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Exeter Times, 1902-2-13, Page 7THE MARKETS Prices or Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. Toronto, FebruarY Trade is quiet. Ontario 90 per cent. patents, in buyers' bags, $2,90 freighls. Straight rollers in wood, $3.35 to $8'.4tt. IVIanitoba floer- steady; Hungarian, $4e10 to $4.30 And atrong bakers' $8.80. To- tont° freights. Oatancal—Market unchanged. Car lots on track, $5,25 hi bags, and $5,40 in wood. Broken lots, s25c per lag extra, Man—Market, is firm at $10 to $19.50 outeide: Shorts nominal tet $22 outside. Manitoba bran. a20, and shorts, $22 Toronto freights, in - eluding seas. Wheat ---No. 1 Manitoba, hard, • 86c bid North law or Sarnia; it offered • at 71c in store Fort William, and at 75c Is W, May delivery. No. 8,Nor- thorn offered at 84c North Bay, with • 821e. bid; No, 2 Northern offered at 801e Sarnia, without bids, „Ontario red, 58 lbs, offered at 75c outside; 59 lbs, offered at 74sec Mount Albert and 60 lbs rod offered at 77e outside, without bids. No. 1 spriugoffered 74.c east, No. 2 goose offered at (38c, 14e freight, with 66e bid, ancl 7,000 bush offered at 69c low freights •with 68c bid. No. 1 feed wheat offered at 65e outside, 33arley-eNo. 2 offered at 56c east, on, either road, without bids. No, 3 ex- tra nominal at 50 to 510 middle freight. ( • Peas—No. 2 offered at 82c east, with 80c bid, and at 800 high freights, with 79c bid. No. 2 black eyes offered at 92c outside, 'without bids. Cats—No. 2, white offered et 41c 'high freight, while 400 was bid, • March shipment, A car of No. 2 white sold at 40.1c high freight. 'Five epee offered at 20ac high, and at 411c middle freight, while 40ac was • bid low freights. Corn—Demarid good; thxee ears of No. 2 yellow sold at 570 low freight to New York, and one car of No, 2 taixed sold at 56ac outside. Rye—No. 2 offered at 65e afloat Montreat, May, and at 58c low freight to New Yoek. A car sold at 55c middle freight. Buckwheat—No. 2 offered • at 54.c low freights, with 53ac bid, and at 58-1c on the C.P.R. without bids. It was wanted at, 53.1c middle freight. DAIRY MARICETS. Butter—The marlat -continues quiet, •With prices unchanged. We quote:- - 'Fresh, choice 1 -lb priats, 18 to 120;. citoite large rolls, tube amt. tins, 16 •to 17c; Roger. to mediums, 11 to 18,c; creamery priats, 21 to -22c; do solids • 20 to 21c. Eggs—The market is firm.. New laid quoted at 26 to 27c in case lots and limed 21 to 22c. Cheese—The market is quiet. Prime qualities,101 tall a HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Dressed hogs dull, with few offer- ing. Ifeavy, in car lots, quoted at . $7.50, and light at $7.70 to $7.75. .log products steady.. We quote:— Bacon, long clears, sells at 10a to ' 101c, in ton and case lots. Mess' poat, $20.50 to- $21; do short cut, $21.50 to $22. . Snioked Meats—Etams, -18 to 134c; breakfast bacon, lle; rolls, 11. to itlec; backs, lac, and shoulders 10a to 11c. Lard—The Market is unchanged. We quote:—Tierces 110; tubs, 13.+c; pails, nee to llec. Standard corn - pound, • 9ac; s204b pails, 10c; Fear - man's compound, 60 -Ib tubs, 9c. . UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Feb. 11.—Fibur—Quiet and • enly steady. • Wheat—Spring calla No. 1 Northern, 82e; winter no of- ferings. Corn—Dull; No, 2 yellow, • 651c; No. 3 do, • 65e; No. 2 corn, 641e; No. 3 do, 631e. Oats—Dull; • No. 2 white, 49e; No. 8 do, 4Bac; •No. 2 mixed, 46e; No. 8 do, 46c. Barley—Spot, 67 to 71c. Rye—No •te•tteelogs. ' .• 97aledo, Feb. 1:1.—Wheat—Dull. lat- er.; cash, 87c; May, 861-c; July, 86 -Se. Ooan—Dull„ lowers February. 60c; May, 631c; July, 63e. Oats—Feb- euary, 46c; May, 4.4; • July 891c. • Cloverseecaansebruary, $5,7731c; March $5.80. 'Milwaukee, Feb. 11.—Wheat—Low- er; closed, No. 1 Northern, 751. to 76c; No. 2 Northern, 7531 to 760; 771e. Rye—Lower; No, 1, 601c. Barley—Steady; No, 2. 681 f,o 64c; sample, 55 to 621c. Cgrn— fifay, 631a. • Duluth, Feb . 11.—Close—Wheat-- Casb, No. 1 hard,'760e; No. 1 Nor- thern, 77tc; May, 75ac to 76c; July, 76Sc. Oats -40c, Corn -611c. • , exertE MARKET. Toronto, Feb. 11.