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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-6-6, Page 2L NEWS UTSHE1L THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items Moat Our O.wn Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Weber Condensed sliced .and Assorted for- I;asy Readleig. yt ' 1 i CANADA': f The new Russell Theatre at Ottawa Will cost 640,000, John R. Tobin haul his leg severed by a circular PAW in a mill at Sar- nia. Thee Canadiansmeltiaug wolrks at fere act, B.C., marl build a lead refinery St, Josepeh's Oan'vemt at Port Arthur uveas diaameged by, fire to the extent of $5,000. The Queen's statue at Ottawa will be =welded by the Dueness of York in September. • The by-law to raise $30,000 to extend the waterworks sysstemi hits been car- ried at Owen Sennd. Vera Forbes„ the 4 -year-old daugh- ter of Wm. Forbes, was ruin over and ko,lled by a waggon at Hamilton. Deputy Minister of Labor King has left Ottawa to attend the convention of labor bureaus at St. Louis, Mo. Labor Law Officer Edward Wil- liams has deported pix alten labor- ers from Little Ourrent, Manitoulin Bland. Sandwich Town Council has grant- ed a franchise to John Auld, M.P.P., to build an electric road from Wind- sor to Amherstburg. Geo. Little, a well-known wrestler, is under . arrest at Montreal, on a ohmage of defrauding a Montreal citizen oast of $2,650. Stanley Malls & Co.'s departmental stairs at Hamilton cant floe through the spomtaneaus coanbustion of some. oil -soaked cotton. Loss $10,000. The Anglican made:tors et London and the London Ministerial Assoeia- ,tien, campoeed of clergymen of all other denominations have united in one body. J. B. E. Neeve, who has been in the Dominion Government service siuce Confederation, has received notice of his superannuation, to take effect from Jule' 1st. W. D. Roes, manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, has been appointed to an important position in the Finance daparanaemt at Ottawa. A course ori roiaitary instruction for tecacelexs of high schools or collegiate institutes in the Province wiLl be cora- na,emced at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, on July 5 next. The Dominion Gercrnment has come -dee to Fleming & Ferguson, of Paisley, Scotland, the contract for the oonstruet?van Of the new, steel twisascrew steamer. President O'Connell of the Machi- nists' achinists' Union, who has removed the strike tendquamters to Toronto in connection with the convention, eases taxa strike, avid! be Ivan in the United States by next week. Ottawa Council of the Board of Trade recommends that a memorial be cent to every Board of Trade and Cbanabr_r of Commerce in the Empire ask;ng oe-operation in considering the question of State iowned cables. The Minister of Agriculture has authorized L. V. Labelle of St. Jacques to prepare several cases of Quebec - grown tobacco for the European mar- lket and to make experiments to find out which kind of tobacco is best for foreign trade. 13y the death of Sir Charles James Stuart, London, he ie succeeded in! the baronetcy by hie younger brother, Ma jer-General Edward Andrew Stuart, colonel of the Lothian Regi- ment, Ravel, Soots and a native of Quebec. The baronetcy was confer- red inn 1840 upon Hon. James Stuart, Chief Justice of Lower Canada, who :was regarded by Lord Durham, as Dee most profound lawyer and jurist then living in the Canadian Prov- inces, GREAT BRLTAIN. The Icing will visit Ireland as Soon as poseibbe. The oefi0ial Gazette gives tbe total number of Boer, prisoners as 19,449. Tha Duke c4 Cambridge has just completed bee 82nd year. . Tire National Eisetedfod of Wales ,will he held at Merthyr this year. The Ottoman Embassy. at Panus ,wiel leave unless the Sultan pays its snLarees at once, Tinea Royal Hospital, London, has just received £10,000 from, Alfred B.armswortie of the Dar.4ay Maid. Twenty-two English steamers are engaged to carry American coal to France. The Archh•iehop of Canterbury says all the elargy ,ei the Church of Eng - Land' ehcull be married. Sir John Edmund Commarell, Ad- miral ed the British fleet from 1892 to 1899, is dead. Ho, was born;in1829. The Bril]sh Royal Geographical So- ciety has conferred a gold medal upon 'Arthur Donaldson Smith, the Ameri- can African explorer. . In a speech in London, Lord Raglan said that Englishmen should not be frightened by the idea of conscrip- tion. Germany has it in force now. The full score of Purcell's 'Fairy Queen," which has been, missing for 200 years, has beeen'd.a:coversd ]ern the