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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-3-12, Page 2THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. Toronto, March 10, -What -The market is dull, with prices tmehawg- ed. No, 2 White and red quoted at 701c middle freights. No, 2 spring nominal at 705 on Midland, and No. 2 goose at 661c on Midland. Mani- toba wheat steady; No, 1 hard, 8$c all rail, grinding in transit; No, 1 Northern, 86c afl rail, grinding in transit; No. 1 hard, 87$c North Bay; No. 1 Northern, 8510 North Bay, Oats -Trade is quint, with No. 2 white quoted at 81c, low freights to New York, and No, 1 whits at 82} to $3c east. Barley - Trade is quiet, with No. 8 extra quoted at 46jc middle freight, and No. 8 at 485 to 44c, middle freight. Peas -No, 2 white is quoted at 71c high freights, and at 72c east. Corn -Market dull, with Canadian yellow quoted at 45o West, and tnix- ed at 44c west, No. 3 American at 53 to 530 on track, Toronto, Flour -Ninety per cent. patents --unchanged at $2.67 middle freight, in buyers' sacks for export, Straight rollers of special brands for domestic trade quoted at $3,95 to $3.40 in bbls. Manitoba flour steady. No, 1 patents, 84.20 to 84.40, and sec- onds, $4 to $4.10. Strong bakers,' $3.80 to 84, bags included, Toron- to. Millfeed-Bran, $16 here, and ' shorts, $18. At outside points bran is quoted at 516.50, and shorts at 817.50. Manitoba bran in sacks, 819, and shorts, $21 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Deans -Trade continues quiet. Me- dium, $1,65 to $1.75 per bushel, and band -picked, 81.90 to 82. Dried apples - Market continues very dull, with the price nominal at 8jc per lb. Evaporated, 8 to 6,c. Honey - The market is quiet, with prices unchanged. Strained sells at 8 to Sac per lb., and comb at 51.95 to $1.550. Hay, baled - The market is quiet at unchanged prices. Choice timo- thy, $10 on track, and mixed at 88 to 88.50. Straw -The market is quiet for car lots on track at 85.50 to $6 a ton. Maple Syrup -Five gallon cans, 81 a gallon; one -gallon cans, 81.10, and half -gallon, 60c. Onions - The market is dull at 40c per bushel for Canadian, Poultry - Offerings are very small. We quote: Fresh killed dry - picked turkeys, 14 to 17c; geese, 9 to 110 per lb; ducks, 51 to 81.255; chickens (young), 855 to $1; old hens, 80 to 70c per pair. Potatoes - Market steady. Cars on track, 51 to $1.05, and small lots, 81.25 per bag. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter - The receipts aro fair and prices are unchanged. Wo quote: Finest dairy tubs, 17 to 171c; choice large rolls, 17 to SSc; finest, 1 -Ib. prints, 18 to 19c; secondary grades (rolls and tubs), 18 to 15c; creamery prints, 22 to 23c; solids, 19 to 20a, Eggs - The demand is good for new laid and prices firm at 15a to 16e per dozen; cold storage, 9 to 10c. Cheese - Market remains unchang- ed. We quote: Finest September, 13,3c; seconds, 13c; twins, 14e. HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed ]Hogs are nominally un- ehanged, with few cars oflbring. Western quoted at $7.50 to 57.65, and Northern at 57.65 to $7.75. Cured meats firm, with demand fair. We quote: Bacon, clear, 10 to 103c, in ton and case lots, Pork, mess, $21; do, short cut, 522.50. Smoked hams, 13 to 13,c; rolls, Slac; shoulders, 11c; backs, 14 to •114; breakfast bacon, 14 to 14,c. Lard -Market steady. We quote: Tierces, 10ic; tubs, 101 to 11c; pails, llac. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL, Montreal, March 10. - (Special), -The local mar]cets continue quiet and unchanged, Grain -No, 1 Man- itoba hard wheat, 75c; No. 1 North- ern, 73c, March delivery; No. 1 bard, 77c; No, 1 Northern, 75c ex -store, May delivery; peas, 69:;c high freights; oats, No. 2 in store here, 875, to 87;c; 81te high freights; rye, 49:45 east; buckwheat, 4Sfr to 40c east. UNITED STATES MARKETS, Buffalo, Marc), 10. Flour -Firm, Wheat -Winter, nominal; No. 1 white, 80c; No. 2 red, 80c; spring, No. 1 hard, 88c; No. 1 Northern, 86e. Corn -Easy; No, 2 yellow, 520; No. 2 corn, 5lec. Oats -Quiet and weak; No. 2 white, 41-,e; No. 2 nixed, 39sc, Barley -56 to 60e, in store and on track. Rye -No. 2, 58:i c. Duluth, March 10. - Cash, No, 1 hard, 76c; No. 1 Northern, 75;e; May, 77#e; No; 2 Northern, 781c; May, 77„ to 771c; July, 76$c. Oats --May, 34c. Minneapolis, March 