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mound and struck the tender -of the
Grand Trunk engine. Engineer
'John Smith, who- was in the light
P$1410, was tieleifili 'dire**
against -the side of the cab, but his
ftremen escaped injury, and there
wail but little damage. deep to .the
tram. • .
The man who was killed WAS Wil-
liam Quinn; 42 years of age etes
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neer on the C. P. R. express, 145
stelae Avenue, West VototitoJIe
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thrOugbv. lititaieo talioik4 ,-"1 e
Grand Trunk engine' ad just come
out of the roundhouse and was
visiting on the crossing for the O.
P. .R. train to past!,. The crew was
working in the engine and littls ex-
pected an accident. The engieeer
was waiting to start along as sbon
sis the exprescpasSed A.11,4-s,ft
man was outside, Sildeb explains
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how he escaped njury.
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82,000 DEFENDERS.
, 'Would Cost Australia Matti*.
More, Says Ewing.
A de:match frora• •,London soya:
in the Melbourne House of Retires
sentative,s Tuesdases,stheelfinis-
" '"UttintegErstiltiltr'Stnwd4`
second "reading of the defence bill,
and said that under the bill the
Commonwealthswouldget, instead -of
20,000 nsen, enlisted under the vol-
untary system, 62,000, costing only
t100,000 sterling more than they
. ate now paying. The main duty of
the British navy was to protect the
hcart of thesErapirev-and-Austrelia
'ought to be able to say to Britain:
`'‘'We have * national guard of 200* -
000 trained men which will enable
us to keep inviolate our island con-
tinent while you do bigger work
,..eith the navy."
DEATH IW DYNAMITE.
ene Man /tilled and Another It.
inred in Froatensie.
4 despatch from Kingston saya;
Ari explosion of dynamite near
Westbrook on Wednesday caused
-4he death f Harry -Smit
ouelyssin ed his brother from
-"Clevehin bis Ohio.- The. men were
4A114293ed 113 blasting, when the s dy-
namite Prematurely exploded, Har-
ry Smith, aged 35, received the full
force of the charge, dying almost
instantly. His brother escaped
with his life. His arm was so badly
shattered, hounever, that he had to
be brought to the Kingston Gener-
Hosprtal to have, it amputated,.
Both were married men.
' TORONTO'S POPULATION.
rigures Show 14,101 Inerease Over
., Last Year.
A despatch from Toronto sage:
The population of the city of Toron-
to is now 27,201, based on the At -
treatment Commissioner's figures.
This is an increase of 14,601 over the
population of lest year, 272,000. In-
ilisnifteli-as-• many-citizens-have-hee
tinder the impression that the po
vitiation laid gone up to 300,000, 4.te
Assessment Commissioneee figures
loill prove disappointing.
orport.,...... pores.*
WOMAN FATALLY BURNED.
INP X1101004 in Home of Ken
• ' County Fanner.
*A slespateh from Chatham says:
Mrs. George Jordan, aged 29, wife
of a farmer near McKay's Vorners,
died as the result of burns received
in her home when is lamp exploded
on 1 ednesday. She was almost .
roa,st d alive, nearly ell her clothes
Iseing burned from her, body. fler
hush rid and one child survive her.
CZARINA STILL VERY ILL.
'etyma Breakdown Showa no Sign
of Inaproveasent.
A desipatch from St. Petersburg
says: It is understood that the
Czarina'smolongelknerriut
.
Ler husband and thildren, has no
'teen improved by her 1.911.K Ittehtin
cruise aleng the coast of Finland.
Her physicians insist upon her pass-
ing the, Winter in the south, but she
refuses to do so unless the Czar
and her children accompany her.
This is Tegarded-ass-impassible.,---bu
the fannly-fear-t
whose nervous condition makes the
thwarting of her wishes dangerous.
Her relatives ere isnxious iconcern-
,
ing her.
ROUNDHOUSE BURNED.
$20,00* Damage Doric to C. P. R.
Building at Montreal. -
A despatch from Montreal says:
Eire broke out in the Outromont
roundhouse on -the -Canadian Pacific
Railway early on Thursday an
suited in damage estimated at $°
coo. Ton locomotives were in the
sl-eir whenthefire was discovered,
and the employes of the company
succeeded in getting six out of the
burning building. Three We'-3wrecked by falling timber and fire.
