Exeter Advocate, 1908-02-27, Page 7PRESERVE BATTLE FIELD
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Premier G-ives Notice of Motion in douse
of Commons.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Sir
\Viltrkt Lcursor has given the (elbowing
notice of motion: '"That it is exptdkvtt
la provide that the sum of $300,000 be
appropriated towards the preservation
in a suitable mauner of the historic bal-
l:(fleld of Quebec in connection with
the tercentenary of the said city of
Quebec.'
This amount will be handed to a
commission of four .;r five Wren, who
t) will have authority to devote a por-
tion which They dec'de upon to the ter-
centenary fund and a portion to the
battlefields park scheme. The Province
of Quebec wet contribute $100,000 and
the city of Quebec $50,000. In addition
ether Provinces have promised grants,
teas as private subscriptions already
amount to a large sunt, there is little
reason to doubt that eventually the ag-
gregate amount will be sufficient to
carry out the project on a scale worthy
of the events it is intended to celebrate
and worthy of the Canadian people.
The oonuuieslon t,o handle the Govern-
ment Portion, it is understood, will in-
clude Sir George Drummond, Mont-
real; Byron F. Walker and Colonel G.
1'. Denison, Toronto. Ilon Adela'd
Turgeon and Mayor Garneau of Quebec
have teen mentioned as possible addi-
tional members.
DISEASE 1\ 77U•: MONEY.
Cashier of Cheap Lo,lging Hotel Dies of
Malignant Scarlatina.
A despatch from New York says:
John M;1). Ilopkirk Is dead as the re-
sult of handling poisoned money. Mr.
tor
iicpkirk was manager of Mills hotel,
No. 2, and from the money which he
handled loo contracted malignant scar-
latina. a disease which is usually fatal.
Ifs was cashier of the hotel, in which
cheap lodgings are given to the poor,
and•in that capacity handled hundreds
of dirty, germ -laden L-ilLs coining from
the slums of the city. The physicians
say teem is no doubt that tho disease
was cum/tunic/lied through these bills.
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LET t%.tlts1111' PASS.
'Allotted to Use Canadian Canals en
Route to Late Michigan.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Canadian Government has granted the
request of tho United Stales Govern-
ment for the passage of another United
States war vessel through the Canadian
canals, to be used on the great lakes.
Tho latest addition to the United Stales
• naval flotilla on the lakes is tit' Nash-
ville, of some thirteen hundred tons.
She Is to to used in the training of the
• Michigan naval Nerve. This is the
•fourth naval vessel which has teen al -
:lowed to pass the Canadian canals.
FEWER LOANS AND DEPOSITS.
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January Rank Returns Indicate a Gen-
eral Curtailment.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Jantiary statement of Canadian charter-
ed batiks was issued by the Department
cf Finance on Thursday. iL indicates
that the process of shortening sail
was persisted 1n during the month.
Thus, as compare,' with December, the
banks deet'eaeed their note circulation
from $77,5 to $66,871,37i1: current
loans frons 556,588.451 to 85.56,957.658;
saving deposits decreased from $102,-
f26,076 to $399.407,291. and deposits on
demand fell from $157,185,414 to $146.-
757,963. Thus the liabilities of the banks
wero reduced in all by about nine ma-
idens.
SLIPi'I•:D IN 1O HOT VAT.
Ketch .trrivcd I:nulishman Meets Ter-
rible Death at 'Soo."
A despatch from Sault Ste. Mark.
Ont., says: William Goddard, employed
lit Iho veneer mill of the !.oke Superior
Corporation, was so severely scalded
on Tuesday that ho died from Injuries
in the hospital the same night. God-
dard went out into the yard, where vats
a.ntaining scalding steam and wood
alcohol vapor heated to great intensity
aro located. in some manner unknown
be slipped into the entrance to one of
the vnts, through a hob 24 le* 26 Inches'.
Ile was in the vat 30 scoonds, hle
screams bringing as -!stance. Goddard.
who was 22 years of ago, was an Eng-
lishman and had been in Canada about
six %leeks.
• TOWN SITES FOit SALE.
Grand Trunk Pacific Will Offer Some
Bargains.
