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Exeter Advocate, 1913-3-13, Page 3.,117,•1 Items of News by Wire Notes of Interest as to, What Is *Going on All Over the World s Canada. The local ciptdon by-law was ens - tabled at Forest by Judge Mac - Watt. The Sask'atchewan Government is being flooded with petitions in favor weman's suffrage. Lumbermen have decided that the price of best hemlock weulcl ad- vanee to $20 this eoming season. St. Thomas will erect a 125 -foot stand pipe to increase the water pressure for fire protection. • Mrs. Toull of Ingersoll died from shoek on hearing of the death the day before of her sister, Mrs. Nich- olson of St, Catharines( The Government lighthouse sup's' ply steamer, Estevan, which left Collingwood November 4, has reach- ed Victotia after its 17,000 -mile trip. • It is reported that the Canadian Northern Railway's fieancial un- dertaking involves a. sum in.excess of any previous railway financing in Canada. " St. Dunstan's Roman Catholic . Cathedral at Charlottetown, P. E: was destroyed by fire on Sat- ue'day. Loss $250,000, insurance '$100,000. Sylvester Smith of Toronto was cenvictecl at Montreal of attempted " murder. He stole a revolver from a, second-hand store and fired at a policeman who chased him. Bruce Flinciall was found guilty of inauslanghter at Cohourg on Friday and sentenced by Mr. Jus- tice Middleton to five, yeaes in the penitentiary for slaying- his father in a quarrel, • • Newfoundland has opened nego- tiations with the Imperial Governs* meat in regard to participating in Empiee defence. The local duties 'cn 'tea, sugar and salted meats are also to be removed, Great Britain. Sir Oliver Lodge has been recom. meaacleal as President of the British .Aseociation, - The Municipal Reformer.s, or Conservatives, had an increa,eed majority, in the London 'Couuty Council elections. United States. All obstacles to the treatment of tuberculosis patients by Dr, Fried - Mann have beeremoved in New Madero's brother stated that the late President was assassinated in the palate and that Gustavo was tortured and mutilated before he died, Alfred Noyes, the British poet, in a lecture at New York, said tha United States will at no, distant date assume the world's leadership in poetry. General. Of the Gerrnan loan isesue of $100,000,000 only $42,500,000 was subseribeel. The Mexican Government organ- isied a large force to move against the rebels in the northern States. Seventy lives were lost when a German destroyer was cut down and sunk by a cruiser during man- oeuvres. ' The Pope has consented to make accessible for purposes of historical research the secret archives of the Congregation of the „Inquisition. - A French expedition will sail on Jane for a scientific examination :of Franz Josef Land, in the Arctic. Two aeroplanes will be earried. MEETINGS BROKEN UP. Crowd. of Five Thousand Storms the Suffragettes' Platform. A despatch from, -London, Eng- • land, ,says: The suffragettes . held meetings again on Sienday at Hyde Park and Wimbledon Common. They would have met the fate of the previous Sunday's meetings at the sante "places, -when: it required a ,strong' body of police to escort them to safety, but that on Sunday the authorities took precautions and had large bodies of mounted and foot pOlicemen in attendance. Even at that wild scenes 'ensued. Fivd thousand 'persens apsembleal in the peak and swarmed about the speak- ers' platform, and by a deafening din prevented any word of "Gen- eral" Drummond's speech from be-. ing heard. The pressure of the surging erowds towards the plat- form ,at length •became so great _ that reinforcements were hastily summoned. Mrs. Drummond and her colleagues were rescued from their perilous position with some difficulty. At Wimbledon similarsenes were enacted. Scarcely a word