Montreal daily herald, 26 septembre 1895, jeudi 26 septembre 1895

[" | I as nt the ni into AW nl nt.iko ® D st l[Errrrrenrencrcnse ~ #04 nment gainst Ehaey | B verpo} vorpool Boston tert over La OND p Street MORNING EDITION, SILVERWARE Bearing this : Trade-Mark EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR NO, 231.MONTREAL DAILY HERALD.THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1895.WARLIKE TALK AT CHICAGO.PRESIDENT FINERTY ADVOCATES AN IRISH-AMERICAN ARMY.,.THE CONVENTION GOES WILD OVER HIS DECLARATIONS.Irishmen Anything but Anxious to atonciliate the British\u20140\u2019Donovanj Rossa Speaks, Chicago, Sept.25.\u2014With renewed vigor the delegates to the Irish convention began their second day's work at AssO- clation Hal] to-day.Little time was lost in preliminarizs, and the election of permanent officers was put through at a repid pace, gnd with uninterrupted harmony.The report of the Committee on Fer- manent Organization, met with not the slightest opposition, the following officers being unanimously elected: Hon.J.F.Fineriy, chairman; J.P.Sutton, secretary; J.F.Keating, T.H.McGrevy, and J.O.Strain, assistant secretaries; vice-presidents, J.M.Kennedy, Montana; C.D.O\u2019Brien, St.Paul; C.F.Driscoll, New Haven; P.J.Judge, Holyoke; Cornelius Harding, Pittsburgh.When the report of the committee on credentials was submitted it was received with some disfavor by a few of the delegates, because Dr.Paul M.Sheedy and John Madden, from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and a convention of irish American citizens of Allegheny County, Pa., were refused seats in the convention.An amendment seating the two was offered, and a \u2018bit of a row was threatened for a time, but the committee was sustained by a liberal majority, and the matter was dropped, the claim being that the credentials of the contestants were not suflicient.Considerable enthusiasm was created by a motion to add O'Donovan Rossa to the list of vice-presidents, but Mr.Rossa declined.Any doubts as to the earnestness of \u201cNew Movement\u201d towards freedom for Ireland were set at rest when Chairman John F.Finerty in an address to the Convention, aiter he nad been chosen permanent chalrman, declared for an Irish-American standing army, which shall be ready to do battle for Ireland whenever opportunity may present itself.The boldness of the plan as outlined by the ardent speaker created a sensation.That the chairman's views met with the approval of delegates was proved by the hearty enthusiasm with which his speech was received.He outlined a plan by which young Irish Americans throughout the country shall be organized into military companies which will constitute a standing army that may at a proper time strike for Irish liberty.He sald: \"American papers question the prudence of holding this convention and dictate to us a policy, and hope we will do nothing to offend English sentiment.What do we care for English sentiment ?(Laughter.) We do not want to offend Américan sentiment, nor French sentiment, nor Russian sentiment, but we want to offend most seriously our hereditary and merciless foe.(Cheers.) We are here to-day to sound the \u2018death knell of Whiggery in Irish politics.We stand on our rights as a race to advocate the absolute independence of land that gave us and our fathers life.Our friends, the editorial writers, may preach the doctrine of prudence.We will follow their advice so long as it may be necessary.1 will remind my American editorial friends, that when America had a grievance against England they they did not stand on the order on which they threw the British tea chests into Boston harbor.\u201cThe English press will say that we are here for other purposes than the accomplishment of the liberty of Ireland.It is physically and morally impossible for the English press to tell the truth.(Cheers.) We do, however, desire to tell Pritain and France and Russia, and every other possible enemy of Ireland, that we are in this fight to stay.(Cheers.) We are not in for one year or three, but for the war.(Tremendous cheeling.) We do not care if we are to be beset by whole battalions of Bngiish spies.We do not care if all Scotland Yard was within hearing to-night, because we are meeting in public, and with an avowed purpose.\u201d The speaker concluded with a ringing peroration that brought the audience to its feet again and again.The close of the speech produced a wonderful scene in its way, the audience standing and cheering for fully ten minutes.After this two resolutions were offered expressing sympathy with the Cuban revolutionists.A communication was presented from \u2018he Polish Alliance of the United States Ixpressing sympathy with the objects of he convention.Several other resolu- sions and communications were then handed in and turned over to the committee on platform and resolutions.Cablegrams from Ireland were received with great applause, In the afternoon session the chairman read a clipping from the Pall Mall Gazette, which favored meeting the Irish half way in their struggles for independence.The reading was received with cheers and the delegates seemed to think that it was the first symptom that England would give attention to their demands.Calle were then made for other speakers, and O'Donovan Rossa, O'Neil Ryan, o! St.Louis, and Delegates O'Leary, of Montana; Langdon, of New York, and Wiher, of Pennsylvania, responded.Rossa was given an ovation when he arose to address the meeting.He sald in part: \u201cI am no! in favor of waiting.In my judgment the time to strike is when you are ready and the place to strike is England.All this talk of organizing to fight the English out of England is very well, out it has no ter- Taper England.She is more afraid of amet in England and Ireland than in 9 other place.Now is the time for wi strike, and the quicker the vetter.\u201d et he other speakers spoke in a similar rain.The meeting then adjourned until to-morrow, when the real work of the Convention wilt begin.London, Sept.26.\u2014The Times this morning comments on the Chicago Irish convention as follows: \u2018It appears to be the embodiment of an effort by Mr.Fin- erty and those behind him to muster as many Irish societies ag they can beneath the banner of their presidential pandidate.[The (Pertormance will be re- co i i fare a Sn emptuous indifference in rr ate te Ge es i ci st Patent anisin China.- Pelershurg, sept.25.\u2014Delerates French and Russian banks have pe a Shanghai on business connected with e scheme for the establishment at id a place of a Ruseg-Chinese bank.{ @ capital of the projected bank will e $4,000,000.The reports which have Leen published of a Franco-Russian, can for China are without foundation.| WHERE 1S THE $1,000.MADAME LEB®EUF DENIES SHE RE CEIVED IT FROM MR.SHORTYIS.A Herald Reporter Calls on Mr.Shortis But Gets no Information.Some days ago It was announced that Mr.Shortis, had given §1,000 to the family of Maxime Leboeuf, of Valleyficld, who was murdered by his son.When interviewed on his arrival here by a Herald reporter, reference was made to this act of kindness.Mr.Shortis did not deny it, but said he had heard the family were in want, and added \u201cpoor people! How they must have suffered.\u201d Strange to say, the following letter was received fram the widow yesterday: \u201cValleytield, Sept.24, 1895.* Sir,\u2014You published that the Shortis family had given me a large sum because their son had killed my husband.I declare to you that I never received a cent, and I ask you to say so.\u201cMME.MAXIME LEBOEUF.\u201d The Herald thought this peculiar, and wired its Valleyfield correspondent, who replied : Your correspondent called on Madame Leboeuf this evening, and was very much surprised to find that neither the money nor any correspondence, of any description, had been received.\u201d A reporter called at the Windsor Hotel last evening and stated in a note to Mr.Shortis the claims included in Mme.Leboeuf\u2019s letter.There was no answer given to the note except that Mr.Shortis had retired for the night.A more urgent message \u2018was sent, asking if it were true that Mme.Leboeuf had received no money from Mr.Shortis, but the note was returned without any answer at all.From this it is only fair to presume that no exception can be taken to the statement made by the widow of the murdered man.AN UNKNOWN STEAMER ASHORE.Indefinite Report Made by the Dunmore Head at Heath Point.An outward bound steamship, doubtless from the port of Montreal, is ashore at scme point in the Gulf of St.Laws rence, east of the Island of Anticosti.The news of the accident, which comeg from Heath Point, Anticosti, by way of the Gulf Signal Service, is of the vaguest description.It is contained in the following despatch received last night: \u201cSteamship Dunmore Head, Inward at 5 p.m., signals that an outward bound steamer is ashore.No particulars.