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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1902-9-18, Page 6TI CKINGCOMBINE Reaches Out After All By - Products and Allied Industries A Chicago despatch says :—The tecerd-Herald says to -day long expected merger cif the great meat Packing intereste in the United States will go into active and open operation Saturday, Seat. 27, unless there eliottkl he au entirely unlookede for change in the plans agreed upon by all those concerned in the deal at a meeting held here to -clay. Au industrial combination second only to the steel trust in point of magni- tude and 1111r (Mance is therefore, practically an accomplished fact. It is said the combine is to be capitalized at the rate of twenty - Ave times the last year's earnings of the constituent companiee, For eaa ample, Cudahy & Co. are said to have 'earned about $320,000 in 1901, which would make their share of the capital stock of the merger $21,- 000,000, A four per cent, dividend that the new consolidation might he expected to declare would amount to 8840,000 on this lot of stock— approximately its legitimate earn- ings. On the baeis of capitalization Armour & Co., whose last year's profits are supposed to have been about 88,000,000, will receive $200,- 000,000 in the new securities as ex- change for their business. Swift & Co. will receive $50,000,000, their net earnings for the past year pro- bably not araottieting to more than $2,000,000, by reason ofthe fact that this concern does not own its subsidiary companies, such as car lilies and selling agencies Carrying out this method to the end, the Schwarzchild & Sulzburger Co. would receive $26,000,000. It is said that it is the undoubted determination of the consolidated meat interests to control all the packing houses and stock yards of the country, and save every possible dollar ixx the cost of manufacturing and distribution. In additioxx to this, all by-products will be abso- lutely controlled, and etTorts made to buy up industries that are closely allied to the meat business. order to get two ends so that it eon be spun, a minimum portion. of wool or cotton is mixed With. it, le order that it MAY 131 HELD TOGETHER— The mid step after weaving carries it to tinserupulous dealers, who sell this: preelection to the laboring' men, and in fact to all classes et' ea- cietY, for "pure wool," thus getting :for a suit worth three or four d1 - lar', mere thaa three times this aleraint. "To encourage sucli a, fraud is simply putting the lousy irags of European paupers in. (tannic tition with the sheep and wool ;growers of America and eleewhere, i and robbing the eons -tuners who iwear woollen garmeets by selling ;them the stuff under a misrepresent- ation." :11 the foregolug statethents I are facts, and it is scarcely likely I theLive Stock Association would publicly state them ualeas they were true, it can be readily seen that apart from the fraud and misrepre- sentation irs the matter, there is a 'considerable source of danger to the public health through Mfection. It will, I believe, be readily ad- mitted that some shoddy is better than many low-grade wools, ancl when made into cloth, would make a better article sthan the short staple low-grade wool, but this is one of the anomalies one has to contend with, and should not be a. stumbling Strenuous efforts will no doubt be made in all countries where legisla- black to legislation on the ques- tion. tape is proposed to prevent the con- sideration of the subject; but the difficulties in the way of formulat- ing a workable exiactinent cannot be insurmyuata.ble, and I sincerely hope that this paper may do something to ,hasten the object we have in view. ALFRED alANSELL, Shrewsbury, Eng. WHY WOOL IS SO OITEAP PROPOSED LEGISLATION re SO-CALLED "WOOLLEN GOODS." Stand Taken by the National Live Stock Association ot the United States. With this subject in -view, the Hon. Chas. H. Grosvenor, at the request of the National Live Stock Association, recently introduced in- to the Rouse of Representatives of the United States, a bill to provide for federal inspection of mixed goods and the proper marking of the same, which is krown as II. It. 6565. The i purpose of this bill is to make it ; possible for the constuner to know i what he is purchasing by having the I goods stamped so as to inciacate whether it is . all wool, or if