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[ 'i; The Greatest Tragedy That Has Ever D Befallen the Christian World. 200,000 â€"PEOPLE PERISHHD _ _A despatch from Rome says : The measure of the greatest tragedy which has ever befallen the Chrisâ€" tian world cannot yet be calculatâ€" ed. It is known in general terms khat out of a population of 1,750,â€" 90 in the devastated area of Italy ak least 125,000 perished. This makes no account of dozens of towns r_the centre of the disâ€" turbance whence no word has come, and of which there is only good reaâ€" son to.fear there are no surviyors to describe their fate. The deâ€" struction of property cannot be as great as at San Francisco, for 'Messina; and Reggio, the two prinâ€" Feipal cities destroyed, were not rich or magnificent from a metroâ€" politan point of view. As a great cataclysm of nature, however, this disaster is on a far greater scale than the. California phenomenon. "‘The whole face of the country and the coast line have been altered. Even Scylla and CUharybdis have ‘changed thoe position they occupied since Aeneas‘ legendary voyage. REFUGEES AT NAPLES. A despatch from Naples says : ‘Time only confirms the unspeakable horrors of the overpowering catasâ€" 'aru(fhe in southern Italy, for earth and sea ruthlessly claimed thouâ€" sands of human beings, and the flames mercilessly completed the unrfinished devastation. _ '_ Naples, vibrant with the memory ‘of Vesuvius, is prostrated anew by the misery and woe from Messina confided to her care. The hospiâ€" tals, hotels and homes are crowdâ€" ed with refugees, and the people are vieing with one another in aidâ€" ing the stricken, CENTRE OF VOLCANIC ZONE. Those who have expert knowledge on the subject agree that the cenâ€" tre of the cataclysm was the Strait «of Messina, which also is the centre of the volcanic zone, th6 highest peak of which, Mount Aetna, is now silent. From this base, the Aelluric disturbance extended, abatâ€" ing little by little, northerly as far as Cape Vaticano and southerly as far as the Bay of Catania, ravaging the western region of Calabria and the eastern coast of Sicily for a disâ€" tance of nearly 100 miles.. It is imâ€" possible to accurately ascertain the extent ‘of the movement east and wost in the inlenmd repions. _ but it is certain that the beauty 6Â¥ one of the most charming sections of southern Italy has been irrevocabâ€" Iyâ€" despoiled. s . Vineyards areâ€"no more ;â€"waving rows of lemon, orauge and olive trees have been torm up and the enchanting coastline, with its soft and fragrant foliage, has been conâ€" verted into a hideous desert. Regâ€" gio, whose gay aspect set off the severity of the mountains, and Balmi, perched jauntily _ amid crange and olive trees, have beâ€" come mere blots. Catania, the largest gity nearest to the scene of the disaster, is crowded with refugees, and the continuous stream _ of fugitives coming, the sight of the wounded and repetition of real and imaginâ€" ary earth shocks, has so alarmed the population that they are beâ€" coming uncontrollable. _ There is no longer place there â€"where the refugees n&ay find shelter, Cardinal Franciia Nava di Bontife, Archâ€" bishof“efrfigatania, has employed Ei’i/:c.}:; money in his possession to provide bread for the fugitives, but the people of Cantania, also, are in great need, as the ordinary buâ€" siness pursuits have been entirely interrupted. FATE OF FOREIGNERS. The government is finding difficulâ€" ty in ascertaining the fate of many foreigners who were in the earthâ€" quake zone at the time of the caâ€" tastrophe, enquiries _ concerning whom are coming from all parts of the globe. The commander of )the battleship Makharoff, which arâ€" rived withâ€"fugitives at Naples on WeJdnesday, confirms the report of the death of the American consul at Messina, Arthur 