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DAY BRF
Ottawa . Prisoner Given Six Months
For Assaulting Guard.
Congress of Textile Operatives Favors
Eight -flour Day.
slats! of 7,000 Pounds of Whitefish
In Lake Winnipeg.
The Kent County clam clt appoints
George Peters, of Chatbarxs toweemip,
!sigh county constable at sm salary of
$800 per year.
It is learned that in addition to the
+seminary to be erected by tbe Lutheran
Chetah, Berlin, Ont., a preparatory col-
lege will be established.
The 14th Regiment, of 'Kingston, bas
decided upon a trip to Niagara, balls and
Buffalo on July 3 and A. The soldiers
will not take arms with then.
The eongregatiotr of the Alhambra
Presbyterian Church, Toronto, voted to
increase the salary of the pastor, Rev.
J. E. Reid, from $1,000 to $1,1100 a year.
W. D. Matthews has purchased from
W. G. Vrooderltatn 27 acres of the Leslie
Nurseries on Queen street east, Toronto,
the price being in the neighborhood ot
.$175,000.
The Congress of Textile Operatives, in
aession at Amsterdam, unanimously ad-
opted a resolution in favor of eight
hours' work in aid the textile mills in
.all countries.
The subject for the Victoria College
regents' prize essay is 'Sow Can Canada
Best Promote .international Peace1" Es -
sap should not exceed 2,000 words, :and
are due Oct. 5.
At the comumeneemeut exercises at
Syracuse University, N. Y,, Mr. Justice
William 'Renwicrc Riddeli, of Toronto,
the commencement orator, was made a
Doctor of the Literary Humanities.
Mrs. J. 3L S. Kerr and her three -days -
old babe were rescued by neighbors anti
carried to the home of Mr. Richard U.
Kirby yesterday when the Kerr home, on
Victoria avenue, Eglinton, was discover-
ed in flames.
Fabian 'W'are bas retired from the edi-
torehip of the London Morning Post. It
is understood that differences have.
arisen between him and Lady Bathurst,
the proprietress, regarding editorial con-
trol.
Lawrence Corcoran, an Ottawa pris-
oner in the penitentiary, was sentences.
by Judge Madden at the Court of (yen
eral Sessions at Kingston to six maiiths
additional inhprieonment for assaulting ra
guard.
The memory of the late Archbishop
Sweatxnan was perpetuated yesterday ai
'ternoon, w11eu the memorial window and
tablet in St. Alban's Cathedral, Toronto,
'were dedicated and unveiled by Bishop
Sweeny. • ,
The actual work of construction of the
Smith's falls division of the new Cana -
diem Northern Railroad line has uegun
About half -way between Smith's lea.
and Ottawa, at Dwyre lei11, a six -nu.
contract is under way.
Life insurance organizations of Canada
and the United States distributed in uk.
year 1910. $553,500,000. NOW insurantte
for more than $2.000,000 was written,
and the year's dividend payments am-
ounted to $182,000,000.
According to information received by,
the Canadian Northern Railway !reigns
js aoeumulating at fort Arthur, Jimmy
ether, and 1Vin.nipeg. The company ra
sending 1,000 more box care to r'ort Ar-
thur to relieve the situation.
Two-thirds of the hundred thousand
dollars asked for bus already bean sub-
scribed towards the establishment of the.
Winnipeg Children's !Hospital, the end of
the second day seeing a total of feme 1i0
ehsbeeribed, with three days yet to run,
At the meeting of the'11'ilkineon .flow
Uoil!pany, held in Toronto, the statement
presented glowed a nominal deficit of
$12,000. The total liabilities are $425,-
000,
425;000, of which $;175,000 is to trade c redit-
oars. The total assets are about $412,000.
body, and the flesh badly burned, kle
was taken to the hospital in a serious
condition,
The firing of three shots from a 22 -
calibre eevolver in the main corridor at
the Harbord Collegiate 'institute, Toron-
to, yesterday afternoon uausocn eohster-
nationa among three students who hap-
pened to be conversing at the time., The
reason for the firing of the shots still re-
mains unexplained.
