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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-3-23, Page 2ONTARIO LEGIBLATURE •Notes Of• PrOneedinge tn the It0Cal Parlialnent REVENUE BILL CHANGE. The bill to supplement the revenues anti tbe one relating to the licenses of breweries, distilleries and other industries has undergone great changes &Bee introduced in the Legislatare by Hon. leithard Harcourt. In the te.x On banks there is a chauge. Orioinally they were to pay one-tenth of one per cent. on paid-up capital up to 34000,000, 325 for every $100,000 up to 30,0601000, aud 315 for each a.dditional 3100,000. One ot the changes is that the 315 levied on capi- tal. above •Koomoo is eat out. TAX OF INSURANCE COMPANIES. The change also comes in the sche- dule of fire and other insurance com- Patties. There is no change in the tax on life, corapanies. .A.11 other insur- ance conapanies will heve to pay two- thirds of oue,per cent. on, premiums in Ontario. These companies were by. the bill introducted in •the Rouse set at oneehalf a one per cent. Mutual fire insurance companies, whieh re- ceive, prerniams in, cash, by the new arrangement will be required to pay the tax. on the new companies. clause, which reads thus, is also added ...—"Where the receipts from pre - Palmas of a Life insurance company whose head office is elseevhere than in Ontario are less than 320,000, and where such company lends money on security aad has invested in this pee- vince 3100,000, or more, such company shall pay a tax of one per cent, cal- culated on the gross premiums and one-fourth of one per cent, ors:the in- come from investments received by sach company in respect of the busi- n.e.ss transaeted in the earovince during the preceding year." LOAN COMPANIES. ' The Government have seen fit not to. change the tax on loan companies • having permanent paid-up capital. The alternation ie made in connection with the companies having withdrawable or terrainating stook. • By the original WI there was to be collected 350 from capital from 3100,000 to 3200,000; 75 from 3200,000 to 6500,000; 100 from $500,000 to 61,000,000; and. 650 for each additional million. Now every company will be required to fork out 665 for every 3100,000 oapiten exciept- ing the first n100,000. 'trust companies come within the changes, as the amendment provedes that "every trust conepany shall pay a tax of one-third of one per cent. up- on the paid-up capital stock of the ourapany- up to and. Including $300,000, and the sum of 665 on. every additional 3100,000, or fraction thereof, of paid- up capital." By their protests to the Government the railways have done much, as the tax has been reduced from 615.per retie to 0. This tax is to be levied on all roads and not alone those roads helped by the Government, . • STREET RAILWAY TAX. ' The clause relating to street rail- ways has been remodelled. Roads under 20 miles are to pay U0 per mile. from 20 to 30 miles, 335; from 30 to 50 mites, 645; and from 50 upwards, 360 per tulle. $1,500, and, trent $200,000 Upwards the tax is to be 32,000, •and not 31,500, as originally prepened, RELATING TO DISTILLERIES, Another glanee reads t "The Lieuten- ant -Governor in Couneil, where it Is .1.10W11 that tae sele by any istiller .as the preceding year lose Ulan 10,- 000 gallons of proof spte and that tile sale will not exceed that quantity • during the ealeuclar year in which the license is to be issued. MAY iseue a Distiller a Provincial License at a sum not less thau one-third the mini- mum charge for a Distillers Proviu- oial Line" • WORK OF THE HOSPITALS. The report of the hospitals for the province for the year 1898 shows that tnore. people • Ulan ever were treated. The number of patients treated was 21,838 This is 2,211 move thee ba'anY former year. The death rate was be- low any other year also, the total Taupe- • bet being 1,129. This is about 5 per cent of the patients uader treat- inent. The report says that it is not surprising that the publtc have un- bounde1 confidence ire committing the sick to the ears of our hospitals, and fleet they contribute most liberally of their private naea,ne to.t he maintenance ot the institutions. There