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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1899-11-16, Page 3TI1 Fr I/ SINTER 11111114$ . ' OF BOE • They Attack Mafekng, But Are Lri= 13 ers Also Suffer at Colenso—Caught Between Two !Fires the Enemy Suffered Terribly—Annihilated Almost to a Man=.The British Loss Was Very • Small...Boer Treachery Punished. • A despatch from, Orriege River Ste.- I lags of Nelthorne, seven miles eolith rider from of Ladysmith, Evidently they nunse tion, seys :-(By despatch a, hope of eventually using both in their Mafeking)-The Boers bombarded the eeamp and towel for 36 hours. They threw in 300 ehells, and did not cease tieing till the evening of October 250., During the long bombardment of the to by the, 13oers only four Englishf soldiers were wounded, The bombardment won so futile Ihat seemed tq be, a joke. .At it*8 Conclusion the Boers tried to rush the tome descent on Pietermaritzburg, Mean- while the British are also able to use both, es they have already does in running up an armored train, which may a t the pre,sent moment be cover- ing the !advance of the Eetcohrt force. At Estcourt end Pietermaritzburg the defensive works have .been greatly atrengthened within the lent few days, and they are now believed capable of holding their own against any Boer force, which General Joubert would, at the present juncture risk senaing, Both are likely to be strenigthenecl be- fore the week is oht by a further A fearful rifle fire resulted, and tho naval fares and even by the first de- Maxiro guns oe the British were used ' taohre,ent of General 13uller's army with sueh deadly enfect that the Boers "Tian broke and stampe,ded in a mad panics. TO CAPTURE KIMBERLEY. They were driven back over inines, The situ lion looks brighter at Male - king, where the Boers are apparently which were exploded, sea Lterieg the diaheartened at :the unexpected resis- Boers in all directions with great tanoe, a large' body of their force have loss. ing been detac'hed td the south to as- sist •in, the investment of Kimberley,, BRITISH VICTORY! AT COLENSO. around Which the cordon is drawing I.& despatch from London, says:- tighter. Evidently the Boers intend to make a concentrated effort to cap - Tuesday nights weloonae despatches ture Kimberley and their arch -enemy, frone the front shove the British gar- Cecel Rhodes. rison at Ladysmithi -notr merely stand- Further details from Mafeking in- • diorite that the Boer firing was easing ing on the( dogged defensive, but exe- off, the garrison wan in high' spirits, outing a (series of brilliant sorties. Ac- and the siege was, becoming a farce, collets from diffesent sources agree The correspondent says that the peo- that the laconic Official description ple were in the habit of shouting; from of teleursdanne engagement as the housetops "ware shells!" and that rabbit -holes had been excavated in the "at ' eff ee tea I phelling of the town, into Which the men would dive Baer laager" was unduly •modest. when, the smoke oil the Boers' bigegun It appears that Sir George Stewart was seen. General Cronje is accused White sent a strong force of cavalry of dropping shells in the direction of and infantry to attack- the Boers at the women's laager. Tatham's farm, about 10 miles, to the Accoediag, to a despatch froral Kuru.. north-west, near Beater's, and a,ppar- man, BritishBechuanaland, dated witty achieved. a surprise, the Boers Monday, Col. Plumer's cgiumn, march - being caught on the, open veldt and ing from Fort Tull to the relief of cut to pieces, and their camp cap- Mafekleg, had reached Asvogel kop, tared. opposite Oosti, ten. miles north of Encouraged by this success, General Lobatsi, and was nearing Mafeking. White decided to; risk en even more QUEEN TO LADY- WHITE. important enga.ge,ment on theeollow- ing day, which was again juslified by A despatch from London says:- success. • , The feeling of relief inspired by re- cent good tidings is