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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-10-30, Page 3Prices of TheseProducts in the Leading Markets are Here Recorded Breatistuffs. Toronto, Got. 28.—P1eu7e-Ortt8rio wheet eveoure 90 per mit" made of 41.0NV 'wheat. ( $3,40 to 83.50. seabodtrd, stud at $3.65 ManItobas—Viret iiittente, in Me beim., $5.30; do,, seoonds, *4.80; strong akercf, 1,11 jute bagel, 64.60. Maultoba wheat—No. 1 new Northern, 66a, on traek, Bay ports, and No. 2 at Ontario wheat --New No, 2 wheat at 81 to 818e outside. Oats -'No 2 Ontario oate, 33 to 340, out, side, ud at 35e. on t.taelt, Tereeta West- ern aCanada old °ate, 37 to 37 1-e0 for No. 2, and at 36a for No. 3, Bay ports. Perie—Nomival at 83 to 05o, outside:" Barley -62 to 54o, outside. Corn—NQ, 2 Americon (devil, 73o 0.1.0., Midland, Bye—No. 2i 60 to 62o, outside, Buckwheat -52 to 53o, Bran—Manitoba bran, $22 a fon. in bags, Toronto freights. Shorte $24, To- ronto. Country Produee, Butter—Ohoice dairy, 22 to 24o; inferior, 00 to 21o; creamery, 27 to 290 Mr rolls. and 126 to 26 1-2 fez' olids. EggV--04440 Iota of new -laid, 35 to 3713 Per desert; fresh, 32 to 320, and storage, 28 to 139a per dozen. Oheese—New cheese, 14 i.ao for large, and 14 3-4 to 150 for twins, Beane—Ifand-pieked, 82,25 to $2.35 Per bushel; primes, $1.75 to $2. Honey—Extracted, In tine, 1,1 to 12o per lb. for No, 1; combs, $3 to $3,25 per dozen for No. 1, and $2,50 for No. 2. Poultry—Pawl, 12 to 14e geese. 12, t 130; turkeys, fresh, No. 1, 21 to 23e. Potatoes—Ontotrios, 75 to 80o per bag, -on track, and New Brunswick, 860 per bag, on track. Provisions. 'Bacon—Long clear, 16 1.1 to 16 3-4 per Ib.. in mese Pork--Shert cid, $28.60; do,, mess, $24.60; hame, medium to -*., 20 1-2 to 21o; heavy', 1$ to 20e; -o 16 1-2e; breakfaet baton, 21 to 22a; Weeks. 24 to 230. Lard—Tieroes, 14e; tubs, 14 1-4ot pails: 14 1-2o. • Baled Hay and Straw. Baled bay—No. 1 ba 18 bepg bought by dealers at $13.50who ask -on track, Toronto; No. 2, $12.5 , t:o t;13$.1n mixed at $11.75 M $12. Baled etre:we-07.50 to $8, on track, To. 201110. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, Oot. 28.e-Cashi—Wheat---No. 1 Northern, 790.1 No, 2, do.. 770; No. 3, do.. 76o; No. 4, 70 1-4o; No. 1 rejected, seed, '74e; No. 2, do,. 72or No. .1 red Winter, 80 1-2o; No, 2. db.. 78 1-20; No. 3, do., 76o. ate—No. 2 0.W., 330; No. 3, do., 31 3.40; *Satre, No. 1 food, 32 Wed No, 1 feed, 31 1.24; o.4p., 30 1.2e, Barley—No, 3, 42 1,4o; 0.4; 318: reieeted, Ole; teed, 37. Flax— No. 1 NoW.O., 01,13 1-2; No. 2 0.W., 81.11 1.2; No. 3, do., $1,01, Montreal markets. , Montreal, Oct. 28,-e0orn, Anaerioan No, 2 yellow, 79 to 030. Oats, Oanadian Vireet- tril4eg:.40O.40111teP.0)i, 347 ; 5gtirtaliot: 260, 619.otuor,71am13.11gOilegat;liet 2patents , 65 to rete, $6,40; seconds, $4.90- strong 'bakers', $4.70; Whiter patente, ohciioe, $6; atraighi rollers, $4.60 to $4.75; do.. begs. $2,06 to $2.10. Rolled eats, barrele, $4.40 to $4,60; doe bop, 90 $2.10 to 82.12 1-2, Bran, 832. Sh„Orta, $24, Middlinge,..$27. Uouillie, 68 to *32. IlaY, No. 2, per ton °fix Iota, '13 to $i.4. Ohms% finest westerns, 13 to 13 1-40; fineet easterns, 12 5-8 to 1.2 3-4o, Butter, ohoieeet oreamery. 27 1-4 to 27 Lao; seeonde, 26 3.4 to 27c. Emge, freeh, 490; selected, 32e; No. 1 etock, 286; No. 2 stook, 22 to 23o. Potetees, per bag, oar lots, 70 to 75o. United States Markets, Minneapolis, Oct. 28.—Wheat—December, 82 3-3 to 82 1-20; My, 87o; No. 1 hard. 86 1 -to; No, 1 Northern, 83 to 85o; No. 2 Northern, 81 to 83o; No. 2 hard, Mon -Ana. fil 1-2 to 82e; No. 3 wheat, 79 to 81o. No, 3 Yellow corn, 63 1.2 to 640. 'No. 3 white tette, 36 3-4 to 36 1-4e. Flour—Firste, pal:onto. $4 to $4.26; eecond patents, $3.66 to 5405; flret cleat% $2.80 to $3,60; seoond °lours, $2.26 to 62,65. Bran mit:hanged. Duluth, Oct. 28,--Wheat—No. 1 hard, D 83 1-40; ecember, 83 1-4 to 83 3.8o; Man Northern, 823.410 83 1-4e; Mmitana No. 2 hatd, 83 1-4e; December, 83 IA to 633-40; MAY, ER 3-8e, Cloee—Lineeed, $1.35 1-2; Oc- tober, $1.34 3-4; November, $1.35; December, $133 3-4 bid; May, $1.39 asked. Live Stock Markete. Montzeal, Oct. 28.