The Montreal herald, 15 septembre 1890, lundi 15 septembre 1890

[" 000 009 real ada lern il si nt nt VOL: LXXXIIT-NO.223 MONDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 15.1890.3 CENT 86 A YEAR \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE NEWS.Archbishop Duhamel starts for Rome this moruiug.The Italian Finance Minister has resigned Lis seat in the cabinet.Robert Ray Hamiiton was drowned in the Yellowstone Park yesterday.A sixteen year old girl suicided at \u2018Winnipeg, yesterday, out of vexation at her father\u2019s re-marriage.M1.Bronson\u2019s appointment to the Ontario Cabinet has given great satisfac.iion to all shades of politicians.Mr.R.8S.McConnell, of the Government survey, has discovered alarge area of petroleum deposits in Athabaska.By the explosion of a locomotive boiler at St.Louis, on Saturday, the engineer and fireman were instantly killed John Dillon, Wm.O'Brien, John T.Gill and Timothy Harrington will sail for America on the Teutonic next month.A cyclone visited the neighborhood of Chelsea, Vermont, on Tuesday, dolog considerable damage to crops and buildings.A farmer of Ballingary, Ireland, wes yesterday murdered by a gang of fiends.His offence was giving shelter to evicted farmers.The S.S.Barcelona, of the Thompson Line, with a cargo of railway iron, ran ashore about 150 miles below Quebec, yesterday.The clerk to the Philadelphia health office is missing, Uplto now $17,000 are also found wanting in his accounts, bat more may be discovered.Sec.Windom will perchase $16,000, 000 4 per cents and prepay interest on $60,000,000 sixes in order to relieve the stringency of the money market.A case of what is alleged to be gen- nine Asiatic cholera occurred in Carroll- ton, Ohio, on Saturday.The man wes taken in the morning and died at 4 o'clock.Two sleeper cars of the Kansas City left the rails and rolled down an embankment last night, through a defective sleeper.Twenty persons were injured, gix seriously.The farmers of Spink County, Dakota, appeared to be in a worse condition than those in the blighted districts of Ireland.They are in want of both food and fuel to carry them through the winter.Dr.John McConnell, Toronto, was on Saturday found guilty of assault on Mra.O'Leary, a tenant of bis, from whom he tried to wrest the key of the house.Bail was taken for his reappearance for sentence.The people of Carmen, N.W.T., held à public meeting on Saturday to devise a plan to put a stop to the wholesale slaughter and exportation of game by Americans, which is now permissible through laxity of the game laws.An imposing funeral procession escorted the remains Ericsson, the engineer, from the U.S.war ship Baltimore to their final resting place yesterday.The officers of the Baltimore will dine with the King of Sweden on Wednesday In consequense of the increasing us of the revolver in England the Home Secretary declined to grant areprieve 6» Francois Mantaau.though the jury bal recommended him to mercy and ex pressed their opinion that he had no intended to slay his victim.rl Strauss this afternoon and evening at the Victoria Rink._\u2014 A Library for Sale.Many of our readers will have heard by this time that preparatory to leaving Canada, Mr.Bocdle, the Librarian of Fraser Institute, who has been resident in this city for some fifteen years, has decided to sell his valuable library.As this collection is pretty widely known we took the opportunity of the approaching sale to learn the nature of its composition.It is at the same time a large collection and curious as containing very little rubbish.A feature of the collac- tion is the copious supply of books upon dramatic litoratare and specially upon Shakespare.To the general reader the names of such writers as Dekker, Middleton (nct the theologian), Heywood, Nabhes and Day are probably unknown, But in this collection their works fill from two to eight volumes apiece, Very few, even of specialists on British poetry, bave rad the works of Conshaw, Tur- bervile, Pollok, Gascoigne, Drayton, Hall, Habington, etc, but in this library they were there in full glory of antique binding.Of course an old schoolmaster\u2019s library should be rich in editions of the classics.This library is so, but specially in the more generally serviceable series of translations from them.Among original editions of famous books are several volumes of early issue of Tennyson, Boyle\u2019s edition of the \u201cPhal- aris Letters,\u201d which embroiled him with Bentley, Adolphu#\u2019 celebrated letters on the author of \u201cWaverley\u201d which opened the eves of the world before Constable\u2019s failure, a reproduction in fac simile of Downe\u2019s \u201cRescius Anglicanus.