HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-1-10, Page 2BA TAIPI'S WECOME HOME,
Lord
Roberts Was Received by
Royalty,
A deepaite'b erten London tiers:-
Memel
ays:-•t 0emel of people on '1`huxeday flock-
ed to pobote' of vantage along the
wade to )1,3 followed by Lord Roberts
Ifreen Paddington 'Sta•tion to Moak-
' in
Palace' boot the numbeio
.
fnghaao ,
no way pampered with those present
on (the. trmasion of the demonstration
en tumor of the return of the City
Imperial Volunteers erten South Af-
rica.
Mime a2 a repetition of the riotous
behaviour an tint mansion deterred
many persnms from joining in the pub-
Lto welcome. Warmed by the ovew•-
reneee are the tams of the Volunteers'
return, the authorities furnisbed
barriers to prevent crushlpg, and 15,-
000 regales troops, in addition to
theaumends of police, lined the route,
'baked the ,side atzeets, and. were
concentrated in the wide species to
gamed against dangerous rushes.
RECEIVED BY ROYALTY.
Load lloberts reached Paddington
station only 20 kmLmnetes behind the
schedule titre. As he descended from
his saloon carriage to the platform
of the elaborately decorated railroad
stanion he was greeted' by the, Prince
of Wales, the Princess of Wales, the
Duke and the Duchess off York, the
Dake of Connaught, and the Duke of
Cambridge.
The unembers 01 the Royal family
shook hands heartily with the Iield
Marshal, while the Meade played the
National Anthem- The Princess of
Wales engaged Lord Roberts in a
conversation for some length.
The scene was altogether brilliant.
Everywhere were masses of bunting,
troops, lathes no. bright costumes,
Cabinet Ministers and staff officers.
The Prince of Wales, with Lady
Roberts, soon left the railroad sta-
tion in a royal carriage drawn by six
horses and escorted by Life Guards,
pie ceding Lord Roberts to Buckingham
Palace. •
THF: PROCESSION STARTS.
The people on the stand opposite the
carpeted platform could see little but
socked hate and ladies' bonnets. The
first captutu of the tempore, five feet
two loge,
wee Invisible except; from
the .frott of the circle. After con-
gratelattans had »eon exchanged, Laid
Roberts walked with the Prince of
Wales, the Peke of Y'or'k, and
Sitiro Ad jutant-Uunarul, G^n, rail Sae
Evelyn Wood, and reviewed the guard
of honour. The veteran Field Marshal,
who appeared to be in perfect health,
with pink cheeks, bare himself jauntily
and with evident enjoyment.
Ile walked down each rank, sa1meting
with his ,heft hand, as his right hand
is ,still m of sling, speaking to the
sergeants, and occasionally piokingout
a privets for a few words, recalling
previous service tegcteer,
After the imc ooctihes Load Roberta
had a .Yew minutes' o_arversatloar with
he; old comrades, before he went out
into the statism enmI0swre to moot
London's multitudes.
After Lord Roberts lead replied to
the address Prem Paddimr2don, the
peeve:, ion was formed, tUmo head
quarters staff, im she carriages, fol -
towing immediately behind the Field
Mareeel, who weepiest a state car-
riage escorted by Indian. cavalry.
The Secretary of State for War, Mr,
William St. ;Milan Bradriok, and the
Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
fairs, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
were seated in anclther carriage. A
detachment of cavalry brought up
the rear.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM PREVAILS,
The party proceeded to Bucking-
ham• Palace, by way of Hyde Park
and Piccadilly. 1, Deafening cheers
greeted the Field Mar%hal and neve
Commander -au -chief of the forces
along all parts of tee rotate., Club -
land tris ablaze with colour and the
greatest nndh'ursiesm prevailed, The
ladies adanettcd to the billowed pre-
edcicts tlheenged the windows and the
balconies. llhe betels and other
buildings were all lavishly bedecked
and all crowded from top to bottom
with oheerling spectators.
The rear 0f welcome rolled on. um-
coasiogly until the veteran command-
er mitered tie gates of the palace.
HE LAUGHED GAYLY
Execution of ties Assassin of Baron
Von Ketteler.
