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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-12-10, Page 6TJUJ.1i.VORLDI3• UMW& l'ORTS V11,0,1\14 THE LEADING. TRADE CENTItES. Prices or Cattle, Grain, Cheese, and °thee Dairy- RrociAce at Hoene and A.broad. Toronto, Dee. 8. -Wheat -The market is quiet fort Ontario grades, and Priem iirm. No. 2 white and red Winter (tooted at 78 to 78*e low freights; NTo. 2 Spring is quoted at 780 east, and No. 2 goose at 70 to 71e. Aranitoba, wheat is steady. At upper lake ports No, 1 Northern is quoted at 89e, and No. 2 Northern 41; 84e. Na. 1 hard nominal at 90 to 904-0 lake ports. For griading in transit quotations are 6e higher than above. Oats -The market is quiet, 'wife' prices unchanged. No. 2 white is quoted at 2711e west, and at 28 to 281e middle freights. No. 1 white, 290 east. Barley -The market is dull, with the priees steady. No. 2 quoted at 41e middle freights; No. 8 extra at 39e, and No. 8 at 87e middle freights. Rye -The market is quiet, with prices steady. Cars are quoted at 52 to 52-1e middle freights. Peas -Trade is dull, and prices un- changed. No. 2 white quoted at 611c middle freights, and at 6.2ec east. Corn -The market is quiet, and prices unchaeged. No. 2 yellow Am- erican quoted at 53ec on track, To- ronto; No, 8 yellow at 521e, and No. 8 mixed at 511-e, Toronto. Buckwheat -The market is quiet, with fair demand. No. 2 quoted at 48 to 481c east. 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 63.40 to $3.50 in bbls. Manitoba flours aro firm; No. 1 patents, 34.55 to 34.65; No. 2 patents, $4.25 to 34.35, and strong bakers', 34.15 to 34.25 on teacake Toronto. Millfeed-Bran steady at 316.50, and shorts at 318.50 here. At out- side points bran is quoted at 313.50 to $14, and shorts at 317.50. Mani- toba bran, in sacks, 318, and shorts at 320 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -The raarket is fairly active at unchanged prices. Winter fruit guoted at 31.75 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. Prime beans are quo- ted at 31.60 to 31.75 bush. Dried Apples -The demand is fair,' with prices unchanged at 4 to 4e -c per Ib. Hops -The market is fair at 29 to 80e. Honey -The market is firm at 61. to 7c per lb. for bulk, and at 31.25 to 32 for comb. Choice clover hon- ey, 7 to '711,c per Ib. Hay -Demand is fair, with receipts only moderate. No. 1 timothy quo- ted at 39.50 on track, Toronto, and mixed at 36.50 to 37. Straw -The market is quiet at 35 per ton for car lots on track. Potatoes -The inarket rules firm, with light receipts. Car lots are filleted at 60 to 65e per bag on PouBey-The demand is fair, and offerings moderate. Turkeys are quo- ted at 11 to 12c per rue and geese at 7 to 8c per M.; ducks 9* to 10e per db., or 85c to 31 per pair; chick- ens, 8* to 9.ec per /b., or 70 to 85c per pair; old hens, 50c per pair. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Trade continuos fairly ac- tive, but the supplies of choioe quali- ties are limited. There is a good de- mand for fine clairy tub, but little coming forward. We quote:- Finest 1-M. rolls, 19 to 20c; choice large rolls, 16* to 17-1c; selected, dairy tubs, 17* to 19c; secondary grades, 13 to 15c; creamery prints, 22 to 23e; solids, 19 to 20e. Eggs -Market firm. We quote: - Strictly new laid, 25e; fresh store gathered, 21 to 22e; and limed, 19e per dozen. Cheese -Market quiet but steady. We quote:-Isinest, 11 to 11-1e; the latter for twins; seconds, 10* to 101c. •••••••••••••••.• HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are easy, with offer- ings fairly large. Sales at 85.75 ,deliverecl here. Cured meats un- changed, with a fair demand. We quote:- Bacon, long clear, 10c in ton and case lots. Mess pork, $17; do short cut, $10 to 310.50. Smoked meats. -Hams, light to me- dium, 13 to 181; do heavy, 12 to 1e1e; rolls, 10e to 11e; shoulders, 01 ro 101c; backs, 14 to 15e; break- fast bacon, 13e to 14e. Lard. -The market is quiet, with ,prices steady. We quote:- Tierces, 81c; tubs, 81e; pails, 9e; compound, 8 to 9c. 13USINE,SS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Dee. 8. -Wheat is ic low- er, being now quoted at 701e for No. 1 Northern, Port Witham; the diver- sity in flour quotations continues. Peas, 71/ to 72e afloat here; rye, 58c east, 58e afloat here; buckwheat, 52e afloat; oats, No, 2, 851c in store; No, 8, le less; flaxseed, 31.15 on track here; No. 8 barley, 500. Plarir-Manitoba patents, 34.60 to 34.80; seconds, $4.30 to $4,50; sarong bakers', 38.00 to 34.80; On- tario straight rollers. 