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4t Recent Happensv.? Briefly Told.
°Arum. ; ow 30 per emit. less than last season,
Four horse eta.bies at to WinniPeg but the Sheena River P4ek will be
Fair grouts were burned Sundayabout the average. The FeaseRiver r ,
pack will not be very large, unless tbe
G• T• Freigtut Agent pairPtrPle' rail of fish materially improves.
Philippe Girand, whet represented
biroself as a Catholic peiest appointed
to colleet money front. be people for
masses and prayers, is under arrest
in Montreal, cberged with ( ebteining
money under false pretences. Girand
pretended that he 'ivas eit the bead a
a colenization scheme, and that it was•
for this purpose that ihe was colleeting
moneys.
The NortJaern Pacifie Railway crop
report of Moaday gives a very favor-
able account of the crops. Brandon
will 'have 30 bushels of wheat to the
acre man averege. alles weather for
the past we aas beer very warm
and. showery. All kinds of Grope are
d.o.ing well. Farmers saythat the
wheat prop is a few days behind, as
compared with the correspending
periowl of last year, but 'with good
Weather it will be harvested as early.
. GREAT BRITAIN.
The South of England eau -vesting of
wheat, spats, and bay 'is heavy.
of Harailten, hes been transferred to
Detroit,
Fire has destroyed the eleetrio light
plata of Viroliville, al.S„ and the town
Is in darkness.
The rentable of Lee Yung, who died
two years ago at Stratford, have been
take. to China.
Sevexi thousands pounds of honey
Wye been glaippea in one lot from
Ilanailtuo, to England.
Hamilton ratepayers will vote on
September 7th on a proposal to bey
Dundura Park for $50,000.
Klondike Commissioner Ogilvie
reckons that the output this year will
be little short of 020,000,000.
Major Girouard, who took part in
the construction of the Soudan Rail-
way has retained to Montreal.
The Hamilton City Council has post-
poaed •the proposed reduction in the
saleries of several civic officials.
The labor organizations of London,
by systematic giving, will supply 4600
a week to the striking street car men.
Mrs. E. B. Hobba of Woodstock is
dead of blood poisoning, due to a fall
on a rake which penetrated her knee
cap.
The Thousand Island traffic has nev-
er been 'heavier •in the history of the
St. Lawrence than it is at the present
time.
Contraotor Grant of Toronto has se-
cured the eantract to build the' Lon-
don waterworks clam at a cost of
444,000.
• British Columbia's exhibit at the
Paris Exlaibition now being prepared
will be the best ever sent to Europe
from there.
The New Canadian Pacific Railway
station, at Woodstock is practically
completed, and the officials will move
in on Friday.
The telegraph line to Dawson City
has been campleted. from Little Salmon
e to Lake Bennett, and. will reacit Daw-
son in October.
Brantford manufacturers during the
• year ending June 30th exported goods
to the value of 4929,907, against §848,-
681 the previous year.
• Robert Noble, an ElOinburg farmer,
while driving into Kingston was so
badly injured in a runaway accident
that be may not recover.
• Lord Minto and Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• are to be invited to attend the laying
of the corner stone of the new post
office at Chicago, Oct. 9th.
Frank Jarvis, proprietor of the Wes-
tern Hotel, Delaware, has entered a
deism against the London Street Hall-
way Company, for 05,000 damages for
injuries.
A young lady named Miss Mary
Laurie, who was visiting friends at St.
Lambert, was instantly killed by a
passing train, which was going into
Montre.al.
Hon. Peter Mitchell is out and about
usual. His 'physician states that
yond, taking necessary care of his
health, Mr. Mitchell's ,recent illness
will have no effect.
The C. P. R. land sales in the North-
west for July were 47,402 acres, for
$149,546. For the corresponding period
last year the totals weee 3,951 acres
for $123,610.
It has been announced that no
change is to be made in the Sanford
Co.'s business on account of Senator
Sanford's death, and that it will be
carried on as usual.
Over 17,700,000 bushels of corn, worth
46,800,000, were imported into Canada
during the nine months ending March
last. During the same period the ex-
ports were 13,660,000 bushels.
Mr. j. B. Harpin, of London, leas
received word of the death ee his Mes. and. Miss Boynton, was caught in
son Harry in Los Angeles Cal., aged the terrific gale at Ashland, Wis., and
84. Death was due to blood poisoning all three were drowned.
caused by the explosion of a cartridge
in his hand.
Si_r Pbllip Manfield, ex-lVleyor of
Northampton, Eng., is dead,
Lady Salisbury's conditioa is still
serious, The Marquis, spends much of
his time at Walmer.
