HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-6-26, Page 3THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade Centres.
BREADSTUFF'S,
Toronto, Aim 24.—Wheat—Tee
market iS quiet, with No. 2 white
and red (Meted ne 76e, to 77c iniddle
freight% ftnd No 2 goose, n't 680 eaet,
No. 2 epring, 74 to 76c east, Mani-
toba, No 1 hard stoaely at 82te,
Termite, and west', No, 1 Northern
it 7Vec to 80e, and No, 2 Northern
oL 78ie Termite/ and west, Grinding
in (remelt pricee ate higher.
Berley—Treelo quiet, with No, 3
extra quoted et 53e middle freight,
leyes-The itiiol 1 lule and
. prices nominee.
Flounety per cont. Ontario
patent quoted at $2.024 middle
freIghte, in buyers' ;leeks, Straight
rollers, in wood, quoted at $8,25 to
$8.85. Manitoba flours ere steedy.
Hungarian eatente, $4,05 to $4.25
delivered on track Toronto, bags in-
cluded, end strong bakers' $3,80 to
Oatineal—Car lots in bbls, $4,85
on track, and in sacks at $4.70.
Broken lot% 215c extra,
Nfillfeed—Bran is dull at $16 to
617 and shorts at $20, At Toronto
bran IS $3:9„ and shorts, $21, in
bulk. Manitoba bran,' $20 in sacks,
and shorts $28, in sacke, Toronto.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Dried apples—Trade very dull.
Evaporated, 104 to 3.1c.
Hops—Trade quiet, with prices
steady at 18e; yearlings, 7c. 1
Iloney—The market is dull ; comb,
$2 to $2.25 per dozen.
Beans—The market is quiet at $1
to 31.25, the latter for hand-picked.
Hay, baled—The market is steady,
with fair demand ; timothy, $10,50
for No. 1.
Straw—The market is quiet. Car
lots on trade quoted at $5 to $5.50,
the latter for No. 1.
Poultry--Recelpte are small, and
the demand fair. We quote :—Tur-
keys, young, 13 to 14c per Me do,
old, 11. to 120; chickens, 75e to 31.
peri pair.
Potatoes—This market le quiet,
with car lots quoted at 78 to 75c
per bag on track ; small lots soll at
860.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
. Butter—The market is steady, with
:supplies fair and demand good. We
quote :—Choice pound •rolls, 16 to
3.7ec ; pelected large rolls and tubs,
16, to 1.6ee; medium, 13 to 1,4c; low
;grades, in tubs and pails,, 10 to
12c; creamery prints, 19 to 200' ;
and tubs, 18 to 19c. .
Eggs—Tho market is unchanged,
-with sales at 144e per dozen in case
lots for fresh, at 18 to lee Mr
glinary, arid at 114c for chips.. '
Checse—Market is fairly active, and
prices aro unchanged. Now choice is
jobbing at 10e th 104c, and seconds
.at 100.
HOG PIAODUCTS.
Dressed hogs unchanged. Efog pro -
.ducts steady. We quote :—Bacon,
long clear, 11 to 3.3.ec, in ton and,
.caso lots ; mess porlc, $21.50 to
$22 ; do„ short cut, $28150 to 324.
Smoked meats—Hcons, 134. to 14c ;
breakfaet bacon, 14e to 150 ; rolls,
12 to 124c ; backs, 14e to 150 ;
=shoulders, 1lec.
Lard—Price; unchanged. We quote :
—Tierces, 11ec; tubs, 114c; pails,
114c; compound, 9 to 10e.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, June 24.—C1ose
'Wheat—July. 754c; September, 69gc
:to (Wee; on track, No. 1 hard, 78c;
No. 1 Northern, 78c; No. 2 Northern.
'7540; No. 3 Northern, 784c. Flour—
Eirst patents, .33.90 to $4; second
-do., $3.60 to $8.70; first clears,
.$2.75; second do.; 82.20..
Buffalo, June 24.—FlotteSteaciy,
Wheat --Spring strong; No. 1 North-
ern. carloads. in store, 774'c; winter
. weak ; No. 2 red, 84c asked. Oorn-e
Dull and weak; No. 2 yellow, "67.1re;
No. 3 do, 67c; No. 2 corn, Hee ;
No. 8 do. 66c. Oats—Lower ; No.
:2 white, 504c; No, 8 do., 50e ; No.
.2 mixed, Inc; No. 8 do., 47c. Rye
No. 1 in storo offered at 61c. Canal
ereights—Steady.
Detroit, June 24.—Closecl—Wbeitt—
No. 1 white cash, 83c; No. 2 red,
nash and May, f30c; July, 754c ;
September, 744c. •
Milwaukee, June 21. -- Wheat—
Steady, No. 1 Northern, 77 to 774e;
No, 2 Northere, 761.m. July, 724e.
