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WORLD'S MARKETS! buoyth` speculative testing Was more 1 JAPAN'S LEGACY OF WAR
BEPOBT5; :VROM TIIF. LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheeses
and Other hairy Produce
at Rome and Abroad.
Toronto, Oct. 10.-\Yhttat- No. 2
Ontario White is quoted at 7.11 to
75c, and No. 2 red Winter at 731 to
74c at outside penile; goose wheat,
67 to 68c outride. New Nu. 1 hard
is steady at 851c, Georgian Hay
ports. No. 1 Northern at 83c. and
No. 2 Northern at 8111c.
Oats ~ales of No. 2 at 801 to
31c north and west, and at 301 to
31c north and west, anti at 31 } to
82c rust.
Barley -No. 2 quoted at 47 to
No. 3 c.tra at 45 to 46c, and No.
8 at 42 to 43c at outside points.
Troy -Sales of No. 2 at 67 to (8c,
north and west, and at 70c cast.
Corn -The market for Canudiun is
dull. American corn dull at 601e
for No. 2, and at 60c for No. 3,
lake and roil.
Buckwheat -A sale is reported
outside at 50c west.
ltyc--Quotations 62 to 65e outside.
Flour --Ninety per cent. patents,
made of new wheat for export, are
quotid at $3 to $3.10 in buyers'
sacks at outside points; do., in LLis,
$8.50 to $3.60. Manitoba flours un-
changed; No. 1 patents, $5 to $5.-
20; No. 2 patents, $4.80 to 34.90,
and strong bakers', $4.60 to $4.70.
Manitoba hour, made of new wheat,
quota) as follows: -No. 1 patents,
$4.50; No. 2, $4.:30, and strong
bakers', $4.20 on track, Toronto.
• Millfeed-At outside points bran is
quoted at $12, and shorts at $16
to 117. Manitoba bran. in sacks,
.10.50 to $17; and shorts at $19.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -Choice stork, $1.50 to $3
'per bbl., and cooking apples, 81 to
$1.25.
Beans -hand-picked, $1.75; prime,
11.60 to 81.65.
Honey -The market is steady at
6j to 17 c for'trained, and $1.50 to
$2 per dozen combs.
Hops -18 to 20c per lb.
Iiay-Car lots of No. 1 timothy
are quoted at $8 to $8.00 on truck
here, and No. 2 at $0 to $6.50.
Straw -Car lots quoted at 56 on
track, 'Toronto.
Pot:.toes-They are quoted at 60
65c per bag, on track.
vo Poultry -Pat bens 7 to Sc;
, 6 to 7c; fat chickens. 9 to
thin, 7 to 8c; ducks, 8c; all
weight.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
utter -found rolls are jobbing at
to 21c; tubs, good to choice, 18
0 19e, and inferior, 16e. Creamery
print:i sell at 221 to 23c, and solids
at 21 to 22c.
EggsSales at 181 to 19c per
dozen in case lots; splits, 10 to 16jc.
Chccse-The market is steady, with
ices at 111 to 12e per ib., the lat-
Jor twins.
IIOG P1 )DUCT'S.
con -Long clear. 111 to lltc
Ib. in case lots; mess pork, 18c;
ort cut, $22 to $22.50.
Cured meats --Hams, light to medi-
al, 14 to 1411e; do.. heavy, 13c;
oils, 12c; shoulders, 11c; backs, 15
to llic; brenkfnst. bacon, 141 to 15e.
Lord ---Pierces, 10tc; tubs, 101e;
ils. 10;c.
BUSiNESS A'I' MONTREAL.
nevem, Oct. l0, -Business in
on spot to -day was again
and the market was without
ial feature. In oats the
Is firer on spot, prices are
nt 34 to 341c for No. 5
There was no change in
which rule firm at 77c afloat,
buckwheat at i'41e afloat. flour
anitoba Spring Whcrtt patents,
to $5.10; strong tinkers', $4.70
4.80; Winter whcot patents, 81. -
to $4.60; straight rollers, $1.25
$4.35 in wo(xl; in bags, $1.90 to
Feed -Ontario bran in bull.,
5 to $15.50; shorts, $20 to S20.-
Atanitobn bran, In bugs. $17 to
shorts, $20 to $21. Iiay-No.
8.50 to $i) per ton on the track;
2, $7.50 to $8; clover, 56 to
5; clover mixed, 86.50 to 87.
rs-Choice printer, $1.50 to $1.-
r hush; lined -picked. $1.65 to
O. Potatoes -New potatoes, in
of 80 lbs.. 50 to 55c: in hags.
lbs., 65e. honey -White elot•-
n comb, 12 to 18.' per 1-1h. sec -
extract, 61 to 7c: buckwheat,
to lir. 1'rotisione-Itonvy Cnn-
an short tout pork. 822; light
ort cut, $18 to 819; American cut
clear fat becks. $20.75 to $22.25;
comp..mei Inrtl. 54 fo 61e; Canadian
Imre Inrd. 10 to 111c; kettle ►render-
ed, 11 to 12e; hauls. 121 to 141c;
haemo. 14 to 15c: (resit killed abat-
toir dressed hoes. 89.'25 to $9.50;
Olive. $6.75 to $7. mixed lets. 'Sege
Straight stock, 20e; NO. 1 cand-
led, 181 to 19c. hurler -Choicest
erennterv, 23c; undergrat1••s. 221 to
224r: dairy, 18 to 20c. Che,`sc-On-
tario, 110 to 111c: (iie'het., 111 to
31;c.
