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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-05-16, Page 27 ."-'P "--;x.1...7 BIG DEAL IN TIBER LINTS The Victoria Harbor Lumber Company Buys Out Cook Bros. A despatch from Toronto says: A deal S lumber properties has just been closed which is the largest single pur- chase in tho history of the lumber trade of Canada. Immense properties are involved, and taro purchase price, it is said, is in the neighborhood of two million dollars. Tho sale, which was recorded on Wednesday, marks the past- ing away of one of the pioneer lumber companies of the country, and greatly increases tho prestige and power of the purchasing company. The vendor is the Cook (Bros. Lumber Company; the purchaser, Mr. John wash.), of the Victoria Ila, it Liur► - Ler Company. Tho properties trans - [erred are all those belonging to the former conipaliy on Georgian Bay, in- cluding lirntx•r• limits and lumber mills. The timber berths are numbers 147, 1;'7, 149, 150, Searle Township and an Indian reserve on Georgian flay. The Crown Lands Department was unable to state like price paid, but it is undcr- slr,od tha[ it was very little short cf two million dollars. Ily this transaction Cook and Bros. practically retire from ttto lull ber business, and the Victoria harbor Lion - ha Company beoontes the second largest c-,nlpany in Canada, and the third larg- est on the Continent of North America. NINE: DAYS IN I11ING TOMB. Miner Rescued Parallel (ase to Sating of Ilicks. A despatch from Victoria; B.C., says: The steamer ZIanuka, from Australia, brought news of tho rescue of an Italian twiner, Varischetti, from an Australian nifty), by divers under circumstances similar to the ro;cuo of Hicks at Bakers- field, California, a few months ago. Ile was nine days imprisoned in the mine, which (loodei during a heavy rain, cut- ting off his retreat. Pressure of water gathered a reservoir of air where the Italian took refuge, and he stayed there for nine c ays in a living tomb while divers tried heroically to rescue him by wading .the flooded mine. Hughes and Hearn, divers of the Bonnie Vale Mine, mads ninny trips, supplying tho Italian with light and food and writing mater- ial, which he sent a pathetic es- saom e to trio outside world. After nine days rescue was accomplished by Hughes, whose gallantry has been ap- plaue ed throughout Australia. The miner was aknost dead, being too weak to stand and unable to get from the cago without assistance. ENGINEERS' CERTIFICATES. The New Act Goes Into Force Atter the 1st Day of Ealy, 1988. The Legislature of Ontario at its re- cent session passed an act respecting stationary engineers in which engineers and employers aro alike interested. Briefly stated, its provisions are that, after the 1st day of July, 1908, no engi- neer will be allowed to operate or have charge of a stationery steam plant of 5e• horsepower or upwards who does not hold a Goverrunent certificate. There are three clnsses of engineers to whom cer- titicates will be granted without the ap- plicant leaving to undergo an examina- tion, first, those who on the 20th of Ap:r•il, 1907 (the date on which the Act was passed), held certificates from an association of stationary engineers in Ontario, or a marine or l000motive en- gineor's certificate; second, engineers who on the above date were In charge of a plant of 25 horsepower or over in Ontario; third, engineers who had at any time previous to the passing of this Act, not less than two years' experience in the operation of such a plant in the province. Those who cannot qualify as shove will have to pass the examina- tions which will hereafter be prescribed by the Board of Exaininers. Those in- terested may obtain a copy of the Act and application forms for certificates by addressing the Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Toronto. TWO ACCIDENTS 1'O TRAINS'. Misplaced Snitch Causes the Death an Engineer. A de'spatclt from \\'Innlpeg says : A bad smashup took place in the C.P.R. yards at Portage la Prairie on Wednes- day morning between the yard engine and a wrecking train from Winnipeg, la which Engineer Daniel alcbonald, In charge of tho wrecking engine, was fatally iniureal and died in tho hos- pital three hours later. Tho switch was lett open, and Engineer McDonald did not see that it was open to the side truck until he was almost on lop of it. Ito fell just \vest of rho switch, and his head struck an old grain floor lying beside the track. His skull was fractured. M 8.50 on Wednesday morning ,nixed train No. 154 had two coaches derailed two miles cost of I'telttpiece, on the Bran- don -Mineola branch of the (:.l'.n,, caused by a broken rail. The following passengers received cuts and bruises: W. F. Ellis, I lrimiota ; Mrs. W. F. Ellis, Ilamiota ; George L. Stone, itnpid City. Alen M. Stewart, of Winnipeg, and Mrs. lkesby, of Ilamiota, also received some scratches and wero badly slhrZken up. Damage to rolling stock was not heavy. (:.