—The receipts at • Weetern cattle yards to -day were 88 toe,ds of -live stock, comprising -740 • cattle, 188 sheep and Iambs, 100 brags, 10 calves, and a few milkers. There was. an all round active de- mand, and- everything was sold out early, Prices were strong, 'but prae- titelly unchaliged, thoegh owing to the light xtin choice tote had a ten- dency to advance. whieh gave an ap- pew-arras of higher prices./ There was an active demand for exe • port eattle at Tram 5 to '51e per lb • Cor choice; and a fraction more was • paid' in a few instances. Light stuff is worth front 41 to -4,1c per lb. Prices of all butcher cattle were •etrong, and for prime stuff a shade over the price of last Tuesday, but all round figures were tinchangetlaut stronger. • Feeders and stockers were steady and in good demand. Sheep are firm and wanted at from a to 81c per lb, Lambs are Wanted, and were strong to -day with a, tendency to advance; a few choice Jambe did sell at 50 per tb. Good inlich C'eses are Wanted -up Lo 0,beet, $50, There is s. sloady 'demand for good to choice veal calves at a thing up to $10 eaeli, Hogs are unehangect. Choice hogs to -day sold at $6 per •cwt.; light hogs and fat hogs at $5.75 per cwt. 'togs to fetch the top price must be of Prime quality, ancl scale not be- low 160 nor above 200 lbs. Following is the range of quota- tions:— Cattle. Shippers, per cwt.,. —$4.50 Do., light... .... 4..25 Butcher, choice— e. 4.00 Butcher, ord. to good. 3.25 Butcher, inferior... ..... . 2.75 Stockers, per cwt... 8.00 • Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per cwt... 3.00 Lambs, per cwt... . . ... 4.00 Bucks, per cwt 2.00 Milkers and Calves. Cows, eacb.... . . . .. —80.00 Calves, eactta. ,.. 2.00 Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt... 0.00 6.00 Light hogs, per cw L... 5.75 • 5.75 Heavy hogs, per cwt... 5.75 5.75 Sows, per cwt 3.50 1.00 Stags, per cwt 0.00- 2,00 $5.50 4.50 4.50 8.75 3.25 8.50 .31 3.50 5.00 2.50 45.00 10,00 • BRITAIN JUSTIFIED: Count Aldebert Sternberg Has Had His Eyes Opened. • Tap •London Times prints a letter from Count Aldebert Sternberg, who took, part in the Boer campaign, and who declares the treatment he has received from the British press and official and non -official Eaglishmen leaves him no accuse to be an Anglo-' phobe. Sternberg says, while England is hated, the Englishman is respected and loved. Hatred always arises from a sense of moral and mental •in- jury, and to this .extent the Con- tinent has a right to hate England, because her policy is at all times di- rected to promoting Continental complications. The Continent does not understand the Beer war, and attacks England's political morality because it misunderstands the politi- cal principle which England repre- sents, the principle fn which is Eng- land's greatness. :He says that the English recognize only two factors in the world, namely, God and Eng- land. ' ' '• The economic advantage to be de- rived from the gold fields, says Sternberg, was merely a contribut- oryaeause of the South African war. Tbe real. ca,use making action im- perative was the English principle, the essence of which is free trade and. straightforward competition. On the Continent this feeling is not ender - stood, because the Continent does net enjoy the blessings of- civiliza- tion and Government based on the word "straightaa, Sternberg says he always thought England ,was the -mealy of the Continent until he. vis- ited the UnitedStatesand studied economic conditionn-there.. He now believes that Continental hatred .of England is ungrateful, and the Con- tinent ought toawake and recognize that its true enemy is arising in the West, like a great sun, of gold, whose rays have already—been projected across the Atlantic. America's only principle, ae sem isworship of mammon. Germany and all Europe should join with England. • DEATH'S HARVEST. I3ritish Losses in South Africa, Over 700 in January. A London despatch says :—The War Office return of casualties in South Africa for the month of Janu- ary, published on Thursday, is un- usually heavy. Four officers and 82 men were killed in action, 5 officers and 62 men died of wounds, 10 offi- cers and 526 men died of disease, 21 men were reported missing, and 67 officers and 1, 937 men have been invalided home. ...Up to January 31 the total reduc- tion of the torces, from deatb to per- manent disability, was 25,805 men. The total of the casualties, including surviving wounded, was 5,240 offi- cers and 100,701 men. FATTENING CHICKENS. New a3rurisSeick to...Esta:blish• Sta- tions. • ••• , An Ottawa. despatch says :—F. C. Hare, poultry expert of the Depart, - Ment of Agriculture, has returned from his tour in the Marithne 'Pro- vinces, -where he a.ddressed • fifteen in.eetings in three weeks: As an out- come of his visit it is likely that the New