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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-10-29, Page 6THE UR! WIARKETS Minneapolis, Oet, 27, -Wheat -1) 4 celeber, 713e 1113i, 780; on treek No, 1 hard, 554c; No, 1 Northern 844e; No. 2 .Northern, 52te; No. Northerm 80 to 52e. Elour-Firs patents, 84.115 to $4.65; seooncl PO teuts, $4.45 to 8-1.65; Mat 'clears 83,40 to 88.50; ocond cleats, $2,7 'to $2.8(1, amis, in wood, Minneapolli Bran -In bulk, 8'1'3.75 to 31$. Toledo Oct. 27.-Closed-Whea3 Cash, 5-11e; December' . 85*(e May 844e, Corn -Cash, 48e; December, -e 41it,e; May, 424e. Onte-Caeb, 37.te; t December, :36*c; Mu, 87Se• t St Louis, Chet. 27. -Closed -When s -Clash, 871e; December, 86*e; May 82*c. 0, WHAT CANADA WILL ASK. Aim to PreveFuture nt Disastrous Decisione. A, London 'despatch says :-Upon , leaving Liverpool on MleMr uras , 5 A. II, Aylesworth, KC., one of the s Canadian commie:doors to the Alas- ka bounclury trilemal, said in hal- - tilication of hie refusal to eiga the :;00 more of ct, conipromise n tha0 30(11001 'therisiou. lts effect will he that Dentedon goods trav- t prelim' the disputed territory must , pay high twig duties to the United Statue, The Canadians feel so keenly 011 this subject, that althomeh there will be .310 01'y of separation, they probably will demand a larger e power of self-goverement order to Prevent in the future a repetition of O such decisions," , The Times of ThuredaY morning , publishes the iliseentiug opleion pre - s sonted to the -Alaskan Bounder:), Tal- i bunal bM6 by Mr. A. , Aylesworth, 0(10 ,1 of the Canm adien comissioners. 11 is dated Oct. 17, and takes up three eolumee 111 themmm lames, 0338 is a os minute d•iscussion of the 30101 treaty question d ena recital of Mt Aylesworth's reasons for distegroin with the majority. It concludes a , follows : "I have merely to say that the u corse the majority of this tribunal has 'decided to take with regard to RBRX EPORTS OTHE LEADING D TRAE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and. Other Dairy Produce Hoene and Abroad. Toronto, Oct, 27.-Wheab-Ontario gradee aro firm, with demand chief! fro= Millers, NO. 2 white and re Winter old at 774 to 78e lot freights. .No. 2 Spring is quoted a 76 to 77c east, and No. 2 goose a 70 to 71e east. Manitoba wheat i firm. .At tipper lake ports No. Northern Is quoted at 894e, and No 2 Northern at 84c. No, 1 hard nom inal at 92a Sande, Oats -The market is steady,. with ofierings moderate„ Ne. 2 white is quoted 28 to 25*e west, and at 29e low freights to New York, No, 1 white, 30 to 303e •east. Barley -The 'deemed is limited with offerings fair. No. 12 quoted a 4440 middle freights; No. 8 extra, 42 middle freight:Ft, and No, 2 at 40 middle freights. Byo--The market is quiet, wit prices steady at about 50e hig freights, and at 51e east. Peas -Trade is dull and prices un changed. No. 2 white quoted at 61. to 62c high heights, and at 640 east Buckwheat -The market is dull with quotatious 41 to 4.2e at °Maid points. Corn -The market is qu•iet, witl prices steady. No, 2 yellow Aaneri can quoted at 55c on track, Toron to; No, 3 yellow at 54c, and No, mixed at 138 to 684c Toronto.- ' Floun-Ninety per cent. patents ar firm at 53,10 middle freights, i buyers sacks for export. Straigh rollers of special brands for domesti trade quoted at $8.40 to 33.55 i bbls. Manitoba flour unchange'd; N 1 patents, 34,75 to 34.80; No. Patents, $4.45 to 34.50, and stron bakers', 34.30 'to 34.85 on 'track Toronto. Idillfeed-Bran steady at 816, and shorts at 318 here. At °Meld points bran is quoted at 313.80, and shorts at 317. Manitoba bran, in sacks. 318 and shorts at 320 here. COLTNTRY PRODUCT% • Apples -The market is unchanged, with moderate supplies. Winter frui quoted at 32 to 32.50 per bbl. in Car lots, and $2,50 iu small quanti- ties, I3eans-There is a quiet trade, with prices steady. Unpicked, 31.75 to 31.80 a bushel, and handpicked 32 to 32,15. Froney,--The market is quiet at 6 to 6*c per lb. for bulk, and at 31.25 to 31.50 for comb. Choice clover honey, 7 to 7*e per lb. Hay -Demand fair, with receipts only mederate. No. lis quoted at $9 to 39.50 on track, Toronto. Straw --The market is quiet at $5.25 to 35.50 Per ton, for_cer. lots Hops -The market is quiet, with this season's crop quoted at 20 to 25c. Potatoes-T,he offerings are fair and pricee steady. Car lots quoted at 50e per bag on track. Small lots sell at 65e per bag. Poultry -The market is steady. Turkeys quoted at 10 to '12c per lb in case lots: geese, 6* to 74e per lb; ducks 0 to 10e; chickens, 9 to 1.0c ; and fowls,. 