The Brussels Post, 1903-2-5, Page 6NEWS
ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs From, All
Over the Globe.
Euclid Madden and James T. 'Kel-
ley, indicted for manslaughter in
connection with the accident at
Pittsfield,- Mass., lust Augest Oi
\teach Craig, Pro.
idea
llooseeeit's botlygtmed, was killed,
pleaded guilty in Pittsfield, on Tues..
date and Madden was sentenced to
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six mouths in the liouse of Corree-
CANADA, tion and to pay a $500 line. while
NeIley's case was placed On rik,.
Belleville Is agitating for a neW Bev. 0. U. Wetherbe, 0, Baptist
drill hall. mitrister of Holland Pateet, N. Y.,
The Manitoba Legislature will has resigned his ministry, in order
meet on February 12. that he may devote mote' of his time
Another steel and (mei company le to reading. lie takes 126 newepa,
being organized in Cape Bretonpets, besides a number of religious
Rosslend, 13, Le, Police e01117701.17 -
Lieut. Frederick Greenhed, of the
51011(15 11 OA% OIXIOCOLI all ganthlies re
50038 closed.
Swedes in Winnipeg will raise
funds to bring their fellow -country -
mon to Canada.
There is a smallpox outbreak
among the Indians on the Blood Re-
serve, south of Calgary.
Temperance workers have asked
the Ontaeio Government fOr a coin -
Mission to inquire ineo irregulari-
ties at the referendum.
The Provincial Cabinet Of Quebec
hue decidod to conveue the Legisla-
ture for the transaction of business
on February 26th next.
Jas. Northey and his sister,
Young's Point, have issued writs for
damages from the G. T. R. for in-
juries received th
THE MARKFTS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade Centres.
Toronto, Veil:. 8, - Wheat - The
market is lower, Sales of No. .2 red
mid w18 It at 70,1c middle freights.
No. 1 spring quotd eaL 71e on 11118-
lend, end No. 12 geese at. (1(8' on
Midland, Manitoba wheet easier,
lee
No. 1 hare, 8all rale grinding in
transit' . No 1 Northern 861c all
United Statem hydrograph office, rail, grinding in lennsit; No. 1 hard,
874c 13orth Bay, and No. 1 N (nth -
Seventieth, Ga., was divorced from
his wife a IOW LIELSS ago, but when erei:
dye - Market quiet, with No. 2
he was taken suddenly with a fatal
(111010(1 Ill 49 to 50C 1111(h110 1.1'01ghtS.
illness they WM re -married in the
City Hospital of Savannah, and :he
with wh
No, 9 ite quoted at 73e out -
died shortly afterwards.
LOW'S M. Banill'il, a :wealthy man-
The market is 111111, Willi
ufacturer of bags in igOAV York, who tialliw -
No. 8 EiNiVit quoted at 47e 'middle
was a me02111)10' of the fattens Aimee -
freight. end No. 13 at 43 to 44e nail-
ean elea
ite tm which in 1874, 1875
and 1878 defeated all comas, w ,' ilo '11freight'
The market for Canadian
awarded a medal by Um Princess "'"'"` -
is eneier, with No. 2 yellow quoted
Louise of England when he had out -
at 41 to 4 - an
1.1e west, d leo. 2 mix-
shot all comrs petitoat Wimbledon,
race ed at 40a
1; weete
and who won the first bicycle
ever ridden in the ccmntry, is dead. i illeewli""t - Merk"i dull. with
prices noutined at 47 to 413c at mite
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'iit'Llil‘t:---n111.8N.
GENERAL. iiMety per cent. patents
in e Ware:toad
wreck,. The Sultan or Jolo, son of a slew are meet, quoted at $2.70 niii,,,1,0ritle
wo
the Hon. Clifford Sifton in nn in- man , has just died of cholera at _freight, in buyers' sacks foe ox
terview at Winnipey; declared that - Straight rollers of special bramis for
Menila
lio expected about 40.000 American The draken habit of the FCC11011 (1011101iiiii trade quoted at 58,25 to
tro
imeragrants to 011101' the West this ops in inclo-China hes grown - in:513.35 in Iffils, Manitoba flour firm;
to se ended ' No 1 it tents 81.1(1.and seconds
eear.
Mails aro now received in London seem el rong bakers', 54, bags in -
There were 1,000 more Chinese ad-
mitted into Canada last year than from Pekin in 20 days by the over- chided, Toronto.
laud route. - Bran, 518 in bulk here;
nue derived from the tax 3,-
Prof. Braun, of Strasburg Uni shorts et (11 7.5)). At outside pointe
was 536
272. site, announces that be has discover- bran is quoted at $15.50, and shorts
oI producing electric at (1(7,18, Manitoba bran, in sacks,
The cost of °establishing e High- ed 11Y-•stimd
land regiment at Hamilton would energy in unlimited volume. 518, and shorts at 820 here.
be (119,000,of *which amount the Wirelees telegrarhy apparatus hos
been itistalled on board every veesel COUNTRY PRODUCE.
in the HUSR10 11 fleet.
