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They had met increased (ompetition be- tween Montreal snd Peterboro’ to s greater extent than anywhere else, yet at those points they had taken more traffic in and out during the half year than ever before. They had lost Mr. Squires' hog traflic, and in the last few weeks had temporarily lost the dressed beef traffic, but he thought the quarrel would only be a lover’s quarrel and that they would gst the trsflic back. Add- ing together all the receipts f1 om their lines, they had £11,500 more than in the corresponding period last year. In the present half-year they had so far done better than in the first half, and up to the latest accounts had an increase of £16,000 in the gross receipts over the corresponding period in 1883. Reviewing the company’s history for the past half year, Sir Henry said they had rapidly recovered from the disastrous effects of competition and were now making satisfactory progress. The win- ter of 1886-7 had been an abnor- mally severe one in Canada, and the competition facing them courtantly was increasing; yet, so far, they had main- tained and even improved their position. The results of the past half-year indicated a revival even beyond that which took place in the memorable year 1883. They had carried more passengers and a greater quantity of goods than in any previous half-year, and at the same time, despite the unusually heavy snowfall' had reduced the working expenses to 70 per cent. rl‘he effect of the Inter-State Cv mnerce Law had not yet been fully experienced, but as far as the local Canadian traflic went they were not, of course, afiected by the Act. They had lost passenger traffic to the Northwest in consequence of the competi- tion of the Canadian Pacific, but only to a moderate extent. They had also lost some traffic from the Baltimore & Ohio line and from the Central Pacific, but had been able to make the losses good in other directions. Their Pullman cars were equal to any run- ning in America, and much superior to those on the continental railways in Europe. main tunnel is now about to be commenced. The probable cost will be half a million pounds, but he was confident the tunnel Would be a saving andjnot a burden on the company’s resourfiesf The regult of an arrangement with the” "Atc‘heson, Topeka & Santa Fe Company at Chicago would be that the Grand Trunk would benefit £17,400 yearly, the route to San Francisco being 3,357 miles, compired with 3,538 miles by the Canadian Pacific. The object of the Grand Trunk Act, which the meeting was now asked to confirm, was simply to save £6,000 yearly by purchasing, for redemption, prior securities bearing a higher rate of interest than the 4 per cent. debenture stock. This Act and previous powers for the conversion of securities would enable them‘ to save altogether £115,000 yearly. Although they were .going to spend money liberally, he believed he could promise they would have to pay no more interest on preference charges on we 81stof December next than they did 'on the same date last year. He moved the adoption of the report. Mr. Robert Young seconded the motion. Mr. Landon critici7J€d home of the items of the report, which was then unanimously adopted. The Chairman,.bfore moving the adopâ€" ' high offlin‘report, referred to the great loss the company had sustained by the death of Sir Charles Young, one of the directors, and was sure it would be the wish of the meeting that on behalf of the directors and shn reholdera he should in fitting terms express their sympathy for Lady Young in her bereavement. R‘esolutiom"fiere afterward! approved authorizing the exercise of the remaining borrowing powers obtained in the Act of 1884. ' Sir Henry Tyler’s Speech at the Half- YOII'ly Meeting Yesterdayâ€"The Double Truckingâ€"St. Clair Tunnelâ€"Tho 0.1%“. Competition. A London cablegram of last (Thursday) night’s dome says : The half-yearly meeting of the Grand Trunk was held 10-day at the Cannon Street Hotel, Sir Henry Tyler presi‘aing. There was a. large attendapce. A Paris cablegram says : M. Rochefort, editor of the Intrafl'ltigaqnt, referring to the Caflarel affair, agidjj' I think the Efiail‘ was originally got up ‘1)y the Ministry to injure General Boulanger. They did not succeed, so they tried to ruin the Presi- dent. When they began they had no idea that such big people would be dragged into the scgpdal, and now 'every one is afraid and Would giye the wOrld to hush it afraid and w'onld iye the wOrld to hush it up. In _r9p1y to e question-as to w} ether “AWL. LA up. In reply to the quesp’on-as to W} other he thought Gen. oulsnger would be injured, he soid‘: 0, when has he done ? How can a public men help receiving shady people who ask to see him? His position compels him'to receive all sorts of people. Why, if you were to go on that principle you would convict Mme. Cornet for letting Marchendon, the murderer, into her house. Upon being asked, What will come of the scandal, he replied: It will cause the defeat of the Ministry. It will not upset M. Grevy. He would simply reludiate the people who have compromised only ’thheqiselves. As for, Mme. Lit’nohzin.’ tike”my..word for it, she will get 63 {with i fortnight’simprison- mentâ€"it she goes to prison at all, which I doubt, but whoever else escapes the Ministry will not. - Rev. Adirondack Murray, whose specialty is fish stories, crossed the line into‘Canada the other day and csmpv’bnok pressfsllen. 0f the lying cepseitfhf the French Cans- dian he says: " There is e childish enthus- iasm about it that qubivates you. He smiles as he lies. er lays his hands on his heart; he lifts is 8 .el upward ; 'he embel- lishes his‘litfle e w th ei'intly "allusions; he lies as if he believed his own lie." The French Govornmgnt huva decided to place a. number ofz’.fite;Qaving: bnayl, lup- lied with refreshi'nehts, ' on the moat ungeronl put- 01 m Englilh Channel. Rocbefort on the Culture] Scandal. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. COMPETITION IN CANADA. A GREAT IMPROVEMF Cleveland Insane Asylum Scorched by Fire and Six Patients Lose Their Lives. A last (Wednesday) night’s Cleveland des- patch says: The horrors of a fierce fire, in the smoke and confusion of which stalked the presence of grim death in his most terrible form, visited the great insane asylum on the southern limits of the city for the second time to-night. It was the occasion of the weekly dance given the more manageable of the patients as a healthy means of recreation. About 250 of them, in charge of their attendants, were enjoy- ing the diversion thus afforded them when the cry of “ fire ” arose, and flames and smoke poured in upon them with bewilder- ing suddenness. A stampede was the result, and the attendants had scarcely time to realize the situation when the room was filled with leaping fire and dense smoke. As soon as the first exciteâ€" ment had abated the attendants made a courageous rush into the sufiocating smoke and rescued all they could of the unfortunates who had been overcome. The bodies of six insane women who had met death by asphyxia and burning were recovered, and three more were found in an injured condition. The fire started at the laundry. 8. one story building which adjoins the wing in which the chapel is located. The prompt response and active work of the firemen prevented a disastrous spread of the flames. The loss to property will fall below $25,000. About 10 o'clock last night a hundred men and boys, mostly members of an association of the lowest class of the local democracy, known as the Algonquin Club, gathered at a saloon of a rather hard repu- tation and, after drinking heavily, repaired to a secluded spot in a side street and fired the usual straw man. which had been used on such occasions from time immemorial. The mob was led by Mayor A. A. Ames, who was foremost in the Cleveland recep- tion, and takes no pains to conceal his self- proposed candidacy for the Vice- Presidency. “ It is hard to have respect for a woman who would sell herself to so gross and re. pulsive a man as Grover Cleveland, and one withaprivate record so malodorous, for the bauble of a brief social ascendancy. She is now an object of curiosity and re- mark for gaping crowds, and her photo- graphs are sold almost, if not quite, as freely as Mrs. Langtry’s. Such is her re» ward. If she can secure a re-election for Grover she will have four more years of the gratification which the highest social prominence gives and of the delight of un- flagging newspaper notoriety. After that she will simply have to put up with being the wife of as insignificant and obscure a man as an ex-President could possibly be. One cannot help a pang of sympathy for her. but shehas chosen herlotdeliberately.” A last (Thursday) night’s Montreal des- patch says : For the fourth time in t] a criminal records of Montreal, the lash was applied to-day at Montreal jail upon the person of a man named Desormiers, who some months ago, while dressed in a priest’s garb, committed an indecent assault upona young girl at St.Martine. Desormiers was tried at the last term of the Court of Queen’s Bench and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, with the addition of twenty lashes. To-day Desormiers received ten out of the twenty lashes. The operation took place in the presence of the deputy sheriff and a small knot of spectators. The prisoner was securely tied to a triangle by his arms and legs, his back bared, and a muffler tied around his neck to prevent the lash reaching that portion of his body. The lash was applied by one of the prisoners, and the whole operation only lasted a few minutes. After a few lashes Desormiers was heard to exclaim, “ Not so hard !” but no other remarks escaped him, and he took the remainder of his punishment Without flinching. The whipping was certainly not very severe in its nature, and did not seem to have much effect upon the prisoner, who, beyond a few bruises on his back, was not much hurt. The Severe Pritlclsxn of Cleveland and His Wife Which Led to Trouble in Minneaâ€" polis. A Minneapolis despatch says 2 The fol- lowing is from the article in the Tribune on the occasion of the visit of President and Mrs. Cleveland, which has caused a great sensationandindignationamongCleveland’s friends: “ And it is extremely hard to respect either member of this family now touring for votes. Mrs. Cleveland is a handsome, mature woman, apparently several years older than she is said to be. At least she was old enough to have exer- cised her own free choice in marrying Grover Cleveland. It is inconceivable that she should have married him except to obtain the position of mistress of the White House. Such a marriage would never have been thought of but for the astonishing political accidents, which, in the course of two or three years, brought Mr. Cleveland out of the obscurity, which is his proper element, to the highest position in the nation. Trustee and Architect Fight at a School Board Meeting. A last (Friday)night’s Kingston despatch says - Last night's meeting of the Public School Board was one which attached much disgrace to that body. One of the trustees asked the privilege of cross- quest-ioning the architect of the new Central School, and the result was the examination grew so warm that several trustees left the room, when the Chairman declared there was no quorum and dismissed the remain ing members. The architect and the trustee who had questioned him went into an adjoining room, where they resumed