library oe the Royal Academy of Murals, It is said that there is no truth in the story that the condition of Earl Roberts' health is causing eonccrn'to his friends, and that bis work at rho ;War Office is far -behind, UNITED STATES; I There Ls ptiallpox at SLtka, Alaska. i Former Governor Teener, of:Tll'mois, Idled .suddenly at Springfield, An Indian outbreak is threatened dal 43hrchone reserve l.ien,'Wyoming, Mr. J. Pier gnat Morgan has bought a fine collection of antique) curiosities in Paris, • 3 A package eostaiaing 08,000 in Mir - rend, has been etelen frinn the mails aL 8aneas Oity, Patriolr ,J, Glee -00M mayser e8 Long Island City, N,'X',,.rucl a unklue fig" Are in politics, is deed, Heart f3 ussiok and Mitten Boyd, of Wallace, Fa„ are reported drowned in the flocd in that seoliou, "The largest bank in the world" id to be established by d', Fierpont .T1for- gaga, says a Neal York paper. , F.ra411c Heroy, son of a Methodist elorgylman, shot and killed Charles V'andea•lyn, et Greenfield, near Kings- ton, N,X. I3eroy was drunk. It is thought that Edgar Van L+-tten, general superintendent, become president of the New. York Oentral Runway. Tobin 14I. Glever, an ex-Coagreeesm.an tram the St', Louie, NPTagouri, district, is reported to have methes death in tbe floods, near Love, Colo. Over 300 men and boys have "tied up" the Cgrbiq Colliery„ et Shamokin, Pa., by striking for the emforoement est the saml-monthly pay law. The pneumatic tube service is to be established between New York and Boston by a company which is start- ing with a capital of $5,000,000. Peter Anderson, piano maker, in Neew, m'o'nk, sheat and killed his eon Gustave, aged 86 years because the letter palled him 'an old washer- women." Percy L. Johnson, an attorney, reoantl'y returned from Maxiaa, plead- ed guilty to embezzlement to $50,000 from three trust funds at Bridge- port, Conn., and was sentenced to six years .imprisonment. Mrs. Josephine Eeelat, who recently died in Ll'rane°, left to II. H. Haw- thorne, a. veteran of the Soldiers' Home, at Dayton, Ohio, a fortune of $2,500,000, his reward for saving her from dranvaning in Kent, Eng., in 1854. GENERAL. Fatal election riots have occurred in Spain. Telephone charges in France aro bo- ing reduced. The strikes at St. Petersburg, are ended -by force. Nine hundred emigrants have gone from (Porto Rico to Hawaii. Russian poultry is rigidly inspected before admission into Germany., The total number of plague cases at Cape Town up to date is 651, with 300 deaths, The village of Aurenza, Italy, bas been partially destroyed by earth- quake. The German Government is experi- menting with the octuple system of telegraphy. The Prime Minister of Cape Colony is opposed to the introduction of Chinese labourers. The population of Italy is now 82,449,754, an increase of 4,000,103 in the last twenty years. The population of Ireland is 4,456,- 546, a decrease of 5.3 par cent. Scot- land's is 4,471,557, a heavy decrease in ten Sears. Tha Austrian Reichsrath has ap- proved the appropriation of 487,000,- 000 kronen, 597,6C0,000, for new rail- roads. If Turkey aloes not at once satisfy Italy about the arrest of an Italian pascal agent at Preveza warships will be sent there. An earthquake has occurred in Ma- laga, Span. A number of houses were damaged and a panic was cre- ated among the inhabitants. , Three Russian officers have teen sentenced to six months' imprison- ment for mapping Nagasaki harbour, in the vicinity of the fortificatjons. Engineers have submitted to Russia plans for connecting the Black Sea with the Caspian Sea by a canal 550 versts long, and coating 300,000,060 11 roubles:. Storms and floods at Puebla De Al- I cover, Spain, have resulted in the loss of two lives and injury to several a persons. NARK TS OF 'THE WORLD ' ! eaaaez ' 1 , PrieeS of Cattle, Cherie, Grain, fe0 to the Leading Markets.. T.