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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-2-27, Page 3Al* rt:A. THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. 1311EADS'T OFFS, Toronto, Feb, 25---Wbeate-Tero care mf No, 1 Manitoba hard offered at .870 en route to North By, without, bids, Ontario No. 2 white wheat 78e bid outside, the (mitten gUanen- teed, but none offered, No, 1 spring ,offered at 74c east, Without bids. Fifty -eight -lb mixed offered at 740 Middle freight, on (7,P.R' . without bid, A ear Of feedht weaofferecl at 644c outside, with 60c bid. Barley -No, 2 offered at 500 middle freight, and No. 8 at 51.0 low freight to New York without bids, Peas -gen cars of No. 2 offered at .80c high freight on outturn guaranteed, with 79c bid. Oats -A ear of No. 2 white sold at 4.1e low freight to New Yoric, and more offered et this niece; it ie also offered at 414e in buyers' sacee, 1017 freight. '4 Corn -No. 2 yellow offered at 57}0 outside, wet, with 56} bid. Rye -No. 2 offered. at 60e on track, ToroMo, and at 56ec outside, either road, with 55e bid, Buckwheat -No. 2 wanted at 550 low freight to New Tarte, with sel- lers at 55c. There was also a bid of -53o east, Straw -A car of No, 1 cold at 56.25 on track, Toronto, COUNTRY PRODUCE. . Dried Apples -The inarket is un- changed, with offerings small. Prices .6 to 6ec per lb. nvaporated sell at 94 to 10e. • 31ops-Business quiet, with prices steady at 18e; yearlings, 8c. Ifoncy-The market is steady at 9 - to 10c for etrafned. Combs, 51.50 to 52.25 per dozen, Bonne -The market is chill. Prices, 51.10 to 51.40, as to quality. Iland Ticked, $1.50, • Ceanberries - Market unchanged, with stocks small. Cape Cod, 59,50 to 510 per barrel. . Onions -Market steady at 52,50 to 53 per bbl. Ray, billed -The market is steady, 'with good demand. 'Timothy quoted at 510 to 510.50 on track for No. 1 and 58.50 for No. 2.. Straw -The • market is quiet and • firm. Car lots on track will bring 56 to 56.25, the latter for No. 1. Poultry -The market is firm, with offerings small. Turkeys, dry picked 11 to 1240; 'geese, 8 to 9c; chickens '(young and fat), 60 to 800; old hens, .35 to 50c; ducks, 70c to 51 per pair, Potatoes.-- Unchanged, with cars quoted at 66 to 48e on track for choice stock. Small lots at 75 to . 80c per bag. THE DAIRY MARKFTS. " • I3utter-The receipts are a little more liberal, and the demand good for choice qualities. We quote as follows:-Choiee large rolls, 170; choice 1-18 prints, 18 to 19e; low to mediums, 11 to 13e; creamery prints 21 to 224c; do, solids, 204 to 21c. ]eggs --The market is steady at 26 to 27c per dozen for new laid. Cheese -The market is dull; jobbing lots, 104 to Wee per lb. "was AND PROVISIONS. Dressed hogs unchanged. Car lots quoted *at 87.60. Hog products steady. Wo quote: -Bacon, long clears, sells at 104c, in ton and case Jots. Mess pork, 520.50 to .521; do, • short cut. 5:11.50 to 829. Smoked Meats -Hams, 124 to 13c; breakfast bacon, 1134 to 14e; roll, lle; backs, 13} to 14e; and should- ers, 103e, Lard -The inarket is unchanged. We quote; -Tierces, lle; tubs, 114c; pails, 114c to llec; •compound, 9 to UNITED STATES MARKETS. 13uffa1o, Fob. 25. -Flour Quiet. Wheat -Spring dull; No. 1 Northern 92.e; winter, dell; track offerings; No. 2 red held at 91.c. Corn-Stea- ely; No. 2 yellow, - 660; No. 3 do, 05e; No. 2 corn, 644c; No.."8 do., 64.1, Oats -Dull; No. 2 white 484c; ' No. 8 do., 4130; No. 2 mixed, 'Hie; No. 3 do., 460. Berloy-66 to 60c. Ilyeeluiet; No. 1 673c, Iniluth, Feb. 25. -010843 -Wheat - Cash, No. 1 hard, 7746; No. 1 Nor- thern, 744c; No. 2 Northern, 724c; May, 763c; July, 77e; Manitoba, No, 1 Northern, cash, 79ec; May, 754c; No. 2 Northern, 691e. Corn - 604e. Oats -Unquoted. Minneapolis, Feb. 25, -Wheat clo.s- ed---Cash. 7e3c; May, 74,tm; July, 763m; on 'track, No. 1 hard, • 760c; No. 1 Northern, 743c; No. 2 North- ern, 73ec to 783e, Flour -First pa - lents, 83.85 to 88.05; second do., 53.75 to 53,85; first elects, 58.75 to -58.85; spend do, 53.40. Bran -In bulk, Slo. „ . IJVTiI STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Feb, 25.-A1 the Western cattle yards to -day the total receipts were 45 carloads of live stock, in- cluding SOO cattle, 1,000 hogs, 800 sheep, 24 calves, mid a few ranch 0011'S. Price8 •for the best cattle wore steady, and well maintained, but for %inferior stiel prices were weaker, and well° demand was slow. • Following is tho range o4 quota- tifins:- • Cattle. Shippers, per met- ....