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.. y.“ ~ . "Ill lllll l f. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ’9‘ interesting Items About Our Own Country 0m! Britaln. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Auorted for Buy Reading. CANADA. The late Mr. 'l‘laomas Lawry of Ham- ilton left an estate of $155,000. ‘Uxfurd County Council is considering the purchase of all the toll roads in the county. . ownarcf the famous Powers blockvia i ll is t’\‘1m'l&l that tlze new ccixsusi of Montreal will show a population of three hundred thousand. Judge Davidson has been appoinzed professor of criminal law in the Mc- (iill lininersily faculty of law. The Customs Department is taking llej‘s to stop the importation of infer- lor and unwlzolesomc lea. LieuL-Col. I'lumjlvri-ys, of the 66th. Halifax. has withdrawn his resignation and other officers will follow. Dundns Town Counvil will not co- ogcratn. in the l'ominion Alliance's peâ€" tition for liquor licenses amendments. Alphonse Cyr, wlzo ran a nail into his {not while working in .llooth's mills, diet of loakjaw in the hospital at Otâ€" tawa. The British Board of Trade figures for November Sl:0\\' a decrease in im- rorls of £1,330,000, and an increase of exports of £1,202,717. Rochester. is dead. Capitalists of Bay City, Mich, have organized the first beet sugar com- pany in the State, with a capital. stool: of $300,000. I Representative Johnson of North Da- kota. is preparing a. bill providing for the complete extermination of the seal herd of Behring Sea. 5 Mr. George W. Vanderbilt. youngest son of William H. Vanderbilt. before sailing for England". effected a million- dollar insurance policy on his life. Rioting is reported at Port au Prince resulting from popular indignation against the Government for surrender- ing to the demands of Germany. Charles Zanoli. the New ‘York barber, denies he poisoned his. four wives for the ls-ike of their insurance. and asks that an autopsy be performed on, the remains of his last wife. A slab of quartz with veins of gold prominently showing will convey Cali- fornia's invitation to President Mc- Kinley to attend the gold jubilee of the disuovery of gold. Lena Winslow. of Kansas City, .who sued the Knights of Maccabees for twenty-five thousand dollars for disloâ€" caling one of his kidneys while initiat- ing him into the local order, has been awarded ten thousand dollars damages. Mr. J'. Havelock Wilson, labor memâ€" ber of the Imperial Parliament. and Mr. Edward Harford, of the British Trades Union Council, have arrived in New York to attend the congress of the American Federation of Labor, to be opened at Nashville next. Monday. _The Interstate Commerce Commis- ston of the United States has decided to extend for two years the per-10d ‘within which railroads must comply with the act of Congress requiring all Chcvalicr Drolc‘r has left for England | Yangon-(13 L0. b6 equipped With safety ial’pnances for the protection of 'the lo complete arrangements for the sale of his mining rights on the Saskatche- wan to an English syndicate. employees and passengers. Commercial summaries are not usual- Guur'd Milligan has been suspendedlly end-ting reading at this 598301! 0f by the Kingston penitentiary author- ities- [or carrying out: letters and hav- ing couuuunicalion with convicts. The C. 1’. It. has been coml‘elled to refusv grain shipments via St. Johni an account of the diffécull‘y of getting vessel accommodation from that port. The County Council has decided to encourage the introduction of the tl-u hing of agriculture in the Public. Schools of the rural (li.