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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-08-29, Page 7BILLED AND ERIEfl flOSBAND Manitoba Squaw Makes a Confession of the Crime, A daspalch from. Shoal Lake, Mani- toba, says : The arresting of a squaw, .charged with murder, and the finding of the body of John Assinwassis, of Rolling River, commonly known as Fred John- ston, has cleated up the pot -Wier and :sudden disappearance of that Indian about a month ages. The squaw was on trial hero on Thursday for tho murder of the husband. Between three and four weeks ago Assinwassis disappeared and no trace had been soon of him for some lino. Indian Agent ee'lealley nolilicd the po- lice and asked for en investigation. Con - .stables Jus. Guertin and Gurreek, of Portage la Prairie wero put on Iho case. 'These two, after a careful seinele found litUo mound about two miles north- east of the town. Scraping the earth away, they came upon the body of the lodiun, which had boon buried in a bad- ger thole. The accused squaw made (t confession, slating that her husband had been drink- ing and brought home to the tepee two huge botilre, of whiskey, which she had hidden from him. Johnston threatened tc kill her if she did not give up the hid- den whiskey. lie chased her, and She laid down her child, threw hint down and clokexl him, not intending to kill him, but he dial shortly afterwards. Early in !I.e morning sho dragged the copse to a big knoll nearby and wrapped hint in his hloriket, and buried hien, fulling his drinking cup under his ane. CORPSE IN OPEN BOX. .A Mysterious Tragedy of the Algoma Wilderness. A despatch from Toronto says : Cased An an open wooden box a partially do - compos -ed human body has been left ly- ing in the waters of tho Blind Inver, near thee: town of that name, in the District of Algoma. Such is tho story told by letters which have reached the Provincial Board of health. The epistles which hnvo brought the affair to the notice of the authorities, aro -dated about Aug. 16. Their writers as- sert that about two weeks before tho .corpse of a murdered man was found lying in the bush at some distance from the town. A week elarsed and no action -was taken. Finally the remains, then •sorowlunt decomposed, were taken to Blind River. There an inquest was held. 'The writer of one loiter asserts that the body was then laid in a plain wooden boa and placed in tho river, about three feet from stare "in aeordanco with the orders of the coroner." The correspon- dent oomplains to the Board of Health that tho body has been placed in close proximity to the town, and in tho stream fnpm which some reskfents drew water supplies+, and it is oonsequently a menace to Uio health of tho people. ]MISSING MANAGER SUICIDES. A. Giannetti, of Toronto, Italian Bank, Cuts His Throat A despatch front Toronto says: A. Giannetti, the missing manager of -the "'Bunco fliannetli," which Cktsed its dews a few days ago, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor in a room cf the Hotel Cecil, Queen Street and KeaconslIekl Avenue, shortly niter 12 oclock on Thursday night. in his pos- session were found letters addressed to "A Giannetti," a quantity of Italian iip.ney, and 81,475 in American money. There, was also an envelopes addisssod to the "Chief of Police, Toronto." The body was identified as that of A. Giannetti, the missing Italian, by means of a news- paper fictur. Tlto man rogis!or.d at the hotel during the afternoon, giving his mune as G. Lnspirauce. During tho evening his actions aroused suspicion, and shortly after tho house was locked hop for tho night the attention of some of the roomers was allrackel by groans coming front Ino room. The door was found Io bo locked, and when it had been broken in the dead Lardy was found on the bed. OLD -AGE PENSIONS. Nova Scotia Government Appoints Com- mission on Subject. A despatch from Halifax says : The Nova Scotia (;,overnnient has appointed Waller Crowe. K.C.