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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1902-4-10, Page 6IRE MARKETS PriCes of Grain Cattle etc in Trade Centres. Toronto, April a.--Wheat-No. 1 Manitoba, hard offered at 85e en /out° North Bay, and No. 1 North- ern. tit 811c exi route N.B., with 81e foid. Ontario No. 2 red winter of- fered at 711e middle freights G.T.R. No. 2 White at 72e east G.T.R., .No. 2 mixed at 71.1c on Midland, and No goose at 66e middle freights on either road, without bids. Liarley-No. 3 offered tit. 49e out- side, without bide. Peas -No, 2 offered tit 80c outside, without bids. Oats -No. 2 white offered tit 41c outside. at 401•O east, .naul at 43c on track Toronto, without bids. No. 3 white offered at 42e on track To- ronto, and at 800 high freights Paci- fic. No 2, mixed, 421e bid on tract Toronto. Corn -No. 2 yellow, 56c bid west, and No. 2 mixed 551c bid without sellers. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Dried Apples -The market is dull, and prices are nominal at 51 to 510. Evaporated, 10 to 101e. Hops -Business quiet, with prices steady at 130; yearlings at 13c.a Honey -The market, is dull at to 100 for strained; combs, $1.15 to $2.25 per dozea. Maple Syrup -There is a fair trade. We quote :-Pure (new 'make), impe- rial gallons, $1.05 to $1,15; old, as to quality, 65c to $1.. Sugar, 8 to -10c. •. Beans -The nutrket is quiet. 'Prices $1.20 to $1.80 per bush, as to quality. Hand-picked, $1.35• to $1.40. . • Cranberries - Market unchanged, with stocks small. Cape Cod, $9.50 to $10 per barrel. tusions‘ Many of the victims re - Onions -Market steady at $2.60 to ceiv°4 ghastly face wounds. Most of those who fell were Yeung ar- Hay, baled -The market s quiet, $3 per barrel. tisans. Further deaths are expected.' i A doctor in an interview said there with fair demand. Timothy quoted at $19.50 on track, Toronto, for No. was an extraordinary scene of .cern- 1, and at $9 to $9.25 for No. 2. age. The injured were nearly all Straw -The market is quiet. Car lots on track quoted at $5.75 to $6. .Poultry -Supplies are small, and prices firm. We. quote :-Fresh killed turkeys, 18 to 14.0 per M; chickens, 70c to $1. Ducks, 75c to $1. Potatoes -Market is unchanged. Car lots are quoted at 55 to 570 .on track, and small lots out of store sell at 65 to 70c. , THE DAIRY MARICETS. • 21 PEOPLE KILLED, Terrible ..Accident at a GlitSgeW Football Gaine. . . A .Glasgow deepatch Saya f -Au appalling •accident occurred at the in- ternational football game at lbroX Park on Stiturdey. afternoon. Eighty' thcins-and persons assembled to wit- nessa game- between Scottish and .piayers. The authorities imagined that every Precaution. had bee» taken 'for the safety of the. public. but withal: 'warning the 25 yaeds .stand, eontaiiiing a dozea tiers of seats collapsed, and the structure' Was precipitated • - thirty feet, falling iu a heap of tangled - timbers andiroawurk, in width him - &ads of perSona were struggling. for; their lives. The collapse was hidden from a majority of the -spectittore, whowere intent upon the -game, and they did not learn of it -until hun- dreds Of people streaming With blood fled in a panic into - the playing ground: Even then it was assumed' that a minor ordinary mishap had occurred. The authoritiee encour= aged this belief and allowed the game to continue, with. the •ituitrue result that a great pane was played, accompanied by the customary cheers, while behind the scenes the airwas rent with -the groans of the dying. The work of rescue was has- tened and all available succor was The'injeted were retrieved as rapidly as possible to _the head- quarters of the, Fh•st Aid. Club, and then taken , to the hospitals or home. 8everta1 died on the ground. others at the headquarters, While still others died in the hospitals-. • There was a, procession of injured carried on stretchers and in ambulances through the gates • . of the grounds while the game was proceeding. Twenty-one are already dead. Fully 230 were injured, of Widch number 190, who were seriously hurt, were taken to hospitals. A inajorili of the cases arnbroken limbs and con - Butter -The market is quiet, with prices firm. We quoteas follows :- Choice, 1 -Ib prints, 19 to 20c; choice large rolls, 174 to 18c; secondary grades, in rolls, 15 to 16c; low grades, 12 to 1$c; creamery prints, 22 to .213c; do, solids, 21 to 2210. Eggs -The market is steady, with receipts fair and demand good. Sales in case lots at 12 to 121,c per dozen. Cheese -The market is quiet and that the nation's only safety lies in cam at 11 to 111a per lb, the •latter I the adoption of the compulsory prin- for choice makes. cipie, which incidentally will give a seriously hurt. • Some of them .were terribly crushed, and found it diffi- cult to breathe. Many -of those who were' seriously ging, were driven to their homes. FORM OF CONSCRIPTION. The British Naval and League. - A London despatch says; -An as- sociation entitled the National Ser- vice League has just been formed un- der the . presidency of the Duke of 1Wellington, with an influential com- mittee, for the purpose of promoting , the enactment of a law Making na- val and military training for na- tional defence compulsory on all males. A manifesto issuedby the league dwells upon the inadequacy of the reserve of trained men and the decline in recruiting. It declares MOUNTED RIFLES IN SEVERE BATTLE Splendid Bravery Shown by the Canadians in Fight with Force Under Delarey. The Casualties. A London. despatch says: -There was severe fighting all day long on March 81 in the ,neighborhood of Hart's River, in .the south-western extremity of the Transva.al, between part of General Kitchener's force and the forces of Generals Delarey and Hemp, resulting in the repulse of the Boo's after heavy losses on IVIilitary Boers -openecl. a strong attack froth differentpoints with three guns and porn-p0m: 'The attack was made at a .moment when the British had left • their baggage in a Mager, in charge of the Canadian contingent, kind Wore galloping across the open plain with the intentien of capturing a Boer convoy, which had been dis- covered five miles ahead. The Brit- ish retired -steadily, and, having disa Mounted, -opened a return. fusilade on the Boers. While the baggage 111 charge of the • Canadians. was sent for, the British formed a camp; and started digging trenches. The shell - of the Boers stampeded the males carrying provisions, and caused con- fusion, but otherWise it was not very Offeative, many of the shells failing to explode. The Canadian front was 'attacked. in strong numbers, lint they ..gallantly repelled every •attempt made by the Boers to' break through. One Wriet.of the Canadians fought until all were killed or woinided„ and the last- man, although mortally wounded, emptied two bandoliers of Cartridges at the enemy, and then 'broke his rifie, The fighting was se- vere and general for fully three hours but after the British hadentrenched, and the guns got Into 'action, -they repelled numerous and .determined .attacks made under -the personal ex- hortations of the Beet. leaders. To - Wards night the fire gradually ceas- ed and the Boers retired. The Brit- ish then telegraphed for aid and fur- ther.. entrenched their canap- for the night and to await the arrival of General „ Kitchener, but the _Boers made no affempt to renew the at- taek." The c asualty list of 174 killed and woinidedis an adequate proof of the desperate fighting between the two forces. It is feared that the official list'iney be incomplete, as the cas- ualties among the Canadian Mounted Rifles, who bore the brunt of the at- tack, are less serious than was anti- cipated. Such details as have been received show that 'Marty and Kemp were in hiding • not far from the scene of Lord Methuen's surprise and ..defeat, .and • that Cookson and Keir, in conducting the reconnais- sance, were drawn on -until they were confronted by a superior force, and forced to fight on the defensive. The British forces, being seasoned troops, and .well 'supported by the artillery, held their ground despite the series of fierce assaults. Delarey's burghers sustained not only severe losses, but a • decisive defeat. The.Boers attacked with great de- termination, but the Canadian con- tingent and two squadrons of Yeo- manry, under Colonel Cookson, and the artillery and Mounted Rifles, un - both sides. THE OFFICIAL REPORT. Lord Kitchener's official report, dated from Pretoria, says:- " Ct oiler al Kitchener (Lord. Ki tch en- er's brother) seat Colonels Keir and Cookson from Vriekuil, western Transvaal, March 81, to reconnoiter towards Bart's River. They soon struck the track of guns, and car- ried on 0 running fight for