not, I then the percentage of shoddy or *waste. There is no objection made to the use of cotton waste, in.ungo, shoddy, etc., in the manufacture of textile fabrics, when the fact is made known. to the consumer, and where .fraud is not perpetrated by selling these martures as all -wool fabrics. As an. epitome of the measure, the following is extracted: "AU maa- ufacturers of goods or fabrics of any kird whatsoever made in imitation of woollen goods or fabrics or goods which when so made are calcu- lated or intended to be sold as woollens or woollen goods, not made wholly of new or unused sheep's wool, shall so mark, label, or tag such goods, as that they may be readily distinguished from genuine wools or woollens, asde- fined in the first section of this Act. That such mark, label or tag shall be so attached to such goods or fabrics so that it cannot be de< tached except by designs and such label shall accurately state in plain priated letters or figures the con.- stituent fibres or other materials or substances of which it is composed, Or the relative proportion per cent. of each." T1TE PENALTY for non-compliance with the provis- ions of the proposed law are thus set forth: "That any manufactur- er, merchant, importer, or other per- son who shall wilfully, recklessly, or carelessly mark incorrectly any cloths, fabrics, or any article man- ufactured, or in the process of man- ufacture therefrom, required by this Act to be labelled or marked, no as to show a larger per cent. of wool or a smaller per cent. of shoddy or Cheaper fibre or material, in any manner than will, or is calculated to, deceive or mislead the purchaser :thereof, shall be guilty of a misde- meanor, and shall be lined rot less than $50, and not more than $5,- 000 for ea.& offence." The National Live Stock Aseocict- tion points out that "there are sev- eral classes of shoddy." The best is Made from the sweepings le,1 tailor shops, and the emptyitgs of rag- bags in eivilie,ed countries, The ;worst, which constitutes the greater Part tined in America, is from the rotten oast -off rags of beggars and 'the lazar and pest houses tif Europe, having in thenx all kinds and 'amounts of filth arid disease. These are gathered by rag -pickers from. the Shims and alleys and sent to Amer - ice, in shiploads, where they are atirchased by a certaii cease of man- erfaeturers, Who, la order toatake the etteme off the name, teret the stuff ."re -used woot fibre," it Mutt be see Membered, 'however, that in most in - Stamm, when tearing this shadd;y to pieces, preparatory to again weaving it irto do -Uri it is found to be see rotten and dead; that noth- tag is produeed but shuet, and in GUARDING FRENCH BANK During the Night a Company of Infantry Watches. . The New York Herald says: If th.e reported robbery of the Bank of France of $44,000 in gold is borne out by facts it en= be undoubtedly one of the most remarkable thefts in the history of banking institutions, be- cause -the most stringent precautions are taken to guard its vaults. All the specie received in the bank by the cashiers is brought in bags on little trucks, which run on rails to the chief cashier's office. From there it is taken to the strong room In the vaults below the bank. This strong room is guarded by a stout steel door, to opea which three sep- arate locks must be turned. These three locks are always undone by three separate officials, no one man being allowed to handle more than one key. The door of the strong room opens into a narrow room, large enough to contain three or more people. On the right is a s'fbne staircase leading to a laby- rinth of narrow passages, in which are stored the bags of specie. Like the Bank of England, the Bank of France is guarded during the night time by a company of in- fantry. C1.3.4maare... • SPANISH STRIKES SERIOUS Danger of Cessation of Work on all Railroads. A London despatch says :—Ac- cording to Thursday's despatches froni. Barcelona, Spain, the local authorities there have requeste4 the Ministry of the Interior to maintain martial law on account of the, atti- tude of the strikers,. Private ad- vices received in London represent the situation. at Barcelona ae acute, in consequence of the determination of the authorities to suppress what Is described xis a genuine labor move- ment. In addition to minor strikes the railroad workers are protesting against their long hours