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REPORTS MOM THE LEADING
DING
TRADE CENTB, S. _•
1,'rices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese,
and Other Dairy' Produce
• at Home and Abroad.
Toronto, Nov, 24,-S°Ghetat,--- Tito
Market' is quiet, with dexnarcl con-
l:Med chiefly to millers, No. 2 white
and red. Wader quoted at 77 to 77ec
low freights; No. 2 spring is quitted
at 73c vast, and No, 2 goose at 70
to 71e east. Iniliatoba wbeat i;
unchanged. At upper lake ports
No, 3. Northern is tiuoted rat 84e and
No. 2 Northern at 82e. No. 1 hard
nominal at 00c lake ports. Tor
geinding in Yemen it quotations are 6c
higher than above. •
Oats] --'1 ho market • is quiet at un-
changed prices. No. 2 white is
quoted at 28i• io 200 west, at,nd at
291c low freights to New 'fork. No.
1 white, 30ec- east.
Batley -Tire market is dull, with
the pries steady.' No. 2 quoted at
46e middle frcighta. No. 3 extra at
40 to •.1lc, and No. 8 at 8'8 to 3iec;
middle ft eights.
Rye -The market is quiet, with
price, steady. Cat's aro quoted at
50a. to 51e outside.
Peas -Trade is dull and prices un-
changed. No. 2 white grated at 60
to 61c l.igh freights, and at 62e east.
Corn -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. No. 2 yellow :Ameri-
can
Amer%can quoted at 53 to 53ae on track,
Toronto; No. 3 yellow. at 52>c, and
No, 8 nixed at :z2e, Toronto.
Buekwhoat-The market is un-
changed, with quotations 41 to 42e
at outsi'e points,
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents
are steady at $8.05 middle freights,
in buyers' sacks, for export. Straight
rollers of special brands for domestic
trade quoted at 88.40 to 83,50 nu
hbls. Manitoba doors aro steady;
No. 1 patents, 84.:13 to $4.00; No. 2
patents, .$4.25 to $4.80; aud strong
bathers', 84.15 to $4.20 on track.
Toro::to.
Millfeed-Bran steady at $16.50
and shorts at $18.50 heee. At out..
ie:'e points bran is quoted at 81850
to 814, and shorts at 818. Mat:ito-
ba bran an sacks $18. and shorts
at 820 here.
.
Strorg; Na. 2 yellow, 500; NO. 2
earn, 400. Oatsc-- ltronger; No. #
'+*hate, 80e; No. 2 Mixed, 37e. Bar-
ley-t)llerings, e.t.a, 48 to (30e, Rye -
No. 1 in store, 58c,, Cazxal freights
-Steady.
:Minneapolis, Nov. .24. -Wheat -Dee
coeeber
4. Wheat De-
conrber 70} to 80ac, 11May 80e to
801e. On track, No. 1 hard 38 to
No. 1 Northern 62*e, No. 2 North-
ern 7itie, No. 3 Northern 7'5 to 760.
F lour--'i'en cents higher lh'st patents
$4.70 to $4.I?.0; second do., .$4.00
to.;$'1,70; lira clears, $3.$0 to $3.40
aimed do., 82,40 to $2.50. Bran
-In bulk, $13,25.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples-TI:e market is quiet, with
prices steady. Winter fruit quoted
at 81.75 to 82 per bbl. in car lots.
and at $2 to $2.50 in small quan-
tities.
Beans --There is a quiet trade, with
prices steady. Prime beats are
quoted at $1.75 per bush.
Dried apples -The demand is fair,
Reith prices unchanged at 41, to 5c
per lb.
Hone` --The market is quiet at 6 to
7c per ib. for b1:lk, and at 81.25 to
$2 for comb. Choice clover honey,
7 to lee per ib.
Hay. Demand is fair, with receipts
only moderate. No. 1 timothy
quoted at $9.50 on track, Toronto,
and mixed at $7 to $7.50.
Straw --The market is quiet, at
$5 per ton for car lots on track.
Potatoes. --Tee oflarings are moder-
ate, with prices unchanged. Cars on
track are quoted at Svc per bag, for
good quality.
Poultry The demand is fair, and
offerings moderate. Turkeys are
quoted at 10 to 12e per lb., and
gee.:.o at 7 to 8c per lb., ducks, 8*
to 9c per lb., or 75 to 90c her pair.
Chickens, 8 to 9c per lb., or 60 to
►75e per pair, old hens, 45 to 50e per
pair,
THE DAIRY MARICETS.
Butter -The market is firm, with
receipts of medium and low grades
fair. Choice dairy tubs scarce and
wanted. We quote :-Finest. 1-1b.
rolls, 18 j to 20c; choice large rolls,
16* to 17§c; selected dairy tubs,
17 to 18e; secondary grades, 13 to
14e; creamery prints, 22 to 23c;
solids, 19* to 2Pic.