Brunswick Governnaent wilt ar- range to establish a fattening sta- tion in every county of the province. A hatching station is to be estab- lished at Rogersville right away. ,SCARLET FEVER REMEDY. Serum. Acquired by Blood -Letting of Convalescents. A Vienna despatch says:—The fol- lowing details concerning the discov- ery of • scarlet over serum -have been communicated by Prof. Leyden of Berlin: Ho proceeded on the theory that people who had once got over the sickness became partial's/ imraune. Obviously, therefore, some protective matter developed in the blood. The seruat is acquired by painless blood -lotting of scarlet fev- er convalescents a 'few days atter tho abatement. of the fever. It at ap- plied by injecting a small dose:ef the serumr , So fa, an the case treated. with .the new remedy' ha,ve taken a favorable course•. MISCHIEVOUS MISSIONAWY. Sentencea to jail -for Fomenting Disaffectioas A Clarnarvoti, Cape Colony, 'des- patch says:—The Rev. Strernmer, a Rhenish missionary, was seatenced to 30 days imprisonment for using lan- guage with. the intention of raising or fomenting disaffection among his Majesty's Subjeebe. • • The iteetised refused to give evidence under oath, but denied the truth of the statements of a acetate 'Crown seillieast .TIII.E 011:1‘..A1110 LE..GIPTURE, WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE DO' INGAT Toltorro. NEW MEMBER PRESENTED. In the Legislature the first order of the day 'ivae the iatroduction. of Mr. E. J. P. Pertse; the new member for Kingston, who was preseeted, to Mr, Speaker by Hon. G, W. Ross and Non. Richard Harcourt. Mr. Pease 'took the seat in the first row hith- erto occupied by Mr. Caldwell (North Lanark), who moved to the seat va- cated by Mr, Harty, Kingston'e for- mer member, a - PRINTING BUREAU PROPOSED. The most radical measure of the session wat One which Par. Iris (South 'Waterloo) introduced. The bill ('No. .1.80) provides for a Gov- ernment' printing bereccu, in which the public, statutes, school books, 'copy books, and text -books required in the Public Schools, High Schools and Universities of the Province shall .be,printed. MUNICIPAL ACT. Mr. Brown se -North Perth) introduc- ed. two amendments to the Municleal Act. The first (bill No. 185) pro- vides that gasolina be. added to the list of explosives, of which, under the existing Act, the municipality has a right to control the sale and maxiu- feature. The second (bill No. 13(3) amends the law eaabling municipali- ties' to take over highways, to per- mit a municipality to specify which bridges to which a bylaw taking over a road. shall not apply. WELLA.ND NATURAL GAS. . Da. Pyne (East Toronto) enquired efts follows: • — Has the GoVernment anyecontrol - in disposing of natural gas produced in the County of Welland? Is the gas being now exported from. Welland to the United States? The Attorney -General replied.— “The Government has no control over the disposition of natural gas produced in the County of Welland. Tim • exportation of the same ib a matter of Dominion jurisdiction. Gas is now being exported. from Welland to tho United States, and licenses of ocettpation have been granted by the Province under which pipes may be laid across -the Niagara River.” . ASSIGNMENTS. Mr. Joynt (Grenville) moyed the secorid reading of a bill to amend the Act relating to assignments which aimed to reduce the expenses of li- quidating small estates. The Atter- aey-General and the Provincial Sec- retary held that there was no de - mead for .a, change. in • the present' Act. Mr. Joynt stated that in small estates the. whole pet wont to.. the assignees, the lawyers, and inspec- tors. • -The .order - was finally dis- charged. .•VOTERS' LIST ACT. Mr. MeDiarmid (West Elgin) mov- ed the second reading of his bill to amend the Voters' List Act by print- ing on the voters' -lists the date of the licit day for appeals. On the suggestion of the Attorney -General it was sent to the Legal. Committee. • THE BARBERRY SHRUB. Mr. Little again raised the matter of the barberry shrub, stating that its -injuriousness to wheat was SIONV well recognized. With the consent of Hon. Mr. Dryden it will be put in. a form- to came before the Standing Committee on Agriculture. • NORTH WATERLOO.. Mr. Whitney asked: if Mr. Alexand- er Mercier, returning officer for North Waterlooe election on. Oct. 301h. 1900 was appointed by order -in -council; if not, by whose direction and author- ity was his mune inserted in the writ of election?' 