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Exeter Advocate, 1913-9-11, Page 3Items of News by Wire Notes of Interest as to What Is Going on All Over the World Canada. 1 009 000 people visited the Ntt' ti,000.1 Elzehibit,1011.at Teronto. Trento is •to have the finest freight terminals in the world. Jolui Griffin, of Toronto, plans to erect a, $100,000 theatre ia London. Ex-Ald. A. R. Whyte, of the Hamilton Westinghouse staff, is dead Scarcity of baskets is using fruit -growers in the Niagara penin- sula much anxiety amd lose. Thos. Murphy, aged '71 baggage transfer agent, of Corri'wall, was taken ill at his work aod died. A mission building in ereetion at Brantford oollapsed on Thursday, one man, S. Deans, having his col- lar -bone broken. • Lyman W. Cox, a commereial tra.veller, and a prominent curler, died of blood-poisouing at Truro, • LS,, on Friday. E. Morrison, for twenty years professor of phannacy, chem- • istry and botany a,t the Montreal College of Pharinaey; is .dead.' Jas. Anderson had his right arm torn off when he tried to readjust a belt 011.a, runeing.machine at the Lambton Peeking Co.'s factory at Petrolea, on Friday. T. W. J. Pauley, of West London, was attacked by a cow and was •saved from being killed when the •animal hurled him .over a five-foot fence into an ,adjoining lot. Bruce Boyd, aged 14, of Guelph, -who was visiting in Nap/pees and with companions, for a lark dole a • ride on a freight train to Belleville, fell in getting off to regain his hat and lost his right leg below the knee. • Mayor C. M. R. Graham, of Lon- don, announced thathe vote on • the Beck scheme for the rehabilita- tion of the London and Poet _Stan- ley Railway by electrification be taken before October reth. . Prof. S. L. Umbaeh, of • Napier- ville, Que., a native of Woolwieh township, Ont., died in • Cassel, Germany, on Saturday. He ivas making an extensive tour ,of Euro- pean countries„ after attending the World's Sunday School Gouvention in Zurich. Frank Miller and Frank Beralettus Provincial• liquor deteetives, the latter only seventeen years of age, were sent to the Oentral Prison for Six months at hard labor for ac- cepting a, bribe of $25 from Mrs, Margaret Breenam, a South Porcu- pine saloonkeeper. Great Britain. A huge bonded- warehouse at Manchester was burned at a loss of $1;250,000. Flames shot a thousand feet in the air. A runaway eaused a panic among the thousands of people who at- tended the funeral in Dublin. of the man killed in the riots. The) late Duke of Sutherland, who, during the last few years of his life became an extensive land- holder in Canada, left an •estate, according to his will, of more than One million two hundred thousa.nd pounds sterling. _ United States. One result of the recent railway wrecks in New England may be the passage of legislation prohibiting the, use of wooden coaohes: Mrs. 'Margaret A. Carter, a. so- ciety women of Elyria, Ohio, is in the Zaurity jail on a federal war- rant`, charging her with using the mails to fraudulently eecuee $3,000 from, 1VIies Lillian Huntington, Elyria's wealthiest heire,ss. General. The inflamed Japanese are de- manding military action against Ant -clericals broke up the parade of the Catholic Gymnastic Associa- tion in Roane. An eccentric American woman, who threw a bouquet at the Kaiser in Berlin, Was -temporarily arrest- ed. At the Zionist Congress in Vien- na, it was reported that the mem- bership has increased by 129,000, and that the national fund for pur- chase of land in Palestine has an ncome of 1,376,553 md.rks. OIL FOR TIIE BRITISH NAVY. • Gaspe Yields Considered Admirable • for Now Imperial Scheme. •A despatch from London says : In view of the increasing attention which is being directed to the adop- tion of oil as fuel in the British • navy, it is interesting to know that • oil lands in different parts of the' • Empire are