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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1903-7-23, Page 3THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. MARKETS OF THE WORLD, Toronto, Juiv Ia.—Wheat. — The marleet is quiet and steady. No, 2 Ontario: red and white quoted at 75e neidelle, and at 7,5ec east; 0.e spring is quoted at 71e. Middle freights; No, 2 gootec. at 66e on Mid - hued, Manitoba, .wheat steady; .No. 1 hard quoted at 88c, Goderichaand Northera at 870 Goderieh, No, 1 hard, 94e grinding in tyansit, lake and tail, and No. ,1Northern 93e, . ()ate -eine market is. quiet and steady. No. 2 white quoted at 88 to . 82+c inid.dle freight:, and at 31; to 31•1 high freights. No, 1 white, 88ec east. Barley—Trade is quiet, with • no business reported, No. 3 extra quoted at 410 middle freights, and No. 8 at 421 to a3c. Berea -The market is steady at 52e middle freight for No, 2,, PearaaTracle dull, with No, 2 white quoted at 61e high freight, and at 63c easte Corn—elefarket is stea,cly; No. 8 Ana eriearx . yellow. . quoted at 1.574,10 on track, Toronto; and NO. 8 mixed tve 57e, Toronto. Canadian corn purely nominal. Flour—Ninety per cent. patents - sold to -day at $2.80 middleefreights, ixi buyers' sacks, for export. Straight rollers of speeial brands for' domes- tic trade quoted at $3,2,5 to $$,45 in bbls, Manitoba flout steady; No. 1 patents, $4.20 to $4.30, and strong bakers', $3.90 tie $1, in bags, Toronto. lefillfeed,—Bran steady at $17 and shorts $18.50 here. At outside points bran is quoted at $15 to $15,50, and ehorts at $17. kfani- toba bran, in Sacks, $19, and shorts e at $2'2 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans—Trade is very quiet, With prices. nominal. Prime white are quoted at $1.65 to $1.75 a bush. Hay—The market is firm, with de- mand fair. No. 1 timothy is worth $11 to $11.25 on track, Toronto. Strawa-•The market is quiet at $5,- 25 to $5.50 per ton 'lor ear lots, on track. Hope—Trade dull, with prices nom- inal at 17 to 20c. Potatoes--7.0frerings of new are large, and prices easy at 70- tO 75c per bushel. Poultry—Spring chickens are quot- ed at 60 to 75c per pair; turkoys, 12 to 180 per /b. errele DAIRY MARKETS. Butter—The market is steady, with receipts good and fair demand for best qualities. We quote:—Ohoice 1-1b. rolls, 15 to 16c; dairy tubs, uniform color, 15e; secondary grades, store packed, 12 to 13e; creamery prints, 18 to 19c; solids, 17; to 18-ec. Egg—Market is dull. We quoto:— Fresh candled 'stock, 11 to lIece seconds and checks, 10 to 11c. Cheese—Market -quiet, and prices unchanged. We quote:—Finest, 10 • to 10ee. HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are unchanged. Cured meats are steady, with a good de- mand. We quote:-13acon, clear, 30 to 10e, in ton and case lots. Pork, $21; do, shirt cut, $22.50. eimoked meats—Ilains, 18 to 18;c; ;lolls, 11 to nee; shoulders, 10ec; backs, 14 to 15c; breakfast bacon, 14e. Lard—Market is dull. Tierces, Dec; tubs, leelc; pails, 10c; compound, 8 to 9e. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, , july 21, ---(Special.) — The local markets show little change. Butter .is rather quiet, though a fair business is being done in—theca; at unchanged prices. The Liverpool quotation is lower again, at 18s Gd for colored, and 4.7e for white. arain—Peas, 68c high freights, 72e here; rye, 52c east, 584,c afloat here; buckwheat, 48; to 49c; No. 2 oats, 38; to 390 in. store here; flaxseed, $1.15 on track here; feed barley, 50c; No. 3 barley, 62ec; corn, 60c for No. 8 yellow American. Flour—Manitoba patents, $4.20 to $4,30; seconds, $3.- 90 to $4; strong -bakers', '$3,50; On- tario straight rollers, $3.50 to. $8.- 60; in bags, $1.70 to $1.75; patents, $8.90 to $4. Feed—Manitoba bran, $19; shorts, $21 to $22, bags in- cluded; Ontario bran, in bulk, .$17 to $18; shorts, in bulk, $20 to $21; middlings, $21. Provisions—Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $22.50; short cut backs, $2.2; light short cut $21,50; compound refined lard, ,8+ to 9c; Imre Canadian lard, 10 to 3.0c; finest lard, 11 to Ilea; hams, 184 to 1.4ic; • bacon, 14 to 15c; fresh killed abattoir hogs, $7.75 to $8,25. Butter—Townships creamery, 18+ to 181e; Quebec, 18c; Western cream- ery, 17ec; Western &deer, 16c. Cheese —Ontario colored, 9-ec; white, Dee; 9e; Quebec, Dee. Eggs —Candled, . lfice straight receipts, 1.4c; No, 2, • 12c. Ironey—White clover, in sections, 12(.1 per section; in 10 -Ib, tins 3c. UNITED STATES MARKETS, Duluth, July 21.—What—To arrivo —No, 1 hard, 874c; No, 1 Newt:hero, 85ec; No. 2 Northern, Kee; July, 85e,c; September, 771e; December, 75ee, Minneapolis, July • 21.—Wheat— Cash, 88ec; July, 880; September, 7.51, to 75/c; on track, No. 1 hard, ,f;89eceialeio, 1 Northern, 88;c; No, 2 87e; No. 8 Northern, 84 to 84ee, Milwaukee, July 21.—Wheat— Steady; No, 1 Northern, 89 to 89c; new SepteMber, 77 to 77ec. Itye— Dull; No. 1, 54,3c. Barley—Dull; No, 2, 58 to 60e; . sample, 45 to 58e,• Cora—September, 504 to 5011e, LIVB STOOK MA.RKETS. Toronto, July 2i1.—Trade in but- chers' and .exportees'' Oahe Was quiet at the Western, znarket to -day, and prices were barely steady. The loading feature was the scereity of good qualities of butchers' cattle, and the, abundant offerings of lower grades of inferior cows that were not wanted by loco,' butchers, and there- fore almost unsaleable. Buyers here object to the farmers up -country un- loading poorly finished stuff on them while the Y have, or should have, plenty of pasture' for at least two or three months yet. Canners aud. low grade cows wore Much on sale. There Was also a dearth of goad exporters' descriptions, and buyers had to go to Chicago to obtain what they wanted. There seems to be plenty of good stuff in the country, but it is not coining here, as holders there are hanging on to their stock' in the hope of an advance in prices there before long. Theo was little enquiry for either feeders or stockers, and the offerings were light, and values about steady'. A better tone in sheep prevailed, and all offering were sold early. Calves were firm, but the offerings being fairly liberal no change ia their values was recorded. , The run of cattle was not heavy. It comprised 1,083 eattle, 1,2.97 sheep, 1,721 hogs, and 69 calves. The most of the exporters were dis- posed of at from $4.70 to $5 per cwt. Ten to fifteen cents higher. was. -paid in a few exceptional in- stances. Butchers' classes sold lower, ow- ing to the inferior quality of the of- ferings. We quote:—$4.60 to $1.65 per cwt.; loads of good, $4.30 to $4.50; fair to good, $1 to $4.30; medium to fair, $8,20 to $4; com- mon to fair, $8.50 to $3.85; rough to •common graes-fed cattle, $8.35 to $3,25 per cwt. Milch cows sold at $30 to $55 earIc'hhre was little demand for either feeders or stockers. We quote as follows:— Ex-port Cattle— Per 100 lbs. • Medium to heavy $4 70 $5 12e Butchers— Picked lots ... 1 50 4 65 Good loads ,... 4 25 4 40 Medium ... 4 00 4 30 Fair 30 400 Cows 3110 4 Feeders, light.3 25 5 76 Feeders, short -keeps 4 00 a 26 Stockers 2, 50 3 75 Sheep— Export ewes 3 60 3 '75 Do., bucks „ 2 76 3 00 Spring lambs 8 25 4 60 Calves, per cwt. 3 50 5 00 Hogs— Sows 8 50 4 00 Stags 200 000 Selects, 160 to 200 /les. 565 000 Thick fats .5 40 0 00 Light . 5 40 0 00 • CZAR ABOLISHES "CAT" No More Corporal Punishment in Russian Prisons. • A St. Petersburg despatch says :— The leirzhevia Vedomosti say e that the Czar has abolished the haneihest remnants of the banbanie punisti- ments of former times, namely, cas- tigation with cudgels and cat-o'- nine-tails, chaining to the car and shaving head, which were still in- flicted for certainoffences on per- sons exiled to penal settlements or to the mines. This form of pun- ishment frequently ended in death les torture.. The cudgel and the "cat" are replaced in the new stattete, says the nciespaper, by prolongation of term or by solitary confinement up to one hundred days with bread and water except every third day, when hot food will be served at one meal. Tile revised statute of June 15 prescrileee chastisement -with birele rods up to 100 blows "for slight ofrenees, and miseleineanors." 