are alto- gether 48 hospitals receiving aid from th.o Government. Those placed on the list during •the past year were St, • Luke's Hospital, Ottawa; General HOS* FrPieLsapo,1 i tCc,or 111Twaolnce i 'iITV() repheorIdep rth°Plo6rtdtias the fact that in some ities and knyns there are too many hospitals. They divide the work up too much and crip- ple the efforts of institution% whieb are in a proper way to do the beat • work. The Government aid grant last year was 3110,000. Formerly the hos- pitals received at the rate of 30 cents per day per patient. This 3110,000 is divided between the institutions, ac- • cording to the work done. Further, • the report says that it is hard tn say how long the grant will continue. It will remain, however, until the hospit- als are in •a better way to sustain themselveseby way of private tees, etc. New hospitals are warned against es- tablishing, believing that the Govern- • ment will always grant aid. The aver- age of a patient reraeining in a hos- pital WAS 27 days, while altogether the days numbered 578,399. The average cost per patient was 80.79 cents. • ASKING FOR HELP. The Government was waited upon by a deputation from the Toronto Board of Trade, eonsisting of Presi- dent A. E. Kemp, A. E. Ames, William Stone, C. W. Bond, W. E. Massey and. Wm. Ince, jr. They urged the Gov- ernment to construct aline of rail- way at once from Toronto to the C. P. R. at Sudbury. The deputation thought the Government should grant such aid as was necessary to get the. road built, as it would open up a. vast tract of land and would. also give a shorter route to the North-evest. FOR INJURED WORKMEN. AID TO INSTITUTIONS.. These orders -in -Council have been approved by the Lieutenant -Governor and have been presented to the Lents- leture for ratification ;—Bruce House of Refuge, 34,000; Kent Rouse of Re- fuge, $4,000; Norfolk House of Indus - toy, 34,000; County of Peel Renee of Refuge, 84,000; County. of Sinacoe FEDuse of Refuge, $4,000; Home for Friend- less Women and infants, Kingston, foe Government aid. Three hoSpitals have been placed, on the list for Government aid. Then are St. Luke's General Hospital, Ottawa; Rome for leacura.bles, Ottawa, and the General, Hospital of Cornwall.. LAKE SIBICOE'S WATERS. A deputation composed of the reeves of Bradford waited on Ron. E. S. Davis and Hon. A. S. Hardy. The pur- pose of the delegation was to bring to the attention or the Government the question of lowering the waters of Lak.e Simcoe, that a large amount might be reclaimed. This is an old question and has often been up before. The Dominion Government considered the lowering of the moaltes of the river. Severn, to reach this result. Those who were present urged the Govern- ment to do something. The Ministers promised to bring the matter to the attention of the other members of the Cabinet, THE POPE'S DAYS NUMBERED. Not Expeeted to live Beyond Baster • Owing,10 a Cancer. A despatch from Rome, says:—Al- though the Pope is alleged to be so far on the road to recovery that no more balietins are iseued concerning his health, it is learned from a prelate high in office at the Vatican that the utmost anxiety continues to prevail among the papal entourage concern - ng the condition of the aged Pontiff. It now turns out that the • growth, or tumour, removed from the Pope's hip, was ofamalignant, that is to say, of a cancerous character, and thsre are many people, especially those in a posi- tion to know the true facts of the cue, who look upon, the amazing vit- ality displayed by the Pope since his last illness as the final flicker of the candle. It is true that Cardinal Oreglia, the Camerlengo, ha.s return- ed. to his residenee in the city, and. no longer spends the nights at the 'Vati- can, but he arrives early in the morn- ing and remains the whole day there, while the Pope's physician, who until the operation lived in the city, has not left the Vatican since the day it took , place. • It is asserted that the Pope, apart from the malignant character ot the growth whieh was removed, sustained a shock by the operation from which he is unable to recover, and his mo- ments of vitality and. eheerfulness are Mr. Hardy