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Exeter Times, 1909-06-17, Page 71 oh, r__ MEM FIRES IN NEW BRUNSWICK Rains Alone Can Check Devastation, Says Crown Lands Deaprtmeut. A despatch from Fredericton, N.--Ia., aaya : Late ou Thursday af- ternvon the Grown Land Office gave out the information that the wind I)as made the forest fires worse than they have been since the outbreak. On the Miramichi the situation becomes most seri- oua3. Men gathe,ed from all sec- tions of the county are doing their utmost in fighting the flames, but they seem to be beyond all control. The Crown Land Department is doing everything within its power, and sparing no expense, in put- ting every available reran in motion to check the fires, but the work has evidently got beyond all human control. Word received at 6 c,'cluck on Thursday night says that rain alone can stop the fires and put an end to the destruction that is being wrought. A telephone message from Nap- padogan is to the effect that beau+ twenty miles of rich timber land along the line of the (.rand Trunk Pacific is all on fire. Large forces of cion aro fighting the fires, which are on land owned by the New Brunswick Land Company a:ui the M iramichi Lumber Company. The latter company on Thursday night sent out four hundred men from lluiusto%•u to combat the flames. Fire is raging at Knowlan Settle- ment, Northumberland, and at Eel River, forty miles up river. In these districts the chole population aro out working, st,.rauously fighting, but with little result. From all sections of the country there comes but the ono cry, "Rain, rain 1" and unless rain comes' soon the results will be most serious. BANK MANAGER DISAPPEARS. Mystery Shrouds Fate of Saskatche- wan Man. A despatch from Grenfell, Sa says: Excitement has been caused in the town by the mysterious dis- appearance of James Young Thompson, manager of the % ienfe l investment Company, Sunday, June 0, Thompson engaged a horse and buggy to drive to the home of Skilliter, a farmer living seven stiles south-east of this town. But about five o'clock he turned up at the residence of Mr. Thorn- ton, Indian agent, living about, seventeen miles north-east of Gren- fell. Thomson in.orined Thornton that lie had driven out to get a bath in ('rooked Lake, which is three- quarters of a mile froin Thornton's. Ho loft the horse and buggy with Thornton, and walked to the lake, and disappeared. Sergt. Besunge and W. Peel made a thorough ex- amination of the bank, and re - pi (that everything is in its usual shape. '1'1IItO1VN CND ERA ROLLER. • Thomas Rigney Filled by Horses )funning Away. A despatch from St. Mary's, Ont., says: Thomas Rigney, a farm- er, aged 53, met with a horribly painful death on Wednesday at Granton, a few utiles from here. He was working in the field with a roller and the horses became fright- ened in some way and ran away. liignoy was thrown under the rol- let and sustained severe injuries, front which he died five hours later. He was one of the pioneers of this province. CIGARErrES tntE BARRED. No One Allowed to Stroke Them in Seattle. A despatch from Seattle, Waslt., says: The new anti -cigarette law went into effect on Thursday night. it. is the opinion of the Attorney - General's office that any person who has thein in his possession is subject to fine and itnprisonmcnt. The Alaska -Yukon -Pacific Exposi- tion police will enforce the law strictly. No one will be permitted to smoke a cigarette on the grounds. FINGER ~PRINT SIGNATURE, Finger -print identification has igen extended to commercial uses by the Postal Savings hank of the Philippines at Manila. This Bank hr* recently issued a series of 'ramp deposit cards, on which are spaces for stnmps of different values to be affixed. When the de- positor has stamps to the value of Eo r 1 one , $so on the card it is exchang- ed at the bank for a deposit -book showing the amount to his credit. Opposite the lines for the owner's signature and address is a square ruled off for the reception of his thumb -print ; iso that, even if illi- terate. depositors may readily bo idont ified. ONTARIO