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Grain, Cattle and Cheese
Prices of These Products in the Leading
Markets are Here Recorded
Breadstutes.
Toronto, April 22.--a1our—Ontar0o goitre,
90 ner cent. patents, 4390 to 43-95, Mcalt"
real or Toronto freighter lefanitobate-
First petents, in Jute bags, $5.30; 'second
Patents, in jute begs, $4.80; strong bake
ere', in tate bags, $4,60.
l'itanitolie Wheat—No. J, Northern, 980, on
• traek, Bay Porte; No. 2 et 981.4o; No. 3
at 92 1-2o, BAY north,
Ontario 'Wheat—No, 2 white and red
wheat, 94 to 96e, outeide, and sprouted,
te 88e.
Oats—Ontario oath, 33 to 350, outside,
• and at 37e, on took, Toronto. Western
'Canada Oats, 42o for No. 2, and 4fie for
No. 3, Bay ports; No, 3 C. W., 36 to 361-20,
at.opeeiing of navigation.
Peas -90e to $1, outside.
Barley—Forty-eig•ht-lb, barley of
-quality, 51 to 63e, outside. Seed,
.600.
Corn—No. 3 Amerioan corn, 62 to 621-20,
all -rail, aud at 680, at Bay ports, on
'opening of navigation.
Hee—Prices are nominal.
leuelcwheat—No. 2 at 52 eo 530, outside.
Braii—Manitoba bram $19, in bag, 90"
route freight. _Short, $21,. Toronto.
Country Produce.
Butter—Dairy pMnte, ohothe, 26 to 280;
.d0., tubs, 2 to 200; infeelor, 21 to 22c;
eareamery, as to 350 for eolls, and 30e
for Bolide,
Eggs—Case lot, 200 hereand at 16 to
17e ontelde.
0hecee-14 1-Zo for large, aud 14 3-4e for
Beaea—llancepieked, t'$2.10 to $2-20 Per
allele Primes, $2, in a Jobbing wee'.
Honey --Extracted, in tins; 121-20 to 130
•per lb, for No.. 1, wholesale; Gemini, 42.50
to $3 per dozen for No. 1 and $2.40 or
No. 2.
PoultrY--Claiokens, 18 to 20o, eper lb.;
-fowl, 14 to •15o; turkeys, 20 to 210. Live
'poultry, about 2.0 lower than the above.
Potatoes—Good Ontario tetock, 60e per
hag, on track, and Delawares at 70o per
bag, tot track.
good
40 to
Provisions.'
Bacon—Long clear, 15 to 15 1-2o per lb..
in ease lots. Pork—Short out, $26 to $27;
"do., mess, $21.50 to $22. Hams—Medium
to light. 18 1-2 to 18 3-4c; heavy, 16 1-2 to
17o; rolls, 160; breakfast bacon, 19 1.2 to
20o; back, 22 1-2e.
Lard—Tierces, 14 1-4o; tubs, 14 1-2c; Pails,
143-4o.
Baled Hay and Straw.
Baled reay—No. 1 at $12 to $12.50, on
track, Toronto; No. 2, 410.60 to $11. Mixed
hasr is quoted at $9.50 to $10.
Baled traw—Good straw at $8.50 to
$9, ou track, Toronto.
Seeds.
Merchants are quoting to farmers, per
nundredweight, as follows:— Red clover,
No. 1, $26 th 426.50; do., No. 2, $23; Alike,
No. 1, $28 to 431; do., No. 2, $24.60 th $26.60;
Timothy, No. 1, $7.50 to $8; do., No. 2, $6
to $6.50; Alfalfa, No. 1, $19.60 to $20.60;
do., No. 2, $17.50. -
Montreal Markets,
Montreal, April 22.—Oats — Canadian
Western, No. 2, 43e; do., No. e, 401-2o; ex -
tee', No. 1 feed, 41,1-7c. Barloye-Manitoba
feed, 61 to 52e; malting, 70 to 76e. Biwa-
wheat—No, 2, 66 to 68% Plenre-Manitoba
Spring wheat Patents, firsts; 4540; do.,
eeconds, $4.90; strong bakers', $4,70e Win-
ter, patents, elioice, $5.25; straight rollers,
$4.85 to $4.90: .do., in bag's, $2.20 to $2.35.
