HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-11-19, Page 3THE WORLD'S MARKETS,
atEPOR,TS PROM TELE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES,
Pries of Cattle, Grain, Cheese,
and Other Dairy Produce
at :Hone and Abroad. ,
Toronto, Nov, 17.—Wheat—The
Market is quiet, with little change
la prices. No. 2 white and red Win-
ter quoted, at 77 te 77*e low
freights; No. 2 Spring is quoted at
78c east, and No. 2 goose at 70 to
71c east. Manitoba wheat is steady.
At upper lake ports No. 1 Northern
is quoted at 851e, and No. 2 North-
ern at 82c. No, 1 bard nominal at
90ec lake ports.
Oats—The market is quiet at un-
changed prices. No. 2 white is
quotedeat 29 to 20te Woet, at 29ec
low freiilits to New York, No. 1
white, ,,a0ie east.
Barley—The demand is moderate,
with .offerings fair. No. 2 quoted at
43 to 440 middle freights. No. 8
extra at 42e, and No. 8 at 89 to
40c middle freights
Rye—The market 'is quiet, with
prices steady. Cars are quoted at
50* to 51c outside.
Peas—Tracie is dull, and prices un-
changed. No. 2 white quoted at blimarket was the active demand for
to 620 high freights, and at 68e east.
Corn—The market is quiet, with
prices easy. No. 2 yellow American
quoted at 53ee on track, Toronto;
'"'"‘reeeeler. 3 yellow at 52.1c, and No. 8
mixed at 52c, Toronto.
Buckwheat—The market is unchang-
ed, with quotations 42 to 43e at
outside points.
Flour—Ninety per cent. patents lere
steady at $1.10 middle freights, in
buyers' sacks, for export. Straight
rollers of special brands for domes-
tic trade quoted at $3.40 to $3.60
In bbls. Manitoba fl0111.'S are steady;
No. 1 patents, $4.55 to $4.60; No.
2 patents, $C25 to $4.80; and
strong bakers', $C15 to $4.20 on
track, Tomato,
Millfeed—Bran steady at $16, and
shorts at $18 here. At .outside
points bran is quoted at $13.50, and
shorts at $17. Manitoba bran, In
sacks, $1.8; and shorts at $20 here.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Toronto,Nov,, 17.—There Was a
noticeably increased activity in the
cattle trade at the city market to-
day, and a better feellag seems to
prevail all rouud than has been the
ease the past two or three weeks.
There was a good. run of firtock,
fair to active demand in moat lines,
and a slightly upward tendency in
prices. The run comprised 89 loads,
with 1,009 head of cattle, 2,848
sheep and lambs, 2,500 bogs, aikl
64 calves.
Exporters—There were a few loads
of export cattle offering, but more
were wanted, Several lots of un-
finished short -keep steers were bought
for export, as being the best avail-
able.
These were a little too liglat atul
unfinished, but sold at $6.20 to $4.-
25 for the top.
Butchers'—There was a little better
demand for good butchers' cattle,
and a, readiness to pay better prices
for tholce cattle. The decline in
Tuesday's market was fully recover-
ed to -day. Choice butchers' sold
at $4.10 to $4.25, ordinary run of
fair batchers' cattle at ;3.75 to $4,
common and rough butchers' were a
slower sale, and fetches from $1,75
to $2.75.
Feeders --The features of today's
COU.NTRY PRODUCE.
Apples—The market quiet, with
prices steady. Winter fruit quoted
at V to $2.50 per bbl. in car lots,
and at $2.50 to $8 in small quan-
tities.
13eans—There is a quiet trade, with
prices steady. Priam beans are quo-
ted at $1.70 to $1 75 per bush.
Dried Apples—The demand is fair,
with prices unchanged, at 4/ to 5c
per lb.
Honey—The market is quiet at 6
to 61c per lb. for bulk, and at $1.-
25 to $1.50 for comb. Choice clov-
er honey, 7 to 7*c per lb.
aaaer—Demand is fair, with receipts
only moderate. No. 1 timothy quo-
ted at $9.50 to $10 on track, To-
ronto, and mixed at $7 to $7 50.
Straw—The market is quiet at $5.-
50 per ton for car lots en track.
Bops—The market is quiet, with
prices firm at 22 to 25e.
Potatoes—The offerings are moder-
ate, with prices unchanged. Cars on
track aro quoted at 55 to 58c per
bag for good quality.
Poultry—The demand is fair, with
offerings inoderate. Turkeys are
quoted at 9 to 10c per lb., and geese
at 70 per lb.; ducks, 8 to 9c per
lb., or 75 to 90 per pair. Chickens,
El to 100 per /b., or 50 to 75c per
pair; old hens, 40 to 50c per pair.
litlE DAIRY MARAIETS.