the discussion. The architect told the trustee he was mixed, when the latter called him a liar. The architect then remarked that if they were outside he would use his fist. Like a flash the trustee let fly his left, and blood came from the architect’s nose. The blow was returned, and then the pugilists ‘ took hold and wired into each other for several minutes until the other trustees went into the room and separated the combatants and held them till their pas- sions cooled down. The fight created quite a sensation, as both parties are prominent residents. The whole affair rose out of the diameter of a flue. Didn’t Appear to Hurt Him Very Much. A friendly suit, to settle the question of the right of the Dominion or British Columbia to jurisdiction in regard to minerals in the railway belt in the latter Province, has been agreed upon, nude. judgment finally settling the dispute is expected in u. few dlyl. AN EXAMPLE TO THE BOYS. FIRE ADIONG THE INSANE. ' xymM/WW THE a HERALD. VOL XXX THE CAT 0’ NINE TAILS HANGED IN EFFIGY. A detective sent to entrap Madame Limouzin was taken by her to the Minister of War and introduced to General Caffarel, to whom the detective handed a sum of money, in return for which, it was under- stood, he would receive the Cross of the Legion of Honor. This surprising discovery brought matters to a crisis. The Minister of War. in the presence of M. Rouvier, in- terrogated General Caflarel, who confessed. Time was then implicitly given him to blow his brains out. but he did not have the courage to take advantage of this supreme privilege. He was arrested and is now in prison with Madame Limouzin. ‘ - p The case will be a. formidable washing of dirty linen in the facts and personages in- volved. Even the son-inâ€"law of President Grevy, M. Daniel Wilson, is involved in many of Madame Limouzin’s tried tripo- tages. With such a case as this before us, shall we say that corruption in the Republic is less interesting than the depravity of the Empire ? Then Madame Limouzin and the “ Com- tesse ” quarrelled and the former removed to a gorgeous suite of rooms in the Avenue Wagram, where she continued her agency and entered into relations with General Caffarel, an officer who was overwhelmed with debts and had no longer any sense of honor or decency. The “ Comtesse,” first of all, denounced her former accomplice to the police ; then followed complaints from various sources, and at length the police proceeded to watch Madame Limouzin, thinking it was simply a question of one of those innumerable flash agencies which abound in Paris, that paradise of adven- turers. The inquiry led further than was expected. ‘11 Dr. J. C. Bright Tried For Murder and Acquittedr A despatch from Sandwich (dated last Wednesday night) says: At the assizes here to-day the whole of the day has been occupied in trying the case of Queen vs. Bright, murder. The prisoner, Dr. J. 0. Bright, of Chatham, was charged with committing an abortion upon Ruth Harlow, a girl from Hamilton. Ruth Harlow was seduced, it is alleged, by George P. Holden, a commercial traveller, of Hamilton. The girl went to Chatham, it is said, under the direction of Holden. The Crown endeavored to show an arrange- ment between the prisoner and Holden, that the prisoner should perform the abortion. Miss Harlow went to an hotel in Chatham. She was there visited by the prisoner, who procured a boarding place for her, where it is alleged the offence was committed. Several medical men were called to show that an abortion had been committed upon the deceased. This trio carried on the business of an “ influence agency” for the benefit of perâ€" sons desiring employment in the Minis- tries, promotions. Government contracts, etc. Well in view in the drawing-room were visiting cards of eminent political personages, on which were written a few words, cards and writing being forged if necessary. The dupes on entering were struck by this mise en scene and the first interview ended by a deposit destined to grease the palms of the Ministers, Sena- tors, Deputies and other notabilities, with whom Madame Limouzin professed to be on the best of terms. In reality Madame Limouzin and the “Comtesse” passed their time writing politiciansâ€"notably M. Thibaudin and General Boulangerâ€"letters containing flattery, threats. calumnies, offers of service and propositions of a most compromising character. Both M. Thi- baudin and General Boulanger finally warned the trio, through the police, to cease their manoeuvres. Strange Story ofa Pair of Parisian Adven- turessesâ€"Geueral Cafi‘arel’s Arrestâ€" Given an Opportunity to Commit Suicide. A London cable says : The Cafiarel- Limouzin case in Paris is a sad scandal. Madame Limo: zin is a vulgar adventuress. She is 41 years of ageâ€"a little, yellow, wrinkled, limping, humpbacked creature, with small, piercing eyes, extremevolubility of speech and considerable elegance of Ian. guage, Last year she lived in the Boulevard Beaumarchais with a companion who called herself Comtesse de Boissier, Baronne de Beauregard, or Marquise de Clemenca, and whose real name is Henriette Boissy, a co- cotte of the commercial type, who used to keep a house at Paris where you drank tea, played baccarat and placed a louis under a candlestick each time you took the cards. Madame Limouzin also has a husband, an adventurer of smaller calibre. The defence rested mainly on attacking the veracity of the witnesses put in the box by the Crown who spoke regarding the prisoner’s connection with the offence. Though the defence called a. number of medical men, there was a very slight differ- ence between them and the doctors put in the box by the Crown. The prisoner was defended by Mr. E. Meredith, Q. 0., Mr: Pegley and Mr. White. Mr. Lister