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Exeter Times, 1909-02-11, Page 3
MONEY FORllUBSO'S BY More Than One-third of the Cost of the Railway Has Been Provided A despatch fr;nt Ottawa says: •ncecxis from tho sale of pre - lands in the west under the pawed last session, allowing each homesteader to purohase at $3 per acro an additional 120 acres of Deatiuion lands, thas obtaining & farm of 320 acres, have now amounted rte over i;ix million dol- lars, the total number of acres taken up during the lust quarter of 190- being 2,009,139. When the bill was Massed it was tacitly agreed by the Government that the first charge on .this fund would be the cost. of construction of the propoax;d Hudson's Bay Railway, for which the sur cy is now being made. While this understanding 11111141 as not yet been formally incor- rated in legislation, it is ander- that when the report of the ey is received and the Govern - Ad p ing a tl Ontario EMAGAMI DEPOT BURNED. perator IIad Rarely Time to Make His Es.'ape. es despatch from North Bay says: Fire broke out at six o'clock on Wednesday night in the Ten►iskani- nd N or corn nt ario Railwaystation at Temag ane, and the liandsome structure, completed about ono year ago. at a cont of fifteen thousand dollars, i3 in ruins, only the massive stone walls stand- ing. Tho operator had just time to briefly report that the building was on fire and make his escape. 'The books and records in the office wore saved, but the fire spread so rapidly that nothing could be done to check the flanks. Wooden building adjoining, occupied as restaurant and baggage -room, was saved. is in a position to draft the hill providing for the construction of the road, provision will be made for the application of the fund in manner anner designated. The es- timated cost. of the whole road is fifteen millions. It will thus be sewn that. more than one-third of the cost of the whole undertaking has already been raised by the sale of lands under the western lands act. Progress reports of the survey have been received from ,time to time by parties now in the field, but it is not expected any com- plete or authoritative report as to the most favorable route or the cost will be ready before the spring, and it is hardly probable the Gov- ernment will bo able to bring down .i. hill for the construction of tho road until next session. WINNIPEG K11;1'IP.S. New Regiment May be Nanted a"• merou highlanders." tch from Winnipeg says: tion of a Highland mat- s believed to be alalost an accomplished fact. A meet;ug was held on Thursday, when the project took tangible form. It M. Thompson, a prominent bar rioter, is likely to be named fur tenant -colonel, with Major gh E. Maclean, formerly of To- ronto, as major. Tho name for the corps most favored is tho Came, en 7•lighlanders, acid it is said Mt'. D. C. Cauneron has promised ado - nation of $10,000 if his clan is thus honored. 4. CHEAT HIS MOTHER TO DEATH. of Seventeen Sentenced to Life Imprisonment. A despatch from Toledo, Ohio, says: Harvey Hazel, the seventeen - ,ear -old boy found guilty of the murder of his mother, was on Wed- Seesday afternoon sentenced to life imprisonment in tho Ohio State /Penitentiary at Columbus. Hazel was convicted of slaying his mo- ther Jan. il, 1905, by beating her to death with a hammer, after which he robbed her of $57. Tho ease attracted considerable atten- tion because of the defence of ado- lescent insanity. WENT THROUGH THE ICE. orte and Sleigh Disappear n the St. Lawrence. spatch from Quebec says: sklent of the suburb of St. Sauveur named Leniay, while driv- ing across the ice bridge from the Quebec shorn to St. Nicholas, some Seven milds west of this '•ity, on 'Wednesday, went through the ice and disappeared. No trace of the man, horse or rig has been discov- . Loney, who was a rnaehiii was on his way to St. NO, as to repair machinery in a t, :l there. Tho remains may not be recovered until spring. tl VETEit-1NS' ItEt) UEST. Men Who Fought in Fenian Raid Ask for a Grant. A despatch from Ottawas says: Representatives of the Veterans of '66 from all parts of Canada march- ed to Parliament Hill on Thurs- day from the City Hall to lay he - fore Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the members of the Government a. me- morial setting forth their claims to land grants from the Domin- ion ominion similar to those granted the South Africa veterans. A small deputation, representing the Im- perial South Africa Veterans' As- sociation in Canada, waited on Sir Frederick Borden to prefer the same request, made some time. ago before the Minister of tho Interior, that the provisions of the South Africa 'voluntary bounty act, passed last session, bo