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We've had enough of the constitutional industry Making its first and only appearance in Quebec, the parliamentary committee heard a distinctly federalist message yesterday Sovereignists boycotted the committee's hearings, leaving it open to a group of known federalists Not even the Quebec government made a presentation, although Premier Robert Bourassa has met behind closed doors with the co-chairmen of the committee, Senator Gerald Beaudoin and MP Dorothy Dobbie Conseil du Patronat president Ghis-lain Dufour said staunch federalists like himself are going to need more punch to fend off sovereignists Dufour said Ottawa's 28-point constitutional proposals go farther than the Meech Lake accord but are still a long way from the provincial Liberals' demands for 22 powers as outlined in the Allaire report He said while he doesn't expect the 22 powers, Ottawa is going to have to concede more than just forestry, mines, recreation, housing and municipal affairs Dufour said it would help his cause if Ottawa added energy, regional development and family policy, an idea the committee didn't reject outright Beaudoin was optimistic about his committee's final report Even if English Canada desires to have a strong government in the center,
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with its roots in Cuban rhumba, has been Africa's most popular dance music since the 1950s The word soukous derives from the French secouer, to shake Tickets for Thursday night's 10 p.m. concert with Baaba Maal and Dande Lenol at Club Balattou cost $18 Call 499-9239 for more information Tickets for Loketo's performances at The Coconut on Friday and Sunday cost just $12 Call 282-1929 for more information on those two shows Still to come this summer, with the accent on international music: Montreal's annual jazz festival (June 29 - July 7) celebrates worldbeat in a big way this year The Contrast series at the Spectrum will highlight such major international stars as Fela Kuti from Nigeria, Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens from South Africa, Jamaica's Toots and The Maytals and Brazilian acts Joao Bosco and Repohlo The festival's free blowout this year, on Wednesday, July 3, will star the legendary Cuban expatriate Celia Cruz, plus Oscar D'Leon and other leading salsa exponents As the jazz festival swings into its second day,
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Many of the stevedores' offices, placed on the street for safety during the winter, have been upset and are liable to be crushed or carried off when the final rush takes place. The office and sheds of the R.K.O. Navigation Company at the foot of McGill Street have been demolished. AT LOCHUMDA. At Lochumda yesterday afternoon there had been no change for the past twenty-four hours, showing clearly that the jam existed above them. The channel was one mass of solid ice, the lake ice having come down and wedged itself between the surface ice and the bottom. Behind the rubber works a heavy mass of ice had grounded on the piers, leaving an open space of three or four acres below. The Canadian Pacific Railway track was unharmed, being at the lowest point four feet above water. However, every precaution was taken and men were set to watch the track and bridges. As a matter of precaution only the inside track was used. There was absolutely no change in the ice from 2 till 10 o'clock. RELIEFS OR RELIEF.
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Lead prosecutor Hickman Ewing claimed throughout the trial that Branscum and Hill deliberately broke the law to win favor with Clinton. Both men were appointed to influential state commissions after Clinton won the 1990 election. Defense and prosecution lawyers will meet Judge Susan Wright today to thrash out what instructions will be given to jurors, who will begin deliberations after closing arguments from both sides tomorrow morning. Swedish queen lashes out at kiddie porn REUTER STOCKHOLM - Queen Silvia launched a blistering attack on Swedish politicians yesterday for not taking firmer action against child pornography, surprising Sweden with the forcefulness of her comments. The queen, patron of the world's first congress against child sexual exploitation, to be held in Stockholm next month, said politicians should be compelled to watch at least one film depicting children forced into sexual acts. "This would force them to act urgently to change Sweden's constitution, which allows possession of child pornography," Queen Silvia said she has seen films found at the homes of Swedish pedophiles and was disgusted by the material. "It was the worst thing I have seen.
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Make sure children stay hydrated. The family pet is probably also feeling the heat. Don't forget to keep the water bowl filled. CANADIAN PRESS store only. At participating locations. FREE DELIVERY for orders of $50 or more!
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Low near -16 Cloudy skies with snow beginning near noon Southern Ontario High -1 Low near -14 Cloudy skies with periods of light snow Quebec City High -9 Low near -13 Early morning sunshine followed by increasing clouds Eastern Townships High -7 Low near -12 Skies will cloud over gradually with snow late in the day Northern New England High -6 Low near -10 Cloudy skies with snow beginning in the afternoon Gasp锟斤拷 High -8 Low near -15 Sunny skies with seasonable temperatures Lower North Shore High -9 Low near -20 Sunny skies with seasonable temperatures Snow High -10 Low -19 Cloudy High -9 Low -16 Snow High -6 Low -11 Cloudy High -8 Low -15 Canada Weather systems forecast for 7 p.m.
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Both vessels were rescued by the tugs Jones and Victoria. A quantity of timber surrounding the Edith went adrift at the same time. A large portion of it was saved by the tug Three Brothers. On the Louise embankment the wind started several heavily loaded cars and rolled them down the track a long distance before they could be stopped. Along the country roads traces of the storm are visible everywhere. On St. Foy road two large trees on Sleet's farm were blown across the roadway, almost blocking it up. The same thing occurred at the residence of Bissett, on the Charlesbourg road. They had to be removed as they interfered with traffic. In the rear of Bissett's dwelling a barn was wrecked. From other parts of the country come similar reports of destruction, more particularly on the Island of Orleans, where numerous barns and outhouses were brought to the ground. The fences surrounding the old lacrosse grounds and the standing brick walls of the house formerly occupied by Mr. Ross, on St. Louis road, fell a prey to the wind. Fences along the line of Lake St.
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"This (stadium) is a piece of equipment that has already drained sufficient public funds, more than $2 billion. Debt is still about half a billion," Vallerand said. "Before saying we should scrap this, we should think twice. We are near a solution that will allow us to use the building in complete safety. It is safe for the public. We just have to find a solution for using the stadium in the winter." Bibeau, in a separate interview, appeared less sanguine about the need to bolster the roof for winter reopening. His remarks suggested that, although he accepts Vallerand's approach, he does not agree with it. "I don't know exactly how Mr. Vallerand intends to strengthen the roof," Bibeau said. "He gives a certain interpretation to certain engineering reports. We don't share this opinion, but the important thing is that he makes the decisions. We always said the roof was solid for the winter. For the summer, that's another problem. The roof is safe. It might not be 100 percent dependable, but it is safe.
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"THE KAISER WILHELM STRIKES GROUND: LENNOX, February 22. A despatch from Bremen says that the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm is ashore in the Scheldt. No further particulars are given. The Kaiser Wilhelm is now engaged in the Australian service. She sails between Bremen and Australia, stopping at Antwerp and Genoa and other points. The Scheldt is a narrow river through which steamships pass to reach Antwerp. It is full of shoals, and it is a common occurrence for big ocean liners to get stranded. EMPEROR JOSEPH'S PACIFIC SPEECH: BUDAPEST, February 22. Emperor Francis Joseph, in opening the Hungarian Diet today, said that the relations between Austria-Hungary and the powers continue to be satisfactory and intimated that there was no immediate danger of the peace of Europe being disturbed. Continuing, the Emperor urged the Diet to utilize the present time of peace to make domestic reforms. In conclusion, the Emperor remarked that he trusted the peace would be of long duration. A good impression has been made by the Emperor's speech.
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16 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1999 Space Odyssey starts in Earth WEEK EAST TO MATTER IRS Indonesian eruption Reports from Indonesia's Flores Island tell of moderate damage and minor injuries during the July 1 eruption of Mt. Lewotobi in East Nusa Tenggara. The Jakarta Post reported that hundreds of houses, schools and other buildings sustained damage when one of the twin peaks of the volcano exploded. At least 20 people sustained minor injuries, including some who were injured after falling off their motorbikes during the strong quake that accompanied the eruption. A chapel belonging to a congregation of Catholic nuns in the city of Hokeng was severely damaged. Mt. Lewotobi last erupted on June 29, 1904. Earthquakes The most powerful earthquake to strike western Washington state in 30 years injured four people and caused damage ranging from collapsed roofs and toppled chimneys to gas leaks and power failures southwest of Seattle. Earth movements were also felt along the California-Nevada border, and in southwest Mexico, south-central Alaska, a remote island of southern Japan, Taiwan, northern New Zealand and eastern Romania.
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Unlike other actors who have worn the geek mantle over the years, Penn refuses to play up the easy nebbish. National Lampoon's Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj Starring: Kal Penn, Lauren Cohan and Daniel Percival Playing at: AMC, Brossard, Cavendish, Colossus, LaSalle cinemas. Parents' guide: Sexual content markers. For instance, he does not wear glasses, flood pants or a bow tie. He's also tall, dark and handsome. Penn has natural screen charisma, and that puts him well ahead of the mouth-breathing pack. Though Penn doesn't have an accent, he's forced to acquire one for the role of Taj because we need some excuse for his outsiderism, and pathetic as it is, racial difference is a no-brainer reason for social alienation in American cinema. In the big picture, this boils down to a formula story about ALLIANCE ATLANTIS Kal Penn (left) is Taj and Ryan Reynolds plays Van Wilder, a group of privileged inbreds duking it with outsiders out for campus superiority. It all begins with Taj and his acceptance letter to Camford University in England.
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Escenvt 115780 298 J80 289 19 Caiunoil 8000 J9 J9 29 Eurkav 6200 JO 18 18 Clgrphy 3100 345 330 345 5 Euroormf 10000 4 4 4 Cakrores 11500 44 45 45 3 Eurusrsy 14664 4J 42 42 -3 Caidera 13900 J5 5 5H-' Evenrs 15000 43 43 43 Caiingld 27500 18 IB 18 2 Evrgld 74000 10 7 9 2 Calvosodv 89500 14 8 16 Eiorttyf 1258 0 0 0 Cm-wct 1300 $lt' 10' ll'i Fairres 1200 39 39 39 Camborne I 4000 55 55 55 -5 Fairfldy 30500 105 100 105 4 Camdinoil 30000 14 14 14 -J Farallon 4900 100 98 98
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LEO (July 23-August 22): Slow and steady always wins the race. Changing course can land you in the drink during the first part of the week. Don't take criticism personally, even if it bruises a slightly sensitive spot. VIRGO (August 23-September 22): Something you hear might hit much too close to home. That doesn't mean that you must act on it. Put mental effort into crossword puzzles, instead of cross words with a lover or a mate. LIBRA (September 23-October 22): Be prepared. If someone is likely to rain on your parade, carry an umbrella. The true measure of your success. CONCIERGE (single), live-in, light cleaning and painting only, Exp, and ref essential, Jean Talon metro, 514-432-2113, SMALL animal wholesaler, needs employees with or without experience, Please apply in person at: 6312 Notre Dame W (Mon Thurs, 9-2) or by fax 514-932-3047, DRIVERS (class 3) and helpers needed for Lachine based local moving company,
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Assets nominally the same. The Southeastern Rivers Falling. Arkansas City, Arkansas, April 15. The rivers here are falling slowly and the backwater is falling after being at a stand for eight days. Everybody seems to be in better spirits. Hasn't Pumped Oil on Sunday. Washington, Pa, April 15. Judge Moll-VJEe yesterday decided that oil well pumping on Sunday is Sabbath desecration within the meaning of the law. A WASTED OPPORTUNITY in such men. The United States Treasury Vaults Only Tin Boxes. Washington, April 15. There was a hastily convened meeting of the appropriations committee of the House tonight. The meeting only lasted a few minutes, but in that time it was agreed to report favorably a bill to the House tomorrow appropriating sufficient money to build new vaults in the treasury building. This hasty action was occasioned by a secret communication from Treasurer Huston.
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Those most responsible for wooly incoherence should make way for pragmatists. But this would mean sacking among others Mr. Perreault himself. Ironically, he personifies the klutziness against which he rails. It was he who during the MCM's first mandate had the enormously important job of overseeing economic development: despite the city's long-term decline, he produced little, not even an economic-development plan (a tradition which his successor, John Gardiner, is so far maintaining). As MUCTC chief, his response to slumping ridership in the first mandate was to cut the number of drivers while boosting supervisors and other pencil-pushers by 23 per cent. As well, by endorsing the Bloc Quebecois, Mr. Perreault became the first high Montreal official in memory to wander into constitutional affairs thus antagonizing both levels of government from which the city needs money. Mr. Dore now has political reasons for doing what a Gazette editorial on the MUCTC urged him to do two years ago: dump Bungling Bob. But at the same time the mayor should heed the messenger's criticism and focus on substance.
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ANN H WARD, Aid, Patrick Kennedy asked the chairman of the Road committee if he could kindly send some men and carts out to Forfar and Conway streets, point St. Charles, to have the piles of snow removed. Residents of the locality were put to great inconvenience by the huge piles of snow now accumulated on the streets. He also asked that the snow should be removed from Grey Nun and King streets, as it interfered with the traffic to the merchants' stores. Aid Laurent said that there were mountains of snow all over the city. Already $30,000 has been expended in removing it, and they did not know what to do even now. Seven hundred and fifty men and 450 carters were employed and the Road committee could not please everyone. Aid Kennedy complained that snow and ice taken from the streets should be dumped on St. Patrick's square. He believed some more suitable place could be found than this. Aid Laurent said he would do his best in the matter and endeavor to carry out Aid Kennedy's wishes. Aid Cunningham then said he was on four committees: the markets, fire, health and light.
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Here, the results were less conclusive: while some herbal teas had a moderately inhibitory effect on cell mutation, others had no effect and some actually were linked to an increase. "Further experiments are needed to identify the compounds in common or herbal teas which either possess antimutagenic activity or may, in some circumstances, enhance the activity of mutagens," the study concludes. Stavric and his colleagues also called for additional experiments to see whether their results can be duplicated in tests with laboratory animals. For updated weather information, please call the Garotte QuickUno, 514-1234, code 6000. Each call costs 60 cents. Montreal area Today's high Tonight's low J-0 Sunny with a few clouds, warm with a late-afternoon or evening shower a possibility. The chance of a shower overnight. Winds becoming southwesterly 15-25 km/h. Ultraviolet index Today's UVI level: 7. Toronto High: 27 Low: 16 High: 26 Low: 15 Forecast Issued at 8 p.m. yesterday covers highs for today and overnight lows between tonight and tomorrow.
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so did demands for projects to guard against hurricane floods of the sort that killed 2,000 people in 1928 Today, the water infrastructure that sustains South Florida's economic miracle is one of the world's most sophisticated, with 2,240 km of levees and canals and 18 giant pumping stations capable of moving more water in a single day than Miami consumes in three months But while Miami has prospered, the Everglades have not Before the arrival of bulldozers and dredges, water oozed south from Lake Okeechobee in a 96-km-wide sheet averaging 15-cm deep, advancing and retreating in a seasonal cycle of wet and dry As the water receded during the dry winter months, pools formed in the sawgrass prairie, concentrating fish in abundant quantities Wading birds, wood storks, herons, ibis depended on the pools to provide them with food, and timed their nesting cycles accordingly But human manipulations have forever disrupted that essential cycle While rainfall still provides the remaining Everglades with most of its water, levees and canals have segmented the vital sheet flow Sugar cane and tomato farmers now control the water table in large areas of the Everglades,
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John's. Clear, Cloudy, Showers, Sunny, Sunny, Cloudy, Showers, Sunny, Cloudy, Sunny, Sunny, Sunny, Rain, Showers, Cloudy. Min, Max, -2 -4 14 13 20 23 19 25 24 22 14 18 19 15 11 14 16 7 3 10 9 7 6 7 7 7 2 9 9 6 6 0 5 United States today Atlanta Cloudy Boston Cloudy Chicago Storms Dallas Sunny Denver Windy Las Vegas Cloudy Los Angeles Cloudy New Orleans Cloudy New York Cloudy Phoenix Cloudy St. Louis Cloudy San Francisco Cloudy Washington Cloudy. Min, Max, 31 18 Weather network 40 chance of showers.
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A fertile, mountainous region, it has been cut off from the outside world and its economy is devastated. The taking of Shusha appeared to create one more obstacle to attempts by Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to resolve the conflict peacefully through internationally backed talks. Acting Azerbaijani President Abulfaz Elchibey complained to the leaders of Iran and Turkey that Armenian fighters stormed Shusha just as he and his Armenian counterpart were signing a new ceasefire agreement in Tehran. Jets attack bridge as fighting surges in Bosnia ASSOCIATED PRESS SARAJEVO A 35 95 3086 2577 2068 15 59 1050 541 0 32 -5 23 -10 14 -15 5 -20 -4 -25 -13 C F Sunrise 5:29 Sunset 8:13 Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius High for today 17 Low for tonight 6 Montreal Today The forecast for today calls for sunny skies with a few clouds in the morning. Clear skies this evening and tonight. Winds northeasterly 15-25 km/h.
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900 or best offer, 488-676 private FORD Taurus 1988, 3 years warranty from Ford, Like new, a/c, am/fm cassette stereo, power steering, power brakes, 58,300 negotiable, 485-3304 private FORD Taurus 1987, 4-door, am/fm cassette, a/c, lady driven, must sell, Michael 481-2126, evenings 688-4938 private FORD Taurus, 1986, MT5, 5 speed, 4 cylinder, am/fm stereo, very clean, $7,575, 632-2356, 638-2495 private FORD Taurus '89, power windows, a/c, 457-4148, 685-8585 private FORD Taurus 1966, V6, automatic, 4 door, blue, am/fm cassette, air-conditioning, 124,000 kms highway, A-1, $5,800, 67-6734 private FORD Tempo 1985, 4-door, auto, a/c, cruise, excellent condition, 94,000 kms, $2,950,
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S O Le Parent eclairs 0 Movie Television fQ Profession prof Un professeur s'interroge sur sa qualité d'ouverture dans ses relations constantes avec chacun des enfants de la classe 83 Pédagogic 2000 (3J Movie The Rainmaker (1956) Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn A Southwestern spinster's loveless life is rejuvenated when a swaggering con man descends on her father's drought-ridden ranch (2 hrs) 63 Les Pierrafeu (57) Movie Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis A British widow's affair with a young Italian sparks a series of tragi-comic events Based on an E H Flavors Technology develops hardware and software platforms used by manufacturers as well as government research programs Morley believes factories and just about everything, including people, should be viewed as chaotic systems, something like an ant colony Even though individual ants aren't great intellects and the colony doesn't have computer controls, it works well because the individual ants follow a few simple rules, said Morley This also is true of neurons in the human brain and individual cells Somewhere between order and randomness lies chaos Scientists use the term to describe the exquisitely complex systems that take in most of the natural world The theory, they say, can be useful in areas from medicine to business throughout the body, said Morley, who gave a chaos seminar at a recent meeting of the Instrument Society of America in Chicago Chaos allows us to change our thinking and take advantage of the world as it is, said Morley Rather than trying to rigidly control everything that goes on in a factory, he said, it is easier and more efficient to give individuals throughout the factory a few simple rules to follow and then turn them loose In a system Morley set up for a major automaker, seven robotic painting stations were given the same three rules to follow: first, do what's easiest; second, do what's needed; third, do something Thus, a robot loaded with black paint will search among vehicles lined up to be painted and look for any scheduled for black If there is one, that's what the robot paints, because it's the easiest thing to do If no vehicles are scheduled for black, the robot looks for red tags indicating that a vehicle needs priority attention The robot then purges its black paint and loads up whatever color the priority vehicle needs If there are no priority vehicles, the robot picks any vehicle at random and loads up the right color to paint so it has something to do When one of the seven robotic painters in the system breaks and stops working, as happens periodically, the system quickly adjusts itself to having six painters, because it is flexible and self-correcting, said Morley The more complex the problem, the better it responds to simple, decentralized controls, said Morley Using chaos theory can cut the amount of computer code you need by an order of magnitude And we've only just started to apply these ideas; there's a lot more to learn about chaos The main problem Morley has in talking to people about chaotic controls is philosophical, he said People want to understand everything and control everything, he said But I can't possibly follow the progress of every part that goes through my factory, so why try? Just set up the system and let it run like an ant colony When bottlenecks occur, this system readjusts itself I'm really getting to be a missionary in promoting chaos Besides chaos theory's usefulness to control factory processes, it might even be useful as a means to develop corporate strategy research by two physicists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggests The physics professors, Alfred Hurler and David Pines, run computer simulations to test survival strategies for corporations They found that acting at the edge of chaos can be an ideal strategy, especially in a market where one player is dominant and the other has a minor market share If the market leader acts in a completely orderly and predictable way, his competitor is likely to understand the behavior pattern and look for ways to steal customers, the computer simulation suggests But if the leader's behavior is slightly unpredictable, it keeps the competition off-base enough so the two continue in a fairly stable relationship Totally unpredictable behavior tends to upset the competition so much that an unstable relationship develops This work grows directly out of studies in chaos control, said Pines If you're right on the edge of chaos, you can sort through a lot of different patterns very quickly and select the ones that give you most control Computer simulations hold lessons for politics and international relations as well as for chaos might aid international business, said El Nino: here today, gone tomorrow, and back again GARY BOBBINS ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER SANTA ANA, Calif - It might rain like the dickens in California this winter Then again, it might be dry Or maybe the weather will fall somewhere in between Who's to say for sure? Certainly not forecasters and scientists, who have been thrown into confusion by El Nino, a mysterious phenomenon that causes a global climate change capable of producing both heavy rain and drought Just when scientists appeared to be getting a fix on the phenomenon, the El Nino that was partly responsible for last winter's rain-induced mudslides in southern California unexpectedly has come back to life in the Pacific The ocean hasn't produced back-to-back El Ninos in more than 50 years None of our models predicted this It's pretty confusing, said Tim Barnett, an oceanographer at La Jolla's Scripps Institution of Oceanography The surprise isn't a welcome one It's possible the El Nino will produce heavy rains, triggering mudslides The anomaly also means scientists again have been fooled by the phenomenon, in which warm water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean drifts toward Central and South America, spawning global weather changes In September 1992, the federal Climate Analysis Centre in Camp Springs, Md, pronounced the 18-month-old El Nino dead, only to see it surge back to life In March, the same agency said the El Nino would die, only to see it strengthen, then fizzle Scientists say they erred because, while they generally understand how El Nino begins, they're not sure why it starts or how it will behave The mistakes have not made forecasters or scientists circumspect Quite the contrary In the past month, weather experts have let loose with a series of conflicting guesses Maybe we shouldn't be afraid to just say we really don't know what's going to happen, which is the case with El Nino, said Jerry McDufie, chief of the Los Angeles office of the National Weather Service About the only thing scientists are reasonably sure of is the way El Nino begins El Nino occurs when westbound trade winds in the equatorial Pacific fade and are replaced by eastbound winds The shift causes large pools of warm water near Indonesia and the central Pacific Ocean Those warm waters affect the jet stream, causing it to move into the eastern Pacific Ocean The warm water heats the air above, producing thunderstorms over thousands of square miles Thunderstorms can change the atmosphere, which in turn, can feed the jet stream and alter its path The jet stream helps create, transport and align storms In most cases, the moisture-laden jet stream will do one of two things: plow through Southern California, dropping heavy precipitation, or veer through Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, generally resulting in a dry winter down south El Nino greatly affects the jet stream The problem is, we don't know which way it will steer the jet, said Clerry Bell, a researcher at the Climate Analysis Centre AIR DUCT CLEANING WITH A SPECIAL BONUS! 