Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-6-2, Page 3VaIN PLOIXD nips Drive the Enemy From Their Positions. HEAVY FIGHTING. A. despatch Lo the London Daily Tolegranh front New-Chwang statee time a Chimes() army emplane reports that ,thpanese eremite dimeovered the enemy in strength ot Tottenling, 35 melee northwest of 'reng-IYaeg-Ciliong, an Saturday. 'When their exact po- sition Willi ever:Intuited the japanese sent a flying column fir= Sluyen, Which made a seroug demonatration - on the enemy's front, and al. day- light on Sunday engaged the Rus- sians with artillery from the south. Meanwhile the main force, (geom. panted by inmentain guns, advenced westward from the Feng -Wang - (Meng road, turning the lius.sians' left fiend( and enfilading their trench,. os. The Ruseians retreeted hastily to the Tatungling Pass, losing over a thousand kneel, woundod and cap- tured. The japanese losses were The division which outflanked the Russians were the- troops who no - cording to tlie St. Petersburg reports retired Nom Emig -Wang -Meng, their retirement being part of the Japan- ese tactics in Sunday's battle. The Japanese now occupy Tatungling. The Shen-Teni-Kwan correepondent -of the Chroniclekeys that he hears that 15,000 Russians were surprised 't in the Tatungling Pass by :30,000 Japareese. The 'Messina casualties wero 4,000, and more than a thou- sand surrendered. JAPS LOSE BOATS. , Admiral Alexieff, in a despatch to St. Petersburg, dated on Thursday, reports as follows:- "Rear -Admirals Wltgert and Oiegerovitch report that 1.11 enemy had bombarded Durbentse Bay with gunboats. The following night they tried to block tho road- stead at Port Arthur with mines, and as it appeared from the shore, is not too much to say Ufa the bureatuctraey is now on les trial be- fore the eallghtoned public openion of the empire, and thi3 evidence erns been (load againet that neon the ou,lset, RUSSIAN ARTILLERY, That the Ituwelan attillevet in 'Man- churia is admitted by coerespondents at the remit to be Inadequate (Against the Japanese, who exceed therein both as regards efficiency and new - mos collies as a disconcerting sur- prise, Of the 280 guns at (len. Kouroprelleinee disliosal fewer then half are pf later melte than .1$09. BLAME jAPS AND NATURE. The St, Petersburg corm/pendent of tho ronetoo Express says that the officials energetically deny that any mines were laid outside territoeial waters. 11 rmy are afloat beyond these waters they are Japanese, or went [drift by arrei deaf . Itusei an naval officere, they add, would raver think of strewing mines at ewe, CIS Ibey are well aware that they wcodd eliereby risk their own vessala and render Ruesia liable for the Payinent of indemnities for Accidents to neu- tral vessels. Moreover, despite there success in destroying the Japanese battleship Hotause, the officials at Port Arthur would be glad if there were no Russian mines at Gin en- trance of the Motor, for the recent inactivity of their own ships lues born largely 'due to their not know- ing accurately the positions of the mines, owing to their shifting in the rough sea, If any power protests, Russia is confident of her ability to refute the charge of wilful malign in- tent. The -foreign criticism, indeed, has °treated surprise and indignatioo, especially in view of the foot that Russia has been the chief sufferer smite strain Menthes and two torpedo from accidental explosions. It is Inlets wove :Junk. Eleven -mines sewn still believed that the Russian bat- eijr the Japanese to block the lumbar "teem taken up by the leuasians be- tween May 1.8 and May 21. Boots belooging to the merchant steamer Amur, a dredger, and se steam launch hate) been brought to Port Arthur from Daley." EMPRESS HOSPFPAL, TRAIN. Tho Empress' hospital train start- ed from St. Petersburg on tho long journey to the Far least on Thurs- day. Among those at the station 30 witness its departure were Orad Duke Miehael Alexandrovitch, the heir .prcsumptive, and Duke Peter of Oldenburg, tho Emperors brother-in- law. Tho train is the finest railway hospital over conshructed. It con- sists of two sections, the fleet com- posed of fourteen .andeulance cars fitted with every appliance for the comthetable transpoitation of the 111 and wounded. The second section contains two operating cars, sup- plied with every adjunct. of the mo- dern operating room, tiled interiors capable of instant cleansing, disin- fectants, storm, inseruments, ban - daps, and adjustable operating tables. These ears are intended to bo detached