extended to all veterans of the campaign now citizens of Canada. Tho Minister of Militia, promised that the request v:ould bo carefully coiasidered by the Government. INHALED SULPHURIC GAS. Fatal Aceident to Employee of Termite Paper Company. A despatch from Cornwall says: The inhaling of sulphuric gas in the pulp department of the Toronto Paper ('o.'s mills the other day resulted in the death on Wednes- day night of J. Sibley, ono of the employees. Sibley- and another man, named J. Morin, remained in tho room after the digesters were emptied, contrary to orders. When tho cooled gas began to settle, they ran for windows. Morin got there all right, but. Sibley inhaled some of tho gas and was overcome. He was taken to the General Hospi- tal, where he died .Ho was a na- tive of England, 32 years of age, married, and leaves four children. •!� - .. POLICE RESENT ATTACKS. Several Libel Actions are Eutered in Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says: Ald. Prouix, chairman of tho Civic Police Committee, has entered an action for libel for $5,000 against E. W. Villeneuve, who preferred charges against his administration, and an action for $10,000 against La. Patric, which editorially de- clared that the police department was rotten to the core. Chief of Police Campeau has also entered an action against. La Petrie on similar grounds. :► $40,000,009 CONTRACT. British i'irut to Construct the New Spanih Squadron. A despatch from Madrid says: The Cabinet has decided to accept the tender of Vickers Sons and Maxim, the English shipbuilders, for the con. truction of the new Spanish squadron, on condition that the firth consents to certain u'.ndifieations. The amount of the contract is $10,00),000. TELEPHONES OF TRE WEST Surplus Revenue in Manitoba Is a Quarter of a Million Dollars A despatch from Winnipeg says: After a year's operation the sur- plus of .t ho Manitoba telephone system is approximately a quarter of a million dollars after deduct- ing the cost of some 600 miles of long-distance lines and a. number of rural systems, which have been constructed by the Government. In January, 1909, the Provincial Gov- ernment purchased all the lines, plants, franchises, etc., from the Bell Telephone Company, which had a monopoly in Manitoba. :1t the time of the purchase officials of duction has been made, excepting in certain classes of long-distance tolls. With this fine financial showing the Province will also an- nounce a reduction in all telephone rates and tolls within the boun- daries of Manitoba., and tho hill now being prepared for presenta- tion to the Manitoba Parliament provides for various reductions ranging from 20 to 35 per cent. fruni the present rates. The example set by Manitoba impelled tho Alberta, Government to follow suit, and the Government castes in that Province will also the Government promised a reduc show a big surplus for the first tion in rotes, but to date no roe year. CONDENSED Nel►s ITEMS IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND! HIE WORLD'S MARKETS CANADA GETS GRAIN TRADE Il.tl'I'I:NINGS FROM .11.1, OVER TIIE GLOBE. Telegraphic Itriefa From Our Own and Other Counlrles of Recent Events. CANADA. Toronto'a tax rate will remain at 18`y mills. The net, receipts from suceessiou duties in Ontario in 1909 were $1,- 153,740. Ontario and Minnesota may take joint action for the creation of game preserves. Dr. Haenel reports the success- ful smelting of iron ores by elec- tricity in Sweden. NEWS BY HAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND 1115 PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land Thal Reigns Supreme in the Cont• wercial World. Westminster Abbey choristers are prohibited from accepting music hall engagements. Lord Strathcona has given $5,000 to University College Hospital. Gower street., London. Three thousand four hundred per- sons committed suicide in England and Wales last year. The Queen has received a cheque for $50,000 as an instalment of tho Dr. Milton Mersey reports a profits of her Christmas Gift Book. largo quantity of brandy in the The new battlestup Lord Nelson chocolates seized at Montreal. will begin duty at Sheerness as It is reported that the U.N.R. llugship for dear -admiral U. Briggs, will enter upon the extension of commanding the Noro Division of their lines in NovaScotia. the Hosie h Leet. Charles Vezina was fined five Mrs. Hugh Cecil Lea, wide of the hundred dollars in aQuebec court M• .P. for East St. Pancras, has for libelling Hon. A. Turgeon. Charles Mitchell, a Peterboro' postman, was committed for trial on a charge of robbing the mails. Edwin Barnhart was sentenced at Brockville to five years in the peni- tentiary for' eloping