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Sash, SES ing. EN . Ml- " .ways EOF I.” ITED _ 3N0" orders the ry. [pared " YI " 'er- r! "" IN? cut-nth. It... AW“: om, Country. , NEWS INA Ral CANADA. The curfew by-law will be enlorced Ln Hamilton. Parliament has been culled to meet on March u. Tu strike At the Bpringhill, N. B., unne- has been settled. The Eastern tion of Lake Erie in reported to be mun over. _Mr.John McKergow was elected Pre- sndont of the Montreal Board of Trade. £118 VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. The Hounds a Bank will increase its gyms! stock gram '800,000 to 81,000,- Hon. J. I. Tana bu completed ar- guments for the survey bt Fraser Iver. A Chatham syndicate is reported to bane struck a rich tlow of oil at Both- we . The Montreal Patric says it is ru- moured that there will soon be a Papal imagine in Canada. A strike of garment workers in we wholesale clothing factories of Hamil- ton is threatened. it is cansidered pwbable in 1eoy.treal that there will be an early dissolution of the Quebec Legislature. Immigrants who arrived and settled in Canada Mat year numbered 25,478. against 25.571 in 1895. The stems: State of Ueqrgia, 34 days ou.t Irma Oantaic, for Halifax, has been given up for lost. William Tisdale, who lived fourteen mile. north of Pilot Mound, Mam, was frozen to death last week. The amount ot money at preyent de- posnted in the Dominion Poatuotnce and Savings Banks is $57,875,775. The Ottawa Electric Street Railway Company. last year carried more than one million and a halt passengers. Lord Aberdeen has preseutett ex- Mayor Borthwick, of Ottawa, with , silver inkstand. as a souvenir of his term at otiiee. Evuugelist H. Clarence Ramsey. of Toronto, bu left. for China, where he " to ensue in missionary work for may nan. At a meeting of the Manitoba Cabin- et on Thursday it was definitely decided to call the House together on the 18th of February. Mr. ll. Beaugrund, ex-Mayor of Mong- real, and proprietor of La Patric. Is slowly recovermg. and is now quite out of danger. The Ottawa branch of the Canadian Federation of Labour has declared for an Alien Labour law, and reciprocity in labour with the United States. Bricklayers on the sewer works in London are on strike because Foreman Smith refused to pay a tine of .35 im- posed by the Toronto union. The Donaldson line atesmahip War. wick, which ran on the Yellow Muir lnge, Nova Scotia, two weeks ago. hats '1uaippeared from sight. The Springhill miners' strike is not settled, and the union has called out the men who were fighting the fire in one slope of the mine. The fourteen-year-old son of Mr. Hen- ry Tripp, of Hideaway. Ont., was drown- ed in the lake ot Windmill Point last Wednesday while sleighing on the ice. Mr. James Mussels. aG.T.H. yard- man at. Niagara Falls. was caught be- lweqr the draw-bars of two cars while coup mg. and instantly killed. The directors of the Central Canada Fair, (lawn. intend enlarging the fair grounds and reeonntrucaiug the mam building during the coming sum- mer. The protirs on the silver and copper coinage accruing to the Dominion Gov- ernment during the put. year amounted to seventy-six thousand dollars. A convict named Horrigan plunged a fork into the arm of a convict nam- ed McDonald in Kingston Penitiiary on Wednesday. llorrigan was sent to the prison of isolation. A shortage of about “.000 has been discovered in the funds of Brant County and Township, of which the Treasurer was the late Mr. W. S. Campbell. Premier Laurier has declined an in- vitation to speak at the Washington birthday ceCebration in Chicagc on Feb. 22, owing to pressure of business. Hon. Sidney Fisher announces that he has completed arrangements with grasping companies at Montreal for col storage for agricultural and dairy products. Premier Laurier has replied to the Bril'uah Consul-General at Brazil, truar- mleeing the expenses ot returning ele- ven more Canadian families. compris- ing forty persons trom Brazil. Capt. Collier of the London Salvation Army. in speaking of "Worldly Am- aseuttutts," condemned skating. but ad- mitted he had never been In a skat- inc rink in his life. Capt. McNeil, of the Donaan SS. Amaryntbin has been condemned to ay to the wife of Dr. De Cow '700 for the contents of a trunk stolen from his vessel in July, 