A despatch from Pekin says ;-Tha
executive et the mua•derer of Baron
von Ks,tled:mr, the Germnn Meister,
who was beheaded on iniesday in
Bateman street, the principal thor-
oughfare of the capital, was under
German svperv'ieim n, and ts;ok place
at the barotest Maur of the day, A
great crawti was present. German
trocps kept order.
The murderer twee made to kneel on
Ms hand and knees in the muddle of
the street, and he was kept in that po-
sition for hall an hour awaiting the
arrival of Getman officers, who want-
ed to see the execution. In the mean-
time the executioner, awtard in hand,
and his assistant, abroad beside the
condemned man. They each ware
bl:;mdy clothes. The pair had just of-
ficiated at eight other killings, ands
dad not have tiara to wneh.
The man who was iso soon to die was
cheerful during the batted lot welting.
IIe laughed heartily several times. He
said that his name was an honored
one, and that he was an honest man.
Upon the arrival of the German offi-
cers
fficars the assistant executioner made a
double wrap of twine around the
man's neck, erelssing the string under
his elate. Ile then pulled on the
twine and the man's queue, stretch-
ing his hook to the utmpet. Mean-
time the executioner put a knee be-
tween the man's shoveler blades and
his hands on hies bead. Then he
jumped hard, shoving the culprit's
face into the dust, after whioh be
stepped back, took ]tis sword and
chopped his head off. T'we blows
were required to sever the head,
whioh was subsequently !planed in a
cage and hung over the street.
The run selierer was a stealer. At the
outbreak of the Boxer troubles he was
e'tabioned in Bateman street, with
orders to shoot any foreigner who
triad to pars. The killing of Baron
von Kettmler was done in obedience
to time() aiders. It es admitted 'by
foreigners, including Dr. SJiammr von
Sehwamtzenste'im, the present Ger-
man Banister, that the man would
not have been extruded in a European
country.
FORCE AT VRYBURG
Oen. ISethuen. Concentrating a Large
Forex.
A despa!•'eb from London, says: -Gen.
Methuen is concentrating a large
force at 'V•ryburg with the object of
aheakin.g the raiders in the ICurumanI
district,, It Is aesumect that Kimber-;
ley: is now net menaced, as 1,000 men ,
have been aunt thither to join Gen,1
Methuen, 1
DE WET DRIVEN BACK
Reoeeupation of Important Towns
by the Boers.
A despatch from London, says: -The
cif et of the withdrawal of troops from
the Transvaal and Orange River Sol_
any to deal with .the invaders In Cape
Colony is seen in the continued activ-
ity of the Boers there, Gen. Knox is
holding. Gen. De Wet, wits has been
pushed further north, but the Boers
have rem:copied Jagerstontein, the
richest and most British town In the
Orange. River Colony. They are also
probably in possession of F'auresmith,
whmdh place the British abandoned on
Christmas day concurrently with their
abandonment of Jagersfontein. The in-
habitauts, with hundreds of waggons
and carts loaded with their belongings,
mournfully moved to Edinburg, where
they encamped. The men had defended
the towns for months, but the military
authorities decided that it was imprac-
tieable to continue sending them sup-
plies, as they were so far from 'the
railway. •
Reports from Durban state that
armed Boers are in the neighbourhood
of Ladysmith, possibly seeking a
chance to release the Beer prisoners
there.
HOT ON THEIR TRAIL.
Gens. Delisle and Thoraeycroft After
the Boers.
A despatch from Carnarvon, says;
-The Boers mem mended by Hartzog,
Wessels, Pre terims, and Nisuwetniaut
are cio siiinuing tlheir march an Fraser -
burg. It is repeated that they have
arrived at Spi'cnhorg. Looting con -
ennui. The Boners' horses are foot
store, and are in great, want of fodder
as the country is barren.
Onm.mum,ieutton' with Fraaorburg is
smspended, lund it is doubtful when
it will be restored, inasmuch as the
Boers are travelling along the line,
Oil. Thonnsyraroft and Col. Belisle
are continuing the chase, but their
Mouses and melee are vary tared.
Many Diutedi residenits attended the
funeral of a Boer killed to notion,
and placed wreaiths upon his coffin.
GREYLINGSTAD FIGHT.
Total British Casualties 78, Includ-
ing Eight Billed.
A deepmtch trona Landon says; -
A menially let issued by the War
Office shows that a severe skirmisb
ocouurre'd our Deo, 26 at Groot Vlei,,
near Greyllmgstad, in which eight
British were killed, 45 wounded, and
20 misslinig.
