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"AII J1TS
1tE1'ORTS h"ItO Z THE LEADESTO
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese,
and Other Dairy Produce
at 3dozne and Abroad,.
Toronto, Dec, 1.--Wheat-The mar-
ket continues to rule steady, al-
though offering's are more liberal.
No. 2 white and red Winter quoted
at 77* to 78c, low freights; No. 2
Spring is quoted at 730 east, and
No. 2 goose at 70 to 71c east. Mani-
toba
anitoba wheat unchanged. At upper
lake porta No. 1 Northern is quoted
at 85c, and No, 2 Northern at 82.1,ic.
No< 1 hard nominal at. 900 lake
ports. For grinding in transit quo-
tations are 6c higher than above.
Oats -The market laquiet, with the
feeling easier, No. 2 white is Quot-
ed at 28*c west, artd at 29c low
freights to New York. No. 1 whit€
80c east.
Barley -The market is dull, with
the prices steady, No. 2 quoted at
48c middle freights. No. 3 extra at
40c, and No. 3 at 38 to 39c middle
freights.
Rye -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. Cars aro quoted at
52 to 52•§c middle freights.
Peas -Trade is dull, and prices un-
changed. No. 2 white sold at 61c
middle freights, and at 62e east.
Corn -The market is quiet, and
prices steady. No. 2 yellow Ameri-
can quoted at 534c, on track, To-
ronto;„ No. 3 yellow at 53c, and No.
8 mixed at 52e, Toronto.
Buckwheat -The market is firm,
with fair demand. No. 2 q(oted at
42 to 43e middle freights.
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents are
steady at $3.05 middle freights, in
buyers' sacks, for export. Straight
rollers of special brands, for domes-
tic trade, quoted at 33.40 to 33.50
in bbls. Manitoba flours are steady;
No. 1 patents, 34.55 to 34.60; No.
2 patents, $4.25 to 34.80, and
strong bakers', 34.15 to 34.20 on
track, Toronto.
Millfeed-Bran steady at 316.50
and shorts at $18.50 here. At out-
side points bran is quoted at 318.50
to 314, and shorts at 317.50. bIani-
toba bran in sacks, 318, and shorts
at 330 here.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. Winter fruit quoted at
$1.75 to 32 per bbl. in car lots, and
at 32 to 32.50 in small quantities.
Beans -There is a quiet trade, with
prices steady. Primo beans are quo-
ted at 31.65 to 31.70 per bush.
Dried. Apples -The demand is fair,
with prices unchanged at 4f to 5c
per Tb.
Hops -The market is firm at 29 to
30c.
Honey -The market is quiet at 6 to
75 per M. for bulk, and at 31.25 to
$2 for comb. Choice clover honey, 7
to 7l}c per lb.
Hay -Demand is fair, with receipts
'Only moderate. No. 1 timothy quo-
ted at $9.50 on track, Toronto, and
mixed at 36.50 to 37.
Straw -The market is quiet at $5
per ton for car lots on track.
Potatoes -The market is a trifle
firmer, with receipts light. Cars on
track are quoted at 58 to 60c per
bag for good quality.
Poultry -The demand is fair, and
offerings moderate. Turkeys are
quoted at 10 to 12c per Ib., and
geese at 7 to 8c per Ib.; ducks, 9 to
10c per ib., or 85 to 90c per pair.
Chickens, 8* to 9c per 1b., or 70 to
85c per pair; old hens, 50c per pair.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Trade continues fairly
good, but the supplies of choice qual-
ities are limited. Prices generally
are firm. We quote'- Finest 1 -Tb.
rolls, 19 to 20c; choice Large rolls,
16 to 17*c; selected, dairy tubs, 17
to 17*c; secondary grades, 13 to
14c; creamery prints, 22 to 23c; sol-
ids, 19 to 20c.
Eggs -Market firm. We quote: -
Strictly new laid, 24 to 25c; fresh
store gathered, 21c; cold storage,
19c; limed, 18c.
Cheese -Market quiet but steady.
We quote.- Finest, 11 to 11*c, the
latter for twins; seconds, 10,1• to
10/r.
IIOG PRODUCTS.
tressed hogs are unchanged, with
ofTerings liberal. Sales at 36 deliv-
ered here. Cured meats unchanged,
with a fair demand. We quote: -
Bacon, long clear, lac in ton and
ease lots. Mess pork, 317; do.,
short cut, 319 to 319.50.
Smoked meats -Hams, light to me-
:dium, 13 to 13*e; do., heavy, 12
to 12*e; roils, 10* to 11c; shoulders,
DI to 10-,xc; backs, 14 to 15c; break-
fast bacon, 14 to 14*c.
