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*% E PP ORt SCs aons uns TCt . d Toronto doctor, was addressed to Rose, and signed with initials by Mr. Bond. It was as follows : " As you were to be in Collingwood first of week, I want to remind yoa shat what you promised to send has not come yet, and to make a long story short, if it don‘t come by Saturday or Monday at the latest, I will place the matter in the bands of a lawyer; so, then, look out for yourself, for I mean business, and expect to be treated as if I were worth it. I got $1,000 for the last two cases and no kick was made by the parties, and here you are objecting to pay a couple of hundred. What do you mean by tTreating me in this manner? For two straws I would squeal right now, but as things have gone as they have. I will give you the time you have asked. &o now it is up to you to make good in this matter or look out for me." John tose‘s Statement. John Rose, the insurance agent, who was the Crown‘s chief witness, was then called. He is a whiteâ€"haired man of 60, wich straggling chin whisâ€" kers. Rose told of writing the policy on the prisoner‘s mother and of the insurance on Brown‘s stepfather, of which the prisoner got only a porâ€" tion, because of some mistake regardâ€" ing the age of deceased. In order to secure his mother‘s consent to be inâ€" sured in his faror, the prisoner had promised to give her $200 of her husâ€" band‘s insurance when be got it. Then the witness got into the story of the aAlleged attempt to do away with Mre. Brown, and of his saving her from the murderons designs of her son. Brown, he said, sent for him about the end of August, atating he wanted to see him at the water. f ies sfemiiient dAitinpiziineiih oi is doh ... his mind that it was a skin game, and had decided to drop it. * In crossâ€"examination by Mr. Berâ€" pie, Mr. Bond told the! story of Rose coming to him and getting him to typewrite a letter. Rose iold him at the time he woulid be well paid for it. The witness said some cliâ€" ents came in when the letter was finished and â€" Rose went out, and came back in an hour and toid him rlihe story about Mrs. Brown‘s inâ€" surance and her son‘s attempt to make away with her. That was some days before the prisoner had come to him. He said he thought Rose was trying a hoax on him or was crazy, but the next day a friend, Mr. Joseph Brown, a relaâ€" tion of the prisoner, szid Rose had repeated the story to him. They thought that if anything happened the old woman they might be in Aa sprious predicameat, and so went and told the story to the Magisâ€" trate. Mr. Bond said Rose had not consulted him as his solicitor. ‘ The Letter He Wrote. The letter he wrote for Rose, which purported to come from a MWisuus w ues .l mecg: Mr. Aubrey Bond‘s Story. Mr. Aubrcy Bond, a young barrister, wascallod, and told the itory of ln's| conncction with the case. He yaml that one day last week Chief of Poâ€" lice Mailen and the prisoner came_' to him at his office. He and tite Cluet“ cid not threaten Brown or make him, £Dy prom:sd, but they represented | to hM itbit they were his friends, | and wantcd to help him in his trouâ€" blc. Brown tol4 them he had gonel jmu & gchome with Rose to get the old woma i away, but _ said } he never BHad any inteuâ€"| lion â€" of coing away with her. Brown said Rose told him that the policy would soon run out, and had asked him why he did not give the od woman a slug. He said the priâ€" soner came again to see him, and was alone that time. He told the witness that when Rose made the proposition to him he had gone in on the scheme and had been in earâ€" nest until he had seen that Rose was bleeding him. That had been when Rose had asked him for the second $10. Then he had made up nbw wilmi thaw as ul d o . The hearing was before Magistrate Neitleton. County Crown Attorney Cotton, of Barric, represented the Crown, aml Mr. John Bernie, K. C., Appeared for the prisoner â€" Brown. Mr. McBrady, of Toronto, was preâ€" sent to guard the interests of Rose. The couriroom was crowded to the doors. EM CMIW RH0C, m Own Feiused to go ; he put up only $20 oi the $200, and #5 of that Rose spent on old Mre. Brown, and the whole plan â€" proved abortive. Rose told the court he thought ho should be commended for hls sbare in the affair. the waterworks and electric light #tation, approachod him with a proâ€" posal to remove Brown‘s aged mothâ€" er and divide $1,500 insurance on her life between them. Rose immediâ€" ately decided to assume the part of a detective, save the old lady‘s life and make the wouldâ€"be murderer