§l.ricts of \i'enllâ€" worth. Mr. f-Z-haugllncssy, Vice-President of the C. I’. ll. strongly denies the re- ports that the mi-n engaged on the Crow's Nest. Pass Railway have been illâ€"treated. ' the year, and those of the present week are no exception to the general rule- There is a steady retail trade in the ordinary lines of holiday lgoods, 83' pecially in the lighter lines of toys and presents, but usually business is quiet With no special features. But; while there is no marked improvement in any special lines, there is a better tone all round in business circles than has existed for a long time, and many con- cerns are busy to their full capacity in confident expectation of a large in‘ crease of business immediately after the turn of the year. markets are stronger than at the close of last week, and in the chief centres lof trade and industry in the United \\'. ll. Palmer, Hamilton. sentenced States the outhOK is regarded as ex" to three years at Kingston Penitenti- ary for embezzlement. from the Bank of (‘oxmncrce two years ago, has been pardoned, A letter has been received from Ma- jor Walsh, written from Lake Bennett, on November 15th. His partyiare all well. and they expcct to reach Dawson in February. [L is promible that the Dominion Cots ton Company’s big mills at. Brantford w ill shortly be moved to Three Rivers, where power can be had from the Shawunegqn Falls. The annual report of the London Board of Health states that. the deth rate is only 12.03 per thousand. Lon- don claims to be the healthiest; city in the Province. The C. P. R. announces another re- duction in freight rates, this time on west-bound oats and oatmeal between Smith's Falls and points in the Norlh~ west; Territories. Mr. G. M. Bosworth, traffic mana- ger of the Canadian Pacific railway, says the freight rates on grain be- tween Fort \\'~illiam and Montreal were lowered to induce a. winter move- ment of Manitoba wheat. A delegation of artillery officers, headed by Major-General Gascoigne, waited on Dr. Borden on Saturday, and asked that: a special grant be given the association to entertain the ritlsh team that will visit; Canada next summer. Mr. David Mills, Dominion Minister of Justice, is being deluged with apâ€" plications for the pardoning of crimâ€" inals, and it is roux" tired as a curious fact: that most. of the letters asking ceptionally encouraging and bright- GE‘NERAL. The ravages of the bubOnic plague at Povna are unabated. The harvest prospects of South Aus- tralia are unfavourable. Emperor \Villiam refers to the Hay- tians as a. conbemptible crowd of neâ€" groes. ‘ Russia will not tolerate a permanent occupation of Kiao-Chau bay by Ger- many. The Albanians are reported committing great excesses . at and Kitchevo. A French expedition is reported to have been massacred while on its way to the Nile. ’ It is announced from Rome that there is a serious falling off in Peter's Pence. the principal revenue of the Vatican. A workman of Berlin. who was charged. with less majeste, committed suicide on Friday to escape punishment for his offence. All the speculativev‘, A STOLEN WINNIPEG BABY FOUND IN BUFFALO. The Mother Recognized “or Daughter Who Had Been “lulu: For store Than l-‘lve Iran â€" An Aunt Accused of the Kid- napping. . By a mere accident, says the Buffalo Express, Mrs. John B. Harris, of Win- nipeg, Manitoba, found in Buffalo on Friday afternoon, her little daughter Ruth, who, it appears, was practically stifle“ from her five years 380‘ Th°ugb l a whole in order 'to avert a strike. the the child had grown wonderfullysince idea of a general railway strike has she was taken awa , alittle virl three . - ' ‘ ~. Years old the motsher recoviized herlbeen abandsmed. MEL Ritchie, m ms _ i n . b . reply. refusmg to intervene, had reâ€"- 0“ S‘ght' “1th the a”. of the Ponce minded the men, in substance, that; she regained possession of the child, and She returned home With, her on having special responsihilities. and that Saturday afternoon. ‘ Mrs. Harris is the wife of a furrier in Winnipeg At the time Ruth “"13 have abandoned their demand for ‘a 5 taken away, she was the only child Mrs. Harris had. On October, 13th, 1892, l little Ruth's aunt, Mr. Harris’ sister, paid a brief visit to the Harris family. When she-was about to leave, she said she wished to take Ruth home with her for a little visit. The aunt. lived in the country a. few miles. from Winni- peg. Mrs. Harris gave her consent, and kissed the child, with never asus- picion that that was the last she was to see of her for five years. The aunt promised to bring Ruth back IN A FEW1 DAYS: The mother did not worry until tour days had passed. her sisterâ€"inâ€"law’s home, which was on a. farm. Mrs. Harris was shocked to find the house vacant, and to learn from neighbours that the family had packed up its household goods and