A Canadian Butcher

For some weeks a large number of employés have been engaged about White Uiver, Ont., in preparing the railroad track for the winter. Among this force was one Richard K. O'Brien, a handsoine voung fellow about !0 years of age. Wlion ne flrst went to White Hiver to work he met Mrs. Charles Williams, the wife of a country storekeepBr, and from his acquaintance he trespassed until he had worked up apparently a position in the family which only most intímate friends might attain. Living in the sanie family wita Mr. and Mrs. Charlea Williams woro the father and mother of the husband as well as threo small children of the wife. For the last six weeks YVilliams has -u-i. pected his wife of infidelity and laid a trap to catch her. Taking the train for Chapleau, Ont., he left word that he would bo absent over uight, but instead of going to his destination he took the return train from a way station and so arrived home in the night. Going to his house he found his wifo in company with O'Brien. He aimed a blow at the latter with a heavy stick. O'lirien quickly recovered himself, drew a revolver and shot Williams doad. The noise attacted the other occupants of the house, and toshieldhis crimo O'Brien shot the father as he was entering the room partially dresscd. Having no more cartridgos, as the old lady put in au appearance and screamed, startled by the eight of her husband lyiug woltering in his life'a blood, the murderer seizcd a heavy chair and struck a cruel blow which laid her senseless before him. To conclude the work he beat her until her head was reduced toa pulp with a heavy stick of stove wood procured from an adjoining room. Two of the three children were then disposed of with the same club which ended the existenee of the old lady. The little boy, the youngest and only 18 months old, was spared, ai he could bear no evidence against the murderer. The wretch then stabbed his paramour four timos about the región of the heart and then left her for dead. He then flred the house and left hurriedly. Attracted by the flames, nuighbors cameto the relief andsucceeded in removing the bodies of the killed and Mrs. Williams and the infant from the burning building. Mrs. Williams lived long enoug to make a statement of the afluir to the authorities and then expired. The ofticers of the law were quickly in search of the assassin, and he was arrested about '25 miles from the sceno of the tragedy. He denied the crime, and claims to be able to prove an alibi. There are. however, many eircuinstances against hin; A Canadian Byndirate. In spite of the denials by the Interior department of the statements made by Col. Platt H. Walker of Minnesota, of a Canadiau Byudicate'a acquisitio f tbe vaiuable pine Innds 'witlijn the India reservatiou of northern Minnesota, tb ose who are in a position to fcnow assi-rt positively that such a syndicale exists and that it luis alrendy a f'irm hold pon enormuus tráete of tlmber land In tho nor tb west. A Canndtan gentleman now in Washington, wbo claims to be intcrested in tlie syndiento, saiii thnt it wa )iroposed to employ several thousand Canadian woodmen to cloar ofT the pino from tanda possessed by them and over which thuy have control in Minnesota, and to saw logs iuto luuiber for the American niarket Tlio Idea lio admitted had some political significance. Thr syndirate owns, he said, a vost tract of Canndiau timber land. The Canadian government imposes a duty of $2 a thousaud fcet on logs and the American government tnxo sawed lumber so that the proflts to Canndian lunibernien are "sawed olT" ench way. The new company proposes to Herir tbö !'inls nnder its control as rnpidly as possible in order that the sentiment in relatiOD to free lumber may grow moro rapiJly. Then whtn the necessary legislatioo is secured through congress Canndian lunil'or will be run in to compete with the Auiorioan product. The Canadian oyndlcata will be representad in Wiishington this winter. Sixty Lives Lolt. Th terrible gale that ragod vitb unalaleJ fury for three days lust week wat ono of tbo most disastrous Ltorm3 th:it has iwepC tb.J am for many yoara Thirtytll vesseli either foundered or were iliiv en aihore, sud there are eteral vessels that are miailog. Kleven Inv con? to piece-i or been tmrU'd be j oud reeovery, and it is believeJ thatquile a numbei tbat arencwon thd beach will prove s total loss. Th loss of lifeisappaling Forty seven per?orw are known to have perisbed and the crew of the unknown steam barge that went dowo oflT liurnham's pier bas not been heard (rom If they are lost the list will tie swelled to nearly sixty The loss is dollar and ceuts on nine of the eleven vessels ihm have gone to piecjs nggregate $133,000, liut the partial lossai will bring the amount up to fully {400.1W) This estixate II nat 90 large a som that have been printed. but is probablj' more accurate