\N\1.1► 1•001)INSPECTION. 11 EIRE SIX DAIS IN UI'I:N Bo %T. Terrible of Plight of Two fishermen Picked 1'p by Liner. A despatch from iialifax, N.S., says: Trio steamer Iioi nu, felon Vera Cruz, brought into port on Wednesday two American fisherman -McPhee and Steele -Whom silo picked up off Cape Sable, after they had spent six clays in an open dory, without food 01' water. The schooner Montrose, of Boston, to which lire men belonged, s was fishing off Brown's Bank, when, on account of tho fog, the dory containing these, ,nen got separated from the schooner and lost. The men endured great hardship, and were on the point of collapse when they were picked up. Two other members of the crew of the same schooner, under al- most similar circumstances, were landed at a point on tho coast about 60 miles from here. The Bornu was bound for 1lfontreal ,but owing to the ice she could not reach thele, and changed her oourso far Halifax. DEATH OF M1SS CLEMOW. THE WORLD'S MARKETS Young Ottawa Lady Found Dead With Wound in Mend. A despatch from Ottawa says : Miss Aileen Clemow, one of the best-known young ladles of the city, was found dead in bed at noon on ,Thursday with a re- volver by her aide and a bullet wound in her mouth. The tragedy occurred at the home of her mother, Mrs. Francis Cie - mow, Slater Street. Temporary insanity is given as the cause of her death by Dr. Kennedy, who was in attendance on her. Miss Clemow had been In ill -health for the fast two years, and had been quite New AM Nilt (:,►rate' tato 1'orce nn first til for (Ito past week. tier relatives be - laevo she has been out of her mind fur some time. It was the intention to send he: to a sanitarium at St. Catharines toe morrow. She was in her twenty-seventh year. Coroner Baptie was summoned, and decided that an inquest was un- necessary. Miss Clemow was a grand- daughter of the late Senator Clemow, and the news of her death by suicide has caused a great sensation among society people in Ottawa. amours FROM UB L ADI111Y T1IA113 CENTILES. Pikes eel Cattle, Grain, Ctrr+ese sS Otber Vane IProAeace at Doss and Abroad. Toronto, May 14. - Flour -- Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents are quoted at 8..80 in buyers' sacks outside fur export. Manitoba first patents, $4.50 ; 6tCo1 patents, $4, and strong bakers', $3.90, Toronto. Wheat -No. 1 Manitoba hard quoted nt 90c take ports ; No. 1 n..0'111,111 ai 88,e4C lake ports, and No. 2 ne)rlhe rn at 87e lake ports. No. 2 Ontario w halo is nominal at 77c outside. Oats --No. 2 white is quoted at 40'; to Ste outside. Corn ---No. 3 American corn is quoted at 55 to 55%e, lake and rail. Canadian corn unchanged at 48c, Chuthunt freights. Bran -Prices nominal at $21 outside in bulk ; shorts are quoted at $22 to $23 outside. 01 Utilise A dospatclt from Ottawa says: The Canadian Gazette contains a proclama- tion bringing into force on Aug. 1 next the Act for the Inspection of canned ge:e►ds, meat and fists. Tho regulations ier inspe. tens are being dratted. Some 45 inspectors will he required, rand it will lake about ese tN,O to enforce the Act. The Veterinary Director -General, lir. Rutherford, will have charge of the in- spectors. 44 NATURE STUDY AT GUELPH. CALL 11O.\11D. Wheat -No. 2 Ontario white, 77c bid on C.P.R. east for 10,t )O bushels, and one car offered at 82c in store Montreal. No. 2 mixed offered at 80c outside, and No. 2 goose at 75c outside, we,aout bias. No. 1 northern offered at Ole spot, North Bay. and No. 2 northern at 92c spot without bids. Corn -No.- 3 American u: 550 Toronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -Good to choice winter stock, $2.50 to $3.50 per bbl. Beans--llanci-picked quoted at $1.50, and primes at 81.35 to $1.40. Honey -Strained quoted at 11 to 12c per It), and comb honey at $2 to $2.50 per dozen. Hay -No. 1 timothy Is quoted at $13 to 814 here, and No- 2 at 810 to 812. Straw -$7.25 to $8 a ton on track here. Potatoes -Ontario, 90c per bag on track, and New Brunswick, $1.05 to 81.10 per bag. Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 14 to 15c ; chickens, dressed, 144 to 15c ; do, alive, 10 to 12c per tb ; fowl, 8 to 9c. THE DAiRY MARKETS.Butter--Pound rolls are quoted at 24 to 25c ; tubs, 21 to 23c ; large nolt 26 to1 -to 23c. Creamery prints 28c, and solids at 24 to 26c. Eggs --New laid are quoted at 17 to 17X,c per dozen in case lots. Cheese -Largo are quoted at 12%c per Th, and twins at 13c. 110G PRODUCTS. Proposal to hold Teacher Training Classes There. A despatch frob Toronto says: it has been suggested to the Ontario Minister of Education by President G. C. Creel - man, of the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, that the Summer schools for na- ture study at the Agricultural College be utilized by the teachers from all parts of th2 province for this year only. The proposition is being consitlored by Non. i)r. Pyne. The department has in the grist held Summer schools at which teachers could obtain special instruc- tion in such subjects as nature study. These were conductod in connection with the provincial Normal schools. Were the plan of holding the regular nature study classes at Guelph adopted it would be possible to dew,le the Normal school classes to the Separate school teachers, who are desirot.s of qualifying under the Act of last session. --- +- - S%ll) TO BE A B1'R(:1.AR. insurancee Company Employe Arrested at Winnipeg. A drspate-h from \\'inra eg snys : F. Stephens, an employe of the Sun Life Insurance Company. was nrreateed on Thursday night charg,'el with Being thy, principal of a gang of burglars who have been oprernting here. The police have been un the lend for several days. Ib' is a yo►ingg Englishman. whose right manna is Le►ievcd to be Hawkins. SAW NO GREEN BEG. Flu} %esantt yellow offered UNrrE n S'L'ATES !omit:Kis. s. hittw,etik,ete, May 11. - Woad-- No. 1 northern, 90 to 91c; No. 2 northern, 88 to title; July, 84%c. Bye ---No. 1, 7l% to 75c. Barley -No. 2. 78%43; Sunil.lc, 62 to 78c. Corn -No. 3, cash, 49 to 4') c ; July, 59%c asked. Duluth, May 14.--Wheat-No. 1 hard, 90%c ; No. 1 northern, 89yc; No• 2 north ern, 87%c ; -. May, lits%c ; July, 2ieJyc ; Sept., 88yc. Minneapolis, Muy, 14.- Wheat -July, 873;c ; Sept., 873;c ; No. 1 harts, 8tl to Jrrc ; No. 1 northern, 68Ya to 89c; No. 2 northern, S1. % to 86%c; No. 3 northern, 84 to ti5e. Flours -First patents, $4.40 to 84.50 ; second p►rcle•nt:+, $4.25 to 84.35; first clears, $3.25 to $3.35 ; second clears, $;!.51.1 to $2.65. Bran -In bulk, $16 to $16.25. Fish Reports Little Damage 10 Wheat /:ropy. A despatch from Nev York says: Sluyvesant Fish returned on Tuesday from a ?,(.(it) mile trip over the Gould lines in the southwest, the ih•st inspec- tien trip that he has made since his recent election to the directorate of the Missouri Pacific. fir. Fish said that his trip hnd oonwinced him that the country is nit right --west, north and south of Wall street. While great darnege has Keen done to early fruit in the south find west. Mr. Fish said ihnl he did not see any, of the damage that the' "green huge was reported to have donee le the winter wheal crop. Mr. Fish f• tend business and railrond men • to the c. est hopeful of continued business ac - !Mlle CATI'LE etAttKl;T. Toronto, May 14. -The wilt at the City Cattle market this morning was 110 cars, which included 1,032 collie, 175 sheep and lambs, 1,900 hogs and 511 calves. Trade was brisk and although •price changes were small they were always in an upward direction. Export cattle were in better demand. Choice well ['Mulled exporters sold from $a.15 to 85.85, and a few heavy bulls s..,ld up to 84.50. Butcher cattle were in active demand and prices held tirin. • Good ordinary gt;:ilily Fold from $i.75 to $5.00; medi- rnt, 81.40 to 8t -7e; choice cows sold fre►nt $4.00 to 81.50; heavy bulls, 81,(0 l,' 84.10. Stockers and feeders were steady, a few lots of choice selling around $4.00. Milch cows were steady at 835 to $6t) for choice and 825 to $30 for common. Veal calves are slightly easier at 2c to 5Y.,c per Ib. Sheep tire tinct, and grain -fel lambs steady. Common lambs, However, con- tinue slow and easy. clogs aro steady and x:6.50, fed and watered. Dressed hogs in car lots are un- changed, with prices quoted at $8 to 88.35 here. L3aeon, long