Eggs --Market continues firm. We
quote :-Strictly now laid, 24c; cold
storage, 18 to 20c; limed, 18c per
dozen.
Cheese -Market quiet, with the hest
selling at 11•tc, and seconds at 10•
to Ile,
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL,
Montreal, Nov. 24, -Manitoba
wheat is up again to 78c for No. 1
Northern, Fort William, November
delivery, which leaves it still under
the Chicago quotation tor December
delivery. Crain -Peas, 71* to 72c
afloat here; rye, 53c east, 58c afiaot
here; buckwbeat, 52c afloat; No. 2
oats, 35c in store, 34c afloat; No. 3
oats, lc less; flaxseed, $1,15 on
track here; No. 8 barley, 50c. Flour
-Manitoba patents, 54.00; seconds,
$4:.30; strong bakers', $4,05 to 54.-
80; Ontario straight. rollers, $3.90
to 54; in bags, 81.85 to $1.9.5; pa-
tents, 84 to $4.25; extra, $1.65 to
$1.70; rolled oats, 81.80 per bag,
$13.80 per bbl. 3iillfeed.- Ontario
bran in bulk, 817.50 to $18.50;
shorts, 520 to $21; Manitoba bran,
in bags, $18; shorts, $20 to $21.
Beans --Choice primes, 81.55 to $1.-
00
1:60 per bushel in car lots. Provisions
-Heavy Canadian short cut pork,
$19.50 to $20; light short cut, $18
to $18.50; American short cut, clear,
•\$47 to 817.50; American fat backs,
$16 to $18.50; compound lard, Se;
Canadian lard, 8* to 90; kettle ren-
dered, 101c; hams, 12f to 14c; bacon
18§ to 14e; fresh killed abattoir
hogs, $7.25; live hogs, 85.25 to 55.-
87. Eggs --Candled selected, 23c;
straight ieceipts, 20c; h'fontreal lirnr
2d, 1.8e. Cheese -Ontario, 105 to
]1c; 'lbtvnshfps, I0i to 104c; Quebec
1.0 to 1.01c. Butter -Townships
ereaznery, 2:1 to 22c; Quebec, 20 to
21 Western dairy, 7. to 1.7oe
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UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Milwatukee, Nov. 24: Wheat'--Righ-
er; No; 1 Northern, 814 to 8'20; No,
a Northern, 80* to 90e; May, i8>tc.
Rye --Steady; No. 1, 56*c. Barley-
$'lrzu; No, 2, 04c; sample, 80 to •62c.
Corn --Steady; No. IL 40 to 46•tc;
11fas', 4.2 to 42 jre..
Buffalo, Nov. 24.•-FIourr•-Firiat.
Wheat -No busines'; No, 1 Northern,
eetr1oade, 82#e; No. 2 red on track,
13,rnlralr }oiled. nfYarari h3Rtt. fIn.rn..-
CAT'FL1'; hiARB1 T.
•
Toronto, Nov. 24. -At the City
Cattle Market • to -day the: a was a
good • brisk trade, The average run
of export offering were light and un-
ruished, the prices ranging about 84.
There is '. good demand fur heavy
well-iiiiished cattle. In the general
run of cattle orating there was a
good proportion of stockers and
light feeders. The .best market was
for good butchers' cattle and ex-
porters. There 'was a heavy run of
sheep and hogs.
The total rttn was 93 loade of
stock, with 1,287 head of cattle,
2,893 sheep and iambs, 2,142 ]togs,
and 61 calves.
Export -Good market for choice ex-
porters,
aporters, prices ranging from $4 up
to $4.70.
Butchers -Market very firm for
good butchers' cattle: choice picked
cattle selling at 54.25 to 84.30; or-
dinary butchers', 53.75 to $4.
Stockers --Fair demand for good
stockers, prices for the best quality,
about 900 lbs., $3.50 to 53.73.
Sheep and laulbe--Trade good, all
sold; prospects steady. Prices, ex-
port ewes 83.23 to $8.55; beets,
82.50 t0 $2.75; culls, ,$C2 to $8;
lambs; 88.75 to $4.10.
I -Logs --Market weak and prospects
lower. No change in quotations to-
day at $5.10 for the best, down to
54.75 for lights and fats.
