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Exeter Times, 1909-06-24, Page 3i 1 CONDENSEDSED NEWSI�S ITE SISI PRiS01 Ai3USi:S Gt�01�'11G CANADI'S U.tl't'I:NIN(;s FItON ALL 01'1:11 -.I( I. ('il IiNCI) tNU 111:.111:N Imports for May Increased Over $5,000,000 and Exports Nearly $2,010,000. _depasfrom Ottawa says: e figures for the month of May tvh ►nosh-gratifying increases in import' and exports, and in- ce that the trade of the 1)omin- ien has practically recovered from the depression which set in during the fall of 1907, and bellow almost equal iu volume to the high record e+t tw•e years ago. Imports for the month totalled $23,000.076, an increase of $5,163,- t47 over May of last year. Fur the first two months of the fiscal year the imports totalled 851),592,519, an increase of (17,792,625 over the cor- responding period of last year. The customs revenue for the month shows an increase of $67t),000. Exports of dc>tneetic produce for the month totalled $15,810,207. an increase of nearly two millions. For April and May the exports totalled 2.673,004, an increase Of $:3,471,- 701. The total trade last month, including coin and bullion, amount- ed to $14,911,7.26, an increase of ($7,029,650. For the first two months of the fiscal year the in- crease in the total trade has been ;+11,457,320. ( STRAY MAN WITH 1Tll SM11.1.1'1).\. .. 10,000 MEN WILL STRIKE. Pound Alonesside G. T. P. 'Intel, Protest .\gains Open Shop Order and Burred Prow City Limits. A despatch from Fort William ays : Tho G. T. 1'. local. on its way from Lake Superior Junction to this city, un Wednesday, carne across a plan lying beside the track, 2'3 milds east of the Junction. Dr. f er►tt, who was on the train, ap- sismeatifrproaching the man, saw what was apparently a case of smallpox. Tho man was placed in a box -car and brought to the city. News having been wired ahead, the magistrate made arrangements for an isola- tion camp about four miles out of the city limit, as the city refused t(. allow the man to enter the lim- its. All passengers on the train were carefelly inspected by the me- dical health officers before being al- lowed to enter the city, and strict watch will bo kept on incoming trains for somo time, as it is sur- mised the man may have contract- ed the disease in a camp and com- municated it to others. s. ._ KILLING OF TILE INi)i-INS. Confinement in the Reserves le to Blame for Mortality. A devote/. from Prince Albert, Sask., says;: At the Synod of the Diocese of Saskatchewan on Wed- nesday afternoon, Venerable Arch- deacon McKety, in charge of Indian work in the diocese, said he wished to correct the impression that In- dians were dying out. In reality I1,dians were increasing, except emoug prairie bands. that had to iterfesfefrous the open air, in good leather touts and fresh buffalo neat, to cheap cotton tents on -the reserve, whero insufficient rations rt ere doled nut to them. In due time the trishaws would disappear, es did the Saxons, Danes and Nor- mans in England. One-third of the Indians in the west belonged to the Anglican Church, due to the church •rening the first mission at Pas in ate. MORE BUFFALO FOIL CANADA. fine Specimens Coming From Mon- tana Reservation. A despatch fruut Butte, Montana, says: A unique round -up took place on Wednesday on the Flathead In- dian Reservation, in western Mon- taua, when the Pablo herd of buf- falo were coralled and driven to the big stockade in Ravalla. There the amulets will bo loaded on speci- ally constructed care. :\ nu,liber 4.f the finest specimens will go to the Canadian Xati.