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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1899-3-2, Page 2eWS ar • Rorent Happening.23rifly Told. firm wile be converted tette Imaited coroettnY, with a eapital et $2,000,000. es. Only ono of Queea Viotoria's twelve The ePring ruhl); bridesmaids re ettll benng. She $ tne CANADA, The Bank of Hamilton has °pelted an office at Vanoottver, already begun at Winnipeg'. - Dochese of Cleveland, She had the &ruble honor of assisting as trainbear- A syrup totory is to be ar e Vancoerver by euetern capitalists. The Manitoba Legislature is not e. - to meet until the second week Ln Merch. Tee 0. P. R. annual Meeting is galetted to take place at Igor:areal on April 5. The Central Canada Exhibitioaat Ottawa. will hereafter be a two weeks' aeration. A dieting -car chef nanaed Coruell, whose home is in Quebe suieided at Revelstoke, B.O. lt ts reporte,d at Halifax that a, field ot tee 300 miles long lies off the New- foundland coast. A new Knapp roller boat will pro- bably be construoted in. Toronto dal - the coraing season. It is stated that them are from 8,- 000 to 10,000 unvaccinated children in, Quebeo city at preeent. The Grand Trunk ticket offices in Toronto and Hamilton are about to be moved to new quarters. Majer-General Hatton has issued an order recommending the acquirement of the French language by the military officers. The peach growers in the Niagara district are greatly coneerved for the safety of their orchards, owiag to the reeent severe weather. +Hamilton will appeal front the aeon sion of the Board of Judges redoing the aesessraent ef the Canada Life frein 090,000 to e500,000. Parliament has been formally pro- rogued. until April 3 next. This does not mean that the SeSSiOxl ratty not be bed earlier than that date. The onstruction of a new science building in connection with the Uni- versity of Ottawa svill be commtenced as soon as the spring opens. The Hamilton Board of Trade will memorialize the Privy Council, pm - testing against railway diserimination favoring the Standard Oil Trust. A large colony of setclers from Akra, North Dakota, propose moving their ef- fects to Manitoba, to take up land by an abscess. near the east side of Lake Mani- A Ceippewa Falls despatch says Sev- ier Forcier, 100 years of age and he pioneer settler of Northern Wisconsin, is dead. He was born in Montreal. At Sueedville, terk., ou Monday er at the coronatioa as well seat e weddiug. A gentleman wire does not wish bis name made knotvn has presented the Royal, National Kiesion to Deep Sea Fishermen witn a steam hospital rale - sleet trawler, at a wee not to exceed. $30,000. One of the largest bells of the Lon- donderry, Ireland, City Hall clock eleme fell almost te the basemetit from its titting in the tower, (washing through the ceiling of the Eduoation Boarn's room. FortueatelY no one was injured. Some colliers out on strike eear Burnley, Lancashire, have been fined for intimidating a eon -striker. They met him as he was returning from work with a band, three of defendants having a arum, bagpipes and kettle- drum, and played him home. ONTARIO LEGISLATOR Notes or Proceeding's in the Local Par/lenient, TO Pa'EXPT GRAIN ELEVATORS, The City -est Kinestori asks thee Men- icipalititie be given the potver to ex- empt grain elevators front' taxation, just es they are given thee power, to exempt manufaotterere, LICENSE, REPORT. J. Swift Inc/nein, M. P. for Done- gal, has ceeated a sensation by mov- ing an amendment to the address to the Throne, in. which he argues that it is inconsistent with the dignity of publie life, that Ministers of the Crown should hold directorships in companies. Forty-one directorships are now held. among twenty-five Min- isters of the Crown. He urges the. Liberal party to go to the country en the cry "No guinea pigs la Govern- ment." UNITED STATES. Prof. George E. Stephens has plead- ed guilty to setting fire to Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. Smallpox is raging among the ne- groes and Indians of the Creek Nation district, Indian Territory. The -United States Senate has pass- ed. a bill creating the office of ad_miral of the navy for Rear Admiral Dewey. Lord. Hersehell, the British, commis- sioner at present in