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LIQUOR ACT DEFEATED.
212,723 Yeas Were Needed, Only
105,193 Polled,
'A Toronto despatch'sayea -,Tito people of the Province on Thursday
larlt voted on the queation, "Aro you in favor of bringing into force
the Liquor Act of 1902 ?" Tho vote cast was is surprise in manyways.
Tito cities went generally for prohibition, while tho oondibion of the
country roads was against alargo voto in that quartor, Tho total vote
tts rorortod is as follows :--1+'ot', 105,193 ; against, 65,803; majority
Cor the Act, •12,190, Tho number of votes required to carry the Act
was 219,728, so that alio tomnpranco people aro short in the neighbor-
hood of 100,000.
/loamy we give the returns
:-
now TU2 61TD99 VOleot.
For, Against
Toronto ......... ... 14,407 12,927
41rorkville • 661 513.
Woodstock ., 802 535
St. Thomas 951 855
Brantford a, ... 856 900
Guelph .,. 1,082
Ilamilton 3,909
4 hatham 673
Kingston, ............ 1,488
London ,,,... ,.. ,..r.,.. 2,323
3lalterilio .. 580
Ottawa .,. 3,374,
St.. Catharines , ...,. 789
Windsor ,,
Stratford ,.
afiJLTOWNs
Alexandria
Barrie
Berlin ... .. ...
.L'russels .. ... ... 113
i3owenanvillo ... ... 873
3,872
059
1,575
2,512
605
4,178
851
637
Simeon ,,, 192 186
Niagara Palls
Poterboro
one; CON$TITI36NCr17y.
Constituency. For. Ag'st.
Kraut, N.,.;., 779 4.•23
Brant, S 846 100
Druce, N 1.602 309
Druce C 1088 411
Ilruco; S.. ..... 1007 832
Cardwell - 1024 '286
Carleton 648 453
Duterin 9511 809
Darham, 10 1458' 133
y$b Durham, W .., 1192 109
Elin;' 18,,,,., 1196 397
774 790 Elgin, W ,..,..., 2395 1882
AND vereatSE0. Essex, N
For. Against ' Essex. S, 870 3159
112 168 lt..Wllliain and Lake
476 102 of the Woods 530
419 1,131 Glengarry
40 Grey, le
82 Grey, S....,
Balton
;3raaipcdn ... 343
Brockville 467
Cobourg .1 ...... 370
Clinton 254
Bunches 225
Brayton ,., ,, . ,, 124.
Dunnville 201
Fergus a, 132
C•atuanoquo ... ,.. 319
0 oderioh
Ingersoll •
lidarlcltam ......
390
510
83
Orillla
Owen Sound
Paris ... 234
Perth ...... ...... .,. 203
Patrolea 415
i'ombroke - 837
Renfrew 242
Smith's Pans
Sault Ste, Marie ., . 600
Toronto Junction , . 616
Tottenham 53
Welland ,., .,. 193
Wairrloo .., ....... 100
Whitby 166
Nnpance
Aurora ... 178
Listowel 274
Oshawa ... .,. 483
Cardwell 423
Fenelon Falls ...... 1.08
Beaverton .. G6
1WIillbrook 132
titprior ...... 177
Rot Portage 273
Douro limos 107
Cast ... ... ....,. 1,004
"Morioka.) 40
Morrfclrvillo 91
Watford ... 209
6eufarth .,,,.,, 203
Streetsvillo 66
Palmerston 179
Ridgetown ,,. 268
3135{lxrville 1 a
St. ltfary's
Dcseronto 312
Piston 365
i': rt trope .... ...... 278
*row Hamburg .,.,,02
739
1390
G50
133
1150
313 I4,stixgs, N , 0211
276 • Huron,* 14:96
179 Huron, IT 141.3
2,39.Mont, 38 91.2
33 Hent, W 455
34 Lnmbten Til ..... , 1073
72 Lambton, W ............ 1635
202
Lanark, N 1153
283 I Lanark, S 1041
393, Lends 1911
29 , Lennox 1543
35 Middlesex, ail _ , 878
Midelleeox W,..,, 1384
Middlesox N .,,..... 559
Munch-- .............: 846
Norfolk, N 832
Northumberland, E1633
Northumberland, W. 1087
Ontario, N 1793
Ontario, S 88(1
Oxford, N
.375 Oxford, S
Perth, S
Perth, N
Pool ,
Poterboro, 17 ...:......... 201 41
Peterhoro, W1065 541
Parry Sound...,.. 970, 0 399
Prescott 457 1072
Prince Bldware...... 1020 826
Princo Arthur, and
Rainy /liver 312 «881
Renfrew, N ...... .... 1238 752
ltcnfrow, S ,,,.,, .... 1105 047
Russell ... 1050 087
Simco°, E ,, ,, 2009 1069
Simcoe, W 327 142
Stormont:...., 1245 795
Victoria, tiy.,.... .... 1277 672
Victoria., 1) .... 850 950
Waterloo ............... 7074 9700
Welland 1080 1389
Wellington, 111 081 318
Wallington, W 1400 455
Wellington, 8 1064 1148
Wentworth, 8 806 174
Wentworth, N
York, 7:..,,.,
1.72 York, le 1808 612
179 York, W,...,. ... , 1108 ' 572
257
140 Fiiteeit eonstitucnci's not reported.
185
552
245
903
207
808
123
164
5'29
39
1.031
035
97
1.92
83
165
145
833
03
82
30
155
338
24
310
19
40
42
132
40
94
'79
325
153
551.