pay bim $200 for bis trouble. As the cap sheal of the unnatural son‘s discomâ€" fiture Rose arranged to take the: old lady to Toronto, just that hoer } gon might be persuaded to go to the depot and kiss her goodâ€"bye for the last time that be would see her io Tbis life. _ Brown refused to go ; bhe put up only $20 oi the $200. and Collingwo««l despatch: One of the strangost stories ever told in a Canaâ€" dian court was related bhere toâ€"day by John Rose, an aged insurance agent, at the preliminary investiâ€" galion isto the charge against W. H. Brown, of conspiracy to murder WMs moiher. The story in brief, was that Brown, who is a fireman, in Tragedy or Comedy in the Collingwood Case? ROSE‘S STRANCE TALE. JOHN ROSES _ QUEER STORY 1 Brown Confess That a Crime Was Premeditated ?â€"Rose Lookâ€" ed on the Piot to Murder Mrs. Brown as a Huge Jokeâ€"A Barâ€" rister Telis What He Knows. the water.â€" The Shanâ€"Hai Kwanâ€"New Chwang section of the North China Railroad is now entirely in the hands of the Chinese. Threshing â€" outfits â€"from Dakdta,g completely manned, are coming to the relief of the farmers in ~southâ€" ern Manitoba. The Magistrate said: "Having carefully considered the:â€"casge and reâ€" viewed the evidence, I cannot see my way clear to send the defendant for trial on the statement of Rose. It would have been different if they had both been on trial, but as it is it is my opinion that Brown has been the weak tool for Rose, and under the circumstances I am not inclinâ€" ed to accept all Rose‘s statements, and therefore dismiss the case.‘" ‘ A Collingwood ~despatch: Magisâ€" trate Nettleton ‘this morning disâ€" missed the case against W. H. Brown, charged with conspiracy to murder his mother. BROWN‘S CASE DISMISSED That concluded the cvidence for the Crown, and Mr. Bernic asked for the discharge of his prisoner, on the ground that there cou‘d not be a conâ€" spiracy of one. Mr. Cotter wanted to amend the indictment, but the Magisâ€" trate would not permit it. â€" He reâ€" served ‘Judgment tiil this morning. The prisoner Brown was granted bail for $1,600, with two sureties for on her deceasew nhusband‘s life. alleged that Rose had insulted when he cailed at her home. Her count of the Toronto trip was as been already published. As to the motive for the Toronto trip, Rose said it would "put the cap sheal on the huge joke to have Brown ’ go to the station and bid his mother _goodâ€"bye and kiss her for the last _time hbe would see her in this mortal cot." That was the whole scheme of taking her to Toronto. His nephew, John Rose, was to be the soiltary witness of that frarewelil. But Brown did not turn up, though he had promâ€" ised to. When Rose saw Brown alter the old woman returned he told him sho was rtak:isg medicine with a slow poison In it for rheumatism. Brown, tho witness sarid, told him that he himself could give a slow poison that all the doctors in the country could not find out. _ "I eould hardly help laughing in his face," said Rose ; "he seemed that pleased to think his mother would soon pass from this mortal coil." As a further practical Joke, Rose said, he intended sending Brown a quarter of an ounce of cream ol tartar, iabelled poison, and enjoy the sport o% watching Brown try to poison his mother with it. A druggist at Thornbury had toid him‘ nothing looked more like arsenic. Mrs. BHrown on the Stand. Mrs. Brown, whose life, it was aiâ€" leged, had been in jJeopardy, was exâ€" amined, and gave evidence of a failing memory. She said her son had promâ€" ised nothing for the insurance of her life, and afterwards that hbe had promised her $200 of the insurance t I thought that by saving hor iife it would be worth a considerable amount of money, and I made up my mind I would get $200 out of Rrown. °/ I made sure he was in earnest. The ‘~ | witness went on and told how, wheon Â¥| he asked Brown how he proposed to e | dispose of his mother, the prisoner ;. | Said it would cost only a doillar to , | drive her to the Nottawasaga River, ‘*| get her to go out on a log to look T| at the fish, and pish her in. ‘The s| witness suggested psison insteaid, n| and said it would have to be purâ€" ;| chased in Detroit. e Brown Pays the Money. k Then, to see if BRrown was in earnâ€" , | °st, he said he would want $5Q for expenses. Brown said he hadn‘t it, â€"| and the witness gradually lowered ‘| the amount, $10, $30, $20, and the * | prisoner said he would give $10. The ; | witness said it did not seem'p?isib!e , | that a man could plot to kill his | own mother, but when the prisoner | proposed to pay $10 he