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44 t3 Mr side fur tim Mr. for FI* be lit to n ab N# Iw la f« id o ons tsA ts 1 dlthh c 1 c 4s 04 l'l'(.)p- Rice Ningnra I"Al"fl, x. Y.. Rept. ... t« is now selling at famine prices, and Carlisle D, Graham, the Philadelphia the famine sufferers, who can _be | cooper who on July 11, 1886, startâ€" fumbered ty hundreds of thouâ€" | leq the world by makingk a successâ€" sards, are roving the country deâ€"l ful trip through the Whirlpool â€" Raâ€" manding meals at every rich man‘s | pids of Niagara in a barrel, and who house. Unless they get it for the | has several times since accomplished asking they make a raid on his daring feats at the same _ place, etorehouse and earry off the man‘s | says that on Sunday, Aug. 31, he whole stock. However, word has | will try to do what Captain Webb been receiv>»l at the mission that | failed to do on July 24, 1883. and the Viceroy will compel the rice that is to swim the Whiripool Raâ€" dealers to sell that commodity at | pids of Niagara between the bridges & reasonavle figure, and after mee ; aBd the whiripool. Graham‘s friends bas fallen in price the people will ' will try to coar him to be satisfied cease to be nomads, and omculsltwit;l‘eswimmmg 'fnom t:;; whiripool e ain. 0 wiston, a feat performed sucâ€" ea n f“t‘_’fo_(:rd_r..__a_‘_.__ g;:ufully on Be;:t 7th, last, thi‘d-y King Edward has devoted the gift | his compamion in adventure, ude flla.ooo rrcrglved from the Makharaâ€" Willard, lost her life in Graham‘s Jah ot Gwallor to the bospital fund. barrei in the malestrom of Nilagara., Chentu Population Very Restless on Account Thercef. Revr. 0. 1. Kilborn, M. D. the Bead of the Methodist Mission in Chentu, â€" Province â€" of Szeâ€"Chuan, West China, in a letter dated June 28th, to Rev. Dr. Sutherland, Methâ€" edist Mission General Secretary, #tatese that the population in that rrt Q[ the country is very restâ€" 88. Just before writing a battle Bad been fought between the Viceâ€" roy‘s troops and the Boxers, the latter being defeated. Several of the rebel leaders were ecaught and beheaded. Mr. Kilborn says that the real element of danger now is the failure of the rice crop. Rice is now selling at famine prices, and the famine sufferers, who can be rumbered ty hundreds of thouâ€" sards, are roving the country <deâ€" manding meals at every rich man'-' house. Unless they get it for the asking they make a raid on his estorehouse and earry off the man‘s whole stock. However, word has been receiv>d at the mission that the Viceroy _ will compel the rice dealers to sell that commodity at & reasonanle figure, and after mee | Bas fallen in price the people will, cease to be nomads, and officials ean restore order again. I oo t e e ECE Boyd had.been shot. Rice was asked M be could furnish any reason â€"for Abhe suicide. H» replied that he had Beard none. ‘The prisoner was then asked if he had anything to say in regard to it. " What do you mean ?" asked Rice. Mr. Curty then told Rice that Constable Walter Stewart had sworn that Iice had fired the shot A4hat killed Boyd. The Crown Attorâ€" Bey assured the prisoner that what he might say would not be used against him at the trial. Rice then confessed in this statement : "When Btewart said that I fired the shot that killed Bovd he told the truth." poiPi® PoeHid 4PB dant is C 39 . 32| stable Boyd, admitted hi« guilt the day after Frank Rutledge suicided, This statement was given out by Crown Attorney Curry yesterday. Alter Rutledge‘s sensational leap to death from the upper balcony at the jail, the day after the murder, Bhoerilf! Mownt, Detective Forrest and Crown Attorney Curry visited Rice Io his cell. Rice was the only one of the notorious trio of bank robâ€" berk left, Ryan, aliae Jones, having dled as the result of being shot by PDonstable Walter Stewart as the three were ficcing from the cab after Boyd had.heen shot. Rice was asked M be could furnish any reason for Abhe suicide. H» replied that he had TGGEL cusecs smm . Admitted llAIs tiuilt the Day Rutâ€" + ledge Committed Sntctae. Toronio despatch : Fred Lee Rice, who paid the death penally on July 18th for the murder of County