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WORLD'S CROPS.
Bumper Wheat Crop in India and
Record Area Sown in Canada.
Washington, June 10.—A bumper har-
vest of whcat'in British India, estisuat-
ed at 300,000,000 bushels, surpassing all
previous yields and a record area sown
to spring wheat in Western Canada,
where 90 per cent. of. the Dominion
wheat is grown, giving rise to seeming-
ly* extravagant estimates of probable
yield, are the features of the world's re-
view of May agricultural news announc-
ed by the United States Department of
Agriculture to -day.• In.. other respects
foreign agriculture in general made aver-
age seasonable progress.
In Argentina the great wheat and
flaxseed exporter of the southern hem-
isphere, the autumn sown crops have en-
tered the first mouth of trans -equatorial
winter in rigorous condition, and on
probably largely increased areas. The
recently gathered corn crop there
turned nut badly. and little or no sur-
plus will 11e available for export. The
corn crop of South Africa also is report-
ed damaged by drought, and there prob-
ably will be none for export.
The Boston train on the Central Ver-
mont Railway, due at Montreal, was cie-
railed hall a Ione south of lberville, Que.,
the engine and cars leaving rhe track,
1k'irenien Martin, of St. Alban's, Ver-
mont, was caught between the engine
and tender and killed.
A paingle haus of 7,000• pounds of white•
fish is the new record announced in the
Lake 'Winnipeg fishing indnsiry, the
steamer Wolverine having returned to
r ort -with a total cargo of 100,000•pounr,s
of whitefish, of which the first 7,000
:ea'ere caught in a single haul.
The Grated Jury at Cohourg retnrned
n true hill against• Leslie Burk, aged 21,
on a eharge of arson. Young Burk is
now on 1,a.it, having been arrested a sew
weeks ago on a charge of having started
the Tire on the night of April 16 which
lesteoyed a whole block in Colborne.
The export of bay from Kingston dis-
triet to the united States has increased
-very much of late. During the past two
months $155,000 worth has been chipped
aeross the border. A great deal of cream
is "oleo going from the district, 1n two
weeks $1,000 worth has been shipped.
J, Gillies and W. Bowman were pasnts-
'ttag; tbe roof et the J1erIiq, Ont., mope !^.1_,1it•1 grata plant, wbesh (isles came it con-
te -et with a live wire. He. was Heady el•
eestroe,ited, his elothas burned oft" hire
PRE TICE BOYS.
Resolution on Ne Temere Decree—
Greetings to Assembly.
Ottawa deepateh : A strong resolu-
tion against the ne tonere. decree was
passed by the Grand Lodge of
Prentice Boys, at ;.ilia morning's ses-
sion of the Royal Albert Hell. The
resolution will be sent to the Minister
of Justice.
A resolution affirming the loyalty
of the Grand Lodge to Bing George
was passed, apropos of the near ap-
proach. of Coronation day, while an-
other expressed the Grand Lodge's
greetings to the Preshyteriart Assembly,
in session Here.
Officers were elected as follows:
Grand Master, H. Sullen, :at. John,
N. B.; Senior Deputy Grand Mastery
H. Dempsey, Aineliasburg; Junior De-
puty, 13, Sands; Kingston; (,,hand
G'ha.piain, Rev. Mr, Gilbert, Kingston;
Grand Director of Ceremonies, A. Mc-
Elroy, Ottawa; Grand Lecturer, F.
Milligan, Toronto: Grand Assistant
Lecturer, W. Smith. St. John, N. B.;
Grand Secretary, C. O. Buckman, Belle-
ville; Aesista.nt Secretary, (', Philson,
Stella; Inside Tyler, D.: ieholl, Ot-
tawa; Outside :l;yler, Thomas elixire,
Toronto.
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SEEING THE LAND
Toronto Business Man Pleased With
Northern Crops.
