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RIOR iiNES OF ONTARIO
1u� Output for the Province in. 19:8
Wan $26,000,000.
Sily and nickle are Ontario's i countries of the world," Bays the
chief orals accc.rdimg to the Minister, "having contributed
annual report of lion. Crank Poch-uuues nue-nintu or the entire se-
rene, Minister of Lauds, Forests. ported prduction In 1908. There
and Miucs, just issued. The silver was raised and shipped from the
output last year was 19,401,021 mhiues of Cobalt lust year 24,453
ounces and was practically ail from tons of ore (including concentrates),
the Cobalt camp. The nickel pro- which was considerably more than
duction total!. d 10,15 tuns and the total prc.duCtion up to the cull
chiefly came frni the Sudbury dis- of I'O7. 1'Lc average contents of
trict. Despite the low prices last the shipments for 11,OS were 71;3
ounces of silver per tun, compared
with l06 ounces up to 31St Decem-
ber, 1907."
T! -..e revenue from the timber
dues ea,: et1,618,242.58, t' ie largest
in the histo.; of the province.
Arrears of $1b6,000 accruing from
1907 are included in this as col-
lections were not enforced :wing
to the financial sir ngency that yea..
The net collections for 1908 were
$1,224,2:3 and the stun of $235,363
was carried forward into Iti09 owing
the inability of tho 1►tmberulcu to
pay.
year the silver shipments reached
the value of $9,116,008.
The ores and minerals produced
in Ontario last years wero valued
at $26,616,705, as compared with
$25,019,373 for the previous year.
The production of nickel in 1543
was valued at $1,011,140. The iron
mines of Ontario yielded 216,177
tons of ore last year, -worth $574,-
839, and there was made at the
blastfurnaces 271,656 tons of pig
iron, valued at $4,d90,S39.
"Ontario now occupies a leading
place among the silver-l:rodtacing
$10,000 PRIZE LIST.
Provincial Winter Fair Board holds
Meeting at Guelph.
A despatch from Guelph says:
The Ontario Provincial Winter Fair
Board held a meeting here ou \\ ed-
nesday and decided that the prize
list this year should total $10,000.
The Horse Show prizo list will be
along the same lines as that of last
year's Horse Show, held at the
stock yards in Toronto. The amount
for horse prizes is about $3,000.
Tht feature of the poultry prize
list this year will be the depart-
ment of 20 classes or more in pig -
NO BOOKS TO CONSUMPTIVES.
Ottawa Li henry Board issues Order
to Prevent lnfeelion.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The Ottawa Carnegie Library Board
issued an order on Thursday morn-
ing that no library books hereafter
should be given out to any person handle the western harvest. He
who is consumptive. This win ap says applications are pouring in
and cannot be filled. He thinks
twenty thousand men will be re-
quired.
The Canadian Express Company
has been ordered to restore the low
rate on fruit from Queenston dis-
trict to Toronto by Chairman Ma -
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
L UI't'L'NINCS i'A11n ALL OVER
1ILL (:LOMME:.
irlegranlite Rrlefe From Cur Osia
and Other Countries e1
Recut I.seuts.
C.1NADA.
The new street railway at Cal-
gary has been opened for business.
The new Central Prison for On-
tario may be located at Englewood.
Toronto police have been instruct-
ed to arrest visitors or others who
insult the British flag.
Two Kingston grocers have been
summoned on a charge of selling
adulterated coffee.
The ltailway Commission has or-
dered the Grand Trunk to build a
t:ew stat.ou at Guelph.
Charles T. Coonibes, fireman on
the steamer Saronic, was drowned
at Futt William by falliug into the
river.
Miss Amy I. Bruce of Valentia,
Ontario, won the Governor -Gener-
al's medal for general proficiency
at Toronto Normal School.
Frank Malone was asphyxiated at
the Crown Iteserve mine at Co-
balt, and eight other men who went
t., his assistance were overcome and
had a narrow escape.
A steamer on Lake Temiskaming
had a block of wood caught in her
propeller and was drifting into the
rapids when a tug came to the res-
cue. Several passengers were
aboard.
