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111 G OYYy. renare Bash, _A report comes from Salt Lake City , ce on c olfi omm n of trouble in the Yukon between the ; ¢ Cana lian police, and the American reâ€"| _ The export and import trade of New ‘lel expedition, and it is said the'South Wales for the past year showed mounted police at Lethbridge have reâ€" ; an increase of £1,070,000. The exports of teived orders to hold themselves in , gold showed an increase of £907,145. ltself in Premier Greenway‘s scheme for building a line from Winnipeg to Lake Superior. Henceforth the recording of water rights under the irrigation act will be administered by the Northwest Terriâ€" tories Department of Public Works at Regina, instead of as heretofore in Calâ€" gary and Ottawa. Mr. Charles M. Hays, General Manâ€" ager of the G.T.R., denias the report that the Grand Trunk is interesting The Vancouver Bard of Trade has established an agency in Seattle, Wash.. to aiford information of Vanâ€" couver‘s advantages over the United States cities in sunnivine antfits tnr the miles of t} locomotives Pressure is being brought to bear upon the Government to place an exâ€" port duty on nickel ores The matter i!l be left until Parliament has been L‘nrd from on the subject. The customs rsturos for Hamilâ€" ton for January, 1898, show duties colâ€" leoted amounting to $44,753.82, as comâ€" q.-.rad with â€" $43,042.68 for January, 807. an increase of $1,711.14. The Customs Department has reâ€" ceived $47,000 from the collector at Dawson City, making #85,000 in duties received from the Yukon since the opening of navigation last year. it is reported at Lethbridge that the Alberta Railway & Coal Company have ‘)Id to McKenzie and Mann for the tickeenâ€"Teslin road steel rails for 80 miles of the roadbed, and also four Graham Waddell , a farmer of Newâ€" market, Ont., is in the General Hosâ€" ésnmr. loronto, suffering from what s known as an Xâ€"rays burn in the a>â€" domen, which refuses to heal. expenditure for the fiscal year to be $792,070, about $39,700 less than the Parliamentary vote. F. W . hoahlofsky, of Vancoumer, has secured 82000 damages from the Briâ€" iish Columbia _ Electric Company for the loss of his right arm, as the result of a tramway aceident. Ihe annual report of the Departâ€" ment of Marine just issued show the expenditure for the fiscal vear to be Mss “ Emad 14. co month Dr. Ro Iying sor Hosap + ~! tend to> | wome tim Th To Ur ent 8853 698 MA Houss of the bill to abolish the superâ€" innuation system. The value of exports from Manitoba during January exceeded five and a aall million dollars. Customs collections at Brantford for January show an increase of $5,256 aver January 1897. A pulp mill is to be erected at St. Joâ€" seph d‘Alma near Quebec, by a comâ€" pany with a million dollars capital. The financial statement of Nova Scoâ€" The M damazed fire. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interest: RENEG 0 TX W The Mr. Mule« un t COn resting Items About Our Own Country Great Britain, the United States, anc All Parts of the Globe, Condensed an« Assorted for Easy Read‘ng. 1te madike Montreal Herald office has been ed to the extent of $10,000 by d an agency in Smutle."hoys and girls aiford information of Vanâ€"| _ A Governmer idvantages over the United | visit to a diamo ies in supplying outfits for | saw diamonds i ity collected at the Ottaws cusâ€" use lor January last, was $34,â€" pured with $26,303 for the same is‘ year, an increase of $8,691. )o of Hamilton, about 65 years m Tuesday was found dead in ‘ble house in which she lived Jackson street, her body beâ€" en stiff. Lr we the year‘s expenditure as and a deficit of $21,458. ‘ _P. R. contemplates making nprovements on the western i the system during the presâ€" t Hi adian Pacific Railway _ anâ€" it their direct cable connecâ€" n Halifax and Jamaica is for business. pho and Lady Chapleau have their residence in Montreal, mor announces his intention x his practice of law. 0 N00 e, M. P. for Marquetts, is usly ill