The daily witness, 20 mai 1901, lundi 20 mai 1901

[" o ® Fla à TR Te CE PT AATS ERE Po An = g To4daP 5434 AR me oe Nw >.7 5 = @ o> ps.1 - ce Cu x Se 1 AV \u2018Ou ave - qu oa SAR aN Gr Loe TIE \\ sotoB > ee an Unsettled Weather.sur, XLII, No.118.GER STILL HOPEFUL CAS THE BOERS WILL WIN IN THE END.Jar-ion, May 20, \u2014A man who recently sJed in interviewing Mr.Kruger resat he is fanatically confident that © Boer wi in tne end.He is 5 briter uguinst Great Britain, as he PE ders taut thar Country had been led.He was anxious to know if the \u201ceur in South Africa had hastened the death oi Queen Victoria.He also de- Jared that he did not believe that God would desert Lis chosen people \u2018the Beers.When one oi Mr.Kruger\u2019s en- rourage suggested thaï the miracle which .was Lo save the Boer cause was some- | wast overdue, Mr.Kruger replied \u2018Mi- I racle, is it not mirade thar fitteen thousand men are holding two hundred and Hi thousand at bay?ARMORHU Tivasn DYNAMITED.London, Muy 20\u2014Lord Kitchener reports to the \\Var Office under date of Pretoria.May 18, as follows: \u2018An armored train has been dynamited soutn oi American Siding.Major Heath, of she Sonih Lancashires, was killed.FUTURE OF BOER PRISONERS.London.May 20.\u2014Sir Alfred Milner, on his arrival here, will be consulted by Mr.Chamberlain with reference to the question of the future of the Boer pris- vuers.All available evidence points to the conclusion that the feeling of the men now in captivity is mot much less hostile to this country than that of the men still in the field and it may reasonably be concluded by the time the powers of resistance of the South African repub- lies have collapsed that the prisoners will number about twenty-five thousand.They will be a solid body, animated by disappointment and a desire for revenge.BOND ISSUE FOR CHINA BRITISH PROPOSE IT IN ORDER TO LIGHTEN HER BURDEN.\u2014 London, May 20.\u2014Dr.Morrison, wiring to the \u2018Times\u2019 from Pekin yesterday says: \u2018The British plan of a bond issue for the payment of the indemnity includes 2 pro] , in order to lighten the burden for China, that she should issue bonds at par for 300,000,000 taels now and the remainder five years hence.au reat Britain and the United States one oppose .¢ joint guarantee project.\u2018The British authorities emphatically declined to co-operate with the German expedition fo Southern 'Chihli, end itis now announced that the expedition- i abandoned.\u2019 11 \u2014\u2014 MAIL BAG MISSING.Toronto, May 20.\u2014All night long Sat- | urday night did Detective McGrath and three.special railway constables seek to solve the disappearance of a bag full of registered mail, which must have been taken from a truck at the Union station.Up to.the present time, however, although no stone has been left unturned, not the remotest trace of the missing bag has been found.The bag was one that was made up and closed at post office B, on King street, for the Ontario and Quebec division of \u2018the C.P.R.on Saturday night.\u2014_\u2014 WAS DRUGGED AND ROBBED.London, Ont., May 20.\u2014A country storekeeper, Mr.Robert Agar, who comes from Manjtowaning, Ont., fell into the hands of sharpers on Friday evening and was relieved of $300 in cash.The visitor, who had never been in London before, was found by a constable at midnight, wandering about, hatless and dazed, He remembered asking a man to drive him to a hotel, and meeting a stranger.He had one drink, but is experience after that is a blank, and he is supposed to have been dosed with \u2018knock-out\u2019 drops.FRUIT CONDITIONS IN NIAGARA.Toronto, May 20.\u2014Mr.George E.Fisher, provincial San Jose \u2018scale inspector, says the apple and peach trees in the Nig, peninsula have a light bloom, no doubt owing to the heavy crop last year.In the case of plums, pears, cherries and strawberries, the crop promises to be exceptionally heavy, at least so far as can be judged from the blossoms.HEIR TO A FORTUNE.| Toronto, May 20.\u2014Mr.Joseph Ander- ' son, one of His Majesty\u2019s Army and pd at 3, th hi d- Bs a fr ; Navy Veterans, has fallen heir to a fortune.When Mr.Anderson received the flad tidings he at once proceeded to England, where he found an estate at fGravesend, Kent, awaiting him.His in- :ome from the estate will be about $2,- i00 a year.Mr.Anderson has lived in Toronto for the past eighteen years.ST.PETERSBURG STRIKE CRUSHED.St.Petersburg, May 20.\u2014The strike here is practically crushed.A very large number of arrests have been made, two hundrd and fifty persons having been taken into custody at one factory \"alone.Over thirty, possibly a hundred, persons were wounded in a street fight when the mob stoned the police.Several deaths are reported as a result of the strike riots.The agitation among the students is unquestionably partly re- Kponsible for the troubles.MR.WHITNEY TO RESIDE IN CANADA, _Évdney, C.B., May 20.\u2014Mr.H.M.Whitney, president of the Dominion Iron Steel Company, left here last night for Beaten.He will return im a tew weeks and will take up his residence tere for the summer, = 5e | the chair, ?, = DEATH OF AN INVENTOR.Fairhaven, Mass.,, May 20.\u2014Westou Howland, the discoverer of the Method of refining petroleum, died last night, aged eightvsix years.His discovery brought him fame and fortune.MAIL SEIZED TORONTO MEDICAL QOMFani IN TROUBLE.Toronto, May 20.\u2014The premises and mail of the Toronto Medical Company, at \u2018Toronto Junction, have been seized and W.B.Hupe and Sidney Flynn, the proprietors, will appear before the Junction magistrate to-morrow on a charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes.Some six thousand letters were found on the premises, chiefly written in Y¥rench, and containing guesses in A competition regarding the correct names cË certain Canaulan cities.\u2014_\u2014 Mr.P.S.Murphy, who died on Fri day morning at his residence, 82 cher street, and who was the brother of the late Senator Murphy, was well known and highly esteemed by the older generation of Montrealers.At one time be was president of the Laurentian Railway( subsequently absorbed by the C.P.R.), was a member of the Council of Public Instruction, was a great friend of Sir George: Cartier, and wielded no inconsiderable influence as educationist and public-spirited citizen.He was very much interested in colonization projects, to which the late Father Labelle gave THE LATE MR.P.8.MURPHY.himself with enthusiasm.He retirement for.many -years, \u2018came \u201cquite spadenlÿ \"and anecpecté affer \u2018à long life of great activity.lived: in the late Mr.David Murphy, accountant, of this city.- He was one of the founders and secretary-treasurer of the Montreal \u2018Rubber Company, now the Canadian Rubber Company.He always took a deep interest in educational matters, and was for more than thirty years a member of the Roman Catholic Board of School Commissioners of this city.He founded the P.S.Murphy endowment prizes in the Polytechnic School and the Catholic Commercial Academy, and, in recognition of his great services in the cause of education, the French government ih 1882 made him an \u2018Officier d\u2019Académie,\u201d Mr.Murphy possessed a vast fund .of information on the early days of the province in general and of Montreal in particular.He was the author of several historical brochures -publish- ed by the Numismatic and Antiquarisa Society, of which he was for many years a prominent member, Mr.Murphy married in 1851 Miss Jane Amelie Perry, daughter of Mr.Allan Perry, Coteau Landing, who predeceased him.He leaves one son, Mr.E.A.Murphy, and three daughters, Miss Josephine Murphy, Mre.Louis Terroux and Mrs.Fred.O.Hopkins.The funeral, which took place this morning from St.Patrick's church, was very largely attended.STOLE FROM HIS FATHER.A young man named Thomas Laurey, aged but 17 years, pleaded guilty on Saturday before Mr.Lafontaine in the police court to the theft of the sum of 246 from his father.The prisoner, who was arrester on.Friday at the Salvation Army Lighthouse by Deputy Constable Cyr, was remanded for sentence.ilps OFFICERS ELECTED ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MONTREAL ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Montreal Entomological Soclety was held at the residence of Mr.A.F.Winn, 58 Bruce avenue, , Westmount, on May 14.The president, Mr.A.F.Winn, occupied and submitted the annual Te- | port on behalf of the council, This recorded with satisfaction the advance made by the society during the past year.During the season eight meetings had been held, and sixteen original papers read.The treasurer's report showed a good balance on hand.address.He urged the members to more active work among the less known branches, and also the advisability of inviting all those interested to attend the meetings, where they would be given a cordial welccme.The election of officers for the ensuing year \u2018was held, with the following results: President, Mr.G.Chagnon; vice-president, Mr.C.Steverson; librarian and curator, Mr.A.E.Norris; secretary treasurer, Mr.G.A.Moore, 24 Lorne avenue.Council\u2014Messrs.Henry H.Lyman, F.Winn and Dwight Brainerd.It was decided to hold a field day at St.Hilaire:on May 24, leaving the G.T.R.sta- tio at 8 a.m.5 THE LATE MR.P.8: MURPHY.~ | small repair shops of the Central Railway = hiy | pércent of the machinists employed in oston.struck to-day to enforce fhe de- day, with .ten.\u201d _The.late Mr.Murphy, who\u2019 was bürn\u2018 in Corrs; Carlow, in 1820, was a sop of | The president then delivered his annual A, MONTREAL, MONDAY, MAY 20, re MACHINISTS OUT.STRIKE WILL NOT BE AS WIDE SPREAD AS ANTICIPATED.Washington, D.C., May 20.\u2014The gen: eral strike of the employees in the machinery and allied metal trades throughout the country to enforce a nine-hour day, with an increase of wages to meet the reduction in the hours of labor, took effect to-day.Reports were received early to-day by Mr.O\u2019Connell, president of the National Association of Machin- igts, and other officials who are in this city, indicating that a large number of establishments heretofore holding out against the demands of the men were making the necessary concessions.Mr.O'Connell said the reports so far received vere of a Le re usine nature.5.30 New England.the firat reporta: hig ed \u2018that many\u2019 \u2018men\u2019: were ont but \u2018number in the aggregate would not be estimated as yet.The states mostly affected in New England are Connecticut and Vermont.From the former stats telegraphic reports to the headquarters here show all the machinists in the towns of Ansonia and Derby are out.The men in the principal towns in Vermont also have struck.These include St.Johnsbury, Rutland and St.Albans.Mas- making reports.From Cincinnati the indications are that all the men are out.This is one of the points where the most difficulty in settlement has been apprehended.In Cleveland the situation has improved.While the number of men out is not stated, the report from there to-day announces that the Automatic Refrigerator Company, the Grant Tool Company, the Danielson Tool Company, and Messrs.Bollinger & Reilley have signed with the men, and work in those establishments continues.In Wilmington, Delaware, several of the concerns are Teported as having agreed to the terms this morning.The report from Denver showed\u2019 that no trouble is expected there.About three-quarters of the concerns employing machinists in that city have signed, an negotiations are in progress for a settlement with others, which look hopeful.The advices from Chicago indicated that arrangements had been made with a great majority of the firms: New York, May 20.\u2014A}% the local headquarters of the Central Executive Board of the International Association of Machinists it was\u2019 said this morning that not more than 3,000 out of 12,000 machinists in the New York district were on strike.Many of the employers in New .York had agreed to the workmen's re- \u201cquest for a ne hour der.; > Jersey City the only men on strike.res in \u201cideu-\u201cemployed GR the of New Jersey.\u2018Boston, Mass, May 20\u2014About ei mand for a nine-hour hours\u2019 pay.The number of men involved is placed at about 1,500.Shops.employing about 650 men have granted the new scale.Hazelton, Pa., May 20.\u2014The machinists and moulders employed at the Hazeltén and the Janesville Iron Works did not strike, as all their demands weére granted -day.i | York, Pa., May 20.