1895. Acyordiytr.to official returns the pro- duction of pig iron in Canada more than doubled during the last fiscal year, 84,- 607 tons having been produced, as against 81,841 in the previous year. London I: supflying foyd and cloth- ing to a band o 80 gypsnes, men. wo- men and children, who are encamped "name the my, and wt.to are unable IO leave their horses having strayed or can stolen. James Mackie. station agent at the G. T. R. junction. near Kingston, and for 30 years connected with that rail- way, and Robert Thompson, of the freight department at Kingston, have been dismissed. . Pilotage commissioners at Halifax. St. John. Sydney. Victoria and other on: haw been asked to_refund to the {Sacrament tey. appropriated by them during 1896 which were not allowed under the statutes. - C . GREAT BRITAIN. _ - The formal tn.throntmtnt of Dr. Creighton as Bwhop of London took place on sunning: The ba.ttleship, Monarch W8; placed in communion at Chatham on uesdny. she will go to South Africa. _ ' It is said the Queen's daughters are to be made Ducheseea jn their own right to mark ..the diamond jubilee year. "iii; 0034 A. Smith. the Canadian High Co mioner. has donated the mm of fiyts hymtred pounds to thn In- iiiG EGiiisis Yum]. an“ 3mm. a. was sum. do AllPuuoithoalobc. Mull Mantis-um Mr. T. P. O'Counor has.sold hits Even- ing Sun to a Tory syndicate, aryl ll" become ariiapusnfarr' sketch wutex to the Dairy Telegraph. . The body of Isaac Pitman, the unveils- or of the Pitman system of tshorthan , who died last week, was cremated It Waking on Thursday. _ - The usual Jacobite demonstration took Place in front of the statue of Charles I. in Trafalgar square, Lon- don on Saturday. Mr. Joseph Arch, the leader . of the atrrieaitumil labor movement, IS about 90 write his memoirs, which will be ed- ited by the Countess of Warwwk. _ - It has become evident that there will .be no. commutation of the eight months' Imprgsompent passed ll II Lady Scott is] llbelllng her man-33w. Earl Rus- Lieut.Ahwernor Kirkpatrick, who re. cently underwent an weration In a London private hospital, continues to make favourable progress towards re- co'v‘ery. " & Ttr_xat. 13-...“ an“... Prince of It us understood that the . Walks will attend one of the armada): farewell banquets that Ambassta the Bayard will mm to his friends a Embassy. ___ - It is rumored that Col. Ceci! Rtyrdes has documentary proof of the intrigues alleged to have taken place between President Kruger, of the Transvaal, and the German Government. The British and Foreign Arbitration Association has cabled to Washington , petition to the United States Senate In favor of the ratification of the Anglo-American arbiustr a Monty. Irish affairs continue in the forefront of British politics, but it is generally admitted that the party made a. tacti- cal mistake in withdrawing the amend- ment on Ireland’s overlaxation to the address. -- "SI-rtyjoseph Chamberlain, an the House of Commons on Wednesday, said that he was not in a position to stain Winn; progress had been made towards an Ign- proved Canadian mail service, explain- mg that .the Dominion Government is still eonsidering the question. UNITED STATES. Mr. Gladstone has gone to Cannes. The National Bank at Potsdam, N. Y., has closed its doors. The beav'y id, in the; Ohio River-has (igused a total suspension of mugs- Ion. Gilbert Bud, aged 25, qu frozen to death at Spring Valley, Minn. _‘ The steamer Cervic, five days over- due from Liverpool, has arrived at New York. Buffalo is suffering from a .water, fa- mine, caused by the intake being ehok- ed with slush ice. The lumbermeu of Touawanda, N. Y., are a unit in demanding a protective policy on Canadian lumber entering the United States. A father, mother and three children were frozen to death near Little Rock, Ark., yesterday. __ A bill has been introduced in the Texas House of Representatives prohi- biting the manufacture or sale of pistols in that State. A fire in Philadelphia destroyed a million dollars' worth ot property. Mr. John Avanamalrer'a store was one of the buildings damaged. Sir Julian Pauncefote and Secretary Oluey on Saturday signed the con- vention for the definition by commis- sion of the Alaskan boundary line. According to statistics prepared in Albany, A,Y., the average of wages paid in New York