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LANEOUS '-'4---- ! WAKTED R, Barrist R. LeRov‘s ediately f nding the OR SAL 1Properties c To Renat ork Excursion Via y Railroad. ALE PILLS Salary ing Syrup should Own W 16 I08 for trial t arriva ter, Etc. O )t3 ALS AM | @9 i J acond @Vi «b the forward â€" section and after. The latter two we by a dory from the shor One of the four men, aged able to endure the terrib leaped overboard and was other two were washed ov the fourth hbeld on all day was observed from the sh ® Ts . 3 M pet night off Priest Pond. have been recovered. L six men remained on b« efforts tC made â€"toâ€" abates, h Halz was that all Cabt. Joh in the past six days four vessels exugné within th> treacherous horns cf ihe cerescent zurthern coast of the island, earried out of their courss by stronz + j * h westerly currents and driven by furiouns northeast gales, have gone ashore to Leâ€" come total wrecks amid the breakers. On Friday it was the Turret Beil, stranded at Cable Head, and since conâ€" demmned. On Saturday the schooner Orâ€" pheus wert to pieces at Campbell‘s Cove. _ Yesterday morning the barque Olga met her fate at Blackbush. Last night the barque Sorindo finished her career at Priest‘s Popd, all within a disâ€" tance of twenty miles of the coast. So far six men are known to have perished, and others are in the gravest peril. The Olga, an iron ship of 1,081 tons, left Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Sepâ€" .:oml;cr 1, bourd for Campbeliton, N. B., o lead deals for Australia, and was in ballast when she struck. A tremendous sea was on, and it was not urtil 3 Jelock is the afternoor, after many futil= attempts, that communication with the snore was estabished. A heavy eable from the skip was made fast on the bask, and the crew lannched the ship‘s boat with 12 men and one woman on board. The ~itornt was made to reach shore by the a«sistance of the cable, but owing to the terrible seas the boat broke away, srd after tossing in the breakers, was finally dashed upon the rocks. Willing hands wore there to remler assistance, and they succeeded in savinz evory one of the boat‘s oceupants. The hboat, however, was smashed to TEN OF Last Survivor Throws Himscil board With a Plank and is © Torrible Hardships Endured Cantain‘s Story. Charlotteto in the nast si w‘celoc futil« the â€": cable the | ship‘s on h reach cable. boat the In the rc remder savina The 1 picces. tance of twe far six men a and others ar The Olga, : left Port £l l:ombt-r 1, bot o lead deals ballast when sea was on, welock is th futil= attamei 1,650 land, from Boat Smashed on the Rocks, but the Peogle Saved. 11d. atru the teet DISASTER TO FOUR YESSEILS, Men Ciinging to the Sorindo, Which Has Broken in Two. ix Men Haye Perished, Others in toâ€"morrow. © mCan . however,. nothing can vas a CGorman, but it i 11 the others of the, Iohansen, were Norwegi FLEVEN SAVED. Te was esta om the skip k. anrd the at with 12 ; xt. Cue it shore . by th it owing to t oke away, & akers, was 1 is. Willing } The Sorindo Disaster THE SOvINTOS CrEW vERE DROWNED. the shore vUSS1 d by ing can be done. but it is belioved of the . crew, like Norwezians. > bargue W Uniess the "csnat Himself Over« and is Savedâ€" on to n barque. of Captain Wigâ€" tls, en route arne,. Austraâ€" two on oard, but Toâ€"day he walking ch: Withâ€" â€" The ‘At nightfall he seized a plamk, leaped into the raging breakers. and by a mirâ€" ; acle eseaped destruction, being dashed ; on shore by a huge wave and rosened by willing hands uninjured, after sixty hours‘ exposurs, ard without food for | that time. The Stanrley left ~Cabrlottetown toâ€" day for the reseue, but only got as far as Georgetown. _ A special trsin loft | Charlottetown with the Minto‘s lifoboat, ' but it will not be needed. as the last } man bas left the ship. Of twentyâ€"two of a erew, eleven were rescued. They are nearly all natives cf Rasno, Finland. where the ship belongs. The ~captain tells a most thrilling story. When the vossel struck on Tueslay night at 9 o«‘clock. three of her masts _ went by the board, and she broke in two. He reached shore next day by noon, being one of the fifteen who left in the boat, which Mpflzod.i throwing seven into the sea. One man ; got back to the wreck and the othors! landed safely. i New York, Nov. 12.