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ERLAD .F:ESIGNS
Two Other Ministers Have Also Tendered
Their Resignations.
to London 'despatch says :-The
following announcement, which puts
e. sensational and unexpected end to
time conflicting speculations of the
Past few days, wag issued from the
;rime Minister's official residence on
Thursday night :-
•"10 Downing Street.
- "The following Ministers have tend-
ered their resignations, which have
been accepted by the I iln s :-••-
"1he Right tion, Joseph Cham-
berlain, M.P.
"The Bight Hon. C. T. Ritchie,
MP,
"The Right Hon. Lord George
Hamilton, M.P." •
At the same time that this brief
statement was issued, the correspon-
'cleuce between Mr. 'Chamberlain and
Prime Minister Balfour was given
out.
The simile of a bombshell was
never more applicable to a political
event in Great Britain than that of
the resignation of Colonial Secretary*
Chamberlain. The retirement of Mr.
Ritchie as Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and of Lord George Hamil-
ton,
anr l -tan, as Secretary of State for In-
dia, was quite unexpected, while the
withdrawal of Lord Balfour of
BurIeiglh, as Secretary for Scotland,
and possibly even of the Duke of
Devonshire, as Lord President of the
Cowell, have been equally foretold,
and are still looked forward to. But
wither friend nor foe dreamed that
the Colonial •Secretary would sever
his connection with a 0overmnent of
which he was regarded airs the be -a: -
bone.
Notwithstanding, however, that it
was ''holly unanticipated, there is
widespread commendation of the
course the Colonial Secretary has
taken, Tho Ministerial Standard,
which opposed with almost radical
vehemence the preferential tarilr pro-
posal, now says Mr. Chamberlain
has taken the only course open to an
honorable, high-spirited politician.
From the moment he definitely com-
mitted himself to the scheme of food
taxation, he stood in a false posi-
tion. RTe has now released his col-
leagues from a position which had
become one of considerable embar-
rassment. The paper goes on to
say that his ungrudging admission
that his scheme failed to commend
itself to the constituencies sloes cre-
dit to his sense of honor and politi-
cal discernment. In devoting himself
as a private individual to explain-
ing and popularizing the preferential
scheme he can do no harm, for the
mare it is considered the less likeli-
hood is there that it will meet with
popular approval. The Standard
continues: -"Something at any rate
is gained by the release df the Cab-
inet from this unhappy controversy.
We hope the Ministers will shake
themselves free of its disturbing in-
fluence and settle down to normal
business. There should be no occas-
ion for any more resignations."
HANDLING OF APPLE CROP
SOME VALUABLE HINTS BY
TSE DOMINION DEPARTMENT
OP AGRICULTURE.
Selling the Crop -Picking -Time to
Pick --Removal of Drops --
Grading.
Some timely and valuable advice
on the selling, picking and grading of
apples is given by Mr. W. A. Mac-
Kinnon, Chief of the Fruit Division,
Ottawa. Every one interested in the
growing and marketing of apples
should write for a copy of Mr. iMac-
Kinnon's bulletin on the "Export
Apple Trade."
Selling the Crop. When the grower
is not also an exporter he may sell
the apples in one of two ways, either
at so much per barrel or at a lump
sum for the entire orchard. As
buyers often make their contracts
long before picking time, either me-
thod involves consideration of the
probable market price during fall and
winter, which will be regulated by
the total supply and demand, influ- these should be practically free from
enceil too by changes in the quality insect or other injuries, the second their friends so quickly that the
of the crop. When to this uncertain- being inferior to the first only in identity of only two of the wounded
ty we add the difficulty of estimating point of size and color. All the ap- is known. They are John. Carrel, a
months in advance the total yield of pies in one grade cannot be uniform driver, and Anton Bernhauser, a lab-
s single over. Carroll was shotthrough the
ail changes of in size,but the apples in m
an orchard, subject to a gtpp gg
weather, to drought, bail and wind packagshould be so, for the fruit abdomen by a detective, and the phy-
storms, tho unbusiness -like character will bo viewed and sold by the pack- sicians say cannot live. Bornhauser
of bargaining "by the lump" is ap- age. was shot through both cheeks.
parent. Whichever party gains an It may well happen that a third
undue advantage, the trade suffers grade, exclusive of culls, will be
DEATH RATHER THAN TRIAL
,jeweler Woolson Commits Suicide
in Toronto.