Bye—Steady ; No. 1, 58 to 58ec.
Bariee—Steadg ; No. 2, 71 to 71.4c;
sample, 68 to 700. Oorn—July, 65c.
• Duluth, Juno 24.--Olose—Wheat—
Cash, No. 1 hard, 764c; no. 1
Northern, 74±0; No. 2 'Northern,
72e0 ; July, rein; September, 70ec;
Manitoba No. 1 Northern cashr 744c
No 2 Northern, 72g0. Oats—Sep-
tember, 291e.
Toledo, June 24.—Wheat—Dull,
steady. ; cash, 794c; June, 791c;
jely, 744c; September, 741. Corn -
Fairly active, easier ; easil, 62.c
July, 6240 ; September, Lidice Oats
eaeier • . cash, 44ei ; July,
;Wm:. now 1 884c; September, 29c;
'new, 31en. ; Cloverseed—Dell, steady
ond $5.014. October, $5.07e.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Toronto, jam 124.—At the Western
cattle yards We had it light run of
duff ; all sold ; only 58ecarloads
of lien stock came in, oomprising.1,-
000 cattle, 800 shoop and Iambs, 1,-
000 hogs, 182 calves, and two
dozen milch cows, In cattle there
was mraetically no chrome ; prices
eettinue high for good stuff, but
poor graes-fed cattle aro weak, and
there was an over -supply of this lat-
ter Idea here to -day.
Fot good to choice .export cattle
the price wen from $5 to 30.65; and
oceadonally $6.75 per milt; modium
ate worth from 34.75 to 30.50 per
ewe NVLIS brisk iii good
shipping cattle to -8', and every -
thine sold. Goad to choice butcher
°Male sold well at from 44 to 54c
per pound, but the presence 11020 of
a lot Of Ornate -fed NWT Weakened
prieee in all bet tile firsteeless lineS.
Feeders 000 etoelgerft wore steady
iteui unchanged at from $8.70 to
34,70 Per CWt, Clood stoeltore are
wanted. Mileh Cows are worth from
$80 to $50 each, To -day elicep were
off from 3.0 to 150 Per Met, Lambe
are steady and unchangeO, For
becicki the price peld toeday WaS
frOln 8 te 84e pee pound. Calves
aro worth from 52 to $8 each,
Prices/ Were weak for melees thiS
morning, bat it few eboice coals are
in demand.
There Wail no change in hogs to-
day ; the market is steady,
The top price of (thole° begs is
30.874 per cwt.; light Mid fat hogs
aro $0.621 per cwt,
17ogs to feteh the top price must,
be of 9"100e tiendite, and scale not
below 160 nor above 200 pounds,
leollowleg le the meg° of questa-
ti one :—
Cattle.
Shipper's, per cwe,„.....$5.50 36.75
clo, light... ..... e. 4.75 5,50
Dutcher, choice_ 4.75 5.50
Butcher, ordinary to
good„„
' 3.75 4.40
Steckel% par civt., 3,00 4.00
Sheep and Lambs.
Choice ewes, per owl; ,„ 3.75 4,00
Spring lanibs, cede.. , 2.00 4.50
Atlas, per clvt.„ 3.00 3.25
• Milkers and Calves.
Cows, Mob— ,...25.00 50.00
Calve% each... ,.. „...„ 2,00 10.00
• Ilogs,
Choice logs, per owt 6.75 6.87e
Light hogs, per cwt.. 6,50 6.62e
Heavy hogs, per cwt6.50 6,62e
Sows, per cwt,„ .. 3.50 4.00
Stags, per cwt._ ,.... 0.00 2.00
CONTROL OF THE PACIFIC.
• Premier Seddon. Says the .Aeneri-
cans Must Be Watched.
A London despatch says: The
principal specticer at the dinner
Tuesday night of the New Zealand -
ere in London was R. J. Seddon,
Prime Minister of that colony. He
declared that there was no fear of
Great 13ritain offending foreign na-
tions if she made reciprocal trade
arrangements with her Colonies. Ho
warned England that she must face
the predietion of Mr. Shaw, the
American Secretary of the Treasury.
that the United States would wrest
the mastery of the Pacific from the
British. This was a groat danger.
Mr, Seddon declared that the inhab-
itants of New Zealand Would sooner
wear cotton prints from Ihigland
than American_ The imports of
New Zealand • from America lase
year. amounted to, $5,000,000. The
imports had increased five thues
Stile° 1896.. There was not a col-
ony that would not give preference
to ,the manufacteree of England
and a 'rebate to `goods carried on
British ships.