Mr. J. Bruce Walker, Commis-
sioner of Immigration, is already
impressed with the need of men to
ply whether the application is made
personally or by some member of
the family, as it is the policy of tho
board to keep all library books im-
trtune from any germs of tubercu-
losis. Consumptive ' persons can
only receive books hereafter by fur -
eons, to include the birds of 1909 nishing a medical certificate to the bee of ltailway Commission. The
which have been excluded hereto effect. that there is no danger of in been• the thean spoke in severe terms of
fore. Realizing that the showing fcctiun, the express companies changing
of fat stock has been in the past the ^..
ouly weakness of the show, the I TO TAX CORPORATIONS. - rates while the commissionwas
have greatly increased the - dealing with them.
prizes r that class. important Change Contemplated UNITED STATES.
4. by Ontario Government.
FAKE ACCIDENT 01..1111 S. Missouri suffered from a discs-
_ A despatch from Toronto says: trous flood and people were driven
Tire en Arrested on Charge of It is reported that important li►ian- tc the house -tops.
Conyph acs. tial legislation is contemplated by A large quantity of bogus $2
the Ontario Government, and a re- bills. said to have been made in
A despatch from Montreal says; i.ort is abroad for which there seems Canada, was circulated in western
Three men named Nathan Aloof, to be strong foundation in fact. It Pennsylvania.
ax Catsoff, and Appi Shyropsky is understood that the Provincial More rigid laws and the growth
rc arrested on Wednesday on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud.
The detectives, who have worked to
that end for months, declare they
have rounded up the cleverest trio
of "fake accident claim" workers
who ever figured in Montreal's
criminal annals. No less than a
score of accident claims have been
put through by the then, and in
every ease the amount of damages
was large. According to the detec-
tives, the men have taken turns in
the role of "injured through negli-
gence," and the other two acted ns
w itnesses. The complainants in
in this case are the C. P. R., the
Montreal Street ltailway, and the
Grand Trunk ltailway. Tho men
denied their guilt, but wero re-
manded.
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ARSENIC IN THE DRUGS.
Result of Inland Revenue Examin-
ation of Samples.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Tho examination by the inland rev-
enue depr.rtment of a number of
drugs, ns found on the Canadian
inn t, for the purpose of ascer-
taitfig whether any of these con-
taied distinct traces of arsenic,
S114 .i that while most tramples
wetc practically free from the poi-
son, arsenic vas found to be dis-
tinctly present in certain sulphates
and particularly in phosphate of
socia. The amounts vvere not so
large as to be alarming, but were
sufficient to make it impossible to
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS iii' M.1I1, ABOUT JOIN
BILL AND MIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences In (ho Land That
Reigns Supreme in (ho Com-
mercial World.
"Wireless" apparatus has been
installed at Lloyd's station at the
North Foreland.
A Norwich schoolboy has suc-
cumbed to injuries inflicted by a
cricket ball.
The cancelling of a contract by
telephone was upheld by the Clerk-
euwell County Court judge.
Portsmouth Chamber of C'oni-
nierce passed a resolution advocat-
ing that the first naval port be
nude a city.
Some schools in Manchester have
now started a green blackboard,
which is written ou with black
chalk.
About twenty members of the
Russian Dunia are shortly to visit
England, and will stay about a
fortnight there.
It is stated that Norwich canary
breeders use up 24,000 hens' eggs
a week to feed their birds in the
Lreeding season.
A humming bird's nest, contain-
ing three dead fledglir (;s, was dis-
covered in a consignment of banan-
as whicli reached Leicester market.
At a rummage sale in connection
with a Yarmouth church mission the
silk hat of one of the workers was
inadvertently sold for a penny.
An Oxfordshire vicar complains of
a scarcit yof choir boys because
lads can earn seven or eight shil-
lings a day on Sunday as golf cad-
dies.
Baths for their workmen are be-
ing built at Winnington, near
Northwich, at a cost of $20,000 by
Messrs. Brunner, Mond, and Co.,
of Northwich.
In order not jeopardise her old
ago pension, the Yarmouth magis-
trates fined a woman, aged seven-
ty, $25 for theft, instead of sending
her to prison.