Washington, will be laid up four weeks with a frac- tured hip bone.. John A.. MeMurtrie, the millionaire railroad. contractor, is dead at his home in Denver of blood poisoning induced • Mayor Payment, of Ottawa, refuses th ratify the purchase of the old Rideau rifle ran,ges for a park, upon LiTeehieteert:PAalestou the t 4bYet'111. itS"IStitletTlibl the License Department. It gtves. great deal at information as to the li- censes granted, and, ShOWS. the decrease ita tne pest yeer. In 3.898 there were 8,123 licenses issued ie the provitme; 2,6713 were ordinary yearitnliceeses, art shop, and 22 wholesale; 46 were for 6 months, and 13 beer aud wine licenses were for half a year. In 1896-7 the total number issued_ was 8,160, and the Year previous the total was 3,191. In both these years 26 wbolesales did busi- ness. Twenty-five ordinary licenses were cut off during the past year. The revenue derive(' by the province from these licenses amounted to dur- ing the past year, $268,2e7.40, as agabast 070,906 in 1896-97, and $273,- 212.44 in 1895-96. Tee total oollections •from licensee and fin.es, inoluding the sums imposed by naunecipat by-laws was as follows: -1895-6, $615,290.38; 1896-7, $608,007-1-4i 1897-8, $602,853.5.1 ' The payments to tfie municipalities were -1895-6, 5267,072.40; 1896-7, $263,- 330,48 el897-8, $259,873.3a. The fines con lasted during the past year amounted to §15,006.50, as compared with $14,- 1897-8, $602,853.51. . The average yearly coramitmerils for eau, Perien of five years from 1876 to 1895 inclusive are as follows i -From 1878 to 1880, inclusive, 3,812; from 1881," to 1885, inclusive, 4,016; from 1814 to 1890, inclusive, 4,311; from 1891, to 1895, inclusive, 2,703. In 1898 the sum. of $63,595.'78 was Paid to inspectors as salaries and lionse commissioners' expenses. MR. PATTULLO'S BILL. Andrew Pattullo, M.P.P., for North Oxforde has pre,sented a bill to the Legislature that provides for the do- ing away with votes by ballot in mun- icipal councils. Councils at present are electing wardens and voting on money by-laws secretly, Mr. Pattulto points out. He believes that when the councils are dealing with things that belong to the public it should be dode (Testily. - Another amendment Mr. Patten° will ask to have passed is to prohibit the bonusbag of manufacturing in- dustries altogether. The member for North Oxford also asks that theelaw passed. in 1897 reducing the siie of the. ground that it would be a waste night, the home oet Charles Bannister, town .councils of 5,000 population or of public money. a farmer, was destroyed by fire, Three leas, apply to all towns. Inn James amee„, miens, for West children, aged 7, 9 and 1e, were burn- SOME CHANGES SOUGHT. Algoma is endeavoring to secure the ed t o death in the flames. i Donald Macleish, M.P.P., for West settlement of the third party of Doak- The Niagara, Falls and Lewiston Elgin, has introduced a bill which pro- hoborse expeeted in Canada in April, Railroad Co.,., known as the Gorge vides for the aneendnaent of the for the Ina.ministiquia district, Route, went tnto the hands of a re- Assessment Act, raising the exemp- Dr. Leduc, veterinary surgeon for ceiver on the applicationeof the diree- tion from inoome tax froni e700 to the Health Department at Montreal, tors. The road made no money last $1,000. has been dismissed from the city's ser- year, and was weakened by damage He has oleo a bill asking for a viee for offering a bribe of $600 to s suits- clearer interpretation of the Muni- ALI. Roy to obtain the position The celebration of the Chinese New oipal Act, iia relation to the qualifi- of Milk Inspector. Year in San Francisen on Friday en cation of aldermen and councillors for At Quebec all the men of the Royal , suited in a tragedy. A fire which. asti°e• ' s W M German M.P.P. has a ball ; etarted. from the explosion of fire oili el ' for' ' - Canadian Artillery are Undergoing the amendment of vaccination, and. it is expected that ' crackers caused the death of one se e provides,1(I' t A twhereby the women and. children on the ' alieennant Metal us Oegoode Hall may act ra. ent on Truuelesdayatfooirketheeeinsamatiosdo how who was in an opium the Ontario u ma ure c , strength of the permanent force will stupor. Three others