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ny "@ 18 NWSs N NSE Mr. A. E. Forget, Indian Commisâ€" gioner at Winnipeg, has been appointed Lieutenantâ€"Governor of the Northwest Territories. Mr. Forget will be sucâ€" ceeded as Indian Commissioner by Hon. David Laird of Prince Edward Island. A preaat deal of damage has been doue |s the State of Wisconsin by forâ€" est fHres In the sity of Cumberland the los~ imounts to $225,000. The fires ta the »~r‘thern part of the State have been g=»=ched t:{ a heavy downfall of rain. â€" Sezaral deaths are reported. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Greast Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Acsorted for Easy Reading. Iron ore is being shipped from Marâ€" quetts, Mich., to Deseronto, Canada. Kingston‘s population has increased £$08, according to the assessors‘ returna A scheme is on the tapis for the esâ€" tablishment of large cotton mills at Chicoutimi. Mr. Justice Robertson refused the Crown‘s application for a chinge of venue in the Ponton case. For stealing three cigars a boy namâ€" ed Thomas was sentenced by Police Magistrate Spencer of Owen Sound to the Reformatory at Penetanguishene for three years. Mr. W. M. Davis, Town Engineer of Woodstock, has been appointed to a similar position in Berlin. Mr. W. H. P. Clement, barrister, of Toronto, has been appointed member of the Yukon Council and legal adâ€" viser to the Commissioner, in succesâ€" slion to Mr. F. C. Wade. John C. Kaar, a lad of about fifteen years, was instantly killed at Brownsâ€" ville, by being caught in a belt and wound round the shaft, which severed his head from the body. Mrs. Boomer, the lady member of the London School Board, has succeedâ€" ed in baving aresolution passed enâ€" dorsing the proposal to teach domesâ€" tic science in the Public Schools, Four winers were burned to death in the Midvale slope of the Lehigh Vaiâ€" ley Coal Company at Midvale, Pa., on Saturday. A firse broke out in the slops about noon. At the time there werse & men in the mine. All were gotters out but four. Mrs. Weist of Weissenberg drownâ€" esd herself in the soft water barrel. Centenary Cburch congregation .of Hamilton has decided in favor of inâ€" dividual communion cups. An aorderâ€"inâ€"Council has been passed appointing Thursday, Nov. 24th, the last Thursday in the month, Thanksâ€" giving Day. Mr. Archibald Blue, of the Ontario Bureau of Mines, reports that the corâ€" undum deposits in Hastings and Renâ€" frew counties are very rich. W. A. Parks, B.A., and W. E. i. Carâ€" ter returned to Toronto on Saturday from a trip to Moose Factory, Hudson Bay. They travelled over 1,500 miles in a fifteen foot canoe. A farmer‘s son, about eighteen years of age, named Ellert, employed at a cider mill at St. Agatha, was struck by the bursting of the flywheel and instantly killed. CANADA. Ottawa claims a population of 56,000. There are 40 cases of typhoid fever in the bospitals at Ottawa. Nothing has yet been heard of the whereabouts of Rev. John Smith, of Halifaxr, who left for Pembroke a month ago. The steamship Milwaukee which ran on the rocks near Liverpool, has been cut in two and one half of the vessel towed to that port. UNITED STATES. Hiram Maxim, the inventor of rapid fire guns, is under arrest at New York en a charge of bigamy. John Hollingworth and his friends fired on a party of five men who went to bhis place in Cannon County, Kansas, on Saturday to execute a judgment. Four of the men were kllle({ outright and the fifth cannot recovear. Fort William merchants almost to a man will adopt a atrictiy cash system with customers this month. Mr. 1. Ryan, of New York, has been in Ottawa instructing the Tammany Protective Society of that city in the government and methods of the famous organization that _ controls New York. Mr. E. H. Morss, of Blenheim, was examining an acetylene gas generator with a lighted match when an explosâ€" lon took place. He was terribly burnâ€" ed, and it is feared may lose his eyeâ€" sight, or even his life. School commissioners of Outremont, near Montreal, have caused the arâ€" rest of Dominion Veterinary Inspector Dr. McEachran, alleging