• Sydney ; P. 13. Mc- Neil, I;rvxl Master 1'. \V. A., Chaco llay; lion. It. Drummond, editor of The Min- ing B4'orl, end Win. Hodge, ruiner, Springhill, a mitunisskin to examine into and report on the feasibility of adopting sumo scheme frn•iding old -nue pensions for workmen and such as tato. either by Ihenoenos or in mnjunclicm with their employers. establish benefit or relief soekelie; ; also to examine into and report on Ion organization and nil- nhini.traLnn of all relief scs.'leti.s organ- ized under 1'r,vineial laws. ROBBERY OF FRENCH GENERAL. Letter of Credit Taken From Ws Pocket in Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says: A daring robbery w'88 committed on Wed- nesday, when General Do Negrier, of Paris, a•guest at the Windsor hotel, was relieved of his wallet, containing a letter of. credit for a large amount, while he was attempting to board a strtxa ear. General De Negrier, who is well-known in French army circles, having had neer mond of the French troops in Algeria, ie on a visit to Canada. Accosting to his story, ho was followed to the Bank of Montreal, where he dress a considerable sure on his letter of credit, by those who eventually stole his wallet. After leav- in,; the bank and while trying to board a car, in order to return to tho hotel, he felt himself pushed, but paid no ear - Muter attention to it. At the time his wallet was in his right hip pocket, and lin the sacro pocket were the bank notes and gold which he had just drawn from the bank. Strange to say tho thieves missed the money and got away with the wallet, which contained the totter of credit, which is of no negotiable value except to tho general himself. •1• GERMAN TROOPS DEFEATED. Marengo, Hottentot Chieftain, Scores a Notable Victory. A despatch from Cape Town says: Marengo, the Iloltentot chieftain, who escaped from the custody of the British a week ago and crossed the border into Gcrnen South-west Africa, has admin- istered a decisive defeat to the German troops who pursued him. Between thirty and forty Germans are reported killed, and scores are wounded. Mar- engo is leading 500 sten, and his force ie said to have been ambushed. A special expedition will probably be plan- ned for his capture. Already he has cost the German Government hundreds of lives and millions in money. FOUND THEIR C 11 LDl BU'RN.D. -- Rainy River Parents Had Leh Ilim Asleep in Bed. A despatch from Rainy River, Ont., says : The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrier was burned to death Saturday night in the absence of his patents at tho latter town, whither they had gono to meet the train. They left the child asleep in bed, end returned nn hour or Iwo Inter to find their former home a mass of smouldering ruins in which. on search, they found the charred body of floor son. -411 LIVE STOCK VALUES SiNK. Mouth in Brockville District Ilas De- moralizing Effect. A despatch front Brockville says: The shertnge of the hay crop and fodder generally throughout this section, oc- caeioned by the dronlh, is having a ete- tnornlizing effect on the prie,:s of horses and c:l'le. Many fnrnu•rs are compelled et reduce their herds, and values are thereby reduced more than Ilfly per cent. The seine also (Tidies to horses. CONSPIRACY IS THE CRARGE Information Sworn Out Against Alberta Lumbermen. A despatch from Edmonton, Alla., says : informations were sworn ort on Thursday before luspe,lor \\'i.rsley, of the Mounted Police Barracks c:,arcing the Hollowing members of the E\ectitive Committee of the Alberta Lumber heel. crs' Associalxm wile o.,nspiracv in re- lation to trade enol irade cornbinalkins• I'. A. 1'rinco. 1'ahlgnry ; \\'. 11. 118u•h. lemeinten ; W. D. Hither, (edger).: \. M. Grogan. Calgary; F. V'. Irwin. V( greville ; J. \le!Nine id. Ednxmlein ; A. G. Grosse, ee'eln.kiwin ; D. O. (.•oil In), Lacombe; \\ illiani ih'an. (11.Is ; \\ Stuart, Calgary ; \V. Itnrclay . ("laresholm, and J. \V. McNklal, ! ^i.'• bridge. Each defend'nl ie charged with three 'e..n.spirn^iee. that is to say with hi: co- direele,rs and other members of Ili' \I- i file Retail lh•nh•rs' ,\c c.cirrlitun, to; u conspiracy with niemh•ers of Ike \I444)• Iain \bidder+' :\s,•oocintk,rt of Itrifi.:h (k iumbia, tool with cunspirncy. with Itio THE WORLD'S MARKETS Crilish Columbia Lumber and Shingk' .\a,w'ialkon, kmwn nes the roast :\s!,411• ca►tine. 