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4 ~ os LISTOWEL | HUNTERS EXCURSION. -Oct, 27, 28, 9, 30. 3] and NOV. 9. returning not later than DEC. 18TH, _&£ vO MUSKOKA THE Spolsman's Dop't miss it. Paradise For full particulars apjly t J. A. HACKING.' rent G. T.°R. Issuer of Marriage Licenses. A« ect ListowelStandard | OCT. 30, 1895. ERIDAX, Martin Ag Greenway. t. 26. --Fighting Joe for Winnipeg, Oct. Martin is about to give measure measure to Mr. Greenway and his col- 'leagues for having kept him ont of the Federal Cabinet. According to the Tribune, he will go on the stump in the Lakeside by-election in favor of Mr. MeQunig the Patron, as against Mr. McKenzie, the Liberal. Mr. Martin may be and friends are now mortal enemies of the Greenway Government, and may in time secom- plish its downfall. 7 his N ominating Officers. Warden Ryan has appointed the fol- lowing nominating officers for the sev- eral County Council districts, as requir- ed by the new County Coyncils' Act, to serve at the mupicipal elettions in Jnniarynext : --~ Division --W: allace and Listowel ; R. o. Roberts. Division 2- Legau end Elma; Thos. Reidy. Division 3--Fullaiton, Hibbert and 4 Mitchell ; John. Wilson. Division 4--Downie and Blanshard ; P. S. Armstrong. Division 5--North and South hope:.A. M. Fisher. Division 6--Mornington, Ellice Milverton ; Fast- and Jumes Grieve, NORTH PERTH PROTEST. AY STRAT- PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION FORD. From the Terld, A. F. McLaren, M. P., ed in the court honse Monday in con- Was examin- " nection vith the protest: proceedings. G. G. Metherson conducted the ex- amination on behalf of the petitioner Simon Wildfang, and H. B. Morphy looked after Mr. MacLaren's interests. The examination was very much of a fishing expedition, Mr. MacLaren being subjected to a lot of questioning in the vain hope that something of value tothe petitioner might be ob- tained. The questions related to the matter of organization and Mr. Mac- Larea was asked as to those who work- ed for him, who looked after the how Mr. Casson, who had rooms, was engaged a number of other similar nature. Mr. straightforward ans- questions, but there Mr. Me- questions of a MacLaren gave wers to all the was nothing satisfying to Pherson in them. At noon an adjournment was taken until 1.30, when Mr. MecLaren was to produce his bank book and cheques covering the period of the campaign. Mr. Morphy instructed his client not to produce the cheques and bank book if he was prepared to swear that there was nothing in. them concerning the "election. The examination was condneted in private. A Beacon reporter applied for admission to the examination, but objection was taken to his presence. The examination for discovery in the protest against Mr. MacLaren was completed in the afternoon. Another session will be held for the purpose of reading the evidence. Mr. Thomas Watson, candidate for Vice-President on the People's ticket, has announced definitely that he will withdraw, nor will helo anything r. Bryan's The Presidental Election. | j tio: and the Result will not be | Kiowa for 24 or 48 Hours After | Polling. Washington, Oct. 26.--The coming | Presidentail elections will be held un ' der coaditions which have never be- fore prevailed, and which will render the official count a i aud unusual delay | Since the last Presidential contest | | almost every State which had not then ballot system } } { udopted the Australian | has State t t 1 i} some form of secret blanket ballot, | either based on the Australian plan or The on!ty ex- by | closely resembling it. | ceptions are Georgia, Louisiana, North | Carolina and South In the } first three States named the old open Carolina. | ullot system prevails and the election | muchiuery is in the hands of the State In called | authorities. "reform ballot," the avewed purpose of whieh is tu be restrict the votes of illiterate negroes. other States blunket in many of 18 what is a In nearly all the ballots will be cast, and, - the fact that State, legislative aud | county nominations are printed on the | {sume ballot with the names of Presi- dential electors. and prints each party ticket upon a. sep- urate ballot. Should the election be in 'therefore, jeuvelope system uuy way close, it is, quite possible that it may be 24 hours, or after the polls close known with abso- ever 48 hours, before the result is Inte certainty. In States like Ne- braska for instance, where, according to conservative opigion, there may of 5000 way, it will be impostible to arrive at not be a margin votes 'eifher a correct judgement -until all the back counties are heard ftym. 