tinged by a cer- BOERS ATTACKED IN THE REAR. tain alloy of anxiety lest Gen. White Ladysmith had. been isolated, and a should again make some fatal mescal - Boer farce hied interoepted the rail- culation. Her Majesty does not share way between Ladysmith and Clolenso. this anxiety, and, apparentty, is san- This force on Friday had descended uine of his ability( to pull through suc- upon Colenso, and, as hown by the cessfally. It is asserted thee she has despatches from Estcourt, had COM- written to (Lady White expressing Pelleda bun:riled abandonment of Co- sympathy with ber husband in the lenso and a retirement of the British trials and, difficulties he is now ex - to Estcourt. perienoing, and assuring Lady White te had ascertained that the ot her own undiminished ,confidence Boers were attaeking Colenso, but he in his generalship. The public report was n;o4. aware of the Britisb retire- ot this letter has been cabled to Gen. 'meet. He had determined, therefore, White by the Marquis of Lansdowne to attack the Boers in the rear, thus ! Her Majesty has written a letter of hoping to achieve the double object of condolence to the mother, of the late drawing off an attack upon the gar- Commander Egerton, of the' British rison of Colenso, and possibly of re- cruiser Powerful, who was fatally opening communioation southward. wounded by the explosion of a shell The Boers had advanced southward at the bombardment of Ladysmith on until they' had occupiedlthe hills north November 2„ when, ari a gunnery lieu - of Tugela, river and dorainating Colen- tenant, he was in charge of one of the SO on the other side of the stream. cruiser's big. guns. • The .hills stop to a plain that reaches to the banks, of the Tugela. FUSILIERS IN COLENSO. PERISHED ALMOST TO A MAN. Gen. White's division ceught the Boer*, in the rear, and after the hills ha,d been shelled, the British infantry stormed the position. Meanwhile the 13ritish cavalry swepf round the hilLs, and as the relreating aneran descended into the plains, with British bayonets behind them, and the river in front of them, they were changed by the cavalry and eeene to have pereshed almost to a man.. • The British then returned to Lady- smith without "coming into touch with the Colenso garrison, which had retired to Estcourt. BOER TREACHERY PUNISHED. A despatch from Durban, Natal, San- • day says :-A native eye -witness of Thunsday'a battle near Ladysmith says the Boers were ceught on the open gtoued and raised several white flags. The British then advanced without fir- • ing to accept the surrender of the Boom, but were received with aevolley at close range. Enraged at this treachery, the Lan - cern, Hufssars, and Dragoons, follow- ed bly the infantry with fixed bayonets, charged through tend through the enemy, and did great execution. • A lotf of prisoners and loot were cap - TO JOIN HANDS WITH WHITE. A. despaten from Estcourt announces the departure of a strong force of toaounted troops and artillery for a destination not ' given in the de- ttehI0e of the town, , spetches. STUCK TO THEIR, TARTANS. neeere spade( despatch from Pletermar- , ;A. despatch; from Cape Town says: Itztoure, dated Sunday, nays: -"It is --Many of the Eerdon Highlanders confidently expected that railway 1 who were nrounded ab Elandslaagte communication will be restored with heVe arrived here. A majority of • Ladysmith within a few hours." them declared that they- were shot Another onessage announces the ar- after the Boers had exhibited four rival at Estcourt and Pietermaritz- flan. of truce and, the British bugler burg' within the last feA•daaa, of re- had- souvided "Cease firing." ieforcements from Durban, and that .The Highlanders admit tbat their • 6,500 troops are assembled ready( for a heavy toss was duet to theie action in readva,nee to C'oleaso evhen the oppor- 'nine Moment arrives, The latter unaninaously refusing their command- er's °free to let them fight without; espatoh, throws