33,90 to 34: bags, 31.35 to 31.95; patents, Fie to $4,25; extre, 31.65 to 31.70: rolled oats, 31,80 per bag; 38.20 per hbl. iseed-Ontario bran in bulk, 317.50 to 31e1.50; shorts, 320 to $21; Manitoba' bran in bags, 318; ehorte, 320. Beanee-Choice prance, 31.50 to 31.55 per leteht 31.40 to 31.50 in car lots, Provisions - Heavy Canadian short cut pork, ;510.50 fo $20; light Short tut, 618 to $18.50; American short cut clear, 317 to 317.50; American fat backei, 318 to 318.50; eornpouncl land, 80; Ortnedian lerd, 8 to SO; kettle ren- dered, 10*e; hams, 11e te 180.1 1 - eon 14c; fresj kUled ehattoir hogs, 37.25; country dressed hogs, 36,50; dressed Chatham hogs, in car lots, 30.25 to 36.40; live hogs, 0c per lb. Eggs-Caudled. selected, 24 to 25e, and straight receipt% 20 to 21e; Montreal limed„ 18 to 190; re- frigerator, 10 to 19e. Cheese -On- tario, 10* to 100; Townships, 10* to 10e; Quebec (November),, 10e. Butter -Townships creamery, 21e, Western dairy, in tubs, 16 to inej Western rolls, 17 to 171e. 1311••••,••••••• UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, Dec. 8. -Wheat -Firmer; No. 1 Northern, 83* to 84e; No. 2 Northern, 81e to 821e; May, 80ee. Rye -Firm; No. 1, 56e e. Barley - Quiet; N. 2, 05c; sample, 40 to 58e. Corn -May, 421c. St. Louis, Dee. 8. -Wheat closed - December, 901c; May, 83ec. Buffalo, Dec. 8. -- Flour - Firm. Wheat -Spring firm; No. 1 Northern, carloads, 89e; Winter strong; No. 2 red, 87e, through billed.. Corn - Easier; old No, 2 yellow, 511,c; No. 2 corn, 50 to 50eic. Oats -Firm; No. 2 white, 400; No. 2 mixed, 87ee. Barley -Western, 50 to 64e. Rye - No. 1, elec. Minneapolis, Dec, 8. --Wheat- De- cember, 79 to 791e; May, 80Sc, July, 80Sc; on track, No. 1 hard, 85:c; No, 1 Northern, 801c; No. 2 North- ern, 80:e; No. 8 Northern, 78 to 76e. Flour -First patents, 34.45 to 34.55; second do, Ka? to 34.40; first clears., 38.80 to 38.40; second clears, 32.80 to 32.40, Bran -In. bulk, 318. CATTLE MARKETS. Toronto, Dec. 8.-A steady to firm market for good cattle, but a slow market for rough and common cat- tle, ,were the prevailing conditions at the City Cattle Market to -day. There was a. heavy run, but everything was pretty well sold out, except perhaps two or three loa.ds of very rough cattle, for which there seems to be no maeket just at present. The day's run was 04 cars, with 1,588 head of cattle, 2,135 sheep and lambs, 1,000 hogs, and 41 calves. Export -The market continues firm. for export cattle, with a good de- mand for choice quality. Buyers say they are prepared to pay up to 34.- 90 or $5 for extra choice export cat- tle. There were several fair loads offering to -day, but none quite up to requirements. Butchers. -There were butchers' cattle sold on the market to -day at $4.75 and for another lot of butch- ers' the same offer was refused. These were exceptionally fancy cattle, a little early for the Christmas trade, but not heavy enough for export purposes. The regular run of betels - ors' cattle was not up to such a high standard of quality, but there were some good loads of butchers' cattle in the market, and prices were t steady up to 34 and $4.25 for choice cattle. A lot of rough butchers' cat- tle were slow at easy prices. Stockers. -There are too many rough stockers and canners for re- quirements of the market just at present, and prices were low. Sheep and Lambs. -A gocrd steady market for sheep and lambs, and the big run was all sold. Hogs. -There was no change in the quotations te-day. 85 00 Export, heavy ......34 50 to 34 Export, light .-..... 3 80 4 Bulls, export, heavy, civet 875 425 do light . 800 350 Feeders, 800 lbs. and upwards ,......... 8 00 8 60 Short keep, 1,100 lbs. 3 65 4 00 Stockers, 400 to 800 Ibs..2 50 8 1.2e do 900 Ibs...... 2 75 3 50 Butchers' cattle, choice 8 e5 4 00 do medium 8 80 3 50 do picked 4 00 4 50 do bulls 2 75 3 00 do rough 2 50 2 60 Light stock bulls, cwt 295 250 Milch cows . 30 00 56 00 Hogs, best 4 60 do light ... 4 35 Sheep, export, cw.t. 3 25 3 40 Lambs . 4 00 4 20 Bucks , 250 375 Culls. . ... . ...... 