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TliE NEWS INA PAliAGRIIPII
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL ovgn
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" NUTSHELL.
Canada, the Empire and the World
in General Before lour
Eyes.
CANADA,
The 0, P, R. wall spend millions
in Ontario this year.
Oil may be used by the railways
to banish the mosquito from Mus-
kolca.
Rev, Mr, Gross was acquitted at
Dorchester, N,B, on a. charge of
arson.
Lieut. Hennessy, Quartermaster lin""""' '....0.5.m.moungememoomr
at the Royal Military College, has
1.`tireci' the steamer prin PRICES OF FARM PRODUCT
MOST PERFECT MADE
Used inCanadiin homes to produce
delicious horne.made bread, and a: sups
ply is always included in SPertenkens'
and Campers'. Outf its, Decline
all imitations. They never
give satisfaction and cost just
as much.
E. W. GILLD
ETT CO. LT.
Winnipeg, Toronto, Ont. Montreal
4479rdect highest bailors atoll
NO. 227 Expositiops.
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Mail bags on
ess Beatrice were rifled on, the
journey to Vancouver.
Alfred Freed was fined 5160 at
Cobalt for having eight heaver pelts
in his possession.
Natural Gas Explosion Dashed 8everai Mrs, Tria, her life in
c.1 1,41°4
;„ e• lespatcie from, Niagara Falls,
• sayaiiiiWrithout warning, and
Viith reetitiiflin, eould lee heard for
Wires,' a ;f-3Aeel'explosion w reeked
ipenstock., at the power -house of
Vie Ontario Power Company, Queen
Victoria Park, on Friday morning,
killing three no instantly and seri-
ously wonodinee, seven others,
Dead: David Henderson, ',7,Ciagara,
• N. Y.; "Ailliaiu Orchard,
Niagara Falle, N. )L; Charles
M'Gonigle, Tonawanda, N. Y. In-
jured: Henry Byron, )ferriten,
crushed about the head and face,
probably internally injured; Lewis
Fuel/h, this eity, minor bruises
about thea body, severely scratelied
face; John Otto, Niagara Falls, N.
Y, badly bruised face and bedy;
• Worknien to. Death, -
Robert geran, this city, left side
and face bruised; Peter leli,iniaten,
head and shoulders bruised; James
Nelson, Buffalo, lett arra and side
ininreel, face badly bruised;
George Garvey, this city, severely
injured and thought to be inter-
nally hurt.
General Superintendent Hugh
TL Wilson stated that the loss aside
from the fatalities would be trilling,
possibly not exceeding $5,000. Be
said that so far AS -Could be Ascer-
tained at the present tinae, the ex-
plosion was due to a, leaking gas
pipe. There is a small gas line
Iwithin the penstock for heating pilr.
poses and it is thought that gas es-
caping from the pipe produced the
fatal 'combustion.
FROM DIE LAKES TO THE SE
United States Government Proposes a
Big Scheme,
A despatch from Washington tion introduced in the House of
says: The Taft Administration
Representatives early on Friday
sprang a large surprise on Friday forenoon by Senator -elect Towns-
end of Michigan, tollowing a long
in tonnection with Canadian rela- conference with President Taft on
tions by proposing co-operation Thursday night.
with Canada for the construction of The .resolution for the first time
a deep waterway from the great makes public that it is the desire
lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via of the Administration to open, the
the St. Lawrence, thus making great lakes to ships of the largest
ocean ports of lake cities in both size. It is drawn in such terms, ap-
oountries, and reducing freight parently, as to seek to enlist the
rates to the great advantage of the support of Congress before this im-
people of the interior. The pro- portant step is negotiated by the
Posal came in the form of a resolu- executive end of the Government,
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POUND NERDY:RED IN ROAD.
Commercial Traveler Meets Terrible
Fate in Nieolet County.
A despatch from Quebec says:
Maurice Plouafe, a commercial
traveler, was found on Friday night
murdered in the roadway between
St. Celestin and St. Leonard, in
Nicolet County. His head was split
.pen, his throat cut, and there was
L knife stab in the region of the
aeart.
LATER.
