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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-10-8, Page 2. 'W011,111Y8 'A KETS, ILEI'OIi,TS I x0114 THE Lluoraa TRADE °ENTI ES. Prices of Cattle, Crain, Cheese, and Other Dairy Produce at bone and, Abroad. Tomlin), Oct. 6,--Wheat--The mar- ket for Ontario grades is weaker, with moderate demand from millers. No. 2 whito and red winter sold to- day at 75c low freights. No. 2 goes° is quoted at 69 to 70e oast, and No. 1 spring at 74 to 75c east. Manitoba wheat is easy, with new quoted as follows at lake ports: -- No. 1 hard, 89c; No. 1 Northern, and No. 2 Northern, &4e. Data-Tiir market is unchanged, with offerings fair. No. 2 white quoted at 29 to 29ee middle freights, and No. 1 white at 80} to 81e east. Barley—The demand is fair, with offerings limited. No, 3 extra quot- ed at 44c middle freiglxts, and No. ' 3 at 42 to 480 middle freights. Rye—The market is quiet, with prices at from 49 to 50c outside. Peas—Trade dull, with No. 2 white quoted at 68c high freights, and at 65c east. Corn—Tlie market Is quiet at un- changed prices. No. 3 American yellow quoted at 56,ec on track, To- ronto, and No. 3 mixed at 56c To. ionto. Canadian corn nominal. Flour—Ninety poi cent. patents quoted at $8.05 middle freights in buyers' sacks for export. Straight rollers, of special brands, for domes- tic trade, quoted at $3.45 to $3,55 in bbls, Manitoba flour unchanged. No. 1 patents, $4.75 to $4.80; No. 2 patents, $4.45 to $4.50, and strong bakers', $4.30 to $4.85 on track, Toronto. Millfced—Bran steady at $16, and shorts at $18 here. At outside points bran is quoted at 513.50. and shorts at 517. Manitoba bran in sacks, $17, and shorts at 520 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples—The market is unchanged, with moderate supplies. Sales at /5c to $1 per bbl,, in car lots, and at $1 to 51.25 in small quantities. Beans—Trade quiet, with prices irrm. Unpicked, $1.75 to $1.8.0, and picked, $1.90 to $2 per bush. Honey—The market is quiet . at 6 to 61c per Ib. for bulk, and $1,25 to $1.50 for comb. Hay—Demand fair, with receipts only moderate. No. 1 new will bring $9 to 59.50 on track, Toronto. Straw—The market is quiet, at $5.- 25 to $5.50 per ton for car lots on track. Hops -Trade is quiet, with this season's crop quoted at 25 to 27c. Potatoes—The offerings are fair, and prices are firer. Car lots o choice quoted at 55c per baand small lots selling at 60 tao"� bag. „s•... r? ..v 65e per Poultry—T Chickens 70 .. market is steady. 15 to 85c per pair; ducks 0 85c per pair; turkeys, 12 to 130 per ib. Teed] DAIRY MARKETS, Butter...The market is steady, with good demand for choice qualities. Re- ceipts of inferior qualities are liber- al, and the demand slow. We quote: Finest 1 -Ib. rolls, 17 to 18c; select- ed dairy tubs, 16 to 16ec; secondary grades, 12e to 13ec; creamery prints 20 to 21c; solids, 18 to 1&ec. Eggs—The market is firm. We quote:— Strictly new Iaid, 18c; fresh gathered, 170; seconds and checks, 11 to 12c. Cheese—Market is firm. We quote: Finest, 12 to 121c per M. ITOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are unchanged. Cured Meats firm, with a fair demand. We quote:—Bacon, long clear, 10 to 10ec in ton and case lote. Pork, mese, $18.50 to $19.50; do., short cut, 521.50. Smoked Meats—hams, light to medium, 14 to 14;c; do., heavy, 13 to 13c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Ilufralo, Oct. 6.—Flour—Firm. Wheat Spring quiet; No. 1 Northern, spot, 8:5c; winter nominal. Corn. —Quiet; No. 2 yellow, 52ic; No. 3 •:porn, 51 to 511c. Oats—Easy; No. 2 • white, 411:c; No. 2 mixed, nee. Barley—Western offered c.i.f. 54 to G3;c. Rye—No. 1 in store, 59c. Can- al freights—Steady. Duluth, Oct. G.—Wheat closed—To arrive; No. 1 hard, 70ce No. 1 Northern, 78c; No. 2 Northern, 75c; ,September, Nene-October, 78c; De- cember, 751c;ay-, 771c. St. Louis, Oct. 6.—Wheat—Cash, 88ec; September, 831c; December, 831c; lefay, 82ec. Milwaukee, Oct. 6.—Wheat-- Steady; No. 1 Northern, 83e to 85c; No. 2 Northern, 70 to 82c; new 'December, 771e. Ilye—Dull; No. 1, 57 to 571c. Barley—Weaker; No. 2, ale to 45c; sample, 46 to 60e. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, Oct. 6.—There was the heaviest run at the City Cattle Mar- ket to -day for some time past, 183 ears of stock being receicved up to noon.