eight nines, following the track theough the bush. - Emerging on a plain, large Beer reinforcemeets advanced against their flanks, forcing the British troops to take up a defensible position, which they hastily entrenched. Fighting ensued' at close quarters, mail the Boers were repulsed on all sides. "Delarey, Kemp and other leaders vainly attempted to persuade their men to renew the action. Fifteen hundred :Boers participated in the engagement, bet they had suffered too heavily, and cleared away to the north, west and south. "'fhb British losses were also se- vere. The Canadian Rifles especially distinguished themselves, one party, commanded by Lieut. Bruce Carruth- ers, holding its post till every man was killed or wounded. "Others of the forces showed great steadiness, allowing the Boers to ad- vance within two hundred yards of them and repelling them with a stea- dy rifle fire." FURTHER PARTICULARS. • - HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Dressed hogs are unehanged. Hog products in fair dennuad and steady. We quote :-Bacon, long clear, 91 to loc. in ton and case lots. Mess pork, S20.50; do Short .eut, $22. sense of duty and discipline to hun- dreds of thousands who lack it, and improve thedeteriorating physique of the urban population. The league proposes that drill shall be obliga- tory in all schools. . Smoked meats -Hams, 121 to 18c;1 GORDON FOUND GUILTY. breakfast bacon, 14.c; roils, 11c backs, 14c, and shoulders, -•-10.1e. Man Who. Murdered Two Manitoba Lard -The market continues firma Farmers Will Hang. We quote :-Tierces, 11 to 11.1c -tubs, 111c; paibo, 111c; compound, 91 A Winnipeg despatch says: -Walter to 91c. 1cordon, who was arrested at Halifax with the Canadian mounted Rifles on UNITED STATES MARKETS. the eve of deparre for South Afri- ca, and brought back here to answer Buffalo, April 8. -Flour, -quiet and to the charge of double murder, was found guilty at the Brandon. Assizes on Friday. Gordon's uline was the murder of Chas. Daw and Jacob Smith, with whom he lived at Whitewater. . Detective Hyndman, who accoma panieW Gordon from Halifax to Win- nipeg. detailed n confession Gordon made to him of the double crime while en route. West. Gordon first shot Daw while going to Boissevain. Next .day he quarreled with Smith and also shot him, throwiug 'both. bodies into an old well.. Gordon disappeared after the crime,. but NV0S caught at Halifax eighteen months later. easy. Wheat, spring steady ; No. 1 Northern, 7610 carloads ; winter, no demand; No. 2 red, 8110 asked. Corn -No demand; - No. 2 yellow, 641c; No. 3 do, 631 to 64e; No. -1 corn, 680; No. 8 do, 631c. Oats. - Quiet; No. 2 white, 49e; No. 3 do, 48c; No. 2 'mixed, 4610; No. 3 do; 4610. Barley -Spot, 67 to 70c ask- ed: No. 1 offered at 63c. Detroit, April 8. -Wheat closed - No.. 1 white. cash, 791c; No. 2 red, cash, April and May, 78ici JulY LINE STOCK MARKETS_ Toronto, April 8. -At the Western cattle yards to -day only 44 carloads of live stock were received, including 040 cattle, 950 hogs, and a small run of sheep and lambs, spring Iambs milch cows and calves. Prices for good cattle were firm, but we had little good cattle here; small stuff and hogs were quotably infchanged but weak. Good export cattle were firm, with, if anything, an upward tendency, but as a representative price 51c is 4,011.,ffyz the best stuff, though more was para---ifi f1d&aLetaees tq-day.: There was, an early clearancZ Butcher cattle was also unchanged from Tuesday; indeed the cattle trade showed no alteration from the conditions that prevailed early in the week, and the prices we then gave stand good to -day. Good to choice butcher cattle :fetched from 41 to 5c Per lb to -clay. " Following is the range of quota- tions: - Cattle. Shippers, per mt... ...$4.50 De., light... 4.25 Butcher,Choice.....,,. .... 4.50 Butcher, 'ord. to good. 8.50 Butcher, inferior... 3.00 Stockers, per cwt 3.00 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per cwt8•50 Yearlings, per cwt.., 4.25 Spring lambs,each 2,50 Becks, per cwt.,. 2,50 . Milkers and Caltes. Cows, -each... ,.. 25.00 Calves, each..„.. 2.00 Hogs. Choice hogs, per mt.., 515 Light Itegs, per cwt5.50 Heavy hogs, per eWt5.80 , Sows, per Cwt.., -. 