•
A Toronto despatch says: George
Woolson, the Well-known jeweler,
who managed the store owned by
ids wife and known as tho. "White
Window," at 186 Queeu .Street west,
committed suicide by shooting him-
self through the head, his body be-
teg found lying 'in the road in High
Park, on Thursday afternoon by
Kelsey Moore, of Ru Nortlheote Ave
enue. It was evident that the deed
had been conunitted during Wednes-
day night, for the clothes, were wet,
and the revolver found in the right'
hand was slight]y rusted from the
rain. • A hand mirror was also found
beside the body. It is supposed
that: he used the mirror so that he
would be sure to place the muzzle of
the revolver on. the right spot. The
bullet entered the right side of the
head, slightly back from. the temple,
and lodged in the. head. The' hole
Made .by the .bullet was surrounded
by powder, front which it is., evident
that the revolver was held right
against the head.
Woolson was. to have appeared in
the cessions to stand trial on the
charge of receiving stolen property,
upon which he was arrested on
August 3rd, by. Detective Duncan.
SAILING OVER LONDON. -
Many Thousands Watch Aeron-
aut's Trip.
A. London despatch says: On Thurs.-
day
hurs-day afternoon, Many thousands of
home going business men stopped in
the streets, and the roofs of build-
ings were crowded with spectators
watching the long -projected attempt
of Spencer, the aeronaut, to sail his
airship from the Crystal Palace in
St.
Sydenham ar au s
oundP 1' Ca-
thedral and over miles of the densely
drop during the picking process' built portion of South London. He
started at 3.80 from the roof of an
office building. His airship was a
great cigar,shaped vessel of yellow
silk, with a pendant car containing
the propeller. Spencer's movements
were easily visible to the crowd be-
low.
should be kept by themselves. We
must give the fruit a fair chance
fltom the start; wormy, rotten or
otherwise diseased apples spread con-
tagion, and bruised or defective fruit
will not pay for labor, heavy freight
charges and commission.
Ladders and Baskets. -Step -ladders
may be used for getting at the low-
er limbs, and long point -top lad-
ders for the upper branches; the bas-
kets should be small enough to turn
easily inside a barrel, and so. shaped
as to allow the apples to be turned
out with a gentle. sliding motion. In
picking, care should be taken to
avoid breaking off the fruit spurs,
which contain the promise of next
year's crop.
Grading. -Grading always pays,
whether the crop be light or heavy.
When the wormy, bruised, mis-shap-
en and spotted apples have been re-
moved, the following qualities should
be apparent in the higher grades: -
(1) Uniformity in size; (2) uniform-
ity in color; (3) freedom from de-
fects.
Two grades will usually be found
sufficient for export, and both of
BATTLE IN NEW YORK.
Many Shot in a Fight Between
Gangs of Thugs.
A New York despatch says: One
man was shot and killed, another
probably was fatally wounded, and
several others were badly hurt during
a fierce fight early on Wednesday be-
tween the police and a gang of
toughs. The man who was killed
was Michael Donovan, a stevedore.
One of the prisoners arrested 'during
the night is "Monk Eastman." The
police claim that it was a meeting of
members of the "Paul Kelly" gang
and tho "Monk Eastman" gang that
started the trouble. The resertves. of
three police stations had to be called
out. Although the police witnessed
the shooting of several men, the in-
jured • ones were hurried away by
from this as from any other kind of found to consist of fair marketable
gambling. Tho system was strongly fruit, which the grower feels disposed Hobo Who Turned Christian
condemned by the National Apple to export; but this grade, lacking Makes Restitution.
Shippers' Association and Our Cana- any special features of excellence and
dian buyers describe it as an unmix- showing a 'greaterA Montreal despatch says: Robert percentage of
ed evil. Surely no more need be waste often eats into the profit earn- Kerr, passenger traffic manager of
said to induce both buyers and sell- ed by the finer fruit, besides reduc- the C. P. R., received ten dollars on
ers to abandon such guesswork, and. ing the general reputation of the Tuesday from a former tramp, who
to buy and sell by fixed standards of shipper's brand. Much better aver- is now a Dowieite. The letter reads:
measure. age results are likely to be obtained "Enclosed find postal note for ten
Picking. -A11 apples should be care- in local markets or from ovapora_ I dollars to pay for rides which I stole
fully picked by band, with the stems tors. on your trains while a tramp, for I
on and without breaking the skin or The merits of mechanical graders was a tramp, and hobood almost
bruising the fruit in any way. As placed on the market from time to from Maine to California, largely on
C. P. R. trains. Now I am a Chris-
tian, and .must pay all my bills."