A despatch from Montreal says: The
Grand Trunk Pacillc will put sixty-two
town sites west of Winnipeg on sale
simultaneously In the spring. Already
three of those town situ are ready for
sale, namely, Rivers, a divisional point,
142 miles %vest of Winnipeg; Nokomi,
381 miles west of Winnipeg. and To -
field, on Beaver Lake. fifty miles east
of Edmonton. At the divisional points
the prices of town lots will range front
$100 to $500, while in smaller places
they will run much lower, although the
rates for the latter places have .not yet
teen fixed. Lots win not be auctioned
cff at the ordinary town sites, but will
be sold al fixed prices, and will be al-
lotted in the order of precedence of the
application. Ahrady a gloat number of
purchasers have sent in requisitions to
the oflice in charge of the sale. This,
of course, will not apply to Prince Ru-
pert, the Pacific terminal, where there
will be a historic sale of building lots
for the future city when the road Is
ready to oxn the mitten sale.
SEED iS NOT St %f(E.
Enough Wheat in the West For Alt -
Oats eh's, be Imported.
:► despatch from Ottawa says: G. II.
Clark. fkimtni.,n Seed Commissioner,
bed the Agricultural Committee on \Ved-
neslay morning that Iho losses in the
west through the bad season last year
were practically cenflned to twelve per
cent. of the farmer's between !'ort er-
Blur and tho llocky elo ttains. The
majority of That per cent. had put all
their eggs into n basket; in other werds,
had followed the idea of grain raising
to the exclusion of everything else.
There was enough seed wheat in the
west to enable the purchasing there of
ali that was required for the sections
In need of O. Seed oats would have
to tie imp erte 1 in Ninsiderahlo quanti-
ties, rad he mentioned Britain and
Prince Edward (eland ns the places
whence the most of it would come. Ile
predicted that It svould be found to be
cf excellent quality. Mr. Clark. how-
ever, Sugg: steel the advisability of every
farmer in the west testing barley and
oat seed before planting.
1.111ti1.17'Y FOIL FINIS.
Mr. Kraned)'. Rill to Make Rallnays
Responsible.
A despatch from Ottawa sey.c: Mr.
Kennedy's bill to amend the railway
act by rendering the companies !tattle
for all damage done by fires caused by
sparks horn locomotives was discu.sed
lea the Hallway iS•mmltlec of tho Com-
n.ons on Tin slay morning. Mr. Ilal
McGiverin, on behalf of the railways,
sut:g.es'od an amendment that if a com-
pany ccm{:onsated an owner of proper-
ty whiich was insured. the amount of
the insurance should be paid to the rail.
way company. The committee stented
to favorably receive the idea, and held
the bill over for consideration.
WOULD RUIN THE FALLS
To Grant Franchise of the Ontario Power
Company.
A despatch from \Washington says:
Dr. J. W. Spenoer, the British ses,itist,
otimnhissioned by the Geological Survey
e! (:anaia to investigate the Niagara
Falls problem, discussed on Wednes-
day the effect, of the utilization of its
asters by p'• 'r plants upon its scent:
beauty.
et the instance of the American
Civic Federation, Dr. Spencer has ap-
peared before the 11o114e Rivers and
Ilarbor (:onimissiun. and presented data
concerning the request of the Ontario
Power Co. for a power franchise. To
develop this power would require forty
thousand cubic feet of water per see:
end, which Dr. Spencer contended is
from twenty to twenty-five per cent.
of the discharge of Niagara illver, and
would greatly :repair the cheracteesties
of the \Whirlpool raped.; lower thc river -
Led up to the falls, break up the sure
ince rock at the font of the American
falls and Goat Island. and thereby
cause a more rapid recession of the
iferse=hoe.
"As the I ginnhtp.! of these rapids .'
marked by a rim over whieh the new
n' water is already thin." said Dr.
Spencer, "the di.ersion of the water
would destroy about 900 feet of the
now on the eastern side of th•' great
Horseshoe and break up the American
falls into separated' streams. The total
length of both falls would be c•mtrect-
cu, roughly. from 4.(00 feet to 1.600 feel,
nn I the diameter of the great falls from
',eat) to MO test, '1 bus diver -lien of the
water will produce n ahrtnkage of the
Ibcr.wshoe so that what remains will be
entirely en the Canadian sato of the
boundary line."