-.. GR -.AIN,, Toron4o June e 4. Wheat --The wheat market Was steady today, No. 2 White and rod sold at 685 to 6S0, middle freights to Montreal, and it is quoted at 63ec to 09e, low rate to New Yeric, No, 1 goose quoted at 673e, low freight, and.spring sold at 68e 4o 09e, middle freight to Port land, and 70e cast, Manitoba wheat higher, with quotations as Nolw follows, Montreal freight, g• i. t.:- hard, , e; No. 2 hard, 880; No, 8 hard, 81e. Prices Toronto and west; -No, 1 hard, 90c; No. 2, Sec; No. 3 hard, 79c. Millfced-Ts quiet and prices stea- dy. Bran, in car lots, $12 west, anal shorts 513 to $14 west. Corn - Market continues quiet with Canada yellow quoted at 404c to 41c, and mixed at 400 west; yellow, on track, 464e. Rye -The market is quiet, with prices unchanged at 500. to 51e, mid- dle freights. Buckwheat -None offering, and market firm, Peas -Market is firm, with offerings small, Quotations, 66c to 07c out- side. Dailey -Market rules quiet;. No. 2 quoted at 50c, lake ports, and at 44e to 45c, middle freights; No, 8 extra, 48c, middle freights. Oats -Market rules firm, with sales of No. 2 at 32c, middle freights. No, 1 firm at 33c to 884. east. Flour -The demand is fair and pri- ces steady; 90 per cent. ordinary patents, buyers' bags, sold at 52.65, middle freights choice lots, 15c to 20c more; Manitoba patents, $4.25, and strong bakers', $3.95 to $4. Oatmeal -Market unchanged; car lots at 53.65, in bags, and at $3.75 in wood; small lots 20c extra. PRODUCE. Potatoes -The market. is quiet and prices steady.; Car lots quote at 27e to 28c. They sell out o store at 350 to 40c per bag. Field produce, etc. -Onions, $1.1 to $1.25 per bag. Carrots, 4bc t 50e per bag. Parsnips, per bag, 40 to 50c. Garden stuff -Spinach, peck, 10c Watercress, 15e to 20c. Rhubarb dozen, 15c to 25c. Celery, dozen $1 to $1.25. Lettuce, 20c. Ra ishes, dozen, 15c. Aspu•agus, dos en, 75c to $1. Cabbage, dozen, 40 to 75c. Onions, dozen, 10c. Pars ley, dozen, 15c to 20c. Dried apples -The market rule quiet. Dried apples, 8 to 800; ovnp orated quoted at 50 to Ste for ca lots, and jobbing at 54e. Maple syrup -Market dull; five -gal Ion tins are $3. per imperial gallon $1.10 to $1.15 for gallon tins, and 860 to 005 for wine gallon tins. Honey -Dealers quote from 10c to 104c for 5, 10, or GO -lb. tins, ac- cording to size of order. Comb hon- ey sells at 51.50 to 52.40, according Ito weight and quality. Ito Choice 1000 growth tare quoted at lac to 15e, and year- nings at Se to 10e. Beans -The market is unchanged. Ordinary white beans bring 51.40 to $1.50; choice hand-picked beans '$1.00. IBaled hay -Choice timothy on ,track here, $11 to $11.50. 1 Straw -Steady. Car lots on track 55.50 to $6 a ton. DRESSED HOGS AND PROVI- SIONS. Dressed hogs are firm at $8.75 to $9.25 for small lots. Provisions firm. Quotations are as follows: - Bacon, long clear, loose, in car lots, 10c, and in case lots, 104e to 104c. Short cut pork, $20 to $20.50; heavy mess pork, $19 to $10.50 shoulder mess, $15. Smoked meats -Hams, heavy 121c; medium, 13e; light, 134c. Rolls, 11 to 114c; backs, 14c to 15c, and shoulders, 10ec to 110. Lard -Pails, 11c; tubs, 101c; tier- ces, 101c to 10ec. DAIRY MARKETS. while all really good Ault sulci Well at steady prices there was slaeken- od demand with a deoldedly lower tendeney in the pried of ordinary cattle. Good to °Boles export cattle sold at from, 4Qo to 5tc per pound, bet light Shippers were not, wanted. 151111 there was a fair clearance, Some ohoiee hetoller cattle eel& up to Sc today,. but there was a !131145(1 enquiry,' and sales were not hs'lsk. Other ' grades of cattle aro inclined to weaken, and e. heavy' run tomor- row (Wednesday) may cause a serious !)reale in prices. There was a good demand for feed- ers; the supply was short, and prices -'anger from 4e to 4ac per pound, Light , feeders are worth from 810 to 4c per pound, There was se small donated for ex- port bulls; trade was dull at from 34c to de per pound. A few good to choice stockers are wanted. !Milch cows sold at from $25 to $50 each today. Choico milkers are wanted, Good to primo veal calves aro wanted up to around 510 oaeh. The run of "small stuff' was light and it all sold early at steady and unchanged prices. Export ewes aro Arm at from B4c to 4c per pound, Grain -fed yearlings are worth from 44e to 510 per pound. Bucks are worth from 24e to 3c per pounce, "Barnyarders" are unchangedat from 4c to 44c per pound. Spring lambs aro worth from $2.00 to $5 each. There was no change in hogs to- day. The best price for "singers" is 74-c per pound; thick fat and light ]fogs. aro worth Ole per pound. Hogs to fetch the top price must be of prime quality, and scale not. below 160 nor above 200 pounds. Following is the range of quota- tions: - Cattle. Shippers, per cwt 54.50 Butcher, choice, do4.25 d Butcher, ord, to good8.50 f Butcher, inferior 2.75 Stockers, per cwt3.50 O Export bulls, per cwt8.75 o Sheep and Lambs. e Choice ewes, per cwt. 3.50 !Lambs, grain -Seri, cwt. 4.50 Do., barnyards, cwt. 4.00 Do., spring, each2.50 , :Bucks, per cwt 2.50 Rad I Milkers and Calves. c i Cows, each 00.00 Calves, each 2,00 Dogs. s , hogs, Choice ho ', per cwt6.75 - ILight hogs, per cwt6.50 ✓ Ueavy hogs, -per