clear, 11 to 11%c per Ib in case lots ; mass pork, $21 to 821.50; short cut, $23 to $23.50. do, liams-Light to medium, 15yc heavy, ii%e ; rolls, 1134c; shoulders, 11c ; backs, 16Xe ; breakfast Lacon, 15%c. 12x0; Lard - Tierces, 12j;o ; tubs, pails, 12%c. unchanged at GRAVE SITOATION IH INDIA UTNE GREAT PAGE ESTATE Armed Natives Crowding Into Lahore ---- British Troops Concentrating, A despatch from London says: Friday distant from Lahore.. Herr, according; was the 50th anniversary of the out- to a newspaper despatch, the l.oeal I,teaik of the Indian Mutiny, which began Government realizes fully the extreme at Meerut on May 10, 1857. The coinci- peril of the situation, and is prepared demo is somewhat alarming. The news for military operations on a large setae. from India, which dominates Friday Nevertheless, its failure to check the se- morning;'s newspapers with this sinster ditious movement promptly has, it is jubilee, increases the anxieties which added, resulted in a state of revolt. the present happenings in the Indian Thousands of Dacoiis, consisting of both tiipire awaken here. That Sir Denzil Hindus and Mohanurtcdauts, are roam- Ibbets,►n. Lieutenant -Governor of the ing iu tho Myuten Singh district, pluu- Punjab, whom (3zief Secretary Marley de•ring and burning willn-gees, and ill - !ho other day deeicribed in the douse of treating loyal natives, many of when, Commons as one of the ablest and most have been murdered. shouldexperienced he c summoned big ors India, big re- MANY AGI'l•A•1'Ol1S ARRESTED. inforce,nents to Lahore and postponed Thirty-seven agitators have been ar- ias town departure fount that city, is re- rested by the military police, who are garde! as adding to the gravity of the trying to stamp out the movement. The situation. The India 011ice has issued despatch further says that seditious lit - nothing on the situation, although it is cratero has peen spread broadcast understood it Ls In constant eonimuni- enlIon with the Viceroy. Pending some official declaration the newspapers com- ment .sparingly, but print their own and the news agencies' news conspicuously. Such conin encs as printed call for firm action by the Government. Some t :cent statements in thio house of Commons 'by Mr. Morley and his op - Novel of the deportation of Lula Lajpat flat betray no sign that he as disposed to underestimate the possibilities of the situation. ANOTHER FAST TRAIN. Montreal to Vancouver in Eighty -Five Hours. A despatch from Montreal says: The C. P. R. have decided to .add a new fast train to their transcontinental service, making three instead of two trains on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The new train will be faster by twelve hours than either of the Imperial trains that now leave Windsor station morning and evening for the west. It will cover tho distance from Montreal to Vancouver in eighty-five hours. The matter has for some time engaged the consideration of the management and traffic department, and the schedules are note being work-, Ecu out under the direction ot Mr. J. W: Leonard, Assistant General Manager. it is understoati that the neer-service will come Into operation on Juno 15, and at first ---probably for the whole cf this season --it will be run three times a week, snit that it will ultimately be. come daily the officials entertain no doubt. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, May 14. -Grain -The local market for oats was without any feature, prices being well maintained under a fair demand for local consumption, and sales of car lots of Manitoba No. 2 white were made at 45e; No. 3 at 44%c; On- tario No. 2 white at 41%e, No. 3 at 43j;c, and No. 4 at 42%c to 43c per busts ex store. Flour-Ogilvies quoting first pa- tents at $4.70 and seconds at 54.20, while Lake of the Woods quota first patents at $1.60 and seconds at 84. spring wheat patents, v 81.601to 84.70; wheat pa- tents, 84 to 54.20; 81 to 84.15; straight rollers, $3.55 to 83.65; do, in bags, $1.60 to $1.75 ; extras, $1.45 to 81.55. Feed --Manitoba bran in bags, $21; shorts, 822 per ton; Ontario bran in bags. $21.50 to $25; shorts, 825 to $26; milled nwuillle, 822 to $25 per ton, and straight grain, 523 to 530. Provisions [3nrrrl.s short. cute mess, 822.50 to 8S3.50; Half.tarreel.S, 811.75 to 812.50; clear fat lacks, 821 to $24.50; long cut heavy mess, $20.50 to $22; half -barrels do, 510.75 to $11.50; dry salt long clear bacon, 113- to 12c; barrels plate beef, $13 to $14; half -bar- rels do, $7 to $7.50 ; barrels heavy mess beef, $10; half -barrels do, 55.50; com- pound lard, 9'/, to 10c; pure lard, 1.2'% to 12%c; kettle reiuletcd, 13 to 13Xc ; harts, 13',, to 15c ; breakfast bacon, 15 to 16c ; Windsor bacon, 15 to 16s ; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs. $9.50 to $9.75 ; alive, $7 to 87.25. Eggs -No. 1, 18Y2 to 19c ; No. 2, 16% to 17c. Cheese - Fielder grades, 12 to 12'.o. Butter- (3ioicast c,cunicry, 223 to 22%c. GIFT %\D I.O eN TO 1 f+11.tI(:.