Ile argued that the lowering of the
wafer in the basin above the upper
rapids would tocre.ise the slope of the
river so that the sttrface of Cake Erie
will be lowered three Icel. a hich n
turn would lower l.nke Chiron an.)
Labe Michigan. Already, with n par-
tial use. lake le le has been lowered
len inches. This amount of lowertng
includes that of Ibe (:hicagi Canal.
which at present is tnk:ng five ihon-
sntkl et,bie feet of water a sevnd. In
(ofnnctkn %til!% PIC colcreatiers for re-
prIr'ng the harbors and cannot !!eras
Om itnCe'd. the 1!ni'e.i Settee engineers
calculated (hat In increase the depth • f
the Chien*' Cnnai coca one fix)t world
Cost over $12.Ou0,i00.
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
REVOLTS FROM TIIE LEADING
1 RADE CENTI1E .
Prices el Cattle, Grain, t ..cess
Other Dairy Produce at Home
and Abroad.
Toronto, Feb. 25. -Flour -Ontario
wheat 90 per cont. patents shady at
*3.60 in buyers' sacks outside for ex-
port. Manitoba four unchanged; first
Latents, 85.80 k) Se; second patents, $5.-
25 to 85.35, and si:•w►g buyers , $5.15
to $5.20.
Wheat -Manitoba grades were dull,
with prices un^hanged. No. 1 Northern
is quoted et $1.16%, lake porta; No. 2
et $1.13, lake ports. and No, 3 at $1.09,
lake purls.
Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white and red
quoted at 95 to 95%c outside, and No.
2 mixed at 94)Se outside.
Oats -No. 2 while n track, Toronto,
Sic, and outside at 52c.
Corn -No. 3 Anier'ctuh new yellow is
gt:oted'at 63%e, 'Toronto, and No. 3 mix-
ed at 63c, Toronto.
Rye -No. 2 quuted at 81 to 82c out-
side.
Buckwheat -65e outside.
Peas -No. 2 quoted at 85 to Sec out-
side,
Barley -No. 2 quoted - L 71 to 72c out-
side; No. 3 extra at 70c outside, and
Ne. 3 at 69s, outside.
Bran -$22 to 823 in bulk outside..
Shorts, 824 to $25 outside.
ares
COUNTRY PiRODUCE.
Apples -Winter 82.50 to 83.50 per
barrel.
Beans -Prime, $1.G5 10 81.70, and
hand-picked, 81.80 to $1.85.
' honey -12 to 13c per pound for
strained, and $1.755 to $2.50 for combs.
Ilay-No. 1 timothy quoted at 81G to
817 here in car lots.
Straw -$10 to 810.50 a ton on track
here.
Potatoes -Car lots are quoted at t()
to 93c per bag on track.
Poultry -Turkeys, dressed. 13 to 14c
rer found for choice; chickens, alive. 6
t.• 7c per pound; dressed, 9 to IOc;
ducks, dressed, 10 to 11c per pound;
geese, dressed, 9 to 1Oc.
THE DAIRY MAIIKETS.
BuHcr-Pound prints, 25 to 26c, and
large rolls, 23 to 24e; do., inferior, 21
1c 23c. Creamery rules at 30 In 31c,
and solids at 28 to 29c.
Eggs -New laid are quoted at 28 to
21k i er dozen in case lots.
Cheese -13% to 13%o per pound in 1
jobbing way.
1100 PRODUCTS.
Bac^n-Long clear, 9%c per pound in
ease lots; mess ports, 818 to 818.50;
short cut, $22 In $22.30.
Hams -Light to medium, 14 to 11%e;
do„ heavy, 12 to Jac; rolls, 10 to I0%e;
shoulders, 9% 10 9%c; backs, 101; break-
fast bacon. 15c.
Lard --Tierces, 11/,c; tubs, 12c; palls,
12%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL..