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For a healthy and comfortable environment To relieve allergies created by dust and dirt To increase the efficiency of your heating and cooling systems OUR 4 STAR SERVICE GUARANTEES YOUR SATISFACTION We clean all air ducts and registers We use powerful industrial grade equipment to do a thorough cleaning We clean all types and makes of heating and air conditioning systems We will schedule a convenient appointment including Saturdays Call Monday - Saturday 9:00 AM-5:00 PM 339-5420 Offer ends November 20, 1993 Drought leaves Athenians' reservoir parched PATRICK QUINN ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE ILIKI, Greece - Theodoros Patsalis watched his goats graze along the edge of one of Athens' main reservoirs, as dust blew across the dry bowl that surrounds what little remains of the Greek capital's water supply I remember the place I am standing on now was deep underwater just a few years ago, he said as the goats nibbled clover along the waterline Lake Iliki, 88 kilometres northeast of Athens, was once eight kilometres long, three kilometres wide and 80 metres deep Today, it is less than one-third that size A pipe snakes down a dusty plain for more than a kilometre from a main pumping station that once stood near the water's edge We no longer take water from Iliki but, instead supply it with water so it won't completely dry up and disrupt the local ecology, said Ioannis Stevis, a spokesman for the Athens Water Company In the 1980s, Iliki constituted the middle leg of a lake system that supplied 4 million people in and around Athens Most of the water originated at Mornos, an artificial lake in northwestern Greece, flowed through Iliki and into another artificial lake at Marathon on the capital's outskirts Nearly a decade of drought and failure to adequately forecast needs have left Iliki parched and Athens with enough water for about a month With emergency reserves, the city has enough until next year, said Stevis, but that's not the point A city this size needs to have adequate reserves for two years to be safe The drought has intensified There was no recorded rainfall last month, the driest October in 50 years The capital has also been unseasonably warm this fall, with temperatures in the 20s To discourage waste, water bills have increased 400 per cent in the past two years Watering gardens, washing cars and filling swimming pools are banned, and people using more than their allotted amount face fines In the campaign before the Oct 10 elections, the Socialists blamed much of the problem on mismanagement during the conservatives' three years in power But Costas Laliotis, the new public-works minister, discovered there were few radical solutions not already proposed Even the Greek Orthodox Church got involved, calling on its clergy to hold services to pray for rain Short-term solutions the government is considering include hauling water by tanker ship But months are needed to implement any plan A planned artificial lake in central Greece won't be completed until early 1995 Although Athenians have cut consumption by 30 per cent the past year, the government might have to ration water if it doesn't rain Stelios Psomas of Greenpeace said: Greece has had a 30-per-cent decline in rainfall the past 40 years and studies show that water supplies will continue to decrease because of global warming People just have to learn to save and think ahead Chinese-Taiwanese relations feel heat of rash of hijackings JONATHAN MANTHORPE SOUTHAM NEWS HONG KONG - Improved relations between China and Taiwan might be jeopardized by a spate of aircraft hijackings from the mainland to the rebel island Yesterday, a doctor and civil servant forced a domestic flight to divert to the Taiwanese capital, Taipei - the third such incident in eight days It was also the seventh hijacking since April, when Beijing and Taipei began working toward an agreement that would see hijackers returned to the mainland where they could face the death penalty For now, planes and other passengers are returned promptly to the mainland but hijackers are kept in Taiwan, where the maximum penalty for hijacking is 10 to 12 years in prison How to deal with hijackers is high on the agenda for China and Taiwan in talks aimed at ending 40 years of animosity that followed the civil war between Mao Tse-tung's communists and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, which retreated to the island after its defeat But the surge of hijackings has led to sharp words between the countries Beijing accuses Taiwan - which used to offer rewards to Chinese air-force pilots defecting with their planes - of encouraging air piracy Taiwan - pointing out that it always puts hijackers on trial - retorts that Chinese airport security is a joke Yesterday, Dr Han Shuxue, 40, and Li Xianyu, 35, employed at a government economic institute, used knives and a case of medical equipment they claimed was a bomb to take over a morning domestic flight from Changchun in the north to Fuzhou in the south A flight attendant received a slight knife cut to the neck during the incident on the China Northern Airlines plane, carrying nine crew and 73 passengers The men claimed political asylum in Taipei, saying they had been involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations They were arrested and officials say they will face trial On Monday, pharmaceuticals salesman Wang Zhihua, 35, armed with a bar of soap he claimed was explosives, forced a flight to Fuzhou to divert to Taipei FORMAL WEAR RENTAL & SALES ANNOUNCES ANY TUXEDO RENTAL only New Formal Ensembles Many new different tuxedos guaranteed We also carry a wide selection of accessories QUALITY SERVICE GUARANTEED We clean all air ducts and registers We use powerful industrial grade equipment to do a thorough cleaning We clean all types and makes of heating and air conditioning systems We will schedule a convenient appointment including Saturdays Call Monday - Saturday 9:00 AM-5:00 PM 339-5420 Offer ends November 20, 1993 Drought leaves Athenians' reservoir parched PATRICK QUINN ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE ILIKI, Greece - Theodoros Patsalis watched his goats graze along the edge of one of Athens' main reservoirs, as dust blew across the dry bowl that surrounds what little remains of the Greek capital's water supply I remember the place I am standing on now was deep underwater just a few years ago, he said as the goats nibbled clover along the waterline Lake Iliki, 88 kilometres northeast of Athens, was once eight kilometres long, three kilometres wide and 80 metres deep Today, it is less than one-third that size A pipe snakes down a dusty plain for more than a kilometre from a main pumping station that once stood near the water's edge We no longer take water from Iliki but, instead supply it with water so it won't completely dry up and disrupt the local ecology, said Ioannis Stevis, a spokesman for the Athens Water Company In the 1980s, Iliki constituted the middle leg of a lake system that supplied 4 million people in and around Athens Most of the water originated at Mornos, an artificial lake in northwestern Greece, flowed through Iliki and into another artificial lake at Marathon on the capital's outskirts Nearly a decade of drought and failure to adequately forecast needs have left Iliki parched and Athens with enough water for about a month With emergency reserves, the city has enough until next year, said Stevis, but that's not the point A city this size needs to have adequate reserves for two years to be safe The drought has intensified There was no recorded rainfall last month, the driest October in 50 years The capital has also been unseasonably warm this fall, with temperatures in the 20s To discourage waste, water bills have increased 400 per cent in the past two years Watering gardens, washing cars and filling swimming pools are banned, and people using more than their allotted amount face fines In the campaign before the Oct 10 elections, the Socialists blamed much of the problem on mismanagement during the conservatives' three years in power But Costas Laliotis, the new public-works minister, discovered there were few radical solutions not already proposed Even the Greek Orthodox Church got involved, calling on its clergy to hold services to pray for rain Short-term solutions the government is considering include hauling water by tanker ship But months are needed to implement any plan A planned artificial lake in central Greece won't be completed until early 1995 Although Athenians have cut consumption by 30 per cent the past year, the government might have to ration water if it doesn't rain Stelios Psomas of Greenpeace said: Greece has had a 30-per-cent decline in rainfall the past 40 years and studies show that water supplies will continue to decrease because of global warming People just have to learn to save and think ahead Chinese-Taiwanese relations feel heat of rash of hijackings JONATHAN MANTHORPE SOUTHAM NEWS HONG KONG - Improved relations between China and Taiwan might be jeopardized by a spate of aircraft hijackings from the mainland to the rebel island Yesterday, a doctor and civil servant forced a domestic flight to divert to the Taiwanese capital, Taipei - the third such incident in eight days It was also the seventh hijacking since April, when Beijing and Taipei began working toward an agreement that would see hijackers returned to the mainland where they could face the death penalty For now, planes and other passengers are returned promptly to the mainland but hijackers are kept in Taiwan, where the maximum penalty for hijacking is 10 to 12 years in prison How to deal with hijackers is high on the agenda for China and Taiwan in talks aimed at ending 40 years of animosity that followed the civil war between Mao Tse-tung's communists and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, which retreated to the island after its defeat But the surge of hijackings has led to sharp words between the countries Beijing accuses Taiwan - which used to offer rewards to Chinese air-force pilots defecting with their planes - of encouraging air piracy Taiwan - pointing out that it always puts hijackers on trial - retorts that Chinese airport security is a joke Yesterday, Dr Han Shuxue, 40, and Li Xianyu, 35, employed at a government economic institute, used knives and a case of medical equipment they claimed was a bomb to take over a morning domestic flight from Changchun in the north to Fuzhou in the south A flight attendant received a slight knife cut to the neck during the incident on the China Northern Airlines plane, carrying nine crew and 73 passengers The men claimed political asylum in Taipei, saying they had been involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations They were arrested and officials say they will face trial On Monday, pharmaceuticals salesman Wang Zhihua, 35, armed with a bar of soap he claimed was explosives, forced a flight to Fuzhou to divert to Taipei FORMAL WEAR RENTAL & SALES ANNOUNCES ANY TUXEDO RENTAL only New Formal Ensembles Many new different tuxedos guaranteed We also carry a wide selection of accessories QUALITY SERVICE GUARANTEED"
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61 TFIRINO AT LITTLE METIS, Little Metis, November 6 A most severe snow and windstorm visited this coast yesterday, clearing everything in its way. All the houses along the shore have been carried off, also boats, fences, bridges, etc. The shore today is strewn with debris and household effects. The suffering will be intense from cold and hunger to those left destitute. L'Islet flooded, L'Islet, November 6 The damage by yesterday's storm is considerable, amounting to nearly $7,000. All the principal streets and shops in all quarters of the village were flooded, some merchants losing heavily. All the wharves have been more or less damaged. The pavements in the streets have floated off. The whole village is in a very dilapidated condition. AT IIATAM AND TADOUSAC, Matank, November 6 The storm of yesterday was the most severe that has been felt for many years past. The tide rose upwards of two feet over the ordinary November spring tides. Two parts of the Prince Bros & Co. wharf were carried away and quite a number of deals floated out. Several persons here were obliged to abandon their houses. The damage will be about $3,000. Tadoussac, Que, November 6 The wharf at this place and other property have been considerably damaged by yesterday's cyclone. It is stated that there has not been so severe a storm for the past fifty years. The damage cannot be estimated at present. St. Thomas (Montmagny), November 6 The most severe snow and windstorm that has ever visited this town commenced yesterday afternoon and continued during the whole night. Considerable damage was done to the breakwater by the high tides. Ice is forming here very quickly. Car Rocs, Que, November 6 The steamer Champion, with five schooners in tow, bound for Quebec, put in here for shelter last night. One of her tows was cast adrift. The market steamers Etoile and St. Louis, with about 200 passengers on board, had also to seek shelter here, a most violent hurricane blowing. The tide rose about four feet above the normal spring tide mark, accompanied by a mild cyclone and snowstorm which lashed the waters into a fury. Part of the village was inundated; damage light. Two feet of snow had fallen this morning. Sleighing is excellent and the weather cold. FASRIVA, LC, November 6 Yesterday afternoon, at a point about three and a half miles east of Bic station, on the Intercolonial railway, the road of the Intercolonial for a distance of about a hundred feet was washed away by the extraordinary high tide. The damage was luckily discovered before the eastbound express reached Bic, and it was stopped at the station. A special train was then brought from Campbellton, with the intention of having the passengers and mails from the express train carted across the dangerous section, it being evident that the track could not be made passable for many hours. Unfortunately, about a mile east of the first was another and far worse washout, the lower part of the road for about three hundred feet having been swept away, but there was nothing on the surface to denote that such was the result of a previous washout. The engines and two cars jolted over the place safely, but the remaining cars of the train careened into the river. A brakeman named Perrin and a telegraph repairer named Lefrere were injured, neither seriously. A gang of men immediately set about building a temporary trestle, while another gang bored the track inward at the western washout. About two this afternoon both places were fit to traverse, and the express train, after its long delay, pursued its way eastward in safety. A Htbvkssos spoke of the interest and attractiveness of the curling last year, and stated that a deputation from the curling clubs would meet the committee with a view of providing matches during carnival week, to be advertised on the programme. All present seemed desirous of meeting such a proposal by offering prizes for contests. As soon as possible a sketch programme of the carnival will be issued and sent broadcast throughout America. The secretary was instructed to apply to the chairman and members of the road committee for Dominion Square as a site for the ice palace. It was unanimously desired that Mr. DOMINION The water famine still continues at Quebec and prices have gone up to $2.00 a barrel. General Middleton inspected the Queen's Own and Royal Grenadier at Toronto yesterday. Two feet of snow fell during Wednesday night's storm in some of the lower St. Lawrence districts, and ice is reported to be forming on the river. The damage to shipping by the gale in the gulf and the high tides does not appear to be serious, only three schooners being reported ashore. At Quebec, the loss to merchants by the flooding of their stores is stated at over $200,000. Two men who went out at Father Point with a pilot were washed out of their boat and drowned. Several football matches were played by Montrealers yesterday, the most important being that at Toronto, when the Montreal club defeated the Toronto champions of Ontario, and are now therefore champions of the Dominion. The Montreal second fifteen played the Ottawa college team at Ottawa, resulting in a draw in favor of our boys. The Britannia also played the Ottawa club, the first fifteen winning by 31 points to 2; and the second fifteen by 13 to 7. A match played between No. 2 Co. and No. 5 Co. of the Victoria Rifles was won by the latter by 6 points to 2.
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Only the barest reports were received tonight of the effects of the storm on the coast, but even those gave rise to the gravest fears for the safety of what little shipping may have been off Cape Cod last night or today. It will probably be two or three days before a complete list of the disasters can be made. All points south of this city and east of Providence were isolated early in the evening, New Bedford being lost to the outside world before eight o'clock, while Newport and Fall River disappeared into the night long after. Farther to the west at Providence and in other parts of Rhode Island, communication was intermittent and subject to great delay. Night trains over the shore line to New York reached Providence with only a few minutes delay, but beyond that point they met terrific drifts, and it was morning before either of the two regular trains reached New London. Here they were stalled nearly all day by freight wrecks in the road between that point and New Haven. AT OTHER POINTS Hartford, Conn, November 27. The storm in this city is the heaviest known since the blizzard of 1888.
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Bouchard is himself a flood victim since the Chicoutimi River burst its banks Saturday night and inundated his house in the town of Laterriere with two meters of water. But Bouchard, who is now living in a barracks at the base with his girlfriend, has been too busy flying to dwell on his predicament. "I try not to think about it, but at the end of the day it starts sinking in," Bouchard said, as we flew five kilometers east to Grande-Baie - the hardest-hit community in the region. On the approach to the town, lingering damage of the floods was everywhere in sight. Telephone poles had snapped in two like matchsticks, roads lay crumpled, a bridge was collapsed and many houses had been flattened to the ground by the raging waters of the Riviere des Ha! Ha!
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No one involved had pretensions of usurping Andrew Lloyd Webber, we hope. At Theatre Lac Brome, Jennifer Cooke's discreetly art-deco set design, complete with vintage model planes hanging from the ceiling, is a radical chic approximation of a club called the Red Eye Lounge. And her circa 1940 costumes make three of our most talented young anglo actors look retro glamorous. Gunmetal Blues, by Scott Wentworth, Craig Bohmler and Marion Adler, continues at Theatre Lac Brome through Aug 3. Tickets cost $13 to $20. Call (514) 242-2270. McConaughey shows us he's one to watch CONTINUED FROM PAGE CS lead inevitably to the dramatic summation. In all this, the players shine. Jackson, especially, squeezes more from his role as the vengeful father than his lines deserve. Bullock is suitably feisty, Spacey is sneaky, the Sutherlands, Oliver Platt and McConaughey work the eccentric Old South over pretty good. The mobs act mob-like, and McConaughey shows why he's being touted as the new Newman-Brando screen idol.
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-1 -4 Paris Rain 12 11 St John's Flurries 1 -4 Rio de Janeiro P Cloudy 26 22 United States today Cloudy 8 Atlanta Cloudy 13 -2 Sydney Showers 16 16 Boston R Cloudy 6 2 Tokyo Rain 7 7 Chicago Flurries -4 -11 Resorts today Dallas Sunny 8 -2 Min Min Denver Sunny -1 -6 Acapulco P Cloudy 34 25 Las Vegas Sunny 11 -1 Barbados P Sunny 30 24 Los Angeles Windy 22 8 Bermuda Cloudy 23 21 New Orleans P Cloudy 15 1 Daytona Showers 26 13 New York P Cloudy 8 3 Kingston Sunny 33 12 Phoenix Sunny 20 5 Miami P Cloudy 27 20 St Louis R Cloudy -1 -9 Myrtle Beach Showers 13 & San Francisco Sunny 17 7 Nassau Sunny 29 23 Washington P Cloudy 9 0 Tampa P Cloudy 27 16 Your Morning News Update K f lit ll S f Right at Home weekdays Andrew Peplowski This nerd has his charms National Lampoon sequel rides on Kal Penn's
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Pennsylvania Clippings, ""Si Hantor, PA, January 20 The most devastating snowstorm in years hit last night and this city is stormbound. The snow blanketed telephone and telegraph wires and this morning the streets were impassable. One huge pole directly in front of the Western Union office was broken off short by the unusual strain and service entirely cut off. The storm also extended to the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Carbondale. A Holiday For Telegraph Operators, Kittatinny, NJ, January 20 The storm here has been the most disastrous in years. The telegraph service has never experienced such interruptions. All communication was badly interrupted. The Western Union office is entirely closed to customers and employees have a holiday. Patterson, NJ, January 20 This city yesterday found itself back in the late twenties in some respects. The heavy weight of wet snow on the hundreds of overhead wires that stretched over the principal streets pulled down scores of poles all over the town. Of the seven interurban lines in the city only two run any cars. The rest are hopelessly blocked by fallen poles and wires. New York, January 20 No traces of the snowstorm of Saturday night and yesterday morning, which played such havoc with wires, remained in the air at least today. After a beautiful moonlit night, clear and cold, the atmosphere was delightfully fresh and bracing this morning. It was not cold and the sun shone brightly. It was a pleasant winter's day in every respect save underfoot. The work of repairing the broken telephone and telegraph wires, which was begun yesterday as early as possible, continued through last night in accessible places and went on with renewed vigor this morning. The Minimum on the Jersey Coast, Exmouth, NJ, January 20 As far as can be ascertained there are no vessels ashore between here and Sandy Hook, although several have been seen about half a mile offshore. The rumor that a three-masted schooner was stranded a mile south of Point Pleasant City is erroneous. Asbury Park, NJ, January 20 The wires here are all down with the exception of those of the Electric Light Company. The surf has cut out the beach and undermined the bathing houses. Long Branch, NJ, January 20 The storm has wrought great damage along the New Jersey coast between Sandy Hook and Point Pleasant City. The surf cut into the bluff here and tore out the beach. Several houses were unroofed and signs and chimneys blown down. All telegraph and telephone wires are down and the coast cut off from communication with the railways. All trains are being run on signal and are behind time. A GENERALLY FAIR DAY, moderately cold and mild. Local snow fall today, Toronto, January 20, 11 p.m. The pressure is comparatively high along the St. Lawrence Valley and in the Southern states and below normal elsewhere. Light falls of snow have occurred in Ontario, Manitoba and portions of the Northwest Territories. Minimum and maximum temperatures: Calgary, 12, 42; Winnipeg, 12, 24; Toronto, 30, 35; Montreal, 4, 26; Quebec, 4 below; Halifax, 22, 32. Weather Moderate winds partly fair; comparatively mild; light local falls of snow. St. Lawrence Light to moderate winds; generally fair; moderately cold; light local falls of snow.
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"They have difficulty with breaking pitches. Young pitchers try to take advantage of that. In order to make their records look good they tend to feed the hitters a dose of curves and changes. "But young pitchers aren't doing themselves any good in the long run with a philosophy like that. We encourage them to be aggressive and use the fastball. We stress the importance of getting ahead in the count and establishing superiority. "Sometimes that's more difficult than you imagine. We have to make the pitchers understand they're going to need the fastball - and a good one - if they're going to get hitters out at the next level. "Probably the greatest improvement in Powell this year from last is that he is learning how to use the fastball." The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Powell was 5-5 with the Vermont Expos in the New-York-Penn League last summer. "He is not an overpowering pitcher," Sisson said. "He can get his fastball up to 93 (mph) and averages out at 90-91."
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In fact, the record was smashed by lunchtime, despite urgent pleas for power conservation. The previous mark of 26,160 megawatts was set on July 13, 2005. Yesterday, demand peaked at about 5 p.m., when Ontario's electricity usage hit 27,225 megawatts. The mayors of New York, Boston, and Washington have declared heat emergencies. Canadian troops in the melting spot The hottest spot on the planet yesterday was Kandahar, Afghanistan, where Canadian soldiers stationed there sweated in the dusty sunlight at 46C. Windsor (37C), Toronto, and Ottawa were all hotter than N'Djamena, Chad, in the Sahara desert (33C) and even Bakersfield, California (24C), which is right beside the aptly named hot spot Death Valley. CANWEST NEWS SERVICE Restaurant and butchershop specials for August 2-8, 2006. 8oz Filet Mignon FROZEN NEW ZEALAND RACK OF LAMB 2 for $18 because of scorching temperatures. In California, more than 100 people have died because of intense heat in recent weeks.
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Oh, in the total, these values are made up from the June schedules of farmers. They show an increase on the figure of last year of $1,000,000 in farm lands, of $500,000 in live stock, $200,000 in implements, and a little over $1,000,000 in buildings, or a total excess over the value of last year of $3,000,000 and of $511,000 over the average values of the five years' period. That certainly does not look as if the farmers of Ontario were suffering from the operation of the National Policy, and the enormous increase in the deposits in the Government and Post Office Savings banks, in the life companies and in the chartered banks are equally conclusive of the prosperity the farmers of Canada have enjoyed in recent years. United States journals, who in ridicule of the claims that the Canadian Northwest is less subject to the visits of the boreal blizzard than their own territories, declared that Winnipeg was the center of the "banana belt" of the continent, may read with profit the reports of the climatic condition that now prevail in the two regions. While in Minnesota, Dakota and Nebraska the railways are blocked with snow and occasionally at intervals with stalled and broken engines, along the line of the Canadian Pacific the trains are running on time, the weather is calm and fine, and the temperature from Winnipeg westward varies from 15 to 4 above zero. Bananas may not ripen to perfection north of the 49th parallel, but they will evidently do better than on the snowy wastes of Kansas and Dakota, the settlers on whose lands, harassed in winter by the blizzard, in summer by the cyclone, in harvest time by the red-legged grasshopper and at all times by the railway and elevator monopoly, could not do better than move up out of the cold to the more than equally fertile and less exposed Canadian territories where a cyclone cellar is a thing unknown and warm toes can be kept in everybody's boots.
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The Lower Town Street Railway Company carried more passengers last year than in any year since they have been running. The Quebec Chess Club meets tonight for the purpose of arranging a return match with the Toronto Chess Club. Mr. B., March 30. A very heavy rainstorm has prevailed all day, which had the effect of clearing off most of the snow. The rain is a great boon just now, as the water in the river supplying the city has been unusually low of late. Toronto, March 30. A fire in Porleh's auction rooms, Yonge Street, early this morning, damaged the building and stock about $1,000, partially insured. March 20. Ten inches of snow fell last night, and this morning a hard snowstorm still prevails. At Plattsburg ten inches, at Ausable Forks eight, at Port Henry six, and at Whitehall five inches fell. Collision and loss of life. Calhoun, March 20. During a heavy wind the other night the oyster pungie Jasper and Industry collided at the mouth of the Wicomico River, Virginia. The Jasper sank.
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"The railway tracks broke and it came over the top like a river," he said. "Everybody piled into pickups and got out of there." More than 300 dairy cattle and 1,000 pigs had to be moved to higher ground along with area residents. Rain remained in the forecast until Thursday but the weather office said it will not be as heavy. That is good news for people who face flooded homes and farms or had to abandon their cars on impassable highways. On top of that, BC Rail couldn't operate to the Interior yesterday because of a washout near Whistler and another south of Lillooet. In some areas, about 200 millimetres of rain fell between Thursday night and yesterday enough to be over the top of an ankle-height rain shoe. The good news was that there were no reports of personal injury due directly to the flooding, although a passenger in a car that missed a curve drowned in a flooded creek. The bad news was that travel was disrupted and property damage may run into the millions. Fields were flooded and buildings damaged, basements swamped and highways blocked by mud and rock and, in some cases, underwater.
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The country will need to import more than 2 million tons of maize in the coming 12 months following the almost total failure of this year's crop. The country also needs 340,000 tons of wheat, 150,000 tons of rice and 160,000 tons of oilseed. Prices of most foodstuffs are rocketing as the government removes ceilings on payments to producers in an attempt to encourage production next season if the drought lifts. On Thursday, the Zimbabwe government announced a 25-percent increase in the price of gasoline. The price of milk jumped 34 percent this week and about 30 percent of the country's 60,000 dairy cows have been slaughtered because of low producer return and lack of water and feed. The situation is similar throughout the region. In South Africa, the Transvaal is a desert littered with stunted maize and sunflower plants shriveled by the sun and lack of rain. In this region alone, 2 million people are going to need food aid by April. In the Eastern Cape, the drought is worse than it has been in nearly 120 years and 2,000 farmers have gone bankrupt.
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In Zambia and Zimbabwe, the drought will undoubtedly affect the government's plans to move away from quasi-socialist economies to free-market systems. Diplomats say they do not believe Zimbabwe's World Bank-sponsored economic adjustment program will survive the drought. Already food shortages are having dramatic psychological effects on people used to plentiful and regular supplies of basic foodstuffs. Riot police were called out in central Harare last Thursday when hundreds of people besieged a supermarket rumored to have taken a shipment of sugar and maize flour, known as mealie meal, the region's staple. It was the third time riot police were called to quell food-seeking mobs in Zimbabwe in the last few weeks. The besieging of shops and mobbing of delivery trucks are almost daily occurrences in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe declared a national emergency three weeks ago. Delivery companies now call for police protection for their trucks as a matter of course. Already 2.3 million people, nearly a quarter of the country's population, require food aid. The country will need to import more than 2 million tons of maize in the coming 12 months following the almost total failure of this year's crop.