$4.75 85.50 Do., light e.25 4.50 Butcher, choice, 4.00 4,50 Butcher, ord, to good8.25 • 3.75 Butcher, inferior- 2.75 8.25 Stockere, per ewt , 8.00 8.50 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, por cwt8.50 8,75 Lambe, por an... 4.00 5.00 Buelts, per cwt.. 2,00 , 2.50 • Milkers and Calves. Coml. each... , 80,00 45.00 Calves, each„. „, ,„ 2,00 10.00 • , Ilogs, Choke hogs, pee cwt.,. 6.00 6,00 Light h osef, per mw .5,50 5,75 Henn hogs, per cwt5.50 0,75 DR, BUCKKILLED, XeetS With 4 Fatal Aecident at LOnslort. A London, OM, 40524te8 fatal accident taus% oeourred on Wed, nesday niglit removee from. thie eoms Inunity one Of its ablest and Most distinguished non, and Inflicts upon the county at large a serisma loss. Dr. Richard Idaurice Pucise, tendent of the London Asylum, and known all over the continent as an Ineenity expert, and elso as the llfe- long friend and literary executor of Walt Whitman, drigi gnaw! particular- ly sad eircurnstances, Ire was about to retire for the night, and about 11.80 he • walked out alone on the verandah of his residence at the asy- lum, A few Minetee later his family beard the sound of a fall, and, hurry, ing oub, found that he had evideatly slipped ea a, piece of ice one streak the book 01 1118 head heavily on the floor. He was lifted. ctud carried in- to the house, and it, wao found tho,t he displayed no signs of life. Medi - c1 aid was summoned front the asy- lum and from the eitys Dr. Roemer and Dr. McCallum responded, but found on their arrival that life was extinct, The only mark of injury perceptible was a bruise on the back of the head. BURIED BOY ALIVE. Horrible Practice Indulged in By Chilkoots. A Seattle, Wash., despatch says :- The Steamer Dirigo, which, orived from' Alaska on 'Wednesday, brings news that Chilkoot Indians, near Hine mission, Alaska, on February 5, buried alive one of their tribe, a boy 15 years old. The boy had been converted to Christianity by Milo A. Sollon, Methodist missionary, and in a burst of religious zeal denounced the mummeries of the tribal Icht or medicine man. This net aroused the aliger of the superstitious old men of the tribe. • Recently fourteen na- tive residents of the Village of Kluolswan died of consumption, and Icht spread the belief that the boy .in league with the Evil Ono, through his knowledge of the white man's religion, had caused the deaths, The disappearance of the boy from school aroused the suspicion of Mr. Sollon, and he started in search of him. At the outskirts of the village ho found tracks leading to a fresh grave Digging down he found the boy still alive, his bloodshot eyes rolling in insane agone, his hair torn in hand- fuls from his head. 1 -lis linger nails were torn off in his efforts to es- cape from his horrible prison. The boy Was lifted from the grave, and carried to tho village, whero he lived several hours, howling and crying like a maniac, finally dying froia the effects of suffering and fright. Icht, who is responsible for the crime, is Signs Doe, an old offender, who spent a term. in San Quentin Penitentiary for causing an old wo- man to be starved to death in 1894. 4 - WELSH SETTLERS. Will Raise Money to Send Them to Canada. A London despatch says :-The suggestion offered by Mr. Cheinber- lain to the deputation Which waited on itim on behalf of the Welsh set- tlers in Patagonia, viz., to inaugur- ate a public subscription in order to raise a fund sufficient to hire a transport to convey the settlers to Canada, where the Dominion Gov- ernment would assist them with land and building material, was act- ed upon, the Colonial Secretary con- tributing £20. After the luncheon given by the chairman of the dele- gation, Sir John Llewellyn, it was announced that L1,500 had already beea subscribed. There are, it is said, over fifteen hundred Welsh settlers in Patagoaia, and contiened reverses on account of bac' weather and loss of crops have induced them to appeal for as- sistance. It is understood that Lewd Strath- cona was unfavorable to asking the Imperial Government for either a transport or ilhancial assistance to aid the Welsh settlers to remove from Pategonia to Canada. VAST COPPER FIELDS. Forty Square Miles Pound in South Africa. A London despatch says: -From North Rhodesia the British Charter- ed South Africa Company has re- ceived news of the discovery of a cop- per field estimated at forty miles square. The field is situated 150 miles north of the Victoria Falls, and runs thence to the Congo Free 8 tate. To the ancient mines dug by tho natives and reopened by engineers in tho employ of tho Chartered Com- pany copper assaying 44 per cent, is now being secured, besides a large Percentage of silver. The Cape to 'Cairo railroad will bo diverted to Pass through the copper field. -4-- FLOODS IN TURKEY. Thirty Persons Drowned, 200 Mis- sing. Constaatinople despateh says: - Great floods, attended by heavy loss of life, and much damage 10 proper.