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prices 'were weaker, ()spec:lei: 'trete
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median cattle, e3ozne. of the Maisie,
mus cattle was purchased for the ex-
port trade,
Expert bulls are Diener, with a
better enquiry et' from. 8* to hic pee
lb. No one appears to require eith-
er feeders or stockers just now, and
quotatiens .are • almat nominal.
Mitch cows are a trifle dower •in
price, but geed ones itte wanted.
. Ewes are worth from 8 to 81a per
lb. Bucks soil tit frora 2 to 2.*c per
lb. Culled sheep• are quoted at from
82 to $8 eaeli. Cali/es are worth
, froth $2 to $10 each. Lambs sold
at from $8.'75 to $4,50 per cevt,
Hogs continue unchanged and stea-
dy. The top price for choice hogs
is $6 per °tete and light and fat
bogs are, cemted • at ,$5.75 per cwt.
Hogs to fetch the top price must be
of prime quality, and scale not be-
low 160 nor a,bove 200 lbs.
Following is the reeve of prices
for live stock at the Toronto cattle
yards to -day:
Export cattle .C..at..t.le.:., ,..$4.75 $5.50'
Do., light ,.. .... . , .... 4.00 4.50
Butcher cattle, choice . 4.00 5.00
• Do., ordinary to . •
good ... ...... .... „. ... 3.25 4.00
. Stocks, per cwt
.Sheep and Lambe,
Export ewes, per cwt.. 8.90 8.25
Lambs,. per owt ... ... . 3.75 i.5
Bucks, . per.. ewt .... .e. a. 2.00 2.50
Culled Rhone each ... ..., 2,00 3,00
Milkers .ande Calves. ' •
Cows, each. ... ... ..,.. ,s35.00 ,55•.00'
Calves, . each • ..e ... .... 2.00 10.00
- Hogs. •. •
Choice hogs, per 'emt ....‘ 5.75 6.00
Light hogs, per cwt ...„5.50 5.75
'Heavy' hogs,' per cwt , . 3:75 4.90
Sows, per cwt ... .., ... 3.75 4.00
Stags, per cwt... ... ... .. 2.00 2.50
- HUNDREDS •KILLED.
. ter- is still restricted, and prices in _
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PliCeS of Grain Cattle, etc
'in Trade Centres. -
Toronto,Dec, 28. -- Wheat - The
market ie weaker, . No. 2 white and
red winter quoted at 08* to 620
meddle freighte. No. 2. spring quot-
ed 67ie east, •and No, 2 goose at
66c east:, Manitoba wheat eteady;
No. 1. hard, 87c grinding in trelesite
No, 1 Northern, 850 geinding ili
transit; No. 1 hard, 850 all rail cira
North Day, and No. 1 Northern
88c, all rail via North Bay.
Oets - The market is dull, with
No. 1 white' quoted at •31*c east,
and No, 2 white at 300 to 81e east.
" Barley -- The market is quiet, with
No. 3 extra quoted at 4e to 45c
middle freight, and No. 8 at 4.20
lddje freaght.
Bueltwilea,t ,-- Trade is quiet, and
prices nominal at about 52c outside.
Rye - No. 2 quoted at middle
freight.
Corn - Matket duli, with No. 2
Canadian at 45c west. No. 3 new'
American yellow nominal at 50 to
52c on track, Toronto.
Flour Ninety per cent, patents,
are dull at $2.70 middle freights, in
•buyers' sacks, for export. Straight
rollers of special brands for domes -
retie trade quoted at 83.25 to $8.40
an bit's. -Manitoba dour steady.
Hungarian patents, $4,10 to $4.20,
•delivered • on track, Toronto, bags
ineluded, and Manitoba strong bak-
ers'', $8,80 -to $3.90.
Millfeed - Bran, $15 in bulk here,
ncl shorts at $17. At outside
'Ms bran, is quoted at $14, „and
pits at $16. Manitoba bran ie.
'eke, $17, 'and shorts, $19 here.
P.TFIE DAIRY MARKETS.
+Y., •
',ale -Mutter - The s-upiller of .ehoice but-
-consequence are firm. Inferior qual- Battle Betvreen. Russian Workmen.
• ities plentiful. We quote: Finest 1- •and Troops.
lb. rolls, 18 to 19c; choice large
rolls, 37 to 18c; special dairy, tubs,
36*c to 17c; secondary grades, rolls
and tubs, 14 to 15c; creamery
prints, 23 to 24e; solids, 21 to 22c.
, . Eggs - The market continues
steady. We quote; Strictly new
laid, 25c; fresh store -gathered, 20c;
cold storage, 19 to 20c; limed, 1.9c;
• seconds, 13 to 15c.
Cheese - Market • is steady. W.e
quote: Finest, 12* to 12.1c; sec-
onds, 12 to 121e.
IIOG PRODUCE.
