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A despateh from Kingstown. Ieland of the best medicel efforts on tied
of St. 'Vincent, pays: A eorresponde behalf,
eat, of the Associated Press, has just NOW UNDER THE 00EAN.
eeturted here from a, visit, on horse- , It is estimated thata the sea ahas
' haek, to the devastated district, of encroaehed from ten feet to two
• baek, to the devastated district of miles along the oast, near Garage -
fifty Miles, and penetrated to with- town, and that a section of the
in five luilos of the Soietrier.e crater. north of the island has dropped hitt)
The nth -covered area of St: Vincent the sea. This is appareatly verified
exceeds that of St. Martinique, which by the report of the Prench cable
the. correspondent has also explored. ship Pouyer-Quereier, that somalings
The entire torthern part of the is- now show seven fathoits where, be-
hind is covered with ashes to an eve- fore the outbreak,there were thirty-
erage depth of eighteen inches, vary- six fathoms of water.
ing from a thin layer at Ringston to Lieut. Benjamin 1. McCormick,
tete feet or nore at Georgetown. The commanding the "United States
crops are ruined; nothing green can stemner Potomac, "now in these waa
be seen. The streets of Georgetown ters,, has called on Governor Llewelyn
are cumbered with stoat -drift -like and offered him the assistance of the
heaps of ashes; and ashes rest so United :States and any assistance
heavily on the roofs that in several which it was in his power to render
creses they have came thou to fall. The Potomac has landed what she
en. There 'will soon oe five thou- can spare Of. her ,foodstuff. The
and destitute persons in need of as-. Governor expressed his • thanks and
&stance from the Government, • which added that there was to immediate
is already doing everything possible .need of help. The United ;States
to relieve the sufferers. steamer carried official despatches to
The British cruiser Indefatigable the island of St. Lucia.
brought twenty -Ave tons of supplies
here and returned to the Island of
Trinidad for more. The Governor of
the Windward Islaads, Sir Relit:
Llwewlyn; is here supervising the
work of the authorities. pose, no smoke rising from the era -
ST. VINCENT SUFFERS MOST. ter and the iissures emitting no ha. -
While the outbreak of the volcano par. The stunted vegetation that
on the Island Of Martinique killed,fermerly adorned the slopes of the
more people outright, more territory 'mountain has disappeared, having
has been ruined in St. Vincent, hence given place to grey -colored lava,
there is greater destitution here. which greets the eye on every side.
97he injured persons were horribly The atmosphere is dry, but some -
burned by the hot grit, which was what agitated. Rain would be wele
driven along with tremendous vele come, as there is a great deal of
oeity. Twenty-six persons who dust in the air, which is very dis-
sought refuge in a room ten feet by
twelve were all killed.. One person
was brained by a huge stone nine
miles from the crater.
Rough coflins are being made to
receive the i.emains of the victims.
The hospital here is filled with dy-
ing people. Fifty injured persons
are lying On the floor of that build-
ing, as there are no beds for their
accommodation,' though cots are be-
ing rapidly constructed of boards.
This and similar work has been in
progress since immediately after the
disaster. But two days elapsed be-
fore there were any burials. as the
SOTIFRIIIIRIP, RESTING.
Since midnight Tuesday the sub-
terranean detonations here have
ceased and the Soufriere Wednesday
relapsed apparently into perfect
agreeable and ireitating. to throats
and eyes. and is causing the mer-
chants to put all their - goods under
cover. The inhabitants, naturally
meaning the white population, as,.a.
rule, are anxious to know whether
the repose of the volcano is perman-
ent, Or, whether it is the hill which
usually- preeetles greater _ paroxysmee
activity. Scone people, anticipating
'that there is danger of further vol-
canic eruptions, are leaving the pet: -
lying towns for this .city. • . .-. '
, NEW CRATERS FORMED.
..
„
The report that the volcanic lake
which occupied the top of the moue-
negroesrefused to dig the neeessaryitain has disappeared appears to be
trenches, although. they were &fend' confirmed. A sea of lava, :emitting
three times their usual wages by the sulphured; fumes, now apparently
local authorities. The nurses em- occupies its place„ and several new
ployec are onompetent, but they craters :have heen formed: The last
are willing to learn, arid' are work-- time the volcano showed activity,
ing hard. The negroes are itdiffer- Tuesday last, the craters, old and
tint to all that is happening, and as new, and n.umerous fissures in the
to -what has occurred. They expect'inountain sides discharged hot va-
in receive Government rations, but p 0 i% deep subterranean murmurings
there have been instances whera they were heard the,• d t • bl. -
have refused to bury their own relit- times from the centre of the e'761. --I
tives. cano, huge voluines of steam rose;
Tire negroes who have remained on oee gigantic pine treestowards thel
sky, .and a dense, Ciminerian smoke,
mingling with the steam, issued from
the new and.. active crater, forming
an immense pall over the northern
bills, lowering into the valleys and
this connection. then rising and spreading until it
As the Colonial Hospital. here was enveloped the Whole island hi a pe -
found inadequate to accommodate the =oar grey mist.
