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HOME. Cattle are reported to be wintering well at Fort McLeod this winter. 7 The N0rbh-‘Vest Mounted police will shortly be supplied with the Munliclier rifle. W'iuuipeg capitalists have formed a. com- pany to construct a. line of railway to the boundary. Protests have been filed against every member of the Manitoba Legislature except those returned by acclamatiou. ' Immigrants continue to wri've in \Vinni- peg by every train from the East. Only six miles of track remain to be laid to complete the Canadian Pacific air line from Smith’s Falls to Montreal. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of being the murderers of Harris at the month of the Fraser river, B. C. It is said that a. warrant for the extradi- tion of Hoke, the Peoria, 111., forgex‘, will be at once issued by the Department of Justice, Ottawa. The Government. steamers Neptune and Northern Light are still making daily trips each way between Prince Edward Island 3.111 the mainland. A son of Lieut,-C01 Holmes, commandant of C Battery, British Columbia, was killed recently, near Victoria, through the accident. a1 discharge of a. rifle in the hands of his elder brother. Messrs. McLaughlin Bros., mill owners, Ottawa, sold a. few days ago their entire season’s cut to the IVew York Exportation Company. The figure was close on $500,000. Dr. G. S. Lafleur, of Point Levi, died rather suddenly the other morning. He was in his fifty-third year and was one of the best known medical practitioners of the district. An unknown schooner was recently wrecked on a. rocky reef at Upper Prospect, about 25 miles west of Halifax, N. S., and her crew, supposed to consist of six or eight men, all perished. J. R. Booth & Co., of Ottawa, have peti- tioned the Government to locate a. light- house in Southeast bay, Lake Nipissing, claiming that it would prove of great advan- tage to lumbermen. Mr. Samlford Fleming states that 'work on the Bennett-Mackay Pacific cable is at a. standstill pending the conclusion of negotiaâ€" tions with the Governments interested in the completion of the enterprise. Two new townships, comprising some of the richest agricultural lands in the Province of Quebec, have been added to the surveyed portion of Ottawa County by the recently completed survey of the Lievre district. Application has been made to Chancellor Boyd at Toronto on behalf of the Ontario, Sault St. Marie Railway company for an:in- junction to restrain the Canadian Pacific railway from interfering with the plaintiff’s line. This is looked upon as a. preliminary step to a big railway suit. At a meeting of masters, mates and sea- men, held in Kingston, it was decided to petition the Government not to change the law so as to enable lake barges to run with only one certified officer on board, as propos- ed by'the Canadian Marine Association. At the Basilio}, Ottawa, Vicar-General Routhier again severely denounced skating, toboggauing and such pastimes, and expres- sed surprise that, in obedience to the wishes of the church, parents hadnot for- bidden their children to indulge in them. Benjamin Hagaman, of Thorold, Ont, is under arrest in San Francisco on the charge of embezzling $15,000 from his employer, Sir “"illiam Howland, of Toronto. Govern- ment Detective Murray has started for San Francisco to secure Hagaman’s extradition. At the inquest on the body of Mrs. Essy Moore, of Toronto, the jury brought in a. verdict that deceased had come to her death by means of a blow received on her head at the hands of a. party or parties unknown. She was found a. few days ago in the rear of her house in a. dying condition, with an axe lying beside her. Rev. Father Labelle has completed ar- rangements with Mr. H. J. Beemer to build that section of the St. Jerome & Desert Col- onization Railway from St. Jerome to St. Agathe, a distance of eighty miles. A staff of engineers will be sent out at once, so that the work may be ready for commencement early in the spring. At the late meeting of the Montreal Board of Harbour Commissioners, the Presi- dent read a. comprehensive and exhaustive report of the present condition and future prospects of the harbour, showing the great increase in its trade in recent years and the necessity for enlarged facilities for shipping, accompanied by suggestions as to the means by which they may be obtained. Five of the crew of six men of the schooner C. Graham. who were believed to have per- ished when the vessel was wrecked ofi' Dover lVest, N. 3., succeeded in escaping to the rocks, whence they were rescued by fishermen after terrible suffering from cold and exposure. The sixth and missing man was the captain of the ill-fated vessel, The first twenty' miles of the Baie de Chaleurs Railway have been completed, and ten miles more will be ready for the iron in a few weeks. The work will be prosecuted vigorously during the winter months, and before the close of the present year the con- tractor hopes to have seventy miles in oper- ation. The total length of the road will be 170 miles, from Metapedia to Gaspe. The St. James’ Gazette says the fishery dis- pute is exciting attention in naval circles, and that the protection of the Canadian fishing interests will probably be taken over by the Colonial authorities and the fleet reinforced for that purpose. A special says the Gaelic stands alone in the ex- pectations of English interference to the extent indicated on behalf of the Dominion. The general belief in officials circles is that the