State to working- men is 8436 a year, compared with 8551 in Ontario. Capt. John Campbell, of the barque Britikh-America, was frozen to death two miles out of Mobile, Alabama, on Tuesday night. The betrothal is announced in Lon- don of Miss Alice Harper, daughter of the late Henry Harper of Philadelphia, to Captain Phillips, of London, for- merly of the 13th Hussars. Secretary Adam, of the British Le- gation at Brussels, has been appointed to succeed Viscount Gough, aegretary of the British Embassy at Washington. recently appointed secretary of the Em- bassy at Berlin. The new timber dry dock: and the largest in the Brooklyn, N.Y., navy yard, is reported to be two feet shorter and four inches shallower than the speeiiieations called for. It has already cost the Government $588,679. The United States Senate Commit- tee on Foreign Relations bus agreed to report favourably the Arbitration treaty, with amendments, the most im- portant of which is striking out the clause appointing King Oscar, of Swe- den, umpire. Jai tiGioukeisit Ea} the Anglo-Ameri- ctyn treaty had been definitely conclud- ed. 'l'he condition of business in the Unit- ed States. according to the commercial reports of Messrs. Bradstreet and Dun, of New York, Bhow little or no actual change. There are trade fluctuations here and there. anda tone of fair con- fidence in the future appears to exist among commercial men. Asa rule trade is dull and prices continue low; the month is called a disappointing one, for the simple reason that expectations as to the amount of trade likely. to be done to the amount of trade likely to be done at the beginning of the year run too high. Some woollen mills have stop- ped gluring the y'eelr,, but a larger num- It is tstani-otticialiy stated that nego- tiations for a treaty of general arbit- ration between France and the Unit- ed States were commenced about ayear ago, but were, 0511)" .rtauryed,wttn it . pr. Zpdekauer, the Czar's private phy- swlan, " dead. . Senor Canons del Castillo, the Samu- ith Premier, is slightly indispose . The tpowers have irreiientedy draft of tsheitre arms demanded in Turkey to the u an. r\'“ ““"--n ___ ~~v~v~a -___ .4 her have started, and more still are pre- paring to start at once. While there is no actual improvement in trade, the conditions are such as to inspire justi- fiahle confidence. , The reported illness of the Czar is "aut denied. Princess Louise, of Belgium it. re- petr.ted to have eloped with a military officer. Italy has ordered six battalions of groom. to Aeyrut in readiness to start for -ishe kiiiiiii" Government is being de.. trauded unnually of more than £10,- 000,000 through smuggling. 1It is announced {hatdtwo milltign pi? e are now empo e upon P - Erie; works in the famine districts of n la. h ', _ . . b" - _i The Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the Czar, and wife of the Grand Duke Alexander Miehaelovitett, haa tr1een t,irth to a son. Adyices trom Havana lay! that the! confhct between the gar planters and Weyler continues wig more bitterness than ever. .' _ Pm“ GENERAL. The Whaler Nimrod has been sent trom St. Johns', Nfle.. to search tor the steamer State of Georgia, overdue from Dantzig. Prince Bismarck is repprted' unusual- ly strong and well, and m spite of the bag! weather he take: long walks and drives daily. p is denied at Madrid that negoti- Btlong are pending for a new com- megcml treaty between Spain and the United States. .The. officials of the, Japanese Lega- tion in St. Petersburg confirm the re-, port that. the [plague has broken outs In the Island 0 Formosa. Th? proposed visit of the Czar and Czarum to Rome and London at .the end of April has been cancelled, owmg to the health of their Majestic; In. spite of official denials it is be- Willing generally known that the 530n- dition of the Czar’s health is critical, and that a Regency is probable. A Madrid report says that General; Azcarraga, Minister of War,. is to be appointed Governor-General of Cuba, and that. Gen. Weyler is to be retained. as a». mander-in-iehiet. The betrothal is announced of the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg. the eldest. son of the Duke of Edinburgh, to Princess Feodore of Saxe-Meiningen. A battle is reported to have taken place on Tuesday betweeq Brgzllmn troops and religious