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THE VERY ~EATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. H Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain, the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. â€"â€" l CANADA. Major-General Hutton hzis‘gone to New Brunswick cariboo hunting. The new Imperial penny postage stamps are now on sale at Ottawa. The Northern Pacific Railway Co. will further extend their system in Manitoba next season. The Northwest ports that their sales have. doubled themselves during the past eleven months. Judge MacDougall has declined to reâ€" lieve Massey Hall, Toronto, from taxj ation. It is feared that the bubonic plague has broken out in Chinatown. San Francisco. The corporation of McGill University . has decided to confer the honorary clef gree of LL.D., upon Lord Minto. Alld. Davies of Toronto, purposes get- ting after the departmental_ stores again on the question of taxation. The Governors of McGill University, Montreal, have passed a resolution af- filiating Vancouver College with the university. The marine section of the Toronto Board of Trade is urging such improve- ments to Toronto harbour as would make it an ocean port. It is said that the trustees of Emerald Street Methodist contemplate suing delinquent subscrib- ers to the building fund. A C.P.R. official at Montreal denies the statement that the company is not amply equipped and prepared to handle the western grain business. The Quebec Harbor Commissioners have decided to grant exemption from harbor dues to any line of transâ€"Atlanâ€" tic steamers making that port its wes- tern terminus. The report is revived at Vancouver that the Great Northern Railway is to bridge the Fraser River at New \Vestâ€" minster, and extend its system into Vancouver City. The London City Council and the Bell Telephone Company have. made a new agreement for five years and the Peo- ple‘s Telephone Company has with- drawn from the field. \Vhether the Government supplies them or not the. Toronto Public School Cadets who are now being selected to visit Florida will be supplied with a uniform. They will cost $500. A large petition is being circulated through Northern ,British Columbia asking for waggon roads from Ashâ€" croft, through Cariboo and Omenica, which is being opened up very fast. A Norway Whaler, who owns a fleet of Whalers on Norway's coast, is in Vancouver for the purpose of estabâ€" lishing a whaling fleet for the pacific, with Victoria or Vancouver as a home port. Customs receipts from the lst of May to the clése of navigation last year at Montreal were $3,708,345, and $4,842,695 for the same period this year. Exports of grain from Montreal during the season of navigation just closed show an increase of nearly 20,â€" 000,000 bushels compared with last year. During the 13 years from 1885t01898 108 persons have been condemned to death in Canada for murder. Of these 60 were executed, and 48 sentences were commuted. The Manitoba, Elevator Company, wh c'a owned thiityâ€"seuan clwators,has soil out to the Northern Dominion Ele- vator Lompany and Bready, Love 6:. Tryon. 'l he. Northern Elevator Co.,uow own 117 elevators. It. is reported that Judge Dugas, who went to the Klondike a couple of month; ago to succeed Judge Maguire, is troubled with his eyes, and finds the climate :0 trying to them that he may have to resign. Harry Morgan, at present in Van- couver, claims to have discovered ta hum body of ore, a very mountain of min -ral, on th) nort beast coast of Van- couvur island. The deposit. he says, strikingly resembles the Treadwell mine. _ 111 View of the approach of the Christ- mas season, attention is directed to the fact that no parcel can be sent from Canada to any other country by parcel post unless