•, There were 1,200 hogs, and the run of both sheep and cattle was very heavy, Owing in part to the heavy run, business was slow, buy- ers showing a disposition to wait a little before making their purcbases, on the chance that prices might be lower. Prices, in fact, early began to show a little easier tendency for feeders, bulls especially going a lit- tle lower. The market was good for felleiee exlio0(, and butcher cattle. There 'tete too tango a proportion o; rough stuff offering, and this drag - gad the market. The top for ex- port would be about 54.60, With one or two loads of extra choice selling I tic' to 20c higher. Butchers'—Choice cattle stealer at 84.25 to 54.40; rough cattle easy at from $2.75 to $8.25, . Feeders --Short. keep, choice inosite', Sheep and Lambs ---Lambs dull at $8.50 to $8.75; sheep firm at $3.20, to 58.50. Calves, steady, Fee port, heavy re .,.$ 4 50 to $4 75 Faaport, light w.,,..,. 4 10 a 20 Bulls, expert, heavy, cwt. ,.,.,..... 3 75 do light , 3 00 Feeders, Iight, 800 lbs. and upwards 3 25 3 50 Stockers, 400 to 800 lbs. 3 00 3.40 do 900 lbs. „ 8 65 8 75 Butchers` cattle, choice 8 75 do medium , ,3 50 do picked ... 4 00 do bulls .,,,.. 2 75 do rough 2 50 Light stock bulls, Cwt.2 25 2 50 Milch cows ,Y... ,Y.,.,, 30 00 52 00 IToge, best ., 6 80 do • light—• 5 60 Sheep, export, cwt . 8 50 Bucks .., ...........,, . 2 50 Culls ., .,,.,..., 2 25 Calves, each 2 00 Spring lambs . 3 50 8 85 8 50 4 25 8 90 4 60 8 00 2 Go 3 75 2 75 8 75 8 00 8 75 SIR MICHAEL HERBERT Death of British Ambassador at Washington. .A. Davos-Pletr, Switzerland de- spatch says: Sir Michael Herbert, the British Ambassador to the United States, died at 1.80 on Wednesday afternoon, He had gradually been growing worse since his arrival here, but his death was sudden and un- expected. A despatch from Paris on Sept. 12 said that Lady Herbert, wife of the British Ambassador at Washington, was devoutediy nursing her delicate husband back to health at Davos -Platz. Lady Herbert was formerly Miss Lelia Wilson, daughter of Richard T. Wilson, the New York banker, and is related to the Vanderbilt, Ogden, Goelet and Astor families. Lord Pembroke telegraphed to For- eign Minister Lansdowne, announcing the Ambassador's sudden death, and asking the Foreign Office to arrange with the Swiss and French authori- ties uthorities for permission to transfer the body through their territories to England. The funeral will probably occur at the family estate at Salis- bury, 4 HARNESS ZAMBESI FALLS. British Experts Coming ,to Get Pointers From Niagara. A London despatoh says: Sir Charles Metcalfe, the well-known, railroad builder in Seneeu t • "" I�'. Jones, ,f_ G., . managerAfrica, and Chartered '4"' '"i of the Saar—Company, will sail e? oa au important mission to the United States. They intend to spend a month investigating the industrial railroad methods employed in Ameri- ca, and especially to examine the system by which the power of Ni- agara Falls is utilized. Immediately after their return the work will be commenced of harnessing the Vic- toria Falls on the Zambesi River in South Africa. They expect to Se- velop the iron and coal industries of South Africa. 4 C.T.R. EARNINGS INCREASE Half -Yearly Report Shows a Gain All Round. A London despatch says: Tho Grand Trurk's half yearly report on passenger earnings shows a gain of £S0,000, mails and express, £13,000; freight and Iive stock, £307,000. The increase in the number of pas- sengers carried is 385,000, and an addition of a farthing on the aver- age fare received and a like gain on the average rate per ton. The quality of freight live stock showed an increase of 1,070,000 tons. Work- ing expenses showed an increase of £3&0,000. The additional expendi- ture was due to the augmented price of fuel. Tho new issue of Grand Trunk guaranteed stock has been considerably over subscribed. DIED AT 103 YEARS. William McMillan, Manitoba's Oldest Resident. A Winnipeg despatch says: Wm. McMillan, aged 108, died on Tuesday night at his home, adjoining Lorca Strathcona's estate at Silver Heights, where he had resided for the past sixty years. When Queen Vic- toria was young, he made his home on the bank of the Ass'inaboiho, in St. James' parish. This and the adjoining farm are still the homes of two of his sons. He leaves be- hind him a large number of children, grand -children and great grandchild- ren. BROTHERS EXECUTED. Put to Death at Dazmemora, N.Y., For Brutal Murder. A Dahnemora, N. Y., despatch says: Willis, Frederick and Burton Van Wormer, brothers, were electro- cuted in fifteen and one-half minutes at Clinton Prison on Thursday for the murder of their uncle, Peter A., Hallenbeck, at Greendale, Columbla county, on Christmas eve, 1901. The crime was marked by callous brutal- ity. The Van Wormer brothers hail a bail record. DICKENS' BIRTHPLACE. Miloyaa Portsmouth Will Establish. a Dick- ens Museum. A London despatch says:• The birthplace of Charles Dickens., 887 Commercial road, Landport, near the Portsmouth dockyard, where his. fa- ther was a clerk, in which the au- thor spent the earlier part of his life, was sold by auction at Portsmouth on Tuesday night for $5,625 to the City of Portsmouth, A Dickens. museum will probably be established ON FATTENING CHICKENS, ABOUT CONSTRUCTING THE CRATES AND FEEDING. Department of Agriculture Says It is a Profitable Business, The crate fattening of chickens is a profitable business for almost every farmer to engage in. It is a simple undertaking that can be managed by a member of the farmer's family who is sufficiently interested and enter- prising to study the work and cont street the fattening crates. No special building is required in which to place the crates. Grain on hand, with tlzo exception of corn or peas, when finely ground and mixed with skinxmilk or buttermilk, is fed with profit to the chickens. If it is neces- sary to buy grain, line ground oats is preferable.The cost of the food for fattening averages ten cents per chicken. It is advisable to produce chickens with white -colored flesh, as white -colored flesh is more palatable than yellow flesh; it is firm, fine in grain and exceedingly tender. There aro fat globules distributed through- out the flesh and under the skin. When the chicken is cooked, the par- ticles of fat melt and increase the juiciness of tho flesh. With unfatted chickens, water takes the place of tho majority of the fat globules. When the chicken is roasted the water evaporates and 'leaves the meat dry. The muscles of tho crate fatted chicken aro more edible through lack of exercise. To kill a lean chicken is wasteful. The pro- portion of edible meat to bone and offal is so small. .ALL BREEDS OF CHICKENS, with the exceptions of Leghorns, Minorcas and similar small chickens, can be fatted in the crates with profit. Fatted chickens can bo mark- eted in Canada and Great Britain for ten to -sixteen cents per pound, plucked weight. A great number of farmers have engaged in the fattening business and are preparing their chickens for the home markets or for export. The following letter was received by the Department last week, showing the satisfactory re- sults of the first year's chickens business and the encouragement of- fered to engage in it more extensive- ly: "Last year I experimented on a small scale with crate -fed chickens, and the result was so sat ee c ewer that this year I am goipg to pre- pare all my fowls in the . manner. I should epee e s td ' send me the names of some reliable dealers in Ottawa or Montreal to whom I can ship the fatted chickens when ready." Mr. F. C. Hare, Chief of the Do- minion Poultry Division in this ar- ticle will give 'directions for con- struction of the fattening crates and feeding the chickens. A subsequent article will contain information about killing and marketing the chickens. The fattening crates in use at the Illustration Stations aro six feet long, sixteen inches wide and twenty inches high, inside measurements. Each crate is divid- ed into three compartments. Each compartment holds four chickens. A frame is built of one inch by two inch lumber and covered with slats. The slats are placed lengthwise on three sides bottom, back and top— and up and down in front. The slats are ane inch wide and half an inch thick. The spaces between the slats in front are two inches wide to enable the chickens to FEED FROM '1'lele TROUGH. The bottom, back and top slats aro one and a half inches apart. Tho top slats are cut above each parti- tion and three doors are formed. The doors aro hinged to the rear of the frame. Tho crates are placed on stands sixteen inches from the ground. A light "V" feed trough, two and a half inches inside, is placed in front of each crate and is carried on brackets nailed on the ends of the crate. If only a small number of chickens are to be fatted, packing Boxes can be adapted for the purpose. Tho open top of the box should become the bottom of the crate and one side should be removed for tho front. Slats should be nailed up and down the front; • also lengthways of the crate to form the floor. A board should be loosened in the top of the crate to remove the chickens, erre]' a feed trough arranged in front. Dur- ing the fall the crates can be plac- ed outdoors in a sheltered position or in a (vacant shed or barn. Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, or chickens of a sieni]ar type weighing from two and a half to four pounds each aro preferable for fattening. Chickens of medium size and of a broad, square shape, with short, straight legs set well apart, fatten the most profitably. A suitable fattening ration is one that is palatable and that will pro- duce a white -colored flesh. Ground oats, ground buckwheat, ground bar- ley and )ow grade flour are meals that have been fed with profit at the Stations.. The chickens are fed a mash exclusively. NO WUOLE GRAIN IS GIVEN. Several meal mixtures aro given to illustrate how a ration can be form- ed: (1) Ground oats, coarser hulls removed. (2) Two pounds ground oats, two pounds ground buckwheat, ono pound ground corn.. (8) One pound p ground oats, one pound ground' barley, one pound ground buckwheat, (4) Two pounds ground barley, two pounds low grade flour, one pound wheat bran, The ground meal should be nixed to a thin porridge with thick sour skiinnilk or Buttermilk. A small quantity of salt should be added ty the mash. '.rhe chickens should remain in the fattening crates for about twenty- four days, .Itofore the chickens are placed in the crates they should be dusted with suipl1iu' to kill the lice. The first weeS tbe chickens should times a ii;y, in order to accustom. them to the change of diet and the confinement, After the first week the ehicjtens should be given twice a day as much. mash as they will con- sume; For one week before the chickens az'e killed a small quantity of tallow should be added to the machos to increase the juiciness of the flesh. Fresh water should be given in the trough twice a day and grit or gravel twice a week. At all the illustration Stations the chickens are fed from, the trough throughout the fattening period. The cramming machine has not been used for feed- ing chickens for two years. ~a' MURDER Al BRANTFORD. Father Finds Dead Body of His 8 -Year Old Daughter. A Brantford dosiiatch says: Half - submerged in the soggy grass of a thiels bush of willows just south of the Toronto, Hamilton and Brantford Station, with face deathly white and limbs and body bespattered with blood, the dead body of little Irene Cole was found by a party of search- ers shortly after 7 o'clock on 'Wed- nesday night. Every indication points to assault and murder resemb- ling in many details the Glory Wha- len Vhalen crime at Collingwood, which is still fresh in the memory of readers throughout the country. Not since the days of the Quirk murder, which still remains a mystery, has such ex- citement prevailed in this city. The body when found plainly bore marks of a horrible assault. The clothes were badly torn, and the form was a mass of bruises. To add horror to the whole story it was 'the victim's own father who found her. Going along the trail and fol- lowing the narrow path his eyes fell upon the dead form of his daughter, whose deathly features were plainly visible in the glimmering moonlight. Paralyzed by the sudden shock the father fell back into the arms of his companions. The section where the crime was committed has long been the nesting place of the toughest characters of Brantford, and the headquarters of tramps who visit the city. There have been innumerable brawls there, and the police have Veen called to the place repeatedly, but it has nev- er been properly cleared up. It cov- ers a large area, and there is no- thing there but a rank growth of grass and bushes. It is an ideal hiding place for teee peregnd.noirdiig a than a company of constables could patrol it thoroughly. In tine Summer there is never a night but that it is infested with hoboes, to such an ettont that it is not even safe for a person to go near the lo- cality. The victim of this outrage was enticed to the place, and the perpetrator of the crime must have been entirely award of the loneliness of the surroundings. It is suspected that a tramp is guilty of the murder, but there is nothing so far as known to show this, the