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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-8-15, Page 21NE NEY S IR n NUISNfII (, i THE VERY LATEST FROM ALLi UE WORLD OVER. 'interesting items Al out Our Own country, great Britain, the ijnited $fates, and Aij Parts of the Qlobo, Condensed And Assorted ter Easy Weeding. CANADA• k'oreet fires have destroyed a thou- sexed acres of timber In Cumberland, N, 0, Brantford City Council has pre- hibitod the use of trading stamps in that city. Iiaro.iltun City Council favors the Sunday watering of streets traversed by car tracks, The telegraph .line to DaWee1i City will not be in operation until the encs of the present month. The census returns, it is thought, Will show an increase of 0,000 to the population of Wright County, Que- bec. At Kingston the customs import duties for July were $9,811,48; the inland revenue collections were $15,- 745.82. N. J, Peterson, rancher, near Med- icine Fiat, committed suicide while haying, cutting his throat With a p�1l-knife. 'the Deputy Minister has returned from an inspection of the Intercolan- ral railway, and reports it in excel- tont condition. The Canadian 'Government may protest to Groat Britain against its giving assistance to induce people to settle in South Africa. Cl. P. Everett, a graduate of To- ronto University, has been appoint- t:l instructor fn the technical classes in Ottawa Collegiate Institute, The man burned to death in the fire in the Garnett Rouse stables et St. Mary's was George Engler, son of Christian Engler, of Logan Town- ship. Geo, W. Dawson, assistant inspec- tor of penitentiaries, will visit the penitentiaries and jails from Mani- toba. to the coast g durht the lattrr part of August. Daniel Eagan, the president of the new $15,000,000 steel trust, was born in Galt, and received his educa- tion in the Central and Grammar SchooIs in that town. Hamilton City Council thinks $10,- 000 is too much to spend on enter- taining the Duke of York, and will wait for a time until it decides the amount it will grant for the purpose. Montreal's Civic Reception Come mitteo is struggling -with the mo- mentous question whether they will present the Duchess of Cornwall and York with a bouquet of , red or white roses. The half-dozen pioneers of the Mo- ]alcan community who have taken up settlement in the SaskatchewaneVal ley, west of -Saskatoon and Prince 000 may combine, with a capital of $30,000,000, William I,opley, a blaekailiith, Was killed by a bear that is kept on ex- hibition et the palisade boat kende Mg, at Iowa Falls, In. Chicago Will have stn Irish demon- stration August 15, at winch 7klichaol Devitt will specie on Finr;1alad's trent- ntent of the Boer's. One of the horses of the Mileage fire brigade fell dead while going to a Ore. 1;Ieat. paused. its death. The 1nen had a narrow escape. Twenty of the twenty-six judges in Ooelc County, 111., are taking vaca- tions, while 125 pr'ison's swelter in awa]ting trial and 25,000 civil suits are unheard. Jamas Ryan and Joe Morgan, at Lacrosse, Wis., held up and robbed a citizen, Within two hours they were arrested, tried and sentenced to three years at bard, labor, George McCabe, 40 years of ago, conimitted suicide at New Yoric. He had been a striker, but returned to work. Daily he was hooted and his - sod at by the strikers and his neigh- bors and it is thought he was driven Insane. A woman and two men were taken from jail and lynched et Carrollton, La, They were suspected of murder. While crossing, e. field George Hum- ericidlouse, a farmer of Wells County, Indiana, was attacked by a mad bull and killed. A black tiger with Robinson's cir- cus at Logansport, Ind., got far enough through the bars of its cage tolay open to the bond the flesh on the top of the head and face of a 6 - year -old son of John Rush, an indul- gent father, who held his boy close to the animal's cage. Mrs. Diary Torrey, of Muncie, Ind., is violently insane from injuries in- flicted by a rejected suitor, Peter Tillbury, who asked her to marry him, and upon her refusal he emptied a bottle of carbolic