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*4 K NK N I MSWHL. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Oreat Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Qlobe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Htratford City Council is considering a curfew byâ€"law. Mr. John Carnegie was elected Preâ€" sident of the Peterboro‘ Board of Trade. Mr. E. J. &anford, soun of Senator Banford of Hamilton, died at E1 Paso, Texas. Antiâ€"toxine is being successfully used at Brockville for the cure of diphâ€" theria. * Mr. Watson Crosby, Patron member of the Manitoba Legislatare for Denâ€" eti The Nov::*;;tia Legislature bas been dissolved, and the general elections orâ€" Aered for April 20. Charcoal, or "Bad Young Man," the Indian murderer, was hanged at the police barracks, MacLeod. Rev. Dr. Potts of Toronto has been elected Chairman of the International RBunday School Lessons Committee. A fc_hrtnlght.ly steamship service D¢t tween Montreal and Manchester will be inaugurated when navigat ion opens. The Dominion Line hbas ordered a new steamship from Harland & Wolif t Relfast for the 8St. Lawrence trade. Rev. Dr. Jackson, of Knox church, Galt, bas accepted a call to Madison‘ l-avo“t‘me Presbyterian church, Cleve~â€" nd. * Iwo cases supposed to be leerpsy under the supervision of the Winn Health Department. Both are eigners. ‘The St. Thomas Board of Education is taking steps to suppress the habit of cigareiteâ€"smoking among the school echildren. Joseph Freeborn died at the Hamilâ€" ton City Hospital from the effects of a rib brokenâ€" several years ago and neglected. An old lady named Mrs. Monteith, living in Stratford, killed on Saturday by a runa in that city. rmi.t.i';n:'on‘zie_l;i;ley team bhave notiâ€" led the secretary of the D. R. A. thab they will go. f There is every prospect of a large make of butter in Manitoba and the Northâ€" West Territories during the apâ€" proaching season. It is left to the discretion of the Canâ€" adian Militia Department as to what troops shall be sent over to take part in the diamond jubilee. Mr. Peter Mitchell has been apâ€" foinud General Overseer of Fisheries or Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, with headquarters in Ottawa. The Governorâ€"General wil} shortly announce a date for the closing of the national India famine fund, which has now reached about $130,000. Mr. (}e;rge Mercier, governor of the vourty gaol at Guelph, died on Friday, aged 79. He had held thca‘yomtion of governor of the gaol for years. Uarre YVelverton Goring. a tobaccoâ€" Harry Yelverton Goring, a tobaccoâ€" nist of Tamworth, bas succeeded to a baronetcy by the death of Sir Craven Goring, the tenth baronet of that name. The Hon. T. Nosse, the Japanese Conâ€" sulâ€"General at Vancouver, BC., is in Montreal to report on the advisability of appointing a Japanese Consul in that eity. By the bursting of a watermain on Atwater avenue at Montreal part of the western end of the city was inâ€" undated and damaged to the extent of over $5,000. Mr. Nosse, Counsulâ€"General for Japan at Vancouver, B. C., who is at present in Ottawa, will shortly have a conferâ€" ence with the Toronto Board of Trade on trade matters. It is reported that Lientenantâ€"Govâ€" ernor Mackintosh of the Northwest Territories is about to resign his office and move to Rossland to look after his mining interests. Minister _ Davies _ has published through the High Commissioner‘s ofâ€" fice in London, a cablegram denying the statement that there is danger in the use of Canadian canned salmon. Students of Laval University, Montâ€" real, mobbed a French newspaper for publishing a paragraph they thought reflected on them. The police were called and dispersed the students. The Hall Electric Company bas servâ€" ed the Ottawa Electric Company with notice of a claim asking $29,000 damâ€" ages of infringement upon the terriâ€" tory and r‘ghts of the Hull company. Sir Donald Smith, High Commissionâ€" er for Canada in London, has arrived at Montreal. He spoke encouragingl‘( of immigration prospects in England, and also discussed the school settleâ€" ‘..”' . PP 8 & . â€" . & Nin#e Ottawa is divided in opinion as to whether the military _ celebration should take place on May 24 or on July 21, the diamond jubilee. Rir Richard Cartwright has promised to talk the matter over with Majorâ€"General Gasâ€" eoigne. The Rev. George H. Wells, whose death by a railway accident is reportâ€" ed from Milwaukee, was pastor o?otlw American Presbyterian church in Monâ€" treal for twentyâ€"two years. He was fiflyâ€"aix years of age. Hon. Siduey Fisher announces that the Government has made final arâ€" rangements for the cold storage of butâ€" ter and other perishable food products which will be shipfed weekly on steamâ€" whips running