72
005
502
735
THE MARKETS
Pj'ices
of Grain, Cattle, etc
In Tracie Centres.
IfltleADST Ute FS.
Toronto, Doc, 9,--Wheat--Ma.rket is
unhanged•. No. 2 white wheat
quoted at 87e tq 080 outside; NO.
2 Spring is nominal at 60o oast, weld
14o, 2 wage at 650 mast, Manitoba
wheat steady; No. 1. hard, 860 grind -
lag in transit; No, 1 hard quoted at
7154 Coderioh, and No. 1 Northern at
7740.
fear -No. 9 wbito quotod at 7$0
natiole freights,
Barley -The market is quiet, with
No, 3 at 41 to 42c low freights to
New 'York.
liuokwhotet-Trade Is quiet, and
prices nominal at 52 to 580 out-
side,
Corn -Market dull, With buyers of
new Canadian at 46e west. No. 3
new American yellow nominal at
SLc on track, Toronto,
3'lour-Ninety per cent, patents
are dull at $2,70 middle froights, in
buyers' eacics, for export, Straight
rollers of special brands for domestic
trade quoted at 38.23 to 08.36' in
bbis. Manitottt flour steady. Run -
Korean patents, 34.10 to $4.20 de-
livered on track, Toronto, bags he
oluded and Manitoba strong bakers',
3:1:80 to $8.90..
itilifeod-Bran, 315 in bulk hero,
and shorts at '$17.`= At outside
prints bran is quoted at 314. Mani-
toba bran 15 sagas, $17, and shorts,
310 horn.
UTE DAIIFY M'ARTKE1S.
Butter -Tho market is fairly activo
and firm, with recoipts fair. Wo
(tote :-Isinost 1 -lb prints, 18 to
234,190 ; large rolls and tubs, choice
982 17 to 18c ; secondary grades, tubs
672 and rolls, 14 to 15e; traitors', 12 to
366 13e; creamery prints, 21 to 22c ;
130 creamery solids, 20 to 204e.
hggs-Market, is firm. We quoto
Strictly now Auld, 28 to 94c; cold
atnrago, 20 to 21c; pickled, 18c ;
seconds, 14c.
th.:ese--Tho market is unchanged.
Choke largo cheese, 12,c: and small
12$ to 18c.
. 3100' PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs aro steady, with car-
loads quoted at 37.25. Cured meats
In small supply, with prices firm.
Wo quote ; ]3aoon, long clear, 11 to
11ic, in ton and case Tota. •Pork -
Mess, 821; do, short cut, $28.
Sinai:od hams, 18( to 14c; rolls,
12 to 12ec; shoulders, 11 to 114c
bucks, 15 to 151,0; breakfast bacon,
15 to 151*c.
Larda-Demand is fair, and prices
unchanged. 370 quote Tierces, 10tc;
tato, 11e pails, 11, to 114c; com-
pound, 8' to 1040.
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Boons -The market is dull. Medium
bring 31.75 per bush, and hand•
picked 32.
Dried apples -Market quiet, with
prices nouninal at 84 to 4c per lb.
kavaporated jobbing at 600 per lb.
Honey -Tho market is steady, with
strained jobbing at 8 to 84c per
1b., and comb at 91.50 to 31.75.
Ilay, baled -Tho market is firm,
welt otlorings limited. Car lots
worth 39.75 to $10•on track hero.
Straw -The market is quiet, with
car lots on track quoted at $5.50 to
712 390 95,75 a ton for first-class oat
178 142 straw.
Onions -Market is steady at 40 to
45e por bush for Canadian.
Poultry -Offerings of boxed lots
fair, and prices steady. Chickens,
old, 40 to 500 per pair, and young',
55 to 65c; live, 50 to 600. Ducks,
dressed, 65 to 80c per pair. Geese,
64 to 7c per MU., and turkeys, 9i
to 11c per M. for young.
Potatoes -The market is firm, car
lots being quoted at 85 to 37o per
bag on track. Small lots scil at $1
to 31.10.
230
434
:301
507
565
370.
299
532
904
183
155
275
402
653
390
710 220
1918 784
872 44.3
1432 1159
1513 578
VICTIMS OF HOTEL FIRE.
Twenty-three Lives Lost in a Chi-
cago Horror.
