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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-7-23, Page 3TSE M.AIKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, ctc in Trade Centres, MARRKETS 01' '.1'1111 WORLD, Toronto, jute e1.- eenent, -- The market is quiet, aid steady, No, 2 Ontario rod and white quotod aC 75c middle, and at 753c east; No, 2 spring is quoted at 71c middle freights; No. 9 goose at 60e on Mid - laud. Man !Luba wheat steady; No, 1 herd quoted at 830, Clorterieil, and No. 1 Northern at 87e Goderich. No, 1 hard, Hoe grinding in transit, lake and rail, and No, 1 Northern 980. Cate -The market is quiet and steady. No. 2 white quoted at 32 to 32fc middle freight, and at tiler to 313 high freights. No, 1 white, 38.1,o east. Barley -Trade Is quiet, with no business reported, No. 3 extra quoted at 41c middle freights, and No, 3 at 42t. to 430. iiyo-'Tho market is steady at 52e middle freight for No, 2. Peng-Trade dull, with No. 2 white quoted at 61c high freight, and at 68c east. Corn-afnrket is steady; No. 3 Am- erican yellow quoted at 073e. on track, Toronto; and No. 3 miXod at 57c, Toronto. Canadian corn purely nominal. Flour Ninety per cent, patents Sold to -day at 32.80 middle freights, in buyers' sacks, for export, Straight rollers of special brands for domes- tic trade quoted at $3,25 to 53.45 in bbls. Manitoba fiour steady; No, 1 patents, 54,20 to 84.30, and strong bakers', 58.90 t0 34, in bags, Toronto, Millfeoc1-Beall steady at. 517 and. shorts 518.50 hero. At outside points bran is quoted at 315 to 315.50, and shorts at 517. Mani- toba been, in sacks, 519, and shorts 0.t 320 here. COUNT117 PRODUCE. Beans-Trado is very quiet, with prices nominal, Primo white are quoted at $1.65 to 31.75 a bush. Hay -The market is firm, with de- mand fair. No. 1 timothy is worth 31]. to 311.25 on track, 'Toronto. Straw -The market is quiet at 35.- 25 to 35,50 per ton for Car lots, on track. Hops -Trade dull, with prices nom- inal at 17 to 20c. Petal oes-OfTe•ings of now aro large, and prices easy at 70 to 75c per bushel. Poultry -Spring olhickens are quot- ed at 60 to 75o per pair; turiceys, 12 to 18c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKF2TS. Butter -The market is steady, with receipts good and fair demand for best qualities. Wo quote: -Choice 1-1b. rolls, 15 to 16c. dairy tubs, uniform color, 15c; secondary grades, store packed, 19 to 18c; creamery prints, 18 to 10c; solids, 17., to 18ec. Eggs -Market is chill. We quote: - Fresh candled stock, 14 to 1430 seconds and checks, 10 to 1.1e. Cheese-Marlcet quiet,• and prices unchanggd. ''O quota: -Finest, 10 to 10}c, FIO( PRODUCTS. Dressed ltogs aro unchanged. Cured meats are steady, with it good de- mand. Wo quote: -flacon, clear, 10 to 103c, in ton and case lots. Pork, mess, 321; do, short cut, 522.50. Smoked meats-JIan1s, 18 to 183c; rolls, 11. to 113c; shoulders, 103c; backs, 14 to 15c; breakfast bacon, 140. Lard -Market is dull. Tierces, Dee; tubs, roes; pails, 10e; oompolmvl, 8 to 9c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, July 21. -(Special.) - Thc local markets show little change. Butte is rather guiet, though a fair business• is being done in cheese, at unchanged prices. The Liverpool quotation is 'lower again, at 48.s ed for colored, and 47e for white. Grain -Peas, 68c high freights, 72c here; rye, Glc east, 583c afloat hole; buclkwbeat, 481 to 49c; No, 2 oats, 118e to 89e In store here; flaxseed, 31.15 on track lid's; feed barley, 50c; No. 8 barley, 62.40; corn, 60e for No. 8 yellow Ainel'iean. Flour -Manitoba patents, $4,20 to 34,80; seconds, 58.- 00 to 54; strong bakers', $3.50;, On- tario straight rollers, 38,50 to 33.- 60; 3:60; in hags, 31.70 to 31,75; patehts, 38.90 to 34. Feed -Manitoba bran, 310; shorts, 321 to 322, bags in- cluded; Ontario bran, lin bulk, 317 to 318; shorts, in bulk, $20 to 321; middlings, 321. Provisions-Ileavy Canadian short cut pork, 392,50; short cut backs, 32,2; light short cut $21.50; compound refined lard, 83 to 0c; 51100 Canadian lard, 10 to 103c; :Meet lard, 11 to 11301 hangs, 183 to 14.3e; bacon, 14 to 15e; fresh killed abattoir hogs. 37.75 to 33.25. I3uttor-Townships creamery, 183 to 18'$e; Quebec, 180; Western cream- ery, 174o; WOstorn dairy, 16e, Cheese -(enttneo colored, 91c; white, 01c; Townehlps, Dec; Celebes, flee. Eggs -Dandled, 1.60; straight receipts, 14o; No. 2, 124c. Honey-Whito clover, in sections, 12c per section; in 10-111. this 80. ` NITER STATES MARKETS,. Duluth, July 21,•-Wileat-Tn arrive -No, 1 hard, 874c; No, 1 Northern, 863c; No, 2 Northern, 843e; July, 853e; ,Septenher, 774r; December, 75„e, Mlnneepotis, 7uly 21.,-'Nhoat- Cas), 883c; +Poly, 38e; ,September, 753 to 751c; On track, No, 1 Hard, 803c; No, 1 Northern, 381c; No, 2 Northern, 8730; No, 33 Northern, 84 to 84 le. Mf112'anicee, .Tuly 2 ,'-••Wheat ;steady; No.:1. Northern, (3.1) to 80 jc; hoer ,ele3rtelllllee, 77 to 7733o, Use - Dell; No, 1, 94.4o, Barley -Dull; No, 2 •88 to '60e; sample, 45 to 58c. Gforu'r-Sopten1be', 50e to 5010, LIVE STOCK Tf.AR3Chil:S, Toronto, July 21..