\u2014Only two shops in this city were affected by the machinists\u2019 strike to-day.Two hundred men in the employ of the York Manufacturing Company and of S.Morgan Smith quit work.Cleveland, Ohio, May 20.\u2014About 1,200 machinists employed in this city are on strike to-day mn order to enforce their demand for \u2018a nine-hour working day, with ten hours\u2019 pay.Scranton, Pa., May 20.\u2014Every machine shop in Scranton is idle to-day, the strike ordered by the international president, Mr.O\u2019Connell, going into full effect on the demand for a day of nine hours and an increase of 11 percent in wages.Altogether 3,000 men quit work this morning, and these, with the Lackawanna ' Railway machinists and car shop men out for a week past, make nearly 5,000 on strike in Scranton.Philadelphia, May 20.\u2014It is estimated that not more than a thousand machinists quit work in this city because of the refusal of their employers to grant a nine-hour day.The firms thus-far affected are all small concerns, employing anywhere from ten to forty machinists.Detroit, May 20\u2014UÜp to ten o'clock to-day 17 local machine shops, employing a total of 150 men, had granted the demands of the International Association of Machinists, and their employees were at work.Five hundred anf fifty machinists in other shops are out on strike.Milwaukee, Wis., May 20.\u2014About 1,600 machinists refused to begin work in this city to-day because their employers had failed to comply with the demands for & nine-hour day and a 12% percent increase in wages.Newark, N.J., May 20.\u2014A thousand machinists struck here to-day to enforce the demands of the union and fully à thousand machinists and others employ- N.J., went on strike.Seneca Falls, N.Y., May 20.\u2014A1l the iron-working.industries here closed today on account of the strike of the ma- chMmists and allied metal workers.Ome thousand men are out.- FATHER'S TERRIBLE DEED.London, May 20.\u2014Sergeant-Major Butler, who \u2018had just returned from South Africa, last might shot five of :is children, killing four of them.His wife and baby, escaped.THE LATE ARCHBISHOP LEWIS.New York, May 20.\u2014The _\u201c\u2018Tribune\u2019s\u2019 \u2018London: correspondent says: The remains of the late Archbishop of Ontario will be \u2018taken into.the Church of the Holy | Trinity, Paddington, to-morrow morning for the celebration of the Holy Commun- the sachusetts and New York were late in f- Tf Uh ed in four different shops in Plainfield, 1901.ion, prior to their removal for interment in the churchyard of Hawkhurst, Kent.The d .prelate communicated at Holy Trinity the day before he left last for Canada.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014se DROWNED IN THE CANAL.Moise Hurtubise, of 3001 Notre Dame street, went for a walk by the canal yesterday afternoon.He was seventy- seven years old, and in bad healtn, vod it is thought that he had a fuinting nt, and fell into the canal.His body was found under the Charlebois Lridge, Ste.Cunegonde, and taken to the mozgue, whene an inquest was opened this aîter- noon.\u2014\u2014 A SAILOR FOUND DEAD.Maxime Langelier was found iead yesterday in his bed at 200 St.Paul street, where he boarded.He had veen ill 10r some time, and had been discharged from the uxotre Dame.Hospital i ) ste native dt St.Langelier & ated : 0! gelier Co, Castries, St.Lucia.A BRAVE WOMAN THE SEAFORTHS\u2019 GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT.; The Cape papers report how the Sea- forth Highlanders have shown their appreciation of the heroic deed of a lady in rescuing succoring one of their comrades.During fighting m the streets of Jagersfontein, on Oct.18, last, Private Brown, it appears, fell wounded outside a house in which a Miss Newton resided.Hearing groans, she went outside to ascertain the cause, and when Brown saw her he cried, \u2018For God\u2019s sake, lady, pull me out of this\u201d Miss Newton at once took hold of him under the arms, as well as she could, and dragged him into the verandah out of the line of fire.Bullets were: flying along the street thickly at the time; but Miss Newton remaimed with.the wounded soldier, doing what she could for him until the ambulance arrived.The men of the Seaforth Highlanders gratefully remembered this act of mercy, and when they succeeded in ascertaï Vhat Mise Néwion had mi grated to Grahamstown, they gent her by post a beautiful gold bracelet wateh, ring the inscription: \u2018Presented to Mises -A.E.Newton, from the Seaforth ighlanders, m admiration of her heroic nduct in assisting their wounded com- de under fire; 15th October, 1900\u2019 i pe.i DEAD TWO WEEKS .RS Joséph Charretier, Montcalm street, was found bed laët might by bis wife.laborer, of 232 d dead in his Mrs.Charretier | left him in good health on April 20, bo visit relatives at St.Jerome.On returning lagt night, she found the body im a state oË decomposition that made it evidént that he had besn.dead for about two weeks.The body was taken.to the morgue, where an autopsy was held this eiter- noon, and an inquest will be held to-mor- TOW morning.reife GRAIN ELEVATORS TRADE BODIES REQUEST CONFERENCE WITH HARBOR BOARD.The Harbor Commission was in receipt of letters this morning from the council of the Board of Trade, the Chambre de Commerce, the Corn Exchange Association, and the shipping igterests, asking for a conference upon the elevator question.The shippmg interests strongly endorsed Mr, Crathern\u2019s plan, as have all the other interested bodies.It was decided to acknowledge these letters, but to leave the fixing of a date for the conference until next Monday, as it is bx- pected the Senate will sanction the oné million dollar loan before adjourning this week.The commissioners contemplate visiting Buffalo, Milwaukee or Duluth before finally deciding upon the style of elevator to be built, as in those cities are elevators of the most modern and scientific construction.pr AN ACTION OVER CHEESE.Mr.Justice Loranger gave judgment on Saturday in the case of Dupuis vs.Montreal and Cornwall Navigation Company.This was an action, for cheese which defendant should have d.livere to the Bank of Hochelaga, but delivered \u2018to some stranger.It was ulcaded that goods consigned to 7h'e bank were at- ways delivered by defendant to the Gould Cold Storage, and that this was done.in this case, aud this constituted delivery to the bank, and further, that James Irvine had taken possession of the cheese, and had sold it and accounted to the \u2018bank for it, and also that the consignor of the cheese had no right of action, but that the consignee had.The court gave judgment for $722.45 and costs.rf A LETTER OF INHIBITION THE REV.PROF.STEEN DECLINES _ TO DISOUSS IT.The Rev.F.J.Steen received a letter from \u2018His Grace Archbishop Bond on Saturday, inhibiting him from performing clerica} functions within the Diocese of Montreal.The Rev.Mr.Steen, when spoken to about the matter, refused to make any statement for publication.oT Lmcia, and re- R: | atong the THE RIEGEL MURDER.Philadelphia, Pa., May 18.\u2014The trial of \u2018Sailor Bob\u2019 Bryan, one of the nine ersons indicted for murdering Father iegel, of Cheltenham, Pa., by the administration of \u2018knock-out\u2019 drops, came | to an end to-day by the withdrawal of j the plea of not guilty and the substitution of a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree.Robert Winne was convicted earlier in the week of murder in the second degree.The others will be tried at once.CROW\u2019S NEST SOUTHERN ROAD WILL BE BUILT UNDER A PROVINCIAL CHARTER ONLY.Ottawa, May 20.\u2014At this morning's House of Commons sitting, the bill for the incorporation of the Crow's Nest Southern Railway Company was dropped.It will be remembered.$hat.befor the bill passed the House of\u2018 Conimons- ailway Committee a clause was inserted to provide that the Crow\u2019s Nest Coal Company, the owners of which are largely the same men as are interested in this railway bill, should not show any discrimination in favor of American interests in its supply of coal and coke on penalty of this government imposing a tine of three dollars a ton for evéry ton so exported.This condition, aftér a good deal of negotiation, was accepted by the promoters of the bill, but it is now said that the American gentlemen interested in the enterprise, Mr.J.J.Hill among them, were not satisfied to be tied down by such a stipulation, which had not been imposed on other companies doing business in this country.So instead o: bothering further with the federal charter, they have simply got the authority to build their road under the terms of a provincial charter.ee MR, ROSS'S SUCCESSOR.THE PARTY OFFICE HUNTERS ARE MUCH AGITATED.Quebec, May 20.\u2014The provincial government is reported to be meeting with a good deel of difficulty in appointing a successoy in the Legislative Council to the late Hon.J.J.Ross.The members of the Three Rivers district, already annoyed by the giving of Mr.Ross's seat in the Senate to Mr.Dechene, of L\u2019Islet, whom they consider an outsider to their district, are said to be strongly opposed to the nomination of Mr.Gar- neau, M.P., or the Hon.Jules Tessier to the councillorship, for the same rea- sot and to be insisting that it must go \u201cone of their own number, Under the circumstances it is regarded as not at all dil: 1y that the, governmen : : Sur TE i.nanies freely -mentioned in this connection are those of Mr.Paul De Cazés, &\"brother-in-law of \u2018the late Hon.H.Mercier, and Mr.Joseph Archer, jr.; merélfant, of Quebec, father of Mr.Chas.Archer, of the law firm of which Mayor Prefontaine, of Montreal, is the head, and one of the party\u2019s oldest and most influential supporters.CARNEGIE\u2019S GENEROSITY DONATES TEN MILLION DOLLARS FOR FREE TUITION FOR SCOTCHMEN.London, May 20.\u2014Mr.Andrew Carnegie has given £2,000,000- to establish free education in four Scotch universities\u2014 Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St.Andrew's.He stipulates that the beneficiaries be his \u2018Scottish fellow countrymen\u2019 only\u2014no English, Irish, colonials or foreigners.The fund will apply to medical as well as to commercial education, and will be placed in the hands of trustees, who will pay the expenses of Scottish stpdents benefited under the scheme.\u2014_\u20147 SPANISH.ELECTIONS LIBERALS WERE TRIUMPHANT BY A LARGE MAJORITY.Madrid, May 20.\u2014The elections to the new Chamber of Deputies were held yesterday.At Bilbao there was a quarrel between a ministerjalist and a socialist, and the latter was killed.Another person was killed at a suburb of Bilbao.\u2018Serious conflicts occurred in Barcelona, where.Senor Cabelles, an electoral commissioner, \u2018was killed with a dagger.Bev- eral other persons were severely injured, some of them, it is believed, fatally.Disorders occurred in several other towns, and | le were injured in Salamanca, Seville, Valencia, Badajoz and Almondra- lejo.All the ministerial candidates in Madrid were successful.Sufficient returns have been received to* show that the government has obtained a working majority in the Chamber.Latest reports of the result of the elections to the new Unamiber of Deputies, held yesterday, show that the capital returned six ministerialists, one Uon- servative end one member of the National Union party.According to \u2018El Cor- reo,\u201d the following are the general results of the election Liberals, 230; Conserva- ¢ives, 70; Dissident Conservatives, 15; Dissident Liberals, 18; supporters of Romero, 10; Republicans, 15; Carlists, 6; National Unionists, 10; Catalanists, 4; Socialists; 1, and Independents, 21.-\u2014 A GENBROUS CONTRIBUTION.ebec, May 20.\u2014Mr.and Mrs.John rester of Quebec, have subscribed the handsome sum of five thousand dollars to the century fund of: the Presbyterian Church in Canada, which has now reached $1,275,500, according to.the statement of Mr.Robertson, the superintendent of missions, who was \u2018here yesterday with cut: iid 2 \u20144 Prior Ong CENT.MAN OF THE WEEK MR.WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SUDDEN LEAP IN TO THE FRONT RANK OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATERS.London, May 20.\u2014\u20181 have no intention of dissociating myself from the Conservative party, but I have every intention of upholding my attitude and continue my ght for economy.