from the train and sent to various opiate, wherever they will be of the most use, along the line. Tho remainder of the brain contains a library, chapel, and bathrooms, in- cluding a special electric bath, an "5" ray car Witie dynamos, and all apparatus, and a kitchen ear from which all the patients aro fed. There aro also eaes containing' re 'dispen- sary, sterilizing and disinfecting elle paratus, a water distilling plant mid lea -Manufacturing inachinery. There went out with the train three doctors, roar sisters of mercy, and three assistants. The Empress not only furnished the entire train, but .furnishee 8500 mon- thly to aid in the purchase of deli- cacies for the sick, 2,000,000 TROOPS. The St. Petersburg correspondent the Echo do 'Pavia says that Rus - .'s preparations for effectually 01(1- tha war include the mobilization 2,000,000 Demos in European. ‘ussia. The mobilization will be car - :fed out progressively, The coeres- Pendent quotes "Ou influential per - eon" as declaring that Russla will involve the whole world in war rath- er than submit to intervention by other powers to make peace. .An important agreement, snys the despotth, has been reached by Rus- sia anci Gerinany. The negotiations between them with regard to the Customs tariffs have been virtually concluded, 11 in stated that Russia ham made concessions that will co - able Chancellor von Duelow to sat- isfy tho agrarians, while Germany Promises to support Rusecia et tho end of the :war, with a VieW al pre- vent:lag the assenibling or another Berlin Coegress, GLOOM IN -RUSSIA. The St. Petersbueg correfepondent of the Imedon Standard dwells at length noon the etagnotion of finan- cial, commereird and industrial life, 91110 concluding item of'the blacie ao- count is ati ()Metal statistical report of last Year's harvest, which In 89 province% inhabited by 65,000,000 people, is described as middling, or below middling, while in the remain- ing 88 proviiicee the beet deseription is oboe() mitielliog. Nowhere) is it good. The writer evinclie tin by tay- ing that it Is only In St. Potted/111'g among the peadicolly irrosponSible bureaucracy, which rules Itheeire, that attempte made to main- tain oelintistic lirWSI of the progrees tleship Petropavlovsk was elmtroyed by one of these explosions. DALFTY DO—CITS INTACT. The attempt mode about a fort- night ago to detnroy the docks and piers Dalny Was not succossful, and after the receigt of the news of tho lots of the .frepanese battle- . Hat seise, L1001-0 011. Stoessel, commander of t1M military forces at Port Aethur, ordered that the docks and piers be not doatroyed, The German steamer Chorea was fired on by a Japanese cruiser in Peehili Gulf to -day, She misunder- stood the signals of the cruiser. The Sivedith steamer Karin also was fired on during last night while off Liao - Mittel Promontory, but it is not known whence this fire creme, -- RUSSIANS BURN SITRINES. A telegrain lias been received at Seoul from Gensan, saying. that the Ruealans, after the engagement witli Corean troops at lilrem-Preen.g on May 19th, burned the shrines and the royal mausoleum, which were er- ected there by tho founder of the pre- sent Corean dynasty in tho year 1364, and Nctich wore regarded by the Careens as sacred. This appar- ent wanton desecration of tombs in O lend imbued with the spivit of an - easter worship has caused excited de- nunciation of the Russians on the Pert of Seoul officials. Iikun-Ileung is on the coast of C.orea, and about 50 miles noeth of Gensign. MANY RUSSIANS HANGED. Alarming Story Published by Lon- don Newspaper, 'The I.ondon Standard publishes a despatch from a Russian correspond- ent, in whom the paper says 11 plac- es great COnfidenCe, containiag most sensational statements regarding the alarm•ing condition of Russia as the outcome of the war. 1.110 correspond- ent asserts that disturbances In var- ious cities have been followed by wholesale executions without any civ- il trial, It is stated that 600 per- sons leave been hanged in Warsaw alone, and that many others hove been hanged In Oronstade and Mos- cow. At the latter place the thoops buried eighty coffins, containing the bodies of those who have been hang- ed. The bodies wore buried secretly; in the cibed of night, presumably he the woods. The Standard, in, an editorial, says it publishes this coerespondent's statement under all preserve, but ite thinks there are enemy indications, sucli, for instance, as the sinking of the battleship Orel, that the normal dieanection of the' population of leers - sin has been greatly stimulated by the war. BURNED 200 PIANOS. g -- Piano -Dealers' Novel Method of Advertising. A despatch from, New York says: While 150 delegates to the National Piano Dealers' Conventiorl, in Mien - THE FAIR AT WINNIPEG- PItIZES WEION WILL BE OP., TERED YOB LIVE STOOIC, .Aatetion Sole System Spreading -Flaking the Foirs Educotional. Advance Sheets of the Winnipeg Dominion Fair prize llet for 1004 show that the prizes Oilered for the princiPal cheeses of live stock are about as. follows:- Shorthorns $2,- 565, ferefords $1,125, Polled Angus end Calloways about $600 each, Ayr- shiree, Holsteins and Jerseys about $500 each. Clydesdales, 8993, Shires $456, dean and general purpose hors- es $350 and $4,50 each, light harness horses aml thoroughbreds nearly 8500 each, hunters and saddle horses $700 and $800, ponies 8190, speed elames $18,000, Sheep -Tho different ereeds will average about $175 each. Swine-Yorecishires, Tanovorths and Beekohires $300 each, the American breeds about $200 each. Good priz- es are also offered in the bacon class- es. Prizes of $100, $60 and $40 are offered for cerload lots of cattle, freight rates nom Ontario and the East will be paid oa all exhibits that are returned to the origined pellet of shipment. AUCTION SALE, SYSTEM. The auction system of marketing live atoel:. advocated by the LiVa Stock Commissionor, Ottawa, seems to be gainiag ground steadily and surely. This month at Calgary neer- ly four hundred head of purebred cat- tle lune pile under the hammer at the Hale conducted by the Territorial Breeders' AssociatIOILS, and several district sales are being eetablishrel in Ontario. The Seogog A.gricultural Society and the Port Perry Board of Trade are now arranging for ,an importent sale to be held at Port Perry on June 36th, 1904.. Those sales will be hold at intervals, and if sufficient encouragement is extend- ed to them, they will probably be held monthly to sell by auction of all kinds of farm animate, inclocting stockers, fat stocli, dairy cows, pigs, otc. Several very prominent breed- ers of purebred stock are consigning excellent animals to the first sale, and persons 'desiring to contribute either purebreds, stockers. milch cows or pip may obtain particulars from the Secretary, Mr. J.. H. Brown, Port Perry. A. number of buyers from the Toronto Stock Yards will be on hand. This will be a groat convenience to tho farmers and stoele raisors of the 'district, bringing the 'retirees and sellers together for 'dis- posing of surplus stock. In Eng- land ancl Scotland nearly all stock is sold in this way in the market towns on. stated days, which proves a, great advent:ago to the seller and convenience to the buyer. IMPROVEMENT OF FAIRS. Three years ago when Mr. Ie. 'W. Hodson, Live Stock Commissioner, pointed out to the annual meetints of tho Association of Fairs and reelli- bitions the utter inefficiency of many of the agricultural societies of On- tario, and unfolded a systematic plan of imegovement, he was looked. upon by many of the delegates as a dan- gerous iconoclast. The fact that fairs which received government granta were intended to be education- al seemed to be almost forgotten, and tho proposal to arrange the fairs in convenient circuits and send them expert judges who would give educa- tional addresses in the ring was con- sidered impracticable by mealy. Still the project was taken up hi an ex- perimental way and the results leave been so satisfactory that this year it is expected that about 170 agri- cult:noel societies in Ontario will ar- range with the Provincial Departanent of Agriculture for the services of ex- pert judges. Last year 152 societies In that province, were supplied with judges, while in the other provinces anel the 'Ferritories many of the lairs had expert judges furnished by the local and Dominion Deportments of Agriculture. A TRAMP ERADICATOR. An Original Plan Is In Operation at Raleigh, N. C. The New York Herald. has the f lowthg from Raleigh, N. 0, :-The Town of Selma has discovered ao 00- iginal of getting rid of tramps. The rallwao runs stenight through tho town, and along 1110 Greek is a street half a. 111110 long. Tramps upon aerest (Ira allowed by tho May- or to race for freedom, the lost num of the contest) to go to "the road" for thirty clays. O'hen the 'Lemont) ego lined up at the Town Hall, while te policeman is at the boundary, hole a mite away. The trampe run 10I their might, nod the win- ners are seen no more, while the watching policeman ceptures the last mac, who is sent