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The Government has decided to comâ€" mute the sentence of death passed upâ€" on an Indian boy named Samien at Kamloops for the murder of a trader named Elkins. There are many mitiâ€" gating circumstances in the case. Of a party of five French Canadians who left St. Bonifacs, Man., for Dawâ€" son City last spring, three are dead, and two were lying dangerously _ ill with typhoid fever in Dawson hoâ€"pital when last bheard from. Mrs. Niles and ber son were driving from Merritton to St. Catharines when their horse backed the buggy over the bigh bridge at the Lincoln Paper Mills. The horse was drowned, but the ocâ€" cupants escaped by jumping. Miss Mary Allan of Hamilton made a wonderfully plucky attack on a burâ€" glar who entered her room in the night. The intruder _ knocked . the young girl down once and struck her again with a stick, but she managed to drive him off. TBA N NSE The Licensed Victuallers‘ Association in Montreal claim that Quebec‘s maâ€" jority against prohibition will exceed 80,000, more than cancelling the vote in 90.000, more than cancelling the vote in all the other Provinces. The Royal Canadian Humane Society at Hamilton has made awards to Fredâ€" erick Belyea, Blue Rock, N.B.; Theoâ€" dore Flatt, of Drayton; G. Glenton, Sydney, C.B., and to John G. Edwards, of Township of Walpole, for conspicuâ€" ous heroism in saving lives. Winnipeg officials have requested the Hon. Sydney Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, to assist them in tests for tuberculosis in cattle, in connection with the city‘s milk supply, the danger in that connection having been urged upon the Ottawa authoritics. Jake Gaudaur, the champion oarsâ€" man, figured in a case at Osgood« Mall, Toronto. His former partner in _ a hotel business at Rat Portage applied for an injunction restraining Gaudâ€" daur, from continuing the business, also asking that a receiver be appointâ€" ed. The application was refused. An immense tract of country bas been burned over by fire in the Eye Hili â€" district, . Saskatchewan. _ The stables and cattle sheds of Thomas Felds and P. Paynter were destroyed, as well as the stables on the ranching tract of the Indian Department. The Imperial Defence Board are exâ€" amining the strategical points in and around Montreal. Range batteries, it is said, are to be constructed on Mount Royal, works erected covering the apâ€" proach to the city by the river, and a line of forts covering the strategical points on the frontier. Mr. J. R. Booth, president of the Canâ€" ada Atlantic Railway has informed a deputation of employes that the comâ€" pany is not in a position at present to increase the wages rates. Ottawa‘s total assessment this year is $23,713,725, an increase of $825,700 over the previous twelve months. The population has increased 1,659, the city now bhaving a total population of Marion Brown, the oneâ€"legged tramp arrested in Washington Territory on the charge of shooting P. C. Toohey at London in June last, was returned to London on Sunday in charge of detectives. Masons of Dawson City have petitionâ€" ad the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba for a dispensation for the organization of a Masonic i(')(‘!so.-â€":l'he Grand Master has recomâ€" mended that the dispensation be isâ€" Mr. F. R. Lingham, the well known cattle king and speculator, of Belleâ€" ville, Ont.. has left for Delagoa Bay, Africa, where he has large interests. The liquidator of the Commercial Biank at Winnipeg bas declared a furâ€" ther dividend of $5 per share to the shareholders, making $11 per share so far paid. There has been a decided improveâ€" ment in the export lumber trade of Otâ€" tawa during the past few weeks, and large quantities are being sent to the American market. There was a big volume of traffic at Sault Ste. Marie in September, over three million tons of freight passing through the canals. The regulations for the disposition of quartz mining claims on Dominion lands in Manitoba, the Territories and the Yukon have been amended to proâ€" vide that the Minister of the Interior may grant locations for mining copâ€" per in the Yukon, each location to conâ€" Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Thomas Kent bas donated to the London Hospital Trust $1,000 worth otf paidâ€"up stock in the Dominion Savings & Investment Society. It is reported at Victoria, BC., that gold quartz has been