\u2019 n this way the man of the week\u2014for such Mr.Winston Churchill undoubtedly is\u2014expressed his own opinion to a representative of the Associated Press con- WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.cerning the fight which, by reason of its unexpected strength, and its dramatic revelation of inherited oratorical power, has caused more astonishment in the political world than any other recent circumstance.The fact that the army reorganization scheme of Mr.Brodrick, the Secretary, for War, passed the House of Commons by an abnormally large majority, is not taken in any quarters to belittle the effect of the strenuous opposition Mr, Winston Churchill displayed towards it.\u2018Consider,\u2019 writes that old parliamentary hand, Mr.Henry W.Massingham, in the \u2018Daily News,\u2019 \u201cwhat it means for a young man under thirty, with a few weeks\u2019 parliamentary experience, to fight down the physical difficulties of speech and all the obstacles of a highly strung and nervous temperament, then to step out at once into the first rank of the debaters, handle a great topic with masterly ease, and stand against the whole Who, in our.times, has done so a?Who, indeed; has even tried IEP.In thé same Deiat Mr.Maes ham, and .other: to the bitterhsss ta public attitude of the Conservative lead- \u2018ers\u2019 towards Mr.Churchill: : Mr.A.J.Balfour, the government leader in the House of Commons, who is usually so genial towards others, has entirely ignored this voung member of the House, who, with one speech, has now gained a prominence which .everybody says his party cannot afford to overlook.Current parliamentary gossip presages for Winston Churchill an even more brilliant career than that of his father.The chief doubt of his success appears to be his lack of means, which at present are quite insufficient to enable him to dgvote that large amount of time required by the duties of a cabinet minister.The sneers «of Mr.Brodrick and other members of the government at Mr.Churchill\u2019s reference to his father\u2019s fight and his own right to raise the tattered banner of economy and to protest against the growing war expenditure, has had but a slight effect among the broader-minded Conservatives and Radicals.JOINT HIGH COMMISSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR REOPENING NEGOTIATIONS SAID TO BE LIKELY.Toronto, May 20.\u2014The \u2018Globe\u2019s\u2019 Ottawa correspondent says: \u2018It is learned that after parliament rises there is a likelihood of steps being taken towards promoting an early summons of the sittings .of the Joint High Commission for the settlement of questions at issue between the United States and Canada.Nothing definite has been settled yet in regard to these preliminary steps, but it is hinted that an informal meeting between a representative of the United States and a member of the Deminion cabinet may, be held to talk the matter over, and ascertain whether circumstances are favorable for the reopening of negotiations.CLERGYMAN\u2019S SAD DEATH.Rome, May 20.\u2014The suicide at Naples of the Rev.Maltbie Davenport Babcock, pastor of, the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, who killed himself by cutting an artery in his wrist and swallowing corrosive sublimate, was due to his despairing of ever recovering from the chronic liver complaint from which he suffered.\u2014\u2014\u2014 UNSETTLED WEATHER Meteorological Office, Toronto, May 20, 11 a.m,\u2014The following are the maximum and minimum temperatures :\u2014Victoria, 54\u201444 : Kamloops, 62\u201446; Edmonton, 54\u201446; Qu\u2019'- Appelle, 88\u201460; Winnipeg, 82\u201452; Port Arthur, 70\u201440; Parry Sound, 62\u201450; Toronto, 63\u201452 ; Ottawa, 54\u201450 ; Montreal, 54\u201450 ; Quebec, 60\u201448; Halifax, 58\u201442.Easterly and north-easterly winds; unsettled, with occasional showers.Tuesday, continued unsettled.1640 and 1642 Notre Dame st., Montreal, May 20, 1801.\u2014Readings by Hearn & Harrison\u2019s Standard Barometer at noon To-day, 30.00 ; yesterday, 29.95.the Rev.Dr.Campbell.Temperature.Max.Min.To-day .\u2026.vo «cv ov ov -« 61 4 Yesterday .c oo ov oo 52 47 ftp nmr a = DAT J 7 BE Ry Tm pw = tu a ; = vs = x Monpar, Mar 20, 1901.\"BIRTHS, MAPRIAGES AND DEATHS.| Notices of births, marrizges and deaths must {nvaré ably be endorsed with the name and address of the | sender, or otherwise ro notice oan be taken of them - Birth notices are inserted for Ee, marriage notices for bc, death notices for 250 prepaid.The an nouncement of funeral appended to death notice, 250 rxtya; other extension to obituary, such as short aketch of life, two cents ger word extra, except pociry, which ia 50 cents per lins extra\u2014prepaid.NOTICE.MORNING, Victoria Montreal West to-Beaconsfield: | A special deli mmencing Montreal West as far as Beaconsfield § 7 P ECIAL and ali intermediate noes, Cf leave The: Big Store early Bay.go that all godds bought on Wedn Thursday, wlll be delivered -on Friday morning.- CL te THE s.C ARSLEY CQ ; ! day, and is moored at the Windmill Point.The Anglo-Alrican is not only a new bose, IDAY] ; \u2018end Butterick\u2019s Patterns \u201cJOHN MURPHY & CO.but she is completed with up-to-date fittings and should make a model lve stock car.To-day she will be inspected bv Lieut.-Coionel Dent and Captain Gore, of the Imperial army.Most of the live stock is at the stockyards, and as soon as the and Publications! Annual subscribers hay Mave announcements af 0irths, Notre Dame Street.Montreal's Greatest Store.St.James Street.marriages and deaths (without dad obituary or verses) occurring én their dmmediats families, free \u201cof éharae, in whick case mame and address af sub- soribers should de cines: BIRTHS.BECKBT\u2014At East Orange, New lersey, on May 17, 1901, a son to Dr.and Mrs, Geo.£.Becket.18 RUSSELL.\u2014At - Pictou, Nova Scotia, on May 16, 1901, a daughter to \u2018Mr.and Mrss Jas.A.Russell.20 MARRIED.HBRBERT \u2014 STUART.\u2014 At the residence of the bride's father, 80 Aylmer street, on May 16, 1901, by the Rev.F.M.Dewey, M.A., assisted by the.Rev.Jas.A.-Stvart, B.A, of Calvin, Church,Bath- urst, Ouf, brother: of the bride, John Bénry Herbert, to: Kleanor,eldeat- daugh- || ter of John A.\u2018Stuart, aikof this aire : MoLEAN \u2014 BRUSON\u2014 In Broôklya, 'N.Y., on May 16, 1901, at Christ: Church, by The Big Store is showing a splendid c specially-adapted for summer homes, ättr quoted at economical prices.ë CLOVER CARPET SQUARES.- Clover Carpet Squares, 2 by 2 yds.$1.20.; Clover Carpet Squares, 2 by 2% © yds., $1.50.- ; or Cover Carpet Squares; 2 by 8 yds, \u2018Clover Carpet Squares, 2% by 3.yds, $2.25.Pe = 2 - ace Carpet-Squares, 3 by'3 yds., \"Clover, Onrpet, Squires, 3 by 3%, yds $315.TT père Cerpet Squares, 3 by: 4 yde.FLOOR COVERINGS FOR SUMMER HOTIES.\u201cbined with healthfulness in the several specialties \"MAY 20th,-1901.- } small army of carpenters have got through ÿ | their work of fitting up the necessary PR Flags For Victoria Day ! B| A Full Assortment of all Kinds, Sizes and Prices.ollection of.new Floor Coverings activeness.and \u2018aurability, are com- in \u2018Floor Coverings here JAPANESE, MATTINGS.| : Japanese Mattings, extra fine\"qual-} ity, in every conceivable.design, -wo- ven on cotton warp in quaint Oriental devices.- oo : Special Prices.4 7c to Abe ENGLISH.QILCLOTH.\u2014A: splendid assortment of the well-seasoned | ie Be t0-756 yard.\u201cHE LINOLEUMS.-A most} and Placed Into Stock! 81.00 per yd.from 65¢ to $2.75 per yd the Rev.A.B.Kinsolving, Flora, daughter of Dr.Mary Bruson, of Jacksonville, Florida, to Francis Herbert McLean, of Montreal.DIED.CARROLL\u2014At Toronto, on May 16, 1801, | Eilen Carroll, widew of the late Henry Carroll, of Fremont, Nebraska, and second daughter of the late Rev.R.D.Mag- kay, aged 29 years.18 CHINAWARE TOILET SETS.: The latest novelty in toilet sets, entirely new shape, original decoration, a very handsome set in a variety colors, unequalled value for such class goods.Worth $7.50.\u2018Special.$5.95 of, igh AND LAMPS, PARLOR LAMPS, ; 50 only Parlor Lainps, manufactur- \u2019 samples, very fine collection of fast dye, all prices from NEW BLACK GRENADINES! 50 Patterns of New Black Grenadines, Just Received New Black French fron Grenadine, $1.25 per yd.New Black French Lace Grenadine, $2.00 per yd.New Black Fancy Striped Grenadine, 75¢ per yd.New Black Voile Striped Grenadine, 85¢c per yd.NEW BLACK VOILE-DE-PARIS ! New Black Voile-de-Paris at 6oc, 65¢, 75c, 86¢ and NEW BLACK ALL-WOGL COSTUMES CLOTHS, all prices NEW BLACK ALL-WOOL BASKET CLOTH, \u201cSomething ne New\u201d, price.$1.00 peryd.- Co \"NEW BLACK MOHAIR LUSTRES, fine make and ext \u201cfinish, all prices from 25c to $1.25 per yd.so NEW BLACK ALL-WOOL HENRIETTAS, extra fine makes, 78¢c, 85¢, $1.00, $1.25 per yd.NEW BLACK ALL-WOOL COSTUME SERGES, warranted 3b6¢ to $1.50 per yd.ers high.class decorations, open work; brass foot, detachable brass fount, Country Orders Carefully Filled.complete \u2018with chimney and wick, : standing 26 inches high.CAMPBELL\u2014At 80 avenue road, Toromtd, on \u2018May 17, 1901, Charles J.Campbell, late Assistant Recelver-Gemneral, in his 82nd ear.! 20 CHAMBERS\u2014At her Brewster avenue, Upper Lachine, on May 17, 1901, Louisa Percy Davies, widow of | the late Edward Thomas Chambers.The funeral will: take place from Christ Church Cathedral on Monday, May 20, at 8 p.m.\u2019 DAVIES.\u2014At Stanbridge Ridge, Que., on April 27, 1901, Louisa Jane Davies, in the 80th year of her age.20 FINLAY.\u2014At his; residence, 105 Tupper street, on May 20, 1901, A, W.Aytoun- Finlay, B.A., barrister.Funeral private.London (Eng.) please copy.HOOD.\u2014Or May 18, 1901, Elizabeth Ann Patton; beloved wife of Thos: D.Hood, in her 9th year.Funeral on Tuesday, 21st at 2.30 p.m., from 159 University street.- 20 HOUGH.\u2014On May.16, 1901, after a short illness of nervous prostration and congestion of the brain, Dr, Herbert J.Hough, of Midland, younger son of H.Hough, Toronto, in the 27th year of his age.Le : 20 MeCANN\u2014At Perth, Ont, on May 14, 1901, = Hourigan, wife of Mr.John Me- , License Irgpector, \u2018aged 51 years.summer residence, \u2018Times\u2019 and \u2018Standard\u2019 0 CURTAINS AND LACE CURTAINS.These special prices in Lace Curtains will be found from 20 to 25 per- \"| cent lower than ordinary prices.- The ALLEGRO CURT is made of plain.net centre, with Honiton _ and Renaissance designs, lace \u2018edge and \u2018insertion.- : Special.1.0.$3.75 : The EMPRESS CURTAIN, made -}- \u201cof dainty white embroidered net, - lace edge.and insertion, - very desirable for sitting room or bedroom.Special, :.\u2026.\u2026.#6-40 - The QUEEN CURTAIN, a Parisian \u201cnovelty in Swiss stripe Bobbinet, with handsome lace edge and insertipn.\u201d Speciul.ii.$8.25 .Special $3.90 ] WALL PAPER.~ \"WALL.PAPER.Terms Cash JOHN MURPHY & CO., 2343 St.Catherine St, Cor.Metcalfe St.Telephone, Up 933, More than double the \u2018business \u2018done in the Wall Paper \u2018Store this - season compared with previous: ones.Hère\u2019s the cause.; Eee, \u201cGood, serviceahle Wall Papers in - 4 different \u2018colors, good, reliable qual- -§ ity.: * - \u201cBe roil.| Pretty designs.and colors new Wall Paper suitable for halls, dining rooms or parlors.; Special.5.Be to 4e - \u2018Splendid Drawing Room Wall Papers, handsome gilt effects.Special.Ls 10\u20ac to-30e SANTFARY and INGRAIN Wall | buyiog firms represented were Lovell & | Christmes, Alex: Ayer, and the Imperial Produce Co., all of Montreal.ICED CARS FOR BUTTER.Commencing Wednesday, May 22, iced cars for the transportation of utter to Montreal will be run by the C.P.R.weekly during the warm season, from Bedford, Sherbrooke, West Shefford, Cookshire,South Roxton, via Sutton Junction, Quebec, La- Belle, St.Gabrielle de Brandon, and trom | Pembroke, on\u2019 Wednesdays, from Mason- pers, tiled patterns, \u2018suitablé for À|ville and St.Jerome on Thursdays, and Papers, patiorne, from St.Lin and Vankleek Hili on Fridays.ble.Special ce bath rooms, washable.Special, 42¢ Butter will be picked up and loaded Into vo \u2018 Reg.Special Rolled Oats .3c 2%e Corn Meal .8 2%¢c -§- Corn Starch .©.10\u20ac 63gc Hungarian Flour, 10 Ibs.30c 28c\" Maple Syrup, qta., aged 50% years \u201cand\u201d § Smokth of thg lafe.J.B.P.McDonall, and grand- | son -of the late Judge McDonell, of thé Hudson Bay: Co.20 McMILLAN \u2014At Lochiël, Ont; on May 11, 1901, Catherine, dearly beloved \u2018only daughter of Mr.and Nrs.D- H.MeMil- lan, aged.10 months añd 10 days.\u201c20 McNAUGHTAN \u2014 \u2018At Cote St.George, on May 14, 1201, Catberine McGregor, widow of the late William McNaughtan, aged 83 years.18 McOUAT.