—GRANT TO KITCHENER.
British Commons Adopt Iteby a
Vote of 227 to 48.
A Leaden despatch says :—The
House of Commons, by a vote of
227 to 48, has adopted the vote of
450,000 to Gen. Lord ICitchener, for
his services in Smith Africa, Wil-
liam Reduroncl, the N'ationalist lead-
er, led the opposition to the appro-
priation. He repeated bis charge
that Clen. Kitchener was personally
responsible foe tho deaths of 1 Len
thousand children in the concentra-
tion camps, a statement which pre-
viously roused a violent scene in the
House. On Worinesdrty nigh% the
Conservatives listened to the charge
silenee. .
J. G. MacNeil, Irish Nationalist,
and James Kele Hardie, a labor
member, also opposed the grant.
The Government's supporters re-
mained silent, but. when the time
was deemed opportune, eleStire WaS
proposed, thus shutting off furth.er
discussion, and the grant was adopt-
ed. •
SAVED 'THREE LIVES.
Proud Record of a Seventeen-
• Year -Old Boy.
A Toronto *despatch says: A re-
cord of eaviug three lives last week
belongs to Sago Snider, of 89 Rob-
inson street, who is in charge of R,
Maw's boathouse at the Humber.
On Thursday n seben-year-old
lad stepped. MI the i•ack at Nurse's
at the Humber. His companion ren
screaming for help, and Snider,
whose boathouse is near by, rushed
up, seized the child with a branch af-
ter lie had sunk once, and. dragged
him ashore. On Friday it °twee
capsized up Um Ilumbee, aorth of
Maw's boathouse. The two .occu-
pants clung desperately to the up-
turned craft. Snider hecird their
cries, put out to their assistanee in
a rewboae, and breught them safely
eshore. The young life-retver is 17
years old, He lia.s four lives to his
credit altogether, but has not yet
learned to swim
DE-WET ISSUES CIRCULAR
Bids His Compatriots Win Hearts
• of -New Government.
A Bellefontaino, Orange River Col-
ony, despatch sayst General De Wet
has addressed it circular to his ad-
jutants, 111 which be says:
"Let me tell you that you and I
and every burgher, can vein the hemit
of the new goverament be our fu-
ture conduct; end of this conduct
aen not in tbe least doubtful,”
FRANCE sHoRT $35,00.0,000
Deficit of the Government for the
Year.
A Londou clespatce says.: Teo
French dencit for the year, eays the
Infris correepondent of The Times,
amounts to 178,000,000 fiance, bet
nouvior, 1.11e 'Minister or Meant°,
110308 by annulling eortala credite
to reduee it to 150,000,000 francs.
NEWS ITE SO
TelegraphBriefs From AN
Over the Globe.
• CANADA.
London may bave re company 04
High] and Ca dote,.
Fifty clerics in the 0011Satil Bureau
at Ottawa have been disehorged.
W, 3, .Linderty, of 131'andoe, is
sending 0,000 bushels of ‘ylicat to
New Zealand.
Knox Church, London, heti' com-
menced the uso of individual coin
munion cups,
The Berlin High Scheol lloctecl he$
increased the salaries of three of its
teachers by $100 oriole
The Carleton Omildy Courion ree
freed to make geant of 31,500 to
the Ottawa Collegiate Inetitute,
Two Doukhobois were drowned at
White Send River, Mn., end four
°there were rescued with difficulty.
Welland ratepayers have :voted in
faVOr el tile by-law to grant exemp-
tion from taxation for the steel
plant of Welland.
The town of Hull is practically
banicrupt, and an agitation to have
the inememality govereed by com-
missioners is on foot.
Capt. Pouliot of the Postoffice De-
partment, Ottawa, was drowned in
the Rideau on Saturday while at-
tempting to save the life of his
little niece. .
The arbitrators appointed to form
a new wage scale for 0. P. R. track
-
mon have given an award allowing
an average increase of about 15 per
cent.
Aldermen Ellis and Hastey of .01-
tawa willmove for authority to
operate a 'municipal railway in the
Capital, and propose to have the
city buy out the local company. ,
The new conipany formed in To-
ronto to manufacture threshing ma-
chines rind engines, in which the
Minneepolie Threshing Machine Com-
pany is interested, will pent a big
warehouse aridmachine shop In Win-
nipeg, • • -
tChoincts A. Edison has invented. a
new dipping needle which he claims
will show the presence of nickel be-
neath the sueface very accurately,
and lie will Make a careful survey
of the Canadian nickel belt north of
Sudbury.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Fire at Plymouth on Saturday de-
stroyed the finest business block.
