HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-12-24, Page 7frIILLIONA IRESVENT HUNGRY
Inspectors at Falls DogY
ed Meats in re
Frivate Car.
A despatch from Niagara Falls, B
N.Y says: • R. Robertson, put
t For the first time in in an appearance, an the rear plat -
his life, Signer d., Aguero, reputed ,car. tuft herr
tpiiik be one of t};e• wealthiest Italians ,urns ofthe private began for the
New York, together with a where the troublc.rale demand -
party millionaires. The ors the chef's
distinguished fellow -countrymen, ed to be admitt'� found all the
was forced to go without his dinner
on \S'ednesday. It all ha Pantry. Tlar.d irT:luding dress-
on
result of the cattle and sed ed ed°tests, chickens, ducks and a
moat embargo. ,t,si�o of Leet. All these were
To the rear of Grand Trunk ex- rd d burned. Tho foreigners
regia No. 4, leavingt,T,ted that they had not yet
the Bridge .
Street Station at 1�.s3 p.m. w, dined, and would have no time to
attached Signor de A uero's pri'• °u
car, "Sunshiao." The party was
hound to Cobalt to inspect -(ne
mining property in which lira' are
interested. Just before the train
pulled out, Dr. Orchard, I),niiuiuu
Inspector; Customs Ot&c• is Geo.
procure other edibles until they
reached Toronto. In spite of the
vohonent protests of the million-
aires the viands were burned in a
Grand Trunk engine, and tho ves-
sels containing them were left be-
hind to be disinfected.
% MIL KEPT FOR A s[V\TiI.
Experiments Wit Ganlin Machine
#t St. aciathe, quo.
A dr- h from Montreal rays :
HO . Jules Allard, Minister of Ag-
lculture for this Province, has an-
nounced tho results of experiments
which have been conducted in cen-
t � noction with the preservation of
milk. By means of the Gaulle ma-
chine, which was recently brought
from France and installed in the
11 Dairy School at St. Hyacinthe, it
has been proved that milk bottled
in November is good over a. month
afterwards. Mr. Allard promised
Government aid to any factories in-
stalling the Gaulin machine.
1
AN ITALIAN STABBED.
Ran, Dripping Blood, Along Mont-
real Streets.
A despatch from Montreal says:
An Italian, who will likely die,
rushed madly along Craig street on
Wednesday night through a crowd
of Christmas shoppers, with blood
streaming in the snow from a deep
gash in his throat. He had been
gashed with a razor by an unknown
assailant. The blood left a crim-
Fon trail on the sidewalk, and the
injured man collapsed within sight
of his home. Robbery or revenge
is thought to have been the motive.
ie Italian was taken to the Gener-
Hospital, and is thought to bo
ly injured.
LY FIFTY MILLIONS.
ason's Record of Wheat Ship-
ments Through Winnipeg.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Navigation has closed and over 48,-
000,000 bushels of wheat of the crop
of 1903 passed Winnipeg before the
BURNED IN WRECKAGE.
Fifteen Persons Killed in Collision
in French Tunnel.
A despatch from Limoges, France,
says: A collision between a freight
and a passenger train near here on
Wednesday, resulted in the death
of 15 persons and the injury of 30
others. Fire broke out after the
accident and most of the victims,
including tho engineerof the pas-
senger train, were pinned beneath
the wreckage and burned to death.
The great heat interfered very seri-
ously with the work of rescue. The
collision occurred in the Pouch
Tunnel, between here and Brivo.
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KING EDWALID'S HEALTH.
His Majesty Troubled With Irrita-
tion of Throat.
A despatch from London, says:
Alarmist rumors have been in cir-
culation in London recently with
regard to the health of King Ed-
ward, but it was learned on Thurs-
day that the condition of his Maj-
esty is not such as to cause uneas-
iness to the members of his house-
hold. A member of the household
said that in view of the condition
of the King's throat it was con-
sidered advisable that ho remain at
Brighton.
RECEIPTS OVER .1 MILLION.
Succession Duties Collected Will
Reach $1,100,000.