BONDS SELL WELL. Treasurer Received Subscription for $100,000 Block. A despatch from Toronto says: Ontario's latest issue of bonds is selling like the proverbial hot cakes. Hon. A. G. Matheson, the Provincial Treasurer, who is tho chief salesman of the securities, announces that on Wednesday a block of $100,000 worth was sub- scribed by ono private individual. There were also a number of sub- scriptions for smaller amounts. The Government is, indeed, receiv- ing more applications for small blocks of this loan than it, did for the earlier issue placed on the mar- ket in the same manner. There have been a number of enquiries regarding the loan from persons in Boston, New York and elsewhere. Hon. Mr. Matheson is well pleased with the progrees made ►towarrl raising the $3,500,000 required by the province. d• - TWO ENGINEERS KILLED. Collision on the Great Northern Near Vancouver. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says: The Great Northern Railway express from Seattle, due at Vancouver at 4 p.m., running late, collided trend -on with the Guichon Limited. southbound near Burnaby Lake, five wiles from Vancouver, at half -past 4 on Thurs- day afternoon. Ralph McPheeter and Robert Nichol, two engiucers, were killed. Tho fireman ou the Guichon train. a stranger, was buried in the wreck and is dead. C. C. Cornwall, a passenger, was badly injured in the back and taken te. the hospital unconscious. Twelve passengers wore injured. 4+ VOiCE SHOT THROUGH AIR. Ileard a Hundred Miles by Wireless Telephone. A despatch from Toulon, France, says: The trials of wireless tele- phone service between the cruiser Condo and land stations have shown satisfactory progress. The cruiser, although equipped with shorter poles than at the time of the previous experiments, was able to communicate on Wednesday at a distance of more than 100 miles. A few days ago conversation was carried on by the wireless system at a distance of GO miles. - - A TOWN DEVASTATED. Over Two Hundred Persons billed in Earthquake. A despatch from Padang, S Suma era, says: The town of Korinchi, 195 miles to the southeast of Pad- ang, was devastated by an earth- quake on the nights of June 3 and 4. Two hundred and thirty people were killed and many others in- ured. The shock .eas accompanied by a tidal wave which swept away the native huts like cockleshell... CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS tkAl'1'I:NIN(;S EIKON ALL OVLI; 111E GL011k. Telegraphic Briefs i'rnru Onr Ot) it and Other Countries of Recent hteuts. CANADA. Kingston citzens propose to erect a monument to Sir Oliver Mow at. Toronto's proportion of the street railway receipts for May was $49,344. Henry Birks & Sons subscribed $25,000 to the Montreal Y.M.C.A. extension fund. The gross receipts of the T. & N. O. Railway for April were 8161,- 869, a new record. Lieutenant -Governor Dunsmuir of British Columbia, whose term has yet a year to run, is anxious to re- tire. Sir William Macdonald has pur- chased the Joseph property at Mon- treal and presented it to McGill University. Tho liquidators of the York Loan & Savings Company expect to do- clare a divitient of 20 per cent•..bo- fore the end of the year. At the General Sessions at Ham- ilton Mrs. \Vhitehurn lost a suit on a policy against the Canadian Guardian Company because ten oeuts of the premium was unpaid. GREAT BRITAIN. Tho French team won the King's Challenge Cup at the internation- al Horse Show in Loudon. Tho second reading of the finance bill was passed in tho British Com- mons by 336 votes to 209. Tho London Times warns Britain to Ise ready for the storm which may break at any moment in inter- national politics. Mr. John E. Redmond has noti- fied the British Government that the Nationalist party intends to vote against the budget. Lord Roberts stated at the Im- perial Press Conference that the next twenty months would bo the important time for the empire. An English publisher accuses Mark Twain of appropriating, in his latest book, n chapter from a book by an English M. P. without mentioning the ta'tter's name. GENERAL. Franco proposes to spend $ 600,- 000,000 on her navy in the next ten years. • A half million people lined the route followed by the funeral pro- cession of M. Chaucard, the French merchant prince. The Russian Duma bas accused Dr. Ihrhrovin, President of the Lea- gue of Russian People, of organiz- ing political murders. UNITED STATES. Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Halo died at his home at Roxbury, Mass., ou Thursday. There is sonic fear among the tariff framers at Washington that President Taft will veto the new tariff bill. W. A. Oates of San Francisco stated at Buffalo that Japan had deliberately violated her agreement to restrict emigration to Canada. The Board of Engineers appoint- ed to investigate the proposed lakes-te-gulf deep waterway have reported to Congress that such a waterway is not desirable. FIREMAN WAS KILLED. Others Injured by Collapse of a Building at Halifax. '1'IIE PERFUME INDUSTRY. Violets Carpel the Terrace hint of Gorgeous Colors. Flowers are the chief product and mainstay of Grasse, in the South of France, where they are grown on every available patch of ground. Violets carpet the ter- races under the olive and orange trees. Out in the open country there are fields upon Gelds of jon- quil and of jessamine and tho Rose of Provence, which excels all other ruses in fragrance. But the blos- soms are not allowed to waste "their fragrance on the desert air." Every whiff of scent has its money value ,and all through the flower- ing season the stills of over seventy prefun►ers aro busy extracting and bottling up this sweetness. From earliest dawn picturesque figures, with hugs discs of straw, the size of curt -wheels, on their heads, and skirts whose roseate hue makes the roses themselves looking angry, are picking away for bare life in the flower field. Of the violet gather- ers, nothing is to bo seen save the hats. They look like a row of tar- gets set up for archery practice. It is only on closer inspection that you find a figure crouching on all fours picking hard beneath the shelter of her headgear. As the flowers are picked they are carried in baskets into the town. Tho vio- lets alone refuse to give up their scents to distillation. Slabs of slate sot in wooden fratnes are spread thick with hog's lard to re- ceive them. On this bed they are scattered, and the slates aro then stacked ono above the other like the shelves of a cabinet. The flowers must bo renewed three times a day all through the flowering season. By that time the lard is permeated with scent, which can bo withdrawn from it into spirit. But the orange blossom is the chief source of wealth in the district, the season lasting a month. So strong is the scent that it sometimes overpowers the pickers, and brings on prolonged fainting fits. The famous neroli is the concentrated essence of orange flower. Much of the so-called attar of roses is made here also, and finds its way to Paris by way of Constantinople, where it is transferred to the familiar gilt glass bottles that seem to certify its Eastern origin. RECORD WHALING CRUISE. Three Norwegian Vessels Captured G00 Whales. Three Norwegian whalers, the Edda, Samson and Hercules, touch- ed at Plymouth, England, recent- ly, on their way home from South Georgia. They reported that in the four months they had spent in the hunt, they had captured over 600 whales, from which they had taken 14,000 barrels of oil, worth nearly 8225,000. The boats employed were each of about City tons, and carried ten men apiece; other fifty men were engaged 6n store ships, where the Lluhber was inelted. Captain Sorlee of the Samson, who, has had sixteen years' experi- ence of whaling, described the method of whale hunting pursued by the vessels. In the bows of the craft is a small cannon from which a harpoon, the head of which con- tains an explosive, is f; red. The harpoon imbeds itself in the flesh, and the explosion follows, killing the whale almost instantly. Some- times it happens that, the charge does not explode, and an exciting time follows. Captain Horlee had an experience Of this kind with a huge blue whale. The whale was struck in