sufferers, large army tents have been Simultaneous action upon the part
erected for the use- of the patientsof the veld -aloes of Martinique and'.
who are being constantly brought Dominica, and elsewhere seems to de -
here from other towns on the island, mete, a velment., connection between
but even these. annex hospitals are these islands and appeal* to verify
over -crowded. The local doctors the assmreption of the volcanic ori -
leave been reinforced by a doctor gen of the mountain &odes running
who arrived here from the Island of .parallel • with the Soufriere in the
Windward chetricts.
.
As this despatch is sent it is ex-
cessively -hot here, and the northern
hills retain their foggy appearance.
the estates are half starved and the
Oerib survivors are leaving their
caves and ' pillaging abandoned
dwelling houses and shops. A num-
ber of arrests • have been made in
Greeada, one of the British Wiad-
eve.trd islands. He brought with
him a nuniber of packages of needle
mil supplies, which were extremely
useful.
SULPHURIC VAPORS.
There are it hundred injured people
in the hospital at Georgetown, gangs
of men Etre searching for the dead
or rapidly burying them in trenches,
and all that can be done under the
eircunestances is being accomplished.
The sulphuric vapors, which still ex- lug at Bierainghtun, said he was
bale ell over. the Island, are increase hopefel of peace in South Africa,.
ing• the sickness and mortality among but was not sanguine. The British
Governnient's -intentions were not.
altered. What was eought was not
revenge against The Boers, but the
policy in 'South Africa would not be
changed. He declared that the peo-
HOPEFUL OF PEACE.
• —
Mr. Chamberlain and. the End of
the War.
A. London despatch says :—Co-
lonial Secretary Chionberlain, speak -
the sm•vivors, and are causing suf-
fering among the new arrivals: The
hospital staff are giving way from
werwork. An ambulance corps from
the.•garrison of Barbadoes and fur-
ther medical assistance will arrive ,plc of England weee tresteee tee
here shortly. The stench in the war, and never again would there be
efilicted distriete is terrible beyond a renewal of the present, contliet.
description. Nearly all the hats left it was understood in Ltndon that
standing are filled with dead bodies. the queetion of peace rests largely
in slime eases disinfectants end the with Gen. Delany. Mr. Chamber -
astral means 0 r disposing of the dead lain said the Ivo.. had cost £228, -
are useless, and cremation has been 000,000, but that was only two per
resorted to. When it is possible the cent. of Great Britain's realized' caple
bodies are dragged ,With ropes to the ten and only one sixth of Great
ieenehes and are there cove Britain's annual income: inde-
ered up, quick lime being magi When pendent Transvaal woulii. be as dan-
„aflame, 'many of the deael bodies gerous as an independent Patliament
were so eenered with duet that they in Dublin. rThere was on the other
were not discovered until walked. tip- hand, transcendent Possibilities of a
on by visitors or by the relieving federation of the Britieh race. The
officers, or then assistants.
THEIR Su:Pr-cam Trainamtg.
The arrival. here of the first de -
0! the ambultince corps,
• 'Which brought sufferers from Cleoege-
t01171. OahlhOd. quits a svsatOn Thiff
"latch consisted of a hundred -1 pore
eons whose charred bodies exhaled
fetid odors and whose loathsome A 'Liverpool deppatch says: The
feed's made even the hoepital Ett- Even:leg Express says ma grorgare
tendants shudder. All these througb his representatives, has been
persons Were suffering fearfully from and IS ,negotlat,Ing with several don -
thirst and tittering, when strong en- paeies who uso the Maud:water Ott-
o -ugh to do so, rigonizieg (rive for nal, with a vide of rutting, steam-
: water, It is doubtful whether one ships direct from Manchestee to NeW
of the whole party Will recover. Tho York, nohton, and, other Perta. The
death rate among the people in the scheme involves the conStrectiot of
hospitals is Htin eery hige., in spite cotton Warehouses. •
days me now for great empires, not
for little States;
MANCHESTER TO NEW YORK
l'hopoSal to Establish it birect
Steamship Lite,
CRATER ort ST. 'VINCENT,
Fissure e Continue to Threw aot
Vapor,
A St. Themes, D. W. I, deSpatell
sayel AdviCea from St:. Viticent
show that it is iMpoesible to get
neerer than eight miles to the
Crater that has oppeared in the vol-
cano oa the Island of St. Vincent.
