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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-07-01, Page 2GOY T IIEPORT CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS il.tPI'LN1NcS 1D1: til.UltLtLL O\•LiI of the .- Rain L.:Needed in Some Sections Maratimo Provinces. A despatch from Ottawa says: A bulletin covering the conditions of crops and 1ir,e stuck in all parts of Canada as reported by i.peeial correspondents of the Agricultural Department, under date of June 15th, was isue'd by the census and statistics office on Thursday. In general the report shows that despite the backwardness of the spring, which retarded early growth in practically all sections of the country, conditions in all the Pro- vinces are now very satisfactory, and except in some localities of the Maritime Provinces, where the rain- fall has been light, there is promise of an excellent harvest. Wheat, the great staple crop of the country, has a reported area of '1,750,400 acres, which is 1,140,000 acres more than last year. In the Maritime Provinces and Quebec there is little change, but in On- tario the area is less by 106,600 acres, of which 81,300 acres is fall wheat. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta show an area of 6,878,- 000 acres, being 1,254,000 acres more than last year. The condition of fall wheat at the 15th of June was 82.15, and of spring wheat 92.15 per cont. of the stsedard for a full crop. The area of oats in the Dominion is 9,302,600 acres, which is 1,361,- 600 acres more than last year, and its condition is reported as 92.32 per cnet. Barley, the cereal crop next in importance, has a total area of 1,86-1,900 acres, or 119,200 acres more than last year, and its condi- tion is 91.49 per cent. Rye and peas are less than Last year, with conditions of 87.90 and 90.59 respec- tively. Mixed grains, with 582,000 acres, and hay and clover, with 8,210,300 acres, are practically of the same extent as lust year. Tho former has a reported condition of 91.71 and the latter of 90.36 per cent. The condition of pasture is 93.55 per cent. Tho Province showing the largest area of oats is Ontario, with 3,14.2,- 200 acres, and also the largest area of hay and clover, with 3,535,- 600 acres. Quebec is the next highest in hay and clover, with 2,923,600 acres. This Province has also 1,574,100 acres in oats. Saskatchewan has 1,847,000 acres in oats, Manitoba 1,390,000 acres and Alberta 520,000 acres. In the three Maritime Provinces the total area in oats is 529,300 acres. At the end of June, 1906, there were 122,392 farms in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and at the end of 1908 the homesteads entered (less all cancel- ations) increased the number to 190,231, or by 10,853,760 acres. In Manitoba the net increase of the two and one-half years was 4,393; in Saskatchewan, 41,423, and in Al- berta, 22,020, but these figures do not take account of farm lands pur- chased from railway companies and other corporations in the same period. Tho drouth of summer and autumn was less severe last year than in 1907, but it had the effect of reducing the number of farm ani- mals in tho older Provinces. In the whole of Canada horses exceed the number of last year by 14,324, whilst milch cows are less by 68,440, other horned cattle by 2.5,057, sheep by 126,014 and swine by 457,349, WINTEit WIIEAT KILLED. Other Crops in Alherla Look Very Well. A despatch from Calgary says: Winter wheat will only be a quar- ter to a third of a crop, owing to much of it having been winter killed. A great part of tho land has been resown to oats. Grow- ing crops look splendid, and give promise of a large yield. Weather in southern Alberta has been excep- tionally favorabla for wheat grow- ing, and the grain is not only grow- ing rapidly but healthily. One sam- ple sent in on Thursday from Dr. Gray's farm at Bowden, near here, is a trifle over 33 inches in height, and is in primo condition. Farm- ers in southern Alberta predict a record yield if present conditions continuo. 