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Exeter Advocate, 1913-10-16, Page 31 Grain, Cattle anU Cheese Prices of These Products in the Leading Markets are Here Recorded ereadstuffs, le l` Toronto, Oct. 14; -Flour --Ontario wheat lioure, 90 Per Cent., made of new wheat, 3,60 to $3.55, seaboard, and at $3.60 to 3.65 loeally, Manitobns--First patents., in Jute begs. 85.30; ag do.,resent s '48D• siren l a$ g a ere'in k jutba $4.60. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 new Northern, 180. on. track,. Bay ports, and No. 2 at 87a. Ontario wheat -New No. 2 wheat at 03 to 84e. outside. Oats -No. 2 Ontario .outs, 32 to 33c. out- eide, and at 35 1-2 to 36c, on track, Termi- te. te. Western Canada • old oate, 39 1-2 for No. 2. and at 38e for No. 3 Bay port%, Peas -Nominal at 83 to $to, . outside. Barley -52. to 54o, outside, Corn -No, 3 American corn, 75e, c.i.f.. Midland. Itye-60 to 620 per bushel. Buckwheat ---52 to 53c. Bran -Manitoba bran, $22 a ton, in bags. Toronto freights. Shorts, $24, To - von to. Country Produce. Butter -Choice dairy, 22 to 24e; inferior. 20' to Zlo; creamery, 27 to 290 for rolls, and :26 to 26 1.20 for solids. Eggs -Cane lots of new -laid, 32 to 330 per dozen; fresh, 29 to 30e, and storage. '27o per dozen. Cheese -New Cheese. 14 1.2e for large, and 14 3-4 to 15c for twine. Beans -Hand-picked, $2.25 to $2.35 per bushel; primes, $1,75 to $2. Honey -Extracted, in tins, 11 to 111.20 per lb. for No, 1; 'combs. $3 to $3.25 per ,dozen for No. 1, and $2.75 for No. 2. Poultry -Fowl, 13 to 14o per ib.; chick - .ens, 17 to 18ce duoks, 14 to 15o; geese, . 12 to 13o; turkeys, 18 to 20c. Potatoee-Ontario potatoes 70 to 75o per bag, and New Brunswick. 85o mer bag. on track. Provisions. Bacon -Long clear. 16 1-2 to 16 3-40 per lb., in ease tote. Pork -Short cut, $29; do. mese, $24; name. medium to light, 211-f m to 22e; heavy, 20 1-2 to 210; rolls. 170; breakfast bacon, 21 to 220; backs. 24 to 26o. Lard --Tierces, 14c; tubs, 141-4a; pails, 14 1-2o. Baled Hay and Straw. Baled hay No. 1 hay, $13 to $13.50. on track, Toronto; No. 2 at $12, and mixed at $11 to $11.25. Baled straw -$7.25 to $7.50, on track, Toronto. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Oct, 14, -Oats -Canadian West- ern. No. 2, 401-2c; do.. No. 3, 38 2-2 to 390; extra No. 1 feed, 39 1-2 to' 400. Barley - Man. •feed, 50 to 51e; malting. 64 to 65c. Buokwheat, No. 2, 55 to 56o. Flour -=Man; Spring wheat .patents, fixate, $5,40;, see- onde, $4.90; etronQ bakers', $4.70; 'Witt, 0. patents, Choice, $6; atrafgbt rollers, Aso Lolled to 6 � 2.0" 2.10. I 4.7 do. bage a to bags, 90 oats barrels, 40 0 ,4.60• do. lbs.,' 2.1 t $2.12 1-2. Brats 822. bShortts, $24. Middlings, $27, l;iouil , $28 to $g flay. No. 2, Der ton oar lots, $12 to $13, Cheese -Finest western, 13 3-8 to 13 1-2o; finest eastern, 12 7.8 to 13 1,80. Butter- Choicest creamery. 27 3-4 to 280- seconds, 271-4 to 27 1-2c. Eggs -Freida. 38 to 40o; selected, 29 to 31c; No. 1 stook, 26 to 28o; No. 2 stock, 21 to 220. Potatoes, per bag, • Winnipeg Crain. Winnipeg, Oct. 14. -Cash prices -Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 81 3-8o: No. 1 Northern. 800; No. 3 Northern, 78 1-2c; No. 4, 73o; No, 1 rejected eeede, 77 1-4e: No. 2 • rejected seeds, 76 1-4o; No. 1 red, 84e; No. '2 r d Winter, 8112o; No. 3 red Winter. 790; No. 1 emutty, 770; No. 2 smutty, 76e. Oate- No, 2 C.W.. 34 180; No. 3 C.W,, 33o; extra No. 1 feed, 331-2c; No. 1 feed, 33o; No. 2 feed, 32o. Barley No. 3, 45o•• rejected, d, 400; feed, 40e. Flax -No. 1 N.$V.u. $1.181-2; No. 2 C.W., $1.161.2c; No. 3 C,V7', $1.041-2. Live Stock Markets, Montreal, Oct. 14. -Prime beeves, 6 1-2 to 6 3-4; medium, 43-4 to 6 1-4; small bulls. 3 1-2' to 4 1-2. Cows, $35 to $75, Several large' springers brought $60 to $70 each. Calvee..3 to 6 1-2. Sheep about 4. Lambs about . 6 1-2. Flogs 9 1-4 to 9 1-2. Toronto,. Oct,' 14.--Cattle-Choice export, $7.76; choice butchers, $6,70 to $7.60; good, medium, $5.90 to $6.40;. common. $4 to $5; canners and cutters, $2.75 to $3.25 • at cows, $4,60 to $6; common cows, $350' to $4; butchers bulls, $3.75 to $5.70. Calvee- Good veal, 58.75 to $10• common. $4.75 to $5.60. Stockers and. $10; common. 