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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-5-9, Page 2INE NEWS lt' W NJTStfLL TXT VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and Ail Parts of the therm, Condensed and Assorted for Resat Readioig, CANADA. Clue'rb'e rate is 21 3-4 mill,; • Halifax now has an anti -prohibition Council, Brockville is to have a por'k;paoking es tabilebmen t. Mill City Council has cut off ibree liquor licensee, The Kingston School of Mining will erect two new buildings, London has sold $115,000 worth of debentures at from 31 '2 to 4 per cent, Hamilton claims that the census. returns will give It a population of 64,000, Wm. T. Archer, 07 Brunswick ave- nue, was fatally burned in his home on Saturday night. An American syndicate is willing to establish smelters at Ottawa if it is given a big bouus and a free site. , Hull, Que., will pay it corporation labourers 15 cents an hour for twelve hours a day.It is now ten at 14 cents, Louis G. Frame of the 90th Battai- loin was fined et ilia 'Winnipeg Pollee Court for neglecting to at- tend drills. Over 400 tons of binder twine have been manufactured at the peniten- tiary at Kingston for Lhe coming sea- son. The Calgary Board of Trade is mov- ing to have all members of the Domin- ion House visit the west when the House rises. Contractor Jamieson, of Montreal, will build a $300,000 grain elevator at Port Arthur for the Canadian Northern Railway. The smallpox apidemio at MacLeod Lethbridge, Maple Creek and other places in the North-West Territor- ies is under control, The Ottawa Electric Light Company threatens to raise the rates ,if new companies are given a franchise to operate in the city. Veterans of '66 are applying for land grants the Dominion Govern- ment hasn't ordered. Ontario's grants to the South African boys has ,misled them. The option on the salt week of On- tario, granted to the syndicate which are seeking incorporation from Par- liament, has been extended from Ap- ril 34th until May 31st. At Whitemoutb Station, flan., C. W. Blank, a German farmer, shot and killed another German named A. Radice. They had a row over cattle. Blank gave himself up at 'Winnipeg. Thomas Brown is suing Hamilton City far 310,000 for the lose ci an eye; the result of an injury from lire- works used in the Laurier demon- stration there last November. Up to the present time census schedules have been received at Ot- tawa from name 317 enumerators, whereas for the whole month oc April in tbe last census only 52 were re- ceived at headquarters, The Militia Department at Ottawa desires every man who has fought in South Africa and who has changed his address since coming home to no- tify the Department of his present address so that he may receive the Imperial gratuity of $25. GREAT BRITAIN. The British War Office will! buy Barton's aerial machine. Five thousand pounds have been raised for the Cork Industrial Ex- bibi tion. AL London, Robert Gunter and Wyndham be Portal have been made baronets. A youth aged sixteen died at Ar- dagb, near Longford, who was 7 feet 1 inch in height. Louis Godard will make an attempt in a sbort time to cross the Atlantic in a balloon, starting from London. At London the annual return of re- cruiting for 1900 shows a total en- listment of 98,301, against 42,700 in 1899. British coal exports during 1900 were 44,089,197 tons, an increase of 2,908,897 tons, as compared with the preceding year. The London County Council pro- poses tb put forty steamers on the Thames for traffic between Hammer- smith and Woolwich. The census returns so far -publish- ed of the British Isles show that the movement of population from the country to thv cities continues un- checked. The British patent office has grant- ed a resident of Germany a patent for making glucose by beating saw- dust with sulphuric acid, compressing' and then boiling it. Although no official annoueement bas yet been made, it .poems probable that the portion of the; Imperial war loan offered to the public has been covered about seven Limes, UNITED ,STATES. New York hag nine new 00808 of smallpox. Every house flooded in Pittsburg will be disinfected to prevent disease or a plague. • Burglars at Anaconda, Montana, stole a 300 -pound safe containing 310,- 000 Ln gold. The hllinois Legislature has pass- ed a bill prohibiting the sale of eig- arettes in the State, A discovery of ore neer Shelbyville, 111., that assays $800 a tom, causes much excitement