\u201d Heath Point is on the southeastern side of Anticosti, and unless the steamer in question is ashore at a point further east on Anticosti, the next point of the passage at which a vessel would be likely to meet with trouble would be in the Strait of Belle Isie, where many a steamer running to the St.Lawrence has come to grief.Further information will doubtless be received when the Dunmore Head reaches Father Point some \u2018time tonight.A WISE APPOINTMENT.Newfundland Approves of Sir Herbert Murray as Governor.(Special to the Herald.) St.John\u2019s, Nfld., Sept.25.\u2014The appointment of Sir Herbert Murray as Governor of Newfoundland is regarded as an eminently wise one and cvokes a general chorus of approval.He was here last winter as commissioner to expend £50,000 voted by the British Government to relieve the distress in the colony and accomplished his task admirably.Hon.Joseph Chamberlain in the Commons, discussing the Newfoundland question, termed him a man of exceptional ability.He studied the colony\u2019s condition closely while here.It is understood he accepts the Governorship at Mr.Chamberlain\u2019s special request.He was Chairman of the British Board of Customs and one of the ablest financiers in England.He retired recently on a yearly pension of £1,300 sterling.NOTICE TO IRISHMEN.Englishmen Are Ready to Meet Them Half«Way, London, Sept.26.\u2014The Pall Mall Gazette this afternoon prints a leader on the subject of the Irish Nationalist Convention in Chicago.The Gazette expresses the opinion that the so-called new movement is very like the old one, which was temporarily crushed by the revelations in connection with the murder of Dr.Cronin at Chicago, and the object of which, it asserts, was clearly proven to poodle and not the independence of Ire- and.\\ \u201cWe can afford to smile at Mr.Fin- erty\u2019s statement,\u201d says the Gazette, \u201cbut if the Irish will formulate their demands and agitate for redress in the matter adopted by Englishmen they will find England ready to meet them half way.Threats only stiffen our back and dull our hearing.\u201d DENIED BY GREENWAY.Says the Manitoba Elections Will Not Take Pince at Pre ent, Winnipeg, Man, \u2018Sept.25.\u2014 Premier Greenway arrived in town to-day, and declared that the report that the Pro- \u201cinclal general elections were to be \u2018admitted that the lists were now being revised, bul sald the revision was not with the object of an immediate election.However, the probability is that the Government is getting things in shape for an appeal to the people the moment the Dominion Parliament passes Remedial legislation.Peary\u2019s Party Starts for Mome.St.John\u2019s, Nfid., Sept.25.\u2014The Peary expedition left here by the steamer Sii- via this afternoon, bound for New York.One of the party admitted to youl correspondent before leaving that a number of bones were found near Greeley\u2019s camp on Cape Sabine.A G.T.R.Carpenter Killed, London, Ont., Sept.25.\u2014John H.Holt, a carpenter living on the west side of High Street near Grand Avenue, South London, was instantly killed in the city yard of the Grand Trunk this morning by falling from a scaffold.brought on at once, was unfounded.He INVITED TO QUEBEC DEEP WATER WAY CONVENTION ASKED TO MEET THERE NEXT YFAR.Mr.R.R.Dobell Extends the Invitation \u2014Some Interesting Papers Read at Yesterday\u2019s Sittings.Cleveland, Sept.25.\u2014At the opening of the morning session of the Deep Water» ways Convention \u2018to-day, a partial report of the committee on credentials was submitted, indicating the presence of 330 delegates from 15 States and Provinces.President Howland stated that he had received a communication from Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Prime Minister of Canada, designating as an eminent engineer Mr.Munro, to represent the Canadian Government at.the convention.Mr.Howland then invited Lieut.Geo.P.Blow, who came to the convention as a representative of the United States Government, and Mr.Munro to take seats on the platform.He said the action of the two Governments in sending representatives to the convention did not in any way commit them to the policy of the convention.After adopting a rule, limiting speeches to ten minutes, discussion was declared in order, and Mr.Richard R.Dobell, of Quebec, and Mr.A.L.Crooker, president of the Minneapolis Board of Trade, gave abstracts of the papers which they had prepared on \u201cExport Lumber and Timber Trade.\u201d Mr.Dobell, in closing, cordially invited the convention to meet next year in Quebec.\u201d Cleveland, Ohio, Sept.25.\u2014At ihe deep waterways convention this morning, Sec?retary Alex.R.Smith, of the Executive Canal Committee, of New York State, read a paper: concerning the relation of New Yoltk State's canals to the proposed ship canal.He said, in substance: \u2018Cheap transportation is an irresistible commercial magnet.For three thousand miles of unbroken coast line such a magnet extends along the southern boundaries of the great lakes.We, of New York, would very greatly like to see grain carried as cheaply from the Dakotas, western Wiscor- sin, Minnesota and Manitoha to Duluth and Superior as we now see it carried from Superior and Culutl to New York.Georg Y.Wisner, of Detroit, read a paper on \u2018\u2019Lake Levels,\u2019 in which he sug gested the regulating of the stage of water ir Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan by means of a dam near the head of the .Niagara River.He said the cost of increasing the depth of the lake waterways had been about $1,500,000 per foot, and for the principal harbors about $3,000,000, making a total cost of about $4,500,000 for each additional foot in depth obtained.This amount represented the value of each foot in depth that might De secured by regulating the lake levels in such manner as to vary but little from the present high water plane.It was probable that the fluctuations of lake levels, which under present conditions were over four feet, might be reduced to less than one foot, and the low water depths of channels increased at least three feet thereby.Thomas T.Johnson, of Chicago, read a paper on \u2018Lake Levels.\u201d Mr.Joseph R.Oldham\u2019s paper was on the subject, \u201cIs a type of vessel to navigate fresh and salt water practicable?\u201d Mr.Oldham thought he could design a large screw steamer that would answer fairly well for combined ocean and lake trade.\u2018Such a design would partake of a compromise between typical lake and ocean steamers.He thought that there were but tew vessels on the lakes at the present time that were constructed strongly enough for the fall and winter trade on the ocean.The paper prepared by Mr.Thomas Curtis Clarke, of New York, was on the subject, \u201cNew York and Deep Water to the Great Lakes.\u201d \u201cIt is agreed by Americans,\u201d said .Mr.Clarke, \u201cthat New York is the port to be aimed at, and the question is how to cheapen transportation thither.The cost of transportation can be lessencgl either by very deep ship canals or by canals deeper than those at present in use, connecting with lake vessels and requiring trans-ship- ment.If ja ship canal is built at all, At should be deep.It should at least provide for a vessel like the Victory, $80 by 48, and carrying on 20 feet draught, 7,000 net tons, or 233,000 bushels of grain.The prism of the canal should have a bottom width of 160 feet and depth of not less than 25 feet.It may be confidently stated that the increase in the dimensions of lake steamers during the last ten years has been so great that a canal 18 feet deep would be of no use.Public opinfon should concentrate itself upon the following things: First, immediate improvement of the Erie and Oswego Canals, upon which a vote is soon to be taken; second, construction of a ship canal not less than 25 feet deep around the Falls of Niagara; third, surveying the Oswego and Albany route to see if such a canal can be built within practicable limits of cost; fourth, jf fleets of steel barges can be built and also \u201cinsured so as to run both on the canal and on the lakes, the cost of transportation by them would be less than b a ship canal.