TRAMP PAID BILL.
a. general rule it is advisable for
growers to harvest and pack their
own fruit, whether they eventually
sell it on the premises or ship to effect a great saving in time and
foreign markets. In either case • it money. and produce a wonderful dif-
is a great advantage to the seller to ference in the appearance of the fruit
know exactly the quality and variety when each size is placed in packages
of the fruit in every package. It is by itself.
a still greater advantage to have The expert women who grade
each variety picked at just the pro- French fruit for market perform the
per time. No wholesale buyer is operation without mechanical aid. A
able to have his men arrive at each few clays' practice with measuring -
orchard just when the apples in it rings is sufficient to train the eye so
are ready. The result is that every that fruit is accurately graded with -
season a great many orchards in a quarter of an inch. Many who
throughout Canada are picked either are attempting to grade by hand will
too curly or too late. Fruit picked find that the use of a piece of
too early may keep, but is apt to shingle or other light wood, in
become tough and tasteless; if picked which holes are cut measuring two
too late it will not keep, as the and a quarter, two and three-quarters,
process of decay has already begun.
Time to Pick. -Tender varieties
should not be allowed to ripen on
the trees or they will not carry well.
Certain others, sometimes style'l
"winter varieties,' such as the Bald-
win and Spy, will gain in color and
flavor if left on the trees as long
as the frost will allow, besides being
less liable to spot and mould during
storage. It will pay the farmer well
to pick his own frids and see that
this first stop in marketing entails
no needless waste. Moreover, all
'varieties of apples are not ready for
picking at the same time, even if
destined for the same market; and
some early varieties should have
more than one pieving to get
aril the fruit at the proper stage of
maturity. Only the grower is' in a
position to watch his orchard and.
harvest the crop to the best advant-
age, and it is the grower who loses
when ho entrusts this task to an-
other, for buyers are certain to al-
low for shrinkage from. this cause.
Another loss to the grower arises
from carelessness of hired help, who
often injure trees by breaking limbs
and fruit spurs.
Removal of Crops. -Before any
fruit is taken from. the trees, every
apple, good, bad and indifferent,
should be eleared olY the ground and
carried away, to he used for feeding
Stock, or for any ether purpose for
which they may be fit, but not for
export. Similarity, apples 'which'
time, should he carefully investigate.
cd by all whose shipments are large.
A really good and rapid grader will
three and three and a. half inches re-
spectively will be of great assistance
in this work. By testing an apple
now and again the packer; will soon
become expert in determining the size
without the use •of the testing board.
MORE
RE
Canadian Steamer Petrol
Another haul.
•
An Ashtabula, Ohio, despatch says:
The Canadian patrol steamer Petrel
early on Wednesday lifted and con-
fiscated a number of fish bets belong-
ing to American fishermen in Lake
Erie. It is supposed the officers of
the Petrel decided that the nets were
set on the Canaddian side of the line.
This, however, is denied by the fish-
ermen. The note were valued at $2,-
000.
NETS.
Makes
RICH FID OF COAL.
Great Area of Anthracite at Head
of the Gatineau.
An Ottawa despatch says: J. J.
Collins, civil engineer, of Ottawa,
who has just returned from the head
waters of the Gatineau River,' re-
ports that he has discovered a scram
of coal 27 feet wide and extending
for over one hundred miles, He says
that the coal is equal hi quality to
the Welsh anthracite which was im-
ported to Canada last Winter.
WERE VERY LIBERAL
Victoria, B. C., Grants Good
Terms to a New Hotel.
A Victoria, B. C., despatch says:
The by-law to grant the Canadian
Pacific Railway a site for a palatial
tourist hotel on James Bay cause-
way passed on Tuesday by a vote
of 1,810 for and 85 against. The
Canadian Pacific Railway will spend
from $300,000 to $700,000, and
provide 800 rooms at least. They
also get- free water and exemption
from taxation for fifteen years.
FREIGHT REDUCED.
The
Canadian Pacific to Give a
Reduction.
