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The Ottawa Electric Street Railway Company. last year earned more than one 1n1£hon and a half passengers. At a. meeting of the Manitoba Cabin- e: on Thursday it was definitely decided to call the House together on the 18th of February. ; . * ' : . 311. H. Beaugrand, ex-Mayor of Montâ€" real, and proprietor of La Patrie, is slowly recover'ng, and is now quite out 1.; danger. Lord Aberdeen has presented ex- Ma3or Borthnick, of Ottawa, with a .sz1wer inkstand, as a souvenir of his erm of office. - A new morning paper is shortlv to appear in Montreal. It will be a four- rage. one-cent daily and “11‘ be knoven as the Morning Deantch. Evangelist H. Clarence Ramsey, of 1eronto, has left for .China, where he is to engage in missionary work for 11121113 3ears. r{he Donaldson line steamship \Yar- v. 1111 “hich ran on the “1103' Muir edge, Nova Scotia, two weeks ago, has 1 isappeared from sight. The 0:1awa branch of the Canadian Federation of Labour has declared for an Alien La} our law, and reciprocity in labour “1111 the United States. Brickla3ers on the sewer works in ondon are on strike becauseForeman Smith refused to para fine of 825 im- afampbcu. H011. Sidney Fis 2.8 has ccmpleted shipping compani solu storage for a g»ro=ucts. Capt. Collied‘ of a ween given up for lost. William Tisdale, who lived fourteen zmies north of P1101: Mound, Man, was 2102211 to death last week. The amount of mopey at present de- rivelfed 1n the. Domlmon Post-Office and Savmgs Banks 15 $57,875,775. Capt. Collier of the London Salvation 1‘1rm3, in speaking of ”\Vorldl3 Am- usements.” condemned skating, but ad- mitted he had never been 1n a skat- -ng rink in his iife. A convict named Horrigan plunged 31 :orki nto :1: arm of a convict nam- ed McDonald in Kingston Penitentiary an \Vednesday. Horrigan was sent. to ‘Le prison of isolation. Premier Laurier has replied to the British Consul-General at Brazil, guar- anteeing the expenses of returning ele- .en more Canadian families, compris- :ng forty persons from Brazil. Capt. McNeil. of the DonaldsonSS. Amar3nthia has been condemned to p33 to the wife of Dr. Be 0033' $700 :or the contents of a trunk stolen from his vessel in Jul3',1895. According. to official returns the pro- duotion of pig iron in Canada more than doubled during the last fiscal year, 84,- 607 tons having been produced, as '15.;‘2‘1.n51 31,641 in the previous year. London is supplying food and cloth- .ng to a hand of 33 gvpsies, men, wo- men and C1. ildren. who are encamped tutside the cit3 and who are unable to leave their IiOrses having strayed or been stolen. pay to the. W119 101' the contents from his vessel According to 01 action of pig iro uoubled during 1. 6-07 1011.5 having figzzinst 31,641 in London is sup; ing to a_ band of '_â€"- ~__‘ “‘ ' ‘ ”W i Lieut.â€"Governor Kirkpatrick. who re- WORLD OVER? Icently underwent an operation in a London private hospital, continues to mun-eating Items About Our Own Country. Emake favourable progress towards re- Great Britain, the United States, and Ecovery. All Parts at the Globe: Condensed; and ; The British and Foreign Arbitration assorted for Easy Reading. iAssoc iation has cabled to \\ ashington . , , ;a petition to the L nited States Sen: tte CA33DA~ Ein favor of the ratification cf the m... vurfmv q,\v-;mv will be enforced jAnglo-American arbitratisn treaty. Pilotage commissioners at Halifax, St. John, Sydney, Victoria and other ports have been asked to refund to the Government fees appropriated by them during 1896 which Were not allowed under the statutes. GREAT BRITAIN. The battleship ' Monarch was pleased in commission at ChathangNm Tuesday. She will go to South Afrlca, ‘d 961165 (121 James )Iackie. station agent at the G T. R. junction, near Kingston, and for 30 years connected with that railâ€" wav, and Robeit Thompson, of the freight department at Kingston, have been dismissed. , The body pf Isaac Pitman. the invent. or cf the thman system of Shorthand, .‘(K {HE NEWS [NB NUISHHL TH E VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. The cprlew r1 Hamflton . an at Niagara Fails,was caught he- :een the draxy-‘oars of tyvo cars while ruplmg. and Instantly killed. The profit: on the silver and copper inage accruing to the Dominion Gov- nmen-t during the past year amounted seventy-six thousand dollars. Premier Laurier has declined an in- tation to speak at the \‘V'ashington rthday celebration in Chicago on ab. ""’ owing to pressure of business. g; "H. . ,m directors G; the Central Canada air, ttawa, intend enlarging the 1: grounds and reconstruonng the am euiidim: during: the coming sum- The strike at the Springhu'l. A. 3., mes has been settled. The Eastern portion of Lake Erie is ported to be frozen over. Mr.Jobn McKerg-ow was elected Pre- ient of the. Montreal Board of Trade. A (‘hatham syndicate is reported to we struck a rich flow of 011 at Both- ed by the Torimto union. he. fourteen-yearâ€"old son of Mr. Hen- Irzpp, of Bldgeway, Ont, was drown- :n the lakepf \demlll Pomt last dnesda}: whlle slelghmg on the Ice. Er. James Mussels, aG.T.R. yard- 113111? Hog-hefaga. Bank will increase its; Y., has closed its doors. 