moved away two days before without telling a soul whither it was going. The city authorities were notified, but they failed to get any trace of the family or the missing child. I Through the five years that follow- ed Mr. and Mrs. Harris spared no pains ,or expense in their searlh for little Ruth. They wrote letters to the police tin all the large cities of Canada and .th’e United States and also communi- cated with everyone they knew had the slightesst acquaintance with the aunt and her family. ’l‘hcir labours were unrewarded until one day about a week ago when they gained the inâ€" formation that the family and little lRuth were in Buffalo. ' Mrs. Harris started at once for that loity, arriving there last Thursday. Not ’knowing her sisber-in-law's Mrs. Harris could not locate the family. ’Allshe could do was to walk the l streets in the hope of running across either the woman or the child. On Friday afternoon. as she was passing to be 1 one of the large down-town dry goods Debra _t houses, the weary and faint'hupad mo- .ther saw a little golden-haired child, with pretty blue eyes, come out of the store, accompanied by a. woman of middle age. Mrs. Harris at once RECOGNIZED THE CHILD as her long lost Ruth. Not wishing to , create a scene on the public street, Mrs. Harris followed the couple to a house on William street, near Pratt street. Mrs. Harris is a level-headed woman. Though her instinct prompted her to go into the house and claim the child . The Chinese Government has caused ishe paused to think, and decided that it. to be made known that the Occupa- 1 it was best for her to get an, off,ng tiou of Kiao-Chau buy by the Germans will be resisted. It: is said that Germany has pro- pooed to China. to take a lease of Kiao Chou Bay and adjacent. territory for a long period. An hour later ashram-go scene at~ tracted a crowd on \Villiam street. near Pratt. A woman was leading a little girl by the hand. The child was crying piteously, and trying to resist the woman. A tall, dark man was The Germanâ€"Chinese difficulty 'hasgwalltinsg close behind them, warning practically been settled, the Chinese ' the f0!.10\\'ln'l=‘; CFOWd to keep ‘3?le- having conceded all the principal de- ma ads of Germany. ’Wil'helmim" Queen Of who Nether” l her filled with tears at the appeal for lands, will take the oath of accession to the throne on September 6, 1898, in for pardons refer to the worst crimin- the new church at Amsterdam. nla, and emanate from and women's associations. Dr. H. \Valton L. Jones, who was sent. by the Dmni'nion Government. to Tim Stockholm l‘lxbil ition, returned to women Montreal. and reports that there is Minister very little prospect. of immigratiou from Norway, Sweden. Finland, or Russia, as times at present: are good in Norway, and fair in the other countries mantlnncd. GREAT BRITAIN. Investigation into the recent London fire reveals points of inefficiency in the brigado. A severe gale is again raging on the British coasts. and especially on those parts bordering on the Irish sea. Rumours are current that the Earl of Elgui early next year will retire ' from the Vlcotoyalty of India. and that be will b; succeeded by Lord George Hamilton. London. notwithstanding the and unseasonal.nle weather. is puttingl " H .land has chopped 0 l 12 magistrates. 23 customs officials and: thereby $15,000: The on a gay appearance find. many nobleâ€" moa have issued invitations forlarge Christmas parties. l l l l i I t l l i other officers. saving Emperor \V-illiam is reported to have some policy must: cease, or he will be obliged to beach them manners. Gen. vou Gossler, the Reichstag that it is the the Emperor that duelling shall be diminished. Part of a company of British ar- tillcrymcu, stationed in South Afri- ca, mutiuied because they had been or- dered to embark on the troopship Avo- ca. for Mauritius It is stated- that France is deliber- ately seizing the upper waters of the Nile above Khartoum, thus cutting the British line of communication Le- tween Cape Town and Suez. It is reported from Port on Prince that the Haytian Government has sal- uted the German flag, paid the required indemnity, and that all trouble beo mud ‘tween the two powers has ceased. ' The new Government