Roiled Cats--Earrels, $4,20; bag of 90 lbs.,
$1.97 14,, etillfeed—Bran, $40; elierts, $22;
middlings, $25; mouillie, $30 to 435. IlaY
—No. 2 ear lots, Per ton, $12.50 to $13.
Cheeth—Pinest western% 130; do., east -
erne, 121-2 to 12 3-4e. Butter—Cheieest
creamers, 32 to 53o; emend, 30 to 31c. Egge
--Fresh, 2/ to 22e. Potatoes—Per beg, ear
lots 60 to 65e,
veinnieog cram.
Winnipeg, April 22,—Cash—Wheat—No. 1
Northern, 89 3-4e; No, 2 Northern, 870; No.
3 Nortlaern, 541-40; No, 4, 81.0; No. 6, 761-8;
'NO. 6, 711-50; feed, 620; No, 1 rejected
seeds, 840; No, .2.0., 850; No. 3 do., 781-50;
No. 4 do., 741-50; No. 5 do„ 701-20; No. 6
do., 661.2c; feed, Willie% 56 1-2o; No, 1 red
vrinter, 92e; No, 2 do., 89 1-4e; No. 3 do.,
86 1-20; No, 4 do., 831-4o. Oate—No. 2 0.
'W., 341 -So; No. 3 Ct. W., 321-40; extra No,
1 fetid, 331-40; No. 1 feed, 321-4c; No. 2 feed
301-50. Batley—No, 3.• 49e; No. 4, 480; re-
jected, 43e; feed, 42o, lex—No. 1 N.-W.C.,
41,121-2; No. 2 0.W. $1.10; No. 3
$1.03 1-2.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, April 22.—Wheat—May,
861-8o; July, 883-8o; September, 883-4
Closing cash, No. 1 hard, 885-$o; No. 1
Northern, 86 5-8 th 881.80; No. 2 Northern,
84 3-8 to 86 1-80. No. 3 yellow porn, 53 1-20.
No. 3 white oats, 31 112 to See. No, 2 Tye,
66 to 580. Brae, $16 to $17. Flour, in
wood, f.o.b. Minneapolis, first patents, 44.-
30 to $4.65; second patent% 44.15 to $4.50;
first clears, $3.10 to $3.40; seeond clears,
4260 to $2.80.
Duluth, .A.pril 22.—Wheat—No. 1 hard,
877-80; No. 1 Northern, 867.50; No, 2 Nor-
thern, 83 748 to 84 7-80; May, 87 3-8c bid;
July, 891.50; Septexnber, 891-50 bid; No. 1
Northern to arrive, 86 7-80, Linseed, 41.-
283.4 to 41,287.8; to arrive, 41.283-8 to 41.-
28 7-8; May, $1.287-8; July, 41.311-4 bid;
September, $1.32 3-4 bid; October, $1.32 1-8
oohed.
Live Stock Markets..
Montreal, April 12—Prime beeves, 7 to
near 71-4; medium, 5 1-4 to 3-4; common,
4 to 5. Mika cows, $35 to $70 each; calves,
01-2 th 6; •sheep, 5 to 61-2; lambs, Ito 71-2;
epring Iarabe, $5 to $6 each; hogs, about
121-2.
Tercinto, .eprej„22.—Cattle—Ohoice export,
4650 to $6.75; choice butcher, 86.40 to $6.-
60; good medium, $6.00 th $6.50; common,'"
45 to $5.25; cows, $5.25 to $6.75a bulls, $5.25
to $5.76; canners, $2 to $2.60; cutters, $3.25
to $3.75. Calves—Good veal, $6 to $7;
choice, $8.50 to $9; commena, $3 th $3.25.