There is No news of the Boers who
ars invading the western part of tho
Cape Colony.
LI INC ON THE COUNTRY.
Boars Have No Cannon and Mit
Few Supplies,
A despatch from; Cape Town says:--
ien afftdlral antoolin0 raent'me merle that
thoi Miele belo'n'ging to the iweetern
columna of invailera, who are moving
Quo -
west towards Williston, are loshn$
many 'horses, owing' to their rapid ad.
vane%, but are replacing them era=
the terms en :r'atito. The invaders: have
no canteen, and but few smPeltes, They
are: living on the c'ountr'y. They
changed their course from Fraserburg
dlreetion towards :Williston on mi -
.:moat o ,
the. British troops i 0
on. of p g
o nt
oapmed Feaserburg.
A eontmando is supposed to be in, the hmont at Winnipeg killed 750
mountains dividing Middleburg and establis
Grant iloinet, but cannot be exactly lo_ pigs in 0 hours and 10 minutes, aro-
gated. oocd for Western Canada.
Cowmaadeei are reported in Beebe- Trooper Molloy, the bllnd hero of
t likfontein Daniehskul and Winchester, has been paid a gratuity
Boeanatead a B
BoOlsup, Their objective is supposed: of 51,000 from 'tale Pate/oleo Fund:
to be Griquateswe, which, like guru• Six automobiles have roaahed Daw-
man, es garrisoned by British troops. I son, and will be used on the run to
The leritisb 'battlesbipi efonaroh 'on the creeks.
Thursday landed mon, and guns to re -Discoveries of rich quartz mines
beve the ;troops for service north_. have been made on Bonanza and else-
ward. It is bolievdd that the guns where in the Klondike district.
will be sent ep rile mounted
! The proposed addition to the Bank
Time first bntwdr of mounted mon will of Montreal in Montreal will coat be -
tonwithin three days few asseseet tween 5800,000 and 51,000,050.
ter. They are to hold the passes to The Government of New Zealand
"11 sand drafts
to fill vacancies in
the ilex Blur mwauntaism, and to i LL9 cantiemgont in
South Africa, and
organization
lois railway tumrel. and 1011 a4ntinnal faros of mounted men.
m•gnnizullon is rough and -randy, and
not troubled with mwnbi drill or aped- I A. life -Mae bust of Sir George Burton,
al uniform. Horses are scarce. I former Chief Justice of the Court of
Six thousand five hundred South Appeal, has been presented to the
Afriaata ir'regu'lars have been remelt- . Hamilton Law Association by Hon. J.
ell during tire last eight weeks. 52 Giheon,
Miss Wilson, matren of the Brook-
ville General Hospital, bas received a
cheque far 51,000 from aresident of.
the United States who was a patient
at the hospital last summer.
Manager Whyte of the Canadian
Pacific states that if the present rate
of expenditure is maintained, the road,
tt despaitch from Cape 'L'bwmm, says: by the end of 1002, will have a bat-
-The. mil{tory authorities are pre= lasted track -and the only one -across
peeing for all. contingencies. It has the prairies.
been decided to transfer the Boos' All the schools and churches have
prisoners from the camps to trans- been closed in Botsford district, New
ports. Brunawiak, to prevent the spread of
Partners coming into Oarnarvon de- smallpox,
scribe the Boers ea traveling in par- Mr. N. E. Frawes, F.G.,S., a South
allot ealamsnms, with numerous flank- African expert, confirms Mr. Blue's
drug parties sweeping the country of theory that diamonds may be found in
horses, pinnderimg loyalists, and Northern Ontario.
carrying off everything eatable. It
The ps_bo Cairo telegraph dins is
appears that they are accompanied by now in, operation toga point 50 miles
strings of pick horses' lightly loaded. m,oreh of Katanga, which is 1,300 miles
Culesbaurg telegraphs that Knits- from the Cape, and 100 miles beyond
lager's commando is crossing the the southern line of Lake Tangan-
Maldelb'urg dirstric't, but is getting few yika. By the terms of the contract of
le any recruits. 1899 the lino must be Finished within
Jerre in Cape Town such business five years of that date.
men as • are unable to leave are or- The sbaroholdors of the Nickel-Cop-
ganizing a town guard, composed of per Company of Hamilton have receiv-
the leading citizens. The oontmer- ad a message from the Sudbury nickel
Bial commutes have asked the Mayor
to call a nuns meeting to urge the
Government to suppress disloyal
newspapers and to proclaim martial
law.
dooeplt and Jacob Davidson, toe
br0bhera, kilned B'eor'y 4roe .and
ROE filM Iti IR_. w'ou4ltded Josephby%tender.