Mr. Devitt brought the lalaybriek.
ease 'up in the British House of Com-
mons without gaining any satisfeetory
answer.
The Opposition has decided aot to
raise the Transvaal question again
during' the present session of the Brit-
ish House of Commons.
Bryson, Jameson & Company's tim-
ber yards and Saner & Company's
grain warehouse at Hull, England,
were destroyed by fire, The loss is
$600,000.
The steamer Dromedary on Monday
night, off the coast of ,Scotland, ran
into and cut down the yacht Ven-
detta. The Yacht reached shore in a
crippled condition•.
oe. ram withien ten days, extensive loeal
famines are inevitable in Madras,
The chairman of the Metropolitan Bombay, and the Central Provinces of
railway has abnounced that at the Ionia,.
haven, aear Roolaester, Saturday even -
Mai eeetion of the pier, upon weich
aboue 200 people were staediog, gaols
denty gave way, precipitaliag sceres
of (the spectators into tae water, In
an instent mien, women aud ehildren
were piled Le a (struggling mese of
humanity into from Live to ten feet of
eyelets but all were flayed.
GENERAL
The nativee a Malta aro agitating
for home rule,
Albert Menier, of eboeolate fame, ite
xeported deed at Paris.
The Barak of Spain, at Ma.drid, is
naaleing all its payments in silver.
It is saia that Russia is closing
Port Arthur and Ta -Lien -Wan to
travellers,
Rumours regarding a Chino-J'apaere
eae alliance are semi -officially denied
at Pekin,
Disorder in the neighborhood of Can-
ton is seriously interfering with the
trade
The arbitration and mediation' trea-
ties at The Hague have been signed
•by sixteen of the powers.
Major Marchand s journey acrose Af-
rica cost France $010,000, a somewhat
expeneive smentine expedition,
It is stated that Capt. Pastorio, of
Rome, laaa discovered a means of ren-
dering acetylene gas non -explosive,
The liritish warship Buzzard is
driving colonial fieherrnen out of the
treaty •ports on Newfoundland, at the
complaint of French fishermen.
There are fears at Rome that the
arbitration compact adopted at The
Hague may cense a re -opening of the
question of the Papal sovereignty.
In consequence of 'the rioting at the
bull -ring on Sunday night the Mayor
of Marseilles has interdicted bull figlits
and canted the arena.
The brigand. leadea Mcmi, the terror
of Sardinia, is still at large. So far
the anti -brigand campaigrt has result-
ed in the capture or killing of 80 brig-
azds, according to a Rome report..
IVIme. Couldere is under arrest at
AWFUL RAILWAY WRECK
sgvEN KILLED ON THE CANADA
ATLANTIC, NEAR IdONTRE,AL
Engine and Twe Cars Len the Balls -All
the ileums Are canadilana
0. despatch from Ottawa, says
: -
The engine of the Montreal and Ot-
tawa exprees on tb.e Canada Atlantic
railway left tiae traek near St. PolY-
carpe station at 1.0.30 Teasday morn-
ing, taking with it the baggage car
aud a second -clasp coach. Seven were
killed, and a AM:ulster eeriously injured,
The dead :-
Geo, McCuaig, fireman, Ottawa; Ed-
ward Stares, Ottawa; Wilson O'Con-
nor, Ottawa, Joseph Rocheau, Mon-
treal, IVIrs, Joseph Rochean. Miss Bool-
ean, H..idget Ryan, Maniwaki, Que.
George McCuaig was about, 2'2 years
of age, arid lived with his parents in
Ottawa East. Ed, Steers. was an in-
valid, and was on bis way home from
a pilgrimage to the shririe of Ste. Arine
de Beanpre, is heather, Steven
Starrs, is a naemlaer of the Ottawa fire
brigade. :Wilson O'Connor was a you g
unmarried man, also on his way home
from the shrine, whither he had gone
in company with ikie friend Steers.
The aeriously injured are Ellen Mc-
Dougall and Ellen Ryan, of Manisvaki,
Que., and a two-year-old son of Jos,
llocheau, who was killed.
Robt. Orr, engineer who had charge
of the train, was atso inure. Relives
at 471 Gladstone avenue, and is one of
the oldest and moat reliable men on
the road.
THE ACCIDENT DESCRIBE!).