A despatch frnrn Toronto says:
It is estimated that the receipts Of
the province of Ontario from sue -
cession duties for 1908 will amount
to between $1,100,000 and $1,200,.;
000. It will, however, be impossible!
to state absolutely the revenue for
the year until the refunds have
been made. Last year the Treasury
last boats went out. Shipments for collected $820,000 on the devolution
the last week of open water reach- of estates, and it was estimated at
ed the enormous total of 5,103,097 the beginning of the present year
• bushels. The entire movement of that the receipts for 1908 from the
▪ wheat for this season leaves all sante source would bo $600,000.
other years many miles behind. The
situation, so far as the outlook for DR.t(:GED UNDER (':1R TRUCKS
the future is concerned, is much
more bearish than it was a week Lend,,') Woman Ilas Miraculous
ago.
ONE DEAD, FOUR INJURi:D
i:seape at Brantford.
A despatch from Brantford says:
Mrs. George Murton, a London
woman, was dragged under the
C. P. R. Freight Trains Collide at trucks of a coach on the Eastern
Riehford, Vermont. flyer for b0 feet at the Grand Trunk
A despatch front Riehford, Vt., depot on Tuesday night. Sho en-
sa}s : In a head-on collision of deavored to alight, from tho train
freight trains near hart Riehford, before it stopped, and swung round
on the Canadian1'aeifie Railroad,the handrail right between the
late on Wednesday, Orrin Pickle, a rails. The woman, who was on her
fireman, was killed and four other
train hand.; injured. The locomo-
tives were demolished and six cars
burned.
FIFTEEN -YEAR-OLD ROY SIIOT.
Fatal Accident During Practice for
School Entertainment.
A despatch from Dauphin, Man -
says :
an.,says: Gordon Galbrait h, a fifteen -
year -old lad, was shot. and fatally
wounded while practicing a dia-
rue for a school entertainment at
bert Plains on Tuesday night.
bullet passed through his
ch.
way to Cluelph, sustained injuries
to her back. Her escape from being
run over was miraculous.
FOR PURER MILK.
Quebec Government is Looking for
Pointers in Oatnrio.
A despatch frnrn Montreal rays:
Tho Quebec Government is taking
action to briug about the purifica-
tion of milk and Hon. Jules Allard,
the Minister of Agriculture, an-
nounced on Wednesday that the
Government is making enquiries
from Ontario and the United States
and that the movement will have
the utmost support of the Govern-
ment.
AT COAL PILLS ABLAZE
'he C. P. R. Is Fighting a Big Fire at
Fort William.
A despatch from fort William,
Ont., says : The most destructive
coal fire that has ever visited the
head of the lakes has been in pro-
gress for weeks at the Canadian
Pacific coal docks. To combat the
is checked. There are more than
100,000 tons in the mountainous
piles on fire, and deserts of coal
shovellers have fruitlessly endete
vored 14) get at the seat of the blaze.
Fanned by gusts of wind, clouds of
smoke and flame burst forth at
conflagration and save tens of thou night, riving the appearance of a,
sands of tons of soft coal that is miniature volcano. in an extreme
iihithreat+'red the company has resort- effort to extinguish the blaze the
cd to almost every known 'net is of corp;:ty is pr -'pari ug to put in op.
extingnishi.tg the blaz.-. wi' i ,i t rn- • .-r ._'oo a stent•, •-'• ,; c.!. it will be
suit. hundreds of 1 l;^.'' been •. . 1, •'or•• t►._, r..•:t of the blaze
► c
of .. ,;� r c
reduced to ashes, and r .v Is ,f ^:: l 'et - c1. , i•ontaneons com-
tuns more may g., le!.,:; t'•.• are ,;,... is is eters:',!o tor the fire.
CONDENSED NE11'S ITEMS
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL O`Elt
TUE GLOBE.
Telegraphic Briefs From Oar Own
and Other Countries of
llecent Events.
CANADA.
Mr. Gordon J. Leggatt has been
appointed Police Magistrate for
%% incisor.
A colony of G00 Germans is to bo
located in the Peace River couutry
next spring.
An epidemic of catarrhal jaun-
dice is reported among children at
London, Ont.