Export, heavy ,..... 54.30 to $4.70
Export. light ... 3.80
Bulls, export, heavy,
cwt. ... 8.75
do. light ... ,. ,, 3.09
Feeders, S('0 lbs. and
upwards ea. ... 3.00
Short t keep, 1,00 lbs. 3.65
Stockers, 400 to 800
lbs. .. '2.50
do. 900 lbs. ,.. ... 2.7 5
Butchers' cattle, choice 3.75
do medium ,.. 3.80
do picked 4.00
do bulls 2.75
do rough ,., ... 2.50
Light stock bulls, cwt2,25
Allah cows ...... :30.00
Hogs, best 0.10
do. light 4.75
Sheep, extort, cwt.... 8.25
Spring lambs ...... ....., 3.75
Bucks 2.60
Culls 2.25
Calves, each 2.00
7' F",,,r"
THE ?E.ADL Y KISS.
Dr. Bryce on the Alarming Spread
of Diphtheria.
A Toronto despatch says: Dr.
Bryce, of the Provincial Board of
Health, at a. meeting of that body
on Wednesday laid some facts before
them concerning the alarming spread
Of. diphtheria, Ire pointed oat that
ini August twenty-seven municipalities
reported 122 eases, with 21 deaths,
and in September 38 municipalities
reported 210 cases with 80 deaths.
'1'he returns for October show .that in
52 municipalities there were 464 cas-
es with 54 deathe, and letters for
November indicate that the presence
of dipitt heria continues.
1 ipeaking for 'Toronto, 'Dr. Bryce
says Hutt in August 51 cases were
reported, which increased in October
to 1.1:9 eases with 14 deaths. Out
of '7'70 eases reported in October 445
were treated in the Isolation Hospi-
tals. These are an important factor
he thinks in checking disease and
lowering the death rate, and he
learns with satisfaction that the new
addition to the Isolation Hospital
will soon be completed.
In Ottawa there were 819 cases and
19 deaths and 57.0 per cent. were
treated in the hospitals with the re-
sult that the death rate was only
12.72 and 9 out of the 19 deaths o0-
curred in January before arrange-
ments were made for treating these
cases in the hospitals. Guelph had
9 cases with no deaths, all of which
were treated in the hospitals. Lon-
don, while one of the best situated
in point of site and sanitation, a
number of cases of mild character
occurred in January and February,
and increased in virulence steadily up
to the present. In June there were
23 cases and 1 death, July 85 cases
and 2 deaths, August 18 cases and 4
deati's, Sept. 89 cases and 4 deaths,
October 94 cases and 8 deaths. Lon-
don, while more happily situated
than many other localities, has far -
4.00 ed worse than any in the province,
but is now dealing with the disease
4.2,1 in tents provided for the purpose.
8.50 111•, Bryce attributes the cause of
the spread of diphtheria and scarlet
3.60 ;fever to lack of precaution on the
13.80 ; part of parents and ht,ualth officers,
12,
and says the disease is spread large -
3 j ly by school children with sore
X1.10 I throats who play and kiss one an -
3 ,50 ! other before the cases have been
4,t'0 diagnosed. In Chesley recently 23
am :cases developed in 18 days, the re -
2.00 V salt of milk being sold from the
2.50 !house in which a diphtheretic pati-
52,00:ent was being treated. Games at
1 school are perhaps the most pro -
i UM cause of contagion.
8.55
4.10
THIRTY ONE FILLED.
2.75
2.75 Disastrous 'Collission of Trains on
10.00 Illinois Road.
A Peoria, Ill., despatch says: Thir-
INLAND REVENUE REPORT.
Details of the Inspection -Increase
in Receipts,
An Ottawa despatch says: The
annual report of the Inland Revenue
Department was issued on Wednesday
and contains the details with regard
to the inspection of weights and
measures and gas and electric light
The total revenue collected during
the year for the inspection of weights
and measures was 564.327 as corn -
Dated with $62,937. The total expen-
diture was $87,507, as against $76,-
418. The total revenue from gas in-.
spection during the year ending June
30, 1903, was $35,159, as compared
with $24,221. The expenditure to-
talled $25,566, as compared with
$24,066. Tho net revenue derived
from the inspection of electric light
was $18,484. Since the year 1897
the two services of gas and electric
light inspection, which are conducted
largely by the same staff of officers,
have reached that point at which
they have ceased to be a burden up-
on the general taxpayer. Since that
time there has been a constant in-
crease of revenue over expenses.
In 1898-1899 the revenue was 580,-
015, compared with the expenditure
of $28,436, which was exclusive of
the cost of standard instruments. In
1902-1903 the revenue was $49,054,1
compared with an expenditure of
536,066.
The weights and measures inspec-
tion earns about three-fourths of
its annual cost, but the report states i
that the appointment of a chief in -1
spector with many years of experi-
ence will soon bring this branch in-
to a greater state of efficiency.
RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA
Resolution Introduced in House at
Washington.