acid in her face, blinding her entirely and burning her about the 'upper part of the body. Delegates to the New York Cham- ber of Commerce, releutly returned from London, have contributed $25,- 000 to the Victoria Memorial Fund. George and Joseph Prothers,farm- ers, were instantly killed at Efletts- ville, Inc!. by lightning, which struck a tree under which they had taken shelter. was Sheppard w s s '.hot and in- stantly killed by henry Vittatoo, near Pleasure Ridge, Ky. The young Wren had quarrelled, shaken hands and then resumed their quarrel. R. L. Posburglr, the father of May Fosburgh, who was shotand killed August 20, 1900, at Pittsfield, Mass., has withdrawn all rewards previous- ly offered and substituted one of $1,500 for the arrest and conviction of the guilty persons. • GENERAL. There are 3,000 Boer prisoners in Bermuda. The Czaris getting fat since his recent illness. Americans are barred from office in Cuba under the new constitution. Colored people of Cape Town have Albert are well satfs0ed with tlhc) passed resolutions of confidence in country, and will so report to the Lord Milner, rest of their community, who are le- The British warships Glory Felipe° mated in South Russia. and Daphne arrived unexpectedly to - The Dominion Government analysts day at Amoy. All is quiet there. firmer, there boring sales of 10 loads endorse the idea propounded by medi- A Paris automobile firm is plan- at 513 to 518.50 for old, and at cal men that canned salmon should Hing a motor -drivels flying machine, $0.50 to 511 for new. Straw nom - be stamped with the date on which - not a balloon but something lite it. in at $10. the fish has been put up, and that it There have been heavy withdrawals ` k ollowiug is the range of quota should not be kept for sale beyond a from Germany of foreign credits, certain number of years, on the ground that it is liable to deterior- ate and become dangerous to health. MEETS OF THE.. WELD i'i'iees of Cattle, OheeSe, Oraia &e, 111 the Leading Iii erkets. Toronto, Aug. 13. -Wheat --Tile lo- cal market is very dull, with nothing (lohg in Ontario grades„ Gables rae they dIsapPaintieg. No. 2 reel and white winter nominal. at 60c middle freight for export, Now wheat none - Mal at 62 to 030 middle freight, No. 1 spring on Midland quoted at 67 to 680. Manitoba nvllc1it firm. No. 3. hard sold at $Oo, grinding in tran- sit, and No, 2 Hard at 80e, grinding In transit. For Taranto and west 2c tower.' laillfeed-Tho in xket is quiet, Bran quoted at 512 wast, and shorts at 514.50 to $15 west. Corn -Tho .market is now firm, with sales of Canadian No. 2 at 52c west, Rye -The market is quiet, and prices nominal' at 46 to 4:6(1c middle freight. Buckwheat -Market dull, with prices purely nominal, Peas - Trude quiet, with prices nominally unchanged. Barley--Trado dull, New feed bar- ley quoted at 39e, August shipment. Oats -The entreat is quiet, with of- ferings restricted, White are quoted at 85e locally, and at 841e for ex- port. New sold at 310 middle freight August shipment, Flour -The minket is firm. with moderate demaud from exporters. Ninety per cent, sold. at 52.55 in buyers' bags, middle freight. Straight rollers, in. bbls„ for Lower Provinces, 03.10 to 88.20, Manito- ba patents 54, and strong baker's' 58.70. Oatmeal -Market is •unchanged. Car lots at 53.75 in bags and 53.85 in wood. Broken lots, Toronto, 25c per bbl extra. TIIE DAIRY MARKET. Butter -The market is steady. Fin- est grades, in both dairy rolls and tubs meet with ready sale. We quote: -Selected dairy tubs, 1 to 17c: choice, 1-1b. rolls, 17 to 1.8c ; second grades, in rolls, tubs, and pails, 15 to 10c ; bickers', 14e ; creams 20 t 21 1 the stock was father poor and Vast- ness Was store. There was t, good donned for 011010e eattlo, lent. the supply wets 'alert and the offerings did not Last long. There wee an AMU -Mayne of half-ihlisbed cattle, particularly in the export bruxteh, and • they were very slow of sale. 1'riees were 01)001 steady throughout the het, >•lxpotters .ul1d. butcher's" were the only olasses which showed tiny ertit'ity, and .lo these there were many bead left over. Sloan, stuff was offered liberally, but trade Wits dull Hogs wore unchlnlged. The totsl run was 70 loads, including' 1,051 cattle, 1',310 slteop and lambs, 87 calves and 003 hogs. Export, cattle, choice, per cwt.,. .........