Conâ€" 7 JTOT ME OR merdid ryentâ€"+6 MURDERER RICE CONFESSED It was not until he was installed we waiter at the French club of the university that he began showâ€" log signs of precocity. Mim:. Beauâ€" vais, the head of the Freach club, noticed _ his brightness anda his @rnuess to learn. ° in four weeks he had learned to read and write as weil as any orâ€" dinaery pupil in the fourth# grade and has surprised Mme. Beanvaie by speaking French with ease and Nuencey. The professors who have been helping the noy privately say ’h‘t he is an "educationa} marvel." moouss s oone n o ammaimek he could not enter the freel elass, they _ wanted to haip Aesistant _ Dean Whaley, of ascademy, took him .put him bathiubh and gave him a new of elothes and food. The boy he could not sleep because le thinking about his college e tion. He had not slept for ne #hree days and had been hu two days. The starved condition of the boy atoused p‘ty among the univerpâ€" & ty offictals, and, while thay Â¥now However, Mr. _ MacL the boy was sane, but an astonishing degree, Rm to a number of e universiiy and fin g:junt Dean Whaley, . e Academy} The starved ennAitine 5 ", ",Imp and when he called on M. H. MacLean of the information ffice of the university and asked him if he was President Harper, Mr. MacLean thought he was questioned by a maniac. ,o Into the terrible coal mines and le there as his father bad, but Whould see the world and gather wisâ€" gom. With this in view she had moarded every peony she could. When :o died a little over a month ago e called her son to her and gaid : *‘Tain‘t no place for you â€" here, ,ohn. I want you to go away from his awful place and be with other Atnds of people. Don‘t die in the mines, like your lather. Take this money. It is all we have. Go around tho world and sse things and then go to the University of Chicago and spend the rest on your education.‘ FotAlowing Inetructions, â€" the boy wWtarted on his trip around the world as sooun as he had seen his mother buried. He set out westward, but Sound that he had only 30 centsg when be arrived in Chicago. He, *hougbht that he had better go out *o the university before he contin-’ ued his trip, and when he called on voai on the railway switches and Placked boots to bhelp his invalid moâ€" ther, who took in family washing. According to the boy‘s simple story be asd his mother lived in a hovel, For five years his mother cherisheq the hope that her boy sbould never FAMINE IN CHINA. Plet AND GET UnivERsITY EDucation Chicago, â€" Sept. 1.â€"â€"Wizened _ and Bbriveled in body, halfstarved and BOY PRODIGY AT cHigagy, t Out With $20 Round the World mas/© mm a new euit d food. The boy said sleep because he was t his college educaâ€" not slept for nearly nd had been hungry r. _ MacLean learned sane, but ignorant to & degree, and _ sent umber of officials of. _and finally to Asâ€" nd, while they Knew ent‘er_ the freghman d to haip him. Whaley, of the ? ,put him in a of the South "***@ "! ) Neapolitans to Present His Holiness With Largest Topaz. ‘ Rome, Sept. 1.â€"Pope Leo will soon to GO be the posssszor of the huut#t [ in the worl1iâ€"the celebrated tw lcant Bratilian gem Rhic'h‘belofi to the Neapolitan Bourbons. ‘ stone has been engraved with the image of the Baviour, and will be presented to the Pope at the close CATION of the pres‘nt jubilee year by Count Caserta, helr to the Bourbon Kings, 1 and jaloog with otbher rich Neapolitan ed and ' Catholics. Carlisle D TO SWIM WHIRLPOOL RAPID3 quest, which alterna resorted to, howerer bleg were aworn in t der and protect the dollars‘ worth of _ r every description _ ar the streets, where it riedly deposited in t} impyp, 3i 3 ; »UI€d, but he recovered immedintely upon reaching the fire hall, and resumed direction of the brigade. At one juncture it was believed tha t buildings _ would hare to be dynamited to save the city, and a considerable amount of gziant powâ€" der _ was brought down from the War Eagle MBRC, BHBVIHN | Fumuoms Th m 2o u4 Mn adrabatee ts widon h . 