there. Adelhert Hay, eon of the U. 0. Sec- retary of State, bas resigned as Con- sul-General'at Pretoria. Negotiations have been completed in Chicago for the formation of the Meg - est beet eager coneer12 in the world. George S. Dobbins, blind for 18 years, has graduated with bottom from the Chieago l: Iomooltothio Medi- cal College, W. J. Bryan has announoed that be has no Intention of seeking a third nomination for the Pra5ldonoy of the United Sta1Ps, Lieut, 'William Fattersoai, of the Coast Artillery, formerly aPlrilatiel- tibia lawyer, Is: to bo tried by court turtle! at Manila for misappropriat- ing Runde, Besides the heavy loss by flood in the manufacturing and wholesale dis- teats of Ohio many laborers are idle and =tboul 1,000 people have been ren- dered homeless, A rogue's gallery of pard sharps Is to be hung in the (lard room of aitob of the big trans-Atlantic liners running out' of New York, Now York pollee will provide it. Governor Odell has signed Phe bill taxing foreign corporations wbicb do not employ 40 per cent. of their capi- tal in business in New York Slate on their capital stook so emplol•ed. frank Fuller and Themes Smith, Americans, have been bseuteneed t -o six =oaths each at Kingston, Jam- aica, for Makin„ false contracts with Jamaican labourers to work in Cuba. Dieraond jewellery worth $10,000 was stolen from the home of II. le, Crouse at Utica, N,3.„ by two "work- men" who bad, of course, been .sent by an electric tight company to remedy a. defect in the wiring. Neale elePeck, a New York broker, has entered suit against Rando'ph Snr'bridge, a Boston lawyer, and Isaac Irwin, a mining operator, of San Diego, Cal., for 325,000 for con- spiracy over the "Fortuna" mine in California, in which shareholder's aro said to have sunk 30.000,000. GENERAL. There is a strike of dcetors in Leipzig. At Madrid the street railway em- ployes aro out on strike. All the metal works In South Rus- sit are forming a trust, A violent dust storm has just visit- ed Mandalay, Burmah, Japau claims indemnities from Cbiva amounting to £4,750,000 sterl- ing. Four hundred factories in Russia are closed on account of commercial depression. Augusto rerero, a member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, has invented a steerable balloon, A despatch from Amsterdam an- nounces that Mr. Kruger will leave for the United Mates early in June. Holland and Germany will construct a system of cables to the Far East, rendering them independent of the British lines, The City Council of Amsterdam has voted 32,412,000 for an electric} plant which is to furnish power far street cars, lighting, etc. The Czar• and Czarina will privately visit England and London during the coming season and will attend the Glasgow Exhibition. China's average annual revenue has been 88,000,000 taels, while the aver- age annual expenditure has been 101,000,000 taeis, Considerable excitement exists among the population of Teheran be- cause of the heavy taxes recently imposed upon meat and other food- stuffs. At Bromberg, Prussian Poland, nine per'soris have just been fined by the local court for singing a Polish song without having previously in- formed the police of their intention. FIVE BURNED TO DEATH. Family of Joseph Parton, of liurdvllle Burn. ed to Death. A despatch from Parry Sound, Ont., says :—A disastrous lire occurred near the village of Hurdville on Mon- day night, in which five persons, members of the family of Joseph Parton were burned to death. The fire broke out in the middle of the night. Mr. Parton and his wife were asleep in a room downstairs, and both suddenly waking up found the place in flames. The stairs being on fire, tbey were unable to rescue any of those upstairs, and, in fact, with difficulty themselves escaped from the burning building. Of the six who occupied rooms up- stairs, only 0710 escaped, This was 0 boy, who jumped from a window. The unforluaate ones that perished were of age from seven to eighteen years. 