to "the roads." IL is said that tempt; go noar the WWII 0111y one% and that the (10\100 for getting rid of them is entirely origi nal. A. largo number of agriculturists in the Oekney Islands will immigrato to Canada, 131 subwiplion is beiog taken up in the Transvaal to send a teem of Boers to the rifle meet at 13isley. The Tlitleetens operating against the British emote Gyangete have become more eggreastVe. The iron theliestries of Russian Poe larid are soffering as a. result of ' the War, rind thousands of workmen. are tie City, N. j., on Wednesday waved idle. rod lights aed danced in a, genie, The :British I -Torero of Commoue 200 venerobie square Pianos bane Voted 111 fievor Of tho erection of a hem creetriated, to mark eienet, toe monument fo the late Lord Salisbury dealers term the Passing of the old in W1•18Iirrint"r Abbc•Y• make of 1115))')) (*11)1 The heath.° An interment 11111011 Will indiento othich write Melt in en open gaol, the )3)'0501) 01 end direction of a steam - Mph ground, blaze(' gee imeneag er three miles iliegant has been in- temS07 allEi WaS not oetInguithrel for vented leY llerlin ellefirlww• eon" 8,1 00(11 hour% sists In part of a wirelese root:her nod trentim it 1 or combined, Miss Ladle, le Ravels, Of Coven- Sobseiriglien to the mowed. of $6,- leg, Conn„ wont to Worcester, 'Mess, 000 for estirldiseithe the Diet 1l1g1 30 bepy leg hrother, whorrt she and the end of the evae, but Oro Nomeld of Ilighlatufigs ill Hamilton thought. Was She wati gets of the Woe is a metier of Pubhave byre oultcl) 3 ht nmount ecoinewhat 11)31)1 13(10 entrprised to flnd 'e 1,nowledge wiwgretlaym, mid that it yet. to 1,e raircel 134 $2,500. 825,000 10 Mr old 110 ertink. TIIE 411ORLD'S 111.11.1tKET8 REPORTS PROM THE LEADIDG TRADE OENTEES. Periees of Cattle, Grain, Cheese, and Other Dairy Pr ()duo at Florae and liaproad. Butehers--Market was barely stem, 'PHI? liiRGIT °BOP REPORT dy, aud fee tile alediala 011 1 IQ 1'1' 11 1 were all from 30 to iGa. For good ...- MID:leers thero was ne easiug off Deugge,0•E By egegE AND rirtoST noticeable. 011010e erattle sold at ..,,,7:150 it.: :1..1 5. 0 and seem piched light reeport buteherre 01 $4.60 to 81,63. oodionl to (,,,Inzuon 011 too wad al Several Correspoodents l'ave Sue- FLA.S BEEN SERIOUS. — Stock -err; end Finders -Marler t stare- easefully Protected Their Toronto, egay 31,--eyheat,--Tbe cly to Min tor good g•ralety light Trees. maricat continues firm for Onturio etockere and herci,•ro. grades, which are scarce, No, 2 °elves- 11f771100 drill. white and red 'Winter quoted at 95 SheeP alai nendereeelerkel. el early, to 3)5,4c outside. Spring wheat is 1 fogs -Marie', el Indy u 1. 85.1 0 fur nondnal at 90 to 91e east, and elects 11(101 3411(1 4_frit_s —end lights, goose at 83. to 02e east. Manitoba wheat Is unchanged. No. 1. North - TEN MINERS SUFFOCA'TED. ern, 93e Georgian Bay port% No, 2 Northero at 90c and No, 3 Northern 88e, No, 1 hard is nominal at tkle. Orindiag in transit prices aro tie above thoso quoted. OaLs-The market iS unchanged, with demand moderato. No, 2 white quolcal at, 31,4 to 31 le west, and ut 1124c low freights to Now York. No. 1 white. Iffiee east and No. 2 at 32* cts. east. Barley -The market is quiet, with demand limited. No. 2 quoted at 42o michtle freights, No. extra, 40 to 40ee, and No, 3 at 38 to 39e middle frelPts. Peas -The market is dull at un- changed prices, with No. 2 shipping peas quoted at 01 to 62e west or east. Corn -The market Is quiet, and prices firm. No. 3 American yellow quoted at 60e to 610 on track, Tor- onto; No. 0 mixed at 60e. Canadian corn nominal at 4.4 to 45a west for sound prelim leye-The market is quiet, with prices nominal at 57 te 58c outside. Buckwheat -The market is dull, with prices lower. No, 2 quoted at PeculiarAccident in a Eine at Williamstown, Pa.. Itum been a Svdoirs increase in the A Wilkeelmere, Pa., despatch says:: '7•Triciubd"la.n°11E.m1e111"iocluilliunig'setri; sPtaBoelkYweala'S -A telegram received at OM KU:Ville- parlEelllarlY 17717077147, alld it is safe to henna Coal Company's offices in this '010 tong no Inc than 25 per cent. city on Wednesday night states that tan Millers wore suflocti t ed 1 ry gas io,r,,anlldaortfteckoe:q1171'1'dlielnYOr°QinIgtthgeraeshasin 0(114 salithur lum's frQui 8 "181.1 1"°- Jail parts of unturio, and in the St. motive In the workings of the Sinn- Lawo,o,,,, „„d fered o,,cm,dinn. (et tame Valleys aur- ae 50 per cent. of oll 310008 of three mit Branch Cord Company ot Wil- mstown. The accident was one to their location. lia of toe most peculiar in the history 01 eorrespondente put their less The Fruit Divigion ret Ottawa sent out a remegt for information as to the damages by mice oral froet dur- ing the pose winter anti hoe received a very larger neuther of replies from all parts of tho Dominion, The damage from mice lien been 1111381. 