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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1906-08-02, Page 10DOUMA fl-ANONS ARRESTED Police Entered House Where the Meeting Was Held. DOCUMENTS SEIZED. .... .. A despatch from St. Petersburg says: 'About thirty profesaonal sten, includ- Dig; eight ex -members of the I)uina, as- eendole 1 on Thursday, at the Iiuuse of Prof. 13orusdin to hear ti ctaiimutnica- tlort regarding the events following the dissolution of the Duuma. While the meeting was In progress the police en - Wed and arrested theca all, and seizeel In the repressive rnea.ures. Ile was says :e- a - a rutnber of documents. An English walking in the street when he was at- "iced rust very bad at many points in correspondent, who was present, was tricked by two !nen w ho stabbed him Manitoba rind is spreading rapidly this also arrested, but released upon ldenti- brvera! times, then walked quickly aw uy week. Enough present to cause shrink- flcation. He enquired later as to the in different directions, without interne.- age in yield. Crop ten days earlier than epee from the spectators. COL. S1.AMATOI'F STABBED. A despatch from St. Petersburg says: The hand of the assassin is still tit work in Russia. At Warsaw Col Stauleto(f of the gendarmerie was slabieed to (teeth on Tuesday and the assassln es- caped. (ol. Starnatoff, who was assist - eta to the chief of gendarmes of the Province of Warsaw, hail been active THE %% E:STER\ CHOPS. Another Estimate By the Ogilvie Mill- ing Company. A \\'irtniie g dh_spatch says : The Ogilvie Company Issued another crop estimate on Thursday. reaffirming their opinion that the yield of wheat will not exceed that of last year, notwithstand- ing the iucreused acreage. They have had samples of the growing grain ex- amined by chemists, who, whsle failing to find trace of black rust, say red rust Is dungeruusly prevalent. Reference 6 also !made to d;uuage by lodging and by hail, which may be material. EXPERT G1\ 1'.S OPINION. A Chicago despatch says : Mr. B. W. Snow, the well-known crop expert, is in Manitoba inspecting wheat crop prospects there. In a telegram from ]tint published here on Thursday' tie fate of his companions, and was as- sured thrit nothing unpleasant would Happen to there. The Viborg manifest, prepared and ;s- t ud by ex-inembers of the Douma, has now been signed by 217 of the ex-memi- Lers. They all expect that Government prosecutions will be instituted against them, and that they will be disqualified from standing as candidates at the next Flection of deputies. It is stated that Nicholas Ivoff, who represented Saratnfl in the Dome, has been persuaded to accept the portfolio of Minister of Agriculture. M. ilvoff, who 15 a Liberal, declares that they will sur- vive in the agrarian provinces this Au- tumn who shoot the straightest. ALL MEETINGS BARRED. The newspapers say that the Gover- nors of the provinces have been ordered lo prevent all meetings of Constitutional Democrats and Laborites, and have Leen told to use troops, if necessary, to prevent them. 1.egal proceedings are being taken against M. Vinaver, a Jewish leader, member of the Dounia and vice-president of the Constitutional Democratic party, for organizing a political meeting in the Tchusselberg district of St. Petersburg. One hundred Constitutional Demo - teats met on Wednesday in Terijohi, Finland, and resolved to carry out the plans of resistance to taxation and re- cruiting laid down in the manifesto adopted by the Dounna at Viborg. Prof. 1iIIIukoff presided. Disorders are spreading in the Cnu- nasus and artillery has been used against rioters at Stbusha. ee0•04er. AN APPEAL TO FRANCE. A despatch from Paris says: The In- ternational Israelite Alliance, whose ttenflquat•ters aro here, has uddressed a letter to Foreign Minister Bourgeois, asking that French warships be sent 10 Odessa for the purpose of protecting this. Jews against another massacre. The signatories of the letter include a num- 1 er of members of the French institute rind of the French Academy. M. Bour- geois has not yet replied, but no ships can be sent, as the Dardanelles is clos- ed by treaty to warships of foreign powers. ARRESTS IN MOSCOW. A despatch from Moscow says: Sixty- five members of two of the most inl- I:ortant revolutionary committees were arrested here on Tuesday morning. Among them were the chief strike or- ganizers. ARTILLERYMEN MUTINY. lust year. It 6 thick and headed well. Aside from rust, the prospect is for 20 per cent. more than last year in the