10,033 MEN FOR SIDNEY, N. S. Skilled Iron Workers to be Gathered In the United States. A despatch from Paterson, N. J., says :—James Jones, one of the sup- emintendents at the Passaic Rolling Mills in this city, left on Tuesday for Pittsburg, with the commission to engage tbe services of all the skilled iron -workers he can secure in that city, to be employed at . Sydney, Nova Scotia. M'r. Jones has been ap- pointed as s superintendent in the rolling mills at Nova Scotia under a three -years' contract, at a handsome salary. The company wants 10,000 men, and this part of the plan Mr. Jones is commissioned to execute in Pitts- burg and other iron centres. , POISONED HER HUSBAND. Such Is the Verdict of the Coroner's Jury— Mrs, White Placed Under Arrest. A despatch from. Brantford, Ont., says:—On Tuesday morning the coroner's jury, which hats been hold- ing an inquest upon the body of Charlet{ White, who died suddenly on Sunday, April 14, under circumstan- 003 that warranrted the belief he had died from poison, bramgbt in a vele. diet finding that "Charles White died from being poisoned with strychnine administered, the jury suspected, by the wide of the dace -teed," Mins, White was Immediately placed under arrest by 'tbe police ono. charge of murdering her husband, and res moved to the twenty' jail, Nvhere oho spent the night:, • t MARKETS OF THE WORLD Fri4es Or Cattle, Chess°, Grain, eee in the Leading MMMai1 eta, Toronto,. May 7,—Wheat—The tomo of the looal market was firm to -day, Pram are as follows;—Ked wheat, 081.20; white wheat, 681-2e; Not 1 goose wheat, 071-2e, low .freights to New York; Manitoba No, 1 bard, Tor- onto and west, 920; and No, 2, 871-2c, Grinding in transit privileges 2o More, Mlllfeed—The market is easy, with fair offerings. Ton lots, at the mill door, Western Ontario points, sell as follows;—l;ran, 314; and shorts, 315. Corn—Steady. No 2 yellow, on track here, 50o; No, 3, 49e; Peas — Strong. No, 2, middle freights, 651-20; and east at 601-2c, Burley—Firm. Cargoes of No. 2, at Lake Ontario ports, 50e; No. 2 east, is quoted at 47i; and NO, 3 extra, at 401 le, Rye—Steady. Car lots, 49c, west, and 50o, east. Buckwheat—Tho demand is /air, Car lots, west, arra quoted at 520 and east, at 54o. the Midland, 31e; No. 1 white. west, are quoted at 801-2u, Flour—firm. Holders of 90 per cent. patents, buyers' bags, middle freights, ask $2.70 per bbl., 052 32.60 is bid. Oatmeal—Firm. Car lots of rolled oats, in bags, on track, are quoted at 33.35 per bbl.; and in wood at $8.45. Chicago, May 7.—To-day's session in the grain pits was a strenuous one. :harp advances were reared for de- livery the present mouth, w•hileluly options showed moderate sympathetic strength, May corn and oats were seid to be practically corneredand showed at the close gains of 1-4 to he respectively. May wheat rose 5-8c, and July 1-9 to 1-40. July corn closed 3-8 to I -2c, and July oats,1-8 to 1-4e improved, The provision mar- ket was 71-2 to 10 to 35c improved in prices, Minneapolis, May 7.—Clo=.e:—Wheat —task, 74 1-8e; linty, 73 3-8c ; July, 74 5-8c, on track. No. 1 hard, 70 1-8c; No, 1 Northern, 71 1-8e; No. 2 North- ern, 71 3-8 to 723-8e, Hour and bran —Unchanged. Milwaukee, May 7.—Wheat—Higher; No. 2 Northern, 73 1-2 to 74c. Rye— Firm, No. 1 51 1-2c. Barley—Dull ; No.. 2, 57 to 580; sample 40 to 54 1-1c. Duluth,. May 7.—Close:—Wheat — Cash, No. 1, hard, 70 2-8c; No, 1 North- ern, 74 3-3c; No, 2 Northern, '701-2c; May 74 3-8c ; July, 75 1-2c ; Septem- ber, 72 3 -Sc. Corn -42 3-8e; 111 ty 43 1-4e.; Oats -27 1-4 to 27e. Toledo, May 7.—Wheat—Cash, 75 3-8c; May, 75 3-80 ; July, 75 1-4c. Corn --Clish, 45 1-4c ; May 45a; July 451-2c. Oats --Cash, 27 1-2c. Rye -52c. Clover- seed—Cash, prime, $8,30; October, 3:.32 1-2. 011—Unchanged. PRODUCE, Toronto, May 7,—Eggs.—The supply is large and prices easier. Sales to -day at 10 1-2 to 11c per dozen. Poultry—The market is unchanged. Bright stook is quoted as follows;— Turkeys, 11 td 12c; geese, at 8 to•8 1-20; chickens, at 45 to 60e; and ducks at 50 la 80e. Potatpes—Unchanged at 270 for car Lots, on track. Offerings fairly large. Sales out of store, are made at Ole. Field produce, etc.—Turnips, out of store, 25c per bag; onions, 31 to $1.10' per bag; carrots, 35c per bag; parsnips per bag, 350; apples, per bbl, 31 to 32; sweet potatoes, per bbl, 32.50. Dried fruit.—Dull and easy. Dried apples, 3 to 3 1-2c; evaporated, 5 to 5 1-2c. Maple syrup—Supplies are moderate and the demand fair. Five -gallon tins are quoted at 31 per imperial gal- lon; and gallon tins at $1.10 to 31.15. Honey—Dealers quote from 101-4e 10 1-2e for 5, 10, or 00-1b tins, accord- ing to size of order; comb honey sells at 32 to 32.25 for, dark; and at 32.50 to 32,75 for choice clover, per dozen sections. Hops—Quiet. Choice 1900 growth are quoted at 14 to 100; and yearlings at 8 to Loc. Beans—The market is easy. Ordin- ary white beans bring $1.40 to 31.50; choice hand-picked beans are quoted at 31.00 to 31.65. Baled hay—Choice timothy, on track bore, 310.50; and two -ton lots, deliver- ed, 311.25. Straw Steady. Car lots, on track, $5.50 to 36 a ton. DRESSED II0GS AND PROVISIONS, Toronto, May 7.