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A despatch from London Ont.,
says: C"ntheriue Brash, aged four -
::n nnonths whose parents live at
corner of Victoria and C'olburne
Streets, was, un Tuesday evening,
saved from drewntng through the
alarm given by a collie that was
chained nearby The baby girl, in
ieeping around. fell into a rain
rrel partially sunk in the ground.
1
h Dear( lir ( ha
s. Bras t t rk an<ir
R ,
et first paid to attention The the
�Tlie, tugging at its chain, Ptarted
j whine and bark more fondle, than
e
A RIOT AT FORT WILLIAM
Six Officers and Four Civilians Shot
in the Fight.
A snatch from Fort William,
Ont., says SAi ,e men were wo nJ-
ed eu Thur:d ty morning in a tight
between 0.P.11. special c•onstab.es
Rod a number of striking truckers.
It was shortly before anon that the
trouble which precipitated t'te big-
gest riot ever scon in Fort 1Villia►n
started, and it came like an ex-
plosion of a barrel of gitep•)wder
o, a quiet street. A pe.:..+ of C.P.R.
F.olice which had Leen brought down
from Winnipeg, was marched from
the sheds W the bearding -house, in
the vicinity. Their progress was
ac•cempanied by hoots and yells and
demonstrations from the large
crowd of strikers. While the police
were eating their din.ler tho strik-
ers apparently determined that they
would not be allowed to leave the
boarding-house_ Constable Ball
was the first one to make bis ap
pearance in the doorway, and ho
was immediately accosted by a cou-
ple of burly strikers and told he
would have to retrain indoors, as
well as his nteu. According to eye
witnesses, tate constable drew his
bate,' and attempted to hit the
st•iLer. Quick as a flash the latter
had drawn a revolver and sent a
buaet into the chief's abdomen.
• A FIERCE BATTLE.
Tiwn the battle was on. Rifles
and revolvers were brought into
play in every direction, shooting
from the corners of houses and
frons behind cars, thc fusi'1ade of
the men directed at the police last-
ed fully fifteen minutes. The strik-
ers massed, and drove the C.P.R.
Wren back into the bunk -house.
!hey fired through the windows,
and were preparing to storm the
house when Chief Dodds, backed
by Sorgt. Taylor and the constables
of the city force, prevailed on the
strikers to stay away from the
house. All the windows in the
hunk -house and all of the C.P.R.
e•aiel buildings were smashed by
bullets.
KEPT UP FIRE.
Th.• strikers, in response to Chief
Dodd., slowly retreated back to
McTavish Street. but farther they
refused to budge, and they kept
up an intermittent tiro under the
very eyes of the police. officials.
They loaded and fired reguidless
of the fact that they were ordered
repeatedly in the tame of the King
to disperse to their homes.
The battle lasted at least. fifteen
Lunettes. and in the meantime word
of the situation was mei eel by
M vier Pelletier, and he iinmodi-
ately decided to cull out the mili-
tia. Later the Mayor proceeded
to the docks and read the Riot Act.
Two . hundred militiamen of the
96th Regiment quickly assembled in
both cities, and long before dark
were on the scene and complete
masters of the situation.
The strikers, after their show of
strength against the police earlier
la the day, are now cowed and sub-
missive.
THE INJURED.
None of the victims aro injured
so seriously that death is likely to
result, the only one for whom there
are any fears is Constable Ball. A
report from the hospital late on
Thursday night is that be is doing
well and unless complications set
in will recover. Constable Car-
penter, of the C.P.R. police, has
a wound in the knee which may
cripple Min, but is net dangerous
t/, life.
The list as far as can be ascer-
tained now is:- Serge. Taylor. of
city police, blight; C. M. Dicken-
son, of Tines Journal, slight ; Chief
Constable Ball, O.P.U. police, aeri-
ously wounded in abdomen; Con-
stable Carpenter, C.P.R. constable,
knee badly smashed; Two other
cc nstables slightly wounded. Two
strikers, Greeks, names unknown.
John Lake, butcher at coal docks.
bullet grazed forehead, only slight-
ly wounded.
The appearance of the militia
or. thc scene had a salutary effect
on the mob and they scattered so
quickly that it was not evcu neces-
sary for the militiamen to load
their rifles, although each man had
been served with several rounds of
ball cartridges.
