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t IBXS N 1 NBHL THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our COwn Country, The Canadian Bankers‘ _ bas cabled to England a re8 posing any departure from standard. CANADA. The Richelieu and Ontario Col:_l:"g intend mdding two new steame their route. o e ihe report of the A missioner of Ottawa sh in the city population Bir Wilfred Laurier with a firm of Londo write a bistory of t Company. Mayor Wilkonâ€"Smith of Montreal, OD behaltf of a number of Canadian caxp\- talists, has cabled to London an Offer for £250,000 of the new Canadian l0a@n. Mr. Mulock has not abandoned the idea of exacting postage upon NEWS papers carried through the mais, and is collecting statistics on the subâ€" VOOCs At Antigonish, N. S.. Henry Davidâ€" son was found guilty of the murder of William Bowman at Tracadie. The :nmel was committed in & druaken HK i WL. Mr. Grenier, who was sel months‘ imprisonment for Tarte will be treated as IDiSGeMCaD&D T The Dominion Governmens "*"" ""_ serve the heavy timber belts bet ween the western boundary of Manitoba and the summit of the }{ukm The Canadian Pacilic railway freight band.ers and elevator men, who were on strike at Fort Wiliam, bave returnâ€" ed to work, their demand for a Sight imecrease of pay being granted. Mrs. Lang has been awarded ."20' 5 damages against the City of VntoIr)lra for tge geath of her _hmhupd- di&: Lang. at the Point Flilice Bridge aster on May 25, 1896. t o se ul Hon. Frederick Peters, the Premier ol Prince Edward Issand, is about to retire from the Government, and it i8 stated on good authority that he inâ€" tends to remove to British Columbia. At the sale of the Royal Hotel furâ€" niture the bedroom suite used by the Prince of Wales during bhis visit to Hamilton was sold to Mrs. J. 8. Henâ€" drie for $47. Its original cost was $700. The result of the recent LMaA} ments of Canadian fruit to EDi bas proved satisfactory, especially regard to grapes. Senator Scott, Secretary of State, has received a letter from the Governor of Florida, asking bhim to send Canadian representatives to tbe International Fisheries Conference, which wi.l take plice there next month. Lord Aberdeen has received from the Co.onial Secretary a message which inâ€" timates that the members of the Canaâ€" dian jubilee contingent must wear the meda.s presented by the Queen whenâ€" ever they are on parade. Mr. Hays has offered the City of Montralals;yto move the Grand Trunk offices from Point St. Charles to Vicâ€" toria square in the centre of the c;ty if granted exemption from taxation for twenty yvears. Dr. Borden, the Dominion Minister of Militia. says that the order providing for the retirement of commanding Oofâ€" ficers after four years‘ service applies to the whole service, both permanent and volunteers. UDr. Laberge, Medical Health Officer of Montreal, stales that so far h‘:l thousand peopie have been vaccinated, but as that is only oneâ€"fifth oi the popâ€" ulation of the city, he advises that the campaign should be kept ug. Lieut.â€"Col. Bliss was out driving at Ottawa with his three children and nurse. ‘The horse ran away and the rig upset. Col. Bliss was seriously injured, and it is doubtful if he or the nurse will recover from their injuries Mr. R. W. Scott, Dominion Secretary of State, is very sanguine as to the deâ€" velopment of Canadian trade with Great Britain. He expects that before long the couniry can seli anonually fifâ€" ty million dollars‘ worth of butter and cheese to Great Britain. Some unknown party, claiming to be the brother of Ned Hanlan, the oarsâ€" man, has been making repeated reâ€" quests to him for the loan of $100, wiring for the same from Rochester and Tonawanda. The police of these places are looking for the man. Alter a trial lasting several days, W. H. Ponton, teller in the Dominâ€" ion Bank at Napanee, which was robâ€" bed of $32,000 last August, who was charged with the nAvber).wc.sbrou%ht to a conclusion on Saturday, when the prisoner was discharged from cusâ€" tody. The British exports to Canada deciinâ€" ed four per cent. in September, and thirteen per cent. in the first nine months of the year, as compared with the same period last year. The imports from Canada increased thirtyâ€"two per cent. in September, and twentyâ€"four per cent. for the nine months, as comâ€" pared with the