222 504 1. This led to a report that the had been killed, but he receo immedintely upon reaching the hall, and resumed direction o brigade. The sudden change i saved the big building portant _ business â€" gee burning of the Music have carried with it t block 28, and run the hbundreds of thousands The only casualty was to Chiet Guthrie, of t The fire started about the intorâ€" seciion of blocks 13, 16, 27 and 28 of the city town site. ‘The burned freas comprise the north half of 13, the southwest corner of 16, the northcast corner of 27 and the northâ€" west corner of 28, Adjoining â€" the Coeur d‘Alene saloon. but separated by a 30â€"foot vacant lot, is the Inâ€" ternational Hote] and Music Hall, an immense wooden structure. This was in imminent danger for an hour or more, and, at one juncture, was givâ€" en _ up as doomed. 1 EO CEDE TT EO RRRUUCUL The Burns building was in the cenâ€" 1re of a solid block of woode2 buil4â€" itgs, and the strong breeze prevailing speedily spread the flames to north and south, despite tho torrents of water thrown by the firemen. In 20 ue i ats aedug se C s e SAE over p Aby uh) CÂ¥ lke paull s tors . â€"UOnL :P4 was beijlevred that the loss would be substantially greater than this, but close serutiny of the facts indicates that the lesser estimate is as nearâ€" Iy accurate as can be Oobtained for several days. moseland, B. C., despatch :â€"(C.P.R. despatcites)â€"In two bhourse this afâ€" ternoon fire did $75,000 damage in the business and residential sections of Rossland. Earlier in the day it was beijlevred that the loss would be substantially greater than this, but c:&se lxru‘tiny of the facts indicates They _y "yiP® Of| D < Anether Story Roseland, B, C.. de, despatcites)â€"In two ternoon fire did &7~% The fire burned flercely for two hours, when the wind changed, and the rest of the city was saved, Fifteen storese and thirty _ resiâ€" deneces were destroyed, Aitogether :_be toss will total a quarter of a milâ€" ‘on. the business block | Epokane street and residences and shx @ Vancouver, B. C., despatch : Fire started in a restaurant on Pacific street, Rossland, â€" this afternoon, and fanned by a soutneast wind, it jumped to First avenue, destroying the business block from there to Spokane street and burning fifteen weuseB ce o io L ! DETAILS AND Ccost or suaze. which Fif.een Stores and Thirty Residences Burned. GREAT FIRE AT ROSSLAND, o ipliihetip â€"madndaate nenist sa M .. :1 Th 1 45.A 132 the purpose of negoliating an Italoâ€" Canadian commercial and emigration 1 ram tw treaty. Sir Wil{rid Lauricer, Premier of Canâ€" ada, is expected at Rome. It is said that he is coming to urge the Vatican to promote Mgr, Falconio to the Washington legateship, and a‘so for U renWmacon 401 4/ PD, _ . Graham Anxious to Risk Bis Life Aug. 31. POPE WILL GET RARE GEM. ""Cure it was believed 0E8 would havre to be to save the city, and a . amount of gziant powâ€" brought down from the wets 3 F secur s ~C°Pl. 1.â€"rope Leo will spon poseâ€"sszor of the largest :xfi _ Fuorliâ€"the celebrated t= Bratilian gem which AbelO%;d; Neapolitan Bourbons. has been engraved with the of the Saviour, and will be nd six stores, _ burned flercely for two ) to preserve orâ€" he thousands of merchandise of scattered about it had been hurâ€" the first panic. 0 of Fire. s rag cg y 0 EC1 C00A0 S‘, and are not officlal, ang the fruitiessness ‘of wmaking them ig al. ready understood in Berlin, I‘s .4. 327 20 2° MBE VYictor Emman. ael‘s visit, as explain=d at the Itaiian embasaey, 1s simp‘y to make his {irst call since his accession up>on his friend the Emperor. Hi; disarmament proâ€" posale are for the Empero~‘s personal MIY, and ara nat _fi e . U Smith said that shortly after they had retired his wife suddenly swalâ€" lowed a quantity of the acid, and threw the remainder of the bottle inâ€" to his face Dr. J. M. Johnston was called, and later both were removed in the ambulance to St. Michael‘s Hospital. Mr. Smith is suffering ter.â€" rible paine from the burns in his face. The couple, about 25 years of age, each, have rooms in ‘the Walton street house. It is understood both had been drinking. On Monday night they were in their room. but .there was nothing noticeable in the deâ€" meanor of either that would lead any person to believe that crime was about to be committed. Shortly after midnight the landlady was awakened by cries, and, running to Smith‘s room, she beheld a pitiable sight. The woman was in bed suffering untold agony, while the husband was cryâ€" ing also with pain. Toronto _ despatch: â€" Mrs. Jennic Smith, 56 Walton street, died at 2.