acted for the Crown. The prisoner is an old medical practi- tioner, of Onatham, and is a wealthy man. His wife, who was present during the trial, stepped up and kissed her husband when he went into the box for trial. The doctor is a. frail man, upwards of 70 years of age. At 10 p. m. the jury returned with a ver- diet of not guilty. His Lordship, in die- charging the prisoner, remarked that the evidence against him was of such a. charâ€" acter that he could not have complained if they had found him guilty. He discharged him with a caution to be careful in the future. AN ADOPTED DAUGHTER’S CRIMES. Smother-i: a Baby and Sets Fire to a House â€" Poisons Her Foster Parents' Cow Rather Than Milk Her. A Menistee, Mich., telegram says : Min- nie Demor_se, the adopted daughter of James Henderson, was arrested Tuesday for lur- cency committed several months ago, but the real sensation in the case has just come to light. This spring Mr. Henderson’s cow died. and her milk just previous to her death killed nine pigs. The girl confesses she poisoned the cow because she did not want to milk it. Mr. Henderson’s house was set on fire five times in one day s few weeks ago, and the girl confesses she did that, too. Mr. Henderson’s baby died suddenly, and the girl confesses she smoth- ered it because it cried and she did not want the trouble to care for it. She i 18 ‘ years old and was adopted fifteen years ago. The annual convention of University College, Toronto, took place yesterday afternoon in Convocation Hall. President Wilson in his address dealt with the needs of the college, and urged that the Govern- ment should not expeditiously in conferring the benefits which the recent legislation iuthoriud. THE CAFFAREL SENSA TION. THE RUTH HARLOW CASE. RICHMOND BILL THURSDAY, 00} ()BER 27, 1887. with the order issued, Jay aide Inspector- General of Constables, Inspects): BroWn- rigg and the other constables who were found guilty of murder by the coroner’s jury at Mitchellstown have not been arrested. They have, however, been sus- pended from duty pending the appeal from the verdict of the jury. The inquest in the case of John Kinsella, the old man who was shot and killed by emergency men on the estate of Mr. Brooke, at Coolgreany, County Wexfotd, on Sep- tember 28th, has resulted in a verdict of murder against Captain Hamilton, the agent of the estate, and the men and bailiffs who were engaged in the affair. A London cable says: Mr. T. R. Buchanan, member for West Edinburgh (Liberal), hitherto opposed to Mr. Glad- stone’s Irish policy, has intimated his con- version to Home Rule. Much surprise has been caused by the announcement of the appointment of Mr. Valentine Hinds as a new Land Commis- sioner. Mr. Hinds is a bailiff on Lord Lansdowne’s Luggacurran property. He managed the recent eviction of 80 tenants, Lord Lansdowne on his advice refusing to grant the reduction of 15 per cent. which they H‘manded. At the inquest in the Mitchellstown shooting case today attention was drawn to the fact that the policemen charged with the shooting had been removed from the district on the eve of the jury’s verdict. The Police Inspector said the men had been removed because their duties in the place had ceased, but they would return if necessary. The Coroner declared that the removal of the police was illegal, improper, and unconstitutional. After all the evi- dence had been submitted Mr. Harrington asked that a verdict of wilful murder be returned against Head Constable Brown. rigg and the five policemen who fired under his general order. Mr. Harrington accused Constable Brownrigg of deliberately plan. ning the murders. ~. in n 7 Tube Coroner has issued warrants for the arrest of the men fiound guilty: There is reason for believing that there is no foundation whatever for the report which has been widely circulated that Prof. Goldwin Smith contemplates returning to England with a View to entering the House of Commons. When Mr. Smith went back to Canada recently he told some of his oldest and most intimate friends that he greatly doubted whether he would ever again cross the Atlantic. Mr. E. Walsh, the proprietor of the People, a. Nationalist paper published at Wexford,ha.s received six summonses to appear in court for alleged illegal publica- tions relating to the National League. There is much anxiety among the Gov- ernment supporters respecting the outcome of the Dublin Castle appeal in the Lord Mayor’s case. Shouldthe verdict be sup- ported the defeat in the new law will be so glaring that the Castle will have to adopt one of two courses, either smuggle inform- ers into proscribed meetings, or refuse to put the law into force. When the measure was passed through the Commons the weak point just revealed was discussed, but the Government showed no dispOsition to realize the expediency of alteration. The rumors of Mr. Balfour’s and Lord Ash- bourne’s resignation in consequence of the failure of the prosecution are untrue. A Belfast cable says : Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at Bushmills, County Antrim, yesterday, said that it was not the upper classes, but the poorer classes of Ulster that were opposed to the Parnellite pro- posals. The artisans and farmers did not see any chance of improving their condition under the rule of men like the Home Rule members of Parliament. The poorer classes rightly looked forward with the greatest dread to the changes that would be involved in the creation of a Parliament at Dublin. He admitted that a part of the north of Ireland was strongly in favor of Home Rule, but he was certain that if he could infuse into the people of Donegal the same resolute, law-abiding disposition as that shown by the people of Antrim, the outcry for great constitutional changes