3,50 Stags, per 0.00 $5.50 4,50 5.00 4.00 8,25 3.70 5.00 5.00 '8,00 15,00' 10.00 6.25 6.00 0.00 4.00 2.00 A. London despatch says -The War Office has issued a list of casualties in -the fighting between Delarey and Kemp and the British under Cook- son and Keir, which was reported by Lord Kitchener •on Friday in a des- patch, in which he referred particu- tatty to the bravery of the Canadian Mounted Rifles. The British had three officers and twenty-four men killed and sixteen officers and 181 men wounded. The Boer Command- ers were Delarey and Kemp. A news agency despatch from Pre- toria says the Boers admit 137 cas- ualties in the fighting. A. Klerksdorp despatch says: -"De- tails received of the battle at Doom - bait Farm, March 31, in which the British had three officers and twenty- four men killed, and sixteen officers and 131 men wounded, while the der Colonel Keir, presented such a Boers had 187 men killed or wound- stout front that the burghers were ed, show that quite twci thousand finally forced to retreat. DRIVING OUT SMALLPDX. Will Be Reduced to a. Minimum This Month. IL Toronto despatch says: -Dr, I'. H. Bryce, the secretary of the Provin cial Bolird of Health, is able to re- port immense improvement in the smallpox situation. There were, roughly speaking, 600 cases On- tario at the end of .January, and these will bo reduced to 50 by the erid �f Dr. 'Bryce ThilOt too sanguine about stamping the epi - dome out entirely this SW1111101% al- though it is a winter disease. .Last summer it lingered in some sections, and there is a. continued danger from bordering American States and from English emigration. The extent of the outbreak in the British Isles may be 3110a.811rOd from the. ritet that during the four weeks ending March 151.11, upwards of eighteen hmulred cases were admitted to London hos- pitals. ' MORE U -R -F -ORM- DAIRYING. Dominion Conference to be Held to TWELVE HOTELS BURNED, ,inamp., Fire weepsart of -Atlantic Pity, New Jersey. An Atlantie City, N. J. despatth says: -Twelve hotels and' more than a score of small baildings tititeiniag the board walk, Whieh is built along the ocean edge, were destroYed on Thursday by a lire .which swept the beach front for two long Notice from Illinois avenue to; New York Avenue. The loss, it is believed, will exceed $750,000. Ia this • respeet the con4 ilagration is the niaist disastrous Unit has ever visited this City. The 'loss Will be only partly' covered by insurance as the rate.ed five per cent. charged :by insurantio companies on property hero is 'regarded as almost prohibitive. Fortunately no lives were hist, though probably a dozen persons Were slightly injured and burned during the progress of the fire. It was reported early in the af- ternoon that six men had perished in the flames, but the rumer was with- out foundation. Theserigin of the fire is unknown, but* it is said to, have started, • in either Brandy's Baths or the Tarleton, which ada jahis the Baths at Illinois Avenue and the board Walk. About a dozen men were arrested during the day for robbery. •••• • COURSE OF THE FLAMES. The fire was discovered shortly. af- ter 0 o'clock on Thursday morning, and for nearly five hours the ffames raged with • such violence as to threaten the city with destruction. Alt of the burned buildings were frame structures, and the flames, fanned by a strong south-west, wind, swept along the .beach 'front with amazing rapidity. The Thalami Hotel was soon a pile• of- debris, and the flames fed oa•the email stores and booths between Illinois and Kentucky Avenues, until they reach-, ed the Stratford Hotel, which was soon enveloped.. Next the fire at- tacked the Berkeley, adjoining, and in a. few minutes the New Holland, the I3ryn Mawr,' the Evard, and -the Sticitney, all located on Kentucky avenue, near the beach. The local fire department worked well, but was unable t� cope with the names. arid it was found necessary to send to Philadelphia and Camden for aid. The former city sent three engines, and -two came down from Camden. The engines were brought here on, two special trains, furnished by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and. they made the run of nearly 60 miles in 55 minutes. Their presence was of vast assistance to the local firemen but it was not until an hour after their arrival that the fire could be said to be thoroughly under control. Nothing is left on the board walk from Illinois Avenue to n point, within a few feet of.Young's Pier but the iron, supports, This