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Toronto, Jan, 27,--"e1mat-leo, 1
Manitoba. hard offered at 88e on
G.T.11. all rail, grinding in traneit,
Ord at 850 Sarnia, or.' -Oweii tioued,
without bids, No. 1 Northern offer-
ed et 83e. Sarna, and N. 2 North-
ern at 85c all roil,• grinding in
transit, without bids. No. 2 On-
tario red. winter offered at 71ee high
freights, more otere at 70e high
freights, with 70e bid. One e'er of
No. 2 mixed sold at 700 high
freights, with 69ec bid ; 70e bid for
No. 2 mixed middle freights, and it
offered at 71e low freights to New
'York, without bids.
Gots-No. 2 white offered at 311c
hick ereigets, witb 81 -en. bid for 20,-
000 bushels, while ttlec was bid for
10,000 bushels now shipped. .
Peas -No. 2 offered at 78ee high
freight, with 73c bid on Cnalt.
Core -leo, 2 Comedian yellow of-
fered et 45-ec west, with 44e -c bid,
and No. 2 mixed wanted at 44c
• west.
Rye -No, 2 offered at 50c on Ctient
with 49e bid middle freight.
Buckwheat -No, 2 offered at elec
middle freight on tele,R., without
bids.
Toronto, Jan. 27. At the cattle
Inerket to -flay the receipte were 8e
ears, corateiaieg 1,100 eattle, 1,820
she*, 1,8e2 hogs, and 25 Calves.
8te1ee passed off Slowly in all lilies.
of cattle, and at the close a good
deal of butfelees' exporters Were left
usersold.
There tette a good demand for
choice stoelters an4 feeders, and $e.-
20 to e440 was paid for a choice
lot of these of from 1,0'25 to 1,150
lbs. The bulk of taw. busiliess iu
these was traneacted on a baste of
$e to $1.25. Feeders ot 850 to P00
Tbs. brought $8.50 to 54 per cwt.
Quite a lot of butchers' heifers- aral
steers were sold at $3.50 to 5e.25
per cwt., for medium to choice stock
of 850 to 1,050 lbs. Butehers' bulls
were sold at $3.50 for heavy, and
e8 to $8.40 for light. The butchers'
toed exporters' bulls offesed
changed heeds in the wa-
eority of eases at 58.50 to 84 per
cwt. The quality was fairly good.
Canners were seethe, anti the prices
were nominal at $2 to $2.75 pr
cwt. Dough butchers' cows brought
from $8 to $8.25 per cwt. Timm were
not many sold. A choke lot of
butehers' mites of from 950 to 1,050
lbs. was. sold at $3.70 to 54.25 Per
cwt. Milch cows and springer' ware
in good demand, and the prices
ranged front $30 to $55 each. For
extra choice stoelc higher pries
'would be paid.
Saks in sheep and lambs woe.
slow, and lambtook another drop
of 25 to 35o per 100 lbs., the quo-
tations now being $1 to 5e.75 per
cwt.; 250 to 800 were left in the
hands of the dealers: The receipts
were much larger than usual, and
this bad something to do with the
decline. Ewes were steady at 53.00
to $3.75 per cwt., and Ibucks were
worth $2.50 to 53.
Calves were &till scarce and want-
ed, and the priCes remained firm. at
58 to $10 each, and ee to 6e per lb.
Hogs - There were liberal offer-
ings, and the market continued weak
in sympathy with the easy one of
the Englith market. The prices
paid were $6 for select bacon hogs
of 160 to 200 lbs., $5.87 for thick
fats, and $5.8.7e tor light.
Per 100 lbst
...$5.00• $5.10
... 4.50 4.00
... 0.00 e.00
.,. 3.75 ' 4.00
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Deans -Trade is quiet at unchanged
• prices, Medium bring $1.6.5 to $1.75
per bush, and hand-picked $1,90 to
$2. •ffi.
Dried apples -Market quiet, with
prices unchanged at e to ele per
IP; and evaporated at 6e- to 7e.
Honey -The market is quiet, with
prices unchanged. Strairsed, 8 to Stte
per lb, and comb $1.25 to $1.65.
Hay, baled -The market is quiet,
with no changes in prices. Choice
timothy, $10 to $10.25 on track,
and mixed, $8 to $8.50.
Straw -The market is quiet, with
car lots on track quoted at $5..50 to
$6 a. ton.
Onions -The marnet is dull at 40c
per bushel for Canadian.
