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&8 U the immediate vicinity of the body, but little trace could be found of them some distance from it. The prints were those of a goodâ€"sized man. fha lecal authorities are working the contention that the girl was The police are now engaged in searching the vicinity of the scene of the crime. . There are several sigâ€" pificant facts in connection with the erime which may possibly lead to a clue. Just in the rear of the spot where the body was founrd are seyâ€" eral footprints, which were deeply embedded in the soft soll. The place has every appearance of being the scene of a slight struggle. The mtmnta were plain and distinct in the immediate vicinity of the bodv. P Discovery of the Body. The search M3 a long and tedious che, and continued until 7 o‘clock this evening, when the party searching the willows were encouraged in their hunt by the story told by a boy, who cliimed he had seen the victim walkâ€" ing along the dyke in the afternoon. The searchers continued their hunt with renewedl energy. Shortly after 7 oc‘clock the body was discovered in & slight hollow in the thick of the willows. ‘The hair was matted with eclay and mud. ‘The chest was black and blue as if the assailant had trampled his victim under foot. The limbs were spattered with blood and dirt, and the clothes were badly rent. The victim had evidently died in convulsions, and had vomited profusely in her last moments, as i{f whe bad been choked to death. Bight That Greeted the Father. To add horror to the whole story I¢t was the victim‘s own father who foumd her. Going along the trail and following the narzow path his eyes fell upon the dead form of his daughter, whose deathly features were plainly visible in the glimmerâ€" ing moonlight. Paralyzed by the swdden shock the father fell back into the arms of ms companions. Rhortly after 4 o‘clock a large searching party was hastily organâ€" Ired, and a dozen men started out to scour the surrounding district in every direction. The body when found plainly bore marks of a horrible assault. The elothes were badly torn, and the form was a mass of bruises. The police were at once on the spot and every pos@lble effort was made to guard the scene of the crime. The only trace of the assault was a deepâ€" lyâ€"implanted _ footprint near the vistim‘s bodyâ€" A youth claims he saw a workman, who was laboring on the dyke, beckon to the girl as whe passed near by between 3 and % o‘ciock, but he did not wait to see what transpired. Evidently the girl rhyed the summons and was decoyed nto the bush and murdered. An inâ€" quest will be bheld toâ€"morrow. The police do not anticipate that an imâ€" mediate arrest will be made. lhe Victin. The victim, Irene Cole, was the Bâ€"yearâ€"old daughter of Peter CTole, who resides in Eagle Place, in the southeastern portion of the city. Bome few days ago she fractured her arm, asd was forced to remain home from school, carrying the injured arm in a sling. She was a quiet child, anpd seldom wandered from _ home. Toâ€"day she strayed away directly alter dinner, and at 2 oclock had not returned. Her mother immediâ€" ately became anxious, and informed the local police of her daughter‘s abâ€" sence. The authorities sent an ofâ€" ficeere to Eagle Place, and he madd an investigation, but â€" was â€" unsuc« ecessful in locating the missing gir% At 3 o‘clock the child was still abâ€" nt from home, and the relativey ;came greatly alarmed. ‘The news spread about the neighborhood, and Antense excitement prevailed in ail Euatmrs. for the child _ was well nown and generally liked in tlmj part of the city. Peter Cole, father w»i the child, who is employed at the Masseyâ€"BHartis vco., was at Falkland, m short distance from this city, and was at once notified of the girl‘s absence. He returned to the city. ‘A * Brantford, Ont., reportâ€" Hallâ€" bubmerged in the soggy grass of a thick bush of willows just south of #%he Toronto, Hamilton & Bulfalo station, with face deathly white and limbs and body bespattered with blood, the dead body of little Irene Cole was found by a party of searchâ€" ers shortly after 7 o‘clock toâ€"night. Every indication points to assault and murder, resembling in many deâ€" &ails the CGlory Whalen crime at Collingwood, which is still fresh in the memory of readers throughout the country. The wildest excitement prevails here, ana on the streets the