being sedulously devel- oped. The decision of the Govern- ment to secure supplies as far as • pe-sible within the Empire has giv- en a uew inipetus to the search for large oil deposits indifferent parts of the dominions, and it would be fitting that the premier dominion, Canada, should be reckotied among • the fuel -oil sources of supply. In this connection Viscount Selby, who is chairnian 'of -the Eastern Canada Company, and who has just • returned from the Canadian fields' supplies interesting details. In the course of a conversation Lord Selby • remarked that he was very greatly impressed with what he saw • and heard during the visit. The most favorably situated oil fields in Canada from , a geographieal and • strategical pdint of view, he states, are those of Gaspe, which extend from the seacoast on the Bay of Gaspe, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence for several miles in a north-wester- ly direction,• •It was in the Larocque district, in the North-West, that a 'consider- able number of wells were put down and good supplies bf oil of a high quality obtained. What is known as an anticlinal formation extends green this district in a south and a a s terly direction down to the coast. The opinions .of experienced drilling men and geologists in that country are to the effect that oil will be found there` in large quanti- ties. Should this be the ca,se, the importance of the field from the points of supply for the • British navy and for marine and industrial purposes cannot be overestimated. • riRE IN BOOTH PLANT. a -- Three -Hundred Men Idle as Result • of $1.00,000 Blaze. A despatch fa= Ottawa says: Three hundred men are thr-own out ckr work as the result of a, Ere in the timber mill of the J. It.. Booth in- alustries here on punclay at noon. Damage to theeextent of $100,000 . -was caused by the blaze, the origin of which is a Mystery, The mill de- stroyed was only rebuiliethree years •.tego, new reaehinery being installed • M the, lame, Splendid work by the • firemen prevented the flames • 6Preading to the other buildings wned by the 'sumo firan. WELLAND C,ANAL CONTRACT. 11. X. O'Brien. and Hugh Doughney , • .the SueeesSfui Tendereis: A 'despatch from Ottawa sa,ys : At a brief meeting of the •Cabinet Council on Thursday afternoon the contract for Section 3 of the new 'Welland Canal was awarded to M. ,J, O'Brien•and Hugh Doughn,ey for approximately tee million dollars. There were ten tenders under con- sidera,bion, including two British and two Ainerica,n firms. Work will be started .at once by the suecessful tenderers, -who will make Thorold •their headquarters. The contract •eel's for the completion of the work by April, 1917. • The contract for •Section 2 of the eanal will' be let later. The contract for Section 1 was let some time ago. No action has yet been taken regard to 'awarding the contract for the Dom- inion Goverament share of the To- ronto harbor work. More Tenders Soon. A despa,teh from St. Oatharin'es says: Chief Engineer Weller stated that tenders for No. 2 -Section of the Welland Ship Canal, g extending from the fourth concession line in Grantham Township to neer Thor- old, the northerly boundary of No. 3 Section, would be caned for with- in a week. • 'Three weeks later No. 4 Section, south of Thorold, with heavy •.rock excavatiop, will be ready for the eall. UNREST IN BARCELONA. Police Break Up Demonstration of Overworked Employes. A despateh fisorrx Barcelona, Spain, says; The, elerks of the 'stores of this city held a mass meet- ing of protest on Sunday night against the refusal of the empleyere to close at 6 o'clock, The closing hour at present is 9 O'ClOek. The meeting was followed by a hostile demonstration'. that the police suc- ceeded in breaking up only after a fey Then had been injured. CATTLE DISEASE IN PRANCE. Epidemic of Feet and 1VIon.1,h Dis- ease in the Cote