By night a music -hall artiste and
L•t day a dealer in rags, bones, and
geld watches, was John Watson
Corbell's description of himself at
0141 street police '. i'rt.. London.
In the River Lark at lslehain Fer-
ry. Cambridgeshire, on the spot
where the late Rev. Charles Spur-
geon was baptized, thirty male and
female Baptists wero baptized rec-
ently.
The remains of Mrs. Butler, the
Cabinet has been considering the 4.f public sentiment for a sane woman Crimean veteran, were car-
ad'isability of imposing taxation Fourth reduced the number of ried to the grave at Portsmouth by
on all curporations operating public killed and wounded in the United the men of the Dorset Regiment,
utilities, and also on loan con:pa1e States. in the presence of many veterans.
ies. The Government's plan is be- The Steel corporation created Hnverfurd College, Pennsylvania,
lieved to further contemplate plac- anxiety in Pittsburg and among has offered to present a portrait
ing the regulation of such corpora-
tions and the control of there en-
tirely under the jtirisdiction of the
Ontario Railway and Municipal
Board. GREAT BRITAIN.
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BR11'AIN'-S COM 11 ERCI:.
the strikers by threatening to es-
tablish a largo tin-plate concern in
Gary, Indiana.
Big Increases in June in Exports
and imports.
A despatcn from London says:
The June statement of the Board of
Trade shows increases of 827,925,-
500 in imports, and $3,821,000 in ex-
ports. The principal increases in
imports were $13,750,000 in grain,
and $5,000,000 in raw material. Im-
ports from Canada for ,luno were:
Cattle, 2,727 head ; wheat, 1,161,-
000 cwts. ; wheat, meal and !lour.
158,100 cwts.; bacon, 50,389 cwts.;
hams, 11,611 cwts. ; butter, 39 cwts. ;
cheese, 129,516 cwts.; eggs, 15 great
hundreds; horses, 18.
ICE CIII:AM NOT FOOD.
Brantford Restaurant Keeper Fined
for Sunday Sales.
A despatch from Brantford says:
L. l,aond :\ritan, proprietor of a
local ice creast parlor. having con-
ducted business on Sunday for the
past three years under a former de -
regard those drugs as meeting pro- eision of the magistrate, was fined
per requirements; 448 samples of $5 here on Wednesday and orderrd
-sulphate of magnesia, sulphate of to close his premises on Sunday. Tee
scala and phosphate of scala exam- cream was sold without meals, and
Ines! showed 336 containing no ar- the magistrate held that the sante
seethe while 86 did. vva not food.
SHOT WIFE TIIEN SIIICIDEI)
The officials of the Cunard Line
have decided to call at Fishguard
instead of Liverpool in order to
save time.
The London Express gave out
that Lord Kitchener will accept the
offers of Canada and Australia to
inspect their forces.
The militant suffragettes scored a
triumph over Premier :Asquith when
they were received by the Home
Secretary on order of the King.
A meeting of Loudon Hindus to
protest against the murder of
Lieut. -Col. Wyllie broke up in con-
fusion when an Indian student pro-
tested.
GENERAL.
A revolution which broke nut in
.Columbia res,ulted in the overthrow
of the present Government.
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CATTLE DYING 1N HUNDREDS.
serious Epidemic Causes Great
Loss in Louisiana.
A despatch from Lake Charles,
Louisiana, says: Advices received
here on Wednesday from Cameron
I'arish indicate that the epidemic
of charbon, which has prevailed in
that section for several weeks, is
spreading widely among cattle and
of William Penn, an undergraduate
at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1660,
either to Christ Church or the uni-
versity.
By growing vegetables for tho
various institutions instead of buy-
ing them, Willesden guardians have
made a profit on the garden account
of $501.24, for the half-year just
ended.
By the death of Mr. Thomas Mel -
lard Heade, aged seventy-eight, at
Blundclsands, which has just oc-
curred, Liverpool has lost. a not-
able citizen and the country a not-
ed scientist.
Great interest continues to be
taken in "Africa and the East '
llissionn:y Exhibition at Agricul-
tural Hall, London. Over 6,000
people visited the African village
during the first three days
A system of illumination in which
thirty-four miles of electric cables
and decorative lamps of an aggre-
gate of 1,500.000 candle power are
used, was inaugurated at the Shep-
herd's Bush Exhibition.
