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re now prepared PTLY. ity of Sash, the differâ€" de sheeting. o that all orders actory. th always ECHNIB hs Rosorted to in «le icks pracâ€" ides** nong juesâ€"= 6 1B D nd ui N LE D 1W 13 1 n interesting Items About Our Own Country, Orcat Britvin, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Asserted for Easy Reading. There were 514 births, 337 deaths and 236 marriages in Hamilton during the last half year. Secretary C. R. Smith, ofthe Board of Trade is about to resign and reâ€" move to San Francisco. , According to reports from Victoria, BC., there are eight British vessels In the harbor at Esquimalt. Mr. Cochrane, partner in an eatingâ€" hbhouse, was stabbed to death at the Crow‘s Nest Pass. There was no iruth in the reported formation of a Canadian regiment for service in the East. Ottawa had 1,128 deaths last _year. A young son of Louis Smith, .(lshgr- man was scalded to death at Victoria. n CANADA. The French theatre, a home for opera, will be built in Montreal next sut.rtep. The Queena has approved the apâ€" pointment of General Sir Arthur Powâ€" ers Palmer, KC.B., to succaed Geaâ€" eral Sir Wallock Hart, as commander of the Tirah Field Force on the northâ€" west froatier of India. The London Morning Post says Preâ€" s@lont McKinley is hopelessly drifting in trying to satisly everybody, that the resul!t will ba chaos in the Republican cam;, and the rapid growth of Bryanâ€" Mrs. Boomer was elected a High Bchool Trustee at London by the Counâ€" oll, being the first lady who has ever served on the board. Lord Charles Beresford, Conservative, was elected in York by a majority of 11 over Mr. Christopher Furness, Lib eral. The seat was formerly held by Sir Frank Lockwood, Liberal. Shipments of Northwest whut% Fort William aggregated 17,600, bushels in 1897. B NWM 0 T; NK THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Two Hamiliton shoe dealers were finâ€" ec& $1 each for keeping their stores open after 7 o‘clock in Christmas week. Another case will be appealed. There will be 75,000 names in the diâ€" rectory of Toronto for 1898, and the publishers claim that this entitles the sity to a population of 225,000. The Dominion Treasury Board has| Issued a circular warning civil serâ€" | vants acainst wireâ€"pulling as a means of securing promotion or increase otl emw.ument. ed to ten dol‘ars and was sent to Kingston _ Penitentiary â€" for _ three years. Mayor R. Wilson Smith, has purchasâ€" ed a seat in the Montreal Stock Exâ€" change, for £5,500, and advance of two trousand dollars over the last sale. He proposes to go into thea brokerage business. The British imports from Canada for the past year showsd an increase over the previous year of twentyâ€"five per cent. Prine», the murderer of William Terâ€" riss, the actor, was fownd guilty, but the judgs accepting the medical evidâ€" ence., sent hi to a lunatic asylum. The Investigation into the cause of the London. England, fire shows that the loss was $3,050,000. The jury reâ€" turned a verd«t of arson. The Governorâ€"General has approvo_d of the appointment of Hon. Francois Langelier as a Judge of the Superiicr Court for Montreal in place of Mr. Justice Jette appointed Lieutenantâ€" Governor of Quelec. Little Freddie Guerin, the nineâ€" yearâ€"old son of Mr. Josaph Guerin, of Hamilton, was alone in the house when a lamp exploded. He throw it out.ide, and with the aid of a poâ€" liceman extinguished the fire in the house. + Dur.ag a fire at Hamilton an excited Chinaman jum>ed from an upsiair winâ€" dow with a money box in his arms, alighting in the dark on Constable Ford‘s back. At Brantford, William Steves, a lad o( cishteen years, pleaded guilty to uttering one dollar notes raisâ€" Inssector Strickland, of the Northâ€" west Mounted Lolice, who is at Vicâ€" toria en route to Prince Albert says the police posts on the road to t:ho Yukon are amply provisioned for five months. Thursday