•nal Park. .Others of the animals will be ship• ped to eastern parks. -dr tt 11 f.QVl: TIiFIR LOGS. att LIl,nt ereitn Fear lime in $asknt- theaan (river. despatch frons Edmonton, Al 1►erta, says: Lumbermen are alarm end at the rapid rise of the Sasknt chewer' River. Millions of dollar. worth of logs have het ti lost in they teat Cleve yearsfive boomt- ;>taaie the river. it is feared, may give way Last year all broke, and a million feet of logs went adrift. three quarters of which At ere lest of Tin Plate Works. A despatch from Pittsburg, Penn., says: More than 10,000 skilled workmen, members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, who aro employed by the American Sheet and Tia Plate Company, a subsi- dary of the United States Steel Corporation. will quit work on the slight of June 30, at which time the open shop order of the company becomes effective. In the Pitts- burg district a majority of the mills of the American Sheet and Tin Flat© Company are non-union. The combined plants in which a strike order will be effective total 152 mills in the tin trade, and b1 mills in the sheet steel trade. PRINCE ALBERT EXCITED. (:old -seekers Continue to-trrive- Riclutess of Gold Field. A despatch from Prince Alpert, Sask., says: Parties for the gold camp up north continue to arrive from different parts of the west. Owing to the high state of the riv- ers leading to Lac La Rogue, not many have gone out durilig 111e past couple of weeks. Many busi- ness hien arc making arrangements to make the trip as soon as the waters go down. Word is expect- ed daily from the development party which left here three weeks ago to cross -cut the lead and look into the lower levels. The outcrop is so phenomenally rich that if the lower strata is anything in propor- tion, then the biggest strike in re- cent years has been made. BONDS SELLING It.11'Ii)LY. Government Has Raised $500,000 of $3.500,000 Loan. A despatch from Toronto says: Rapid progrea is being nuido by the Ontario Government in dispos• ing _of the new issue of provincial bonds, placed on the market a few teeeks ago. Already $500,000 of the loan of $:3,500,000 has been taken up and the money paid to the Provin- cial Treasury. Hon. Mr. .Mathe- son, the Ontario Treasurer, reports that there have been many addi- tional subscriptions, but these have not yet been paid. A large per- centage of the purchasers of the debentures have been individuals who see in then( a secure invest ment, carrying with it no liability, free from succession taxes, and pay- ing a satisfactory rate of interest. ('ll(tLl:lt.t IS INCREASING: .\SING. Filtration sleds at St. Petersburg Believed to be Infected. .1 despatch from St. Petersburg says; The number of cholera eases in the Russian capital is increasing daily. Twenty-four new cases and seventeen suspects were admitted to the municipal hospitals during the twenty four hours ended at noon on Thursday. It is now be- lieted that the filtration beds have hecomo Infected, as the districts of the city served with v:ater from these sources are furnishing a larger pereentago of cases than the two districts that get their water by direct pumping. AEIII AL A " h.s with 111E G LUBE. IN Rt sal.t\ J tIl S. letegraphle Briefs From Our 011a and Other Countries et Benet Esenta. CANADA. The execution of Walter Blythe has been postponed until ()teener. The Y. M. C. A. has raiser! isl :►,- 634 in Montreal in its building fund campaign. The two paintings stolen from La- val University, Quebec, were re- turned by a pries,:. Tho plans for the wagon road from Elk Lake to Gowganda have Public. Liberty Was Nerve at eo Lura }:bb as Under Premier Stolypin. Public liberty in Russia was never at so low an ebb in the years o[ untrammeled autocracy as it has become under the constitution as administered by Premier Stolypin, %rites a 8t. Petersburg correspon- dent. In 1905 the average daily prison population was 85,0,)0. It reached to February of the present year 181,137. Tho great majority of the been completed.inuuates are political offenders cun- Itayn,ond Wilson was drowned In lined without trial or hope of being Rice Lake, St. Mary's, on Thurs- heard. Sanitary arrangements in day, by the upsetting of his cauoe. the prisons are incredttly bad. All Faraday Hall, one of the old Manner of filth diseases prevail buildings conuectod with Victoria with enormous mortality. The Kieft prison alone produced 2,185 cases of typhoid fever, and 1,903 Wren obviously suffering from that mal- ady were uctually placed on their defense in