2 25 3 00 Calves, each2 00 10 00 COTTON GOODS. Will Advance in Price Frain Five to Ten Per Cent. A Montreal despatch says: Owing to the rise in the price of raw cot- ton the Canadian cotton mills will make an advance in prices. Within I a few days all cottons will be prac- tically put up on a higher scale, with the advances ranging from five to eight and ten per cent. in general cases. As the Canadian mills are now practically bare of raw cptton bought at lower prices, they -have to go into the market for their sup- plies at the existing figures. The cotton mills people have been insist- ing ,all along that the price of manu- factured goods has by no means gone up in proportion to the ad- vance in raw cotton, and as a con- sequence the mills have been opera- ting at a loss on newly -bought raw cotton. WHERE FEVER REIGNS. Nearly Teselve Hundred Cases ill Butler, Pa, A Butler, Pon despatch says :-Tte typhoid fever epidemic claimed its thirty-fourth victim on Thursday, in the raison of Father Daseiel Walsh, pastor of St. Patirs Catholic Church. rather Walsh had been ill two weeks, Hie work among the • poor was untiring, and before he be- came unconocious he gave away everything he posed in the world, Up to Thuirsclay 1448 cases of type hoid had been reported to the repre- sentatives of the State Board of BIG DEMAND VAR POT,ILTR:r. Ozto English Dealer Wants 3,000 Oases Per Week. The Dominion Department of 'Agri- culture has received eommunications from Britieh dealers who devire to purchase Canadian poultry. Ozie of the dealers Mr, James Blackburn, of Manchester, Eng., is at present in Canednegotiating for the shipment of poultry. Be states that be would be glad if he received the nemes of Canadian poultry skippers so that the Chickens could be shipped earl)! in December. For four years the Department of Agriculture bas exported the chickens fatted at the illustaation stations to Mr. Blealemen. The dealing's hove been perfectly satisfactory and the priaes obtained, for the chickens have been profitable. Mr. Blaelc- burn said that he would like to handle, 3,000 eines of chickens per werle'll'cO Department has also received a letter from Mr. Wee Bothwell, Man- chester, Eng, Mr. Bothwell says : "There seems to be a very good prospect for all kinds of poultry thie Christmas., If you can give or have any consignments sent me, you cant rest areured of the utmost value be- ing obteieed. Cash and sales sent immediately goods ale deposed of. The probable prices ere as follows: Large cock turkeys, pluck, 14 to 16 lbs., Od to 104 per lb. Plucked turkeys, 12 to 18 lbs, Sed to 94 per lb. Flu.cked turkeys, 9 to 11 ibe., aid to 8d per lb. Plucked chickens, 8d per lb. Plucked ducks, 74 per lb. Turkeys in feather, -61c1 to 7d per lb. I trust that I may have consign- ments ft om Canada." Mr. Hare, Chief cl the Dominion Poultry Divifien, stated that there approximate prices should offer sub- stantial inducements to Cam -tenon ex- porting 'firms to ship poultry to Great Britain. The poultry should be forwarded in a steameaip equip- ped with cold storage. The railway and steamship companies will inforni shippeis when suitable steamships will leave St. John or Halifax. Eeren on consignments of poultry, the freiget charges will not be over one cent per pound. The chickens fatted at the illustra- tion. stale' s have been sold in Tor- onto, Biontreal, St. John, N.B., Hal- ifax, NS., Sydney, C. B., and Char- lottetown, P.E.I., and also to deal- ers in other smaller cities. The price obtained for the fatted chickens in Toronto was 11 cents rer pound; in Montreal 13 cents per pound- and in the cities in the Mat itime Prov- inces, with the exception of Char- lottetown, 11 cents per pound. The chickens Wele sold at Chainattetown at 10 cents per poune. The fatted chickens sold to the merchants gave perfect satisaaction rued it would be to the inteeest of farmers to fatten their chiceers be- fore they are marketed. The De- partment could have sold several times as many fatted cblekers if an. extra number could have been bought from the reamers in the Ni.inity of the fattening sto.tiors. A Char- lottetown merchant stated; "We have a reply from the party to whom we ehippod the last lot, and he speaks of taem as being very fine, and expressed surpriee that we could produce such chiceens in this coun- try." Almost any farmer in Canada can produce fatted chi liers equal to the Goveniment chickens at little extra expense for labor and feed. DRILL F OR_C_HINESE . 