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8 The Canadian Gold Fields Company, is erecting anew plant at their works near BRelieville, to take the place of the plant destroyed by fire some months ago. f Pro{. Alexander Grabham, Bell bas arâ€" rived at 8t. Peter‘s from Sable Island, where he went to search for ths bodies of La Bourgogns victims. He reports the search fruitless. The new People‘s Telephone Comâ€" pany in London threaten to cease operâ€" ations unless the city guarantees an extension of the company‘s franchise alt the end of fifteen years. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will hold a competiâ€" tion at Hamilton on September 5, open to cab drivers, carters, milk vendors and drivers of laundry waggons. James Fitzgerald was siruck by a train and killed on the Canadian Paciâ€" fic Railway while crossing a bridge beâ€" ween Keewatin and Rat Portage on Monday. He was a prominent lawyer. Bullock‘s Corners Episcopal Church has a choir trouble, and it is said that last Sunday the choir sang different hymns from those given out by the minister, thereby causing some confuâ€" sion in the services. There are eightyâ€"one members of the Benate, of whom forty have been called Owing to the action of the London, Ont., City Council in granting the Peoâ€" ples Telephone Company a franchise, the Beli Company have mei the prices of the new comers, and reduced their rates nearly oneâ€"tbird. In the Parliamentary byeâ€"election beld at Grimsby, England, Mr. George Poughty, Unionist, who bad resigned The contract for the construction of the west pier of the entrance to the Welland Canal at Port Dalhousie has been awarded to Mr. John Riley, who built the east pier. ers Union has been organized, with John Asbury, president. Col. Hutton has been appointed comâ€" mandant of the Canadian forces to succeed Majorâ€"General Gascoigne. Jas. Day, a logger, stepped off a boom of logs at Gimbier Island, B. C., on Sunday and was drowned. A British Columbia pioneer died on Sunday in the person of James Reid, «@ poundkeeper of Vancouver. The Ontario Government has selectâ€" ed the Mackenzie property, South Lonâ€" The dispute as to the quatity of coal supplied the Hamilton Board of Educaâ€" tion by Myles‘ Sons has hoen referred to the decision of an expert. The check of the United States for $473,003, the amount of damages adâ€" judged by the Bering Sea claims comâ€" mission, has been received by the Deâ€" partment of Marine and Fisheries. Gen. G. P. Leach, and Col. Daiton, of the Board of Imperial Defence have arâ€" rived at Ottawa from England. . The Board will commence its sittings imâ€" mediately. # Vancouvar people suggest that the imperial authorities instead of increasâ€" Ing the dry dock accommodation at Esquimalt that they build a dry dock at Vancouver. Mrs. William Rycroft committed suiâ€" cide at Toronto on Tuesday. She lookâ€" ed berself in her room, swallowed a large dose of carbolic acid, poured oil wbout the room and set it on fire, and then cut ber throat with a razor. Rev. Dr. Hackett, former principal of St. Paul‘s Divinity College, Allahaâ€" bad, India, at present secretary of the Hibernian Cburch Missionary Society, has been appointed principal of the Montreal Diccesan Theological Colâ€" lege. It is announced that penny postage will go into force on the Prince of Wales‘ birthday, November 9. It is reported in London that Mr. Seorge N. Curzon has accepted the »f{ice of Viceroy of India in succession to Earl Eigin. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales left for Copenhagen on ‘Tuesâ€" day, owing to the serious illness of her mother, the Queen of Denmark. Interecting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and The Ontario Government ha ed the Mackenzie property, So don, as the site for a Norm* It is reported that the Street Railway Company bhas the Ottawa and Gatineau Val way. (2--nrge Meyers and A. A. Coe .