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*3 When the avdience had b gn feel the srain 0. waiti § a < meurmur adyvised t oe whâ€" o the Sata Tega that H s H 1 ne approac~ing. A mome; d\ AUst1a4, wonl tu U to take t=e oath Oreglhia, Raimpolha a of the iluee orders o lege. > Myr. se.ry i Craileg.. . wos ue . lirst time, and t e g formea nOrk *Alda In the mea. wile throug. whe. whe « pass, and the Sa a consistory was held overfio wing. Vai; Mgr. of Paua.. , ci0 ut . .sb Nudc.0 .l thaler, ti Wuen Tim 1.¢ c receive un red At a«a early bour the thorougaâ€" lares leaummag to the vatican were crowded wach cabs carrying thouâ€" sands oi imeu anua woined, barrying to secure good positions irom whicu to w.tuess the solemn funcâ€" mou, althougn the priunc.pa â€" cereâ€" mony diu now begin unth 11 o‘ clock. Caramals and uuhcr preiates and Var.ous persodages Alluclied to the papal courcs urove up in heavy, oldâ€"fashiunued _ cartmiages, ana were received with the usual honors by the papal guards. "His Majesty gave up his usual Walk yesterday, owing to the sharp wind prevailiog. The healing of the wound takes the â€" regular â€" course and the Emperor‘s â€" general condiâ€" tion remuins good. (Signed) Yon Leuthola, Schmudt, Iberg. A buiuan Consistury. homw, Nov. 16.â€"PoOpe Pius X. holid us iircse public . cousisiory toâ€"day. bive cardwals, incuuuing ihe papal secretary o« state, meriy Jel val, receiveu thour red hats. While a conm.s.uory .8 0o novelity, this mornâ€" ing «Ds circamstances were §0 exâ€" ceptivual, namey, the hoding of the iirst puuhc _ cous.story under the new pont{icate, ana ihe conâ€" lerring ot whe red hat on tno new papai sucrecary ol state, thiat exâ€". clleimeut pervaded the whole aposâ€" lonc patace. Pope Pius Holds the First of His Public Consistories. Berlin, â€" Nor. 16. â€"Regarding tho condition of Emperor William, the following bulletin was issued this morting at the New, Palace, Potsâ€" THE EMPEROR‘S THROAT HEALING IN REGULAR WAY. A mait car following the first pasâ€" serger train was a so derailed near the scene of the bockade. _ Besides the po ice detailed for service at the several barns, as many more were o. Une man, a nonâ€"union conducâ€" tor, is said to havo been injured in the first clash. first car started was a mail car. It was not harmed during its entire trip. In all two hbundred and _ five policemen were detailed to the difâ€" ferent car barns. ‘ Following the trip of the mail car alforts were made by the street car company to move passenger cars with nonâ€"union crows. Four trains were started on the Cottage Grove Avente cable line, bound towards the business district. At Fortieth street obstructions upon the tracks block-i ed trainse. Jeers greeted the train crews. A shower of stones lollow~] ed and car windows were demolishâ€" a nonâ€"union crow on the Cottage Grove Avenue line. Cars were witnâ€" out passengers. That the disturb> ances mighi be expeoted toâ€"day was indicated by the wide distribution of a proclamation by Mayor Carter H. Harrison warning citizens to keep off the streets along lines of the city railway. With general orders to remain in reserve, details of police were sent to various car barns. ‘The few _ passenger cars were started this moroing early, on various tines. The resuut was trouble, almost inâ€" étantly, the first instance reported being the intimidation and flight of Notwitbstanding statements _ by officials of tho company, that _ no attempt would be made to run cars today, except lor postal service, a Chitcage despaich: At 4 o‘clock this morning, the strike of the union emâ€" pioyees ol the Chicago City Railway Company )â€"gan and when the reâ€" sidents ol the south and southwest sides of the city started for their places ol Iwmusiness, they were withâ€" out their ausual trameportation faâ€" cllities. Beginning at midnight the trainmen graduaily took their cars to the seven barns of the company, scattered _ ithroughout the system, and left them there. In the #hops, barne, and power houses the union workers laid down their tools and quit, deciaring that they will reâ€" main idle until the company â€" conâ€" sents to arbitrate the issue that brought on the controversy. > Cer\ipu Rejected Lover Drove the Girl Out Into the Street and Shot Her Four Times. CHICAGO STREET CAR _ _ EMPLOYEES ON STRIKE. empt of the Company to Run Cars This Morning Met With Much Opposition. C ie#A d bgr. ~ ut 8 , Â¥g.. * iC Wae mwego Hats began at 10.