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THROUGHOUT THE WORLD The Cream of the. News of Seven Days. eS CANADA. Newfoundland sealers report a good catch. There is & movement on foot in Hali- ax to establish a battery of field ar- tillery in Nova Scotia. Mr. MeMillan, ageut of the Manitoba i Gjvernment, brought a party of B00 settlers from England on the Var- isian. Conservative members at Ottawa Col. the appointment of c Adju- Smith, D. A. G. at Li ndon, as tant-General. he Mayor of Galt has oifered a re- ward- of $50 for the conviction of a person who is asaulting young ladies in the town. A coroner's jury at Ottawa has found that the es ith of Mrs. Hudson is due to her husband kicking unt otherwise ill-trdéiting her. Sault Ste. Marie Liberals strongly urge the nomination of Mr. C. M. Beck of Penetanguishene as the voaneiaa te in Algoma for the Commons Arrangements have been made by which all the Cree Indians, the wi ards of Canada, will be deported from Mon- tana to the Northwest Terri tories. Mr. F. J. Rogers, Manager of the Bank of Montreal, who is leaving Des- eronto for Peterboro, was prese snted with nu silver service by Desero nto citi- zens A pill was introduced Inghe Senate by Sir Mackenzie Bow ell t@ confer on the Behring Sea Commissioners W ho may be appointed full power ol judges. Ald. EF. Goif Penny is the Liberal candidate for the Commens in the Bt. Lawrence division of Montreal. Mayor BREMUAN 0 HANG jor | | cusses, j i) nee. I | | Wilson Smith is his Conservative op- ponent The Controller of Customs has ap- | proved of a pilin to allow United | States bicyele riders to tour in Can- ada without the payment of Cus- toms duties. Robert Morran way arrested at Hol land, Manitoba. on a@ charge of mur- dering Miss Hannah Hatton. Tie prisoner worked on the farm of the | young lady's uncle Superintendent Wiryte, of the P. R., estimates that 9,000,000 bus shels of wheat is in Manitoba and western elevators awaiting the opening of navigation. A good deal "of it is still held by the farmers. The reported drowning of the party on Rainy River proves to been false. The party, who were looking «after ed Canadian tim- ber robbers, Naff | alleg Re have | n narrow escape, and | ost all. their itfit by breakibg through the ict Mrs. M. Seott. of Brewer's Mills, near Kingston, who was reported to | have beeu cured of cons um ption, died the other day at her father's resi- dence, wiich makes the second deatii | at that place of a Christian Science patient within a yeur. On April 10, 1895, a young lady from Kingston died while doctoring there with her aunt, who is a Christian Scientist. UNITED STATES. \lexander Terrell, United States Minister to Turkey, JMLSSePHET on the [lamburg- Ame init Stet iis er Fuerst DPismarck irrived at New York. Col. Veter Glen, of New York, the highest officer next to Commander Ballington Looth; has deserted the Volunteers and returned to the Sal- vation Army Power trom the great dynamos_of | wias® strong presumption of insanity, Jie concluded his address with a stir 1; unless grave provocation were given. | ring appeal for leniency on behall ol i Crime was always evidence of a de- |. his client. fective mental condition. He admit- | THE CROWN'S REPLY. ted thit a man hinge in hi a passion | }eommitted murder might be defective _ After a pony minutes' interval, | the | and yet not -saincac and not irrespon- bees for the Cro n, Mr. 2 i | l sible for his acts. r. Johnston pro- |' olnston rose to address the jury. In |duced a letter written by Brennan | ® deliberate and argumentative man- ifrom the Barrie jail to his daugfiter Bol he drew a graphic and vivid pic- | lin 'Toronto, and, reading it over: to | ture of the entire circumstances of the | the witness, asked him if there was | CASE, | according to the evidence given, | any evidence in it of insanity? The | dress seemed to impress the witness snid he eould perceive non ae very Neri: " he et a pro- THE ore tes peas seyseys . Eresst i.59 pn Mr. Jolinston THE PRISONER'S LETTER, cone rudy I his "adiire SS in these words: Barrie Jail |" The Crown offers you no middie "My Dear Agnes, received your} course for_a verdict. It must be mur- letter of ZUrd, Which wis a great | der, according to the charge contained surprise 'to me, from Toronto. Now, / in the indictment, or else innocence. | Agnes, did I know even that any ol | What right had the prisoner to take | you were in Toronto or not? vo, | that life which the Creator had | I Was told by one whom--I eould "de--t3 given?" |} about the Niagara Power Company will be | transmitted into New York city over four hundred and sixty-two miles of wire on May Sth by the new Tesla system. Samuel P. Lang the wealthy coal operater ol eanery! ia who was held on a s of having caused the death Annie MeGrath, the girl with whom he was living, has been discharged for want of evi- dence connecting him with the crime. GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. Iloit, of he English shippiag firm of Lamport and Molt, is dead. Chamberlain stated in the Brit- of Commons that Presi- dent -Kruger had not replied to his invitation to" visit England. The London Standard pubils shes a despateh from Buluwayo saying that the Matabeles hi ive murdered 100 whites and that 250 are still missing such Qn May 29th for the Murder of} « Mr, Strathy. --_--_-- THE PLEA OF INSANITY FAILS. Doctors Disagree--Dr- Bue 'ke's Evidence Weak--The Prisoner Pleads for@ New Trial--Says He Could Save Himself Bat Would Have to Disgrace His ramlly-- Charges His Wife With Intidelity--His Wife Gives Way to Her Emotion--Long Letter of the Prisoner Read tn Court-- Addresses of Connsel--The Jary"s Ver- dict of Marder and the Death sentence | says: M. Brennan was to-night found guilty of the mur- der of Mr. John A. Strathy, ov the wth of February last, and was sen- tenced by Mr. Justice Armour to! be hanged on the 20th of May. Aiter all the evidence had been received and ate of counsel and the Judge; charge delivered, it took just 50 min- utes for the Jury to arrive at their finding. It was $40 o'clock when the jurors filed into the court with their verdict. The room was densely packed, and, although the result was expected, the crowd aw aited with anxiety till the doom had been pro- nounced. The prisoner received it ap- Barrig despatch addresses nre ° wee nise gate aN Oe hy the hp 2 Crown to prove that Brennan had he had anything to say. Mr. Lount | bever struck them as being insane, asked lor a reserve case, on) the and was in fact, spn from this one rround of objections to the Judges | insane feature ot his character-- | charge, bat this was refused. | namely, jealousy of his wife--quite as ia | sane as other men. : EVIDENCE OF INSANITY. | 'This conciuded the evidence, which Dr. Duecke was Called, una tes- had been longer than was expec ted. l tified to having heard the evidence The auditors heave sigh of re- und examined the prisoner, whom he lief and settled themselves to sigten regurded as insane, and, if responsibdie tu the addresses of counsel. The pris- for his acts, th in iw modified de- | CDer, too, Who had preserved the same gree immovi ible attitude during the day as Mr Johnston tovk the witness in | he had adopted on the day previous, hand. wad put him through a very | looked up and changed his pices searching exammation. He asked him slightly s0 ag to have o better come | in tle beginning if it were not true j mand of the jury that he lad re peatedly given evidence in murder trials, os alwiys the defence ? Bucke he had been a wienees iu six or sometimes on the side of and sometimes on that of the The last case in which he given expert testimony tn Shor case in Quebvee, there appeared for. the Mr. J@unston the at Crown, hi id the had Hie ad imitted to tis hence. that data, made diagnosis of, a se of insanity was prefect or im~ perfe et to that extent the opinion lie arrived at would be perfec t or im pertect. He maintained that the mind of the murderer was very seldom to on in a right condition when he commit- ted the deed, nreply to a que stion put by the Judge he svaich that .the very faet that one man killed another pend on that you had gune to Minne- apolis, to your Unel that was tne aecount I got of you. The next was George Ge mndron, from J'enetang, said he saw May some place on Yonge street early in the summer, but knew no more. how, Mr. Strath y and your mother. i What right or ground had I to 2 word? No, I felt fairly sat- | is fied that your mother had gone to Bay City to her sister, the | persoa that accuses me of 8: aying that A despatch fom London says that.