with Mrs. Pyke and robbing ner husband. The $50,000 fortune of G. W. Todd, the miser, who diad at Ham- ilton, was all oaten up in law costs, except sufficient to pay two notes of $5,000 each made by the old man. A man who died at the Verdun Asylum was known as the human ostrich. An incredible quantity of iron, glass, nails, wire and other stuff that he had swallowed was taken front his body. GREAT BRITAIN. Baron Burton, head of the great English brewing firm of Bass at Co., is dead. The National Service League, of which Lord Roberts is President, has a scheme by which 400,000 trained men can be added to Bri- tain's home defence in four years. UNITED STATES. Thomas L. Lewis has been re- elected President of tho United Mine Workers of America. President Roosevelt has been of- fered $10,000 a week for thirty weeks to head a wild west show. Dr. James I3. Angell, President of tho University of Michigan, will resign some time this month. Shipments from tho United States ports on the great lakes were 25 per cent. less in 19u6 than in 1907. A New Jersey man claims to have discovered a process by which cop- per can be tempered and made in- to cutting tools. Slot machines that deliver an accident insurance policy for a dime have been placed in New York cafes and hotels. President-elect Taft, now on a visitto Panama, says he believes the great canal will be practically completed in thirty-threo months. GENERAL. King Menolik of Abyssinia is re- ported to bo dying. The Cape -to -Cairo Railway will be completed in three years. The Crown Prince of Servia has been injured in an automobile ac- cident. The Italian earthquake relief fund has new reached a total of $16,000,000. Two hundred Chinamen lost their lives in a fire which destroy- ed a fleet of flower boats at Can- ton. The French Minister of Marino has proposed a scheme of naval reform involving an expenditure of $45,000,000. The new French tariff increa es the maximum duties against United States products on an average of 20 per cent. The British steamer Clan Ronald wont to pieces off the Australian coast, and the captain and forty- The Lords of the British Admiral- ! six of the crew were drowned. ty issued a circular to the officials Newfoundland has agreed to the of the various naval dockyards terms of the fisheries treaty which some time ago in which a system of will shortly go beforeathe United payment for suggestions made by States Senate for ratification. the workmen employed in all de - The South African conference partments was introduced. This, called to bring about federation it was hoped, would encourage the men, but the scheme is now practi- cally defunct owing to the extraor- dinary parsimony of the Admiralty officials. 'Tape workmen manifest keenness in npplying their minds to mechani- cal appliances for saving labor and cost, but after waiting for months received a few paltry dollars as their rewards. Some of the inven- tions are valuable and will save the country large sums of money, but in no case has any man received more than 825 for his ingenuity. Tho men complain that they have spent their spare time in patient study to receive in return grants which are ridiculous. As an instance of the Admiralty's niggardliness one man submitted an invention which enables a diver in difficulties under water to attach another air pipe and eut tithe pipe which is entangled in wreckage. Until this ingenious device was sub- mitted such a thing was thought Admiralty offt- impossible. ThP cials.adopted tho i�ea and nwnrdod the clever invento the sum of ?►3. provided 6,500 free dinners for the poor children of the district. outside. An important scheme is proposed Barley -No. 2 barley 53 to 57c to connect the towns of South outside; No. 3 extra at 54 to 55c, Shields and North shields by_ elec- and No. 3 at 52 to 53c. tric railway underneath the Tyile: iuckwheat-58c outside. Fifty-nine live turtles, all full Phse No. 2 87e outside. ►� grown, were landed at Avonmouth Co-rnNo. 2' American- yellow the other day front Jamaica. This 69% to 70c on track, Toronto, and is the largest consignment ever re- No. 3 yellow at us/ to 69c, Toronto. Canadian corn, 65%c on track, Toronto. Bran -Cars, $20.50 in bulk out- side. Shorts quoted at 822.50 in bulk outside. REPORTS FROM '1'l11 LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other hairy Produce at Route uud Abroad. BitEADSTUFFS. Toronto, Feb. 9. -Flour - On- tario wheat fro per cent. patents, $3.75 to $3.80 to -day in buyers' sacks outside fur export. Mani- toba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Taranto; second patents, $5, and strung bakers', $4.90. Wheat. --Manitoba wheat, $1.11% for No. 1 Northern, and $1.09;1 for No. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern, $t.17 to $1.17% all rail, and No. 2 North- ern at $1.13% to 81.11 all rail. Wheat -Ontario -No. 2 nixed at $1 outside. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 42 to 42%c outside, and at 45e on track, Toronto; No. 2 Western Canada oats quoted at 45%c, lake ports, and No. 1 feed, 42%c, lake parts. Rye -No. 2 quoted at 67% to 68e ceivcd at the port. The naval aut.lorities at Ports- mouth are re -fitting and redecorat- ing the old Victory in the same manner as it appeared when Nelson was aboard. No cases of smallpox or typhoid fever are now under treatment in any of the hospitals controlled by the Metropolitan Asylum Board in London. This year is the centenary of the birth of Darwin and the jubilee of "The Origin of Species." Tho Uni- versity of Cambridge proposes to hold an exhibition of portraits, edi- tions and relics of Darwin. A flock of fifty sheep strayed on to the railway at Upminster and were run down by a passenger train. Twelve were killed outright, and six others were so seriously injured that they had to be dos- troyed. The Duke of Manchester owns some 70,000 acres of land, and is also the possessor of four country residences, two in England and two in Ireland. Ho succeeded to the family honors on the death of his father in 1890. A strong effort is being made at Cambridge University to increase the strength of the infantry bat- talion of the Officers' Training Corps so that it may compare more favorably with the Oxford bat- talion. Lack of proper apprenticeship system for training boys 11 to 0 years of age, in the different trades is widely held in England to bo re- sponsible in a large degree for the "casual labor" lack of employment and poverty of thousands. A London paper, which has been making inquiries of leading com- mercial men and the captains of in- dustry, assures its readers that the experience of- 1908 will not be re- peated this year, that the slump is at. an end, and prosperity is re- turning. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples --Winter, $3.50 to 84.50 per barrel for good qualities, and at $2 to $3 for cooking apples. Beans -Prime, $1.80 to $1.90, and hand-picked, $1.90 to $2 per bushel. Honey -Combs, $2.25 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10% to ile per pound. • Hay -No. 1 timothy, $10.50 to $11.50 per ton on track here, and lower grades at $9 to $10 a ton. Straw -$6.50 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes-Ontarios, GO to 62%c per bag. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 12 to 13c per pound; fowl, IOe; ducks, 12 to 13e; geese, 11 to 12e; turkeys, 16 to 17c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 22 to 2•Ie; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 22c; in- ferior, 20c; creamery rolls, 27 to 26e, and solids, 26c. Eggs -Case lots of selects 28 to 29e per dozen; picked, 26e, and new laid are quoted at 30 to 320 per dozen. Cheese --Large cheese, 13'/,c pound, and twins, 13%c. per 1100 PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 11 to 11%c per pound in case lots; mess pork, `20 to $20.50; short cut, $21. Hams -Light to medium. 13r to 14c; do., heavy, 12% to 13c; rolls, 10% to 110; shoulders, 10 to 101/2e; backs, 16 to 18%c; breakfast ba- con, 15 to 16c. Lard -Tierces, 12%e; tubs, 12%c; pails, 13c. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, Feb. 9. -Grain - In oats the feeling is firm, with a good steady demand for car lots. Peas --No. 2, 94 to 95c. Oats -- In making a new road at Lower Canadian Western No. 2, 47c; ex- Gornal, Straffordshire, workmen tra No. 1 feed, 464c; No. 1 feed, struck a scam of coal. Nearly all i 45%c; Ontario No. 2, 46c; No. 3, the women in the village caste out to 45c; No. 4, 44c. Barley -No. 2, shovel up the coal, but a fall of 63% to G5c; Manitoba feed, 55% to some 30 cwt. of loose earth buried 56o Buckwheat -55% to 56c. many of them, one woman being Flour --Manitoba Spring wheat pat - seriously injured. encs, firsts, 85.60; seconds, 85.10; Manitoba strong linkers, 84.90; Winter wheat patents, $5 to $5.25; iN\ EN'IORS POORLY PAID. straight rollers, $4.60 to 84.70; straight rollers in bags, 82.15 to .Admiralty Ni tally in its Res $2.25; extras in bags, $1.75 to $1.- . M . Feed- Manitoba bran, 821 to cards to Clete,. Workmen. 822; Manitoba shorts. $21; On- tario bran, $21 to 821.50; shorts, $24 to $24.50; middlings. 824.50 to $25; pure grain mouille, $28 to $30; mixed mouille, $25 to 827. Cheese -Finest Western, 12; to 13%,e; casterns, 12% to 12%e. But- ter -Fall creamet y. 26%c; Winter creamery, 25c; fresh receipts, 24c; dairy rolls, 21c. Eggs -New laid, 3:s to 35c; selected stock, 28 to 29c; No. 1 stock, 25 to 26c. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Feb. 9. -Exporters - Steady demand for choice steers, but, hulls are a little easier. Butchers' -Really choice butchers' cattle are scarce, and the best rea- lized top prices. A few picked lots sold at $5.15; the general run, however, for choice lots was from 84.40 to 84.75. Fair to good loads averaged 81 to $4.30; mixed and common classes $3.50 to $1. Sheep and lambs -Fair demand for ewes and lambs ; prices firm at Inst week's rates Hogs -Firm : select at 86.60 f.o.b. and $6.a0 fed and watered. Calves-- Steady at last quotations. Mitch cows --Fair de- mand for good quality; common not required. Butchers' cows of good quality wanted. has decided nn Pretoria for the administrative centre and (.'ape Town for the legislative centre. SPEi('HH WAS SHOiRT. Opening of the Manitoba Legisla- ture on Thursday. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The Legislature was opened on Thursday afternoon with the usual ceremonies, but with great de- spatch. by Lieut. -Governor McMil- lan. The speech from the throne was remarkable for its brevity and for its lack of anything debatable or constructive. Simple reference was made to the telephone legis- lation to tho effect that it had been a paying investment . Beyond that nothing noteworthy was al- luded to. Tho Young Man -"Gracie, what is it. your father sees in me to ob- ject to, darling V' Tho Young Wo- man (wiping away a tear) -"He He doesn't see anything in you, Al- gernon; that is why he objects. • Improvements in Harbors That Have Already Brought Good Results. A despatch from Ottawa says: The annual report of the Depart- ment of Public Works, tabled in the Commons on 1\'ednesday, shows that for the fiscal year 1907-09 the total expenditure was $11,109,384, an increase of $1,831,959 over the previous year. Tho items include the following :-Harbor and river works, $2,417,882; dredging and new dredging plants. $3,344,306; public buildings, $1,331,901 ; tele- graph lines, 8162,233. A fact emphasized in the report is that Canada is profiting by the experience gained at the older harbors of Europe, and laying out in each case a comprehensive scheme of development. The result already is a vast increase in ship- ping from the great lakes to the sea. Boston and New York have lost to Montreal in the European grain trade. and St. Jelin is in a position to successfully compete with Portland. Not only the more important ports have been attend- ed to, but the department has not lost sight of the needs of the les- ser harbors, where wharfs, break- waters and shelters have been con- structed, and dredging carried out. The construction of dams in the interest of navigation and for water conservation is strongly re- commended in that part of the re- port dealing with water powers. The total mileage of telegraph lines under the department is 7,225, with 393 offices transmitting dur- ing the year 105,000 messages. carloads, store, $1.16%; Winter, higher ; No. 2 rod, $1.12; No. 3 extra. red, $1.10%; No. 2 white, $1.10; No. 2 mixed, $1.10. Corn -Higher; No. 3 yellow, 66c; No. 4 yellow, 65%e; No. 3 corn, 65 to 65%c; No. 4 corn, 64% to 65e; No. :3 white, 68%c. Barley -Feed to matting, R 3. to 70c. Minneapolis, • aeba e.• -.Wheat - May, $1.09; July, $1.09%; cash No. 1 hard, $1.11%; No. 1 Northern, $1.10%; No. 2 Northern, $1.08% to $1.09; No. 3 Northern, $1.05% to $1.07%. Bran --Iii bulk, $21.50 to $22. Milwaukee, Feb. 9. -Wheat - No. 1 Northern, $1.13 to 81.14; No. 2 Northern, $1.11 to $1.11%; May, $1.09%. Rye -No. 1. 76c. Corn - May, 63%c asked. Barley -Stand- ard, 66e; samples, 61% to 64c; No. 3, 62 to 64c; No. 4, 61%c. LOST IN A BLIZZARD. James Semple's Brave Fight for Life was Unavailing. A despatch from St .John, N.B., says: Half covered with snow and ice, the body of James Semple of Fredericton, who, with his team of four horses, made such agallant struggle for life when lost on Lake Spednik, near Vanceboro', in last Saturday night's blizzard, was found on the lake on Thursday af- ternoon close to the spotwhere three of his horses were discover- ed dead on Tuesday. Search for tho unfortunate roan had been kept up, and the searchers had passed several times close to the spot where the body was eventually found. It lay half concealed by drifting snow, and from appear- ances Semple had made a brave fight to the last. There were signs that he had fallen into the water, and managed to ecranible back on the ice only to succumb to the cold. It was supposed that he had been dead since Sunday. The body was found on tho American side of the lake, and about five miles front Vanceboro'. 