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THE LACROSSE FIELD: The East Angus Team Have a Complaint to Make: The following communication has been received from a correspondent in East Angus: The account of this match of the 27th ult., in a contemporary, is not according to facts. When the Sherbrooke Juniors arrived at Angus there was scarcely a junior amongst them, but they were composed of Senior league men and other crack players not of Sherbrooke, with a few junior men intermingled for appearance sake. A written protest was at once served, and the Angus boys, not to disappoint the large crowd that were patiently waiting in the pouring rain, consented to play; and after the whistle blew the Angus scored the first three games in quick time. The rain now came down in a deluge, completely destroying the Angus team sticks, which were of a very inferior quality, becoming no better than shinny sticks. The Angus team, knowing it was no game, simply quit playing, some of the players having left us as soon as the Angus had scored the foul in the game, which the Sherbrooke umpire did not allow, because he was under an umbrella and could not say positively if it was a score or not. The Angus team have never yet met the bona fide Sherbrooke Junior Lacrosse team. Crescent-Gabriel Club: The regular weekly meeting of the executive of the Gabriel-Crescent club will be held this evening at the Exchange hotel. Business of importance is to be transacted, and those who know how much depends on the match with Sherbrooke on Saturday, and who have the interests of the club at heart will attend. The Maples at Work: The second Maples are practising hard every evening this week in preparation for the coming match with the Kueralds. A large attendance is looked for at all practices.
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senior weather specialist of the Philippine weather bureau, Durian, named after a thorny fruit with a powerful odour that many find offensive, blew away roofs, toppled trees and power lines and sent tonnes of rocks and volcanic ash down Mayon, the region's most famous landmark about 340 kilometres southeast of the capital Manila, Rescuers scouring mountain villages buried under mud and boulders discovered more bodies yesterday and prospects for finding any of the 300 missing people alive were fading, The first funerals were held yesterday evening as bodies rapidly decomposed in the tropical heat, In Padang, only rooftops protruded from the mud and debris, Power pylons were toppled, a two-lane highway became a one-lane road strewn with debris and overturned trucks, Silangan Santander, 21, attended funeral services for her brother, Larry, whose widow was five months pregnant, Only his lower torso and legs were found near the sea, Another brother was missing, "In the community where my brother lived, all the houses there were gone," she said, "There are only rocks, sand and water," The sound of boulders crashing down Mayon's slopes "were like thunder and the ground shook,
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But 42 percent of those who said the lidocaine helped said their headaches had returned within an hour. Lidocaine, used to relieve sunburn, in dental procedures and even in heart irregularities, has been used to treat cluster headaches, a rarer, generally shorter, but more painful form of headache than a migraine. Lidocaine nasal drops are not commercially available. Why it appears to help relieve pain from migraines is not clear, but Dr. Morris Maizels, the chief researcher, said it might numb a nerve called the sphenopalatine ganglion that is believed to be involved in migraines. Migraines afflict about 17 percent of adult women and 6 percent of adult men in the United States each year. Other headache experts said that while the study was interesting, lidocaine was unlikely to replace other treatments, including sumatriptan, which goes by the brand name Imitrex and works by activating serotonin receptors in the brain. Dr. Lauren Krupp, director of the headache center at University Hospital at Stony Brook, in New York, saw a possible role for lidocaine for those who didn't respond to other treatments.
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Descary lashed out at the firefighters for choosing to "negotiate in the newspapers and on television." Descary added that he has always had respect for the difficult work performed by firefighters. But when pressed during question period, Descary and Bourgeois refused to give reasons for the two dismissals. The city plans to install the ticket machines in 11 municipal parking lots along St. Joseph Blvd. and wants firefighters to collect the coins. But on Oct. 29, 46 of Lachine's 50 firefighters voted against doing the extra work. The day after the vote, the city fired two rookie firefighters, Stephane Germain, 22, and Benoit Letourneau, 28. Since the firings, Lachine firefighters have refused to wash their firetrucks or perform other non-emergency duties until their colleagues are reinstated. Gilles Raymond, president of the 2,100-member Syndicat des Pompiers du Quebec, said the firing was a feeble attempt by the city of Lachine to show the union who's boss.
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Considering the number of complaints, some of the librarians said renowned architect Peter Rose, who designed the current proposal, might not be the best person to work on the final plans. Jane Toward, the head of the children's department at the Fraser-Hickson Library in Notre Dame de Grace, said the city's decision to consult librarians is encouraging. Must be done right "There are (still) real concerns," Toward said. "But I'm in favor of this project if it's done properly." Trent said the proposed layout is not set in stone, but the city is bound by some architectural and heritage constraints. PLEASE SEE LIBRARY, PAGE G2 President Bill Clinton on Tuesday, in a joint news conference with Mubarak following their meeting on Tuesday, Clinton repeated the administration's position that it would not ask the Israelis to take additional steps on the issue of the deported Palestinians. Israel opposed the inclusion of Palestinians from East Jerusalem because it did not want to give any suggestion that the status of Jerusalem was open to negotiation. Should Rabin accept Husseini's participation now, his rightist political opponents in Israel would doubtless try to make it a political issue.
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Six people were also missing after the storms, days after disastrous floods surged through the southeast killing at least 38 people and leaving 30 missing. Vatican faces strike threat as pope returns REUTER VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul, who underwent surgery more than two months ago, returned to the Vatican yesterday to face a potential revolt over low pay by disgruntled employees of the tiny city-state. During the weekend the board of the Vatican employees' union which represents about half the 2,000 non-clerical workers resigned in protest against what it called intransigence by senior prelates over workers' requests. "With regret, we have to report the defeat of the path of dialogue and collaboration," a union statement said. It was the boldest action ever taken by the Association of Lay Vatican Employees and could lead to the first strike in the history of Vatican City, said church sources. In a toughly worded statement, the nine-member board said Vatican officials have repeatedly delayed action on their requests for raises in salaries and pensions. "After seven years since the last increase, it is no longer possible to ask us to have patience," the statement said.
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The first Liverpool boat is pretty well filled also, and as the others do not sail until Saturday buyers are disposed to hold back until they see how Brockville goes. Business on spot, therefore, is rather quiet in the meantime. In the country prices are working lower and it will be seen from our special that colored stock was at a premium at Belleville over white. This fulfills our speculations of a week ago, and on spot, also, the disposition is already apparent to give it the preference. As to spot values our quotation of yesterday can be repeated. Cheese HXa 8'i Ui tier guides S4a 8i Liverpool cable 17s OduUD-s Freight Liverpool, London and Glasgow. S. Irving, of the Toronto News Company, who has made frequent representations to the department on this subject, today had an interview with the Postmaster-General and his deputy and obtained a promise that the rate of postage would be reduced to 1 cent per pound. This, it appears, can be done by regulations under the existing act, but an attempt made by Mr.
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Wiggins claims Saturday's snowstorm as part of his great blow. IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS AN EARTHQUAKE Waterville, Que., March 11 The severest storm known for years is in progress today. Snow began falling yesterday afternoon, and continued unabated through the night. The wind has been blowing a gale all day, and the snow is piled almost mountains high, making traffic of all kinds absolutely impossible. It will take some days to clear the snow blockade, so that business may resume its normal condition. The mayor is engaging a large force of men to open the streets. Between 10 and 11 o'clock two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt, the wave passing from east to west, and causing great alarm. The country roads will be impassable for days. The mails between here and Magog are to be carried by team, trains being cancelled. In the meantime, the Central Vermont and South Eastern railways are making almost superhuman efforts to get their lines open. Wiggins was regarded as rank on Saturday, and today he is looked upon as indeed a prophet of the prophets. St.
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Louis PCloudy 33 22 Nassau Sunny San Francisco Sunny 26 13 Tampa PCloudy Washington PCloudy 29 20 Wildwood PCloudy "Mil ,Max" 19 14 33 20 28 22 24 18 23 17 17 14 30 26 29 19 27 20 21 15 32 18 25 13 23 15 25 13 38 25 22 16 25 17 ,29 19 15 9 28 23 : : , MaxrMih'r 31 23 30 26 31 23 35 26 34 25 33 21 25 16 34 26 33 25 25 18 Canada weighs joining U.S. Women's Hard Court Championships at Stratton Mountain, Vt. Seeded third, Hetherington and Rinaldi beat seventh-seeds Valda Lake and Clare Wood of Britain, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4).
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The two men had talked extensively and realized they were on the same wavelength on many issues they cared about, Dion organizers explained, Divided, both were destined to fail, they realized, United, one of them would have a chance to make those dreams a reality. Kennedy dramatically quit the race after only the second ballot, instantly propelling Dion into first place on the third ballot - but shy of the magic 50-per-cent threshold needed to win, Caught in an unpredicted scenario, Bob Rae released his delegates - the lion's share of whom moved to Dion, Please see DION, Page A7 What's next?
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The cost of disaster Most expensive storms Cities Claims Amount paid Calgary, Alta. (hail) Sept. 7, 1991 116,311 $342 million Saguenay (flood) July 19-20, 1996 6,461 $212 million Edmonton, Alta. (tornado) July 31, 1987 58,506 $148 million Calgary, Alta. (hail) July 16-18, 1996 21,918 $103 million Calgary, Alta. (hail) July 24-25, 1996 17,337 $75 million Montreal (flood) July 14, 1987 NA $70 million Montreal and Quebec City (flood) Nov. 9, 1996 9,094 $65 million Southern Ontario (various storms) July 13-15, 1995 23,836 $53 million Calgary, Alta. (hail) July 17, 1995 18,839 $52 million Medicine Hat, Alta. (tornado) June 7, 1988 21,764 $50 million Most expensive winter storms Sarnia, Ont.
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There's no time to rest for Dion's camp, Hubert Bauch writes, Page A4 Underdog no more Good for Canada Dion recalls being lumped in the "others" category early in the campaign, Page A16 Editorial, Page A20 MORE ON Quick sketches: The kingmakers: Aislin presents an audio slideshow of his drawings from the convention, across the nation, Fears reinforced: Officials shut Viau Bridge to Laval after metal rods fall on road: CATHERINE SOLYOM THE GAZETTE Another route to Laval seemed on the verge of collapsing yesterday as metal rods fell from the Viau Bridge onto Somerville Rd. below, Montreal police shut the bridge in both directions for about five hours, starting around 9:20 a.m., not wanting to take any chances of a repeat of the Laval overpass collapse two months ago that killed five people. The Viau Bridge was one of the alternate routes to and from Laval that authorities suggested motorists take after the de la Concorde Blvd. overpass collapsed Sept.
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The Japanese say that the mammals must be killed to accurately determine their age, sex, diet and health. They also hope that the International Whaling Commission, which imposed a worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, will decide there are sufficient numbers of some species to partially lift the ban. Shepherd Bay, Vancouver For the week ending April 6, 1990 C1990 Chronicle Features Chinese Twisters At least 17 people were killed and more than 20 seriously injured when tornadoes, hailstorms and heavy rain hit southern China's Jiangxi province. In coastal Fangcheng, bordering Vietnam, an oil storage tank exploded when hit by lightning. Airborne Vaccinations Helicopters flew over forests and fields in France dropping fish balls containing a rabies vaccine, in an offense aimed at Europe's most dangerous carrier, the red fox. "The fox thinks it's a fish, he eats it, and voila, he's vaccinated," said Philippe Brie, a technician with the Agriculture Ministry's rabies bureau. The vaccine can't save infected animals, but it protects the healthy ones that eat it. Similar campaigns in Switzerland, West Germany and the Netherlands have significantly eased the epidemic among foxes in those countries.
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bird-lovers and park officials against developers, farmers and others with vested interests in the status quo Constant attention needed The Everglades ecosystem is not ranked as an equal partner with agricultural and urban demands, said Steve Davis, a water district biologist The public is going to have to acknowledge that if they want a functioning Everglades, it's going to require a commitment to water conservation The water has to come from someplace No one expects a complete recovery With about half the original 1.6-million-hectare swamp filled for development or drained for agriculture, the park includes about 202,000 hectares of marsh experts liken the Everglades to a seriously ill patient who will need constant medical attention to stay alive It's going to be in intensive care, probably forever, said Thomas Bonnicksen, a restoration expert from Texas A&M University Perfection is inconceivable, the ideal is unachievable Some compromise is essential, and in the case of the Everglades, it's probably going to be a big compromise At stake is one of America's richest biological treasures, a watery wilderness whose denizens include 13 birds, mammals and reptiles on the federal endangered species list The Everglades also offers vital economic benefits,
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ICUDOMII JomI aile in about the only thing in this world that I'm not in immediate want of Fatal Accident on the Track A fatal accident took place at 8 o'clock yesterday morning on the Canadian Pacific railway track at Hochelaga It appears that Jean Godin, aged 30, an employee of the Canadian Pacific railway, was walking along the track to his work when he heard a locomotive behind him; he stepped aside, but on the wrong track, when the engine came up and crushed him to death His mangled remains were removed to his late residence, No. 105 Moreau street, where an inquest will be held this morning The deceased leaves a widow and child The Universal is the best double heating base-burner procurable, without exception, and price low as common cheap stove Barton, 105 St. James street, has them Father Cninkedy delivered the third and last of his series of lectures in Erskine church last evening Rev. Prof. Scainger presided, and there was a large attendance The lecturer was saying that the Catholics were banded to drive the Protestants out, when a young man shouted from the gallery, Don't you say that There was considerable excitement for a moment, until the sexton sent the disturber out The latter was followed by his companions, about a dozen in number, who did their best, by stamping their feet, to disturb the congregation When they got outside some of them proposed to go back and start a song, but others deemed it advisable to move off It was fortunate for them that they did, as Sub Chief Lancy and a squad of police in plain clothes were on duty at the door Impure Water Owing to the rising of the waters of our rivers after the long continued drought, many physicians consider them unsafe for drinking The Caledonia Kiltzer, bottled by Gurd & Co., a pure, natural mineral water, will be found a most delicious and safe beverage superior to any imported table water Weiiiuno Bells Mr
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"perhaps something worse, of these country bankers It is all very well for New York bankers to laugh at or even honestly despise the remarks of Chicago bankers in the circular just sent out by them to their country correspondents, pointing out the impossibility of making satisfactory quotations for New York exchange but it is to be remembered that the people into whose hands this circular will fall are not likely to share these feelings of amusement and contempt, but are rather likely to take them au grand sérieux with the result of additional inconvenience to everybody at a time when there is really no reason therefor A formal announcement by the Clearing House association that the banks are ready to pay cash on all cheques is the one thing required to release money from hoards throughout the country It will render the movement of the crops, which, under the present circumstances, will be a most troublesome proceeding, easy everywhere There is absolutely no reason to doubt this now that the currency premium has fallen away to a vanishing point The policy is one that commends itself to those who are able to see further than their noses, and only the selfish and timid, of which there are three or four first-class examples among the New York bank presidents,
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Outside the dimly lit engine room of the ferry Klitsa, a storm is raging. It's not a storm spawned by Mother Nature; today the sky is clear, the winds light and the waters of the Strait of Georgia smooth as glass. This is a tempest of another kind fueled by lawyers, RCMP investigators and the disturbing deaths of a mother and her 10-year-old daughter. In the dry hot guts of the Klitsa, chief engineer Ray Gordon must raise his voice to be heard over the ship's mechanical roar. "Everyone feels a little edgy when something like this happens," the 63-year-old sailor shouts, wiping his wrinkled hands on a pair of oily coveralls. "What can you do? You just keep doing your job." Many of the people who work for the provincial government-run Ferry Corp. of B.C. are feeling the strain of the investigation. Quebec eyes casino windfall Quebecers already bet big bucks at agricultural-fair casinos and the province says a state-run operation in Montreal could reap $100 million.
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Scott Wentworth's Gunmetal Blues, which has just opened at Theatre Lac Brome in Knowlton, is part cabaret musical, part film-noir murder mystery complete with a fedora-wearing sleuth named Sam. But the mystery gets blown away in the second act, just when people are beginning to get comfortable with the theatrical conventions set up in the first. What's left are the music, the singing and the deliciously tongue-in-cheek dialogue. For a summer's evening in the country that's enough, especially when Jayne Patterson is doing the singing. Patterson, a Charlottetown Festival veteran who made her Montreal debut in Godspell a couple of years ago, is a star on the rise, already on her way to Broadway. She has a key role in the musical Jane Eyre, which is being presented by Mirvish Productions in Toronto this season, before its New York debut. In Gunmetal Blues, she plays The Blonde. Not surprisingly, her big song is called The Blonde Song, which she turns into a high-vamp show-stopper.
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Tan sold nearly a million cans in Japan, Korea and other Asian countries Now the company is gearing up to sell the product throughout the United States Vests save New York policemen NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Two police officers were shot in the Bronx by an apparently deranged man who had attacked another officer minutes earlier and stolen his gun, the police said Neither officer was seriously injured because their bulletproof vests stopped the slugs The gunman, identified as Everton Brown, 33, of the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, was arrested after he emptied the stolen .38-calibre service revolver at seven officers from the 44th Precinct who were chasing him up a staircase, the police said A shot went off, Peter Segreti, one of the officers chasing the suspect, said When we got to the second floor, the officer was laying down, saying I'm shot! I'm shot! It looked like a war He was laying there and they pulled him out of the line of fire One of the bullets hit Alberto Morales, 35, squarely in his badge, twisting the metal shield but failing to penetrate the Kevlar vest underneath Another officer, Patrick Rodriguez, 24,
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Americans were flat, closing, however, above the lowest. Consols and other investment stocks were strong on the prospect of cheap money in the new year. The decrease of ��1,000,000 in the Bank of England's coin and bullion this week was mainly due to the internal requirements of the Christmas trade. The external movements for the week were ��42,000 in bar gold bought, ��88,000 from Australia, and ��100,000 shipped to Bouman, and ��100,000 to the Cape. The Bank of England specie shows a decrease of ��814,011. Three per cent rentes in Paris closed at 101 francs and 80 centimes. The Bank of England rate was unchanged at 2 per cent, and the open market discount rate was at 1 per cent. Consols in London closed at 103? for money and 103 7/10 for the account. Canadian Pacific in London closed at 60. The Bank of France specie shows an increase of ��111,575,000 francs in gold and ��150,000 francs in silver. The Bank of England gained on balance today ��8,000.
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The mobs act mob-like, and McConaughey shows why he's being touted as the new Newman-Brando screen idol. Despite one ludicrous situation after another, he maintains his coiled poise, then turns on the afterburners in the final courtroom scene. He's one to watch, which is perhaps more than can be said of this movie. To suggest it's the best of the Grisham adaptations is damning with faint praise. To say it will make dandy home-video viewing next winter is closer to the mark. To recommend you see it for the performances and turn a very blind eye to the inconsistencies, tired stereotyping, excessive violence and racial slurs is perhaps closest of all. A Time to Kill opens today at the Angrignon, Boucherville, Chateauguay, Cote-des-Neiges, Dorval, Eaton's, Famous Greenfield Park, Famous Pointe Claire, Lacordaire and Loews cinemas. Parents' guide: extreme violence, language. Shadowy characters: Al Goulem (left), Jayne Patterson and Robert Burns star in Gunmetal Blues at Theatre Lac Brome.
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The rats were quietly eating the fragments and keeping close together, fearing an attack from the cat, while the latter was apparently wise enough to know that in the event of a struggle the lamp would be upset. The express drivers at Victoria Square relieved one of the drivers to the Derby by their exclamations of ""Right here, gentlemen; take your chance across the river for five cents,"" and other like remarks urging to start across at once. ""Come along, gents; five cents per head."" The police patrolled along St. Paul Street all yesterday forenoon, and turned out the street lamps. In some places they also did service in ferrying people across the street."
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A 12 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1996 A cable car in from labor mini Not enough safety checks, Rioux says by JACK BRANSWELL CANADIAN PRESS QUEBEC - Quebec's labor minister severely criticized a government agency yesterday for lax inspection of a cable car that crashed last weekend, killing one tourist and injuring 15 others. Matthias Rioux said he found it strange that the funicular, a popular tourist attraction, is only supposed to be inspected every five years. The Régie du Bâtiment du Québec has admitted that it was behind in its work and that the cable car had last been inspected in February 1990. "A lift that carries that many people in a year - 400,000 - under normal circumstances should be inspected more frequently than every five years," Rioux said. Rioux also wondered about the quality of maintenance by Otis Canada, which serviced the lift. "In my opinion, we have to also question the responsibility of Otis," he said. The funicular plunged the last 7 metres and crashed into the base of the ride after a restraining cable snapped last Saturday. Quebec law does not set out specific inspection schedules for lifts and elevators; that is left up to the judgment of the building inspection board. There are six ongoing investigations over the funicular crash, including one by a coroner who is investigating the death of British tourist Helen Toombs, 46. Rioux said he would wait for all the reports to come in before deciding whether to order changes in how Quebec's 14,200 lifts and elevators are inspected. "If we have to toughen up the law or rules we will." Rioux also ordered the building inspection board to come up with a new inspection plan for the province's more frequently used lifts. The board has called Otis inspectors into a meeting today to talk about their maintenance schedule. But Rioux said that according to a maintenance log, the company was up to date on its inspections. He also said the accident "is sad and (one) is always too much," but it has to be put into perspective. Rioux said in the past 20 years, there has been only one other accident on all of Quebec's lifts and elevators. That incident concerned a teenager who had stopped an elevator between floors and then injured himself while trying to jump to a lower floor. Bureaucrats shrug off blame for July's flooding disaster by CLAUDE ARPIN THE GAZETTE CHICOUTIMI - Environment Quebec bureaucrats yesterday shrugged off all responsibility in last July's flooding disaster and virtually blamed local residents for courting danger by clamoring for high water levels in a government-run reservoir. The seven-member delegation from Quebec City emerged smiling and unscathed from a three-hour session before the Scientific and Technical Commission on Dam Management, a government body investigating the July 19-21 deluge that caused damage of $704 million and required the relocation of 15,000 people. With three mandarins in the witness box and another four seated in the audience, Quebec's dam experts systematically refuted every point raised by commission chairman Roger Nicolet and his five commissioners. The officials had testified last month but were ordered to face the commission again yesterday to answer more questions. This time, they argued that their management of Lake Kenogami was beyond reproach, even though all three dams on the 17-kilometre lake malfunctioned and some of its 10 dikes overflowed. Yvon Gosselin, director of the department's hydraulic division, said he'd been hearing for weeks that the cities of Jonquière and Chicoutimi might have been spared heavy flooding if Lake Kenogami's level had been low prior to the rainstorm. "The fact of the matter is," said Gosselin, "that when the lake's level dropped to 109 feet during the summer of 1995, we were pelted with insults by people who said we'd failed to anticipate the drought and had neglected to stock sufficient water supplies." Gosselin added that a formal agreement worked out in 1982-84 between his department, local residents and industrial users required Environment Quebec floodgate operators to maintain the lake's level at 115 feet during summer months, "to satisfy boaters and swimmers." He said studies conducted by his department in recent weeks show that the lake's level would have had to have been at 87 feet to avoid flood damage when 27 centimetres of rain fell on the 52-square-km lake in a 72-hour period last July. "But that wouldn't have honored the government's pledge to users along Chicoutimi River and Rivière aux Sables, with whom the summer-level management plan was negotiated." Even if the lake had been at 94 feet and thus capable of absorbing much of the downpour, Gosselin said Environment Quebec would have been subject to harsh criticism: "People simply would not accept that low a level in summertime." He added that department studies show it would have taken 10.5 days prior to the downpour to bring the lake to that level without causing heavy flooding downstream. "Whenever we have to raise the outflow rate to accommodate higher than usual runoffs, people are surprised." "Even if we'd decided to be at 103 feet on July 19, it would have taken 5.3 days to get there by emptying the lake at the rate of 960 cubic metres per second, or twice the flood ceiling, which is 480 cubic metres per second." According to Bruno Robert, Environment Quebec's engineer in charge of the province's floodgate operators, Lake Kenogami is "most difficult" to manage in summertime. He likened it to a "delicate balancing act" that involves releasing just enough water but never too much. "In the past 50 years," he added, "the trend had been to minimize the effects of spring runoffs by gradually reducing the lake's outflow along the two rivers from 400 cubic metres per second to 250." This kind of "efficient management," he added, tended to make people feel more secure about building summer homes closer to the rivers. "But whenever we have to raise the outflow rate to accommodate higher than usual runoffs, people are surprised and they say: 'See, they've mismanaged things again,' instead of saying, 'We shouldn't have built so close to shore.'" Robert said that if Environment Quebec were to switch to a substantially lower reservoir level, "summer sports and hydroelectric plants would take a beating." He allowed that during the night of July 19, department officials could have opened the floodgates wider in anticipation of heavy rain. "If we'd opened them at four or five in the morning, we would have drowned people in their sleep; that's not something we could do," Robert said. To a commissioner's concerns about the department's policy of managing water levels from Quebec City, Gosselin replied that similar "long-distance" techniques are common on other major bodies of water, including the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. "The duty engineer has access to all the pertinent data and when he goes home at night he takes his portable computer along." Last July, he said, Roger Poulin - the duty engineer - had five operators on call at the lake's dams to open floodgates. "You can be sure that he didn't sleep a wink Friday night (July 19)." All three dams had malfunctioned, added Gosselin, because of the volume of water flowing over floodgates. "The weight was simply too great for the electric motors that lift the huge wooden beams that act as doors on floodgates." Robert told commissioners the mechanical breakdowns at all three dams were "as unpredictable as when you take off for a trip and your car stalls by the side of the road." The commission winds down today with a series of questions for managers of Stone-Consolidated Corp, a newsprint manufacturer whose Lake Ha! Ha! reservoir overflowed, flooding the town of La Baie. Lost handicapped boy found safe but hungry Jean-François Gagnon, a 16-year-old intellectually handicapped boy, was found safe yesterday after being lost for 19 hours in a dense forest near Mont Laurier, about 230 kilometres north of Montreal. "He walked most of the night. He's tired and hungry, but otherwise he's alright," said Pierre Lemarbre of the Sûreté du Québec. Jean-François, who has the mental capacity of a child of 5 to 7, was taken to a Mont Laurier hospital, where he was reunited with his mother. He disappeared after leaving a Mont Laurier high school at about 4 p.m. Tuesday carrying a lunch and wearing only jeans and a windbreaker. The Sûreté launched a search with more than 30 police officers, 40 volunteers, a helicopter and a tracking dog. "We were really worried for him because the temperature dropped to minus 6 overnight," Lemarbre said. "You love for less Brand name women's fashions at discount prices. Choose from our large collection of coats, casual career and dressy designs. Bring in this ad and we'll pay the GST and PST, now through Sunday, October 20 (on regular priced merchandise) at 570 Beaumont St. (near L'Acadie and Park Ave.)! Tel. 272-9000. Smart Shopping. Closed Friday evening and Saturdays - Open Sundays. On TVs and AUDIO PRODUCTS of $799 and more & on CAMCORDERS of $999 and more at regular prices including clearance models. Das Zweite Erwachen Der Christa Klages (The Second Awakening of Christa Klages), 8. Le Cinema Parallele, 3682 St. Laurent Blvd. (843-6001) La Nuit du Déluge, 7; Sous-Sol, 9. Cinema du Parc, 3575 Park Ave. (287-7272) Cinema 1: Flirting With Disaster, 3; Restoration, 4:45; Dead Man Walking, 7; The Spitfire Grill, 9:30. Cinema 2: Grace of My Heart, 2:45, 5; 7:30, 9:45. Cinema 3: Mille Bolle Blu, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15. ETCETERA Imax in Old Montreal presents The Living Sea and Special Effects at 10:15 a.m., 3:35, 7 and 9 p.m. (in French) and at 1:35 p.m. (in English) and Across the Sea of Time at 12:15 and 5:35 p.m. (in French). For ticket information, call 496-IMAX. Arts Festival, celebrating Kalai Arangam, featuring music and dance at 7 p.m. at the Durkai Amman Temple, 271 Jean Talon St.