4 • TRIED TO BURN HERSELF Russian Woman Makes Attempt at - Self -immolation. • A St. Petersburg despatch says A local newspaper relates that a young women was faun.dlying on the beach of the Geilf of Finland, 12 miles from this city, wilt terribly burned toot and legs. Theunfor- tunate woman had on a nronle's cas- sock. She said she had been read- ing religious books and had con- cluded that self -incineration was the only eure means 'of salvation. She attended religions servicts at the monastery, hied then calmly prepar- ed her .funeral pile. She was 'un- able to bear the pain of the flames and attempted to Fatten home, but fell helpless and remained forty- eight hours where she had fallen be- fore being found. Hor life inner be saved. TWO TRAMPS KILLED C. P. R. Train Derailed Near Fort Wale am. A Teort William despatch says: The eastbound 0, P. R. express was de- tained on Weeineedey night by the •deralling of two cars loaded with fish, and the mail and express car at the east switch of Woonga siding, two stations this side of Ignace. Two tramps who were stealing it ride on the platform of the cars were killed outright, but none of the passengers or train crow were in any way in- ferred. COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING Relations Between japan and. Itus- sia Are Improving, A, Paris despatch says e--Deepaiteh- es received at the Poreign Ogice here from' St. Petersburg and Tokio in- dieitete that tile relations between Illuesia and Japan have greatly line proved within the paet fortnight, and it is now believed that the two Gioyernmente will soon aricive at a cionaplete understanding. NE HOWE OF MEN Notes of Proceedings in tiee 04134, adiitn 1204:110.11104t, INSPECTION 'TES, Mr, l'refoutaine moved it resolu- tion that it was expedient to amend the Steamboat Inspection Mt to makeprovision for the abolition of eteatelbeat inspection fees and dues, andfor the bettor regalation of yachts propelled by gas, fluid na,p- tha, or electric nrotoes. Mr. Pre- fontaine explained that the bill was intended to legalize the abolition of the feos promised by the Goveria- moot some time ago, Power was to be taken to reimpose th trues by order -in -Council if such a course shouid be deemed necessary, aftor a period of two years. In regard to yeechte, it was pro- posed that where they were over three tons they should be requered to carry A life buoy and one life preseever for each person on board, and if they carried passengers they should be aubject , to the general law. It was also proposed to abolish inspection fees in the cases of ves- eels from foteign emmtries Which inepose no fees on Canadian vessel, rilhis was a measare of reciprocity with the 'United States, The reso- lutions 'were adop-ted, and it bill founded on there introduced aind reaid a first time. AM BLAIR'S RESIGNATION. The galleries wore crowded to their utmost capacity, even the aislebeing °coupled by a mese of ladies and gentlemen, who patiently stood for nearly two hours, listen- ing intently to the important utter- ances of the Premier and his late colleag-ue in reference to the with- drawal of Hon. A. G.. Blair loom the Cabinet. The Premier's an- noitincement was dignified, and con- cisely set forth that his colleague's withdrawal was dtue, not to a dif- ference of opinion regarding the necessity of auother transcontinent- al route, but simply to a diaageee- owlet as to mode of consitruction a•nd operation. 'While exnraseing for himself and the other meneberte of the Administration his regret at the severance from the Cabinet of aix able colleague, Sir Wilfred ex- pressed gratification, that upon all questions of public policy, except this one. Mr. Blair is in accord with the Government. Mr. Blair with same emphasis gatve it reeutation of the newspaper re- ports concerning a11ege4 friction with his colleagues, whom he en- tirely exonerated from the allega- tions of discourtesy or caballing. -I-ro repelled with scorn the sugges- tion that he had been prompted by pique in his resignation, and spoke witi deep feeling of the severance of tem connection with his colleagues. He attributed his resignation to in- ability to endorse the Governmeut's policy of building a second line of railway from Quebec to Moncton, paralleling and destroying the In- tercolonial, or to embark upon the construction of a railway froen Quebec to Winnipeg, without ilest obtaining move deflite information. Mr. Blair wanted the Governneertt to be sad:fled with declaring its in- tention to construct a transconti- hentcd line as soon as the need arose, and be the meantime oinking an appropriation for a, toorongh ex- ploration of the territory to be traversed. ,That road, when GOTIL- plotecl, should, he said, either be operated by the Goveltement through a commission or by a truSt. Mr. R. L. Borden paid a graceinli trileute to Mr. Blair's diligence and' ability, and assured lam the opposi- tion offered to him by that side of the Blouse lied not been personal. Mr. Tarte entered a pro'tes't