--'1 rade in but- chers' and expol'turs' cattle was quiet at the Western market to -day, and p1111'e were barely steady, The leading feature was the scarcity of good (matitiee of butchers' cattle, and the abundant offerings of lower grades of inferior cows that. were not wanted by local butebe'rs, and there- fore almost. unsaleable, Buyers here object to the farmers up -country un- loading poorly 'ensiled 81nlf 011 'them while they have, or should have, 'Meaty of pasture for at least two or three months yet. Canners and low grade cows wore much on sale, There was also a dearth of good exporters' descriptions, and buyers had to go to Chicago to obtain what they wanted, There weals to be plenty of good stuff in the country, but it is atot opining here, as holders there are hanging on to their stock in the 11050 of an advance In prices there before long. There was little enquiry for either feeders or stockers, and the o801'.ings were light, and values about stonily. A better tone 311 sheep prevailed, and all offering were sold early. Calves wore fb'n1, but the offerings 1)03119 fairly liberal no change in their values was recorded. The run of cattle was not heavy, It Comprised 1,088 Cattle, 1,28'7 sheep, 1,72] hogs, and 60 calves. The most of the exporters were dis- posed of at from 34.70 to 55 per cwt, Ten to fifteen cents higher. was paid in a few exceptional in- stances, - Butehors' 01012008 sold hewer, ow- ing to the inferior quality of the of- ferings. Wo quote: -54.00 to 5'6,55 per cwt.; loads of good, $4,30 to $4,50; lair to good, 54 to 54,30; medium to fair, 38.20 to 54; com- mon to fair, 38.50 to 38,85; rough to common grass-fed cattle, 59.35 to 38,25 per cwt. M31e3 cotes sok) at 530 to 355 each. There was little demand for either feeders or stockers. We quote as follows: TexJort Cattle- Per 100 lbs. Modirnn to heavy 34 '70 35 123 Butchere- Picked lots God loads Medium Fair Cows Feeders., light .. Feeders, short -keeps S Lookers Sheep - 1 xiport ewes it 60 Do., bucks , .. 2 701 Spring lambs 2 25 Calves, per cwt, 3 50 Hoge -- Sows ...... ..,... 350 4 00 Stags 2 00 0 00 Selects, 160 to 200 1110. 5 65 Thick fats ... 6 40 Light . 5 401 4 50 4, 25 4 .00 3 00 8 are' 3 25 4 00 2 50 4 65 4 40 4 80 4 00 400 3 75 4 95 3 75 3 715 3 00 4 50 5 00 O 00 O 00 O 00 CZAR ABOLISHES "CAT” No More Corporal Punishment in Russian Prisons, A St. Petersburg desplatc3 says :-- he llirehevtn. Vedomotni says that the CFtu' has abolished the hallslllost remnants of the barbaric tmi0risn- monLs of former 'timers, namely, cas- tigationwith cudgels and cat -o' - nine -Calls, chaining to the car enol shaving head,which hero still in- flicted for certain o(iieeces on per- sons exiled lo penal settlements or 1.o the mines, This rode of pun - 1011r100111 frequently ended in death by torture. The cudgel anti the "cat" aro replaced in the new stataefte, caays the newspaper, by prolongation of term or by solitary coal6uenvent up to 0.210' hunched days with bread and water except every !hien tiny, when hot loots will be served at one meal. The revised slatule of June 15 preeeribcis- • ehOstisement with Minh roils up to 100 blows "for slight offences, and misdemeanors," 4 TRIED TO BURN HERSELF Russian Woman Makes Attempt at - • Self -immolation, A. St. Petersburg despettch says A local newspaper rela''los that a young women was found lying on the beach of the UAW of Viola -nee 12 miles from this thy, with 'terribly h'urnod• feet and legs. The uhhfon'- 1,11)11(10 weaken hand on it 71101310'0 cas- sock, She saicl oho loud helm 1'eaol- ing religious hooks and had con- cluded that soli-inc.bneration was the only ego's means of eth1V nhion, She attended re11g1one s evicts at dile monastery, anti then calmly prepar- ed her funeral pile. She woe Un- able to bear the pain of the dames 111101 attenvpted to