court. SICK PRISONERS TORTURED. It is the general practice to give no attention to a primmer seem- ingly ill as long 'as he is able to A customs official is searching crawl about. (Ileitis are never re - locomotives at St. Thomas, as there moved, no platter how ill prisoners become. Various instances have Leon cited and proved of prisoners desperately ill who have been beat - op and otherwise tortured to ex- tort confessions from them. That is an ordinary practice, indeed, at all the prisons. A woman arrested on suspicion of robbery was recently so brutally beaten that blood flowed from her mouth. She became unconscious, and later, as a result for the beut- ii.g, she had internal hemorrhages. Three days afterward she was found to be wholly innocent of the rob - University at Cobourg, is to be torn down. Two London seedsmen aro being ,prosecuted under the pure seeds act for keeping unclean seeds for sale. A brewery wagon was prevented from entering London eanip grounds, under the new prohibitive regulations. are complaints of articles being smuggled in the engine cabs. Tenders for 283 of the 870 acres of mining leads in the Gillies limit offered for sale were accepted for the aggregate sural of $71,643. Fourteen hundred boys took part in the annual review of school ca- dets at Winnipeg, on Thursday, and thirty thousand people witnessed the spectacle. The Railway Commission has or - 'demi the railway companies to neight coal cars at the port of en- try and at destination also if in- sistad on by the consignee. A fee bery. not exceeding two dollars may bo Suicide among the prisoners has become significantly frequent. Russian law does not recognize capital punishment except when de- creed by conrtmartial. Stolypin has not resitated to employ court- martial whenever it suited his pur- pose. Last year 825 prisoners were thus executed, practically all of them in prison on political account and the majority being of the bet- ter class and well educated. 403 EDITORS IMI'R\SONE(). Deputy C'ekedyze in a debate in the duma on March 7, proved by authentic record that 237 former deputies have been imprisoned, eighteen of whom have been sent to Siberia for life and that 406 newspaper editors have been ecru - defunct! since 1905 to prison for- tresses or to penal servitude. A terrible story of the tortui ing of a Moscow barrister named Jdan- c if in the central prison at Orel, has just come to light, and the ease v ill be placed before the dtuna. The unfortunate man, who is a political prisoner, roused the an- ger of the prison authorities by complaining of the treatment of prisoners, and was summoned be- fore ,the governor, who spoke to him very roughly. He was then ecuducte<t back to his cell, and three jailers immediately appeared and ordered him to strip naked. He refused to submit to this indignity, and they threw themselves upon him, tore off his clothes and threw hint on the floor. One sat on biro, occasionally amusing himself by giving him a savage kick with his heavily booted fent, while the other heels of Russian Battleships Laid two flogged hint with Cossack no- on the Neva. galkas, short leather whips tipped A despatch from St. Petersburg with disks of heavy lead. says: The keels of four battleships NEARLY K(1.1.ED. of the greater Dreadnought type The prisoners en adjacent cells were laid on \\'e<lnosday morning could hear the 1 ictim's shrieks and in St. Petersburg in the presence the tortures' cries : "You'll not of tho Vice -Minister of Marine, the complain again 1 Keep it up, corn - Foreign Naval Attaches, and rep- rades : ('ut into him! Let himresentatives of the Russian Naval know who is master:" They heard League. They will he of 23,000 tons the shrieks grow feeble, and at last each, length 009 feet, and beam bit only a low moan. 