d'Or Region.. A despatch from Dijon saess: Foot and mouth disease is alarmingly reva,lent, in the Department of Cote d'Or. The disea.se is reported / epidemic in the communes of Vox - c rey, Mareigny, Thoreirey, , t on/marir'1VI'artrois, Boa- S eourt and Scrragny, Alnieet all Cite a cattle markets in the department ni have been stfigoentled. A.11111i1STED FOR GA111111,114'0, Jerome ;Tailed for )(laying "PtellY Ante." A despateh enart." ieC foaticoOk, Que- bec, says William Traverts Jerome WO; Stirreated here • on Friday eharge'd with gambling, The com- plaint was Made by Milford, AW - ridge, a citizen of Qoatimok Who swore that he had seen Jerome playing poker in public on Thure- day, Jerome was taken to jail where Thaw was confined when 'brought here two weeks ago., .Thow s lawyers diseleimed anY knowledge of the' arrest. The be- lief prevailed that it was due %/WY to ill -feeling among the town's people, who resented Jerome's presence. After Jerome was in jail almost an. bpllr his friends found Magistrate McKee, • who admitted Jerome to $500 bail, Attorney Ver -- ret, 'assisting the New York State authorities, • said that the ease dootblese would be adjourned to • give Jerome opportunity to fulfil his mission to Canada should the immigration authorities deport Tha,w. Jerome left the jail smil- ing. • The speeial deputy attorney - general sent to Canada by New York State to regain possession of Thaw, was led Ihr.ougli the streets with a hostile hooting, yelling, jeering reo.b 'of men and boys at his heels and was looked up in the same cell that.Thaw occupied when he mras first arreeted.on Canadian nil. The newspa.per men "who played with Jerome .said the game was "penny ante" with a "ten -cent limit." One report said that Jer- ome lost fifty-four cents. PHYSICAL DIRECTOR KILLED. Fatal Accident at the New Toronto • Y.M.C.A. A despatch from Toronto says: Mr. George A. Barnes, who came to Toiento lesn than week ago :from:his home in Sherbrooke, Que- bec, to assume the duties of physi- cal director in the new Toronto Y.M.C.A., met death with tragic sud.dennees an Friday night. He Was OA the gymnasium with a Class of pupils and was engaged in de- monstrating certain, • exercises on he horizontal bees, when in some unaocountable manner he suddenly slipped and fell. For a moment nothing was thought of the mishap, but wheu the young athlete did not ise immediately those present saw hat he had been seriously injured. Vitith all possible rapidity he VMS -ushed to Grace Hos ital It a •found, however that the fall had dislocated his neek, and within ten minutes of his arrival at the hospi- • tal death ensued. - • • - WORLD'S C*----HAMPIONS. Canadians Win First Three Prizes • at Camp Perry, Ohio. • A despatch fromCamp Perry, Ohio, sa.ye: By winning the indi- vidual Palma =tell with an array rifle, on Thiirsday, Major George Hart McHarg, of the etla Duke. of Connaught',s Own' Rifles, Va.neou- ver, Canada, becomes the indivi- dual. champion. of the world by ha,v- ing a total of 220 out of a possible 2.25 on the 800, 900, and 1,000 yards ranges. Oaptaih Neill Sandah of the 24th Regiment, Chatham, Ont., was second with a score of 220, and Lieutenant George Mortimer of -the Canadia,n Army Service Corps, Ot- tawa Ont was third with a, score of 220. Plates were a,warded ac- cording be merit. The best scores on the long distanee range counted for first place, the next best for sec- ond place, etc. LARGEST FLOUR MILL. Capitalists Propose to Build It at Calgary, Alberta. A despatch frora Calgary, Alber- ta, says: A syndicate of local and Minneapolis "capitalists will shortly commence the erection of what is olaimed will be the largest flour mill in. the British Empire. It will be bpilt in four units, to cost $1,- 400,000 each, and when all the units are completed 'will have a capacity of 6e000 barrels of flour per da,y. Work en the