| Lady Mountstephen is no better, She* suffers from a grave internal Ccom- plaint, and has undergone an opera- tion, The Duke of Argyle and the Duke of Westminster. .will send a circular to the American and Canadian press up- pealing for relief for the suffering Armenians. GENERAL, The town of Santa Cruz, on the Is- land of Luzon, i Four thousand houses were Prince Hohenlohe, the en Im- perial Chancellor, is at esent in Paris incognito, and wiil areca ed to Vienna. The Ameer of ed an. expedition Kafirstan as preca Russian aggression. The rumor is gaiming groundin Mad- Afghanistan has start- to aution against was almost destroyed | |,or is subjugate the rid that C: SHER General Weyler is to | be r gia Campos is reinstated. Smperor Francis Joseph of Austria ly s "expected to visit England in in order to inspect the First Dragoon Guards, of which regiment he has been appointed peared colonel. Dr. Peters, the former German Im- perial Goneienness in Africa® states that whatever the result of the in- quiry into his conduct, he St one the German Government servic recalled from Cuba, and that Mar- a ition. and I think oes without any, is a deliberate falsehood, 50 a blackmail. Mr. Strathy was one of the first and most confidential friends I had in Barrie. Any person coming to you after this, pay no at tention to it. About a counsel, I understand that my brother is, and if it is Mr. Jolmston I shall be very well plensed.-t-dont- know whether he knows anything about Mr. John- | ston or eot. Nuw. dear Agnes, I don't want you to de stroy your co ir stitution by-trying to-do more th you can, but' your mother is ater She must be taken as good cure of as possible. A good, ~ quiet place, | with as much kindness as possibly can be given her, will do more for her case than a doctor. Any more than proper medicine to give her ease. Don't let her be thrown into some the advice of you can perhaps find = place quiet "and cheap until I see further. About the other ebjidren you have not let me know anything. Stepelton I have worried considera ple about. Is he eyes weak? W fell, will enclose you, please find $2 public ward. Ask good pefson, and y » and make as rood use of it as possible, and when you write let me know are you in very much need or not, and I will send you more. In your letters le Stephen, and | say | It | some | a number Bucke Dr. even admissions from to ced that, nnan was _ ng. REBUTTAL. This co pentytite the evidence for the prisoner, and Mt. Jolnston then called his ev ans in yeti Dr. Wells, of first witness thus that known the prisoner for twenty-five years, and had been his f family physi- cian for eight years e saw little change in him since 'he kept the Vic- toria Hotel in Barrie. He had exam- ined the prisoner severad times for in sanity. He was one of the medical men who had maae an examination of his mental condition when he had been |} sent down from Midland on a charge \of insanity. On that occasion he had | pronounced him not insane. Since the | killing of Mr. Strathy he had exam- i ined Brennan fo ur times--on the 27th ot February, on the 10th of March, on the 17th of March and on the 6th of April. Dr. James H. Richardson, of To- ronto, stated that as consulti ng phy- siclan at Toronto General Hospital 4 " | considerable number of insanity cases yassed under his consideration. fe bel! eved the prisoner to have been quite capable of appreciating the quality and nature bihisact W hen he 10t Mr. John Dua cal and was therefore responsible for With the conclusion aE "he Rieh- ardson's evidence the medical testi- mony was ciosed, and the rest of the merely called by the | LHE ADURESSES. | Mr. Lount, on behali of the wecused, i began his address to the jury, an } occupied in all two hours ind ten | minutes, pleading for the life of his | | client. fon the Michael le appealed we the jury sole ly ground that 'the prisone Brennan, Was not eaparathte crime which he commigted, midman in the full sense of "df the evidence," he said, which the Crown has ape yee against him is so strong that at last you are forced to give in and pales you will have to do your duty, but think well before you pronounce that ave this h God g as a awtul word * Guilty } man life, and no man h |take it from him. Let me further, a man was shot down i rie, as you all know, and at | wave of passion went over the land." A-PAENFGL-SCENE. At the couctusion of Mr. pate ad- dress, Mr srennau and her daugi- ters, W ho "had been sitting in the jury iy listening, rose to