night the threeâ€"yearâ€"old daughter of C.P. R. Section Foreâ€" man Tayor, at Upsula, east of Rat Portage was left alone in the house. _ Her clothes caught fire y some means from the satove, and she was burned to death. The Government have tbeen advised that the Canad.an Pacilic Steamship Company‘s steamer Danuke has been seized at Skag~ay for an infractiâ€"n of the coasting laws. Hon R. W. Scott is in communication with Washington over the matter. The fire losses of Toronto for the year 1897 amounted to $666,879, of which $117,155 was on buildings and 8549,724 on stock. The insurance on these losses was $2,250,000. The four ckief fires were: the Electric Light Company‘s; Murray‘s; Eckbhardt‘s and the Faton‘s, which totalled $47,000 of Exports of poultry from Montreal the past season are the largest in the hisâ€" tory of the trade. Exports of eggs in 1897 were one hundred and seventyâ€" two thousand cases, compared with one hundred and fortyâ€"two thousand in 1896, and ninetyâ€"five thousand in 1895, largely to the United Kingdom. the amount The death is reported from London of Rev. C. H. Dodgson, whose nom de plume was Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice in Wonderland." Roses are blooming and hunsjreds of butterfliaa have been seen in London, Englaad. The mildness of the weather is inâ€" creasing the spread of influenza in London, England. GREAT BRITAIN. The collapse of the great English enâ€" gmneers‘ strike is rapidly approaching. There were several days of thick, )lack fog in London during the past vee ism. It furtber says that the Ding ley tariif is a failure. Gray Gables, the summer home of exâ€"Pregident Cleveland, has been visitâ€" ed by burglars, who ransacked the house from attic to cellar, and madse good their escape. The Canadian stsamer Danube which was voluntariiy placed into the custody of the United States authorities for v10â€" lating the customs regulations of Alasâ€" ka,. has been released on the filing of a bond for $35,000. The Washington correspondent of the Buifalo Evening News says that Bosâ€" ton men are shipping in from Canada free mimeral water which under the Dingley bill should pay a duty of 24 cents per gallon. The water is freezâ€" ed first. There is no duty on ice. Mrs. Lucille Lane, youngest daughâ€" ter of exâ€"Senator Blackburn, of Kenâ€" tucky, shot herself in her apartments at the Wellington hotâ€"l, Washington on Saturday night, just as she was preéâ€" paring for bed. The statement given out by the family is that the shooting was an accident. The wound is in the left breast and is probably fatal. The death of "Lewis Carroll," the Rev. C. H. Dodgson, autbhor of "Alice in Wonderland," bas caused the greatâ€" est regret in all parts of Great Britain. The paper are full of reminiscences of his many stories showing how inâ€" tense was his love for chidren and bow universal was his shyness and dignity to others. Further tims has been given by the U. 8. House Committee on Commerce for the building of the proposed bridge over the St. Lawrence from St Lawâ€" rence Co., N. Y. John J. Overton, said to be 100 years of age, was married to Mrs. Mary J. Henderson at Charleston, West Va. on Monday. In the Guldensuppe case, Mrs. Nack on Monday pleaded guilty to manâ€" slaughter, and was sentenced to fifâ€" teen years‘ imprisonment. Robert Gudgeon, saloon keeper, was shot and killedl at Chicago on Monâ€" day night by robbers, who escaped. He would not "hold up his hands." Instructions have been sent to colâ€" lectors at American ports not to inâ€" terfere with sealskin garments if shown to have been parchased before Decemâ€" ker 29 last. A serious Indian unrising is reportâ€" ed in Oklahoma Territory, where the Seminoles have gone on the warpath to avenge the lynching of a couple of memkers of their tribe. The dispute between the train deâ€" spatchers and the Canadian Pasific railâ€" way has been amicably adjusted. t a mesâ€" ‘nt McKinley