that the docâ€" tor‘s establishment for treating aniâ€" mals for tuberculosis is a menace to the health of the school. GREAT BRITAIN. A ruffian under arrest stabbed a policeman to death in London, Eng., yesterday. &enator Hanna, believed by many to be President McKinley‘s chief advisâ€" er, declares for the United States holdâ€" ing the Philippines. He is decidedly opposed to any proposicion to pay Spain $400,000,000 for them. At Adrien, Mich., Mary Service, a widow, 87 years old, committed suicide Saturday rather than die of cancer. Gigantic frauds, it is said, have been discovered in New York‘s asphalt payâ€" ing contracts. ~©‘There will be another clvic scandal eommittee. Snow and rain have checked the proâ€" gress of the forest fires in Colorado, and it is now thought that further deâ€" struc.ion of the timber will be preventâ€" Captain Brad{, of the United States Signal Service, has been ordered to beâ€" gin the construction of an overland telegraph _ line from _Quantanamo, Cuba, to Santiago and Manzanillo. Samuel Green Wood, president of the Coatsville, Pa., National Bank, was robâ€" bed of a valise on Sunday at Philadelâ€" phia which contained $10,000 in bonds. On #uturasy at Pittsburg Bertha P VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Smallpox and typhoid are reported to be afflicting the American force at Manilla. A battle took place between United States regulars under Gen. Bacon at Bear I<land, Minn., Indians, in which four soldiers were killed and nine wounded. _ How many Indians were killed is not at present known. GENERAL There are 20,000 Spaniards in Porto Rico who desire to be returned to Spain. Beilstein killed her mother and put four builets into her body, from the effects of which she cannot recover. Frederick Beilstein, the father of the family, was one of the best known reâ€" sidents of Allegheny. He died sudâ€" denly in December last from apoplexy, and since then the daughter has been despondent. Hugh Heldon, of Tacoma, Wash., has brought suit against the Grand Court of Washington, Ancient Order of Forâ€" esters for $15,003 damages for injuries alleged to _ have been _ received while being initiited into the order. Heldon alleges that he was compe}â€" led to ride an electric goat, resulting in injuries to his spine, from which his physician says he will never recover. It is the opinion of the medical staff of the American army in Porto Rico that the condition of the volunteer forces _ necessitates their _ removal north. s i to Arrangements are being made bring to8 the United States for _mteri ment the bodies of all theâ€" so.ldugsbg the American army who died in (l:l + Porto Rico or the Philippines. 200% gress made anappropriation of $2 it of for this purpose, and the.execut;:) ols the law has been placed in the tathe of the quartermasterâ€"general t;:o o army with instructions to spare fort or expense. * u RTC CC MUUR IUST, P Senator Quay and his son are being tried at Philadelphia on a charge of using State funds in the People‘s Bank for their own speculations. The British steamer Ganges, which sailed from Montreal a few days ago, is reported ashore at Ferrole, on thse French shore of Newfoundland. She is said to be full of water and will be a total wreck. Reports from the flooded districts of Georgia state that a hundred lives have been lost. Hgorts A despatch from Sierra Leone, West Africa. saysâ€"Native chiefs to the number of one hundred have been arâ€" rested and are awaiting trial at Freeâ€" town, capital of the British colony of Sierra Leone, for the murder of Ameriâ€" can and other missionaries at Kwellu in May last. A number of the chiefs implicated have already been convicted. Three laborers, named Mussik, Hartâ€" man and Koracks, of Budapest, conâ€" victed of plotting against the Emperâ€" or‘s life. were sentenced, Mussik to five years penal servitude for conspirâ€" ing to commit high treason, and Hartâ€" mann and Koracks to two years each. Senor Sagasta, the Spanish Premier, believes that Russia is working for the formation of a new triple alliance comprising Russia, France and Gerâ€" many, which would leave Japan as England‘s