previous year. GREAT BRITAIN. t All Parts of the Civbe, C Assorted for Easy Reading. A hbheavy fall of snow is reported in England over the Westmoreland Hills A man named PolJock made a sucâ€" cesstul trip across the English Channel in a balloon. The jubilee gifts and addresses to the Queen are on exhibition at the Imperial Institute, London Nir. Gladstone has declined to acwdel to a request that he intervene to bring about a settlement of the engineers“ strike | General Bâ€"oth ~â€"of the Salvation Aromay, has goms to Germany. He talks of converting Emperor Wilâ€" liam. _ Lora Salishury‘s retirement from the office of I‘tims Minister is disâ€" cussed as a possihility by ‘The Dail (hronicle. : 1 * Edward Langiry, the bhusband of Lily Langtry, died on Friday in the lunitic asylum to which he was comâ€" mitted last week. Wenders for the new Canadian loan, opened in London, showed that double the amount asked for had been subâ€" scribed at an average price of £#£91 10s. 5d. The London press is adverse to any tampering with the silver question, and until some decision is given by the Cabiâ€" pet great uneasiness will prevail in business circles. of the Assessment Comâ€" U 1_ .saamp h ULL BCR AE CEA i London pub.ishers to f the Budson BaY Government was sentenced to g1X â€"nt for libelling Mr. ted as a firstâ€"class shows an } )0 of 2.‘87 a resolution Op~ from the 80“1 Associali( n trial shipâ€" arranged increase will reâ€" bet ween land with ' At St. George‘s church, Hanover | square, London, on Saturday, the Â¥ Marguis of Waterford, was married to \ Lady Beatrix, the youngest daughâ€" i ter of the Marquis of Lansdowne. | _A meeting of the British Cabinet was | ‘beld on Saturday, which was attended | by all the Ministers except three. It is understood that the Government will not depart in any way from its present gold standard. It is understood that the next Imâ€" | perial budget will propose a0 extrp : grant of £1,500,000 to provide 11,000 adâ€" | ditional men for the army, and some amelioration of the soldier‘s lot, with ‘a view to attracting recruits. At the semiâ€"annual meeting of the ‘Grand Trunk â€" sharebolders, held on Thursday in London, the president anâ€" pounced that there was a surplus of thirteen thousand dollars, and that the outlook abead was very favourable. ; | _ The Canadian borse suspected of | glanders, which was landed in England | on September 9, has been subjected to a postâ€"mortem examination bY 4 Y8* | erinary expert, who reported that the disease was contracted after th¢ aniâ€" | mal fanded. I James Kier Hardy, chairman 0‘ ""~ English Independemt Labour party, PFO poses, with the view of sup ‘”“"f Phe striking engineers, to pool nh the fumds of al the trades unions as a fight!98 fund, and then to proclaim & general strike, thus bringing the trade Of the nation to a standstill. â€" UNITED STATES The Milwaukee Diocesan Council is in favour of calling the Protestant C'l.mrch in America simply "The Cbhurthâ€" Mr. Charles A. Dana, editof of the New York Sun, died on Sunday After~ noon at his residence on Long !8!204â€" Dr. David Starr Jordan, the United Sth n BEG | neroumclg nnni lt â€"~. 4 cmarioni®â€" #FO The St. James‘ Gazette, referring to the recent correspondence OD the proâ€" posed Sealing Conference calls SeCr¢ tary Sherman the transâ€"Atlantic Polâ€" onius, and says he ought to be AJlOWâ€" ed to play the fool only at home, D4 that foreign diplomacy ought . t* be placed in more competent hands. noon at his residence on Long !8‘*""~> _ Dr. David Starr Jordan, the United States expert. says the American8 8T€ themselves to blame for the destruct!i0n of the seal herds. s Over l;(;Vv:';};taTs' loaded with wheat bhave left San Francisco for Eng!aDd & comnany hso hoan fnrmaedi at T*â€" A company . h-a;"l;;;'n'-formed coma, Wash., to build a t through the Chilkoot Pass. i ids n snmaie i o i o > fra abâ€" Louiss Ripp, aged 16, who WA® ducted from Corbeil. near Paris, bas been discovered in Chicagoâ€" s Burglars at Camden, N. J., 99 Tfii:' day morning shot and killed M"' Vance, d 65, and ber daughter, f Sarah WShaw. 