HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-12-3, Page 6TEE W ORT1D'S EAPKETS
REPORTS FB01t2, THE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES,
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese,
and' Other Dairy Produce
at Home and Abroad.
.Toronto, Dec. 1, -Wheat -Tho mar-
ket continues to rule steady, .al-
though offerings are more liberal
No. 9 white and rod Winter quoted
at 77e, to 78c, low freights; No. 2
Spring is quoted at 78c ,east, and
No. 2 goose at 70 to 71c east, Mani-
toba wheat unchanged. At upper
lake ports No. 1 Northern is quoted
at 85c, and No. 2 Northern at 82jc.
No, 1 hard nominal at 90c lance
ports. for grinding in transit quo-
tations aro Oc ]nigher than above.
Oats -The market is quiet, with the
feeling easier. No, 2 white is quot-
ed at 281e west, and at 20c low
freights to' New York. No. 1 Whitt
130( cast.
Barley -Tho market is dull, with
the prices steady. No. 2 quoted at
48c middle freights. No. 3 extra at
40c, and No. 3 at 38 to 39c middle
freights.
Rye -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. Cars are quoted at
52 to 52ec middle freights.
;Peas -Trade is dull, and prices un-
changed. No. 2 white sold at 61e
twiddle freights, and at 69c east.
Corn -The market is quiet, and
prices steady. No, 2 yellow Ameri-
can quoted at 531c, on track, To-
ronto/ No. 3 yellow et 53c, and No.
8 mixed at 82e, Toronto,
Buckwheat -The market is firm,
with fair demand. No. 2 quoted at
42 to 48e middle freights.
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents aro
steady at $3.05 middle freights, in
buyers' sacks, for export, Straight
rollers of special brands, for domes-
tic trade, quoted at $8.40 to $8.50
in hbls. Manitoba hours an, steady;
No, 1 patents, 84.55 to $4.60; No,
2 patents, $4,25 to $4.80. and
strong bakers', $4.15 to $4.20 on
track, Toronto.
Millteed-Bran steady at $16.50
and shorts at $18.50 here, At out-
side points bran is quoted at $13.50
to $14, and shorts at $17.50, Mani-
toba bran in sacks, $18, and shorts
at $20 here.
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Apples -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. Winter fruit quoted at
$1.75 to $2 per bbl. in car lots, and
at $2 to $9.50 in small quantities.
Beans -There is a quiet trade, with
prices steady. Prime beans are quo-
ted at $1.65 to $1.70 per hush.
Dried Apples -Tho demand is fair,
with prices unchanged at 43 to 5c
per M.
Hops -The market is firm at 29 to
30c.
Honey -The market is quiet at 6 to
7s per lb. for bulk, and at $1.95 to
$2 for comb. Choice clover honey, 7
to 73c per M.
Hay -Demand is fair, with receipts
only moderate. No, 1 timothy quo-
ted at $9.50 on track, Toronto, and
znixed at $6.50 to $7.
Straw -Tho market is quiet at $5
per ton for car lots on track.
Potatoes -The market is a trifle
firmer, with receipts light. Cars on
track aro quoted at 58 to 60c per
bag for good quality.
Poultry -The demand is fair, and
offerings moderate. Turkeys are
quoted at 10 to 12c per lb., and
geese at 7 to 8c per lb„ ducks, 9 to
10c per lb„ or 85 to 90c per pair.
Chickens, 83 to 9c per lb., or 70 to
85c per pair; old Ions, 50c per pair.
TUE DAIRY MARKETS,
Better -Trade continues fairly
good, but the supplies of choice qual-
ities are limited. Prices generally
are firm. Wo quote- D'inest 1 -Ib.
rolls, 19 to 20c; choice large rolls,
16 to 1.70; selected, dairy tubs, 17
to 17lee secondary grades, 13 to
14c; creamery prints, 22 to 28c; sol-
ids, 19 to 20c.
Eggs -Market firm. We quote: -
Strictly new laid, 24 t0 25c; fresh
store gathered, 21e; cold storage,
190; limed, 180.
Cheese -Market quiet but steady.
We quote.- Finest, 11. to 11le, the
latter for twins; seconds, 103 to
10;0.
HOC? PRRODUCT;S,
:Dressed hogs are 'unchanged, with
offerings liberal, dales at $6 deliv-
ered here. Cured meats unchanged,
with a fair demand. We quote: -
Bacon long clear, 10c in ton and
Mase Iota. Mess pork, $17; do.,
short cut, $19 to 819.50.
Smoked meats -Hams, light to me-
dium, 13 to 1.3ec; do., heavy, 12
to 121c; rolls, 10e to 11.e; shoulders,
83 to 10ec; backs, 14 to 15e; break-
fast bacon, 14 to 14.3e.