knew he | meant it He told_ Brown that | would be just a starter, that he | would nced at least $200. . The | prisoner told him to go to the postâ€" _ office the next day at hallâ€"past 11, â€" and he went and got an envelope with $10 in it. Another time he gave _ bim $10 in an envelope. The witâ€" | ness said all arrangements had been made for the removal of the old woâ€" _ man by a third party in Toronto, ; and told him the thing was going on a all right sure. Roso tolid of various p unsuccessful attempts to get more 1 money out of Brown, and of the old lady‘s trip to Toronito, when â€" she stayed the first night at the Power House. _ Roee said he registered as man and wife, becausao that was the only way he could get a good room for her, it being Exhibition time. When she came back he went to see her, and she complaired that he had not given her enough attention, He had not even taken her for a drive. He told her he could not take her for a drive here, because she was so heary no one would lend him a buggy. He deried that he had ever insulted the woman. Brown told him that he and his mother had not spoken for over a gyear. Regarding his dealings with Mr. Bond and the writing of the letter, Rose stated that before the letter was written be explained the whole matter and promised Bond hall what he got out ; _ of Brown. * I said: "I don‘t know what you mean; you don‘t mean to kill her ?" and ho said "Yee, I mean to kill her ; ghe has $1,500 on her life. I‘ll pocket $1,000 and you‘ll pocket $300." He said: "Can‘t we get her out of the road before that ?* works. He had not seen Brown {or years, but he went down that afâ€" ternoon. The prisoner, when he saw him, said he bad backed out of what be had wanted to tell him, but Rose was curicus and wanted to know, and after considerable pressure the prisoner eaid.; "You know there is a policy on the old woman‘s life, and it will run out soon.‘" The witress bad told him it had lapsed over a year ago. He had been inquiring about it at the office in Toronto and had been told that he had paid only two years, and givren his note for the third year, and had not paid it. Brown had said he had paid three years premiums and given his note for the fourth. The witness told him if that were so the policy did not exâ€" pire till December 2nd. I said "What do you want to do about it ?"" conâ€" tinued the witness. euch. is idea of a Joke. aCâ€" has Rlte her the assessment. Among these str‘kâ€" ers were the employces of the Tenâ€" nesgee Coal, Iron and Ra‘lroad Comâ€" pany. Mr. Bacon, discussing â€" the situation, said : Ordered to Collect Strike Pay. The position taken by the officers of the company with its employees has the support of the full board of directors. The strike now on at the mines of the company is not foundâ€" ed upon any differences as to wages or conditions of employment, but is due entirely to differences within the miners‘ union, and should be of short duration. Some of thne members of | the miner# urion arc willing to pay $1 a week for the support of the striking anthracite men and some ‘are not. The demand wae made upon , the <officers of the company that it should collect the strike assessment from those who were unwilling to pay or discharge them. This the company declined to do and this strike is the result. There ‘are between 3,000 and 4,â€" 000 miners affected, and our output has been cut down to about 25 per cent. of its usual total. Two of our mines remain in operation and so do our Ensley furnaces and steel plant. Coal for them is supplied by conâ€" viets. The convicts _ work under a system by which they are graded acâ€" cording to their physical condition, those in each grade having to mine a certain amount of coal. The comâ€" pany pays the State for that amount and all that the convict minâ€" er can minc above that &Amount he personally receives pay for. Contract Fiung to the Winds. President ‘Bacon stated that by ‘striking the miners had broken a contract which ‘their association ‘executed on July ‘iith, this year, and which‘was to remain in foree This strike afiords another illueâ€" trat‘on of the readiness of Mitche‘l‘s organuration, the United Mine Workâ€" ers, to break an agreement if it consiiers it expedient to do so. Reâ€" cently a number otf the un‘on roft coat miners in Alabama refused to continue paying the do‘llar a woeek assessment levied on the soft coal miners tor the support of the anâ€" thracite strikers. The other Alaâ€" bama â€" miners decided to strike aga'tnst the men who refused to pay *h lenikak __i‘k F 1. we have orders for twice