and setting forth. other grievances,* and the movement threaten's to result in a, general cessation of work at any moment .on all the Spanish rail- roads. NEWFOUNDLAND'S DESTINY Will Ultimately Federate With Canada, A London despatch says: The Daily Chronicle commenting on Sat- urday morning on the errand of Sir Robert 13or.d, Premier of Newfotuid- land, in. Washing -ton, says there is no reason to doubt that he will suc- ceed iri arranging reciprocity be- tween Newfoundland and the United States. "Sir Robert evidently be- lieves that such a treaty would be preferable to absorption by Can- ada," says the paper. "'We doubt whether he is right, and we believe that tifilou with Canada is New- foundland's ultimate destiny. The experiment which Sir Robert is mak- ing is at any rate one that will be watalsed with equal interest and alarm.'" TO PROTECT HER BORDERS Canada's Part in, Imperial Defenee Scheme. An Ottawa despatch says: The Free Press says it is probable that at the approaching session the Gov- ernment will invite Parliament's coneurrenee in a edam; by which Canada will practically assuine the duty of deferiding her box der This will .-be the Dominion's contribution toward Iraperial defence,. Thie is what Australia ha2 practioally con- sented to do for hereelf. The details are yet to be worked out, bat it 10 noe Unlikely lhat they will isiciade the taking ever of the garrison duty new done on the east and wet, eoasts by Triaperial. troops. TtiE iyiARKETs, for mama W dicl have prices were stronger et from. $4.50 to $5 p,er eWt. There WaS DS) eha,nge VW 111.0diUM and ememou eattle, but Prices of Grain, Cattle, •etc in Trade Centres. mboi..foIR BREADSTSIFFS. Toronto, Sept. 10, --a Wheat —The Market is quiet at 60c for red and White east and 05e middle freights. Goose is neMinal at 03e .for No. 2 east end 02e Middle freigats. Maisie tobawheat is steady 1313Ao for No. 1 hard, 82a -e for No. 3. nerth- ern aad. 80ao for No. 2 aorthere sTinding, in tratsit, . • . FlourasIs steady; 90 Per cent, pat- ents are Offerhig a.t$2.70 in buyers' bags east and middle freights, with exporters. bidding $1370; choice brands are 15e to 200 higher. Millfeed—Issteady at $17 for !shorts. and $12.50 for bran in hulk east or middle freights. Manitoba Imilifeed is steady at $23 foT shorts and. $17 for bran., sacks incauded, Toronto freights. I Barley—Is steady at :37c to 38e for [No. 3 and 89e to 40c for No. 8 e•X- tea middle freights and east. Iye-1s steady at d3ci 1 or No. east and Middle freights. Cora—Tbe Market. is quiet at 62c for Canada west.. American No. 3 yellow is quoted at 68ac on the. track Toronto, 1 Oats—Are about steady, No. 2 while are quoted at 30c to 80'le , east and at 29c bid and 29ac asked. !middle freights, and 80c flaked low freights to New York. Peas—Aee quiet at 73c for No. 2 east and 72e west. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter—The receipts are very large and all the requirements of the trade ere easily met. There is a. good in- quiry for creamery, prints and for the dairy rolls, but other grades are slow. Prices are unchanged. Creamery prints ... .-19c to 20c 'do solids fresh made 180 to 18ac do earlier make ......17c to 18c Dairy tubs and pails, choice . 15c to 00c do medium. 12*c to 14c . do common to 1,2e do pound rolls 15c to 16C do medium. 13c to 15c Eggs—The supply of selects is slight and there is a big consumers' demand. The market is firm at 16c. Chips and seconds are plentiful and are quoted steady at 10c to 11c. Potatoes—Farmers are bringing very few potatoes to market now and receipts have fallen off greatly. The market is firm at 70c to 75c per bag out of store. Poultry—There is a good demand for the choice stock but old and withered birds are slow. Prices are steady at 65c to Soc for dressed chickens ard ducks, 45c to 60c foe; live ducks, 45c to 50c for live hens. and 60c for live chickens. Turkeys . are nominal at 11c to 12e. Beans—New York, Sept. 16. —1 There is rather a firm feeling on choice pea beans, recent sales being on a more liberal scale. They are still held at $1.95 per bushel, and poor to good are quoted at $1.50 to $1.90. Baled Play—The demand is fairly good and the market is steady. Cars of No. 1 timothy on the track here are quote(' at $9. Baled Straw—Is in moderate de- mand and the market is steady. Cars on the track here are quoted at $5.50. inost of theta scald. Stockers and feeders were itachangea, but a. firn2er , ten° prevailed for both. Mica cows ti are fetchieg from $25 to $45 eaeh, }With eaquiry for a few ehoice milch 1 cows, 'Three is alai) steady enquiaar for good t. choice veal calves. Silla,11 Stnfl Wa.s in lighter supply, and praetieally unchanged to -day. Export ewes aro worth from. $8.30 to $3,00 per ova Lembe sold at frees $8,75 to $4.75 per cwt. Culled sheep sell at from $2 to 83 each. Bucks are worth from $2.25 to $.