THAT CHINESE BOY
New Liskeard: Ont,, June 10. --Crops
never looked better than those seen yes-
terday afternoon by the members of the
Toronto Board of Trade delegation on
their arrival nt the Liskeard. A heavy
rain of the past two days had painted
the fields with the deepest ebade of
green, and the visitors were driveu for
inlies in all diret:tions on a tour of 1n•
epection. The special train was met at
the Liskeard station eey acting Mayor
J. B. Th -own and President Magladery,
of the local. Board of Trode, and a great
coneonriie of members of the Couneit and
Board of '('rade and citizens generally.
Mayor :Brown read au address of wee
come, in which the agricultural resources
of the town and country were voted.
Evert,` rig in town heed been commis-
sioned for the occasion, and the farmers
turned mit as well, with their three -
seaters. The visitors were bundled into
the eonveyont'es and were soon .lost in
the distance. Among the eights seen wee
fall rye standing (1 inches in height, fall
wheat jute earning oat head and ripe
wild. Herat bes•tiee,
BORN ON LAWN.
inquiry Into the Alleged -Suicide of
Lad in Toronto.
Neighbors -Heard Lad Screeching a
.ef Horror..
Toronto . despatch: After hear.'ixig the
evidence of Chong Yuen, the uncle, and
several neighbors; the inquest into the
death of the Ohineae•boy, Jong Hai Tak,
who was reputed to have hanged him-
self at;los uncle's laundry at 857 Queen
street wept late oa Friday night, Cer-
oiler 'G. {i.' Rowe adjourned the hearing
nntii-Friday,•June 23, wnenT. le Mona-
han, K. C.,, Assistant Crown Attorney,
will produce several more. important wtt-
nessee
Chong Yuen has been in the country
fear or • five years, and although he
understands some Englisb, an interpreter
svgs used he questioning !tiro. He said
that the boy worked with ltim in the
launcher up Lill 10 o'olock on 1'ridwe
night, when he went to bed. Chong Yttet;
and his assistants worked until 2 o'clock,
when they, too, went upstairs. Chong
Yuen lit a match when he entered the
bedroom, and found Jong fiai Tak hang-
ing to the top of the door by a rope.
He had a towel around his neck and
the rope was era: that. The body was
cold when he tottohect h. Chong Yuen
cried a great deal and lowered the boy
from the door. The towel was wrapped
just loosely around .his neck and dropped
when the role was removed. He had
heard no none since the boy trent up-
stairs, and knew of no reason for the act:
Be gave the buy money every Monday,
sometimes $i, sometimes $1.50, and some-
times $2, or even more. The boy wag
happy so far as be could tell. lie had no
desire to go to Victoria to eec bus fa-
ther, although Chong Yuen often told
him he could if he wished. lie never
knew that the boy had any money in the'
bank until after he was dead.
James Waddington, Rachel Coley,
Josephine Hodgson, and May '1'reynor,
neighbors, ail heard screeching and hol-
lering about 2.15 in the morning. It was
evidently that of the foreigners, and, so
far as they could tell, indicated great
horror, but • was not of such a nature
that they would conjecture that a strut
pile was taking place. Charles Tomenson
lives next door, but he he.ard nothing.
He knew the boy well, though, as he
often came in and bought candy from
hint. He seemed perfetTy'"happy and was
well treated by his uncle- :Mr. Da lie
Wallace oiosaexamined several of the
witnesses on behalf of the uncle ot the
boy.
The Stork Visits Newly Arrived Immi-
grants at London.
London, (nit., despeteb: A bouncing
baby boy, son of ilugitsh parents recent-
ly arrived in Loudon, was born on the
lawn• of .Victoria, Hospital' at 3 o'clock
this 'roaming, `1'lien the approaeh of, the
stork beeeme evident, tale man and his
wife, having no money, undertook to
walk to the hospital frail their home in
the »ovth euti of the city, two Miles
away. The mother became exisausted as
she reached the grounds, and the tiny
life was ushered in without medical at-
tendenee and with no roof save the can-
opy of share. At the Itoepitel to -night
it was+ tepodted taut the mother and
eh3)d ere doing well,
TROOPS MUTINY.