Poultry -Market quiet. Demand
fair for finest, fresh killed, dry pick-
ed stock. Frozen and held stock
only meeting with fair demand. We
quote :---Fancy dry -picked turkeys,
12e to 13e ; frozen and held stock,
10 to 110; geese, fresh killed, to
lee; held stock, 6 to 7e per lb ;
ducks, 70 to 90c per pair ; chickens,
• 60 to 75e; hens, 40 to 50c per
pair..
Potatoes -Market firm. Car lots of
choice stook, $1.10 to $1.12 per
beet f.o.b. trac.k here; small lots sell
at $1.25 to 51.30 per bag.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -The market was steady as
• a rule, with prices showing little
• change. We quote :-Finest, 1-11)
rolls, 19 to 200; selected dairy,
tubs, 17 to 18e; choice large rolls,
17-e, to 1Se; secondary grades (rolls
and tubs), 15 to 18c; bakers', 13
to 14c; cream -prints, 23 to 28e ;
solids, 20 to 21c.
Eggs -Market is stee.ey. We
quote :-Cold storage, selected, 17
to 200; ordinary, 15 to 17c; limed,
15 to 16e; splits, 12 to 18e.
Cheese -Market rules firm. We
emote :-Finest Septembers, 13 to
laic; seconds, 12; to 12ec.
HONTREAL MARKETS.
• Montreal, Jan, 27. -Manitoba mill-
ers ba.ve raised prices of flour 15c a
barrel; even this, however, is not
equivalent • to the rise in wheat ;
.since, counting four and a Ralf
bushels to the barrel, the grain costs
them 25e 'more the barrel of Rome
than formerly. Cheese is scarce,
and thee° who have it are not
anxious to sell. Butter is rather
dull, the price quoted being for
fresh receipts, while little is coming
in. There is a good deal of held
stock, however, for which 22 to
22ee is asked ; this price cannot be
got at present, but 1.r -expected later
on. Grain -No. 1 Manitoba. hard
wheat. 74e; No. 1 Northern, 72ec,
in store, Fort William ; peas, 72ec
,bigh freights ; oats, No. 2 in store
here, 35ec, 31e high freights ; rye,
49-ec est ; bucnwheat, 50e east.
Flour-Marxitoba patents, 54.85 ;
seconds, 54.05; Ontario straight
rollers, $3,50 to $3.65 ; in bags,
$1.70 to $1.75; patents, $3.70 to
$4.10.
'UNITED STATES MARICETS.
• 8t. Louis, Jan. 27. -Wheat closed
• -Cash, 73:e; January, 72ec; May,
?Gee; July, 72e,
• Buffalo, • Jan. 27.--Flour--Firm.
Wheat -Spring, very little business ;
No. 1 hard, 89c' win.ter, offerings
very light ; No. 2red, 79c. Corn-
Firxn; No. 2 yellow, 54e; No. 2 cern,
52e to 58c. Oats -Strong ; No. 2
• white, 42c; No. 3 white, 41c. Bar-
ley -52 to 65e. Rye -No. 1 in store,
61c.
Minneapolis, • Jae). 27, --Close --
Wlieat-May, • 78e to 78.1c;
718ete; on track, No. 1 bard,
No. 1 Northern, 78ec; No, 2 North-
ern 771-e.
tioledo, Jan 27, -Wheat -Dull,
firm; cash and January, 791c; May,
82ee. Corn -Dull, steady; January,
46ec; May, 44ee, Oats -Dull, firm. ;
January, 361c; May, 571e. Ityp-
No, 2, 58;1 e. Cloverseed--Fairly
active, strong; January, $7.17e ;
:March, $7.25; priests timothy, $1,90;
prime alsilte, $8.85.
Duth tli, Jan, 27.-Clo Se--Wheat-
Cash, No, 1 hard, 78:e ; No. 1
Inert:here, 77Se; No, 2 Northern,
75:c; 3Vfa;y, 79:e; July, Fete. Oats -
May, 35e.
eli,tettulten, Jan, 21,--"Wheat-
/Haber; etoee, No. 1 Northern, 81 to
811e; No. 2 Northern, 80 to 80ee ;
May, 80e to &etc; sellers. Rye--
leirm ; No, 1, 51 to •520. Perky --
Laver, No. 2, 65 to 67e; sample, 45,
to 68c, Corea-May, dale bid.
Estporters" cattle --
Choice ...
Medium.
Henley
Bulls ...
Butchers' -
Choice ... ... 4.25 4.40
Medium. 3.65 4.00
/Heifers» ... 0.00 3,90
Bulls ... 3.00 3.50
Cows ... 2.75 3.75
Feeders...............4.00 4.25
Ganeers 2.25 2.50
Sheep -
Lambs ... 4.00 4.75
Ewes ... ... 3.50 3.75
Bucks ... ... 2.50 , 3.00
Catees, each ... ... 3.00 10.00
Selects, 160 to 200
0.00
Thick fats 5.S7-1 0.00
Lights ... 5.87e 0.00
SUBSIDY OR NOT.
