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Exeter Times, 1909-06-03, Page 7it ONTARIO'S CROP OUTLOOK Rapid Recuperation After a Very Un promising Spring. The following information regard- in;p, agricultural conditions in the l,row ince about the middle of May na3 bun issued by the Ontario De- partment of Agricultero : VEGETA-I!.,N. In the opinion of many corre- spondents the gruwang season of hopeful that with the advent of warm weather there would bo a quick advance in the gruwth of Spring crops. GOOD PROSPECTS FOlt F1tulr. All classes of orchard trees have come through the Winter in gou.i condition so far as injury frau the 1909 is the latest fur at least a score weather or mice is concerned, al- ui year3, it being placed at from though bark -splitting is reverted in one to two weeks later than the route northern legating•.. ['aorta - average. The exceedingly wet and nately, there are a windier of ae - •cobl weather prevailing during ferences to the presence el San April and the early pelt of May Jose scale and the oyster -shell bark - it: the cause. Returns were made louse, and it is very evident that to the department as to the condi- a steady warfare must be waged tion about the middle, of May, and against these and other insect pe as at that ditto more favorable wee- if our trait trees are to thrive. Sew ther conditions had given a fresh eral correspondents declare that impulse to growth in both field and too many of our or 1iards are still forest. Up to that time only the badly neglected. 'While leafing earliest varieties of trees were conning into leaf, and in crust lo- calities pasture:; were only begin- ning to permit of live stock being turned on them. FALL WHEAT. Reports concerning the prospects of Fall wheat vary greatly, even in the sa.nie localities, some describ- ing the crop as looking well, though late, while others state that the fields are not only backward in growth, but arc thin and ranch "spotted." Owing to the dry period prevailing when most of tho seeding was done, much of the. new Fall wheat did not start until the rains of late September came, and the young plants entered the, Winter with very little top. Winter condi- tions, however, were not unfavor- able to the crop, except whero ice formed, and an early Spring growth would have brought the fields along nicely ; but the cold and very wet weather of April retarded growth, and on poorly drained or low land almost drowned out the crop. Much better growth was made on sandy anieivelly soils than on clays, ori to the excessive moisture. 'While there are many patchy spots, plowing up of the crop will not be generally res.,rted to, owing to gt4iss being seeded with the wheat, hut barley or other Spring grains will be drilled into the bare spots. The latest reports are the most fav- erablo, showing that the crop is a rapidly recuperating with the grow-- • ing weather. There is less injury than usual reported fru►u insects. THE HAV CROP. Okl meadows poor, new meadows promising, is a fair summary of the returns received regarding clever. \While many correspondents predict a geed field of hay. others are looking for it comparatively lightt cut. I SPRING SOWING. The small portion of the Spring crops that were put in early found an excellent seed bed, but heavy rains immediately followed. and the land got too soft to work on, staking further sowing almost a•t impossibility for %veeks, except in a few cases where, to use the es- tpressive language of some corre- spondents, the seed was "puddled" in. While these on high. light, (.r well drained land have trade fair headway with their Spring seeding. the hulk of farmers were not mess- than or•than half -way through with that work in the sueond week of May, a most unusual record for (littera.. However, fnrmers were ready anti reiger to get on the land with Cie first appearance of dry weather. and while some correspondents were taking a rather gloomy :t.'.