A Winnipeg 'despatch says: It is
announced that the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company's freight tariff on
wheat and flour is now being revised,
and the new tariff will show reduc-
tions of importance to growers and
shippers and millers. It is under-
stood the rates on wheat will be re-
duced from 3 cents to 2 cents per
100 pounds.
LORD SALISBURY'S WILL.
THE
ARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle,etc
in Trade Centres.
Toronto; Sept. 25. -Wheat -The to -
eel wbeat market is nominally firm,
with very little offering, No. 2
'white and red winter aro quoted at
78 to 79c low freights to mills, al-
though some is being delivered just
now which was bought a week or
two ago at 7tie. No. 2 goose is
nominal at 78 to 74c east. No, 2
sluing, 75e east,• Manitoba wheat
is nominal without sales. No, 1
hard is quoted at 98e. No. 1 North-
ern at 97c, and No. 2 Northern, 94c
tipderich. Tho quotations grinding
in transit aro:-No. 1 hard, $1,04;
No. 1 Northern, 51.03; and No. 2
Northern, 51. New No, 1 Northern,
93c lake ports.
Oats -The mah'ket is ' steady, with
demand fair. No. .2 white sold at
30}c middle freights, and at 81c
east. No. 1 quoted at 81ic east,
Barley -The demand is fair, with
offerings limited. No. 8 extra quote
ed at 45c middle freights, and No. 3
at 43c middle freights.
Rye -The market is quiet, with the
price about 51c middle freights.
Peas -Trade dull, with No. 2 white
quoted at 62c high freights, and at
63c east.
Corn -The market is quiet and
firm; No. 3 American yellow quoted
at 61c on track, Toronto, and No. 3
mixed at GOc, Toronto. Canadian
corn nominal,
Flour -Ninety per cont. patents
quoted at 58,05 to 53.07 middle
freights, in buyers' sacks, for export.
Straight rollers, of special brands,
for domestic trade, quoted at $3.50
to 58.60 in bbls. Manitoba flour is
firm; No. 1 patents, $4.70 to$ 4,75;
No. 2 patents, 54.40 to 54.45; and
strong bakers', 54.30 to $4.35 on
track, Toronto.
Millfeed-Bran steady at $16, and
shorts at $18 here. At outside
points bran is quoted at $13.50, and
shorts at 517. Manitoba bran. in
sacks, $17, and shorts at 520 here.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -The market is unchanged,
with moderate supplies. Good stock
quoted at 75c to $1 per barrel in
car lots, and at 51 to $1.50 for
small quantities.
Beans -Trade quiet, with prices
firm. Unpicked 51.75 to $180, and
picked $1.90 to $2 per bushel.
Honey -The market is quiet at 6
to 64e per lb. for bulk, and $1 to
$1.50 for comb. •
Hay -Demand fair with offerings
moderate. No. 1 new will bring $9
on track, Toronto.
Straw -The market is quiet at
$5.25 to $5.50 per ton for car lots
on track.
Hops -Trade dull, with prices nom-
inal at 17 to 20c.
Potatoes -Tho offerings are fair,
and prices are steady. Car lots are
quoted at 45 to 500 per bag, and
small lots at 55 to 60c per bag.
Poultry -The market is steady.
Chickens, 60 to 75c per pair. Ducks
70 to 90c per pair. Turkeys, 12 to
13e per lb.
' IIOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are unchanged. Cured
meats unchanged, with a good de-
mand. We quote: -Bacon, long clear,
10 to 10;c, in ton and case lots.
Pork. Mess, $18.50 to $19.50; do
short cut, $21.50.
Smoked Meats. -hams, light to
medium, 14 to 14•ic; do, heavy, 13
to 1⁣ rolls, 11 to 11*; shoulders,
104c; backs, 15 to 15ic; breakfast
bacon, 14 to 14ic.
Lard -The market is unchanged,
with fair demand. Tierces, 9•4c; tubs,
9c; pails, 10c; compound, 8 to 9e.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -The market is quiet with-
out features. Tlie chief demand is
for choice qualities of dairy and
creamery, and prices rule firm. We
quote: -Choice 11U, rolls, 17 to 17j•c;
selected dairy, tubs, uniform. color,
15 to 16c; secondary grades, store
packed, 12, to 18c; 'creamery prints,
20 to 201c; solids, 18 to 18ic.
Eggs -The market is steady. 'We
quote: -Strictly fresh gathered stock,
17c; ordinary candled, 154 to 16c;
seconds and checks, 11 to 12c.