Lord Roberts has written to As-
cot post -office to thank the post-
master and staff for the excellent
way they coped with the extra pos-
tai and telegraphic work necessi•
tnted by the celebration of his gul-
den wedding.
l'NPOP l'I,AIt PItO('LA!1.tTIO NS.
in China No One Obeys Them and
They Are Not Enforced.
A proclamation issued by the Vice-
roy of the province that all opium
other live stock. hundreds of dens in \1'nnshien must close has
range cattle have died of charbon
gone unheeded, ns most things np-
and their carcasses lie unburied in pear to du in China when it does
the marshes. It has been proposed not suit the populace, says the
to adjourn the present session of Shanghai Mercury.
court at the parish sent of Canter- \\anshie n is a city of 120,003 in -
on in order that every one may take Habitants end is surrounded by
lie Terrible Crime of G eorge England :a hand in suppressing the epidemic. POPPY fields, ninetenths of the com
munity indulging in the drug, while
�T the city itself contains innumerable
of Niagara, Falls, N. Y, shops for retailing it.
I'i;t:N('II .%Ni) 1.1N N.11'IE:S 1\'hep the appointed time came for
closing up, all the shops "did them -
door. On the table there was a pail II ,'.e Changed flares as sea pail erg selves proud." P,right new lanterns
gleamed Froin the portals. while
clean curtains decorated the inter-
.\ despatch from Paris secs: No- inr and trade was as brisk as ever.
thing in the Chamber of Deputies' fn other words Cie opium venders
debate nn the Navy Committee's ' wee, ":saving face," n 1.cculiar char- Montreal, July 13. ---There was
report created n greater imp�ression nc•icrittic cf tho Chin. <'e, and net only one fond of really prime beeves
than the comparison between even a polie-cman, if there is such a (m the market and they sold at 6
Freneh rind German expenditures, thing is \1'ant►hicn, enterer(' the to 0';c per pound. There were sev-
which showed that during the past order. ural loads of North-West ranch Bat-
ten sears Franc' spent 8600.000,• Opium smoking continues at Wan- tle, uhich sold at 11ec to a little
what had happened. was e , , 000 on h( r navy, and (ierinnnv ra-shm iin the same old way end the ever 5e per pound : common ,4tock,
anti fretting I►••ceir e of matter. 1. Ther lees. h;it in that time thetuo! crop to be reaped this veer is a t'% to lc per pound. There was an
it is not known what wa' the, eatieles Led ee::tlav ehangcd 10:1;' third bigger than last. What can ever supply of rnilch cows, ca,' rout
(::ti -e ..f tl,e terril,le glair, al- Ate fel r , rre trance drei,lsrg l a % i.•ere;1' .!. e'.Ien the people. to a n further decline in prie'es, t' Lich
t.i ,e.qh there me r< t arts • f there?- f:•:'' ,: - -1 ; t •' f'• fess r:l,. u I..i(• man, won't ii -t-'11, ( specially when ranged from *20 10 $50 t'arh. ('nl,ev
tic int l;ci.v ih::t may Lave 1.:d up t' ,;1...... d f,.Ani Leith to 1 the r.» -)ale 1.;,ow t'iat the ure.e!ama- $2.50 to $10 each. or ;4!::,ro Cr pc
to the tram:dy.el p!ase.tiou may be only a matter of form. p.iiind. Sheep, 3;; to
A despatch from Niagara Fella,
N.Y., says: George England, a
member of a respected family of
this city, and a Michigan Central
freight conductor, 21 ears old, shot
And killed his wife, Gertrude, 30
years old, at tiv:r home, Niagara
Falls. N.Y., sonic time during Wed-
nesday night. He then turned the
weapon, a 32 calibre revolver, upon
himself, with fatal results The
eritre was not discovered until
Thursday morning, when F. M.