Mr. F. W. Thistlewait of L'Orig-
nal, has been appointed Registrar
of Prescott county.
Messrs. B. M. and R. C. Allo
brothers, who had lostall trace of
each other for 25 years, met by ac-
cident in a Hamilton hotel.
Tho public school of Pottersburg,
a suburb of Loudon, Ont., is closed
on account of the teacher, Mr. Mc-
Fadden, being ill with smallpox.
Joseph Varone, an Italian, was
sentenced at North Bay to five
years in Kingston Penitentiary for
robbing a fellow -countryman at Co-
balt.
The National Manufacturing
Company, whose foundry at Pem-
broke was destroyed by fire, has
made arrangements with the Cos-
sitt Company to remove to Brock-
ville.
The local option by-law was car-
ried in seven new municipalities in
Manitoba, repealed in t.vo and con-
tinued in force in five. Seven mun-
icipalities in which it was submitt-
ed voted to remain under license.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Three Canadian Rhodes scholars
have won scholarships or prizes at
Oxford University.
Archbishop Walsh of Dublin has
been elected Chancellor of the new
National University of Ireland.
Tho British Government's bill
prohibiting the use of hop substi-
tutes in the manufacture of beer
has been withdrawn.
In the House of Lords on Thurs-
clay Lord Morley unfolded a plan
for giving the people of India a
greater share in the government of
the eastern empire.
UNITED STATES.
A hill was brought before the
United States Senate, on Thursday,
to increase the salary of the Pre-
sident from $50,000 to $100,000.
According to the Bureau of La-
bor bulletin between 30,000 and
35,000 laboring men were killed in
the United States during the past
yea r.
Thirty-four persons lost their
lives during the hunting season in
the northern New England States
and adjoining Canadian Provinces.
GENERAL.
VITALITY OF 1
KESS' HIE WORLD'S MARKETS
NEWSPAPERS PRINTED 'MIDSTREPORTS FROM THE LEADING
SHOT AND SHELL.TRADE CENTRES.
Presses Kept Going Duri::g Some
of the Most Noted
Sieges.
There are a few things more elo-
quent of the dauntless spirit of the
Russians of Port Arthur than the
fact that through all the horrors
and sufferings of the siege they not
only contrived to publish their
newspaper, but to make its columns
brighter than in days of peace.
This is in splendid keeping with
the traditions of wars and sieges;
for, although circled by death,
somehow or other the buoyancy and
vitality of the Press suffer no dim-
inution. Why, even when Luck -
now, so gallantly defended by a
handful of mutiaeere, was almost
at its lastasp and expecting all
the indescn�able horrors of cap-
ture every hour, it kept its news-
paper going, althsngh it was no
larger than a sheet of notepaper,
and every line had to be !written
laboriously by hand, principally by
the brave wife of the chaplain.
Again, when Kandahar was be-
sieged by the fierce Afghans the
bravo garrison, amid all its anx-
ieties and dangers, fund time to
produce a newspaper -only a small
single sheet, it. is true, but well and
brightly edited --which did excell-
ent work in keeping up the spirits
of our gallant soldiers. It was a
beautifully -lithographed sheet, full
information from the list of services
in camp and fort to the "Latest In-
telligence" of
DOINGS IN EUROPE.
During the Franco-Prussian War
every besieged town kept its presees
merrily going, though the shells
were shrieking round the editorial
o}:ices and occasionally bursting un-
comfortably near the editorial
chair. Paris, Metz, Sedan, and
other beleaguered towns had their
special siege journals, and when the
supply of paper ran short, paper
of all descriptions was enlisted in
their service. Packing -paper, pap -
or used for wrapping groceries in,
wall -paper -papers of all colors
and kinds were utilized, and one
journal actually made its appear-
ance printed on wash -leather. And
while the presses of the besieged
Parisians were thus kept busy, the
Germans outside their wall were no
less enthusiastic. In the German
army were many clever young ar-
tists, who volunteered their ser-
vices, with the result that the pap-
ers were full of beautiful, and often
most diverting, pictures.
