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. In tio to the fire, water di
raU4,11' darnitg'1, ;Atli the cellar of th
• great ston iie is PA
' of teVeral fee),
WlIERE IT STARTED, .
• Tb o dif,xikvery of tip blaze whkIt
. led to the first alarm was made by
nevospaperroan as he was leaving'
the flva flor of the building, The
lass which covers the great light -
ell in the west wig of the main
eetion crashed through,. Ire leoked
*td w smoke and flame and,
e
rushed --the '0,1e4Pwillililine..4ttbe._ '!.
p1xned to fire a nazte a.,
ru Vritrilf-V-vr-OTYU
over he fallen 1igit glass, and
e wing runxit-tg north and south
at the extreme west of the great
tone Pile. Lines el hose were run
up outside and i,i through doors and
• windo-ws, *nd- the -tam • -n
Ore any anpreciable- headway
!Award, but tore south into the
library end north into -the efilces in
that, end'of the wing. This a t
this- wing, and it
•
in this that the Aereest battle
• IMO fought. .
It wts. not longlic.ore the flames
e in poesseision of the library,
id he prieeress, hooks were driven
m the windows a shower of
RIO GRANDE ON RAMPAGE.
ense T rritory, Mexico is
der Water.
tch from Austin, -Texas,
. The Rio Grande from the
outh ‹if the an Jose River down
outh, a distance of MO miles,
al. the biggest rampage on re.
The flood waters of the San
and San ji'ian Rivers and their
aries are pouring in on the
lcdean- side, a tcope of territory
birty to forty miles wide is undtt:
iter and an enormous amount of
a age has already been done. Sei-
ral
towu in the lower valley or
Texas side ere already undo,.
and the river is still risios.
o los of life is reported.
Jr,
APPALLING DEATH RATE,
1,233 Children Bled in Montreal in
Three Months,
despateh from Montreal says :
Tht 'ling mortality among chit.
4ren in Montreal is 'well shown by
thtm s for the three, hot months
of tin, yeam', and it is eafe to say
heti no other city in Canada or per -
en the- confluent has suell
terrible record. In the three
leonthythere ircre. 2.127 deaths of
*hie!' - ,233 we're children or 48 per
eent-. The 'figures -went- as high a$
0 per ccnt. for some weeks. The
oath rate *as the week of-
u1y 21, rwhen the therminneter
of 214 'deaths 153 -were
t to'•bJ
'", 'w4ter
o • vper rs, 'ard .
14. tdilq; ,.stii°03k0-.'"• • c -This-
ort• wa tetesfitl,: thoug he
Tapers wer ninny .of them d ;whs.:
A like fight to save the 1,eorels'
-41-the-railwa3t. -coin
iI the ut,pei Not of the
north end C.f the wing resrilted in
the preserving Of tho3e. valuable
riapers and the,' greater part of the
4(4..9 -electric documents in Bon.
Adam teck's room, were saved, al*
,thoitgli the offices were gutted.
'now FELL, IN §ganows.
The roof, fell in sections. First it
was.that section over the light wel,
then the part over the library went
iloWn With 4 great eras1.1;' 11.11d."Wer
mailer sections further to the
ertli„ —With eieiftiiirThr re '•grwre
-eat -clouds uf inoke and niers
AkattaiL -
wor&iirning paper.
The smouldering ruin whiek Was
the west wing is now gloqiny
siglIt. It stands thero -0, bulking
Va4P5 Of blackened and disfigured
ton o1e ,and ated.
liTe$ n
Need with Water from the
base-
rnent to tool, and setting o.side the
loss of the library, the great bulk
of the daniage_ • ter
rather than fire. , •
With the exception of the private
office of the King's, printer, all the
•rooms in the wing, with all their
valuable oak desks, chairs, filing
-cabinets and general furnishings
are aoaked and almost deatrood.
.ELECTIIIP SMELTING._.
Swedish Expert Ilere to Establish
.rurnaees.
o • ,ter
.1%• )yr'
ti' k0who, t
3. 4•U
or 4
1.• 4nAjt nitf:r$4,11%
To
onte'; Mond patentS, k i1, and
strong g $5410, tcfr klZi44'‘
ronto. -4
Manito us Wheat Ohl No.
rtteM1143-143.25; Otegre$
Day ports; new -No. 1 Northern for
October shipment $1,01, and No.
Northern, October $14pmvnt,
lake ports. •'
Ontario'Wheat—rew No. et 97 Co
vso at outside. points. .