between Montreal and Avonmouth, London and Liverpool. GREAT BRITAIN. Prof. James J. Sylvester: the noted mathematician, is dead, at London, England Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay, Lord Jusâ€" tice of Appeal, is dead. He was sevenâ€" tyâ€"live years of age. The President of the National Liberâ€" al Federation states that home rule is nailed to the masthead of the Liberal C ht The lockout in the ongineerin{ trade of l‘.nfland began on Friday night, and bids fair to paralyse the tra~‘s of the eountry. The Ia:sut diamond in the world has arrived in London from Kimberley. # is said to be worth two million and a balf dollars unrcut. Lord Salisbury is suffering from a mild attack of influenza, and cannot leave the house at present. of the marksamen eligible for CANADA. is considering ford, Ont., was runaway horse rosy are V mnirez are 10fâ€" invitations to a meeting at the Manâ€" sion house, to start l:fi’urnell family fund, Mrs. Parnell and Mr. John Parâ€" pell being both in needy cireumstances. Complaints have recently been made in London that among the Canadian horses imported during 1896 some were affected with an infectious catarrhal gx‘slease, which greatly lessened their ue. son) is to be cited before the PresDyâ€" terian Synod, for sllefiod heterodox teachings in " Mind and the Master." _ ‘The Lord Mayor of Dublin bas issued Becret and n&id pregantions are now being made at Wolwich and other miliâ€" ta.r‘{ establishments of Great Britain, and war stores are beintforwarded to Cape Town, as trouble expected in South Africa. 1 _Another step in the direction of muâ€" nicipal ownership has been taken in Liverpool, where the corporation has purchased the borses, vehicles and goodâ€"will of the United Tramways & Omnibus Co. Liesutenantâ€"Governor Kirkpatrick has sufficiently recovered from the effects of his recent operation to be enabled to leave London for Brighton, where he will remain a short time before returnâ€" ing to Toronto. Two . cases of smallpox have been dis covered in New York. [WWild cats are reported to be killing cattle in northern Michigan. The loss caused by the big fire D Bt. Louis, Mo., on i{onduy will reach $1,600,000. 2 expected, will increase the revenue over $50,000,000. The village of Pigeon, Mich., |8 inundated as a result of the overflowâ€" ing of the river there. A mother, father and child were burned to death at Omaha, Neb., 0n Tuesday by a gasoline explosion. Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were executed at Newport, Ky., on Satâ€" urday for the murder of Pearl Bryan. . The floods in Tennessee are increasâ€" ing, and reports from Memphis record loss of life and great destruction of property. . William T. Adam, better known AS Oliver Oi)tic, the writer of stories for boys, is dying at his home in Dorchestâ€" er, Mass. Frank Butler, alias Newman, the a¢â€" cused Australian murderer now in CUSâ€" tody at Sanmn Francisco, will not fight extradition. 4 Ian Maclaren (the Rev. Dr.John Watâ€" m) is to be cited before the Presbyâ€" The Tariff Committee have a%x;eed to report an amendment to the Dingâ€" ley bill which will allow the import of fish caught! in the Canadian waters of the great lakes free of duty, Commercial telegraphic advices from the United States tell a story of busiâ€" ness depression that even the facile pencil of a commercial editor cannot effectually gainsay. Business is inâ€" creasing, but it is much below the avâ€" erage of previous years. ‘There is, we are told increased activity and necesâ€" sarily increased demand for labour, but the value of labour does not appear to rise. Collections are spoken of as "more satisfactory" generally, throughâ€" out the States. ‘There are more mills at work, but tariff chang»s are seriousâ€" ly interfering with the possibilities of trade GENERAL. Signor Grimaldi, the Italian statesâ€" man and exâ€"Cabinet Minister, is dead. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will visit Si. Petersburg next month. A very serions watlter famine exists in the central and southern portion of the Island of Jamaica. Despatches in the London Daily Mail say tE:t Emperor William is showing marked signs of insanity Violent gales prevailed all Thursday night throu!ihout, Germany, causing some loss of life and grear destruction of properiy. The Dutch steamer Utrecht, which is supposed to have founded at sea, carried a crew of thirtyâ€"six men, but no passengers. It is rumored in Paris that Prince Henry of Orleans will be offered the position of Governor of Crete. us According toa census just taken the Japanese in Hawailan Islands number 24,000 and the Hawaiians 31,000. At Canea a gun exploded on board the Russian turret ship Sisoi Veliky, killing fifteen men and wounding an officer and tweniy seamen. La Liberte, of