suspicion aroused by reason of the fact that the place is fnfested by members of the fra- ternity. AN ARREST MADE. Slowly but surely a chain of cir- cumstantial evidence is being welded around Joseph Kennedy, a young Irishman, who was arrested at o'clock on Thursday morning, which points unerringly to hint as the mur- derer of little Irene Cole in "The Willows," near Eagle Place, on Wed- nesday afternoon. Kennedy was positively identified by the Potter children. Alberta, aged 12, and Gordon, aged 14, as the man they saw loitering on the dyke shone "The Willows," near the Cole homestead, about 12.80 on Wed- nesday. Little Irene left her home about 1 o'clock. Kennedy was seen returning from "Tho Willows" at 4 o'clode in the afternoon by Bruce Durward and Jesse Willoughby. That evening the mutilated remains of the innocent child were discovered in a lonely spot in the swamp by a searching party, headed by the mur- dered girl's father. Kennedy was discovered on Thurs- day morning in the hayloft in the rear of Hunt and Colter's livery stable. Ile expressed no surprise when placed under arrest, evinced no curiosity as to why he was being taken into custody, and asked •no questions of the officers as to the reason for bis detention. Through- out he carried himself with an air of bravado. Ob the arrival at the police station ho submitted to a most rigorous examination, conduc- ted by Dr. Ashton, made no demur wixln divested of his wearing apparel and other clothes given hint. In fact, his bearing was that of a man devoid of interest in the proceedings. The prisoner's garments gave evi- dence of having been carefully spong- ed with wet cloths but a few hours before, while an examination dis- closed unmistakable signs of blood st. Is-ainscnneily was arraigned before Mag- istrate Woo,dyatt at 10 o'clock on Thtarsklay morning. "Kennedy," said his Worship "you aim before nr0 charged with the minder of Irene Cole. W.lrat'havn you to say about it?" Not guilty. I know nothing about it," said the prisoner in a nonrcbal- ant manner. The magistrate then remanded him for one week, Joseph Kennedy is by no means uninviting in appearance. Ho is somewhat stocky in builel, but car- ries himself with a jaunty, semi- mili Lary air. He has the ruddy complexion usually characteristic of the receirt arrival from the "Old Sod," CANADA IS PROSPEROUS. Conditions That Are Attracting Attention in 'Britain. A London despatch says: The Westminster Gazette, referring to the paying off of Canadian loans, says:_,. "It le very •satisfactory in these tines, so unpropitious for large bon- i'oWinr•g operations, taut one en our rosaries ie in a i,ositiorn to recicern its THE, HOUSE OF 00 11110113 WHAT OUR LEGISLATORS AB]E DOING AT OT'T'AWA. G. T, Xt. c 131L1, PASSED. The Transcontinental Railway Bill was given its third reading in the Muse on Wednesday afternoon with- out any further voting. Forty-eight anti-Graud Trunk Paci- fic petitions wore received,, nine of tbem from Toronto, and a large one from Montreal was hlan'ded in by Air. Bandon. 1i;Cr, 'Talbot asked if members sub- xnittizig these petitions would hold themselves responsible for their gen- uineuess, Ile had limed that in the petition from Ilerthier twenty - eve of the names were in the same bsti5dwriting. GOODS IMPORTED,, 'lire Minister of Customs,, in an- swer to. Mr, Osler, stated that the value of the goods imported by the Government. the three years end- ing June 80th, 1903, was :-1901, $1,646, 337; 1902, $2,007,664; 1903, $1,407,060. NATIONAL GALLERY. Col. Hughes was informed that during 'the past seven years $9,,260 were paid by the Government for pictures for the Canadian National Gallery, Of this $8.251 were ex- panded for the works of Canadian artists. TRENT VALLEY CANAL. Mr. Porter was informed by 'the Acting Minister of Railways and Canals that the report of Mr. XV. McLeod, C,E., on the fea.sipility and cost of constrpzcting the south-east- ern terminus of the Trent Valley Canal would be laid on the table in 'the course of a few days. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES. The supplementary estimates for 1908-4.lu•esented to the 1E1ause by W. S. iFielding, call for a total vote of 510,590,863, of which $5,861,885 is chargeable to consolidated Band, and $4,728,.973 to capital account. The . main estimates for 1903-4 amounted to $57,109•,974, or atotal for the year, adding the sulpfilemen- taries of 567,700,937, compared with $59,061,934 for the year 1902-3. This year's estimates contain many items of interest, both from the standfpoint of internal develapmeut axed of international relationship. For instance, there is $146,000 as Cana'da's co'ntribu'tion to the Queen VittOrin . Meinf rias; and Salt :fedi),, the amount required to pay expenses connected. with the Alaska Boundary Commission. on the one hand, and $250,000 addationai for sch'ools, clerical assistance, )hinting, etc., to be granted the Govermnent of the Northwest Territories. A large num- ber of old claims against the Govern- ment on small matters are also pro- vided for. FLYING FROM RAZLOG. Thousands of Women and Children Refugees. A Sofia despatch says: Rila Moun- tains reports that the whole popular tion of the district of Razleg has been massacred or has fled. Three thousand women and children, fugi- tives from the Turkish soldiery, have arrived at Rile. Many villages around Razlog are said to bo burn- ing. The town itself is surrounded with tents occupied by the Turkish troops, who avoid fighting, and are cording to the despatch attack only innocent people. A report issued by the revolutionary committee at Monastir states that Turks killed over 200 peasants in a number of villages and while taking 130 vil- lagers to Nevesko they massacred 75 of them. At another place, eighteen women were outraged, and then shut in a haen, which was set on fixe. Letters from Monastir say the Turk- ish authorities are posting a final invitation to the insurgents to return to their homes. A SURPRISE PARTY. One Man Stabbed and Another Sh.ot. A despatch from Chatham says :— Nelson Danker is severely shot in the leg, and Daniel Jones is seriously' stabbed in the chest as a result of a raw at a surprise party given at the residence of Roman Nolan, this city, on Wednesday evening, Jacob Enos is under arrest, charged with the wounding. Enos was jealous of the attentions being lavished on has sister-in-law, Mrs. Enos, of Wood- stadlc, and he also complained that he wasn't getting Iris share of ttho beer that was being dispensed from ant eigh•t-gallon keg. Inc pulled a knife and stabbed Jones, and in a mix-up stabbed his wife in the arm. Parker interfered. Enos then went home, secured his shotgun, and when Parker was returning home, Enos shot him in the leg. The injured man's leg resembles the lid of a pepper tier. It is perfectly punctur- ed from the thigh to the ankle. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. King Thinks. Ile Best Can Control the War Office. A despatoh from London says :— The correspondent of the Canadian Associated Preis u'nderstan:ds that the Xing strongly favors Austen Oham'berlain for the. Secretaryship of State for War, considering him the only practical business man among those mentioned for the p;osition. 4 CHINESE REIGN OF TERROR. Russianized Chinese Creates Distur- bane, A despatch from Cho Foo, China, says :—A baits of Ruesianizezl Chin- ese lrrigan;ds have raided Taleunan and kichhappecl fifteen wealthy Chin- ese whome they aro holding for ransom. A reign of terror exists ill the 'Vitltr district. Russian troops aro. holding ,the (brean side of the ri ver. .,« TICKS FRO THE WIRE, XA1'PENINGS. FROM ALL OVER THE GLOB, Telegraphic Briefs From. Our Own and Other Countries of Beeent Events; CANADA, Beal estate men in Hamilton are raising the rents, The nth Regiment, Hamilton, will hold ilel.d sports on October 10th.. One quarter of the potato crop in the London district is a failure. Hamilton hotelkeepers are com- plaining . against the high water rates. V, It Dandurand will run for the mayorality of Montreal against Mayor Cochrane in February. A large number of shantymen are leaving Ottawa for the woods every • day, The pay is $85 a month. Mr. John Jenner died on a C. P. R. train on Saturday while returning to Wallacoburg from the Northwest. The House of Refuge Committee in Hamilton are trying to get the sum- mer carnival surplus to erect a home for incurables. The C. P. R. has placed an order for almost a million dollars' worth of cars at its Hoohelaga shops. At Bow River, on Saturday, Sergt. Brooks of the Mounted Police, A, Beaupre and Joseph Disbury were swept away with their team and waggon and drowned. Ensile Noel, of Ottawa, has been liberated after having been sentenced to five years for attempting to 'hili Albert Larocquo. He won on an appeal. The king has bought