leave the building. To do so they hat to pass through the court-roum, and when just in the middie of the throng Mrs. Brennan screamed, "Oh, my God! | The ery, which was repeated over pand- over again, was "agonizing." THe | prisoner hud been taken out tor a | briet period just a short time before and aceordingly missed the scene When the fainting woman had been removed His Lordship chided the con- stabies for having admitted them un- der the circumstances. THE JUDGE'S CHARGE. It was a little after 7 Ilis Lordship began his charge jury, and-he~spoke-for-ab ' mimutes, Ile warned the jurers to | pay no uttention to the appeais made | by connsel to their sympathies or tu ni} their fears. What they were there ito do was to find a true verdict ac- | cording to the evidence. They were not concerned about results; it phi the law, ana not they; that imposed results his duty as Judge in the exse was to lay down the law to | them, it was their-duty to act in ac- |cordance with it. What, he asked, would betome of the administration j)of justice ff he allowed sympathy or tear to invade the bench? He isuw that it did not do s0, and they likewise shoulu, see vade the Jury box. In considering the case, he. sald, he would deal with the |Crowns portion ot it if th oner wus sane, and afterward Ing up the portion of the dei would give attention to the plea insanity. On the 28th of February, then, /he continued, the prisoner had don't ask for any information, as Ij gonej/to Mr. Strathys house to make will not thik. Give your mother all | som ink es about his children. It the kindness. You can use good judg- | Was shown in the trial that Mr, ment, and don't give her any unne- cessaryY money. Perhaps it wo ould be well not to show her this letter, but Strathy did not Know anything about them, but as the prisoners wile had been a servant in Judge Gowan's cousider that as you may, omic do | house, Brennan thought ghat per- whe it is right. My love ll, | hapgs_-ke might. He had stopped a boy and that the ae 'ot Teovideheo eaiae | driving a cutter and told him to you all until I you. From your | walt for him so that he might also true a affectionate father, M. J. | see Mr. Pepler and catch the 11 o'clock Brenna | train. He went inte Mr. Strathy's o Mr. Lount Dr. Bucke said that | house, and when Mr. Strathy came London Asylum prob- 100 patients who could write a es A letter than the one just pro- duced. obtained While Mr, Johnston put out and fell on his hands and knees. The result of this was that the prisoner intentionally fired his revolverat Mr. Strathy and shot him. 'rom every intentional case- the law implied malice. A man is pre- sumed by the law to be responsible for the figebenense or natural re- that it did not in- | sult of his own act. The counsel for the defence said that ae jury might reduce the case to oi =man- ra rhter, byt this could ae be Gone sons: In the first place was Guite cwathun his the prisoner out of his. house and even if. he had not been, still the prisoner had no right use unlawful weapons. He could adit and should have only in the event of being pursued, and finding his life in dan- ger, would he have been justified = shooting. The prisoner, therefore, this count was guilty of murder. The ar matter for consideration was his: Was the prisoner laboring un- fier such disease of the mind that he was incapable of realizing what was right and what was .wro ons ? law presumed that every man responsible for his acts, and if he not ig tgaita aac he must show that he was not by convincing testi- There was no doubt the man 2s "unler delusions as to his w vife's oo chastity, but, taking the evidence of | Orter seen the fur a- eit hd | the wife and daughter. did it show Towser howled, an' Prince that he was under any other de- (Johnny s dog) got tore to pieces! lusion than that ? Were they Ain't seen my dog since satisfied that the man was in- | Then the circus tent fell down sane except on that point? The law | An' just swallowed up the clown! did not say that a man was relieved a of responsibility because he was in- Ain't had any other circus | sane, because "he was deficient in in- Since that ime, 'Cos why ° tellect, but only in case he was 80 Ain't no dags 'Il BAY they re losses diseased in mind as: not. to be able} . Vhen them cats is by lto appreciate the nature and qual- Goin' to keep our "horns