Paris, commenting upâ€" on President McKinley‘s tariff policy, stromgly recommends a European comâ€" bination against the United States. President Kruger is very evasive in his reYly to Mr. Chamberlain complainâ€" ing of Boer violation of the London treaty, and there is fear of a Transâ€" vaal war. Twelve women charged with poisonâ€" ing their husbands and other near reâ€" latives in order to obtain insurance money, are being tried at Hold Mezoâ€" Vesarhely, Hungary. Despatches from Cape Town anâ€" nounce that British troops have receivâ€" ed orders to hold themselves in readiâ€" ness for emergencies. and that the situation in the Transvaal is very grave. gailed from Rotterdam on February 28ih for Java, foundered in the vicinâ€" ity of Ushant, and that the bundred persons she had on board are lost. _‘There is reason to fear that the Dutch #mail steamer Utrecht, which He Will Succeed Lord Aberdeen as Gover: norâ€"General. A despatch from London says that the Duke of Leeds will succeed the Earl of Aberdeen â€" ag Governorâ€"General of Carada in 1898. George Godolphin Osborne, tenth Duke of Leeds, and a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, was born in 1868 and succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1895. He was educatâ€", ed at Eton amd at Trinity ° College, Cambridge, and was a lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars. 16k/ He unsuccessfully contested East, on Newmarket, division of Cambridgeâ€" shire (C) in 188, but the _ following vear was more successful, and sat as MP. for Lambeth, Brixton division, (C) from 1897 to 1895. He was an asâ€" sistant private secretary to the Secâ€" re‘ary of State for the Colonies from 1886 to 1888, and was appointed treaâ€" surer of the Queen‘s Housebold in 1895, in 1884 he married Lady Katherine Frances LlLambton, daughter of the gecond Earl of Durham, and bas four daughters living. new United States tani{f, it UNITED STATES THE DUKE OF LEEDS. ONTARIO ARCHIVE TORONTO A Cyclone Blows the High Schoot Building to Pieces at Arlington, Ga.â€"Bcemes of DEATH AND DESTRUCTION NINE CHILDREN KILLED AND SEVâ€" ERAL SERIOUSLY INJURED. ‘A despatch from Atlanta, Ga., says: â€"A cyclone struck this town on Monâ€" day, and bhas left behind it a trail of death and destruction. The High School building was blown to pieces, and from the wreck nearly 100 dead, dying and injured people bave already been taken. The following named pupils were inâ€" stantly killed:â€"Ollie Parramore,Claude Roberts, Alice Putnam, Albert Butler, Willie McMarra, Kenneth iBoynton, Maud Johnson, Mary W. Ellons. At least ten others will die, according to the reports of the corps of emergency physicians now caring for the injurâ€" ed. Prof. Walker, it is feared, cannot live, and Prof. Covington is badly inâ€" jured. Not a single person in the big buildâ€" ing escaped injury. About 1.30 c‘clock there was a lull in the high winds which had prevailed, giving some promise of a clear day. Prof. Covington, ioing out to look around, beheld a dark cloud, well fringed with electricity, moving rapidly in the direction of the school. His trained eye at once told him there was danger. Hurrying the children inâ€" to the building for safety, the roaring of the comin.iacyclone was upon them before they d time to think. The storm increased in strength and velâ€". ocity and the building beganto shake and careen. The bnilging was wrenchâ€" ed into fragments, so that the pieces fell inward, and among the first struck were Claude Roberts and Alice Putnam who were killed at the first blow. Proâ€" fessors Covington and Walker both worked to succor the children, notwithâ€" standing both had received _ serious wounds. The scene was soon surroundâ€" ed by the parents of the children. The sight of eight little ones already dead and of ten others crushed and bruised and bleeding in all the phases of torâ€" ture was enough to wring the stoutâ€" est heart. Among those wounded quite a number are not expected to live, and it is more than likely that the list of dead will be doubled before morning. Blakeley _ was struck by a severe storm on Monday morning, and did enâ€" ormous damage and cost several lives. The chaos caused by the storm still exâ€" ists, and during the confusion nothing can be definitely learned as to the amount of harm done or the number of lives lost. SEVEN HUNDRED ARMENIANS KILLâ€" ED BY THE TURKS. Sir Philip Cuarrie‘s Protestâ€"OMcials Dis missed and Ordered to be Triedâ€"The Patriarch Resigns. A despaitch from Constantinople says: â€"Further ank probably more accurate details of the recent massacre of A.r- menians at Tokat, inf the Sivas district of Anatolia, have been â€" received at the Armenian Patriarchate bere. The first report of the affair was issued by the Government. This