £060,427. rd UNITED BTATES. 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