-.)ressed, hogs are unchanged, with
rloatig" quoted at $7.25 to $7.40.
'ad meats are firm, with demand
od. We quote: Bacon, long
tear, 11 to 111c, in ton and case
eta Pork, mess, $21; do., short
it, $22.50 to $23.
iSraoked hams, 13* to 14e; rolls.,
• to 1,2*e; shoulders, 11. to 11*c;
cks, 16 to 15*e; oreakfast bacon,
to 15*c.
ard - Trade is fair, and prices
ianged. We quote: Tierces,
tubs, 3.11e; pails, 11*c; core-
d, 8tc to 10*c.
SINESS AT MONTREAL.
faecal, Dec. 23.,- Tlie local
leas are dull. There is a fair de -
d for butter, eggs, poultry, and
country produce, but offerings
ht; quotations axe unchang-
rain. - No. 1 hard, Manitoba,
rt 'William; No. 1. Northern,
ember; peas, 72e high freight;
tst 801e; high freight, 85
4.84c east; backwheat,
re. Flour -Manitoba
; strong bakers', W-
eight rollers at $3. -
in bags at $1.70 • to
$3.70 to $4.10. Roll-
rs' prices to jobbers,
$1.15 per bbl. Feed
P..' $17.50 to .$18;
clu.ded; Ontario
6.50 to $17.50;
Beans -Quota -
at $2 in aces on
eions - Heavy ;Can -
'wet Cut Pork, • $25;- light
cut, • $24; compound refined
to ,91c.; pure. Canadian lard,
11o. finest 'lard, 12 to 121e; hams;
12 to 13*c; bacon, 12 to 1.5ce dress-
ed hogs, ..$7.50;• fresh killed abat-
toir, *9.75 per "ie.:\O• lbs. zggs -
• Seleete,d, 28 to .25c; candled stock,
10*- to 20*e; atraight receipts, 18*
to 19c; No. 2, 16* -e. Honey -Best,
clover, in sections, 11 to 12c per
section; in 10 -lb. tins, 9*.to 10c; in
bulk, 8c. •Poultry - Turkeys and
ducks, 18 to 18*c per lb.; young
chickens., 10* to 110; fowls, 81c per
The geese, Sic per lb. Cheese -
Ontario, 12tc; Townships, 12e. • But-
ter cc Fancy Townehips creamery, 22
to 22e; fine creamery, 21.c; On-
tario creamery, '20 a; dairy butter,
line to 17c for selections.
'UNITED STATES MARKETS. •
Minneapolis, Dec. 23. - Wheat -
December, 78*e; May, 75* to 75*c;
, on track, No.l. hard, 75.0c; No. 1
• Northern, 74110; No 2 Northern,
'.12ec. • "
Milwaukee, Dee. 28. -- Wheat
Ea.eier; No. 1 Northern, 77 to 77*e;
• No. 2 'Northern, 75 to 76*c; May,
• 771c. Rye - Lower; No. 1, 51* to
52e. • ,
Buffalo, Dec. 28. Flour -Steady,
Wheat - Spring, spot dull; . No. 1
hard, 84ci, winter .ctuiete No. 2 red,
. ekt..e:e.-ee-•:11Acisy; No, 8 yellow,
• 57e; No. 3 corn, 54 to 55e. Oats
Steady; No. 3 white, 37c; No; 2 mix-
ed, 85. " Barley .- 47 to 68a., Rye
-No. :le in store, 564c asked.
Dultithe Dec. 23. - Wheat Cash,
No. 1 hard, 74*e; No. 1 Northern,
• 73 c; No. ' 2 Northern, 711c; Decem-
ber, 73ac; May, 76c, Oats - Dec-
ember, 831*.e; 14Xay, 86.
St. Louis, Dec. 23. - Wheat -
closed - December, 700; May, 76*c.
fo•oing:••••
LIVE STOCIC 14TARE1AT,
Toronto, Dee. 28. - .At the 'West-
ern cattle yards to -clay the reeeipts
'Were 85 earloads of, live stock, in-,
luding 2,000 cattle, 1,070 lambs aad
,sheep, 1,500 begs, 50 calves, and 30
'Much cows.
The export trade continuesennsu-
ally' dull, the embargo is causing a
seeione interruption to trade. Coed
to choice export, cattle' sold at from
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A Vienne. -despatch Says: The Ar -
bolter Zeitung on Thursday describes
a. Pitched battle between strikers and.
troops at Rostoff„ Russia. The di-
rector of the worksrecently declar-
ed that he would drive the strikers
back to work with knouts, and tide
stirred up the population, and 80,-
000 collected for a demonstration.
Cossacks attacked the demonstrat-
ors, killing and wounding recklessly.
After the first set -pink of the attack
the strikers rallied and attacked the.
Cossacks. Soldiers were dragged
from their horses, kicked and stoned,
and beaten to eleath.
