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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1902-9-25, Page 4ets SCO ESKILLEDINFIREPANIC Awful Disaster in a Birming- ham, Alabama, • Cb.urch • A deepatch from Birmingham, Ale - baize, says: In tui • awful =ell of buneauity, caused by a stampede in the Shilob colored Baptist Church, at the corner of Avenue G., and 18th •etreet, on Friday night, 05 persons were killed and many more than that number seriously injured. The disaster occurred at 9 o'clock • lust as Evangelist Booker, known • as "The Washington;" had conclud- ed his address to the national con- vention of colored Baptists, and for • three hours the scenes around the , elute& ware indescribable. Dead bodies were strewn in every direc- tion, and the ambulance service • of the city was utterly unable te care for them. Dozens of dead bodies were arranged in rows on the ground outside the house of worship await- ing removal to the various under- taking establishments, while more than a score were laid out on the benches inside. • Shiloh Church is the largest house of Worship for uegroee in Birming- ham, and there were at least 2,000 persons in the edifice when the stam- pede began. The entrance to the church was literally packed, and the aegroes were trampled to death in their struggle to escape. Booker T. Washington had just concluded his address when Judg•e Billou, a, enegro lawyer from Beltie mote, engaged in a dispute with the Choir leader concerning an unoccu- pied seat. It is said a blow was struck; someone in the choir cried, "They're fighting." Mistaking the word "fig,hting" for "flre" the con- gregation rose en masse and started tor the doer. One of the ministers quickly mounted the rostrum and admonished the people to keep quiet. He repeated the word "quiet" sev- eral times, and motioned to his hear- ers to be seated. The excited con- gregation mistook the word. quiet for a second alarm of fire, and re- newed their frantic efforts. Aron and women struggled over both and fought their way into the aisles. Those who fell were trampled upon like cattle, The ministers used their utmost endeavor to stop the stampede, but no power on earth could stay the struggling, fighting mass, BEAR BAITING LION Cossacks axe Hurrying to .Afghan Border. A Loudon despatch says: British military activities in India have been given a sudden impetus by the alleged determination of Russia to Three an early test of the quality of Great Britain's foreign policy as af- fected by the withdrawal of the un- ecinapromising hand of Lord Salis- bury. In pursuance of its tradi- tional method of pushing its adver- sary's patience to the limit, the Government at St. Petersburg, ac- cording to reports, is feverishly busy stirring the embers of discord wher- ever it sees an opportunity for in- flaming British susceptibilities. It has seized upon a disturbance with the • police on the •Indian fron- tier as a pretext for hurrying bat- talions of Cossacks southward to the border of Afghanistan. The Czar has interrupted the Shah's junket in Paris, ostensibly to secure his at- tendance at the military manoeuvres at Kursk, but actually, it is believ- ed, to discuss the need of a Russian railway to the Persian Gulf. Reports from Sebastopol tell of in- ordinate efforts to strengthen the Russian naval power in the Black Bea. The recent jingo speech in Corsica, hy M. Pelleleen, French Minister of Marine, is interpreted as a sign that France is ready to join its any in this subtle game of baiting the Bri- tish. Finally comes the announce- ment that Baron de Steel, the ven- erable Russian. Ambassador to the Court of St. Jame, is about to be succeeded by "a. man of more vigor- ous character." This widespread recrudescence of Ruesian political energy is attribut- ed by Englieli diplomatists to a de- sire on the part of the Czar's Min- isters to learn how stern is the. stufr of which the foreign policy of Mr. • Balfour and Lord Lansdowne is made. No one fears that Russia • will press its case anywhere beyond the point necessary to secure this :desired information; nevertheless, the British War and Navy Depart- ments are alive to the possibilities of Rumen's efforts deliberately • to irritate the situation. Score,s of military officers in, Eng- land and South Africa have be'en or- • dered to rejoin their Indian com- • mands, Major Fuleushiniae of the Japanese army, has arrived in Cal- cutta, to