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SUMmary.
Rocco,
CANADA,
Old Toronto boys are orgailleing at
Wittnipee,
The increase in Hamilton's eopula-
tient last year was about e00,
• Brantford Water Commissionere
weal; $50,000 to improve? the syetera,
Riehard Oartverteet is removing
les home to Ottawa from Kingeton.
The esseserneAt returns makeLon-
den's population 28,e02, aa inereasse of
827 in a yean
Kiegeton s to have 0, new summer
hotel. Citizens have already eu,b-
scribed. $12,500 for it.
•
Almonte ratepaeers have voted
against municipal otynership of the
local electric light plant,
Alex. Goutllet of St. Laurent, an.,
was fatally crushed in a separator on
a Portage la Prairie farm.
Part of the Allan Line dock yard
at Montreal caved in, letting abput
• 100,000 fent et deals into the weeet5. .
The Central Canada Fair at Ottawa
is about $9,(100 behind receipts of lest
year owing to unfavourable weather,
erector Prince, a well-known ranee-
er of Medicine Hat district, I was
drowned while erossing Red Deer Riv-
,Ithe C. P. Res atilt rennet to let the
N. E. R. cross at Portage la Prairie.
The track is guanine by a force of
men.
Vessels drawing eine feet olt water
er oven will net be allowed to pans
through the new Seulanges Carol this
season "
•
W. a Childs, Hamilton, agent for
the Richard Simpson Qo., Toronto, Was
• sandbagged and robbed of $73 by Ham-
ilton footpads.
'Mr. E. Lafontaine, assiseant engineer
of the Public Works Department, died
f '
to Dawson City. , Eel
The Caea,dian Pacifie anno•unces a nee
grain at Fart William. by oneehalf a i ;.ig. D
1
reelection in changes for elevating , seta
cent per bushel.
I II
The boot and shoe merchants
tion and have decided to advance the to v
Hamilton have formed an associal ext
price a rubber goods. , citiz
It is reported, that a leingston firra I be p
has cornered the canned corn market this
be buying up at least three-quarters Pais
of the output in ;Canada, 1 tette
The Department of Public Works! Leh
te line from Lake Bennett to Dawson , from
leas been edvised that the telegenell bc:
tee will be completed about Oct. Ia, I
Col. Kits's latest promotion gives etrele
him precedence of lieutenant -colonels Petle
in Canada, and ranks him next in
seniority Major -G- neial Hutton. teeY
fore
Mackenzie & Mann have reaped a mule
crap of 10,000 bushels of wheat and and d
oats Item their fare( at Dauplun. The Rit
crop was aIl saved( without damage. • nein
• Two peon:in:tent Japanese railway.; with
men are the guests of Sir William• Van ieolan
elorne at Montreal. Their visit is .in a lett
connection with tailway extensions in , which
J'apan„ . e dered
• A. detegatien frona the et. Regis and
Cangemawauga Indians were at Ot-
tawa Thursdey, and saw Lord Minn).
The yy desire thentheir old tribal laws
be eget to them. . .
The suit of a traveller named „Bee/sit-
s:Ilan against the C. P. R., for 620,000
for the loss of a foot in an accident
at Cassels, N. W. T., has been dismiss-
ed at Vancouver.
•
Calhilatech
The Cay Council of Hamilton ' land a
passed a resolution, lainentlegeeethe
death of the late ex -Mayor Stewa.rt
on the Ed . ai , and sYmPa-
thizing with the family...
At a meeting of the officers of the
29th Waterloo Battalion at Galt, are-
.
solution was palmed eavoring a change
i the le e o the battalion, in be. a heavy
come a city battalion. prof.
i
t ligfifienings Briefly Told.
peeveeted his acceptance of tbe nevi-
tation.
Pref, Robertson, Agrieulteral and
Dairy Commission, has ;returned fren-
a month's
vsij to e Maritime Prov-
inces in coenection with the work of
his department. He eonfirree the Pre-
vious reports of the remarkable de-
velopment in dairying down by the
sea,
Linn Sieg Kee, a Vaecouver Chime-
ra:Ian, who has spent the past. two years
away, hae come back to Vancouver
with $6,000 worth of gold dust. - Lum
would not give the exact location, in
willeh he had discovered the dust,
but aunply said that he bad.been work-
ing all the time.
Ranclemen from Alberta say that
the cattle trade ie seriously affected
br in,spectors stopping shipments be-
cause seine animals are suffering from
mange. They claim thie diseaee, is no
neare prevalent titan in former years,
and think that sound animals should
got be stopped.
