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Grain, Cattle and Chcese
Prices of These Products in the Leading
Markets are Here Recorded
OreadstUITS.
,AliToronto, Noy. 11.-11our—Ontario ,wheat
flours, 90 per cent, $3.45, seaboard, and
$3,40 at looal points, Ontario. Mani-
tobas--Firet Patents, in jute base, 56.30:
' 410„ seconds, $4.80; strong baker . u jute
begs, $4.60,
Manitoba wheat—N'o. 1 Norther, 87 1.-20,
on. traelt, BOY' DOrtS, and No. 2 at 85 140.
Ontario wheat—No, 2 wheat at 81 to 820
outside.
Oats—No. 2 Ontario oats; 33 to 340, out,
side, and at 36c,„ on track, Toronto, West-
ern Canada old oate, 38 3-4o for No, 2, and
at 370 for No. 3, Bay ports.
Peas --Nominal at 90 to 95o, outeide.
Barley --Good. malting barley. 67 to 680.
°Weide.
Corn—No. 2 American corn, 74 14e, c.i.t..
Midland.
Rye—No. 2 at 65o, outside.
13uokwheat-52 to 530.
Bra—Manitoba bran, 621.60 a ton, In
bags, Toronto freights. Shorts, 522.50,
Toronto,
coition/ Produce,
Butter—Ohoice ,dairy, 22 50 240; inferior,
20 to 21c; QM:Men% 28 to 290 for rolls,, and
26 to 26 1-50 for solids.
Eggs—Case lots of new -laid, 36 to 370 Per
dozen; fresh, 32 to 33c, and storage, 28 to
290 per dozen.
Cheeee—New cheese, 14 1.2o for large.
and 14 3-4 to 15o for twine.
Beane—Hancl-pieked, $2.25 to 82.35 per
bushel; primes, $1.75 to 82.
lioney—Extracted, in tins, 11 to 120 per
Ib, for No. 1; censlas, $3 to $3.25 per dozen
for No. 1, and $2.55 for 'No. 2.
Poultry—Fowl, 52 to 14o per lb.; chick=
ens, 17 to 19,e; ducks, 12 to 1401 geese. 13
50 16a; turkey, fresh. No. 1, 21 to 7.2o.
Potatoes—Ontarios, 90e per bag, on track.
and,Delawares at 95o, on track.
Provisions.
Bacon—Long clear, 160 per lb., in case
, lots, Pork—Short out, 528.60; do.,- mess,
,$24.50; hams, inedium to light, 20 to 201-20;
heavy, 19 to 19 1-20; rolls, 15 1-2 to 160;
breakfaet bacon, 19 to 20o; backs, 22 to 240.
Lard—Tieroes, 13 3.4c; tubs. 14e; pails.
14 1-4o.
. Baled Hay and Straw.
Baled hay—No. 1 at 814 to 214.75 a ton,
on track here; No. 2 at 512.60 to $13.26, 8,nd
mixed at $12a.,
• Bal.41 straw—$7.75 to 58, on track, To-
ronto.
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Montreal Markets.
Montreal, Nov. h.—Corn, American. No.
2 yellow, 80 to 81o. Oath, Canadian Weete
ern, No. 2, 40 1-2 to 41c. Canadian West-
ern, No. 3, 39 1-2 to 40e. Barley, Man. feed.
48; malting, 66 to 720. Buckwheat—No. 2,
55 to 56e. Flour, Man. Spring wheat pat -
exits, firsts, $5.40; igleorids, 64.90 strong
bakers', $4.70; Winter patents, ,taieice, 416;
straight roller, 54,50 to 54.76; do., bags,
52.55 to 52,10. 8,011ed oats, barrels, $4,40
to $4,50; bags, 90 lbe., $2.1.0 50 52,12 1-2.
Bran; $22. 13liorts. $24, Middlings, $27.