uttered by the 'speakers was audible, and they, too, had to be protected., •„ EXTENDING TRE T. & N. 0. A Survey Party Will. Leave Coch- rane on ,March 20. A, despatch from Cochrane says: That there is 'a determination to proceed with the work of extending the T. & N. 0. Railway to James Bay may be indicated by the fact that very soon Admiralty charts are to be issued of the great inland sea. A small hydrographic survey• part in charge of Paul Jobin, will leave here on llareh 20. They will take a team of sixteen dogs, and go over the ice to the, scene of their work at James Bay. STOLE TIIIRTY THOUSAND. Former Ledgerkeeper of a Banir Gets Three Year Term. ' A despatch from Montreal says: Henri • Legace, a ledger -keeper, formerly employed by the Bank of Ilochelaga, Was on Thursday morn- ingsentenced by Judge Bazinto three years in th,e penitentiary fel- the theft ef some thirty thousand dollars of thee bank's. money. Le- gace invented a 'system of running a false account in his own bank, to which he transferred money from several large accounts in the Hoch- elaga Bank. He then opened up an amount in a. beancli office of the City and District Savings Bank tinder' the name of Arayot ..and transferred the money in the false account to it; afterwards drawing a cheque on the Amyot aceount. The police recovered some $20,000 of the money. • p. ITOBBLE SKIRT REVIVED. Skirts in -Paris so Tight,. Wearers. - Can Scarcely Walk. A despatch from London says: According to a London fashion ex- pert just returned from Paris ;• the dressmakers there are proposing not merely sto reviveseehe hobble skirt, but to make it tighter. This London expert says :---"I saw • skirts in Paris so tight round the legs that the wearers were scarcely able to walk. FOUR BURNED 10 DEATIL An Overheated Stove Was the Cause of the Fire. A despatch from Montreal says: Henry McOomberville of Hunting- don, eighty-five years of age, was burned to death Friday night; to- gether With three • of his grandchile dren, age,c1 eight, ten and twelve. An overheated stove was the cause of the fire, EXPLORERS' •TRAGIC END Lieut. Ninnis Disappeared In an Unfathomable Cre- vasse—Dr. Mertz Died Prom Malnutrition A despatch irons Sydney, says: Details of the tragie ending of Lieut. /1..' E. S. Ninnis of the 'Royal Eusilliers Regiment, and Dr. Xavier Mertz, champion 'ski jumper of the worlci, whO 'met with death in the frozen South Polar •regions while members of the Sustralian 'Antarctic expedition f were told in a wireless telegraph Message re- oeived here on Wednesday from Dr. Douglas Mawson, the leader of the expedition, who also suffered great hardship. The -wireless message received from Dr, Mawsorn, who is now in Adelieland, says• ; "On Deeember 4, 1911, while we were exploring a new coast line three hundred miles to the south- east of our winter quaeters, Lieut. Ninnis, with a dog team and with almost all .our food, disapeared in an unfathomable 1crevasse, Dr. Mertz and myself, with an inade- quate supply of provisions and with six starving dogs, then started' over the plateau for our hut. tad weather retarded our progress; and We ettbsiated chiefly on dogs. • On January 17,-. 1912, Dr. Mertz died,, the cause of his death arising from malnutrition. On February 7, I ar- rived at the hub alone, having tray. oiled through snow and fog, and having miraeutously been guided by Providence through the heavily crevassed areas. The steamer Au- rora waited at the base until wen, ther conditions made it no longer safe. She left a few hours before ray arrival at the hub. ,Six men were left there by the Aurora ,,to - prosecute se, search for the membersof our party.” 1 h it ouR LETTER FROM Toni To ,;;Fgt:014uif.to.?,:aug:t. vaouvrari,23.„4. 