Mr. ecean Stook, 85 years of age! died
Tuesday at Ids home at Clappison's
Corners, Tee deceased had lived in
the neighborhood of Waterdown about
sixty years. His wife and two denten-
ter.s, Mrs. HW and. Moe Baker, weo
died in a dentist's chair coaPle of
weeks age, have all passed away since
Cerietneas,
Disqussing the London street car
strike, President II, A. Everitt says:
"The peepie are coming back to us;
and I do not thielt the strikers will
be able to keen us tram our own
much longer, It is ert outrage that
men who violated a eontract with us
and thee refused to arbitrate it should
be allowed to ruin business,
Three young ladies have left Ot-
tawa to take alp missionary work in
- Cate
Egypt Th re Misses Cora Van
P, Carrie Reynceds and Edith
`lee. They are disciplee in the
'nese inevement, whieh is led by
Mr. Horner. In Egypt they will
Mr. El. E. Medal, who some time
left for there as a nnssionary.
on. Mackintosh called uport
Gove• rnor-General in Ottawa, and
=en. M lean a cordial invitation
Rossland as the guest of the
ens. Lord Minto said it would not
assible for him to visit the West
Year, but early next year it was
intention to make an extended
through the Northweet and Brit -
Columbia.
e schooner Lilly of the West,
` Labrador, with 30 persons on
ci and 000 quintals of codfish,
k an iceberg off the Straitsof
Isle, sinking almost ineraediale-
The mew managed to escape, but
were three clays in the boats be -
they were rescued, All hands
red severely fecen want of food
rink.
da Blake, who lies in Brandon
the confessed. murderess of -Mrs.
whom she lived previously, in
Lane, her =stress, has written
er to Mrs. Stewart, of Virden,
she confessed teat she had mar -
en art, who it was
thou -ht had co.mraitted .suicide. The
young man was found. dead In the
hou,se, and the supposition was that
he had shot hilieself.
, GREAT BRITA.IN,
Rudyard Iniplirig will shortly leave
England for a trip to Australia and
perhaes South Africa,
entire fatail . R.
an iznraigration agent in Tre-
ys with typhoid in Dublin.
Langtry, Mrs.'llego Ger id d
a e, as writing her reminiscenees,
which will be published about Christ -
The Braise steamer Fremona is at
N n- yne trona IVIontrean
slightly damaged from being struck by
sea,
yg ot at Vancouver •, on leis Way i nee
a, F. Kendall, of' Cambridge, Ma• ss., an arti
and C.E. Eastman, of Saginaw, lefich., , says all
two capitalists, aro reported lost near ' born of
Neplgon
Axenfeld, the physiologist, in
ole just •published in London,
men of genets are the first -
their parents. '
aker, eustodian of the tottage
Hathaway, widow of Shake-
s dea,d at London. She was a
nt of the Bathe -ways.
hist' fishermen complain that Am-
erican fishieg boats come over to -their
coast and engage in the mackerel
fiseery, using nets that are very de-
structive of the flan.
Former City Treasurer Colquhours, of
Glasgow, who was arrested on Auguei
1, charged with embezzling city !Wide,
Pleaded guilty and was remanded to
await the meeting of the High Court
in Edinburgh, 'when sentence will be
pronounced. •
UNITED STATES.
Thirty cases oe yellow fever are re-
ported from Mississippi City. The
disease is said to be beyond control.
The steamers city at ,Seattle and
Cottage City are. at Seattle, Wash.,
trona, Lynn Canal, with in all esoo,clao
in gold. "
A strong resolution has been pass-
ed. on the subject of Sunday work on
the railways by the International Con-
gregational Council at Boston.
The United States eoest and geodetic
survee will nee wireless telegraphy
next year in connection with the work
of locating the islands of the Aleutian
• groups lei Alaelean Water,
Taxes on Americat steana vessels col-
lected as ' inspection fees by Canadian
authorities in Ontario ports are- to be
returned to vessel °whiles, according
to a Washington despatelt,
At Karmen City, Leonard B. Imbods
en, president of the Planters' Bank,
was eound guilty of forging a draft for
5,000, with which he hopedto give
a false ceedit for his bank, and was
eentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary. '
GENERAL,
Whites in Samoa are appreheneive
of further trouble.
Americane have captured the Pili -
pent poste in Cabo island,
By the collapse of a new building Si
Cologne, ten lives wore Mat,
I.here is still no confirmation of the
reported death of the Ameer of Af-
ghanistan.