'Then the terri- feet. They will have a speed of fied listeners caught the words: twenty knots, and the train bat- "Stop, we've finished him." There tench will consist of ten twelve -inch was silence, and then came the guns of a special nickel steel. %tordh: "Ile's dead; the devil take 4' him:" NINETY-TH IEE K11.1.1:1) IN M.tT Soon the assistant governor. a smart young man in It11 officer's Fatalities in Indu..trial ['matifls- uniform, arrived to see if the tor - Fifteen Trade Disputes. turers had done their work pro- perly. When he saw the prisoner lying apparently dead he began to swear at the jailers for killing pito "without orders." Seeing that the tortured matt still breathed he or- dered him sent to the hospital. When he ens sufficiently recover- ed he was sent bark to his cell, %hero he was hent.`, almost every day. The jailers eery often heard t taunt hint 811(1 t•• say : "Yen aou't live long... charged for this second weighing unless there is a serious discrep- ancy in weight. GREAT BIt1TAIN. Mr. Winston Churchill proposes the establishment of an Imperial system of labor exchanges. The White Star -Dominion Liner Megantie sailed on her maiden trip front Liverpool on Thursday. UNITED STATES. Tho longshoremen on the great lakes have voted not to strike. President Taft sent a message to Congress on Tuesday, recommend- ing a two per cent. tax on the in- come of corporations, and the ad- option of an amendment to the con- stitution providing for the imposi- tion of an income tax. GENERAL. President Penna of dead. Twelve native soldiers died from thirst in Morocco. A large lake .. f oil has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico. The northern coast provinces of Honduras are reported to be in open revolt. Tito Cunard steamer. Slavonia, which grounded oft the Azores, we be a total loss. An association has been organ- ized in Berlin to promote better trade relations with Canada. F't11 It DREADNOUGHTS. Brazil is TIIE WORLD'S MARKETS CLOSE TO TIIE CZAR REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese uad Other ((airy ('reduce ut Home and Abroad. 1ti1EAUS'1'CF1'S. Toronto, June 29. -Flour -- On- tario wheat, 90 per cent. patents, 65.50 to $5.60 to -day iu buyers' seeks outside for export ; on track, Toronto, $5.75 to $5.80. Manitoba flour, first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 0.1 track, Toronto; second patents, $5.80 to $6, and strung bakers', i'i..65 to 85.75 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat --No. 1 North- ern, $1.35, Georgian Bay ports; No. 2, $1.33, and No. 3 $1.31. Ontario Wheat -No. 2, 81.35 to $1.40 outside. Burley -Feed, 60 to 62c outside. Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, 60 to 61e on track, Toronto, and 56 to NAVA ,r'j)spateli from Ottawa sayB: During the month of Mny 9a fatatli- tiens occurred to w'orking►n'n in IGATION Canadian industrial purs'tit.s and 185 were seriously injured. Uur• ing the month there were fifteen trade disputes iu existence, and in- crease of two as compared with May of last year. About 32 firms and 1,759 employees were affect(d and the loss of thine in working day,: was approximately 90.357. as compared with 127.425 in May. 1110.5. sham Bell's Machines to Be Brought to Petawawa Camp for Experiment. 4teep.tt••h from Ottawa says: first t'anedian experiments airships for military purposes be 111.1410 at Petawawa camp shortly Mr. Percy- Baldwin. the 17nivorsity of Toronto graduate 11110 has poen associated with D1•. Graham Bell in the >.iteeeasfllt flights of the latter's aerodromes et Baddcek. N.S.. nrrited in Ot• t;,wa on \\'esdnesday Horning and ,:1 proceed to Petawawa to tnnke errangoments for conducting trial nights at the camp with two new ae r- rl romea. Two of thele new nirsh►ps hate just been eonstruete4l un the model ( f the famous Silver 1isrt, and they w ill be shipped to I'etas;i's a under an understanding with the Militia Department. When 1)r. Bell was in Ottawa lteo spring the Minister of finance and the Mioiacr of Mi litia tock an active int.'r•'rt in the airship experiments at Itadduek The coming experiments at Pete - enter' are nn evidence of the Arne Iticnl interest the Goverment is taking in the Important work of the Canadian pioneers in the science of aviation. 