would become little heard of. The Mitchellstown Policemen Found Guilty of Murder. A last (Wednesday) night’s London cable says : Telegrams from France report that Lord Salisbury’s condition causes anxiety. His rest at Dieppe has improved hishealth. but he can never be robust. It is stated, on what appears to be only too reliable authority, that His Lordship is suffering from Bright’s disease of the kidneys. For years he has been developing the tempera- ment and some of the habits of a valetudi- narian. No English statesman ever lived so much apart from his colleagues as Lord Salisbury. His clever Wife plays a great part in the political, as Well as the social, relation of Lord Salisbury’s position. It is believed that her influence prevents Lord Randolph Churchill’s readmission to favor. Mr. Chamberlain, continuing, referred to the persistent silence which Mr. Gladstone had maintained regarding the form of his new Home Rule Bill. ‘lhe Gladstonians, he said. made a great parade about vague modifications of Mr. Gladstone’s original plan, but many earnest Liberals remained totally unable to gather from Mr. Glad- stone’s utterances what the changes really were. (Cries of “ Hear, bean”) If an amended scheme existed, why did not Mr. Gladstone take the nation into his confi- dence ‘2 It was not fair for a leader to claim the absolute trust of his followers, while refusing to give a clear insight into his intentions upon a matter of life or death. Surely upon a question involving the fate of the Empire, Mr. Gladstone might even at this late hour make a clear, definite statement which plain men could under- stand. GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND. In conclusion, he declared that it was be- yond the competency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to dispose absolutely of the destinies of any part of the Kingdom. Parliament might relieve Ulster of its alle- giance and cut it adrift from the Empire, but it was not competent to transfer the allegiance of Ulster to a Parliament at Dublin. In counselling Ulster to offer resistance, he did not mean a resort to physical force. He put that aside. (Cries of “ You needn’t.”) It was constitutional resistance he meant. If it were decided ultimately that Home Rule was desirable for the south of Ireland, that would not justify the imposition of Home Rule on Ulster, which under no circumstances would submit to it. (Cries of “Never.”) Animated by this spirit, the time would never come when Ulster men would cease to be citizens of the United Kingdom.. When Benjamin Disraeli marriéd Mrs. Wyndham Lewis she was his senior by 16 years. Yet five years after his marriage he gave her this character: “The most severe of critics, but a perfect wife.” Bimini? cable spyg: (n agcordance A Buffalo despatch says: No marine disasters of consequence are reported as the result of Wednesday night’s gale in this section except the schooner Manzanilla, which was reported ashore last night. The Manzanilla went on between Brocton and Dunkirk, on the southern shore of Lake Erie. A Brocton, N.Y., correspondent sends the following details: The Man. zanilla, a three-master, Capt. Geo. O’Brien, of Kingston, master, sprung a leak ofi Van Buren Point, and was run ashore west of the Point at about 8.30 o’clock yesterday (Thursday) morning. She was bound from Cleveland to Toronto with a cargo of block stone'and grindstones. There was a crew of seven men besides the captain. The crew went ashore in a small boat, leaving the captain on the vessel. The boat was smashed by the waves soon after the crew landed. The life-saving stations at Buffalo and Erie were notified by telephone, but failed to respond, and Captain O‘Brien remained on the wreck until late in the afternoon, when he was rescued by Sher- man Oats aud two other men who came from Barcelona in the fishing boat Beecher. The rescuing party were unable to land at Van Buren, and were obliged to bring the exhausted captain to Dunkirk, Where they arrived at 8.30 last evening. The vessel is a total wreck. She had aninsurance in the Western Assurance, of Toronto, of S$4,000. The vessel was built by Shickluna, of St. Catharines, and was one of the fleet owned by Captain James Murray, of St. Catha- rines, which laid the basis of his fortune before he became a contractor for Govern, ment works. She was a mate to the illâ€" fated Magellan. A French Canadian's Feat at the Chaudiere Falls. An Ottawa despatch says: A remarkable and daring feat was accomplished here yesterday, when a courageous Frenchman threaded his way along the edge of the C-haudiere Falls, passing safely from shore to shore. The man was Francis Potvin, who has worked in the various mills in the summer and the shanties during the winter since he was a boy, and is now a splendid specimen of a French Canadian shanty- man. He made a wager with some friends in Hull that he could walk through the big kettle. The wager was taken and the money, about $10 in amount, put up. Potvin, accompanied by a number of: friends, proceeded across the large table rocks on the Hull side of the Chaudiere Falls to the brink of the rock over which the water falls. Owing to the pheâ€" nomenally low water in the river and the addition of the new dam to the former series of dams above the falls, only about four inches of water was passing over the falls, except in one place, near the Ontario shore, where the water was ten inches deep. Potvin, after putting on a pair of raftsmen’s boots, well caulked, with the usual sharp nails in the soles, started to walk across the face of the falls. He pro- ceeded very steadily until about three- quarters of the way across, when the cur- rent became very strong and the water deeper. Steadying himself, he proceeded cautiously, carefully