Portuguese Garrison Break Out and
Shoot the Commander.
Madrid, June 19.--Telegraras received
to -day from Vigo state that a monarch-
ist reveientiion lies broken oat at Clhavres,
Portugal, masts that the Portuguese gar-
sison =tined and killed its commander.
The monarchists stormed and.raided the
offices of the Republican newspapers in
the Plaza Braga.
Vigo, Spain, June 15.—Be.per•ts from
Chaves of the mutiny of two regiments
of Portuguese troops are not confirmed.
The rumors are probably unfounded,
since it is learned from other sources
that the Royalist plans on the Portu-
guese frontier, did not develop as had
been expected, • It is supposed here that
the RoyeIists at Chavree planned to mu-
tiny upon the approach of Captain Otou-
eeire, the monarchial Tears•, wlso ie sale'
to be at the !lead of the forces near
Braga.
111E PLUMBERS.
CAPTURED TWO.
Gang Holds Up Clerk and Rohs New
• York Hotel Safe.
New York, June 19.--Anoautomobile
conaining eight men pulled up in front
of the Hotel Roy, on West Thirty-
Fifth street, near Broadway, early this
morning, and the men all lined up be-
fore Charles Simmons, the night clerk,.
Each of them held e revolver, and their
leader ordered the clerk to stand back
while he explored the cash drawer of
the open safe. There was nothing for
the clerk to do 'but obey, and the in-
truder quickly scooped out $.160 is bills.
Then the en filed out, the last one
covering them.clerk with his revolver uu-
til all were outside,
As soon as he was free, the eler]c
grabbed his own gun. from a drawer
and fired five shots to call the police.
He was so quick about it that he got a
response from a Broadway patrolman
before the robbers could crank their
automobile and get started. The patrol-
man captured the lest two of the men
and found in the po('kets of one of
them a roll of bills twice the size of
that which the hotel clerk had lost.
The Canadian Society of Sanitary and
Heating Engineers.
Fort William despatch: At to -day's
aession, of the hineter Plumbers' As-
sociation the most forward step in
the history of the. ' organization was
taken. The name will be changed to
tbe Canadian Society of Sanitary and
!:seating Bmgineers. • A paid office
staff will be organized, including a
secretary,; and an offer will be made
to include a greater number thian
has ever before belonged to tbe nese-
elation,
A wireless lettergram was received
from the Mayor of Montreal, who is
on the ocean en route for London.
The Mayor states that it will be a
pleasure to that city to entertain the
plumbers next year. The invitation is
being heartily endorsed.
MADE A RECORD.
Port Dalhonsiie; Ont.; despateb: The
ps.esehger steamer City of Hamilton,
of the Merchants' Montreal Line,
Captain Baxter commandingg, broke all
records through the Welland Canal
for making last time. She left Port
Colborne at 5.3e thin morning, arriv-
ing itt Port Dalhousie, tied up at the
pier, at 2.30 this afternoon, snaking the
trip down in S hours and 45 minutes.
Had the canal been clear it was poesible
to have made the run in eight hours
from lake to lake.
FAMILY MURDER
Robert Dannelly, a Survivor of Bid-
dulph Tragedy is Dead.
London, Out, des patt1i : Robert
Donnelly, one of the few survivors of
the Donnelly tragedy of February 4,
1880, when hie father. !Houser, sister,
.brother and a cousin were murdered
in Biddulph by an organized gang
which sought to extermivat.e the
family, died near Liman this morning.
A boy, Johnny ('Connor, was the only
person left living in the house. and
was overlooked by the murderers.
Robert Donnelly and William Don-
nelly were away from the place at the
time. A dozen melt were tried for
the crime, but all were acquited, the
lawyers for the defence being Sir
WiIliani Meredith and the late Judge
MacMahon.
MOROCCAN ARMY.