A despatch from St. Leonard de
Nicolet, Oue., says: Hormidas Tre-
panier, a farmer, forty-five years of
*ge, of St. Leonard de Nicolet, was
arrested at his home on Sunday by
Chief McCaskell of the Provincial
olive for the murder of Maurice
louffe. On Sunday night Chief
cOaskell stated that Trepanier
ad confessed he had killed Plouffe
y stabbing him and crushing his
ead. with an axe. The body was
ound on the main road. by George
ord,, a storekeeper of St. Leonard
e NieoIet who was returning from
*business trip to Three Rivers.
CUT DOWN A.T CROSSING.
Eingston Domestic Killed While
Walking Along Tracks.
A.. despatch from Kingston says:
Miss Emma 'Walker, a domestic,
who had worked here for some time,
met an awful death at the Syden-
ham crossino- on the Kingston and
Pembroke Railway,cfour miles from
the city, on Saturday afternoon.
She was struck by a train while
walking on the tracks and cut into
pieces. The remains were brought
to the city on a special car which
was sent to the scene with the
cOroner.
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INFANTE JAIME A MUTE.
Second Son of King and Queen of
Spain Deaf and Dinub.
A despatch from Paris says: It
is said that the King and Queen of
Spain have been informed by ex-
perts that their second son, Infante
Jaime, is deaf and dumb.
Hon. Graham says there
are no negotiations for the sale Or
lease of the Intercoloriial Railway.
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fire that destroyed her son-in-law's
house in. Cornwall township,
Sir Man Aylesworth, Minister of
Justice, will retire after eervingout
the present term of Parliament -
It is reported than an English
syndicate will build summer hotels
near the leading Canadian eities.
The Government leas let 1- „e
traet for a new steamer for lee
Lee-er St, Lawrence serviee to the,
Kingston Shipbunding Compaly,
Miss Ethel Coleman, playing with
a "Ben Hur" eompany, was as-
phyxiated at Joplin, Mo. Her re-
mains were buried at 33elleville, on
irtirsday, where she lived.
An exciting chase after a burg-
lar at Montreal by bearders dressed
in night clothing ended in a, return
lempty-handed to find the house on
fire.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Lord Denraau succeeds Earl Dud-
ley as Governor-General of Au-
stralia,
The
veto bill passed the second
reading in the British. Commons by
a majority of 125.
The late Sir William Butler in
his autobiography accuses the Brit-
ish of causing the South African
REPORTS F01131 THE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES OF,
AMERICA.
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Prices of Cattle Grain Cheese
and Other Produce at Home
and Abroed,
BREADSTUFF'S,
Toronto, Mar, 7.--Flour---Winter
wheat 90 per eent. patents $3.20 to
$3,25 at seaboard. Manitoba flours
—irst patents, $0,40; second pa -t-
ents, $4,90, and strong bakers',
54.70, on track, Toronto.
Manitoba wheat—No, 1 Nerth.
ern, 96Xc, Bay ports; No. 2 North-
ern, 94c, Bay ports, and No. 3 at
91%e, Bay ports; carrying Winter
storage at Goderich, le extra,
,Ontario Wheat—No, 2 white and
red. Winter, 80o
Bey--111alting qualitiee, 06 to
68o outside, according to quality,
and feed 03 to 05e outside,
Oats—No. 2 white 34 to 34e en
traek, Toronto, and 39e outside,
No. 2 W. ID, oats, 30e, Bay ports,
and No. 3 at 35 to 340, Bay ports,
Corn--50Xe, Toronto freights, for
No, 3 American,
P eas—No. 2 at 80 to 81e outside.
Rye -66 to 670 outside.
Ryc-66 to 67c outside.
Buekwheat—No. 1 at 4834 to 49c
A. despatch from London says: was transformed from a misshapen,
SITITATI°N IS 1)ESPERATE
s
Thousands of Chinese Are Dying, of Starva-
tion ---Bark and Weedthe Only Food
A despatch frolics, Washington,
says: To meet the pressing needs
of the starving people of China,
American Consul -general Wilder
at Shanghai, en Wednesday abled
to the Seeretary ,of State an urgent
appeal to the people of the United
States for the contribution of
$100,000 more to be sent by eable
to the stricken people, Mr. Wilder
makes it plain that that amount
will be needed before the army
transport Buford, now loading at
Sdattle, can possibly arrive in
China with its eupplies, The situ-
ation, Mr. Wilder adds, s despor-
ate. While same relief has been "4
given to the suffering multitudes,
thousands are dying of starvation.