fir'st unit will be com- menced im.rnediately. THIEF FEARFUL OF RADIUM. Returned • the Precious • Metal Through the Mail. A despatch from Vancouver, B. 0., says: The tiny particle of radi- um, worth about $3,500, which was stolen, from the offices of Dr. G. L. Deverteuil rec'ently, was returned through the rnaii on Wednesday morning. It is thought that the thief, lice;ing read of the -deadly ef- fects of, radium in inexperienced hands, became frightened and de- cided t•o return the metal. •ALFONSO TO SAVE ASSASSIN. , Asks Premier to Present Plea for • Sancho Alegre's Life. - A despatch from' Madrid says: ing Alfonso haS earnestly request - d Premier Remanones. to .propose hat th.e death sentence of Raphael ancho Alegre, Whe ,tried to as- assinate him 'Test April, be coin- uted. • The Government will com- fy with the request a, 0 BF: WORLD IN REVIEW 1. Cheep Living, Nut No Rush. The;increasing cost of living le a 'world, wide Pbouomenon, but there are spots that bay() roue/rad uneireetee by it. A )3rit- i6h trimmer worms an eager worlt that, the oheapest place to live in is north- weetern• Syria, and osPecially Antioch. 110 lived there a whole winter on a pound a week, though Ite had a fine house and ser- vants, e. friend had told him that one could live there comfortably MI S200 a year. Veril', with ego at3„ cents a dozen, fruits and vegetablee for a ridiculquely 81111111 mini a week, mutton at CeiltM, An. ti001 18 411 ideal place. Yet you need not, if on plan aa immediate removal to An- tioch or vicinity, fear a rueh and jam, Antioch ie especially in winter, but there is no life there. We are not after cheap living, but after cheaper liv- ing right *where we are, where we work and play and enioy egoial and polltieul arid aesthetic advantages. ]here' e no plasm like home, if we can afford to tithe* there andpay the bills. • Wonders of Future Journallein In a presidential address a Loudon edi, tor spoke glowingly of the future of the daily newspaper on its teal:teal anaeout- menial side.Papere will be distributed by pneumatic tubes; editions will appear hourly; lazy persons will not need to read even the headlines, for the gramophone will below the news to them in their of- fices or rooms.'reporters will carry tele- phones with them and send -items by the Wireless sYstera; and so on. All this is quite possible. Yet there are manY ne•Wapaper sien who are not entan- sieetio over this striking PMture. Seine - thing that is not in the picture is present in their minds. They like to think of the great neweparper as an educator and pur- veyor of news that cannot be bellowed ab /nen and women. They like to think of the quiet enjoyment of reported debates, correspoaclerme articles, reviews, editor'. ale b men and women. who rove things of the intellect andof the epirit. • What of these readere? Technical mar- vels are not nearly eo important to them am truth, accuraey, dignity, intelligence and. responsibility in journalism. But how they would rejoice in .a technical inven- tion that automatically kept out of newe- paPerslom the yellow sensationalists and the fa,kerel Trade of the Country. In spite of the financial stringency Cam adze's trade le niore than holding ite own. •The returns for the last four months of the current fiscal year show a eubstantial increase over the same time in the pre- vious year. The total Canadian trade for the four months ending on July 31et, was $358,488,000, 'compared with 8328.635,000 for the corresponding period in 1912. This makes an inoreaee • of nearly. $30,000,000. There WAS an increase in the imports of about ;16,500,000 and in • the exports of about $10,000,000. This figural if the smile progress is athing like main:, tained, will add about•$100,000,000 to the total trade of the country. But it will be •necessary to *ait for a couple of menthe before one can safely estimate up. on the year's business. So far the regults are better than- anticipated. Pure Food. As eternal vigilance ie the price of lib- erty so it is also the price of nurity. If •the people will insist on all occasions on avoiding what is doubtful and upon being served onlywith goods that have been proved again and again to be above sus- picion, a change will soon be brought about. In this way adulteration will soon • cease to pay and ceasing to pay will soon cease to be practised. The Government, through their inspectors and analyses, are doing what they can in this matter, but their efforts can be only partially success- ful unlese public support is accorded in very full measure. British Crown Colonies. According to a report presented to the British House of Commons by Mr. Lewis Harcourt, the Colonial Secretary. the Crown C,olonies are growing and prosper - 1n n most satisfactory raanner, and arsinisverkwhere sharing -vrith the United KlUiffout the present wave of material prosperity., The trade and commerce Of these Colonies are particularly encourag- ing. Exports are rapidly growing, new industries are developing, and wealth is increasing. The growth of cotton in the Empire is one of the most notable indications of the rapidly .increasing prosperity of the colo- nies. -A ' few years ago La,noashire cotton mills were wholly dependent for their ma. terial on foreign countries; and the bulk of the supplycame from the United States. There were . regione• within the Empire suitable for the growth of cotton, but they made no attempt to cultivate it, un- til a subsidy of $50,000a year was granted to the British Cotton Growers' Associa- tion by the British • Exchequer. That wrought a great change. In seven years the exports of raw cotton from the Crown Colonies have almost doubled, while the i exports of cotton seed have ncreased in still larger proportion. Africa .takes front rank in this new in- dustry. . Cotton -raising has also taken a hold in Ceylon and the West Indies. Now the Empire may be, said to be producing ite own raw material for the mills in Lancashire. In rubber production alone the exports from Ceylon and the Malay Straits have risen, between isases, from. six million pounds is? fifty-one million pounds. Tea - growing is a new enterprise in llYassa. land. There is also a satisfactory export trade in banana% The whaling in the South Atla.ntio also shows a progreesive spirit in the coloniee. A Thrifty People,. The facility with which, the Canadian immigrant finds prosperity is perhaps. as much due th the habit of thrift he ac- quires as to the opportunities offered him In the way of employment, though na- • turally the two are closely related. Lux- ury, whether in the form of extravagant living or superfluous pleasures, la not yet eapping the vitality of the nation. The eagernees of working people to put a lit- tle by for a rainy day wae recently de- monstrated at Vancouver. • A local news- paper offered a pocket savings bank and firet deposit of fifty cents to every per- son who cared to apply for the eame, on tho sole condition that they would open • eavings .account in a local bank. The •bank in question offered interest at four per cent. per annum, compounded ever three months, the raoney so deposited to be available for Withdrawal by cheque at any time: Two thousand persona avallecil themselVes of the offer in a single day. The total deposited in ea.vings batikS of all kinds in Canada, is, roughly, $925,000.- 000 for a population of about 7,000.000, Or nearly four timbe ae much as is deposited in the Poet -office Savings Bank in Brit- ain, where the population is five times as great.- „ • A Bad State of Affairs. In the fourth annual report of he DOM- miesiou of Coteervation there Is'a brief account of a survey of the pent Canal -watershed above Peterboro made • last eumnaer by Dr. Fernow, of Toronto Uni- vereity, While thie survey was for the • plata:Zs, of making an inventory of' the timber resourees of the area in connec- Moil with a referestaion question, the conclitiOne 'under -which the scabtered farms Were tilled forced themselves' on the notice of the sbrveying party, In some of the back townships north of Beterborti the soil covering over the rooks is so thin that the pocket, Parma are prac- tically incapable of sustainiag a faltily. Some of the families trying to eke out au existence an them are. it is stated, ra- pidly becoming degenerate. In 1911 195 farms were for sale for taxes averaging a rate of 6 cents an acre. Prom 100 to 600 farailiee, dr from 5Q0 to 1,000 pereone, aro living in a etate of poverty and often this province Were the full details to come jand stwo Grain, Cattle and Cheese Prices of These Products in the Leading , Markets are Here Recorded Breadstuffs, goToorero, n9too pSeerp Sept. ant.: Pznioaudr of t aneeiwo wwhbotat $3.65 tieaboard. •klanitahae-First Patente sintr"illgtobabkaogreo,,, $151.140 jutedobeagesec, e$n44A $4.90 • Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, 99o, on trask, Bay ports; No. 2 at 980; No. 3 931-2o, B47 ports; new. Noe 1 Northern, 96e, September delivery, and No. 2 at 940. Ontario wheat -New No. 2 wheat at 84e to 86e. outside. Oats -No, 2 Ontario eats, 33 to 33 1'24 outside, and at 36a, on track. Toroneo. Western Canada old ,eate, 391-80 for No. 2, and at 38 1-2e for No, 3, Bay ports. Peae-Neminal at 03 to 85e oteeeide. ml3idalralneya.--52 to 52e, outside; 660 Terouto, Corn -No, 2 Ameriean corn, 78 1-20. c.i.f. leye-60 to 65e per buthel. • Buckwheae-Nominal. ToBrol'annto--34fraenigitgjsi:" bSbraroar,tii$2,1$a22.thTn;rionntoba•gs, ere aree- Wholesale dealers' quotations to retail- . -- Country PredUCO. Butter --Choice dairy, 22 to 24o; inferior, 07,18 19e; creamery, 26 to 27c for rolle and 24to 25c for solids. • Bgge-Case lots of new laid, 26 to 28a Per dozen; fresh, 22 to 24e; and seconds, 17 to 18c. Roney -Extracted, in tins, large, and 143-40 for twins, , Beene-Band-piaked, 82.25 to $2.35 per bushel; primes $1,75 t $2. Honey --Extracted, • in tins, 101-2 to 12c per lb. for No. 1 wholesale; conabe, $2.50 to $2.75 per dozen for No. 1. and $2.25 th . or o. 2. Poultry -..n, 16 to 17c per lb; Spring chickens, 20 to 210; ducks. 1.6 to 17e; •geese, 13 to 14e; turkeys, 18 to 20o. :- Potatoets-Onterico, 80 to 85e per bag, on tratk, 58 to 64e, knour-Manitelea Spring wheat, t p4tente, trete, $5.60; eeeouds, $5.10; ovens • swam`, . $4:90; •Winter patents, elieleek , $6,25 to $5.60; straight rollers. $6 th $6,101 ; straight rolletv, hags, *2.3018 $2.40 Roll, ed eaue barrels; $4.75; O.. bage. 90 Inee , $26, Mountie, $27 ts $29. Hey, Dio, ye 82,25. Bran, $21.' Shorts, 503. Middling/ ton, ear lots, 812 to $13. Obeese-Fines Westerns, 13 te 13 3 -See fineet, Eastern'', 12 3-4 to 13e. Beetter-Choieest ereamerYr 24 3,4 to 26e; seconds. .241-4 to 241.80, Egge .--Freeh. 32e; ',elected,29c: No. 1 Stocit, No. 2 Btock, 20c, Provisions. Bacon -Long clear, 16e pea' lb, in ease lots. Pork-eShort out. $20; doe moss, 824. ICarna-2,1ediura tel light, 211-50 to 220; heavy, 201.50 to 2Ie; rolls. 17e; brealtfaet bacon. 21 to 22e; baeks, 24 to 25c. Lard-Tiercee, 14e; tubs, 14 1-4c; pails, 14 1-2c, Baled Hay and straw. Baled hay -No. I hay, 81318 $14 on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at $11 to $12; No. 3. $9 to $10. Baled straw -$8 to $8.50, on track, To- ronto. Montreal Markete: Montreal, Sept. 9.-Oate-Canadian West- ern, No. 2, 401.2 to 41e: Canadian West- ern. No. 3, 39 1-2 to 40a; extra No. 1 feed, 40 th 402-20. Barley-lia,nitaba feed, 50 to 51c; malting, 62. to 64o. Back -wheat -No. 2, Winnipeg Crain. • Winnipeg, Sept. 9.-Cagh-Wheat-No. 'Northern, 89 1-4e; No. 2 doe, 863-4a; No. 3 do., 641-40; No, reieeteff seeds, 83e; No, 2 do., 810. Oate-No. 2 C.W., 360; No, a 0. W., 331-2c; extra No. 1 feed. 34e; Ne. 1 feed. 331-50; No. 2 feed, 32e. 13arley-No, 3, 46c; No. 4, 44 1-2e; rejected, 41e; feed. 41e, Plux-No. i N.W,0„ 21.331-2; NO. 2 CW, $1.21 1-2; No. 3 C.W., $1,17 1.2. United States Markets. • Minnearpolie, Sept. 9. -Wheat -September, 861-4v; December, 89 34e; My. 943-4c. No, 1 hard. 893-40: No. 1 Northern. 873-4 to 891-40; No. 2 'Northern, 87 to 871-40, No, yellow corn, 72 to 721-2,0, No. 3 white oats, 401-4 to 411-40. No. 2 i'ye, 61 to 631-50. Flour, firet _patents, 54.50 to $4.761- secoad Patents, $4.15 to $4.50; first cleats, $3.20 th $3.50; oeeond clears, $2,75 to $3.10. Bran u oban ed • Duluth, Sept. 9.--Wheate--No. I hard, 897.60; No, 1 Northern: 88 5-80; No. 2 North- ern, 865-8 to 87 3-8e; September. 877-8e bid; December, 89 7 -So asked; May. 951-80, Mese --Linseed, $1.60 5-8; September, $1.491-8 ask- ed; October, 81.503-4 bid; November, $1.50 7-8 aceked; December, $1A6 , Live Stock Markets. • Montreal, Sept. 9. -The prices paid for bulle •were from 31-4 to 33-4 ()exits per pound,. for stockers and grace fed calves, 31-2 to 4 1-4; prime beeves. 61-4 to 61.2: Medium, 41.2 to 6; and common. 3 to 41-1; cowe, $30 to $65 each; calves, 3 to 61-2; sheep about 4 cents; lambs about 61-4; hogs, 10 1-2. Toronto, Sept. 9. -Cattle -Choice export. $6.50 to $6.80; choice •butchers, $6.25 to $6,50; good medium, $5.65 to $5.901 com- mon, $4 to $5; canners, $2 to $2.50; cutters, $3 to $3.25; fat cows. 8450 to 55.25; cora- Trion cowe,-$3.50 to $4. Calves -Good veal. $5 to $7.25; choice, $8.25 to $9; common. $3 to $3.50. Stockers and feeders -Steers. 708 to 800 pounds, $4.50 to $5; extra cheice heavy feeders, 90018 1.050 pounds. 85.2518 $5.60; rough eastern, 490 th 650 pounds. 52.50 to $4.25: light bulks. $2.75 to $3. Sheeli and lambe-Light ewee. $4.25 to $4.501 heavy, $3 to 5350; bucks, $3 to $3.50; spring lambs, 86.25 to $6,75. Hogs, $9.64 f.o.b.; $10 fed and watered, and $10.25 off cars. induce scores of attempts to extract a living from eoil never meant th yield it. Platte for the recuperation of the area, most of which is suitable only for timber production, have been prepared following the survey. •Perhzups when these are brought forward for consideration the hu- manitarian side of the question may give the problem an interest it would never possess as a matter of mere reforestation. .1. NO MORE 'STATUTE LABOR. Farmers Are Too Busy to Fix Roads La Brantford Township. -•A despatch from .Brantfe'rd say The prospects are that there will no more statute labor in the Tow ship of Brantford. At the prese time there are portions which ha been commuted, but the Tema,ind has been under statute labor. Th work has not been satisfactory, a on Wednesday afternoon .the eon. eillors stated that the eonditio were such that they would be fore to commute it and place the enti township roads and local improv ment work also under a compete supervisor. The trouble was th that the farmers have been too bu to leave their farm work to otten to the roads, which are in bad co dition. No definite action was ta en, but later in the year it is likely that all statute labor in the town= thip will be commuted. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. . - Imports Deerea,se for First Time in Year's. • A $4,000,000 FIRE. More Than Thirty Blocks Burned • at Hot Springs. A despatch from Hot Springs, Arkansas, says: More than thirty blocks on the eastern edge of the business district of Hot Springs had been swept clear on Friday night by a fire which at 9 &deck threat-. ened to eat its way towa,rd Central 8: .Avenue, the main business thor- be oughfare: A high wind was .blow- 11- ing and the Hot Springs and Little nt Rock fire departments, the jatter ve hurried to this city aboard special er 'trains, had made but little head - e way in checking the flames. At 9 nd o'olock Sydney Dillon, Commission- er of Public T.Ttilities, estimated the ns loss would Teach at least $4,000,000. ed re THAW CASE WIDENS. e- nt en sy n- k- produced before the full' King's Bench, appeal side, at 'Montreal, Que. on the morning of September 15. 