%. British' (:oternnrnt 11'{11 ♦ssieet Recov- ery from Earthquake. A deeapntch from London says : 11 was officially announced on Wednesday that tore British Government had decided to rnnke Jnmaica a gift of $75O,000 and to guarantee a Jamaican loan of $1.000,000 to assist the inhabitants of Kingston to recover from the effects of the recent earthquake. PIUNI'E.SS 111:T111t11 IL -L. King and Queen Anttoue Concerning Iler Condition. A dee:patch from i.ondon says : 1 he Tribune says that Ifo King and Queen are anxinu.e concerning the condition of theeir daughter, Princess \•ietnria, who. it may be recalleet, was lately severely 111 and underwent an operation. - -.---- KING ENTERTAINS PREMIERS. Wishes Them Prosperity at Royal Banquet at Buckingham Palace. A despatch from London says: The King gave a dinner on Wednesday night in the colonial Premiers, Minis- ters. High Commissioners and Agents - General of the colonies, at Buckingham Palace. Several members of the Royal family and it number of Cabinet Minis- ters and disttngulslied persons were present. The King gave a hearty wel- come. ile wLshed prosperity and hap- piness to the dLstinguishcd statesmen from his dominions overseas, and trusted they would carry away with them an agreeable impression of the Mother Country. lie wished them God- speed on their voyage home. MUST BECOME CITIZENS. A New Method of Dealing Douktiobors. A de>.spatcli from Winnipeg says : J. \V Spear. colonization agent, staled on \\'eednesday that the commission, headed by Bev. John McD ugnll, had completed the work among the Douldiabora. The plan the Government, will likely adopt in denting with this seri will he to compel them to take out ,naturalization papers and become full ilritish citizens. Those who refuse 10 comply and make regular entry trill bo given sufficient land on which to maintain Inemselve_s, but will not he given hemeste.uds. The Uoukl►o- bcrs nre understood to consider this nn acceptable proposition. Ai.SO IN EASTERN BENGAL. Although for the moment- the Punjab seems to be .the chief centre of the trou- ble, it is noteworthy that there is in- creasing unrest among the natives in Eastern Bengal. This seems to centre in the Mymen Singh district of the lat- ter province, which is a thousand miles With the 1.1R(;E 1'iNIri:ItTI' N1:1,1 LONDON MAY E:S(:UI: t'r TO 1'.It(►w\ Silly Square N11ics, Including •rltii t ot Middlesex and tieteral London Suburbs. A romance of property, unique In the hLetory of land ownerstaip, and one itt whose issue the whole nation is Inter- ested, underlies the announcement that the Attorney -General of Creat Britain has: decided to declare tl,o Page escheat to tho Crown, and that a t'-• Icct Committee of the House of G►iii mons is to be at once appointed to .:-- certain how, by whom, and during what period the nation has been deprived of the proceeds of the propert..y. • This decision means that property worth millions of money iii and near Leendon is at stake. THE PAGE ESTATE. is an area of some sixty squnte mYles, including it third of tate car!tttry of Mid. dlesex, whole suburbs of London, and sections of rural Hertfordshire. Harrow is approximately Its centre. Some of the finest residential districts in the west through Eastern Bengal, and that the end and a suburban area which is cer- rioting at Hama Pinch has been distorted into a triumph of the natives aguinst the British. Loyal natives of the better class are writing 10 the newspapers earl au11►nri- l'.es, urging the necessity for promptmeasures. They declare that the anti - European movement has gained im- mense strength in Bengal since the re- signation of the late Lteuteuant-Gove'r- nor, Sir Barnpfyldo Fuller, who was forced to relinquish his post because tie triod to suppress the present agitation in the native schools. The participation of Mohammetilans in the acme,' Singh outrages shows clear- iy