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Exeter Times, 1909-08-12, Page 7CROPS IIEYASTATEB BY HAIL Great Storms, Traveling Eratically, Do Damage in the West. A despatch from Winnipeg says: wan, had 2,000 acres devastated by The prereetlj are auxious days with hail Wednesday, while on (huts ley, in the Fame province, suffered, four townships in the latter and two in !Anglian' being reported to- tally destroyed, Yorktun's loss be- ing appraised at a thou and acres. Tho rain will invigurai:+ and help t.• till the latter grains. It will de- lay the maturing of r ; •r grains, giving rust and fungoid: a chance to attack the grain, but this is not likely to affect nnythiug seriously, and with the settling of the weather it is safe to say that better than an average crop will be garnered. Tho heaviest rain of several sea - setts fell hero on 'Thursday after- noon, preceded by hail. the western farmer. Mid -August frequently sees night (roses, which occasionally do great damage, but so far the lowest temperatures have been well up in the forties. How- ever, a danger peculiar to extreme- ly high temperatures is \ iolent rain, uhich is not iiifret i ntly pre- ceded by hail. Maoi►oha and Sas- ka.ehewan at being daily visited by these stormy. traveling errati- cally. The areas affected usually aro small and individuals are suf- ferers rather than communities, and the aggregate will not materi- ally suffer from this cause. Rosthern, in central Saskatehe- day Langhans, Yorkton and Han - t► OWEN SOUND MEN FINED. Big Clean-up of Illegal Liquor Dealers. A despatch from Owen Sound says: Fines totalling $1,150 were collected on Wednesday from three hotelmen and one drug store -keeper as a result of a campaign by Chief Inspector John Ayerst's 'nen. Wil- liam Duncan and Donald McQueen of the Duncan Huusc had two con - CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS C. P. R. EXPRESS DITCHED. Four Coaches (:o Over Embank- ment West of North Bay. A despatch from North Bay says: The C. P. R. Atlantic Express, due at North Buy at 8.55 on Thursday night, was ditched at Woman River, two hundred utiles west of here, at two o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The express was speeding along at a good rate, when suddenly, witl►- c Fictions each registered against out warning of any kind, the pas - them and were assessed $100 on II stingers were startled by terrible each charge. herb Wilkins of tho shocks and the crash of smashing Central and his bar -keeper were assessed $250, one hundred on the first charge and a hundred and fifty on the second. T. O. Hatton, druggist, pleaded guilty to two charges, and was assessed $200 on each, $40.3 and costs. John Corbet of the Royal Hotel contributed $100 un one charge. The costs were' added in each case. A charge against Bert Howard of the Pater- son House was adjourned for one week. Tho total amount in fines and costs will exceed $1,200. �•_- SF:RMONS WERE S11O11'f. And Wealthy Auditor Was i)elight- ed by Theni. A despatch from Pine Village, Indiana, says: The Rev. J. M. 1\'il- liau►s, a Methodist tninister, re *1AI't'ENINGM FFtOY ALL OVER IDE GLO8k. I•elegrepalo Briefs From Onr Owe tad Other Countries of Uncut Lends. CANADA. timbers, as the cars left the rails. bucked and reared in tho air, and then rolled down a six-foot embank- ment. Two Pullmans, ono obser- vation car, and a first-class car were piled up at the bottom of the hill. Investigation revealed a num- ber of passengers iajurod, but none seriously, so far as can be ascer- tained. The cause of the accident is unknown at present. Traffic was delayed front five to ten hours. Hebrew bakers aro on strike at Montreal. By a vote of 537 to 77 Calgary de- male to Sir Percy (;truuurd on Via elided in favor of Sunday cars. relinquishing the government of About 120 eh' t.rwal workers at Northern Nigeria to take up his ap- eWinnipeg aro on strike for iucreas pointinent as Governor and Cum - ed pay. wander -in -Chief