- ty, aro raging throughout Eastere Turkey. Forty miles of the railroad batsmen this city and Adrianople aro coMpletely submerged. Tho villages of Tchakifiteni and Djanghiskeni are entieely under water, The vllIago oC DJisrienglieni has suffered the •most Thirty persons in the village Were drowned and 200 others aro missing. One hundred eild twenty-nine houses have been 8wept away b' the waters. All mails and traffic have Wee stop- ped. HE °RUBIO LEGISLATURE WHAT OVE EHNEEBS ARE XNG A.T TOEONTO, MOWN LANDS IMPORT. The annual report of the 001ninis sioner of Cirown. Lands was laid en the table by Hon. Ur. Davis. • It shows that 40,617 acne of Crewp lands were sold ror agrioultural per - poses, having a total valuo of 0131,- 816, 01 mining lands 10,470 acne were eold, having it value of 523,- 212, while 28,040 acres were leased, There were 1,867 persons leeated in free grant townships, on 148,812 acres, eompared with 965 persons on 182,665 acres in 1900, Of universi- ty lands 5,787 acres were sold for 54,212, The report refers with sat- isfaction to tho growth of settletnent during the year, particularly in tho Temiscamingue region. Twenty thousand letters were received with reference to veterans' land, •grants, containing 18,000 applications. The growth of .the mineral industry litio been most gratifying, the total pro- duct of pig iron, for instance, being 116,370 tons, valued at 5.1,701,700, an advance over 1900 of 58,984 tons and 8765,637 respectively, There wore also made 14,471 tons of steel, worth 5347,280. There were 271,- 096 10.18 of nickel-eopper ores smelled, yielding 29.582 tons of matte, the nickel and copper con- tents or wriro11 are estimated at 4,- 444 tons and 4,197 tons, respective- ly, a very decided increase on 1900. 'Phe tetra revenue for the year was 51,634,724. REGisTrix onacn mrtuunNs. The annual report of the inspector • of registry offices has been prepared and shows that 53.06,295 was the grossamount of fees earned in 1901,, as against 5184,826 in 1900, and 5186,000 in 1899. A total of 129,- 198 instruments was registered, com- pared with 119,941 in 1900, and of these 81,487 were mortgages, reach- ing in all 550,000,000. In Nast To - rent° the fees totaled 88,653, and in West Toronto 89,650. The total of mortgage loans in Toronto was 55,- 422,599. • NEW MEASURES. Mr. Thompson introduced a bill to amend the Act respecting the office of sheriff which proposes to reduce the fee payable to shovel's on certi- ficates of execution against lands to 50 cents for the first execution and 20 cents for each subsequent execu- tion or certificate of claire, the max- imitin to be limited as 11017 to 5400. • Mr Dickenson introduced a bill to amend the Toll Tioads Expropriation Act. The object of this bill is to provide machinery for arbitrating -the values of certain roads in the County of Wentworth, which are continued into the city of Hamilton and Coun- ty of Halton, these cases not being apparently provided for by tho Toll Roads Expropriation Act of last ses- sion. NIAGARA FALLS rowER. The -Premier moved the second reading of the bill to conerm the agreement of June last between the Victoria Niagara Falls Park Com- missioners and the Canadian Niag- ara Power Company. The Premier stated that the contracts executed and the amount expended so far ,.by the company totalled 51,700,000. The larger part of the work had been contracted for with Canadians. Tho Premier said the 801 provided that the price to Canadian consum- ers should not exceed that charged consumers in the United States for similar distances. Any dispute over the non -supply or the price was to bo seferred to the High Court of Justice. The price of steani power was constantly changing, end °price could not be put upon electrical en- ergy any more than upon steam P01703' or ally other commodity. Be- sides, there was the prospect of a very large ,inargin of meempetition, tending to reduce prices. The bill was given a second read- ing and sent to conunittee. The Attorney -General's bill to cli- Vide the distriet of Rainy