8k Benjamin Hyde Benton * SPO! writei'], well knyown in England and tt!ll: States is charged by the British au orities at Ne wYork with perjury . th Commencing at the end of this mon : a new steamship service will be \u(l)‘ augurated from Portland, Ore« tlcg; kohama and Shangbai and Hong LOPE, China. F i to Travel is blocked in Texas OW!DE the yellow fever. Most of the' tg:;l: bave organized shot gun quara.'nt the' so that trains can stop only & big cities. Andrew Carnegie of Pittsburg, h?f‘l’_’ secured the Tilden mine from llof waukee peopile and has now ctm,tr‘ot. o the largest iron producing combinat10! in the world. ; At a session of the Civic Philanthropi¢c \Congress, held in Battle Creek, Mich., it was stated that the American peoâ€" ple were fast becoming degenerates through the use of beer and tobacco and eating too much meat. John Carson, a school boy, at Lans.BE Mich., invited a boy to strike him iN the chest when he expanded. The lad did so, and Carson fell dead from parâ€" alysis of the beart. Baron Kontsky, of South America who advertised some time ago, that he would suicide if he did not get wOTrk tried to carry out the threat in New York by turning on the gas jet. George Burns, until recently a f”‘; man on the revenue cutter Grant, t Seattle, receiving a snla.ri of $28 pee month has just learned that be mlond of the four beirs to an estate value at $1,000,000. William Harold and Sheriff Radford were shot and killed and Deputy Sherâ€" iff Stewart, probably fatally injured, at Delta, Cal., on Friday while the officers were attempting to arrest Harold, charged with robbery. 1t is announced in New York that John Armstrong Chanler, the former husband of Amele Rives, the authoress, is hopelessly insane in the Bloomingâ€" ton asylum, while Amelie Rives, now Princess Troubetskoy is a mental wreck in a Philadelphia sanitarium. Secretary Sherman has written a reâ€" ply to Lord Salisbury on the Bering Sea conference question. in which he suggests a conference in â€" accordance with the terms of Lord Salisbury‘s agreement, to be bheld presumably after the one which Russia and Japan have been invited to attend. According to the trade reports of Messrs. Dun and Bradstreet, the condiâ€" tion oi business in the United States is good, but shows no marked increase. The exports of wheat have expanded, and for the past week have been the largest on record. The payments t.hr(mib the clearing house are stated to be the largest ever known, and this of course, is a satisfactory indication of a substantial trade movement. The deâ€" mand for Iabour is also good, and anâ€" pears to be augmenting. ‘The demand for cotton is increasing. Prices of pig iron are steady. Ore shipments on the lakes are very large, and prices of finâ€" isbed products are rising. Argentina‘s wheat for export isesâ€" timated at one million tons. The Chilian Senate is discussing the bill for retaliatory tariff against the United States. The Budget Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies has voted tq increase the standing army by 12,000 men. R % The Women‘s Equal Suffrage Club at St. Louis, Mo., is rle.m:m.dinf the appointment of women street inspecâ€" tors. The new Liberal Spanish Cabinet apâ€" proves of the idea of employing native volunteers against the insurgents in Cuba. Bishop McKim, the Episcopal preâ€" late to Tokio, siys that out of _ the 150,000 converts in Japan 50,000 _ are Catholies. The troops forming the Mamund punitive expediti»a have destroyed 26 fortified villages and have killed many of the insurgent natives. A shepherd named Vacher has been arrested at Belley, near Lyons, France, charged with commiiting a series of Jack the Ripper murders. GEN NERAL church, Hanover ! the fumds a fighting a generll ade of the d at Taâ€" tram way The Jirga tribesmen in India have surrendered their riflee and _ bave swornto maintain the peaceand drive out Umra Khan‘s followers. e s an alliance, defensive _ &ADG . 9°, sive, betvse’een Bulgaria and T ke’fi: ti teamer Triton sunk e coasting s 7 the coast ofn%]avn'u_ with 2“5 g‘l‘: gers, soldiers and civilians, aD a m amount of Spanish treasure &D tions of war. " The foundation stone, of what is inâ€" tended to be the great \commertial port of Russia in Asia was laid on Friâ€" day with great ceremony. . It is stated that all the preimâ€" inaries have been agreed upon f0" x . alliance Acfanuve. and offen The National Council of, Swnze;l-nttl bhus adopted a bill making accident insurance compulsory in the Cast °t all petsons not having â€" independen means of existence. s s Official returns published in Pa.fl; show that French exports for %he t.ho\(:'0 quarter of 1897 increased $42,000,000, ani imports nearly $8,000,000, (’Ol_nl’“E ed with the corresponding period 0 1896 M. Martens, of the Russian Fore!gn Office has been selected as ump"f.