Stockers and Pedere—Sthere, 700 to 1,000
pounds, $4.50 to $5.75; yearlings, $3.10 to
$3.501 extra choice heaes feeders, 900
pounds, $6.85 -to $6. Milkers and
$50 to $72. Sheep and Lambs—
Light ewes, $6 th $7,25; heavy. $5 to $6;
lambs, $8.25 to Me; bucks, 84.60 to $6.
llogs—$9.65 to $9.60, fed and watered; $9.20
th $9.25 Loh.. and $9.85 Off cars.
Welland County License Com
caumis-
sioners tioned sixty hotelkeepers
-to keep the law.
IVIAY GRIDIRON PROVINCE
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Government Bill Empowers Municipalities to Con-
steuct and Operate liyctro Radial Lines
'A despatch from Toronto says:
Just before the Legislature rose on
Wednesday evening Hon. Adam
Beck introduced an Act for the,
public construction and operation
of electric railways that provides
the machinery by which municipal.
ties „bliroughout the province can
secuie for themselves either bade-
pendeatly or by coeoperation the
transtortabion service so .many of
them haise urgently needed. Under
the new legislation they will be able
to proceed in three ways. They
can go to the Hydro-Eleetric Com-
mission and have that body cen-
steuct, operate and maintain a
line; they cin have the commission
construct it and operath and main-
tain it themselves, or they can both
construct and operate under due
upervision and with the aegis -tame
ef the commission.
The idea back of the whole bill
is that the municipalities must
meet the whole burden. The prov-
ince assumes no financial liability.
It is not -the intention to use the
credit of the .prOvince, the method
provided being similar -to that by
which the municipalities undertake
the local distribution of power,
meeting the cost by issuing deben-
tures. The right-of-way of the
Hydro -Electric transmission sys-
tem will, of course, be used to ad-
vantage, and this will be rented to
the municipalities by the commis.
sion.
In moving the first reading of the
bill Hon. M. Beck referred to the
hot that the Government and
commission had loden waited upon
and urged to adopt a plan of eri-
courag,ing the construction of elec-
• tric railways along the right-of-way
'of the commission- used tor the
transmission of 130Wer.
!,!Railway construction and oper-
fition," he said, "has, not been
considered a moaey-ki
mang pro-
position. Consequently we feel
that the matter should receive care-
coneidaration and the fullest
Investigation before Stich an enter-
prise is gone into," He added that
the construction of rural lines that
had been considered impeasible
night be possible under the condi-
tions made by the 'new -legislation.
The bill proviydes, &et, that the
Hydro -Eleatic Power Commission,
rwhenever reqnfred by the relearn -
ant -Governor -in -Council so to do,
may enquire into, examine, inves-
tigate and report upon the cost of
constracting and operating electric
railways in any locality where pow-
er is supplied by the commission,
with an estimate of the probable
revenue, the practicability of the
enterprise, and the economic value
to the locality served by it.
Two or more municipal corpora-
tions may be authorized by the
Lieutenant -Governor -in -Council to
enter' into an agreement with the
commission (1) for the construction,
equipment and operation of an
eleetric railway, to be operated. by
power supplied by the commission;
or (2) for its construction by the
connxussion and for its operation
by the corporation; or (3) for its
construction and operation laSrthe
corporation or' corporations, and
in either case for eupply of electric
power by the commission.
The agreement with the comnais-
sion shall include the location of the
line of railway, the character of the
equipment, and the service, and the
maxinaum tolls , and fares to be
chargeable thereon; the proportion
in which the cost of construction,
equipment, maintenance and oper-
ation shall be borne by each of the
corporations interesbed; the pro-
portion of the revenue to be distri-
buted to the corporation after de,
ducting the charges fax rental of
right-of-way, power, ate.
The entire undertaking will be
municipally owned, and the prov-
ince will not, be liable for a dollar
of expenditure. To meet the cost
of the railways the municipalities
shall 'have power to issue forty-
sseax debentures, but these deben-
tures will not be protected by a
provincial guarantee.