River for the registration of titles and deeds Was also given a. second reading, THE MUSE IN SUPPLY, The Mouse went into supply, first taking up the estimates of the asy- lums. Hon. Mr. Stratton explained the increases for attendrints' and su- pervisurs salaries by saying that he had adopted the policy of a, uniform salary for these classes of employes in all the asylums. Attendants would start at 520 per month and end at 528. Supervisors would begin at $24 amt advance to 528. Mr. Thompson asked 41 11 was still the intention to remove the Boys' Reformatory from. Penetanguishone to Oxford County. The Provincial Secretary replied in the affirmative. He said the Gov- ernment contemplated making provi- sion for epileptics, arid 8 was possi- ble inmates of other institutions would he removed. to Penetanguishene so 0.5 to make room for epileptic pa- tients. • An item of 5750 for maintenance at the old Parliament buildings drew from Col, Matheson the remark that (ho Government, had better buen them down. nAracAL REpoRT. • The long -expected report of the On- tario Assessment Commission was laid on the table of tbo Legislature by the Provincial Secretary. It was signed by six members of the Com- missi oni-Judge Matlentian, Judge MacAfahon, 1. B. Wilkie, general manager and vice-president of the Imperial Bank; X, W, lefeiCay, editor of the Municipal World: A. Pratt, Assessment Commissioner, Hamilton; and M. J. Butler, civil engineer,. De- sena°. Tho commissioners submit a 'draft bill tonsisting 01 a consolidation of such provisions of the Assesemont Act as they think should. be retained, together with the amendments and hew subetantive provisions width they will monitiond for adoption, This will bo seinewhat of a, surprise to the Legislature, as the Premier declared tWother day that the com- missioners •would merely present their taped; and not submit a bill, 10 Government has already an- nouneed that it (Wee not intend to Pose AllY aesessment legislation dur- big the prationt geesiioa excepting to rednee the serap-iron griavartaa. The report of the eOrandeolon will, there- fore, be dealt With by the new Par- liaMente leTtilhee P3abt1t081417/nUleC411thIr TwAneennatil4Pt1:011 perty taX, and the substitusion of a 'Wetness tax, a tax 011 profetielons and callings, and a house thee. The commissioners express the opinion that those taxes at the minimum rates provided for should protium in the aggregate 4 iarger Rum then 15 produced under the present law by the tax on Personal property, It is, therefore, obvious, they say, that ao high a, rate on real estate as that now imposed would not be necessary, RAILWAY BILLS PASSED. The bill to incorporate the Petro - lea Rapia Railway Company Wits re- ported by the Railway Committee, The eompany is chartered to con- struct and operate On 'electric rail- Wity jipp from Sarnia to Petrolea, with extensions and branches through Lambton and Kent Coun- ties, M. McLaughlin (Stormont) thought the bonding privilege, 520,- 000 a mile, was too large, as it afforded too much chance for spece- lattclatclih°eInetitlel-to incorporrn lenilway Company was ctte the Cn- a reported. It authorizes tho coin - Pony to build a steam or electric railway .frorn Fort Francis, via, Dry- den or Rat Portage, to the western boundary of Ontario, at or near the iclhdosiiEueliviceersof the Winnipeg and Eng - Mr. J. K. Kerr wished a clause in- serted in the Hamilton. and Ances- tor Railway Bill, providing that no railway should enter a municipality except 00 the terms and conditions imposed by the existing railway company. This was promptly re- jected. Mr. Graham suggested that the Municipality impose the terms, providing these did not interfere with any agreement it had made with the existing. company. The bill will be taken up again. - The committee emasculated the bill permitting the extension of tho Fort Erie Ferry Railway to the race track, the only clause retained being the one extending the time for build- ing to Crystal Beach and Port Col- borne to 1905. THE CONSUMPTIVE'S ROOM. Precautions to be Taken by Nurses and With the Washing. There is real danger from this source of infection only when one re- mains a considerable length of time very near the tuberculous patient wldle he coughs or speaks. At a dis- tance of three or four feet the dan- ger practically ceases. The relative- ly .few bacilli which are expelled wel.h the saliva during the dry. cough, sneezing or loud speaking, are pro- bably never thrown farther than t lanasth