only ally in the far east. 2nd Edition Admiral Cervera has accepted the invitation of the constituency of Ferâ€" rol to represent them in the Cortes, and that he has promised his supâ€" porters that he will reveal the whole truth about the mismanagement of naval affairs by the Madrid Governâ€" ment, which resulted in the disaster to his squadron at Santiago. Merra Leone Nattve Chtefs Convicted of Murderâ€"The Massacre Grow Out of the Hut Tax. The rebellion in May, 1898, which led to the massacre of the missionaries of the West Coast of Africa, grew out of the dissatisfaction of the natives with thse imposition of the hut tax, and spread through tha Sherbo districts, where the headquarters of the Ameriâ€" can missionaries membersof the Unitâ€" ed Brotherhcsod of Christ, were located. The insurgents burned the missionâ€" houses and murdered a number of the American missionaries, inclucing Mr. and Mrs. Cain and the Misses Archer, Hatfield, and Schenck. Other of the missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. _ Burtner, Mr. and Mrs. Minshell, and the Misses Muller and Ward, succeeded in escapâ€" ing to Freetown. . Terrible experiences were recounted by those who escaped. For three days there was awful bloodshed, while tze natives were engaged in the work of massacre and destruction. A boat‘s crew from a British war hip just reachâ€" ed amissionâ€"hsuse in time to rescue Miss Muller. A number of the natives frightfully besmearad with the blood of earlier victims, had already surâ€" rounded the building when the sailors appeared on the scene and rescued the women. FAST ATLANTIC SERVICE. A despatch from Quebec says:â€"Mr. H. Allan, of Montreal, was in the city toâ€"day, and had a conference with Sir Richard Cartwright in reference to steamship matters. Temers for the two years‘ mail service, oonn{ncin.rr May lst next, are not due until the 1st inst., and when the contract has hbeen awarded the Government mlm no time in endeavrounring to ago for a fast service to be inaugurated by May 1st, 1901. The British Royal Commission apâ€" pointed to investigate _ the French treaty rights in Newfoundland, has completed its tour of the treaty coast, and will return to St. John‘s to comâ€" plete the evidence concerning the difâ€" ficulties between Fremnch and British subjects over the lobster, cod and herâ€" ring fisheries by studying the colonial archives. This is expected to occupy a couple of weeks, after which the commissioners will negotiate with the Colonial Ministry for a basis of setâ€" tlement with France. A British expedition was subsequentâ€" ly despatched to the scen» of the upâ€" rising, and the cremated bodies of the murdered misslonaries were recovered. The British then severely punished the rebellious natives, but the search for Mrs. Cain, who fled to the bush at the time of the massacre, proved fruitless, and it was concluded she was killed. SLAYERS OF MISSIONARIES. At 12.40 the special train passed the station, and signal shots were fired from the south end of the train on | the special‘s arrival. Immediately 'shuts were fired from _ the moving train, and outside the battle began. ! A few moments after the train passed | the switch where Kelley was stationed and while he was talking to two citiâ€" zens, he threw up his hands and dropâ€" ped dead with a bullet through his , brain. He was the first man killed. DESPERATE FIRING. The train continued to the stockade, the miners firing into it all along the route, and the negro passengers reâ€" turning the fire. _ The moment the train passed the | stockade the miners opened a desperâ€" |ate fire with Winchesters, and fireâ€" arms of all kinds. The negroes on the train answered with a steady fire. The miners and the train were envelâ€" | oped in m cloud of smoke, and the ‘ shooting sounded like m continuous volley. TEN KLLLED MANY INJURE] A Besperate Encounter Between Striking Illinots Coal Miners and Imported Negro Latourers. A despatcfi from Virden, I!L., says: â€"â€"The trouble which it was anticipated would signalize tha arrival of the colâ€" oured miners imported from Alabama by the Chicagoâ€"Virden Coal Company to