Lard -The market is quiet, with t
prices steady. We quote:- Tierces,
Bac; tubs 81c; pails, 9c; compound,
B to 90,
toba bran, in bags, $18; shorts, $20;
beans, choice primes, $1.510 to $1.55
Per bush., $1.40 to $1,50 in car
lots, Provisions -Heavy Canadian
short cut pork, $19.50 to Sete light
short cut., 818 to 818.50; American
short cut clear, $17 to $17,5(1; An1-
erlean fat backs, $18 to $18,50;.
compound lard, Pc; Canadian lard. 8
to 83c; kettle rendered, 10;e; harts,
113 to 180; bacon, 14c; fresh killed
abattoir hogs, $7.25. country avert-
ed hogs, $0,50; live hogs, $5. higgs
--Candled selected, 24 to 25c;
straight receipts, 21c; Montreal lint. -
ed, 190, Cheese -Ontario, 10 to 11c;
Townships, 103 to 102c; Quebec, 9.c.
Butter -Townships creamery, 213 to
213c; Quebec, 203 to 21c; Western
dairy. 15 to 17c; Western rolls, 17
to 18c,
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Dec. 1., -\Thea( -De-
cember, 788c; May, 80c; on track
No, 1 hard, 813c; No. 1 Northern,
1303c; No. 2 Northern, 783e; No. 8
Northern, 73 to 753c. Flour -First
patents, 84.65 to $4.75; second, do.,
$4,55 to $4.63; first clears, $3.40;
second, do., $9.80 to $2,40, (Iran -
In bulk, 818,25,
Duluth, Dec, 1. -Wheat -To twelve
-No. 1 hard, 701c; No. 1 Northern,
771( No. 2 Northern, 751,c; Decem-
ber, 77hc; Diny, 79e,
Buffalo, Per, 1,-1•'lotu'-Stender.
Wheat -Unsettled; No, 1 Northern,
8.74c: Winter, offerings light; No. e
red 86c, Cot•n-Quirt; No. 2 yellow,
52;c; No, 2 torn 50ic. Octs-No-
thing doing Marley -52 to 63c. Rye
-No, 1 in store, 59c.
MEN RAN WILD IN WOODS.
Englishmen Became Demented by
'Cold and Hunger.
A Port Arthur, Ont,, despatch
eftym -A frightful story (venues from
liatilini:•tique, a station 20 guiles
west of here on the C. I'. 11, Your
Englishmen arrived there 'Thursday
and started to walk to the (quint
OI Kelly and Close, some 12 utiles
distant, where they were to get e11t-
1lo;,011nt. Two of the men, for
some nea''e), returned and tools the
train to Mort William. the other two
had dinner at Charles Oreer's camp,
some foul' miles en route to 1C.elly
and C'lew's. They left thele en
their way, but uocer reached their
destination. Suula,v conte men in
the employ of Charles Oren(, while
teaming between the camp and Naan-
iuleli,p•c, saw two nett in the bush.
They w'cie without shoes and appal.-
, e•ntly demented. Their 1lothiug was
torn, and when discovered they yell-
ed lire Indleune, and made off into
Gm woods.
The pnlhre of Fort William were
telegraphed for, and \vent out, but
relented without rloteg any teeing to
locate them,- and they were left
rennin(; wild in the woods without
envying in veno weather. Searching
parties from the camps were de-
s;.,a:chrd, incl one of the then rimed
ha6nt frozen but still alive. 'Though '
in a terrible condition, and his cloth-
ing nearly all gone, be was. brought
to T''ort. William, and taken to the 1
hespitel, where it Was ascertained
his named was Berns, 13,,t slight
hopes are eutertnimel for his recov-
ery. The other elan was futmcl on
Wednesday afternoon in the (rood,
dead. They bud apparently lost
it way and throue•
h cold and
LIVE STOCK MARKETS,
Toronto, Doe, 1.-Busine•'s in but -
(hers', exporters' and shott-l.c'cp
feeders was brisk at the Western
Market to -day, and values wore ]nigh-
er than before. Sleep mei lambs
were in good demand, and although
the offerings were free all were; sold
early. flogs were weak in price,
with a lower terbdency.
Butchers' cattle continued to eon
readily and prices held strong, Sev-
eral choke loads were sol,l at 84.252
per cwt. Quotations were as fol-
lows :-ChOlee butchers', 1,000 to
1,100 lbs., 84 to $4,2.5; good loads,
050 to 3,050 lis, $8.50 to $3.75;
fair and medium loads, $3.25 to $3.-
00; common, $2.75 to $8; rough and
Inferior, $2 to $2,613; canners, $1.75
to $9 per cwt.
Trade in export cows was steady
on light receipts, while common to
fair butchers' were not very plentiful
and consequently were all sold eatly.1
We quote :-Export cows, 3,200 to
1,300 lbs, 83.123 to $8.00; cows, '
800 to 1,100 lbs, $2.40 to $•3.10;
rough rows, $1.75 up.
The feature of the market for feed -
os and stockers was; the brisk de-
mand for the best descriptions, Quo-'
tations follow :-Heavy feeders, 1,200
to 1,300 lbs, $4 to $4.25; feeders,;
050 to 1,100 hbs, $3.50 to $4; feed-.
en's, 800 to 950 lbs, $3.25 to 83,50; i
stockers, 000 to 800 lbs, 82,50 to ;
$3; stock calves, 400 lbs up, 52.25'
per cwt.