conditions northwest." SOME FARMERS LOST ALL. A Broadview. Saak.. despatch says: Severe losses by inailstnrm are reported from the Spring Luke district, about five utiles southwest of here. The storm passed eastward with diminishing force. causing partial losses to several farmers south and oast of the town as well. Sonic wlio have lost practically their entire crop are without insurance. Others have the benefit of Government insurance, worth up to $5 per acre for a total loss. --♦ MILLIONS STOLEN FROM MINES. New South, Wales Company Suffers int- mense Loss. A despatch from Sydney, N. S. \V., says: In consequence of a circumstanli- a: statement that the Kalgoorlie gold mines suffer a yearly loss of J.:1.000,000A despatch from St. Petersburg says: ,.01.111 of gold by theft the Minister of Seven hundred arrests were made at mines employed n detective to investi- `� o'clock on Wednesday morning at gate. He confirms the story of enornl- Brest-Litovsk, where three companies oils stealing which tinlounts to some of artillery mutinied on Tuesday night, hundreds of the us en•ls of ounces, but c:estroyed the officers' club and other ,says the robberies- are smaller than al- Luildings, and wounded Gen. Ivanoff leged. Ile adds that certain men wtio and other officers. The disorders lasted are generally- regarded as upright and five hours. Detaehmer1ts of infantry honorable, are living luxuriously wholly and engineers finally rounded up the on the proceeds of stolen gold. They mutineers. The official report of the receive it from the actual stealers, who affair admits that the situation at Brest- are mostly, officials. A resident ntagis- Litovsk 6 serious. trate confirms the detective. London ofliciaus of the, Kalgoorlie TIIE HEALTH OF ONTARIO. Marked Decrease In Deaths Froin Con- tagious Diseases. A Toronto despatch says : The re- turns of 735 division registrars for June are among the most complete in the history of the Provincial l3oard of Health. Scarlet fever, diphtheria. mea- sles, typhoid and consunmption show a ;narked decrease, and caused 74 fewer detattls than in June of last year. Whooping cough bus been more preva- lent, and caused eighteen deaths, near•l r as ninny as from diphtheria. The total deaths from all causes for the month were 1,958, from a population of 2,057,2tMi, which makes a death rale of 11.4 In 1,000. For the same month Inst year 1,933 deaths were reported, a death We of 11.2 per 1,000. TRANSVAAL UNREST. hatite Conipounds Are Placed Under Guard. A despatch rein Johannesburg say,: The authorities now believe that it gen- tled rising 6 improbable, in view of the drastic measures taken to crush the na- tive conspiracy. Every compound is guarded, and the natives ore forced to retire indnnrs tit nightfull. Mobile Lode's of troops are concentrated at stra- tegie points throughout the town, and imperial troops are really at Pretoria and Potchefstroom. Popular uneasin- ncs.•1 has not abated, however. instruc- tions have been Issued to the volunteers tc cnne'Pntrate at the \\'nnder'ers' grounds In case of emergency, and there await orders. A detachment of 150 burghers has arrived front Krugersdorp and Potchefstroom to assist In patroll- ing the "outer zone" of Johannesburg. OPER:ATiON ONLY CURE. Relapse Likely to Follow Temporary Cure of Appendicitis. A Berlin despatch says: The appendt- titis Conference resumed its sessions on '1 hursdny. Tho most eminent surgeons and gynaecologists concurred in stating that the only remedy is nn operation, and that it should be performed as 50011 e s possible. that k, within 48 hours .lf the appearance of the disease. When temporarily cured without an operation s relapse is extremely probable. EXCELLENT FRUIT CROPS. Pncournging Reports Ileeeked b) the Minister of Attricutture. A Toronto despite!' sa) s: 1lon. Nel- etn \lontcith, :Minister of Agriculture, has received repot Is from the fruit ex- `tri►nentalstilinn. cif the 1'rnyine'e ;0 the elfeet that the fruit creeps are exeel- ltnt and high prices pre ail. The latter is Irergely clue to the nurnereus canning factories, which have to pay higher piICca this sea'tln 1) an ever !elute. 