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lH lllll Ill llll H THE VERY LATEST FROM. ALL THE WORLD OVER. 9‘- lnterestlng Items About Our Own Country, ‘ Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and asorted for Easy Reading. FF: CANADA. Bramtford is taking steps to prevent future floods there. Hamilton is enjoying a rather un- seasonable cut rate on coal. The Galician smallpox patient in quarantine at \‘i'innipeg, is dead. The price of flour was reduced 40 cents a. barrel at Winnipeg yesterday. Hannah Lute. aged 17, has been or- rested at Hamilton. Ont., on a charge.” of infanticide. The Ontario Agricultural College at GUEIDth. has had over 15,000 visitors since June lst. Private Thomas Robertson. R.C.I., St. John's. Que, has become .insane through the use of cigarettes. The custom collections at Lake Ben- nett since the opening of the season have amounted to $125,000. An addition costing a quarter of a million will be made to the C. P. R. Windsor station, Montreal. Achille Doric-n, a (Frenchfianadian lawyer of Montreal, has been uppomt- ed a juldge of the Circuit Court. Albert VVebber, a Hamilton street car conductor. fell from a car and is sufâ€" fering from concussion of the brain. Miss Millie Dawson. Postmaster Dawson of London, was very seriously injured by a trolley car. Hyacinthe Asselin. aged 60, a car re- pairer. was killed in the G. T. R. shops. Brantford, by the unexpected shunting of some cars. 'Andrew Harrison. of Montreal. an employee of the Canada Refining Comâ€" pany, was instantly killed by contact with. a live wire. The body of Miss Mary Bastable. who disappeared from Lachiue last Novem-' bar, has been found in the St. Law- rence River at Quebec. A young son of Mr. Isaac Johnson of Binbrook was run over by a loaded wood waggon, one arm being badly born and broken. The Montreal Harbour Commission-, era have accepted the plans of the Minister of Public “'orks for the im- provement of the harbor. Many of the bills stolen from the Dominion bank at Napanee have turnâ€"‘ «I up in Montreal. and the detectives there are hot after those who are passing them The confusion of American and Can- adian railway signals at Niagara Falls, Ont., resulted in a collision and‘ the death of Engineer George Jack. of the Erie railway. Mr. F. X. Grandmaitre, damages for the was awarded judgment at Hull on Friday for 8275 and costs. Cadet Sergt.â€"Major Denison of Tor- ‘ latter had 'Dnto. youngest son of Col. Denison. won honors in all subjects. fourteen in number, at the Kingston Military Col-. lege. This is a new record for the institution. A small tornado visited Wolseley. N. . session of the hotel, W. T., Monday night, and demolished} the skating and curling rink. over-i turned three freight cars on the track. blew down the walls of a brick store; in course of erection. a fine large staâ€" I ble, and a nrulmber .of smaller stables. and outâ€"buildings. The medal of the Royal Canadian Humane Association has been grantâ€" ed to Conductor McMurray, of the To- ronto Street Railway Company, who saved the life of a motorman named Cruise on March 16 last by cutting a telephone wire which had crossed the trolley line. 1 Three Klondike exploration parties were sent from Ottawa on Monday by the Public Works Department. Two parties will start from Edmonton to explore routes through to the head waters of the Pelley River. The third party will enter from the coast by the Stikine river. ‘ It has been decided not to extend the electric railway system of Quebec to Montmorency this year, but every- thing will be got in readiness during} the winter to change the motive pow- er from steam to electricity nextl year of the entire railway from Que- bec to Cape Tourincnt, below La Bonne Ste. Anne. 1 At the meeting of the Quebec City Council 'it was decided to guarantee bonds of $200,000 for the Great Nor- thern Railway, on condition that the company establish its workshops in Quebec, that the line be completed and that a passenger train be run through from Parry Sound to Quebec or vice versa. Mr. J. C. Roy, division engineer forI the Dominion Government. has return-' ed to Victoria from Glenora, where he'g has been with Chief Engineer Costs. of‘ the Public Works Department. exam- ining lhc all-Canadian route to the’ Yukon. Mr. Roy reports the Stickeen‘ to be a fine body of; water. The trouble this season has been. he says, that. several steamers not. powerfull enough have attempted to ascend tliel daughter of l who sucd ‘ the Hull Electric Company for $1,500 death of his son.: I May 22. IMay 25. A as is not at present in existence. General Von Rabe. wounding him in I cans the production of a map suchl identity not yet established. fired at z l ’- l GRElAT BRITAIN. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain emphati- cally denies the rumors of his contem- plalcd retirement from the British Cabinet. A Scotch member of Parliament is authority for the statement that the Governor-Generalship of Canada is a position much loo expensive for a Scotch nobleman of small means to ac- ‘cept. Professor Riva, of the University of Brussels, says the London Chronicle. has been appointed arbitrator to fix l the amount of indemnity to be paid by . Russia to Great. Britain for the seizure. of Canadian vesselsin Russian sealing grounds. UNITED STATES. The U. S. Senate is debating the Ha- waiian annexation question. The business portion of Park City. ‘lUlab has been destroyed by fire at ‘0. loss of $1,000,000. All the coal miners in tho Jellico disâ€" ‘trict of Kentucky will soon be trans- 3ferred to an English syndicate. ‘ Springs. Col. R. E. A. Crofton, retired, died at Washington yesterday. aged 63 years. ,He took a prominent part in the sup- pression of the riots at Chicago during zDebbs' strike. Lieut. J. Fugitti, of the Japanese navy has arrived at Seattle fromi Yoko- jhama. He will watch the construction .of the war vessels now being built for Japan at Philadelphia’and San Fran- cisco. a cooling station for all United States war vessels in eastern waters- Twentyâ€"eight men have been sworn ‘in for duty along the American 5811” .Ste. Marie canal. Spanish spies from Government property. A. Norfolk and \Vestern passenger train was wrecked on Sunday two :miles West of Shawville, Va. Three men were killed and several injured. The 'dead are. the engineer, Al. Horner, Bristol. Va.; the fireman, Edward Sat- ler, Bristol, Va; and the mail clerk, ,A. S. Francis, Marion. Va. Twenty-five British bottoms have been offered to the United States War I Department by their owners and agents ‘for transport purposes. All of these. jhowever, are not yet in the United j States ports. but their arrival has been anticipated. with a view to their exâ€" ,aminalion as soon they reach port. tampering with i The finishing department. of the King ‘Powder Company. located at King's Mills. near Cincinnati, was destroyed Sunday night. evidently having been :fired by two men. One of them was yliadly burned. and was captured. People hgomg to the fire met a stranger go- llng toward South Lebanon. The pris- ‘oner is apparently a foreigner. The monelary loss is small. Alexis Cliurkoff, a Russian, who was under sentence of death at Philadel- phia, for killing George D. Haas, last Winter, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in the county pri- ison, Haas, at the time of his death. was ass1slant superintendent of the White Dental Manufact 'ing Company. and was murdered by (‘ iurkoff because the ‘ _ an imaginative grievance :agauist him. One hundred and fifty soldiers of the 05th New York Regiment went to Cabâ€" ‘Ln. JOhn Bridge Hotel, :1 resort seven miles from Washington, and took pos- Costly mirrors ,were smashed, pictures were stripped from the walls, and beer bottles and glasses were thrown in every direction. Word was sent to the camp and a pick- ed company from a New Jersey regi- l l . ment was marched on the doubleâ€"quick to arrest the rowdies. When the guard was sighted the New Yorkers look to the woods. Later in the day the mob surrounded a trolley car and smash- ed it with stones, injuring several passengers. ' GENERAL. nIl‘ourteen Russian sailors. capsized off Noumea. N. S. W" were devoured by sharks. A Chinese torpedo destroyer was driven ashore at Port Arthur and 130 men were. drowned. A permanenl treaty of arbitration has been successfully arranged be- tween Italy and Argentina. Austria is likely to take military measures to deal wilh llie Albanian and Sci-vino disorders near the Aus- trian frontier. The Sultan of Turkey. it is stated. has purchased "3,000 square yards of land near Jerusalem. which he will present to Emperor William, of Gerâ€" many. The