One locomotive, standing on the
track in -another part of the str iss
ture, was not damaged.
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RECORD GRAIN MOVEMENT
231 Cars Reeeived at Port Arthur
in One Day Oyer C. N. R.
A despatch from Winnipeg Says:
The greatest grain movement so far
this year was accomplished on the
Canadian Northern Raily/4sy on
Wednesday, when 231 cars of wheat
duef :ii of Inc line, who are
closely watching the work of mov-
ingthe great crops down to the
-portk, Are lliglity-sfiatifie dr- a
the way in which the twill_ is being
done.
BRITISH REVENUES DECLINE.
The tear Will Resilt in Deficit of
MAMA..
A despatch from " London sayti:
Further evidence of the depression
in British commerce and finance ,s
given by the revenue returns from
April 1 to Sept. 30. The receipts
for that period were £4,481,000 less
than during the , corresponding
period last year. All items, exeept
two, show* decline. It is figured
that the year will ,result in' a de-
altit of arly £5,000,000. -
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hicage, Great „Western.
Vito Ilicoill was smarmed to
, hang at ontreal 00 Novem.,ber 27,
the barna ay that "Creoketl-Necit-
' pztM the penalty for murder.
uty Postmaster-GeneralCoul-
ter sailed on Monday for .A.uotras
lia and Now. Zealand to discuss
with those Governments the flues -
ton of joint contributions to the
all -red line project.
GREAT BRITA/N.
Ste-Ottilie
elected Lord Mayor of London.
Penny postage between Great"
Britain and the ,United States is
now in force.
Britain's foreign trade for the
ant six months of the present year
aggregated £449,003,000.
TINITED STATES.
Th
—if
laborers v!ere..1.011-ea
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A plevdershonstessnearsCherlotte,
11., blew up, killing ten persons
and injuring twenty.
Seven persons were drowned by
the sinking of a pleasure launch in
the Catument River near Chicago.
Aceidents4n-thooal wines of the
States seasniedstlwileath si•
2S men duping the lest calendar
year.
A. circus lion escaped near NOW
Brunswick, N. J., and, after roam-
ing over the country all night, was
killed by a TWArk with a shotgun.
GENERAL,
Canada won the internationa
gymnastic competition at Rome.
Cardinal Merry del Val„ Papal
Secretary of State, is to retire.
A Premix promoter has given
Wilbur Wright an order for fifty
aeroplanes.
Floods ah-otTt klyderbad, ht rad**,
have caused the loss of hundreds of
lives.
Argentina will make an attempt
to obtain admission for her cattle
into the British market.
The defence bill before the Au-
stralian Parliament makes provis-
ion for the enlistment of 82,—
men.
Twenty British sailors lost their
lives in the wreck of the ship Loch
Finials off the coast of Taeman'in.
The defeat of his troops, before
Tabriz has persuaded the Shah of
Persia to set Oct. 30 as the (ley for
the reassembling of Parliament
Premier Deakin of Austr
cabled President Roosevelt,
him to visit Australia on
to Africa. The President
wee received` at Port Arthur. The plied that it --will be impos
do so.
alia h• as
,urging Montreal, Oct. , 6. -Oats --No.
his way white are quoted at 45 to 45,4c;
has re- No. 3 at 44 to 444c, and No. 4 at
sible to 433. to 44e, with Manitoba old crop
No. 2 white at 47 to 47%e. No. 3
at 40 to 464e, and. rejected ,at 45
I*Jax.rstorr.....kleur
%mit° a -Spring wheat patents,
se;eondsi
patents, *5 to *510; straight rol-
lers, $4.40 to *4.0; do. in bags,
4/* to $2.10; extras, *1.6; to $1.t.