10. - Wheat - May, 760 to 761e; July, 78•„ to 761c; on track, No. 1 hard, 78ec; No, 1 Northern, 77; No. 2 North- ern, 761jc. Flour --First patents, $8,90 to $4; second patents, 53.80 lo 58.90; dist clears, $2,55; second clears, $2,10 to $2,90, Bran - In bulk, $15 to $15,25, LIVE) STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, March 10. -Everything offered was sold to -day, Prices in butchers' stud exporters' continued about the sante es before. A choice load or two of the latter brought $4,75, but this marcs no advance, Spate for Lranspor'tatioe aarose the Atlantic continues ecai'ce, and the English market shows no signs of flnpirovenont, . Prices in the United States have been a little firmer late- ly, but novorthalees ,a few buyers aro. still going to Chicago for cattle. Butchers' cattle sold well, the offer- ings were light and tho quality fair- ly good. Sheep and lambs were still active and strong. Milch cows continued firm, and veal mires were steady, The market for hogs con- tinued fairly steady, without any change in prices. The total run was about 00 cars, containing 864 cattle, 244 sheep, 1,- 400 hogs, and 18 calves, The quotations for export cattle were es follows: Exporters, fair to good, $4.26 to $4,60 per cwt. Light descriptions sold at 54 to 54,25, Mixed butchers' and exporters were worth $4 to $4.25 per cwt. for the best. Butchers' cattle continued un- changed at $8.90 to $4.20 for good to choice heifers and steers; $4 to 84,40 for picked lots; $8 to 83.85 for medium to fair, and $2 to 82.75 for canters. Stockers and feeders continued in active demand. We quote: Feeders, 900 to 1,100 lbs„ 58,90 to $4.15 per cwt,; stockers, $8.25 to 53,75 per cwt. Butchers' bulls remained unchanged at. $8 to $3,50 per cwt. Milch cows were scarce, 10 or 15 selling, and the prices were firm at $30 to 550. Lambs were all sold. The prices were steady all round. Wo quote; Export ewes, 83.75 to $4,25 per cwt.; bucks, $3 to $3.50, and lambs, $4.50 to $5.75 per cwt. Good veal calves are in active de- mand. We quote: 82 to 81.0 each, and 4a to 6c per lb, Bogs were unchanged at $6.10 for selects, and $5.85 for fats and lights. Hogs to be select must weigh not more than 200 nor less than 160 lbs. The following is the range of quo- tations: Exporters'- Per 100 lbs. Choice ... se •$4.95 54.65 Medium ... ... ... 4,00 4.25 Light „.,.. 4.00 0.00 Bulls ..:...... 3,75 0.00 Butcher's' - Choice ... ... 4.00 4.85 Medium ............ 3.40 4.00 Heifers ... ....... ... 3.57 3.90 Bulls 3,00 3.50 Cows ... ... ... ... 2,50 3.40 Feeders 3.75 4.00 Stockers 3.50 3,85 Canners ... ea ... ,., , 2.00 2.50 Sheep- Larubs .....::.. .. 4.50 5.00 Ewes ......... . 3.75 4.2.5 Backs .. . 0.00 3.50 Calioa, each .. . 2.00 10.00 Calves, per 100 lbs ,4.50 6.00 Hogs- Sows 4.50 5.00 Stags .. .. .. 2.00 4.00 Selects, 160 to 200 lbs ............... 6,10 0.00 Thick fats ... ... 5.85 0.00 Lights ............ 5.85 0,00 THIRTY NEW RAILWAYS. Applications for Ineorporation at This Session. A Toronto despatch says: The Clerk of the Legislature has so far received 80 applications for bills in- corporating the following railways: Sault Ste. Marie Railway, Lac Suel, Rat Portage, and Keewatin Railway, Huntsville and Lake of the Bays Railway, Manitou and Northern Ruilway Company, Canada Central Railway, Kingston A nea anoque Electric Railway, Niagara, fl Queens - ton and St. Catharines Electric Rail- way, Sarnia Street Railway, Guelph Railway Company, Point Anne Rail- way Company, International Rail- way Company, Nepigon Bay Rail- way, Embro Electric Railway, To- ronto and Mimico Electric Railway and Light Company, Clcrgue's Rail- way from Midland to Perkinslield, Agrceruant, Nepigon and $t. Joe Railway Company, St. Thomas Street Railway and City of St. Thomas, Ottawa City Railway, Hur- on, Bruce and Grey Electric Rail- way, Stratford Electric Railway Company, North Lanark IRailway Company, Toronto Suburban Rail- way Company extension, Southwest- ern Traction Company, Middlesex and Elgin Inter -Urban Railway Com- pany and City of St. Thomas, Ham- ilton and Caledonia Railway Com- pany, Sarnia, Petrolea and St. Thomas Railway Company, City of Windsor Railway Company, an'd Sandwich, Windsor and Antherstburg Railway, London, Parkhill and Grand Bend Electric Railway Com- pany, Colonial Portland Cement Company and Tramway, Sudbury, Copper Cliff mid Creighton I'.lectric :Railway Company. 