President Dian, of, Mexico, canhot go
to Chicago op aceourn of the Meese
of Madame Diaz,
A bomb expeosion damaged tbe leer-
eign Office building at Cararna eapi-
tal oe Venezuela.
It is believed ate ward in the
saveral days ago. 'They were
without the eecessaaties a life.
Mr. E' R. Endes, the well-known
nianeflecteireae in a few weeks per-
sonally collected $15,5000 for the Pro-
testant 'Hospital, Ottawa, thereby wip-
ing off the debt on that institution.
Rossland -had • a fire 'Wednesday
night daring a gale, and the whole
west side was threatened, but fortun-
ately the blaze was got under con-
trol after #5,000 daruage had been
done.
The story that someone had -at-
te.mpted to remove the Tete:eine of the
Indian Joseph Brant, buried
from Brantford, Is without founda-
tion.
lebe Dominion police believe that
they are on the track ol the men
who have so successeully foiged and
passed off the Dorainion one-doilae
notes, with whieh the country has been
flooded.
Tee British Columbia Government
eas shipped for the Paris Exposition
a section, of a Douglas fir. et is 3 ft.
in eeight and. 14 ft. in diameter, and
will require an entire car to transport
it to tee seaboard.
There is not likely to be -a renewal
of the .strike of Canadian Pacific Rail-
road freight mon at Oweh earned, the
company baying decided to give a
benne oi 1 1-2 cents per hour after Oct.
nal objectionable men will not
be v rk.
vc)
Ald. Scott, Cinema, has introduced
a motion at the meeting en the In-
votigatiou Committee calling for the
reLiremente oi City Tax Collector
Thompeon and Treasurer Kirbyt and
also for a thermegh re-oreanization of
the department.
While digging a cellar under a
house in Btidgenorth a man named
Gray unearthed $2e0 in American gold,
The money was lost by the occupant
of the hottse 20 years ago, and Gray
was arrested on suspicion of having
stolen it, but •wee acquiteed.
George W. Otis, of Matinee creek
Oneinecat B. •C., reports that that sec-
tion is rith in gold, land that the out-
look is very satiefactere for an ex-
ceptionally good year. 'Manson Creek,
he says, is one of ,the. finest hydreuile
propositions on the coast.
The announcement, that the Govern,or-Getrai wetted Visit Chicago nett
month tune out to be It correct. gig
Excelleacy bite telegrephed to the
ehairtnan of the luelia,enea oneness
tee explaining that peblie businese
Mrs. B
oe Anne
speare i
descenda
11'13111 EXETER TIMES
Venezuela arbiteatio
w . an•
menaced in a week or two.
A treaty of commerce and, freseetthip
18 On the eYe cie coneausion, between
Holland toad tee Traeseaal.
'Creech Goteneemeet estimates of the
• weeat 'aro!) snow 120,005,000 liectolitres,
as against 1e8,096,140 last year.
Powdered glees was put in bread to
kill Col. Wray, British resident at
leolapore, accordieg to a Ilomea.y dee.
sPetee.
A 13oheattian Jew is being tried et
Kuttenberg, near. Prague, Bobenaia,
charged for Wiling girls for saerieicial
perpeses.
Earthqu'akee, fiends and lan.dslidee
are reported erom the lower Himalay-
as, in Iedia, ca.using great damage and
loss °aline '
The City of Saar -Union, in Germane,
has erected munioipal electric tight
and power plants for pnialie anti pre.
vain use at a oost of 150,000 marks,
A Consignmeet of luggage from Car-
pentrae labelled "Dreyfus' has arrived
in London and it is concluded that
Dreyfus intends shortly takieg up his
residence in England.
The Senate of Finland as appro-
priated 2,000,000 marks, Finnish, to
assist in the importation of grain
which is needed by the country, owing
to the shortage of the crops. ,
Preparations are being made for an
inamediate expedition egainst the
Khalifa. The Sirdar started for Om-
durman on Saturday, and Col, Win-
gate went in the same direction on
Sunday.
That there is still eope for 'Herr
Andree is the view of Capt. Eaehau,
wee was in conere.and of the steamer
Virgo, in which Andree sailed on reek-
ing his first attempt to reaela the
North Pole by balloon.
Trouble is brewing at Sen Andres,
in Colombia. • The leolice there have
shot a British sabject and killed a
native. A number of the British re-
sidents were panic-stricken, and fled
to their Consulate for protection.
The crew of the Peary steamer Wind-
ward leave entered suit at St, John's,
Nfld., against the vessel, alleging that
they were promised a bonus of one-
third in addition to wages if obliged
to winter in the north, a promise re-
pudiated on their return.