found near Skaâ€" guay, going $1,000 to the ton. John S. Douglas, a Winnipeg insolâ€" vent, has been sentenced to jail in Montreal for three months for defraudâ€" ing his creditors. CANADA. Typhoid fever is still epidemic in Dawson City. Mr. Thomas Cowan, postmaster of Galt, is dead. Nova Scotia gave a majority of 29,â€" 199 for prohibition. Over 150 gamblers were arrested reâ€" cently in Dawson City. The Yukon river is now reported to be closed to navigation. The Province of Manitoba gave a maâ€" jority of 9,291 in favor of prohibition. The assessors‘ returns at London show an increase this year in the city‘s population of 466. U & P Cl 3 0 M London‘s city bospital treated 874 persons during the year. The total exâ€" penses were $15,341. Twelve Pinkerton detectives are emâ€" ployed on the Molsons Bank robbery case at Winnipeg. Twelve Pinkerton detectives are enâ€" gaged in the Molsons Bank robbery case at Winnipeg. ALJ, THE WORLD OVER. All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. A â€"rising of natives in the New Hebrides has been reported. The apâ€" pearance of a warship. however, put an erd to their warlike manner. The bodies of two victims of the Bourgogne disaster were washed ashore on Sable Island two weeks ago. There is no means of identifying the men. The Rev. Dr. Alexander Connell, chosen as the successor of the late Rev. John Hall in New York city, is a brilliant pulpit orator, 81 years old, The private bank of Jacob Denhudâ€" er, at Zeland, Mich., was broken into on Tuesday morning and the safe robâ€" bed of ten thousand dollars. The sofe was blown to picces by dynamite. A storm was on at the time, and the reâ€" port was taken for a peal of thunder. The United States generals at Snaâ€" tiago de Cuba are considering the adâ€" visability of establishing a quarantine against infected ports. There ‘is no yellow fever at Santiago. The death rate in the city is now fifteen per day, which is considered low under the circumstances. a Scotchman by birth, and is now fillâ€" ing the pulpit of the Regent Square Presbyterian Church, London. It is reported at Madrid that of the 700 Sisters of Mercy sent to the war 100 perished, 3090 remained in bospital service, and 300 returned with the sick soldiers. The Austrian War Office has been experimenting with automobile transâ€" port wagons and gun carriages. The experiments proved highly successful, snd it is said that wagons and gun carâ€" riages of this character wili be adopted by the military authorities. The yellow fever situation throughâ€" out the State of Mississippi is assumâ€" ing grave proportions. _ Three interâ€" state railroads have practically susâ€" pended business, and several short lines are on the verge of a temporary shut down due to the lack of trade. Twenty thousand or more people have hurriedly left the State. and are now refugees in northern cities. GENERAL. Russian newspapers suggest arbitraâ€" tion between England and France in the Fashoda affair. Reports from Yokohama‘ say that three Chinamen, said to have been enâ€" gaged in the conspiracy to poison the Emperor, were hanged October 10. Exâ€"Queen Liliukaland, of Honolulu, is about to visit Washington to seek percuniary redress for the loss of reâ€" venues from ber crown lands, owing to the annexation of the Sandwich Isâ€" lands to the United States. «General satisfaction is expressed at peror William‘s journey to the Fast peror William‘s journey to the East by nearly a month, through the omisâ€" sion of Egypt from his itinerary. _ It is semiâ€"officially announced that he deâ€" sires to get back to Berlin to open the Reichstag in person. Owing to Italy‘s financial straits, the Minister of Marine, Admiral Dicaneâ€" varo, has renounced the sweeping naâ€" val programme involving the expendiâ€" ture of 540,000,000 lire and will be satâ€" isfied with a naval credit this year of 28,000,000 lire. _A Ministerial crisis is thus averted. It is expected that the budget for the current year will show a deficit of 17,000,000 lire. Calcutta has been officially declared free of the plague. The German Arctic expedition has returned to Norway. They report no trace of Andres. The Swedisch Naval Roard will ask the Government for $3,752,000 for exâ€" penses of the next two years. Admiral Sampson is extremely ill in Havana. He has been constantly failâ€" ing. and is unable to do any work. hundred and sizty acres in a square block, the boundaries lying east, west, porth