$ 4,60 $ 5.05 do medium, per OW t, 9,25 4.00 do cows, per ewt. 3.75 4.211 Butoltors'' cattle ,Pick- ed lots ., •••••• .. • .. 4.40 4.40 4,75 do Choice... ...... do fair... „. 3.50 4.00 ap commas.,. .... 8.00 13.50 do' cows .,. ... 8,00 31.75 do . bulls:.. 8,00 13.50 Bulls, export, heavy, per cwt,... „, 3.75 4.25 do llght, per cwt 8.50 '3.75 Feeders, short -keep... . 4,25 4.75 to medium.,. 8.50 9::25 do light..... .. 3.25. 3.50. Stockers, 400 to 600 8 00 13,25 do off colors,.. 2.25 3.00 Milch cows, each00.00 *113.00 Sheep, export, ewes, per cwt... „ 3.40 8.50 do bucks, per cwt2,50 8.00 do cello, each .„••• $.,00 3,00 Lambs, cacti,.. 2.50 3.50 do per cwt..... 4.25 4.50 Calves, per head- 1.00 8.00 Hogs, choice, per cwt7.25 0.00 Ilogs, corn -fed, per 7.00 0.00 cwt • .„. Hogs, light, per cwt... 6.75 0.00 Hogs, fat, per cwt.,... 6.75 0.00 Sows, per cwt... ••. 4.00 4.50 STANDARD OIL. Roeke`eller Clears $20,000,000 in Dividends. A despatch from New York says ;- The directors of the Standard 011 Company, at their meeting on Tues - clay, declared a dividend of 8 pm • i1 a, r 'ti cent., 58 a share on the common stock of the aampanY,This dividend Fred. Crothier, ],xcott is payable on September 16 next. B. Dunwoodie, Lyons The capitalization of the trust is :Robert Johnston, Bright about $100,000,000. T1,o declara- tion of the dividend cleans the dis- tribution of about 58,000,000 among the Standard 011's stockholders. This dividend is the third declared . by the company during the calendar year. 'rhe dividend for the first, •ter this ear, paid in March,' Eggs Market unchanged. We quote: -New laid, 1v_c ; ordinary, 11 to 114c; chips and seconds, 7 to '8c. Cheese -The market is firm at 10 to 1010. DRESSED HOGS AND PRO, VISIONS. Dressed hogs are firm at 59.50 to 59.75. Hog products in good de- mand. We quote; -Bacot., long, clear, ton and case lots,11 to 114e; pork, mess, 519.50; do., short out, 21. Smoked meats-Iinms, 14 to 15c ; breakfast bacon, 15 to 160; rolls, 1:10, backs, 15; to 16c, 'cud shout- dors, 1l ec. .. Lard -Pails, 11t; tubs, 114c; tierces. 11c. -- THE STREET MARKET. Receipts of grain were 'mean to- day. The only wheat was a load of poor goose, which sold at 65c. One load of oats brought 391c.' Hay is GREAT BRITAIN. The King and Queen have gone to Cowes. British torpedo boat No. 81 has been sunk oft the island of Alderney, in the English Channel. No details have been received beyond the fact n loss of life. was o that there t Mrs. Sarah Collins, an American, who was a saloon passenger on the steamer I''urnessia, was fined 27 shil- liegs and costs at Belfast for smug- gling three pounds of tobacco in a trunk. The delay in appointing a governor of Victoria in succession to Lord Brassey has been caused by Vic- toria's refusal to increase the Parlia- mentary grant of 525,000, which Mr. Chamberlain thinks too small. An American syndicate is after a forty -year lease of the South -'Eastern Railway in England and is ready to deposit 55,000,000 as a guarantee of a three per cent. dividend the first DROWN")) IN COLLISION. chiefly by French and English bank-- ing firms. A Berlin paper declares that the only Trope for an improvement in the Herman iron market is a continuance of the labor troubles in America. tions ; Wheat, white $ 0.69 $ 0.69e Wheat, red......... 0.69 0.694 Wheat. goose ... 0.66 0.67 Wheat, spring ... 0.69 0.00 0.8e 0.39e 0.66 0.00 0,43 0.00 0.55 0.00 Oats... Peas The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Barley... Affairs is engaged upon an extradi- Itye tion convention and general treaty !Hay, old, per ton 18.00 18.50 of peace and friendship with the 1 Hay, new, per tom9.50. 11.00 United States. i Straw, per ton•., 0.00 10.00 Comte de la Vaulx, the aeronaut, Dressed hugs... .