Beans - Trade is dull, with slip-
* plies fah'. Medium bring 51.65 to
PLANS OF C P R $1.75 1 e- beetle!, and hand-picked.
Govermuent would be asked to con-
tribute $10,000.
Samtu4 Watson, who shot and
killed his brother near Middleport,
was acquitted of t.he charge of man-
slaughter by judge Hardy at
Brantford, on Saturday.
The Canadian Elevator Company
will build seventy new elevators A Tacoma, Wash., 'despatch saye: 11.1
along the line of the Canadiat It was announced here on Tuesday pric
Northern Railway, and will open that United States Senator George Rio
twenty lumber yarels in the leen- I
;Turner has accepted the position of 65.- 'usual, but the market absorbed all furthei• by a- duty on rails -soy of $230,1.09.
tories. 'special counsel for the Canadian Pa-. Hay, baled - The market is un- j
Word has recently et 0 to i that wore offered. The prices were six dollars per ton, which, added to The report says that some im-
h-sen rec°Ive'd at 1 cffic leallwa • to take effect u )011 the 'changed. Choice timothy
Sherbrooke, Qum, that J. F. 1,-1 x irat ion 0..3' his -
term in Marich. As $10.25 on track, and mixed ss to . unchanged at 52 to 510, and t
'4, to bounLies paid, would inean railway provements might be made in the
Archtembault, notary, who left the jet! per 11). and good Veal calves cone . steel and iron to cost us twelve dot- plants in Manitoba and ilt•itish Co-
'coPunsel and general manager he will 58.50.
country with obligations behind him ha.ve general charge for the Cana- ; Straw - The market, is quiet, with 'time' to be in demand, lees a ton, more than et present, lutabia, and the Loner PCOVilICON
to the amount of 580.000, is dYilig 'dime Pacific of the construction by cm: bite on track quoted at $5.50 to 1 There was a brisk demand for they can be procured at? You, Mr. might also receive some accession to
I 1 t ed • and prices eontinued Editor and 'our lar e clientele can the dredging fleet to keep Pa( with
51.3
,
Tho Paget Sound Branch Will Be
Constructed.
ed, 4 No. Barley - lenclaingete Bye
-NO, 1 in store 0010 asked.
Minneepolis, :leelt. 8. - Wheal, -
MaY, 760; July, 76'0; 00 track,
No. 1. hard, 77*0; No. 1 Northern,
701e; No. 2 Northern, 73 1.
philltiL FOIL - Wheat ,-- tosle
No. 1 hard, Mee; NO, 1 Northern,
75,,e; No, 2 Northern, Ole; Attlee
Me; July, 771c, Oats -May, 136c,
LIVE STOOK
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TARIPF DISCUSSION,
Free 7:raders and Protectionists
Air Their VieWs.
A despatch from Montreal says:
vontroversy on the tariff (13(15..
tion started by one of the Montreal
papers continues to (1431') 1)' »10(11 in-
terest. Free traders, proloetiordsts
arid revenue tariff advocelet, are all
expressing their views.
Mr, D. 0. Barker, writing in ad-
Toroni-o, Feb. 13. - The arrivals at 00011ey 0 81.0 trade, says; It is
the West ern Cattle Market were impossible to name ell the ,•vils mem-
large, anti most or the etoelc was Mg from heavy import (i1.0101.1. But
dispoeed of. The quality of the fired. would call attention to the
stuff comieg forwent WON 111071 1010, 80 1)111 injury to any nation adopt,
'with a few good OTION amongst, the lug them. The money craze stifles
lot. Buyers bought esport cattle sympethy, aleo encourages celibacy,
more freely, there being plenty of the excessive cost of living barring
Keno.) offering for export, The top reaony, and the menoeonee, 140
Prices reported paid for export mettle greetly inereased of late, 1010' )3C11IV1
WOR 85,25 per ewt. The clay's run
amounted to 61 cars, containing 1,- owing to the clalut made thee memo -
015 cattle, 255 sheep, 765 holes end
18 calves.
in export cattle the top price was
1 (15.15 to 55.25 for choke stock or
1,800 to 1,400 lbs. weight. The
range of medium to choice stock WON
$4.50 to 55, nni.1 $e to
1$4.50 for common grades.
There is stilt wanted good
we'll -fattened stock. There Were. 000
butchers' cat Lle left over, and
; in addition many that had remained
OVCC U118010 from last week were dis-
1 posed of. Medium to choice butch -
('18' sold at 53.50 to 54.50 per cwt.
Fair to common cows, 900 to '1,100
lbs, each, sold from 53 to 513,00 per
cwt, A lavge proportion of the
butchers' cattle bought on the tear -
keit changed hends at from 58,110 to
ly justified by a, portiou of the mese
my in production is mee•tired by fewer
hands being required, 'Experience' of
Combines' prnelices proves that the
consumer does not receive the exera
proles eceruinge 131g dividends are
the peime object, and multi -million -
Oro: are the result, as In the 150011)1'.
