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hs ton, rr PPENINGS FROM ATL avER THE GLOBE IN A NUTSHELL. : Chasis. the Hise and thé World in General Before Your G Foss 3 Manager of the minion Bsok a Hanley. Sisk, shot hime i ¢ end. : 3d ae 1. Miss Annie Clobesky of Guelph | step) oft a moving train at Clif- was 'seriously 'injured. Hon. Modolphe Lemisux gave no- 1 ihe Commons of a bill to stamp machines to be at- tached' fetter boxes. + Be has let contracts for in Bow River, which will a million acres of land Irrigati The edd of the. Ames Holden con nd the James McCready | manufacturers, hus of Bt. Catharines! EI FOR personating an at the municipal d 'township, Conductor Arm rats of i Hight: from Stratford to Fort Erie. pollowing in th cil oar tision came » terrible, ang fire, which incinerated the bodies of asauple of the sehen of the train. eo fire lett nothing but. the bare trucks and wheels; and a mass of twisted iron and charred ruin. THE VICTIMS. The dead are: A. Turner, engin- oer, Stratford; leaves wile and grown up family. Ju D.. Bmith, fire: man, Stratford ; leaves & wife and family. "Peter McFarland man, Goderich; married. no: .ehil- dren. John Whitelaw, express mes- senger; Goderich, Whitby ; wife suffering from shoek. William Tye, mail elerk, Goderich; leaves wife and grown up family J. Crozier, passenger, Drumbe. The. list, of injured meludes the following: W. J. 'May, mail clerk, Hamilton, severely scalded; W. T. Henderson, city © solicitor, Brant ford, back injured; William Meln- tosh, customs elerk, Brantford, back injured ; George Hunt, Brant. ford, shaken up; Hobert Errett, engineer, = miner bruises. and sprains: WAS 17 MINUTES LATE. The ill-fated train left Brantford 17 'minutes late, and was running | Chairs; Davis, Sasketehewsns formerly . of | out of the usual rsilway retience. BAGGAGE CAR TELESCOPED. When the erash occurred the. wenger train was travelling sf sfow 35 miles an hour, sceording to the Brantford Joasengen. {The must have been going much ior, a 3% serugk 'with: such bt Bas e baggage car vas complete] escoped, and the mail end of the smo 2 ear driven in, where the pamengers were. buried in flymg splinters and glass, Darkness immediately enveloped the train. and its struggling ocew- pants, the exeilement dnd sonfus- fom being greatly enhanced by the fire, which rapidly sproad trom the old. coal oil lamps in use on the train. CANADIANS Wox PRIZES. At the Nafional Corn Show af Columbus, @hio. A despateh from Ottawa says: A telegram was received on Friday by the Department of the Interior shnouncing that 'Mill sad Sons, of Lleydminster, 'had . captured the Silver. Trop es, value $1,500, for best peck of eats at the National Corw Show, now in progress at. Columbus; Ohio. Phe Reserve Sweepstakes, for' the best peck of wheat, was wom by Nore TEN VESSELS | Four Bristols and Six Destroyers of the A despatel from Ottawa says? Fhe Government hag called for teti- deis for the comnstrietion of the ten new vessels' of the Canadian navy, | i feantemplated in the. imitial build- dag programme, viz, four Bistcls an x destrayers of the Jutosh ine pro: e s and speci- Re ohaone es. as has already been based on she plisns received | : Admiralty fall and em: giv Tin adv wi of the Navy Department aud Ras 2ouRdence and who: ight. be 'bona fide tenderers, will have ae: cess thereto. Letters have Been seut'to all the leading: British awd Canadian firms who are in a position to tender, i- 'vifing them te inspect 'the plas 'and put in tenders. It is stipulet- od that all the vessels must he built in Canada. Tenders must be i pril mex, When submitted 1 be gone over by the oe experts ly some' time must ¢ Shipes the before a docision i is resched