\u201d Of editions de luxe the library furaished & few specimens such as Lowe\u2019s editions of Doran\u2019s Stage and Colly Cibber\u2019s Apology, with beautifully executed eu- raving, mezzo tints and etchings of the amous actresses that flourished at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, There are of course several bcoks tied up in lots that are to be found in garrets and dark cupboards elsewhere, but the library as a whole struck us as individual and representative.\u201c Montserrat \u201d Lime-Fruit Juice is the Standard summer drink throughout England, and is delightfully cool and refreshing.This is the original and only Strauss orchestra.Explosion of a Locomotive Boller, East St, Louis, Ill, Sept.14.\u2014Yester- day afternoon the boiler of switch engine No.9, of the St.Louis, Kansas City & Colorado Road, burst.Engineer Barrett and fireman Doughenay were killed.FLASHED UNDER THE SEA, TOPICS THAT ARE INTERESTING THE ENGLISH GOSSIPS.The Southampton Strike\u2014Meeting of London Dockers\u2014Disorderly Soldiers and Indignant Farmers\u2014The Law Down on Kevol- ver Shooting\u2014* Scuttling,\u201d a Revival of The Ancestral ¢ Bersuk.\u201d LoxpoN, Sept.14.\u2014The situation at Southampton is chaotic, the various bodies of strikers being at loggerheads, and peither workmen, employees nor the public being able to prophesy to what extent work will be resumed tomorrow.At an immense mesting to-day of the striking seamen and firemen it was decided that if their latest demands are not agreed to by noon to-morrow they will abandon the port in a body, leaving numerous vessels without crew.There are a good many members of these unions, however, who are dissatisfied with the meagreness of the amount paid them by the unions during idleness and who therefore favor a return to work on tbe condition proposed by the owners, It is possible that these malcontents may be strong enough to defeat the practical carrying out of the resolution adopted at to-day\u2019s meeting.Jobn Burns will go to Southampton again to-morrow.There was & meeting of 10,000 dockers in London to-day to consider the Southampton situation.Tom Mann and Ben Tillett denounced the ship owners, and declared that the men had ample cause for dissatisfaction but regretted that they bad acted without authority in a manner which embarrassed the responsible heads of organized labor throughout the Kingdom.The meeting also considered the Australian situation, and adopted resolutions pledging continued assistance to the strikers im that country.The national encampment for rifle shooting at Bisley has been marked by a disgraceful series of outrages committed by the soldiers upon the country people in the vicinity.The farmers bave been obliged at last to band together for mutual protaction, and a constant feud is the result.Affrays are frequent and the condition of affairs is so scandalous, that governmental interference can hardly, with safety, be much longer withheld.Attention was recently called in these despatches to the alarming increase in the use of the revolver in this country.As a result of this tendency the Home Secretary has permittad the execution of a man convictzd of murder, although the jury added to their verdict anexpression to the efiect that they did not think the convict had intended fo kill his victim- Francois Marteau, a Belgian, was the murderer end the crime had no peculiar feature about it, for unhappily the recklessness of the pistol has lataly not been peculiar in England, It was the general opinion that the prisoner's lifo world be spared, but the authorities answered the appeal for mercy with the statement that having regard to the dangerous extent which the practice of using revolvers prevailed at the present time it was absolutsly neccssary to make an example, Another dangerous practicsa and a novel one is known as \u201c\u2018\u2018ecuttling.\u201d It is really running amuck\u2014a phenomenon which was supposed to have been confined to the Malays of the east.Recently, however, there have been frequent instances in London and other towns until the public are thoroughly alarmed.The \u201cscuttler\u201d runs amuck in a crowd stabbing rightaud left, heedless #3 to whom his victims may be.There is tallz of petitioning Parliament to punish scuttling with the lash, as was done when garroting assumed an epidemic form in the large cities, A Brutal Outrage in Ireland.DusuIN, Sept.14.\u2014A well-to-do resident of Ballingary, named McGrath, has been brutally murdered by miners, who were incensed because of his having given shelter to evictsd fermers with whom they had quarreled.The Italian Finance Minister Resigns, Rome, Sept.14.