0/4/4.404..4444444004,0,404004040000040400, CRUEL) DOt KS IN 1 AIt.. Peter Veripen Asked That Tiley be .k r- retell. A Regina despatch says: Sixteen crated Doukhobor.t wtt ' hnNe been on • fanaticnl pilgrimage at Yorklnn, and who have been 1 natitted to jail for dis- turbing the peace, !urn cd here on Wed- nesday to enter on their term of incar- ceration. \\'ar ri nts for their arrest were Blade at the request of Peter Verigen, emir leader. AND NOW TIIE IIIiDOO. British Columbia Entplo)ers Import Hien En Masse. A despatch from Vancouver says: The Ilindoos who have been working hero for the past year have taken actvanl;t,_ o! the call for manual laborers for eaw- min, railway and other work to send , home the joyful tidings to India, with' the result that it is announced that 2,000 will lee here shortly. Dr. D. B. Davi- chalet bus a contract with a number of sawmills adjacent to Vancouver to furnish that number of Sikh and Ilindoo laborers. Ile has ntready placed 31)tr. Most of these men are British army reservists and they are found to be bet- ter for work in the mills than Chine,e and Japanese. PREPARE FOR HARVESTERS. C.P.R. Making Arrangement; to Handle Army Needed. A despettch from Montreal says: Greet 1'1 cpa►•;+tions are toeing made by the (-atiaihan Paretle: itailw'ay for the hand- ling of ail immense crowd of Men and women who are wanted in the Canadian Northwest for work during the coining Larsce.t days. It is estimated that ret least 25.000 men end women will he wanted for the harvesting. That is the present estimate. but it is thought by many thnt it will be even greater. A VAST ESTATE. Woman Owns Over a Million Acres of Land. A Kingsville, 'Texas, despatch says Mrs. H. M. King has purchased the Laurelos ranch, embracing 170.000 acres, the consideration being $1,000.- 000. The purchase of this ranch makes Mrs. King the owner of 1,2S0.(k*) Beres. practically in one body. This cattle queen's domain is now nearly twice the area of Rhode Island and nearly tis targe as Delaware. PREFER MONEY TO !AND. The Claims of Veterans of '66 Nen Total $10,000. A Toronto despatch says : Since By- passing of the Act last year by the Pro- vincial Government giving vetet;ons of 'GO and '70 and the South African War their choice of 160 acres of land in New Ontario or $50 In cash. the number of applicants proving their claims end asking for the money has now totalled the amount of the claims to over $11t.- 000. More Merin:: are anxious for the cold cash than they are for the land. 40m00001000104 .r 040m4/0 NORTHM EST CATTLE. Shipments From Larger Montreal This Season than 1:%er. Companies say the estimate of the thefts is grossly exaggerated. The total value of the gold stolen does not exceed £70,000 yearly. The utmost vigilance fails to prevent the stealing. -T= r BRIDGE BUILDING DISCUSSED. Iteport of Commissioner of Highways on That Subject. A despatch from Toronto says: Much information of value to Municipal Coun- cils is contained in the third part of the 'sport of the Commissioner of Highways of the province for 1905. The brochure deals with the Irnp(ertant subject of Fridge construction. The commission- er, Atr. A \\'. Campbell, deals with the day. The market for oats is dull and subject of higliwny bridges&. 11e points unchanged ; purchases may be made out (lint the increasing cost of timber is for local aecount at 41c in store for No. hrireeing into use the more permanent 4. 42c for No. 3, and 42%c for No. 2. matte -ails. steel and concrete, and gives Flour -Manitoba spring wheat, $4.60 10 a description of various types of stric- $4.70; strong bakers', $1 to $4.211 ; tures. The use of concrete for the con- winter wheat patents, $4.30 to $4.40 ; slruction of bridges, culverts. bridge straight rollers, $3.90 to $4.10 ; do. In Veers and the rebutrents is discussed bugs, $1.85 to $1.90; extras, $L40 to with care. Speedientions are given for $1.50. Feed-\Innituta brnn. in bags, the erection of the various types of via- $16.;,0 to 517 ; i Herts. $20 to $21 tier ducts. ton : Oita! iu Ieran. in hags, *15.50 to $16; :shorts, S20.5(1 to est ; milled mnuillie, $24 to $25 per ton, and straight grain, 828 to $29. Provisiorls-- Barrel short cut mess, $25; half- hbls. do. $12.50; clear fat backs, $23.50; long cut !heavy mess, 521.50 ; half bids. do. $11.25 ; dry !.alt long clear A despatch from Toronto says: It is bacon, 123; to 12%c ; barrels plate beef, understood That Prof. W. C. Raker of $13 to $13.50 ; half bbls. do. $6.75 to Queen's University bus been eppoinleil to $7.25 ; [les heavy mess beet. $11.50; by the Ontario Government ns r.ssist- half bbls do, $11.25 ; compound lard, 8 ant inspector of the (:(,knit district for to 9';c ; pure lard, 12 to 12%c ; kettle the season ending October 1. The 'tendered, 13 to l4c ; hams, 14% to 16c ; (.overriment dee•i(led to upon n branch 1 i eukfnst bacon. 