Imperial Government is moving in the direction of reciprocity. In speaking with a reporter at Ottawa, Major-General Sir Fred Middleton express- ed his surprise that no movement was made The Department of Agriculture at Ottawa. has received advice that the Royal Commis- sion in connection with the Colonial exhibi- tion is preparing commemorative details to be presented to all the exhibitors. The pro- posed awards are not in any sense to be re- garded as competitive. Each exhibitor will receive a. critical report of his respective ex- hibit, prepared by professional experts in every department of the exhibition. THE WEEK’S NEWS. towards getting up a. military review and sham battle for the 20th of June. He at tributed the present lack of interest display- ed to the excitement of the Dominion elec- tions, but trusted that, despite this, some! thing tangible would shortly be done to start the movement. “ Some other of the Canadian cities may take the initiative,” said the General, “ and we will get left.” Newfoundland imported $6,698,000 worth of goods during the last fiscal year, and ex- ported $4,581.000 worth. The Newfound- landers sell chiefly fish and fish oil, and buy from abroad almost every other commodity. For example, they imported last year 303,- 693 barrels of flour, 19,035 hundredweights of butter, 858,333 gallons of molasses and 75,057 tons of coal. Canada supplied the larger proportion of the coal and the butter. Political economists will differ as to the effect of the excessive imports upon the pros- perity of the colony. To some they portend ruin; to others they indicate that the col- ony is getting tremendous values in return for its products. AMERICAN. It is stated that Jay Gould is about to have a direct line of railroad from Denver to Newport, N. J. The United States Senate has rejected the constitutional amendment affirming the right of women to the suifmge. There is an epidemic of malarial fever and measles at Tarentum, I’a.., a. thriving town of 3000 inhabitants, and many deaths have occurred. Terrible sufi‘ering exists on the Colville reservation, W. T., smallpox having broken out in the tribe with great fatality. Proviv sions are in inadequate. Telegrams from J ampa, Flam, say that the members of the Cuban federation fired on the Knights of Labor as they were leaving their hall. One knight was killed and three seriously wounded. The trouble has grown out of a. strike inaugurated recently The Grand Trunk freight house on River street, Buffalo, with all its contents, to- gether with a. number of freight cars, and the office with the books and documents, have been destroyed by fire. During the past Week there were eight- een cases of small-pox in New York and one death; 128 cases of diphtheria and 49 deaths against 111 cases and 41 deaths the previous week ; 651 cases of measlesand 68 deaths against .641 cases and 72 deaths the previous week. Diphtheria and smallpox smallpox are on the increase. Six cases of were reported Saturday. About two hundred cases of giant powder exploded while in transit over the Missouri Pacific road, half a. mile west of Fort Scott, Kansas. Fifteen freight cars were com- pletely demolished and a. magazine car blown to atoms. The engine was badly broken up. A brakeman was instantly killed. Ten thousand dollars’ worth of glass was broken in buildings in the city. Great excitement prevails throughout Chili at; the appearance of cholera. on its boundaries. Strict quarantine was enforced against vessels coming from suspected ports and the passes on the Argentine frontier were closely guarded, but the disease surv- mounted all barriers and reached the Pacific slope. The disease is causing great havoc in the Argentine Republic, forty deaths a day being reported in some places. The Abyssinians have captured Harrar, defeating the Ameer. It is stated the Czar has forwarded a paciâ€" fic message to the Emperor of Austria. The King of Abyssinia. demands of Egypt a. settlement of the Massowah question. The wages of 5,000 miners in Rhondda. Valley, \Vales, have been reduced 5 per cent. {reece is busy with war preparations, and all her arsenals are working night and day. The Russian authorities in Odessa have ordered the dlscharge of all Jews employed there. During a. debate on the budget in the lower house of the Hungarian diet Premier The Turkish Government has ordered half a million repeating rifles. An order has been issued by the German Government forbidding the exportation of horses. The London Daily News professes to know that there is an extreme danger of war. It says the Government is alarmed on account of its having heard that Germany is likely within a few days to ask France to explain the meaning of the French military move- ments on the frontier. Three thousand miners at Airdrie, Scot- land, have struck for an advance of a shil- ling per day. # gonmax. The French have evacuated Tamatave, in Madagascar. TLe Norbhumberland miners have decided to golout on strike to resist a. proposed re- duction of 12]: per cent. The Liberals of Wales have determined to introduce into Parliament during the comâ€" ing session a. land bill for Wales. The Island of Quelpaerb, at the entran: e of the Yellow Sea, has been evacuated by the British and handed over to China. Two gentlemen paid £1000 each for the privilege of accompanying Mr. Stanley on his expedition for the rescue of Emin Bey. Spanish Government spies report that Zorilla. has obtained loans to the amount of $400,000, and has been plotting for a. fresh