ratan Moue, but fell helpless anal rc'nlnin0d forty- eight hoof's where she hall fn310nt be- fore being founzl. leer life may be saved, TWO TRAMPS KILLED C. P. R. Train Derailed Near Fort William, A Fort Wil.iinrn despatch saysl The eastbound (1, P, 11. express Was de- ta.incil on 'Wednesday night by the 'derailing of two oars loaded with fish, ahid the mail and express cur at 'flip Oast switch of il'oonga sic1111t8, two sea tions this'sido of Tgnnco. Two Deme who were stealing u ride o1 the platform of the cars were killed Outright, but none of the passengers or train e•oty were 111 any way in - Stood. COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING Ttelatioa s Between, Tapall and Rus- sia Aro I1.nprovieg, ,A Paris deep ei r1) sods e-a)e5patch- es reeeive,d at the I01clg'n 011)011 bore from cit. Pote'sbm'g told Tolcto tn- 'dl;e;.at) tlmt the roht'tiolls beleetel Hutssia and eleven have greatly Pm - ;moved within the Inst fortnight, turd it is now believed that inn two C,over'nluent0 will 50111 eerie° at a 0011113101e 121111 ursine 1111g. TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS !Tatou of Proceedings in the Cane adieu Parliament. IN'SAI.CTION FEES, Mr, Preton1alne moved a resolu- tion tenet it was enpedimlt to comma tit* Steamboat Inspection Act to mato provision for the ebolitiop of stoboat llntpettion fears elxcl duet., • for the boater regulation of yachts propelled by gas, fluid nap - Ilia, or eloote•ic motors, Ma'. Pre- f0ntaine explained that the bill wa.s intended to legullze the abolition of the fees pr,01113126(1 by the Covent - Meld sumo time ago. Power was to bo taken to re311137080 tee dues by ander-hrCouncil if Foch a worse should "bo deemed necessary, after a period of two years. 14i regard to yes:hts, it was pro- posed that where they warn over three tons they should be required to (-eery a life buoy and one life preserver for each personpersonon beard, amid if they carried 5 0 85011 90(8 they should bo subject to the general law. It was also proposeel no abolish inspection lees in the cases of ves- sels fnom foreign countries %Alien 3111254180 110 fees on Canadian vessels,' This was a mousl11'O of reciprocity witlh the United States, Tho reso- lutions 0001'0 a:d,opted, (111103 a bill founido,cl on them introduced ant.] a first tinge. 15811. BLA1R'S RESeGINAT.I'ON, CHINESE MINERS KILLED Explosion in a British Columbia lylirno. A Vancouver, 11, C., deslpatch says) • Twenty Chinamen, who disobeyed the law forbidding the tunploymalht of Mongolians underground, paid the penalty on Wodin>.8clay night, 1911011twelve were killed and eight alvercly ; luldburned through an explosion in No, 3 incline, No. 6 ellen, of the Welling- ton Collieries at Curnher•Imu1, own- ed by former Premier Ihln8uwir and his associates. 1t was feared that several white hien were also victims, but it was afterwards learned that there was only one ernployed in the aline, and he escaped with nothing worse than a shaking. The explosion is attributed to fire- damp, but its origin is mysterious, as all the miners carried safety lamps, owing to the gassy state of the working, and all the lumps were found to be locked, Tho actual ex- plosion was so slight that next to no damage was done to the mini, and no concussion was felt at a short distance from the scams, Nen'ru,r.- less, it was deadly in its nature, for, as is usual in long -wall workings, it swept the fano, killing and scorch- ing as it went. No sign of the disaster was ap- parent at the pit head, and nothing was known until the cage was 11111 up and frightened Chinamen reached the top, when they excitedly told of 11 fire. Thirty-eight out of the fifty Chinamen employed undergl'olmd reached the top In safety, and then a white rescue party went down to search for the others. The dead bodies of the dozen were reached, but not without some danger to the searchers, because of after -damp, which prostrated ono pit boss. The colliery company °laim'Ls that the law prohibiting the employment of the Chinese underground is un- constitutional. The galleries I'm'o crowded to their utmost capacity, oven the aisles being occupied by a meas of ladies call gentlemen, who patiently stood for nearly two hours, listen- ing intently to the important. utte•- 0q110cs 0f the Premier and his late colleague in reference to the witlh- da'wu'al of Hon. A. G. Blair Mona the Cabinet. The Premier's an- nouncement was dignified, and con- risCly set forth