the house at Balnachoill given by Queen Victoria to the late John Brown, King Edward has commanded the publication of selections from Queen Victoria's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861. Geo. Moore, the novelist, has left the Catholic church and become a Protestant because Archbishop Walsh attended the King's levee at Dublin, and because the Ding was received at the Catholic College of Maynooth. UNITED STATES. A serious outbreak of small -pox exists at Altown, N. Y. . -w-1i mail train jiunped the track near Danville, Va., on Saturday, and the engineer, fireman and eight mail clerks were killed, John Hayes Hammond, professor of mining at Yale University, will present to that institution a metal- lurgic laboratory to cost $35,000. Albany, N. Y., Common Council, by a vote of 11 to 8, has requested the Albany City Board of Education only to purchase school text books which bear the union label. Colonel Underwood, who died at Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday, helped to build the C. P R., con- structing inost of the scenic portion of tbe Canadian Pacific in the neigh- borhood of I3ante. The University of Chicago has pur- chased the entire south frontage of the famous Midway at a cost of 51,- 450,000, and will erect the largest medical college in the world. Joseph Monger, manager of a theatrical congiany playing in Cin- cinnati, shot three members of the company after the performance on Thursday night, in settlement of ac- count, C. W. Eaton, an eleven -year-old Chicago boy, was dragged • away from his companions by a xnan who said he had stolen $5. Two days later his body was found in Lake Michigan. Rather than wed a German Count, 'whom her mother had chosen for her, Miss Daisy Louisa Crouse, of Amsterdam, N.Y., eloped with and married the man of her choice, John Andrews Smith. Dr. W. P. Rushin, a well to do physician, of Albany, Georgia, has written to Gov. Terrell, asking that he be allowed to serve the remain- der of the life term for which bis father, now 64 years old was sen- tenced eight years ago for murder. Julius M. Nisson and Arthur J. Herbst aro under arrest in Chicago charged with, the theft of 16130,000. They are stated to have created a bank and to have victimized business houses in ovary part of the United States. Four Germans imported from Duluth to take striking miners' plac- es at Cripple Creek refused to go 'to work and were placed in the military prison. They have now appealed to the German Consul in Denver to place the matter before his govern- ment. • GENERAL. New Zealand's frozen meat trade with Great I3ritain now equals about 15,000 sheep a day. The prices of A.mertcan'plate glass have been cut 10 per cent. to meet the competition of the Belgians. Orders have been given for the mobilization of sixty-four additional battalions of Turkish troops. The presence of the United States squadron prevented a massacre of Christians at Beirut,. sans a letter to rho London Times. 'Che Czar will not yenta e in the streets of Vienna on his approaching visit, as he fears demonstrations in sympathy with. Russian strikes, Martin Tomasheffsky, a well-to-«clo Russian land owner, was murdered by Iris cousin by the injection, of poison into his forehead with a hy- podermic syringe. An appalling condition of poverty exists in St, Kitts and Nevis, in the West Indies. The estates have been compelled to lessen their e,penses owing to the long drought, and able-bodied mien and women are hardly earning enough to supply their daily wants. Air. Geo, 0, Jones, superintendent of the Midland division of 1 he G.T. R., in a letter ,to the City ,5ollcitor announee."d therrobable doublc- tracking of the Northern division, e1 . KING'S ENGLISH ABROAD. AMUSING BLUNDERS WI= OUR UNCOUTH LINGO, I•Iow the Continental Merchants Try to Impress the Kt ngree Tourist. English h oliday makers ori i tide Continent have from time to tide sent home amusing instances of for- eign efforts to address the I3ritiele , tourist in his own barbarous tongue, says London Answers. here are a few, culled from signs in Continental shops, hotels, and other places of public resort. Even, cultivated Paris supplies a few amusing blunders in her saxgg- gles with our uncouth lingo. A res- taurateur in the Gay City wished to impress on the hungry tourist that at his establislament 'food meld be obtained at any hour Afte'!F much labor he evolved tho following: - "Meals at every o'olockl" A hairdresser in the Rue St. Honore sought to attract English! visitors with the weird announce- ment, "Hoar to cut off hare;" while a Palais Royal baker appealed to those who liked their macaroni fresh with, "Macaroni not baked sooner ready.'