A Washington despatch says: Rep-
resentative Williams, Mississippi, in-
troduced a resolution on Thursday
declaring: --
"That the house of Representa-
tives would view with pleasure and
heartily endorse initiative steps tak-
en by the President of the United
States towards reconvening the
.Joint High Commission appointed by
Great Britain, the Dominion of Can-
ada and the United States for the
purpose of considering and agreeing
with freer and more amicable trade
relations between the United States
and the Dominion of Canada."
t
iEW BRITISH BATTLESHIPS
Admiralty Orders Three Vessels of
King Edward Type.
A London despatch says: The Daily
Mail says that the Admiralty has
revoked its recent order for three
battleships having arecord tonnage
of 18,000 each and a, speed of 19
knots, and has substituted therefor
an order for three vessels of the
King Edward type, melt with a ton-
nage of 16;350, and a speed of 18e
knots. ;These vessels will have a
somewhat smaller armament than the
vatualn nriaixaally at' derari.
ty-one men were killed, and at least
thirty injured in a head-on collission
between a freight and a work train
on the Big Four, between Mackinaw
and Tremont, on Thursday. On a
bank at the side of the track lie
( the bodies of the victims, cut, bruise
ed, and Mangled in a horrible man-
ner. So far twelve only have been
! identified, the remaining being un-
recognizable.
All the dead and most of the in-
jured were members of the work
train, the crews of both engines
jumping in time to save their lives.
The collision occurred in a deep cut,
at the beginning of a sharp curve,
neither train being visible to rho
crew of the other until they were
within 50 feet of each other. The
engineers set the brakes, sounded the
whistle, and leaped from their cabs,
the two trains striking with such
force that the sound was heard for
miles. A second after the collission
the boiler of the work train engine
exploded, throwing heavy iron bars
and splinters of wood 200 feet.
Conductor John W. .Judge, of In-
dianapolis, who had charge of the
freight train, received orders at Ur-
bana to wait at Mackinaw for the
work train, which was due there at
2.40 p.m. Instead of doing this he
failed to stop. The engineer of the
work train, George Recker, had also
received orders to pass the freight at
Mackinaw, and was on the way to
that station. One of the last bodies
recovered had been lifted 30 feet in-
to the air and held in place by
two rails which had been pushed up
between the engines and the tender
of the work train.
FAST VESSELS FOR it1A1LS.
Will Cross Atlantic in Five and
One -Half Days.
An Ottawa despatch says: Before
another season has passed there may
be vessels in the Atlantic plying be-
tween the United Kingdom and Can-
ada capable of covering the distance
from Moville to Itlmouski in five and t
a half days. The contract with the
Allans expires next summer, and, they
will he given to understand that if
they wish to retain tho Government
subsidy paid for the deliverance of
mails they must provide faster
boats for the Canadia route.
The Allans have two turbine
steamers now building, which will
be capable of steaming seventeen
knots, and with these plying to
Montreal or Quebec a service could
bo given that in point of speed and
comfort would leave very little to
be desired,
ICING ROBBED BY CLERIC.
0l;xicial in Household Confesses to
Forging Cheques..
A. despatch from London says
Icing Edward, for the second timo in
his brief reign, has been robbed by a
clerk in the office of the Paymaster
of the 13'ousebolcl. On this oocasien
ehoques nenonntiug to ;52,500 were
illegally drawn and cashed by Frank
Lenham, who, on Thursday, at Bow.
Street Pollee Court, confessed, and
was committed for trial at the Old
I3af lray.
MODERN POULTRY HOUSE
WHERE THEY AT1•E T;.00ATI3.,D
IN CANADA..
Tliey Are Equipped With. Inouba-
tors, Brooders andMov-
able ]:houses.
The Dominion Department of Agri-
culture has in operation in Canada
three poultry breeding stations, three
chicken rearing stations, and 'ten
chicken fattening stations --sixteen in
all.
The poultry breeding stations are
located at llolmesville and Bowman -
vine, Out., and Domtville, Que. At
oath of these stations a modern
poultry house is erected and about
125 utility -typo Barred Plymouth
Rock pullets are kept. At Holmes -
villa and Bowmanville double poultry
houses aro built. These houses are
80 feat long and 16 feet wide and
contain ten breeding pens of Barred
Plymouth Rocks. Tho roosting
quarters are separated from the ex-
ercising pens and are planned to
withstand the cold; the fowls are
kept warm at night. 'Phe single
poultry house is erected at Bondville,
Quo., and is 100 feet long and 12
feet wide. During cold nights the
roosting quarters aro closed by a
cheap burlap -covered frame. The
fowls are kept warm at night. On
account of the cold winter weather
throughout Canada a warm roosting
pen should be built in every single
poultry house.