X. Maurice Farman, who went up
int a balloon at Paris, with the inten-
tion of ' winnin,g the ; long-distance
charaptoeship, descended at Vergiere,
Benches du Rhone, having covered a
distance of 468 mile,s in 15 hours 15
minutes. This beats the repord.
• Tee French Minister of War has
sent, a oiroular to the commauders of
.all army corps forbidding all officers
travelling in Germany, Italy and Aus-
tria to attend the manoeuvers of the
troops or to go to the grounds where
the raanoeuvres are being held with-
out the consent of the authorities of
the countries referred to.
HUSBAND AND WIFE KILLED.
They Were Driving Across the Railroad
• Near Lindsay.
A despatch from Lindsay, Ont., says:
—Mr. and 1,VIrs. George Rutherford, liv-
ing on the first concession „ of Emily
near Omemee, left their home early on
Tuesday. morning to visit their son-in-
law, Mr. Isaac Windrina; of this town.
The morning being cold and frosty,
thro buggy -top was up and the' (me-
ga/els had their heads wrapped up, and
it is this which is believed to have pre-
vented teem from hearing the ap-
proaching train. ; The engineer gave
the Asual whistle for the crossing, and
the next instant the train was. upon
their vehicle. The train was stopped,
and Conductor Bondy and others ran
to the spot, only to find Mrs. Ruther-
ford dead; having been hurled about 30
feet, with a terrible wound on the left
side -of her head. Her husband was
still breathing, althougla his shoulder -
bone was broken, and. leg crushed
above the knee.' He died shortly be-
fore arriving in Lindsayenlr. Ruther-
ford was a well-to-do farmer, and
highly respected. Both were about 60
years of age,
WAS'HURLED FROM A BRIDGE.
An, Aged Oakville Farmer Meets With a
Horrible Death.
A despatch from Oakvilie,. Ont., says:
—Mr. John Ion, a highly respectable
farmer, 70 years of age, residing about
it mile from, this place, was struck and
insbantly killed by a weetbeund G.
T. R. express, due, here at, 88.30 on
Thursday naormng. Mr. Ion had been
to the station to get hie morning pap-
er, antel was returning. home along the
track. • ale was in tee centre of the
bridge, which le about two hundred
yeene i.0 lengble 'when his attention
was called. to tee rapidly anproachin'g
ttain by the engineer of an east -
bowed freight. •
Mr, ion started to run, but was
caught about four feet frona the end,
and hurled twenty feet, striking, epost
and breaking it. The been, which does
not slop here, was running at a high
riarte of speed, but stopped and picked
up the body, taking it to the station,.
One, leg, one 'arta, and 'the ease, of she
skull were beolteen Coroner Williams
decided teat an inquest was unneces-
eery. gr. Ian was an ex-toenu court-
cillor, and prominent en Methodist cir-
cies. of this place.
SCUTTLED THEIR SCHOONER,
Eo eine sentenced to Six Years for
Detrautiltig, IliStirat4e4; companies
A deseatch Irene Guysboroe N. S.,
says :—The trial of Otto Fell man and
Percy Monroe, charged with oonspir-
,
aoy to deereud two marine insurance
cemeaniee by 'scuttling the schooner
Jumete ha order to tecere insuranee
on a coneigentant of lobsters, which
was traneferred to another vessel be -
tore the enveteta Was 81.111k, eeded on
Thersday in conviction, and the men
were sentenced to imeelsonntent tot
aix yeare.
The M.amaitelm and China were the
hesurance cemeteniee inteeeeted, eixty
cases of lobster mere ehipped, and lei -
enrolee was placed for 400 ceses. The
sixty %rem taken to St. Pnerre and sold,
the eonspleators pocketing the pro-
ceeds,„
•BOER TROOE'S ADVANCING.
nostanties nxpetited t Continence Early
'flits Week.
despateh from Londoo says:—
.
Froxa all poitate in the Transvaal, Na -
tat, and Cant Colouy (tome repoete �f
contin ued military activity on the
frontiers, and weile the movements
or individual commands ai yet do
no( ehow concerted plane, it is evis
dent that the narrow, wedge-like strip
of era tal whose apex is erowned with
the onainous name oe Deajuna 111111, wth
be the ()metre of the corning stoera.