4 eerrsof 'be Associetion, but title alaa bass . been largely aban49ned, ' , The Imnost Circle. INTERESTING BITS OF GOSSIP FROM THE QUEEN CITY. Dr. 0. C. James Speaks of tho HILO Cost of Living—Or. Freicltriart's Cure—TOronto • Suffragettes—Exhibition Association City people,, not infrequently, are beard to declare that ferniers are • getting Tibia that the present high cost of living •mast be resulting In a eltuation in whieh the farming community as a Nabob) is simply roiling in, wealth. This view wee Pune- atgieicis tobry opt r:A.CIdrie01.113tilarirte"fo. PtrhmeerPrDoeVirinct".e of Ontario and now Advisory Expert for the Dominion Department ofAgricultat. re, iu his addrese to the Cianadian Club "I want to tell you," be said emphati. cally, "that the fariner is net getting too much." In illustratipn b uoted the fact that a bee of potathes which eostif 900... $1,00 or $1.25 iu Toronto, yields to the far- mer who grows them, probably in Carle- ton County,' New Brunswick, not more than 30e., and the milk which sells in Toronto for 10e. a quart yields the farmer liMbably only 41'2. a quart. 'The farmer who gets 4 1-2o, a quart not getting too much," he ;said,"but the city man who pays 10c, a quart is PaYing too much." Mr, lames maintained that the system of distribution wee all wrong, though, he said, there was no use calling the middle man hard names, because he was simply working under conditions cis they exist and earning an honest living. atr, James was- diaoussing the „cost Of living, and it was an attentive group of 250 •city men be wae addressing. T/aer were vitally interested, baaause, ae, Mr. James pointed out, the preeent cenditioni have reaohed sneh a pass that for the classes of the community on fixea salaia ies, and- this means the great body of teachers, clergymen, clerks and all other \forms of unorganized workers, relief must COMO 60011. \ The West Is Net Helping. Mr. James macle a comment that -was surprising to many of his audience in connection with the opening up of West- ern Canada, Be demonstrated that as far as the cost of living in this country is concerned, the new population in the West is doing nothing to ameliorate condltio While they are producers in one sense the word, the stuff they are producing wheat, oats, flax -ie practically all for ex- port, $0,0 that as a matter of fact the -in- creased population is simply aading, to the coneuming populatien of the country. On the other hand, the rural population of Eastern Canada during the last ton years had declined by about 47,000 Peoples while the city or urban population of the country had increased by no less than 1,250,000. In these figures, Mr. James r thought, lay one of the ehlecames for the great advance:, in the cost of living in Canada. The consunaers had increased, the producers had declined in number. It was inevitable that the law of supnly and demand should rule. Mr. James follVwed this up with the startling declaration tb.at in hie opinion it would be better for the Government, instead of ;mending' 'thirty, forty er fifty million dollars for rail. ways- to open up new area in thea.Z<Siftli- west, to take a similar amount and specia,- l it on good roads in old Ontario and the' other settled. portions of Eastern Canada. In thie connection Mr. James pointed out that -Canada, generally regarded as an agrieultural country, is a large im- porter of _food stuffa. British Columbia, for example, imports 516,000,000 worth of table products annually, and little New Brunswick. another agricultural ,province, imports $4,000,000 worth. Mr. James outlined what it was proposed to do with the 510,000,000 13,ONV beingagra,nt- ed by the Dominion Department"of Agri- culture for the increase of agricultural' knowledge and training, the purpose be- inete'teach the farmers Jaow to increase the amount of their produce.