Lard -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. We quote:- Tierces,
$oc; tubs 81c; pails, 9c; compound,
B to 9c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Dec. 1.. -Manitoba wheat
le steady at 79c for No. 1 Northern,
Fort William. The local demand for
eats is slow, and there is none at
all for other grains, so that quota-
tions are nominal, The Cheese Mar-
ket continues dull and prices un-
changed. The Butter Market is
quiet, with a fair local demand. The
artocks of butter being held in the
city at present are. very light for this
time of year. 'Western rolls in pack-
ages of about 30 pounds sell at 18c.
Poultry le still scarce, and the do-
snand continues good. Grain -Peas,
71S to 72e afloat here; rye, 58e east
and 58c afloat here; buckwheat, 52e
afloat; No. 2 oats, 35; to 35S a in
store, 84e afloat; No.3, le less flax -
steed, 31.15 on track here; No. 8 bar-
ley, 56c, Flour -Manitoba patents,
$450; seconds, 34.80; strong bak-
ers', 34.05 to $4.30; Ontario straight
rollers, $3.90 to 34; in bas, $1.85
to $$1.05; patents, 34 tet $4.25; cox-
Ira, 31.65 to 31.70; rolled oats, 31..-
,0 per .bag, 33.80 per brei. feed--
ntario bran, in bulk, $1.7.50 to
toba bran, in bags, 318; shorts, 320;
beans, choice primes, 31.60 to $1,55
per bush., 31.40 to $1.50 in car
lots. Provisions-Ueavy Canadian
short out pork, 319,50 to 320; light
short cut, 318 to 318.50; American
short cut clear, 317 to 317.150; Am-
erican fat backs, 318 to $18.50;
compound lard, 8c; Canadian lard. 8
to 84c; kettle rendered; .10c; hams,
11.1 to 18e; bacon, 140; fresh killed
abattoir bogs, 37.25; country dress-
ed Bogs, 36.50; live hogs, 35. Eggs
-Candled selected, 24 to 25e;
straight receipts, 210; Montreal lim-
ed, 19c. Cheese -Ontario, 10 to 11c;
Townships, 10SS to 1020; Quebec, 9Se.
Butter -Townships creamery, 21* to
21?rc; Quebec, 20$ to 21e; Western
dairy, 15 to 170; Western rolls, 17
to 18e.
UNITED STATES MARIKETS.
Minneapolis, Dec. 1. -Wheat -De-
cember, 78*c; May, 80ce on track,
No. 1 hard, 814c; No. 1 Northern,
$0*c; No. 2 Northern, 78ac; No. 3
Northern, 73 to 75•*c, Iylotm-First
patents, 34.65 to 34.75; second, do.,
34.55 to 34,65; first clears, 38.40;
second, do., $2.30 to 32.4.0. Bram-
In bulk, 313.25.
Duluth, Dec. 1, -Wheat -To arrive
-Ne, 1 hard, 791c; No. 1 Northern,
771c; Ne, 2 Northern, 75*c; Decem-
ber, 77-1c; May, 79c.
Buffalo, Dec, 1. -Flour -Steady.
Wheat -Unsettled; No. 1 Northern,
865e; Winter, offerings light; No. 2
red 86c, Corn -Quiet; No. 2 yellow,
52;jc; No. 2 corn 50;c. Oats -No-
thing doing. Barley -52 to 63c. Rye
-No. 1. in store, 59e.
LIVE S`.COCK MARKETS.
Toronto, Dee. 1. -Business in but-
chers', exporters' and short -keep
feeders was brisk at the Western
Market to -day, and values were high-
er than before. Sheep and lambs
were in good demand, and although
the after ngs were free all were sold
early. Hogs were weak in price,
with a lower tendency.
Butchers' cattle continued to sell
readily and prices held strong. SeZ-
eral choi;:e loads were sold at 34.25
per cwt. Quotations were as fol-
lows :-Choirs butchers'. 1,000 to
1,100 Ibs., 34 to 34.26; good loads,
950 to 1,050 lbs, 33.50 to 38.75;
fair and medium loads, 83.25 to 33.-
50; common, 32.75 to 33; rough and
inferior, 32 to 32.54); copiers, 31.75
to 32 per cwt.
Trade in export cows was steady
on light receipts, wLile common to
fair butchers' were not very plentiful
and consequently were all sold eat ly.
We quote :-Export cows, 1.200 to
1,300 lbs, 33.12. to 33.60: cows,
800 to 1,100 lbs, 32.40 to 33.10:
rough rows, 31./5 up.
The feature of the market for feed-
ers and stockers was the brisk de-
mand for the best descriptions. Quo-
tations follow :-Heavy feeders, 1,200
to 1,300 lbs, 34 to $4.25;Xfeeders,
950 to 1,100 Iles, 33.50 to 34; feed-
ers, 800 to 950 lbs, 33.25 to $3.50;
stockers, 600 to 800 lbs, 32.50 to
33; stock calves, 400 lbs up, $2.25
per cwt.