\u2014Doda, minister of finance, has resigned.He was recently present at a banquet where a toast to the Irredentists was drunk, The newspayers commented so severely upon this fact that the minister felt it his duty to relieve the Government of embarrassment in the matter by retiring from the cani- uet.rr Mr, Blakely was five years trying to get Strauss to come to America, me & ASIATIC CHOLERA IN OHIO, Typhoid and Other Evidences of Unsanitary Surroundings, CARROLLTON, U., Sent, 13,\u2014An epidemic Las been raging in the eastern part of this county for the past week, and many deaths bave resulted.On Wednesday six deaths occurred.It was claimed by some to be typhoid fever.Yesterday Dr.Williams was called to the house of John Tool, who lives in Washington Township, who was taken ill that morning.He died at 4 o'clock of cholera, after intense spasms and frequent fits of vomiting, purging and otber symptoms of that dreadful disease.Dr.Williams pronounces it a it a genuine case of Asiatic cholera.\u2014\u2014\u2014 To-day is the only opportunity of hearing Strauss.Distress of Dakota Farmers, Sr.Pau, Minn,, Sept.14.\u2014Reports received last night from Ellendale and neighboring points show almost a total crop failure throughout Spink County, N.D.,and a situation far worse thau that of 1889 .Farmers have mortgazed and their credit is exhausted with local merchants.It isfeared it will be impossible to purchase necessary fuel this winter.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Don't miss hearing the world-renowned Strauss.Cyclone in Vermont, CuErsza, Vt., Sept.14\u2014A cyclone passed over Vershire on Saturday evening, unroofing barns and completely ruining several fruit and sugar orchards.The highways are closed by fallen trees.TOPICS FROM THE CAPITAL.Matters Ecclesiastical \u2014 Whooping Up the Babamas\u2014Mr, Bronson\u2019s Appointment, OTTAWA, Sept.14,\u2014Archbishop Duhamel, accompanied by Vicar - General Routhier » starts to-morrow for Rome.At St.Bridget\u2019s Church to-day, Rev.Mec- Govern took farewell of his congregation, and explained that it was at his own request that the Archbishop was transferring him to a country parish.Itis stated that the St.Bridget's parish will be placed in charge of the Jesuit Fathers.8ir Ambrose Shea, Governor of the Biha- mas, is here.He will ask the Dominion Government to allow the Canadian mail steamers on the Halifax-Jamaica line to call at his colony.He speaks iu glowing terms of the great development of their s sal industry there, Their sisal is fast bccoming a rival of Manilla fibre in the Eurapean markets.When he reached the Bahamas hediscovered the plant growing in a indigenous state.Since then he has brought it before the attention of eapitalists who are repldly setting out extensive plantations for the cuitivation of this natural fibre.His Government is talking of laying a cable between Florida and the Bahamas.Regarding Mr.Bronson\u2019s appointment to the Ontario Cabinet without portfolio, The Evening Journal, (Independent), says: As a thorough-going suppotier of Mr.Mowat, an overwhelining victory in the recent elections, a man of high persona! repute and a representative of one of the greatest business interests of the Province, Mr.Bronson simply deserves the honor of a seat in the present On- tarioCabinet.From a party point of view, no choice could reflect more eredit on the ad- minis.ration, as the seat is without portfolio.Mr.Bronson\u2019s personol attention to departmental details will not be nesded nor pros longed residence in Toronto necessary, Its more than likely, however, that in the next Cabinet change he may be drawn into more active Government work, No one could better fill the bill either as Provincial Treasurer or Commissioner of CrownL ands.Hon.Mr.Geo, E.Foster, Minister of Finance.in an interview admits that the Mc- Kinley Tariff Bill will seriously affect trade beiween the two countries, but he takes hope and sees the brightest prospect for the development of new outlets in other quarters, He instances the West Indies and England as the markets Canada wlll have to cultivate, when Canada will form an aggressive rival of the United States._\u2014 A MOURNFUL SOLEMNITY.The Remains of Ericsson Received in his Native Land, SrockHoLM, Sept.14.