Menlreal, Feb. 25. --pastern Canada
No. 2 white oats et 53e, No. 3 at 50c,
No. 4 at 48c. tejeetel at 47c, and Mani-
toba rejected at 49 to 49%e per bushel
e.% Mere. Flour -Spring wheat patents,
$0.10; seconds, $5.YA Winter wheat pat
ents, $5.50; straight roller?, 33 to 85.25;
do., in bags, 82.35 to 82.50; extras, $1.-
80
1-80 to 81.90. Ford -Manitoba 1 ran, 822
to $23; sleets, 823 1(1 821; Ontario bran,
$22 to $22.50: middlings. $21 to 525;
shorts, $22.50 1•) 823 per tin, inchs lieg
1 ags; pure brain 11)0111114', $32 In 834.
Provsiens-ilarrels short cut mesa,
$22.5') to $23; halt bola, $11.75 to $12.25;
c:ear tat backs, $23.20 to $24.50; long
cut heavy mese, $21 to $24; half bbl.;.
do., 310.50 to $11.25; dry salt tong clear
becks, 10X to 11%c; barrels plate beef,
$13.50 to 815; !half bbls. do., 87.25 to
87.75; barrels heavy mesa beef, 810 to
811; halt bbLs. do., $5.50 to $6; com-
pound lard, 10 to 11c; pure lard, 125
le 13c; kettle rendered. (eyes tet 13c;
hams, 12 to 13Xe; breakfast Macon. 14
M 15^; Windsor bacon, l%y, 10 15!;c;
fresh klllet abattoir dresses hogs. $8.25
le $8.50; alive, $5.85 to $6. Butter -
Fall grade:, 30 to 31e; fresh receipts,
28 to 29c; dairy. 21 to 26c. Cheo-e-
12,'; to 13%c. Eggs --American selects
e0 new Ind are selling at 30c; ordLn-
nry at 27 to 28c: Montreal limed at 21
to 22c per dozen.
UNITED STATE.' \I \ItKETS.
Minneopolia, Feb. 25. -Wheat - May,
GLOP!;;; July. $1.00%; No. I bard, 111.•
05% In 81.06; No. 1 N.erthern, $1.02'4
to $1.03: No. 2 Northern, $1.005 to
$1.01: No. 3 Northern, 933' to 98%r,
Flour- Fret patents, $5.15 10 83.30; ser.-
ond patents. 85.05 to $5.20; first clown;,
$4.15 to 81.25: seoand clears, 83.20 to
83.30. Bran -1n hulk, *20.
Duluth, Feb. 25. -Wheal- No. 1 hard,
(.+i.03%; No. 1 Northern, $1.01'/,; No.
2 Northern, 98%c; May, 81.00%; July,
$1.01X.
i.IVE STOCK MARKETS.
Toronto, Feb. 25. --Tho export trade
it very sleet from task of the proper
kind of cattle.
Choice butchers' 'i(tl.e wore in good
demand and a few peeve! brought as
high ns $5.15. Strtight Slots of ch:d'o
sold for $1.60 to 85, and the common
and Medium grades were stronger at
$3.50 In 85.50. As much as 8E45 was
paid In several instances for the hest
cow•, and prices of choice ranged frost
$3.60 up. Common and medium cows
sett free 82.50 to $3.50.
A numhrr of heavy bulls erre ..ffered,
\shish were stronger nt 3?.:,0 to SM.
The demand for good ini'k cows con -
finites s!eml\. Choice metiers sell from
841 to 85ti. and medium at $S5 to $35.
!logs o'c hu:chang 1 and ll:e nierkst
meet.
h�fs'r; ewes were alrong.'r nn 1
brnrght te. sten. ere 'e'.,t.' Pose; $3
is 1 s- i' -r torero:! -.n of grain -
eine .t, h re t•arti'ufarly sought
:die. ci•o:,I 'lehry ier•ro%•eI preen.
Calve. ,'r • •r :! ,• 1 ,' mond. 1 al were
not ans r in {rico.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
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GLOBE.
Telegraph Q,irt% (Tom our O‘tn and
Olhar Countries of Recent
Loads.
CANADA.
Berlin public library has 9,231 vol-
umes.
Brunt oounty jail has twenty pris-
oner.s.
The C. 1'. 11. will build a new bridge
at Keewatin.
Hastings House of Refuge at Belle-
ville has 21 inmates.
Montreal refinery have roducel su-
gar 10 cents per 100 founds.
Prince Edward county doctors have
decided to increase their fees.
Guelph I1o,Lcullural Sec ely offers
prizes for the best -kept limns.