The loss is £200,000.
Tho .War Office is tow seeking
transports to be used in the repa-
triation of the troops.
• Lord Charles Beresford, 111.P., will
next begin a campaign in the pro-
vinces in favor of it stronger Brit-
ish navy. ,
The British Eraplre League has de:.
cided that a first-class steamship
service between the United Kingdom
end Canada is of vital interest.
A British cotton association, with
the object of extending the cultiva-
tion of cotton in British colonies, is
being formed in Lancashire.
While 18,156 more males than fe-
males were born hi England and
Wales last year, 20,043 fewer tome -des
than males died during the same
time.
Dorman, Long Se Co. the largest
steel manufacturers in Great Britain,
have closed down their works in
Middlesborough for the purpose of
general reconstruction on American
principles.
Sir Michael Hicks -Beach •stated on
Wednesday that the coal exports for
the first five months of the present
year had been the highest on record
and therefore the export tax on coal
would bo retained.
•
UNWED STATES.
011 may suPplant coal for fuel in
the ,United States navy.
A button trust with 63,000,000
capital is the latest in the United
States.
Three men were killed by an ex-
plosion in the Aurora Mine, at Iron-
wood, Mich.
Earthquake sliocIts were felt on
Saturday night at Newport, Oregon.
add general
Woodrow Wilson, bead of the De-
partment of Jurisprudence and Poli-
tics, was elected presideut of the
Princeton University.
William Startivele of 'Dunkirk,
N.Y., but one year married, who se-
parated from hie wife three weeks
ago, committed suicide in her ere -
sauce on Tuesday night. •
Chas.. M. Schwab, president of the
United States Steel Corporiteion, is
to build a $65,000 chapel for tbe
.Peaasylvania State College.
Three men wore killed and tfteen
others seriously injured in it rail-
way collision 00 the Nashville, Chat-
tanooga, and St. Louis Rellroad oo
Thursday.
Pte. Bort Maynard, of Homer, N.Y.
it 'interned soldier from the Philip-
pines, said that during the raids on
the Island of Samar he ead orders
to shoot everything that breathed,
le was .0 case of. self-preservation. •
An employe of the Delaware and
Hudson Oompaner refused to obey
the strike orders of the Pennsylvania
striking miners, and his brother, a
cripple, who is a othoolteacher, must
give up his school, according to the
boycott tlirOcitS• of the strikers, Two
other brdthers ancl a sister have
been discharged from places where
they were employed. A. very rigid
boycott ho the minersmethod of 'ob-
i:mining their demands,
GENERAL.
France is building twenty subma-
rine boats of the now Baron typo.
Chinese immigrants have ,been re-
fused pormiseiou be land in Cuba.
It is said that Generale Rothe,
Delany, and ,Tueue Meyer will visit
England in the 1(511.
Seveeal cab driven limn hem fined
aal. Oath, at johannesburg for cnsry-
isg 0001100423 "fares,"
The Gorman Atiantio °able QOM-
pany will lay anether Sable trent
Germany tO the United •Stetes,
A. report frOin Aden SayS Oolonel
teweaule, mph 2000,trOelle, lies
gene in perellie of the Mad Mullah,
The King reviewed 18,000 inealhere
cltreetL
igllaQYe'onO:Don113oanStuci
d0saQfrviV."64
u
Dr. L. 63, Jameson and Mr. L. L.
Michell beep joined the directorate
of the British South African Com-
Pany.
Heavy rains have fallen through-
out; Atistealia, relieving the terrible
clrouth from which the atninkry was
suffering.
It is rumored that the King of
altrarcilYarnlila c0onnjuPnicTiltIrvlyiltohr (11.11re
Ozer of nemeice. ,
The 110)2' French Government pro-
imees to reduce the terne of military
eervice to two years, and to levy a
general tax for revel -ate. ,
As he was so • little use in the
world be preferred to die. wrote eir.
Joseph Benoit, an old violinist, be-
fore committing suicide in Paris,
elo smallis a, worIcing model ot a
steamship which has just been ineele
by it mechanic at Frankfort -on -
Maine that it will go into it match-
box.
A Canadian society has been form-
ed in Paris to make (Denude better
known throughout France and to
secure French settleis for the Do-
minion.
A repoet from Ocinstantinople
states that Arab's have massacred a
caravan of wealthy merchants iii the
desert. near Koweit. Only twenty of
five hundred escaped.
Mussolino, the Italiait brigand,
who has been sentenced to imprison-
ment for life, eight years of which
willbe solitary confinement, pleaded
so eloquently for the discharge of
Idoescionictotoodzaplices that they wore all
ROUMANIAN IMMIerRATION
NEARLY 300,000 01' THEM TO
• SETTLE IN CANADA.