in the Winnipeg nd will not be able to atâ€" 1 parliamemtary duties for T J k has given notice in the : bill to abolish the superâ€" s of Dundas bas teen apâ€" i Constable of Wentworth CANADA. il‘s Hodgins, of the Foot Guards, has | Mix People Killed and Four Injured in a ’ Rallway Sma«b. _ _A despatch from Glasgow says:â€"A mail train and freight train bave been in collison on the Glasgow and Southâ€" Western railroad, near Troon. The driver and fireman of the freight train and four workmen who were on hoard the mail train were killed. In addiâ€" tion, four persons were injured, some of them fatally. A man named Luis Coro Lazo, who recently returned to Cuba from the African prisons, exploded a homb at the private residence of the Conserâ€" vative exâ€"Mayor of Havana, Senor Miquel Diaz. A number of doors were broken, and a large hole made in the house. The Diaz family and those inâ€" habiting neighbouring houses were paâ€" nicâ€"stricken. Lazo was captured wuile attempting to escape. It is reported at Constantinople that Emperor William of Germany has notiâ€" led the Sultan that he maintains his opposition to Princs Gorge for the Govâ€" ernorship of Crete, and would, if neâ€" cessary, recall the German warship Oldenburg from Crete. A Government inspector who paid a visit to a diamond mine near Praetoria saw diamonds unearthed of formation similar to the Kimberley diamonds. It is reported at Berlin that a conâ€" spiracy has been unearthed at Teheran, Persia, to murder the Shah and to inâ€" stal a younger brother at the palace. of Randeguee. Switzerland. Thraa livag| _ Moreover, the Czar has witkin the (;l.'e?:n]i:%“ee' e Ceerlaiid. Three Iwea! last three weeks, increased his forces ‘ * L | on the frontiers of Germany and Ausâ€" Deaths from the bubonic plague at | tria by two full army corps, and is Bombay during the past seven d&Y§s | again active in Bulgaria, in spite of number 927. fhis engagement contracted with Emâ€" Latest reports say that 20 persons | peror Framcis Josevh to take no steps were killed and 50 injured as & result | in Balkan politics, save in conjunction of the recent earthquake at Balikeer, | with Austria. When it is added that Asia Minor. | with the first outbreak of a European The Salvation Army has proposed to | war in the east of Europe, an antiâ€" the Government of New South Wales to | dynastic revolution will take place in establish a farm as a reformatory for; Servia, it will be seen that the situaâ€" boys and girls. | tion is gradually drawing to a head. Latest reports say that 20 persons were killed and 50 injured as a result of the recent earthquake at Balikeer, Asia Minor. Fire on Monday destroyed the village of Randeguee, Switzerland. Three lives were lost. A. E. Standen, of Chicago, travelling salesman, is about to start a campaign of advertising religion. He is of the opinion that if dead walls, etc., can be used to advantage in the sale of liquor, tobacco, etc., they can be put to the same use in the sale of the Bible. ’ The trial of Sheriff Martin and his 82 deputies began in the Luzerns Counâ€" ty Court, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on Tuesâ€" day. They arse charged with shooting and killing 22 striking miners, and wounding over 50 more at Lattimer in September last. The Highland Park hotel, at Aiken, 8. C., was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. _ The loss is $140,000, with $98,000 insurance. Ona hundred and sixtyâ€"eight guests were sleeping in the hotel, but they had no trouble in getâ€" ting away with their baggage. Thos. L. Thompson, exâ€"Uniied States Minister to Brazil, exâ€"Congressman and editor, committed suicide at Santa Rosa, Cal., on Tusasday, by cutting his throat. ~â€"Despondency is supposed to have been the cause. Pierre, South Dakota, has been identiâ€" fied by Mrs. Wurton of Cannington Manor, Moosse Mountain, as her longâ€" lost daughter. The young white girl recently discovâ€" ered among & band of Indians near Ths naw United States postage stamps are out. The oneâ€"cents are green