7 to -8e'per lb. ' TILE DAIRY MARKETS. receipts moderate. The host grades are in 'demand and firm. We quote -Finest 3.-1b0 rolls„ 18 to 19c; select- ed dairy tubs, 16 to 17e; secondary grades, 18 to 15e; crea.mery prints, 23.4 to 342e; solids, 19 to 20e. Eggs -The market is firm.We quote: --Strictly new laid, 20c; freeh gath- ered, 18e, and pickled, 17c per 'dozen. Cheese-Maxket is cadet, with prices steady. We quote :-Finest, 11* to Mc per lb; and seconds 11 to 114e. ITOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are unchanged. Cure'd naeats firm. with a fair demand. We quote ;---Dacon, long clear,. 101- to 101e in ton and case lots. Pork, mess, 817,50. to 318; do. short cut. 321. Smoked Moats light to medium, 14 to 144e; do., heavy, 18 to 13*e; rolls, 11 to 11ic; shoulders, 104v; backs, 15 to 164e; breakfast bacon, 14e to 15e. Lard -The market is steady, with fair demand. Tierces, 9 to Dee; tubs, 94 to 94c; pails, 0* to gee; com- pound, 8 to 9. • • - BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Monteestl,Oet, 27.-Basinees. in grain continims dull, though therels some enquiry 101' oats and peas for export; wheat le, still quiet, a little above the export price; flour is easing I off a little. and if wheat comes down to the present price bid. for export 1 Sour will probably go lower. The Liverpool quotation for cheese is up 6d to 54s for white and 55s for col- ored; locally, too, the market shows more strength, owing to tho high prices paiil in the country, Grain - Peas, 68e high freights, 72*e afloat here; rye, 5lie east, 50e afloat here; buckwheat, 49e; No. 2 oats, 3.1.4e in store, 011(1 '1)34 to, 840 afiEgit; na:ESeed 31.15 on track here; Igo. 8 barley, 80e, Flour-,11fanitoba patents, 34,80; soonds, 34.50; strong bakers,' • , 34.85 to 34,50; Gamic, straight rol- lers, 311.90 to 34: in bngs, 31.90 to 83; patents, 34.15 to 51.40; eXtras, 31.70 to 81 /75; rolled nate, 31.80 •Per bag, 38.80 per bbl, leeed-Itican- itoba brae, 317 to 318; shorts, 350, bags theleided; Ontario bran„ in hulk, 315.50 to 316,60; shorte, in bulk, 320.50 to $33.60„ Eggs -Candled selected, 21 to 22e; and straight re- ceipts, 10e; Montreal limed, 17 to 1,74e. Cheeee-Ontario, 111e; Town- ehips, Ilice; Quebec, 1.14e. Butter- Townslilps treater:0y, 21 to 0,1*e; Ouebee, 20*e; Western 'dairy, 16e. UNITED STATES 'MARKETS. Milavesticee, Oet, 27,-Nbeat-E'asy; Igo, 1 Northern', 86 to 864e; NO, 2 Northern, 83* to 843e; Deeember, 30*.e Ityd-Steady; No, 1, 56 ' lo 56*e, Marley -Steady; No. 2, 55,e; eample, 42 to Corn -Do, •teteber, 484e. • LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Oet 27. -An active trad in cattle was the feature at the Western Market to -day, teal all line sold . quickly and at steady prices Hogs were steady mai unchanged , Shoop continuo(' iinn, while luta t were steady. c Not auany exporters came forward and the quality of these was about fair. Buyers were out in force am 11 oo business in these was over early h in the day, and some said that they wanted several loads more, which - they were unable to get on this mar - r ger, • Butchers' cattle of all descriptions sold well, the prices keeping firm, "" and the demand. brisk.. The genera miality of the receipts was fair, but ' not many extra choice ones were of - flared. Any of these were quickly A purchased, and brought good prices. Feeders of. good quality and of e suitable weights for the distileries continued in active demand, and sold t readily. Many buyers from outside e:points were an the market looking e. for stockers and feeders to sell to o the farmers, and these leen said that 2 a fairly good enquiry from the coun- g try for these was still assin , Lighter classes of stockers also sold at steady prices. The /market for ewes and bucks was O firm and lambs, tinder the influence of light receipts, were steady. Calves were .in good demand and firm. The receipts arnounted to 92 loads, 1,425 cattle, 2,103 sheep and -lambs, 2,281 hogs and 67 calves. The market for exporters' was un - t changed, at $4.15 to 34.80 per cwt. Light to medium animals sold at 84.15 to 34.50, and fair to choice at 31.55 up. Not many of the letter class were received. Activity continued to dominate the butchers' market, and values in these 30000 well 't• d W q Good to choice butchers', loads of, 950 to 1,150 lbs., 33.75 to 34.25; fair to good, 33.25 to $8.75; com- mon, 32.50 to 88,15; canners and roogh stock, 32 up, As niuch as 34.40 was paid for several lots of choice animals. Export bulls sold at 38.75 to 34.- 8 per cwt. • • Export cows wore quoted at 3'8.65 to 38.85 per ewt. Ia.