Barley --No, 2, 55c outside, and
No. extri at 0/ to 04 onteide
thatoiris) white new,
r to 490 outside. INT4. Wetern
Canada old eats420, and No. 4, 42e,
Bay portm.
Prices nominal.
_oats;
t a
• TIffe on
adian, 75 to 76e on traekr TorOnto.
Dran—V,0 to4;2000 for C)ntarie
bran outside, in hulk. Manitoba,
$21 in sacks, Toronto freights
shorts; $24, Toronto. freights.
COUA ItY . •
App1es-1P...30 to Sa, per barrel.
$225 to $.3O, and
bawl -picked,
bush.
Hay—o. 1 timothy, $14.DO to $15
atr,.
• in -
0:50
•1fAzn1--Light to. u'diumu, 15 to-•
tot; Tdo., he v , 11 to 14:c;
tat" to 14e- houlders ry
•itteko, is to ,180; breakraet ba
on. 160. '
Lard—Tierces, 144e; tubs, 14c;
pail', 150.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL,
°areal, Sept-T.—The parket
for oats is stoady; No. 2 Canadian
Western, .444 to OCT -NO. 3 Cana,.
aux- Wester", -- tt 4e. Barley
No. .0, GG ,to GManitoba \teed
w, , ,fp;
43 • to.CDc; N,.3 white, We;
ytnow, 693,4e No. 4, die. Oat --
-.-44v -;-N�.-4- white,
3(.14t9 73‘ • standard, 3S3, to
:3334;e,
LIVE OK MARKETS.
Montreal, cpt. steers
sold 5 to 54e good at 414 to 4%-c;
medium, 4 to 434e; tows. 3 to 4%c,
aurdhtujp110miie
,,toalcpeigtedper polled. Ie
pieer
pound,with sates at, 514e; sheep,
`3,?4;a0 per pound. _Calves, *3 to .$15
r a1. BogsSalf tlie t
_ter grades wore rtcred
•ge: quantiti, tt• ;
•
vo:4Lflg*:i'e'!ct' tby iirrec 0:41
Wthe
en s, mond , ; Winter 4iv nat
patents, . $s.75 ;. lfardtobs, stroll
1
bakers', e520; straight roller; $.-
50; Lraght ro1Iers in bags,
, Feed—Ontario 'bran, 8,„ct2 to $2, ; On-
tario middlings,, $0.00 to $,.11„
,
‘40Alit44)r_„.... ' . _
,
shoTt$,. VA; pure grain0 ,,
$33 to 0t ixed Monille,, _
*27. . Cheese-Motel:4as; 1134
,3,12A4Ainkl_Ea-Ste.--nm I Y.. t 41 1
Zntter---Creamery, 23e. B
leeted stock, 25% to 2
:NO CRIMINAL ItINITENT.
ht Septenee on Clerk for Ab.
stratliug Posini Mater.
A despateh from Linelgey says:
. O Henley, t.he young p4:0st-office
r Mae=
✓ from the Malts, was up befog
P. M. Jactmort .04 Wednesday. The
vielenee-went to Show that . tl-!ere
was .no . .et-irninal *
magistrate sentenee.d hixn to- one-
half hour in
A despatch ' from Ottawa says:
Gronvill 4 Lut1vika, ate-
deu,' is in Ottawa in conneetion mith
proposals now under way' to estab-
lish furnaces in Canada fOr the elec-
tric 5ix:0169g of ire)” ores, on the
same prineiple as is now in. success-
ful operation in Sweden. Mr. (Iron -
wall is one of the three Swedish
engineers who have spent the last
three yeara in perfeeting the elee.
trie smelting process along the lines I
first laid down. _11,37 Dr, Rune,
Deputy Minister of Minei-for Can-
ada. Mr. Louis Siiiiron of this
city, who has been actively ineerest-
ed in the electric smelting process
for same years past, is now fors:ling
a company to establish an eleetrie
smelting industry at 4 power site
at the Chats, E01110 thirty miles west
ef Ottawa, on th-e` Ottawa 'River.
FINED LORD LASCELLE'S.