\u201d \u2018 ; ms mn ome ran et ce tre ht a MINISTER ACCUSED.Durant\u2019s Lawyer Says Rev.Mr.Gibson Killed Blanche Lamont.San Francisco, Sept.25.\u2014The defence in the Durant murder case opened to-day.Attorney Eugene Deuprey in his opening address made the sensational charge that Rev.John George Gibson, pastor of Emanuel Baptist Church, where the tragedy occurred, was the murderer of Blanche Lamont.CHAPLEAU AT ST BONIFACE.Winnipeg, Sept.25.\u2014Governor Chapleau, of Quebec, who has been on a trin to British Columbia, returned here this morning.To-night he was tendered a reception by the French citizens of St.Boniface.The Governor has been greatly invigorated by his trip to the coast.Five Outlaws to be Manged.Fort Smith, Ark.ept.25.\u2014Lucky Davis, Moama July, Sam Simpson, Lewis Davis and Rufus Buck were sentenced in the United States Court to-day to be hanged on Thursday, October 381.They are the Buck garg of outlaws, who created a reign of terror in the Creek Nation during the latter part of July and 1st of August.Missionary to Central India.Toronto, Sept, 25.\u2014At a meeting of the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Committee to-day Miss Rachel W.Chase, of Oriliia, B.A.Toronto, University, was appointed missionary to Indore, Central India.ve \u201cTHERE'S LAURIER.\u201d AN INCIDENT ON A (ROWDED THOROUGHFARE LAST EVENING.Hundreds Xarrying Home From Work Stop to Gaze at the Liberal Leader.Hon.Wilfrid Laurier has been in tha city for the past few days, and his figure has been a familiar sight about the rotunda of the St.Lawrence Hall and on St.James Street.The visits of the Leader of the Opposition to Montreal are not infrequent, and his personality is as well known to the world of business and professional men that has its centre about the Postoffice as is that of any local celebrity.In this particular quarter of Montreal Mr.Laurier finds it difficult sometimes to make much progress when moving towards a definite destination.He is recognized on every side, for there are few men of importance in the city who have not the honor of a bowing acquaintance with the Liberal leader, and there are as well his personal and political friends eager for recognition from him.It is not surprising'that Mr.Laurier should be recognized and pointed out on St.James Street./ But when he is as readily recognized, more eagerly pointed out, and that with a more fervid enthusiasm, in a different part of the city, and by an altogether different class of our gitizens, it is indicative of the firm hold he has upon the affection and sympathy of all sections of the community.Such an incident occurred yesterday.In company with a friend, about six o\u2019cloek last evening, at the time when Cralg Street is thronged with workmen homeward bound, Mr.Laurier crossed St.Lawrence Street, going westward towards his hotel.For the next halfdozen blocks his course was in the nature of a triumphal progress.Nine out of every ten of the hurrying crowd of mechanics, factory hands and workmen of every class seemed as well acquainted with the stately form of the coming Premier as are the employees within the precincts of the \u2018House of Commons.'The attention he excited was in no way obtrusive.It was confined to a nudge from one to another, an exclamation, \u2018There is Laurier!\u201d touching où caps, and a general right-about wheel to gaze after the towering figure.Passengers walting for their cars, cabmen along the route, the mob of uniformed conductors standing about Cote Street, all turned to subscribe to a tribute of which any man might well be proud.Mr.Laurier should come to Montreal oftener.AMUSEMENTS.SOHMER PARK.The summer season at Sohmer Park closes this week and aiter next Saturday performances will be held on Sundays only.The programme this week is well up to the average and embraces several first class \u2018\u2018turns.\u201d\u201d Lavigne's excellent orchestra have another eplen- did musical programme which is admirably performed.The performances comprise Mdlle, Liana De Conrmelles, soprano vocalist; Louls Dupont, centor- tionist; the Don Sisters Trio, burlesque, vocalists and dancers; Duroc and Her- vey, French duettists; and Miss Susanna Chaetfer, equilibrist and juggler.BREVITIES.St.Cunegonde Town Council met last evening and appointed Ald.Ducharme and Mayor Heneault a deputation to wait on the Provincial Government in connection with the demand of $100,000 for \u2018fines collected in the municipality since 1837.Quebec Boat Sailings, The steamer Montreal, which was delayed on her trip from Quebec on Tuesday night by the smoke from the forest fires lying on the river, got in yesterday afternoon at a late hour.Among those on board were the Quebec golfers, who were to have played here yesterday.The boat left again last night about nine o'clock.The Canada, which was delayed going down the river, left Quebec an hour late last night.As \u2018the river is now clear of smoke there will be no further delays, and the boats will leave at the usual time.Distinguished Pricst From Ireland.The Rev.M.B.Curry, of Killaloe Diocese, Ireland, arrived at the St.Lawrence Hall from Montpelier, Vt., on Monday night.For two years he has been in the United States in furtherance of a mission of charity entrusted to him by his bishop.He has lectured in most of the cities of the Union.His last lecture was in Blanchard\u2019s Opera, Montpelier, last Thursday night.A crowded and enthusiastic audience greeted him.He is most anxious to meet some of his countrymen in this city, to ascertain from them what steps might be taken to organize a lecture before he will leave for Ottawa a week from now.as arts em are Steamer Caribbee Ashore.New York, \u2018Sept.25.\u2014A cable despatchy announcing that the Quebec Steamship Company's steamer Caribbee was ashore at Antigua, one of the Windward Islands, was received to-day.The despatch, which was very meagre and contained no details, read as follows: \u201cSteamship Carib- bee ashore.Likely to come off.Island Antigua.\u201d \u2018The ship carried seven cabin and six steerage passengers and a valuable cargo.> Fashionable Toronto Wedding.Toronto, Sept.25.\u2014A very fashionable wedding was celebrated to-day in St.Stephen's Church, when Rev.E.C.Cayley, Divinity Professor at Trinity University, was married to Miss G.A.Brough- all, daughter of the rector of St.Sce- phen\u2019s.The ceremony was performed by Rev.J, D.Cayley, lather of the groom, end Rev.G.H.Broughall, brother of the ride.Distinguished Eloctors.The voters\u2019 list for St.Ann's Ward has a number of distinguished names upon it.Among others qualified to vote are the two Hyams brothers, at present held in Toronto on & charge of murder, and the young man Shortis, now in Montreaï Jail on the same charge.Lawyer\u2014What's that book you are reading?Law Student\u20140h, it's a kook on common sense.Lawyer\u2014Yes, sir, and reading such a book as that would ruin your mind for legal work for ever.\u2014Tit-Bits.HE SHOT A BOOTBLACK.YOUNG ITALIAN SHeET ACCIDENTALLY YESTERDAY BY CYRILLE VALLEE, PROPRIETOR SF.JAMES\u2019 HOTEL The Boys Aunoyed His Guests and ie Tried to ¥righten Them, A young Italian boy, who earns a precarious livelihood by shining shoes, is lying in the Hotel Dieu to-day with a bullet in his groin.At present he is in no danger, but it is impossible to tell what complications may set in.The boy is one of the several who hang about Bonaventure Depot and the St.James Street hotels on the lookout for travellers.With a few of his companions, all members of the Italian colony here, he paid patticular attention to the St.James\u2019 Hotel, just opposite the station.Their persistent pffers to the guests of the house to \u2018shine yer boots,\u201d or \u201ctan \u2018em up\u2019 annoyed the proprietor, Cyrille Vallee, and he warned them off repeatedly.Yesterday afternoon about three o'clock the boy, whose name could not be ascertained owing to his ignorance of any tongue but that of sunny Italy, was waiting about the door of the hotel.As he did not leave when told to do so, Mr.Vallee rushed at him, flourishing a revolver.The weapon went off, accidentally, it is surmised, and the boy dropped.Mr.Vallee picked him up and carried him upstairs, where he wag given a bath, and the bleeding stopped.Sir William Hingston was summoned by telephone, and on getting down ordered the removal of the boy to the hospital.A call was called, and the boy was quietly bundled off to the Hotel Dieu.Here it was found that the bullet had entered the groin, end was in a difficult place to extract it from.At a late hour last night he wns resting quietly, and Sir William Hingston, when seen, said that he did not anticipate any serious results.Mr.Vallee reported the occurrence to Captain Charbonneau, of No.6 Police Station.