50,000 SETTLERS COMING. Syndicate Would Make Arrange- ments to Locate Them. A Toronto despatch says: Mr, J. Coley -Bromfield, of Brighton, Eng- land, 'representing the big English immigration syndicate, has forward- ed -an amended proposition, which is now before the Commissioner of Crown Lands. The offer made is along the lines of the contract en- tered into with the Egan syndi- cate, which now awaits signature, and conforms closely to the regula- Cons of the Crown Lands Depart- ment. The company contemplate settling 50,000 people in Ontario, but it Is not likely that the surveys and other details can be completed in time for any settlement this year, BULLET IN HER NECK. - London Woman Victim of Erratic Target Practice. A London despatch says; Mrs. A. 11. Simpson, of York street, was standing in the pantry of her home on Thursday morning, when she was shot in the neck by a bullet fron e. 32 -calibre revolver. She Was only slightly wounded, bat had a very narrow escape, a jagged wound being made over the jugular vein, Were it not that the window was of Heavy plate glass it is believed that a fa- tality would have occurred. Spencer 11. Stone, of Chicago, Was arrested, charged with Wounding. %'a Was bailed. Stone claims that the shot wee area by a young lady friend, and that they were firing at a tar- get in an 'adjoining back yard for practice, ONT,RIO MINES ODTI'U,T, TOTAL PRODUCTION LAST YEAR WAS $13,577,440, Remarkable Nickel Yield -Also a Large Gain in Iron Ore, The mineral products of Ontario for 1902, according to the report of the Bureau of Mines, considerably surpassed in volume and value the output of any previous year. The total of production was 518,5717,- 4.40, an increase of 51,746,351, or 19 per cent, over 1901. Metallic products contributed 56,985,2.03, and non-metallic $7,292,181, both classes showing an excess as com- pared with last year's figures, The following shows the value of the principal products for 1002, and the increase • over the preceding year :- 1902, Increase, Copper....,, $ 686,048 $ 98,063 Iron ore... 518,445 344,011 Nickel...., , 2,210,961 850,091 Steel... ... 1,610,081 1,262,7151 Stone.., ... _1,020,000 170,000 Cement,., 067,010 298,186 Lime.,. ., . 617,000 67,000 Petroleum Pro- ducts-. ro- ducts,,.... 1,660,000 132,060 Mica... ... 101,000 61,820 The principal decreases were :- 1902. Deceease, Carbide of calcium... 83,420 ,179,572 Brick, com- mon...... ,,,. 1,411,000 119,460 Naturel gas,. 180,288 152,945 Tile, drain 190,000 82,37'4 INCREASE IN COPPER. Notwithstanding some slackening of production at the principal nickel mines and works of the Suclbury, re- gion, tho report continues, the out- put of copper and nickel was the largest yet recorded, the former be- ing 17 per cent. and the latter 85 per cent, in excess of the yield for 1001. In iron ore there was also a large gain, the production increasing in quantity from 273,538 tons, to 859,- 288 tons, and in value from 5174,- 428 to $518,445. The bulk of the ore, as in 1901, was raised from the Helen 'aline, Michipicoten, where other important deposits of hematite are also in course of development. The production of pig iron was slightly under that of 1901, blast furnaces finding it difficult to pro- cure regular and adequate supplies of coke. However, 8,653 tons, •valued at 518,852, were produced. The very decided increase in quan- tity of steel produced from 14,471 tons, worth $847,280 in 1001, to 63,802 tons, worth 51,610,081, in 1902, was mainly due to the start- ing -up of the Clergue works at Sault Ste. Marie, CEMENT INDUSTRY. Building and construction mate- rials in the main show an increase, particularly stone, which includes also crushed stone for pavement use, and cement. The Portland cement industryisbeing firmly planted in this province, where immense sup- plies of the raw materials for its manufacture exist: Eight plants were at work in 1902, and since the beginning of the present year an- other largo factory Inas come into operation. Three or four others are under construction. In addition, na- tural rock cement is being made at four different establishments, The total output of cement rose from 489,288 barrels, worth 51170,880, in 1901, to 600,109 barrels, worth 5057,016 in 1902. There appears to have been is