—The receipts of bogs on the market to -day were small anti prices unchanged. They brought 38.00 to $8.75. ProvisLona in demand and firm. Quotations are es follows; —Dry salted shoulders, 8 1-4c; long clear bacon, loose ;in car lots, 10e; and in case lat.s, 10 1-4 to 10 1-2c; s.hort out pork, 320 to 320.50; heavy mese pork, 319 to $10,50. Smoked meats—Hams, heavy, 12c; medium, lac; light, 13 1-2c. Lard—Pails, 10 3-4c; tubs, 10 1-2c; in tierces, 10 1-4e. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, May 7,—Thorn was -no change in the general condition of business at the western cattle yards to -day. All told, 55 carloads of live stock came in. All round prices were well maintained, and business is in a healthy eondition. Hogs are unchanged. "Singers" sell at 0 3-4e per lb; thick fret and light bogs, at 0 1-4c per Ib. Hogs to feteb the top prise must be of prime glhality, and scale not below 100 nor above 200 lbs. Following is the mango of quota - Henn -- Cattle. Shippers, per cwt, $4 25 $5 25 Butcher, choice, do. 3 75 4 25 Butcher, ord., dood. 3 50 8 75 Patellae, inferior. . 2 75 3 25 Stockers, per cwt. 2871.2 0 37 1-2 Export bulls, per et. 375 425 Sheep and Lambs, Export ewes, per ot. 350 400 Butcher sheep, each, 2 00 450 Lambe g.f., per cwt. 4 75 5 75 do., lay., per ewe, 4 00 4 50 Do. spring, n ng, each„„ . 2 00 5 09 Bucks, per cwt, . , 300. a 450 Mllkei's and (VMS. Cows, °aria, , , , 20 00 • 45 00 Ceives, eaol, . , , 100 3 00 Hogs, ' Choice hogs, per cwt. , 060 075 Light hogs, per cwt. 615 , 025 Heavy hogs, per owt, , 000 025' Sows, per cwt, r , , 375 400 Stags, per cwt. 000 200 THROUGH I THE B. AI . R N Unknown Woman Shoots Herself in Halifax Hotel A despatch from Halifax, N.S,, says: —By Tuesday cveeling's train from Yarmouth, eonnectlagwith the steamer to Boston, there arrived a fine looking -woman( of about 35 years of ago, w']ho g e'vo bee name to the Halifax hotel people as "lams. Mary D. Eastman, eeuebe°." Some time be- tween 4 and 6 o'clock In the atter- 00051 she committed sudcide,by shoot- ing herself through the bruin, 'the nonan Left no means of identification except the mune on the register, and it is probable that that teas an as- sumed name. Sean °oald not have cisme from Quebec. Tho money in her purse was in American bank notes and the pollee here think she may have came from Cambridge, Mass., where the Eastanin murder trial i$ now going on, They have wired there for information. She was sumptu- ously attiired. The morning was agent by her in bed and at noon she arose and asked the maid to out an a fire. The day was warms and the reason for her re- quest i5 n•aw apparent, for alt her let- tere ware burned in the open grate. After the fire was lighted the woman engaged a cab and told the driver to take her to shop,a where fishing tackle was foo. sale. She entered three places, and at each asked for a revolver. She bought a handsome plaice 'at the third shop and et box of ammuni- tion. After returning to tho Halifax she sent far the hotel bill, paid it, and said she would leave at 3 o'clock by the Maritime express. At six o'clock the :Haid want to the room, thinking the woman had gone., but found her seated In a chair dead, with one cham- ber of the sus shooter empty. Even the maker's name on bee boots and other oletheng had been obliterated, and the name of the pbotographer who had taken a Nature of a four- year-old clad was removed from it. An umbrella bare the name "Sterner, New York." The following unsigned note was is her parse:— "I urse."I earnestly de ::re that no effort will be made on the part oft the au- thorities, newspapers, or others, to identify me. Let my death, be deter- mined beyond any doubt before burial," The body is at the morgue await- ing identification. CLOSE OF THE WAR. The War Office Hopeful of an Early Termination. A despatnh from Landon says: -Ac- cording to the Standard, the War I Office is more hopeful of the termina- 1 tion of the war in South Africa than it ha3 been for weeks. The arrange- ments for food and forage for the army, based on the, expectation' that hostilities would be prolouged, aro likely to be cancelled. The daily round -up of small com- mandoes and their leaders during the. past fortnight has matte the captures large in the aggregate, and other