the !side with a harpoon, and then away A despatch from Halifax says; it dashed. The crew paid out hnn- Ilalifax was threatened with a big dreds of fathoms of 4 -inch rope, fire ou Wednesday afternoon, but which was attached to the harpoon, the department succeeded in con- but so fast did the whsle swim, fining it to the structure in which towing the Samson in its wake, that staited. Nevertheless, it rust a tremendous bow wave was creat the life of ono fireman, and severe ed, and almost swamped the vessel. bruises uud narrow escapeses from Tho captainin resorted to the de- cked] death by half a dozen others in vice of working his engines three - the collapse of the building. The quarters speed astern. the power blaze was in the wooden building being then about ten knots; but all (•ecupied by the Nova Scotia Fur- the same the whale towed the Satn- nishing Company, adjoining their son ahead. For four hours this bat maiu brick structure. After the tle continued until the weather bo fire had been got. under control came wild and stormy, the lino the wooden building collapses parted, and the %hal( was not seen while a score of firemen were at ngain. ,work within it, or on the roof. A mass of debris fell upon the men, but all were dug out with more or BE (;1•.\1tANTEED GENUINE. less injuries, excepting James N.:fiing will told more to your Tynan, who was at work with the limier than the consciousness of be - hose when the roof full in. Mc trig absolutely sincere -genuine. If was struck by a beans, and instant tear life is a perpetual lir, if you instant- ly killed. know you aro not what you pre- -'1• tend to be, you cannot be strong. $125.000 FIRE 1N (WERE( . There is a restraint, a perpetual fight against the truth. going en Mill• 31141 a Number of I)welliiu within tun, a struggle %hick) sap. Houses rojcd. }c.ur energy and harps your con- A despatch from '.•w York says: butcher had not tekcn hire time .\ despatch from Quebec chief. If there is a mote in yens The hendle•ts and (1isnr_mbete1 to undress the body. in ering A serious fire broke out sherry eye you cannot 1...k .the norld body of a mean done up in two pack the head the knife wa( used ill at • after nova on \Wediiesdav in the "'lunrely In tlie• hop our :•:..;, egea, one containing the torso and the other the arms and legs. was found on Thursday night in charts of a 14•year-old boy who slot d crying on the sidewalk of Otis er Street, at the site of Public Seh•,el • FOUND DISEBERED BODY ystery Surround Horrible Mulder in Ike% York City. at the base of the neck, cutting 1 mill and lumber and tvootlen le •• not clear. 1.wPr. d. . ., I• .o. thro:►gh the soft collar of the shirt. l district of St. [tech's. it% WO' !hat there is a dotal i»'-, n haze. A hieb ends in a ragged Edge just c'clock the lumber mi11 of Bel lat:(l' al out your diameter. :,rd it raioo where the roller would join it. The and (lignite and several adjoining 11" interr(.it-tti.•n 1...es to h•'res r boy wit.: had the bundle in 1i•, care dwellings were in flames People P4„i go. I).u't 1••.:r: (I I, b.' than I i ease a description of a man who , for mnn� Alecks around ',velum., you are nest. el ret to he that No 1, a block sou&h of ()Nattier:, he said hail entrnr.tetl them to him. panic-stricken. encutnberine the. 1'I``'t' Square. The dismontbrrinstit had The Hien l .nk.-d like a Jew. it is streets pith their household geed,. ."!r• �I,ani is p.eve (I : • Hs. the aoparentls been dyne pith eli n heats, !ushered the mec(14:(41 snail ells aI The loss %ill run about $100.0011 or t''n l'r air str•.,:q• d see - 1. .• .the. sharp knife and with a sat•. th:,t -few l'e?-!e i' with Ole purp.-e of Al2:,.00I. 'file lleav'ie't loser* are -1t worke1 smooth Haste was avid throwii.a the polite en the wrong the 1k•Iland and liignnc lumber, I.ittic .13.l, (el.,. lea, j,••t i.•.•n enesd hp HSe unfinished character track. the nerds ' ilntk Hand'' of the. cute at one edge of the had Leen prink(' on oath bundle, ch:uiiis, and by the fact that the crucl:13, in I.nglisb. hirh trni rrr. I►• ,cit i 'nilly and the T'a rlrlan ('or‘et Co.. • t••1(i plenty L tle:a Itssre•rr' •l.