Grand Trunk Pacific Will Be
ried Through.
A Montreal deepatch says :-Mr.
C. M. Hays, general manager, and
• Mr. William Wainwright, general
assistant and comptroller of the
Grand Trunk, returned from Ottawa
on Wednesday, where they inter-
viewed Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Mr.
Hays stated that he was not yet in
a position to make any very definite
statement, but it is generally be-
lieved thnt the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway will apply to tbe Federal
Government for a cash and land sub-
sidy, besides asking it to guaraetee
its first mortgage bonds. It is,
however, stated by those in the con-
fidence of Mr. Hays, that the build-
ing of the new line will go through
whether a subsidy is granted or not.
In the event of no subsidy being
granted, the project will be carried
out as -that of a private corpora-
tion. It is onthis account that Mr.
Hays is anxious to find out from
the Premier, as soon as possible, the
•attitude of the Government on this
subject. Be'would then know into
ethat part of Western Ontario and
the Northwest to send tbe engineers
of the company, to find the best lo-
cation for the railway. ,
Car -
TWO MEN KILLED.
Fatal Accident On the Grand
xru,uk nanway.
A Port elepe despatch 'ette's a -A.
headem 'collision between two
freight trains occurred on, the G.T.R.
at 0,15 on Wednesday evening, be-
tween this. place and. Newtonvillet
station 7 milea west, ot her. Two
lives were lost, tb.o .ttictires being
Fireman Matthews, . of the east-
bound freight, residence Little •York;
Brakeman Foreriet, of the west-
bound freight resieence Little York.
Conductor Preston, of the west-
bound train, was slightly injured.
The accident occurred about two
miles east of Newtoaville. The west-
bound train was ascending a grade,
when the eastern freight rounded a
curve, tbe engine crew of the former
train perceiving the latter a few see -
ands before their own headlight was
visible to the crew on the east-
bound train. This enabled the west-
bound train's speed to be. somewhat
checked, but the momentum of the
other freight on the down grade was
too great to allow of .its stopping.
The crews of both trains jumped
on perceiving that a collision wise
inevitable, but the two 'men killed
and the conductor were eaught in
the wreckage. About a score of cars
were smashed up, while both engines
aro but shapeless .masses of twisted
steel.
It is stated that the cause of the
accident was neglect of duty on the
part of the operator at Newton -
villa, He had, it is said, orders to
hold the east-bouncl freight at his
station until the west -bound train
had crossed it there. This order, it.
Is alleged, be failed to deliver, witlj
the result that the east -bound train
proceeded and met the other.
A wrecking crew was despatched
front Port Hope immediately upon
the receipt of news of the aecident.
The wreck took fire and burned
fiercely, greatly increasing the dim-
e:lily and danger of the work,
AGENT TAXES THE BLAME.
GOOD ROADS IN ONTARIO.
Abolishing Statute Labor in Fa-
vor of New System.
A. Toronto despatch says :-The
canipaign waged by Government
officials for the abolition of statute
labor hes been particularly success -
fin duringthe last year. About one
hundred municipalities have com-
muted the system, and many more
have promised to do the same when
an opportune time arrives. The
seventh annual report of the Corn-
mie.sioner of Highways, which is
now being prepared, will- give an, ac-
count of .the eltorts made to change
the system of keeping roads in re-
pair, and also a general review of
the work that has been aecomplished
during the past year, Tim report
contains, too, a review of the work
done in connection with colonization
roads. During the' year about 800
miles of such roadways were cos-
structed, principally in the Teens -
kerning country.
COAL DEALERS ARRESTED.
Charged With Tteaintainieg Illegal
• Combine,
A. teoledo, Ohio, deepatch, says. Af-
ter an investigation lasting a week,
the Coinnion Pluto Grand jury on
Weaneeday bed.ictecl the °faros of the
Toledo Coat Enseonge on the oharge
of maintaining an elleged illegal
combine to loop up prices of coal.