- feeders and stockers., trade con- tinued steady. Quotations follow: - Feeders, 1,000 to 1,200 lbs., 33.40 to 33.75; choice feeders, 1,150 to 1,- 225 lbs.. 33.80 to 88.90; stockers; 700 to 800 lbs., 32.50 to 33: feed- ers, 800 to •950 lbs., 88 to 33.75; stock calves, yearlings, 400 to 700 lbs., 32,60 to 33.25; rougher grades, of the same weight, $2 to 82.50per3 cwt. Distillery feeding bulls, 900 lbs. up sold at 32.50 to 33.12* per cwt. Steady prices prevailed on the sheep market. We quote as follows: Export ewes, 83.40 to 33.50; export bucks, '82.50 to 82.75 per cwt.; cull sheep, $2 to 38 each; lambs, 33.50 to $4 per ewe. Calves eontinued steady, at 4 to 5*e per M., and 32 to 310 each. 1 Mitch cows were quoted at 880 to ' 356 each. Steadiness was the feature in hogs. Mr. Harris received 2,000. We quote:- Selects, 160 to 200 lbs., of good bacon quality, off cars, 85.40; fats and lights, $5,15; sows. 88.50 to $4; stags, $2 to 38 per cwt. • KILL THE INCURABLES. 1 the islands at the entrame of the Portland Channel is, 111 1117 humble " judgment, so opposed to the plain requirements of justice and so abso- lutely irreconcilable with any dispos- ition of that branch of this 0050 .313)011 principles of a judicial character, that 1 respectfull,v 'decline to affix my signature to their award. (Signe(1) "A. B. AYLESWORTN." LORD ALVERSTONE REPLIES. THE IMPOilITANOE OF SEED FOR TIIE GARDENER AND THE HORTICULTURIST, Dominican. Department of Agri- culture Gives Some Good Advice. It tiliouhl be uunecostary to urge upon the growet.s of garden crops the importance of using thoroughly re- liable seed, or to &feud the preetece of testing seeds before sowing Gioia. Many gardeners have suffered heavy loss through the purchase of Inferior 01' 01(1 Seed. and almost all who have used tile weds of flowers and vege- te.bles have had occasion, at one time or another, to lamout the use of seed of unknown quality. Genu- ine seed of high gormiliating capecity is, however only one essential to n successful crop, and to denim:late the importance of good gardeners would be entirely wrong. ',Since a gond start is always importhat it would seem that to devote a• more attention to securing satisfactory t seed would amply repay the major- ° ity of gardeners, '• To the horticulturist, to a greater IN extent than to the agriculturist, is 8 301111111e reliable seed important. With the seeds of many farm crops their actual value can be determined sev- eral months before plantieg, becamo the queetion of variety does uot en- ter to the same extent as in garden crops. 1•Vith the gaielen crops true - 31005 to variety is of paramount im- portance and a 'disappointment in that regard may mean, practically, the loss of a season's crop, if the difference be a Jato maturing variety for an early 0110 or vice •versa. It is thei•efore important that growers be COMPETENT AND RELIABLE, For many yenta all the seeds used in this .country were European groevn although as early as 1785 some at- tention was given to their growth in the 'United States, In that country the trade grew steadily wail about 1860, When, owing to the interrup- tion in trade .4110 to the civll war, people began to look for a home supply and home productiou was greatly stimulated as a result. The increased clemand encouraged grow- ers to produce reliable seeds and kinds suited to all conditions of growth, A Mir trial of homegrown seeds convinced people that they wore as satisfactory as imported stocksl and in some cases gave bet- ter results. In 3578 there was es- timated to be 7,000 acres devoted to the production of garden seeds, but at that time the California seed trade was but beginning and since then it has grown to enormous pro- portions. The vegetable seeds most grown in California ere onion, let- tuce, earrola look, kale„ parsley and parsnip; the Heaver seeds, sweet peas, nasturtulm, verbenas and asters, Cabbage and cauliflower seed as grown in the State of Washington and n good quality is grown.on long Island. Many Other kinds of flower and yegetable seede are grown in various districts, but as a rule, not in suelicient quantity to allot the trade. There is still, and will CCM- tinue to be large quantities of nearly all kinds of seed imported from Eur - I cape whore labor is not so groat an item of expense as in America. Much of the work in connection with the growing has to be dorie by hand so that labor is an important consideration. TIT.F.: LABOR INVOLVED The Suggestion of a New York Unitarian Dierine, A New York despatch says: "Where the prolongation of life is simply the prolongation of hopeless agony it seems