Barks and weeds, the Consul -Gen-
eral says, provide the only foodfor
thousands of others.
The Red Cross, on Wednesday,
cables $1,000 to Mr. Wilder, mak-
ing a total of $23,000 which. the
Red Cross has eliebursed for the re-
lief of the sufferers,. $16,000 having
been cabled directly to the stricken
districts and $7,000 having been
spent for supplies.
SANE PATIENTS AR CUBED
Dr, Robertson, of the Royal Edinburgh.
Asylum, Gives Wonderful Results
outside.
Bran—Manitoba at $22 in bags,t0 el u ier n en -
Dr Geer R b t S t stupid object to bright,
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intefli-
wa Toronto, and shorts, $24, in bags,
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Toronto. Ontario bran, 522 to $22. -
UNITED STATES. 50, in sacks, Toronto, and shorts,
Seamen threaten a strike at time$24 t° "4 50
of Coronation.
An egtra session- of the United
States Senate will probably bo
called for March 15.
GENERAL.
Plague and famine are said to
have caused 30,000 deaths in China.
The French Ministry has been
formed with M. Antoine Monis as
Premier,
' BULL SALE AT GUELPH.
A Fair Success, but Prices Were
Lower Than Last Year.
A despatch from Guelph says:
The annual pure bred shorthorn
bull sale of the Guelph Fat Stock
Club, held in the Winter Fair
building, on Thursday, proved very
successful. The total amount of
money that changed hands was 52,-
917. The average price paid wa'S
972.90 per head, and the highest
price realized was 5150, which was
paid by H. A. Cormick of Arthur
for Benalder, a handsome animal,
contributed to the sale by A. F.
and G. Auld of Eden Mills. The
average price was not so high as
that of last year's sale, when it was
about $81. Prominent stockmen
agreed that the quality of the ani-
mals did not average up quite so
high as at last year's sale.
PLAYED BALL WITH 1103111.
Calcutta Official in. Auto Caught
Missile Thrown by IN afire.
A despatch from Calcutta says:
An attempt of a Bengali youth to
assassinate with a bomb a British
oiRcial, on Thursday, who was in
an automobile, was frustrated by
the official chancinn. to see the bomb
0 ispherical
thrown, which enabled him to a.tch
inhis hands. The bomb u as
and three inches in dia-
c
meter. The incident seemed to
lookers as if the lad had thrown a
; ball to another player. The thiow-
Clinilral Sir ksshetou Gore Curzon -Howe er was arrested.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples—Spys, $0 to 56; Baldwins
$4 to $5; Greenings, 54 to $4.50;
No. 2 assorted, $3.50 to $4.50 per
barrel.
Beans ---Car lots $1.75 to 51,80,
and small lots, 51.90 to $2.
Honey—Extracted, in tins, 1034
to 11c per ib.; N. 1 comb, whole-
sale, 52 to 52.50 per dozen; No.
corab, wholesale, $1.75 to $2 per
dozen.
Baled Hay—No. 1 at 512 to 5_13
on track, and No. 2 at $9 to $10.50.
Baled straw—$6.50 to $7, on
track, Toronto.
Potatoes—Car lots 80 to 85e per
bag.
P oultry—Wholesale prices of
dressed poultry :—Chickens, 15 to
I6c per lb. ; fowl, 11 to 13c per lb.;
turkeys, 19 to 21e per.lb. Live
1 tel2c
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
I3utter—Dairy prints, 19 to 20e;
choice rolls, 18 to 19c; inferior, 16
to 18c., Creamery quoted at 27c per
lb. for rolls, 24c for solids, and
22 to 23c for separator prints.
EggsCase lots of new -laid, 22 to
23c per dozen, and of pickled at 16
to 17c.
Cheese—Large, 13e, -and twins at
1334e. .
HOG PRODTJCTS. -
Bacon—Long clear, 1134 to 12c
per lb. in case lots;' mess pork,
21.50 to ,522; do., short cut, $25 to
$25.50; pickled roils, $22 to $22.-
50.