of the East Africa Stanley Sharpe of Kingston, aged Protectorate. Mr. E. A. Speed, 19, was struck by an iron bar and t,nief Justice of Northeru Nigeria, fatally injured. J. 1'. Kano, letter -sorter in the p The chairman, in proposing the Montreal I'ostufice, was arrested health of Sir Peres (;irouard, said ou a charge of stealing letters. that the occasion marked the serer Douglas Hamilton, a street rail- anco of a connection between the way conduct -or, was arrested at Governor and themselves of the the c ltou uu u charge of rubbing most pleasant and satisfactory the company. des- cription. \Viten ho took up the office Tho T. & N. O. Railway ('enuis- of Governor Sir Percy was no sion has decided to instal telephone stranger to hard work or high ofli- connections at various places on cial position, but it was not an easy their lino. task for anyone to follow a man of Sandy Ferguson of Toronto fed the ability and strenuous character over the buck of Niagara River and } of Sir Frederick Lugard. In the in a bush about fifty feet down the was saved by bis clothing ccatchingconstruction of the Baru Kuno Itail- A CANADIAN'S TRIUMPH WORK OF 5111 PEIRCY G1R01'- A1tD 1N N1GER1.1. The Fernier Governor of the Colony Was Banqueted ht London. A farewell dinner was given re- cently at the Gaiety t.cstaurant, London, by Nurt.lieru Nigerian olti- 4. HORSE RAN INTO TRAIN. One Woman Killed and Another Fatally Injured. A despatch from Wawanesa, Man., says: A double tragedy oc- curred hero on Wednesday after- noon, whereby Mrs. H. H. Gran- ger, aged 37, of Moosomin, was fa- ceived a deed on Wednesday for tally injured, and Mrs. F. H. Gran- sixty,aeres of land. worth $125 an ger, aged 30, filo lives six miles from Mr. and Mrs. Burgoyne "al 1Watvanesa, was instantly Davis, because ho preached short killed. The elder lady and the hos- sermons while pastor of the church tcss were driving near the C. N. which they attended. Mr. Davis 1 tracks when the horse became is wealthy, and was so impressed uncontrollable and ran into an with the brevity and pointedness eastbound train. The mangled ro- of the sermons of Mr. Williams mains of the horse were carried a that he determined to make him hundred yards and the train stop- Independent. Mr.TWill amsdeed ' specifies childless, rs. F.as quitcrdca 1r,Lutc�lwas as the consideration received for H. Granger lived for a short the land. The sixty acres comprise time after the accident. The tat .ono of the most fertile tracts of ter leaves three children and a land in Montgomery county. husband. 4• FOUR DROWN FROM BO.1T. Punt Went Down With Seven Men on Board. bank. For assaulting Manager Mcliaclt- ren, a man pained Porteous was sentenced at Glace Bay to two months in jail. Matthew Cherrie, who assaulted General Manager Duggan, was also sentenced to two months or a fine of thirty- dollars. The Brotherhood of Locomotive way Sir Percy Girouard cut himself loose from all traditions and enter- ed upon AN ENTIRELY NEW SYSTEM, with the result that they saw to -day. The construction of that railway was one of his titles to fame as Governor. Another was the ques- tion of the settlement of the land TIIE WORLD'S ,,ARKETS'BOY MURDERS LITTLE GIRL Firemen and Engineers, meeting in tenure. By studying the native law Winnipeg, pulsed a strong resole- on the subject he had formulated a tion in favor of a change in the law under which trainmen aro prose- cuted for carelessness in connec- tion with accidents. A despatch from (harlettetow•n, P. E. L. says : A droa ning accident, resulting in the loss of four Lives, occurred here on Thursday. A party of eight left the city for a pleasure resort oppi'sito Charlotte- town. in a lobster boat to prepare for n picnic to be held next Mon- day. It was necessary to land in a punt,- a leaky craft. .Seven of the then were on board, and when half the distance had been (ravers - co it sank. The drowned are : Eph- raim Gallant, Harry Gallant, Jams: Barnett and Daniel Mc.