cwt6.50 1 Sows, per cwt 3.75 - Stags, per cwt.,0.00 FARMERS' SUMMER OUTING. Tbirty-Two Exeursions to the Model Farm Next Month. Arrangements have been complet- ed by the Department of Agriculture for thirty-two excursions to the Mo- dal Farm at Guelph' next month, un- der the auspices of the various Farm- ers' Institutes. It is expected that they will be taken advantage of by forty thousand people. The dates and excursions ire as follows: -June lith, North and Centre Grey; 12th, East and Centre S]mcoe ; 13th, North and South Waterloo ; and North Mid- dlesex ;14th, East Middlesex sad West Kent; 15th, West Huron and Halton; 17th, Peel and Drayton Agricultural Society, or Weat Wellington ; 1815, South Ontario, and South SLmcos; 1915, South Oxford, Haldimand and North Oxford ; 20th, East and West Lambton and East Huron ; 21st, North and West Bruce and Dufferin; 22nd, North and South Norfolk; 24t13, North Ontario and Peel; 250, South Perth; 26th, South Grey and Parry Sound; 2, a South Bruce; 28th,West eSLmcoe. , UNITED STATES TOOLS. British Government Introducing Them in the Dockyards. A despatch from Portsmouth says: -It i,s-undierstood that the Admiralty has decided to introduce American la- bour-saving appliances in the Govern- ment dockyards. A pneumatin rivet - ting and drilling plant will be install- ed .bore, as the result of satisfactory trtaie in building the cruiser Kent. Several other American tools are now, being teeted. STILL COIYIING IN. Two Hundred Boers Surrender to the British in Bechuanaland. A despatch from Cape Toowen says; -Tw,o hundred Boere have eurren- dda ed et Pclapye, Bechuanaland, and 42,wa,ggom loads, of men, women and ehiidrcen have, gen:rendered at Fort TOIi, Rhodesia. • ' Butter -Receipts are moderate, and prices unchanged. Pound rolls sell at 13e to 14c; new, in tubs, at 124e to 13c per Re inferior, 10c to 120; creamery boxes 17-ec to 180, and pounds 180c to 19c. Eggs -Market is steady at 10ec to 11e- per dozen, in large lots. and oc- casionally life for case lots. No. 2, chips. Sic to 9c. Cheese -Market is quiet. Pull creams, September, 94e to 94c; do., new, 9c. Buffalo, June 4. -Flour -Quiet and steady. Wheat -Spring, few cars spot sold; No, 1 Northern, old, car- loads, 83e,c; do., new, 8040. Winter wheat -Nothing done; No. 2 red is quoted at 78c; No. 1 white, 77c on track, Buffalo. Corn -Dull; No. 2 yellow, 400,•c; No. 3 do., 46c; No. 2 corn, 4.540 to 154c; No. 3 do., 454c. 454c, through billed. Oats - Easy; No. 2 white, 8200; No. 8 do., 32c; No. 2 mixed, 30c; No. 8 do., 294c., through billed. Barley -Too irregular to quote. Rye -Quiet; No. i in store and on track offered at 59c; No. 2, on track, 58e. Chicago, June 4.-1Tigher cables, continued drought in tiro spring wheat districts, reports of damage by hessian fly, caused an active wheat market. today. Reports late in the session of rains in the North- west, the gains were more than wip- ed out. July closed 4a lower, July corn „e higher. July oats, unchang- ed, and provisions from unchanged to 50 higher; July wheat opened a shade to 4c to 4o higher at 74c to 744e. Milwaukee, June 4. -Barley -null; No. 2, 56c to 57e; sample, 40e to 58e, Toledo, June 4. -Clover seed -Cash. $6,50; October, $5.224o, 0il-41n- changed. LIVE STOCK MARTIETS. Toronto, June 4. -The receipts of live stock at the western cattle yards today were 57 carloads, includ- ing 1,050 cati.tic, 850 Nage, 127 sheep and lambs, 56 calves, and a dozen milch cows. Wo had unmistaltable signs of a reaction In the cattle trade today;. 50.25 4.75 4.00 8,25 4.00 4.50 4.00 5.25 4,50 5.00 3.00 45.00 10,00 7.25 6.75 6.75 4.00 2;00 BRITISH LOSS SEVERE. OUR NORTHERN HERITAGE REPORT 01? TIM EXPLORATION OF NEW ONTARIO. =feat of A,r,�910 lea-Tirot,or slid Patp steed neseareee-7i'ue O1lnafe--Geola, Wets' Reverie, Hiring the summer of 1900. the Government 01 Ontario sent out toil exploration parties into that portion of Now Ontsa'io lying north of the Oanadian Pacific Railway for the purpose of ascertaining, approxi- inately, at least, the value of the greatnatural resources oi' :a then compal'atively little known region, in land, timber 'and • minerals: , 'At the previoua session of the Legislca- tr,u'o the siinl of $10,000 lead. been voted for this purpose, the desirabil- ity of a more adequate knowledge of the country, With a view to its speedy opening up by railways and other means of communication, be- ing universally admitted. 