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of Commons, Tuesday, Mr. Chamber- lain said he hoped the bill providing for the federation of the Australian commonwealth would be introduced next swswn. Fifteen persons :11 been drowned in a It occurred at J‘ shire. The Prince of “211% on Saturday iaid the foundation stone of the new Postoff ice Savings Bank at Kensington. it was stated that the woyking classes ‘6 nunâ€"fi “4 ............. “6 uxaaaca' at Great Britain have balances 1n; he bank amounting to £123,ooo,coo. ; General Lord Kitchener of Khar-f oum, Governor-General of the Sou-: an has received £1,640 from the Earl t Minto, Governor-General of Canada,; n behalf of the Canadians, for the en- ;‘ owmént fund Of the Gordon Memor-§ 21 College at Khartoum; The London correspondents of the ad'mg New York papersin their cable 1 tters on the situation in the Transw all seem to'hold the opinion that un- ss Presi ienthruger makes substan. ll concessions ‘ ‘0' the Uitlanders the l wâ€"v- ' The East End Incline Railway and about 40acres of land adjoining it on the mountain top at Hamilton, will be sold by auction on July 14 to satis- fy creditors who hold mortgages. At a meeting of fruit growers from The charge of keeping a gambling club, made against the St. Jean Bap- tiste Club, will likely fall through, as all the chips and the marked cards and Other articles which were seized have been stolen from the court house at Montreal. A United States syndicate, with a capital of $10,000,000, connected with, the 850,000,000 pulp trust, has bought; timber limits aggregating 81,8:‘50J3001 near Gaspe and Quebec, and willl build two mills, to cost a million each.’ A considerable reduction in freight rates from Fort William ‘to Brandon RR. There is a reduction of 14 cents per 100 to Brandon and 11 1-2 cents to Winnipeg from Fort \Villiam also a reduction of nearly 40 per cent. in lo- cal freight rates from Winnipeg to lo- cal points in the “'est. GREAT BRITAIN. I [Mr. Cecil Rhodes has sailed from London for Ca ie Town. Admiral Sir Wyndham Hornby, K.C. _ 1 L, retired, died suddenly on Wednes-i ay afternoon while presiding at a 1 ompany meeting. ; -â€"-â€"â€"-~' owing to business troubles. Ald. Nelligan, of Hamilton, says an attempt was made to bribe him for his vote in connection with the ap- pointment of a city engineer. An in- formation will be laid. He disappeared on Monday night, and is supposed to have committed suicide owxng to business troubles- Diphtheria has broken out in the Boys’ Home at Hamilton, and five of the inmates are now in the City Hospital. Mr. George O'Keefe, formerly mem- ber of the Legislature for Ottawa, has been appointed Police Magistrate of Ottawa, in the room of Mr. Ogara, lately deceased. _ 7.. _~ o_'-_'_â€"v.â€"-â€"v walks. Dr. William M. Paton, of the “’88- leyan Theological College, Montreal, has been appointed instructor of Biblical literature in Yale University. George M. Dalglish and 15am Hop- kins of Ottawa. who left for the Yukon last October, have not since been heard from. Ratepayers of Dunm 1Jle Ont., have voted in favour of spending 816,000 in a water filter and granolithic The Independent Order of the Sons of Abraham at Montreal are taking up subscriptions for a Dreyfus fund. The custom returns show an in- crease of nearly three and a half mil- lions for the year ending June 30. The manager of the Ogilvie Mills, Winnipeg, predicts 40,000,000 bushels of wheat for Manitoba this season. At Vancouver robbers broke into St. James Church and stole the com- munion plate on Tuesday. Burglaries are common in various parts of the Province of Ontario, pre- sumably by tramps. e actionwvitho the stamping “t delay with a view out of the San Jose E. B. Wingate has been elected oi.ty engineer of Hamilton, after an excxt- mg campaign. The Bell Organ Piano Company, Guelph, have received an order for 800 organs from England. A Bel ium cbmpany is considering the esta lishment of a glass factory at Chatham. Over 100 new locomotives may be shortly ordered for the Intercolonial railroad. CANADA The CPR. will build a combined hotel and station with offices at \Vinâ€" nipeg- Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain, the United states. and All Parts of the Globe. Condenaod lid Amned for Easy Reading. [HE NEWS INA NUISHHl. IE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. .‘ > of land adjoining it on [1 top at Hamilton will nation on July 14 to satis- wbo hold mortgages. w“ “m u, "110, auer hand to_ mouth in Van- a bodting aééiJeWn-t‘.’ lelehi, Carnarvon- “mug, w; muewnaence, while the. bet- . BRITAIN. he; class of Italians; favon annexation, ile fro g. roops are e um mg non-union men (1380“31‘.