-• • .lt-. both p.act icall, dertr••'.ed. Toeery ;tli.-) ••Moe eel. be.•., 1•, t f,. or thirt3 houses were horned ' 11:er -1 call hear ebent TILE WORLD'S MARKS fS REPORTS FR031 THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. ('rices of Cattle, -Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Houle and Abroad. 11111..A I)S'1'UFFS. Toronto, June 15.--Flour-On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.50 to $3.60 to -day in buyers' sacks outside for export; o,t track, Toronto, $5.73 to 83.150; Manitoba flour ; first. patents, $0.20 to $6.40 on track, Toronto; second patients, $5.80 to *6, and strong bakers', *3.65 to $5.70 on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat -Nu. 1 Northern $1.34, Georgian Bay ports; No. l at $1.31% and No. 3 at $1.30. Ontario wheat --No. 2, $1.35 to $1.40 outside. Barley -Feed, 02 to 63e outside. Oats --No. 2 Ontario white 60 to Glc on track, Toronto, and 68 to 531/ie outside. No. 2 Western Can- ada oats 61%c, and No. 3 60%c, Bay ports. I eas-Prices nominal. ltye-No. 2, 74 to 75e outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 70e outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 83c on track, Toronto; No. 3 82%c on track, Toronto; Canadian yel- low, 76% to 77%c on track, Toronto. Bran -Manitoba, $23.50 to $24 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples 84 to $5 for choice quali- ties, and *3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans -prime, $2, and hand- picked, *2.15 to 82.20 per bushel. Maple syrup -95c to $l a gallon. Hay -No. 1 timothy $13 to 813.50 a ton on track here, and lower grades $811 to 811.50 a ton. Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 90 to 95c per bag on track. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 16 to 17c per 11, ; fowl, 12 to 14e; turkeys, 16 to 180 per lb. 111E. DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound -prints, 18 to 19e; tubs and large rolls, Id to 16%e; in- ferior, 14 to 15e. Creamery rolls, 21 to 22e, and solids, 18 to 19c. Eggs -Case lots, 18% to 19e per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%c per lb. and twins 14% to 14%c. New quoted at 12%c for large and 13c for twins. 1100 PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 13% to 1314n per lb in case lots; mess pork, $23; short, cut, 825 to $25.50. Hams -Light to medium, 15% to 16c; do., heavy, 1.1 to 14%c; rolls, 12% to 12%c; shoulders, 11% to 12c; backs, 17% to 18c; breakfast bacon, 16% to 17c. Lard -Tierces, tae; tubs, 14%c; pails, 1414c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Jute 15. -Oats --No. 2 Canadian Western, 62e; extra No. 1, 61'c ; No. 1 feed, 61'/.ic ; No. 3 Canadian Western, 61e. Barley - No. 2, 72% to 71c; Manitoba feed barley, G7; to 6se ; buckwheat, 69% to 70e. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 80.30 to 86.50; do., seconds, 85.80 to $6; Manitoba strong bakers', 83.60 tc $•5.80; Winter wheat patents, *6- 75; straight rollers, $11.50 to $6.60; do., in hags, $3.13 t•) 83.20; extra, in hags, $2.65 to $2.M0. Feed - Manitoba bran. $22 to $23; do., shorts, $21 to 825; pure grain mou- ille, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, 828 to $:30. Cheese -Westerns, 11% to 12c, and easterns, 11'4 to 11%c. Butter -Finest creamery 22%c. Eggs -10 to 20c per duzeel. UXiTF.1) STATES MA IIK ETS. Minneneelis. .luno 15.-- Wheat - July,13o", • fie et. i 1.11to $1.- 11%; 1.•11 ; Dee., $1.0-0; • cash, No. 1 hard, , $1.35 to $I.35% ; No. 1 Northern. 81.80'., ; No. 2 Northern, $1.32 to $1.32' ; No. 3 Northern, ti1.29% to $1.81i9. Flour - First relents, $0.40 to 86.60; second pat- ents, 80.30 to $6.50; first clears, >'5.05 to $5.25; second clears $3.65 te $3.95. Bran---Iu hulk, $23.50 to 121. Chicago, .Tune 13. ---Cash wheat -- No. 2 red, 131.60; No. 3 red, $1.56%; No. 2 hard, *1.31 to $1.32; No. 3 hard, $1.29 to $1.31; No. 1 North- ern, $1.32 to $1.33; No. 2 North- ern, $1.32 to $l.33; No. 2 North- ern. $1.'0 to $1.32; N••. 3 Northern, $1.24 to *1.29. Corn- No. '2, 754e; No. 2 white, 7t -,c ; Xo. 2 yellow, 747% to 76%c • No. 3. 