against newspaper statements that Mr. Blair and himself had not enjoyed the confidence of their colleagues during the past two years, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier replied that during the time his late colleagues had been in the Cabinet their relations had been most cordial. CHINES3 MINERS KILLED Explosion in a British Columbia Nine. &Vaucouver, B. C.,' despatch says: Tweuty Chinamen, who disobeyed the lam forbidding the employment of Mongolians underground, paid the penalty on Wednesday night, when twelve wore killed and eight severely burned through an exploeion in No. 3 incline, No, 6 shaft, of the Welling- ton Collieries at Cumberland, own- ed by forreter Prentice Dunsmuir and his associates. It was feared that several white men were also victims, but it was afterwards learned that there was only ono employed in the mine, and he escaped with nothing worse than a shaking. The explosion is attributed to fire- damp, but its origixi is mysterious, as all the miners carried safety larn.ps, owing to the. gassy state of the working, and all the lamps were found to bo locleed. The actual ex- plosion was so slight that next, to no damage was done to the mine, and no concussion was felt at it short distance from. the sce.ne. Neverthe- less, it was deadly in its nature, for, as is usual in long -wall worlcings, it swept the face, killing and scorch- ing as it wc•nt, ' No sign of the disaster was ap- parent at the pit head, and nothing was known until the cage was run up and frightened Chinamen reached the top, when they excitedly told of a fire. Thirty-eight out of the fifty Chinamen employed underground, reached the top in safety, and then a white rescue party went down to search for the others. The dead bodies of the dozen were reached, but not without some danger to the searchers, because of aftereclainp, which prostrated one pit boss. The colliery company claims that the law prohibiting the employment of the Chinese underground is un- constitutional. 'a NO GRAIN TO CARRY • C. P. R. Argument Against the Grand Trunk Pacific. A Winnipeg despatch says: the last of the crop of 1008 having been ship.ped out in June, the grain ele- vators at Fort William and Port Arthur are practically empty, and there is less than a million bushels in the inland elevators, which will be used for local purposes. No grain cargoes are offering via the lakes, and the Canadian Pacific Railway is hauling empty cars east to take care of freight destined west. This con- dition, which is chiefly otving to the enormous additions that have been made to the rolling stock of the rail- way companies, exists now for the first time since western Canada be- ca.nae a grain exporting country. • KINDNESS WON HIM VON Man Nursed Guest in Hotel and Now 'Gets Legacy. A Toledo, Ohio, deepatcli says, Beeause he was kind to an old nran who• was ill in a Kertdellville hotel, of which he was clerk, Wiesley Hov- erter of No. 424 Thirteenth -street has an inheritance of $7000, Me. Hoverter, who has been employed by the Praelential and INT.e.sitern. Sou- thern Life Insurance Companies, has gone west to claim the estate, Sonie years ago, while Mr. Hoverter was clerk in a hotel in ICendiallville, Illarper Vrai it guest there, Ile was ill for several weeks, and dur- ing that tirne Mr. HOverter nursed Irina A few weeks a.go Mr. Harper died in Des Moines, and -Mr. Hover- ter received word that $7000 lied boon left him in the will of the de- efeesed. lativerter is siegle and n7 years of ago. STATUE TO WASHINGTON Pilgrims' Club of London Decides to Erect One. A London despatch' says :—At. meeting of the Executive Committee of t,he Pilgeems' Club on Wednesday night, a committee was appointed th to give effect to e recent saigges- tion to erect a statue to George ..Wasthington in London. It was de- cided that the subsmiptions should be entirely confined to British sub- jects. Arciletleacion Sinclair, in sufbmitting tele plan to the society, said "Englishmen have at last fully reicognieed the great qualities of Washin gton. I feel assured that nothing will be more popular in this country than such a tribute to that great man of English binth, who has done so meich for the world's his- tory, not only for the young nation aaross the sea, but for Great Bri- tain as well." Archldeacon Sinclair announced that he was authorized to offer a piece' for the stat ne in St. Paul's Cathedral. OUR FRUIT IN THE WEST. The Trade Is in. a Very Critical Condition. The Fruit Division, Ottawa, gives out the following statement'— Num- erous requests have been received from Manitoba and the Northwest Territories for Coterie fruit of the best quality, put up in neat and attractive packages of the sort that Western dealers prefer to handle. There are immense possibilities in this Western .