fanatics In the State of Bahia, Brazil. The loss on both sides was 250 killed. Sir Herbert Murray, Governor of Newfoundland, will leave St. John's on February 9 for Halifax. ft is stated that he is coming to Ottawa to discuss another proposal for confederation. Lieut Von Bruzwitz, the German offi- cer who some time ago rana laboring man through the back withasword for knocking against his chair ina cafe, has been sentenced to three years' impris- onment. Advices from Agordat say that the k VERY GUMPLETE GRAIN Advices from Agordat as. that the dervishewvho were believe; to be ad- vancing on that place, have abandoned their fortified camp at Amide!) and are retreating in the direction of Aimoasa, pursued by the friendly natives OF COLD STORAGE FACILITIES HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. Space Will be Allelic-d on the Steamship llnu-Bcgnlnr Services Will he organ- lled Between l‘nlmdn and Several old Chantry Pom. The Minister pf Agriculture has now almost completed arrangements tor a system of cold storage accomodation ex- tending from the point of production to the ports of entry in England and Scotland. The C.P.lt. and G.T.R. will run a weekly or fortnightly service OF- er their lines, thus providing ample ttur. ilities tar the exporters of dairy pro- duets and fruits. The Government have secured this service by giving the com- panies a small guarantee as to the amount of freight they will receive. At Montreal there is already ample cold storage accommodation provided by private enterprise, but Mr. Fisher has seen that the chain of communication with the British markets is complete, by making arrangements with the vari- ous steamship companies for _cold stor- age facilltlbs JP. hoard of their yeSfels. The cost of this work is limited by the Government, which assumes the re- sponsibility for one-half of the out-lay payable in the course of three years. The Elder Dempster Companer will pro: vide twenty thousand cubic eet of cold storage space in each of five vessels running trom Montreal to Bristol, giv- ing a weekly service. The Messrs. Al- lan and Reford will provide ten thous- and cubic feet of space in: each of six vessels, giving a weekly service to Lon- don, and the Messrs. Allan will furnish one-half of a weekly service. to Livy,r- pool, similarly equipped. A weekly service, on a smaller scale to Glasgow, will also probably be established as well as a line running from St. John and Halifax to Liveriiool., . I , As there are now two hundred and fifty creameries in the Dominion, it is likely now that, this cold storage sys- tem is so complete. that the coming season will witness a great increase in the butter exports. Marimba Proposlllon Premier. The National Alliance for the In- crease of the Population of France, founded by Or. Bouillon, Chief of the Municipal Statistic Department. of Par- is, in view of the alarming state of the population of France, as shown by the recently published census. is dis- cussing a curious proposal from M. Me- line, the French Premier, with a view to coercing parents to increase their families. The plan proposes that Gov- ernment scholarships in schools and ac- ademies .shall only be given in the case oi families of not less than three liv- ins children, and that. all Government posts, unless requiring special qualifi- cations, or favours, like tobacco licens- es, concessions in the colonies, ete., etc., shall be similarly given, and that promotion and allowances be regulat- ed according to the number of chil- dren. 'lhe proposal is meeting with serious consideration. Dr. Bertillcn. early during the present month, said that the result of the census is simply appalling, and that unless a miraculous change tor the better takes place France will soon disappear as a great nation. - A___ .. , , Germany, in 1841, it appears, had about the same population as France; but to-day she is credited with having 14,000,000 of inhabitants more. than France. Then, again, sluring the last five years, the population of. Germany has increased by ',-000900,.wl1ilt.s that of France, in the some period. has only increased about 175.000. Finally. it is shown that in 1873 the number of young men on the lists for military service was about the same in Germany and France, whereas to-day the number of German