to me that it would be proper • th t such • • decently', Modestly be. tilloireante end the suffering, It seems to me that such a coerse would be a. step fur- ther away from the barbarlana." these word e the Rev. Merle St. 0. t Wright, of the Lenox Avenue Unitar-1 a an Church, placed himself dn record 3, on lifeclnesclay night as favoring "00-1 a ballaSia," avilich in medical pate:ince is the putting of incurables to death. The suggestion NVElfi mode before the New York State Medical Associa- tion, which held its annual dinner -at the, Hotel Manhattan on Wednesday eight, and while it, caused much sur - Prise because of its source, it was re- ceived none the less With hearty ap- plause. • PACIFIC PORT OF THE G.T.R. A London 'despatch says :-Lorll Chief justice Aiversto»e, when qees- tinned regarding the .Alasican award, said he declined to be 'drawn into any controversy on the subject, or to make any staiement beyond say- ; ing he 'did not believe the allegation that Mr, Sefton, one of the Canadian Commissioners, had • averred that the decision was diplomatic instead of judicial. Any such suggestion, Lord -Alverstone added„ was unwar- ranted, unjestiflable, and, in his opinion, unfounded, solely upon legal considerations. It is understood ;that Lori] Alverstone is preparing a Imply to the one is,sned by Mr. Ayies, worth one of the Canadian commis- Sloners, and that it will he given to the newspapers. R AISING GOATS. Attempt Being Made to Breed Them in Quebec. A Montreal despatch says :-A ser- ious attempt is bring rua'de to intro- duce goat farming into Canada. The Chevriere Canadionne has imported from France a hundred goats of six 'different breeds, and is attempting to mese them on a farm at Cote Visita- tion, near Montreal. 'The verieties include the Maltese, jogganbourg, of Switzerland, the Alpine, Saagee, also of Switzerland, and the ISlarcieene. or Spain. Then there is the pride of the flock, a young Nubian, coal black ana with hane•ing ears. This ani- mal is adored in its home country', and the only pair of the Variety in Europe are the parents of the little (me at It is hoped that it will be possible 'by next year to obtain a mate, so that the breed may be perpetuated hero. The milk of the goats is abundant al111 110Ur- ishing. Dr. Pariseau is authority for the stntement that after mother's mille, thitt of the goat's is the best foe infants. It is pointed out that tuberrillotris is a thing unknown tonoug them. They are vasy and cheap to keep, and it is enid, wonld. 13e of iounense service tO the eettlet•s in 1110 mountains of the north of this PrO V1 liCe. HOSPIT.AL BLOWN DOWN. Thirty -Thousand -Dollar Annex Wrocked. A Winnipeg despatch says: On 'Wednesday the wind Completely vt•ecked the new areleX te tile Gen- eral Hospital at Brandon, 11010 in cotro of miertion, A catastrophe was averted only by 1110 fact that it, • occurred during the hotni when the nouvrolts workmen uniriored Upon it 11411011 -.17 13,5 06, 71.6 Tonielo 18 27, 97.5 77. Cabbage ,14 40.5 05.8 72. Parsnip -...,,,15 11,8 68 40, Morning Glory 5, 20. 63.5 50.8 Swot Peas .5, 69. 91,3 55,4 Pansy ..„.. .6. 9,5 75. 64.9 The most noteworthy point in the results ie the great variation in the results of dillerent samples of the ono iciad of seed, For while ' the average is In most eases fairly roes- miable, a considerable eumber of lemmata germinate so poor)), that a poor Mend. would be haraltable. The samples of extremely low vitality, doubtless were principally old seed held .oVer from year to year. Some kinds of seed depreciate Va1110 very rapidly end in a few years ere valueless, so that the practice of some seedsmen of leaving seed packuges in the bends of retailers year utter year eannot be commend- ed. It is important that a buyer of eedde should know at least approxi- mately what per cent is vital, but oaring to tho limited amount of seed ft is impossible for him to make a, Jost, The case is different with the wholesale 'dealer, who has seed in bullc and should lthow within at least five or ten per cont, the vitel- ity of the seeds he handles. To stamp tho vitality on oath package would entail some little tronble to seedsmen but not necessarily any risk, as no objection could be raised to ft reasonable margin. Such a practice would be of inestimable ben- efit to the users of the seed. ENGLISH DICKYBIRDS. 