introduced for the firs reading the Government's bill with re speet to thef work men• for injuries. It has two leading principles. It provides that in trials or arbitrations to recover compensation 'for injuries, the onus of proving tha the machinery which is required under the law to be kept in a particular , state or condition, or which is deemed. to be of a particular character requir- folio -en invariabl b the mo se y st i n- tense depression, the latter becoming - more and more acute as time goes by. HOVERING AROUND THE WRECK. t Four Hundred Nen looting the • nate Steamer Caatillan. A despatch from.Ete lifax, N. S., says: —The Marine and Fisheries officials • tug covering, is in accordance with the 'requirements of the Act, shall be upon the employer or upon the personown- in the maehinery. It does not follow, Mr. Hardy pointed out, that in all camel a verdict would go against the ;employer, even if the proof that the !requirements had. not been observed was forthcoming, as there are three or four propositions to be established be- fore. the pleintiff could get a verdict. It might, for instance, be shown that the workman was guilty of contribu- tory negligence; secondly, that it was not owing to the defect in the ma- . . . y .• w 10. t. gaVrise to the action. In view or these facts it was proposed to throw the onus of proof upon the owner. The mum will deeirle the effect of the onus. The other principle is the leseening and eiro.plifying of the cost of litigation. The plaintiff has 10 days to decide whether or not he proposes to have an arbitration. In case he does, the de- fendant may accept arbitration or ap- ply to a judge of the High Court in Chamber' for an order showing that the matter involves difficult questinas ef law. thee complicated questions of fact arise, in whittle case the judge may order the nutter to proceed by actien in the ordinary way. It is left to the plaintiff to deoicle whether he will proeeed to arbitration or by judge and jury. The coste are to be es in the County Court: $10 will be the utmost fee that will be charged for arbitration, and the feees of the court will be the ordinary County Court fees. There may be an appeal to the Divi- sional C'ourt, ts-hioh is final. TAX ON NATURAL AS. Efforts are being made to have the Government- Hoare more of the re- quired revenue out or the natural gas companies doing business at the west- ern, boundary of the province. Those making the effort say that these com- panies who are liming the gas to Detroit should be tasted to the ex- tent of at leash $25,000, and not r,ono as provided in Mr. Harcourt's bill. FOR A DAIRY EXHIBIT. The Government was interviewee, by gentlemen connected with the But- ter, Cheese and Dairy Assootation. /t is well known that accommodation at the Industrial Exhibition grounds, Toronto, is not at all equal to the -demands of this ineportant industry. A building is urgently needed, and the Government wilt be asked to assist in the conetruction of a hall specially adapted for the exhibition of dairy produote and improved machinery for its production, THE GAME ACT. Hon J. M. Gibson stated that a bill will bet introduced this seesioci giving erred: to the recommendation of the Fish and Game Commission for the re- peal or the section, of the Game Act, prohibiting the shooting of deer in water..Mr. G'ibson further stated that the revenues frail licenses ex- ceeded the amount expended in admin- istering the taw. Measures for the protection of deer have already howe the vvistime of their authore. Mr. Gib- son tells us that deer have largely in- creased, .that moots rarely seen in Ontario east, hove so multiplied that text gear, perhaps, an open season Lor a Week will be procIsintied, The telegraph companies will not pay as much into the treasury as pro- posed. They were in the bill to con- tribute one-quarter of one per cent., but now they are only taxed one-tenth of one per cent. No ohange is made in telephone companies. Every railway or company which owns a line or part of a line of tele- graph operated in the province shall pay a tax of one-tenth of one per cent. upon the amount of capital invested in the telegraph line or works. This