that numâ€" ber already, and are unable to fill orders for any more If we had fift y factories going we could sell all their output. " One man cams in here this afterâ€" noon and said that he would take 54,000 of one kind if we could give them to him in four months. We couldn‘t accept the order because we cannot get the castings." { Another Violated Contract. Fo:lowinz a moeting of the directâ€" ors of the Tennessce Coal, Iron and Railroad Company yesterday, _ at which the Board declared the usual quarterly dividend upon the preâ€" ferred stock. President D. H. Bacon made a statement regarding â€" the strike that has boen declared on ite propertics, involving all but the convict miners in its soft coal mines in Alabama. * offer, because we must look alter those of our old patrons whose orders came in first. Last year we sold aout 100,000 oil stoves. This vyear delphia," said Mr. Goldstein, "and ofâ€" fered to purchase for spot cash all of the oil stoves we have on hand and all wo can turn out for the next four months. We did not accept the " A representative of John Wanaâ€" maker camo here toâ€"dlay from Philaâ€" New York, Oct. 11.â€"Thore has been such a demand for oil stoves for cooking dand hceating within the last few days that the manufacturers are uvable to fill orders that have come to them. What Mitchelt Counts on,. Mr. Mitchell, of tha United Mine Workers, holds that the suppression of violence and intimidation in the neighborhood of the mines will make little or no diiference;, that there aro few qualified miners, union or nonâ€"union, who wish to go to work. In this opinion they are in flat opâ€" position to the operators. Li it were not Tfor the State law requiring every miner to hold a license showing that he had sorved two years‘ apprenticeâ€" ship and passed an examination, there would be no question of the operaâ€" tors‘ ability to resum> work under protection. ‘As things stand there is a question. Mceanwhile the publit can only wait and hope for.a speedy setâ€" tlement of some kind that will let coal come to empty bins. Tamaqua, Pa., Oct. 11.â€"Jam Burnâ€" ham, a striker, was shot and instantâ€" ly killed by a soldier on guard duty at Brownsvile, near here, early this morning. The place is the scene of several dynamiting outrages, and Burnham is said to have been loiterâ€" ing In the vicinity of a nonâ€"unionist‘s house, which was partly destroyed by an explosion last week. The soldier called upon Burnham to halt, and this order is said to have been disreâ€" garded. Thereupon the sentry fired, and Burnham fell dead in his tracks,‘ with a bullet through bis heart. Striker Was Loitering Near Scene of Dynamiting. GHOT DEAD ADJT. GEN. SEEWART. Acting in Coal Strike Field. Great Rush for Uil Stoves. ~Bi SENTRY. d if we could give four months. _ We r order because we ONTARIO ARKRCHIVE»3 TORONTO Aics Nee Rumor That They Will} Go on Strike on Jan. 1. New York, Oct. 11.â€"Another dark cloud in the horizon is a possible strike in Wales, on the 1st of Janâ€" uary. William C. Atwater, the agent of a number of mines of the Pocaâ€" hontas region, who has just reâ€" turned from Wales, declared toâ€"day that all the British mine owners with whom he had spoken on the subject were unanimously of the opinion that 100,000 men would go out on that day. "The agreement under which the miners are getting out coal in Wales," said he, " will terminate on Jan. 1st, and they bave already made known their inâ€" tention of demanding more liberal terms. The operators consider the The first arrival of soft coal by vessel this week was recorded at the Chief Landing Waiter‘s Office yesterday, tWwhen the schooner Sufâ€" fell came into port with 450 tons of #oft coal from Eriq, Pa. Last week a fleet of coalâ€"carriers left here for different points on the south shore to 1oana coal for local metrchants. _ The officers of the Suffeli reported that nine vessels are loading coal at Erie for this harbor, and due to arrive in a few days. The schooner Reuben Dowd is expected in the morning. MAJ. GEXN. CHAS. MILLER, Head of Pennsylvania‘s National Guard the city 1,500 cords of beech and maple now growing on land near Peningular â€" Lake, Muskoka. The city would, of course, have to cut and transport the wood, but, with all these added, the wood could be laid down in Toronto for about $5 per cord. . ing the fuel. It was also decided to wait on the Ontario Government and Mr. Whitney to ask their supâ€" port to the necessary legislation inâ€" demnifying the Council if its action be found illegal. The Premier will reâ€" ceive the deputation at