Trade in sheep and lambs was
brisk, and prices were firm. \\e quote
-Export ewes, $11,25 to $3,40; I
ex-
port bucks, $2.50 to $2.75; lambs.;
$8.75 lo 84,25 per cwt„ and culla.
$2 to $3 each.
Calces sold at $2 to ;$10 each,
and 83 to 510 per Ib.
Milch cows were 'Inn at $80 to 871 j
each. Tho latter figure was paid by
J. Armstrong for an extra 0110 cote. I
Hogs were unchanged, but the i
prospects were that prices would go,
lower, We quote :-Selects, 160 to r
200 lbs. of prime bacon quality,
$3.25 to $3.50, and stags e2 to $8i
per cwt.
MAY BE EATEN BY WOLVES
hunger, their minds became unbal-1
anted, though when found they were)
within a few utiles of cited:cation.I
The dead mann has not yet been iden-
tified. Wm. Burns, alto was rescu-
ed, came front Newcastle, Ont.
FARMER IS PROSPEROUS.
He Owns Property Worth Over
81,000,000,000.
t 'A 'Toronto despatch says: -They
1 farmers of Ontario arc In an unusual -
;Is prosperous condition Just now,
aeeord)ng to the alumni report of
Inc Provincial Parvenu of industries.
!There were 15,584 mortgages re-
corded ]test year, valued at 810,890,
615, to sec1110 existing debts, and
142, valued at 81,090,158. for future
eudorsafion, whereas set en years
ago 21,789 mortgages were register-
ed, - The number of (hatter snort -I
gages issued:against farmers last 1
Year was 7,235, the smallest in ten
years. The aggte;;ale of these mort-
gages was 82,850. In 1.900 the;
mortgages were 12,288, over 5,000'
more than last year and represented
$3,767,646.
The total values of farm property
in 1902 were :-
Land S69-1,860,06'3 I
Buildings 037,289,668
Implements ,,, ,62,199,7871
Live Stock ,,,,,....,.. 1441.344,8141
Total ,.,,81,044,894,389
The number of cheese factories was
1,127. a decrease of 50, and they
manufactured cheese to the value of
$14,792,9.24 and paid to patrons for
milk 813,158,!05.
Farm values and reftnls in Ontar-
io were :-Average value of land per
acre, $25.49, and average holdings of
improvements and live stock in pro-
portion to acres clewed, 882.48, The
nverage rental for cleared land was
$2,47 per acre.
The total treble of live stock sold
in 19112 was 808,083,386.
The ratios of acres under crop
totalled 639.5.
The total acreage nl assessed land
was 23.727,010, of which 57.2 per
cent. was clewed,
F, X, Guertin, an Ottawa Woods-
man, Missing.
An Ottawa despatch says: The
inference drawn from a letter receiv-
ed in the city on Thursday is that
P. X. Guertin of Ottawa, the woods-
man who disappeared from a camp
above Mattawa some weeks ago, has
met a terrible death. The letter was
received by Mr, P. Mullin from his
brother-in-law, Wm. Burns, who was
employed in the samo camp as
Guertin. Burns and Guertin were
members of a gang engaged by Eras-
er & Co. to work on one of their
camps during the winter. Guertin
had strange hallucinations and ono
night he left the camp, presumably
to return to leis home in Ottawa, Ile
was not seen afterwards, and as he
did not arrive at his borne a search
was made for Win. Burns stated in
the letter that in company with two
Indians he searched the country
about the camp for a couple of
weeks, but no traces of Guertin could
he had. The Indians, who were well
acquainted with the country, express-
ed the belief that Guertin had been
run down and devoured by wolves
hat overrun the district,
BUY -' TIMBN CANADA.
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BLS] NESS' A7' MONTREAL.
Montreal, Dec., 1: Aianit.oba wheat;
Is steady at 79e for No. 1 Northern, t
Port William, Tho local demand for
oats is slow, and there is none at 0
all for other grains, so that (uota-
tions are nominal. The Cheese Mar-
ket continues dull and prices- un-
changed. The Mutter Market, is
quiet, with it fair local demand. The
stocks of butter Tieing held in the
city at present are vary light for this
time Of year, Western rolls in pack-
ages of about .30 pounds sell at 18c.
Poultry is still scarce, and the de-
mand continues good, Grain -Peas,
713 to 72c afloat here; rye, 58e east
and 58e afloat here; buckwheat, 520
afloat; No. 2 oafs, 1)5;, to 353e in
Store, 34e afloat; No.3, le less; flax-
seed, $1,15 o11 tree): here; No. 8 hat•-
, GOe. 11'lour-4fanitoha, patents,
$4,60; seconds. $4,30; :strong bake
d)'S', $4.05 to $4.130; Ontario straight
rollers, $3,90 to 84; in bags, $1.85'
io $1.9K; patents, $4 to 14,25; ex-
tra, $1,05 to $1.70; rolled oats, $1.-
50 per bag, .$3.80 per bbl. -feed--
J)Jntario• Iran, in .bulk, $17.50 to
118,50; -shorts, - $20 to .$211 Mud- t
Two
lcfad-
Two Hundred Square Miles AC-
quired by Detroit Men,
A Detroit despatch says :-One of
he biggest deals in timber lands in
which .Detroiter's,have been interest- 1
d rorently has' lust been c.., .,
whcrohy the.. Danaher and Mcieedy i
Co„ of Detroit, acquires two hun-
dred square miles of spruce and ;cedar s
Janda in the Province of Quehce, 'l'hc
purchase carries with it sawmills, c
hogging rnada, etc. 'Phe considei'a-
tion is in the neighborhood of three t
hundred thousand dollars, I am
not certain whether five will cut ori
the timber or sell it again in tho
spring," said Mi'. Danaher, "but
whichever we do, we consider it a
good purchase."