7,000 Men Now Under a Japanese Instr. uct or . A Peein deepatch says :-As a re- sult of the recent die:cove-7er made by the Dowager Empress of the helpless- ness 01 the Metropolitan mune es - pe ially the guard of the court un- der C.thiangkneiti, who declared that the members of his force were unable to Fhoot because they had never had ammunition, .and were not accustom- ed totle sound of a rifle, some 7,- 000 men urr'er Gen. Mayauken, who has hitherto opposed any foreign drilling, are row under a. Japarem instructora They have been partial- ly equiered with modern uniforms. The Manahn troops of tie Fight Beane s, whi h is the hereditary Throne guard, at the command of the Dowager Empress, are receiving fereign irstructiers at Tien- Tsin under the direction of Vi.oroy Ynon-Sidh-Xcii. The purpose ef this mote to have an excl.sive Manchu guard sireerior to tho present ore of the Dowager Emprer:s, who mitt -este the Chinese troops, and is unwilliuig, that the sole prote-tien of tho capi- Disaffection Prevalent on an THOUSANDS LEAVING U. S. The Steerage .A.ccomm.odation es at a Premium. 1. New 'York despatch says :-Tho steamer La Tolman()) which Sailed on Thlersday, took out 1,000 steer- age Passengers, and it was estimated that OVOr 200 steerage passengers with tiekets were left on the dock, owing to the overselling of accom- modation, The line has agents all over the country selling tickets, and as achiees regarding the manlier of tickets sold for n Yeesel are not re- ceived until the day before ho smile', it is impossible to control the num- ber of tickets sohl. A scene of great excitement ensued when the officers refused to allow more people on the ve.isel. All honing tickets and unable to sail On Thursday will Ise kept at the company's expeuse until the sailing next week. For several months the number of steerage passengers on all outgoing steamelip lines has been very heavy, The travel this fall has been heavier than usual, and it is thought that limey laborers have been able to ac- cumulate a competence and are re- turning to their native lands to re- main. On board the White Star steamer Cedric, which lett here on r.Eliursday for Queenstown and Liverpool, there were 1,5.00 steerage passengers. 'Phis is the largest number of steerage passengers over carried from a Unit- ed States port an any one steamer. ARSENICAL POISONING. Recommendations of C °remission Oil Food and Drink, 'A London. despatch • says :-The royal commission on arsenital pois- oning from food and drink menu - mends the peobibition of the sale of beer and other liquid food, or of any liquid ente.ing into the composition of food which contains one-hundredth of e. grain or moio el tu•seele per gallon, and tire prohibition of the sale of solid. food contaleing one- hundredth of a grain per pound, "no matter whether habitually corsumed in large or small quantities, or whether consumed as one (like goLien syrup) or xnixedowith water or other substances (like chicory, etc)." The commissioners find there are serious defects in the present inaehinery arcdlable to safeguard the public, and urge that moee extended powers be given to the authorities to con- demn unwholesome food, tee eetab- lishreent of official "standards" and the creation of a "board of refer- ence," to which could be refe-rel spe.ific points and whose eecisions shorld be carried out by the depart- ment concerned, the latter's action being subject to the control of Par- liament. BUILDING IN D1ONTREAL• The New Work This Year is Worth 34,500,000. *A Montreal despatch says :-The builling inspector bas prepared a re- port for the eleven months ef the current year, showing that no less than $4,500,000 has been sent on new buildings. This is a great in- crease over last year, when less than $8,000;000 was spent. For the month of November tl:e vatze of the bulk -hugs put up was $100,000. Tie new structures consisted of forty- four houses, seventy-seven tenements, one store. One storage warehouse, two factories and six sheds. A large number of buildings were altered and repaired. CORNER IN PEARS. Chicago Has Stored the World's Supply of the Fruit. A Chicago :despatch says: A mil- lion and a quarter pears, said to be practically the world's present sup- ply of the fruit, are stored in a ware- house in Chicago. A firm of South Water street fruit merchants are the owners of the pears, and are sup- posed to lia,ve a corner on the mar- ket. New York still has it few car- loads of pears, but they will be ex- hausted within thirty days, and then the world must call on Chicago or -do without pears. Already New York dealers are