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The change has been brought abjut | by the retirement of Mr. Lockie, the | managing director. Mr. Lockie having | / labored hard and continuously far over |. dfilty years, and being still healthy and : active, felt that he was entit‘ed to & wall earredi re:st, free from the daily worry and anxi: ty incident to the manâ€" agement of a lirge business like that af the Mercantile. Owing to his reâ€" tirement from the active daily superâ€" vision of the business it became necessâ€" ary to arrange for a new Secretary ; aud it was considered to be in the best iaterests of the Company to move the warking office to Toronto and place the @ yoderwriting from the first of Septemâ€" bes next under the charge of Mr. Aifred Wright, manager of the Londâ€" @1 and Lancashire, with offices in the Confederation, Life building, Toronto. The businsse of the two Sompanies, however, will be kept entirely distinct and the Mercantile will be continu«d ais sepsrate Company with its own a aff of agents. Te Board, while reâ€" gretting the retirement of Mr. Lockie, would not permit him to sever his conâ€" mection entirely with the Mercantile but appointed bim to the more bonorâ€" ahle but less onerous position of Presiâ€" dent of the Company. * _ Mr. Lockie has been connected with the insprance business for many years and is widely and favorably known in insurance circles. He enjoys the esâ€" teem and confidense of his feliowâ€" workers in a very high degree and is often conspited when difficult questions srise by the managers of other comâ€" n:iu who place strong relisnce upon wide knowledge of all m.ttcrl‘ connected with fire insprance and the sound judgment he always brings to bear upon the problems that srise, Mr. Lockis was the first Inspector of the Mercantile and much of the success of the yourg Company was owing to bis untiring efforte in ite hehalf and the confidence he inspired #o the jnsuring public by the prompt and equitable settiement of Are losses. New Advertmsementrs thin week Wa) anm‘s hok i)‘ Ba. Plesor‘s Favo i P+. Agnow" Romed Mu:y n‘â€" Hemgics s.@'- Kida=y Pilis Lt COh nee. & ~U"â€" hinulâ€"ion % pyr| noup iamo .d Dy: w Anction Haleâ€" J. W . l!vy Fancy Chinaw«reâ€"W . . Locaon Mnflfl:u cur.l chow J B Winkier renpu. pupi) geâ€"W. H. Becher x Co. by ectacle=â€"Hallor iiro . rurgmer Woearâ€"W . J. Woolard Fut it in â€"A. W exe Om Remova; Sule >ini.h Er s. %ootenay Cu e hrenoline Mediâ€" i e A â€", Winel «â€" seu borg ~yru beld u Madica) loâ€"c v y Waterlco County Chronicla. REMOVAL OF THE MERCAN TILE. It was with feeelings of deep regret that our citizâ€"os learved last week that the Head Office of the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company was about to be removed to Toronto. Our people bad always looked upon The M+rcantile as peculiarly a Waterloo institution. It was founded by local men and supâ€" ported by local capital ; and its growth from year to ycar, as the bMin- â€"creased and the confidence of the inSarâ€" ing public in its stability became estabâ€" lished, was always louked upon as & matter of justifable pride by our citiâ€" ‘zens, and its removal will, on that account, be the more severely feit. After seven years of active work in Ti 3. i 1 nc Grip{10m what success can be achieved by incdus try and peresversnce, when cemhined with sterling integrity and conscion tious devotion to duty. The transfer of tne Head Office to Torouto will be a distinct loss to m] town from a business a‘andpoint and will necessitate the removalof the en tire office staff. _ Mr. Lockie, however, will remain here which is one consoln tion. He has been a resident of W atâ€" erloo for the past twentyâ€"two yrars and has always been one of our most public spirited citizens, and now thas be is relieved to a large extent from busiâ€" vess cares he will be able to mâ€"ke bis in Auence still more strongly telt uq al! matters that tend to sdvauce the best interests of the uo=». TRADE ON BUSINESS LINES The following article, copied from the