950 to 1,050 pounds, $5.40 to $6.35; light east- ern 400 to 650 pounds, 53.50 to $4.50: light bulls, $2.75 to 5.3.50. Sheep and lambs -- Light owes, $4.60 to $5.25; heavy, $3 to $3.50; bucks, $3' to $3.50; spring lambs. $7 to $7.25, but. with 76e per head deduction for ail the buck lambs. Hogs -$8.60 f.o.b. to drovers; $8.85 fed and watered; $9.10 off oars. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Oct. 14. -Wheat, December, 83 7-8c; May, 89e • No. 1 hard, 86 3-8c: No. 1 Northern, 83 7-8 to 85 7.80; No. 2 North- ern, 81 7-8 to 83 7-8c; No. 3 wheat, 79 7-8 to 81-7-80. No. 3 yellow corn, 67 1-2 to 680. No. 3 white oat8, 37 to 37 1-4c; No. 2 rye.• 66 to 58c. Flour and bran unchanged, Duluth, Oot. 14. -Linseed cash, $1.417.8; May, $1.44 1-4 bid; October, $1.40; Novem- ber, $1.401.8; December, $1.39, Wheat - No. 1 hard, 85 3-4c; No. 1 Northern, 843.4x; No. 2 Northern,82 3-4 to 83 '1-40; December, 84 1.4 to 84 3.8 asked; May, 89 1-4o old. VrinommummimPollir COMMENT ON EVENTS AMMO Transportation In Canada. As Canada 'is likely to develop faster than ite railways the subject of trans= portation is likely 1,O.continue continue a great problem. .The grain production - of the Canadian West le this year five times greater than it was ten years ago. In round numbers it was 100' million buehele ten .years ago, and this year it is figured; eve 500 million bushels. Such a, cryopp Within three00mon hs one-fifth and. that enormous total will have. to be removed to the lake 'front. In the autumn of 1911 the railways were surprised at their inability to meet the re- quirements, but on inquiry they found that the product had about doubled in two years, which was more than the rail- ways could fully provide for, but the ex- perience -made them active 'in their own interest, while the Government did not fail to urge them. It is .said that during 1912 over •44,000' .freight cars were ordered and nearly 500 engines. These have long since been de- livered along with some orders for thle year. It is noticed that loading is now going on ten times fester than usual,• In 1912 the Canadian Pacific railway handled dux- ine •September, October and November 43,369 care, the Canadian Northern 19.770 oars, and the Grand Trunk Pacific 8,184 cars. The rush of grain to market made an unprecedented run of money and cre- dit conditions. There will be unparalleled car facilities during this and the two n:•ct .mentis. Just the Thing. If it be true, ae announced, that a Prince Edward Teland man has invented a contrivance which automatically indi- oaths railway stations, and which has been, pronounced '"just the thing" by rail- way men, one of the greatest boons im- aginable' will be conferred on all railway travellers. The device •is affixed to one or both ends of the car in full view of the passengers, and •as each elation is passed the next is indicated • in . large: plain, legible letters. That the device will, fill a long -felt want will be recognized by everyone who has travelled on the rail- evays 'and. who has endeavored in vain to translate into geographical significance the natio of the next stat'' -on as announc- ed by the brakeman. Forestry in Prairie Provinces. Much' -interesting information on the. activitiee of the Forestry Department of the Interior is contained in the report of the Commission of Conservation for 1913. Last year a special examination was made of forest lands in the west. As a result ' of these investigations it has now been recommended that the threat reserve area iu Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the railway belt of British Columbia should be increased by eome 10,708 square miles,' or . approximately 43 per cent. Of the proposed additions 72 per cent., or 7,- 698 ;698 square miles, is in Alberta, 8 per cent. in Saskatchewan, and 4 1-2 per cent. in Manitoba. Tho addition recommended in British Columbia amouni.s to about 15.5 per mint. of the total. Public Protection. The Canadian Pacific Railway ie rigidly enforcing the law against trespassing on lee tracks and roadbed 'throughout Can- . ada. Tho law equipment of the country being insufficient to look specially after individual property, spread over a wide area, the company