•• 0.50 0.75 who will attempt to cross the Med- Butter, in 11r. rolls0.16 0.'20 creamer .,0.20 0.25 itcrrauean in a balloon about the Butter, Y •� middle of August, has arrived in • Chickens, per puir0.50 0.75 Toulon to superintend the prepaura 1 Ducks, per pair ...,,0.70 1.00 tory arrangements. i Turkeys, per IU.., 0.10 0.121 Eight directors of the commercial i Eggs, new laid 0.16 0.17 banks in Iiharkoff, Russia, which {Eggs, held, per doz0.12 0.3.4 were recently taken possession of by;Potatoes, new, bush1.00 1.25 the Government inspector, have been Tomatoes, basket ..,, 0.70 0,00 arrested, charged with having Ads Beef, forequarters 4.50 5.50 appropriated the funds of the insti- Beef, hindquarters .•. 8.00 '.1.2v5 PP tutlons with which they were con- Beef, nne,lium, carcase 5.00 6.50 netted. The liabilities of the banks Beef, choice ...... amount to 530,030,000. Lamb, yearling ... ,•. Lamb, spring ... o Mutton .......•. Veal, choice... ., year and ultimately live per cent. At a great Protestant meeting held in St. James' Hall, London, a resp. Big Liner Oceania Sinks Another lution was adopted protesting leteatnele against any change in the Ding's ac- cession declaration. A memorial em- bodying the resolution will be sent II of Commons. to the House UNITED STATES. An ice combine has been formed at Toledo, Ohio. Archbishops Ireland and Corrigan will be made cardinals. Southern Pacific is to equip its lines to burn oil for fuel. There were 74 deaths f1orn small- pox in NOW York State during June. Three counterfeiters With their out - 11t ;were discovered in a South Da- kota canon. Chicago machinists' strike bas end- ed.The nine -hour day is firmly es- tablished. A locomotive on the Lackawanna railroad blew up at Pancoast, Pa,, killing the engineer. The July production of the Cripple Creels Mines was '$2,812,500; July dividends, 5602,000. Robert Crook & Co., of Liverpool will build a new refinery near New York to fight the sugar trust. Gold in the United States treasury now amounts to 5505,354,207, the largest amount over field there. Poul' cars: of a freight train on the Rock Island road were blown attay by a cyclone 11004' Hemline, Ilan, Two safe-blowers bvorp005 red the jailer at Devils Lake, N. 1)., rebased three other, prisoners, and '.seal rd. Leading photographic dry plate iso- tortes of the United States and Lour - r li . EXHIBIT, THE CANADIAN PRODUCT AT'THE PANR.f4'h'I[RIGAN, (i peal by Martha Craig.) At. W. W. nail, Assistant Superintendent of the Daley :IJivision Pan Amerioan, has kindly submitted .the following report; 'rhe nutekings 0f Camtdien cheese aro as Renews; EXPORT ()I:M SA the J, 8. Burge, Bluavale, Ont„ Canada. 97.,^0 per colli„ J. 1R. Burgo, Bluovalo Ont., hotrods 94,0Q " Steuart Ii, fano Warsaw, 0a4..,,,. „••'••••,• ."•• 96,00 r, „ E. 0: Ifennedy, Welland 07.x0 „ Thomas D2, Donald, Iforrlsburg, ....,„ 97.25 11. E. Kline. 1.aicoflei4 97.00 ' Ir, 13, Kline, Lakoflold 98,75 ,Tastes T. Morrison, Wooclstocic 90.50 George A. - Moyes, Putnam•.., ,i. 97.50 W. P. Stacey, Fulertan 1)7.00 Mary Morrison, Worry 97.00 el, le. Cr'anistan, Lawrence Station 96.50' B. S• MoOsomel, Spainghill. 086.25 101i>1 OOn)tolly, Afaleolm 08,25 J, S, Pard; PaieJey 97,25 e. J. S. Pat'd, Paisley:,, ... ,. 90:50 A. E. Willson, Laltolet 96,50 Joseph Cramer, Glonvalc 97,00 W, ,I+, Gerrow, Napanee 98.25' 3. W. Clairidge, Glenhuron 98.00 J. W. Clairidge, Glenhuron 97.50 Robert einhith, Monkton 08.50 Connolly Bros., Thanhesfor0 97.75 J. D. Bird, Bridgedon 97.75 Dairy Department, 0. A. 0„ Guelph 98.00 W. II. Voitt, Jasper 96.75 Frank A. Whyhe, )latchelville 96.00 Frank A. Whyhe, Mitehelvillo 97,25 W. R. Keiser, Lansdowne 97.00 W. R. Keiser, Lausdown 90A0 J. A. McIntyre, Palmonton 96.50' Alex, eic(rogot, Russell 06.50 James .Craighead, Havelock 96.25 John Francis, Courtland 98.50 Frank 'Previa 98.00 E. 0, Marshall, Gaisbor° 94,00 W. A. 13otlnvell, lleckson 94.80 N. S. McLaughlin, llemford 97.00 3. S. Johnson, Banner 98.50 W. iii. Wilson, Rocicspring.. ,3,,. 