â€" 15 o‘clock this morning, at St. Miâ€" chael‘s Hospital, from carbolic acid poigoning. The woman swallowed part of the contents of a fourâ€"ounce bottle of the poison and threw the balance ovrer her husband, because he had been drinking early in the evening with some friends in the house and had used bad language toâ€" wards her. SHE SWALLOWED CARBOLIC AciD Mrs. Smith Fails, but Sucâ€" . ceeded in Killing Herself TRIED TO BLIND HUSBAND indP tnt Pelihet AuP WWe scart ad> an Ph .21 then rellected by a platinum plate. All of the man‘s Tace, neck and head is covered bf' sheets of tinfoil, leayâ€" ing an Oopening through which only the cancer shows. The electrical maâ€" chine is started, a pale violet hue fills the tube and all through the cancer shoot the mysterious Xâ€" rays. At the cnd of five minutes the attendant shute off the switch and the daily treatment is over. In medâ€" lcal termse, the Xâ€"rays stimulate the vital processes of repair, and eliminâ€" ate the waste nrodunts "urned the patient is protected by tinfoil armor. Tinfoil is proof against the most bénetrating Xâ€"ray. First the sufferer seats himself diâ€" rectly in front of a Crooks tube in which the Xâ€"rays are collected and ETT y m to the grase, 6f the body, will brofuas‘s Lo pp.rt' Miee Beeslev‘s blood was up, and ® Â¥. produce a horrible a tood iti for ‘the‘t to burn. The first effect is like severe ;i';; & O%‘he‘;mh:gdi(:lr g_:,‘: ;‘;‘)’“pshe ;lli'l]'rtl"iur:-n‘d::ter 123 d:;rn‘,]s.sml:ge‘l‘{o (;3 k"dcked him down again, although 1 B2 0t and deeper, ub, , Ne iried to strike her with his fist. ultimately destroy an entire limb. m 1881 bi tULG the â€"i Cancers are even more readily desâ€" | dh‘;l ": °“;Ii”"" B" A 1e "t‘"“tp' troyed by the rays than a healthy |And he begged Miss Beesley not to tissue, and external cancers are eas. | Mt him again. After she had exâ€" ily re'moved: To prevent the fl'e.h ‘tracted an apology from him she iet surrounding the cancer from being him “g'“";"l‘:'d':'"‘ “t’("’“"“"l her b"‘y" burned the patient is protected by c@ And linished her ride. A 5 pofon ) ce avau on mt c e l Te The two men now, under treatâ€" ment visit the hospital daily _ at ncon and for fiye minutes the violet light is turned‘ upon the cancers. One of the patients is an employee of the Solvay Company. He has n big ecancer of the nose, that, up to a month ago, was slteadily eatâ€" ing up his {ace. The other man is a farmer with a cancert of the lowâ€" er lip. Both have been under this treatment about a month. In one of two ways the Xâ€"rays destroy cancer, either by destroying the cancer germ or else by destroyâ€" iu’g'the cangsr'cellsf_Xwaye, if turnâ€"â€" i».. 3.., ° ,~0~V enor men are takâ€"| ing daily treatment under the rays / and their cancers are rapidly failâ€" ing off in much the same way that a&a scab drops off a healing wound. The power of Xâ€"rays seems almost limitiess, and their use for destroy-l ing cancer will give hope to thouâ€" sands who suffer with the dread | malady, ’ The I£WO IHOU BOW nndAar iwase |o})jec!; o!fi K_ng Victor y mm C209 en PEeeey â€" HFEe > MEC* stroying cancers at the Harper Hospital clinic. One patient has alâ€" ready been discharged, his cancer all govne. Two other men are takâ€" Pbvus vAAGENcL us 3 FIVE MINUTE EXPOSURES dPaAiLy. the waste products. Success Claimed for Treatâ€" ment in Detroit. L'etr:oit deepatch â€" RAYS CURE CANGCER, in the world ? Smart Boyâ€"The I Teacherâ€"What N TARIV ~Arivriry TORONTO are collected and 6 aroe rapidly failâ€"| Miss Becsley, who is 19 yeare old, Pm e he same way chat | and preity, went for a rige on her FJF' W. Bre _a healing wound. | bicycle, and after climbing a steep Almburg'h‘. rays seems almost / hill sat down to rest under a tree. | P80°i¢ Gr ir use for destroy-l She was enjoying the beautiful| th¢*. Grand :ive hope to thouâ€" | scenery in the neighborhood â€" when | J°24. t with the dread | her rest was interrupted by a tramp, Last year who suddenly made his appearance | made a pr now; under treat. |from a nearhy barn, where Le Lad|on ite:mon ospital daily at | been hiding. H> demanded Miss Beesg. | bacco, _ cig minuteg the violet | l°y‘s money, and when she refuseq | matches, ipon the ecancers. |t9 &ive it to him started to graap, The Excha ts is an employee ; N°r arm. . Afte! : Xâ€"rays are deâ€" at â€" the Harper e patient has alâ€" house contains more bughouse. 