‘rel charged at Hamilton with burning :(r;‘n-. G.TR. freight cars there July h. in the last decads, and ten since the preseat Governinent came into power. There are three vacancies at present waiting to be filled. THE VYERY LATEST FROF ALL THE WORLD OVER. Arrangements are being made for the trip of a team from the Canadian Lacrosss League to Port Arthur, Fort William, Rat Portage and Winnipeg. Another application will be made to the Dominion Parliament next session for a charter for a bridge between Hull and Ottawa, to give the Hull & Aylmer Electric Railway entrance to Ottawa. _A vigorous lobby defeated the bill last session. Chas. Schmidt, who robbed his room mate, A. Wright, in the Avenue Hoâ€" tel, Vancouver, BC., of $75 and evadâ€" sd the police, attempted to steal a ride on the Atlantic express leaving there Monday. He fell and was mangled under the wheels. There is a movement on foot in Torâ€" onto to appoint aspecial inspector of dry goods imported under the new preâ€" ferential law, in order that there may be no evasion of the law through Briâ€" tish exporters passing foreign goods through their bands and affixing a different label. t NFB IN 1 ITSHIL All Parts of the Globe, Condensed amt Assorted for Easy Reading. GREAT BRITAIN JUNIAKIQ ARCHIVES TORONTO y the Ottawa has bought Valley railâ€" t school j The directors of the Germanâ€"Ameriâ€" can Bank of Tonawanda, N. Y., have deâ€" cided that the institution shall goinâ€" | to liquidation. and have arranged with ‘the Buffalo Commercial Bank of Bufâ€" \falo to take charge of the affairs â€" of \their bank with that end in view. Mr. Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that her Majesty‘s Governâ€" ment wished to establish direct comâ€" munication between Canada, Jamaica and London, in order to foster the fruit trade. owing to a change of political faith. was reâ€"elected with a plurality of 1.751. Employes of the Americsn Wire Co. and the H. P. Nail Co., Chicago, are on strike against a reduction in wages. A number of stores at Escabana, Mich.. were destroyed by fire on Sunâ€" day night. The losses will amount to $100 000. George Todd, a wealthy resident of New York,. commiited suicide on Tuesâ€" day by jumping froma tentbh story window in the Hotel Majestic. Russia Is Freading on Bangerous Ground in the East. A despatch from London, says:â€"Reâ€" plying to a question on Friday in the House of Commons the Parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign Office, Mr. George N. Curzon, said her Majesty‘s Government had heard that a great power was endeavouring to obtain a port on the Persian Gulf. Twoâ€"thirds of the trade of the Gulf was British, Mr. Curzon added, wherefore the Governâ€" ment was specially interested in the matter. The power mentioned, it is said, is Russia. It is aiso reported that Russia is making extensive preparaâ€" tions and trying to force an issue in the East. There is great uneasiness on all sides bere in view of the Chinese situation, which is reg@rded as bringing an open conflict beiween Great Britain and Russia within measurable distance, and it is universally felt that the Marâ€" quis of Salisbury‘s invertebracy in yielding to Russian aggressiveness is responsible for the dangerous comâ€" plications, which can only be overcome by the most prompt and most firm inâ€" timation that Russia‘s open opposition to British commercial concessions must cease. In connection with this, a curâ€" ious story is current. It is now said the Princess of Wales‘ hurried deparâ€" ture from England was in response to a despatch from her sister, the Dowâ€" ager Empress of Russia bearing upon the Angloâ€"Russian relations, It is well known that the Dowager Empress is strenuously working to conclude a deâ€" finite understanding regarding Angloâ€" Russian interests in the far East, and it is said great importance attaches to the meeting of the sisters at Copâ€" enbagen. * He Tells How the Men Were Exhausted Before Taken Ki A despatch from Washington says:â€" General Shafter has telegraphed the President regarding the publication of the ‘round robin" signed by the genâ€" eral officers of his commund, as follows: â€"‘I can very readily see what intense excitement the publication must have occasioned, a great deal more than the situation warranted. Situation is agâ€" gravated from the fact that before any The reports that thousands of caitle have been dying off in California owing to lack of food are denied by the cattle raisers. The animals are thin. but reâ€" ports are exaggerated. Mr. Bartlett, an old man aged 82, of Albion, Mich., was killed by his grandâ€" nephew, aged ten, on Sunday. The bhoy was fooling withagun. and aimed at a door near the old man‘s head. The gun missed fire, and blew the old man‘s of the men were taken ill they were thoroughly exhausted. At least 75 per cent. of the command had been down with