'l'ho re- gion to be explored, embracing some sixty million acres, was divided into ten exploration districts. hatch of the parties to which et district was allotted comprised a surveyor, a land and timber estimator and a geologist, who were instructed to Make the fullest investigations the time at their disposal and the large extent of country to bo covered would permit, extending to every natural feature. or characteristic of the territory having any bearing up- on its fitness for settlement or eco- nomic development. The report of the survey and ex- ploration has just been issued by the Provincial Department of Crown Lands, it comprises re volume of about 300 pages, extensively fllus- trated with cuts reproduced from photographs taken by the explorers, and contains a vast amount of infor- mation in detail as to the resources, products and character' of the region traversed, which will be of great value in connection with future leg- islation. While the main results of the exploration were made public some time since, there aro many in- teresting facts with regard to the North country here presented for the i first Limo, . EXTENT Ole ARABLE LAND. The most im p ort nt discovery p a imade by the explorers is as to the eaextent of flrstclass arable land avail - :able for settlement. The area of the great clay belt, extending west- ward from the Quebec boundary i through Nipissing and Algoma and onto Thunder Bay district, is at least 124,500 miles, makfag an almost un- Ibroicen stretch of good farming lane!. !This is nearly throe -quarters the ex- ,tent of the present settled portion hof the Province south of Lake Nipis- sing. The whole country is a net - !work . of rivers, streams and lakes, affording an easy means of communi- cation and megnillcent water -powers for, industrial enterprises and elec- trical development. Moreover, the extensive water -surface renders the territory especially favorable for ag- riculture and stock -raising, as it ensures it against the protracted droughts which form one of the great drawbacks to successful farm- ing in a prairie country. In addi- tion to this arable area, which is !just receiving a narrow fringe of settlement at its eastern extremity adjoining Lako Temiseanaing, the clay land in the townships cuound Dryden is the Rainy River district was found to extend northward in the Wabigoon Valley, forming a to- tal area in that vicinity of about 600 square miles. TIMBER AND PULPWOOD. Great anticipations had been form- ed as to the extent and value of the spruce and other timber growing on the northern slope of the height of land, and the reports of the explor- ation more than justified the most sanguine estimates of the forest wealth here awaiting development. Of course the closest estimate that could possibly be made by experts of the quantities covering so vast an area in the limited time allowed them is merely an approximation, and, as owing to the inability of sono of the parties to finish the work laid out for them, large .areas were left unvisited, the figures given by no means represent. the total timber product of the country. The pine -bearing region does not extend far beyond the height of land. In the region around Lakes Temagami and Lady Evelyn in the southern portion of the district of Nipissing, the quantity of red and white pine is estimated at 800,000,000 feet board measure. The total pine -bearing area in this section comprises sono 1650 square miles. There are also some scattered pine tracts in other parts and considerable quantities are found in the Wabigoon River re- gion. The great factor of future in-, dustr'ial development is, of course, the. extensive forests of spruce, jack - pine and poplar available for pulp wood which color the greater por- tion of the territory explored, the total estimate being 288,000,000 cords, of which 100,000,000 cords aro in the district of Algona and 150,000,000 in Thunder Bay. Muth of the spruce, which is the prcdom inont tree of Northern Ontario. is of sufficient size and quality to fur- nish excellent timber and supply the place, of the ping as construction material and for other industrial 805. TITS CLIMATE. Convoy Attacked, But Boers Were Finally Repulsed. A despetoh from Potchefstroom says the Boers made two determined at- tacks on u British convoy in a drift near Venteradorp. The waggons bad choked the 'drift, The Boers were finally reepuleed leawng fourteen dead on the field. The British loss, which was severe, le not stated. A special despatch From Pretoria says :-A. Limited number of permits will be 1paramted neat week for the im- pcctat:cn of "soft geode" into an- hannesburg. Each permit will