and the fiveâ€"cents dark blue. The new American post cards are a trifle smaller than the old ones. H. C. Frick, of Pittsburg, Pa., has purchased at Paris, Pascal Dagnanâ€" Bouveret‘s masterpiece, " Blessing the Bread." The Duke and Duchess of Fife, a fortnight ago, agreed to open the new Hackney Town hall, and the vestry, by a large majority, voted to expend £200 to entertain them ; but the minority | in the vestry protested against the exâ€" penditure, and an angry discussion folâ€" lowed. The local newspaper cuttings on the subject were sent to the Duke| and Duchess of Fife, who then declined | to open the Town hall. ‘ UNITED STATES. The price of coal has advanced 10 | cents per ton in New York. | A man known as Wilfred Kinny, beâ€" longing to the 8th Hussars, was placâ€" ed on trial on Saturday at Caher, Ireâ€" land, charged with murdering a comâ€" rade named Albert Goodwin. The deâ€" fendant, according to the testimony, is really named Warburton, is a native of Nova Scotia, and was formerly in the United States army. The late Charles P. Villiers‘ seat for | 2 aSpect as to merit more than passâ€" Wolverhampton has been captured by |ing attention. Prompted, it is believâ€" tlyxe Conservatives, Dr. Gibbons being |ed, by Germany, the Sultan is displayâ€" elected. there by 111 majority. img an independence of attitude and The War Office has requested the boldness of front toward the Czar which resignation of Albert Frederick Calâ€"| Ts T a vert, charged with purchasing the CADROt fail to bring about war, an coloneley of a Middlesex volunteer that, too, at an early date. The Rusâ€" regiment for $8,000. | sian Ambassador at Constantinople has The death of Lord Clonmel! Vor 2ai_|been treated with the most striking ed by his dropping a little hot sealâ€"| ,. Cuther s s ing wax: on bis tand, whereupon blood d"co_“'t‘“m" After presenting his creâ€" poisoning rapidly developed. He only |d9nt1&lc be asked the Sultan for a privâ€" succeeded to the title in 1296. ‘ate audience. This, according to the In the course of his tour of the Unitâ€" | customary usage, should have been ed States and Canada, Prince Albert ‘granbed at once. The Suiltan. Lowerer Leopold, the Belgian heir presumptive, | 2 the y c prins M will pay a visit to President McKinâ€" **°P+ Ambassador waiting for more ley, it is asserted in connection with than a fortnight befors he consented the affairs of the Congo Free State. to vouchsafe his request, although he :?l: visit will be of an official charac-l'rmived several other foreign envoys & man knakn 28 C ‘Iest Winy. . __[hut ho meanitime. \ The War Office has requested the resignation of Albert Frederick Calâ€" vert, charged with purchasing the coloneley of a Middlesex volunteer regiment for $8,000. The late Charles P. Villiers‘® seat for Wolverhampton has been captured by the Conservatives, Dr. Gibbons being elected there by 111 majority. The London Morning Post approves the suggestion that Capada should orâ€" ganize a naval militia. Grass is being cut in the parks of London. There is said to be an epidemic of threats to kill actors in London. The request of the Beli Telephone Company for permission to increase their rates in the leading cities of the Dominion will shortly come up for a decision by the Government. Ald. Shepâ€" pard of Toronto was in Ottawa asking for a postponement of the question in the interests of the public. readiness to start for the scene moment‘s notice. SCOTCH TRAIYS COLLIDE GREAT BRITAIN. is being cut in the parks of GENERAL ayl 3 at a The defence endeavored to prove by expert evidence that he was insane, but the jury evidently thought otherâ€" wise, and he will now have to pay the penalty of his terrible crime. Nulty‘s crime was a most diato‘icali one, and shocked the whole country. The tmurderer lived with his parents at Rawdon, Que., where they hat a farm. _ The family, which consisted of Tom, the eldest, three sisters, and a young brother, a mere lad, were very poor, and like all the people of the district, densely ignorant. Tom desired to