Trade in sheep and lambs was
brisk, and prices were firm. 'We quote
-Export ewes, 33.25 to 33.40; ex-
port bucks, $2.50 to 32.75; Iambs,
$3.75 to 34.25 per cwt., and culls.
32 to $3 each.
Calves sold at 32 to $10 each,
and 3a to 5Sc per lb.
Milne cows were firm at 330 to 371
each. The latter figure was paid by
J. Armstrong for an extra fire cow.
Hogs were unchanged, but the
prospects were that prices would go
lower. We quote :-Selects, 160 to
200 lbs. of prime bacon quality,
$3.25 to $3.50, and stags 32 to 33
per cwt.
MAY BE EATEN BY WOLVES
F. X. Guertin, an Ottawa Woods-
man, Missing.
An Ottawa despatch says: The
inference drawn from a letter receiv-
cd in the city on Thursday is that
F. X. Guertin of Ottawa, the woods-
man who disappeared from a camp
above Mattawa some weeks ago, has
met a. terrible death. The letter was
received by Mr. P. Mullin from his
brother-in-law, Wm. Burns, who was
employed in the same camp as
Guertin. Burns and Guertin were
members of a gang engaged by Fras-
er & Co. to work on one of their
camps during the winter. Guertin
had strange hallucinations and one
night he left the camp, presumably.
to return to his home in Ottawa. He
was not seen afterwards, and as he
did not -arrive at his horn a search
was made for him. Burns stated in
the letter that in company with two
Indians he searched the country
about the camp for a couple of
weeks, but no traces of Guertin could
be had. The Indians, who were well
acquainted with the country, express-
ed the belief that Guertin had been
run down and devoured by wolves
that overrun the district.
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BUY TIIMMBER IN CANADA.
Two Hundred Square Miles Ac.
quired by betroit Men.
A Detroit despatch says :-One of
the biggest deals in timber lands in
which Detroiters hate been interest-
ed recently has just been closed,
whereby the Danaher and Melendy
Co„ of Detroit, acquires two hun-
dred square miles of spruce andicedar•
lands in the Province of Quebec. The
purchase ca.rries with it sawmills,
logging roads, etc. Tho considera-
tion is in the neighborhood of three
hundred thousand dollars. "I am
not certain whether we will cut off
the timber or sell it again in the
spring," said Mr. Danaher, "but
whichever we do, we consider it a
good purchase."
RAILWAY TO PEKING
Russians Have Completed Survey
of the Line,
A St. Petersburg despatch says:
The survey has been completed for a
railroad from iCla•khta, Siberia, to
Pekin, by way of Ougou, The length
of the road will be about 1,000
miles. It will give a short cut to
38.50; shorts, 320 to 321; Mani- the Chinese capital,
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MEN RAN WILD IN WOODS.
Englishmen Bee n Demented by
Vold and I unger.
;A Port Arthur, Ont., despatch
says :---A frightful story comes front
li antinistique, a station 20 pules
west of hero on the C. 1'. R, Four
Englishrnen orxived there `1'hursduy
and started to wall: to the camp
of Kelly and Close, wino 12 miles
distant, where they were to get em-
ployment, Two of the men, for
some reason, returned and took the
train to Fort William, the other two
had d4nner at Charles Greer's (ouuli
seine four miles en route to Kelly
and Close's, They left there on
their way, but never reached their
destination. Sunday some men in
tho employ .of • Charles Greer,• while
teaming between the camp and Kam-
inistique, saw two men in the bush.
They were without shoes and appar-
ently demented, Their clothing was
torn, and when discovered they yell-
ed like Indians, and made off into
the woods.
The pollee of Fort William were
telegrapher] for, and went out, but
returned without doing anything to
locate thein, and they. were left
running wild in the woods without
clot' tug in zero weather. Searching
parties from the camps were de-
spatched, and one of the men found
bar:ly froven but still alive. Though
in a terrible rendition, and his cloth-
ing nearly all gone, he was brought
to -Fort 'William, and taken to the
hospital, where it was ascertained
his named was Burrs. But Flight
hopes are entertained for Ms rocov-
ery. The other man was found on
Wednesday afternoon in the wood,
dead. They had •apparently lost
their way, and through cold and
hunger, their minis became unbal-
anced, though when .found they were
within a few miles of d)ilization.
The dead man has not yet been iden-
tified. Wm. Burns, who was rescu-
ed, cane from Newcastle, Ont.
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FARMER IS PROSPEROUS.
He Owns Property Worth Over
31,000,000,000,
A. Toronto despatch says :-The
farmers of Ontario are in an unusual-
ly prosrerous condition just now,
according to the annual report of
the Provincial Bureau of industries.
There were 15,654 mortgages re-
corded ]asst year, valued at 310,890,
615, to secure existing debts, and
142, valeed at 31,099,158. for future
eedorsation, whereas seven years
ago 21, 7.89 mortgages were mister -
'ed. The number of chattel inert -
!gages issued against f.trmers last
year was 7, 235, the smallest in ten
wears. The agg: egato of these wort -
gages was $2,850. In 1805 the
'mortgages were 12,288, over 5,000
;more than last year and represented
133, 70r , 646.
The total values of farm property
in 1902 were :-
Land
$601,500.06.8
131•ildings ..... 237,289,668
Implements ... ... 62,199, 787
Live Stock ...... 140,54.4,814
Total ......31,04.1,894,382
The number of cheese factories was 1
1,127, a decrease of 50, and they
naan+:featur•ed cheese to the value of
314,792,924 and paid to patrons for
milk 313,153,265. •
Farm values and rentals in Ontar-
io were :-Ae erage value of land per
acre, $25.40 and average holdings of
irnprovemerxts and live stock in pro- fi
portion to acres cleared, $82.43. The 1
are*age rental for cleared land was
32.47 per acre.
Tee total value of live stock sold
in 1902 was 353,083,396.
The ratios of acres under crop
totalled 689.5.
The total acreage of assessed land
was 23,727,01[), of which 57.2 per
ant. was cleared.
RESULTS ARE SURPRISE
INVESTIGATION OF SEEDS
FOR 1903.
Seeured From Merchants and
Tested in the Seed Labora-
tory, Ottawa,
The continued investigation into.
the conditions under which agricul-
tural sends are sold in Canada has
been given a rather extensive scope
during 1903. The report of the
work done by the Seed Division dur-
ing 10:02 was published in Bulletin,
No, 8.' In the spring of tie cur-
rent year, one thousand one hundred
and twelve samples of grains, clover,
flax, cereal, root • crop and garden
vegetables seeds were secured from
merchants in all parts of Canada
and tested .in the Seed Laboratory,
Ottawa. In addition to these, one
hundred and twenty-five samples of
grass and (Amer gods were analysed
for farmers and seed morebants.
With each sample obtained for in-
ve. tigation, information was en-
closed giving the name of the dealer
and the place where it was Fold, the
price per pound or per bushel and
the origin of the seed. In this con-
nection it is interesting to note that
the prices paid by farmers for grass
and clover sends were no guide to
the actual value of the samples. The
average prices per clue hundred
pounds of Timothy, Alsike, and Red
Clover seeds, es shown by the in-
formation cards received with the
samples, 'lave been calculated, and
the results are somewhat surprising.
If these aro to be taken as a fair
average, we find 'that in Ontario,
first grade Timothy sold for 35,39
per hundred; second. grade for 36.24
and lower grades for 35.52, In Que-
bec first grade .Red Clover averaged
315.50; second grade 312.56,- and
lower grades 315.15. In the Mari-
time Provinces Ali4ke of the best
grade sold for an average of 317.00;
second grade 316.50, and lower
grades 316.45 per hundred pounds.
_]N THOSE CALCULATIONS
the nature of the impurities contain
ed in the samples was, of course, not
taken trto consideration. Samples
containing 90 per tent. or over of
good seed were rated as first grade;
samples coxrtair.ig between 80 and
90 per cent as second grade; and
samples containir.g less than 80 per
cent as low grade. It may be
pointed out that no sample of Alsike
containing 90 per cent or over of
pure and germinable seed was ob-
tained iu the province of Qubec.
Two hundred and six samples of
Timothy seed were analysed and of
these eighty-four contained 90 per
cent or over of pure and gern3in-
able seeds. Seventy-two of those
samples contained fewer than 1,000
weed seeds per lb., one hundred and
sixty-two contained fewer than
5,000, and sixteen contained more
than 10.000.
Out of one hundred and thirty-six
samples of Alsike that were analysed
only six contained 90 per cent or
over of pure and germinablo seed.
Eighteen of them contained fewer
than 1,000 weed seeds per pound;
sixty-seven contained fewer than
5,000, and twenty-two contained
more than 10,000.
Two hundred and six samples o!
Red Clover were obtained from'snnall
dealers and of these eighty samples
contained 00 per cent or over of
pure and germinable seed. Sixty-
ve of them contained fewer than
;000 weed seeds per pound, one hun-
dred and twenty-five contain fewer
than 5,000, and forty-four contained
more than 10,000.