The American Civil War was es-
pecially rich in journalistic enter-
prise -in fact, the newspaper seems
to have flourished most where the
bullets and cannon -balls were
thickest. In America, as in France,
the oddest materials were used in
producing the papers. During the
Prices of Cattle, Crain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Home and Abroad.
BREAI)STUFFS.
Toronto, Dec. 22 -Flour -Ontario
wheat80 per cent. patents quoted
at $3.70 to -day iu buyers' sacks
outside for export. Mauitoba dour,
first, patents, 05.80 on track, Toron-
to; second patents, 80.30, and
strong bakers, $5.10 to $5.20.
Wheat -Manitoba, wheat is firm-
er at $1.03% for No. 1 Northern,
VACCINATION THE
Only Means for Stamping Out Smallpox
Says Dr. Hodgetts.
A despatch from Toronto says: few exceptions those suffering fi ora
"1f the municipal authorities of this the disease had never been vaccin-
province desire to be rid of these ated fur during the past twenty
nuisances which have been smoui- Sears. Munis•tpal Councils had
Bering in their midst for over ten bean uniformly indifferent to the
years, they roust avail themselves question and the Act respecting
of the only known method to pre- iaccination and inoculations had
vont them, viz., vaccination and re- been a dead letter. This measure
vaccination," said Dr. C. A. Hod- permitted municipalities to provide
Betts, secretary of the Ontario for compulsory vaccination. "The
Board of Health, in his re ►ort to failure un the part of Municipal
h Councils to stake the Act operative
has resulted particularlye It the
large centres of' Commerce, most
disastrously to the business coni;
nptnity," said Dr. Hodgetts. He
added that business was still fur-
ther crippled by the failure of the
councils oven in tho face of an out-
break of considerable extent to take
presence was known to the localI a firm stand and enforce vaccina -
Medical Health Officer. With buj tion.
at. $1.05,'. for Nu. 2 Northern, and that body on the outbreaks o small -
at $1.03 for No. 3 Northern, Geor- pox which have recently occurred.
gian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern is He told the board on Wednesday
quoted at $1.12%, North Bay that ther. had been 45 cases in ten
freights, and No. 2 Northern at municipalities during October,
$1.09%. while 136 cases in 23 municipalities
Ontario wheat --No. 2 white is had been reported for November.
quoted at 94 to 94%c outside, and It had been learned that mild cases
No. 2 red Winter at Ole outside, had existed for weeks beforo their
and No. 2 rnixed at 94c outside.
Oats -Ontario No. 2 white quoted
at 38 to 39c outside, and at 42c on
track, Toronto; No. 2 Western Ca-
nada oats quoted at 43%c, lake
ports.
Rye --No. 2 quoted at 71 to 72c
outside.
Barley -No. 2 barley quoted at 55o
cutaido, and No. 3 extra at 53c.
Buckwheat. -57 to 57%c outside.
Peas -No. 2 quoted at 96'/., to 87c
outside.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow
nominal at 70c on track, Toronto;
new No. 3 yellow quoted at 67c To-
ronto.
Bran -Cars are quoted at $19 in
bulk outside. Shorts quoted at
$22.50 in bulk outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Pound prints, 25 to 27c;
tubs, 22 to 24c ; inferior, 20 to 210.
Creamery rolls, 29 to 30c, and so-
lids, 28c.
Eggs -Case lots of storage, 25 to
2Gc per dozen, and new laid are
quoted at 30 to 35c per dozen.
Cheese -Largo cheese, 13%c per
pound, and twins, 13%c.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 10'; to Ilc
per pound in case lots; mess pork,
819 to $19.50; short cut, $22 to
$22.50.
Hams -Light to medium, 13% to
14c; do., heavy, 12 to 12%c; rolls,
10% to 10%e; shoulders, 10 to
10%c ; backs 16 to 16%c ; breakfast
bacon, 74% to 15c.
Lard -Tierces, 12%e; tubs, 12%c;
pails, 12%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Dec. 22 -Grain -Ca-
nadian Western No. 2 white oats
corded. Selects sold at $G per cwt.,
fed and watered, off cars, an ' light s
and fats at $5.75 per cwt.