noon toâ€"day, and the Mayor was authorized to wire invitations to the Mayors of Otâ€" tawa, Hamilton, London and some other places to try and be present. Mrortni. Asptnrrvdalib 4 Aistict M chile dsc id ah ick n iks d Mr. J. 8. Leckie, a lumber camp worker, and his wife offer free to It was decided to have Mr. Fullerâ€" ton prepare a byâ€"law providing for the paymont of the $20.000, or such nart as may be reanij=ed far w=es~e. in Toronto The _ committee authorized Ald. Sheppard to buy 2,000 tons, to be deâ€" livered at the waterworks yard. The same gentlieman offered Ald. Rheppard 109 cords of good dry mixed wo_r_)_d for $5 per cord, free on cars ‘The Alderman next announced that he had an offer of all the soft coal, run 0® mine, he required, delivered in l‘o_s'fnto for $3.23 per ton. Ald. Sheppard said he had on his own responkibility ordered about 20 cords of dry hardwood now on the cars at Craigville Station at £6.10 per cord, so that the wood will cost #8 per cord in Toronto. The commitâ€" tee deciied to purchase the wood. Anâ€" other offer which the Alderman had was for 1,000 cords of slabs at $1.60 to $1.75 per cord on cars, which would enable the committee to lay the wood down in Toronto at from $2.85 to $3 per cord. It was decided to authorize Ald. Sheppard to pur-‘ chase the whole of this wood. | the neighborhood for various supâ€" plies of fuel. A Good Deal of Feul is Now in Sight There. Toronto, Oct. 11.â€"The committee appointed by the City Councii to visit Ald. Foster‘s bush land at Lephyr reâ€" turned home last night and reported that they were successful in conâ€" tracting for 1,000 cords of mixed hardwood delivered on the tracks at Toronto for $3.75 a cord. In addiâ€" tion they have made arrangements in WELSH MINERS NEXT 2 The company did agree to make such deduction where the miners in writing authorized it, and even furnished the union with blank orâ€" ders for the men‘s signatures. Some of the miners refused to sign and the union practically said, ‘"‘Make them pay .617'"va-é'_liwstrl'l‘:~é:': and did so. ::;u June 30th, next year. There s nothing in this contract about the strike in the anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, which had already begun when the contract was ‘executed. There was also no reference to collections to be made by the company from the miners for any purpose except the expenses of the miners‘ representatives. Yet the union wanted the company to compel its men to pay strike asâ€" sessments by deducting them weekâ€" ly from wages, and paying them over to the union. BRIG. GEN. SCHATL, Acting in Coal Strike Fleld To Get Legal Powers. Arriving by Vessecl. IORON1O‘s MOVE. Photographed With Students W hile They Played Drunk. New Havon, Oct. 13.â€"A jJoke which \the Yale students payed on Mrs. Carâ€" rhe Nation during her sojourn at Yale has just come to light. A party ol Yale sen‘ore induced Mrs. Nation to eAt with them for her photograph. After much persuason she consentâ€" ed to ho‘ aloft in her right hand A glase of water. The students clusâ€" tered round her, each holding a glass of water. The lights were turned low for A flash and in the darkness the stuâ€" dents produced cigarettes and arâ€" ranged themsgelves in a variety of ludicrous positions, portraying difâ€" ferent stages of intoxication. Meanwhilo Mrs. Nation, suspecting no wrong, had her eyes glued on the lens of the camera, which was manipulated by _ a student phoâ€" togmfinr. The picture refrne, nts Mrs. Nation as the centra figure of a bacchanalian scene. The -t..l dents are now busy suppresasime +1.. YALE JOKE ON MRS. NATION. a man named Rosencrantz. They deâ€" clared their innocence, but cireumâ€" stances were against them. Judge C. E. Rice gave thein nine yearse ceach, Hanley served five years and was pardoned. Burke served seven. He is now in Butte, Mont. ‘QNE OF FATES PRANKS, Hanley and Luke Burke were conâ€" victed in 1882 on circumstantial eviâ€" dence of the shooting and robbing of They went to the justice‘s office to prepare an Affidavit of the remarkâ€" able confession, The justice recomâ€" mended them to â€" District Attorney Benjamin Jones and to that official Tonuery told his story. me? You can do anything you like‘ with me. 1 cught to be strung up| in hell, I know. Now, what are y ou | going to do ?" | "My name is E. W. Tonery, of Scranton,‘" said the stranger. ‘"My congcience has been worrying me for years. I did not have the courage to confess before. Will you forgive Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 13.