,
Earl Grey's Aide' Shot De,r in
- British Columbia. ,
Fozt view tPvliain
tiktings.,..Toroz
rbie WAS Aqtroye
A 41-esnatel)7•from Victoria., ILC.,
ys; Lord Laseellvii; Aide -do Camp
tu Earl Orey,was fined tk.75 in the
Otiurt here on 'Wednesday
for shoottaxifeer out 411 aeaxon;Zw
fine heads wlmieli Lord Lascelles had
turned over to the local taxider.
list for tnottntingweietelied abet'
ropi
ed.' The ncident is being
z,o1 toe tiy, hut itis almost
out preee ent in Canada.
oijpateh from London says.
rederick A. Cook, of ]rook -
8. A., arrived
itetlatld . Islands on Wed -
ruing, from the Arctic
where he as been for
)earl. ,,/Sfe reports
I orettilte. 'North
ook ditieres, *mord.
Ail/rams ,which
ch o that he attainbd the
tude o ttOk deioees north, on
1, Wk.
k came Gut of the u
at the ,47lost (of iht*
the Orterilan41 Won
rust ' rfe,..vrae taken
the.Paris edition ot vvi t4)t
fferafd of Wednesday ning pub.
lishes signed -statement front Dr.
Ftederiek Coal whieh is dated
Wednesday,
the Arctic.
Hans "seitli,•
'but,experienees
egion:
"After ptoton
famine and frost*,
we have afit, last
reaching the, Pole. A
with sto interesting at
ect nature, ha* been
big game ;taunts bocat.
lifht spOttsinell an
Esk.irrto borititna
ptimisas of the --I opts':
e sr
Toronto is i geat lbiandal 47en-
re, treepIng rip elase to Montreal?,
Thero are 11 banks 'with head of.
tires here, only 13 in triontreal:.Iifc
ksurance cordpailies with head
of-
fices in. Toronto carry ' pohete* of.
13,014,730, ntitl them Are -13 Are
oinpanies< with. thein ItiadquArtert
in Toronto, ,‘'
In 1903 the bank el4rings wer
80%749400. Since 1005 they have
exceeded' one billion dollars each
,
TJi
cu,t4)m duties at •Torout
rtiched, $11,6111207 in 1907. '
' Toronto does the biggest pst
*Mee business, in amnia*. In um
he ,revenue leak $1,078,193. morit.
4r4 Wa$ *938,906.
TorOnto's, Aticet ,ritilw
2.1.) as .pereientage, to the city
t892. Last year' it •paid.$411,31 on
44 the taro* paid by '1)0,10%471 rat
rigors.
TiArorito, is. the headquarters o
41overnment Chttatio.
Vias tho'leadrog littaiest efltre
Canada:414 sui?ports sevetti%
sot thou!. orsarnzations, -nos
orld.ititte reputation.
r its sitie it is the best theatri.
entre in America, hi/ eight-
- es which took in nearli !Fit
not sexton.
[t is * rnilatary centro.
best athletic city in
lident that the V-tIi 'of .thepat$
*s of ,no order, but t
firm, grounded in a rock of pci-
tUttalellahL It ja 04 'tat Is _he xt
tlie c't2 ah.t'nt if eONti$'
bea:tiitJ .harraencetihonbaltis .a)lilugo6ve.Gr
city; theb • 9gs; ith enigrgekient, or the
faett)i'-s, the ..larehous' the d
p�.rt:nental and the retail stores. It
is this thlt is hreakma the‘02:4,42g54,
809 buildings I-coo/11,4f 1947; Ohs
that persnhded tho. natepayerli to
vote $0,400,0q0 for 'A' trunk 'tdwer
$760,000- Rtir *-filtration plant and,
it way be, $0,750,000 for VI eleetri..
distribution plant. It is that
th*t will persuade the our to spend
,000,000 for the olevitten of the
cam tracks and */00,000 for a, $ta
wall Oat will regain its waterfront, ;
his splendid optimlion will 'comc. to
the siid of all great,projeets that
are deemed neeetwy for /the de.,
velopmentsof Toronto in the fUture.
.-..The News.
betor zaovin
h
ingees wet nor common
t"101-bilte e per'81ne9tth,,4111;
bitter
ease 0.44:4-, it was no unumiat
the dog which' bad been
brought house an •emnI)ty
to ceize the oppbrtunity to
aid the theepfuld .or the poultry
tentlerness
z' fts Aster'or InistresS, or, what
cuoinurosormtyriPri.twe;:filtihri,gt:0'70et:tfr,
freyquent, .when left in
On such .oeCasieus it cr&.cftl
*Iota as the wolf, killing not tosat-
fls hunger, *but in the unre-
strainable fury of * brlit014itikitt
that given time enough it vill
not leave ;one fowl ,or one slieeP
*live.- That it does not need Much
time, raoveover, is shown by the
tatenitept of. Thomas. 'Ward that
dingo in the course of. * "few'
bour has been knoitu to ,destroy
q,verslt\ score ;of sheep." 'For, its
din lability the same authority
ves it to be & matel) for most
•tk dogs of &Olt its size.
wild it unts:a .17),
-THE. L 4
• 1 elga
The • Are some, Rholiev
though the evidence stems Again*
thoMs, that tertian, Of th*
lilt* tilt Mitt'
dot dig., v dusty
fti OA ZIA°-sre the
e,jut
'% 'ion* tOun.