has sen mg:ets;d:&t Unt;ted States C°"gr:::ie§-:: commending payment of the claims. Mr. John A. Gano, a wellâ€"known citizen of Cinnati formerly one of the proprietors of ths Cincinnati Comâ€" mercial, died on Saturday. Mrs. James L. Flood, wife of the millionaire mineâ€"owner, died on Saturâ€" day at San Francisco, as the result of an operation recently performed. An unknown man threw himself, or accidentally fell, from a parapet on the Washington bridge into the Harâ€" lem river, New York, on Friday, a di# tance of 147 feet. He was fished out, but subsequently died. President P. A. Largy, of the State Savings Bank, of Montano, was assassiâ€" nated at Butte on Tuesday. UNITED STATES. * Mrs. Ballington Booth is declared out of danger. A shipment of 92 locomotives for Japan and Corea is being completed at the Brooks Works at Dunkirk, N.Y. According to letters received in New York from Kings.on, Jamai~a, the latest victims of yellow fever in that city are Major Slater, of the Royal Enâ€" gineers, and Captain E. R. White, of the harbour tug Atlas Up to the time the letters left Kingston, Januâ€" ary 7th, there bhad been about 100 cases of yellow fever, with nearly 50 deaths. Mr. Mark Hanna bas been elected Senator for Ohio. The New York theatrical profession is petitioning azainst the bill permitâ€" ing theatre performances on Sunday. Neither the crematories nor cemeâ€" teries of San Francisco will take the body of Durraint, the murderer. Two explosion‘s early Thursday. in the tunnal for the flume nsar the upâ€" per smeilting works in Anaconda mine, Butte. Montana, destroyed the t‘ mâ€" bering and entombed five workmen. The best miners and timbermen are now at work driving a threeâ€"foot drift near the side of the tunnel. _ When this can be completed it is hard to say. â€" There are no hopes of the men being alive. An extremely rigorous press censorâ€" shir has been put in force in Havana. muda fil.l(l hadt ntecsvagetaincinlithnis lt nc i P rmatatrnntntion 4 % the British cable steamer Scotia. I Four Cases Eeported to Hare Broken Ont General Sir~William Lockhart, the Up North. Commander of the British forces on the! Four cases of smallpox are reported Indian frontier, has postponed his joutTâ€"| to be in a family near Callender. The ney homeward in the expectation Of 2 nuthorities are looking after ‘ the matâ€" sattlement with the Afridis. ToF. The Japanese transport steamer Nara was wrecked on LDecember lith, and eighty lives were lost. Dr. Jamieson intends tbecoming & candidate for the Cape Parliament. The capital of one of the Moluccas Islands bhas been visited by anearthâ€" quake and fifty lives were lost. The health of exâ€"Empress Eugenie is disquicting. Her rheumatism grows worse, and sha is unable to cross a room unassisted. complices have been arrested at Budaâ€" pest on the charge of blackmailing King Alexander of Servia. The French Government has decidâ€" ed to prosecuie M. Zola, the novelist, &n account of his connection with the Esterhazyâ€"Dreyfus scandal. Advices received from Bermuda state that the marine cable between Berâ€" muda and Jamaica is being laid by the British cable steamer Scotia. poss B uenne o on Mci n eimainen n se AWeen esns Li Martial law which was procltimed in Prague on December 2nd, has been withdrawan. Great Britain has a pledge from King Menelek, of Abyssinia, that be will not block the advance of the Angloâ€"Egypâ€" tion expedition. There was & riotous demonstration in Havana on Thursday against the United States and there is talk of an armed intervention. Â¥a® A German warship is reported disâ€" ibled at the entran‘e to the Red Sea. hall singer and several aoâ€" GENERAL. Ner Cargo Was Damaged to the Extent of at Least ©$50,000. A despatch from Boston, Mass., says: â€"A fire started from some unknown cause in the hold of the Dominion line steamer Canada about 10 o‘clock on Saturday morning, and for a time there was considerable excitement on board