allow the importation of, not to exceed, ten tens of goods, fifty per tent. of which must be clothing, suitable bit cold weather, and thirty per cent. of , clothing suitable ter the poorer classes. Boot makers will be allowed to import (;odds not exceeding five tons in weight, fifty per cent. of which must be suitable foes the poorer classes. A ball to commemorate the entry of the British troops will be given at Johannesburg on Friday night. The elevation of Lord Milner to the peerage created a number of new re- cords tai that liens. He is the first man who was created a peer on a Fri- day and gazetted the following Tues- day -record time, He is the first man who bas aver taken his title from his lodgings. He is the first statesman who, having been received on his ar- rival by almost every member of the Administration, was received almost immediately afterward by the Gov- eee'gn, and the first guest within memory invited to dine and sleep at Windsor castle wvbo was commanded to stay another night. A despatch from Queenstown, Cape Colony, says the 13oers aro massing under Commandant Tiritzinger to the northward of Bailey. There is much local appreheos•]on, and the town guard remains all night in the treneh- . ea. Passenger traffic to the north is suspended, and freight is proceeding under an armed escort. The bank close at noon. Bailey is about twen- ty miles north of Queenstown, on the line foam Port Elizabeth to the Orange river. It is about forty miles south of Stormberg, in the dis- trict which General Gatacre held. A BOILER COMPETITION: British Warship to Test Two Kinds in a Race. !u A despatch' from London says; --An interesting teat of boilers has been arranged by the Parliamentary Boil- or Committee, which bas' ordered a full speed trine between the second- r class meteor Hyacinthe, of 5,000 tons displacement, fitted with Belleville boilers and the second-class cruiser Minerva, of the same tonnage, fitted with Scotch boiler;+.. The two vessels v will start simultaneously from a bonne port and run to Gibraltar with the object of detearan ening which class of boiler cam best atone rho strain. ad a long run at high pressure. A highly important fact establish- cl by the thorough investigation nade by the explorers, is the favor- able character of the climate for ag- iculture. Exaggerated ideas as to rho coldness of the region havo'long prevailed which the publication of. the report should do much to dispel, At many of the Iludson's Say posts 'sited by the explorers it ins found that gnrclens were or had been kept Where all . the vegetables ordinarily produced in Southern Ontario, In- cluding cucumbers and, 'tomatoes, were green. No cl,'awhack is e:s- pericnced from summer frosts, the amount of wafer surface and the ex- tensive forests tampering the sever- ity of the winter. A characteristic foabure of some dtslriots is the 910 - use growth of moss upon low and m Several sugar refiners in Russia have requested the Government to louver the tariff on sugar carried on the railroads and intended for export into foreign' Asiatic countries, f swaanpy 'ground, wliith by gradual decomposition forms beds of Poet several feet in depth. The most ex- tensive .of these cleposits are In the eastern part of Nipissing district to the north of Lako Abitlbl, The Peat taken from these bogs, on analysis,. Shows a high percentage of volatile c0mbeetiblo )natter and fixed carbon, no sulphur and only a trace of i.lhoa- phorus, with a low percentage 02 moist -aro and ash, which raindot's it a valuable fuel. The land overlaid by those peaty tracts ie of good quality, and wizen the .country shall Mime become 'sufficiently settled to make drainage operations practice- blo and profitable much of it niay be brought into cultivation. T13111 GEOLOGISTS' REPORTS. No specially itnnoi'ta,nt mineral disco''eei'ics were dnacle, hut 1.1i re- ports of the 'geologists ere valuuble as establishing the characteristics of the various rock formations and thus furnishing .prospectors with a guide to the. civar'ters 1i 1011icia their researches are likely to meet with success. Traces df gold were Found in several :places, and though the careful analysis made did not de- velop its presence in paying quan- tities in any of the samples, the re- sults were suds as to afford encour- agement for closer examination. Among other matters carefully 'not- ed by the explorer were the animals, fish, and vegetation of the territory, the voluine being full of information of interest both to tlae sportsman and the naturalist.. An