malarial fever, from which they recover very slowly, and are in no conâ€" dition to stand an attack of yellow fever or dysentery. Placed hbere now in the condition in which they were when they came here, I do not believe they would be in any particular danâ€" ger. The regiment of immunes that reâ€" cently arrived is not suffering at all, and Idon‘t believe they will. They can keep out of the sun, are well clothed and well fed. What put my command in its present condition was the twenty days of the campaign when they bad nothing but meat, bread, and coffee, without change of clothes, without any shelter whatever, and during the period twice as stormy as it has been since surrender. Fresh troops reaching here in the middle of August. with good camps, good water, abundant of tentâ€" age, which they will fin | here, need not apprehend serious danger. Ithaink you for the high regard in which you bold my command and the value of the serâ€" vice they have rendered. It pays for all the suffering we have endured. I have read this to Generals Wheeler, Lawton, Bates, and Kent, who comcur with me in the view expressed above." missed 1i bead off Asaresult of & conference between exâ€"Senator Earner Miller, president of the Nicaraguan Canal Commission, and President McKinley, it is stated _ the laiter intends to make a strong recomâ€" mendation to Congress for legislation making immediate provision for compâ€" pleting the canal and for making it the direct property of the Government. GENERA L. Mediana, Spain, has been partly deâ€" stroyed by a cyclone. A terrible fire broke out on Tuesglay in the petroleum factory, Dunkirk, France. There were three explosions, by which one person was killed and three were seriously injured. It is reported at Yokohama that Haâ€" waii has agrewit to pay Japan £40,005 sterling in settliement of the dispute which arose out of the exclusion of Japanese emigrants from the Hawe‘ian islands. Signor Turati, one of the leaders of the riots at Milan, was sentenced at Rome on Tuesday to twelve years‘ imâ€" pisonment. Newfoundland fishermen are to be organized as naval reserves, and to be drilled by special instructors sent from England. SHAFTER‘S EXPLANATION. MAY CAUSE WAR. UNITED STATES. The principal entertaining in summer is done in the afternoons or at lunchâ€" eons. When the hot weather sets in luncheons are voted & bore, and then afternoon receptions and garden parâ€" ties are the favorite modes of enterâ€" taining one‘s friends ; hence it is neâ€" cessary to include in any elaborate outfit several gowns to be worn at such times. Nothing can be prettier nor smarter than what is known as a gardenâ€"party gown, and French dressâ€"makers simpiy revel in making them up. e orxy. % d CHCIN UP. There is no fixed law as to what! material is most appropriate. Thin muslins are used, silks of every kind | grenadines and nets, crepes, and even , light woollens. The muslins are most | seen in midsummer, and when silks are used, they are trimmed to give a light effect. Of course all these gowns are made highâ€"necked, and are worn with a hat or bonnet. To attempt to enumerate the differâ€" ent stuffs used this season would take pages. ‘They are all most attractive, and the colorings are very dainty and soft. The different shades of woodâ€" caolor are considered newer than the grays, although the gray still holds its own. d o Review of Fashion One very charming gown just finishâ€" ed is of grenadine of a woodâ€"color made over with taffeta ; the skirt, meâ€" dium length, is qui‘e small and sheathâ€" like in its cut, with some flare arâ€" ound the foot, but not a great deal, and it is trimmed with four folds of the same material. . The waist is a round shape, with a seam in the midâ€" dle of the back, and the inaterial put on as though the edges of the seam were folded in. There are no side seams visible, and the fronts are quite full. On the front is a trimming of bright scarlet velvet covered with squares of yellow lace. This red velvet goes down in a point at the back of the neck, and there is a red velvet collar as well. It might, be thought that red was too hot a color for summer, but used with tan it is exceedingly smart. A dainty gown of pale gray nuns‘ veiling, of a sheer quality, is made ap over white taffeia. On the white tafâ€" feta petticoat is a deep flounce of the nuns‘ veiling on the hias. This is trimâ€" med with