Reinforcements weee summoned.
The strikers palled trees up by the
roots, and With tbent constructed
barrieades. Heaps of stones and
pieces of ircn were collected,and
with these the troops were aesniled,
both beim the barricades 'and house-
tops. The troops • made six attacks
on the barricades, but were repulsed
th.aach •caae. In the ranks of the
strikers • were 2,000 WOMell, who
fought ferociously. Many of these
proletarian Amazons fell victims •of
the Coesacks' lances.
-The next day an overwhelming
army barred the way to the place
appointed by -the strikers for a
meeting. The -demonstrations,. how-
ever, - would not. he thus set aside,
and thousands of them swam across
the Don, and a meeting was heldon
the other •side, during which Czar
Nicholas was .burned in .effigy.
The •casualties, the paper Says,
amounted 'to 300 killed .and more
than 1,000 injured.
WHEAT SHIPMENTS.
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Statement Shows Great Increases
Over Last Year.
A Montreal despatch says: The
Canadian Pacific Railway, has iesued
a statement showing the wheat ship-
inents by lake from all elevators at
Fort William. and Port Arthur for
the seasons of navigation 1902-1001.
The -total of shipmente froro. . Can-
adian ports was 22,051,144 bushels,
'against '9,662,007 last yea:Tann 'Ina
crease of 12,389,047 bushels. Te
United Statesports the figures were
18.,174,654 bushels; , against 5,73.1,-
785 last year, an increase Of 7,762,-
871 bus,luas, making the total ship -
meets of Canadian wheat 35,525,-
796 bushelfrom April 11th to De-
cember 5th, 1902,- against 15,373,-
880 from 30th April to 5th Decem-
'
ber 1.01, or a total increase of 20,-
151,918 bushels.
The amount, carried by Canadian
vessels to Canadian ports in 1902
was 22,051,141 bushels, an increase
of 12,88,9,047 bushels, and by Unit-
ed States vessels to United States
ports, 12,010,803 hushels, an in-
crease of 6,405,520 bushels.
' There wore 23,514,095 bushels
shipped by Canadian vessels, an in-
crease of 18,746,080 bushels., and
12,010,808 by 'United States vessels,
an increase of 6,405,520 bushels over
last year. • . •
Canadian vessels carried 627,648
bushels of oats, an increase of 541,-
862 bushels, and United States ves-
sels 26,000 bushels,
• Of barley, Canadian vessels carriesl
16,152 'bushels,
A SEVEN -CENT STAMP-.
Now Being Supplied by the Post -
office pepartthent.
An OtietWa. despatch says: . The
Post -office Department announces
that It is, now in a'position to sup-
ply a eeven-cent postage stamp to
Recounting post-ofli ebb throughout
Canada. This stamp, which is of a
yellow .color, will be especially con-
venient for postage and registration
fee en 'single rate letters., while it
May also be esed fox, .. other
postnge purposes to the extent 61 its
face value.
'Non -accounting offices can obtain
their supply through the city poet -
offices.
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Slew August laet a fire has been
burning in some disused. tv,orkinge of
a coal mine at 'Peniettik, near led-
iiehtrgh
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DANGER OF PLAGUE
xeasuzes Will be Taken to Pre-,
vent ItS Sped. in Az:steel:ea,
An Ottawa despatch saye
beide plague end clot -chicle= cholera
as lies been. suggested (foists in San
Preen:1Oct) according to Dr Montisam-
bert, Director -General of Public
ITealth, who has just returned from
New Orleans. Ile says there is. in;
disputable • evidence that hubonie
plagoe does prevail in San Francisco
and there' have been three.cases. of.
the *or:et type of the disease, which
As known by the profession as "pneu-
monic plague." Five differeat States
of the Uilion have eequisitioned Sur-
geon -General Wyman, under, a • Con-
gressional .A.et of last .July, to con-
vene a conference of State health
representatives to concert xneesures•
-to suppress the plague, which is a.
mena.ce to the entire North American
continent.
Tile department her will take ev-
ery preca-utiori to prevent the dis-
ease getting a footing in the •Do-
minion. All vessels arriving in Cane
adian pOrts from. Frisco will be re-,
quirecl to place funnels on the haw-
sers, extending from the wharves to
the vessels, the- feeling being strong
at New Orleans that the disease has
gained a • footing in the California
port through the medium of rats,
and the funnel device is recognized.
as tut effective preventive against
rats 'teaching vessel' Or wharf. •
OUR TRADE IN THE YUKON
Report Shows We Are Ousting
United States Goods.
• An Ottawa despatch .says: The Dee
pertinent of erred° and Commerce
has published the text of the report
of Mr. Geo. Anderson, of Toronto,
oa trade conclitiens in • the Yukon.
Extracts front .the report have- • al-
ready appeared in the press, but
with the complete text now availe
able those interested in Canada's
Eldorado will get' from it a better
conception of the true condition of
affairs.