Newsy
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Interest Froin Every Quax-
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Items About Ourselves and
Our N eighbore- � ore ing of
ter of the Globo
CANADA.
The Department of Finance Is about
to issue a. now four -dollar note.
Wlnnipeg.s exhibition slates ase
fixed for July 29 and Aug. 2.
Teem are now 104 mon employed in
the Kingston locomotive works.
Employee of Griffin's pork peaking
TO REMOVE PRISONERS.
Will Be Taken From Camp and
Placed on Transports..
STILL MOVING SOUTH.
Seers Break the British Cordon at
'Luerberg.
.A despatch from: Lendelesays:-The
Beet raiders of the Cape Colony are
still moving south without apparently
any hindrance, A party has passed
Middleburg to Rotolo Boogte, and an-
other has reached Glenharry, 20 miles
north of Graaf Reinet, one of the chief
centres of anti,l3,ritish sentiment in
the oolong. General Kitchener"s of -
Halal despatoh allays any anxiety re-
garding the oaptu're of the town at
present.
A report from Gape Town states tbat
700 Deers have broken the British oor-
rlon at `Luerberg, and are looting and
burning within a few .wiles of Rich-
mond, wade town is threatened. There
tire some rumourst of engagements be-
tween the invaders and their pursuers,
but no detail+ are given. It can be in-
ferred from certain vague statements
that. great Meese of British mounted
troupe are chasing the'Boers with the
evident hope of being able to drive
them where they can be captured, and
thus prevent all chance of their re -
tarn to the Transvaal or Orange 'River
Colony.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
five mare districts.
BULLETS AMD DYNAMITE.
The British Make An Important
Seizure.
A dereparteb frm01 Cape 1'ow,n, says;
-An important seizure of, bullets and
dynamite has been made in the
Fraserburg district. The explosives
arrived from Cape Town peaked hi
oond_ensad milk ecus.
It is Learned that the Boers.invad-
ing Cape Colony obtained only six re-
cruits among tits Afrikawder resi-
dents in the Hapetawn district. It is
believed here that their measure of
emcees Ln otluer districts was equal-
ly small, the Dutch sedition mongers
fearing to translate their wolyds, in-
tro deeds.
iteeraiting Ls proceeding at an
act ms rate. The auow regime*, the
'Prince dmf Wales' LLgttlt Horse, hoe
established a recreative reeroid,
mine district that one of their mines -
the Worthington -has turned out to
be a bonanza, and that the ore being
taken from it is worth $2,000 per oar
load in nickel alone, laid down in
Hamilton.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Twenty-two fishermen have been
drowned from Shetland boats,
Russian railways are purchasing
large quantities of Cardiff coal.
The Cheque Bank of London, Eng-
land, is going mto voluntary liquida-
tion,
Lord Edward Cecil is credited with President Kruger expressed a wish
the intention of writing a book on the to visit the United States when he has
siege of Mafoking. conaladed a retiree of treatment in the
'Lord William George Armstrong, Opthalinic hospital at Utrecht.
FAMINE THREATENS.
mUlways need or liar Purposes Cannot
T,lI,,, rt 4•ood1.
A despatcih freen St. Petersburg,
Jan. 1,-A d•esweet received here on
Tuesday frown Vladivodtoc'k reports
that famine threatens the Amur and
Maritime provinces. Tho crops there
are bud, and the railways, beiemg al-
most wholly enlga•ged for war purpos-
es, cannot : be used for the transporta-
tion of food to tale inbrlbitants. in
addition, the prat)ibitiom of foreign
robbery in Toledo, Ohio, women its ocus'twiss trade has prevented impor-
well as men am tilting themselves tuitions into the threatened provinces
with revolvers. The siteaition is deplorable and be -
Miss Mary Mahoney, of Chicago, hast eeaning tvo'rse,
a new scalp, 4,500 pieces of skin ]mv
ing been grafted on the top of her
head in tbo Chicago hospital.