crime is the topic of discussion. A posse of policc, assisted by volunâ€" teers, now surround the bush in a vain effort to find some clue to the perpetrator of the awiul crime. Not wince the days of the Quirk murder, which still remains a mystery, has such excitement _ prevailed in this city. IRENE COLE MURDERED BY FIEND AT BRANTFORD Jos. Kennedy Arrested Charged With the Crime. Evidently a Struggle. Kennedy was not in a talk mood, but when an ordinary ter of fact, the prisoner stated that he had not had a bath since he left Ireland. The part of the body that had been washed recently was the part most likely to have been covered with blood on the man who committed the crime. Keanedy‘s pants had been sponged within a few hours, for they were still damp just below the legs, the spot where the greatest moisture would likely be left by the downward sweep of the sponge or cloth. There had been much blood on the trousers, but it had beena partially removed. There were some spots, however, that esâ€" caped to a great extent, the sponge, and one spot about the size of a fiveâ€" cent piece, which had scarcely pbeen touched at all, the blood being dried and clotted. _ Still further evidences were clearly discernible on the shirt and undershirt. The shirt had several yellow stains such as are left after the marks of blood are sponged with coll water, and on the underâ€" shirt was a stain several inches wide, which had withstood the efâ€" fect of a sponging. The heavier part of the stain was on the outâ€" sidle, but the blood had soaked through the flannel and showed a little less distinctly on that part of the cloth next the skin. If the stains were caused by an abrasion on Kennedy‘s body, the stain would havre been heavier on the inside than on the outside. These are powerful circumstantial evidences, and the: police feel pretty certain that they have landed the right _ man. i Kennedy was not in a talkative Kennedy was taken to the police station and examined. He told his name, but refused to say where he had been during the afternoon, is only reply to the questions being, "I was in several places." If ever there was a stoic Kennedy was one, but his stoicism could not save hint from an examination that brought forth damaging evidence. He had 32 cents and some other trinkets in his possession. He wore a grey suit, a grey flannel undershirt, a blue print over shirt, a white celluloiq collar. Kennedy was stripped â€" to the naked skin and Dr. Ashton exs amined him closely. It was easily obâ€" servable that one part of his body had recently been washed, perbhaps within a few hours of his arrest» and others had not. His groin and the _ upper _ part of his legs showed the effect of a recent washing, _ while the upper part of his body, his arms, and his neck did not look as if they had felt water in many a day. As a matâ€" also have blood on his clothing. ‘The police were able to obtain but meagre descriptions of the man, and those obtained would apply to perhape twenty men. Their greatest hope was in rounding up the murderer beâ€" fore he had had time to remove the evidence of his fearful crime, and they think Kennedy is the man they were after. the child‘s body was covered with blood, and that she had bled proâ€" fusely from the terrible wounds inâ€" llicted, that the perpetrator would Kennedy was arrested at Hunt & Colter‘s livery stable, where he was sleeping, and was taken to the Poâ€" lice Station, where an examination of his clothing revealed a condition of affairs that, the police â€" think, stamp him as the murderer. It was supposed, by reason of the fact that ing : WANTED â€" Heavyâ€"set Englishman suspected of the brutal murder of Irene Cole at Brantford. aAnswers to the following description : Age 35 to 40 ; height 5 feet 6 inches ; weight between 150 and i73 pounds ; _ very red face; dark moustache ; wore grey suit, black stifl hat, white collar. Brantford, Ont., reportâ€"The poâ€" lice worked most diligeatly on the Cole murder case, and at 2 o‘clock this morning the first suspect | was arrested. _ He is Joseph Kennedy, an Irishman, from Belfast. â€" Heâ€"came to Brantford about six weeks ago, and has been banging around the city since, doing odd jobs, but obâ€" taining employment â€" most of â€" the time as a coachman. 