16% to 17c ; \Windsor recording office al Cobalt. This step l:e►e•on, 16Nc ; fresh kilted abattoir and tin nppointntcnt. of Prof. Baker are dressed hogs. -• to $11.25 ; alive. $8 to in a,•cordanee with the promise given 58.10 per 100 fess ;nominal). Eggs- to a recent deputation of ruining Hien Seleets, 20 Ino : No. 1 ct►ndled, who waited on the Govcrttnient. 'The asie to 18c. Butter -Choicest creamery. othe•e w i1 be established immediately salted, 22 to 22%c ; unsalted. 22 to and Prof. linker will also commence 22'.•;c. Cheese -Ontario. 110-16 to upon his work at once. 1111-16e. UNITED S-TA'1'ES \I.ARKEfS. .. SUBMARINE SOUNDER. Duluth, July 3L - \\'heat ---- No. 1 Northern, 71:4'%c ; No. 2 Ne.t•thcrn, 73ye; Sounds Distinguishable at a Distance of July. 783;c ; Septernhe r. 77c ; December, Seen Miles. 77 - : May. 81c. • Minneapolis, July 31.-\\ stent -July, 763,,c ; 'eptetri1er, 743t -„e : itecember, 77%c : May. 81%c ; No. 1 hard. 78%C N0. 1 NO1'111ern, 77Tp( ; No. 2 Northern. 76'Me : No. 3 Northern. 74':; to 75%e. Flour --First patents. $4.20 to $4.30: c(t•cen,l patents, 84.05 to $4.50; first clears. $3.35 to $3.45: Second clears, $2.50 to $2.60. ilrnn-$13.50 to 413.75. St. Louis. July 31.--- \\'heat-(:nsh. 7 5yc ; July. 73 eo ; September. 741;c ; December, 77';c. LIVE STO1:K M,\ I :K I :•T. Toronto. July 31.- A heavy run nt THE WORLD'S MARKETS' REPORTS FROM THE LEADING !RAI E CEN ORES. Pikes al Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce al Home and Abroad. Toronto, July 31.-- Flour -New On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents are A Toronto desputih says : Mr. IL B. quoted at $3 in buyers' sacks outside. Cowan, Superintendent of Agricultural Old quoted at $3.it5 to $3.10 in buyers' • Societies, has received crop reports sacks outside. Manitobu first patents, from the Ontario Vegetrelete Growers' 14.40 to $4.110; second patents, $4 to Association. On the whole the crops 44.10 ; and strong bakers', $3.90 to *4, are looking well in the Prue ince of Toronto. Ontario. !leans, however, h ill be a Bran --The market is steady at *15 to light crop throughout the Province, and $15.511 in hulk, outside, Shorts inc in Many sections a complete fuilure, quoted at $17.50 to 118 outside. I owing to blight rind anthracnose. On- \\'1►eat--No. 2 white quoted outsideions will be a fair crop, notwithstund- at 77c, and No. 2 red winter, 77%c ; No.; ing considerable damage done by u,ag- 2 mixed quoted outside at 77c ; No. 21 gots early In the season. goose at 74c. New No. 2 Ontario w pito In the majority of sections celery will wheat quoted at 74e outside. No. 1 be a fair crop, and in some sections an Northern Manitoba, quilted at 81%c lake exceptionally good crop. While pole - ports, and No. 2 Northern at 82%c lake toes will be a fairly large crop in many ports. low lands, there has been a good deal Corn- No. 2 American yellow is of rot. If rain should fall in cors_ ider- quoted at 50%c to arrive, 'Toronto. able quantities the potato crop would Oats -No. 2 while nominal, at 39 to suffer seriously. 40c on track here, and at 86% to 37c From Leamington comes word that outside. No. 2 new oats, Mixed, at 33c the early cuctuubers will be a lighter outside, August delivery. crop titan usual, thio being owing to the Peas -No. 2 quoted outside at 83c. cool wet weajher. Melons are doing well, but the crop will be late. Around Rye -No. 2 quoted at 62c outside. Barley --No. 2 quoted outside at 48 to Chatham the onions will be a fine big 49c, and No. 3 extra at 46 to 47c. crop. At Scotland, Oxford County, the COUNTRY PRODUCE. frost damaged the cucumbers. How- ever, the second planting will yield a Deans -Hand-picked selling at $1.75 large crop. In the district of Niagara to $1.80, and primes at $1.50 to $1.60. Falls the vegetables have matured more Honey -Strained honey quoted at 8% rapidly than usual, and early tomatoes to 9c per Ib, and combs at $1.50 to a2 will be an enormous crop. per down. Reports from the sections around Hops -The market is (lull at 13 to 16c Toronto and Kingston ere to the effect per lb. that beans have been badly damaged. flay -Car lots of No. 1 timothy are At Kingston the onions have been quote at $10 on track; Toronto ; No. 2 largely ruined by blight. at 87 to $7.50. Straw -At $5.50 to $6 per ton. Potatoes -New potatoes are quoted THE WORLD'S BANKER. at 75 to 80e per bushel in car lots. Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 12 to How French Thrift -Is Making Itself Felt 14e; spring chickens, 14 to 15c per lb, alive ; hens. 9c per tb, alive; ducks) In the Money Market. alive, 14 l0 lf,( per Ib. France is now playing the role of the TIIE DAIRY MARKETS. world's banker; England lost her claire to the title when she went to war in Butter -Pound rolls are quoted at 16 South Africa. A generation ago one to 18e; large rolls, 15 to 17c. and inferior had to go to London to feel the pulse at 14 to 15c ; tubs, 14 to 16c. Creanirr y of the international money market. prints sell at 20 to 21c, and solids at 19 '1'o clay one makes a better diagnosis :ii (0 20e. Paris, says the Review of Reviews. Eggs --Good candled stock, 18 to 19c The strides towards financial su- per dozen. premiacy which France 6 making have Cheese -They are quoted at 1234 to been most rapid in the past live years. 12%c, the initer for twins. In that time French investors have HOG PRODUCTS. taken up many milliard francs of for- eign obligations. They furnished Great Dressed hogs in cur lots are nominal. Britain with much of the capital that Bacon, long clear, 12 to 12%c per Ib in went to finance the Boer war; they case lots ; mess peak, $21.50 to $22; loaned enormous sums to Russia, prac- short cut, *24 to $24.50. Really supplying the money needed in Rains -Light to medium. 15 toe'; the struggle against Japan ; they pro - [lams -Light to medium, 15 to 15%e; vided Germany with 1,000,000,000 marks do, heavy, 14'ec ; colts, 12Sc ; shoul- in 1901-05 to carry on her tremendous tiers. 11%c; Lacks, 17 to 18e; break- Industrial enterprises ; they took a fast I (teem, 15% to 16-c.1 liberal amount of the last Japanese Lard -'Pierces, 11 f c ; tuts,. 11%c ; loan, more than half of the Russian pails, 12c. loan of last April, and, fleetly they BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. .... supplied borrowers in the United States with fully $150,000,000 during the Montral, July 31.-G111i1---There was tight money period of last winter anal ne improvement in the demand for are now financing the bond and note Manitoba wheat from over the cable 10- issues of some of our greatest corpora- tions. Lambs were3 gherratb`$7 50 tod18, al -'CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS' IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND though the market Is not expected to hold. Hogs -Are quoted firm in tone and unchanged et $7.90 per cwt for selects and $7.65 for lights and fats, fed and watered. THE t+ EGET ABLE CROPS. Beans a Failure in Many Parts of The Prosince. A NEW MINING INSPECTOR. An Addition to the Staff in the Cobalt District. A (le,patcli ft rem I't.ris Gays: Experi- ments with the submarine sounder were tried on Wednesday for the first time in Frit nee by the iug \\'ilkumnicn,wt►idh went out to meet the steamship Kaiser \\ilh(lin 11., which was also equipped with the sounding apparatus. 'i'hlc stennlship distinguished the smile' when seven utiles distant from the \\ ilkon men. It le spiel that other vessels not specinlly equipped distinguished the sounds at a distance of ir(ein two to three miles. •••••404 4.0 400 41040000004100.00 SUFFERING 1'1lOM SHOCK. rattle was coffering at the (.sty Market to a little under 8100.000. Only three __ to -day• werecover $10.000.000.numb 1:x plosion Ila, Had serious Et- Fxl�ort i;rattle--Choice at $4.e0 to So nee(Ittim to i;( od. 84.60 to $4.75; Mulls, feels on Queen Victoria. $3.7•' le 84: nulls. lights, $3.25 to 83.75; fE1.LPHONES \\'1'1 HMI \VIi ES:. Although the anaual gold produc- tion of tite world is nearly 8100.000,000, there is such tre-'tncnduus trade activity in every quarter of the universe _that capital ie in (Iertlnrl(l us never before. One thinks of the usually well supplied money markets as to -day cleaned up bare, in a condition of drought; but then there is a great reservoir of free capital in France which is being tap- ped toy the other thirsty nations. and whicli, in spite of the drain on it, keeps well filled and shows no sign of ex- haustion. The Rank of France has in its vaults to -(lay nearly $600,000.000 of the precious metal; two years ago it had *145.000,()110, and in 1900, when Paris began slowly to forge ahead of London its the centre of the largest money supply, the institution held only $375,000.000. low has. Frnne,e, a nation indus- trially inferior to Germany and with n commerce very much below that et Great Britain. gained such a power in world finance? The answer is, through her domestic economy. For frugality. thrift, intense application to the work in eland end the very crnnniendeble ambition to eulve from life's labors enough to make bright the inevitrtble, rniny day and to cheer old age the Frenchman has no