of Newfound-l {1109841 by -'\‘ um Gulf! of the Earl of Ashburn-la yea“ ham's libmr in London. Caxton's translation 0 Life of Jason" fetched two thousand one hundred pounds. issued Ipronounccment that he disap- proves of tho remarriagc of divorced couples. and the» hamftor will not license them. UNITED STATE. ' Mr. Charles Fleischmarm. the yeast manufacturer. .1 Cincinnati is dead. A large store in Philadelphia has op- en: odourtmont (or the sale of cu m, n “I. ma um We, ad is situated within the drum of theear. o "A Books of the Hoole the beginning of the Prague there have been 600‘ arrests! It is officially reported that since ,and 30 citizens. 69 policemen and 20 The Archbishop of Canterbury has 801518“ have been “fluted. The Havana correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle says that the t his Vicar-General Cuban reforms offered by Senor Sag:- asta have come too late. The devastr ating policy of General converted the inhabitants of Cuba in- to the implacable enemies of Spain. ms SMdLLEST sons. The annullest bone in the human body \Veyler has “Mamma, mamma; I want. to stay with mamma," cried the child, and the eyes of the woman who was leading l the woman was the child’s mother, and the child thought she was a stranger. l On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Harris. . . , ,escorted by an officer, took Raut'h to a Bald recently that Amenca's meddle‘ l number of stores and bought her some 1 l ,gim'l. warm clothing, and a generous Tsupply of little things that please chil- Gprmangdrenp Then they went to the Grand Of War. announced It} the ;Trunk station and took a train, bound W111 0‘ Tfor north-western Canada. The mother learned that two day after little Ruth wont to visit her aunt the family moved directly to Buffalo. and that; the child had been living. with them ever since. They are in poor cirâ€"A cumstances, but they treated the child. Well. r a _.____â€"â€"â€"+â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" BURIED ALIVE: llldcons Cruelty or Insurgents Towards “‘omcn nml «'lllldren. A despatch from Madrid saysâ€"A storm of indignation has been pro- voked here by news of tortures inâ€" the Cuban rebels upon the the heads" of, inhabitants of Guisa, women and chil- dren- being bound and burned alive. details are given by the Impar- gcial. a paper by no means favourable l to the present Government policy,and 'the news is now officially confirmed. disorders at i One of the Ministers says that as far . as is known at. present the only crime .the unfortunate creatures appear to l have been guilty of. is that they fav- oured the acceptance of autonomy. THE WAY THEY ALL D0. Queer about irla What is queer “'ben m daughter was single she wmldn't t her brothers and sis- ters touch her piano; now she is married,- she thinks there isn't. a pi mo on earth too good for her baby to bang on address ' l " BRITISH LA LUNGIJJSTI‘BHILD FUUND. ‘ BOR‘ STRUGGLES. “ The Idea eta Railway Six-Ike Abandonedâ€"- No Reduction In the Cotton Operntlvu‘ Wages. A despafch from London sayszâ€"As a result of the refusal of the Rt. Hon. Charles T. Ritchie. President of the Board of Trade. to accede to the re- quest of the railway employees that he should interfere in the name of the board in the present labor diSputc. with a view to arranging a conference between the Amalgamated iSociety of Railwaymen and railway companies, as they were a specially privileged body. their attitude was unjustifiable. The employers in the cotton trade per cent. reduction in wages. many firms being disinclined to enforce it. The operatives are thus victorious in the struggle. The decision of the em- ployers was largely influonced by the result of a. ballot of the associa- tion of cotton operatives taken during the last. few days. was almost unanimous against. accept- ing the reduction proposed by the em» ployers. The Pall Mall Gazette of London. commenting about six weeks ago upon the then threatened strike of the cotton operatives throughout the north of England. said it. would affect: 200,000 persons, cmtail the loss of £70,- 000.0(l0 and mean the ruin of the cot- ton industry. Continuing, the Gazette then remarkedzâ€"“The‘worst of it is that Lancashire is cutting