((('1] 011 Company for instance; which
IVO C11710(10 rm in over double
prices for burning oil. New to came
to the 8003008 matter for Montreal 103
10111. Chia p007, EVOCS encournge-
ment should he 53 \'0)) 1)) ship owners
to S011(1 VON57.4 here. :Do .W0 give
it? I suy omelet ically "No ! • '
Ships (steam and sn)l) cannot pro-
cure cominteclal eargoo1 abroad suf-
Pc'eet make them thoroughly fit-
ted for the frequent Atlantic storms,
mid hitting crossed that ocean many
$4,121 per cwt., (hove being n. Mg times 0110 asks other travelere to say
number or sales at $4. The prices whether there is ordinary comfort on
of .export steers and heifers mixed board l'014N0171 half loaded with cargo,
were- from 54.60 to 54.7per cwt. or in ballast/ Phe producmg In our
I Mixed butchers' and export cattle Dominion of heavy goods, formerly
13rought 54 to 54.50 per cwt. There 00040 Britain, has deprived vessels
were not stockers and feeders of carrying whet used to trim them
tiered but prices were maintained for the voyage end the teen, mom,
,• with perhaps a trifling easier tone. from shipping lead to raise econo-
IThe quotations are 84 to 54-.35 for mies in not only gear, nut in redue-
retct'aodcakreal..s. and
etu!i811.15ittlly otto 1 i5g!11;t8(s) stock-. lion of seamen's wages, and indirect-
ly to the 11.1111'.A. or the Empire's
• ers weighing about 000 lbs. each, name The item 'ileade was a use -
0 1, 71,- Was sold at $13 per eWt, Export fu1 ballast; 710W IS proposed to
'eel meth's.- Market quiet, with
-th; , bulls were worth 58.75 t 54 per corrode, the raw ma t erial of British
es unchanged at 4 to 41c, per
:cwt. Canners were sold at $2.25 Columbia, produced 3,000 miles off;
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PREFER CANADA TO VELDT
Members of African Constabulary
Reaeh Ottawa.
An Ottawa despateh says; A party
of sixteen members of the South Af-
rican l'onsimbulary, who two years
ego left Ot them. for the front, arriv-
ed th0 City on Friday morning.
Two of the nuMber, Privates Thornp,
son and Biekerton, belong hove,
while the rest etre from the North-
west. The men who have received
their diseleirge from the corps left.
Illocenfonleia on Novembee 1st end
Cruel Town a month Mem They
came home by Wily of England. Oee
of the men statiel the South African
Constabulary is fast going to pieces.
"Only about one-third of them is
710W left," he Ntated, "A great
many 11000 got their discharges and
left for thole bonne; others have se-
cured employment as civilians, and
several have joined regular rem -
meets. Tt Is frighLfully clull in
South Africa just now. Tbere is
nothing save (1)0 tiring monotony of
garrimon work, and naturally the
wen ore anxious to get awey (114
5000 OS 1)111481810. IillsineFs, how-
ever, is blest; in all lines, and several
of the Canadians have got positions
and- will remain in the country, For
the most of them, however, Canada
18 good yeomen, and they will lose
11 t t le (3010 in get ling hack here."
SPENT $7,336,799.
Expenditure of Public Work -s De-.
partment.
An Ottawa despatch says: The re-
port of the Public Works Department
for the past fiscal year is in the
prose, 'The expenditure for the year
was as follows:
Dathor and river works _52,277,767
Dredging and plaeit .,„ 846,506
Slides and booms 260,750
:Public, buildings „, 2,04 0,388
Bridges and roads 400,125
Telegraphs ,.. 6211,211
Tfiscellaneous 331,988
Total ... ......... -56,786,709
Beeides the above expenditure there
- The market is quiet, AN't 111 WON tul.vanced to the Montec'el )lar-
1111')'tos285 per cwt. Mich CCM:" and and European lead cannot be got to ,
springers brought $20 to $55 each. help ocean traffic. To mose a letter I bor Commissioners 5550,000, making
unchaneed. Strained, 8 io
1(4 Per lb, and comb, 51.25 to 51.- 1 The (Impanel continued good. that might be extended, one ases 'the entire expenditure $7,1336,790.
TI • f alv's was larger than we are as a see de' to he tressed The revenue of the department was
in a hospital in Denver, Col., i 1.1111 IS 0 tl;i., g
quite destitute. and . it during the next year of the Ta- $6 n ton, ,
:coma, Seattle, and Canadian Rail- • Maple Syrup - Five within CODS, 3" hni"."1.° 00" hiSt' W001(. The judge. Finally (unless you allow en- the growing demands of trade.