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who has a decade-long history of heart trouble, was in excellent condition after being admitted to hospital Monday night at the kingdom's army hospital, Hussein Medical City-led troops ousted them from Kuwait during the Gulf war earlier this year Adair said firefighting teams have now extinguished 157 oil-well fires Need more water The Kuwaiti government and one of the other three firefighting teams working with Adair's team to extinguish the Kuwaiti fires said they could be put out within a year No way, Adair told the senators But Adair predicted the time it would take to put out the remaining fires could be cut in half if enough water and proper equipment are provided Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly told the same panel that the Kuwaitis are losing an estimated billion dollars every 10 days to two weeks on the burning oil In his testimony, Reilly repeated statements he made to reporters Monday that we do not see the kind of acute (health) effects that we had feared Reilly said the Kuwaiti oil fires have sent up surprisingly little deadly sulphur dioxide fumes Saudi Arabia plans to boost oil output in response to an expected strong increase in demand and prices late this year,
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"The Board of Health for the city was appointed, and the assessment roll for grand and petit jurors was approved of. The council then proceeded to settle the financial question at the Mayor's suggestion. Aid. Rainville: Is this on the orders of the day? Aid. Wilson moved, seconded by Aid. Savignac, that the composition of the Finance committee be reconsidered. Aid. Rainville said he did not object to the understanding, but he did to the procedure. It was for the members who had given promises to redeem them. The motion was discussed, and Aid. Rainville said he reserved his right to object. Aid. Thompson spoke plainly, quoting the promises of Aid. Hurteau and Villeneuve, and said it was for them to redeem their promises. Aid. Villeneuve said that as Aid. Bolsean did not feel like resigning, he offered to resign if Aid. Bolsean would, and let the committee choose. This was not approved of, and he said he would do himself the honor of resigning in favor of Aid. Holland.
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The skin-grafting process which has been tried in her case has not proved successful, owing doubtless to the fact that her scalp was torn completely off. The doctors say, however, that the girl is in no immediate danger of dying, and that there is no reason for taking an ante-mortem statement at present. The story which the girl tells is that, while she and two other girls were standing at a window, a workman threw some sand at them, and one of them by way of retaliation knocked his hat off, whereupon he became angry and, grasping the Eugan girl, dragged her toward a window, saying he was going to throw her out. While he had hold of her, her hair caught in the shafting and the accident happened. OVER THE BORDER, Terrible Storm in Minnesota - A Number of Sad Fatalities, Buons's Valley, Minn, August 2, A hail storm passed over the city on Tuesday and ruined all the crops in its wake. The path it cut was over a mile wide and ten miles long. Great loss of property is reported. Near Rosemont mine a young man named Cummings was killed by lightning.
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"What kind of a country do we have that allows such an atrocity?" Teale was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison in the killings of Kristen French, 15, and Leslie Mahaffy, 14. Her estranged husband, Paul Teale, is charged with first-degree murder and other offences in the same deaths. His trial isn't expected until 1994 or 1995. The bill proposed by Jackson would funnel any money paid to a criminal for an account of his or her misdeeds to Ontario's Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. Attorney General Marion Boyd said she's interested in the idea and has asked lawyers in her ministry to look into its implications. "This kind of notion of a criminal profiting from his or her crime is very unpalatable to the general public," Boyd said. But she said the government has to consider the fact there would likely be legal challenges from publishers who might feel such a law violates their rights. Meanwhile, it was reported in yesterday's Toronto Star that Karla Teale danced the nights away in the weeks leading up to her husband's arrest.
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m. on Monday June 24 for Tuesday Paper THURSDAY JUNE 27th ZONED EDITIONS WEST ISLAND AND SOUTH SHORE RESERVATIONS FOR PROOF ADS DISPLAY ADVERTISING CAREERS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING JULY 6th ISSUE RESERVATIONS FOR ADVERTISING PROOF ADS DEADLINES DEADLINES 5 P.M.
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I, December 1 A terrible snowstorm visited this province yesterday. The wind blew 40 miles an hour and in many places there are snowdrifts from two to four feet in height. The tide last evening was the highest known here for years and all the wharves were flooded and the lower part of the warehouses thereon. Much damage resulted. Breastworks were carried away and the cellars near the wharf were full of water. Damage by the storm throughout the country is reported as follows: Two railroad bridges wrecked, railroad breastwork damaged and trains delayed; some of the principal shipping ports are closed, and thousands of bushels of potatoes and many vessels will be obliged to remain here all winter. The Island boat started for Pictou and after getting as far as Canso, was obliged to return. She was seventeen hours getting back to port. She had a terrible passage. The thermometer registered 3 degrees below zero. A stable owned by a Mrs. Tremaine, situated in the center of a wooden block, was set on fire during the height of the storm. Two buildings were burned with their contents and two horses also perished. The firebug was not arrested. There is hardly any insurance. The weather has moderated but is still very cold and everything looks wintery. Halifax, December 2 Reports of losses by Scatlcley's storm continue to arrive from various parts of the coast. The schooner Jeffrey Franklin, with a general cargo, was driven ashore on Meagher's beach, at the entrance to Halifax harbor. Her cargo will be saved, but the vessel owned by Murdock McLeod, St. Anns, C.B., is badly damaged; she is insured. A telegram from Whitehead announces the total wreck of the schooner Numbesem, from Sydney for Halifax, with a cargo of coal. The Sunbeam is owned by George Livingstone, of Port L'Isle, C.B., and is insured. At Canso three schooners and eight fishing boats were driven ashore. Three of them are total wrecks and the others are more or less damaged. The vessels ashore are the James Liven, Lida and Lizzie, Hector McKinnon. The Ryan got off with but little damage; the Hector with her top damaged by collision with the Lida and Lizzie. The Lida and Lizzie, laden with dry fish, from D'Escousse for Halifax, is still ashore leaking badly. The Enxine, produce laden, from Prince Edward Island for Halifax, is yet aground and leaking freely. Information has been received at Liverpool by cable from Jamaica announcing the total loss of the schooner On Time, Captain J.K. Kempton, owned by John H. Harlow and others, of that place. She was on her way to Colon to Halifax loaded with old iron. Her crew were saved. The American schooner Alice is ashore at L'Isle aux Coudres. The crew were saved. The following vessels are ashore on the Hunkestury side of the Strait of Canso: Ottawa, Granada, Leila Linwood, Admiration and Helen McCrosby. The Arizona and the brigantines Bessie Louise and Mattie Louise dragged anchors, collided and were damaged. The mails did not cross the straits of Canso today owing to the storm. The schooner Mary Euphrosyne, from Halifax, for Magdalen Islands, with a general cargo is ashore at Port Hawkesbury. The cargo is insured here. Every hour brings fresh reports of wrecks caused by the storm, which seems to have been most destructive on the Cape Breton coast. The schooners Bella May and Kexon are ashore at Gabarus. The Isabella, Captain Ferguson, parted her chains at Arichat and was driven ashore. The Native Lut, Captain McLeod, is ashore at Olawow harbor, Canso, and the Maggie Millard is ashore and full of water at Gabarus. The foregoing are all from Halifax bound to Cape Breton ports. The schooner Virgesco is also reported ashore at Lower Desbarats, C.
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On the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday, crude oil for delivery in October fell $1.02 to $30.91; PAGE G3 - Sealy Furniture shuts TORONTO Sealy Furniture Canada Inc has gone out of business, leaving 250 people without jobs. The sofa-bed maker in Concord, just north of Toronto, was forced into receivership by the Bank of Boston on Aug. 15. John Page with Price Waterhouse, the accounting firm overseeing the receivership, said the company owed tens of millions of dollars to creditors, but has only millions of dollars in assets. There were only about 20 employees left in the factory when Price Waterhouse came on the scene last week, he said. Price Waterhouse will try to sell the company as a going concern, Page said. City of Montreal issues bonds A $140-million bond issue on the Canadian capital markets by the city of Montreal has allowed the city to retire the last $75 million of its foreign debt denominated in Swiss francs, the city said yesterday. The issue also reduces Montreal's total foreign-currency debt to $248 million, on overall debt of $1.8 billion. The bonds were sold with terms of five, 10, 15 and 20 years. The five-year bonds yield 11.25 per cent, while the others yield 11.5 per cent. Cascades acquires distributor Cascades PSH of Drummondville, manufacturer of the Vania brand of sanitary napkins and K-Plus adult disposable briefs, has taken control of medical-products distributor Dismed Inc of Montreal. Cascades PSH, a subsidiary of Cascades Inc, said the new name of the distributor will be Cascades Dismed Inc. Financing for film ""Societe en commandite Agaguk"" said it is issuing $23 million worth of units to help finance a $28-million film version of Agaguk, a best-selling Quebec novel by Yves Theriault. Shooting for the film, a co-production of a unit of Montreal-based Transfilm Inc and Eiffel Productions SA of France, will begin in November. Main underwriter for the film tax shelter is Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc. Foreigners buy up bonds ""OTTAWA Non-residents invested a net $2.23 billion in Canadian bonds in June compared with a net disinvestment of $2.23 billion in May, Statistics Canada said. In June, non-residents invested a net $29 million in Canadian stocks compared with a disinvestment of $130 million in May. Talks to resume on mine strike TIMMINS, Ont. The union representing 600 striking gold miners and Placer Dome mine management are set to return to the bargaining table for the first time since June 8. The two sides are scheduled to meet with a provincial mediator on Tuesday in Toronto in a bid to end the dispute that began May 7. We'll spend $2.4 billion over 15 years: Unitel SUSAN YELUN CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO Unitel Communications says it will invest $2.4 billion and double its workforce if it is allowed to break into the country's long-distance telephone monopoly, officials said yesterday. In a stack of 21 documents supporting its application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the Toronto-based company said the investment will be made over the next 15 years, and predicted staff will jump to 6,700 by the end of the decade. Unitel president George Harvey said the jobs and money will be a blessing to provinces struggling against a battered economy. The figures are based on Unitel's premise that it can grab a 10-per-cent share of the Canadian long-distance market by 1998 and a 19-per-cent slice nine years later. Unitel, formerly CNCP Telecommunications, is owned by Canadian Pacific and Rogers Communications. Rogers is the country's largest supplier of cable-television services. In a bare-bones filing to the CRTC in May, the company said it could lower long-distance rates by 15 per cent in its first four years. But Bell Canada, Unitel's major competitor, suggested that cheaper long-distance calls would force local rates to rise. Bell has maintained that its costs for local-phone service have been kept low because they've been heavily subsidized by the lucrative long-distance business. But Harvey answered that criticism at a news conference yesterday, saying that a new entry in the field will force telephone companies to keep their long-distance rates low to stay competitive. ""They have already done so in the last year anticipating the introduction of PLEASE SEE UNITEL, PAGE G2 Economic forecasting Revised downward from earlier estimate JAY BRYAN THE GAZETTE Gilles Rheaume has a cartoon on his office wall that shows a man in shorts and Hawaiian shirt standing at a bus stop in the middle of a snowstorm. ""Why yes, I am an economic forecaster,"" he says to a bystander. ""How did you know?"" Rheaume, head of forecasting at the Conference Board of Canada, is one of Canada's leading practitioners of this much-maligned profession. Like other forecasters, he is aware that his predictions are taken with a grain of salt, but believes that's exactly as it should be. Foretelling the future is a risky business, and this has rarely been more true than today, with a looming recession, fear of a Middle East war and the gyrating price of oil making the economic outlook even murkier than usual. Factors like these will be buzzing through forecasters' minds next Friday at 10 a.m., when they begin deciding how to revise their current predictions. At that hour, Statistics Canada will make public its first estimate of how much Canada's economy grew in the three months from April through June, and which sectors grew how much. Even before the price of oil skyrocketed this month, Canada's forecasters most of whom work for banks, trust companies, stockbrokers and independent consulting firms had been cutting their estimates of 1991 economic growth. The major reason is that interest rates have remained higher than expected, squeezing spending by both consumers and business. Based on conditions in July, the Conference Board concluded that ""the risk of recession will be greater over the next six months than it has been at any time since 1982."" And now oil prices have jumped by more than 50 per cent in a month, leaving forecasters to decide whether this will be the final straw that breaks the back of economic growth. Were oil prices to remain near their present level, there's a good chance the answer would be yes. If oil were to average $28 a barrel a few dollars lower than its present level through the end of 1991, Canada's economic growth could be cut by about 0.6 per cent next year, estimates Informetrica Ltd, an Ottawa consulting firm. Taking the Conference Board forecast of 1.1-per-cent expansion, that means economic growth would be cut in half. Informetrica economist Carl Sonnen points out that this price shock would be only about a quarter as bad as the one Canada suffered in 1980 and 1981, when oil prices doubled. However, that may be less comforting if you recall that 1981 was the year when Canada slipped into its worst recession since the 1930s. Higher oil prices would also cut purchasing power even for those unaffected by an economic slump. George Saba, chief economist with Montreal Trust, says his rough estimate is that oil prices at current levels could add as much as PLEASE SEE FORECASTERS, PAGE G2 Oil prices at current levels will add 1.5 to inflation, says economist George Saba. Previous Current Previous Current Previous Current Previous Current Conference Royal Bank Montreal Board of Trust McCarthy Canada. Current predictions were made in late summer, and previous predictions in spring. None of the forecasts takes into account any major increase in oil prices. GAZETTE Estimates for economic growth were reduced in the face of high interest rates. Stock market is no place to be if Mideast war breaks out Financial markets paused for a breath yesterday after a week of tumult caused by the Persian Gulf crisis. It was a week in which stock and bond prices plunged, oil prices soared, the Canadian dollar reached a 12-year high and stomachs churned. Just imagine how they feel in Tokyo, where the stock market has now declined almost 40 per cent since its peak last year and has taken even more of a beating this week from the Iraq crisis. The panic selling that hit the North American markets in mid-week abated yesterday as investors nervously waited news of whether Iraq would enforce its deadline for a shutdown of foreign embassies. With many stocks having fallen precipitously in value since July, some big institutional investors were prepared to pick up a few bargains yesterday. But the sense of gloom that pervades financial markets won't be dispelled until the Iraqi crisis is resolved. And for investors, the already volatile state of the stock and bond markets is now dramatically heightened. One Montreal stockbroker reported yesterday that his clients ""weren't overly concerned"" about the Iraqi situation. ""People are more worried about their own jobs and incomes right now than about their investments,"" he says. ""But if you want my personal opinion,"" the broker adds, ""I think the stock market could go much lower. If a war breaks out, and there's chemical warfare and Americans are getting shot, this market is going to fall like nothing you've seen yet."" PETER HADEKBL From an investment point of view, this is really no time to be placing bets, no matter how calculated. ""Never fight a war in the financial markets,"" says Bill Ram, an investment strategist at Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc. ""Leave it to the military."" The threat to world financial markets from a Middle East conflict is incalculable, he says. No one can build an economic model of what could happen, and financial markets can only react to developments rather than anticipate them. Previous military conflicts such as the Vietnam and the Korean wars didn't involve a strategic commodity such as oil. The economic stakes from a Mideast war would be much higher. One investment firm ventured the opinion this week that if Saudi Arabian oil exports were disrupted by a military confrontation, oil prices could climb to between $40 and $50 a barrel, which would throw the world economy out of whack. The situation is inherently unpredictable because of the involvement of Saddam Hussein. Whenever the U.S. and the Soviets squared off in a global crisis, there was a sense that the world knew exactly how far each side was prepared to go. With Saddam Hussein, nobody knows. The cost of war on the economy would be significant, simply because there's so little room left to mitigate the impact. In North America, we spent most of the 1980s dodging a series of economic bullets, including the huge increase in government deficits, the steep rise in the indebtedness of corporations and consumers, the weakening of the banking system and the crash of stock markets in 1987. After eight years of growth, we now have an economy heading into recession, and faced with the added prospect of higher oil prices and higher interest rates because of the Persian Gulf crisis. In Canada, the Iraqi caper has disrupted what was clearly a window of opportunity for the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates down. Corporate profits have been whacked by a combination of high borrowing costs, an overvalued dollar, low commodity prices, slow sales and escalating labor costs. ""The manufacturing sector is already in a recession and clearly doesn't need the added trouble of a conflict in the Persian Gulf. With luck, the guns of August will stay silent and the economic blockade of Iraq will be effective soon. The other alternatives are too unpleasant to think about."
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At the Point police station there was five feet of water in the cellar, and the policemen had removed their coal to one of the cells for safe keeping. The fire station on Centre Street was cut off by several feet of water. There were of course many incidents, some of them laughable, some of them sad, connected with the flood. Men and boys constructed rafts and paddled round on them; express wagons were in use as ferries and conveyed loads of waiting people, men and women, to their homes, not a few of which were partly under water. Large crowds of people collected in the affected districts and stood in groups watching the water as it slowly crept up, bearing with it blocks of ice, which stranded on the street as it would ebb for a short time, only to return with greater volume within a comparatively short period. The chief cause of the flood was doubtless the breaking-up of the ice in the reaches above the Lachine Rapids. At Beauharnois on Friday night the lake ice began to move. From Vaudreuil on Saturday morning came the news that the ice was passing down taking with it wharves and buildings close to the shore.
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467 10 Sacramento 15 31 .336 17 Yesterday's Games Golden State 122 Orlando 114 Seattle 112, Atlanta 110 Minnesota 114, Denver 99 Houston 122, Indiana 111 Phoenix 113, LA Lakers 104 Utah 126, Chicago 123, triple overtime Sacramento 99, Dallas 95 Today's Games Miami at New York, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Charlotte, 7:30 p.m. Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Dallas at LA Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Tomorrow's Games Seattle at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Houston at Boston, 8 p.m. Orlando at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Chicago at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m. LA Clippers at LA Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Utah at Sacramento, 10:30 p.m.
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Geneva, Ill, April 15. Professor Brooks, director of the Smith Observatory here, has just been awarded the medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his discovery of the comet now in the eastern heavens. It is the first medal awarded by this society. Accidentally Shot in the Heart. Sodus, N.Y, April 15. At about 10 o'clock last night a Pole named Wallack Walloftoski was accidentally shot through the heart in the house of Julius Albrecht, on Murray Street, by Wladyslaw Baliknowicz, of White Port. An Electric Light Monopoly. Baltimore, April 15. A deal has been made by the Brush Electric Light Company of this city and the Westinghouse Company of Pittsburgh, by which the latter company practically obtains control of the former. Failed for $300,000. Detroit, Mich, April 15. The Detroit Steel and Spring Company, the largest of its kind in the United States, has suspended payment with liabilities of $300,000. Assets nominally the same. The Southeastern Rivers Falling. Arkansas City, Arkansas, April 15.
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"an inventor, with his wife and two children They likewise had a narrow escape Mr Ford went to try and assist Mrs Mason, but as the fire got so furious he went to the assistance of his wife and children, but he found that they had gone to look for a place of escape, which they did by the roof and there called for help, which was soon given by Messrs Grenier, G Gratton and A Claude, of Pratt, who rescued them by the freight elevator, which Mr Perrault used, and which rendered good service in enabling the firemen to reach the upper storeys Mr Perrault also got all hose in his building ready for action should it be required THE HEAT FROM THE FIRE was very intense, but despite this the men on the ladders stuck to their posts Burning boards and pieces of the roof were falling constantly, and fears were entertained that the walls would collapse About a quarter past nine o'clock the roof fell in with a terrific crash and a pyrotechnic display of sparks The wind carried these as far as Notre Dame street, but owing to the wet condition of the roofs, fortunately no evil results ensued,
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East wins the finesse, cashes his diamond ace and exits in clubs, waiting patiently for the setting trick in hearts. Does West get all the blame for not finding the heart shift at trick two? Absolutely. If the setting tricks were to come from the club suit, East could easily have overtaken the diamond jack to make the club plays himself. When he allowed West to hold the trick, he was asking West to do something that East couldn't do for himself. BID Wi l li THE ACES South holds: 3 ? K 0 8 2 0 AQ842 QJ 10 SOLTII 10 20 NORTH I 2 ANSWER: Pass. North has a six-card (or longer) suit and shows no interest in a game venture. QiH,luifi tn bridge can hi' wni to lr on HrulKi. ' (ia:t'thc, Sol every question can he unmereJ, but all wilt be considered. Personal replies without a sell-addressed, stamped envelope cannot be guaranteed.