conscripts is 450.000. while the French conscripts only number 330,000. THE JUDGE APPRECIATES A JOKE. other]; G stealing coal. The rail- road detective said that he caught the fellow in a. coal car. but the man said that he was only sleeping there because his wife had looked him out and he had no money to go to a hotel. Pretty hard bed, wasn't it, asked the judge. . fit." no. air. he answered; It was soft coa. . I And the judge was so struck try the ljoke that he et him go. A DECAYING NATION. up before , jam the Made by the Freud-II If. Wilfred nurler Accepts-A PM National Address Pn- lnyen orCttgtgr dlal Cities. A despatch from London saysz-Re- iplying on Friday in the House of Com- [mans to Sir George Baden-Powell. mem- Pr of the Kirkdale division of Liv- erpool, the Secretary of State for the S1ty: Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, con- ;firmed the report that the Premier of gCape Colony, in common with all the [other Premiers throughout the British ,l-Impire, had been invited to visit the iQueeu on the occasion of her diamond .jubilee. Mr. Chamberlain added that :the Premiers of Canada, Cape Colony, iand Natal had already accepted. In ieach case the wife of the Premier. his l personal staff, and a detauhment of ‘troops from the colony he represents are included in the invitation. . THE DIAMOND JUBILEE. COLONIAL PREIIERS INVITED TO VISIT LONDON. There is official authority for stat- ing that the Queen has, through! the Itt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secre- tary of State fur the Colonies. invited Mr. W. Laurier, Premier of Canada. and the other colonial Premiers of the Empire to visit London this sum- mer as state guests, with their suites, and attend the diamond jubilee cele- brations on June 20. The Canadian Government is also being asked to send detachments ut the permanent local forces to England, including, it possible, a party oi the North-West Mounted Police, to take part in , a military pageant of the whole Em- pire. Proposals have also been before the Government for alormal pan-Brit- iannic. conference while the colonial jiiGriieGi are here, but it is doubtful whether sutficient important questions are .ripe for public, discussum. The political character which the lmperial preferential taritt question has assum- ed here makes it unsuitable for dis- cussion, even it the colonists were agreed amongst theeselvus. NEW, A despatch trum Ottawa says:-hir. W. E. Gower, C'.ls'., of Montreal, who is the prime mover in the proposal to appoint a Canadian Executive Com- mittee of the Mayors of the: different Canadian cities to arrange for the pre- sentation of a national address to her Majesty on the occasion of her din- mond jubilee was in the city on Fri- day. He had a conference with Mayor Bingham. lie said that the Mayors of the leading cities were favorable to the proposal, and prepared to enter into it most heartily. 'l'hey all were 'agrrer able to meeting in the capital with one exception, the Mayor of Montreal. The first meeting will be held here in a few weeks. Mayor Binghnni is de- cidedly in favor of the proposal. Britain's IIIIIIm-y For“: and low The! Are Stung-rod. The British army looks well on paper, says the London Court Journal. Accord- ing to the latest return, our army at. home and abroad musters the very re- spectable total of 221,000, exclusive of the Reserves. Of this number nearly 106,000 are at home, about. 76,000 in In- dia, 4,000 in Egypt, the remainder be- ing distributed over the Mediterranean garrisons and the eo?sonies. At home in round numbers. there are 26,000 troops in Ireland, 4,000 in Scotland and 76,000 in England and Wales. The Bengal command has the. greatest share of the 70,000 men in India. This dis.. trict takes up 24,000, the runjaub, 20,- 000; Madras and Burma. 14,000; Bom- bay, 16,000, the remainder being on passage. In South Africa there are about 6,000 men. The garrisons at. about 6.000 men. The gurrisuns at. Gibraltar and Malta absorb over 14.