'I'he Attorney -General replied that the statute did not require returning officers to be appointed by order -in - council. He was appointed by the Lieutenant -Governor upon the recom- mendation of his advisers. If the sheriff or registrar was dead or had resigned or been removed, and no succescior had been appointed, ,the writ of election should be addressed •to such other person as the Lieutan- • ant -Governor might appoint to be the returning Olken There was no' sheriff or registrar in Nartn Waterloo 0 the .date and Mr. Alexander Mer- rier, who was acting registrar at the time, was appointed -returning officer. VOTES TO RAILWAYS. • The return ordered on the motion' of Mr. Joynt (Grenville) of the votes to railways, and the amounts paid • thereon in theyears from 1898 to 1901, inelusive, was laid on the table. 'The payments were as fol- lows :-1898—Montreal 'and Ottawa Railway, $10,000; -Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, $9,990 ; Central Counties, $147.38.. 1899 --Central Counties Railway, $10,000; Tilsonburg, Lake Erie and Pacific, $6,524; Pembroke, Southern Railway, $55,500. 1900—Contra1 Comities Railway, $26,150; Central Ontario Railway, $30,000; Ontario and Rainy ltiver Railway, $160,000. 1901—Ottawa , and New York (In- ternational 13ridge), $35,000; Cen- tral Ontario Railway, $33,000; In- terprovincial bridge at Ottawa, $50,000; Ontario • and Rainy River Railway, $340,000. • The Pio-Sandia Secretary brought dawn the return ordered on motion of Mr. Barr, as to indigent and in- sane poisons. confined in the jails of the provinceit showed that the total wes 111.. ACQUISITION OF PARICS, Mr. Lumsden (Ottawa) introduced a bill (No. 136) to amend the Public Parks Act, the object of which was to rostra% the acquisition of park lands by tho Parks Board without the consent of the Municipal Coun- cil, a,nd to peovide that on receiving a petition signed by five hundred eleetors In the case of a city,two hundred at tee case of a town or township, and seventy-five la the Case of a village, the Council may 'decide the Parks Act as no longer in force. The by-iteW is to reeeive the assent of the electors before it Is linaLIy passe sl and if it ,is assented to, the central, of the parks is to peas from the Board. of Parks* man- agement to the. Council. • MR. P1UIsTom.4 BILL. Mr. Preston (South, Brant) moved the second reading of the bill to 'ameiad the A.et respeeting Councils of Cenciliation. and Arbitration. He said his bill had the approval oil the Exeeutive or thc Domiaion Trades and. Labor Council. Waatever the feasibility of oompulsory arbitration in New Zealand—and there was some dispute as- to the measere of its sue - (ass there—there was no likelihood that that Mailed of settling Indus- trial troubles • Would become gen- eral. The °bled of his bill was to provide a speedy Means of reaching conciliatioa ; that the registrar or the secretary of 'the Bureau of Labor of the province ehould be empowered at the request of the Mayor or 'Reeve of any municipality in waich strike or lack -out has. occured, or at the request of any five of the employees, or of the employer inter- ested, to proceed at once to the scene of. the difficulty and offer his services; He thought this would make the Act more workable. There was an additional clause, which em- powered the registrar to Seek to promote the format -len of 'Boards of Conciliation and Arbitration be- tween employers and employed throughout the Province. That me- thod of scatting disputes had long prevailed in Great Britain with sat- isfactory results. The bill was given a seeend read- ing and went to committee. SECOND. READINGS. Second readings were given Mr. Marter's to amend the Voters' List Act, by allowing names on the list, even though the final revision of the roll was not completed '; Dr. 13arins• bill to amend the Trustee Act, by allowing circuit judges to pass guardianship , accounts; Mr. Bachardeon's bill, providing for the separation of farm- lands from towns and villages; and Smith's 'bill to enable municipalities to fix aerate of assessment for a terra not exceeding five years on farm lands in Owns and villages, DE WET ESCAPED. 