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The evening times., 1899-08-08
GOOD FEELING MENAcED.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Criticised by a
Former Premier.

Former fTenIcTs
Ottawa, Ont, Aug. S.-Sir Mackenzie
Bowell former Premier of Canada and
leader of the conservative opposition in the
Senate, severely criticised. in speech in
the upper house, yesterday evening. Sir
Wilfrid Laurier's refusal to accept F. w.
Fitzpatrick invitation to attend with the
Governor General the laying of the corner
stone of Chicago's great postofice building
Sir Mackenzie characterized as childish the
Premier's alleged excuse of hostility TO
Canada on the part of the United States
press. He said:
THE interview is menace to good feel
ing 1t is of interest to every man in can
ada to know whother friendly relations De-
tween the United States and Canada are
likely to be interfered with. Language
such as that attributed to Sir Wiifrid Lau-
rier is undignified and unbecoming gen
tleman occupying the position he does. L
am very loath 10 believe the report is
| true IL it is not, it should be repudiated
at once.
THE idea of a Premier refusing an lnVl-
tation from people who may not agree with
us on the Alaska boundary question is so
| ridiculously absurd as to be quite unwor-
| thy the Premier of this country, and MS
giving advice of the character alleSeu 10
| the Governor General because OF certain
| newspaper criticisms is position difficult
! for me to comprehend"
| David Mills, leader of the government,
! treated the matter lightly, but admitted
/ he did not know whether the interview as
reported by Mr. Fitzpatrick was true or
| not.
| Sir Mackenzie Bowel retorted that when
| the Premier spoke he was supposed 10
speak for the people of Canada And the
! position taken by him in this matter.
added Sir Mackenzie. was petty and child
| ish." Mr. Mills then promised to obtain
J a statement from Sir Wilfrid Laurier and
| communicate it to the Senate.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
DROWNED IN A MILLRAcE.
Leroy Fleets Futile Effort to Save
His BROTHERS. Life.

Austin Fleet, colored. ten years old, was
drowned while bathing in the millrace
near Georgetown yesterday afternoon. The
dead boy and his brother set out to go
fishing and after angling for time they
decided to go in swimming. They took
off their clothes and plunged into the wa
ter The place where the boys went in is
very dangerous, having many deep holes
and a number of drownings have occurred
there. Leroy, the brother of the drowned
boy. is quite swimmer. but the other was
not. Austin was warned not to get beyond
his depth, when they first started out.
When some distance from the shore,
Austin was suddenly seized with cramps
and was unable to swim. Leroy was quick
to see his brothers plight and labored he
roically to save him from drowning, but
his efforts were in vain, and he was forced
to leave the boy in the water. The body
was recovered late in the afternoon by
Thomas Barber and Edward Foley
Acting Coroner Glazebrook was notified
and il is probable that will issue GER
! tificate of accidental death this afternoon.
The evening times., 1899-08-08

New York comes to the front today with
another of the unusually horrible crimes
that have been cropping out in the country
for several weeks. An unfortunate lunatic,
il is discovered, has been beaten and
tramped to death by four burly asylum at
tendants The coroner finds that the vic
TINS ribs were broken, his vital organs
ruptured, and his stomach and intestines
torn in fragments. The brutes believed TO
be guilty of the crime have been arrested,
but there is little chance that they can be
punished to the full extent of the law. 1t
is not the first time that madhouse MUIR
ders have been committed and we can
not recall a single execution as a conse-
quence of one.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
SAD MISHAP TO A SWIMMER.
Walter Duryea DisIccntes His Spine
While Diving.