work the, idle mineg in this district occurred on Wednesday. When the train having on board the negroes pullâ€" ed up in front of the Coal Company‘s stockades, it was met by 1,500 armed miners, lined up on each side of the track. Stories conflict as to whether the first shots were fired by the strikâ€" ing miners or by the special police of the Coal Company, who were guarding the stockades in which other nonâ€"unâ€" ion miners were housed. THEY WERE RECEIVED WITH A HAIL OF BULLETS. For ithe past two weeks rumours have reached Virden daily that a train having en board negroes from Alaâ€" bama would reach the city, and the Chicago and Alton «lepot has been surâ€" rounded day and night by vigilant miners awaiting their arrival, Wednesâ€" day the Chicago and Alton limited, due to pass here at 10 o‘clock, passed disâ€" playing flags in the rear, indicating that aspecial was following. Immeâ€" diately the word spread, and a dense crowd of miners lined the station platâ€" form, while another crowd collected at the entrance to the stockade hall, a mile north of the station. D. B. Kelâ€" ley, a Chicago aud Alton detective, stood guard at aswitch at the south end ef‘the station platform to see that it was not tampered with. C Up to 10 o‘clock on Wednesday the list is 10 dead and 35 wounded. A detail of militia at 10.15 o‘clock Wednesday night shot and killed exâ€" Lieut. of Police Tom Preston, of Chiâ€" cago, at the stockado. He was standâ€" ing outside the stockade as guard. The militia gave byâ€"standing miners the command to halt, and Preston conâ€" continued walking back, to the gate, The militia fired, and he was shot in the stomach. Battery "D," of Galesâ€" burg, under Captain Craig, numberâ€" ing 160 men, arrived Thursday night. WHAT LED TO THE TROUBLE. The trouble among the miners has been brewing for some time. â€" The proâ€" prietors of the principal mines in the district, which are operated by the Chiâ€" cagoâ€"Virden Coal Company, declined to grant the 40â€"cent scare, and thestrike resulted. After allowing the mines to remain idle for some weeks, they made an offer to pay 28 cents a ton, and to employ 40 or 59 of the old miners if they desired to resume work. . This was declined. The company then deâ€" cided to import negro miners from Alaâ€" bama, and asked Governor Tanner to send troops to protect their arrival. This the L?overnor declined to do, charâ€" acterizing the imported men as exâ€" convicts. The company on Tuesday afâ€" ternoon, sent this uitimatum *s *4e Governor :â€" in orang " We again give you notice that we are ?ing to osente our mines, and we absolutely decline to assume sry of the responsibility that the iaws of Iilinois place upon the Exeoutive. The mob of armed men at Virden is awaitâ€" ing the arrival of the men who are @oing to work tbc‘r“. with the avowed intention .of assa and not ‘m Our employes aroe hnot M to to assault :fl{% but ar gohl.to work. _ And in going, they are hage Engineer Burt Tigar received a bulâ€" let in his arm, and dropped from his seat. His fireman seized the throttle, pulled it open with a jerk, and the train was under speed carrying a load of wounded negro passengers to Springfield. How many were wounded is not known. FIGHT AT THE STOCKADE. The train stopped at the stockadse but two minutes. Its departure did not cause the firing to cease. The tower of the stockade was filled with sharpâ€" shooters, armed with Winchesters, and they kept a steady fire into the crowd of union miners. Eye witnesses say that the dead miners were _ killed after the train departed. fully acquain INSIDE THE STOCKADE. A reporter secured iadmittance to the stockade late Wednesday night. He found one man, A. W. Morgan, of Chiâ€" cago, dead, and seven seriously woundâ€" ed. _ There were about 85 men staâ€" tiened inside the stockade last night, each keeping watch through a loopâ€" hole. _ Manager Lukens remained at his desk in the office inside the stockâ€" ade all night issuing orders to his men. Manager Lukens said ; ‘"The blood of every manshed hereis on the Governâ€" or‘s head. He is absolutely outside the law, and has no justification whatever in refusing to send troops to protect the men brought here by us. His statement that a miner bad the same right to fight for his property, which was his labor, as the mine owner had to protect his property, inspired these men to the action which they took toâ€" day in firing upon this train as soon as it came into our town."