â€".0 a.m. 14 «uis who were to hai, Mgt. Merry Lei gisl «ie Archb.shop uU toe iapal M nâ€" E.. D lisni t e Pap ) ss the solemn funucâ€" the priuc.pat _ cereâ€" gin unti 11 o‘ clock. wihicr preiates and O m d1 @Op 0. Dul29Uu,. g, e ioistise chapel be. ore Carui als BQG Macein heaus h corr.do. s «y id .0 3 where the wore {filled to li_ni i Max d rob Archb shop | Sensational Evidence Given by Mr. A. iapal \. n E. Ames, 1 t e Pap 1 Toronto, Ont., Nov. 16.â€"Some very 3.. Kats â€" str.king evidence respecting the reâ€" De120U«8> lationship between the Atlas Loan tise «hapel Company, M . Wallace, its manager, e Carclâ€"@413 and Ames & Co., was given yesierâ€" a~Cii_ neass day afternoon by Mr. A. E. Ames cacrd CoF bsore the Misierâ€"inâ€"Ordinary _ in lsnd Mor. câ€"nnection with the Loan Company b« o Oh> liquidation proceedings. M\ Ames 0. piclates stated that he had often asked Mr. w:*. Wallace for a detailed statement of cortrdo.§s ue Atlas Loan Company‘s affairs, lw«l .0 but had been always put off, and where the i. was only about a month before e lilled to the failure that he got from Walâ€" lice a memo regarding the Atlas‘ bun to si uation. H> deni>d W ‘llace‘s insinâ€" a diâ€"tant | uation that he had discouraged ‘h~> _ _v ay d Atlas manager from selling _ Twin 1 neos was City in 1902 and added : "Wallace aer the was the biggest buil on the market â€" lWed to the in heavy, ana . were honors by Silence fell over the assemb‘ed throng, and then the new card nals were introduced by the master â€" of ceremonies, w..0, while they kuacl. one by one Jefore the Pops, held a ca rdinâ€" al‘s h~* over their heads. Thereupoo the Pontiff repeated the usual iorâ€" mula in Latin, after which he rabed the fivecardinals. The newly honored brelates then arose, and went to each of their brother vardinals, a d gave and received the usual frater.al embrace. When the ceremony was ended the Pope rose, bestowed the Papal berediction on ali present, and then withdrew,.the halls and lobbles echoing with acclamations as he passe1 on his way to his apartments. Among those present at the pubâ€" lie consistory was Bishop Labroque, of Chicoutimi, Quebec. , whole gorgeous picture â€" burst upon | their v.ew, arousing a perfect storm | of applause and cries of "Long live Pope 14us," and "Long live the Ponâ€" til1," wutch were conticued until the Pope had descended from the Media | Gestatorta. being another detachment ol guards, Toe Pontiltf seated hmself on the throne at the end of the hall, while the cardinals went to their stal s on either side, with the b.shtops ai the left. e pepl ie cy uioi c o on n se en t Remar on Ccak ECCE Pontil{, who was followed by a train of bistops, priests, monks and courit laymen, at the end of the procersion being another detachment Al amarria His Holiness was l t ed in ‘u‘l pouâ€" tincal robes, with the mitltre, an amâ€" mense emerald sparkling on his finâ€" ger as te taired his hand to bless the assoemblage. Preceding him were whe celebrated Swiss Guards, the card.nâ€" als coming close behiud them. The Noble Guard came next, escorting the pr2 245@# PWET mE . 2 Cl euet CV HOTdd by threatening her, and shot her down in the street when she was begging for her life. The girl was shot four times, two of the wounds being mortal. _ Yenable disappeared in the darkness and has not yet been apprehended. Â¥ EECCD RCECITUCTY TT ’in some manner fell into the press without being noticed. The tragedy wias only discovered by a shoe heel seen protruding when a bale was removed from the press. The lad was crushed _ beyond recognition, but his clothing made the identifiâ€" cation complete, Murdered by Rejected Lover. Gallatin, Mo., Nov. 16.