its own to its rivals. The cotton goods trade is already shut off in the United States, by prohibitive. tariffs, and Lan- cashire is supplying Canada with ma- chinery almost sufficient to supply her own requirements, while India. and China are fast heating it out of the neutral markets." SUSIE ARCHER TOOK 7' Hill. lv‘ouml ‘Vrltlilng in Agony on a Su'ccl forum in Buffalo â€" left Her Home lr. Toronto Two Months A20- -A despair-h. from Buffalo, says;â€" Susie Archer, a Canadian girl, 25 years old, suffered intense agony on Monday night at the Pearl street police station. For reasons known only to herself she attempted to end her earthly peregrinations by taking a dose of carbolio acid. She was found writhing in frightful agony at; Grant and Hampshire streets by.Patrolman Gruser, of No. 5 police station. At first the officer thought the woman was suffering from the ef- fects of over-indulgence in liquor, but) on stooping down to lift her up he smelled carbolic acid. A quick call for the patrol waggon, was sent in, and the suffering woman was sent to staâ€" a -~. .. in WINTER purifiâ€" - sm wuum Lbcramrs moors LEAVE was mus. Operations Against the Aft-ml: Will Gem [You] the Spring â€"â€" the Heavy Britta! Loss â€" .tn Adman Conducted 0“! pals: [Vadu- Grem lilflrullles. All the forces of General Sir William Lockhart. the British commander o: the Indian frontier. have been with- drawn to the Barn valley for the win- (or. Military circlm in I. mlou are prais- ing Sir William Lockharl's conduct in the campaign in India. The exciting events that have happened in other quarters of the world during the last 30 days have diverted attention from the attempt to punish the Afridis. But the undertaking, in its way. is the most remarkable in which England has ever been engaged. Gen. Lockharl- has under his personal command a larger body of troops than was ever before commanded by a British gonor- al. HI: has 70,000 men in the field, more than \Vellington had at. Water- loo, where only 25,000 were actually British. In the exceptionally difficult. conditions. tho mountainous and un- Wh‘Ch known cornlry. the cold season. the. labour of maintaining communication’ along a very extended line. and the fierce fanalicism of tribes that. believe they are fighting in a righteous cause. and for very existence. Sir William Lockhart has displayed remarkable in- genuity and resource. The campaign. has been suspended for the severe weather, but Parlia- ment; will meet. before it. is resumed. and thc demands of lndia, Central Afâ€" rica, and the Niger region may help Then She Went to throat and supplying textile machinery the Salisbury Government m “ugh through the bill for aniucreaso of mili- tary strength which Lord Lausdowne has outlined. The proportion. of officers killed in Gen. Lockliurt's campaign! is 42 as. against 74 men. This is a state of things unheard of, even in the English frontier and desert war. The Railway News'correspomlcnl all the fromt says that the native losses throughout have been far less than the British and Indian losses, and that. the villages destroyed were merely tho summer huts of ,nomadic tribes, who live elsewlwre most. of the year, and which it will be no trouble whatever to rebuild. WHO HELPED BEST ? Three Incidents Which May Start Iou ’l‘lilnklng. “I am thankful that’s over with!" said a portly gentleman id his wife, as he entered his doom one Sunday noon. “What’s the matter. dear?" The sick lady looked up anxiously. "\Vhly, we had the foreign hcathen man there, and what liq said literally forced me to give teh' dollars. He made everybody cry. I am glad i sha’n’t have to hear of the heathcn again for another year. It's bad “on NO- 3. and Placed in Matron DUf- enough to have your own poor evcrâ€" fy's cure. _ She could scarcely breathe when she arrived at the station. her lungs and throat being apparently badly clogged with mucous matter, which she tried vainly and with much dlstress to raise. Dr. Dowd was summoned, and he did what he could to relieve her of her Buffering". Miss Archer would not admit that she had taken poison. She experienced a. great deal of palm, and talked with much difficulty. She hesitated along time before telling her na_me, but; was finally