Mouillie, 828 to .1$22. Kay, No, 2, per ton ear
lots, $13.50 to 514.50. Chace°, finest west -
erne, 13 to 13 1-,i0; Anest, eastern, 12 1-2 to
12, 3-4e. Blitter, choiceet oreaniery. 27 1-2
50 28,6; sisoonde; 27 to 27 1-4o. Eggs, .fresh,
41 to 420; selected., 33 to 24e; No. 1 stools,
29 to 30c; No. 2 stock, 23 to 24e, Potatoes.
per bag. ear lots. 76 to 050,
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Nov. 11.—Cash;—Wheat--No.
1 Northern, 80 6-84; No. 2 Northern. 78 7.8e;
No. 3 Northern, 76 3-4o: No. 4, 72 3.4; No.
1 rejoeted seed, 761-40; No. 2 rejeoted
seeds, 74 1-40; No, 1 red Winter, 52 1-40;
No. 2 red Winter, 80 1-4a; No. 3 red Winter,
77 3-4e. Oats—No, 2 O.W., 33 14o; No. 3
O'W'.. '32o; extra No. 1 feed, 32 1-50; No. i
feed. 31 3-4c; No. 2 feed, 300. BarleY—No.
3, 43 1-20: No. 4, 40e; roJeoted, 3110; feed,
38e, Flax—No. 1 N,W.0 , $1.11; No. 2 C.W.,
$1.09;, No. a ON., 99.
United States Markets,
Minneapolis, Nov. 11.—Wheat-80 34 to
80 7-80; May, 88 7-8 th 860; No. 1 hard,
6.4 1-4o; No, 1 Northern. 82 1-4 to 83 3-4o;
No. 2, do., 80 1-4 to 81 3-4e; No. 3 wheat,
78 1-4 to 79 3-4o. Oorn—No. 3 yellow, 67 to
67 1-24. Oats—No. 3 white, 36 1-2 to 36 3-40.
Flour and bran--17nohanged.
Duluth, Nov. 11.--Wheat—No. 1 hard,
84 Mc; No. 1 Northern, 83 3-8c; No. 2, do.,
81 3-8 to 81 7-80; Montana No, . 2 hard.
81i -8e; December, 81 6-80 bid; Mai. 86 1-4
to 86 3-80 bad. Linseed—$1.34 14; November,
81.38 bid; December, $1,32 1-2 bid; May,
81.37 7-8. .
Live Stook Markets.
Montreal, Nov. 11.—Prime beeves. 7 th
7 1-80. Medium sold 6 to 6 3-40. common
3 1-2 to 5o, bulls about 40, stockers 4 to
6 1-80. Milch cows and springere, 636 to
$75 eaeh. Calves, 3 1-2 to 6 1-80. Sheen,
4 1-4c. Lambs, 6 1-80. Hogs, 9 1-2,o.
Toronto, Nov. 11.—Cattle—Choice export,
$7.26 to 57.60; choice butchers, $6.75 to
57.25; good medium, $5.75 to $6.26; cont.
mon, $4 to 64.60; cannere and cutters, $3.50
to 53.75; - fat cowis, 14.60- to $6; common
cows, $3.50 to 54; butchers' hulls, $3.75 to
$6,25. Ca1ves-400d veal, $8.75 to $10; com-
mon, 54.76 to 55.50. Stockers and. feeders
--Steere, 960 to 1,060 pounds, $6 to $6.40;
good quality, 600 to 800 pounds, $6 to $6.25;
light Eastern, 400 to 650 pounds. $4.50 th
55.50; light bulls. 53.60 th $4. Sheep and
lambs—Light ewes, 84.50 to $5.40; lieltv:7,
$3 to $3,60; bucks, $3 te $3,60; spring lambs,
$7.50 to $7.60.. but with 750 per head de-
ducted for all the buck lambs. Hogs -
68.65 f.o,b. to drovere; 69.10 to 59.20. fed
and watered, 59.25 oft cars.
FEDERAL REVENUE GROWS.
Likely to Meet Capttal.and Special
as Well as Current Expenses.
A. deapatch from Ottawa says:
Revenue figures far" the first seven
Months . of the current fiscal year
show that ..the receipts have been
. $98,191,614, , or tome • five millions
more than in the corresponding
period last year. The excise and
,post -office revenues show an in-
IN.,4e,ase of a million while the Cus:
toms figures are about the same as
last year. The takings in the Rail-
ways and Canals Department lead
those of last year by $1,300,000,
while the miscellaneous revenues,
derived from sales of land, etn.,
•ehow heavy advances.