Butter—The market is steady, with
receipts equal to the demand. The
demand continues good for choice
qualities. We quote:— 'Fluent 1 lb.
rolls, 18 to 19e; choice large rolls,
16 to 17c; fresh dairy tubs, 16 to
170; secondary grades, 13 to 14c;
creamery prints, 22 to 23c; solids,
19 to 20e.
Eggs—Market firm. We quote:—
Strictly new laid, 28 to 24c; ordin-
ary store gathered, 20 to 21c; limed
and cold storage, 17 to 18e.
Cheese—Market steady. We quote:
—Finest, 1.3.ec; seconds, 101 to 110.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are unchanged, with
car lots quoted at $6.75 to $7 here.
Cuied meats steady, with a fair de-
mand. We quotta—Bacon, long clear,
10 to 10*0, in ton and case lots.
Mess pork,$1'7; do., short cut, $19.-
50 to $20.
Smoked Meats—Hains, light to me-
dium, 18* to 14c; do., heavy, 13 to
131c; rolls, 1.1c; shoulders, 10 to
'Clic; backs, 1.5c; breakfast bacon,
14ec.
Lard—Tbe market is quiet, with
prices unchanged. We quote:—Tierc-
es, Sec; tubs, 810; pails, 9c; com-
pound, 8 to 9c.
'UNITED STATES MARKETS.
St. Louis, Nov. 17.—Wheat closed
—December, 86*0• May, 781c.
Duluth, Nov. 1.-01ose:— Wheat—
To arrive, No. 1 hard, 781c; No. 1
Northern, 17c; No. 2 Northern,
741c; December, 74ec; May, 76* to
'76ic.
Milwaukee, Nov. 1'7,—Wheat—Wea,k;
No. 1 Northern, 81c; No. 2 Northern,
'78*, to 79c; December, 76 to 70ec.
Ilye—Steady; No. 1, 56ec. 'Barley—
Dull; No. 2, 64c; sample, 89 to
60ec. Corn—Steady; No. 2, 46e0;
December, 421c.
Buffalo, Nov. 17.—Flour—Steady,
Wheat—No offerings. Corn --Lower;
No. 2 yellow, 5010; No. 2 corn,
agar. Oats—Weak; No, 2 mixed,
137*e. 13ar1ey-55 to 61c. fly—No.
1, 60ec. Canal freights—Steady.
Infirtneapolis, Nov. 17,—Wheat—De-
ceqlke Vic: May, 761 to 761e; on
traels. • ' No. 1 bard, 18;e; No. 1
Northern, 77;e; No, 2 Northern,
751e; No. 8 Northern, 691 to 721-e.
Ploui—leirst patents, $4.150 to $4.00;
Second patents, $4.60 to $4.75; first
dicers, $8,50 to $3.60; seeond clears,
82.40 to $2.60. bran—In bulk $18.-
95,
short -keep feedere. Ono buyer said
he could have taken 20 loads of the
right sort had they been available.
Good quality short -keep sold at $4
to $4,25.
Stockers—There was a little better
demand for light stockers.
Sheep and Lambs—The sheep trade
was dull, lambs iirm, and calves dull.
Hogs—The market is weak, but no
change in the quotation to -day.
Prospects, however, for lower prices
the end of the week,
Export, heavy $1 10 to $1 25
Export, light ...ea4 00 4 10
Bulls, export, heavy,
cwt...,..., e 375 425
do light 3 00 3 50
Feeders, 800 lbs. and
upwards 8 00 3 GO
Short keep, 900 to
1100 Ibs ... 3 75 4 00
Stockers, 400 to 800
lbs. 2 50 3 12*
do 900 lbs. 2 75 8 50
Butcbers' cattle,
choice 8 75 4 10
do medium 3 80 3 50
do picked 4 00 4 30
do bulls , ,.,. 2 75 3 00
rough ,... 2 50 2 60
Light stock bulls,
..... ,...... 2 25
cwt 250
Milch cows 30 00 52 00
Hogs, best _as 5 40
do light . . 5 15
Sheep, export, cwt. 3 25 8 40
Spring lambs . 8 75 4 121 -
Bucks
Culls 25
60 2 75
2 75
Calves, each ..... — 2 00 10 00
CANADA WON'T EXHIBIT.
Live Stock at the St. Louis
World's Fair.