")'3 STEURIZI 1) 81'•1"1'E:R."
t -rt -s
11anh Concoction Manufactured at
Winnipeg.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Louis and Samuel Fontaine violet-
s° the pure food laws by nianufac-
turiiig what they termed "Pas-
teurized butter" in a factory here.
They had a system which was most
filthy and revolting. Rotten but-
ter, which is usually disposed by
wholesalers for axle grease, was
purchased in large quantities and
boiled down with tallow fats and
lard and other refuse from the ab-
attoirs, and then done up in invit-
ing looking packages and sold to
thc stores as new dairy butter.
They were each fined two hundred
dollars and costs.
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M.1V 1311'OR1' REI F.
Alberta farmers ('onfining 'i'heir
Attention 10 Wheal -growing.
.A despatch from (','diery .says:
Patrick Burns, the pioncer packer
of Alberta, states that the farm-
ers. attracted by $1 wheat, are
The Boston & Maine express, which
left Sherbrooke on Tuesday night,
met with a peculiar mishap at Eu-
stis. When going at a fair speed a
loose horse on the road jumped be-
tween the tender and the baggage
car, with the result that two cars
were derailed and the horse instant-
ly killed. No one on the train was
injured.
liltl NE1'I'ESOl`TI.1VEBLONDES
lu•urance agents Furnish interest-
ing Statistics.
.\ despatch from Chicago says:
Brunettes, taken as a class, outlive
blondes, according to the statement
of J. C. Cummins, secretary of the
Equitable Life Insurhnco Company,
of lova. It was while commenting
lilt the fact that women who live
to be fifty years old outlive men
who have reached the same age
three to one. that Mr. Cummins
referred to the longevity of bru-
nettes and blondes. Mr. Cummins
said 'that official figures showed
blondes more subject to lung trou-
tie than brunettes.
selling off their cattle. with it view CROPS DEVASTATED.
t( increasing their wheat areas. As
a result the Province will, if the One of the Worst Storms In Team
present method of grain farming be flay of Fundy.
c( utinued, be forced to import beef
within three years. Sheep have .\ despatch from Annapolis, N.
been imported from Australia and S., says: One of the fiercest gales
the United States for a number of that has visited the Bay of Fundy
years, and two-thirds of the bacon coast this year, raged here for ser -
used in the Province is purchased eral hours on Wednesday morning
in the United States. Live stock and the damage is reported heavy.
vatues will increase rapidly, but (:rain and corn crops -have in many
unless the farmers have lite stock localities been totally ruined, while
t4 dispose of they cannot reap the other crops have suffered to a les -
benefit from the increased values. ser extent. Hay that had been cut
-,�. - --- - and c•,cked was blown broadcast
iiORSE JUMPED INTO '1.11.11'', over the surrounding country.
Many of the orchards are reported
Got Between 'Tender and faegnge to have been completely raked by
Car and Was billed, the gale. Reports arrived from the
Cay shnro describe the damage
A despatch f rum Nfout re:►I says : (!one to fishing tackle as heavy.
CNI�D'S LIFE SAYER BY DOG
The Sagacious Collie Gave an Alarm
While Chained Up.
user, a.nl the mother, looking
about, discovered the child's feet
protuding from the water barrel.
The little one was at once pulled
cut and a doctor brought. The
baby was then unconscious and
black in the face : but after an hour
she began to ret ive and no serious
results are expected, unless tin-
fereseen ompl.eat'4 nr• develop.
11'h£n t chill was rescued the
dog • dr'nort..trations of joy were
as 't rens :i :t' i,ad been the alarm
that i.. h•td faitlif,t!!y Riven
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND THE WORLD'S MARKE fS
tIIPI'ENINGS FROM ALL OVER
TUE GLOBS.
Telegrt,,pnle Briefs From Our Ono
sad Other Countries el
Recent Eventsa,
CANADA.
Parliament will probably meet on
November 4.
Prince Albert Masons will erect
a sixty -thousand -dollar temple.
The Ontario (overument has be-
gun the construction of roadways
in New Ontario.
The Canadian Northern agree-
ment with its maintenance -of -way
then has been signed.
Tho Oxford flour mills at Nor-
wich and the Hocken Lumber Com-
pany's mill near Parry Souud were
burned on Thuretlay.
The Ontario Government is can-
celling the licenses of those holders
tshu have throe convictions record-
ed against thorn.