—A few of the best cat. tie gold at about 7 ;Ants; medium 6 to 6 34, Orlanmon 3 to 4 5-41 small bulls, 4 cents) etoekers, 4 to ce Co'WE1, $36 to $70 cfass .to108 1462Attostepi. 4 1-4; Toi.,anto,. bete ,--Cagle—Ohoice export, $7.25 to *7.50; copice bubo -here, $6.70 to 57.20; good, mee min, $6.78 to $6.50; com- mon, 53.60 to $4.50; oalmere, and cuttere, $8.50 to 163; fat cows, *4.60 to T)d45.50; coma- mou oows, $3.60 to $4; butchers till , $3,75 60 165.70. Calves—Good veal. $8.75 to $10; common 84.75 to $5.50. Stockers and feed. ees—St4es, 950 te 1,050 pounds, $6 to 6.75: good quality, 600 to 800 pounde, $6 to 6.26; light Eastern, 400 to 650 pountle 84.50 to, $5.60; light bulls, $3.50 to $4. em) and lambs—Light owee, $4.50 to 85.25; heavy, *a to $3.55; bucket $3 to 53.50; snring larabe, $7.60 to $7.75, but with 75e per head deducted for all the buek lazabs. Hogs—$9.65 f.o.b. to drovers; $9 fed and watered; $9,26 off ears. THE BRITISH LAND SCHEME. 'Chancellor Would Retain Peopkan . Land and Enhanede Production. A despatch from Swindon, Eng- land, says! Chancellor of the Ex- chequer,- Lloyd George, on Wed- nesday afternoon dotted the "i's end crossed the "tr!s" of the s,pessoh in which* he inaugurated the Gov- ernraent's land campaign at Bed- ford on Oetober 11. He then said that it was hia object to "free tish land from landlordism and get the people. beak ?en it." The two purposes the Governmen.t had set itself, lie said) were to attract and to retain the rural population on the land, and to devise means to develop both the quantity' and the quality of the total ag,rieu1tura,1 production. of the British Isles. Everything, he asserted, would be subordinated to the attainment of these two objects. As the first step, zaid the Cfbancellor, h was pro- posed to establish a Ministry 'of Lands, with control And supervi- sion of all questions dealing with the ueers of land both ill town and oo-untry, and the functions of the present 13oard of Agriculture would be transferred to the new Ministry. The Government; he said, intended to take the laud out of Chaneery. Hereafter if a landlord found that "some silly settlement" hampered his schemes for improving his land he could apply to the Ministry of Lands, which would enable hita to override the barrier. The nevi -Min- istry, he 'continued, would operate through commissioners, who would act in a judicial capacity, and have the same power to reduce rents' on small farms as the Scottish, courts now possess. Large farmers also would have the right to appeal to the cominissiouere for a reduction of rent if the action of the State caused a rise in, the wages of the radii' laborer. In such an event the landlord would have to come in as a tontributor, and in times of great agricultural depression a tempor- ary lessening of the rent would be obtainable. The new Minister of Lan& 84- cording to the Chancellor, is to be g'iven full power to acquire at a reasonable .price all waste, derelict and neglected 'knots of land and to plant them with forests, anal to ae- elairn and drain the springs en such lands with a view to their cultivae Von to the full limit of their possi- bilities, The Ministry is to be riot Only emixdwered but instructed to act, and the resourceof the State Would be placed at its diepooal for this purpose, If men 'want sport, *aid the Olutneellor, it must be at their own expense, and the game ..lews would be revised in this direc- tion, The establishment of a fair 1111111- iffillln- Wage tor labotees, rear" tamable houra of Work, deceet hnial- ing and the proepeet of the. laborer obtaining a. bit of laed for himaelf, would all be withio the acope of the powers of the Commiesioneas, who Would have authority 30 fix the price of the land in the cese of eom- pulsory acquisition. The Govern- ment proposed, the Chancellor con- cluded, to remedy the grave deft- cieney of cottages in the country by building some themselves with State funds, and "we have got a niee litt,le flied at hand—the insur- ance reserve fund." The announcement of the land propo.als by Chantellor Lloyd George wa,s, made by an absolute and unanimous decision reached at recent meetings of the Cabinet. MONTREAL LOSING TRADE. — Grain Men Blante the Steamship Companies. A despatch from Montreal