Mr. 023'. Smith, 'general freight and
passenger agent for the company, when
pearl by a reporter,esaidt-"Accident
Paris, charged with poisoning her occurred at 10.35 Tuesday morning.
cousin. ,There is a report that the Train left track just outside of St.
act is connected with the Dreyfus Polycarpm station, which is about five
affair. . miles' on this side of Coteau Junction.
Unless there should. be a copious fall Engine,/ baggage car, and second-class
car left track and, turne& over on their
sides, while first-class coach, eldontreal
chair car and Intercolonial sleeper re-
mained. on rails. Doctors from Alex-
andria, Coteau, and St, :Justine were
sent to the scene as soon as possible
to attend to the injured."
":As soon as the word reached Ot-
tawa," gaid Mr. Smith, "we sent out a
special train with Dr. R. W. Powell,
Superintendent N. Donaldson, and.
General Passenger Agent, 3". E. Walsh,
to look after the passen,gers, and. at-
tend to the injured. The wrecking
train was also sent out at once.
'The cause of the accident is some-
thing whichleaves us at a loss to ac-
count for. The road for seven miles on
either side is level, and heavily ballast-
ed.. The rails are also very heavy, and
mat/a considered, the most seoure on
the line.
"The peculiar point is that while the
engine and the first two cars left the
• track the remaining three cars remain -
beginning of October eleitric traction
will be installed on the lines of the
company in London.
Former Speaker Reed, of the United
States Congress and Ambassador
Choate occupied seats in the distin-
guished strangers' gallery of the Bri-
dals House of Commons on Tuesday.
Geo. Colquhoun, a Glasgow lawyer,
has been arreste.d on a charge, of em-
bezzling funds belonging to his clients.
His liabilities are said to be over
4100,000. Colquboun was forraerly city
treasurer.
Percival Spencer, the famous aero-
naut, with a companion, started in a
balloon from the Crystal Palace, Lon-
don at 2.30 o'olock. Saturday after -
Four women brigands have --been
,captured near Benevento, Italy. The
women are charged with one murder,
three attempted assassinations thre.e
cases of serious wounding, and a num-
ber of robberies.,
King Menelik has written a most
cordial letter to Gen. Lord Kitchener,
Sirdar and Governor-General, ex-
pressing his willingness to define the
frontier between the Egyptian Soudan
and Abyssinia on friendly terms.
A despatch from St. Petersburg
states that Gen. Abdul Chakim Khan
and three other high Afghan officers
have been poblicly shot by order of
the Ameer, in the market square, at
Cabal for the embezzlement of money
noon and arrived near Dippe, France, intended for the payment of the sol-
e mile and a half inland, at 8 o'clock diets.
an altitude of 12,000 feet.in.
reached Qaeen Wilhelmin,a, who not- long ecl on. This is the first serious
. the evening. The balloon
ago objected to the poxtrait of ,herself dent to a passenger train winch we
appearing on the postage stamps of the have ever bad."
The steamer Alice is at Seattle, kingdom because the hair only fell to
UNITED STATES.
Wash., witli $300,000 Klondike gold: her neck has now requested the with -
A, street ear at Pittsburg yesterday drawl of. the present coinage, on
overturned two funeral carriages and which her effigy is that of a child,
injured nine persons.
. and the substitution of her present
likeness.
There are 30 cases of supposed yea- •
The campaign which bag' resulted in
low fever at the National Soldiers' '
. the capture or killing of 80 brigands
Horne, near Hampton, Va. within a few weeks has practically
Dyea, a Klondike outeiort, was al- stamped out the mischief in -Sardinia,
most burtned out last Friday night, but the worst of the brigand leaders,
when the steamer Orizaba left. • Mmii, and hist band are still at large.
The tug Grace Ruelle, of Detroit, Moni is a ;man of great ability, audac-
foundered in Saginaw Bay Saturday ity and cruelty. His band has killed
night. Its captain, Jule Lemay, was 31 persons within the past eight years
drowned. s and there is now a reward of 20,000
Martin Dotz, said. to have married lire upon his head. '
six woro.en, all but two of whona are The Government of India has de -
said to be now living, was arrested at cided to adopt the report of the In -
Chicago on Monday. dian Currency Committee and that
A eowboat containing W. C. Ott, the policy of keeping the Indian
mints closed to the unrestricted coin-
age of silver will be maintained.
British sovereigns will be made legal
tender in and the current coin of
India. The mints will be opened -to
the unrestricted coinage of gold, and
the permanent exchange value of the
rupee will be one shilling and • four
pence,
Mrs. Eliza Varney and Job Godley,
• accompanied by Mrs. W. F. Lloyd Os -
burn, leading Quakers from the Unit-
ed States, have visited the two thous-
and 1)oukhobors, the latest arrivals
in Manitoba.