that his eolleng0ce's w:itnelmaw0.l was dtie, not to a dif- ference of opinion regarding the nocestety of another taanscoultdlll8lt- al route, Mit simply to a cliovlgi'ee- nwnt 41s to mode of conetatietion and operation. While expressing for himself and tee other members of 1110 Administration his regret at tilos severance from the Cabinet of an able colleague, 8Ir Wilfred ex- pressed gratification that upon all (questions of public policy, excopt this one, Mr. Blair is in accord milli the Govmmmont. Mr, Blair with some en1911a575 ga1v0 a reiuta,tion of the newspaper re- ports concelartng alleged friction w1t31 his colleagues, whom ho en- tirely exonerated from the allega- tions of discourtesy or caballing. Tab repelled with scorn the taigges- tion that he had been prompted by 51840 in his resignation, and spoke with deep feeling of the Seveet111ee of the connection Wil+ii his colleagues. Iib attributed 3118 resignahion to in- ability to en,do2se the Government's policy of building a second lino of railway from tbuohoc to Moncton, paralleling and destroying the Tn- tercolo,nial, or to embark vp n the aoniit,ruelio7 of a railway from Quebec to Winnipeg, witil+oait asst obtaining more dollntte information. 34f1 Blair wanted the Gove'neuent to be stooled with declaring its in- tender/ to conste'u0t a trarisuonti- ne110 line as soot) 00 the need arose, and in the meantime malting as appu'.ollria+hion kr a tot/moot ex- ploration of the territory to be traversed. 'That road, when Qom - plot ed, should, he said, either be operated by the (Revolve -tent t11t'ough a connudse1on or by a. trust•,. MS'. It. L. TloOtien paid a graceful i rihute to Mr. Blair's diligerre eon ability, turd assured hint tbo opposi- tion oanerod to him by that side of 1,110 House •111511 not 'been personal. Mr. Tarte entered a pratast against newspaper statements that Mee Blair and himself bad not enjoyed the confidence of their colleagues daring tate past two years, anti Sir Wilfrid Laurier replied that denting the time his late colleagues lead been in the Cabinet their relations had been most cordial. 0 1 NO GRAIN TO . CARRY C. P. It, Argument Against the Grand Trunk Pacific. A 'Winnipeg despatch says: the last of the crop of 190,2 having been shipped out in June, the grain ele- vators at Fort William. and Port. Arthur are practically empty, and there is .less than a million bushels in the inland elevators, which will be used for local purposes. No grain cargoes are offering via the lakes, and the Canadian Pacific Railway is hauling empty car's east to take care, of freight destined west. This con- dition, which is chiefly owing to the enormous additions that have been made t0 the rolling stock of the rail- way companies, exists now for the first time since western Canada be- came a grain exporting country. KINDNESS WON HIM$7 O00 Man Nursed Guest in Hotel and Now Gets Legacy. A Tolido, 'Ohio, d match says, 1.3ocauso he was kind to an old main 211110 was ill in a Kendallville hotel, of which he was Aeric, WesleyHove • of No, 424 '1'hirtecal'tA)-street has an inheritance of 57000. wr,r, 1lptcrtcr, who hos beet employed by rho Prialential a118 )Western Sou- thern Llfo Insurance Companies, hoe gone wt2sA to claim the tetate. Some years ago, while M'r. Zib'vorter was clerk Ito it hotel in lemetialleeine, Tied, T:3arpor 18023 a guest there. He was ill far several \0eckis, mil dee. Mg that, thee Mr. I•Iovereen' emceed bite.. A few weeks ago letle Harper cited in Des 11101nee, anvl '179. Ilkrvcr- tor raraived word that 57000 pari boon left ham in the will of the doe cased, lefee Il)ovot'tor le a11t1 2773101710 of alae,+ STATUE TO WASHINGTON Pilgrims' Club of London Decides to Erect One. • A London despatch says :-At a meet3119 of the Executive Commuttee of the Pilg0ians' Chub on W0d'meestlay night, a committee was appointed to glee) eNeet to the recent sugges- tion 'to erect a statue to George lliahhington in London. It was de- cided that the subscriptions should bo entirely confuted to British sub- jects. A1cplkleacon Sinclair, l)n submitting the plan to the society, said :r-- "L51glislitmcnh have at last fully recognized the great qualities of ytlaalrin91pn. I feel assured that n.oth3ng will be mote popular in this country than such a tribute to that great man of English birth, who has done so mach for the world's his- tory, not only for the young nation ogress the sea, but for Great. Bri- tain as well," ,Axchideaeon