• a Friedmann's Cure. ao a Matter of fact, there is an inner oink) within the Inner eirele, the Dinthet °trek being' the Exeentive (anamittee Of about five memeere, This is the real OOYS: erning body of the L'xhibition, The anartial Meeting this year was one of the largest in the hifitoPY, 00 the Ae' soelation. 4110 of the ;sine rooms at the QitY Preeident Xenia Man' of few words, presided, and (ieneral Man- ager Orr Wag git, big left band to two that the wheels avvolved eincethlY• The,.elee• tion of Directors is alWaYe accompanied i it f3 841d, wirtpulling, and there is genor. idly it surprise ha store for eomeone. Thts Year it was for Yr. 10. Franklaud, former direetor who had some disagrees Ment with the other members of the Board during the Year•:lust elosed, and who this year went down to defeat. After the voting adiournment was made to a restaurant. where au elaborate luncheon WAR served, 411 - SUN 10 SUPERSEDE OIL. Expert Also Obtained Power From the loon. •by a great deal of' buttonholing, and, A despatch from London,Eng- land, says: A prediction that the • sun's rays will one day supersede coal oil as a source of mechanical power was made by the American inventor, Frank Shuman, at the London meeting of the Sun Power Company, which was formed some time ago with an authorized capi- tal of R300,000 to work his sun - power puniping, plant.' Shuman stated that after the initial cost the maintenance of a sun -power plant was practically negligible. He ad- ded that the power can be so stored as to be available throughout' the year. Professor C. V. Boys, the eompany's consulting advisory ex- pert, mentioned Incidentally that nc7s* he had been able to obtain power --I from the moon's rays. Among local medical men and the pub. lie generally there 18 the lceenest interest in the reported discovery by Dr. Priad- mann, the German physician, of a sue- oessful treatment for consumpaion. Sever- al local doctors have inside arrangements to interview Dr. Friedmann, and it is hoped that possibly he maybe induced to visit Toronto. Despite the great aublicity which has been given the new "cure," the disposition among Toronto medical men Is to look with some suspicion on the high claims that have been made. 'They will be delighted to find that Dr. Fried- inann's cure is as dependable, as has.,been statedbut in view of the doubt they think It is unfortunate that co maith publicity has been- given the matter until all pos- sibility of disappaihttnent to sufferers had passed, That, a distinct advance in the treatment of tuberculosis has been made they consider poesible, but that anything like, a "cure all" has been discovered seams to them incredible. Eager Suffragettes. The Toronto Suffragettes who went to Washington havo-returried well pleased with their expeditien, The Suffragettes, SS a rule, are very seneitive of criticism of their actions, but this has not prevent- ed certain persons of both sexes' from asking what was to be gained by ench a jaunt. The point of view of these critics is that the Canadian participation in. the Washington parade was as much out of place as would be the participation in an Ottawa, parade of Canadian Suffragettes seeking th influence the Dominion Parlia- ment. by a contingent of -United States women. The Toronto contingent could not help but impress the eye. They wore red hats, long white trailing gowna with •a big red eash bearing the word "Canada," and <serried Union Jacks. The delegation included about a dozen of the most. ac- tive agitatorin Toronto, including Mrs. Flora Macdonald Denison, 'President of the Canadian Suffrage Association; Dr, Augueta Stowe-Gullen, past president; Dr. aitargaret JohnSton, Mrs. Campbell Mac - Ivor, who alone of Toronto's suffragettes believes 'in 'militant methods; Mrs. Ilea tor Prenter, the very active Secretary of the Association; Mr. L. A. Hamilton, President