â€"lda Astor, was shot and fatally wounded last night by _ Elmer Venable, a wellâ€" known man of this city, _ because shie had refused his offer of martiâ€" age. YVenable, who is a widower, drove the girl from her own home by threatening her, and shot her the gin with several of cotton sent by hi service oi a union crew for a mait car sent out on 63rd street. Crushed to Death. New York, Nov. 1G.â€"A despatch to the Tribune from Forest, Miss., kays: Henry Bailey, son of a wellâ€" known planter of Smith County, has been killed by being packed in a bale of cotton at a ginnery near Temons. Yourg Bailey had come to A Ivtes aubes corsy! 2 The rail service of car sent Union men, who reported at the various barns to take out the mail cars, were told by the barn bosses, it is said, that they must itake off their union buttors, if they intendâ€" ed to work. This a number of the men refused to do. wore almost insariably empiy. ©The strike was ordered at â€" only four dissenting votes. The strike is to enforce a demand for a wage inâ€" crease of 25 per cent. and recognition of the union. About 3,000 emuloyees are involved, and 220 miles of surâ€" face traffic, part cab‘e and part elâ€" ectric. A car on the Wentworth avenue line proceeded north with little difâ€" ficulty until VanBuren street was roache‘. There its passage was b oc â€" ed by trucks and delivery â€" wagous, which gathored by the score, locked wheels and refused to move. Cars of the Ucion Traction Uompany _ also helped to muke the blo:kade comp‘ete. "The passenger cars on the Cottage Grove and Wentworth avenue hnes came alorg quickly, as soon as the mail cars were safely out of sight. No poiiceman rode on the cars, which quickly made available to emergency cails. WALLACE TO BLAME. railway company refused the il wagon loads his father, and into the press 1. The tragedy by a shoe heel en a bale was respond to pays no English girl who lets her lover go to Canada to make a home for her need fear that be will falil a victim to the charms ol the Canâ€" _adian girl. In Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal the typical face is hardâ€" featured, sallow, frequently muddyâ€" complexioned, no doubt the result of overheated rooms, pastry, and candy. She says, ‘"One seidom sees the pink and white skin of the English girl. The Canadian girls have long, thick hair, dressed in the Gibson girl fashâ€" ion. The girls are well set up and neat, but have no idea of softening their bard features by a less hard style of dress. The London shop girl would look a perfect elegante in Toronto or Montreal. The Toronto woman, when over 30 does not reâ€" alize that to wear her hair dragged up behind and tight in front, surâ€" mounted by a hardâ€"looking felt hat, only serves to intensify her plainâ€" ness. Royal blue or pure white are two colors which least accord with the Canadian girl‘s complexion." Einglishwoman Writes Bitter Letter to a London Paper. London, Nov. 16. â€"An Englishwoâ€" man in Canada writes to the Leader, caustically criticizing the taste and appearance of Canadian women. She Robb is wanted for the alleged » bez:ling of $1,200 of trust funds. At 2 o‘clock in the aiternoon he secured the legal services of Judge J. . Corrigan, and a hot, but short, battle was fought in the courts on the question of whether he should be released on a writ of habeas corpus. The po.ice said extradition papers had been arranged and forwarded, but Robb finaily won and was reâ€" leasod. Extradition Papers for AlHeged Emâ€" bezzler Arrived Too Late. St. Paui, Minn., Nov. 16. â€" Thirty mirutes aftez he bad been released by the courts on a writ oi habeas corpuas, J. MacDonald Robb, an alâ€" leged cembezzler from Toronto, Canâ€" ada, was azain the object of an unâ€" success:ui search by the police, exâ€" tradition papors from Canada hayâ€" ing arrived. _ chiei Conroy received imormation that lobb was in Minneâ€" apo is o« Monday night, and Detective H.cks and smith were at once assignâ€" eu to locate him. A message was reâ€" ceived from CUlief of Police O‘Neill, of