declared that fifteen Armenians and three Musâ€" sulmank hbad been killed. Little reâ€" liance was placed in the report, for the officials have always made it a rule to underâ€"state the number of persons killed in the various massacres. Later information was received at the Emâ€" bassies showing that fully 100 defenceâ€" less Armemans bad fallen victims to the fury of the Moslems at Tokat, and this number, it was thought, was proâ€"| bably correct. The news received at the Patriarchate shows that both stateâ€" menkts were incorrect, and that the number of victims was fully 700. _ It was stited at the Patriarchate that these figures were obtained from reâ€" liable persons in Tokat and the vicinâ€" ity, and that the number of victims stated is without doubt correct. Sir Philip Currie, the British Ambassador, made a most vigorous protest ngainst the massacre in a note to the Porte, which was said to have been the strongâ€" est ever detivered by an Ambassador to the Turkish Government. The reâ€" sult of his action was shown, when the Sultan ordered the dismissal and immediate arrest of the Turkish offiâ€" clals im Tokat who are suspected of complicity in the massacre and the appuintment of a special commission to try them. It is believed that the British Ambassador will watch the trial closely to see that it does not grm’e a farce, as so immany trials of Moslem officials charged with the murâ€" ders of Christians have been. Mgr. Ormanian, the Armenian Patriâ€" arch, has made a protest to the Sultan aq;unst the miurders at ‘Tokat, and hbas added forceto his protest by insisting that the Buitan shall accept bis resigâ€" nation, which was tendered some time ago. At that time the Suitan refused to accept it, anmd promised the Pairiâ€" arch that further concessions would be made to the Armenians. His Majesty asked, however, that the granting of these concessions be deferred until afâ€" ter Easter. The massacre of Tokat followed. MASSACRES ATâ€" TOKAT, Eight Armenians were arrested bere on Thursday asa measure of precauâ€" tion, the Government fearing that the news of the Tokat massacre might, preâ€" cipitate an outbreak. The prisoners are suspected of having been engaged in an attempt to make a demonstration Strong Opposition to Segregation Measures im Native Townsâ€"Riots Result. A despatch from Bombay, says:â€" There is strong opposition to the seâ€" gregation measures in the native tow ns. A large croprd on Sunday attacked and emashed a van conveying patients to the hospital. The police suppressed the disorder, but the scare was renewâ€" ed next day. The natives are desâ€" perate. One native made an attempt o kill the auditor of the South India railway by striking him on the neck with an axe. The,native afterwards committed suicide. 7 s hils here A atro:s Mohammedan deputation has waited upon the authorities, and begfed them to revoke the segregation, so far as the Mobhammedans are conâ€" cerned. The authorities, however, deâ€" INDIAN PLAGUE. slia. _ A sanito created with a draw upon. A FEARFUL EXPEBRMENCE, STEAMER RIALTO SET ON FIRE IN MIDâ€"CCEAN. A Storm Ragedâ€"It Was With DifMculty That the Crew Was Rescued by the Carthaginian, The Allan State Line steamer Carthaâ€" ginian, which arrived in New York on Thursday morning from Glasgow, resâ€" aued the crew of the Wilson Line steamer Rialto, which took fire and was abandoned March 5, in latitude 51.33 and longitude 22.45. The Rialto was bound from Newcastle from New York, loaded with a general cargo, inâ€" cluding a large quantity of chemicals. She left port on Feb. 21, and experientcâ€" ed strong westerly gales, gradually inâ€" creasing in violence until March 3, when a veritable bhurricane was blowâ€" At 6 o‘clock in‘ the morning, a terriâ€" fic explosion in the forehold blew the hatch covers into the air, killed one seaman, and injured the chief mate. Dense columns of thick, yellow smoke poured out of the open hatch, and a. choking, penetrating odour pervaded the ship. The crew was at once called to fire quarters, the hose was stretchâ€" ed, and pumps started. It was neâ€" cessary to batten down the hatches to prevent the fire having full vent. Meanwhile the ship was wallowing in the mountainous seas and was 0¢â€" casionally buried under a giant comber. The lifeboats were smashed by the seas, and the crew saw death stanng them in the face. All hands worke with desperate energy, but in spite of their efforts the fire seemed to gain headway steadily. At 2 o‘clock in the afternoon the Carthaginian was sighted, and in reply to signals proâ€" mised to stand by until the weather moderated sufficiently to permit boatsa | to be lowered. y The Rialto meni did not relax their efforts to subdue the fire, but it steadâ€" ily cre&t further into the cargo, and the decks and