Hon. W. T. White's forecast in
his Budget speech seems in a fair
way of being realized. After point-
• ing out that the revenue for 1912-
13 stood at the extraordinary figure
of $168,250,000, and observing that
is too much 'to expect that this
abnormal rate of increase will be
maintained during the present
year," he went on to say: "I feel
confident that the revenues of the
year will not only prove adequate
to meet the current expenditure,
but to met possibly the whole, and
certainly the greater, portion t,of
capital and special expenditure for
.the year." This, he explained,
cannot often occur, but may be
achieved in excePtional years. It
now appears likely that this, fore-
cast will be fulfilled completely and
that the year's revenues -will suf-
ace for bh eoonsolidated a.nd capital
expenditure.
GRAIN PRODUCTION.
The Estimated Wheat Yield for
Canada for 1913.
A despatch from,Ottawa says: At
the ,•end of September reports to
•the Census and Sta,tistios Bureau
gave the total estimated wheat pro-
duction of Canada for 1913 as 207,-
575,000 bushels, an increase of
8,339,000 bushels over the yield of
1912. The yield per sere was 21.15
huahels, as against 20.42 last year.
The total. yield of oats was 391, 418, -
000 bushels, an increase of 30,000,-
000 bushels; barley, 44,348,000 bush-
els, an increase of 344,000 bushels;
rye, %559,000 bushels; peas, 3,974,-,
000 ;-fia,X, 14,913,000; corn, 14,086,-
000 bushel., For the three North-
west Provinces the total yield of
wheat is estimated at 189,110,000
b Italie/a ; oats, '239, 590, 000 bushels;
barley, W7,904,000 bushela; rye,
• 886,000 bashels; and flax, 14,808,000
b u ,
rP-*wooleavel
PrIE AMEEWS WAY.
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BOW 110 Punishes Conspirator*
Against His Throne.
• A despateh from Allahabad,
Eri-
tih India, tar : Nine ringleaders
of an abortive plot reteal diseova
creel against the reigning, meer of
Afghanistan, Habibullal Khan,
have been executed at Kabul, the
Afghanistan capital. The conspire,-
• tors were 'blown from the mouths
of cannon.
MINERAL OUTPUT FOR 1912.
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Total Value Was $135,048,296, or an
• Increase of Thirty l'er Cent.
A despatch from • Ottawa says:
That Canada last year stow her best
period of 'mineral production on
record is indicated by a general
sunnnary of the mineral production
of Canada for 1912, just issued by
the Mines Branoh of the Depart-
ment of Mines. The total value of
last year's output was $135,048,298,
$31,827,302 more than during the
previous year, or an increase of
over thirty per cent. -As Canada's
growth and progress in industrial
development are more or less re-
flected in the statistical record of
her mineral production, this is a
gratifying record. Since 1886 this
production has risen from $2.23 to
about a19 -per capita.
Ontario heads the list, with a
production of 1151,485,000; British
Columbia comes second, with $30;-
000,000, and Nova Scotia third with
818,022,000. A substantial increase
in the prioe of most metals was a
feature of the year, as was the ex-
tended development of ore reserves
pointing to much greater outputs
in the future. Coal has been the
most important product in point of
value, with a total production of
$38,019,044, silver -coming next in
importance, and nickel, copper and
gold following. With the exception
of petroleum, every important min-
eral mined in Canada shows an in-
creased production in 1912.
• THE CZAR'S MOTHER.
Will Shortly Take Up Her Residence
in England With Her Sister.
A despatch ti•ona 'London saysa
Another retired Empress will short..
ly be making her home in England.
The Empress Marie of Rustle has
practically decided to pass •the
•whole of her time in this country.
Special suites for her accommoda-
tion are being provided at Marl-
borough Rouse and Sandringham.
Her Imperial Highness proposes to
dispose of her magnificent castle
at Gatchina, 30 miles from St.