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regional development and family policy, an idea the committee didn't reject outright Beaudoin was optimistic about his committee's final report Even if English Canada desires to have a strong government in the center, it is still possible with a few asymmetries here and there to meet the needs of Quebec with concurrent powers and provincial preponderance or paramountcy, he said Beaudoin said it is possible to have a strong central government but in certain fields like culture, education, language and some other fields, immigration, we may please Quebec very well I am quite sure of that The committee also heard from groups representing Quebec's anglophone, Greek, Italian and Jewish minorities who pleaded for a better definition of the distinct-society clause and elimination of the constitution's notwithstanding clause They also challenged Ottawa to go farther than just saying minorities should be preserved We do not wish to stagnate, said Myrna MacAulay, president of the Townshippers anglophone-rights group We wish to grow as communities ADDITIONAL Ht PORTING SOUTHAM NEWS Canadian ship to enforce UN sanctions CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA The federal government will send a warship to the Middle East to help enforce United Nations trade sanctions against Iraq,
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1995 SSH 7 The laminated look Shopping for wood flooring? New products might be your answer If you thought high-quality hardwood flooring had to be made of solid hardwood, there's good news for you and the environment. One of the fastest-growing segments of the hardwood flooring industry is a new generation of products - laminated hardwood products. This new breed of flooring features a laminated construction that uses heat and pressure to bond up to five layers of hardwood into a single, highly stable, highly durable homogeneous flooring unit. Not only are these products top quality, but they offer the same design versatility as solid products and installation options not always possible with solid planks or parquets. More importantly, they maximize the use of every tree harvested. There are two key reasons for the move to laminated products, according to Vicki Dryden, vice-president of sales and marketing for Harris-Tarkett, one of the leading producers of prefinished laminated flooring products in the United States. ""Advanced technology is one reason for the shift,"" she says. ""Our industry has moved in the last 20 years from one of blades and saws to one of highly sophisticated computer technology, which allows us to make the most of the raw materials we use. This technology is responsible for the precise milling and curing that creates today's laminated products."" The second reason for the shift to laminated products is an environmental one, said Dryden. ""Although most wood flooring manufacturers harvest their raw materials from managed forests, our collective goal is to maximize this valuable resource,"" she says. ""Because we only need a one-seventh-inch-thick top layer of first-quality hardwood, rather than the three-quarter-inch thick piece required for a solid plank, for example, we can maximize the lumber from each board we mill,"" she said. The savings in raw materials with this process is most obvious when you consider an average flooring installation, she said. ""A two and one-quarter-inch-wide piece of unfinished solid strip oak flooring requires four times as much top-grade hardwood to cover an area as compared to a Longstrip laminated product, one that is produced in planks to resemble strip flooring when installed,"" she said. A key purchasing influence when choosing wood flooring is the design and installation versatility. Laminated products meet these purchasing needs as well, said Dryden. ""Harris-Tarkett's newest laminated introduction, the Perennial Collection, for example, is available in the industry's two leading species: red oak and maple."" There also is a range of five colors, including white, although the top seller continues to be natural, adds Dryden. The Perennial Collection offers LES ENTREPRISES Ba(aX ENTERPRISES Lawn Care Painting Excavation Fences Patio Interior & Exterior Renovation Spring Clean Up FREE ESTIMATE COMPETITIVE PRICES Richard Dalpe LANDSCAPING CONTRACTOR Specialist in Cedar Hedges Environmental friendly: Laminated wood uses less raw materials Making certain you don't stunt new trees' growth Establishing trees on your lot is an important step, and landscaping professionals suggest you buy the largest trees you can afford. However, there is another factor even more important than their cost. The faster the trees grow, the sooner you will have cooling shade and a look of permanence for your lot. Homeowners sometimes lose or stunt young trees because of some common mistakes. Lack of water is the biggest danger. It takes a new tree up to three years to develop roots to make up for those lost in transplanting. During that time, they are vulnerable to drought. Moreover, when first transplanted, trees have so few roots that they may not even be able to take up all the water available. If new trees wilt badly, prune some of the top branches to balance the loss of roots. You can also shower the foliage until wilting stops. To water the roots, make a donut-like depression a few inches deep and 2 to 3 feet from the trunk so water will not run off. Not long ago, a dish-like depression extending the same distance around the tree was considered ideal. But the donut works better because it prevents puddling around the trunk, where water could cause rot. Water deeply - as much as 5 gallons for a 3-to 4-foot tree - each week that there is less than 1 inch of rainfall. Wrapping and staking are sometimes required by nurseries if their guarantee is to be honored. Wrapping the lower trunk with tree wrap or heavy paper will prevent sunburn until the canopy of leaves grows enough to shade the trunk. Wrapping also prevents some damage from insects and power tools, such as lawn mowers and trimmers. Use masking tape, and leave the wrap in place. Staking was, until recently, a rule without exception. New research, however, has shown that some sway is necessary for trees to develop strength and resilience. Too much swaying will keep the roots constantly under stress and prevent them from settling and spreading. So, use the minimum staking necessary, perhaps none for small transplants. Remove ties to test the tree for strength, and take out stakes when you're sure they're not needed. Another danger to trees is girdling. This often happens to new trees that come with a wire label loosely attached. As the tree grows, the trunk or branch grows so much in circumference that the wire is embedded in the bark. Growth will then be restricted, and there will be a swelling above this point. Laminated products are easy to care for. Most are prefinished at the factory, two widths: a 2 and one-quarter-inch-wide strip and a 3-inch-wide plank, both with the option of a square-edge design or a slightly eased edge. ""The good news for the homeowner and home remodeler is that the laminated products offer the same design versatility as a solid product,"" she said. There are also installation advantages. ""Laminated products are inherently dimensionally stable,"" said Dryden. ""This means they are often the better choice in areas of high humidity since they resist the swelling and shrinking that can occur with solid products."" From an installation point of view, the most versatile laminated product is the Longstrip product, produced in 8-foot planks to resemble strip flooring when installed. Longstrip is the only laminated product that can be permanently installed without the use of nails or adhesives, added Dryden. Laminated products are easy to care for. Most are prefinished at the factory and feature a tough polyurethane coating for a durable, yet easy-care surface that requires no waxing for routine maintenance. W JAPCO CONSTRUCTION Extensions Decks Kitchens Garages Skylights Basements Carports Bathrooms Plans, etc. Licensed & Insured General Contractor FREE ESTIMATE Jaap Breunesse 441-4296 ""Your Satisfaction Is our Inspiration"" Environmental product Made in Canada More than 25 models Various heights 3 colors: white, beige, grey 9 am Showroom; 5:30 pm Monday to Friday 9 am - 3 pm Saturday LIFETIME WARRANTY 9555 HEHRI-BOURASSA EAST MONTREAL (QUEBEC) HIE 1P8 (514) 494-2400 TOLL FREE 1 800 NORACIT EVERYTHING FOR YOUR BATHROOM AT A DISCOUNT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC VISIT OUR FACTORY SHOWROOM Mon. to Fri. 8 am to 5:30 pm, Sat. 9 am to 3 pm. Free delivery with a minimum order. We offer discounts until May 31, 1995. VISA, MASTERCARD & INTERAC ACCEPTED BATHROOMS DIRECT BATHTUB 60x33""x19"" White Whirlpool 4 jets or Therapeutic 8 injectors (UK- Accessories & Lux If"" NEO ANGLE SHOWER series 1010 B & Fils inc, Greenhouses A FAMILY BUSINESS SINCE 1875 OFFERS YOU THE BEST CHOICE OF THEIR GREENHOUSE Approximately 100,000 small boxes of annual flowers, 457 varieties and formats of annuals, 12,000 hanging flower pots, 750 varieties and sizes of perennials, Complete range of vegetables and herbs for the garden, Green plants and bonsais, More than 2,500 outdoor rose bushes, Our greenhouse production covers a surface of 200,000 square feet, and open-air perennial culture covers 80,000 square feet. A GREAT TEAM OF SPECIALISTS IS IN PLACE TO ADVISE YOU, AND TO SUPPORT YOU IN YOUR CHOICES AND PURCHASES IN THE VAST WORLD OF HORTICULTURE. H 68 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1995 Baths that are made of cast acrylic can do that much better than those made of ordinary material, experts say. Money-saving tips on remodeling your bathtub Make sure the tub you choose can withstand the rigors of family life. Experts report that baths made of cast acrylic can do that much better than those made of ordinary materials. Before you plunge into buying a new bath or shower, here are some money-saving tips and important facts that should wash well with style-conscious homeowners: 1. When remodeling, if you do your own demolition, it's messy but fairly easy, and it can save hundreds of dollars. 2. When designing your bath, avoid moving plumbing fixtures and relocating drains and supply lines. 3. Try to keep walls and windows where they are; structural changes can be very expensive. 4. Choose a material that is both beautiful and durable. Lucite cast acrylic, for example, is one of the more popular materials for tubs and showers. This beautiful material is commonly used for top-quality, large contoured tubs. The material features deep, rich colors, easy maintenance with common household cleaners and long-lasting durability. Beware of bargain-priced bathware; they may not be built to last, and you could end up replacing them in a few short years. Avoid making major changes once remodeling work has started. When tradespeople have to backtrack, the bill can grow alarmingly. Make gardening easier with the right equipment. Carving out a garden is a difficult chore without the right tools. Start with a few basics, as listed below. As your interest in gardening and landscaping grows, keep adding to your tool inventory to lessen your workload. Remember: Although forged tools are more expensive, they are more durable. 1. Spade (either with a straight or D-shape handle) for breaking new ground, general digging, and mixing soil. 2. Spading fork for breaking up soil or moving well-rooted plants. 3. Hard-toothed metal rake for smoothing soils, breaking up dirt clods, or gathering garden debris. 4. Lightweight metal rake serves as a broom for your garden. 5. Hoe for cultivating, removing weeds. 6. Scuffle (pronged hoe) for bigger jobs and cultivating in tight areas. 7. Trowel for digging small holes for individual plants. 8. Claw for cultivating tight areas. 9. Shrub clipper for pruning and cutting shrubs and small vines and sticks for your compost pile. 10. Two-handed lopper for bigger pruning tasks. 11. Dandelion lifter for removing dandelions and other long-rooted weeds. 12. A 5 x 8-inch hose for watering. 13. Watering can for individual plants. 14. Wheelbarrow for hauling dirt, large plants, and compost. 15. Bucket for smaller hauling chores. Proper ways to prune your roses It may seem like you're taking a step backward to cut away healthy wood from a rose, but it's actually in the rose's best interest. Pruning is necessary to control the size and shape of a plant and to keep it healthy, vigorous, and covered in blooms. If you fail to prune, the rosebush will soon become tall and rangy and produce few good flowers. Pruning should be done before the buds break, just after they have begun to swell. Timing will range from mid-winter to mid-spring, depending on your climate. If forsythia blooms in your neighborhood, prune roses when yellow forsythia buds begin to show. It's important to use the right tools for the job. Curved-edge pruning shears are better than straight-edge anvil types, which can crush the stems as they are cut. Use a long-handled lopper or a pruning saw for thick canes. Where winterkill does not force you into a lower pruning height, cut hybrid tea, floribunda, and grandiflora canes to a height of 12 to 18 inches. Floribundas can be left taller and fuller for increased flowering capabilities. The hybrid perpetuals should have only the oldest canes removed. Prune shrub and old garden roses just to shape them and to remove dead wood. Prune minis to about half of their summer height; shape them according to their use in your landscape. Tree roses are pruned like bush roses, but they must be kept symmetrical. Polyanthas require little pruning. Cut their height by half, and shape; remove dead wood as it appears. Because trimmed canes can be a source for blackspot spores, throw them away immediately after pruning. Water: How much should you use? There isn't a simple answer, but these guidelines will help; Nature can take care of most of the plants native to your region by watering them through rain, dew, and underground sources. Sometimes, however, you may need to help with a sprinkle or two to keep your lawn green and your plants flourishing. Plants need water to survive. Water transports nutrients, which may abound in the soil, from the soil into the roots. Plants maintain proper temperature and rate of growth by transpiring water through the leaves. Plants (vegetables in particular) consist of up to 90 percent water. A loss of water can result in wilting and death. Soil texture is a key factor. Gardeners often ask how often and how much they should water. There isn't a simple answer. Soil texture is a key factor; clay soils can hold three times as much water as sandy soils and will not have to be watered as frequently. Improving your soil allows it to use and conserve water most efficiently, creating the foundation for healthy plants. As a rule of thumb, apply 1 inch of water per watering, and don't water again until the soil surface dries. The time it takes to apply 1 inch of water depends on your method of watering and your water pressure. A simple and inexpensive way to measure your watering is to set up a rain gauge or several empty cans and time how long it takes to collect an inch of water. Drought, weeds, and diseases Light and frequent watering can do more harm than good - it uses more water and encourages shallow root growth, making plants more vulnerable to damage from drought, weeds, and diseases. If only the surface is moist, the roots will concentrate there and derive their nutrients from a very limited area. Deep-rooted plants are better nourished and anchored, and they are better equipped to withstand a drought. There is one time when shallow watering is useful: when seeds are germinating and you want the ground around them to stay moist. If you're planting a new lawn during a dry spell, you may need to water five or six times a day. Spring or fall rains will usually relieve you of frequent watering chores, but you'll need to be ready with the sprinkler if precipitation lags. The system you choose to water your garden depends on the size of your yard, your budget, and the time you want to invest. Watering by hand is time-consuming and inefficient for large areas, but it's often necessary for container plants, seedlings, and hanging baskets. An oscillating or rotating sprinkler will cover large areas, but make certain that the watered areas overlap for even coverage. To avoid dragging the garden hose around the yard, consider installing a sprinkler system. Drip irrigation systems are recommended for flower and food gardens. Water usually travels to plants through tiny holes in a hose on the ground or by small emitters from the hose. Drip irrigation uses less water more efficiently than sprinklers because water is kept closer to the ground instead of sprayed in the air, where much of it is lost to evaporation. Foliage also stays dry, which promotes healthier growth. Temper the wind's force Early morning is the best time to water; less moisture will evaporate in cool temperatures. Avoid watering in the evening to help prevent the risk of fungus diseases. To reduce water lost to evaporation, avoid watering on a windy day. If your garden is exposed, install a hedge or windbreak to temper the wind's force. You can conserve moisture in the soil and reduce the amount of water needed by placing a 2-to 3-inch layer of mulch around plants. A mulch will also keep down competitive weeds. Organic mulches, such as shredded bark, grass clippings, and composted leaves, also enrich the soil as they decompose. You can also use a commercial anti-transpirant spray. Along with reducing water loss from leaves, anti-transpirants greatly reduce transplant shock. There are times, usually in the spring, when too much rain falls for prolonged periods and the soil becomes so saturated that roots die for lack of air. To lessen the damage, plant seeds treated with fungicide so they will be less likely to rot in the ground. Apply additional nitrogen to the soil to spark plant growth and make up for the deficiency from leaching. You can also bore holes around large plants and trees to aerate the soil. BROCCOLI Product of USA ZUCCHINI Product of USA A head start perks you up A HEAD START EVERY DAY For home delivery call 987-2400 Specials valid from May 16 to May 22, GRAPEFRUIT BEEF TOMTEX $10.99 lb REGULAR OR GARLIC LIVER PATE $6.57 kg $2.99 lb TANCO GRAND! CAMEMBERT $5.56 lb HOMEMADE APPLE PIE $2.99 Le Centre Horticole de La Piniere mc HARDY Carpartira Hosta Panache Dianthus Deltoides LANDSCAPING SERVICE 100% guarantee on all construction and gardening work John Cabot rosebush 2 gallons, rustic & carefree $9.95 DesPres Sheep Manure Compost 30 litres $3.695 AT-HOME CONSULTATIONS Plans and Sketches 20% off retail price of applicable greenhouse purchases."
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The source, who declined to be identified, said virtually the entire hull bottom of the 294-metre-long liner was scarred. The evidence starts five feet back from the bow, said the source. There's evidence of damage most of the way along the port side but it's superficial. The first survey for 53 years of the waters where the liner ran aground revealed an uncharted rock and there were indications of a number of other ridges and rocks in the general area. They were found by divers operating from a U."
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In the largest election in Philippine history, voters will choose a successor to President Corazon Aquino. Seven candidates, including former first lady Imelda Marcos, are in the presidential race. No clear favorite has emerged. But polls show voters may choose a candidate closely allied with the late president Ferdinand Marcos, who was ousted in the 1986 uprising that Aquino rode to power. Voters will also select a new congress and more than 17,000 other officials. Aquino is not seeking re-election but is supporting her former defence secretary, Fidel Ramos. There is no runoff and with seven candidates, the commission on elections estimates the winner will probably take no more than 25 per cent of the vote. Officials say it may take days and possibly weeks to determine who won the presidential election. Police said two people died and 41 were injured when a grenade exploded late yesterday during a rally by pro-Ramos local candidates in General Santos City, about 1,000 kilometres south of Manila. At least one person died and up to 15 others were injured in a bombing near a Ramos party rally in Cotabato, 900 km south of Manila.
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"The interlude was contributed by Charles Hanley, as the impressionable nigger ""Reuben,"" and Tom Jarvis as the bayseed 11 Klobs. The inter's KDF, ""These Words Shakespeare Never Wrote,"" fairly brought down the house, and the whole piece went with a vim and snap that showed both the practice of the artists and the excellence of the stage management. The olio opened with a medley of songs and dances by Nina Bertolini, one of the most graceful dancers now upon the stage. Next came a really funny blackface knockabout act by Hanley and Jarvis that kept the audience laughing from start to finish. Mr. Jarvis is a native of this city, and his clever French gags certainly brought down the gallery, who were not slow to appreciate the fact that he was a Canadian. Leda Clark followed in a series of ballads and selections that were liberally applauded, and then Bunnell and Adams appeared, in their comedy musical act, aided and abetted by their celebrated stuffed dog.
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T. Time Gen Henry I. Abbott arrived here yesterday from France on the steamship La Champagne. He was accompanied by M. Charon, said to be connected with the new Panama Canal Company. Gen Abbott was a member of the International Technical Commission, composed of engineers of the United States, France, Kuaalat, England, Germany, and Colombia, which recently made an inspection of the plans and work and suggested changes in the route of the Panama Canal. He is on his way to Washington to submit to the Government the information he possesses regarding the Interoceanic waterway at the Isthmus of Panama. He said yesterday that the French Government has no longer anything to do with the proposed canal, and the new company could dispose of its interest in the work to the United States without opposition from any source, provided the terms offered were satisfactory. The new canal company, with the 65,000,000 francs which it possessed when it secured the control of the cut, has simply been doing the preliminary work necessary on account of the mistaken ideas of the old engineers. No obstacles, such as the overflow of the Chagres River during the period of freshets, have been arranged for, and the old idea of making connection between ocean and ocean a tidewater one has been modified, so that the part yet to be finished will be built on the lock principle. Two-fifths of the entire canal work is now actually completed, and the balance is under active construction, with 2,000 workmen and a large force of engineers. Thus far, a distance of about fourteen miles of the tidewater part of the canal on the Atlantic side has been completed and is navigable to vessels drawing not more than twenty-eight feet of water. There are a few bars that only need dredging to make it passable for vessels of greater depth. Beyond that point, there has been considerable excavation to the twenty-one mile line from the Atlantic. Over four miles of the tidewater work on the Pacific side of the canal have also been finished. General Abbott declared that the new plans are perfectly feasible, and that the canal can be completed in one-half the time and at much less cost than it will take to dig the Nicaragua Canal. ""Were the two routes compared today,"" he continued, ""eight vessels to one would prefer the Panama route, because it is only forty-six miles across, and the Nicaragua course will be four times that length, and the windings of the San Juan River are very short and sharp. There is no reason why this country should not take hold of and finish the Panama cut."" President McKinley has recently been furnished with a full report of the International Technical Commission, and the present status of the canal may be the means of the abandonment of the Nicaragua project by the United States in favor of the Panama route. The report of the commission is probably the most authoritative document ever presented on an engineering subject. It has been prepared with the greatest care, after the most thorough and competent investigation and examination, with the most exhaustive surveys before the members. The surveys cover every foot of the ground to be treated, and were prepared by the most experienced engineers of five different nations. At the present time, the topography of all the grounds involved in the project, and the character of the materials to be encountered, are accurately known and delineated, and no doubt is left as to the soundness of the materials through which the canal is to be dug to great depths, and on which the foundations of the locks, dams, and other structures are to be established. ""The original purpose of the old company was to build a canal without locks, freely open from ocean to ocean, but after several years of work, the plan was abandoned, owing to the enormous excavation necessary to cut through the central mass of the mountains (the Culebra) and the difficulty and expense of properly taking care of the occasional torrential flow of the River Chagres. The alternate plan which has been adopted by the new company is to reduce materially the depth of the central excavation and to establish therein a system of locks, to be fed from the Chagres River in order properly to regulate the flow of the river; two large dams will be erected. One of the dams will be situated at Bohio, at the last group of locks on the Atlantic side. This dam transforms the Chagres into a vast lake, which will extend to Obispo, a distance of thirteen miles, and will cover an area of over twenty-one square miles. The dam, besides acting as a regulator of the Chagres floods, will obviate strong currents where the canal traverses the bed of the river, an extremely important matter for ocean shipping. The other dam will be situated at Alhajuela, on the Upper Chagres, about nine and one-third miles from the canal. It will form a reservoir covering ten miles, which will be a feeder to the summit level of the canal and will assist in regulating the flow of the Chagres. It will also furnish hydraulic power, transmitted by electricity, for operating the locks and lighting at night the entire canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific. ""Both dams can consequently accumulate a storage of at least 68,000,000,000 gallons, which, with proper adjustable weirs, will be more than sufficient to control the largest freshets known. The time of transit for vessels through the canal will be less than a day. Merchant and war vessels of the largest size can be accommodated. ""The estimates of the cost of the completion of the canal have been established from the experience acquired during the last four years of actual work on the isthmus, and are reported by the Technical Commission as follows: Cost of the work proper under plans adopted, $87,000,000; add for contingencies, $15,400,000; total $102,400,000. If both locks be built with a width of 82.025 feet, the cost would be increased to $125,000,000. ""Such, in brief, is the present state of the Panama Canal, and if this Government does not take advantage of the chance now offered, the waterway at the Isthmus will be completed by private capital. It will then be in operation years before the rival scheme proposed across Nicaragua could be finished, and, being a shorter route from ocean to ocean, would be a financial success, while the other cut, if ever carried out, would be a failure in more ways than one."" A NEW PICTURE ON WHICH BURNE-JONES WAS WORKING EIGHTEEN YEARS The chief topic of conversation in English artistic circles just now is the unfinished and never exhibited ""Arthur in Avalon,"" the vast picture on which Burne-Jones was engaged for eighteen years, and which had not received the last touches when death called upon him to cease his work forever. It is a huge canvas measuring more than 10 feet by 11 feet. Burne-Jones always intended it to rank as the great work of his life, and in no picture did he expend so much thought and positive labor. Although it is catalogued as unfinished, and although he so regarded it, it had very nearly reached completion; to most judgments, indeed, it would pass as a finished picture, though the artist intended to put more work into the heads and some other parts of the composition. The design represents the king lying asleep on a couch in the midst of a marble cloister; over his head is a canopy of gilt bronze, adorned with designs from the history of the Holy Grail. The three queens are at the head and foot of the couch; maidens, with musical instruments, are seated in front; three squires standing to the right keep the king's armory while other figures on either hand are holding horns or trumpets, or waiting for the signal which is to awaken the king. Like most of the painter's latest creations, the picture suggests tapestry, just as his early work used to suggest stained glass; but it is lovely tapestry, and by those who appreciate the quiet key of color which characterizes his later works, this ""Avalon"" will be found to be one of the most satisfying of any. In many ways, indeed, the last period of Burne-Jones was not so good as the period that came a little earlier; his types became exaggerated and he tended to repeat himself. But for all that, ""Arthur in Avalon"" must always rank as one of his most important pictures, and the very dimensions of it seem to designate it for a public gallery. NEW CURES FOR CONSUMPTION Results of a Russian Surgeon's Injections of Natrum and Cinnamyllcum London Telegraph St. Petersburg December 25 Some interesting reports have been current recently concerning the discovery by a Russian physician of a new method of treating consumption, which is said to have already given brilliant results. As is well known, none of the new cures for consumption, not even excepting that of Prof. Koch, have been very successful, but it is stated that the experiments made by Dr. Lovsky with natrum cinnamyllcum have turned out very well. I am, of course, not a medical expert, and therefore I can only write of what I hear at a recent meeting of the Society of Medicine in this country, at which Dr. Lovsky presented an account of his discovery. He gave particulars of five cases upon which he had produced visible effects by injections of natrum cinnamyllcum. At the outset, the doctor stated that at the beginning of the treatment, all the patients were suffering from what the faculty regarded as the most painful form of tuberculosis, but that in the course of a short period their health was re-established sufficiently to enable them to return to work. He said that treatment by natrum cinnamyllcum in the form of balsam of Peru had been tried by Landerer in 1888 in cases of surgical tuberculosis. He used the balsam as an emulsion with gum arabic and tried it with success in 170 cases. Following Landerer, a whole series of medical men carried on experiments, trying also other preparations of the balsam, and in 1887 works were published on the subject by Dr. Goutcharenko and other doctors. In all cases, the results were favorable, and this circumstance induced Dr. Lovsky to undertake his essays, using injections under the shoulder blades. The invalids were divided into three categories: first, those with changes in the form of the lungs, both with and without hollows; secondly, those with changes, not only in the lungs, but in other parts of the lungs; thirdly, those with the dangerous form of miliary tuberculosis. The results obtained were mixed. One patient was in a desperate condition and died a few days later; another, having felt relief, came no more for treatment. The rest were present at the meeting of the society. Of these patients, one, a doorman, who had no regular nourishment, came to Dr. Lovsky in March of the present year. He had a strong cough, severe perspiration, and feverishness; diminution of vital power had prevented him from following his business, and the diagnosis clearly showed that he was suffering from tuberculosis. The injections of natrum cinnamyllcum were commenced on March 13, and were repeated every three or four days. For the first two months, there was no sign of amelioration in his condition, but afterward it soon appeared, and the symptoms subsided. He gained eight pounds in weight, despite his insufficient food, and he is now in good health and able to follow his occupation. From March 15 to the present time, he has received fifty-three injections in the region of the shoulder blade. Patient No. 2 was in a very bad way, and galloping consumption was even feared. In April last, he had four injections and was ordered to drink koumiss. His condition soon improved, and although bacilli are still to be detected, they are far less numerous, and he seems to be getting on well. Patient No. 3 was a young man twenty-eight years of age. His treatment began on September 15, and by November 22, his weight had increased, and although his state had been very grave, the bacilli had disappeared at the end of eighty days; he felt well and was able to work. The other cases were of similar character. ON THE CONTINENT Vienna, January 13 A terrible gale has been raging here since early this morning. Much damage has been done to property, and there have been many accidents. Berlin, January 13 Reports received here late this afternoon describe a violent gale in northern and western Germany, and thunderstorms and torrential rains in southern Germany. At Stuttgart, a large scaffolding was blown down and a man killed. Dieppe, January 13 The destruction of the locality here by the storm has blocked the channel with girders. The packet boat from England to connect here with the express for Paris was unable to enter the harbor this evening and was obliged to return to New Haven with her passengers. Immense damage has been done to the Plage Gardens and Casino here, and at Tourville the gale has worked similar injury, the beach being torn up and the valley flooded for an area of three kilometers. Ten chalets facing the sea have been destroyed, forty bathing boxes washed away, and the Casino wrecked. At Le Treport, sixteen miles northeast of Dieppe, the Casino was partly carried out to sea and many chalets have been damaged. The whole coast is strewn with debris. London, January 13 The gale appeared to be passing in the direction of Russia. There is still many hours' delay in telegraph communication from the continent, and it is feared that accounts of serious ravage there will soon be received. A dispatch from Brest says that along the Finisterre coast a large quantity of wreckage has come ashore with carcasses of sheep and cattle, and it is believed that a large ship has foundered. Heavy damage is already reported from Ostend, Blankenberge, about nine miles northwest of Bruges, and other coastal towns.