300 of His IVIen. Killed, Wounded and. Prisoners. A. London despatch says:—From Wolve Hoek Lord Kitchener on Sen - day • telegraphed a long descriptiun of a combined movement of numerous British • colleens with the object of securing General De. Wet. Lord Kitchener says the a,dvaace began the night of Feb. 5, the whole force moving from varioun directiOne and forming a continuous line of mounted inen on the west bank of 'thaLiobenberg's vlei from Frankfort as far south as Fanny's Home, and thence- to Kaffir kap. The line thee advanced tothe west, and the fol- lowing rrig•ht• the • British entrenched with their outposts 50 yards apart. They held the line from Pointed on the Heilbron-Frankfort blockhouse line to Doorn kloof, on the Kroon- ste.dt-Lindley blockhouse line, while the columns were also working in ad- vance of the blockhouse Hiles to pre- vent De 'Wet's crossing. The ad - Vance was continued Feb. 6, and De Wet was within tho enclosure. but, realizing his position, he ordered. his men to disperse and seek safety Sur- ing the night. De Wet himself, with some men end a, number of cattle, made for the ICroonstadt-Litalley blockhouse line, and at one otelbck in the • morning. when it was very dark, by rushing his cattle at the fence, broke his way through the line, mixed up with the cattle, and losing three men killed. Many attempts were • made to break through the line en the night of February 7, reports Lord Kitch- ener, the line, of the outposts befit; attacked at various plitees through- out the. night. But very few escaped, and ten (lead Boers were picked up in the morning - near Heilbron. "1 .did not get exact details of the Boer casualties.," continues Lord Kitchener, "but as far as I have as- certained they consist of 283 in kil- led, wounded and prisoners, as well as; about 7,00 tired horses and 'a flam- bee of eattle. , • • . "Our casualties were only ten." FAMILY WIPED OUT. Gas Explosion in Chicago Wrecks Building. . A Chicago despatch says:—By an explosion of illuminating gas itt the basement of a two-storey frame building at 376 Twenty-second Street on Wednesday evening, a number of people, the total said to be eleven, lost their lives, and the building was blown into kindling wood. The flames from the gas main reached the Trestle butcher shop. The building was a three-storey frame structure, and it had been weakened and neatly wrecked by the shock. It is supposed that the occu- pants of the building•were knocked unconscious or were too panic -eta -tok- en to rush from the place. The building collapsed and the occupants, With one exception„ were carried With it to the basement. • Many per - soap in the building e near the explo- sions were knocked down. There were six children fa the Tres- tle faintly, and there is littleadoubt that all the' eight members of tho family were killed. REVENUE FOR JANUARY. .Satolve Iricrease of $789,000—Ex- penditure $240,000. • An Ottawa despatch says:—The re- venue for January shows an increase of $789,- 000, and the expenditure of $240,- 000. The eapital expenditure in- creased by $83,000, For the seven menthe the revenue amounts to .$82,- 545,436, With alt expenditure ot 326,- 272,158, The eapital expenditere was $7,515,851, greater by ,$1,856,- 602 lima the correspoading period laat yealt DISASTROUS FIRE PatOriaea, Staere, to Exttent ef Ip10,000,000. A Paterson,' N.J., despatch Sitys -sA. groat ,fire swept through Pater - sou on Sunday, and destroyed • pro- perty valued at $1D,00.0,000, It aureed ita way through the ausieeee section of the city, lend dee/0110W a majority Of the finer structures de- voted to coniesercials civic, Qthica- tion4 audteligieue eat as well as scores of other houses. There was but small tributeof life and injury to the conflagration, hut inalcirecle Were left' homeleee, and thousands without emploarnent. A relief move- ment for the care of those unshelter- ed andunprovided for has already been organized; The groat inanu- factering plants of the place are mite, and the. community .bas al- ready'-eomaieuced the work Of reor- ganization and restoration. The fire caress at midnight, mid Was only checked after a desperate fight that lasted until late Sunday afters noon. Every oiler and town within reaca of Potereon sent firemen and apparatus to tbe relief of the threat- ened city. A. northerly gale gave the conflagration an edditional impetus. BUILDINGS DESTROYED. A partial list of the properties destroyed is an follows ' Public buildinge—City Hall, Public Library, old City Hall, Police sta- tion, No, 1 ergine -house, patrol stables, High school., and school No. 