Petersburg, where she passed much
of her time during her widowhood.
She will present her country estate
near Livadia,, in the Crimea, to her
only surviving brother, Prince Wal-
demar of Denmark. • It is at the
earnest desire of Queen Alexandra
that her sister has decided to pass
so much of her time in England.
1,000 TRAMPS DEPORTED.
Provincial Pollee A.01.1TO Along the
Boundary Line.
A cleapatch arom Torento says:
Onta,rio teems to have been it mem-
ca for tramps during the past gum -
tiler. At the °Mee of the •Superin-
tendent of Provincial Police et
Thursday it. was ascertained that
about fifty bunt a, week have beeii
stopped by the oificera at the inter.,
national boundary and handed over
to the immigration authorities to
be deported. The total number for
the season talielluts to about 1,000,
which is 400 more than last year.
Mot Rates Mere Pattie,
It is ueehais to look with regret on the
P"bli(„ot the great cattle ranges of the
woHt, vnder Modern vonditions they are
a most wasteful way of utilising, land.
What we have to do 43 tO encourage sae
small farmer to devote more attotton
to cattle raieing. That he ran raise far
more cattle to the &ere than the ranehera.
and with lese risk k)f qoo through disease
and aceident, is indlepatablo. This pro.
Wein ie one of the moot serloas befoTe both
Canada and the'United States, and it Ss
to be honed our Goverumeat will give it
tb.e serioue attention it deserves. There
is no need whatever for beef to b000nle
prohibitive in price,
The Speed IVIania.
The epirit of Swiriburrie'e raustine seems.
to have entered automehiling;
She loved the games men played witIr
11.0ath. •
When, Death mast win.
,Day after day it is the ,grira duty of the
press to display the tra,210 news of the lat.
eat antoutobilo me:nth:zit. The, 11111, of vie.
thas grows unceasinglY, but there eeeine
no growth of caution. in sPite of the ter,
rible leseons spread by the newt:pat:era to
every village and farmstead. Speed. over
the ground in traine and trolleye, in in°.
tor ears and."sceisio railways," over. the
water in hydroplanes and hydroaspo-
planee, throughout the air in aeroplanes;
speed, the thrill through the nerves of
wind rus,h and roaring wheels, the modern
miesion, the twentieth century vioo; bet-
ter, perhaps, than tho gambling of the
eighteenth oentury, of the bear baiting of
the ieyenteentli, but costlier and more
likely to produee unexpeeted reeults.
Quartz Gold Mining.
Some extraordinary rich samples of gold
quartz have been taken into Vancouver
recently from Texada, Island and are said
to have been taken from regular ledgee
and not from mere pookets. Placer min-
ing has to groat extent overshadowed
any other form of gold mining in British
Columbia, not only becauee the sands of
the rivers have nearly always shown gold
but because the prospector oan wander
freely over the country with his pick and
pan, and if he makes a strike he oan work
his Claim on the spot with vorY little ex,
ire, in the way of neceesitiee, But Quartz
mining is different. Transportation of
machinery to deal with the quartz has
been most laborious and expensive ntt
the results of transporting machinery in-
to a district, only to and that the gold ea
curs in pocketis would be rather disastroue.
On the other hand gold -bearing quartz
ledges are alyparently. usually of •far
greater value than placer lields.
The whole world has been astonished at
the production of the Transvaal gbh'
mines, which are entirely Quartz lodges
and go down to enormous depths. Ituinors
have from time to` time come through
from the Pea,oe River district that there
is .quartz formation, bearing ,gold exaotlY
similar to the lie of the famous Johanne3-
burg reefs. The niines in the Atlin dis-
triat tooliave for a long while shown some
remarkably rioh gold quartz propositions.
If the samples from Texada. Island are
not from pockets but on further develop-
ment the quartz proves continuity, and of
richneos at depth, British Columbia ie on
the verge of beooming a tremendous fao-
tor in the world's gold supplies.
Death on the Rail.
