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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-12-11, Page 71'„3A e. ▪ q, , 1. 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. e 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,