8,0107.48 ill Ontario end Quebec. There are, of cowrie ieolated cases in all plu•ts of the Dominion, and there of the anthracite mines, and no rea- son for it can be assigned by the of- ficials. The 111111101 la used to con- vey cord to the breaker. 1110 mon. employed in the minos 11)1V71 made a •prectice of riding to and from their work on the cars that are beetled by small locomotives. Wedrieetlay after- noon General InstilForeman Golden therms -al. Snow pro\ iried them ex- tend about Iiity miners hoarded a. car , collent protection, ender which they and about half of the journey was could work on trees, in some cases made when some of the men hailed up to the limbs. Forest trees and the cameleer, who stopped, and it hedges siaTered to an equal extent. WaS felted that nearly every man In The lose will probably reach about tha party in tha cars had been over- 25 per rent, of all yOT.Org trees. COMO by tho gas and sulphar which Tlio proctise of the orchardist seems to be to grow the C0Vea crop even at the risk of enrouraging the mice, and to protect the trees against their attacks. Meeting a small circle about the trees dean is not, in it- self A SUFFICIENT PROTECTION, years and /ess. The injury: was almost nothing where young orchards had clean cul- ture throughout the season. As the protection to the mien was Increased. by the growth of words, grans or eervel, crop, km the proetortion of loss to to 46c outsidemonnated from the slack of the loco - Flour -Ninety per centpatents aro motive and floated Mirk over them. unchanged at $3.65 in buyers' bags /00 export, middle freights, e gel. rellers of special brands for domes- tic trade quoted at $4,25 to $4.40 in bb1. Manttoba flours are steady. No. 3. patents, $4.80; No. 2 patents, $4.50, and strong bakers', 94.40 on. track, Toronto. Millfeecl-Bran is steady. at $17 to 817.50, and shorts at $16 here. At outside points bran is quoted at $15- 5 0, and shorts at $16.50. Manito- ba bran, in sacks, $17, and shorts at $19 hero. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Dried apples -The demand is limit- ed, and prices are steady at 3 to ND per lb. Evaporated apples, Gee per lb. Beans -Trade is quiet, with prices steady. Prime beans are quoted at $3.,58 to $1.60, and hand-picked at $1.65 to 81.70. Hops -The market is unchanged at 28 to 32c, according to quality. Honey -The meaket is quiet at 6 to 7c per ib. Comb quiet at $1.50 to 81.75. Hay -The market is quiet, with of- fori»gs moderate. Timothy quoted at 89.50 to $10.25 a ton, on track, Toronto. Straw -The market is quiet, with prices unchanged at $5.50 to 86 on track ,Toronto. Maple syrup -Tho market ie quiet at 81 per Imperial gallon. Potatoes -The market is quiet and steady. Choice cars are quoted at $3. to $1.05 per bag, on track here, and jobbing lets at $1.10 to $1.20. Poultry -The demand is unchanged, with limited offerings. Chickens, 12 to 130 per lb.; turlceys, 13 to 17e Per lb. for fresh killed. ' -- HOG PRODUCTS, Dressed hogs are unehanged, with offerings small. (lured meats are in good demand at unchanged prices. We quote :-Bacon, long clear, 8 to Sec per lb, in wise lots. MOSS pork, $1,7; do., short cut, 818.50. Smoked ments-Hams, light to medium, 123c; do., heavy, 11* to 12e; rolls, 9 to Oec; shoulders, 10c; backs, 3.2e to 13111; breakfast bacon, Lard -The demand is fair, with tho Capt. W. Jones, salted from this prices unchanged. We quotet-Tierces poet. on Theirsday afternoon for 'etc; tubs, Sc; palIs, feee; conipound, South African ports, with a full grai- n to 800 oral cargo, made up of American and THE DAIRY MARKETS. Canadian manufactored goods and Canadian produceThe cargo cone - Butter -The market is moot, With prised 16,000 bushels of No. 1 Nor- . no changes in quotations. Receipts them wheat, 5,000 bushels of Can- contitme good and are chiefly of in- ration rye, and 2,000 bushels of feeler to medium grades. We quote : bookeelame. A temp amount of flour -Finest 1-1b. rolls, 13 to te; or- is els° being %rot forward. dthery large Tolls, 131 to 12e; tiled- The Melville is equeoped with ale itnn and low grades, to 10c; up-to-date cold stonnge, an11 in this creamery prints, 17 to 18a; solids, am placed 300 tons of bacon, 350 15 to 16c. tons of