- 75 per cwt, I Calves are quoted from $2 to $3.0 each, or from 8 to 5e per lb. IPollowing is the range of quota- tions: Cattle. Shippers, per cwt ......$5,25 $5,75 I Do., light ,.. 4.25 5.00 Butcher, ciioie 4.50 5.00 Butcher, ordinary to good ...8.00 4.00 Stockers, per eivt 8.20 3,75 I Tiogs. Choice hogs, per cwt 7.00 7,12,1 - Light kogs, per cwt 6.75 6.871 Heavy hogs, per cwt. 6.75 Sows, per cwt -.350 . Stags, per cwt 0.00 ' Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per ewt 3,80 3.60 -Lambs, per cwt 3.40 4.25 33ticks, per cwt 2.25 2.75 Culls, each 2.00 3.00 I Milkers and Calves. Cows, each ... _25,00 42.00 Calves, each ... 2.00 10.00 6.37* 4.00 2.00 ELECTRICAL SERVICE ..___ Letters to Be Transmitted on, Overhead Wires. , A Rome despatch says :—Signor Galimberti, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, and the officials of his I department have examined a scheme [submitted by Engineer Piseicelli for the establishment of an electrical postal service. Tim system proposes to transrait letters in aluminum ,boxes, traveling on overhead wires 'at the rate of 400 kilometres (248 i alines) au hoer. Thus a letter would Igo from Rome to Naples in, 25 min- utes, and from Rome to Paris in five hours. Signor Galimberti has appointed a, teelmical commission to , examine the system, and report be- fore experiments are made between ,Rome and Naples. 'BETTER—FIRE SAFEGUARDS Electric Wiring in Ottawa Build.- ings Inefficient. An. 'Ottawa despatch says :—The electric wiring in Ottawa. buildings has been Strongly condemned by Mr. Geo. C. Wright, of Toronto, in- spector of the Berlin Fire Insurance Co. Da view of the frequency of fires , occurring in several places, the origin of which seems' to ba ' a matter of doubt, the insurance com- panies are becoming alive to the ne- cessity of insisting upon all the safeguards being secured. He points out that in Toronto- the companies have been most active ia this direc- tion, and close scrutiny has follow- ed the wiring of all public build- ings, stores, etc. a GOODS FOR SOUTH AFRICA PROVISIONS. Meats—Are acti-ve ard trade is in fair condition. The volume of busi- ness is limited on account of the small stocks on hand. Prices are firm and unchanged. Lard is stea- dy. Pork—Canada short cut, $24; heavy mess, $20.50; clear shoulder mess, $18. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats — Long clear bacon, lle; hams, 13ac to 14c; rolls, 12e to 12ac; shoul- ders, 13.a0; backs, 15e to 16c; break- fast bacon, laac to 15c; green meats out of pickle are quoted at lc less than smoked. Lard—Tierces, 10/0, tubs lin and pails 111c. BUFFALO GRAIN MARKETS. Buffalo, Sept. 16. -- Flour steady. Wheat, spring firm; No. 1 northern spot, old, carloads, 81a0; winter ir- regular; No. 2 red, 7210. Corn, de- in.cincl light; No. 2 yellow, 671c; No. 3, 67c; No. 2 corn, 661e; No. 3 do., 661e. Cate—Unsettled, but gener- ally stronger; No. 2 white, 32a0 to 38e; No. 3 do., 81.ac to 82c; No, 2 mixed, 291c; No. 3 do., 29e. .Bar- ley, western, 52c to 65c. Rye, No. 1, 51ac. Canal freights firm; wheat 40, corn 3e, to New York. EUROPEAN GRAIN MARKETS London, Serra 16. — Opening — Wheat, on passage, quiet ana stone dy; cargoes about No. 1. Calif., iron, prompt, 29s aad bid. Corn, on pati- -sage, rather firmer. London, Sept. 16. — Close -- Mark Lane—Wheat, foreign. steady; Eng- lish nominally unebanged. ,"Corn; American, nothing cloths; Dane:101mi, steady at an advance of 3d. Flour firm. Paris, Sept. 16.—Close a-- Wheat firm; September, 202; jaamary and April, 20! 30c. Flour steady; Sep- tember, 27! 