it bears a customs declara- tion setting torth the nature of its contents and its value. It is reported thit the Canadian Pacific has purchased a large. block of land in the cult re of \\‘innipe.g, frot- ing on the, Red River, upon which b‘lnfl‘OlD‘E. union depot will be erected next year, the present depot to be utilized as freight offices. C. P. R. [and sales for the month of November amount to 27.00:) acres, for which $85,000 was realized. This is a substantial increase. over the showing mule, in October, when 17,000 acres Were 50111 for 850,000. The TOI‘UIltl city commissioner re- port: that the total value of the buildâ€" ing permits is=ued during the month of November is. $109,000, and the total value for the. past eleven months of the year, $1,011,180. This is an in- crease of almost 100 per cent, Mr. ll0u_£l7l>, Superintendent of the 11'1in Nation-l Paik. :ngt‘StSlhzlttlIe size- of the park should be, increased by takin;_r in the watt-[shed of the Bow River. The extension would be used 5.5 a game preserve, and would be under the pirk management. The litest comers from DawsouCity bring news that Frank Slavin, thc lprize fighter. has secured 1 Land Company reâ€"j Church, Hamilton, . the right to cut the. timber for five miles up the, ‘Klondike river, beginningat iismouth, ,; by other man livrng in this ruscrvo lxnua p-iy tribute to Mr. Slavin at the, lraie of $7 a cunt. l )Ityoi’ Shaw of Toronto husrvcoivetl ‘11 letter from the British \Var (sffice stating that llIt‘ ’l'wcntyâ€"Ii‘irst Lan- ‘('Pl.\ will not return from Egypt for ,nbnut a. year, and that then they will, in the ordinary course of events, rcâ€" mztiu at home for several yr-irs. (‘onâ€" seliivntly tlicy cannot pass tliIOHtlll lf‘anatla on their way to India. :‘L’lllilnilld :intl Nnitliâ€"\\'cstcrn butter will have again to l‘tIiltt‘lltl in Van- (‘Ollvei' with lllt‘ Australian article. Athtralian and New Zezilzintl 811111110134 are feeling;tlicmarkct as to pl'tlsltt‘t't‘l for advantagcuufly layingr tllthll shipâ€" mean of butter in British Columbia. Last winter and spring :i good price was realized for Australian butter. :which took vcry wcll. The Edmonton District Railway Comâ€" pany will ask Parliament for power to build a railway to the coast by way of Yellow Head or Peace River passes, or to connect with the line which the Ilritish Pacific Railway Company is ‘iiuthoi‘ized to construct ; also to build a branch line to the Yukon River, and‘ to change the name to the Edmonton. Yukon and Pacific Railway Company. The Ontario Provincial Board of Health has adopted a resolution makâ€" ing it. obligatory on physicians to rc~ port all cases of tuberculosis occurring in their practice. If a physician isnot consulted, then this duty should fnll ulion the householders; that local health boards should provide. for the I‘t‘gular and systematic. disinfection of the domicile in which the patient lives. GREAT" BRITAIN. It is rumoured that Queen Victoria will visit l-‘loronce. next spring instead of the Riviera. The British steamer Liverpool from Montevideo, sheep on the voyage. The Lancet saysthe Prince of \Vales has entirely recovered from the acci- dent to his knee in July last. i The Colonial Institute of London, Belluro, at lost 1,194 ing gratification at the Coming Imper- ial penny postage. They weigh the )Iayor of High \VY‘ combo each year. This year Liverâ€" pool's Mayor is the champion heavyâ€" weight of England. llis name is 0111- ‘ton. pronounced “\‘Vholeton." Mr. “'illiam \Valdorf Astor has (in- nated, 5,000 toward the fund being: raised at the instance of General Lord Kitchener. to found the Gordon Memâ€" orial College. at, Khartoum. The people in the Channollslands were so disturbed at. the possible con- sequences of a war between Great Britain and France that they buried their valuables. Leopold Rothschild “on $150,000 in stakes in the English racing season, which closed this week. The Duke of \Vestminster made 35804100, Lord Roseâ€" bery $55,000, and the. Prince of \Yziles $30,000. There is some talk in England of Sendin: l.o.tl Kitchener, of Khartoum, to the Cape as the British Governor- General of South Africa. Sir Alfred Milms, the. present incumbent. is to succeed Ilord Cromer in Egypt. The Sirdnr, Lord Kitchener, of Kharâ€" toum, has been “poet struck.