Harns—Light to medium, 15 to
16c; do., heavy, 14c; rolls, 123/2c;
breakfastbacon, 17 to 1734e ; backsi_
18 to 1834c.
Lard—Tierces, 12e; tubs, 1234c;
pails, 12342c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL
Montreal, Mar. 7.--Oats,--Canadi-
an Western, No. 2, 38X to 3834e,
car lots ex store ; extra No. 1 feed,
37% to 38c; No. 3 C.W., 3734 to
3/Yc • No. 2 local white, 37Y • No. 3
local white, 361/e ; No. 4 local white,
Flour—Manitoba Spring
wheat patents, firsts, $5.60; do.,
seconds, 55.10; Winter wheat pat-
ents, $4.50 to $4.57; ')trong bak-
ers', $4.90; straight rollers, $4.25
to 94.35- do.,- in bags. $1.90 to $2.
Boiled Oats—Per barrel, $4.45 ;hag
�f90 lbs., 52.10. Barley — Feed,
car lots ex,store, 49 to 50.0, Corn
—American No: .3 yellow, 0034 to
560. Milled -Bran, Ontario, $22
to 823; Manitoba, 821 to 23; mid-
dlings. Ontario, 524 to $25 ; shorts,
Manitoba, $23 in 25; mouillie, 925
to $30. Eggs,—Selectecl, 230; fresh,
25 to 27o; No. 1 stock, 20c ; No. 2,
18c: . Cheese --Westerns, 1134 to
32e; easterns, 1134 to 1134c. But-
' icest, 26 to 263/c seconds,
dent of the Po 1tem r b
urgn Asy- gent woman The second else was
that of a woman whose affliction
luin for the Insane, in a rephrt pub- was due to excess of secretion et
lished in The Scotsman of the mar- thyroid in the blood. She was
venous cures of the insane, in- treated with serum from a goat, iho
stances two cases. Tile first was of thyroid gland of which had been re -
a woman who was -a sufferer from moved, She rapidly recovered,
myxoe dema. She became ehild- Dr. Robertson says those unhal.-
ish, heard imaginary voices and aneed by politics usually recover.
had strange delusions. A tablet He states that the tures effected
prepared from the thyroid gland to -day would have been considered,
of a sheep was given to her. She miracles twenty years ago,
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, March 7.—Wheat —
May, 9534to 95 3-8c; July, 9034 to
96 5-80; September, 9034c, Cash—
No. 1 hard, 97 5-80; No. 1 North-
ern, 96 to 97 1-8c; No. 2 Northern,
93 to 95 1-8c; No. 3 wheat, 91 to
94. Bran—$20 to 521. Flour —
First patents, $4.45 to 54.75.; sec-
ond patents, $4.35 to $4.65; first
clears, $2.90 to $3.30; second clears,
$1.90 to $2.50.
Buffalo, March 7.—Spring Wheat
—No. 1 Northern, carloads store,
$1.02 5-8; Winter, nominal. Corn
—Firm. Oats—No. 2 white, 34e;
No. 3 white, 333.4c; No. 4 white,
32%c. Barley—Malting, 95e to 51.
Rye—No. 2, on track, 87c, through
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Montreal, March 7. --Choice
steers sold at 634c, good at 634c,
fairly good at 5% to 6c, fair at 5Y1
to 53-<-,,,e, and lower grads at 434 to
5c per Ib. Cows and bulls brought
from 334 to 5)%c per lb. Hogs sold
at $7.25 to $7.50 per cwt., weighed
off „cars. Calves sold from $3 to
$10 each, as to size and quality.
Sheep, $5 to $7, and a few Spring
lambs sold at $8.
Toronto, March 7.—Three good
fat heifers, weighing, 1,400 lbs.
apiece,,were sold. for $6.15 -per cwt.,
and one or two loads of choice steers
and heifers fetched $5.85. Medium
butcher cattle ranged from $5 to'
$5.60. Bulls were steady ataround
'$5 to $5.10, and good butcher cows
brought 55.25 in some cases. Can-
ners were from 52 to $2.50 per cwt.
Good lambs weighing from 90 to
100 lbs, were about 25e. higher.