-At , Lachute, on May 18, 1901, Emma Jane (Janie), second daughter of Thomas Ouat.: : Funeral on Monday at 2 p.m.20 REVELL.\u2014At Woodstock, Ont., on May 17, 1901, Margaret Amelia, beloved wife of Richard Macarthur Revell, \u2018dentist, and \u2018mother of R.Leslie Revell, D.D.S., in her 65th year.20 ROY.\u2014In this city, on May 19, 1901, Norman Robert Ernesf, infant son of Mr.\u2018apd Mrs.J.V.Roy, 270 Delorimier ave.Funeral private.20 TYTLER \u2014 At Guelph, Ont., on May 16, 1901, .Kathleea Agnes, younger daughter of W.Tytler, B.A., Public School In- epectrr, aged 8 years and 9 months.18 WANNAMAKER \u2014 In Trenton, Ont, on May 13, 1901, James A.Wannamalker,aged 71 years, 4 months.WALLIS\u2014At his residence, lot 40, con.2, Etobicoke, Ont.on May 16, 1901, W.A.Wallis, sr, in the 77th year of his age.18 Imma CHOICE DESKS TEES-\u2014300 ST.JAMES.\u2018Notices recelvad too late for this page | ; LADIES\u201d \u2018WATCH CHAINS, In Solid Gold, 812.00 to $20.00, >.In Rolid Silver, 81.50 to $1.00.In Rolled Gold, warranted to * wear five years, $2.50 to $4.56.In Gold Filled.warranted to wear ten years, $5.60 to $3.50, Large variety of Silk Guards, with Sterling Sliver and Rolled Gold Slides and Swivels, 33 cents : te 65 cents.137 St.Peter St, i Opposite \u2018Witness\u2019 Office : dE A TOKIuv OF ESTEEM, ; The Rev.Mr.and Mrs.Melvin Taylor wore made the recipients respectively on Friday evening of a handsomely framed picture and : y music case from the members of Mr.Taylor's Bible class as a token of \u2018their esteem on the eve of the recipient's departure for another fleld of labor.This is to .be.designated b; the ñ y committee, which meets at Pez- 18.set We 5, son | about\u2019 $3.60; no pearls en market.POLE VOTE TEE ES MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20.COMMERCIAL Montreal Wholesale Markets.\u2014 WirNkss OFFICE, ° May 20, In The local grain market is steady with 8\" fair amount of business doing at unchanged prices; Flour is quiet and inactive, but prices.show no signs.of sagging, Rolled oats, feed and hay are all quiet.The same may be said of provisions and country produce, but cheese and butter are firm though there is not a great deal of business doing \u2018as holders are looking for top prices.GRAIN \u2014 No 1 Ontario spring wheat, | afloat May, T6%c; peas, T5%c afloat; No.1 oats, 36%c, No.2 de., at 38c; .buckwhent, §lc; rye, b8%e, and No.2 barley, 63c.FLOUR\u2014Manitoba patents, $4.30; strong bakers, $3.90 to $4; straight rollers, $3.30 \u2018to $3.50; in bags, at $L.6746; Ontarlo patents, $3.76 to $4.; FEED-Manltoba bran ai $17; shoris -at $19; Ontario bran in bulk, $17.50; shorts in bulk at $17.50 to $18., | ROLLED OATS-We guote inillers\u2019 prices to.jobbers, $3.50 to $3.60 per barrel, and 1.70 to $1.72% in bags.se 3, $11 to $11.50; Ne.2, $10 to $10.50; clover, $& to 38.50 per ton in.car lots on.track.; : BEANS-We quôte at $1.60 for primes, PROVISIONS\u2014Dressed hogs, $3.50.to $3.50 according to weight.and slze of order; bacon, 14e to 15e; hams, 12%c to 14\u20ac; heavy Canadians short cut mess pork at $20 per barrel; pure Canadian lard, 11%e to 12%c per 1b; compound refined, Tic to 8c per \"lb.EGGS-\u2014HFair sized lots of No.1.at-113e to 12¢; No.2, J0c to 1030.BUTTER \u2014 Choice.creamery at 18¢ ; fresh dairy, 15%c to 16e; held creamery.at 12%e;: dairy, 1le.- \u201cCHEESE\u2014$ 1-8c to 8l4e for Quebec, and 8%c to 8%c for western.Soo MAPLE PRODUCTS-New syrup, 6c per 1b.in wood; Toc to 75¢c per tin; sugar,se- to 10c per Ib.°° ; : : POTATOES\u2014Prices are firm at 40c to 42c in bags.oo .ASHES-Firsts, $4.16 to $4.20; seconds, LIVE STOCK MARKET, MAY 20.There were about 600 head of butchers\u2019 GROCERY SPECIALS.FINEST CREAMERY BUTTER .R3Ko \u201cWE SELL BUTTERICH'S PATTERNS AND PUBLICATIONS, LEY + Hes A à declining, The Buily 1iness.the cars, eold to-day at from Te fo T%¢ por lb.: : La } .It is expected, with considerable vea- | son, that the acquisition of Mr.Osler by the provincial \u2018Conservative party of Ontario would brighten their prospects of G success at the next election.There certainly is strength in the mame, for it is known in every riding in, the province, and it has long been associated with superior ability in many walks of iile\u2014 in the Church, on the bench, at the bar, in science and in financial affairs, though in politics it has not yet taken a very conspicuous place.» Mr.Osler was re turned to the Federal Parliament at the general elections of 1896 and was re-elect- ed in November last.He may be called a fairly successful member; one who has the ear of the House and whose views are listened to with respectful attention; stil he is not a ready debater por a very effective platform speaker.He -hag the manner dng expression of a man of action \u201crather thah a man of words.- During the present session he replied to the budget speech of the Minister of Finance, Mr.Foster, the financial expert of the federal Conmervative party, not being in the House.It is said to be the hope of the Ontario Opposition that the presence of Mr, Osler in their ranks would rally to the support of the party many strong men whom former leaders have failed to reach.A weakness, however, that attaches to his name is that as he is largely interested in corporations controlling important franchises in the province his opponents would likely attack him on the hustings as being the friend of corporate interests.- In 1898 the Ontario Conservatives miss ed victory by à very narrow margin.Success was co near that it made the disappointment of failure all the more keen; but they evidently expect that where they barely failed three years ago they will succeed \u201cwhen the appeal is made to the country.It wes evident that the campaign of 1898 was not particularly well conducted on the part of the government.No doubt #his is largely ac counted for by the fact that it was their first fight without the.leadership of Sir \\aiver Mowat.The men composing the government were more acoustom- ed to foflow than to letd.At first they seemed over-confident and practically left the field to Mr.Whitney who stumped the province, with apparently good effect.\u2018Then over-confidence appeared to have given place to fright, the government seemed to tose heart and from that on it was an uphill fight, waged to avoid defeat rather then to secure victory.Their rallying cry was \u2018We will whack Whitney,\u2019 but they did not whack him remarkably hard.The government secured a smell majority, subsequently increased by those by-elections the history of some of which does not make a very edifying chapter in Ontario politics.However, the government held on and now they are preparing to go to the country again.Upon another leader has fallen the mantle of Sir Oliver Mow- at, a man standing high in the councils of his party and well and favorably known by the people of Ontario.No doubt Mr.Ross is preparing to make the political fight of his life.\u2018There is to be no, over-confidence and no funking this time._ DISHONEST BANKERS.Berlin, May_20.\u2014Two_ directors of the Pomeranian Mortgage Bank were arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of fraud in connection with large loans made by that institution on valueless property.Ont le br i A VE HIRE SN RRA The annual statement of this bank, which was issued last evening, is regarded as unfavorable.One of the directors was recently made the court banker, and had the confidence of the Empéror.\u2014\u2014_ BRITISH ISRAELITES.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir,\u2014I notice by the newspapers that the Rev.J.Idrysin Jones, Congregational minister, after visiting the seven provinces of Australia, the Southern and Western States of America, British Columbia and Ontario, has at last reached Montreal on his way towards England.He was sent by those deluded people who are so numerous in Britain, commonly called British Israelites, on a mission at their expense, to proclaim to the English- speaking peoples of the world their high origin and future prospects as inheritors of all the blessings promised by God to the seed of Israel, as largely contained in the prophecies of Isaiah.It is currently reported that at the lecture on the subject \u2018The Hebrew Prophecies Fulfilled in the British Nation,\u2019 (or some such designation) to be given by him in Emmanuel Church next Monday evening, His Grace Archbishop Bond has kindly consented to preside.The lecture is free and open to all, and I presume our friends the Jews of Montreal will be made specially welcome.I remember reading somewhere that when a feast or banquet is given by the Czar of Russia or his high nobles, salted fish is first served, with a view, no doubt, to creating an appetite for the meats and drinks which were to follow.With a like purpose in view (i.e., to act as an appetiser to the feast Mr.Jones has prepered), I submit the following pages from ancient history, particularly of interest, now that the war in Africa is nearing a close, and which I have entitled \u2018A Three Thousand-Year-Old Photograph of a Modern Subject.\u201d Baalam, the son of Beor, photographer in chief to his sublime majesty Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, wag the artist, and Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian, who lived while our Lord was on the earth, was the man who described the pictures in his Book IV., chap.vi, 4.He says (paraphrasing the words of Ba- laam): appy is this people on whom od bestows the possession of innumerable good things, and grants them his own providence to be their assistant and their guide; so that there is not any nation among mankind but you be esteemed superior to them in virtue, and in the earnest prosecution of the best rules of life, and of such as are pure from wickedness, and will leave those rules to Four excellent childrén, and this out of the regard God bears to you, and the provision of such things for you assmay render you happier than any other people under the sun.You shall retain that land to which he hath sent you, and it shall ever be under the command of your children, and both all the earth, as well as the sea, shall be filled with your glory, and you shall be sufficiently numerous to gupply the world in general, and every region of it in particular with inhabitants out of your stock.However, O blessed army! wonder\u2019 that ye are become so many from 1 oné father; and truly the land of Oansan can mow hold you, as being yet, compara: tively few; but know ye that the whole world is proposed to be your place of habitation for ever.The multitude of your posterity also shall live as well in the islands as on the continents, and that more in number than are the stars of heaven.And when ye are become 80 many, God will not relinquish the care of you, but will afford you an abundance of all good things in times of peace, with victory and dominion in times of war.May the children of your enemies have an inclination to fight against you, and many they be so hardy as to come to arms, and to aesault you in bat tle, for they will not return with victory, mor will their return be a ble to their children and wives.Te so great a degree of valor will you be raised the providenee of God, who is able \u2018to diminish the affluence of some, and to supply the wants of others.\u2019 I have only to add that if the above is not a faithful and true representation of the pation of Great Britain, as it exists in this year of grace 1801, then words ave no meaning.b s WM.GREIG.Ardchoills, Westmount, May 17, 190L \u2014nas | WHY TREES SHED THEIR LEAVES.(\u2018British Medical Journal\u201d) * Mr.Jonathan Hutchison delivered a short lecture m London recently on the retention of the leaf in deciduous trees, ointing out how some trees shed their leaves every autumn, some, like the holly, shed their leaves at various times throughout the year, whilst other trees, like the pine, retain their leaves for five or six years.The question he wished to discuss was why tertain trees which shed their leaves in the autumn sometimes kept their leaves on.He referred to two oak trees figured im an illustration on the evening programme, that showed how the two trees, exactly similar in age, species, and planting, exhibited difference in regard to the shedding of leaves, one keeping its leaves on through the winter and the other shedding them in the usual fashion.He mentioned incidentally that while it was usually at the approach of winter that trees shed their leaves, this \u2018was not invariably the case.for willows that flowered very early in the spring shed their leaves in m:#- summer.It \u2018was a mistake to suppose that leaves fell off in the ordinary way because they were dead.He exhibited a twig of holly that had been dead a year and pointed out how the leaves had not fallen off, but were even very firmly attached.A leaf always broke off in a special manner and in a particular spot\u2014 namely, close to the junction of the fact- stalk with the stem; and at that point there was to be seen a groove or line of demarcation.This line of demarcation became more evident às time went on, but, before the leaf was shed, a cicatrix formed: over the spot at which the leaf was going to separate.In this mañner any risk of damage to a tree from a large number open wounds was averted.The popular expression \u2018shedding leaves\u2019 was therefore strictly accurate.It was not a suicide on the part of the leaf, but it was a murder on the part of the tree, shed leaves being by no means necessarily dead.He insisted on the fact that the process of the fall of the leaf was a me 5 fee en eo Monpar, May 20, 1901.vital phenomenon, as vital as the separation of a necrosed portion of bone irom the living body.He suggested that it was a habit which certain trees had acquired, and was an attempt by the tree to become evergreen.Some oak trees had succeeded in this attempt and re mained evergreen, while in others the gt.tempt had failed.ECLIPSE OF THE SUN SEVERAL SUCCESSFUL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AT KARANG- SAGO.Amsterdam, May 18.\u2014The Dutch expedition observing the total eclipse of the sun at Karangsago, Sumatra, telegraphs: \u2018During the eclipse the sun was partially obscured by clouds.Successiul photographs were taken of the corona, spectra with two spectrographs.On the spectra with two spectragraphs.Onthe other hand, the photographs with the prismatic camera and measurements for the polarization of light and heat radiation of the corona have not succeeded.Port Louis, Mauritius, May 18\u2014The total eclipse of the sun was well observed at the Royal Alfred Conservatory.The rtial eclipse was partly lest through a cloud, and the first contact was entirely lost.The last three contacts were well observed.The party included twenty-two observers.Fifty.two photographs of the corona were obtained with the photo-heliograph of the Mauritius Observatory, the Greenwich coronograph, the new Begin telescope, and other smaller cameras.Forty-one photographs were taken of the partial phase, for the diameter and place of the moon, and eighteen photographs were taken of the spectrum.Professor Claxton arranged the meteorological observations over a wide area, for evidence of eclipse cycle.The corona was of the expected minimum type, but seemed fainter, yellower, more diffuse and less definite than the eclipse of last May.AN EVANSVILLE TRAGHDY.Evansville, May 20.\u2014Bveret Conwa aged 27, married, shot and killed.C, W, Garrison and his wife, in this city, yesterday and fatally wounded Fatrolman Benjamin Wallis.After being driven to desperation by the police, Conway killed himself.Conwav was a neighbor of the wuarrisons.The two families had mot been on friendlv terms for several months, the wives of the men having quarrelled.Garrison on y im which he ac cused him of cheating Conway\u2019s father in a trade.Garrison showed the letter to Conwav'\u2019s father, who upbraided his son.ŒÆarly this morning Corway picked up a shotgun and going to the stable where Garrison \u2018was milking, shot him dead.Then he shot Garrison\u2019s cows to death.Mrs.Garrison ran from the house, Conway met her at the and emptied both barrels irto her body, she faling dead at his feet.The mur orien vas cation ott a the fire Was led out end extinguished the blaze, Comway then barricaded himself in his house end shen Patrolman Wallis to ar attempted - rest him, Conway ehot him in the face and side.Wallis may die.The entire police department was called out after the riot alarm was sounded.The off- cials surrounded the house.Comway kissed his \u2018wife goodbye, ran -upstars and shot himself in the heart.NEW CLERGUE COMPANY.Toronto, May 20.\u2014The latest Ciergu Company to be formed is fpoetted this week.It is called the Algoma Stee Company, Limited, and\u2019 the share capital authorized is twenty million dollars.The directors are Messrs.Edward Varian Douglas, W.K.Stager, John S.Freeman, Philadelphia ; Francis H.Clergue and H.C.Hamiiton, Sault Ste.Marie.The head office is at the latter point, and the main objects of the company are to manu facture and deal in iron, steel and nickel \u2018| and the products thereof, to manufacture charcoal and by-products, .coke and byproducts, and to deal in wood and the roducts thereof, and to carry on the business of an engineer and contractor for the manufacture and building of iron and steel railway and highway bridges, cars and locomotives, steamships or oth er water craft, buildings and other struc tures in connection with the business and the purposes of the company.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THE KINGSTON STRIKE.Kingston, Ont., May 20.\u2014 The Canadian Locomotives Works ar closed until further notice.It was not found practicable to continue busines Without laborers.The company says i will give a reasonable time for the work: ers to return, but if no decision is resci\u201d ed then mew men will be engaged.The laborers\u2019 union has sent word to the com pany that it has no desire to ditgte whom the company shall employ oF ho charge, but desired to defend a wort y workman from charges of lazmes i Joafing with which he had undeservad\u2019 been branded, The laborers also cou plain of the harshmess and injustice se the company\u2019s representative io hd shops, who is continually dissatis with men at their best.\u2014_\u2014__ BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.London, May 20.\u2014The British Nation: al Antarctic expedition is threaten with scientific failure.Prof.J.Ÿ Gregory has sent a cable despatch = signing the leadership of the scientii staff.\u2018The Royal Geographical Surves which obtained most of the funds for the expedition, sought to impose their ce trol on the party, a proposition W oe ; Prof.Gregory, supported by a malo ;.of the leading scientists, refused to # cent._\u2014 A NEW MILK COMPANY.Toronto, May 20.\u2014The Toronto ilk men\u2019s Company, Limited, has just bee ; incorporated, with a share cupta oe $125,000.The new company pn erecting a large dairy building on Que street west, near Spadina avenue.the company has been negotiating with ee city milk dealers and claim to have © cured control of eight hundred oan dl milk per day.Among the provisions directors is the Hon.Clarke Wallace.Conway wrote a letter to.Saturda.Jo ok! % a 2 Mr.Grand Eagla chy him cows : F bob mur pla ë TON.ation: htened .W.h re entific rvey, or the which hjority to ac Mik- been tal of rposé Queen The h the ve se Ans of 8 ional .Makes the bread more healthful, Safeguards the food against alum.C \u2014 be ee post days | ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK, | à T.R PROGRESSIVENESS.WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH ONTARIO GOVERNMENT -TO RESTOCK THH LAKES WITH FISH.Owing to the thousands of tourists and anglers who each year make the districts \u2018in Northern Ontario their summer resort, the fish in several of the lakes have suf- \u2018fered to some extent, and to obviate any depletion or extermination the Grand Trunk Railway, in conjunction with the Ontario Government, have formulated a scheme for re-stocking many of the waters in the Highlands of Ontario, mot by depositing eggs, fry or fingerlings, but by planting the parent fish early In the season, in time to take advantage of the spawnlng season.With this end in view, the Grand Trunk Rallway System has had built in the shops at Point St.Charles & speclal car for the transportation of these fish from the place of their capture to the different lakes which are belng stocked.Heretofore, the stock- \u201cing of lakes has been hampered for the \u2018want of proper means for the transportation of fish, end youn gfish, fry end fingerlings wore carried by messengers in baggage cars on regular passenger trains.This method was inadequate, and the Grand Trunk recognized the fact that a fish car would have to be put in service to transport fish in large numbers.A car was, therefore, constructed, specially adapted for the distribution of ive fishes, the requirements for sich a car being compartments for carrying sh da which an even emperature cou.maintatned, proper circulation of water end air in the tanks contalning the fish, and sleeping and Hv- ing accommodations for the attendents.The interior of the car 18 erranged with a series of gelvanized iron tanks to hold from 1,000 to 1,500 fish.At one end of the car is en upper and Yower berth, lke those In a Pullman car, to aocommodate two men.\u2018The ice for keeping the water at a certain temperature is-carrfed In two by stiaching = ose 8 with & coun- ng any 0 hydrants stations - en Grand Tronk = onaron \u2018he Ontario Government has contracted for 10,000 parent bass.The first shipment has been planted in the waters known as the \u2018Lake of Bays,\u201d situated in The fish now being tram ere what are known es the ane black bass, one of the gamiest speoles of the fipny kingdom, and are Lelong caught at St.William's on Lake Erde.Those which have been captured and transplanted ere considered by experts as an exceptionally fine lot of fish, not one out of all that other carload has been forwarded to Muskoka Lakes, and the fish have od Sapont Teed in Lake Roeseau.This work piu continued until the lakes in the ern distriots are thoroughly stocked The other lakes whish will have the attention of the Ontario Government are Lakes Joseph, Muskoka, Couchiching, Sim- cos and the Kawartha lakes.Though the fishing in all these waters has been good in the past the lover of the rod and th amateur angler will be assured nit.2 Sport in the future 4n any of these dis- \u2014\u2014\u2014 LOCAL OPTION \u2018WHAT ENGLISH TEMPERANCE SQCIE- TIES ARP ATMING AT.Mr.Guy Hayler, of Newcas Grand Councillor of the Grand Leige \"of Fae! land, Independent Order of Good Tem- plars, which has some 112,000 members, \u2018s io the city.Mr.Hayter, is also secretary of the North of England Temperance League with over 100,000 members.There are now in England, he says, some 7,000,000 teetotal lors: of these 4,000,000 are children in B df Hope, but 1,000,000 are voters, Sonne about one-sixth of the electorate, This year, an effort 18 being made to get 1,000,- 000 more pledges.Scotland, Wales ang the north of England, all give majorities for temperance at election time, but the south of England returns 8 large number of anti- temperance members of parliament.The legislation at present pending in England is the \u2018Childrer\u2019s Bill,\u2019 to prohibit selling liquor for any purpose to children under sixteen years of age.This bill has passed two readings in the House of Commons, the second by a majority of 318, and Is now in committee., The great aim of the English temperance societies is to get a local option bill passed About 200 of the 670 members of the House of Commons are\u2019 in favor of this bill, and gradually one after another, different constituencies are returning more who favor it, so that in the course of time he bill will probably be passed.A good deal of opposition is experienced from the Established Church as a body, though very many of the clergy are strong temperance work- \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 OBITUARY.Ottawa, May 20.\u2014Emile Tremblay, a translator of debates on the House of Com- Mons staff, died on Saturday, in the St.Louis Hotel, of congestion of thé brain as a result of clese confinement and mental strain.He is the fourth of the Hansard translating staff to die in the past three Years.London, May 20.