A Toronto despatch says :—Unlegs
the present restrictions as applied to
the importations of pure bred ani-
mals into the United States can be
greatly.- ino,dified, and the St. Louis
Exhibition authorities change con-
eiderably, tbe regulations pertaining
to Canadian live stack the Canadian
breeders recede from tLeir unanimous
stand, the Dien:Anion will not be re-
presented in that departnient al the
World's Vain. A. thoroughly repre-
sentative meeting of breeders at the
Itossin House on Wednesday night
discussed the matter, and concluded
that the Government might better
employ the $100,000 grant for the
purpose of enabling Canaeians to
make a creditable show in holding a
stock exhibition on this side of the
boader.
ANOTHER TREATY.
May Be Necessary to Settle Alas-
ka 'Case.
;An Ottawa despatch says :—It will
probably require another treaty be-
tween Britain and the States to com-
plete the delimitation of the disput-
ed boundary between Canaan, and
Alaska. There was something be-
tween 100 and 150 miles of the lino
that the Commissioners did not
think they had data suffaient to ex-
actly locate. Canada would rather
have seen the whole matter cleared
up while Lord Alverstone and the
other representatives were about it.
Perhaps, though, a joint ea/melee:ion
of surveyors may be. able to present
an unanimous report, and in that
event the outlay would not be need-
ed for another expensive arbitration.
GERMAN LOCOMOTIVES.
Eight More Ordered by C. P. R.
Have Reached Boston,
A Montreal despatoh says :—Eight,
more of the German locoanotivos,
several of which have already been
delesered to the Canadian Faeific
Railway shops in this city from
Canadian steamers, arrived in Bos -
tan on Thursday. They will 'be
shipped by rail to Montreal. Each
lecomoteve weighs tons. The
whale order of twenty leaornotives
placed with the German firm bo
in the hands el the company in this
city by the middle of December. 'Pwo
or three of these Gorman engines are
already in active operation, and are
giving sattareactiOn.
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BUY LESS FROM GERMANY
Commissioner Says Many Lines
Suffer by Surtax,
An °UAW& despatch says: The
sertax of one-third, applied to all
imports from Germany last month,
will undoubtedly result in a decrease
of Canadian purchases from that
country. The Commissioner of
Customs thinks that It •will hit ,of
hard the trade which Ger-
man flrins did in sugar and content
with this country, also in Woellens.
ilo is satisfied that a large -Phan of
the imports in theSe lines will come
instead from other eauntries.
CORRECTIVES FOR SWINE
KEEP THEIR DIGESTIVE ilale
GANS RIGHT.
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Tonie 'Used by One of the laost
Saecessful Feeders in the
lInited.States.
Hogs that are closely confined and
Itgaly fed require a corrective of
some hind, to maintain the digestive
system in a normal condition of
health, and the fatter the pig the
greater the necessity, says Live
Stock Commissioner, F. W. Hodson.
When the digestive organs become
clogged with fat their ability to
digest and assimilate ia weakened.
When a hog is running nt large, he
does not root up the pasture from
pure love of exercise, nor does he do
It because of innate cussednese. He
roots to Obtain something for wbith
his system craves. It is this crav-
ing that causes a confined pig to
gnaw and tear at the trough and
sides of the pen; and hogs have
been know to tear apart brick/ walls
in order to get at the mortar. The
cause of this unnatural craving is
not well understood. It may be
due in part to a lack of ash in the
food : for, as has already been
stated, a hog may be getting all the
grain he can eat and yet be partial-
ly starved, because certain require-
mente of the system are insufficiently
supplied. It has been attributed by
some to the presence of intestinal
worms; and by others to some form
of incligeetion, Whatever may be the
part played in the animal economy
by these substances, one thieg
clear, that, when they axe supplied,
hogs are healthier, eat better, theive
better, and, consequently
PAY BETTER.
Charcoal is probably one of the
best correctives: and, when it ram
be readely obtained, it will pay to
keep a supply in some place where
the hogs can get at it 'whenever they
like. The following preparation is
that used by Mr. Theodore Louis,
one of the most success.ful hog feed-
ers in -the 'United States, and should
be an excellent tonic :
"Tako six bushels of corncob char-
coal, or three bushels of common
chaecoai, eight pounds of salt., two
quarts of air -slaked lime, oue budbel
of wood ashes. Break the charcoal
well down, with shovel or other im-
plement, and thoroughly mix. Then
take one and a quarter pounds of
copperas and dissolve in hot water,
and with an ordinary watering pot
sprenale over the whole mass and
then again mix thoroughly. Put this
mixture into the seliafeeding boxes,
and place wrier° hogs of all ages can
eat of thelr contents at pleasure."