planting one foot on the rocks before lifting the other, and in a few minutes from the time he started climbed up on a pier. below Perley (it Pattee’s sawmill. The feat was watched by a large number of people, mostly men who were employed in the mill, as it was not generally known that Potvin intended to make the attempt. Notwithstanding 1the lowness of the water the feat was a i dangerous one. Had he missed his footing for a moment he would have been hurled into the cauldron below, with no possible hope of escaping death. Another despatch says: The crew left the captain and vessel when the craft was amile and a half off Brocton, and had great difficulty in getting ashore. They afterwards tried to take the captain off, but the breakers were so wicked and the boat so unserviceable that the perilous undertaking was given up. The crew reported the vessel’s port side stove in, and her rigging all gone, and that she is entirely at the mercy of the waves. The Customs authorities made every effort to geta tug to go to the rescue of the captain of the vessel, but all refused. The life saving crew held itself in readiness all day for a tug. Particulars of the Wreckâ€"The Captain Saved. A despatch received Thursday night from Dunkirk, N; Y., says : During the fearful storm on Lake Erie last night the schooner Manzanilla, of Hamilton, Ont., was driven ashore six miles above this city, and has become a total wreck. She was com- manded by Capt. Geo. O’Brien, and bound from Cleveland to Toronto with a load of block stone. All the crew were saved. The vessel was built by Jos. Shickluna, of St. Catharines, and owned by R. Williamson, of Hamilton, and J. S. Murphy, timber merchant, of Quebec. The Manzanilla was valued at about $7,000 and is but partially insured. Interesting Letter of One Ottawa Lady to Another. An Ottawa despatch says : In the Assize Court yesterday. the local calm; celebre of Walker vs. Birkett was heard. Both par- ties are prominently connected in the city. The charge against Mrs. Birkett is of send- ing letters to Mrs. W. H. Walker with in- tent to extort money. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. J. K. Kerr, Q. 0., and Hon. R. W. Scott for the Crown; Mr. W. Mosgrove and Mr. T. McVeity for the prisoner. The letter complained of is as follows: “ The Lord is the judge of the fatherless and the children.” “ Tuesday, 26thâ€"â€"Mrs. Walker,â€"Sister I cannot call you, for you don’t deserve that name. Your small pretensions are disgusting, of course, as all sensible people have felt for years in Ottawa, but I must confess that I did not believe you were consummate ser- pents and thieves until I received your husband’s letter. The man or woman who would quietly pick my locks and carry away 25 hundred dollars I feel would be respecta- ble compared to yourself. Now for a little pleasant preaching. ‘ He that is guilty of breaking the least of these,’ viz., the Holy Commandments, ‘ is guilty of all.’ ‘ A chain is only as strong as the weakest link.’ ‘ Thou shalt not steal.’ ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.’ Perhaps the angel Gabriel may be bribed to open the heavenly gate, but according to the real regulation order of things it will be impos sible. One must not only repent,but make restitution also. I seriously advise your looking up that grand old doctrine. I re- quire five hundred dollars at your hands ; if it is not forthcoming in a few days I Will give myself the pleasure of treating you to some open letters on the subject, viz., pOBt&IB.â€"HENRIETTA M. Bmxmr.” BISKED HIS LIFE FOR $10. ABOUT THE MANZANILLA. A “CAPITAL” BREEZE. WHOLE NO 1,524 NO. 17. Poor James Walsh‘s plat of potatoes looked very ragged and scraggy. “The accursed deer l” exclaimed Hennessy again ; “the aooursed deer!" and he described how they came up at night and in the morning from the beautiful glen opposite and enter the field and garden plats, and how the peasants sit up at night to watch for them, and how very often it seems as if the deer were not coming; the watchers retire to rest, only to find that the deer have committed more ravages in an hour than the sleepers can replace by the wages of a week’s toil. All the tenants tell the same story. “Is no allowance made to you in your rent from all that damage ?" I ask. “ No,” is the universal reply.â€" London, Daily Neil's. Latest from the Northwest. A Northwest farmers’ association, simi- lar to the agricultural associations of other provinces, has been organized at Regina. Mr. G. W. Brown, 0* Regina, was elected President. The yacht Nettie, of Port Arthur, has been wrecked near Welcome Island, and there is little doubt that the six men who were on board have lost theirlives. Among those lost are Mr. Murray, from London, England, and Mr. McKinnun and Mr. Fox and hm son, of Fort William. Concerted action is being taken to secure the taking up of the $300,000 of the bo'nds issued by the Provincial Government. The proposition is for the City Council to take up $150,000 and the citizens the remainder. Some of the most substantial moneyed men in the city are in this new movement. The bonds will be taken up only on the express understanding that the road will be oomv pletegl this fall. me a story about it. Under that boulder, he said, a noise of hammering had been heard many a time at midnight during a period of forty years. The wise folk about the place said that treasure must be con- cealed beneath the stone, and that some ancient ghost was notifying the fact to liv- ing men ; so five of the Corrigeen tenants â€"William Hennessy among themâ€"resolved to remove the boulder. This they did in the dead of night with the help of a lever. Hennessy was deputed by his four associates to search the hole. He did so, and found a rusty kettle. All this was very superstitious of Hennessy and his friends, but men better educated believe in things as absurd as ghosts and hidden treasures; besides, Hennessy and his friends, in spite of their superstition, are. perhaps pretty good judges of the Irish land question Foley Bros., the contractors who have just completed a. contract on the Duluth & Manitoba. Road, are in the city and have made a. proposition to the Government to complete the road and take the Provincial b09539 i.