‘ _ _ _ _ It was when the battalion emerged from the policeâ€"guarded station that the enthusiasm broke out in the dense masses of people gathered to welcome | the soldiers home, and their march ltrom the station to their barracks was in the nature of a triumphal progress. \ _ On arriving at the barracks, the | warâ€"stained _ Grenadiers â€" received a | splendid welcome from the other batâ€" talions of Guards, whose massed band \played ‘"The British Grenadiers," and \‘"The Return of the Guards." the same prerogative, â€" distasteful though it may be, ithat was forced once upon a time, if history tells the truth, upon the gentleman now in the Execuâ€" tive‘s chain at Springfield. This comâ€" pany and its employes are within the law, and shall stay within the law, and we shall expect every right guarâ€" anteed by law. We are deaiing with an existing condition that just now will not admit of the> discussion of «uestions of sentiment as to trades unions, nor the commercial fortunes of competitors, nor the political fortunes of any individual. ‘The responsibility of bloodshed will not be placed upon ‘"‘The Chicagoâ€"Virden Coal Co., "T. C. LOUCKS, President." Bheriff Davenport on Tuesday issued a card, which explained his attitude, and lined him up with the Governor. He sayzâ€" "I have no proteetion for foreign coloured miners who may come into my county. There is not one out of twenty of the best citizens but thinks it wrong to bring this kind of labor into the country, and they cannot be blamed. I further state that if it were possible for me _ to get men to go to Virden to make a fight to bring negro miners into the mines, and to see some of our white members shot down like dogs for this kind of labour, I would prefer to resign. I have done and â€" will do my duty as sheriff, as I <understand it, but protect imported miners I will not." Not 80 Much Enthusiasm Showan Since the Crimea. A despatch from London, saysâ€"The enthusiasm displayed in welcoming home _ the First Battalion _ of the Grenadier Guards from the Souâ€" dan exceeded any previous demonâ€" stration of a like nature since the reâ€" turn of the British troops from the Crimean war. The streets from Waterloo station to Wellingon barâ€" racks were black with people. There was a brilliant gathering of military chiefs and relatives of officers at the station; but there was such an eviâ€" dent desire to repress anything like exuberance of feeling that their waelâ€" come seemed cold, "How are you, old chap?" being generally the most afâ€" fectionate greeting heard. One lady ran up to an officer es he emerged from the train, threw hor arms around his neck, and kissed him. He su> mitted, buit rather shamefacedly, as though it was altogether a too deâ€" monstrative proceeding for a Britâ€" islelsoldier to be guilty of. 3 Some shippers in Ontario are not content with the crop but are making enquiries in Nova Scotia to pick up some of the fruit in the Annapolis valâ€" ley. Mr. 8. Nesbitt, of Brighton, reâ€" cently secured 20,000 barrels in the neighborhood of Canning and Kempâ€" ville, in Nova Scottia. ‘The apples from Nova Scotia will be exported via Montreal, for it is said that during the summer season no suitable steamer Ontario Erporters Are Rushing Them Forward. A despatch from Montreal says:â€" Montreal is just now shipping more apples to Europe than all the other cities on the Atlantic coast put togethâ€" a profitable fall this year, for there is not likely to be any surplus on hand. The shipments from points east of Torâ€" onto have been and will continue to be light, but west and north shipâ€" ments have been fully up to the averâ€" age. _ From Kent, Essex, Grey, and Bruce large consignments have gone forward. _ _ 3Â¥ 25 c er. Ontario exporters are rushing them forward, and every. effort is beâ€" ing made to take