is the portion of the walk that is used most by promenaders. • All the guests of the burned hotels who were forced to seek other othequer- tors, have beehotels and boarding. houses. Pilgrim Fathers, takes place next n provided for 133 r mAoniatiha.s t all the trans-Atlantic pas - imilE DOMINION PARLIAMENT, NOTES OF PROCEEDINGS IN .THE FEDERAL HOUSE. PETITIONS THROWN OUT. Several petitions were presented on behalf of the Montreal Bridge Com- pany, but the Speaker ruled they could not be received because they asked for an expenditure of money. A number of other petitions were thrown but 'because • they did not conforna to the rule which requires that the names of at least three of the petitioners must be on the same sheetlas the body of the petition. LETTER CARRIERS' WAGES. Mt. 'Mulock gives, notice of a bill to amend the Tost-office Act. It is said tha measure, among other things win endeavor to meet the long-de- layed hopes of the letter -carriers for 0.11 increase of wages. TO PROTECT RAILWAY MEN. Discuss Subject. An Ottawa despatch says: -Mr. A. Ruddick, chief of -the Governinent Dairy Department, has called a con- ference of all the dairymen In the Dominion for April 20th and 30th. The object. of the conference is to dis- cuss prevailing systems of Inanuftte- tura and also to arrive at a more uniform method of dairying, which may be eareied on in future., . This Conference Will 'bring about thirty- five„datryincre to the city. of the Imperial Government, and in- tended to Make purchases in the West from -time to time. BILLS INTRODUCED. Mn. Frank Oliver introduced a bill respecting the Hudson, Bay & .North- west Railway Co. Mr. Samuel Barker introduced a bill respecting the Calgary & Ed- monton Railway Co. - Mr. Brock introduced a bill to in- corporate the Penny Bank. - Mn. McCreary introduced a, bill to iecorporate the Manitoba. & Keewa- tin Railway Co. .• Mr. Hugh Guthrie introduced a bill to incorporate the Doniinion Railway (g.MPro.wLeerigChot'cin McCarthy introduced a bill to incorporate the Montreal Subway Co. Mr. Demers (St. John) introduced a. bill respecting the Montreal & Southern Counties Railway Co. Mr. Arch. Campbell introduced bills to incorporate the Toronto & Niagara Power Co. and the Nepigon Railway Co. Mr. Maloiii . introduced a. bill to Ralph Sinith, M.P. for Vanconeer, incorporate 'the Lake Champlain & gives notice of a bill 1 or the fut•thee a protection of railwayt St. Lawrence Canal. will employes. a 11,1v. Talbot introduced a bill to in - will provide that all cars mast be corpoyate the Gespe & Western Ball - equipped with air brakes and engines a a Rail - and cars with automatic couplers; way `-'°• ar, all box freight cars to havo an end and side ladder, with a stop at the bottont and an angle iron on top of the car, so as to assist tile employe to reach the top. The bill has been 8,000 STILL IN FIELD. NEWS ITEMS, Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. ••••••••••••,,.• CANADA. Edmonton will spend $14,000 for 'Waterworks, electric light and sewer- age.' The extension of the Canadian Northern Railway will bring Edmon- ton 250 miles nearer Winnipeg. Canada has been invited to seed an exhibit to an taternational expo- sition to be held in Osaka, Japan, i1903. . Ex -Chief Deasy, of Viatoria, B. has been appointed chief of police at Dawson City with a salary of' $8,000 a year. Edward Laurin was senteaced Montreal on, Saturday to fourteen years in penitentiary for killihg his father's colored coachman. Hon. S. N. Parent, Premier Of the Province and Mayor of Quebec, has been. invited to the coronation, though he refused a knighthood. The Canadian. Northern Railway Company. are going to build a steel storage elevator .at Port Arthur; with a capacity of 1,500,000 bushels. It is believed in Hamilton that the fire insurance rates in that .city will be reduced before long, - in view of the introduction of improved fire apparatus,. The Militia Department at Ottawa has cabled to the War Office an offer of the service of half a dozen skilled dental surgeons for duty in the base and general hospitals in South Africa. Despatch From Pretoria -Gives Es- timates of Boer Force. . placed in Mr. Smith's hands at the • • A London despatch says: -A news instance of Ald. Hall, of Toronto, agency despatch from Pretoria at- actieg for the railway broth erhoods tempts' to give a, careful compute.