\u2014The body of Ericsson was removed from TU.S.8.Baltimore to-day and conveyed ashore in a royal barge, which was plainly draped in black.Upon landing the casket was carried by sailors of the Baltimore to the pavilion specially erected to receive it.The Governor of Stockholm received the body.After the formal remarks attending the transfer the body was attended by an enormous proc:gsion to the railway station.The cortege was headed by the official representatives of the King, the Crown Prince,the American ministers to Sweden and Denmark, the officers of the Baltimore, bodies of infantry and cavalry, and many distinguished Swedish officials and citizens.At the station the body was placed in an elaborately draped carriage and conveyed by special train to Flitstad, near the great en- gireer\u2019s birth place, Here the body will lie in state until the public funeral and interment, It is estimatsd that 100,000 people witneseed the transit of the body from the B-ltimore to the railway station.Minute guns were fired by the above forts and the Baltimore guns while the body was being landed.Admiral Peyton, head of Swedish navy, {was in command of the funeral barge and accepted the body \u2018for conveyance ashore.The harbor was a mass of flags, vessels of all nations doing honor to the dead.The quays ar:l the streets leading to the railway station were thronged with penple who uncovered their heads and maintained & most respectful demeanor.To-morrow and Tuesday the Baltimore officera will be entertained at official banquets and receive other honors at the hands of the repreeentatives of the grateful paople.On every side praise of the American people and Government is heard.On Wednesday the officera of the Baltimore will dine wita the King at the Royal Palace, in Drothningholm.The Water Tax Dispute, The water tax question is now in à fair Way to become notorious, The Trades and Labor Council hss taken the initiative in the matter, and bas instructed its counsel ae all the legal proceedings necessary, so\"that any attempt of the city to eut off the water may be successfully resisted if made.Messrs.Barnard & Doherty have served on the city two distinct petitions, returnable on Monday next, one in the name of Mr.Urbain Lafontaine, thelpresident of the Dominion Labor Congress, and the other in the name of Mr.AT.Lepine, M.P.\u2018The fcourt is asked by the first petition to declare the assessment roll null, and by the second the validity of the by-law itself is questioned.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Thousands who have heard Strauss say they would not have missed it for any money.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Personal Mention.E.D.Ingall, C.E., of Ottawa, is at the Hall, Hon.Mr.Boyer leaves this week for Europe.Judge Tessier, of Quebec, is a guest atthe Windsor.G.Eug.Dubray, M.D., of Paris, France, is quartered at the Kiendeau.Signor Henri Kibbe,of Rome, Italy, is a guest at St.Lawrence Hall.Rev.Canon and Mrs, Feigie, of Wigan, England, are stopping at the Windsor.Mr.Josiah Wood, M.P, {cr Westmoreland N.B,, arrived at the Windsor on Saturday.Messrs.B.J.de Rivignay and B, de Riche: mont, of Paris, are stopping at the Windsor, Lietu-Col._and Mrs, Moore, of Charlottetown, P.E.I., were at the Windsor Saturday.A Raymond & Whitcomb excursion party numbering forty-six arrived at the Windsor on Saturday.Mr.Grabam Frazer, of New Glasgow, N.8,, manager of the Nova Scotia Forge and Steel Company is stopping at the Winasor, Messrs J Slatery, of Webster, Mass.; James Crowan, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Frank Park, of Minneapolis, and twenty-five members of the Conried Opera Company are gues:s of the Richelieu.The arrivals at the Hall yesterday included Waiter J Lamb.manager, John J Rofface, Miss Bettina Padelford and Miss Ida R Fitz- bugh, of Conried\u2019s Comic Opera Company, which will appear at the Academy this week, The following are among the prominent arrivals at the Riendeau: Messrs RA Trudeau, of Drummondville; J R Plonboster, of Main- ville; Chas J Slattery, of Webster, Mass; E Giroux, of Quebec; H A McCollum, of Halifax; 8 Cote, of Sorel; Rev Mr Lindsay, of St Albaps; Mr Constantine and wife, of Califor- via, and Mr J McNeil and wife, of New York.Among the latest arrivals at the St Lawrence Hall are Messrs Theo Hame!,of Quebec; James Dunn, of Chicago: L Cuguat, of Paris, France; RJ Tyre, of London, Eng; H A Kib- be, of London, Eng; A Bowman, St Leon Springs; Rev E C Puget, Indiana; Dr Thor- burn, Toronto; Mr F W Halis and wife, Charlottetown, P EI; Mr Lawrence Lynch and wife, of Quebec; Mr and Mrs de Lery, of St Francis Beauce; Mr H G Miller, London,Eng, and Mr Telford Burnham and family, of Chicago.e\u2014\u2014 The price may appear high, but it is worth the morey to hear Strauss and his world-renowned orchestra.tlm BIRTHS.McLEA.\u2014On the 14th inst., at 308 Peei-street, the wife of Robert Paton McLea, of a son.CHANCES OF FREER TRADE INTERVIEWS ON THE SUBJECT WITH U.8: REPRESENTATIVES, Sounding the Views of the Legislators-\u2014-The Reciprocity Motions\u2014Majority in Their Favor\u2014Very Few Direct Opponents\u2014 Some Out-And-Out Free Traders\u2014Tabu- lated Interviews.PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept.13.