Chicago, stating where Robb could be fourd, and he was at once taken into custody and locked up. Umted States, owing to the suppresâ€" slion oi maps ; and a strip 1530 wies iong by from one to two miles wide, which had teen confirm=d to Canada by whree previous treaties. In 184G Lord Ashburton made _ another treaty, under which Oregono, which had been jointly occupied by Engâ€" land and the United States, was ceded as "worthless." The Washingâ€" ton treaty oi 1871 followed, under which the Island of San Juan, which, under the treaty oi 1846, was Britâ€" ish, was abandoned, and Canada‘s ciaims, amounting to $1,600000 in connection with the Fenian raid woere abandoned by Lord Kimberley ; and, lastly, in 1808, Canada sustained the loss ol two. strategics islands in Alaska, _ and connection vith the ocean, which was our right by the | treaty oi 1825, by a decision which had been described as a travesty of ‘ justice, P ; HARD ON CANADIAN GIRLS. Next came ih> Ashiuzrton treaty of 1842, undes which 1,200,000 acres o« Canadiau tesricory were veded to the treaty orf 18 8, togath»r with 4,030,â€" 000 acres o territory which conâ€" gress had previously admicted Great Britain cwued. £‘% The war of 18i2 gave to Great Britain the whoe oi Maine, to the Penobscot, on <ihe At.antic; the who‘e of M.chigan to Pariric du Chine, and atso the mouth of the Colâ€" umbia River, which controlled Oreâ€" gon. ‘These were alt given up by the His Honor in opening referred io thne territory oi some iour million square miles which Great Britain obâ€" tamed under the treaty oi 1763, by which France _ ceded not oniy the magnificent heritage which now comâ€" prises the Domin:on of Canada, but also what are now known as the Ktates of Ohio, Indiana, Iilinois, M.chigan, Wisconsin and half of Minâ€" resota. Owing to the pusillanimit y o Mr. Richard Oswald, a neophite in dipicmacy, to whom the negotiaâ€" tions were entrusted at the closs of the revo.utionary war, and who adâ€" vised that Canada and Nova Scotia be aiso ceded, the States anove . named, togeth>r with the ILadian terâ€"" ritory out of which the States 0‘{‘ Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama were aftorwards formed, were ceded to the United States. The U. K. Loyâ€" l alists were also abandoned to their enemies. _ The _ Canadian fisherix-sl were also coded under false represeiâ€" tations. A i Canada Been Stripped of Territoryl Jdudge Hodgins Points Out. | Toronto, Nov. 1t..â€"The story of.| "Canada‘s rerritoriai iosses since 1783," as told by His MHonor Judge Hodgins to the United Empire Loyalâ€" ist Association at their meeting last night, presented a striking record oi i dip omatic blundering not at all Hatâ€" tering to the national pride, l "If the Atlas Loan had dealt with the Ames firm alone, our failure would have been simply an unimâ€" portant incident in their history." Aseked whether the Atlas Loan would have been affected by the Ames failure if they had continued to deal with the Ames firm alone, and not with the other fourteen stockbroking firms, Mr. Ames â€" reâ€" plied : Later on in his examination Mr. Ames said : "If Mr. Wallace had taken my adâ€" vice throughout he would have come out with a profit as the net result." Mr. Ames said that Wallace had exceeded his authority as a member of the Ames firm in ordering the clerk to make out a statement purportâ€" ing _ to show a sale of 1,100 shares of Twin City stock, when in reality there had been no such sale. "Mr. Wallace had as much authority," he added, "to ha,ze that statement preâ€" pared as a bank manager has to pledge the bank‘s funds on a horse race bet." He wanted to hold the stock till it RELEASED TOO SOUN. BY CRASS DIPLOMACY. ONTARIO ARCH TORONTO He Says Canada Leans to Separation ? From isritair. Lordon, Nov. 16. â€"Prol. Ashley, of Birmingham University, formeriy of Toronto, speaking at the banquet of the London Chamber of Commerce «ast night, expressed the belief that if things went on as at present, Canâ€" ada was bound to sever her connecâ€" tion with the Motheriland, and become cither independent, or, in reality or name, part of the United States. (Cries of "Oh, oh," and "Hear, hear.") American emigration to the Northâ€" West Territories, he declared, was accelerating this tendency, and the drift of Australia towards separaâ€" tion from the Mother Country was equally clear. The tendency towards separation had for a time been checked by the enthusiasm during the Boer War, and the preferential tariff had somewhat Too Realistic a Per firmance Crazes a Negro in the Audiencs. Logansport, Inj., Nov. 16.