The most striking feature of the
report.is the statistical information
which shows that in a large measure
Canadian goods have ousted the Am-
erican product. For the year end-
ing Jene 80th the value of Cana-
diatuproduce carried over the White
Pass Railway, was $3,109,187. as
compared with $1,192,361, worth of
Aanerican produce. The report is
replete with information- respecting;
the-tommodities of life,, wages, -tone,
ditione • of' labor, Minieg prospects '
for the country, etc. •
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PLAGUE IN FOODSTUFFS:
Japan Responsible- for Outbreak
in Honolulu.
A .San Francisco 'despatch says:
Advices just received from Nonolula
show that -investigation, proves that
foodstuffs shipped to Efenolulu from
Japan and China via San Francisco,
are resieonsible for the cases. of
plague recently appearing there. A
number of Japanese on nearby plan-
tations were taken with the plague
, and died in li. hospital in Honolulu.
lAn examination of their eftects was
made, but no trace of the germ was
•
clicovrod until thorough tcsts had
been made of seine of the Japanese
food found in the house. These
foods under the microseope showed a
trace of the plague germs, and fur-
ther examinations made of the Ori-
ental stuffs showed that the diag-
nosis was correct. It was learned
also that the foodstuffs had been.
imported at San Francisco, and
shipped to Honolulu.
BOERS TO ASSIST.
Generals Are Returning to Aid the
Investigation.
• A New •Yorkdespatch says :-Hon.
Joseph Chamberlain is to have the
assistance of the Boer generals • in
his investigation into conditions in
South' Africa: 'Thiseinforination is
contained iria letter written by Gen-
eral Louis Botha from Brussels to
,the trustees - of the'. Holland -Society
df this city. It is further 'intimated
that in order to be of all the • as-
sistance possible to the visiting
statesman, in order that he may see
the great needs of the devastated
country, Generals Botha., De Wet
and Delarey have postponed their
contemplated visit to America in
order to hasten back to South Af-
rica.. They will visit America later.
BULIDING CARS.
Railways Getting Ready for
Spring Immigration.
A Montreal despatch says :'-Both
the Canadian Pacific and Grand
Trunk are preparing for the expect-
ed. unprecedented influx of immigra-
tion in the spring. The former com-
pany • has discontinued building
freight cars at the Nochelaga shops,
and is now entirely engaged on pas-
senger .coaches. .Thirty first-class
cai-s, six sleepers, and two parlor
cars are nowunder construction;
while at the Grand Trunk shops they
aro-working on ten- first-class cars
andhave just completed ,an order
for ten second-class. The Grand
Trunk is also busy. on freight cars.
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BEFORE HIS WIFE'S EYES
Aeolic/. of NewBrunswick ,Light-
house Drowned, '
A St. George, N. i, despateh
says: T. Warren • Davidson, keeper
of the light at the Southern Wolves,
was drowned by the. capsizing of a
dory before the eyes of his wife, Who
was on the shore at the time. Fish-
ermen nearby were unable • to recov-
er the body. Mr. • Davidson was
keeper of the light for 11,0 or six
years, and in Ms earlier days was
skipper of a fishing schooner that
sailed out of GloticoSter, Mass. Ile
Was 85 yearSof ago, and leaves a
wit-de:Wand &Mall family,
HOUSE PROROGUED,
larAg,r, Speech Refers to 'Trouble
With. Venezueia•
A Lendon despatch, says: Parlia-
ment was prorogued on Thursday
afternoon by Royal Commiselen. The
Eines speech, which was' an Unk4S-
tinily lengthy' recapitulatiori of pub-
lic e'vents since January, including
the fiction taken in .connection. with
Venezuela, regarding whiCh the
speech said:
"I regret that the constant coin-
plainte which my GoVernment found
it necesearY to address to the Gov-
ernment of Venezuela in regard to
unjustifiable end arbitrary acts
against British suibjecte and property
during- the laet two years have been
Persistently disregarded, and that it
has become necessary for xny. Gov-
ernment, acting in concert with that
of His Imperial Majesty the German
Emperor, which also has serioue
causes of complaint against -Vie re-
public, to insist 021 theasures df--re-
drees."
SOUTII AFRICAN PROSPECTS.
The 'speech refers to the Conclusion
Of. the South African war, and adds:
"There seems to be every reason
to 'hope that material prosperity
gmiter than 'any the Transvaal and
Orange River Colonies have yet• ex-
perienced may visit these regions,
and thatall sections of the popula-
tion may live together in friendship
for, eaele.ether and loyalty. to the
Crown.." •
Paragraphs deed with the postpon-
ed coronation, the coloaial tonfer-
ence and' Colonial Secretary Cham-
berlain s tour, which together are ex-
peeted ' to be of the "uteaost value,
both' hi . respect to 'their immediate
effect • and s precedents in the fu. -
Other topics touched upon were the
expedition against the Mad Mul-
lah, and the co-operation of Italy
therein, • the acceptance. by Chile and
Argentina of the British bounciaay
award, the Brussels sugar conven-
tion, and the alliance' between Great
Britain and Japan, "which,•I be-
lieve, will be of advantage to both
countries, and contribute to the
maintenance of general peace in the
extreme East." •
ANGLO-CHINESE TREATY.