3, L. Donoeagh, a private soldier, at-
tacked and wounded a sergeant and
four private% with, a bayonet while
frenzied with liquor at Washington
en Tuesday.
A race war is in progress at Co-
mentvtlle, Indiana, and serious trou-
ble Is expected. '1111e negroes aro arm-
ed, and the whites. are keeping within
doors to avoid them,
An Indian outbreak le threatened
in Sttka, Alaska.
Tee Cramps will build a cruiser for
the Sultan of Turkey:
The Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
way Comtpany will re-equip its road
with new oars and locomotives at a
coat of 5.2,000,000.
Ma's. Lulu C. Jenkins, now of Chi-
eago, has just been awarded 54,000
for the lynohtng of her husband in
Ripley County, Ind., three years ego.
John B. Lyuuah, a well-known Mil-
eage meal is dangerously ill with a
sore throat and Memo% the result of
over-ladulgonxe in tobacco, lie having
smoked over 60 cigars n day for
years.
in a shooting affray tat Carbondale.
Ill., tiled after a running fight with
a posse wore both wounded and cap-
tured,
Judge Baker of Indianapolis, in
eemrmonting upon the inoreass of
lynebl'rlg before a jury, said that in
view of this state of affairs the old
legal precept might be recanetruct-
ed to read; "Batter thnt 09 itnnooenl
bo Pound guilty than one guilty man
eaeape."
CAPTURES WAGGONS
Gen. Knox Gets De Wets' 'Supplies
and Ammunition.
A despatch, frim London Barye ;-
Gee.
Gen. IOJtethener has telegraphed to
the War 'Office as follows;
"Gen. Knee, who has Seen following
up De Wet, reports that he has cap-
tured min hier'ses, five wtmgons with die free80,14,
snieneee, and 6,000 rounds, of aanmuni- Rem -Farmer; ,new rye, 47e, weele
Lion, 'He bias released, and allowed to and 480 eats't.
go to Weer farms, 78 Does prisoners Bueiswdrea,t-About steedly. Car
'w'ho were taken at De Wet's laager' itis, west, ar'e quoted at too; and oast
and nvlhlo were being forced to fight. alt 500.
"Gen. Frenioh recently captured 12 Oats -Quint demand; No. 1 white,
prisoners Lied a lenge c irantPty of etai;t, 27o; Ne 2 white, north and west
carts and cattle. Among the Mia- 200.
encrs was a despatch rider bearing Flour -Unsettled. Holders outside
a letter frown Boyers foe Orate." are est ung more money. So far
e y- 11oreiun -markets have not responded
LLAR E S O,4 3IU 11OBLB
Fldees 01' 0at1a, Cht)310, Hiatt, .&e
1>? tbo Leading Maricola,
T 11' 'T0.
j3'RTADSU h S, Ii
Toao!ato, junta, 8, -Wheat -quota.-
thane are as follows; -Roti winOter, 00o;
and white, 66e, middle >r•oights; serine
wheat, easy, 69o; .Maatdltnobac Nb. 1 bard
8; No. a•9c;No, Jute
odd g.i:C„ 0 e, , 3 11i 2 , 1 d,
North Baty, 90e.
p11411feec1 Searee. Tata tate At OA
milli door, seal aro .follows; -.Brays, 512
001,12,50; and sheets et el4 to $14.00
west
.
Coma -Tana .firm; No. 1 American,
yollew,. 450; No. 3 yellow, 43a; •No. 2
yellow, 44a.
peas -Steady; No. 2 sold, middle
freLgbte, alt 61 1-2o; tune east at 02o.
Bat•1'ay-Conitiuues dull. No. 2 ease,
41e; and middle freights, 40o; No. 9
exira0 39 1-2c, east; and 38 1-2c, mrel-
IHSTD UC ENLISTMENT. much.
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PRODUCE.
