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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.
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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.