clause is added to the nvery gas company and every oleo - trio lighting company in any city in tb.e province shall pay a tax of one- tenth of one per cent. on its paid-up capital, but this shall not apply to any gas or electric works owned. by a mu- nicipality and operated for the pur- poses of the municipality. A. reduction has been made in ex- press companies, from $3,000 to 32,000. Sleeping cars by the old bill were to Pan $3.000 per year. Theo tax will now be as follows: Every company doing business in the province by either leasing or hiring sleeping ears or parlour cars to a railway company or to railway companies, or whose eleeping or parlour cars run upon or are used by a railway company or railway companies within the province shall pay the sum of one-third of one per centupon the capital of the coin- pany invested in cars and rolling stock used in Ontario during the preceding year. THE TAVERN LICENSES. Changes have been made in the tavern licenses. They have been re- dacted from the original amount pro- poeed by Mr. Harcourt, but there still will oorae considerable revenue from them. In Toronto hotelmen will have to pay 3100 of an ittereo.se, instead of .4150, as proposed at first, In Harailton and Ottawa the license fee has been realised from 0250 to 3225; in cities from 20,000 to 40,000, $130 will be paid and not $200, while in other places the inorease has been reduced from e150 to 61.30. In othert avern licenses to 3140. In other tavern licenses there is no change from that provided in the Provinoial Treactures s bill. Ail wholesales will have to pay the increased tax, and riot atone the cities, as at first neoposeet. The tax on breweries is altered eon- eiderablye but not until after the $20,- 000 class Ls passed. On breweries with 620,000 to 50,000 invested, te tax of 6500 is levied; on breweries from $50,- 000 to 4000,000, and not as the eld bill provided, front 640,000 to $75,000, the Litt ie 6750. Preweries -with a 3100,- 009 te 3150,000 invested will be requir- ed to Pan 61.000, and those from 3150-, 090. to 3200,000 invested, the lax wilt be here say that the statement is ridicu- lous that if the Blonde rock buoy, which was out of position on Sunday morn- ing, had been in its proper place the Castilian might have been saved. The steamer is 34) miles north of Blonde rook. The steamer is not submerged' at high tide, nor has sne a strong list. She is sitting almost upright and • as straigbi as if afloat. insideher deck is thrown atuidship, caused by the swelling of the grain. The water at high tide covers her main deck about one foot. The live stock has mostly been saved, although the poor brutes have been subjected to a long fast. When watered and fed ashore the pic- ture 13 an animated.oaihatia I as but a little can be supplied at once.• I LOOTERS Al WORK. Wednesday about qo enaell vessels 1 with a. hundred or so dories, and. 400 I men were hovering about the wreck, carrying off • whatever they could reach, some to be delivered to the gro- per authorities, and some no one knows where. Sad. havoc laas been made of the elegant • and sumptuous fittings and furnishings of this palatial steam- , er. The Aberdeen went to the wreck ion Wednesday, but remained only • a short time. Complaint is made that she did not arrive sooner and remain to keep off the looters. There was a heavy gale on Thursday', but as the !steamer is firm on the bottom her en- tire lengtbs. no further damage is rnediately feared. • EXPLOSION ON A WARSHIP. lionnley Date the Accident en H. • Terrible. A despatch from Portsmouth, Eng., says:—An inquest was opened here on Thursday into the eirounastanees of the death of the stoker of the British first-class oruiser Terrible, who was killed by a boiler 'exploaion on board the cruiser while she( was on her way from Malta to Devonport. • 'The evi- dence showed that during( the course of the homeward voyage five steam - pipes burst, and that at various times the tires had to be drawn from under three of the boilers in order to prevent disaster. 