On the Amerioan Railways in the last
23 years tho number of pereone killed was
192,542. It is rather startling to find that
of thus appalling total 103,665 were passon-
gers. Only 40,000 were 'employees, killed
through mischance of their own fault, and
only 80,000 other persons killed through
mischance of their' own fault. Of the to-
tal, trespassers formed 53.8 per. cent., Or
twice as much as the percentage of the
next highest, class. Paesengers killed in
accidents to •trains numbered only 3,302,
or 1.7 per cent. Our Canadian statistiee
show that the number of trespassers kill-
ed is alnaoet as large as all other classes
put together. In the last railway .year
for whieh data is available, that ending
on June 30, 1912, the fatalities on Canadian
railwaye numbered. 668. and of these 236
were to trespassers.
• Women In Australia.
We hear so much nonsense nowadays
about what would happen -were women to
he allowed to -vote just as menare allowed
that 11 16 refreshing to hear from a very
good authority what has happened in Aus-
tralia, through granting the women a vote.
T„he Premier of the Commonwealth has no
fear of feminism or of the vote making
women coarse and vulgar and immoraL
After an experience of nearly a dozen
years of female enfranchisement in that
examtry the "Preriaier say-s:—"Women's
suffrage steadies political feeling. In de-
mocratic countries turbulence is always a
"danger. In a time of ,political excitement
men will let themselree loose. • Women
• won't. They don't want hysterics. They
are the domestic economists, and they
have to calculate the nee& of their house-
holds pretty closely every week. That is
why economic Questions are more care-
fully studied now, and why you get a
steadier, more sober, more wholesome
opinion on all questions connected with
the home."
• The Maligned Crow.
According to the report, of agricultural
experts, the crow is a much -maligned bird,
and is not the deepoiler with a reputation
as black as his coat.• A report issued re-
centlythannounces at the crow does more
1 good than harin; he eats more vests than
crops. 'Ins one besetting sin, now. ae re-
cent investigations show, is devouring the
eggs and young of other birds, but the
contetits of his craw prove that about
nine-tenthe of his food.consists of insects
and other crop -destroying creatures,
"Dent be too hard on the CrOW that caws
about your farm," is the advice. of the
department of agriculture to the United
States farmer.
Britain's New Lord eChlef Justice.
Sir Rufus Isaacs has been made Lord
Chief Justice of the British DraPire, Sir
Rufus Isaacs is a Jew. There is a chance
for a man with brain, pluck and industry
to climb high under any flag, regardles:
of the accident of birth or the handicap
of religious creed or nativity. If Sir Ru
file Isaacs, says the 'Record, lacked the
qualifications he would not be Lord Chief
justice of the English. Courts to -day. Re
•won on merit alone. It is a hard fight
for men of oppreesed. races 'to climb over
the shoulders of men of races more for-
tunate. There is a prejudice in every land
8,nd it takes a man to beat down its bar-
riers and rifle to fame and eminence. Tbe
-keeper of the record lifts his hat to the
man who wins on merit alone. He is
worth the while.
A Peril In War.
Rear Admiral Oaepar F. Goodrich of the
United States navy, declares that the Pa-
nama, canal will be a peril in war. Be is
convinced that a great mistake was made
in not building a sea level ditch, even at
a cost of time and money, "as ths,locks
are far too Israeli and show ignorance of
the land men who built it I" Rear Admiral
Goodrich never built a canal. For this
repon he is supposed to knew MI about
„it. That is the way with some men. They
View the conetructive work of others and
voila out the mistakee, Before a man at-
tempts to tear down the work of another,
should go out and get a building re-
cord for hiniself. •
110Y HERO. DROWNED.
Resealed His Girl Companion, but
un10 sin Igor"
A despatch front South Porcu-
pine, Ont.'says: Sidney Smith, a
boy of eleven, lost his life in Ed-
wards Lake Ilettl, here on Thursday,
burt rescued Mina Hogg, a girl who
had broken through the ice. Mina.
Harga, twelve years old, had gape
ekwarag on the thin ice of Edwards
Lake and Went through, Sidney
Smith, her companion, lay flat on
She ass and reached her, but he
struggled so that the ice gave way
and both sank, Others ruebed to
the relscue and Mina was StlAred, but
the boy never came up &gain and
Was drowned.