Spanish Chamber of Deputies has had under consideration the Re- publican proposal to establish gener- al obligatory military service, and to abolish substitutes. Over 2100 sail of fishing vessels bound for Labrador are blockaded by ice floes in Green ,Bay, Newfoundland. The north coast is reported filled \vilh ice, both floes and hel'gs. An old temple at Hisango. Japan. to- gether with several other valuable buildings. were destroyed by fire on Another temple at Kyoto was destroyed by tho same agent on warehouse was also destroyed. The Pope's health. according to his physicians. is quite good. His Holiness rivet ghas quite recovered from a slight at- Mr. A. P. Lowe, of the Geological Survey, has 12ft for two years‘ work in Labrador. It has been said lhat gold exists in Labrador in paying quan- tities. and an abundance of iron and of coal in different localities. The journey into the upper country is tediâ€" ous and long. and once well in there it tack of rheumatism in the shoulder. I and on Tuesday he transacted business and promenadcd the gardens as usual. The British steamer Para. from Dun- kirk for Tilt Cove, loaded with copper for Swansea. entered an ice floe off the mouth of Notre Dame Bay. New- foundland, on Saturday, and was crush- is not possible to get out the same Season. Mr. Lowe therefore goes pre- _pa.red to remain over all next winter and summer. The geological forma- tions will be noted, and the survey ed. sinking within two hours. The crew arrived at 'I‘ilt Cove all right. During a military review Tuesday at Deutsch. Eylau, near ()sterode, East Prussia. a soldier in the ranks. whose A five-year-old daughter of Mrs, Skinner, of Kalamazoo, Mich, .was. dumped in a fountain at Clifton Portland, Maine, has been selected as: This is to prevent‘ the log. and killing his horse. A searchâ€" ing investigation is proceeding. The situation in the mining rog- ions of Catalonia, Spain, is most scri- ous. There are 17,000 people out of elliploymvnt, and more factories are expected in close shortly. A renewal of rioting is expected, but the auâ€" thorities are doing everything to preâ€" vent this. [lLIFTUN HOUSE BURNEI]. THE FAMOUS HOTEL HAS BEEN TOTALLY DESTROYED. â€"- Loss Bulimich at $150,000â€"(fovcrr-d Iiy In- surnnccâ€"Gale Fin icil "Il‘ l‘lamcs and the I'lliol'ls of the l‘lrcmcn “'ci-c Iii Valli. A despalch from Niagara Falls says: â€"The worldâ€"famous Cliflon house, of Niagara Falls. located on the Canadian side of the river. faring the Falls, is no more. It was buran to the ground on Sunday morning. The fire originated near the room over the kitchen. A gale was blowing on Sunday morning that demolished one of the big chimneys. Soon after smoke was seen coming out under the roof, and an alarm was wounded. The wind fanned the flames until they broke through the roof. and in half an hour. despite the herculean efforts of both the Canadian and Ain- erican fire departments, the rear of the big hotel was in flames. The hotel was full of guests. and they were told to .remove their effects and gel. to a place of safety. The manager, \V. L. ,Ormrod. personally, took charge of the interior of the house. and saw thal the guests and their baggage were removed [in safety. It was thought the fire "could be confined to the rear of the .house. but the suction of the wind was SO great that the fire ate its way against the wind under the roof. until the entire hotel was honeycombed. l The spectacle was a grand one as the lflames sec/tired Control of the big cara- - vansary. lined Thousands of people .the American banks and the new steel 4 arch bridge watching. the sight. A jlarge qua-Dilly 0f the furflifilllu‘a’fl 0f We .3 just over the heart, and glancing. The lsecond took effect .house was saved. During the excite- jment quite a. number of ludicrous lhlngs took place. The old and value- lcss signs of the New York Central and the Michigan Central railroads ‘were taken out with great care. laid in. the park opposite and covered up [JVllh blankets, while valuable bricaa- lbrac. cut glass. and mirrors were [thrown out of the windows and ruin- ed. Bedding was carried out. and old lend exceedingly valuable furnilure :whu‘h had been used by- crowned heads (hf'EIIlOpe and royalty of many coun- {tries was hurled from the windows and lbroken into pieces. STARTED AT 10 