\u2019 COMPANY TO BLAME, But not Criminally for Joseph Limoges\u2019 Death.At the resumption yesterday afternoon of the inquest on the body of Joseph Limoges, killed by a Back River car on Sunday evening, Andre Nadeau, the companion of the deceased, was heard, but the only additional information drawn from him was that, owing to an elevatiory of several inches in the track he could, not cross quickly enough to get out of the way.\u20ac \u2018 Leon Cyr, brakeman on the trailer, said the car was going about five miles an hour.Hector Desmarais, Chief of Police of St.Louis de Mile End, considered that the distance from the place where the body was iying to wherc the horse lay was about ninety or ninety-five feet.During his evidence the question of responsibility for the state of the track was discussed.It transpired that in consequence of a report made by witness about two months ago the M.P, and I.R.Co.repaired their track, which was too high at this portion of the road.Since that time no report was made by the inspector of the road, and the question was who was responsible, if since that time the road was in bad condition.The coroner stated that if the Street Railway Company Had not been notified by the official inspector they were not responsible for the state of the track.George Reed considered the car was going at its usual speed.Had it been going slower the passengers would have been dissatisfied.Emile Charron had spoken to Nadeau after the accident.Nadeau was perfectly conscious, and had told him that he was driving quietly, chatting with his friend, when suddenly his herse took fright and jumped across the track.Andre Nadeau was recalled, and asked if he remembered speaking about the accident.He replied that he did not remem- ter anything.Q Edward Kelly, the motorman, was also recalled, and repeated -that he had given a half-turn to his brake just before the accident, and the brake was left in this manner until the accident.At 4.20 the jury retired, and at the end of about three-quarters of an hour returned the following verdict: * We, the undersigned jurors, after having heard the evidence, declare that Joseph Limoges died at St.Louis de Mile End the twenty-gecond of September, 1895, having been hit by an electric car of the Montreal Park and Island Railway Co., conducted by Edward Kelly, who acted negligently In not ringing the bell when he saw the rig in which Limoges was driving forty fert ahead: his conduct, however, was not criminal.The rail was not on a level with the road, and was the cause of the accident.The M.P.antl L R.Co.is to blame for not keeping the road in better order, but the company\u2019s negligence is declared not criminal.\u201d .Tniversity Changes, Toronto, Sept.25.\u2014It is understood that Rev.Principal Grant, who is at present in this city, has temporarily filled the vacancy at Queen\u2019s caused by the ap pointment of Prof.Fletcher to Toronto University, by securing the services of Prof.William Dale, whom Prof.Fletcher succeeds at Toronto.PERSONALS, T.Christie, Jr, Lachute, ts at the Queen's.Among the arrivals at the Hotel Jacques Cartfer are: Henry Flowers, Mrs.Flowers and Miss Flowers, Brock- ville.Hon.Justice Henry, of Halifax, N.S., who was in the city attending the exhibition, left fo» home last evening.The Judge took home three fine riding horses, purchased here.Mr.Cook, assistant manager of the Peckham Truck Co., New York, was in town yesterday making arrangements for the great convention of street railway men which will be held here next month.The proceedings will take place in the Windsor Hotel and the exhibition of appliances in the Victoria Rink.The Jacques Cartier Hotel, Jacqued Cartier Square, furnishes the best table and accommodations at reasonable rates to parties making arrangements now for Lhe winter months.Inspection ind vited.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 et \u2018 Grand Union Hotel, Ottawa.The most popular hotel in the capital city.Finest sample rooms in Canada, Central modern and moderate in charges, Cuisine unexcelled, te.VES, FORKS, SPOCNS.Bearing tis SIMPSON, HALL, MILLER & CO.MORNING EDITION.GUTLER ads TRADE MARK FOR KR werocens.Ÿx Is the Bes \u2014 \u2014\u2014 Sole Proprietors PRICE ONE CENT.Here's a Beauty Style, quality, appearance Fit for a king to wear .The Price is only $1.00 R.J.TOOKE 177 St.James St.DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS, \u2014 WHATLL YOU long run.ter call on BOWELL TO RESIGN NOT TO HOLD AN EXTRA SESSION OF PARLIAMENT, If This Takes Place the General Elec tions to be Held at Once.(Special to the Herald.) Ottawa, Sept.25.\u2014It is reported here this afternoon that when His Excellency Lord Aberdeen reaches Ottawa Sir Mackenzie Bowell will resign the Premiership, This would relieve the Government of the responsibility of keeping its promise to call another session of Parliament before dissolution.If this takes place the general elections will follow at once.THE CABINET CALLED.(Special to the Herald.) Ottawa, Sept.25.\u2014Lord Aberdeen is hastening back to Ottawa, and Sir Mackenzie has summoned an important meet ing of the Cabinet here, which wiil take place on Friday or Saturday.It is said that the question Of summoning Parliament will be discussed.Some of the Ministers are in \u2018favor of calling a session in November.Others wish to give Manitoba full time up to the second week in January wherein to prepare its answer, and it is also said that some of the Cabinet want a general election instead of a session, It was to consult Sir Frank Smith on these matters that Sir Mackenzie Bowell was in Toronto on Monday last.There are other important matters, such as public departmental and judicial appointments, issuing writ for West Huron, and other important business before the Government, but the question of when Parlin.ment is to be summoned must bo decided first.To Mect Siv Julian, The reason \u2018for the hasty return to Ot tawa of His Excellency is given in the Ottawa correspondence of the Gazette as follows: *fHi® Excellency is returning \u2018for the purpose of meeting Sir Jultan Paunce- fote, British Ambassador, who will be in Ottawa on the 30th inst.The object of Sir Julign\u2019s visit is said to be a confers ente with His Excellency and the Canadian Goveérnment on the subject of Canadian sealers\u2019 claims against the United States Government on account of seizures and confiscations made in Behring Sea some years ago, and for which the Paris award adjudged that compensation was due.Ib will be remembered that the late United States Secretary of State, Hon.Walter Q.Gresham, offered a lump sum of $425, 000, which was pecopted by the Canadian Government ou behalf of the sealers; but congress failed to vote the money, and the British Government declined to advance the funds to the sealers when asked to do so.It is believed that Sir Julian\u2019s visit has reference to a new proposition with a view to settlement.» Ottawa, Sept.25.