Tliey were arrested in the afterneton
and glee() bend, elle emelt sieve
iliat forty other eereoris are unlaw-
fully engaged in the alleged cori-
The resnonsibility for the accident
is accepted by A. McDougall. the
station agent, who has had niaeteen
years' experience, and has been at
Newtonville for two years. Previ-
ously he wus at Newca.stle and Bow-
menville. He admits receiveng an
order from the train desp.atcher at
Belleville, instructing him to hold
the east -bound freight until the
freight, from the west had passed,
but with talc confusion resulting
from his multifarious- duties he for-
got to deliver the order. In explan-
ation of his mistake Mr. McDougall
said.. "Every train is block.ed 'at
New tonville until the preceding
train at Port Hope has either pulled
out or beea switched. A train had
genie out just a. siliort time ahead of
the east -bound and I had the block -
signal out; then I received an order
frometlse train despatcher at Belle-
ville that a west -bound freight
would meet the cast -bound here. I
pet the order clown on the desk and
went ahead with my reports. 123, a
fete minutes Port Hope notified rae
that the preceding east -bound train
had cleared there. Then I pulled in
the block end thought nothing of the
»ender for trains to meet here. I saw
the east -bound come in, the one that
was wreaked. Shortly afterward the
Ideseetcher asked me if she was hos
e
said. 'No, she's gonee even then
I did not think of., the order. He
asked me if I had received the order.
I told him I had, it was an over-
sight.."
GRIM REAPER AT WORK.
11••••• .0 .0
Deaths in. the Province Last
Month. Totalled 2,191.
A Toronto despatch says: The re-
port of the Provincial Board of
Health, prepared by Mr. G. B. Lind-
say, Tor the month of December
shows that the total deaths in On.-
tario from all causes were, 2,191, .as
compared with 2,„111 for the oorres-
Pending, month in 1901, The 'deaths
from eontrigious diseases last month
were: Scarlet fever, 41; diphtheria,
61; meages, 2; whooping cough, 13;
tyresoid fever, 51; tuberoulosest.135;
amid from other causes 1,866. In De-
cemiber, 1901, the figures were:
Scarlet, facer, 24; 'diphtheria, 61;
measles, 8; whooping cough, 15; ty-
phoid feeer, 25; tuberculosis, 189. In
1001 returns were received front 759
eminecipalitits, and in 1902 the ro-
t:twee so far received amount' to 700.
BOUND TO GET COAL
leob Holds Up Seven Cars and
Carries off Contents.
A New York despatch says :---A
crowd of men, women and children
attanked and captured a tram of
seven cars loaded with more than
200 tons of anthracite coal oft Wed-
nesday at the Sutter Avenue cross-
ing of the Long Island Railroad, in
the Brownsville 'section of Brooklyn..
The train crew tried to fight the
capturers off, but the crowd was too
big, and the railroad employes were
forced to stand by while the people
filled their bags, baeketse carts,
wheelbarrows, and even waggons,
with coal. Many of those who took
the coal say they are willing. to
pay for it, and that it was only
after efiorts to buy had resulted in
failure that they decided to raid a
train.
PRISON FOR LIFE.
Sentence Meted. Out to Harailton
Homicide.
'
A Buffalo, N.Y. despatch says
Ernest Steam, of Hamilton, Ont.,
the negro boy who shot and killed
Ereda McGregor in the Badge Hotel
on the night of October Oth last,
was on Wednesday sentenced to life
imprisonment in Auburn Prison,
lender the verdict of murder in the
woad degree, reported 'tor a jury
which Sat at Stanton's trial„, the
juetice had no option. The seetenee
is fixed by linv at life iMprieMunent.
steeoady., train.
EDUCATIONAL SHOW.,
The , Draft lteorse Men Well Hold
lexnebetion.
For a number of years Canadian
horses Met with a ready sale at
good prices, and then. ocone a period
during which even the best were
scarcely saleable, and inferior stock
could hardly -be given away. The
importation of high class etallioes
almost ceased and the trade because
generally demoralized, During the
last two oz. three years business has
been gradually reveving and the past
Year has seen 4 large nuraber of imi-
Portations of pure bred. stallions for
breeding purposes. The draft horse
is undoubtedly the most satisfac-
tory type for the average farmer to
breed. Good heavy horses weighing
from 1,500 lbs. upwards and of good
quality are likely to raeet with a
ready sale for some time to come.
Such horses are tractable and easily
broken and while awaiting sale can
bo readily used for any sort of farm
work, thus paying for their keep
which the fancy horees rarely do.
To produce horses at 4 profit it is
highly desirable that only the best
class of registered stallions be used.
In order to facilitate the selectioe of
•such stallions arrangements have
been md
made to hold at Greed's Re-
pository, Toronto, on the 4th, 5th,
and 6th of February, a show of
heavy draft stallions with a prize
list amounting to some $1,500, at
which an interesting programme of
educational addresses will be pro-
vided by expert horsemen. The
breeders of heavy horses batre for
some time complained that the To-
ronto Horse Show, usually held in
the latter part of April or the be-
ginning of May, was so late as to
be inconvenient for both buyers and
sellers. Therefore it has been
thought advisable to hold a show in
February so that private breeders,
as well »as stallion syndicates aid
other associations may have ample
time to make their selection for the
coming season, The dates have been
fixed thus early in order to meet the
wishes not only of exhibitorw, but
of buyers from all pares of the Do-
minion, axed it is hoped that the
show will be liberally patronized
both by exkiibitors and visitors.