The Act requires the Council of
ever,y municipality entering into a
contract with the commission to an.
nually raise and pay over to the
oommission such sum a as may be
required by it in the construction,
equipment, maintenance and opera-
tion of the gailway, ineluding the
costs of the supply of eketrical
power to the extent fixed in the
agi:eement, and provides that de-
bentures may be issued, payable le
not more than forty years, for that
purpose,
The Act mitkes it tuinecessary to
secure the assent of the elettors to
any by-law to taiee such monies.
OUR LETTER FROM TOROATO
INTERESTINO SITS QF GOSSIP FROM
THE QUEEN CiTY.
.sir Henry Pellatt's 011t to the Onften'a
Olen Regiment—The city's Feed Bill
for a Year--sollins 'water Again,
The gift by' Sir Proory Pellatt of a large
plot of lend in a emendates titration of tee
city. to be used for drill purposes exclu-
sively by the Queen'e ONNa Regialeat, (Salle
at talttiOa own 'more te WE; veer etie,
Relight, who is in many reepeote the moat'
epeetacular figure en Canadian nuance.
eir Henry believee in doing things in a
big way evhen hie enthueiatini hi aroused.
The Queen e Own Regiment, eaid to
Canada's crank cope, has always
Sir lienry's onthuenaten. bas serve
in it himeelf throughout almost his, e
tire life -time and in all rauks fro
private to colonel. The Jaunts lie too
the regiment on are matters of Meter
first sending tbe bugle band to England
and aftorwarde arranging the transpor.
tetion of the ertire regiment to take part
In the manoeueree at Aidersnot. His pre-
sent gift of drill grounds le eitimetedi 10
male value at something like $120,000.
Sir Henry han some other enthueiasms.
He ems been a generous patron of TrinitY
College and of Orace Hospital.
' His House on the Hill.
But perhaps his outstancUng enthueiasm
Is the midterm he is building for him -
sale on the hill overlooking Temente, a,,t
the head of Spadina and Wollner Roade.
No deeeription eca,n convey an adequate
idea of the size and solidity of this man -
81011. It has been ander construction, for
two years years. Yeaprevious- to that, th
lodge ana etablee were erected, • stable
which in themeelves resemble a baTonia
castle,
complete the readence will :lin
s-
doubted'be the most expeueive an
elaborate to be found in the Dominic
of Canada, and will vie with those t
be found at least anywhere on the An
erican continent. What the cost will b
no ono knows, hat it will probably b
no thee than $1,000,000.
The house has become one of the elm\
piagaS of the city, and sight -seers are no
considered to have completed their round
until. they visit what is sometimes carp
ingly referred to as "Pellatt's Polly." De
spite tbese and similar slighting remarke
one cannot but feel mu admiration Lo
the conception and executiOn of the idea
• where the Money Comes From.
tela' Henry Pellatte; eareer on tb.e se
of Canadian anemia has been marked. b
ups and downs, but chiefly ups. The buys
ancy of Canadian business during the pas
few „years has carried him well forward
While he has net yet been regarded a
<nee of the most wealthy men in the coon
try it is known that. lie has acquired a
very large fortune, and thatn
a umber o
hie ventures have been otteuded with re
naarkable emcees. This is a fact which
Is not fully appreciated by Canadians
who regard his present venture in them
castle building line as a piece of errat
extravagance.
As an example of hie suceess, it may be
noted that in purclineing the site of his
residence he made a remarkable coup
That was some years ago, when land
even as close to the city as tho site is
was selling, not at eo na74011 a foot, but
In block by the_Henry acre. Sir purchas-
ed the entire block from Spadina Avenue
west to Bathurst street and from the face
of the hill north to St. Clair Avenue, re-
tainine what amounts to two or three city
squaree for the 'site of his residence, but
sub -dividing the rest and, selling it under
restrictions as a high cthse residential
distr,ict. It is stated that he was able to
acquire the land at what Agured out at
about $3 a foot frontage and, that what
he sold netted him about $46 a foot front-
age. It is now selling much higher than
that, some of it perhaps as high ae $100 a
foot, but in this instance, at least, Sir
Henry was willing to let eomebody else
get some of the profit. It is probable
that this single land traneaction netted
him enough to leay the entire cost of hi
'mansion. And this is not the only real
estate deal that Sir Henry has partici-
pated in during the That five years.