Late on Saturday, the Boers established
a camp at: &beeper's Nola near Vry-
heicl, and they will mobilize a great
force on the Buffalo levee on Sun-
day, welch tbe a,uthorities at Dandee
expect will more across the boecler to
that spot, probably at once, It is be -
leaved that a conflict at this point will
certainly oocur early in the week. At
the same time tee Doers are collecting
a force of 2,000 under Comartautter
Cronge near IVIafeking, where Col,
Baden-Powell is stationed. DesIneteb-
es from Tule Rhodesia, annoueee that
another farce of leurghers is massed
at Pietersburg, fifty miles south, and
that outlying parties are posted at all
the drifts along the Limpopo river.
in the meantime Col. Pluentuer's
column is moving 50 miles nearer the
Transvaal frontier, and eas establish-
ed telephone coenectioas to within six
miles of Rorke's drift on the Limpopo.
Enteusiastie scenes at all the railway
stations have marked the advance of
the Natal volunteers.
TRYING TO INCITE NATIVES,
Despatelies from Mafeking aneoeuee
that Conamandent Croup, coramander
of the border police; crossed the bor-
der ad visited nhief Baralonga, ape
Parently with the object of inciting
him to flight. The Britise Civil Com-
missioner ordered the chief to stay and
prdtect the women and children, tell-
ing .him that he would not be allotved
to fight.
The Boers openly threaten to raid
Vryburg, in British Bechuanaland, as
soon as hostilities open, and the Kim-
berley, Advertiser coznplains of the
apathy of the Cape Ministry in not
taking steps to prevent this.
The Transvaal field cornets are tak-
ing the names of colonial Boers who
are willing to cross the border in the
event .of war.
It is evident that Buffalo river,
eorth-eastern botendary' of Natal, is to
be the Potomac of the war, In view
of its strategic value Josh u
has taken a.bsolete coraneand, f
forces there H Placing a strong
line of pickets along the river, and has
ordered the natives to drive in. all the
stocks. All the available burghers in
the neighbourhood have been requisi-
tion d, with the result that sone
bane sambilized at Wakkerstroo
chief point of mobilization th
neon_
SAW HIM BURN TO DEATH.
BItITAIN AND 111.41811111Li
HE
TNAVAL BRIGADE HAS
ED AT LADYSMITH,
Attensit neeePt eiassieg um the
+Lelia the ilmiteeted la Va. ilea.
Ounce nets the ticitten Cat.4.11t
deepaleh, to the London
News Tone 131oeinfoateen says
the burghers of the Orange
State have been comentendeer
mobilized in different parte o
Republic, They haste: been ord
act strictly on the defleneive.
will ,probably be kept 'six irate
tee border in order to preven
sions with the British. ;
It is asserted at •Marekieg, o
able autisority, that the eurghe
been strictly enjoiead not to or
western frontier or to interfer
civilians, but to resist the. ease
an armed force.
A correspondent at Ladyemit
tat, cables:—"The Fifth 1/anceen
a. naval hrigade from Durban it
ar.aivieiwdahye,:;`e, and are eacampecl ne
General Sir Redvers Halter a
at Balmoral castle on Wednesday
as the guest a Queon victoria
1105 Majesty farewell on his depa
for South 'Africa.
A despatch from johannesbur
ports that Reifies are raiding
business places and houses in the
Rand. The whites fired on tee
special force oe police has been
appealed 'to. disperse the raiders.
5,000 RESERVES TO au CALLEIe OUT
While them is ine diminution in the
flood of despatches trona South Africa
recording the military preparation
and movements of both sides, witn
all
kinds a accurate and inaccurate ru-
mours and. sPeculations, the real situa-
tion remains unchanged. s
It ie expected that 5,000 reserves
tha.t an array corers will be mobilize
th
led on e 15th orthe 20th of the
mwoililltbb.ei called out tea Thursday, and
Ixa the'ineantime it is interesting to
note, that neither side shows anxiety
to prepipitate coxiellet, but is rather
inclined to give opportunity for the
Play of peace influence.
INDIAN' TROOPS ARRIVE.
The Pietermaretzburg correspondent
oeeeeree, of the lTinees confirms the eeport that
t ' e Indian troops ha,ve arrived to
make the military situatioe secure, and
says the authorities declare further
disclosures regarding military move-
ments, seould be suppressed. as valu-
e 2000 bl mation has already leaked
,
, to the Boers through the London news-
papers
A despatch to tee Tiraes from Lo-
laatsi, near Mafeking, says it is a re-
naarkeble fact that the natives tbere
declare teey will not fight for the
Transva'al, bile will, in preference, cross
the border, because the Boers are too
severe. and are always punishing
-them.