600 Beerttits Per Day Joining De- Egos-O.rLd stared saga ratter
fence force. fir'm'er. Prices are as foliaws;-New
A despatot from. Cape Town says lurid, 28 to SOo; cold stored, selects, 16
-fiver 600 rearuarts en illhursday to 20e; limed, 15 to 16c.
joined the Colonial Defence force, in- Poultry -Receipts to -day were very
eluding over a hundred civil servants, ).Lgtut, and demand very quiet. Prices
The railway workmele are expected were firm. Turkeys gold at Iter, geese
to swell ells number. TJids is but at 7 ee 8o, c'hickgns, at 30 to 40e; and
the beg -Waling 01 the enlistment, ' decks, at 50 to 70o. The market
whieb Oxide fair be becomehistoric. eavas flare eat tuiook at the close, and
A Government enquiry is proceed -
leg in regard to bhe seizure of dyna-
mite et Frazerburg.
Ow ase to the Bo:r invasion of the
Cape Colony, the sittiuge of the Tree
sae Court at Colesbsrg huve been ad -
jemmied until the enol of January.
GARTER BESTOWED
Lord Roberts Received an Earl-
dom Also.
Cowes, Isle of Wight, Jan. 2. -The
Queen bestowed today an earidomon
Lord Roberts, with a spioUiii remain-
der for his daughters. He was 'trade
a Knight id the Garter also.
A "remainder" is a"provision for
the passage of a patent 0f nobility to
a special smeoossar or land of mimes -
ears in default of Male issue in the
decease of a present luelder." lehe only
son of Lord Roberts, Limit. the 13on.
F. E. S. Roberts, died December 17,
18999, orf wounds.
TO VISIT AIVIERICA.
Kruger Alleged to Nave Expressed
Such a, Wish.
A despatch from London,' says :-A
despatch to the Morning Post from
Brussels says that m replying to an
address from ai. deputation of the
American Boer Central Committee, ex -
inventor of the Armstrong gun and
a writer upon eieotrieal and scientific
topic's, is dead.
The Canadian exhibits at Paris have
been shipped to Glasgow, where they
will oaoupy 25,000 square feet 'of space
at tho May Exhibition.
TJNITED SPATES.
Grand Ltapids, Mich., offers Kruger
the freedom of the city.
R. H. Ingram, treasurer of the, Cen-
tral Vermont Railway, will be secre-
tary for Preeldent Hays, of the South-
ern Pacific.
Owing to the epidemic of highway
CO:lii'LY ARITHMETIC.
A school teacher Tn, Sheffield, Eng.,
received the following from a com-
plaining parent a tow days ago;
Sirs -Will you please far the future
give my eon eesier comes to do at
nights. This is whit he brought
imam to or three nates back;,"I£ fore
offline 01 bare wills fill thirty -to ,pint
bottles, blow matey pint, and half shot-•
tees will nine sallies fill" Well, we
tried, and meld make *nothing of it
at all; and my busy cried and sod Ono
didn't dare .go back in lihie morning
eviiithaul lain' it.
So I bad to go nm' buy a nine -gal -
kin cask of bore, *Mehl could i11 af-
ford to do, and them we went and
hlorrotvled a lot of wane and brandy
bottlet'i, besides a few we had by ms,
Well, we emitted the cask into the bot-
tles, and then counted them, and
there wore 19, and my boy pat the
number down for au answer.
I don't knew wether it is rite or
toot, as wu epIlta sumo while dole' it,
P. S.-Pleeose let the noxi: some be
in water, as I am not able to bay
any more here.
more could now be used,
Potatoes -Tone steady. Sales are
being made outside at equal to 30 to
32c hero. Sales, out of store, are .mado'
s0 40e.
Field produce, etc.-Tua•nips, out of
store, i0 per bag a onions, 700 per bag ;
carrots, 55c per bag; apples per bbl, $1
to $2; sweet potatoes, per bbl, 52.50.
Dried apples -Dried apples sell at 3
1-2 to 4c; and evaporated at 5 to 5 1-2c.
Roans -Ordinary white beans bring
$1:_0 to 51.25; choice hand-picked beans
are quoted at $1.i0 tc 51.15.
Q1eney-Firm, Dealers quote from 9
1-2 to 100 per lb, ter 5,10, or 00 -Ib,
tins, according to the size of the order.!
Comb honey sells at 52.40 to 52.75 per I
dozen seltiene. 1
Baled hay -firm, Choice timothy,
on track, 5510,25; two -ton lots, deliver-,
ed Sib.
Straw -Seaters. Car lots of straw,
on track here, $7.
DRFaSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS.'