4. SUPPLY DRINKING WATER. Suburban Electric Railways Must Equip All Their Cars. A despatch from Toronto says: Tho following regulation was made and promulgated by the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board on Canadian Pacific itailway Issues Thursday, to take effect forthwith: Announcement. "Every electric railway company A despatch from Winnipeg says: in Ontario, subject to the jurisdic- it was announced at the local of - tion of the board, shall provide in fives of the Canadian Pacific on each passenger car which runs Thursday that a reward of $5.000 twenty miles or more, a suitable re- would he paid by the company for ccptacle for water, with n cup or the arrest and conviction of the drinking utensil attached upon or men who were guilty of holding near such receptacle, and shall up the express train a few days ago, keep such receptacle, while the car at Ducks, in British Columbia. Up 1i in use, constantly supplied wit' to the present. the officials have cool drinking water for the use of received no information regarding anyofh e the capture of the men im- Lassengers and the conductor and motorman in charge of such car. - plicated. This regulation shall not apply to street railways in towns or cities." ---41' FIRE -CONTROL FOR GUNS. Invention for Warship Tested With Satisfactory Result. Sir Percy Scott's secret invention of an electrical fire -control for the big guns of a warship has just been tested with, it is understoond, the most satisfactory results, in the Channel. Tho cruisers Good Hope, Argyll and Arrogant, on which the tests have beta oonduc;ted under bill Percy's Scott's personal supervi- sion, returned to Portsmouth re- cently. By aid of the new invention a complete broadside can be grouped, trained and fired without the pres- ence of a gunlayer. Tho mechan- ism can either be operated from the fire control station or from the conning tower. Under the present system the guns are trained by gunlayers, and they then have to be connected with the conning tower before the officer fighting the ship can fire them simultaneously. X3,000 REWARD FOR BANDITS. Some young men haven't even a lame excuse for carrying a cane. Canada now has 23,000 miles of railway. The face vnlue of courage shows up when it faces misfortune. ELEVEN PEOPLE BROYiIED Rowboat Swamped in Gale While Crossing Lake Killarney. A despatch from Killarney, Ire- tel. The party stal•ted out on Wed - land, says : .1 large rowboat, car- r.e-sday morning sight-seeing. 11'heu tying five American and four Eng- the lower lake was reached it was lrsh tourists and four Irish boat- found that a heavy wind from the Bien. was swamped in n gale while north-west was blowing. Several crossing Lower Killarney Lake on other boats that bad started over Wednesday afternoon. .IIl of '=,c the same course put back. It was tourists and two of the boatmen not long before anxiety began to he were drowned. The victims are :- felt concerning the boat which had Captain Gillen, the recently np- Mrs. A. A. Hilton and son, of Ta- continued on the course, and C ,inter) Army Ordnance officer, Wash. ; Mr. and Mrs. Long- I.( archers, who put out when the 11 ilkinsnn was examining the stores head, or Loughead, of Boston ; Misa wind dial down a little, disenver- . r amrntlnition in the Ordnance M. H. Catum, or ('otum, of Mas- cd her overturned with two of the tcc) hff Rignnl hill. in sachusetts (town not known); Rev. he.atmcn clinging to the keel. Th•.,••1t,:n# at matnneerort the detonator of a B. Barton and sister. of London ; Bev. Mr. Barton and tau of the! tarlve-pound shell went off. exp!