8. Cheney, and his wife, who were buried in the ruins of the consulate. The numâ€" ber of Americans in Sicuy and southern Italy is believed to be small, and several of them are reâ€" ported to have been staying at Toarmina, which is on the east coast, about 30 miles southwest of Messina. According to the latest reports, this place suffered no barm from the earthquake. WORSE THAN WAR. The minister of war, in despatchâ€" ing orders to the military authoriâ€" ties who have practically taken over the absolute power throughâ€" out the zone of the earthquake, exâ€" plained : _ & "This disaster has resulted in a greater loss of life than any of our wars for independence. Indeed, the s tuation is much worse, as while war always is preceded by a period of preparation, this has happened within 40 seconds. While war only affects the young and strong among the people, the P‘¢@ ent calamity has mowed down wu.; l&-n ard cbildren, oid _ men and OVERRUN WITH FUGITIVES youths." UNIVERSAL SYMPATHY. All the sovereigns and the heads of states of the foreign governâ€" ments have sent expressions of warmest sympathy and deepest conâ€" dolence. France‘s message was especially warm, and she is deâ€" spatching fivre warships from Touâ€" lon to Messina, which is hailed as a token of love from a sister race. The minister of marine on Wedâ€" nesday night received word that the steamships Taormina and Camâ€" pania, with 45,000 beds and a large supply of provisions aboard, had left Genoza bound for Messina. Other steamers also_ bountifully stocked are on their way to the stricken cities from various.ports. The despatches from the stricken zone say that a large army would be required to cops with even the pressing needs of the unfortunate people, who are roaming about half clad and starving, some of them dragging articles of clothing from the smouldsring ruins to proâ€" tect themselyes from the piercing winds. Terrible suffering is inâ€" evitable before the muchâ€"needed relief can arrive. SCENES AT NAPLES. A despatch from London says : William Maxwell, the wellâ€"known correspondent of the London Daily Mail, who was ordered from the Balkans to the devastated districts of Italy, arrived at Naples, whence he telegraphs as follows :â€"‘"‘Naples is like a city receiving her dead and wounded after a great battle. The approaches to the quays are crowdâ€" ed with sympathetic spectator1, many of whom come laden with bread and wine as offerings to the victims as they arrive. ‘Motor cars, ambulances and stretchers hurry through the streets escorted by soldiers. As they pass one catches glimpses of the agonâ€" ized faces of men, women and chilâ€" dren on whom are the wounds and terror of the awful catastrophe. CTVCAy) AUNL Cm e â€" OIL INon a22 charging their cargoes of pain.‘"‘ NEW SHOCKS ALARM PEOPLE A despatch from Rome says: There were slight shocks felt in the earthquake zone on Friday, comâ€" pleting the ruin of the erumbling buildings. , These shocks are conâ€" tributing to the keeping up of the alarm of the population. One quite severe shock was felt at 3 o‘clock in the morning and another at 9. Fires are still burning, although much rain has fallen. The latest investigations on both sides of the straits make it certain that many more than half the population of the coast towns and villages have been killed. Professor Ricco, diâ€" rector of the observatory at Mount Etna, estimates that the victims of the earthquake exceed 209,000. "Churches, schools and hospitals fail to meet the demands for acâ€" commodation, and private houses are opened to receive the sufferers. "‘Funeral processions with all the sumptuous ritual of the Roman Caâ€" tholtc=:Church show that many have reached Naples only to die. Three thousand injured have already arâ€" Hundreds of dangerous criminals bave been arrested and are under close guard. â€" _ 