1 ed in his discharge from ;fl'&é"fi&fii tions. The Brantford police are satâ€" lsfied they have the right man, but until the doctor examines his clothâ€" ing and the bloodstains, no definite asesrtion can be made. A man was also arrested in Welland. Murderer‘s Descripton. _ The police have issued the followâ€" Becond, the girl knew and recogâ€" nized ber assailant, and hbe was foreed to murder her to cover the traces of his dastardly crime. An Arrest Made. Brant{ord, Oct. ..â€"Between 1 and 2 this morning the police arrested _Joseph Kennedy, a coachman, as beâ€" ing the perpetrator of the crime. The arrest lollowed information rese ved from Jesse Willoughby, a rosident, who, upon hearisag che man de:crited, notified the police of seeing Kennedy in the vicinity of the tragedy all afâ€" ternoon. _ Kennedy was ariested on the outskirts of the town. When he was examined the police discovered blood stains on his shirt. He will say nothing, further than to stou ly deny having committed the crime. Josept Kennedy, who answers in every detail to the description of the man â€" wanted, came to Brantford about eight weeks ago from his home in Bel{fast, Ireland. He has been emâ€" ployed as a coachman by _ several people in Brantford, but his unsteady habits and love of drink have resultâ€" First, the assailant after the asâ€" eault feared the girl might recognize him at some future time, and thereâ€" fore killed her by strangling her to death. first outraged and later was murâ€" dered. They claim that the reasons {for the murder are due to one of two facts. It is sot as yet delinitely known whkether or not the editor of The Christiar Gcoardian, Rev. Dr. G. J. Bond. will give nn lis nositinn. Mr. Morley Spoor, aged 83, died on Sunday night at his home on Wolfe Ielacrd, Kingston, where he hbad lived for almost eighty years. Descriptions of the books receivâ€" ed, or which are known as the result of correspondence to be in England, are being Circulated broadcast throughout South Africa, with the result that many of the Bibles have already been claimed, and, the claims having been verified, have been reâ€" stored to their rightful owners. Many of the Bibles are df considerâ€" able intrinsic value, apart from the genealogical and sentimental value they possess for their Boer owners. Some of them contain family records dating back well over a hundred years, and, owing to the nomadic life led by the early Boer settlers, it would be impossible to replace these records from any other source. _ _ Boers Fast Recovering Their Cherâ€" ished Bibles. London, _ Oct. 5. â€" Considerable progress is being made with the work in connection with the collecâ€" tion and return of Boer family Bibles found by British officers and men in deserted farmâ€"houses in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony in the course of the recent war. The Bibles are being received at the Lonâ€" don headquarters of the Society of Friends which was requested by Lord Roberts to undertake the work of collection and return. As the yolâ€" umes are received they are registerâ€" ed and then placed in a strongâ€"room. ‘"Lastly. We shall have made a great ndvance towards the unlon of the Empire, and taken the first steps towards free trade with the rest of the world." | A "4. If the demand for labor is inâ€" creaged, wages‘must rise also, and full work at fair prices will enable our manufacturers to pay higher wages without loss to themselves. "3. In either case this change and increaged trade with the colonies will provide more employment for our own people and a greater demand for our own labor. 1 "1. An increase of trade with our fellow subjects, and best customers, who will not only take much more per head from us than they do from foreigners, but will take it in the shape of manufactured goods, the production of which involves _ the employment of the greatest amount Of "Iabor. _‘ 1 > 1 "2. Power of bargaining with our competitors, thereby securing that they shall take more of the products of our labor in return for the proâ€" ducts of their labor, or that they leave the British market more comâ€" pletely to British labor. Mr. Chamberiain sums up as folâ€" lows : "Any duty on food imposed to secure preferential trade with the colonies will be a small one. It proâ€" bably will be wholly paid, and cerâ€" tainly will be partly paid by the forâ€" eigner. The additional cost, if any, to the working classes will be fully met by an equivalent reduction in other articles of food equally neâ€" cessary for their existence. The