The old erater was filled by a beauti-
ful lake, but this has disappetaghel,
havite• either sunk into the boheffk.' of
the mountain or boon bloat ia the
shape of steam end scalding. weter
over the sarroanding Comitry. The
fissures that have epPeared. On. the
sides of the volcario diontinue to
throw out htt vapor. Subterranean
eoises are heard miles from the
meuntain, anal the -freer:binge of the
earth indicate the possibility of fur-
ther discharges.
On Monday efternoon great 'vole
tunes of steani need smoke Were
thrown :out, The Whole island is:
covered with a peculiar mist, and the,
atenespbeit is charged with nottiou'S
viipors„, which have the 0M:et:of in-
creasing the eicknese ammig the peo-
ple. An ambulance and modieal ite-
eistanee ha,va ,arrived from Beeline
does, • l•
The poorer classes from the afflieted
disti•iets aro now threatened With
s t a rvat on, t hough • thc U overnitient
is feeding 3,000 of them and givieg,
them shelter: Among the 'many vic-
tims of the disaster ere almoet, all
of the Carib Colony, who lived on
tiee deyastated 'part of the islited.
MANY OF ,THE BODIES
of 'those who lost tilde lives lineee
now remeined unburied $o long that
• deedaposititin -Mut set in, and, the
_O(lor ie so overpowering• that many
of the seaechiegparties have heel).
compelled to abendon their work:
In other eases those engaged in bury-
ing the dead refused to handle the
bodies. • Consequently, ropes are tied
to thein, and they are either dragged
tietrenches and there interred or are
placed on impromptu funeral pyres
and burned asspeedily as poseibie,
The Legislative Council of Jamaica
has appropriated ZI.,000 for the
benefit of the suffeeerse •
Despatches by mail from Si.
George, Grenada, stated that the
Royal mail steamer Taw has taken
medical assistance to St. Vincent,
A line drawn from Chateau ]11 ire
to Georgetowt would divide"the Is-
land of St. Vincent it halves. There
is probably no human being .living
alive north of it.
It is conservatively 'estimated That
two thousand have been .sacrilleed
since the first eruption on Mny 7,
This includes all of the Carib islands;
which means the practical extinction
of the rece. that was found by Co-
lumbus four centuries age.
An .old ledian prophecy that the
Caribs would be sacrificed to the lieeled. Car lots are quoted at 75 to
god which they Worshipped has time' 78c per bag, and small lets at Si
bed) edified. Of the Carilie only a. -le 9fle.
few individuals remain on the Is-
lands of St. Leda and Dominica. •
THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
Trade,.Centres.
13RRA.I)sp1Jrrs,
Toruuw, May 20.-e-Wheat—The
marlket 1$ unchanged, No. 9 White
and red winter quoted itt 78c middle
freight, No. 2 spring at 75 to 76e.
oast. :Manitoba No. 1 liard held at
88e, Toronto ad west; No. 1 NOr1h-
Q131 tit 8t -e, and No. 2 Northern at
82c, Toronto and west. Grinding
in Lrausit prices 2.4e higher. At Oh -
Meech and Owen -Sound No. 1 hard
queted•at 84 to 84erc,
Buckwheitt—No. S nominal at 61
to 62e wet;
• VloureeNinety per cent. Ontario
patent, $2.90 to $2.92, middle
freight, in beyers' sitel,s. Straight
relicts, in wood, gyrated at $3.20 to
$3.30, Manitoba hours are highei• ;
patents; $120 to 84.25 delivered on
t rae.k Toronto, bags included, and
strong bakers', 68.90 to 811.95-
Oatrneal—Car• lots, in bleis.,
On track, and. ia eacks itt 81,10,
Broken lots, 25e extra. 0
Atilifeed-43ran is steady at $16,50
outside, Shorts, $19 outside. At
Toronto brae. is 318.50, and ehoets
20,50. Manitoba • bran, 690 in
saske, and shorts, $22 in SaCkS, TO"
'
•
i3:11•1eY--.Trtule quiet ; No..2 quoted
nt 58(... Middle freight, and No., 3 at
50 to 51e,
Oats --:-No. 2 white sold at 4,81c
middle freight.
0Q11NTRY PROD Utile.
Dried apples—The market is quiet
at unchanged prices. Small lois
quoted at 5 -,lc, and jobbing lots ae
5 to 51c per lb, Evaporated, 10.Ac.
iflops--Trade quiet, with prices
steady at 113c; yearlings, itt 7 to 8c.
Honey—The market is dull at 9e
to 10c for etraited; comb, $1.15 Lo
$2.25 per dozen.
syrup-LMarket quiet, with
prices unchanged. Pure new. xuake,
imperial gallons 90c to $1; old; as
to quality, 10 to 80c. Sugar, 9 to
Oec per lb.