The charcoal furnishes the required
mineral matter which may have been
lacking in the food, and is also an
excellent corrective for digestive
troubles, while the copperas is a
valuable -tonic and stomachic* If
the charcoal is at all hard to g6t, its
place is taken almost as well by
sods or earth rich in humus. It is
questionable, indeed, if there is any-
thing better than sods or vegetable
mold taken from the woodlot. If a
small quantity be thrown into each
pen daily, it is .asto»ishing to see
how much of it the hogs will con-
sume: and the improved health and
thrift of the animals will be a revel-
ation to the feeder that has
NEVER BEFORE TxtrED IT.
Ground bone, wood ashes, soet
coal, old mortar, rotten wood, etc,,
are ale° among the substances used
and recommended for this purpose.
Prof. Henry reports some interesting
experimeats to test the value of
bone meal and hard wood ashes,
when given as a supplement to an
excluseve corn ration. None of the
pigs showed an entirely satiefactory
growth, but the difference in favor of
those getting bone meal 'or ashes was
very marked. The pigs fed exclu-
sively on corn were most plainly
dwarfed. When slaughtered the sev-
eral lots showed no difference in the
proportion of fat or lean, nor wa.s
there any difference in the size or
character of the various interim]. or-
gane. The bones, however, were a
most interesting study. The table
given below shows clearly the more
economical gains and the greater
strength of bones in the case of the
animals furnished with ashes or bone
meal. It is quite evident that corn
meal, salt and water do not supply
all the elements essential to building
nannal framework of bone and
muscle.
Result with pigs living on cons
meal with or without bone meal
and hard-wcroel ashes in natation.—
Wisconsin Station.
C0111 meal required to
produce 100 lbs. of
gain, lbs......487 491 629
Average breaking
strength of thigh
bones, lb. .......... 581 601
Average ash in thigh
bone, grams...‘e. 166 160 107
When When When
hone robes neith-
mon! w-ro e-nni
vnefed fei fed
SEED CONTROL ACT.
'A copy of bulletin No, 15, entitled
"Bill No. 200, Reprinted as 'Amend-
ed : An Act Respecting the inspect -
tion and Salo of Seeds with Explea-
ations and Comments" has been re-
ceived. This pamphlet is issued for
geueral distributien for the purpose
of seming as a notice to the Mae,
°start public, and also to provide
moans for closer study of the 13111 in
its relations to the operations of
seed producers, seed merchants and
seed consumers. The Bill as amenh-
ed by the Committee of the Whole
during the recont session of Parlia-
ment,. provides that seeds of cereals,
grasses, clovers or forage pleats
which contain the seeds of 'certain
noxIoes weeds named in the 13i11,
will be Prohibited from sale. Et
further provides for uniform methods
of grading, according to fixed stone
tiaras of purity and vitality, the
Timothy. Aletilie, end Red Clover
seeds offered for sale in Canada. A
copy of the pamphlet may be had
free on application to the Seed Diva
lake', Branch of the CoMmissioner of
Agtietiltere and Dairying, Ottawa,.
Letters acidreeeed as above do net
reauire pestaire. •
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HOTEL WRECKED.
Terrifie Explosion of ,A.Oetylene
Gas at Itidgetovrns
A Ridgetown, Ont„ despatell says;
—At ten minutes after Jive o'cloOk on
Wednesday evening the acetylene gas
neutrino in the late -meat, of the Loz-
ar House, Kaki Street, exploded
with a terrific noise,wrecaing the
entire building and tearleg a wide
gais•in the erorit facing on the street.
The fire alarm Was sounded and lire,
men and citizens were promptly at
work rescuitg the injured and carry-
ing thom into neighboring storee
where physicians rendered 0,11
anee possible. Five men who were
in the hotel office were carried out.
THE DEAD.
W. Atkinson, a representative of
the London Aavertiser, who was
canvassiag the town, only lived a
short time; 'Alex. Weir, boarder at
the hotel, leg crushed and otherwise
injurecle died at 10 p.m.
Tim 'INJURED.
William Barclay, auctioneer, and a
boarder at the hotel, bad wound in
the hea.d, and injured iaterrially; Ex -
Mayor T. P. Watson. two bad
wounds in the bead and injured in-
ternally; J. W. Maelcenzie, farmer, of
Howard, seriously injured in the
side'arm, and leg.
TIm force of the explosion broke
the Nate glass windows in several of
the stores in the Union Block, across
Main Street from the hotel, and also
tho glass in the stores immediately
al:Me:thin the hotel. Several people
passing at the time were cut sand
injured by the flying lnirk, mortar,
arid glass. The noise of the explo-
sion was heard several miles away in
the comber, and many farmers drove
In to learn the cause. Half a dozen
men who were in the bar -room had
narrow escapes, as tne bar 'was shat-
tered, but they got out by a side
door. There was a stove burning in
the office at the time, but the prompt
°Torts of tho firemen prevented the
ace:Miami horeor of fere.