â€"During the â€" presentatioa _ of "Uncle ‘Pom‘s Cabin‘" here Monday night by a trayâ€" oling company, Frank Maishal, a burly negro, and con of aâ€" former slave, rendered insane by the whipâ€" ping of Uncle Tom by Simon Legree, ieaped upou the stage and atteapc od to ki the actor. Unele TPom jumy;â€" od olf the b.ock and took a hasd in the [ gat, but she n gro was overp wâ€" ering noth of them, when a policeiman suppressed him. The â€" per{ormance was broken up by tue iscident. The negro said his father had been whipâ€" ped just as depicted on the stage, and the memory drove him to mad~i ness, ‘ Coroner Young has called an inâ€" quest, the first sitting of which will take place toâ€"morrow. The cause of the explosion is a mystery, inasmuch as the proprieâ€" tor, Mrs. H. W. Pursell, staies posiâ€" tively that the acetylene plant was In good order when he last inspectâ€" ed it, and had been cleaned only this morning. He states that the machine had been approved by the underwriters. I¢ had b. ea ia uce s â€" ful _ operation for about _ eight months. The following is a list of the inâ€" jured removed from the ruins: Capt. ‘Thomas P. Warson, Ridgetown ; Loi. Wm. Barclay, Ridgetown ; _ John W._ M:cKenzme, â€" Hawvard Township ; Miss Adamson, Ridgetown ; Michae boherty, Ridgetown ; H. W. Purseli, Ridgetown; John Bedaard, aged 7, Ridgetown. Of thes» Mâ€". McKenzies skuit is fractured. He has regained consciousness, but may not reâ€" cover. Miss Auamson has a bad scalp wound, but wilt recover. Captain Watson has a siighi concussion of the brain, but will also â€" recover. Pursell‘s injuries are to the head, but are not serious. The â€" others are not seriously hurt. Termilec Force of the Explosion. The hotel is badly wrecked. â€" ‘The front is practisslhy destroyed. _ All the floors are biown up, and the place cannot be rebulit. â€" Sevoral nearby stores are damaged and the plateâ€"glass windows wiinin a bluck‘ are all smashed. But for the work of the firemen the hotel would proâ€" bably have been burned, as the flames had commenced when they arrived. sC.Cuenoss the Lozar House resuiled in one @4 the worst disasters in the nistory of the towr. The explosion occurred l shortly after 5 o‘clock this afterâ€" | coon, when the place was woell THied | with peop‘e, and the tale of the vizâ€" |tims shows two killed and six inâ€" jured, of whom a couple may not surâ€" vive. _ For some time before the exâ€" | rlosion ogcurred people in the vicinâ€" ity had noticed a eme!ll of escaring gas, ‘but those inside the builtding were apparently unaware oi the danrger untii within a minute or so beiore the discussion. Then the lights suddecrly went out, and the proâ€"| prietor went to investigate. } Whole Busiding Wrecked. ‘ He groped his way to the :eellnrl woor, whach was in the rear of the j ,rrm.t hailway, and as he opened the dooz was met by a blinding puil of ( fiame, and then came the roar of the exp.osion. In an inslant the doozse ! parted, and the hotel was riven from | the cellar up to the floor of the top i story. ‘The whole front was blowin‘ out, the walls tottered from top to' bottom, and the first and second floors fell witlhh a crash into the celâ€" sar. _ Buried beneatn the ruins were ':xt least a dozen people, and to the rescue ol these the townepeople set to work with splendid gallantry, ior t was no light thing toâ€" ventur> within the compass of the ruined Dead and Dying. One ol the first to be taken fr0m the debris was J. W. Atkinson, a canâ€" vasser for the London Advertiser. He ‘ was