OYSTER Bay. L. l., Aug. S.-Walter Dur
yea. son of Edgar Duryea, wealthy
starch manufacturer of Glen Cove, l. l.,
almost broke his neck while diving from
the Casino steps at the shore Sunday
morning, but it is hoped that he Will re-
cover.
With James Durland, also of Glen Cove.
he went to the Casino to take plunge.
Duryea. who weighs about $50 pounds and
is thirty-fve years old, dived from the
third step of the short Casino stairs into
about three feet of water. His head struck
the bottom with great force, and he was
hauled out apparently dead.
DR.. Fuller was summoned. and after az
examination shook his head grayely. Dur
yea recovered his full senses, but was
paralyzed from his chin down. He was
too badly injured to be taken TO his home
in Glen Cove, and he was carried TO the
Octagon Hotel, where his father and other
relatives were summoned by telegraph.
Dr. Bull, of New York. was also sent
| for He was at Newport, but his assist
| ants and two trained nurses arrived about
| the same time as the patients father
Henry and Lester Duryea were also pres
| ert.
consultation of the physicians result
ed in the statement that waiter Duryed
had suffered a partial dislocation of the
| spine. He is to be taken home in an AMI
| bulance on Tuesday morning, and ii IS
| thought that he will recover. His inju-
ries are similar to those received by the
| late Mrs William C. Whitney, when
| thrown from her horse.
| He is an only son, and his father is
/ much devoted to him. Young Duryea came
to this village Sunday, and was to have
gone home yesterday. He was formerly a
member of the Seventh Regiment, and be-
| longs to the Glen Cove Golf Club. Col
| Tram Duryea. of the Duryea Zouaves
is his uncle and H. B. Duryea is famous
\ as a yachtsman.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
MAY DIVERT A SALMON ROUTE.
Plans for Placing Obstacles Before
American Fishermen.

Vancouver. b. c.. Aug. S.-There is much
concern felt here over the fact that inter
national complications are liable TO arise
over the contemplated act of the Canadian
Government which proposes to prevent
Americans at Port Roberts from filing their
salmon fish traps, by diverting the run of
the salmon toward the nets in Canadian
waters. The salmon enter Mud Bay, B. c.,
close to the American line on their way
from the sea to the spawning grounds.
They swim around the bay and finding no
outlet follow the shore line in millions
straight into the American traps, giving the
Canadian nets the go by.
a farmer from Langley. B. c., suggested
TO the Canadian Government TO cut canal
from Mud Bay to Frasier, and close up the
other outlet thereby losing to Port Roberts
Gamers millions of dollars per year 1t is
reported the government will construct the
canal at once Americans at Port Roberts
are much alarmed.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
FIRE IN FEDERALsBURG.
Three Large Stores and Dwelling
Destroyed by the Flames


Denton, Nd, Aug. S--A destructive nre
visited the town of fredericksburg Car
oline county, Saturday about midnight,
destroying three large stores and one
dwelling. There is some doubt as to how
the fire originated, but the general lni-
preston prevails that lightning caused IT.
The fire was hrst discovered in the large
store building at The Point" which is
occupied by Edward E. Nuttle. the lead
ing merchant in the town. A little later
the announcement came that the store OF
Thomas H. Chambers was also on hre-
The two buildings were 300 yards apart,
and the belief gained. ground that the tele-
phone wire which went into both build
ings had set them on fire.
When Mr.. Nuttle got to his store and
in the main room. where the phone was
located. there was no fire in there. but IT
was confined TO the grocery room IN the
rear. The smoke was so dense and suHo-
eating that he was unable TO save any
thing and his large stock of general mer-
chandise, valued at s., 1000, was destroyed
He carried an insurance of $1,000 The
store property belonged 10 Mr.. Z. K. Cos
lin and was valued at s.. COO There is an
insurance on the building, but the amount
is not known.
dwelling belonging TO the estate OF
the late William S. Goslin near the store
building valued at $500 was burned.
Mr. Chambers carried stock OF goods
valued at 3.O0O which was partially in
sured The storehouse was valued at
81, 500. store building which at the time
was unoccupied. across the street from
Chambers store was burned, valued at
81, SEQ In the second story of this build
ing were the rooms of Nanticoke Lodge,
No. 172, A. F. and A. NJ. which lost all its
furniture and paraphernalia except magic
lantern recently purchased for the lodge
Two or three dwellings near the burned
stores were greatly damaged. but by per-
sistent work were saved from total de-
struction The town has no fire engine.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
The Pope,s Health.
From The London Chronicle }