France Will Organize One and Chastise
the Tribesmen.
Paris, June 19.—During the course
of an interpellationon Morocco in the
Senate yeteterday, 3L Cruppi; Minister
of Foreign • Affairs, made an import-
ant declaration, in which he outlined
the policy of France. This would con-
sist, he said, in -the creatiou of a Mor-
occan army, Mustening reforms in the
organization of the pollee and assuring;
order, placiug the Sultan's authority on
a firm basis in the interests of a11, main=
tatining the open dor and establishing
economic ^nd commercial liberty—
When this polity was in a Pair way
of accomplishment, the Foreign Min-
ister said Genera] Moinier would eva-
cuate after chastising the tribesmen.
STEAMER AFIRE.
Captain Raced For Shore and Saved
His Passengers and CI ew.
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Pudacah, Ky., June I9. ---'Quick work
on the part of Capt. John L. Lowry, of
the River steamer John Lowery, saved
the lives of sixty-five persons early to-
day, when the boat was burned opposite
Smithland, Eye in the Ohio River.
Crowded with fifty excursionists and the
crew of 15 the craft was slowly making
its way up the river in midstream, when
fire broke out near the engine4
Roused from their sleep the paean ig-
ers crowded on to the decks in a Haar
panic, and only the eoolneee of the
boat's quick crew .averted a heavy lose
of life. Several barrels of oil expanded,
but no one wan hurt.
Seeing the fire abont to eons•uue it e
craft, Captain Lowry made for tee Il-
linois side with all speed. By the time
the nose of the steamer touched the
shore the fire had gaited great head•
way, but the passengers got off with-
out injury. A roll enli of pa.ssengrr.t
ebowed every one present and none in-
jured.
It had not been determined this morn-
ing whether nay of the negro deck
hands had been burned, but it 56 Believ-
ed they too escaped,
TO BIE A SAILOR.
London, June I0. --It is stated that
the Prince of Wales will follow in his
faeher's footsteps, and will serve as a
midshipman in the. navy after the Coro-
nation ceremonies neat 'week.
The :Prince has, just' completed* 1t3e
eourse as naval cadet ash Osborne fatal
College. Previous to that he went
through a naval training Bourse at Dart.
mouth College.
it was at the latter town that the
young Prince, os heaa of the Duey of
Cornwall, made isle first speech when he
returned to the Mayor the sliver oar,
emblematic of his authority as Duke of
Cornwall.
HORSES.
Blocked roads are the one thing' wbieta
holds the purse situation back at pre-
sent;. Western buyers are camped on
the trail of about every good suitabia
horse that can be pried loose ab pre-
sent. There are a great many of teem
operating not only at the horse ea-
cherges, but atcountry points in On-;
tario. They are ready buyers, if tea
right goods is in sight as to price, but
stick pretty strongly an anything like
a marked advance. In the case of htgit
class draught mares there is some more
-
tendency to pay some extra dollars than,
in other lines, but these are pretty bona
ly held by Ontario farmers, and trading -
has not as yet reached a broad Basle.
Frain all indications at the present
time, however, it looks as if the year
will roll up as big if not bigger tenons
for shipments of horses west thast (11(1 •
the past one. Prices are showing n
stesdy but determined looking inclirta.-
tinn 'fawned even higher levels, Tee
average reports of sales to. hand tare
:about level with present quotations, cur-
rent for some time past, but Where
there is a departure from these it k al-
ways in tee upward direction nether
than toward d love er ones. A\'esteru de -
wen -id is eall]ng for gond high-class eget
horses as well es for drafters and. farm
horses. • ,
Mistress --Mary, another hnlfe, picnic,
This osse is not cTttan.
MAC DONALD COLLEGE.
A decade or two ago, had you anal:ori
a father to send b•s daughter- away to
selinol at considerable • expense to.
lectin to cook, sew and beep.house, to
would have ]anghed the idea to scorn.