peer. '1'o sure 1s an inherited desire. The poorest peasnnt in the least productive pt ris tt of the ret',ubtie mtannges to plat aside a little each year for a competency. and the tislieinien clown on the itritanny weans would have stnrved a few w otters ego. w hen the catch was nhnost nothing, had they not been nble to draw frnnl the rn'tlt) of more fruit fel gent's. Tens of thousands of email Sill ►pkeep- cr�, innkeeies 5, ' . entity pni.l Go -em- inent employees rare investors, and their combined savings have provided the fund, to finance ninny a nation and curry it through a lean period. The populntinn of France is about 40,600.000 people; the wealth of Frnnee is nearly 815,000.(100 000. This wealth is co enly distributed. The number (.t elates ndntinistered in 1904 was 391.- 787, rind of these nne-half were for values ranging h•nrn less than $10.((0 HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TUB GLOVE. Telegraph)-: Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Occurrence. A e1e,t►nl0t1 fie ►tri \la.Iild say c: 'Tile cows. $:3.510 Io *1. shock which elle suffered from the ex- [Butcher 1'rtttle-1111oi00 are (11101e11 et A new system of telef.:ooning with - A Montreal despatch says . Accord- lelo•ie,n of n bunch on her welding day Qt.01 to $1.80; medium to .good. $1.25 teat wires has been ruinred in Vienne ing to ('lout inspector• helorrne. more is Irian} seriously mem Queen Victoria's to 81.:41: Dull-. $2.95 to $3: cows, $2.51) (luring the past few clays, and this has cattle than usual from the Northwest health. 13'rend. it oils reported flint to $3.75: t'tn n'`rs, *1.51) Io *1.75. les -sight (out the ee1•curnstnntinl state - are !ring exported this season, ant M bile w as suffering front a Bold. but her Stockers i0url Fee'ier•s - Sted%ers, 8 lo !nerd that w ireles; Telephoning is ne- tunlly in common use in the Japanese fleet. w-liie'h hits for nine fine em- ployeO it even ter long di.tunces, in ce.rnplele security against "Lipping" ping" or confusing ester•nal influence. 'the in- venler is staled lo have effectually CANADA. The new C. P. 11. hotel nt Winnipeg was furrually opened un friday. Montreal's popeil;iti011, according to the mew city diri'ctury, is 405,000, Toronto carpenters are asking an in- crease of three cents an flour in wages. Uidsbury, :11ta., will instal a tirulli- cipal telepltuno system at a cc.'t of $2,200. A labor t�ureau in Great Britain is to be opened by the Canadian attendee - At the !text session of the Dominion Parliament a department of urines will be created. Jam(:all nd Mrs. Annie Reach lost theires lives in a fire that bout in the room they occupied at Ilarniltonroke, on Sunday moraning. Two brothers named Gauthier were drowned at Montreal on Friday. They were painting the sides of the steamer Gaspesian; and the scaffold gave way. The Moral Reform Association of Vancouver, conlpluin of the music played at English Bay and of the one- piece bathing suits worn. Mr. J. G. McCrae, a well-known business man at Sarnia, died suddenly o1 heart disease on Friday. William Leinster dropped dead et the Waterous engine works, Brantford, on Friday. W. J. Wilkinson, of Sounding i.akc, Alla., shipped from Vegreville 440 head of range steers. which were driven 80 miles north to the railway. Fifteen cases of smallpox are reported from Estcrtiazy, Sask., and the serious- ness of the out break is ascribed to lax quarantine regulations. Thomas Scarf fell over the cliff at Nignra Falls, on Sunday. a clear drop of 90 feet, but escaped with a broken shoulder and a bad scalp wound. The G. T. R. have let contracts for a ten -storey office building on the site of their present offices on McGill street, Montreal. The building will cost $300,- 000. Winnipeg has a scandal over the order refunding a circus license fee. It is said the names of the Civic License Committee were forged in the docu- ment. which was afterwards stolen from the Mayor's desk. John McQuarrie, an elderly man, from New Glasgow, N.S., employed on a farm in Thorold township, fell out of a barn window and broke his neck on Friday. supoi 1 of that t! a largest single shite- ith►cs is Enid to 1,e really ner\..us i.t res• miens of Cattle fromfromMontreal since the !ration, which tnkrs the term c ( hy- adoplion of new spacspaceregelalionc in seer is rinerinematinee). She is an ream. 1963 left on Thursday -y- morning, w hen siti-tee motorist, Ira for ten des s fier the Pon.ltlsen liner Allienia soiled phv-keen tins fe,r•teidden her to indulge filen Liverpen1 with 1052 head Aboard. hi the (.pert. TheTheQueen tins become n Of this number 7411 v ere we=tern cattle dcvo ,t (:uuWile, and never misses doily tr(ent the ranches of Alberta and 13ritieh man'. She has a tiny tablet, hearing (:ohunbra. Indications are Clint This this will be a record season tot' western stock, 111 cwt. $3 l0 $1.510: light. $2.50 to $3 c ws. $2 to *2.40: 1Ills. 111.75 to 42: short -keep feeders. *1.64) l0 gt.e0 : lie•n� } freeler e. $4.00 to R1.7tt ; stock Lults. *2 to 82.25. mica ('e•we_ase ecs tang( it tetwern 92(• rand ea? each. 11..1h ee-Qnolntiens are alightly Meller the image et St. l hristephcr. the pal- at 3 e In 6e icer ib. teen saint of motorists, on every orae .