Cheese -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. Best qualities job at
11ic per Ib., and seconds at llc per
1b.
Estate Valued at Over 1VIillion
and a Half Dollars.
A London despatch says: The pro-
bating of Lord Salisbury's will on
Thursday showed that he left an es-
tate valued at 51,551,680, No nubile
bequests were ana'le•
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106 MILES AN HOUR
Result . of Experiments in Ger-
many With Eleotric Car.
A Berlin despatch says: Experi-
ments were made with an electric
car on the Marienfeldor Military
Railroad on Thursday, and a speed
of 106 miles an hour was attained.
It is hoped tilat eventually the cars
will •achieve •a speed cif 200 miles per
hour,
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal Sept. 22. -Grain- Peas,
63c high freights, 72c afloat here;
rye, 530 east, -nee afloat here; buck-
wheat, 48 to 49c; No. 2 old oats,
87•}c in store here; new, 35c afloat
here, September delivery; flaxseed,
$1.15 on track here; feed barley, 50c;
No. 3 barley, 521c; corn, 60e for
No. 3 yellow American. Flour
Manitoba patents, 54.80; seconds,
$4.50; strong bakers, $4; Ontario
straight rollers, $3.90 to $4; in
bags, $1.85 to $1.90; patents, $4.20
to $4.30; extras, $1.70 to $1.75.
Feed -Manitoba bran, $17; shorts,
$19, bags included; Ontario Imran, in
bulk, $16 to $16.50; shorts, in bulk,
$1.9 to $20. Beans -Choice primes,
$1.60, Provisions -Heavy Canadian
short eut pork, $10 to $21; light
short cut, $19; compound refined
lard, 8c; pure Canadian lard, 8$ to
9c; finest lard, 10 to 10ic; hams,
134 to 14ic; bacon, 14 to 15c; live
hogs, $6 to $6,25; fresh killed abat-
toir hogs, 58.50; American clear
backs, $13.75; clear shoulder pork
$18.50. ''ggs,--Candled, selected,
18c; straight receipts, 154c; No, 2,
12c, Cheese -Ontario, 114 to 114c;
Townships, 11/ to 11 5-160;, Quebec,
11c. Butter -Townships creamery,
20e; Quebec, 194e; Western dairy,
154c.
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UNITED STATES MARKk 'S,
Detroit, Sept. 22,: Wheat -No. 1
white, 831tc; No. 2 red, cash, 88}a;
September, 804c; December, 8G4a;
May, 88,3e.
Toledo, Sept. 22. -Wheat -Cash,
84e; September, 84c; Docombor, 86c;
May, 88:1e. Corsi -Cash, 53.. c; Sep-
tember, 58.0; December, 521c;. May,
52to, Oats -Cash 89e; September,
89e; December, 392e; May 41.
St, Louis, Sept. 22,- -Wheat-Cash,
83}c; September, 801e; December,
850; May, 87ec.
Bullate, Sept. 22. -Flour --Firm,
Wheat -Spring unsettled; No. 1 Nor-
thern., c.i.f. September, 88ec; Winter
nominal; No. • 2 ret.. 85e. Cori-
Quiet; No. 2 yellow, 55, c; To. 2
corn, 57 to 57tc. Oats -Strong; No.
2 white, 41ic; No. 2 mixed, 880.
Barley -Western, c.i.f., 57 to 660.
Ilye-No.. 2, 61c, through billed, Can-
al freights -Easier; wheat 4c, corn
3ec, to New York,
LIVE STOCK MARKET,
Toronto, Sept. 22. -There was a
heavy run at the city Cattle° Market
to -day, and a large amount of busi-
ness was transacted, some of the
largest buyers of feeders and export
cattle being in the market. The run
for tho day comprised 86 cars, with
1,125 head of cattle, 2,300 sheep and.
lambs, 1,611 ' hogs, and 32 calves.
The bulls of the cattle buying to -day
was in feeders and stockers. There
is a good demand' for export cattle;
at 54.80 to 54.85, top prices.
Tho butchers' trade was a little
slow, but a largo amount of stock in
this class was cleared out, good to
choice cattle selling steady at $4 to
54.40; medium. cattle at $8.70.
Feeders -Feeding bulls sold at
$2.50 to $3.124; steers up to $2.75;
light cattle at $1.50 to 53,80.
hogs unenanged at 56 for the top;
market weak,
Sheep and lambs steady; market
steady.