\u2014Catharine Lucy Wil- belmina, Duchess of Cleveland, the mother of Lord Rosebery, died yesterday at Wies- baden.She was born in 1819.of unlimit- | THE BOER WAR SITUATION IN THE TRANSVAAL IN THE LONDON \u2018TIMES'S\u2019 DESPATCHES.Middelburg, May 6\u2014Sir E.Blood returned to Middelburg on Sunday, and in the course of the week the operations conducted by him in the eastern Transvaal will be concluded by the arrival of the columns at various peints on the railway.Colonel Pulteney reached Middel- burg to-day.General Douglas and Colonel Benson are already at Belfast.General Walter Kitchener is near the june- tion of the Olifant and Wilge rivers.Colonel Beatson is clearing the country north of Balmoral; having been joined by Colonel Allenby, he will turn south.Colonel Park\u2019s column will probably remain in the Lydenburg district.The operations have proved eminently successful.Complete returns are not yet to hand, but the total number of prisoners taken and of burghers who have surrendered in three weeks: amowits to at least 800.The Boers north of the railway have sliown themselves thoroughly disorganized and disheartened, and are said to be only awaiting a favorable ops portunity to give in: Viljoen\u2019s \u2018eseæpe with the \u2018only \u2018formidable commando \u2018is to be regretted, but owing to the nature of the country and the excellent information of the enemy it was impossible to prevent, when once he had abandoned his waggons and transport.Viljoen is stated to be now south of the railway, with no supplies save those carried by individuals.\u2019 The distinction between prisoners and surrendered burghers is apt to\u2019 cause misunderstanding.The e which was made that all who surrendered should be regarded as prisoners of war except those who presented themselves at garrisons, towns and camps has proved unworkable, as many Boers lack the means of transport, and others coming in are liable to be prevented by their own countrymen and exposed to the loss of their goods.It is difficult, on-the other hand, to distinguish between Boers forced to surrender by the movements of columns in their immediate neighborhood and those professing a longgstanding desire to give in, but inability to come into camp.It seems best to make no hard-and-fast rule, but to leave -a discretion to the commanders in the field, who should be at liberty to treat all Boers surrenderin to columns when moving as prisoners of war, but with power to draw a distine- tion where it seems advisable.Leniency, as a rule, is to be deprecated, bit in the present case, if exercised judiciously, it need .leave no loop-hole for misinterpretation on the part of the burghers.There must, however, be no alteration in their status after the decision of a commander in the field.Moreover, except in instances where valuable information has been given, no distinction should be made in the case of burghers who have surrendered.WITH GENERAL PLUMER'S COL- its position at Waggon Drift upon our\u2019 | approach, the men being told to shift for .in the tanks en routs, which would be done \u2018themselves.pursuit.Lieut.Joss, of the Queensland Infan- Bicycle Corps, with ten men, riding with despatches from the column to Eerste Fabrieken, effected the capture of a party of nine Boers and three waggons on the way.) Colonel Beatson\u2019s camp has been attacked by Viljoen, with 500 men.\u2018The enemy had got within close range when our pom-pom and Maxim were turned upon them, causing them to retire with a loss of six killed.Qur troops went in pursuit and forced the enemy to abandon all their transport, which we captured.Eerste Fabrieken, May 5\u2014At Comis- sie Drift a patrol from General Plumer\u2019s force captured a party of Boers and a quantity\u2019 of stock.On the return journey Captain Hurcombe and four of his men, who were in advance, were surprised by 50 Boers, hidden in a mealie patch.They had to surrender, and some prisoners and waggons were alsu recaptured, but the men behind escaped with the cattle to our main column.Captain Hur- combe afterwards tried to escape, but was lmocked down.with the butt-end of a rifle.Our men were ultimately released, after being relieved of their arms.Colonel Grenfell attacked Fort Klip- dam, the homestead of Captain Dahl, a native commissioner.After a hot fight, in which the enemy lost nine killed, he captured the: place, with forty-five pris- opers and a quantity of munitions and stock.: The farms on the line of march were found to be deserted, and.only occasional camps were seen.Women and children were dwelling in the open in a destitute condition, deserted by their male relatives.As many as possible were brought in, and they, appeared deeply thankful for the relief afforded.Standerton, May 8.\u2014Yesterday Dewet Dederickson was captured in his bed near Vlaklaagte.e had done little fighting, but had been most active in looting stock belonging.to surrendered rghers, Lo The Burgher Loot Corps, with a detachment of police, have made another haul of 2,600.sheep and 500 cattle here.The Standerton column came in yesterday, bringing five prisoners, among them being Adrian De Lange, who was caught with other men hiding in a plantation.De Lange, who wasa self- elected commandant, had always been very active in persuading the Boers to continue fighting.The column brought in 2,000 sheep and.500 cattle, _ Colonel Colville\u2019s column has also arrived, with 300 cattle and 3,000 sheep.Klerksdorp, May 8.\u2014One hundred and fifty-three women and children belonging to Liebenberg\u2019s commando have been brought here and placed in the refugee camps.Haartebeestfontein will now be destroyed.Steyn and De Wett are reported to be in the Western nsvaal.De Wett, according to the statements of natives, is now at Barberspan, about twenty-five miles east of Maribogo, on the Mafe- king-Vryburg line.- Pretoria, May 8\u2014Colonel Benson\u2019s column, which has been operating under General Sir Bindon Blood, has arrived at Belfast, after carrying out a series of, operations over an arc extending from Middelburg in the west, through Roos Senekal to the north, and passing Major Vialls has \u2018gone \u2018in -incidents.indicating that- the.war is Tys Pretorius's commando abandoned.ling corrosive sublimate, was dus fo his]: but never fully regains his health, and THE MONTREAL through Totesburg, the late Boer head- Quarters, which were found to be aban- onied.The Boer base hospital was discovered in a remote valley.There was only one serious fight in the course of the march, when the Boers were driven from some caves in which they and their families were concealed.e had five wounded, including three officers.Tremendous quantities of stock and sup- Plies were taken and many families were rought in.} The refugees.at Middel number thousands, the seizure of cattle proving a potent means of compelling the Boers ot surrender, as by so doing they save their animals.Botha and Viljoen have joined: commandos and are occupying Carolina.BOERS WEARING OUT POWERS OF RESISTANCE CANNOT LAST MUCH LONGER.New York, May 20.\u2014The London cor- ondent of the New York \u201cTribune cables the following: \u2018The arrival of nearly .sixteen \u2018hundred volunteers at Southampton, and the cordi welcomed offered to: two.companies at Bt.J \u201cTown-Hall and \u2018the Tower Hamlets are slowly but surely coming to an end.Despatches from South Africa point in the same direction.The best sign is the waning sympathy for 4he Boers now .in the field on purposeless operations.Bands of guerillas are still standing out, but British commanders are no longer hampered by treacherous spies, and they have increased facilities for finding out what is going on and for making captures of men, arms and stock.A fresh incursion of Boers into Cape Colony is: explained.by.the necessity for obtaining supplies, and the number of.raiders.is insignificant.If the remnants of com-\u2019 mandos are not overtaken when pursued, the British gradually deprive them of horses.and wear them out by constantly\u2019 driving them from section to section.The refuge camps are filled with women whose.fathers, husbands and brothers are prisoners, and whose ardor for the.Boer cause is yielding to intense longing for the return of the burghers.Lord Kitchener's work cannot be brilliant, but it is done mechanically and thoroughly.District after district of the Vaal Kiver and the northern section of the Orange River Colony are being swept and the Boers are being harassed by constant movement.» CLERGYMAN'\u2019S SAD DEATH COMMITTED SUICIDE IN NAPLES WHILE TEMPORARILY INSANE, Rome, Maÿ 20.\u2014The suicide at Naples of the Rev.Maltbie Davenport: Babcock, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church: in New York, who killed himself by cut: ting an artery.in his wrist and swallow.despairing of ever recovering.from: the?chronic liver complaint from which he.suffered.; New York, May 20:\u2014One of the closest friends whom Dr.Babcock had in\u2019 this city was W.D.Barbour, a member of- the Brick Presbyterian Church.congregation.It was Mr.Barbour who yesterday received the cablegram announe- ing the fact that Dr.Babcock had died in Naples of Mediterranean fever, and he at once cabled back for particulars.He had received no reply up to nine tonight, and the first intimation that Mr.Barbour had that there was an element of suicide in the case was when be was shown to-night the Associated Press despatch from Naples.He was intensely surprised at the information, but said: \u2018If this despateh which you have shown me is correct, and I do not doubt that it is, then Dr.Babcock was out of his mind when he took his own life.\u2019 Continuing, Mr.Barbour said: \u2018Of all poisons, corrosive sublimate is the last would think a first-class hospital (as I know the International to be), would have lying about.Surely they would not leave a patient alone, and besides, am sure some of the friends in the party were constantly at his.bedside.ut then we can only theorize until we\u2019 get the details of this dreadful affair.\u2019 There were no services in the Brick church to-night, and the report that Dr.Babcock committed suicide did not gain general circulation by reason of this fact.The Brick Presbyterian Church was well filled this morning, when the sudden death of the pastor, the Rev.Dr.Malt- bie D.Babcock was formally published from the pulpit, and there were many eyes wet with tears as the announcement was read.Prior to the service there was an informal joint meeting of the three boards of the congregation, the trustees, the session and the deacons, and at this formal announcement of the death was prepared to be read to the congregation.Senator Depew, who was a close personal friend of Dr.Babcock, when told last night that Dr.Babcock had killed.himself at Naples, said: \u2018That such a: thing could be possible in a hospital is unexplainable.e idea that a patient suffering with the Mediterranean fever, was permitted, as it appears, to get hold of such a terrible compound as corrosive sublimate, and, furthermore, to cut open his arteries, strikes an American as absolutely incredible.If true, it simply shows what kind of an institution an Italitn hospital is.The delirium attending Mediterranean fever is most violent.I have known numerous.cases.In most of them the patient never recovers.In others tlie person may survive the first illness, finally succumbs to.it indirectly.It is the same kind of a disease as the Cha- gres fever, or the fever prevalent.in the mining days of California.It is always attended by a frenzied delirium.mr ROYAL ARCANUM.Mount Royal Council, No.1871, R.A, will hold its second meeting on Tuesday evening, May 21, in Victoria Hall, West- mount Park.The inter-council degree team, which exemplified the ritual in such an excellent manner two weeks ago, will be present to initiate the remainder s P(riemed confla {ron the ordinary aerial t DAILY WITNESS.THE FIRE LOAN CHIEF BENOIT TELLS WHAT WOULD BE DONE WITH THE \u201c- MONEY.{To the Editor of the \u2018Wituess.\u2019) Bir,\u2014Having \u2018been requested by the Fire -and Light Committes to place before the public a statement of the use to which will be put the $100,000 special fire loan to be voted upon by the pro- erty owners of the city on Tuesday, y 21, I accordingly wish to eubscribe to the following: - ayFummar yo fthe expenditure of the $100,- 4 Steam Fire Bogines te se 0.e000 » \"LAonial Ladder «.«i ov ee.ese.7,000 2 City H and LU.Trucks .\u2026 vo ve +, 7 2 Chemical Engines .\u2026 .6,000 2 Ladder Tower attachments .1,600 Tire Hoge .\u2026 vo ve ++ se as ee oer.14:500 f Total ev ao fur cee ve be ee +.$100.000 .The new central station would replace the old one now at the corner.of ig and Chenn ville streets.