• P. W. HODSON,
Live Stock Commissioner.
NEW EIVGLISH LICENSE ACT
SOME OP THE PRINCIPAL FEA-
TURES OF THE LAW.
How the English Legislators Seek
to Control the Demon
• Rum,
The annual licensing meeting shall
be' held withixi. the first fourteen
days of February and every adjourn-.
meet within one month thereof.
Where the husband is it, habitual
drunkard the wife shall be entitled
to apply for an order under the
Summary Jurisdiction Aat.of 1895.
A justice gull not be disqualified
to act for any purpose by reason
only of being interested in a railway
company which is a retailer of in-
toxicating liquors.
If a person is found drunk in any
highway or other public place and
appears to be incapable of taking
care of himself, he may be appre-
hended land dealt with according to
law.
The licensieg justices are at lib-
erty "in their freo and -unqualified
sescretion except as hereinafter pro-
vided," to either refuse or grant it
license to such persons as they deem
worthy.
Where a license existed on the 25t5
day of June, 1902, any application
for _renewal shall not be refused un-
less the applicant has been guilty of
misconduct in -the management of
his business.
When any person is found in a
state of drunkenness on the premises
of a. licensed person, the, latter must
erove that he and all persons 15 his
emeloy took all reasonable stater to
prevent such drunkeaness.
Where a person is applying for a
new license he shall not less than
twenty-one days before the annual
licensing meeting, depositewith the
clerk a plan of the eremises in re-
spect to which the application is
made.
Any person found drunk in any
public place while having charge of a
child under seven years of age may
be apprehended, and is liable to a
fine not exceeding forty shillings or
imprisonment, with or without hard
labor, not exceeding one month.
Any person who shall attempt to
procure any intoxicating liquor for
any drunken person, or shall aid any
such person in obtaining liquor,
shall be liable to a fine not exceed-
ing forty shillings, or to imprison-
ment, with or without hard labor,
not exceeding one month. '
A fine not exceeding one hundred
pounds, shall be levied on any solici-
tor or other person being a clerk of
licensing justices who shall by him-
self, his partner or clerk, act in any
application in respect of it license,
except in so far as relates to the
preparation of notice, etc.
For the purpose of preventing re-
peated applicatione, the licensing
justices may, at the 'general annual
nicotine, make regulations determin-
ing the time which must elapse after
the hearing of the application before
another application may be made in
respect of same premises.
In the case of an application for a
license, the person holding the li-
cense and the person who it is pro-
posed shall become the holder of the
license shall attend the - sessions at
which the application is heard, and
the agreement tinder which the li-
cense is to be transferred shall bo
prod:ea:id.
A person intendleg to apply for it
new license shall at least twenty -
ono days before the date of the
meeting ,serve notice of the clerk,
setting forth his name arid address,
it description of the licenee d.osired
and of the situation of the premises.
Ibis is in addition to the regula-
tiens of the Licensing ACt£1 of 1828-
80.
A justiee's license shall be required
in the CAS° of every mime license
under Wilke intoxicating liquer may
be sold by retail to be consumed off
the preraisee, Thi e section florae not
apply to any license taken out by
any spirit or wire(' dealer whose pre-
mises ere exclusively used for the
sale of intoxiceting liquors and min-
eral Waters or other noneintoxicat.
ing drixess.
Whoa en offender is conVicted, no-
tice ot such oonviction shall be sent
to the police Authorities, to the ef-
fect that if the convicted persou
within three years eteeneete to pur-
ehaee liquor he shall be liable to a
One not exceeding twenty shillings
for the tirst offence, and not exceed-
ing forty shillings for each subse-
quent ; if the convuoted be a license
bolder he shall be liable to it fine of
twenty pounds for the first offence
and forty pounds for each subee
quent
Where • the wife is an habitual
drunkard the husband may apply to
a Court of Summary Jurisdiction,
and may be awarded any one of the
following :-(a) A decree of judicial
separation on the ground of cruelty;
(b) the legal custody of any of the
children of eke marriage ; (c) pro-
vision that applicant shall pay les
wife a weekly sum not exceeding'
two pounds, accordiug to circum-
stances ; (d) wife may be com-
mitted to and detained in any re-
treat.