1'111: TERROR iN R1'8Sl.1. British Vessel Was Fired on By a Russian Torpedo Boat. A despatch from Viborg, Finland, sasys : A British steamer has been fired upon I.y a Russian torpedo beat for approaching too close to the bay on the Fiuuish coast where Etuptior Nichutae and Emperor \i'illiam are to meet. The British steamer in question is the Northhurg, Captain Robert- son. She was hailed and fired upon on Wednesday night off \Virelnit,i, Island of Biorke. The projectile from the torpedo boat pierced a steamipipe, and ono Member of the crew of the English vessel was wounded. The incident shows the c>:tremle nervousness for the safe- ty of Emperor Nicholas even at sea. Russian torpedo boats have been patrolling Pitkipas Bay, the ren- dezvous of the two Emperors, and it was one of these guard vessels that tired on the British ship. 8%c per pound; old pound. Toronto, Juno 22. -Choice heavy, well finished exporters' were firm at $6 to $6.20; ordinary loads at 57e outside. No. 2 Western Ca- 85.75 to $6. Prime butcher cat - nada oats, 61%c, aed No. 3 60%c, tie -Firm at $5.25 to $5.65 for the Pay ports. Peas -Prices purely nominal. Ityo-No. 2 74 to 75e outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 70c outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 8a to 83c on track, Toronto; No. 3 at 82c on track, Toronto. Cana- dian yellow, 77c outside, and 80c 411 track, Toronto. Bran -Manitoba, $23.50 to $24 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $21.50 to $25, Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. sows at 6c per SEASONED) TIMBER. Experlmants by the United 51111•'5 forest fierrice have de nowIratrd Bandit. Stint Lundoener, ilia that thoroughly air-dried tins„ r )1oll,er and '(gree Nrreanfs. has about double the i;rength of green timber. Moreover. in erd. r P. despatch from Kiev. Russia, effectively to npply prfeer,a►,' e says : .\ band of armed melt on agents to tin•ber it must first he Thursday visited the estate of a seasoned. heertese it is very (!•til local landowner And ,lemanded a cult to inject nnttsepties in es( 11 !aria cum 01 money This ryas re wood. The less of weight by •1 a fused the bandits. w ho thereupon a nod timber it quite surpr:• SIVA the landowner, his mother. \t'eetern pine loses half its tceigh: three pen,•ants. and a serrant, and after three to fire mouths' seas, 11 - made their *soap*. ing. Apples -$4 to 85 for choice qua- lities, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans -Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, at:d hand-picked, $2.40 to 82.45 per bushel. Maple Syrup -95c to $1 a gallon. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $12.50 to 813 a ton on track here, and lower grades $9 to 810 n ton. Straw -$7.50 $3 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 85 W 90e per bag on track. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 16 to 17c per Ib. ; fowl, 12 to 140; turkeys, 16 to 19c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 18 to 19c; tubs and large rolls, 16 to 10%c; inferior, 11 to 15e. Creamery rolls, 21 to 22c, and solids, 18 to 19c. Eggs -Case lots, 18% to 19c per dt•zen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 11 to 14%c per lb., and twins, 1.11/4 to 14%e. New, 12%c for large, and 12% for twins_ HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear. 1334 to 131,ie per 1b. in case lots; niess pork, y.'23; short cut., 8.25 to $25.50. Hams -Light to medium, l5>.. to 1Cc ; do., heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls, 12% to 13c; shoulders, 11% to 12c; backs, 17'% to 18c; breakfast basun, 16% to 17e. Lard -Tierces, 11c; tubs, pails, 14%c. 111 S1Nl S» .\T MONTREAL. Meet eal, June 22. -Oats --No. c ,median Western, 61%e; ; ex- tra No. 1 feed„ 611/4e; No. 1 iced Ole; No. 3 Canadian Western, 60%e. Barley -No. 2, 72;., to 74c; Manitoba feed barley, 67% to 68c. Buckwheat -69% to 70c. Flour -- Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 86.30 to 86.50; do., seconds, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba strong bak- et•a', $5.60 to $.80; Winter wheat patents, 86.75; straight rollers, 80.50 to 60.60; do., in hugs, 83.15 tel $3.20; extra, in bags, $2.65- to $2.80. Fced---Manitoba bran, $22 to 823; do., shorts, 824 to 825; pure grain mouillie, $33 to $:35; mixed niouillie ; $28 to$30. Cheese -west- erns at 121/4 to 12%c, and easterns at 12 to 121/4e. Butter -finest cream- ery, 22;% to 23c. Eggs, la!