Feed -Manitoba bran, $21 to *22l
shorts, *25; Ontario bran, *et to
$21; iniddlingl, $26 to $27; sheds,
4,26per ton, including bap ; pure
grain. mouille, $30 to $35; milled
grades, $23 to *SS per ton. Pro-
visions -Barrels short cut mess,
se2.50; half -barrels, %ULM; ckar
fat back, $23; dry salt long clear
hacks, 11; barrels plate beef,
f117.50 haltbarrels, do., *its
pound lard, 8% fo We; pure lard;
12% to 13e; kettle rendered, 13 to
1334`0; 'hams, 1234e to 14e; break-
, MISPLACED.S.YMPATI/Y. fast bacon, 14 to 15e; Windsor ha -
Benevolent Old Gent, -"I am sors eon," 15 to 10e;
fresh killed :that-
rt.,,folniny, to See you hawse black, toir dressed hogs, 010,25 to $10.50;
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very, No
quoted .02,. and No
• Northern at $1, Baty ports.
ntario Wheat -Nos * • -white ,,,isor
quoted at, Sac• Outside ; No. 2 red
Winter, 9234c,, and No. 2 mixed,
0134e outside.
Oists-Ontarie, No. 2 white, 38N
to 300 outside; Manitoba' No. 2
%stinted at 44e; and rejected at 42°2
oderich.
Rye --No. 2 quoted at 79 to 800
outside.
Buckwheats--63 to 67e outside.
Peas -Prices nominal at 88 to
Corn -No. 2
nominal at 8/34e
a.nci No. 3 at 870
Barley -No. 2
47c, and No. 3
American yellow
on track, Toronto.
bailey quoted at
•extra at 53e out -
Bran -Care are quoted at $20 in
bulk outsides Shorts quoted at $22
t. $23 in bulk outside.
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Apples, -$1.50 to $2.40 per bbl.
-Beans-Prime,- $e -to -44:10, -and
hand-picked, $2.20 to $2.25.
Honey -Combs, No. 1, $1.50 to
81.75 per dozen, and No. 2, in 60;
Pound tins, 9%c; No. I extracted,
to to 11,c per pound.
Hay -Nos 1 timothy quoted at
fo--$11-.50--a ton oh tract here, and
No, 2 at $7 to $8.
Straw-4OE.70 to $7 on track,.
Potatoes --c per bag, and Dela-
wares at 70c per bag on track.
Poultry ----(Thickens, Spring, dress-
ed, 10 to 110 per pound; fowl, 9 to
93e; ducks, 11 to ite per pound.
411:
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter-Potind.print, 22 to 23,
tubs, 20 to 22e; inferiorr.46
Creamery rolls,_25 to 116e, and sol-
ids at -24 2,13,4e.
Eggs -Case lots, 21 to 220 per
-dozen. -
• Cheese -Large cheese, 1334 to
131/.0 per pound, ancrtwins,_13gstO
13,s4c.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 123 to 13e
per pound in ease lots; -mess pork,
$19 to $19.50; short cut, $23.50.
Ifams-Light to medium 1434 to
15e; do., bean?, 12% to lie; rolls,
11 to 11c; shoulders, 10% to 10%c;
backs, 17% to 18e; breakfast bacon,
16 to 15%e.
• Lard -Tierces, 13%c; tubs 13c -
pals, 14e.
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BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
ardon De4
nu Ottawa says: An
ststraordina y affair *oc(urred o
Wednesday night as s. result of
which, I). 1). Reardon, driver for
Elettric Transfer C0121Pall7, is
dead, Ana Thomas For, * 'abort
riding at 64 Perey Street,* is .tiy-
iog„. It seems that both men were
reysitsv attention to the same girl
whole identity lot' the present i
unknown. '
Reardon, was walking with the
young lady on Wednesdey night on
Asliburnham Hill, at the extreme
end of Laurie* Avenue litest, in the
canity of St. jean Baptiste
urth, where the *hrspt
se*
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tv initiates at a, sharp, roeky
int, fully forty feet above h
street lecl. ox had beetifollow-
1nr the
contilt, and, overtaking
he got nto an Altereatio
with eardons' iwhich led ..to blow
and a senile, each man trying to
throw he other over the eliff. The
sill as that both men went over,
Reardon falling oh the jagged rocks
with Fc on top, of hon. Reet4on's
Ault us trashed in, and Fox's in-
inries sire of suCh * nature that he
I not likely to reeovor.
When the men commenced ght
it' the irl• ist the cam. 1020,1
tilted to be very .pretty. and
*sitar itiosirers, ran
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STEAMERAITIktiLD't A,SitOitt.
Survivors of Star of I* a
Second Shipwreck.