familiarize himself • With the• Indian military situation. Lord Kitchener will hasten his journey to India, abandoning his proposed halt at Khartoum, on the way. POINTERS FOR EXPORTERS Summery of the Customs Latvs and Regulations. An Ottawa despatch says: The CustomIlepartment has issued for the instruction of exporters' to Can- aria a summary of the Customs laws tied regulations of Canada in regard to the shipment and dutiable value of imperted goods arid the certifeing of invoices,. These will be distribizte ecl 'in. the United States, whence the trouble from non-compliance with the regula,tione chiefly ariees. Mr. Mc- Dougald says that goods from Eu- rope are usually peeked and marked accordieg te recelireMente, but in the majority or instances American exPerters are very careless in this reepect They initially neglect to SiuMber the different packages in a cage, so that they Mee' be identified from the. invoice without opening them, •end the result is no end of Worry to the examining offieers, who often have to open every package to determine its contents, The Can- adian regulations in respect: of mark- ing are similar to those of the Unit- ed States, but as their large internal trade does not require any such pre- cautions American exporters get in- to this habit of shipping' goods to foreign countries oleo without spe- cial marking, DR. BARCLAY FOR QUEEN'S Well Knovsn Montreal Minister . Chosen for Prineipalship. A Kingston 'despatch says :-Rev. Dr. Barclay, pi Montreal, isthe unaninious choice of the trustees of Queen's University to 1111 the place of the late Principal Craut. •The name of Rev. Prof. Patterson, of Aberdeen, was also considered, but the choice fell on a, Canadian, The new, principal will receive a salary substaatielly higher than that of the late Dr. Grant, who received •$3,000 per amiem. • Rev, Dr. James Barclay was born on June 19, 1844, at Paisley, Shoc- land, a son of the •late James Bar- clay, of Edinburgh. He was c•dueat- ed at the Paisley 'Grammar school and at • Merchiston Castle school, Edinburgh, entered the University of Glasgow, and graduated with •' fury. claps honors. The Presbeterv ef Paisley licensed him in 1870, •Mier which he ministered for three =maths nt Dalbeatie, and the 'following year was orcleited at Dumfries. In 1874 he was tranelated •to Candle:a in 1876 to Linlithgow, and in 1S78 was chosen colleagee of Rev. Dr. McGregor, of St. Uuthbert's, Edin- burgh. A gall was extended to him from St. Paul's. •church, Moetreal. He accepted and was inducted on Oct. 11, 1583, and has since .dis- • charged the duties of the pastorate with much ability and evident suc- ceea. He received his degree of 'Dan from his alma meter in 1892. Dr. Barclay preached before Queen Victsuia several times at Bahnueal. He is widely known both as a lec- turer . and athlete, cricket, curling and golf being his favorite sports'. Tre was chaplain of the Montreal Garrison Artillery in the Northwest rebellion. BIG FIRE Al' BRANTFORD Stores of Watts' Sons and. the Snowdrift Go. Burned. A Brantford, 'Ont., despatch says : -Brantford on Thursday night ex- perienced one of the worst iires, it has had for many years. At 9.30 flames were discovered issuing from the third storey windows in the brick building of the Snowdrift Com- pany, on Dalhousie street. The fire- men responded promptly, and turned on six or eight stretuns of water, but the fire had obtained so great head- way before it was discovered that efforts to control it were unsuccess- ful, and after an hour's hard righting it burst through the roof. Soon after this smoke was seen coming through the roof of the adjoining brick build- ing of the George Watts and Sons wholesale establishment, a fine three storey brick building on the corner of Dalhousie and King streets. Sud- denly the roof of the latter building fell in, and the front of the third storey fell across the street, carry- ing three firemen with it. Charles Brown 'was severely injerecl about the head and siioulders, and may not re- cover. Fireman Woodly was cut about the head and shoulders. Fire- man George Kingsville was on a ladder at the third storey window. He jumped to save himself, and re- ceived painful injuries.. The injured men were taken in the ambulance to the hospital. 