'Cleurehee—First Ba• ptist, -Second Presbyterian, Park Aveaue 13aptist, St, Mark's Episcopal, and St, Jos- eph's n °Intim Catholic. Banks—First Nationai, S.ceond Na- tional (partially), Paterson Nation- al, Silk City Trust, Hamilton Trust, and Paterson Trust. • Club-houses—Y.14.0.A., Knights of Columbus, Progress Club, ate . os- eph's Hall, and Haunt tore 01 ub Office buil aings-11 mains liu tiding . Katz Building,. Marshall and Balls. Cohn Building, Old Town clock, Old Kinne Building, and Stevenson BuiTllidelailtg. x:e—alio Garden. Newspapers—The Evening News and Sunday Chronicle: Twenty-five stores were destroyed. and an estimate made from a Pelle eral inspection • of the smouldering rules place the number of dwellings and apartment houses destroyed at 500, and the 'families left without shelter at 1,000: 6 *BURGHERS FIGHT HARD. But the Scottish Charged Right .• Home. A Pretoria despatch says:—On Sun- day, under coi:cr 01 darkness and during a heavy rainstorm. the Boers attacked a bleckhoese on the Frenka fort Road, but were repulsed. Their object seems to have been the cap- ture of tea supply wagonswhich were resting at • Blackman,. The Boers have made etteenits to cross the line of blockbouses every eight lately. . They. wand causing an alarm by pulling up the posts and flattening the fence instead of cut- ting the wires. Another censiderable British suc- cess is reported on Wednesday night. Major Loader, of the Fifth Dragoon Guards, went out with mounted troops from' the columns oi Cols' Kekewich and Ilickie wita the object of attacking Gen. Delarey's force, which was said to be near Meats= done On the way a ITher pictot was surprised, and Major Leader, on. learning from the prisoner that De- larey had moved his force, but that Saael _Alberts' commarde was at Victory, changed his plans and went to the latter place. Alberts' .1aager Was taken completely by surprise be- fore dawn. Under the fire ef a pone- pom the Boer?' horses stampeded. The burghers put sup a smart; fight, but failed to withstand the charge of the mounted men, particularly the Scottisa Itorse, who charged gal- lantly right ho.me. The result was seven Boers killed, and 131, includ- ing .Conunandarit Aiborte. made pris- oners. The British loss was only a few wounded. It has been decided -to' deport Gen. 139n. Viljoen,• the Boer commander who was captured about ton days ago. • • JUSTICE LISTER DEAD, Long -Standing Trou.ble Brings on Heart Collapse. A Toronto despatch says:—Hon. Mr. Jastice Lister, of the Court of Appeal died very suddenly at his res- idence, lea Wanner Road, shortly af- ter 3 o'clock on Sunday morning. His Lordship was at his chambers in Osgoode hall, until after 5 O'clock on Saturday evening and was in such good spirits that after leaving the hall he went for a long walk with a friend. Atter dinner he suf- fered from indigestion, but seen gained relief, and was apparently in him -usual health when he retired for the night. About 3 o'clock in the morning his Lordship was attacked with vomiting and expired shortly afterwards. For some Ville 'past his heart had been in a feeble condition, and his (Leath -was due to collapse of that organ. In appearance Mr. Justice Lister was a, rugged, heerty man, but the tireless energy which characterized -him throughout hislife eventually undermined his strength and foetid .hixa when he received his appoint- ment • to the Court of Appeal ozi June 22nd, 1808, with what is axiedi- na4Y termed o. st'anding weak heart.: ' 4 . PRODUCE TO SOUTH AFRICA Canada Has Shipped Goode 'Val - „tied $5,500,000, Au Ottawa despatch saysi—Since the Department ot Agriculture com- menced shipping to South Africa in December, 1.899, Canada bas sent goods to the value of over $5,500,- 000. The amount of produce ship- ped has been as follows:— Hay, 141,- 852. tons; flame 54,284 bap; beef 40,776 cases; jams, 11,748 eases; oats, 99,515 bags. NEWS IT Telegrapnic Brierorn Al Over the Globe, CANADA Rat Portage residents want 'to call their teem Leeenora. A military engineering corps Is to be organized at Ottawa. Mr. Henry MacAulay, formerly of Lindsay, has been, elected Mayor of Daweon. So far $20,000 has been subscribed for the Grant convocation hall • at Enegston. Fez illegally selling -a O.P.R. tick- et P. J, Murray, it Montreal hotel - proprietor was fined $20. Winnipeg will ask the Legislature for power to raise by by-law $30,- 000 for a site for the Andrew Car- negie library. The Hamilton Police Commission- ers have decided to adhere to the 60 -year age limit, and Policeraan Fenton, will be retired. Mrs. "afammy” Goodman, a resi- dent of the Hamilton House. of