wei-e so badly n° ° se ,. . ,. _ . the Belle h P , also be vaccinated. provision in the amendment which many times any ,a. such hotel -keepers }burned that they may not recover. as a speetal examiner- ;there is a were fin.ed during the five years who are in offioe when end - 01 tpurchase, of the year's output of bind- whereby the Central Pacific Railroad the change is made, may continue to ing 31st May, 1898, and what was the he four tenders received for the A settlement t has been - reached says that those. ' amount for eaeh 'offence. that of Mr. M. P. Connolly, of Quebec, the United States Government in semi -1 wards. .0un. Tuesday afternoon Mr. Charlton er twine at Kingston Penitentiary, will pay off its debt of 558,000,000, to have the power, but none aftere- was accepted. The price per pound is annual 3 per cent. notes, the last. ex- + wt. introduce to the Government a de - higher than that received last piring 10 years from date. These STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. putation, consisting of Stapleton Calde- year. notes will be secured by a deposit of The Committee on Standing Orders eat, Bebe -et Kilgour, Jas. Scott, and the- civil engineer, who The Wentworth County Council and Central Pacific 4 per cent, bonds. passed on the petitions of Eon. Geo, Mr. Harvey.,. A.Cox and others for an a.ct to Moor - Hamilton Markets Committee have ar- vvill present for the Government's mu- d ranged to reduce the fees for weigh- Senator Sullivan has introduced a porate the Haliburton, Whitney and. sid.eration the claims of the projecte ing hey from 25 to 15e, weighing bill in the New York Legislature Mattasva Railway Company; of Joseph railway to James' bay. amending the pease .'ode by abolishing X Follet and others, of Toronto, to STJGGESTION FOR A NEW TAX.. horses and cattle 5c instead of 10e, the death sentence for murder and and hogs and farm produce 15c in- - . providing that a person convicted of stead of 250. murder in the first degree shall be President Graves, of the White Pass imprisoned for life, and that the sal- ami Yukon Railway, states emphati- tense for murder in the second degree T B 8. To deelere tie weee, rails, poles. wires, gee aud oteer ipes, eubstruce teree, teup.,-strttotnree, and ether plants an applianeee belonging' to street reilwaya, telegraph, telephone, gas, eleetrie light, water, and other stalailar corporatiens, taxable in the pitteicipality In which they are situ- atetl; • Ilereove tne exemptionou the pre- sent propeety of companies, such as Par water, plank, or gravel roads, railways, and trammed% harbours or °thee tvorke requiring tlae investment of the capital oldie coninanY let real estate, PETITIONS PRESENTED, These petitions were presented Front the Town ot Sea,forth, to borrow 0'7,000; from Ed. S, Jettison, re the yeater works pf Ietuninistiquia river; from the Toronto General Truste CO., and the Trusts Corporation of °attune aseing leave t comalgamate; from the ilreutford GaS Company, to inerease their powers under their charter; -from. W. Russell, and others, of Pembroke to incorporate the Toronto, Lindsay, and Perabroke railway; irom. Et, W. Evendett, to inoorporete the Worth- ington and Onaping railway; from Geo. Gaedner, of Toronto, to practise as e solicitor; from A, 13. Burrows, and others, to Incorporate the Bruce Mines and Aegorrat railway; front the Cana- dian Electric and Water Power Com- pany, to -confirm an agreement for put- ting ui o, system of water works in the town grePorth; and from the .0ra‘por- ations of telyth, Siracoe, ami Smith's Falls IQ consolidate then. debts, Five different petitions were 'present- ed from the township and retepayees of Fenelota against the incorporation of Sturgeon Point, a summer resort, as a village. A score of municipalities have peti- tioned for an amendment of the Muni- -61parAot ' inn its relation to local iin- Prevements, So that general corporate funds shall be chargeable with not less than one-third, and not more than half, the cost of such local improvements. It is probable that never before at any. one seasion were so many amend- ments to the Municipal Act submit- ted. • PETITIONS. These petitions were read. :-Froin the Township Council of Etobieoke, Pray- ing that the York County Council