'The populat on of Guelph is 13,700,
according to the assessment rolls.
Canada collected in duly last month
83,930.911, a decrease of $105,817. '
Canada's imports for January total-
led $:3,084,563, a decrees) of 33,355,-
684.
Canadian exports last month total-
led $21,676,782, an increase of 84,031,-
517.
Immigrant inspectors find that im-
migrants with families are hardest to
place.
Branford Ls clearing out Its cellars
in enti:ipation of the freshet of the
Grand River.
The Alontreat Shipping Federation + as
deeded to cut down 'ongsliora-i en s
wages this spring.
'ffke Minister of Marine proposes a
subsidy of 8100.000 per year for it di-
rect lino to France.
Tho Montreal Board of Trade is peti-
tuning the Government to make the
new Quebec bridge 190 foot above tide-
wa ter.
Ilamilton foundrytnen claim their
n:oukkrs are paid a rate higher than
La paid elsewhere and propose a reluc-
lion.
Obstruction tactics in the Montreal
Council have prevented the payment of
sten who reproved snow frons the
streets.
For the first ten months of the pea
sent fiscal year Canada's customs col-
lections were $49,251,135, an increase of
80,451,816.
The animal report of the T.emiskam-
ing & Northern ()uteri) Railway showed
ars increase of 816,581.45 in net earn-
ings over the previous year.
Alaniloba proposes to lino members
of municipal councils for the failure
of any inunicipeitty to check the
growth nt noxiou.-i weeds.
Mr. John Penman of Paris, Ont.. hos
offered to contribute fifteen Thousand
&liars towards a new school if the
(Seemeit will raise the other 840.000.
Joseph Gilheaull died in Cobalt Hos-
pital from tnJurkte received by a tree
falling upon hint. ile lay h.Iptess in
the snow for six hours, and had hands
and feet frozen.
Pigeon, the St. Vincent de Paul con-
vict, tells tho story of the Montreal
Court !louse robbery, and says his eon-
ftssion Is made for the purpose of free-
ing lloh^.ika, who Is innecont.
Allegations of the Montreal Street
Railway Company that the civic pay
list for removing snow was padded
will probably result in an invesbga-
ton of civic pita rs at Montreal.
Longshoremen al Quctec are reported
to have determined on an increase of
five cents an hour when navigation
opens, and the demand may cause the
C. P. It. to make Throe Rivers the ter-
minus for its Atlantic steamers.
Mr. Daniel Jackson of Guelph received
word from New York of his son's death.
with a request from a Orin of undertak-
er's to send $155 for funeral expenses.
After the in ntey was sent it message
was received from the son, saying he
was all right.
GREAT BRITAIN.
It is runxired in Landon that The
Tones may be offered for sale at pub c
auction.
Tho British Government will probob
ty carry through wit:tout alteration lila
naval erogiamine presented by the Ad-
miralty.
UNITED STATES.
Three men were killed In an cxplesion
in a powder mill at Wharton, N. J.
The question of giving voles to wo-
nio i is now Lefsro the New York Stale
Assembly.
An Ohio leacher punished a boy for
PORT ARTIIIIR'S DEFENDER
Court -Martial Sentenced Gen. Stoessel to
Die for Surrender.
A desnalch from St. Pekrs:mrg says:
This court -null -tire trying the generals
for Iho surrender of fort Arthur de-
livered its judgment on Thursday. Gen.
St,es_o: was condemned t•o be shot,
and Goa. Fork was reprimanded, Gest.
Reuss and Gen. Smlriwff were acquakd.
At 8.30 the court entered, headed by
its prtYiden!, Gen. Vodar. The judges
walked to tho centre of a dais, and
stoat beneath the portrait of the Cze•
while Gen. 1'odar real the decisi
aloud. During ti:e delivery of the sen-
tence, which was brie(, there was tense
silence in the court 'eon', except for a
suppreS'ed gasp when Gen. Stoessel
was condemned ht death for surrender-
ing Port Arthur !sclera all means of
defending tho fortress had been ex-
hausted and against the protest 'ef
his fellow-atlicers and wahout the
knowledge of its contmandunt, Gen.
Smirnoff.
1'EN YEARS- IMPRISONMENT.