Beans—The market is quiet, with
prices tmehanged. They are jobbing
at $1.15 to $130, and hand-picked
quoted at 61.85 to $1.4.0. '
Ha Y 1 1.1 ed---ryb e merket is steady,
with fair demand; thnothy, $30.50,
on track for No. :1. •
Steil:yr—The market is geiet car
lots on trade quoted at $5.50 to $6,
the latter for No. 1, ,
Poultry—Receipts small. We,quote:
—Fresh killed turkeys, 13 to 14c per
lin chickens, 75e to Ducks, 05c
to $1,
Potatoee—The market is enduing -
ROBBERS OF THE DEAD.
Many, of Thera Have Been Sliot
St. 'Pierre.
•
A Port de France,. Martinique des--;
patch says :—Acting Govertor.1
L'Huerre ie taking precautions to
prevent wholesale looting at St.;
Pierre during the relief wor,k. The)
French troops and the revenue offi-
cers Thave`beenhordered to watch out ,
for this business. The officers shot
many of the looters ,,h•oin they '
found robbing the dead. The Shoot-
ing of these people has been hushed
up, as the Frenclt law does not justi-
fy any shell action.
On Thnrsday Presiding Judge Des -
font -nines sentenced forty-four men
and four women to various terms of
imprisonment,eand on Friday twenty
seven men and seven women a -ere
also coavicled of looting. The men 1
were sent to prison for Ave years
and the women for three. 'The peo-
ple attached and tried to lynch the!
looters while they were being taken
to jail. The gendarmes demrevol-
vers and the peeple fled, cursing the
lootere as they went: There were to
casealtieS.
The people generally are higebly ax -
cited OVer the, looting, and are
anxious that the criminals shall be
tried by the higher courts and more
seeere senteeces imPosed.
:Doctore went ashore -and examined
the situation closely. They metered,
that. the bodice should be dawned I
and that the people ehould leave the I
place, Abolit fifty persons *ere I
brought to Forte de France. A chem-
ist who was 'abetted the. Sachet •
analyzed the sa.nd or ashes that
Mont Peke wanted and found them
to be a composition of sulphur and
salipetre.
Capt. McLean Mid Connnander
more. of the cruiser Cincitnati, and
Consul Ayine,with a guide, seareh-
ed for the body of Mr. Prentie,' the
American consul, and ulso for the
bodies of the menebere of his family.
The guide located the, American Cone
eul. in it mass of stones. Ile pone-
trated the rinne and. found much
si VerWa re nlarke a "m." .e. skeid on
was found in the courtyard, bet
there -Was no : evidence to identify it.
Several tone of stones mest lie• re,
mo ved believe any- p 0:4 t Lye. Oen ti ca-
tion can be made.. The mark "Mh
on the eilverware probably repre-
sents the. name of Cowell Prete is'
wife. The investigation of tire ruins
and the search fm• the bodice will Ire
COntin1164.
eller eattle'eold at hone 5 to 5ec per
lb, blit WOW -later and inferior grades
were easier, tied the enquiry was
(1011.
Cattle,
Shippers, per (het,. , ,,, $5,2re 36.121 -
do, light... 4.50 5.00
Butcher, choiee....., ".” 4,15 5.50
lletcher, ordinary to
good , „, „.... ..... 4.00 4.50
Stockers, S11)10e1;1)(ntIVIt14" 1J' 41.'1.1'7:11 S. ° 00
011Oiee ewes, per cwt 8,75 4.50
'Yearlings, per oWt,.. ..„4.00 5,.50
281(2)05 58;7005
' Milkers and Valves,
Cows, Oath,. ,„ 25.00 50.00
Calves, eaehe „. .„ 2,00 10.00
e
Choice hogs, per cwt.,. , 6,75 7.25
Light hogs, per cwt ,., 6.75 '7.00
Hea,vy hogs, per cwt....., 6.75 7,00
Sows, per cwt.-. .,„ 3.50 a.00
Stags, per cwt...............0.00 2,00
TE DOMINION PARLIAMENT,
NOTES Or PROCEEPING$ IN
IIE ITEDERAL IIQtJSE
IlAILIVAY COMMUNICATION.
Mr. Ketlibach urged upon the 01,-
011 -anent the necessity 'of doing sonic -
thing to provide railway commanica-
tiOn betWeen Halifax and the Smith
Shore of ' Nova Scotia,.
Eieldieg replied that the needs
of this section wotild be met very
ehortly, as the Provincial Goyerte
Pewit had given a loan of $11.31000
111110 1:.0 a company which propeteee
to build the line requieed.