uprising. The most promising of all the Jubilee schemes yet afloat, and one favoured by the Queen, is a. woman’s subscription of from a penny to a. pound. ' It is reported that a small force of Abyssi- nians have attacked Mossowah and have been repulsed with a. loss of 200 killed. Five Italians were killed. Turkey has recalled othe Governor of Crete owing to the opposition of the people to his administration, and has appointed Anthopulus Effendi, a more popular man, to replace him. Le Nerd, the Russian organ at Brussels, repudiates the proposal to submit the Bul- garian difficulty to mediation. It says me- diation implies that there is a. dispute, where- as no dispute exists between Russia. and Bul- game. A party of Salvationists, which had gone to meet General Booth upon his arrival at Northampton, was mobbed by the populace. Missiles of all kinds were thrown by the mob and the general himself was medea target for lumps of ice; The police were powerless. Tisza declared amid acclamations that no one wished for a war with Russia. Referring to a. remark by an anti-Semitic deputy, the Premier sustained in emphatic language the principle that Jew and Christian are entitled to equal rights. Mr. Cham‘ erlain has written to the Lon- don Times to show the practicability of the adoption of the Canadian constitution to Ireland to meet the fundamental conditions of Lord Hartington’s plan for the Govern- ment of that country. Mr. Gladstone thinks there are many circumstantial differences between the cases of Canada and Ireland, but that within and under them there is a. strong analogy. The French Cabinet has Withdrawn the supplemental budget for $73,000,000, intro- duced by M. Dauphin, the Minister of Fin- ance, and rejected by the budget committee of the Chamber of Deputies. The ministry have accepted the committee’s proposals, in- cluding that for the issue of sexennial treasury bonds to cover the present deficit. A Cabinet crisis is now believed to be averted. Despatches from Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, state that the colony has been swept by a fearful cyclone, accompanied by a. rainfall of such extraordinary copiousness that 20 inches of water fell in a. short time. The result has been disastrous floods in Brisbane, and some of the thoroughfares are submerged to a. dept-h of 20 feet. 'The city is entirely out off by floods from its suburbs. Reports say manypersbns have been drowned. The circumstances surrounding his death are particularly sad. For several years past Inigert had been visiting Miss Theresa Pfefl'er, and they were to have been married shortly. Every preparation had been made for the wedding, anda nice little cottage had been furnished for their home. On a re- cent \Vednesday the young man had called at his sweetheart’s home, and they discussed the future pleasantly for a few hours. About 10 o’clock, Mr. Inigert arose to leave, and was in the act of kissing the young lady “good-bye ” when he felta chokâ€" ing sensation in his throat. In a few mo- mentshebecame very ill, and fell unconscious to the floor. The frightened young lady’s screams brought her mother into the room, and a messenger was sent after Dr. Suter, who arrived soon. In the meantime the unfortunate young man was carried into the next room, and plaCed upon a bed. The Doctor examined him and found that his throat was swollen, and that he experienced great difficulty in breathing. All night long, and up to the time of his death, Miss Pfetfer sat by his bedside, and everything possible was done to relieve his sufferings. Consciousness returned to him the other night and he with difficulty conversed with those about his bedside. Next morning, at 6 o‘clock, the swollen parts were greatly in- flamed and he was smothered to death, be- ing ’unable to breathe at all. A Lover’s Strange Death. John Inigert, a well-known young tailor, dieithe _other morning at Logisvilkt, Ky. A An Imperial Sensation. A Paris special says: “ All the week Paris has been gathering interest in vague stories theta. natural child of the prince imperial was about to be produced. Gradu- ally these have taken form till now their complete publication is only a matter of a. day or two. The story is given so much credibility that the Empress Eugenie hes telegraphed to the Due de Mouchy to make strict inquiries. What gives weight to it is the fact that no money is demanded or apparently desired, and the effort is contin- uous to hide the child. The mother is e schoolmistress in Australia. Her docu ments are in the care of Mr. Reynolds, an English solicitor, and consist of two letters and two telegrams, the former unmistaka- bly in the prince’s handwriting, but they refer only to trifling questions and appoint- ments. The child, which was at Bercy, is, or was a. few days ago, at the chateau of the Marquis d’ Oyleyâ€"the Chateau de Sans Souci, Bellevueâ€"where there is reason to be- lieve important interviews will take place. The boy is said to be the image of his reputed sire, and there are sundry strong influences in shadow behind him. The story receives a, good deal of credence.” YOIING MEN suflering from the effects of early evil habits, the result of ignorance and folly, who find themselves weak, nervous and exhausted ; also MID- DLE-AGED and OLD MEN who are broken down from the effects of abuse or over-work, and in advanced life feel the consequences of youthful excess, send for and READ Ml '. Lubou’s Treatise on Diseases of Men. 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