‘;r;'_‘ the International Court of Ar )lli NC tion which is to pass upon the Br ishâ€"Venezuelan boundary. _ Chos The international Leprosy Con{erence, which bas closed its sitting in Berlin, has come to the conclusion that man is the only animal in which the leprosy bacilius exists. and that the disease 18 contagious, but not bhereditary. While a tradesmen‘s deputation was conferring with the Government at Rome on the taxation question a riot was started by a mob outside The police attempted to disperse the peoâ€" ple, and a fierce conflict took place, in which one rioter was killed and several wounded A Man Drawn Into uâ€"WIu.l Bin and £uffoâ€" cated at Stevens & Campbell‘s Chatham Elevator. A despatch from Chatham sAy8:â€" A terrible fatality occurred at 2 o‘clock on Friday afternoon at the Stevensâ€" Campbell elevators, Wm. Green, whoQ resides on Kent street, losing his life by suffocation in a wheat bin It appears that Green and Wm. Pauluce: ha(l been working during the mornâ€" ing in emptying wheat from one floor to another and had cleaned the PiD out five or six times. Friday afterâ€" day afternoon they cleaned it out onte and were working on it the gecond time when the accident occurred. Green thoughtlessly stuck his foot into the wheat over the chute and the suction pulled him in. He slowly sank out of sight, despite the heroic efforts of his mate to drag bim up to safety. He nearly lost his own life in the attempt to save his luckless comrade: _ There are two outlets to the bin, one in the centre and the other in one corneL. In the remote corner from these aTC the bars, so that when Green found himself slowly sinking to his death he was too far away from the bars to grasp theim. As soon . aSs Paulucci realized the terrible situation he selzâ€" ed a shovel and began an effort to dig away the wheat which was drawâ€" ing Grsen down. By this time, howâ€" ever, Green was completely engulfed, and Paulucci saw immediately _ the hopelessness _ of his _ task. He hastened â€" to â€" the _ floor below, where several of the hands were at work. Physicians were snmmoned and the workmen downstairs relinquished all thought of digging the man out and transferred the chute, so that all the wheat fell on the floor of the first storey. When several bhundred bushâ€" els had come down through the hole thus made the lifeless body of the unâ€" fortunate victim was seen to appeaAl. Immediate steps were taken to resusâ€" citate him in vain. Green had been under the wheat for fully fifteen minâ€" utes, and although the physicions labâ€" ored for a considerable time there came no signs of life. It is only about three _or four months Mmce Green obtained work at the mill. He was a steady, inâ€" dustrious man and was well liked by all. He, however, had been in the bin dozens of times before, and must have understood the perils attached to such work. and that extreme caution had to be exercised. It seems to, be the general opinion among the mill hands that there was a certain amnuqt of 1 i8 & yell Ks UHOC GIPCICS TT CR IP IEPEITT LD carelessness in Green‘s action there. Paulucci himself says that he would not do what Green did. The _ deceasâ€" ed lived on‘ Kent street with his wife and two or three children. He was about fort ; fiars of Turninog â€" Out Coumnterfcit Money From Within the Walls of a Penitentiary. Warden E. & Wright, of the Riverâ€" side penitentiary, Pittsburg, Penn . has dissovered that a number of the convicts confined in the institution have been mmmufacturing counterfeit 50â€"cent pieces He has umearthed the metal from which the "queer‘ money was made, the moulds in which it was cast, and the names of several conâ€" victs who were connected with the matter. But as yet he has been unâ€" able to find the mam who originated and carried out the scheme. The counâ€" terfeits are magnificent specimens of the coiner‘s art. The die from which they were made is a most perfect one, and the milling of the coins, which is the Government‘s chief protection of metal money from those who would imitate it, is as near perfect as it is possible for human ingenuity to make, and that such coins could be made