•f 1 sleep rend I.aoits--1.sport cheep are Mr cars. Quoted at $4.25 to $1.50 ter ewes end GREAT BRITAIN. Tho late Alfred Beit willed 810,000.000 for public purposes. The jury at Salisbury found that the recent wreck was due to the high speed at which the train was running. Alfred Beit, the dead South African financier, for some reason, never mar- ried Elizabeth Bennett, an estimable lady to whom he had been engaged. UNITED SPATES. Four persons were drowned in the surf at Atlantic City on Sunday. NEWS DV MAIL A11Ol"r num BLU. AND 1115 1'EO1'1.E. Occurrences In the Land that (tela Supreme in the Conru1,Meidl World. Bristol Cathedral took 582 years fore it was completed, in lse8. G center Cathedral was 425 years building. One of the convicts at the Springfiel (Essex) Prison has taught himself shorthand in seven nionitls' :ely. During morning servic err \arborr.. ougli ChurchChurcha rat walked up the al and, entering a pew in which two sitting, took refuge in a At an inquest at \\'riles -.leen recently ii lady witness appeared in Bridal cos- tume covered by a cloak. Stie was married half an hour later. A verdict of "accidental death" was returned nt Rochester on George Hol - lands, a fernier, who died from blood - poisoning caused ay the application of tobacco to a cut in his finger. According to a return presented to the Landon County Council there is one public -house for every sixty-eig:it resi- dents in that city. The Burgess 11111 Urban Council has solved the problem of how to make a sewage farm pay, by growing pepper- mint, which fetches good prices. There are about three million acres of woodlands in the British Isles, and over twenty-eight million acres of un- cultivated lands. The late Sir Wilfrid Lawson rejoiced over elle fact that a hundred and fifty of the new members of the !louse of Cocoons are total abstainers. Four Manchester tourists have suc- ceeded In ascending the north-west face of the Pillar Rock, Ennerdale, Cumber- land, which has hitherto been con- sidered unclimable. Mr. Isaac Vinall, a prominent Sus- sex solicitor, has a scholar aged eighty- seven in his Sunday -school class at Lewes. The youngest scholar is three years old. The aged scholar took part in the school treat the other day. Mid -Sussex farmers declare that ow- ing to the dust raised by motor-cars ns settling upon gra, it now lakes a elan two days to cut an acre with a scythe, whereas it only took one before motor- cars came into existence. The Midland Railway Company has sold fifty of its locomotives to the Ital- ian State Railways. The fifty engines thus sold will be replaced by new en- gines of a more modern type. The wife of a working man at Christ- church, hristchurch, near Bournemouth. sold to a rag and bone dealer an old coat in the pocket of which her husband had left £20. The purchaser was arrested, but he had spent nearly half the money. The George Inn, at North St. Philip, the oldest village alehouse in England, is to be pulled down. The license dates front 1307. Each storey of the pictur- esque old structure overhangs that be- neath. A woman who applied for a sum- mons for. a separation orderAtt. Willes- den recently, told the mregislrate that her husband usually allowed tier about 2d. every eight weeks for housekeeping expenses. A 1 The spectacle of a cinnamon bear go- ing over the big falls of the Yellow- stone, Montana, ons afforded a party of tourists yesterday. The animal plunged into the river, was caught los the swift current and swept over the falls, tumbling 400 feet to the pool be- low. The body was not seen again. With only a couple more months to serve, Ernest Hoffman, sentenced to the reformatory at Elmira. N.Y., for burglary, walked out of the superin- tendent's residence, where he was em- ployed in the kitchen. with a diamond stud belonging to the superintendent, a sum of money from a