light on the Cormer .e .a , e i A despatch from Estcourt, Natal, pans :-Details were received from the armoured train, which returned from Colentio on Tuenday, of a brilliant lit- tle pereormance. The train, Ivhich car- ried two eorapanies of the Dublin Fu - einem under Captain Romer, sight- ed near Coleneo, the Boers in consid- erable, force near the line. The Fuel- liere immediately opened a brisk fere, which the epoere, replied to ineffective- ly, and, as they were suffering loss, they quickly retired out of sight. But as the train cautiously' advanced (the Boer n were seen raovin,g around fon its left flank, their eresueried ob- jeet being to take the train in the rear. Tie a.void this the train retired. It was then. seem that the Boers had no intention of attacking nut were in full retreat over tbe road and bridge. Immediatelt a strong,detanhanent left the train and entered the town, while the teata slowly advanced to the sta- tion. Several volleys at long range were fired en the retreating enemy. The British also succeeded in enter- ing Fort Wylie, near Colenso, and brought back four waggon loads of sh,ells, provisions, and stores- 1' A.TTACK ON( KL1VIBERLEY. • A despatch from Orange ,River, Cape Colony, Monday, says: -The Boers in.. vesting Kimberley have been reinforce ed 2,00 Omeu, and have aucceed- ed in corralling about, $25,000 worth of stoek belonging to Kineberley mer- chants, which was intended for the sus - end the fore which left E'stcouri': Monday last doubtless reoccupied Co1. SIEGE TRAIN FOR AFRICA. • efiso, and possibly is now advancing A. despatch from London, says :-The cautiously up t,he railroad toward War Offioa is anotiolizirig a siege train; Ladysmith, , Gen. White's sortie of composed of 14 6-1(neh howitzers, eigen Friday almost to be banks of the ii -'inch, and eight 4 -inch guns, with tra- • Tagela raver eecour egirig its common- vealleig earriages, and 15,000 rouecls of der in the hope cia joining hands with lyddine and cordite shells. The 6 -inch eves will nave a rengo of 10,000 yar,ds, • General Jottbert, the latest advices Ineeren hundred and thirty-six offieers indica.* drew in hie barns atter Fri- ana men, ;supplied with e5,008 rounds dey'e engagement, and has since with- ofestaail arm runmunition, will accoie- drown the southern Boer Contingents, Pany the train. leaving ohly eutponts 071 the lino frona The armament Le now being sseed Incly,smith to Colenso. Tete Boers who from Woolwieh, ewe part of it late ale eceepied Celeriac) ahritit the middle of reedy been foewarded to Devonport leaf, wk, eeretired evithout damaging for shipment to Smith Africa. Pulwer bridge, over the Tugela river, Tine will be the Ant etielelneaneni Of en the railroad as far north AO the Vile a racnierallized 8'1'egt1 tr41):1 an 1)11'r°P6 pearl area/ and the progress of the redaction, of forts by lyktdite shell lire, a, prelimieary to storming by infantry, will be wetehed with intereat and Oar- iosity by all peofessienal Soldiers, MORE GORDONS $AIT. A despatch trona Liverpool eays Ellelnenla orowds in tate streets and &bowl, the docks here 014 farewell oe Thursday to the Flint Battalion, of the Gordon Higialenitexs, Dargai heeoes, ut wheel) a. son of General White is a lieutenant. The peesnece Dade' Wlaite and her daughter inerecteen the entilueiaern. A DIEECIIAIVT 8110T DEAD, JOHN E. VARCOE, OF TORONTO, KILLED BY A BURGLAR, Tv+ o Mon Break Tato a Store -One ot Them Shot by a Policeman and Captured - The Other Jumped Through a WIntloW and Taken Prisoner. despatch from, Toronto says: --.Two burglars entered the house of John E. Varcee, grocer, 182 Queen street east, at a few minutes before two o'clock an Thursday morning, and, in an en- deavour to rob lat1mi, shot 1VIr. Var- co,e in the groin' and right side. They then endeavourced to escape, with the result, that one jumped from, a second storey window and hurt himself badly, being found on th,e ground by Patrol Sergeant "Willis ween the alarm