falling off in the pro- duction of ordinary building brick, Micashows a large proportionate gain, while the output of natural gas has shrunk more than half the dimensions of 1001, in consequence largely of the 'withdrawal of per- mission to export this article. The yield of petroleum remained almost stationary. The value given in tine above table is that of the refinery products, together with the value of the crude used for gas and fuel purposes, . nt which a 01(10)1 larger einem of the product is now employed than formerly, BHOKED TO DEATH. A Little Girl Dies in Her Mother's Arms, A New York despatch says: While trying to swallow 0. snnall piece of kaeel nut on Wodnesday Annie Vor- iseuk, two years of age, choked to death, dying in her mother's arms as the ,agonized woman was rushing through the street to 'a pllysic:ian. Tho child was the last of three, all of whom have died since Christmas. The another is in a serious condition from the shock, -4- HAYS DENIES I•r, Report of the Purchase of Allan Line, A Montreal despatch says: Chas. M. Hays is authority for a donial that any movement has been made for the purchase of the Allan Lino by the Grand Temik. Satisfactory, arrangements, Mr, Hays says, have bean made for lntershipment 130- tweon the Grand Trunk and several steamship lines. Mr, Hays said that the G. T. R, does not want, the fast Atlantic service, which is really the only reason why it should wish to own a fleet of its own, OVER A BILLION DOLLARS. ,Appropriated by Congress at the Session Just Closed, A Washington despatch says: 50. Allison, chairman of the Committee 01 Appropriations, made a statement regarding the amount of money ape propriatecl by the present Congress, as compared with the appropriations of the 56t11 Congress. '.l he total ap- propriation for tine present Congress, he stated, was $1,654,108,518, as eonnpared with $1,440,480,'t38 for the 56th Congress, 300,000 MEN MAY BE IDLE1 cxVIL SERVANTS, All Works May Be Closed to Iron Workers. A New York despatch says: Be- tween throe hundred thousand and four hundred thousand woricmon in the building trades throughout the United States are expected to be thrown idle on May 1, on account of the forthcoming demands of the structural iron workers, which the xneaufacturees have decided to re- fuse, It has been learned that the manufacturers and contractors, who have been meeting from timo to thee in the last fortnight, effected a permanent organization on Tuesday night at- a secret meeting in an up- town hotel. The organization will probably be known as the National Structural Iron Manufacturers' As - etiolation. 1t has appointed a Na- tional Executive Committee, ' which i will appoint local committees in cit- 1 los represented by it in the next few days. A9no object of this assooiatioit„ s is to fight the demands which the structural iron workers tlu'oughout the country intend making on May 1. Salary Seale to Be Adopted by Provincial Treasurer. A despatch from Toronto says :- The Provincial Treasurer will intro- duce into bis department as soon ae possible a sliding scale of wages for the civil servants, and the other Ministers will do the same as soots as the necessary arr'angements can. be made. The scale will be as fol- lows Stenographers will begin at $800 a year, and advance to $600. Third-class clerks will- begin at $600 and advance to $900, Seeond-class clerks will begin at 5900 and advance to $1,200. First-class clerks will begin at 51,200 and advance to $1,500. In each -case the advance will be 550 a year, and it may be withheld 1 the employe's work is noir satle- actoty. It has also been decided, that in tho case of a clerk who has erved fifteen years, and has reached the maximum salary of $1,500, he may be given an extra $100 and called chief clerk, BAGGAGE EXAIVISNATION. New Orders Issued to Canadian Customs Orders, A despatch from Ottawa says: The Customs Department has issued now regulations to govern the transport- ation of passengers' baggage in bond. Investigation on both sides of the boundary satisfied the Cus- oms officials of Canada and the United States that the revenues were being defrauded of considerable am- unts in tate aggregate, by abuse of the existing system of examining and ?using baggage. Accordingly, af- er ,consultation, the guiding prin- iple of which is that all baggage coating