<,d- and Miss Florence Wilkinson and women could be seen in the dip . consisn, of Brentwood, Essex; tenet,. supported by an oar, but i►.tg. thntt (l sli Wilkinso+iii wrCep- Roatmen Con. Toone • and ('on. they sank before the rescuers c„11!41 , r.nd leer end pli ilkii wounding ('Ap- J , t:.i r (:i,tc�. ICilkin o•1 Iva. rnn• a}- I t•, 11t:r each. Calves. from *2 :rn to Gleeson. reach than. The ethers had a}re,ldy r ,,; I.,..,•..ter eir to \V.,rknoiet Bar- i *it► each. Sheep at 4c Per ib. ; The boat was a four•.rared craft, disappeared. I used for taking 1lrlteis talent t:re i , ! ,,, 1 . rr• 1;• 11 •sp;isl :IA Ili. injuries nt. l 1•.ry,bs 'rnln 83.73 („ near Ara each. The • .eo ,oath n w•.ltr were tes• tn.,, eel to. reg.,„ sr t q Id 1 He may rc r (,cod lots o Fat hug' po at 814 lake. Most of the passengers were fere' wet., too eshensted to giro' 1 ie. ti`r`e 1 .. ethir •s ort Trey t `+''c prr 11, guests at the Great Southern '• .,, neceur.t of th ` acr:dcnt. 1eirpr:Apple thirfa from Ol:r 0u and Other Couutt•ies t•1 lleccnt Li eats. CANADA. The reports of the Ontario fac• tory inspectors emphasize the re- vival in trade. Mrs. Lajoie was committed for trial at hull fol cruelly abusing her young daughter. Several reductions have been made in the lntercolonial staff in the Maritime Provinces. Five commissions in the British army have been awarded to this years's graduates of the Royal Mili- tary College. Fire at Barrie on Thursday des- troyed Querin's bael�r shop, H. S. lteynold's grocery stock and W. R. (Mitchell's confectionery. Mr. John Lawton of Applin and Mr. R. W. Raspberry of Hamilton are dead as the result of being kicked by horses some time ago. Board of Conciliation have been formed to deal with the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian North- ern labor questions in the west. The Government has let the con- tract for the construction of a. plant at Ottawa to experiment with peat in the manufacture of gas. The action brought on behalf of the Czar against Ivan Proskowreak- off, a defaulting Governor, at Win- nipeg, has been settled by compro- mise. UNITED STATES. Tho United States Senate in- creased the House rate on shoes and sole leather fie per cent. A fifteen -months -old child was fatally stung at Holland, Mich., by bees that swarmed on her. No trace has been found of Leon Ling, the Chinaman who is believed to have killed Elsie Sigel in New York. GREAT BRITAIN. Oxford University conferred the honorary degree of D. C. L. on Earl Grey. The steamer Mauretana has clip- ped another fifty minutes off her hest previous eastward transat- lantic record. At a meeting of London financi- cl Wren it was declared that Mr. Lloyd -George's budget was unsound and unjust, and that it would drive capital from the country. GENERAL. Tho army of the Moroccan insur- gent chiefs was completely repulsed in an engagement near Fez. An insurgent army is at the gates of Fez, and the Sultan of Morocco is in danger of losing his throne. BURIED IN 11'11E.11'. Grain Trimmers on Steamer Lake Manitoba Entombed. A despatch from Montreal says: Sixteen trimmers at work on the steamer Lake Manitoba were buried under 16,000 bushels of wheat on Wednesday night, and narrowly es- caped death. In fact, their escape from death is little less than mira- culous, as they lay for four hours on top of heaps of wheat under the decks. They escaped suffocation by taking turns at breathing under the narrow ventilator pipes. The sixteen men were spreading grain in the hold. but as time went by and the bunker filled up there was no diminution in the flow of grain, which poured in bushel after bushel. The gang of trimmers worked heroi- cally, but when they were compell- ed to stoop under the deck the tusk got beyond their control. The hold was filled to the brim, and the six- tcen men were away under the deck, unable to fight their way to the stopped -up exit, which was the only hope of escape. For some rea- son the grain kept corning ii until the men were prisoners. It was only after hours of imprisonmo t that their fellow -workers missed them and dug them out. Alt the Wren returned to work on Thursday. _�. _. '1'i1F: Sill 1.1,-I:XI'LOD1:1►. Sere". Within -on 11 nun,!, rl at 1Verkpnint Barracks, B. C. .\ despatch from Victoria. B. ('., says: Sergeant Wilkinson of the Army Ordnance Corps at Work - point )Barracks was badly wounded cn Thursday. when the detonator r.f the twelve -pound shell, which he v as exninining, exploded. With 'THE WORLD'S �1��RKE rSI ��1D IN A M1NE1 ERIN'S GREEN ISLE COAL .J t L1'UIt7� Flt0sl T111: 1 FADING j T1t.tAl: t 1.v71t1::i. I f Seventeen Miners Suffocated or Burned to Prices of Cattle, (:rain, Cheese and I Death in Pennsylvania Mine. Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. 1; it EAl»iUF1'S. A despatch from \Vehrum, Penn., .was in condition to give details, say's: As tho result of an explosion 1 ut from ono it was learned that Toronto, June 29.-Flour-Ontar_ of gas in mine No.�4 of the Lacka- the explosion seemed to strike io wheat 9U per cent. patents, m5.3U 'Manna Coal & Coke Company, every portion of the n►iuo siiaut- to $5. tU to -day in Layers' sacks out shortly after 7 o'clock on Wednes- taueously. side for export, and at 85.40 en day morning, seventeen miners As soon as it was known that an track,Twuuto. Manitoba flour;were killed and sixteen injured. accident had occurred at the twine, With the exception of one of those the greatest excitement prevailed first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on killed, they aro foreigners. Just Loth at the mine and in (ho'little track, 'Toronto; second patents, 85.80 to $6, and strong bakers', t+hat caused the explosion has not hamlet, a short distance away. been ascertained, but it probably W ives, mothers, sisters, and bro- $5.65 tc, $5.75 un track, Toronto. resuslted fruui an accumulation of fliers rushed to the mouth of the Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, gas. intoe tearfully imploring some news $1.33 Georgian iia. ports; No. 2 at Tho few men who escaped from ss to the fate of their loved ones. $1.33, and No. 3 at $1.31. the mine were burned and blacken- .t number of the foreign women, Ontario wheat -No. 2, $1.35 out- ed, indicating that tho force of the screaming and crying, tried to rush side• explosion was heavy. None of them into tho dark pit of death. Barley -60 to 62e outside. Oats -No. 2 Ontario white 59c on track, Toronto, and 55; 2 to 56c out- sids . No. 2 Western Canada oats, 60c, and No. 3, 59c flay ports. Peas -prices nominal. Rye -No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 70c outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 82 to 82%c on track, Toronto, Cana- dian yellow, 76c outside, and 79 to etc on track, Toronto. Bran -Ontario, 821 in bulk out- side. Manitoba, $23 to $23.50 in sacks, Toronto •freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -S4 to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans -Prime, 82.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.•15 per bushel. Maple syrup --95c to $1 a gallon. Hay -No. 1 timothy, 812.50 to $13 a ton on track here, and lower grades at $9 to $10 a ton. Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 80 to 85c per bag on track. l'oultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 14 to 15c per lb; fowl, 10 to llc; turkeys, 16 to 18c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 21c; tubs and large rolls, 18 tol9c; in- ferior, 15 to 16e; creamery, 23 to 24c, and separator, 21 to 22c per lb. Eggs -19 to 20c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%c per lb, and twins, 14% to 14! �c. New quoted at 12%c for largo, and at 12',1c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 13% to 13%c per ib. in case lots; mess pork, $23 to $`23.50 ; short cut, $25.50 to $20. Hams -Light to medium, 5% to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls, 12% to 13c; shoulders, 11% to 12c; backs, 17% to 18%c; breakfast bacon, 16% to 17e. Lard -Tierces, 14 to 14'%c; tubs, 14% to 14%c; pails, 14% to 14%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, June 29. - Grain - Oats --No. 2 Canadian Western, 60 t': 60%c; extra No. 1 feed, 59% to 60> c ; No. 1 feed, 59% to 60e; No. 3 Canadian Western, 58% to 59c. Barley -No. 2, 72% to 74c; Mani- toba feed barley, 07% to 69c. Buck- wheat --69% to 70c. Flour -Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 1;,6.30 to $6.50; do., seconds, 85.80 to $6; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.60 to $5.80; Winter wheat pat- ents, 86.75; straight rollers, 86.50 to $6.60; do., in bags, $3.15 to 8;3.20; extra, in bags, $2M5 to 82.