pork, frozen beef and poultry 13)3)38-33110 receipts are fair, and and 75 tons ol similar merge. She prices are unchanged at 15e per dos- is also carrying g30,000 feet of white en, la case lets. pirte, 100 boxes of first-class cheese, Cheese -Tho market is quiet, lv11a1anuber of =Haus of Cana - prices unchanged. Old quoted a91 (13011 111111(0 The engineer crowded on all steam cool the unconscious men were hur- ried to the Willhonstown end of the tunnel, liege help Wail at 01100 SUM - monied and the men were taken to the surface, where, a corps of Nisei- cians made eVery possible effort to resuscitate them, but aid came too late for Foreman Golden and nine other victims. STEAMSHIPS TO MEXICO. Dominion Government Calls for Tenders. An Ottawa despatch says :-The Department of Trade and Conuneree is issuing a call for tenders for monthly steamship tervices between Canada and Mexico for a Period ef five yew's. The Atlantic service will he between Montreal in the summer and Halifax in the winter and the Mexican ports of Progreso, Coatza- coalcoas, Vera Cruz and Tampico, touching at Nassau, the Bahamas and Devalue, Cuba, The Pacific ser- vice will be between Vancouver, 13. 0•, and the Mexican ports of Mazat- lan, San Blas, Manzunillo, Acepuico, Puerto Angel, Salina Cruz, Tooled and San Benito. Tenders 1110y leo made for either or both services. The vessels employed are to class Al, to rem under the liritish flag, to have a carrying capacity of not lees than 3,000 tons, with adequate pas- senger accommodation, to nmintain between ports a minimum speed of ten 1:nots per hour. The Mexican Government have ex- pressed their willingness to give a subsidy of $100,000 in Mexican cur- rency for the Pacific service, and $20,000 for the Atlantic service. Tbe tominio a overnmen t will supple- ment this sum by mai subsidy as they may deem expedient The Mex- ican OU1.'0011111e11t provides for the free carriage of their Govermnent mail and freight up to ton tons. FOR SOUTH AFRICA. Steamer Sails From Montreal With Full Cargo, A Venereal despatch says: The Elder -Dempster steamahip to 10e per lb., and new at 8* to Saa, the latter for twins, UNITED STATES MARKETS. RICHER THAN KLONDIICE. Stories of the New Gold Fields in. • Barrel°, May 81.,-Flour-Firen, Calif ornia Wheat -Dell; offerings light; $1.01 'Ito New York Tribune has the asked for No. 2 hard Winter. Corn -Eas,o; No, o yellow, 60e; No, 2 *following do:vetch from Atestin. Tex - John Boultell, a well-known mixed, 554 1.0 56c. Oats -Quiet; No, as, - mining mare wee went to the 1177W 2 white, 47c; No. 2 mixed, ttlec. placer gold fielde near La Paz, Cali- liarley-Meditun 1Vestern, in store, 55e. fornin, has cleaned up a fortune of mitganteee, eras re 880,080 in the feW weeks theit he Northern, 00 to Deem No, 2 North- lens been then, 111 a leiter received orn, 97 to 9/1e; old ,luler, Slie bid. here he stays thot Joao Menthol% the Itheley-No. 9, 88e; discoverer of the field, hns made nnumie, 40 to 60e. Corn -No, 3, 49 Moro than $5,000,000 colt of his to 131)'; July, 473c bid. placer mines in the hest rain. months. Ffinemapolte, 11ther Rig -Wheat -May, Many Amorienns have gone to the 9411e; jelly, 084e; September, 81e; new ileitis, ond 80,1010 of them have 011 track, Nen 1. hard, 970r; No, 1 Northern, 963c; No, 2 Northern, 981e. Flour -First Dotards, 85.1(3 to 85.20; second patent% $5 to 911,- 111; lime crimes, 88.6th second clones, 92.60. Bran -in bulk, 81,0.50 to 917. CAT'Sfela Tamil to, May 133 ,-Veeport-Ma Meet steady for thoice cettle, The best offreinge 3') ((110(1 Nom $11 to $5.25, the latter prIee Igiog paid for a colonial irenty, le says the emits of lineell of very choke cr•diele, weigh- Niel( ledivniel to the Preeideut of the ing ten° lbs., and sold by Mayboe, republic, end of the Presirleut to Withon and Co, Severed good loads King lerewned led up to tho agree - sold at $1.10 to $5.15. 