A despatch from Victoria, B. O.
says: The steamer Humboldt, 3343
tons, on the route between Seattle
and fikagway, is ashore in Active
'Pass. She strikk on rocks off Ren
der Island. The steamer will prove
a total loss, but ail thejlasseligers,
thout twenty-five in nutriber, were
saved. The steamer had on board
eighteen survivors of the ill-fated
ehip Star of Bengal-, which -was lost
near Wrangel. • ,
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Promising 'Youtli-"You
and be ?terry for your own lit
got two r
live, $7,25 to *7.30.• Cheese -West -
0 Nose ern, 12% to 12.,%e; tistern, 121: to
no, bov icp. Butter -25c in round lots.
26e jobbing. Eggs -No. 1,19 to 20e:
,seleets, 23 tot'44e, pet doz.,
!iris
Brown, why'
going through all those 6
.tionst IS he trainiegfor
,
Keay, stri.-Itiown -
he's niereli getting in forst
the carpets.
Charmir
guest, wb
after disi
You've lia
'Guest •
lit: very psrl
Kidd
you'd punish
mating the
through the sierriew
Irrepressible Child
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cei refusing dish
O so, distressid.
'dinner at AV'
,ou--btt I have to
about my food.,'
John t1 with
y. He kipt
noissio afl
morning
c',000
*stet my fault. I told you
is Ilre•sigims• before we start.
STATES S4RK:11
e/ �ct.4:—,Wh1akk-Sp
wheat firnier; 'N'o, 1 Northern, ea
lt:atls, stores $1.054; Winer
trong; No. 2 white, *1.03. E*sier; No. 3 yellow, 81e; No. 4 yel-
oir, 830; No. 3 corn, SI to 83%4S
No 4 hooka, 813 to ftie; No. 3
8234e. Oets--.Steady.
Louis, Oct. it --Wheat-Oish,
Septernher, $1.00%; 1)es
$1.00X; 1.40y. 8i.o. "
Minneapolii Minn, Oet.0.
%neat -Sept., 44.91%; Dee., 41.
-
01; *kr, *too; No 1 ham. *1.-
t1% to al.0474; No 1 Norther
ItlyOgi. to *1.0374; No. 2 Norther
*EOM to $1„017;; No. $ 'Northe
e to 114,00%. Vionr-First pot
$itylli to *AO; 0004 potent,
00 to $5.71; first clears, $t.* tn
second clears, *3.00 to #.3.
Brau la bulk, *Pt, to $0.1:40,,
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ed orderer ***it negro
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1 WeflttotTiefe1ff5. Onc
of the sons, ,Tohns returned to tne
house 'about three o'clock to get as
drink of wiser, enst found Reeds,
num sitting on a„ ptep of the cello
*tiara, and his mother ling tie*d
the cellayr, epveretl with blood,
verything indicating that her head
had been battereij against the eel -
o
ratford Jai
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ay In- 3ai or vagrancy,71.1
bcen committed from Listowel, and
was wandering . about the city on
Wednesday forenoon He
Aeri arrested, a policeman's over-
coat, which he had stolen from tit*
nveres quarters here. The negro,
Itunchres,n, refuses to make any
statement.
LIVE STOOK MARKET.
Toronto, Oet, 0.-Seleete
and heifers sold at $4.40 to 4.
per cwt. Choice vow's were solti as
isigns***4-perseirtsissentisliisrhers
a few special easesd
, An improvement was reported in
the, demand for feeder a and etock-
ers, as well as for distillery bulls
and steers. Distillery feeders sold
at $2.40 to $3.75, according to their
weights and quality..
A firm market was recorded for
mach cows. The best ones sold up
$05 each. "rhe range for the gen-
▪ nngt.w$23e2ter'sinikeii
Choicc veal talVeS wetit'ut4 about
half a cent to -day. The quotations
were -346 640 per pound.
Prices were unchanged in sheep
and 'Iambi,
Hogs wee weak in price at $6.73,
fed and watered, for selects.
WOMAN WINS MED.
Prize d Britts*
Pharmaceutical Society.
---A,"dosimtchvitImiwliondo*.say.
For the. first tune in the history of
the Britioh Pharmaeeutical Society,
the Persian medal, the blue•ribbon
prize in pharmacy,hex been won
by a woman. The successful cantle
-
date is Gertrude H. Wren,
140 WERE DROWNED.
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Stoanseeiturts Down Ferry Dwain
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,A despatch from Constentinople
:mays : A "Stearn-LS-hiponTWdnesday
-
rari down mid sank a ferry boat.at
the mouth of Smyrna harbor. One
hundred and forty persons were
drowned.