The Anglo -Chinese treaty: is refer-
red to as promising to "secure, not
only for this country, but for the
commerce of the Arid, valuable fee
eilities and advantages:".
The speech closes with a reference
to India, where the anxiety regarding
another famine has been' averted by
a plentiful rainfall, and where the
Coronation durbar will be associated
with a period .of unusual commercial
and financial, prospeeity.
Parliaanent was prorogued until
Feb. 17th.
C. P. R. ATLANTIC SERVICE
Definite, Announcement Expected.
• S o on.
A Montreal despatch says: An
annotincerrient from the C. P. R. re-
specting its plans for operation of a.
freight service of steamships • be-
tween Canada and Great Britain is
expected shortly. Regarding the ca-
ble from LOndon td the efiect that
the company has determined to es-
tablish a weekly. service between
Montreal' and Liverpool, and a ten-
day service from London and Glas-
gow at the.openingof St. Lawrence
navigation, Sir Thomas Shaughnessy
said on •Friday night • that such a
statement had. not been made by the
company. It is, however, under-
stood that the companyhas been
moving- actively in the question, and
that i.ot long will elapse before a
definite announcement will be given
to the public. •
WHERE ONTARIO LEADS.
We Handle Smallpox Much Better
Than the States.
A Toronto despatch says: While
Ontario has • several cases of small-
pox, our health officers have the sit-
uation well in hand, compared with
aeighb,oring States. Rochester City -
has 217 case's in the hospital, and 11
deaths have occurred within a
month. Michigan has the disease in
40 centers, and two cases within a
week have been imported t'o Ontario
from Detroit., '
WANT WESTERN LANDS.
New Ontario Syndicate After
Prairie Parris.
A Toronto despatch says :-Judge
Utt, of Chicago, was in the city re-
cently in furtherance of his colossal
• aerregration scherae for settling ten-
ant farmers from the States on New.
Ontario lands.' While here Judge
Utt called upon J. C. Hartney,
Manitoba inunigration agent, and in-
formed that official that Ms syndi-
cate, werein receipt of •so many ap-
plications from American tenant
farmers forCanadian Western
prairie lands that it would be neces-
sary for them to, enter into nego-
tiations with the Manitoba, and Do-
minion Governments, similar to
those pending With the Ontario Gov-
ernment, .in order to secure, land in
the Prairie Province and the Terri-
tories, on which • to locate Settlers
under the same conditions as are
proposed in the New •Oatario sehenie.
TEN DAYS ANNUAL DRILL.
New Militia Act Expected to Con-
tain Provision. •,
An Ottawa despiatolt says: It is
probable that the period of the an-
nual, drill of the Canadian niilitia
will be fixed a.t ten days, and that
legislation to this effect will' be in-
troduced in connection with the new
Militia, Act. It is likely, however,
that • the Government will fix the
dat and conditions of animal drill
to suit the mearious military dis-
tricts,
Official lnformatiou is beieg eole
leeted in Germany with a view to
the ,eventual 1We-eduction of, ,a, syse
tem of inserance against leak of era-
ploymen i.
NEWS
ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
CANADA.
• Regina is said to .11a.ve spent $123,-
000 in new buildings this year. '
Mrs. E, Dien Jones, of- Point • St.
Lawrence, is dead, .agecl 105 years.
It As expected .that Rrandon scihois
Will have to be closed owing to
shortage of fuel. ,
President Hays -of the Grand Trunk
favor s building a bridge across the
-Detroit river at Detroit.
. Thos. W. Brown, a Poor clerk of
Winnipeg, • has •inherited $50,000
from Liverpool relatives,
Passenger' departments ofthe two
chief Canadian railways report the
year's business.will be a record,
J. II, Land, of Hamilton, is or-
sganiaing a company for the purpose
of inannfacturing bricks out of
sand.
Bad•water in the west is very hard
on the locomotive's, says Mr. ,Tait,
of -the C.P.R. They have to be
cleaned out alter every trip.,
Father Henning, of Quebep city, in
a sermon, ecceses the coal dealers of
patting up the . price of coal, and.
says it is an unpardbnable act.
_The .new mosaic floor in the House
of Commons, ,Ottawa, will have the
royal arms . embedded in the centre
of the Work, with the arms of the
several provinces grouped axound.
In an neterview with. the C.P.R.
authorities in Winnipeg, Hon. .A. L.