“ sa d m’m the etnke at the Bochum coal 3mines, Germany. anyson, younger broâ€" is dead. izing the efectoin ofgfiovernment to prohlbxt pufmc “1.89“ Iors and aldermen. rndham Hornby, K.C., . . . iuddenly on Wednes-Itrade a large number of Pnlhppme after said.to hgve been wrecked. in . foreign not. A meeting of 4,(l)0 persons in Cape Town has endorsed Sir Alfred Milner's attitude towards the Transvaal. A riot occurred on Monday at Sat- agossa, Spain, the mob trying to burn down the convent of the J esuits.. Rigo, the famous gipsy, the husband of the Countess de Chnmziy, is not dead, as was reported. The Vatican party has a majority in the Rome municipal elections, first time in 29 years. , The steamer Margaret. Olwill, owned by W. P. Smith of Cleveland, went down in the storm on Lake Erie. Nine peOple were lost, including Capt.John Brown, his wife and son and Miss Bald- win, a passenger. At Rennes, France, it is stated that the acquittal of Dreyfus is far from being a certainty. An earthquake shock of some sever- ity was felt Tuesday night at Pisa and Florence. The New York Sun has been con- demned to pay Wm. L. Moore $65.000 for the loss of the yacht Kanapatha off the Cuban coast last September while used by the Sun as a despatch boat. The pressure for soldiers for the Philippines has reached such a point that the American regular army will have to be supplemented by. 10,000 vol- unteers of the force authorized by the last Congress. There is no foundation for the re- port that the Transvaal has placed an order with an ordnance firm in the United States for ten field batteries of six guns each. Miss Frank Floremen, of Black Hills, S. D., has discovered what Atxin min- ing men believe will become the great- est quartz mine in Alaska and British Columbia. The Michigan Central freight house at Toledo was on Monday destroyed by fire, besides 100 loaded cars, the total loss amounting to over $300,- Innis Bush of New York is in jail at Detroit on a charge of smuggling from Canada $20,030 worth of dia- monds that were found in his posses- Slon. A strike was inaugurated at the Homestead, Pa., steel works, on Sat- urday, whiph may rival the famous battle between capital and labor which was fought theme} seven years ago. The strike in the Chicago stock yards continues in several branches, though the unskilled stockmen suc- ceeded in getting their demands. During a fight between striking miners and negroes near Carbondaie, 111., the negroes burned Union City, where the miners lived. The United States Government bal- ance [sheet shows a deficit of nearly $89,000,000 for the year closed on June The feeling that the war in the Philippines is a useless and most un- promising venture is rapidly grow- mg. The Great Lakes Towing Company has been organized at Cleveland, 0., with a capital stock of $5,000,000. M19. Rainsay, who murdered her husband because he snored, has been "officâ€"ally" declared insane at New York. Santiago has had 14 new cases of yellow fever in the past two :meeting of the Catholic Union Society of Great Britain, held Tuesday in London. All the Catholic nobility of London were present. A letter was read from Cardinal Vaughan express- ing gratification with the attitude of the British Government towards Cath- olics and referring to the cordial re- lations existing between Great Britain and the United States. UNITED STATES. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, the; novelist, died on Friday night. I eventuality of war is very probable. Five hundred Brxtish troops, it is said, were sent to South Africa on Satur- G ENERAL. ’, {esulting in THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. July 13, d.eClareâ€"d [fiat ‘1 against tie; steamer .. La. ion on NOVa is very Aprpbab}? del?8‘ates killed' 'on D ascend [858 A IDS. any en- l' naval antl- Bo u- the the Obituéry . Miss Alma aptress who The Prince of \Vales E but he lost no opportl; Watching a confidential f. Danish court to judge if was as lovely as the pitcu ed her. The answer was even fairer, and the couri Ewith a clear complexion eyes and chestnut hair, amiable as she was acco: whose qualities of heart e of her form. The Prince arrangements to- visit Del ' I the square inch. Moissan, of Paris, and [other experimenters have proaized {;crystals by imitating this process as ,fclosely as possible, but they were too - [small and imperfect to have any value 1 as jewels. Some other process must be 'idiscovered whereby carbon and iron ’can be subjected to an enormous heat and pressure before we can hope to produce diamcncs an a commercial scale. In this condition Prof. Crookes‘ has suggested to the Royal institution that ‘ ‘in their researches on the gases from fired gunpowder and cordite Sir Frederick Abel and Sir Andrew Noble obtained in closed steel cylinders pres- ,sures as great as 95 tons to the square inch, and temperatures as high as 4,000l degrees centigrade.” Here, then, if the- Iobservations are correct, we have suf- ficient temperature and enough pres- . sure to liquefy carbon, and if the tem- perature could only be allowed to act {for a sufficient time on the carbon there is little doubt that the artificial' formation of diamonds would soon pass from the microscopic stage to ascale , more likely to satisfy the requirements éof science, industry and peréonal de- ,‘coration. \VAS A LOVE MATCH. In view of all the gossip from time to time about the Prince and Princess of Wales, the following about their first meeting is of interest. It seems that the eldest son of the Queen fell in love with the photograph of a young girl in a simple muslin frock, with a velvet ribbon arnnnrl flan {In-new ---L:-L After close study of the South Af- rican diamond fields scientists form- i ed the theory that diamonds were made 3in nature’s laboratory from carbon 1i- quefied by enormous heat and pres- sure and dissolved in iron, from which they crystallized out in cooling. 'By cal- culation it was found that this wold culation it was found that this would require a temperature of about 4,000 degrees centigrade, 7,232 degrees Fab-l renheit, and a pressure of 15 tons to [llgllsh Scientists Believe They Cam Make [Mammals by Dynamite. “Diamonds Made by Dynamite” would be a queer sign on a jeweler’s window, but queer things are nound ‘0 haPpen in an age of electric fur- naCes on the one hand and liquefied hy- drogen- on the other. :Ammeghian, one of the young Turks party at The Hague, being examined in a libel suit brought by the Ottoman delegation; admitted having said that the Sultan called himself the father of the people, but that it was as Saturnis eating his own children. He admitted saying that the Sultan permitted the Armenian murders, but stated that 1118 attacks were directed against the Turkish Government. . t g \Vhiie the committee of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce at Madrid on Monday presented to the Government their protest against the new budget. all the stores of the city were closed. in sympathy with the protest. Dreyfus arrived at Rennes on Satur- day and was received quietly. His landing at Quiberon was almost un- noticed. It is reported that his suf- ferings have age-d him greatly. The interview between him and ‘his wife Within the prison at Rennes wasivery. affecting, with the photograph of a young :1 simple mus lin frock, with a ribbon around the throat which companion drew from his poc- h“-.. vvuv "616 [:0 08 mar- be same day as herself. She , 1n his greet her, caused some amuse- rushmg down the gangway 1ne answer was that she was :r, and the courier gave a de- lear complexion, gazelle-like chestnut hair, who was as Stanley i‘ NEW INDUSTRY. was accomplished and pitcure represent- equaled those hat he had of Princess was as ,_‘ “ wes‘iQri edge '1 Gwydyr Castle, Carnarvonshire,~ where the Duke and Duchess of York were recently entertained by Lord Car- .ringtona is a curious old place. It is an ination of the ancien and the modern, for wh' ' vessels belonging 0., White Star and It is stated that the building a fleet of All: asked to spend £500 in renovating the old Tudor building in Epping Forest known as Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge. The lodge was erected in the reign of Henry VII., and is in a good state of preservation The death is announced of Mr. Mor- daunt M. Munro, of Enfield, who was claimed as the oldest bicyclist. He was: 93 years of age, and till quite re- cently was cycling about Enfield. Queen Victoria highly prized an ivory-handled umbrella given her long ago by the Prince Consort. The other The total number of Queen's Jubilee bonfires was about 2,250. England had 1,981, Scotland 305. of which 35 were in Orkney and Shetland, “Tales 162, the Channel Isles 6, and France 1. The late Mr. Vincent Stuckey Lean, barrister, has left £50,000 for the im- provement and extension of the library and reading-room of the British Mu- seum. A London beggar boy, who was asked at the Police Court how old he was last birthday, replied that he " never had a birthday, being too poor tohave one.” The Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the Duke of Cambridge and Princess Frederick of Prussia, were entertained at the Palace of the Quirinal in Rome. The Earl of. Kimberley, K. G., has been appointed