says: Montreal is losing her grain trade, and Buffalo and Portland are ra- pidly getting it. There is room in the Harbor Commissioners' eleva- tors at present for two million bushels of grain, and not an ocean boat is loading in the port with grain. There is a reason for this, according to grain men, who say the steamship companies are 'to blame. Earlier in the season they say, the companies were asking er- orbitara prices to carry the grain from this port to Europe, and con- sequently local shippers were forced to make terms with the steamship Companies running out of American ports, The situation at present is very serious. The Harbor Commission- ers recognize this, and on Thursday evening they left, accompanied by Mr. M. P. Fen-nell, for Buffalo,. to study conditions there and to learn why that city isgetting a portion of Montreal's grain trade. ----e-aa A. $15,000,000 ESTATE. ••••• Late James ROSS Leaves One Mil- lion to His Son. A despatch from Montreal says: Aznong the bequests made by the late James Ross, the president of the Dominion Coal Cbmpany, whose will was probated on Wednesday, is a gift of $10,000 to his sister, Mrs. Mary Grace Ross, "in addi- tion to the other provision already maele." Mr. Ross' only son, John Kenneth, is given a million dollars and an annuity of $75,000, The es- tate is said to be -worth $15,000,000. "ARSON SQUAD" BUSY AGAIN. Suffragettes lanrned Bristol Sports A despatch from London says: An "arson tquad" of militant euf- fregettes on Thursday tet fire to atal destroyed the reports 'pavilion of l3ris301 University. They left the usual tell-tale ;suffrage literature scattered about the grounds. Brantford will ask fOr pleasfor now City Hall, to eosb $150;000. 0 JB.EXPOETS ARE GROWING* Figuree for September Show tat In. (leas() of About $11,000,000. A deepata from Ottawa says : A striking featare in the steteznent of the trade ;of Canada, kr the month of September, issued by Hon. J. D. Beid, Minister of Customs, is the deereese of imports ;led the'in- erease of exports, Dutiable goods to the value of $37,997,000 and free goods to the amount of $10,342,000 were imported (luring September last. The imports for the ,cerres- paneling month of 1912 were $38,- 548,000 dutiable goods, and $1%- 807,000 of free goods, Exports for last September. were $31,048,000 of domestie goods and $4,071,000 of foreign 'gods, as.against $25,814,- 000 domestic and 83,153,000 foreign for September, 1912, The total ex- ports for the six months ending September 30th last were, all of domestio goods, $188,405,000, and foreign goods, $22,842,000, as against $162,427,000 of domestic and $15,972,000 foreign for the six months ending September 30th, 1912. The exports of agricultural pro - show •a big increase, being $11,829,000 for September, 1913, eompared with $5,575,000 for Sep- tember, 1912. Theer are big in- creases in exports all along the line. Exports of minerals for Sep- tember last were $6,402,000, and for the previcua September, $5,278,000. Exports of manufacture8 also sho* an increase, being $5,041,000 for September, 1913, as against $3,587,- 000 for September, 1912. Canadian trade was never in a more prosperous ,cotalition, as the total Canadian trede for September last was close upon one 'hundred million, the actual figures being $95,065,000, compared with $87,, 606,000 for September, 1912. For the first eix months of the present fiscal year ending Stpternber 30th last, total Canadian trade wa.s $551,978,000, compared with $506,- 265,000 for the corresponding six months of the fiscal year 1012. SEVEN FIREMEN KILLED. -- The Milwaukee Brigade -Suffers a Terrible Loss. • A. despatch from Milwaukee, Wis.', says: Seven dead firemen and 24 injured .were taken from the rules of the store -of the Goodyear Rubber Company here on Sunday night in a. fire which eansed a loss of $500,000. It is believed there are several more bodies in the ruins. The flames broke out on the second floor, a,nd while the firemen were fighting the blaze from the faint and rear an explosion sent the walls crashing down on fifty fire- men. Windows for 'blocks around were smashed and the flames spread to. adjoining buildings. Rescue companies were, sent into the