'the stokers and engineers were almost in a state of panic, and were afraid, to go on duty, not know- ing at what moment; an exttosion miligt °actin $12,500 FOR HIS`NATIVE TOWN, montreei Gin to the rotor 01Peett1e64. A despatch from :gent real says Ir, John John Rope, the well-known mer - client of this oity, and who op to the time of his retirement from active bus- iness was of the firm of John Rope and Co. .has given hie native town of Peebles, Scotland, n1,000 for the bene- fit of the poor, The money it iS e*,t- Elected., will be used for the ereetiort of a cottage hospital. It is tient that Mr. Rope will add to his gift by an eft- downment of 41,000,and that he will also add n501) for the furnishing of the hospital, making his gift 42,500 to his native town. THE NEW8 IN II MIME THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting items About Our OWit 20fIlidrY• Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts et the Globe, Condensed anti Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. The Quebec) Legislature has been Prorogued. It is expected that railway labor will be in demand, in the northwest this summer at good wages, The London street railway manage- ment is considering a plan to provide seats for7 the motormen: 11 13 reported. in Quebec that a large hotel is to be built shortly in the heart of St. Roots. While the population of Montreal is inoreaeing the number of marriages and births is decreasing. A shipment of CNOW-8 Nest Pass coal taken to Esquimalt for a test by the navy Is said to be smokeless. Lord. Strathcone has donated $1,000 towards the payment of the debt on Christ s Church, Winnipeg. An Eastern firm has signified its willingness to •contract with 'Manitoba farmers for one million bushels of flaxseed. Mr. W. W. Olgivie, the big miller, says he will move away from Montreal rather than pay the new taxes on his machi nery. London wants a new drill shed, and will send ,a strong deputation to Ottawa to press the matter on the Government. Mr- David Baird, nightwatchman at a T., H. St B. Grossing in Hamilton, was run down by at yard engine and killed, on Saturday. Postoffice Inspector Burnham of Toronto will shortly be superannua- ted owing to the unsatisfectory con- dition or his.healtb. It is reported that the ,Belleville electric railway has beexi sold for $85,- 000, and that the line will be extended ia many directions. The Maoltoba Government is to cone eider a redistribution, bill, giving re- presentation to the newly -settled dis- tricts in the North. Prevost, the condemned murderer, at tacked his jailor at Port Arthur on Fri- day with a slugshot and then tried to escape, but was overpowered. A bill prohibiting the shooting of prairie chickens this year on account of scarcity is to be brought before the Manitoba House this session. The Brandon City Council has de- cided to ask the Manitoba Govern- ment to guarantee tor fifty years the interest on Brandon s bonds, tunount-1 ing to 300,030. • The Kiagston Penitentiary will be equipped with a printing press, and all the report forms and binder twine tags will be printed in the institu- tion. It is runaored that a large paper mill will be established near Ottawa by a syndicate of New York Publishers, who are feeling the oppression of the Am- erican paper trust. The following new postoffices have been established in Ontario:—Brennen, Nipissing ; Elizabeth Bay, Algoma; Gal- lingertown, reopened, Stormont; Hun- gerford Hastings. Col. fferohmer, commander of the Northwest Mounted Police, has ar- rived in Ottawa on his annual visit in connection witle the affairs of the foron He wants more men. The Government s lease of the his- . . ns of Lbraham at Quebec expires in 1901, and if the lease be not renewed the land will be sub -divided into lots and will be sold for building' purposes. In the forthcoming edition of the postal guide it will be stated that the class of mail matter hitherto known as fourth class has beam done away with, and that the former fifth class will in future be the fourth. At Dundas, while Steven Clark was working on his lathe the tool caught his left hand in such a way as to draw out the cord, from the elbow to the tip of the little finger, and wind it around the arm. Kingston license holders have dis- covered that for many years .past they have been paying 350 annually