dear food cry, is an imposture, and the little loat a bugbear. The quesâ€" tion of tariff reform may be conâ€" gidered on its merits without any fear that the cost of living will be increased to the poor. On the other band, our tariffs may be revised so as to secure the following advanâ€" tagos : "pri 1 Raising a cry against the taxing of food, they qeliberately ignore the fact that a large part of the British revenue is raised by iaxes on food and drink, the bulk of which is con« sumed by the working classes. He points out that in no protected counâ€" try have prices risen by the amount of protective duty, while the shilling tax on corn in Great Britain did not raise prices at all. LITTLE LOAF I$ A BUGBEAR London, Oct. 5.â€"Mr. Chamberlain bas written a prelace to the second eaqition of his collected articles on the fiscal question, which appeared in ‘the Telegraph. In the course of the preface he says : mt on d t mt Chief Vaughan had his system working admirably. It was a move difficult to work out, there being so many ways on which the murderer might have escaped. A report was sent in that a stranger was seen to run past the Cainsville depot, and get on a train for Buflfalo. The police along the line were notified, and one suspect was arrested in Welland. Constables Chapman and Felker drove along the Hamilton road, it being thought possible that the murderer had gone along there, and Constable Croome led a search party near Caingville, but nothing was revealed. THE DEA FO0D CMY, Mr. Chamberlain Says Forâ€" eigner Will Pay Tax. Kennedy was arraigned this mornâ€" ing on a charge of murder, and res manded for a week: He pleaded not guilty. ‘The coroner‘s jury also viewâ€" ed the remains this morning and adjourned until toâ€"morrow evening. Kennedy was a suspect from tho first, and Officers Donnolly and Walâ€" lace made the arrest. He has been quite often during the past few days in Eagle Place, and it is asserted that he was seen there yesterday. Any one who saiw the man will not quickly forget him. His face is red, almost florid, and he inclines to corpulency, or his carriage would give one that impression. He is about 30 years old, and nothing is known here of his past. under such shocking and fearful cirâ€" cumstances would have shown some agitation, he remained gaulvo and calm, telling those about him that he did not know how the stains got there. He showed what was nothin~ less than boldness when the med _i examination of his body was being made, and did not hesitate to do exactly what Dr. Ashton wished. The officers did not expect such a bearâ€" ing from a man who was in his preâ€" dicament, and they do not ~quite understand it yet. RETURNED TO OW NERS. Charge of Murder bhad his system ONTARIO ARCHIV TORONTO and further joined issue with the United States that such a barrier must not include water. He said the negotiators <~well knew that ,the, mountains on maps were convenâ€" tional signs, and that it was inâ€" finitely improbable they would be found to exist in nature exactly as depicted. The treaty called for mourtains, not a symmetrical range, He emphasized his contention thas it is the treaty that is under disâ€" cussion, and protested against the attemt to incorporate anybody‘s maps into it as an outrage. I agarot t Victoria, B.C., Oct. 5.â€"The Provinâ€" clal Treasurer has received from Otâ€" tawa the sum ‘of $258,000, being 50 per cent. of the Chinese head tax, which the Federal Government have remitted to Briiish Columbia. About $6,000 or $7,000 goes to Victoria, and $2,000 or $3,009 to Vancouver for the keep of the D‘Arcy Ieland Heo criticized Mr. Taylor‘s definiâ€" tion of a coast, and said that his statement that there was no politi. cal coast on the mainland rested on the erroneous assumption that Rusâ€" sia was i1 possession of the mainland when the treaty was made. _ Anaâ€" lyzing Mr. Watson‘s argument, he disputed the latter‘s statement that Russia stipulated for a barrier in the eense indicated by Mr. Watson, London Cableâ€"At the opening of the session of the Alaskan Tribunal this morning, Solicitorâ€"General Sir Edmund Carson, continuing his argue ment on the southern boundary, said that he could not see why the United States insisted on latitude 54.50, seeing that they admitted that the point of commencement was not on that pacallel. There could be no question as to Portland Chanuel. No other body ol water was known then