â€"Alfred Freund, a young man from St. Louis, who was arâ€" rested on Oct. 12 last, charged with annoying Miss Margaret Anglin, the actress, was adjudged insane by a sherif#s jury yesterday, and a commitâ€" tee will be appointed to charge care of his estate and person. Judge Decides Fate of Miss Anglin‘s Perâ€" sistent Admirer. Central Board and Departments of Agriâ€" culture, Education and Land Transâ€" ferâ€"Representation in Parliament as at Present. Dublin, Nov. 12.â€"The Evening Herald declares that it has reliable information to the effect that at a recent conference of Irish leaders, _ Sir Anthony Patrick MacDonnell, Underâ€"Secretary to _ the Earl of Aberdeen, Lordâ€"Lieutenant â€" of Ireland, read the draft of a plan for the reorganization of the government of Ireâ€" land. scattered over the their Hindua rites th covered with oil a eovered wich braow] not even the bones Freund had for the last two years folâ€" lowed Miss Anglin about the country. He is 30 years old, and the son of the late Sigmund Freund, a department store THE DRAFT OF REORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT. ‘The draft provided for the establishâ€" ment of a Central Castle Board, an Educational Department, a Department of Agriculture and for the transfer of land. It creates an Irish Council with between twoâ€"thirds and threeâ€"fourths of its members elected on the existing Parâ€" liamwentary franchise and the remainder on a restricted franchise or romivated. Clergymen of all denominations _ ave cligible for memborship in the Council. Ireland is to retain her present repre sentation in Parliament; the police are to remain under Imperial contral,. imt the foree will be redveed â€" nuamovrically. and the judiciary remains unaffected. The proposed measure is not yet comâ€" plete. but the essential features have been settled dofinitely, and the entire Cabinet is agreed thercon. SENT TO CITY OF SEATTLE, WASH., TO BE CREMATED. Victoria, B. C., Nov. {2.â€"Ur secure permission from the Cana Sicials to cremate their doad, ac to their religious beliefs, the Hin dents of western Canada are their dead to Seattle, Washing cvremation. â€"After cromating the Day by Day a Sewor Gives Up Fragâ€" ments of the Body. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 12.â€"â€"Piece by picce the big county sewer is giving up the remains of an unknown man, who, according to the verdict of the coroner‘s jury, came to his death by violent beans at the hands of parties unknown. Eleven days ago the trunk of a body was found near the mouth of the sewer south of Ressemer. Later fragments of arms and legs were found. Tuesday a foot, encased in a newspaper, was fished from the sower near Brighton, several IRISH COUNCIL. MYSTERIOUS MURDER SENT TO ASYLUM. of St. Louis. snn cefi mfi sn , Nov. ;2â€"Unable to from the Canadian otâ€" their doad, according beliefs, the Hindu restâ€" _ Canada are sending ittle, Washington, for the dead body must be ard placed on wood wh, and burned unti! s remain. nd Keating, for pig in a buflid swore vesterdr n x the dust is According to dead man motive for tions w harge of > strong e Crown s are tm They Were the Crew of the White Wings, of Nova Scotia, from Bridgewater. RESCUED SIX MEN FROM BARQUE AT SEA. ® M T of her signals of distress. Capt. Schau, of the Mannbeim, at once bore down on the foundering vessel and made out a bailf dozon figures crouched on top of the forward deck house, A hoat was sent out at once, although were Capt. bussombe,, QPERATIONS AVOIDED Two Grateful Letters from Women Who Avoided Serious Operations.