TO DESTROY THE BRIDGE.
ARRIV-
ersier to
Ye.
Daily
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t colli-
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Fire.FIgitter at CaSeade City, IL
Canght by Falling Umber.
A despatela from Vancouver, B. C.,
• says :—On Saturday a blaze wiped out
• the central block of hotels in Cascade
City. et Was 12.30 in the morning
when the fire broke out, in the bus-
iest block of the beet, built portion of
the towns The water supply wen in-
adequate, and soon the entire block
was a roareng furnace. In rapid, suc-
cession, the Club hoteL Britannic hotel,
Grand Central and Railroad Headquar-
ters hotel succumbed to the flames,
• wed these were followed by Francis
and Miln's end. the Montana hotel.
Eric Arvall was burned to death
while trying to save the Montana hotel.
Dynamite wee used to blow up' the
Scandinavian natal, and Arvall was
• caught in the fa,lluirg tinaber. His
cries for laelp were piteous indeed, but
the intense heat warded off all assist-
ance. The loss is estimated at .$25,-
000.
•
MEAT FOR BRITISH ARMY.
Contract for 4,250,000 Founds of Meat
Placed in Zontsyllie.
A despatch from Louisville, Ky.,
saes:a-The British Government eas
closed a contract with the Louisville
Packing Company for 4,250,000 pounds
of meat to be furnishee the Etaglish
army at intervals. The contra( is for
hems and sides, to be Shipped ill five
instalments, of • 850,000 pounds each.
Similar parehases have been made in
Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, and
it is practically certain that they will
reselt in forcing up the prices of these
articles of provisions, The meat front
Louisville will be shipped by way of
Toroeto 'to Liverpool and Glasgow.
Local provision merchants say that the
Louisville contract will do mueli to
buoy up this naerket, which has been
geiet and inantive for several months.
They expect a general rise in hog
products, hams especially, immediate-
ly. The contraet is the largest of its
kind ever placed in this city.
DEAD NUMBER 1,500,
Whole Villages Destroyed by Earthquakes
Agin Miner.
A despateh from Constantinople
says:—It is now estimated that 1,500
perished in the earthquake in Asia
Minor, around Aidin, The first: shook
occurred at four o'cloek it the morn-
ing of September 20, and lasted 10
seconds. The effects were appalling.
Whole villages were completely'
destroyed. The eartliqualte teas telt
ae far as Seio, Mitilene, a,nd Smyrna,
MAJORITY FOR FEDERATION.
°Metal Figures et' the Referendum in
Otteenslanti.
A. despatch from eleiseatie, saynn-The
referendum in QteetsIand 011 the pro.,
ject of Australian fedetation has been
completed. In favour of- the schenes,
88,488 votes were cast, as against 30 908
in opposite:ins
The correspondent of the Standard
atl Beaufort, West Rands says fugitives
who have vented there report that
forty tons 'of dynamite neve been laid
down for the destrzetion of the rail.-
tv,aly bridge over the Orange river at
Nobels Poitet, a frontier state= bp-
KAMER 'WANTS TO FIGHT.
A. special despatch from Pretoria
tween Cape, Colony and the Free State,
says that President Kruger expresses
himself strongly on being preveated
by the Executive, from going to the
front. is reported to have said: --
"Some people say I ani the cause of
the present trouble, and I want to take
my share of the fighting with my
people." The same despatch, announ-
ces that CozeznandantsGeneral Jou-
bert's wife has started to join her hus-
ban,d on the border. Heavy rains lave
fallert, and the Sands -emit river is
flooded.
BOER ARMY LEADERS UNDECIDED
A despatch from. Volksrust dated
Wednesday saes a council of war was
!told to -day, Coraraaneler-General Jon-
bert presiding, and the commandants
of all the different commanders be-
ing present. The conference w.as
sh
ort
and indecisive It is understood that
no move tvill be made for a couple Of
days. Most of the British residents
have gone to Natal.
Increased activity is being shown at
Woolwich, arid it is alleged that pro-
vision is being roalde there to send sup-
plies for two weeny eorps, Four Imre
deed to of material and munitions ef
war have already been shipped for
Africa.
Jeleantesseueg despatch says
:—
"The Government has. turned over the
Ferreire mine to the directors on con-
dition teat work as to proceed, The
Stock Exchange fs closed."