Campbell, a milk dealer, ..cat to
deliver the morning'• ., ilk Canip•
hell found the side (' for -:•e d (nee
the lock. He sure cel th:'re was+
something amiss, and pushed in the
ready to receive the milk, ss usual,
but w.len the milkman looked be-
hind t -ho door he saw England's
body stretched on its back. Blood
was oozing from the right temple,
and a re, elver lay near the man's
left hand. in another room the
dead body of the woman was found,
and a tiny infant, whit h t',e Fir
had adopted, utterly obliv
in Ten Year•.
THE WORLD'S MARKS fS
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
!MADE CENTRES.
['rices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese sad
Other Dairy Produce at
Home and Abroad.
B1tE.1 DSTUFFS.
Toronto, July 13. -Flour ---Ontario
wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.50
to $5.60 to -day in buyers' sacks
outside for export, and $5.65 to
$5.90 on track, Toronto. Manitoba
!lour; first patents, $6.20 to 86.40
on track, Toronto; second patents, ing among the various educational
23.73 to $3.00, and strong bakers', and philanthropic institutions of this
$5.50 to $5.70, on track, Toronto. city his last million dollars. This
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern will round out the suer that he had
always intended Chicago to have,
and leave him relatively a poor
man when he celebrates his 90th
birthday on the 20th of next April.
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GIVES BIS Y11OLE FORTUNE
An Aged Chicago Millionaire Soon to Bo
a Poor Man.
A despatch from Chicago says :
Daniel K. Pearsuns, the "sage of
Hinsdale," already fatuous for his
munificent benefactions to the small
colleges of this country, announced
that he would devote the remainder
of his ninetieth year to distribut-
$1.36x,.', Georgian Bay ports, No. 2,
$1.34 and No. 3 at $1.33.
Ontario wheat -No. 2, $1.20 to
$1.30 outside.
Barley -Feed barley 60 to 62c
outside.
Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, 57 to
57%0 on track, Toronto, and 53'/
to 5.1c outside. No. 2 1s'estern Can-
ada oats 50c, and No. 3 55c, Bay
ports. '
I'ea -prices purely nominal.
Ryo-No. 2, 74 to 75c outside.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 70c outside.
Corn --No. 2 American yellow,
79', to 50c on track, Toronto.
Canadian yellow 74c, Toronto
freight.
Bran -$20 to $20.50 for Ontario
bran outside in bulk. Manitoba,
822.50 to $23 in sacks, Toronto
freight; shorts, $24 to $24.50, To-
ronto freights. _ `_
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20c;
tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19c;
inferior, 15 to 16e; creamery, 23 to
24c, and separator, 19 to 20e per
lb.
Eggs -Case lots, 20 to 210 per
dozen.
Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14c
per Ih, and twins, 14%e. New quot-
ed at 12%c for largo, and 12%c for
twins.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -$4 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 $2.45
per bushel.
Maple syrup --95e to $1 a gallon.
flay -No. 1 timothy, $11.50 to $12
a ton on track here, and low
grades, $5 to 89.
Straw -$7 to 37.50 on track.
Potatoes -Small lots of old are
jobbi••g at 75 to Mc, and new are
lower at $3 to $3.25 per barrel, ou
track.
Poultry - Chickens, yearlings,
dressed, 12 to 13c per lb; fowl, 9
to 10c; turkeys_ 16 to 17c per Ib.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon, long clear, 13;2 to 13%c
per Ib in case lots; mess pork, $23
to 823.50; short cut, $25 to $25.50.
Hams -Light to medium, 15;2 to
16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%e; rolls,
12% to 13c; shoulders, 11% to 12c;
backs, 18 to 18%c; breakfast bacon,
16; t to 17e.
Lard -Tierces, 14%e; tubs, 14%c;
pails, 14%e.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Jule 13. -The market
for oats is weaker; No. 2 Canadian
Western, 58c; No. 1 extra feed,
57%c; No. 1 feed, 57%e; No. 3
Canadian Western, 57c. Barley -
No. '2,72',? to 74c; Manitoba feed
barley, 67% to 08c. Buckwheat --
69% to 70c. Flour -Manitoba
Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30;
do., seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat
patents, $6.75; Manitoba strong
bakers', 85.60; straight rollers,
$6.50 to $0.60; do., in bags, $3.15
to $3.20; extras in bags, $2.s0 to
$2.90. Feed -Manitoba bran, 822
to $23; do., shorts, 82.1 to $25; pure
grain mouiliie, $33 to $35; tnixed
mouillic, $28 to $30. Cheese -
westerns, 11> to 12c. Butter -fin-
est creamery, 22%e. Eggs -18% to
l9c per dozen.