â€"Many Women Suffering from Like Conditions Will Be Interested. When a physician tells a womaen, sufâ€" fering from female trouble, thak 2n operâ€" ation is necessary it, of course, Irightens her. The very t!:ouséht of the operating table and the krife strikes terror to her heart. As one woman expressed it, when told by her physician that she must unrdergo an operation she felt that her death knell ha.se sounded. Our hoepitals are fuil of women who are there for just such operations! _ It is quite true that these troubles ‘nay reach a stage where an operation is the only resource, but such cases are much rarer than is generally supposed, because a great many women have been cured by L()i'dia E. Pirkham‘s Vemble Comâ€" pound after the doctors gaid an operation must be performed. In fact, up to the point where the knife must be uged to secure instant relief, this mediâ€" cine is certain to help. l o 'IVâ€"â€" iifi* u‘â€"-mi?’qugâ€"’nw{lé '&dhsr-'tb" TCORA LI.IU iuuuy' gmbfllul sCLICIS ON JNG iN nearly three years, and the doctors tolg mz Mrs. Pinkham‘s office would be câ€"nâ€" that { must undergo an operation, but as | Yinced of the efficiency of her advice and I was unwilling to do this I tried your Veâ€"|Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Comâ€" getable Compound, and I am only too|pound. Ask Mrs. Pinkkam‘s Adviceâ€"A Woman Best Understands a Woman‘s His, The strongest and most grateful stateâ€" ments possible to make come from women who, b( taking Lydia E. Pinkâ€" ham‘s Vegetable Compound, have escaâ€" fisefions operations. Robert Glenn of 484 Marie St., Ottawa, Ont., writes : Dear Mrs. Pinkham :â€" "Lydis E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Comâ€" sound is so well and widely known thatit oes not nced m({ recommendation, but I am pleased to add it to the r any wl_lfch you have in its favor. I have suffered un ydin J4. Vinkham‘s Vegetable Comâ€" ‘5 is so well and widely known that it CHARLES E. "UGUES, The Newly Elected Governor of the State of New York. Bs \T\'\\\\% w N a heavy sea was still running. After a struggic the boat‘s crew brought back the survivors, whom they found drenched to the skin by the wash that continuâ€" ally broke over â€"the deckkouse. The mainmast had gone by the board and the stern of the dockhouse was stove in and partly under water. Only the cargo of lumber kept the barque from sinkâ€" ing. ‘Capt. McLeod reported to his owners, Messrs Hutenings & Co. that he loft Pridgewater, N. S., on Saturday last with a cargo for New York,. On Sunday the wind strengthened to a hurricane and at 2 o%clock on Monday morning the vesâ€" sel sprunk a leak.. The pumps were of no avail and the vessel sank until 244 hours later the decks were awash. A fow articles of food were gathered from the cabin and the crew huddled together on the decis house, the only place of refuge on the wreck. A day and m night were passed in the mowentary fear that all hands would be washed off the deckhouse. The White Wings hails from Liverpool, N. S., and is of 430 tons burden. ‘‘To my surprise the ulceration healed all the bad symptoms dissppeared, and i am once more strong, viforous and well ; and I cannot express my thanks for what it has done for me.‘" "Loss of strength, extreme nervousness, severe shooting pains through the pelvic organs, cramps, bearingâ€"down asuim, and an irritable disposition compelled me to seek medical advice. The doctor, after making an examination, said that I had a serious female trouble and ulceration, and advised an operation as my onl{ };g{)e. To this I strangly objectedâ€"and 1 d .deil as a last resort to try Lydia E. Pinkham‘d Vegetable Compound. Serious feminine troubles are steadily on the increase among womenâ€"and before submitting to an operation ever\y woman should try Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound, and write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., for advice. pleased that I did so, for it restored me to perfect health, saving me the pain of an oge:-ation and the immense bills attending the same. Pray accept my hearty thanks and best wishes." Miss Margaret Merkley of 275 3d Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes : Dear Mrs. Pinkham :â€" For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound has been curing the worst forms of female complaints, all functional troubles, inflainmation, ulcerâ€" ation, falling and displacement, weakness, irregularities, indigestion an.. nervous prostration. Any woman who could read the many grateful letters on file in Mrs. Pinkham‘s office would be câ€"nâ€" vinced of the efficiency of her advice and Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Comâ€" FEARFUL DEATH OF A BUFFALO WOMAN. Tomota Growers Will Be Kept Yery Busy for Years. ‘Torouto Despatch.