„,
aii 404 int4ttI.dfi
Mon Man
41) from
th
ralisu anima iiehit uYAneeu*
r
in if este pack can rYtl. pull .dowo
t in sPite *r. Xi•PlioN) the "old
" s
•_•
ernment baM fixed Moa-
t .
61)4 2ht \as Thanksgiving .
An outbreak of searlpt fine; is re4
ported 4 ille,_13073* Route in
ton.
The steamer Katldeen was Etruck
by Jightning and burned at Stur- ' •
goon Point,' on WedneGday.
Owing to Increased traffic extra
trains aro to be put on the T. & N.
aTheGRiawr Railway has
moved ,its yards and, eagIne3 frora
East Toronto to ?.5iinico.
A young on of Fentiatan was
At Ottawa by a cart turning
vet -en top of him, on Wednezday.
:Mr. R. A. Acland has' gone toGia Jay to -
9z.t.,
n
teud at 'Fort 'William to ,five yeare
in penitentiary for robbing stores.
Ur. A. J. Nixon of London, Ont.,
has been appointed chief of the now
operating branch . of the Railway
Commission.
L.1/4-ro'pelly--thu-Ontario--Goveruzze
ut search of information. regarding
.1)e training of artisans.
- GREAT BRITAIN. -
Lord Itosebery will speak an
anti -budget meeting at Glasgow.
Lord I)e, Clifford.iyas killed in an
automobile accident' at Brighton,
England, on 'Wednesflasr.
Speaking to a deputation if cat-
tle importers on Thursday Ur. As-
quith would hold cut no hope that
the em,bargo on Vana.dian tattle!
would be' removed.
UNITED STATES.
• Three. trainMen were killed in a
collision near -Huntington, Pa*, on
Wedriesday.
Seven children were suffocated iu -
a fire in an orphanage on Long
land, on Tuesda3r.
Fire oilitost Ilestroyed the ste,ana-
Nortirtrind a.gale on,Lake Su.
periori. on Wednesday.
The Schuylkill Valley, in renusYl-
vania, is suffering from the worst
drouth it has exeperienced in fifty -
years. .
Mr. Ilarriman has issued a .state -
went' to the pEess,. in which he ea.,ys
that, his 1)hysicians -have. told hmi
he Only needs rest.
AVOtauffeur arrested at NIrk York
repeatedly for .fast driving was for-
bidden by the court ever to drive
a car 'in the. State again.
A lone highwayman held up 'an
eicpress train on -the Pennsylvania
liailroad, near Lewiston, Pa. but.
did not gpt more -than $140 in.
nioney.
A sharp eaCIrtilliNgn.rlankAer'slikt; ark was
ia Rome 011 Ta*lay.
Mont Z1,,Ippelin damaged 143
on011 his return fif•from
&leen
. The attempt to tow the first
man Dreadnought 1Vestplatlert
t!owp the 'Weser ended ift failure.'
•
Gyitos'eorr. Aztopixso.
inveittiot for
Ins lit
A despatch from London sa
'Pico Australi4ns, of' the names
Itealrand Roberts, are testing her44!
an invention, which tlie3r elairn will
enable them to ignore the oad
fix in any weather. SpeOir5,....
the invention iti * *V-
taelmient to the engine, cri5uring
balanceffin any circumstances. The
actual method °Utile application the
ilaventore are kee/ing a secret. Tbo
tefts ist,re'igoing E9,stv, 'with
'tbree',types of aeroplanes •
TRIED TO KILL ALFONSO,
"lee* 'tepee A
$` e
despiteh from
The lie4s. of Bar
eded in i
r, * notorious
bfttt wamtp
47,-z
•
long time
her of
at hc w
;tcrty
.i(
thvt
rest+ 10„040
ifr have *fres
td t. plated lt
41,6f44CS.