•• ..f the situatione others were mess and blossoming were about a week or two hackward, reports were to the effect that barring tato frosts and heavy rains at the time of bloom, a good yield of fruit may be looked for. Peaches, especially, aro looked to fur a large yield, as the buds were but little injured by the Winter. LIVE STOCK SITUATION. But for the comparative mildness of the Winter there would have been much scarcity of fodder be- fore live Mock got upon tho late grass. Ani it is, many farmers have to feed most economically, and some barns are rather baro of sup- plies. The scarcity of straw and roots told against generous feed- ing. and the general condition of live stock may be briefly described as thin but thrifty. No disease of a serious or epidemic nature has appeared, the mild form of distem- per reported in several parts of the province being of a local na- ture. Horses aro said to be in good heart, although not looking so plum" or sleek as in some years, owing to close feeding. The same may be said of both beef and dairy cattle. Sheep have come through the Winter nicely, and lambing has CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS :1Al'l'ENINGS Fi:OM ALL OVEII THE GLOBE. Telegraphic Itriefs From Our Owa auJ Other Countries of Recent Eveuts. CANADA. The new postsotflee and firehall at Saskatoou were struck by light- ning. Calgary has a scandal in connec- tion with the new City Hall con- tract. The sale of Prince Rupert lots was very successful, high prices being realized At► Leglish company is abo:tt to build a $2,500,0e0 dry dock and shipbuilding plant at Montreal. Private Mir, who shot Sergt. Lloyd at London, is said to have tnade two attempts to escape from Hamilton asylum. W. J. Cameron, who is said to have married once in 'Toronto, was sentenced at Winnipeg to three years in penitentiary for bigamy. A homest.-ader named Tetrault, under sentence of death for mur- der near Battleford, has had his sentence commuted to life imprison- ment. The Government cruiser Bayfield is taking soundings in the •vicinity of the Detroit River tunnel to see that it does not interfere with na- vigation. Two men and a woman wero mol bed by a lot of Mormons at Ma- grath, Alberta. They were trying to take possession of a child whore father was a "Gentile" and her mother a Mormon. The Dominion Government is ex - TRANSPLANTED TRIBES. 1 T U WORLD'S MARKETS Ghastly Tragedies Resulted in Two Instances. A commencement has just been made in a most remarkable and lung -talked -of enterprise. This is nothing less than the transplanting of the Lapps from Lapland, whero they aro a dying race. to Labra- dor, whero it is hoped that they wilt flourish and increase. 1Vhether these hopes will be jus- tified or not, remains to be seen. Similar experiments in the past have seldom been wholly success- ful, and some have resulted disas- trously. The Doukhobors, fur instance, who, in 1899, wero transported, to the number of eight or nine thousand, from their homes in Southern Russia, to the Canadian Northwest. wero for a time in dire straits. They also behaved erra- tically, marching naked through the snow, and abandoning their flocks and herds to tue wolves. They are now, however, reported tc be settling down, and doing bet- ter. On the other hand, the attempt made, some eighty years ago, to transplant the Itoskolnikis of the I)on country to a now home that was supposed to have been found for theta in Eastern Turkestan, re- sulted in one of the most ghastly tragedies recorded in the annals of history. The huge caravan lost its way in the terrible Desert of Gobi, and was never heard of REPORTS FROM T111' I.EAUINt TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Howe Laud Abroad. BRE .