and south, and not more than one block to be granted to the same party within ten miles. The grant contains no rights to any other minâ€" erals. The royalty to be paid to the Government on the gross output of copper shall not exceed, five per cent., and the Minister of the Interior is emâ€" powered to make regulations for enâ€" suring the development of such areas and for the payment of the royalty as be sees fit. The Eldridge geological survey parâ€" ty reports athtgntle the dlscove;r{‘ 9: a mountain peak in Alaska, Whl‘)(‘om;o the highest in America, being ul feet, far higher thar Mount St. Elias. Seventeen sailors killed and 84 cas; ualities all told, was the total loss 0 the United States navy during the reâ€" cent war. The figures have just beel: compiled at the Navy Department a Washington. Miss Shade was accidentally shot by a young man named Corcoran, at Carâ€" lyle, IIl., on Monday. Corcoran thought he had killed the girl, and then put the revolver to his head and blew his brains out. The girl will live. THE LAST BLOW. You say he died from a single blow administered by himself? Yes; he biew out the gaal The man Woodward, who was arrestâ€" ed in London last week on suspicion of having desecrated the grave of Wm. Penn, at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, has been liberated upon a medical cerâ€" tificate, showing that he is irresponâ€" sible for his actions. Policeman Mikkelson, of Chicago, shot and killed himself on the grave of his wife in Mount Olive Cemetery there, on Tuesday. The People‘s Telephone Co., of New York, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000,000. It will ogerate in the United States and Canâ€" ada. UNITED STATES. Michigan raised the greatest crop of wheat in its history this year, over thirty million bushels. The Duchess of Marlborough, formerâ€" ly Miss Consuela Vanderbilt, of New York, gave birth to a son in London yesterday. » It is reported in London that Mayor Andrews, of Winnipeg, has gone to Edinburgh to try to induce capitalists there to invest in Winnipeg bonds, he having failed in London. The United States will collect tonâ€" nage tax on British yachts visiting American ports after April ist next. Several of the largest United States railroads are planning to move for a reduction in sleeping car and chair Mme. Albani will} visit the Queen at Balmoral, October 29. GREAT BRITAIN. TORONTO _ The first of these have already arâ€" rived, and the remainder will follow |as speedily as possibvle. The hospital arrangements for their reception are complete. ‘There are hundreds of ecmpty beds in the wards, and shou‘ld |it become mecessary to provide more ‘accommodalion, ordinary cases will be \removed to other military hospitals, in order that all the Soudan invalids may be under treatment together. | Several men who were sent home wounded from the Afridi campaign are at Netley still, but they are all conâ€" | valescent, and will be discharged very Result of the Government‘s Recent Tuberâ€" culosis Experiments. A despatch from Ottawa says:â€"The Department of Agriculture promises to have information available shortly in connection with the experiments into the causes of tuberculosis and methods of prevention and treatment which have been conducted by the Dominion veterinaries. _ More than a year since the department announced its willingâ€" ness to test cattle in various parts of Canada, where there was any suspicion of tuberculosis. The result has been a very general testing of the Canadian berds, and the collection of accurate and valuable information such as could not have been gained by other means. The Roanoke Arrives From St. Michuel‘s With Gold Dust. A despatch from Seattle, Wash., says:â€"The steamer Roanoke arrived on Thursday from St. Michael‘s with about 500 passengers and gold dust estimated at two million dollars. Of this the Canadian Bank of Commerce Not more than seven per cent. of the animals tested were found to have contracted the germs of the disease. This is a most agreeable surprise to the authorities here, who had rather inâ€" clined to believe that the disease was far more common. The slaughtering of the infected cattle will go a long way toward stamping out tuberculosis in Canada. The liveliest satisfaction is felt over the smart captures; and the German Consulate has expressed its warmest thanks. Nine Itallan Anarchists Arrested at Alexâ€" andria and Rombs o( Great Strength Discovered. A despatch