'The polls m the cities close at 4 p. m., but in the country districts keep open until 6 p. m., and with a Governor, a legislut i were matter of difficulty | ,} ed and cared for Sonth Caroliua there | | them the count will be complicated by | Connectitut has an | New Jersey | front car of the excursion train was: the commissary car, filled with re- lt 'Will be Held Under New Condi-' treshmeuts. A number of passengers, mostly young men, were grouped | around the temporary counter, eating as drinking, This and the next car ere ecuialacaly shattered. In the | cosh followmg the commissary car 70 people. These fared badly, | especially from the steam that poured forth from both boilers. Windows were | broken in order to secure egress. The | car had been turned completely around, i and lodged alongside the commissary rhe seriously injured were treat- at Kirkwood, and thore able to travel and the uninjured were 'returned to the city at 3 p. m. Tt is known that Engineer Dryden had | orders to wait at Wiudsor Siding, near where the collision occurred, to allow | the accommodation train to pass, but 1e increased the train's speed and tried /to overbanl the first section of the | train. The excursionists were going to St. | | Sat nes, Mo., to assist in the dedication 'ofa home for the aged~-widows of | veterans. car, UNITED STATES ELECTIONS. Six Ticketsin the Field for President und Vice-President. | ------ i . | An Epitome of the Different Contests . to Take Place Throughout the Union on Noy. 3. Washington, D..C., Oct. 27,--One week from to-day (Tuesday) the United States will electa President and Vice-President for the ensuing term of four years, beginning March 4, 1897. The leading candidates are as follows : --Repnblican--For President, William McKinley ; for Vice-President, Garrett A. Hobart. Democratice--For Presi- dent, William J. Bryan ; i President, Arthur Sewall. Poptlist-- For President, William J. Bryan ; for Vice-President, Thomas E. Watson. Gold Democrats--For President, John g and county officers to elect, all on gne ballot, it will tuke at least six hours to complete the count. . PARTY MANAGERS VERY BUSY. New York, Oct. 26.--The last week of the political campaign the Democratic Republicans, party manugers very There large number of callers to-day at Re- publican itt man Joseph H. " Manley said toa re- presentative of the United Associated Pyéss: "We enter upon the last k with more confidence and more ardor than ever. We are certain finds and busy. ere a ~~ OGomm of large McKinley's majority will be." Chairman James C. Trnman of the Democrate State Executive Commit- tee, who was called on spbsequeatly was equally as sure York by the reporter, that Bryan would carry New State by a ineiee con plurality. Nine People Killed. AN ACCOMMODATION TRAIN DOWN SOUTH "RAN AN EXCURSION TRAIN WITH AWFUL RESULTS, iNTO St. Louis, Oct. 25.--A head-end col- lision occnrred on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway near Mesamec Highlands at 10 o'clock this morning, by which nine people were killed and a score used: The scene of the wreck is miles west of this city, The Valley Park accommodation train, going east very fast on a down grade, came into a collision with the second section of u westbound excursion train, going to St. James, Mo., and carrying 240 G, A. R. men and their families. The impact demolished both engines and wrecked or deruilel all the cars. Nine bodies were recovered during the afternoon, and it is believed that at least two more beneath the inju ure wreck. Of the 20 injured cight are likely todie. Followiny is a list of the dend : Charles Kohl, engineer accommoda- tion train, St. Louis; Conrad Kunze, excursionist, St. Louis; Charlet M Nobles , excursionist, St. Louis ; W. G ist, St. Louis ; Frank Hasler, locomotive fireman, St. Louis ; J. C. Blevins, passenger on ac ecommodation, Beckville, Mo. ; William Cartwright, excursionist, St. Bernard McKenna, St. Louis, in charge of refreshment car; Mary. McKenna, aged 14, assisting her father. The injuries of the following are Louis : '| thought to be fatal, all being residents of St. Louis ; Engineer Dryden of the excursion train, Conductor Henry Os- good of the excursion train, Conductor George Wolf of the accommodation train, Charles R. Milentz, Mrs Peter Hall, Frank Garrity, J. E. Triplett, Frederick Lenz. Thore were ten passengers in the two cars of the accommodation train. 