\u2014 The Press publishes interviews with 138 members of the House on the subject of reciprocity.The result shows that a reciprocity amendment to the tariff bill would pass the House to-day by an overwhelming majority.In reviewing the forecast the Press says: The amendment already passed by the Senate has many supporters in tha House, and only a very small minority openly oppose it, and a few are undecided.The Democrats who almost unitedly praised Blaine\u2019s reciprocity plan when they believed it would create a wide breach in the Republican party, mestly still favor it for the sake of consistency.Their guns sre spiked.The situation is a remarkably trying one for them.Speaker Reed, and Chairman McKinley, Mr.Bayne of the ways and means committees, who wil represent thefHouse in the conference committee, naturally do not wish to go on record in tbe Press before hand.It is an opon secret in Washington, that all of them are opposed to the reciprocity amendment.They rejected it five months ago when Secretary Blaine first urged its incorporation in the tariff bill and they still speak lightly of it.But out of 101 other Republicans interviewed, only 3 avowed themselves antagonistic to reci- proeity.Of 38 Democrats, 25 favor it while only 7 oppose it, 5 of whom voiced their conviction in opposition to any mcvement in that direction short of ubiversal reciprocity, or absc- lute free trade.The multiplicity of plans proposed for the inauguration of reciprocal relations with American na- tiozs, and the lack of time and opportunity to digest the propcsitions contained in them, led 12 Republicans out of the total number to expressdoub!s in a general way, as to the practicability of the measure.These Republicans, with three Democrats, are open to conviction, their daubts beinglargely the result of lack of opportunity to acquire information, or founded upon tbe unpleasant experiences 1n the past with one-sided Cana- dianr eciprocal alliances.The following summary of the result of interviews presents the situation in & tabulated form: Republican interviews101 Democratic, 40.Republicans who favor reciprocity in some shape, 77.Democrats who favor reciprocity in some shape, 29.Republicans who doubt its practicability, 15.Democrats who doubt its practicability, 3.Republicans who oppose it, 3.Democrats who oppose it, 7._\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THMODEFECTIVE SWITCH ONCE MORE, .The Sleepers Have a Rather Startling Waking Up.St.Louis, Mo., Sept, 14.\u2014The Kansas City express on the Missouri Pacific railroad which left the union depot at 9 o'clock last night was wrecked by a defective switch at Glencoe and it was mic- night before the railroad authorities here were notified of the disaster.The forward part of the train pessed the switch in safety, but one coach and the St.Joseph sleeper \u201cO3aze\u201d and the Wichita sleeper \u201cHavana\u201d left the track.The coach and sleeper \u201cOsage\u201d rolled down a small embankment.There were twenty people injured; six seriovsly.A relief train left this city at midnight and \u2018returned at 3 o'clock in the morniog with tbe injured.The Mortons were conveyed to their homes and the others to the Missouri Pacific Hcmpital.One hundred passengers h d a very narrow escape from a horrible death.ee Strauss will play the beautiful Blue Danube Waltz as an encore, St.Patrick\u2019s T.A, and B, Soclety.The monthly meeting of this society which was held yesterday afternoon, was very large'y attended.Hon.Senator Murphy oc- crpied the chair and Mr.J.J.Costigan was in his usual place as sccrelary.The pledge was administered toa large number, seven of whom became members of the socieiy.Considerable routine business was transac:cd.The special business before the meeiing was the \u2018orthcoming centenary of the Rav, Father Matthew.Addresses were made on the sub- ect by the hon.chairman, Rev.J, A.McCal- len and Mr.Costigan.The event is vo be cel- ebra ed under the auspices of the Irish Catholic Temperance Convention, and will comprise a grand religious demonstration and a grand social in the Queen's Hall.A special meeting of the s\u2019 ciety will be held in their ha'l next Friday evening, which will also be a social meeting, All irfends of the society and the cause of temperance will be made welcome at this meeting.