- 80. Feed -Manitoba bran, $2.2 to $13; do., shorts, $24 to 8.25; pure grain mouille, 833 to $35; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cheese - Westerns, 11% to 12e, and easterns i D 1. Butter -Finest I1te3 er I t at 11„ to ll/. 13utt creamery, 23 to 23' �c. Eggs -18% to 19c per dozen. UNITED ST.\ MARKETS. Chicago. June 29. -Wheat - No. 2 red, $1.50 to *1.55; No. 3 red, 81.35 to $1.40; No. 2 hard, $1.25 to, $1.20; No. 3 hard, 81.20 to $1. - 'ti ; No. 1 Northern, $1.30 to 81.32; No. 2 Northern, $1.25 to $1.2e; No. 3 Spring, $1.17 to $1.25. Corn -No. 2, 73% to 73%c ; No. 2 white, 75 to 75',4c; No. 2 yellow, 733 to 74e ; No. 3. 73 to 73%c; No. 3 yellow, 73'4 to 73%e; No. 4. 71% to 72c. Oats -- No. 2 white, 57%c; No. 3 white, 51 t 56c ; No. 4 white, 50 to 54c; stan- dard. 56c. Minneapolis, June 29. - Wheat -- July. $1.27';1 to $1.27'`.; ; Sept., $1.08'; ; Dec., $1.00%; Cash, No. 1 hard, $1.31%; No. 1 Northern, 81.29% to $1.30%; No. 2 Northern, $1.27% to $1.21%. Flour -First intents, $0.30 to 86.50; second pat- ents, $6.20 to 80.•10; first clears, 85.05 to $5.25; second clears, 83.65 to $3.85. Bran -In bulk, 822 to 1122.60. LiVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal. June 29. -- Prime beeves sold at 1) to 6'. c per lb.; rretty good animals. 4'; to 6';c ; comnwn stork. 2% to 1' a per lb. Milch cows from $25 to $55 each, n:.,'1 of the sales being at front 836 o , 141a3. rest. Toronto. June 29. -Exporters' of the primo variety sold as high as 86.55, and ordinary loads were firm as $6 to 86.40. The supply of butchers' fell far short of the de- mand and prices rose according- ly. The finest grades of this class veto firm at 85.50 to $5.80; ordin- ary good loads selling freely at *5 to $5.25. Cows were in strong de- mand and took a rise of 15 to 20c. Stockers and Feeders -Steady de - nand, but supply short. Milkers and Springers -Good milkers and near springers wanted. Sheep Lambs -Easier, except for Spring lambs, which were quoted at 8% to 9%e per Ib. Hogs -Selects quoted at $7.75 f.o.b., and $8, fed and watered. EX'T'END MEAT 1NSPECTI0N. Paak•rs Urge Upon Government That Local Dealers be Included. A despatch from Ottawa says: The extension of the meatinspec- tion provisions to local meat busi- ness and compensation for animals condemned and seized were urged before Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Hun. Sydney Fisher on Wednesday morn- ing by a deputation which included representatives of Blackwell and Flavelle, Toronto; Laing & Co., of Montreal ; Matthews. of Ottawa; Hatton, of Collingwood; Fearmun, of Hamilton, all big firms doing botn interprovincial and export business. The delegation declared that the provisions of the pure food act to which they were subjected should be extended by Provincial legislation to local butchers and packers who do business in a single Province only and are therefor() not subject to the Dominion act. Sir Wilfrid and Hon. Mr. Fisher were urged to use their influence with tho Provincial Legislature to have local pure food legislation similar to the Dominion act. The Ministers pro- n>?ised to use their influence Oa have the request carried out. EXP.INSION OF "S00" WORKS. IN A CYCLONE CELLAR. Three Persons Imprisoned for Two Weeks in 'Texas. A despatch from Galveston, Tex- as, says: In removing a cyclone - wrecked house on the farm of Charles Dilson, in Brown county, or Wednesday, the wreckers dis- covered a storm cellar in which were Dilson and his wife and 12 - year -old daughter, more dead than alive. For two weeks they had been prisoners in the cellar, with barely a morsel to cat for a week and nothing to drink for two days. Raw potatoes had been their sub- sistence for six days. They will survive. After the storm wn wrecked their home the three Dil- sosns were missed and searchers believed that they had deserted their place and moved away. The house had been blown over and cov- ered the storm cellar, which was about 20 yards from the house, and searchers knew nothing about it. The trio of prisoners tried