more than they should have paid. An effort wilt be mode to seoure a re4 turn of the excess amount paid. A Public school caretaker in Ham- ilton, Mrs. Robbins, of Westworth, street school, has been dismissed for using insolent language to Lhe chair- man of the Internal Management Committee of the School Board The Canadian Atlantic svitrkshops in Ottawa are to be operated by electric- ity generated at the Chaudiere Falls. A contract has beett closed, between Mr. J. rt. Booth and the Canadian General Electric Coe, for the appli- ances. It is propoeed to close the Royal Military College in the second week in June, ,so that the oadets in the two seuiar classes may be able to join camps of instruction as subalterns. The College will open a week earlies in September. , As a result of the analysis made of samples of quinine wine and tincture and Hamilton purchased feret London and Hamilton druggists, Chid Analyst MacFarlane. recommencie that the Ven- dors be prosecuted fur selling ticlul- teraLea preparations. , Mary Doran, of • the Union Hotel, Guelph, was fined 810 and costs for selling liquor to john F. Redwood, son of John Itedtvood, while he was in a drunken condition. The father had notified the tioletikeepers not to melt liquor to his son. „ The following artioles hare been placed ou the Canadian free list by an order -in -council t Safety bate and tan- nin to be used exclusively in the tan- ning or leathers hi their' MD tanneries; cotton yarn, polished or glossed, when imported by Manufacturers of rhow I nes. The MoOttecti City Council will eon - eider the remarks made by Mr. l'arshe, Manager of the Merehants' Bank, be- fore the Legislative Commit, thet the ootedit ion of a f fai re in Montreal was attonathing, ond it vvould have to stop, The end could only be deoadenee and perdition, "1 bave been told that a large proportion of them are bribable, have accepted • bribes, Of, course, we live in a democratic) age,- aired we oan- riot protect oueselyes.' GREAT BRITAIN. It 15 reported, in London that Mr. Kipling is to be made a Peer. Mr. Choate, the Untted &cites An bassador, is being lionized in London. The British battleship Glory, 12,950 tc•us, was launched from Laird's ship - garde at Birkenhead on Satorday. Six Douglas Galton, formerly Presi- dent of the. British .A.esociation, and a high authority ou sarittation, is dead: Tom L. jc•linson, the electric rail- way magnate, of Cleveland, proposes to build an electric railtvay System in London, Eng. • Sir Edward Fry, formerly a, Lord ,Tustice of Appeal is suggested, as the successor of Lord Herschell as British representative on the joint High Com- mission. During February, the emigrations to Canada, consisted of 594 English, 43 Scotch, 30 Irish and 7 foreign. Those who emigi'ated to Cape Coloay num- bered 1,650 mad. to, Australia 802. • It is said that the Duke of York will not be given his promised com- mend untie early next year, when he will hoist his flag on the Crescent as Commander -in -Chief of the Austra- lian station. • Mr. john Henniker Heaton, who in- augurated the chess match played by cable between members of the House of Commons and the United States House of Representatives in 1897, is arranging anather• international tour- nament between the tIVO Houses. Great Britain and Russia have now, it is said, amicably settled the Niel- Chwaug loan question by a direct ex- change of views, and. the two Govern - are now arranging a scheme whereby their relations in the East may be permanently regulated.. VicenadmiraiPhilips, Hceva.rd Col- onel, lecturing lea London on. the Span-, ish-Americian war, said that hereafter secrecy in war was impossible, owing to the vigilanoe of the newspapers, also that the 'United States victory would not have been so easy if Spain's • equipment had beezi up-to-date. Four thousad, Welsh settlers in the Argentine Republic are sending home bitter complaints about their treatment in that country. Delegates are now in London and efforts are being made to convince theni of the advantages of removal to the Cana- dian Northwest. The British 'Railway Association have arranged to send. five prominent railway officials to the United States to investigate