into Canada from a foreign cuntry shall, as far as possible, bo examined at the Customs frontier port in Canada, The privilege of xantination of baggage by Canadian Customs officers in the United States s continued, but with the proviso that on arrival at the Canadian rontior port it is to be examined, and if the seals are to be found in - IMMIGRANTS IN WEST. 2,860 Were Registered in Winnipeg During February. A Winnipeg despatch says: Dur- ing February 9,860 immigrants regis- tered in the offices of the Irnnrigra- tion Department in Western Can- ada, It is estimated that 25 per cent. do not register or ask for any directions from the immigration au- thoritics, therefore the number to arrive is greater. The arrivals in February, 1902, numbered 1,605; the o increase this year was therefore 1,- 205. Of the number arriving last month 435 were English, 116 Scotch, 83 Irish, 410 Germans, 81 Can- c diens who had returned from the States, 491 _Americans, 300 Scan- 5 dinavians, the balance being other Europeans. The destinations were: Western Ontario, 198; Manitoba, 1,- e 000; Northwest Territories, 1,195; the balance not having decided on their destination, SYRUP FROMSUGARBEETS _ t A Discovery Which May Have Im- portant Results. A Toronto despatch says: Mr. J. T A. Snell,. Principal of the Wiarton }ligh School, writes Hon. John Dry- den that a discovery has been made by which a delicious syrup can be m•aele from sugar beets, closely re- sembling in appearance and taste the f ordinary maple syrup of this conn- t try. He thinks there is a good fu- ture in this enterprise if it is push- ed. He also thinks it forms a good e opportunity for farmers, as the ne- cessary machinery would not be ex- a pensive. d WATER DECREASING. act the baggage may be released. } BOYS FIGHT A DUEL. hey Gravely Exchanged Several Shots. A despatch from Vienna says :- The latest instance of the dueling manta as told by the newspapers er- ects two school boys, who resolved o make an affair of honor out of a quarrel about a school girl. A for - nal challenge was sent and accept-. d. School fellows readily agreed to act as seconds, believing that the ,Glair was only in fun. When the uolists arrived. at the appointed lace in a wood armed with mail- ers, the seconds became frightened and decamped. The principals, how- ever, remained and gravely exchang- ed three shots, all of which failed to do any harm. Thereupon the duel- ists agreed ro draw lots to deter- mine which of them should commit suicide. The loser, the sane even- ing, attempted to carry out the bar- gain. He was found bleeding from a wound in the temple. It is believ- ed that his injury is not fatal. OLD AGE PENSIONS. Diminution in Rain Fall the Cause of Decline. A London, England, despatch says: In a report of the chief engineer of the London County Council the de- crease in the volume of water in the Rivers Thames and Lea is attributed to diminution of annual rainfall, diminution of total rainfall which reaches the river, and the increase in pumping to supply increase in population. For tho past thirty years there has been a decline In the rainfall over the Thames, and it has been accentuated of late years. Tho Chadwell spring dried up in the aut- umn of 1898, after supplying water continuously, for over 800 years, APPLE CULTURE. Demonstrations in Pruning to Be Given. A Toronto despatch says: The secretary of the Ontario Fruit Crow - els, C. C. Creelnnan, is malting ar- rangements for a series of demon- strations in pruning in a'humber of the orchards in the apple -growing districts of the lake counties. They will 001010ence on March 28rd, and will be conducted by 0: C. Caston, Craighurst; A. E. Sherrington,. Walkerton; Harold Jones, Maitland,. and others. Later demonstrations in spraying and, thinning fruit will be given in the same districts as far as possible. --4, CABLE BROKEN. BY ICE. Service Between Quebec and Belle Isle Interrupted. An Ottawa despatch says: The Government service between Quebec and hello isle is interrupted. From Go•dbout to Manicongan, a distance of 26 miles, the line consists of a cable, which is broken, presuunably by ice. It cannot bo repaired till spring, and in the meantime the gap is being eovorod by couriers. FENIAN RAID MEDALS. Applications Will Not Be Consid- ered After This Month. An Ottawa despatch says: Applica- tions for Fenian. Itaid medals will not be entertained after this month. Lieut, -Col, Henry Smith, of the Medals Claims Board, stated this morning that quite a number of ap- plications for medals were coming in, Uo to the present there have been something over 17,000 medals issued, and about 1,000 long sorviee medals. 