3 A despatch from Rome says: The correspondent of the Corriere D‘Italia, now at Messina, has sucâ€" ceeded in sending via Naples a graph‘e description of the patheâ€". tic sights seen on the streets there. Four carabineers, with a handâ€" cuffed man, whom they had eviâ€" dently arrested during the night, were all killed while returning to their barracks. A peasant and two oxen were smashed into a shapeâ€" less heap. High up in the window of a house, only one_ wall of which was standing, was a boy hanging head down, being held by the legs by a fallen rafter. Sitting on a doorstep was a lady cuddling a headless baby, calling it endearâ€" ing names and kissing it. Her face was red with the child‘s blood. Four Russian sailors strove to perâ€" suade her to allow them to bury the child and convey her to one of the ships, but she indignantly reâ€" fused, saying she would not be parted from her only child, all that was left to her in the wide world.. Her husband, an officer, had been killed, she said, but she insisted that the child was alive. The samors persisted in their reâ€" quests, whereupon the mother inâ€" sisted they leave her. The sailors were so affecttd that they wept. Four Wore Nearly Asphyxisted at Yancouver,. A despatch from Yancouver, B. C., says: Tht Smith Company‘s furniture store on Granville street caught fire on Saturday night. J. Degraves, Robert Souden, Frank Gurney and Captain Mitchell, fireâ€" men, were overcome by smoke and narrowly escaped â€" asphyxiation. Gurney and Souden are in the hosâ€" pital. Captain Duncaa fell down an elevatorâ€"shafh, but was able to walk home. The fire was confmed to the basemenat and first floor. FIREMEN‘S MANXY RISKS. Municipalities Wipe Out Fortyâ€"onc Licenses. Toronto, Jan. 5.â€"The complete result of the battle at the polls yesâ€" terday against the bar will not be Known for a day or two. The reâ€" sult will unquestionably be a markâ€" ed increase in the No License area. A summary at 1 o‘clock this mornâ€" ing shows 41 licenses cut off by the necessary threeâ€"fifths majority ; 55 licenses against which a majority was cast, but which are saved by the threeâ€"fifths clause; and 40 licâ€" enses, chiefly in towns, such as Woodstock, Trenton, Morrisburg, Tilsonburg and Point Edward, saved by a majority vote against local option. A despatch from Dauphin, Maniâ€" toba, says : The large Public school situated on Second Avenue north, (was burned shortly after 10 o‘clock on Monday morning. The fire started in the basement and was first detected by Miss Scarth, the primary teacher, into whose room the smoke penetrated. Miss Scarth informed the principal, who at once gave the alarm and the children marched out in perfect order, beâ€" lieving it to be the usual fire drill. Nearly 500 children were in the building, and all were safely out on the street in less than one minâ€" jute." All etforts to extinguish the 'flames proved futile. The townships generally voted for local option, aad as quite a few of them are still to be heard from there is little doubt that the numâ€" ber of licenses cut off will be not less than sixty. (If to this are adâ€" ded the seven ordered to be cut off in St. Catharines and the 40 orderâ€" ed to be cut off in Toronto, the net result of the campaign will be the closing of over 100 bars on May Ist. Tho most remarkable feature of the voting yesterday was the refuâ€" sal of the electors to repeal local eption in any important town in which it had been tried. The greatâ€" est interest centred around the Owen Sound and Grimsby battles. In Owen Sound the majority against repeal was 193, and in Grimsby 31. Three years ago Owen Sound gave 476 majority for local option, and Grimsby 29. There were 6,100 licensed places in Ontario 85 years ago. The reâ€" turn for 1907, the last complete statement, showed 2,474. It is