The Now Brunswick Board of
Education decided to adopt mili-
tary and physical training in the
public schools and Provincial Uni-
versity.
The C. P. It. train crew which
ran down the two nuns on the
bridge at Bordeaux, Que., were
exonerated from blame by the Cor-
oner's jury.
The Grand Trunk Pacific will
build a lino to Emerson, Man.,
and front there secure running
rights over the Northern Pacific to
the Twin Cities.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Lord Rosebery has offered itis
magnificent seacoast villa near
Naples to the British Government
as a Summer residence for its Am-
bassador at Route. Tho Govern-
ment, it is said, has accepted tho
gift, and the transfer will take
place in a few days' time.
UNITED STATES.
Danger of a strike of street rail-
waymen in Chicago has been avert-
ed.
A Calif4,rnia professor is experi-
menting with a machine which
flies like an eagle.
Poultry fanciers claim that the
day of tho three -hundred -egg hen
is close at hand.
•1 convict at Middleton, N. Y.,
killed a man who lied helped send
him to prison many years ago.
Rafael Cascone was shot and fat-
ally wounded in New York by an
Italian boy whose brother Cascono
had killed.
The special tariff session of the
tllnitod States Congress cost the
nation between $800,000 and $900,-
000
Justice Mills, at White Plains,
on Thursday, decided that Harry
Thaw is still insane and not fit to
be released from the asylum.
Dr. F. 1'. Leys (if Detroit is pro-
testing against the probate in Lon-
don, Out., of the will of his mo -
'flier, widow of the late Col. F.
Leys
GENERAL.
The Sucdi,h strikers are return-
ing to work.
The Riff tribesmen in Jforocce are
seeking to make peace with Spain.
Three passengers in a balloon
have succeeded in making the trip
amiss the Alpe.
Forty-two aeroplanes will take
part in the great competition at
Rheims this month.
('Irina has yielded to the demands
Cf Japan with reference to the An-
turig- Mother railroad.
NINE PERSONS ARE INJURED.
Runaway North Vancouver Car
Fell into inlet.
despatch froth Vancouver, 11.
C'., says: Nine people were more or
less paiufnlly injured on Thursday
afternoon, at 4 o'clock, when a
Nor1th Vancouver street car ran
away, owing to the brakes failing
to work, and fell into the inlet. The
motorman, Kelly, jutnped at Frst
Street, and injured his skull, but
('onducter Jones stuck to his post,
because he Raid he was afraid the
women and children would try and
clamber out into tho water. His
nose was broken. Mr. Arnold Kea -
Ie is among the injured. Tho pas-
sengers were rather panicky. but
several showed great pluck.
NEWS IIY M.tII. ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences In the Land That
Reigns Supremo in the Com-
mercial World.
Price of coal has soared in Lon-
don.
In spite of stringent precaution-
ary measures, swine (ever is spread-
ing in North and East Devon.
In order to defend its }there
against the sea, Lowestoft Town
Council has had to borrow £70,-
000.
Desertions from the Navy of
teen serving afloat nuntbo :ed 21
per cent• in 1902 and 16 per cent.
in 1908.
During the progress of the King-
ston Borough Regatta on the
Thames, the body of a young girl
suicide was recovered from the
river.
Owing to an epidemic of measles
in Wolverhampton the elementary
schools, which have over 17,000
children on the registers, have been
closed.
The Territorials numbered on
July 1, 260,070, or 80 3 per cent. of
a possible 302.047; 98,335 were un -
dee twenty, and 62,506 engaged for
a year only.
The ceremony of publicly present-
ing the "pretty maid" for the year
with a gift of money was carried
out on the first day of St. Peter's
Fair, at Ilulsworthy, Devonshire.
For the framing of the Govern-
ment scheme of insurance against
sickness Mr. Lloyd George has sug-
gested that the friendly societies
appoint a body with powers to dis-
cuss with him.
Called away for a moment after
preparing a bath for her thirteen -
months' old child, a woman at
Bath, fastened tho child in bed,
but it wriggled out, fall into tho
bath, and was drowned.
A young woman named Laura
Hill was murdered in her sleep at
West Iiartlepool by her husband,
Christopher Hill, an insurance
agent. whose body was afterwards
found in the river.