MARTIAL LI:Av.-WAIT. Tern TRANS -.An unconfirmed report says that
martial .law has beeneere,claimed in the
Transvaal. ,
, ,se despatch from Johannesburg says
tbe molter distribution of letters haa
ceased. .• ?Ihe Government has com-
mandeered all dynamite and "cyanide
supplies, which have been removed and;
placed under striel: guard at various
&pees. Al strong gutted has been eta -
timed at. the ettservoir to prevent tame
pering with the water.
An entlytesiaetic meetiiig of L'ishmen
was held Neetinesday eveting Kim-
berley, einem' the presidency tti. a,
eornaer Meyer of th•e towns at tylech
resolutions *ere unanimously adopted
eepee•ssing disapproval of the conduct
of Irishmen who nezetpathizee wit the
Beare, and et the ,course o.f the Irish
Parliament ary party in extendleg sym-
pathy and stippo•rt to the Tra,neveal
the present crisis. t
EXPLOSIVE FORCIl Oe' LetetTID AID.
It is tieseeted that liquid air hes 20
times the explosive forte of dynamite.
During experiments at Vienna, in the
firingof canteen, tee liquid' air Ara.% ex-
ploded bY an electrfc spark, and the
1'681110 were extreinely satisfactory,
No heal was developed in the guns,
Srld. the range of the projectiles was
settee increased.
IARKET8 OP, VIE WORLD,
Prins of Grain, qattis otiees31
• in the Leadetiee Vat%
Toronto, Oot. 1j
0,— &bout tiny louts
of stuff ea= in tdy, butwe had
en tratie worth epee itie of. Shippine
end butelier cattle were ueehangeti,
and only a tittle steps, me cattle sold.
Stockers, feeders, milkers, and bales
were a eJade easier, while pricee were
quotenly nnehaneed.
fn. tee "small etufes" market there
was activity, and peicass Were well
maintained. Lambs were firmer.
etood veal calves are in request,
Hogs are nominally enehaeged, but
it is doubtful if the prices' quoted wilt
hold to -day, as there ie a, decidedweak-
ening tendency in the markets
Quotations to -day were 4 5s8c, per
lb, for choice hogs, scaling from 160 lb
200 lbs, and 4 1-8c, per lb, for light and
fat hogs, ,
Following is the range of current
quotations:—
Cattle.
Seeppers, per ewe. 25
Butcher, ohoice do: . 3 76
Eutchea tried., to good. :lee
Buteher, interior. . 275
Steekere per ovvt. . 00
1 Sheep and Lambs.
Ewes, per ,cwt. . 300 350
Lambs, per cwt.. . • 1325 460
Bucks, per cwt.. , 250 275
Milkers and Calves.
Cows, each, . 25 00 45 00•
Calves, eaten . 2oa 7130
Hogs:
Choice hogs, per cwt. . 4 25 4 62 1-2
Light hogs, per etvt. . 400 412-1-3
Beavy hogs, per owt, . 460 4 12 lee
• Toronto, Oct, 10.—Wheat—Steady,
but rather quiet locally. On.tario red
and white) wheat, 66, 1-2 to 67e west.
Holders axe milting lc, more. Red
sold to -day at 67c. Spring wheat quiet
at 66 to 67o. Goose, 71c, middle
freights, with 72c asked. Manitoba
wheat firm; to -day at 83c, grinding in
transit, and 82e, Toronto and west.
Flour—Steady; demand. . Moderate
Straight rollers quoted at $3.25 for
seipment Montreal.
Millfeed—Not so firm. Bran is quot-
e,d •at e11.50, middle freights, and
Aborts at 014.50.
Peas—Not ranee claange. No. 2 es
quoted at 600, north and west, 61e on
the Iteidiand, and 62c east.
Oats—Market is dull. Cars tie white
east am quoted at 27c, and, 26c to
white west.
Rye—nu:et and holding at 55 1-20
east, and. 53 1-2c west.
Corn—Inactive at 41 to 41 1-20; No.
2 Atnerioans 40 I -2o.
Barley—Plenty offerieg, and quite a
little reported at outside points. No.
2 sold to -day at 42o, nigh freights, and
430, needle.
Buffalo, Oct. 10.—Spring wheat—
SteadyNo. 1 Northern, old, spot, 78
1-8e ; new, 77 3-80; No. 2 Northern,
spot, 75 8-8e. Winter wbeat—Dull and
un.settletl; No.2 red, zicarenally 72 1-201
No. 1 white, 72e. Corn—Dull; No. 2 yel-
low, 38 le2c ; N. 3 yellow, 38 to 38 1-40;
No. 2 corn, .37 1-2c; No. 3 corn, 3a 3-4e.