O‘CLOCK. The fire started about 10 o’clock a. m.. and. by one o’clock thec hotel was a. smoking pile of ruins. The Clifton was originally built some fifty years ago. It was colonial in style, with three storeys. and numerous immense. doric pillars all around it. A large gco_urt on the inside. formed by two Wings, was laid out in walks, lawn and -flower gardens, Geo. M. Colburn, the ‘vetcran hol'el man, has been, and was at the present time, the proprietor of the house. He had had the hotel for twenty-eight years. Its location was the finest of any at the Falls, as it lStOOl‘l on the Canadian side directly facing the American and Horseshoe Falls. and the guests could look up and down the gorge of the Niagara. from its piazzus. The hotel had been the favourite one with foreigners and peo- ple of wealth. Most of the guests went to the Cataract house, on the American side. Mr. Ormrod and his corps of clerks are also quartered at the Cat- aract. LOSS $250,000. The house was owned by the Bush estate, and was valued at $100,000. It was insured for an amount to cover loss. Mr. Colburn’s loss will be nearly $50,000 on furniture and furnishings. He also carried a heavy insurance, which will pover his temporary loss. The most severe loss will be in the sea- son‘s business, which was just com- mencing. Mr. Colburn anticipated a big rush of guests this summer, owing to the limidily of. the people to go lo the seaside, and his bookings quite large. At the time of the fire the house had a large complemenl of guests. The register and other books are locked up. There were no narrow escapes or thrilling incidents, except that one or two firemen were slight.- ly injured by falling bricks and some broken glass. A new and modern ho- tel will go up on the old site ini- ined ia tel y . MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS. l’urto lllro LXpedltlon to Slur! the First “Mk III July. A despatch from Wash'mgtou. says:â€" Now that Major-Genera] Shafller has arrived safely off Santiago de Cuba, War Department officials are directing their entire energy toward preparing an army of more than 20.000 men for Porto Rico. Major-General ‘Miles is personally supervising all the details connected with this expedition. He has the strongest hopes that the army will leave the United States during the first week of July. After General Miles his left lhe United States, Major- Uoueral Brooke, now commanding the troops at Chickamauga park. will be the senior majorâ€"general left in ‘lhe United States, but It do 3 not neceSSirâ€" ily follow that he will command the army. The first detachment of reinâ€" forcements for Majorâ€"General Shaffer will leave Newport News on the auxi- liary cruiser Harvard next Thursday. The Yale will sail on Sunday with an additional force. “’9 [‘8 ‘ »"I was sitting on my verandah when ,Ontario street. A boy about ten years lold was with him. I heard lhe youngâ€" A TRAMP KILLS PATROLMAN T00- HEY AT LONDON. ' 'l’lic Tramp Was Woodcn-Leggcd and “as Being l'lm‘cd l'iulcr Ari-cs! for Assault. A (lcspatch from London, Onl, says: â€"Policem:in Frank Toolicy, was on Fri- day night shot and instantly killed by a tramp whom he was endeavoring to arrest on acharge of assault. The shooting was apparently not witnessed by anyone, and the murderer although encumbered with awooden leg. made his escape. Shortly after 7 o’clock the tramp was seen walking on the Grand Trunk tracks near Adelaide street, by James Ross, a railroad watchman. Ross or- dered him from the tracks, and walked towards him to enforce the order. Without a word the tramp struck Ross heavily in the face, felling him to the ground, where he lay unconscious. Men from an adjoining lumber yard picked up the watchman and carried him to their shanty. \thn he recovered he told the story of the assault, and the Police were notified, and men on duty in the eastern portion of the city told to look oul for the woodenâ€"legged tramp. , 'I‘WO SHOTS FIRED. Shortly after 9 o'clock Policeman Toohey saw the man on Ontario street. a short thoroughfare in the extreme east end of the city. The tramp did not halt upon request, and 'l‘oohey followed. Near the end of the street he caught him. and a short strungle ensued. The policeman called to a small boy standing near to run to John Pike’s house, a few yards away, and ask him to help him