or since. As to Mr. Watson‘s remarks that the British line from ihe nead of the Portland Channel went southwards in seeking the mountains on the 56th parallel, he said the statement was explained by the fact that Mr. Watâ€" son had his map upside down. As to question 5, Sir Edmund strongly disputed Mr. Watson‘s inâ€" terpretation that his question simâ€" ply amounted to this: Should the line go round the heads of the. inâ€" lets ¢ He said it meant, Must th« line necessarily go round the heads of all inlets ? The Presidentâ€"l noticed the conâ€" fusion at the time. The Solicitorâ€"General, Sir E. Carâ€" son, addressed the court, for Great Britain. He began by assuming that the whole of the United States‘ case _was before the court. If any new matter was presented _ later, he claimed ‘the right to reply. He eaid be had listened to long disquisitions on international law, whose prinâ€" ciples are much easier to state than to apply. Now, he proposed to say, something about the poor little negâ€" lected treaty itself, and only when he found difficulties would he pefer to aught elge, either as a precedent or subsequent thereto. Sir Edward took up the questions seriatim, and said one was undisputed, but the agreement thereon involved an adâ€" mission by the United States that for the purpose of starting the parâ€" allol must be discarded, and that the latitude was named for identification metrely proved from negotiations that the negotiators ‘must have had Vanâ€" ‘ couver‘s narrative before them, and in view of ‘the practical admlssion‘ to that effect, he characterized Mr. Taylor‘s statement that the narraâ€" tive supported the United States‘ contention as "rather strong." He showed from Vancouver‘s writings that he applied the name Portland Canal to the channel claimed by. Great Britain, and that he called the channel claimed by the United States by another name. + $258,000 From Chinese Poll Tarx. Referring to the lisiere, Mr. Tays lor discussed the question of _ the coast line, and saidq there were two sorts of coast line, one the natural physical coast line, where salt water touches land, the other the political coagt line, a creation of internationâ€" al law, to provide a bulwark against a nation‘s enemies. In Alaska _ the political coast line is the outside rim of the islands, the physical coast line limit is salt water. The British case confuses the two, and their argument consequently is an unintelligible Jjargon. He then briefly discussed the barrier theory, and also argument from acquiescence. T.;e President and Mr. Ayleswortn also quoted the precise and positive stutements ol Vancouver adverse to Mr. Tayior‘s argument, and altogeâ€" ther the tribunal did not seem imâ€" pressed by tuis branch of it. Mr. Lodge drew attention to the distinct stutement mado by Vancouâ€" ver that he cailed the whole body of water botweea Poiat Wales and Balâ€" mon Gove "Observatory lule«,"‘ and the _ uorchern _ channel _ "Portland Canal." Mr. Lodge asked him where he got his authoriwy for the statement inat "canal" is tne technical word on the northwest coast for ‘‘iijords,‘ as d.sâ€" linct from "channels,‘ and he proine ised to furnish it. Lomion Cableâ€"Mr. Taylor, reâ€" sumiug bis argumeat on the United Btares side before the Boundary tomâ€" mission this morning, sad that Rusâ€" slia had thnree objec.s in making the treaty : {irst, to obtain a lisiere ; secâ€" ond, lhat the sritisn snouid obtain the same privileges ol hunting anod fisking as nad been granted to the Unitea States the previous year ; third, that the southero line of tue boundary should be the same as that agreed upon with the United Btates. he dealt wito the laws governiag the interpretation of treat.es, to which he denied that common law rules apâ€" ply. The dominant purpose of the negotiaiors suould first be ascerâ€" tained and the subordinate provisions Interpreiel harmouiously with it. he took up une question proposed to the triounat and argued tuai no affirmaâ€" tive evidence had been produced toi snow thar the negotiators of the treity oi 1820 had Vancouver‘s narâ€" rative before them, but was willing to assume tuey had. MR. TAYLOR‘S ARGUMENT ENDED Sir Edward Carson Begins His Address. THE U. 5. GASE GLOSED A letter from one of the Canadian Presbyterian mission staf{ at Indore says that Indore is like a city of the dead. All the people are fleeing, and some are dying as they go. Many victims of the disease lock themâ€" selves in their houses and die there. The police break into all locked houses, and often find for sole occuâ€" pants three or four or five dead bodies. The famine was considered a tcrrible calamity, but this, the letter says, baffies description, London, Oct. 5.