- T3ILLS 'INTRODUcr,n; tion of the Boers now in the field. To ilaozpoi aft: the Nepigon Rain, Onattieg its details, which must be way Company -Mr. Campbell. , purely conjectural, the total is plac- Respecting the Bay., of Quinte Rail-!teclf'alt01nz .sotneotuiltipnangsobYoerig. ,8,00120011,10sclamttteliz way Compaey.-"Mr. McColl, ed Respecting the Red Deer Valley !to Sutherland, on the south, and Railway and Coal Company, -Mr. ! from (fades on the west, to Piet Re - Parmelee. • ticion the east. The same despatch, oiling with the Cape Colony', gliies CHIEF JUSTICE STRONG. !details which must be more or less Mr, Casgraie was informed by Mr. aa„al.,til, adding an enormous tract Fitzpatrick that the $1,000 whieh at country where the Boel'S are able appears in the' Appropriation ; or to wander, and says that while it is la.st year to pay the expeeses difficult to realiM there is yet scarce- ly a Boer' commando that is not li- able to be disturbed any day by the British eolitions. Chief J ustica Strong; in tonneetioir' with sittings of the Judicial Commit- tee of the Privy Council was not paid hem Ise the Chief .1 usti Cc di d net attend the sittings. • BUYING HORS.ES Mr, Oliver was told by Mr. Fisher that the Government had no officiai information as to Rs being the in- tention of the War Office to purchtiee horsee in North-Western Canada dura ing the corning Month. He added, hoWeVer, that it, With. 11 matter or nubile notoriet;v that Col.Dent was buying horses in Canada on behalf GREAT BRITAIN. An alarming epidemic of diphtheria; is reported from Adlington, nerve Chorley, England: • , .. The • new British cruiser Aboukir has been placed in einnmissidt, and will go to Chinaashortly. , • The Laird and Armstrong Com- panies are building third-class cruis- ers for the British -navy, Major-General the Hon. H. F. Eaton will be in conamand at Bisaey Camp during the rifle meeting in July. Newcastle -on -Tyne firms have - re- ceived orders front -the Admiralty for the constritetion of torpedo-boat de- stroyers. Contracts for ten torpedo destroy- ers for the Imperial Goterement, to be th.e. mat powerful in existeace, have been placed. Mac O'Rell has been talkhig since his arrival in London. He attributes the conunercial prosperity of the 'United States largely to the train- ing that -young men receive. • 4 The tercentenary- of the John Robinson. church, of Gainaboratigh, Lincolnshire, .noted for its associa- tion. with the early history of the 1(RUGER'S SON. 1,11611.1.11 WENT OVER THE FALLS. Man Commits Suicide From Goat Island. A Niagara Falls, Ont., despatch says: -Between five and six - o'clock on Wednesday evening, while E. W. Swenson, of Lansing, 'Mich.. was viewing the Horseshoe Falls. from Goat Island, at Terrapin Point, he observed a man acting strangely on -the bridge leading to the Observation Point. a He enquired if there was. anything' the matter, and received. "Nothing hi particular" in reply. Swenson entered a 'email' building, and when he again looked. out to the point the man was missing. Hurry- ing to the spot he found the man's overcoat and papers, indicating that the name - of the suicide, who must have lea.ped over the Horseshoe Falls was Fred. Heintz, of. North Tona- wanda. - He appeared to he.. about 23 years old. • Just before • Heintz' took the leap to death he Was seen gazing upon several photographs he' carried. Swenson reported the facts to the re- servation officials.. " At the point from which' the Man inust have leaped the fall is 158 feet to the- lower nirei. The pros- pects of the bodyabeing recovered are good. Caspar, the Eldest, Takes Oath of Allegiance . A Pleat:Cm dc,spittelt save -Caspar 'Kruger the eldest son 01 roeraer Kitin1lt T<I'11gf.r, and 24 other relatives of Mr. Xreder. hearing the seine 31a1110. orr` 011101'1g ihOSO VIM have recenti,s, the oixtli of allegiance to Great, Britain. senger steamship lines have agreed to the adoption of a new passenger schedule, which shows an advance in saloon passenger rates of front $15 to $85. MASSACRE OF BOERS. • An Australian Officer Gives His Vereion. . A despatch to. the London Central News from Southampton says Lieut. Witton, an Australian officer of the Bushveldt Carbineers, who was found guilty of participating in the killing of Boer prisoners anci sentenced to imprisonment for life, arrived there on Thursday on