Sifton, Minister of Public • Works,
said that at the end of next year he
expected that the increase in popula-
tion of the Territories would be
100,006, which would mean an in-.
crease in the number of representa-
tives in the Dominion House,
GREAT BRITAIN.
New members to the number Of
44,819 have jollied • the Primrose
League this year. '•
H.. M. battleships Prince . George
and Mars are to be fitted for the
consumption of liquid fuel.'
The accommodation for cadets at
the Royal Military College, Sand-
hurst, is to ,be increased froth 400
to 600.
• I3equests for religious, educational
and charitable purposes in England
during the last year exceed $20,-
000,000.
Oversleepieg on the part of a ser-
vant does not ju•stify a mistress in
dismissing her, , so Judge Russell
ruled at Wandsworth.
Several Leeds enthusiasts have
founded a society the xnembers of
Which pledge themselves to go sup-
perless to bed. • •
The State apartments at Windsor
Castle will be open to the public on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs-
days, until further notice. • '
Halfpenny fares have been iatro-
duced 011 all the South Leaden
tramway route.; recently taken Over
by the London County Council.
After forcing itself into a drawing -
room at Stanley,. Durham, a. bullock
made its way back to the street by
jumping through the Window.
As a reward for regular school at-
tendance, 199 children at Wing,
Bucks, have each received a pair , of
boots from Mrs. Leopold de Roths-
child.
H.M.S. Russell, which will be the
fastest battleship in commission,
will be commissioned at Chatham on
Feb. k4 for service in the Mediter-
ranean.
Soldiers' wives who have been
married "off the strength" are to be
employed as cleaners at current
rites of pay ha various military
offices fotinerly cleaned by soldiers.
The regular army at home on the
first of the month comprised 145,668
non-commissioned officers and .men.
Of these 50,820 had under two years'
service, and 83,551 were under
twenty years.of age.
During a.. • dense fog at Dublin a
cab containing nye people who were
driving to the decks fell over the
quay into the river, 20 feet below.
Fortunately. the vehicle caught on
the mooring rope of a steamer and
was kept • afloat until the occupants
were taken Out.
UNITED STATES.
New York city authorities have
voted $250,000 to buy coal for the
poor.
The Seattle Times says that the
White Pass & Yukon road is being
transferred to the C. I'. R. '
The U. S. Senate on Wednesday
passed the Pension Appropriation
bill. The amount is $140,000,000.
• Congress has voted $500,000 to-
wards stamping out the cattle dis-
ease in New England.
John D. Rockefeller has given an-
other gift of $1,000,000 to the 'Uni-
versity of Chicago.
Sixteen persons were killed and
many- injured in a railway wreck
near Byron. Hot Springs; California.
John Nicholas Brown, heir to $30,-
000,000, is seriously ill at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria, New York. He is three
years old.
• One hundred axed fifty thousand
men ,emP/oyed on railways running
out of Chicago have demanded in-
creased salaries.
A bill was introduced in.the Sen-
ate by Mr. Lodge to admit Canadian
bituminous coal. into the United
States free of duty.
A bill is before the Nouse at Wash-
ington, making October 21, the an-
niversary of the discovery of Ameri-
ca, a, legal public holiday, to be
known as Columbus day,
John Best, a lunatic, of • tapur,
Mich., cut Jasper. Clegg's head near-
ly off with a raeor, dangeroesly
Wounding his own mother and sis-
ter, and then shot himself dead.
GE -NERAL.
Good, rales have fallen in New
South Wales acid parts .'of Queens -
111'e Re Sal an CoOWS`1111,1.ent iSSP Sad.-
ing falkUnea SO sums in relief work
&Meng eciatiee suffeeers.
All the cernent' fieetories in Rhine-
11.1nel, Westplielia, have eAtered ihto
ei combine to fix priees.
Russia is about to export ite first
cargo of coel to America, The con-
siellulellt is one ef 9,000 tons of
anthracite,'i'hlandred veesele in the 'Lower
Danube have been cruehea or sunk
by the blocks of iee whiclt fill the
river.
At St, Petersburg last week. the
firet4neeting of workmen was, held
that has ever been oflioially sane-
tiionn)cipdroiir,tell,-tusszi tal.,aot cries, songs,
speeehes or lectures are forbidden in
13:BeCliglaunm lbStYcrlaienlaiewiltvitblllieekLinWPaee:fidch tt::
• Ricolaieff, a Ruseian naval eta -
A. police scandal has eoerie to light
tion on the Black Sect,
police master has for years been re-
ceiving full pay for a force of 826
mete while there were only 60 men
acitually on the force.
;Whilst Silvius Riad, a clergyman,
was being married to Sidonie Bra -
teas in the Creek Oriental Church at
Toliat, in Etingary, the bride's mus-
lin dress ca,ught fire from a tepee,
and she was burned so severely that
she died shortly afterwards.