The court had, however, Gen. Vodar
annututred, decided to petition the Czar
to grac:ously commute the sentence to
len years' o)nflnement in a fortress in
oons:deraton of the fact that Port Ar-
thur, beset by overwhelming forces, de-
fended itself under Gen. Stoesscl'a
leadership with a stubbornness which
astonished the world at the garrison
heroic courage, that several assaul
%sere repulsed with the infliclvn of tre
mendous losses en the enemy, that (',an.
Stoesssl throughout the sego sustxtned
the courage of the defenders, and filet
he bad energetically participated in
'hree campaigns.
AL the d'ku'ation that he was ad.;
edged wsethy of death. Gen. Stco5sel'l
lace betrayed momentary uneasiness.
Lut otherwise he was outwardly unaf-
fected, and he shod with soldierly rig-
idity, Atilt' his eyes fixed on the prose
dent of the court.
Gen. Fuck, tvhese rep rimantt was for
-offences against discipline, was grimly
unmoved. Gen. Smirnoff looked quietly;
pleased, and Gen. Reuss' eyes filled with
tears.
Immediately the sentences were de-
livered, Gen. Stoessel received sysnpa.
thetic embrace; and liand.shak.•s from
nu►nerous friends. Ile left the court
room leaning on the shoulder of lea
son, who was also a military Meer at
Port Arthur.
CANADA'S OLDEST WOMAN.
Death of Mrs. Fume Near Waterford -
An Aged Indian.
A despatch from llamilt.:m says: Word
was received here on Wefne-day of the
death near Waterford of Mrs. Eitzabeth
Funn, the oldest woman in Caimea.
Mrs. Funn was an Indian woman and
claimed to be 119 years of age. She
had many children, but they all p-re-
drecased her, and she resided for the
past few years with her granddaugh-
ter, Mrs. henry Mike, who is now an
olu wernan. For over 100 years deceas-
ed had been drawing an Indian allow-
ance.
SCARCITY OF ARMY HORSES.
Gen. Dutton Recommends Purchaslrne
Agencies in Colonies.
A dcspateh from London says: The
United Service Institution on Thursday
discussed the serious shortage in the
horse supply from the military stand.
point. General Sir E. Mutton spdo
of the deteriornlion noticeable in Cun-
eda and Australia, and sate he had
done all in hls power to draw atten-
tion to tie Importance of developing
the class of horse most required. In
the case of bosh countries a horse -pur-
chasing agency should be formed by
the War Office.
1M\I1GR.t'1'ION PROSPECTS.
Shipping Men Relieve Business W'UI be
Greater Than Ever.
A despatch from Alontreat says: Ship-
ping mon have received word that the
caning immigration season will be as
heavy as the past year has been. Pas-
senger agents of the C. 1'. R. In Eng-
lund stuto that every vessel will have
Mt the business tt can handle during
busy months. A cable was reseivod on
Wednesday stating that all C. P. R.
ata soiling 17 St, John during March
Lave boon heavily becked in second
and third classes.
SUNDERLAND LABOR TROUBLE.
Artilleryman Dratted in to Assist the
Local Police.
A despatch from Sunderland, Eng-
land, says: In view of the recent de•
mnnstrati )ns by the unemployed here,
whose ranks are being augmented daily
by the engineers allied to the shipbuil3-
ing trades, 300 men from the Royal
Artillery garrison have been drafted lo
assist the police should occasion i:rse.
Tho engineers went on strike %two days
ago, after voting by an overwhelming
majority not to accept a raluction in
wages.
Russia's programme of naval recon-
struction involves an expenditure of
$1,078,0)),000.
TERROR1ST PLOT FRUSTRATED
Desperate Men and Women Arrested at
St. Petersburg.
A despatch from St. Petersburg says:
Attempts that had been planned against
the lives of exalted personages were
Irustrate.l by the police nn 'Thursday
night by a succession of arrests in vari-
ous parts of the city, aggregating fifty
then and women. This is the greatest
number of terrorises et•^r taken by thn
police in the capital. The majority of
thein were heavily armed, some with
bombs, and they made desperate re-
sistance against the police. During the
ec,urse of the arrests ten policemen were
wounde(i ani one tva4 killed.
BAGGED FIITY 'fEi IIO111STS.