• -trade for the Ontario fruit growers, but up-to-date me- thods of packing and shipping will have t� be adopted at once, or the whole ol this great and growing business will be captured by the Am- ericans. Fruit Inspector Philp, of Winnipeg, writes that matters have Come to a critical stage, and that unless On- tario now makes a determined bid for the trade, the market will be occupied almost, exclusively by fruit from California, Oregon and British Columbia. In the case ol apples, even Kansas and Missouri are likely to bo strong competitors. Accord- ing to Mr. Philp, -the packages want- ed in the Winnipeg market are the following:— Early apples, the bushel box; pears, the half -box, holding. twenty pounds of wrapped fruit; peaches and plums, the crate holding four boxes, similar to those used by California shippers, and which are well known in all Canadian markets. It is very important that Ontario shippers should realize the critical stage at Which this trade has arriv- ed, and that they should make a united effort to capture the Western market, net only by perfecting the details of their own end of the busi- ness, but by taking up the matter of transportation with the express and railway companies in order to se- cure, if possible, it better and quick- er service to Winnipeg. At present fruit is frequently forwarded by ex- press front Toronto to Winnipeg via Smith's Falls, and even via Mont- real, to connect with the through trains. The result is that the fruit is on the road froxn 18 to 24 hours longer tha.n it would be if sent via North Bay, arid consequently It does not arrive in Winnipeg in the best condition. If the carrying came panics can be convinced that Ontario growers are prepared to maintain a steady shipmett of fruit in modern packages, and not merely to send West the fruit that the East does not Want, put up in all sorts of an - titillated shapes, there is little doubt that adequate service will be pro- vided, at it rate which will come pare favorably with that tow ene joyed by Oregon and California Ship - Pers. The editor and staff of it Young China paper at Shanghai nee threat- ened With death for ptibliehing se- ditious artieleo. TO PREVENT TAINTED MILK HINTS FOR THE PATRONS OP CHEESE FACTORIES, Careful Investigations of the Doenini.oe. Department of .Agricultere. Tkie eb patrons of a eese factory have it direct finance interest in sup- plying only good pure milk, free from taints or bad flavors. Thous- ands of dollars are lost to the coun- try annually because patrons se.ird to the factories tainted milk, which, if used at all, not only precludes the Manufacture of first class cheese, but diminishes' the quantity of cheese per 100 pounds of milk. Some of the chief camas of tainted or gassy milk. have been enumerated by the Dairy Division of the Dominion. Department of Agriculture, in order that patrons may be induced to guard against them. In many cases the source of trouble may be found in the undesir- able germs that get into the milk during and after .inilking. These germs are always associated with 111th in some form or other. Careful investigations show that a very laige proportion of the cases of taints or bad flavOes in milk and its products are caused by the germs which are always Present in the droppings of animal's. Such germs are to be found in large nu/lepers wherever such droppings are deposit- ed. The mud of stagnant ponds, where cattle are allowed to drink, and the surfaces of barn -yards or milking -yards are always swarming with them. For this reason the ud- ders ancl flanks of cows should al- ways be brushed before milking to remove the dried inud, particles of manure, hairs, etc., which might otherwise fall into the Milk pail. STRAINING THE MILK, while it is necessary to remove the visible dirt, does not get rid of these foul germs, which are the ac- tual cause of the ta1nted, gassy milk. Improperly cleaned milk pails, strainers and milk cans are con- stant sources of contamination. The