esfeet, and fall rapidly to th use But even the lesser danger which may arise from the bacilli having fallen.to the floor with the particles of saliva must be prevented. They must not be allowed to accumulate and so be blown up with the dust into the air. Therefore the floor of O tuberculous patient should never have any fixed carpet; and ev- en the wooden iloor should never be swept with a broom, but should be frequently wiped with a wet cloth or with crude oil. Dusty furniture should be cleaned in the same way. Plush, 'velvet, or cloth -covered fur- niture, heavy curtains or other fancy decorations which might servo as dust -catchers, should not be allowed In Um room of a. tubereuloes patient, Leather -covered, rattan, and plain wooden furniture are certainly the best, and the curtains should 5 - be of washable material, Fancy curtains of cloth, velour, or silk, which eccumulato dust and keep the air and sun out of the rooms, . SHOULD BE DISCARDED. If at all possible, every patient should have his own room, but he should always have his own bed. For a well person to sleep very close to a tuberculous patient is almost as dangerous as to sleep together in one bed. Freinds, relatives and nurses shodld not remain very near the patient longer than necessary, and the tuber- culous invalid should be urged al- ways to hold a handkerchief before his mouth and nose while coughing 01. sneezing. Ho should, furthermore, be advised to carry two handker- chiefs with him always; one to hold beton his mouth and to wipe it with after having expectorated; the other to use only to wipe his nose. Ily being careful with the use of his haudkerch(ers, the danger of infecting his nose and bronchial tubes will be materially lessened. Ail dirty linen (Sheets, underwear, napkins, handkerchiefs etc.) used by the consumptive, should not be handled more than necessary, but should be placed in water as soon as possible after removal from hod or body. T1 is better to wash these artides separately, and only after lin \Mg been thoroughly boiled should they be put with the com- mon laundry. Wherever it is not possible to carry out these precau- tionary measures in their entirety, ono should contrive lo follow them as fax as it is in one's power. KRUGER MAY COME, Report That Re Will Visit the United States. A Brussels despatch says: -It is said in I3oer circles that it Messrs. Wohnarans and Wessels after investi- gating the situation in the United States, advise Mr. Kruger that a tour of the Urtited States would be beneficial to the Poor came the Boer President will 'overcome his aversiell to a long tits, mid undertake the JourneY'. 3fr. Itruger appears to be In escollent physieal condition. British North Americe. heats the United States in size by 800,000 • THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT, NOTES OT' PEOCEENINOS 1731 VEDERAL 31OtY$4!.. DOMINION NOTES, Tile Ilouee Weal: We Committee 01 Sauspsfaily pforrsgtibsesslizwatsstiimnesdisit,iss,f3oeseseitefl. a dozen items being passed. Mr. Fieldiag made a ' Meld but interest- ing stateMent regarding the supply of new Dominion mites. On the vOto of 570,000 fer ex- penses in. conneetion with the issue and redemption of Dominion notes, Mr. Fielding explained that this vote had been inereasecl by 510,000 over that of last year in erder to supply new notes in deference to a growing popular desire that old notes should be destroyed instettd of being kept in °heal:Won. lifr. Henderson enquired what was the rule In the issue of new notes. Mr. Fielding replied that, the banks coUld get them whenever they want- ed them. The rule was that old notes svere destroyed when they ,were brought in and new Ones were issued. Mr. Oster expreseed his pleasure that the Government was moving in this matter. It wee now almost im- possible to get new 51 bills, or, in- deed, 53. bills of any kind in Toron- to, The supply was far below ordi- nary requirements and as a result the banks had to keep constantly easing out the old notes. 