bla.z- ing mass, and the bodies of the dead and injured were taken vit. Practically the entire fire -fighting apparatus o -the city was called to the scene, which is in the heart of 'the business section. ROYALTY AGAIN AT OTTAWA. The Capital Gives Them a Quiet' But Warm Welcome. A despatch from Ottawa says Their Royal Highnesses -the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and the Princess Patricia, with the royal. suite were given an undemonstra- tive yet warm welcome home at 6 o'clock Saturday evening by neariy all the member e of the cabinet eouncil and their wives, a few* other prominent people and a, big crowd of the general public. The special C.P.R. train of nine coaches steam, - ed into the Central Station sharp on zeheduled time. Shortly after their arrival the party were driven directly to 'government house, which was entirely renovated dur- ing their absence. BABES CHOKED TO DEATH. Smoke Suffocated Them During Mother's Absence. A despatch from North Battle - ford, Sask., says: Two colored children, aged sixteen and twenty- eight months, were suffocated by, smoke in a shack off Railway Ave- nue, North Battleford, on Friday. The mOther, Mrs. Mak. Daniela; left the children in a perambulator apparently asleep while she went to the city. , Shortly after smoke was noticed coming from the build- ing. Oil the arrival of the fire bri- gade the perambulator containing the children was 'wheeled out and both were dead. WRECK KILLS, THREE. i Rear.End Collisien at Waterloo Junction. A deepatoh from London, Eng- land, says: Three persons were kilbed and more than a, score 'seri- ously injured on Saturday in a rear -end collieion on the South- western Itailway at Weterloo lune- tiona Signals 'wete confused be- eaUte Of it heavy fog, and an ex- press teleseeped the three rear cars of a standing local. THE WORIO IN REVIEW Tragedies et Disobedience, One .fracNeatly XV.4.113 dietroseing IGDv,hulexiht4 OVem,"'4nindrieeenteise stftrycllaurpulaw"04;littblte! There 'Wag an Ito= 11.114 the other day eon - earning a little four-year-old, whe °blued 11P to a high cupboard, tif.:011143d a bottle cif of ;mien aed drank 1,t. We Oali ouch 00- ourreneed; with -intro and no doubt manY of :urrit a PR.th01.11 are. But manyt:iehergoa,nitso,1e eor- tem, are Merely the natal eeu V' general and regret Azicl thifd 44a40 ethe leidoes9 Of Modern par- ental (Marilynn°. The lazumes of oarent e who will oot take the time end trouble to enforee obe- dienee front their.ehildren almost banned la the ohise of oreminal negligenee. Striot diecipline, not indulgenee, is what makee for no real hal/Pine4M of ohildren; and aleolt is the best xneams of ;securing their safety. Dangerous. obieOte cannot alwaYe be kept from them reaoh, but el -141(118Z can be teught not to meddle •with the pro- perty of others, and they oan be taught te i obey absolutely, There s very little of this abedlute obedience seen_ lately. One of the new plays of the fall deals with that very subjeot,qh.e doininetionoef mod- ern children over their parents. Unfortu- nately it is a weak play, not adequate -to the theme, But what a subject that ie for playwright of the day., full of tragic as well as comic Possibilities, A 200 -foot Flagpole. The erection of a flagpole in front of the Provincial Court House at 'Vancouver, 13.0., has presented unusual features be- calm° of the desire to nee a long, eines stiok, repeesentative of the timber re- sources of the Province, and to tie place Lt that its base would be secure from de- cay. A suitable amber VIEW out and do - livered in the rough at, the Court House In the fall of 1912. It wee left for a yedir to eeaeon, when there wonid be no 111mA- -hood of Me curving when drying: In Sep- tember, 1913, it was moved on rollers to its final location. The flagpole is 208 feet long, 06 inches io diameter at the base and 10 inches at the top, and when ready for emotion weighed about ten tons. Sur- nionnting the pole le a four -foot globe and oaf. tavraep.atyr;fowoo weather vane in the shape Extension of Suffrage In Europe. Evidences abound of the 'steady onward march of democra.cy in Europe through the enlargement of the suffrage. Lees than a century agothe suffrage