kFIOm IIt LOlIuUH NIITOHICIt.J
The latest reports from Rome give an excel
lent account OF the health of the venerable Pom
tiff He has quite got over the effects of the
recent operation and though he stick
in walking, he carries il jauntily, and not as if
it were a necessity. One infirinity of age he cam
not escape, and that is insomnia. In his sleep.
less nights Leo NH gets up and works often till
dawn, generally at Latin verses. In spite of the
fact that he is always warmly clad this habit
not seldom results in slight cold, and provokes
expostulations from Pic CeEtra, his faithful
valet The sight of His Holiness is little i'm
paired, and he never uses glasses. Until last
winter the. private apartments in the Vatican
were warmed only by open CRATES, but at the
pressing instance of DIR. Lapponi the Pope has
allowed iron stoves to be installed in all the
rooms WHICH he occupies.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
The Irish of 1t.


A solemn looking Irishman entered a business
house the other day, and, walking up to one Of
the men employed on the lower floor, asked:
''Is dhere amy chanst fer mon [ get job
av wurrk here?''
81 don't know answered the man addressed;
s'you'll have to see Mr.. Hobart
"An' pfwere is hep asked the Irishman.
''Up on the second foor,'' the answer.
''Shall 0i walk up an talk t him?'' queried
the seeker for employment.
mo need of that" replied the man; ''iust
whistle in that tube and he'll speak to you,"
pointing at the same time to a speaking tube.
The old Irishman walked to the tube and
blew a mighty blast in it. Mr.. Hobart heard
the whistle, came to the tube, and enquired:
whats wanted down there?'
''Tis OIL Paddy Flynn answered the Irish
man. EAR we tn bos?"
81 am," replied Mr.. Hobart.
'swell, thin,' yelled Flynn, stick yer head ont
av tn second-sthory windy whole Oh step out
on tn soidewalk! Oi want to talk t YER
The evening times., 1899-08-08
Adventures of a Poet.
CFrom the Pail Mall Gazette.9-.

(frOm tne fall Malf
Here is true story Of a poet The poet was
travelling and had lost his luggage, which is a
natural thing to happen to a poet. Ultimately,
though poet he found it, and then the troublc
began. The authorities, since II was within the
British Isles could not do by him as they did
in Italy by another poet of my acquaintance
arrest him for having more money about him
than his appearance warranted. What they
could do they did; they refused to allow that the
baggage belonged TO him. Naturally, it Mas not
labelled; naturally, also he had got no keys to
any of his portmanteaus. However, he insisted
and at last offered TO give an inventory OF the
contents. "At the top" he said. "you will find
a manuscript poem, and 1 will tell you what is
in the poem" The statonmaster took him at
his word; and SO Limerick Junction sa@,- the
sight of a stationmaster holding a poets manu-
script and the poet endeavoring to recite It, The
script was Grabbed and full of alterations the
poets memory deficient, and considerable
period of time consumed before the station.
master was convinced that he had before him
not only poet, but poets portmanteau.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
DEPARTURE OF THE MARINES.
A Detachment Leaves washington
for Service I'm the Philippines.

A Detachment Leaves Washington
for Service I'm the Philippines.
A detachment of 140 marines left the
navy yard station of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at 8 o'clock this morning en- route
to the Philippines. The detachment was
under the command of First Lieut. r. F..
Wyne, of this city, and will become a
part of the Second Battalion OF Mar.n
under Major George F. Elliott.
There was some disappointment that the
detachment did not march dup <ennsylva-
MIA Avenue to the railroad station. Quite
number of the friends of the boys, many
of whom were recently recruited in this
city were early on the street and al the
depot to see them off and hearfthe martial
strains of the Marine Band, which, how
ever. did not escort the soldiers to the en-
trance of the navy yard tunnel, whence
they departed for San Francisco. 1t is said
that they will be stationed at Cavite when
they reach the Philippines.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
TO FURNISH SUPPLIES.
Local Merchants Awarded Contracts
by the Interior Department.