Export, heavy $
Export, light ..,.,,
Bulls, export, heavy,
cwt
do light
Feeders, light, 800
lbs. and upwards
Stockers, 400 to 800
Ms. .. ......
do 900 lbs.
Butchers' cattle,
choice
ado medium .......-
do ' picked ..,... ,
do bulls .-...,
do rough ..
Light stock bulls,
cwt;. 2
Milch cows 30
Hogs, best 6
do light ... 5
Sheep, export, cwt . 3
Bucks 2
Culls .,... .......- 2
Calves, each 2
Spring lambs 3
4 50 to $4
4 1.0 4
4 00
3 00
3 25
3 00
3 65
3 75
3 50
4 00
2 75
2 50
25
00
00
75
40
50
25
00
75
85
25
4 25
8 50
3
3
8
85
40
75
4 25
8 90
4 50
8 00
2 60
2 50
52 00
3 50
2 75
3 75
8 00
4 00
APPLE BARRELS SCARCE.
Not Enough for the Crop Avail-
able for Export.
A Toronto despatch says: The
latest information regarding the On-
tario apple crop is to the effect that
it is a good deal heavier than last
season in the eastern part of the pro-
vince, while in the West it is a little
below the average, both in quantity
and in quality. A good many fall
apples have already been marketed,
but those who have delayed selling
their crop are in danger of losing
considerable money on it by reason
of the scarcity of barrels, of which
not nearly enough can be had to
contain all the crop available for ex-
port.
As the cr,,op this fall is fully two
weeks ahead of last year's, some
Greenings have already been export-
ed to England, as well as many
thousands of barrels of the fall varie-
ties. The total returns of the ship-
ments forwarded from the port of
Montreal show that 48,998 barrels
have been sent to Europe, against
25,481 the same period last fall.
Tho dealers in Toronto so far have
found a fairly satisfactory market in
England for Canadian apples, but
lately have met with considerable
competition from the New. England
product, the exports from the United
States ports being much in excess of
those of the corresponding period last
year. But from Now England a c•on-
siderablo quantity of immature and
poor fruit has been forwarded, which
has to be sold below the market lev-
el, and has depressed the values in
the Old Country a little.
Tho European Continental crop
has turned out better than expected,
but the English crop has been a
failure.
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HORRIBLE IF TRUE.
Turks Said to Torture Political
Prisoners.
A London despatch says: The cor-
respondent of the Daily Mail at Mon-
astir describes the underground cells
in the prisons there used for political
prisoners. They are so low that the
inmates cannot even sit; they must
lie Clown. Water is poured into the
cells. Food is withheld for three
days together, and the air passages
are stopped to force the prisoners in-
to confessions of complicity with the
revolutionaries. Many have died
under this treatment.
TO BEAT TIM RUSSIANS.
Faster Atlantic Steamers and
• Canadian Pacific Trains.
4! despatch from London says :-
A. prominent city merchant doing a
large trade witlh China arid Japan
says something must be done to se-
cure the carrying of the mails from
China and Japan via Vancouver
With fast steamers on the Atlantic
arid quicker trains on the Canadian
Pacific,• that route would have a
chance to compete with the Trans-
Siberian, which at present easily
beats it in point of time,
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The Stratford drill shred will be
sold.
EWS ITE
Telegraphic Briefs From All
Over the Globe.
•er
LANA 1)A,
There aro 45 pupils at the London
Normal school this term.
A new flour .mill with a capacity
of 8,000 barrels will be erected at
Keewatin.
The new Epileptic Hospital at
Woodstock will be completed by
August, 1904.
Hon. Richard Harcourt opened the
new King Edward school at Hamil-
ton on Friday afternoon.
The Chinese of British Columbia
are demanding higher wages in order
to meet the increased poli tax.
The attendance at this year's Tor-
onto Exhibition is estimated at 510,-
000, against 388,000 last year. ci
The last homestead records issue
at Winnipeg show a largo immigra-
tion movement from the Western
States into Canada,
On Saturday a Norwegian jailbird
named Larson .was sentenced to
seven years in penitentiary at 'angs-
t() for stealing cattle.
According to Assessment Commis-
sioner Grant London's population is
growing steadily, but he does not
think it has yet reached 40,000.