Landlord Pursell, of the hotel,
says that his attention was called
by his barteneler to the fact that the
ligats were going out, and that he
started to go down into the base-
ment, and had just placed his hand
on the door in the hall leading there-
to when the explosion occurred. Mr.
Puesoll' was knocked down and ser-
iousay injured about the bead.
The building, Which Is owned by
James Ancl.erson, V,S., of Galt, is a
three-storey balloon brick, and the
lose will be a heavy one.
H. W. SOUTHAM KILLED.
A Well -Known. Londoner Palls Un-
der a Train.
A London, Ont., despatch says :—
A terrible death. overtook Harald W.
South= in the Grand Trunk yarn
here shortly before 8 o'clock on
TImrsday evening, He intended
leaving for Detroit on business, but
as he missed his train he deckled to
take the Sarria train and go by way
of the tunnel. This latter train
was just puling out of the station.
when he ran to board it, and in at-
tempting to do so he messed kis foot-
ing and fell under the wheel. He
was carried about 50 eraxess before
the train was stopped, and his body
horribly mangled, portions being
soattered all over that distanee. De-
ceased was the eldest son of Mr.
Ilichaxd Southern of the Southasn
Printing Company, of which he was
a meinber, sued a nephew of Wen.
Sonthaan of the Hamilton Spectator.
He was about 340 years a age and
most popeIar, particularly in at' '--
tic circles. 'A wife and two el -ea -
ren sue.vive him.
MAN SAWN IN TWO.
Shocking Accident at a Lindsay
Saw Mill.
:A: Lindsay despatch says :—A
shacking accident occurred at the
Kennedy sei Davis Co.'s sawmill on
Wednesday morning, a man named
La Liberte of this town being the
victim. The unfortunate nian was
operating the butteug-saw, and in
some unaccountable manner fell or
was drawn into the saw and literal-
ly sawn in two. One part of his
body, ineluding the head and right
arm, fell on one side of the huge
saw, while the remainder of the
body fell on the opposite eide. Those
who witnessed this hightail sight
gave the alarm arid the mill mach-
inery was stopped.
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SITE FOR MUSEUM.
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Government Purchases Estate in
Ottawa for $13,000.
'An Ottawa despatch says :—The
Government on Wedneshay purchased
Appin Place, on Argyle Avenue, the
old homestead of the Stewart fam-
ily, for $78,000. It lies at the
foot of Metcalfe street, and is a mag-
nificent site. The intention is to
erect the now Dominion lausetun
upon it.
AUSTRALIA'S NAVAL BILL.
*Rasa
Has Passed Final Stages—Lyttle-
tan Congratulates.
A London despatch says: Premier
Seddon, of New Zealand, has cabled
Colonial Secretary Lyttleton that
the Naval Agreement Bill has passed
the final stages of the Legislative
Council, and is nosy law. Mr. Lyt-
tieton, in replying, said he consider-
ed it a striking proof of the at-
tachment of New Zealand to the
cause of Imperial unity.
EXPLORER ,HONORED.
Peary Presented With Livingstone
Medal,
;A. despatch from tendon Sayea—
Colnentraler Peary the 'Arctic explorer
was peesented with the Livingstone
gold medal by the Royal Geograpl 1-
oa1 Society at Edinburgh on Tams -
day, and a,t the ennui time Was ntale
an honorary member of the sotiety,
1 ii reeogesiteon of his work in Arctic
eaeploration. The leviieestote modal
was founded by a daughter of tias
area nee itkvenkvatorea
A DIVER'S PERIL.
Canaht by Suction, in Rapids
.A.beve Niagara Falls.
A despatch froxn Niagara Falls,
Ont., says: On Wednesday morning,
while Joseph Taylor, a diver in the
employ of Barry and Melliordie, was
at work at the cribs below the sur-
face of the water in rapids above
the Falls, he was caught in the sua•
tion made by the water going
through the sheetieg and held fast.
All Isis efforts at freeing himself frone.
the deadly suction of the water were
unavailing, and the iraphriled Mau
signaled for help, Diver Mel Stokes
was sent down, but he could not ex-
tricate the nia.n. Then two more
men donned diving suits, one of
whom was Mr. McMordie, of Barry
and MeMordle, the eontractors. By
their united efforts Taylor was final-
ly rescued from ais perilous position.
Lines were made fast to the impris-
oned Man, and he was hauled out by
main fora Prom the time Taylor
first became caught until he was
rescued the men never ceased their
efforts to release him. He was held
down for over three hours, and
when brought to the surface was in
an exhausted condition. The doc-
tors in attendance say the man will
live.
GOLD IN EASTERN ONTARIO.
The Clayne Mine Is Thought to be
Good One, .