4 OFFICIALS SUSPENDED. Penitentiary Inspectors Suspected of Breaking Rules. A despatch from Kingston, Ont., says :--On Wednesday; two trade in- structors at the Kingston Paniten- tlary were suspended pending inves- tigation, It is alleged 'that these officials carried letters to and from convicts, thus transgressing the rules that all cnlnmp,nieatfors be- tween conviete and triose outside must go through a proper channel, French Chamber Adopts Appropri- ation. A despatch from Paris says: ?The Chamber of Deputies, continuing tho debate on the budget for the Min- istry of Finance, adopted on Wednes- day night an appropriation of $200,- 000 a year for increasing the old age pensions paid by the mining companies to their miners and em- ployes. It is expected that the ap- propriation will bring the pension to which a miner is entitled on reach- ing the Stnparannuatton ago from $11 to 579 per annum. Tho measure was part of the Socialist programme and is avowedly the first step in the direction of providing old ago pen- sions for all the working classes, • TO FURTHER VACCINATION. - Dr .Bryce's Inducement to cipalities. A despatch from Toronto says Dr, Bryce, secretary of the Pro- vincial Board of Ilealth, prc(poees in the recasting of the Vaccination Act to make provision whereby all mamicipalities which have observed the law year by year in connection with i the vaccination of school children shall be relieved paying the expenses, whirh aro to be borne by the province, of persons afflicted with smallpox, provided the patient has been vaccinated and his name is on - the department's roll, - Muni- C.P.R. BRANCHES 3N WEST. General Manager Says Work is Now Progressing. A despatch from Montreal says :- Mr. D. McNieoll, general manager of the Canadian Pacific, -was asked on Wednesday when the projected ad- ditions and connections of the road would bo commenced in the North- west, Ile replied that some of them are now in progress, and sur- veys for others are being made. All' depends upon the ability • of the company and the contractors - to procure sufficient labor to do, the weak, SAILED TO BOMBAY. 45 -'.Con 'Yacht Makes Voyage From Portsmouth. A'despateh from Bombay says: The fo1'ty-five ton yacht of Mr. 0. T. R. S5ovell, a member at" the Royal Dombay and 'Royal St, George's Yacht Globe,, which left Portsmouth, England, on October 25th, arrived. hero on Wednesvlay,'tavifrg hailed the entire distance:. NEWS 11E 5 S. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. CANADA. Sydney, is to incorpo'a» oda city, The populbeation fs netw 15, 000, During the past season 758 sea- gMoing ontreavesl,sols arrived at the port of The total loss by are in Brantford last'year was $114,794, covered by 8209,500 insurance, ., Tho advisability of providing cold storage facilities en route to the Yukon is under consideration. The Vancouver Assay Office receiv- ed $1,158,014.60 worth of bullion for testing during tho past year. The Nova Scotia Governniont has practically intimated its intention of starting an agricultural college for the province. Fifteen hundred of the Montreal Street Railway employees have Veen organized into a union by in- ternati0nal officers, Fifteen Minnesota capitalists visit- ed Fort Francis, in the Rainy I4iver district, with tate object of investing their money about there. Thos- Tait, Manager of C. P. R. Transportation, has been appointed to take charge of tho Australian Commonwealth's railways. The total grain shipments from Montreal last season were 1,883,821 bushels behind the previous year, but there was a big increase in wheat. The Canadian -American Coal Com- pany's mind at Frank, Alberta, is now producing and shipping over 1,000 tons of coal per day out of a single mine. Next year will mark the 75th an- niversary of the commencement of lectures at McGill University, Mon- treal. The graduates will erect a memorial building at a cost of 8100,000. IRobert Douglas, a former resident of St. Catharines, writing from Cape Town, South Africa, says there is a