take his trouble- some customer into custody. The boy 1Luna, Private James Crews, . ;Edward Culver. Private Dawson, Pri- did as told, and found Pike sitting. on his verandah. While he was away two shots rang out, and when Pike rushed up the policeman was lying on the} grass with a bullet hole in his head. His prisoner had disappeared, and no trace could be found. The tramp had shot twice, the first; ,bullet striking the policeman's watch. in the brain. and death was almost instantaneous. E. GRIMS'I'EAD'S STORY. E. Grimstead, living on Ontario st.,l told the following story of the murder: l l Tooliey passed along going north on ster say, ‘1‘hal.'s him.‘ I noticed a.‘ woodenâ€"legged man on the other side‘ of the street: also going north. He was dressed in dark grey clothes, andl had his coat slung over his shoulder. This was just at 9.30, as Iheard the. evening gun fired at the barracks, as Toohey passed. I started after him a couple of minutes . later, and caught up with two gunners, going to the camp. We heard two shots fired, and1 ran up towards the end of Elias slreet.‘ Just by the fence the policeman was lying on his face. He was still breathâ€" . ing, but life was practically gone. I; took out my watch, and. it was just four minutes after Toohey had passed my house." The scene of the shooting is at the end of a little street in the extreme eastern part of the ,city. \Vliei'e the murder occurred there is. an electric light. but at the time it uvas dusk and the light had not yet been turned on. HORRIBLY BUTCHERED. 'l'lie lllsnicmlicrcd Remains of a Man Found In Buffalo. A despatch from Buffalo, says:-A trunk containing the dismembered body of a man was found floating in the Blackwell Canal on Tuesday morn- ing. The man's head had been out off, both legs had been severed at the knees, and both arms and hands were terribly mangled, but were attached to the body by the tendons and mus- cles. In his breast were a number of stab wounds. one of them a great gap- ing wound extending through the right lung. The man was apparently an Italian. about 30 years of age, and weighed about 175 pounds. His features were regular. His eyes were blue and his. moustache and hair were black. The pieces of clothing found on the body showed that before mutilation the man had been dressed in a brown and black checked suit. Inside the. trunk there was found a 32-calilre- Smith & Wesson revolver, with every chamber loaded. There was also a three-quartcrâ€"inch carpenter's saw, which had evidently been used to out the bones. The trunk is a cheap affair covered with brown paper. Two heavy car brake shoes were attached to one of the handles. Lalo in the afternoon the body was identified as that of Pliillippo Fores- tina. a strolling Italian musician. The trunk in which the body was foundl had lmen identified by a city trunk dealer as one sold by him on Monday morning to an Italian. The crime,§ therefore. must have been committed‘ on that afternoon or that night. The weights attached to the trunk by the! murderer or murderers were not heavy enough to prevent its floating. The head and legs of the murdered man were. packed undernealh his body in the trunk. There is no clue to the au- thors of the crime or as to its motive. ___~â€"â€"-.-â€"-â€". There are two places in a newspaper where a man doesn't care to have his' name appear~tbc obituary column and llie police court record. iii ROUGH RIDSLRI licuills ofn llot “gm your Snntlngoâ€" Heavy Losses lnmcled on the Spanish. Who Wore ('ompclh-il l0 Retreat. A dcspatcli from Aguadores. via Playia del Este. sayszâ€"Ten of Roose- velt’s rough riders were killed in an engagement on Friday morning with a Spanish force. that ambushed them. The troops had requested that they be sent to the front at once. and they were ordered to march over the foot- hills from Baiquiri. After a forced march the troopers dismounted. They were then eight miles distant from Santiago. They heard the Spaniards felling trees a. short distance from them, and they were ordered to ad- vance upon the enemy. The country tlicreabouts is covered with high grass and chapparel, and in this a. strong force of the Spaniards were hidden. As the Americans moved forward they were met by a withering fire. Col. Leonard “'00d and Lieut.