\tu- lev. Ephraim Gallant leaves a It•f•:,,w and one son. The others weir from 21 to 25, unmarried. MET DEATH IN 11 ELL. GREAT BRITAIN. Emperor Nicholas concluded his visit to King Edward on Thursday afternoon, and on board tho Im- perial yacht Standen, he left Cowes for Kiel, escorted by Rus- sian and British cruisers. UNITED STATES. President Taft signed the Payne tariff bill at Washington ou Thurs- day. Mrs. Panclli, an Italian woman, killed her husband and a woman with whom he had run away at Canton, N. Y. William Haney, believed to be ono of the men concerned in the train hold-up at Ducks, B. C., has been cornered by the Los Angeles police. Ir. (•oreicr (h- cream,' Its Gas at Legal. .Alberta. A despatcl, from Moriuville, Alta., says: A sad fatality occurred at Legal, twenty miles north, on Tuesday. A son of Aug. Cornier, digging a well, detected gas. How- ever. he continued at work. A neighbor named Itochon was over- come in the well. Cornier, senior, went to the rescue sett also col- lapsed. The lad immediately went to a neighbor's for assistance and 1 h peen were promptly removed from the well. Itochon, although down the longest, thanks to a strong constitution, soon recovered consciousness and vigor, but Cor- nier was dead when removed. BLOOB FLOWING IN SPAIN system of land tenure which, whee it preserved to the great heredi- tary chiefs their ancient seigneurial rights, established in beneficial cwnership the tillers of the soil, and had, in addition, provided a source of revenue for the Protectorate iehich in the fulness of time, would enable the Government to dispense with most, if net all, other forms of taxation. Sir Percy Girouard, who was cor- dially received, paid a tribute to the work done by Sir Frederick Lugard and General Morland, and after some remaks on the Bano-Kano Railway, said lie did not think they would have carried out to success- fully their first year's work if it had not been for the assistance given by the Elder I)smpster Com- pany nud Sir Alfred Jones. Witn regard to the land tenure in North. ern Nigeria, it, had been based pri- marily on old native laws and cus- toms and with a desire to accord fair treatment to those commercial undertakings which desired to de- velop the country on reasonable lines. He was hopeful that this pulicy would meet with the approval of the horse authorities. If it did, he felt sure they would see great benefits from it. It was merely a change from iMPORTS FROM TIIE iFAD1NG TRADE CEN'1RES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Checye and Other Dalry Produce at Howe and Abroad. 1311EADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug- 10. -Flour - On - eerie wheat 90 per cent. patents Loin old wheat, $4.75 to 81.80 in buyers' sacks outside for export, and at $4.90 to $5 on track, To- ronto. Manitoba flour, first pat- ents, $6.10 to $6.20 on track, To- ronto; second patents, $5.65 to $5.75, and strong bakers', $5.40 to $5.50 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 North- ern, $1.22 Georgian Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.19, and No. 3 at $1.18. Ontario Wheat -New, No, 2, 81 a bindle]. Barley -Old No. 3 extra, 61 to C2c outside. Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, 54%e to 55c on track, Toronto, and 52 to 52%c outside. No. 2 Western Can- ada oats, 47e, and No. 3, 46c, Bay ports. Peas -Prices nominal. Buckwheat -Prices nominal. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 77% to 78c on track, Toronto. Ca- nadian yellow, 75 to 700 on track, Toronto. Bran -$19.50 to $20 for Ontario bran outside in bulk. Manitoba, $22 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24, Toronto freights. GENERAL. Eighty thousand tne•i have been locked out by employers•in Sweden. Tho British steamer Maori. foun- dered on the South African coast. A number of towns in the Span- ish province of Catalonia have pro- claimed a republic. Tho British steamer \Warntah, en route from Sydney, N.S.W., with 300 persons aboard, is miss- ing. Charles Brown, n Buffalo banker, committed suicide on board tho steamer Vadc•rland near Antwerp. PINNED I:NDER 1lOUILDi:R. Mr. Norman L. Johnson Was Fat- ally Injured. A despatch from Lethbridge says: Norman Lewia Johnson, aged 36, single, a Homesteader in tho Porcupine hills, met with a most 1:eculisr and fatal accident on Wednesday. Ile was digging a hole beside a big boulder to bury it, when the boulder slid in on him, half burying him, and forcing the pick into his leg front the ankle to the knee. Ho was there 48 hours before the neighbors discovered and rescued him. Ho was taken to Pincher ('reek IIospital, I,ut soon died. Itis brother is a doctor in Toronto. • •TOLENR11.1.S ('IR('I'LATING. Traders Rank Unsigned Notes Ap- pear in 1'rontenee. There Is Wholesale Shooting of Prisoners in Barcelona. The Barcelona correspondent of ' Optiinists should not omit to note the London Telegraph says that the large bloodstains on tho uni- for t fiecs quiet is restored, fors of the Red Cross men. .cnt i ti yet t aro certain doubts whc- The correspondent, in a despatch titer thorc�ol ution has received its dated Monday, describes children death blow. Martial law is still iu f•'rce. The civil guards and po- lice. armed with rifles, still patrol the streets. The wholesale shoot- ing 4.1 prisoners niter court-martial still goes on at the Fortress of Montjuich• Rumor states that the revolutionists will recommence, outrages unless the remaining pris- oners aro released. Arrests con- tinue on n large scale. Prisoners aro constantly seen with their hands tied civil guards. heir hacks Two well d esc,�rted by l kn. evit journalists of Anarchistic ten Fades were arrested Monday. Nam officers and soldiers are de- scrt•n; and crossing the frontier. Many h„dies have been found un- der the ruins of the convents. Mem- la �j What wal safe 1 berg of the Red Cross can rbe still tog obscene seri ed with dra to r ege 11e -en transporting charred 0 playing at revolution, shooting at each other with toy rifles, and cry- ing "Viva la Republica." Ile de- clares it would take volumes to de- scribe tho desolation now spread- ing its cloak over Barcelona. In speaking of tho convent Church of the Magdalen, ho says: "The Owlet place is a heap of ruins, which aro still smoking, although the place was set on fire five days ago. In tho garden there were thirty vaults where dead sisters were buried. The coffins from these were pulled down and opened, and the corpses thrown about the gar- den. Thep they eta placed in shoats and b in a pile and . ��ea m were il- set on Ge s 1P t are in - writings A COMMUNAL SYSTEM of tenure, such as was prevalent in most parts of Africa, to a national system of tenure which provided for the due expansion of the people and diel not allow for the personal greed of any one. He was hopeful that under such a systetn revenue would grow in Northern Nigeria Six -Year -Old Child Tied to a Tree by Foster -Brother and Brains Beaten Out. A despatch from Guysboro', N.S., says: A cold-blooded tnurdcr com- mitted a week ago at Boylston, a few miles outside of this town, has just conte to light. On Thursday afternoon the adopted thirteen - year -old son of Joseph Issert, a negro, living at Boylston, in the absence of his foster -parents, tied their six-year-old daughter to a t:eo and beat her brains out. Tho Isserts were away on a picnic, and returning home, found the child COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans -Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Hay -No. I timothy, $13 to $14 a ton on track here, and lower grades $9 to $10.50. Straw -$7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes -United States new, $3 per barrel; new Canadian, $1.- 10 to $1.15 per bushel. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 12 to 13c per lb.; fowl, 9 to 10e; turkeys, 14 to 16c per lb. tied up to a tree, dead. They ap- plied to the overseers of the pool for assistant to bury the child, and this wa granted. Later the suspicions of the authorities were aroused, and is was decided to ex• hu►no the body and hold an autopsy. This was done, and then it was as- certained that the child had beep murdered. The boy was arrested. An inquiry was held before Coro- ner Ewart and a verdict of murder returned. Two other buys are also held as accomplices. 4 feeders -$3 to $3.60. Hogs -Se- lects quoted at $7.85 f.o.b. and at $b.10, ted and watered. STRUCK BY GR, VF,f, PLOUGH. Peculiar Injury to a Young Homan Near Sudbury. A despatch from North Bay says: A peculiar accident occurred on the C. P. R. Torouto-Sudbury branch on Tuesday evening at llomford, six miles east of Sud- bury. Emma Dube, a young wo- man of eighteen years, of \Vanup, was walking with her sister along the track when a work train ap- proached. The spreading metal wings of the gravel plough struc Emma full in the face, breaking her nose and cutting and lacerating her face. She was taken to Sud- bury Hospital, where she lies in a critical condition. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20c; tubs and largo rolls, 18 to 19c; in- ferior, 15 to IGc; creamery, 23 to 23%c, and separator, 19 to 20c per lu. Eggs -Case lots, 21% to 22c per dozen. Cheese-New, 12c for large and 12'/,c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 1.3% to 14c per 1b. in ease lots; mess pork, $23.50; short cut, $25.50 to $-26. Hams -Light to medium, 15% to 1Gc; do., heavy, 14 to 14%e; rolls, 12% to 13c; shoulders, 12 to 12%c; ; backs, 18 to 18Nc, and breakfast bacon, 16', to 17c. Lard -Tierces, 14%c; tubs, 14%c; rails, 15c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Aug. 10. -Oats - No. 2 Canadian Western, 50 to 51c; No. 1 extra feed, 49% to 50%e; No. 1 feed. 49' to 50%e; No. 3 Cana- dian Western, 49 to 50e. Barley - No. 2, 71 to 72c; Manitoba feed bar - to such an extent as would allow of ley, 66 to 67c. Buckwheat - G9% the practical exclusion of all other to 70e. Flour -Manitoba Spring forms of taxation. It had never wheat patents, firsts, $6.30; Mani - been the object of himself or of his tette $pring \\µneerr wheat patents, sec- rredocessor, Sir Frederick Lugard, ends, to obtain revenues which were not $6.50; Manitoba strong bakers, legitimately due both to the native $5.60; straight rollers, $6.25 to Governments and to the Central $6.35; straight rollers in hags, $2. - Government by the peoples whose be to $3; extras in bags, $2.70 to righty and interests they felt them• $2.S0. Feed -Manitoba bran, $22; selves bound to look after. (Cheers.) Manitc,ba shorts, $24; pure grain They regard themselves, whether i,.nuille, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, Governors, Administrators, or Resi- *29 to $30. Cheese -Westerns, dents, as trustees for the nat.ites, 11% to 11' e; eastern, 11% to I1'/,c. and he believed that that ideal had Butter --Finest creamery, 22e. Eggs been faithfully carried nut. There -21c, and No. 1 candled at 30c per dozed. 4b ELECTRIC SMELTING. Dr. Haanel Says Ontario and Que- bec Can Heat the World. A despatch from Ottawa says t Another report favoring the smelt- ing of iron ores by electricity will shortly be issued by Dr. Haanel, Director of Mines. He has recent- iy investigated the electric smelting process of the world and has found that sixty electric furnaces have been established during the last four years. In Sweden the cost of smelting is $12.40 a ton, but in his report Dr. Haanel will say that v. ith the abundance of water -pow- ers in Ontario and Quebec the cost in Canada should bo much lower. -��-- -- YOUNG GIRL'S SUICIDE. Clara Braithwaite Found Hanging From a Tree. SLEEP -WALKER KILLED. A St. John, N. 11., Boy Falls Front a Window. A despatch from St. John, -N. B., says: Victor Nicholson, a .fifteen- y is ear -old lad, lis sleep on Wewalking night in hat his ho'no, fell from an open win- dow in the third story to the side- walk below and was instantly killed. The boy's mother heard him moving