98.05 Warren Feeley, Cannomoro 96.00 I. ]tI, Smith, Songlake 1: M. Smith, Songlihke 07.25 John E. .Stanton, Cokwold 97.00 Andrew Clancy, Rockwood08.00 98.75 S. P. Brown, Berman' 90.50 G. E. Goodhand, Milverton 96,50 " M. Morrison, Harrison 96.00 " Thomas Grieves, Wyandotte.,„ P. N. Hart, Milverton 98.20 „ J. H. Davidson, Hammond..,,.: 97.00 Fred• Crothier, Excott 97.25 " " 98.50 98.70 " " 96.,50 " LIOMETRADE. sl 41 „ Of so „ „ 14 41 , lo 11 r 14 If , Of r(. io 44 „ it ,14 ,1 „ol to44 of 11 14 II 4.1 if 44 14 14 gust Y 1001, .was 20 pat • cent., 520;000,000. - Guelph Agricultural College 98.75 " It will be noted that the average scoring of Canadian cheese is very thigh and uniform. The committee who judged them, A. C. Bryce, Mont- real; S. B. Richardson, New York, and H. C. Whyte, Wisconsin, compld- mented the Canadians on their exceptional success and said that no bet- ter cheese are =ado' in America. The dividend for the second quarter ENTERPRISE' AT THE SOO: paid in June, 1901, was 19 per -..i6311,7 IS: ROCAEPELLI,R. cent., 512,000,000. Tho dividend for the third quarter, as has just been said, is 8 per cent„ $8,000,000. So the total dividend thus far this year is 40 per cent. o t the 1 the 51.00,- 000,000 capitalization, or 540,000,- 000. But because the poor trust declar- ed a quarterly dividend of only 8 per cent. its stock fell 4 paints, to 768. Last fall the price touched 832. BLAItrE TI -Il) IMIOSQUITOI')S. Men in Wall Street were telling each other that the great trust cle- clatad only an 8 per coat. dividend 7.00 7.75 because the mosquitoes are so 6.50 7.50 "bad," The countrymen cannot 0.00 10.00 barn lamps when the light. attracts 5.50 6.50 millions of mosquitoes. 7.50 8.50 It was suspected in Wall Street Minneapolis, Aug. 13. --Wheat- that, besides, the Standard 011 September, 681 to 68 c ; December, Trust was giving away a few Min - 70/ to 7010 ; on trade No, 1 herd, + deed dollars' worth of oil in the at - 711c ; No. 1 Northern, 093c • N0• tempt to destroy mosquitoes. Melee A despatch from Queenstown says; `2 Northern, 68c. Flour -First pat- the comparatively low dividend. p eats, 53.85 to 53.05 ; second pat- But the days trust grow longer --The White Star Lhre simmer Oceanic (Capt. Camero n) which sail- a il- en cs, 58.60 to 5Sr5 nest cam s, i and coltmu st t l the most u ft oes sn.90to second Maitre, $2. 0. :more surely thandoes crude petro - ed fr etto- edtr o Liverpool on Thursday for Iran-ln bulk, $13.50 to $J4, ileum. Wall Street Iirmly believes New York dna ng and rep arrival that Standard 011 will declare a here this morning and reported hes- Spring Aug 13. -Flour -Steady. } Ing been in collision Thursday night, Spring wlheat-Quiet ; No. 1 North -1 dividend for the final quarter of last in the Irish channel, with the steam- ern, old, 70(c ; do neve, 76/c. Win -;year that will be no less than the I{bncorn, of Waterford, Ireland. ter wheal -Dull firm ; . 2 red, !dividend far the final quarser of last The Kincora sank. ;)oven personas 74(' ; er Na. 1 bit «hitt, 730N.oUan- �yaar, And then it was 10 per were drowned. Steady ; No. 2 yellow. (31e ; 140. 8 i cent. The only damage sustained by the do, 60(c ; No. 2 white, old, 421c ;1 The trust established a new high Oceanic consisted in 0. few dents to do, new, 39((c ; No. 2 mixed, nom-; record last year in piping profits to her port plates, She proceeded at inn., 37ec ; old, 30c, Barley -No- ii stoolchoidors, when it ,paid out 48 8.50 p. m. thing doing. Rye -No. 2, (,5C. !per cent. in all about 548,000,000. The collision occurred this side of Milwaukee, Aug. 13. -Wheat closed' 40 PI.R CENT THUSt'AtR, Tuskar, at about 1:30 in the morn- Hlgltar ; No. 1 Northern, 72 to n 40 i. The fogwas very dense. The 721 c ' No. 2 Northern, 701 .to 73'3e ; Phis year, so far, it has paid n Iz�rcora was struck amidships. All September, 7110. Rye -Steady ; No. ,par cent, titsr assengers of the Oceanic were in 1, 56e to 562c. Barley -Steady ; I If tills December's dividend is equal r per at the time, and thea was some No. 2, SGc. Corn-September,r, , is;to last December's, 10 cent., commotion, until Capt. Cameron as- Duluth, Aug, 13. -Wheat -No. 1 i this.year's profits will heat the for - mired thein that there was not tiro hard, cash • 733c ; September, 71Ic;nter high record. They will be GO least cause for alarm. Headway eves kept on the Oceanic after she struck the Xincora in order to give the crew of the latter a chance to clamber on hoard the Oc- eanic. The boats were lowered to rescue every man possible. The Nincora sank very rapidly, The Ger sank remained in the vicinity of the collision u11t11 daylight, but nothing was then visible beyond some float- ing wreckage. Tha 00111sio11 occurred in a log. The 'bow of the Oceanic was damaged. The Ilincora was a coasting vessel, of 468 tons, trading between Water- ford and Limerick. She had te crew of 14 men. The Oceanic brought' the Seven survivoi'4 to this port. No. 1 Northern, cash, 70ec; Septen- ince cent. bee, 70ec; August, 70$0; Octbbe', 1 But, Wail Street, when not joking 70.40; December, 'nee: No. 2 North- about mosgnitoes, firmly believes ern, e5(c; No. 3 spring, 69(0. Oats that the Stamlurd Oil will pay, not 3f) per cent., but. 20 per cent.next December, inatting its dividend for 1001 00 per cent., 560,000,000 ; 55,000,000 a month ; say 5150,000 a day. And john D. (Rockefeller IS erectile ed 'with owning easily one-tlhircl of the Standard Cil stock. Up to 1805 the compuny used to pay 12 per cent. per annum. In 1896 tee dividend jumped to 81 pet cent. In 3807 it was 311 per cert.. in 1.808 80 per cent., and in 1800 138 per cent. In the five and three-quarter years -85c, Corn -550. Toledo, Aug. 13, -Cash and Au gust, 71ec; September, 721c; De- cember, 741c. Dorn -Cash, 56(e ; September, 5740 ' Deoembe• 58e. Oats -Cash, 554e; September. 35e, ; December, 86e, Rye -57e. Glover - Cash and October, 56,22e. Oil - Unchanged, LIVE STOCK EIAIRKETS. Toronto, Aug. 1 8. -Tete .receipts were heavy at the Woatcrn Cattle Market to -clay, but the duality of beginning January 1, 1.806, there- fore, the company has distributed $215,000,000 to its stocichol(lers on a capitalization.of about 5100,000,- 000. This infinitely surpasses the records of all other eorporatiochs. POLICE TO CARRY GUNS. Garrotting and. Highway. Assaults Common in London. A despatolt from London says ;- Assaults on policemen have become so numerous in certain districts in Contract for Power Plant -New Flour 8111. A despatch frons Ottawa says;- The contract for the second water power canal et the Soo is likely to be awarded to Air. George Goodwin; of this city. The canal will be the Baine' length as the present power chrome], but will be larger, 26 feet deep and 150 feet wide. The excava- tion will include 500,000 cubic yards of rock, and 40,000 cubic yards of London that the authorities have baron. The beadgatos and power house are not included in the specie- -been petitioned to permit theolice oration. to carry revolvers. The Cle'gue syndicate intend oper- London policemen carry only clubs, ating at the Spo one of the largest in deference to the wishes of the flour mills on this continent, a hill people, who some year's ago ng:tat- with -a capacity of dearly 4,000 bal- ed against the revolver as being too rels per day. -Tho output of thls mill dangerous to entrust them with. lace it is intended to ship direct to Eng - result is that in attacking burglars ;bane by the POW ocean-going steam- er highwaymen ththemsel only against 0 ers •to • be constructed with a view to clubs to protect -themselves against l the utilization of the St. Lawronce assaults with knife, revolver, and i amts. . laiuckle-duster. London is becoming t worse than Chicago. At nights there is lending of and fromrthe all Tui 'SUICIDED ON' SONS' GRAVE Garrotthhg has become ,a common form of crime. ' ¢ WOMEN FARMERS. Lady Warwick Institutes n011 etas Agrieul turA despatch from London says, Always anxious to better the con- dition of young women, and espe- cigeallyy to savepoorly thpaid em from drud- rof dobnesticrho service, light the candles in their room, the beautiful Countess of WVarWiek claiming it ryas the anniversary of has inaugurated e. branch of the the death of the. eldest son. The Agricultural College at Reading for wife complied, and wus waiting in women, and tropes by its .means