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Show J VANCOUVER ISLAND. i A .Scheme to Settle It With 6,000 liif;hli"l Scotch Crofter. Winnipeg, Man., August 12. Colonel Colo-nel Engledueand Major Claik are here en route to British Columbia in connection con-nection with a scheme to settle o,X'0 Highland Scotch Crofters on Vaiicoii- ver Island. The Crofters are a.l mein-j mein-j hers of the royal naval reserves and the British government's efforts to settle them in British Columbia is to j have them convenient in case of emergency emer-gency on the Pacilic coast. They are I to be engaged in connection with a ! gigantic English syndicate which is being formed for the development ot I the deep sea fisheries on the wis; I coast. For Abduct ion. Detroit, Mich.. Aug. 13. Warrant, issued several days ago and quietly tucked into an obscure pigeon ho e wen served this afternoon on Johnny Con-sidme, Con-sidme, Billy Considine. Thos. Kennedy. Frank Griliiths, Jam' s McDonell atid Kd. Kent, charging them with abduct - in ix .1 l errin on Aiaron lutn lasr, lo' the purpose of obtaining a big ransom. Perrin, it will he remembered, was enticed en-ticed from his home on the evening o; March P'th last, on the pretext of visiting visit-ing a sick friend. The aif.tir created ; great sensation at the time. Aiit!ii'r Gladsloinun Victory. Loxnox, August 13. At the electioi held in Wals.i, Stali'ord county, yesterday, yester-day, for member of Parliament io sue-j sue-j eet d the late Charles Fosier, Liberal, ; in favor of home rule, who died July iL'iitli, Alderman Ilolden, the (ilad-sionian (ilad-sionian candidate, defeated M r. James, a representative conservative, by outvotes. out-votes. A Dry iools Healer Fails. CiUCAOo. Aug. 13. Joseph Brother? & Co.. dealers in dry goods, confessed indrments this morning amounting to $42,000. the linn claims to have a stock of goods worth from (W,000 to i,0"0. Besides the judgments confessed the linn is indebted to merchandise creditors credit-ors for $3-5,000 or thcrealouts. |