proâ€" bable that in the license yoar 1909â€"10 they will not greatly exâ€" ceed 2,000, while of the municipaliâ€" ties over 210 will be under local option. Wiiliam asd Louis Warriner Met DBeath in Camp Fire, A despatch from Coldwater says : Two brothers, William and Louis Warriner, aged nineteen _ and twentyâ€"two, respectively, were burned to death in a fire which deâ€" stroyed a log camp on lot 1, concesâ€" sion 6, township of Matchedash. The young men were cutting wood in the vicinity anud boarding themâ€" selves. _ On Thursday night they went to a farm house for milk and left again about 10 o‘ clock for their camp. This was the last seen of the young men alive. The next morning their camp was found to have been burned to the ground, and their charred bodies were found in the ruins. The remains were interred here on Sunday. The cause of the fire is unknown. Five Hundred Children March Out in Perfect Qrder. A despatch from Calcutta says : The prohibition by the police of Mohammedan sacrifices of cows, in deference to Hindu feelings, led to serious riots at Titteghur, just outâ€" side Calcutta, on Sunday. Troops were summoned from Barrackpur to quell the trouble and were comâ€" pelled to fire upon the rioters, sevâ€" eral of whom were killed and sixty seriously injured. Two hundred arâ€" rests were made. . Several Porsons Woere Killed Near Calcutlta. Mr. Hilmer Shoots Himself Near Golf Grounds. A despatch from Otfttawa says: K. A. I. Hilmer, a draughtsman in the City Engineer‘s department, committed suicide on Saturday afâ€" ternoon by shooting himself with a revolver near the grounds of the Ottawa Golf Club. He had not been at his office for several days, but no reason is given for his endâ€" ing his life: He was about forty years of age and leaves a wife and two children. made b3 arrived Report That English Company Has Paid $8,000,000. A despatch from Montreal says: It is stated that the O Brien _ mine has been sold to an Enzlish comâ€" DAUPHIWNK SCHOOL BURNED. TROOPS FIRED ON RIOTERS . LOCAL OPTION GAINS. BROTHERS CREMATED. sUICIDE AT OTTAWA. O‘BRIEX MINE SOLD. for $3.000.000 that the O‘ Briea mine|_â€" Minneapolis d ts an Euglish comâ€" | Dec.., $1.08%4. 000.0080. The report is No. 1 hard, $ esal men who have jus‘;: $Iâ€"12 > No. 2 the â€"city froim Cobalt. â€"$1.909; No: 3 REPORTS FROM THE LEADTING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Cther Dairy Produce at â€" Home and Abroad. THE WORLD‘S MARKETS Toronto, Jan 5.â€"Flourâ€"Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents quoted at $3.70 toâ€"day in buyers‘ sacks outside for export. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.80 on track, Toronâ€" to; second patents, $5.30, and strong bakers‘, $5.10 to $5.20. Wheatâ€"Manitoba wheat is highâ€" er at $1.09%4 for No. 1 Northern, at $1.0614 for No. 2 Northern, and at $1.04 for No. 3 Northern, Georâ€" gian Bay ports, No. 1 Northern is quoted at $1.13%. North Bay freights, and No. 2 Northern at $1.10%4._ : Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 white 94 to 94%%c outside; No. 2â€"red Winâ€" ter at 95¢ outside, and No. 2 mixâ€" ed at 94c outside. Oatsâ€"Ontario No. 2 white, 38 to 38!4¢c outside, and at 41 to 41%4c on track, Toronto ; No. 2 Western Caâ€" nada oats quoted at 43¢, lake ports, and No. 1 feed, 41c, lake ports. Ryeâ€"No. 2 quoted at 69 to 70¢ outside. Barleyâ€"No. 3, 54e outside; No. 5 extra &st 52¢, and No. 3 at 50c. Buckwheatâ€"56 to 564c outside. Peasâ€"No. 2 quoted at 85% to §6¢ outside. Cornâ€"No nominal at new No. 3 Toronto. Branâ€"Cars, $19 in bulk outside Shorts, $22.50 in bulk outside. Butter~â€"Pound prints, 25 to 27¢; tubs, 22 to 24c ; inferior, 20 to 21c. Creamery rolls, 28 to 29¢, and solids 97 n \ Applesâ€"Winter stock, $3 to $4 per barrel for good qualities, and at $2 to $2.50 for cooking apples. Honeyâ€"Combs, $2 to dozen, and strained, 10 pound. _ s s Poultryâ€"Chickens, dressed, 10 to 1ic per pound ; fowl, 8 to 9¢; ducks, i1 to. T2¢ ; mgeese, 10 »to Lle per pound; turkeys, 17 fo 186 per pound. $ 21C Cheeseâ€"Large cheese, 13%c per pound, and twins, 13%e. Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy, $10.50 to $11 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at B7 to $8. Strawâ€"$7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoesâ€"Ontarios, 60c per bag. Delawares, 75 to 80c per bag on track. to 30 dozen Beansâ€"Prime, $1.70 to $1.75, handâ€"picked, $1.80 to $1.85 bush. Baconâ€"Long clear, 10% to 11c per pound in case lots; mess pork, $10 to $19.50; short cut, $22 to $22.50. Hams â€"Lisht to medium, 13 to 13%e; do., heavy, 12¢ ; rolls, 10 %¢; shoulders, 19 to 10%4¢; backs, 16 to 16!4¢; breakfast bacon, 1414 to 15¢. Lard=â€"Fierces, 12¢; tubs, 121 pails, 12%%¢. Montreal, â€"Jan. 5.â€"Grainâ€"Caâ€" nadian Western No. 2 white oats at 46/c, extra No. 1 feed oats at 45 %4c, and No. 1 feed at 45¢ per bushel, in car lots, ex store. Flour â€"â€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts at $6, seconds at $5.50, Winâ€" ter wheat patents, $5 to $5.25; straight rollers, $4.60 to $4.70 ; do., in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; extra, $1.â€" 75 to $1.85.. Feedâ€"Manitoba bran, $21; shorts, $24; Ontario bran, $21 to $21.50; middlings, $24.50 to $23.50; shorts, $24.50 to $25 per ton, including bags; pure grain mouille, $30 to $32; milled grades, $25 to $28 per ton. Cheeseâ€"The local market is quiet and steady, with westerns quoted at 124 to 12¢ and easterns at 11 *% to 12. Butbter â€"Creamery quoted at 25‘%c¢c, and September make at 26%%c¢c. _ Eggs â€"New laid at 35¢, selected stock at 2714 to 28e, and No. 1 stock at 23% to 24c per dozen. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 5. â€" Wheat â€"Spring stronger ; No. 1 Northern, carloads store, $1.15}4%; Winter firmer; No. 2 red, $1.07%; No. 3 extra red, $1.06; No. 2 white, $1.â€" 064 ; No. 2 mixed, $1.08‘4. Corn =â€"Higher ; No. 3 yellow, 62¢; No. 4 yellow, 62%¢,; No. 3 corn, 62 to 62%c; No:. 4 corn, 61% to 626; No. 5 white, 64)4ec. Oatsâ€"Strong. Barâ€" leyâ€"Feed to malting, 62 to 70c. Rvyeâ€"No. 2 on track, 8lc. GG Eggsâ€"Case lots of _to 266 per dozen ; 302, and new laid UNITED STATES MARKETS BUSINESS AT MONTREAL 09; No TAE DAMRY MARKKETS COUNTRY PRODUCE reapolis,_ _ Jan. 5.â€"Wheat â€" $1.08 4; â€"May, $111; cash, hard; $1â€"12:â€"Noâ€"â€"A4 Northerm Xo. 27â€" Northern,.â€"$1â€"08%4 to No: 3 Northern, $1.014%1 to HOG PRODUCTS BREADSTUTES No. 3 â€"American yellow at 68c on track, Toronto ; 3 yellow quoted at 65%%4¢, cold storage, selections, 28 35 to 40c per $2.75 to Ilz NV and per per per $1.06%{. _ Branâ€"$19 to _ $19.95. Flourâ€"First patents, $5.30 to $5.â€" 65; second patents, $5.10 to $5.20; first clears, $4 to $4.10; second clears, $2.95 to $3.05. French Scientist Suggests Drilling to Earth‘s Centre. A despatch from Paris says : M. Camille ~Flammarion, the famous astronomer, who attributes the disâ€" aster in Italy to volcanic action, suggests again as he did forty years ago that an attempt be made to. find out with certainty the internal composition of _ the terrestrial globe., The only means of doing. this would be to bore a gigantic well several kilometres deep. Such & work would not be beyond the power of present day engineering. This well would be a source of inâ€" exhaustible heat for humanity. "If the various Governments would agree to direct toward this object all the soldiers of Europe, each employed in accordance with his special trade or occupation, they would Win a victory superior to all past and future wars of exterâ€" mination by bringing to light the _mystery which is hidden beneath our surface, and as while this work was being executed the habit of fighting would be lost, humanity would have gained by it a double process, both scientific and social.