Driven Out By Flood

I oronto, March 15.- Dispatches fron western Ontario teil of the overflow Oi the Grand and Thames rivera, causinü serious damage along the valleys. Sections of London, Brandford and Galt are compïetely submerged to a deptt of from 5 to 7 feet. In London 1,500 peopie are homeless, having been driven from their homes. Buildings anc bridges were swept away by the rush ing torrent. In Brantford firemen ana citizens fought the raging waters al. of yesterday, but were finally beateL out. West Brantford is a regular lake. At Galt a heavy loss was sustained bj the business peopie. The ice jam is the Grand River gave way and thi flood following it tore away bridges trees and wrecked a number of facto ríes and private residences. Kngland Has a Hand in It. Loncion, March 15.- Ir the house oi commons today the parliamentary secretary for the foreign office, Mr. Curzon, replying to Michacl Davitt, antiParnellite, who asked the government whether Great Britain had offered to lend men-of-war to the United States in the event of a conflict between United States and a European power, said the government had not made such an offer. Answering a series of question which Mr. Davitt put with the view of eliciting whether there have been any negotiations for an alliance between Great Britain and the United States, ot whether Great Britain had offered to medíate in the Cuban crisis, Mr. Curzon said these questions were of such a nature that it was inexpedient to reply to thcm. Joliet Not Snhnirrjril. Joliet, 111.. March 15.- The report oi great floods and paris of this city having been submergéd by the overflowing of the Des Plaines are wholly untrue No part of the city is under vater, tht Des Plaines River has not exceeded its bouüds and is rapidly falling now. Barnato's Truator Sla-ln. Cape Town, March 15.- Wolf Joel, the nephew and trustee of the estáte of the late Barney Barnato, the South African millionaire, was shot and killed in his office this morning at Johannesburg, by a forraer soldier.