UNITEO STATES 'MARKETS.
Buffalo, July 13. -Wheat --Spring
w hent easier ; No. 1 Northern, car-
loads, $1.3114. Corn --Steady. Oats
-No. 2 white, 53c; No. 3 white,
54c; ; No. 4 white, 53e. Barley -
Feed to malting, 69 to G9c.
Chicago, July 13. -Cash wheat -
No. 2 red, old, $1,40 to $1.43; No.
3 red, new, 81.16 to $1.20; No. 2
hard, old. 41.22!:, to 81.21: No. 1
Northern, $1.27%. Corn --No. '2,
vs1,:;c ; No. 2 white, 71;4c; No. 2
yellow, 70 to 70;:,c ; No. 3 68%e;
No. 3 white, 71 to 71%e; No. 3 yel-
low, 701': No. 4, 6674 to 67e. Oats
--No. 2, 49e; No. 2 white, 50c; No.
3, 47'-,c; No. 3 white, 47'4 to 49;2c;
standard. 5+1c.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
l.TS.
Mr. Pearsons declined on Wednes-
day might to indicate what inetitu-
tiuns will benefit by the remainder
of hia large fortune.
For virtually a quarter of a cen-
tury, Mr. Pt•arsons has devoted tho
major portion of his attention to
bestowing his Money on public in-
stitutions whicli he deemed worthy,
and he has already given away con-
siderably over 81,000,000. Pis
gift to Chicago will mark his re-
tirement from the role of philan-
thropist, for he will have only
enou••,h to insuro himself a COIn-
fortable old ago.
pound ; lambs at $3.50 to $5.50 each.
Hogs, about 6%c per pound.
Toronto, July 13. -Business was
quiet, and prices somewhat easier
in consequence of the heavy buy-
ing earlier in the week, also that
very few choice butchers or export-
ers were on offer. Prime butcher
cattle were wanted, but there wero
very few offering, therefore prices
for this class were steady, but all
other grades declined and it looks
as though the break in prices had
started. Sheep and _lambs were
steady. Hogs weak and unchanged.
Calves weak and unchanged.
HURT 1118 FEELINGS.
Convict Barrett's Excuse for Kill-
ing Deputy Warden Stedman.
A despatch from Edmonton,
Alta., says: G. Barrett, the con-
vict who murdered Deputy Warden
Stedman recently, and who is now
under sentence of death for that
crime, to hang on the 14th inst., is
writing a long statement giving his
excuses for the crime. He will
charge the late Warden with ill-
treating him, with failure to recog•
nize the Masonic sign, and with
sneering at hien.
MONTRi'AL GROCI•:iR ROBBED.
Two Men Work the Sanitary Ina.
specter Trick on Mr. Collins.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Two men successfully worked the
fake sanitary inspector trick hero
on a grocer namtu Pierre Collins.
One called at the store and request -
to see the yard and garbage recep-
tacles, saying he was an inspector.
The proprietor was alone, and ac
cempanied the visitor to the yard,
where some time was spent in exam-
ining the conditions. Later in the
day Mr. Collins found that $500
had been taken from the safe during
his absence in the yard.
STRUCK BY LIGILTNING.
Man Killed at Calgary Daring a
Terrific Storni.
A despatch from Calgary, Alta.,
says : Just before the beginning cif
the programme at the Exhibition on
Tuesday afternoon a severe storm
broke in Calgary. In less than an
hour nearly two inches of rain fell.
Wm. Mueller, a young man, was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed. The Alberta Normal School
was struck, but not badly damaged.
ENDED L1FE WITH POISON.
Brant Woman Took Paris Green
at Oakland.
A despatch from Brantford says
A suicide occurred at Oakland Vil-
lage on Wednesday night, when
Mrs. Edward Malcolm. wife of a
well-known fanner, having become
despondent, took a dose of Paris
green. The poison proved fatal.