get married, and was courting a girl at the time. As he had no place to which to bring a wife, he seemed to have got the idea into his head that if he kilied off all the rest of the family he would obtain the farm. in furtherance of this idea he went to the farmâ€"house while the parents were absent from home and killed the four: children with an axe. He then coolly. left the scene and went to see this girl. â€" Suspicion was fastened on him, and whenr arrested he broke down and made a full confession. Jury Find Him Guilty of Murdering Hts Slaters and Rrother. A despatch from Montreal says:â€"The trial of Thomas Nulty, for the murder of his sisters and brother at Rawdon, which has hbeen proceeding at Joliet for the past month, was conciuded on Friday â€" morning. JSudge Delorimier charged against the prisoner, and the jury, after a short deliberation, reâ€" turned a verdict of guilty. The court sentenced Nulty to be. hanged on May 20, at nine o‘clock in the morning. ‘ STORY OF THE CRIME. f NULTY TO BE HANGED MAY 20. That Emperor William is still supâ€" porting the Buitan is demonstrated by the fact that he declines to indorsa Russia‘s demand for the appointment of Prince George to the Governorship of Crete, and that he has recently conâ€" ferred decorations upon all the memâ€" bars of Edbem Pasha‘s staff in Thesâ€" saly, a surs sign that he is just as hostile to Greece as ever. RUSSIA ANTICIPATES TROUBLE. The fact that Russia anticipates trouble is shown by this Czar‘s action in restoring to grace Prince Ferdinâ€" and, the goodâ€"will and friendship of Bulgaria being a matter of importance to © Russia in the event of a conflict with Turkey, Bl.(légaria having a wellâ€" equipped army nearly 200,000 men ‘ to place at Russia‘s disposal. Of course the Czar has a yery seriâ€" ous grievance against the Sultan, as over $130,000,000 of this war indemanity of 1877 still remains owing by the Subâ€" lime Porte to Russia, the Sultan making no effort whatsoever to disâ€" charge this debt. _ The Czar has now caused his Ambassador to Constantiâ€" nople to make & peremptory demand for the immediate payment of this amount, which is, of course, out of the question. ers, has recently commenced to elaboâ€" rately streagthen his position, maniâ€" festing no disposition â€" whatever to wi’@dmw from Grecian territory. A third manifestation of hostility is the Sultan‘s refusal to yield to the Czar‘s demand for the appointment of Prinre George of Greece to the Goverâ€" norship of Crete, while a fourth, and, perhaps the most significant, circumâ€" stance is that Abdul Hamid is sendâ€" Ing large reinforcements and supplies to the Turkish army uwader Edbhem Pasha in Thessaly, and the latter, along with his German military advisâ€" This irregular cavairy is composed in the main of the same Kurdish savâ€" ages whose appalling crueltiee perpeâ€" trated upon the Christian population of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia g:oug#t about this Turkoâ€"Russian war 1877, Not content with this the Sultan reâ€" sponded to the demand presented by the Ambassador for the removal of the Turkish irregular cavalry from the viâ€" cinity of the Russian frontier, in conâ€" squence of the frequent acts of briâ€" gandage of the undisciplined _ Bashiâ€" Bazouks on Muscovite territory, by isâ€" suing a decree doubling their number along the frontier, and conferring deâ€" corations on their chiefs. Cermany Adds to the Cravity o. the Sitnuâ€" ailon â€"The Russian Government Makes Bemand for Heavy War Indemnity â€" Emperor William Opposing Prince George‘s Candidacy, A despatch from London, says:â€" While public attention is being more or less monopolized by events in China the situation in the east of Europe is rapirlly assuming once more so serious SULTAN AFFRONT3 CIAR Not STATE OF AFFAIRS WHICH MAY CAUSE A CRISIS. DOUBLED, INSTEAD. onmgenas e2 on s S es c d t o e es o t e m I don‘t know whether you can or not, she said, but if you can‘t you‘re not a very strong man. He asked if he could kiss her. and naturalily she