was sounded. The other ran down Sher - bourne street, followed by P. C. Dick- son, who fixed four shots at him, fin- ally 'Waging nine dawn near Durehes,s street. Both men were then taken to No,• 2 Police station in the anenuaanee. Varcoe resides above his store, and in the next room to him sleeps his clerk, a young meet named Noel Thomas. . At the hour mentioned he was awakened by a nose, and found A MAN! BESeDE HIS BED. He jumped. up, when the burgler made at him. Varcoe pluckily defended him- self with a chair, striking his assailant heavily. In the meantime. the seemed mem stooa over, the clerk in the uext room with. al loaded revolver and, pre- veritedi hir ! from going to She: assist- ance et his enapiOyer. in `his fight with the burglar Varcoa appears to have been, getting the best oi in when his opponent brought his revolver into play and fired two snots, hitting Var- c.oe in the groin and in the right 'side. Dee, Ball and Wallace were atterwards , susamonede and attended the wounded reae, hurt. .*. it is'. feared, is dangerous- lyBetore entering Vareoen room the burglars wentthrough the house poetty thoroughly, and on the counter ot the stare, after their arrest, were found the traces of anneal of caianeci goods and similar luxuries which they had evidently enjoyed. The burglar who endeavouredi to es- cape tried to shame the policeman who jwas chasing him, but the cylineier of Ibis revolver jammed and he • COULD NOT USE THE WEAPON. When, the doctors bad done all they could to relieve Varcoe's suffering he was taken to the, General hospital in the ambulance. . The play.sicians report that he cannot recover from: his wounds. Outeide the house were found por- tions of e burglar's kit, while an ex- amination of the premises showed that the clothes of the residents had been rifled and all their money taken. At No. n Police stetion it was found that the two criminals were H'eery Willieme and James McIntosh. The nonce did not know either of them. McIntosh the man who ran down Sherbourne street, hes a bullet in his leg an a rnsult of the constable's shoot- ing, and the pockets of both criminals wera filled with cartridges. . DISASTER IN CANTON. Over Fifty People Either Burned or Drowned. Ai despatch from! San Francisco says: -Hong Kong papers of October 5th, receeved ley the Doric, give details of a greet fire in Canton at naidnight on the second, by which over 501persons lost their lives. it)* seems a mat -shed theatre had been built by the river- side, and around it about 100 boats had .been anchored. While the thea- trical performance was' going on, fire broke out on one of the boats, It spread •rapiclly to the .inflanemable materianof the theatre. There was a wild rush among the audience, and many ;boats were capsized. Over fifty people were banned or drowned, ALL FIVE CHILDREN DEAD. Terrible Bereavement of Brockville An Two Month... A. despatch from Brockville, Ont., says :-By the death of Lester Cole, aged six years, which took place an Tuesday evening, the entire family of Mr. and, Mrs. A. T. Cole, of this town, is -wiped out. Two months ago there Were five happy: children. All were aetacked with scarlet fever, and passed away one alter the other with the ex- ception of Lester, who survived Re- cently he was attacked with brain trouble and suceumben. ; • CYCLISTS IN THE WAR. many or the Soldiers Filing Bicycles Xft Fr tend of Horses. The Tra,nevaal war will at least have the creclit of beien the first ca,tapaign in which bicycles have been employed, by regular troops; and from the fre- quency with which they are mention- ed en the telegram, it is very evident that -the riders are doing very good sovice. This fact, coupled with the ore der of Sir Beavers Buller that depart- mental officers at ba,ses might have the option of aisingtheir cycles instead of homes, .and reeeive tin allowance in lice ot ratiottn leade one to hope that the military 'authorities are at leegth beginning to perceive the practical value of the bicycle in warfare. THE NEWS IN II 1101811E110 THE VERY LATEST FROM • ALL THE WORLD OVER, Interesting Items About, Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, eind All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Essy Reading. CANADA. Coal is $6,50 a ton in London, Navigation on the Yukon has plosed. •)aunamil.ton bartenders leave organized ion. aslisocamiaitlion, . tondoctors have oenianized an C. P. R. lend sales for Oetober ag- gregate 30,000 acres for 695,000. • President Shaughnessy, of the 0, P. BR3arwd.asofbaTTaluideat.