good market for Canadian apples there, and tells of one ship- ment which brought $7,50 per bar- rel. GREAT BRITAIN. Voluntary offerings in the Anglican churches of England last year totalled $41,085,000. The Church of England Army Shelter for the Poor, at London, was burned down and ono man kill- ed. The memorial of the late General Sir Samuel Browne, V. 0., which is to be put in St. Paul's Cathedral, is finished, and will shortly be plac- ed in position. Though beaten with sticks and slas Though beaten with sticks and slashed with a butcher's knife, a bull terrier which seized a fallen tramway horse by the neck in South Shields, would not lot go till killed by a policeman's baton. Census returns show that 846 men and 1,42,1 unmarried and 046 mar- ried women or widows work work in glove factories in Somerset, and 88 men and 1.,602 women make gloves 'at their homes. In ten years the numbers have decreased by nearly one-fifth. in London 2,659 births and 1,569 deaths were registered last week. The births were 80, and the deaths 139, below the average. The 1,560 deaths included 41 from measles, six from scarlet fever, eight from diph- theria, 76 from whooping -cough, four from enteric rover, and 19 from diarrhoea. oea. Different forms of vio- lence caused 77 deaths. Of these 16 wore cases of suicide, while the re- maining 61 were attributed to acci- dent or negligence. UNITED STATES. Representatives of English rail- ways will visit the United States to study American railway methods, Although 80 years old, alas. Ab- ram. Ver. How, of Williamson, N. Y,, jaws. • The typhoid fever epidemic at Ithaca., N.Y., has so far. resulted in the death of eighteen students and sixteen citizens, is cutting a new set of teeth in both The United States Senate has ap- propriated $2,000,000 for the pur- chase of a site for the New York post -office building, Society people at Holly Springs, Miss., aro very indignant because Judge Lowry charged the grand jury to indict progressive euchre players. Because be would not pey his mo- ther a three months' board bill, 'Ober Fry, of Logansport, Ind., ]p.n.s been sent to jail at the instigation of his another. The first blow was streak on Wed- nesday on the work of constructing the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel un- der the East and North Rivers and through New York -city. The Senate of Wisconsin passed a measure declaring the keeping of gambling resorts to be a felony; the Montana House of Representatives passer] a bill to license gambling. Eight minor's were killed, twelve wounded, two fatally, 'and one no- gro deputy marshal was shot to death in a pitched battle at Wright's coal works, Raleigh county, W. Va.,. on Tuesday night. Three officiate were wounded, GENERAL. Tin has been discovered near Cape Town. Icing Leopold will visit the United States hi April, says a Brussels de- spatch. Five hundred Imperial troops were ambushed by rebels in Kwangsi Pro- vince, China, and ldileo, Printed in English and devoted to commerce, a new daily newspaper is about to be issued in St, Peters- burg, South Mi'Ioan correspondents et London newspapers say that the feel - mg: of ,security, In Cape Colony • is greater note titan at any time sines the Jameson fold. FOLLOW SECRET ORLLINOZ HUSBANDS WHO - CONCEALED' THEIR PROFESSIONS. Engineer Who Ser- ved Behind fA Bar -Stock Broker Was a Bo oknnaker. ' When a young man o1 the names of Jep11s57t proposed a year or two ago to the daughter of a profession- al man, his suit was not very favor- ably considered. Ifo did not appear, quite a gentleman, and his dress, and oven cleanliness, were often not above suspicion. But wimp. lie re- vealed his profession, all was under- stood. llo worked daily, ho said, as the xpannger of a large engineering works in the East -end of London. His duties being of such a practical character, of course, people said the poor fellow could give little attire, Con, to dress. Tho marriage was sanctioned, and the supposed young engineer and his wife settled down to a quiet suburban life, IIe had to bo up early every morning to go to the "works," and did not return till fairly late at night. Anyhow, he was a good, genuine fellow,, every- body said. Ono day his wife's father. had to do sonic business la the city. When it was over, he and es few friends adjourned to a bar for, some