blushed very prettily. Stormy weatker set in for some wheeks, during which the stern portion of the Laura was sbhifted around till it was at right angles with the bow ba‘lf. _ The last accounts describe the two baives of the stsamer as high and dry, and etill in the same relative posiâ€" tion. When off the Yorkshire Coast she| tain, and a lieutenant, were killed at ran ashore in a fog at the foot of the: a fire here on Saturday which burned cliffs on the south side of Filey Bay, CUt the interior of a fiveâ€"storey buildâ€" A mt it s _ , / ing on Merrimac street, occupied by G. near Frambore Head. As the water | w Bent and Company, manufacturâ€" was calm, a number of tugs undertook | ers of beds, bedding, etc. Falling walls io float the steamer and pulled her|caused the di.sm-t.er, Fuur. other fireâ€" off, but unfuckily dragged her upon WeA were buried in the ruins, but they a nnrrow sand bank, with bow and| ©§CaPe1 with more or less serious inâ€" sterm both afloat. ]J“r""- The ship then snapped in two as Mess asâ€"ollitin unniatonimene clean as if skhe had been cut with a{ THE RUSH TO THF GOLD FIELDS. siaw, thr nvise of the break sounfing A despatch from Yancouver says:â€" like am explosion and frightening horsâ€"| ,, * S & es‘ es uin shore. | Boats are crowding north to Dyea, A Shlp BKroke in Two As If Cut B a Monster Saw. A curious accident bappened recentâ€" ly to the British steamer Laura, bound from the north of England to Trieste, with a cargeo of 700 tons of coke. so placed that it cannot come in conâ€" tact with the deck. _ No iron shovel is ever used onn a ship‘s deck. _ _ As a matter of fact the snow shovel is used on shipbouard mostly when the ship is in port, where she may remain for a period of weeks, discbharging and reloading; but when the vessel sails the snow shovels are stowed away, in the lazaretto, aft, or under the foreâ€" castle deck, forward. On a ship bound for San Francisco the show shovels may be needed when she is rounding Cape Horna, where snow sometimes falls in summer. _ Snmnow that falls upon the deck in the waist of the ship is likeâ€" ly to be washed away by the water she takes aboard; the decks more likely to need shovelling are those higher above the sea, the forecastle deck, and the quarter deck. In a time of _ snow squalls the Capt. would perhaps keep a man standing ready with a shovel to shovel off the snow _ after every squall. _ Thera might be times wben' the decks were iced and slippery, when the Captain would have ashes strewn| upon them to give a securer footâ€"| The show shovels used aboard ship are made especially for that use. They are not iron, or steelâ€"shod along the edge, as most of the snow shovels used ashore nowadays are, and whatever metal is used in their construction is are carried by probably nine out of tem of the deepâ€"water ships, from one to three each, according to the size of the vessel. A Familtar Implement of Land Use That Is Found on the Water as We‘t. The common idea of a snow shovel is that it is used to clear the sidewalk and that sort of thing, but the snow falls on the sea as well as on the land, and if there is a ship in the way of the storm the snow, of course, falls on its decks just as it would fall on anything ashore. It may be that the snow that falls on the ship will be washed off by the sea, or it may be necessary to clean it off, so as to give a better and seâ€" curer foothold on the decks and to faciâ€" litate the working of the ship. This is often done with snow shovels; which citizens." age, who come to this country like hawks for the express purpose of stealâ€" ing from our wageâ€"arners the fruits of American labor and taking them back to their bhomes and families in a foreign land. My investigations show that from 40,000 to 50,000 ableâ€"bodied men annually come to this country, and not exceeding 10 per cent. thereof come from the Provinoes of Canada. I have therefore excepted from the ‘birds of passage‘ citizens of the Provinces of Canada contiguous to the United States. My measure also