During tae seven months of this year
Vancouver Island collieries Shipped
436,000, .tons of coal to San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Alaska, Puget Sound
points and China.During July 58,000
• tons were exported.
A North Baltimore, Ohio, despatch
says ,that twoi men of that city and 20
other gold -seekers have been drewned
at Cook's Inlet in the Klondike
Marcus Daly, president of the Am-
algamated, Copper Company, has bad
a serious attack of heart • failure at
his home in Anaconda, Montana.
At .Alexandria Bay the beautifel
yacht, Comilla, owned by Mr. G. T.
Rafferty, Pittsburg, Pa., was iburned
to the water's edge. The yacht cost
$10,000, and was one of the fastest on
the river.
Joseph Martin's office safe at Van- At Amherst, Mass., Eugene Pa.ka-
aeueer was blown open and 01200 and quer, a graduate from the Indian
SWIM papers stolen. Mr. Martin as- school at Carlisle, Pa., shot and kill--
serts that the papers are valuable in ed. Edith Moran, the 17 -year-old daugh-
his political affairs and hints tbit a ter a his employer, because. she • re -
political enemy got them. jected his attentions.
There has been. an epidemic of A threshing raaehine engine explod-
drowning at St. Sohn, N. B., James ed near .Big Prairie, Mich., and Chas.
Sinclair, a noted swiro,mer and fisher- Haight, Charles Crabtree, Geo. Over-
• man, was upset from a boat and sank. ly, C. Presit and Raymond Howe were
Amos seaman, a sailor of sallies, N. killed. Oscar Evans and Geo. !Haight
S., was drowned from a sebooner. were severely injured.
Four of the principal hotels in
Frank Reynolds, an aeronaut, aged
Stratford, the Windsor, Albion, Ar- 30 years, met his death at Findlay
lingtou ancl Gladstone, have been cam- Lake, near Dunka.k. He made an as-
Pelleci, to close their bars owing to
the action. of the license commission-
• ers in withholding the liquor licenses
until soma, repairs are effected,
The British Caultabia members and
other Parliamentarians who take an
enterest in military matters are much
pleased at the action of the Militia
Department in deciding to convert the
Sacon,d or Vancouver Battalion of the
Fifth Regiment, Canadian Artillery,
into a rifle wren.
II bus become necessary for the Can•
adian commissioners to the Paris Ex-
hibition to procure 1,200 ft. of addition-
al space at theWorld's Fair. This has
oension in a balloon and dropped with
a parachute into Lake Erie and. was
d.rowned before help could reach him.
It was Reynolds' second'ascension,
Policeman 'Thomas F. O'Brien, of
New York, who on +Tune 10 stole a
gold. wateh and chain and two lock-
ets frora the bode of Capt, G. D.
Rroads,who was killed an that day by
an electric. car, was isenteneeci to foue
years atid three months in 6'ing
Sing.
By the tapsizing of a small boat in
the Delaware River, at Philadelphia
on Sunday, Otto. 'Kampf, aged 37, his
son Albert, aged. 8, and Christian Ost-
been rendered neeessary largely by the Grego, Kampf s brotber-in-law,
80
d.eenande of the Canadieft bicycle mato yettes old., were drowned. Two others,
ufacturers, who seem anxioes to Frank Knober and Louis Metins, were
make a grand show. .• rescued. The party was on a fishing
rrhe Dominion Iron and Steel Co. "IP'
has at last set the ball rolling. Wox.k Rear Admiral William T. Sampson
was begun on Wednesday at the inter- has begun a suit in his own behalf
national Pier at Sydney, N. S. in and, also it behalf oi the officers and
cleaning ula the ground caul making enlisted, men of the slaps of the North
PreParatfons fot a railway tapping the Atlantic station who took part in the
Inteneolonial line Ao as to bring the naval engagement off Santiago and
cement, eta, to where it will be the eubsettnent captures, for prize
needed. plenty, The suit 18 water to that
.
The ealmon geaeen in Alaska ate racently entered by Admiral Dewey in
Northon British Columbia is about at the same court.
ati end. It ia estimated that the sal- `During an exhibition given by a
MO% paelt 06 Rivera 'Aloe will be 25 family of expert swimmers at Glen -
CLAIMS AGAINST CANADA.
AMA Miners' Representative on Ills Way
t o Wasblngton.