ship, and about the Hoosac tunnel docks where she was lying. Smoke was first seen issuing from a new refrigerator containing grain and cotton, but the steamer‘s fire pumps, and the city apparatus, which responded to an alâ€" arm, soon had the fire extinguished. The vessel‘s cargo, which was nearly all on board, was baily damaged by smoke, fire, and water, the loss being placed at fully $50,000, although it will bhave to be overhauled before the exact extent of the damage can be ascerâ€" tained. The camage to the vessel itâ€" self will be siight. A survey will be held on Monday, and the Canada, which was scheduled to sail Saturday, will be delayed until Tuesday, and perhaps later. Sir Willlam Lockhart‘s Place Taken by Sir Power Palmer. A despatch from Calcutta says:â€"Sir William Lockhart, a(ter completing the report on which he is engaged concernâ€" ing the future Indian frontier policy, and the measures to be adopted, will return to England on three months‘ leave. General Sir Power Palmer will act during his absence, being succeedâ€" ed in his present command by Generâ€" al Elles. The force will otherwise reâ€" main unchanged, except fos a temâ€" porary reduction of the headquarters staff. The condition of the bealth of Emâ€" press Victoria of Germany excites comment. : She will go in the spring to some Southern air cure. Her phyâ€" sicians still forbid her leaving ber rooms. Steamers which have just arrived at Syvdney, NS.W., report a tribal war at Tanna in the New Hebrides. Thersis said to have been considerable blood shed, and the natives were also causâ€" Ing the traders much trouble. was, in the Usoga country. Lieut. Macâ€" donald, brother of Major Macdonald, the commander of the British forces, And Mr. Pilkington, the missionary, have been killed. Sir Power Palmer has been comâ€" mander of the Punjab frontier force since 1895. He is now in hbis fiftyâ€" cizhth year. He entered the Indian army in 1827, and during the Mutiny he served with Hodson‘s Horse. In 1863 he was on the northâ€"west fronâ€" tier. He served in the Abyssinian war from 1867 to the end of, 1868; was with the Duffia expedition in 1894, and comâ€" manded the Chin Hills expedition of the previous year. He served also during the Afghan war, 1873, and in the Soudan expedition, 1885. He fgg;l zed the rank of majorâ€"general in Rancher Aitacked by Navvies Dies as the Reauit of Injuaries. Information bas reached Calgary that what at present seems to have tesn a brutal murder was committed last week at a place called the Loop, in the Crow‘s Nest pass, the victim being a rancher named George Smythe who resided near Garnett‘s ranch in the Pin hor Creok district. It appears that Smythe had been employed for some time freighting on the railway, and was travelling eastward, when some men employed on the Birmingâ€" ham contract asked hm to give them a ride. He declined, and was terribly keaten. In a few hours afterwards he died of the injuries ha had received. _ MURDER IN CRKOW‘S NEST PASS. The society of German sugar proâ€" ducers, at a special meeting in Berlin adopted resolutions declaring that the abolition of bounties would only be acceptable provided _ all countries abolished both direct and indirect bounties. News of the renewed fighting in Ugâ€" anda, has been received from Fort Lubâ€" Murdcrer o! a Woman in Minnesota Be Heved to be in Canvada. The Mounted Police at Crow‘s Nest lake at once started in pursuit, and captured one of the men on the road, and the oth»r three shortly aiterwards, concealed in the timber near Eirmingâ€" bham‘s camp. All of them were taken A despatch from St. Paul, Minn., says: â€"Mrs. Amelia Forke was shot five times at Sheffield Mills, Rice county, on Saturday. â€" She was dead when the neighbors arrived. A satchel was found on Monday in Mrs. Forke‘s barn containing shoes, overshoes, and a cap belonging to Charles Forke, her diâ€" vorced husband. . Mrs. Forke obtained a divorce from her hushand two