plates grew hotter and hotter. For forty hours, or until the early morming of the 5th, the Allan Liner stood by, and then the weather moderated enough to make it ffsqiblo for a lifeboat to live. As the Rialto‘s boats were all gone, Captain France, of the Cartbaginian, ordered his own boats manmed, and after a great stru? gle the entire crew was taken off without _ mishap. _ Captain Rippeth said that when he abandoned the Rialâ€" to the plate seams were gaping, and there was fifteen feet of water in the main hold, so that her sinking was only a matter of a few hours. . The rescued crew save dnone of their efâ€" fects. The Rialto was built in 1878, at Hull, England. She was 310 feet long and 1,799 tons burden. Sbe was owned by Thomas Wilson, Sons and The Mental Condition of the German Emperor Causes Great Alarm, A despatch from Berlin, says:â€"In regard to the stories of Emperor Wilâ€" liam‘s insanity, it is stated privately by men who know him more or less intimately that his Majesty is very nerâ€" vous and irritable, his features twitchâ€" ing frequently. They admit that the Emperor has certain eccentricities, chiefly denoting inordinate vanity, conâ€" cerning which many queer anecdotes are in circulation, but his behaviour has always been that of a sane perâ€" companty. A letter to the London Daily Mail reiterates the story of Emperor Wilâ€" liam‘s insanity with startling â€" frankâ€" ness, mentioning his Majesty as being the sovereign previously relerrea to as pinching nis guests and trying to trip them up with his eword. The writer says the fact is now that there is no doubt that the Emperor, if not speâ€" cifically insane, is liable to fits of abâ€" erration, which, while they last, are indistinguishable from madness. His local derangement behind the ear, and almost in contact with the brain, has hitherto, it is added, been kept in safe limits by a treatmemt which provokes a constant discharge. _ While the disâ€" charge lasts the pain is not verY great uh â€"2Ateee who ~Anternies 0 ¢ pdvepPnag. (OEVOP o oo n‘ and l‘1)he intlamnfation and .swdling of on suspicion of being a distributor ol the affected parts being relieved, there Nihilist literature, and that she twas is nothing either intolerable or alarmâ€"|conveyed to the sinister underground ing. But, it appears, it has lately beâ€" | prison in Petropaulofski fortress, which come increasingly difficult to maintain|js to St. Petersburg what the tower the process, and the result is a cOMâ€" | used to be to London, and that now she bination of Fain. excitability, depres= is admitted, to be dead. The popular sion and restlessness which bas brought story that she committed suicide by the Emperor toa condition fearfully | drenching ber blanket and clothes with alarming. Continuing, the writer #@ay8‘ petroleum and then setting fire to that no Hobenzollern is allowed to @as= ihem is well calculated to arouse in= cend the throne or keefi) it if he is dignation. There is no telling how afflicted with an incurable disease, and ‘ jrye the story is, since the secrets of that it is obvious no madness can be|they. torrible dungeons are only less tolerated in the Emperor. The knowâ€" | inscrutable than those of the grave. ledge of this is said to be disabling the |‘Trye or no . the story is believed, and rule of his house, and is doubtless inâ€" qyer a thousand students are now tensely 38?"*,"“0,‘1 by the symptoms of ‘crowded in various prisons for havi disease. _ It is said that should things jnsisted on S2YIng prayers for her .ol:fi get but little worse, Prince Hen_rly 4 in the big Kazan cathedral. Nothing russia, the Emperor‘s brother, will be is said about the affair in the Russian proclaimed Regent, with an advisory | papers, but the city is taiking of nothâ€" Council, on which the constituent soVâ€" |a:5,, and it is believed that, the tragic ereigns of the Empire will be repre |parpos of this new martyr legend, may Lueus h ue o eE _ DE BE sented. Buddhists believe that Hades is a place of eight divisions, each with a form of punishment somewhat diffefâ€" ent from the other seven. In the first division, which is the easiest, the sinâ€" ner walks eternally in his bare feet over redâ€"hot needles, points upwards. Dressed hbogs are in limited supply, and prices are higher. Oured meats are also bigher. Pork in Liverpool has risen 2s. 64. this week, and the proviâ€" sion markets at Chicagso are higher thhin for months past. A sanita d with a 7!1 BUDDHISTS‘ IDEA OF HADES THE KAISER‘S SANiTY. und of 100,000 rubles to esc ts !PPATEY FROM STARVATION ission has been HARD TIMES IN THE STATES AT THE PRESENT TIME A Pollar a Week Insu®icient to Peed a Familyâ€"Starved Berself and Children to Save a Bick Musbandâ€"Poor l1 and Btarvitg. Grus Eppi Grossi lives at No. 51 Hill street, New