SMOKED NEAR GASOLINE.
A Hotel Shed at Abbotsford, B. C.,
Was Blown Up.
A despatch from Abbotsford, B.
C., says: Archin Baxter, aged 50,
employed at the Abbotsford Hotel,
was fatally injured on Tuesday
night by an explosion of gasoline.
He was in charge of the hotel's
lighting plant and must have been
smoking when ho visited the gaso-
line shed, a short dista'tce from the
hotel. At 5 o'clock a, terrific ex-
plosion was heard. The shed was
immediately in dames, and Baxter
was reached with great difficulty.
He died at 6 o'clock on Wednesday
morning. He had lived in Abbots-
ford for some time and had been
employed by the Abbotsford Mill
Company.
ROBBED LETTER OF MONEY
4r
Post-oftlee Official at /Ottawa le
Given Three ears.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Three years in the Kingston Peni-
tentiary was the sentence imposed
by Magistrate O'Keefe at the Police
Court on Wednesday morning on
George M. Lett, who pleaded guilty
to the charge of stealing $2 00 from
the post -office. Lett has been em-
ployed in the post -office for five
years. During the last year and a
half, at intervals, money and jew-
elry has been taken from lettere,
and finally suspicion rested on Lett,.
On Tuesday a test letter containing
$2 was sent to Ottawa from Mont-
real. In the evening it was notic-
ed that the envelope had been tam-
pered with. Lett was searched and
the money was found in his posses-
sion. When confronted with thA
facts in the case he acknowledged
his guilt.
10,000 WOIYIEN PDT ON TRIAL
Remarkable Scene in a Court Room at
Bilbao, Spain.
A despatch from San Sebastian, court in three vans, and covere
Spain, says: The opening trial of 157,000 pages. Crowds in tho street
ton thousand women of Bilbao be hissed the van's passage.
gan on Tuesday. Tho women are The court room was packed with
accused of contempt of court in beautiful Spaniards, and the plaza
are selling at 443c, No. 3 at 45/c, outside was packed with the re -
extra No. 1 feed oats at 45c. h3o. signing a petition of sympathy on remainder of tho defendants. The
1 feed at 44%e, Ontario No. 2 white behalf of Jesusa I'ajana, who was court resembled a beauty contest,
at 44% to 45e, No. 3 at 43% to 44c, sentenced to eight years' imprison- instead of a tribunal. The justice
No. 4 at 43 to 43%c per bushel, ex ment for killing her faithless fiance. and prosecutor were jeered in the
store. flour -Manitoba Spring The petition extols Jesusa's deed, streets by the women, who demand-
ed to know where they could find,
jails enough imprison them all
o gh t o pr
if convicted. The novel trial is at-
tracting the attention of all Spain.
Two brothers have been arrested, wheat patents, firsts at $6, seconds and tho Public Prosecutor caused
charged wi h swindlinginvestors rs sie o of Richmondd sheets and table- l -
at $5.,0, Winter wheat patents, 85, tho indictment of a11 the women
in a German hotel trustout of two cloths were cut up to feed the to $5.25; straight. rollers, 84.60 to signing the petition. The docu-
million dollars, printing -presses; one enterprising $4.70; do., in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; ments in the case were brought, to
The people of Caracas broke out journal which appeared in the use extras $1 75 to $1.85. Feed -Mani
in a riot and burned all the pictures ful form of handkerchiefs contain tuba bran, $21 ; shorts, $`24 ; On -
and statues of I'resideut Castro ed a spirited address to the "Wo- tariu bran, $21 to $11.50 ; mid -
$24.50 could find in the city. men of the South," in which this filings, $24.50 to $25.50; shorts,
bloodthirsty passage occurs: "If $24.50 to $25 per ton, including
each handkerchief were boundless bags; pure grain mouille, 830 to
TIiF BOILER EXPLODED.as the globe's expanse, it would not $:32; nulled grades, $25 to $28 per
servo to staunch the Federal mud- ton. Cheese -Westerns quoted at
Accident at the Buffalo Mine May blood yet to bo shed."12% to 12'/,e, easterns at 11% to
Have Fatal Result.In fact most of these journals of 12e. Butter -Finest creamery quo -
A despatch from Cobalt says:
Late on Wednesday afternoon an
accident occurred in the Buffalo
mine boiler House, whereby n
Frenchman, married, uho had only
worked two shifts as a coal passer,
was dangerously scalded and is in
Red Cross Hospital with only a
alight chance of recovery. The new
boiler exploded into the furnace,
the crack being nearly four feet
long. The accident put another of
the three boilers in the boiler house
temporarily out of commission, and
this will necessitate the cutting
down of part of tho work in the
mine until the boiler can bo replac-
ed. The boiler which exploded had
only been in use two months.