11. M. Fullerton, proprietor of the Snowdrift Company, owns the build- ing. His loss will be in the neigh- borhood of $30,000. He carries an insurance of $10,000 on the building and $5,000 on stock, which is a. complete loss. George Watts and Sons own their place. Their loss is roughly estimat- ed at $70,000, whichis a complete loss. When the brick walls fell they took the telephone and electric light wires down, and the city was left in total darkness. OUR FRONTIER DEFENCES All • of Them Antiquated and Ills Equipped. A London de.spa.tch says :-The Express of Wednesdaymakes sensa- tional disclosures. Colonel Ferrere Townshend, who was deputed by the War Office to report on Canadian frontier • defences, declares the forts so hopelessly antiquated all. along the frontier cold ill-equipped • with ammunition that in the event of an Anglo-American war the Americans could easily cross the frontier and seize Canada before resistance cdold be organized. A prominent Canadian in Montreal declared the Canadians were too busy reeking dollars to bother about •fortifications. If the Americans ievacled, ell Canadians could do would be to board' rafts with all their belongings and float down. the St. Lawrence to I3elle Isle until Britisb; warships came along t� protect them. TRAGEDY NEAR BRANDON Farmer Shouts Nerchant Px•Cl. • Lady Companiea. • A Winnipeg deepateh says: Ono of the most eregic shooting •casee itt the history of arendon occurred On Wednesday evening, end ete tt result Aleeze Rowe, known as "OR3. Man Rowe," is • . dead and Miss Erraie Therrien is lexiatelly wounded, . and her affieneed husband, Thomas Law, of Alexander and Law 33nos., lere, of Brandon, is also wounded, the afternoon Mr.Law and 'Miss Theigien left Brandon in i buggy ter the Beresford district •for day's thieken shooting. Having reached their destination Law end „Mies eherrien 'drove oe to the farm of DOWO, and Were about to commence shooting. Rowe,. who is severity yore, pe age, was itt the field at the time, and - as seen as he saw the party he Started his horses for the house, where be procured a .gun, and returning, ered at the couple. Mr. Law hail dismounted and was Walk - big ,beside the buggy and received several pellets of shot in the knee, but Miss Therrien received almost the entire -charge in her hip and abdothen. She fell from the rig to the grinned, .where her companion al- so lay unable' to rise. Mrentime Rowe returned, to the house, where he took poison, dying almost instantly. For S01110 time Rowe has been pestered by sports- men, who have persisted in trespas- sing on his farm. It is sapposed thee: blinded with anger at the ap- Peciaeli .01 Law and his companion ever las riven, he seized his gen, and, without considering • the conses quences, flied poinablank. Time, realizing what he had done, he com- mitted: suicide. MARTYRED MISSIONARIES • Creel Torture of Meiers. •Bruce and Lewis. A Victoria, B.O., deepatch says "- Dailies weie received by the Eine prese of India of the naiiissacre of Mesars. Bruce and Lewis, at. Changte, Henan. For weeks cholera had been depopulating the cities along the Yuan, River. itt Changte People died by the score dirtily. In the center or the city is a, famuus wring, from which the people obtain mechof their water. This Was reported to have been poisoned by the fereign- ers, and hence the high death rate; One afteenocin. Mr. Lewis was study- ing; with his teacher, and Mr. Bruce was in his rooni across the hall, when in an instant the hoese and street became crowded with people. Mr. '13i•uce Was •dragged by his heir out of the room and. into the yard, wheee with clubs, 'etonce, knives, swords and,torture the Chinese Soon killed Win. Mr, Lewis and his teacher went out at the back door into the yard and started to climb tin On an old shed, when a stroke from a spear brought the fornier to the ground. His body was soon mutilated beyond reeeignition. After this the mob destroyed all foreign books and other articles they could zee. Trunks and boxes were broken open, but no poisoe could be found. When the crowd tia.d ahnost disap- peared the Chihifu arrived and had the bodies moved into their respec- tive rooms. On the same street ,,x4 a few doors away were stationed soldiers for the protection of the missionaries.. A British wilrehip was sent to the scene upon receipt of the news: MAY RUN TWO FLYERS C.P.R. Considering Advisability of Further Train Service, THE MARKETS ,••11111110.10. Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc ill Trade Centres. Termite, Sept. 23, -Wheat Offeringe . of Ontario grades, contieu faire and prices axe unchanged. No 2 white and red quoted at 65 t 65*c west, and at 65* to 660 east Manitoba wheat is dull. No. 1 har 84e g•rindieg in traneit, and at 78 Goderich, No, • 1 Northern, 82 ga.t.'and 74ee Ooderieh, • Oats -The market, is easier, wit offerings liberal. Sale's. of No. 2 a, 29ec middle freights, and at 29 t 29,10 low freights to New York. •_ Corn-Trhe market is quiet, with Canadian yellow quoted at 62e west. No, 3 yellow American quoted at 681,0 on track here, Rye -The market is steady. No 2 quoted at 480 west. Barley-kfarket • is quiet, an prices steedy. Feed qeoted at 35 38e . middle freights, and No. extra at 40 to 401c. a • Peas -Tee • market is lower, n sympathy with Montreal. Exporter are quoting only Tee west. • Floue-Ninety pee emit, patents made of new wheat, quoted at $2.65 to $2.70 middle freights, in buyers sacks, for export. Straight rollers Lot domestic trade, quotedat $3.15 to 33.25 hi tibia Manitoba flow steady. Hungatian patents, $8•85 to $4.25, delikered on track, To- roitto, bags intiuded, and strong bakers', $8.60 to 38.95, Oatmeal -Car lots, in bbls, $5 on, track, and in sacks,' 34.90. Brokei lots, 20 to 25c extra. Millfeed-Bran is chill at $12.50 west, and shorts at $17 west. Bran quiet here at $14, and shorts at $19. Manitoba bran $17 in sacks, and shorts $28 in sacks, Toronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE, Hops -Trade quiet, witii prices un- changed at 18c; yearlings, 7c. • Honey -The market is steady, with strained jobbiug here at 8 to alc per lb., and comb at $1,50 to,.$1.65. Brans -The market is quiet, with offerings moderate. New hay quoted at $9 to $9.20 a ton. Straw -The market is cadet. Car lots on track quoted at $5.50. Onions -Market steady at 81.90 to 32 per barrel. Poultry -The market is steady. We quote :-Chickens, 50 to 80c per pair; live ehiekens, 50 to 60c. Duck- lings, GO to 80c per pair for dressed, and 6 to 61 per lb. for live, Tur- keys, young, 11 to 12c per lb., and old, 10c. • Potatoes -The market is firmer. Car lots quoted at 57 to 60c per bag, on track here. Small lots sell at $1. to • $1.10 ner bag, but this advance is only temporery, owing to scarcity itt de1ierios. cl 11, o s , HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs unchanged, with re- ceipts •moderate. Cured meats in good demand at steady prices,. •We quote :-Bacon, lone clear, 11c, in ton and case las'. Pork, mess, $21.50; do., short cut, $23.50. Smoked meats -Hams., 13 to 14e ; breakfast bacon, 1,5c; rolls, 12 to 12.1,c; backs, 15 to 151c; shoulders, 12e. . Lard -The market is firmer. We quote :-Tierces, 10e; tubs, 11.c ; pails, llec to llec; compound, si to loc. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -The market is steady, Choice grades have the best call. We quote :-Choice 1 -Th 16 t An Ottawa der3patch says was 1 learned here on Friday that the P manegement of the Canadian Pacific ' Railway is considering the advisabil- ity of operating next year two daily trains across the continent. The company tried the experiment this year of putting on a tri -weekly train, the "Imperial Limited," to supplement the daily trans -continent- al &1 -year-round service. The re- turns have been so eatisfactery that the :Limited may be a daily train when next season opens. LAYING A NEW CABLE Superintendent of Telegraphs Busy in Anticosti. . An Ottawa despatch says :--Mr. D. R. Keeley, superintendent a Government telegraphs, is at pre- sent 'in Anticosti arranging for lay- ing ix cable from Reath Point to the Magdalen islands. Mr, Keeley re- ports to the- department that • the cable between'Relle isle and Chateau Ray is working satisfactorily, as also is the Marconi apparatus. ' The defective working of the latter, re- ported some weektv 'ago, was due to • the lack .91 knowledge of the. instru- incline cie the pert of the operators. .roils, Sec; selected dairy tubs, 15c ; store acked uniform color, 13ec; low grades', 11 to 12c; creamery rolls, 19 to 20c; do., solids, 18* to 19c. Eggs -Market steady for strictly fresh stock. We quote :-Fresh, 16 to 1.7c; ordinary store candled, 14 to 15c; seconds, and checks,. 