â€"A correspondent of the Imperial Colonist, relating the romance of a young couple falling in love on the voyage to Canada, says no young girl should go to Canada without having protection of some sort. The Leader, referring to the case, says the ease with which marâ€" riage licenses can be procured in Canada is stated to be one of the pitfalle awaiting unwary girl emiâ€" arants to the Wast. Marriage Licenses Too Easily Obtained in Canada., " Words cannot describe the terror and desolation of these days. Men, women and children die in great numâ€" bers every hour. Men parade the streets wan of face and wasted of figure, and cry in deep spectral tones, ‘Bring out your dead ; bring out your dead !‘ ‘The dead are then brought out and laid at the doorways to await their turn to be taken in the carts to the graves. Many bodies are consigned to each grave. The Hindus at Mhow have been forced to cease cremating for the want of wood to burn. Food is most difficult to get, as it is not safe to purchase from the few shops which remain open. The college and all the mission echools are closed at Indore, and organization work is practically at a standstill. Some of the missionâ€" aries and an infinite number of the school children have alredy sucâ€" cumbed to the dread scourge." Toronto, Oct. 5.â€"Letters just reâ€" ceived from Mhow and Indore describe the situation as "terrible." A letter from Mhow, where the death rate is greater, says in part : _ Scenes of Horror Bafiling Desâ€" or p‘ion. The Master, Mr. Hodgins, was much Impressed by the address. He said: "I can assure you, sir, I feel deeply the disaster that bas overâ€" taken the prosperity of St. Thomas. It is not a favor that the court will git in St. Thomas in this matter. It is the court‘s duty, and duty shall be done. I will make it my business to place the responsibility for all the actions of the company and its offiâ€" cers, and if anything is definitely shown that is criminal I shall at once place it before the proper ofiiâ€" cer, and criminal proceed ngs will be at once Instituted. Justice, unrelentâ€" ing Justi>e, will be administered to all alike." "I have lost the savings of years, the money iutended to keep me in my old age. With others who have sulâ€" fered through the collapse of these concerns, we desire that you, the Master, come to St. Thomas, that all books and other documents _ be brought there so as to save us the expense of coming to Toronto, and that you investigate the alfair to the very bottom. I, with others, beldjeve that fraud, forgery and other ofâ€" Iences were committel by someone or some people, and that the mman now in jail was not the most guilty. In February last I fivas told that the reserve fund amounted to $264,000, that the company Aid not deal in margins, and that no such dealings would be indulged in. On the faith of this statement I paid in $1,264. This has all been lost. I am prepared to ewear out an information on theâ€"e lines." & + PITFALLS FOR EMiGRANTS. "Toronto Reportâ€"A startling states ment was made yesterday before twe Master in Ordinary at Osgoode Hali by Mr. Frank HMuut, a retired farmer of St. Taomas, and a _ shareholder and depositor ia the Atlas Loan and Elgin Loan Companies. Mr. Huui, having obtained leave {from the Masâ€" ter to make a statement, said in PART!IAL LIST OF CREDITORS, oil Charged Against Atlas Loan Officials. FRAUD AND FORGERY ARE oil. On pumping the well oil and water came together with some gas, which indicates a lasting supply of After Two Years Endeavor, Success Now Seems Assured. Teeswater Report:â€" Excitement is runnieg high in the Village of Forâ€" mosa, about eight miles from here Oil was struck at the Formosa Oil Company‘s well, and the stockholdâ€" ers assured of the fact toâ€"day. The oilâ€"rock was reached last Friday at a depth of eight hundred and fifty feet, when indications of petroleum oil were strong. The drillers proceedâ€" ed seven feet into this oil rock forâ€" mation, when they discontinued drilâ€" ling, and proceeded to pump, the enâ€" couragement being that the _ rope and tools were thickly smeared with colonies. clagses STIMULATE BRITISH TRADE AT MHOW ANV INDORE. STRUCK OIL AT FORMOSA Thke blackemiths‘ strike on â€" the Canadian Pacific at VYancouver is ended, on an understanding betweep the company and the men looking to nnraassinng. Mayor Robert Haf, oi thrached 31 bushels per 95 acres of whkeat the and Lis farm was in Chamberlain in Letter Calls Them Britain‘s Best Friends. London, Oct. 5.