NEVER FAILED TO CURL
Remarkable Psychic Healing POi.
ers of English Earl.
A despatch frosn London says
The Earl ef Sandwich has anaounc-
ed bse1 ae the poseeesoa a re.
laarkable psychic healing powers,
by which he says he has eared many
mental and physiehal sufferers, al-
theugh be is without medical or Bar-
gical knowledge. The announce-
ment was made by Lord Sandwich
at meeting at the Uaiversity Col-
lege of Londen on Wednesday to
inaugurate a 'clinic for psychoother-
apeutic treatment of diseases, Lord
Sandwich asserted that he aas.
never failed in his treatment of
Sufferers. He cited many cases in
all classes of seciety, ineluding sixty
wounded officers and soldiers sent
home during the Boer' War, all of
whom recovered without the •aid of
physicians or nurses, He said he
could oot, explain the power, but
knew the results, and believed that
many persons possess the same gift
without being aware of it.
HINT TO BUTTER -MAKERS.
Montreal Merchants Suggest Im-
provement For Grading.
A despatoh from Montreal says;
Although reformed methods of but-
ter -making, shipping, handling and
selling have been coneiderably dis-
cussed during recent years, it seems
that there is 1iU room for material
improvement in certain directions.
Members a the Montreal Produce
Merchants' Association lave been
drawing attention of late to a de-
sirable innovation which they con-
sider should be introduced into the
butter factories, The suggestion is
that the butter -makers should dis-
tinguish between the different
churnings, by marking the boxes
with the number of the 'churning
and the date. This they claim
wuJdkreatly facilitate the eiami-
nation and grading of the butter,
and would enable the trade to dis-
tinguiSh a,courately, instead f a.p-
proxiMately, just what the quality
of the butter is.
ARMSTRONG-NTH/WORTH CO.
British Shipbuilding Firm Incor-
• porated at Ottawa.
A - despatch from Ottawa says:
The great Britisb ehipbuilding, con-
tracting and steel manufacturing
firm of Armstrong, Whitworth Sa
Company evidently intends to start
a Canadian pleat. Notice la given
in The Canada Gazette of the Fed-
eral incorporation of Armstrong,
Whitworth .of Canada, Limited,
witbolatook of $2,000,000, and head-
qua,rters at Montreal. The com-
pany is empowered to carry on a
geneaalshipbuilding and iron and
steel rna,nufacturing business, to
build locomotives, automobile,s,
drydoclos, terminals etc. If it is
eventually decided terminals,
build war
vessels in Caoada, the company will
be on the ground and ready to ten-
der.
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WHY -LIVING COSTS IIIGH.
How the Price of Pork Comes to
• Be What It Is.
• A despatch from Brantford says:
A well-knOwn local insurance agent
who has just returned from a. trip
through the surrounding country
observed in his travels a,n inciaent
whioh illustrated one reason for the
intreased omit of living. It was
that of a farmer who had purchased
two shoats or young pigs for the
purpose of fattening teem. They
cost Win $12 when he bought there,
and cost, when ready for market,
$25, and he expected to sell them
for $50.
TOOK $10,000 FROM BANK.
Wm. MacIntyre Is Sentenced to
Two .Years' Imprismunent.
A despatch from St. John, N.B.,
says: William MacIntyre, former
accountant of the Bank of Nova
Sootier, here, pleaded guilty before
Judge Forbes in the County -Court
on Thursday'to stealing $10,000 'of
the bank's funds. He was sen-
tenced to two years in Dorchester
Penitentiary at hard labor, but the
Judge said he would willingly re-
commend to the Department of Jus-
tice' that MacIntyre be released on
parole. It is underatood a. petition
will be sent, to the Minister of Juss
tice along these lines and that the
bank -authoritiesaare -ready to join
in the petition,. lalacIortyre was ar-
rested in Toronto.
DISEASE ATTACKS HERRING.
Captain Brings Alarming Report,—
Other Fish Must Suffer.