• BIG E.1 S URPLUS PE (ITED
1Pielding inforated the House
thet since the budget epeech Was
delivered two months ago the re-
+ venue of the Country had seepassed
his expectations, alai' he „believed the
FAST OCEAN SERVICE surplus would he larger mid the ad-
dition to the public debt :smaller
G-overnment Has Opened N'egertia- than he had expeeted„ •
• tions With the C.P.R, ' CLOSING CEREMONIES:
An -Ottawa despatcli says His 111xcellenc,y arrived at the Sea -
view of theepro6able end: of the ate Chamber sharp at 3 o'clock. He
now stea.mship combine on. Canada's was escorted, as usual, by the Dra-
trade and trane-Atlantic transporta- gooes, and was received by a guard
tion, it is geld that the Government of honor.' The gathering in the Sen -
is .cerisidieriet an arrangement fee ate was 'not, it large one. The gal -
the operation of a lest trans-Atlete leries were well hied, but there were
tic steaniship line, in crinnection many vacant seats 011 the ,f10or of
with it traescontinentall railway. It the 'Chamber, weich is always crowd -
is stated that eiegotiations have ed at the •opening. The ladies pre -
been opened with. t he .C.P.R. lodking sent napeared in walking costume.'
to 'the establishment . of re fast AL- After,ilere. Speaker Bredeur and
lentic steamship and ireiglee eervicee the Conimereers . had re:ached: the
The idea is t that. there should ,be Chamber, the Clerk 61 the UPper
at weekly pee-pp:ger 'service hetWeen IToese read .the.list of bills.
the best:that sails 11041 NeW YOr;1‹,
Ch"4:1411' "dBrItktin •641111.1 The 'iteconcl'eeiLiSioh 'the' Perlin -
In order- ,(0 Meintain a nodal freight 111•„61t' e :••• prorogued • !:)11
Iltursctay. '
set vice a • "dozen freight steamers
, cest bf the endertakieg would,. be Wilfrid Laurier laid on,. the
of the petition's. Wiiich
would be required, eend the total
.1662400,y00h0a,s0Ottill.eiT)olaweerGtoove;luoladeitze 11:11(116. bece0nPies:recelved " • 'various'
line ." the exteet of 8750,000 a Boards of Trade with reference
to
preferential trade. within -the Ein-
year, but a passenger and• freight pire. The Seeate bill respectieg the
incorporation of joint .stock dem;
hhneurvlo)ele 11., is said, would involve a
. . Ponies was discussed for it few Min-
ecarlY. 0.1'33. is re- utes, and wet' put through all its
ported to be willingeif the project stages. •
goes through • te allow the fast
steamship line toe »centre/led ey. SPEECH pROM-9.111E THRONE.
trustees nominated by the Govern- His Excellency then dismiseed the
merit. The' matter is now engaging Parliainelitarians with the -following
the consideration of Sin Wilfrid Lau- speech from the throne
leer and Ins colleagues, ,and further
dohelenniellte ara eXpected when they
proceed to Lendent in Jute. It eie
thought that the project will there
be disceesed with the :C.P.R. direc-
tors and representatives tbe Brit-
ish Govern/met with a; viola . 11
handsome selbsidy.•
e
RACE WAR IN GEORGIA.
Police and Negroes Have a Pitch-
ed Battle.
Honerable. Gentlemen of the Senate :
Gentlemet "of the House of Com-
Itione
Jii relievirg yeti from further - ate
tendencie Parliament, I desire to
thank you for . the eare and attea-
tioe given to your important
dirties. •
The imus•ual 'number of Acts that
110. '0 been peSsed theoreorating ine
dustrial -coed railway companies may
be taken as an evidence of the rapid.
progress that Canada es• making jfl
weielth and , prosperty. Further
-
An Atlanta deepatch‘•Says: Three proot:of that satisfactory condition
polieemen and live-negroes were kill- afforded by the. 'increase in, the
ed on Saturday Morning in:Pitts-, trade and revenue of the cenintiee
. It has beet gratifying to note the
Unprecedented • flow of inmeig•rants
'from Europe and from the 'United
Stetes that are nOW seeking : homes
burg, . a su b it rb of, A tlanta, in. a bat -
TBT'. DAIRY MARKET.
tie as a result of the attempt to
•Butter—The •offeringe continee large capture the negroes who had way -
and the demand fair f or choice la i (I end • held n e I' • The
qualities. Choice grades in fair de- State militia, have been ordered out in Matitoba and in the North-West
mend. 1Ve quote :—Choice 1 -lb rolls. with artillery to attack the 'muses
-.16 to 11ec; choice large rolls, 15 to 1 Territories. The raaid increasing
Ade; riecond grades, 11 to 13 ; waere ihe negeoes haye gathered. and population ef that fertile section 'of.
en trenched themselves. The entire the Dominion nitist yearly add. to
creamery, prints, '20 to 21c; Salk's, police reserve in the city ' en duty.
is the teadc of the comeery. '
18 to lira Later it was reported that nee ' • The agreement -, entered into with
Eggs—The market is steady, with poeceme„ were. dead. The immes 01 tile Catadien. Pacific Railway Cott-
a good demand at 38 to 33ec net
----' the men killed are: City Policeman).PanY When authorizing an increase
. . .
dozen for new laid, end at lee .of its cepital to expend over nme
for Tom Grant, City pciliceman Ed.
ciegnme; county policemen Bole 0s_ million &Alms ie. providing ad-
-Cheese-1.1re market, is firm, with
sales of old at 121c, and aiew at 11!}
to 12e.