'rile MT- inent. In nbandoniug 3310 rreneh Ply or Medium en Go 9500 71 1 1 Li 10 too henvy in proportion to 1.110 Whole. A 'row mere choice eattle wore want- ed, Mr. 3. L. Unborn of Leamington, Ont., Mr, A. C. Starr of Stai'r's Point, N. S., and several other cor- respondents, have found the throwing of two or three shovelfuls of loose earth about the trunksof the trees, to form a. small mound, quite suffici- ent to protect their trees. Mr. Herold Jones of Maitland. Ont., has practiE.SE sutec)ssfrilly the careful tramping of the snow about the trees after the first heavy snowfall, repeating, it after a thaw. A. most effective protection is furnished by wrapping building paper about the trunk of the tree for one or two feet, tying if in place with istout cord. A. few correspondents have used a, light veneer, such as is used for making baskets, cut in pieces about (3 by 18 inches mul held in place by O stout cord. These cost about four dollars per thoueand, and will last many e•ears, The Experiourntal Farm at Ottawa find these a good preven- tive of sun scald as well as mica, and in the end tho cheapest protec- tion. Comparatively few have attempted to save their injured trees. Where the cambium layer or inner barR has not been completely removed all mound the trees it may frequently be saved by leeeplog the remaining new wood moist until the growing sea- son. This may be done by erecting (1 mound of fresh earth to cover the wound, by binding the woend with a mixture of clay and cow manure, half and half, tovering the whole with burlap, or by simply covering the womul witli grafting wax. As it is impossible always to tell by a simple inspection whether the 001111)1 um layer has been all removed it with pay in moat cases to try one or other ot these methods. Bridging is practised by niany quite sueceseeolly. Mr. 1V. W. Cox of Collingwood this "Some old trees that have never failed to boar good crops that were girdled when they were five 11141315 in diameter for a dist.ance of oneelialf foot or 111005. 'Me method which ho Mond sutressful consisted in boring a hole above and below the onsund to the 'depth of half nn inch co• more with 1 half-incli bit using for a scion a branch slightly larger than this in diameter. The ends were cut with a slope and the length was such that they could be inserted readily into these holes, above and below the %round, retaining their po- sition by the olaoticity of the wood. Tho r•oints of tution were covered With grafting WEIS and Ole bare wood about the trunk 1)1*W:octal -with CORI:- mon paint. elfele DASIA(H1 BY FROST, though exceedingly serious in On- taxio and Quebec, will not affect to any great extent the nmount of fruit put no the market this year, except hi the case of plums and peaches. Apples and pears wove seriously in- jured neong the northern border of the freq. belt, The Baldwin, Green- ing, Ontorip, Spy nod Blenheim hane beeh kiLled in places where they are usually C011ailleved heady. Top - grafting only very slightly incretests the hardinteste of the variety. None of the large apple -producing sections were arriously thieved. The Flendah Beauty Pear again proved ono of the hardiest of good varieties. Ia both pear and apple er- charda the trees suffeeed Much lose front Croat nod more from Mice Whim grown in sod or eover crop, acquired good clones, aod toe mak- Plums were killed in some of the Ing big folemws out of them, :Min lierevO pluni-prodetelng sections, and noultell says that the new fel& far ftil,triVilweyjrobtitelibli1I0tetter1 teioo meted the Klondike in richness. ((001)710110111 1,5 rendre a, honey ceop this year fat - OFF -SI -Mat VISMNG BIGETS. Probable. Tire. reverts from the Essex peach Trench Government Book on An- district show a damage nopr000lelog that of 181)0; 50 per rent, of the glo-rrench Treaty. A despatch from 3 -Tho Ones Will be killed outright, The Covernment on Thorsdny issued a Niagara district is net so soverelY yellow book on the Anglo -Wench injured. The Crawford tele; prove(' parlieutnitly Lender, rhorriea nvo alao injured aeverely in hurl, Small fruits escaped With kaP, injury, shore of Nt0tt oundl 0 mi 101'11c31(ni r- earmed her i1eseot1,,1 righis in 1110 CaSe of 01T -shore fishing and the pm,- cheee of ball. The third 'kerb' within a week ban been theme floating in the Ottawa Giver at Kettle Wand, TEE RETIRED BURGLAR TELLS OE AN INCIDENT 11313134 BUSY CAREER. •••••••, Eow 1E0 Saved the /as ol g Elan Caught in Nis Own Burglar Trap, "As a rule," Mid the retired 0343- 51111', •`people do not eveleonle the 'tektite of the dark lantern men, but there may be times when they are glad to 110o wheri b eall be of some t;erviee Lo theng as I wan orlon, EQa instance , in the case of a mug 01.11110e aepoffNilUItetleat caught invisomlirgiartrp. "People are alvemys setting traps for the burglar; from simple things like putting op dishpans on tho wi� dews to scare him away when 110 tries to get in, to elaborate contrap- 1 forts calculated to catch bim and hold him after he's got In; like the one, for Instance that I was caught in 00041, that broke 111y leg. And it 3011,4 In one of thOSe ambitious Herta of traps like that that the man I'm lolling you about WWI caught. "Nice big houee, it was, handsome- ly and finely furnished, and promis- ing; a glance arounci, whea I had requited the parlor floor from tho cellar, was enough to 811090 that, and I set out eit once for the upper floors. At, the foot of the main stairs I heard a sound of somebody. monuing or groaning. 