Sinclair 011mounced Umt 'he was authorized to offer a place for the statue in St. Paul's Cathedral, OI{R FRUIT IN THE WEST. The Trade Is in a Very Critical Condition. The Emit Division, Ottawa, gives out the following statement'- Num- erous requests have been received from Manitoba and the Northwest Territories for Ontario fruit of the hest quality, put up In neat and attractive packages of the sort that Western dealers prefer to handle. Theo are , immense possibilities in this 1Vestern trade for the Ontario fruit growers, but tip -to -date me- thods of packing and shipping will have to be adopted at once, or the whole of this great and growing business will be capttu•ocl by the Ani- oricans, Fruit Inspector Philp, of Winnipeg, writes that hatters have come to a critical stage, and that unless On- tario now makes a determined bid for the trade, the market will be occupied almost oxcluelvoly by fruit from California, Oregon and British Columbia. In the case of apples, oven Kansas and Missouri aro likely to be strong competitors. Aceord- ing to Mr. Philp, the packages want- ed in the Winnipeg market are the following:- Early apples, the bushel box; pears, the hhli-box, holding twenty 9oullds of wrapped fruit; peaches and plums, the crate holding four boxes, similar to those used by California shippers, and which aro well knotlee '1'n all Canadian markets. It is very important that Ontario shippers should eoalizo the critical stage at which this trade has arriv- ed, and that they should. 310100 a united effort to capture the Western market, not only by perfecting the details of their own and of the busies Boss, but by taking up the matter of transportation with the express and railway companies i11 order t0 se- cure, if possible, a bettor and quick- er &melee to Winnipeg. At; present fruit is frequently forwerfi011 by ex- press from Toronto to Winnipeg via Smith's fells, and even via Mont- real, to connect with tho through trains, The result is that the fruit is on the road from 18 to 24 hours longer than' it wound bo if sunt via North I3ay, and consequently it sloes not arrive in Winnipeg in the best condition, If the carrying eon- panics can bo convinced that Ontario growers aro 7'raparecl to maintain a steady 8111pment of fruit in modern packages, and not merely to send West the fruit that the Meet dons not want, put up in tall sorts of on- tirivated shapes, them is little doubt that adequate service will be pro- vided, at e, rate which will come pare favorably with that new one joyed by Oregon and California ship - pore. The editor and staff of a Young China paper at Shanghai aro threat- ened with death for publiehfng so- ditiotla artielo0, TO PREVENT TAINTED MILK HINTS FOR THE PATRONS OF 073EESE 'FACTORIES. Careful Investigations of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, The patrons of a cheese factory have a direct finance interest 10 sup- plying only good pure mills, free from taints or bad lla'vors, Thous- ands of dollars are lost to the coma ley annually jlecause patrons send to the factories tainted milk, which, if use cret all, not only procludes the manufacture of first class cheese, but diminishes the gpantity of cheese per 100 pounds of pulk, Some of the chief causes of tainted or gassy milk have been enumerated by the Dairy Division of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, in order that patrons may be induced to guard against them. In many cases the source of trouble may be found in the undesir- able germs that get Into the m31k during and after milking. , These germs aro always associated with filth in some form or other. Careful investigations show that a very largo proportion of the cases of taints or bad flavors in milk and its products are caused by the germs which nee always present in the droppings of animals. Such germs; are to he Sound in large numbers wherever such droppings aro deposit- ed, Tho mud of stagnant ponds, where cattle are allowed to drink, and the surfaces of barn -yards or milking -yards are always swarming with them. For this reason the ud- ders and flanks of cows should al- ways be brushed before milking to remove the dried mud, particles of manure, hairs, etc., which might otherwise fall into the mills pail. STRAINING THE MILIC, while it is necessary to remove the visible 811'1, does not get rid of these foul germs, which aro the ac- tual ctual cause of the tainted, gassy milk. Improperly cleaned milk pails, strainers