-; to 19e. per dozen. `�-- UNITED S'T.\TE8 MARK ETS. 14%e; C'hicage, June 22. --Cash wheat - No. '2 red, $1.50 to $1.60; No. 3 red, 81.15 to $1.50; No. '2 hard, x1.22 to 81.28: No. 3 hard. 81.15 to 81.27; No. 1 Northern, 81.31' to $1.:33; No. 2 Northern, $1.29 to $1.29; No. 3 spring, 81.20 t.-) *1.25. ('ern ---No. 2 white. 75 to ;:r`c ; No, 2 yellow; 7.1 to 74',e; No. 3, 71 to 741,4c; No. 3 white, 75e; No. 3 yel- low 741 to 71!..c; No. 4. 721., to Oats -No. :3 white, 53 to 58e; No 1 white, 51; 9 to 50.•. Minneapolis, June 22.--Wh.i'nl -- July, 1.:3o; Sept. $109% to $1.09!-= Dec.TliollsAND 81.001% W 01.063-x; cash No. 1 hard. i i.:1% to 81.35'4 ; No. 1 Northern $1.33% to $1.311/4; No. 2 Neither'', 41.315� to $1.321/4; No. All Those Twenty Yeais With Smith 3 Northe•ru, 111.:10'; to $1.31'. Flour- First patents. $0.45 to 83,05; best picked steers and heifers; or- dinary loads fret at $4.75 to $5. Stockers and feeders --Fair demand. Milkers and springers -Steady de- mand for good milkers and near springers. Calves -Steady and unchanged. Sheep and lambs - Fir►n, and lambs slightly higher. Hogs -Selects, $7.60 to $7.70 f.o.b. and $7.90, fed and watered. PROFIT SHATIING. A Boston Store Said to Have Car- ried It F'ur'thest. Profit sharing, which in America of virtually au experiment, has been in practical application for a quarter of a century in .England. The number- of labor copartnership societies there rose from fifteen in 1833 to 112 last year, with an in- crease in business from 8800,000 to above $20,000,000. The South Metropolitan Company last year divided $180,000 among its employees, the equivalent of 7% per cent. dividend on their wages, and iu eighteen years it has distributed $2,100,000 to working- men as their share of the profits. Six English gas companies adopted the profit sharing plan during the year. According to Moody's Magazine, Mr. Carnegie says that a Boston store has gone furthest of all in "the direction of making its em- ployees shareholders." This es- tablishment, be says, employ's 700 to 900 teen, the capital stock is held only by employees and is returned to the corporation at its value should the employees leave the ser- vice. Every share of stock belongs tc• some one working in the store. RUSSIA'S 1'11.1,011' PERIL. Siberian Districts Overran by ('or - cans and Chinese. A despatch from St. Petersburg says : A bill has been introduced in the Douma providing that meas- ures be taken peeainst the influx of K0re4tn5 and Chinese, and other aliens in the Amur district. The Siberian deputies emphasize the desirability of securing experts to assist in the elaboration of such measures. About 40,000 Koreans. who already are on the frontier. are contemplating becoming ortho- dox, in order to facilitate the quiring of Russian citizenship. 1..1M11'S BONE: GRAFTED. Rare Operation Performed in Chicago. A despatch from Chicago says: A surgical operation that is being wntched by the medical world was performed at the Frances \Villard Hospital on Thursday, when a sec- tion of bone from the leg of a Iamb ens grafted into the right leg of Uocearl Townsend to replace a sec- tion of shattered tibia. Surgeons <I Chicago assert that this was the first time this operation ever was attempted in America, and that i neser had been attempted more titan four or five times before. Queen Elena id Italy has declined to %rear the great hats which French milliners ale seeking to impose on Italian women of f.tshiee. ac - A SUBSIDIARY NAVY. :Australia 1Vould Undertake to Police the t'acWc. A despatch from Melbourne says. Colonel Foxton, Australia's dela gate to the'defence Conference sail ed on Wednesday. Ile is authorized to discuss alternatives to the gift. of a Dreadnought, including