1 stock from $800,000 to $51,000:? Gilbert. Rud, aged 25, was frozen to Edeath at Spring Valley, Minn. i J. I. Tarte has completed arq A father, mother and three children nems for the survey of Fraser :were frozen to death near Little Rock, §Ark., yesterday. « '90. Sidney Fisher announces that completed arrangements with ‘ companies at Montreal for rage for agricultural and dairy \V a. '5 about $33,000 has been the funds of Brant Czwnship, of which the the late Mr. \V. S. the Springhil-l. The new timber dry dock and the largest in the Brooklyn, N.Y., navy yard, is reported to be two feet. shorter and four inches shallower than the specifications called for. It has already cost the Government $538,679. it. is semi-officially stated that negoâ€" tiatiom: for a treaty of general arbit- ration between France and the Unit- 'ed States were commenced about a year ago, but. were only resumed when it was announced that the Anglo-Ameri- cain treaty had been definitely conclud- e( . 311‘. Joseph Chamberlain, in the House of Commons on ‘xVednesday, said that he was not in a position to state What progress had been made towards an im- proved Canadian mail service, explain- ing that the Dominion Government is still considering the question. The. lumbermen of Tonawanda, N. Y., are a unit in demanding a protective policy on Canadian lumber entering the United States. Cap‘t. John Campbell of. the barque Br'i fish-America, was frozen to death two miles out of. )Iobile, Alabama, on Tuesdav night. ' A fire in Philadelphia destroyed a million dollars’ worth of property. Mr. John M'anamaker’s store was. one of the. buildings damaged. The repprt’ed illness of agam demed. Dr. Zedekauer, the Czar’s SlClan, IS dead. Buffalo is suffering from a water fa- mine, caused by the intake bemg chok- ed 'with slush ice. It is announced that two million peo- pie are. no“ employed upon the re- lief works in the famine districts of India. It. is understeod that the Prince. of “'ales will attend one of the series of farewell banquets that Ambassador Raflzrd “ Ll give to his friends at the Embassy. The heavy ice in the Ohio River has caused a total suspension of naviga- tion. Bombay has had 9,835 deaths since the. plague broke out. The Chilian Government is being de- fraudéd annuaily of mare than $10,- 000,000 through smuggling. It is denied at Madrid that negoti- :1: ions, are pending for a new com-o mercial treaty between Spain and the United States, . According to statistics prepared in .A‘lbam, N,Y., [he averaoe of wages paid in New York State to Working- men is $436 a 3ear,co~1npared with $551 in Ontario. The betrothal is announced in Lonâ€" don of Miss Alice Harper, daughtei of the lam Henn Harper of Philadelphia, to Captain Phillips, of London, for- merly of the 13th Hussars. The condition of business in the Unit- ed States. according to the commercial reports of Messrs. Bradstreet and Dun, of New York, show little or no actual change. There are. trade fluctuations here and there, anda tone of fair con- fidence in the future appears to exist among commercial men. Asa rule trade is dull and pric 0'8 continue low , the month is called a disappointing one, for the s1mple reason that expectations as to the amount of trade likely to be done to the amount of trade likely to he done at the begicnning of the year run too high. Some woollen mills have stOp- ped during the u eek. but a larger num- ber have started. and more still are pre- paring to start at once. While there is no actual improvement in trade the conditions are such: as to inspire justi- fie able confidence. ~ . -. Italy has ordered six battalions of troops to be put in readiness to start for Massnkx ab. The officiais of the Japanese Legaâ€" tion in St. Petersburg confirm the re~ port that the piag'ue has broken out' tn the Island of Formosa. ' Secretary Adam, of the British Le- ganion at Brussels, has been appointed to succeed Viscount Gough, secretary of the British Embassy at \Vashingtom recently appointed secretary of the Em- bassy at Berlin. United States, The Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the Czar, and wife. of the Grand Duke. Alexander Michaelovitch, has given birth to a son.. ‘ . Senor Canovas del Castillo, the. Span- xsh Premier, is slightly indisposed. Advices from Havana says that. the conflict between the sugar planters and \Veyler continues with more bitterness than ever. The proposed visit of the Czar and Czarina to Rome and London at the end of April has been cancelled, owing. to the. health of their Majesties. The betrotha] is announced of the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg the eldest son of the Duke of Edinburgh, to Princess Feodore of Saxe-Meiningen. who died last week, was cremated at Waking on Thursday. {A Madrid report says that Genera‘i Azcarraga, Minister of \Var. is to be appointed Governor-General of Cuba. and that Gen.