KNEW HER BUSINESS.
O'Brien --Oh, but me daughter's
the shmart girl. She set two min
fightin' for her hand.
Landers -And soo married the
winner?
t)'ltrien--Begorrs. no She mar-
titd the one she could lick aisiest.
FROM 6011111E SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTEREST FiROM
HER BANKS AND BRAES.
11 hat Is Going On In the Highlands
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
Edinburgh proposes that drovers
should hold licenses.
Gavon school rate is to be in-
creased by a penny in the pound.
Lunacy has decreased in Scotland
during the past five years.
The upper decks.of one hundred
of the ordinary tramcars are to be
roofed at Coplawhill.
At Dunbar recently 5,000 mice
were kilted at rho taking down of
sonic stacks in a farmyard.
Two pure white starlings were
seen flying about at the Grange,
Kirkcudbright, one the 2nd inst.
There are in Glasgow at least 16,-
000 unlet houses, and factors have
in many instances been forced to re-
duce the rents.
The six cotters in Lewis who seiz-
cc! Dalherg Farin, having refused to
desist, have got a week's imprison-
ment each.
Mr. Arbuthnot of Kilnoch enter-
tained the children of the district
•ols of Broadford, Breakish and
re. - -e a picnic recently.
The new church fesr Bridge street
United Free congrega'fion, Pnnhbar-
ton, just completed, has been e'rL
ed at a cost of fully $300.000.
Alcoa is proudly boasting of its
freedom from crime these days.
There are seven breweries and three
distilleries in the town and vicinity.
Glasgow and West of Scotland
Agricultural College will take over
the whole •of Holmes Farm, Kil-
marnock, for agricultural educa-
tion.
Inverness harbor trustees have
instructed the preparation of a
scheme of harbor accommodation
for steam drifters at a cost of $100,-
000.
A robin has built its nest on a
shelf in a joiner's workshop in Com-
rie. It flies in and out a broken
window amongst the workmen quite
unconcernedly.
Firernaster James Brown, Leith,
has on retiring after 34 years' ser-
vice been presented with a time-
piece and side ornaments, and his
wife with a diamond ring.
Lord Blount Stephen, now in
Banffshire, has reached the patri-
archal ago of four score years. Ho
started life in a very humble way,
Leing a herd boy on the hills of
Banffshire.
Legacies of $2,500 and 8500 have
been bequeathed to the Dunferm-
line a •d West Fife Hospital by the
late L •. Adamson, Portobello, and
the late Miss Alexander, Dunferm-
line.
'fhe budget duty on whiskey is
to entail an increase of $560 a year
cc the expenses of the Royal Infir-
mary. This applies to drugs only,
many of which are diluted with al-
cohol.
Tho Princess Loni.o (1)uehess of
Argyll) recently presented colors
to the 0th (Durnbertonshire) Bat-
talion Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers at Helenshurgh. The Duke
f Argyll delivered an address.
When one devours a honk it in-
dicates a taste for literature.
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A despatch Detroit says
A decision far-reaching in its im-
portance, and one which will be of
interest to the cause of temper-
ance everywhere, was handed down
by the Michigan Supreme Court on
Wednesday. Mrs. Nettie Merri-
man of Grass Lake brought suit
against Frederick. a saloonkeeper
in the satr,e town, claiming $10.00')
damages fi on, him for ha‘ing sold
liquor to her hut mind. as eel! as
causing tiro plaintiff to lose her
• c per hume, her money, and the c.>anpan-
from
0
Damages
keeper,
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ionship
to
that
shown
of
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Against
husband.
satisfaction
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of
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the
court until Merriman took to
drink he tt85 a prosperous railroad
telegrapher, and st.nnl high with
his employer'. The drink habit
caused I►im to lose evcrythin•r, and
finally his wife• was ollig••.l t., leave
him. The rate ws ,it ' • r •e a jury,
whic•h gale lli . 51 an a small
verdict. bat she . I , , ..b -'I to the
Snprenie ('oitrt arid, < ,t^cisiati on
Wednesday r..•.Irlt' d in a verdict
agaiust the saloonkeeper for 'soma,
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