to dig their way to the surface with their hands and succeeded only in cut- ting a tunnel which afforded them air. POITGH'I' 'I'HE RAILWAY. Mr. Dodd Built Wire Fence Across Track and is Now in Jail. A despatch from Yorkton, Sask. says : E. Dodd, a fanner in this locality, who has opposed the C. I'. R. running through his farm, over since the road was constructed, built a wire fence across the track on Tuesday, and he is now in a cell charged with obstructing a train. He had notified the engineer he would stop him sometime soon. When the line was under construc- tion Dodd held up a gang at the point of a loaded gun for several days, until restrained by the police. NO ('.ti SE FO11 .t1..tR3l. Great Britain and Germany have First Steel Made in the Open Nothing Under Discussion. Hearth Furnace. A despatch from London says: A dcspsatch from Sault Ste. Foreign Secretary Grey, in the Mario, Ont., says: Mr. IV. C. course of a speech here on Wednes- Franz, manager of the Lake Su- day night. said there was nothing i,crior Corporation, in an interview ender discussion between Germany stated that the new No. 3 open, and Great Britain at the present hearth furnace made its first steel moment which was liable to create on Wednesday. The foundation difficulties between the two - tin - work on No. :3 blast furnace has tries, nor was there anything in the been started and it is expected that innermost deliberations of the Brit- itt two weeks timo work will bo ish Government which was likely to commenced on the new structural cause anxiety to Germany. mill, which will include all require- ments for making structural steel. The making of steel in the new open hearth furnace on Wednesday brings to successful culmination iho first improvement under the new management, that is, since English capital was introduced into the con- cern. Mr. Franz said it would take about a year to complete the blast furnace. and about seven months to have the structural steel mill in operation. ('111('.tGO'S AUTO SLAUGHTER Machines Killing Three Persons Every Two Weeks. A despatch f rortr Chicago says: Automobiles are killing Chicagoans this year at the rate of three per- sons every two weeks. In 1907 the slaughter was one person every three weeks, according to police statistics. RECIPROCITY CLAUSE KILLE No Free Trade in Coal Between Canada and the United States. A despatch from Washington Numerous attempts were made to says: Rather unexpectedly to itself rduee the rate, and there WAS one the Senate late on Wednesday con- effort to obtain free coal, but all eluded its consideration of the coal were voted down and the commit - schedules. The Finance Committee tee's scale retained. through Mr. Aldrich reported an amendment fixing the duty on bituminous coal and shale at sixty cents per ton ; on coal slack or culm at fifteen cents per ton ; coke and compositions used for fuel at twenty per cent. ad valorem. A drawback equal to the duty is allowed vessels in the foreign trade. This scale, Mr. Aldrich explain- ed, was a reduction of seven cents A ton on coal under the house rate. Aldrich and agreed to by the Sen The amendment, he said, also left ato, the duty en clapboards was in out the house reciprocity provision. I crewed from Ai t -o 81 5c) per thou He did not believe, however, that sand ; on laths from 20 to 25 rent. the House would remewe its duty t,o r thousand pieces and on shingles on coal even if the reciprocity pro !from 80 to 50 coots. vision were lett in the bill. By a vote of fifty to twenty• eight, the Senate Finance Com- mittee's amendment placing a duty of $1.50 a thousand feet on sawed lumber, with differentials on fin- ishul lumbar was carried. This is fifty cents below the Ding- le; rate+,. In quick suceeesion several other paragraphs of the lumber schedule welts agreed to. By amendments offered by Mr. LITS 111' !: 111. 