•d eby tie Vancouver London, Ont., labor men have nom- inated a municipal ticket and Pub- lished a platform. anise Martin fell dead while singing in a cboir of a ohurch at Alberton, near Charlettetown. lnspeotoe Ballard of Hamilton re- ports that out of 7,000 Public school, pupils 118 are short-sighted. The will of Mr. Wm. Duffield, pre- sident of the London Gas. Co„ disposes of an estate valued at $88,000. Mr. John Tanton, of the fir.m of 'ram ton, Adams & Tante, London, was se- riously hurt in a runaway accident. The retail price of milk in Ottawa was raised Wednesday to 7 cents per quart, the highest pries °barged, since 1895. City Engineer Galt, oe Ottawa, has ordered all the work on the city's streets to stop, on account of lack of funds. Miss Mary E. Easton of Kingston San been selected by the United States sacubtoolioir.ities to go to Cuba to teach C. P. R. traffic receipts for the week ending October 81 exceeded a million hdoisitlorans---y. the largest in the company's It is believed that tbe Western hotel fire in Montreal was caused byl rats igniting matches. The injured are doing well. Lloyd Co., of London, England, will esta.blish a large peper mill at Niagara Falls, Ont. About 2,000 men will be employed. Liquida,tore' of the Ville Marie 33ank, lelantreal, offer 4500 reward for the apprehension of J. J. Herbert, the miss- ing teller. For the four months ending Oct. 31st, the total trade at the port of Ot- tawa was $232,798, as against $178,172 for the same period last year. Three men have been arrested at Revelstoke, B. C., on suspicion of being concerned in the murder at Winnipeg of Jahn Gordon, two weeks ago. The Montreal Rolling Mills Co. has made overtures to the Town Council of Sydney, C. B., with a view to es- tablishing extensive works there. John Hayes, alias Alf. Quigley, has been arrested neer Fernie, B. C., charg- ed with the murder of his brother-in- law, Nelson Hagle, near Edmonton. Mayor Teetzel, of Hamilton, in a scheme of municipal reform, suggests electing aldermen for five years, pay- ing them and redwing their number. M. Menier, owner of Anticosti, has won his ejectment suit against the Fox Bay settler's. He has, however, offered to pay their cost e and give each an in- d'emnity. The e,mployes of the Carling Brew- ery at London have presented Sir John and Lady Carling with a solid silver service as a memento of their golden wedding. J. A. McMurtry; of Toronto, wbo is Canadian agent for a telephone patent, andrecently asked for a franchise in Toronto, has made a similar applica- tion in Montreal. Owing to tbe increased demand for Iran, The Hamilton Blast Furnace Co., has decided to rebuild and enlarge its furnaces, and ahoutp $50,000 will be spent on the work. When the fur.; maces were constructed they were of 150 tons daily capacity, but the de- mand was so small that they were bricked in so, as to reduce their cap- acity to 1000 tons a day. ( GREAT BRITAIN. ;Viscount Exmouth is dead in.Lon- don. The Kaiser is to arriee at Windsor Castle Nov.' 29. Four men were killed and twenty persons injured by a boiler explosion at Sheffield, Eng, on Wednesday. Baron Hylton, Headworth Hylton Jolyffe, formerly of the Coldstreaxn Guards, died Tuesday. He was born June 23, 1829, and he was created a Baron in 1866. )A.ccording to a Stock Exchange des.. patcla from Lahore, the British author- ities in Northern India are greatly die. quieted by the situation among the na- tives, The fanatical Mullah, Provind, is preaching rebellion to his co -reli- gionists, and it has been deemed nee ceseary to expedite the despatch of troops. The Montreal Customs received dur- ing the pastemonth the sunal of $803,- 333.45, being an. increase cal $154,510.44, as ()prepared. with the corresponding month of last year, The steamer Stratton,bound. inward, wee crushed in the ice in the Yukon River, at Selwyn' and. sank in a short time. 