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poses 3f flood fiz-e‘ve'néion.” I: is stated that the Bank 01 real paid $120,000 for the pm of the Canada Paper (30.. - Boxer estate adjoining J. Hughes, 3 Kansas man, t: in British Columbia. quarrel _ - _-.....,..V,. a; uuumx. wmlp at play ran a rusty nan znzo her foot. Blood poisoning set :11 and ultimately lock- 'hich after ter- The manufacturers of Bran‘ cluding the Cockshutt Plough Co‘., Massey-Harris Company. and Water- ous Engzne Compant'. have offemd to donate the city $2,500 towards pur- posas 3f flOOd DI'PVan;n-\ eat are now ma f Lt.-Go£. Holmes. D. O. C.. has re- fiuested the City Council of London to vanes: towards the . expenses of the militia miles! out in consequence of the street car troubles. Jennie. the little daughter of Mich- aei Blakeney. of Halifax. whilp at play rap a_ru.sty nan into her foot. Blood The. will of W. W. Turnbull. of St. John. N. B.. disposes of an estate of £655,000 personalty. St. John will have s bomc for incurables. to Cost {100,000 out of it. A Cardiff deputation is in Montreal on a VlSil. to Canada to on trade with Canada. They Will \‘lS'I Toronto. Ottawa and Other cities The Governor-General and Lady Minto have been invited by Carlyle Camp. No._82. Sons of Scotland, to - ' Caledonian games at Chatharn, on Monday Aug. 14. A gallant railway laborer saved :11 Usaster on the Canadian Pacific Ry”: task; at Kamioops by swimming twice! cross 3 stream to warn approachingl rains of the destruction of the bridge! iy tire. ' 'i-ht‘ harbor 00111111381011qu of ‘M'nnv‘ ‘ :15 soon as the street: railway and railway deals at Hamilton have been completed by the Cataract Company Syndicate. it will turn its attention to tn» linc to Guelph. As soon as the railway deals at Owing to the difficulty in procuring iron gliders and columns, work on the new Gmnd Trunk general offices in Montreal has been discontinued until next year. Huiifux Board of Trade has asked the Dominion Uovernm whistling buoy at the entrance to Bali- fax harbour and a lightship off Sam- bro Island. Mr. John Robmson. principal of Dar- ling street school. Brantford. has re- signsd his position, to accept a simi- lar one under the H'xmilton School Board. Several members of the Dufferin Rifles who fiiled to attend camp at Niagara are being prusecuted therefor at the Brantford Police Court. Mia‘s Ada H. Patterson. of the Grady Hospital. Atlanta. G3... has been ap- pointed Iady superintendent of the Winnipeg General Hospital. The Manitoba Legislature has passed the second reading of the bill to per- ml: Winnipeg to vote on the Sunday street car question. Croy forecasts which have begun to appeal in Manitoba show that wheat Ls heading out well, and conditions generally are favorable. The Elder-Dempster Steamship Co.. has received the Government contract to carry the mails. Queenstown will be used instead of Moville. The Gurney-Tilden and D. Moore 8: Co. works in Hamilton have given their stove-moulders a 10 per cent. in- :xease in their wages. Humphrey Guest, the 78â€"year-old thief who has spent 42 years in pri- son, was sentenced to three years in penitentiary at BelIeVille yesterday. An English boy named Thomas Gray, employed on a ranch near Wapella. Manitoba, accidentally poisoned himself on Saturday. lng day A returned Klondiker at Montreal says that 812,000,000 will be taken out of the Yukon this year. J. H. Hall. a wellâ€"toâ€"do farmer of Palgrave, committed suicide by shoot- lng himself. near Georgetown, yester- The Manitoba Legislature has de- feated the bill allowing Winnipeg to take a Sunday car vote. The losses of the insurance companâ€" xes by the recent Quebec fu'e amount to 859,000. ‘3 111mm Mullen aged twenty, was drowned in the Thames near London last night. Robert G. Ingersoll, the well-known tree-thinker, died suddenly yesterday. Miss May Smith committed suicide at Stony Mountain. Man. Piston has voted to raise 815,000 for a new electric light plant. The Gaspesia has been sold in St. John‘s, Nfld.. for salvage expenses. Geo. Aehdown has been elected Mayor of Modern, Man. [HE NEWS IN A NUISHI'J. All Parts of the Globe. Condensed :14 We! for Easy Reading. Great Britain. the United IE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ; nausas man. trapping Lumbia, quarrelled with 3d over the division of and shot him fatally. 