the transport. Can- ada, He was handcuffed and closely guarded. Lieut. Witton's story of the execution of Boers, as told by him to a passenger on the boat, dif- fers in many particulars from the version printed in the mornieg riftp-• el's, which was to the effect that the unarmed Boers were executed and their baggage rifled of I:20,000, whichit was said they had in their Possession. Witton says one of their fellow -officers of the • naine of Hunt, had been murdered by Boers. Later on the Australians captured a party of Boors, 0130 of whom was weaving Hunt's :Jul form . This man was tried by drumhead couetamartial and shot, The A us trali ails believed the sea - Wipe a just one, mid that they were entitled to carry it out. Lieut. Wit- ton is in a, cheerfel mood and 15 hopeful or 12, revision of his sentence by tho War Office authorities. t .; The Johannesburg Town Connell has passed an assessment bill to levy rates on land only. Mr. Thomas Wardell• of Oundas, .whe was ei; \tatty() Whip •in the 3.eeds1 a Lure, died i11 the hospital at Munition on Saturday while 1111- dt:riving an operation PROHIBITION DEFEATED. Straight Majority of 0,0d0 Against It in Manitoba.. A Winnipeg despatch says ;--The Liquor Act, whieh was on Wednesday submitted to a popular vote, has been defeated by a :straight'. jority of several thousaud. The Referendum Att, stipulated that in. Case it should appear that only 4.5 per centof electors., bothon and at the list , vote in the affirmative, or. (2) that at least' 60 faer centor all such persons have voted and that at least 60 per cent, of those who. have so voted have given affirmative answers; or (8) that at least 521 per cent, of said electors who havo voted have given. affirmative answers thereto, •Lhe Liquor .Act shall go keto . force on June 1.st,• 1902, but in. ease any one of the three reoults mentioned shall not be obtained, , the Act shall be wholly repeated. ONLY HALF REQUIRED vowE. The total vote polled in the Pro-, vince was. 28,878, 14,761 against, ' 0,114 for, leaving a majority i1g411Is0 • g the Act of 5,650. Taking this ifotal roughly at :44,000, sixty-two 11.111,1, two-thirds 01 11115 would be 15,000. Take the temperance vote .4 from this, viz., 9,116, leaves 5,886, which is only 371 of the vote, or oalealiall the -vote polled which the Referee- duni A.ct required . the temperance men to roll up in order to put the Liquor Act in force. HEAVY IN WINNIPEG. In the city the vote •was. excep- tionally heavy, especially in 'the. morning, the largest that was ever. • ,polled during the first few hours 01 any election ever held here, ,which is. • More remarkable since the polls were open until 8 pan There was a de- sire on the part of all big •employers. .of labor to have a fair expression of „ opinion, and all the large firms al- ok:-. lowed their men double time at noon, to est their ballots. A no- ticeable feature of the morning'e vote was that a large number took the declaration, the Act permitting practically manhood suffrage, aliql anyone who was not on the list, and had been a resident of the Prevince for a year, was permitted to take the oath and vote. WENT BY DISTRICTS.. The vote against the Act, starting from the ;city with its majority of three thousand, seemed to run gen- erally along the railway lines due south and west, through the French and. Mennonite districts, these giving notable majorities against the Act's enforcement, the Frenchmen voting almost to a man against, and the - Mennonite ballot being twenty to one against. Following the lines along the . southwest, the villages and towns went against the Act' un-. Mountain, Eon. '.Thoinas Green - way's constituency, -was reached. where the vote swung the other way.' For instance, at Crystal City, Greenway's headquarters, the vote stood 51 no, 119 yes. On. the North- western branch the vote gellertdly NV119 against the Act. At Neepaivaa Hon. J. A. Davideonfs seat, which. has been a prohibition town always, the vote was 178 against and 144 . for. UNITED STATES. The Legislature of New York has - voted $1,00,000 for a momanent ' at Buffalo to President McKinley. . A young lad while playing with his sister, aged 8, in Drawers, Mass., on Thursday, shot her head ;off. By. drinking milk from a. cow that ate poison weed with her hay four members of N. L. Ailainson's family, of Nelson, Neb., are dead. ]iiuropeau capitalists are financing a ;plan to populate 4,000,000 acres of land along the Sante Fe Railway as far as Mexico. Philip Mitchell and his five chil- dren were burned to death on Tues- day night, itt their home in Prosser Hollow, near Johnston, Pa. - Mr. George P. Blow, of Pittsburg, paid fifty thousagid dollars for Ru- ben's painting, "Holy Family," at a, sale . on. Wednesday. in New- York. An American company with a capi- tal of .