\u2014#\u2014 À Strauss waltz by Strauss and his orchestra is a delicious dream.The 8, S.Barcelona Ashore.Quesco, Sept.13\u2014The pilot of the S, 8: Cholmiey, from Sydney, C, B.,which arrived here this evening, reports the 8, 8.Barcelona, of the Thompson Line,from Middlesboro for Quebec with a cargo of railway iron, ashore at Red Island about 150 miles below Quebec and opposite the Saguenay River, having ran ashore last night in a dense fog.There being no telegraphic communication with Red Island no particulars have yet been learned.Surely not one lady in Montreal will miss this opportunity of hearing the King of the Ze To Relieve the Money Market, New York, Sept.14.\u2014Secretary Win- dom announced to-day that he would purchase $16,000,000 of 4 per cent.bonds and prepay interest on between $50,000,- 000 and $60,000,000 of six per ceats, in order to relieve the stringency in the rooney market.The order will be issued from Washington.Strauss has composed the Telephone and Phonograph Waltz and will play them as encores.eee A Defaulting Health Officer, PHILADELPHIA, Sept.14.\u2014Lewis J.Young, clerk to the Health Offic>r, is a defaulter to the amount of $1,700 and has fled.A further examination of his books may increase this amount.Itis believed that Young's relatives will make good the amount taken.DUNLOP\u2019S CABLE NEWS AGENCY.1 i A Faking Correspondent Dishes up some Ridiculous Nonsensical Trash.In several American papers on Saturday , morning there appearcd à dispatch dated from this city.which tells a most ridieulous | story in connection with the visit of Prince George.The New York World report commences by referring to the Prince and his British pluck and states that while passing the corner of 8t.Constant and Lagauchetiere-sireets, on Wednesday night, he and one of his lieutenants and a rich Montreal gentleman \u2018 were accosted by a number of rufBans, who asked for money.Before they had time to comply with the request the Prince and his friends were attacked.Just how it happened is not known, but in a moment the.rince and his friends were engaged in a rough-and-tumble fight with six of their assailants, The Montreal gentleman was soon disposed of, and for a few moments things looked badly for the Prince and the officer.Six to two are big odds, but the Prince and the Lieutenant got back to back, and handling their fists with true Britisu pugilistic skill treated the roughs to a sur- price.Three of them fell before the scientific itting of Royalty alone, while the officer dexpatched two and the other took to flight.\u201d Then follows a description of the arrest of the Prince and his friends by two policemen who took them as prisoners to No.1 station where no protests or requests could obtain their release until the sergeant telephoned for Chief Hughes.When the Chief arrived he recognized the gentlemen and at (nea re- jeascd them.The dispatch is headed * Dun- lope Cable Service.\u201d t is hardly necessary to say that upon en- uiries being made last night it was; found that the story was a \u2018 take\u201d of the worst kind made out of whole cloth.Chief Hughes when spoken to by The Herald reporter stated that the whole story was a lle from beginning to end and that not even were any sailors arrested on that night which might have given 1ise to such a report.\u2014\u2014\u2014 ROBBED HIS EMPLOYER.A Herald Reporter the Means of Wringing & Confession from aPilfering Salesman.Some four years ago à prominent clothier of this city took into his employ a young man whose parerits he had known for years.From a message boy he advanced him until he became his head clerk, which was some twelve months since.Having the utmost confidence in his protege he entrusted him with full charge of his books and cash, in fact he thought it not necessary to come to his store until a late hour in the morning.Matters ran along smoothly for his clerkship, who some few months ago married an estimable young lady.Rumors, however, reached his employer's ears a few weeks since that there was a mouse in the meal tub,\u201d andthat he shou!d ve on the alert This put him on his guard and he saw his rolls of cloth disappear without proper cash returns.Yet his confidence in his employee was nnshaken until Frida) last, when by the advice of sriends he \u201cput up a job\u201d on this festive youth, giving a roll of marknd biils and silver dollars toa Herald reporter, who hed agreed to act the part of a detective, The knight of the pencil at an early hour in themorning stepped Into the store and informed the salesman he was hurrying to catch the Boston train, but wanted a few aids of serge provided it could e fixed s0 that no duty would be imposed.This threw the thief off his guard; 2} yards of serge were bought and paid for with nine marked dollars, and the purchaser took his departure.The purchaser cloth was leit at a friend and a few hours later when the merchant was informed of the result he could hardly believe that the boy he had raiscd could be a thief.1t was, however, too fully proved.Matters ran along until night, when no meney was turned in for the cloth.No eatries were made and the clerk started to depart.The boss, however, cornered aim; he acknowledged the theft took the marked money from his vest pocket, and remarked, * 1 suspected all along to-day that this was a put up job.