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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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