7b' c ; No. 3 white, 76c; No. 3 yellow, 75',9 to .\ despatch from Wheeling, W. 7:•;`,e; �o. 4, i4 tv 7t',;e. :Va., says: In a horrible, accident LIVE STOt:K M.\ILK ET`(. here on Wednesday night at least 11.x men wore hurried to a crisp, \fuutreal, .lune 15 --Prime beeves „f.,,,r fatally injured and ten seri- teen c; to 7',C per 11,. Pretty good rnsly hurt. Thirty others had nar- a•,imals sold at 5 to :r`,r : milkmen's , roe es apes. Shortly after eight 'tripper- al 31. to se per Ib. Mitch leek a "slip" occurred in one it ^i $_ , t„ Rt:0 each; calves, i c•l Eh( furnaces ',t the Wheeling .•y �r • . . ..r le per lb. ; Steel ,� :,o t.. Iron Company. A force r.,r► t, :, t,• r t,,. ; lamp•, *4 , f .e. ; I::ren. numbering fifty. were 1.. }•; ,• s fat hogs ;e Ir•I about the fit roes. making ( i;• o . 1• • ", , s.1% r. drill in fe ,• the n^ o'clock 'I • t t TL' cierac 41 .,-. t\ ithout n mo:,.• : 1' warn- ' f... ,os,. rf►I 1' •rift strong i,:_ 1'!P:•' WAS a tett::n' rssr ar(1 ,,; ., l;y 11 r>•Is i''•'l tte,l' freely e, est n,sskeet of molten iron spe:rted fat kil;1 sr 1)::rl,.••.'•. R,i fr• tlr• furnace, sweestse down e • t,•1 fir the 'n11 .'a,s. lt'llfst the t•,•,rknien. Twcnt;. .,r more (L••;. a f•uteln , s erre first at. $5.- wort ••.;aght in the onr ► h. Six THE GATES CABHIED AWAY Three Boats Swept Down and Badly Damaged at Sault Ste. Marie, A despatch from Sault Ste. Mario, Ont., says: On Wednesday afternoon the Canadian Soo locks were practically put out of com- mission by one of the worst acci- dents that ever happened in uta• rine circles in the Soo or vicinity. .1t present the water front Lake Superior is pouring through in a torrent, and it will probably bo a month before the locks are again ;available for marine trade. Three boats, the Assiniboia of the C. P. H. Line; the Perry G. Walker of the Gilchrist fleet, and the Cres- cent City all figured in the acci- dent. Tho overflow of water threat- ens to wash out the piers at the foot c.f rho locks. At 2 on Wednesday afternoon the Assiniboia was in the locks, bound down; she was fol iewed by the Crescent City. The \\alker was coming up the river, presumably to lock through on an up trip. Just as the Crescent was entering the canal, and before the gates could be closed at the upper end, tho Walker crashed into the lower gates, breaking then and al- lowing the Assiniboia and Crescent to rush down with the overflow of water. Tho Assiniboia missed the Wal- ker, barely grazing her side, but the Crescent dashed into her and received a holo in her side six feet square. The Walker was also con- siderably damaged. The Crescent and the Assiniboia proceeded to the Michigan side, where both now lie. The Assiniboia seems to have suffered minor injuries, while the Crescent is now lying on tho bot- tom. The Walker reached the cen- tre of the river and grounded, and was later towed to the Michigan side by two tugs. Her injuries are not yet known. Passengers on the Assiniboia are not yet aware how close they carne to death. Had the boat turned turtle in the locks not a soul would have escaped. A movable dam at the head of the locks is being placed in posi- tion at the present time in an en- deavor to have the locks repaired, but since it has not yet been tried there is some doubt as to its ef- fectiveness. The four largo gates have been swept away, and there remain only the frail emergency gates, which aro not of much use, providing the dam refuses to work. Tho accident will not, of course, seriously delay navigation as the United States and Canadian ca- nals are open to ships of either nation, and the business will be done entirely through the United States locks till repairs are made. NOT SO SERIOUS. A despatch from Ottawa says: A telegram received at the Depart- ment of Railways and Canals on Thursday evening from Mr. J. W. Ls B. Ross, superintending en- gineer at Sault Ste. Marie, would indicate that the damage to the canal is not quite so serious as at first estimated. The auxiliary gates and the pair of guard gates were found to bo safe, and this no doubt accounts for the engineer's expec- tation that repairs will