a bias ruche half an inch in width of gray taffeta shading to whiie fringed out at either side, so that the ruche looks like soft gray and white moss. The skirt is put on to hang down over this flounce, and is caught up in the middle of the front breadth about at the knee, and where it is caught up is another flounce to match that already) on the skirt, trimmed at the top and bottom with the same fringed silk ruching. The back of the waist is cut with the open seam, like in the tan gown just described, but has rows of tucks put in bias effect which meet in the middle. There are three rows of these tiny tucks. The front of the waist is draped, and fastens over at one side with a big bow of tafâ€" feta silk fringed out. There is a square yokea of mousseline de soie and lace, ind tied in and out among the folds of the veiling and the ribbon and silk is a pointâ€"lace collar. The band collar also is covered with pointâ€"lace. _ The SECRETARY DAY‘3 STATEMENT. sleeves, of medium size, have pulfs at the top, but do not look small because the folds of the front of the waist and the pointâ€"lace fall down over them. The sish to this gown is of taffeta silk on the bias, with the ends one shorter thain the other and trimmed with ruchâ€" ing. A favorite fabric at present seems to be Liberty satin foulard. IV is very soft, hangzs gracefully, comes in a variety of designs, and has the great advantage of being cool. It is a maâ€" terial that requires to be carefully made, and can stand a lot of trimming. A very charming gown of it has the ground of pale green _ covered with brown and white leaves with a thread of black. The skirt, made separate from the lining, has the pointed( circuâ€" lar flounce headei by three rows of black satin ribbon. The waist is tightâ€" fitting at the back; in front it is full, and hangs over a little in blouse efâ€" fect, and shows a yoke and vest of white lace. An odd thing about it is the way in which the fronts are caugh‘t A de:patch from Washington, says are enlisting: â€"Secretary Day at one o‘clock on ‘and fight in th Wednesday made the followiing stateâ€" papers applaud ment to the Associated Press: "We |demn asacrime have agreed upon a protocol _ emâ€" The ten thous bOdyitPgt'o;heo!f);otx):j:? te!rms for the }illa are confider i e ue s :leugt;’inlz the evacuaticy)noot p::a‘fi?a ul:d b.e]leve. tlat .(h' Porto Rico, and it is expected thistproâ€" |CUtS Will resict tocol will be executed." they are resoly on to the yoke and then turn back to show & lining of black satin and an edging of narrow black lace. There is a long black satin ribbon sash, trimâ€" med also with this very narrow black lace. The organdie muslins are so cheap at this particular time of the year, that a great ,many of them are made up for gardenâ€"party gowns. _ They are very dainty in coloring, and very efâ€" fective, albeit the cheap ones are a trifle coarse. A very pretty gown of blue muslin flovered with pink has ihe skirt trimmed, with entreâ€"deux of lace put in‘ to outline an apron. The waist is quite full, made with very wide reâ€" vers, which are entirely formed o% enâ€" treâ€"deux of the lace and muslin. There is a vest of pleated taffeta silk which gives a certain stability to the waist that otherwise might be a little too ethereal. Another gown of the same matlerial is a pale gray and black. The skirt is made in the fiveâ€"gore pattern, quite long, and trimmed with rows of black and white lace put on one after the other, so that they give the effect of a flounce. The back of the waist is cut in a basque with four square tabs ; the front opens with wide revers of black satin covered with white lace, and shows a full vest of black lace over white lace, There is a high stockâ€"colâ€" lar of black satin with tabs of white lace. The sleeves are of medium size with a puff at the top, and cuffs of black and white lace. The same gown is made up with bright blue satin where the black satin is on the front of the waist, and of course looks lighter and less like a mourning costume. The average number of horses killed in Spanish bull fights every year exâ€" ceeds 5,000, while from 1,000 to 1,200 bulls are sacrificed, ECRU LINEN COSTUME SPANISH BULL FIGHTS INSUKGENT SHELLS CARRY DEATH WITHIN THE WALLS. Spanish Losses Reach a Hundredâ€"Death of the British Consul â€"A Paute in the C€ity. A despatch from Manilla via Hong Kong says:â€"The