'Meantime he may be detained here or at Sherbrooke, or taken"' to Montreal on a mem.ent's notice, at the discretion of the itnmigration authorities. Two of his counsel, 3. Greensliieldis and N. K. La - 'Mamma, obtained a double writ - habeas corpus and prohibition -at Montreal. on Friday, ancl whirled in a. special train into Coaticook, where not long before the immigra- tion authorities had, ordered Thaw's &porta-6.0n from °the Dominion. , CRASHED INTO THRESHER. Conductor of London Radial Cat Hurt in Collision. A despatch from London, Ont., says: John Campbell, of 33 ,Emery Street, London, a- conductor on a London and Lake Erie Radial Rail- way ear, was badly hurt on Wed- nesday when his car collided with a threshing outfit owned by Willis and Davis, a short. distance south of • Lambeth. Campbell was in , charge of the ear, relieving his re- gular motor, and had an unob- structed view of the crossing where the accident occurred. Slippery rails prevented the halting of the ear) however, and he crashed. into the thresher While travelling at a considerable speed. A TWENTY -CENT PiCTunu. Fugitive's Counsel Fight Order for Deportation. A despatch from Coatieook, Que- bec, says: Harry K. Thaw will be • A despatch from London says: For the first time in many years, the upward progress of British trade has been checked The Board of Trade returns just published show that the imp‘orts for the month of August dercr eased $18,418,910, as compared with the same month last year. This hesvi-eer, was offset by the incoming gold, the import's of which were' $42,556,810 and the ex- ports $23, 890,195. The exports for the month increased $1,661,040, while the imports decrea-se'd $9 036 - 305. MORE TROUBLE IN PORTUGAL. Bombs Thrown in Lisbon and Riot- ing in Various Cilies. A clespateh• froan Madrid says: 'Reports have reached here of seri- ous distarbanees irx Portugal aris- ing out eff the refusal of the Gov- ernment to fo,rvtard congratulatory telegrams or gifts to ex -King Man- uel on the occasion of his Wedding to, Prineess Augustine 'Victoria last week. Bomb,s have been thrown in Lisbon, and rioting is reported from that Place aaAd other cities'. PO ST -OFFICE BURNED. The Fire VVas Calised by the Ex. plosion of a Box.". depravity flat would shook the people of I •' A despatch from London, Eng - to ) peeeie-airtee at reeeVe • Of tile truth Of What Ti'. PerneW gaye,shajrn, a southern seburb Lett Pollee Court. rounds of from. .caethee°or of asqualid . rilbAt dwas seteon 'fire on Sunday by degrading eharaeter „ onz- A . , . * , box. Th ramie furnish 131bqutnt teetlineny, Life in ,t,n 0 OXplOgI•0,11 Or a max. box. Thee OM° of theee eennote fannhotimee hae eunlc tO a level not far' removed froin mere Anil fire talls°<1 e°118i'clera'b1e `cl. °nage be- 8 et abbut 15' per coat.. whlehhulleathe ' .Werie me work of manttie'y .Suff 1 maltase; its inieisters who have trevereed 'tote it "WaS, eXtingtlifille.a. ne po- there litte beeri le eleOettee in the .nenniae, „e,e , ..... 'ftnaneial help esetteei teed iguorence still. g 'ail* t,he dietriets kuowe In the Met ten yeare lien believe the explosion arid fire a migration to better eoeulitions but An Antiquary Madrid Now • • Wants 44,365 For It. A despatch from Madrid, Spain, • seys ; In an antiquary e shop win- dow 'there was exhibited a painting osa Wedeesday and a sign reading't'A. the bk tio picture by Goya, 1,005 pesetas,.., (1,365). A poor woman passing by observed the sign and at once Created a disturba»ce whirlt attracted a 'big crowd. She declar- ed that the antiquary, who now witntn to a411 the picture a.t so great a price, on Titesdoy bought it f Kee her for 20 cents. '