Jews Not Allowed to Engage in
Work in Roumania.—Harsh
. Treatment.
The anti -foreigners law, soon to be
put into operation, will drive 300,-
000 Roemanians front Carmen Syl-
va's kingdom. These natives will be
sent across tho frontier like so many
harbatian ievaelers, because their
religion' differs froni the accepted
faith, and the majority of them are
coming to Canada.
Vol. the anti -foreigners- law is
really an anti -Jew law. This legis-
lative act forbids Jews to erigage in
manual labor of any kind. They are
neither allowed to be artisans nor
.to till the soil.
Russia excused her persecution of
Jews on the ground that they refus-
ed to engage in agriculture ; Rou-
mania goes the big sister empire one
better and says Jews shall not en-
gage in any honest work whatever.
It's like binding a man hand and
foot and pushing him out of doors
to starve. But that isn't all, for in
addition to being robbed of the use
of his lintbs he is muzzled.
This government, pledged to de-
stroy the Jews, has suspended the
constitution as far as ha is con-
cerned ; the right of free speech is
taken away from him; ancl respectful
protest against the contemnlated
outrage is styled "high treason."
Wherever in Roumania Jews came
together In peaceful assemblage to
talk over the dread situation they
are liable to arrest and puelslunent
by court-martial.
Canadian readers may well doubt
that such is pOseible in a civilized
country in the, heart of Europe. The.
other day a band of 279,native
Jews passed through Bucharest, en
route foe Hamburg, and others,
.bound for German, Italian and Bel-
gian ports, may be met daily on the
-railways arid roads leading to the
frontier. With one or two exceptions
every man was a Roumanian citizen
by birth and education. Some • had
grandfathers and great-grandfatherd
'ivies or buried In this country long
before the present dynasty emigrat-
ed to Roumania from Sigmaringen.
As to their occupation, the ma-
jority were artisans, bricklayers,
carpenters 0110 joiners, tailors, bak-
ers and the like ; thirty or forty
more were small farmers ; 150 had
worked on farms—not it saloon -
beeper, horse dealer or petty boxikee
among them.
COMING TO CANADA. ,
The badly frightened and heart-
broken men and women said • they
hoped to roach the Hirsch colonies
in Northwestern Canada by the mid-
dle of 31.01e. Numerous friends and
compatriots of theirs are also going
there before and after the law
against Israelites takes effect. All
carried testimonials of their former
Mayors or village elders proving
good conduct. None hitcl been fined
for a misclemonaor oven.
Further written testimonials by
the authorities showed that the
average wage of these people was
about twenty cents a day ; tho wo-
men got eight to nine cents for
twelve or fourteen hours' work in
the fields at barvesting time.
"On this we could live, rie evo had
our homes ; We even added to our
savings yearly," said a patriarch,
who acted ae spokesinan. "1314 the
government in 13ucharest thought we
were getting too rich. As a matter
of fact, en were 310 better off than
mar Christian neighbors, though wo
110(0 compelled to Wok harder. And
so they sent, es away."
The poor people had to sell their
huts and furoiture tor a mere pit-
tance. Only the well-to-do ot each
community carrieci their household
linen along. The rest bad Lo part
With that else to pay thele eelas
and obtain traveling expenses, They
looked like it badly immeshed erowd;
their clothes -were the most primi-
tive, ',Cho mention were even mere
einadated. than the num And such
poor babies aa they have 03'0 Or-
dinarily found only in the city
worknienel quarters.
The writer edked the rabbi if they
bad been allowed to oarry away the
"Ark Of Covenant," an imitatien of
P121011 is Iceee in the eynagoguee,
"We never posseseed the blessed
Ark," he answered. "All PC erir
bad is this Thora, Supposed to be a
thousand yeare old," The Tbora,
copy 01 1.110 01c1 Testament, written
on parchment and rolled on a staff
of ebony, is probably the most an-
cient now in eeistence
'OUTSIDE OF THE MUSEUMS,
11 these poor people woulcl only part
with it they, might sell it at a price
that would start everyorie of them
bit business on the other side. But
when it was suggested to the yabbi,
he turned away disgusted. "They
robbed 1,18 of our livelihood, oin•
home, our country," 'be said, "Shall
P0 now give up our God too 1Nev-
er 1 This Thorn speaks to us in the
tongue of our Lord. There 10 even
e saying that ono of the prophets
hunted it with hio own hands,"
Tho agent of the Tame de Hired/.