Sir Edmund Barton will introduce
a navigation bill into the Australian
House next season, which provides
that the same wages. must be paid on
vessels seeking • Australian coastal
trade as were paid locally, and he
also proposes to shut • Out nations
which prohibit British. vessels from
trading between their ports.
• MESSAGE TO KING.
llifaxconi Notifies Lord Minto of
His Achievement.
An Ottawa despatch says: Shortly
before three o'clock on Sunday af-
ternoon. the Governor-General receiv-
ed the following message from Mr.
Marconi at Glace Bay, N. S.:
"I ha-ve the honor to inform. your
Excellency that your message to
his Majesty has now been transmit-
ted by nie from Cape Breton to
Cornwall by wireless telcgraehy, and
has been forwerded to its destina-
tion. .
(Signed) • "G. MARCONI,
2.20 p.m."
kind pre-
furnishing
"Glace Bay, N. S.,
Etiquette of the strictest
vents his Excellency 'from
to the press the text of this Marconi -
gram, but it is understood to convey
ns to the
Lord Minte's congratulatio
King on the accomplishmeat, within
his Majesty's dominions, of the gre-a.
his Majesty's dominions, of the
greatest feat of modern science.
.Mr. Fielding also received a tele-
gram from Mr. Marconi, telling him
of his success.
The message of his Excellency to
Ring Edward was prepared two
months age, the first understanding
being that it would be sent about
October 15th. A trial was made at
that time, but it was found that the
towers at Table Head were not !ef-
ficiently effective, and the young in-
ventor in a letter vane) time ago
said he would have to await the ar-
rival of additional 'machinery.' This
was brought out recently 011 the
Italian warship Carlo Alberto, and
for the pest two or three weeks Mr.
Marconi has personally superintend,
ed its installation.
SLEEPING SICKNESS.
Is Contagions and Almost Invaii-
ably Fatal.
A London despatch says: The
School of Tropical Medicine -has 'is-
sued a report on the sleeping sick-
ness which is now devastating Ugan-
da. Though it was discovered only
a few years ago, it is computed that
the disease has already killed from
20,000 • to 30,000 people, and is
spreading to new areas with increas-
ing virulence. Its extension to the
north 'will be of the greatest menace
to Egypt.
Scientific reports maxle on the
spot describe the sleeping sickness as
a complaint something like thennam
a complaint something like .that
group of -disea.ees' known as meningie
tis, or inflconthation of the brain. It
begins insidiously with'ehanges • in
the mental attitude of the patient.
From that time the disease' i pro-
gresses and the patient becomes stu-
pid and restless, and after other
symptoms have passed, enters into a
state of coma and dies. Tha-edura-
tion of the complaint varies from a
month in acute cases to six months
or more in others.
The disease is almost invariably fa-
tal, and although taking longer to
cause death than hydrophobia, may
be classed with the latter as one of
the most fatal illnesses known to
mankind. It is contagious, and its
spread is assured by overcrowding of
macssA. individuals ill the same • huts.
The depopulation of Many largo and
thickly populated areas is making it-
self felt, and the outlook is very
gloomy.
The only scheme yet devised for the
prevention of the spread of the dis-
ease is the isolation of new oases.
APPALLING CONDITIONS.
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Pour Han.dred Thousand Persons
Are Starving.
A St. Petersburg despatch says:
Four hundred thousand persons are
reported to be destitute and etarvirig
as a result of the crop failure in
Finland. • The Anglo - American
church here has undertaken to feed
and feed the school children of
four Finnish parishes, and .X'astor
Francie says the conditions to -day
are worse than those Of 1867, when
•one hundred thousand perseas died.
•nvi STATION.
C.P.R. to Build One Suitable to
Siee of Winnipeg.
• A Montreal despatch seys: The
Canadian Pacific has decided to
build it station at Winnipeg, com-
mensorate With the importance of
the city, and an announcement of
the Company's inteatioee May bo
looked for in the near future.
OUR LAKE tk
TORONTO BOATS MXIM ,
ABLE VOYAGES,
The Jessie Drurnmond's Experieneo
A 01:: tanh.:i:95.111141d4Sabl'eacto.fi:eaw:owliu'g
ne"ov:e-ritsraeLtiesF'lligWhi,thand.tthILsoonnslyroi• nalt
who, knew the vessel's position a rave
Mg Maniac from rum in irons below,
cently Ahead ef an easterly gale
tios,hnedorit0":00. ef .1,113.0:sie manynietenpuernr ioerladces thlqo
in 011 the heach off Cobourg re-
state -Ica old schooner which bowled
and leid he' bolies,t0 rest for ever
The Jessie Drainnaond waen't a.
schooner then. She was a barkentirie
and as clipper and stauach it little
bql:81ttel 'll'ogabe'scg((311t:.yells' '37-311\111eaecti 13ProtruirriatkeCOOnlrldbtoarwaraieo7
and it wee in the early seventies
that she made her first and °ray i
trip across the herring pond. She
bat Canada with a loaa o fioue• and
wcrh°esise:dshe to
okkle"nrilburr%lreGacerrIleaaillYs:
Now the Drennliond was in charge
of Caplaie Henry Jackman, oi To-
ronto, and a fresh water crew. They
could handle the craft mill right in
any weather, but -they had to take
on. a .alt water navigator to map
them out a path across the trackless
ocean. Now the 8cott Act law was
not In, force on the Druniinond, and
on the return trip the navigator
partook too freely of "red eye."