of the Ecaual Franc'hise' League and a very active social worker, and Mrs. E. •L. Campbell, President of the Beachee' Progress Club. All of these are ladies of ripe experience ha women's incivements, and none belongs to the type one would expect to be carried away by any vieien- ary projeCt. The enthusiastic Km. Ham. Ilton proposes to organize a parade in Toronto next. Cabinet Ministers Lend a Hand. The Toronto Exhibition Association has only one meetixig a year, but it manages to threw aroused ,that gathering some of the glamor of national importande which it secures for the .Bi k Show itself. Per example, at the annual meeting this year no kss than three Cabinet 1V7inistere Were in attendance. Thera, Wa,s the Honorable' James Duff, wbo from his position as Min- ister of Agriculture take a keen Interest in all exhibitions, and who is an witheei. esti° member of the Toronto Exhibition Aseoeiatien; then there was the Honor-. able W, H. Hearst, whoee special interest is New Ontario, whieli always has a prota- talent exhibit at the fair, and the third Minister was the •/Ionerable- Dr. Pyne, Minister of Uneaten, whose interest is elieitect on account of the educational fea- tures which the 'Pair 18coka to introduce, Each was called .upon to Make a speech, and responded with it few brief cientences of a congratulatory nature, delivered in characteristic style, Mr. Duff inclined to bit flowery, Mr. nearst forcible and down- right, and Dr. Pyne the' dignified and euave gentleman. The ExhibitiOn Association is made fin of delegates from various bodies Of a more or lees representative character through- out the Previnee. •Membership it the As- sociation ear -ties Oith it as privileges the right to attend the annual meeting, to stake pert In the disausiiican there arid kJ Vete 'in the election for Hoard of Direct. tprs, and t� a pas o twe for the aseatea tion. • The Beata Of Direetern, consistiog Of 16 Members, it the Intim' tairele, While the Meitibership of CM Aseeelatiee calnaleti a Malabar fikoM outside the eity, the Direetwailtips ere j)reti.P Well confined to Men with. Terento interacts'. PormarIV there was in addition tO the Direatorate • FRANCE AND GERMANY. Increase the Place Footing of Their • Armies. A despatch from Cologne, Ger- many, says: The new German mili- tary bill will add 84,000 recatitS to the annual contingent called up for service in the army, according to the well-informed Volks Zeitung. The total strength of the peace footing of the army will thus be in- esecased .by 168,000 men, bringing it up to -806,600;^ estala officers. A despateh from Paris SaYet-Tass French Cabinet has accepted the decision of the Supreme Council of War, which pronounced on Tuesday in favor of a three years' term of service in all branches of the army, instead of two years, as hitherto, and the bill will be- submitted to the Chamber of Deputies. The measure will add 210,000onen at the lowest estimate to the peace feast- ing of the army, which at present stands at 578,783, excluding officers. WOMEN RECEIVE SETBACK. Two States Kill Measures to Ex - „ tend the Franchise. A despatch from Boston says: The 'cause of woman suffrage re- ceived a setbackintwo New Eng- land Legislatures on Wednesday. After several hearings at which the question was debated in_a, spir- ited manner by prominent men and women, 'as committee in the Massa- chusetts Legislature voted to re- port "leave to withdraw" on a bill proidding for e a referendum on a constitutional amendment, which would eliminate the word "male" from the provision defining the qualifications of a voter. Six mem- bers of the committee voted against suffrage, three for it and two were not recorded. A similar bill was killedinethe Maine House by a vote of efghty-nine to fifty-three, after it had been passed by the Senate. REC• ORD