Mrs. Martin, a first cousin of
Grace Darling, has died at Bain -
burgh, aged eighty-four. She was
born in the Fame house as the Long -
stone heroine, and owned furni-
ture which had belonged to her
famous cousin.
A boy of twelve named Richard
Hills, was commended at a, Hackney
inquest recently for diving into the
Regent's canal and endeavori.'g to
rescue another boy. He had previ-
ously saved a boy from drowning.
The plan of an immense abbey,
with walls five feet thick and won-
derful carvings at the base of the
buttresses, has been unearthed at
the village of Bradney, near Lincoln
and it is hoped to discover the
tcnnb of Ethelred, King of Mercia.
In an attempt to recover his hat,
which had blown into the River
Blackwater near Malden, William
(.race, of Hampstead. a patient at
111r. F. N. ('harrington's temper-
ance retreat, undressed, jumped
into the river, and was drowned.
Burglars who visited a house at
Gateshead during the family's ab-
sence, played cards, consumed leo
bottles of whisky, had a good sup-
per, and shifted all the drawing
room furniture into the kitchen be-
fore, decamping with jewellery
valued at t;.i.
A dog has as much right to be
on the road as a motorist, said the
judge at the Ripon County Court,
ut giving judgment against a motor-
ist for killing a dog. "Yon should
have pulled up," he added, "and
given the dog the option of get-
ting out of the way."
Frederick Burgess was conitnitted
fur trial at Ldgeare recently on a
charge of murdering te schoolgirl
ranted Annie Lydia Fletcher on
June 13. It was necessary for a
strong escort to guard Burgess
against attack by the crowd which
gathered outside the court.
Damage to the extent of £700 eaa
done at Nottingham recently by a
lace hand named Searcy, who ran
amuck through Derby -road, one of
the chief business t heroughfares,
armed with a heavy barbed wire in-
strument with whieh he broke fifty
large plate glass windows. He was
removed to the city asylum.
4
G it t: L(1 \ G RV BULLET.
Discharge Revolvers is Air on
Meiling or Partin`.
A very pleasing custom of the
hlentenegrins is that of discharging
SCARLET FEVER :1T 1,.1('NINE. �rcvolvers in the air at meeting or
arting. A score or so of men will
1 Doctor May he I'ro'iecuted for ac(oinpany a popular guest to the
outskirts of the village, and as he
Not Reporting a ('ase. rides off thee speed him with a
.\ despatch from Montreal sass deafenin'r fu• ilnde. They will fire
:\ serious outbreak of scarlet fever their revolvers, too, at the con-
es reported from Laehine, where elusion of a jollification, and are
eighteen eases are now quarantined not then always very careful of the
and one death occurred on Wednes- i angle of discharge. In tho acci-
day, is child of two years. It is re- dent ward of Montenegro's only
ported by the health authorities hospital the majority of cases nre
that the epidemic is suspected to I men thus accidentally 'het. There
have been caused by the neglect ofas also a certain dance where a ring
a (lector to report a. case of scarlet ( I• formed and a man and girl prance
fever last May, with the result the.rour(l the former striving o toleap
the house was neither qugrantin.'' !as high AP possible, emitting fear --
nor fumigated. An investigation is I t me yells and firing his revolver
Lying held. and if this is found to ( it: every leap When that was in
be the case criminal action will T•r grr.s 1 always took front seat
f•.'ie+r. �� ing dei it.
REPORTS FROM THE LF,ADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dalry Produce at
Houle and Abroad.
BItEADSTUF FS.
Terouto, Aug. 17.- 1 lour - On-
tario wheat 90 per cent. patents
from old wheat, 8.1.50 to $1.75 in
buyers' sacks outside for export,
and 84.75 to $4.90 on track, To-
ronto. Flour from new wheat, $1
to $4.10 outside. Manitoba flour
first patents, $6.10 to $6.2.0 on
track, Toronto; second patents,
83.65 to $5.73, and strong bakers',
$5.40 to $5.50 on track, Toronto.
Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 North-
ern, *1.19, Georgian I3:►y ports;
No. 2 at $1.16%, and No. 3 at $1..0.
Ontario Wheat --New No. 2, 97 to
98e, outside points.
Barley --Old No. 3 extra, 01 to
62c outside.
Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, 50 to
51c on track, Toronto, and 47 to
47yc outside. No. 2 Western Can-
ada oats, 45c, and No. 3, 44c, Bay
ports.