immediate result of tlae explor- ation has been the setting apart by the government of the pine -bearing regions around Lako Tennagami as se forest reserve, in order to protect the pine from the danger of destruc- tion by fire whish grows constantly more imminent, owing to the influx of settlors, prospectors and tourists. This will secure a supply of timber in perpetuity to the adjoining settle- ments,which aro certain to receive considerable accessions of population within a few years. The undortak Mg by the government of the con- struction of the Temiecaming Rail- way and the liberal aid granted to other railway enterprises are largely the outcome of the increased appre- ciation of the value of oiu• Northern heritage resulting from tlae explore - PAID THE PENALTY. Negro Burned Alive by a 1805 in Florida for Murder. A despateb Pram Bartow, Fla„ says: -Feed. Rochelle, a negro, thirty-five years: of nage, who at noon on Thurs- day criminally assaulted and then murdered Mrs. Rena Taggart, a well- known and respectable white wo- men of this city, was burned at tbe stake here early next evening in the presence of a throng of people. The Manning was on the scone of the nag no's crime, within 193 yards of the principal thoroughfare of this city. When the, e>rime had been reported a well asrmed poem was soon moving in every direction in search of the criminal. Bloodhounds 'were secured and all night a fruitless seaa.•cla was continued. About noon, a courier ar- rived announcing that the negro had been captua:ed by two other negroes two mines south of the nit,. Posses Svere ]mmedintely on the trail, but the captuirea's evaded detection, and succeeded in getting their prisoner quickly into the city, and in turn - Lag him over to the sheriff of Polk county. In leas than 10 minutes after transfer bad been made the street became congested with people, and the, crowd, in spito of the sheriff and a strong guard of extra deputies,who made every effort to protect him from mob violence, secured the pris oner, and took up the march to the scene of the crime. The negro was placed on a barrel atoll ohainod to a stake, and cans of kerosene ell! neared upon him and his clothes until clothes and barrel were well saturated. The match wase applied, and for fit teen, minutes the body burned, and in half an hour'' my the charred bone$ evere loft as a reminder of the negro'ra crime and hie fate. The crowd dis- pereed as orderly as itigathered,and at 8.33 the, city was 2ulet. FAST MAIL SERVICE. Special Bonus if Ships Are Built In Canada. A despatch from London says :-The fast mall service negotiations ars in a more elementary stage than the statements made in the Canadian Parliament suggest. The Govern- ment has no thought of Mr. Petersen or the Elder -Dee peter Company in connection with the ;orrice. Sofar as is kndwan there, the Gov- ernment, in view of the return of the :elt5pbullding trade to ammo normal conditions, is malting it know -n that et i:s willing , to receive suggestions from. loading truces, offering a spe- cial bonus in addition to n subsidy to enure the. building of the ships in Canada. The Canadian Pachfic Com- pany is still 'ceepokon of as the most lila ly company tp ,successfully un- dertake thea enterprise. Eon. Sidney Fleber and Prot. Rob- ertson have errivod in London, and are ientervleeving the departments. MUST PAY $300,000,000. The Indemnity W11ioh China Will Nave to Babe. tel despatch from Berlin says :-It is eeMi-officially announced that the question of'the amount of the indem- nity which China is to pay to the powers has been settled on the lines of the Brittsh -proposal. 'faro British proposal placed the ianclemnity at 450 million fools, 9.252,000,000, plus into: - est, An enquiry is to be made in • the rreneh Uham:beer cif Deputies in re- gard to the presianeo ate the Russian Ambessador to Germany at Matz during lEmpe ter W]Ilinan s ceiebra- tion of the Czav's birthday. RON BONNIE SCOTLAND, INTERESTING NEWS •PROM SCOT, LAND'S RANKS AND BRAES, no use iteached, a Good 014 Ago -.Glair flow and the LaMar Traflio-].loath of One of Badon•lpowoll.s IlSon, deo,, &o, Mr. Alox: Ewing, long a res voted resident in Dumbarton, hes reached his hundredth birthday, Groat draughts of herring . !rave during the past few days beecaught off the IIacldington coast, The .Rev, Peter Mearns, Colc1- stream, diad recently fn the 84th year of Iris age and 54th- oe his min- istry. ,Leith will have a 42,000 for Ia e of Queen Victoria, the site for- which has been selected at the foot of Leith Walk. The