prevailed upon to do so. She said her home is in Toronto, and that, she came here two months ago to join her younger sister and also to look for work. Dr. Dowd said that; the girl would recover. Susie's sistxer is employed as adomâ€" estic at Dr. Foster's home, No. 3, John's place. She said that; she had never known Susie to have any trouble and could assign no cause for any at- tempt at; suicide on her part. BOY TO BE HANGED. Lyman Burn to Die .or the Murder of an Armonluu l'cddlcr. A despatch from Halifax, N.S..saya: â€"ht 'l‘ruro on Friday morning Lyman Dartt, aged sixteen, was sentenc- ed bo be hanged on~March 3rd for th': murder of Acard Dever. an Armen- _ian peddler, v..;0 was shot dead in a road near Truro two months ago. Tho boy was convicted on circumstantial evidence. there being no witnesses to the crime. He has maintained hit-sinâ€" noaenco throughout. TRIED TO KILL THE SULTAN. Two Soldlera of the lmpcrlal Guard Wcr Ibo Culprits. On Monday last two soldiers in the Imperial service at the Yildiz kiosk, the palace of the Sultan at Constantinople. made an attempt on the life of his Ma- jesty. This was frustrated by the at- tendants of the Sultan, Ills Majesty had the men tortured in the lmpo of extorting the names of the instigators but both succumbed without revealing anything. *â€" FULL OF BLACK DIAMONDS. Excellent Bituminous ('03! Input“ pom.“ in the Normw u. Extensive deposits of coal have been discovered at Dominion City. thir- ty miles from Winnipeg. at a depth of one hundred feet. A company is being formed to develop the claim. The coal is of good lituminoua qual- ity. ' lastingly tormenting the llle out; of you. The fact is, it. is as much as my income is worth to go to church at all, nowadays." . He looked at; his pale wife half-quizâ€" zically. ller only answer was a gen- tle sigh, for she knew: that her hus- band thought he was not: only a bene- volent man, but a conscientious-1 Christian; she also know that. he never gave money cheerfully, and not at. all in proportion‘ to his in- come. It was a dark winter night, and it; was snowing furiously. On a. loneâ€" ly road, five miles from. the city lun- its, in a very plain house, there was a single light. burnln in the kitchen. This lighted up the flickering path in the dooryard. . women in the house, and the severity of the storm gave them- anxlcty. A resounding knock quite startled them. 'l‘imidly opening the door, they saw standing there . man, beardcd, white, uncouth, almos repulsive in ap- pearance. “Don’t. be scared," he said; reassur- ingly, "but meland my partner are almost. exhausted. \Ve'ro drlvmg a lot of cattle to the slunghter-hqu. and haven’t had anything to eat. since breakfast. He's gone on with‘ the cat.- t.le. They’d lay down in the snow and freeze, if we didn't: keep 'em goin'. Couldn‘t ye give us, a bite?" The two women, timidly, and: with some hesitation, invited the man Into the house. and seated him‘ by the stove. [lot tea. was iuuncrlizltcly made, and the only piece of meat in the house was at once disjointed for, the strang- er to cat. "You see,” he explained, "we stopped at the big house above here. and knock- ed at the front door! The gentleman, he sent us to the kitchen, but the cook had a tmitlmche, and she». slammed the door in our {um-s; but; the boar! meant all right, I guess." In a short. time, warmed. fed, com- forted, with a. supply of food in a package in his band for. his mate, the cattlcman faced the storm again. "Thank ye," he HLainmerod: "I‘ll never forget. your kindly-ac. If ye hadn't done it, I dunno how long we'd have stood it." Professor Drummond once told a story of an officer of an Italian coast,- guard who reported to M8 governnwnt a shipwreck in those words: "We saw the wreck, and we attempted to give every amiht'mr‘c possible through the “waking-trumpet; notwithstanding which, next. morning, lwt'nly carpi/um were washed ashore " Too much of our lo-um'uhznl-o la of the. speaking trum; o-l '. lrinly. and own this we boast almu' llu'. Samaritan of the New Testament! rcpro‘senta tlm benevolence of which the world. cloud» in the greatest need. in There were only two ' ,.... â€" â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"......_.___..__. .