It is well to note that a large
proportion of those samples obtain-
ed for investigation were purchased
from irresponsible dealers in villages
and small towns. The reliable seed
houses retail large quantities of high
class seeds, but a comparatively
small number of samples wore ob-
tained direct from these large firms.
The percentage of samples of good
quality would have been much great
er if this had been done.
SEEDS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
DOUR FIRE -MIEN KILLED.
Collapse of a Burning Building at
Omaha, Neb.
An Omaha, Neb., despatch says:
Pour firemen wore burned to death on.
Thursday, with a property loss
amounting to 3800,000, as the result
of a fire in the wholesale grocery
house of Allan Bros., at 9th and
Jones streets. .The firemen who were
killed wore working about 40 feet in-
side the Aliaza building, when the
floor above unexpectedly collapsed,
catching the men, with no chance of
escape, and with no possibilityt of
their comrades • rescuing thorn. Their
bodies were not even recovered.
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GAS EXPLODED.
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Three men Burned in Store Cellar
at 'Warton.
A Wlarton despatch says: The
list of accidents through acetylene
gas has increased by an explosion in
the store of E. D. Weber, on Thurs-
day. Mr. Weber, with several oth-
ers, was removing the gas plant from
his cellar to a storehouse in the rear,
and in disconnecting the parts
brought a lamp too close. An ex-
plosion at once followed. Mr. Web-
er, Mr. J. Tilley; and Mr. Manvors
were badly burned.
A NEW 11IAHDI.
Troops Have Been Sent to Dis-
perse His Forces.
A despatch from London says :-
A new Mandi, or Mad Mullah, is
malting trouble in the Soudan, and it
has been found necessary to send
troops from Khartoum to quell and
disperse the malcontents that sur-
round him. The man in command
of this expeditionary force is the re-
doubtable Ccl. Bryan T. Mahon, a
County Galway man, who won re-
nown for leading the column that re-
lieved Mafeking in the Boer War.
Col. Mahon, who is military com-
mander of the Kordofan region, has
t_ with him a column of Egyptian cav-
alry, and et is expected that lie willMelia,make quick work of the new Ma,
who is operating in the Kordofan
district. no fact that Col. Mahon
command has taken comand of the
expedition shows that the uprising is
considered serious. Col. Mahon was
with Kitchener in the Dongora and
Nile campaigns, aided in the capture
of the old Khalifa, and was decorat-
ed for his services. He also served
in India with distinction.
2,000 WORDS A MINUTE,
New Telegraphic Apparatus Ex-
perimented With.
A Berlin despatch says : 1'F'illiam
von Siemens, of the Siemens-Halske
Company, has exhibited before an
audience of postal and telegraph ex-
perts a new telegraphic apparatus,
on which he and Dr. Franke, Dr.
Thomas and Dr. Erhardt have been
working for several years. Perforat-
ed paper ribbon is used in the appar-
atus, and the experiments show that
the instrument sends 2,000 words
per xnim:te for long distances The
message is received on a strip of
sensitized paper, which emerges with
the letters fully developed. The post -
office authorities also have made ex -
per menttc with Pouisen's telogr•ap-
hore, which combines the use of the
ordinary telephone with the telegraph
instrument,.
TO SPEND $2,500,000.
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C. P. R. Considering Plan. For
Winaipeg Improvements.
A Montreal despatch says :-The
management of the Canadian Pacific
Railway- in this city has still under
consideration the plans of tee new
hotel :;talion and terminal facilities
at Winnipeg. Upon these, in con-
junction with the new workshops at
this poi'tt, the company will likely
spend little short of two million and
a half dollars. The principal
changes made from the original plan
are, it is understood, in the waiting -
room. There the company found that
the plans in the first placedid not
provide sufficient accommodation for
the increased traffic.
AN ALL -CANADIAN RAILWAY
B. C. Government Favors a Line
to the Yukon.
A Victoria, 13.0,, despatch says:
The speech from . the throne at tho
opening of the British Columbia Leg-
islature on Thursday afternoon re-
commended the pushing fortdard of
an all -Canadian railway from some
point on the British Columbia coact
to the Yukon, this step being due to
the , adverse decision on the Alaska
boundary question.
Seven samples cf Alsike and four-
teen of Red Clover seeds were ob-
•tiaiued from retail seedearen in Great
Britain. Of these, three of Alsike
and five of Ped Clover were said to
be Canadian grown. The analyses
cf the Canadian Alike showed an
average of 95.6 per cent of pure and
germir able seeds. The average of
the three samples of Alsike which
were said to be English grown was
94.27 her cent, and the one German
grown sample included in the lot
contained 84.72 per cent of pure
and germinable seeds. Tie latter
:ample contained thirteen species of
foreign seeds.
The average purity of the four-
teen samples of Red Clover seeds
in Great Britain was 98.6 and the
average germination 92.3 per cent.