© The locality \u20ac ration district by the underwriters).which the department.is call ed upon to protect, requires a larger personnel\u2019 and more adequate.apparatus than can be stationed therein, as it con- -tdins \u2018all \u2018the largest business establish- \u2018ments, in most cases stored with goods of a very inflammable character, ) .The four steam fire engines will be distributed as follows: One at the new central station, one at No.3 station, corner of Wellington and Nazareth streets; one at No.9 station, Point St.Charles, and one at No.12, Seigneurs street.The purchase of these four engines would displace two which are at present in Nos.9 and 12; these would then be transferred to-No.18, Hochelaga, and No.16, corner Amherst and Rachel streets.The new aerial truck would be kept at No.10 station, on St.Catherine street, near Guy street.TheGrey Nunnery, -Mount:St.Mary Convent, Practor\u2019s \u2018Fhea- | tre and other large and high buildings \u2018in the vicinity require such a piece of apparatus in- that quarter.: One.of- the city trucks would go into No.3 station, corner of Wellington and Nazareth streets.This station is in a \u2018large: manufacturing district, where lives are in jeopardy in case of fire, and a ladder \u2018is an absolute necessity there.The same may be said of No.13, at Hochelaga, which is near the cotton and spinning mills.The two new chemicals would be placed in\".No.5, St.Catherine street, near Bleury, and No.18 St.Hubert street, Boulevard St.Denis.\u2019 +\" 6.The mew arrangements called ladder 4-tower attachment are contrivances fixed rucks and operated like a water tower.These will be Placed in No.4, Chaboillez square, and No.7 station, corner Beaudry and Notre bbœust say that-a generous-aupply at all; dimes of good -reliable hose is of the greatest moment to the brigade, so as to bé able to cope with any emergency.\"In the intended improvements it is my desire to equip a second reel or hose waggon in every station.This will require the greater part of the hose to be purchased out of the contemplated loan.\u201cThe above are only the most urgent -needs of \u2018the department and do not \u2018cover all the recommendations made by the underwriters, which would cost \u2019hundred thousand dollars.I may state that if this hundred thousand dollar loan is approved of, the changes and displace ments brought about by the purchase of the apparatus previously named will enable the departmént to satisfy the vari- -ous parts of the city, that mow require -better fire protection.; 1 hope the property owners will see the mecessity of voting the special loam, \u2018and render the: fire service of the city more effective, and thus contribute to the lowering of the nee rates.BENOIT, Chief Fire Department.-\u2026 May 20, 1901.- LL \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ; MONTREAL'S BUSINESS MENS LEAGUE.A meeting of the executive of the Montreal Business Men's League was held on \"Thursday in the Board of Trade committee room, under the chairmanship of Mr.Hy.\u2018Miles, ihe president.A report on the preliminary work was presented by the acting \u2018éecrétary, Mr.H.Bragg.The chanter of incorporation was discussed,and schemes for the season's work were suggested.It was decided to call a mesting of the sub- seribers in -& couple of weeks to receive .a report of the position of the league, and to discuss the best method of operation.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 SPITTING IN STREET CARS MR.RECORDER WEIR MAXKES-AN EXAMPLE OF AN OFFENDER.Mr.Recorder Weir had before him this \u2018morning a man named Joseph Dubois, who.was charged with spitting in a street car.The conductor of the car, in his evidence, deposed that he bad warned the prisoner tour times to desist, but that the prisoner \u2018had each time refused to do so.In passing sentence, tho Recorder remarked that the case was a very unpleasant, but at the same time, an important ome.This disgusting and ineanitary habit of epitting in card must be put a stop to.The prisgner had refused to desist when warned, and had refused.Cars were used by women and children, and it was disgusting that they should be annoyed by such an uncivilized creature\u201d as the prisoner.He hoped.that the Montreal Street Railway would\u2019 instruct their conductors to bring all such people before the court.The prisoner would have to pay a fine of $5 or one month | in jail.; pe WOMEN VOTE AT VESTRY MEETING.The adjourned annual vestry meeting of Christ Church, St.Hyacinthe, held last Saturday evening, was remarkable as the first in.the diocese at which women were allowed to voté according to the recent act passed at Quebec.\u201d The Rev.Dr.Hae- kett presided.The financial statement was very satisfactory.Mr.G.H.Hemshaw was chosen as rector\u2019s.warden, and Mr.A.N.Bradford people\u2019s warden; Messrs.Mann and Jenner sidesmen; Messrs.Brad- of the charter applicants, tr ford and Pee representatives on the Synod, Ÿ 4 +ototo EL a ~~ A Full Stock of | LAUNDRY opede ¢ Largest:Stook! Newest+Designs{- Best®Flhish ! 8 IMPORTED GOODS.| UNSURPASSED ' VALUES.LAMPS, BATTERIES, $ $ 3 , FAN MOTORS, and | - GENERAL ELECTRICAL APPARATUS.Po 7 2 w SHADES.: oC TE + IRONS, JOHN FORMAN.708 and 710-ORAIG STRRET.BOYS\u2019 PLAY SUITS.Dress the Boys s0 they can get out and enjoy the glorious Spring air\u2014dress them so they can tumble and { roll all over the ground./ We have the Clothes =~\" made tosuit these Boys that won't show spot or stain.Suits that will wear and not tear, sewed seams that will not rip, and cloth that will not wear out in a few weeks.Come Here for Your BOYS\u2019 CLOTHING.NEW SPRING AND SUMMER STOCK ALIN.Boys\u2019 Wi Boys\u2019 Boys\u2019 Knee Pant and -Knickerbooker Suits.Boys\u2019 Sailor Sults and Jack Tar Suits.Boys' Sailor Hats in Cloth and Straw.Tweed and Scotch Caps, Boys\u2019 Braces, Pan AE be + * Bring your Boys in.We'll fit them out.2299 St, Catherine St.d \u2014AND\u2014 | : Cor.of Craig & Bleury.| The Grand Gid Staple ; CLL ts NOT \u201cCheap\u201d Goods, but \u201cGood Goods\u201d cheap.Forty years on tho marked with continuous large sales groves its high merit.\u2014 and Mr.Fee representative on the corporation of Dunham Ladies\u2019 College.Votes of thanks were given to all th outgoing officers; alco to Miss Wiesman, of New York, and Mr.A.A, Jones, of London, for gifts.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 THREATENED MURDER BUT CHARLES DUBOIS WAS ARRESTED JUST IN TIME.Charles Dubois is the name of à man, à arrested by the detectives in time, would probably have murdered Mrs.Scleller, a widow, and a most réspectable woman, living at 100 Inspector street.For a long time pest, it is said, that the life of Mrs.Scieller, has been one perpetual torment owing to the persecution of this man.He professed to be deeply infatuated with her.On: one occasion hé is alleged to have stolen a sewing machine of hers, and on another occasion assaulted her, cutting her head open badly.- Tor tlese offences Mrs.Scieller had Du- bois arrested and brought before the courts when in each case he received sentences of imprisonment.- Lately, however, Dubois, being fresh from jail, recommenced his annoyances, with still greater vigor than before, and made threats of personal violence which caused Mrs.Scieller to go and complain to Chief Detective Carpenter, who detailed Acting Detectives Gallagher and Brophy to make erquiries into the matter.During last week Dubois told Mrs.Scleller in a positive manner that be intended killing \u2018her on Saturday night.But the detectives were doing their work and arrested Dubois about 6.30 on Saturday evening on Inspector street as he was standing opposite to Mrs.Scleller\u2019s residence, A loaded revolver and 36 ball cartridges were found upon his person.Dubois, who offered no Tesistance, was taken to No.6 police station, and lodged there for the night.Dubois was brought before Mr.Lafontaine this morning.He is a medlum-siz- ed man of an aj pearance that cannot be called_prepossessing.It is stated that be can neither read nor write, He pleaded 4 ou laborer by occup»tion, who, had he not been \u2018 ARBIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.MONEY TO LEND.CUSHING & BARRON, NOTARIES & COMMISSIONERS, 110 St.James streets MARRIAGE LICENSES, INSOLVENT ESTATES.JOHN M.M.DUFF, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT, 107 St.James Street and 3 Selkirk Ave, Guy 56 R.A.DUNTON, B.C.L., Te NOTARY, &c.| Funds for Investment, MARRIAGE LIOENSES.TEMPLE BUILDING, 185 6t.Samos St.Separate sealed tenders, as hereinafter stated, addressed to the undersigned and endorsed \u2018Tenders for Coal and Wood,\u2019 re- Fspectively, will be received at the Clty Clerk\u2019s Office, City Hall, until TUBSDAY, the 28th May inst, at 12 noon, for the following quantities of coal and wood required for the current year:\u2014 999 Gross Tons Best Egg Size Coal 187 *- \u201c * Bfove Size Coal.155 * « ¢ Furnace CoaL Also 6 Cords of Maple Wood.\u2019 \u2026 The whole to be free from dust and to bs delivered on or before the 15th August next, except in the case of the City.Hall, where the coal will be delivered as directed by the City Hall Superintendent.The whole to be delivered to the several Departments according to specifications to be seen at the office\u2019 of the undersigned.Tenderers will be required to make à deposit of 10 percent with the City Treasurer, and to give the name of the mine where the coal comes from.i - Separate sealed tenders shall be made for each department, viz.: City Hall, Fire, Police, Markets, Parks and Ferries.The safd tenders will be opened by the undersigned; in the presence of the interested parties, at the first meeting of the Finance, Fire and Light, Police, Market and Parks and Ferries Committees, following the reception thereof.\u2018The lowest or any tender not to be necessarily accepted.By order.: Le 0.DAVID, City: Clerk, City Clerk\u2019s Office, Clty Hall, Montreal, May 20th, 1901.20 Ee Auction Sales, MH.Hicks & Co.(x Turkish Rugs.Our annual consignment of Turkish, Indian and Persian Rugs, Carpets, Palace Strips and Portieres has arrived, and in order to display the exceptionally fine variety and excellence of the collection, we have secured the large warerooms, No.2465 St.Catherine Street, WHERE RUGS CAN NOW BE SEEN.Bale by auction without reserve ON.MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, MAY 20th, 21st, and 32nd.AFTERNOON AND EVENING, At 2,30 and 8 0\u2019Clock each day.Catalogues mailed on application.M.HICKS & \u20ac0., not guilty aud was remanded for trial.Auctioneers.- = EER ; .eA ni SE ne Starr Lars ai T ES mas fé eat tre rare fet - .hoped that this would b SESSIONAL INDEMNITY | Motion to Increase it Introduced by Sir Wilfrid Laurier THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION THINKS THE MONEY WILL BE WELL SPENT.Ottawa, May 20.\u2014After a sharp fight, the bill for the incorporation of the Canadian Nurses\u2019 Association was killed by a vote of 43 to 33 in the House of Commons this morning: The bill respecting the Trans-Canada Railway Company was withdrawn by the | promoters.| In reply to a question! by Col.Hughes, the Prime Minister said; that the federal authorities have till Sept.17 next to -dis- allow, if it sees fit, the dct passed by the British Columbia Legislature last year imposing new restrictions on Japanese.Mr, Clarke asked whether the government would permit the erection of a tablet on government property at Quebec to mark the spot where the American general, Montgomery, fell in his\u2019 assa on the.Ancient Capital in 1775.~ .\u2026 The Prime Minister replied.that, thi government had.pot been asked for such permission.An application\u2019 had been made to\u201d the Quebec City Council to set up a tablet on the spot whereMontgom- ery fell, but if this was set up on municipal property the federal government would have no power to interfere.The face of the clifi on which the.present | R tablet\u2018now is\u2018 is governmerit property.Mr.Stephens asked whether representations had been made to the government that one of the judges of the On- taric High Court was incapablé of properly hearing evidence.In reply the ensier said \u2018The truth is that Mr.| Justice.Robertson is, in the opinion of the Bar, no longer fit for his duties | through deafness, but up to the present time he does not seem to realize what is apparent to the profession and the pub-\u2019 lic\u2019 Representations had - made- that many barristers refused to plead before him.2) The House approved the resolution providing for the appointment of a county court judge at Vancouver.