ispermitted to ewear in its own special constables. .endowed with all the authority of Provincial Po. ltcc. Strong efforts are now being made to keep people 'off the tracks. The death . toll last year was over thirty, se the pub- lic will readily see that keeping oft the rails, fe ae much or more to the .advent. age of the public than to the company, Saving Lives by the Million. Mr. John Burns, the president of the British• Local Government Board, gave at the recent International Medical congress au impressiveview of the extent to which sanitary, prophylactic and therapeutic sol- enee ie to -day eaving life -by the°millions, -he says:. Ile cited the average uurebot' of deaths in the wears 1871 to 1880, and that in the years 1809.11; and then showed that in those three years there would have been 772,881 more deaths than there were a wed • in those three yeers by the progreee witch had been ma in thirty years. In he, whole thirty years there had been saved ') 3942,000 lives of portions of all ages -for the reduction in death rate has been even - 1y distributed among the Eleven Ages. Thatthe moat creditable. Show - Inge thatit would be possible to make to the bonefleeuoe of government, It in really a divine achievetnent to give man life, and 1 toive it more a undant y. It more than re�iays its original coot; indeed, we may solely reckon that, the achievement has been .00npiderably, greater than the a file' if saving science had'not a e .:th,rate made. luld not Merely have retnetined as it was so 187x•80, • It would certainly have' in• greased. There has been a decrease, other- wise which would have been. increased. A more technical detail, yet one which must appeal strongly to thoughtful minds, is the enumeration of principal diseases whose ravages have been checked. Stupendous Automobile Figures. The figures submitted to the recent see sion of the International Good Roads Congress at London regarding the world'e automobiles and motor driven vehicles are amazing.. There are at present in use in all countries a total of 1,161,911 motor vehicles. Of these, 1,024,913 were automobilee and 136,998 motorcycles. The E. S. leads with 628,185 motor ye- hielee. Great Britain comes next with 125,728. France is third with 89,185, and Germany :.fourth with .70,006.. An interest - :frig item in this • census is the one• show- ing the growth of the` commercial auto- truok. The total in use now approximates 69,556. Germany uses three times as many motor trucks ae pleasure cars (49,120. The automobile has conquered the world. Egypt has 1,169, the Straits Settlements 1,041; there are 659 in the Transvaal and even Morocco eporte 315 of them. And yet this census is incomplete. for there were no figures obtainab:e from Spain, Portugal, Russia. .. Hungary, Bulgaria Western Australia, Natal, Algeria and Ceylon.-, But the figures. are stupendous. as it is. CANCER IN GREAT BRITAIN. Distinct Relationship Between Dim ease and Domestic Coal.. A despatch from . London says: The conclusions reached by Charles E. Green, of Edinburgh, that there is a distinct relationship between the occurrence of cancer and the kind of fuel used for domestic pur- poses, was accepted as decisive by Sir William Bennett, the- eminent surgeon, inhis presidential address on Thursday at the meeting of the Coal • Smoke Abatement Society. Sir William said investigation had shown that the increase of cancer was limited to those areas where coal was the staple fuel; while it was almost non-existent` where or- dinary peat alone -*as used. The only exception yet discovered to this; rule, he declared, was in dis- tricts . where the peat was a bard black substance which crackled like coal and was quite unlike the smouldering, ordinary peat. Sir. William . Bennett in conclusion spoke .strongly in favor of gas as a substitute for opal. SOLDIERS PUNISHED. Get Terms In Penitentiary for Set- ting Fire to Stable. A despatch from Kingston says: Alex. Mains and Frederick Ga - Weis, found guilty at the assizes her of arson in connection with a fire at the Royal Military College stable in Juno last, were sentenced on Thursday morning by Mr. Jus - tic Britton. Mains, to whom the jury recommended that mercy be