from Alexandria, Egypt, says:â€"The Alexandria _ police have arrested nine Italian anarchists since Thursday evening, and have thereby frustrated a plot against Emperor William, now on his way to the Holy Land, to be present at the consecraâ€" tion at the Church of the Saviour at Jerusalem. The police investigation showed that the arrested cafeâ€"keeper had bribed the steward of a steamer sailing on Friâ€" day from Alexandria to Port Said and Syria to take on board a box of bombs. ASSASSINS‘ PLANS CHANGED. Apparently the anarchists originally intended to use the bombs at the Palais Abidin at Cairo, while Emperor William and the Khedive were there. When the Kaiser decided not to visit Egypt, the anarchists changed their plans, and decided to attack him in Palestine. The Cairo anarchists who left for Port Said have not yet been arrested. The first to be arrested was a cafeâ€" keeper, ‘a wellâ€"known â€" anarchist, in whose house the police discovered two wireâ€"wound bombs of great strength, full of bullets, This arrest was made in conceâ€" quence of i@ notification from the Italian Consulâ€"General at Cairo that gavpdunarchists had left Cairo for Port id. has $600,000 and the Bank of British North America $750,000. The richest individual on board is said to be ~K. Langlois, of Tacoma, Wash., who is credited with $100,000. The Roanoke left St. Michael‘s on October 8th. The steamers Portland, Protection, â€" and Geronne were in port. They expected to leave in a few days. All sailing vesâ€" seils had left St. Michael‘s and St. Miâ€" chael‘s was soon tc be deserted for the They will find their new surroundâ€" ings very cool and pleasant. The famâ€" ous hospital is situated in one of the prettiest corners of picturesque Hampâ€" shire. Around it lie chirmingly woodâ€" ed little valleys, with the faint tints of early autumn just showing upon the leaves. These now make a delightful picture when viewed from the hospital. The hospital grounds, too, are looking their best. Broad, wellâ€"lighted corâ€" ridors run along each division of the hospital, and from these the men will be able to enjoy splendid views of Southampton Water and the New Forâ€" est. Ner Majesty to Visit the Soudan Sufferers Mospital â€" Arrangemenits for Their R° ception are Complete. F A despatch from London, says:â€" The deep interest which the Queen takes in the soldiers who are maimed or wounded while fighting the counâ€" try‘s battles will soon again be deâ€" monstrated. As .soon as all _ the wounded who are on their way home from the Soudan bave >een gatherâ€" ed into Netley bhosp.tal, her Majesty will visit them. In order that her Majesty may be spared the fatigue of making a couple of journeys to Netâ€" ley, as was the case when she desired to show her sympathy for the woundâ€" ed from the Indian frontier, the next visit will be deferred until all the Soudan invalids have arrived. R winter. soon, when their artificial limbs have been fitted, for most of them suffered amputation of one limb. Until just recently alarga section of the hospital was crowded with invalids from the Salisbury plain manoeuvres. These poured in so thickly that extra beds had to be put up. Most of these patiâ€" ents have now been discharged, and the wards they occupied are ready for the sick and wounded from the Soudan. A MOST AGREEABLE SURPRISE. PLOT TO KILL THE KAISER. . ow m lz i) c i) Heiiiichs ‘Docmbele. Sndiicct TWO MILLIONS MORE. AND THE WOUNDED es Cbin: 2 fln Their Stations, Thirty Miles Apart, Will Be Stopping Places for Traveliers. A despatch from Seattle, Wash., saysâ€"The chain of police stations on the Yukon from Lake Bennett to Dawâ€" son is completed. On the last trip of the steamer Canadian up the _ river Copt. Harper, commanding the Northâ€" west Mounted Police, stationed five men at each post. ‘They have supâ€" plies for two years and many dogs. The stations are thirty miles apart. a> soliliers are to carry Government despatches up and down the river this winter â€" and _ will werk â€" between posts. They are also instructed to give as:istance in every way possible to the outcoming travellers. It is esâ€" timated that 8000 people will come out over the ice. The posts will be of inestimable value to them. They will not have to carry supplies, or blankets, as sleeping quarters will be provided for. The Government mail carriages will also use the new posts. They will carry the public mail, while the soldiers rush through that which is intended for the Government officials. A sysâ€" tem of expressing bas been started by the backers of the mail contractor and it will be possible to send packages to Dawson during the entire witnter. The Lizard head, Cornwall, is the most southern point of ® _‘ "â€"<‘*~‘~ 28 miles east of Land‘ two lighthouses, with fi> vated 200 feet above th coast at this point is o1 dangerous in the Britis LATER. The latest information of the wreck of the A port Co.