camel first poked We nose into the government tent. To -day both his front feet are he side everywhere except in Banseis, and the Balkaus. Italy hae just granted what le practi• °ally manhood suffrage, without property ,,Even illiterates will be al- lowed ter' vote in the appreaehing elea- tient'. And now in Denmark the struggle that began in earneet forty yeare ago for a more liberal voting franchise bidfair to .be victorious. The Domed have been fighting for a re. duction of the voting age limit to twenty- five years, for the extensien of the suf- frage to women on the same ba ois as that of males, for the removal of property" gualifloations for voting and for the popu- larization of the upper house of the Ban. ish Parliantent. All these measures will rco, into effect provided they are indorsed by a majority of 'the electors in the forthcoming appeal tothe country, and of that there is said not to be the elightest doubt. ' The on- coming -wave of -popular rule hae washed the shores of Denmark and is likely to -wet the feet of standpat Danes. - Racial Butt of Rudeness. All races are caricatured upon the stage. The oomM Englishman is Onto as much food for laughter_as the oomio Jew or the ethnic German. None of it is a very -high form of wit; and none of it ie any form of art at all. A more refined taste on the part of the audiences would sweep the whole "plap-etiek" busineee into the duet. selves wounded by Is port of thing. heap. But when mai people find them - then we cannot wait or the 4evat1on of taste—we must act more directly apd quiokly. To permit the playhoudie to be made a scene of diaoomfort for any con- siderable section of the community is not only poor bummess—it is a low grade of civilization. , Roads Will Bo Numbered and Named. In France a new system of road desig- pation for the convenience of tourists had; been adopted. Every road in the country will be given a name andoa niimber and these dedignatione Nvill be painted upon direction poet4 at the road °rosette's and the 100 -meter posts along the roads. n'he highways of France are classified as na- tional roads, department roads, and so on. he roads in each case will be numbered, he direction poet will state the class of ighway and the number of the road, The tourist starting on a journey vrill need only a 'strip of figures, and he will be able to find.his way anywhere. Capitalized An Idea. Thomas A. Sperry, the inyentor of trad- ing stamps, died recently, leaving an estate valued at $10,000,000. Young men who are diecouraged because they lack capital to establish great enterprises should consider the case of Thomss Sperry and take heart. He capitalized an owori,g0001n.al idea and made it worth $10,- The world has places of honor and dis- tinction for Men who cem think, who can lift their minds out of the endless circle of rainless thinking and. give definite dire action to their thoughte. Thomas Sperry observer' the custom of some merchants to giro their customers what the French call 'lagniappe" and the Spanish call "pelon." He conceived the idea of systeraatizing the practioe and making it a magnet to draw trade. The trading, stamp was the result' and for- tune smiled on him. Progrecte ie but the result of the appli- cation of new ideae to old ways of doing things. A man's mind ie his beet capital. It is; a bank amount that increases as it is drawn upon. In this land of opportunity no man is poor who has an unclouded mind and the energy to work to translate his plans into deeds. Britain's Navy Is Crowing. It is reported unofficially that the new battleship Queen Mary made a record peed of 35.7 knots on her trials.. It is mapoesible to realize exactly what this speed eigniftee without taking into con- sideration the huge size a the veeliel. The vessel was built at jarrow and is fitted with Portions turbines. }Ter contract peed wae 28 knote. She is armed with eight 13.5 -inch guile, unless these have been changed to 14 -inch as was suggest- ed. 1a appearance she is ranch the same, as the battle cruieer New Zealand, only she is 105 feet longer and has nine feet raore beam. Her Indicated horeezpower 46,894. But even the Queen Mary will have to play second fiddle to the