be not given control of the street railways within the county; from King Bros. Company, of Whitby, leather manufac- turers, capitalized at e40,000, asking for legalization of. a 10 years' loan of el0,- 000 from the municipality; from the London Y. M. C. A.., seeking incorpora- tion; from the Cobourg Council, asking permiesion to nue:wage by exemptions summer hotels, and that season licenses be granted such hotels; from the synod of the Diocese of Toronto, asking that an Act be passed empowering the sy- nod to suspend or remove an incum- bent of any rectory, parish, or mission of the Church when the interests of the Churoh required such removal and for other purposes. MORE QUESTIONS. ..e••••••• IVIAlailETS OF TIIE WORLD Itt, aJleTtaeci!;a0t1.01V472 , barns, 7 1-2 te 3,-1,e) rail bacoot 8t-4 to Priees of grain, Cattle, Cheese, Lko, in the Leading Karts. LIVE "STOOK AIARKE,Ts., taT_doarytoustos,alreoeb;.:24, 24, -.-Here are smne Of Two loads of shipping cattle, averag- ing 1,280 lbs., sold at 1114,75 per ewt, A load, of ,e2 butcher cattle,. averag- ing 1,010 lbs., %eta at 4 1-80 per P°1Aitt of IS butener cattle, averag- ing 936 lbs., sold et $3.90 per awn TWO leads of butcher cattle, average* ing 1,020 lbs,, sold' at 3.50 er cwt.; and ten dollars edded. on. the deal. Three prime steer, averaging 1,360 lbs, sold at 50 per pound. On Tuesday Dr. Barr will ask the Government if it is the intention of the Government to sell the output of the binder twine mataufa.ctured in the Central prison in the year 1899 by tender, er may the farmers obtain the same direct, or will they be supplied through the Farmers' Institutes? Mr. Morrison will ask the Govern- Twelve mixed cows and heifers, averaging 1,050 lbs„ eold at 3 lene per pound, and five dollars back. Thirteen mixed cattle, averaging 960 lbs„ sold at: 3.1ele per pound. Good choice veals are badly want- ed, and will sell at from $5 to $$ eaeh; common and inferior are wath from 1112,.50 to 54.50 *mon. Lambs to -day web weaker, and to- morrow front 4 1-4 to 4 1-3o per pound is all that can be depended an, and to retOb the latter figure they must be ohoice Sheep are pound. Buiiks, are not fetching snore than fritter e 1-2 to 2 3 -le per pound.. unchanged at 3 1 -lo per .8.5 we indicated in last Tnestlay's report would probably be the case, hiegs are weaker. The best price paid to -day for "singers'"was $4.37 3.-2, per cwt. Light hogs are selling at nothing over $4 per cwt. For thick fat hoge the quotatians are from 0,60 'to 53.75 per cwt. Sows sell at 3c per pound, not more. Stags are fetching only 2c per pound. The Market is weak, and the out- look is for still lower figures. l'ollowing is the range of current quotations : - 1-20. AU mote one of, pielete le, lees than proes ouoted for amolreta meats. Teurd-Tiereee, le; tube, '71-4 to 7 en, patio, 1-e to 78 -lei componnd. 514 to BIRlynnkos, Rob. 24. -- Wheat -No, 1 Northern, 7:20; No, 2, do., 701-20, Bee -No, 1, 508.40. Ilarley-No, 2, 49 t.2 to 51e; sample, 48 to 60e, Minneapolis, Ineb, 24. tWneat,--Feb.., ruary, 69 3-4e; May, 70 1-8o; July, 70 5-8c; on track; No. I hard, 70 5-8o; No, 1 Northern, 69 3.4a; No. 2 do„ 67 3-8o, Flour -First patents, $3.70 to .43.900i seeond patents, $3.50 to 0.60; first cleave, $2.69 to $2.80, _ 'Buffalo, Feb,- Me -Spring Wheat - Dull, and strong,; No. I hard, 83 5-80; Itjo 1 Northern, '79 5-80. Winter wheat -No offerings; 76 1-20 bid for No. 2 red. Cornt-Dull and lower; No, 2 yel- low, 38c; No. 3 yellow, 373-40; No. 4 yellOw, 37 1 -lo; No. 8 corn, 37 to 37 1-4c ; No. 4 corn, 30 1-2. Oats -Easy; No. 2 white, 34 ; Noe 3 white, 33 3-4e; No. I white, 32 3-4o. Barley - Dull. Rye -Quiet; No. 2, in, store, 61o. Flour -Quiet. Duluth, Feb. 24. -- Wheall-No. 1 hard cash, 70 7-80 bid; February, 70 7-8o bid. May, 73 3-8c; July, 73 7-8c; No. 'North- ern, cash, 67 7-8c; No. 2 Northern, 65 8-4e. Toledo, Feb. 21. -Wheat -No. 2 cash 72 nee; May, 70c. Rye -No, 2 cash, 58c, Cloverseeft-Prime, °ash, old, 3.55;$ new, cash and February, e3.90. Detroit, Feb. 24,-Whent-Ctosed. - No. 1 white, cash, 13a; No. 2 red, cash, 73c; May, 75 1-8a; July, '72 1-4c. catty that the road will be bunt to Fort Send:tie Yukon, and also to At - lin. Be emphatically denies the re- port which had its origin in Seattle that operations would be abandoned. John Alexander Gilmour of Parry via. Sound, who was arrested at the Can- France is seeking a palace sufficient- said he would he glad to have the adian Soo, but escaped, by ,jumping ly magnificent to entertain her ex- names ot any, who did not receive frora the train near Sudbury and was pected royal guests in, 1900. thence . subsequently captured by the Amen.