â€"‘"The continued introâ€" duction of new diseases, the production of new varieties, and the bringing into being of new conditions, will keep the tomatoâ€" growing industry in an experimental stage for some years yet," was the opinion exâ€" pressed by Mr. Goo. A. Robertson, of St. Catharines, in an address before the convention of Ontario Vegetable Growers yesterday. The late tomato was that used chicfly in the canâ€" ning industry, and it formed the main crop. The early varieties were more profitable to grow, but require more care. For late fruit he recommended planting at the end of March, and transplanting as soon as danger from frost had gone. Gas Had Escaped From a Small Heater in the Houseâ€"Wreckage of the House Caught Fire. Buffalo, Nov. 12.â€"An explos »a of naâ€" tural gas wrecked the twoâ€"storey irame house at 865 Michigan street at 10.30 w‘clock last night, and Katherine hKeener, 21 years old, who was in the room in which the explosion occurred, was so badâ€" ly burned that she died a few minutes after 6 o‘clock this morning. Following the explosion, Miss _ Keener, her night elothes afire, jumped from one of the secondâ€"storey windows of the hous.e She was caught by August _ Denler, who smothered the flames. In doing so he was badly burned about the hands and arms. BURNED IN EXPLOSION. The fatal explosion was the result of a leak in a small gas heater in the room in which Miss Keener slept, The young woman who had gone to bed early in the evening, was aroused by the odor of gas. She got up to investigate and at once lighted a match. With a roar that could be heard for blocks the gas that filled the little apartment exploded, blowâ€" ing out the rear wall of the building and enveloping the young woman in a sheet of flame. Fire broke out in the ruins of the house a few minutes later and an alâ€" arm was turned in. When the firemen arrived the flames were easily extinâ€" guished with a line from a chemical enâ€" gine. The loss on the house is placed at Her night dress, of light material, caught â€" fire, â€" and _ with the flames streaming above her head she ran to one of the front windows. Denler, who had been fttracted by the noise of the explosion, â€" appeared in front of the house at that moment. The foree of the explosion had shattered the front windows and Miss Keener crawled out vpon the casing. Denler shouted to her to jump, and as she dropped from the sill he caught her in his arms. He at once rolled the young woman in his overcoat and extinguished the flames. By that time, however, her clothing had very nearly been burned from her body. VECGETABLE GROWERS IN SESSION "The captain of the Brilliant assured the delegation that under the terms of the modus vivendi the action desirsg by them could not be penalizeq, ‘The capâ€" tain also #aid to the colonial fishery inspector that he intended to frame rules for the conduct of the herring industry along these shores. The Colonial Cabinet is protesting to the Imperial Government that both proâ€" ceedings by the warship‘s captain are illegal, and that his action belittles the colony‘s authority. The Cabinet Enters a Protestâ€"Repreâ€" sents to Imperial Authorities That Actions of Naval Officer Are Ilegal. °St. John‘s, Nfld., Nov. 12.â€"A delegaâ€" tion of captains of American fishing vessels boarded the British warship Drilliant, in the Bay of Islands, yesterâ€" day, to learn if they could continue to hire _ Newfoundlanders outside of the threeâ€"mile limit, the Colonial Governâ€" ment having posted notices warning coast people that the Bait Act made service on board foreign fishing vessels illegal. m N n Nt C Another phase of tomato growing their production under glass, was dealt with by W. C. Gibson, Todmorden. He recommended the cultivation under these conditions of th» carly varieties, using ground beds and comâ€" mienging planting early in March. Terribly burned, the young woman was at once carried to the home of a neighbor and Dr. H. N. Feltes of 136 Carlton street was summoned. Oscar Keener, a brother of the dead girl, and August Hayes, who also slept in the house, escaped uninjured. CAPTAIN SUPPORTS U. S. FISHERâ€" MEN AGAINST NEWFOUNDLAND.. 