Local Merchants Awarded Contracts
by the Interior Department..
The following Washington bidders have
been awarded contracts for supplying the
Interior Department with stationery for
the fiscal year 1S99-1900: r. p. Andrews
G. Co., R. Carter Ballantyne, Blum Bros,
R. P Clarke & Co., Easton & Rupp Nit
tag & VoIger, e. Morrison Paper Co.. Geo.
F. Muth & Co., d. Frank Parker, John c.
Parker, The Norris Peters Co., Rudolph,
West & Co., Fred A. Schmid and William
/. Ticknor.
Miscellaneous supplies for the depart
ment: Robert Boyd, Blum Bros, Clark &
Davenport, c. R. Edmondston, Louis Har-
tig, Julius Lansburgh, Lansburgh n Bro,
James B. Lambie, Thomas S. Marshall, F.
p. May & Co.. w. B. Moses Son, George
F. Muth G. Co.. Office Furniture Company,
Rudolph, West & Co., Saks 4 Co.. Fred A.
Schnid, Edwards Stephens, j. 5. ToFham
and The Woodruff Manufacturing Com
Dany.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
AIN AGED MINISTER ASSAULTED
Brutal Treatment of Preacher by a
Hotel Manager.

Louisville, KY. Aug. S.-Pewee Valley,
near this city. is in high state of indig
nation over the assault on the Rev Doug
las Forest by A. Foreman, manager of the
village inn Mr.. Forest is in a critical
condition, and his physicians believe he
cannot recover, The assault is said to
have been without justification. The aged
minister is in delicate health, while Fore
man is a big man. The citizens of the
valley held an Indignation meeting last
night, and steps were taken toward the
prosecution of the innkeeper. The trouble
was caused by the minister deciding TO
change his place of residence. This anger
ed Foreman, who, it is alleged, attacked
the old man, knocking him down and
kicking him in the face and sides.
The evening times., 1899-08-08

The announced movement of British
troops to British Columbia, will of course
compel the War Department to re-enforce
our Alaskan boundary line, as the action
OF the English and Canadian authorities is
notoriously in that direction. This Gov
ernment cannot be too quick about meet
ing this new affront-for it is nothing short
of an affront, remembering how recently
we refrained from sending a military force
Foreign Office.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
An Ancient Yarn.

(From the Brooklyn Eagle.)
The same old yarn comes from England about
plants raised from seed found in the cases of
Egyptian mummes We have had wheat and
other agricultural products from those seeds,
and this time it is sweet peas. The flowers are
said to be of 1 delicate pink and white and
smsller than usual. The estimated age of the
seed is over 1000 years. This is probably plain
fib We have authentic instance of vitality
in seed of such age, and have many in
stances of lack of vitality in seed that the
florists work off on innocent Brooklynites, who
hope to beautify their lawns and gardens, al
though that seed is only four or five years old
and is sold last years Probably, the man
who said he found these sweet peas in mummy
case slyly substituted few of yearbefore lasts.
Sweet peas put up twenty centuries ago are not
likely to have much gimp in them-not much
more than the man they put up with.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
Some New French Maxims.
(From the Pail Mall Gazctte.)