On the application for the renew-
al. of any license, the licensing jus-
tices may direet-that within it time
fixed by order such, alterations as
may lso reasonably necessary to se-
cure the proper conduct of the busi-
ness shall be made ; if such struc-
tural alteration is compiled with, no
furtber requisition shall be made
within free years ; but if the licensed
person makes default in complying
with the order he shall be liable to a
flue not exceeding twenty shillings
for every day during which the de-
fault continues.
An occasional license shall not be
granted exeept with the consent of a
Petty Sessional Court and unless
twenty-four hours at least before
applying for that consent the appli-
cant has served on the superintend-
ent of police for the diserict notice
of such intention with full particu-
lars as to name and address, place
ane occasion, and period for which
license is to be in force. Where there
is no sitting of a Petty Sessional
Court within three days consent
may be given by any two justice,
eotice of such consent to be sent to
the superintendent of police.
Any alteration in any licensed pre-
mises for the sale by retail of in-
toxicating liquors, to be consumed
thereon, which gives increased faCili-
ties for drinking, conceals from ob-
servatiort any part of the premises
used for drinking, or which affects
the communication between the part
of the premises where intoxicating
liquor is sold and any other part,
shall not be made without the con-
sent of the licensing justices, who
may before giving their consent re-
quire plans of the proposed- alters. -
tions to be deposited with their
clerk. And if any alterations are
otherwise made, the license may be
declared forfeited or the premises
ordered to be restored to -their ori-
ginal condition.
WAS NEARLY SUFFOCATED
'Manager of Natural G -as Company
Has Narrow Escape.
A Welland despatch says: Geo.
Cook, local agent and manager for
the Mutual Natural Gas Coinpany,
was steaely asphyxiated by gas in
his home on Tuesday. Mrs. Cook
and their nephew, Roy, were away
from home for the night. in the
morning Roy returned in time for
school, and, finding the doors lock-
ed, thought his uncle was at his
°Poe. At noon, when. the little fel-
low returned from school, the door
was still loelced, and he went down
to the &floe. That, too, was closed,
and tee child, accompanied by a
couple of men, hastened back, and
an entrance into the Melee was
forced, and Mr. Cook was found ly-
ing M• bed unconscious from gas,
which had escaped into the roein
from an open fireplace. .It took eev-
oat hours' work before conselausnese
was restored. The doctor said that
in ten minutes more Mr. Cook would
have been past recovery, as his pulse
had already stopped beating.
SPECIAL BRITISH COLONY.
Two Thousand Farmers Coming
to Canada.
A London despatch says :-It is
announced that the two thousand
British farniers and agricultural la-
borers who are to settle at Saska-
toon are to sail on March. 21st, in
charge of Rev. Mr. Barr. The Can-
adian Government will give sufficient
land for 18 townships and foreigners
will not be permitted to settle on
this reserved territory. The settle-
ment will be called the Special Brit-
ish Colony.
The report of the Crofter Coloniza-
tion Committee says the position of
the settlement at Salteoats in the
Canadian territories, established in
1899, has undergorie little change.
Some of the bomesteads which have
reverted to the boaed have been Alci
and an endeavor is being made to
find purchasers for the remabider.
SEA YIETES RICH HARVEST
Herring Shoals Return to Swedish
oast.
A Stoeltholin despatch eays
Shoals of herrings are standing
thick outside the west coast of
Sweden, affording a rich harvest to
the fishing communities. These esh
have not been seen foe geaeration.
The influences that govern their
migentione still belong to nature's
greatest mysteries. During the Mid-
clle Ages the herring fisheries of
Sweden produced great wealth, but
the fish disappostred for three Cen-
turies, reappearing et the end of
the eighthente century, and Mier
another interval o/ ,absence returning
aboat the Middle/of the eineteenth
centurgs
NEWS ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
CANADA.
The population of Vermeil:1ex is es-
tianatee to be 80,079.
new hotel, station, and subway
are projected by the Canadian Pa -
alio Reilway at Whanipeg.
Me, A. F. MaeLaren, M.P„ is head
of a company that will build a fine
new hotel at Stratford.
The Niagara Falls Park Commis-
sioners have fevorably considered tho
eaplication of Toronto capitalists foi-
e, franchise, for a. third Power com-
party et Niagara Falls,
St. Catharines had it balance on
liand of $1,762.88 at the end of last
year.
St. Andrew's Society, Hamilton,
contemplates the erection of it music
hall to seat 2,000 to 3,000 persons.
Winnipeg Street Railway earnings
for the past year were $199,728.80,
of which 5 per cent. goes to tlx city.
The greater part of the 1903 cut
of the Ottawa mills has been sold
to British buyers, and prices are
fully 10 per cent, higher than last
year.