Liverpool Daily Mai of July 29th, throws some light upoo the questiou of our extepsion of trade with Britain aud aloog what lines trade with the Moth«r Country may be increased. It looks upon the tie of advantageous business interest as much strooger than any sentimental tie that binds us to Old Eong‘and. The writer s1ys :â€" "The British Empire has been bu'\lt‘ up on business lines, and on business lines it is going to be held together. Sentiment counts for something, but the strongest tie between Eogland and her colonies is the tie of mutual interâ€" est. On national holidavye we will all aing "Rule Britaunia," and hoist ths Vanion Jack, and drivk the heaith of the Queen, but during the plain prosaic weeks of working days that come beâ€" tween we will draw closer together in an effective union of hearts and pookets by doing business with our colonies. We would no more speak disrespectfalâ€" ly of the I-urinl ideal than of the Equ«tor, but the backboue of the ideal is a real community of business interâ€" ests Canade has grasped the situstion. Her recent legisiation has opened the way to cultivating Imperial patriotism by the dovoloa)meut of trade within the Empire. She is following nr ber legislative opening by a practica and prosaic effort to cater for the English warket, whilst opening her own mar kete on preferential terms to Enililh exports. In order to buy more from us, she mpet sell more to us, and in order to meet the expected increase of imports from England she is 'otki?‘ hard to incresse her oflmu to England. There should be no difficulty about this. We imported last year food products to the value of six hunudred murliou dolâ€" lars, of which only seven per cent. came from Oanads. Our fellowsub jects of the Deminion calepiate that they can lutply st least a third of this total, and they meen to do it. Meat, fruit, eggs, and cheese are the staple products which Consds can put on the Eoglish market. Her immense and fertile territory will enable ber to meet our demands in full. ‘The Censâ€" dian Government hes slr“d[{ begun t::d;mt tesk of mkinl the Dominion food purveyor to the British consamer, and 1t only needs spetsined and loyal effort on both sides of the Atlentic to make &:&M a sucorss OQOn the other side they ore subsidizing »bipâ€" oo mccoatieg tok ppvégest " by t, encouraging ncer :::ndn‘. bonus for the crestion 0,‘ cold storage accommedation, and safeâ€" heese. The manplacture and sale of oloomuprinoam s is absolutely prohibited, and severe penalties are imâ€" w# u“l_.\_!t y i lt a‘ t £ youk < * t A BRUTAL MURDER Mrs. Anthong Orr‘s Body Found in a Shallow Grave The N.issing Woman Only 20 Yards FroI House in North Dumfries, near Gait. rouading the dissppearance of SMrs. Authory Orr frow ber busband‘s farm about thre wiles from this place a week ago was partiaily a Jved yesterday by the fudiog of ber body face downâ€" ward in a shallow grave in a corafiâ€"ld. There was a terrible wouud io the skul!, showing thet the woman hwd beeu struck dowu from bebind at a single blow with a bluot instrumeat. The budy was fouud near the bouse. aud two bundred yards further away in a swamp was found another exoavation, evidently intenrded for a grave. The wmurderer had inteuded probably to wmove the body to ths second grave, where it would havs beeu more apt to escape che eges of gearching parties. The finding of the bxdy h« created a great sensation in this neigh borhood, and there are many stories in circulatâ€" ion ae to the woman and the probable reason for her murder. Waldron Sidney Trevelyo, a medical atudent from McGill College, aged 27 yeare, and Jam: s B. Allison, a laborer, ou the farm, aged sevenateen, are in jail at Galt on a charge of oou;gicity in the wmurder, aud a provincial officer is gathâ€" ering up evidence of the crime. THE WOMAN DISAPPEARS Tho Orr farm is about three miles out from Galt : the bouse stands about one third of a mile in from the road. â€" Jast near the farm aud south of it are ooo siderable swampe, covered with thick willow underbush, where it