\u201d Tears, etc., were in vain to restore confidence with his employer, and he then acknowledged that for tie past year he had been carrying on this means of enlarging his exchequer; in fact that he had taken and spent large sums of money.No arrest has yet been made owing to the fact that his father and other relatives have agreed to make good the stealings of the erring youth.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Jottings About Town.At 12,05 yesterday morning, a f lse alarm \u2018was rung in from box 25, corner of Dorchester and German-streets The alarm from box 314 at 7.12 p.m.yester- dry, was caused by fire breaking out in the store of Messrs.Ecremeut & Co., 1659 Notre Dame-street.Damage slight.On Saturday evening Datective Carpenter arrested one Hormisdas Ethier, a shoemaker charged with siealing a suit of clothes valued at $20 from 312 St.Lawrence-st'eet.Ata moeting of the Maisonneuve Munici pal Council, Mr.J.Emile Vauier was selected as civil engineer and supcrintendent of the public works about to be erected there.The people of Lachine will soon have their water supply through the new aqueduct.The norikern portion of the town is now supplied and the other portion 1s nearly completed.The visiting governors tor the present week to the Protestant House of Industry and Refuge, and to the Home at Longue Pointe, are Messrs David Motrice and A T Paterson.On Saturday morning James Williams, a sailor on the \u201cCircassian,\u201d fell from the deck of that steamer on to a barge, He was seriously injured, and taken in the ambulance to the Generai Hospital.Armed with a warrant from the Police Court, Deteclive Malo on Saturday night arrested and brought to headquarters, G.A.McGregor, a clerk, charged with embezzie- ment irom his employers.The a'arm from box 123, at 1.23 yesterday morning brought the fire lads to Mrs.Nor- mandin\u2019s store.Lagaucheiiere-street, where they quickly extinguished a blaze in a bundle of straw.No damage.It is said that the Provincial Government will bid on the Ritchie farm at St, Anne de la Parade which is to be sold at sheriffs sale today, for the purpose of converting it into a model farm.It is said the farm is worth $10,000.The following is the statement of the Protest House of Industry and Refuge for the week ending Sept.13, 1890 :\u2014Number of permanent inmates at country house, males, 70; females, 49; total 119.Corresponding number last Jear, males, 65; females, 51; total 116, Number of night lodgings given in Night Refuge, 213; last year 165.: An action has been takea against the Montreal Street Railway by Mr 6.G.Martineau for 82 damages.He claims $1 exemplary damages and $1 real damages.The alleged cause of the action is on account of being compelled to change cars on St.Danis-street for no reason more than that the arrangements of the company are bad.Concerning the Work Done by English Yachts.BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept.14.\u2014A Londcn cable says ;\u2014The British yachting season isnow successfully closing, the contests having been of more interest than during recent years.The Thistle, Iverna, Valkyrie, and Yerana have raced at all the leading regattas and the result has been that the Thistle has secured in 40 matches 15 first and seven second prizes of a value of£ 1,015; the Iverna sailing 36 times, has 12 first and seven second prizes of a value of £8(9; the Valkyrie in 34 matches has three firs], eight second and one third, of a value of £320; the Yorana in forty matches has nine first and eight second prizes of a value of £675.The Iverna did but little in her matches, until her American centreboard was taken out, and then she proved herself the best yacht in English waters.Some new clipers \u201chave been ordered for next sea:on and, some valuable prizes are to be offered for all comers.Yachtmen are in hopes that some American boats will cross the Atlantic an enter for them.\u2014_\u2014 Raid on * Seaneries,\u201d Owing to complaints being received regarding the sale of liquors in common eating houses in the city, the Provincial Police d - termined to put a stop to such transactions and took action on Saturday night by making a descent on three \u201cEenaeries\u201d in the Wes End, resulting in the seizure ot liquor and beer.Actions will be immediately instituted against the offenders for selling liquor without a license.