Haven, Conn. He is capâ€" able of doing any kind of labor, and is willing to work, yet hbis little daughtâ€" er Marie died from starvation on Satâ€" urday. Grossi has been employed as a polishâ€" er at the big bhardware factory of Sarâ€" gent & Co., by Contractor Alfred T. Mix and be did not make enough to live on. He says be was paid $1 a week. Mix eays he was paid what he earned on piece work. That his pay did not average more than a doilar is proved by his pay envelopes. P 24 iurr23 CÂ¥ CCm EOME Clopis Soas A week ago Friday his wife applied to the Outside Poor Committee of the Board of Selectmen for aid. The Selectâ€" men investigated and learned what Grossi had been earning. Mrs. Grossi appeared before the comâ€" mittee again Friday and they gave her $1 and said they would renew it weekly. Mrs. Grossi told them her busband had been discharged after the Selectmen bad looked into the case. â€" Contractor Mix said Grossi had earnâ€" ed only $1 a week or thereanoUts "*. cause he did not work steadily. Polishâ€" ers. said Mr. Mix made from $7 to g.t week. _ But Grossi was very slow. Mix said hbe discharged him because he couldn‘t earn enough. Grossi, on the other hand, said. he bhad to work eight hours a day for six days for $1. He pays $3.50 a month for the three miserab{e Trooms in which he lives There were four children before Marie died. She was five years old and the eldest. The youngest is two months old and the mother has been foreed to give up her work of washing. | TO SAVE A SICK HUSBAND. After weeks of terrible suffering, Mro. Edward Bergunder and her three chilâ€" dren appeared before Overscer of the Poor Frederick Wright at New Brunsâ€" wick, N.J, on Saturday and said she had been a widow but three days, her husband baving died of starvation. ‘ The Bergunder family lived im â€" one small dingy room in an old house on the | outskirts of the town. Berguinder made ‘a good living working in a factory unâ€" til he was taken ill last June. Since then he never left the house. Mra. Bergunder had some money saved when her busband was stricken, but ber funds grew lower and lower until she was penniless. Then she sought work herself, and for a time succeeded in keeping _ the woif from the door. She told the Overâ€" seer that for days she and her children had hardly eaten ang'thmg so that her husband could be fed, in the bope that be would regain hbis bealth and again go forth to earn a living for theim. Mrs. Bergunder says that many times her busband bad to go to bed without ihnvinqfi eaten a morsel. , At times he ‘beggm piteousiy for food, but she was powerless to assist him. A doctor who examined him said that Bright‘s disease Killed him. but Mrs. Bergunder is posiâ€" ltin that bhad hbe been! fed properly he would now be alive. _ a mog WETMOCE CC CC lt U Mrs. Bergunder realized that if she did not secure aid she and ber three children would soon meet the same fate as her busband. They are now in the custody of the Overseer. 'l;hf b?dy' of thetirxgb;;ld‘ bas been buried by the auâ€" thorities. Louis Shapiro, who lives with his wife and two babies in the tenement at No. 124 Eldridge street, New York, is far gone in consumption. Until two months ago be made n living by peddling, starting out avery morning, weak as hne was, because necessity compelled, but his bealth grew steadily worse, until he is now helpless. The poor wife, also a consumptive, can do no work. The family has been rapidly sinking down into the lowest depths of poverty. Now their affairs have reached a crisis. There is no food in the bouse, and> the, children and fn.renw both are faint with bhunger. n a few days they will be evicted for nonâ€"payment of two months‘ rent, amâ€" ounting to $16. ‘They are deserving people, and contributions will do a world of good. A Dark secret of a St. Petersburg Prison â€"sympathizing Students Arrested by Wholesale. Letters from St. Petersburg say it has been years since the capital was so exâ€" cited about any political affair as it is now about the tragedy of the Vitroff girl and the consequent w holesale arrest of students. All that is really known about her is that she was arrested last December with a couple of other stuâ€" dents in a domiciliary visit paid by the police to the High School for Women, on suspicion of being a distributor of Nihilist literature, and that she iwas conveyed to the sinister underground prison in Petropaulofski fortress, which is to St. Petersburg wl}u‘tL the tower in the big Kazan cathedral. Nothing is said about the affair im the Russian papers, but the city is taiking of nothâ€" e‘se, and it is believed that, the tragic {)alhos of this new martyr legend, may ecome still more tragic, as it involves the imputation of sensual violence against an officer of the prison which ‘will