10 to 11c. Cheese -Market steady. We quote :-Finest, .101- to 10c; . seer ends, 91c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. . Montreal, Sept. 23. --The local grain market continues remarkably flat, and the volume of business is insignificant. Rye, peas, and oats' are the only cereals for which there is any demand. In flour there is no change. Feed •is •firm, and rolled oats are quiet and easy. Provisions remain about the same. Cheese, but- ter, and eggs continue firm, and in 'good demand. Grain -No. 1 hard Manitoba, •71c. Fort Williarii : No 1 Northern, 69c, October shipment ; • Ontario No 2 white wheat, 65c and No. 2 mixed at 66c west; new crop peas, 791 afloat, and •do., oats, 184.-Ic afloat, September delivery. Rye, 56e afloat; No. 3 barley, 46c afloat. Mom- -- Manitoba, patents, 38.90 to 34.25 strong bakers,' $3,60 to 33.95; Ontario straight rollers. $8.40 to $3,50; in bags,• .$1.60 INFLUX TO NORTH-WEST Entries for July and August Un- • preceden ed. • An Ottawa deepatchsays se -The Meese of setalees into the Cauadian Northwest centenaries to increase. For the •nionth of July the' homesteda eritriee numbered 2,628, or 1,902 greater time dieing that Montle last year, Foe August the entries were 1,022, on 1 154 Itt eXces,S of August 1901.. The total: • Increase for •the ' two months, as coisiptieed With thel • 1 same thne last year, was 2,$56, T his is enpaece eait d n the history of the country. Most of the new - STOLE $315,000 • Milers, are from the United States, • - Aistrian 13a,nle Offitial Makes a 13ig Hann A Vienna despatch says: Edmund jellenek, an official in the Cashier's department of the Lender Bank, dis- appeared hurriedly from Vienna on Thureclay. It was diecerverec1 that he had defrauded the bank of $815,- 000 by falextying ehequee. The money thus obtaieed Was epent by jelletek in speculation, Ile has ept• yet been apprehended, KILLS FIVE PUPILS • Teacher Strangles Them, Wound • Seven, and Suicides. A Berlin despatch says: At Minn - dam, in the Province of Groningen., Holland, a suddenly demented teach - on Friday strangled five of his pupils' to derith, Neverely Wmanded Seven others, and thcm committed euicide by juinping into the villege pond. $1,70; patents, $8.80 to $4.10. Rolled oats-elillerei prices to job- bers, $2.25 to $2,80 in bags, and $4.60 to 84.70 Per bbl- Feed --.Mani- toba, bran at $16 to $17, and shorts at $23, bags included ; Ontario bran in imik, 315.50 to $16; shorts in bulk, $28; in lots. l'rotrisions-e- Heavy Canaditin short-cet pork, 325 compound, refined lard, 81c; pure Canadian lard, 110; .fineet lard, 12 to 1'2Se. Dams, 121 to 14c; bacon. 11 to 15c; dressed hogs, $7.50 ; fresh killed abattoir, $9,25 to 39.50 per 1.00 lbs. Oheese-Ontario, o ne 1 ps, g: to oie. Que- bec, 0'' . to 91.c. Butter-Choioe creamery, eurrent reeeipts, 191 to 19ee held stock, 18 to 181c ; dairy 16 to 161e Eggs -Straight re- ceipts, to 15c; No. 2, 13 to 131. Honey -Best clover, in see- tiones 11 to 12c per section ; in 104b tins, 9.1- to 10c; in bulk, 8e. UNITED STATES Nfilwaukee, Sept, 28,- Steady; No. No. I :Northern, 78-.)•e; No, 2 Northeen, 71. to 71eg, Deeember768c, Rye -Steady; No, 1, 51* 5O arley--Firm; No. 13, 70c; $ample, 40 to 60e, Corn -December, 481d. Duluth, Sept. 23.- lose--Wheate- Ociebe-No. 3. hard, 7010; No, 3. Northern, •681c; No. 2 Northern, 60i0; SepteMber, 68-4e; Deceitiber, G51e. Ocits-Septemeer, 301-e; De- cember, .29c. Minneapolis, Sept, Pa -Close- Wheat-Septenth or , • (36o; December , 6,5* to 651e; on traelc, No. 1 hard, 691e; Ne. 2 Northere, 68*; No. 2 Northern, 661c. Detroit, Sept. 28. -Wheat closed, - No. 1 white, cash, 77c; No, 2 red,, Cash aiiU Septeinber, 720; December, St. Louis, Sept. 281. -Wheat closed -Cash, 6eic.; SePtember, 651e; .De-• °ember, 663c; May, 694e, • LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Sept. -U.-The total re- ceipts of live stock to -day were 114 carloads, consisting of 2,005 head of cattle, 2,645 sheep and lambs, 1,400 hogs, and 50 calves, ° Prices continue steady, with few, if any, .fluctuations. The buying to- day,, however, was good, the de - mend for everything being general. A brisk tra,de wee done during the morning, and traders were all in the very best of humor, • Sheep ancl lambs were a shade bet- ter in price. , /port ewes brought from $8.40 to $3.65; bucks front $2.-• 50 to $2,75; culled sheep from $2 to 38 each; lambs from $3.75 to $4,10; and calves from $2 to $10 eaelloil • Fowieg is • the range of quota- tioes: Shippers, per cwt... ...$5.25 $5.85 Do., light ,.. 4.25 5,00 D u t cher, choice 4.00 4,50 Butcher, ordinary to good ... . . 8.00 4.00 Stockers, per cwt ... 8.20 3.75 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per cwt... 3.30 8.50 Lambs, per cwt 8.40 4,10 Bucks, per cwt ... 