A. despatch from Toronto says: Mr.
Thomas Southworth returned on
Wednesday moening from the Ontario
forest reserve, which lies north of
Addington. Be reports that the
land in that district is poor and
wholly unsuited to the raising of
grain. The settlers have realized
that and have gone into dairying
and stock raising and are doing nsacla
better. The country is naturally a
mining one being very rough and
rocky. Gold and galina are being
prospected for and found. A large
Pennsylvania and Bearalo company is
working in that section and think
they have struck a paying proposi-
tion in a gold mine at Clayne, in
Barrie township.
AIRSHIP RECORD.
Covered 24 Miles in a Bee Line
in Less Than. Two Hours.
A despatch from Paris says: The
airship of Pierre Lebaudy on Thurs-
day made a, voyage from Meissen to
Paris, a distance of 34 miles, in a
bee -line in one hour and forty min-
utes. It is claimed that this eclipses
the performance of Santos-Dumont's
airship, and establishes a record.
There was a strong cross -wind, which
necessitated Constant tacking, and it
is therefore estimated that the air-
ship actually covered sixty miles.
Upon arriving at Paris, the airship
circled the Eiffel Tower, and alight-
ed in the Champ de Mars. M. Juch-
mos, an aeronaut, acted as naviga-
tor. He was accompanied by a ma-
chinist. Santos -Dumont watched the
airship, and hastened to congratu-
late its owner, who is a relative of
Jacques Lebaudy, the self-styled
"Emperor of Sahara." The airship
is propelled by a 40 -horse -power
Mercedes motor.
CATCH ABOVE AVERAGE.
Practically Entire Canadian Seal-
ing Fleet Returned.
'A despatch from Ottawa says
The Department of Fisheries has been
advised that practically all the ves-
sels of the Canadian sealing fleet
halve returned to the Canadian port
of Victoria. Tele cateh on the reven-
age was higher than that of last
year. Up to the laet reports there
was an increase a/ 3,.542 skins. The
highest catch of the 33elbrieg's Sea
fleet was that of the Libbie, which
took 942 skins.
TO IMPROVE "SOO" CANAL.
Excavations to be Heade in Wes-
tern Approaches.
A despatch from Ottawa says
For a long time past it has been felt
that the Western approaches to the
Canadian SOD Canal should be im-
proved, as the depth of water was
not equal to that at the entrances at
the American "Soo." It has there-
fore been decided to take out about
200,000 cubic yards of material at
the western end of the canal, and
the contract for the work has been
awarded to Molder Bros., of Sault
Ste. Marie.
CHEAP LABOR IN RAND.
--
111ineri Resent the. Introduction of
'A despatch from Johannesburg
says :—Iremense indignation has been
caused aratteng the miners of some of
the leading properties here at the
action of a Arm of capitalists who
secretly introduced gaags of Italian
workers. These men Were diettibut-
ed among tlie Robinson. City aria Su,-
burban, Ferriera, Village Main, and
!Aber mines. Their presence was un-
known to the other miners until they
attempted to woe% , The British re-
sented the introreaction of'the cheap-
er foreigners, and declined to work
with theme A stnike, with aloleaco
was threatened,. The opposition to
the foreigmer has been snecessful in
two proportlee. It is expected the
Italittne will be sent out of the came -
try.
RIOTERS FINED. -
Closing Act in the Strike at Nia-
gara Falls.
'S. Niagara Falls, Ont., despatch
trays :—The trial of the 15 111.C31 ar-
rested during the strike iiats last
week teak place on Wednesday man-
iac before Poldee Magistrate Crum -
shank, and Mr. :Alex. Gray, J. P,
Vincenzo Ciriesta, oharged with
stabbing joseph Hamilton, was corn..
nil tted for trial. Nina men wore fin-
ed $10 for rioting and four $15 each
as leaders of the alotees. One was
discharged. The cores in each ease
aro very heavy, reeking the penalty
eievere. All the Wen are foreateuers.
TIUK'F11,0:X TEE ULM,
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gArrENINOS FROM ALL OVEIi
THE GLOBE.
Telegraphie Briefs. rironi Ota, 'Own
and Other Covntries of
'Recent Events.
CANADA.
Time Coma of ReVision at London
leas cut down the eity's assessment
by $71,000.
A Plea for the entrance of radial
railwa,ye into Toronto has been
agreed upon,
The Governor-General accepted $t,
Andrew's Society's invitation to the
annual <lamer ea Nay. 80.
Mr. William Nichols, G.T.R. agent
at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, was rUS
over and killed on Saturday.
The Hamilton Board of Trade is
trying to get the telegraph offices. to
remain epen longer on Sundays.