â€""I am guilty of the crime for which you were sentenced twenty years ago," exclaimed . a stranger to Thomas HManley, of Pringle Hill, this afterâ€" noon. The two gazed at cach other for some time. "It‘s a long time you took to tell about it," said Hanley. AFTER TWENTY LONG YEAR: Two Innocent Men Punished for Another‘s Crime. "The _ anthracite mineworkers of Pennsylvania appreciate the efforts‘ being made by President Roosevelt | to end the strike in the interest of | the entire country and they have only words of praise for him. â€" Howâ€"| ecver, they feel that after sacrificing everything for the last five months,| it is unfair for anyone to ask them‘ to return to work without a singlel concession, especially when the minâ€" ors see victory almost at hand." | ' _ "I( the troops are kept in all comâ€" munities where violence and intimiâ€" dation is practised," he said, "there will be no _ trouble. ‘The difficalty ow is that a man goos to work one day under the protection of the soldiers, and the next day, after the neighborhood has been quieted down, the troops are sent away, and the willing workman is again at the merey of the lawloss element. Men will not risk going to work toâ€"day whes they are not sure that they will have protection toâ€"morrow or . that thcir families wili be cared for: in their qbsonce." |‘ An officer of the union now in the city, who does not care to be quoted in the absence of President Mitchell for fear that it would be construed as being official, said to the corresâ€" pondent of the Associated Press : troops at sertain points, then the companies will be able to make good progress in oponing up the mines. A mine operator says : If Governor Stone‘s order "that â€" all men who desire to work for their families shall have amploe military protection," is literally carried out by Majorâ€"Gen. Miller, insteal of mobilizing the ‘The operators of Greenwood colâ€" liery claim to have a large number of certilicated miners at work, but they wi:l not say whether they have started to cuat coal. Reports from this region indicate that the operators made a slight gain in their working force toâ€"day. _ ‘The two troiley cars which convey the men to the different coolieries were well filled, wlule many | walked to work. Despite this, there was no deâ€" monstration of any kind. The few strikers who had congregated on the sgtreets of Lanrs{ord and Summit Mil} watched the men with indifference, _/ . More veal Mined. . ‘ It is claimed that more coal \\'us] dumped from the No. 4 mine of the Lemgh Coul & Navigation (Jompauy’ yesterday than at any time since the | strike began. â€"A train of coai wus‘ shipped from the Potis colliery, near Ashland, during the night. The train | contained about 400 tons, and repreâ€" | sents two days‘ work. ‘This is lhe‘ largest shipment from this coliiery | for a gimilar pericd of time since the : beginning of the strike. Lehigh Company Sends Out a Train of Coal. Tamaqua, Pa., Oct. 11.â€"The Second Regiment, State National Guard, arâ€" rived here this morning from Philaâ€" delphia and excamped. The Sixth Regiment, from Chester and vicinity, wil arrise this alternoon. No threais are made agains. the guaardsmen, ind little trouvie is expecied. In general the feéling is one oi apathy. Business is at a standstiLl, and while a majorâ€" ity of the citizens would like to see the miners win, they waunt the struggle ended. strike as inevitable, and are preâ€" paricg for it even now. The Welch union sent £1,000 to President Mitâ€" chell in August, just as bread upon the waters, which they expect will return to them when they decide to An Operator‘s View. MOREK MKN AT WORK, A Union View suppressiag the CS. The dutiese therefore are abolâ€" somâ€" | ishod on machinery, builuing materâ€" itimiâ€" | isls, motals â€" and agricultural _ imâ€" theref ploments. . The Jlarge sacrifice _ of calty | revenue involved is considered preâ€" wm-klrcruble to increasing taxation, the ': :{:,‘fif"’s,t of renewing the industrial capâ€" | Quicker Growth Shown in the Exâ€" : periments by Dr. Lemstrom. , London, Oct. 13.â€"Dp. Lemstrom, of | Helegin{ors University, has been exâ€" |' perimenting on the effect of an elecâ€" i trical discharge on the growth _ of ‘ plants. Four seeds of barley, wheat, ' and rye were sown in pots, the soll | being connected clectrically with the 1 ground. Abore the pots were susâ€" : pended an insulated network of wire | with a number of points of a Holg | machine, so connected that in some | Of the pots the clectric current passed from the metal work to the carth, while in otherse it passed in the reâ€" ' verse direction. Melboursne, Oct. 13.