and milk cans are con- stant sources of contamination. • The whey tank is a 001nn1011 source of Infection at those factories where the whey is returned to the patrons inthe milk cans. This practice is detrimental to successful cheese -mak- ing, but when it cannot bo arranged to have the wbey disposed of in some other way, the tanks should be kept thoroughly clean in order to lessen the danger of contamination. They should he emptied at least once a week. It is a well-known fact that milk will absorb some odors to which it is exposed. Warm milk will absorb odors quite as freely as that which has been cooled; hence the necessity for removing it from the stable or milking -yard as soon as possible af- ter it is drawn„ An abundant supply of pure water for the cows is one of the essentials for the production of good milk.. When cows are compelled to drink water of swamps, muddy ponds, or sluggish streams and ditches in which there is decaying animal mat- ter, including their own droppings, there is a constant menace to their health, and unless the cows aro in good health they cannot give first- class milk, Moreover tho mud, of- ten full of foul germs, which collects on the Jogs, flanks and udders of tho cows, and falls into the milk at the time of milking, is a direct source of infection which is often overlooked. IMPROPER FEEDING. Thero is in Canada an abundance of good, wholesome food available for cattle feeding purposes. Tho natural pastures are, on the tvhole, excellent, and it is only 111 limited districts or at certain seasons of the year that trouble is experienced with weed flavors, Among the cultivated foods, turnips and rape are two prominent exceptions to the rule of suitability which applies. .in general to Canadian fodder crops. While they are undoebtedly valuable in a' ration for growing o1' dry cattle, if turnips and rape are fed,0even in limited quantities, 10 milking cows, ti)ere is a likelihood of imparting to the milk a taint which cannot be eliminated by any process known to the cheesomakor's art. Some first- class foods when fed alone, and to excess, will cense indigestion and thus in3iroctly affect. the milk, Ono example of this kind is found in green clover, In conclusion, it may be said that whencows have free access to salt at all tunes they will give 12101'0 milk, which will have a bettor fav- or and keep sweet longer than when they do not got any at all, or re- ceive it only at intervals. TOAST KING IN PURE WATER Nis Majesty says Wine is Not Es- sential. A. London despatch 81078: -King 'EZdw,ard has taken action which win greatly please loyal teetotalers. A naval office• wrote to his :Majesty 09Dcin9 hint if 11e would team an osldor that when his health was toasted it need not be dru'11,c 311 1i'ino, Tho Ring replied through his secretary That the Lords of tho Al34mlrally probably would not like his intorforeng by Meeting orders, hut he would be glad to have it circu- lated privately L alba 1)n considered a toast es 21/12011 bono'ecl by those d'rinkiilg It in water as by 'teos0 tis• ing wino. WEDS AT NINETY-TWO 13ride Forth -three, Bridegroom) Nappy as a Boy. A. Lynchbu'g, Va., despatch says; La'kie Norton, nlnoty-two year!' old, and Mee. Lucinda Mayers, aged for- ty-three, wore harried on Wednesday. 141r, Larkin is as happy and goy AS a 11037 of twenty, and couldn't ire mere chipper if he know 1121 had em - other, century of 1110 ahead Of hint, NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From Al) Over the Globe. CANADA. Fort William ratepayers have pass- ed a by-law to raise 540,090 for a now town hall. London city council has given a "Don't -spit -op -fife -sidewalk" by-law its third reading. Counterfeit Canadian 521 bills and 51 American »cites raised to $10 are circulating in Kingston: Tho financial statement of the af- fairs of the Hamilton Board of Trade shows a deficit of 3105,41, heavy downfalls of rain aro caus- ing goods in the vicinity of Calgary, Alberta, The Bow River rose five feet in twenty-four hours, From $3,000,000 to 55,000,000 gold dust will be talon from the Klondike this season, 0301'0 than last year, according to estimates of of- ficials, mine owners and bank man- agers. Montreal cab drivers aro protesting against the street railway company running a tourist car named "See- ing Montreal," and as a consequence it has to have police protection, E. A, 13. Haggett, of Iiilgston, Jamaica, in an interview in Mont- real, said Canadian