1ins'tl { diâ€" I e in and A P ate. ead cave 8 nly | . Wh maâ€" ; 18 ex hue ' right the i s ma In spite of the arr agilators who c:ruse &r‘k® smong the c Chin»ge and Fil‘p nos hoâ€"mp indugiry in \ ready to strike. They Creawe in throir wares TD €9° 8 «B _0 guomit to a virtual prohibition to buy imported goods which #s what the Dingley protectionists are aim.â€" ing at. And if he once begine to inâ€" quire into the mattes, his rejeciions may carry him in quite a different direction from that of a prohibitory, tariff. Or wael; al, ;a6 Cve® is well adviged or well considered. At present the purchaser is willing, for what he beâ€" lieves to be the general interests of the country, to submit to a cerâ€" tain restriction of his right to buy in any market he pleases. But it does not follow . that hig . g60dâ€"natur e t raleh The tariff now gives a reasonable protection to the Canadian manuâ€" facturer. Not only so, but it admits free, or at a very low rate of duty, the materiale used by our manufacâ€" turers. The result is that for five years the Canadian mDhaufacturers have enjoyed unprecedented groaper- ity. One may very well doubt wheâ€" ther the movement for tearing this settlement to pieces is well advised or well considered. At present the purchaser is willing, for what he beâ€" lieves to be the greneral intac.2,. in po,.f,. § s _ _r _ IPUIMLE tGéllchim that in buying foreign goods he is etriking at his own intcrests. Very won: as he is the sufferer it is â€" his own business., If he is injuring himâ€" sell it is fair to use . every means to convince him of that fact, ‘and to persuade him to buy Canadian goods instead of imported products. But to force him by law to buy Canoâ€" adian goods is quite another matter. This is virtually what the Dingley protectionists are demandinaâ€" P C Wbatq cce 0 4 } C JReaer â€" FTORRK Great Britain and from ho Uunited Statee. Canadians buy these goods beâ€" ciuse they want them, and in a counâ€" iry professing to be under popular government we do not see why the choice which a citizen makes in buyâ€" ing the ncceesaries of life should not be as much respected as the choive ho makes in marking a ballot. _ The Dingley protcctionists tell him {thai | A Point Forgotten by Men W ho Want to Seil, (Toronto Globe.) While the frankness of the Gazseite is exgeedingly refreshing, it is not right in deseribing the preference as & mere present to the British mauuâ€" faciurers. The tarifi was revised with a view to Canadian interests, but the Liveral Ministers took broader views of those interests than those of the Dingley and McKinley school of proâ€" tectionists. They believe that freedom ie better, both for industry and comâ€" merce, than restriction : and that lrade is a bencfit and not an injury. They are therefore not likely to be very déeply slarmed by. the. citation of figures showing that Canadians imâ€" port large quantities of goods from Great Britain and from im mill 4 Miss Beesley jumped to her feet, and, as he pat out his hand, seized [it and gave it a Lwist that caused the fellow to cry out with pain. The young woman had boxed a little with her brother, and the next moment I she gave the tramp the surprise of ‘his life by landing a stinging leftâ€" hander on his chin. As he staggered ; backward she followed it up with a blow from the shoulder that sent {him t0 tlhe iss ‘ spite of the arrest of the TSrS ‘Wwho n+nornq) inui se Rickhfield, N. J,, Sept. 1.