sending to Chicago and for several days orders have been shipped to Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New Orleans, San Fran- cisco, and even Liverpool. The price of winter pears is steady at 38 and 33.50 it box. UPHEAVAL IN RUSSIA. tra should be in the Lamle of Yuan THE GERMAN BUDGET. Revenue 83,214,860 Marks Below the Expenditure. A despatrh from Bet lin says :-The total lignees in the Carman budget for 1994 show expenditures aggregat- ing, 2,460,7435,004 marls (310,700,- 009), an incream of 43,796;002 mares over 1003. The tecurrent ex- penditures show an increase cf 59,- 8111,ree2 marks, wail° tee extraordin- ary ex; eneitures have been diminish- ed by 10,111,460 marks. The reven- ues a e e. timated Itt 83,214,860 mart s bclow the expenditures, of which the variousStates undertake an aggregate of 23,714,660 marks, the belence of 50,500.,000 marks remai, ing as a deficit. The budget anthorizee tee Government to take 214,700,C00 marks through tee mod - thin of loans, the 3epolt of the Budget. Committee stating that tile aeicemt is nesettsary in ore er to cov- er extmordinary demands and the deficit remaining over Isom 1002, It is reported that Lord Roberta may resign owing to the unsatisfac- tory state of Ms health. While on his way to Bunder-Abas the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, held a thither at Shargah, at which he made tt, significant speech re -affirming the intention of Great Britain 1,0 maintain her supremacy in Alarrnin.g Scale. A London despatch says: The Mos- cow correspondent of the Times fur- eishes further testimony of the in- ternal upheaval in Russia. no says that disaffection on an alarming scale is prevalent among- the working class- es of Keefe Seditious proclaincttions have been scattered in the railway shops, and agitators ate endeavoring to ineluce the workingmen to strike en masse. The Governor has forbid- den workmen to gather in the streets and has warned the peaceful residents not to loiter there.. The police have been increased 25 per cent. Spies are working in the factories along- side the laborers, KILLS INSTEAD OF CURING. New Consumption Cure Worse • Than the Disease. A Paris despatch says: Professor Georges Dieulafoel has reported to the Academy of Medicine, of which he is a member, that he has tested the serum for tuberculoses discovered by Prof. Marmorek, an Austrian bac- theologist, who until recently was chief chemist of the Pasteur Institute hera. trho serum was used on seven patients. Prof. Marmorek operating. Instead of becoming better they be- came worse, and five •of them, died. Dr. Dentu made a similar report. -- Jules Levy, a world famous Cornet - an lerigilshmen by birth, died at Chicago en Saturday. BURNED WAY TO FREEDOIVI .& norse Zaiof Makes an Ingenious Escape. A Grand Forks, 13, 0., despatch says: •Edwin Rose, known ,as "Slip- pery who was in jail here awaiting trial on a, charge of home - stealing, escaped from the loek-up in a most ingenious meaner. He fired the lower portion of the wooden door cmd so regulated the blaze thee it was confined to it small area. This was accomplished by dampening the rest of the woodwork with water. Ile avoided suffocation by opening the window and ecreening himself behind a blanket suspended over the win- dow. Proviecial Constable Dinsmore, on visiting the lock-up next morning discovered a hole eighteen inches in extent in the bottora of the door, which is four or eve inches thick. Rose put out the fire before he left. He is wanted by the United States authorities also, on a charge of horse -stealing. GIGANTIC POWER HOUSE. Big Building at Niagara Will Cost Over 3400,000. .A Toronto despatch says: The Electric Development Company, which was incorporated to develope energy at Niagara for the Toronto and Niagara Power Company, will erect one of the largest power hous- es on tho continent. The building will be of solid granite. It will be 425 feet Ling and 200 feet wide, and will cost 3400,000. Plans and speci- fications are being prepared by E. J. Lennox.: a STRUCK DOW1LAND ROBBED, A Fort Francis Tailor Was The Victim. A despatch from Fort Francis, Ont., says :-A dastardly attempt at murder and robbery was made here on. Wednesday morning on James Short, merchant tailor, and Frank Dates, a tramp lumber -jack is in jail, accused of the crane. Bates was given a job cutting wood on Satur- day, and claiming to be a tailor was ret to work in the shop Monday. Wednesday morning early, as soon as Mr. Short came to his shop, it is charged that he was approached from bellied by Bates and knocked down with a small axe. He was then dragged to the rear of the shop with the blood gushing from his head, and robbed of his pocketbook and SOMe other art-tles. Bates crossed over to li.00 :al riling, Minn., where he was arrested in the afternoon. WANTED MONEY FOR POOR. Assassin's Excuse for Firing at The Secretary. 