\u2014Le Temps says tonight that Premier Bowell is going to resign, that there will be a re-organiza- tion of members of the present Government under a new leader and a general election instead of a session.MORAL : Protect yourself and family with a policy in the TRAVELERS.TEMPLE BUILDING, = = = = FRANK F.PARKINS, Chief Agent._\u2014\u2014 HAVE?A suit that shines, bags, wears out and fades rapidly away, or one that\u2019s stylish, that wears, that fits and that pays yau twice over in the Take your choice, and for the lat- J.J.MILLOY, Ladies\u2019 and Gentlemen\u2019s Tailor, 2415 St.Catherine Street, \u2018Light Colors \u2014IN\u2014 Stonewall Jackson Cigars \u2014\u2014ARE\u2014 Exceptionally [1ild \u2014\u2014ANB \u2014 Are equally as fine in quality as the Noted Dark Colors of this Famous Brand.NOTES FROM QUEBEC.No Date Fixed Yet for Montreal Centre Bye-Election, (Special to the Herald.) Quebec, Sept.25\u2014Henry Thompson, who has been having an off time this week in Quebec, will resume his pedestrian tour round the world on board the Parisian next Sunday.The revenue cutter Constance has captured a schooner in Gaspe Bay containing 50 barrels and nine casks of smuggled liquors.The inquiry into the charges against the woman Roy, accused of having concealed the birth of a child, was resumed to-day.The accused was discharged after a lengthy investigation, there being no proof against her.Hon.Mr.Taillon, together with Messrs.Beaubien, Casgrain and Chapais, Archbishop Lafleche and a party of prominent citizens, leave town to-morrow for Roberval to take part in the different cere« monies there and at St.Felicien and Chicoutimi at the end of the week.The Provincial Cabinet \u201cmet this afters noon.Every Minister but Hon.Mr.Flynn was present, the latter being en route from Magdalen Island.Your correspondent is informed that the date for the opening of next session is fixed for the 28th of October, and also that the different reports of departments won't be ready before the day of the opening.At this afternoon's meeting the Ministers did not fix the date of the bye-election for St.Ann\u2019s Ward.However, the Cabinet is to meet again In a fortnight, and it is likely that it will be decided to have this clec- tion little before the session.The governors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec held a session with clozed daors in the Parliament buildings to-day, when the rules governing students\u2019 certificates from Ontario were discussed.The following members were present: Dr.Beausoleil, Hon.J.J.Ross and Hon.Dr.Marcil, Dr.L.J.A.Simard, F.J.Austin, Dr.A.G.Belleau, Dr.A.T.Brcusseau, Dr.A.Dagenais, Dr.H.Parke, Dr.Cho- lette, M.P.P., and Dr.P.Laberge.The board is also taking into serious constd- eration Mr.Tarte\u2019s charge against physicians of being addicted to the liguor habit.TO-DAY'S WEATHER.Unsettied and Showery.Toronto, Sept.25.\u2014The storm centre mentioned last night is still in Northeastern Manitoba, but it has developed considerably, and the indications are that it will now move more quickly.To-day in Manitoba and the Northwest the weather has been showery, with high west and northwest winds, and in other parts of the Dominion it has been fine.TEMPERATURES.Minimum and maximum temperatures Edmonton, 38-84; Calgary, 32\u2014B4; Prince Albert, 38\u201452; Qu\u2019Appelle, 31\u201456; Winnipeg, 42\u201466; Toronto, 42\u201469; Montreal, 46\u201466; Quebec, 42\u201464; Halifax, 46-68, Storm signals are displayed both on the lakes ahd in the Maritime Provinces.PROBABILITIES.Lakes and Upper St.Lawrence-\u2014Southa west shifting to northwest gales; unsettled and showery.MONTREAL TEMPERATURE.Temperatures observed by Hearn and Harrison's standard thermometer, 1640 and 1642 Notre Dame Street: 8 a.m.61; 1 p.m.64; 6 p.m.64; max.68; min, 48; mean, 58.Standard barometer: 8 am, 3705; 1 p.m., 80.03; 6 pm, 29.95, - 2 IT'S SPRUCE THIS TIME.TIE ENGLISH MALF RATER DF- \u2018FEATS ETHELWYXN BY TWENTY» THREE SECONDS.ETHELWYNN'S OWNER SAYS ME WAS BEATEN BY T00 MANY JIBS, Cracks Who Will Attend the Canadian Championships \u2014 Montreal-Quebec Golf Match Postponed\u2014Annual Meeting Victoria Skating Club- Capt.L.oye Replics to Mr.Armsirong.Oyster Bay, N.Y., Sept.25.\u2014\"1 was beaten by too many Jibs,\u201d said Mr.C.F.Field, the owner of Ethelwynn, when he returned to the Seawanhaka-Corin- thian Club house after the race to-day.\u201cI did too much experimenting.I had six of those same head sails aboard and I tried them all before I discovered that there was four too many.If Iheld ony, to a small one on the little beating that we had to do and one of good size on reaching, Ethelwynn would have made a better showing.I am not growling.I simply state the fact.\u201d This tells the story of the second race which took place to-day between the half-raters, Spruce IV.the English boat, and Ethelwynz, representing the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, of Connecticut, for the international challenge cup offered by the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club, of New York, over a triangular course laid on Long Island Sound, and being from a line drawn be: tween the boat of the Race Committee of the Seawanhaka Club and the spar buoy off Centre Island.Each leg was of two miles, and the course was sailed twice over making a total of twelve miles.The official times of the race are as follows: Preliminary signal, 12.15; preparatory signal, 12.25; starting signal, 12.30.Spruce crossed the starting ling eight seconds ahead.First mark\u2014Ethelwynn, 1.16.15; Spruce Iv.1.18.32.Second mark\u2014Ethelwynn, 1.30.37; Spruce, 1.40.41.Thira mark\u2014Ethelwynn, 2.02.55; Spruce, 2.06.53.Fourth mark \u2014 Ethelwynn, 2.39.39; Spruce, 2.39.48.Fifth mark\u2014Ethelwynn, 3.26.59; Spruce, 3.27.39.4.25.44; Finish\u2014Spruce, 426.07.Elapsed time\u2014Spruce, 83.55.44; wynn, 3.56.07.Spruce wins by 23 seconds.THE CUP CHALLENGE.Ryde, Isle of Wight, Sept.25.\u2014A special meeting of th® Royal Victoria Yacht Club has been called for Saturday next at which the form of the challenge for the America\u2019s cup by Mr.Charles M.Rose will be considered.The challenge will probably be dispatched to New York by the steamer sailing on Thursday, October 3.Ethelwynn, Ethel- ATHLETZFCS.\u201cHANKY-PANKY TRICKS IRRITATE US,\u201d SAYS TRUTH.London, Sept.24.\u2014In its issue to-day Truth, referring to the athletic contests at New York on Saturday last, says: \u201cThis successful athletic meeting will remove a lot of bad feeling betwéen the two countries.Would that the holders of the America\u2019s cup would take a lesson trom the conduct of their fellow- countrymen on the running track.We do not mind a square beating; it is the hanky-panky tricks of American yachis- men that irritate us.\u201d MONTREALERS FOR THE CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS.It has not yet been definitely settled 48 to.who the M.A.A.A.will send to the Canadian championship meeting at Toronto on October 5th, but it is pretty safe to eay that both Gifford and Brodie are almost sure to go.That these two excellent runners will distinguish themseleves there, there is is little doubt, notwithstanding the fast company they will be in.Secretary George Higinbotham, who attended the blg athletic meet in Man- hettan field last Saturday, in the interests of the approaching meet of the A.A.A.of Canada returned to Toronto on Tuesaday.He said that the cracks of both the London and N.Y.A.clubs will meet at Rosedale to fight their battles over, and that 1e Englishmen are confident of making a better showing.Wefers, Chase, Comnerf, Burke and Orton, the American champions, and Shaw, Bradley ané¢ Jordan, the English cracks, will certainly be there, along with many others from these clubs.The presence of such famous athletes ensures the success of the meet, and the attendance will be numbered by the thousands.CAPTAIN LOYE RISES TO REMARK.The Herald is pleased to publish the following : Sporting Editor Herald : Sir,\u2014A lettèr appears in this morning\u2019s issue of your paper signed \u2018\u201cT.B.Armstrong,\u201d bearing some remote relation to the tug-of-war discussion.It seems \u2018to me that Mr.Armstrong is not so well acquainted with the facts as he pretends to be, and in his reference to the Bell Telephone\u2019s challenge he speaks of the Gazette bringing in the \u2018belt question, of which no mention, he says, is made in the challenge.In the first piace it is difficult to understand what Mr.Armstrong has to do with a challenge from the Montreal Telephone people, seeing that apparently he is stationed at Carleton Place.But leaving that aside, he has evidently not read carefully the challenge of Mr.Malette, which looks as if it had been inspired by him.Had he done Bo he would have known that the challenge required it to be pulled for under the same conditions), which everybody knows\u2014and none better than Mr.Armetrong\u2014were done with a belt on the anchor man.As to hig lack of knowledge of the rules I certainly will not deny the fact that he is ignorant of them or he would not have written as he has, It is not the fault of the police that such people as Mr.Armstrong, Eecluded in such a neighborhood as Carleton Place should not be quite up to date in what is going on in the athletic world; but if his memory is any betler than his judgment, he will remember the fact that the only time he held the Grose cup was practically by a fluke and a refer ence to these same rules that now he professes to know nothing about, when it wag decided that a tied pull did not count.As to the suggestion of white feathers, it is laughable to those who know that Mr.Armstrong wanted a couple of hundred dollars deposited by an opposing team, so that he could pay his men.fnts was when Mr.Armstrong was captain of the Telephone team.The police team work under amateur rules and.are not paying competitors, and it fs for this reason that we wish to remain so that we will tot pull under any rules oth¢r than those sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Associaifon of Canada.