is very diffiâ€" cult to make one‘s way through. Oan Monday last about 7 a‘clock Anthony Orr left the house for a neighbor‘s, takâ€" ing a sow with him. The farm boy,Jas. Allisor , left the house about the same time, going to the Barrie farm with two cows. . A little girl, the daughter, aged eleven years, was c\ngiug in the roo n upstairs. When Mr. or retarned Allison was waiting for him at the gate and told him that his wife was missing. Orr instituted a searc. sround the farm, and then went to inform the neighbore. They turned out to mesist Mr. Orr, add made a thorough search of thumg. but withont Anding s?{ trace of the missing women. Theistle girl mq story thet when she went to a window on the upper Ast, and looking onb se# her mother crossing the fields in a nortborldz direction. l’In the ‘Iblabl of recent developments,however,this a! could pot be correct. The ferm bm Allison, denied knowipg about the dis :Kpumm. and his first statement was at when be returned bhame from that when be retuor hame from Berrie‘s farm he fon rs. Orr gope. Mr. Orr bimself is a norvoz. excitable map, and for s time was in a frantio state over Sthe disappesrance of bis e acf y t e prpane away vious history ‘of Mrs. Orr gave somiy ty ihe biler "ale B4‘ ho Galt, Aug« iinioi(r'gonco& » w A d"hi: Wl » warrant out vherens wiy Prvcl ons and the couple Wasrerloo County Chronicie, Thursday August 19, 1897â€"Page 4 â€" HORRIBLY BATTERED. ;. 16. â€"The mystery sur Parties with doges searched the swamp« for three days. On Wednes day a discovery was made of what 'ul evidently intended fura graveabout 2300 yards south of the house. _A spade beâ€" longiog to Mr. Orr was found in frome thick underbush pear by. With, the: discovery of the grave came a confessâ€" iou from James Allison, the farm hand. of a conversation he bad with Mre. Orr the morniug she disappeured. . Ailison stuted that Mre Orr had askted bim to show ber his gun, and iwquired how it was used. He explained the working of the weapon, and she toid him to put it back in its place. When quesioned as to why hbe had not told this before, Ailisou said he was afraid to, that Mre. Orr had threatened to kill him if he said anything about it. When Mre. Orc diaappsared the gan wasalso missing, m belief then was that in a moment of despendency she had taken the f“' gone to the swamp and shot herself. Several neighbore said that they had heard a gunshot that morning about the time Mre. Orr dis appeared. In ordar to clear up the uutu.rd;. 8 possible, Mr. Anthoul; Orr asked his neighbore to bave a general turn out this afternoon and search the country for the body, ftut chance saved them this grouble. "Hhortly after 10 â€"a‘clock this morning John Orr, L\nadoo Wilke, Janes Oliver, W. Grills, Whipney and W. Berwisk lefs the farm of Anâ€" thony Orr to visit the grave dug in the awamp. They were returning through the corn patch in rear of the house whena Mr. Jabn Orr noticed that the earth in one of the furrows was slightâ€" ly reised. He poked his stick down, and ::m“. with -':o::’-::.twbu&h‘wd covel t, was fou t Mre. } Orr. %ounm Radford omid of Police Abern Zwere sent for, and the 'T.:: removed !ro%i::topdtbl:o:y. n # W as 8. While Mrs. Orr was unin%y wardâ€" ered, she was pot shot. g‘u head had been w?:l:-d in by nnpt instruâ€" ment. The body was lying in the grave face downwerd, the besd pointing to the south. The b:an were p'.':w back over the hips, and the feeb were crawded into the grave, which bad been :zdo »bout six inches too short. The 1 there was a light sand, and a grave such as Mro. Ore ‘was in «‘& have been dug in s few minutes * body was badly decomposedand swollen Ib v’n: .t:u ..5m.flz:m1, vb‘fl Ib was the swelling of the body, wh won ie s shor M on ned »o led to the discovery of the body. _ It was now apparent that Mro. Orr To a shed near the house the body wAS OOR ts P diieg id 10 99 whd %"m” NFF o sxpnin the use of es foond 27 n LieK ds ue F4 FIXDING OF THE BODY. THE FIROT SUSPLCIONS were instruoted to make the GRAVE. Mr. Juhn Utet in comsersasion