to tho lighted room when she received again widen the sphere of usefulness word of the finding of her husband's for ]ler proteges. Leidy 1Varwick is body in the cemetery on, Long 1, - New York Nan's Sorrow Drove Him Insane. A despatch from New York says: - August Schwab, 65 years of age, a real estate agent, shot himself through the heart` lute on Thursday, and died on. the grave of his two sons, whose death, within a few clays of each other, four Years ago, affect- ed the man's mind, Leaving his wife metier in the clay, he told her to WILD REMOVE STOMACH. A New York Man Helios ler 1°e':7 Lease of I•iie• A despietel1 from New York says;- "The life of the 1%n)p1•eee Frederick y, of Germany would probably Have been, sar'ed het she permitted sur- ge008 to remove her stomata when .;r. 11 Wee first aseeptalned that she was suffering from cancer," This statement, wns made Monday y • afternoon by Dr. Wilfrid G. L ralick, who in April last performed an op- er•ation of the kind, removing the stomach of D. G. Badman, of New- ark, 8,3, On eext Tuesday sifter- r an0011, at the .Metropolitan Hospital, llr, I'r•aliok expects to remove . the stomach of a business man of this city, who Is nearly dead from can- cel'. Tile fleet operation of We kind of which I can get any inforinatiou ., r was performed in G uereeny bee Dr, Schlatter, a well-known surgeon caul scientist," continued Dr. Pralicic. " It prolonged the :patient's life for .seine time and put all end to his suffering. 1Vo: have no trouble re- moving cancer in other' parts'" of the body, when the cases etre brought to k us in tinne. The stomach being al- most a vital organ presents greater diflimilties, but it can be removed, and the patient can getalong with- . outgreat inconvenience," -- - "So far as I can learn there have been but three operations performed in which the eatlre stomach , has been removed, The German opera- tion peration before mentioned; the Bodhnan operation, in Newark, and: one ill Brooklyn, On next Tuesday I wile remove the etomach of n, man 'Who has' been suffering from cancer for some time. 3.1 he did not tentage the operation his death would bo a certainty within a, few weeks. If he stands the operation I can promise him a renewed lease of life and there . le a possibility of a cure. At any rate, he will not suffer the tortures that come in the last days of a cancer victim." t a clever business woman, and al- though sparing neither pains nor ex- pense fir inaugurating her various schemes for the advancement of the women of the poorer class, she in- sists lists. upon puttingC these schemes on self-supporting basis. a BUBONIC PLAGUE. Extreme Care .Taken in Inspection of Steamers. A despatch from Victoria, D.C., says :-On account of the prevalence of bubonic 1)1030e in hong Siong, Dr, Watt, superintendent of Williams Head quarantine station, has re- ceived instructions from Ottawa to us0 . every precatrtiorn in passing' Orient steamers to prevent the in-' troduetion of the disease bore. The QOeen Adelaide., which arrived Mon- day night, WOS very thoroughly fu- migated, and the mune Will be the case with the Empress of Japan, due Wodnesday, and the Idzutni Mari, due Thursday. BRITISH IMPORTS INCREASE Exports Show a Falling Off Com. pared With July, 1900. A despatch from London says: - The British trade returns for July thew that there was an increase in imeorts compared with last month of 42,764,655, chiefly in articles of food and drink. There Was at'de- credee in the exports compared With the aos'respontling inoetti of 1000 of £164,780.' 