frightLwly injured, and died ‘n a rearby store within haif an hour. A. 8. Weir, auctioneer of this piace, was also soon reached. He was laken to the Queen‘s Hote!, but Ins ‘. it jories were suciht that ivrom the iirs!,/ ho hope was entertained. He died at | 6 s Wosies 1 bui.dng, the high brick walls of which were quivering, as though e«â€" ory misute would see them crash dow i. PROF. ASHLEY‘s VIEWS, TO KILL SIMON LEGREE, Rdigetowr despatch‘ ; The explosion of ar acetlyne plant in the cellar of Cause of the Explosion is Yet a Mystery. J.W. Atkinson, London, and A. B. Weir, Ridgetown, Dead. Terrific Explosion of Acetylene A RIDGETOWN HOTEL WREGKED. Lever having irrgained 01 empire. Mortreal, Nov. 16.â€"Mr. Edgar w, Wa lace, spee a correspandent of the Lo.don Dai y Mail who hus just com, pete= a tour 0 (Canada made loOr the parpose of gaug!‘ g pub i opinion on the propposed file . proposals, says ; "Canadua can give Britain all the wheat she will need. Manitoba is a wonderiui bit of country for wheat oduction. I consider the possibiâ€" ?rft-es of the west to be bound ess in th‘s respect, and it is not on y proâ€" bab‘eâ€"it must come to Lass â€" that Carada wiil be the granary of the ommiro * ’ Held Against the Crib by the Suction ‘ of the Niagara River Niagara â€"Falls, Nov. 16. â€" Joseply Taylor, diver, vmployed by Barry & McMordic, contractors, _ who are building the ecribwork dam for the Toronto & Niagara Power Co., had a terrible experience toâ€"day. . He woent down couiside the crib, and wa; sucked into the gap in the crib by the water running through. He was under sixteen feet, and nubjected to groat prossure from the current. Pellow divers strove fjor three hours before be was released. All their ef. forts failed, ns they could not pul} him from the crib until a block and tacklo was rigged, and {orty: men on thoe rope had a hard pull to get him out. He was almost dead, but Dr. Kellam says he will recover. Melvin Emith, diver, cut his left _ hang badly while trying to release Tay. lor. Diver Stokes and Contractor Mcâ€" Mordiec went to ascist in the releasge. The escape is regarded as the most wonderful in the history of Niagara Falls. Taylor lives here anrd has a wife and children. 1 W Wintidiods ds ind lt ds fonalities, when â€" the Mayor â€" cou}d stand it no longer, and bad a poâ€" licoman caled i and Ald. Wood re.â€" moved. 1 °°, ~Leakers, and was asked by the Mayor to desist and keep quiet. Perâ€" lodically His Worship was forced to rereal his request jor quietness. Ald. Wood persistes and induiged in perâ€" C 9"° _ n‘p"*. Vinen business was first sltarted, Ald. Wwood delivered a long speech on _several poinis, after which be irterrupted _ a number of the speakers, and was asked by *+ho Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 16. â€"Th lice were cabhed to the C Chambers to remove Ajd. Wood & ly before the c.ose of the me last night. When business w2R _ "During the last week the priacipal manufacturers of sieel and steel proâ€" _ducts have been in consuitation conâ€" _corning trade conditions. While it is a fact that there has beeit a decrease in the vo.ume ofi business during the last few monhs, it is also true that a substantial tonnage is being booked at the present tim>, and the generai cpinion seems to be that the outâ€" look is quite promising and improvâ€" Ing. It was ihe unanimous opinion that the price of billets and bars was too high and somewhat out of parity. Therefore the price of the former has been reduced to $23 per ton, Pittsburg, and for the latter to $1,30 base per 100 pounds, Pilisâ€" burg,. Prices on all oth>»r stee! comâ€" modities, _ however, _ remain Hil~ changed." ALDERMAN ARRESTED. He Talked Too Much in Win nipeg Council. GRANARY OF "HE empirg A final meetisg in ih> sevies of consultations oi the manufactuzrers of steei and siee! products that has been held in this city in the past few days took place yesterday. Those meetings have inc us«ed gathe. ings of the makers oi Lilleis, bars, plate stee‘, structural stee! and rails, The only cut in price is in billets