| : F.LOYE, Captain Police Team - + TURF AND TRACK.\u2014\u2014 ROSE'S COLT UNPLACED.Newmarket, Sept.25.\u2014Mr.Chas.Day Rose's bay colt Mogul was one of twelve horses which ran in the Welter handicap to-day.He was not placed, the race being won by Mr.R.Waldie Griffith's chestnut colt Cold Steel, by Timothy, out of Tenax.BRIGHTON BEACH RACES.New York, Sept.25.\u2014The races at Brighton to-day were dull and featureless.The summary : First race, five furlongs, Dominion, 110, Simms, 9 to 2, west, 103, J.Murphy, 9 to b, second: Cuckoo, 95, Keefe, 10 to 1, third, A \u20141.02.Wheeloski, Addie, Pontlear, Trin- culo, Will Elliott, Lottie A,, Craftleas and Ameer also ran.econd race, five furlongs, selling\u2014 Rosalind IL, 90, O'Leary, 150 2, won; Imperial, 93, Keefe, 2 to 1, second; Unity, 103, Chorn, & to 1, third.Time\u2014 1.02.Perfidy, Article, Tomoka, Yennr- son IL, Carissa and John Haines also Third race, one mile\u2014Nicolini, Simms) 1'to 2, won; Sir John, 107, Dog- gett, 8 to 1, second; Rodman B., Perd kins, 8 to 1, third.Time\u20141.43 1-2.Firebrand, Van Brunt, Richard and Tre- margo also ran.Fourth race, one mile and a furlong\u2014 Panway, 70, Powers, 12 to 1, won; Cass, 82, O'Leary, 7 to 10, second; Little Tom, 78, Coyle, 13 to 6, third.Time\u20141.54 1-2.Dungarven, Nero and Herkimer also ran.Fifth race, one mile, selling\u2014Chatta- nooga, 119, Simms, 11 to 6, won; Inquir- endo, 102, Perkins, 4 to 1, second; Prig, 108, O'Donnell, even, third.Time\u2014 1.48 1-4, Captain T, Jack Rose and Warlike also ran.Sixth race, one mile, selling \u2014 Little Mat, 108, Simms, 11 to 5, won; Babe Mur- selling\u2014Old won; Key- 109, 95, O'Donnell, 8 to \u20185, third.Time \u2014 1.42 1-4.Annie Bishop, Darkness, Golden Gate, Harry \u2018Alonzo, Pulitzer and Edna May also ran.RUGBY.KINGSTON CADETS COMING.The; Rugby football season will open Saturday arternoon with a double event on the M.A.A.A.grounds.The first championship match in the intermediate séries will be played between Montreal and Britannia, and both trams have been putting in hard practice lately, and are in good condition.This will be followed by a match between the teamfrom Kingston Military College and Montreal first fifteen.Through a clerical error the advertisement early in the week stated that the price of reserved seats would be 50c.This has been corrected, and the price Is the same as usual, viz., 25 cents tof the grand stand, and 35 cents for reserved seats.The sale of seats has commenced, and last night at the AAA.office there was quite a run on em.VARSITY DEFEATED OTTAWA.(Special to the Herald.) Ottawa, Ont., Sept.26.\u2014The exhibition football match to-day between the Ottawa University and Ottawa city teams resulted in favor of the university men.The score was 14 to @ The victors scored all their points in the first half, in which they had much the best of the play.They played well in the second half also and had not the Ottawas put up a far better game than they did during the first half the college score would have been much higher.As it was the play in the half was mostly in their territory.However, it was agreed by many that the Ottawas made a good showing when the excellence of the play of the college team was considered.\u2018The college will be hard to beal this year,\u201d was the generally expressed opinion.W.Kehoe was referee of the match and P.B.Taylor umpire.The players were: College\u2014Back, Moran; halt backs, J.Powers, Gleason, Shaw; quarter, Prud- homme; scrimmages, Clancy, McCredie, Bouther; wings, Lee, Foley, Brennan, Lafleur, James, Tobin and Ross.Oittawas-\u2014Back, Ackland; half backs, Smith, Yound, Troy; scrimmage, W.A.Cameron, MacLaren, Buckham; wings, Kenny, Lay, McDougall, Taylor, Scarth, } Pulford and, Chittick.The new men of the college team, Moran, Powers, Tobin, Ross and Brennan, showed up well, especially Powers, who promises to develop into a crack.Smellie is a tower of strength to the Ottawas, and Troy showed himself to be a valuable acquisition.Ackland, Young, McDougall and other members of last year's team are playing well.FOOTBALL.ST.MATTHEW'S CLUB PRACTICE, The regular practice of the St.Matthew\u2019s Football Club will be held every Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 6 a.m., on the Charron Street groundsy Every memuer is requested to attend.SS.LABRADOR V.METROPOLITANS.The above tems will meet this afternoon in a friendly game on the Exhibition grounds.Kick-oIf at 4 o'clock sharp.The following team will represent SS.Labrador: XE.Jones, C.Linford, W.Leahey, Roberts, W.Fleming, Ellis, J.Malcolm, Edwards, Henshaw, W.Walsh, J.Fitzsimmons.The Metropolitan team will be picked on the grounds.BASEBALL.THE GAME IN CANADA NEXT YEAR.A report comes from Toronto that Galt, Guelph, London, Cobourg and St.Thor mas all want professional\u2019 \u2018ball clubs negt year.\u201cGalt is tired of the so-called amateur game,\u201d Mr.Jack Humphries is reported to have said, \u201cand next year will have a professional team.\u201d Another town that will branch out in the professional line is Cobourg, the home of the ex-cham- pions.They are already negotiating tor several first-class players, and will be granted entrance to the Canadian League.As Guelph and London also favor the professional idea, there is no doubt but the Canadian League will be composed entirely next season of professional clubs.; \u201cA movement is on foot to form a joint stock company to organize a strong baseball club for next season,\u201d says the St.Thomas Times.\u201cThe intention is to sell shares at $30 each, and raise about $1,600.Atlantic Park will be secured, fenced in, stands erected, and the grounds put in proper shape.It is probable that Wood, pitcher of Guelph Club; Humphreys, shortstop of the Galt team; Lyons, Hund- ley, McDonald, Hutchinson and other fast players will be secured and the club put in the Canadian League.A team can be organized that will be a pennant winner.\u201d OTTERS ELECT OFFICERS.Following are the newly-elected offl- cers of the Otter Baseball Club: President, John Grant; lst vice-presi- dent, Robt.McBrien; 2nd vice-president, Pegk Chapman ; manager, Geo.Smardon ; sétrètary-treasurer, Gus McGibbon ; caps.W.Livingston ; committee, A.Lapierre, L.McAdoo, W.Saaman, Geo.Barlow, T.Baker.It was decided to hold the club's annual dinner and ball on October 81st, at Harvey's Hotel, Lachine.rp ce NATIONAL LEAGUE.At Baltimore ~ Baltimore 7, Philadel delphia 1.At Washington \u2014 Washington 7, New York 6.At Brookiyn\u2014Game called at close of sixth by Umpire Murray, who claimed \u2018it was too dark to see the ball, though the sun was shining brightly.The crowd phy 97, Sheedy, # to 1, second; McKee, |.MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1895.velled for the teams to play, and not a few asked to have their money refunded.Score: Brooklyn 4, Boston 3.At Louisville \u2014 Louisville 4, Pittsburg 11.\u2018 At St.Louls, first game\u2014St.Louls 8, Cincinnati 16.A Second game\u2014St.Louis 5, Cincinnati 4, RASTERN LEAGUE.\u2018Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept.25.\u2014The Scranton Baseball Club has disbanded, and no more games in the series for the Scranton Tribune Cup will be played this year.In consequence, the cup comes to Wilkesbarre, the leading club, having won the two games played.THE WHEEL.RELAY RACE DECLARED OFF.Cobourg, Sept.25.