“ Pameni- Chief Juétice Wallbridge is seriously ill of kidney disease and is not expected to live. A Traveller‘s Description of Scenes Amid the Starving Poor. William Hennessy was the only Irish peasant I had met who had no humor in himâ€"or at any rate did not show any. He was horribly in earnest from beginning to end. “Look where he sleeps,” he almost screamed; “ a place more fit for a brute baste than for a man ; there it is, and he and two gossoons (their mother is dead) share it between them." “ Gossoons ” means “ boys,” and, striding up to the dark corner where the bed lay, he pulled it roughly about, dragging out the coarse sacks which served as blanket and coverlet, then tossing up the moldy, stale, broken straw. It did not appear to occur to him that in tossing about the things in that mannerhe was making work for J as.Walsh when Jas. Walsh returned home at night from the Gombeen man’s to his cold-as- death praties. He was, as I have said, horribly in earnest ; he was too completely possessed by the idea of the human misery he was depicting in a wild storm way. “ You see that big stone,” he sai , in a quieter tone, when we went outside. The stone was an enormous boulder, weighing I don’t know how many t_ons,_ and he_t_old Reports received from all portions of the Province show that the wheat crop is scarcely more then started. The weather is only now taking a cold tu m, and as soon as ploughing operations are suspended a blockade may be looked for. The Ameficun Government has estab- lished a customs office at Pembina. and placed an officer in charge to facilitate the transportation of goods to and from Mani- toba on the Duluth & Manitoba. Railroad. The Manitoba Gazette contains the pro- clamation of dissllowance by the Governor- General of certain Acts of the Local Legisâ€" lature passed several years ago, but which were not properly proclaimed at the time. In fact, all disallowance Acts have been proclaimed a. sgcond time. Prairie fires have been prevailing in the district between Lesalle and Boyne. The settlers, however, have escaped pretty well, excepting J ames Sutherland, who lost almost everything. . The total arrival of immigrants to date this year is 15,000. A syndicate of New York capitalists in- tend to engage in slaughtering cattle from the Canadian Northwest, and a repre- sentative will shortly visit the country for the purpose of making preparations. It is the intention to slaughter the cattle at some point on the Canadian Pacific Bail- way, probably Medicine Hat or Maple Creek, and ship the dressed meat to New York. The Loss of the California. At an invetigation into the loss of the propeller California before Capt. Harbottle and W. J. Meneilly, at Toronto yesterday, Chief Engineer Ellis, Second Engineer Mills and Captain Trowell were examined. The only new point of importance brought out was that the steamer had not a full cargo and the officers neglected to put in shifting boards. Capt. Harbottle expressed himself as not quite satisfied that the most strenuous exertions had been made to save the Cali- fornia, suggesting several things thst might have been done; to which Capt. Trowell replied that it was easy enough to plan in an easy chair and carpeted office, but it was a. far different matter on a. sinking ship tossed by mountainous seas: Our Toronto correspondent telegraph: to-day: The official inquiry into the loss of the steamer California was resumed this morning before Mr. W. J. Meneilly and Capt. Harbottle. Capt. Trowell detailed the particulars of the disaster much the same as they have already been given in the telegraph despatches. The inquiry was then adjourned indefinitely. The Paris Journal des Debuts says that an official despatch has been received announcing that the Sultan of Morocco is better and that he mounted his horse before the palace and showed himself to the people. AMONG THE IRISH TENANTS. “ Laura. was an nfiectionnt'e child," said Mrs. Pay to a. News reporter, “ and I do not know of any reason why she should go away. I believe she is secreted somewhere in the city. I am sure Mrs. Westfall knows where she is. She has been Laura’s evil genius.” ,. .u. no. '1- Mrs. Puy has five children, all girls. Her husband works for the Benedict Paper Company. The family came here from Hamilton, Ont, ten months ago. The eldest daughter, Aida, has a good position as book-keeper with a. Hamilton firm. She has come on to Bufl’alo to help her parents find her missing si_s_aer._ __ When Laura did not return after church time her friends became uneasy and one of her younger sisters was sent to the roomsof Mrs. Westfall, on Seneca street, over Tif- fany’s picture store, to inquire if she had been there. Mrs. Westfall was Laura’s most intimate friend. She was not at home, said her husband, a driver for Chas. W. Miller, and he said Laura had not been there. His little daughter corrected him, however, and said Laura had been there that morning. Mr. Westfall said he had got up late and did not know of her being at the house. At 4.15 Miss Grein, Laura’s Sunday school teacher, called at Mrs. Puy'a house to know why Laura had not been to school. 