extended, was sentenced to two years in prison, and Gabriel, who implicated Mains in order to escape sentence for desertion,. was given two years and six months. • SUNDAY IN 'WINNIPEG. Trading on the Lord's Day Will Be Stopped. A despatch from Winnipeg says The police have re -opened 'their campaign against, stores doing busi- ness on Sunday, and several convic- tions were registered in coni on Wednesday, fines of $5 being im- posed. They .ate also renewing their campaign against spitting on sidewalks, 44+ THE PANAMA, CANAL. i'Veters Of Galan Late ;Plow Into the Culebra Cut, A despatch from Panama says The Gamboa dyke, which separated the North entrance ,of Culebra cut from. Gaturi Lake, and the only re- maining barrier to theflow of water through the Panama ' Canal, was blown up at 2.10 o'clock on Friday afternoon by an electric current, switched on by cable by President Wilson, in his office at Washington. The explosion threw 200.feet of the centre of the dyke high into the air in a fan-like mass of rock,' earth and water, The destruction of this dyke permitted the waters of Gatlin Lake to flow freely into the Culebra cut, which after nine years of the greatest digging the world has over seen is now almost completed. ' 9F REMARKABLE CURE. Ilypnotisnl Restores . a . London Girl's Sight. A despatch from London says : A pure for blindness by hypnotism is Claimed by Alexander Erskine in a lecture before the International Clnb for Psychical Research.' A young :' London girl, Gertrude Yates, was born blind, but the machinery of the eye was intact. She merely lacked the will power to transmit to the brain the objects reflected on the retina, This defi- ciency was siipplied by the hypno- tist lecturer, who produced the girl on the platform and showed she possessed the faculty of sight, A CASE OF SUICIDE. Body Found In the Woods Near Somerset, Manitoba. A despatch from Somerset, Man., says : The dead body of a man named Giles, from near St. Jean, was found in the woods near the brick kiln, a mile from town, by Victor Wasse's young ` daughter while hunting cows on Monday morning. Both wrists and throat were out with a knife, and it is quite evident that it was acase of suicide. ,t!l. BIG STAMPEDE. New Gteld Strike In Alaska E: - tends into Canadian Territory. .A despatch from Ottawa says: The riIbness of the Dawson City gold eamp will be rivalled by the i.)ew, strike at White River, Shu - shame District, Alaska. From re- ports received here by the Customs Department leen using very crude methods of mining are cleaning up from one to twb thousand dollars per day. The gold -bearing area has been proven for fifteen miles,. and extends well ,into Canadian territory. A big stampede from the coast.cities is now on, and at least 4,000 people are there, with a big crowd going in every clay. Many Dawson old-timers have gone to the new camp. Prices remind old- timers of the early days .in Dawson. Shoes sell for '$75 a pair, flour at $100 a sack, and prices are still rising. The Royal North-West. Mounted Police are already on the spot to prevent lawlessness, with a force consisting of Col. Dempster and six men.. ---.b WAR ON DOCTORS. Militant Suffragettes Protest Against Forcible Feeding. A despatch • from London, Eng- land, says: The doctors of London have been made the first victims of the vengeance of the militant suf- fragettes, whose anger has been aroused by the decision of the Houle Secretary, Reginald McKen- na, to resume the forcible feeding of their sisters who starthunger strikes when convicted of outrages. A band of women on Friday raided Harley Street in the ween end of London, which is almost entirely occupied by the offices of special- ists. Tho women smashed windows right and left all along the street, The Secretary of the Women's So- cial and Political. Union, the mili- tant organization, says Friday's attack on this medical Centre is merely a commencement of the women's protest against the revival of the torture of forcible feeding. Waterloo's population is now 4,737,,and assessment $3,314,003, 136 PEOPLE PERISH AT SEA Steamer Volturno, Bound for Halifax from Rotter- dam, Takes Fire on Voyage A despatch from London, Eng- land, says : - The