that the movement is direc.leed agninst British rule instead of being ti fight be- tween Hindus and \lesions, as was rat first supposed. lain to be enormously developed in the next few years, as well as rich agricul- tural districts towards the Bucks and Hells borders, are part of the enormous - !y valuable page estate. The history of the estate begins with the suppression of the moi.nsteries, in- cluding Kilburn Priory, by llenry Vlll. A local legend, it is said. relates that the ejected nuns foretold that those who suceeded them in the property would reach the climax of ambition and then disappear. That, at any rate, is exact- ly whet happened. The Page family acquired the proper- ty from llenry \'lll-, and gradually through centuries enlarged it Into its present vast dimensions, 'Then in 1829 the fancily died out. Five families of the Pages had owned land in various parts of the present estate, but in the end all fell into the hands of Henry Page. Ile died in 1829, and left no heirs.' Thv estate passed into *THE HANDS OF TRUSTEES.. Under the old rules of feudal tenure, dating from the time when all land was held from the Crown, estates of inherit- ance for want of an heir revert to the Crown. Under this law of escheat still hc.lding good, the Crown's right to own- ership of the Page estate Is now declar- ed As the revenue of the Crown lands now belong to the National Exchequer, this declaration means that the nation enters at least into legal ownership eel the Page estate. \Vhy the claim hat lain so long on abeyance will no daub% appear during the Select Committees inquiry. In the interval of nearly eighty years since the death of the last of ttte Pages It is not surprising that the question tf titles to various parts of the estate has become exceedingly complicnteJaak- Portions of the estate have been cnn- CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS TRAGIC RR OF OCR TERI UAI'tENMNGS FROM AI/ ()YIEII TUU GLOBE. Tertegraphl•t Oriels From Oar OWn *set Other Countries o1 listen! Events. - CANADA. Guelph's custom receipts for April total $17,032.90. London's custom collections for April total 590,101.41. The death of Sheriff Massie took place al Stratford on Saturday. The C. N. It. expect a delivery of 140 k,cornolivcs w•ittiin a week. There aro 6,e00,000 bushels of grain in the elevators at Port Arthur. Sheriff Sweetland of Carleton county died at Ottawa on Sunday. The Nova Scotia Steel Company is buying an Iron ,nine in Brazil. The Grand Trunk has Increased the vtages of its freight -handlers in Toronto. Eighteen Chinamen entered Victoria in April, paying 89,000 head tax. Two new steamers have left Englund for Toronto with full cargoes of iron. Premier Whitney has purchn;ed tho residence, No. 113 St. George street, To- ronto. Canada's inimigralion for the last nine months shows an Increase of 40 per cent. Winnipeg's assessor has placed the population of the Canadian Chicago ht 111,350. it Ls denied that the frown -tall nnoth has appeared in the Annapolis valley fruit pelt. The approximate value of new build - Ings in Tcronto for the first four months el the year is $5,116,701. Ezekiel Tree, n prominent fanner of East Zorra, was killed at a crossing at \Woodstock, on Saturday. Inirnigration returns for the nine months ending with March, show a Isla! immigration of 126,667. A bonus above the cost price must now be given with orders for lumber Professor Poirier, of Paris, Billed by the Disease. A despatch front Paris says: In the el. alb of Trot. Poirier. French surgery Itis lost one of its most distinguished experts. Prof. Poirier was n consent - mate type of the fa►sliiunnbbe 1110(11cn1 mora, and it used to be jokingly said that one was not up to dale unless he Lail undergone an operation at Bands. The irony of fate is exemplified in hint (arse. A friend declares that Poirier died of cancer. which he knew for years past had nnarkist him for its victim, and tells a touching story. During recent years Poirier had giveen special attention to canteen cit C5, and it wns owing to his we,rks on the sul.ject, and his repreesenta eons before Nie Academy of Medie•la of the need of Apecial effete to combat Itte dread diaenre. that the cancer re- search fund was open. d in Frnncee. the first subscription r,e; eiwe•d )wing 10.00) francs front Dr. Ilare►n Henri de nobs. child. Politer cited devote all time to wealtte3 clients. Many Ivor suffer- ers from cancers