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(Figures in brackets indicate distances in marine miles below Quebec) April 23, 8 p.m. Cap Rouge 354 Ther 37; cloudy and raining; light southeast wind. Inward yesterday afternoon, two schooners. No Ice, Manicouagan and Point des Monts Clear and warm; light southwest wind; no ice. Anticosti Ther 25; dull; light south wind; no ice. Café Dkbpair (384-Bainting); light southwest wind; no ice. Point Esquimalt Dull; light southwest wind; light, open ice everywhere, moving northeast. Café Toke mentink Clear and fine; strong southwest wind. Ice about a mile in extent. Meat Cove, C.B. 60; dull; variable winds; heavy open ice stationary. Three schooners in sight. Low Point, C.B. 575 Cloudy and warm; light southwest wind. Heavy open ice distant, moving northeast. Cape Ray, Nfld Clear, warm and calm; no ice; fishery fair. THE RECENT FLOODS Serious Loss on the South Shore-Lighthouses and Plant Damaged-But of the City. A walk through the recently flooded districts of the city yesterday showed the various proprietors and tenants rapidly repairing the damage to their property. The various shops are announcing cheap sales of damaged goods. In the streets were found stranded sidewalks, and the corporation workmen were busy repairing the other ones. In some places there was a most disgusting stench from the sewage matter deposit. The Health department has sent a supply of chloride of lime and quick lime to the following stations: No. 1, Point St. Charles; No. 7, Young street; No. 8, Seigneurs street; and to the fire station, Chuchillcz square. The poor can obtain what they require on application at these depots. The chloride of lime is intended for throwing into privies and sprinkling on the floors of cellars and into the gutters in front of the houses, and the quick lime for whitewashing fences and cellar walls, etc. The Rev. Father Tiche, cure of Lachine, has forwarded 4 loaves to the Rev. cure of Laprairie, for distribution among the poor of his village who have recently been flooded. The Rev. fathers of St. Ann's church were out all yesterday afternoon giving assistance in deserving cases of distress. Rev. Mr. Patterson has been prosecuting his visits among the poor in the flooded districts, and has been instrumental in relieving many families in Wellington, Queen, Prince, Natureth and Ann streets, and also in St. David, Roy and Dupre lanes. Many sad sights, he says, were to be seen. At this stage our great need is that of fuel to dry the terribly damp houses and household belongings. It is urged that the national societies should take up this matter, as no time is to be lost. The clothing of many of the poor people has been lost and injured to a great extent, and cast-off clothes would in many cases be most acceptable. The Island wharf is almost free of water. About 100 men were busy breaking up ice on the wharves yesterday by order of the Harbor Commissioners, in preparation for the arrival of ocean steamers. There is still a very considerable quantity of ice on the wharves, but it is rapidly disappearing under the influence of the sun and wind. Work in the Grand Trunk shops at Point St. Charles, which has been almost entirely suspended during the floods, will be fully resumed next Monday. A trip along the south shore yesterday presented a sad sight. All the fences along the river bank, between Laprairie and Longueuil have totally disappeared. Many outbuildings have been very seriously injured, and, in some cases, completely demolished. The road has been washed out in several places and altogether the view is a sad one and shows a heavy pecuniary loss. The jamming of the ice and the recent flood has had a telling effect on the lighthouses along the St. Lawrence. At Point Valois the lighthouse was torn away and stranded on Dorval Island. The piers are extensively damaged also. The pier of the new lighthouse just completed at Pointe Claire has been damaged heavily. The one recently constructed at Isle Ste. Therese withstood the shock remarkably well, except the entrance door, which was smashed in. The pier is slightly damaged. The lighthouse at Isle Vache is yet submerged and consequently the damage is not known, but it is thought to be very heavy. The lighthouse at Windsor pier, Ste. Anne, has been carried away, and the pier is seriously damaged. Several other lighthouses have been damaged more or less. BROCKVILLE BOOMING At no former period were so many buildings being put up in Brockville as there are this spring. In every direction houses are going up, mostly all of a good and some of a very superior character. On Main street there is not a single vacant store of any kind. Mr. Bigg is putting up a couple of good stores on the lot opposite the Central hotel. Mr. Comstock is putting up a magnificent building on the lot opposite the new post office on Court House avenue, and some forty dwellings are about being constructed already in various parts of the town. This will be a lively season for the building trades in Brockville. Monitor, The man who never does any harm might crawl into a cave and stay there ten years without being missed. Chicago Tribune Backache is almost immediately relieved by wearing one of Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache Plasters. Try one and be free from pain. Price 25 cents. GOOD FRIDAY, Services at the Various Churches-The Generally Observed Day. The service in the churches of this city yesterday were all well attended and were peculiarly devotional in their nature, as was appropriate to the day. All the Roman Catholic churches were suitably draped in purple, and the voice of devotion was subdued and somewhat sad, soon to rise in a tone of joy and praise on Easter Sunday. The day was everywhere observed as a holy day throughout the city, and not so much as a holiday. In the Protestant churches appropriate services were pretty generally observed and the attendance was large. Below will be found a few particulars concerning the different services held. Tenebræ services were performed in all the Roman Catholic churches during the afternoon. This service consists of the placing of thirteen lighted tapers in the sanctuary which are extinguished one by one, after the singing of ""The Passion."" The exception is that the thirteenth representing Our Saviour is kept burning, the other tapers being intended to represent the twelve apostles. In all the Roman Catholic churches the special shrines in honor and memory of the Eucharist were visited by large numbers of worshippers. At St. Patrick's church the celebrant of the office was the Rev. Father J. Touplu, assisted by the Rev. Fathers Walsh and Hamel, as deacon and sub-deacon. The Passion was sung by the Rev. 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Anguished brother, Norman Tewisha, watched the search. Hayes said Tewisha's relatives said the helmet belonged to the missing man. Angus said he and Tewisha had been ice fishing all day Saturday. "When we stopped fishing, we had supper at a Hudson restaurant and then went out for a couple of beers," Angus said. "I left on my snowmobile at about 11 p.m. and Terry said he'd be leaving soon. That's the last I saw of him," Angus said. Angus then crossed the lake by snowmobile to his Oka home and had no inkling that anything was amiss until the next morning, when Tewisha's mother called looking for her son. Angus said he and his cousin knew there was some danger in riding their snowmobiles over the frozen lake, especially at night. "You don't see nothing at night," he said. "I don't know if I'll go back out on the ice again." On Jan. 3, 22-year-old Andrew Simon of Kanesatake died after the van he was riding in plunged through thin ice on the lake between Hudson and Oka.
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The wagon capsized, drowning four children, aged from 3 to 10 years. The team was also drowned and everything lost, the parents alone swimming ashore. The parents are left penniless and are prostrated with grief. Mail Goods From a Prison, Johnson City, Mo, February 11.
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different men Bill recalled being beaten and burned by a man when he was in jail The man who tortured Bill works for Simon Simon is convinced Holly knows the whereabouts of emerald mines in San Sebastian and where to find a jaguar statue that he wants Clay reluctantly remarried Gwyneth in Isabelle's hospital room after a dying Isabelle begged them to tie the knot Dinah Lee was furious when she learned Clay married Gwyneth but insisted the marriage will not last for long Dinah Lee wished Clay a happy life and then stomped off Hannah learned that Kent planned to plant After crashing her car during a bad thunderstorm Erica found shelter in a hunting cabin owned by Dimitri who went to the cabin after his horse left him stranded Dimitri told Erica that he loves her after they made love Jack rescued Angelique who was thrown from her horse while searching for Dimitri Dimitri promised Erica that he will divorce Angelique Brooke is worried about Edmund who woke up in the middle of the night after having a recurring nightmare which he said relates to the fact that his father despised him Gloria told off Helga when she tried to put her down again Taylor told An Li that she will help her come up with a miscarriage story once An Li has taken Brian away from Hayley Brian refused
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GEORGE AND THE DRAGON A writer, who evidently knows his subject thoroughly not by hearsay, but by experience, discusses in Blackwood the value of Wei-Hai-Wei. The policy by which it was acquired and the terms by which it is held, he does not approve of. Its seizure was the result of surprise. That Russia would eventually occupy Port Arthur was looked upon by those who had been watching events as fairly certain, and yet the occupation came so suddenly that it proved almost as disconcerting as if such a thing had never been contemplated as possible. The British Government through the press and otherwise let the world know that Russia's action had flurried it. For a time there was a great deal of talk about the open door and then, a squadron having been sent to Cheefoo, over against Port Arthur seventy miles off, Wei-Hai-Wei was taken possession of and a clause was inserted in the lease that England would hold it as long as Russia remained at Port Arthur. What that means it is not hard to decipher. It was authoritatively given out that the Government intended to make Wei-Hai-Wei a secondary naval base. Under certain circumstances such a course might be wise enough; but, in view of the fact that Russia is rapidly turning Port Arthur into a first-class fortress, with an absolutely impregnable harbor capable of sheltering 100 torpedo boats or 50 destroyers of the Sokol type, such a policy would be a grave strategic error. In fact, Wei-Hai-Wei is worse than useless to England unless a defensible harbor is constructed there and the island adequately fortified. If the necessary breakwater were commenced at once, all that could be effectively accomplished before Russia could have her strategic railways completed and be ready (if such action were deemed advisable) to begin an advance upon Peking. The writer in Blackwood admits (though not without sarcasm) that Lord Salisbury may have information of which he knows nothing, but he has no faith in secrecy or the pretense of it in these days of an ubiquitous press. The question in which the Empire is concerned especially that important portion of it that is interested in Chinese trade is whether the Government really purposes to defend the trade interests of northern China. If so, the policy indicated may have its use. Now, moreover, is the time to act, when Russia is in a peaceful mood and friendly her strategic railways being still unfinished and Port Arthur being dependent on the sea routes for its supplies. What about the climate of Wei-Hai-Wei? It would be an insult to that future stronghold, says the writer in Blackwood, to compare it to Hong Kong, and it is not hot and relaxing like Yokohama. In fine, he believes it to be the healthiest in the world. Spring and autumn are magnificent. There is adequate rainfall, plenty of sunshine, and though the four months' winter is cold, it is a bright, clear, dry, bracing cold, with neither rain nor fog, and but little snow. Still, he mentions occasional blizzards an average perhaps of one a fortnight which sometimes bring a little snow and blow from west round to north. While these blizzards last from one day to three days the air is keen and cutting, but quite dry. The weather between blizzards is compared to that of the Riviera in winter and even superior to it, being drier and more bracing with more brilliant sunshine. We have outlined only the practical features of the article. Lord Beresford's proposals are condemned as dividing the powers of civilization into two great hostile camps. But he considers China's disintegration as only a matter of time. The great wall of exclusion is a thing of the past. The era of the railway has begun. The remotest interior will soon be open to foreign trade, England must share her monopoly with others, but she has held her own before under unfavorable circumstances and she need not despair now. The proposal to give the Northwest half-breeds another issue of land scrip may be in the interest of somebody, but certainly it is not in that of the half-breeds. After the rising of 1885 a commission was sent up to settle the 'bleeds' claims with scrip, and most of the stuff passed into the hands of speculators within a few hours of issue. It cost the Government a large sum, and did the recipients the least possible amount of good. It will be the same with future issues. The half-breed does not take to farming and does not need land, else he could get all he wants on the same conditions as white settlers. He is a picturesquely decaying survival of a past time, to pamper whom is to waste money. The English landlady who refused to serve a feminine cyclist because she wore bloomers has been paralleled by a landlord who had a lady ejected by the police because she persisted in smoking a cigarette. He also prosecuted her for disorderly conduct in refusing to leave the premises when ordered. The magistrate dismissed the summons, but held that the landlord was right in making and enforcing a rule against ladies smoking, as it might tend to make the lewd and less thoughtful members of society rather inclined to joking. And this while it may tend to promote morality in public, seems to be somewhat like punishing a woman for man's rudeness. Mr
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THE NORTHWEST DROUGHT Una S affected the harvest for Honor to Move the Harvest The results of the harvests will soon be known definitely and in a manner that will conclusively prove that most of the reports circulated about the Northwest crops have been greatly exaggerated, and that the so-called drought has been anything but disastrous Next to the farmers the men most nearly affected by the result of the harvest season are the bankers, who are at this season of the year called upon for the purpose of facilitating the transport of the grain to points of shipment for export, and it follows that if a crop has been partially or totally a failure the demand is necessarily very small, but as will be seen from the opinions of a few of our city bankers, the results of our harvest have been a good average, and this in spite of the much-praised drought Mr. THOMAS, general manager of the Molsons Bank, says the demand for currency is just about the same as his bank expects this season of the year, and from what he can gather, the crop is a very fair one on the whole, though it has suffered from drought in some parts of the country In fact the crop is a good average one, and the bank has demand for credits as freely as in most years As to the prospects of the fall trade, it seems to have been overdone, and Mr. Thomas fancies it will not be until late in the winter that the wholesalers will begin to feel relieved MR. GEORGE HARRIS, general manager of the Merchants Bank of Canada, expects that the demand will be much the same as usual, as there are no special features visible this season What about the effects of the reported drought in the Northwest? Oh! the Manitoba crop is likely to be much better than was anticipated and the quality appears to be very fine, but of course the quantity cannot be definitely ascertained until a good deal of threshing has been done There will be a considerable amount of wheat for export, beyond doubt In Ontario and this province, the crops, taken altogether, will apparently come up to a fair average But until the result of the Manitoba crops and those of the rest of the provinces is made certain, it would be well for caution to be observed in giving credit, and in importing and manufacturing Mr. CHOMSKY, manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, says: From what I can learn, the crop on the whole will be an abundant one, and I feel satisfied that there will be quite a large demand upon the banks to move the crop It looks, therefore, as if money will become somewhat dearer for a time at least I think also that the prospects for the wholesale trade are very good, although the retailers are buying very sparingly just at present COMMUNICATIONS
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In time, however, it is hoped that these difficulties will be overcome, and that fresh British Columbia salmon will form a common article of diet on the tables of Eastern Canadian homes. It certainly looks as if there was an opening here for some enterprising man to open up a good and lucrative trade. Was It His Fault? Keswick, Ont, August 17 - An inquest was held here to-night on the bodies of Mrs. Frank Wilson and her little daughter, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, implicating Frank Wilson, husband of the deceased. Bit Ilia Now - There was considerable excitement in the East end street car stables about five o'clock last evening when one of the hostlers, Francis Therrien, 66 years of age, residing at 227 Maisonneuve street, went into a stall to feed a horse. The animal grabbed him by the nose and before the brute could be made to let go tore the cartilage badly. He was taken to the Notre Dame hospital and it is feared that the nose may have to be amputated.
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"the celebrated water from the Mt Clemens spring, will keep their system in such condition that there need have little fear of contracting any disease BAIN HIT THE BULLSEYE! And Interrupted Yesterday's Shooting at Ottawa THE COMPETITORS' MEETING They Find Good Deal to Grumble About the Social Events of the Meeting By our own reporter Ottawa, August 29 For the first time in the twenty-five years' experience of the members and competitors of the Dominion Rifle Association a day's shooting has been postponed on account of the weather, not because of the storm, which started in on Monday afternoon and then put a stop to the shooting and which continued up to two o'clock this afternoon, but because it was found although the riflemen were willing to shoot that the targets would not work The slides had become so swollen that the targets could not be pushed up and down, while the targets themselves had become so soaked during the night's rain that a patch would not remain on The result of this was that the shooting men who gathered at 8:30 in the morning, in the midst of a driving rain storm and an easterly gale, waited until noon without firing a shot, and then the executive committee met, with the president,
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LEGAL INTELLIGENCE SUPERIOR COURT JUDGMENTS THE GRADING OF CITY HALL AVENUE JUDGMENT AGAINST THE CITY Montreal, November 26 By Mr. Justice Archibald C. 8 Helnhardt vs The City of Montreal Montreal - The action concerns damages 1 II iltntlH MY City Hall and Fortier streets, Mr. Justice Archibald, in renue 'ThVltTrbrewer' and occupied on what was formerly called German street, just at the foot leading to Sherbrooke street. The name of this street is now City Hall street. This street was not graded previous to 1893 beyond Ontario street but ran from the latter street towards Sherbrooke street, nearly on a level and ended against the steep face of the bluff forming the Sherbrooke street plateau. Wooden stairs for foot passengers were placed to enable them to communicate with Sherbrooke street. The plaintiff's brewery was constructed upon this hill face. In 1893 the defendant graded the street, so as to make it practicable for traffic up to Sherbrooke street, and in so doing raised the level of the street, abutting plaintiff's brewery from 2 to 8 feet above its old level. Plaintiff's property extended up the hill and was bounded by a street named Fortier street, running at right angles with City Hall street, practically on a level with Sherbrooke street. The grading of City Hall street necessitated the filling up at the foot of the hill, and an excavation, when the hill was reached. This excavation was of considerable depth when it crossed Fortier street, and necessitated a cut also in Fortier street in both directions. Previous to this work being done very little water from the Sherbrooke street level came down City Hall street. It was carried westward on Fortier street and discharged into the St. Lawrence street drains. The cut made in Fortier street changed the grade, and brought large quantities of water down City Hall street. Plaintiff had a drain in City Hall street which he made himself, and which was sufficient for his needs. The defendant opened gullies into this drain, and it proved to be quite insufficient in anything like a heavy rain to carry away the water, which, in consequence, backed up and flooded the plaintiff's cellar. In addition to this, much of the water could not find an entrance into the drain, and it was thrown against the plaintiff's walls and injured them very materially. Before the works mentioned, plaintiff had a good frontage on Fortier street for his vacant land on the top of the hill, but by the lowering of Fortier street this land was left at an elevation, and would require to be carried away to enable plaintiff to utilize his land. One side of plaintiff's building abuts land belonging to the defendant, upon which it has erected a police and fire station, and used plaintiff's wall without paying for it. Plaintiff's claims for damages are as follows: Cost of reducing the level of Fortier street so as to make it conform with the new level of that street $2,000. Depreciation of value of the brewery buildings, by raising the grade in front of them $6,000. Damages suffered to the brewery by reason of the inconvenience and extra cost of handling the products, owing to the change of grade $1,000. Damages resulting from the flooding $2,000. Damages resulting from defendant's action concerning plaintiff's wall $1,000. Forming a total of $12,500. The defendants at first pleaded a general denial, but afterwards were allowed to plead a supplementary plea, of which the following are the material propositions: 1. If plaintiff has suffered any damage, it is compensated by advantages gained by plaintiff, by the works in question. 2. That plaintiff had himself solicited that the works should be done, and had given his full consent thereto. The first of these propositions had been, in my judgment, entirely rebutted by the proof. The street opened is so steep that although a horse with an empty wagon can go up, it would be quite impracticable to go up with a load. It is not quite clear whether the work benefits anyone, but it is certain that plaintiff reaps no advantage from it. As to the second proposition of the supplementary defence, it is only proved to the extent that the plaintiff knew of the works and did not put any obstacle in their way. The defendant did not need the plaintiff's consent for these works and had the right to disregard any opposition which plaintiff might make. There is nothing proved on this head which forms any answer to plaintiff's action. Plaintiff has proved that when his brewery was built his architect got a level from the defendant and built conformably to it. If then he has suffered damage by the change of that level he has a right to indemnity. Taking first his first claim of $2,000 for reducing the level of his vacant property, it must be remarked that plaintiff, building as he did against the face of the hill on a level which would preclude any idea of the subsequent opening and use of City Hall street, cannot base his claim on this head upon the cost of reducing the level of that of City Hall street. Before, however, the works were made he had a frontage on the level of Fortier street, and he has the right to an amount sufficient to put himself in the same position with respect to Fortier street as he was in before. Plaintiff's witnesses, as well as some of defendant's, consider 80 cents per cubic yard as a low price for the removal of that earth. Although one witness of defendant declares the work could be done for 50 cents, I think he was relying on the likelihood of finding a near place where the earth could be dumped. I am disposed to grant the plaintiff 75 cents per cubic yard, making for the 357 cubic yards necessary to remove to reduce the land to the Fortier street level the sum of $267.45. The second item of plaintiff's demand, $1,500, includes damage done to plaintiff's property by water, and work necessary to prevent the continuation of that damage and also depreciation of the value of the property by being buried to a certain extent in the ground. The proof with regard to the damage by water is uncontradicted, and is moreover founded upon precise specifications of details. It is proved that the plaintiff's drain was quite sufficient before the change to carry away all the water; that the effect of the change was to increase enormously the quantity of water coming down the street; that the city, without right, made gullies admitting this water into plaintiff's drain; that transversely the grade of City Hall street opposite plaintiff's brewery showed a fall of 18 inches from the opposite side of the street to plaintiff's wall, thus throwing the water against the wall; that the mortar of the wall was completely disintegrated by the action of the water and that it would be necessary to excavate all along the outer face and put a coating of cement as well as point with cement the inner face; that the cellars had been frequently flooded and the brick and cement floor destroyed by the action of water; that the raising of the level of the street had immersed the stone foundation and part of the brick work in the ground, and it would be necessary to raise the stone work of the foundation so that it should come above the surface. The cost of these works is proved as follows: Sixty lineal feet of new string course $1,500. Repairs to brick work (say 2,500 bricks) $1,000. Works necessary to repair the foundation wall $30,507.50. In addition to this plaintiff claimed $2,060 for a puddle wall to be constructed outside the foundations to prevent the water from continuing to damage the wall. This item, I refuse because the puddle wall would not be necessary if the defendant constructs properly, and if it does not do so it will be liable further in the future. With regard to diminution in value of the property, I found the proof insufficient and I appoint experts to report on that point. They report unanimously that the property has been diminished in value by the raising of the level of the river two feet to seven feet, along a line of 60 feet, whereby the appearance of the building is materially affected, and they assess damage at $2,507.50. Amount above detailed Total under this head $3,057.50. The next item claimed by plaintiff for damages as a brewery by the increased difficulty and expense of handling the product amounts to $2,000. The proof establishes that the loading of the mash became very difficult by reason of the change of grade, and also that the grade was so steep at the place where this product was loaded that buyers refused to come, and a considerable portion thereof could not be sold and had to be thrown away; also that the beer, which before the change of level was simply rolled into the express wagons, had now to be lifted, causing a considerable extra expense. The plaintiff's proof indicates that the extra costs under this head would amount to between $200 and $400 per annum. If this be the case, and the defendant has led no evidence to contradict it or to show that remedy could be applied to avoid or diminish such extra cost, I cannot think that the sum demanded by the plaintiff is excessive. I therefore grant the plaintiff the sum of $1,000. The next item, namely, for damages from flooding, for which the plaintiff claims $2,500, must be understood to refer to the costs of cleaning after the various floodings, as the other damages by water have been already taken up. I am disposed to think that this item has not been satisfactorily proved, beyond the sum of $100, for which plaintiff must have judgment. There remains the item of $1,000 claimed by plaintiff for half the value of the mitoyen wall used by defendant. The proof offered by plaintiff brings this item up to $195.50. The defendant has offered proof on this point, which reduces this item to $116.97. I am disposed to adopt this latter figure. There is another item which I think it is reasonable to award to plaintiff. The circumstances of the case were such as to require an examination by experts before bringing the action. This plaintiff did and the value of these services is proved in the case as follows: $365.00. And then, that plaintiff is entitled to judgment as follows: 1. Earth removal $267.45. 2. Damages to building by water $2,507.50. 3. Damage to building by diminution of value by being sunk in the ground as reported by experts $550.00. 4. Damage by inconvenience in handling products $1,000.00. 5. Costs of cleaning after flooding $100.00. 6. Half cost mitoyen wall $116.97. 7. Costs of examination and plans by experts $365.00. Total, with interest and costs of $4,906.92 from date of judgment. By Mr. Justice Curran The Prairie Pressed Brick Company v Margaret Pillard et al - Judgment for the defendant, beger, for $4,500. The London & Lancashire Assurance Company vs Tremblay - Judgment for $1,000 and costs.
