Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-12-09 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

OUTRAGE  IN MONTREAL.  The preliminary trial of Mercier, Pelland, and De Mart igny, tho young men who were recently arrested for attempting to blow no Nelson's Monu. ment in Montreal, commenced on Saturday, before Judge Des- oyers ; the Hon. H. Mercier, ex-Premier of Q ebec, and father of the first-named prisoner, conducting the case for the defence. The detective Lafontaine described how the arrest of the accused was effected,and in the course of his evidence stated that the prisoners appeared to treat the whole matter as a joke. An expert from the Hamilton Powder works testified that the bomb or cartridge carried by the prisoners would probably have only partially destroyed the monument. The policeman who assisted in the arrest of the prisoners was next examined, and stated that they appeared to be ignorant of the consequences which would result from the explosion. The case was eventually further adj ,urned until Saturday next. It transpired in the course of the day that the son of the chief of police in this city was also arrested in connection with the attempt, but was subsequeetly released.  PLOT AGAINST THE BULGARIAN PRINGE The Vienna correspondent of the Daily News tele. graphs: I have just received a private telegram from Sofia stating that by mere chance, two days before Prince Alexander's funeral, a plot against Prince Ferdinand was discovered. A man named Ivanoff, once a lieutenant in the Bulgarian army, deserted three years ago from Rustchuk. He took service in the Russian army, and was persuaded into carrying out Bendereff's and Grujeff's plot. He had been provided with arms and money, but on his journey to Sofia a former comrade recognised him, and he escaped from the train at one of the last stations before Sofia. The gendarmes and peasants who followed him, across the fields after some hours captured him after he had fired a revolver at them. He has confessed that he meant to assassinate Prince Ferdinand during the ceremony of Prince Alexander's funeral, either in the street or in the church.  The authorities at Sofia give the following par. ticulars concerning the man lvanoff, who has been arrested on the charge of conspiracy against Prince Ferdinand and M. Stambouloff. lvanoff was a lieutenant in the Bulgarian Army, and was stationed at Rustschuk. A year ago, however, he abscomi, d from that place in the company of a woman of bad reputation, after having embezzled a sum of 3,000 f. He then wont to Russia,where he took service in the 30th Regiment. In that country he entertained relations with Bulgarian emigrants, who eventually persuaded him to go back to Bulgaria with the object of attempting to murder Prince Ferdinand and M. Stambouloff. Ivanoff consequently returned to Bulgaria in October last, where he assumed a false name. He arrived at an understanding with his younger broth .r, who was studying at a college in Sofia, and they together formed the plot to assassinate the Prince and his Minister. They found no opportunity to carry out their mention during the sojourn of the Court at Philippopolis, but both the brothers followed Prince Ferdinand on his return to Sofia, when, as already announced, the older Ivanoff was recognised in the train by a thriller ce;lleague and denounced to the police  int! Hon. John tioya,lieutenant Governor cf New Brunswick, died suddenly on Sunday night. tha deccased,who was appointed only two niciiths ago, was very popular among all classes of the mulation.  111. Georgevics, the Serviau Minister ;n Paris, who was recently stabbed by a man named Leo Lauthier while dining in a restaurant, has been declared by his doctor to be completely out of danger. One of the most eloquent preachers in the United States—the Rev. Chauncey Giles—uied recently at Philadelphia, in the 81st year of tie age. lie embraced the opinions of Emanuel Sweden l-): rg 40 years ago.  The stage cents which carries passencers at; d mails between the villages of Goldberg and I.oewmbeig, in Silesia, was attacked on Sunday by four sturdy tramps, who succeeded in breakin,s' open the lettesbcx and mabl:ar off with a sum .31680 make'.