- Special police on petroleum cycles are can authorities on the way to Dulath, to be told off in future to cope with pleaded guilty to two charges of for- the eecessive speed of auto ears itt g-ery at Parry Sound and was sentenc- Paris. ed to one year in the Central Prison Citizens of Stockholm have sub - on Saturday. GREAT BRITAIN, Henry Jones, "Cavendish," the au- thority on whist, is dead at London. Emperor William will visit the Queen at Cowes, Isle of Wight, for a week, from July 29. The cost of building in London has increased from 30 to 40 per cent. with- in ten years. In the slums of Comberwell, Lon- don, a place was found where seven - shall be thirty years. GENERAL. e.. serious riot hae oocurred between Chrietions and Mohammedans in Ser- ineorporate the Mutuality Life 'sister- It is possible that the Government aloe Company; of the town council of may seek a. further Source of revenue Prescott to legalize and confirm a itt a tax on the products of the mine. by-law for the consteection a the British Columbia put such a tax in water -works and. sewerage syetena force in May, 1896, and during 1897 the DISTRIBUTION OF STLTUTES. receipts from it amounted to $29,788.64. The. Proviocial Treasurer replied in In 1898 they bad increased to $36,001.35. - the affirmative to the question of Mr. Barr as to whether the Reeisecl Sta- tutes of 1897 had been distributed Ip THE NEW AMBASSADOR. the clerks of the municipalities, and Cattle. , Shipping, per cwt. .$ 4.25 $ 4.75 Butcher, choice, do, . . 3.50 4.12 1-2 Butcher, med. to good 3.121-8 3.50 Butcher, inferior. . . 2.75 3.00 Sheep and Lambs. Ewes, per cwt. . . 3.25 Lambs, per cwt. . . 4.25 Bucks, per cwt. ..., 2,50 Milkers and Calves. Cows, each . . . 25.00 15.00 Calves, eaen • . 2.00 6.00 Claoice hogs, per cwt, . 4.25 4.37 1-2 Light hogs, per cwt. . 4.00 4.00 Heavy hogs, per mt. s 3.60 3.75 BREADSTUFFS, ETC. scribed $20,000 towards fitting out an expedition to search for Aintree, the Arctic traveller. The French army has made such pro- gress that it is reported in Berlin military circles to be on the same level with the German army. French offioials boast that they will sweep the British fleet from the Medi- terranean, and troops are being pour- ed into tattle Corsica and Algeria. A serious conflict has. taken place teen persons lived in one room. between the Runsians and Chinese at Talien-Wan, 300 of the letter being The Queen. has accepted a sample of Inyassatand coffee grown by the killed Zambesi Industrial Mission in British King Humbert of Italy bas sent his Central Africa,. thanks to the Sultan of Turkey for °hoeing Itatia.n dock -yard. to re - A report is current in London that n pair the broken-down Turkish war - Sir William Van Horne is about to r sign the Presideney of the Canadian shies. A. report has reached official circles Pacific Raileva,y. at Pekin that an assassin was des - Two thousand bales of cotter, die - I patched to Japan, to take the life a charged at Genoa by the eteamer Bar- } the Fenperor of japan. A. thorough barn off West Hartlepool, have been destroyed by fire. invest ig, at ion has been orde re d. A new bill -posting machine, whie,h Pederewslei having dispelled stories nal appear again at sticks bille on walls even as high as of hie ill -health, a musical festival at Queen's 1 fifty feet, without the USE: of ladder or paste poi., is now doing successful London, in Maya work in Paris. the tart of Crewe to Lady Margaret The, taigngemeet is announced of Many fishing boats and coastees Etienne Hannah, youngest: daughter of have been lost along the French the Earl of Rosebery, Mr. G. le. 13art, raataging director and presideat of the Millwall Dock coast, contiguous to Brest, Twenty- five fishermen belongtng to Audierne, in Minster, on the Bay of Arnie, have Co. tendon, Eng., has disappeered. His books show it shortage of 51,200,000. Hen. Joseph