- XVeyler is to be retained as commander-m-chief. ‘ A battle.- is reported to have. taken place on Tuesday between Brazilian troops and religious fanatics in the; State. of Bahia Brazil. The loss on both‘ s1des was 250 killed. Advices from Agorda‘t say that the dervishes, who were believed to be ad- vancing on that place, have abandoned their fortified camp at Aimideb and are retreating in the direction of. Aimoasa, pursued by friendly natives. Lieut von Bruzwitz, the German offi- cer who some time ago i‘ana laboring man through the back withasword for knocking against his chair in a. cafe, has been sentenced to three years’ impris- onment. UNITED STATES. 311'. Gladstone has gone to Cannes. The National Bank at Potsdam, N. ed illness of the Czar is GENEBLXL. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. Feb. 11 189 P l. private phy- The health officers declare that the nine deaths announced to-day were from “infectious pneumonia,” but the public is far from being satisfied VV 1th the ex- pfianatiion. Despatches from Pa1is show that the Gov ernment is alive to the danger. De- crees have been issued forbidding pil- grims from leaVing Algeria, Tunis and Senegam‘bia this year for Mecca, and merchandise from India must be im- ported through the designated ports, of which Marseilles is one. At these ports of entry Indian merchandise will only be allowed to he landed after having been thoroughly fumigated and other- wise disinfected. A report “as circui ted ten days ago that a case of bubonic plague had been discovered. This 33 as promptly denied h3 the health 0 ficials, but the precau- tions taken to guard against the plague were redouhfled, esgecially in the vici- nit3 of the old and' new forts. where sailors congregate froihl all pane of the W.or1d ‘ EUROPE FEARS PLAGUE The British War Department Have Adam. (‘G :l Terrific Missile 0f \Var. The British \Var Department was much disturbed to find that the stop- ping powers of the bullet of their ser- vice rifle, the Lee-Metford, is so feeble that in the Chitral campaign the sol- diers lost confidence in their weapons. The bullet had great penetrative pow- er, hiL-ta great many of the tribesmen hit by it advanced as though untouch- ed, and it comparatively seldom caus- ed instant death. One tribesman, who had been hit by six bullets was treat- ed in hOSpitai, and made a quick re- covery. Steps were soon taken by the “far Department to devisea more de- structive missile, and eXperiments have been made with a bullet. having a met- al-covered point made thin, witha lead core slightly exposed. \Vh-lle the flight of“ the bullet. through the air is not interferred with; as It strikesan ob- fict it spreads out, and has almost the terrific power of laceration of the ex- plosive bullet. A- French officer has en- deavored to make a compromise be- tween these two forms of projectiles by inventing a bullet ving the maxi- mum power of (1185}. . , and the mini- mum power of kllh ' . 13 is made of Pa. per. with a thin Sh} 0; aluminum;- It has the same preclm _ as ~. 1 e'm'ordin gry NINE SUDDEN DEATHS GREATLY ALARM MARSEILLES. Sanitary finial-“fry A ctiveâ€"lbactors (‘all the Insease ”lnfl'cflous Pneumonia," But. Ilw Public is No! Convinced-â€" [ram-e Adopts Drastic )leasnres. The. greatest alarm prevails at Mar- seiiles on account: of nine sudden deaths in one street. Quantities of anti-plague serum are being sent to Blarseillles and to other French ports, and all ships from the East will ‘be carefully examined and quarantined if necessary. ENGLAND FEELS SAFE. Englishmen think. the chance of the plague getting afoothold in Great Brit- ain is remote, owing to the excellent sanitary conditions. But on the Contin- ent the alarm has increased and the continental press demands the most rig- orous inspection of everything imported from India. Some excitement was caused in Paris last week by the stopping of a small steamboat bound from London to Paris at Bougival, a village on the Seine, about four miles north of Versailles. A ruvmor spread that the steamer was in- fected with the plague. 1t leaked out that. she had on board carpets and bedding from India. but it developed later that they had been stored in Lon- don for six months, so the authorities allowed her to proceed to Paris. 1‘ l ~I Along the unsanitary ports of the Mediterranean grave fear is expressed that the plague will he introduced on steamers from India. The French Minis- ter for the Interior, M. Barthou, has ordered large quantities of anti-plague serum prepared and sent to the French ports. - .