rumoriscurrent here that the insurgents, fearful that peace will be concluded between Washington and Madvid, and that the Americans | will withdraw from the I‘hillipfne.s.i are consequently the more strenuous | in their desires an| efforts to capture | Manilla. _ Sunday night there was a | heavy â€" bombardment with _ modern ; shells. It is generally believed in the , city that the Americans assisted, and | the papers publish lists of Americans | alleged to have been killed, including . some names of rank. On Sunday many , shots entered the town. Several | reached the citadel, and it is reported that some ladies were killed. ; The British Consul here died of dysentery on Tuesday, but his remains cannot be buried in the Protestant cemetery on account of the insurgâ€" ents. For four days a typhoon has raged. The sulburbs havebeen flooded, the trenches swamped and the sandâ€" bags dissolved. Disease is _ raging. Mere infants of thirteen years of age are enlisting: they become officers and fight in the trenches. The newsâ€" papers applaud what they should conâ€" The ten thousand Spaniards in Manâ€" illa are confident of their safety, They believe that the strong walls of the city will resist for three months; and they are resolved, regardless of â€" the fate of women and children, finally to sell their lives dearly in wreaking their hatred upon the English, the Americans and the Filipinos. This correspondent has seen natives eating rats and mice, and it is reported that they are stealing food and murdering. There was a frightful panic inside the walls, women and children shriekâ€" ing and prayiag in their terror the whole night through. Onâ€" shot caused twenty casualties at the Luneta Batâ€" tery : anoth»r exploded at the Malate Biurracks, killing five. The troops turned out just in time to save Malate Fort and the magazin=. _ The insurgâ€" ents showered large and smal)l shots with such precision that th> garrison believed the whole Amerfcan army and fleet were concentrating their fire. Many Spaniards bhad previously resolyâ€" ed to cease fiphting the moment the Americans began ; but the insurgents hive subsided, and the fort has been reinforced from the barracks. Th« total Spanish losses are probhably a hundred, but mny houses bhave been seriously damaged. of the fire brigade orginized by the British mercbhants at Manilia. On Sunday 1,500 houses at Tondo were burned, and the flames, driven by a strong gale, threatened the whole of Manilla, but they were finally exâ€" tingnished, main‘y through th» efforts FIRING ON MANILLA, ACCEPTS THE PROTOCOL SPAIN APPEARS ANXIOUS To gHAVE THE WAR STOPPED. 8rd Edition A despatch from Madrid says:â€"The Government has received the protocol and the Cabinet Council rose at 940 pm., having approved it. The Gov»â€" ernment wired M. Cambon on Thurs day, empowering him to sign the preâ€" liminaries of peace. THE PROTOCOL. A despatch from Washington says! â€"The protocol does not fix the date for the evacuation of Cuba and Porto Rico by the Spanish troops. This is a detail which is to be left to be arâ€" ranged by the military commanders of the United States and Spain. There is a perfect understanding â€" between Secretary Day and Ambassador Camâ€" bon, however, that the evacuation is to begin as soon as possible, and is to continue as rapidly as the Spanish troops can be transported from the island and their places taken by Amâ€" erican forces. â€" Care is to be taken that there shall be no interim between the withirawal of the Spanish troops from any point and its cccupation by Amâ€" erican troops. In view of the time that will be required for Spain to colâ€" lect transports and arrange for the taking of her men home, the evacuation cannot well begin before about the end of the rainy season, and it will not be necessary for the American forces to go to the island in any conâ€" sidereble numbers before the end of the rainy season. The President will be prepared as soon as the protocol is sign~d to name the five commissioners who will repreâ€" sent the United States on th» joint commission which will meet in Paris, | to decide upon the future of the PThilâ€" Iippines. Secretary Day, it can ie said | positively, will be one of the commisâ€" | sinners. There are the best of reasons |for believing that other members of | the commission will be Sepators Alliâ€" son. of Towa, and Gorman, of Maryâ€" ‘land. Justice