Chamberlain was at the Colonial Office Thurecley- for the first tune in Several weeks sine his Meese, He was assisted onl! of his care riage with difficu.lty„ The Canadian High Commissioner in Londen is noW receivieg- from 100 to 150 letters daily irtquiring as to the boadltiorte obtaining in Canada and its Suitability as it field for emigration. Barnum & Bailey's circus will not re- turn to the 'United. States, but will reInairt permanently in England. The BILLS INTB.ODUCED. The following bills here read a first time: - Mr. Brower -To amend. the Educa- tion Department Act by providing nett three members of the Educational Colleen shall be teachers. Mr. Kidd -To amend the Munioipal Aot so that .the provision that where a county has constructed a court house, gaol, etc., prior to 1873, the Council of any city or separated. town shall pay to the county five per cent. annually on the cost of the building and site shall apply to Ottawa and the County of Carleton. Col. Mutrie-To amend the Municipal Act to provide that the 'municipal franchise year shall close on the lst of .Detember, and. the audit be made tip to that date before the 10th. the au- ditors' abetrttet of itecounts and detail- ed statement to be published and read at the noraioations in lieu of the one IlOW issued by this Council: M. Brower-To amend the Public &hoots Act to prevent the granting of penults aod. district certificates to teachers Ity inepeotors. Mr. German -To prohibit the -pine- tire of veterinary surgery by anyone not eagistered as a member of the Vet- arivaiy College under a penalty of 525. Mr, Germae-To ame,nd the Assess- ment Act to enable bounoile in lieu of taxing personal property of Merehants to impose a turnover tax based. upon the busittet=s of the preceding year. Ate. ilrower-To anuand the Munici- pal A,ct, to proVide for security in cases where actions arts brought against municipalities for non -repair of highways, if the municipality shows by affidavit that it has a good defenCe, or that the 'action frivoleu.s. migeotte ABreot.wer -To amend the Aseetes- 1, ley removing' eeemplione On lends heed by universities and coilegos, bu,t Mt in ciente nee by them; on Clanton site.s and ground used in cottaeotton tlibomeriensvairtilies; 001111„iheenthelit4s. of incorPOrated 2. In Termite, by varying the aectelen ment roll' by eneerting it .seeouci eon 1;=t1tIltrir °:29,q14,-"img (twat% in the Wilt. Eighteen singing ocelot les, represent- ing '2,780 singers, have already ree sponded to the Kaiser's call for a congress of singers of the Fatherland to convene in Cassel next May. tile IYIrtjesty will distribute Several hand- some prizes. One of the best and most etneient men of the detective force of Mimeo WAS S1101 and killcil Statireay night while attempting to arrest it negro, Tise detoativeS coninanion )(elect the t negro after a violent affray, in which several pereone wao wounded, Jogepli it. Choate Beret% Eloquently 10 American lielaliono Britain. A clespateb frona New York, says: - 3,30 4.50 2.75 The newly appointed Ambassador to England, Joseph H: Choate, in the emirve of a speech at a farewell din- ner in his honor on Saturday night, eulogized Great, Britain and. it,s olose relations by blood and sympathies with the United States. ln Queen Victoria they had always found a steadfast and faithful friend. Continu- ing, he said: "Now it is true teat this vast and earnest, friendship, which has found, a.nd finding every day, such abundant expression on both sidessof the Atlantic, is not going to change the course of human events or human nature. It will not make water run up hill, after all. We shall have our rival interests still. 