'rho item passed. N011EASE IN SALARIES, Dr. Sproule called attention to the number of statutory increases made this year ia the salaries of civil ser- vants. . Mr, Fielding -The payment is 'dis- cretionary, but the discretion is be- ing very liberally exercised this year. On the iteni for Department of La- bor salaries Mr. Mulock explained the changes which had taken place in the office consequent upon Mr. Harper's death. The total amount to be vot- ed was 513,450. TES LAJ301.1 GAZETTE. Mr. Ingram said there was not much fault to be found with tho La- bor Gazette from a.party standpoint, but ho did not think the object in establishihg the Gazette had been ful- ly met. The manufacturers consid- ered that their side of the case should, be set forth equally with those of their employes. Mr. Mulock said the Gazette was Trained on the lines of the English publication and simply gave facts, not opinions. CATTLE ElVrBARGO. lefr. Bourassa moved for the recent correspondence in connection with the embargo imposed by the British Government on Canadian cattle. Mr. Fisher replied 'that there was not much correspondence to bring down. During the summer, however, he had had, while in England, spe- cial personal communication with the Home authorities, stud had laid 'before them reasons why the em- bargo should be removed. The question was now a ques- tion of law in England. It, was no longer in the power of the Govern- ment td deal with it by Order -in - Council. Ho had poiatecl out that Canadian cattle were absolutely free from disease. Mr. Banbury, Secre- tary of the Department of Agricul- ture, had told him that no change In the law could be made. Suppos- ing the embargo wore removed, Mr. Henbury held, in case disease broke out again in Canada -the reimposi- tion of lee embargo would be diffi- cult. Hence in the opinion of the Home Government a .settled policy was preferable in the interests of permanency of trade. While combat- ting this view Mr. Fisher admitted that he was powerless to influence the decision of the Home authori- ties. CLAYTON-1311LIVER TREATY. Mr. Bourassa moved for correspon- dence between: the Canadian and British authorities in relation to the repeal of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty Enid a settlement of the Alaskan boundary. The Premier said the negotiations were till going on, and therefore tho papers could ip4 be brought clown. SLANDERS OF TROOPS. Arr. R. L. Borden enquired when tho House might expect some ex- ploration of changes which had taken place in the Cabinet. Mr. Borden also gave notice that he pro- posed bringing forward the question of the advisability of passing some resolution with respect to tho base- less charges made against the Brit- ish forces in South Africa. He would take another opportunity of urging the reasons why such a resolution should be passed, and he believed that one could be framed which Would meet, With the unanimous sup- port of the House. Sir Wilfrid Laurier promised to tako an early opportunity or satis- fying Nr, Borden's curiosity with re- morcl to the changes in the Cabinet. As to tho suggested resolation, 11 11 had been desired to have enanimous action thereon, there had been cus- tom so far as he Could recollect for the leader of the Opposition to bring the matter privately to the atten- tion of the Prime Minister before it wes 810115114 to the attention of the House, The imports of France for the month of January decreased 33,142,- 000 francs and the exports for the same month increased 28,967,000 francs. The Chinese court will visit the eaetern imperial tombs April 181,11 for the purpose of worshipping at the graves of thole romestoes. A bill ill the French Chambers gives to eoldless serving for long terms the right to dvil pervice aupoint- Meats. Boor delegates front Ifolland haVe sailed for Alnoriea under assumed nalneS. Sant os-Dulnont's 801 3000 'coil e.peed et see off Monne°. The aeronatit 1700 rescued mihurt, NEWS ITEMS. , P444.0.444. Telegraphic Briefs from Ali Over the Globe. CANADA: 11 has been decided to erect 50,- 000 rink in St'Catharinee. Plans for the new armories at Lon- don have been completed. Andrew Carnegie will give Halifax 875,000 for a pulolie library. The Northwest Territories legisla- ture will meet for businese of March 20. Winnipeg city eouneil has decided against Sunday cars by a meJority of one. The Canadian Society of Clivil En- gineers will .visit Sydney, 0.33„ next June. Tbe estimated expenditure of the Hamilton Public School Board is 5126,920. • The Winnipeg builders demand high- er wages, and they may strike if not granted. V. J. Somerville, an ex -sergeant of Ole 751 regiment, of London, Out, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Brantford Board of Trade has a membership of 244. L. Harris is the new president, Just 317 persons were killed on Canadian railways during the last year, 16 being passengers and 118 employes. Afr, A. E, Brunet, broker, Of Mont- real, has beea arrested in connection with the recent ballot frauds in St. James' division. 