\u2018 In speaking on the British Columbia judges\u2019 bill this morning the Premier incidentally alluded to the difficulties of bringing prisoners from Dawson to Victoria across the strip of territory claimed by the United States at Skaguay.He e remedied by \u2018the resumption af the Joint\u2018 High.Commission this \u2018summer.The premier moved the adoption of the |\u2019 resolution \u2018providing \u2018for an increase of the sessional indemnity from $1,000 to $1,500.In so doing he presented arguments which he- thought would - commend the-policy to the people at large.England was the only country to-day whose legislators served without compensation, and even there there \u2018is a movement in progress among the poorer classé in favor of an; indemnity to rrain- them: sending representatives of ; thelr own class to parliament.{The ccn-» \u201cditions.itr England: were noi the: same.a} : ih Canale, \"Hh ers, ho fs of.men | \u201cthere who conld aford to.give theif.set- vices gratis.He believed that was the ideal way, but in the Canadian rarlia- ment \u2018it \u2018was well kiown that with the \u2018exception of half a dozen, the members had to work for their iivings.With us in Canada the indemnity was intended to reimburse members and Senators to some: extent for the time they gave up.to their legislative duties.I: was fixed in 1873 at $1,000, when the- understanding was that sessions would average eight weeks.That was twenty-seven | years since.1 To-day the business could never again.be done in that short space of time, It was not to be expected that it-could be done in less than three months, and his own impression was that sessions \u2018in the future would run from four to five months.- This was one.reason that induced him to believe that if it was considered fair.and reasonaible to fix the indemnity at a thousand dollars for a two \u2018months\u2019 session jt was not too mich to ask that it be Mmereased to fifteen hundred dollars when the sessions.have own to twice that duration.In the mited States members of co ] .an mdemmity \u2018of five thousand dollars a year and ir the mew commonwealth of Australia, under circumstances.not unlike our own, the indemnity has been, fixed at two thousand dollars.Therefore .in comparison: with the.indemnities paid- in other countries ours on the in- were .not.He thought the country should have been consulfed before this step was taken.- : ; he resolution was still before the.Bouge when adjournment was made for unch.RE mr McKINLEY'S HEALTH BHE CANNOT UNDERTAKE «THE JOURNEY TO CANTON IN LESS THAN A WEEK.San Francisco, Cal, May 20\u2014At an early hour to-day \u2018no change had been reached in the condition of Mrs.Mec- Kinley.= Although her condition has greatly improved, the physicians have named a week as the shortest possible time in which she ean gather strength to make the trip across the continent.\u2018The President and Mrs.McKinley will go direct from San Francisco to Cantan.At Mrs.MceKinley\u2019s old.iome, surround: ed by familiar faces, \u2018and with every MRS.would be more rapid than in Washington.The Ogden route will \"be taken \u2018for the trip.east.To : Sad.Francisco, May.20.\u2014At 9.20 a.m.Secretary Cortelyou gave out the follow- Mrs.MeKinley\u2019a physician repoited -bhat she has had.the best night since her illness and that her progress is very satisfactory.M.& S.C.RAILWAY.\u2019 Ottawa, May 20.\u2014The-chairman of the ailway Committee reported that ; the bill respecting -the Montreal and Séuth- ern Counties Railway was found to contain.three clauses which had not been covered in the notice.In view of \u2018the state of the session it is doubtful if the measure will get through.\" SIR COURTENAY BOYLE DEAD.London, May 20.\u2014Sir Courtenay Boyle, of Trade, since 1893, died suddenly yesterday morning.Se efre\u2014e.ELGIN BASIN SEWER \u2018Outlet Must be Removed Below : St.Mary\u2019s Current OTHERWISE AN OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER IS.THREATENED.The Elgin Basin gewer question was discussed this morning by the Harbor Commissioners.The City Council has been notified that it is.liable to a penalty of $25 a day, if the work necessary for the removal of its outlet below the.current were not sta May 1 and finished by Nov.1.ft is alre in default, so far as the commencement \u2018of.the work.is concerned, and any ratepayer, as well as the provincial Board \u2018of Health, can take an action against.the city to.enforce the -penalty,™: : rs ought.to pay.In.the.meantime the basin gets fouler and foul- weather séts-in.\u2018This is the grave fear of the Harbor Commissioners, : and active measures will now be taken to compel the city to remove this menace to ealth, - Cee .ROAD COMMITTEE.{THE REPAIRING OF ASPHALT PAVEMENTS.A rather interesting meeting of - the: Road Committee was held this morning, Ald, Martineau, chairman, presiding.The Sicily Asphalt Company was granted the contract to repair, the asphalt pavements on the streets on\u2019 which the guarantees of the contractors have expired: Tenders for flagstones weré « ed but- all being considered too high the matter: \u2018was left over tntil next meeting.\u201cIt.was decided to lay permanent pavement -on.certain sections of St.: rence streets, Napoleon streets.Ce A sub-committee will enquire into the request of the Grand Trupk Railway au- erbrooke \u2018and creased plan would not be a.large one.|.stree Before.resuming.\u2018his seat, however, Sir | Wilfrid made the distinct statement that in agreeing to this- increase it must be clearly understood thet under no circumstances is: the sum to be farther increased, no matter how long the Houses may be kept in sebsion ou any particular occasion, - ER The leader of the:Opposition endorsed the policy the Premier had annaunéed.He thought the money would not be thrown away: if the result was to main- -tain or to beter the standard of representation in our parliament.Some papers bad feared that the increase of the .indemnity might lead to the creation of a professional-class of politicians.He did not think that anythimg of the kind was likely to: occur.~The\u2019 present session had seen little legislation of a controversial character; the Opposition had assisted in the hurrying through of business, .and- yet the time consumed was three months and a half.\u201cHe did not expect that the ordinary session would be less | than foyr to.five months in length, and therefore had made up his mind that the increase to $1,500 was not excessive.Thus far it \u2018had looked as though the resolution was.to_pags without a word.of .ôp- position.But just as the Speaker was putting the question, Mr.Blain, of Peel, rose.and intimated that the proposition was one he could.not support.It was not a just step to take without the en- dorsation of the electorate.Mr.Jabel Robinson, 3, West Elgin, Independent, spoke stron inst the resolution, and sdid it ond be viewed in the country as-a salary grab.The electorate had, as it were; hired members to represent them at one: thousand dollars-a \u2018year.And no sooner were those representatives in a position to do\u2019 so_than,.acting Ikea great tidal wave behind the government, they had demanded an increase in their wages.Some men were worth the increase.\u2018Others \u201d reet.The Y:M.C.A.was ÿranted permission to erect a platform on St.Helen street, in front of the building which was oceu- pied by the association when it was first organized in.Montreal.This action is being taken in prepartion for the jubilee gelebration which \u201cis to.be held on June.Instructions were given that new.streéts in St.Denis Ward wherever possible should be twenty-four feet wide, with macadam, grass, etc.; on the boule .vard style.Samp es - of white \u2018ducking\u2019 were in- gpected by the committee with a view to the selection of material for provid: ing uniforms for the \u2018white wings,\u2019 who are shortly to be puk to work sweeping the streets.- .\u2014\u2014>\u2014 -NEW PASTOR PREACHED THE REV.MR.GILMOUR IN - CHARGE OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH.The Rev.J.L.Gilmour preached his Olivet Baptist Church yesterday.Considering the weather the congregations \" were large and they heard .two excellemt sermons.Mr.Gilmour was warmly received .and' made a splendid impression.is morning sermon was preached from Acts .xi, 25-26, the theme being the first church at Antioch.The evening sermon was a powerful one from the text, \u2018The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.\u2019 se -A reception will be tendered the pastor in the lecture room of the church tomorrow evening at eight o\u2019clock, when | day even more sly | ' greater calamity edn happen \u2018to the oecu- comfort, it is said that her Tecupération ; K.C;B permanent secretary to.the Board |- er, and threatens to cause an- outbreak | \u2018of typhoid fever as soon as the hot 1 cellency sincerely hopes may be in\u2019 every Hutchison and the east side: of St.Law-| thorities to lay a crossing on\u201c St.Etienne | first sermons before the congregation of |- \"refreshments and addresses will be in or-{ der.Mrs.Gilmour will: not arrive for| : THE MONTREAL \u201c\u2018KOOMERS\u2019 AN WET.- A correspondent writes: \u2014\u2018Roomers\u2019 were | more than ordinarily glad\u201d this morning when they awoke and found it was Monday with the prospect of plenty: of:worie.The Saturday half holdiday wét,.and\u2018then Sun- relentlessly so, what pants of \u2018furnished rooms.to let!\u2019 Boarders are not quite so forsaken-on such days, for a certain soclality has been engendered at meals, and, they have the prospects before .them of these three gatherings \u2018 together during the day, and a certain amount of visiting at each others\u2019 rooms.But where fooms only are taken, the occupiers seldom have more than a _.bowing acquaintance | amongst themselves, and, as regards the proprietor, intimdcy is not often encouraged {.on either side, 2° Ju - Oh, the length of those hours spent inthe solitude of those cheerless rooms, with the monotonéus drip, .drip of the rain on fhe window:.sill! The vain cogitations on the possibility.of \u2018some acquaintance not being too.utterly.taken aback \u2018should she receive a call on such a day.Do families complain on a wet.Sunday?Let them think of the lot of the roomers, \u201cand .be| thankful.And those families who have roomers among thelr friends, don\u2019t let them be sat- ished \u201cwith \u2018having given a general invitation whioù-the-average roomer \u2018seldom dares to make usé of, bit have out one of\u2019 thay, the sturdy members end\u2019 bid: him bring: up\u201d Ionésome roomier \u2018for the.afternoon; with tea \u2018and.sacred.music.ifterwards, shonld Ît \u2018be impossible to-go to church.i.\u201czn Is it any wonder that young .people.who live in.\u2018furnished rooms\u2019 decide upon- the wet Sundays.on all sorts of rash acts which will at least put the spending of amother wet Sundays in the solitude of their rodms out \u2018of the question! oo 5 BUFFALO FAIR DEDICATED THE DAY WAS UNFAVORABLE ; BUT LARGE CROWDS AT- .- TENDED, = _ Buffalo, N.Y, May 20.\u2014Lowering clouds that carried a dark tlireat of rain and a.wind that blew in fitful - gusts marked the Opening hours of \u2018Dedication ay.The rain held off, however, ani each hour of the respite added to tha | hopes.of the.men to whose care the great ceremonies of the day were.committed; The holiday crowds were astir early, and \u2018the earlier trains brought thousands of recruits to.their ranks.The exhibition grounds and the business distuict of the: city where the military ade formed were the Centres that attracted the largest numbers, while the.streets and \u2018avenues connecting were swarmed with animated crowds.The street scenes were picturesque, thousands of yards of bunting fluttered in\u2019 every street, and \u2018few.in the merry througs that tripped along: the streets failed \u2018to \u2018display - some.insignia or souvenir of the fair.\"The exhibition grounds were opened.at | eight o\u2019tlock, and the turnstiles have} been steadily revolving ever since,.The Temple of I ercises of the doy rere eld, was the\u2019 centre of activi although every.ps the.Rainbow 5: City, had its: Tang \u2018crowds.i : SU * \u2018GREETINGS FROM-\u201cOCANADA.\u201cDirector erat:BuchamenFof-the Pan- American Exhibition \u2018Company has re- -ceived telegrams.of congratulations fem :fhe Governor-General'of Canada,