Peas -Prices nominal.
Buckwheat -Prices nominal.
Corn -No- 2 American yellow 77c
on track, Toronto.
Bran -$19.50 to $20 for Ontario
bran outside in bulk. Manitoba,
$22 in sacks, Toronto freights;
shorts, $24, Toronto freights.
GOLD FOUND IN NOVA SCOTIA
Strike of Very Rich Quartz Reported From
Halifax County.
A despatch from Halifax, N. S.,
etys : The report of another rich
strike of gold in the eastern part
.•f Halifax county reached the city
ou 'Tuesday. The strike has been
ntado at Meagher's (.rant., near
Musquodobolt. Fur some time it
1,am been known to certain parties
that a rich body of arsenic was situ-
ated near Meagher's Grant. About
three weeks ago Otis Mills of Mea-
gher's (rant, Captain Richard
Williams and Ernest Hill of Dart-
mouth took up a number of claims
and started working for arsenic.
A good deal of this quartr was
struck and an assay was made which
showed $12 per ton a• chic and $3
per ton gold. Men ere engaged
to work the claim, a: I it was not
until 'Tuesday that a: v startling
discovery was made. Then a vein
.f quartz was uncovered which
proved to be not only rich in ar-
senic, but. also to have a far larger
percentage of gold. it is state,*
that mining men who have seen
the samples of the ore pronounce
i' to be the best they have over
seen.
well finished butchers' steers and
heifers sold at 85.60 per cwt., whilst
$5.30 and $5.40 were easily obtain -
cu for ordinary good loads. Ex-
porters' $6 to $6.25 per cwt. Young
lambs were 50 to 75c higher than
last week. Sheep and calves also
hardened. Hogs, $7.65 f.o.b., and
$7.90, fed and watered.
I101V POISON -TESTERS WORK.
Sense of Taste Can bo Developed
by Practice.
There are more people earning
their living by tasting things than
COUNTRY PRODUCE. most folk aro apt to imagiue.
Of course, everybody has heard
Beans -Prime, $2.20 to *2.25, and of the tea -taster, and the marvel -
hand -picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per lous manner in which his trained
bushel. palate is able to distinguish bo -
Hay -No. 1 timothy, $13 to $14 a tween the different kinds. And now
ton on track here, and lower grades comes the news that there is in ex -
$9 to $10.50. istenco an official brandy -taster to
Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track. the English War Office, an expert
Potatoes -United States new, who can detect in an instant the
82.75 to $3 per barrel ; new Cana- very slightest admixture of ordin-
dian, 75 to 90c per bushel. ary distilled alcohol with the pro -
Poultry -- Chickens, yearlings, ]ler product of the grape.
dressed, 13 to 15c per pound ; fowl, The fact is that the sense of taste
10 to 11c; turkeys, 11 to l6c per can bo developed by practice to a
po,tnnd. sery high pitch, just like any of
the other senses, and then it is
THE DAIRY MARKETS. unerring, detecting impurities and
Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20c; essences that baffle even the subtle
tubs and Targe rolls, 18 to 19c; in -skill of the analytical chemist.
vir, 15 to 16c; creamery, 23 to Thus, Dr. Pepper, the famous
ferior,
and separator, 19 to 20c per Home Office toxicological expert,
pound. set himself in his young days dolib-
1 ggs-Case lots, 21% to 29c per erately to escertain how the vari-
dozen. ous vegetable poisons tasted. Of
Cheese -12c for large, and t?'c et•urso, ho did not swallow any of
for twins. them, or he would have been a
dead man, but he experimented by
HOG PRODUCTS. placing minute portions on his
tongue, and spitting then( out
Devon -Long clear, 13% to 14c ,again, until he could distinguish
per pound in case lots; tress pork, blindfolded the flav-rs of, for ex -
$23.5'); short cut, $25.50 to $26. ample, strychnine from aconitine,
Hants -Light to medium, 15% to and that of, say, digitalis from ei-
16c ; do., heavy, 14 to 14%e; rolls, tber of them. It was the knowledge.
13 to 13%c; shoulders, 12% to 13c; thus gained at infinite pains, as
backs, 18 to 18%e; breakfast ba- well as at oonsiderableersonal
con. 16% to 17c. risk to himself,which enabled hint
Lard --Tierces, 14'c; tubs, 14%c; to hang the scundrel I)r. Lamson,
fails, 15c. for the aconite pills he used to mur-
der his unhappy brother-in-law with
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. and left no trace behind then( that
Montreal. Aug. 17. -Oats --No. 2
Canadian Western, 48% to 49c; No.