â€"Chamberlain, +‘ a letter to a Nottingham manufacâ€" turer, says: ‘"The colonies are oyur best friends. They are large cus, tomers for our manufactured goods, and the greitest potential source for our food supply. They are ready to make profitable arrangements b means of which foreigners are cud’-l ual"ly closing every trade outlet to us. His neighbore, suspecting _ Petsâ€" man‘s design, removed his mother to another cottage, but in the dead of night Petsman enleregl her room by breaking a hole in the celling. He «ilunned his mother with a ClJub, then bullt a pyre with the furniture and burnt her thereon. The neigh» bors, aroused by the fire, rushed to the cottage, where they found Pots man perfectly calm and satisfied. He said he had done his duty. Petsman then concluded that hig mother, of whom be was most fond, must be the victim. He reasoned that his mother‘s name was Eve, and Eve brough« «in inv~ the world. Besides no woman‘s blood had yet been shed for humanity‘s sake. St Petersburg, Oct. 5.â€"The Rusâ€" slan village of Oro, in the district of Gapsalko, was recently the acene ol an extraordinary case of religious mania. _ A peasant named Johann Petsman became convinced that the sins of the people demanded a hu» man sacrifice and accordingly offer= ed himself. None of the neighbore were willing to act the part of saoâ€" rificial priest, O‘Neilâ€"Silk Breach of Promise Case at London. _ Jondon, Ont.. report â€" In the O‘Neilâ€"Silk breach of promise case at the Assizes toâ€"day the plaintif{, who sued for $5,000 damages, was awarded $2,000 by Chancellor â€" Sic John Boyd. The plainntiff hersgelf was the only witness, as the defence adâ€" mitted the engagement of Dr. SNilk to Miss O‘Neil, and the only real quesâ€" tion was the amount of damages. The Chancellor‘s statement was as follows: "I have read over the paâ€" pers and find that a contract of marriage promise is clearly proven. The defendant was engaged to plainâ€" tiff, and the courtship lasted over years, when the engagement was deâ€" liberately broken off without any leâ€" gal justification. Defendant gave no explanation for his conduct nor reaâ€" sons. The woman has been seriousâ€" ly affected, and I award damages at §2,000. 1 At the close of the case the Chanâ€" cellor intimated that he would look through the doctor‘s letters this evening and give judgment in the morning. The addresses of counsel were very amusing, and while the docâ€" tor did not enter the box and face his accuser, his counsel admitted the promise and the breach of proâ€" mise. His sole dcfence was a plea for small damages. Counsel, waving his arms, called upon the Chancelâ€" lor, sitting as a philosopher, dealâ€" ing as an expert in love, to weigh carefully the loss in dollars and cents. ‘The address was an amusâ€" ing «liscourse on love, becoming at length so technical that the Chanâ€" cellor was forced to remind him that they were getting away beâ€" yond the realms of evidence, â€" _A bundie of the doctor‘s letters, teeming â€" with expressions â€" yowing his undying love, was filed as an exâ€" hibition, ana from these Miss O‘Neil asks the Chancelior to sustain her claim. With tears in her eyes, she stated her case, urging that her prospects are blighted, her health ruined, and that now nothing stares her in the face but the prospect of having to earn her own livelihood instead of having the comfortable home which the doctor had always pictured to her. Hearing ‘that the marrlage to Miss Hicks was to ltake place on Monday, sbhe had driven all the way from Exeter to London. ‘There she interviewed the prospective fatherâ€"inâ€"law, and proâ€" hibited the marriage. The fatherâ€"in=â€" law, after solemnly considering the maiter, declined to waive the new title on account of any previous engagement. Miss O‘Neil then wrote to the clergyman, ordering him not to proceed. The ceremony was, however, performed, and now Mise O‘Neil will receive from the doctor damages as the result of his wobâ€" bling betwixt beauty and duty, for it is said the