whey tank is a common source of infection at those factories where the whey is returned to the patrons in the milk dans. This practice is detrimental to successful cheese -mak- ing, but when itecarmot be arranged to have the whey disposed of in some other way, the tanks should be kept thoroughly clean in order to lessen the danger of contamination. They should be emptied at least once a week. It is a well-known fact that mills • will absorb some odors to which it is exposed. Warm milk will absorb odors (mite as freely as that which has been cooled; hence the necessity for removing it from the stable or milleing-yard.as• soon as possible af- ter it is drawn. An abundant supply of pure water for the cows is one of the essentials for the production of good railk. When cows are compelled to drink water of swamps, muddy ponds, or sluggish streams and ditches in, which there is decaying online' mat- ter, including their own droppings, there is a constant menace to their health, anel unless the cows are in. good health they cannot give first- class milk. Moreover the mud, of- ten full of foul germs, 'which collects on the legs, flaoks and udders of the cows, and falls into the milk at the time of milking, is'a direct source of infection which is often overlooked. IMPROPER FEPTOING. There is in Canada an abundance of good, wholesome food available for cattle feeding purposes. The natural pastures are, on the whole, excellent, and it is only in limited districts or at certain seasons di the year that trouble is experienced with weed flavors. Among the cultivated foods, turnips and rape aro two prominent exceptions to the rule Of suitability- which applies in general to Canadian fodder crops. While they are undoubtedly valuable in a ration for growing or dry cattle, if turnips and rape are fed, even in limited quantities, to milking cows, there is a likelihood of imparting to the milk a taint which cannot be eliminated by any process known to the cheesemalver's art. Some first- class foods when fed alone, and to excess, will cause indigestion and thus indirectly affect the milk. Ono example of this kind is found in green, clover. In conclusion, it may bo said that when cows have free access to salt at all times they will give more milk, which will have a better fav- or and keep sweet longer than when they dc; not get any at all, or re - calve it only at intervals. TOAST KING IN PURE WATER His Majesty says ,Wine is Not Es- sential, A. London despatch says :•-eKing Edward has taken action which will greatly pima° loyal teetotalers. A naval officer wrote to his Majesty asking him if he would issue an oeder that when bis health was toasted it need rxot be drunk in wine. The King replied through his secretary that the Lords of the Aldndralty probably would not like his freterfering by issuing ordOes, but he would be glad to have it eireu- lated prieately., that he coneidere.d it toast as mewl' hammed by time° drinking it in water as by those us- ing Wine. 4 .‘ WEDS AT NINETY-TWO Bride Forth -three, Bridegroom. • Happy as a Boy. A Lynchburg, Va., despatch says: Larkin Norton, ninety-two years old, and Mrs. Lucinda Sayere, aged for- ty-three, Were married on 'Wednesday. Mr. Larkin is as happy aucl gay as boy of tWenty, and couldn't be more chipper if he knew he had *an - Other, century of life ahead of him. NEWS ITE Telegraphic Briefs From A.11 Over the Globe. CAN.A.DA, Fort William ratepayers have pos- ed a by-law to raise $10,000 for a new town. hall,, Londoa city council has given it. "Don't -spit -on -the -sidewalk" by-law its third reading. Counterfeit Canadian $it bills and $1 American notes raised to 440 are eirculating in Kingston. The financial statement of the af- fairs of the Hamilton Board of Trade shows a deficit of $105,11. Heavy downfalls of rain are caus- ing floods in the vicinity of Calgary, Alberta.. The Bow River rose five feet in twenty-four hours. From $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 gold dust will be taken from the Klondike this season, more than last year, according to estimateg of of- ficials, mine (amen and bank man- agers, Montreal cab driiters are protesting against the street railway company running a tourist car named "See- ing Montreal," and as a consequence it has ta have police protection. B. A. H. Haggart, of Kingston, Jamaiea, in an interview in Mont- real, said Canadian business men Wore