tend to stir up sympathetio deâ€" monstrations and disturbances all over ‘Russia. _ It should not be forgotten that nineâ€"tenths of the Russians beâ€" lieve this reign to be doomed by heaven ito misfortune. on account of the awful loss of life in Moscow at the corâ€" l onation. It is reported from Cretan waters that the Ruseian sailors on the manâ€"ofâ€"war, Where the gun exploded ‘with such fatal results cried out | at | once that it was another portent like | the Moscow disaster, and the officers i had to promise them that they would had to ‘fro:mso them tha‘t Lney would ; be asked no more to fire on Christians, ; except to save a ship from being sackâ€" ed or scuttled on the spot. '6()R, ILL AND STARVING THE VITROFF GIRL. Some Items of Interest to the Busy "AR FIELD OF COMMERCE. The net gold balance of the United States treasury is $151,200,000. + The world‘s visible supply of wheat decreased 4,000,000 bushels last week. Choice securities are firmer in Carâ€" of late for bank Eggs are very low at this se of the year. Case lots of fresh at ronto bring only l1c. per dozen. Money is a little firmer in _ New York. Large amounts are being paid into the Custome, and merchandise taâ€" The stock of wheat at _ Toronto amounts to 208,407 bushels as against 199,844 bushels last week and 31,889 bushels a year ago. Bran in Ontario is very scarce, ow» ing to many mitls running only part time. At outside points $12 per ton has been paid. The Russian wheat crop of 1896 is now reported at 387,648,000 bushels against 388,112,000 bushels in 1895 and 464,312,000 bushels in 1894. There is np change in the rates for money at Toronto, Call loans can be obtainerd at 4 1â€"2 per cent. and prime commercial paper is discounted at 0 per cent. 1 The stocks of wheat at Port Arthur and Fort William are 2,874,000 bushels a slight inrrease for the week. A year ago the amount wuas 3,372,000 bushels. There is really very little new in the general trade situation at Montreal, umless it be that complaints regarding remittances are even more general and emphatic than they have been. In this direction as well as in the demand fon merchandise, there is much room fog improvement. _ Business seems of _ ® somewhat erratic, spasmodic character, wholesale houses reporting fair orders some days, with intervals of slackness. Travellers in their letters report a genâ€" eral inclination among country deaiers to buy very lightly, and say that stocks are well worked down as a rule, so that with a settlement of the vexed tariff question, it seems reasonable to expect rzome moderate improvement of demand. Money continues plentiful with the banks, and call funds are readâ€" ily ayailable at 4 per cent. With reâ€" gard to values there are few noteworâ€" 'Lhy‘changu. Bugars are & lpeg highâ€" er in New York, and llocal refiners Ns s hy Cc KR TCCC er in New York, and local refiners seems rather firmer in their values, and indisposed to sell any large lots at present quotations. Last weeks adâ€" vance in hides is well sustained, and some tanners are disposed to withhold of(erinfi: One or two very considerâ€" able sales of sole leather are reported at full quotations. & Business has been moderately active at Toronto the past week. The general feeling is more hopeful and the outlook considered satisfactory. _ Prices are steady as a rule, but payments are slow and somewhat behind expectat ions. Cottons are firm, while wooclens are improving. Stocks of merchandise are comparatively small, and the expected increase in demand would result in & much firmer tone to prices. The flour trade bas been disappointing. This is due in a great measure to the large offerings of French white wheat flours in Britain, and to the surplus of wheats in this country. Prices of white wheats are relatively miuch lower here than in Michigan and Ohio the crops in those states being smaller than usual this season, and some dealers claim insuiâ€" ficient for local consumption. Of late there hbhave been large purchases . of corn, oats and peas for export to Great Briiain, while the demand for wheat has been comparatively smaill. Hog proâ€" ducts are higher this week in sympathy with better prices for hogs, the offerâ€" ings of which have been rest ricted. The money market remains . easy. Call loans at Toronto are 41â€"2 per cent. and 102 DE 1c it 24 Sn ciltiiviisatntedartront It Nepwveartts prime commercial paper discounted at 1 # hk ome s nlt ¢ mundanel #ic. Hl'l“ CURUECCUIT PORCC C s per cent. â€" The Bank of England disâ€" count rate remains unchanged at 3 per cent., while the open market rates are weaker at 1 7â€"16 to 1 1â€"2 per cent. Choice investments are in demand ow ing to the cheapness of miomey. A Common â€" Crime in Mungaryâ€"Arsonte the Principi+ Agent Employed. If the attention of the