HOG inionucTs. •
Dressed hogs are unchanged. Hog
products continue in good demand,
with prices firm. We quote :—Bacon,
Ong clear, 3:016, in ton. and case ,lots
Mess pork, 621 to $21.50; do., short
cute $22.50 to P8.
Smoked Ments—Harns-18 to 131c:
ireakfast bacon, lele to 1.5c; voile,
3.1,1c; backs, 14;le to 15c, and shout-
ders,41.
Lard—The eitae'ket is steady, with
good demand. We quote :—Tierces.
11 to 3.14c; tubs, lied. pails, 1144,
cemponad. tC, Dee.
borne, and Bailiff Battey. Fatally' ditional rolling stock. will, it le hop -
injured, Owen Heard. The officers ed, materially diminish in the fir -
blamed the house in which the negro
who was .doieg the shooting was
barricaded, but the desperado es-
caped to one adjoining. Call Officer
•Speadlin was shot through the arm
.by the negro as he darted out of the
binning hoilse. Every policeman in
.Atlanta, armed With a -Winchester, is
on the scene. The excitement is in-
tense and there are. many threats of
lynchieg. • •
CANADA'S GOLDEN DAYS: ikon 9 ervitory and the rapid aevelope
- • ,,I meet in the trade of that eeetion of
Tra.cle Increased Over Twenty- Canada amply justify the 'Act
seven Minions in Ten Months. granting to its residents a 'represen-
tative in Parliament who Will/. be
Oatgtr4atelee9tPiaett(elhe stfar• I'snpae.tatie<rsr°1;rft(3.:8t:Ine::t°;11tda -e-
St. Louis, May 20.—Closed—Wheat plinths endhig April' 80th amounted more bnportant inteeeste pf that re-
-Cash, 81c; May, 70e; July, 731e ; ' to $333,522,149, me increase. of $e7,- mote part•of the
September, 731c. 4.16,920 er the eame period of litse Gentlemen of the House of,, •Com. -
.13111L110, May 20,.....4410or—Firm.., year.. 'The imports, f or the telt mons 'I
Wheat—Spring, quiet, epot, 80;ic ; months, exclusive of coin and r. thank yen in his Maiesty'e name
tore the serious losses that Intve
arisen from the insufficiett supply of
cars to carry the products from the
West t� Eastern ports. •
'The aineedenents to the Manitoba
Grain Act authorizing the farmers
it Manitoba and the North-West to
their grain at -railway statione
it: is believed, be found to serve a
esefal Cempose and defeat any at-
tempt to *press prices by combine -
thin.
The growing' popelation of the Yu -
winter, No. e red, (elec. Corn— lion, totalled 8,157,779,399, a betide- for the liberal supplies you have
. .
SNN(10toor,..o1221g61‘7%),;111,13xite(cti, 47c ; No.
3 do, 451,o.
exports of domestinprodnets only, :Gentlemen of the House of Com -
No. 9 yellow, 60c ; lerma m•ent al B1(1,836,909- For the month granted for. the public service.
c. Oats—Teufel, but firm ; of April only the inereaee was 83,- Honorable Gentlemen of the -Senate':
4.91c; No. 3- do, 49c ; ;116,821. For the ten months the
, Barley, 68 to 72ec asked, to arrive excluding coin and bullion, tiggregata
I Canal heighte steady. ahead of the. Iii•st ten months of the
I Rye—No, 1, 68 to 631c in store. ed. &telex:10,0m
” 631.6669'16- to expitss the hope that, when . we
pk, l°)indsdi:ng• you ferewell; I desire
i Milwaukee, :glee 20.—Wheat—lTighe meet next year we shall be able- to
ler ; clime, No. 1 Northern, (8' to again rejoice in the continued pros -
4781,c; No. 2 Noethern, 77 to 773e ; perity whielt now prevails o.ver this
July, 75e. Rye—Higher; No. 3,. wide Doneir.;_eio. _fa_
CRIME IN SCOTLAND,
Steady Increase in Number Im-
prisoned Since 1845,
A London despatch eaye 1—The
Prison Commissioners. of Scotland,
in their report for the year 1901,
again cart atteetion to thd Serious
inerease of crime Scotland'. The
incvease has bed) Steady ether:. 1845.
In 1900, there Were imprisemed 00,-
508 pereone, cord in 3901, 66,769.