_, se ete, ! quotatioes given for sheep and
lambs are as follows: Lambs,. $4.25 should cease to muue laymen( (not 4
The big electric: works of the Win- .roee, 180 miles in length, which is '$1 per gal; one -gallon cans other letter), the press, one thinks,
11111108. C•hineral 11000" C°1-uPan'Y ars 1, to be built front Tacoma to Sumas awl halr-gallon, 60e,
to 85.25 per cwt.; 0(005, 53.50 to feeds) pressing for higher duties.
it will connect with the short braurh 40c per bushel for Canedian. TOUR OF THE FARMERS.
now under construction at Inc du on the international boundary, There • Onions - elm merket is eull at .
is estimated that the works will : 1 513.e0; 1/1101774, 52,50 to $3.25.
the •foregoing would be in, rem 1 -
Bonnet, en •the Winnipeg River. lt . 1 Fuch as can be seen, one thinks, in
imming north to the Canadian Pa- 1 Pou It r - Market firm. Demand The tone of the bog market con-
cesle 51,0.00,000, and will be ready • Awaited in Great Britain. With In -
change in ing their benefit. We want poinellat---
Mile main 1100. The Canadian rait- !good forY finest fresh killed dr 1 -
;eerie, Dewed weak, without Illly
quotations, We quote; Dogs, SO- tion; not so-called protection.•' terest.
for operation within a year. 'road recently decided that the time ed eteck. Chickens, 12 to 14c per The pee_ juost,telniefeyel‘viasulezt,oielegiT17ettittto t:_teletie.s. loPicooupre,..le
solution urging that the Manitoba lects, 160 to 200 Ills., $6; thick fats •1nothet writer says that the .A. London despatch says:
ly then; eel:stelae! heel a flavor, The
Peelle farmers have passed a re-, had come to get a direct connection • 11). and old 60 to 70e per pair.
Standard
Government take into 'consideration' Hort or entrance eeer the Northern - fresh, lri to 14e per lb. Geese, 9 to Following is the range of quo- States is not the result of the high farmers, who are expected to arrive •
Oil Trust of the Mated posed tour of a parte: of Manitoba
1 with Puget Sound cities, as i ts . Ducks, 12 to 14 c per lb. Turkeys, and lights, 55.75 per CAV1.
mode of transit was typical of the
relief in hauling grain would be tations to -day: places in England on Feb. 23, is tewaitrerd unies:, A inarney in them, (11,:ee is
synonymous with a. sten ight 1)110 -
tariff, as the United States
and devise some scheme by which -
termination of the present contract, 1 Potatnes - Merket is unchaneed, Exporters' cattle- Per 100 lbs. no duty whatever on coal 011. The with great interest twee. Mr. W.
Pacific may be abrogated upon the 'lle per lb.
granted in this and future years, The mamma, Seattle and Canada : with ore -lenge fair, Cars of Cana- Choice ..• ••• ••• ••• •••55•00 $5.25 United Slates, he see's, tee:thane- hasPreston, Dominion. 3'inneigration
FOR HIGHEST ErIaCIENCY.
The Railways A. --re Spending Enor-
mous Sums.
The necessity for the highest effi-
ciency in the engineering beam:bee of
the CialWily NOVViCe 18 0111. of the
most imperative demands of muceess-
fill modem railroading. The ran,
ways, as 110001. 1/14011., 11 MVO been
awakened to the necessity or redue-
Mg operating expenses wherever pos..
wee, it needs no demonstretion to
convince anybody thee the neuter
the roadbed eau approximate both
to et Feettight line initi a horizontal
Maim the loss it will cost to move
tonnage, To this may be added
!wavier rolling stock with 110110101'
'MAN to carry (t. Railways all over
the coil) )110111 are spending 'enormous
stens foe the purpose of bringing
their properly into the nearest pas -
slide ecord with theme Meal con-
ditions, The Grand Trunk has event
vast stuns in these directions, as
well as in the double tracking,
will eee completed
which next year
between Montreal and Toronto, and
between Hamilton and Niagara
Pulls. The Canadian Pacific lia.ve
secured the seevices of ono of the
most capable engineerm on this side
of the Atlantic to undertake the re-
duction of gradients and the
straightening out of curves on the
main line wherever the task can he
accomplished economically. Thet•e is
no doebt whatever that too little
attention W115 given to this in the
early days of railroading. The con -
01)1(3011 of American railway policy
was to construct the railway oe the
lowest poeeible basis of cost and
have it ()pointed.
It: was the amount of investment
rather than the cost of operation
that ems the controlling factor, and
there can be little doubt thet had
the projectors of the railways in
those clays made their estimates cm
whet is now conceded to be correct
lines, a great many railways whose
names now appear on the American
list would never 11 (WC been built. The
history of a !railway that has been
constructed at a cost of say seven
01' eight thoesand dollars per mile fs
one of constant; outlay in two di-
reetions--first in the grently increas-
ed cost of operating as compared
with one properly constructed, and
S0001)(1 in the never ending improve-
ments which involve a much larger
stun them would have been required
had
theybecn kept in view at the'
be
STAGE-COACH DAYS.
A Journey From Portsmouth to
London in 1750.