â€"Miss Frances Beesley, of _ Keplen‘s Mills, Pa.. who is visiting friends near Richâ€" field, gave an impudent tramp a :esson in manners yesterday mornâ€" | ing. THREE STRAIGHT KNOCKâ€"DoOwns Athletic Miss Beesley Pumâ€" mels Her Annoyer. OHE THRASHED A TRAMP THE RIGHT To Buv. i very low rate of duty, le used by our manufacâ€" result is that for five Canadian mDhaufacturers 1 unprecedented groaper- y very well doubt wheâ€" vrement for tearing this in Whatic w‘ e T occupante than any C222 tHe â€" recent ho cig irmakers, the ‘p nos engaged in The is M=nilra are getting . They demand an inâ€" wages of 66 per cent. nithttats .. 2rigs. 4 are demanding. »w gives a reasonable the Canadian manuâ€" other [¢ C NC Mason, supgrintendent ""| of the St. Lawrence State: Hospital, and Dr. Arthur W. Hura, of Buffalo, r | bhave been named by Governor Odell t jA commission to examine as to the e | fanity of John Track, under sentâ€" e | ence of death in Auburn prison for g | the murder of Frank w. Miller, a â€" | Cortland County farmer, on March . _14, 1899. . t e body afr , 7, N"‘CC have found the body of a man with one leg severcd, in the river. The man was &about 35 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed about 223 unds, In the trousers pocket was {::md &A gold ring studded with three ame. thysts. & The New York police the body of a man ov severcd, in the river. T a&about 35 years old, 5 14 tall and weighed about , FuP T ies tBak Mreé. Zoilo Bello wife of exâ€"Presiden Prime Minister, and ren, have been ex pe zuela n territory by sident Castro, and in 48 hours to a ba family. The Ontario Cabinet has ized the construction â€" of a dam at Dufferin Islands, on t gara River, by the Ontario Company, to be used in qi water through the park to t} paoy‘s outlet below the fails General Velutini, with men from the Island of about 50 miles from C occupied the Port of C Friday â€" last without _ any opposition from the ineurgents, nBhicaaetRhe c s : i3 3 z33 _ t=B06%criminal cases were Jjudged, whereas in 1880 there had been â€"only 470,882 cases, Prices of botllea‘will be _ raised from 10 to 15 cents a gross. ‘This statement is made by L. L. Turner, President of the _ Western Green Glass Bottle Association, which has been in _ session in Chicago and which authorized the advaneo 20 PCP Oe . wHow of the late Edward A. Hopâ€" kings, exâ€"U. 8. Minister of Argentine Republic, was instantly kitled by a street car in St. Louis toâ€"day. _ She was botn in Parie, France, in 1839. The moral health of Italy is not good, according to the last statistics published. There has been an jncrease of crimes from 1889 to 1899. In thig last year 724,58 j oeriminal cases were Jjudged, whereas in 1880 there had been â€"only 470,882 cases, * Republic, was it street car in St. was botn in Pari Carl Heinrich, son of Charles Heinâ€" rich, was accidentally shot and killâ€" ed at Newark, N. Â¥Y., while with other boy# of about his age, went hunting for woodchucks. He was scuffiing for possession naf a"wm.. Mrs. Marie widow of the per cent. because it bility of buying coat sent advanced price. ‘The American District Steam Comâ€" pany, Lockport, N. Y., has advanced the price of steam to customers 35 per cent. because it gees no possiâ€" b“lt\' of | Nnb t lecs a l acla . An important conference of bacco interests has been ca1 Sept. 17th in London, in an to curb the fierce rate war foilowed the formation of th combines, Marapnmbiaat Wibiiee W atp esd ces Ails . J Company have brought twenty bollâ€" ermakers and machinists from New. castleâ€"onâ€"Tyne to Winnipeg to take the place of the etrikers. Joseph Anderson, â€" a farmer, livyâ€" ing east of Balina, in a fit of desâ€" pondenecy drowned his four children, three girle and a boy, in a cistern, and then shot himself with a revolâ€" mor The Exchange Telegra ph Company publishes a despatch from â€" Simle, British India, saying that the plagne mortality is increasing at the rate of a thousand weekly, The Canadian Northern Railway Company have brought twenty bollâ€" uj ui cone priiirecyy veetnbdve w : ar tulf L the Grand Lodge of Scotland, â€" is dead, 4 Last year the French Gorernment made a prefit of over $70,000,000 on its monopoly of the sale of toâ€" bacco, _ cigars, cigarettes amd matches, An R. W. Bro. Lindsay Mackerey, of Ediinburgh, representative from the Masonic Grand Lodge of Canada to ts ons n o o t Largo schoois of whales are reâ€" ported off the Delaware coast by inwardâ€"bound vessels, many of them being of unusually large size. The assessment of the fourth ward, Toronto, has been completed, and shows a population of 48,794, an inâ€" crease over last year‘s assessment of 1642 Winnipeg Council has struck the rate of taxation at 22 1â€"4 mille. The latest coronation ode publishâ€" ed was written by Sir George Stewâ€" art White, the defender of Ladyâ€" Emith. D; Wisconsin Farmer Took Fifty Roast. | YY* °* @*M"F/~®@ "w®r @0 Lb ing Kars and His l.ife, Weulentcadias Winong, â€" Minn., Sept. 1.