forbids the employâ€" ment on any public works of the Unitâ€" ed States of any but United States Bpeakimg of the bill Mr. Corliss said : â€""1 still preserve in my measure the restriction of the ‘birds of passage‘ covâ€" ering all alions over sixteen years of ’m&de his deciaration to become a perâ€" manent resident of the United States, to come into this country for the purâ€" poss of engagimg in any mechanical trade or manual labor for wages or salary while retaining his home or reâ€" sidence in a foreign country. Section 4 provides that such alien shall not be employed on public works unless he makes a declaration of bis intention to become a citizen. |Section 5 makes it wnlawful for any firm or corporation to knowingly employ an alieon in vioâ€" lation of section 3, the provisions of which, however, are not to apply to the subjects of the Provinces of Canada contiguous to the United States or sailâ€" ors, deck hands or other employees of vessels, or railroad train hands whose‘ duties require them to pass over the frontier to reach the terminal of their runs. A despatch from Washington. says :â€" Representative Corliss of Michigan, whose amendment, intended to prevent Canadians from working in the Unitâ€" ed States durimg the day and returnâ€" ing to their hom»s each night, furnishâ€" ed ground for the veto by President Cleveland of the immigration bill of the last Congress, on Monday, introâ€" duced a bill which he intends offerâ€" ing as a substitute for the soâ€"called Lodge immigration bill, which has passâ€" ed the Senate. Section 3 makes it unâ€" lawful for any male alien over sixteen years of age, who has not in good faith it nevessary to say what happened I Mr. Corliss Proposes Another Series of Amendments to the United States Exâ€" eclusion Act. THE SNOW SHOVEL AT SEA. CURIOUS ACCIDENT. THE ALIEN LABOR LaW. HNER REPLY «4 o carloads of tbacon from Omaha, for the Uniled States relief expedition. Hon. G. H. B. Bulyea, Commissioner of the Governiment of the Northwest Terriâ€" tories, was on board. He goes to look into the question of the liquor traffia chiefly. Most of the Klondike paâ€"senâ€" gers insured their outfits. A despatch from Vancouver says:â€" Boats are crowding north to Dyea, Skagway and Warngel, crammed with Kilondikers. On Monday the Thistle left Vanrouver and was followed Tuesâ€" day by the Danube. The Thistle carâ€" ried a party going in by Stikeen River to Teslin Lake. The Danube took up a sew mill to be erected at Lake Leâ€" barge. She had to refuse two hunâ€" dral tons of freight, including three Falling Wails Cause a Disaster at a Roston Conflagration, A despatch from Boston says:â€"Six firemen, including a district chief, capâ€" tain, and a lieutenant, were killed at Buffalo Board of Counclimen Ast in Kegard to Department Stores, A despatch from Buffalo, N.Y., says: â€"The following resolution, which is selfâ€"explanatory, passed the Board of Councilmen unanimously on Wednesâ€" day :â€""Resolved, that the corporation counsel be, and he is hereby, directed to prepare and submit to this board, at as early a date as possible, an orâ€" dinance providing for the licensing of stores commonly known as ‘departâ€" ment stores,‘ said stores to pay a liâ€" cense for avery branch of business carâ€" ried on by them, excepting their one legitimate business." ( The exports make an equally good showing, amounting in the aggregate to $2,312,400, as compared with a total of $1,415,000 in January, 1897. The total duty collected last month was $671,288, as compared with $517,363 in the same month last year, an increase of about $154,000. mports aad Exports at Montreal Show n Wonderful Growth. A despatch from Montreal says :â€"The imports entered for consumption at the port of Montreal last month amâ€" ounted in value to $3,245,084, as comâ€" pared with $2,454,310 fo; the corâ€" responding month of last year, showâ€" ing an increase of $800,000. This inâ€" crease was proportionately _ about equally divided between free and dutiâ€" able goods, the former having increasâ€" ed