RAILWAY TO PEKINt'
Russians Have Completed Survey
of the Line.
A. St. Petersburg despatch says: i
The survey has heen,c0nlploted for a
railroad from Kinlchtn, ;Siberia, to
Pekin, by Way of Chigoe, 'Phe length
of the ,road will he � about 1,000
miles, It 10111 give a shan't cut to
the Chin0S1 'capital,
RESULTS ARE SURPRISING
INVESTIGATION' 01' SEEDS
FOB; 1903.
Secured From Merchants and
Tested in the Seed Labora-
tory, Ottawa,
The continued investigation late
the concliliuns nnde1 which apicul-
ture' 11t'eds are sold in Opuntia has
been given a rather oxleoshe scope
during 1908, The repent of the
work done by the Seed 11in1Mhon dur-
ing 1902 was publisted 111 13u1!ctle,
No, 8. 1n tin spring of il.c cur-
rent year, One thousand one hundred
and twelve samples of grass, clover,
flax, cereal, root crop and garden
vegetables seeds Wel•e 50curo11 from
merchants in all parts of Canada
and tested in the Seed Laboratory,
Ottawa, In addition to those, 0110
hundred and twenty-five samples et
grass and clover reeds here analysed
for farmers told seed merchant -s,
With each sample obtained for in-
vestigation, information was en-
closed giving the name of the dealer
and the place where it was sell, the
pr'ic'e per pound or per bushel and
the origin of the seed. In this con-
nection it is interesting to note that
ll:e prices pair! by farmers fur grass
and clover seeds were no guide to
the actual \value of the samples. The
average prfc'es per 0110.hunched
pounds of Timothy, Alsike, and lied
Clover seeds, es shown by the in-
formation cards received With the
samples, have been calculated, and
the results are somewhat surprising.
11 these are to be taken as a fair
average, we find that in Ontario,
first grade Timothy sold for $5,39
per hundred; second grade for $6.24
and lower grades for 85.52. In Que-
bec first grade Red Clover averaged
815.50; second grade 81.2.55, and
lower grades 815.15. In the Mari-
time Proviuees Alrilce of the best
grade sold for an average of $17.00;
nl rad 8 '.5(1 n lower
coo c grade r�]U and u
grottos $16.45 per hundred pounds.
TN P1108E CALCULATIONS
the nature of tin impurities contain-
ed in the samples was, of course, not
taken irrto cen,i'iereti ori. Samples
containing 90 per cent. or over o4
good eeett were rated as first grade;
samples coutaini, g between 80 and
90 per cent 05 t0eOnd grade; and
samples containing less than 80 per
cent as low grade. It may be
pointed out that no sample of Alsike
containing 90 per cent or over of
pure and ge'minable seed was ob-
tained in the province of Qubov.
Two hundred and six samples of
timothy seed were analysed and of
there eighty-four contained 90 per
sent or over of pure and germin-
able seeds. Seventy-two of those
samples contained fewer than 1,000
weed Feeds per lb., 0210 hundred and
sixty' -two contained fewer than
5,000, and sixteen contained more
than 10,000.
Out of one hundred and thirty-six
samples of Alsike that were analysed
only six contained 90 per cent or
over of pur0 and geeminablo seed.
Eighteen of them contained fewer
tlhnn 1,000 freed seeds per pound;
sixty-seven curtained rower than
5,000, and twenty-two 'contained
more than 10,000.
Two hundred and six samples of
:led Clover were obtained from small
dealers and of these eighty samples
contained 90 per tent or over of
plu•e and germinable seed. Sixty-
five of then contained fewer than
1;000 weed seeds per pound, one hun-
dred and twenty -sive contatn fewer
ban 5,000, and forty-four contained
more .than 10,000.
:t is well to note that a large
proportion of those samples obtain-
ed for investigation were purchased
from irresponsible dealers in villages
and small towns. Tho reliable send
houses retail largo quantities of high
class seeds, but a comparatively
small number of samples were ob-
tained direct from these large firms.
The percentage of samples of good
quality would have been much great -
or if this had been done.