‘s steamer Mohe; eleven passengers and i and cattlemen have bee ing 50 in all, while 48 ; 65 of the crew probably Accounts are conflicting, appear that 83 bodies ha ered, of which at least !.. passengers. ie is ds + o8 55 Fiftcen Thonsand Men Forced to Re. main Idie. A despatch from Pittsburg Pa., says: â€"Window glass plants throughout the United States failed to start the seaâ€" son‘s operations at midnight Friday. 7"1‘Ilreficoas(guards are watching for bodies and wreckage. The lifeboats have gone into Port Houstock. LIFEBOATS AT WORK. Later.â€"A lifeboat has landed 80 of the Moh:gon‘s paâ€"songers, and returnâ€" ed for more. One lady died after she was brought ashore. NB F Fires were blocked and may be extinâ€" guished, and 15,C00 workers who have been looking forward to a general reâ€" sumption on October 15 are forced to remain idle. The strike isâ€" for an adâ€" vance in the wages of the cutters and flatteners, but is really the result of a«fight between the Knights of Laâ€" bour and the American Federation of The cause of the disaster so far is a mystery. â€"This intelligence was forwarded from the coastguard by telephone to Falâ€" mouth. £ One of the victims was‘ Mr. James Blackey, buyer for the firm of John Macdonald & Co., of Toronto, Miss Fraser, a Montreal lady, and Miss Shepherd, of Woodstock, are also reâ€" ported to be among the lost. The coast at this point is extremely dangerous, and has been the scene of numerous wrecks. Some years ago there vas a movement set on foot to get a lightship placed there. but it failed. FOUNDERED AND BLOWN ASHORE. A later despatch from Falmouth says the Mohegan foundered and was probably biown ashore by the heavy east wind after her machinery was disabled. All the Falmouth tugs went out, but none was able to approach the vessel. ONLY 31 PEOPLE SAVED. According to a despatch just reâ€" ceived at 330 a.m., from Falmouth, out of the 200 persons constituting _ the passengers and crew of the Mohegan, only 31 have been saved. [ The officers and crew of the steamer are stated to have shown great heroâ€" ism, and all the surviving passengers appear to have nothing but praise for the ship‘s company. There are siaister rumors that the Mohegan was not sound, although a new ship, her boilers and engines beâ€" ing asserted to have proved very weak. The ship‘s owners deny these stateâ€" ments. EN TT # Lifeboats put off from the Luqrd and from Falmouth, one returning fillâ€" ed with passengers. Several were drowned, however, it is reported, on the passage of the lifeboat to the shore. Another lifeboat saved six perâ€" sons. The Steamer Mohegan, With Fifty Passen«â€" gers and a Crew of One Hundred and Fifty, Goes Ashore in a Galeâ€"Terrible Loss of Life Reported. : A despatch from London says:â€"The Atlantic Transport Company‘s steamer Mohegan, formerly the Cleopatra, of the Wilson and Furnessâ€"Leyland line, which left London for New York on Thursday, with 50 passengers and & crew of 150, is ashore off the Lizard, between the Manacles and the Lowâ€" lands. It is rumoured that there has been a great loss of life. A coastguard mesâ€" sage reports that the passengers are "drowning like rate." BODIES WASHING ASHORE. Another report says bodies are washing ashore, one being that of a lady with both legs severed, and lashâ€" ed to a plank. Particulars as to the disaster are difficult to obtain. It appears that when the Mohegan struck a gale was blowing, and the sea wAs running high. | t TX s oo a AN ATLANTIC LINER WRECKED OFF THE LIZARD. # " DROWNIG LKE RATS." POLICE ON THE UPPER YUKON. GLASSâ€"WORKERS STRIKE. ;;yâ€"”&,u: 9 The examination of the Emperor by a foreign doctor is a complete innovaâ€" tion. It has often been urged, but had always been refused by the Emperor himself, and the Dowager Empress has evidently taken this step for the purâ€" pose of silencing rumours as to the Emperor‘s condition. It was at the suggestion of the Briâ€" tish Minister, Sir Claude Macdonald. that the Chinese Foreign Office reâ€" quested the physician attached to the French Legation to examine the Emâ€" peror, the reason assigned for this step being that this physician was the only one attached to the Legation. Four Men Killed at Joanna Statton, Pennsylvanita. A despatch from Reading, Pa., says : â€"Four men were killed by the exploâ€" sion of a Wilmington and Northern freight engine at Joanna station on Monday afternoon. The dead are:â€" :“\"illi‘:‘am Hart_lis:.l_:er, _ engineer, â€" aged A despatch from Pekin says:â€"The physician who visited the Emperor Tuesday morning made a minute examâ€" ination of bhis Majesty in the presence of the Dowager Empress, Prince Ching, and a aumber of mandarins. Exact deâ€" tails as to the specific disease from which the Emperor is suffering have not been obtained, but he is weak, anaâ€" emic, and requires constant care. He is in no immediate danger, was cheerâ€" ful, and showed the utmost deference to the Dowager Empress. The doctor promised to send his Majesty a presâ€" cription. en coal and'tréighi-e;-;;" piled on top of each other, of the engine ing of freight cars down the line, so that they were struck by the express bound up. The explosion of naphtha was probably due to bringing a naked light into a compartment which, it might have been known, was filled with inflammable vapour. The Tivoli fire, 1 HPNY CiiB Nictet esnt ns TT o0 , Willis Woodward, brakemn-:. Harry Huydam, conductor. All lived at Birdsboro, and all wekre married and leave families, except Huydam. â€" The bodies were horribly manglad T+ i. se 2.cclc2 0c c Weessbt that each wuas entirely preventable. The railâ€" way wreck was due to the careless loadâ€" in its turn, was practically a repetiâ€" tion of the fire in the charity bazaar in Paris last year, without the frightâ€" ful holocaust that attended that fire. It was due, like the other, to the reckâ€" less handling of cinematographe apâ€" paratus. A Medical Examinii:>n believed the water "It would be a great calamity if, after peace for upwards of eighty years, our friendly relations should be disturbed, and we should be launched in a great war, but there are greater evils than war, and we shall notshrink from anything that is coming, knowâ€" ing that we are supported by a unitâ€" ed people." Regarding the Fashoda question, he said he wicshed cordially to acknowâ€" ledge the desire, evidenced in the speeches of Lord Rosebery and Mr. Herbert Asquith, to help the Governâ€" ment in the matter, "a matter which might develop to the utmost gravity." "It is impossible," be continued, "for France to maintain that she has poliâ€" tical rights at Fashoda. She has naâ€" turally and properly asked for time to receive Major Marchand‘s report, but until the contrary is proved I deâ€" cline to believe that France will reâ€" fuse to withdraw. If she refused, the matter would assume an aspect as grave as is possible between the two great nations. * R¥£ ‘"‘The Government is animated . by the friendliest spirit toward France, and does not wish to inflict humiliaâ€" tion. _ What we desire is fair treatâ€" ment. Our work in Egypt is not completed. : Africa is big enough for us bothâ€"for France in the west and ourselves in &he east. Surely we ought to be able to agree to respect one wanother‘s rights and claims. GREATER EVILS THAN WAR. "I hope, trust and believe the quesâ€" tion is capable of a friendly solution; but this country has put her foot down. If, unhappily, another view should be taken by France, the Queen‘s Ministers know what their duty deâ€" mands. Anything 'hu Is Coming. A despatch from London says:â€"Sir Michael Hicksâ€"Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at North Shields on ‘Wodnesday ~evening, anâ€" nounced that the Government . had opened negotiations with the powers with a view of securing to the subâ€" jects of the various powers the "right of developing the respective spheres in which each country is especially inâ€" terested." GREATER EVILS THAN EVEN WAR FIRE IN A CROWDED THEATRE. CHINESE EMPEROR IS ALIVE. British Chanceilor of the Exchequer LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODEsSs. amimiison Places Tha t Fact Beyond Dispute. ariu_ ‘,, C °CCC‘, _ agou Mills, fireman, aged 35; were scattered in all diâ€" ill these soâ€" It is her husband did not live happily to m An axe was the weapon used have not yet been received. Khalifs in Great Straits. * A despatch from Cairo says:â€"Stray parties