$6,150;000 has purchased the AmeriCaii. rights: and patents, of the Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Com- pany. 'A company has been formed to mine ice from -the 'famous ice eaves Of Arizona to -supply the towils on the Santa: Fe Railroad during the oppressive summer months. Policeman John O'Brian, of Brook- lyn, had bsen drinking heavily, and was onthe verge of delirium tremens on Wednesday, when Ms wife banded him his revolter, and without a. ; ja.;laer. word of warning he shot her. 'dead on the spot. ENERAL. vanna $250,000 toward a public li- biCareegie „has offered to give Vitt- PalisiolIs latest fad is note paper nand -pill uted and embroidered. There' have been ninetY :cases of cholera hi Manila, and „seventy-two deaths. ; Marseilles is now in *perfect tele- phonic: communication with London and Manchester. Recent commercial :statistics show that Germany's trade with foreign countries has declined. CANADIAN CASUALTIES. The Livee Lost in South Africa T o tal 207. An Ottawa despatch, sa31st--1Tp,t0- de. te 207 Canadians have died in South Afeica, front bullet Woureis or clieease, the, proportion of deaths in the various regiments being as fat - I toy al Claiiadian Regiment Canadian Mounted Rides, Dragoons alid Artillery . ... Stratheona. Ilorse .„ „AO Canadian-. Scents- ,..•...I0 S. A. 0. ... ... ... alet.oral Mounted Riflee... .., :1 Various Corps.. .. 6 RURAL VOTE FOR IT. The vote generally in favor of the Act is from the great bulk of far- mers, away from railway centers, towns, and villages. This vote, as was anticipated, has been most ma.- terially reduced 'by the bad made.. many of which are still under water or in an otherwise impassable con- • dition,e and by the action of the temperance organization, at their last general meeting, whereby they • undertook to make no effort to geti. aa out the vote. This, of course, left the liquor organization a clear field, which fact it evidently took, ad. , va.n.tage of. • LATER REPORTS. It is estimated that the total vote cast for and against prollibition will reach over -40,000. Additional re, turns give increased majorities for the antis-. Tache end DeSalaberry give largo majorities against the Act. The official majority for Win- nipeg is. 3,406 against. In round numbers the totals now stand at 12,200 for and 18,800 ;against. -un- reported places. are expected to split about even, leaving a straight ma- jority of about 6,000 against tho enforcement of the Act: OFFICERS CAPTURED. Enemy Lost Heavily in a Rear Guard Action. A. London despatch says: -The War Office has received a despatch, front Lord Kitchener, dated at :Pretoria, and reading as follows: - "Col. Lawley reports sharp fighting at Boschman's Kop at dawn. on Tuesday, when the Second Dragoon Guards surprised n Boer Mager. The enein3r being str'ongly reinforced, held their ground, and a severe en- gagement followed. The Dragoone were compelled to fight a rear -guard action in order to rejoin the main body, which advanced iilto the 'light and drove the enemy to the north- east. Our 'casualties have not beem reported except the capture of three Dragoon officers. The enemy's loss is reported' to have been severe. pr goners have ved •here.7 !SOLDIERS BAYONETED. Aseailants Were French end. Ger- T ommieS . A Pekin despateli says:-Therd was a drunkeii brawl between soldiers In 0, canteen here oil Tuesday; 11 re - Suited in four English soldiers being severely 1101111(104 by ba,yoriets wield- ed by French. mid Germans. The attention Of the :Afinistors hits been Called 1,o the hicreaSe itt the 111110" bei cif diseeputable- houses here. 'The Chinese officials place no restrictions on these 'places. The numbei. oi raw. - days ib Tien-Tein in the past yens. haif caused much eritielsan of the provisional military Government. All the soldiers forming the- guard 1;liera exeept tile Ameridans alit] :Ulngifell. are antMed to carry their side when off duty.