The Canadian grown samples were
slight],y lower in per cent of purity
than those which were said to have
been grown in England and Chile.
The average per cent. cf purity of
the five Canadian grown samples
was 96.7 and the average per cent.
of vitality 93.6.
Comparing the quality of the Can-
adian grown seed obtained from re-
tail dealers in Great Britain with
that of the samples purchased from
retail dealers in Canada,' it would
seem that much of our best reclean-
ed Alsike and Red Clover seed is
exported. While it is desirable that
the reputation of Canadian grown
seeds bo maintained in European
markets, it is no less important that
Canadian farmers should not be
further contaminated by the weed
seeds remairring in the screenings and
lower grades of seeds which are left
for the home trade,
TROOPS TO FIGHT RUSSIA.
Viceroys of Thirteen Xrovinees
Are Prepared.
A despatch to the London Daily
Telegraph from Shangbud says that
the Viceroys of thirteen provinces
outside of Chili have made an offer
to the Throne to send 90,000 for-
eign drilled troopsto fight. Ittissio.
tar Mat1,c3 uria,r
CAT'S BITE PROVES FATAL.
Kicked the Animal to See If It
Was Dead.
A despatch from Paterson, N.J.,
says :-Samuel Dykatra, dead from
a cat bite, was buried on Thursday
from his home at 159 Franklin
Street, and the body was interred in
Fairlawn Cemetery. Some days ago
he shot In his yard a cat that had
been bothering trim for some time.
Tire shot was from a rifle, and the
animal lay as of dead. To make
sure, however, he walked over to it
and gave the carcass a kick. Ho
was startled when it jumped up and
buried Its teeth in the fleshy part of
his leg. Another charge from the
rifle, however, ended its existence.
He applied remedies to the wound.
Sunday, however, he became so ill
.that he had to be taken to the hos-
pital, where he died Monday night.
Ho was 34 years old, and leaves a
widow and four cl.ilclrcn.
X-RAY RIVAL.
German Invention Photographs In-
ternal Organs.
A despatch from Berlin says: Ger-
man inventors have patented the first
Roentgen apparatus capable of pho-
tographing the internal organs of the
human body, showing the size and
shape of any part of the body, as
well as the exact dimensions of any
foreign substance it may contain.
Local specialists consider the inven-
tion second in importance to the
only discovery of the "x" ray itself.•
This new apparatus, which is known
as the orthodiagraph, has just been
placed on the market' by. the •Allge-
meine Electricity Company, of • Ber-
lin.
4
CANADA BUTTER ACT.
Appreciative Criticisms Thereof by
Newspapers.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
The Department of Agriculture has
received some of the British news-
paper criticisnns of the Canadian
Butter Act passed at the last session
of Parliament. One of these says
that in passing this Act the Cana-
dians have gone the right way about
gaining the confidence of the import-
ers in Great Britain. Canadians,
they say, evidently do not Intend to
have their butter trade killed in its
infancy by being throttled with a
bad name,
A MODERN JUGGERNAUT.
German Tailor Threw Children
and Himself Under Train.
A despatch from Berlin says :-
Thomas Merkiew"iecz, a young, tailor,
in the presence of hundreds of per-
sons, threw his two children, aged
respectively three and five years, on
the rails before an approaching train
at a suburban station at midnight
on Thursday and leaped after them.
A11 three were killed. Merlcdewiecz's
wide died on Monday, which is sup-
posed to have led to the tragedy.
SULTAN FINALLY CONSENTS.
4404.4
But Says Humiliation. of Turkey
Must be Avoided.
A despatch from Constantinople
says: The Porte at noon on Wednes-
day sent a note to the I'.ussian and
Austrian Ambassadors assenting to
the entire scheme of reforms for
Macedonia demanded by Russia and
Austria, • but qualifying its assent
with the reservation that in the ap-
plication of the scheme everything
calculated to `hui iliate Turkey than
be avoided,.
Tres F`RON THE WIRE
HAPI'FNINGS RO11I ALL OV1 11
THZ GLOBI ..
Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own
and Other Countries of
CANADA,
There are thirty cases of scarlet
fever in Brantford at present.
Recently 400 caribou have been
killed in Dawson neighborhood..
Extensive improvements are pro-
posed to the Provincial Government
buildings at Winnipeg,
Negotiations ' aro in progress in
Brantford with a view to extending
the T. H. & B. to Woodstock.
A splendid collection of western
Spy apples from British Columbia
for exhibition at St. Louis has ar-
rived at Ottawa,
On Friday, Miss Louise Pogson of
Oshawa took a dose of strychnine in
mistake for cough medicine and died
in fifteen minutes.