Scottish Office has refused to permit the body of George Johnston, the Fife millionaire -hermit, to be ex- humed, Out of 55 oases' of infectious dis- ease in Southend, 25 wore, in the opinion of the medical officer of health, duo to tho eating of shellfish. Major Matheson, proprietor of the Lewis, is introducing young stags from England for the improvement of the various deer forests on the is- land. Tho Glasgow "Municipal Public House" scheme is receiving tho unit, - ed support of the labor organizations and the witted opposition of the "trade," The example of Glasgow in seeking to run the liquor traffic under per- fect municipal control and owner- ship is extended to various parts of 'Renfrewshire, Earl Aberdeen inspected the Edin- burgh Battalion Boys' Brigade with- in the Merchiston Castle. Collegiate grounds. More than 1,000 bc,ys were on parade. An effort is being made that cot- tages, rather than tenement houses, be erected on the Glasgow municipal ]and near Alexandra Paris, for occu- pancy by Workingmen. A sensation has been caused in Aberdeen by the issue of a warrant for tlae arrest of efr. J. M. Fergu- son, a prominent advocate, for the alleged embezzlement of trust funds. Auchter•muchty has a modern'Sain- son. ITe lifted four gates off their hinges and left them lying on the roadway. Ile did it for fun, but had to pay 80 shillings for the caper. Mr, Thomas Brand,ono of the now rapidly diminishing band which formed the "Thin Red Lino," has died in Aberdeen, in his 72nd year, Ile joined the 93rd Sutherland Iiigla- lenders in 1344, at the age of 16 years. Some little flutter was caused Glasgow when the news leaked out that lfi•. James Wilson Dick, former- ly a magistrate of the city and an ardent temperance reformer, had been arrested on a charge of solicit- ing and accepting a bribe of £600. Tho body of a man was washed up recently on the beach opposite 13roadsea, near Fraserburgh. Tim head was gone, as also worn parts of the arms and legs. The remains were identified as those of J. Mc- Gregor, a young man, a cooper by trade, son of John Donald McGre- gor, who went amassing Dec. 81st last. Information has been reoilved of the death of Mafekiug, on Feb. 30, of Alexander C. Iiraser, a native of Abriachon. Deceased, who was only 27, was in the employment of Messrs. Macdonald & Macintosh, merchants, Tverness. At tlae out- break of the war he was aanong the first to join !laden-Powell's volun- teer force in defence of Mafeking. Ile helped to capture Commandant L+""loll. The body of the Rev. Malcolm Mc - Coll o -Coll was taken out of the Crinan canal at Ardrishaig recently. The deceased was last scan shortly after ten making bis way home to rho manse along the banks of the canal, and as his hat was found in the can- al in the morning, trawling opera- tions were begun, with the result that the body was found where the hat was seen. The deceased was minister at Ardrishaig for about twenty years, but resigned quite.re- cently. DUG UP A GRAVEYARD, Five hundred Skeletons Found on 8 Farm in the Niagara District. A despatch from Jordan., says: - What is likely to prove a very vain• able find to colleotors of curios and to the history of this country was unearthed on the Andre/yr Dean arm near Jordan the other day, in the. shape of about f1vo hundred stole. toss nand bits of curios. The skulls are in size from that of an infant to the fully developed ono of an adult. Judging from that fact, one would Baty 4t must have been a whole vil- lage deetreyeil by soma rn:hl:ss en- emy. But evho were thayl There avwq no settlement of whites there to be destroyed, and before the advent of the white men there two great tribe of Indians, the Hurons on the west and the Iroquois on the oast, hod agreed by treaty to recpgnize this territory between the two great Lakes, from. Niagara exLendingavest- ward about 40 miles, as neutral ter- ritory, SNOW IN THE MOON. I:ngi'sh Scientists Doubt the Alleged Discovery. A d,espatoh from London: says;- Tnglish seienI.ists aro generally amp- lical in regard to the reported coveory by Prof. 't 'J: 11. Pickering, of Harvard Oliciervetory, oe snow, in the -moon. One member of the Royal As- t.renom'esal 15ooiety said to -day that Prof. 1:. C. Mitering, of Harvard University, was at groat men, tinct enytlping he said would be a•ecoivoil with the greats t acdpect, but his brother, Prof.; W. Il.'1?.inhering, wee hot 00.1111y rei:ubla In any cas'a'the Royal Astronomical So:lety will not (11.10.11.38 the matter tie ti! it ,'ceclve s I'r•e4. Pickering's photographs,