There are me(0 and women -end
they are not aierays the old - who
de,ilore the hreettiless pave of the
age. In etaee-coach days, they tell
Agettt, is now arranging the vlsits(3m I • ' II
tuAreisl,
meant fellowehip and merry adven-
, ''' t
whet., eome Points, A. cent ury ago a journey
inquirers. To have West( 1.11 Canada
to all tho market towns,
of the farinees will lectuve and meet
of the beauties of the lands:rare.
ifeiri.,,nott, ille enjoyment
described at first-hand it is expected
wbo made the journey from Ports -
1.1.01:514 01"nyc°1 but a, traveler
ing emigration, which promises well
will be of great service in stimulat-
mouth to London in 1 780 shows
for the spring. Other authorities
that oven stage -coach days had their
ergo the necessity of a careful selec-
tion of the Manitoba, delegates, es-
pecially in the way of avoiding po-
litical nominees.
The new Cemadinn Government im-
migration office will be ready at the
end of February. It is still await-
ing internal littings. This time the
delay wns duo to I.:enaction, 1101 Bel-
ti811, WOCICI11011,
LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
,
either by Government ownership or a .Railroad was incorporated last diem on track here quoted at $1, and
system of elevators. 1month by Senator Turner and Jacob .110,p1'i3O 11 81.05 per bag. Jobbing
Herbert Sanborn, a farmer, living ;Furth, who have announced that lots, $1.20 to 51.25.
neer Beaudette, MI" cin the Celt' they were acting' for the Canadian j _
adian Northern Railway, has begun 'Pacific. The building of the line j
a novel suit. 'He is a homesteader, ;Nem. be In harmony with the Can-- THE DAIRY MAI1KEe'S,
mid his attorneys have had papers :agitate Pecific policy of reaching as; Butter - Trade is fairly active,
served on the canedtan Northern many American cities as possible with prices generally unchanged. We
Raillyay, the preliminary step to re- (wee subsidiary ronds, Senator • quote -Finest 1-11) rolls, 38 to 20c;
cover &alleges in the sum of $17,- Teener will make his headquarters
000 for stealing :fifteen acres of his
homestead.
GREA.T BRITAIN.
Most of the large locomotive
works in Britain have combined.
Pig -iron from hfiddleeborough and
Hartlepool to the United States is
in brisk demand.
The shipment of Tyne coal for the
here and in Spokane.
selected dairy, tubs, 1, c; choice
large rolls. 18 to 18ec; secondary
--4- grades (rolls and tubs), 15 to 1)1);e
creaniei y prints, 2(1 to 23)e; do.,
INCREASE OF $3T 000 000 sohds, .10i to 22e.
P i '' I Eggs - The market is easier. We
Annual Report .oiTrade and Coni- 1 quote -Strictly new had, 183e; cold
tierce Shows. storage, selected, 15 to 17c; orclin-
'are', 34 to 15c; seconds, and smalls,
Ottawa, .Tan, 28. -According 30 12 to 138',
the annual report of the Department : 01100170 - lArkllik07: steady. We
past twelve inontles amounted to
of Trade and Commerce, the aggre- gente-leinest September, 131 to
14,500,000tons. gate trade has exceeded that of the 1131c; emends, 12e to 121e.
previous year to the extent of over
The Admiralty is being inundated $37,000.000. The increase over-
with applications fur nominations 1895 is 5199,500,000. It is point- HOG rite/DUCTS.
for navel cadetships, cd out that Canada leads the pro- Dressed hogs are steady, with car
Bioscope pictures of Canadian cession in trade increases, the per- lots quoted at $7.65 to 57.75. Cured
cities and scenes delighted a large tentage being as follows: Canada, meats steady, with demand fair. We
audience at the Palace Theatre, Lon- 96,05; Japan, ammonwea
89.06', 0 lth quote -Bacon, long clear, 10e to
don. \nue-mole, may buy the old-fash- of Australia, 62.21; United States, 105e in ton and case lots. Pork,
48,08; Netherlands, 43,80; 'Italy, 139,- mess. 821.50 to 522; do., short cut,
. ioned British warship which was 01; Germany, 32.45; Belgium, 82,- $22.50 to $23.
sold as junk for 5100,000 to a firm 08; Argentine Republic 80,93; TT et Smoleed hams, 113 to 11310; rolls,
of London metal brokers. led Kingdom, 24„77; France, 18.16; lle to 12c; shoulders, lle; backs, 14
Temperance workers in London te • , 8.65; ('ape Cobony, 2,62. to 1.4em breakfast bacon, 14 to 14.1c.
ana
have started an agitation to abol-1 Our trade during the year per cap- Lard- Market quiet, with prices from Ship island, October 6, for . a. is man to take he; place
among nations there must be morne
gel the 'barmaid, by working ronong tea oe eo . i le f ,
pu a ton ivies a. a tt ci ,unc t .
t li 1 ' hangel We quote -Tierces, 11c; Montevideo. They were piceed 11P
inducement! made to cadtalists to
the girls themsclvee. that of the United States : tubs, 11 3e; pails, 11)e; eompound, at, SCL1 by the Brunswick. The men . ;
A party of 65 young women has la°tvehe t$77'
e ween $80 and A131. Great Bri- 81 to 1))), re tort ed -that the Veronica was develop her resources; something that
-
Muclittia ••• 4.60 4•00 free trade in coal oil and yet the
Light ... ... 4.25 4.60 Standard Oil Trust is one of the big -
Bulls .., ......... ... 13.75 4•00 gest, if not the biggest, trusts of all.