be effected within a. short time. Mr. Rosa wired to the Acting Deputy Minis- ter, Mr. L. K. Jones, "The lock may be ready by Monday night, but further delay is possible." Hon. Mr. Graham accordingly left for the "Soo" at 1.10 Friday morning. CO to $3.75. The top price paid for exporters was 86.50, but well fin- ished cattle of this class were firm at $6.25 to 86.40. Stockers and feeders continue in strong demand, with only a limited supply on offer. Milkers and Springers -Firm and unchanged. Sheep and lambs - Steady at last quotations. Calves -Firm. Hogs -Selects, $7.50 1. o. b., and $7.75 fed and watered. PLUNGED INTO WELL. Thomas Marshall Commits Spicide at St. Andrews, N. B. A despatch from St. Andrews, .N.B., says: Thos. Marshall leaped out of lied at 2 o'clock on Wednes- day morning. declaring he would drown himself. He ran towards the well in the shed, his wife fol- lowing him. She tried to restrain hila, and there was a struggle. Finding she could not dissuade him, and fearing that she would be dragged into the weP, she lot him go, and he plunged in, bead fore- most, and was drowned. He had been in poor health, and it is thought his troubles had driven him crazy. A wife and child sur- vive, KILLED 1N COLLISION. Mr. McGrath, of Schreiber, Burled Under Engine. A despatch from North Bay says: Two work tiains on the C. P. B. (not. in a head-on collision on Wed- nesday morning, near Dalton, 200 miles west of North Bay, wrecking both trains and causing a delay of eight hours to traffic. A wurkinan named McGrath, of Schreiber, in charge of one of the work trains, was buried beneath the engine and killed. George Coleman. train - master, White River section, re- ceived severe injuries, but will re- cover. .\ number of others received minor injuries, scratches and bruises. CROPS iN FINE SHAPE. Good Fall of Rain and Warm Wea- ther Has Prevailed. A despatch from Winnipeg says t The weekly crop report of the Ca- nadian Pacific Railway is to hand and is as favorable as ever. The oondition of the crop is splendid. A considerable amount of rain has fallen during the past week. The weather remained warm with the exception of a few points, where there was rather a cool wave pro- vailing. Prospects were never Net- ter for a good crop up to the pre- sent ro-sent timo. Rosser reports wheat four inches high and barley just through the ground. At Burnside wheat is ten to twelve inches higb and oats throe to five inches. Vari- ous other points report wheat show- ing from throe to seven inches. ---4. CONVICT USED AXE. Desperate Fight With Guards at St. Vinec•nt de Paul. A despatch from Montreal says* Details have leaked out of a des- perato fight which occurred at St.. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary last Saturday, between a Polish con- vict named Stonislas Ava, who attacked the guards with an axe, and was, after a struggle, shot in the arm. Ava is serving a twelve -- sear sentence, and as soon as he is out of the hospital will have to face the courts on another charge. CUT 111 1 ()WN 't'l1ItO.AT. Berlin %Woman Commits Suicide '%bile Insane. A despatcls from Berlin, Ont., says: Mrs. Peter Lantz, a woman about 50 years old, committed sui- cide on Wednesday evening at her home here by cutting her throat with a razor, after having tried to cut an opening into her heart. She had for some time shown signs 1,f in- sanity. She leaves a husband and fivec hildren. A FLOOD OF MOLTEN METAL Three Bodies Burned to a Crisp at Wheeling, West Virginia. men are known to have been caught by the hot iron, and their bodies burned to a crisp. Fourteen other• were badly rnmt'stod. Arris and legs were burned off, and some were showered from head to foot with white hot metal. .ill tho n:cit were foreigner.. Frederick Ziinmerntan, manager of the furnace. was seriously burned in attempting to save !,vale rf the (nen from death. As one man was swept past him in the stream of inolten iron, ho reached forth sed ; 'e 1ped the poor feliew'e arra, which f,zrted from the body, r.nd the victim Bank to a tery death. What can% el the necidsvt has not Wen definitely decided.