A Chicago despatch says: Tweuty-
tln•eo persons met death in a fire in
the Lincoln liotel, 176 Madison
street, at six o'clock on Thursday
morning. Littlo damage .was done
to the hotel, but the smoke was so
dense that the persons who mot their
tt'
death overcome, and died bo•
fore assistance could reach them.
Many jumped from rho fourth -storey
windows, others tried to save them
sotvee by climbing down the fire es-
cape in front of the building, only
to lose their grasp and fallto rho
strmot. The persons stooping in the
rear of tho building on the top floors
bad uo chauco for their lives. A nar-
row stairway leading to alt floors
of the structure was afire, and Ibo
compo of the lodgers in the rear of
tho building was cut oft. Tho fire,
men and policomen, in speaking of
what they witnessed at the catas-
tropho, condemned the building as a
"faro trap." All but fourteen of the
guests at the hotel worn out-of-town
persons. Most of them canto to
Chttago to attend the international
i{vo stock gltow. By ton o'clock. on
Wednesday night every room in rho
110301 or place in tvhicll a cot could
bo erected was in use. Shortly af-
ter tho fire broke out the firemen
rushed up the stairway :into tho
place, and began tate work:of rescue;
Men, wanton and 'cantleun. worn ear -
Mod down ladders, fire escapes and
smoke-filled 3335333,
.The building is 0onstt•uotecl of brick
with one stairway leading to tltoup-
r re.
1 01 1100 and a fire esCat 135 in 35110
front of the building, From what
could bo learned from persons who
escaped from the building; it appear-
ed the fire was started, probably by
tho dropping of a lighted cigar on
the Carpet in tho Iin,llway on the set-
ond ]loot.
31'35831 of the bodies wero found in
the beds in positions of s'lumbee,
(Mama wOno found in the hallways,
lying face downwar:cis in pos{tions
that mutely portrayed how they had
vainly endeavored to save their livOs.
Some Wore half clad, cute others wore
nothing But night clothes. It was
by moans of articles and letters fn
1;10 pockets of what little clothing
some of 111.0 doted persons 170341 that
tnatly identiflcations• woro made..
BENEFITS OF SPRAYING.
Mr. Soseph Tweedie at the Fruit
Growers' Convention.
A Walkerton despatch .rays ;-A1
the fruit growers' coltvontion hold
hero last week, Mr. ,Josopli Tweedlo,
of Fruitland, gave his methods of
spraying apple trees. liar. Tweodio is
en excellent specimen of the eciontific
fruit -grower, and his recital of diffi-
culties overcome, delivered with a
good deal of clearness, was unusual-
ly hnpressive. 110 said 11e sprayed
mom before bloom, once inuncdiately
alter, and then overy three weeks
until the fruit wits well advanced.
Ile described his largo crops of this
year, and attributed it largely to
the absence of the codling moth,
which usually took threo quarters of
the crop. I3o had stepped apples to
Germany this fall, and had netted
$3 per barrel for G'reenin 's, 83.12
for Baldwins and 33.82 for Spies.
lee had cleared 32,000 from four and
a half acres of apple orchard this
fall, for which he had to pay $65
rent. From another orchard of 25
acres, which had previously boon
i h
,he. Dade uarters for cattier worms,
ho had got 33,000 this year.
COSSACKS FIGHT STRIKERS
5
Men Billed and Wounded in Ex-
change of Shots -
A special dun/atoll from St. Peters-
num 351111011(30 5 that (Ct'iOns C011'
fliers Occurred rccontiy bottveOn Cos
sacksand three thousand strikers on
the Caucasian Railroad at about
fortY n miles from .Blosdole.
. sove
Shots wore exchanged, a few men
g
woro killed, and thirty, on both
sides, were wounded. Upwards of
ono hundred strikors were arrested.
TO PUSH BRITISH TRADE.
Board of Trade Sends Delegate to
South Africa.
A London despatch says: Tho
Board of Trade, which has been con-
-si:doring moans of tebtalnini' system-
atic: information re.garcling trade
matters in certain of soil -governing
colonies, is, with that enol i11 view,
eoluling Tammy Dh'cltmnough, a writ•
or on statistical and political sub-
joots; to':56uth •ATrica.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Mont. -cal, Dec. 9. -The local mar-
kets are quiet, with prices unchang-,
ed. Grain -No. 1 hard, Manitoba,
780 Fort William; No. 1 Northern,
71c, Octobor shipment; Ontario rod
and -whits wheat, 70c afloat ; peas,
723c high freights; No. 2 oats, 27c
ox store, 301c high freight ; ryo,
48}c east; No. 8 extra barley, 49e;
buckwheat, 522c oast. Flour -Mani-
toba patents, 94.20; , strong bakers,
63,90 ; Ontario straight rollers,
53.50 to $8.05 ; in bags, $1.70 to
$1.75.; patents, $8.70 to 54.10.