0 A friend of the Hamilton Public Library Board has made an anony- mous gift of 5100 to help cover the librarian's defalcation. R. J, Mackenzie, formerly of To- ronto, will erect a ten story build- ing in Winnipeg in the spring. The property is in Main Street, and sold for 51,000 a foot. Dominion Agent Spears, just re- turned from the western States, says 50,000 'United States farmers will settle in Western Canada, this year. P. W. Cleversley, accomitant for the Ilendrie Cartage Company, has left Hamilton, and is said to be about 52,000 short in his acco-unts. Because the Toronto Board of Con- trol refused to make a grant to as- sist the meeting of the leo,yal Socie- ty of Canada, the society will meet in Ottawa instead of Toronto, J. IL Douglas, Dominion appraiser who bas just returned front South Africa, says that Canada stands next to Great Britain in the South Afri- cans' hearts, and is of the opinion that a good trade can be worked up between the two eolonies. GREAT BRITAIN. The Admiralty estimates for 1902- 8 are 5156,275,000. George Cadbury paid 4135,000 for the Daily News, London. A London magistrate has just de- cided that Jesuits may domicile in England. Sir Henry Irving has been re-elect- ed president of the Actors' Deneyo- lent Puna, London. On April 1 Great Britain will have 13 battleships, 22 armored cruisers, and 27 other vessels of war under construction. Captain Sir Edward Chichester, who commanded the British squadron Afanila during the Spanish-Amer- ican war, ho.s been made an admiral. UNITED STATES. New Orleans has been selected as the next place of meeting of the Wo- men Suffrage convention. Dr. Henry Corson, the oldest per- son in Pennsylvania, is dead at For- est City, aged 108 years, The Government has decided to dis- continue the lighting or the Statue of Liberty on J3edloe's The rumor that there , would be a combination of the Wells Fargo, Am- erican and 'United States Express Companies is denied officially. "33111" Sneed, the most notorious "moonshiner" ever known to the 'United States mitrshols of the South- ern States, has been arrested. Patrick Mulhearn, aged 65, a mon- eyless immigrant del aimed at New York, has fallen heir to 590,000 left by o brother, 90 yean old, in Sulli- van, Me, The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad has issued a general order calling on all employes of the railroad to submit at once to vac- cination. The Ministerial Alliance of Salt Lake, Utah, after investigation, has published a report thee, polygamy is openly practised by Mormons in de- fiance of the laws, The Wilmington shops of the Pull - Man Palace Car Company has com- pleted work o0 the gorgeous car Id- ler, which wihl be used. by Prince' Henry of Prussia, . For the fourth time the House at Washington on ThUrsday..passed a re- solution proposing an amendment to the constitution for the election of senators by direct popular vote, The 20,000th 00181100 engine will be turned mit of the 'Baldwin Loco - Motive Works on the TM anniver- sary of the foundation of the works, which will be celebrated shortly. The U, S. Senate has passed a joint resolution to amend the consti- tutiou by changing the date Ter . -1;1m hmuguration Of President and Vice - President from March 4 to the lad Thursday in April, GENER In *Berlin 75,000 persona aro With- out employment and 40,000 partly employed, A riot is reported at Velottorinos- Mg. South Russia, between students stud Demoelats and the au - timid tice, ItQiiir TO q-cluz,x, RXOTO•, Moo, not Caltee, 001i3, Water, Vire-Alarms. ' Late the other 1115131 iour e7Oined and One Ulan. got IMO a furious! roW. in 0, South Loudon tram car, iy Winslow was smashed, and the othois eOcupants of the oar lumped ell, 4114 watched the fray at a, safe distaucee says Landon Answers. It looked as if murder Would lie done, just then the conductor, caught sight of a parcel on tho Scat. It was a, cage of white miee, loft be, bind by a, passenger who had bolted. The conductor seized it, opened it, and shook' its contente ever the steuggling heap at tile botteln 1/110 car. Within fifteen seconds the only creatures loft in the car were the conductor and the mice. During the famous Trafalgar Square .riots M October, 1887, the ProPrietors of a shop in the Strand., when the mob came storming by, turned a 1h;0 -hose upon them. In- stead of driving them 011.,th0 fl.t.141* infuriated the rioters, They tuened, and fell upon the plaee; and whilo other shops aleng the route got off with smashed glass, thie one was utterly wrociced. , The police authorities of a small town near Cork suppressed, one of the worst street l'ONS of recent yeara., Two drovers came to blows. 