Association accompanying the emi-
grants, said that he has to travel
ahead under an assumed name tp
avoid meeting the crowds of poor
Jews who desired to be taken along,
though entirely destitute. "Take us
as servants," they cried ; "we will
Work for you in Ainerice, until mar
passage money is paid, if it takes
ten years,"
"Don't leave us -to starve," wailed
women and children, "there will be
nothing left for us but that when
the new law goes into effect."
Tile agent says, "The situation
cries to heaven. lf the great powers
who confirmed Roumenian 'independ-
ence at the Berlin Congress allow
this outrage, they will forfeit their
claim to civilization ancl Christian -
it.
y
"Though I bays tiavelled all over
Roumania, I have yet to find a
mayor or police president who says
that the Jew is not it good citizen.
Why, in some districts the number
of criminals among :Jews is from
50 to 75 per cont. less in proportion
to population then among persons
of other denominations. Yet they
have to go, because a narrow-mind-
ed law won't allot, them to live if
they remain.
"Among thee° characterized as
foreigners by the new law are na-
tive Roumanians whose families liv-
ed and -thrived here when this ter-
ritory was still a Turkish Province.
Numerous Jew families, now driven
out as strangers, receivdd iheir very
family names from the Princes whom
King Carol succeeded as sovereign."
KITCHENER'S FAREWELL.
His Address to the Army in South
Africa.
-A Johannesburg despatth says:
General Kitchener delivered it fare-
well speech at a, banquet here on
Thursday night that was attended
by seven hundred citizens. Lord
:Milner was present as thecivic head
of the new state.
Lord Milner, in proposing a health
to Gen. Kitchener, paid a tribute to
his will of steel, untiring energy, and
military skill.
General Kitchener, replying to it
toast describing him as the man who
liced won their freedom, said the
arnly had done its best to do. its
duty. Be pritieed Johaunesiburg for
the part its men had played in the
war. The regulars, both officers and
men, admired the Johannesburg
corps, which had stood staunch in
clanger, and held what they had
gained. Macy bad tastect the salt
of life, and its savor would never
leave them. They shoulcl keep their
horses and rifles ready, and their
bodies physically at, but should
settle down raul work (Or, the Em-
pire. Their opponents had shown
the abilities and tenacity of purpose
of a virile race, and they should be
welcomed into the Empire. The
chief lesson of the war was the
knowledge teat all Britons fought
shoulder to shoulder. TheSe who
hacl helped teem knew they in South
Africa and elsewhere would help thei
Africa and elsewhere would help
their countrymen when needed.
The speech was enthusiastically re-
ceived.
Light Horse, which -was at Lady-
Eitrliei. in the day, the Imperial
smith, and which was prominent
throughout the war, end other Jo-
hannesburg corps were reviewed by
General Kitchener.
WELSH SETTLERS CCMING.
230 From Patagonia to Arrive
Soon on. the Nuinidian.
A Montreal despatch says: On the
Allan liner Neunidian, which will
shortly nerive in Montreal, are 230
Welsh settlers from the Chubut Val-
ley in Patagonia. Driven from their
settlement in that place by want of
acres for natural e:s:paneion by ' the
tyrannies of the Argentine Govern-
ment, they are about to tate up
homestead grants reserved for them
neer Salt Coats, Assa., by the Can -
adieu Government.
1,400 DEAD IN TRENCHES.
Fierce Fighting I3eeween French
and Maledists.
A Perth despatch says: News has
been received here of fierce fighting
111 the Lake Tchad district of Africa
between the Mehdises and the
lerench. The principal fight was
near Bir Alali, ninety miles north-
east of Lake Tehad, The efahclists,
who were assietecl by deserters from
a. native regiment, wore completely
overwholtued. A horde of Teaings
charged to within einety moos of
Um Emrich guns, end were comihil-
ated. Nearly 1,4.00 dead wore
colleted in elm native trenchee. Nino
hundred rifles Were seized, end the
native stronghold wns captured. The
losses of the French aro not men -
tinned;
NATIONAL MIPMRS' STRIKE,
Rro5ident Mitehell Meleese 0014 to
2Yf3ne Workers,
An Indienapolie, Ind., despatch
says eaThe call for a epode' eon -
volition of the United Mine Woricere
Of America, to be hold at Indian-
apolis July 17 eon, wes.leeued froze
the miners' headgear -Imre bere on
,ekouroeoro.
ve.
.vas
Weclecesiay, The call is addressed to
the loctl unions of the United Mine
Workers, and is signed by John
Mitchell, national president, and W.
13, Wilson, national eecretary 2511(1tr
Mien will be held to die -
cuss the advieebility of involving all
the soft. coal miners in 1.11e United
States in the present anthrecito coal
strike.