'The winning, and the only question is how | M. Palmer ; for Vice-President, Simon B. Buckner. Besides these four tickets the Prohibitionists and Socialists each Lave a ticket inthe field, so that 'six tickets are offered to the voters, al- though interest centers' in the four above named. The ballots will be cast in every one of the forty-five States, not for the candidates by name, but for Presidential electors, each State having such a number as is representative of its population. Thus New York, most populous State, has 36 electoral' votes, while Delaware, the smallest! State, has but three. The successful electors will assemble next month in this city nnd cast their votes directly for the President and Vice-President whom they represent. The whole number of electoral votes -in the 45 States is 447, of which a necessary majority is 224. The Republicans have a straight electoral ticket in 44 of the 45 States, having effected fusion in one--Texas-- with the middle-of-the-road Populists aud the gold-standard Democrats. The Democrats have a straight electoral ticket in but 15 States, having effected fusion with the Populists in 29 others, and not reached a conclusion in the remaining one. In some cases the Populists iudorsaed the Democratic electoral ticket ; in others concessions of electors were made to them, and in two Stautes--Oregon and South Da- kotu--the Democrats indorsed the Po- pulistic electoral ticket. The contest in the main is between the Populists and Free Silver Republicans and De- mocrats on the one hand, and the Gold Standard Republicans on the other. The fourth ticket, headed by Palmer and Buckner, represents the sentiment of the Gold 'Standard De- mocrate, who would not accept the Chicago platform declaring for free coinage of silver or the candidate of that convention, ryan, ye would not support the Republican candidate, McKinley. 'The strength of the Gold Standard Democrats is not sufficient to insurethe election of Palmer and Buckner, but the Republicans be- lieve it will attract enough Demoera- tic voters from Bryan to make Me- Kinley's election sure, while the Bry- the secession from their rauks is more than compeusated accession of Popnlistic strength and free silver deserters from the Republican party. At the same election ballots will be cast in each of the States for Repre- sentatives in Congress, of whom 357 are to be elected, these also being pro- portioned according to population. The States will also vote for members of their State Legislatures, which, up- on assembling next January, will se- lect U. S. Senators, the members of the Upper'House of Congress being chosen in this manner, two from each State. Accordingly as the country goes, Republican or Democrat, there in noites cinim that for by the : sxion of. the next Congress is likely to be modified. The Jast Con- gress had a Republican majority in the.House, but notin the Senate. It is not impossible that enough Demo- cratic Congressmen may be elected to give « Democratic majority int both Honses, but it is not likely that this wilk be the result, unless Bryan' is elected. The election of McKinley will assuredly give a Republican House of Representatives, The Republicans confidently predict that McKinley will freceive nearly or quite 300 of the 447 electoral votes The Demotrats hope to carry enough States to give Bryan the requisite 224 and something more. The Repuili- cans look for the election of at least 224 of the 357 Congressmen, and the Democrats are counting 'on abont 200, These are of course Dartinan predic- tions merely. The main issues in this cumpaign have been finance and protection. The Democrats want more mintage of money, and are satisfied to let the present tariff, stand. The Republicans want more industries protected by high tariff and are content to let the money alone. Each in way seeks the amelioration of the conditiens o the country, which -has been un- deniably depressed for three years past. If the Democrats should be successful, we may expect the next administration not to meddle with the tariff, but to press forward financial legislation to effect bi-metallism without the consent or assistance of any other nation. Ifthe Republicans win, they, may be forced to take some action up- on the question of metalliam, but they will almost cer- tainly restore the tariff on certain items now free listed, and rnise the import duties on severai others. its international bi- The Old N. P. Still a Power in the Land. Berlin" Teco ord, The Westinghouse Air Brake com- pany, of Pennsylvania, is about ta es- tablish a branch manufactory in Ham- ilton. pany--akers of the Columbia bicycle --is seeking a location in the Domin- ion, and all the big Canadian cities are hanging out inducements to get the company's factory. These two i stances are straws that show which way the trade wind is blowing. Obvi- Méusly it is not the opinion of these two 'Big American firms that Canada, eyen undera free trade government, will adopt free trade ; for ifthey had be- lieved so, it would not have been necessary for them to have come to Canada. An addition to their present American factories would have been all that was necessary. S Manitoba Wheat msg PRICES FALL, AND FARMERS AXE HoLD- ING THEIR oan POR ANOTHER RISE. Winnipeg, Oct. 27.