â€"William . Hafner, a farmer, of Trempealeau, Groom 72 and Bride Has Wis., who was passionately fond of green corn, yesterday consumed 50 Seen 76 Summers. ears of the delicacy, and is now dead. For his dinner yesterday he ate 24 ears of corn, and went | BRIEF BUT ARDENT ‘WOO!NG about his work, feeling especially well. In the evening he desired | â€" Arthabaskaville, Que,, Sept, :.â€"T. wmore corn, and ate 15 ears. culmination oi a very unusual an nÂ¥fnyt, 300 . 0+ CA coffer Dufferin Islands, on the Nia~â€" Fer, by the Ontario Power , to be used in diverting rough the park to the comâ€" rtlet below the Inlis, vilo Bello Rodriguer, the exâ€"President Andraazs O" ATE GREEN CORN AND DIED. , O t Wisconsin Farmer Took Fifty Roastâ€" | clm ms “ffl swu 2C Hnor 0. & demands, disregarded by the Suitan namely, the return of a insurance policies seiged by ities, was complied with while indications point to bdnig' desirou® of prevent. e en es e o ome i ie Tor â€" woodchucks. _fié ; for possession of a g Marie _ Antoinette Ho rresident Andrades, ex. ter, and her four childâ€" cen expelled from Venc* tory by order of Pre. ro, and compelieq with. to abandon home and York police have found [ a man with one lam~ a weekly, car, H: lian Northern Railway 'm'l“'m“ n e brought twenty bollâ€" 6 Th | machinists from Newâ€" am:hdort f e to Winnipeg to take subseunen the strikers. Tt 28 s1 °rson, &A farmer, livâ€" The co alina, in a fit of desâ€" villas on wned him Inmr ahiHBD4... 2s Dy L. L. Turner, Western Green lation,. which hase in Chicago and the advance, with six hundred nd of Margarita, m Carupano, reâ€" of Carupano on e encountering the Venezuelan settling the below the has anthopâ€" in an effort _ war which of the riva} * ~Odell to the sentâ€" on for W + +4 ‘70.000.000' Trouville, Sept. 1.â€"Amazing £peed~ sale of toâ€" | were reached in the motor car racee ttes amd | at Deauville toâ€"day, in the presence of a great crowd of faghiona hle peoâ€" h Company | ple. The chief event was the race for om _ Simla, | the kilometre (sixtyâ€"two hundredths the plague | O! a mile) championehip of the world. t the rate | Which wase won by Gabriel, on a More car. He made the distance in 26 2â€"5 ‘ seconds, which is at the rate of =4 i NAWEY 1 milee an ROur. W. K. Vanderbilt, jun '{'e'"y \?ou- made the distance in 290 2â€"5 secondk« L SeFâ€" I a shoOrt time ago, but his record was °E to take subseuently ‘lowered by C. Jarrot: in 28 1â€"5 eeconds. ‘mer; _liv= | _ ‘The course lay from the hoteis ana it of desâ€" villas on one side, to the sar dunes. _ _children, | 1t was 1.900 metrese (2,077 yards) a cistern, | long. The contestants were allowed h a revolâ€" | gog metres in which to get up speed 4 before the kilometre test began, and of 'the ;o- mmetm for slowing up alter the called for| fin ng post had been paseed an "‘.’?rf Troops lined the course thronurhont ra®r arhin DT P cv s1 0C Hopkine, 1 Cfllegm '.' y y. _ CC@CC0 4 4 y . _ "s Ol water., "It was a highâ€" ly successful trip," saig Mr. Barton, cheerily, afterwards, "with just the amount of ex‘tement in it which an Englishman likeg," o Crosse the cha They hag a ple until they Jof; th on reaching the balloon was cay gale, which in ten TE 36 AMatrcacsl s m», ___ ©C° Apperâ€" son was asleep. Different from hi« custom, Apperson slept last night in a rear room, and when, in answer to Wileon‘s call, ho tame suddenly from tha rm:-mromn. Witszon shot him unâ€" der the pression that Apperson was a burgjfar. The distress of Wileon wans pitiable â€"when he «Jdliscovered that he had Kkilled hije chum, and he begged to be atlJowed to Tnrir®n Infes sueses> 2190 7 ; â€" * 10 and Appermon were friends, had married cousing, cupied the same hoyuse. Wileon ie forcman of a Te company and Appermon was sistant. Wilson thought he j burglar, and ran downstaire person‘e apartmeonts, calling front room, where ho thought son was asleep. Different { custom, Apperson slept last nig rear raom mamnsk _a t COd " nom _ He Hastity _ Pook ftor a Burgiar. Richmond, _ YVa., Sept. 1.