UNITED STATES' *TART<1:TS.
Buffalo. Oct. in--i•'Iftn'-T'irnt.
!{!heat Spring time; No. 1 Northern.
a,i.L, 85;c: Winter uneettied; No. 2
1, 8544'. ('orn-111,11; No. 2 yel-
low. Mlle; No. 2 corn, 581e. Oate-
Strong; No. 2 white. Ate; No. 2
mixed. :tete. t'nnal freights-Vn-
(than Fre l
Toledo, Oct. 10 .--Wheat-Cash.
841e; I1eenlher, sr, le: May. 871c•
Cern-t'nsh, neer: December, 431c:
11fnv 42!e. Ont' --Carp, 30e; Decem-
ber. 30;c; 41st'. :(1•4c.
Nt. 1.01115. Out 10 -Wheat -Cash.
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Torort.1, Oct 10.-1luyers reported
imp' ot•em,nt to the trade at the
tern \1nt•ket to -day. I'ric•ee of
litre to best butchers' and feeders
(S fit no without a quotable rise,
Export cattle, choice 84.40 14.n0
Do., medium ..... 4.15
3.00
2 75
2 75
4.15
4.00
..... 3.60
2.75
2.00
3.00
Do., bulls
Do., light .
...Do., Cotes
Butcher's', picked
ch ()ICU
Do., mediumDo., light
Do., bulls
Stockers, choice
Do., common ...... ... 2.00
Do., bulls 2.2,5
i Leavy feeders ...,.. 3.50
Milch cows, choice ,....40.00
Do., common ...28.00
Sheep, export, ewes ... 3.85
1)o., bucks :1.00
Po., culls
Lambs, per cwt.
Calves, each
:1.00
5.25 5.85
2.00 10.00
Do., per cwt. ...... 3.50 6.00
/logs, selects 0.25 0.00
Do.. lights and fats... 6.00 0.00
AN ARCH -SWINDLER.
4' ;5 i Interest 011 Debt Will Be Seventy -
:3.25 live Millions.
3.00 A 'I'okio despatch says:-Fnru►e1 Mr. Joseph Keefe of the Geograpbn-
SMALLER OUTPUT OF GOLD. JCONDENSEDNEWS ITEMS HE CLAIMS BIG ESTATE I LUCKY SERVANT GIRLS -
Dry Sunuuer Has Interfered With
Mining Operations. ITAPPENINGS FROM ALL C'.'ER AUSTRALIAN ASSERTS HE IS LOWLY MAIDS 11l'IIO MATE
A despatch from ()teawe. sv3s: THIS GLOBE. THE TRUE HEIR WITI3 TITLES AND RIGHTS.
Telegraphic Briefs From Otu Cate Cupid Is Never happier Than
and Other Countries of Ito- When Linking Lives and Brid,-
3.25 Foreign Minister Okuu,n, leader of cat Surrey, returned to the city on
'1hurtiday front the Yukon. Mr. beet,
worked in a practically unknown dis-
trict about 400 miles up the Stew -
2 2S that when the wit hdramat of troops tut Ititer. The country in that sec-
tion was completed elle will Lind herself con -
and
was rough and tliu'tuimoud,
' 'fe' (rented uilh a e!c4,t of $1,250,000, -and Was 'woe!. d by mule a few trap -
2 ' it 000, the interest on whisk alone, I'e'rs and truucr;, with tcho►tt the In-
:3.iiU'roughly spcukiul, will be $7'e,lu,u,- diens of the Mackenzie Irude. There
50.001000, or 11curly twice the re%euce of were indicat1 ' -; of goof) d•'pmsits of
33.00 the country ren years ago. The icer iter, galena, veal, copper. and gold,
4.10 citi•ita tate of taxation before the specintel.s of which Mr. Keefe for a line new wing to the Chatea
3.50 war was $2. Now it is $6. The per brought home. Frintenac, Quebec.
3.50 capita ..huie in the uattone' debt ).o- Mr. Keele said that the yield of Cattle -thieves have been busy it
Beverly township. Mr. George Wit
Jinni reports the loss of ten steers.
A Winnipeg firm is co,templat in
building a grain elevator at Van
cuuver, the first on the coust.
Joshua Brunt, an Indian, Was ru
over by a train near Belleville ant
killed on Saturant•.
Mrs. Reuben I'ark of Chatham
aged 70 years, was killed while walk
ing on the railway on Saturday.