Dressed: hogs on the street were
unebauged at 57.10 to $7.75, Car late,'
on' track hero, were quioted.firmer at
$7.15 to $7.e5 ocr mixed' lots. Provisiona
c;anti iue quiet but steady, i
Quotations• for provisions are as fol-
loe : Dry salted shoulders, 8e; long'
clear bacon, loose,, in car lots, 10x; and
in case lots, 10 1-4 to 101-2c ;short out
pork, 510.50 to 520; heavy mess, 517.50
tol 418.
Smoked meats -Dams, heavy, 12c;'
medium, 12 1-2 to 133 1-2c; light, 13 1-2c;
breakfast bacon, 13 to 13 1-2e; picnic
hams, 10a; roll bacon, lle, smoked
backs, 12e. All meats out of pickle la
less than prices Ig•uoted for smoked
meats,
mLardl-Tierces, 10e; tub's, 10 td 10 1-40;
pails, 10 1-4 to 10 1-2c.
Duluth, Jan, 8,-WheaL-Ghsh, No.
2 hard, 68 1-2a; No. 1 Northern, 74
1-fe; Nu. 2 Northern, 551-4 to 70 1-4e;
No. 3 spring, 561-4 to 691-4e; to ar-
rive, No. 1 bard, 77 1-8c; No. 1 North-
ern, 751-8o; May, 78 5-8a; Ally, 78
Cain -843-80; oats, 243-4 to 211-20.
Minneapolis, Jan. 8. -Wheat -Gash,
70 1-4c; May, /71-2 to 77 5-8e; July,
781-2 to 785-8c; on track, No, 1 bard,
781-4c; No. 1 Northern, 701-4c; No. 2
Northern, 733-4c. Flame -Ten cents
higher on entente. Brdn-In bulk,
$11,75 to 512. •
Toledo, .Ian. 8. -Wheat -Gash and
January, 80c; May, 88c; July, 81 1-2c.
Oarn-Cash and J'an'uary, 37o; May,
38e. Oats -Cash and Janniary, 29 3-4o;
May, e5 1-2c. Rye -521-2r. Clover -
seed -1898, prime, $5,25; 1899, prime,
$0.50; January, 57; March, 57,10. 011
-tthtrehe nged.
Buffalo, Jho. 8.-7`lorrr-Steady.
Wheat -Spring steady; No, 1 hard,
eairlaads, spec, 885-8e; No, 0 Northam,
old, carloads, 851-8•:. Winter elicitor`
'-Neminnl; No. 2 rad, 78c; mixed, 77e;
No. 1 white, 70e, en trach, Buffalo,
Corn -Firm; good demand; No. 2 yel-
low, 411-4e; No, 3 dm, Ilo; No. 4 do.,
40 1-2c; No. 2 cern, 40 3-4c; No. 3 corn,
461-2e, Oats -Strong; Na, 2 while
80 to 301-4o; No..6 white 29 to 2111-4c;
No. 2 mixed, 27c; No. 3 mixed, 300.
Earley(• -Stronger; extra, 63 to 64e;.
fair to good, 56 to SOU. Ilya -No. 1,
57e asked; No, 3, on tracer, 56e,
Chioage, Jou, 8, -Wheat scored the
highest price of the esasan to -day on
heavy buying, het broke elrnrply later
on :prollltalcing, and closed weak, May
1-2o ,lower, Corn closed 1-8 to 1.4a
lower, goats 1-8a higher, and provisions
'practically atnehaegedi,
Tie Woe crew,
Llnooln Used to be Pond of telling A
atony of it litwyer Ina western tone}
olio desired the eomiltatlon ter eoun
judge, Ou the reining preceding th,,
evening en whioh the cornier cenwene
tion was to tneet be applied to the I►v-
cry stable keeper in lehe village for le
let to drive to
terse and buggy In vlr P
the county ' Wen, 10 tulles distant,
where the convention was to be bald.
"Give me the beet and the fastest
burse you have, Sam," Bald he, "so that
I will have time to g'0 around end 000
re onventlen ,comes
thoboYabef the O lac ,
In."
The liveryman, however, was sup.:
porting a rival candidate and gave the
lawyer a levee that outwardly appear-
ed perfect, but which broke dove en-
i o t '
thole' before half the j n'ne•y was cora.
plated, so that when the candidate ar-
rived the convention had adjourned
and his rival had been nominated.