- A. '1 ph 1,12- In Germany the plague is viewed through Anglophone glasses. Great Britain is attacked for allowing her- self to he lulled into a feeling of false security by the Indian authorities and the Bombay press, which is charged with trying to conceal the danger. ‘U- I”- At, a meeting of the Council. of Public Assistance in Paris a note of alarm was struck in a remark that, infected Indian carpets may ”Have been brought into the. French capital already. I ‘ _ These remarks haw: created a deep impression, and at the Cabinet. counml held at the Elysee. Palace, the Minâ€" ister for Foreign Affairs, M. Hanotaux, and the Minister for the Interior communicated to their colleagues and to the President. the sanitary measures adopted by the Goyernt‘nent. .1 . \-\.\ .“‘, “not, - -, These. inciude forbidding pilgrims from ieaving Tunis, Aigerla and Sene- gam’bia for Mecca this year, and Pres:- dent. lj‘aure has signed a decree inlpos- ing severe penalties upon the importa- tion of merchandise from the infected ports of India through other ports than Marseilles, Pauillac, St. Nazaire, Havre, Dunkirk and Algiers. fl .- - The Italian Sanitary Council has con- sidered the situation and it is under- stood that it advises against agenerai quarantine, as being commercially ruin- ous and inefficacious._ ‘I . D1. Brouardel moreover assérts that the dangel 0f the p'ague reachrng Europe is imminent, that prevenuve 921115 in France onb exist in that; France could do nothing to pre- vent Lhe entrance of the plague and couid do little to combat 11.. wound. The Austriaanar making trialsof offing inv RUDIMENTARY FORM A NEW BULLET. 'ar is HUBDKEN’S FATAL FIRES A despatch from Hoboken, N.J.. says tâ€"-T-his City was visited by two disastrous fires between 11.30 Satur- day night" and 3 o’clock Sunday morn- ing. Seven persons were burned to death and 30 families were made home- less. T‘he Saturday night fire started in the three-storey frame building at 410 Newark street. Here. six persons lost their lives. They were Mrs. Nel- lie Schroeder, 4!! years old, and her five children, Henry, aged eleven; Maggie, seven; Kate, nine; John,three years, and \Villie, three months old. The father of the family, Charles- Schzroeder, was in a nearby isaloon playing cards while his wife and chil- dren were dying. The second fire started at 3 o’clock this morning in a five-storey, double-deck tenement. at 157. Fourteenth street. In this fire three tenements, Nos. 155, 157 and 159, were entirely wrecked and No. 153 was damaged badly. One child was burn- ed to death on the fourth floor of No. 157. She was Mabel Mam-glee, eight years old. The fire at 410 Newark street on! started in a defective flue. i1! Sch'aeffer’s wheelwright shop on the ground floor of a three-storey frame building. Schaffer occupied the sec- ond floor as living apartments. The front rooms on the third floor were or;- cupied by Chas. Schroeder and his family, while James sBlanchfield and family occupied the rooms in the rear. The Blanchzfield family discovered the fire and 'barely made their escapeby way of the roofs of the adjacent build- ings. It was impossible to discover the fate of the Schroeder family until the fire had subsided, when the bodies of the moltâ€"her and children were found. )lrs. SEVEN PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH ON SATURDAY NIGHT. HONESTY \VITH MONEY. It has often been noted that women are more honorable in money matters than men, and that it is far less rare to have a small loan paid back by a woman than by a man. This fact,again, appears to us, to be fully explained by the trustee theory of Woman’s attitude toward money. \Vomen are not hon- ester in other things than men, but the notion of money being a trust over- rides and dominates other considera- tions. The man who borrows is very apt to forget all about the matter. The woman who borrows feels that a double trust runs with the money, and she cannot rest till she has repaid it. No doubt there are here also many ex- ceptions, because there are many bad women, but at least it is safe to say that women are far less careless about money matters than men, and there- fore less likely to commit the small acts of pecuniary dishonorableness which come from negligence. Take it as a whole, women are more careful about money matters than men, and attach more importance to money. Hence it happens that they never make great fortunes, seldom go bankrupt, and generally are rather more scrupu» lous than men in small pecuniary tran- sactions. s. Schroeder and five Children Perish In oneâ€"An Eightâ€"Year-om Girl in line (Miner. l0, We beg to inform our customers and the public generally that We have adopted the Cash System, which means Cash or its Equiv- alent, and that our motto will be “Large Sales and Smell Profits.” We take this Opportunity of thanking our customers for past patronage, and we are convinced that the new system Wiil merit a continuance of the same. Afiopted 'Tby EVERY THURSDAY MORNING AT nu cunnmcus PRINTING HOUSE, BARAFRAXA smear DURHAM, ONT. Sfigscmpnnfl THE CHRONICLE will be sent to any address, free of postage, for $l.00 pcr RATES . . . . year,payable in advanceâ€"~$I.50 may be charged if not 50 paid. 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