• Assistaut Police Magistrate Kings-
ford has decided that news agents
in hotels iafringe the law by scalene
stamps to guests in the hotels.
Dureng the year 1902 Guelph's fire
department responded to 84 calls,
only six of which were at night, The
total loss was $1,955, covered by
$1,680 insurance.
John P.utvain, charged with the
murder of Capt. Prothero, formerly
of Sandwich, at Snake Island, Lake
Winnipeg, has bean coraraited for
The Grand Trunk intends erecting
O conunadious new passenger station
at Brantford this summer. They
ask from the corporation the right
to make certain changes in their
tracks.
The Executive of the Canadian ra-.
cific Railway has deferred until Feb-
ruery the decision regarding the
proposed extensions of branch lines,
dotible-traeleing, and reduction of
gradients, for which $20,000,000
was paseed at the last annual meet-
ing.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Three new submarine mats will
shortly be ready to lea..ve the build-
ers at Barrow.
Peat is now being substituted for
,coal cunong the peer at Stockton
I and Thornby-on-Tyne.
Last year 5,130 failures ' were
gazetted in the 'United Kingdom as
against 5,174 in 1901.
The Daily Express says that Brit-
ish army officers are persistently
boycotting colonials who have been
granted commissions.
Peekham now pessesses the first
English branch of the Anti -treating
League. founded last year in Ireland.
The erst-class cruiser to be built
for the Admiralty by the Thames
Shipbuilding Company will be named
the Black Prince.
It is said that tbe new subsidized
Cunard liners will cost $6,500,000
each, and have a continuous speed of
25 knots an hour.
At Newcastle the demand abroad
for coal • is greater than it has been
for many years, and both prices and
freights are rising.
A great saving is being eflected
the least Durham collieries by a me-
chanical coal cutter, which the min-
ers call the "iron man,"
The British Chambers. of Commerce
say that the proposed United States
and Cuba treaty will bar all oiher
countries from the trade of the lat-
ter.
The number of lives saved by life-
boats and other means for which
the Royal National Life -boat In-
stitution granted rewards during the
year 1902 was 456.
• uNITED STATES.
Six men were killed by an explo-
sion on the United States warship
Mass.achusette.
• 3n New York State dtiring 1902,
762 people were killed and 1,868 in-
jured on steam railways.
The pastors of Lafayette, Ind.,
'awe investigated charges of' official
corruption and protection of • vice,
end found startling conditions.
The assessed valuation of real es-
tate in NCV7 York San been increased
more than $1,e00,000,600, and per-
sonal assessments, too, are corres-
pondingly higher. -
The'authorities of Vineland, N. J.,
ha-ve inaugurated a crusade against
"curbstone profanity," two persons
having already been arrested and
fined by the City Recorder.
Betatiso the girls at an Oklahoma
Territory school appeared at a bas-
ket -ball game attired in bloomers
Governor Ferguson has issued an
edict against bloomers in Territorial
schools,
President Mitchell has a,ddreesed
letter to the local -unions in the an-
thracite district, asking them to co-
operate with manegers of mines to
increase the production of coal.
The Mayor of Stanifore, Conn.,
has forbidden the 'Meld trial of kit-
tens," which was to have been a
feature of the annual meeting of the
Connecticut Cat • Club. The trial
was to coesist of a, mouse -killing
eontese
Inetead of preachieg a sermon Sub -
day, evening at the First Baptist
Church, in Oak Park, Chicago, the
Pester, Rev. Dr. Theodore 0, Soares,
gave a dramatic reading of the
"Song of Salmon," reciting the
entire drama its if he were giving it
play.
• Hamburg gariailiNeEdlleAtelLs aro com-
plaining of the inferior quality of
Anseridan wheat and corn imports.
There are now about 25,000,000
head of cattle hi Argentina.
°Incite figures glow that 4,714
people were killed arta 88,112 houens
destroyed In the recent earthquakes
at Andijan, Ititsslan Turkestan.
C. P, B uNT uzrzTzp STATES
Seek Permission to leen Intel
Washington State.
