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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-03-11, Page 7IIAMILTON SIIO1CONDENSED_E1%TS ITEMS Il.11'1'ENINGS FIIOM ALL OVEII THE GLOBE. Citizen Who Was Aiding in Attempted Capture of Thief Also Wounded. telegraphic Briefs From Our Own and Other Couutrics of despatch from Hamilton says:, it is understood that a third shot Recent Events. hie Harry Smith was shot by was fired, which also hit Mr. Smith. CANADA. -star, wham he wasg g oin to Both men fell to the ground, but St. Thomas policemen have re did not lose consciousness. When (selves!uu increase in pay. arrest oh Thursday night, about they were picked up they were utile Two hundred men have been laid 9.15, near the corner of Ray and to walk to the street, and the aur off at the Point St. Charles shops Market streets, and James Ilan- butanes being called, they were of the Grand Trunk. ley, 14 Ray street, who was with taken to the hospital. Under the new tobacco act, a him to render assistance in catch- That such a daring attempt to conviction was registered in To- ing the burglar, was shot in the murder a police officer and a citi- runto against a titan who gave his temple. Both men were at once zen who was assisting hint in his sons cigarettes. taken to the city hospital and op- duty should take place early in the The mechanical unions of the crated on. It is believed that they night, nut far from the centre of Canadian Northern Railway have will recover, though their injuries the city, has. confirmed the feeling completed their federated orgauiz- are critical. Their assailant got that there is a gang of desperate ation at Winnipeg. out of the house in the excitement criminals in this city, who will stop A bar of gold was stolen from a that followed, climbed over several at nothing. It will be remembered dentist's office at Portage la fences, got on King street and made that. Miss Florence Kinrado stated Prairie, end a society woman is his escape. He was discovered in in the first place that the man who implicated. the house of E. W. Kapelle, south- shot her sister appeared to be a The spring rush of immigration east corner of Ilay and Market thug, though she later said he was has already started, and large num- . .treets, about 9 o'clock by the not a common trump. It has been hers of immigrants will arrive at c ►stable, who at once asked sev- thought by some in the face of the Halifax this week. er neighbors to assist, him in sur- circumstances that seemed strong- John Welch, who was serving a round ing the house. They were ly to contradict it, that the, mur- life sentence at Kingston Peniten- passing through a side alley to en- derer was a thug, and this incident t.iary for attempting to blow up the ter the house from the rear when has strengthened that opinion. In Welland Canal, is dead. the burglars opened fire on them consequence the feeling of dread At the Mining Institute meeting from the rear of the house. One inspired by the case has been in- at Montreal President Miller stet - bullet struck Constable Smith on tensified, and the police are at their ed the total mineral production of the side of the head, and the second wits' end with two such cases on Canada last year to be $87,323,848. hit Mr. Hanley on the temple, and their hands. After jumping the track near Hartland, N. B., an engine rolled MURDERED FOR MONEY. BIG ORDER FOR "S00." over three times and landed in the _ river. The engineer and fireman Galician Lumberman Killed at New York Central Will Buy 5,403 went down with the engine, but Sandilands, Manitoba. Tons of (tails. escaped unhurt. A despatch from Winnipeg says: A despatch from New York says: Investigation by the police of the The New York Central Railroad I •circumstances surrounding the announced on Wednesday that it death of a Galician lumberman had arranged to buy 101,000 tons named Ivan Czewski, whose body' of steel rails for 1909 delivery. This . was found near the cordwood camp is the most important contract .at Sandilands on Tuesday with his placed with the steel companies throat cut, shows that the deed