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A degree must be amorous, self-motivated and report directly to the President. The responsibilities include preparing interim financial statements, cash flow reports, cost & price analysis, mortgages, special reports, banking, credit and implementation of internal control system. Please forward your CV & salary expectations to M. Mercure, Friedman & Friedman, 5075 De Sorel, Mil, H4P 1G6. File 1005B DENTAL HYGIENIST Position available, Westmount office, specialized practice. 931-6733 DENTAL Assistant, bilingual with or without experience, LaSalle. Good working conditions. Call: 363-2654. DENTAL Assistant with experience for downtown office. Excellent conditions for the suitable candidate. Call weekdays, 285-1624; Evenings, 769-4313 (leave message). DISSATISFIED? Here is a career opportunity, not a job offer, in financial services. We are looking for self-reliant, hard working, mature people with high school leaving certificate. Full training provided to write exam for licensing. Very lucrative income for successful candidates. Please call Vincent on Mondays and Tuesdays between 9:00 am - 11:00 am, 369-0018. LOOKING for certified dental technicians experienced in gold work and porcelain. Offering $5,000/week, 738-2335. QUALIFIED educator required, full-time, for small daycare. Call 481-9300. SACHS CANADA A leading manufacturing company in Dorval seeking experienced candidate to manage computer department. Applicant will do training and some programming, and must be experienced with IBM mini-systems. We offer attractive remuneration and benefits programs. Please call at 636-6560 or fax resume 636-0794, attention: Mem. SIGN company in Laval, looking for sign-maker and installer, with experience, bilingual preferable. Skilled Help Wanted 410 AIR CONDITIONING Looking for technician with experience for service and installation of central air conditioning and heat pump, call Yoav, 733-0527. A8 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1990 Alberta Conservatives reaffirm support for Meech Lake Premier Don Getty checks his watch 'Meech and Merriment' Liberal fundraiser slammed by Crosbie CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA Trade Minister John Crosbie attacked yesterday a $1,000 per ticket benefit dinner dubbed "Meech and Merriment" being organized in Toronto for the Liberal Party of Newfoundland. Crosbie said he was shocked by the letter, signed by David Mac-Naughton of Toronto, inviting people to a cocktail reception and dinner in Toronto where Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells will be the guest of honor. "I regard this letter as highly inappropriate and that's putting a mild connotation on it," Crosbie said in an interview. "It passes understanding for insensitivity and crassness," he said, adding he hoped the dinner would be cancelled. He said he believed the letter had been sent to about 400 people. "The Meech Lake accord is hardly a subject of merriment. It's a question of the unity of Canada, whether Canada will continue to survive as a united nation." "Premier Wells has just put in jeopardy the possibility of any settlement of that issue by taking the unprecedented step of using closure to push through a constitutional resolution that disallows and reverses an earlier constitutional resolution of the legislative assembly of Newfoundland." The provincial legislature formally revoked its support for the accord early Friday morning. The accord, which would augment powers for all provinces and bring Quebec into the constitution as a distinct society, must be approved by the legislatures of all provinces by June 23. The letter said Ontario Premier David Peterson had also agreed to take part in the evening's events. Crosbie said the dinner was originally scheduled for March 29 but he believed it had been rescheduled to April 17. "It is highly inappropriate at this point in time to use an occasion like this to try to raise a large sum of money for the Liberal Party of Newfoundland based on the misfortunes of Canadians generally," Crosbie said. He said that at $1,000 a ticket, the invitations were aimed at Toronto businessmen, lawyers and accountants. "The union had complained the blue polyester and acrylic clothing can cause rashes and doesn't protect against extreme heat or cold." Other complaints included the fact the baggy clothing was ugly and could catch on machinery and postal vehicles. The uniforms range from shorts, shirts and bow ties for men to baggy slacks, shirts and scarves for women. The outerwear features baseball caps and oversize collarless jackets. Workers have complained the uniforms make them look like ice cream salesmen or shrunken airline attendants. Less than 10 percent of Edmonton's postal workers are wearing any part of the uniform, McMaster said. Bob McRory, a Canada Post spokesman in Edmonton, couldn't be reached for comment. McMaster said 23,000 workers across the country who received an average of two shirts each have been told to return the clothing. APRIL 13, 1990 MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1990 CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. Three employees of an Indian residential school in Saskatchewan say they were passed over for promotions because they are not native. Lorne Milligan, Lorna Greig and Gloria Sabo, who work for the Prince Albert Indian Residential School, applied unsuccessfully for positions at the school more than a year ago. "I would just like to be treated with the same dignity and respect that I have given them," Sabo said, referring to the Prince Albert Tribal Council, which runs the school. The three complained more than a year ago to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. They said they decided to go public now because the commission still hasn't taken any action. Milligan, employed in maintenance at the school since 1984, applied for a full-time janitor's job. Greig and Sabo, who each worked 'Desperate' CANADIAN PRESS DIGBY, N. KELLER 2100, concrete elevator, Shopping, April, 336-6750, 334-6048, KELLER Blvd, upper duplex, large m, 5650, 337-9047, LARGE 6" upper duplex, heated, carpet, split-level, 747-2861, 738-327 LARGE bachelor, heated, fridge, stove, near Place Vertu, 333-052, LARGE upper 6V2, electrical heating, Cote Vertu Alexis Nihon Immediate, 337-8003, LARGE upper duplex in, heated, Cote Vertu area, July 1st, Evenings 335-3885 LOWER in, garage, yard, taxes paid, unheated, $615, July, 744-4739, LOWER modern in, playroom, garage, big yard, reasonable, 332-5451, 522-1513, LOWER duplex bright 1'h plus 2 bedrooms in basement, near Cote Vertu train station, metro, $650, Heated by tenant, July, 747-6982 LOWER duplex, newly renovated, 3 bedrooms, playroom, double garage, near park, $850, 333-9267 LOWER duplex, large in, Ideal location, immediate, $750, month, 747-9347 METRO Cote Vertu, bright in, stove included, 335-3071, 620-4157, NEAR metro Cote Vertu, in, immediate, July 1st, NEW 1990 upper duplex, in luxury open air concept, 2 baths, near transportation, possibility garage, $885, 332-3520 NEW 2 bedroom condo, Inside parking, 5 new GE appliances, 337-9130, NEW in near Place Vertu, Occupancy Immediately, $700 month, on month free, 333-0679, 300 DESLAURIERS, 16 631-0712, 747-7913, 631-6241 DORVAL, equipped, clean, quiet, Apply 1825 Cardinal DORVAL SOUTH, Luxurious split level, 3 bedrooms, den, fireplace, living, dining, jacuzzi, 631-1768, 747-4815 DORVAL large 3'5, 4'5, Clean, Possibility of parking, One month free, 631-0836, 634-3060 DORVAL Pine Beach, 1'h, heated, near all transportation, $515, JULY, 636-6592, 631-5754 DORVAL new upper duplex, large 1'h, July 1st, 457-6015, DORVAL 780 Lakeshore equipped, elevator, lakeview, large apt, 3'5, $525, May 1st, 636-7958 DORVAL 6 month sublet, large 3'1, May 1st, $500, monthly, John 633-8615 DORVAL Cardinal, 1'h lower duplex, $800, family room, garage, and electricity included, 731-5262 DORVAL: 1'h, 1 bedrooms, 1'h, fireplace, on quiet cul-de-sac, equipped, carpet, parking, 150 Cloverdale, corner Lakeshore, 636-0591, 626-2690 DORVAL Large, bright 1'h, 1'h, 1'h, 1'h, Available now and later, Rent now- one month free 694-5814, 631-9944, 984-2111 DORVAL, Newer 4'2, 3'1, parking, washer dryer outlets, 631 0244, 631-0191, 735-6936 DORVAL, Spacious, bright, heated, equipped 1'h, 1'h, 1'h, balcony, pool, 633-7948 DORVAL: Lakeshore Rd, large bright, freshly painted condo, 3 bedrooms, 1'5 baths, pool, park no, $800, month, no pets 633-0876, DORVAL 548 De L'Eglise, 4'5, electric heating, parking, 634-4616 DORVAL: Lower luxury duplex, 6'5, fireplace, garage, $900 monthly, 694-2030 ILE BIZARD lovely spacious, impeccable 1'h, proximity, services, 626-1949, 630-1958 PIERREFONDS Unique in Canada: Luxurious 4'5, 1'h, with these superior quality appliances (washer, dryer, dishwasher, fridge and stove), Completely renovated apartments including: kitchen cupboards in oak and melamine, ceramic kitchen floor and counter, floors in oak parquetry, harmonious decor, electricity, Cleaned when you move in, For Less Than You Think 4689 ALEXANDER (Corner Gouin) Pierrefonds 1 kms west of Auto, 335-9352 4 4 t PFDS Blvd, New bldg, 1'h, 1'h, 1'5, all included, Marv-Ann 684-8303, Mr. Sousson 342-4963, J45-W4J PIERREFONDS: 1'h, 4-plex, appliances, heated, freshly painted, $495, April, 631-9901, 695-6601, 695-6601, 630-7635 POINTE CLAIRE, Eastview, 1'h, top floor, new luxurious 4-plex, new carpeting, electric heating, near all conveniences, May 1st, 684-5335 evenings POINTE CLAIRE: Sublet, large, bright, one bedroom apartment, central air, satellite TV, parking space, 695-8180, POINTE CLAIRE: 1'h, June 1st, $450, heat fridge stove included, Near Cedar Park train station, (Must move), Cottage, $1,200; Upper duplex, $750, heated, garage, 681-4888, Furnished Efficiencies 256 ACROSS Dorval shopping, furnished, monthly rates, parking, cable, microwave, 1'h, 1'h, Call: 633-6806 Corporate Housing WEST ISLAND Suites with kitchenette Efficiency apartments Weekly & monthly rates Free TSN Sports Network & First Choice Movies Stuna-Whirlpool-Exercise Room Maid & valet service, Meeting rooms Free parking Minutes From Dorval Airport Close to Downtown Montreal HOTEL BEAUSEJOUR 631-4537 DELUXE APARTMENT Any location, fully furnished, short and long term, 762-1255, DOWNTOWN 2 bedrooms, fireplace, fully furnished, 2-6 months, May, $1500, 843-7163 DOWNTOWN New executive prestigious apts, fully furnished, AC, parking, from $375-1550, heat included, Chris: 592-8409 DOWNTOWN Simpson, highrise, studio, pool, sauna, linen, dishes, $675, 341-4542 EXECUTIVE apts & houses, 4-12 months, Troc Vacances, 288-4194 EXECUTIVE prestigious large 1'h penthouse and 695 sq. ft. office, Also charming 3'h apartment, Immediate, 353-4233 CHOMEDEY, 4'5, 8-plex, electric heating, carpeted, After 6 pm, 336-0179, 332-0261 CHOMEDEY West, lower duplex, 7'5 with playroom, garage, bathrooms, 681-3902 or 688-9336 CHOMEDEY, 4'5, $375 and $420 month, After 6 pm, 6397, HEBERT Street, 4'5 upper duplex, also 3'5 semi-basement, stove, fridge, unheated, near communities, 3'5, 4'5, 5'2, Immediate/later, pool, sauna, split-level, fireplace, AC, 9-5 weekdays: 364-2482 JULY 1st, 1'7 lower, $500, 4'5 upper, $475, both electric heating, 365-6444 LACHINE large, clean 3'5 near water, available June 1st, Easy access to public transportation, Fridge and stove, Reasonable rent, Info: Sylvie 634-9445, 744-1511 ext: 4422 LARGE 3'5, stove, fridge, washer, dryer, ceramic kitchen, verticals, near CEGEP, 363-2700 LARGE 4'1, washer dryer outlets, parking, near all conveniences, $490 unheated, 365-2965 LARGE 5'5 upper, electric heating, excellent location, $500, Couple preferred, July 1st, 364-2959, CHOMEDEY: Quiet 5'5, heated, July, Busses, Bright, sunny, 666 1/3, CHOMEDEY, Le Palon, Luxury 4'2 condominium, facing river, Immediately, $800, 688-6659, after 5 pm, Shopping center, 4B-157 CONNAUGHT 3'5 semi-basement, equipped, $360, 484-8852 CONNAUGHT Bright 3'5's, quiet, new paint, balcony, carpeted, April, $370, $395, 483-6607, COOLBROOK near Melrose, Quiet, upper, large 1'h, oak woodwork, totally renovated, new kitchen bathroom, living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, Electric heating, June, $875, unheated, 481-1413, CORONATION, 1'h upper duplex, heated, Hot water, Unequipped, July, $700, Adults preferred, 488-8429, 1'5, freshly painted, heated, $525, Embassy spokesman who is monitoring the elections along with four members of Congress, said "the voting seems to be extremely fair." Slovenia is the first of Yugoslavia's six republics to hold free elections. Yugoslavia is a loose federation of six republics and two autonomous provinces. Communist leaders have allowed the formation of opposition parties in all of the republics, but only Croatia, the second-largest republic, has also scheduled multiparty elections. Those elections are also planned for April 22. Police investigate arson as death toll in ferry fire hits 147. AP Clouds of smoke float over the smoldering ferry Scandinavian Star yesterday. GAZETTE NEWS SERVICES LYSEKIL, Sweden Firefighters braved heat and poisonous smoke from a 2-day-old fire yesterday to begin removing bodies of an estimated 147 victims from the Scandinavian Star ferry. The suspicious blaze began before dawn Saturday while the ship was in the North Sea carrying about 500 tourists and crew from Norway to Denmark. Yesterday Norwegian police said they were checking for links between the blaze and earlier North Sea ferry fires, at least one of which was deliberately set. The assistant chief of police, Magnar Aukrust, said the authorities began examining arson as a possible cause after the captain, members of the crew and some passengers of the ferry said they believed the fire was set deliberately. On the ferry, the heat was so intense yesterday that it melted aluminum on the ship's bridge. Firefighters in masks and breathing equipment fought through one corridor "until their gear started to burn," said fire consultant Olle Wennstrom. The fire spread early yesterday from the gutted middle section to the captain's bridge a few hours after the ship was towed into port. Police chief Roar Onso, revising earlier figures, said 345 people survived, which broke out about midway on the ship's 10-hour voyage from Oslo to Frederikshavn. Ferry captain Hugo Larsen told police there were 395 passengers and 97 crewmen. If his figures are correct, 147 people died, Onso said. Early today, a fire broke out on a car ferry carrying 297 people from Britain's west coast to Ireland, killing a crew member and injuring at least eight other people, officials said. The fire started beneath the car deck as the ferry Norrano was 15 kilometers west of the Welsh coast. The fire was brought under control. AP, REUTER, NEW YORK TIMES We're Not Comfortable Until You Are. I SAVE UP TO 60 ON GAS OIL CONSUMPTION CALL TODAY FOR FREE ESTIMATE! 10 year MFO warranty, Outdoor heat pump available, 24 hr service no pay! Heating & Air conditioning specialists 6009 Ch. St. Francois, St. Laurent 337-7210, Van Horne, large, bright 7 rooms, Hot water, heat included, Available July 1st, 731-6955, 739-1868 JEAN BRILLANT 3371, 1'h now, May, July, 1'h, 1'h, 1'h- July, stove, fridge, new carpets, janitor, 738-1295, 735-5331, KENT 2750, heated, hot water, elevator, July 1st, Call 738-8910, KENT, 1'h, 1'h, hot water, heated, stove, fridge, from $375, heated, Laundry, Quiet building, Immediate, 342-0902 VAN HORNE 3170, large 1'h, 3'5, 1'h, heated, 341-4663 evenings 6510 WILDERTON bachelor for April 8, July; July for May & July; heat & water tax included, close to shopping & transportation, 738-7693 Cote St. Luc 208 A 1'h, 1'h, 5707 Westminster Guelph, Bright, luxurious, facing park, equipped, heated, vertical blinds, $475, $540, May 1st, July 1st, 273-3617, evenings 482-0841 A large 1'h, 1'h, elevator, Reasonable, Immediate, 487-5644 BACHELOR: 1'h, heated, hot water, fridge, stove included, $325, 489-9827, BASEMENT apartment 3'5, heated, fridge, stove, July 1st, 484-4432 5500 BORDEN AVE, (Corner Cote St. Luc Rd.) Spacious 1'h & 1'h also, For immediate or later occupancy, 861-7287, 336-0711 BRIGHT 1'h, heat and hydro paid, Mall and bus stop on corner, 487-9108 BRIGHT upper 1'h duplex, heated, garage, freshly painted, 489-1741, CAVENDISH Mall, adjacent modern 3'6, 1'h apt, new carpet, security, laundry, pool and park like setting, Spring specials, 6000 Cavendish, 481-9354 CLEAN upper duplex, 1'h, appliances, garage, wood floors, balconies, 247 Fenwood across Tecumseh, Saturday, Sunday 1-6 pm, Beautiful house, close to Marche de L'Ouest, around 3700 sq. ft, 4 large bedrooms, den, 3 bathrooms, powder room, 2 heat pumps, 2 garages, value $350,000, sell for $310,000, transferable, Available 12V mortgage, 696-6338, Weslpark, Prestigious college, 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, 2 fireplaces, finished basement, jacuzzi, heat pump, many extras, Principals, $399,000 or rent $3,000/month, 626-135 evenings D. L. Gauthier 683-0254, The Permanent Broker PIERREFONDS: 5 bedroom bungalow, 2 ceramic baths, new windows & furnace with heat pump, $49,900.
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A8 WORLD THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2007 II: swiff ww 1, a, ss!oi: J CHRISTOPHER FURLONG GETTY IMAGES Above it all is Tewkesbury resident Graham Weatherley on his penny farthing as rising levels of the River Severn threatened further flooding in England. Floods, sweat and tears in Europe Extreme weather continues AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London - Extreme weather continued to hit Europe yesterday with the death toll from a heat wave in Romania, Austria and Bulgaria rising to 18 and hundreds facing another night of misery in flood-drenched England. A total of 11 people have now died in Romania amid a heat wave that led to five deaths in Austria and two in Bulgaria. In England, meanwhile, the problem was not heat but rain, causing the second serious outbreak of flooding within a month. People in many parts of the country were being advised not to travel. Rail company First Great Western told would-be passengers to stay at home, while thousands of motorists were stranded for hours as highways in some parts of the country came to a standstill. Weather forecasters had severe weather warnings for a thick band of southeastern and eastern England. In Worcestershire, in the badly hit west central region of the country, more than 1,000 people were spending last night in temporary accommodation. Military helicopters have rescued more than 100 people from rooftops, trailer parks and a bridge as well as strips of land cut off by water since rains hit on Friday. At Stratford-upon-Avon in central England, the Royal Shakespeare Company was forced to cancel two performances after its riverside theatre was flooded. More storms were expected late yesterday and today although on a less severe scale. After 141 flights to and from London's Heathrow Airport were cancelled on Friday and passengers were being reissued tickets yesterday, flights were running normally. Stewart Wortley, a government meteorologist, said 142.6 millimetres of rain fell in Pershore, Worcestershire, on Friday and 43 millimetres fell in one hour in south London on Friday. The latest bad weather came after four people died in floods in June, and thousands of people are still homeless after flood damage in central and northern England. A flash flood that tore through a remote mountain village in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 56 people and left dozens missing and feared dead, a local official said yesterday. Rescue workers were searching for more bodies after the flood on Friday, brought by torrential rains, swept away hamlets in the Upper Dir district in North West Frontier Province, said local official Subhan Khan. Four Afghan refugee girls died when the roof of their mud house collapsed in a heavy downpour in the provincial capital, Peshawar, overnight, said local official Ibrahim Qasimi. The death toll from fierce rainstorms and flooding in China continued to rise yesterday as the government scrambled to step up relief and prevention efforts, state press reported. In eastern Shandong province, the toll rose to 40 dead and nine missing as of Friday night, following a week of record rains that deluged the provincial capital, Jinan, and surrounding areas, Xinhua news agency said. By yesterday more than 559,000 people had been affected by flooding in Shandong and 112,600 evacuated as water levels on the nearby Yellow River and in surrounding reservoirs remained above warning lines, the report said. Meanwhile, the death toll in Chongqing in China's southwest rose to 42 people and 12 missing from torrential downpours that have affected up to 6.8 million people since Monday. More than 292,000 people have been evacuated in the mountainous region along the Yangtze River, with more than 100,000 homes damaged and crops on about 175,000 hectares of farmland destroyed, Xinhua said. BORYANA KATSAROVA AFP GETTY IMAGES A forest fire near the town of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, is one of several triggered by a heat wave in the country. TODAY'S FORECAST The Weather Network Make the right call Montreal area Today's high 25 Tonight's low 13 Sunny. Winds light. Humidex 27. Tonight, clear. EXTENDED WEATHER: Tomorrow Mainly sunny High 25 Low 18 The Weather Network. Regional synopses Tuesday Sunny High 24 Low 17 Wednesday Forecast issued at 5 p.m. yesterday covers highs for today and overnight lows between tonight and tomorrow. Quebec City Sunny 25. Jovite Sunny 25. Montreal Sunny 25. Ottawa Sunny 26. Trois Rivieres Sunny 26. Sherbrooke Mainly sunny 24. Sunny High 29 Low 20 Thursday Sunny High 31 Low 20 Sun & moon Sunrise 5:27 a.m. Sunset 8:34 p.m. Moonrise 2:12 p.m. Moonset 11:53 p.m. The Weather Network 2007 Total daylight 15hrs, 07 min. NORTH AMERICAN WEATHER SYSTEMS (H 35 Winnipeg Los Angeles 20 Chicago A Montreal Toronto $ f (DOCDO July 22 July 30 Full Aug 5 Aug 12 New Abitibi-Temiscamingue High 26 Low near 14 Mainly sunny Laurentians High 25 Low near 9 Sunny Eastern Ontario High 26 Low near 12 Sunny Southern Ontario High 26 Low near 15 Partly cloudy Quebec City High 26 Low near 13 Sunny Eastern Townships High 24 Low near 14 Mainly sunny Northern New England High 27 Low near 12 Sunny Gaspe High 24 Low near 15 Sunny Warm Front Occlusion Cold Front High pressure Trough Low pressure Rain TEMPERATURE CONVERSION -25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 C I I I I I I I I I I I I I -13 -4 5 14 23 32 41 50 59 68 77 86 95 F UV INDEX Low Moderate 18 minutes to sunburn High Extreme Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius ALMANAC Today's Records 1955 1992 Temperature Yesterday Year ago today Normal this date Max 35.6 25 25 26.9 Precipitation Cooling Degree Have In 9 rvm (to 2 pm yesterday) Yesterday 7.3 measured in mm) Yesterday 22.2 13.0 Month to date 117.4 May 1 to date 18 Month normal 88 1498 15.6 Today's normal 25 Canada today World today Max Min Max Min Iqaluit Cloudy 10 2 Amsterdam Showers 19 14 Yellowknife Sunny 22 11 Ankara Sunny 35 19 Whitehorse Cloudy 21 6 Athens Sunny 39 28 Vancouver Rain 19 16 Beijing Cloudy 23 23 Victoria Rain 18 16 Berlin Rain 21 16 Edmonton Sunny 28 16 Dublin Cloudy 18 10 Calgary Sunny 30 14 Hong Kong Showers 34 29 Saskatoon Sunny 31 18 Jerusalem Sunny 32 23 Regina Sunny 34 20 Lisbon Sunny 23 16 Winnipeg Sunny 34 20 London Rain 20 13 Thunder Bay Cloudy 29 18 Madrid Cloudy 28 14 Sudbury Cloudy 27 13 Mexico City Showers 19 12 Toronto Cloudy 26 15 Moscow Sunny 20 10 Fredericton Sunny 27 15 Nairobi Sunny 21 13 Halifax Cloudy 25 15 New Delhi Cloudy 35 28 Charlottetown Sunny 21 18 Paris Cloudy 22 13 St. John's Rain 22 13 Rio de Janeiro Sunny 27 24 Rome Sunny 35 21 Max Min Stockholm Sunny 21 10 Atlanta Cloudy 28 18 Sydney Cloudy 16 5 Boston Cloudy 24 17 Tokyo Rain 24 23 Chicago Cloudy 27 16 Resorts today Dallas Cloudy 33 23 Max Min Denver Cloudy 34 18 Atlantic City Cloudy 27 18 Las Vegas Cloudy 41 28 Cape Cod Cloudy 24 17 Los Angeles Cloudy 27 19 Daytona Beach.