James Little, a farmer of Stone-
wall, Man., tools a close of poison in
znestake for medicine and is dead.
Lumber boats on the lakes will be
kept busy till December. The rate
has been raised 25 cants per Iloilo -
and.
Custom duties to the amount of
$101,667, were collected in Hexail-
toe. during October, an increase of
$23.351.
The Canadian Northern Railway
Company will extend their line from
Portage la Prairie to 13randon via
Carberry.
St, Thomas is negatiatieg with the
Wabash Railway Company with a
view to have their railway shops lo-
cated there.
The inland revexare returns at
Hamilton. for October were $87,368,
an increase of $19,575 over the
same month last year.
Employees of Min. W. Scott's de-
partment at Ottawa presented him
with a gold fruit dish in honor of his
golden wedding, on Saturday.
During October 8,627 cars of
grain were inspected at Winnipeg,
the receipts being 960 cars Jess than
for the same month last year.
Tbe most important of the King's
birthday honors, so far as Canada is
concerned, are that Col. Pinault and
Mr. Herbert, the sculptor, are made
C.M.G.
The Ottawa Ministerial A.ssocia-
tion expressed its approval of the
amendraent to the Customs .A.ct
whereby the ieaportation id posters
representing scenes of violence and
crime is prohibited
Old Lawyer: "Why do you feel
that your client will lose his case?
Have you exhausted every means at
your disposal to—" Young Lawyer:
"No; but I have exhausted all the
means it bis disposal."
GREAT BRITAIN.
William O'Brien, founder of the
United Irish League, will resign his
seat in Parliament.
A rare volume of the poet Shelley
brought 53,000 at an auction sale
in London the other des.
Lord Rosebery, on Saturday, ad-
dressing 5,000 people at Leicester,
combatted Mr. Chamberlain.
Lord Goschen said he favored re-
taliation only ender extraordinary
circumstances requiring heroic legis-
lation.
Sir James Ritchie was sworn in as
Lord Mayor of London,, on Satur-
day, succeeding Sir Marcus Samuel.
During the month of October Brit-
ish imports increased by $4,519,500,
and exports $3,681,500.
'UNITED STATES.
Basin, Mont., is practically de-
stroyed by are, which started from
a bonfire built by children at play.
Four thousand men have been
discharged by tho United States
Coal and Coke Company, at Welch,
W. Va.
Burglar-proof pay cars are an in-
novation in railway equipment to
be introduced by the Pennsylvania
system.
A fine not exceeding $500, and im-
prisonment up to 100 days, is the
punishment for prizefighting set by
Los Angeles, Cal.
In the required certificate of elec-
tion expenses filed by Mayor.elect
McClellan of New York, he swears
that he had no election expenses
whatever.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for a
kiss is the price that Mrs. Louise
Grey Stitt, of Chicago, wants from
Samuel E. Darby, patent attorney,
whom she is suing.
Flying in through a window of
Gouverneur Hospital, New York, an
owl frightened Mrs. Elizabeth Flor-
schleischer to death. She had just
given birth to a child.
Indictments have been returned by
the Grand Jury at Belleville, Ill.,
na.ming members or a mob that
lynched the negro schoolteacher,
David S. Wyatt, here °xi June 6th.
Nino members of the mob that
lynched David Wyatt, a negro school-
teacher, on June 6, were arrested at
Belleville, Ill., and warrants are out
'for live more, all of respectable fam-
ilies.
Calvin E. Wade, farmer of Nor-
wich, N.Y., in a moment of frenzied
anger fatally wounded his wife, and
then blew his brains out. She
laughed at him becalise he couldn't
catch a hog he was chasing.
Alton Farrel, who is twenty-three
years of age, a Yale graduate, and
who has spent two years in his un-
cie's foundry (learning the rudiments
of the business, despite the fact that
he is worth a million id his own
right), Was elected alderman at
Ansonia, Conn,
The twenty-year 4 per cent. Gov-
ernment loan of $2,850,000, which
matured this month, will be renewed
for ton years at 3* per cent, Neatly
all of the loan is held it Canada.
GPINER.AL.
Th a Bulgarian -Turkish "war" has
beeet ''unofftei ,postponed till
spring.
A German Colonization Company
is seeking to tura emigration to
South Ameriett,
Not an article of historic Or artis-
tic value was Injured by the ascent
Ilia in the Vatican.
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111.41.01. r sw.
BljlifiEll OF MILITARISM
gOW CrEavaNY,S1 21:101,X4
DEBT IXAS GONE UP.
Tn Twenty-Severi Year Her Acr•
count Itese to Nearly Three Bile
lion Marks.