'A despatch from London says :- George Frederick Robinson, the min- irg engireer, and alleged lunatic, who fired four shots at Kenneth Gra- hame, the secretary of the Bank Of England, some days ago, was ar- raigned in the Mansion House Police Court on Wednesday morning and cominiated for trial. Robinson said he wanted the money of the Bank of England to be distributed among. the poor. He declared that most of the cartridges which he fired at Mr. Grie-aahs.tunewere loaded with candle grease. 4 CANNOT BECOME LAWYERS. ..••••••1. Women Debarred by House of 'Lords From Practising. 'A despatch from London says :- The House of Lords has finally de- cided that women are debarred by their E'.elt LODI becoming qualified lawyers in tkis country. The ques- tion arose on the appeal of a Lon- doner, Miss Bertha Cave, against the derieion of the Benchers of Gray's inn, not to admit her as a student for the purpose of being called to the bar. The Court decid- ed that there was no precedent for a woman's admission to the Inns of Court, and no reason to create a prereclent. The Benchers assert diet the statutes of Gray's Inn ignore women so absoletely as to leave them no power to admit a woman. WILL FIGHT FOR JAPAN. Canadians Applying to Consul - General in. Ottawa. A despatch from Ottawa says: That the spirit of adventure is strong in young Canadians is evi- denced by a number of applications received by Hon. T. Nesse, Consul - General for Japan in Canada. On the strength of reports of impending trouble in the Far East, several ap- plications have been received by Mr. Nosse from young men anxious to serve in the army or navy of Bri- tain's ally. Two of these were from Ontario men, and two from North - 'westerners who had dope scouting service in South Africa. --- SOLD 50,000 ACRES. Saskatchewan. Valley Land Co. Closes Big Deal. A. despatch from .Winnipeg says :- Another large land deal has just been closed by the Saskatehewau Valley Land Company. This deal was made on Tueeday afternoon ruid in- volved a tract of 50,000 acres in the Canadian N orthern It ail way- Com- pany's grant, Ti e purchasers are William Pearson, of Winnipeg, and 13roten 1.3tothets, of Portage /a Prairie. BRITAIN BUYS WA:El:SHIPS, Vessels Built for Chili Acquired fax 39,875,000 A. despatch irom. London says: It was officially admitted at the Ad- miralty on Thursday night that Great Britain bas purchased the two. battleships, Liborted and Constitu- tion, beilt on the Clyde 'for Chili, the Price being 30,875,000 inclusive of all expenses. A. Chicago restaurant -keeper shot end killed a man who WWI Shell IIVO cents of the amount demanded in payment for it Ix:teal 00 Sunday, .T10118....110L .T1$ .110411. rX.AiorENDTGa MON ALL OVER THE GLO134. Telegraphic; Briefs From Our Own and Other countries of CANADA. Coal has been advanced to 37.25 a ton in Montreal. A new school, costing $10,000, will be erected in west Brantford. Mackenzie 40 Mann will build large modern steel docks at Port Arthur, Tho Dominion fish hatchery in Brit- ish Columbia Wes destroyed by it 11°Thie headquarters of No. 1 Co, Army Service Corps, has been chang- ed from. Quebec to Guelph. St. Mary's Council will subrait the offer of 38,000 from Andrew Carne- tgiea o for library a ry purposes to vote 01 h An association has been formed to undertake the erection of a Toronto monument to the Canadians who fell in South Africa. The disappeneanee of two Japanese at Rivers Inlet, 13.5., has been clear- ed up by Indians confessing to have clubbed them to death. To mark the seventieth anniversary of the St. Jea,n Baptiste Associa- tion next june, a cross 140 feet high will be erected on the top of Mount Royal, L. L. Henderson, of Montreal Transportation Co., states that they are doing sixty per cent. more business than last year, owing to the abolition of the canal tolls. Two hundred and thirteen building permits were issued in Hamilton this year, representing a total Value of 3785,869, .being