A despatch from Seattle, Wash.,
says :-Ex-Commissioner jarnes Ham-
ilton Lewis left for Washington on
Wednesday the claims to present to the State De -
GANG PLANK BROKE.
DM NOT HEED Tim WARNING.
British Gunboat opened Etre ca. Frew%
ebating steads,
IA deer/etch frotai Folkestone, Eng„
says :-Tee Britieli torpedo gunboat
Deele, Tueseay morning foond anew%
flailing boat, the Etoile de Mer be-
longing to )3oulogneemeXer, fishing
within. the three-mile limit. The fisa-
email. attempted to escape and did not
stela 'when a blank shot was fired. The
Leda then fired a Mice which disabled
the Etoile de Mer and killed the lat-
ter's helmsman. .
The fishing bout was afterwards
towed to this port with the body oS
the halelasman an bee* deek. The arrival
of elhe Etoile de Mee here caused much
excitement, where it is hoped the re-
grettable incident will draw atteatioe
to the feerious inroaas made by foreign
aistermen in British waters.
The Admiralty authorities express
exteenue surprise at the fact that the
fishing boat disregarded the Leda s
signal to heave to, and in the abseece of
the, official report they aesume tbat the
eoanmander of the Leda only resorted
to drastic; measures when other means
were, ineffectual.
Captain Delathe, of the Etoile de
Mer, was areaigned later in the day,
and. pleaded guilty to fishing in Eng-
lish waters, and evading arrest.
• The commander a tile Leda says the
chase lasted five hours, under se,arch-
ligalt, aid that he diseherged thirty
blank rifle shots before resorting to
bullets. The prisoner Was fined £10
on. the. first eberge and 45 on the se-
cond &barge.
• DIED IN A HOVEL.
A Cireat granddaughter of the Earl of
Chttrnock-An, Opportunity Missed.
A despatch from Peoria., 111., says:ea
IVIiss Betsy Griffin, whose great-grand-
father was the Earleof Charneek, died
in a hut near Farmington on Tuesday.
Papers found in the hovel, where ehs
had lived in a miserable mariner for
several years, show her to be of noble
blood, and had she pushed her claim
at the proper time she would have re-
ceivedn third of an estate valued at
$1,000,000. Up to the last days she re -
lased all favoa.a. Friends of theewo-
man will sell her hut and. defray the
funera I expenses.
Twenty Excursionists Meet Detttlt at a
Wharf Maine.
A despatch from Bar Harbour, Me.,
says.: --The Maine Central R,ailroad on
Sunday Tall excursions to Bar Harbour
&ma all sections of its line in Maine,
the attraction being the warships
which were inspected an Sunday. All
the forenoon long trains packed with
excursionists were rushing • to Bar
Harbour.
The train which Jeft Bangor at 8.25
consisted of 12 cars janamed with peo-
ple. At Mount ,Desert Ferry, the ter-
minus of the line, the train is left for
the boat, for an eightanaile sail to Bar
Harbcur. The trains run out ore to the
w'harf, and it is but a step from the
train to the boat. The wharf is owned
by the Maine Central railroad, and the
boat is a part of its system. From the
wharf a slip, or gang plank, 40 feet
long and 10 feet wide, led up to the
boat. The ship was: hinged at the in-
ner end, the outer end being supported
by chains, by which, it was raised or
lowered to suit the tide. The wharf
extends on both sides flush with the
end. a the gang plank.
an'hen. the excursion train 'from Ban-
gor arrived at the ferry there was a
Pertinent
of American rusb for the steamer Sappho. The first
miners against the Canadian Govern-
ment for drunages sustained through
the enactment of a lave by the Provin-
cial Legisleture of British Columbia,
debarring aliens from locating placer
claims en the Atlin mining district.
It is expected that the proposed claims
will be Made a subject of arbitration
before the Joint High Commission.
Mr. Lewis represented about one thous-
and venters whose claims aggregate
$3,000,000.
BROTHERS' STRANGE MEETING.
Recognized Their Relationship by Photo-
graph of Their limber.
A despatch from Kingston says: -
The other day two men named Con-
nors, one from Belleville, the other
from Syracese, N. Y., came to the city
to transact business. Accidentally
few passengers had crossed the gang
plank safely, and it is said that 200
people were massed upon the plank.
Suddenly they felt the plank give way
beneath them. The long timber sup-
porting the plank broke in the middle.
PLUNGED INTO THE WATER.