]tolled oats -Millers' prices to job-
bers, $2 in bags, and 84.1.5 per bbl.
b'oldl-Manitoba bran, 317.50 to
518; shorts, 320, hags included ;
Ontario bran, in bulk, 910.50 to
317.50; shorts, in bulk, 317. Beans
of tions are nominalat 2 i
-Qu n S n
cars on track. Provisions -Heavy
Catladiun short cut pork, 525; light
Ihort cut, 394; compound refined
lard, 8 x
to 9 c• paro Comedian lard,
,
1.1c; finest Lard, 12 to 121c; hams,
12 to 18ec; bacon, 12 to 11150; dress.
ed hogs, 57.50; fresh killed abattoir,
30.25 to $9,50 per 100 lbs, Eggs--
So'octcd, 25e to 2Gc; candled stock,
194. to 20ec; straight receipts, 18e
to 19c; No. 2, 104c. Miley --Best
clover, in sections, 11 to 190 per
section; in 10-18 tins, 9# to 1.0c •
it bulk, 1Y Y
tr -Turku a and
t b k Sc,s, Po
ducks, 11 to' 12c por lb; young
chickens, 10c; Yawls, 80 per ib ;
geese, 8c per ib, Clteeso-Ontario,
121c; Townships, 12e. Buttor-
Fancy Townships creamery, 22 t0
221m; fino creamery, 2140: Ontario
croalnery, 204c; dairy, butter, 101" to
17c for selections.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Dallalo, Deo, 0. -No, 1 hard, car
lots, 814'e; winter quiet; No. 2 rod,
794e. Corn --Stronger; No. 3 yollow,
58c. Oats -Steady; No. 8 white,
551c; No. 2 mixed, 84o. Barley -48
to 03c. Ry& --No. 1 in store, 560.
Toledo, Doc. 9. -Wheat -Fairly ac-
tive; lower; cash, 77c; December,
770; 'Bitty, tele aslce4. Cof'h••-Ball 1'
latvml;. D0313nbor, 5.40; 8fay, 48$o.
Cate:n-hullp steady; Decombet, 1393o ;
May, 88$0. 1110 -,ND. 51(o. Seed
--1.1u1I steady; Docotnbmt 90,73
.ionuary, 30.80; M35reh, $0,80; prime
titnotlly, .31,75; do., 35153k0, 08,50,
IItViz $T001(MARKETS,
Toronto, Deo, 0, M 1110 1.'1'0811-.
ern 0attle market this morning the
receipts woro 50 carloads of live
stock, including 727 cattle, 030
ehecp and latnlbO,- 100 hogs; 90
calves, and a lbw rniloh cows, 'Micro
was no buying cattle for export W-
ON', and quotations alit nominal;
good butcher cattle Is fairly oteady
at the quotations of last Tuesday;
iambs and hogs are steady; sheep
will not sell.
For good to ohoice butcher cattle
therm was a &toady demand to -day at
from Be to 4-ec Per pound; medium
cattle is slow, anti, common stuff has
to go for what is .offered for it. Not.
much good cattle of any kind wore
hero, and most of 1(10 dealers were
stranding around discussing the situ-
ation. Cattle just now should bo
held book ; Feeders, stockers, and
buile are about steady, Good to
choice snitch cows aro in active de-
mand up to about $60 each..
Export ewes are nominally about
3o per pound, but they are not want-
ed at all. Lambs aro quotedsteady
at from 34 to 40 per pound. Culls
are quoted at from 2 to 8c por lb.
].here is an enquiry for really good
veal calves up to ton dollars each.
Hogs are unchanged. Tho top
price for choice hogs is 36.12 per
cwt,; and light and fat hogs aro
quoted at $5.75 per est. Hogs to.
fetch the top price must be of primo
quality, and scale not bolote 100 nor
above 200 lbs. •
Following is the rango of prices
for live stock at the Toronto cattle
yards:
Cattio.
I3uteher cattle, choice -$$.75 34,25
Ito., ordinary to good 8.00 3.50
Stockers, Per cwt ., ... 2.50 3.25
Shoop and Lambs.
Export owes, per cwt Nominal.
Lambs, per cut ...... 8.80 4.00
Bucks, per cwt ... 2,50 2.75
Culled sheep, each .. 2,00 3,50
talkers and Calves.
Cows, each ...... ... 85.00 58.00
Calves, each ,. ,.. .. 2,00 10.00
Flogs.
Choice hogs, per cwt ... 5.75 6.00
Light hogs, per cwt ... 5.50 5.75
Heavy hogs, per cwt ... 5.50 5.75
Sows, per cwt ... ... ... 0.75 4.00
Stags, per cwt ... ... 2.00 2.50
STEAMER BLOWN UP.
Twelve Men. Are Missing and a
Score Injured.