within the walls of the Riverside peniâ€" tentiary, with the crude implements to be obtained by the prisoners, is the startling feature of the case. The counterfeiters had already secured a connection with outside parties, and some of the bad money is now in cirâ€" culation Doctor Johnson‘s _ tongue spared noâ€" body, and naturally enough, is any one ever got the betier of him in a verbal encounter it was considered a memorâ€" able victory. In this spirit a Scotch family cherishâ€" es an anecdote of his trip to Scotiand. He hbad stopped at the house for a me%}, and was belped to the national dish. Doâ€"ctor Johnson, _ said the hostess, whit do you think of our Scotch broth ? Nadam, was the answer, in my opinâ€" ion it is only fit for pigs. Then bhave some more, said the woâ€" KILLED IN THE ELEVATOR. HAVE OME MORE. DARING CRIMES. ONTARIO ARCHIVEs _ way TORONTO i large muniâ€" off HARD FIGETING IN UL IMPORTANT POSITION TAKEN BY THE TRIBESMEN. A â€" Despcrate Battie Ensued â€" G2U/ARL Chbarge of Ghoorkas and Gordon Mighâ€" landersâ€"They Cltmb the Steep Mountain Bide and Disleodge the Enemy. A despatch from Simla says:â€"Offiâ€" cial advices from Fort Lockbart say that after the fighting on Monday last between the British troops under Genâ€" eral Sir Yeatman Biggs and the inâ€" surgent tribesmen from Chagru, on the Samana range, the British force returnâ€" ed to Shinwari, and the tribesmen, greatly reinforced, reoccupied in force the heights west of Chagru. pigi The third brigade of the British punitive expedition, which advanced to Kharappa, expects to bave a lively time in clearing the beights. According to advices from Fort Lockâ€" hart, the tribesmen having occupied Dargal ridge, which commanded Chaâ€" gru on the Samana range, General Sir Yeatman Biggs sent the second diviâ€" sion to dislodge them. The position was a very strong one. on the sumâ€" mit of a precipitous hill, reached only by a single path, along which the atâ€" tacking force, consisting of the Goorkâ€" bha Regiment and the Dorsetshire Regiâ€" ment, was obliged to climb in Indian file, three batteries meanwhile shelling the Sangers. _ The British suffered a temporary check when: they reachâ€" ed the open space, and were exâ€" posed to an accurate fire, ~After a proâ€" longed artillery fire the Goorkhas were reinforced by the Gordon Highâ€" landers. Then followed a magnificent rush across the open space in . the teeth of a murderous fusillade. The enemy stood their ground till the British reached the _ rocks below, down which the tribesmen _ could not see to fire, and then they fled pell mell. The losses of the Goorkhas and the Gordon Highlanders _ were severe. Fes o 6 Accordingto later advices, General Biggs‘ division advanced at daybreak, by way of Chagruâ€"Kotal, with Brig.â€" General Kempster‘s brigade leading. It was mearly ten o‘clock when the enemy began a long range fire. The three mountain batteries, massed on Chagruâ€"Kotal, replied, while the Gorâ€" don Highlanders pushed through to support the first line, firing volleys at long range. : o e e ol Three British companies crossed the zone of fire at a rush, sustaining beavy losses, while the remainder deâ€" ployed to the left to intercept a flank attack threatened by some seven thouâ€" sind of the enemy from that direction. The Dorsetshire Regiment attempted to support three companies of Goorâ€" khas, but was kept back by the enâ€" emy, who remained cook and reserved their fire until the British were well exposed. _ ns o 5 Toi. 2 P e The tribesmen reserved their fire till the Goorkhas â€" reached the _ zigzag path under the perpendicular cliff, where Major Jennings Bromley was killed on Monday in the fighting beâ€" tween the Biggs‘ brigade and the inâ€" surgent tribesmen from Chagru, on the Samana range. c dn o At 12.30 p.m., matters looked serious as the British gun fire, though aided by a mountain_ _ battery from Fort Gulistan, had failed to dislodge the enemy. â€" Generali Kempsler thereupon went forward in person, moving up the Gordon Highlanders and the 3rd Sikh Regiment into the fighting line. A systematio assawlt was organized, and 2000 men, with fixed bayonets, stood waiting for the order to adâ€" vance. & 3 Three minutes before the word of command â€"tvas given Genera: Kempâ€" ster heléjographed back instructions to the batteries to concentrate their fire. The eighteen