were treated by him not his a! Calgary, the material is so scarce. There is to be an increase ot a dole lne• a ycnr for the season's domestic ice supply in Ottawa. was opened and found to contain no - N. J. Butler, Deputy Minister e:f thing of value. Among these depositors Rnilwnvs, will prepare plans this aunt- were many women employed in tate east burned at sea, and her whole crew has perished. Bertrand Russell, a brother of the Earl of Russell, is contesting the riding c! Wimbledon as a suffragist candidate. A project is almost completed for the establishment of a new fast Canadian steamship service on the Atinntic and Pacific. • Kidderminster manufacturers have formed a company with £50,000 capital to acquire the 13rindon Carpet Com- pany, of Peterboro, Ont. UNITED STATES. United Slates publishers are complain- ing to Washington of the new postal rocs to Canada. A strike of 'longshoremen in New York threatens to do up the shipping of that port. Sixteen hours has been fixed as the maximum days work on a railway by the Nev York Assembly. Ernest W. iluffcut, fornuei ly clean of ( scantly sold, and in several cases 1110 Cornell Law School, committed suicide title of the vendors has been challong d 011 5 Hudson River boat on Sunday. -in one case, at least, successktlly- The holy of the four-year-old Marvin Stanmore Grange, which is on the north boy, who had been missing from Dover, of the estate, being withdrawn from Del., for two months, was found in a sale alter. its auction had been an - marsh near tris home on Saturday. nonnc«ted A statue of General George B. McClel- The far -away confiscation of a nuns' Inn, erected at \Vaslting;ton by ilio So- priory in the dors of Ihc' h1(-f4arntation. unveiled at on ec n �>• in the district. For instance. the Rev. Five hundred suite workers in ttae John Clifford and the Westbourne Pn"k quarries at Fair Haven, Vt., went ' n trustees, who recently acquired a plot Rinke on Tuesday fora nine -hour day. of land --tat full value -for the exten- Tho mill -workers also went out. sion of their chapel, now learn with Tito United dates Government Irans- pert Burford Slocum wiled from San amazement that it is Francisco for (:hinkiang;, China, with PART OF THE i AGE ESTATE. fact million pounds of flour for the film- In other cases, however, parties to int sufferers of the northeastern pro- the sale have been well aware of the t inCes. difficulty of title, and it has been t ak- Ily the fall of n brick wall rat the 0' en.into consideration of the price. L8 Mar Copper Works at Chrr�rne. N. Five main bines of railway -the Ned. 1.8 on Saturday, four nieti were killed bund, London & Northwestern, Metro - anti eighteen others mere or lea seri- pditan, Great Central, and Great West- uusly hurt. Tho victims are all than- ern -rim through the Page estate, arid gerians. two of {hese, the' L.ctndon & North - Hundreds of residents of the Rohm- western of and the fan colony n tipper east sele n • evv p;aiel laarge sonic into court, owing; to York city ,earned on Wednesday Ihnt their distrust of the title acquired. in they had lost the savings of years \ hietr 1f i3 the former company lodged £:►f,il,- they had depxi.'siteed with 1ltaelnme Maria (NMj and many years later the latter Vitous, the hraler, who committed sus- reel ,ei(10,00t1. tide a few weeks ago. Madame Vitous' •11te ynst orcnsion on w hick nnr•ie rat safe, which was supposed b y the de- Crown rights were enforced in the case itc.sitors to contain $150.000 worth ' t or. a great estate was thirty years ago. Securities representing their Ravings, i when, after a tremendous legal bathe, Epping Forest was secured for the pub- lic. ciety of the Ariny of rite Potomac, was iF thus still vexing! holders if property ' ur ed Washington \\' 1 csd Metropolitan, h+1v,i t thet • 1 f tiler fora bridge across the Straits ' t Canso. (;gorge Carney, a man of eighty years, was struck at a crossing near Barrie by Manager Brownlee's train and killed on Saturday. Mr. Fred. A. rolger rat Kingston hos been appointed superintendent of the Canadian Northern Railway, with hend- qunrlers at Winnipeg. Prof. Short!, of Kingston has been rap - minted Chairman of the I3onrd of Con- ciliation between the Grand Trunk and its machinists, C. ! cafgns C. P. R. p►azscengtcr ome!nbs learn that heenceoflioMr V.e,n tluelow nnnoaneed fr. Canadian • trnveellers entering the Staten 'the ReicH ang± that Germany wmnld lake not be inconvenienced by the new in 1►ctrl fn the discussion cut the limiln- Ame rican Immigration taws. tion ofarmaments at The Ilagee rAttt. The Supreme (%curt al Regina die- !g missed the rip/wets of the C. 1'. 