business men wore not paying su.niciont attention to the West Indies, as the people there would sooner trade with Can- ada than the States, Talmage Carr was tried at St. John, N. B., on a charge of setting ilre to elle house in which his adored lived because her parents had forbid- den him to keep company with her and their engagement had been broken. GREAT BRITAIN. At present there are 124 miles of streets in 'Ldinburgh lit by gas. A Methodist college to be called lifcDougall, will be established at Edmonton. Princess Louise unveiled a memor- ial bust of Sir Arthur Sullivan in London, • The body of John Gasgoin, an Ottawa barber, missing since last spring, has been found in the Ottawa Rivet. An old landmark, the Dunedin (lo - tel, is about to disappear from Fligh street, Edinburgh. It was a popular resort, The Birmingham Gas Oonunittee placed contracts for 483,000 tons of coal at a reduction of 6d. per ton on last year's prices. Tho coalmasters throughout Scot - laud. have made a claim for three- pence a day reduction on the wages of over 70,000 miners, In commemoration of their Majes- ties' coronation a magnificent lov- ing cup has been added by the cor- poration of London to the plate at the Mansion House, Many thousands of spindles in the Bolton cotton trade are now running short time. The position et, Decant- ing serious, as each week hundreds of hands are affected. Orders have been issued for the cruisers Iris and Mercury to commis- sion as training ships in which tho boys will learn stokehold work as well as seamanship. Princess henry of Battenberg is to be asked to accept the freedom of the borough when she visits Scar- borough on July 28th to open tho now town hall and unveil the sta- tue of the late Queen. UNITED STATES. Thero was a half million dollar are on the Thingvalla Line pier at Ho- boken. American manufacturers propose to restrain organized labor with a fund of 31,500,000. Three people were killed and fifty Mjm'ed in a Missouri Pacific wreck on Saturday. After a violent quarrel Adolpb C. Dalkon shot hie wife cleat and then committed suicide, at Philadelphia. four mon and _ two 090111011 were shot during a fight on an excursion steamer, at Uniontown, Ky. Two of the leen aro dead. Anthracite in. almost boundless quantity has been discovered in 7ioutto county, Col.,. on the line of the Moffatt Railroad. An express trails on rho Pennsyl- vania Railway struck a wagon con- taining a picnic party of ten people, at Rod :Rank, east of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday night, killing four and injuring the ether's. A mob composed of 800 white people sought the life of Minnie Pearl, a negro woman, of Peoria, 711., who beat a. whito boy, 11 years old, with a c111b until his hotly was covered with deep wounds, The police saved her, GENERAL, Japan is said to bo mobilizing her forces,' and an 'outbreak hr tho far east seems inevitable, The Austro-T7ulgarian Government has again urged Bulgaria to refrain from her warlike enterprise. EIGHT WERE KILLED. y B: ate English Train jumping the gP Track, A despatch from Liverpool says: The Southport a-c11'ees train, crowd- ed with passengers, Mingled the track on Wcdnesduy evening at Waterloo, five 11111(-5 from :Liverpool. Eight persons were killed and 15 in- jured, according to late reports. WOMAN MIDGET DIES. Hot Weather Cairries Off Miss Maley J. Piercey. A despeteh #coin New York 50ys1 Miss Mary J, Piereey, said to have been one of the 231na110811 Women ill the Wold, is dead at hor dome in 3.31yonee, N, '.T. She was thirty -ono inches tall, weighed tiny pounds, altd was 40 years of age. '.Cho recent ]lot Weather caused her katal fitness. DIRTY HABITS. QomPlaints of Filth of Kussian Peasants. A German doctor, melding In the Russian• Province of Tchet'nigo'v, writes that the indescribablydirty, habits of the ltussian peaeont8 rune der it extremely difficult to 'cora their wounds and illnesses, and mel. tions a particular case which ie CAlaracterfstio of many he has ex. perienced. A peasant was suffering frons le wound that would not heal, and it became necessary to take a 'piece of skin from another part of Itis body and graft it on the injured spot, After washing the potion -If well, the doctor prooeoded to take the slice of skin required, but when he came to put it 'into a dieenfeet- ant solution, 11e leas astonlehed to and that it dissolved. Closer tare amination showed 11im that what he Haid .taken for skin