pieces of artil_lery reâ€" sponded, and under cover of thi-s' ‘fire. the leading company of the Highâ€" landers, amid perfect silence, rushed into the fire zone. Ha.f the men dropâ€" ix:-,d' but the remainder pushed gaiâ€" lantly on till they reached the cover where the Ghoorkas lay. The rest of the force streamed after them ; and the tribesmenpn, seeing that most of the troops had passed the fire zone, fled up the hill, and collected under cover of the cliffs. _ The Highlanders and mixed regiments, after pausing a moâ€" ment to taike breath, again advanced to the assault, and twenty minutes later the position was won. _ The staunch resistance of the insurgâ€" ent tribesmen when the British forces stormed and eventually carried the Dargai _ ridge of the _ Samana range on Monday afternoon, _ and the apparently heavy losses of the Britâ€" ish, are facts which are viewed with serious misgivings in London. The inâ€" surgents were evidently in great force for in addition to being able to make a stubborn stand against the British advance, they bad a contingent of 7,â€" 00) men to spare for a flanking moveâ€" ment, Not any of the stories of this fierce engagement suggest any deâ€" moralization of the enemy, who reâ€" tired in good order and proceeded to construct fresh defensive works on the adjacent hills, showing that Afridiland General Sir Yeatman Biggs will conâ€" tinue the advance, so as to hold the frontal hills, and push on to Kharaâ€" gosa‘ where he will be joined by Sir William Lockhart. wil} prohahlgv' have to be conquered yard by yard. _ _ s ie ratnens ~ The news of the massing of the Afridis in the Sampagha pass, and the report that they are erecting strong fortifications there, is also most disâ€" quieting. The newspapers here criticize the plan of campaign, which apparently necessitates capturing the same ground twice ag the Dargai ridge was carâ€" ried on Monday, only to be left for the tribesmen to reoccupy on _ Tuesâ€" day. Bit it appears that! the British force which first captured ‘the ridge was not provided with commissariat supplies, and the difficulties of forâ€" warding them from the base were inâ€" surmountable. 6. t eaip t _ Six officers and one bhundred men were killed or wounded in the stormâ€" ing of the Dargai ridge. %‘he advance of the British force in Monday‘s battle was rendered exâ€" tremeli difficult biethe precipitous naâ€" ture of the hbill, t men, having to scale from rock to rock, there gamg almost no paths Bo facilitate their movements. The loss sustained b{ the natives cannot be estimated, but the slaughter was great. Many of the {OULD NOT HOLD THE RIDGE LONDON ALARMED Ensued â€" Callant tribesmen uD Curlous Incident Which Caused a Revoluâ€" thon in the Postal Service. The incident which resulted in the invention of the postage stamp was a curious one. A â€"traveller journeying through the â€" oo es ie casua.vie5, CHO AMETECNTL O O cBava l i and the remainder being equally diâ€" vided between the Goorkbhas and the Derbyshire regiments. invention of the postage staump was &A ‘ curious one. f A traveller journeying through the | north of England chanced to reach the | door of an inn just as a pusliman stopâ€" | ped to deliver a letter, The young ‘ girl for whom it was intended came out to receive it. She turned it over | and over in ber bhand and asked thei price of the postage. The price deâ€" | manded was a shi.ling, and as the gir| | was poor she returned it to the postâ€" | man, saying that it was from her . oib C f . thar she baid not : that Eo NE neba t o man, saying that it was irom heP brother, but that she bad not that amount of money. The traveller, in spite of ner protest, paid the money to the postman and handed the letter to the girl _ When the postman departâ€" ed the young girl admitted that she and her brother had arranged . by certain marks upon the letter â€" that 1 chaer shonldl Enaw that the writer the other should know that the writer was in good bealth and prospering " We are so poor," she added, "that we were forced to invent this way of letting each other know of our we‘lfare." The traveller continued on his way asking bimsel{ if a system givâ€" ing rise to such frauds was not a viâ€" clous one. The sun bad not set before Ro‘land Hillâ€"such was the traveller‘s nameâ€" bad planned to organize the postal serâ€" vice on a new basis. ECOs