SEEDS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
Seven samples of 'Alsike and four-
ee11 of Red Clover seeds wore ob-
ained from retail seedgnlell in (treat
3ritain. Of these, three of Alsike
and five of Red Clover were said to
be Gonadial grown, '1'ho analyses
1: the Canadian Alsike showed an.
neer0gc of 9(6,8 per cent of pure and
errninable Feeds. The average of
Ire three samples of Alsike which
were said to be English grown was
4,27 per cent, end the one German
torn sample included in the lot
pure
contained 84.72 )tar cent ofP
nd ge•minnbie 5ee65, Tee latter
amen( contained thirteen species of
oreigll seeds.
'J'he average purity of the four -
ren sami:los of Iced Clover seeds
n Great Britain was 98.13 and tho
avcrago germination 92.3 per cent,
The Canadian grown samples wore
lightly lower in per cent of purity
hail those which were said to have
nen grown in England and Chile.
The average per cent. of parity of
he 'five Canadian grown samples
was 98.7 and the average per cent,
of vitality 93.6.
Comparing the quality of the Can-
adian grown geed obtained from re-
t -all dealers in Great Britain with
that of the sanple5 ou:eha.scdl from,
retail deniers in Canada, it would
teem that much of our best reclean-
ed Alsike and Rad Clover seed is
osixnted. While it is desirable that
the reputation of Canadian grown
800da ho maintained in European
nettrkets, it is 110 fess important that
Canadian !emote 010111d not he
further enntaninated by the weed
MOS 1'crntitling in the 5el'ecning5 and
lower grades of seeds which are left
for the home trade.
2,000 WORDS A MINUTE.
New Telegraphic Apparatus Ex-
perimented With.
A. Berlin despatch says: -William
von Siemens, of the Siemena-Halske 1
Company, has exhibited before tat 11
audience of postal and telegraph ex- 1
ports a new telegraphic apparatus, 1
Which on wb th ho and. Dr. Franke, 711, ,
Thonhas and Dr. Erhardt have been c
working for several years. Pet forat- ,
ed paper ribbon is used in the upper- a
anus, and the experiments show that 1
the instrument sends 2,004) • words
per minute for long distances, The ,0
rnessege is r (cel et on ie strip of !g
110115))ircul paper, which emerges with t
the 1 h
c. •I (tendered, The ,
L Pd a nSl-
}
I 1
a
office authorities 1
o c s a so have matte ex- t ,tr
9001100115 with Poulsen's telegrap- f
hole. wl•ich combines the use of the l
ordinary te'ephoh0 with the telegraph t
inslrumtnt, i
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TO SPEND $2,500,000. r1
1,
C. P. R. Considering Plan For 12
Winnipeg improvements. , t
A Montreal despatch says :-The
management of the Canadian Politic
teailway in this city has still undo'
consideration the plans of the 11010
11)141 snake) and terminal fa1illties
at Winnipeg. Upon these, in con -
unction with ate new w0110410p5 at
his point, ti:o company - will like](
pend little short of two million and
a half dollars, The principal
honor's ,nada /rani the original plan
ure, it to nllder510011, in the waiting-
'oorn, 'There the company found that
he plans in the first plane dint not,
provide sufficient accommodation for
the increased traffic.
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AN ALL -CANADIAN RAILWAY
B. 0, Government Favors a Line
to the Yukon,
A. Vi(ton'i.a, I1;C., despatch .rays;
The speech trent the throne at the
opening of the British Columbia Leg -
Mature on '112005day afternoon re-
cOmmended the pushing forward of
an all-Canacllan railway from sonro
point on the British Columbia coast
te, the Yukon, this Stipp being due to
the adverse decision on the -Matzke.
boundary tlhleeti0n:•. .
TROOPS- TO FIGHT RUSSIA,
Viceroys of Thirteen, ,lfroviaces
Are Prepared.
A despatch to the London Daily
'relogrnph from Slutaghoi says that
the Viceroys of thirteen provinces
outside of ChM have made an offer
to the Throne to 1elld 9,0,000 for-
eigndrilled troops to fight Russia
for , Manchai'iaa<
FOUR FIREMEN KILLED.
Collapse of a Burning Building at
Omaha, Neb.
All (Militia, Nob„ despatch says:
Four firemen were burned to death of
Thursday, with a 'property loss
amounting to 4300,000, as the result
of a lire in the wholesale grocery
house of Allan Bros., cat 911 and
tones streets, The firemen who were
killed were working about 40 feet in-
side the Alien building, when the
floor above unexpectedly collapsed,
catching the alien, with no chance of
('50ape, raid with no possibilityt of
their comrades resetting them, 'thein
bodies Were not even recovered,
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GAS EXPLODED.
Three then Burned in Store Cellar
at Wiarton,
A Marton despatch says: The
list of accidents through acetylene
gas has increased by an explosion in
the store of T., D. Weber, on Thurs-
day, Mr. Weber, with several only
ors, was removing 1120 gas plant from
his cellar to a storehouse in the rear,
and in disconnecting the parts
brought e, lamp too close. An ex-
plosion at. once followed, Mr, Web-
er, Mr, J. Tilley, and Mr, Manvers
were badly burned.
A NEW MARDI.