Belt obeys- A coerespontlent signing himself
Choice ••• 4.
00 4.50
Medium. _ .., 8.40 4.00
Heifers „. 0.00 8.90
Bulls 3.00 3.50
"Free Trader" says: "I'rotect i on is
an unnatural law in any country.
Even if AVO ad11101 its success as en-
riching some particular country the
people of 501110 other country 01'0
ereeders ,„ „, 4.00 4.25 made just that much poorer. Some
Canners 2.25 2.50 day there will be universal free trade
and the people of that day will Mali-
Sheep -
vol at the standard of the civilize -
Lambs 4,25 5.25
tion of the 201.11 century."
• or
aalliCS, each 9,00 10.00
Calves, per 100 lbs. ... 4.50 6.00
Beckwith of G•areiter's Creek,
St. John County, N. B., writes;
"Canada pays the United States -43
Hogs- !for each and every 51 the United
Sows t.5000 43..7050 !oda will not always do. If it 1007IC
'States pays Canada, something' Can-
Stagl
Selects, 160 to 200
Britam hee Finance Minister could
not for Canada's trade with Great
not show a clean balance sheet at ehe
end of the yeer, but instead it would
take but a few short 3'ears when our
"Lady of the Snowe" would become
bankrupe or cease to be a nation.
Canada has untold natural wealth;
her soil is as yet but merely scrateh-
ed; her mines and minerals- aro prac-
tically aneleyelopede her forests have
A Liverpool despatch says: The
a_ untold wealth; her fishoviem aro worth
!British steamer Brunswick from Dm
a-
annually, Canada has also
zi.1, which arrived here ou ThursdaY' !the brain and uniscle needed -for the
landed survivors of the :British
buildleg of a. groat, nation; but if
barque Veroniete Captain Shaw,
•
lbs. ,........... 6.00 0.00
Thick 'fats 5.75 0.00
Lights ... 5.75 0.00
MUTINY AND MURDER.
Serious Charge Brought Against
Derelict Sailors.
lust loft London for Johannesburg !thin, $102 France, between $53 and
In connection with Lord Milner's .554; Gerrnan3., about 541.
• new scheme for tile emigration of
women. THE BLUE MARINES.
After nearly 60 years of active
treandee, the 'Veteran" six -coupled
locomotive of the Northeastern Ball_ Additions Will Be Made to the
way Company has been placed 00 Halifax Garrison.
Lite retired list. 411j1 ta.
A Halifax despatch. says: Halifax le eit, 1th. (Ye,
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Feb. 3. - Green - No. 1
e en en n :etc no atter
Manitoba. hard wheat, 74e; No. 1 seven of the crew of VOC011i00, after
, way than for Canada to protect her
Northern, 72c in store Fort William; which they are -alleged to have set
peas, 7131c high freights; oats, No, 2 fire to the ship. The four seamen own industries with a tariff as high
as that of the United States. I will
in store lune, 36)e, 81 to 313c high say that the chief officer and a sea -
one industry that hall proepered
man died on board the vessel, thatiulte
protection; that, is raising
Captain Shaw and some o•f the CCM "nil"
wheat and the manufacture of flotle.
left in a boat, and that they (the!
four men) left her in another boett .TweeteAve years ago there ems
ekomera free trade in wheat and ffiter between
Islaiid,and succeeded in reaching
1Decenther 25, in a etarvingiCianuda eud
the United States, with
burned et sea, December 20, but the will keen our young men and women
at home -the flower of our land who
police have detained four of them on :
58 5310(00 of their having mutinied 1 lesiva our shores to be hewers of
drawers of water in a. and murdered Captain Shan' andwood and !
for -
w(1( soon have two line regiments, 500 east, Flour - Manitoba pat-
-UNITED STATES. 'Into Worcester Regiment will come en 3.s, 34,40 to $4,50; seconde, 54,10
A. meeting of health officers at here from Bermuda. Part of the ' to $4.20; Ontario straight rollers,
FVashington declared that the bo- corps will be quartered at the Glaeis 53.50 to 53.65, in bags, 51,70 to
. . . . .. 13arracks 'and the ronaincler at the $1,75; patents, $3.70 to $4.10, 11011 -
the sixty million market) $6 per
as en ( 0 1
11 t 1 . g 0. 0 . .
The amount subscribed to aid the eitudel. The Royal Artillery will . ed oals-Millers' ences $2, bags, and condition, Three days Meer they • 3, i•
anthracite coal miners in the recent be COTTIOV(id from Halifax and the $4.15 per bbl, Eced-Mallitob0 were picked up by the Deunswick.
strike was 52,645,324, of whieh forts will be maimed by marine ar- bran, 519 to $20; shorts, 521 to barrel to the consumer in Canada.