olle uh pA s Japan and Russia Preparing for a Gonâ€" Alct. The wteamship Empress of Japan brings the folowing advices from the Grient :â€" Â¥IUC ATRL CC ETWY CMTROT His views found favor with, the English government, and on January 10, 1840, the first postage stamp was issued and a postal system started by which not more than a penny wAas paid for letters which circulated over the who‘le extent of the British Isles. This boid scheme surpassed the wildâ€" est hopes of the legislators. Ten years later, in 1850, the number of letters increased from 1,500,000 to 7,â€" 239,902. A correspondent in Corea, writing to a Shangbai paper, ‘takes rather an ominous view of the state of affairs in that coumntry, stating that there is men no doubt that Japan and Russia are both preparing for war in the near fuâ€" ture. The Japanese are eurveying the southern coast of Corea, whie the Russians bhave obtained a small island off Fusan as a nava‘. coaling station. The Japanese also are building barâ€" racks in Gensan that wil hold 5,000 money .qfilm _lree;y_ 1p OFucl i0 AURICE an antiâ€"Russian spirit. The Japanese Government will | be W ‘ se Omaeit me d n forced to 5{0 abroad to float a public industrial loan. Out of 67,000,000 yen, only 3,000,000 was subssribed in Japan. li is rumoured in Hong Kong that 16,000 rif.es have leen shipped to the Philippine rebels. ONE MAN KILLED, FOUR INJURED. Explosion of a Threshing Botler on the Farm of Nr. Harduman, Near Sault ®Ste Marie. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie says:â€"Friday afternoon at the farm of Mr. Harduman, three miles from town, one young man, David MceGill, was killed, and four others seriously injured by the boiler of a steam thresher expoding. _ The men hbad just come out from dinner and were in their places ready to begin work when the expiosion occurred. . The engineer was burled through the air about forty feet and was badly bruised and sca‘xded. McGill, who was standâ€" ing in front of the bober, was carried sixty feet away, being hurled through the barn and out upon the straw stack. His skull was completely crushed, roâ€" thing being left but his face, and both arms and le s were broken. It is like ly that one of the others, whose skull was fractured, will also die. ProJ. Langley and Lord Kelvin agree that the temperature of the sun is about eight thousand degrees centiâ€" grade. §: The eminent Italian astronomer and mathematician, Secchi, gave it as his opinion that the temperature could be but little, if any, short of ten million degrees centigrade. Shorer thmfiht it might be thirtyâ€" seven thousand degrees. h â€" PouilJet brought it down to someâ€" where between one thousand four hunâ€" dred and one thousand eight hundred M. Becquerel‘s opinion was in subâ€" stantial agreement with that of Prof Langley. _ y M. G{ Clair Deville declares that the heat of the solar surface does not give evidence of bemfil in excess of : two thousind eight hundred degrees. M. Deville‘s conclusion is in accordâ€" ance, also, with the conclusion arrivâ€" ed at by Bunsen and Debray. Sir Iéohnbflau. lfiotunox"i of Astronâ€" omy at Cambridge, England, is quoted as rating the ;dtfectlvg temperature of the sun as probably eighteen thousand ORIGIN OF POSTAGE STAMP, The Japanese in degrees. wWARIN THE NEAR FUTURE. were shot as they were !le.- HEAT OF THE SUN se in Seoul are using freely in order to foster in Corea, writing to public ue TRHR STRIKING ENCLNEERS INTERVENTION OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. Aun Adeniical Letter 16 tThe MERBURTM ITUTC uumâ€"nupuluml“m for Financial Aid. ‘A despatch from London says:â€"The Executive Committee of the Amailgaâ€" mated Society of Engineers is about to send to the leading newspaper® and labour organizations in the United States a statement, giving the details of the strike of engineers now in proâ€" gress, and declaring that the sum of $100,000 is required weekly to pay the men on strike and meet other expenses. This amount, the statement says, can only ‘be raised by subscriptions, and the committee appeals to the liberalâ€" .ity of the American friends of labour to assist the engineers to defeat the employers‘ attempt to crush LNC" ~"~ ganization. A new and most important element has been introduced into the great enâ€" gineering dispute by the official inâ€" tervention of the Board of Trade. The