of dervishes in various portions of the Soudan are desirous of surrendâ€" ering, but, dreading the vengeance of the local tribes, they will not leave their hidingâ€"places. A Man and Four Children Murdered is the West. A despatch from Winnipeg says:â€" Word reached the city on Baturday erâ€" ening of the murder of a Galician and his four children in Stuartburn colony “-nuuotnomi.ion()ity. Hit wife is missing, and it is supposed The unpopularity of Mahdism is sc great that anyone who is suspected of be’i;ng a dervish is in serious danger The Khalifa appears to be in great straits. He and his few followers have but little grain left, and are living on their cattle and on milk. General Rundle will clear the counâ€" try of the Gedaref dervishes. A serious problem which the Soudsar presents is the surplus women who will have to be maintained. The numâ€" ber is placed as high as 300,000. Information was given to the police by Eva Bernatovitch, one of the vicâ€" tims who had been locked up in the church vault and maltreated. No food was allowed them except a few biscuits and some water, and their minds were worked upon by fantastic apparitions produced by â€" means _ of phosphorescent effects upon a skeleton with an enormous head representing the devil. Father Beliakevitch has been arrestâ€" ed, and is now in goal, the authorities refusing to allow his proivisional reâ€" lease, though heavy bail was offered. He is looked upon as a martyr by his flock. The inquiry is still proceeding. Everywhere Greeted â€"y Throngs of Cheer~ ing Inhabitants. A despatch from Constantinople says : â€"Emperor William furnishe the staid Turks on Tuesday with one of the most interesting days in the annails of their capital in his time. The city was crowded, and the sight seeing and ceremonials would have exhugnted a less enterprising potentate. " Wher ever be went he was greeted by throngs of cheering inhabitants. Early Tuesday morning hbe proceeded t Eyou, in the State caique, propelled by 14 black oarsmen. He made a thea trical progress around the old walls his suite accompanying him, in th meantime the Empress made an ex cursion to Mount Tchamlidja, on the Asiatic coast of the Bosphorus. Thei majesties returned to Yildiz Kiosk at MUST MAINTAIN 300,000 WOMEN. A despatch from St. Petersburg, says:â€"According to long and detailed reports published by the newspapers of St. Petersburg, the town of Kovno, in Russian Poland, has lately been thrown into a condition of great exâ€" citement by the discovery that several persons, principally women, had been forcibly carried off from their homes by servants, cloths taken off their backs and flogged and confined in a vault of the church. Besides this they were compelled to go into church during the morning and evening services and to throw themâ€" selves on the ground, where, at the inâ€" stigation of the priest, they were kickâ€" ed, insulted, and> spat upon. After this the lprisoners were taken back to the vault. on an excursion to the Upper Bos phorus, dining with the Turkish Minâ€" ister of Marine on board the Turkish Imperial yacht Sultanish. noon, and gave a reception to the foreign envoys, after which they wen! Here, it is said, Father Beliakevitch, the priest in charge, submitted them to all sorts of indignities, tearing their clothes off their backs and flogging them with cords and rods. TORTURED IN A GHURCH VAULT. A despatch from Odessa says:â€"The Vladikavkas circuit judge had recentâ€" ly a case before him in which a Mullah, Akhmet Ramasanoff, was accused of torturing a Caucasian woman named Kouffa Karcheretovoi, with the conâ€" nivance of her husband. It appears she suffered from fits, which, aaccording to the views of the Mullah, were causâ€" ed by the devils in her. The poor womnn lay on her stomach for nine months continually before the wounds on her back healed, and now she is a helpless cripple. _ . Another woman treated in the same way forgave her husband, and thus obtained his release. As the woman would not name the devils of her own free will she was tied to a stake over a slow fire and kept there, in spite of ber heartrending sbhrieks, which came, as the Mullah averred, not from her, but from the devils in her, for over eight hours, unâ€" til she fell into a state of unconsciousâ€" When questioned by the judge as to his reason for subjecting the woman to such inhuman torture, the Mullah said he did it for her good, and it was the usual practice