11.1Y AND STR1\W 11.1811:D.
1
Cast Iron Embargo Instituted at
\1'indsor.
A despatch from Windsor, Ont.,
says: It having been reported to
the Government at Ottawa that
some slackness was being permit-
ted in connection with the Canadi-
an quarantine against Michigan hay
and straw and that goods were be-
ing received inland in Canasta from
points in the infected States pack-
ed in bay, new and more striugent
instructions have been issued to the
local authorities absolutely prohi-
biting either of the commodities
mentioned above, from entering Ca-
nada, either when used as packing
or in bulk.
MU('H 'THE. S:1M1:.
"You 1 enstnd me of a broken
pump, dot tui, • said the druggist.
`•Ifnw sn'" queried the 11.1).
'n o
-You n Brow nothing from tt,.•
w;'d," r 'ied the pill compiler.
the American Civil 'War breathed
a similar spirit of vindictiveness.
During the siege of Charleston
the "Blockade Number of the
'Charleston Courier,' " which con-
sisted of sheets of canvas fastened
at one corner by red ribbon, had
on its front page the figure of a
sheeted skeleton holding a scythe
and pointing with fleshless hand to
the words,
"\W,111 TO TIIE DEATH."
llnppily all war journals are not
of this gruesome, sanguinary type;
in fact, their usual tone is one of
the cheeriest optimism and bright
humor. A splendid sample of this
cheerful kind of battlefield journal
ted at 27c in a jobbing way. Eggs
-New laid, 34c; selected stock at
25%e, No. 1 stock at 22%e, No. 2
stock at 17%c per dozen.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Buffalo, Dec. 22\\'heat- Spring,
firm ; No. 1 Northern, carloads,
stoic, $1.13%; Winter, steady.
Corn -Steady. Oats -Steady ; No.
3 white, 51% to 543,c. Ryo-No. 2
on track, hoc.
Minneapolis, ,sec. 22 --Wheat -
Dec., $1.06%; May, $1.09; cash,
No. 1 hard, $1.09% to $1.09%; No.
1 Northern, $1.08% to $1.09' ; No.
2 Northern, $1.06% to *l.OG%; No.
3 Northern, $1.02% to $1.044.
' "' Flour -- Dull ; first patents, $5.30 to
is that published by Wellington's $5.6:,; second patents, $5.10 to $5. -
soldiers during the Peninsular 20; first clears, $1.00 to $4.10; see -
Campaign, which is full of jokes and clears, 82.95 to $3.05. Bran in
and gaiety, rind even to cloy makes balk, $19.00 to $19.25.
more entertaining reauing than
many professedly comic papers.
During the worst horrors of the
Crimea, when our men were dying
in thousands in the trenches and
so-called hospitals, and when the
iey clutch of a terrible winter was
at every man's throat, one of the
very brightest of all these war
journals made its appearance as
regtljarly as if issued from Fleet
street, and did perhaps more than
anything else to cheer the flagging
spirits of our soldiers. And an
equally bright journal was that
produced by the small band of Brit-
ish soldiers shut in within the walls
of Jcllalahad sixty-three years ago,
ono of the gayest and most frequent
contributors being the great sols
Bier who, polite years later, as Sir
Henry Ilnvcloek. was destined to
lose his life and to win immoral
fame in the Indian Mutiny.--Ion-
don Tit -Bits.