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 A Young Girl\u2019s Suicide, \u2018WINNIPEG, Sept.14.\u2014A young girl named MeEwen, aged 16, hanged herself at St.Fran cois Xavier, near this city on Saturday, dur: ing her uncle's absence in Winnipeg.The only reason for the rash act is her fatker\u2019s recent, marriage to which the girl objecte d.UNDERGRO D WEALTH.rymner SOME VAST DE = TS OF PETROLEUM 4 TAR.; Geological Survey in Athabaska\u2014Largest Petroleum Area in the World\u2014Thou- sands of Miles of Tar\u2014Government Recommended to Make a Few Test Borings \u2014Railway Ready for the Trade.\u2018WINNIPEG, Sept.14.\u2014R.G.McConnell, of the geological survey, who has been out inspecting reported petroleum fields in Athabasca district, has returned.While not prepared to make specific statements in advance of his report to the depsrt- ment, he yet made a general remark that it was quite probable that there was in Athabasca district petroleum area greater than any where else in the world.Along the river there are vast beds of sand about 250 feet thick saturated with tar, these cover thousands of miles and indicate that an almost incalculable amount of petroleum has in past years oozed out to the surface and evaporated, leaving the tar beds as they are.Where these beds dip below the newer rocks, when one gets down some distance, petroleum should be found.Mr.McConnell will recommend Government to expend $20,000 or $30,000 in sinking wells, he is quite confident it is there.It is probable tbat in time the tar can be put to some commercial use for pavements or mixed with lignite for fuel.It will not be difficult to get the petroleum to tbe markets of the world, as the Calgary and Edmonton railway upon its completion will be within eighty miles of Athabasca River.The river ia lined with stunted fir trees,and the country is one vast muskeg.Its only inhabitants are Indians.Some of them cultivate few a potatoes and.other roots, which seem to grow well.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 TOO MUCH FIRE WATER.Three Indions Cut Down by an Express Train from Suspension Bridge.NrAGARA Faris, Ont., Sept.14.\u2014Three Indians from Tuscorora reservation,near Lewiston, N.Y,, while walking on N.Y.C.track on their way home was struck by the Rochester express leaving Suspension Bridge at 7.10 p.m., two of them named Peter Smith and Jos Harris were badly hurt.Smith had his righ leg cut off below the knee and his jaw broken and ecalp almost torn off.Harris bad bis left leg cut off, skull fractur ed neither of them expected to recover, being bedly injured internally.They were brought to Suspansioa Bridge and cared fcr by Dr.Talbot.The third man escaped injury and hes been arrested.The three were seen around the villaza during the affarnoon and were intoxicated,and being noisy were ordered home by the chief constable.They were seen staggering upthe New York Central track holding each others\u2019 arms.rr _ AN ABJECT SUBM ISSION.New York CentralStrikers Applying for Reinstatement.Axrsaxy, N.Y., Sept, 13.\u2014Owing to the outbresk at th» strike:s\u2019 meetirg last night, fifty-three of the old employees o the Central applied this morning, in person, at Assistant Superintendent Harrington's office, while over one bundred appeared at the Albary yards aud ships and asked to be taken back.Al; were told to meke application for reinstatement in writing, which, when handed in, would: be placed on file and considered whenever the officers of the road foupd it necessary to employ a man.None were taken back off hand, and all will go back at the Company's terms.The executive board of district assembly 246, bas voluntarily came forward and asked the Company to take the men back, ee No matter whether you know one note of music from another or not, hear Strauss.acd he will make you dance.CE Grocer\u2019s Shop Burnt Ont.Guæurn, Ont, Sept.13.\u2014Fire was discovered early this morning iu the tea and coffee store, Hearn\u2019s block, St.George\u2019s-square.The proprietor lives over the store, and the family escapad through the skylight to the roof with only their night clothes on.The flames were confined to the one store but not an article was saved, Loss on stock, fixtures, and furniture, about $4,000; in- suracce on building $500.Sudden Death, Exzgrer, Ont., Sept.13.\u2014The sudden death occurred here this morning early of James Oke, one of the most extensive cattle dealers in Western Ontario and a member of the town council.Apoplexy was the cause of death.Mr.Oke was fifty-one years of age.\u2014\u2014>\u2014