years ago on the ground of cruelty and nonâ€" support. _ Forke was very angry at this proceeding, and, it is said, told ber that he would "fix her plenaty" for so doing. He went to Minneapolis and went into business, and was there until last Friday, when he sold out and said he was going to Canada. The evidence seems to show that immediâ€" ately after disposing of his business interests in Minneapolis he went to Sheffield Mills, to the home of his former wife, amd bid in the barn Friâ€" day night. Everyone was away from bhome Saturday, except Mrs. Forke. to the Mounted Police post at the Crow‘s Nest headquarters in Alberta. FIRE ON THE LINER CANADA. NEW COMMANDER IN INDIA, SMALLPCX AT CALLENDER. FIVE BULLET WOUNDS. sBRUTAL MURDERS IN BUFFALO Tied and Beaten to Death â€" Killed a €ir Because She Rcfured to Elope. A despatch from Buffalo says:â€" Through a broken panelled door of a room in the Yaleowitch block on Comâ€" mercial street, on Wednesday morning, a passerby saw the bloodâ€"spattered body of Kate Clark, wife of Ed. Clark, a grain scooper. The police broke in the locked door. The walls, bed, floor, and furniture were splotched with blood. The woman had been beaten to death with a chair. Neighbors heard the couple quarreling the previous night. Clark could not be found by the police, and they are certain he killed 8ir Michaet Micksâ€"Beach Says Canada Should Pay for Naval Defence. A despatch from London says:â€"Sir Michael Hicksâ€"Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Bristol on Wednesday evening, ridiculed the noâ€" tion of providing granaries, as â€" has been suggested in some quarters. He said be was convinced the British navy was strong enough to hold its own, and in any war England would have many friends ready to supply core. _ Referring to the coming budâ€" get estimates, he said these would show that the Government was fully alive to keeping up the standard of the army and navy, though, he deâ€" clared, it was not creditavle to Canâ€" ada, or fair to Engliish taxpayers that such a colony should practically conâ€" tribute nothing to the naval delfences of the Empire. He hoped Canada would soon turn her attention to this matâ€" ter, adding that he was convinced that if she did not the day would come when she would have "a rude awakenâ€" ing whi h would be entirely her own fault." In concluding his speech the Chancellor of the Exchequer announcâ€" ed that Ch‘na had approached Engâ€" land for ass‘stance to pay the Japaness indemnity, and that the negotiations were still pending. Following closely on the brutal murâ€" der on Wednesday morning of Kate Clark, by her common law husband, comes a double tragedy. Murray Bunâ€" dy, thirtyâ€"five years of age, married, and the father of two children, Wedâ€" nesday night drove out to a roadâ€"house on Walden avenue, just over the city line, There he met Mattie E. Van Sickle, a woman of illâ€"repute, with whom he had been infatuated for some lime. Bundy had repeatedly asked the woman to elope with him, but she had steadily refused. _ Wednesday night he pressed her to leave the city, and upon her refusing to have anything more to do with him, he drew a reâ€" volver and fired two shots at her. Both bullets entered her body, and _ she dropped to the floor dead. There were several eyeâ€"witnesses of the shooting, but before anyone could make a move Bundy placed the revolver at his bead, and sent a bullet into his brain. Later it was learned that Clark tied the hands of the woman and then beat her to death with araoroop;xf' shovâ€" Proposal to Estabilisk a Line From Edmonton. Ottawa, Jan. 19.(â€"Special.)