from $682,501 to $912,265;while in the case of dutiable goods the increase was from $1,758,000 to $2,311,000. \ At the sale on Tuesday at Edinburgh of Burns‘ works a copy of the first Kilmarnock edition in the original paper covers, uncut, brought £572, It is reported that Sir Robert Peel, grandson of the famous Prime Minisâ€" ter, the young Baronet whose financial and other troubles bave attracted much altention, is to adopt the stage as a career. The Daily News publishes a detailâ€" ed statemenit showing that threeâ€" fourths of the entire British naval proâ€" gramme has hbeen thrown back 24 weeks by the engineers‘ strike. The Daily Telegraph says it underâ€" stands the Govarnment‘s scheme is to separate civil authority from the tradâ€" ing powers of the British South Africa Chartered Cogmpany, and to govern Rhodesina by m Governor and Council. The paper bears that Mr. Cecil Rhodes and Mr. Alfred Beit will rejoin the divtectorate of the commany. accompanied by a newspaper man passed Boulogneâ€"Surâ€"Mer at 2.30 p.m. going l_p a southeasterly direction. An aeronaut â€" named Spencer, who started in a balloon from the Crystal Palace on Tuesday morning for France, A despatch from London says :â€"The Star of Tusday, under the beading of ‘*Raid on the Klondike," quoted an anâ€" onymous American correspondent, who recently arrived in England as saying with reference to the relief expditicns to the Klondike, that those who are familiar with the facts "know that this excuse is as flimsy as Jameson‘s deâ€" sire to relieve the women and children of Johannesburg." Continuing, the anâ€" onymous correspondent remarks: "Evâ€" ery American knows this to be anothâ€" er Jameson raid, and that the Ameriâ€" cans intend to keep control of the Klonâ€" dike. The Klonmdikers have already anâ€" nounced that the Stars and Stripes will be flying at Dawson City by July 4. It would pleass a large body of Amerâ€" icans if the Klondike could be made a pretext for war betewen England and the United States, which would result in the annexation of Canada." There: is much more in the same strain. ] The Daily Mail, which on January | 16 anjrounced the engagement of Mr. Laurence Irving, son of Sir Henry Irâ€" ving, to Miss Ethel Barrymore, the actress, now says that the engageâ€" ment has been cancelled. There has been mo sort of quarrel between Mr.l Irving and Miss Barrymore, but they have recognized that the engagement was entered imto in a romanticaily hasty manner, and ars mutually mn-‘ vineed that thirir happiness will be best Lt"ox;sulted by regarding it as ]n’ama-[ ure. The Lond on star Alarmed Over the Ameri can RKlondike Expeditionâ€"To France by BRalloon â€"Naval Programme Hinderâ€" INTERESTING BiTs OF NEWS FROM THE MOTHER LAND. SOME LATHE CABLE NEWS TO LICENSE EVERY BRANCH SIX FIREMEN KILLED. TORONTO TRADE IMPROVIN(G. Denstone, left personalty valued at £131,501 11s. some places they are worse off than duriag the faminâ€" of 1891, The Rusâ€" sian editors have been forbidden to reâ€" fer to the matter. Private letters from Tamboff, in the province of that name, smithâ€"east of Moscow, say the ants are feeding their half-nuruJett- tie with the thatches of their roofs, Typhus and other diseases are making rapid headway among them." The St. Petershurg correspondent of the London Times says:â€""A failure in the barvest has caused terrible disâ€" iress among the peasaniry f the inâ€" terior provinces, especially in Cenâ€" tral and Southâ€"Fastern Russia. â€" in Worse OR Than During the Famine of Explosion _ followed _ explosion, for about half an hour between 12 and 1 o‘clock. _ Walls kept toppling down, and firemen, policemen and spectatore were rendered almost powerless to act by the sense of awe and terror which | the scene inspired. The original owner, a Swede named Anderson retains an interest The Rothschilds will spend $150,000 at once in developing the property, and if it is profitable will invest a few millions in the country. Bankers Said to Have Invested on Honker Creck â€"Will Sperd $150,000 