PRICE FOR BULLS. "Clipper Prince" Sold for Three Ilundred and Twenty -live Dollars. A despatch from Guelph says: Spirited bidding feattired the an- nual pure-bred bull sale under the auspices of the Guelph Fat Stock Club. Browe & McCullough, cattle ranchers at Great Falls, Montana, were the ,principal buyers. W. C. Edwards & Company of Rockland were the largest sellers, with ten extra fine bulls. A roan two-year- old, "Clipper Prince," was the higheate at $325, a record, -being purchased by G. R. Rankin & Son,, Ila,miota Manitoba The Montana ranch paid up to $240, taking six- teen in all., The average was $142, as against $98 last year. 4.--_- •)IONTILEA.Iti MILK. 42,600,000 GC11118 FOlktld in Twelve Drops. A despatch from Montreal says: In 78 bat of every 100 lunth roOtes, eating houses and hotels in Mont - cal the milk supplied -diners is ar below standard. •In most cases he fluid sepplied, quite patently reclaims • its lineage ,frorn the town pump, with but little suspic- ion_ of bovine extraetion. • In one ease 42,600,,000 bacteriological or- gheisme were discovered in about twelve drops of "Milk" taken from saMple provided in no • well- known restahranto • This Agnres out at 7s608,000,0) bacteria • per Grain, Cattle an Prices of These Products in the 1„eacting Marketare !Jere Recorded Breadstuff'. Taranto, lifaroli 11.—Nanitobe_ Wheat - Lake ports, No, 1 northern 96 a -2e to 57p; Nto o. 2, 94c 94J -2p; No. 3; 91e to 91 1-2e; feed wheat, 65 1-24a. • Ontario 'Wheat -No. 2, 95e to 96e for car bete, outside, ranging down to 70e for peer grades, Ontario , Oats -No 2 White, 33.e to 34e aa counitrY Paints); 37e te 380 on •traek, 1.‹)14arnitoba Oats -No. 2 (I, laa oats, 410, • traek, bay ports; No. 2 C. W., 39 1-20i 140. 1 feed, 391-2o for pronlpt eliipment. Corn--Amdrican No. 2 yellow, all rail, 56 1-2e; No. 3, 51c, Peas -No. 2, $1.15 to 51.20, car bots, out- side. Buckwheat -No, 2, 52c to 53c, Eye -No. 2, 63e .t, 65o, nominal, Eerier -Outside, 56,5 to sec, Polled Oate-Per bag of 90 pounds, 52.- 15; per barrel, a4.50, wholesale, Windsor to A/entreat. • Millfeal-Manitoba bran, $19.50 to 520, in -bags, track, Tokento; shorts, 521 to $21.50; Detarie bran; $19 to 520 in bags; ehorte. $2140. Manitoba Plour-First patent, 56,30 in jute bags. second patents, 54.80 in jute bags; strong bakers'. 84,60 in fate bags. In cotton bags, ten cente more per bar- rel. • Ontario Plour-Winter wheat flour, ,90' per cent. patents, $3.95 to 54.05. Country Produce—Wholesale. , EggS---Cold-storage, 18e to 200 ill ease lobs; fresh eggs are ;selling at 22e; strict- ly new -laid at 26a. - Cheese -Twins, new, 14 3.4e to 15c, and large, new, at t41 -2o; old cheese, twins, 15e to 15 1-2e; inege, 15e, Butter --Creamery prints. 31, to 32e; do., solids, 29 to 30e; dairy prints, 25 to 27e; inferior (bakers') 22 to 23e. Honey -Buckwheat, 9e pound in tins and 8e in barrels; strained clover bailey, 12 1.-2e a pound in 60 -pound tine, 12 3-4e in 10 -pound tins; 13e in . 5 -pound tins; comb oneY, No. 1, 52.60 per dozen; extra, 53 Per dozen; No. 2, $2.40 per dozen. Poultry -Live chieltens, wholesale, 12a to 1,3c per pound; fowl, 10e to 11e; dealt% 13c th 140; live turkeys, 15c to 17c; geeae, 40 to 10e. Dressed poultry, ac to 3o above live quotations, exaepting dressed Mr - keys, at no to 21c. Beans -Primes, $2.50 and 52.60 for hand - piked. Potatoes-Onlario potatoes, 80o per bag; ear lots, 700; New Brunswicke. 90e to 95e per bag out of store; 80e in oar lots. Spanish Onions -Per case, $2.40 th 52.50. Provisions. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -Rolls -- Smoked, 150; hams, medium. 18e to 181.4c; heavy, 16c to 161-2o; breakfast bacon, 19c to 19 1-2o; long clear bacon, tons and, eas- es, 14 1-2,a to 14 3-4e; backs (plain), 23ci backs (peameal); 22 1-2o. • Qataen Meats --Out of pickle, lo less than fireoxeaaa, Pork-Shbrasenja 526 to $28 per barrel; mess pork, $21 to 1142...a. ' Lard --Tierces, 14 1-4c; tithe. 