â€"J. R. Powell, of Nelson, B.C., representing the Commonwealth Mining Comrany, along with S. O. Shorey, J. C. Holden, Senator Thibaudeau, Mr. Beique, Montâ€" real; Mr. Robert Jaffray, of Toronto, and others, waited on‘ the Governznent at Cttawa, Wednesday forencon, Mr. Powell‘s company has a scheme for a stage line between Edmonton ani Dawson City in the Yukon, which he says can be travelled in about twelve days. The disiance is about 1,600 miles. The copmany asks for large powers in regard to mining and transrortation. They saw the Premier and Messre.Blair, Tarte and Sifton. Mr. Chamberlain‘s Remarks on the Closer Union of the Empire. A despatch from London says:â€"Right Hon. Jos. Chamberla‘n on Wednesiay night at Liverpool paid a warm trib ute to the Imerial importance of the Canatian Favific, which he called a magnificent enterprise. This is espeâ€" cially significant in view of events in the far EFast,; in the *levelonment of which as the Governiment here fully realize, the Canadian Pacific route proâ€" vides England for the first time with a strong trump card. Mr. Chamberlain also raid that it wouli be foolish to attemo»t to predict the form which the fuiure closer union of the Empire would take. He aided:â€""It may be in the shave of a commmercial union, or Imperial zollverein, which I don‘t think so absurd as some political economists believe, or it may be in the shape of some Imperial council." Many of the Men Have Resumed Work in the Clyde Yards. A despatch from London says:â€"The Amalgamated Society of Engineers has formally endorsed the action of the joint committee of the trades unâ€" ions in withdrawing the demand for 48 hours as a week‘s work, and has expressed the expectation that the lockout notices posted by masters will be withdrawn. The attitude of the employers remains unchanged. Many of the striking engineers resumed work in the Clyde yards on Tuesday, and a general resumption is expectâ€" ed on January 24th. sTAGES TO DAWSCN CITY. OUVGHT TO CONTRIBUTE. ONZ& OF THREE WAYS. ENGINEER ‘ STRIKE. TORONTO Baron von Kudlichâ€"nephew and beir of the wellâ€"known general who played so great a part at the court of the Tuilâ€" leries, married the deformed nieceo of Heine and inherited through bher milâ€" lions and the Vienna Fremdenblattâ€" desertcd his wife in Gratz about a year ago for a Countess Gregorowitch, niece of the Premier of Servia. He took his two little boys with him to live with the Countess in Vienna and sued for Dashkhed Vitriet In the Face of a Countess and Burned Hier Owa Soas with the Hearing the other day that the Counâ€" tess was about to become a mother, the deserted wife, driven insane with fury, travelled to Vienna and made hber appearance unannounced one evening in the boudoir where the Countess was siiting with the two boys. None had heard her enter, so silent had been her step, and when they looked up and saw her standing there gazing at them without uttering a word they were petâ€" rified with astonishment. As the Countess attempted to rise from ber chair Baroness Kudlich darted forward and emptied the contents of a bottle of vitriol over the face of the Countess, some of the burning liquid spattering into the faces of the two little boys. 5 The screams of all three brought peoâ€" ple to the scene. ‘The Baroness was arâ€" rested and will doubtless be confined for the remainder of her life in a lunaâ€" tic asylum. The Countess and the litâ€" tle boys were taken to the groat metâ€" ropolitan hospital in Viemna. One of the little boys, four years old, has lost the sight of one eye. The other little fellow is marked for life with a vitriol burn on his cheek. The unfortuâ€" nate Countess is so shockingly in jured that death will be preferable to surâ€" vival in her case. Moer eyes, nose and part of her lips were burned away by the vitriol. It is one of the most shocking tragâ€" edies that have taken place in Vienna in many & long year and has created a tremendous sensation. 