trite really, dirt, w111c11 hoof become so much a part of the peasant's body as to be inrlistinguishable from it. The same doctor was obliged in hundreds of cases to scrape the dirt off his patients, a118 then to scrub them violently with a hard brush and soda and water before he could give them medical treatment, He totted that the p0asante, as a rude, never washed themselves ham child- hood to old age, and often wore the saarlo cloths neo0t to the skin' for years together, A Russian doctor, M. - Scherrule- vitch, who reeidcs in the amine pro- vince, and hos had medical experi- ence in several caber peen.' of Rus- sia, confirms those statements, and adds that the conditions described by hie German colleague are gene oral througholrt the rural districts of Ruasia, There are millions of Russians who never wash and nevor enjoy a change of linen. DESPERATE FIGHTING, Between Police and Kellogg Switch Strikers. A despatch from Chicago says: Desperate llgbting between the police and the strikers of the Kellogg Switch Board .Company took place on Wednesday afternoon and evening while the company attempted to send freight to some of -the railroad depots. In one instance the police opened fire with revolvers, but al- though the fusilade was continued for several minutes no one was hurt, Later thele was a fight .in which no revolvers were used, and the police laid out a number of men, some of whom were loft in tho street until their friends picked them up. Tho climax came at Congress street and Ogden avenue, when a private watchman fired at one of the mob, The shot went wild, but it in- flamed the mob, and, with shouts they charged down on the police. The officers beat the crowd with fists and clubs and put the rioters to night. A dozen amen with broken heads were reit lying in the street. About twen- ty arrests were made during the day. The Kellogg Company, whose men are on strike say it will con- tinue to send out freight by non- union men. LEARNED BY SCIENTISTS. Length of rays does not affect the chemical activity of light, although it determines their color. Prof. Lodge surmises that rho pro..• cess of disintegration of atoms into electrons, of which they are made up, may constitute the evolution of the chemical elements. The Gina, with the magnetic pole expedition, has sailed for Greenland, and will attempt to pass north of the American continent to Behring strait, This will take the party near tho north pole: J. J. Thomson, professor of ex- perimental physics at Cambridge, England, said the other day, at Col- umbia university, after having re- ceived its degree of doctor of science, that teachers of science in the Unit- ed States receivo smaller salaries than in any other country, ' Pneumonia lois now given way to consumption as the leading cause of death. Pneumonia is essenteally a disease of vitiated, germ polluted, 'and overheated atmosphere. Con- sumption, while also a 00111m1IY13- cable germ disease, has all seasons for its own, Animal foods, judged by bulk and weight, aro more expensive, pound for pound, than vegetable foods, Dat as a whole vegetable foods. are not mole 0001103113cal, Aminal foods fur- nish more than six -tenths of the pro- tein and nano -tenths of tine fat of the total food consumed. By experiments of great accuracy Prof, Babcock has Shown that half a ton of ice weighs morn than the water obtained from melting that quantity of ice. Thorofare the weight of a body 'increases as its temperature falls, 4 ONE FOR P3111 MAGISTRATE. A °erten stipendiary magistrate in England has a remarkable head of hair. He is rather proud of his possession, and has no intention of parting with it at present. Not long ago a local neer-do-well was brought before 111111 on a charge of poaching, and in the course of the hearing of the case an amusing in- cident occu't'0c1. The prisoner was exceedingly impudent, intm'rt'.ipting the witno8505 and insulting all who had anything to say to or against hint. Considering the case proved, the stipendiary turned to the prisoner and asked: - "Have you any remarks to ivalco7" "Yes, I have; responded he, flip- pantie', "Your hair wan3s cuttingl" Thero was 011 audible titter in court, which developed into a real' of laughter as tho Witty stipendiary coolly z0plied:-- ' So does yool'8, my friend, 'Fh . nl011t115.'' Before the laughter had qubsfd4e the prisoner was In the cella: France at the 'Basile l a lcc is 1 iees0(1 k woleolno to President Loubet,