90e; January and April, 261 55e. LIVE STOCK MARKETS, Toronto, Sept. 16,—At the West- ern cattle market this morning the receipts were 75 carloads, including 1,411. cattle, 1,188 sheep and lambs, 500 hogs, 50 calves, and 15 ninth cows. The market alt round Was quo-tably unchanged; good cattle Werea shade firmer, but little good stuff WEIS here, For 4 fees loads of extra thole° expert cattle to -day $5.90 per mt. was paid, but the rarge was from $5 te $5.75 as a. rule, and from $4,25 to $5 for light shippers. More choice export °tittle Would have sold. Only a small supply of really choiee butcher cattle Welee here, but Ottawa Manufacturer Has Sold Five Carloads of Furniture. A despatch from:Ottawa says: The value of the South African market and the demand there for Canadian goods is indicated by the large num- ber of sales recertly made by Can- adian firms. Among the largest of these is the Sale by an Ottawa manufacturer to a South African merchant of five carloads of furni- ture. The goods are to be shipped as soon as possible. BOERS TO VISIT US • They Were Once Prisoners in St. Helena ancl. Ceylon. An Ottawa despatch says :—The two parties of Boers who are to visit this • .cOuntry • are front the prisoners who were confined at • St. Helena and Cey- lon. The St. Relena party Will con- sist of Messrs. Jooste, Lane and Stewart, and will be accompanied by Lieut. Godson, of the South Afri- can Constabulary, as guida The Boers from Ceylon are Messrs. Ma- ritza Leas, 13adenharst and Schee- many, with Mr. ,T. M. Finley as guide. It was the wish of both Right Ron. Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Milner that the Boer delegates should -visit Canada before the win- ter sets in, .going afterwards to New Zealand and Australia - NO TIME TO TENDER Canadians Deprived, of Chance of Securing Contracts. Ass Ottawa despatch says A ca- blegram received by the Department of Trade ard Commerce from the High Commissioner in London states that ferias containing .information tepee which to base tenders for army supplies for South Africa will be forwarded by the first mail frem Pretoria. 'The War Office hap in- formed the High Commissioner that [it is not possible to alter the date for receiving tenders. The date is October ist, and as the reforms re- ferred to will scarcely reach Canada before thee Canadian firms will not be able to tender. EIGHTEEN -KNOT SERVICE What Shipping Circles Expect of . Canadian Fast Line. A Liverpool despatch says: The statement that, the Canadian, Gov- ernment, will agree to Subsidiee etecierishipe of 18 -knot epeed Inc the service betWeeri Liverpool arid Can- ada is received in the beat shipping eirelee as beirg more Within the sphere of praetidal tomMereial poli - the. URDER IN 114 GIN COUIN TY Farm Hand KillS a Lad of Whoin He Was Jealous A St. Thomas, Ont., despatch says: William Charles King wxis ar- reeteal on Sat•urclay aftereoon by In- spector John Murray, of tbe pro- vincial force, charged with, the mur- der of James William Freeman, the 15 -year-old adopted son of D. 13. Freeman, who owns a farm on Hog' street, in the Township of Aldbor- ough, King is Freeman's hired 1110.0. Freeman was killed on Tuesday of last week by what was supposed to be the accidental discharge of a gun. An inquest was held after an inves- tigation by County Crown Attorney Donahue, and on the strength of the. fact that no powder marks could be found oz the boy's face, although the shot had spread over an area of six inches. It is stated that a gun cligtharged at so close a maga as would have been necessary in young Freeman's case, ,froni the eositiou he Was 111, could not- possibly spread the shot over such a wide area, uor could such a thing occur without leaving powder marks on the injured On thefarin, besides 111i*. aed Mrs. Freeman, lived a Charles King, half-witted fellow, who is 25 years of age, but has more the appearance 02 15. PRISONER'S FIRST STORY. .At the inquest held on Wednesday Mug testified that he had been with Mr. Freeman for six and a half years. The first he knew of any- thing wrong in the drive -house was at noon when he was near the houses after having harnessed Mr. Free- man's- horse. Previous to this he had helped Mrs. Freeman to churn, and had taken out Mr. Freeman's coat. After hearing, the shot he ran to the barn aad went upstairs, where he found young Freeman on a carpenter's sawhorse, sitting astride of it, with his head forward, one arm on each side, while the gun. lay on the floor, with the butt lying to- wards and within a foot of the boy. His hat was also lying on the floor. The boy was alive, but unconscious., and bleeding in the ileighborhood Of the right eye. The: witness picked up the gun and put it away -clown etairs in i.ts usual. placo I1 then weut to- the helm ana told. Mrs. Fiaeinue, Wile ran out screaming, just as her laueband was going ciat of the gate, -After this he int:drawl Freeman of what had .happened, and was told by the latter to go and ask Cohn alaPhersan t� go for the doctor; Up to this time Freeman had net Kea the iejured 'boy, but Mrs.. Freeman had. With ale, Cros- by, who had also been notified, the party again. went upstairs and took the lad from.' his, position, layiag hint On the floor. The last -he saw Of young .Freeinars was when the latter was earrYittg in peaches. The gun belonged to Me. Ceosby, cind had been borTewed by Mr. Freeman: to shoot 'squirrels. Witness hadonly elicit the gun off once. He did not .know what Willie had been doing With the gun. Re reeseithered Mr. Freeman loading the weapon izi the Metaing. 1VIrs, Eliza Freeman's evidence was to -the effect that the dead boy had been adopted by theist when aye months old from the Flouee of In- dustry at St, Thomas; and was at the time of his death aged fifteen years, and balm 'months. Kin had been ozi the farm six yeaes., THE 'BODY EXHUMED. Inspector Murray on .arrival nt Rodney proceeded to the cemetery with County Crown Attorney Dona- hue and Drs. Lawrence, Duncombe, and Webster, arid had the body ex- hunied. An examiaation a the shot *auntie showed that it .would have beee impossible foe them to have been self inflicted. .A visit :was then made to the Freeman halm, and King put through all his alleg- ed movements after hearing the shot on the day of the tragedy. After talking the matter over With Iespecter, Murray; the suspected man broke down and acknowledged that he had shat yonug Freeman because he was jealous of him Iii t�iling his story King said he crept upstairs in the drive -house and took aini at Freeman's eye and pilot him. He then caul ed ;Wt. and Mrs. Freeman and told them:that "Willie had shot hansself." . King was. brought to the county jail. here by Inspector Murray. NEWS ITE S. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. CANADA. The "All Gold Creek," 50 milea up the Klondike River from Dawson, is now yielding paying values. • In well informed circles Sir C. A. P. Pelletier is mentioned as the next Lieut. -Governor of Quebec. Lieut. - Governor Jette retires next year. Canadian trade with New Zealand is showing consi.derable improvement In. both imports and exports. Trade is also increasitig with New South Wales. GREAT BRITAIN. The King and Queen were among the exhibitors at the cat and dog show at Harrogate. Seventeen new vessels were launch- ed during August from shipbuilding yards on. the Clyde. Lord- Roberts has fixed Oct. 23 for his visit to Portsmouth to receive a jeweled sword of honor. Lord Roberts, commander-in-chief of the British army, having approv- ed of automobiles, a corps will be enrolled in the army. .The Prince of Wales will lay the last stone of the North Pier at Rok.er, Sunderland, which has been fifteen years under construction. Three properties in different parts of Hampshire have recently been sold to French religious communities who are taking refuge in England. In addition to Lord Kitchener, the guests of the Master Cutler at the Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield on Sept. 30 will include Mr. Gerald Balfour and Mr.. Choate. Several farmers, left Norwich, Eng- land, last week for Pretoria. They are to settle in the Western Trans- vaal. A. batch of Norfolk agricul- tural laborere will follow. The Absent -Minded Beggars' Hos- pital, which was built at Alton out of the fund collected from the , sale of Kipliug's poem, has been handed over to the War Office. A new cottage hospital, which wae formally opened at .St. Andrews, contains a, memorial ward to the late Lieut. Tait, the well-known gol- fer, who fell at Koodoosberg. The Clyde shipbuilders have sub- mitted teaders to the Admiralty for a first-class battleship of the King Edward type. The new vessel will have the most powerful armament in the navy. The Anglo -Chinese treaty is hailed in London as a triumph of British diplomacy, and the work of Sir Jarnes MacKay in persuading the Chinese to strike off the licaviest fet- ters on counnerce is greatly praised, UNITED STATES. Four 'negro boys under arrest con- feesed to having started fourteen in- cendiary flew since last June in tho. wholesale diatrict of ,Kansas