It is the intention of the Depart -
anent of Agriculture to develop the
utility -type strain of Barred Ply-
mouth Rocks and to distribute them
to the farmers at a nominal price.
Last year about 800 Marred Ply-
mouth hocks were sold to the farm-
ers. The demand for Plymouth
Rocks has greatly increased this
year.
The poultry breeding stations are
equipped with incubators, brooders,
and movable houses. One incubator
• 'i11 generally hatch as many chickens
as
20 SITTING LIENS.
The most satisfactory method of
rearing 200 or more chickens a year
is with these movable houses and
indoor brooders. The house and
bzpoder are cheap in construction
and can be built at home. It is
profitable for almost every farmer
near a large city to raise and fatten.
from 200 to 500 chickens a year.
, The chicken rearing stations are
operated at Chicoutimi, (sue., An-
dover, N. B„ and Vernon River'
Ilx•idge, P. E. I., '1'ltey carry on .
the same work as the poultry breed-
ing stations except that the eggs
for hatching are bought from farm-
ers who possess good flocks of Barr-
ed Plymouth Rocks. There are no
specially selected Plymouth Rock
pullets at these stations.
The chicken fattening stations are
Iocated at Sandwich, Ont., Stanford,
Que., Rogersville, N. I3., East Am-
herst and North :Last Margaret., N.
8., Alberton, Glenflnnan, Montague
Bridge, Mount Stewart and Eldon,
P. E. I, These illustration stations
purchase chickens from the farmers
for fattening. The stations have an
equipment of fattening crates, shap-
ing boards, etc. The chickens are
fatted for 24 days in the crates and
at the completion of that time are
starved 36 hours, killed by disloca-
tion of the neck, pressed into a
square shape and packed into boxes.
This year it is the intention of
the Dominion Department of Agricul-
ture to sell fatted farmers' chickens
on all the principal Canadian mar-
kets and to show the consumers the
improved quality of crate -fed chick-!
ens. Up to the present time no i
chickens have been exported by the
Department to Great Britain. The
price received per pound is from 10
to 13 cents, plucked weight. This
course will be pursued so that farm-
ers in any part of Canada fattening
their chickens can sell them to deal-
ers who recognize the value of fatted
chickens and pay an increased price
per pound for them.
It would be to the advantage of.
the farmers living near the fattening
stations, to visit and learn
the modern methods of kill-
ing, plucking and shaping
chickens. The men in charge of :
the stations will give information
regarding tlhe disposal of the fatted
chickens,
The Dominion Department of Agri-
culture carried on illustration chick-
en fattening work for three years at
Renfrew, Ont. When the work com-
menced, Mr. John Frood, the opera-
tor of the station, was requested to
interest the farmers about Renfrew
in chicken fattening and to inform
them of the high prices paid for fat-
ted chickens in Montreal. Mr. I?'rood
loaned two farmers the fattening
crates and showed them how to feed
their chickens. These dtickeus were
sold in Montreal at 11. cents per
pound, plucked weight, and one of
the fanners wrote the Department
(that he was well pleased with the
price he obtained. This year the
farmererected a poultry house cost -
1 ing 5200 and is engaging in the
business extensively. He speaks very
ifavorably of the fattening work. He
has chickens in the fattening crates
and is shipping regularly to Mont-
real. It is learned that the second
farmer and three others are also for-
warding chickens to Montreal. One
of them realized for his shipment 75
cents per chicken, another 65 cents•
per chicken, Three years ago these
farmers' chickens, unfattened, could
not have been sold for more than 50
cents per pair. It was then difficult
to buy first-class chickens. A. great
number of Leghorn and scrub chick-
ens were raised by the farmers. This
year almost every farmer owns a
first-class flock of Barred Plynuooth
Rocks,
Since the chicken fattening Mei-
ness is established at Renfrew and
promises to develop into an import-
ant industry, the Departnrtent of
Agriculture decided not to operate
the station another year. The work
will be transferred elsewhere. The
Renfrew poultry business received a
great impetus on accoitrit of the. op-
eration of the illustration fattening
station, the fanners are pleased with
the increased returns received from
their fatted chickens, and • are in a
good way to realize a substantial
poultry revenue. What has been ac-
complished in :Renfrew can be repeat-
ed in other parts of Canada.
IILLED WIRING AID.
Operator Telegraphed Colleague
Begging Aid.
An Ehnira, N. Y., despatch says:
W. U. Clendenin, a telegraph opera-
tor at Browne, Pa.a station 15
miles north of Williamsport, on tho
Beech Creek division of the New
York Central Railway, was found
dead in the telegraph tower shortly
after 7 o'clock on Thursday night.