‘"‘ Prohibition Becomes Efective With New Year. A despatch from Mobile, Ala., says: With the passing of the midâ€" night hour on Thursday night proâ€" hibition became effective throughâ€" out Alabama. A number of social clubs have been opened and charâ€" ters for these places will now be in great demand. _ In these clubs drinks will be dispensed to "memâ€" bers only.‘"‘ Before the doors of the saloons were closed on Thursâ€" day night whiskey and beer were given away in large quantities, and during the day drinks of all kinds were sold at nominal prices. Robbers Built Barbed Wire Fence About Bank. A â€" despatch frormn _ Muskoges, Okla., says : Five robbers dynamitâ€" ed the bank at Wellston, Okla., early on Wednesday and escaped with $5,000. â€" The robbers erected a barbedâ€"wire barricade around the bank, and while some members of the cang went to work m=â€".â€"> bank safe others stoou guard. ‘The pick® ets for â€"two hours kept the townsâ€" pesple at bay while their confedâ€" eratesâ€"worked on â€"theâ€"vault, ~and when finally the robbers succeedâ€" ed in getting the money it containuâ€" ed the five men rode off, covering their departure with a heavy fire. No one was injured. Hardships Endured by Aged Mexiâ€" can Woman and Child. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Wandering about in the wilds of the north, among the haunts of inâ€" numerable timber wolves, Margarâ€" et Romaro, a Mexican woman, old and frail, together with her daughâ€" ter, a child of thirteen, have been found by Indians in aâ€"starving conâ€" dition, almost frozen and desperâ€" ate from hunger. The place where the two were found was at Calling Lake, seventyâ€"five miles west of Athabasca Landing. â€" The pitiful story came to the immigration offiâ€" ces of . Mr. J. Bruce Walker on Wednesday. The place is uninhabiâ€" ted, and only wolves and big game abound in the bush and swamps, which in winter are buried in mountains of snow. Evidently the victims have. endured unknown hardships for a 1 ng time. Both have been driven from Canada inâ€" to the United States, and from the States into Canada again. Montreal‘s Sorrowful Record for Last Year. A despatch from Montreal says : Montreal‘s morgue statistics for 1908 form rather a gruesome reâ€" cord. _ In all, 850 violent deaths or deaths under_ suspicious cirecumâ€" stances occurred. Of these twentyâ€" three died from foul .play and ten by Italian â€"stilettoes= There were twentyâ€"nine suicides, nineteen from gas inhalation; seventyâ€"nine were drowned in the St. Lawrence, fifty were killed on the railways, twentyâ€" two by the street railway; fifteen by explosions, ten of which were due to the e Perrot accident. There were 218 sudden deaths reâ€" corded, fiftyâ€"seven were burned and six scalded to death. One fireman was killed on duty. Descendants are presenting he wore at the ly wounded. Joseph Jacks and a man believed to be named Matuk were killed and Nakolag Maga badly â€"hurt by the cave in of a,.cake of frozen earth in a trench &t the C._N. R. shops at Winnipeg. â€" & 2e WANDERING IN THE WILD® ALABAMA A DRX STATE. BOR EDOWN AND SEE. THE QKLAHOMA STYLE. DEATHS BY VIOLENCE. of Sir Isaac Brock to Canada the coat time he was mortalâ€" GONDENSED NEWS ITEMS LAPPEXINXGS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE. Telegraphic Briecfs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. It is expected that the Ontario Legislature will meet early in Febâ€" rugary. Ib is reported in Monkéreal that the C. P. R. will build a line from Sudbury to Gowganda. ______ Mr. Simeon Tourigny, K. C., has been appointed Judge of the Suâ€" perior Court in Rimouski district. Mr. D. D. Mann said the next project of the Canadian Northern is a line from Port Arthur to