\ DST UEFS. Toronto, J one 1. -Flour -On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents $3.40 to (15.50 to -day Ile buyers' sucks outside for export; on track, Toronto, $5.70 to $5.;5. Manitoba flour; first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track, 'Toronto; second patents, $5.70 to $3.80, and strong bakers, $5.50 to $5.60 on track, 'luruuto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern $1.33, Georgian Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.30, and No. 3 at $1.28%. Ontario wheat -Prices of No. 2 are quoted at $1.35 to $1.40, out- side. Barley -Feed barley 62 to 65c. outside. Oats -No. 2 Ontario white 56 to 57c on track, Toronto, and 56c out- side ; No. 2 Western Canada oats 57c and No. 3 at 56c flay ports. Peas -No. 2, 95 to 96e outside. Rye -No. 2, 74 to 75e outside. Buckwheat -No. 2 63 to 65c out- side. Corn -No. 2 American yellow 83c on track, Toronto; No. 3 821/20 on track, Toronto; Canadian yel- again, the probability being that low, 77 to 78e on track, Toronto. hunger and thirst, combined with Bran -Manitoba $23.50 in sacks, the attacks of nomad robbers, were Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to responsible for the deaths of the $25, Toronto freights. entire party. Equally dreadful was the fate that befell the 10,000 Jutlanders transplanted to the east coast of Greenland by Queen Margaret of perimenting with shipments r,f , Sweden. At first they flourished goods across the continent via Meet- t exceedingly. Villages were found - co. It• is said the rail -and -water : ed, churches and schools were built, route is cheaper than the all -rail route by Canadian railways. GREAT BRITAIN. and a bishop was appointed. Then, one year, the ice pack broke loose from the remote northern seas, and came to a standstill along Right Rev. Dr. Anson, formerly the coast opposite the settlements Bishop of Qu'Appelle, died at Lich- 'n a belt fifty miles broad. All corn- field on Thursday. munication with the open sea was By the death of Charles Mord- thus cut off. The settlers wore un - son, worth about $0.000,000, the able to obtain supplies, and in the British Government will get at least end they perished down to the very $10,000,000 in death duties. last than. UNITED STATES. HAD P.1SSED CENTI'Itl" 3I.►It6. The town of Dalton. Mich., is re - been upon a generous scale; but -- fear of the dog is holding back the parted destroyed by forest tires. Brantford Woman Dies at Age of sheep industry in Ontario. 1':.e Tho firemen's strike in Georg;a • 101 Years. present cost of feed for bogs leaves has tied up the Georgia Itailroad A despatch from Brantford says: very little profit for rte. farmer completely. Mrs. Noahdied here at the A nutnber of correspondents hold The Wright brothers have receiv-Ziegler that on this account there will not ed au order for an aeroplane from residence of her daughter, Mrs. the Shah of Persia. A. Kauffman, on Thursday, in her Seven men have already met treat year. She was born at Lan - death since the commencement of easter, Pa., and her father, John the lake seamen's strike. Bingham, was one of the earliest Mrs. Julia Ward Howe celebrat- settlers in North %l'aterloo. The cd her 90th birthday at her home deceased loaves 103 descendants, in - in Boston on Thursday. eluding eight children, 41 grand - The Bank of Montreal has pur- children, 53 great-grandchildren chased an eleven -story building on and three great-great-grandchil- Wall street. New York, for its New York branch. A young Englishman, who says BOUND 'I'0 END HER LIFE. he learned to steal in Toronto be- cause he could find no work, has Inmate of Ottawa Home Makes been sentenced to ten years in pri- Third Unsuccessful Attempt. be a surplus of hogs offering later in the season. - .t.• THE WHEAT 11.1RVEST BEGUN. Binders at Work at Wichita Falls. Texts. A despatch front Wichita Falls, Texas, says: Binders were started on \ 'edne'-day in many wheat fields in Wichita county. This is the first harvesting of the year in Texas and marks the beginning of the sea- son throughout the United States. Usually wheat i, first cut 200 miles son at. Portland, Me. farther south, but weather condi- -- -- tions altered the situation this GEN..RAL. year. Reporte received from the Ten natives were killed in n rail - field indicate that the yield will av- erage ten bushels to the acre. 1t is estimated that the best fields will yield twenty bushels. •-' - SPANISH H' ll t:RN EN DROWN. Sixty 1'e-<e•l. iI:t' ' Fouudereal in toilet Tempest. A despatch from Bilbao. Spain, sayss: :1 violent tempest Tut' been raging on the Bilbao ;oast. Over sixty wcsse1sof the fishing fleet have foundered, and it is estimated that not less than. one hundred fisher- men have been drowned. BRITAIN'S NAVAL STANDARD British Premier Says Everything Will Depend on Geographical Conditions. .