the facts u.peu which the Government bases the _bill cane - pelting the adoption of automatic couplings, the measure which would. give the Board of Trade power five years from its adoption to Compel British railroads to supply the whole of their rolling stock with. this de- vice, at an estimated cost of 310,000,-- 000. UNITED STATES. Governor Smith, of Montana, has vetoed the bill passed by the late Legislature legalising boxing con- tests. • The citizens of Fort Wrangel, Al- aska, are &awing ug a petition for the cession of their town to Can- ada Mrs. Catherine • Murray committed suicide in New York, because one of her daughters married a bar -ten- der. Zaino R. Carter, former president of the Chicago Board of Trade, is the Republican nominee for Mayor of Chicago, Despatches from the Middle, East- ern and. Southern States indicate teat the usual spring freshets are in full blast Ralph Seither killed himself in New- ark, N. J., on Thursday, because his 14 -year-old daughter Mary had been arrested for stealing 315. : A Washington despatch tote Buffalo paper asserts that serious trouble is imminent between Canadian miners and the Alaska authorities in the Por- cupine district. At Pawtucket, Rhode Island, „Ade- line Harvey, 14 years old, was ar- raigned on a charge of trying to kill her father by mixing poison in his Mod. She Pleaded guilty. Austin Bidwell, one oE the naen who by means of forged securities in 1873 got 65,000,000 from the Bank of Eng- land., after victimizing other banks in Europe, died at Butte,,Mont. United States AdjtaGen. Corbin has issued. a statement giving the number of deaths of soldiers enlisted fpr the Spanish war and. the' causes thereof. Iris total is 5,731 up to the end of Feb- ruary last. At a meeting of the manufacturers of worsteds in New York, on Friday it was decided to combine Oar inter- ests and formed the A.rnerietin Wool, - len Company, with a capital stock of $50,0,v00e0i3O.e00. 1:hundred e ow d, theemmpThlotyteedopsstost and first dladyadken,hrsavielrogaede es strike be- cause the company ctxt wages from 85 to 80 cents au hour, and added en- othet hour to the day's work. The dead body of Mrs. M. David., of Fort Worth, Texas, was found on Wed- uesday night on the roadside near Azle, stabbed in a horrible manner. The woman was a leading witness in a sensationat murder case Lo be tried at the present term of court. „ Act English firm has ordered from the National Tube Works Coe or Pittsburg, Pa,, ten miles of 28 -inch w'ater pipe,. to be used in the Rand gold mines in -Johannesburg. They must be shipped in four onooths, when an order for eight miles more, will be given. Roman Walsh died in Lincoln; Ne- braska' On Wedzieaday. It with lie who flew a kite across the Niagara gorge, The kite string wasfollowed by a heavier cord, that was followed by ropes, and Inc ropes by cables out of which grew the first suspension br i .,d g ee ebrs was privates test at the Navy Yard at Washington on Thurs- day, of a new megazioe rifle, the in- vention of S. M. AirLa,ne, of Cleve- land. The new gun Imes the gases generatiel by its ftring to operate the exagazine mechanism. It can be so inaiehrrapetitneig,zseud.tattinhieagetelmofet ztteludielsol,totonfig, tihttheectarolli:gobete: fired, as elovvits as desired, the Mato. stitills, reloading tied cooking the piece. IIIARKETS OF TIIE IITORLD, Peleee of Oran, Cattle, Cheese, 40. In the Leading Marts. Toronto, March 17.—We Ilan a fair market bare to -day, with no chenge in prices; buying was a little slow, LIS stuff was being held batik for the more regular market. Still there was a moderate amount on steady tradiag. All told the reeeipte were 60 loads, eonsisling of 1,700 hogs, 550 lambs and elieep. and a few calves and milk- ers. • There was not Much movement ip shipping mill& ; the best in worth from 1 3-4 to 5o per pound; but most, of the deals her to -day were in light shipper, at from e 1-4 do 4 5-8c per pound. Choate butcher pat tle fetchee from 4 bo 4 1-4c per pound, the latter figure fox, selectiens; loads of °holm) stuff are worth frente 8 34 to to per pound; aec- ondary and minor grades are unchang- 54. Stockers are a little better selling from. 3 