not paying sufficient attention to the West Indies, as the people there would sooner trade with Can- ada than the States, Talmage Carr was tried at St. John, N. B., on a charge of 'setting fire to the house in which his adored lived because her parents had forbid- den him to keep company with her and their engagement had been broken. , • GREAT BRITAIN. At present there are 124 miles of streets in Edinburgh lit by gas. A Methodist college to be called McDougall, will be , established at Edmonton. Princess Louise unveiled a memor- ial bust of Sir Arthur Sullivan in London. The body of John Gasgoin, an Ottawa barber, missing since last spring', has been found in the Ottawa • River. An old landmark, the Dunedin Ro- tel, is about to disappear from High street, Edinburgh. It was a popular resort. The Birmingham -Gas Committee placed contracts for 483,000 tons of coal at a reduction of 64. per ton on last year's prices. The coalmasters throughout Scot- land have made a claim for three- pence a day reduction on the wages of over 70,000 miners. In commemoration of their Majes- ties' coronation a magnificent lov- ing cup has been added by the cor- poration of London to the plate at the Mansion House. Many thousands of spindles in' the Bolton cotton trade are now running short time. The position Le oecom- ing serious, as each week hundreds of hands are affected. Orders have been issued for the cruisers Iris and Mercury to commis- sion as training ships in which the boys will learn stokehold work as well as seamanship. Princess Henry of leattenberg is to be asked to accept the freedom of tho borough when she visits Scar- borough on July 28th to open the new town hall and unveil the sta- tue of the late Queen. UNITED STATES. There was a half neillion dollar fire on the Thingvalla Line pier at Ho- boken. American manufacturers propose to restrain organized labor with a fund of $1,500,000. • Three people were killed and fifty injured in a Missouri Pacific wreck on Saturday. After a violent quarrel Adolph C. Della= shot his wife dead and then committed suicide, at Philadelphia. Four men and two women were shot during it fight on an excursion steamer, at Uniontown, Ky. Two of the men are dead. Anthracite in almost boundless quantity has been discovered in Routte county, Col., on the line of the Moffatt Railroad. An express train on tho Pennsyl- vania Railway struck a wagon con- taining Li picnic party of ten people; at Red Bank, east of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday night, killing four and injuring the others. A mob composed of 300 white people sought the life of Minnie Pearl, a negro woman, of Pedria, Ill., who beat a white boy, 11 years old, with a club entil his body was covered with deep wounds, The police saved her, GENERAL. Japan is said to be mobilizing her forces, and an outbreak in the far east seems inevitable. The Austro-Hungarian Government, has again urged Bulgaria to refrain fr0311 her warlike etterprise. • EIGHT WERE KILLED. By an EnglishTTrareakin jumping the • A despatch from Liverpool says: The Southport exprees train, crowd- ed with passengers, jumped the track. on Wednesday evening et Waterloo, fi-se miles from Liverpool. Eight persons were killed and 15 in- jured, according to late reports. WOMAN MIDGET DIES. Hot Weather Carries Off Miss Mary J. Piereey, A despatch from New York says: Miss Mary j. Piereey, .said to have been one of the smallest women he the world, is dead at her home in Bayonne, N. Shcv was thirty-one inches tall, weighed fifty politicise end was 40 years Of ago. The recent hot weather caused her fatal illness, Complaints ol rath of Ziz3s easaatte, A German doctor, residing in tin Russian Province of lechernigoe, writes that the indescribably dirty, habitS of the Iietssian peasants rea- der it extremely difficult to cure their wounds and illnesses, and mene tione a pa,rtieular ease whieki is characteristic of enany he bas eXe perienced. A Pefee'airt was suffering front it wound that would not heal, and it became necessary to take it pieca of skin from another part of hie bady and graft it on the injaredl spot. After washing the pa,tient well, the doctor proceeded to take the slice of skin required, but When he came to put it into it disinfect* nab solution, he was astonished to find that it dissolved, Closer exe amination showed bien that what he had taken for skin was