A despateh from Quebec says:
Captain Samuel Cote of the schoos
ner Mary Ana, who • has arrived
here from Gaspe, gives out alarm-
ing news about the herring flshing
Shia year. Re'says that a disettee
has broken out in the herring fam-
ily that inust in time spread to
other fish. The disease rots the en-
trails of the herriog, and the cap-
tain soya there are thousands of
barrels of this year'e catch lying
rotting on the Gaspe beach and
&Leo
on the north ahem
Items of News by Wirc
Notes of Interest as to What ls Going
on All Over the World
elin4da.
• Brockville citizens have petition-
ed for a local optien
branah of the Retail Mer-
chants' .Aaseeiation of Canada was
formed at Sarah Ste, Marie, Ont.
The forest ,revenue of B,C. for
this year will be about $3,000,000,
971 inereaeo of 8400.000.
Five hundred gallone of flirty
nii4 were rejected last week by
Montreal'Food Iospection De-
partment,
A St, Themaby law 'will eompci
$
grocers and butehers to close at 7
p.m. exeept Saturday and da,ys pre-
vious to holidays.
Mrs. John Mitebell, who had
lived at Guelph since the first year
of its exiatenee, died there at the
age of 100 years.
The National Cotnicil of 'Women
intends to apply for incorporating
the Council to federate all women's
iseeicties in the Dominina.
• Premier McBride, of 13.0., says
he has assurances that the G.T,P.
and C.N.R. transcontinentalwill
be completed by next midsummer.
Alex. Martin, who was terribly
burn.ed by gasoline at the Pere
Marquette coal hoist at Blenheim
on Friday, succumbed to his injur-
ies. .
Builders' exchanges in the West
will co-operate with the farmers'
a,ssociatione in urging removal, of
duties, so far at least as regards
cement.
Fifty thousaod dollars' profit for
the city was realized at an auction
sale of land expropriated by Mont-
real for a street extension and not
required.
It will require 30 days to repair
the damage aused to Montrears
telephone syetain in the business
district by a three-rninute fire on
Wednesday.
• T.he Kingston Nuraes' Alumnae
Association have raised the prices
for nursing from the old figure $18
per week to $21 per week for ordi-
nary eases and $25 per week for
contagious diseases.
Marquis Durazzo, Italian Consul
for Canada for the past two years,
Is going to Berne, Switzerland, tO
become First Secretary of the Ital-
ian Legation there. His place is
being taken by Signor Canaltero.
Evidence of the drowning of three
trappers in Beaver Lake, near Ken -
ora, Hugh Nicholson, D. John, Bar-
ker and Jos, J. Edgar, was furnish-
ed by the finding of their canoe up-
turned in the middle of the frozen
lake.
Abolition of bars in hotels, cola
lection o revenue on p-eroentage
basis inatead of by fixed lir' lee
fees, and redaction of licenses in
tiiies aod towns, are expectea to
be recommended by the License
Commission, whoee report is la be
preeenteel to the Quebec Leg -steel
ture,
Great Britain.
Alfred Russel Wallace, She (oda
nent scientist, is dead.
The Hadroo Bay Company. pro-
posoeos,otoinerease its capital b
2i,000. y,
Sir Frederick Young, a veteran
advocate of closer imperial anion)
died in :England on Sunday.
Canadian. financiers in Lonsloa
have petitioned in favor of the Aid.,
W3r0h site for the Dominion GOVOT.O.,
ment office6.
United States.
• The entire National Guard of Ina
(liana, is watching the •strikers in
Indianapolis.
The Illinois Central Railroad avili
use the oldest mortiage in the
world as a model,
Two more U.S. cruisers havii
been ordered into Mexican water**
one or each coast,
Detreit and Pittsburg suffered ,
heavily from the storm which swept
over the middle States on Sunday/
General.
India is contemplating legislaa
-tion to improve her banking sys-
tem.
Moving pictures -will be used to
help in expanding Germany's ,steel
trade.
General Huerta has refused to rea
linquish the Mexican Presidency,
and a, crisis has been reached.