George C. Campbell, implemen
agent, committed suicide at Wood
stock by taking carbolic acid on
Saturday.
Miss Bessie Lewis of Netvboro'
shot a black bear at Devil Lake that
weighed nearly 200 pounds.
Fred. Chambers, who recently pur-
chased the Dake Ilouse, at Princeton.
committed suicide by drinking car-
bolic acid. on Friday.
The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation
4.25 the prugressIve party, before the As -
4 I,:, ,,ociatc l Chambers of Commerce on
3 s Thursday. referring to the sudden ex -
:3 00 Pension of .Japan's !!marcs, said
('A NADA.
Canadians are invited to tender
for live hundred horses for the :mouth
Africa constabulary.
'filo Wolverine Cedar Lumber Co.
of Michigan has purchased a timber
litrit on the Spanish River.
'1'!►e C. P. It. has purchased land
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After Thirty-nine Years of Prison
Goes Back for Ten More.
A ('hicago despatch says: Frank
(lope, 59 years old, tvho has served
89 .are behind the burs, plendtel
guilty on Tut sday to a charge of
swindling, and was n:rtenct 1 to the
penitentiary for ten years. Ills real
name is said to be Punchon. and it
is said that he has respectable re-
latives in London. England. Ile
was released from the Joliet Prison
the latter partof last August. and
had been at liberty only two weeks,
when he was again behind the bars.
Ile confessed that he advertised for
a woman to act as travelling com-
panion for children and then robbed
the auulicunts for the position.
EXCHANGE PRISONERS.
Russia Will Hand Over 1,866 and
Japan 64,000.
fur.: the tear etas 50. It is now 4.25. gold in the Yukon this year would
CountOkuu,u, however, was not pin- be less than Inst season. The reason
shuistie. Ile referred eloquently to for' this was the unusual dryness of
the recce .ity of business men to•, the Summer. Auuther thing inter-
doubliu • their energy in the det'etop-;fering with the yield was the pass_
meat of productive works ot alt kinds • in; of many nines tele the hands
and thus securing victories in peace of !urger coinpanies with bigger
as well as In war. outfits. When, however, these coo-
- ♦ patties get down to business the out -
CONTRACT LET.
put wenn' be much larger, as their
equipment would enable them to
500 Miles of Transcontinent„1 to work low-grade mines. Mr. Keene
be Started at Once. tsaw no signs of exhaustion in the
A Montreal despatch says: --The
contract. for the construction of the
roadbed complete. ready for the ties
ko Supo •• •
Yukon, and tit right it would be-
come
o-come a 'ermtue,•', mining camp.
JAPAN'S FUTURE.
alit rat's, ; _
branch of elle Grand 'Trunk Pacific
Invitation to Foreign Capital Be -
Railway from Fort William to Lake; gins to Bear Fruit.
Superior Junction, about 210 utiles,
Was awarded on 'Thursday morning atA despatch from 'Tokio says: -
the office of 11 r. Frank W. Horse, `Baron Shibusa tt to addressing the As -
vice -president and general manager,,sociated Chambers of Commerce, said Company have derided to spend
to Foley tiros., Larsen and Co., of the development of trade communlca- trillion dollars in new teSSeIS an
Winnipeg, Man. This firer is consid-;tions and carrying power was of rho other itnproventents next season.
ered one of the most successful and ,greatest importnuce to Japan. Ile Messrs. Long, ltisby and othe
experienced in railway construction criticized the ultra -pessimistic view public-spirited citiaens of Iiamilto
work on this continent. .taken of Japan's linanclal future, have taken up the nock of providin
Tho awarding of this contra'rt and said he was confident of greater a consuntpt' sanitarium for th
means that about 500 utiles of the : development of Japan's resources and city:
Grand 'l'runk Pacific will ise under tic- also those of Corea. The British Columbia (:overnmen
tunl construction by the latter part The Baron said he was highly de- will exhibit ten tons of fruits growl
of October, and it is hoped that at lighted to find that his efforts while in that province at the Exhibition o
d cm - f ntra- t o to nl orticu lural Secure i
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charged a tell murder of or en Mit-
chell on Isle Horde two months ago.
were acquitted at Montreal on Sat-
urday.
Because be objected to her mar-
riage, Kaspan Kasparian, an Armen-
ian from Ilantilton, on Saturday,
shot his young and pretty daughter
at Brantford, and then turned the re-
volver on himself. Both were ser-
iously woueded.
The National 'Transcontinental
Railway Comu►ission has deckled to
utilize wireless telegraphy for com-
munication with the survey camps
in Northern Ontario and Quebec.
The first stations will be at New
Liskeard and Lake Abittibi.
No fewer than eighteen suicides
have occurred on outlying creeks of
the Yukon since %fay est. Failure
to "strike it rich" deranged the
minds of most of these victims of
self-destruction and the lure of gold,
The latest of them is Joe Kane,
niias .loo Thomas, who has been in
the Yukon six years. Ile took laud-
anum.
least 1,000 stiles will be under n traveling a broad to invite tho t h I toyal 1 y
A St. Petersburg despatch says: tract by Nov. 30. It is stipulated'ment of foreign capital in .1,a! an London.