â€"The § ptomâ€" ber rains in Viectoria were disagâ€" pointing. Violent north winds nulâ€" lufied the benefits that might posâ€" sibly have been derived from the rains. The stock, which is starving, is being transferred in thousands to Gippsland. Many beasts are m emaciated that they ceaonot stand the railway journey. Hundreds are dying in the cars daily. Only a miracle can save the wheat crop. The losses in New Bouth Wales are equaliy severe. â€" The estimated deâ€" creage in sheep since January 1st is over eight million. The lambing averaged only 20 per cent Mast to save their Ktock Starving by ;hou-andl in tralla. For five hours daily electricity wase caused to passe through the soil, which was kept damp. After eight weeks the height of the plante afâ€" fected by the electric current was found to be 40 per cent. greater than those to which no current had bees applied. Expertments â€" with other plants show the aarme results, but in difâ€" ferent proportions. NO mention is made of the apecial dutios which wore suspended in 18097 cwing to the agitation here, but which the government reserved the right to reâ€"impase. They â€" remain mepanded, but it is expected they will be repealed. Anomalous duties will be amended. Many of the changes to be made have been agitated for years, especially with regard to matches, which were {poeially taxed $1 per gross for the benefit of the compiny owning the concession. This tax will be now re duced to 50 conts per gross. The epecial duties on jams and conâ€" foctionery of $10 per hundred pounds will be reduced to three cents per pound; the special duty of $2.50 on oats, $1.25 on odt hay and the apoâ€" cial duty on coal will be abolished. E‘cois?l{f renewing ‘ital of the colony The aiteration of the duty on ciâ€" garse and cigarettes from $3.75 per hundred cigars, without distinction of size, to $1.50 a pound, and on cigarettes from $3.75 per thousand cigarettes to $1 a pound, is conâ€" gidered cqauitable. As _ it in imperative, _ howâ€" ever, to replace _ a portion of the loss, the duties on wines and spirits are increased. The existâ€" ing duty on dynamite is left upal}â€" tered, owing to questions bearing on the conditions of its manufacture, and importation into the Pransvaal being under discuesion ; but the duty will be separately dealt with as soon as possible. The duty of six cents each on poles, two cents a pound on eulphuric acid, six cents a pound on iead, and 12 cents a pound on copper, were all cancelled. All iron will be admitted free, and the cost of building will be greatly reduced by the removal of the dutics on cement and timber. ELECTRICITY AIDS PLANTS. i2 ; _ ",""‘0 _=â€"V per cent. Most the ‘lambs died or were killed f Transvaal Tariff as Provislionally Ar. ) ranged Frees Machinery, Buildâ€" ' ing Material and Metaisâ€"May UJjâ€" timately Join the Customs Union, , London, Oct. 18:â€"A despatch to a nows agerecy from Geneva, Bwitzor. [lond, this morning. angounces that ‘bt Workeno‘s NY tie»} (emuitâ€"e 1 has decrced a gererul strike throughâ€" ,out Bwitz:crland, is sympathy with the strike of the street car employâ€" ces bere. Troops are beld in reaqgiâ€" neses lo deal with any «disorder. TransvÂ¥asl dGiulles. Pretoria, O°t. i1.â€"An extraordiâ€" nary issuw of the Gazetle says. The 'xunendcd tarifis are â€" only provieâ€" ’ional, tho Government desiring u;â€" timatcly to enter the customs union on a basis which will not sawcrifice vital intorests of the Transvaal. The nogotintions thus far have been unâ€" availing bocause the Prangvaal does not feel justilied in imncreasing the dutics on certain foodstulls to the cxtent whweb the coast colonies considrr necessary for the protecâ€" tion of their prosucts, It the meantime the corditions in tho TPransvaal prociudie further geâ€" lay in adjusting the unjustifiably high Gutiss, and the duties ordinarily rousonable but excessive in a counâ€" :irt‘t Y'hi('h practically has to be reâ€" d, CROPS IN JEOPARDY TROOPS WILL KEEP ORDER. General Strike in Sympathy With London. oWISG WORKERS ORDERED T0 QUIT Ause abando flirtatk Fabian ia ther 1 Wis ®€ dodderi stralght low. wi ate enc nanino brande was nd deeper | tsh and his gra I beli sence 0 ban‘s d ing sue such m od a «i ably «l and dis deed, t " broad there x Odil their destrojy themse mrisoth that t hk the co flectioe only la Fabian invited That tive dom Sueh posure k now n the ro blood, 1t, 1ni tione n Piok P/ make 1 disea se Concert The J m a lb Â¥ictim tieim . LA d m# Al bu Dr “l!.c the w by all paid, : I rouj be WJ D>r 10c 14 e aler Ir u. ALS 12e LP . uU d t DC