'Reece are in ail. the -440re, one hundred end forty different charges in 04.1111514111 with this prosecution. each in of 1he ehc dirmlohs of the Alberta Lumber I1cak'rr ' Association 1„'iig rhargee1 with Iweh'e. (tiffs heel. offs IteeN. The stain, under whkeh the charge Is laiel I;r..v ,t - : "Thal everyone is guilty of an in,lir'.Idr ofhneo, and liable lu a '•)atty not ex..ssling fnUr Ilw.irnnil reel ilia Ie5s limn Iwo hundred .l..ihtr.e or lee tear.' imprisonment. or, if a corpeteti.,n. is liable to a penally not eeeoeling ion Ihousrmd dollars, and red hoe there ono 1 ..,ii' nel'tonere. \rho eolnsph, s. I.nwbin••s. ngre'.s snot ar- ItEPOIT$ FROM THE LEADING TRADE CEKTiitES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Homs and Abroad. Toronto, Aug. 27. - Flour - Ontario wheat 90 pet- cent. patents quoted at $,1.10 to 8.1.20, and new wheat lour at 8'2.35 to $3.10 in buyers' sacks outside, for export. Manitoba first patents, 8t.s0 to $5.20; second weenie, $1.411 to Wei, and strong bakers, $%.2u to $1:30. \\heat --No. 1 Manitoba hard nominal. No 1 northern, ;170, lake naris; No. 2 ncrlher•a, 91%c, hake tests. Ontat•io No. 2 white red d quoted in cru kits Sty to Sec outeido; new wheat al tile, Toronto. Rye --Nominee quoted at 6.5c. Oals--No. 2 elate are quoted at 43% to 41c outside, and at 4ec on track, Toronto. New oats aro quoted at 39 to 4tk: out- side, SopleInber shipments. Manitoba outs, ole c, track, Owen Sound. foss -Market dull; No. 2, 75c. Corn -No. 2 American corn is quoted at 65 to 653',e, Toronto, lake and rail. Calnaditi n corn, Ole, Chuthun► frights. Rrtrley-No. 2, nominal ut 50 to 52c outside. Bran -Quoted at 816.50 to 817 in bulk, outside. Shorts aro quoted at $20 out- side. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans-hand-pickerl quiet at 81.70 hu 81.75, and primes at 81.50 to $1.00. Ilay-No. 1 old timothy is quoted at el5 to 815.50 here, and new at *12 to 812.50 on track hero. Straw -87 to $7.50 a ton on track here. Potatoes -New quoted at 75 to 90c ser bushel, and new American at $3.50 to $:,.75 per bbl. Poultry -Turkeys, alive, 13 to 14c ; chickens, spring, 16 to 18e dressed ; fowl, 10 to 110. • TIIE DA1ilY MAiRKETS. Butter -Pound roils are quoted at 21 to 22c. Creamery prints sell at 23 to 21c, and solids at 21 t0 22%c. Eggs -Case lots sell at 18% to 19c ; new laid, 20:. Choese`New, Large, 12c ; twins, 12%c. 110G PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs in car lees, 8) to 39.50. Ilnoon, king clear, 1L to ll%c per !b in caeo kits; mess pork, $20 to $21; short cut, $22.50 to 823.50. Maness -Light to medium, 15% to lec ; do, heavy, 14 to 15c; rolls, 11 to 12'/.,c; shoulders, 10% to llc; backs, 16% to 17c; breakfast bacon, 14je to 16c. Lard -Tierces, 11% to Ito; tubs, 11% to 12j:c; pails, 12 to 1234e- B:ISINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Aug. 27. -Grain -The to^al and outside demand for oats Ls fairly good, and sales .of No. 2 white in car lots were made at 48 to 48%c per bushel ex store, and round lots were gtwted at 47% to 47%c. Flour-ChoiCo sprung w'hrat patents, $5.10 to $5.20; seconds, 81.50 to 34.60; winter wheat patents, c:.65 to $4.75; straight rollers, $4.25 to E.1.35; do, in bogs, $1.95 to $2.10; extras, $1.65 to 81.75. Feed -Manitoba bran, in hag's, $21) to $21; shorts. 823 lo 826 per ton; Ontario bran, in bags, 819 to $19.50; shorts, 822.50 to $23; milled mouillie, 221 10 $28 per ton, and straight grain, 334 to $32. Provisions -Barrels short cut mess, 822 to $22.50; huff -barrels do, 311.25 to 311.75; clear fat backs, 823.51) to 824.50; long cut heavy moss, 320.50 to $21.501 half-hnrrets do, 810.75 to $11.50; dry salt long clear bacon. 10 to 11%c; barrels plate beef. $11 to 316; half - barrels do. $7.50 to $13.25; barrels heavy mess beef. 810; half -barrels do, $5.50; compound lard, 10% to 10%c; pure land, 11% to 12%c; kettle twittered, 13 to 13%e; buns, 12'/, to 15%c; breakfast bacon, 11 to 15%c; Windsor bacon, 15 to 15%e; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs. $9.75; alive, 87 to $7.25. Eggs -No. 1 candled, 18 to 19e. Roller --'t'ow'nships, 2l3 to 22%c. Choose --\Western, 11% 10 11%c. UNITED STATES MAIIKE S. Duluth, Aug. 27.-Wheat-Sertember, Mc; December, el.003 ; May, $1.01%. Milwaukee, Aug. 27.-\Whoat--I ligher ; No 1 northern, 31.01 to 81.02; No. 2 northern.' 