Chancellor Of the Uni- versity of London, in room of the late Lord Herschel]. A domestic servant, named Lucy Ward, 16 years of age, awoke at Bur- bonâ€"on-Trent Infirmary, after being in a trance for four days. The death is announced at his resi- e-nce, Rusholme, Surbiton‘, of Mr. Thos. Allen Reed. the well-known shorthand writer and reporter. Colonel Mathias, of Dargai fame, was presented with a sword of honour by his fellow-countrymen of Pembroke. The Prince of Wales has now taken enthusiaSLically to golf, and hardly a day passed but he played round the links at Cannes. The administration of the Niger Coast Pronectorate has been transfer- ed from the Foreign Office to the Col- onial Office. Mrs. Sophia Gray, the Chatham cen- tenarian died recently. She was born at Tunstall, near Sittingbourne, 1794. London’s record of death by Vlolence was 3,514 last year, being 124 above the average of the preceding ten years. Previous to 1834 theHquse of-Com- monsl was lighted by, candles, which were affixed to massive chandeliers. Record of Events Taking Place In the Land of lhe Rose- Interesting Occurrences. Coal has at last been found between Canterbury and Dover._ THE DOINGS OF THE ENGLISH RE- PORTED BY MAIL. IN MERRY 0L1] EN GLANL :9 of: the; '0. 3 paid by the Admiralty .on of vessels belonging P. 0., White Star and auxiliary crusiers cease Atlantic liners i first cost of 3, and so mgs. .. her WW. Mrs'. Parvenoo-â€"I didn’t ”it I was too poor to hire ’em- i M W France. Some of the most rema surgical operations have been Perf‘m ed in connection with the brain, . . 18 now so accurately mapped [1118* a surgeon can tell exactly where PM seat of mischief in ' M Should there be :1 tumor on its exact situation c - ' then the skull is opened a bid. growth removed. '.e SOCleLy beauty, whose comp M" fading, had the outer skin Of her face removed by a long and mOSI process, and now b 1011 of a girl of seventeen. FAMILY DRIVEN MD- . An extraordinary case Of . ' ”.1 Which all members of 3 ' 1". C139; SlStiIlg of father, mother and ion“ 1' dre-n, were simulmneousl." } has occurred at Stavelot, .' to strolling gypsies, Who undeerL of tell the father’s fortune by 111.6392“, cardsy'declared that: he would De ‘- ed while serving in the arm? and hi! were arrested by when. crossing the gimzw t - I AM , . I’owe r. In May, 1890, one of the most It markable su't'g cal operziticns on i-e;~o;d {was performed by Dr. Lavelanguein the Children’s Hospioal at Paris. I! was the case of an idiot child. 1‘! head had stopped growing since it“?! four years of age, and was uni)" 0119' third the normal size. BelieViBE 1h“ ‘the idiocy was due to compression“: the brain, the doctor divided the skull longitudinally and kept the edges!!! the. 001366 from uniting. Fresh d9?” its 0!: bone took place, and the skull Srafiiually exyanded to almost its 910' per size. Then the intellecmal fat ties: Which had hiterto been thostéflf and strong“. _an infant, grew stronger . every day, till at last the child at 3‘3 sound and houithy as any other? France, Some of the most remarkafllf Surgical Operations have beenperfomr ed in connection with the brain, An ldlollc (‘hlld Lintorvd to Full llm “ After having used Burdock 810ml 30 ters for scrofula in the blood,Ifeelitm) duty to make known the results. III treated by two skilled physicians, bntthq failed to cure me. I had running”! on my hands and legs which I could . nothing to heal until I tried B.B.B. remedy healed them completely andpaj manently, leaving the skin and fleshsoul and whole." ,\ [ Ask any doctor and he wnlltellym g that, next to cancer, scrofula isom ; of the hardest diseases to cure. Crewson’s Corners, Ont., pennn ently, when everyone thought sh: would die. Now Mr. H. H. Forest, Windsor Mills, P.Q., states hism as follows : vwâ€"u-vw 5V Yet Burdock Blood Bitters appllel externally to the parts aflectedanl taken internally cured Rev. Wm Stout, of Kirkton, Ont. , permanently, after many prominent physicians failed ; Cured Mrs. W. Bennetol LIVER Pl L! $ ' 1 cannot say more in wonderful pills than that wife from lingering torture, endured for 20 years past, trust that all sufferers Wi Kidney Pills a fair trial." disease 6‘ Scrofula. REMARKABLE OPERATION. SOCIAL CHAT- Livery and to act without any . ing, Weakening of $56 032: Pi“ guafizéfi 3m and UUSIlpation, biIi :adache and dy, rm iMPLEMENT MEWS? Winter Gaods ; Ewing Machines. CHAS; MGKINNON’ . that the 32m NOW Print-S, Mush 0m Business is steadin- \\ 6 want vour will do our utmost to 54:3 CUTTEBSâ€"Large Stock. 13 Makes, Cheaper {11:11: (33's? ROBEQâ€"Large Variety. fr" $4.00 up. 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