A San Francisco despatch says :--
altile .the steamer Progresso was
lying at the wharf of the Fulton
•lron Works at harbor View oa
'Wednesday morning, an explosion
occurred. As a result twelve mon
are missing, a scorn woro more or
lose seriously injured, and property
valuedhe at $200,000 was destroyed.
Tdisaster occurred at 9.45
o'clock, while forty mechanics of the
iron works and twenty employees of
the ship were on board. Below tho
decks the mechanics evens busy com-
pleting tho work of changing tho
vessel from a coal -burning coal -car-
rier to an oil -burning oil -carrier,
when suddenly one of the oil tanks'
blew up. Nen were dashed against
the steel wall, and a sheet of flame
came sweeping into their faces. Those
on the upper deck were hurled into
the air or thrown into the water,
Three sailors engaged in washing
paint outside the pilot house dis-
appeared as the cloud of black smoke
came up from the ship, and were
scop no more. Following the ox -
plosion, the ship sagged in the cen-
ter, showing that she had brokon in
two. The faces and hands of many
of the officials and clerks in the
office, twenty feet away, wero cut
by flying glass, but with the me-
Us'utics they sot to work to rescue
nten from the burning vessol. A
stream' of burning' oil.; running irom
the tanks, spread out until the ship
lay on waves of lire. Tlie flames
crept under the wharf, and soon the
timbors were blazing, adding to the
difficulty -of the work of rescue. As
the ship was built of stool, the fire
was nearlyall below deck. There
were fourteen oil tanks, containing
about four hundred barrels of oil in
all, and, despite the efforts of the
fire department, this eontinucd to
burn Oercoly for hours after tho ex-
plosion.
WHEAT SHIPMENTS.
Biggest Consignment of Season
From Fort William.
A Montreal despatch says, :-The
management of the Canadian Pacific
ro:oived 011 Wednesday telegraphic
advices from Fort William, showing
that no less than '457,000 bushels of
wheat were shipped from Fort 711 -
Pi �
liana the clay provious. This is the
record for the present season. No
loss than half- a dozen steamers woro
loading simultaneously at 1110
C.P,11. elevators. Tho highest ship-
ment et'et' prot•lousiy mado from
Fort William was 457,000 bushels,
which was mado last year before the
close of navigation. The total
amount of wheat shipped from 1403)1
William this season up to the pre-
sent 9 9 bushels, as
s r t date is 18 7 000 b as
C1
against 11,836,000. The total quan-
tity of wheat received by tho Fort
is as n is14,-
774,000
4 -
191i1i n IDViLt01'f L11 eC 0 1
William c
7 a ainst 11,589,000 last
7 4,000 g
year.
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BACK FROM ESQUIMALT.
Col. Pinault Returns From His
Tour of Inspection.
An Ottawa despatch says ;-Col.
Pinault, Deputy Minister of Militia,
rCturntxl on Wednosclay from an 0.01
cfal visit of inspection to the Es-
qufm(lt fortifications. 140 will ro'
port to rho Minister on the necessity
for securing more land at this
point. Sour hundred Innporia.l troops
35x0 stati0nod in the forts. Col. Pin-
tail; inspected the rifle ranges at
Vancoul'Or anti Calgary.
ITEMS.
Telegraphic Briefs Frani All
Oyer the Giobe..
CANADA,
Wotaekiwin, N. W. T., will have a
public school next year,
T. T. Moore has Mien prlieripal of
Acton Public Schap! foe 24 years.
Ilatnfiton britiklaycrs' wages halm
Wee advanced to 40 cons aft Hour,
Customs receipts at Toronto for
last month show an increase of $58,-
868,87,
Hamilton 0030011 will submit a by-
law to raise 3100,000 for ncodod ftn-
provernOats in the oily.
The city _council of St, Thomas,
have authorized the Mayor and Crow
6uror to raise 33,000 to operate tate
street railway.
The Bruce ,Ninos and Algona rail-
way, fifteen utiles long, etncl tapping
the hock Lake Copper ?dines, leas
been completed,
General lianieger Hays of Lhe
Grand Trunk says Government. as-
sistance will certainly bo aslced for
1110 now Pacific line.
Some thirty or forty grertuftlos,
ranging front 517 to $85, for re-
turned South Africans, are lying in
the account ofiloo of the Department
of Militia at Ottawa.
Thero were 37 homestead entries
made at the Datt1ofot'd land ofllee
M the month of October, and nearly
as many in 1.110 first flee days of No
veinbu•, ... .. ..
A by-law has been passed 1n Ham-
ilton amending the public health by-
law providing for tho reporting - :of
all cases of contagious diseoeos and
pulmonary troubles to the modical
health officer,
01d Cariboo is said to be coming
to the (rout. On tiro Point Com-
pany's claim, on Lightoning Creek,
58,000 was taken out in six days.
Some of the old channel wash ran an
ounce of gold to rho bucket.