500 members The Prosident, Mr. F. F. Reeves, Humber Bay, reported that the association now had New York, Nov. 12.â€"Latest returns from all sections of the state indicate that the official count will be necessary to determine whether M. Linn Bruce, Republican, or Lewis Stuyvesant Chanâ€" ler, Bemocrat, and Ind. neague, was elceted Lisut.â€"Governor in last Tuesday‘s clection,. With incomplete and partialâ€" ly estimated returns from every county in the state, Chanler‘s possible plurality has been cut down to 671. Mrs. Joseph D. Casier, of Woodstock, Was the Victim. Woodstock despatch: Mrs. Joseph D. Casler, Railway street, was carly this morning the victim of a dastardly asâ€" sault committed by two unknown men. The cause apparently was the refusal of Mrs. Casler, who is a widow, aged between fifty and sixty years, to diâ€" vulge the hidingâ€"place of her money. She was aroused by a knock on her door by the men, who requested that she go to a neighbor‘s immediately to see a sick child. She went downâ€" stairs, and the door was opened. The PURALITY CUT DOWN. NTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO OVFERRIDES LAW. ASSAULT BY BURGLARS. lamp was knocked from her hand, and the li‘fht was exfimul. * A demand was for her money, and, upon her refusal to tell its hidingâ€" place she was struck heavily by her capâ€" tors. Khe was held on the floor while a search was made of the house. No money was found, and, after binding and gagâ€" ging hber the assailants departed. Memorial Presented to Commission at Ottawa. Ottawa, Nov. 12.â€"The representatives of the Life Underwriters‘ Association of Canada toâ€" day submitted a memorial to the Insurance Commission offering a number of recommenâ€" dations which they desire to see embodied in legislation. They ask for a drastic proâ€" vision‘ against rebates, with severe punish» ment for the agent giving and the policyâ€" holder accepting a rebate, and the withâ€" drawal of the license from any companay countenancing rebates, The opposed restricâ€" tive legislation respecting investments and commissions, and urged that the experimental legislation of New York State be not emâ€" bedied in Canadian statutes until its beneâ€" ficial effect has been proved by actual test. Fuller returns to the Department of Insurâ€" ance and periodical accountiag for profits by the companies to the various classes of policyholders were suggested as desirable. ‘The maximum of publicity and the minimum of legislation would enable competition to do the rest. Bondsmen Give Suretics for Fifty Thouâ€" sand Dollars. A Toronto despatch: Police Magistrate Denison granted vail yesterday â€" after â€" noon to Charles McGill, and the exâ€" Manager of the Ontario Bank was reâ€" leased from jail. _ The bail was furnishâ€" ed by four bondsmen in the following amounts: Messrs, P. C. Larkin, $20, 000; D. J. Mclntyre, $10,000; «A. J. Gough, $10,000, and John MeGill, $10, 000, and Mr. McGill for $50,000, a total of $100,060, Mr, Larkin, it is underâ€" stood, went on the bond for $20,000 beâ€" cause of the absence from the city of Mr. J. T. Fairweather, _ who was _ a bondsman when Mr. McGill was releasâ€" ed before,. and who has signified his inâ€" tention of continuing in that capacity. Mr. Carnegie‘s offer is conditional in that it is $1,000 if the $40,000 memorial is effected, or a proportionate contribuâ€" tion if the total is under that amount, $500 on a $20,000 memorial, and so on. It is expected the whole amount will be raised. pleaded not g King‘s Bench t« stealing $335 f Cormack â€" Bros. Ponsccours Mar one, due to buce ies «ras sont by brantiora ccspatce: Anarew Carnegie has complied with lThe request of the local committee by contributing $1,000 to the fund for the erection of a monuâ€" fame of Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone in this city. The memorial scheme which has been launchâ€" ed embraces a monument to cost $40, 000, and other features. About $10,000 has already been subscribed without any particular efforts in canvassing. Jose «wrnove O0(h* Rejoices Over Japanese Troubles at San Mr. London, Nov, i2.