1 was dying Hughes cal- on him, even digging a and n- :â€" .eputauon is in Montreal | Canada to encourage 'anada. They will visit um and Other cities. nor-General and Lady been invited by Carlyle T. Sons Of Scotland, to he Bank of Mont- C ANADA. About Our Own Country. the PliOperLies BraanOI‘d, [n- Plough Co and \Vater- 179 offerad [0 towards pur- -§ In recognition of his services in the -jcause of Imperial penny postage, Mr. a‘Henniker Heaton, M.P., has been pre- 3§sented with the freedom of the City :of London, as well as a gold casket, ,;upon one end of which there is a fig- ,; ure representing Britannia, and at the . ,’ Other end an allegorical figure of Can- ’ ; ada. H In the British House of Commons, tMr. George Wyndham, Secretary fort War, said that the three batteries of' iartillery ordered to Africa were go- ?ing as reliefs or reinforcements but UNITED STATES. There is little change in the street ,‘car strike situation at Cleveland. I Chicago restaurants have advanced the price of steaks. N---‘- to prevent hydrants freezing. Clara Barton, of the Red Cross So- ? ciety, from Cuba, has returned to \‘ew York. It is understood that Elihu Root of New York will succeed General Alger as United States Secretary of War. Hon. Charles Gordon, nephew of the Marquis of Huntley and an officer of , the Gordon Highlanders, called at the fhouse of his cousin at 1 o‘clock in the lmorning, and, failing to arouse him. lclimbed to the roof by clinging to the lwatersp-out. He lost his hold, fell to I the ground and was killed. - w‘.r vvv‘a enemy to intercepi a convoy of provi- sion ships coming from Canada to Britain. The British naval manoeuvres will involve a test of torpedo-boat de- stroyers against torpedo boats, and an attempt on the part of a supposed 1‘“ .xm-g Ls It is said in London that Parliament will pass the Pacific cable scheme this session if it receives in time the de- cision of the Australasian Govern- ments on the new proposals made at the recent conference. A London paper says that Emperor William wished to attend the Queen‘s birthday celebration in England, but the British authorities considered the time inopportune and the Emperor took umbrage. In the British House of Commons yes- terday Mr. Goschen, First Lord of the :Admiralty, stated that: the Government would maintain the strength of the 'lnavyoon an equality with that of the icombzned French and Russian fleets. Diwputations from the Obstetrical So- ote'ty. the Queen's Jubilee Institute and! many women's societies will wait on the Duke of Devonshire to urge legislation for the benefit of mid- Wives. Sir Jas. Vaughan, the well-known Bow: street magistrate, announces that he is about to retire, after 35 years' service in the principal London Police Oourt. Although 85, he is still vigor- ous. The Duke of Westminster has pre- sented Lhe 10,000 sovereigns won by Flying Fox on the race {or the Eclipse Stakes on Sandown Park on Friday to the Royal Alexandra Hospital at H-‘hyl. Mr. Henry Plunkett-Greene, the well- known baritone, was married in Lon- don to Gwendoline, daughter ‘of Sir Hubert Parry, Direcnor of the Royal College of Music. The London Electric Cab Co. has dismissed its employes and closed its yard, chiefly in consequence of the dif- ficulty it has had in finding drivers for the vehicles. Unprecedented heat is prevailing in England, the thermometer registering 87 in the shade. Fatalities have oc- curred, and sunstrokes are numerous. 1; is rumored in London that a bat-o [anon of he Scots Guards and a battalion of the Grenadiers have been ordered to Lhe Cape. The Rev. Frederick W. Macdonald, uncle of Rudyard Kipling, has been elected president of the Wesleyan Conference at London, Eng. Emperor William will give‘ a cup and other prizes for a handicap race for cruisers during the Cowes yacht- ing week, Twenty-eight-battleships and cruis- ers have left Portland harbour for Belfast to take part in the manoeu- vres. The Rev. Charles Graves, D.D., D. C. L., BishOp of Limerick, died 310:1- day, in his 87th year. Great Bnt‘xin expects an avexage yield. of wheat and barley, but a short- age 1n the oat crap. OtQawa City Council has accepted . the proposal of the Street Railway Co. ’that, conditional upon being allowed to run Sunday cars the mileage paid to the city should be increased one- seventh, seven tickets should be sold for 25 cents, and that school children’s tickets. which are now sold 40 for $1, be accepted on the Sunday cars. GREAT BRITAIN. In London a great auk’s egg has sold for £300, a record price for an egg. Mrs. Gladstone was thrown from her pony carriage at Hawarden, and was badly shaken up. In the Manitoba Legislature Prem- ier Greenwzy said: It is not the in- tention of the Government to intro- duce this session a measure prohibit- ing the sale at intoxicating liquors to the full extent of the powers of the province. It is the intention to intro- duce such a measure in the first ses- sion of the next Legislature. their works at Lower Lachi-ne. The addition will give the company an increased Capacity tron) 7,000 to 8,000 tons per year, or about 40 per cent. in- crease in their present output. Ming to arouse him THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. August 3 ' tâ€"uuvu LCJ of the prohibition of expanding bullets an 31mg projectiles. 