an increase of 3188,- 887 over the year before. McCheane, John McCheane and William ,Kennedy, three British members of the Society of Friends, who wish to found a colony of Quakers in the Northwest, interview- ed Hon. Clifford Sifters. It is pro- posed to sot apart several townships for them on one of the rivers, they agreeing to people the land set apart within it few years. GREAT BRITAIN. In future frozen mutton for the British army will be purchased from the colonies only. King Edward will not send any of his horses to the St. Louis Exposi- tion. His Majesty has made it an invariable rule not to enter horses in handicap races. Israel Zangwill, the author, a.nd Edith Aryton, daughter of the presi- dent of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, were married at a regis- try. office in the East End of London. ICing Edward has conferred a bar- onetcy on Lord Mayor Ritchie in commemoration of his recent enter- tainment of King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helene. of Italy at the Guild Hall. UNITED STATES, There were 64 cases of diphtheria in the Elmira, N. Y., Reformatory, many more than the officials report- ed. The proposed union railway sta- tion at Washington is to cost 35,- 000,000 and cover nine blocks. Mr. Grover Cleveland, in a letter to The Brooklyn Eagle, says his de- termination not to become a candi- date for the Presidency is unalter- able and conclusive. The Wabash Railroad has made an innovation by substituting the tele- phone for -the telegraph in handling a great part of its business. The wedding of Miss Jeanne Teen- ard, the pretty Franciscan Sister, who left the order to marry Emery Brault, will take place on Christmas Day, at Holyoke, Mass. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, do - clams that the city would enter the electric lighting field at once in com- petition with the gas and electric light nempanies. Thousands of men empeoyed by the paper mills of New England and New York State aro idle because of a shut down of the mills at numer- ous points. Of more than 2,000 prisoners re- ceived in the Ohio State Prison last year, not one could repeat the Ten Commandments, though many pro- fessed to be sons of church members. Lottie Lancaster, 12 years old, of Newbern, N. C., accidentally dis- charged a loaded shot un,gkilling her five-year-old sister and probably fatally wounded her ton -year-old sis- ter. ... Jacob and Freed Miller, brothers, are dead; Mrs. Frank Miller and An- thony Johns are dying, and three Miller children are ill as the result of poison in canned sardines which they ate for supper, at Winamac, Ind. C. P. Xing, mineralogist, of Bos- ton, reports that under the State of Connecticut, from Bridgeport north and cast to the Massachusetts line, there is a vast bed of radium of sufficient power and value to make or unmake the United States, According to plans under consider- ation the New York Contrn1 Railroad is to be equipped with an electric system which will bring the subtle - ban country nearer New York, and establisk the theory that steam as a motive power for railroads has been s,uperceded. GENERAL. The Japanese press have stopped talking war. Chinese Generals are anxious to go teD\tv,IviwiiiitahmItcusushift. er Jones of the Honorab I Artillery Company of Londcm, has presented a cup to the Queen's Own Rifles, The minority report of the k'ioutli Afripan latboe 001111)318:11011 says there le sufficient labor an that canary to meet requirements. The 'Bavarian Chamber of Repr entatives deffimands• the dismiestil of , all officers found guilty of ill-treat- ing soldiers te, There has boon fighting tho French Soudan. The :French lost 82 lulled, while 300 ,Thetrogs ere n slain; Sin-et:ad nuaffereece isoften ineluding the Suitan of Kamm, • mental indolence - THE XING'S PET. Was ars MajeSty"s Corn/mu/on fe Many Years. "Jack," King Edward's Irish ter- rier who died- in Dublin during the late royal tour of, Ireland, had been Ms majesty's close compaeion ' for many years. A Prince of Wales, the: , king was rarely seen without Jecks At Sandringham the lively little rel- iow is said to have °fleece seept, walked and all but talked with hie master. Re accompanied all the Sandringham shootiog 'parties, to the infinite disgust of the pheasants, earl guests who clid not happen to lilce maall dogs. • As a matter of fact jack was not altogether popular oatside of the royal circle. 