A despatch from elontteal says; TO
obtain for the Canadian Pacific Rale
way the necessary- rights to con-
struct a relexteber of branch Ilene
VONni tbralligh tht State of Wash-
ingtou is uuderetood to be tbe Wes
ject • of the' present visit of Si'
Thomas Shaegertessyto the Ameri-
can. cePital, Tile trip was under. -
taken at the end of a. series of inter-
views with Mr. R. Marpole, general'
euperintendent, of tee Pacific Divi -
gore who hes had charge of the pee-
piaration of the plena for tale neve
branches that will be built, in order
that t,he Canadian Pacinc may seoure.
a share of the rapidly increasing
wheat and luMbee trade. The action
of the Canaklian company in thus go-
irig into Asuerican territory is the
outcome of the alliance between the
Ottnadlan P4Cific and the Great
Northern Railway, whereby it was
decided to 'waive the rights- of ter-
ritory that had been respected by
both companies for some time paste
any by which the Greet Northern
was not to enter Caeadiam territory
nor, the Canadian Pacific Railway
American territory. 33y the waiv-
ing of the rights of territory the
Greet Northeen has already estab-
lished linos to tap the Canadian Pa-
cific at Ferrite, Orand Forks, Rocel-
land, Nelson, in .33ritith Collins:teas
and Crestow and LethIbridge, in the
Northwest Territories. The plans.
prepared by Mr, lecerpole, and which
plans Sir Thomas Siertufeltnetey is at
present particularly anxious to letve
approved by the United States Gov-
ernment, will give the company two»
.enftrences into the Stebe of Washeng-
ton, one into the wheat territory on
the east side, and one into t,he lum-
ber districts on the west snide.
THE TIDE TURNING.
British Emigration to Canada In-
• creasing.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
o1fieia.1 reteans of the British Beard
of Tnaele place the number of emi-
grants who left the 'Cfnited leingeone
during the last calendar year at
387,116. This is an increase of 84.-
541 aver the previous twelve months.
Emigration to Canada increased in
far greater proportion than to the
United States. The increase to the
States was 37,200, the total being
232,141, while the increase. to Can-
ada was 24,815 out of a total of
67,713. Emigrants of British ori-
gin to the States were 108,501, an
increase of only 4,806, while the
number of British emigrants to Caair
ada was 26,4.07,an. inerease of 10,-
650. Emigration to Cape of Good
I.Tope anti Natal showed a gam of
23,848.
CURE FOR GERM DISEASES._
•••••ICM•71100
New York Doctors Performing
Cures With a New Drug.
A despatch from. New York says:
Medical oteence claims to have die -
covered it means of curing blood
poisoning. Formalist is the name of
the new and wonderful drug, the raw-
ly revealed powers of which haxte
amazed the medical world. The dis-
covery was made by Br. Oh'arles C.
Barrows, who found that formalise
would destroy the deadly bacilli. lee
enperiraented on a woman supposed
to be dying the hospital, and she is
now reported to be emost well. Oth-
er doctors have tried it with grati-
fying results, axid it is now theug1it.
that the drug may also kill the be -
cilli of malaria, typhoid, -diphtheria,
yellow fever, pneumonia, and many
other dangerous germ diseases.
NURSED THE POPE.
Old Woman of 101 Years Burned
• to Death. .
A despatch from Rome says. Mar-
ianna Moroni, who proudly claimed
to have carried the Pope in her arms
when he was a baby, has just died
in her 101syear. Her death was
the result of an ancident. She was
sittipg at her fireside alone, ,whers
San clothes ignited. She tees oftable
to call for belp, and was terribly
burned. The Pope received her in
private audience in October, and
they were mutually delighted at see-
ing and talking. with eaeli other. Th.e
old woman subsequently said: "He
is a fine old man, but lee is not so
well preserved as I." His Holiness
remtilced after the interviewaumunne
remarked after the interview: "She
is frail looking for her years."
EXPLOSION KILLS FIVE.
Twenty or Thirty Injured in Iron
Works.
A despatch from London says:. A
boiler explosion in Tupper's Iron.
Works, at Bilston, Stafford, on
Tuesday afternoon, resulted in the
killing of five persons and the injur-
ing of 20 or 30 by steam and pieces
of flying metal. The explosioii oc-
curred while the shops were crowded
with employes. The building was
ciomplelely evreolted. Several ot the
injured persons are not expected to
live. '
IRON FOR UNITED STATES.
Big Demand. fer Tonnage Fr ow
13ritisb. Potts.
•
• A despatch trent Liverpool says:
There is it good &Mud here for ton-
nage to carry pig -iron from Middles-
borough and Hartlepool - totbe
tinitee Stats. The -charterieg of
coal tonnage 00 the Tyne and caydo,
Emd a.t Welsh ports continues.
eite. ,
johnemeeberg's present .population
4.1s4,e1s2t2imnaa.tteiclvesatan.d1030,5,455,i
02Astiirtelttixcelsi0g
Tbe eapid epread, of the insurrece
tem in South China is duo to the
eXcesees of the Imperial troops un-
der Meeshai Su. Ile sent it force to
avenge the' death of it commie who
woe ambushed, and this theca mas-
sacred 1,260 innocent villaaare,