1-2 to 3 7-80 per pound, good stockers are wanted. • Shipping bulls are steady and un- chaaged since last Tuesday, Good milkers will sell up to about 350 ench. Here are some of to -day's sales:— A load of exportcattle, average 1,200 lbs., sold, at 4 34c per pound. A load of mixed oat -tie, average 1,000 lbs., sold at 4 1-4c per pound. load of butcher ancl export cattle, average 1,025 .1.bs„ sold at: 4 1-8c per pound. Fifteen export cattle, everage 1,115 lbs., sold at 4 3-8c per pound. A. load of butcher cattle, average 975 lbs„ sold at 3:L-2., and ten dollars on. Several loads of butcher cattle, mix- eci with a few heads which would do for light expoeters, aold at from 334 to te8o per pound. Good. can:as are in Dative demand, up to ten dollars eaca. Yearlings are worth from 4 1-2 to 4 3-4c for choice, and for anything ex- tra choice 50 was paid to -day, and will probably be paid. ou Friday. • Ewes and bucks are uncbanged, ,Hogs are steady and unchanged to- day. • Store hogs are not wanted. Following is the range of ourrent 'quotations :-- • CATTLE. Shipping, per cwt. . 3425 .3500 Beecher, choice do. 375 425 Euteher m:d., to go .d. 325 363 Beecher, interior. . 2 87 1-2 3 1e.1-2 • SHEE'P AND LAMBS. Ewes, per cwt. . 300 350 Yearlings,per cwt. . 400 500 Bucks, per cwt. . . 250 •275 MILKERS AND CALVIIIS. Cows eaten 25 00 46 00 Calves, each, • . . 200 10 00 HOGS. Choice hogs, per awe . 426 4110 Light hoe's, per ge ea 412 1-2 Heavy hogs, per cwt. 360 367 1-2 DAi .1 i.t.ODU Butter—Coming iorward freely, but market is being kept peaty well cleaned up. If anything there is a sightly easier feeling. The quotations are as follows :—Dairy tub, poor • to medium, 10 to 12o.; ob.oice, 14 to large rolls'15 to 16c.; smali dairy, 1.b. prints, about 16e.; creamery, tubs and boxes, 19 to 200; 1bs. 20 to 21c. Cheese—Prices well main La ined. Choice stock is quoteci ab 10 to 10 1-2e. DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Market for dressed hogs about steady. The offerings are fair and dealers here huyiuto freely, Car lots are quoted on track at ttbout 64.90 to 35, mixed weights, delivered, and a fraction better for selects. Oti the etreet to -day farmers' loads sold at around $5 to 65.30 for ' mixed lots. .Provisions about steady. Quotations are . as follows:—Dry salted shoulders, 7c, long clear bacon, car lots, lo; ton lots and ease lots, 7 14, to 71-2�; and books, 8 to 8 1-4c. Smoked raeats--Hams. heavy, 91-2 to lOct medium, 1.0 to 10 1-2c; light, tio; breakfast bacon, 401-2 to 11c; pienic home, 71-2 to 73-40; roll nacon, 8 1-4 to 8 1-2c. All meats out of pickle to less - than prices quoted. for smoked meats; Lard—Tierces, 7c; tubs, 71-4 to 7 le2c; pails 71-2 to 13-4c,; compound, 51-2.to 6c. Toledo, March 1.7.—Close -- Wheat quiet; cash• 71 1-4c, May 721-4c, July 69 5-8c; No. 3 soft, 69o. Corn. cash 34c, May 35 1-4c. Oats cash and May 28c. Seed cash 38.47, March and April 3.75, October 34.25. • Oswego, March, 17.—Whea I. market firin, No. 1 hard. 88 1-2c. No.2 red, 82 1-2c; No.1 northern 87c. Corn steady; No. 2 yellow, 440; Ne, 3 yellow, 42; • No. 2 mixed, 41 1-2c. Oats firm; No. 2 white, 37e; No. 3 wbite, 36 1-2c. Barley mar- ket continues quiet; Canada, 83e, to 88e, vvesterti, 530 to 60c; no trans- actions reported. Rail freights to New York --Wheat, peas, rye and barley, 10 1-2o, per 100 lbs. THREAT To KILL M'KINLEY. 1,1 belene eternlen. Artrestittl at lionlreal. deepatch from Montreal, says: -- Henry nfullee, a German, vvho has seen service in the United States allay, was arrested here on Monday night on complaint of the United, States Consul folhaving th.reatened to kill Pepsi -- decd. Arelninley, Muller wrote to Peesi- dent Angell, of An Arlett. Univer- sitY, that he intended to go to 'Wash- ingtati and kill IVIoinitaley beeause he wee hostile to the German element, The hitter was seal back to the 112121 04 Steles authorities here, and they had :Huller arrested, It is supposed' (hat the man is insane. netneine is prevalent in many- of the districts or British East, Africa, A. despatch from Alornbaza says that famine is prevalent in Melly districts of British East Afriea. 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