- 000 men, the Wcsr Indies almur, 3,000. the West African colonies, 1,000; Hong Kong, nearly 3,000; the straits settle- mems, 1,500; Ceylon rather more; Mauritius, 1,000; Halifax, Nova Scatia, 1.500; Bermuda, 1,500; Cyprus, 150, and St. Helena, 300. ' Pro pom-cl to Invllc- the l‘umous Orgnnln tion to This l'ountry. A petition is being cireulajed through- out the Proxinves: of Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Manitoba, and Brit- ish Columbia, which v. ill be forwarded to his Excellency, Lord Aberdeen, Gov- ernor-General of Canada, asking that he exert his influence with the Imperial authorities to have her Majesty’s Ro- yal Artillery band make a tour of Canada and remairt.ovey in Toronto, so as to take part In the celebration of the fyctieth. Fear of the Queen's reign. The petition states that. some years ago the bam) of the tirenadier Guards were permitted to visit Bos- ton, Mass., and that as there was. no objection raised on that occaston, there is no reason why the Artillery band should not be allowed to visit a British colony. George Ash-dd Runs Into a turn! Pole- Iln Tongue " l'seluu. A despatch from Toronto says:--A very peculiar accident was that which made George Ashfield, of 138 Grange avenue. ty patient at the General Hos- pital, to be treated for u. paralyzed tongue. He. was unalzle to speak a word though basing the use of his limbs, and Lemg able to write down on a pad gnswers to questions put. He was running out from Phoebe street to catch a belt line Spadina night, car at 1.40 _on Wednesday morning, when he ran into of the pd es supporting the trolley wire and remembered nothing more until he found himself in Dr. Burnes' surgery, 168 Spadmn Ave. Be- sides_ the. paralysis of the tongue, Mr. Ashfield has a bruise under one eye, and also a badly bruised aide. . ', Slap-WM worries. you. dear! Have you made my bad iitreatntantat Bo-No, but your “that has. A new morning pager is short]? to appear in Montreal. t will be a our- page. one-cent dailIgeand will be known as the Morning spatch. PARALYZED BY THE BLOW. ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND. AN ARMY 0N PAPER. WHICH IS WORSE. “DWARCHIVI TORONTO Some lung or, mama the Buy Tl FIELD Ill? (lillllill0lfltlil. Meal“. (Nern is considerable demoralizution in friegiit rates from the west this amen. It is dated that. wheat has been taken from Chicago to Liver- pool at 22c. per 100 lbs., while the rail tariff from Chicago to New York is The late advance in Postal Telegraph is attributed partly to the demand from New York. A good deal of this stock was bought in New York around 70 some months ago. Large quantities are being shipped to London to be re- deemed in New Commercial Cable de- benture stock. There is another decline in the prices of wheat. The decrease in the wrr:d's stocks'for the week was only 1,140,000 bushels. which is much less than had been anticipated. The final estimate of the United States crop of 1896 is 427,864,000 bushels as against 413,000,000 bushels, the previous esti- mate. I The imports into Canada for the month of December reached a total of 87,488,620, a decrease of three-quar- ters of 0, million, and the duty collect- ed to 8t,4'78,630. The total value of free goods was $2,790,346. The exports of December were valued rt 811,156,U5, as against $9,035,548, R very substan- tial Increase. The improvement in trade at, Tor- onto this week has been slight. The weather is more senstmalnle and the condition of roads has been reatly im- proved by mow. Retail triage at coun- try points will be benefited by an in.. creased movement of produce, and in turn wholesale business is likely to in- crease. The feeling is hopeful, and the assurances given with respect. to the government's trade policy are likely-l to produce good results. The number ofl failures has decreased, and after the: first week of February a change for! the better is confidently ex lecledw There are no apparent changes ofl Prices I of the, leading meryharsuise slap 1234.1 . . The grain markets, however, have! been dull with a downward tendent-y.t Britain is holding off, tnd prices of' wheat and flour have suffered, as sup-', plies on the other side. are sufficient! for the time being. The demand for dressed hogs is good, with prices firm. a Money is plentiful and easy, and the: demand for t-linicv investments isgood. ( Bank shares and bonds are in demand) and higher. while speculative issues have had a slight re-action. The Hank of England discount rate is 31-2 per cent, while the open market rate in London is easier " 21-8. and call loans Ito 11-2 per cent., the latter being once more