'I went upstairs to we what I could do, and in the doorway of a 13Ig room opening off the upper hall I SaW hanging a man; Ills body out - Hued plainly against a dim light burning' inside the room beyond him: "Suicide, 1(131(113)111, of course; and he'd changed his mind after hanging himself up; and I looked for the rope that 1 expected to see running from around his neck up to the crosspiece of the door frame under the transom, to cut it. But there, in place of the rope, appeared what seemed to lobo A. STICK OF WOOD, that reached down from the transon to the top of tho man's head and had at its lower end a curious sort of a wire cage, something like the n theatres, in which 0,3loagseesd.they have around gas jets be- hind the sceues ithis man's head was completely en - "I got two or three books out of the next room and blocked 'eue up undee his feet, SQ that he could rest his weight: on his feet, and so take that frightful strain off his neck, and then the man says to 1110 : " `My friend, 1 ana very much ob- liged to you.' "And then I sot about getting him out of his own trap, set for We Or anybody else in my business that might have come along, and which would have strangled him in twenty minutes more, sure, if I had not hap- pened to drop in. "The cage around his head I found to be in two halves, these attached to two wooden 111900 coming down fiemerathe door frame overhead. The contrivance worked notch like art or- dinary steel trap, except that it eaupt your head instead of your ft. "The two arms, with the two halves of the wire cage at their ends, were held apart when the trap WaS set, and a stout spring held thein together when tho trap was sprung; and it was sprung by stepping on a plate set in the floor In the door- way anal connected with the arms abole;cel ,el, he felt easier, as I lold you, when I had those books under his feet, and then when I had sized up the trap I gently but firmly inserted my jimmy between the two wooden mom that hold the cage together, and pried them apart blocking them, as I got them open, Nvith more books, until I had got tho cage wide enough open so that the mad Could get his head out, and so at lest I freed him; anecilLyeeeI7 RE WAS To BE FREE. "And then we sat down nod had a pleasant little chin together about the trap. It was his own. invention ancl he had rigged it, up himself in. tho doorway of his OWil. room. 'His idea had been. that it would hold a Mali till ho could get at him and he had rigged o bell attached to it thtet would ring when the trap was speong, to wake him up. And that night he had sai la his library, late, rending, and then had goeo op - stairs forgetting rat about his bur- glar trap and had walked into it himself, to 110 caught and held by it, as I found hin hanging', when I came along and rescued him. "As a matter of fact he was still pleased with the teap-most of us do believe 101 0111) 00011 and I'd seen, lie said, that it worked all right, and he told me that the bell had gone off all right, too, but --he was alone in the 'house that night, and when that cage had seep - ped on his head aud the bell had ssetrheacingliinngaltuhtrealt1ld'itillto 011011;10 ajlISth his toes touching the floor, and with no prospect or help, wiry, he certainly hod realized that he was in ri bad fix; and he had never, he Ohl me, been gladder to see anybody than he was to see me. "And I could easily believe him. As a rule, to be sure, people do not welcome tlie visits of the dark lan- tern but there linve bowl thnee 111111 )101117, expermieoce when. they were glad to see e, and that was one of —4- T11, reit of taxation in Guelph Olio, Ye‘aVrinlIs1111202gfr 813111.1elet reilway eneployees are demanding increased wage% ' The Education Department will open a, summer school at Cobourg in July. The Cenadian Machine TelePhone Company of Torooto were given 8, ten years' froachise by the PeLerboro Council cm Prickly night. The lexecutiVe C0310e11 of the Can- edirin 'Manufacturers' Assoeletioil are plenning the eXteiorion of Oneacilan tend% espeetolly lo Great, Britain. It is reported that the St1108 OE , an Italian thermion of Canada art) groundless, the motel% of Italians naming through Montreal not being in Muss of other geare,