1.4 1-2e ; pails, Scot's). Men:Lento are buying at oountry, points' • on the bushel basis as fo11owii..-41s1ke. No. 1, 511.50 to $12,50; do., No, 2, $1,0,50 to 811; due No. 3, 59.50 to 510; Timothy, No., 1, $1,65 to 52,00; doe No, 2, 51,25 to 51.60;' PI:imaged, 51,00 ±0 $L20; 'tea clover, No, $7 to 58; 'Baled Hay and Straw, Quotations., traek, '.Vorentoi-Baleti. hay,No, 1, 512 to 81250; No, 2, $9 to 510; .No. 58 to 50. Baled straw, $9 to 59,50. United $tates Markets. , Minneapolis, March 11—Whet 851-20 to 856-40; July, 57 5-80; september, 88c; No. 1 hard, 8615e; No, 1 northern, - 84 1-80 to 85 5-8e; No 2 do., 82. 1-8e, to 83 6-8e.. 0orn-No. .3 yellow, 440 to 46 1-2e. Oat - 370. 3 white, 30 3-4e to, 31e. Eye -No. 2, 53e - to 56o. B1'ati-$17,60 to 518.50. Flour-tTa ()hanged. Duluth, Mara 11. -Wheat -No, 1 bard,' 85 3-8e to 857-8; No. 1 northern, 54 Sale to 84 Me; No, 2 northern, 803-40 to 807-8e: May, 853-8o; July, 880 bid; September, 880, Montreal Markets, Moatreal, March 11, -Clore-American, No. -2 yellow, 61 1-2e. Oate--Oanadiau. western No. 3, 40 1.2e to 41,e; eXtra, No. 1 - feed. 41c to 41,1-2e; No. 2 local white, 38w, No. 3 local white, 37e; No. 4 loeal white," 360.Barley-Manitoba feed, 52e to 5461 ao„' malting, 7ae to 75c. • Buckwheat, No:, 2, 55e1 to 57e. ]?lour'-atanitoba spring, wheat patents, Excite, $5.40; do,. seconds, $4,90; strong bakers', 54.70; winter -patents,, choice, 55,25; straight rollers, $4.85 to $4.. 90; etraight rollers, ia baga, $2.20 th $2.35,e Belled oats, barrels. 54.35; do., in bags of , 90 lbs., 512 05, Bran, $20. Shorts, 522. Mid; aline's, $25.00. Ifouillie, $30 to 535. Hoy," No. 2, per ton car lots, $11.50 to $12, (theme -Finest westerns, 13o; do., east- ern% 121.40 to 123-4o. Butter---Choicest- creamery, 29e to 29 1-.2,e; secentis,, 24e to 26o: Eggs-Preeli, 280 to 300; selected, 20e to 22o; No. 1 stock, 16c to 180; No. 2 stook.; 14e to 15e. Potatoes -Per bag, ear iota 60c to 70e. Live Stock Markets. , Montreal, Mar. 11. -The top pram for best; easere was $6.75, and the lower grades sold from that down to 54,50 per 100 lbea Choice butchers' cows brought 55 to '55, 50, while bulls sold at from 53 to $5:25 per 100 lbs. Sheep sold at $7.60 and lardba at 54.50 to 54.75 per 100 lbs. Calves from 53 to 510 each, as to size a,nd quanta% Sales of selected lets of hoge were made at 510.10 to $10 25 per 100 lbs., weighed off oars. Toronto, March 11. - Cattle - Choioe butcher. 56.50 to 56.90; good medium, 55.- 50 to 55.75; commons, $5 to 55.25; cowca, $4.76 to 55.50; bulls, $3 to $5.25; canners, - $2 to 52.50; cutter% 53.25 to 53.75. Calves--, Good veal, 58 to $9.25; common, 53 to 53•25., Stockere a.ncl Feeders -Steers. 700 to 500' lbs., 55 to 56.60; feeding bulls, 900 to 1,000' lb., $2.75 to 54.25; yearlings, $3,10 to 53--' 50. Milkers an<1 Springers -Prom $50 to $72. Sheep and Lambs -Light ewes, $6 to 57; 'heavy $5 to 56; lambs. $8 to $9.50i bucks, 54.50 to 56. Hogs -$9.60 to 59.65, fed and watered, and $9.15 0.0 b. , ICE CONDITIONS IN LAKES. St. Mary's Rher Frozen Over; Also. St. Clair River and Lake. • A despatch from Sarnia says: According to reports received • at this port, the ice conditions in the P lakes are as follows: In Lake Su- h peri•or there is ice west of White- fish Point and at Duluth for about t twenty-five miles off shore. The . St. Mary's River is frozen over en- 1 tirely, while in the Mackenzie Straits the ice is' solid .and about 1 two feet thick. In Lake Huron s many icefields are floating about, but are not very thick. The St. Clair River is frozen solid ffom Sarnia to the mouth. Lake St. Clair is frozen over about fourteen inches thick. The lower Detroit is filled with ice, while