about his room, and rushed in in ti•no to grab the boy's night shirt as bo was falling, but the garment parted in her hands and the boy was dashed to death, his skull being crushed in. A despatch from Kingston Says: Rills on the Traders Bank, and stolen front a C. P. R. train some months ago, aro reported to be in circulation in North Frontcnac. The bills are insufficiently signed, as they do not hear the nano of the 'imager of the bank at To- ronto. Detectives arc at work aed are seeking to trace the bills back to the original passers. They have descriptions of men 'meltingin to get d rid of them at and stores country stations. was need of patience in dealing with the natives. If they attempted to frog-march those people over bridges of centuries in a few short years wo should lose, he would not call it the loyalty, for that was not a word which was npplicable to the case, but the nffcttion which we oughtcertainly to gain. 111 1111.11 IN MiNE SHAFT. A F00i.1S11 MILLIONAIRE. Bode an Horse into Hotel and :bound Billiard Table. A deepateh from i.ondon says: Frank ,lay Mackey, the well-known California millionaire, who has re- sided chiefly in England for a num- ber of years, was fined $10 and costs on \Vednesday in the Leain- ington Police Court e:r riding a horse on a footpath. Mr. Mackey declared that hohad made nwager that he world ride into the local hotel and around the billiard table, and, having won the w;iger. he was sentenced to pay the fine. Two Men 1:ntonced 009 feet Below Ground. A ;round- A despatch limn Bessemer, Michigan, says : A cave-in in the ninth level of one of the shafts of the Eureka mine 900 feet under UN ITEI) STATES MARKETS. Chic• tge, Aug. 10. --Cash wheat -- No. 2 red, $1.02i2 to $1.05%; No. 3 red, 98e to $1.02%; No. 2 hard, *1.03 to $1.09; No. 3 hard, $1.00 to $1.01%. ('urn --No. 2, 60 to 67c; No. 2 yellow, 68 to 60c; No. 3, 66 to 6G4c: No. 4, C2 to 64c. Oats - No. 2 white. 39c; No. 3 white, to 39'7..c, standard, 39'„c. Minneapolis, Aug. 10. -Wheat - Sept.. $1.00% to $1.01; Dec., 99.2 to 99%e; cash, No. 1 Northern, 81.- 25 No. 2 Northern, $1.23; No. 3 A despatch from Brantford saysi Clara Braithwaite, a girl thirteen years of ago, the daughter of George Braithwaite, hotelkeeper at Harrisburg, was found hanging from a tree in the orchard near het father's house early on Wednesday evening. Tho body was first no• ticed by the crew of a Grand Trunk train running past the spot. The train was stopped and the crew, on cutting the body down, found life extinct. The case is thought to be suicide, although a motive is lack. ing. REACHED THE CENTURY. Death of Alexander M. Scott at London, Ont. A despatch from London says: Mr. Alex. M. Scott died here on \Vednesday night, aged 100 years and 2 months. He served under Papineau in 1837, was in Califor- nia during the gold rush, and was a veteran of the American Civil War. He lived hero 40 years. His father lived to be 107, and a sister died in Scotland 3 years ago aged 102. Of a fancily of six the youngest to die was 96. Northern, $1.19 to $1.21: Ni'. 1 Purim, 31.05; No. 2 Durum, 81.- pound, caught six men on Wed- 03'9• Bran in 100-11). sacks, 420. nesday afternoon. Four were got- 50. Irlour-first patents, 83 So to ten out, badly hurt.. Two, John $0; second patents, $5.70 to $5.90; Johnson and Nick Nickerlas, aro first clears, $4.95 to $5.25; second still in. clears, 83.35 to $3.55. TELL TIME iN NiGIHT LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Persons awakening in the night Montreal. Aug. 10-.\ few of ;he are invariably curious about the best cattle sold nt about 5';c per time, and tho newest hotel eon- Ib. ; pretty good aniinals sold at venience has for its object the gra- t t- se per 113; cenunnn stew!: nt tification of this universal desire. 