At 0,50 o'clock the operator at Oak
Crowe, Pa., on the same roar], receiv-
ed this message from Clendenin:-
"Send switch engine quick for me,
I am being murdered by-." The
wire opened and not another word
came. A switch engine was sent to
the scene and reached Browne in a
short time. The body was found ly-
ing under the desk, the head crushed
in. A bloody spike maul lay on the
floor beside it. Robbery was appar-
ently the motive, the watch and
money of the operator being missing.
No trace of the murderer Ms been
found. Clendenin evidently recogniz-
ed his assailant and was about to
wire Itis name when death struck
him from the key.
WILL ECLIPSE YEAR. •
1.111.04,0
Grain From the West Is Bung
lYroved ttapidly.
A despatch from Montreal says :-
The grain movement from the North-
West Territories and Manitoba over
the Canadian Pacific Railway is in-
creasing greatly, and the last few
clays have seen a big rush at the
Canadian Pacific Railway inland ele-
vators. This has brought the re-
cord of receipts for the month of
November up to last year's record,
in fact, last Saturday this year's fig-
ures were ahead of •last year's. Mon-
day's receipts were light, however,
and November, 1902, now totals
about 11,000 bushels ahead of the
current month. Figures received at
tate office of Mr. G. M. Bosworth
:thaw the receipts for November,
1903, for 16 days, to bo 8,589,000
bushels and for the season to date
15,700,000 bushels. Last year's
November record up to the same
date was 8,000,000 brshel9, but the
season of 1902 shows 18,500,000
bushels, or 2,800,000 bushels ahead
of this year. At the rate the grain
is coming forward, however, there is
every prospect that this year will
eclipse last season's figures before
navigation on the upper lakes closes.
So far there have been no complaints
from the fanners, and the business is
proceeding satisfactorily to all.
BUSY ATTHE MINES.
Companies in New Ontario Are
About to Make Money.
A despatch from Toronto says :-
Those mines in New Ontario are get-
ting oady to make money, according
to the statements of Mr. T. R. Jones
mines manager of the New York
Canadain Copper Company, who was -
in the city on Wednesday, on his
way from New York back to the
mines. The company has been
working for three years in two mines
"saying nothing but sawing wood."
One is a, copper ].nine, the Tip Top,
about 80 miles west of Port Arthur,
and the other is a gold mine, known
as A. L. 28:2, about 120 miles 'west
of fort :Arthur, both near the line
of the Canadian Northern Railway.
At the Tip Top, Mr. Jones says
there is 5,000 tons of 6 per cent.
copper ore on the dump, and at both
mines he says, there is ore enough
out to pay for all the plant that has
been put in. The company is con-
sidering the builiing of a railway to
the copper mine from Irasltabowie
Station, 6e miles distance. They
propose to put in a 10 -ton :;nielter
next spring, which, besides handling
the copper ore, will do custom work
for the silver and other mines la the
vicinity. A 10 -stamp mill for the
gold mine is also proposed. It will
be put in during the winter.
BRITISH TRADE IN AFRICA.
Report Says It Will This Year
Surpass India.
'A despatch from .London says :-
Mr. Dirchenough, the special com-
missioner who was sent by the G0v-
crnment to investigate the position
and prospects of British trade in
South Africa, has submitted a • rosy
report. He says that, including war
stores, the imports have increased
254) per cent. in ten years. the
greatest increase by far during the
past two years. South Africa is
already the second largest of Great
Britain's • embalmers. Mr. Birch -
omega predicts that the trade with
South Africa will pass that with
India during the; current year. The
present depression in mining is duo
to temporary causes. He says there
has been strong pre -possession since
the war in favor of British goods,
but many British manufacturers, es-
pecially those in the engineering
trade, lack vigor and enterprise.
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FASTER MAIL SERVICE.
Turbine floats of Allan Line Will
Improve Matters.
'A despatch from Montreal says :•-
During the season of navigation of
1905 the Allan line will be operating
two turbine steamships of 12,000
tons each in the St. Lawrence trade.
The first of these steamships, both
of which will be capable of making
an average of seventeen knots an
hour on the voyage, will be the Vic-
torian, and will be ready for service
by :August of next year. Tee sec-
ond vessel, not yet named, will be a
mute for the Victorian, and will be
ready for service early in the spring
of 100.5,
TENS BON THE WIRE.
KIAPPLPNINGS7 RO11I ALL OVEll
THE GLOBE,
Telegraphic Briefs Prom Our Owxt
and. Other Countries of.
• CANADA.
A heavy fall of snow is reported at
tYimxfpeg..
Wentworth County Council has ex-
pended $15,000 on roads this year.
About twelve miles of cement side-
walks have been laid in Loudon this
yetis'.
I,aniel i Co.'s shoe factory at
Montreal was burned on Saturday.
Loss 560,000.