The binges held uo one end and the
chain the other, while the broken ends
a the plank dipped, and a struggling
screaming mass of humanity was
plunged bato Use water, 15 feet below
the wharf. A few.olung to the inclin-
ed sides a the plank, but at least 150
were struggling in the water. The
piling of the wharf partially penned
them in on three sides, and the beat
lying at the wharf closed the outer end
of the, °poling.
After the first moment of stupifica-
don, the work of rescue began. Itope,s
and life preservers Were thrown to the
crowd, but in the panic, the people
in the water olutelied one another, and
they met in an hotel and entered into many sank thus in groups in ,a death
conversation. One was a corn doe- grapple. Many taken fram the water
tor, and his namesake had a bad ease. were uneonsciotis and were revived
They adjourned to the doctor's ream, with diffieuLty. Doctors were sump:am-
end Incidentally the doctor in show- ed from all demotions, but it was half
ing a photograph, remarked, "That's an hour before the first arrived. The
my poet' old mother," the other pieked freight -house at the ferry eras turned
it up, exolaimed, 'That'S my mother, into a _morgue, the bodies being taken
too," and he showed a pleture like it. there for identifieation as fast as re -
The men were brothers but had never covered.
reet. The doctor had been taken by
an unele when three years of age, and
had never met any f bis family
WELL:TRA-11771113- TABBY.
TWENTY MET DEATH.
By won 17 bad beet received. Three
other persons were taken on board the
Sappho, and died on the way to 13ar
Harbour. The exaot numbee of dead
Will not be ktown foe some time, yet
An Auburn, Maine, man says that a strong tide sweeps \under the pier,
his tabby is so well trained that it hes andsorne bodies may have heee careied
a, saeat et the table with the fatally. Its away by it. A, diVerl Who Was set at
ttable taattere are entirely correct and work 'mahout dellte, Was engaged in
it rises a napkira with a grace eelaom the eearch until 7 onlook, but only 11
displayed by it human being. bodies ivvem found. ,
MARKETS OF THE WORLL
BRITISH TRADE WITH CANADA.
Statement of the Board of Trade for the
Month of July.
'Al despatch from London says -The
statement of the Booed of Trade for.
the, month of July shows increases of
£4,032,300 in imports and X3,100,100 in
exports.
The ;import& from Canada in July
reached the following amounts: -16,858
cattle, valued at 4287,614; 8,614 sheep,
and lambs valued. at £13 283; 453 537
qwt. of bacon, valued. at £75,496; 19,-
540 cwt. of hams, valued ax £41,382 t
34,42.4 Mat. of butter, valued at £146,-
965 e 231,915 °rt. of cheese, valued. at
£496,065; 2,340 great hundred eggs,
valued, at £714, and 835 horses, valued
at: £22,566. The total imports reached
the value a £2,705,195, while the ex-
ports aggregated £458,609. .
DESPERATE TFIROUGH FAMINE.
Revolt Autong'the Peasantry in a Portion
of Russian Dominions.
A despatch from Vienna, (says :-The
Neue Freie Presse says the peasantry
of portions of Bessarabia, under the
Government of Russia, bounded on the
soutt by the Danube and the Black
Sea, have revolted, being driven des-
perate by famine. Troops, it is added,
have been sent there and several en-
counters have taken place. A scare
of peasants have already beeu killed
and many have been wounded.
A FARMER ARRESTED.
smiumie
Prices of Grath, Cattle, CheeSs, &C
In the Leading Marts.
Toronto, Avg, 11. -Tire recipla at tile
western cattle yards this morning
were small, as all ,told. only 44 loads
cams in, ',flame was little inasinees
doing, and prises all rou.nd remain un-
changed.
Shippiag cicalae shows no improve -
meat. Cable advises from London and
Liverpool contlfaue decidedly unsatis-
factory, and most 06 the puecha.see of
ehAPPing cattle bought just now are
merely purehaeed because the buyers
'have epace on the "boats contracted. for,
and, of course, must be filled. Prices
are quoted as ranging from 14.25 to $0
per cwt., Out 45 is a fancy figure, at
the. v.resent moment, and $4.75 is about
the limit.Mira]. poor cattle. is com-
ing in and. this deleresses prices ail
round.
We bad a demand for any real-
ly goed butehler cattle that was bere,
and it ecad tvp to 14 pee cwt., for
choice, and what some of the common
eattie. soad downato it is unnecessary
to nieni.ion.