and bars. â€" The {following efiicial stateâ€" ment was made by Willis L. King, viceâ€"presilent oc the Joces & Laughâ€" lin Steel Company o. Pittsburg: . Edgur Waillace‘s Impressions of tCanada‘s W beat Production Another feature of the retrenchâ€" ment will be the merging of the American ‘Tin Piate Company with the American Sheet Stcel Company. The â€" headquarters o_ the merged companies will be moved to Pittsâ€" burg about Jan. 1. ‘The saving here, it is estimated, will be about $1400,â€" 000 a year. Steel Corporation Will Put General Reduction Into Effect, New York, Nov. 16. ~â€"There is said to be a very general reduction in the wages of the United States Steel Corporation emp oyeas, which will, in the case oi some oi ithe highly skilled workers, be as much as 35 per cent., and it is expected to averâ€" age about 10 per cent. It will affect the wages of some oflice employees, as well as oi th> ecmployees in the plants. » A STEEL WAGES TO BE CUT. A DIVER‘s PERIL \anada made lor the : & pubi opinion on 1.C.1 proposals, SAYS ; give Britain all the «BlrfP :tb 9 xz *T v 2.JLAIn all the u A . Manitoba is a | io t intry for wheat | cago ler the. possgibij. | but be bound ess in | for 1 is not on‘y proâ€" | little to cass â€" that | he h to the _ Council _ dead, but pr. recover. Melvin his left hand 0 release Tayâ€" Contractor Mcâ€" . Wood shortâ€" the meeting 0â€"day. _ HMe ib, and was the crib by gh. He was 16.â€"The pos E Wiie in Canada. Fhi‘adeiphia, Pa., Nov. 16 Baxter, wio wuwe.ve years a weaithy busizess man of was found dead in a lodg at 62 Spruce street toâ€"laj cut his own throat with sometime furing the night. Deen EBM SBERIGL Iuussmsl cLll PhiladeIphia Nan visiting Mason, was pr meeting, and despite afliliations, thought it seize the regalia. A ref made to the collector The fine is $4090. Brunswick . it. Jolhn, N. B., Nov. 16.â€"A seoâ€" sation is on here in Masonic and cusâ€" ltoms circles over the seizure of a whoie outfit of regalia. it a moetâ€" ing of Hibernal Lodge, A.F. & A.M. on Tuesday evening, during a discusâ€" sion of accounts, the price of this reâ€" galia was brought up, and som» member asked for the invoice of the goods. It was intimated that there was no such paper, the regalia hayâ€" ing been imported from the Uniicd States. Customs Officer Dearness, 4 Berlinâ€"A magaificent colicelon o| three thousand of the orig.nal arlist proofl engravings of â€" Damei â€" Chodoâ€" wieki, the most noted German enâ€" l graver of the eghteenth ue. Llury, has been received at Lepmg | from the United States. For over forty years the collection has been on a farm in Belleville, III., in the posseres on of Georeg Bunsen, the greatâ€"grandson of the artist. Londonâ€"Inu â€" celebration of ho "Gastronomic contert" with the "Tes w Us Clut," of Boston, ecleven memâ€" bers of the London Honourable \râ€" tillery dined at the Trocadero Jast night, the eleventh day oi the cleâ€" venth month, and organized the "Eleven oi Us" Club with the object oi holding an annua! banquet in memâ€" ory oi ihe visit of the Honourable Artillery Company to the United States. A Masonic Scandat New Yorkâ€"BR. A. Anderson, Feoreâ€" tary, and the Rev. J. O Do. ovan, proâ€" viemionai representative ol the Jris)} Agmicuitural Qiganizaio+ rocie y. has arrived here from England. Th y have come at the invitation of nc Irish Industrial League o America, to stimulate interest amo. & lhe Irish in this country in the work of thei; sociely, h ’u. landscape by the Impressionist, Walter Leistikow, jor exhibition i; the national gallery. The Minister of Education, however, has relused io submit the decision of the commission to the Imperor for Tinal approva;} Cape Town.â€"Elections yesterday for members of «he Legislatlive Counâ€" cli passed ofi quietiy. The elections were the firsl trial of strength since the war in Bouth Africa betweepa the progressives, or British, and the Bond. »tes, or Duich. The resuits will not be known until ltoâ€"morrow, but the ind cations are that the Bondites wi d be victorions. Beriin.