Volturno, of the Uranium Line, burning and help - leas in a raging mid-Atlantic storm last Thursday, sent awireless call over the sea and drew to her ten ships that came up in time to save 521 of her 657 passengers. The others, 136, were swallowed by the ocean when the lifting waves crushed four of the Volturno's life- boats against the ship's side. For more than twenty hours the ten rescuing ships that had wheeled in their courses when the S.O.S. call halted them in the Storm cruised around the Volturno, unable . to give aid.because of the dangers •of wind and waves. The rescue ships reached the scene of the disaster in plenty of time to save all, but for hours .stood by the :blazing vessel, impotent be- cause of the storm to reach the 'agonized men, women and children otowding the afterpart of the ship and within a. stone's throw. All-night long Thursday the life- boats made a desperate effort to get alongside the Volturno; but the waves beat them back again and again, and not until the storm abated .at daylight Friday did the rescuers succeed in removing the survivors from the doomed ship. The Rescue Ships were unable to leier lifeboats, and. apparently most of the boats launched frown the Volturno were smashed or upset and the occu- pants drowned. Two of the boats, crowded with passengers, were re- ported to have. got away from the ship, . but a search .for them has proved fruitless, and they have practically been given up as lost. The occupants of these boats are included in the death roll. The steamer Carmania, bound from New York to Liverpool, was 78 miles away when the call for help sounded. Captain Barr, or- dering full steam in spite of the gale, drove through the seas at 20 knots an hour, and was first of the fleettosreaoh the burning •vessel. She was followed by La Touraine, Minneapolis,, Rappahannock; Czar, Narragansett, Devonian, lifroon land, Grosser Kurguerst, and Seyd- litz at various hours throughout the day. But try as they. might, the rescuing vessels: could, get neither. line 'nor lifeboat to the Volturno, the' forward parto£ whish was al- most hidden by a .dense cloud of smoko . when the Car mania arrived. The burning steamer lay in the trough of the seas, pounding help- lessly, with her propellers fouled by the boat's tackle, Tho terrified passengers were huddled together as flu .as it was possible to get from the flames,while throughout the day the offieers and crew fought desperately with whatever appli- ances were at hand to hold the fire in check. Explosion Ends All. But night came on and the seas abated slightly. The circle of steamers kept their searchlights playing, and waited patiently with- in the danger % zone for the first moment when they might again launch the lifeboats. The hope- lessness of the situation was mani- fested at 9 o'clock in the evening when agreat explosion tore away a part of the upper works, and flames burst from the engine room. It then became a matter of how long the Volturno would stay above the water. Meanwhile several of the terri- fied passengers,, wrapped in life- buoys; dropped over into the sea. One of them was taken aboard the Carmania. It may be that others found a haven with other vessels of the fleet, but some undoubtedly were swept away. When day broke the Volturno was still afloat. The gale had mod- erated and the seas had calmed down. From almost every one of the encircling steamers lifeboats were sent out,and into these the women and children were lowered first. Severaltrips were necessary .before `the survivors were removed to a place of safety. Coed Havo Saved All. Had it not been for the great storm that made the launching of small boats ,a desperate venture, it is likely that few, if any, of the Volturno's passengers would have been drowned, for the wireless served again in time of need, and the ships that were passing on their ordinary .occasions sped up in time to have picked' up such small boats. It appears that the Volturno was .sufficiently equipped, but no sea- manship or courage could overcome. the fury of the storms. Six boats were dropped into the sea shortly after an explosion for- ward had killed several of thecrew and ,sozne of the immigrant passen- gers and had fired the forepart of the steamship. Not one of ,these boats were able to get away from the ship's side. All were gripped by the waves and hammered to, pieces, against the plates. Their passengers drowned' without a chance .for life. 