refreshment. Imagine ltis hor- ror when he saw standing behind it• his son-in-law. There was a terrible scene, of course, but having ex- tracted from the father the promise that his daughter should not know, of the deception, the barman ex- plained that he had been so In love with the girl that he had to lie to get his consent to the match. Ho had never been an engineer at all, though perhaps, hisincome as a barman was not inferior, says a writer in. Pearson's Weekly. More mon follow secret catlings like the above than is generally, known. For instance, a Mrs. Bran- don for many years lived with her, husband at their fine house in Berk- shire. He was a magistrate, and highly respected in the locality. IIo was also a member of a very fashionable London club, abd enjoy. ecl SOME SOCIAL POSITION. But it was a little way of his to go abroad for six months out of the twelve. Ho would run over for a fortnight at very regular intervalse and often from Friday till Tuesday. Being, he told his wire, interested in works of art, this little hobby was excusable. And he was really inter- ested in works of art, for some of the pictures, china, and curios he brought hack from abroad excited general admiration. But it was not generally known that ho kept an antique shop in Paris, and made thousands a year at the trade, and that those periodical trips abroad were nothing more nor less than to make his bread and butter, his per- sonal income being very small. The words "Stock Exchange" are pretty generally bandied about. One hears of the most unlikely persons, of the most "shady" appearance; being in some mysterious way con- nected with that body. But how , many really have the slightest re- lationship with genuine finance 7. Why, for instance, when Peter Black married Sophie Summers did ho in- sist on their living in Brighton 2 For her health, he told het', of course. Every morning he travelled up to the city, where he was, as everybody in Brighton thought, a stockbroker. But one very curious thing struck Sophie after a year of married life, and that Was that whenever a race meeting took place, her "hubby" told her that llaflirs, or American Rails, or Westralians were frightfully active, and that he must Im away for some clays looking to business -sleeping the while in town. The good lady did not ]snow that ]for husband had no more to do with.ICafiirs than Red Indians. He was a bookmaker, and spent almost all his time ON VARIOUS RACECOURSES. None of 'these men can be justly condemned for their deception,. They have concealed their professions en- tirely on account of their wives, and such earnings as they have reaped have been loyally devoted to the needs of their homes. But there is a type of man whose concealment of contempt. his calling is beneatht. Such o p a case as this connes to mind. A man married a girl in a humble po- sition, pretending to bo a clerk re- ceiving $10 a week -just enough, ho Pretended, to keep house on. Often his wife had to pinch and, economize to peep things going, to enable hoz husband to preserve a good appearance. She little. ' sus- pected that when he left home in the morning in his ordinary "city" at- tire, he went straight to tine West, end, and let himself into a well -fur- nished flat There he assumed the clothes of a West -end dandy, and went out, taking certain little things in his pockets. These things were paste jewels, ie Which he did an ex, tensivo private business amongst ladies of the theatrical flrofession: IIo Would buy thein at a trivial Price, and then, posing as a gentle- man and a connoisegur, sold thein to numerous stage lights for largely increased prices, IIe frequented res. taurants, cafes, and clubs where theatrical.' people congregated, and every clay executed good strokes of business which brought hint in an ineoree of pretty well a thousand a year. All this while his wife Was eking out an existence on $10 a Week, white he was practically, , en- joying affluence ,and the 1110 of a mean about town, Sucit nneeneese would be inconceivable if told in ro- mance, but such rt ease, t11'aten from life, shave$ that many menexceed in this respect one'e worst estimate of them. Mike-al/id Smith's father leave him anything 8" ,links -"Only his debts3' Minks -"Hon, is Smith get - sting along 8" ,links -"Well, he bee greatly increased his htheritalila."