since the rate war began. The order was coldblooded murder, with the .includes 20,000 tons already delis,- . object of robbery, as the dead man ered to the railroad. The remain- , had his winter's savings in his pos- ing 81,000 tons will be delivered ) session. He had a wife who lives between now and August 1. The r -on Jarvis avenue, this city. 1PORTSMEN MUST PAY. One Dollar for Shooting Pralrio Chickens in Manitoba. • .tIVlespatch froin Winnipeg says: In future all sportsmen, excepting those residing on farms, must pay a license fee of $1 to shoot prairie ehiskens in this Province. The funds t us raised will be utilized to sup - ,rt the Game Protective Associa- tion. Many other somewhat radi- cal amendments suggested by the association were accepted. and among these is ono to raise the big game license fee for foreigners to $100, and for British subjects tc $25. KING 'S '1'1111' 7'0 Bi.IRRITZ. -- Not a Holiday, But Due Solely to Health Reasons. A despatch from London says: It is officially announced that King Edward's forthcoming trip to Biar- ritz is not a holiday, but is due solely to reasons of health, his 'thy: sicians having in 1903 strongly urg- ed hint not to spend March and April in Great Britain. EARTHQUAKE IN EAST. ( Whole 1'itinge Was Destroyed Near Jernsaleut. spatch from London egram received here says: from ill; Asiatic Turkey, on Wed - y, says that the village of n, near Jerusalem, has been yed by an earthquake. One d and fifty persons aro i in the ruins. Lackawanna Steel Company gets 51,000 tons of the order, the United States Steel Corporation, 42,600 tons; the Algoma Steel Company cf Canada, 5,400 tons, and the Bethlehem Steel Company, 2,000 tons. PEACE IS ASSURED, Servia has Withdrawn Iler De- mand on Austria. A despatch from London says: It was learned conclusively in London on Wednesday that Servia, in accordance with the advice of the powers, has withdrawn her de- mand for territorial compensation at the hands of Austria-Hungary. The semi-official news published in Vienna to the contrary is therefore erroneous. The question of tho autonomy of Bosnia was not raiged in the representations made by the powers at Belgrade. It is believ- ed that this decision on the part of Servia foreshadows an early and peaceful settlement of her difficul- ties with Austria-Hungary. TWO CHILDREN BURNED. llonse of John McNeil at Flolrenee, C. 11., Gutted. A despatch froin Halifax says: Tho house of John McNeil at Flo- rence, C. B., caught fire at 11 o'clock on Wednesday, and two children, a boy and a girl, aged two and throe years, respectively, lost their lives. The father wax at work in a pitand the mother went out for a. few minutes. When she re- turned she found the hums() on fire and filled with smoke. Tile chil- dren were found in a corner, suf focated and partially burned. The fire had originated in a lounge. The house was gutted MR. FOY'S LAW REFORM BILL Appeals to Divisional Courts Are Abolished and Privy Council Appeals Limited. The law reform measure, intro- duced by Attorney -General Foy in the Ontario Legislature on Wed- ne:day afternoon, presents four main features. In accordance with solution passed by the Legis - lire last. year appeal to the )i- sional ('ourt is done away with. n Appellate Division of the Su- preme ('.dirt is created under the bili primarily. consisting of the present Appeal .fudges. If the pre- sent Judges find that they cannot deal with all the wnrk, then power is vested in the Lieutenant -Gover- nor in Council to constitute as fi many divisions of the Appellate ('eurt as niav he necessary for the despatch of business. the selecti•.n of the new Judges, however. being in the hinds of the present Judges c.f the Supreme ('ourt. There will be no appeal from one di% isien to a nother. as at present ; where some consti- tutional question or the liberty of the subject is involved, or in cases where the Judges of the Appellate Division consider the interests in- volved of such magnitude that the appeal is warranted. .A High Criminal ('ourt, sitting monthly in Toronto, except during vacation, giving ten sittings in the