City. Dames Eeriest Ileyerbach, bank clerk, killed himself al; New York he left a note saying, "An examirsatims of my accounts; 'Will give the truth.'" The United. States' Government crop eeporte are very satisfeetery, and the wheat is generally reported to be above the terayear averages. Geitrude ltfillera of Monticello, N. Y. Sixteen years 'old., committed wi- eld°, using a:revolver 'to send a, bul- let into her heart. She was mar- ried only one Week and thought her husband had forsaken. hers GENERAL. .rive hutdrod and devete women. Medical studerits are tow Studying; in Switzerland. Official statietiCe show thak due- . ing the year 1901 no fewer than 8,- 681 inurders were committed in Eu- ropean Russia. . Honer Ja,g-gle, who celebrated his 102n4 birthday iri Vienna recently,' was a drunnner -boy in the war against the great -Napoleon. • The foundation stone of the Church of All Saints., in Ladysmith, whith is to be built fie a memorial of the siege, was laid by General Lyttle- ton, At Simla a native servant shot and wounded it lieutenant. An or- derly of the Thirty-fifth Sikh Regi- ment Guard shot the servant before he could escape. The' scientific opinion. is. expressed that the revival of voleanie activity in the West Indies is a menace to all the French and English islands in - the Antilles. . An Italian Anarchist, who threw stones through the windows of the car bearirg King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena to Palermo last May was sentenced in Naples to six years and eight months' imprison- ment. BRITISH TEAM WON TROPHY Twelve Points Ahead of the Am- - erican Marksmen. An Ottawa, despatch says :—The mach coveted Palma trophy, won last year at Sea Girt ranges by the Canadian team, was carried off on Saturday by the British riflemen after a sharp tussle and the piling up of scores considerably in excess of those which won last year. At the conclusion. Of the shooting at 800 yards things looked rosy for the American team, as they held a lead of 22 over the British and 42 over the Canadians. At the 000 yards' range, bowever, the British, marks- men not only pulled down the lead, but got twelve points, ahead, which they retained through the 1,000 yards' shooting, making a tie with the American team With a total of 448. The finiah was magnificent. One of the Englishmea made a miss, but the steady shooting of the others made amends. for the temporary lapse. . KING DRIVING GROUSE His Majesty Enjoys Better Health Than for Years Past. A London despatch. says :a -With th.e arrival of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, at Bahnoral, his Majesty's coevalrecence is officially declared to be complete. The fact that the King hag already indulged in deer stalking, and is now busy with grouse drivieg, coupled with the departure of the Queen for Co- penhagen this week, indicate's the confidence of those in attendance on bis Majesty that his healtlt is fully re,s,tored, Indeed, the King is en- joying beti-ar health than for years. The yachting tour of their Majeeties around the English at 4 Scotch coasts, wee a lazy, drifting cruise, stoppieg tit many spots hitberto ea- -visited by them. Their reception oVeryWhere demonstrated the per - Sanaa popularity of their Majesties. • SAWMILL TO CROSS LINE' Cannot Got Eaough. Timber on the Michigan Side, A Prescott, Mich., despatch seys —The big Iletti»gee saw nixil that cats three hundred thousand kat of pine ill one day, IR to be removed to the Canadian side, th the Geor- gian tiny cotinti'y, as the Limber in this I eciiii I.:5 Malay exhatistecl. CANADIAN SOO CANAL Increased Traffic Through Dor minion's Waterway. An Ottawa, cleOpateh says :—The total freight (tarrieci by the two Soo canals elurieg the month of August hset was 5,070,491 toneable is 382,674 tons more than were cer- ried in August, 1901, and SL,355,- 71.7 tons more than the quantity carried ia August, 1000. Of the total of 5,070,491. tons carried by the two <inmate, the Canal:lain Soo car- ried 639,858 tons, which exceeds the freight carried in August, 1901, by 1344,683 tons, - -ead that in August 1900, by 370,1.66 tons. Taking the five months of the present season, the total freight carried by the avo Canals was : 1902, 18,163,288 tona; 1901, 18,150,27.5 tons; ern' 1900, 13,056,074 tone. Thus' 1.902 allOWS a gain of 5,007,013 tons compared with 1901, and of 5,107,211 tone compared with 