Under the constitetion of the
union five districts must request ace
Won before the national president
ean issue a call for a national con-
vention. The five clistriets which
have applied are in three anthracite
districts, the Miebigan Oistrict, and
the Weet Virginia district. Preeideut
Mitchell bas had the consent of the
five districts for some time.
There will be 1,000 delegateitt
the convention. The call is sent di-
rect to every local union, President
Mitchell was extremely uncommuni-
cative as to what the probable
action of the couvention might be.
There are approximately about,
450,000 coal millers In the 'United
States, Of these about 850,000,
Mr. Mitehell says, are affiliated with
the union, anci an additional 130,000
comply with the constitution of the
miners' organization.
• HOW aTIEY WILL VOTE.
The anthracite fields delegates will
go into the convention backed for a,
general strike. The West Virginia,
delegates and those from Michigan
will be instructed likewise, Central
Pennsylvania will send some dela-
gates who will want a general strike
as will also ICentucky. But" Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and
Melton will offset this, as it is un-
officially understood that the miners
in those sections are not very en-
thusiastic over a general strike.
The groat barrier. to a national
suspension is the yearly wage scale
agreement which many of the soft
coal miners have with the com-
panies. These agreements are look-
ed upon as contracts, and a, large
percentage of miners in the West are
averse to breaking them.
0-
KEMP'S STORY OF THE WAR
Gives Figures as to the Numbers
Who Fought.
A Kimberley, Griqualand West,
despatch says: Conunenclant
Gen. Delarey's lieutenant, who sur-
rendered at Mafeking, Bechuanaland,
on June 11, has arrived bere. In an
interview he gave some interesting
figures regarding the war. He said
that about fifty thousand Boers were
in the field at the outset, and that
only 1,500 out of 6,000 men avail-
able .fought at Colenso, where the
Boer losses were not very heavy.
At Spion Kipp, where the British
suffered so much, the Boers had only
58 men killed. In one of the fights
outside of Ladysmith the Boers had
56 men killed and over one hundred
wounded. Their losses were heavier
at 13rankspruit and Vlakenfontein.
The Boers were often worried by the
British shrapnel and lyddite fire,
but when entrenched they did not
fear the shells. Members of the
Boer forces often managed to got in-
to Johannesburg, Krugersdorp, and
Pretoria, procuring valuable inform-
ation, and frekuently cease -
ed the blockhouse lines at
night. Commandant Komp. 'did
not allow the Boers of his
command to wear khaki.
• UNKNOWN NAMES,
Famous People Who Travel Under
.Assumed Names.
It is a remarkable fact that there
are many men and women laltiOUS
the world over who, if they traveled
under their real names ivould not be
known at all.
If you were to read in your paper
some morning that Mr. and Ides. Al-
bert E. Wettin would sail for the
United States in a week you would
probably pay no attention to it,
yet Mr. and Mrs. Wettin are none
other than the King and Queen of
England.
Mrs. Henry Schwerin is one of the
best-known women in the world to-
day. Her illness has been watched
P1111 anxiety in every civilized ccem-,
try of the globe. Mrs. Schwerin is
Queen Wilhelmine, of Holland.
John Rowlands is one of the great-
est explovers of the day. Nobody
ever hoard ot him by this name, per
-
baps, but as Henry IL Stanley ev-
ery reader of African history is fam-
iliar with his exploits. Rowlands
was his birth name, but he dropped
It for that of the man who adopted
him,
A. man named Sudflold is one of the
greatest scientists of the day, and,
under the name of Dr. Max Nordau,
his writieg has commanded the at-
tention of snientists the world over.
blihhati Lied wins tho name of an
artist who painting ranked him
high le the estimation of the world
and whose sad last days won the
sympathy of all 'who read oi them.
He was better known as Michael
Ithmkacsy.
ammIAGE V.A GAMES.
:ft costs more to send a ton of
goods from London te the west of
Ireland than to, Japae. A ton of
woollen goods can be forwarded
from London to New York for 41;
to Chicago, 1,000 miles inland, for
41 1.5s; and to, Japan for 42 10s.
The seine goods sent from Derry to
London cost .23 10s., and from,
G'weedore, fifty miles inland, Z6,
e
Ire—"Are yo11 superstitious about
opals 9" felle-e"Wele I think it's
unlucky to lose the thence of get-
ting one.,"
OLDINRLAND
NEWS BY M IL ABOUT /CHIA
BULL AND HIS PEOBLE
ourransos in the Land, TIMO
Reiglie Sleprente it the Qom-
• inercial World.
701101,'Itairl'e gotten manufadured
products are Valued at .4300,000 a
day.
The Queen Victerie, 1(1851011011 'Fend
0511)0111110(1 011 the 81c1 inst., to 4194,e
•
Liverpool Corporation has decided
to spend 47,000 on the emonation
f es ei vales.