To the growing list of the humors of the sf-
faire Dreyfus must be added the proverbisl
philosophy Of Major Bsterhazy, as expounded in
his advice TO his nephew Christian. 'Shirk mil
tary service and make "a rich marriage is the
essence of the ambition which is put before the
rising generation of French,aen by the officer
who embraced by Prince Henry OF Orleans
the embodiment OF the honor of the French
army. The major on matrimony is delightful
''In marriage" he Says, ''one of the two parties
is always taken in. You must try to be
the other party" Could La Roohefoucaud him.
self have turned out a neater bit of epigranl-
matte cynicism than that? Excellent, too, is the
majors ''When yon tell lie do not always stick
10 IT,
The evening times., 1899-08-08
A Pen Portrait of Tom Johnson
(From the Detroit Free Press

tFrom INC DeIfolt free PresS-I
Personally, Mr.. Johnson is expansionist and
still expanding. He is a single-taXer, with the
national adoption of that theory the remote
possibility of a distant future. He is free
trader enjoying the benefits of protection; he
trains with Pingree within certain limitations,
and he ne<er finds the party platform too wobby
10 stand upon without the aid of balancing
pole not even though the integral parts be
facile and slippery. As a campaigner he is
equally at home in bestowing magnetic bene-
diction conciliating a factiOus opposition, or
stirring the lethargc souls of in some
political Sleepy Hollow of the district.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
cuBA,s CENSUS SUPERVISORS.
senior Pedro PequenO Arrives nm
ReDOrfs to Mr. Wines.

Senior Pedro PequenO Arrives md
Reports to Mr.. Wines. 49,
Senior Pedro Pequeno, one Oh the super
visors of the Cuban census named by Cen
eral Brooke, arrived this morning in
Washington by rail from Tampa and re-
ported to Assistant Director Vines. Dr..
Wines took Senor Pequeno over to the
War Department and introduced him TO
Inspector General Sanger, who has been
named by the Secretary of War to repre-
sent that department in the census OF
Cuba.
The following is the order of General
Brooke under which Senior Peqdeno was
appointed Supervisor of Census for the
province of Pinar Del Rio:
Headquarters Division of Cuba,
Havana, July %, 1889.
The military governor of Cuba directs the pub
lcation of the following order: The following ap'
pointments hereby made OF supervisors oil cen
sls for the several provinces OF Cuba: For the
province of Pinar del Rio, Pedro Petplenoi prov
ince OF Matanzas, Prof. Claudio Dumas; province
OF Santa Clara, Juan Bantista Jimenez; province
OF Puerto Principe, Augustin H. AguJo, prov
ince of Santiago, Sabas- Meneses.
The supervisors of census, appointed by the pre-
ceding article will proceed TO Washington, d.
c.. and report to the Supervisor lDirectorl OF
Census in that city for instructions, Thursday
ADNAlR. cHAFFEE,
Brigadier General, Chief of Staff
The conference with the Secretary OF
| War, which was to have been held this
afternoon at the Census, Bureau, has beer
postponed on account OF the temporary
absence of the Secretary.
Senior Pegueno spent an hour, pr two al
the Census Office this morning discussing
| the census for Cuba. The senor'fs tall ant
very swarthy- He speaks English but moi
| freely, as he hesitates in selecting words
| He appears to be about fiftyrfive years Of
age He wears a thin mustache, which i!
almost white. He said to d Times report
er that he could not tell how long il woult
| take to gather the census 7rbut lit woult
| require much time as there were practi
| cally no railroad facilities outside thu
| province of Havana. Travelling in th'
| other provinces was difficult, he said.
Senor Pequeno and Augustin H. Aguer'
| are the only Cuban census supervisor
| who have arrived here.
The evening times., 1899-08-08

II is not life of sinful ease that Mr..
Root has taken up. in accepting the port
folio of war. He has the Philippines very
much on his hands, and China's contra,
band of war foolishness to bother him;
and then the revolution has broken cut in
Santo Domingo with much vigor. Its in
fiuence may spread among the Antilles in
a way to make more work for the War
Department, AS yet it is business for the
navy people, and lot OF them ought to
De attending 10 it.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
La LUCHA's EDITOR HERE.
A Rumor Thnt Americans Are NeEO-
tiating for the Havana Paper.