500 Pairs of Songsters en Route for Victoria, 33.C. A Victoria, 13.0., 'despatch says :- The Victoria Natural History Socie- ty has now on the way from Eng- land a consignment of five hundred pairs of song birds. They are com- ing by way of New York, and are expected to arrive bore at an early date. There are 100 pairs of gold- 1111011es, 1.00 pairs of /arks, and fifty pairs of English robins, the little red -breast of poetry" and song. In accordance With arrangements which Nave been completed, half the 110111- ber of those feathered strangers from England's dolls and glades, 1%111 be placed in Vancouver, and taken care of there :until next spring, when they will be distributed throughout the woodlands of the lower Mainland. The remainder will be placed in Beacon Hill Park aviary and kept until the spring, when they will be given their liberty at VariOUS points on Vancoever Island. The total cost of purchasing these birds. bringing there out to the Province, and boarding them until spring, be about 3500, " SOO " OFFICIALS RESIGN. The Receiver Decides to Engage a New Staff. A Sault Ste, Marie, Ont. despatch says :-33. F. Fackeenall., Ont., 805310.3.01.3 1101V in charge of the Consoll'clateil Lake Superior Compariy, 111 the dual capa- city of releiver appoloted by Speyer and Co. and as president of the sub- Fidiary companies, is perfecting ar- rangements for the reopening of such of the plant as can be profitably op- erated. On his arrival here Mr. Fackenthall asked for the resignation of all heads of departments, 501110 thirty in number, including Assistant Manager Coyne, who has been in Is a serious objection to the charge since the financial trouble ho - 3<1030)113) 01 ogf.ardsetdrewhic11,102130, jiatr.eacieitieieeetc.! Sir en The resignationa were handed Wedoes'cloy. Atr,. Vackenthall I,v, too„ the quality of seed prothic- engage a new stag, but it. is alli- ed is inferior to that grown by pro_ 'clerstood a number of the old men afeisesi ottiettilcse,e .011101s1010 pgrlo.epeofeeptreedu,aulti gl oolg will Mr. Faekenthall etated that 11111110d- 130 retained, encountered arc the crossing of var- I late slept; would prohnbly be taken ieties mid deterioration of stock. To looking to the re -opening of the growers will find it necessarysomn I pulp mill, the saw mill, and the to veneer plant. "We will not hesi- obviate tho 11:•st clifilcully constant, care in selection will be • the „cootie [tate," he declared, "to 0)/011 tb000 nd, that can be operatdd profitably, but will need some time to enquire thor- grow only 000 variety of any epecies; to overcome required. Only then plants width 1 oughlY into the economic conditions are vigorous and tapproe.ch the' meal:end about the facilities for getting be allowed to ripen their seed. Vig- timber out of the woods." - conformation for that variety should Mr. Fathenthall is somewhaLiagoiniette- iotai•dioyfid.gete"olestAl•teettusl pie•o4utellievecinue:itsit'ileisi 'capped, as in- the event of .003)3 1(11 being forth coming for the that are ttetnemitteil from one gon- puecluisu of the 1,7011:8 his tenure of oral lop of plants to the next, so that office would come to eh abrupt ter - it is unwise to allow any but the 1.1111'ati°11_ . 4- most desirable plants to mature. Turnips and- radishes that ere -not snit:able for table use are nnich less euitnbly for seed pro'duction. Not n11 the Feed of even the best plants vere dinner, otherwise consider- ' STRIKE IN SPAIN. 19,000 Workmen in Mining Dis- ehly present smull and shrivelled , A 'Milano Spain 'despatch says :- • , •tricts are Idle, , 4 limild he sown as there. ave. •invar- hould be med. . By 'following ,e0a14, ella only large plump seeds A strike broke out on Tuesday in •ths, the Billmo mining district and speead 1:,,,0.83t,0,1:1,17011•11,01i1netoatir 1),,,,,i, geou.iii:csit„1,11(...;y1,1,101,31,- rapidly. Nineteen Ounisancl workers e•ove a vetietv, but if,..he hi not are idle. The railroad service has i been interruot eil . Reinforcements of tilling to Y.•••1;rt"ise :inch care he t:i'o°014 "600 arri'itt r'''''°'-' vould do anuell better to,, pure), se While it is trite tilitil to secure ---4,.. dig seer] 110111 EL reliable S06E107111111, genuine garden seeds is a more int- WAR ALMOST CERTAIN. able loss or 1110 multi not have beim verted. 