with them in such MOST INHUMAN TORTURE, TIED HIS WIFE TO A STAKE OVER A SLOW FIRE. GALICIAN_ FAMILY TRAGEDY. Came From ** The Devi‘,‘"‘ Lt KAISER IN TURKEY. Russian Practiceâ€"The Victim: kxunction of Mahdismâ€" ‘1\"6:: as she and t 9 How a m..j‘or‘lelpd the MA new parson who joined at a home station was most anxious 1 prove the general conduct of the ade service. Amongst other thin decided to adopt the eastward po during the recitation of the C Orly the oolor, who in a . gai church are those members of the whose instruments are unsuitabl church music, would be affected they alone occupied side pews, was no aggrieved parishioner t sult, and the matter could be arranged at the weekly practice the chaplain was disappointed. fect, bowever much as it migh satisfied him as an ecclesiaslic pleased himasa soldier. His id to repeat the first two words and make a pause, then, as he egain, the choir were to turn man and proceed with the decl of their convictions «imultan But from the chaplain‘s point o the rehearsal was most slovenl he confided the fact to the ser major, on whom he was paying inext day. Then the sergeantâ€"ma, wised. "If 1 might suggest, gnt let things be ‘as you were unday, and I‘ll step up next pr The chaplain gratefully acguwe at the next practice the sergeant accordingly stepped up. No circumstances or set of conditi eradicate or even dull the milit ‘stincts of a sergeantwmajor. m short conversation with the ch: and then addressed the choir. men." The mere sound of his vol electric. No little band boy no on the choir desk. The tixird of the hands were on the seami trousers and the heads erect. the man struggling with the sat to attention. ‘The sergean proceeded. *"When you ‘ear man say ‘Hi blieve‘ not a mov words is only cautionary; but starts on ‘Gord the Father,‘r go on yer ‘eels." Then to the â€""N . , sir, you try." The was wise enough to note t scared words had been uttered seived in pesfect good faith a out a semblance of profanity thanked _ the sergeantâ€"ma j "tried" forthwith. Success . stantancous. \ Empress Eltzaboth Bociined tC MWorsolf to Xâ€"Ray Photograj An interesting picture is d Miss Emma Peotber, a nw waited upon the dllLfated P Empress of Austria, during when the victim of the assass was recupcrating at Nauhein letter tothe Frankfurter Fin id she says among other U To assist in making a pro sosis of the heart trouble of a0s18 Ady, lan., ian, made an rer. When a . nmade to use the wmid: ‘No, no, pr ite it again.‘ * is absolutely nee you and my b me. I will no the peasant boys it to my brother beart‘ To me «fterward:; ‘I do happened to me. VIDONMWI®® press was a most obedieni pa nature was_ naturally sefi seorned artificial means to ; natural _ beauty. Her € fauliless, and ber beau«.{ul like a crown upon her h never wore any jewels, and thing of value she carried w with a Greck inscription. correspondence was kep!t up ber and the Emperor duri journ at Naut heim." A mother‘s place is by no. easy one if she is truly ints her child4ren, for she must fet these virtues must be (‘,unllq in berseli if she accomplish h with ber child. Se|{â€"cont rol the most difficult attribute f er at ali times, but one of 1 portant. Mothers cannot exp it in their children unless v able to see the same in the lessons may be given a litt in its avtempts to help itsel to climb and perbaps take down it goes. lts first inc to cry, but the wise moth of snatching the little fell ning to the window, showi ite picture, or something t attention, will lovingly tle one to be brave. As the barder bumups tle life, the being brave wi on him until in later life he The full name of the 8ul mati, who received the O Lion of Nasran at Queen soronation, is Tadjul Mar fillabilihanan Siradjui Mul «din Iskonder Hnnauurnm? | waminaiadi‘in _ Sjah Pa har Rasidbinkiank Sudibja As the barder bunups com tle life, the being brave wifl on him until in later life he to face the more serious 0 in his path with e brave hb dependence upon self when er‘s band can guide bim th f.mt trouble in the h the arbitrary controlling by the parents and the sud ing hbim upon his own when the suvitable age ap rents do not watrch for ever ity to unconsciously impla trol in the babe, the child, not expect it to drop as 1 heaven when he is placed must depend upon hin.elq IN THE BRITISH ARMY. Te me the Empr d; ‘I do mnot like to _ Every time I hay OBJECTED TO IT. iC MOTHER A SULTAN‘S NA n graph ‘ome 1i Otherwi PLAC by no 3