year, instead of four, is constitut- ed. The jurisdiction of the County and District Court is enlarged to cover eases where the amount in- volved is $800 under a contract, and $500 in the majority of the other classes of cases coining under the jurisdiction of these courts. Finally, it is rendered possible for a solicitor to enter into an agreement to carry on a client's litigation for a fixed sum instead of being paid by the present inde- The right of appeal to the Privy finite fee system. These agree - Council is considerably limited. It meats will be under the control of cal anly 1' <aken in eases where the courts. which can enforce or the, '.',lite of the natter concerned nulify them according to their be- ex.'..'.19 $1:1,0)0), instead of $1,000, ingg considered fair .)r otherwise. GREAT BRITAIN. Large quantities of diseased meat from the United States were re- ceived at the port of London. Mr. Arthur Dewar, Solicitor - General for Scotland, was returned as inepiber for South Edinburgh in the British Commons. Mr. Scott Dickson, Unionist, car- ried the Central Division of Glas- gow against the Free Trade can- didate by a majority of 2,113. UNITED STATES. The Canadian waterways treaty was ratified by the United States Senate on Thursday. A Boston man has invented a machine for generating electricity from the sun's rays. The Pennsylvania Railroad's re- port shows a decrease of $7;420,- 297 in net earnings for 1908. William H. Taft was sworn in at. Washington as President of the United States, on Thursday. President Roosevelt has received a present of a gold -hilted, jewelled bunting knife, costing $1,250. Detroit's lake passenger fleet will bo equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus when naviga- tion opens. Imports into New York for Feb- ruary last, show an increase of nearly $19,000,000 over the same month last year. United States officials at Ogdens- burg and Watertown claim to have discovered an underground route by which white slaves are import- ed mported into the United States from Canada. GENE1tAL. Dinizulu, King of the Zulus, has been sentenced to four years in prison for harboring rebels. Spain fears that the agreement between Franco and Germany re- garding o-garding Morocco may be detriment• al to Spanish interests in North A f rice. iBAD1.Y BEATEN BY A GANG. Lindsay Constable in Hospital in Merlons Condition. A despatch from Lindsay, Ont., says: At one o'clock on Thursday morning Constable John Short was beaten most unmercifully by a gang of five men, and as a re- sult o-sult is now in Buss Memorial Hos- pital. Foremost among his assail- ants was the notorious Michael Carlin, who has already served terms in Kingston Penitentiary and Sing Sing Prison. The order wa.s given by the officer to move cn, when Carlin, it is alleged, pro- ceeded to attack the constable, as- sisted by his pals. Tho officer had c.nly his baton. The men left him, as they thought, in a state of in- sensibility, but he managed to give the alarm. + TE:N LOST TIIEiR LiVES. Tenement House Holocaust In New York. .\ elespatch from New York says: Cut. off froin escape by a burning stairway, ten persons met death early on Wednesday in a five -story tenement house at 374 Seventh avenue. The victims, who were all Italians, with the exception of an unidentified Frenchman, ranged in age frons eighty years to an infant girl of four. There were about thirty families, mostly Italians, in the tenement house. and police- men and firemen rescued many of them by ladders, and by ntrinpjing them across from windows to neisfh- boring buildings. Several babies were thrown from the windows and caught by firemen who were stand- ing on the extension ladders. AN OBEDIENT ARMY. Experieuco of a British Naval Officer With German Soldier&. The docility and blind obedience of the German soldier havo long been an object of comment. The dermans themselves recognize that it sometimes goes so far as to be absurd. An Englishman, writing in the London Times, describes an amusing incident which occurred after he had spent a day tramping about the battle -field of Wortn. He was dressed, it