'The freight, including a large aniail, is re total loss, Mts. Olive Arleta Sternaturtn, who was ae,ntenced to be hanged in Cay- uga for the alleged. poisoning 'of her husband, was married in Niagara Fails Ont., to Frank Crentzbourg, of No. 22e Bird avenue, Butialo. The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company is anxious to increase its fleet between Toronto and Preseott, owing to the great increase of its traf- fic, and. has been negotiating lately with a (number of ehipbuilders for the construction of a fine, new steamer, but so far without success. Mr Collingwood Schreiber, Chief 2ngineer and Deputy, Minister of the Department of Itailwaye and Canals, after an bispection, says the Canadian Painfic Inailevay, from MI:nit/nal to, the Cent*, is hi splendid orden except; for a little rogglinees from the rainfall en the Prairies, • Excelleet work has heeni done On the CrOVV'e Ni)et 4400, Charles M, Allan, of Landon, la taking action against Polieeman Bob I ljuv Fiat ta non zlgool itf 1dt ga:utlgene:Or ilE°1.8014:sn: is elleged te 'Ave committed an proveleed assault; nPon Atlas), etriking n1 445241,ne :or twleep:ead, witli a 0.0 and an M - eting ineuries which incapacitated • UNITED SatATES. rignfor derslastie;euubemroorned, at wash- inBishop Neely, of the Pretestant Epis- owl aTsd,ljam,ni ifil.ce:Qnspe:e Dewey of e Maine,yist ios d=e4ardx. at t Pmorrts.: PiaZell, a wealthy society widow of Dwight Townsend, for years assoCi- ated- with ,Tohn W, Mackey, tbe mil- lionaire, is dead at New York, maAdeacmsPut esfbsiAue lal erleeapenrneeswith wi4rnIiPs bwre wireless telegraphy in the North River, • The seminary at Hackettstown, N.T. owned by • the IVIethodist-Episcopal church, has been destroyed by fire. Loss $300,000. The great broom -corn trust of Chicago has been incorporatecl as the Union 33toom Supply CoraPaner, with headquarters at Chicago. George Birchen), colored porker for Adams 'Express Company, New York, hais confessed to the tneft of $6,000 from tbe company's offices. Three men are known to have perish- ed and three others are reported miss- ing, as the result of the collapse of a six storey building, at 139 and 141 West Lake street, Chicago. Highwaymen held up R.B. Jennings, manager of the Broadway Cable Co., iii St. Louis, on. a street car, and, rob- bed him of $8,100, which he had drawn from the bank to pay wages. Levi R. Doty, at canitaust, of Chi- cago, president of the Northern Fuel Company and Lehigh Coal & Coke 14C11:10trilieYalfmrad:0.vvin: htEhaUgene Deegan and Brake- ifiiaebe Hat, iepetition u amounting nbgantko- man Warren Robinson were killed, and another train hand fatally injured, by the explosion of 'a loconaotive on the Lehigh line near Towanda, Pa.! yt Duffel° is alarmed over the rivalry promised the Erie canal by the St. Lawrence route, and the danger of divergence of the grain forwarding and efornerreattat city to Port Colborne dm Michael Flatal, the magician, known as "the bullet catcher," who was acci- dentally shot on Saturday night in New York, while giving an exhibition of catching a bullet in his mouth, is deed of his injuries. At Chicago Sigmund Breach and Emil Swart, who murdered Martin S. Moir last Tune, were sentenced to the Joliet Penitentiary for life. They were rob- helehiinsogkmetodhuettohold man, and put a potato in death. Gen. him' Asa result he Gen. Funston, of the 20th Kansas Regiment, has inetructed his solicitor to bring action against Archbishop