â€"â€"A despatch from Berlin to The Times states that a writer in The All Deutsche Blactter, reâ€" ferring to the Japanese difficulty at San Francisco, says: "For us it is very welcome to find Japanese wrath divertâ€" ed eastwards and at the same time to see a wedge driven imto the relations between England and America. We have repeatedly pointed out that in the new {rouping of the powers in East Asia the Inited States is our natural ally, There is no need of a written alliance, and the more the Americans are pushed to the foreground by the nawur course of events the better for us." INAUGURATED IN LONDON TOâ€"DAY BY PROCESSION. London, Nov. 12.â€"Sir Wm. Treloar‘s term of office as Lord Mayor of Lonâ€" don, was inaugurated toâ€"day with the time honored pageant, but the usual symbolical cars were eliminated â€" from the procession, which was representative of the civic history of London for the past seven centuries, each century being represented by a figure depicting the most famous Lord Mayor of the period surrounded by his retinue, garbed in the dress of the period. The strects as usual were brilliantly docorated. Miss Minnie Smith, of Stratford, May Lose Her Life. Stratford despatch: A probably fatal accident occurred here this evening. When Minnic Smith, a domestic employâ€" ed by P. N. Wettlaufer on Albert street, was going down the cellar with a lightâ€" ed lamp she slipped and fell and the lamp exploded, setting fire to _ her clotEes. She rushed to the street and before the flames were extinguished all her clothes were burned and the hair of her head. She was taken to the hosâ€" pital, where she lies in a very precacious ocndition. Montreal, Nov. 12.â€"Jos. H. Grenier eaded not guilty in the Court of ng‘s PBench toâ€"day when charged with saling $335 from his employers, Mcâ€" rmack â€" Bros., commission merchants, msccours Market. The story is a sad e, due to bucket shop business, Grenâ€" Â¥vas sent by his firm to Toronto on ph H. Grenier, of Montreal, Charged With Theft. Carnogie Subscribes to the Boll Memorial. BUCKET SHOPS TOOK ALL. returned here without the know] of his firm, and withdrew his say continved speculating, and finally vp over seven hundred dollars be The case is being continued. »e "8th to sell a carload of cabâ€" He sold the carload for $335, d not pay the money to his firm, did not return to Montreal, but #peculating in bucket shops and CLOTHING BURNED OFF. INSURANCE CHANGES. THE HELLO MEMORIAL LORD MAYOR GERMANY JUBILANT. M‘GILL RELAESED. Ar lwm. BE THE G. T. P. ROUTE ! ACROSS THE ROCKIES. Montreal, Que., Nov, 12.â€"(Special.)â€" Roderick Simpson, a wellâ€"known British engineer, who has been out west #or several years, arrived in Montreal toâ€" ‘day. | In an intérview he stated that it was |practicaily _ settled that the G. T. P. would be built through the Yellow MHead Pass. SPENT MILLIONS WHILE WIFE GOT ONLY HUNDREDS. THE CASTELLANE DIVORCE CASE. Paris, Nov. 12.â€"When the hearing of the divorce suit brought by the Countess de Castellane against her husband, Count Boni, was resumed toâ€"day in the Paiâ€" ace of Justice before Justice D)itts, Maiâ€" tre Cruppi, counsel for the Countess, briefly reviewed the points he had covâ€" ered dast week, referring to the reckless fushion in which the Count had spent millions of the Countess‘ money while allowing hber only a few bhundred francs monthly for pin money, Counsel declarâ€" ed that the proofs of the Count‘s intiâ€" delity and crueity contained in the thirâ€" teen allegations made Jast week wore sufficient to justify a divorce, without summoning witnesses. In evidence of the Countess‘ generosity, the counsel cited the agreement of 1898, by which the Count‘s father and mother were guaranâ€" teed a life income of $5,600 and $1,000 reâ€" spectively. f ¢ C. P. R. LAND COMMISSIONER IN FOWLER PURCHASE. Probabilities of Switchmen‘s Strike in | United States Are Less. _ Chicago, TIL, _ Nov. 12.