Senor Antonio S. Miguel. editor and
owner of La Lucha," the leading news
paper of Havana, Cuba, was in Washing
ton yesterday. Senor Miguel was shown
about the city by Senior Quesada, Cuban
Commissioner to the United States. and
left for New York on late train last
night.
Although the Havana editor was very
reticent about his visit, it is rumored Il at
he was here considering an offer of Amer
lean capitalists to buy La Lucha' and run
il in the interest of the Administration.
The evening times., 1899-08-08

above and be superior to the insidious at
tacks of their enemies. The arrows aimed
at their race will fall harmless at their
feet. They viii gain the sympathy OF all
thinking men and women, regardless OF
the accident of birth, and lose only what
they can well afford to part with-the as
sociation OF persons who do not like them.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
ARRIVALS FROM HAVANA.

The Steamer Mexico fn Port With
Sixty-efEht Passengers.
New York. Aug S.-The steamer Mexico
from Havana, August 5, with sixty-eight
passengers, arrived here this morning.
Among the passengers were Ricardo Ar
uanto. the manager, and A. Cervantes, the
assistant manager of the Cuban newspaper,
s'El Reconcentrado suppressed by Gener-
al Ludlow, the Governor of Havana.
1t is said on board of the Mexico that
these men were banished from Cuba by the
governor.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
MR.. GoULD's BIG MATCH DEAL
Agents of Rival Concern Buy Fis
Detroit Plant and Close Ii.

Agents of n Rival Concern Buy Els
Detroit Plant and Close Ii.
Detroit, Mich, Aug. S.-When Edwin
Gould bought the Continental Match Com
pany and announced that he was about
to close the Diamond Match Company, he
had an old factory to which he moved a
lot of machinery from his factories at
Kankakee, H., Ogdenburg, N. Y, and
Passaic, n. ]. He paid s35. 900 for the plant
and with his old and new machinery prob
ably invested $4,000 to 100000
Last week he came here and was quoted
as to what he was going to do to enlarge
the plant and boom business. Agents of
the Diamond Match Company came here
and agreed to pay. Mr.. Gould 100000 for
his factory. The deal was completed this
morning and the factory was closed.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
DELEGATES FROM COLONIES.
Names of Attendants mt the Interna-
tional Commercial Congress.

The State Department has been informed
that the delegates appointed by the gov
ernments of the Colonies of Victoria,
Queensland, New Zealand. and South Aus
traIia, to represent them at the Interna-
tional Commercial Congress to be held at
Philadelphia in October. are as follows:
Sir Andrew Clarke, Victoria; Miss
Clarke, his daughter; Miss Reeve, his
niece; Mr.. Berry, his secretary. Sir
Horace Tozer, Queensland Lady Tozer.
Hon. w. p. Reeves, New Zealand, Mrs.
Reeves. Hon. John a. Cockburn, South
Australia.
The evening times., 1899-08-08
Cautious Merchants.

A circular has been sent to very many clergy
men by wine firm, setting forth the merits OF
its wines and liquors, with prices by the case,
cts. The end of the circular reads: N. BIO
avoid suspicion every sent YOU will be
marked canned peaches -
The evening times., 1899-08-08
Rad Break.
tho JndiananoIis .Jourual,

(From tho Indianapolis Jourpal.)
81 do so hope you will scessrd. said the
motherly war1n-hearted landlady-
81 am bound to- said the sanguine young in
ventor; ''and when / do You won't me eat
ing in a place like this any more
Then, in realization of the utter impossibility
of fixing things, he grabbed his hat and fled.
The evening times., 1899-08-08

The fact that Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has
been appointed a justice OF the peace in
Sutherlandshire. an office he could not hold
unless he were British subject, leads to
the suspicion that We have another Astor
among the other fellows. Or is it that
Carnegie never became an American citi-
zen during his protracted and brilliant ca
reer in the States2