lower than the rates paid on Wall Street. In Montreal there are indications ot' improved deman'l in wine, lints of stap‘e goods, and when the country roads get., into better shape. after the. late heavy; storm». following the long needed snow, a. freer movement is looked for, with improved collections, but as yet there is no notable degree of general ac- tivity in trade. The very cold weather has improved the sorting demand from the country for Reasonable dry goods; and a fair proportion of orders for spring £00325 are also being booked; city retail trade, however, has been dull through January. In groceries sugars continue sluggish, with local re- fineries shut down, but in teas vomiti- erable interest is being evinced, with very firm prevailing values, and for canned goods, molasses, etc.. which en- ter largely into the Lenten trade, there is beginning lo be more enquiry. Heavy metals and hardware are still glow of movement, aleo oils, paints and glam, but the recent advance in the. latter lines are firmly held. The shoe fav- tories are. busy on spring goods, and are cutting coneiderable quantities of colored leather and dongolast. and lea- ther men report a little more doing on these lines, with a fair demand for sole. A couple. of English leather buy- era have been about the market lately and are reported to have made the pur- chase of several fair lots of splits. The cabled reports of the London fur sales, shows a decline in almosit all kinds of ‘American furs . except. ram-ooh and two”. For “out the demand is still light. For tlvese higher values have prevailed, with more active buying. and local stocks of choice makes are. now reported in really narrow compass. Money " plentiful with call funds free- ly offered at 4 1-2 per cent.. and there is some expectation that this rate may be shaded in the near future. BBGiiT8 FATAL FIRES SEVEN PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH ON SATURDAY NIGHT. Mes. Schroeder Ind I-‘h'e ("Illdron Perish tn one An Halli-“carom qitrt In the "ttter. A despatch trom Hubukeu. N.J., syytr.--'ihis city was visited by two disastrous fires between IL80 Satur- day night and 3 o'clock Sunday morn- ind. Seven persons were burned to death and 30 families were made home- less. The Saturday night fire started in the three-storey frame building at 410 Newark street. Here six persons lost their lives. They were Mrs. Nel- lie Schroeder, 40 years old, and her five children, Henry, aged eleven; Maggie, seven; Kate, nine; John, three years, and Willie. three months old. The father of the family, Charles Schroeder, was in a_nearby saloon playing cardp.while his wife and chil- dren were dying. The second fire started at , o'clock this morning in a five-storey. double-deck tenement at 157 Fourteenth street. In this fire three tenements, Nos. 155, 157 and 159, were entirely wrecked and No. 158 was damaged badly. One child was burn- ed to death on the fourth noor of No. 157. She was Mohel Measles, eight years old. The fire at 410 Newark street on started In} defective flue in Schaetfer’s Pttyiet, shop on the round floor of I t g,','iiff"d frame fff'/'/lllr. Schema occupied t 9 sec, and floor " living Hta.rte.nenta. The front room on the third floor were oc- cupied by _Chu. Schroeder and his umily. while James Blanchtleld and ttPt, occupied the roomy: the rear. The lunchtxe d 1.me discovered the tire and berely nude their 2'iTI lay woy of the roots of the adjooent uil - . s. It won impoluble toyiseote..r the age of the Sela-cedar family until the fire had summed. ..w.hen the bodies ot the mother and children were found. war. LABOR LAW IS l IAN DRE IT IS AN UNNEIGIBORLY AND PER. NICIOUS SCHEIE. A Philadelphia Paper Inna Plat-I1 About the united - Allen I... law m. in order to obstruct interoottme be- tween the United States and Canada this pernicious scheme of Nativiam pro- vides that no person of foreign birth who has not previously made a declar- ation of his intention to become aciti- lea before some Court of Record shall come “regularly or habitually" into this land "for the purpose of engaging in any mechanical trade or manual lap boar" and "returning from time to time to a foreign country." Nor shall any such person "be employed upon any public works in the United Staten." From this drastic provision areexoept- ed