'Thereafter Captain Inch, of the Volturno, made efforts to launch boats, but the ,sea was too furious. Il:e and his officers were forced to turn all of their at- tention to fighting the . fire, which was ;working slowly aft anddriving. ter. it the ship's 's Of before p company p y rifled immigrants, Items of News by Wire Notes of Interest as to What Is Going on All Over the World Canada. A palmist was fined 850 after reading the hand of one of Toront to's women conatabiea. Owen Sound Board of Education decided to establish an industrial school The population of Brockville for 1913 is 9,630, an increase' of 258 in one year. Mr, G. H. Gooderliam, shipped three thousand bushels of apples to South Africa, Reports to Winnipeg show 23,- 575,887 bushels of grain in storage in interior elevators. Winnipeg Harbor Board will ask the Government for $100,000 for docks along the Red River. James Vincent Eck, whose hody. was supposed to have been buried at Peterboro', is alive at Timmins. Magistrate Leggatt of Windsor is trying to cure a morphine victim who is convicted of passing bad cheques, The divorce applications for the coming session of Parliament now number twenty-two: The number of annual applicants has more than trebled in five years. Mrs. Ernest Hall of Hamilton saved a boy's life by dragging him out of the way of an auto truck, but collapsed and died in the ambu- lanee on the way to the hospital A delegation from St. John, N. B., interviewed the Government to urge the claims of that port to equal treatment by the steamship lines. Barnard & Biggar's large tobac- co barn at 'Leamington, worth $2,500, with the crop off eighteen acres, valued at $6,000, was de- stroyed by fire on Thursday. Hon. J. D. Hazen will go to Washington about the end of this month to urge the United States Government to take action upon the internationalfisheries question. The Provincial Secretary';s De- partment • has ruled that liquor li- cense fees in Hamilton must be raised next year from $700 to $1,- 200, because the city has passed the 100,000 mark. - Frank Hayes, on trial at Sydney, N. $.,, for murder, tried to dig a hole through the cement wall sepal• rating him from an emptyand un- looked cell, and planned to eseapa to a schooner in harbor. l Justice Latchford endorsed the suggestion of the London grand jury that prisoners awaiting trial in jails and police stations should be 'kept separate froon convicted criminals. Great Britain. Professor Robinson Ellis-, one of the greatest of English Latinists, -ie Home Secretary McKenna issued orders to forcibly feed militants at tempting to "hunger strike." United States. Through the activities of the Aero Club of America a, volunteer, military aviation battalion has been formed to become a part of the Na-' tional Guard: - Three. men were shot, one proba- bly roba bly fatally, in a battle between two constables and a large number of foreign striking miners at Shes- wick, near Pittsburg.. John Sherrick; of Philadelphia, and Edward O'Brien,, of New York, succumbed from heart failure in their respective cities while watch- ing score board accounts of the ball game. Twenty persons . were injured, four seriously, when the C.N. and 5.t. P. eastbound Olympian train was wrecked 40 miles west of For- sythe, Mont. The train was travel- ling at high speed, and every car went into the ditch. General. A Federal General, his staff and many soldiers were executed by Mexican rebels. . An anti-Semitie paper assailed. the court at Kiev, Russia, trying Mendel Beiliss. Many Spaniards and Germans are reported to have been killed by the rebels at Torreon, Mexico. GALT'S POPULATION 11,032. Increase of 806 for the Past Year -1 Assessment Increased Also. A despatch from Galt says: The returns of the assessor, completed on Friday, show that the popula- tion of Galt is now practically 12,- 000. The official figures are 11,932, an increase for the year of 806. This is the largest addition ever made to the