The aggregate tonnage I bat bas been wipsd out of existenee will oot exceed 6.00Ü toa. Hit Lnbnm Ended. The Hon. Charles Francls Adams, Jr., died at his home in Boston Nov. 21. Charles Francis Adams, son of the sixth, and grandson of the second President of tbe United States, and hiraself a man of national and international fanie. was born in Boston in 1S07. He spent ten years ia Kuroi e. with liis fntlier, graduateu at Harvard in 1S'5, studied law with Daniel Webster, was adinitted to the bar in 1S28, lut never praoticed. In lSSli lie married a daughter of Peter C. Brooks and hecame a brotnor inlaw of Edward Everett. He early entered apon a political oareer, which was more or lesr active for nearly half a centurv. He was plected to the state legislatnre of Mnssachusetts in 1S31, and served three terins in the House and two in the Senate. In 1S48 he was a candidato for vico-prosiJpDt with Martin ';ui Buren on the Fiee Soil ticket. The ticket rei-eived 'yi.(i:ï votes. Ín 1868 he was elefted to llie National House of Repiesentatives, ond in 1S('iO he warmly Buppoited Mr. Lincoln for tbe presidency. Ín líiM he was D]ioii(tel ly Presdent Lincoln .Minister tu Kng'iiinl. and rendered the country Inestimable service dming the critical pprioil Kiitorquent to t he Trent affair. He continneil ti liold the post of minister until .lime. IÉ&J, wben he was succeeded by Reverdy Jobuaon In is-71 be was tbe Diember for tbe United Stntes in the general tribunal to arbitrale the Alabama claims. Prior to tbe meeting of the Liberal ltepnblican convention at. Cincinnati in ]VJ. he was geneially regarded as the most probable nommee of tbat convention; and 011 the first balloCled Horace Greeley tifty six votes. receivingíOH to the latter'l 147. He was the leading candidnte up to tbe sixtb and last ballot, receivine before the cbanges in that ballot, whieh resnlted in Mr. Greeley's nomination, 334 to W. for Mr. Greeley. In 1S6 heaccepted tbe democratie nomination for CJovernor of Massachusetts. For sonw years be has. been suffeiing from lirain trouble arising from over work, and hií rleatb has been eipected. ______ A Dead Congressman. Hon. Joha Arnot of tbo 3Sth congressional district, New York, embracing Chemungj Schuyler. Senaca and Tompkina counties, is dead. Mr. Arnotrhas beeu ill íor several month past and tbe announcement of his death was consequently not much of a surprise to bis many friends at the nation.il capital. Mr. Arnot, jr., was born at Elmha, N. Y.. March 11. 1S(1; was educated at 1 private school; engaged in the banking business at Elmira ; was elocted president of the village of Elmira in 1859, '00, 'Gl and mayor in :si'4, '70 and '74; was elected to the isth congress. and waa was re-elected to the 4Uth congres as a democrat, the republican convention indorsing him ancl making no nomination, receiving 2S,0i)5 votes against !2,O44 votes for Thomas K. Beecher, greeubauker. Three Firemeu Were Killed. A flre broke out in Burroughs Bros.' drug warehouse in Kaltimore on the 17th inst, and the building was totally destroyed. While the üremun vr at work the truck of one of the ladder companies capsized and feil backward into the street. There were on it at the. time Capt. Marston, Charles L. Gruud, Frank Kerr and Henry Ryan. Capt. Marston caught on the edes of the roof of a two-story house adjoining and escaped serious injury. Örund, Ryan and Kerr feil with the ladder, which broke in its fall, and all are supposed to have their backs broken. Grund anJ Kerr are reported to have died sinci' and no hope for Ryan's recovery is had. ___ Strychnine for Armour. A small boy left a small package which purported to bo a sample of buckwheat at the door of Phil Armour s residence in Chicago, and requested th-.it it be given to the cook. Mr. Armour's butler suspected something wrong and ran after and caught the boy, who said he had been K'v(n the Ëackage by two men a short distance from Ir. Armoiir's house, añil liad pald him 25 cents to delivcr it. The package, which was put up very clum-lly and bore the mark of a uearby grocory, yas examined and found to containstryebnine. The boy wus immediately arrested, but the men have not yetbeen apprehended. Mooro ChosonCol. John Moore of the medical departinent of the arniy, bas been appointed surgeon general by the president to succeed Surgeon General Murry, rotired. Col. Moore, who is in San Francisco, has been directed to report at Washington immediately. ______ Xb runt' ÏThen yon visit or leave New York City, ■ave baggage, expressage, and $3 carriage hiro, nuil stop at the Gkamd Uniox Hotel, oppositie Grand Central Depot. 615 rooms, litted up at the cost of one million dollars, $1 and upwards per day. : Eurooean plan. Elevator. Restaurant ' supplied with the best. Horse cars, stages and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other 1 flrtt-cUas hotel In the city.