13'e had certain exas- perating habits which maale more than one person long to Ow:0' him, aoo.ilthsotgh forbidden by, elicit te4jto d jack early displayed a taste for chewing cloth, and a story ef his P..ppy days wan laughing-sto;,k at Sandringham for some time. Airco, g the guests there en one occasion was an amabassador with' whom Jack re- fused to novice friends. After dinner one night, when muck conversation was going on. sonabody discovered that Jack was chewing away on the ambassador's coat tail. The some- body was young and it seemed a joke, so he only told some other . young people. Together they en - j o jeeadokthaerofuunnd inawsaiylenacte .the cloth till the coat tail was detached, and with it he retreated under a near -by sofa. When the unconscious a.mbassador got up, his plight was seen by every- body, but first of all by the tactful prince, who covered his retreat from the roo.na. There was no reprimand or punish- ment for Jack, but the youthful per- sons who had watched the fun, plead- ing that they "only wanted to see how far Jack would go," were not let off as easily, but were treated to a lecture on manners. The livelieet of the princesses said, in telling 'the story soon after, "That is always the 'way 1 *When Jack does some- thing that positively demands pun- ishment, father scolds one -or an -of us 1" ARBITRATION WITH BRITAIN, Movement ie. United States Fav- oring Treaty. despatch from Washington says: The awakening throughout the Unit- ed States of a popular sentiment which it is hoped will develop into a national deniand for an arbitra- tion treaty between the United States and Great Britain was the object of it gathering of prominent men On Thursday afternoon at the residence of Gen. John W. Foster, formerly United States Secretary of State. I1 is understood the move- ment has the hearty approval of President Roosevelt. In April, 1896, a notable confer- ence of the friends of international arbitration was held in Washington.. That conference declared in favor of an arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain, and it was followed in January, 1897, iser the signing of such a treaty by Ihaited States Secretary of State Hay and the late 13ritish Ambassa- dor Sir Julian Pauncefote. The treaty failed by a close vote to re- ceive the two-thirds majority re- quired for its ratification. Promin- ent among the objections urged against this treaty were the compli- cations growing out of the Clayton-. Bulwer Treaty and the controver* over the Alaskan boundary. These. having been disposed of, it is felt that the present is a favorable time to reawaken public sentiment in favor of a new arbitration treaty with Great Britain. PATRIOTIC SALIVION. Leave American and Come to Can- adian. Waters to be Caught. A despatch from Ottawa says: Not long ago _Americans discovered that they could intercept the salmon head- ing for the Fraser River before they reached the mouth of that stream. This ahnost broke tho 'hearts of tire British Columbia packers, who came down here, insisting that the fishing regulations must be made loss string- ent, or they would have to go out of business. Meanwhile our neigh- bors were running up new canneries, one of them completed in July last to employ 600 hands and turn out five million tins of fish a year. But now comes news that the fish have taken a new route to the Fraser, and that most Of them have forsaken tkie vicinity of the American traps. The Puget Sound canners had expected this season an output of 750,000 cases of fifty tins each, but they rea- lized only 180,000, while British Columbia put up 1,247,000 cases in all. Thus it looks as if the trouble had cured itself without any Gov- ernment intervention. Tee fish, which really belong to its, are elud- ing the United States trappers, and several of the new canneries on the American side will be Arlie next year. OTTAWA HAS, SURPLUS. Financial Statement Shows 3e0,- 000 to the Good, A despatch from Ottawa saye: Ellis, chairman of the Finance Com- mittee, has prepared a statement for the year, Which shows a, very satise factory condition 01 affairs. it is. estenated that there will be a sur - pine of 810,000, despite the feet that, 387,000 had been spent to meet the fuel deficit and the fire rellt* Then, too, the 310,000 that the cit. received authority to borrow this, year hp.s net been borrowed - o speetion does not pro -moth. piritual digestion. onir