0n the previous Friday she had promised to be there. Then another messenger was sent to Westfall’s. Mr. Westfall said that his wife was still absent, that she had gone to his cousins and that he had not seen Laura. Mr. Puy afterward called and was told by Mrs. Westfall that Laura was there about 10 o’clock on Sunday morning and had stayed but a few minutes. Mrs. West- fall was emphatic in saying she had not seen her since and that she knew nothing of the girl’s whereabouts. Other friends in the city were sent to, but not a trace could be found. The last known of her was when after coming out of Mrs. West- fall’s Laura stopped for a moment to speak to Mrs. Bryan, who lives near by. Mrs. Puy had sent Laura to a photographer’s on Seneca street for some pictures about 10 that morning, and it was during this walk that she must have gone to Mrs. West- fall’s. The next day detectives were put on the case, but so far have not found the girl._ ... .- ., uusn la “ We knew the Westfalls in Hamilton.” went on Mrs. Puy, “ and Laura and Mrs. Westfall were always great chums. They came here two years before we did and she persuaded us to let Laura go to live with her on Chestnut street. Ibelieve now that Mrs. Westfall taught Laura to set my authority at defiance. I always had some misgivings, and when I went to take Laura home to send her to school Mrs. Westfall objected and Laura deliberately refused to come. I boxed Laura’s ears, and since then Mrs. Westfall has said that I was a cruel mother, and that she had advisedLaura to run away from me. I have been told since my child’s disappearance that Mrs. Westfall on that Sunday was not at the place where she told her husband she was going. Mrs. Lann, an aunt of West. fall’s, went to call on her that Sunday and Westfall said she was at his cousins. ' I will go there,’ said Mrs. Lann, but re»l turned shortly and reported that Mrs. Westfall had not been there. When her husband asked her about it that night she said she had gone there, found the cousin away and had spent the day with a dress- maker friend at 74 Seneca street. “ Yes, mamma, I will,” replied the girl. and that was the last the mother saw of her child. Laura is a medium blonde, with luxuriant, curling, brown hair, which that day was clasped behind with a silver pin holding a white stone shaped like a rose. Shehas a good complexion, gray eyes, heavy dark brows and lashes, s. small, straight nose, medium-sized mouth and full lips. She is straight, well-grown for her age and well-formed. She wore a blue polkadot print dress, blue jersey cap fitting tightly to the head, and a sash of the same material as the dress. Abrown jacket, No. 3;» button shoes, black stockings and black mitts completed her costume. Her dress reached scarcely to her shoe tops. She was 13 last birthday, but looks older. The missing girl’s dress and appearance are de- scribed thus carefully so that it she has been seen her parents may be communi- cated with. La‘fira Pay, two weeks ago last Sunday, started from her parents’ home at 100 Swan street to go to Rev. 1?. G. Cook's church in the Fitch Institute, 9. block away. “ Now,La.um," said her mother, at parting, “be sure to hurry buck from church ; won’t yell?" _____ “ We have found that the cousin was at home all day, that Mrs. Westfsll did not call and, what’s more, we can’t find th-t she spent the day at 74 Seneca. street. It was during this time, when nobody knows where Mrs. Westfsll was, that my child disappeared. If she is not trying to hide something, why does she make such stute- ments ?” The Buffalo News of last (Thursdsy) night says: Detectives have been working for several days on s strange disdp rsnoe in this city. It is the story of a gir , gretty, vivacious, interesting, who In denly dropped out of the routine of her daily life and left not s. trace to show whether she is livjng or gesd.‘ Mrs. Pny further stated that she had made inquiries of old neighbors of the Weetfelle on Chestnut street, end gave some of their statements, adding that she feared her child had been led wrong. “My poor child l” she exclaimed, “I um elmost afraid to find her alivefi‘ “ Do you know the whereabouts of Laura Pny ?” the News man asked Mrs. Westiall. “ I do not.” " When did you see her last ‘2” “Two weeks ago last Sunday morning. She was at my house for a short time.” “ You do not know where she wentthen ?” “ No.” “ Was there anybody with her that day ‘2” “ No.” “ Did she tell you she was going to run away ?” “ No, but I wouldn’t blame her if she did run away. Her mother abused her. Once in my house she knocked Laura down and stamped on her. Laura often told me she would run away, but I told her not to. She said she would marry the first one that asked her. Her mother took herhoms two months ago. When we lived on Chestnut street last winter Mrs. Hughsonlivedin the front of the house, and some fast young women stayed there. I went out with them once or twice at first, until I found what they were. One of them told Laura one day that she ran away from home when she was 13, and had a good time ever since. I know Laura was greatly taken with her fine clothes rnd s rightly ways, and she told me she would like to do the same thing." " Where do you think Laura. has gone? " “ I think she has run away and got mar' ried. She used to tell me of her lovers." Her Mother Fears She is Wom than Dead â€"She Startéd for Church, but Never Got There. ‘ Laura. Puy, a Former Hamiltonian. Hyr‘ teriously Disappears. “ She was a. well'grown child. From what she told me several times I think she wu older than most girls are at 13." HIRSiher young to be a wife. wasn’t she ? " The Queen Regent of Spain has signed e decree authorizing the construction of six ironclads of 7,000 tons ouch. capebh of Attaining 0. speed of from sixteen to swan” miles an hour, also four large end sixty smell torpedo boats. A MISSING PRETTY GIRL.