° Switzerland supplies a plentiful crop of quaintly worded notices, Concluding au enthusiastic account. of his hotel, a Swiss boniface gives the candid information that "\Vinea4- �. at this hotel give the visitor aa- thing to hope for." Another aclv',c. tises "Plain and artful baths." De- sirous of vaunting the maturity of his cheeses, a Swiss tradesman Says: "Thees chees are not too childish," It is well known as the thing to do when visiting the Rigi to WATCH THE SUNRISE; wherefore a hotel there gives out. that "When the sun him rise a horn will bo blowed." This kind of Eng- lish seems considerably more elrild- ish than the extolled cheeses of thee* worthy Switzer tradesman. Having made the usual distinct .on. between casual visitors and those• who pay by the month, having re- solved on a lengthened stay, a Swipe hotel proprietor exhorts the latter thus: "Monthly gentlemen will haver to pay my fixed rata made with them at the time, and should they absent day in month they will not be allow- ed to deduct anything out of it, be- cause I take from them less rate." After this, one does not flinch front such minor eccentricities as "Backed apples" and "Strewed prunes," which fearful and wonderdul dishes Haver been known to figure on a Swim menu. In Italy, neat Pompeii, the follow- ing curious announcement appears in the circulars of a largo hotel: "People will find equally thither a complete sortment of stranger wine and of the kingdom, hot and c_ baths, stables, and coach -houses, aro- whole with very moderate price. Now all the endeavors of the host will tend always to correspond with the tastes of their customers, which will aquire without doubt to hum in that town the reputation of which he is desirous," The cryptic reference to "stranger wines," etc., may indicate that bath native and foreign vintages may be laked for; but why lump them to- gether with such incongrous things as "hot and cold baths, stables, and coach -houses?" However, let us hope that the endeavors of the host will acquire for him the reputation of which ho is desirous, IN A FRENCH TOWN much frequented by Englispeekeeeists, a dentist concludes an aderertisemerit in the local papers thus: "M. X ren- ders himself to the inhabitants of these town with honor him with their confidence, and executes with skill and vivacity." One would inn agino that a vivacious dentist werrld be something of a nuisance, but doubtless he of the forceps only meant that he was prompt in his methods. It is impossible not to be awed by this Japanese official notice: "The trees -cutting, birds' and beasts' killing, and cows and horses setting on free at the ground belonging to Government are strictly prohibited." Very often a mistake is made by misinterpreting a foreign word which bas two English meanings. Thus, a British tourist in Helland was,2uz zled to know what "Upright ginger- beer" might mean, till he found out that "oproght" in Dutch stands for both "upright" and "genuine," Again, "House to praise," in a French paper, mystified those who did not remember that Si French "loner" means both "to praise" arid "to let." T -- WHAT'S IN A NAME. An Irish soldier in a. regiment dur- ing the late war arrived at camp late• one night. 13'e was challeuged with the usual : " 0.'ho goes there ?" After pondering a few .moments, and the challenge being repeated, •and thinking he might avoid punishment, he answered : "Kitchener." no was immediately knocked flown with the butt end of a rifle. While be was on the ground rue- fully rubbing his head, the •sontree exclaimed : "Why, it's Callaghan 1 What did• ye say it was Kitchener for 7" "Shure," came the answer, "when. ye would do this to i{itchener, hxhtvat would yo do to Callaghan.? h CUSTOMS RECEIPTS. Advance of $1,817,448 for than Past Three Months. A 4eepatch from Ottawa says The increase in the C.u8t0A1(4 receipts of the Dominion for'tem three• months erzding to -cloy wee 5:1,317,- 4:18 over the memo time last year. The figures are for the three rncrni,lis of the current year 510,888,16fi. compnre:I with $9.070,717 for the same time Met year. The inercran for tills month alone teats 446145,6r7S.