'Bite new building Wel; 11)1 37 00 feet ia dialeaSiOaS, two stole- s' •0 and a. lamement. It. was ell ready 1 o roof ie whet] the accident occurred nd the loss will be very h(avy, as nuch of the material was destroyed, ncl the blinding was expected to 1 Port Simpson Has /got Been Definitely Selected A Montreal 'despatch says ;-Mr, C. NE, Vers, ocond vice-president and general manager of the Gran'd Trunk eald on Tuesdey night that tho change 111 00 Alaska boundary, would have no effect in tho Selection of the termInus of the Grand Trunk Pacific ReilWay, Port Simpson had not, he said, been :definitely ellosen. Ciircurnstances 'might arise Which: would make it, advisable to Choose Scene other location. There were throe possible termini within a Otreteh of about 5 hundred miles of coast line, viz.,. Port Simpson, Kite, meat, Arm, artd Belitteoolo,, any ono w311e31 might yet be the ettreine West end of the hew rally/eye, Mr. Hays 'Was confident that the preeehee of Ameriean islands in the wieinity Weald not effect the Choice. FEES AMOUNT TO $100,451 Receipts of Provincial Secretary's Department. A Toronto despatch says: Ac- cording to a statement handed out by Hon. J. R. Stratton, the fees re- ceived by the Provineial Secretary's Department for the first nine months of thie year amounted to 3100 451 nd the estimated fees for the whole ear will he $128,525, tie compared vIth 3108,728 Mee ived uring 1931e, The following aro the receipts for the preceding lour years: -- 3.898 ,,„„ $28,520 31.08(9)(9) .7., 190i. 7888,,960478 67,851 4 $60,000 FIRE AT WIARTON Canada Furniture Company's Saw Mill Destroyed. A Wiarton despatch says; The saw naill of the Canada Furniture Com- pany WWI completely destroyed by Jiro on Thursday, together with seve era) hurldred thouseted feet of oak lumber. The lose on, the mill and lumber le about 360,000, partly 000' 0105 tee insttranee, - portant coneideration than to• have Development in Crieis Immediately seeds that show a high vitality; it is evideet that a person sowing Impending. seeds should know epproximetely A despatch from London says: Ad - what per cent, were likely to grow, vices front Japan assert that there 711 order to obtain some 511.11111.0 in- is s, revival of 3131)11)1 pessimism con- formation iti regard to the qtialityerning the political outlook, The Department pf A•grieultueal„ eolleeted the Seed Division of the D01111111011 zi, mei LlliStE'VS 3'0111S0 to be interviewed or to mate any statement, but the idea is ,prevalent that a derided deVelop- Of our 'vegetable and flower 0-01.341 upwards of five 3 -Mildred samples an it in the crisis is iintneiliately im- tsetoe thorn for e Homy, The 5e10.., ponding,, and that war can scarcely pies were secured tit about twenty be avoided. It is reported that the difairent points in the Dominioe mid railroad and steamship companies Were considered representative os the havi been notified to ha ready for eeede oil sale. About ono hundred eventualities, Naval preparations of the packages bought were of seeds centime) With much activity. Russian held over from last year, The most military activity on the Corona 80031 - approved method was %teed in making tier has not abated, it is felt that, tho tests, two hundred teeth( for haety action by the conenanciers of each test being used, and each being either nation May at any moment conducted 1:1 duplicate, Where the start a conflict. The appointment of numbee Of seeds in 'the package Vice -Admiral Togo to cc:minuet the Would aot permit -of this all the standjnsAnadren ii; ulucli 00)131115M- see.(18TWIleEre115033, 011 TAIII4:1 ea epee. Ile is popularly called the ' ' le 1 ghting a tlin 1 re 1 ..' ' He commanded 3tees a summary of lost, af a law ille 1171113< (squadron 1911)11351911)1135opened the of the continue seeds :- Chi n eee-.1 ctp an est+ War 1» 1894, A Kind of No. -of • !mirth eonfereece, ...beta:veep. Baron f3eed. Tests, min, Mae, Ay Kommura, Jepaneice Minister of For - ()mon ,,,,, ... ..,27 1,8 ,1h3.5 my,/ eign Affairs, and Ileron de Rogan, Taatnee „„., -10 41, ori.a ea,$) the Refasten ATIelstee, IS impending. CelerY ••• e. -.11 1.5 511,5 38,2 Theie third conference took plate on Carret .„ - -24 25. 08, tvr, Del- 14, 'mince When the negotiatione Clauliflosver „, „, 0 2,5 87, 51,5 hate beee at a steAdstill. TICKS FROI THE MEE • • AAA NA HAPPENINGS FROM ALL ovmt THE G1,033E, Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own and Othee Countries of Recent Events, CANADA, The McGill 31',11.0.A., will erot new 380,000 building. Elgin Myers, KC., diecl at $ault Ste. Marie on Saturday. Enrolling is going on rapidly for an artillery corps at Arnhersthurg. Reports from Roseland say that I:wend/tries are trying to burn the town. The Quebec Mercury, which was more than one hundred years old, stopped publication on Saturday. Large furniture and woodenware factories am to be established at Fort Frances on the RaintlY River. Members of the 14th Regiment at Kingston want a medal for doing garrison 'duty din•ing the Northwest rebellion. Forty monuments have been com- pleted at Montreal. They avIll be taken to South Africa to designate the graves of