Russia on Wednesday agreed to the that the Work shall be completed so 1 were bearing bruit in the present cu- John W. Hartnett was arrested a
Jape.nese proposition to exchange that this branch will be a factor -in operation of foreign capitalists. , Ile Watertown, N.Y., on Friday, on
prisoners of war whereby 1,866 Jit- moving the grain crop of 1006. believed they would find an extensive charge of forger; preferred by th
panese prisoners In Russia will be -- ; field of activity in this part its the Bank of Montreal and brought t
delivered at setae point on the test- MANUFACTURERS GROWING; world, and especially- in Corea. While Kingston for trial.
October 10th for the infantry ant
October 20th for the artillery hav
been given out as th3 tentative date
for the removal of troops from To
ionto and (luebec to the fortress a
Halifax.
Provincial Treasurer McCorkill o
Quebec told a delegation of the Brit
ish Agents' Association that th
Provincial tax on commercial travel
ital oyc a lens would be maintained.
{ Charles Kterwick and his trite
sistiug of tt209,378,(i:i8 in tants,' A despatch from Tokio says: -The
ern frontier of Russia, and 64,000
Russians will be delivered at the
ports of Kobe, Nagasaki and Yoko-
hama, whence they will be conveyed
to Vladivostok in ten I(useien trans-
ports, now interned at Mhanbitai and
- ''admitting that Japan ecus heavily in
resell. of the war, the
The Value of Products Nearly
!debt uron said nbit behove l that adequate
$u�'�'� I efforts on the pert of the business
An Ottawa despatch says: The men of .Japan would open a way' to
Census Department on 'Thursday is- increasing the wealth of the empire.
t•o u t !since statistics its to
Saigon. and two or three other the
n manufactures There were 14,(150 establishntentsI
noted, represeuling 2(14 classes of in-,
f to make special and chtstries. The value of the total cap-� Privy Council.
I 1 d was 6446,916,487,con-
ships which are being sent from o want in Canada in 1901.
Odessa.
The Ameri •an Charge d'Affaires is At a Meeting -of the Japanese
cndeavorin
more specely arrangements for the
PEACE TREATY ENDORSED.
release of 250 sick Japanese, for
whom it is hoped Japan may send buildings, machinery, motive power,
tools and implements, and $237,-
a ship direct to the Baltic. 537,849 in working capital. Tho
umber of persons employed on
LETTERS FOR THE NORTH.
n
ealtn'ies was 30,691, with salaries of
$23,676,146, and the number on
Department Has Instituted a Win- wages 844,085, and the cost ot sal-
ter Mail Service. aries and wages $11:3,240,350. The
value of the total products was
An Ottawa despatch snys: The $481,053,375, being for goods n,ane-
Post-011lco Department has arranged lectured in establishments $409,208.-
for a special mail service similar to 351, and fur custom work and re-
pairing $11,795,024.
CURE OF CONSUMPTION.
that provided last winter for Port
Resolution, Fort McPherson and in-
termediate points. A mail will leave
Edmonton on or about Nov. 29th
and Feb. 7th. The mail matter for
these despatches will ho litnited to
letters only. The weight of each
letter is to be not more than one
ounce. Letters may be registered.
but not insured. Preference will 1,e treatment for diphtheria, and who is
given, first, to registered let tern . one of t he most buttons of the Pas-
ant), second, to ordinary tetters, a.-- tear Institute experts, informs the
cording to the date of posting. !Malin that he intends to proclaim
_-,-.__ • next August a method of curing tu-
Inercntosis which he has discovered.EASIEST CURED DISEASE. Ho says that the method involves the
use of neither scrum nor vaccine, but
What French Authority Says of that it is a preventive Its well as a
Consumption. curative remedy. Ile will hold the
A Paris despatch says: At the secret some time, as he did in the
case of his diptherta serum.
,e • •ulosis Con roes on 1Vedne dry Drs.
Tuberculosis t e g He trill ex plain the method to
Prof. Grancher, one of the leading I
Roux and Menlehikol7 and Irate the
French authorities, declared that eppttcatiun of it to medical practi-
consuutption was the most ea•il!: boners without revealing tho nature
curable of diseases if taken in ti1110. ' of the remedy, because he thinks he
It was a mistake, he said, to wait ; has a right to reserve temporarily
until the presence of the bacilfu: the, profits of the discovery to en -
was established. Immediately n able him to prosecute other research -
physician discovered a permane'1t es. i'rof. lichring added: -"From to -
abnormal sound localir,etl at the top (lay onward the victims of tubercu-
of the lung when the patient drew losis may hope again."
a br. nth be ought to diagnose the 4
trouble as tuberculosis. Sounding
was the best and simplest test. it- way.
wens far superior to rndloscopic ox- C. N. R. Trach -layers Will be
amination, in which he had little There Early Next Month. WHEAT GRADING I3108.
confidence.