Tiger, a battle cruieer of 28,000 tone to the Queeu Mary's 27,000. The Tiger had; 25,000 more indicated horsepower than the Queen Mary, an although her contract speed is only 28 knots, it will be interest- ing to watch her triale. Besidee these two stiperb veeeddle. Great Britain will Boort be putting into the first line the bat- tleships Queen Elizabeth. Warepite and Valiant, each of 27,510 tons displaeoment. Ari a squadron those tattleehips and bat- tle cruisers, would he distinctly danger. cue. Their speed, alone would make them unpleaeant customere to any fleet the least bit slower and their hitting power being se terrific, they norteibly would be better to avoid than engage. The trouble Is that it would be eetremely difficult to &void them. Items of News by Notes of Interest as to What Is Going on All Over the World ( TErlo"n totrifliat'rYbew:i'',1;ab4tla. e used ti° dredge o The Government will build otal experimental eoldsetorage plant for fruits at Grimsby, Ont. Oariecla'e exhibit is a feature of the dry -farming eongreas exhibition at Tulsa,,. Oklahoma, The dredge New Welland arrived at Quebec from Germany on Thurs- day for work on the Welland Ca- nal. Nearly all the reindeer that es - coped from the Government corral. in northern Alberta have been re- captured. A letter from Australia address- ed to "Jos. Lally, Canada, via America," reeehed him without a day's delay. A Hamilton jury awarded Fred, Fritz $75 against Magistrate Jelfs, for wrongful ejectment. Ile sued for $3,000. Maunsel Bros. big ranchmen of Macleod, Alberta, have shipped it trainload of fine cattle, averaging 1,600 lbs. eech, to the Chieago mar- ket. - Montreal Beard of Trade will re- fuse support to the proposition for a'world's fair there in 1911, as be- ing quite beyond the bounds of feasibility,. A lose of many million dollars to the British Columbia salmon indus- try is a result of the. oonstruction Of the new 0.N.R, line through Fraser River Canyon. The Department of Edueation has declared that 'Ottawa Separate School Board, by non -enforcement ef "Rule 17," has forfeited its school grants for the year. John Allan, former owner of The Galt Reformet, and for nearly, fifty years active in publin and busitess affairs in Paris died at his home there en Saturday, aged 74. Owen Sound Ceuncil on Monday everting signed it ibhirty-year con- tract with the Hydro -electric Com - Mission for 1,200, or. 1,500 h.p., to be developed at Eugenia. Falls at it cast of $500,000, Hon, George Langley, Minister of Municipal Affairs, declared his eon- victiou that the estahlishment of a sample market for grain in Winni- peg would result in great loss to the farmers of Saskatchewan- Great Britain. Students in the Brietol Univer- sity smashed 1i the suffragette headquarters on Thursday. The Duke of Marlborough has put Blenheim. Park under the plough to test the DOW land scheme. A Royal Commission has been ap- pointed in Britain to investigate the railways and their relation to the Sta.te. Captain Harold Christian is be - ing loaned by the atliniralby to tile perittend othe re -organization of thed Mineola navy, Prexnier Aequith in a speeoh in Seotland said that the home rule s bill will be passed ab the next Elk)S- giOD. ef Parliament. The Londoe Standard termites that the whole trouble over Mexi-: can policy between Great Britain. ancrthe U. S. is due to rivalry over,. control of the oil fields, Ilnerte having reversed the "Madero -policy of gra,nting cencessions 10 Arnera? cans. A party of N prominent mining officials engaged in rescue work in the Senghanyd.d mine in Wales,, where oVer 400 lives were lost, were, overoome by gas, and rescued just 30 thrAe. Some of the party were affected as though by laughing gee.' United States. Twenty-three civic officials of East St. Louis, Ill., were indicted on graft charges, Canada won seven of the sixteen sweepstakes at the Dry Farming Congress in Oklahoma. James Lynch, president of the In- ternational Typographical Union, has been appointed labor commis- sioner for N. Y. State.. Attorneys for the four "gunmen"' under sentence of death for the murder of Rosenthal, the New York gambler, requested the Court of Appeals to postpone 'the hearing ofl