\u2014A relay road race took place to-day between Campbeliford and Cobourg Bicycle Clubs.The riders started spacp at 10 a.m, the Campseil- ford man reaching Cosourg at 12.38 p.m, returning to Campbdellfora at 3.03 p.m.The two teams were evenly matched at the half-way point.Here the Cobourg rider took the wrong road, and wheeled into Hastings instead of Campbelliord, thus losing the race.Archer, of Camp- bellford, rode from Gratton to Cobours, eight miles, in 24 minutes.Laird, of Co- bourg, rode from Grafton to Cobourg in 24 1-2 minutes.Lutey, of Cobourg, made the eight miles from Grafton to Colborne in 27 minutes.Returning, rode from Colborne to Cobourg, 15 miles, in 55 minutes.The race will likely be called off and run again next week.TOUGHEAD'S GREAT RECORDS.Fred Loughcad, the Canadian class A rider, made a most excellent showing at the Springfield meet, as will be seen by the following records made : Class A.One-quarter mile, flying start, competition, last quarter in half-mile open, F.Loughead, 26 4-5.Co Mile competition, C.R.Newton, 2.04 2-5.Three-quarter mile, standing start, un- paced, Fred Loughead, 1.45 2-5.Five miles, paced, standing start, J.H.Gardiner, 11.03 2-5.Class B.! competition, E.C.Bald, Half - mile 1.01 4-5.Arherican competition records from 6 to 27 miles, F.J.Titus.One hour world\u2019s anateur record, F.J.Titus, 27 miles 185 yards., a a TWO FAST HALVES.Freddy Young, of Toronto, rode an unpaced half in 1.03, and an unpaced two- thirds in 1.38 at Brantford.Geirge Fuller, a fifteen-year-old boy ot Callfornia, role a half-mile, flying start, on Monday in 1.03, and made a world\u2019s record for boys of that age.HARLEY WILL RIDE A 96 GEAR.Harley Davidson has a 96 gear, to be used in his locomotive-paced mile on the Grand Trunk line.A level stretch between Brantford and Tillsonburg has been selected for the trial.Permission from the head office in Montreal is awaited, and the trial will be made so soon as it be received.\u2014Toronto Globe.THE MILE \u201cCLASS A\" RECORD.The mile class A record for a querter- mile track is 2.03 1-5, made by W.L.Eckhardt, of Baltimore, on Monday, John Wills\u2019 mark of 1.539 1-5 would have constituted a recard had Chairman Orr accepted lt » SKATING.ANNUAL MEETING OF THE VIC TORIA CLUB.With & pald dividend of seven per cent.and a cash balance of nearly $1,500, there is every reason to suppose that the directors of the Victoria Skating Club were sincere in the gratification which they expressed in ths annual report submitted yesterday afternoon.The report referred further to the improvements made at the rink, the situation of the stalrs at the east end having been changed and some private boxes having been built.Among the remarkable statements mada in the report was one that the directors had been tinted and painted!.\u2018This, however, wa® explained to mean that the directors\u2019 room had been so treated, and the mistake was blamed on the printer.\u2018The following were elected directors for the ensuing year: F.Hilton Green, E.M.McDougall, Peers Davidson, F.C.\u2018Henshaw, G.L.Cains, David Morrice, jr., and H.Montagu Allan.At a meeting of the board held after the general meeting F.Hilton Green and E.M.McDougall were elected president and vice-president respectively.Stonewall Jackson was chosen secretary-treasurer, H.Foster Chaffe, last year's treasurer, retiring on account of press of business.LAWN TENNIS.M.A.A.A.COURTS CLOSED.The M.A.A.A.courts will now be closed, and the 1895 season brought to an end.Members can certainly look upon this as having been by far the most successful scason that has been enjoyed since this branch of sport has been taken up by the association.During the season three club tournaments have been played, and were productive of some most exciting contests.Only one match has been played, viz., with McGill L.T.C., in which the M.A.A.A.men came out with flying colors.Next year there will ba à far more complete list of matches and tournaments arranged, and it is expected that lawn tennis will make still further strides towards becoming the most popular game for the summer months in Montreal.THE RING.WANTED\u2014A PRIZE FIGHT LICENSE.Austin, Texas, Sept.25.\u2014A petition for a writ of mandamus to compel State Controlier Finlay to issue a prize fight license was filed -with Justice Denman of the Supreme Court to-day, out it will hardly be acted on until the first Monday in next month, when the court meets at Tyler.Mandamus papers were also served on Collector Williams of this county to-day, to compel him to issue a prize tight license.The case is brought by county officers to test the law.Should the decision concur with Judge Hart's opinion it is belleved that the fight will take place.Major Oppenheimer this morning said he did not believe that the military would be used.LACROSSE, IT WILL BE A GOOD GAME.The match between the Nationals and the Shamrocks, which tales place on Saturday, will ciose the league series in the intermediate cless.The Young Shamrocks held another practice yedterday afternoon, and there was a large muster of the players: There seems to bs no special reason why the Shamrocks should bz so anxious to defeat the Nationals, but it is quite apparent that the boys fn green are extremely desirous of winning the match.Several names have bezen mentioned for officials, but no decision has been reached in tho matter.The match will bz played on the new S.A.A.A.grounds, St.Denis Street, and the cars will run direct to the entrances.CRICHET.PATTERSON IS A \u201cSTAR.\u201d G.S.Patterson, the Philadelphia batsman, certainly carried off the honors for the Americang in the match just concluded with' the Cambridge-Oxford eleven.Without him the Philadelphians would have been defeated easily.In the first | innigs he carried his bat out for 109 runs, and in the second he was in 3 hours 32 minutes for his 67 runs.By his individual exertion he made 175 out of the 872 runs scored by his side, within 20 runs of bej 1 total.ing exactly one-half of the ROWING and SAILING.A CANADIAN FOUR-OAR CREW.London, Sept.25.\u2014Oarsmen Sullivan and Stephenson are anxious to hear from Hanlan, Gaudaur, or Durnan with & View to the Canadians forming a four- oared crew to row at the Austin regatta against the English crew, Bubear, Haines, Barry and Wingate, who claim that the colonials have no right to represent England.GOLF.MONTREAL-QUEBEC MATCH TO-DAY.Owing to the fact that the Quobie golfers were dlayed in gettirg Lere, the match which they were to have played with Montreal yesterday was postponed until to-day.v ¢ ¢ Out of Work ?4 We will help you get a posi- ¢ tion.The HERALD will publish your advertisement 3 times\u2014free.\u201c> a WOW WW WW NY BETTER THAN EVER.CANADA CENTRAL FAIR MEETING WITIK MUCH SUCCESS.Exhibits of Live Stock More Numerous Than any Previous Year.-Efforts of Officials Meet With Success (Special to the Herald) Ottawa, Sept.25.\u2014This was another big day at the Canada Central Fair.The People came by the thousands and the officers and directors of the exhibition are jubilant.The president, Mr.Wm.Hutchison, worked lke a Trojan all summer to get the grounds in excellent order and he succeeded so well that today he is reaping the praises of everybody who has visited Lansdowne Park.Nothing was left undone by himself and the indefatigable gecretary, Mr.E.Mc- Mahon, to secure attractions and the crowds who are now flocking to see the same testify to how well they have succeeded.The entries, as already stated, are larger than any year in the past.The quality of the exhibits is also equal, if not bettem than any heretofore.Indeed, it may be said that there can bd no doubt any longer of the exhibition having\u2019 found in Ottawa a permanent habitation and a name.The following were yesterday's receipts and attend ance : Receip's up to 6 p.m., $2,914.60; receipts from 6 to 10 p.m.