--With continned low prices at Chicago and other of the world's wheat markets, it was impos- sjele that prices in Manitoba should remain as high as they have been during the past few weeks. Riyal companies have Dy no means ceased their war, but they are not now s9 keen intheir hostilities. Their buyers have been instructed to go to reason- able limits. The result is that prices throughout Manitoba haye declined from 65 to 66 cents for number one hard wheat to from 61 to 63 cents. Even these prices are five cents above the export value, so that the farmer has little cause for complaint. Even with this decline the Manitoba, farmers is being paid a great deal more for his crop thenthe farmers of Minnesota, Dakota and other States across the border line. While the extremely prices _ prevailed in regular grain operators called off their buyers, leaving the millers' representatives tdé take all that was offered. Now, how- ever, they are all in the acuffle again. Reports at the Grain Exchange yes- terday morning indicate that farmers at various country points, with the de- cline above noted, now refuse to sell their wheat. These reports say that most of the farmers will now store their wheat, and wait for another "boom." Wheust prices in Manitoba may not get any higher than at present, but it isa pretty safe prediction they will not get very much lower. The Bishop of Huron has boro, to the parish of Berlin, county of Waterloo. Rev. = Smith has accepted the appointm He went sade Peterboro from Tindany only a little ayear ago, bunt during that time a won the confidence and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. The Pope Manufacturing com- + Good News oS Of New Goods. The Newest and Most Correct in FALL GOODS ARE HERE. The old is put away and we must don that which is new, and why not the newest? We gather direct from the Manufactures, We display beyond question the GREATEST VALUES EVER OFFERED. We never bought so liberally. We never bought sowell. We never got values so low in New Dress Goods, New Cape Cloths, New Mantle Cloths, New Velveteen all Colors, New Gloves and Hosiery, New Carpets, New Corsets and Umbrellas. New Flannels, New Flannelettes, New Cottons, New Blankets, New Table Linens. New Towellings, Towels and Tablé Napkins. n rat STYLISH - GLOTHING - AN® - FURNISHINGS PS It is true .there are grades ne of clothing we do not sell, 3 some clothing is made so cheap is, -* 'that they are expensive for Z & ot anybody to wear. It is short- loot ; i sighted economy that only Nek tit looks at the. price. At our Prices nobody sells clothing as good asours. Weare care- ful to. see that every person gets advantage of our know- ledge of Clothes and guarantee al! our Goods tobe as _ repre- sented, see for yourself . the sizeof Stocks devoted to Men's and Boys' needs thé range in / i] | ve j . styles and the values we offer in Overcoats, Suits, Underclothing, Gloves, Hats. and Caps, Shirts all kinds, Ties and Suspenders. The chances are we'll get your trade if vou on'y NEW BOw YTS, SHOES mak ecomparison, RUBBERS, ' Th oryhealy to buy as hes as possibl es after all is only a relative qualit Some "ticle | ive a mania for Warten " long as it does not cost + then much and usudlly with su volt people vou ti: Wis evllaror an attic Med with alot eo useless truch Boots and St we net aa exception mm this app is wutie oo When men and women are g iving a good de 'of attention pust.now ¢ the Newest ta and "Bonnets jet chen renember thet not S$ more tnadres. iy myo voey vorly Si nee Bo ot, One prices are as low as lowest, but we take please pia n Fall Boots end Stylish Goods as mune i us to the prices. Shoe. and tis is the GROC? RIES We also keep a fall line of ry WH. SPEAR RY Goods delivered to all parts ofthe town There are tistics "s sre Where above all others you cu sve then and Glassware. tirncecivn. Crockery x -* Main St. No. 8 Main St. og Givi ing up Business KROTZ & - WALTER Have decided to go out of Business and will offer their well assorted stock of D GOODS, CLOT HING, FURS,. OVERCOATS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GROCERIES Ete. AT PRICES NEVER BEFORE HEA'D OF in this section. Goods to bw actually SLAUGHTERED. PRICES NO OBJECT GOODS before purchasing RY CAPs, WE must clear out our STOCK, so do not fail to examine o elsewhere. The Sale will commence on and after Oct. 17th, '96. No trouble to.show goods. KROTZ & WALTER, / LISTOWEL. TERMS CASH. A call solicited. No. 9 Wallace St. next door to Bricker Hard- ware Co. Listc .7el Post Office. Special Offer. aa Mail Opens. 8.15 a. m. Toronto and Mail Ulosect points east 6.30 a.m 11.45 p. | 12.45 p. m. . 4 | O45 es PY) 2 p.m, | $15 a.m. Stratford and legs Sa.om { 11450. m. South and Wes 2p tk: | 215 p.m. Z Kits | 8.458, m. Wiarton-Southampton H and points south lu, 454. im | 2.45 p.m. 7 p- m. e | $8.15 a. m. Kincardine and 11.45 a.m. nts west 7 p. m, 1.15 p.m, Ethel and Atwood C | 215 p.m. Molesworth and ' | * Trowbridge 3p. my | Per Doz. AT D. BARBER'S HOUSE FOR SALE Comfortable dwelling Re in Liste: ¥entently foc ' fixtures." Good. 'a te a ith Tmace: ain i ae spring well on ines. 0s Oernec The Leading Galle oe Ga g ry. Sept. Yard, 18%. TAMES L. DARLING, *