Important Discovery by Pasteur
Institute Expert.
A Paris despatch says: Prof.
liehriu6,. who discovered the serum
NEARING EDMONTON.
I Privy Council met on Wednesday
forenoon, and after •a long discussion
endorsed the treaty of peace which
' was signed at Portsmouth. Marquis
;Ito presided. Tho meeting took place
in the prsenco of the Emperor, and
was attended by Ministers of State.
It is expecte(: that after the '':m-
, peror formally ratifies the treaty ho
will commend Admiral Togo to bring
the combined Japanese fleets to Tokio
Bay, where it is planned to hold an
Imperial review, some 200 Warships
to take part. 'Pogo will take this
opportuliity for a triumphal return
to the capital.
NEW HIGHLAND REGIMENT.
Winnipeg Delegation Waits Upon
the Minister of Militia.
A despatch front Winnipeg says: -A
large delegation, represe..ling cue
Scottish societies, .coifed on :Sir
Frederick Borden on Wednesday and
urged rho organization of a 11.ghlatd
regiment here. The Minister of Mil-
itia promised favorable consideration.
MORE C. P. R. ENGINES.
Works in Montreal Close Contract
For Thirty-five.
A dcr,palch from Montreal sass: -
'Phe Locomotive and Machine Com-
pany, of Montreal, announced on
1Vedncsday that they had closed a
contract with the Canadian Pacific
Railway for 35 ten -wheeled freight
and passenger locomotives, known as
the Canadian Pacific "700" class.
The locomotives arc duplicates of the
30 of the saute style recently built
by the Locomotive and Machine Com-
pany for the Canadian Pacific Rail -
An Edmonton despatch says: -Pre -
WINTER NAVIGATION. silent Mackenzie of the C. N. It
came in over his line on Thursday
night, nil left for the coast next
Expert to Design Vessel los North- day. hails are laid past Vegreville,
utnberland Straits. and will reach here early in Novem-
An Ottawa despatch Sias: The px- bet. The gneotiou uta union depot
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{ere from the shipbuilding yards uhere was lad before the linilway
i (,oniniission informally, and a set -
Maxim. Vickers and Co., of Borisov- •
Gement Is expected.
on -Furness, smiled here on Friday. ��-
Ile is to visit Prince Edward island CAN PEED 100,000,000.
and secure data respecting winter
conditionson Northumberland
Straits. and then prepare designs London's Ex -Lord Mayor's Opin-
for a t.'sel which will assuredly ion of Canada's Possibilities.
keep up comrnu»icattion to and from A dispatch from Lon.lo!► says: Sir
Ilcnry- Knight, ex -Lord Mayor of
I ureter interviewed at Liverpool on
the island all winter.
TWENTY INDIANS PERISHED
•
his return from Cnnada. said he
thought the North-West was quite
Started Out in Fishing Boat itttd enpnlde of raising profiler.. enough
Have Not Been Heard of. to (tell n hundred trillion people.
Canada had many world wonders,
say': A l,shrng boat with (our fora- { Canndinus nor Ilrt.tsht rs thoroughly
lies of Indians trent Gntd('n Island. ,understood tho greeti»0a of Its pos-
including several women and chit- isfhiltties.
Arra. loft here Septreh.'r 26 for ; 4. w
ilea tei Island. The bunt has not WILL BREAK T/'AT•IT7ON, 1lilllaul \ . ()'l►aly, nn American
On.e Result of the Insurance Revc- , it it engineer, ties assassinated In
yet reedited the Mand. and it hits, -- letiotns in New York.
about 8.e•n given op ns lost. 'Ilene Innovation on the New British M. rico.
are supposed to hate been nholit , Battic:�tip Dreadnaught. A d•.;e's'l, i !s -r'iu :.aye: It 1 Jlultnc l»ty, n toren 111 ('apo Cul -
twenty 1'Whin% in the hunt, {mnbuhly { A ,hol„ !el. tract i.• t,•/''1 �::ys: A -- stated here tl,,.i . .•.t'liee Eta_- ol:y, was struck by a cyclone and re-
f fish. french . 1 ' '' not insurance dared to ruins.
half woua•n old children. cordite.:te. the can e . t' . t' hire-
„ rnmpnni• s are , to , st,nonol ' Pricer a null Germany have signed
ship Ito rat't nla:ht. I eildirR r.l ort s -
BIG NUGGET PURCHASED ,11'';th. tt'11 )10••,1`. train! tre.litiurby brnnebrs in ti„
A ( hnrletoix, Mich.. desptttrlt'but ho was of the opinion neither
Bulk of Western Crop is of Uni-
formly High Quality.
A despatch from Fort William says:
-Twenty-eight hundred and thirty-
two cars of new wheat were inspected
at Fot•t William in September, as
compared with only 871 Inspected in
the saute month last. year. 'l'hc
grades are much higher, 2,400 grad-
ing Xo. 1 hard and No. 1 Northern,
the bulk of the Western crop being of
uniformly high quality.