The heavy figures, it is said, are
dare to the inceedied number of per -
sone convicted of .11111101' offenceS,
Serious critnera hOWevee, have also
greatly increased.
preceding yeer. Poe the moreth of
A.pril the experts reached a total of
$3 :73, 64n, 198, 4 gain of $1,598,565.
The chief increase ia in wheat, the
exports of NViliCh Ore $2,s33000
'ter than last year.
50c. Barley—Firmer; No. 2, 13 to
74c; samples, 65 to 73c. Coin—July ENDED LIFE WITH PISTOL
63.1 to 63,1.
Diduth, May 20.-1Vheal—Close,
cash, No, 1, hard, 1017c. No,. 1. ANTHRACITE MINES IDLE. Pr eminent Young . Montreal Man
Commits Suicide.
Northern, 161c; No. 2 Northern,
A M0.13 I real tieSpmtch says :—Grant
aidintosh, :12 ;veers old, sae of Me.
John MaIntoela of Hyde and Mein -
A Iletzleton, despatch seys ;--- tosh, accomitanhe and a prominent
-The anthracite mine workers, in cone young Montrealer, elided his life On
eention, have " decided 'to continue Saturday, while ie a state of thenttil
the serike of 345,000 'Men against aboratioe. The young man had been
the mine owners, and 1.o fight "1,-.1 out sufferieg lately froin insoninia, • aud
to ehe bitter end. The vote tp cola had gone to the couttry with. the
throe the sueoension was iisefollowe': hope of obtabring relief, hilt had re -
Total vote ca s 813 ; 101' Ntri ke, turned i (tie boleti ted S terd
4611 ; against stelide, ff(7.Til; ma- while his wiCe was oue r the house,
jority for etrike, 1111. Preeldent olytublud revel yet. ilnd killed
Mitchell, however, in compliance himself. Ills wife on her retern
with the rulee of the limited Mine found the • lifeless body of her huse
Workers, aenouncdt ta the public eand lying oh the floer of his roote
that the actIOJI Of the eoiteelition The leerily is a prominent, one, it'd]
was unanimous, the yob»g mut wae VOry popidar.
f
HAD $1,500,000 ON BOARD.
ves,sei enTotRaloutwereerkr.om 'Chili 4
A Valparaiso despatch eaye
Herman s teeth shi p 8 tijOcu , p -t,
Pining, from tills port
burg, iS 1,0Lal Wreek On the Main-
:ISland, Chili. The ("ergo bi-
dudes $1,500,000, which the Gov -
meet of , (Oil i h relllitted US'
agerife-in Europe,
74,c; May, 764,1c; july, 761c; Sept.,
74c; Man it.o131.1., No. 3_ isforthern,7130;
May, 163c; July, 76.e; Sept-, 74e
Manitoba, No, In Northern, cash and
May, 1510; No. 2 Northern, 7I3c.
Oats—Sept. 30e. Corea 69c.
Jilinecapolis, May 20—C1ose, wheat
—May, 76c; July, 7:51,e; September,
721c, on track, No. 1 hard, 79e ;
No. 1 Northern, 76.1- to 77-er; No. 2
Noethern, 751 to 75jec,
patents, $3.85 to $3.0:5; secoed do.,
33.135 to $8,75; first clears., $2:85 ;
secoed do., $2.10. Bran—In bulk,
$14 to $14.50.
LIVE STOCK lel IK PITS
Toronto, May 20.—At the Western
cattle yards to -day the receipts,
amounted to 76 cars, iecludieg 1,-
670 eattle, 243 Sheep and lanebs, 800
hog, delveS, and it few 11111(.11
COWS, Owing coneiderablY to the
heavy run eittlle dragged somewhat
to -day. mid prices foe anything but
the best enttle Were a little off, and
some of the stein' Was left ever. The
export trade wits light in demand,
and prices eaSed oa a hit before
pooh, hat ohoioo stun' fetched front
517, to 61 Per potted. The best Mite
The Workers Have beeided to Con-
tinne the Strike.
PRINCE CHRISTIAN'S ESCAPE
Carriage it Which Ile Was Biding
olViet With Accident,
A London despatch sees: While
returning. , herrn the reins on
'1111115-
(11137 afternoon the carringe in which
leence Christion and 501110 (rinds
Were ridiltg Mee eel th ert aCrident
One of ties doers of the earriage.
evrenehol oft, hut Ube dempants es-
caped With 0 shaking up. ,
NEWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
CANADA,
rii‘:',1(1; proposal to create a, Highland
regiment in Hamilton has been ,
rIllsc. new 0. p. b,ridge,Win111-
peg is completed and ready for the
ntu'eoes er to- ,
man
Idea. Father IMPherson, Little Bras
d'Or, has , sold his extensive mineral
deposits at Clrg
Ainerican, syndicate for 31,200,000.