2'; to 3%c per Ib. ; milch caws weld A small telephone receiver is placed at 825 to $50 each. Calves sold at at the head of the bed and if (10- 82.50 to t)9 envie. Sla t•p s'''•d at 3'• sired may be placed under the pil- to 4c per ib. ; Ian at about ole,le low, a connection being maintained with a master clock in the ofli•.:e of the hotel. placiug this instrument to the ear and torching a b•itton results in netting into operation it et all roencl. Calves- .\ trifle dear - set of hells which chivies the hour, cr- Milkers and Springers-Stesd',. the quarter hour and the minutes but s: there were very few o', ,viler, i, s were f.rtu. (steels. r n:.d MANUEL TO VISiT ENGLAND. Portugal's Ruler Accepts Invitation Frotu King Edward. A despatch from Lisbon says+ King Manuel has accepted an invf• tation from King Edward to visit England in the early Autumn. The invitation was coached in most cor- dial terms. No mention of Icing Manuel's mart iage was in it, but the opinion is general that the sub ject will bo discussed during the visit. (;AN.INOQI'E GiRL ARRESTED. Charged With Theft of $3,000 From Local Railway. A despatch from Gananoquo says: On Tuesday Chief Bourke placed under arrest Miss Grace Henderson. She is charged with the theft of $2.682 from tho Thou- sand Island Railway Company, of which she was bookkeeper, also with the theft of a cheque for $570 from the Axle Company paid in freight charges, and another cheque for $90.01, paid by a retail house. Before Justice of the I'eace Murphy she pleaded not guilty and was allowed to go on 'rail of $0,000. Feelb (3.'t d !, t of fat leas Feld at about F' c per 1b. Toronto, Aug. to -• She..p :if d Iambs were weak (fele:o to `25,.• !r•w NEW FISHERY11 E;1 LATION$ Full Tear's Notice Given Before They 'fake EITect. A despatch from Ottawa says: Tho new international regulations to govern the fisheries of Canada and the United States, agreed upon 1 y Prof. E. E. Prince and Prof. David Starr Jordan. will not go into effect until 1911. They will be published simultaneously in De- cember next, so that a full year's notice will bo given to all con- cerned. USED 11.1%U11 ON 110T11, MAN. Gould Was Fined 520 and Costs at Brantford. A despatch from Brantford says: Twenty dollars and .costs was rho fine unposed by Police Magistrate Livingston on Wednesday morning on George Gould for slashing Wes- ley Scott. proprietor of the Lang- ford hotel, with a ra7,t'• last week. psst the quarter. 1 c^ 110 PEOPLE ARC ARMING The Labor Trouble in Sweden Is Be- coming More Acute, A despatch from Stockholm says: The labor conflict in Sweden shows signs of becoming more acute and the ranks of the strikers aro considerably swelled. But the gen- eral strike called for Wednesday has not yet become entirely effec- tive. .,Zany organizations, although ing attempts to blow tip bridges or r:ympathiziug • with the strikers, injure the permanent way. Quan• l esitaie to join them n tively- tities of dynamite are reported to '1'he ctcspleyccs of lite street c'nrhave mysteriously disappeared re- lines tend the cad, drivers stopp••d jtontly- front the Government stores. work and neither cabs nor street I The leaders of the strikers claim cars niis availnhle• The troops are that the end of the week will sro rr,,teeting the gas work and the a notable spread of the movement.; i't''t it l►gliting plant. ane this that the railroad, postal, telegrap!i step Itas i:icen'ed the w„rkiren, i and telephone employees, and the •chat lime halve chants, etc., are arming themselves for self-protection. The gun slept •.f the city are practically denuded u� revolvers and small arms. Although the railroad men have not decided to strike, the Govern- ment is taking the precaution to guard the tracks with troops, fear - whose leadrr threatrt's to call a !fainters el by ti- i:• unless the s"ld:r•rs are with- l• i'or,. cdra'.t a. All milk supplies havc,,een cut off e thou- and the me:nes of baiees are �1 Rut- zed uf - fized w.�ti rri gfrom1 .k of rder, nod , tied change from cows' milk to cis, mer -need milk. A r•o, p , i w •,rl. •ir•;) s i '.11.41 T01:4 i- I, ,.z „ret t. 'he 11, ,',•i .'f n;ai,it,uuisig the i c p'c , :;.redly, bs.