In-- dust/ars has just recovered from an illness at the age of 110. • Halifax leads all Atlantic ports in the shipment of apples to Europe this season. The price now ruling is $5 it barrel for first-class fruit, an unusually high figure, The Children's Aid Society of Brantford are discussing the advisa- bility of appointing a special agent to look after neglected children in that city and find them foster-aomes. Tile rim of a blue -jacket's cap arid a bit of board bearing tho letters “Con" bave been picked up on the beach near Victoria, 13.0., and they are supposed to be from the wrecked Condor. • GREAT BRITAIN. England lies been swindled out of £8,000,000 by the army remount frauds. The Daeased Wife's Sister Bill has passed itsu second • reading in the British Coxnmons. Four electric unclergiound- railways are fighting for, the tunnel west of Piccadilly Cireus, London. At the auction sale of the King's Shire horse stud at Sandringham 45 horses brought an average of $960, At Birmingham, England, while singing "Dolly Gray" ou the stage. Mi'ss Gracie Ifowley, an actress, fell across the footlights...and died. A new explosive, not only 'smoke- less but flamelesse is to be introduc- ed into the British army and navy under the. namo of ."Cordite M. D." Fire at Denanead,, anuntahire, has destroyed Thomas .Bucbatian's air ship,' which was built to rival the air ship of M. Santos -Dumont. British ship -owners believe that if the subsidy bill now in the U. S. Congress becoinee •.alaw it will prove it severe bloat to British ship- ping. William Waidorte Astor has placed at the disposal of the National Rifle Association. $50,000 for the estab- lishment of rifle clubs in villages and country towns. • General Booth, the Salvation Army leader, has (Added to inaugur- ate a. special campaign against drunkenness, and to this end will compile a directory of drunkards in each district in order that they may be followed to their homes and re- formed there. UNITED STATES. Passenger rates to ,England this summer will be advanced. Mrs. Evilsizer suicided in Hart- ford City, Ind., aged 100. Miss Alice Roosevelt has her fa- ther's consent to attend the King's coronation. For the first time 'Manitoba wheat has been listed on the Duluth Grain Exchange. . Ala the employes ijfl the Chicago General postofficewere vaccinat- ed to -day. A. bill prohibi I ing .the . manufacture and sale of cigarettes is before the New York Legislature. John S. Ovski, a Slav- ',miner, of Cadiz, Ohio, murdered 1\4 wir9 by severing her head with an axe. In it suburb of Philadelphia two aged persons died of cold and star- vation, and two others baearne in- sane. with= 13. Cogswell, of Syracuse. N.Y., has given $1.00,000 cash to the new Hospital of the Good .S.-faiepherd here. An international police convention will be held at Louisville, May 7th to take decisive action against the anarchists. The construction of up-to-date highways that will conneetevery city of New York State is proposed, at a cost of 320,000,000. A tax code bill to ensure listing of all personal prof/Gay nt ith full cash value under oath is iu the 'Min nesota Legislature. At an auction sale in the Union Stock Yards ire Chicago on Wednes- day the Aberdeen -Angus bull Prince Ito sold for the record Race of $9,- „100, The Woman'Aid Hobe itt Mane chaster, N.H., has been gtyen $100,- 000 -by the children of the late gage Motes Blood, the richest Woman in the State; Wealth aggregating $500,00.0,000 was represented at a banquet given by P. A. 'Widner cif Philadelphia to thirty -Mx gentlemen in lienoe oI J: Pierpont Morgan. • Whulo handliug hi a chickens, a, game coa showed fight. and struck E. M. Hinely, of Mint Ifill; :fate .with ite spur ; blood poison oilseed, and :IiinelY is dead. On account of a. falling off be creme travel and traffic, the Eldetalimapes tor Litie hag stopped its Bristol - Portland sernice, and will take its boate beck Moetreal, The monthly tateuint oi the tht. Red States debt Shosta that at the close of butartese, jewelry fal, the debt, less Cash itt the lreaser,a, 031101nd/eV to $1,005,926,808, a de' creaee for the morals Of $5,701,388, T. 11, Percelield, it poor, honest, •hard. working drayamn of Cantrifon, Iowa, has been identitied tit; the, graridson end third heir of William Forestial, Who diea in Missouri and. left it $22,000 eorteno, John Smith, locked lit e Healed freight ear at San. Franc:ism arriv- ed. at Indianapolis after a. fest lest - iv eight, days and With