But in this age of scientific farming eta
progressive agriculture, parents tts,.ve
awakened to the wisdom of a good clo-
rneetic selenee training for the ghee.. to
prepare them fur ea thorough "tome•
makers as itself' husbands are practiten,
farmer::, '
In 1904, Sir William. Macdonai,l, of
Montreal. gave the 'sum of two loin -
deed thousand dollars for the tegith-
lishment of a domestic science : eemot
nt Guelph, Ontario; to work in cog••
jtuhction with the Ontario A.gr"=eu]-
tsn•nl College. This institution grew
very slowly nt first and Has titled
more largely with city girls thea- far •
mere; daughters, hat, the 'situatiotn 16
ehangiug and the institution. ie titling
to 'overflowing with country girin. SM:*
are taking the professional eouree, nrti•
paring themselves for teachers, trained
nurses, !souse -keepers and the like, bet
the greater majority of the girls 'who
attend. Macdonald Institute are gine
who are engaged to be married ani:tave
come there to fit themselves for price -
Veal home -makers; to learn to do Mone
plain homely duties of dusting, se+•rlug>
cooking anti washing in the molt tcyn-'
tematie and effective manner.
Macdonald Hall, which was built 'pills
half of Sir William's donation, is a.*arge•
imposing building built on the I`lix,ilie-
thian style with stone trimming. T. Tato.'
visitor approaching it from tbe front
3' presents a eolid .niatantiai ana with-
al a very neat appearance. it is fined-
ern in every parti + ler ,and the girls who
:uske it their sonic during their t•d-
kge year may. inticed, eount them-
seves fortunate in their surrouudinge.
The unfortmitl;e sitt.atioit in G•telptt.
at the present, time is that twihnr•
snndation eannet be, :mai for mare
girls than the !hill eroveles for. Room
or room and hone' are almost armee
sible to obtain in the eity,
ELECTRICITY AND THE FA1tellet(.
(Canadian Farm.)
They bad an electrical show in teen.•
Ingo not long ago, and The Live eltack -
World of that city is authority for utso •
statement that. those most ,interested sn
the stow and tvho are tise.biggest cunt.
tonhers of the manufacturers of all
kinds of electrical appliances such aei
electric toasters and apparatus for riot-
ning washing machines, etc., are; tee
ferment. A mann; er of• one .of the bag;
exhibits stated that more orders siretle-
ing; hooked for shipment to the West:
and Soutlswest at way-stsation.a and • '
esos:sroads than in Chicago, The farmer:
accssrdi»g to his thinking, has awa
eth
d to the fact at electri:aan-
city nowaddysi
is the timeliest as well as the most en»••
venient form of help he can find. And
se it is if he can get a supply of elcc'ti-
city. It takes little power to Liget e.
farm house or outbuilding, to rim a
feed chopper, a ereamu separator, and tete
like, and a small supply of ole Brie eta
wenn( go a long way for this pttrpnse.
Edison, in a recent interview,.pieditsted
that in thirty years electricity, ossa
have couspletely revolutionized agrieto
Lure. It is possible that his, predicttom
may come true. This country has on.ty
just `begun to toneh on the fringe (1 .
the power available in water falls, mines
the tike for producing elcctrieity. The
supplying of power from Niagara - isi•
only a beg nnieg. There are smelter
sources of power that inn be sn'e/e
available when we begin• to know mom
of
of electricity.
TORONTO DRY HOCK.
Toronto, ,Tune 19. ---The 'plans of the
floating drydoele projected by the Potasn
Iron. Works have pressed through • 'tee
-
hands of Mr. J. G. Sing, P.ngineer of tem
'Public Werke Department. When they
are finally approved by the Dominion
Government; a, annbsidy will be garnte&
Mr. Sing told a reporter yesterday teat
this drydock would be the first ot itce
kind' in Canada., it would lift a vessel
ef 4,500 tons, and it was intended to en-
large. it eventually to steeonpnodate rue
cels 000 feet long. At first it The
reeel)e
a vessel 350 feet in length.Tile cost is
estimated to be about $91.,200,000. • - ; -