â€"The commission, headed py Professor Otto Kamp!{, has selected Trinidad, Col.â€"It is reported here that negotiat.ons are pending beâ€" tween the Colorado Fuel and Irop Company and the Victor Fuel Copâ€" pany and the operators in this dis trict, whnereby a settliement of tho strike difficuities may be reached heâ€" fore theend of the week. DIED IN LODGING Houset New Yorkâ€"Frederick J. Haas, who claimed to have been the {irst brewer of lager beer in America, is dead at his home in Trenton, N. J. He came from Germany in 1848, in company with the fate General PFranz Siege) Boston, _ Mass.â€"Resolutions were introduced before the American Feg. eration of labor convention 10â€"day to the effect that the "Soâ€"called open shops policy," whether under private or government management ;'Cmnot be necognized by organizeg umn." Boston, Mass.â€"The first Germa» locomotives ‘to be imported to this country have arrived here. They are eight in number, and weigh forty top; cach. Most of the engines will be ghip. ped by rail to Montreal. ed to have destroyed valuables v,. timated wt $3,500,000. Detroit, Mich.â€"Despatches _ frop Northern Michigan tell of a blimarq un:’! ‘s:x lntl':n;. of snow at Calumet an rough the copper country, the eame conditions at (,‘ldllluc.’ het Albany, N. Y.â€"At the meeting of the All Saints‘ Cathedral congregatiop toâ€"day, the Rev. Henry Russel! TQa,. bot, of Boston, Mass., was clecteq dean of the cathedral, to succeed the Rev. Wilford Robins. ed to have dest! mail train Tuesday night, is report. tion of resigning. 8t. Petersburg.â€" d 1 came to this country from ham, England, whore he had member of the firm of Baxter bhoe and leather dealers. The Â¥ __l_'fd_!l__ rating of $500,000 REGALIA SEIZED. ** memen tm w w 8, thought it bis duty : regalia. A report has bee tlf__gollactor of the poi in _was prosent at ihis despite his fraternal Suicide â€"~Letter at 8st. Joiun, New .â€"A fire in the mai To this 4t Fxv g°0 d 1. h« W a® be t« "And so he should ! lovroliest creature brei swoetest and the nol "She is," said Geral always said so, and 1 that you are not jJealo ceive‘"" May gave him a 1 "But to return to 1 he continued, having | with a kiss "If sho him, a wordâ€"just a : will bring him from o the worlkd." "I see! It wasn‘t marrying so much as it from her ?" " Of course." " And yet that and did risk is lifeâ€"" " Pshaw !" broke i charming burst of im nothing ! Any one " Don‘t you be too Mysel{, for instance." she took his face in squeezed it upâ€"it is for the greater cony ingâ€"and laughed into " My dear, dear, bo do anything so roma if you tried ! You! q blurted out the whob Insisted upon its bel "Well," he daughed, thinking <f him, why him at arm‘s length know, overybely kno marquis simply worsh ground upon which «l to be standing ; that n loved a woman m« course I except mysel â€"than the marquis 1 stlll loves, Elaine." "It‘sâ€"there, you‘d stand! Don‘t you ® abe can‘t forgive hi " Quite _: wish to H« done so ! worries an look in her M To ranmmag bM.JnI.‘t "How dare you say o my Elaine ?" broki mock severity. "And that word | Eiaine would rather ter!" said May, "and tire better for it." "I see," said Ger course I see, but stand. You think t to eacrifice her 11e "Pride! Oh, you sti wouden â€" headed b though, for a lawye pid wihen women _ a she added, plainly. " my «lear proud ! I aweetest, â€" bhumblestâ€" len‘t pride! It‘sâ€"it‘s "Just so, give it you? I‘m bumbly w struction.® ‘ "HMis doubting ber,. abe was capable o meeling and bargald poor {fellow, Sherwin "No, no, no !" "Well, what on ea "Why, you foollish 1 been married before Irom heri Don‘t yoi the wort of thing a tire best ail sweete linds it so very, yer wivie,"" E[ The R tise happiness of ths w a mistaken idea son, Sarsfield, Ont., 1 aused Baby‘e Own T# them a very valuabl young children. . Whe or fretful I give her : soon puts her right." These Tablets cure allments of little 01 good for all children, ward. Sold by m« gent by mail at 25 writing The Dr. Wi Co, Brockville, Ont. t\f"m g=g*, (Blu THE sENSIBLE is no better + 1 aly righ ea ve But th ab