should be noted, in regular civilian clothes, and carried an umbrella. Emerging from a wood, I came upon a plot of grass where about a dozen German soldiers were rest- ing. The spirit moved mo to stop and speak to these men -emphasiz- ing my meaning by signs when my scant German vocabulary failed me. I asked, "Are you Prussians 1" The indignant answer, in chorus, was, "No! Saxons !" "Oh," said I, wishing to concili- ate, "I am Anglo-Saxon." Much to my astonishment, one of them got up and shook me warmly by the hand. Pointing to my dusty boots and flannel shirt, unbuttoned at the neck, I then, in vile German explained to my friends of five minutes' standing that I had made the grand tour of the battle -field on foot, and nad been walking since nine o'clock in the morning, it then being five in the afternoon. Quite casually, I remarked that although "not a military, but a naval officer," the study of battle- fields interested me. At the mention of -the word "officer" all tho men sat up, buttoned their tunics and buckled on their swords, or bayonets -I forget which. "Are you going to Neiderbronn 1" was my next question. "Yes," they replido ; "we are go- ing to walk to Neiderbronn, and there take the train to Bitsch." What evil genius prompted nie to make the next remark I cannot tell, but although uttered in joke, its consequences were perfectly as- tounding. "I, too, ani going to Niederbronn. You are my regiment. I am your colonel!" Up they sprang to their feet, fell in two deep, and kept quite silent, as if on parade. "Right turn !" and off wo marched, I carrying my umbrella as if it were a sword. Breasting a greasy slope, we marched up to the top at a swing- ing pace, still observing perfect silence, and in step. A short dist- ance off was a solitary soldier, of the same regiment, lying at full length on a bench near the entrance to a wood -tunic unbuttoned, sword unbuckled, and so forth. On catching sight of the ap• preaching squad, up he jumped, buttoned his tunic, buckled on his weapon, stood rigidly at attention, and when the "regiment" came by "tailed on," as if it was the most natural thing in the world to do. Please note that not a word pass- ed between the main body and the reenforcement.. On entering the wood, the leading file began to sing a marching song, the others join- ing in chorus. By this time we- were nearing N iederbrenn, and passed a man and his wife, who evidently were much astonished to see a disciplin- ed body of men, marching in strict military fashion, under the com- mand of a foreigner armed with an umbrella -not even a silk one 1 A disconcerting thought arose. "What will happen if wo chance across a German officer -and how, in my broken German can I ever hope to explain this extraordinary assumption of command of the forces of the Kaiser 1" So, without a moment's further delay, I said to the men, "I must go to my hotel, which is over there," and bade them good-bye. These docile and amiable Saxons, with one actor', taking time by the leading file, saluted, and I, having returned their salute, got out of sight as rapidly as possible. On peeping round the corner of a house, there was my late "regi- ment," still marching with the re- gularity of clock -work. ---4------ ('1111,1) ('iIOKED YO DE.ITiI. Picked I'p on Iianillion Street With Pandy Stuck In Throat. A despatch from Hamilton, Ont., says : On Wednesday evening, as an unknown man was walking on Cathcart street, he noticed a little girl on the sidewalk, apparently in great pain. Picking the child up, he saw that she was black in the face and apparently choking to death. Without waiting to enquire who she was he hurried her to the City Hospital, whore it was found that a piece of candy which she had been sucking had become lodged in her throat, and that life was almost extinct. She was hur- ried to the operating room, and an operation was performed. but in spite of all that the doctors could do for her she died. Later in the evening the child was identified as Annie Grime the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. GriWn, 134 Cathcart street. HIE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Mar. 9. -Flour -:-Ontario wheat 90 por cent. patents, $4.05 tc $4.15 to -day in buyers' sacks outside for export. M►utitoba flour unchanged ; first patents, $5.