“ He is reported to have told a friend that since his arrival in England he has reâ€" ceived more than a hundred laudatory poems. Lord Salisbury‘s recent reference in his speech at Guildhall to "decaying empires" has aroused the anger of the Sultan. who hastens to repudiate the phrase if it was meant to refer to Turkey. UNITED STATES. Eight people have been killed and six Wounded during the present hunting season in Michigan. Chicago pork packers have entered a strong protest against Germany's ac- tion in excluding U. S. sausages. Losses to shipping and vessel owners on the great lakes for the year are estimated at $2,500,000, the largest reâ€" corded. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, whose health is failing, is about to resign tho pas- torate of the Plymouth church, Brook- lyn, N. Y. v Mr. Joseph Choate, of New York, is being talked of as Mr. Hays' successor as Ambassador of the United States to Great Britain. A goldâ€"headed cane has been recovâ€" ered from the wreck of the steamer Portland, bearing the inscription: "Nov. ‘27, Toronto, 1887." Detroit sclod trustees are wrought up over the discovery that Canadian fem-r19 teachers hive been offerctl [)01i1:0119 in Detroit schobls. ‘ Secretary Long, of the United States n'ivy, in his annual report, made pub» lic (in Friday, asks for fifteen more warships at a total cost of over $30,- 000,000. Secretary Spaul-ling at \Vashiiigâ€" 1011 says Canadian commercial travelâ€" li-i's do not come within the provisions of the alien labor act, and are free. to do bu~'iness in the. l'nited States. The police of Newark, N.J., h'th’ been authorized to offer $500 reward for the. recoVery of a watch lost or stolen from a wealthy lady of that city on \\'ednus- day night. The. watch is valued at $1,800. During the past fiscal year the gross revenue’ of the United States Post Of- fit-e Department was 089.01208. The gross expenditure was $08,033,523, This is nearly two-thirds more business than was done by the department in 1880. hirs. “'ynn, the richest resident of Brooklyn. Ill., and owner of half the town, which lies across the river [rum St. Louis, Mo, was murdered l"I‘l(l‘l)’ or early Saturday morning by robbci‘s, who cut her thro-it and left her dead in the front )"lr‘tl after ransacking the lJiiLISP. 'l‘wo (‘1'.â€"l-li()llllt1 freight trains run- ning 102(‘llli1l on the lt‘itcliburg rail- ,Eug., has passed a resolution exprcssj roid collided near Atliol. )Ias. Brakeaman Knight, of \Villirims- town. was caught in the wreck by the legs. and buim-d to death, in spite of, the L‘fftfllx of his comrades to release; him. ‘ 'lhc famous U111 liirlirin. Pete. Waile- nl'til, of l‘iw-scoti, Mi h.. aged 113, who, was married twice to squ-iws. :indl “linsi- Sci-(ind “ifu (llt‘ll only two Inirllllli ago, was again married Thursâ€"l day to a l’oli~h girl named Emma Jane S\\7In\1t‘}illllnfil~li, aged 50, who emigratâ€" ctl recently from Montreal. . lly direction of the. t hambcr of (‘omâ€"l iitci'cc. of HM State of Now York 11>} coiiiiiiittt-o on fort-iin commerce called on Preside-iii M’t-Kiiilwy rind presentcd‘ the memorial urging him to convvne an international congress at \I'ashiug~l ton in consider illi‘ question of makâ€" ing private ]irt)]wi’ty on the scat free from capture in time of war. A Missouri I’at-ific passenger train was llt’ltl up four miles west of Sedalia, Mo, 'l‘uesday night by three maskcd‘ men. “no of tho men, .lim \Vost. an engineer of the company, was captured. ‘ The others escaped. The holdâ€"up was to have. taken place Friday, but one of‘ 1111' men weakened, and it was fixmll for Tuesday. The company was awan of this and the train hands were pre- pared. Fully twenty shots were ex-‘ changed, i GENERAL. The Spanish authorities are serious- ly alarmed at th” indications of an imminent iising. The German Emperor be planning a tour of Scotland next June. Emperor \Villiam, it is rumoured, in- is reported to England and tends to write for puin 0110!] an ac- count of 1113-1 Palestine totir. It is expected that the thdive of Egypt will next year via“ England to pay his respects to ll)“ Queen. The New South \I'nles wheat liar- vest for“ this year will be 1,300,000 bushels, in excess of that of hat you r. A plot to assassinate Prince Fcrtliâ€", nnnrl of Bulgaria his been discovered :11 Sofia and numerous arrests have. been made. The Journal Official on Tuesday. in Paris, publshes a decree forbidding adâ€" mittance into France of fruit and plints from the United States. Four Hungarians hive been playing chess with bottles of wine. When one moved be, emptied the particular bil- tle. A. few moves saw all the players fast asleep. Thirtyâ€"seven people on board the British steamer Clan Drummond. from Clyde for the Cape of Good Hope, wrecked in the. Bay of Biscay, were drowned. Details of the new German army liill show that the Prussiin pcacx continâ€" gent will be increased by 11,424 men and 2,850 horses, and the Sammy cori- tingent by 2,073 men. I1 is decided that the. Russian gar- risons in China. and on the Chinese. frontier are to be largely increased next year, and constitute a virtual Russian occupation of Manchuria. The Bank of Spain has made a fresh advance to the Government of 60,000,- 000 pesetus ($12,000,000) to cover the ex- penses of repatriating the. Spanish troops in the Philippines and the Antilles. . A new star has appeared in the firms- merit of musical art in Italy. It isthe Abbe Perosi, over whose. latest composiâ€" tion, " The Resurrection of Lazarus," the Italian pipers are. piofuse. in their eulogies. The French Government has decid- ed to make Noumea, capital of the French colony of New Caledonia its naval headquarters in th) Pacific. A laligfl (leak and naval works will be erected there. A bomb cartridge containing 110 grammes of powder and nails, ('apabli‘ of doing terrible damage was found in the Bourse. at Marseilles, France, on Tuesday. The fuse. had been lighted, but it did not. burn. Lieut.-Gener:il Correct, SpanishMinis- ter of \Var, declares that the Govern- ment has 140,000 troops in readiness to combat a Carlist rising, and will Soon have 200,000 available. He does not beâ€" lieve the, Carlists intend to move. The interim of the Royal Palace at Amsterdam is to be entirely renovat- ed. and the. young Queen has ordered that the entrance, the vestibules, the doors and the passages are to be paint- ed a light colour. The work will not begin until the spring. Leroy Beautieu, an eminent French scientist, is forming a French syndi- cate. for the construction of :l railroad across th-i desert of Sahara. He argu s tliit Britain could not have checked French progress in Africa if this rail- way had been built some years ago, when it was first proposed. A despatch from Tripoli says that a caravan from the Sudan has been attacked by :i band of iiil‘leSlIl‘n near (‘h'it, an oasis in the Sahara to tho Sultlll t-f 'l‘iiprill and, on the border of Caz/can. Twenty persons belonging to the rarvzin were killed and eighty camel loads of feath-rs and 380 loads of Snudan' skins were lost. The separation of Corea from the (‘liincSe Empire is already having good‘ results. Ports which have. remained hermetically sezll‘d for (21111111103 against the intrusion of suspicious for- eign craft are, now thrown open to the commerce of the \thl'ltl. R'l'he Corcan Government his notified that it will shortly open four new ports to foreign trade. THE CZAIL’S CHINA. The Czar of Russia probably owns a greater quantity of china than any other person in the world. He has the china belonging to :ill the Russian rulâ€" ers as far back as Catherine the Great. It is stored in an immense closet in the lliartl, Toronto and xvi-st, and tilt-hill. i north and \Vt-st, til to til 1-2c, and cast, 1521â€"2c. Oats-In grind demand and firm. ‘Sriltl on track,toâ€"dny, carlms, at $5.30 ‘35.51) to $3.00 for the better qualities. ARKET OF THE WORLD. Prices of Grain, Cattle. Cheese, 81.0. in the Leading Marts. Toronto, Dec. tiâ€"\\'liv:itâ€"â€"\'alucs here were about steady [tiâ€"day. Expnl‘tt‘l‘s bill li7c for roll and \\ hit», ll'll'i h and west and holders aska 1H tn tillc. Mani- l,:ibas fairly steady at r’tlc for No. l No. 2 hard and No. 1 Nurthx-rn. Tom"- to and west, Goose \Vllf‘Ilt. (“lt' side, 70c. l‘llntiriStraight north and west. exportcrs bid Oatmealâ€"Rolled oats, in bags. on track, here, 83 31,) per ble and ill blils., $3.50. Millft-mlâ€"Slncks at the mills llllllti demand good. (‘ar lot" ofbran, midâ€" dle Heights, 312; and shorts, $14. Peasâ€"Scarce. and higher. Car lit‘. in bbls.,l $3.10, and roller, offered at lots, \\'hitn oats, north and west, sold toAdayl at. 27c, and mixed at 201-320. Ilarlcy#()ffoi‘lngs lillllt and demand qlllt‘1- Cili‘ lots (If NH. 1, outside, are quoted nominally at 490. Rye-~Nrarly. Car lots, west, are quotâ€" ed at. 50c, and east at 510. Buckwheatâ€"I*‘iriu. Exporters quote 45 to 40c, for car lots outside, (‘orn l’itmcr. Aiiir-ric-in yellowi track, Toronto. sold toâ€"dav at 420; and mixed at i] 1-2c. DRESSED IIOGS AND PROVISIONS. Dressed ling market holds steady and deliveries 110111 on liar-k and mu the street are frce.. \Vestein hugs to 33.10, and Norlhoi u at $3.10 to $5.45. (In the. street farmera' loads sold at Provisions are. not active and prices re- main about steady. Quotations are as follows: â€" Dry mlrtxl shoulders, 7132c: lung clean bacon, car lots, 73â€"«tc; tun lots and case lots, 54c, backs, 8 3-4 to 9c. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, heavy, 10 to 10 lâ€"L’c; medium, 10 1‘2 to Ho: light. 11c; breakfast bacon, 11 to 128: rolls. R 1-2 to 00.; backs, 11 to 11 1-‘2c: picnic h'ims, Rc. All meats out of pickle 10 less than prices quoted for smoked meats. hardâ€"'l‘lerces, 7c; tubs, 71â€"2 to 73â€"4c', pails. 73â€"1 to Pc'. compound, 6 to (j l-Zc. IIIDES, SKINS, AND WOOL. There is no change in any line on the local market. Dealers here quote as follows:â€" IIidesâ€"(‘hoice steers, Or; No. 1 cows, 81â€"2; No. 2, 71-2; No. 3, 61â€"20. Cured sell at 3-10. advance on foregoing. Lambskins and sheep pelts 750, and for chvice, t’OC. Calfskinsâ€"(‘hoice No. 1, 110; and No. 8c. Woolâ€"Unwashed, 10c; fleece. 15c, for small lots, delivered, pulled, 181â€"2c for supers; and 20 to 21c. for extras. Tallmvâ€"Local dealers Luy barrel tal- how at 3 to 31-2c, for rendered, and resell at 31â€"2 to 33-10. PRODUCE. Eggsâ€"No new laid coming in. Held fresh are plentiful and slow of sale. Quotations are:â€"New laid, 19 to 200.; cold storage, 13 to 150, and limed, 14 to 14 l-Zc. Potatoesâ€"Demand fair and prices steady. Deliveriesfair. Carlots, chotce Ontario stock, on track, quoted at about 50 to 550, and dealers sell out of store at 55 to 65c; farmers’ loads sold to-day at 50 to 650. Poultryâ€"Lots coming forward. but as demand is brisk prices are well main- tained. Quotations are zâ€"Chickens, per pair, 25 to 50c, ducks, 40 to 000‘, geese, per lb., 5 to tic", turkeys. per lb., 8 to 8 1-20. Beansâ€"Choice hand-picked beans sell at $1 to $1.10, and common at 70 to o 750, per bush. Dried apples â€"-Market unchanged. Dealers pay 4 to 4 1-2“. for dried stock, delivered here, and small lots resell :it 4 1â€"2 to 3c. Evaporated, 8 to 81-2c for small lots. Honeyâ€"Fair movement in the ordin- ary way. Round lots of choice, deliâ€" vered here. will bring about. 31-2 to 00‘, dealers quote from ti to 71‘, per] 1). for 10 to 00 lb. tins, and in comb at around $1.25 to $1.50 per dozen :ections. Rilcd hay â€" Movement here light. Strictly choice, in car lots, is quoted at $0.50 to $37.50 per ton; No. 2. at $13. Strawâ€"No sales of consequence be- ing made. (‘ar lots am quoted at. $4 to $1.50, on track, Hopsâ€"Dealers here. quote choice Onâ€" tarit) stock 10-day at 10 to 18c, and consider this an outside. figure while holders have still higher ideas, and will take nothing less than 20c. I‘Nl'l‘ED S'I‘A'I‘ES MARKETS. llufftlo, ltec. ti.â€"Spring wheatâ€"Dull, but firm; No. 1 hard, spot, 70 5-8c; No. 1 Northern, spot, 72 5â€"K“, spot, ti!) 52w. \Vinter wheat â€"â€" No demand: market easy: No. 1 red. 74c; \70. 2 red. 73 1-2c; No 3 extra red, 72c; No. 3 red. 711‘, NH. lwhite, 740. f‘orn â€" (Quiet. barley steady; Ni). ‘2 yellow, 38 1-_‘(‘; No. 3 yellow. 38c; N0 4 yell 1w, 3" lâ€"2c‘, No. 3 ('U'Il, 30c; N0 4 corn, 3‘. 3â€"1 to 350, (lats‘ â€"I.ittli‘ doing; No. 2 white, 3.’ to 3.’ 1â€"2(", No. 1 white, 31 1-4 to 31 lâ€"2c; No. 4 white, 30 1-2c Barley â€" Offerings light; prices held far above buyers' vimvs. No. 2 rye, in store, 58c. Flour â€"-Ste-idy; unchanged. l)|'tl‘trll', Dec. ti.â€"-\\'he:it~Closcdâ€"No. 1 \\'llllt‘, cash, 09 3-?c‘, No. 2 led, cash and December, 00 3-~lc: Nay, till 3p. Minneapolis, Minn, Dec. ti.â€"-\\'hcatâ€" Dccclnler, 6" 3-lc: May 131 1-'1 to 01 3-H, on ii‘:lt‘>{‘, No. 1 lard, 04 1-2c‘, No. 1 Northwn, 03 lâ€"lc; No. 2 Northern. 011-2c. Flourâ€"First 1)llt‘lli'\', $305 $3.75"); second patents. $3.45 to $3.55; first clears, $2.60 to $2.70. lluluth, ‘Tllln , Dec. ti.â€"‘.\'he:it-â€"Nt). 1 hard, cash, tiilc: December. 05 1-2c; )l‘fly, titi lâ€"tc ltitli Ni). 1 Ntii‘iht‘ill, carh, 05 1â€"2c‘. l'lecvmher, 133 I-’._’c. bid; May, 01’) 1-tc lil: No. 2 Northern, 02 1-2c; No. 3 spring, 50 1-2c. 'l'nledu. Dec. li.~e\\'li”<’liâ€"(111Qh and Deâ€" cember, 701â€"lc bid; May, 70 3â€"80. (‘orn Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. NEW YORK'S BREAD. Over 8,000,000 loaves of bread are chuâ€" suuied daily in Greater New York, â€"No. 2 niixctl, 341-4t'. Oatsâ€"N0. 2 mixed, 27c. Ryeâ€"No. 2, ca<h, 51c bid. ("10verseedâ€"lltill1 prime cash, new, 81721-2. ()ilâ€"l'nchangetl Milwaukee. Dec 0â€"\\'li-‘at-«No. Northern, 67 to 071â€"230; No " y 1 em. 6- to 01m. Ryeâ€"No, l, 53 to 5314c. l?rirl-~y~Ni>. 2, 10 to 191â€"20,: sample, 40 to 4!) 1â€"2c. CHEESE MARKETS. London. Ont, Dec. ti.â€"â€"At this, tho» lll\1. market of the season, 900 boxes of October and 200 boxes of November were bt‘uii‘tletl. Salt-s, 0330 October‘s, fit 01â€"20: ".700 Nt'i\'oii1lio.r,\', at 914?. Canton, N. Y., llr't‘. t‘i.â€".\‘ix hundred tubs of butter stilnl :it 18 to 131â€"10 ,. .H. “a, 7, n “ I’VE NOT QUITE DONE." Bloody ‘llurclorby a Frenchman at N'ch “'twimlnsier. A desp'itch from New \Veslminsler, B. (‘.. sayszâ€"llon Perrier, a young Frenchman murdered his former sweet,- hcart, Antliews, an English here, on \Vetlnesday night. He shaduwml her to a place known as the Green house, and was shown to her He entered and locked the door. The inmates of the house heard a pierc- int,r shriek and attempted to force the door. Peirier called from inside: “ I‘ve not quite done the job; just a moment.“ Then the door was thrown open by the. Frenchman, who was covered with blood from head to foot. \Vaving his blind. in which he held a dripping knife. he invited the women to enter. .lennie Andrews “1m lying on the bed, literally cut to pieces, the murderer having deliberately mutilated the girl‘s hotly after life was extinct. It is said that he first met the girl in Australia, Shc discarded him and crossed the ocean to marry another man, who re- Jennie girl I‘llt lIlI - fused to keep him promise, and she fused to keep his promise, and she drifted into evil ways. Perrier is a. sailor, but is well educated, and is re- ported to belong to an aristocratic family. 1 â€"â€"-â€"â€".-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€" SEARCHERS tOR ANDREE. The Expedition “'11: Wrecked in Eastern Siberia. A Spr'f‘iz‘tl desp‘itch to London from Yeniseisk, on the the River Yenisei, in Eastern Sileri'i, announces the arrival at tho miuih of the Yenisei of an em pedition that kid gone in Search of Herr Andree, the aeronaut. The ex- pedition was wreck‘Ad while crossing from the. delta of the River Lena to the River Olenck which flows into the Arctic Ocean Southwest of Bennett and Delong Isltnds, but managed to reach 'in uninhabited island about 120 miles from the in uth of the Olenek. 7 hare 1h - parry was i‘el ouud for Seven- teen days befire it was siccoured. LIPTON WlLL INVEST $5,000,000. ,Vlr. Chamberlain lucites Capitalists to As- sist in Reviving the “'est [miles i in Industry. A despotch from London sayszâ€"Ir addition to inducing the Treasury tc make asuhstantial grant to the Bri fish \V'est Indies, Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, has incited the coâ€"oper- ation of several. capitalists of Eng- land in reviewing the sugar industry of those islands. Sir Thomas Lipton is among those who responded to the invitation. de- claring a willingness to invest about £1,000,101 if independent investigation: warranted it. ___â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"vâ€"n WAR IS OPENLY SUGGESTED. Tcnlson Between Norway and Swetlenl lucrrming. A despatch from Christiania, says The. tension between ‘Norway and Sweden is increasing. A bitter feel- ing between the countries was caused by Norway‘s removal of the emblem of Swedish union from her flag. She. is now seeking openly to break the com- pact: between the two countries. \Var is openly suggested by the newspapers, which print the. compara- tive armaments of the. two nations. There has been a notable increase of forts on both sides of the boundary. The Norwegians claim they must as- sert their independence. “o GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR SPAIN. _â€" lormcr Diplomat Looks i‘oran Absolute ‘liumil‘chv. A despatch from liladiid, says:â€"A former Minister of Spain said to a correspondent on h‘rirlriy:â€"“Becau=e Spain his been ruined and h‘lS lost her Coluni'll empire through tyrannical rule abroad, clerical fanaticism anvl Sp'nlsh logic (lemzin lsth‘ re-establish- ment of an :ibsolutc innnii‘t'liy, th’ re- vival of religion; intolerant-c, anl the pmclise of th’h‘p'ltislll anew, ll 15 hard to realize this, but it is only too n il‘llt}. WILL GIVE £30,000 ANNUALLY tull'npt‘ l‘ulony’s (Hmirilmilou for the lm' [iv-rial Vavy. A despatr-h from Cape Town, says: The House of Assuribly has unanim- ously passed a bill pledging an annual contribution of 12300011 for the IUIpUll‘ll navy. 'l'hrx features of the proceedings war. a stroneg patriotic speech by l’rim Miiiisti-r Sthi‘ciiicr. who is 1111‘ lt-atle of the Afrikander Build, and the hop “as exprt-sstwl ly sumu of the .\fl‘ll{llfl I11‘I' members that tho 'l'ransvaal an tlin Orange l‘re Mate would also 1U x,,rtb,itribute to the same object