Sudâ€" bury. The old Methodist mission house at Port Simpson, B. C., was burnâ€" ed. A lot of Indian curios were destroyed. & An epidemic of typhoid is reportâ€" ed at Montreal, and the hospitals are turning away pationts desirâ€" ing admission. * D. Mcllquham, a coal oil dealer at Alexander, Man., is being proâ€" secuted by the Inland Revenue Deâ€" partment for selling coal oil that exploded and caused the death of J. Raymond‘s daughter. Toronto‘s birth rate for 1903 showed an increase over the preâ€" ceding year. § j sys Mrs. Phybers, wife of an English settler, was fatally burned at Elkâ€" born, Man., while lighting a fire with coal o‘l. David Paisley, a carâ€"cleaner, was run over at London, Ont., and killed. = The test well sunk on Horton street, London, Ont., for a civie water supply is yielding two hunâ€" dred thousand gallons daily. Albert Desmoreau, a teamstst, â€" employed at Booth‘s mill at Ottawa, drove his team over a twentyâ€"five foot embankment, on Friday, and both man and horses were killed.‘ Thirteen persons were shot. none of ~them dangerously, ‘on New Year‘s Eve, in New York. Silas H. Pearson of Peterboro, Ont., confessed at Pittsburg that he had shot Jacob Knoedler of Wilâ€" lock Station while attempting to rob Knoedler‘s store. The first oldâ€"age pensions were paid by British postmasters on Friâ€" day: sâ€". _ tem". > The British Labor party will meet at Portsmouth on Jan. 27th, and will discuss a number of drasâ€" tic proposals, including the fixing of the oldâ€"age pension limit at 55. fap" z aneknnaetnnd n al s and terbccs n mm nc t m Burglars‘at New York looted the police ~station in the. Criminal Courts building. ; Andrew Carnegie in a magazinge article tells that profitâ€"sharing will bring about the final solution of the labor question. & The United States Treasury, Deâ€" partment has transferred $225,â€" 000,000 in gold coin from San Franâ€" cisco to Denver. Burglars in New York cracked the safe in a Third avenue jewelâ€" lery store and carried off $5,000 in cash and jewellery valued at $25,â€" 000. â€"Sir Horace Plunkett, speaking at New York, prophesied the disapâ€" pearance of landlordism in Ireland, _ Abraham Reuft, formerly boss of San Francisco, has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison. _ W.: L. Mathews, former State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, who had been sentenced to prison for his connection with the Capitol frauds, GENERAL. 3 Yuan Shi Kai, Commanderâ€"inâ€" Chief of the Chinese Army, has been dismissed. _Father John of Cronstadt, famous Russian priest whoâ€"so terly assailed Tolstoi, is dead is dead Twenty men were killed in a batâ€" tle between adherents of Castro and men on a Venezuelan gunboat on the Venezuelan coast. â€" _ The Indian National Congress, which opened at Madras on Monâ€" day, approved the plan of reform advanced by Lord Morley. The Australian Parliament has passed an act imposing a fine of £100 on the owners of every ship bringing in Asiatic passengers or stowaways. SS Horrible Crime of a Demented New York Man. A despatch from New York says : In a fit of insanity on Wednesday, Arthur Trotter killed his aged mo« ther, Mrs. Aun Trotter, by be-’ heading her with an axe and a, knife in her apartments on West: Eighteenth street. Trotter jumpâ€"! ed from a second story window ast the police broke in the door, buk was found outside practically ung} injured and then did not resist ary rest. He declared that the end o_q the world was coming, and that he had been divinely inspired to com-l mit the crime. Trotter is said to have quarrelled frequently with hi ( mother, who was a woman of sev} enty years and of reputed means,) and only on Tuesday, the policfl say, he finished a stx months‘ termp for beating her. BEHEADED HIS MOTHER. UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. the