Tho Canada Furniture Manufac-
turers, Limited, will probably
com-
mence the construction of a large
factory in Woodstock shortly.
E. Ii. Crockford was arrested at
Toronto charged with sending a let-
ter to the wife of a, clergyman at
Sorel, Que., threatening murder.
It is said that Col. Drury of King-
ston is to be appointed to command
tho Royal Canadian Artillery, with
an office at head quarters in Ottawa.
Twenty-two engineers and assist-
ants out -fitted at North Bay and
have left to complete the survey for
the Grand Trunk Pacific from North
Bay.
I.fr..Robert Bickerdike, M.P., and
Mr. Desola, of Montreal, are urging
upon the Government the construc-
tion of floating docks at Montreal
and other points.
Tho Toronto Exhibition directors
will ask for the submission of a by-
law to raise 3200,000 for building
improvements. The financial state-
ment shows a balance of 354,596.
Norman Taylor, 24 years olcl, of
Llodminster, N.W.T., while leading a.
nervous horse, tied the end of the
halter to his wrist with a slip knot.
The horse ran away and he was
dragged to death.
Prof. Nicol, of Queen's University,
Kingston, has returned from a trip
through New Ontario bringing with
him half a ton of silver ore, in piec-
es, some of which weigh twenty-five
pounds, which will be added to the
museum of the School of Mines.
It is reported at Fort William that
the Canadian Northern propose
building a lino from North Bay or
Sudbury on the Canadian Pacific
Railway to Toronto, over which the
Canadian Pacific may have running
powers, and in return the C. P. R.
will grant the Canadian Northern
running • powers over their line from
Port Arthur to Sudbury.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The death is announced in London
of Hugh Stowell Scott, the novelist,
known under the pen name of Henry
Seton Merriman.
The late James McNeil 'Whistler's
best painting, "La Princesse du Pays
de la Porcelaine," was sold in Lon-
don for 325,000.
After fourteen years of foreign ser-
vice the Dublin Fusiliers, returned to
Ireland the other day. Of 1,100 who
then kit only two, both officers, have
returned.
The British Admiralty has substi-
tuted an order for three vessels of the
King Edward type for the recent or-
der for three battleships with a re-
cord tonnage of 18,000 tons each.
UNITED STATES.
Electrical work is the only building
trade at work in Pittsburg. The
lockout makes 10,000 men idle.
The McKinley National Memorial
Association has 3550,000 in hand.
Sixty plans are under discussion.
At public auction in New York, a
walking cane of the late President
Abraham Lincoln was sold for 3145.
Because her beautiful face had been
marred by failing health, Mrs. Lulu
Brennan, of Chicago, killed herself,
taking chloroform.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Warren, who
started May 19th on a 3,000 mile
drive to California from Lowvillo,
N.Y., have reached Los Angeles, Cal.
New York city's budget for 1904
allows over 3106,000,000 for the
running expenses oe the city govern-
ment. Last year it was $97,000,000.
Freight rates east of Buffalo have
been advanced for the remainder of
the year a half -cent per bushel on
wheats corn, oats and barley.
The Missouri Supreme Court has
decided that the statute prohibiting
the giving away of liquor in local
option counties is constitutional.
At the W.C.T.U. convention at
Cincinnatti, resolutions were passed
favoring the exclusion of Senator
Smoot, an equal code of morals for
men and women, prohibition and wo-
man sufferage. Mrs Lillian W. N.
Stevens, Portland. Mo., was elected
president. .
GENERAL.
The jewels o! the late Queen Drage,
worth 387,000, are to be sold.
The. New Zealand Upper House has
passed the preferential trade bill.
German troops and Ilottentot reb-
els are fighting in German South Af-
rica.
Gorman pbysicians will not here-
after be permitted to practise in
South Africa. Prof. Koch intends
to return at once.
The Wlxite, Star Line steamer Baltic
the largest in the world, was launch-
ed at Belfast on Saturday.
At a luncheon to Mr. Chaanbet lain'
at Cardiff on Saturday, five thousand
dollars was subscribed to ti,e tariff
reform campaign.
A number of firemen at Letrieville,
Ky., are charged with looting stores
while fighting fire therein,
Speaking in New York, on Satur-
day, President of the Utdtocl German
Societies, defended the cimand . of
Germans for the teaching of their
native tongue in the public Scheele,
SHORTAGE Z, LL BER (MT..
