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Show FRIDAVSGRBI FEIST. The Canadian Association Quietly Awaiting Await-ing the Levy of the Death Penalty at Woodstock. THE LOBSTEB ON IEENCH SHORES Another "Mother Bhipton" Prediota the Destruction of the World at MidnightA Mid-nightA Foreign Budget. . Woodstock, Ont., Nov. 13. Special All the preparations have been completed com-pleted for the execution of Birchall. The condemned mau has since his incarceration, in-carceration, won the friendship of the jail ofliaials, who sincerely regret his fate. Birchall has shown wonderful composuro from the day on which sentence sen-tence of death was pronounced upon hi in. Ho had hopes of a commutation of the death penalty, until tho decision of the cabinet that the law shou Id take its course was made known to him aud even then ho did not break down. His faithful wife, aud his sister are prostrated pros-trated with grief. The sheritl's ollleers are superintending superintend-ing the erection of the scaffold and arranging ar-ranging preliminaries for tho execution of Birchall tomorrow morning. Birch-all, Birch-all, though repeatedly urged by his wife to make a full confession, refuses and still asserts be did not actually do the shooting. |