-Col. Roose- velt. led the charge with great bravery. They scorned to hide themselves in the grass or underbrush. as the enemy did. and ultimately they drove the enemy back towards Santiago, inflicting HEAVY LOSSES upon them. The Rough Riders were supported by the Second Massachu- setts Volunteers and the First Regu- lar Cavalry. The Americans killed are zâ€"Captain Allyn Capron. First Ar- tillery. U.S.A.; Sergt. Hamilton Fish. Rtosevelt's Rough Riders: Captain Private vate Harry Heffner. of Troop G. Three others were also killed. There were 3'7 wounded. Everything possible is be- ing done for the relief of the wounded. A number of Cubans took part in Fri- day's fighting and forty of them were killed. Edward Marshall. 8. corres- pondent of The New York Journal. was at the front with the Rough Riders. and he was seriously wounded. A number of newspaper men have gone with food and water and a surgeon to bring Mr. Marshalltothc coast. The enemy has received reinforcements from San- tiago, who brought with them ten field pieces. They are fortifying the hill at Sevilla.. which commands the road to Santiago. THE ROUGH RIDERS ' have received high praise from General Shafter for the gallant style in which they defeated the Spaniards. The enâ€" emy was utterly routed. General Cas- tillo. with 2.000 Cubans, reports having defeated the. Spaniards at Guasima with heavy loss. The Cuban losses were less than fifty. The insurgents captured two railroad trains laden with food supplies and l00 tons of coal. Further reinforcements of Cubans are expected shortly. Transports are now en route to Cerra to get General Garcia and his forces. who will be brought here as quickly as possible. Large quanti- ' ties of supplies and a number of horses were landed at Silioney Friday mornâ€" ing. The landing was covered by the lMontgomery, Suwanee. Scorpion and \Vampatuck. which shelled the woods hotly. driving out the enemy. SPANISH REPORTS OI" THE FIGHT. A despzitch from Madrid says:-â€"Gen. , Linares. commanding the Spanish forci- cs at Santiago, has cabled to Genera Correa. Minister of \Var, the following official report of the fighting which took place near Santiago Friday morn- Ln :â€" ‘g‘A large force of Americans and (‘uâ€" bans attacked the Spanish column in the hills near Sevilla. The enemy was repulsed with heavy losses. The Span- iards had seven killed and twenty- seven wounded. "The debarkation of the American troops is continuing at Juragua. which place was abandoned by the Spanish, owing to the terrific cannnnade of the heavy guns of the American warships covering the landing. The buildings were all destroyed. The Spaniards reâ€" tired. but took with them all their . munitions. “The debarkation of the American troops continues in the Ensenada min- eral district, which Ievacuated. deâ€" stroying the village. Owing to the fact that the American squadron was bombarding within 3,000 paces of our trenches, we removed all war ina- tel‘ial." Captain-General Blanco telegraphs from Havana that a force of 300 Amâ€" ericans attacked the Spaniards near Siboney and Sevilla. The Spaniards had three men killed and three wound- ed. The Americans also attacked the Spanish troops under General Rubon. but were repulsed and pursued. The Spaniards captured the Ainericans’ ammunition and clothing. The Ainâ€" ericans, he says. have bombarded Caselda. COMMON PRUDENCE. Blunt-01‘th “by [In Will Not Release the ."f'l‘l‘lllliu‘ I'rlsom-i-s. A dcsputch from Havana, says:-Czip~ tainâ€"Gâ€"eneral Blanro denies that he has decided that there shall be no exchange of prisoners with the United States. At. the same time the Caplainâ€"Genen :11 says that he cannot allow the ex- change of Lieut. Hobson and the oth- er members of the party who sailed. the Mei'rimzic into the mouth of the harbour at Santiago de Cuba. for the reason that the lieutenant and his com- panions had opportunities for sccing the harbour and its defend-s. The most common prudence. the Captain- General says. would forbid that those men he now given tlicir liberty, :ls pm- posad by the United States. Captain- General Blanco added that ii" has not forbidden the approach of vessels hear- ing flags of truce. but had only ordered that no vcsscls be permitted to Elp< prozich within six milx‘s of shore so that it be made lnlilfchillle for offii-a-rs of the United States to make drauinga of or inspect fortresses.