Sheep were quoted from 54.25 to
54.85. Hogs, 56,75 f.o.b., and 57.-
05 fed and watered.
NEW ONTARIO LOAN.
Five and a Half "Million Dollars to
be Floated.
A despatch from Toronto says:
Col. Matheson, Provincial Tree. -
surer of Ontario, announced on
Thursday afternoon that a provin-
cial loan of $5,500,000 is to be
floated. Of this, $9,500,000 is for
Hydro -Electric transmission lines,
two million of it to carry the line
to Windeor. Three million is to be
spent on the T: & 'N. 0. railway,
$600,000 to extend the line to Por-
cupine, and $55,000 to carry the
line south to meet the Grand Trunk
at Calendar.
1)IED OF BROKEN HEART.
Nei Falls Dead After Attending
His Son's Funeral.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Died of a broken heart, was the
verdict in the case of Ed. Berge -
vin, who Jell dead in his house on
Thursday morning. He had attend-
ed the funeral of his only son, and
was 'laid.' cut up about it. He eft-
terecl his home, took off his over-
coat, and pitched forward dead.
lOT AT SPRIliGillbil
Was Stricken With Paralysis 30000 DEVill S. Stone I-Iouses of 3/Ien
A despatch fIom Portsmouth,
nays : Admiral Sir Assheten Gore
Curzon -Howe, commander-in-chief
at Portsmouth, was stricken with
P'aralYsts '
q, pd lc_,i
ori Wednesday morning
he ,.,..,. me
'Was0,quadro_second in command evenin.s. , Ile.
the
t'ho: t , i 4i17 r11zo'f' 7ilai theee 9h i' 12 ,,,e' v :I ds ' eit ne t4 el na , ru; ,Ic ' ) e,f oe' the
. iitic.al :..„,-then Princeof
.,,Oitiiiial. Sir ArthurCurzon-Howe s .
in,mander-in-chief
yarislhicac.:eeAl. eacis
li Portsmouth'
'"".- arelif:,q910e'.e..the,:..latter leeing
'admiral ',cif
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the fleet. He had served in the
navy 48 years, and during that
period commanded rnany of the best
known ships and saW 'a great va-
riety of active service. He receiv-
ed the thanks of the Royal Humane
Society in 1808, and was twice -.1ireii-
tIoned in despatches in 1891. Ho
was commodore ia charge of the
i.`,Towforindlaild fisheries in 1893-96.
He was second in command of the
Channel fleet 1902-03; comman-
der, China, 1903-05; Channel fleet,
1905-07; Atlantic fleet, 1907-08: com-
mander-in-chief, 1\lediterranean,
fleet, 1908-10.
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Famine and Plague Still Sweeping
Over China.
A despatch from Pekin says
Famine and the plague are sweep-
ing ever China. The known deaths
f fom the plague number 30,000, and,
acoording to the official statistics,
the death rate averages 200 daily.
1)r. Samuel Cochran, an American,
who is engaged in the work of re-
lief, writes : "One million People
will die before the first crop is liar -
vested. This will be scanty,,, be-
cause the 1peolpic have ne,tletlie
strength to till the soil and'n'd4 Ai"
'Dais remain for plowin "
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c,
Strikers
turned to WOI'ic
A desnatch frorn N.S.,
says: The troops stationed here ,en
account of the strike by coal min-.
ers have at, last:found something
-
serious to do They were called ,out
on Thursday to suppress a fierce
riot. The trouble began by the,
stoning of the houses of the strik-
ers who have returned to wb,rk dur,
ing the past few days. The ston-
ing continued for some 'time, be-
coming ver,' much' worse, until' the
crowd inimbeted, several hundreds,
and ,the,:',disordei..,,,,WAS,':,trenipnd.atta
Who Re-
Manager Sharp and other officials ',134
did what they could to Protect the ,
conipany"!,•roperty, and ite""pre-,.l•
serve the. tights . ot 1 e men wa
werebeing assaulted.' , Itt the me- "
Jee Mr. Sharp: was, somewhat.
cut abbut -tAie head. The town
police'tobk a hand,and the arrests
they ,madestrange to say, ;,vere'' cif
those -who had been taying
Serve: 'peace, 'While the menl5
hc... riot' were unniol
were then .ialled out47
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