1 extra feed, 48 to 48'/.,e; No. 1
feed, 47% to 48'/,c ; No. 3 Canadi-
an Western, 47 to 47%e. Barley --
No. 2, 71 to 72c; Manitoba feed
barley, 66 to 67c ; buckwheat, 69%
to 70e. Flour -Manitoba Spring
wheat patents, firsts, $0.30; do.,
seconds, 85.80 ; Winter w heat pat- -,tae
On Saturday a slater named
cuts, $6.50: Manitoba strong oak -
cis, '55.5;0; straight rollers, $0.25 A .11TSTERY 011."1111E SEA. Joseph Smith, 50 years of age, who
to *6.35; do., in bags, $2.90 to $3; No Traee of the "1Varnf»h" Withresides at 89 Ingram street. Glas-
extras, in bags, $2.70 to $2.80. gr, w, was standing on n ladder in
Iced J[anitoba bran, $22; do., Its Three Hundred on Board. Osborne street, pointing a wall,
shorts. $24; pure grain mouille, A despatch from Simonstown, when two dogs which were fighting
$33 to $35; mixed mouille, $29 to Cape Colony, says: The British came against the ladder, w ith the
$30. Cheese- Western, 11% to cruiser Fortex returned here on result that Smith fell, fracturing
11'4c: pasterns at 11% to 11%c. Wednesday after an unsuccessful his right arm and dislocating his
Rutter --Finest creamery, 21% to search for the steamer \Waratah, left wrist. Ho was taken to the
21%e. Eggs --Selected 21c; No. 1 during which a distance of 1320 Royal Infirmary.
candled, 20c. tniles was covered. The \Waratah, a Edinburgh Chamber of C'omn:erce
British steamer, has been missing recently discussed the provisions of
UNITED STATES MARKETS. since July 26, when she sailed from the Finance bill. Resolutions were
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Minneapolis, Aug. 17. -Wheat - Port Natal. She had on board 93 adopted in which the opinion was
Sept., 98% to 98%c; Dec., 95% to lassengers majority of the•and acpassengers rew were taluesof 207 en.sshoudlldtlei dealt e lewith inns
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se; May, 99% to 99%c; cash, No. colonials and tiro others English- separate measure, that the prope-
1 hard, $1.36; No. 1 Northern, $1.-
35; No. 2 Northern, $1.3:3; No. 3 men returning home from Sydney sats in regard to the liquor trade
Northern, 81.28 to $1.30. Bran -- and Port -Natal. were unfair, especially to Scotland;
and that the income tax was levied
In 100-11). sacks, $20.50. Flour -'1'Y in too small a CIA vi.
First patents, 85.90 to 1116.10; sec- KILLED iN '.1 FIRE.
end patents, (15.80 to $0; first clears 1t a public meeting bend in (las-
$4.95 to $5.25; second clears, $3.- Five Persons Lost Their Live:. at Box (fall Saloon a Werk ago, un -
(ter the auspices of the Glasgow and
35 to $3.65. Hancock, Michigan. District Tenants' Protective Asso-
Chicago, Ang 17. -('ash wheat --
A despatch y
No. 2 red, 1.00% to $1.02',Q ; No. p tch from Detroit, says: : elation, a resolution was passed
3 red, 89c to 111.00%; No. 2 hard, A special to the News from Han- thanking the Government for its ef-
$1.00% to 81.04; No. 3 hard. 8cock, Mich., says five persons lost forts towards reform in the letting
14) $1.02. Corn -No. 6767% to Go9c e their lives there early on Thurs- of workmen's dwelling -houses in
\'o. 2 white, 71 to 2,; No. 2 yel- day, when the residence of Edward Scotland, and welcoming the bill
low, 68% to 69c; No. 3, 67e; No. 3 Dionne was burned. They are: introduced by the Lord Advo ate,
white. 71%c; No. 3 yellow, 68% to Mrs. Dionne, Edward Dionne, Jr., but calling upon the Government,
69c; No. 4, 65 to 66e. Oats e.8'/ 3 aged 8; Lee Dionne. an infant ; a lc make the bill applicable to all
nd un -
white, 36N to 37%c; standard, 37% and ten -a fifth pegratnn named nettle nc has der,
and s let
to make t a the I lie t of £ 11► an ni p I-
to 37%c. __ not been learned. sort'• throughout 5Otlatel.