women, and also 'sailors, railroad train hands. such as conductors, enti- 'steers, brakemen, firemen or “can“ (men, "whose duties require them " pan over the frontier to reach the ter- mint of their runs." Senatora Lodge and Chandler found themselves una- ble to frame a statute to arreet rail- road engineers and firemen at tho Canadian line. and put native Amer. icons in charge of the trains on [hit side ot the border, and so they can it up. But woe to the wight who ghoul. come over the line trom Canada ill the morning to work in Detroit, To. ledo, Oswego, Platteburg. or some other border town and tro back: in the evening! The guilty wretch so oftendr {as habitually would be liable to [up]! tehment for misdemeanor by a tine ‘0f 8500 or by imprisonment for e term, not exceeding one year, or both. iAny citizen, partnership, company on 'corporation of the United Stem who Ishouid give employment to such wrtt.ctt ’passing' to and fro across the line {would be subject to the same Penaltiee. 'ilt. would become necessary or every (employer of labor to require all {workingmen who mhe might wish to engage to exhibit. proof of their. ne- itive birth or certificates of their [no Mention to become citizens at the Unite ;ed States. A neglect ot this promu- Itron would be apt to make him Ill- ;bleuto heavy fine _and imprisonment. l We know of no legislation so det- Ipicable as; this since the passage ot the Fugitive Slave law. That law will designed to better enforce a provision of the Constitution requiring the de- iliver) oi {waives from labour. . But iit was so mean and so‘atrocmus in It. ‘premises making crimes of acts inno- cent and humane in themselves. that lthe moral sense of the country revolt, ed against. it, and the Government will powerless to enforce it. l I THE MEANNESS OF IT. This Immigration bill attempts to make a crime out of the right at loco- motion and of the equally sacred right of earning I living by the sweat of ‘the brow. The Fugitive Slave law do- nounced heavy penalties. against any person. who, in obedience to the did. Hates of humanity, should give food to 'a fugitive or refuse to deliver mall)? to his owner. The Immigration ill «would subject to like fine and impris- ‘nnmrut any citizen of the l'nited 'titares who should employ a Canadian ‘or a Mexican crowing the border to anlfro in pursuit oChis. d.aily vocation. Meaner than the Fugitive Slave law. this bill would violate the simpleot rites of hospitality and the observant). of good neighbourhood. The Govern- ments of Canada and of Mexico could readily retaliate by pursuing a» crim- inals citizens of the United States who should cross backward and forward to chop wood in Canadian forests or to herd cattle on the Mexican plains. But those, Governments are too en- lightened to underestimate the mutual advantages of good neighbourhood and of the exchange of services. This Im- migration hill, so far from expressing the sentiments of the American peo- ple is a mere manifestation of the worst spirit of nutivism. to which the Republicans in Congress are constrain.. ed to pay a reluctant homaipe.--PttiU- delphia Record. The People that They Are but fronted lull In “no I’m-Much! Govern-Cu. Some of the grievances of the new and flourirshing metropolis of the Knot- euay are voiced very strongly by The Rossland Miner. There BCVIILS too much reason lo believe its complainL of apathy and neglect on the part of the British Columbia Provincial Govern- ment is well founded. ll 'i'su'B'.-- “WVIIJIIEIJ BuIII-v ___-- r___,,, - - It, [seems to take no pride in (be building up of a great indutsiry here. which is to redeem British Columbia and make Canada a fruit and pros- perous country. It on iects $100,000 a you try? ya and does JY gnu: us orie- :w- --v-- -vr- -_e-__ - - tenth qt it in return. Its gold commis- sioner " of as little pervioe w Rossland and this camp as if he lived in the Sandwich Islands.. A . deserves no messed and snowy o " out a tthe nut opportunug. It is easy epough to say there. was no apprppr.iaue., Why were there no twpioitriarioPs't Beanie the Govern- menl did not recommend any. It did not have the [eyesight and the courage to make proviswn for the emergency that has arisen. Such a Government dunrvel no respect and should be turn- 1 [ ROSSLAND'S GRIEVANCES. WOE BE TO HIM yd