Canadian soldiers. The aggregate value of Canada's foreign trade for the quarter ending September 30 was 3133,758,124, which was 321,506,588 more than for the same period last year. There were too many steamers on the Liverpool route from St, John last winter and the 0.P.R. and the Allan Line Company will out down their services from five to three. E, J. Edelson, his wife, Joseph II. Edeleop and Robert Edelson of Chi- cago. ISbacco merchants, were ar- rested at Montreal, on Saturday, on O charge of defrauding their eredi- tors. About 314,000 was taken from them. Negotiations between the C.P.E. engineers and Emmen and the com- pany at Montreal having proved fruitless so far, a meeting of 1.110 111811 was heM in Winnipeg, at which it was 'decided to take a poll. A strike may result. GREAT BRITAIN. Lord Rosebery has written a letter to Henry H. Fowler indicating that Ile will support the free traders. Colonel Sir William Colville, the King's Master of the Ceremonies, is dead of lung trouble. Ho Was born in 1827. The Foreign Office denies that there is any agreement between Groat Bri- tain and Gernaany on the Asiatic problem. It is reported that Harland and woirr, the shipbuilding firm of Bel- fast bus signed o, contract to take all its iron and steel from the United States Steel Corporation. Tt will amount to about 150,000 tons year- ly. UNITED STATES. It is reported that a monument to Queen Victoria is to bo erected at Boston, U.S. Four military prisoners have been released on forged 1301%10118 at Al- catraz, Cal. Fifteen Italian laborers were killed as the result of a railway collision near Washington Crossing, N. J., on Saturday. Beeause his wife would not stop talking when he ordered her to Jacob Gittel tried to pull out her tongue, at Southington, Conn. • Santnel Ostrander, once worth 3759,000, and a well known Erie canal boatman, died in the poor- house, at Lockport, N.Y. The Philadelphia dyers have re- tui•ned to work, thus ending the strike involving , 120,000 persoes, which began June 1, 1Va1ter Jackson, the convicted nave - clover of six-year-old Fannie Bucle, was taken from jail and lynched at Hamilton, Mont, GmTERAL, A revolution in Armenia is promis- ed in the spring. One of the Sidtan's younger sons, Ahmed Bedr Eddine, is dead. The British Minister to Japan is said to be negotiating an agreement between that country and Russia. •4 - COD FISHERY A FAILURE. Nova Scotia Fishermen Will Suffer Severe Privation. A despatch from Halifax. says; The Grand Bank cod fishery, in which some .70 Nova Scotia vessels engag- ed, has proven an almost entire fail- ure 11110 season, and there will he much privation in Ltmenburg, where this fishery has its heatiquaetere. (11 many eases Ltmenburg vessels have come 111 11'it1101.111 a Sillgle quintal, and none has secured even an ordiamy catch. The fishermen depended on the catch of one season to pny the bills of the season before, and to 311001 this obligation 11030 they have not a, cent, thus leaving themselves tie° years in debt, Further credit is being refused by the merchants, and the outlook is gloomy, Nova Senile fishermen do not go out o I 110 NOW- fOltildland Welke in the avintee, 1)131. noW 0. movement is nilnat to go to the banks on reir own coast this winter in the hope of doing some- thing to relieve the very 'heavy lose ses of the cloeing 01115011. 88,000 F Employe Wins Snit Against Paper c oiOnlIA1-1AND. D4tly. A clesnatelf front Cornwell saye: The sui t • o r rt$gow a gni net ( he Toronto i'aper Compaay ended on Wednesday morning in a Verdict, fOr 1.110 Plain- tiff fee 88,000. The plaintiet los* a hand While Working- a paper euttee, ena elainted the Machine wee defec- tive, l'his Was( the eeeond trial of the ease, The ',MOM votellet will' be appealed aloha A GLIMPSE .AT J'APAIT'S NAN Y.. .11.n Englishman Testifys to Ste Efficiency. The repid adaptation of Japan tO the demands of modern civilization haa been one of the nill'itelee of our times, Some have rows.led this as the destructiOn of an old and pic- turesque Oriental eultuis; ethers have hailed it as o, greet aCiVal1CO, and go as far as to fwe in Japanese statesmanship a power to organize the "Yellow peril" of China into a formidable danger for the Westeras nations, Soh fore, however, should be held in eboyanco until it is dotormlneil weather the Japanese have a, creative genius, capable of tatting the initiative, or are only, clover imitators, /Tow successful they !lave been as imitators, in 0.110 3101.111 at least, is related by Mr, Alfred Stead In the London Daily Mall. afr, Stead has been one of the very few foreigners