On his return to the stable late •tire
following afternoon, knowing that 11
was useless to resent the trick played
upon hien, be said to the owner; "Lee
here, Smith, you 'must be training tl
horse for the New York market,
expect to sell barn to an undertaker•
a hearse horse, don't you? Well,
time wasted. I know from his
that you have spent days training
to pull a bearse, but he'll prove a d'
failure. Why, he's 00 slow be could
get a corpse to the cemetery In time
the resurrection."
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The Iramone Asphalt Lake,
Asphalt is being dug out of the f
mous tar lake of Trinidad, the Moe'
notable existing source of the materia
in the world, at the rate of 80,000 ton
per annum. There are still 4,500,00'
tons In sight, but as this rate the sup-
ply could not last long were It not th
the lake bitumen referred to is receiv-
ing a eonetant accretion from the bo
els of the earth. This accretion I
reckoned as.atnounting to about 20,00,
tons yearly and would suffce to rester:
the lake to Its eleginal condition if 1
were allowed to remain undisturbed
for a few years.
This wonderful lake of pitch. bite an
area of 114 acres, and recent sound-
ings made In the middle of It have
ebown the depth to be 135 feet In that
part. Near the center It Is semiliquid
and bubbling, but elsewhere it has so
hard a surface that a man on horse-
back can ride over it without danger of
beealdng through the crust. Scattered
over its surface are a number of small
islands which have no proper roots in
the earth, so to speak, but are compos-
ed merely of accumulations of soli,
though trees of considerable size grow
on some of them. These islands are
not stationary, but are carried slowly
from place to place by the movements
of the lake. Now and then one of them
is entirely engulfed.
The Hot Water Cure.
Boarding House Beeper -A glass of
hot water? What can the man want
with a glass of hot water? He doesn't
shave.
Cook -He wants to drink It
"To drink It? Well, 1 never!"
"Oh, all the boarders Is sending for
bot water now three times a day."
"Goodness me! What for?'
"Fur to drink. They calls It the hot
water cure, It beats all newfangled
notions wbat come up."
"What does It cure?"
"Oh, they say It really cures every-
thing
verything just splendid.,,
"Thank fortune Ws ebenp, Give 'em
all the hot water they want, Marla."
"Yesen "
"So bot water Is a great mire, is it?
Well, 1' shau't let any of my boarders
get ill for want o'1' medicine. Just put
another gallon of bot water in that oys-
ter soup, Alarm, and 1 think you'd bet-
ter take out the oyster. new. It might
get too rich." -London Tit -Bits.
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To Keep Ratter Sweet.
One can keep butter sweet a long
time, even in a hot room where 1t Is
half molted, by keeplug It covered with
brine made by putting into boiling wa-
ter all the salt It will take up, 'then
let it cool and pour over the butter. r
Meat may be preserved iu the same
way. To be sure, it will become rather
salt, but when you wish to use it take
it out of the brine the night before and
lay It across two spoons or sticks to lift
it from the bottom of the dish in which
you wish to soak it and then cover It
with fresh water. The salt will then
Bottle out of the meat, and it will fresh-
en nicely. You throw meat or fish luta
the bottom of a vessel and cover It
with water, and It will freshen very lit-
tle, for the salt does not fall out, but
only to the lower side.
Character Shown by the Houle.
"Here is an article In the paper that
says a woman's character can be deter-
mined by her nose."
"Well, there may be something in
that, but there's a surer way. No one
can make a mistake concerning a wom-
an',s chsractel• if he will loop at the
noses of other women who meet her.
The extent"to which they turn up at
such tines shows jest what she is or
Isn't,".
lsconragi na:.
"It's very dlscournging," said the
young man. "1 confess that at tittles I
considered myself a genius."
"But perhaps you are," suggested his
friend soothingly.
"Impossible. I explained my, pleas
to half a dozed hard headed, pt•acticnl
men,' and not one of them seemed to
think that I was a blamed fool." -Life,
Thu commercial Instinct.
Mautttla-.Tommy, do stop that notate
If you'll only be good, I'll give you a
penny.
!'omit,=-No;1 want a nickel.
Mamma -Why, ,you little rascal, yon
Were, Quito satisfied to be good yester-
day Coria penny,
T ullny-"I know, but that was a bar'
gain c1idy,-Pl4lladelpiria Preen.
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