11 can- not brit be that rivalry will be fre- quent, and possibly sometimeis bitter, 'but this we do believe -from these well -springs of friendship which have flown so copiously of late we shall contend as friendly rivals, and thin: all our difficulties hereafter will be settled by peaceful negotiations and friendly arbitretions, and never again, I trust, by resort to arms." KIPLING SERIOUSLY ILL. MANILA ON FIRE. Natiires Apply the ti Three tilt - remit Districts of the city. A despatch from Manna says -Not- withstanding the close wanet that has been kept upon the natives in the city they, as the result of a censpiraoy among their leaders, attempted. Wed- nesday night to destroy 11eanila with fire. en order to make sure of sue- CeSS, the incendiaries planned to start conflagratiens in three different quarters oftbe city, believing that the flames would soon get beyond con- trol, and that they would, then have a chance to kill the foreigners here and pillage their property. Santa Cruez, San Nicolas, and Tondo were the quarters stooled for the starting of the fires, and those Who were t h did their •••”11,1'. Dyspepsia and Indigestion, common diseases, but hard to cure ;ith ordimary reinedies, yield readily to Manley's Celery -Nerve Compound. W.11. Becelnghane 396 King et. East, tiamilton, Ont., says -"1,.„ was troubled with Oyspeeele and Indigestion for a long time, told ) could get no relief until I tried Manley's Celery -Nerve Compound, which cured, me, and I cannot speak too highly In Its praise." Wheat-Tbe market was quiet and steady here to -day. Red wheat was sold at 69c. high freights, and white at 700. Goose wheat won quoted at 71c and spring, 690; No. 1 Manitoba bard, was held at 83 1-2c, North Bay; and No. 1 Note:hen:1, at 80 1-2e No. 1 hard, g.i.t., via Sarnia tunnel, was quoted at 85e. . Flour -Steady but dull; exporters quote $3 for -straight rofter, in wood, middle freig,hts. Sales of straight for local account, were made at 53.10, single cars. Millfeed-Soarce; ton lots of bran at the local mills brought $14; and shorts e16 ; car lots, middle freights, are guot- ea at $13.50 for bran, arid 515 for shorts. Oatmeal -Steady. Car lots of rolled oats, in bags, on track 'here, are quot- ed at 53.6e per bbl.; and in bbls. at 53.70. ; Peas -Continue steady. Car lots, north and weal, sold at 66e; and east at 67c, 4 DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter -Steady movement. The re- ceipts fair. The market is in good shape for all choice dairy butter, The ()nota- tions are as follows: -Dairy tub, poor to medium, to 12e; choice, 14 to 15c; large rolls, 15 to 16e; small dairy, lb. prints, about 16c; creamery, tubs and boxes, 19 to 20e; lbs., 20 to 21c, with an occasional 22c for select packages. Cheese -Market in good shape. Choice stock sells at from 9 3-4 to 10 1-2c. - PRODUCE. , Anther la New 'reek Down With indium win] tion orthe 1,nvigs. A despatch from Ne-tv York, says:- Rarnerd Kipling is .Serioasly ill in this city at the Hotel feretoble. His doe- s hewever, thope that the dietin- guish01 author, with his strong conett- tutioe, will he able to pull through all right . tollowie g hntle tin, WO h.:Sued at 2 o'clock on 'Wednesday afternoon by his ehyeleianie- "Ale. Kipling has an inflammation of the right tung, This prodeusee the us- es I fever. l'bere 11r'e at present no compete,ati 01111" rs, Kipling Sii d that her husband WaS apparcntly pe.rfeet ly well until NJ:MI(1;1y eVetting, when he went O01 tO dinner 0115 vault, holne Coinpl ining of old and fever. chosen to apply , e ore work- only too well. In a short time after the fires were disoovered. the flames had spread -to such an extent that the destruction of the city was threatened-. The troops -and foreign re- sidents worked manfully to -check. the fires, but it was not until Thursday morning that the flames were ander control and the city out of danger. It is -estimated that the loss will be very 'heavy. - During the ccolfusi.on•aitendant up- on the work of fighting the fire, native sharpshooters, who were concealed in the vicinity of the burning quarters fired upon the troops. In the Tondo quarter seven members of the Min- nesota Regiment were wounded, in- cluding Capt. N. C. Robinson, of Com- pany "0." There was the wildest -ex- citement among the natives, and they were primed for a general Strong guards were stationed every- where about the town, and the natives were awed into submission by the show of force. Matters are quieting down at the time this despatch is seut. ALMOST A SKELETON. Terrible Treatment of 0 MO, In the rietrry 50111141 °Varlet. A despatch from Parry Sound, Saes: -Judge INIeCurry heard a frightful. case of cruelty the otber day. Ala orphan boy named. Stacey, aged 12, living with his uncle, John Stacey, near Sundridge, the evidence shoyved, had been almost starved to