â€"George Appermon, a wellâ€"known young man. was shot through the brain and inâ€" stantly killed before daylight yesterâ€" day morhing in his own room by his best friend, ha ving been taken for a burglar. John D. Wileon fired the uxt Km ceand q l l Longon SHOT HIS FRiEnp Whom â€" He "nllT' Whes ks y suxdr aus _ 02 ~ PV uP +rom Ds finish, when a steam joint gave wa y under a pressure of a thousand pounde to the sqmare inch. The car suddenly came to a standstill. The result appeared to show that petro!â€" eum can beat e«team. P Lrljl2 _ _ C CCAO09 HPCUgnoul and the finishing points where the grandâ€"stands were jocated, wers railed in, The race for motor cyclies, weigh ing 500 pounds, was won by Riga) on a Buchet tricycle He made the kilometre in 28 34.5 seconds, which is at the rate of 72 wmiles an» bour ‘The tricycle haq an seight horeeâ€" power engine and went "like a Nash o lightning." Rerpollet, who was the favorite for the race that Gabrict won, failed a hundred yards from the finish, when a steam joint gave war under a pressure of a thousand pounde to the sqmare inch. The car DNRAAA Y e emasess c ut t L | Frenchman Travels at Rate l of 84 Miles an Hour. PETROLEUM DEFEATED sTtaAm. oPEED IN MOTOR RACE ) | she had passed ber 76t birthda y ),When the â€" aged couple met the; | loved, both say, for the first tim, | in their long life, and determined on _| marriage. Friends advised Miss Des harasi not to marry, but her answor always was the same :; "I havo Rever been loved before ; Ihave oltey re. fused to marry, but now J iove ang am bound to marry." The aged ewai, was â€" repeatedly olfered the same advice, and there was even ilalk among the relatives of the ago wooers to prevent the marriage, by: Mr. Boutin was not to be duscour aged. He met his friends with a d» termined answer: "I love her. ang will marry her ; if they try to stop us we will elop», that is all; py: marry her I will." Although their acquaintance was of only three weeks‘ duration they were inseparable, and even more de voted to cach other than any youn e couple could be. Miss Adciaine ;. rather stooped under the burden of her great age, in fact, she wa k« with â€" difficulty ; nevertholoms, â€" gh. was more joyous and lighthearte Pn‘uonday morning than are mos 1. FIGHT With DEaAtH Big Balloon Channe}, Arthabaskaville, Que., Sept,. z1.â€"Th. culmination oi a very unusual an _yet interesting romance has o curred . at Arthabaskavilic. _ Thro. weeks ago Hypolite Boutin, of & Rossire, a _ gentheman 72 yeare . age, who had nevor marries, met fo the first time Mis# Adclaine Desha hari, who, although she has hn many oifers of marriage, had fount pleasure in â€" remaining singie unt; jum. and he begged take his own m €4 downstairse to Crossing th»e Ccallng in the thought Apperâ€" telephon a e is as e lifelong , and ocâ€" Am Baby‘s O all drugeis! posl pail a tag direct 1 clne Co.. B seotady . ho new t firs fat, hemill peaged w they save vory amall to a . pow Chatham, * very slck. uig breath retain T0 bad diarrh and grew gave him a ad him n up _ 12eale sald Mr snoo0k his "Oh. wl tae drive, and his f @©"rry 0 already the face, out laug the joke i 1 100k®," â€" a teach hi pand of to read w t VC still couny memory | as becau tress auc poor old j &1 h scanty q Fabian 1 had | lwer acqua int would + w ildse mi® aAat or theb bian ra wo enc iug vovered mooted an op uty of it t upin ment is PC ds lt e pnel on tallked t 1@ beleve | ol me t trous u laste s wnce, as generou Ntealty, ural an« to the yuesth alfeqti 0 00 e a lnume, ambb i timan t Bdbal face appear st_ dos three â€" And, I sive lt bility could g lan a@lo d then 14 flns carry ve. wit Eo VR whort aude ?" th*? e L :A A mm wife. 8 t the Lf His « i bia in BABY Tn bi lrice pulle * on C an MND & sue 1 ue q to 4 alth Di ul M to