advantage of the favâ€" orable markets on the other side. The apple shippers are looking forward to There were many pathetic seenes. The men looked guant and weary, inâ€" stead of the strapping fellows, who left London, and thére were hundreds of touching reunions of the men with their wives or sweethsarts. The Seoâ€" ond Battalion of Grenadier Guards entertained their comrades at dinner, and, as may be expected, there were lively scenss about the barracks until late that night. Many of the returnâ€" ing soldiers brought with them interâ€" esting relics of the campaign, in the shape of dervish swords, spears, Of shields. Much interest has been evoked by the German military attache‘s report of the battle of Omdurman. He says he was particularly struck by all the operations, except the charge of the Lancers, which he claims was absurd. On the other hand, the German officâ€" er says the handling of the artillery was absolutely unequalled, and be asâ€" serts that the endurance and spirits of the troops _ were beyond _ all praise. The recent British military operaâ€" tions have had a most satisfactory inâ€" fluence lately upon the recruiting of the army, especially in the case of the Guards, and the Twentyâ€"first Lancers, who distinguished themselves by makâ€" ing a brilliant charge through the dervish army at the battle of Omâ€" durman. WELCOME TO THE GUARDS. APPLE SHIPMENTS. there, and if they _ As for the Parigians in general, they | seem to look upor the troops as formâ€" ing part of a spectacle specially arâ€" \ranged for their benefit. They are inâ€" corrigible sigh s>ers. There is nothing |they like better than voir pasa»r les solda‘is. Every family has brothers or song in the army. Consequently there is a deep and sincere affection linking | the people and ithe military together. | _ NUMBER OF MEN ON STRIKE. ! There are at this moment on strike 8,000 navvies, 2,000 laborers, 500 cartâ€" ers, 1,000 wharfinge:s, 5,000 locksmiths, |5,000 masons, 2,500 stonecutters, 3;500 house painters 2,500 plumbers, 2,500 carpenters, 2,000 mechanics, and 5,500 ‘ cabinetâ€"makers. In all, some forty |thousand strong men are idle in \Paris toâ€"day. Thes> numbers may be ‘ enormously _ incresged. Not only ‘have various participating trados deâ€" | cided to continue the strike, but strongâ€" \ly worded appeals have been sent out ; to those unions that have not yet joinâ€" led. Among these is the railway umon. |It is feared, however, that the strike lmay soon spread to this important asâ€" sociation. Already, with a view of meeting such a measure, the Governâ€" ment is preparing to utilize a branch of the military, while, should the bakâ€" ers join the ranks of the disaffected, bread may have to be made in the forts around Paris. This, at any rate, is a report. What is certain is thn%tâ€" the Government has taken steps to p tect such men as choose to continue their work. The Temps says that if their right to strike is not disputed ttfir right to work is equally undonb{ able. THE CITY OF PARIS. Labour Situation Becomes Critical Owing to the Sympathies of the Army Being With the Peopleâ€"Forty Thousand Men Are Edie. ALARMING STATE OF AFFAIRS IN JTRIKE GROWS SERIOUS A despatch from Paris says:â€"Paris slowly taking on the appearance of a huge camp. Troops are to be seen evâ€" erywhere. Detachments of infantry or cavalry are on guard at every spot where a building is being constructed or demolished. Monday about eleven thousand soldiers of different arms of the service were brought in from varâ€" ious points to reinforce the military garrison of the city. There was no disorder, it is true; but the Governâ€" ment does not intend to be taken by surprise. There is a growing spirit of oppostâ€" tion among the strikers. They resent as an attack upon their chiefstrength the m@bstention of any department of the building trades from their strike. Where persuasion has failed to induce hesitating workmen to join them, a mild sort of violence has been tried. Some stonecutters working upon some sculpture that will make the Champs Elysees hotel a remarkably fine strucâ€" ture were disagreeably surprised the other day