population in one year. Ward Five is the banner district, with an increase of 321. The total assess- ment is now $8,192,540, an increase of $332,1'73. The need for more houses is accentuated by the report of the assessor that in some cases three and four families are housed under one roof, TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE. Alberta Legislature Will Memori- alize Ottawa Government. A despatch from Edmonton, Alta., says: The Alberta Legisla- ture on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution authorizing the Government to memorialize the Federal Minister of Agricultilre to take steps towards the eradication of tuberculosis in Cattle. There have been many complaints, said Hon. Duncan Marshall, in present- ing the resolution, and up to the present no action has been taken to prevent the spread of the disease further than supplying the farmers who slake requests with tuberculin. ._ _q PRODUCE IN WINNIPEG. Indications That It Will Be Cheap in Winnipeg This Winter. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Farmers from all parts of Manitoba are asking for space in the central farmers' market here; and addi- tions are to be made soon to the present building in, order to accom- modate them. Indications are that produce will be_ cheap this winter, and shipments to the city aro ex- exceedingly heavy at the present time. In the past two days 160,000 pounds of potatoes have been re- ceived, and they aro 'selling at fifty cents a bushel. POSTAGE STAMP IthVFNLTE. Increase of $501,164 Over Sante Six `onths Last Year. A. despatch from Ottawa says: The postage stamp revenue of Can- ada for the first six nlontlis of the fiscal -year. was $6,740,690, an in- crease of $501,184 over the same six menthe last year and $4,112,000 greater than the half-year ten ,y -ears.. ago.. ;The September receipts . in- creased creased 6y $128,1f15 toa total : of $1,153,535, 100,000 STARVING IN 'DUBLIN. On Account of Strike One-third of Population Is In Need of Food. A despatch from London says: Dublin is being ruined by the con- tinuance 'of the transport. war, which is now in its fifth week. The plight of the poorer section. of the population is dreadful, one hun- dred thousand men, women and children, or one-third of the city's whole population, being on the verge of starvation. Rain fell heavily in the city on Tuesday, in- tensifying the misery of the strikers' and their wives and children, hud- dled together for warmth. A crowd' of girls and boys lined up at the Liberty Hall, headquarters of the,. Irish. Transport Union, to receive': a dole of soup and bread, and then} sat down on the nearest doorsteps' to nourish their wasted bodies. The, food which has come in the relief ships is the only thing which has kept many families from actual death by starvation, and any„.ees- "sation of these supplies would be followed by indescribable misery. As it is, strangers are dogged by child beggars, who implore the price of a meal without hesitation and without relaxation. Other children, more fortunate than, these, are to be seen staggering 'home through the driving rain with Sacks of potatoes and groceries' from the food ship stores. The de- cision, of the Miners' Federation to contribute $5,000 a week is hailed with pathetic joy by the strikers, whose confidence that with English' support they will overcome their employers has never been seriously shaken. q' y PRESIDENT OF CHINA. Yuan Inducted Into Officed of Chief Executive. A despatch from Pekin says The utanost success attended the first inauguration, of a President of the Republic in China on Friday, when Yuan Shi-Kai was 'inducted; into the office of Chief Executive. ! The entire ceremony passed off! without the slightest hitch and 'tvasi succeeded by a brilliant review of; troops, at which the exercises were conducted excellently. FATAL PANIC IN S7r: NA.GO GYRI;.. Fainting of a Women Ceased the Death of Sixteen. despatch from Lemberg, Austria-, Hungary, says ; 'The fainting of a woman in a crowded .synagogue at Chodorrow, Galicia, on Saturday night caused It great panic, Run- dreds :of women rushed to the doors,and sixteen of them Vera crushed to death. 'aeon's were in- jured; ?,