evidences are many that the end is not by any means as distant as pro - Boer sympathisers have prophesied. S.PANISH MINERS STRII{E. Mob Fire on Pollee, Who Execute a Fatal Charge. A despatch from Murcia, Spain, says:—A. thousand men are out on strike at the Aguiles mine, The com- pany has recused the men's propos- als and there have been serious dis- turbances. Some of the' miners fired on the police guarding the property and the gendarmes charged the crowd killing one man and wounding sever- al others. UNEASINESS IN INDIA. Ameer Orders a Battery of Krupp Guns and Will Raise 1,000,000 Men., A despatch from Calcutta, India, says:—The revelations in regard to iLe armed strength of the Afghans has caused uneasiness in India. The Ameer of Afgh•mistan already has 30,000 magazine rifles, and is boast- ing of his intention to raise a million soldiers. He has just ordered a bat- tery of Krupp guns, which is to be delivered In August. OVER FIFTY EMATED. Two Terrible Fires Reported From India„ A despatch from Bombay says:— Thirty-five out of 42 persons who were working at a cotton press at Amre EIL, on the Kattywar peninaula, have been burned to death. The re- mainder were fatally burned, A similar fire has occurred at Khamgaon, Province of Borer, result- ing In the death at 11 parsons. MORGAN STILL BUYING. He Is Said to Be Negotiating for Two More Lines. A despatch from London says: -11 is reported that Mr. Morgan is nego- tiating for, if bo has not already our - chased, the Dominion and William Johnson lines, The opinion in Liver- pool is that the Leyland line ehare- hoiders have reason to be well sat- isfied wiLh the filnaneial aspect: of their bargain, the recent prosperity of the shipping industry compelling Mr, Morgan to buy near the top cf the market, DOMINION PARLIAMENT Notes of the F ooeedinge In the Canadian House of Commons, JUDGES' SALARIES, In the, House, .'while the question of judges' salaries was in diseussion,thc Premier made the announcement that the Minister of ;fustic° was con sidering a scheme of increase Lased upon the amount of .work to be done in tho different courts, Tho resolutson providing that the sahtry of the senior judge of fn\ Cir- cuit Court of the district of Mont- real' be misted to 53,003 per annum was put through committee, eo also was the resolution; "That the eatery of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court oe the North-West Territories shall be 35,090, and of the four' puiane judges of the said court each 34,005 par annum, " That the salary of an additional judge of the Territorial Court of the Yukon territory, shell be $5,000 per annum. "That the salaries oe the seventeen puisne judges of the Superior Court of Quebec, whose residences are fixed at Montreal or Quebec, including the judge to whom the district of •Terrebanne, is assigned, shall be each 35,092 per annum," 11bfPORT1S FROM U. S. Mr. Charlton was told by Mr. Pat- erson, that the total amount of im- ports for consumption from the Unit- ed States from July 1st, 1900, tot April 1st, 1901, was 378,702,440. During the .game period the anto5snt of dutiable imports frotm the United States was 337,480,308. Orr. Paterson was un- able tp state the amaant of duty collected cin these imports but prom- ised to do so later. YUKON TELEGRAPH LINE; Mr. Ganong was informed that the telegrapb line from Daman to Ben- nett was commenced in the spring of 1898, and the first part of it was in operation by the cath of September. He hoped that the 'through lino from Dawson to Ashorot would be finish= ed 13y July 1st. Since the line began operating the average number of mes- sages per m,oaith has been 2,081, and the average monthly receipts 33,702.- 57. 3,702:57. The cost of the line as far es fin- ished has been 3430,000. The cast of the through lino when finished will be $460,000. DObI',LNOO,N ELECTIONS ACT. Tile House then went into commit- tee on the bill :to amend the Domin- ion Elections Act, The Solicitor -General intimated on the third reading of the amnendment offered by Mr. Monk requiring de- puty returning officers to enter on the records any objections made to them during voting hours would be accepted, bat would be limited to pro- tests made by sowut.n•eer's in the poll- ing booths, The bill was then) reported from committee, and now. stands for its third reading, .RAILWAY ESTIMATES. Tia Home went into. Committee of Supply on the railway estimates. , On the item of $2,000,000 for rolling steek,'Mr. Plairexplained .bat thein- tention was to purchase 1,470 box and freight cars, 17 refrigerator cars, 20 and sleeping cars, and a coach for the Royal party. M'. Borden again urged the desir- ability of providing better facilities fon the rapid transportation of freight front the Maritime Provinces to Mont- real and points further west. DI . Blair said tbat a freight express had been put on the Intercolonial within the past month. The discus- sion developed the fare that the order for 1.000 ears mat( given to Rhodes and Curry on November 5th last. ST. LAWRENCE LLOYDS. The Senate Committee on Banking and Commerce passed the bill to in- corporate the St. Lawrence',Lloyds,in- senting a proviso that before the company enters into the fire insur- ance business its Capital shall be at least 3200,000. • NICKEL -STEEL COMPANY. The Algoma Iron and Nickel -Steel Company bill was amended by giving the company power to increase its capital to forty million dollars, and also by the addition of a clause giving the company power to take stock in kindred companies using their water power. MAINTENANCE OF MINT. Mr. fielding gave notice of a reso- lution setting apart $75,000 per .an- num for the maintenance of a branch of the Royal Mint in Canada, THE 24TLI 01: M,,AY. The bill respecting Victoria day was read a third time and passed. It makes the 24th of May a public holi- day whenever it falls on any day of the weak unser thou Su ,clay, in which case the following elouday will be the holiday. A clause was in- serted Making the day a bank boli - day also. PENSIONS. The resolution to provide for pen- sions to staff officers and officers and men of the permanent militia force, and to the willows and children of such officers, was taken up. Dr. Borden said that the resolution pro- posed to adopt for the first time in Canada the principles of pensions for the officers of the permanent fora° of this country. It would apply only to the permanent Some and the perman- ent 51011 andnot to the active Militia in the ordinary sense of the word. In every country which had men perman- ently employed for defensive purposes t,1tero was such a pension system, and, although Canada was adopting this late in the day, it was asound prin- ciple which ho was sure the country would approve of. The permanent force, was not simply organized as the nucleus of 0.n army, but int was an educating farce and a Military school to supply teaching' to the native mili- tia, and therefore it teas important to have in it the best class of then to be obtained, and baying sttoured them, to retain them. One of the great die. ficnities had been to retain dood loan. The rifm'eemmitesioned offiee1 and wen were poor1,y paid, and were PIA taken. care of an their old ago, and Consequently they wore not in- ellned to roulette in the farce except temporarily, As to the p0nsions far n,onroowmtstsioned offioore and men, the Governaneest bad sinenly adopted the pension law of the NortheWest Mounted leoliee, which had been in oparateon sines 1869, IN SELF-DEFFNCF. Constable Seriously Wounds a Re- Sisting Prisoner. A despatch from. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., says;—Officer Jerry Daley shot and seriously wounded a resisting prisoner about nine o'clock on Tues- day evening, The prisoner, who gave his name as Vincent, and his address, 13 Guitard etr'e.et, Montreal, is new lying' in the Soo General hospital, Ifo hug a bullet wound in his left breast, to bullet having lodged in his lung, and there is another wound in the groin, penetrating to the base of the spine. At the hospital last night It was stated that the wounds }vera e_ri ons. Officer Dacy was patrolling the west -end, and about nine o'clock he found Vincent and a woman of tbe I:own walking on Spruce street, near Magazine. 'They were both drunk and diecrderly, and the officer ar- rested Vincent. The latter broke away and showed fight, and when the officer laid hands an frim, Vincent at- tempted to gouge Dray's eyes out. As it was he left furrows from hisfinger nails in the officer's face, and Daey shot him with his revolver. Vincent fell, and was taken to the police sta- tion, Hem a cursory examination was made by a physician, and the wound- ed man was taken to the hospital. The woman who was with him at the time of the shooting wee arrested later. She gave the name of Purdy. Officer Daoyis at his home on Young street. His face bears marks of Vincent's fingers, Nothing is known of Vin- cent's