to find a group of strikers calmly sawing through the tall poles supporting the scaffolding on which they were working. Naturally enough they hastened to get . down to solid earth as quickly as possible, where they were cooly informed they must put on their coats and join the strikâ€" ers in the name of the solidarity of labour. Owing to the threatened strike of railway men the stations at Grenoble, Aarris, Bethune, Lons, and other points have been occupied by soldiers, GovERNMENT wWILL NoT INTERVENE. ; The efforts of the Municipal Council and the General Council of the Seine to procure the intervention of the Govâ€" ernment in behalf of the strikers have failed. Interviews with Prime Minisâ€" ter Brisson, M. Maruejouls, Mirister of Commerce, and M. Godin, Minister of Public Works, had negative results. All the railway stations in Paris are occupied by the military. The comâ€" panies have engaged extra men and taken other precautions for possible, but unexpected, defections. _ This is the kind of coercion the Govâ€" ernment has determined to stop, and that is why so many troops are now quartered in Paris. ‘RAILROAD MEN ORDERED OUT, In consequence of the Railroad Men‘s Union deciding on Thursday in favor of a general strike, and sending inâ€" structions to the provincial branches to cease work, with a reminder of the secret measures agreed upon at the Railroad Men‘s congress for the hinâ€" drance of traffic in the event of a strike, the police in the afternoon raidâ€" ed the offices of ithe committee and seized all the papers found there. _ In consequence of a false report that the police intended to close the Laâ€" bor Exchange there was considerable excitement among the strikers, who gathered in large numbers around the bvilding, remaining until dispersed by the police . The troops have been orâ€" dered to remain in barracks. add It must be admitted that the soldiers cause no fear in the people. Even ihe strikers hail them with cries of "Vive l‘Armee!" At some places where work is still going on, such as the Exposiâ€" tion buildings, recalcitrate workmen hobâ€"nob, chat, joke, and argue politics with the very troops who are there to see they do not molcs: the nonâ€"strikâ€" ers, or renegadcsa, as they are called by their former comrades, who have reâ€" fused to carry bricks, make locks, build walls, or paint windows because the navvies have demanded an increass of pay. o eP Py POLICE ARE POWERLESS. It is indisputable tbat the matter has PROTECTED BY TROOPS. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TOoRronto | TSUNGâ€"LIâ€"YAMEN OBJECTS. | The Russian Cossacks and British marines which were summoned to proâ€" | tect their respective Legations arriv« ‘ed at Tienâ€"Tsin yestorday, but Viceâ€" ‘roy Yuen refused to allow them to proâ€" ceed to Pekin without orders from the Tsungâ€"liâ€"Yamen. The British and Rusâ€" : sian officers, acting under instructions \from their Ministers, did not attempt i to force their way to their destination, ‘but awaited further orders. & | _ Meanwhile a body of German marines arrived. During the day three promâ€" ‘inent members of the Tsungâ€"liâ€"Yamen | visited the Legations and tried to inâ€" ‘ duce the Ministers to cancel their orâ€" ders for troops. The foreign repreâ€" sentatives met in the evening and reâ€" solved to demand the with:uwal of the difficulties placed in the way of the troops, and also to demand that every facility be furnished for their {’ourney, including special trains. Simiâ€"« ar facilities must be provided for the |\ other contingents when they arrive. . This is the question people are askâ€" ing themselves. There is some doubt about it. Certainly the Municips) Council, after having encouraged the strikes in a certain measure for elecâ€" toral reasons, seemé to be trying to back water. All contracts for the city work will be annulised and taken over for completion by the municipal auâ€" thorities. This wise decision, however, seems a little late, as the nmavvies whose claims will receive satisfaction, now refuse to begin work until the other trades that have formulated grievances have also won their cause. A CRITICAL