- 70 to $5.90 on track, Toronto; sec- ond patents, $5.20 to $5.40, and strong bakers', 85 to $5.20. Wheat - Manitoba wheat, $1.20 for No. 1 Northern, and $1.17 for No. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern nominal at $1.27, all rail, and No. 2 Northern at $1.23%, all rail. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 490 on track, Toronto; No. 2 Western Canada oats 48c, Collingwood, and No. 3 at 46%c,_ Coilingwood. Peas -No. 2 quoted at 92c out- side. Corn -No. 2 American yellow 73%c on track, Toronto, and No. 3 yellow, 72%c, Toronto. Canadian corn, 69 to 70c on track, Toronto. Bran -Cars aro $23 in bulk out- side. Shorts $23 to $23.50 in bulk outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$4.50 to $5.50 for choice qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for cook- ing purposes. Beans -Prime, $1.90 to $2, and hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bushel. Honey -Combs, $2.25 to 82.75 per dozen, and strained, 11 to 11%c per pound. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $10.75 to $11 por ton on track here, and lower grades $9 to $10 a ton. Straw -$7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes -62 to 65c per bag on track. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 12 to 14c per pound; fowl, 10 to llc; ducks, 14 to 15c; geese, 12 to 13c; turkeys, 17 to 190 per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 21c; tubs and largo rolls, 18 to 18c; in- ferior, 15 to 17c; creamery rolls, 20c, and solids, 24 to 24%c. Eggs -Case lots of new laid, 20 to 27c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, 13%c per pound and twins, 14c. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 11% to 11%c per pound in case lots; mess pork, $20 to $20.50; short cut, 823 to $24. Hams -Light to medium, 13% to 14c; do., heavy, 12% to 13c; rolls, 10% to 11c; shoulders, 10 to 10%c; backs, 16 to 16%c; breakfast bacon, 15% to 16c. Lard -Tierces, 12%c; tubs, 13c; pails, 13%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, March 9. -Peas -No. 2, 96% to £9c. Oats -Canadian West- ern No. 2, 51 to 51%c; extra No. 1 feed, 50% to 51c; No. 1 feed, 50 to 50%c ; Ontario No. 2, 50 to 501/2c; Ontario No. 3, 49 to 49%c; Ontario No. 4, 48 to 48%e; No. 2 barley, 63% to 65c; Manitoba feed barley, 59 to 58%c; buckwheat, 55% to 50c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba Spring wheat. patents, seconds, $5.30 to 85.50; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.10 to $5.30; Winter wheat patents, $5.40 to 85.50; straight rollers, •$5 to $5.10; do., in bags, $2.35 to $2.45; extra, ir. bags, $1.95 to 82.05. Feed -Mani- toba bran, $22; do., shorts, $24; Ontario bran, $23 to $24; do., shorts, $24.50 to $25; Ontario mid- dlings, $25 to 825.50; pure grain rnouille, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cbeese-Finest west- ern, estern, 13 to 1314e; eastern, 12% to 12'/ec. Butter -Fall creamery, 21c; Winter creamery, 20e; dairy, in tubs, 18c; rolls, 19e. Eggs -- The demand is good and the market is fairly active, with sales at 28c per dozen. LIV1: STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Mar. 9. - The export trade is a little quiet, with only a few lots of shipping cattle coming in, but prices steady around 85 to $5.25. Export bulls a little easier around $4.50 for heavyweight. Choice has of butcher cattle firm at around $4.60 to 81.75, and a few picked odd cattle, extra choice, at. $4.-5 to $4.90. Average and medium quality butcher loads of cattle steady at $4.35 to $4.40. Steady demand for good butcher cows at $3.75 to $4, and anything choice at $1.25. Butcher bulls from 82.50 to $4. Canners froin $1.50 to $2. Lambs ----Market weak, and prices easier. Sheep --Steady. Hogs -Select, $6.75 'f.o.b., and $6.90 fel and watered. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, March 9. - Wheat - Spring wheat firm; No. 1 North- ern, carloads, stere, $1.23%; Win- ter, higher ; No. 2 red, $1.29%; No. 3 extra red. $1.29; No. 2 white, $1.27',•, ; No. 2 mixed, $1.29%. Corn No. 3 yellow, 70c; No. 4 yellow, 69%e; No. 3 corn. 69 to 69',..,c; No. 4 corn, 08% to 6R%c; No. 3 white. 69%c. Oats -No. 2 white. 57':; to 1 , HUDSON'S BAY RAILWAY The Chief Engineer's Report on the Cost of Two Routes. A despatch from Ottawa says: terminal and harbor improvements The surveys of the proposed Hud- would cost sufficient to counterbal- son's Bay Railway, which have been ante the smaller amount required under way since last October, are for railway construction. On the now practically completed, and a whole Mr. Armstrong reports in tentative report to the Govern- favor of the Nelson River route. meat by the chief engineer, Mr. The estimates are basted on a. John Armstrong, estimates the to- road sufficient to handle the trellis) tal cost of the road, either to Fort for from seven to ten years, a Churchill or PortNelson, with period long enough to test the use.- necessary so-necessary terminal and harbor i►n- fulness of the route. Sixty -pound provements at each place, at be- rails and wooden culverts and tween seventeen and eighteen mil- trestles would be used. If the lino lion dollars. He finds no obstacle at the end of the period was shown to easy and comparatively cheap to be commercially feasible the road construction, and submits a de- could then bo improved. tailed estimate of the comparative With regard to the Nelson River cost of the alternate routes sur- route, Mr. Armstrong makes the veyed from Split Lako to Fort interesting statement that from in - Churchill and from Split Lake to formation obtainable it would seem Port Nelson. The FortChurchill that a canal could be built, along route, aggregating 465 miles, will the Nelson River, which would en - cost, he estimates, $11,608,000 for able ocean-going vessels to enter the railway and an additional five Lako Winnipeg from Hudson's Bay. to six millions for harbor and ter- From Lako Winnipeg a channel of n,inal works. The Port Nelson thirty-three feet already exists to route, a distance of three hundred the south end of the lake, and and ninety-seven miles, would cast thence the canal might be extended approximately 83,477,000, but, the via the Red River to Winnipeg. 58c; No. 3 white, 57 to 57%e• No. 4 white, 56%c. Barley -Feed to malting, 69 to 74c. Milwaukee, March 9. -Wheat - No. 1 Northern, $1.20 to $1.20%; No. 2 Northern, $1.18 to $1.18%; July, $1.06% to $1.06% asked. Rye -No. 1, 80c. Corn -July, 66%c bid. Barley -Standard, 67c; sample, 64% to 67c; No. 3, 64% to 65%e; No. 4, 64 to 64%c. Minneapolis, March 9. -Wheat - May, 81.14%; July, $1.I5%; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.17% to $1.17%; No. 1 Northern, $1.16% to $1.16%; No. 2 Northern, $1.14% to $1.14%; No. 3 Northern, $1.10% to $1.12%. Bran -$23 to $23.50. Flour -First patents, $5.80 to $5.90; second pat- ents, $5.65 to $5.75; first clears, $4.50 to $4.75; second clears, $3.15 to 83.25. STEAMSIIIPS TO FRANCE. Hon. Mr. Brodeur Gives Notice of Subsidy Bill. A despatch from Ottawa says: Hon. Mr. Brodeur has given notice of a resolution empowering the Government to enter into a con- tract for a subsidized line of steam- ships between Canada and France. The aggregate amount to bo paid i:, not to exceed two hundred thou- sand dollars per annum, and at least fifteen round voyages must be made during the year, with the subsidy rate of 80,606 per voyage. Tho intention of the Government is to enter into a new contract with the Allan Steamship Company for a fifteen -knot service, replacing the present twelve -knot service. The new fast service is designed to meet the increase in traffic probable upon the ratification of the new Franco-Canadiar. treaty. IN UNMARKED GRAVES. Forty-one Victims of Railway Con- struction Work. A despatch from Port Arthur says: A remarkable story is told by John Munroe, who has just come in from auperintending the erection of the Gordon Pulpwood Company's mills at Goose Lake. He says that at a place near there ie a burying ground in which aro placed in unmarked