Brown of the Supreme Court of the United States and either fAmlmsmdor Hay or Amhassador Porâ€" | ter. Tt is possible that both Mr. Hay and Mr. Porter will be members of the , commission, as each of them had more | or less to do with the preliminaries lwhir-h led up to the opening of negoâ€" | tiations for peace. | Spain, it is believed, will be repreâ€" sented on the commission by her Minâ€" | ister of Foreign Affairs and her Amâ€" | bassadors at London and Paris. who .p.’lrti(‘ipated on the peace negotisations, and by other men who have had experâ€" \ience as diplomats. The President | hopes that the commission will be able | to complete its work by the first part 10[ November. If this result is reached | an extra session of the Senate will he | called to meet probably immediately | after the Congressional elections. so n# | to have the treaty ratified with the | least possible delay. Pending the determination of the question of the future government of Cuba, affairs throughout the entire isâ€" land will be administered by the miliâ€" tary authorities of the United States, just as is now being done at Santiago. Spain is to be allowed to evacuate the places of Cuba and Porto Rico with all the honors of war, the troops taking with them their arms and equipments. There is no reference to the Cuban debt in the protocol, and the question of the United States or Cuba assumâ€" ing that debt in any way is not ralsâ€" ed. _ The commissioners to determine the future of the Philippines will have nothing whatever to do with any quesâ€" tion affecting either Cuba or Porto Rico. Although the President and his Cabinet accepted Spain‘s note as an acceptance of the American terms, it was so worded that it might have been open to more than one construciion, and an opportunity was given to the United Btates to carry on further corâ€" respondence if the Administration had given it the construction which Spain possibly siesired. The President, how» ever, construed it to be an acceptance of his terms. Ambassador Cambon agreed with him that it was satisfacâ€" tory, and on this understanding the protocol was prepared with the approâ€" val of Ambassador Cambon, as far as he could give it without express authâ€" ority from Madrid to sign it on behalf of the Spanish Government. large Fleets Ordered from Porto Rico to Cuba, A despatch frormm Washington, D. C., says:~â€"The War Department has orâ€" dered the large fleet of transports at Ponce to proceed to Santiago, bringing General Shafter‘s army back to ibis country. There are ten large transâ€" ports in the fleet at Ponce, some of them, like the Mohile, baving a cupacâ€" ity of 1,000 men. in all, they have a capacity of 6,040 mer. This, with the ships already at Bantiago, will give a carrying strength of over 12,00) men at a trip. With the arrival of Shafter‘s army in this country every facility will be given to the troops to recuperate. There will be no yellow fever cases brought to this couniry, as such cases can be best hindled without removal. The actual bhospital station will prok» ably be located _ at Montauk Point, where a field hospital for 50) patients is being prepared, in addition to the hospital . equipment _ which General Shafter‘s‘ forces will bring along with them. But in addition to this Genâ€" Sternberg has in view two fine locaâ€" tions, where the bracing mountain and lake sir will help convalescon‘s to recovery. These points are Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, and the army post at Plattsburg, N. Y. The latter point is on Lake Champlain, and the former in the bracing latitude of the mounâ€" kn tains. â€" French Ambassador A Washington Authorized to Sign the Document End« inz the Warâ€"A Suspension . of Hos* thiittes. TRANSPORTS FOR TROOPS. r'rflme DESCRIF FAMOUS PL Mtrange Market that @ Wile in the Hiz €145 e to Be ®oen on a sunds Falys in Otheor Olties ef â€" Petticoat l!a the sort I ever Ing humanity, “emoust ration o » 4 m awrites a Lon mot a slum & «G@ezvous and 1 the slums. L hand shop ol sity. It cove don J’u<(, off 1 «gity," and 1 \streeis withis of nols busines onpox‘s PB?1! happi« resort at the and for giris an lower o1 Jews of the ver: where 1/ tha Becon the « know 1A gun M &J 1i n Ed MJ n Bo H it at ol and @ ton 1 ling â€" pe!!\" of cl« boots spi lines aloug 4 also many 8 :ni of lemonade in glass jars, alm of the forty U made deadly i9 LB en R« ne /