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rx,,,twazi
Creighton Was Convicted at Owen
Sound.
A despatch from Owen &send
vs: The trial of James Farish
Creighton concluded. on Thursday,
the prisoner being found guilty of
the.charges ,of murdering _his wife
and step -daughters in May last:
The verdiet was 401_ u nanim 4nte one.
In addressing the jury Mr. A. G.
Mackay, counsel for the defence,
pleaded that he be committed to an
asylum for the remainder of his life.
The judge, however, etimmed up
against the prisoner: and, after the
jury brought in their verdict, sail
that he . would have been jgreatly
dieappointed had it -been different
from what it was. Creighton was
terribly affected when he heard the
-verdict and had to be practiW4
carried out of court, weeping hit-
terlythe while.
At 8.30 on Thursday evening Mr.
sentenced Creigh-
ton -to be hanged on Dec. 3rd, In ,
giving sentence, he said that theries
cused had been guilty of one of -the
most atrocious crimes known to law
and he would hold out no hope of
Executive clemency. He must seek
mercy at 4 -higher tribunal, whern
it was never refused to the, peni-
tent.
AGED US YEARS. -
Death of au Old Colored Resiaent
of Losidin.'
A despatch from London, Ont.,
says: One of the oldest residents of
Canada passed quietly away at the
Aged People's Home, on Tuesday
nights in the person of Rev. Alex-
ander /fens who had just attain-
ed the. 1181k year .of his -ant and
*116-Tviiir174-inany years Tzunliter
ptist Church.
He had resided in and about Lon-
don for sixty years. For, the Put!
four years Rev. Mr. Mans had been'
an inmate of the Aged People's
Home, but tip to • his death was
strong and active. He had no
ease, but like ars Otal clock, simply
ran down. Ile was born of slave
parents,- and grew up in slavery,
but when a man. of about fifty he
caned and cisme to Canada. ., •
*
Nowwed 'Them es Area t
near as good as the ones mother
used to make" Mrs. Newwed -
*sires, s;nd your salary ain't near
as good as the"one my ,fether used
te make. either!"
DIED „OF STARVATION.
Nair liroppei-Destd-Whiirr Waiting --
for Bread.
A despatch from New York says -
Standing in the "bread line" and
clutching in his hand a ticket wh:vb
within a few moments would have
given him the food he so merely
needed, a 'man of 45, early on
Thursday suddenly cr.umplei up,
was neatly dressed, but appeared
-
to have suffered from hick of usur-
ishatent. The body has net yet been
identified.
PARIS GREEN IN WELL.
Mast Charged With Attempt' to Pol.
sou a .
A despatch 'from Ottawa says:
Anthony Dacey, of eintloy, ,Jis -10
lail at Hull ehatged viith attempt-
ing te _poison Mr, Itohort Brown,
members of his family and 'other re-
sidents of the township, It is said
that out of spite he threw a quan-
tity of Paris green into a well, used
by * number of *familiee.
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istrioi
pried; itir
despatch- frwu Bombay says:
AtDrwbrofr over thqusand per-
8(118
perished in the llods
recent egtritordinary ra,1
11 is ed that the unburied towlies
the Letitia will, cause * peitis
The mister .sit Hydersibed wss
ofle of the most audden and most
Iappsling in tlke history of India. It
jt luculeted that 33.,900 cubit, feet
rf ter struck the City every see -
rush of the. flood lasted. A
Jene so of '110*,ei 40141111 swept
rwsy. flns.foarthof tj* city, whore
id polio** lived.
"
:n.dm
is now * ',fast a nusginire of black
inud, front whieh arises an an
ling steatite the neighboring ,
Villege of Gliaaliguda a. thousAnd
houses were desr.d.
There were many heroic resmos
14 both *bites iiind durbt,
the catastrophe, ;lea,Miing fof don
(lead is now itistiveii going on The
workers wear clothinir soaked with
disinfectants ind.their mouths and
nuseS are covered because of the. a
ors.Elephants are being
used to deniOlish dangerously shat.,
Tho estimates . of
lot Of dead varyOwe plse.
slret,'"*e
t a1.,10,000.
sstss,
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