their appeal until after November 17. The arrest, of William Levy, at; Cleveland, is believed to show tipi the operation of a, large gang ofl jewellery smugglers, and seizures/ to the value of $30,000 were made; invarious shops, Toronto is al- leged as the Seuree of supply. General. • American troops are having sera, oils skirmishes in the Philippines.I • There was zio election in Mexico' on Sunday, the voting being too? light. Constitutionalists in Mexico 'cape' turecl a big town, executing the', Federal commander and the Mayor. Three more Mexican legislatoth were arrested on 'Thursday and placed in the military barracks se Very Cruz. . A noted surgeon; Just Lucas.- Championniere, of Paris, dropped dead from acute ang,ina pectoris while reading before -the Committee of the Academy of Sciences a paper, on prehistoric) trepaning. A Pekin despatch to the London Telegraph says that the Chinese Cabinet has decided to open nage-, -fiefdom with the five -power group for a new loan of $100,000,000, to be used for industrial purposes. HE WORE A BARREL. Port Arthur Clerk, Lost When Hunting, Has Misadventures. A despatch from Port Arthur, Ont.,' saes: Attired only in a bar- rel packed wifh a small quantity of straw, Alfred Sara, a' local clerk, was found Tuesda.y night Wandering around in the rain twenty miles down the lake shore from'here, and when found by a search. party was delirious and in a serious condition. He went on a hunting trip and be- came separated from his friends. He wandered round in the bush two days, and then found a 'deserted camp, where he started a fire and removed all of his clothing, which he plaeecl before the fire to dry. He went -to sleep between roattressee, and when he awoke found the build- ing burning and all his clothes de- stroyed,. whereupon he :had to find shelter in a barrel. He is expected to recover. VOLTURNO'S DEATH ROLL. Uranium Company Places the Num- ber at 144. A despatch from New York says : The total death roll in the 'Volturno disaster was fixed on Thurscla,y night by the Uranium Steamship Company at one hundred and forty- four. Of these twelve were passen- gers, Capt. Griffiths of the steam.: ship Star of Ireland, which sailed from Caadiff, reported to the Ura-! nium Company that he had passed the Volturno last Thursday, still burning, about 52 west southwest of the place where she was abaia, cloned. The Associated Boards ef Trade of Northern Ontario urge bile con- tinuation to Hudson Bay of the, Timiskaming Sz Northern Ontario Railway. 75,000, ae compared -to the New ealande THE BEST BEEF FOR THE STATE FELL DOWN MINE SHAFT. Every Bone In the Miner's Body Was Broken. A despatch from Iroe Michigan, says: Gunard Johnston, it miner twenty-four year old, was instantly kilhod at the Chapin Mine on Wednesday, when he fell nine hundred feet down a shaft. John- ston struek on his heed and every bone it his body was broken. In the Eastern Townships Only Inferior Is to Be Had at Higher Prices A despatch frem. Montreal says: Best sirloin of beef 25 30 28 cents per pound. Best ribs 22 to 25 cents. Other cuts increased 21/2" cents per pound. Wholesale price for car- oaees 93.m to 13 oents per pound. This is the table which confronts the housewife as the result of the United States' new tariff, which permits the free transportation of cattle into the States. Beef is get- ting more twee every day, and the price is going higher still, some say this winter, oaten not until spring. It has already gone up two to three cents it pound, and despite this inerease there is no doubt, that the quality of the beef on the mar- ket has greatly deteriorated. The blaiee for this must not be laid at the door of the butchers. They, would like to get hold of the best beef even. if they paid six cents more for it per pound, but it is not to be had. The American dealers have invaded the Montreal market, as they have every other market in the Eastern Townships, and have bought up all the cattle that can be obtained and /embed them to the American markets, The cense- quence ifs that only the inferior ani- mals as a rule find their way into the kcal markets, and owing to the scarcity of beef generally even these find a sale at enhanced prices.