An alleged grain boycott in Win-
nipeg has resulted in a suit for
315,000 damages against 22 indivi-
duals and limns engaged in the grain
(businesson behalf of McLennan
Bros„ Parker ,dc Mollicar and Jos.
I'. Graves.
In a report forwarded to Washing-
ton by tho Unitod States Consul at
Montreal appoars a list of United
States companies exploiting business
in Canada. The list occupies near-
ly ten pages of closoly-printod mat-
ter, and represents a largo amount
of capital.
GREAT BRITAIN,
Influenza causod 33 deaths last
week in London.
Thero aro 80,000 naval reserve
mon in the country.
British trade returns show increas-
ed exports to the colonies and to
the United States.
The Marquis of Salisbury returned
to London from the French Riviera
greatly improved in health.
Alderman Gilbert tenth, the new'
Mayor of Tunbridge Wolls, was at
seven years of ago a plow boy.
In order to deopen 11(3 'T 35mes,
the conservators have determined to
expend a large sum on dredging the
river.
The National Review has a story
that Emperor William made a slan-
derous attack 011 Britain and King
Edward.
About 80 per cent. of the grocers
of tiro Manchester district have sign-
ed au agreement not to give Christ-
mas gifts.
Boards of Guardians in several
towns have decided to ask tho War
Office to pay army pensions weekly
instead of quarterly.
IT. M. S. Duke of Edinburgh, with
her six 27 -ton and ten 6 -incl] .quick -
firing guns, is the most heavily arm-
ed cruiser in tho world.
Glasgow's big scheme .to spend
750,000 in buying 50 acres of land
and building Blouses for poor work-
ers on. it has not been salmi:Maed.
The London Daily Express says
1110 mortality in Dritisb soldiery ex-
ceeds that in any first-class power's
army, and lays the blame upon un-
sanitary barracks.
The death is announced at Stock-
ton -on --Tees, at the age of 95, of o
Mrs. Fenwick, who was the daugb-
tor of Capt. Jackson, Lord Nelson's
captain of the foretop at the battle
of the Nile.
Britain is 80016ng''to secure gold
bars valued at 9550,000, believed to
havo'been consignod to Kruger and
Leyds, and Gen. Botha has also de-
manded that they give up for the
Boer people funds amounting to 32,-
500,000.
2;500,000.
A unique express parcel left Troy,
N. Y., Tuesday night containing an
enormous potato, weighing several
pounds, and consigned from N. P,
Hulett, of Powlott, Vt., to the King
of England. ,
In the restaurants and hotels of
Chicago, two hundred men and wo-
men who spend five or six hours a
day pooling potatoes halo formed a
union in order to obtain shorter
hours and better pay,
UNITED STATES,
Broker Starbuck of Now York died
on Tuesday as a result of having a
cont removed.
At. the annual meeting of the Mas-
sachusetts Stato Board of Trade to
Boston resolutions favoring recipro-
city 51111 Canada wore passed.
sed.
During the deer hunting season
just closed, fourteen men woro 1311105
and eleven wounded in the woods of
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Alfred Peart, it Now York wall pa-
per ,ting, whose business has inoraas-
od at tho rate of e. million dollars a
your, has born committed to 'an in-
sanity asylum.
George Shelby of Lexington, ley.,
aged 26 years, slept with a pistol
undo+ his pillow, and is subject to
solnhambullsiu, and on Monday night
shot. himself in bed.
President Joint, Mitchell of the
United Mine Workers is to write a
book dealing with capital and labor,
which will include a detailed story of
the 1000 and 1902 striker.
A 101106 writton by .i'resicl:ont
Rooseviet to a prolnmmnt .citizen of
Charleot0n S. 0,, f alativ1 to 1110
appointment of Dl', Crum, a n(Igr0,
as collcotor of the port of Cllai'los-
ton, c10e135rc8 th351 11 is a Ottse ' 01
ability first and 00101' second with
11103,
The United Stator Board of Gen-
eral Appraisers has handed down a
ruling, placing 4100 aro, Calamine,
and zine blend on Lilo free list, un-
der section 188 of 3110 Dingley tariff,
and thus .Nonfats, Missouri and
Texas shelter operators are free t0
enter the 'Braise Columbia, field to
purchase Canadian oro, The Slocan
MI110 Owners expect to reap groat
bonolits,
GP1341811AL.
It is roportod that Turkish troops
have massaored hundreds of Mace-
donians.
At Orlo, near San Sebastian,
Spain, several flshermen hav5 c35ught
a, largo whale,
T13o gold yield of Victoria for tate
ten months of the present year
amounted to 617,830 ounces.
From Pretoria comes a report that
a rioli find of gold leas been rondo
eight miles Fest of 3110 city.
Fifteon thousand natives are now
being inoculated weekly with anti -
plague serum in the Punjab.
A Paris municipal councillor, Dr.
Cherot, has been fined a hundred dol.- .
lays for slapping a clerk's faro.