Troops Have Been Sent to Dis-
perse His Forces,
'A despatch from London says :-
A new Malhdi, or Mad Mullah, is
making trouble in the Soudan, and it
has been found necessary to send
troops from I{hartoum to quell and
disperse' the malcontents that sur-
round him. The man in command
of this expeditionary force. Is the re-
doubtable Col, Bryan T. Mahon, a
County Cahvay man, who won re-
nown for leading the 00101311 that re-
lieved Aiafeking in the Boer War,
Col, Mahon, who is military com-
mander of the Kordofan region, has
with him a column of Egyptian -ca•v-
alty, and it is expected that he will
make quick work of the new Mandi,
who is operating in the Kordofan
district, ilio fact that Col. Mahon.
himself has taken command of the
expedition shows that the uprising is
(Orlaid0l'ed serious, Col, Mahon was
with Kitchener in the Dongola and
Nilo campaigns, aided in the capture
of the old Khalifa, and was decorat-
ed for his services. He also served
in India with distinction,
4
OAT'S BITE PROVES FATAL.
Kicked the Animal to See If It
Was Dead.
A despatch from Paterson,
nays :-Samuel Dykat'a, dead from
a cat bile, was buried on Thursday
from his home at 3.59 Franklin.
Street, and the body was interred in
Fairlawn Cemetery, Some clays ago
he shot in his yard a cat that had
been bothering him for some time.
The shot lues from a rifle, and the
animal lay as de dead, ',Po make
sure, however, he 1x01000 over to it
and gave the carcass a kick. IIe
was startled when It jumped up and
buried Rs teeth in the fleshy part of
his leg. Another charge from the
rifle, however, ended its existence.
73e applied remedies to the wound.
Sunday, however, he became so ill
that he had to be 'talion to the hos-
pital, where ho died Monday night.
He was 31 years old, and leaves a
widow and four children,
X-RAY RIVAL,
German Invention Photographs In-
ternal Organs.
A despatch from Berlin says: Ger-
man inventors have patented the first
Roentgen apparatus capable of pho-
tographing the internal organs of the
human body, showing the size and
shape of any part of the body, as
well as the exact dimensions of any
foreign substance - it may contain.
Local specialists consider the inven-
tion second in importance to the
only t3iscovery of the "x" ray itself.
This new apparatus, which is .known
as the orthodiagraph, has jnnst. been
placed 'on the market by the Allge-
meine Electricity Company, of Ber-
lin,
CANADA BUTTER ACT.
Appreciative Criticisms Thereof by
Newspapers.
A despatch from. Ottawa says: -
The Depa•tmmlt of Agriculture has
received some of the Doltish news-
paper of the G t ndla,n
paper 'x t al
Butter Act passed at the last session
of Parliament, - One of these says
that in passing this Act the Cana,
dians have gone the right way about
gaining the contiden.ce of the import-
ers in (treat Britain, Cene1114121S,
they say, evidently do not. Intend to
have their butter trade killed in its
infancy by being throttled with 8.
bad inane.
A MODERN JUGGERNAUT.
German Tailor Threw Children
and Himself Under Train,
A despatch from Bei 111 says :--
Thomas Me•kiorieez, a young tailor,
in the 11308enen of hundreds of per-
sons, threw hie two children, , aged
respectively- three and five years, 00
the rolls before (01 npproa.eliing train
at a suburban etal,ion itt midnight,
on Thursdoy and looped after atm,
A11 three were killed, efeltiew'iecr,'s
wide died on lfonday, lvhich is tem -
posed LO have led to the tragedy.
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SULTAN FINALLY CONSENTS.
But Says Humiliation of 'Parkes,
Most he Avoided,
A. derpatcit from 1ens1a.nth(ople
Bays: The Porte at, boon on. Wednes-
day sent n note to the Russian and
Austrian Ambassadors itssonting to
the 01)1.1re sehame of r•ehtn'ats for
Tsftcodonla. (10211(10806 by IRuseia and
Austria, het tl1)5)11yi15 its a55em1
with the reservation that, 411 the ap-
plication 01.,,ih1' scheme everything
ec3ailnidd Liri mini to Turkey s7n11
be ,avoided, .K3,
TICKS FRO THE WIRE.
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER
THE GLOBE,
Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own
and Other Countries of
C1ANA.OA,
There are thirty eases of scarlet
fever in Brantford at present,
Recently 400 caribou have bone
killed in Dawson neighborhood,
Extensive improvements aro pro-
posed 1.0 the Provincial Government
buildings at Winnipeg,
Negotiations are in progress in
Brantford with a '01010 to extending
rho T. I3'., & B, to Woodstock.
A splendid collection of western
Spy apples Ir0m BritISI) Columbia
for exhibition at St, Louis has ar-
rived et Ottawa,
On friday, Miss Louise Pogson of
Oshawa took a dose of strychnine in
mistake for cough medicine and died
in fifteen minutes.
The Canada Furniture Manufac-
turers, Limited, will probably cons-
=once
orn
=once tile construction of 0, largo
factory in Woodstock shortly.
14. IT. Croekford was arrested at
Toronto charged with sending a let -
tor to the wife of a clergyman at
Sorel, Que., threatening merdcl.