Inembers of the United Mine Workers$22, huge included; Ontario Imam la
tillery, known as the Blue Marines,
'meet 52,225,870. Two ships' emnpanies, comprising bulk, 517 to 517.50; shorts, in bulk,
Three women were crushed to deeth about 1,000 men, will be stationed $20, Provisions-lieavy 61(1111( 11101
In a fire pane., in a New York fac-
tory, tho male employes treating
them with callous brutality 10 their
frenzied rueh to escape.
leifty-one cows have been burnal
le death 111 40 1100 which destroyed
the large buildings cm 11, dairy farm
et Lindell, N. J., two and a half
Whet from Elizabeth, N, J.
An undergrotied drivelvay, !noising
beneath the bed of the Chicago riv-
e' and stretching from the Art
11,13.1(10 (0 to Illinois caul St. Clair
streets is ProJected•
Convict:it at work at a quarry fit
Soutliern Illinots, near Chester, un-
covered the teeth and hones nf a
erattstotion, tho teeth being six
inches loeg and weighing five pounds
each.
'1'. 13. Fitepatrfelc of :Benton, Lite
natiolial treaSueer of the 'United Ir -
1031 Leaglie of America, hue amicrene-
eel that 585,000 hes been contribut-
ed by Arnerieuns foe tho Molise of
• • e
permanently at the barracics and at ellort cut polk, 52.1. to 525, sun
the dockyard, for service on the eut, backs, 528.50 to .524; light
ships of the fleet in eases of einee- short cut, 523 to $24; compound re-
gency. An equal number of them fined lard, 811, to Oc; pure Canadian
will he stationed at Bermuda for lard, 1.1e; lineet lard, 12 to 12ece
fentiler plomoses,
WANTED FOR MURDER.
Two Men in Sing ,Sing Will Be
Beought to Alberta.
A 'Winnipeg despatele says: Capt.
Walker of the Northwest Mounted
Police has left for Sing Sing Prison,
New York, to bring back an alleged
murderer named Morgan, and accom-
plice, Jos. Lamm They are charged
with bclibiig a companion nanind
,Johnston, near Red Deer, abOnt
two and -a half years 0.50, and ef-
forts will be Intude to have them ex-
tradited. The accused aro eloted
criminals, and are jest eompleting a
term itt Sing Sing /or robbery tome
hams, 121 to 180; bacon, 14 to 15c;
dressed hogs, 58.211; fresh killed
abattoir, $9 per 100 lbs. Eggs -
Fancy, 24 to 25e; candled erLock, 20
to 200; Montreal limed: 11-e• to 138c;
Western, 1.6,1 to 17c. Honey -White
clover, in sections, 12 to 130 per
section; in 10-11). tins, 8 to 9e; it
8011c, 7.) to Sc; dark, 2c, lower' Peel -
try -Turkeys, 14 to 1 5c per lh; 800-
011(13, O(1.
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31N1711311) STATES lefATtleleTS,
St. I.ouis, leob. re. - Wheat -Cash
Jatentry, 72e; Mey, 75ec;
July, 7111e,
Iluffelo, Feb. 8, - lelour - Elem.
Wileat-Speeng dull; No. 1 tame 88e.
flortt - Only tsteadyf No, 2 yellow',
521e: No, 2' core, to ie. Oats -
The cook, a. negro, aeserts, however,
that the men led lty the boatswain,
a German, inutinied and murdered
the captain, chief officer and °there,
and threatened to kill him if he be-
trayed them. After an investigation
tho lour seamen were formally
Ontamo would sell her wheat to the
United Stater, where it was ground
into flonr. The best flour was kept
in the States and the second geed°
W41.17 sold to Dm provinces down be.
the sea for the above price, Then
1878 or 1879 the Canadian Govern -
1(1
charged with having murdered 50000
1110(11 7)011 a duty on United StaLee
reorentlyni r evslIsItilot(tilytttees„.0 t'ilengletet„30,3
•tt,111„(' fleur bet it did not raise the price
fourth 18 „e Aeiteetenee, eemeette of flour be Canada, for after the
duty was put on flour Canadian
felnith, who shipped at a MississiPPI
wheat ‘0115 ground 111 Canada and
Port,
WORK OF EXPLOSION.
Four Men Were Xilled and Many
Injured.
A Port Wayne, Ind., despatch says:
Four 711011 WOCO killed, one fatally in.
Need, three 0thors seriously injured,
and ten more or less severely hurt in
an explosion Which wrecked a large
section of the Eckardt. Packing Conte
pany's Matt on Thursday. The 05 -
plosion is belieVed tO hare been due
to en emendation of natural gas
in the The eeetion destroyed
W11.8 100 feet arnI two storiee
Weed Neey Vork„ Sleliete No, 2 white, 421,C; NO, 2 /nix- high, ,
1
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flour has gredualler been getting
eheaper, until to -day good Canadian
high-grade flour eoste the consemer
$1..50 per barrel less then when
there was free trade betwom Canada
and the United States. This ie bet
a, sample of how all other Canadien
indnettles will thrive ender protec-
tion or remain dormant under a low
duty 07' .110 protection."