13otth ire shipping and butcher cat-
tle a few pix:kect lots were sold at a
small advance on else figures given,
above, but as representative quota-
tions such figures wailed he utterly
Charged With Obtaining Money on False
Pretences nom It. E. A. Bank at Bran
don. -
A despatch from Winnipeg says:-
joseph Barrow, a prominent farmer of
Brandon, was arrested on Tuesday. in
Waukesha, Wis., on a warrant sworn
out by the British North Araerice
Bank at Brandon. The charge against
Barrow is obtaining money under false
pretences, He went to the British
North America Bank on Saturday last
and borrowed $100, giving sereevity on
his crops. Tuesday the bank finales:mi-
tes discovered that Barrow had sold
his farm and crops a few days pre-
viausly. Barrow is an Englishman,
the son of a large steel manufacturer
of Liverpool.
misleading-
Stoaers are worth from, 12.50 to 13.-
25, ieete. - :agar enquiry.
hipping bulls are eisaely„ at from
18.50 to 14 per cwt.
Among the principal purchaser's of
eattle to -day were Messrs. W. and
Levack, Crawford and Hunnisett, E.
Dean, P. Gillies, 3. Harris, etc.
Milk cows and feeders are unchanged,.
oth sheep and lambs are unchanged.
but.LtewadeL
Aice calves are wanted, but
poor stuff is a slow sale.
About one thousand hogs came in
and found a ready sale at unchanged
anliteteadprices.
iprime hogs sealing from 160 to
200 lbs, 5 1-2c. per pound was paid; for
light fat and heavy fat, thei peice is 4
3-40. per lb. Poor lean bogs will not
sell at more than 4c, per lb..
Sows are fetching 30, per lb,
Stags sell at 2c. per lb.
Store hogs will not sell.
• Following is the range of current
quotations:-
. Cattle.
Shippers, per cwt.• §425 S480
Butcher, choice do. . . 350 400
Butcher med., to good. 325 340
Butclaer, inferior. . . 59 • 300
• Sheep and Lambs.
Ewes, per cwt. . . . 300 360
Bucks, per cwt. . . . 250 275
Spring lambs, each, . 250 375
• Milkers and Calves.
Cows, each. . . . .."25 CO 45 00
Calves, each. . . . . 200 7 00
Choice hogs, per cwt. . 475 550
Light hags, per cwt. . 125 • 475
Heavy hogs, per cwt. . 425 175
Buffalo, Aug. IL -Spring wheat -
Light ldemand; steady; No. 1 North-
ern, spot, 75 1-2c; NO. 2 Northern, 70
3-4c. Winter wheat- Good enquiry;
Na( 2 red offered at '71 1-2c, to arrive
Cora•-Streng ; aTo. 2 ,yellow, 37 to 37
1e2c.; Nos 3 yellow, t.36 1-e to 37c; No.
2 corn, 861 1e4 tot 86 3-4c.; No. 3 corns
85 31-1 to 361 1-40.; .Ntie 4 corn, 35 1-2o.
Oats -Strong; No. 2 white, 25 1-4c.; No.
3 white, 24 lelce No.. 4 white, 23 1-4c.;
NO, 2 mixed, 230.; No' .3 mixed, 22 1-2c.
Barley -Ohio, new, offered at 40. to 41c.
-Rye-Sales of No. 1 an 'track, at 57e.
Canal freights - Steady. Flour -
Steady.
Detroit, Aug. 11.-Wheat---Closeda-
No. 1 white, cash, 70 1-2c; No. 2red,
cash, '70 1-2c ; September, 71 3-4c; De-
ceinbela
r,ulte1e-, cw.
vliivAug. 11._.wits.at-
Dull ; No. 1 Northern, 71 3-8c; No. 2
do, 70e, Rye -Firm; No. 1, 54o. Mr -
ley -Steady ; No. g. 41c; sample, 35
to 39c.
Duluth, Minn., Aug, 11. -Wheat -No.
1 hard, cash, 72 1-80; September, 70c;
1)ecepaber, 170 3-8c; anh. 1 Northern,
cash, 69 6-8e; SepteMber, 68 5-8c;
December, 69 3-8e; No. 2 Northern,
65mrsiee,n
s'eN(Xl3esespring,
11V
r1g.-' 62 5-So.
2,
cash, 69,3-4e; September, 71 1-8e bid.
Corm -No, a mixed, 33 1-2c, Oats -
No. d mixed, 20 1-2c. Rye. -No. 2 Icarda
546. Cloverseed-Prime, cash, $3.35
bid;; Oetober, §4.40 eakede
changed.