Fifty dollars, with $4.10 costs,
was the penalty unposed on each of
the six young men charged with be-
having indesceatly and using insulting
language to two young ladies in
London,
According to Steamboat Inspector
Phillips,: who has just returned to
Winnipeg from an official visit to all
points on the Mackenzie River and
tributaries, meascls have been epi-
demic for the past two years among
the Esquimaux tribes of tho Mack-
enzie region.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The special session of the United
States Congress will commence No-
vember 9.
Tho Times says that in thirty-four
years 45,000 children have been sent
to Canada.
A conference is to bo held at Dub-
lin with a view to ending religious
feuds in Ireland.
Quito a number of towns in the
vicinity of London have raised the
price of a quarter loaf from fiveponce
half -penny to sixpence.
During August 4,888 English, 999
Scotch, 268 Irish and 8,086 foreign-
ers emigrated to Canada. To Aus-
tralia and New Zealand tho total
was 1,170; to South Africa a total
of 6,208.
According to figures of the Anti -
Emigration Society of Dublin, Irish
emigration to Canada for the eight
months of this year is twice as great
as the whole emigration of last year.
UNITED STATES.
So that the fire hydrants may be
seen late at night, the residents of
Jamaica, L. I., are painting them
white.
A young woman was fatally injured
at Utica, N. Y., through the ex-
plosion of a revolver dropping from
a shelf.
Mrs. Janie Stewart Boyesen, died
at Asheville, N. C., as a result of
nervous shock, following a false ac-
cusation of theft.
Miss Millessie Rose, of Morristown,
N. 3., 40 years knotted and crippled
by rheumatism, has cured herself by
eating no breakfast for a long time.
Thu University of Kansas will be
equipped 'with a chair in journalism
this fall and lectures will be deliver-
ed by newspaper editors and manag-
ers.
The first week in November will
witness the wedding of the Duke of
Roxburghe and Miss May Goolet at
thousand invitations b ____Two__ tion of a passer-by, who literally
JOIN BULL AND ms TRADE.
Bluebook Issued Gives Him Qome
'ants to Fonder.
A despatch from Loddon says :--
The tables of the bfuo books just is-
• sued shove that exports from. the
Uzitad Kingdoms.' to the United Stat-
es
tat -es declined from $:145,000,000 in
1890 to 597,500,000 in 1902, While
the imports rose from $4:85,000,000
to $605,000,000. The total exports-
to all foreign countries declined in
the seine perio'd 590,000,000, though
r included the
when the colonies are
declineonly amounts to $5,.000,000.
The proportion of 'United Kingdom
exports as between protected and
unprotected countries in the markets
of the world has been reversed since
1350. Then it was 56 per cent to
the protected countries and 44 per
cent to the others. In 1902 the
proportion was 42 per cent to the
protected countries, and 68 .per cent
to the others.
A valuable ,explanation is giv
the .such quoted excess of mmpd
over exports, wlrieh has so ofte
been held to be a sign of British
trade decline. The blue book says
that while the excess yearly averages
about $800,000,000 the income re-
ceivable from foreign investments
calculated at $312,500,000, added to
the earnings of the British merchant
fleet engaged in foreign trade, cal-
culated at 5450,000,000, "is proba-
bly .more than sufficient to account
for the average excess of imports."
The table shows that the United
Kingdom is most dependent on im-
ported wheat. The question of
wages and the cost of living, is
summed up as follows :
"Tho average., level wages in the
United States are 1 1-2 times groat-
er than in the United Kiugdom,
while in Germany wages are only
2-3 and in France 8-4 of the average
prevailing in the United Kingdom,"
Before the trade of the United
Kingdom and any of the colonies
should be reserved to British vessels,
the Board of Trade states that the
existing treaties with Austria,
Greece and other countries would
have to be denounced.
KILLED AT THEIR POST.
Engineer and Fireman Victims of
Railway Wreck.
A despatch from St. Hyacinthe,
Que., says: In a collision between
two freight trains on the Intercolon-
1 Railway on Wednesday morning
at 5.50 o'cldcl:, about two miles
east of St. Madeline, Engineer At-
kinson and Fireman Huard, of the
east -bound train were killed, and
Brakesman Bernier and Engineer
Dussoult, of the westbound train,
were slightly ineured. Both engines
were badly damaged and several of
the cars wrecked. At the time of
the accident there was a heavy Wrist,
Which prevented both engineers from
seeing more than four or five car -
lengths ahead. The two iunn killed
remained at their posts. Engineer
Atkinson and Fireman Huard hes.