0 Reports From The Old Country Are Â¥ery Enconraging. A report to the Dominion Agriculture Department (from London, Eng., reâ€" garding the butter trade, says:â€"*"There has been a fa‘ir demand for Australian butter during the past week, especialâ€" ly for butter at a low price, so as to bring a good profit when retailsd at 24 cents. Prices ars somewhat easier, and while some agents are selling their choivest brands at 201â€"2 to 21 cents, others are fighting hard for 21 1â€"2 cants, but those who are selling lowest will win in the tug of saizs, and succeed in lower ng prices, as well as the pockets of the Australian Cairymen. There is in the North of England a very good demand for Canadian creamery Dbutâ€" ter, and in Manchester choicest qualâ€" ties have brought from 211â€"2 to 22 3â€"4 cents, wholesale, thus exceed‘ng the price for the Australian product." That the Door 0" Chinese Commerce to the World Shall Not be Shut. A despatch from London says:â€"The Right Hon. Sir Michael Hicksâ€"Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Swansea on Monday night, echoed the declaration of Mr. Baifour, First Lord of the Treasury, on the Indian policy of the Government, at Manchesâ€" Richest Ship Â¥et From the Klondyke Arrives in Vict ria. A despatch from Victoria, B.C., says : The steamer Corona from the north, has brought twenty passengers from Dawson City. It is the richest ship that bas arrived yet lalen with Klonâ€" dyke monsy, the twenty people having close to a million dollars in dust and drafis divided among them. _ One of the party is Lou Keller, a girl of eighâ€" teen, who is en route to Cheyenne to be married. She is the second woman who has crossed the trail this season. Lamp Exploslon at Ol(av a Injures a Whole Famity Seriou«<ly. Isaac Laframboise, his wife, his daughter Olive, aged nineteen, and his son, ten years old, who live at the corâ€" ner of Bridge and Wright streets, Huli, were pretty severely burned at their home on Wednesday evening by a lamp explodinz. It is feared that Miss Laframloise may die in conseâ€" quence of the injury she received, Troops Sent to Queil a Tax Distarbance in Indi~. A despatch from Bombay, saysâ€" There has been a tax riot at Boriavi, near Nariad, in the Gujarat district. A collector has been seriously in jurâ€" ed, and five sepoys have been killed. A despatch from St. Petersburg says : â€"Forty persons were killed and eighâ€" teen injured by an explosion of gas in one of the min=«s of the Donetzear Comâ€" pany, in the Taganrog district, on the gorth shore of the Sea of Azov. ter, and said the Government was deâ€" termined, even at the cost of war, that the door of Chinese commerce should not be shut to Great Britain. Explosien of Gas in a Rasstan Mine C&uses Terrib‘e Loss o° Lfc, Three hundred sepoy troops have been sent to the scene of the disturâ€" bance from Abmedabad. MILLION IN DUsT AND DRAFTS3. REVENGE OF A COUNTESS. JOHN BULL DETERMINED SEPOYS KILLED INX A RIOT. FORTY PEOPLE KILLED. CANADIAN BUTTER. MAY PROVE FATAL. A despatch from New York says:â€" In a twostorey frame houss on Ann street, (West Hoboken, Polisce Officer Waiter Nash on Thursday night found $65,000 in pounterfeit $100 Canadian bills. The money was only printed on one side. «n this house, in July, 1895, William Brockway, the notorious forgâ€" er, and Mrs. Abbie L. Smith were arâ€" rest.d by Secret Service Agent Bagge Rank of Montrcal Bills Made by Wholesalo and a large fuantity of counterfai® money was found. Brockway was tried, found guilty of counterfeiting, and senâ€" tenred to a long term in New Jersey, while the Smith woman received a senâ€" occupied by a political club lknown as the E. C. Schrady Association. _ Last night Mr. Nash, who lives next door, accompanied by the janitor of the club, searched the attic and found concealed between the beams of the Coorng the counterf{eit money and plate. The bills were done up in packages of $5000, and were in a watorproof bag. . The bills are on the BRank of Mg:lrz\;l. Agâ€" ent Bagge, of the Secret Service, has been not{ied, and will take charge of the plate and bills. The house will proâ€" bably be thorougbly scarched again. General Lord Woisecley on Curront "*oxsi mist Rumours. A despatch from London says:â€"CGon. Lord