SITUATON. This, then, is the situation: More than forty thousand workmen are idle, and their ranks are censtantly inâ€" increasing. To control them there is an army which has not only sympathy for the people, but has a secret griev= anceâ€"namely, the attacks made upon it by the DreyFusists What will be the result if the people ard army should come in conflict! Paris â€" in fact, Franceâ€"seems to be on the edge of a volcano, and the worst of the sitâ€" uation, said a close observer, is that there is not a statesman in the Govâ€" ernment, or we should not be in the pogition we are toâ€"day. grown to its present dimensions through the numerical weakness of the police and their consequent inability to cope with large bodies of men, whos only work just now is going about tryâ€" ing to prevent others from earning their bread. With the presence of many armed troops in Paris this state ot'thinzn should be changed, but will it Keyv. Mr. Short, of Kingsion, Pays #$300 For Building Society Stock. A despatch from Kingston, Ont., says:â€"At noon on Monday a man namâ€" ed C. R. Horn was arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false preâ€" tences. Last Thursday he called on Rev. Mr. Short and stated that he was a representative of the Canadian Loan and Building Association, and solicited stock. After some talk Mr. Short disâ€" missed the man, saying he would think the matter over. Horn saw Mr. Short sgaain, and the deal was closed, The clergyman gave the stranger, whom he had never seen a note for $250, and $50 cash. This was in payâ€" ment for ten shares of stock. Later Mr. Short found Horn under the inâ€" fluence of liquor, and this caused Mr. Short to lose confidence. He telegraph» ed to the beadquarters of the company asking if Mr. &orn was an authorized agent, and reseived the reply that he was not. Then Mr. Short d.cldod: have him arrested for having collect money under faise pretences The po. lice got $280. . Caran d‘ Ache‘s cartoon in the Figâ€" aro has sinister weight. It represents the blind Republic turning into the twentyâ€"esighth years of her existence. Awaiting her in the road are a Medâ€" usaâ€"headed hag holding brief bags of the Dreyfus affair, a sturdy workman standing idle with folded arms, Britâ€" anna with a trident and shield bearâ€" ing the motto, "Fashoda," the Dus d‘Orleans and the Prince LouisNapole< on, both ready to enter, into possession of France; a scowling Arab and a long perspective of other enemiss. _ And right into their midst is walking the blind Phrygian â€" bonnetted _ figure. Philosophy here truly joins hands with caricature. Is the French Reâ€" public really at a turning point in her Chinese Foreign OMce at First Objected to Their Coming, But They BHad to Cive Way,. A despatch from Pekin says:â€"A deâ€" tachment of 66 Russian soldiers with two sevenâ€"pounders, 25 British marâ€" ines, and 30 German marines, arrived bere toâ€"day and marched through the city to the quarters assigned to them. They will protect the Legations of Rusâ€" sia, Great Britain and Germany. Large crowds witnessed the arrival of the European reinforcements, but there was no extraordinary incident. The Chinese appeared to be cowed. *"Chenâ€"Paoâ€"Chen, Governor of the Province of Huâ€"Nan, who is the most enlightened Governor in China, and has been active in introducing foreign lléxprovementa. bas just been cashierf e .QI historyt MARINES PROTEOT THE LEGATIONS. FOREIGN TROOPS NOW STATIONED AT PEKIN. PERMANENT RUSSIAN ESCORT. The Pekin correspondent of the Time: says:â€"There is good reason to fear that the Russian Cossacks who have arrived here to protect the Russian Iegation will be retained as a permâ€" anent escort. Further opposition is not expected, but unless the Tsuagâ€"liâ€"YÂ¥amen moves promptly the troops will probably be moved without its consent. The Tsungâ€"liâ€"YÂ¥amen‘s appeal to the Legations took the form of an entreaty to spare China the humiliation of bringing foreign escorts to the capiâ€" tal. Finding the sppeal in vain, the Tsungâ€"liâ€"YÂ¥amen has acquiesced and promised a special train for toâ€"morâ€" row. CLERGYMAN WAS SWINDLED. 4 % € M o * ho