$1,777.30; total day's receipts, $4,691.90; day attendance, 12,700; evening, 3,300; total, 16,- 000.When to-day\u2019s figures are made up they will go beyond this.This year's exhibit of stock has never been surpassed.The exhibit of horscs is ten per cent.larger than last year.in cattle the exhibit is three times aa large and undoubtedly the biggest the Fair has had.The sheep exhibit is about as usual and the exhibit of pigs considerably better.The quality of all herds is remarkably good.This Is attributed to the fact that the Ottawa exhibition, being the last big fair, gets the very best cattle that are exhibited at all the other fairs.The exhibitors who only took low prizes at the other have dropped out and it is only tha leading cattle that are brought on to Ottawa.The exhibit of dairy grades is much in advance of previous years, particularly is this the cass with the Jer scys.There are three entries of Jerseys this year to every one last year.In all there are over ninety Jersey entries.The Ayrshire, still the popular herd in eastern Ontario, have as many entries.The Durham exhibit 1s considerably ahead.The beautiful looking black and white Holsteins form an important part of the exhibit.A Holstein bull ex~ hibited by a breeder from Emery, Ont., is à beauty.It is only three years old and weighs 2,400 pounds.It has captured medals and first prizes at the Toronto and Montreal exhibitions this year and the owners claim it has swept every prize where it was exhibited.A number of Guernseys are also exhibited.One of the exhibitors claims this breed is becoming popular and will take the lead amongst stock raisers in a lew years.The exhibit of horses, although large, is not as representative as it.might be.Carriage horses are not as plentirul as last year, and carriage teams are astonishingly tew.The general purpose animals are, however, quite up to the mark, and a superior quality of stock is claimed.W.C.Edwards, of Rockland, has a very large exhibit, among.them being his famous imported stallions.The sheep exhibit includes some very fine animals.This summer, as every stock raiser knows, has been a very favorable one for sheep raising, on account of the dry weather, and this is in no small measure, accountable for the good exhibit.The exhibits from the west are much larger than ever before and their présence is an evidence that the western breeders are now beginning to realize that there is another fair in the Dominion than the Toronto Industrial.All breeds are exhibited, the Hampshire Downs, Southdowns, Lincolns, Shropshire, Leicester, etc.The piggery 18 a spot where the city people at least rarely frequent, but the exhibit there this year is worth seeing.It is quite up to the standard of other years.The great hogs, too heavy, rather too lazy to get up, are not so numerous, but the variety of the exhibit attracts attention.The red Tamworths and Jersey Red$ are an unusual exhibit.Chester whites, Yorkshires, Berkshires, and other leading breeds are well represented.The mest {nterésting exhibit of all Is the herd of Jos.Featherstone, M.P., of Streetsville, Ont which won notoriety by canturing 21 or nearly all the prizesi at the World\u2019s Fair in 1893.\u2014\u2014\u2014 tt sn mi \u2014 Attorney-General and Appeals.The motion for leave to appeal in tha Boyd-Somerville case was heard this morning and allowed, th: Court of Appeal holding that whenever the Attorney- General is willing to allow à case to te appealed the court will grant the motion.The case was then postponed till next term.The argument this morning dealt with procedure purely, the only matter of importance was the above principle which was laid down by the court.Musonic Hall} à Kingston, Ont., Sept.This evening the magnificent Masonic hall in the Golden Lion Block, Wellington Street, was dedicated by W.R.White, Q.C, Pembroke, grand master, ascisted by R.T.Walkem, Q.C., Benjamin Allen, G.S.W.E.E.Shepard, Mr.Rankin, and other brethren from Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Chatham, Napanee, and adjacent plaecs.acted, shows ST.LUC LANDSLIDE.VISIT TO THE SCENE OF SATURPAY NIGH'I\u2019S CATASTROPHE.Aspect ot the Spot Where Zephirim Nomandin\u2019s Property was Engulfed and Five ot the Family Killed.Three Rivers, Que., Sept.25.\u2014The St.Luc landslide is a subject of absorbing interesl here.Many visited the place on bicycles, and thouspnds from the neighboring parishes visited it on Sunday; but it is 1ikeiy that your present cor- resco Goal, cooompanied by a good and Lust) pui02, Wau 18 not afraid to use to the utmost of his ability, which is not very much, his knowiedge où the French language, was the tirst to go over the distance by horse and carriage.This means a drive of seventeen mikes from Three Rivers.Passing over the two bridges which span the St.Maurice River the fra part of our journey was over the dreary sands which extend back of the city for miles.After this the betier land of St.Maurice township is reached.We leave the village of that name far to our leit, clinging to the range below which we are assured again and again will bring us to St.Luc.When St.Maurice is left a few miles behind the character of the country, which hitherto hag been level, changes It is certainly more than a \u2018\u2018roliing\u201d country.On every side are hijls of fantastic shape, whose scalloped bases rest in wide valleys, or narrow ravines, or deep gorges.The general character of the country is much like that which lies between Chicoutimi and Ha! Ha! Bay, except that the hills here are not as high, nor the ravines so deep, as there.These hills and valleys are ever changing by the process of erosion, which ig} ever going on, and though going on slowly it is visible to the observing on all sides.It is indeed a part of the country where landslides may be expected from time to time, and where they may occur at any time, until, by the process which nature is carrying on, every valley im exalted and every hill made low.Much of our way here is slong and acrosj the tortuous course of the Champlain River\u2014a stream varying in width from twelve to twenty-five feet\u2014which worms its way around the base of the hills whose steep sloping sides run down to its dark colored waters.At the village of St.Luc the road is pointed out which leads right into the excavation caused by the landslide, which is about a mile and a half from St.Luc.The scene reached, we found hospitable quarters for our trusty steed at Joseph Normandin\u2019s, brother of the unfortunate man who was overtaken by such sudden and sa dcalamities last Saturday night.After lunch, notwithstanding the thought that we too might slip into the valley below, we were joined by Mr.Alfred Veillette, an intelligent French Canadian of St.Luc.On every point we made ourseives understood, and received the required information, except one, but on that one we failed.Neither by our French, which is not to be wondered at, nor yet by English could we convey to him what we desired to come at.From this man, from Mr.Normandin and another we gleamed the following:\u2014 @epherin Normandin was a farmer, belonging to the locality for his lifetime, aged forty years.Seventeen years ago he wedded Alice Bradley of the village of St.Maurice, who at the time of her sad death was thirty-three years of age.They had a family of six\u2014three boys who escaped and three girls who perished with the parents.The girls were aged two, four and eleven, and the boys thirteen and sixteen.Vepherin had a good-looking farm, and all his crop was seeured in his barn.The buildings like those of most of hig neighbors, were built on a plateau, the house being twenty-five feet from the road.Behind the buildings, at a distance of about 150 feet the ground began to slope toward the river, which flowed through the farm, about six acres from the bulldings.The plateau upon which the buildings stood would be about fifty feet above the bed of the river.Before 9 pm., on the fatal night, the Zepherin family began preparations for bed, which in some cases were completed.His brother Aime had not retired, but was preparing, and Joseph (adjoining the other side of Zepherin\u2019s farm) had retired at 8 and was sound asleep.Very shortly after 9 the earth trembled violently, so violently that it aroused Joseph from sleep, into which he soon relapsed again.Affe looked towardd his brother Zepherin\u2019s house.He could discern neither light nor house, and only a vacant spot met hia gaze.Soon cries of \u201cMon Dieu! Mon Dieu!\u201d were heard.They were the sad, heart breaking cries of the boys, who at the same moment had escaped and sustained such awful loss.Alme was the first to arrive at the place, where a few minutes before there, stood a house and barn and a part of the farm.There was a gaping chasm from 20 to 25 feet deep and about four acrés wide, and no trace of any building.The very road in front of the house was gone, and anyone following it unwittingly would have made a plunge of probably thirty feet into the greasy blue clay below.Aime made his way by a circuitous route to his brother Joseph's house, and informed them of what had transpired.Soon the neighborhood was aroused, and gradually, with lighted lanterns, they ventured to go down into the new valley of death.The debris of house and farm were found, the corner of the roof of the house being still visible, but there was no rescue for the unfortunates who had gone down with the house.: About four a.m.the bruised, mangled bodies were reached.The place