The Syndicate will also acquire pos-
sessiou of an ektensive deposit of
anthracite coil recently discovered
on the Island of Boularderie, it few,
mace away from Little 331•ris d'Or.
GREA9T-13ItITAIN.
Six thousand tons of' obselete siret
and shell are offered for sale by the
War Office,
The Bishop of Ipswich has been'
fined £2 3.1s. for keepirig five 'dogs
without licenses. •
The Mansion House fund for the
relief of, St. Vincent sufferers
amounts to £14,000,
'A shark seven feet'ken inches long,
found lying stranded on the beach,
has, been killed hear Dartmouth,
One of the boilers ,of II. 111. cruiser
-Arrogant is to be 'converted to ,
flotwwi. ,
of the cOnsumption of liquld • •
One effect of the operations of the
beef trust has been to send ep, the
price of bacon and cheese in Eaglaitd.
The Admiralty has decided to refit
all the thirty-four torpedo guabOahti
on the Navy List with new engine0
and boilers. ,
'no gifts and addresees received by
the Prince and Priacess of Wales dur-
ing their tour are -on exhibition at
the Inigerial Institute, London.
It is, stated in English' iisurance
ch•cles that in .several notable in-
stances an American syndicate has
tried to gobble up certain. compan;(-0.,
It has been stecessful so far as One
impertailt British company is (one
cerned.
-.UNWED STATES.
Gonad, Texas, was swept by a tor-
nado. Prom fifty to one hundred -are
reported killed. '
• rph‘ American Steel 'Founders
Company, with a capital of $40,-
000.000, is being organized • 'at
Ohica,go. .
The will of Potter Palmer of Chi-
cago, bequeaths $8,000,000, mad
leaves Mrs. Palmer virtually in con-
trol of the estate.
• By means' of a'great drainage' ditch
20,000 acres of swamp land in ;Casa
and Buren Counties, Mich, will be
reclaimed. , • '
The second distribution of profits
from the United States Steel 'Cor-
poration was sent out on Monday by
the J. P. Moran Company, linteting-
lug to $10,000,000. ,
• Julius Newton, once it wealthy
inember of the New York Stook Ex-
change, committed suicide in a pen-
niless condition, and the brokers are
raising aaubscription to bury him
At Atlanta, Georgia, a number of
negroes barricaded ,theinselves in a
Store to resist arrest. A lot of pro-
miscuous shooting took place; and
three policemen, four negroes and
white citizen were killed.
• James Underwood, a- negro: who
boasted that he had killed two men
and threatened to kill two promin-
ent presidents at the first opportun-
ity, was lynched at Decatur, Megisi
County, Tenn., on Sunday,.
• The octogenarian brothers, Hugh,
and Neal O'Donnell, of New York,
who acquired large fortunes as
coopers, have for the past 18 years
distributed their profits of $40,000
annually among various charities,
and now at their death have willed
tbeir property to charities:
000,000.
Pompeii. .
the mountain in the direction of
trip from Paris to Now York in tPoe
days is possible, at a cost of 31,-
teers. .
carry 100 passengers and make the
the Uniform of the 'Shanghai' whin-
Veettviue has fallen in, and „large
crevices are observed in the peak of
aeronaut, states that an airship to
A portion of the cone of Mount
M. Santos-Dument, the celebrated
Khali is to give place to serge in
GENERAL.
ELEVATOR SITES FIXED.
Ogilvie Milling Company- AA-
no-unces the Locations.
• A Montreal . despatch says
P. W. Thompson, vice-president and
general manager oi the W. W. Ogilvie
Milling Company, on Wednesday an-
nounced the location of the 20 grain
elevators whic3 it is proposed to
erect &whiz the present season in
Manitoba and the North-West Ter-
ritorlep. Six of the elevators, 11e1ne-
1Y. thOSO at renee, Ita]gonie,' Orem-
fell, Annan d , Manner, and "Carl
vihl be situated in the Territories,
While the remaining 14 will be in
Alanit,Oba as follows :—Brookdale,
Bradwardine, Sinciajr, Newdele; 14"
nore, 'Arcola,- Caine -01e, Kenton,
Oakvil le, ran chiew, letrgaret, Gil-
bert Plaiu, :Dtaireit, and at the ter-
minal eif the Wasikaela branch of the
,
NO PASSENGERS KILLED.
Remarkable Beeord of Safety
English Railways,
.A :Londoe deepetch Sart :---The
nottri 1ms-tied by the Bowel of 'Prado
on leatueday in regard - to railr pad
tcchdePaSSCnlgi 1)Vol‘1.1714 h
e 3701U'
100.1. .['his is the first tithe that: a,
record of this kind .:has ber,?ri
ttiiii-
)11ittOp(, Maven 111)410 37 enrp1opies
and nerscms who Were' not' passim-
.tgi..."%tse're 'Ilvvesi;h°.e .11. 1
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