Tho operallons centred nround the
palace of (!rand Duke Nicholas N!chola-
ievitch, who, it La surmised, was the
immediate obJect et the plot. Lata on
i'hursday several hundred gendarmes
drew a cordon around an entit city
bock in the vicinity of the Grand
Mike's palace, Comprising six hundred
o-cupind apartments. Agent.( of the
police searched these aparhnmt!s from
top to bottom ani unearthed sores of
explosives and firearni.s.
DYNAMITE IN :\ MUFF.
A fashionably dressed woman was
arrested on the street. She carried a
muff in which way concealed a quan-
tity of dynamite, and was escorted by
a man who woe,; flat under hs bell an
infernal machine of a new type. Both
opened fire when the police approached
them, wounding throe of Its'ni.
Another woman who was ar.-e.•ted at
the entrance to Ussapoff Pork killed a
policeman during the struggle. Two
men were arrcated in the Grando More
skein, one of whom is a notorious !tali-
nt. Anarchist. While the police were
arresting a terrorist on tlahi:v Island
he dangerously wounded two of thern.
It is expected that the police will make
ft:rther eff.)rPi to round up other mem.
Ii rs of the terrorials who have been
rganizing vigorously and planning
outrages on a largo scale.
vio'.ating her rules by driving a tack GOVERNMENT ANNuffius
through his tongue.
D:an>,nkl sings valued at 815,000 were
stokn in broad daylight frons a New
Orleans jewellery elem.
Lewis S. (ox, it Philadelphia broker
charged with forgery, f slit the de-
tectives who cant2 to arr:st hint era
attentptecd auicele.
Can Peterson, a girl of eighteen. ale
reeded at Chicago, Told the pxdice she
had taken part to fifty burglaries.
Emir while Hien and over twenty -Ove
Chinamen were killed in an explosion
do a pow ler mill at Iterk'ey, Cal.
Th French I t nt Casablanca
.e rens out
Ps ; s
have been routed by the \Imes an 1 Gen-
eral D ,Wades communications cut.
The Menti! (Mich.) (louse of Correc-
tion cleared last year $3S,000, which
will be turned into the city Lrnnsurr.
The commerce of the great lakes for
the year 1907 was 93.347.919 ton.., an
Incrensl. el 10 per •_eat, on the commerce
of 1900.
Cn1, Th•)mas r. 1( 11/, a no'01 Fenian
Slider, who es'a;ied from the British
pollee al Manchester in 1467, is dead at
New fork.
During n dinner party at Iho home
et Frank 0. Jones, of Memphis, Tenn..
Garret E. Lamb and wife. guest, of
r;aeon. Iowa, were robbed of Jewels
nth 8i!0 000
Mr, Fielding Gives Notice of Measure in
the Commons.
A despatch front Ottawa says: Ilan.
Mr. F.e!ding has given notice of a reso•
1u14 n providing for the eslabl sh`.ng of
a system of Government annuities. the
resolution states that it is advr•able to
r.ulheriz.e the Sale of Geternhtteet online
Des "to the end that habits of thrift be
prem,eted, and that thereby opportunity
be given to the people of Canada to
provide for 0141 age by means nt mantle
hes of not less than flfly /totters nor
erose Than Mx hundred dollars per year.
the annuities to he purchasable either
by paying n single sum or by the pay-
ment of a sUpuleteJ sum periodically
at floe' nml definite% p-rn•L-: the Gov-
ernor In Council by regu!ab•on to fin
the rate of infeere:st 4) be all',\%cd in
computation of values in the telese
which aro the bass of such purchases;
such annuittes to be payable after the
annuitant has reached the age of fifty
five years or hni beeemo disable!;
Mould he die before the annuities aro
payable, the moneys paid in by an an-
nuitant le be repayable l•, his theirs,
%vith three per cent. conreroute interest.
ifs. property and tittered of an rinntd-
Io•n! to be un.se gttnhle and 1.1 be eC•
erupt fr.xn legal process. eseept contract
le entered into and eonselernhrnh there.
I,•r paid. with intent to delay. hinder
se (tetrntrl creditors. who, upon such
intent being a etablished, shall hate the
fsght to ter.eivo the presot:t worth e,1
!tx• annuity.'