day, they. ivere fennel eo be intIliffieient
and beton 410 tenteiel could lee epuraperl
erupts of Water, to pay nothing ere get..
ting.tl field eleanea eiet, little the Olt),
was Withetie a oupply of water, of any
hind. Naturally, there wagi great Out.
blIret of Indignatieel. hewAterwerke'
olaciale ellteW up their halide and re-
sumed pumping theenigh .the tunvein, leave '
icier the Prenlinie Of getting tbe Pend out
of it to A More propitioue eocasion, If
that ever errivee. The chief result of the
inetidene veae to brieg a liarveet to the
peoreto oomi,ierties which sUPPIY enelog
water, ae fe goodmany eitleons through
long weave bave acquired a dietapte tot
the belled and chlorinated, variety.
13asehall on Again.
opening ef the baseball season finds
the feta; net ails Leo hopeful. Per the
firttime in aietory they have been told
by the prese correppondent at the trout
that the team is not in shape. Perhaps
au explanation of this lieri en the fact
acU
e nit there lute not been eompetition
among the newspapere in fulsome adula-
tion of the heroes of the diamond. In-
n' stead of ettoli newspaper *eliding a ger-
m, respondent with the team on its traireing
trip thie year, 48 1.4 former years, only
Y, ono correspondent, repTesenting all the
papers, aocompanied the team. On paper
the organization doe a not SOMA to be as
etrong as last year. It containe num-
bei' of unknown quantities, but under.the
direction of the popular Manager' 'Toe
Kelly may develop into a good fighting
machine,
inniGRATioN FOR LIST YEAR
no,o00 came From Britain and
139,000 From the States.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
• *During the fiscaleyear ended March
• 3est, 1913, 402,432 immigrants a,r-
rived in Canada. This total, is made
ci up of 150,542 British, 139,009 from
n' the United States, and 112,881 froM
all other ceuntries combined. lin-
o migration to Canada for the preced-
e ing fiscal. year, the twelve months
Y ended Meech 31st, 1912, was : Bri-
at 6..0/, 138,121; the United
• States, 133,710; and from all other
' countries combined, 82,406; total
854,287. Percentages of increases
• are : British, 9 per eent,-; American,
• 4 per cent.; other eountries 37 per
s,a cent.; total 14 per cent, To illus-
.. trate the naagnitude of the figures
t
just quotec, it is necessary to only
A state that last years' immigration
to Canada is greater than -ahe. total
f population of New Brunswick, ac-
cording to the census of 1911, by
, more than fifty thousand souls.
C &PT SCOTT'S DIARY.
. •
' 11 Enhances the Glory of Every
Man in the Expedition.
A despatch from London says:
Lady Scott, the wife of Captain R.
Scott, who lost his life in the Ant-
arctic, has written a letter to the
newspapers in which she expresses
her thanks for the sympathy ex-
tended to her in her bereavement
and tha
n
ks everybody for their gen-
erosity in subscriptions to memorial
funds. Sheeadds -that her husband's
diary will be' published in full as
soon as practicable. "Every word
in the diary," Lady Scott says,
"goes to enhance the glory of the
expedition and the work of every
officer and man ooncerned in it."
A Hydro -Electric Opponent.