Thirty-five Filipinos, who took
part in a tide show at the Ghent
Expoeition, are destitatte end wane
daring in the streets of Antwerp. -
Mayor Nathan and the aldermen
of Rome will resign, due to the de-
feat in the parlia,mentary elections
of• two candidates supported by the
municipal party. •,
Maurice Spangenberg, first officer
of the steamer Grosser Kurfuerst,1
has been prortiote.d to a, captaincy
in recognition of his heroism in the
Volturno affair.
The new Chinese Republic stamps
have been issued, the various de-
nominations being in three different
designs, representing cosnraerce,
agriculture and learning.
DEPEND S ON OUR:FRUIT.
French Crop Ile.a Been Decidedly
• Short This Year.
A despatoh frvm Ottawa says:
That France will have to depend to
a considerable extent on Canada
for her fruit consumption this year
is shown by a return to the Trade
and Conamerce Department from
Mr. Phillipe Roy, Canadian Com-
missioner -General in Paris. Mr.
Roy reports that the French fruit
crop has been deoidedla ,short, ex-
cept for ,apples and grapes, and
goes on to say: "In short, it is to
be expected that fruit oornauraption
this year will he closely dependent
upon Algeria,'Spain, Canada and
the United States." As it has been.
estimated that the French people
consume 1,500,000,000 kilos of fresh
fruit, per year and 87,000,000 kilos
of dry fruit, this will mean much
to Canada.
how IS TITES FOR HIGH?
Flour Is Selling For $1 a Pound at
• Shushina, B.C.
A despatch from Vancouver, B.
C., says: Flour is selling for a dol-
lar a pound in the new gold fields
at Sbushina, and nails are worth
two cents each, according to state-
ments made on Wednesday by new
arrivals from the creeks. Four hun-
dred meo are now working in the
diggings.
4.
JEWELERS FINED.
Accused by Government Inspectors
of Selling Bogus Jewelry. ,
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Through the Dominien Govermnent
inspectors 17 jewelers were iloed $5
on Wednesday for selling "guaran-
teed" goods and bogus Jewelry. A
campaign has been started to drive
oot all falters, and these are the
first preseoutions.
F011 THE SALVATION ARMY.
Handsome Bequest of Liverpool
Woman Philanthropist.
• A despatch from London says:
Miss Fowler, s Liverpool ahaaa.
thropiat, who died aeeentlyo. left
$475,000 to the Salvatioo Army
ITALIAN SHOT.
Intimates With Dying Breath That
His Death Will Be Avenged.
A despatch from Montreal says:
With a bullet in &is body that pene-
trated bis left lung assd shattered
his spine, Humberto Californias an
Italian 34 years old, -was taken to
the Itc;yal Victoria Hospital at a
o'clock Sunday morning. No hope
is held out for his recovery. Cali-
fornia refused to tell who shot him
or the motive for the crime. All he,
would say was to intimate -that hist
death would be avenged.
RING OF SPAIN'S irEitinr.
Dangerous Operation on Young
Monarch Necessary.
A despatch from Madrid says
Despite the prompt denial by the.'
Government of the rumor that King
Alfonso was seriously ill, the ru-
mor persists that Dr. Retire -re;
oently operated on. the young mon-
arch for otitis of the left ear, and
that although this operation is
usually successful the King has had
no relief, and a more danger -ono
operation is necessary.
• SEVERE EARTHQUAKE.
No Damage Reported, But People
• Are Greatly Alarmed.
A despatch from Messina,, Sicily.,
says: A ;strong earthquake shock
occurred here at 7.05 o'clock on
Saturday- night. It was followed by
two ,shocks of leas se-vetity-
damage was done, bet the people
are greatly alarmed at the fres
queney of the diaturbanoes.
STRI--*—KE OF 1,700 MEN.
Railway Construction Work Nen
Lillooet, D.C., at Standstill.
A despateh from Valle01.1V6iv,
B.C., says: Seventeen hundred
workmen for Foley, Welch and
Stewart, of the Pacific' Grea.t East-
ern grade, between NOWpOrib and:,
Lillooet, B.C., have gone on
strike.• The ,staike was called by -
the Industrial Workers of 'the
World for eight-hour clay and
higher wages, as well as by limy of
protea eb thejitil sontoneen to the,
rioting minera of Nanaimo,