98, to 81; Ikrember, 95%C. ilye-Firnn; No. 1, 73 to 711%c. Barley -- Firm; No. 2, 73yc; sanpk', 55 to Tae. Corn--Iligh;r; November, cash, 56 to 57%c; December, 55%c asked. CATTI.E NIA II ET. Toronto, Aug. 27. -The run to -day was disposed of, but in many cases the crack demand far the sluff twist of the drovers marketed forced theta t, ac- cept priers That gave them some tall thinking to figure out where their pro- fit was to be found. Saps were report - c.1 to -day of cows as low as 31.25. For good stool: trade was very encourag- ing, and several sales of choice were made at prices ranging around $5. Medium to good quality sold from 81.25 to 81.10. The comment run sold tem 5..75 to 8.1.50. Choice rows ranged up to 34.10, with the average from 33.25 to 83.75. Comecon caws, $2 to $3. There were n few sales of stocker ent- 11. Cthniee were quoted form 83 to S3 50, and common to medium at $2 Ie. $2.75. \filch cows were quiet nt $35 to $50 for choice and $20 to $:K) for common. Calves were in geed demand and pt•ic- . s were unchanged nt 3e In tic per Ib. I:w•e. wore Bitot d from 81.50 to 84.75; necks and culls slightly easier at $3 to e:•.,o. Lambs -vvere l(rm at $5.50 to Neel. The run of hogs wits foo much for the stability of prices, and a dertine of 25e was registered. Selects were quoted at Seo50 and lights and fats at $425. HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TILE GUIDE. BRITAIN W \Ri4llIP RI•II.D}:R. Order For Mesrrnl Nen-of-War From Foreign government. :\ despatch teen London says : A for- erun Government, supposed to Ie Kussin, Telegraph Briefs From Our OM's and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. In July 858 Japanese arrived at Vic- toria. A report of a rich gold discovery south of Abitibi Lakp has reached Toronto. Ald. Bradt of St. Catharines was lined five dollars for slapping a woman's face. \\'ark on 11:a tore million dollar siuel- k•r at North Cobalt will cornmen_o uLout Scptcni,er 1st. Daniel Devlin, who came to Fort Garry, via York fuckIry, in 1857, is dead at Winipeg. No further contracts on the G. 7', P. v. ill bo let until some of the work under way is ltnLshed. The Cunadiun steamship lines doing business at Montreal have reduced the steerage rate frowi Europe. The 7th Fulllicis of London will visit Buffalo for Canadian day, Sept. 711i, in tea Old Homo week. A new C.P.B. steamer will bo built for the Pacific const service, to lake the educe of ilio Princess Victoria. Tho increase in real rotate values in 'Montreal to be shown by the new as- se•_sinent, is aslinnated rut $12,000,(100. Five Teen were committed for trial at Niagara Falls, on charges of robbing curs in the G.T.R. yards. The contract for Iho new armories at Brandon, to cost $50,0)0, has Lien awarded to Dumais & Lachance, of Ottawa. Tho itailway Commission has ap- proved of all tho plants of the G.T.P. from Winnipeg to Fort George In the Rocky Mountains/ 'fho province bf New Brunswick has negotiated a lean of $1,500,000 for one year with the Bonk of Montreal at a shade leas than 5 per cent. Col. A. D. Davidson, a western real estate capitalist, Inas wired Ottawa that lie believer; the western wheat crop will total 95,000,000 bushels. A clerk in an Ottawa dry goads store, apparently a young Englishman, was suspected of purloining nrtieies, and on being searched was found to bo a wo- 1111111. M. Sundpust, of Davidson, Sask., while looking for hay on the prairie, found a human skeleton. sucposed to be fhtota yb.0 shrdlu eelaoln cnfwyp cmc that of an English hoc odeader named Berry, missing for two years. cadges .,n% „ h per -on. or w int says The 1'.hroniele, has awarded to n eny roe• ,e •'.:sc'o'ne. sbnml.rtl Or British firm of shipbuilders it contract Ir,.ns;> "• ne . 10 unduly limit 1 ,r several battle.,hil.s. cruisers and gen- (:.eilhti int. to restrain lanls. A moon' insurance of nearly ,.r 111ju11 1 I„ prewcnl. limit eir s3:►.