The Inscriptioa Maritime of France
have de0lded to allow women to be-
come sailors in some of the Channel
fishing smacks.
Rouses 'are 'lettering extravagantly
high rents in P rotoria, One with
four rooms readily lets at 360 to
575 a month,
Not less than four hours instruc-
tion in English is to 'be gfvon week-
ly in the Swedish national element-
ary schools,
By applying glucose or glycerine to
their roots a French scientist de-
clares that he has been able to stim-
ulate the growth of plants.
A Swedish infantry captain nam-
ed Pihistrom, residing. at Falun,
Switzerland, while dementod, shot
two of his sons, aged ton and eight
respectively,
Tho Premier of New South Wales
has been urged by a deputation of
ladies to institute the curfew bell
and prohibit the employment of bar-
rnaids. ,
Charles V. 1lerliska, American
Consul at Callao, Peru, spoke dis-
paragingly . of King Edward at a
British club in Callao, and although
11e escaped being mobbed ho was ask-
ed to resign by the State Depart-
ment at Washington.
Tho Danish nobility, once very
nunlerous, is fast dying out, the
leading families having ]tad female
issue only for the last twenty or
thirty years. It is expected that
within tho next twenty years thirty
or more families will die out.
In tho French Senate on Tuesday
Con. Andre, Minister of War, made
the statement that typboid fever and
tuberculosis were making alarming
ravages in the French army, averag-
ing 9,174 deaths a year, and mak-
ing a death total since tho treaty of
Frankfort of 99,000, while in the
German army for tho same period
RAISED YANKEE BILLS.
Passed in Towns in Canada as
Tens Instead of Ones.
A Buffalo despatch says :- Somo of
the Buffalo banks aad the exchanges
bavo been busy' lately throwing out
cleverly raised bills, passed in small
Canadian towns. The figures and
words "One" have been removed by
poworfui acids front these bills and
"10" "X" substituted. Buffalo bank-
ers discovered the spread eagle on
the face instead of the vignette of
Hendricks. The eagle hers not been
removed, and the acids used in de-
facing the numerals has changed rho
greenish white of tho bill to a deep
yellow.
IN OLD VIRGINIA.
Bill to Prevent Persons With Woak
Lungs From Kissing.
A Richmond despatch says :-7)r.
R. 13. Ware, a member of the Vir-
ginia Legislature, having satis'Sod
himself that kissing *roads disease,
has introduced a bill to prevent in-
disorinrina.te osculation. Tho bill
says "If a physician tottifiee, that
the defendant has weak lungs ho
eltall bo found guilty of a miscle-1 and fined not lass than oto
dollar or more than flue for ouch
offence,"
4-
C.P.R. IRRIGATION SCHEME
Concessions Granted at a Meeting
of the Cabinet.
An Ottawa despatch says: At
Thursday's mooting of rho Cabinet
Council certain concessions
rcga
rd
-
ing the C, 1'. R.'s big irrigation
scheme in Alberta 15080 approved.
Tho project contemplates alto irriga-
tion from tho waters of the Bow
River of two and half million cores
of land. Mr, Wm. Whyte, manager
of tho C. I'. 11. Wi'ostera lines, and
Bir. J. 5. Dennis, chief of the corn-
patly's irrigation works, are here in
connection with the enterprise.
WILL USE OUB. MICA.
Westinghouse Company to Build
Factory 1n Capital.
A despatch front Ottawa says :-
Tho Westinghouse Electrical Cora -
Pang, of Pittsburg, bavo docidod to
open a factory here, for the purpo(o
of cutting and otherwlso preparthg
mica for use in the electrical busi-
ness. Tito supply of mita will bo
procured from the Gatineau Gaud
Kingston district. At 110 start em-
ploymolt• will bo given to 200 men
and girls. At Pr0sont the Wesbing-
h.ouso Company gots a largo shard .of
its mien. from India, but there is o.
probability that the ostablisltnlont
of the now factory in Ottawa will
focus attention 011 the Canadian
souveb of supply, which Is practically
inoxhaunstihle and Moro cotivoniOnt,
It T Il 30v'S 1?'A 1'ATXCS.
gorribia Ways int Whio11. Some xn,
6135328 xpl?8ss Belief,
Dil'feront people home dilforunt WWI
of showing their 1'01113.100.`3`hmra
have bean those who fought Salva'
Moo 't',Y't.1r'tru'htg mthel's, 150(1 thnrq
43rd still those 35110 think 10' attain,
1t by torttlrillg .thomselt'es,
nen the Indian gentioman ln-
dulgep 14 ]fie favorite religious ,°Sete
rare ho lies unou a tee of 011113 and
takes core that has zeal 0a11 be
se043 and (iP3t'ectatod by. the multi•'
(oda, To 110 for heel's, as this 30(183
35113, on the sharp intls
eaus031-O:Str03(18 11300',poands 1°400,1141 hA
is finally 1od fm hhod ills
110811 is lacerated1131,411r;° ib shocisking m35n
nen, But antis 90343)
3n' an biro after-
wards from those who have observed
his devotion and believe in his eon
sequent 63511tity. Title bed-of-nai1H
devotional exercise is not unc0nunon.
