= , nll 7 on ; ates * : wel et 5 . * ee "A st Laat ; ' : 4 ay ; . an late 860 so few were wert the orzan : i : MURDER AND SUIIDE. MAKE SF A SOME. TILE READING STRIKE 'that, tothe mam oft people outa a few! "1 oe , Ont of the allence make me a se diatate nail hes cities, the phir: nee theca union had no mean! A Bouble Tragedy in Galt. Beaotiful, sad ax met wife and low: ing oF emi 2 ie ue tenp resaion.| b = , Let the loveliest music sound yi. uc SINAN ~ w if wou ~~ «it t to marr BEN MAIN, A BANKER, BROT DEAD IN His } And wing each note witt wall of woe, 13 IT THE BEGINNING OF A YEAR dustry employing 5,000 persons (ex: Ag the! OFFICK HY JOSN CURRIZ, A PUSLINCH | OF LABOR TROUBLES? murely agricultural or 'the unskilled) ° | : a i FARMER--THER MURDERERG COMMITS SUI- | st at tear ie: which has not complete union, -- TO-- Ont of the «i 2 tnake me a hymn with a code as rigid as Draco cir, Gait, Feb. 8.----Never in the history «f Galt has the: town been thrown into « ch & state of intense excitement as it was thin nm when it became seoen that a Main we Howe pour --y are shadows » ents and dim. ese in ye ur --- That Led, to the Stoppage of Work. A thoysand seus are x there-- Make me but one, thod ¢ bid of art, The song of a hope - ---- despair. man "'Lee--l'revious Big Strikes. K ae eed ee 3 ' ' * , 4 a $ by: 3 . $ * % . 5s Fe is : ae Ts vate banker, hat-betn ag dead io his office with a bullet wound io his head, and | that six rily afterwards the dead body «f supposed murderer, Jolin Currie, had been found standing A Eo t neces lean - ing against the corner of shed cf the Galt hotel, across the street, and some dik tance from Mr. Main's office. Curie had evidently shot himself through the top of | the head, and the revajver was lying at his John G. Ray, shoemaker, Main | street, was t the FIRST TO DISCOVER THE TRIG He was a tenant of Mr. Mains,« to Mr, Main's office to pay his rent. Toune and Mr, Main ., floor in a pool of bloou dead, Mr. at once went 10 the consteble, and meeting Mr Je.se Wel- land, informed him cf the tragedy. Know- ing that the murdered man always had moner in his rossessicn, he asked Mr. Wel- fand to go over and stay in the office until assistance arrived. [his Mr. Welland did, and Constable Ahearn end Coroner Brown shortly afterwards appeared and took ch arge of the body, In the meantime the body uf Qurrie had been discovered by Mr. Denon, the hostler at the Galt hotel, who had see: him walk rapidly over from Mr. Main's s office and go into the shed. Hearing » shot fiiei shortly afterwards, he went in the di- rection from whence the sound came, and found Currie in a leaning posture in the corner of the » as above descri was at once removed to the Cer. tral hotel. : THE MURpERER's MoveuEnTs. It seems that the murderer, John Currie, had had iainies dealings with Mr. Main for me years, He was rather improvi- dent and inteniperate in his habits, and ap Saturday last his farm, on the lst con- cession of Puslinch, was sold under mort- '-ing face downwards on the and apperecty earch o the past it seems that he had been living a goud deal in Galt, going home at intervals, On Paturday -- While under the influence of liquor, he had committed an assault upon his father-in-law, Mr. Fred Small, of Puslinch, = account of which a warrant was issued for his arrest. Mr John W, Gilchrist indi in Galt yesterday morning to také him into custody upon this charge. Gilchrist met Currie between 8 and ? o'clock when he promised to go with him in about three-quarters of an hour, as he desired to visit some friends, As they were old friends and had been brought up together, Gilchrist allowed him to go, keepimy an eye on him, however. Some time afterwards they met at Scrimger's hotel, when Currie informed. Gilchrist that he hed engaged s lawyer to defend him and was going to Main's to at some money, That was the last soon of him UNTIL HIS DEAD BODY WAS FOUND, What occurred in Mr, Main's office will never. be known..It is surmised that C is sur Currie was gs the money pa d been known before to th against Mr. a 82, double acting ulldog tm. volver snag McMartry & Co,, which was found lying beside his dead body. It is fupposey that Mr. had. been sittiog th) docr, as was his wont, and had turned | Partially around when Currie entered, One t was fired, the bullet a about fie middle of the torehe murderer must have been standing very ciueete his victim, as the hair above the eyelids was eGorcuwd, THE conoNgen's INQUEST, oe Brown held an inquest on body of the murdered man Main this alter. pears ; Y as the cause of his financial ruin and had threarened to make public the manner in which alleged Main had swindled him. No ve seen the deed commit- most deliberate and cold- _ After a few minutes' de- liberation the jury returned the following verdict:--'* That 'the deceased, Henry Main, came to his death by a bulle: fired from s revolver in the hands of a party not known, but which from ng circumstan- tial evidence points to t eceased, John rrie, as = man whe peter Sy the inquiry into the death of John Currie was -- till Thursday morn- ing at 10 o THE MURDERED MAN. Mr Henry Main was 53 years of age and was widely known throughout the county, He was a man of great shrewdness an i ability, and had amassed a con- siderable fortune. He was for many years a member of ee ng fe Main & Scrimger and engaged in very business, but lat'erly he oly a axivale banking and Was very successful, being one of t it y-owners in town. He was married t»a« daughter of Mr, F. Lowell, the em kno et hotet! and ; Main leaves a young family of four' child. ren. 'The tragedy is a tefrible blow .to his wife and family, THE MURDERER, John Carrie, was a man about 40 years cf and appears to have led a rather' dissi. life. He was well knywn in hin nship of Puslinch, .although he upon asa daring ofiminel or one likely to be guilty of marder. His mis- largel onenrpenchee ise 'a ot his own making, would appear tohavedyiven him to despara- tion. He was man and leaves a wife and four cea children. eee at eed Hortowar's* Pruts, -- Nervousness and __ Want Peng oe eae first the nerves ie frung, and oven supplants time bas come some scat alternative as Hallewaye 3 Pills to re- strain 4 disorder from Fer ag | itself in- The excelient Pilis correct effect on persons who are out of condition; 4s i faelt, re-} $08 se renee othe toy gad cnettone to the mind, RPL ITE a a dabout | 10,20 o'clock left hia-shop and went over | His | Coisternation may be imagined when he ' the fice filled with powder smoke | eas 'vege 'Golds Pain i the L fe. es _the i nthe Ch pt itr wad. ar of strikes in Out on the dark re ap cetses flash tne a song, mAly Gack sod dartity tried xt ; Some Information Regarding the Causes ear ye ed The det strike ibe et nited States? 1805; sf ecutive energy equal in ite sphere to -- the government. The first who org Pistaves of president Carkin and Chair- _ strikes were indicted fo € cotmptrary "y Bye td uC AS H 1 & PRO M PT -PAYI N G me of them punished, .As er asl sect n of scipe towns es = alate nt r va to oo a ~: « ose a ae ee ee ae eee, Jee a We oe. ie eee Mk | °S. the papers oecurred in New the strikess wére dispersed by the TVS Tae le ep ina love star ewecne alone In the ¢ losing days ertiment, and the leader sent to | i sd ty Of the night. of 1887 repofts ap- short term. The imported Jaborers' « --- FOR-- " peared in th daily Chesapeake and Ohio canal strack i Where noti or dark, or ditn, papers of troub fe and were arrested en mae, but the ¢ And earth » heaven' sh ymn. in the Reading coal ruled that their ac 'tion Wis no te * --Father Ryan region of Pennsy}- under the statute." "In the next 30 DAYS "an Vania; on the first there were several strikes fo raw ig > = |; SUPERSTITIONS OF ACTRESSES. day of "88 we were of ten hours, and on April 10, 1840, "Pr leat <i - naan positively assured Van Buren issued an ¢ x cutive orler making Sign of the Tom Cat--The MIuanchback. that the trouble that th Tilt fh aif sore ninent Offenbach's Evil Eye. was settled: but on Was remarked that ye a a . o. Be. MA 7 TILT. IAMS SON aS Co. Tt fs singular, in fact, to note how Jan. 3 reat that there were some tw: Parisian actresses are attracted--as moths scan formally bein the United States, round @ flame that will singe them--by a oo meer ORs the mightily, belief in signs and warnings ~ 1 signs . und arnings aud fnvolviag t ¢ .-onsands of workers in no «| omens, Mme. Favart, a societaire at the away r wiginal movement. ay Comme ' the ° © aaten Ten nnaise, asserts that when acit,? py.) aguite re ate . The Phi adelphin and capecially @ black tau. ..", COMES Of and Reading Rau many, its line run- »Schuv! an the former city its own accord, with tail erect, purring "nlig up - ue ; hes thre ne hf rotind the stage, it isa good sign. Theo, to the lattor, ar id wu ting bran, -" who "sings so delightfully with Wer all thatsection of th -- Pg shoulders," as the Nestors of theatrica} @ Tery prosperous corpors pimg ar. criticism aver, believes that it is very un- Austin Corbin is presic de "th, russ earn- lucky to catch sightof a hunchback and ings in 1887 were €21,762,029, an i crensoover net touch his hump. 'The pretty actress 1886 of 81,910,244, the clear pt er all will, in fact, go out of her way and dodge | expenses being reportel at $2, in But one a mile to get a chance to 'do 80, as if connected with it--indeed part by accident and without being -scen, corporation--is the Reading Co.' Croizette, who -retired from the stage of Company, which bad gross earnings |. the Comedie Francaise on a pension and of @19,425,5/ mda clear profit, as re orted married a rich banker, attributes her sue- "on 'chan of 364,210. But im fas s ss in life to the fact that one day she claimed there was a clear loss of $2131, 47 --_ up a horseshoe. t is obvious that the managers woald seek a e cantatrives are also highly super- readjustment of tho relations of thé two; 'fF Patti--and indeed the whole musical tribe) Inthe summer of 1887 the average earn- of the Strakosch and Patti brood-- ings of a miner in the Schuylkill valley were strongly believe in the jettatore, or "eyil $2 per day. The company then agreed to) eye.' Patti will not sing where there is give an 8 per cent. advance, and in addition! a cross eyed conductor, just as the blonde l per cent. for each advance of 3 cents per| Sarah will not play 'by the side of an ton in the price of coal at Schuylkill Haven! actor whose organ of vision isaskew; and, | over the 2. 240) standard, as those who, like Patti. have been happy been $2.86 or more at that point, the miner, and successful are more Hable to this whoearned $2aday in August would now! fascination, the prima donna never fails be earning, say, #2.40 per day if the rate w to. wear a bracelet or necklace of precious maintained, But the co uupany claims the ex-| stones--even shells and corals will do--to piration ef that agreeinent, and so there is a! sm the malignant influence which | margin of thi rty or forty cents a day for the! darts from the eyeballs of certain envious average miner between the gonflicting claims, | and angry persons. She asserts that The company asserts eat it contracted! Offenbach, who possessed the evil eye, specifically with the men for the limited! brought ill luck with him wherever he 'time and stood the loss, and that the men new} went; that he passed through the Rue violate the agreement and refuse to take their! Lepeletier the night the old opera house share of the reduction, Of course, the miners was destroyed by fire, when poor Emma understood the agreement differently, and so Livry was burned alive in the only ballet 20,000 men quit work at the instance of John Offenbach ever had represented at the | R. Lee, chairman of the Reading employes, opera, and that Mme. _Berthelier died the railroad being also involved, Mr, Cor- wv owe playing in the "v ie Parisienne," jbin was ablo to supply the place of the strik. he wrote the score. nthe railroad sufficiently to keep up a 4 have also been told that Paola Marie, | | semblance of traffic; but he made no serious! of the Opera Comique; and her sister | attempt to do so in the mines, Tho coal sh Galli Marie, both wear amulet rings to: ments rapidly declined, and one by one the pain pre A > Count Gebraie manufactories in all that region' began clos- y o Count Gabrie ing for want of fuel; each stoppage cut off an As coal has lately | The Tailors and Drapers, ingman's Party" in the 2, 1845, the New England Workingmen's association held a larze convent i: on in Boston, wo . ' 7 » and among the active ps articipants was 65 Ontario Street, Stratford. Charles A. Dana, now alitor of The New York Sun. In 1847 there were several strikes;) ~ - SS in 1857 as many, and in 186-67 the movement for an eight hour law assured national pro-| YOU CAN BUY portions Ther th }© modern organizations began and , have mes per linay s aforesaid, they in- ~THE-- clude aiusnet e crery bran: "h at Inbor. A list . iy tile marly oftheais cay tare tore) BeSt Canadian Refined through congre ss and ie chile becca would au! reral columns. And, it must be added, «| ist of the strikes for one year, expecially 1885 ve 1886, Would fill as many. The creat strikes of S77 begaa With a resistance to a 10| per Cent, reduction of wages on the Balti- ore and Cao railroad, and in three 'ences ir valved all the main lines north of the Poto-! © and west of the Hudson, A moderate COAL OIL -- FOR-- 15 CENTS PER GALLON exttiona, Among those who belong more' but it is needless to detail the -- ex: eitity fe puts the lives lost at 400 and the ~sTt-- or less to the Paris stage I may instance cept to state that the ysual Was tot. :usses at 840,000,000. It was almost a! Adelina Patti. Adelina Maria Clorinda adopted--to reduce wages. civ il war, Since then the reader of thedaily WALSH - BROS' The Place for Bargains. paper has become so familiar with strikes that' the very names of "Fall River," 'Hocking Valley" and the like ke suggpat a arth and the + W. H. ROBERTS, Watchmaker, - Jeweller, Ete., _ Has a Larger Variety this year than ever before, of 'Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Jewellery, Spectacles, Fancy Goods, Books, Stationery, Toys, Xmas. Cards, and a variety 'of Goods too numerous to mention, all suitable for the not * 'order the Prosper somewhcre HOLIDAY SEASON. ne| K==~ Cal] and see what a variety I have got, and what ORDERING THE STRIKE, autumnal month in which some ip the well known boulevarder increasing number of lose] Zalma Bouffar once told me that she tries erufant bees Honey related indu| th never would think of washing her -- idle and --as it often happens behind the sce 0 'the regio: a" stagnation set"in through ali| many of the music hall singers--in the | All the 1 of i watér used by another person, not that | been noted; the man who -- she considered the act as so very unclean, | pavesarn tse poems tha places on the trains pag Ani boycotted and they were out parties were bound to quarrel soon ater, | houses; the K: nights of Labor began at unless ond 6f the two spat in the basin! | [organizing all the connected industries to re j}And I may add | sist- wndue-- ene the- res- defence and the usual| contributions from workingmen elsewhere were also soon the order of the day, Cor. bin's attitude has been that there is nothing to compromise--only an agreement to carry} ¥ iranian jout. The business men of Reading and many How They Marry in India. |in Philadelphia early in the fight appealed At Trichur, in the East Indies, a town to him to arbitrate, anc suggested Mr. inhabited chiefly by Nairs, Ley Par hold- George W. Childs, of The _ Philadelphia ing class of the coast, divoi ms to be Ledger, as referee, _ Mr. Corbin refused, her right hand, bie By "y swear it"-- Paris Cor. Inter Ocean. ] as simple as marriage is easy. "The Nair! it s but terday thas politicians lady is a very independent Some "pointed with Aa te the fact that one offers a cloth; that is the cronmesl If! were no "classes" in she accepts it, that is the marriage. If the United Staten, she gets tired of her husband she gets rid! ans with scorn to the of him and takes up with another, and is not held to have behaved disgracefully in so doing. To give acloth as a present is a very common thing in India. By cloth is meant the garment worn by women in| h whatever kind of cloth it be, to give one is very significant, as a distinguished visi- ; tor to Trichur found when he offered one | to a Nair lady in whose house he had re- | ceived some civility. Whataver opinion | may be held from a moral point of view | = these marriage relations, they -- in| anly males and for the most part comely | and very often beautiful females.--Pall | --~--.---- thousand Fourth! Mall Gazette. AUSTIN CORBIN. -- of Juliars fanned et T OSE aR T Si at call he ye air with fervid oratory on the To Ventilate a Room. complete exemption from labor The best way to ventilate a room that I conta, Yet since the civil war there know of is to put a board, long enough to have been 4,000 regular strikes, besides minor fit exactly in the window frame, and troubles too many to be counted. <-- six inches high, under the lower months of one year (1877) thére were more If you remember the construction | strikes and riots, Inbor tronbles and militia of of inte v sashes you will know that this .calis to suppress them, more fighting and de- consequent raising of the lower one Will struction of property about work and w: leave spaces between the glass and 'the than in all the yeata from Washington woodwork, through which fresh aircanito Lincoln. In the first edition of Webster's Dictionary the word "'tramp" asa ot > CHAIRMAN LEK strikes in Eng- land, while al yoy obtain a-gradual entrance into the room. ts course'is made somewhat tortuous | substantive w find all draught thereby ~ prevented. |¢ound; as the thing did not exist in America, When it reaches the inside it has an up- ite lexicographer did not think it worth ward direction, too, ag a. not likely to | while to inyport the English slang word. Yet come in contac nder craninms. 'g close observer could see eyen then. that It is important, in Tsing this hind of ven-| smerica'y exemption was not solely due to lation, that the board fit. accurately jor rulers or institutions, but largely to the unler the-window, so that no little acon ese area of cheap tind fertile land; and be left bal the air to blow through.--New en the civil war ended, and foreign immi- ¥ork World. elaer assumed a magnitude tiever dreamed fof forty years. 06 ago, the 7 * synp Europe's Armies and Navies. time in the armies and navies is in excess of 4,000,000, and it undoubt-/| wider sweep a and _ acted with more-precision | edly requires the product of one operative |and success. "By com mm the really means work performed; not. that! the average profits of 'capital aentenes of useful and desirable things little more than half what they were twenty may be increased but reased; not that = nto: pang toil and suffering may be ar fire greatly reduced, associated labor is able kers | appears to be wonluniey, while the new con-/ federation of miners; ing Ey will not go on the wages, | she 'would | like to dearly, Asa were at once visible. : The men in actual service at-the present | Since 1865, beginning with the "Eight Hour tes of F, clubs," each successive movement bas had a! * ion the! The oe. iA te annual direct war ithat which . eve expenditure of world is probably in| L.: excess of $1,000,000,000.. We express lity; they PR aap ao impo this expenditure in terms of money, a it | face of a steadily declining market, and while reroute opener iy harmony, | Bargains we are giving. Spectacles to suit all sights. finally-the Knights of Labor attained such and ee ee eee all Watches, Clocks, and Jewellery F Repaired and Warranted, at W. H. ROBERTS'. Eyes 'SONGS 1 oO labor--a "union of ape jis becoming stronger. The summary of this | tedious detail may be given in one =a ive} sentence: The laborers of the United States to organize and to win vic- Pp organized efforts; and without deciding upon so rights or wron f present strikes, it y be said with~ certainty, that labor or- sainisen in America has accomplished a vast amount of good, at the cost of some seri- ous afflictions, Songs of Salvation, (Crossly) 25 and 35c. Gospel Hymas, Complete, without music, Cloth, with music, 50c., The Great Awakening, (Sam Jones) 3oc. Sing out the Glad News, (White Bros.) 25c. Gospel Choir, soc. Canadian Anthem Book, $1.25. Canada Church Harmonist, $1.00. Sacred Songs and Solos, (Sankey) 440 pieces, $1.50. They are likely to cost him $45,000, and) The Royal Standard, 75C. oF cory A petehend a | Winnowed Hymns, 3oc. re Arbuckle will now discard the popular inter-| ---- A, Ge Rewedadst bykee = ST. AL BOSWORTE'S, etly. This shorthand of love, however, will! MARKET STREET, STRATFORD. 10c. $1.25. BUNNIE AND BABY BUNTING. ¢ Famous Breach of Promise Suit Re- 'eently Tried In the City of New York. The K M Q's and the H's and K's of -- ae Arbuckle, of New York, will not soon be forgotten, either by himse val or the rest of the world, vt take on any prosni Pp y not ic meaning, bat will go hand in hand with young Cupid | 17 for many years *o come, Miss Campbell, or * "Bunnie," as she is bet ter known, is a resident of Ironton, O. She! cldimed $250,000, and not 100,000, as has' f O A N' S stated, from ber Baby cg think ce buckle signed his letters to her--beca' not marry her, and the matter rome pro and ton for several days by ten a. Wi aa of New York's brightest lawyers, but ee sa acpi ine. the jury decided that under all the circu a stances $45,000 was enough, and Miss Camp-) bell says she thinks the verdict quite v vind cated her. Miss Campbell declares that sho} -- ected has grown ten years older in the last few! This Wine was e for me from Sel ' Grapes by moaths, and that she would be thankful if] one of the Best Wine Makers in the Province. It is people "ee stop calling her "Bunnie." She; she al | Absolutely Pure, First Run Wine of Fine Flavor, and I music teacher} she might pee ober _ "But," choo, "at! can sell it for about the same Price that Mixed Wines of Inferior Quality are sold for by "Parties from the Large Cities who Solicit Orders here. . JAMES CORCORAN. am too old . improve much, rection as I may." Stratford, Dec. 13th, is. 'Steel Wire Door Mats | -« > A FULL ASSORTMENT. CARPET SWEEPERS of American make. ened, augmented.--Hon. David A. Wells in ag kee Science Monthly. " Maccarent Versus Alcoholiam. "No man," says a "prominent Rice iB te phia physician, who is ah enthusiastic) deepis. eats The fi-st thoroughly arganized Iaber eleties in Amorica, were noted actetye York a awe vtew Eagicut" tr Loar a ipnse : Imitation . Article. _Self-Lighting Lanterns! + ne ee a eereisnnar weveCenae rentence but | sg he brevity of fn-! : ' SOMETHING NEW--at _&_F. WORKMAN' So ee gn icy nese: ts see oy GENUINE SNOW SHOVELS Much Superior to the ~ ae _ P) bay Mevatis : bi