European world were not absorbed by the threatâ€" ened march of great events, popular interest would be directed in large measure to the astounding revelations made last week in the criminal courts of Hungary and Austria.. A dozen woâ€" men are on trial in one town for poisâ€" oning their busbands, and it is freely admitied theirs are only typical cases which illustrate what is atmost a naâ€" tionrl custom im the country districls of that region. Husband poisoning, i4 is coolly announced in court, is . as common a calling as midwifery, and the public prosecutor declared that he only proceeded in these few cases beâ€" cause the culprits had confessed, and desired to break up the practice. . A trial in Vienna, which ended in a sentence of death on Friday, showed what an important part arsenicplays in the domestic economy of the inâ€" habitants of Styria, A peasant named Schimallefoer began shortly after his marriage in 1891 to have intimate reâ€" lations with a servant, Marie Peniâ€" sier. with whose assistance he poisonâ€" ed his wife by mixing arsenic in her food. He married his paramour, and on her foster mister, Katharine Mille then only fifteen years old, enter‘ service in 1895, he also hbecar inlh= mate with ber, and murdered secâ€" ond wife, as he did the first, by sprinkling arsenic over pieces of meat on ber plate, which, while she was away, were turned over, in order tbat she might not see the powder on her return to the table. The two children, girls of two and three years, asked their mother for more meat, and as she gave it to them from her own plare the father hbad to sit by and see his children eat poison. He managed, howâ€" ever, to keep silent, in order not to betray bimself. The children recoverâ€" ed, but the mother died. Suspicions beâ€" in% roused, éhe exh:dmatkm kof the tflmt. ife took place, and, ing of it lfl.‘ enurt. a chemist mlze the remark k SeaF e y e ie s i e e deral t 2 that all the village cemeteries in Styria were full of arsenic. out. HUSEBAND POISONING. *"Candia, Rethymo a this island of Crete ane hundred towns, from which the whole »upplies, and again â€" them cities with a c the other cities of the of them together are the city Of Toronto 220 TInon it slake no the world the party sides as being heroic v THREE PRINCIPAL THAN THAT OF To rapresent the «C island as slaughtered | in marsses by the Crei appeare on the face . fable when we remen 260,000 inhabitants of 1 doim of Minas hardly practise the religion of Greece, which for a lon eeurred for the reunic the Hellenic kingdom. teaoted the insurgents rising and â€" passed her Athenian committ rearly ten million dra sels, is too mnuch int oo miuch at stake not paints the Miissul policy of the Sult and insligators of THESE THREE where insurrections bi simuitaneously, | â€"are | where the Mussuim squa‘!, or nearly so. population, and wtwq mingle in any way. 1t to this mnumerical daily collision that th the uprising burst for cities. For, we repea troubles it is not a on CRBETE AND I Religtonws | RifWerencesâ€" Uhristtuns of the »an orat | Characteristies Nerve Ahaking Experi A despatch from â€"Baggagemaster Gra of the Big Four Kuni bhad charge of three night. At Chesterfiel mapped to pass anot 6â€"yearâ€"old boy climbed the baggage car to ste Dalevilie. The trai there, and as it ran 4 the lad began to cry traihing the corpses w the front door. W« in the car, and as he of the child from the to the boxes to asceria ed a child. The nearer tive was he that « K.a come to life and help. Fifty trunks w the other door, but th cided to get through it trainmen to secure boxes. When the i Muncie, Woodbury wa nerved, but related th »d to be true before slimbed down from boy was seant home 0 of natives revs mq:.mrors, bu brothber . M. Hatutecar, a Belg who has made a spaci suutiun. says :â€"â€"Ther ozen families in Cand entic descendants of i onists who establishe the country after it w Purkey. _ The others mnegades who were c swords of the conquera tans, worn out by the a tian rule, cried ou!, than Papists!" and su toman ruler to their a the fact in the Orices these converts to Islan sulmans the ones ; against the coreligioni fathers. _ They have 1 dialsot which is used i majority of them are These converts, or ror you choose to cal n the short space « number diminish fr« souls, while on the « tian population has filths. _ By the nat things the Cretans are again, and this Tact diminish the ardor the enemies of the Greece shoald acquir not find a pure Gre island. _ The â€" Venet lasted for 450 years, influence on the COret an ethnical point of Dorian‘:gpa in all its be fun wno the inhabitants dlfiw st of the island, while m'l(iflfl are desce re of aboriginal hl«: ians n pone side and | «ther. 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