Hamilton Trades and Labor Conn-
ell will form. a workingmen's party
for municipal politics.
Hamilton brewers think that the
charge of 12 cents per thousand gal-
lons of water is excessive,
Christmas excursion rates go into
effect on the railways in Manitoba
and the west on December 1.
The Government may arrange for
the free exchange of press messages
between Canada and Now Zealand,
and Australia may also come in.
Winnipeg merchants express them-
selves as well satisfied with the
year's trade and hopeful of future
prospects.
For the four months ending Octob-
er 31st, as compared with the same
period last year, tho foreign trade of
Canada shows an increase of $22,-
000,000.
22;000,000.
The contract for the new public
building at Sault Sto. Mario has
been awarded to Messrs. McPhail,
McCarty a Kenneth Wright. 7'ho
price is $54,000.
On the Kirkella branch of the C. P.
R. a work train ran into a string of
cars on an open switch, on Satur-
day. Two men were killed and three
others seriously luu't.
The members of the 14th Regiment,
who performed garrison duty at
I'Cingston in 1885 during the North-
west Rebellion, are forming an as-
sociation to press their claims upon
the Government for a Northwest
medal and scrip for land.
UNITED STATES.
Frederick J. Maas, who claimed to
have been the first brewer of lager
beer in America, is dead at his home
in Trenton, N. J.
In spite of the efforts of his inva-
lid wife to prevent him, Henry Wil-
by drinking carbolic acid. IIe had
lost his job through a strike.
Miss Ilettie Bodine, teacher, of
West Barre, N.Y., is under arrest for
pulling a. ten -year-old boy's tongue
loose when he was "making faces"
at her,
With the arrival of a daughter to
Mr. 'and Mrs. John 1). Rockefeller,
jr., Monday, at New York, the
world's richest heiress was born, be-
ing in line for 5323,000,000.
A human ]rand severed from the
arm at the wrist, was the object
which the postmistress at Central,
South Carolina, drew from a neatly
wrapped box which was sent her.
Two inmates dead, three dying,
twenty fully developed cases and
twenty suspected cases is Wednes-
day's record of the epidemic of
diphtheria at the New York State
Rop.!ormatory.
Levi D. Seeley, professor of
pedagogy in the New .Jersey State
Normal School, advocates the return
in public schools to corporal pun-
ishment which was abolished by the
Legislature more than thirty years
ago.
Driven to desperation by remarks
about the poor quality of her cloth-
ing and having been reduced from
plenty to poverty, Charlotte M.
Thomas, a stenographer, killed her-
self the other day in the Arnold -
Constable building, New York.
A bill prescribing the death penal-
ty for the crime of killing the Presi-
dent of the United States, the Vice -
President of the United States, am-
bassadors, or ministers of foreign
countries accredited to the United
States is before Congress.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The first turbine -driven warship has
been launched at London.
Announcement was made before the
Egyptian Exploration Fund of re-
markable discoveries of ancient
papyri dealing with the sayings of
Christ.
The London Times publishes the
petition which exiled Finlauders were
prohibited from presenting to tho
Czar. It shows the lamentable con-
dition of Finland.
GENERAL.
A Russian army corps has been
ordered to the far East,
Ring Alfonso of Spain, will soon
visit Rome, Berlin, Paris and Lon-
don.
WEST AUSTRALIA'S GROWJ:$i.
Remarkable Development in len
Years.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Department of Trade and Oommerce
on Wednesday received a report from
Mr. D. A. ILoss, the newly appointed
commercial agent to West Australia.
Mr: Ross gives some import inform-
ation regarding this distant colony
of tlhe Empire. The following figures
show the growth of the colony in ten
years. The production of gold in
1902 amounted to
62,£7,000947,668221.
1892 1408.
Population. ,000.
Revenue .., £ 681,000 ..L' 8,850,000
Imports . 1,404,000 ' 7,21.8,000
Exports ..., 918,000 9,051 ,000
Trade..,•,...2,412,000 16,269,000
Mr. Ross was shown every courtesy
by the State Prime Minister,- Mr. W,
IX, James. He visited Perth • and
Ereemantle; and found a very friend-
ly feeling towards Canada, but he
says that if Canadian firins desire to
share in the business of this colony
they nnrst adopt similar tactics to
those practised by American houses,
During his travels Mr. Iloss dame
across three travelling x'opresentta-
rives of Neer York commission .hous-
es,
LONDONERS. CI1EE1t.
Bing of Italy Receives a Splen,.
did Reception.