antecedents, as be has been here but a shalt film.. OCEAN CARRYING TRADE. BRITISH SHIPOWNERS AGITATED OVER THE MORGAN DEAL. They Wait In Awe for the Next Deal—B.l,cf Now That the Atlantic Transport Line Will o: Has Been Acquired. A despatch from London says:— Shipping circles continue to be en- grossed with the future, of the Ley- land line, and what has been dubbed the Morganatic alliance between the billion dollar steel trust and the Atlantic carrying trade. informa- tion on the subject continues to be in- definite, and shipowners would give mach to get an insight into Mr. Mor- gan's plans. It le asserted that the whole Leyland transaction chiefly. alms at placing the Line in closer touch with the Atlantic Transport line and that ft is likely to result! in the latter company practically control- ling the Leyland line. In that case the combination would dispose of an aggregate tonnage of 700,000, if the vessels building are included, and this would exceed the tonnage of any otber line in the world. 10 is recognized that the acquisition of the Leyland lime although a big thing, need not in itself cause great uneasiness to shipowners, but per- sistent rumours of further purchases cause apxietg in certain quarters that amounts to . SERIOUS ALARM. These erighlened people foresee the British flag driven off the Atlantic and perhaps off the Pacific, and Bri- tish Oracle generally frozen out. It is rumoured, Ott the other hand, that Mr. Morgan has failed in part o•f bis endeavour, namely, to consoli- date the Atlantic shipping as he has consolidated the steel trade of the United StaLes. The Cunard and \VLite Star lines have, it is said, re- fused•to consider such a proposal, although they offered to sell their vessels outright if Mr. Morgan eves prepared to pay their price. The Hamburg -American and North Ger- man Lloyds are also supposed to have been approached, but they are said to have replied that they were do- ing very well and slid not care to enter an amalgamation. Gossip of this Hort is freely current, but there is nothing about it that can be substantiated. BRITISH SHIPOWNERS MAY 2011521011., Mr. Wilson, of Watts and Company., shipowners, arrived with 'Mr. Shaugh- nessy, of the Canadian Pacific, on the steamer Camelia. They learned at Queenstown of tate Leyland deal. Mr. Wilson sold that within ten years hest of the greatest eastern rail- rands 01 the United States would operate their own steamers, which would enable them to control ocean rates. British shipowners who are unable to secure connections with the r•siAvatys of the United States would probably be prejudiced to some extent by the ponding developments, AWFUL FAMINE IN RUSSIA: Peasants Are Living on Husks of Maize. A despatch from St, Petctsburg says:—Distressing accounts are ar- riving here of the situation of the village poptla.tians throughout Bes- sarabia, especially in the Soroki dis- trict,o a r famine. n asci by the [amine- nriginq Mem. rho failure of the last harvest, Tire living' 1l,., peasante 971 t:q Ir'1'e l i•t In on hue les hu its o f 6 matzo baiird In water. Half of than are suffering with typhus fever. They are clad in rags, haven no furniture, or other household ncoessitles. horses and sheep have decreased from fifty to sixty per coat, owing to luck of forage.. In some villages horses are sold et;a rouble each, Mese where ae'venty per cent, of the farmers have, lost all their horses. •, 1 COST 33 68 8d, i'.ER MINUTE, reaps erre the Lord :.1Is ot's Ledger nefl Larder, Although the salary oR the chief magistrate of the woi'l4's greatest city exceeds by one thousand pounds the P=ail ment received, by Ole Pro,. slant of theUnitedStates, he 18 8o fir from malting bis official lneame Meet all the obligations of his exalted Post that on taking office lie must be prepared to dip pretty deeply into his awn resources, gays alio .London Daily Mail, Notwithstanding the foot that the salaryless sheriffs pay half of the ex- heneea appertaining to the Lord Mayor's pageant during the day and the subsequent banquet in the eve'''. ing, the 9111 of November is too ex- pensive 'a luxury to render the fact +' that It comes but once a year a mat- ter of Lord Mayoral regret. Taking in toconsideralion Ole preliminary ex-; ese os t liveries, renovations.