with your corresgaodcut, sdd that ons # m‘ 'M.Ton'u- going to visit n -_Io”-dudm with Jobs. Treveiyan cwried a »atche!, which he oproed «nd showed to John Orr. 1t cuntaiued come druge and instruments, and Treveiyan explained that be was taking thes» over to show Mre Oâ€"r. TREVELYAN‘$ STATEMENTS Just before Trevelyan‘s arrest hbe marde the statement :â€" ‘I met Mre. Orr 3n Wednesday, Auâ€" zust 4, and she asked me to come up and get some cherries I asked ber if I would come up on Tharsday and she said no, that she would have company then ; io come up on Friday., ltfl' there on Frid.y u orning and saw Mrs. Orr. I went --a».sw..ub: ohoriqhu&lus'hk\ag' were not good. â€" Mre. Orr m» not to go away and say that I had 208 got any hing, and she gave me a basket of apples. . As I was going away I went | u; seo ToX Orr, who was in The patato pat h. «eferred to the funera) at nhhn%umlbm not go and did not want him to go but anhoprdu be present, and that his wife would have to go along. I 1emarked that death should settile all quarrels, and then Tuny said be had another matter to refer to. There had been a great deal of taik, he said,about my visits to the farm, and ‘he visits cf Marry Blair, and is was uot p‘easant to have remarke madeabout one‘s wite. I told him I only came to 1ee them as they were old frends, and not to see Jam«s Allison, the farm hand, was also placed under arrest, his curious story about the dead wom«n and the gan being considered unsatisfactory. A STRANGE stuRY. A jary wase led yesterday sritoth ho oo Sriiinee nn whte Mimdusavhvlumw and adjourning till to morrow neen. Mre. Ort‘s funeral took place this afternoon from the Orr farm ‘to the Galt come tery. Ium MM% % story m‘&‘:"m singular story which had been related s ne ts tons nirey on wife came home white o:d hrz.th.hn- o n on opam up the ow a0 a l:uu. o'nn‘ the bushes gad,mmp.t:: sprang out of the bushes and attempted wulumbom;m'wwud dulndw\ln . _ It was so dark at time that Mre. Orr was unable to give a description of the | manr. hnmnmflh Corgner‘s T8â€" quest is being and vh-?u- ri::l.mwin l'vgy o m m.u leased, be being wn..am. Every ciroums!ance to to the boy Allison, as the guilty party, or ab loast an accessory to the murder, msu- 4 be can t for ufio‘xgyflflo and that he did nob srrive sb Ore \Muufldut*m ‘clook, The Goderich post office embroglic, which bas cccasioned so much tell talk for a time, has, at lengtb, been settled. been dismissed, and Mr. Galt has been appointed his successor. Concernipg the appointment of Mr, Galt weo bare pothing to say. That is a matter be tween the Department, Mr. Cameron, the reprosentative on whose recommen. dation, no doubt, the appointmens was made, and his constituents who are more immediately intersated in the ofhce, and with which outaiders need pot consern themssires As to the ay repriine Puk i7 ie #ike repors of the Oon flz“ TATLCâ€"t 9iz see | MMMM)&H ko ee mapy 1 SDIPOBIAL NOTEBB GORNER STORE No Dull Times Here «> Business is booming all day long.no wonder the Bargains we are giving in every department, bring the Crowds here. ® 10 pieces Dress Goods, plain and fancy, worth 25e at 15c 20 pieces do worth 50 at RSc 300 yards Fancy Dress Goods worth from 75e to $1.00 at 50c per yd. A lot of single width Dress Goods in Grey, Navy, Black and Fancy worth from 256 to 85e per yard, now at 100. Bargains in Dress Goods Pantings Every man wears Pantsâ€"25 ends of Panting Kt 2 1â€"2 yarda in each end," worth from $1.00 to $1,.25 per yard going at §0c, . , BQ40040#G400@Q004444G04040@@@4@%6 : Come with the Crowd. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ JC BRICKER & DIEBEL. Slaughiter Sale 2 ze a iA 22 m BB 4 TA 4 m m im . m Th o. mm . e i It will be to the advantage of the Ladies of Berlin, Waterloo and vicinity to ‘call and see for themselves the way we are slaughtering Bummer Millinery and Laces for Dress trimming. SPECIAL _ OUT_PRICES Bpecial line of Canadian tweeds for C. T BV B REREYT .0AE THE GREAT Summer Millinery w QOF â€"» Yours for Business To e 9e e i To o. » 44