2.25 2.75 Culls, each ... 2.00 3.00 Milkers and Calves. , Cows, each ... _25.00 4200. Calves, each ... 2,00 10.00 • Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt.. 1.00 7.121 Light hogs, per cwt ... 6.75 6.871 Heavy hogs, per cwt ... 6.75 6.871 Sows, per cwt 3.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt ... 0.00 2.00 TWO TRAINMEN KILLED Engineer and Firemen in a Wreek. • Near Lindsay. A Lindsay, Ont., despatch Says! iSunday Morning abent 12.30 a seri- ous rear -end collision occurred at • a point between Grass Hill and • Cam - bray, on the Grand Truerk, the re - 'suit being the death of two of the m trainen and the destruction of the engines and Sixteen box cars. A iheavy freight train, grain laden, from Midland for Lindsay, in Charge of Conductoi• Foley, broke in two at thin point at the foot Of a steep grade. The train was enalle brought to a, standstill, and Conduc- tor Foley, knowing that another freight was following, ran back to signal the oncaming train, which was in charge of Conductor Irod- gine. The fog was very thick, and the grade very steep, and the crew of the second train were una,ble to stop their train in time, and She crashed into Foley'e treble with fear- ful results. The train was a double- header. The engineer and fireman of the first train jumped and ,escap- ed. The driver and fireman :of the second engine were not quick en- ough, and lost their lives. Fireman Faulkner was. badly cut up, and when picked up from the wreck liv- ed brit a few minutes,. Driver Swan- ton was buriea in ehe• debris of his engine and was instantly killed. The tine is strewn with broken cars and hundreds of bushels of Manitoba wheat, which was being rushed east from Midland. Breakesman Parker was in the cab with driver • Swan- ton, but by a quick jump was saved. He; however, suffered severely frombruised shoulders and head. The auxiliary from Lindsey was sum, mom& and got to woekto clear the line. It is expected that the wreck 'will be so far cleared away as to allow through traffic in the morn- ing. The remains of the dead en- gineer 'anet fireman. were brought to Lindsay. Driver Swanton was a married men and lived. in Lindsay. Fireman Faulkner . a native of Belleville. JOY TOO MUCH FOR HIM Melba's Father Bursts Blood Ves- sel on Meeting Iler. • A Melbourne despatch soya: Mine. Melba, the operatic star, has arriv•L• ed here. Her father, who had not Seen her in sixteen. years, came from Albury to welconee her. The excite- ment of the ieleeting caused a. blood vessel in his brain to burst and hq. is in a serious condition. Mme. Melba has consequently postponed her first concert. The series of con- certs to have been given by her was to have been the most brilliant ever given. in the southern hemisphere. The GoVernment has placed the 1.01 - ways at her disposal,. and tho Gov- ernors of the differeet colonies offer- ed to act as:her hosts during her TO PAY .$500,000,000 Transvaal and Orenge River to Pay This Amount, A London despateh says: The Daily Mail announces that the Gov- ernment has decided that the Teanst vaal and the Orange River Colony shall. pay Z100,000,oao towards the cost of the Sotith African Wax, and the cost of achninistration. An ac- eceint has been opened at the 'Trees- ury, and the colonies have been de- bited to that amount herein. A loan will be raised, probably' in the sum of 550,000,000. TaXation of the mining industry, coneessions for the sale of dynamite, tvill contri- bute Materially to the payment of the 4100,0001000; " NE S ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. • CANADA, The imiseum Duedurn Castle, at Hamilton, is to be open to the pub - he on Sunday afternoons. Wllharn Dath vidge of e Thorold Pulp Company wits found dead in his room on Sunday with a bullet in his head. • The Dominion Packing Company of Charlottetown. is • after incorpora- tion. The capital is placed at $1,- 000,000. l'farrY BaileY, farmer of Carberry, Man., lost thirteen acres of wheat by fire caused by a spark from a Unwilling engine. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars represent the wage earnings .of the employes of the Paris factor- ies during the past, year. It is reported to the department that the cable, between. Belle Isle and Chateau Day is working satis- factorily, as also is the Marconi ap- paratus, Nellie Wilson, alias Thursend, •o Kingston, was •sentenced to seven years in penitentiary at Montreal on Saturday tor stealitg two rings from her einployer. • Statistics of imengration to Can- ada during the year endhig June 30 give a total of between 65,000 and 70,000 immigrants, of whom 22,- 000 came from the United States. Several fishing companies are pre- paring for commercial operation on a large scale in the Northwest fish- eries in the district north of •Ed- xminton. •The attention of the Fish - arias Department at Ottawa is now being directed toward this region, . • GREAT BRITAIN. • British shipy'ards •have notified their men of a reduction in wages. Queen's College, DelfaSt, proposes Itoerecsetablish Faculty -01 Com- n'trials with new pattern shrapne will be made on Salisbury Plaii next month. The Newcastle -on -Tyne corporatim has decided to expend $5,000,000 li extending the quays. Thirty thousand passengel's crossed between Dover and Ostend during the month of August. There are over 3.8,000 entries a the Mi -Cheshire Agricultural Show at Knutseord, England. Glasgow corpora,tion is sending a deputation to Paris to inspect the streets and pavements of the city. A prominent .English dealer in grain. makes the statement that half the wheat crop in England has been spoilt. Sir Marcus Samuel is about to be choSen Lord Mayor of London. He will be the second Israelite to hold that once. The gross liabilities of Britain, on Barth 31.St, were 38,842,216.,980, an increase of 3313,597,540 'owilfg- to the Doer war. • Lord Rosebery is suffering from a recurrence of insonmia, which caus- ed him so' much trouble while he was Premier. The introduction of lace-ina.king in A, Cripples' Home and Industrial School for Girls in London has proved a success. - • The Brighton Aquarium is to be oonverted. into a winter garden. Thirty or forty thousand pounds will be spent on it. Many of the Japanese bluejackets who. visited Cardin' recently had cparmoveirdat thenise, lves with small hand • An Imperial Colonial Club is being formed in London for colonials, An- glo -Indians, and residents of the United Kingdom. The honorary freedom of Newcas- tle -on -Tyne is to be coeferred upon all the townsmen who volunteered and served in South Africa. About 75,000 Scotch miners have 1. accepted the award of the arbitrat- ors in allowing their employers a reduction of over six percent. a day. • • H. M. S. Donegal, a new heavily - armed cruiser of 9,600 tons, has. just been launched on the Clyde. She has been twenty -months- under con- struction: An American combine with. a cap- ital of $30,000,000 is said to boor- o gatizing forhe tpurpose of secure n ing control of the ;British clothing market. Portions. of London's old Bora= t wall have been laid bare by• the fi house -breakers now engaged, in the 1 demolition of ' Christ's 'Hospital, Newgate street. In making excavations for a new deep drainage system at Stamford, If England, ,workmen have unearthedi'' the site • of some Boman smelting ,n • • f works, TIndian Government has pros - 1+ ented to the museum of the ' Royal s United• Service institutime White- hall, a, complete set of silver war medals and clasps eranted for all the campaigns and nunaerous expedi- tions in India ;UNITED STATES. 1 a 1 1 1 Reports from, Sebastopol tell of inordinate efforts to strengthen the' Russian naval power in the Ills.ek Sea, A.utomatie machines for the sa,le• of postage stamps are to be placed in all the railway stations of hum portance in Germany. • IVfajor PukaShima, of ,the Japanese. army, has arrived in Calcutta to familiarize hiniself with the Indian military situation. • A Berne electrician named Engisch: claims to have diseovered a new me- thod of wireless telegraphy Superior to all existing systems, Three thousand four hundred and thirty-seven Cape rebele who sure - rendered • under peace proclamation have been disfranchised for life. Wiee instead of water rill flow. from a .drinitieg fountain 'at Bercy, France, on October 5, when the habitants celebrate the close of the' vintage season. Materials of Russian origin exelue eivel3r must be used in the construe-, tion of all Russian ships, statee an, order issued by the Ministry of Mae rine. Edward Moore, eged seventy-five, las been sentenced to four years' penal servitude - at Sydney, New, South Wales. He has spent fatty -- 'five years ,of his life in jail. The Russian Government has an- nounced that it will take measures, enforced by three fast gunboats, to. suppress poaching by Americans arid Japanese