A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says:â€"The Rothschilds, of London,bave acquired from agents in Yancouver hyâ€" draulic go‘ld gravel claims on Hunker creek, in Yukon. The deposit is said to be 120 feet thick, and enormously rich, As a rule, hydraulicing for gold does not pay, as available and sufficient water pressure can only be secured for such a short season, but th« Hunker creek claim is so especially rich that the Rothschild agent cabled to awccopt it at once. The lease will be for twenty years. It was in the Mulberry Allsey side where the least danger was expected that the force of the explosian was the most severe. and there the greatest number of fatalities took place. The late Sir Percival Heywood, of in the fire limes were seen to fall in all directions. Those outside the lines were not beyond the reach of danger. Those not prostrated by the first blast were knocked down by the reactionâ€" ary waves of a‘r, as the falling walls created a vacumm that seemed to draw in every thing. Suddenly, above the roar of the flamss and the puffing of the fire engines, caume the first explosion. Those wilhâ€" 11 o‘clock, the flames burst out through the roof and shot upward a bundred feet, making thes part of the city as light as day: For three hours the firemen worked4, searcely knowing what they were d4oâ€" ing. The iron shutters were impregâ€" nable to their attacks. Finally, at Immediately upon the discovery of the fire an alarm was sent in and was responded to promptly, but owâ€" ing to the construction of the buildâ€" ing it was practically impossible to fight the fire from without, while the volume of smoke in the package diviâ€" slon in which the {ire occurred, mads it impossible to fight it from within The only openings in the three fire walls dividing the great buildings close 1 bry and these were locked It was just 7.55 «‘clock in the evenâ€" ing when smoke was seen issuing from the fourth floor of the Union Storage Company‘s building on Pine street, near 13th. The building was six stories in beight and ocoupied almost the enâ€" tire block between 12th and 18th streets and Pite street and Mulberry Allev. Some of the i ers are: The R pany, 8000 hbarr $750,00) ; Monont pany, wool dealers, 125,030 pounds of wool; Collins Cigar Company, 25 car loads tobacco; W. M. Williams, comâ€" missic@n merchant, 20 car loads sugar. Thase losses are covered by insurante, At least fifteen persons were killâ€" ad, over a soore injured, and property valued at ope and oneâ€"half million dollars was desiroyed. Some of the heaviest individual josâ€" There are rumours that at least 25 or 30 mep still are under the debris. Six dead have been taken out, among them Police Capt. Berry. The other five bodies are at hte morgue unracogâ€" nized as yet, _ Many people were inâ€" jured by flying bricks and beams, and all the ambulaoves and patrol w o O of the city are in cuaâ€"tant service. LATER. The loss of life and destruction of property by the fire at 18th aad Pike streets on Wednesday night, was the greatest in the history of Piitshurg. An explosion of whiskey occurred at 11.15, which blew out the alley wall on one side with terrible results. At the time the alley was {illed with fireâ€" men, policemen, newspaper men, and others. _ Manty were caught by the falling walls. Creat Storage Building and Iis Contents Destroyed â€" Eight Thousand Barrels of Whiskey Destroyed â€"Falling Walis Bury Many. A despatch from Pittsourg, Pa., says â€"A fire of mysterious origin was disâ€" covered about 8 o‘clock on Wednesday wveming in the sixâ€"storey cold storage plant of the Chautaugqua Lake Ice Company. _ The entire building will probably be destroyed, together with about a million dollars worth of merâ€" chamlise of all kinds stored within its walls. GREAT DISTRESS IN RUSSsIA TERRIBLE FIRE AND EXPLOSION AT PI.TSBUNG, PENN. OVER A SCORE KILLEN, ROTHSCHILD IN KLONDIKE. HEAVY IRONX DOORsS MANY FATALITIES® namy Distilling CGomâ€" Is of whiskey, worth gsla _ Textile Comâ€" r‘s, 125,030 pounds of Agt