+Nobe, has tertian effected nn the le -sen wee .,r to prevent or bedding and launching risks, tho poll - on." cies• covering two years, GREAT BRITAIN. Tho second reading of the decensed wife sister bill has passed the House of Louts. The British Admiralty will sacrifice cne of its older submarine boats to test the action of torpedoes and mines. Fearing 11,e drastic amerdmente cf the Lords, the British Ge1v'ernment has decided to abandon the Scottish land bit. The British house of Commons has declined to accept the amendment; made ty the Lords to the evicted Irish ten- ants bill. UNITE STATES. Owing to tho scarcity of labor in the Western Stales the Union Pacific has been compelled to import coal from Australia. A Staten Island, N. Y., man who al- lowed his child to die of whooping - cough without securing medical assist- ance is charged with manslaughter. ('resident Roosevelt, in a speech et Provincetown, Mass., announced that there would bo no retreat from the stand taken yy the Government against the trusts. Public service corporations in New Park cannot hereafter increase their capital stock without having their l.aoks inspected by tho I'ublic Service Commission. While Edward tomer, a farmer near Merchnnlville, N. J., wns endeavoring to extinguish an in'endiary fire in hie l arn. someone nutrdei"s1 his wife with an axe and fatally injured her Italian servant. GI:NEIIAL. Several Europeans nre said to have suc- cumbed to cholera at Shanghai. Germany nn.l 'tussle have undertaken lo gufo•nntee the neutrality of Norway's territory. A Stockholm paper says that itudvnrd Kipling Ls kr receivo the Nobel literary prize for 1907. Two Germans food ono hundred and t n Chinese were killed in a dynamite explosion in a 1:hinese trine. The New Zealand Legislative Council tins thrown out the bill permitting Pie 54 0clion of women mneinbers to the up- ,., r House. During July the eourls-mortinl in the BMW. provinces of Iiussia condenue•l hvenly-six persons 10 death and Fent 1100y -ono into exile. WOMEN FROZEN TO DEATH BRAVED RIGORS OF ALPS IN LIGHT SUMMER S1115. Said They Were Paying for Expedition and Intended to t'irilsb 1t. Two German wom, Fn Fred- erique and Fruulei n MenargueriterauleiZasdra, of Neisse, were frozen to death under thrilling circumstances in a foolhardy attempt to climb the (Rirnlucke, in the Tyrolese Alps, in a snow,turm, recent - 1w. The Frauleins Zesdro, who wero 40 rte' 43 years old, respectively, and )Vere wealthy women, set out with three young friends, the Frauleins Stucken- schmidt, of Charloltenburg, taw are all in their teens. to climb the Rirnlucke. Thio is about 8,000 feet high, and is gen- erally regarded as fairly easy to ascend. Not one of the women were equip- ped for mountaineering. They were wearing palmitin or lace hats, light blouses, openwork silk stockings and high -heeled shoes. lone of them car- rhed anything stronger than a light ptuasol. The guide pointed out the absurdity (.t their costumes, but they refused to listen to his advice, and insisted on car- rying out tLeir programme. When they had climbed °Lout 2,000 feet the weather changed suddenly. The wind rose, and snow began to fall. GUIDE DEFIED. \Vhen the guide insisted upon the re- turn of the party to the valley. Frau- iris Marguerite Zasdra exclaimed scornfully: "Wo are paying you for the expedi- tion, and we intend to finLsh it, what- ever happens. If you are ofrnid you can go Neer, but we shall go on." Ile expostulated further, but to no purpose, and when the women went en Le followed thein at a little distance. il' was joined by three other Alpinists, mimed T.schuppik, 'frestler and llof, and they also mode fruitless efforts to induce the women to return. Very soon the stow was falling heavily, and the Alpinists were up to their knees. In spite of„this, the women persisted in going on, but in another half an hour Vee snow had reached their waists, and Iwo of the women fell exhausted. THEM PA'fll LOST. The wind was then carrying great clouds of snow before il, and the clim- bers, who could not see a yard in front lost their path. After a while the Frau- leir. Zasdra became delirious, and then tree four men carried the five women to the shelter of a rock. The guide and two then started in tine blinding snow to bring help from the valley. For two hours the fourth num re- r^ained with the delirious women, who were screaming and moaning for help. Ali the time the snow conUnued to fall heavily. At last the rescue party arrived, and brandy was administered to the \\•O- men. They