4 RIGID I'ROIIIf11T10�. No Liquor or Firearms Allowed on G. T. I'. Construction. A despatch from Winnipeg says: 1V. A. Quintell, Dominion Com- missioner of Police, announces that prohibition will be enforced be- tween the C. P. It. main line and twenty miles north of the National Transcontinental ilailway in the districts of Algoma and Thunder Bay. Rigid prohibition of firearms is also to bo enforced along the entire line of construc•tien work. DRI'NhENNF:'S ON INl'Itt:.1SE. Statistics in London Show More Arrests in Year. A despatch from Leiden says: The police statistics for 1908, issued on Wednesday, show a large in- crease in arrests for drunkenness, the total being 1,15ti: 315 were be- fore the court for disorderly con- duct. which also shotes an increase. The total number of arrests was 2,852. UNiTEE) STATES MARKETS. iiuffalo, Feb. 9.----Wheat---Spring wheat, firmer; No. 1 Northern, AWAITED DEATH IN A GRAVE. Japanese Youth's Attempt to Bary Himself Alive. A youth of Kobe, Japan, who sought to commit suicide by bury- ing himself alive and paid an ac- complice 25 cents to spade the earth upon his coffin achieved some degree of notoriety even in Japan, where new things a:'e happpening every day. He failed of his'firitioaL purpose, however. A policeman was strolling along the bank of the Minatogawa River outside of i.obo one day last month when he happened to spy a joint of bamboo pipe sticking a few inch- es above a mound of fresh earth. Being a Japanese and also a police- man, his curiosity was especially keen. H© looked down the bamboo pipe, but could see nothing. Then he began to dig around the pipe. Ho bad a considerable wrench put on his nerves when a voice carne out of the end of the pipe right at his ear : "Honorably condescend to go away and permit me to die peace- fully." But the policeman did not go. He slug some more and finally unearth- ed a pine box, the length of a man's body and about three feet wide. The bamboo pipe led through an opening into the box. The police- man pried off the cover of the box, securely nailed down, and dumped the self-appointed corpse out. Yamada Katsutaro, the man who would thus have died, told the pre- fect of police that he had wanted to die in a seemly fashion because he was out of work. The lack of food had suggested to him the prac- ticability of starving himself to death, but in order to be sure that he should accomplish this purpose he had determined to bury him- self in a securely nailed coffin and await the ravages of hunger. He didn't want to suffocate first, hence the bamboo pipe. The clay before the policeman discovered him, Yamada said, he procured the box and the service of a coolie. Then he dug the hole nut ou Egeyama and after giving the coolie his obi and fifty sen, his last bit of money, he was nailed up in his coffin, lowered into the grave and covered under six feet of soil. Yamada promised never to try burying himself alive again and the police let him go. A (;11 1 S'1' I.1' CARGO. `hip 1.rft Brooklyn for China With 5,1181 Corpses. A despatch hem !tt New York says: Five thousand l'hinc:.e c•,,rl,ses bound for their final resting places in the Flowery Kingdom left Brooklyn on \Wednesday on the steamer Shimosa. The bodies of the dead Celestials were disinterred from burying grounds all over the United States and placed in sealed Caskets, which in turn were en- closed in pine boxes, each labelled with the name and history of its silent occupant and stored between decks on the ship. A WONDERFUL NEW STEEL-- Has Cutting Power Pour Times as Great as That of Any Other Known. A despatch from London says: In an address to the Royal Insti- t•uti.,n the other day Prof. Arnold of Sheffield University said that within a year there would be on the market a British steel with quadruple the ct'tting power of any now kno.va. What Prof. Arnold referred to was a product of the Continental Steel Works at Sheffield. just discovered and 'am -al '•Neva Superi.•r." R. W. t, inder, the ntanagcr ••f the works, in an interview. on \\'edneviny. Isaid that the disc:'. ry was the euteome of litigatieo instituted by the Bethlehem btcel Company, which claims the patent ri.;l:ts on air -hardened high speed steel. Ex- periments with a view to renderi ig themselves ind,•pe lele•it of the Ariteri.'an claim ww, e.nclecteth by the Continental , ks and result- ed in the disc.: !a. A t• ro1 made of the old higll - !iced steel, work- ing u't hard ni:,,crial at Sheffield, had to be ground five times a day. Last Reck a similar tool of the new preeess steel vets put un. It wot keel with one grinding for a da}- nrd a half aril was still sharp Mr. \Finder say; the nee,. st':l will in s :i waw :.tt c drast.c elt.'r:atioas in Machinery. 1 4 ar