-- the gilt stat a coach alone accounts for £100 an this score --and the in- numerable etceteras for which it le the Lard Mayer's privilege to draw cheques, each minute p't that red- letter day in leis. career costs him about £3 6s, 8d. The year fallowing the Crimean was saw a show and banquet (meting about 412,700; a •few years ago the figures bulked more largely, amount- ing, so it was said at the .time, to £4,500; but last year it was. announced the expenditure did not, amount to MORE THAN £3,600. • The followingis a list al good things calculated to take off the edge of the eppetitee of the assembled, guests at the banquet —Eighty tur- sene of clear turtle, 122 caisses do sola a la Normand°, 170 roast ahiek- Dns, 23 game pies, 26 capons, 23 pig- eon pies, 32 tongues, 70 lobster sal - ods and 53 casseroles a2 partridges io addition to the customary barons of beet and other joints sweets and etceteras. These form the initial item of expengs which will, when the year of office is over, fall not tar short of £30,000. 'Least of London's Lord' Mayors have come from the draper's shop. No fewer than seventy-four proprietors of such establishments have oecu- pied .Ira civic throne. o Mercers come next, with seventy - tato, closely followed by seventy-one grooms. relay -three goldsmiths have achieved mayoral honors; so have thirty-eight fishmongers, twenty ironmongers and nineteen peppereret— the name formerly given to chand- lers. England's most famous Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Whittington, was a mercer, mcuey-lender, and house - decorator. 7x1 REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. rano (7,cud* 5)(n.uvera (radical Giving Out Light, rout No neat. A mineral radium which promises to furnish with a permanent light, without heat, is being experimented with in Smithsonian Institute, Wash- ington, The discoverer, Nene. Sklo- dowska Oleic, a Poliela chemist, sent' two hermetically sealed vials eon- taiting the luminous .substance to Prof. Langley of the institution, not long ago, They contained asub- stance somwtbat resembling starch. In one vial it is powdered, and in; the other broken into cubes, with faces a tenth of an inch in length. These two little bottles, each about tbe size of -a little finger, throw out a green- ish white light, by which 11 printed page may be read if hold close to them. The substance emits two dis- tinct nets of rays, one like ordiaary daylight, the other resembling ar- rays, The experiments prove that it can be mad in photography, having the effeet of sunlight on a negative, and when tried as an X-ray it was found capable of photographing through the cover of a plate holder. It was further detetimined that in giving off light no apparent energy, Is expended. It is believed that an' infinite time would be required to ex- haust the light giving property of the two vials. Further, one-half pound of it wouldlightan ordinary, room. Heretofore chemists have locked upon the radium as ,valueless; new it is worth $1.00 per ounce. It is found in very small quantities, and only in uranium. What further de- velopments are to follow is a matter, of interesting conjecture. NIHILIST PLOT IN'POLAND. Several Highly -Placed Personages Are lar volved 1n the Affair. A despatch' cion Berlin says :—The Lokal Anzeiger prints a despatch from Breslau, Silesia., whidL says;- "An extensive Nihilistic plot has been discovered in Russian Poland. Six hundred arrests were made on Monday 'of 'which number 200 were transported fry special train to the Warsaw citadel, TLe towns of Sos- novice, Sielce, and Domhrowa have been occupied by two companies of Cossacks. Secret correspondence wee discovered at Bloke, by which the plot was revealed. 1 i A NOTABLE P1GleON RACE. Once every year, the pigeon -racing clubs of Yorkshire, England, arrange a race from Winnhestee to their na-' tive-county, a distance -of over ahun- dred and eighty miles, The race takes place on a Saturday, and late on the previous Friday evening the "pigeon special" leaves Yorkshire. The birds come from almost every fawn in Yorkshire and they are distri- buted in three section°. Vlee first em- braces the towns in the neighbour- hood of Halifax anti I•Iuddersfield; while Batley; Leeds, Dewsbury, York and Wakefield, with other plaros,form another section; the third (metier, tonsisting of the Pigeons from such places as Sheffield, Danrtetpaster, and Barnsley. As a rule, Sheffield and Wakefield, are the two towns that supply the largest number of pigeon competitors. On the occasion of the Net race there Were over six thou.: . sand pigeons, and pro:xlbiy half a million people were interested In lig result. fi