really; dirt, which had beeome so xneeSh part of the peasant's body as to be indistinguishable feom it, The same doctor was obliged In hundreds of oases to saraPe the dirt off his patients, and then to scrub them violently With it. hard brush and soda and water before he could give them medical treatment. He found that the peasants, as it rule, never washed themselves iiroan child- hood to old age, and often wore the same clothes next to the skin for years together. A Russian doctor, M., Schenule- viteh, who resides in the S10221e PrO Time, and has had medical experi- ence in several other parts of Rus- sia, confirms these statements, and adds that the conditions described by his Gerenart colleague are gen- eral throughout the rural districts of Russia. There are xaillions of Russians who never wast and never enjoy a change of linen. DESPERATE FIGHTING. Between. Police and Kellogg Switch Strikers. A despatch from Chicago says: Desperate fighting betweexi the police and the strikers of the Kellogg Switch Board Company took Place on Wednesday afternoon and evening while the company attempted to send freight to some of the railroad depots. In one instance the police opened fire with, revolvers, but al- though the fusilade was continued for several minutes no one was hurt. Later there was a fight in Which no revolvers were used, and the police laid out a number of men, some of whom were left in the street until their friends picked them up. The climax came at Congress street and Ogden avenue, when a private watchman fired at one of the mob. The shot went wild, but it in- flamed the mob, and, with shouts they charged down on the police. The oilleers beat the crowd with fists and clubs and put the rioter's to flight. A dozen men with broken heads were left lying in the. street. About twen- ty arrests were made during the day. The Kellogg Coinpany, -whose naen are on strike say it will con- dna° to send out freight by non- union men. LEARNED BY SCIENTISTS. Length of rays does not affect the chemical activity of light, although it determines their color. Prof. Lodge surmises that the pro- cess of disintegration of atoms into electrons, of which they are made up, may constitute the evolution of the chemical elements - The Gjoa, with the magnetic pole expedition, has sailed for Greenland, and will attempt to pass north oi the American continent to Behring strait. This Will take the party near the north pole. J. J. Thomson, professor of ere' perimental physics at Cambridge, England, said the other day at Col- umbia university, after haying re- ceived its degree of doctor oI •scienco, that teachers of science in the Unit- ed Slates receive smaller salaries than in any other country. Pneumonia has now given way to consumption as the leading cause of death. Pneumonia is essentially a disease of vitiated, germ' polluted, and overheated atmosphere. Con- sumption, while also a communi- cable germ disease, has all seasons for its own. Animal foocle, jedged by bulk and weight, are more expensive, pound for pound, than v-egetable foods. But as a whole vegetable foods are not more economical. Animal foods fur- nish more than six -tenths of the pro- tein and nine -tenths of the fat 01 the total food consumed. I3y experiments of great accuracy Prof. Babcock has shown. that half a ton of ice weighs more than the water obtained from melting that quantity of ice. Therefore the weight of a body÷..._inceeases as its temperature falls. ONE FOR Tin) MAGISTRATE. A certan stipendiary magistrate 'in England has it remarkable head of hair. He is rather proud of his possession., and has no intention of parting with it at present. Not long ago a local ne'er-do-well was brought before him on a charge of poaching, and in the course of the hearing of the case an amusing in- cident occurred. The prisoner was exceedingly impudent, interrupting the witnesses and insulting all who had anything to say to or against hilICIOnsidering the ease proved, the stipendiary turned to the prisoner an,diTaasykeyouedtany remarks to make?" "Yee, I have," responded be, flip- pantly. "Your hair wants cuttiegi" • There was an audible tittc•r itt court, which developed into a roar of laughter as the witty stipendiary coolly d IIYO 'reoPelsyliac:o— 'urs, My friend. Three M°111lfOhis; Iethe langhter had ;subside(' the prisoner was err the eellS. 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