\ despatch from London says: + Wed- nesday the House of Commons on 1 nesday night the Premier definitely '_. laid down the wieu of toe British oreminent in regard to the quer- . t•. whether the United tett s should be considered in de- e•tutiuing the British two -power tanval standard. Mr. :Asquith said a greet ileal of nonsense had leen take i about the two -power stand- ard. it w113 nothing more than a purely empirican generalization. He agreed that the range of Brit- ish vision should not be limited to Europe, but. nn the other hand, %ehcn considering the combined effective strength of nny other two powers in the world for aggressive purposes one ntur.t have regard to geographical position. in dealing with a remote power whose naval base was six, eifht• or tett thousand miles sway, with no convenient coaling station, it was element.ery common sense not to trent that power as of the same effectiwc v•;lutt as a power with a naval base a hundred miles or so C way collision in India. The troops stationed at Damas- cus refuse to recognize Mehmed V. no Sultan. Two German airships manoeuvred with the infantry in the presence of the Emperor. A Turkish land -owner who led the slaughter of the Armenians at Adana has been placed in charge of the Government relief fund in SKY BOMB BURST. that district . --- Two billed and Forty Injured in A despatch from Ottawa says: Margaret Hossack, an aged woman inmate of the Good Shepherd's Home, will be prosecuted for at- tempted suicide. She made her third attempt on Thursday morning by climbing the fence of the institu- tion, which borders on the Ottawa River, and throwing herself into the river. Fortunately two men were passing in a rowboat and suc- ceeded in rescuing tier. Sardinia City. BABY FELL FIVE STORIES. Plunged into 11'ontan'y Skirt flang- ing t►n ('Inthre Lino. .\ despatch item New York says: Patrick Searson, aged four, is the luckiest little Irishman in New York, in spite of the fact that he is the youngest of thirteen children. He fell five stories on Wednesday, and escaped with a slight gash in the head. He was playing on the fire escape of his mother's flat, five flights up, at No. 1.095 Second Av- enue, when he fell off. He bit the railing of the fire escape two stories A despatch from Calgary, Alta., away. Therefore the United Stenos down and bounced from there to a says : A flow of 100,000,000 cubic feet could not be regarded as one of the clothes line, a story lower still. Ilia c f gas every 2-1 hours started on two powers which would have to bo taken into account. And, al -next st 'p was another floor bet .w, Wednesday night at the well in A despatch from Rome says : While a e -eworks display was go- ing on at Sorso, Sardinia, on Thursday, a sky bomb burst pre- maturely on the ground. The heads of two spectators were blown off and forty persons were injured. Some of the latter had to undergo operations. _ ._ .l• _ N 1.1'1 11.11. G.1S .11' CALGARY. Flow of 1111).00flAto Feet in Twenty.. four Hours is Stench, though second among the naval powers of the world, she could not be treated the same for aggressive purposes ns France, Germany or Austria. Mr. Arthur Lee objected, haying he would rival with the probability of nny war with the United States merely as an academic proposition. "It is really impossible," ho de- clnred, "to exclude the United States on the score of geographi- cal remoteness when she had just sent n fleet of sixteen first-class battleships, maintained as a fight- ing entity throughout, for a voy- ago of 40,000 miles, in the course of which that fleet circumnavigated the globe and visited many parts of the British Empire." Mr. Balfour, without mentioning the United Stater, argued that Mr. :Asquith had abandoned the tradi- tional British .iew of a two -power standard. but. the House rejected his motion by a majority of 114. where he tumbled into a woman s East Calgary. This is the first flow skirt hung out on the line and in- of gas of commercial value, though Hated by the wind. The skirt was traces have been discovered as tho too big for Patsy, and he slipped drills have gone down. through. but his fall was broken and no ill results followed. +- Jit ►hS BURY THEIR RICHES. 11.1D 11.1N AT LARGE' In Morocco it is custom's,. 1 a Peter Hanson Escapeq From Mani- than to bury most of his 1 in tuba Penitenliar a place known only to hirnn'h. .fnis Penitentiary. custom is practised b, all Moors, A despatch from Winnipeg says: fur they cannot trust their own Peter Hansen, a desperate criminal family, who would murder them di - serving a fourteen -year sentence in Stony Mountain Penitentiary for arson, robbery and the killing of animals, escaped on Monday night and is still at large. He tunnelled a hole through the prison wall and got out on the roof, and by means of his Sed clothes reached the ground. twenty feet below. He cr's notice at one of the roast escaped twice from jail while wait- towns. Duri.tg the deniolition of ing trial. and is altogether regard- a house a considerable sunt or ed as ono of the worst criminals in money was found built into the the west. wall. reetly it wag known where the money was. At the death of the head of the family in Morocco. dig- ging operations comnaence at once, hut seldom is the money discovered. There must be many fortunes buried away in old corners of the c•ountr3. An instance came under the writ - COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$4 to 85 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans -Prince, $2, and hand-pick- ed, $2.15 to $2.20 per bushel. Maple syrup -95c to $1 a gallon. Hay No. 1 timothy $13 to $13.50 a ton on track here, and lower grades at $11 to $11.50 a ton. Straw $7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 95c per bag on track. Delawares, $1.10 to $1.15 per bag on crack. Poultry -Chickens, ; earlings, dressed, 17 to 18c per lb ; fowl, 12 to 14c; turkeys, 18 to 22c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20c; tubs and large rolls, 16 to 17c; in- ferior, 14 to 15c; Creamery rolls, 22 to 23c, and solids, 18 to 20c. Eggs -Case lots, 18 to 18%c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%c per lb, and twins, 14% to 14%c. New quoted at 13c for large and at 13'/,c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 13 to 13'/.,c per lip in case tote; tncss pork $22 to $22.50; short cut, $24 to $25. Hants -Light to medium, 15 to 10c; do., heavy, 13 to 14c ; rolls, 12 to 12%c; shoulders, 11 to 11%c; backs. I;' to 18c; breakfast bacon, 16% to 15e. Lard --Tierces, 13%c; tubs, 13%c; pails, 14c. _ _M BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, May 20. -Peas -$1.05 to $1.00. Oats -Canadian 11'estern, 58% to 59c; extra, No. 1 feed, 58% to 58%e; No. 1 feed, 58 to 59%c; No. 3 Canadian Western, 57,V., to 58c; No. 2 feed, 57 to 57%c. Bar- ley -No. 2 7234 to 74c; Manitoba feed barley, 62,'s to 67e. Buck- wheat -69% to 70c. Flour ---Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 86.30 to $6.50; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba strong bakers, P5.60 to $5.50; Winter wheat patents, 80.50 to $0.60; straight rollers. $6.30 to $0.35; straight rollers, in bags, 83.05 to $3.10; extras in bags. $2.05 to $2.80. Feed- Manitoba short, $:t 1 to 825: Ontario bran, $23 to $21; Ontario shorts, $24.50 to $25; Ontario middlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain muuillie. $33 to $35; mixed mouillio, $28 to $30. Cheese -westerns 121/2 to 12% c. Butter - 22 to 22'„c. Eggs- 19 to 1 o! -; c per dozen. UNiTED STATES M.1RKETS. Buffalo, June 1.--\\'hent--Spring wheat, steady ; No. 1 Northern, carloads, store, 131.35! : Winter, nominal. Corn -No. 4 yellow. 79c; No. 3 corn, 78,sc to 79c : N. 4 corn, 77,4c. Oats --No. 2 white. tale 10 61!.:,o; No. 3 white. 63 to r::' No. 4 white, 621,,,;e. Barley- reed to malting, 80c to 83e. Itye---No. 2, on track, 94e. ('anal freights -- Wheat, 3"/se to New York. Chicago, June 1. -Cush wheat -- No. 2 red, $1.et : No. 3 red, *1.49; No. 2 hard. *I eel to $1.31; No. 3 hard. $1.31 to $1.33; No. 1 N..rth- ern, *1.31 to 14.30; No. 2 Northern, $1.:3:3 to $1.35; No. 3 Spring, $1.30 to $1.33. Corn -No. 2. 7:0,.,c; No. 2. white. 7534 to 75%e; No. 2 sel- Iow, 75' to 76c; No. :1, 751.;c ; No. 3 white. 7534c; No. 3 yr)low•, 75!: .1 despatch from \Winnipeg says: ahead of two yeets ago, but a 10 75%c: 1No. •1. 74e. Oats No. 21 From all over the vast prnirie� re- little later generally than in 1909. white. 6314e: No. 3 white. 60:' to Rion ierwod be the ('anadi n I aci- At gums points the wheat is three 63e : No. 4 white, 59c to 601::•0; state! tic train line and its branches a inches high. The only minor key dard, 62%e. i clop rep rted was received on sounded in the optimistic report is "'"-- 't\cdnr,day which is of the most from the country around Bourke 1.IVT•: STO('h MAIIK1.'1'*. optimistic character. Wheat seed and 1'cnhnld, nn the Edmonton line, llontrenl. June 1.-.1 few of the ing is completed at cwery point where tho work is backward, het hest cattle were sold at about 6e and grain is sprouting through the even there the grain sown has been per pound, but they were ,tut suit, encouraged by warm. gross- making good progress. ()at seeding choice : pretty geed animals sold at ing Iseatber and a sufficiency of on the whole is about 73 per cent. 41i to 5!„c; milkmen's strippers, moisture. The season is a goeddeal finished, according to the report. AN IM1ENSE STEEL PLANT Algoma Company Has Ordered $500,000 Worth of Machinery iu Pittsburg. A despatch from Pittsburg, Penn., says : Another move tow and centr- ing the iron and steel industry of the United States on the borders of the Great Lakes was made on Thursday, when a contract was closed by the Algoma Steel Com- pany fur $500,000 worth of heavy steel machinery to be delivered at Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, as quick as possible. It is the intention of the Philadelphians and the London- ers back of this plant to have two immense steel mills in Canada turning out bars and other steel products by Nov. 1 next. The na- ture of the machinery ordered shows that the mills to be erected will be rivals worthy of even the biggest and best Pittsburg mills. The mills w.,l bo by far the larg- est in Canada. After six years' study those con- cerned in this project at the head. of the Great Lakes nave decided that it %yould he cheaper to carry the coal to the iron ore than bring OW ores to the coal, as has been the custom for years. It is the in- tention to go after the Canadian trade and the trade of the North- west States, a specialty being made of the steel entering into the making of farming machinery. Announcement of placing this order caused some interest in Pitts- burg because Pittsburg sleet barons have looked on taus north- west territory as their own, even though the Algoma concern has had a rail mill there and ore mines for some time. There is little doubt now that the most formidable rival the Pittsburg steel mills have en- countered in years in the north- west is now securing a better hold, as local concerns will hardly be able to compete with a freight of over 1,500 •miles added to their cost of manufacture at Pittsburg. 3% to 5c; common stock at 334 to 4%c per pound. Milch cows, $25 to $60 each. Calves, $2 to 88 each, oi 3% to 6c per pound. Sheep, 5 to 6c per pound; lambs, $4 to $0 each. Good lots of fat hogs, 8%c per pound; a small lot of choice pack- ers sold at $8.90 per 100 pounds. Toronto, June 1. --Really well finished butchers' cattle were firm at $5.40 to 85.60, and choice at 85.25 to 85.40; good butchers' cows were a trifle higher at $4.50 to $5: bulls at $4 to $4.73. Stockers and feeders -Steady demand and prices firm around $5. Demand for good quality milkers and near springers; common unsaleable. Sheep and lambs-i.asier and 50c lower. Calves -Easier. Hogs -Very firm at $7.75 f.o.b. and $8 fed and watered. PRESIDENT ROY GUILTY. The Wrecking of the Bank of St. John's, Quebec. A despatch from Montreal says: Hon. P. H. Roy, ex -Speaker of the Quebec Legislature and ex -Presid- ent of the Bank of St. John's, was found guilty on Thursday of will- fully making false returns to the Government. This verdict is the result of one of the most sensation- al trials in the history of this Prov- ince. During the three weeks the trial has been in progress some re- markable evidence was submitted in reference to Mr. Itoy's actions. It was shown that he had made false returns to the Government involv- ing some $500,000. This consisted of worthless notes, past due bills payable, which Mr. Roy, his brother and their friends had discounted, pocketing the cash. In their re- ports to the Government all this worthless paper was set down as assets. In the list. of current loans was included an item of $5,000 re- presented by a note of the bank it- self, which was made to cower money stolen from it. ----.t:-- -- - CAR OF 1901 \W111:IT. Hold on Winnipeg Exchange al $1.16 l'er Medici. A despatch from Winnipeg says : A carload of wheat was sold on the Winnipeg exchange of Thursday morning. which has been in store in Fort William since 1901, as a re- sult of litigation arising out of the bill of lading. It netted the farm- er about 51 cents per bushsel, al- though sold at 81.16. As a matter of fact the fat mer is out thousands of dollars on the deal after paying bis laweert. ---+ KII.I,I;II Its i,I(;Hi'NING. Chnrles EIstoue `truck While Standing at Barn Door. A despatch from Wyoming says: During a thunderstorm on Thurs- day afternoon about 4 o'clock the barn of Wallace Williams, near this village, was struck by lightning. Mr. Williams' brother-in-lnw, Mr. Charles EIstnne, was; instantly killed while standing in the stable door. The deceased conducted a Tailoring business here, and had been a resident of Ws omiog for many years. THE AGE OF THE WORLD. Not Less Than 210,000,000 Years, Says Hon. R. J. Strutt. A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: The perennial problem of the age of the world has received a new contribution, based on the antiquity of radio -active minerals. Geologists figured some time ago the age of the earth at least 230,- 000,000 years, and the estimate hold until mathematical physicists com- puted that the sun itself had not existed more than 115,000,000 years. The discovery of radium and tho theories of radio -activity semi to be going to re-establish the geolo- gists' contention. Lord Rayleigh's son, Hon. R. J. Strutt, who is al- ready an eminent scientist, an- nounces, as tate result of a recent experiment with a chunk of thori- anito containing helium, that tho latter could not have accumulated iu less than 240,000,000 years. Ex- periments on a larger scale which are now going on will likely lead to an extension of this time. MOVING TO WINNIPEG. Executive Offices of the Grand Trunk Pacific. A despatch from Montreal says t It is officially announced that Mr. E. J. Chamberlain, General Man- ager and Vico-President of the Grand Trunk Pacific, will snake Winnipeg his headquarters after Juno 1st. Now that tho line is :ac- tually in operation in the west tho presence of the General Manager is felt to bo even more necessary than during the period of construc- tion, especially if the Grand Trunk Pacific is to maintain from the first an aggressive policy in the develop- ment of traffic. QUAKES IN PORTUGAL. Varied in Strength. But Occasioned Little Damage. A despatch from Lisbon says: Earttquakes varying in strength have been occurring in the Ribatjo district since Sunday. Two oceur- red on Tuesday. No material dam- age has been done. The American Red Cross has sent $1,000 as a con• tribution to the funds of the Portu- guese Red Cross in aid of the vic- tims of the severe earthquake in the Ribatjo district last month. �.�_.- MURDERER SENTENCED. Convicted of Murder of Brother at Hawkesbury. A despatch front L'Orignal, Ont., says : Salem Assaly, a Syrian ped- dler, who murdered his brother, Joseph, at Ilawkesbury in December last, was tried at the Spring Assizes here on Thursday. A mix- ed jury brought in a verdict of murder with a recommendation to clemency. Mr. Justice Tec•tzol, who presided, sentenced accused to be hanged at L'Orignal on the 23rd of July neat. Tho condemned, rho is only 22, had his feet an bad- ly d - ly frozen beifore being captured, that both had to be amputated just below the knees. PRAIRIE WHEAT FIELDS Warmer Weather and Plenty cf Moisture Force Growth of the Grain.