Tlae Season in Ottawa ValleT
Mills Not a Good One,
A despatch from Ottawa says: The,
season at the many caw mills in the
Ottawa district has closed. Despite
tho activity in the lumber market
and the high prices and good demand
for the manufactured article, there,
has been a Marked falling on in the
total cut of lumber as compared with.
former years. The reduction is plac-
ed by meta in a position to size up
the situation at ten per cent. For
instance, the cut at Booth's mill at
the Chaudiore was between 13.,000,•
000 and 15,000,000 feet less than it
was last year. The regular cut
the Booth mill is about 126,000,0
feet. At McLacblan's mill at Arne
prior, the Gillies mill at Braeside,
and other large plants there has
been a decrease in the cut. Mill
owners aro at a loss to account for
the decrease in the season's output,
which will prove a serious r• otter, as
the demand and good prices 'promise
to hold firm,for at least another.
year. IVhile te weather conditions
were only fairly good, it is believed
that the scarcity of labor had more
to do with the shortage in the lunn-
ber cut.
BOY BURNED TO DEATH
Child Nurse Left the Little Ones
Near the Stove.
A despatch from Toronto says:
Tho two-year-old son of John Kea-
nedy, 210 Campbell Avenue, was _
burned to death on Wednesday after.
noon. Mr. Kennedy is a Widower,
and the child was left under the
care of his 15 -year-old daughter, The
latter left the house about one
o'clock in the afternoon to visit a
neighbor, leaving two children in
the house, one being only an infant.
Returning about 3 o'clock she was
horrified upon discovering the oldest
boy lying close to the kitchen range
with his body burned in a terrible
manner, the flesh in some places al-
most falling off. Life was extinct,
so the services of Dr. Mason, upon
his arrival in answer to a summons,
were not required. The child had
been left seated in a chair close to
the stove, and in some manner its
clothes became ignited.
"JACK OR OLD GLORY?"
Which Flag Did the Ottawa Alder-
man Favor?
A despatch from Ottawa says: Ald.
Plouffo has been expelled from the
Ottawa Grocers' Association on the
ground of disloyalty. Some of the
retail grocers went to New York
in September and were entertained by
some people in the same business
there. At a banquet in honor of the
visitors Ald, Ploufle spoke, and hop-
ed to see the time "whim ono flag
will wave over the two countries and
there will be no border line." Ald.
Plouffo now says what he meant was ....--
he hoped the time would come when
the Union Jack. would wave over
the two countries, but his brother
grocers do not take it that way. It
is also probable that Ald. Plouffe
will be defeated if he offers himself
for the City Council again.
COSTLY FIRE: AT ST. .1011N.
Many Merchants Lose Heavily -
Loss Exceeds 340,000.
A despatch from St. John, N. B.,
says: Fire on Wednesday gutted the
Lawrence Building on King Street,
causing a loss of some $10,000 to
the building and the almost total de-
struction of the stock of Dowling
Bros., dry goods, and E. 3?, Charl-
ton and Co., departmentalfs' i•e. The
loss of the former is probably 312,-
000, andh
t at of the latter 315,000;
both covered by insurance. Thorne
Bros., hats and furs, had their stock
badly damaged. The loss is covered
by 310,000 insurance. The Misses
Gray, book store, E. G. Nelson and
Co., books and stationery; F. A.
Dykeman and Co., dry goods, and
several small dealers also suffered.
FLOODS AT ST. PETERSBURG..
Neva Nine Feet Above Normal
Level,Tra to Suspended.
A despatch from St. Petersburg
says: Conisiderable damage has been
caused by a sudden rise of the wa-
ters of the Neva and of the canals,.
following the recent bad weather.
The Neva is nine feet above norma' I weather.,
and the streets bordering the river
are flooded. Wheeled traffic is sus-
pended in many thoroughfares, and
the inhabitants are using boats and
rafts. Great damage has been done
on the island in the river and at the
port of St. Petersburg. In the low-
lying quarters of the city the water
is knee-deep, and the ground floors of
houses and shops are flooded.
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INDIAN RUNS AMUCK,
Piegan Brave Kills Wife and Si t
of His Tribe.
A despatch from McLeod, N.W.T.,
says that a Piegan Indian, under the
influence of liquor•, ran amuck on the
south Piegan Reservation. Before
he could be scarred he had killed his
wife and .pix others of the tribe.
Jaynes Edgar, a Perth station mas-
ter, who has just died, has been con-
nected with railway life since 1841,
and had travelled 8,750,000 miles
as a train guard.
The Scottish Amateur Brass Band
.Association .held their annual cham-
pionship
hainpionship contest in the Waverloy.
Market, lDdinburgh.. Pelton Mille
Band won first prize -challenge cup
and .C15,
The following Stonehaven towns-
men had their ,photographs taken In
ag grettoup91 the
carsother• day: --Do. Iiadden,
e nDavi a 8s8;
s, .
John Reitll, 86; .Robert Giant,- 85;
William Grant, 82; I3enry Galt, 611.
Their united .. ages. reach 513 years,
tints. an average of fully 85 'years
each,