Oats—Steady; No. 2 white, 28 1-2c;
No. 3 white, 280; No. 4 white, 27 I -2c;
No. 2 naixed, 27c ; No, 3 inixed, 26 1-2c.
.Ry.e.--No. 2, in store, quoted at 03 I -2c.
Canal freights --Firm, Flour—Steady.
Detroit, Oct. 10. --Wheat closed:—
No. 1 white, cash, 72c; No. 2 red, cash,
73 3-8c; December, 75 3 -le; May, 79
3-1e.
Toledo, Oct. 10.--Wheat--No. 2, cash,
72o, bid; Decembee, 750. Corn — No.
2 mixed, 34c. Oats --No, 2 mixed, 23
1.4e. eye—Quiet; No. 2, cash, • 59o.
Clover seed --Prime, new, cash, and Oc-
tober, e6.50-; December, $5.40. Olt—
Unchanged.
Duluth, Oct, 10..—Wheat-eN0. 1 hate,
cash, 72 1-4c; No. 1 Northern, cash,
70 14e; October, 70 1-4e; Dece)naber,
70 1-2c; May, 74e; N. 2 Northern
671 3-40; No, & spring, 64 1-4c.
Milwaukee, ,Veis., Oct.Wheat--
Dulls No, 1 Neirtharn, 79 1-2e; No. 2
Northern, 70e, Rye—Steady; N. 1,
58 1-2 to 58 3-ec, Barley Firmer; No.
2, 46 1-2c; sample, 39 to 45 1-2o. 7
eft' e0
4 12 1-2
1350
325
135(1
SALVAGE PAY FOR RAOGAOL
seffitantail ra;4engers inconvemenced Ow.
Mg to the tiehoonerHwners' Demands.
A despatch from Montrea.T, says
The wreeking steamer Ranger, which
has been chartered by the underwrite
es, end is on her, way out from Live -
pool, ie expeeted to reach tee scene of
the Scoteneen wreck on Friday, and
wilt ieform the Cepttairt of the aban-
donment of the ship, Capt. Skrim-
shire will then take the next' steam-
ship passing up to Quebec. There he
will make his report, and an, investi-
gation will be held into the accident.
All the sailors lent on Friday on the
Ottoman, except these whose pres-
ence evill be required at the enquiry
end tease who are m custody,
The baggage of the wrecked Scots-
men has not yet reached St. Joh',
Capt. Skrianelaire made an arrange-
ment with the captain of, the schooner
to carry the baggage as 'freight to St.
eohn's. The schooner Ins arrived at
Notre Dame bay, and the eaptatir re-
fuses to go farther, elate:ling that he
ie entitled to salvage pay. Some of
the Sooteman's crow are on beard, and
deny this claitte saying that their only
claim is for freight tharges,
Wm, H. leudgell, a stoker, who was
arrested for receiving stolen goods,
given to him by one of the &titer/Ian's
mew, pleaded gaelty before Judge Des-
noyers ot Thursday morning, and was
sentenced, to, fine of ee or one
month's inaprisonment.
NOVEL PERLIN ORDINANO,E
Berlin booksellees are ateicely feeble -
den eo eell eaboolchilciree boeks etitce-
ed with wireeas several cases of gaboci
poisoning haveebeen trued to sciatchee
frees mete wire,
Dyspepsia and Andigstion,
common diseases, but hard to
cure 'with ordinary renleclies,
yield readily to Manley's
Celery -Nerve Compound,
W. „ Bueld Ingham, ape KIN?. '5!.°,
Bost, Hamilton, Out,, seYs ,
was troubled with Dyseeesie Mid
Indigestion tor lone tine, end
could get no relief until 1 tried
hienley's Celery -Nerve Compound,
which cured me, and 1 cermet
speak toe highly in its prolSo."
1 NO S4.LB WAS eVIA.DE
tegent—I ehoind like to seotv yous
madam, tele Patellt bag to hone clothes'
pins, It cots only twenty -nye eellttl
and,- you see, slips along the line, make
ing it much easier to get at than te
stoop to the basket every time.
Mee. McLaherty—A1)7 phat's the
mattee svid me inout' that centa not a
blissed °int an' is always wid me, I'd
like to teensy: It's =site that can
howld a dozen te pine and be sooiable
like °ear the fence to errs. O'Toole witel
the same lomat, begorral
NOT QUITE.
• It's all up with met groaned the
prostrate Man. 4.
it .isift, eitherf he eieslanned
moment later, rising uncertainly to his
feet and making his' way acress the
sloping deck of the vessel to the Stare
hoard rail.
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