Ionged to Levis, and' were both mar-
ried.
INJURED X•PLOSION.
Accident in Workshop May Have
Fatal Results.
A despatch from Montreal says :-
As the result of an explosion of ben-
zine in the workshop of the Ward-
robe Repair Co., Beaver Efall Hill,
two Then are lying badly bursted in
the General Hospital. Ono of them
may die as a result of his injuries.
The accident occurred shortly before
9 o'clock on Wednesday, and so great
was the force of the eilosion that
the whole of the shop was immed-
iately a sheet of flames, and :the
two men were enveloped in iii; 'she
clothing of Wilfrid IIireau jj caught
fire, and he would doubtless` have
been burned to death but for the ac -
Newport in Trinity Church.
W. A. Reynolds. 24 years old, of
New Mexico, Mo., shot dead his
sweetheart, Miss Ruby Kennett, 16
years old, and then killed himself.
He was jealous because another man
took her to the circus.
Dead froze poisoning, at Philadel-
phia, the bodies of Mrs. Rosa Leiser,
35 years old; her son, Gottfried, 16,
and her daughter, Mary 15, were
found in their home. It is supposed
to be the deed of the smother.
Civil Engineer Robert E. Teary, of
the United States navy, who return-
ed from his last Arctic expedition a
year ago, obtained three years' leave
of absence from the Navy Depart-
ment
epartment to enable him to make another
attempt to reach the North Pole.
GENERAL.
Cholera is reported to ba raging
fiercely at Birojik, Syria, on the
Euphrates.
Yokohama advices say that the
Chinese Empress is suffering from a
swelling under one eye, which will
prove fatal in a year.
A touching family re -union took
place in home when the three sisters
of Pope Pius X., who lived with• him
in Venice, arrived to visit hint.
add Canada
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COTTON IN WEST INDIES.
British Government to Give Every
Possible Support.
A London despatch says: The Duke
of Marlborougli, who was recently
appointed Under-Secretary for the
Colonies, presided at a conference
held at 'the Colonial Office on Wed-
nesday to consider the 'question of
the development of cotton growing
in the West Indies, He promised
that the Government would give
every possible support to the move-
ment.
ONE HUNDRED PERISHED.
Chinese Steamer Capsized in a
Typhoon,
A despatch to the London Daily
Mail from Hong Kong announces
that during a typhoon asteamer,
On -Ling -Wo, capsized off Irwang-
Chau-W tn, and ono hundred persons
perished. -
t pulled the burning clothes from ithe
.tan. Hirteau is very severely burn-
ed. The other man in the hospital
is Jules Aubin, of 124)5 St. James
Street. His injuries, although pain-
ful,
ainful, are not so serious as those of
his companion.
TRANSPORT IS SAFE.
Vessel Reported to Have Founder -
eel Reaches Malta.
A despatch from Valetta, M'aita,
says ;-The British transport, Sou-
dan, with a regiment of troops au
board, homed for India, wheel wag.
reported to- have foundered during
the recent gale, Which swept over
many ports of Europe, has arrived
here. She did not sustain any dein.
age whatever.
4'
PLAGUE E AND CHOLERA.
Scourges Causing Many Deaths in
the Philippine Islands.
•A despatch .from Mantle, meg :-
One hundred cases of hubonio plague
are reported in Tondo, the moat
northern and populous suburban dis-
trict of this city. Of these eighty
have had a fatal ternminatioat. 'Twelve
eases with nine deaths are also re-
ported from Cobu, its the province of
Vicoyas. Cholera is prevalent in all
parts of the island, the reside of nit
absence of rain,
GOLD PROM TIM SEA.
Vessel Bought for Nails Yields tile,
Treasure.
A. despatch from Digby, N.S,, says:
--By the aid of a diver Thomas
Burns, a fisherman of Seawall, N.$.,
has reco'vercd nearly 518,000 in gold
from the hull of a wreaked vessel foss
which he pafdl. 21 shillings, and ho
expects to find even more treasure.
The wreck was that of a brig Post s
mile below Centreville . sovt ;ij years
ago. It was said.that her cZenreate:
der and his son had for the owmcre
$60,000 in gold, the profits of tib(
trip;. Burns bought the hull for tits
capper tails and fastenings,