A despatch from London 8$f 8, --
The welcome of King and Victor hien,.
nxanuel and Queen Ilelezta of Italy,
to London as the guests cif tee Lord
Mayor and corporation on '1'hurs,ttzy'
was or a rcazttu'lkably cordial ejti raer
ter. From the moment of ti:eir at'.
rival at Paddington Station, the
Royal ]]recession past•eci beuea><,til.
one long canopy of bright colors and
triumphal arches and masses of peo-
ple gave their Majesties a. splettcid
reception. ling . Victor P7nunlunzel
and Queen Yelena were met at Pad-
dington by Lorci Grenfell and the
]headquarters staff. After a brief in-
spection of the guard of honor of
Grenadiers, whose baud welcomed the
visitors with the Italian anthem, the
King and Queen, attended the•
Duke of 'Portland, entered ,• ing Ed-
ward's State lanidau. Five four -
horsed State carriages norma:
ed the suites. A sovereign's escort
of the Life Cuarals attended their
llfajestios,, and a military contingent
brought up the rear of the Royal
cavalcade, which as it left the sta-
tion, was received with rousing,
cheers.
Proceeding through ITyde Park the
Ring and Queen reached the Italian
Embassy, where was stationed a
guard of honor of Gatlbaldian'votet'-
ans. Enterics the 10nbai ,Ythe
their
Majesties held a reception and re-
eeived addresses from the Italian col-
]
ony,
CRUELTY TO SOLDIERS.
How Military Authority Is Abus-
ed in the German Army.
The statistics of convictions for
abuse of military authority in the
treatment of subordinates have re-
cently been exciting painful .attention
says the Loudon Times. Since Jan:
1, 1903, there have been 150 con-
victions of officers and non-commis-
sioned officers for cruelty to their,
wren, and the sentences of imprison-
ment or inrarcertttion in a fertress
which have been imposed amount,
when added together, to neer fifty
years. Between the encs of June and
the end of Septentber there have
been no fewer than eighty convictions
of this kind, involving sentences of
imprisonment the total terms of
which amounted to over twenty-four
years, to say nothing of condemna-
tions involving incarceration in a.
fortress, degradation and other pen-
alties. Eleven of these eighty con-
victions were against officers, and as
their punishments va: ied between
four months' incarceration in a for-
tress and seven clays' ordinary arrest
it is assumed That their edemas were
not of such a heinous character as
those of the flan-commiseloned offi-
cers. In one case, however, an offi-
cer was sentenced to two months'
imprisonment and was di;missed the
service. The heaviest sentence was
that which was imposed upon the
non-commissioned officer Bruclenbach,
of the Fourth Guards Regiment, who
was condemned to eighty years' im-
prisonment for a very large number
of aggravated cruelties inflicted upon
the men of his company.
The cases have been most numerous
among the infantry and artillery;
there has only been one case in the
cavalry. By far the largest number
of cases were in the Prussian contin-
gent, where the penalties inflicted
amounted to a total of over twenty-
three years' imprisonment, as against
a total of three months' imprison-
ment, as against a total of three
months in Saxony. It must Se re-
membered, however, that the Pius
sign contingent represents more than
three-fourths of the whole strength of
the German army.
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STRANGLED TO DEATH.
Child Slips From a Wheel Hub in
Between the Spokes.
'A despateh from Penetanguishene.
says :-A horrible accident occurred
here on Thursday, when the five-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Thompson lost her life. Tho little.
girl had gone to meet her father,
who was driving home. After he.
had entered the house she climbed
upon the hub of the wheel, from
which she dipped in between the
spokes and was strangled to death.
TEN NEW DOUBLE STARS.
Astronomer Makes a Discovery
While in Australia.
A despatch from Sydney, N.S.W.,
says 1 -Prof. Hussey, of the Lick.
Observatory, California, camped for
weelcs at Canohlas, this colony, in
connection with the scheme of the
Lick Observatory to establish a chain
of astronomical stations around the
world. While there he discovered
ton "new double stars. He considers
his discoveries as very important. He•
has now gone to the Blue Moun-
tains, where he will make feather
observations.
BUSINESS TOMBSTONES.
ONES.
Few men who have failed to get
on in the business world leave with-
out having, figuratively speaking,
one or other of the following in-
scriptions engraved upon their tomb-
stones in the cemetery of commerce:.
Ile lacked tact.
Worry killed him.
I•Ie was too sensitive.
Ile could not Say "No."
Ile did not find his place.
A little success paralyzed him.
He was too proud to take advice.
Ile dict not guard his weak point,
I:re did not fall in love with his
work,
Ile did not learn tie do things to a
finish.
IIo was loaded down with useless
baggage.
J,T.o got into a groove and could not
got out,
Ile loved ease; he did not like ; to
struggle.• t•
He lacked the fa•ciilty of getting
along 'With others.
7rrr could 1101• transmute hie know-
ledge into power. ,
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Watch dogs are being employed to
guard the Gannett 'Government dock*
yards,