LiV f•: STOCK M:\ IRE ET.g----- a gruesome discovery was made
1'.tILE;II TO SWIM l'11.1\\E:h. at Bishnpbriggs recently when the
Montreal, Aug. 17. --Prime beeve•P _ hely of a male child was felled be -
sold at. 5'/c per lb. ; pretty good Englishman fevered �rrrn Miles hind a largo stone in an 'Tea drain
animals, 4 to he; corn mon stuck, cff a field situated at the side of tho
2',.; to 3'„c per lb. There were sev- and Hud to I:itr 1 p. hirkintilioch road. Medical exam-
eral superior milch rows on the .\ despat; li item London says : it,ation showed that t he child had
market, for which from $55 to $60 1\ illia:n Stearns, (lir long distance geen strangled Ly means of a lady's
was asked; the other rows sold at su i:anter, of Maneheder, on Wed- white cottea handkerchief bring
$25 to flee ewe'. One buyer leaight ne•dny opened iee annual series of tied tightly r,tnd its neck. and th it
eight good calves at *9 each; cum- attempts to ..w int across the }:ng- the crime had been esenniitt 'd three
(non calves sold at $3 to @5 each. lisp Channel. He entered the water et [our wce'cs ago. A farm ser -
i a
a
- hr rr. are avis �� 1 fora hr arrested o
p r paying f per I , et South Foreland, the most east- vent ha cn arrests 1 mar T rt
geed large sheen; the ethers sell at et ly point in Eeglan(l, and had co•- (:lasgew .been
cennectio.1 with 1:.0
3'.� to 3';c per 16 Lambs sell at et ed seven miles of the dixtance to affair.
( to 61/.1e per 11,. fe ...1 lots of fat the French coax at noon. when lir .-------i•
ho_gs sold at ah•nt e' .r Q•r Ile was obliK4d to give up on accotuntMany a man is perfect ellen it
Toronto, .lug 17. --Extra choice of sea-sicknc,s. I comes to being a nuisance.
s ... AA
ri
analysis could have revealed.
There is, too, one mineral poi-
son, the extremely deadly cyanide
(,r potassim, which is habitually
tasted by certain buyers, this be-
ing the only sure way to ascertain
its strength and purity. If unadul-
terated, it is sweet upon the tongue
like sugar.-Pearsou's Weekly.
FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
HER BANKS AND BRAES.
What is Going On in the Ilighlands
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia.
An Aberdcon lady witness de-
clined to tell her age in Court the
other day, but consented to write
it down for the information of the
sheriff.
Tho well-known Scotch whisky
distillers, Messrs. John Walker di
Sons, Kilmarnock, have been ap-
pointed distillers and whisky mer-
chants to His Majesty the King of
Spain.
After several conferences be-
tween employers and operatives in
tho letterpress printing trade in
Aberdeen as to the rate of wages,
an amicable settlement has been
arrived at whereby the minimum
rate will be increased by 2s. week-
ly.
Tho Scottish Patriotic Associa-
tion has resolved to discoutinue
the celebration as at present con-
ducted at the Bore Stone. People
can kiss the dirk as much as they
like, but they will not have tho en-
couragement of patriotic official-
dom.
An old lady residing in Airdrie,
while steppi:tg off a train car in
Main street, Coatbridge, was run
down by a motor car and had her
arm broken. In the crowd which
I.ad gathered a bottle burst in a
basket, and severely cut the wrist
of a girl. She had to get three
stitches put in.
Mr. James S. Dixon, LL.D.,
Bothwell, has intimated his inten-
tion of increasing his original gift
for the improvement of Hamilton
Public Park from £1,500 to £1,755
in order to meet all the expenditure
incurred by the council, in the erec-
tion of a lodge, cntrauce gates,
wall, and roads, etc.
At Barrhead this week a man ex-
1•'aincd that he had thrown a quan-
tity of paraffin into his brother's
Eyes for fun. The Magistra:e om-
1 hasized the humor by sending him
to prison for 21 days, which was
not too much, considering he had
15 previous appearances in court
for various kinds of fun.
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