TOGO TO VISIT BRITAIN.
Proposal That He Bring the Jap-
anese Fleet With Hint.
A de! patch from Len.
Express nays Ono 1es
discussed for the hr: r
land of the iic, t of A.
Nothing is tet settled.
.: Tho
,ere beimg
r.•. to iSng-
1,•,i,:.l 'Pogo.
Mum/ cif the
0ItEAT 111411'AiN1
The Allan line bas suspended its
Glasgow -New York service.
There is talk of transporting the
entire Canadian exhtblt at the Liege
Exposition. to London.
General Booth Is arranging to
chnrter three steamers to bring emi-
grant•, to Canada next spring.
Great Britain will establish naval
bases at Gibraltar, Dover and Sing-
apore.
The London Times says mtsmanage-
ment of the three big insurance com-
panies may largely impair tho bon-
uses or dividends.
Alderman Walker Vaughan Mor-
gan, who tins connected with the
1ludsou's Bay Company, was elected
Lord Mayor of Le,ndon on Friday.
The Church Artny of England has
offered to send 2,000 emigrants to
Canada next spring if the Canadian
Government will pay their passage.
S'TA'TE:s.
The yellow fever germ has been
ident !lied by New Orleans physici-
ans.
A leading financial Institution in
New York was swindled out of se-
curities valued at $360.000 by an
unknown man who presented a
forged cheek.
The insurance investigation in New
1'„rl- r'eveloped that set teal largo
c.: .r:ies combined to took after
1, t..-4ttion, divided the tcrritery be-
t" net them and shared the expense.
(!I'NEItAL,
The licit i<h far eastern nglalron
will visit 'Tokio early in Octol:er.
Unssnct•cs of C1u !stars by Turkish
ships n:•:• r.pnirin;; :end refitting and troops are repotted tram ?ltncedonln.
cannot 1'u',0 .Jnt•nn for some limo. 1•'ran(•e int accepted Russia's Intl -
talkie to attend the peace conference
BP.ANCHES IN JLKERICA• at The 'togne,
result of the ,
hint ire flee cheers' 1)1W r1 in the Now 1'orl.
Cobalt Tronster to Decorate Na- ln•r i,: . of U:e tr..t,l „,3,1i) 5014
''set's crime so. r sone Tv,, iGrHtt'a-
tionel Museum at Ottawa. •
A despstch from (Mown .•'t' Ile
Barlette f 11. 5.'.4.•,.$•.11
has purchns' .1 On lle. r • •': ..'n 11
\(Useur» n '2:••-' 1•.r:r.,! e''l..1.• • eft •0
engin 1. it IS 114 foui1 on tIlk. IA -
row whine, an(1 be taloes it al
111,000.
ti. t . 'r i •'ales!. is 4110 to I3N•
' t•.r..+�,: t •o • (ei ni:hien; nceonuoode-
tfen fe, se , r t•: of I.' t° men 1111.1 eX-
lit:. rt aaua11''(' of at:onnnI-
1IOW S', !:. n1111 t'1'1.` !00115. Ill.'
1'e'.ulnen;{tt will fe the largest bat-
tleship in the world
l'errih'.• Into, '.1 •
the 1811 i.h tn; - , :+ e
itis: the bimee,., b. t
Afe1 or idiot.
1' '. thnu'•,teul Ik n
to 1. •,reel )(raise g'-
(t•.t against the Jnr
Province of Bengal.
-tntts% as the ,ntr ngr•e(mcnt In regard to the 'slu-
r %. lot lone in 1,'c' ) gr est coin
it is reported thnt 51. %%lite will be
51100.e a Count and chief of rho ('ab-
, ..i i, .; Inet (.f .111:•i: +t' rs, the highest 1:(,Ilml'
1n 18. gift. of the ('car,
!'• r-,:1 ,1 There are fears of it revolt in Itnn-
enry. ()wine t0 the aningonisnt to
a'.. •t' ' n
the Kart -1 :r.lj cror.
0'`4 ns a !sr"- j 4'11:1i1ive cf great cruelty to the
titins of lh, t,nlltvs are teade ngainst the admin-
istration in aha French Congo.
Will Attempt to Wrest Title and
Riches Front An English
Duke.
Very deter u►ined will be the attack
to be made soon to wrest trout the
ing Social Oulfs.
Cupid has nut often bunt in it vire
romantic mood than when, a siert
Duko of Portland his title Luigi vast time ago, he etude Mr. .1. G. 1'laelps
relates. So string is considered the Stukcs, n young Awrrican nnilltun-
tane of the ciaiutnnt, George Hulauo- nice and PIsilanthropist, lay his Itegnrt
by Lruco, that u limited liability. end fortune at the feet of Aliso yas-
cumpany teeth a cu!>ilul of 555,04)0 - tor, tout nelduta has a heart been lust
Ifns been registered at Souterset and won in oaten a strange cnviron-
nrrmt, for it 'wits in the slums of
)louse under the title o[ "ll• Il i New lurk, ane! when bent on errands
Druce, Limited," says a London tot-'
tet • of charity, taut these two niters -II
Mr, Deuce. it may be remembered, ; Gest tact.
cu,nu to I:uglund from Australia ice llr. Stokes is the sou of a million-
Mr.