When the Drummond was oil New-
foundland, that -island of perpetual
fogs and menacing icebergs, the
navigator saw sea serpents of weird
and wonderful form ancl hue. They
climbed in over the bowsprit and
taffrail and did- acrobatic stnnts be-
tween the • lower spars, and tied t
knots in the topmasts. They pure •
sued him into the cabin and down ,
into the hold: To prevent him leap-
ing into the sea Captain jacknia,n
ordered the crew to place him in
irons, and secure him below. teinii
EliteFlEr Ra CE NOR' -WESTER BROKE
Captain Jackman knew about the
Position ef his ship, but in such a
dangerous neighborhood a mile or
two either way meant all the differ-
ence between safety and disaster, sb
the fresh -water skipper took no
ehaaces. He squared the Drummond
away before the blast, and for a
thousand miles the gallant little
lake craft walloped along ahead of
the sixty -foot seas. The great green
fnasthead high, rose behind
her, curled, and broke, • each en°
threatening' to poop her and send
her down to Da'ver Jones, but, as
each mountain • of green rent itself
for the final blow the little craft,
deeply laden as she was, rose to
meet the danger, wallowed an in-
stant in the broken arest of the
monster, and then pitched on ahead,
as she felt the full force of the gale •
as she raised out of the trough of
the seas. From Newfoundland's icy
atmosphere to the b'almy airs of the
suntropics, • that fierce old north-
wester carried the Lake Ontario
boat. The Drummond was off Flori-
de, when they were able to put about
again. It was a tedious journey up
the coast againbut the Drummond
finally made it safely, and returned
to her own hunting ground on Lake
Ontario. The Drummond's trip was
nota record one, by any means -that
is, in point of speed. She took al-
most half a year for the round -Cilia
The Gulnare, a little fore-and-aft
schooner commanded by Captain
Maw of Toronto, made two trips
from Montreal to England and re-
turn. *during the thee the Jessie
Drummond was making her single
voyage. Capt. Frank Jackman, a
brbther cd Captain Henry Jacktia,n
of the Drummond, also made a. trip
across the ocean • which •attracted
much attention. Captain Frank
Ja,clanan's voyage was front. Toronto
to Natal in the Sea. Gull, the
SMALLEST SAILING VESSEL
that ever made the voyage from
Canada to •South 'Africa. The Sea
Gull was built in Oakville it. 1867 ,
by the Sinapsons, who built the -
Orioleand other 'well known vessels.
The Sea Gull was a brigantine of •
only 400 tons burden. A. brigantine,
it may be explained for the benefit
of the uninitiated, is a craft rigged
with square sails upon the foremast
arid a fore and aft sail on the main-
mast. The Jessie Drummond, which
on her ocean voyage was a barken-
tine, carried square sail! upon .,.her
foremast and fore-and-aft sails upon
her main and mizzen masts. ,
The Sea Gull spent two or three
years trading • upten Lake 'Ontario,
and theu departed for Natal, South
Africa, with a wonderful assortment
of merchandise in her hold. The Sea
Gull made the voyage in safety.
Nothing remarkable happeeing upon
the trip, though the journey reveal-
ed the fact that the Sea Gull was
a. little topheavy in rig for ocean
work, so at the Natal port her
sticks were shortened by eight feet.
Whemi she returned to Toronto a,
year after she was 1.% subject of ineeh
curiosity as she lay at the Riot of
Yonge street, and was visited by .
thoesands of citizens. Beth broth-
ers were presentedwith gold watches
by the citizens of Toronto aee,tokens
of appreciation of their achaaPanents
on. the briny ocean•,
The Sea, Gen, 'after a Career a.s
selling vessel, was sold to Oswego,
'where she was transformed into a ;
'barge. Atter • doing duty on this
lake for some years she was sent to
the upper lakes, where. she euded her
career itt a blaze dT' fire at East
Tawas, on Lake .Michigan.
We Reone - "Madam, I aiti't hart ,
anything to eatfor twenty-four
hours, and --') Mrs, Gooelleart
"'Door fellow] TheteSs an old coat
of my husband'S h anging on th t
1iii ever there, and you-" 07 11,.:
--L"Pardon me, madam, I know my
whiskers are gettiug, long, but do I:
really look like a, goalai.'
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