The strike at Lord Peerbyn's date
quarries has now Meted over tevo
YearS.
Only twfre clurieg the last 87
gears in London has April had so
little rain as this year.
For a quarter of, a mutiny no neW
11011605 have been built the SlISSeX
village of Slimier',
neports to the London Board of
Trade show that not a passengen
was killed Lon British roil -ways in.
1901.•
There was a 'deficit of 49,184 ueon
the workings of the Huddersfield
0o0;poyear. Tramways. during the
p
Lorel 33611our, of Burleigli, who,
sprained bis ankle in alighting from
onciaoab, :leasa
tffble to ettend to 1110 °111-
inctionrenoo:tcoyttnigecto
of cardsharpers from
Australia, America and the con-
Lsnuclon for the
mr. pkilipiestliolistreoitike
who was - (On
many years deek to the late Lord
Russell of Killowen, died recently at
Tadworth,
Mr, Bell, Town Clerk of Leicester,
has been elected Town Clerk of the
Oity of London at a salary of Z2,-
500 per annum.
Bury Board of Guardians have de-
cided to placard on the walls the
names of .67 husbands who bad de-
serted their wives.
On analysis, the water of a spring.
on Ripon. Racecourse has just been
found to be strongly impregnated
with Epsom salts.
When the alterations on Victoria
Station, London, at present in pro-
gress, are completed, R2,000,000
Neill have been Speat nil them.
A pauper who declined at Wigan
Workhouse to do las allotted work
explained that he was a Christian,
and preferred to lie in bed.
It is said that Queen Alexandra,
when driving in the park will use
the grey ponies which the late Queen
ordinarily drove at Windsor.
One shilling for each year of ite
age has just been paid in London for
a, dwarf Japanese larch 160 years
old. The tree was only 24 inches
high.
On behalf of the Cork Exhibieion
it is stated that all the best banal
of note have been engaged to help
in the entertainment of the crowds. •
Sir Thomas Lipton suggests one
steward to every eight of the King'e
guests at the great dinner. This
meaei
ns 62,500 volunteers for th
work.
le is now possible to send for a
pemly a letter from any peat of the
United Kingdom to any town • in
Cbina wbere British pose-oftices are
established.
It is stated that the military au-
thorities are saving up a Grenadier
private, who measures 6 feet 104
inches in height to head the corona-
tiott
i"blee-gum timber has
been chosen by British engineers for
harbor works because it will sink if
waShed away, and will not eridauger
shipping.
DROUTH IN AUSTRALIA.
Agriculture Suffering and Thou,
sands of Men Idle. • •
The drottgbt • now /recalling in
Australia is unprecedented, and
forms the climax of seven dry years.
The losses of stock since 1892
amount to twenty millions, of which
fifteen znillions have been incurrecl
since 1899, Agriculture is suffering
correspondingly, and financial instti
tutions interested in properties own.,
ed by squatters are badly hit, Bank
shares are falling, mines shutting
down, and thousands of men out ol
work are 'drifting into the cities,
where the State Governments are es.
teldiShing relief works.
The only districts which have es,
mina the drought are the norther*
rivers of New South Wales and parts
of the Riverina. The position 13
aggravated by the Federal fodder,
duties. Quantities of fodder were
formerly imported from New Zaa,
land, but • the tariff is practically
prohibitive, Recently tho adjourn..
ment of the Federal Parliament
moved, and it was suggested that
six months' suspension ot the clutice
should be authorized. This wag
noefgoanteiv°sqc1:iatter who is paying Z800
The speakers quoted the hardship:I
daily for fodder, and many 1300
weekly ior a, mixture of straw and
treacle. They used the treacle foe
tltmobpierose of making the straw pal
ae
Comnumicetions inland is paralyze
ed, the waterways of the Darling
and other rivers being unnavignble.
The steainers are tied to the banks,
and aim Rooting listlessly. The wa-
ter holes and wells are Merely mini,
and the erews have been diseharged.
In the back blocks, it visitor to the
neighborhood of Bourke says, the
people are living prfocipally on Tab-
bies, and 111 is a significant fact that
tho rabbits are starving. Ono place
thereabouts is deseribod ae being lit- •
orally a. Once of skulls,
The InettiOrologietS deSpair to nu.
early Ovum°. The Stele Govern-.
mods of New South Wales, Victoria,
and South Atletralla, as the result
.of a, conference, have appointed a
committee of engineers to devise
scheme of Water renservation end
irrieetteien. The rlminittee is now
(21 1.1.1113.
The United Kingdom uses ea Mlle
Hoe 301105 of glovee yeeely,