â€"The Switéhâ€" men‘s Union toâ€"day declined the proâ€" position made by the manmagers of the railroads, _ entering Chicago to arbiâ€" trate the demands of the men for an increase in wages of 10 cents an hour. The railroad> managers . then offered the men An increase of thrice cents an hbour, ard proposed arbitration of the question whether the men. should receive the 10 cents _ increase, _ The ‘questionl at issue are mow under conâ€" sideration with the prospects that there ‘will be no strike. Maitre Cruppi then plunged directly into the Count‘s manoeuvres since the divorce proceedings wetre instituted, to reâ€"conquer his wife‘s affections. No _ Favors Were Shownâ€"Syndicate Tried to Market Land Before Makâ€" ing Payment. Ottawa, Nov. 12.â€"That $3.50 was a fair price for the land, and that Messrs, Pope, Fowler and company did not reâ€" ceive any special consideration or more favorable terms than anyone else who paid his money would have _ received in connection with the '.Lurduue of 200,000 acres of land, was testimony of Mr. Fred T. Griffin, land commisâ€" sioner of the C. P. R. at Winnipeg, beâ€" fore the Insurance Commuission toâ€"day. Counsel for the Government elicited from Mr. Griffin the further informaâ€" tion that these fuue- claimed the right to defer making any payment on account for over six months after the sale was made, that in the meantime they had put upon the market the lands they had agreed to buy; that they deâ€" layed making the deposit until he had cancelled their reservation, and _ that ultimately, after being given further time to pay the $20,000, they were alâ€" lowed to get the land at $3.50 per acre, although he had in the interval received an offer of $4 per acre for the land. He had been through all the Rocky Mountain passes and the Yellow Head Pass was» the best. Immigrant Lad Robbed Yarmouth Farmer and Was Captured. St. Thomas, Ont., despatch: _ FranR Caughill, an immigrant boy aged 18, who dad been working only three weeks for George Buck, a Yarmouth farmer, stole money out of a child‘s savyâ€" ings bank, and a horse, and decamped, He became alarmed, and abandoned the horse at Aylmer, and was soon after eaptured by the police and brought to fluPl eity, The boy had just completed a term at Mimico, being sent there from Thorold. London, Ont., Despatchâ€"Eimer Vrooman who has been might operator at Dorcheste station, was arrested this afternoon in : charge of assault on the daughter of Sat tion Master Cusson, of Dorchester, whe she was returning from the postâ€"office im mediately afterward Vrooman left for Loadon where he procured a livery rig, and gav. out the stopy that he bad allowed a train t« pass his station against orders. Je feare a wreck, and announced that he was abou to leave the country, He was driven t Dorchester early in the morning, where h« s?:"ured his money and thea returned to this city. His story of hoving allowed the train 10 PMAE Proved correct, as he left the office unattended, and several trains Juud beâ€" fore another operator was notified. A dense fog prevailed, increasing the Nability of wreck. Vrooman was arrested at the Grand Truok station by Detective Rglcton. He will appear on Fridey. Operator at Dorchester Feared Arrest and Left Trains to Fate. ‘ Toromto report: An order was made by Mr. Justice Mabee yesterdsy declarâ€" ‘ing Henry Leutz, Christian Leutz and Catharine Loutz lunatics. They are all of the township of Willoughby, Welland county and are owners of about 24 acres of land, worth prohabl{ $500,. All three have been confined _ in the Industrial home. So far as is known they have no ‘living relatives, and the tar the commitment was made by the keepâ€" er of the home. +Â¥ YFLLOW HFAD PAss. â€"â€"Tried to Win the Countess‘ LEFT STATION UNATTENDED PRICFE FOR LAND. ‘s Infidelity and Cruelty Needed io Witnessesâ€"Proofs Too Strong TOOK MONEY AND HORSE CONCESSIONS OFFERED Family Declared Lunatics Cr, and was soon aft ie police and brought boy i}d just completed rig, and gave owed a train to ers. Me feared . he was about was driven to ning, where he returned to this wed the train left the office w beâ€" . A dense he lNability of i at the Grand