an' drums jity of lis act, or to know that i Tili the true-true Circus comes. jwas wrong. if they found the pris- Rp ET : bor wus thus incapable they' must ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE, | acquit him. If iey found he was } " Pap, what is tin Vid suw--not the capable, and therefore responsible, jsaw you saw With, but tie Kind this | they must return a verdict of guilty. jApPEr Spr aks about?" : Now, His Lordship asked, was Breu- | "What old suw dees the paper Inan at the time he killed Mr. | speak about? } Strathy laboring under such delu- | Thats what F want to know. It sion as to be incapable of apprec iating | says 'Everybody bus heard the vid his act? The Judge referred to the sav, never look a gift horse in the evidence regarding Brennan between mouth. Want to know where | July and the time of the shooting , | the Saw comes . lund pointed out that Stewart and | "Well, theres your old BLLW. An the others who knew him and | 02 td saw is an old proverb. worked with him had seeu nothing } "Why sittin t you look a gilt | peculiar in him. Mr. Miscampbell hi: ui | horse in the wieuhh bei |seen nothing strange in his talk on | * Becaupye--pecnuse its bad taste. manner. Could it be said that he | Its ungrateful, and all thut sort ol wus laboring under disease of mind | thing." lsuch as to render him ¢: apable of | "All what sort of thing 7" | shooting Strathy, and not knowing] " Why, to lo nk a horse in the mouth that he was doing wrong? | that has been given to you shows . VERDICE OF GUILTY. | that---it shaws that you are not think- | : ; . i ing ot the river, but ut the value of j "use was given to the JUTY, | the gift. | etired yactly at 7.35 Pe) op What would any body want to After one hour's ; deliberation the JUrY | jank a horse in the mouth for 2"? | returned to the court. There Was 2] "re teil how old it silence ay though death itself Were in (After a pause.) ' Pints, can you the chamber. and every eye WAS | tei) how old a saw is by lovking at its | turned on thie jurors as they stood | teeth 2" |erect in front of their former seats. | peer | His Lordship asked the usual ques) = srx MILES PROM THE MOON. tion as to Whether or not they fad | : decided upon a verdict The reply A voyage to the moon Js the latest came back from the foreman, " Yes, | project Which is' seriously put for- my lord We find the prisone r at} ward as the crownlns point of the tie bar guilty of murder.' Paris Exhibition at 1900 Monsieur Mr. Lount arose, and asked that | Mantois, its author, does not propose judgment be reserved, W hich Was | to curry passeneers to the lunar re- denied, | "Michael Drennan," iship, "have you any thing to jwhy the sentence of the court shall |not be passed upon you" THE PRISONER SPEARS. The prisoner rose slowly, and, look jug straight at--his Lordship, said_in |} a clear and te ae natural voice, "Well, my Lor: o sincerely ¢ | for another tricl, "for I have not bee n properly tried. [ ask .you from the > heart, between God and I say man, L prove my |} proper trial, wrong. <All is for children. It is something i way I've been treated by t man.--It-is--a-~most disgraceful thing wiil i_my-Lord,-I a you-as-a@ man of God, you will fair trial. My arincipel witne ss had to-day will show i want to do is right. I ask you giv an honest and just man. 1 am wath in twenty-two miles of where I was | born. eee these people know me, and | l tho I could get through my | crounia' without doing the slightest | harm, I could eet mi: uy and many @ ; one to ae they asked me to do anything. ob I think they could get me througl my trouble, and a2 Ai - | just man I look upon you, | you, between God and min. I will satisfy you and I will satisfy the world." / THE DEATH SENTENCE. ¢ Just as soon as he had finished his Lordship :! " You have id a ai trial, and been ably. defended. Of the evidence there was no doubt. The jury's finding LIheartily concur in, and the seng you be. tase l | cume, and Friday, the 29th day of May, 1896, you be hanged by the neck until} dead, and may the Lord have mérey on your soul." Just before the jury first retired, | Mr. Lount took . objection to the ty s charge on certain points, but | his Lordship refused to allow the ob- jection. BRADSTREETS ON TRADE. | Snow blockades in the Proviace of Quebee, followed by rain, have lett in a coniition to con commercial enterprise. country