St the time of his absorption by the
Mackenzie -Mann intereets, Sir Henry held
a controlling interest in the stook of
the Toronto Electric Light Co. He had
always been very optimistio about the
future of this company, and on every
tecession of 'the Stock had bought large
bloc:ks of it. Rumor has it that in the
transaction by which the Company was
sold th the Toronto Street Railway and
allied interests, Sir Henry Pellatt secured
a cool million in cash. He was one of the
original promoters of the Electric Bevel-
opmeot Company, and was exceedingly
annoyed because the certainty of tre-
mendous profits in thie venture was modi-
fied by the competition of the Ontario
Government with ete Hydro -Electric
policy. •
It is frequently stated tbat Sir Heal -yea
lackof tact had much to do with the an-
-tagoniem which developed between Sir
James Whitney ,and the Electric capital -
its.
Another financial transaction which il-
lustrates Sir elenryese, tactics is said to
have occurred in oonnection with the stock
of a salmonepacking industry in Britieh
Columbia, known on the stock exchange
as B. C. Packers. At a period of dull
timet, shortly after, ith organization, the
stock of this company fell on evil days.
Sir Henry did not know anything about
salmon packing himself, but he engaged
two experts at a price of $6,000 to visit
British Columbia and g into the possi-
bilities of the industry. They reported.
that the Company was all right. Sir
Henry immediately began buying the
stock, which was selling around $30 or $40
a share, and before anyone realized what
had happened be had a controlling inter-
est in the company. The views of hie
experts proved well founded, and the
stoek is now worth several times what
Sir Henry paid for it. In this was an-
other -mint of money for the venturesome
capitalist.
;Ma Henry ie on the boars of a Boom
or more leading financial companies, and
has more or less substantial interests in
them all.
'Itis hobby Is horticulture. His green-
houseneare the equal of any to be found
in Canada.
Toronto's Food sill.
Som.e person with a taste for figtirei has
been working out how much food 'Toronto
co/tames in a year. Ile has' arrived et
the result that no lese than 450,000,000
pounds of food-stuffe are required annu-
ally to keep the. wolf from the door in
Toronto. In this it is figured that no less
than 14,257,811 dozen of eggs are included,
While the figure may look large, when
it ie divided up anions the4appreixima,tely
half million citizens, it does not look
out of the way. It .provides for aboue 900
Pounds per persott per year, which le at
the rate of about only 21.2 pounds a day,
which does not seem, exorbitant.
It is livered that the value of 'aeyearls
eumely of food for Toronto is ne legs than
465,000%0'00iiie "tidied Water. vvaggon..,
Toronto has just been having another
week on the "boiled water waggon," ' and,
ae it turns out, all to no WWI. Two
years age, when the intake pipe broke,
a large quantity of sand was drawn into
the -tunnel under the bay. Thei presence
of title sand was demonstrated .1)Y the
occaeiotal sediment jri the water and be
ft serious atnonet of damege being baueed
10 maeliimery. It woe etiepeoted, litho, that
it corrtained trapurities. Finally the
Wittarworits. Department deolded that the
tunnel would have to, be eleatted, and te
thie and: elint, off the sopply coming
throngla it and nuked the citizens to get
along On the anieueit of water that peace
be pumped threat& twit eld PiPeti lying
oft the bottone of tho mivettee-Dollitted bay,
aed Which hate been in disuse for a
great enianS SOW, One of them le the
iistoric pipe that on one occasion rose)
to the top of /the bey, thereby ertusing
the greatest water famine. in the city's
history, Though these two pipet have
captuoity 06 35,00640 gallond of water
HUGE FLEET SAILS.
Sixty Grain Carriers Open Naviga-
• tion From Twin Cities.
despatch from Rol -6 Arthur
says: On Saturday there passed
-through Thunder Bay eastward
bound, from Port Arthur and her
twin city of Fort William, sixty
great lake freighters, laden with
approximately 12,250,000 bushels of
-wheat, oats, flax and bayley, being
the vast fleet which has been lying
in the Twin City harbors during the
past winter, and which the °pew-
ing of navigation has set free.
HUSBAND HELD FOR MURDER.
—
Montreal Man Arrested Who Said.
Wife Was Killed in Struggle.