Twe is co pang,
•i:i the pad, tike
re
e
tit with father
altitude.
Milwaukee, Dec. 22 -Wheat -No.
1 Northern, $!.09%; No. 2 North-
ern, $1.07%; May, $1.06',; to $1.-
06%. llye-No. 1, 7Gc. Corn --May,
61•'/,c. Barley -Standard, 66c; sam-
ples, 59 to GGc._ _
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Toronto, Dec. 22. --The offerings
of export cattle were restr•cted to
a few loads of medium quality that
sold at $4.50 to $4.90 per cwt. Sales
of choice butchers' cnttic were elat-
ed around $5 per cwt. Good loads
of choice cattle were worth from
$4.60 to $4.75, and medium sold at
83.75 to $4.25 per ewt. Common
animals were worth $3 to $3.60 per
cw t. Choice sow's were firm at $3. -
GO to $4 per cwt. Medium and eoin-
nton cows brought $2 to $3 50 per
cwt. Feeders and stockers were in
moderate demand at $3 to R:3 75 per
cwt. Stock calves sold at x!2.25 to
$2.73 per cwt. Sheep and lambs
w, to easy in price, without a quet-
i{c drop. Hogs ere re ,ic
1 to
be weaker, but no declin.' .vas re -
.r
IRON HAND IN INDIA.
Government's Tern Measures Are
Having Effect.
A despatch from Calcutta, says:
The course adopted recently by the
Indian authorities to cause the ar-
rest, swiftly and mysteriously, of
all natives suspected of revolution-
ary activity is having a good effect
on the unrest of tho population.
Instead of being deported the lead-
ers taken into custody are being
distributed to the various jails in
India. It is reported that the pow-
erful native secret, societies are dis-
solving as a result of the energy
displayed by the Government. A
delegation of prominent natives
supposed to be implicated in the
revolutionary movement called on
the local Commissioner on Thurs-
day and assured him of their sup-
port. Another result of the cam-
paign is that the native newspapers
are becoming extremely cautious in
their comments on the Govern-
ment.
BATTLE RIVER BRIDGE.
First Train ('roses New Structure
on Wednesday Morning.
A despatch from Winnipeg, says:
The ritbicun of the Grand Trunk,
Pacific was crossed on Wednesday
morning, when the first engine roll-
ed over the immense Battle River,
bridge, which has been in course
of construction during the entire
season. The bridge is nearly three
thousand feet long, and is very
high, so that the construction has
been slow, on account of high winds
interfering with the handling of
aerial steel work. On the west side
of the bridge the grading has been
practically completed to Edmonton
for a long time. Steel is now being
laid towards that city, and the work
will be prosecuted as fast as tho
weather will permit. There aro
still nearly 125 utiles of track to be
laid before Edmonton is reached,
and the shortest railway line from
Winnipeg to the Alberta capital will
be complete.
PEOPLE RULE IN TURKEY
Sultan Abdul Hamid Opens Parliament in
Person.
:1 dr: patch from Constantinople
says : Af`er an interval of thirty
two years Turley. on Thursday, en-
tered upon a second attempt at
constitutin,tal government, with the
inauguration of the new Parliament
flowing silk robes, and others in
the fashionable frock coat, formed
a gorgeous and multi -colored pic-
ture, reser before witnessed in a
legislative gathering in Europe.
Albanians, Syrians and :Arabs ware
among the Mmlcm representatives,
elrct.•d under the eonstitutien pro- while (:reeks, Armenians and Ilul-
inulgatrd by the Sultan. gars represented the Christian na-
The Sultan epened Parliament in tionalities.
person with elaborate ceretneny. Se far as can be judged from sur -
The .scene v ns perhaps ,•ne of the face indications. the Dew Perlia -
'nest remarkable in the political ment has entered upon its duties
history of the world. :111 the erecds with a united determination to car-
avel races of the Turkish Empire ry nut successfully the aims of the
S.M. their duly electedfipreeentn- bloodless revolution which made
tives, and the ' e',stumes of possible the inauguration of a cons
the Ielegates, e, some in etitutional regime in Turkey.
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