4 grains, we Ed elt p be a paying crop, though not so good as as dar, summer months red crops would be a Tailare and some 'places bush' aged caused much alarm, ly Augush, however, heavy rains set. in and changed conditions for the better, + Harvest! began generally about: the. first week in: August, and h A continued favorably, most of grain now «being in stacked, and thrashing in progress. The: weather just. now. is rather un "favorable, but rain and frost have vidone no harm. | Some farmers have CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS TUAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER THE 'GLORE. Teclezraphio Briefs: From Our Son and 'Other! Countries 'of | Regent Events. CANADA | The Canadz Steel Company will build a four hundred thousand dol- lar mill at Hamilton. Six union bricklayers at Witni- Ros have been fined one hundred ollars each for '"'bolting" during the recent strike." Bishop Fallon of London, :Ont., has issued a denial of the report that he opposes the teaching of French in the schools of his dio-| cese. Judge Bazin dismissed thirty in- formations laid against Montreal hotelkeepers for violation. of the license law, as the witnesses failed to appear. To avoid arrest on a charge of theft Richard Richardson jumped from the third storey of a Wind- sor hotel on Friday and sustained | serious injuries. Mrs. Lancaster, from. London, Ont.. on Friday, jumped into the bay at Hamilton at the same spot where two other young women have lately committed . suicide in the same way. *Five 'men wha toek part' in the Rrodustion of the Jeffries-Johnston ght pictures at Bt, John have been fined $30 each for showing the pic- tures' without 'a license and com- mitted for trial on the charge of giving an immoral show. GREAT BRITAIN. Lady de Rothschild, widow! of Sir Anthony de' Rothschild, is dead, . aged ninety. hs, a, u Hayman, said chon the original of Charles Di "Little Dorrit," is dead at South- | sea, England. % Dr. Orippep and were commi Bow Street Po- lice Oourt, ndon, to stand trial for the murder of Crippen's iss Lenbve UNITED STATES A fire in the Deering Works at' Chicago, on Friday, damage' amounting to $200,000. The schools have been clos d at Tetown, Conn., becausé of the epidemic of jute tile paraljsie: = + Warrants have been issued. d Ly hod har ii of vars to take. the g vators, and. All stooks, oe wi is bright ands promising. 3 way Bad GENERAL. Germany's revenue will fall abot | + $10,760,000 short of the Btidget és- timates for the yea 191,076 CASES, 85 88,716 DEATHS. Cholera Taking g Foartl Toll in Russian. Pravinces. 5 A asp {from 'Bt. Petersburg says: The figures available at the Sanitary, Bureau show that during the prégent cholera epidemic there have been: 191,076 cases, with 88,~ 716 deaths, throughout the coun- try. On Friday Khabarovsk, seat: of the 'General Government of the Amir and capital of Primorskaya Province, Siberia, . and Nikolavek in the same province, were officially declared to be within the cholera zone. In the week endmg Sept. 17 there was a'total of 4,412 cased and 9,071 'deaths. In the. last six days there have been 201 new cases an 83 deaths in this city. In the week previous there were 330 cases and 136 deaths. mann sermon PIECE OF RIM 'BROKE WINDOW Automobile Tire Exploded on a Street in Ottawa, A despatch from Ottawa says: As an autondobile belonging to Mr. Edmund D. Bhepperd was proceeds ing down Sparks Street on. Wed: tesday morning, 'a'tire exploded. A part of the rim was burled across the sidewalk through. the plate glass window of a nearby store. Fortunately mo one was struck. a } CHOLERA AT NAPLES, Eleven New Cases. in 24 Hours Authorities Deny Epidemic. A despatch from. Naples says: fully tnsured. A desp "oh } says: 10 The 'metal working empldyers' or- gazinution met. on; Thursday and: voted to lock out the organized workmen in the 'trade ori Obtober 8 unless 'the striking return to work hefore that date. The organized metal workers hive been making' contributions. to support 'of the idle shi; Thursday's 'a¢tion was th influence the latter to retu work, The employers estimate' that 300,000: workmen) will be affected the lockout. : Several Giests B Parily E caped "With Their Lives in Hotel' Fire. A despatch X y | Ont, says: A Finnish girl named Patmi was burned to death in her To bed apd several guests barely: ess caped with their lives, "when the King - Edward 'Hotel here 'was burned to the ground on Wednes: day night. Miss Moore, an elderly B8 dozen; i" primes, ane; 1 com dozen Pork -- Short 'per barrel; me : rd i i} tu M1 ; stocks steady Smoked ud iy Salted Hea Bote? ba 150 woman 'working in the kitchen as helper, was burned severely. ii 'may not recover. A: French gir named 'Cadet was badly hurt ; she Jumped. 4 fram 3 ihe asp Secpad. window. 1 vas o ry John King of The ha i ie and was The cholera situation here is grave. | There have heen fifty cases and thirty deaths. . The: tlocal: -authori- ties will not admit as yet that the Yio epidemic 1s' cholera. ' During the twenty-four 'hours there have! n eleven new cases of "cholera and $wo Seathe fro $1 the tof [A discovered inthe. Four-year-old first' vietim: Bt. ( Chi b AB 80 1:98 1 N 2 No. B condition, ement be In: