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Exeter Times, 1909-03-04, Page 7to HAMILTON GIRL MURDERED Five Bullets Were Fired Into Miss Ethel Kinrade's Head and Breast. .'espatch from Hamilton says: tit 3.45 o'clock on Thursday ftcrnoon ono of the most daring, cold -bloc deal and wanton inurders that has ever blaukoncd the crim- inal annals of this country was .conimitt: d at the home of T. L. Kinrzde, 105 Herkimer street. Itis seso►ud daughter, bliss Ethel, is 1y- 1 ing at the morgue with five Nutlet ' holes in her .head aid breast, while ^r murderer has, s'., far, eluded iiiiiii4 the police. The. murderer is sup- posed to be a tra:np. He %vent to the house at the hour mentioned while only Miss Florence and Miss Ethel were at home, and in re- sponse to his knock Miss Florence answered. He said ho wanted . her to eat and was invited 'n, after which ho demanded oroy. He was given what Miss Florence could secure in the house, .after which ho shot Miss Ethel, who was about to leave the house in her fright, five times and escaped from the dining -room window. Tho police were notified about fifteen minutes after the shooting took ►lace and wero on the scene with - nu less than half an hour. Chief Smith had In_sprctor Mc- Mahon, Detective Bleakley, Sayer and Coulter and some policemen •quickly on the scene, and shortly after a fair description of the man r4 who did the murder was furnished to the members of the force, who radiated to all parts of the city. Thev devoted their energies parti- cularly to the western part in which tho tragedy took place, and kept a close watch on all the railway dopot•s. DESCRIPTION OF THE MUR- DERER. One of the most remarkable fea- tures about the tragedy is the fact that a man has been hanging about that neighborhood for several days past, and ho is believed to be the murderer. Tho following descrip- tion of the man who did the, shoot- ing has been furnished the police by Miss Florence Kinrade, and is all the police have to guide them in their search: - Age about 35 years, height about five foot seven or eightinches; pretty stout ;• medium dark com- plexion; long, wavy, dark -brown moustache, drooping over mouth; woro a dark suitand dark over- coat; a black • slouch hat, pulled down over the eyes. This has been placed in the hands of all the nnernbers of the force, and hopo is entertained that the murderer will not, be log at large, as word hes been sent to the po- lice at all outside points within a radius of several miles. WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED ENGLAND HAS LITTLE TO LEARN 1N GERMANY. Labor Exchanges Help to Mitigate F.vil-Are Not Complete Success. epnrt of an enquiry into the s adopted in Germany for with unemployment has csented to the British Labor by Mr. George N. Barnes, The enquiry had special re- foronco to insurance and labor ex - 'changes. The commissioners found that there was little to learn„ even in Germay, as regards the practical application of insurance to unem- ployment. The matter has not yet been taken up by the Imperial au- thorities, excepting in so far as age, collection and tabulation of statistics bearing upon it, may be described. Ilut it was found that there was a very considerable in- terest being taken in the question, and that, three of the five towns visited had schemes in oporation. LABOR EXCHANGES. .... Of public labor exchanges there aro in Germany about 400, and the number is increasing. As to their utility, the report of the commis- sioners states, there arc, of course, differences of opinion. There are those who regard them as the first and indispensable step to the further dealing with the problem of unemployment, inasmuch as there - illby the actual condition of the labor market maybe ascertained. There are those who regard labor ex- changes as in themselves providing a remedy for unemployment by plac- ing labor where it is wanted, and whore it could not othorw•icse have placed. FINDING THEM WORK. .. The report for August of Sir antis Oppenheimer, Counsul- General at Frankfort, showed that I in thirteen towns workers were I found for more than 10.000 vacan- cies, and in eight smaller towns vracnnc•ies were filled in numbers ranging from 5,090 to 10,000. In Berlin 107,398 vacancies had been filled out of a population of 2,040,- 222, in Frankfort -on -Maliµ ).1)).4.33 out of a population of 488,413, and in Dusseldorf 27,301 out of a popu- lation of 252,0.39. Tho figures in- dicate that the exchanges are large- ly used, and that they have won the confidence of both employer and workman. Their usefulness is in- creased by the system of co-ordina- tion which obtains in some of the German provinces, for by this means they assist in the mobility of labor. The investigation of the commis- sioners led them to the following conclusions: FINDING OF COMMISSION... (1) That notwithstanding protec- tive tariffs there exists in Germany a large amount of unemployment, though in the places visited the actual numbers of the unemployed and the degree of poverty experi- enced appeared to have been pre- vented from reaching the same acute stage as obtains in towns of sim- ilar size in Great Britain, owing to the following, among, other, rea- sons: (a) The co-ordination and system- atic management of public labor exchanges, which admits employers and workmen more easily to ascer- tain the actual condition of the labor market, and tenda to lessen the number of Leese unemployed. (b) The desire of municipal au- thorities and many employers to minimize unemployment by regular- izing their requirements. (c) The greater facilities possess- ed by the German municipalities to cope with unemployment in their respective areas, owing to their freedom from the restriction impos- ed by centralized authority. (2) That inasmuch as the German schemes of insurance for unem- ployment are only in the experimen- tal stage, and having regard to their obvious limitations, they can- not bo recommended for adoption in Great Britain with much con- fidence. Lola -"Last night young Borem declared he would willingly go to the end of the earth for me." (.race -"And what did you say?" Loin -"I finally got him to make r. start for home, and let it go at that!" LIFE SETECE FOR HALO Was Found Guilty of Attempted Murder at Simcoe. P t 1 Wednesday night by King - sten the 1 it despatch from Simcoe, Ont., s : Archibald W. Malone, ex - Chief of Police of this town, wag vee eosec on Chief .Tustice Sir William Mulock to imprisonment for life in ing- on Penitentiary. at a conclu- sion of a trial which lasted thirty hours. spread ever three days. in which nine of the strangest stories of secret .'rime ever heard in the annals of Canadian criminology was revealed. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty. 'rho charge which they considered was that in the early minutes of December 1. I90e, Malone, as chief constable, in cold blood shot and loft for dead his assistant, Constable William Wilkins, the man whom, through his weakness of will, he had made an accomplice in a series of his rob- beries and incendiary outrages in the town. Thus cans. to an end • CONDENSED NEWS 11'EMS° LONDON STREET DANGERS a trial that has interested half the Dominion ; in which thirty-four wit- nesses were summoned by the Crown and none for the defence, nuanced that the profits mads thus and in which \1 r. George rate far amounted to 818,500,000. He Blackstock. K. U.. Crown Prose -added that sales during the past tutor. made an address to the jury year hod bean well maintained. lasting two and ono -half hours, so 4. powerful and so unanswerable that BRITISH('.\1'IT:AL}'OR ('.tN.t11A the gloom on the face of the pris- -__ oner and his young wife spread through the whole crowded court room. The tension came to an end when, in low tones, his Lordship pronounced sentence. Last. Decem- ber. at the trial for Malone's com- mittal the crowd then present sheered when the Magistrate ruled against the accused. On Wednes- day night. only an empty silence possessed the room. Men spoke quietly. \Vit.h covert movements woolen placed handkerchiefs to their oyes. 11.t.PPLNINGS ERO)I ALL OVER TUE GLOBE. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Ono and Other Countries o! Recent Events. CANADA. The Kingston Board of Health will enforce compulsory vaccina- ation. A new cavalry regiment is to be organized in Brant county. The cost of Winnipeg's high pres- sure water system is to be investi- gated. Mayor Thorne of Woodstock, N. B., editor of The Carleton Sentin- el, is dead. A conference to discuss recipro- city with Canada will bo held in Detroit in April. Mr. J. W. Tyrrell believes that Fort Churchill on the Hudson Bay will be a great seaport. The Canadian Pacific having ac- quired the Tilsonburg, Lako Erie & Pacific Lino, aro asking power tc extend it, from Ingersoll to Col- lingwood. John Dubois, contractor on the National Tranecontinental near Fredericton, N. B., has burned his books and disappeared, owing $6,- 000. A report conies from Victoria, B. C., that the Sikhs there have an association that is collecting money to buy arms for the disaf- foctod natives of India. - Tho Government will declare Hecate Straits a closed sea, and places an armed cruiser there to protect the halibut fishing from United States poachers. Charles Hodgson fell down an elevator• shaft at Perrin's confec- tionery at London, Ont., and, land- ing on a pile of paper, escaped with a dislocated finger_ GREAT BRITAIN. J. T. Dawson, formerly of Mont- real, shot his wife and then com- mitted suicide in London. The Vanguard, Britain's seventh vessel of the Dreadnought type, was launched at Barrow on Mon- day. Twenty-eight women, many of them members of prominent fami- lies, were given terms in prison for rioting in Westminster on Thursday. UNITED STATES. Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago will be Secretary of the Treasury in the Taft Cabinet. A Brooklyn elan has invented a fog 'phone which will prevent col- lisions between ships in a fog. An insane woman made her way into the City Hall at Philadelphia and threatened to kill the Mayor unless he paid her fare to Buffalo. Senator Carter of Montana is working to have the Canadian waterways treaty pushed through the United States Senate at the present session. GENERAL. The Revolutionary wing of the Russian Socialist party has aecided to discontinue preaching openly against the throne. TILE ANNUITIES ACT. Provision for alights of holders lin Case. of Marriage. 238 KILLED AND 10,772 INJURED iN 1.007. The lntrodueiton of Fast Muting Traffic is Causing Muuy Deaths. It is abundantly clear that some definite step must betaken without delay fur the regulation of the vast volume of London traffic, pietcrab- ly by the institution of a Central Traffic Board, says the Luudun (Lugland) Express. ti The most serious and at the sante time the most alarming phase of this great problem is the increas- ing peril of the London streets. Until three or four years ago the danger increased gradually, almost keeping pace with the ever -advanc- ing population; but during the last few years the tato of death and in- jury has bounded up out of all pro- portion to any natural growth, and to -day it stares us in the face as the gravest menace to the Loudon citizen. KILLED NUMBERED 283. An idea of this growth can bo ob- tained at a glance by placing the statistics of Ilio last throe years together. Thus in 1905 there were 172 persons killed and 11,688 in- jured; in 1906, 212 were killed and 14,060 were injured; and in 1907 - the latest completed year -283 were killed and no fewer than 16,772 were injured. Compare these figures with those of ten years ago -when 165 were kiRed and 9,03.2 were in- jured -and the increase in the risk of accident is seen to be appalling. Nor is it difficult to discover the cause of this great and rapid in- crease of death and injury in the London streets. A careful examina- tion and analysis of the figures that aro available show that it is speed which is the real determinant of danger. When speed was uniformly low, the growth of risk was slow; since speed has become greater, the growth of risk has been rapid. CARTS AND CABS. Let me first illustrate this by a simple comparison between the in- juries inflicted by light carts, travelling at a comparatively rapid rate, and heavy carts, travelling at a comparatively nlow rate. In the last year, light carts are responsible for 1,223 accidents and heavy carts for 230. So, too, with light vans and heavy vans, the former account- ing for 1,767 and the latter for 1,120. This proportion is maintain- ed by comparing light motor cars with heavy motor cars -the former being responsible for 1,420 and the latter for 138 accidents. Extend the comparison to hansom cabs and four -wheelers and thle swift gon- dola of the London streets inflicts injuries in 89a cases, as against the 210 inflicted by the staid growler. Clearly, speed may be said to be the great determinant of danger. CARS AND MOTORS. A despatch from Ottawa says: In the Senate on Thursday after- noon Sir Richard Cartwright moved several amendments to the Annuities Act. Ono amendment provides that a man and woman, each of whore have taken out annui- ties, may each continue to have the right to annuity up to $600 should they ,marry. Another provision will allow a husband to share his annuity with his wife. Another provision will allow persons having bought annuities in class "B," where payments end with death, to contract himself out of his agree - anent with the Government and have refunded to hire the amount paid in. To Senator Lougheed Sir Richard said the indications were that the public were going to avail themselves largely of the oppor- tunities afforded there by the An- nuities Act. PROFITS ONLY $18,500,000. Johannesburg Mining Co. a Pay - Ing Preposition. A despatch from Johannesburg says: At a meeting of the Premier Mining Company the chairman an - Nearly 030.000.000 ('ame .\eros .tdlantie in 199S. A despatch from London says: Tho Chronicle says that in 1903, exclusive of conversion loons, near- ly £30,000,000 worth of British ca- pital went to Canada. It remarks that it is odd that the tariff reform- ers who affect so much keenness upon colonial preference should shed tears nt the investment of British capital in colonial develop- ment. But still more striking evidence of this is forthcoming when ono ex- amines the "killed and injured" re- cord of the motor trains and motor omnibuses, and compares the holo - cause they annually compile with the damage done by the horse tram and the horse omnibus. Dur- ing the last three years the motortram and the motor omnibus have been rapidly evolving, and here arc the figures which chow at what cost to the life and limbs of tho London- er that evolution has proceeded :- Injured by Motor Train 1905 .... .. 725 1906 ...... 1,130 1907 ...... 2,119 Injured by . Motor Bus. 149 1,103 1,108 INCREASING RISK. THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM TUE LEADING TIRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTIi FF S. Toronto, Mar. 2.--Flour--Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $3. - to $4 to -day in buyers' bucks out- side for export. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.70 to $5.80 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.20 to $5.30, and strong bakers', $5 to $5.10. Wheat -Manitoba wheat, $1.19 for No. 1 Northern, and $1.16% for No. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern nominal, $1.25%, all rail, and No. 2 North- ern, $1.201/, all rail. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 48 to 48%c on track, Toronto; No. 2 Western Canada oats, 48c, Coiling - wood, and No. 3, 47c, Collingwood. Peas -No. 2, 90c outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 73c on track, Toronto, and No. 3 yellow, 72e, Toronto. Canadian corn, 68 to C9c, on track, Toronto. Bran -Cars are $22 to $23 in bulk outside. Shorts, $23 in bulk outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -84 to 84.50 for choice qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for cook- ing purposes. Beans -Prime, $1.90 to $2, and hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bushel. Honey -Combs, $2.25 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 11 to 11%c per pound. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $10.75 to $11 per ton on track here, and lower grades $9 to $10 a ton. Straw -$6.50 to 67.50 on track. Potatoes -62 to 65c per bag on track. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 12 to 14c per pound; fowl, 10 to 11c; ducks, 14 to 15c; geese, 12 to 13c; turkeys, 17 to 19c per pound. The figures oro appalling evidence of the rapidly increasing risks of the London street. The '212 accidents caused to persons by horse care, and the 460 accidents resulting from horse omnibuses for the year 1907 are as eloquent of the comparative safety secured by slow t.ravellieg as the figures of the motor tram and motor omnibus are elo- quent of the great danger of speedy traffic in busy thoroughfares. Even in the square mile of the city, while the number of persons injured by horse traffic has in the last year gone down, the number of those who have been injured by motor traffic has more than doubled in twelve months. Curiously enough, and contrary to expectation, this swifter traffic does not seem to select the old and feeble for its chief victims. It is even more relentless to the young and active, who, almost certainly, take greater risks. For instance, while nearly 1,500 persons of sixty years and over were eaugl t and in- jured in the deadly traffic of the London street, no fewer than •t, 817 youths and children under the age of fifteen succumber to its dangers. When one finds that f,+r all those between the ages of fifteen and sixty 1the numher of injured is not more than 10,191, the foregoing figures show an extraordinarily high pro• portion of rislf attending the young and active. above THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 21 to 22c; tubs and large rolls, 19 to 20c; in- ferior, 16 to 17c; creamery rolls, 26e, and solids, 25c. " Eggs -Cass lots of cold storage, 24c; selects, 25c, and now laid, 27c per dozen. Cheese --Largo cheese, 13'/,c per pound, and twins, 14c. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 11% to 11%c per pound in cast lots; mess pork, $20 to $20.50; short cut, $23 to $24. Hates -Light to medium, 13% to 44c; do., heavy, 12% to 13c; rolls, 10% to 11c; shoulders, 10 to 10%c; backs, 16 to 16%c; breakfast ba - eon, 15% to 10c. Lard -Tierces, 12%c; tubs, 13c; pails, 13%0. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. M,pntreal, Mar. 2. -Peas - No. V, 0734 to 9Sc. Oats -Canadian 'Western No. 2, 50% to Mc; extra No. 1 fool, 50 to 50'/,c; No. 1 feed, WAR SEEMS INEVITABLE Austria Likely to Move Against Servia Within Next Fortnight. A despatch from London says: Tho Tinges of Wednesday morning publishes despatches from Vienna, St. Petersburg and Berlin taking a gloomy view of the Austria -Ser - vial) situation. The VienIla• corre- spondent says preparations for eventual hostilities are naturally being completod in Austria -gluon- gary. It would, nevertheless, be premature to regard war as cer- tain, and it may be asserted with confidence that the nearer the pos- sibility of an armed conflict ap- pears the greater is the desire in this country that it may bo avoid- ed. The Austro-Hungarian mili- tary preparations arc estimated to bo costing £40,000 a day. This ex- penditure represents a burden that cannot be borne indefinitely. The public and the authorities aro well aware that war would in- crease the expenditures ten -fold, but both desire the clearing up of the_situation, preferably by ami- cable arrangements and agreement, or, failing that, by a passage at arms, which, it. is hoped, would open up a prospect of quiet in tho future. How far events would bear out the expectation should the con- flict conte is a question which ex- perience alone could decide. The Times, in a grave leader proposes that as normal diplomatic methods have now broken down, a confer- ence of the powers be summoned. feeding steers, about 1,000 pounds, sold at $4.65. Sheep and lambs - Steady and unchanged. Hoge -Se- lect were quoted at $6.55 f.o.b., and 86.70, fed and watered. Calves -Steady and unchanged. 'k- A TUNNEL AT QUEBEC. Mr. Armstrong's Scheme to Solve Crossing Question. A despatch from Montreal says: At Wednesday's meeting of the Board of Trade Council, Mr. J. S. Armstrong of St. John, N. B., pre- sented a schema which ho claims will solve the Quebec bridge ques- tion. Ile proposes a tunnel in the form of an inunense steel tubo, cov- ered with cement and kept down in place by piers. He states that in a measure it would resemble. the tunnel at Port Huron. His plan provides for a tube large enough to give four lines of rails and two driveways for passengers. Ho es- timates that the cost would be less than the bridge, while the results would be far more satisfactory. It would be placed forty feet under water, and would thus be out of the way of the deepest draught vessels. His scheme has aroused a gocxl deal of comment, and will likely be seriously considered. ,1, - LEFT TUE PENITENTIARY. Two Prisoners Made Their Escape at New Westminster. A despatch from Vancouver says: A daring and sensational escape was made from the penitentiary qt New Westminster on Wednesday morning, the fugitives being a French-Canadian named Labour- dette and a Britisher named Stan- ton, both of whom were serving a term for burglary. The escape ap- pears to have been managed with skill and despatch. The night guard made his usual round nt 6 o'clock on Wednesday morning, knocking the bars off the culls pre- paratory to letting the occupants out to work. Labourdetto and Stanton had evidently tampered with the lock, and when the night 49% to 49'/,c Ontario No. 3, 48%e to 49c; guard's back was turned, after the bar had been dropped, all they had to do was to push the door open and sneak away. Having left tho cells the pair climbed up the hot water pipes to a window and es- caped. They have not been cap- tured. Ontario No. 4, 47% to 48c; No. 2 barley, 63% to 65c; Manitoba feed barley, 66 to 56%c; buckwheat, 55% to bee. Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80 to $5.- 90; Manitoba Spring wheat, pate ents, seconds, $5.30 to $5.40; Ma. .nitoba strong bakers', $5.10 to $5.20; Winter wheat patents, $5.40 to $5.50; straight rollers, $5 to 85.10; do., in bags, 82.35 to $2.45; extra in bags, $1.95 to $2.05. Feed -Manitoba bran, $22; do., shorts, $24; Ontario bran, $23 to $24; do., shorts, $21.50 to $25; Ontario mid- dlings, 825 to $25.50; pure grain mouille, $28 to $30; mixed mouille, '$25 ta, $27. Cheese -Finest west- ern, 13 to 13%c; castorns, 12% to 42„c Butter -Fall creamery, 113c; C. P. R. BI''VS BONDS. President Says Company $3,000,000 to Spare. A despatch from Montreal says: Sir Thomas Shaughnessy on Wed- nesday confirnnod the rumor that the C. P. R. had been purchasing Dominion debentures. He said the company had some money to spare, and had invested 85,000,000 in the Dominion three and three-quarter Had 1Vinter creamtry, 22c. Eggs -New per cent. ten-year debentures, re- laid, 28c per dozen. gently issued in London. "We UNITED STATES MARKETS. bought these debentures," he said, because we considered them a Milwaukee, Mar. 2 --Wheat, firrn; goixl and sound investment." 'No. 1 Northern, $1.17%; No. 2 $1.16Nort1ibid� Ryc-Nu5 to �l,l79C� Morn TRAIN TOPPLES OVER CLIFF. -May. 66%c. bid. Barley -Stand- ard, 60'/.,c; sample, (11 to 00%c; No. fall of 100 Feet Demolishes ('ars 3, 64 to (15c; No. 4, Ole. and hills `2:, Passengers. Minneapolis, Mar. 2. --Wheat - -A despatch from Guayaquil, May, $1.12%; July, 81.12%; cash, Ecuador, says: A passenger train No. 1 hard. 81.14% to 81.11%; No. on the main line bound north was 1 Northern, $1.13% to 81.13%; No. to -day thrown over a cliff 100 feet 2 Northern, 81.11% to $1.11%; No. high, at a point near Rio Mamba, 3 Northern. 81.08 to $1.10. Bran- and crashed to the bottom of the 823 to 823.50. Flour -First pat- ravine. All the cars were practi- ents, 85.55 to $5.65; second patents cally demolished. Twenty-five per - 85.40 to 85.50; first clears, 84.10 to sons were killed and 40 wcre 81.25; second clears, 83.05 to 83.15. wounded. The accident was caused Duluth, Mar. 2. -Wheat, --No. 1 1►y a displaced rail. hard, $1.14%; No. 1 Northern, 81.- q. 13%; No. 2 Northern. 81.11%; May, MANITOBA 'I'F:I,I:I'IiONEtY. $1.12; ; July, 81.13%; Sept., y 81.00%.---- (cheaper hates Under Government SOUL III8 OWN SECRET. Deeper Something Within Us Which Makes Real Character. Every human being is a conun- drum to every other human being. No matter how transparent the in- dividual seems, or how open and above board, as we may say, his life, depend upon it, his soul is his own secret. Ile knows how much of ahumbug he is, how her short he really comes of being what people think him. He knows twhether he is genuine or not, and 'itis this deeper something within us that makes rho real character, that is dimly perceived or seduous- ly concealed until some sudden temptation or emergency brings it forth. When our friends surprise us by manifestations of unsuspected 'heights or depths, we are not to believe those things are born of a moment; they are really deep- seated. Thoso qualities aro part of the secret itself -the self that makes us what we aro, that will one day reveal itself, that is bound 'to be disclosed as age wears on." "My mind to me a kingdom is," said the poet. Ho meant some- thing nearer the heart of things. This secret, hidden self, whose 'weaknesses and faults we try to hide, whose Life is lived beyond the eyes of men, is our real kingdom. It is the dwelling of tho kingdom of heaven, or of the other place. PELLETIEII PARTY SAFE. LIVE STOCK MARK ET. Ow ner+hip, Toronto, Mar. 2. --The top price A despatch from Winnipeg says: paid for export steers was 5.40, and The long:expeeted announcement of for heavy bulls, 84.53. Fair to good a reduction in telephone rates was loads of exporters' realized from made in the Legislature on Thurs- $4.90 to 85.35. with a steady do- day by Hen. Hebert Rogers. The mend for more. But.'her---Choice cut is quite substantial, though not -•- cattle were firm at 84.80. Medium so much as was anticipated. The The fat man who says that he and light quality were steady. price for business 'phones is to be would not let any woman order him Cows firm at 83.75 to $1; common *39, instead ''f $50; residential about becomes the most docile in cows and canners n nt wanted anti ! hones.nps, 86 825 ainstcadteed f of 812.nad died41(•111)1e takes hilitin tle and. t ( slightly lower. One good lead of in A-.rival at Churchill in Good Shape in January. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Inspector Pelletier and party of the Royal Northwest Mounted Po- lice, who wero thought to have been lost in the northern wilds, au rived at Churchill safe and well in January. These were the glad tid- ings brought down by Constables Brown and Wood, who arrived at Grmli, on Lake Winnipeg, oa Thursday with the Churchill mail packet. They also give the infor- mation that, Inspector Pelletier is on his way out, and will reach Win- nipeg in a few days. Constables Brown and Wood report severe weather in the north, which delay- ed their progress; otherwise they had an uneventful trip. f -- FOUR ACCUSED OF MUREDR. Man With Whom They Ilad Been Drinking Beaten to Death. A despatch from Prince Albert says: Four men, Robert Umphre- ville, John Turner, Alex. Dubois and Tom Ballantyne, aro held at the Mounted Police barracks here, charged with the murder of J. An- derson last November at Kinistino. The five were drinking together and left for home. Later Ander- son's body was found with the head battered in. BLOWN FROM CAR. Grand 'Trunk Brakeman MUNI Near Cornwall. A despatch from Cornwall says: At an early hour on Thursday morning (" arks Sams, of Brock- ville, a brakesinan on a westbound G. 'f. R. freight train, was bl.,wwo from the top of a car near Sum•' --...41 merstown, and striking the side of his head, was instantly killed. Ile was not missed till the train had run several miles. MON'1'llE.\1.'S ASSESSMENT. Exempt Property Valued at 'isty- four �tillionv. A despatch (eon M.'ntreal says: According to ci;.- statistics, tho exempted property in Montreal now runs up to over sixty-four mil- lion dollars in value. The figures for 1907 are 55,914.313, and fur 1908 they show $01,335.518. Tho value of taxable property in the city during the past, year has risen from $216,840,719 to 8234,821,903, an in- crease of $17,981,284.