• A despatch frem. Ifontreal says:
Morris Seifert, who originally
claimed that his wife was mortally
shot in a struggle between them
oVer a revolver she -had pointed at
him, has been found criminally re-
sponsible for her death by a coro-
ner's jury and has been arrested
charged with murder. Seifert now
contends that he was reading the
paper at the time the fatal shot was
fired and that he sprang to his feet
to see his wife fall to the ground.
ON THE MEND.
She—And how is your bachelor
friend 7
Ho—When I saw him last he was
mending very slovsly.
he—Indeed! I didn't know he'd
been ill.
He—He hasn't been. He Wa8
&reit% his soeks.
Items of News by Wire
Notes of Interest as to What is Going
on All Over the World
Canada.
Navigation opened at the head of
the 'flakes eight days earlier than
last year,
• Mr, 11. W. Crowley was appoint-
ed Chief Inspector of Toronto Pub-
lic Schools, •r
• From 'Montreal to Vancouver in
Ir hours is the objective of the
C.P.R.
Waterloo County Council will
spend $301000 on 'making model
roads this season, '
Prairie fires are reported frern
Saskatchewan, severarfarmers hav-
ing been burned out.
St.Thomae Y.M.C.A. raised more
than $67,000 in its campaign for
$50,000 for a new building,
West. Elgin Lioense Commission
ers refused, licenses to four hotels
in St. Thomas and held over elle
more.
Christian Bender, a retired far-
mer, was fatally injured by a
horse,'s playful kick at the Listowel
Horse Show.
David Mitchell, a M. C. R. eon -
climber, was instantly killed by be-
ing eruehed under a falling car at
Welland, •
' The bounties on iron and steel
are, it is understood, not to be re-
moved, but there will likely be some
revision cif duties.
Alex. Sinclair, probably the old-
est resident of Middlesex county,
died in London on. Thursday, aged
a hundred and two years.
Miss Gladys Meredith •of Brant-
ford was awarded $1,500 damages
against the chief of police and two
other offieers and Dr. Ashton for
false arrest, imprisonment and as•
sa,ult.
Gideon King was drowned white
driving across a, bridge owing to its
having been. weakened by the rise
of water caused by the dynami.ting
of a dam on the Napanee, River at
Hichinbrooke.
• H. Boulder, an • Englishman,
dropped dead at E. D. -Smith's
factory, Winona, one hour after
•starting on his first job in Canada.
His widow and family are in Eng-
land.
Novo, Scotia.' s estimates show.
Revenue, $1,902,016, and expendi-
ture, $1,890,788, ineluding $342,000
for education; interest, $424,744;
public charities, $242,000; roach,
$230,000.
Waterloo County Council will buy
a motor can for F. C. Hart, District
Agricultural Inspector of Galt, to
enable hiln to travel the county giv-
ing farmers instructions in spraying
and proper drainage.
The militia department and the
national bureau of breeding are co-
operating whereby the military
manoeuvre areas north of Mediciee
Hat and in British Columbia will
be utilized for the breeding of
horses.
Chief Engineer Bowden, of the
Department of Railways and- Ca-
nals, and Engineer Waller,. who is
in charge of the new Welland Ca-
nal construction, have returned
from an educa,tional trip to the Pa-
nama Canal Zone.
Great Britain.
Great Britain's* Budget this year
totals £200,000,000.
• Sir 'Charles Day Rose, Bart., M.
P., died from the effects of an air-
ship flight in London.
Holyro,o4 Castle, the famous Roy-
al castle in Edinburgh, has been
closed because of damage done by
suffragettes.'
Militants doeorated "The Monu-
ment" in London with flags and
campaign •streamers.
West -end business houses in Lon-
don have entered action for ,e2,000
sustained by window -smashing suf-
fragettes.
Geos Lansbury, former Socialist
M.P., who advised suffragettes to
clestro3t property, has been called
.411
oourt under the statute provid-
ing for preventive ustiee,,
1.7nite4 States.
Jersey City has voted for govern-
ment by eommission.
Buffalo may establish a hospital
for treatment of drunkards.
It; is reported that Dr. F. Fe
Friedmann has sold his secret for -
mule for $1,500,000.
A mothers' pension bill providing
for monthly payments to indigent
mothers by the eounties of Penn -
sylvanite has passed the,legislature.,
Mayor Gassyner of New York has
authomed the city to advertise in
Canada for student nurse & owing- to
the scarcity of applicants in that
city,.
Frank Mashok, fifteen, was shot
and killed at Cleveland by Harry
13onclorn, 41, who sa-ys that the lad
and his playmates annoyed him
while at work.
Depression of trade, due to the
recent fleoels in the middle west, is
given by the McElwain Shoe Com-
pany for closing its eleven factories
in Manchester, N.H.
• General.
• Rebellion continues td spread
throughout Mexico.
Amazing charges -were made itt
the Reichstag against the German
armor plate manufacturers.
Four men were killed and a fifth
is dying as the result of an army
balloon explosion near Paris, on
Thursday.
The Greek Parliament voted King
Constantine a civil list of $400,000
and the Dowager Queen Olga $60,-
000.
Karl Kopf, a fencing master
prominent in sporting, circles in
Berlin, has been arrested at Frank-
fort -on -the -Main on the charge of
having killed his first two wive si and
of trying to poison the third one for
the insurance.
BUOI' SAIL1D 18,000 MILES.
Strayed From Levis, Rounifed the
Horn and Landed in Australia.
A despatch from Levis, Que.,
says: A gas buoy placed to mark
the wreek near here of the Traverse
pier in 1911, was ca,rried away by
ice, and has been picked up in. New
South Wales; a, distance of 10,000
miles. Apparently it travelled south
until picked up by the equatorial"
currents and was borne to the
southernmost end of the continent,
thence around Cape Horn to the
finding point.
FIGHT FOR KEG OF WHISKEY.
Finns at Fort 'Willi:tin Stab Each
• Other and One May Die.
A despatch from Fort William
says: Gustav Swawerie and Steve
Gorpy, two Finlanders, fought a
desperate duel,over possession of a
keg of whiskey at Tolulu on Wed-
nesday at noon, from which both
emerged covered with wounds.
Swawerie's •condition is critical, as
he was stabbed no less than seven
times about the head, face and
shoulders. • Gorpy was also stabbed
in half a dozen places, but none ol
his wounds is considered serious.
CIEURCHILL_FOR, GERMANY.
Raiser Invites First Lord. of British
Admiralty to Visit flim.
A despatch from Berlin says: A
newspaper here prints a, statement
that the Kaiser has; invited Winston
Churchill, the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, who recently proposed that
the nations should cease their naval
constructions for a year, to be his
personal guest at Kiel during the
yachting week.
APPEALS TO CIIRISTIANS
Chinese Republican Government Formally Asks Day
of Prayer for Nation
• A despatch from Pekin says: An
appeal made by the Chinese Gov -
eminent to all the Christian
churches in China to ,eet aside April
27 as a day for prayer that China
may be guided to a wise solution
of the critical problems besetting
her, is regarded here as striking
evidence of the extra,ordinary
ohanges whic,h have taken place in
the nation since the revolution.
The appeal was distributed broad-
cast by telograph on Thursday to
all the governors and high officials
within whose jurisdiction Christian
communities are 10 bo found. It
was •also sent to the leaders of the
'various missions. Prayer was re-
quested in the appeal for the Na-
tional Assembly, for the new Gov.
ernment, for the President of the
Republic who is yet to be elected,
for the constitution of ilic Republics
for the recognition of the Republia
by the powers, for the maintenance
of peaoe and for the election ol
strong and virtuous men to office.
The representatives of the provin.
cia.1 414horities are ipstru9ted to,
att,end ibe services, A similar se0
vice has been held4.1,..1:eql,six in. PcItio:
at the request of the Govel".ricinentel
'The appeal ha'given extraoedinary
satiefaction to misstep esisaijes,'
where it is pointed otit that. this ti
tha first times in the history o±t,hts
World that such a request has eome
from a non-Chrietiaa nation: