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CANADA. Manitoba elevator firms have com bined. The inland revenue for July totalled = care. The North Atlantic squadron will visit Quebec next month. The project to construct an electric railway at Chatham is revived. ‘The fortieth anniversary of Grimsby Park was celebrated on Saturday. Mr. James B. Secord of Niagara-on the-Lake, grandson of Laura Secord, is dead. The house of Rev. Dr. Lyle, of Ham ilton, was robbed during the family's absence Chief Rogers, of the Winnipeg fire brigade, has resigned, owing to dissen sions in the brigade. Commissioners sent to Fort St. John in July have not yet made a treaty with the Beaver Indians. Hull city council will give $30,000, bonus towards the erection of railway shops—if the people vote for it. Because the City of Hamilton neglect ed to pay a rebate of $22.0% to a rate prayer, he has had a bailiff seize three desks. ‘Abe Hamilton Board of Health has’ been asked to compel the vaccination of all children attending the Public schools. Herr Prof. Oscar, a well-known Ger man petrographical geologist, joined the staff of the Geological Department at Ottawa, FP. W. Thompson, Manitoba, mana ger for Ogilvies mills, thinks the wheat crop of the Northwest will exceed ffty million bushels. Param lands on the eighth concession of Westminster have been devastated by a bush fire, which has been raging for some days. Prof. Osaam, of the University of Munchausen, is at Ottawa to make a special report on phosphate and other minerals in the Otawa district. Mr. John Keane, secretary of the Ottawa Children’s Aid Society, is an advocate of the establishment of an industrial school for boys in that city. Mr. F. W. Merchant has resigned the prince palshop of the London, Uni., Col legiate Institute, to take the position of Principal of the new normal school in that city. The first automobile carriage will make its appearance in Ottawa's streets in a fortnight. It is being im ported from Chicago by the Ottawa Car Company; the by-law to accept the Govern ment grant of $60,000 annually for ten years was given its first reading at the meeting of the Ottawa City Coun cil Thursday night. A traction engine broke through a wooden bridge in Westminster town ship and fell fifteen feet. The owner, George Arthurs, fell with the engine, and was seriously injured. M. Genest, of Quebec, and Mr. Harry Buin, of Ottawa, have been appoint ed to the departmental staff in the Yukon, the former as geographer and the latter as draughtsman. The Customs Inspector at Montreal discovered in vessels loading lumber for U. S. ports on the lakes quantities of tobacco, cigars and fruit. The seiz ures are valued at $15,000. The honey crop of Canada will not amount to above one-fourth the yield of last year. This is attributed to the late spring, which resulted in the hives being weaker than usual. A street railway car at London, Ont. was thrown off the track by some ob struction in an eastern suburb of the city. The car was wrecked and set on fire by a mob, which was dispersed by the police. Mrs. A. E. Hastings, of Kinston, has issued a writ against the Mont real Transportation Company to rec over $25,100 as damages for the loss of her husband, drowned off the tug Bronson at Alexandria Bay on June 22. John ONeill, father of the other young man drowned at the same time, will also take Proceedings against the company. The prospectus of the Quebec, Ham ilton Fort William Navigation Com pany, whose provisional directors are Hamilton capitalists, has been issued. It states that at present it is only in tended to build two large vessels to carry grain iron ore and coal be tween Fort William, or Duluth, Mont real and intermediate ports. It is es timated that these vessels will each cost from $120,000 to $130,000. A great log jam, containing nearly 160,000 logs, has been piled up at the Cascades, about fifteen miles up the Gatineau. The jam has been allowed to accumulate to its present propor tions, because there are already too many logs at the Government boom at the mouth of the Gatineau, where the sorting out of the various firms’ logs is done. The question is: “How is the sum to be broken? Four years ago dynamite was used. GREAT BRITAIN. The Countess of Warwick has em braced the Socialist faith. Lord Pauncefote’s new title will be Lord Pauncefote of Preston. Sir Thomas Lipton has donated £ 100 to the Lord Mayor's West Indies relief fund A London despatch 1ys that this has been the driest summer in England on record. The cable rates between South Africa and England will be reduced to 1 a ward in September. An explosion occurred in a colliery at Durham, Tuesday, in which two men were killed and seven others se riously injured. A Lanarkshire firm has secured an order for ten thousand tons of steel rails for the United States. Other or ders are expected. The Lord Mayor of London has opened a fund at the Mansion House for the relief sufferers from the West Indian hurricane. The Glasgow Tramway Committee has accepted the tender of an Ameri can firm for engines to supply electric power. The figure was $5 Rt. How Mr. Chaplin, President of the Local Government Board in Great Britain, has suggested that an old age pension fund be provided by a tax of a shilling a quarter on wheat. Signor Marconi, in his experiments with wireless telegraphy at Dover on Wednesday made a complete success, the messages passing through several miles of cliffs, upon which Dover cas tle stands, and 12 miles across the sea. Comment has been aroused in Cape Town by the shipping of 1,000,000 cart ridges to Bloemfontein. It was charged that these were destined for the Trans vaal. Mr. Schreiner, the Cape Pre mier, states that they belonged to the Orange Free State, which is on friend ly terms with Great Britain. The Edinburgh Scotsman says that trade between Great Britain and the United States appears to be very flourishing, and that in consequence of the increase, a regular fortnightly steamship service will soon be estab lished between the Tyne and New York, instead of the present occasion al service, UNITED STATES. Forest fires are doing great damage in Northern New York. Admiral Dewey will arrive at New York between September 25 and 30. Peter Bantler, aged 2, is dead at Waterbury, Conn., by a bite from a kissing bug. Two American lieutenants were kill ed in a skirmish near Angeles on Sat urday evening. Cramp Sons, shipbuilders, Phila delphia, are discharging men, being un able to get supplies of iron and steel. The Erie Railway has cut the rate for round trip tickets between Chicago and New York to $18.45, where the sin gle fare was $20, and a rate war is likely. . At a session of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union convention in Phila delphia, the proposition to drop the word ‘Trish’ from the union’s title was defeated by an overwhelming ma jority. The Northern Steamship Co. will build two more vessels the duplicate of the Northland and Northwest, which ply between Buffalo and Duluth. The Northland and Northwest cost each about $850,000. Five highly-respectable white wo men were brutally assaulted by ne groes in Little Rock, Ark., Wednes day. There is intense excitement and race trouble of a serious character is imminent. Mrs. Frank Whitlock, who died at her home in Batavia Township, Mich., was reputed to be the heaviest woman in the country. Her weight was 64 pounds. Her coffin is 40 inches wide and 27 inches deep. Delano Wood, a lad of 15, was caught by an alligator at Trout Creek, Panama Park, Florida, while snor ing, and so badly mutilated and bit ten that he died soon after being re scued by an older brother. At Washington, Ind., a carriage con taining six persons was precipitated into White River, as it was being driv en aboard a ferry boat, and all were drowned. ‘The dead are: Mrs. Albert Hensel, four Hensel children and Miss Amy Dillon. Eight hundred cloakmakers employ ed in 15 shops in New York joined the ranks of the strikers ‘Tuesday, in creasing the number on strike to a total of 3,000. The strikers demand better wages and a reduction in the working hours. President McKinley, to the students of the Catholic Summer School, at Cliff Haven, near where the President is spending a vacation, said the Philip pine rebellion may delay but cannot defeat “its blessed mission of liberty and humanity.” Half a ton of dynamite, being used by contractors, exploded on the plot of ground at the corner of 185th street and Willis avenue, New York, Thurs day night, with terrific effect. Several persons were injured and a number of buildings badly damaged. A large proportion of Northern New York, including the Counties of Jeff erson, St. Lawrence and Lewis, is be ing swept by fierce forest fires, that have already destroyed thousands of dollars worth of valuable timber land, and threaten to do more serious dam age. GENERAL: The feot-and-mouth disease has in fected Egypt. The bubonic plague has appeared at Oporto, Portugal. Portugal is suffering from earth quakes and storms. The Nile is low and Egyptian cot ton crops are threatened. There were 3,450 deaths from the Plague in the Bombay presidency last week. There were 22 deaths from the plague at Hong Kong and 25 new cases during the past week. The German Government's canal schemes have been defeated in toto by the Prussian Lower House. The New South Wales Government budget shows a surplus of estimated receipts over suggested expenditures amounting to £ 140,000. The Nathorst expedition, fitted out by King Oscar of Sweden, to search for Andree, has not yet found any trace of the Arctic explorer. Hamilton Smith, a young English tourist, was killed while attempting to ascend Mount Otem‘na, on the Ital ian frontier, without a guide. The fifth commandment, according to the official Russian revision now reads: “Honor thy father and thy mother, the Emperor and his officials, that thy days may be long, etc.’ The Czar, Emperor William, and the Emperor of Austria will go on a hunt in Poland in October, and incidentally discuss “grave, political matters.” The terrific gales and heavy floods in Chili continue. Near Santiago a train fell into a river from a railway bridge and fifty persons were drowned. A Paris locksmith, named Bonnet has been shot by an unknown assailant who saw him in a street, and caled out: “He looks like one of those dazty Jews. It is reported from Calcutta that the surveying steamer Resolute has been sunk in collision with the Bri tish steamer Scindia, with the lens of several lives. A Russian rescripts has been issued declaring that Talien Wan, near Port Arthur, China, is a free port, and an nouncing that Russia will build a new city in the neighborhood of that place. Some rains has fallen in India, but the conditions of the crops is very un satisfactory, especially in the Descan district. The cultivators in Guzerat and Kathiaway are selling their cattle at two rupees, 75c, a head. The plague of Poona is daily becom ing more virulent. The natives are panic-stricken, and are fleeing to the country in all directions. The streets are deserted. The relatives and friends of the dead leave hurriedly the mo ment the funeral pyre is lighted. Reports from the French treaty coast of Newfoundland indicate that the results of the season’s operations thus far are very unfavorable to the trench cod fishers and lobster packers. The catch in both these staples is far below the average, and altogether in adequate to remunerate the French for the expense of maintaining fishery operations in that quarter.
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Durham Review
Durham, Ontario, CA
Thu, Aug 31, 1899
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