17..V. Cadwell, heed 27, superin-
tendent of the Champion Paper
Mills of IVaellington, , while
eteetepteng to, pass a belt 0171)e 0
pulley, mete caught and. Whirled
aroingi to syddeii•,deat,h,
The Cedric Has Loft Belfast for
Liverpo ol.
A. London despatch says: The larg-
est steamer in the world, the Cedric,
of the White Star 11001, is 00111010301,
and has left Belfast -for Liverpool,
to prepare for her maiden voyage to
New Yterk early in February. She
is 700 feet long, alai is the second
elmelows.
'Tho getting, up' on the coach
alone was at the risk of one's life,"
he wrote, "111101 WI1011 1 WEIR up, I had
nothing to hoicl on to except n. 113,310
handle at the side. The moment 'we
set off 1 thought 1 ROW certein death
before me. The machine rolled with
tremendous rapidiLy over the 5001109,
and every minute seemed to fly in the
air, so that it appeared to nal a
completn miracle that WC stuck to
the con.ch at all.
..Th is eon tinu al fear of death at
last Levamo irsupportahle to me, and
1. carefully crept along the top of the
con.ch and ensconced myself in the
basket behind.
"On a sudden the coach proceeded
at 44 rapid tette clown a hill. AR the
boxes, Men -nailed and copper -fasten-
ed, began to dance around me, and
0ve17 moment I received such vio-
steamer to exceed 20,000 tons. Fier lent blows that thought. my last
hour had come. Shaken to pieces,
bleeding and sore, I crept back to
my former position; and it rained in-
ceseantly, auel OS before wo were cov-
ered with dust, so now WO '.0010smelted with rain.
111y neighbor every now and then
fell asleep, and when in this acute
perpetually rolled and jolted againet
me with the. whole weight of his
body, more then once nearly push-
ing me from the seat to which I
dung with the last streeeth of de-
spair. I looked, and certainly felt,
like a crazy fool, when X arrived in
London,"
The letter is realistic. It posed-
ble that twentieth century traveling,
although unronialitice has its 00111-
P071117141011R after all.
sister ship, the Celtic, being the
first. The Ottlrie will have 8e0010-
=dation for 3,000 passengers, but
has not been built for speed, and
will not ettempit to lower the At-
lantic record.
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GOOD SEASON FOR DEER.
Returns Showing Number of Per-
mits Issued.
A despatch from Toronto saye 1-
.14ccording to the figures of the pro-
vincial game warden's depart:met
5,365 deer hunting permits were
isseed in 1902, en inerettee of 75
over the proceeding year. To )10)1
001(01118 200 ;termite were issued,
et increase of 100, es compared with
1.001, The number of settlerte per-
mits granted was 2,681, while 150
licenses to shoot moose were issued.
'Me Canadian Expeees Company
carried. 2,286 deer, weighing 248,-
1)92 pounds, and the Dominion iex-
trees carried 2-40 deer, There were,
however, 0. logo tweeter killed
AV111011 W017111 Ma be carried by either
eompeny, NO thit1,1 these !figures do
not reprement the n111nbot' of animals
shot,
THE ARIVI_Y C_ONTRACT.
War Oillee Urged to Reform the
Present Methods.
A. despatch 10010 London says :-
The colonial representatevee hero ere
'urging the War 01181, to revise its
methods of army con Leads. They
represent that as forms for went
contracts in Smith Africa are not
obtainable in Canada and Australia,
it is impossible to send colonial
tenders, They urge that in order to
secure real competition the War
°nice must issue conditions of con-
tract and tender forms in sufneient
time' to enable Canadian anti Alia-
3.1(0103)1101contractOrs 10 tender (11'
00)13.
.
"Doesn't 3:010, hrother Tommy over
give you anything, joheny?" "X
should say he did. De's the mat
what give me the talents and the
measles."
Mother -"I wish you would rake
up the dead leaves in the yard."
Setae elort-"I've got a :Train in
my wrist, and the rheumatism in my
beak, and eeowing pains in my right
n1,1 -and cramps 110 toy left one,
and headache, and toothache." "At.
ter you hove redoel the leaves into
a pile you 111111y sli1 13. 011 111'0 and
jump over it." "Whoop 3 where's
the rake ?"
A. distinguished cavalry leader Was
once at a dinner -potty, to whieh he
had been invited as the guest of
11000r. :In:side:3 hint wan loqua-
010115 WidOW, With hale of raven
black, who rudely inteerupted the
coeversation by nal:lag the warrior
why it Wem that hie heard Was still
black Whiln 1141 bean WWI turning
grey. With treat politeneem the eld
soldier turned toWard her, ,,r fe5.0
t cannot, give yoe eiltimatetoey an -
sever," Mad he, "unless, possibly, the
reason le that, licro 115013 My brain
it MAIO Moro ilia: 1 *we. ;rase AutiO
7,