death. Ife-- was nearly a skeleton, and gangrene had set in his fingers and toes, he los- ing some of the toes at the first joint. The lad stated that for a time he lived on one or two potatoes end a small morsel of dry bread, and at another thne he fed on ravnereas, chopped stuff and. oats, end ocoastonally he stole eggs front the fowl-bouse. Stacey was sen- tenced to six months in the Central Prison. Mrs. Stacey lied to utter into a bond for 000 to appear later for sentence. Eggs -No increase in the delivery of stock to -day frone outside, and the mar- ket is pretty well eleaned up. New laid sold firm at 20 to 21e. Held fresh and limed sell at 15 to 160. Potatoes -The market is steady and demined good. Offerings ample. Car lots, on track, are quoted al about 69 Lo 65e per bag; dealers sell out of store at 6$ to 70o; farmers' loads sell at around 60 to 700, Poultry --Quiet. Too much cold ant -- ed stock offering. Choice is beld turn. Quotations are :-Chickens, per pare, 25 te, 40e; (bloke, 40 to 60o; geese, per lb, to 7c; turkeys, per lb., 9 to 12o. p3eans--Dall, • Choice hand-picked beans sell at 111.10 to 51.25; and com- mon at 60 to! 75c, per bush. I)ried dpples-4.1)eal e rs pay 5 to 5 for dried stock, delivered here, aid ernall. lots resell at, 51-2 1058-10; eva- porated, 8 to !lc, in smadi dots. IFIoney--Round lots -of choice, deliver- ed, here, will bring about 51-2 to fic; dealers quote from to 7c, per lb. for 10 to GO -ib. tins, and in comb at around 51.25 to 51,50 per dozen seetiorte. Ba led Ehay-Quie 1, and rindbe bgeri Strictly choice, car Jot, is quoted at g6.50 to $7.50 per ton; and No, 2 at 0. Straw -Easy, Sake light. Car lots are quoted at 51 to $4.50, on track, elope-Brewer:4 suppl led. Des le re here sell at IS, to 21:0 and are paying holders, outside, abdut 180. Dit1118SelD TIOGS AND PROVISIONS. HIS TRAGIC END.' it. W. Anmeion, Shoots ilitapielf lit the Presi;nce of 1114 Wife. A despatch from Winnipeg says : - About eight o'cleee on Tueeday night the entire city -was shocked by the report which splead with lightning rapidity that R. W. jamesort, M. P., re- presentative in the Heuse of Commons for Winnipeg, had committed euicide at his awn resieettee. btr. Jameson had attended to his usual business during the day, and appeared to be irr good spirits. He attended a meet- ing of the. Board of Trade in the afternoon, taking an active part in the proenedings of the meeting, winch had been called to consider the Xettle River Valley road, and favored the granting a a charter. Ile reached home about 0.90. After dinner he en- gaged in conversation with his itinally, SKIN DISZASBS FIBLIRVED BY ONS PLICAltiON Otir 'Dr0 Agnew's Ointment, 35 CENTS. Mr. James Gaston, merchaneWtikesearre, Pa., writes :-Vor nine years I have been 7150gure6 with tetter on hands and. face. lint at last I have found a aura in. Dr.' 4,guew's Ointment. My skin is 7301V tesetit and soft and free from every blem. The first aoallea non gave reilet.-311. Sold by C. Lutz, Exeter. which turned to suicide. He drew a revolver from his pocket, and said to. Mae, Jameson, "See that what 1 carry. This does not look like a dangerous Weapon." Mrs. Jameson turned to coneinue her work but was staetled by the report of a revolver. Dee. Jones a.nd Chown vere instantly called, but life was already extinct. The fact that the bullet en- tered hie mouth wi thout having dis- figured his lipS or displaced his teeth shows the ,,point of the wettpoti must have been in Ins mouth at tbe time it went off. The attending physicians gave it as their opieion that it was a cese of deliberate suicide. Dr. Ilernem said that be was unable to expeess an opinion, as hit had notyet made a Careful e xa xrti n lion. Mr. ',Tante:40n was Mayor of 'Winnipeg in 1896, and had sat on the Counsel }weld for two years Kt:eta-us to that time. He was elected to he, House of Commons April -27, 1897, defeating EL. Taylor, the Prohibition, candidate. He leaves a widow and three Children. The dreesed hog :market is Steady, Deliveries ample. On the street fartn- ere* leada are quOted at around 115.15 for mixed lots. A teW car lots changed hands on track all 55, mixed weights, delivered; and a fraction, bet- tor for selects. 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