11. anal fer.•nce. eenfirmed the convictions nefwin=t the .\ printing; pr('s.l, A qunnlity of arms, company for starling prairie flees. 87.'3 in cash end other rcvolultonisit 11t[tntllnn hotelmen disclaim response I property was found in n do'bnr's hilily for S aturinv night drunkenness• T1.01114 in the hospital at • Sinupxerto, side cigar factories. GENERAL. War is threatened between en,' Guatemala. The Hessian Council of the Empire has pas -ell a bill appropriating $3,000,000 for famine relief. Serious nue-European rie,ta have broken nut at Rawalpindi, a tower in the l'unjnb, India. Two girl wire -walkers in Paris, wli►le performing the other night, fell into a MLeeico fe►r nothing. One woman fin whom l'o'rind ask that the sale of liquor outside tus-ra. had previously up ernted wine -sit a fee, the cit iiniiIs I►ee clopped. < <Jncnh Law. tyro fired at n detachment r rad who hnd shown her gratitude f•y •I'be Hydro -Electric Power eolntnis,,ioit :n ruuiras'-iere keen the lop of a Paris sending flowers, w•rnt io crc her bene- "'ill rnntrnct with the oratorio P•,veer ,o'nnihue, the uiiuhn,t Ito, of them. and meter 4 110 day best Jinunry in tear ct1 (:ompnny for electric• ener,f)' nl `ing ar•t tot►o w•as seyrrcly ttnradied by the crowd, n fresh cnne'er•mgs growth. I'otrie:'r carr- rally nl 1t1A.t0 a to 25.0 %) I;nriae•►►eivve'r, wi'I prohnh!y rreovrr from 1,1* injuries, fully '',air owl her anal sew : - and! nbr'►vee that rat a flat rale e,f 810. and tte.1 lx• Ivied for attempted murder. "It's nothing,, it will be sutrne years The Winnipeg( street railtv•nc Irn4 -, Is fur(' von may n, e•el n fresh oper►ti)11, %which, by the say. 1 Rhnil not be able !c► perform:" "Why. doctor, do you refuse to trent me?" "No. my poor child. but 1 shall not be there In do it. 1 also have n can- e er, ran"d 11 will be more rapid than y. tors, If the story Is hike -and i! is vouched t. r by n close friend-- Poirier main - Vaned before the cveirld to the I. t a fnask of cheerful insouciar;cc. been ndviseel that it L4 Illegal for 11 to operate its cars after midnight. Sa'uir. dray. The oily w'il demand the st'rvice, however. Mr. W. G. Brownlee. `upeerint,'n,lent of the middle division of the Crnnd Trunk al Toronto. bin' been appointed et(nernl Tranvia la I km Nine )t.Ter. with headquarters at Montreal. GREAT lgniTA1N. The British Ship Thornhill has been - -4- 11%0 d,--- 1\\(t \1 1;1:1:Ts O1' (.01.0. 'rtt. .i' -lite• P.►ttnde•r� Picked 1'1, 1.i,ri''e-r Lake Dish icl. A despatch from Sault Ste. \fat erns : \lurdrek Mcleod. a well-ee ' rt n1ining uetnn. disr•oteyed two liege( 'e •,f gold. neer the Larder Liike disliset. 1b. newt ur•ixrr's gold thole in the bills no, lis of Ilre Sno. near Leto! Superior. Cr. al tttt ere,t 1' taken in these reports. In 11 \\/:1\(. IN ill:\ 1101*.1:. Old 1:01p1o}r 01 1..te•ttitoctil Stri.f(t• s rat Wawa. A de patch from ()firma says : liam lhillnnd. for the past 31) years nn employe of the Electrical i)el►nrtment of the Dominion Government. \ons fotrrad r'1 Wednesday morning banging from a le -am In the fowl -house in Itie rear of bis residence, Itussill hood. The body was discovered by his wife. Ile hnd been drnd some time. The deceased hnd been suffering from Ills of despondency. and had endured period: of mental dertingo- mend for some yeeHN. Ile was a native of the \Vesl of England, and came Is this country some 35 years ago. STR.%NM.; 11)11E11 %sl . Vessels 11itl Cross 1117 Oce'nn 117 Niagara Potter. :1 despatch from Laindon say, : :lit Hugh hell, the new president of the, iron ;end steel institute. predicted ht irie in- nuigurnl address on Thursday 11101 a century hence, with little or no annc:hin- ery ab,enr,l and acrin•ely airy crew. ship* woulel be sped on their voyages by elec- tricity lecttricity generated et Niagara Faliijlp�n,d trnnsniilted wirelessly over thea ,llefi,tlte. This, he added, .so fueled like it strnngo feereeen.st, but 0 was no more incredible than the ascientilie• happenings :since 1807. The world mo% eJ on in 0 141JtreS4te►n of 41r( nn►!i and their tuiifilltioolet. Lix hnndree•l %v0ri.r.reere die -lunged front the Japnne•5e shipye►r•e1s at Kui-agar Mee broken into revolt • eel destroyed a p,rtirin of the WOrt.s there.