among the Indian 1skirs, it traveller
in India tells of an aged blind firkin
whom ho 011.010 across who ]lad for
years spent most of his time fatting-
on
attingon a bed of nails.. This old fellow,.
however, had got beyond the point
where it hurt him much, for his skin
had become so tightened by constant
application of the nail points thab
he was merely uncontfortablo,
731e Least Indians aro ingenious fn
inventing forms of religious torture
for themselves. (Ono ••exeroiso 711X11
finds favor among the fakirs lato
hold up the arms until they become
withered and stilt, and cannot be
put down again into their natural ,
position. These peoplo let their flit,'
ger nails grow until they bOcomo so
long that they curl around- the
fingers like snakes, A devotee of this
kind has to be fed by others who
are not s0 extreme in their religious
views as ho is. With the natives of
India self-inflicted torture seems to
always be carried out as a
R.IIILICIOUS rum: TICS.
The American Indians, like the
East Indians, were prolific in the in-
vention of modes of torture. I3ut;
unlike them, they scan never to have
tortured themselves as a religious
oxorcise. With them it was a method
of proving Choir endurance and dis-
regard of physical pain. Among the
Indians of the Northwest a certain
amount of physical torture had to
be undergone by every catldidato fpr
admission to the ranks of warriors.
The self -torture of the fakirs of In-
dia is a phase of a feeling which
has been common to many divers
peoples in regard to tho saving of
their souls. It is the outcome of the
ante morbidness that caused the
late rising of tho Doukhobors, and
which made the New England Puri-
tan "frown upon bear baiting, not
because of its cruelty, but because of
the pleasure it gave." and which
still produces processions of Fiagel-
]antes in some towns of Southern
Europa and in the southwestern part
of Mexico. While in many cases this
physical self -torture is the actual
outward expression of "the broken
and the contrite heart," it has among
the Indian fakirs tomo to be al-
most enliroly an ostentatious dis-
play, the pains of which are borne
for tiro sake of tho reputation for
sanctity which the self -tortured one
attains and the consequent alms
which come to him. Still, some of
these fakirs are imbued with a high
degree of fanaticism and honestly
believe that by lying on a bed of
sharp nails in this world they have
a better chance of reaching Nirvana
in the next.
THE FIRST NEWSPAPER.
Antwerp, Belgium, Has the Honor
of Producing It.
There has been considerable contro-
versy of tato years as to which
country should bo conceded 1110 honor
of printing the first regular news-
paper. Claims have boon successive-
ly put forward for Italy, France,
Germany, Englund, and Holland, and
all with sonic degree of 'plausibility,
but it appears from recent researches
that neither olio of these is entitled
to the distinction, and that pre-
cedence should bo given to Belgium.
It has been established by the anti-
quaries thata certain Abraham
Verhoeven, of Antwerp, obtained, in
1605, from tho Archduko and Duch-
ess Albert and Isabella, the privilege
of printing a news sheet. As the
first German paper appeared in 1615,
at Frankfort; the first hutch paper
in 161.7; tho first English. paper, the
Weekly Gazette, in 1629, and the
first leren011 pe.per in 1631, it would
seem that Antwerp's claims hove,
some foundation, and that the Bel-
gian city initiated what has becomo
one of tho most influential factors
in modern lifo and progress. On the
strength of this it is proposed to
]told a great tercentenary celebra,
tion in Antwerp some time during
the year 1905. It would be interest-
ing to compare the primitive efforts
of tho ,journalist of 1605 with 'the
iumenso sheets of news which the
world calls for to -day, Three hun-
dred dnrod y go news but.
slowly, and each coumunity was,
in
a sense, isolated. But to -day if
s0m0 potentato of Central Africa
coltdescottls to enoezo, tho . world„
wants to know just what caused tho
tiltilation in the regal nostrils, and
wants minute particulars at that.
TITAN SATIS▪ FIED IH'IM.
An hottest countryman, 3511x1088 to
explore the wonders of the British
Museum obtained a a special pedal holiday
a short time sittco. Accordingly, tak-
ing with hint a couple of lady
friends, ho presented himself at the
door for admittance.
"No admission to -day,, sir," sail
rho keeper.
"Dat I muse conte in. I've a holi-
day on purpose;"
"No matter. 'Phis is a .close day,
anal tho museum Is shut."
"What I" said John, "ain't this
public property 7"
"Yee; but .0110 01 the mltmulles
died a, few days ago, 1(35 wo aro
going to bury hien."
"Oh, in that ease too Won't Imo
(rude,",8835,J.0h88 as ho:retieed,