Up to 1876—that is, five years al-
ter the foundation of the EmPire—
Gez•reany bed no debts et all, apart
from some Treesury bills for which
ne interest had to be paid. Vim
a'rench zailtiards had served for the
reperchaeing of the loans issued by
the North Gerrnen Federatioa and,
ffer meeting the Annual expenditure.'
In 1870 the first loan was raised,
but within very modest limits; and
even on the firet of April, 1888, at
the time of.reaaperor 'William the
First's death„ Gran:tally's public debt
amounted to only 721 million marks
and about 120 million Treaseres
bills. Fre= that thee, howevers
down to the accessien of the present
Emperor, whose ultimate aim is to
be not only master of the etrongest
army in the world, but aieo of the
most powerful navy, the debt rapid-
ly increased, as the following table
shows: .
1877 . . . ... . 16,800,000
1878 72,204,000
1879 .... . .. 188,861,000
1880 , 218,058,000
1881 . . 267,787,000
1882 ..... ...... , 819,289,000
1883 848,952,000
1884 873,1.25,000
3.885
1886
1887
1888
1.889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1908
▪ wr. 441400,7000,000000
486,201,000
721,000,000
....... — 883,756,Q00
1,117,982,000
1,317,798,000
• ...... 1,685,567,000
1,740,843,000
1,915,715,000
2,081,220,000
2,125,255,000
2,141,242,000
2,182,247,000
2,222,951;000
2,298,500,000
2,815,610,000
2,028,618,000
2,928,000,000
• ..• • ..... • ..... •
MOSTLY FOR WAR.
Of this sum fax more than two-
thirds was used for military and
naval purposes. It: is very instruc-
tive to note how durieg the last fif-
teen years when the public debt rose
from 721. million marks to 2,928
millions, the military and naval ex-
penditure has increased. In 1886
the military arid naval estimates
amounted to 497 millions. In the
following year came the Septennate,
and the expense rose to 682 mil-
lions. In 1888-9 they amounted to
657 millions; 1889-90, 657 millions;
and in 1890-91, when the peace ef-
fective of the' Army was raised front
468,400 to 486,983 meta the Army
Estimate S jumped up to 854 mil-
lions, including the expenditure for
new barracks.
GROWING BY MILLIONS.
In the :Budget for 1891-92 the mili-
tary and naval estimates amounted
to 716 million marks; in .1892-93,
733 millions; 1893-94, 755 'millions;
1894-95, 771; in 1895-96, 729; in
1896-97, 720; in 1897-98, 788 mil-
lion marks. In 1897 the first, great
Naval Bill was submitted to, and
carried by, the Reichstag. In 1893-
99 the estimates were?, 840 million
marks; in 1899-1900, 862 millions;
and in 1900-1901, 878 millions.
Then the Navy Bill was brought
in, involving an increase of the an-
nual naval expenses by nearly 50
million merles. The total estimatt•s.
for the army and navy amounted,
therefore, M 1901. to 650 nailion
marks; in 1902 to 949.0; tend 1908
to 972 millions. From 1870 to
1903 the yearly interests to he paid
for the loans invested in the army
and navy rose from 61 million marks
to 83 million.
CANADIAN GRAIN WANTED.'
Orders Ready or Oats, Peans,
Barley and Straw.
A. despatch from London says: En-
quiries are being made for strew bal-
ed in a similar way as hay. One
firm requires 1,000 tons. Also large
orders can be obtained in Birming-
ham for oats, beans and barley for
malting mid grinding.
4
WILL BROOKNO DELAY.
Russia and Austria Send Sharp
Note to the Porte.
'A despatch from Constan.tet:ople
says :—.1t transpired on Thursday
that the latest Austro-Russien tote
to the Porte contabied it sae.ific de-
claration that a furthoa refersal to
accept the reformn school will expore
the Ottoman Empire to great danger
and that the proposals of the two
powers must be accepted entirely
and without delay.
EARL ROBERTS ILL.
Chill Develops Into Pneumonia
and War °face is Anxious.
A: despatch. from London says :—
Field -Marshal Earl Roberts, Crina-
molder-in-Chief of the Britaa forcee,
has been conaieed to his bed for sea-
eral days with a abUl. It is limier -
stood that pneumonia has d.eveloped.
The War °Mee is anxious eoneerning '•
EitTTISI
FISH FOR AMERIO.A.,
Syndicate Permed With a Capital
of $15,600,000.
A deepateli front London says: It-
is stated :that a,n A.metiertn syndieate
is being formed, with a capital of
*3,000,000, to traesport Britt&
food fish to the Americiai market,
The scheme bieludes the purchase et
a, Darther of Aberdeen teaselers to
convey eatehes to Glasgow, where
they will be packed In refrigetetore
On lint` steamers