the provision of a great naval bare for the Imperial navy at some Austra lien port, and the assumption by the Australian navy of full respon- sibility for policing the Pacific. Colonel Foxton will assure the Ad- miralty of the desire of the Com- monwealth to accept British guid- ance in the construction and man agement of the proposed subsidiary navy, and to undertake that the whole of Australia's warlike ma- chinery will bo so organized as to be instantly available for any Im- perial emergency. He will not. however, bo able to promise the enlistment of Australians in mili- tary forces fur other than home de- fence. TALKED 2,000 MILES A 1'-t IIT. Invention increases the i)istinctness of Sound. A despatch from London says. An invention of the Swedish engin eers Ogner and Holmstroen for In- creasing the distinctness of sound in long distance telephony has been attracting attention for some time. Experimental conversations ho- tween I'aris and Sundsval, 300 miles north of Stockholm, seems to have been heard with remarkable clear nets. The distance is 1,800 miles in a bee line, but as the conversa- tions wore carried on by way of Berlin, the length of the wire used claimed that this is wait considerably more. It is the distrnce record. t "SCOUTING FOit BOPS." .111 Cadet Corps to Receive Copy of Baden-l'owell's Book. A despatch from Ottawa says: Military orders state that all cadet corps in Canada will receive a copy of the book by Lieut, -Gen - oral Baden-Powell on "Scouting for Boys," to assist thein in getting an idea of practical scouting. Tho an- nouncement comes in the militia orders issued to -day. 41----- FELL '---1FELL OFF THE ENGINE. Mr. Paul Brennan, G. T. Yard. waffler at Oltaua, Killed. .1 despatch from Ottawa says: Mr. Paul Brennan, yardmaster of the (1. T. R. at the Central depot hero, was killed on Thursday fore- noon in a shunting accident, direct- ly beneath the Laurier avenue bridge. Mr. Brennan was riding on the footboard of the engine, when he fell off, the wheels passing over the upper part of the body. Death was instantaneous. eo $100.903 FIRE AT WINNIPEG. Building of Great West Saddlery Company Is (lulled. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The building of the Great West Saddlery Company, Market Street cast. used for a warehouse and office, was gutted by fire on Thurs- day morning. The building was valued at $75,000, while the stock is a valuable one. The t(.tat loan will be about $400,000. DOLLARS EACH '•ec•ond patents, $13.35 to $6.50: first ::leers, fs5.05 to $5.25: second cicnrs, 1)3.05 to *3.85. Bran -in bulk, 4123.00 to 82.1. I.1Vr, saw( IS M.\11KI:Teo \loot r( >+ ,I lour 22. Prime heeves .,,4I at 5', to 63,e per 'mend: pret 1+ cool animals sold st 41'; to 5%e: era ->e1 s n1 2', to 4'„4• per pound. ee s C lint told at *as, ntilers sole( at A2:, '(...,,Irl at $2.50 to t•• r: per pouro1. t•• ',r per pound: >+3 ao l0 86 each. I:••�s sold RA about fi,;pe1 for rill)4 h r t„ $4.0 ,.8..11. the t•• 111,111 curt,. ('ai >R10 eti' +,. or 40,1•, .,,t,? tis I 11ul1h. ret frorn t;o,•(I I(•:' of tat Carpet Company Remembered in Will. .\ despastch from Yonkers, N.Y., ay'. : Three hundred and fifty eni- pl.•y E1is of the Smith Carpet Works .'n 'Tuesday received checks for =1.((4'0 each, devised to them in the . i .f the late Mrs. Eva Smith .. bean, daughter of the carpet .i..,;. founder. Mrs. Cochran, %iose 1. now the head .'f the work., on February 3 ls•t. leaving ars tate of more than ea ^1');X►, fool ,.•,.• sect1u11 of her eel provided that all persons elle at the time ut her death had beau in the cat - ploy .'f the carpet company for a peri.•d .•f twenty years should each receive $1,000 free from all tax. Sinco that time lists have been un- der preparation in the different sling- On Tnesdny Alexander Smith t'nchran announced that the money- had been distributed, but the lists were held in strict secrecy, and tleee receiving the money were rp'tedeed not to speak. It is learned, howetrr, that many of the recipi- ents ••f the checks are women • n- ployc('x.