were carried with the great- est difficulty to the valley. When re- storatives were administered oho three younger women recovered. but the sis- ters Zasdra were bo:h dead. Tho guide and the other men were badly frost-bitten in the hands and feet. PHILIP GILBERT SIIOT AND KILLED. Shocking Midnight Tragedy in a Suburb of Whtrbon. A despntch from \\'iarlon says : Philip Gilbert, nn old and well-known citizen, was shot rmd instantly killed by Mrs. Thetins, one of n pair of dissolute wo- men who were housed in a tent in a suburb known ns Vognuville. Tho Fee - lion in question lines long leen troubled with loafs. of a questionable character, and Niro. Thomas wits w•ano(rd away inert there, im're that' once. She nl ways returned, however, an.l when sho came back last week it is said Gilbert nrgnn- lied n gang of men and boys to raid tho tent where sho resided. The tent was puled clown by it mob cstimnte(1 at fn.m twenty-I1Vn lo fifty men and boys, some with binckenet faces. The two women were pelted with stones and mtten eggs. and it . Ls said Gilbert struck Mrs. 'llh..mne. However, the women fired s• vera) shots in the air to frighten Ilse meters away, but Iho lost shot struck Gilbert and death followed almost In- stantancuusljf. AN INCREASE OF X22090,054 Canada's Foreign Trade for Four Months Totals $214,156,015. A despatch from Ottawa says: Can- ada's foreign trade totalled 3214,150!115 in the lout four ntoiitlw ed the current fiscal period from the first of April to July 31, an incense over the similar per- iod the year before u1 $22.(YJ0,054. During the four months Uto imports te.tallod $1.al,803.070, an Mer•caso of 8590,208; animals and their produce, totalled $77,7116,121, an Increase of $15,- 4'.L,746, Free imports totalled S51,730,- 825, an incrcaw, of $9.703,760. Duty col- lected amounteel to $20,398,731, an in- cleaso of $.,211,436. Thera was a decrease in the volume of exports, which wets of the value of $:"2,352,945, thee doetexeso being $1,918,- 6.3. During to four months expeeis of products of tho mine showed an increase of $743,838; agricultural products sliow- cd an increase of $:1,817,874. Tho do' creast. in exports for tho period wero dish, *546.160; lumber, $590.20; animals 111141 their ptuduce, 35,022,373 ; nhunufae- turors, $342,148. Dta•ing July the volumo of exports look a jump of 811,174,051, totalling for the month, $27,723,51YJ. IIELP DANISH FARMEIILS. Slate Contributes About 827.500 Yearly for Promotion of Dairy Industry. Let it be said, 10 those who deprecate State interference, that the State cit Denmark assists the general study of agriculture, and exercises a work cf supervision, but interferes very little in matters of detail. Thus there are offices for the analysis of seeds, and for the analysis of ma- nures. Half the cost of these -that :s, $2,735 a year -is contributed by the State. -- The State contribute also some $27,- 5!X) a year in grants on the financial budget for the promotion of the dairy industry -the object in the main, being to assist dairymen and women in ex- tending their knowledge to their pro- fession. Again, a slmilnr sum Ls given by the Slate to the Royal Danish Agricultural and Veterinary School for carrying un ti.e work of the agricultural testing laboratory, which examines dairy pro- duce, bruon from the slaughter -houses, end superintends tests of the feeding . f cattle, ole. In addition to these grants, the State supplied altogether over $175,000 in subventions for breeding and keeping demesne animals, and in prizes for the annual shows, most of these subven- tions being given on .the sound prin- LAUGll AND BE IIEALTIIY. Why Fal Men are Fat and Can't Get Thin -Advice for the Thin. It is not nearly so necessary to your happiness that yeti be able to appre- ciate a joke intellectually as it is for you to enjoy it physiologically. A mon who does not laugh heartily nt ieast a dozen times a day Ls losing 1':e art of living. PCopte „ •110 laugh► well, deep down so as to vibrate (their diaphragms thor- oughly and shake their vital organs, assimilate their food into good rich blood, which makes good nerve and muscle. They see the joke every time and en- joy It. they mny not be such good story- tellers as your