2 United States delega :he proposition. _ -_ -,Vw uttusn seamen andâ€" {11183- A peacetu} settlement of . tty was fares} owed 1n the Governo ’ A terriiiiz Province of 1 the City of teen bodies ha ruins and it Of- life will u a mewourne the Eastern bxte pany has made. toria Government Australa to South LO the colonies. despatch says that nsion Telegraph Com- an offer to the Vie- to lay a cable from Africa without cost rested some time by the Transvaal. reduced from big disorder. A Melbourne the Eastern hvfn‘ Naval Lieut. Boi Czarewitch s Compar when upbraided by t] ing the Czarwitch (co - vvv “w V'LUHUG UULL. The British cruiser Bonaventure, re- ported ashore in a bad position at Cornilov. has been floated to Hong Kong. They are mediating G dismissal from his coma he 18 now charged with Minister of War. The Indian Government has annex- ed Nusnxi. in BeloucnisLan. paying an annual rental [or the territory to the Khan of Kelat. further trouble among the Pathans on the northwest irunLier of Indlan is reported. The boiler of the boat Aider exploded, am and four men. Austrian gorpedo killing a hemen- A French menagerie proprietor has accepted a Spaniard's Challenge to match abuil against two Mons. Hundreds of Spanish laborers engag- ed by the naval contractors at; (11b- raltar. are on stroke and threaten ILOLS. The Pope has resolved personally the religious opemng the century. Cubas crops. especially sugar, are equ’eL-ing from lack of rain. though this IS the rainy season. Immense damage has been caused throughout Germany by heavy bait and thunder storms. The United States system is replac- ing the Spanish in the Maniila courts. There is more reported fighting 1n Samoa. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, will tour Central India in October. Recent rains have __flooded Manila. They are moving about the streets in Qoacs. ket. George M. Valentine. cashier of the suspended Middlesex County Bmk at Perth Amboy. N.J., was sentenced to six years in the New Jersey Peni- tentiary. He had pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny in connection with his misappropriations of about $200.- 000 from the Middlesex County Bank. The full amount of the defalcation has not been ascertained. but it is under- stood that it exceeds $208,000. GENERAL. Drouth is causing distress in Cuba, - Storms have devasted Chili. Forest fires are raging in Sweden. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Spauiding, at Washingtonv has remitted the penalty of $3,200 im- posed on the Canadian Steamer Com- fort for violation of the law forbid- ding the carriage of coastwise p-as- sengers by carrying a Fourth of July party from Marine City. Mich., to an- Othel‘ mint in the United States via a Canadian port. Fred Riehlman, of Otisco.- “N. Y.. has been fined $10 for hitching a horse by its tongue to a traction en- gine and then starting the engine. The animal rearedi, tearing out five inches of its tongue. Senator Fairbanks, chairman of the Joint High-American Canadian Com- mission, still expresses confidence that some arrangement may be made which will result in a resumption of negoti- ations on the Alaskan boundary. The reciprocity treaties negotiated by the United States with Bermuda and other British \Vest India colonies were signed on Tuesday at Washing- ton by the representatives of Great Bri- tain and the United States. A Washington report says that out of 56 officers and 1,316 men of the Second Oregon Regiment only 49 were killed in battle or died of disease in the Philippines. At Indianapolis. Munroe Hedgeg. aged 106 years, walloped his son H;- ram Hodges, aged seventy, because Hiram came home in liquor and abus- ed} ms wxfe. At POQSPkeePSie. N.Y.. George Bur- gess. a. cwxl engineer out of work. is gathelrlmg driftwood on the Hudson to se . An order has been received by the National Electric Co., of Milford. Conn. for 50 complete sets of electric bells and fire alarm boxes for Windsor Cas- tle. Independent telephone compqnies. in the United States are consohdatlng to fight the Bell. charge against .the Mr. Elihu Root of New York has ac- cepted the Secretaryship of War in President. McKinley’ 3 