pernaitted to take a cruise on 0. Japanese warship in commission and feels himself able 1.0 give a graphic: account of what will bappee when the "real thing" arrives, Bic found a striking demonstration of 11a4'ai strength and efficiency. "All the ships, save one, wore English built„" Ile tells es, "and tho japaneso myth- orities are Quite determined that none of thole largo yeasels shall bo built elsewhere than in Great Bri- tain." Tho sailors, made up of the con- scripts, serving fotir years, and Yol- un•t' eers, serving seven, aro a sturfdy, efficientlot and are well fed and ad- mirably handled. Of the gun prac- tice Mr. Stead says : "The nien are all mined with Murata. ',Mee, invented and manufactured in Japan and short bayonets. leer over an hour the work of aiming, loading,. and cleaning the guns 111 the turrets, casements, coid batteries was carried On seriously. Many of the Gem- Mands contain English words, anti• it is very curious to hear them. Special attention wee ,pctict to thee cleaning and repairing of the guns„ as also to the protection of tho- gun crews during action." After describing the various prae-. tice 1lrills, which were admirably carried through,. Mr. Stead concludes. by saying : whole of the per; sonnel of the Japanese 110.77 aro. filled with pride in their treditione and their ships, and they will 'do, well should ever the occasioe arise." INSURGENTS SURRENDERING, Pardoned BytehaeSdlu. tan and Well Treated, A 'despatch from Salonica nye :- Recent advices from Monastir say that a. considerable number of insur- gents have surrendered in response - to the Sultan's last call. Tale first of those who surrendered were beaten and imprisoned; but Stringent ordera from. the Yildiz Palace all the men who are 11019 coining in ar0. well received mad have been pardon- ed. This, however, does not indi- cate the • collapse of the rebelli,m, hitt is in conformance with the re- voluntionary committee's ilec•ision to, thi11 out the Insurgent hands 'during the winter and retain under arras 011- 0 11 aggregate of about 3,600 mem They leave their rifles with the lead- ers, who secrete them the main- tains in readiness for operations in the Spring. Not one of the leadora has surrendered. The revolutionary committee bail 110 111107111011 of resorting to the use of dynamite ie the 1.030115 this win- ter; but it declares if the powers do not succeed In causing the estalalish- anent of a satisfactory form of gov- ernment by the Spring every CW011.- 0.131(3 man will be called mit and every desperate method for gaining the ends of the revolutionists will be re, sorted to. Tile Turks repoet that both C.haka- laroff and Sarafeff, the insurgent leatlers,, Wore killed recently in the Village of Boor, 01 the Florio. dis- trict. The Ibligarians ctSsert that Sorafog is on his way to Bulgaria. IYIET /le' A TUNNEL. Disastrous Wreck on. English Rail - d A. despatch front London says railway accident, attended with the loss of life, happened on Thursday. evening at Sowerb;y Bridge, ill 1.110 e„,,,TEV n'OSt Mc:ling of Yorkshive. A11 ('.3.0- 310055 train runeing Tram Leeds to Manchester was thrown front the track in a, tiannel by striking it de- tached loeonvotive, that for some un- explained reason was itt the tunnel, and. both tracks were obstructed by the wreckageaiOanwhile ae express train. 100111 lifanthester for Leeds oil, tereil the tunnel at a, higt rate of speed, and almost instantly crashed into the obstruction, badly wreelcing itself, 'Cite tunnel is filled with '14, bilge 1111155 Of ((hatter locomotives and coaches, and the work of (lee)ing it (wetly is noceseatily.very elow. Three bodies have thus far been recovered, 330A STRANGLES WOMAN. Kills a Performer 'While Audience Applauds. despatch' frdle 'Berlin says A. young 590111011 Well 30111001.03.1 to ..t100:01 bY 1/00. copstrictor N'oeliclingen. Prusein, on Wednesdey, while giving 11 performanee in a Menagerie. The spectators thought at Prat that her screams (tell frantic steogglets ite the situka tightened its ceilg, were pert of the show,. aed applauded (11111 erieit ":11e111O I" al the "reel - ism" 1)1 11 er a 01 1)13), The t1 '11(113.114.6 110110701', ,saw- the woman's deoger, 1'1111 in, beet the eneke and slashed 34. with knives. The woman Was 'dyad when released, IRELAND'LOVES THE KING, Prieet Says She is Entlinsiasticale lsr I,eyal. A deslettelt from Philadelplela eavs: -.it the meeting or L1i Eni t,31 11.131 touguo bope '11,113.5411y night, Bee. Father Murphy, who hes jest reliant. e'd boat teethed, (lectured that ell Ireland, wise enthecieelie for King Eidavarli,