sallow -faced wit • r smirking mnaemic friend who is clever urs a salirist, lint they live king and en- joy every minute. Dr. A. Neese, in n recent discucslon before the New fork Academy of Medi- cine. said that too little attention is paid 1 y doctors to the functions of the ale dentinal muscles. In a few weeks' practice the lough cones naturally. for good digestion has been promoted and good cheer au- lematically compels the laugh. It is the big, husky fellow with the deep laugh of w lore we say. "Torn is nething but a boy. although hes fifty.' Thera are physical culture leachers who nre reaping large relurns from ILe frit ;w,cketeeers of wealthy dyspep- tic.e. teaching Ihern nothing nerve than whet they should know, that unless their abdominal muscles 1"e exorcised good digestion Le impossible and with. eat that g,.od health cannot le looped for. -- -'1`-- - BEETLE BENDS KEYS. fan Break n Man's Finger by a Mere Shrug of 11s Shoulder. The insect hemse of the London Inn lute just receiveol a raro and curious acquisition. It is n fine specimen of fuse; Goliath beetle from 4wth .\nierf- ea, which on account of its size and tierce appearance would wend the Rrit- I=h liousennaid into hysterics. 1: Ls nearly five inches long and looks tike a miniature person in a while sur- plice and black stole. It L3 not poison- ou3 nor intentionally ferneious, but there is a 5i>"t between the neck and shoulders which nets like n vise. A finger p1o0.51 in thee aperture would 1.' lecken. The ether (Iny a keeper insert- ed n key there. tw,lialh" hent it .•- most double by merely shrugging bus shoulders. This great beetle is the roost Inexpensive guest in the z':o, for he feeds entirely off fruit that is corn- p;etely rotten. Of the inhabitants of London, 052 were born at sen, over 60,000 In Ireland, and 14,000 in Scotland. BOMB PREP.tIIING FOR TRYSTS. "Malelactors• of Wealth" are Likely to be Prosecuted. A despatch from Washington says: The conviction is becoming strong Isere that the Administration before long will carry out its threat to strike tut "certain malefactors of great wealth," through u iuoinal proseculious that will prob- ably result in prison sentences. Until recently tho talk of criminal proso'cu- ti.,ns for violation of the Sherman Anti- trust Act, rebating, turd like offences, Lae not been taken very seriously, but Vie declarations of Attorney -General Bonaparte, Secretary '1'afl, and the !'re- sident himself, have raised the enquiry whether the Administration huts not evolved plans of a pretty definite sort 10 begin criminal prosecutions of in- dividuals to break tap the "bad trusts.'' Just where the first blow will fall it is impossible now to predict. It is said 1:-y officials in ixesilion to know that the Department of Justice for months has Leen gpfetly gathering information to be used in criminal prosecution of in- dividuals. STEEL PLANT FOR CANADA. Large Works- are to be Established i0 British Columbia. Nilo that lite co-operative societies A despatch from Vanoouver, B. C., must g;ve a similar amount. says: J. T. Shadforlh, ironmaster, of 1t is these societies which really do N w•cnsticcn=ryne, England, one of the most to help the peasant fanner. It is to them that he sells his eggs, his milk, and his pigs (for the cooperative slaughter -houses), and Ls thus saved tho expense -which falls upon the EnglLsh farmer -of transferring his goods to the marketing centre. The co-operative societies perform' fro work of distribution, watching the quality of goods supplied by individu- na The State helps the development ef agricultural knowledge, stimulates inventions, and fosters enterprise. That is all. The rest is in the hands of the farm- er. ile is absolute owner of bis farm of tt dozen or 100 acres. The profit of a', improvements, applied by him to his holding, reverts to hien, and is in- herited by his children. Thus the incentive of private owner- ship is made the basis on which the scientifically managed system is suc- cessfully built up. WHERE THEIR HEARTS ARE. Caterpillar's Heart Extend the Whole Length of Body. There is one curious fact which not everyboner notices about the common, Pilger -long, green caterpillars of our larger moths. Their