Cabinet. -vâ€"v-w W‘â€" 5 time ago in Johannesburg nsvaai. authorities has b§en om high [reason to causmg Piedipting Gen. Peilieux mm“; mm. remeuxs his command in Hans Baissman, the late inlun. shot himself the Czar for ailow- ,0 go cycling alone. resolved to conduct religious ceremonies 1 ziner Galâ€"spesia . Lawrence Gulf. S“Frame Court the salvage for Prisoners ar- lying to the The gown sho the pattern mad. adapted to the sty i3 t0_be made. 1 designed to accom} Painting is 35980]. decoration of pa form will per-ham “99¢. for unless 9 They must painted, and very lovely and designs are the result. Let ‘,“nl-:ll - ‘ unusual not the mLich given to walls. the Chinese lan- Time has left its marks upon this hoary monument of China’s early civ- ilization. The climate is severe, and the fierce winter blasts from the Mon- golian plains alternating with hot winds from the south in the change of the monsoon are enough to crumble the best of masonry. A good deal of F the earliest wall has undoubtedly dis- appeared, and from century to century much of the structure was repaired or entirely rebuilt. In the course of thisl work the lines of the wall for long stretches were wholly changed, and the work of different generations is ap- parent in the various architectural aspects of the structure. The easter part of the wall. north of Pekin, is supposed to have been the latest to while for stretches further west it has disappeared entirely. ml..- nu ' ed China to develoy into a strong na- tion, for during the process the great barrier was of much assistance in keep- ing outside barbarians from molesting the. country. lies before the great conqueror lived the wall had well served its pwurpose It stretched all along the northern frontier of China and none of the hordes of the north had been able to pass it. Day and night for centuries Chinese guards were mounted on the towers that overtopped the wall, and they always gave timely .notice of the approach of an enemy. Garrisons were stationed at every gate and natural passage through the walls, and townsl Sprang up at these encampments, many of which became important mar- ket places. Thus the wall really help- In the end the wall was a failure, for it could not keep out of China,the hosts of Genghiz Khan, who swept over it and conquered the country in the thirteenth century. After that time the wall ceased to have any strategic importance, but for fourteen centur- l’roposal to Tear It Down for the Bulld- lng Stone It Contains. - Four or five companies, European and American, are said to be interested in the preposed tearing down of the Great Wall of China. The wall hap- pens to be in the best state of repair, yin districts that are most accessible Land populous, and it is believed that building stone from the wall will be worth fortunes to those who may sew cure the concession to tear it down. There are supptsed to be fully 4,000 mil- lion cubic feet of masonry in the great structure, which has atotal length of. about 2,000 miles, including its many windings and the double and triple lines of wall that are construCted at some places. A mysterious epidemic which has been prevailing recently among the cattle on the Swedish Island of (30thâ€" Land, has spread to the human beings in the district, and, a Large number of patients have been admitted to the 'hps-pitals. Some of the cases are ex- tremely difficult to diagnose. Cattle are dying by hundreds throughout the [stand as a result of the epidemic. «Negotiations by an United States- syndicate have been closed for the sale of Papocatepti volcano, Mexico, and $500,000 in gold, the purchase price, has been paid to Gen. Gasper Sanchez, who owned and Operated the sulphur deposits in the crater of the volcano for the past 25 years. A triple murder of an American named Ward and two Japanese wo- men at Yokohama, the supposed cause being jealousy, brings an Am- erican sailor named Miller under the Japanese Law as the suspected mur- derer. This is the first case under the new treaties. be tried will sit. This will enable the prisoner to escape the annoyance of observation by the curious. THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. THE REAL THLNG‘ --‘â€"-U QVUWI 1 English lines. He there expert cricketer, and still 'eat interest in the game. s a yvalled town, and the empu‘e requires that ev- surrounded by a wall of ”L‘- m‘ o - ,1899. William_ R ads to order, be duplicated. first aha 0. boot heelsvan' a shoesiring}: mm I’d call for de shoes :1: m}- A shoemaker run me. out 0' VOW“ “" most 2 He. Wot fled him? 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