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King was certainly not going to let the situation deteriorate to a point where the public would echo the booing Canadian troops had given him. Always a realist in politics, King had begun to look for some way to demonstrate more vigorous action while excluding anything that might require conscription, which he continued to regard as the greatest political danger. As early as the summer of 1941 the Canadian military had been proposing to King that an active effort might focus on raids. They would do much for the image of Canadian military effectiveness, particularly if they could be represented as being daring. Raids offered the prospect of having the maximum possible effect at the lowest possible cost in casualties, since any raid would be relatively brief. For McNaughton, raiding operations would provide action without running the risk of dividing his army or sending it to dead-end theatres just to get battle experience. Indeed, the experience gained from raids on the continent might earn Canadians a special right when the time came to point the dagger at Berlin. It is hard not to see in raiding operations the ideal solution to the problem of trying to get maximum prominence in the war at minimum cost. But approval for raids was not easily obtained.
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Weather very stormy today. Heavy northwest wind, with snow. Roads muddy and almost impassable. Grimsby, February 21. The most violent storm of the season is now prevailing here. Ottawa, Ont, February 21. The severe northeast blizzard passed over this city today. About a foot of snow has fallen. The drifts are great, the country roads being almost impassable in many places. Plattsburgh, February 21. The sleet and rain storm has been succeeded tonight by snow. Telegraph poles between Middleton and Boston Corners are broken down by heavy loads of ice. Chicago, February 21. Snowing since early this morning. At Rock Island the storm raged so violently last night that part of the great Government Bridge was blown down. At Vandalia, Ill, the river is out of its banks; the bottom lands, comprising an area of four miles square, are inundated. An immense amount of livestock and lumber is swept away. At Carlinville, bridges and houses have been swept away and great damage done to farms.
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"Antoine ward. (Cries of Order, order!) Aid. Voleau objected to Aid. Villeneuve remaining, and so did Aid. Grenier. Aid. Stevenson moved the acceptance of Aid. Villeneuve's resignation and that Aid. Rolland be accepted instead. A lot of useless talk ensued, and Aid. Grenier and Germain demanded a division, which resulted as follows: Nays: Hurtubise, Nolan, Griffin, Lamarche, Grenier, Bolsean, Germain and Cunningham. Ayes: Cresse, Dagenais, Stearns, Beaudouin, P. Dubuc, Savignac, Brunet, Wilson, Villeneuve, A. Dubuc, Perreault, Claudia-mnp, Gauthier, McBride, Farrell, Dufresne, Tansey, Thompson, Rainville, Coarov, Stevenson, Jeannotte, Prefontaine and Dufresne. Aid. Huiteau then resigned as chair of the Finance committee, and Aid. Stevenson moved, seconded by Aid.
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It is said the entire Mama re-la run doctor n, driver of the erronnjiolllin train, there were but few passengers on board the latter train, and beyond severe shaking the bones of them were badly injured, The train was travelling at a pace of about thirty miles an hour, Engines Dtunaa was an earn earn titled man, A DEVASTATING DELUGE DESTROYED Crop and Arizona Land In TEXAS FEVER IN CONNECTICUT Anarchist Panona issues an Appeal for Liberty, Tucson, Arizona, September 22 All the crops on the bottom land between Mammoth and Benson were destroyed by the recent floods, Fields of growing cane and corn extending for miles are now but a bed of sand, Such a rush of waters has never before been known, It will take several years before the ranches can recover from their losses, He'll Likely Get Health, Chicago, September 22
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NO. 2T5 1 U$toc$$ Cards, WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT Here we have a subject which is well chosen for this season of the year, when appearances of an early and cold winter seem to warn us that all the natural heat we possess will not be sufficient, and that the purchase of a good, substantial suit of clothes, and a food, heavily lined overcoat will be one of the most judicious investments a man can make. The style and cut of our wearing apparel, and the desire to have it made from materials chaste and becoming and the prevailing pattern, is also not to be condemned as a vanity, but rather as an evidence of refinement. The question of cost is another one which is well worthy of consideration, but, fortunately, buyers in Montreal and vicinity cannot complain in this respect, if they compare their facilities to be well and cheaply clad with those offered by any other city in the Dominion or United States. We have here one vast emporium where the goods are gotten up of a quality and in a style of materials, workmanship and trimmings which have never before been produced in Canada. We refer to the Boston One Price Clothing House, 41 and 48 St. Joseph street, which, from a small beginning three years ago, now ranks as the leading clothing house, wholesale and retail, of the Dominion. INDELIBLE INK FOR RUBBER STAMPS? Mark your linen with Thompson's new Indelible Ink, warranted not to wash out. For sale only by C.J. Clarke's book store, Beaver Hall square, to look at his magnificent display of Christmas cards. Mr. Elwbs will hold a large sale of fine robes, fur coats, sacques, circulars, caps, ladies' sets, etc., at his rooms, 295 Notre Dame street, this (and tomorrow) afternoon and evening, at 2 and 7 o'clock. Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. The steamers between Montreal and Quebec will cease running after today, the Quebec making her last trip this evening at 6 o'clock. The market boats are still running as usual. The 6th Fusiliers. The presentation of prizes to the competitors in the recent annual rifle matches of the 6th Fusiliers took place at the armory last night, when there was a large attendance of the friends of this favorite regiment. The prizes were all of a valuable class, and numbered amongst them many useful articles. Musical Festival. Practices for the three days' Christmas musical festival, by the public and Sunday-school children of the city, will be held as follows: For public school children on Saturday morning, in the High School, Metcalf street boys at 9:30 and girls at 10:30, Sunday-school children and teachers and Band of Hope in the Synod Hall, Saturday at 2 p.m. See L. Robinson's improved Newmarket. There is nothing more nourishing and warming in cold weather than a cup of really good cocoa, but the difficulty has been to obtain it pure. This may be secured at a cost of one cent for a large breakfast cup by using Cadbury's Cocoa Essence, which goes three times as far as the adulterated and starchy compounds ordinarily sold, the smallest packet making fourteen breakfast cups of strong cocoa. Concert. The second vocal, instrumental and literary entertainment by the Inspector street American Presbyterian Church Choir, which took place in the lecture room of the Church last evening, was a great success. The lengthy programme was well managed, and greatly enjoyed by the large audience. The two addresses were of a very pleasing character, and dealt with the object of the concerts and the help which they had given to that work. The Minister of Inland Revenue. Mr. MEDICAL LECTURES. "Emergencies, surgical and medical." Another of the lectures of this interesting course was delivered in the Association Hall last evening by Dr. Roddick. The chair was occupied by Mr. H. Putnam. Dr. Roddick, in opening, dwelt on the importance of everyone having some knowledge of the proper course to pursue in the emergencies of a medical or surgical nature which were constantly arising. How often do we hear of accidents often resulting fatally, which a little knowledge on the part of friends or bystanders might have prevented? He would dwell more particularly on those emergencies in which loss of consciousness was the most prominent condition. Probably the most common of these is fainting or syncope. This is due to a variety of causes. There are some persons who faint on the slightest provocation, who, in fact, make a habit of fainting. This is due to the weak or watery condition of the blood, by which the heart muscle itself, from a defective supply of blood, is constantly refusing to perform its functions. Another common cause is a sudden blow, particularly in the region of the stomach. Those who die from drinking cold water when they are heated die generally in a faint, the effect being similar to that produced by a blow in the stomach. Other causes are loss of blood, sudden emotions, or the use of chloroform. The symptoms are dimness of sight, noises in the ears, the lips and cheeks bloodless and the features have a pinched look, the beat of the heart is not noticed, and the breathing ceases for a moment. This lasts from a few seconds to two or three minutes but not longer. If the heart pulsations are absent for five minutes, resuscitation is impossible. Recovery is usually first announced by a sighing or swallowing, then the return of colour and warmth. The treatment is first, to place the patient in a recumbent position, and the head lower than the shoulders; because if this is not done to patients who have inhaled the influence of chloroform in the dental chair, we frequently hear of cases where death results. The lecturer is thoroughly opposed to the use of chloroform as an anesthetic and advised his hearers to use the safer, and generally equally sure ether when at their dentist's, as when the latter is used the upright position is not dangerous. In the next place the clothing about the neck should be loosened, the chest and face sprinkled with cold water, and the palms of the hands slapped and rubbed briskly. Ammonia may be applied to the nostrils, but with caution, as in a dull case person it is possible by this means to substitute asphyxia for syncope. Strong coffee is a very effective stimulant, and if these fail a galvanic battery may be resorted to, but this also should be used with great caution. Convulsions were next treated of. They are rare in adults, and are then almost always of an epileptic nature. The lecturer fully described the symptoms, which are so well known as not to require enumeration. As to the treatment, he particularly cautioned against holding a person in a fit; so long as he was guarded from harm, his muscles should be allowed free play, as otherwise the result might be very serious. Hysterical fits, which are often mistaken for epilepsy, are distinguished by the fact that in them the patient generally selects a soft place to fall, never bites his tongue, and is conscious of what is going on. The treatment recommended was cold water applications. Convulsions appear most frequently amongst infants, and in these cases are due most ordinarily to teething or disorders of digestion. The first thing to be done is to strip the child and examine it carefully, because the convulsions may be caused by something pricking the body. There is seldom any need for alarm, as a child very rarely dies from such convulsions. The body of the child should be placed in hot bath of 98 to 100, the head at the same time being kept cool, an important matter which is often neglected. The bath should not last longer than five minutes, but may be repeated after an interval of twenty minutes. After the bath, do not attempt to dry the child, but wrap it in a large towel and then in a blanket. An emetic may then be administered, alum being probably the best, and a dose of oil will never do harm. In drowning accidents, the vast majority do not die as is commonly supposed by cramps but rather from syncope or fainting. The faint may be caused by a blow against the stomach received on entering the water, or on the knee from some injury in the river bed. Those who take cramps can generally be resuscitated, but those who faint usually die. The treatments consist in (1) producing artificial respiration, Sylvester's method being probably the best, (2) producing warm water friction, and (3) stimulation. The face should be first turned downwards to allow the water, etc., to flow out. The body should then be turned over, and the tongue drawn and kept out of the mouth. Wet clothes should then be removed, especially from the chest, and a dry coat or blanket placed on the patient. The limbs should be rubbed briskly, the friction being towards the heart, and warmth may be applied by hot bottles. The instructions given above would apply, with slight modification, to cases of suspended animation from poisoning by coal gas or chloroform, attempted suicide by hanging, and cases of a similar nature. Sunstroke occurs especially in those who are depressed from physical exertion, e.g., soldiers on the march. The symptoms are well known. The sufferer should be removed to a cool place and placed with the head raised a little. The body should be stripped, and ice-cold water poured on the chest, limbs and head from a height of four or five feet. In cases where foreign bodies find their way into the ear, eye or other cavities of the body, the following modes of treatment will be found useful: If in the nose a pinch of snuff or pepper will generally cause such a fit of sneezing as will have the desired effect. Failing in this, a hairpin or an injection of water may be used. In the ear it is generally best to remove the foreign body by syringing the ear. Foreign substances in the eye can generally be removed by bathing with water. At the conclusion of the lecture a vote of thanks was proposed by Mr. Win. Robb, seconded by Dr. Basin and heartily accorded to by the audience. Dr. Roddick will continue the subject in a future lecture. W. Bacon, of Norwich, Conn., wages a firm contest against liquor dealers. The applicants for licenses and the commissioners find in him an unbudgeable objector. When the case of a certain firm was up the other day he objected on the ground that they were the confederates of the worst criminals in the town. "Do you mean that?" said one of the men. "I do," replied the clergyman. "If you repeat it I will have you arrested and make you prove what you say," shouted the man. Mr. Bacon deliberately: "I charge you with being the confederate of the worst criminals in town." The firm's application was signed by respectable citizens, said the commissioners, and endorsed by the selectmen, "which makes us, in Mr. Bacon's judgement, the endorsers of a brothel." "That is undoubtedly the truth," interjected the clergyman. The Army and Navy Gazette of the 4th Instant says: "As Lord Dufferin's name appears in the Army List, we would draw attention to the pre-eminent claims of this, the greatest diplomatist of the age, to a substantial recognition of his services during the late campaign in Egypt. Let the public pause for a moment, in the midst of its praise of generals, departments and regiments, and consider how much of our success has been due to skilful maneuvering and generalship at Constantinople. Lord Dufferin is now under orders to proceed to Egypt, and there is probably no living person more able to successfully grapple with the difficult question of the future of Egypt. Lord Dufferin has a thorough knowledge of Arabic. He will thus be able to deal with all documents laid before him without the aid of an interpreter, an important consideration, under the present circumstances." NEWSPAPER WAITS- The latest advices from Japan report the Mikado sick of the peculiar Japanese disease called kakuke. Our stuttering contributor wonders how he took the kakake. Norristown Herald. The postmaster of Bathurst, N.B., has the following notice posted up in his office: "All persons having no business in this office will please transact it as soon as possible and leave." Hartford Courant. Scene at a Thanksgiving dinner: "Will you have some pork, Mr. Folger?" "No, I don't want pork; I want turkey." "But there isn't any turkey." "Well, then, you can give me some pork." Rochester Post Express, a Judge, you are a very smart man. I would like to ask you a question," remarked Gilhooly to Judge Blackston, one of the most prominent lawyers of Austin. "What is it?" questioned the Judge. "Two twin sisters living in the same home have names of the same age, that look precisely alike and are dressed alike. These two children got mixed up, and the question is, how will the mothers get it to find out which child belongs to them?" "If the children were as much alike as you say, perhaps they were not mixed up at all." "But they were changed." "Are you sure of it?" "Certainly." "Then change them back, and each mother will have her own. Give me something harder." Sitting in Toronto. Since the removal of M. Souville's Throat and Lung Institute to his new quarters, 173 Church street, hundreds suffering from catarrh, catarrhal deafness, bronchitis, asthma and many diseases of the throat and lungs have received treatment by his new and wonderful instrument, the spirometer, which conveys medicines in the form of cold inhalations to the parts diseased. Physicians and sufferers can try it free. Poor people bearing certificate will be furnished with spirometer free. Write enclosing stamp for pamphlet giving full particulars to M. Souville, ex-aide surgeon of the French army, 173 Church street, Toronto, or 13 Phillips' Square, Montreal. MERCHANT TAILOR, 121 Notre Dame Street. JUST RECEIVED, balance of men's goods is specialty. Large assortment of Gentlemen's and Boys' READY-MADE CLOTHING at 8. GOLTMAN'S, 484 Board Street. Weather Report. P. Coutlee, D.F. taking nu Noun Lighthouses, station a p.m. Light west wind and clear weather. Coast Report. SIGNED STATION 175 marine miles to Quebec north side of the Magdalen Islands ground 8 p.m. Moderate NW wind; fair weather; thermometer 80. Amu khsit H ahhok Lighthouses Station south side of the Magdalen Islands ground 175 marine miles to Quebec 8 p.m. Moderate W wind; clear weather. ISLAND OF ANTICOSTI, Hiatpi Point Light house station 49 miles to Quebec 1 p.m. Clear; thermometer 80. Hiatpi Point Lighthouse Report. Station 110 marine miles to Quebec 8 p.m. Cloudy; strong NW wind. Point Hiatpi, station 96 marine miles to Quebec 8 p.m. One ship outwards this p.m.; thermometer 82; strong NW breeze. Point Mahuakkakoo Lighthouse Report. Station 41 miles to Quebec 8 p.m. Cloudy and cold; nothing is going on. St. Lawrence River, the no Loop Wharf, 8 a.m. Kalramd cold; strong N wind; one 2-masted strawship outwards at 2 p.m.; steamer Iruiaasi dragging 10. COTTON YARNS White and Coloured, Single and Double and Twisted. CARPET WARPS-White and Coloured. BEAM WARPS for Woollen Mills in all the varieties required. HOSIERY YARNS of every description. BALL KNITTING COTTON-Superior in quality to all imported. These goods have been awarded First Prizes for each of the above articles at the Montreal, Toronto and Halifax Exhibitions of 1880 and 1881, a GOLD MEDAL at the Dominion Exhibition at Montreal, 1880. For sale by the Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods trade throughout the Dominion. AGENTS: ALEX SPENCER, 21 Lemolne St., Montreal. WM. HEWITT, 11 Colborne street, Toronto. General Express Forwarders, Shipping Agents, and Custom House Brokers. Forward Merchandise, money and packages of every description; collect notes, drafts and accounts. Shipping in Canada, United States and Europe. "Ruinous" (Sundays excepted) over the lines of the Light (Grain) Trunk, St. Lawrence and Ottawa, Rivi猫re du Loup, and Ottawa and Port Hope and Peterborough Railways; also on the Montreal and Quebec steamship Company. Mail steamers to and from Liverpool weekly to all parts of Europe. Shipping Agents in London, Eng., Montreal, Ottawa, and Portland, Me. Goods in Bond promptly attended to and forwarded with despatch. Invoices are required for all goods going to the United States, for provinces during winter route via Portland and Europe. PRINCIPAL OFFICES: Liverpool, Eng., Montreal, Toronto, Quebec, Detroit, Mich., and all towns and the above known. Kingston, Ottawa, Portland, Maine, Perth, Peterborough Stations on the line of Time and Insurance saved. Consignment "Oum" - O. CHENEY, Superintendent. JACKSON RAE, Ontario. Royal Insurance Chambers. NOTICE: 11 James Street. General Financial, Investment and Commission Agent, Municipal or other Bonds and Stocks bought and sold, loans on Mortgages or other Securities effected, Advances on Stocks, Merchandise, etc. Special paper negotiable. 10 Gates Literary. THE NEW HOTEL DAM, Adjoining and Connected with the UNION SQUARE HOTEL, corner of 15th street and Union Square, New York, is NOW READY FOR THE RECEPTION OF GUESTS. Location the most desirable, and accessible to all points of interest in the city. It is elegantly furnished throughout and with every modern convenience and improvement. Superb salons, elegant restaurant and dining room and choice cuisine. Fifty-two suites, with bath and toilet room attached.
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"There are times I wish she was marrying an ordinary chap," he said after the engagement, "so I could have her and my son-in-law living here with me in the park." Clinton admits trying marijuana as a student, PAGE A10 Why the "race card" isn't in British election, PAGE A11 Famine and food riots follow drought, PAGE A12 South Koreans defying family-tree rules, PAGE A14 French prime minister wins regional runoff, PAGE B8 Libya defies Arab states over accused bombers, PAGE C8 Saudi king rules out free elections, PAGE D14 Demjanjuk prosecutor to look at KGB file, PAGE E8 World, INSIDE Ombudsman 3, Classified B4. Foreign minister urged to form new party, but says he'll remain in Likud, CLYDE HABERMAN NEW YORK TIMES JERUSALEM Foreign Minister David Levy, brooding for weeks about his faction's decline within the governing Likud Party and under pressure from angry supporters to do something about it, announced last night that he was resigning.
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No one should have been surprised by such rhetoric. A nation at war cannot easily avoid creating the impression that the first objective is to fight and win, and a government that cannot face that reality perhaps ought not to be at war. King realized this, and came to accept the need for presenting the public with images of Canadians fighting. But doing so meant that, sooner or later, he would exhaust the possibilities of rhetoric and be obliged to deliver the real thing. By early 1942 many in the Canadian government hoped that something more substantial than mere words could be found though nothing too hazardous. What was required was a combat mission against Germany big enough to convince the public that action was being undertaken, but small enough to be undertaken entirely by Canadians, and safe enough so that King would not have to be confronted with major casualties. Not only was this setting too many conditions on the employment of Canadian troops, but the idea of contributing to the speediest possible defeat of the enemy seemed to be playing a distinctly secondary role to considerations of image. In October 1941 the strangest of all attempts to find employment for Canadian troops had been approved: the sending of two battalions to Hong Kong.
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this evening. Temperatures are today's daytime highs. 1993 MTI Inc WARM FRONT RAIN snow thunderstorm HIGH PRESSURE LOW PRESSURE Canada Max Min Iqaluit Rain 3 0 Yellowknife Cloudy 1 -3 Whitehorse Showers 9 2 Vancouver Sunny 20 9 Victoria Sunny 20 9 Edmonton Sunny 17 1 Calgary Sunny 18 2 Saskatoon Sunny 14 -2 Regina Sunny 14 -2 Winnipeg Cloudy 10 0 Thunder Bay Cloudy 10 6 Sudbury Showers 14 5 Toronto Cloudy 16 6 Fredericton Cloudy 19 13 Halifax Showers 19 12 Charlottetown Showers 19 12 St. John's Rain 18 10 United States Max Min Atlanta Cloudy 23 17 Boston Cloudy 24 14 Chicago Sunny 19 3 Dallas Sunny 28 13 Denver Cloudy 22 6 Las Vegas Sunny 36 19 Los Angeles Sunny 33 18 New Orleans Sunny 29 21 New York Cloudy 26 16 Phoenix Sunny 38 24 St. Louis Cloudy 21 8 San Francisco Sunny 23 13 Washington
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Yup, just me and Roy eating beans and drinking tea under the starry skies and talking together about all his old films most of which he couldn't even remember. It was like heaven for me, but somehow I suspect he was taken slightly aback. Still, watching a cattle drive with Roy on the Alberta ranch where we shot the special was like reliving a childhood dream. And then, getting to listen to Roy as he sang Happy Trails and Tumbleweed and Sioux City Sue it was just too much. Lest anyone suspect Bonnell took a bad tumble off the highchair as an infant and bounced his head around, you should be informed that he is a fully functioning family man and one of the city's foremost public-relations consultants. Formerly head of advertising and PR for the Bank of Montreal (where he discovered Naked Gun star Leslie Nielsen could Barry rf I HUMOR, later diagnosed as Play-Doh in the cylinders. But most employers are willing to overlook such drawbacks, because studies show that the average corporation actually saves money when employees stay home, inasmuch as when they come to work, they spend the bulk of the time stealing office supplies and faxing jokes to international subsidiaries.
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Their appeals have been crowned with success; large sums of money have been forwarded to the Imperial authorities and distributed by them in the flooded districts, and votes of thanks have been passed in the Reichstag to the generous contributors abroad. The Germans of this city, anxious to bear their share of the benevolent enterprise, are now collecting for the same purpose, but, being only few in number, they intend calling upon their fellow-citizens for help. The undersigned representatives of the German element in Montreal will therefore thank you for opening the columns of your esteemed paper to their object of charity, and they will, inside of a few days, come before the public with a list of gentlemen appointed as a collecting committee in the city of Montreal. Kind-hearted friends of Germany, who are willing to assist the committee in their task, are respectfully invited to send their names and addresses to the office of the Imperial German Consulate, 61 St. Sulpice street. We are, Sir, respectfully yours, The Human Society of Montreal.
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