successful girl was the belle of her own town. BURNED HIS MOTHER. The plaintiff{ related the story of the doctor‘s courtship, which exâ€" tended from.the year 1899 continuâ€" ously up to the year 1903, when, without the slightest warning, as the plaintiff claims, he married a Mise Hicks, of Exeter, sizes here toâ€"day, before Chancellor Boyd, the usual monotonous proâ€" ceedings of a court of law were enâ€" livened by a very interesting case for breach of promise of marriage, The parties concerned belong to the leading families in London, and much interest is manifested in the result. The plaintiff is Miss Ida O‘Neil, some 25 years ol age, She claims $5,000 damages. ‘The defendâ€" ant, Dr. Silk, is a wellâ€"lpown dentâ€" ist of London. & PLAINTIFF TELLS HE€R STORY A London Dentist Sued for Breach of Promise. HE BLIGHTED HEA UFE RELY ON COLONIES, BALM WAS $2,000. the â€" At â€"the _A# ‘There is no greate earth than a healthy, baby, Anything there keep the little one tion is a priceless ers. Mrs William Bul N. W. T., tells how sh this ond. She eays > * say that Baby‘s Own done my baby girl a She was badly troub stipation and very CI ish, but since using t is all right. I gave is onse or fgwice a wel now such a merry, thing that there can RBaby‘s Own Tablets thing for little ones." "No, «sir; his lo calm.* *Rell me; you & warm when you fo must have elapsed hetween the murd quis‘ appearance Raunders though! "An bour, sir.‘" "An bour. And * quite calim and + only in the librar; iteelf, in the prese "Quite, «ir."‘ "If I have not | Mr. Saunders, you experience in crim you tell his | U you ever 10 son who has Here is a lesson for ers who want a safe medicine for the ai which their little one: time to time. These Ta under a guarantee tC aplate or harmful dr Clercno > 10e odtaditd den away ? It was it had leen thrown changed for the n marquis was wear "It was, sir.‘" "And when you to «dagger fell out, the attempt to stop 3 you ?" are ¢ for all C nwm ‘A.zbe to child. SBold at 25 gent by mail by ° Gerald nodded, and | déown, and Saunders «te; box. His cvidence need peated here. He gave a ¢ terly account of every i had occurred under his the nl¢2; of thvrmurdm proceed an awful slier the aundience. It seemed found it almost impossibl or move, so intense wa 30II their nerves As i the panorama of fac folded by Saunders, it sec of them wh methodical vol must be guilty ald. "It was Iyi The sergeant then pro tltlll narration of the fa hey were known. He 4« the keeper, who related of the body, and the inc Iy, following upon it. Toj leaving Saunders with 1 the hut, he had gone t r‘-. and brought him e gave his evidonce with a glance now an the pale, compose) face ter, as if apologizing 1 wessity 0f saying wha and ::s about to step « sigh relief, and wipi piration from his face, :« got up. The court stared at the wel, who looked still yo wig and gown than wit every one remarked that was as pale as the priso Gefending. . The | judgeo glasses and bont a keen you man, ard asked | thon&erk of the court. Gerald had only two . put in crossâ€"examinatior ""The marquis offered you to the hut at once * Yes, sir ; at once.‘ * Now, think carefut ©oat torn? Did he look who had been engaged i with another man ?" There was a pause finished, and then Go *"Were there any zOCfle on the bo«ly A the «lecea gGerk ?" "None whatever, s "There were no | marks on the mary "No, #ir." "Nor on the coat the chair ?" a â€" consplcuous * No, sir. Certainl gordship was justâ€"jo is, quiet and calm." aplate or harmful drug, are g(:’fl for all children newâ€"bora Lube to the child. Bold at 25 cents sent by mail by writing the â€" Dr. Willlams â€" Me RBrockville, Ont. The marquis, as these 3 grave and measured a« the eminent barrister‘s ¢ tised lips, lowered h 'ooted aside for a mome might be condemned to very possible, he though the truth respecting the Charles Sherwin would t! revealed seemed to him blematical @d so mean a part | at the tall, staiwa calm, selfâ€"possessed ed impossible that powerlul man ?" "Yes," *"Then, if the marqy this murder, he must, lon, have stolen upon like a feootpad _ and from behind ?" The judge looked up "Can e ask thal, he said, in the soft v« he is dlistinguished. *) "As your loiship p Gerald. But the ques: aeked, and the jury the anewer, and it hi the anewer, and them. Was it pos like the marouis MEREKY, HAPP The Ro deceased as to 1 h that WO al/mf Â¥ B nC arC ble 1 LroI p