It is said that Col. Drlu'y of King-
ston is to be appointed to command
the Royal Canadian Artillery, with
an office at ]read quarters in Ottawa,
'Twenty-two engineers and assist-
ants out -fitted at North Bay and
have left to complete the survey for
the Grand Trunk Pacllie from North
Bay,
Mr, Robert Bickerdike, ISP., and
Mr. Desoto., of Montreal, are urging
upon the Government the construc-
tion of floating docks at Montreal
and other points.
The Toronto Exhibition directors
will ask for the submission of a by-
law to raise $200,000 for building
improvements. The financial state-
ment Shows a balance of $51,596.
Normal Taylor, 24 years old, of
Llodminater, N,W,T., while leading a
nervous horse, tied the end of the
halter to his wrist 1x'1111 a slip knot.
The horse ran away and he was
dragged to death,
Prof. Nicol, of Queen's University,
Kingston, has returned from a trip
through New Ontario bringing with
hien half a ton of silvol' ore, in piec-
es,
ies
es, some of which weigh twenty-five
pounds, which will bo added to the
museuu of the School o1 Minos.
It is reported at fort \yilliam that
the Canadian Northern propose
building a line from North Bay or
Sudbury on the Canadian Pacific
Railway to Toronto, over which the
Canadian Pacific may have running
powers, and in return the C. P."ll.
will grant the Canadian Northern
running powers over their line from
Port Arthur to Sudbury.
GREAT -BRITAIN,
The death is announced in London
of Hugh Stowell Scott, the novelist,
known under tho pen name of Roney
Seton Merriman,
The late James McNeil Whistler's
hest painting, "La Princesse du Pays
do la Forcelaine," was sold in Lon-
don for $25,000.
After fourteen years of foeign Ser-
vice the Dublin Fusiliers, returned to
Ireland the other day. Of 1-,100 who
then left only two, both officers, have
reterned,
The British Admiralty has substi-
tuted an order for three vessels of the
King Edward type for the recent or-
der for throe battleships with a re-
cord tonnage 0118,000 tons each.
IJNI:TIID STATES.
Electrical work is the only i)0116(ng
trade at work in Pittsburg. The
lockout makes 10,000 men idle.
The MoKinloy National Memorial
Association hie $550,000 in hand.
Sixty plans are under discussion,
At public auction in Nov York, a
walking cane of the late President
Abraham Lincohl wan sold for $115.
Because her bemltiful face had been
marred by failing health, Mrs. ,Lulu
Brennan, of • Chicago, killed herself,
taking chlo.t'oiorm,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Warren, wile
started May 19th on a 3,000 mild
drive to California from Lowvillo,
N.Y., have reached Los Angeles, Cad,
New York city's budget for 1904:
allows over 8106,000,000 for the,
running expellees of the city govern-
ment. Last year it was $97,000,000,
Freight r
I L otos Hast of Iluflal
n have
Sayo
been )advanced for the remainder of
the year to half -cent per basket on
wheals corn, oats and barley.
Tho ai'issourf Supreme Court, has
decided that the statute prohibiting
the giving away of liquor in local
option counties IS constitutional.
At the \V G.T.U. 0011y0111inn at
Cincinnati, 1'e501r1ti005 were passed
favoring the exclusion of Senator
Smoot, an equal ends 0l morals for
men and woolen, prohibition and wo-
man su3erag0. - Mrs billion W, N,
Stevens, POrtiend Me„ was elected
president.
G 19NbIRA 7.,,
'Ile jewels of the late. Queen Breese,
n1>nrLh 4687,000, are t0 be Sold.
'floe New Zealand Lipper Ilona: bus
amscll the preferential i1•ade bill:
(lernlnii troops and IIoll.a2ta2t rrb-
elm ,o'0 lighting in (Germain Smith Af-
rica.
(Terme» physicians will not bee-
olft.er be permitted 1.o In(11:LIs0 iu
Mouth Africa. .Prole T1och hltehhrls
to 711 telt n C f 4)11320,
The 'White. Star Line ateo1:oe' Baltic
the largestin the world, watt leeneb-
ed at Belfast on Saturday,
At a• lotldre011 t.(1 lir, t;handeelei12
ut t.•atc;iff on elattrl'cbcy, live• t.bnuyand
dollen11W115 suhschlhvtl to tl:e turd('
reform coinpatgn,
A tltanl.ber of Bremen nt leonlsr (1111,
1(s',, are u)240554) with lotting stoles
white fighting ere therein,
Slneakieg in New 'York, on Setup -
flay, 1'rcrtirTeni, of the United Gorman
Societies, Iltfe1111101- the demand, of
C4or1n5118 for fin tr.C''ehing of -their
naive 1011511e in the pul),IJo'schoole,
SIIORTAGT 1N L•011TB•ER our.