hearts, instead cf being in front, are at the back of the Lc dy and extend along the entire length of the animal. One can seo the heart dnlinclly through the thin skin and can watch its slow beat, which starts at the int and moves forward to the head. Hearts of this sort reaching from !tend le tail are not at all uncommon in the simpler creatures. The earthworm has one, and so have most worms, caterpil- lars and other crawling things. Hearts In the middle of the back also aro quite 113 frequent ns those in what seems to us to be the natural place. Many ani- mals. the lobster for example, and the crawfish and the crab, which have short hearts like those of the beasts and Ltrds, nevertheless have thein place.) just under the shell in what, in our- selves, would be the small of the back. 11 When a man Is succeeding there nre always a number of human failures around to carp at his methods. The principal causes of murder aro these, in the order in which they stand • Jealousy, drink, quarrels, revenge, rob- bery. organizers of the North Pacific Iron and Steel Corporation, is hero arranging for the amalgiunation of the coal and Iron Interests preparatory to Ute e'er:- non reo-tion of a modern steel works. It will nilke steel of all grades, including steel rails and ship -plate, with a big ship- building plant. Tito initial capital will be raised in British Columbia, a greater amount in Manchester and London. The company will be registered for fifteen Trillion, of which dvvo million will 'co tlee initial expenditure on a plant with a sito near Vancouver. All the raw material is now found in British Columbia. • . .pF CiIARMS SNAKES IN TIIE PULPIT. Indiana Pastor Wrnps Rattlers About His Neck. A despatch from Nashville, incl., says: The Rev. William Grabb, pastor of the Church of the First Born, is adding bun- dreds to hie flock by demonstrating the lx.wer of his creed with rattlesnakes. 1!e declares that nothing can bring :nrm to true worshippers, and says I.o can handle any kind of snakes undzr Divine ptoleCtien without injury. To prove his faith, rattlesnakes caught in the woods a few days ago were taken to the china' and lien was asked prove is sincerity. Ile took them out of the %.ox, wrapped them ni,out his neck and thus adorned, exhorted fits hearer's. Many sinners went to the mourner.' bench after the demonstration. EX -JUDGE DECRIES OLD AGE, Lord Brampton at 93 Years Regrets Ills Leisure. A despatch from London, England. nays: One of the present "silly sensor" newspaper topics. dhow to live 10 be a hundred years old, has shown that Iho ix puler idea is sG11 strong that it is a good thing to live Io a great age. This view Is ConlroVCrlcd by lewd Pompton, formerly the famous chin - Mal judge, Sir Beery Hawkins. 110 k ninety, and haying retired from the tench on a !oilskin hni Iia leisure to enjoy the evening of his life, but ho does not find it perlieul•rly enjoyable. "Old nge has very few compensations. Leisure 13 not pleesanl. 1l 6113 1)147 with regret Mel 1 nm no longer able to lake at" active part in the life of the world." INSANE PRISONERS REYOLT One Killed, Several Wounded, in fho Clinton, N. Y., Prison. A despntch from Clinton, N. V., say!: One of the worst oulbrcnks among the insane prisoners in the (history of (lin- tee prior n nt Dorn! sora occurred on \Vednesdee niglIl. As it result, Isnnc 1)nt,•ns, ono of the inmates, is dead, sent through the (heart by n guard. The Insane prisoners were being n.arshnlled for bend when nt a given sig- nal they rushed into the big lower dor- mitories rind !ermined the deers in Iii^ faces of Ilhe guards. Ilnving locked the ,;,"or; they proceeded coolly to set atxnit snaking their escape by smashing tho doors and sewing the bars. Some of Ute less violently insane, however. help- ed 1h.' jailers. seeing that the struggling eenvicts cent,) not be reached through the lig sect d.wirs, the guarL4 horned on them from Ili w -inflows streams of water from tho fire toe. This kept there it fay but slid not subdue there. Ther &nerds were finally obliged to use ti- nes and pistols, and it was otter mid- night before Iho uprising was quelled. Besides Dubois. who was killed, sev- cral other prisoners wcro more or leu seriously wounded.