Wolseley, Field Marshal and Com manderâ€"inâ€"Chi»f of te Britiâ€"h army, speaking at a banquat in Loadon, on Thursday evenfnz, reluted what he called " pessimiâ€"t â€" rumours curreat about «he army." . Lord Woieley as serted that if Enmdland declared war tomorrow she could have two of the finest cnd most fully equipped army corps in readinass for any British port befors ships could be prepared to emâ€" bark them. He said furthermore that if the men were better paid there would be aw diificulty in obtaining resâ€" cruits. The Daily Mail, commenting on the recent Ministerial speeches and the proposed â€" auditions to tlir army and navyy, thinks "it all proves that Lord Salisbury can be resolute when necesâ€" ury.l. There has been a res; n ible stateâ€" ment that the Government has decidâ€" ed to add 7,000 m! i1 to the navy, and the fir câ€"class battleship Mannibal, now at Portâ€"mouth, is to be put at onre into commision. Thire is, howâ€" ever, no offi ial informailica or con {irmation in either cases. Ner Majesty Had to Pay Five Shillings for Hay ng aa Coumuzzled Bog, A despatch from London sayscâ€" There has been much goodâ€"natured chaif in the newspapers at the successâ€" ful claim of Mr. Heary White, secreâ€" tary of the United States Em)assy, for "diplomatic exemption," in the case of bis son, Mr. J. E. White, and Mr. Spenâ€" cer Eddy, secretarey to Colone! John Hay, the United States Am|assador, who were charged before the Ma ceonâ€" head County Court with riaing their bicycles on sidewalks. The papers have pointed out that a few days ago a man who was leading an unmuzzled dog lbelonging to the Queen _ across Windsor bridge was summoned for so doing. and claimed exemption. But Margquis of Allesbury‘s Daugbter Marrtes a Satlor, Lady Ernestine Brudenel|â€"Bruce, eldâ€" est daughter of the Marquis of Ailsâ€" bury, bhas just married at Liverpool, Master Mariner Harry Brady Hunt, of Limerick. _ The parties formed a roâ€" mantic attachment through meeting at a nautical school in Liverpool, where the lady, who is a famous yachtswoâ€" man, was studying to obtain a Board of Trade yacht master‘s certificate, which the board, howover, declined to grand Hunt had been an appentice, and imate studying for a certificate and has been appointed master of a sailâ€" ing vessel. _ The marriage was celeâ€" brated in the quietest maaner possiâ€" ble, and it is said that Master Mariner Hunt‘s wife intends to accompany him on his ship. 3 Thore Have Been Twenty Four Cases Alto getber in Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says:â€" Smallpox it is now believed has been stamped out in Montreal, the last patâ€" ient having died in the Contagions Disâ€" ease hospital on Faturday. The smallâ€" pox wing at the hoâ€"pital was disinfactâ€" ed. The first case of the late outâ€" break was admitted to the Civic hos pital on the 2nd of July. Since then there have hbeen twentyâ€"four cases of the disease in the city, and fourteen deaths. Dr. Nolin, the house surgeon of the Smallyox hospital, who has been isolated at the hospital ever since the first case was admittg!, has now reâ€" turned to his bhome. the magistrate said;â€"‘"The lite of a Queen‘s dog is equally dangerous with the dog of another. The Qusen must pay a fine of five shillings." I he Queen paid the fine. May or Templeton 0! Vancouver Dies Rud deniy from an Apoplectic Stroke. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says:â€"Mayor Templeton died this afâ€" ternm>on of an apoplectic stroke, the result of the overwbelming defeat at the prgoent municipal eleâ€"tions. His death is more tragic #ince two exâ€" Mayors died by sudden deathsâ€"exâ€" Mayor Oppenheimer having died a fortnight ago here, and exâ€"Mayor Cope a few weeks ago, on Skaguay trail, by dAvowning accident. SMALLPOX K!iL®D FOURTEEN. FRETTED OVER HIS DEFEAT. ALRMY WOULD BE REALY. TO INCREASE THE NAVY $65,000 IN BOGUS BILLS. THE QUEEN PAYS A FINE. ROMANCE OF TAE SEA. *b