RAISER TO VISIT THE -QUEEN.
atrectuany Disposes of lietent Alarming
Rumours.
despatch front London says :-The
Daily Telegtreestb., wilaich announces
that Emperor William will soon pay
a visit to the Queens comnaents ecli-
tatielly upon the fact as "disposing of
the rumours that the Emperor is try-
ing to form • a European coalitien
against England," and "showing the
continued good relations between the
to countries." The paper that
continues: -"The visit will beproduc-
tive in elearirsg up small misunder-
standings."
AN OFFICER SHOT.
Probeld.i' Murder of Constable Plower or
the Northwest Mounted route, Near
tea ithridge.
A Lethbridge, N. W. T., deepatch
suys :-Constable Flower at the North-
west Mounted Police./ Lethbridge, was
found oil Wedaesdny night on the trail
to Cardston with two blillet wounds
in his head. Be was interline profuse -
:1Y, and died a few minutes after being
discoVeredo The affair is .a mystery.
An inquest on `the body' of Constable
Eirower was held Thairscloy night, when
it verdict of ertielde while temporari-
ly intone frone ibeteriee :received from
being throwie trona this borte Was ante
dered. Deceased,' was en Doglishroon,
21 years of ,age and weli conneetect
Xyspepsia and Indigesuon,
corrimm diseases, but hard to
core with ordinary remedies,
yield readily to Manley's
Celery -Nerve Compound..
W. ft. Buckingham, 3 pd King •St.
f3ost, Dentition, Qt3t., says; --0'1
was troubled wOlt Dyspepsist arta ,
indigestipu tor a long time, end
could get no relief until 1 tried
/Malley Ceicry.-Nerve Compound,
wuteh curet me, end 1 cermet
• speak too highly tu Its praise."
WORSE THAN AN INQUISITION(
Young Wife -I don't like that cook
ingeseheol teather at all.. She bac
neither patience nor coneicleratiore
She's actually cruel.
Husband -Great snakes! She doesn't
really make you eat the things, does
?
POURED COAL OIL ON FIRE.
-A monument has just been created
over the grave of Samuel Telinisoll,
the old Chariton churchyard, near
Folkeetone. Undeerteath the "load
Line," or "Plinneoll Merle,' is a pro,
Per inscription.
A tablet apon the wall of Kelmeeott
House, Hanarnersmitle, so long kno'svn
as the residence of Williern Morrie,
commemorates the fact that there let
1816, Sir Francis Ronalds, F. R. $t
erected the first electric telegraph
eiglet miles long.
RH!! ECT8
This dread malady lurks behind tie Most in-
cipient head colds, and when the seeds of disease
are sown steals away the beauty bloom and makes
life pleasures a drudgery. •
515. AGNEW'S CAT annWall:, FOWDBIR
will cure the incipient cold and the most stub-
born and ehronio Catarrh eases. It puts back
he beauty pinit and sheds sunshine in us trait
ii;g1y wife and I were both troubled wail distres,
WCatarria, but we have enjoyed freedput from
ti distresses since the first application. M Dr. Ag -
mew's Catanlial Powder—it acts tostenteneously--
!sea grateful relief in 30 minutes, end we believe
• -re is Ty) calc too deeply seated to bane BIS
• • is'or nor. "Mittel°, 11.Y.-32
Sold. by C. Lutz, Exeter.
A Cayuga. FATIll Boy Comea to a Terrible
and Tragic Death.
, despateh from Cayuga, Ont. says:
i -,A3 very distressing :Otani accident oc-
curred cm Thursday morning at the
farmhouse of Mr. , Wm., Walters,
about two miles from this village
Russell Walters, a bey, between 12
ante 16 rears of age, was alone in the
house preparing scene • breapefa.st on
the stove, the fire nob burning very
wen, the bay obtained the coal oil can
'and poured the contents on the coals,
until the can exploited, enveloping him
in flames. He immediately ran outside
scre,araing.,
His brother, who was ploughing
near by, ran to his cia_ibtauce, and
threw a coat round hina, but by ,this
time the entire clothing was burnt from
hia body, and the skin hafiging in
shreds.. Dr, Kerr, af Cayuga, was
called, and did what he could to re-
lieve, the atifferer„ "
The boy lived about. five:I:ours after
'diet accident. Both his parenteowere
away from how, his Dither dieing in
Hamilton, and his mother on' a visit
to friends at Severn Bridge.
A little boy, eged aix, fell ott Of a
train between Llanduduo andTalyealn,
The train was backe4 alang the line
nearly it mile in search af what most
of the paesengers expected would prove
to be &dead body,, To everybody's sur-
priss, this little felloW was found on
his toot, with nothing Worse the mat
-
tor than a slight out on the hood.
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