Ire- land and the -Catholic Monitor, a pa- per . published in San Francisco, for libel, in charging Funs ton with permit- tingetre,htnien to loot Philippine h GENERAL. Herring are reported very plentiful at Newfoundland. A hurricane has caused great dam- age between Havana and Santiago. Bombay mills are running -half time ocrvionpnsg. to the failure of the ,cotton Germany may pay for the increase in naval expenditure by increased grain duties. Smallpox has broken out at Cape Town, brought there apparently by Transvaal refugees. . Prince Frederick Augustus, of Saxony fell from hie horse while hunt- ing- His skull was fractured. ' Two leading Chilian politicians, one a member cf. the Government, have fought a duel, and both were killed. Germany's enner postage stamps will bear a bust. iepresenting Germania in 'place at the present Imperial eagle. The leading newspapers df Germany express the opinion that the nation's interest in Samoa will be ceded to Britain. The /British will protect the Chinese (reformer, Yang Yu Wei, evho is thought to be on board the steamer Empress, ot India from Vancouver for Hong Kong. mma, Godard, who gave Dreyfus' wile. shelter at Rennes, has been made the victim of an outrageous attack by a man who claimed to be the secretary at the Rothschilds sent to buy her Rabah, the notorious native chief of the Central Soudan., has massacred the members. et a French! expedition. Ad- ministrator Bretonnet, Lieut. Braun, Sergi. Logis, and twenty-seven Sene- galese were killed. la reported that Captain iVlohun, former "United States Consul at Eanzi- bar, now commanding the Belgian Tanganyika -Congo telegraph expedi- lican has had a fierce battle with cannibals at elanguli. • Alfred Belt, the South African mil- lionaire, is in Berlin, pushing the con- struction of the telegraph line through German' East Africa, and also for the purpese ot providing a telegraph and railway connection with tile Ottawa copper mines in German Southwest Af- rice, owned by a Germanaenglish syn- dicate. PREPARATIONS CALLED OFF, Ayiloitgeeieell$ l'er the Seeeild Colelleeeet St411104.411` A despeteh from, Of. awa saye :-The preparations for a setond contingent, which were going oh quietly at the Militia Department, were all called off on Thursday ()Veiling. Telegra.ms were sent to Messrs. Satford, and Co., Remittal); Messrs. Workman and Co., Mentreel, and others, tellitig them' not te hurry with their Contract, as the uninorms, etc., evoald not be reqUired foe the present. No orders were given fen anything which will not be regairod by the 4uilitia ib Canada, IbillaTS QTR lifORIJD, Prices of flrato, Cattle, Cheese, 4/4 m the Le44ihie MarP• froroato, Nov. 14.--4bolAt eixtx4 Aoads of afferingS were reeeived a -the West - era eattle ,yardis this morning, includ- ing 1,04)0 lambs and sheep and1.500 hogs, ricen for cattle were nominally Ottaliged, but trade was dull, and there was a downward tendency f Or seeond- rate and inferno cattle. ExPort ta,ttle in poor dernand, and nonainellY (Opted at from 4 to 4. per pound. xi initcber cattle there w.a e. a slow Movement; the little good stuff • we had here sold readily at' front3 3.4 to to 4 54c, per pounda little more was paid for small selected lots, but theae were in no sense representative rates. The enquiry was slow, and prices weak, tor all ordinary to corneton stuff, it iseeported the receipts of cat- tle will not be large to -morrow, Fri, Stookers are a slow sale, and; quot- ea abone an per pawed Lor good. cat- tle. ' Feeders and bulls are unchanged. "Small steel" was en over supply to, day; iambs and snake ere bore weak- er, iambs being from 25 to e5c per own, dower. Mans are left over. Milk cows are scarce and dear; a few ioho-ce cows are wanted. Good veal calves are also wanted, at from 4¢5 to 0 eachif of the -right kind" Throughout the market prices were so unsettled that the general tend- ency was to wain and see what to- moreew may. bring toren. , Rog,s are unehanged. Choice hogs "singers" -scaling from 161) to 200 lbs., are selling at a.121-2nper owte and thin and eat hogs at $3..7.5. per -cwt. Stores are not wanted. l'ollowing is the range of current quotations : - Cantle. Shippees, per cwt. . 