both feet se badly frozen that ateputation will ee necessary. Senator Platt introduced it reeolue tion into the United States Senate, on Thursday, for the appointment of it joint COMMiSS LOU by United States and Canada to report upon the Wa- ter's of the boundary lakee, and bow their levels are affected by canals and ether projects. • GENERAL. Prance admits petroleum free duty. Ninety-four insurgent prisoners ia Fort Boca Calm, at • Cartagena, killed 17 guarels and eseaped. New South Wales is appointing three special represeatatives to fore ward its commercial interests in Lon.dan, Japan a,nd South Africa,. bilge syndicate is being formed in Paris to exploit the gold fields of the Ivory Coast, which reports say are richer than the Transvaal Rand. The famous library of the Margate de Jerez, Madrid, consisting of two thousaad volumes, including the first edition of Don. Quixote, has been sold to an American for A4.0,000. CAPTURED THREE GUNS. Last of De Wet's Ca11.110nt 111 Brit- • ish Hands. A Loudon despatch says:—The 13rit- ish pursuit of General De Wet has been successful to the extent that his 'last gun has been captured, and Commandant Wessels, one of his principal lieutenants, has been rout- ed, Lord Kitchener- sent the news itt a. despatch from. Pretoria. dated Tuesday, as follows:— "Byng's column, while procee.ding 'toward Liebenberg Vlei, after a night march, attacked and routed a' con- siderable force of the enemy under Cbnaman,dant Wessels. We captured a fifteen -pounder and a pom-pom taken from Firman's column, and al- so a Boer pom-pom that was the last gun De Wet had, and three wag- ons of ammunition, 150 horses, 'and 100 mules. The Boor casualties were five men killed, six wounded and twenty-seven men captured. "Among the killed was F.ieldeCore net Wessels. Among the prisoners is Captain Muller, *02 the Staats Artil- lery. The enemy was scattered. Our casualties were slight. "The National Scouts near Middle- burg, Cape Colony, captured, Usti': teen prisoners. "Plumer, near Amersfoot (Trans- vaal) captured seven prisoners and 500 hea.d of cattle. "General Gilbert Hamilton captur- ed thirty-two prisoners." TO FUMIGATE LUMBERMEN. Ottawa Will Take Precautions Against Smallpox. An Ottaiwa, despatch says :—Ffealth Officer Law is considering the advisa- bility of fumigating all lumberm.ein and their effects as soon as they ax - rive in Ottawa- It is expected that considerable disease, especially smallpox, may possibly be brought down from the woods when the men. come down in the spring, and hi” order that every precaution may be taken, Dr. Law thinks it would be advisable to have every man quar- antined for a sufficient time to have hint and his effects thoroughly dis- anfected. Dr. Hodgetts, provincial inspectors was asked what he thought of this scheme, and said he thoroughly ap- proved of itajle is of . the opinion that there may be cousidera,ble clan, ger' when the woodsmen come out, and that all precautions should be taken. The inspeetor left for tha. limber camps along the Parry Sound Railway on .Thursday afternoon. Pa has done very good work in Russell County in organizing the Boards of Health. R,EBATE OF DUTIESg Strengthening the Hands, of Brite ish Ministers. • A London despatch says :—The Australian Ministers clearly moan business , at the coronatioa. ence regarding trade. • Wise,. the Ate torney-General of New South Wales, suggests an Australian rebate of Customs duties on ail goods, British and foreign, imported in British bola tome, the idea of including foreign goods beteg to avoid contravention of the most favored nation clause. Premier Barton approves Premier Seddon is willieg to give it Customs rebate to British but not to foreign. goods, imported into New Zealand in British bottoms. It is thought these •early colonial advances are made in the hope of strengthening that sees tion of the British Cabinet which would welcome seam British recipros city with the Colonies as part of 'the forthcoming :aritish. budget. In the budget matter, however, Sir Michael Hicks -Beach has hithertobeen sus; , pretac, and he always floated the 'proferentia1_4_4_idea. CANADA SUPPLIED 11,364. Nearly Half a lVfillion Ilersee Pure ,4 • ehaseds A London despatch says:a-The War Secreteu-y, lirodrick, said. that the number of horses • purchaeed during the War totalled 4.46,088, of whirls 77,101 came from the taited and 11,861 trout Canada, in addi- tion, about 89,705 horses had beea conured la South Atrial,.