among the seals of the northeastern coast of Siberia. It. is stated teed, the Chinese pope ulatioe of to -day numbers about 420,000,000 of sends, ineluding 8,-• • 500,000 in Mancerteria, 2,580,000 in !Mongolia, 6,4.80,000 in Tibet • and 1,200,000 in Chinese Turkestan. YUKON PROSPECTS BRIGHT' August's Placer Grants Heaviest on Record. • An Ottawa despatch says :-33,3t.r Victor Grant, of Dawson City, writhe that the Yukon prospects are eX-. ceptionally bright. During August/ Mr. Grant, as mining recorder, •he, sued 300 placer grants and 14 water. ,grants, this being the biggest. month's business yet done. • --I-- LORD SALISBURY ILL Ex -Premier Confined to His Bed in • Switzerland. A London despatch says: The - Times says that ex -Prime Minister Sallsbury is ill in Switzerland and. is confined to his becl. An English and a Swiss doctor are attending him. His own medical attendant has been summoned from London. Lord Salisbury left England • six weeks ago, seeking to recuperate his health at Homburg, where he rarely emerged from his hotel. He went to Switzerland front Homburg. +•••••••••••••••110, THE BRITISH DEBT An Increase of .$31a,597,540, Due to Recent War. A London despatch says :-A re- turn of the national debt issue on Wednesday shows that the gross liabilities March 31st were $3,842,- ' 216,030, an ;increase of $313,597a 540, due to the South African war, ARCTIC COAL. Starting the Mining Industry, Amid Spitzbergen Snove. The Norwegians are turning their a.ttentien to the large and promising coal fields on the southwest coast of • Spitzbergen. For several years past their fishermen, while in these coast- al waters, have observed tout- crops of coal. Their stories aroused nterest at home and the coal fields were examined as a possible source of profit. Several companies• have Scan formed to carry on coal mining in these new fields and there is much confidence in • Norway that the new Arctic enterprise will be pro- fitable A correspondent writes from Ber- gen that the coal of Spitsbergen is finely adapted• for the manufacture , gas. The fuel burns with a high. ame and is extremely combustible. Although Spitzbergeri ig in the Arc- ic regions, coal may be mined there o considerable a.dvanta.ge. In the rsit place it has been found that no ergo capital is required to start the work,. as is the case in civilized °entries. There is no coetly ground o buy, no diffloult foundations to tried in the way' of shafts., and as he land is not inhabited there are o property considerations to inter - ere. Traneporation from the mines o the ships will be inexpensive, the lootaeditaegtdieoanbtyheotft ihmoevie;s0n,festifial ooarldn g tlie w • Considerable work has already .been done. The mining engineers on 'the ground give their opinion that the coet of the coal will not exceed $2.40 per ton. They say that witli a force of sixty woekmen, 25,000 Sons may be taken out annually. The coal can be transported only itt the summon, but....the.. kept going the year round. In Sweden some of the best steel- making iron one are being mined iii. large cp 1 an ti ties , many inilea north. of the Arctic circle. The"only railroad 110W existiOg in the Arctie regions carries the ore from thee° Lal northern mines to the Baltic ; another Scandinavian Arai() enter - wise that will give a busy aseecti to the southern shone of the Piteliergen Arehipelago 'is 111 el3r 0011 to be well developed arid a.9 roeperceie as iron mining in Arctic Weden. It is saicl Shat. the Morgan ip- ping Combine has taken over the Norfolk and Nortn American S'. 5, Co., which runs • .hine large tradieg Steamers between. England and •the Malted S'tates. • Lieut, John R. Morris, who was electrician on th e ated Stehle, has committed suicide, and hie friends, Who have all along thought that he was concealing something, and that the eXpioelon was .eaused by defective wiring, consider ho (Med because he "remembered . the Maine." I s Tho Queen of the Belgians is dead. 5 During the Doer war Hungary ex- ported 68,680 horses to South Af- rica by way of Mame. At Montalclo ia Thureday, forty meet defeated a, team of steers in a tug-of-war contest. TA.tiger is to return to South Afnt - ri oft, il the British authorities will sl permit of his, gong back, GI -MURAL. EQUIVOCAL. Mrs, Illobbs-"I qtlite thought yea had forgotten es, Miss Gusher," Mise Gusher -"Well, 1 haere a bad emery for faces as EL rule, but meld not be lit-ely to *forget Mira!