graves the bodies of forty-one men who have been killed in railway construction work, and whose names have not been learned by the company. He added that some had been interred in coffins, and some without, and even without religious service of any kind. To the illicit sale of whiskey Mr. Munroe attributes nearly all the accidents. MARRIED A CIIINAMAN. A Wedding in the Brantford Police Station. A despatch from Brantford says: Brantford witnessed its first Chi- nese wedding and the local Police Court its first marriage ceremony on Thursday evening, when, sur- rounded by officers of the law, Harry Chong, a well-known China- man, and Norah McLaughlin, an Irish girl of nineteen, were united in the bonds of matrimony. Tho ceremony, which was performed by Rev. H. R. McCracken, pastor of Alexandra Presbyterian Church, took place at the police station, and was attended by Police Mag- istrate Livingston, Chief Slemin and other officials, in addition to the groom's lawyer, A. L. Baird. The bride, who was arrested on Wednesday night, was charged with vagrancy, and was given the option of going to jail or joining the Salvation Army. Since com- ing here from Dublin a short time ago she has given the police con- siderable trouble. Chong, who is a prosperous Chinese restrauraut keeper, heard of the girl's predi- cament, and through counsel niado the offer of marriage. It was promptly accepted. BOMB FOR ROYAL. FAMiLY. Found in the Court -yard of Spanish Palace. A despatch from London says: The Madrid correspondent of tho Telegraph says that what was pro- bably a spherical bomb, with a lighted fuse, was found at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon ill the courtyard of the Royal Palace. It. was later removed to a laboratory, where it was examined. The bomb exploded a few moments after tho examination had ended. Tho inci- dent created the most disquieting impression. King Alfonso and Queen Victoria are now at. Seville, but ex -Queen Christina and other members of the Royal family aro living in the palace. The greatest secrecy is maintained regarding the affair. It is understood that some arrests already havo been niado. FIFTY MEN LAID OFF. Grand Trunk Reduces ('ar Shop Staff atLondon. A despatch front London, Ont., says: Fifty men were laid off at tho Grand Trunk car shops on Wed- nesday morning. The move is only temporary according to Superin- tendent Treleaven and those laid off were practically all unmarried sten. ANNUAL BBBET SPEEOII Treasurer of Ontario Says He Surplus of $450,000, Hon. A. J. Matheson, Ontario's Treasurer, nn Thursday afternoon delivered his annual budget speech iii the Legislature. He claimed a surplus of $450,000 on the (pera- tions of the pa -t year and submit- ted estimates of the receipts ex- pected in the next ten months. The total estimated receipts for the firstten inonths are $6,105,- Q72, compared uith an estimated expenditure of $6,943.661. He sub- mitted the following: - Estimates! receipts, ten months, 1909, including cash balances on bane) 31st December, 190S: Sub- sidy $2,129,772.09, interest on corn- -non school funds held by the Do- minion $74,000, interest on invest- ments $60,000, total $131,000; lands and fereste. timber dues. bonus ground rent, etc., $925,006;Crown lands, $60,000; clergy lands, /13,- OOJ; common school !.yids, $10,000; Has a grammar school lands, 82.0)0; to. tal, $1,000,000. MINES PAY. Mines, royalties, $300.000; sup- plementury revenue, 850,000; license fees, recording fees, etc., *140,000; provincial -nine, $10,000; public institutions, $130,000; Cen- tral Prison industries, $47,500; education department, $40,000; l'rovincial ,Secretary's department, $127,000; agriculture, $75,000; sta- tionary engineers, $10,000; casual revenue, $8.000; succession duties, 8400,000; supplementary revenue tax (3 Edw. 7, (.'ap. 14). $690,000; ta'ern and brewers' licenses, 8300,- 000; law stamps, $78,000; garners and fisheries, $65,000; estimated earnings T. & N. 0. Railway ten months, $300.000; total estimated receipts, $6.105.272.09; cash bal- ances Iter. 31, 1909, $3,07.',136.50; total, $9,177,408.59.