10116 0 RUSSIAN CROP FAILURE. BURNED AT TI3E STA3> O. An Alabama Mob Takes Ven- geance on a Negro. A despatch froin Birmingham, A1a., says: -Joico Wesley, a negro, was Mimed at the stake near Enterprise, Ala., before a crowd of 500 enraged and determined citizens of Coffey County on Wednesday morning. The mob was composed of both whites and blacks, and though the victim pleaded for mercy, and frantically en- deavored to brook the chains that tightly bound 'him, not a trace of sympathy was shown. Pennington had committed a brut- al assault upon. Iia', J. G. Davis, *wife of one of the most prominent fanners of Coffey County, and had confessed his guilt. The crinin was connn.itted Tuesday afternoon, while Mrs. Davis was gathering vegetables in her garden. Pennington _choked the womaninto insensibility. A large posse was quickly organized with bloodhounds, and they chased the negro until early Wednesday morning, when no was captured in a swamp. He was: bound hand and foot and taken to the Davis .tomo for identification. Mrs. Davis recognized inim es her assailant, and the negro broke down e v 4 • mrd wept. He admitted his guilt and pleaded for mercy, but was drag- ged from the house to the woods, where the crowd had gathered. Ile Continued Drought Has Extended Area' of$Damage. id d A despatch from. St. Petersburg says: -The continued drought has ex- tended the area of crop' damage,. which includes the Baltic provinces. In the west Siberian and Volga pro- vinces an afinost total crop failure is expected. • CURIOUS TENURES. A farm 11ea1' ](roadhouse, in York- shire, pays annually to the land- lord a snowball in midsummer and a red rose at Christmas. The manor of Poston is held by a rental of two arrows and a loaf o1 bread. An es- tate in the north of England is hold by the exhibition before a court every seven years of a certain vase owned by the family ; another, Senile, by an annual rental of two. white doves, SERVANTS IN CHINA. When ,you engage ah. servant or .110100 0 bargain in China }t Js not. considered binding Intel "the fasten- ing penny" has been paid. Although his had faith is notorious in some mutters, yet, to do him justice, wines once this coin has been paid by you 'the 'Chinaman, coolie or shopinan,- will generally stick to This hnrgaiu, even it the rosuit;Lo him be loss.' was chained to an iron' pipe in the ground, and both whites and blacks were piling brushwood around the stake. A match was appliod to the One, and the" negro's body was quickly consumed. The crowd then quickly, dispersed. - DEPOSITS pp IRON. -. important Discoveries Made in Thunder Bay District. A despatch from Toronto says:- New and important discoveries oil iron have been reported to the De - pertinent of Crown Lands as having �r been Made in the Thunder Bay dis- trict; to the east of Lake Nipigon. 1 The deposit consists, of two easily observable veins, separated by an in- terval of about three miles, running Parallel to each other to a distance of about ton miles from ,,the lake there. 05110 surface deposits slow the ore to be of the hematite variety • of low grade, about 40 per cent. pur- ity.It cannot, 0f course, as yet be estimated how the deposit veil! pan • out, but apparently there exists a larger.body than either in the Male tawaan or Atikokan ranges further west, although the ore in the latter places is of a higher quality.. The existence of iron in the Thun- der tiny district has been suspected for some time, but only recently has any prospecting been done there, The American Steel Company anY has takenn acres o f .n. d for about 8,000 and 1e o PPi mineral land, while ono of sir. Clerguc's enterprises, the Algoma -_• Conuncrcial Company, has from pros- r pectars rho choice of between 4,000 and 5,000 acres, GENERAL SUICIDES. Disgraced by Czar for Massacre of Chinese, A despatch from Victoria, 13, 0., says T'ronl an uniinpeachablo source the Nagasaki Prase learns that Gen- eral Gribsel, the military governor of Dlogovestchonsk and districts, committed suicfcio 011 July 14, as he r was approaching the above city on his retin•n .from St. Petersburg, Ile was returning 111 disgrace, after.en- deavo'ing to explain 010 m055001'O of thousands. of Chinese by his 00a - sacks a year ago by the Met that the telegram''Fling Chinese across Amoor,' sant from St. Petersburg, wasreceived in his almoner) and h1- te'preted "Fling Chinese in Amcor." A period of five seconds between a flash of lightning and thunder 1110ans that the ilmkii was a mile .clistu31 from the observer. Thunder has never been hefted over 14 miles from the flash, though artillery hes been heard at 120 miles(