111031 IRE- LAND'S SIIOU1:S. llappeuings In the 1:mei alit Is! luterest to Irish. lucu. 1Vestmenth county you ii has tubed to toest a county '. In the tow u of Mu►lingar. Fifty-two tons of eggs wore dis- patched from C'otetniII, county t;avan, in ono day recently. Mr. John Redtnonl intimates that HS,n►e Rule must be the live issue at the next general elution. The sub-postoffice near Ennis- killen has been in the family of the present sub-posttnastor since the year 1750. The Limerick Guardians have adopted a resolution approving the principle of imposing special taxa- tion upon bachelors. Exciting scenes were witnessed near New Ross, when the River Burrow overflowed its banks and bursting over the walls, muudatcd the town of Rosbcrcon, and all tho low-lying lands. Oldcastlo Guardians have passed the "bachelor tux" resolution, which has been going the rounds- - of the Irish public boards. Tho Castlebar Gas Company, which recently went into liquida- tion, has sold its extensive works in Castlebar, for the sum of $18,000. Bernard Kelly, aged 74 years, while on his way to Cavan, after drawing his pension, was overtaken by an evening train and cut to pieces. A force of police an land protec- ford, was attacked recently and the sergeant was seriously injured. Arrangements have been made for the erection of a memorial in the centre of St. Stephen's Green. Dublin, to James Clarence Mangan, the Irish poet. A unique drive took place off the now noted Church Body Ranch, when about 50 cattle, which had Leen placed on free pasture there a few weeks ago, were evicted. Looking over the head at Rathlin island, county Antrim, to s�(•e if any seaweed was coming a-{ ire, a young man slipped and fell' 50 feet over the cliffs being killed in- stantly. .� At Gort Quarter Sessions. before Judge Anderson, Lord (lanricarde obtained decrees against 16 tenants+ for non-payment of rent. The amount of the decrees was nearly 83,500. At the quarterly meeting of the Leitrim county council proposal committee, it was unanimously de- cided to refuse to pay the cost of extra police in the county, amount- ing to $1,350. Fire occurred recently in the pat- tern store of Workman, Clarke & Co., shipbuilders, Belfast. A con- siderable portion of the store and contents, including some valuable > patterns, were destroyed. Large shoals of herring visited Red Bay and Cushendall Bay re- cently. but owing to the great want of harbor accommodation and fish- ing gear. little advantage could bo taken of the opportunity by the fishermen. QUEEN WILIIELM IN.t. -- Holland's Queen Spends happiest Days at Loo. The wifehood of Holland's queen has until now, when she holds a great happiness in her army,,,, not been without trouble and disap- pt•intntent. She wanted a gild, and it was denied to her. �hhe wanted her husband to wi the people's hearts, and they g 114 him their good wishes. It wn tiro same difficulty as with Queen Em- ma in the old days. The people have given the t'rin'e Consort a Dutch name. they call hien Hendrik, instead of Henrich, but they have not been able to slake hint a Dutch- man, and they do not. like Germane. The Socialists voted against the al- lowance, proposed for his income, and the Queen was this time really angry. Site rejected any allowance for her husband. as it was not granted unanirr.o tsly, and the Prince Consort is still unpaid by the subjects of his wife. Queen Wilheinina shares her hus- band's fondness for outdoor exer- cise, and is a splendid horsewoman. Site is devoted, indeed; tt - mals. e•:41 has many pets, which i- the little dashshund v sh» :,lwttys takes with her w walking. The happiest days of t (suer' are at the beautiful old p: lace of Het Lee, in Gueiderlar,d, with its old-fashioned gardens and lovely woods. Here she leads the simple, industrious life of an ordi•a. ary Dutch lady, reading and work- ing and sketching. taking photo- graphs, and riding with her hus- band in the countryside. and chat- ting over the tea -tabic with the Queen mother and the few ladies •.►horn she favors with intimate friendship. At The Hague. to which she comes as rarely as r.os- sihle, she has to c10 her dirties as the head of the State. and she d•,es them conscionti••usly and with A • t rong grasp upon the businc of 0 sovereign.