Right Hon. C. T. Ritchie, Preâ€" sident of the Board, proposes, in an identical letter addressed to the masâ€" ters and the men, a conference based upon the following suggestive arrangeâ€" ment: â€" First. the federated employers, while disavowing all intention of interfering with the legitimate action of trades unions, will admit »o right of interâ€" ference in the management of their business. The trades unions, on their part, while maintaining the right of combination, will disavow any intenâ€" tion of interfering with the manageâ€" ment of the business of the employers. Second, the demand for a 48â€"hours week made by the men‘s joint commitâ€" tee upon the Federated Employers of London. without a previous request for conference with the employers, is withdrawn « & Third, a conference between the reâ€" presentatives _ of the Federated Emâ€" ployers and Engineering Unions, shall be ield forthwith to discuss and settle the bours of labor. _ _ iC e Fourth. the constitution of the conâ€" ference shall be arranged by its chairâ€" man or other selected representatives of both parties. The Times, in an editorial on the engineering dispute, says;â€""It would be a very paying business for German or American artisans to supply funds to prolong a struggle which will drive the engineering business (1.â€".a to prolong a struggle which voui drive the engineering business (1. .a Great Britain to foreign coupetâ€" itors." Members of the Employers‘ Federâ€" ation in Glasgow, say that there ie no prospect that the mediation of the Board of Trade in the enginecring dis pute on the lines suggested by" _ the identical letter of the board will be accepted. Rehbels in China Put a City to the Sword, The city of Kuang Yang, in Hunan province, has been captured and its inâ€" babitants massacred by a band of reâ€" bels, forming part of a rebel army which is devastating Hunan and Kuang provinces in Southern China. On August 27 the bandits scaled the walls of Kuang Yang, with the intenâ€" tion of capturing the provincial prison and releasing three of their member® there imprisoned. One band tore down the prison. setting free several hunâ€" dred murderers, thieves, and imprisonâ€" ed debtors. Another gang attacked the central part of the citi. first murâ€" dering the magistrate who had sent the three bandits to prison. His enâ€" tire family, numbering 82, including servants, was killed. The entire night was spent in slaying and plunderin%, All mandarins and every civil and mailiâ€" tary officer in the city was beaten. The number killed and injured exceeded 14,000. The insurgents numbered 15,000 men, balf of them _ armed. Their avowed object is to destroy the existing \Governmert in Southern China, The | Government is greatly ajarmed, but has no adequate means of suppressing the Fall of the BDome in A Cinclnnatt Play Wouseâ€"Three Persons Killed and Over Thirty Injured. A despatch from Cincinnati says:â€" About 8.50 o‘clock on Friday night, as the performance at Robinson‘s Opera House was in progress, the plastering began to fall from the centre of the dome ceiling, 40 or 50 feet above the bheads of the people in the parquette. This continued three minutes, causing a rush from the house. The theatre adn galleries were partially empited when the dome in the centre of the roo{, with its supporting timbers and trumses, came lumbering down. . The dome extended across the opera house and was ahout 30 feet wide. . When it f«.l the ends struck both sides of the fgx.lery. crushing it and scattering timbers in every direction, and fina Ay landing in the centre of the parque!le. Scarcely anybody was hurt in the balâ€" cony })r dre.t.he circles. Thetx"e were very few in gallery at the time. The inj'ured are those w{m had not yet escaped from the parquette. ‘The theatre presents the appearance of a disorder.y pile of old lumber. Chairs in the parquette are badly demolishâ€" ed. Thousands of people are blocking the adjacent streets. There are three dead and 33 more or less seriously inâ€" jured at the Cincinnati Hospital, while many suffered slight in juries, but were abe to go to their homes. insurrection. W hen For she was lormed in serious mold; Now â€"older â€" she laughs all the whileâ€" Because ber teeth are crowned with OoF COURSE NOT. Mr. Hugginsâ€"len‘t Miss Roxy s peach? 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