1903. from that time he bus
cel air() banker, and springs froze, a line
been btu with his solicitor gather- overra oft rhusrtls, while
ing every possible shred of etidcueo Mins no
Pastor is a "daughter of the
(;licGltu, ' had her Mrhomesulit enc limo
that bears on the famous claim. It
is stated that everything is now in in Black Lion Yard. Whitechapel, and
earned her }!ting as a cigar -maker
cccding in support of the claimants before she became social reformer
order for tho reopening of legal pro -
contention. and began to work among the dcsti-
tute in New York sluts. 13y such
CLMDiHI:C'I' l;N'1'. strangely opposite and diverse paths
Mr. LAIruceS's claire isDESCnow, briefly, therm two young people have suet;
as follows: It is u fact that the pre- anti it few days ago the "child of the
sent holder of the title and estates Ghetto" -who is u pretty and clturrn-
is descended front the third son of ing lady -stood at the altar with
the third duke, while Hr. Druce her briilegroov►-Croesus, and with a
claims that lie is directly descended $25,000 pearl necklace --his gift -
from the first son of the third duke, round her ne-cb
underground passages, Welbeck Ab- ('lipid, one may imagine.is never
happier Shan when linking, h duke, twho ryas supposed at g lives and
limfifto to have died unnarried and bridging socia gulfs in this dramatic
Way. We need not go outside our
owu laud to point to dozens of pen-
nilcss and humbly -born girls whom
he has orated with titles and wealth;
and it has ever been and always will
bo so with the
MISCHIEVOUS Li'1'1'LE IMP.
And if the 4�rrnarriages aro not always
as happy a. they ought to be - well.
we can scarcely blame hint; he play-
ed his part cleverly, anti there the -
matter ends, n0 far as be is con-
cerned.
Without giving living examples of
this kind of romance, one could eas-
ily Lill columns with stories of maids
of low degree nliutn Cupid has raised
to coronets uud wealth; indeed, in
his daring ,Hoods be has more Than
once offered ,; crown in exchnnge for
a lowly maiden's hand, as when ho
bey, the Portland seat, being literal- made Peter the Great fall a ti. tin► to
ly honeycombed with subterranean , the bright eyes of Martha Skatrou-
works. Both had strong objections ska, the peasant's daughter, and
to wine and tobacco. 'Their portraits placed her by his side on the throne
show remarkable resemblance. Both of Russia as Catharine the Empress.
had the eccentric mania of constant- Sir Henry 1'arkes, three times Pre-
ly changing the position of things mier of New South Wales, married
his cook; John Crossley, founder of
the millionaire family of Halifax car-
pet -weavers, had for wife (and an
excellent spouse. too) Martha Turner,
a maid -of -all -work; '191o►nas Coutts,
the milliotnni;e banker, married his
brother's "general"; and Cobbett
and Itobert Phillips (brother of the'
poet) both mated with servants, the
latter after uniting sixty years for
her.
Nearly seventy years ago George.
fifth Earl of Essex, tome a countess
of Catharine Stephens, daughter of a
carver and gilder, who as dowager
Without issue, whereas be had mar-
ried under the mune of Deuce.
'This is what the claimant bus to
protc, but he and his solicitor, who
have just telt for the continent to
rest after their labors, express them-
selves as quite contident of success.
Inuring two and a half years that,
Mr. Druce and his solicitor have been
in this country a great amount of
evidence as to the strange parallels
of habits and eccentricities m the
fifth duke of Portland and 'Phonies
Charles Druce, under which name he
is alleged to have niarricd the moth-
er of the claimant, has been discov-
ered, compared and collated.
(MUCH EVIDENCE FOUND.
Both were of the same height and
build, and both loved to burrow in
and is, in fact, a grandson of the
atounu them.
The story of the life of each al-
leged separate personality fats into
the gaps in the history of the other.
The fifth Duke of Portland is found
to appear in public life when Thomas
Druce is' missing. When Druce reap-
pears there is no trace of the duke.
Mystery in the dukedom claim has
centered round a vault in Highgate
cemetery, in which Thomas Druce is
said to have been buried, According
to the claimant's theory the alleged
burial of Druce on Dec. 31, 1864,
was an imposture, an empty coffin
being interred. countess long strvived her husband b. -
It is further alleged that Druco as ono of the most beloved ladies in
was seen and recognized by many the peerage. Eliza O'Neill, daughter
persons after this date. Some of of a strolling actor -"a pretty Irish
these persons are still alive. The girl, with a small touch of the
death of the fifth Duke of Portland brogue on her tongue; she is very
did not occur until 1879.
SITTING UPON A YOUNG MAN.