1900. The total, freight carried by the Canadian canal in the five months of the three years is : 1902, 2,814,546 toas ; 1001, 1,958,58:3 tons ; 1900, 1,247,- 281 tons, Compared with the Unit- ed States Soo for the five months the Canadian canal carried 13 per cent. of the total freight in 1902, 12.06 per cent. in 1901, and 7.56 per Gent. in 1900. MULATTO TURNED WHITE All Done Within Seven Years — Remarkable Case. A York, Pa., despatch says: Mrs. Cornelia Noble, a mulatto, 60 years old, residing in this City, in seven years has completely changed color. aave for a few marks on her arm and body; the transtormatioa being fromathat of the natural hue of the Mulatto to the delicate white com- plexion of the fairest Caucasian. Mrs. Noble. gays: "It is just sevea yeats Once I noticed a smcal white spot at the top of iny ferebead, just at the roots 'of the hair. It grad- ually spread, aud within a year had reached the size of half a dollar. In the meantime other white spots ap- peared on my face, neck, arras and body. Now, as you see, I am cam— Pletely white, with the exception ef these marks on my arms and hotly, and, strange to. pay, these maeks are mach darker than was' my' original color. I am and have beerin per - feet health." Mrs. Noble is the wife of a. Cuban. :E.Ier maternal graachnother was a German, while her paternal grandfather was a Case Wien. WIRELESS SERVICE Inventor to Begin Final Experi- ments in. Three Weeks. A London deepatch says: Crith- beet Hall, the London manager of the Marconi 'Wireless Co., in an in- terview on Thursday said Signor Marconi would reach the United States in three weeks on the cruiser. e Carlo Alberta, which has been.plac- ed at his disposal by the Italian. Government, and which is outfitted with a wireless systeni. On his ar- rival in America Signor Marconi will immediately begin his last series of experiments preparatory to the es- tablishment of a commercial wire- less service across the Atlantic. Marconi anticipates success in the fullest seuse of the word. While crossirg the Carlo Alberta will con- stantly send communications to the English side, so that everything -will be ready at the moment of her ar- rival, when Marconi himself will flash the message which will be the culmination of the work of years. SANITARY REFORM Enteric Fever Delayed End. of War Six Months. A London despatch sa.ys: Presid- ing at the sanitary science section of the Sanitary Congress, in ses- sion at Manchester, on Thursday, Sir James Crichton Browne, M. D., era.phasizing the necessity for re- forming the sanitary organization of the British army, said enteric fever during the South African war hod reduced the fighting force by 70,000 • to 80,000 Mell. BLit for this the war 'would have been ended six • CREMATING LIVE I3ABIES t.:-,;(inni ssfi 1 ms boort $350,000,000 woirld have been sav- ed. ChargeMade Against Ta.esehlet. attributes the charees to Boston Man Succeeds With..His the htuncin voice beieg accurately and d is tinctly reproduced . 11er:cilia ly be constructed an instrument at Medicine without a license and the motives of revenge inspired ci,:y her ed in telephoning by lIertsicia waves, inade this and other serious themes " cured a warrant against Mrs. woman has been. arrested. airs, woman patient in W. Pickard of thie city bas succeecl- Cape 'Italy by which sounds Were 131011t1IS earlier, and $300,000,000 to Taeschler, who conducts a private before the State 13oard of .1Tealtla. Taeschler on a charge of practising refusal to allow' Elahrelybotoapivtiasli.t a TALKS BY HERTSIAN WAVES _,T. ed. As a result officials of the board an - cured of living babies in her kit - hospital in South May street. Early kit- chen range" is a charge made by Charles Early against Mrs. :Pauline A 13ostori despatch says: Greenleaf A Chicago despatch says :—"Cre- Experiments a tuagiintetaedoby40TIma jettesal,fitlivavtatvoe_sciay 42 rst Meta/ice in which arta::: —4 - Chicago Woman. -----e-- .--.,, reprbdUced, OfIleials of the Bell Telephone Company, who were invited, to witrese the test, signed n, certincate that it Wt1,6 Slid". OCSgitll The inet rumen is were in two rooms. of Mr. Pickard's hOuse, aie± it remains to be sten Whether they will Work over greater dis- Lances. The inventor cloes not yet cle ire. that the dev 1 ce. Will 118 L'1, ('0111- 100103 0.1 SLICC,C4St hut hopes to ineke it suet) ii2 the near futuref ••••••