The Season in Ottawa Valley,
Mills Not a Good One,
A despatch front Ottawa says: The
season at 1'11e many Saw hills in the
Ottawa dist rlet has elected. 1)espite
the uet.ivity in the lumber market
and the high prices anti good demand
for the manufactured article, there
has been to marked falling off fa the
total cut of lumber as compared with
forme(' years, The reduction is plac-
ed by m00 in a position to size u!)
the situation at len per cent. Per
instance, the cut; a•t Booth's mill at
the Chaudiere was between 1.8,00(1,-
000 and 15,000,0(10 feet less than it
was last ,year. The regular cut at
the Booth mill is about 325,000,000
feet. At McLacJilnn's mill al Ant -
prior, the Gillies mlll at Braeside,
and other large plants there has
been a decrease in the cut. Mill
Owners aro 01 a loss to account for
the decrease in the season's output,
which will prove a serious matter, as
the demand and good prices promise
to hold firm for at least another
year•. While the weather conditions
were only fairly good, it is believed
that the scarcity of labor had more
to do with the shortrge in the: !Um-
ber eat,
BOY BURNED TO DEATH
Child Nurse Left the Little Ones
Near the Stove,
J1.- despatch from Toronto says:
The two-year-old son of John Ken-
nedy, 210 Campbell Avenue, was
burned to death on Wednesday after-
noon. Air. Kennedy is a widower,
and the child was left under the
rare of his 15 -year-old daughter. 'Tho
latter' left the house about onto
o'clock 1n tho afternoon to visit a
neighbor, leaving two children i11
the house, one being only an infant.
Returning about 8 o'clock she was
horrified upon discovering the eldest
boy lying close to the kitchen range
with his body burned in n. terrible
manner, the flesh in some places al-
most falling olT. Life wits extinct,
so the services of Dr, 8)0110n, upon
his arrival in answer to a summons,
were not required. The child had
been left seated in a chair close to
tine stove, and in some mminer its
0)0111es became ignited.
"JACK OR OLD GLORY?"
Which Flag Did the Ottawa Alder-
man Favor?
A despatch from Ottawa says: Aid.
PloulTo has been expelled from the
Ottawa Grocers' Association on rho
ground of disloyalty. Some of the
retail grocers went to New Yo•Ic
in September and were entertained by
some people in the saute business
there. At a banquet in honor of the
visitors Ald. P1outle spoke, and hop-
ed to see the time "when Ono flag
will wave over the two countries and
there will be no border line." Ald.
Ploua'c now says what he meant was
ho hoped the time would conte what
the Union Jack would wave over
the two countries, but his brother
grocers do not take it that way. It
is also probable that Ald. PlotOlo
will bo defeated it he offers himself
for the City Council again.
COSTLY FIRE AT ST. JOHN.
Many Merchants Lose Heavily -
Loss Exceeds $40,000.
A despatch from St. John, N. 33.,
says: Fire on Wednesday gutted the
Lawrence Building o1 'King Street,
causing a loss of some 510,000 to
-the building mid the almost total de-
struction of the stock of Dowling
Bros., dry goods, and E, 1'. Charl-
ton and Co„ departmental atom. The
loss of the former is probably $12,-
000, and that of the latter $15,000;
both (owned by insurance, Thorne
Bees., Wats and furs, had their stock
badly damaged, The loss is covered
by $10,000 insurance. The Misses
Grey, book store, T7, G. Nelson and
Co., books and stationery; le. A.
Dylcennafr and. Co., dry goods, and
several small dealers oleo suffered,
FLOODS AT ST. PETERSBURG.
Nova Nine Feet Above Normal
Level,Trafiic Suspended.
A despatch from St. Petersburg
says: Considerable damage has been
caused by a 6306d011 rise Ot the wa-
ters of the Nova and of the canals,
following the recent bad Weather.
The Neva hi nit feet r e
e est abut .normal
and the streets bordering the river
are flooded, Wheeled 'traffic is sus-
pe»de i in many thoroughfares, and
the inhabitants are using heats end
rafts, Great damage has been 110218
on the ishlni:i in the river and at the
port of ($t. Petersburg. 1'n the lone-
lying quarters of the city the water
is knee-deep, and the ground floors of
houses and shops aro flooded.
INDIAN RUNS AMUCK.
Piegan Brave Kills Wife and Six
of His Tribe.
A despatch from McLeod, T W.T.,
Rays that a 1'itngan Indian, under the
hl3uoa'e of 31glro.r, ran amuck on the
truth I'3ogan Reservation,. Before
he voted be secured ho had killed bin'
wife and -she others •of the tribe,
.hetes Edgar, a Perth station Mes-
ter, who has just died, has been con-
nected with railway litih since 7:841,
and had, travelled 11,750,000 111005
MS 11 train guard,
The Sc11 tisll Ann -deer lira,55 1T,1ud
.As5001911on Inept their annual oheam-
pionslllp contest 111 the Waverley
✓♦iarket, Edinburgh, Fulton Mills
Betel 'won first prize--rha.11sngn elm
an(1 :115,
'1'bc following 11i0$0'}(avim formes
Mon heel, their photographs taken in
a group the other day:- l•t• gladden,
11304) 91 yews; :Orated Douglas, 88;
,loin leettlr, 86; :Robert Urea, 141);
William Grant, 82; Holey Galt, 81,
Their united .ages reach 81.0 year's,
and an a7Ornge 01 fully 8:$ roars.
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