Lake Erie has many floating floes of small thick- l'iri‘Y-FILLED BY DYNAMITE. Explosion Near Baltimore Caused'" - Buildings to Rock. A despatch from Baltimore,' Maryland, says; Fifty lives were robably lost and forty persons urt when the British phip Alum Chine, loading with dynamite for he Parka= Canal, blew up off Hawkin's Point on Friday morn - ng. A barge with 340 tons of dy- amite alongside also blew up. It a believed fire caused the explo- ion. At least four of the crews of he vessels were killed; others eaped into the water. Three of he crew of the U. S. collier Jason, 00 feet away, were killed and ten atally hurt, the ship's upper works eing swept away. Six of the crew f the tug Atlantic lying alongside he Alum Chine were killed and the ug practically destroyed. Forty tevedores are unaccounted for. If hey were on the steamer it is con- dered certain that they perished.' he tremendous explosion shook the country for miles around. Win- dows were broken and chimneys knocked off houses a dozen or more miles from the scene of the disas- ter. At Sparrows Point a .school house was partly destroyed and sev- , eral ohildren hurt. Baltimore was shaken as if by an earthquake and tall buildings in the centre of the city -were rocked by the shock. ness. 1 1 7 200 PASSENGERS LOST. g. 1 When British Steamship ,Founder- ed in the Sea of Marmora.. A despatch from Constantinople says: The British steamship Calva- dos foundered during a blizzard in the Sea of Marz-nora on March 1. The crew and 200 passengers were lost. •GREEKS CAPTURE JAN INA Turkish Garrison of 32,000 Men Surrender to the Greek Army despatch feom Athens, Greece, -saya : The Turkish fortresa of Ja- nina, the key to the possession of the province of Epirus, with its garrison of 32;000 men, surrendered to the Greek army on Thursday, af- ter a defence which forms one of the• most brilliant episodes of the. Bal- kan war. The eurrender was pre- ceded by . & ' fierce bombardment lasting without eessation for two nights. Every available gun, ins ,cludIng a number of heavy Howitz- ers, lent by the Servianr artillery, was brought to' bear by the Greeks -on ;the forts defending the beleag- uered city. • No fewer than 30,000 shells were fired by the Greek guns during the filet clay's cannonade. Gradually the Turkish batteries at Bizatni, Manoliar, Sakni, and else. where were silenced under the, sus - tabled fire of ptojectiles. The Greek commanders by a feint led the Turks to believe that their at- tack would be made from the right, And as soon as the attention Of the defenders had been distracted the Greeks hurled large bedies of ins fantry on to the Turkish left. The Ottoman troops, utterly eurprised, fell back in disorder. The batteries on the heights of Bizani, which had been the main- stay of the defence, wet° Unable to stand the pelting of the .shellsoand had been reduced to complete sil- ence by 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning. The Greeks pushed their forward movement during the after- noon, and .occupled the Turkish batteries in Sakni and Elea capturing all the guns and ono hundred and ten artillerymen. Then the Greek battalions gradual- ly deployed on to the plain irt front of ,the city- itself, and the Turkish flight became general despite alle the efforts of the Ottoman officers to rally their men. Whole detach- ments sutscumbed to the panic and joined in a mad. 'race into thecity with the Greek aroops its hot pule suit alsnost to the walls. With all the defending batteries drt the hands of the Greeks, and the, Hellenic soldiers ab the gates, ofi Janina, Essaed Pasha, the- Turkish commander, at 6 04.O100k ril'hurs- d* morning sent messengers under a flag of true to Crown Princej Constantine of Greece, announcing' the surrender of the city and all the troops under his ono/nand.