400 $450 Butcher, choose, do. . 375 • 425 Butcher, meet to good. 825 850 Butcher, inferior. . 300 325 Stockers, per cwt. . 225 3 12 1-2 ;Sheep and Lambs. Ewes, per ewe . • . 300 Lambs, per . 3 25 Bucks, per cwt. . . 200 Milkers snd Calves. Cows, each. . .. 2500 50 00 Leaves, each. . . 2 00 700 Hoge. Choice hone per cwt. . 460 412 1 - Light hone per cwt.. 000 375 Heavy .1:wan percwt. . 000 375 eioreato, Nov. 14. --Wheat -- Outside markets were quiet and. easy to -day. ln Chicago. December wheat broke be, low 68c. Local prices were unenang- ed, but the Market was dull. Red and white Oatairio sold, to millers at 65 to 66c, according to nearness to the Goose wheat. unotianged., 70c, middle treiguts, and. 69e, north and west. Manitobas easy tie 79e for No. 1 bard, g.i.t., and 78c, Toronto and west. Montreal, Nov. 14. -Special - The grain market continues quiet and easy. keeas ere in, a little better, de- mand. at 66 1-2e; barley is quoted at ,50c, for No. 1, 49e for No. 2, and 46c for teed baeley ; rye, 600; buckwheat, 35c; oats, 29c, all aeloat, Montreal, Mani- toba, No.1 hard wheae has declined, be- ing quoted, afloat, Fort William, at 67c, , ,Nov. 14. -Spring eviteat- Steady ; No. 1 Northern, old, spot, 74 3-8o; new spot, 72 3-8 to 72 5 -so; No. 2 Northern, spot, 69 5-8c. Winter wheat -Dull; eight demand; No. 1 white, nominally 70 1-25; No. 2 red, al 1-2c. Corn -Easier and dull; No. 2 yellow,. 39o; No. 0 yellow, 38 3-4c; No. 4 yellow, new, 35c; No. 2 corn, 380; No. 3 corn, 37 1-2e. Oats -Dull; barley steady No. 2 white, 29 1-2c; No. 3 white, 28 3-1;; No. 4 white, 28c;; No. 2 mixed„ 26 1-2c; No. 3 mixed, 26c. Rye -Dull and un- settled ; sales of No. 2 at 61 1-2c, on track. Canal freight -Wheat easier, shipments at 4c; corn 3 1-2c, barley a.1.-10: to New York. Cour-Easy. Chicago„ Nov. 14,-4Flaxseed-Clos- ed :-North-West, spot, $1.27 3-4; South- West-, 41.27 1-4; Deceanber, V1.27 1-4; May, eie.28; Duluth, to arrive, 41.24; cash,. 0.21; nTovember, §1.23 1,2; De- cember„ $1.22 1-4;; May, $1.26 1-4. No. 1 white, cash, 68 1 -de; No. 2 red Detroit, Nov. 14.--Wheat-Closed:- cash, 60c; 'December, 69 '7-8c; May, 75 1-8c. ; 30 360 250 MEN RUSHED TO THE WINDOWS littlest Another Fatal Fire in Montreal on Saturday. A despatch from Montreal says : - Bet fon the prompt:nests of the fire- men, there would probably have been ,another fatal fire in Montreal on Sat- urday afternoon. The firemen were called out about 4 o'clock by a blaze in Moline and Robertson's picture fram- ing establishment in Notre Dame street. The fire wars in the bazement among some shavings and other pack- ing material, but the smoke, ascending the elevator shaft, soon fined all of the flans and poured out of flee wan. dows in dence masses. The building filled with ;smoke eo.rapidly that some meta at work on the third flat were unable to make their way down the stains, and, had to rush to the windows for fresh eir, Before the firemen ar. rived quite a. crowd gathered, and a feeling" of horror prevailed when one of the men stepped oot of one of the windowa on to d etone cornice as if aloceet to jump. Many in the crowd shouted out to hold on, an the firennee were coming with the ladders. The wernitig had its effect. The man held on though hall euffoceted. It was not long before the ladders arrived, and a couple of airetnen har- rieclly escettded to help the workmen oe the third storey clown, Otte after another was heeded on to the lad- der and got to the gtound unaided. The lane will Sc. about $10,000. • yspepsuaaid thdigstiqn Common dise4ses, but bard t' • Clare ViTith ordinary rein.edien, yield readily to Marille Celery,Nerve Compound. w.11. auckhighm.396 King st. 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