roads Inue to check At the city of Quebee trade is slightly said His Lord: } UP eee Se ee CUS. pee a Johnson had a circus Whe backyard is Got we great big dogs" for hosses-- Mine, and Dick's an' his Johnny--he was clown, you know ; Took six pins to see the show. Sewed two big white sheets together, (Fohuny did--not me! Cos you couldn't have no circus 'Thout a tent, you Boys come in for miles aroun' Warn't no pins left in the town! Johnny rubbed self- is flour On his face an' th Streaked it from thee red-ink bottle. Just like circus men. An' his uncle said, said } 'Best clown ever he did see.' ao Some--they sat aroun' on boxes, Some on old oa logs But we had two cats for monkeys, An' they don't like dogs. An' when things were running" right Them two cats sailed in for fight: ions in an aerial ear, but he e xpects to bring down the moon to thie re ach ot people whose vision extends, say, six iniles from the earth. The pian is to coffstruct a tele- scope nearly 200 feet in length. The objective glass will have a diameter of something over four feet tiree inches; the largest in the world. The colossal tube will be placed horizon- tally, and the image of the moon will be reflected by what is termed a mir- ror plane, six f: 'et in diameter and fifteen inches thick. The weight will be $,000 pounds. The special feature of the idea is that the image of the moon shall be thrown upon a screen | placed in,a hall large enough to hold Wwo- | ryan ,| She smiles, and with h | ter ' ance of this court is that | ence from where you} | She sets Ww 600 spectators. Astronomers eficulate that with apparatus of thess dimensions it wilt-be-possible to discern easily ob- jects of the size of the Notre Dame Cathedral towers, and to. distinguish the evolutions of a 1 Should the opening eentury be signalized eruptions in the mountains of moon visitors to the exhibition, would have a grand spectacle. MAMMA'S=-GIRBE. She puts her little aate uous nid, And kisses my faded ] And she rubs ny throbbing temples With her rosy finger tips the house in heatest order hen all is in a whi And she tends the ane w hen my head aches Mamma's girls. er hapny jaugh- Drives all our tears away; No one knows how to be Aes or angry. After living with her ada is like the little flush of Teaaanica, That lies in her bonny curls, And every one loves her who knows er-- Mamma's sne girl, the 'best of girls. MERRY CHILDHOOD. Mamma--Now, Johnny, I want you to tell me where you were yesterday uiternoon, Your shoes are in a ter- rible condition, and your trousers are mud up to the waistband. Johnny-- Didn't you tell me,. mamma, that I should not talk about week-day mat- ters on the Sabbath ? Kangaroo--You had great luck,last limproved. At Toronto trade is fea i.year getting your trunk through the i tureless and without activity. Col- | custom house without paying a duty. lieetions are backward, and Ontario | Elephant--Never mind; you have lcountry roads nearly impassabie. | OUP chance this year. Kangaroo-- | Duiness characterizes business at Hal--| What do you mean' Elephant-- lifax. the weather continuing cold, "-- rou know this is leap-year ? the season backward, and country fce bad just been said with lroads being in poor condition. Favor- bowed heads abové the reversed bable advices are received from the plates when little Bobby exclaimed: | Newfoundiand ng fleet, and the | "*Now, grandma, read what is on | expectations in New Drunswick/, for | the bottom of my plate."--Newport more than an average lumber tut. | Daily News. Bank clearings at Winnipeg, Hamil- | Little Ethel--Mrs. Nextdoor told ton, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax | mamma that she ought to put her amount $16,087,000 last week, | jellies and preserves in 4a dark against $17,599,000 the previous wee k and $15,260,000 in the week one ybkar ago. There are 44 business failures Littie Johnny--That's all right. There's only one dark closet in this house, and that's the one mamma wn answer to the summons and | reported, compared with 40 the week ' told the prisoner that' he knew | prev ite 49 in the week a year ag jocks ine in when 1m Seren nothing ut the children, some | ahd 27 in the fourth week of March. The new commercial treaty between rds and Brennan was i Germany and Japan has been signed. eae | : er eae : e 5 She Ser oe ey es at * =A 5 F site titi ia aaah tik ie