womane- In charge of the kitchen, a good watch and a resolver. GENERAL . Surnh Bernhardt has been decorated with the Cross of the Legion of honor at Paris. Lieut. -Gen. Stoessel, who surrendered Port Arthur, has been recommended for the death sentence. Twenty Nestoriun families from near Tiflis will emigrate to the colony near Battleford. Cienadn. With fitting cerenunny \lnjor Alfred Dreyfus was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, on Snturday. India may become a competitor in the iron and steel markets of the world. The Tata iron and Steel Company is being organized in London. and the plant is to be established at Suni Junction, India. -T VEIN OF RICH SILVER. !'rot incial Geologist Makes Valuable Find on Gilkes Limit. A despatch frons Toronto says: A to legrarte received at the Bureau of Nline•s front Professor Aller, the Prov %inctnl Geni'ij;st, says flint the vein re- cently discover. by his party on the Unties limit. in the Cobalt mining re- gion, hes turned out to be very rich in silver. The upper pert of the rein rem of Cobalt bloom, which is n mineral richer M cobalt than the smnllite. The scin was covered try three 0r four feel 01 soil, and the work of stripping it Ls progressing. The find is regarded ns a most vnluethle 1110. \IE:LTE1) I:llt'it(:11 BELLs. llasoc by Lightning and Cloudburst In France. A Chanitiery, Department of Savoie, France, despatch says : A cloudburst, accompanied by lightning, on \Vednes- iley. destroyed the Church of Les (Ime- vannes, nt.out 15 toile. frons here, ni(it- ehurch beth into n aoltd ►nn=S. c;efegunrdcd his system ngainst all ininJg uringthe a number of p(•rseins an'1 dallrerS 'e1 this kind. The inventor is enticing an enormous arneunt of date - M. Kin.urea. a Japanese nasal engineer. age along the leraneteltallen border. and the system 6 the exclusive and se- Rniltvay traffic by way of Mont Ce11is cret property of the navy. Is interrupted. master mariner caused great amusement M the City. of Lyndon court by declaring, "1 have no address." "But you must live somewhere," per- sisted counsel. "1 live on the high seas," replied the mariner. A sugnr beet factory is to be erected at Doringtun. near Sleaford, on the site of a disused brickyard, and n really serious experiment is to be made to demonstrate that sugar beet can bo made remunerative in Lincolnshire. A defendant In a judgment summons at the (aerkenwell County Court recent- ly sreitl that he would soon he able to p;ty. because his business -the British tinned meat trade --had improved so niuch since 1'ee' Chicago exposures. it lies bet n decided to celebrate the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the burning of thirteen Essex men and women at the stake in Stratford by repairing rho Martyr's Monument erected in that locality to (heir mem- ory. Clever Mill, on the banks of the Thames, near Windsor, has been de- stroyed by fir.'. It was of '!eat an- tiquity, and is mentioned it 'nniesday iloek. Until a few years ego it was 11ced ac a flour mill. The crime family for many gener:1lons occupied the mill and made their fortune there. A Haan charged at Stratford with be- ing a deserter was able to show that while bathing at Wansled a deserter had donned his clothes and left his own uniform in their place. The bather had no alternative but to wear the unl- f(errn, and this led to his arrest. He was discharged and the deserter wa3 arrested. .--4 - SAILED A.04n,o(m MILES. Captain Alexnn.ler Simpson, of the Aberdeen liner Moravian, which called at Plymouth, England, the other day homeward bound to London teem Syef. n(•y [Intl the Cep('. is on t,ieapayenty- first voyage out and Monte from Syd- ney. a record thnt is believed to he w Mout parallel in the history of the ltrtti�h mercanlils marine. ile has 1•een doing the voyage for over fully years, and flee covered altogether about 2100,- 000 inile•s without mishap. For the last eighteen years he fres been experiment- ing w ash regard to the Set of ocean cur- rent i. and hundreds of 'alike placed in the sea hey hen have been rett,iited from all parts of the world. 4101401004•10100•4404100 FREE M11.K Ff)It TIIE T[UAVEi.t.ER. A curious custom still holds good in the village of Wade..don, in [lucking- hnmehire, England. where on any morning or ei. ening of the year a irer- neon can claim a ii c drink eel new milk tt (ens n row epeeially kept for the l,ene- til of thirsty wayfarers. This animal is known locally as the "elms cow," and \‘11011 site dies another has 10 la pro - sided by the parish uulhul itic,.