"I don't altogether like this young
man Millikin who comes to see you
so often. I hear that he is only
it poor clerk," was what the head
of the family said to his daughter
one (lay at the dinner table.
"He is a very nice young man,"
replied the duughter. "llesi+les, he
is something more than a 'poor
clerk.' Ile gets a large salary, and
is manager of ono of the shops in
the city, end expects some dry to
have an interest in the business."
"I hope he may," responded the
old man, "but he strikes me as •
very flippant, impertinent young per-
son, nuc! in my opinion he should be
sat upon."
"Well, I have invited hint to take
ten with us this evening," said the
daughter, "nod I hope you will trent
him politely, at least, You will
find him a very different person from
',that you suppose him to be."
"Ohl I'll treat hila politely
enough," he said.
That evening Mr. Millikin appeared
at ten, and made n most favorable
impression upon the old gentleman.
"Ile 1s a clever young fellow, after
all," be thoaght. "1 havo done him
an injustice."
It was just here that Bobby spoke
out. (lobby was a well.meaningboy
but too talkative.
"Pape," he ventured, "you know
al:at yon snit' to -day at dinner
about Mr. Millikin, that be was an
impertinent young roan, and ought
to be sat upon--?"
"Silence, sir!" shouted the father,
swallowing a mouthful of hot ten.
llul the little fellow wouldn't 1.11-
011041.
"It's all right," he continued eon-
tit:0ntially, but in a whisper loud
enough to be I;enrd out of doors,
"be has been sot upon. Sister sat
down on 1•,11m last night for two
hour,.•'
After that the tea wont on more
quietly, ening to 'lobby's sudden
and t.'I•v i.p (t'-;,artu►•.'.
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BPAIJCH WORKS IIJ JAPAN.
Armstrong and Co. to Establish
a Factory There.
A despnt -1i frons Kobe to the Lon -
dolt Sicuudaral says that Sir *1i4Iiatn
Armstrong end Co_ shipbuilder" and
ordnance ntnnufse taros, hat e ac-
cepted nn invitation from the Merino
Ministry to establish branch works
in Japan. A Fite has been chosen
hent• 11ire tsaka.
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A Helena despatch toys that the
Liberal party in Cuba Is considering
the (location of sending a commie -
Sion to Washington to nsk for the
re-estnbliehment of the Amerirnn in-
tervention or that 1N., UJnited
States guartotltee fair elections in
the 110iad.
pretty, and so, in fact, is her
brogue," so John Kemble described
her -Was wooed and won by Wittiam
Wrixon Becher, Esq., M.P. for Mal-
low, who, some years alter,
IVAS MADE A BARONET.
The first Earl of Craven offered a
coronet to Miss Louise Brunton,
daughter of a provincial actor anti
manager, ono of eight children, who
was brought up amid the poverty
and hardships inseparable from a
strolling actor's life a century ago;
Miss Farren, who became Countess
of herby, was the daughter of a poor
Cork apothecary, and spent; her early
years, after her father's death, in
extreme poverty; Miss Mary Bolton,
the daughter of obscure parents who
lived in Long Acre, found a husband
in the second Lord Thurlow, son of
tho famous Lord Chancellor, and be-
clone
eclone the mother of the third Lord;
while, to give but one more out of
pinny similar romances, Aurora do
Llvey, who vest made Voltaire's ac-
quaintance as a "poor girl, as mean-
ly clad as a beggar," wore a cornet
as Marchioness de (eouvernet for
many years teforo she died. -London
Tit -Bits.
WHAT HUNGER 15.
Physician Describes the Cause of
the Unpleasant Feeling.
Hunger is the sensation felt bet' -
cruse of the contraction of the mus-
cularis either of the pylorus or
possibly also the entire stomach or
of the duod,•ntun, or of the contrac-
tion of the muscularly of all these
structures. If the contraction is
ikmore intense it is felt as n panind
hunger. The contraction is slight,
then the scn"ation of the hunger Or
al'o of u slight degree; it is evan-
escent
Hunger is a lesser degree of pain
and is produced by the contraction
of the muscularly. 'Phis is the rea-
son why hunger passes allay after
n certain lapse of time, even it no
food has been token; it means situ{-
ly that the musculrtris become!; tired
and contraction gives way to re-
laxation. Absence of contraction,
the inability to contract; relaxation,
distention-tltert° being the opposite,
the reverse of contraction. results
the opposite of •appetite, anor' cin,
provided, however, that such dis-
tet►tlon Is not caused by an over
ahuntlnnc•c of the irritating arid
gns:'s. Awe -vale is the reensory
sr nietom of distension of the stom-
ach uud upper portion of the int. s-
tint) by non -irritating gone., ne nnt-
pantetd by complete or partial rclnx-
ation of the sphincter. This is the
condition we obser',e in chronic
pyloritts, chronic gastritis. and
chrome inMrrtmafere conditions of
the first portico, of the small In -
teat in..
The first country on the rent, that
it 111111 Ile baited r Turk'',