0110 mar- ket day, and each speedily found baekers. By the time the town's five Police had gethered the row was be- yond their power to quell, "Hold on a minute!" cried one of them. "I have a notion." Ho ran' Lack to the town -ball, and eext ute out boomed the clang of the big ' fire -alarm bell, while the crowd ifi the market -place were running full ' tilt to lied the fire. The Rev, Le. Wilkinson, of Sheffield, ono of the most muscular of muscu- lar Christians, once put down single- handed what threatened to be a moat serious riot. It was in the days of the great labor agitation, and a mob of strikers had lust run down a "blackleg." It looked as though they would kill him. Suddenly Mr. Wilkinson rushed. into the middle of the mob, picked up the victim bodily and in a moment had him safe in a shop. Then he came back, and of- fered to box any member of the crowd. The mob's rage turned to laughter, and the Incident dosed. A soft answer is not usually of much use in turning away the wrath of a crowd of strikers: but there Is a certain lace matured:m-0r in Not- tingham who found this method effi- cacious. Eis bands -some twenty women and girls -struck in a body one day for some fancied grievance. Instead of raging and storming or locking them out, the head of the es- tablislunent smilingly requested that they would talk the matter over with him. Ho. led them all off to a neighboring restaurant, ordered tea, coffee, and hot cakes, and soon found that his hands were disposed to take O much loss serious view of their. wrongs. THE CZAR'S LIFE. The Daily Routine of His Imperial Ma.iesty. Ile is an early riser in Nicholas, Tzar of All the Russias, and is up and dressed by a. in. every morn- ing. Not fax from the Imperial bed- room is a study, to which he re- pairs, there to discharge some of his daily important State duties, and from ten till eleven o'clock he de- votes his attention to a small lunch- eon, a custom which obtains through- out Russia. Eleven o'clock sharp sees him at work in his principal of- fice with various governors and Min- isters of State. During the next two hours he signs 15111110101.11 bills anch, documents, studies reports, and makes comments on the margins of each. During this time his Majesty drinks copious draughts of cold tea a la Russe, of which he is vary fond. I -To is glad when his ministers de- part at one o'clock, for from that time until fdur p. m. he Spends with his family. His Majesty is a good "family max." Four o'clock lees him again at work, and often until seven o'clock he is closeted with his numerous Ministers of State: but at seven the principal meal of the day is Served, and the rest of the even - 1515 ho spends with his children. At ten o'clock he retires to his private study, and sharp to the hour of midaight he goes to bed. Eis evening hours are now ancl again 'interfered with by Court festi- vities, but he never allows pleasure to interfere with his working hours. WEIRD EXPERIEbTOE, Lord Roberts' Strange Vision in India. When Lora "tabor!, wog 0. subaltern fighting in the 'Julien Mutiny he had one of the most weird experiences that has ever fallen tlo his lot. Wit8 a brother officer named Watson, 110 17115 0111: riding nue beautiful Indian morning, when the greyhound that ' Bobs" had with hint started up an antelope from his lair. A chaso re - stilted. Both riders and, dog went on at a fest gnllop, and the pursuit grew hotter end hotter. Suddenly Roberts looked out ahead, and away . on the horizon, rig rr from the very earth, rose a band of mounted Se - ]10)'S, charging, as it seemed, to- ward them. Both offitess reined up theie punting horses, and showed toil to the enemy. They rode for very life, but the faster they urged their tired horses, the faster seemed the enemy to close on them. Looking' back over their shoulders as they galloped, they actually ,saw the sepoy troop break net hito open. order es If to rido them down. It seemed their time lind come, mid both 8301 0110 anolliee gocel-bya. 'PheY turned their , horses in opposite ei- rectioas, so aa to bank this euerny sornowlint; but one Met leek behind reinaled the fact that, the charging troopers Isn.d disappeared as utterly fte if they had been swallowed tip in 1116. earth, 11 was El mirage.