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Exeter Times, 1906-04-05, Page 6PEASANTS ELECT MAJORJTYTHE WORLD'S MARKETS'ONTARIO LEGISLATURE Result of the Contest in Kostromo Province, PEASANTS STAND TOG1:T1IEn. A despatch from St. PcteIsburg days: The Province of Krslroma, European Russia, Is the first to have completed Us elections to the Provincial Congress. 46 pesents. 19 noblemen, 18 merchants, six professional men, and three prie.sls were returned. The results show that the "small land -owners," who in reality Ere only peasants of the more prosper- ous class, holding their property in sev- eralty, stood together against the big landlords and chose exclusively peas- ants. The peasants' electors nre not elassifled and have but one plank in their platform, namely, the distribution of land. The others are divided. PRINCE ELECTED DELEGATE. A despatch from Kathie, Central Rus - Eta, says: Prince Eugene Tr•oubctskoy, leader of the Moderates, who refused to accept the portfolio of education in the Witte Cabinet, has been elected by the land -owners a delegate to the Provincial Congress. RUMORED CABINET CHANGES. A despatch from St. Petersburg says: Rumors of impending Cabinet changes continue to circulate. The Russ declares that beyond doubt the state of Premier Witte's health will force him to retire, and also predicts the resignation of in- ferior Minister Duriiovo and Finance Minister Shipoff. ACTS OF. DEPREDATION. A despatch from Odessa says: At- tempts to rob private tiouses occur here dully. On Wednesday ten anarchists tushed into a wholesale grocery store and demanded 51,000, threatening the clerks with bombs if they refused. A duel with revolvers followed, during which two anarchists were killed. The authorities have taken extraordinary measures to protect property. THULATEN 1'i E\IiEFt \\TT -1'E. A despatch from St. Petersburg says: Many threats have been made against the life of Premier Witte, On Tuesday be received warning that unless be left "• • Covet•nmcnt in a week he would to killed. BODIES THROWN INTO SEA. A despatch from Odessa says : Acting under the orders of Vice - Admiral Chouknin, commander of the Blark Sea fleet, the bodies of 1.1cut. Schmidt and his three comrades, who were shot March 19th for mutiny, were exhumed on Wednesday night, taken to the open sen, and sunk. The authorities have issued a public order that visits to the burial place of the mutineers and the placing on the graves of wreaths must cease. STUDENTS TRY TO ROB BANK. A despatch from Khnrkofl, [tussle, says : Even more daring than the rob- bery of the Credit Mutual Bank at Moscow recently was the attempt made in .hrond daylight on Thursday to rob the Volga Komma Bank by several col- lege boys and technological students. The youthful desperadoes quietly walk- ed into the bank with customers of the institution, drew revolvers and ordered everybody to hold up their hands. Most of the employes fled in pnnic, but one cool-headed clerk attracted the at- tention of guards outside, who imme- diately barred the entrances to the bank. The students finding themselves trap- ped, smashed the windows, jumped out to the street and attempted to escape under cover of revolver fire. One police- man was mortally wounded. Four of the would -bo robbers were captured. LOST SHARE OF CREDIT. Part of Canada's Exports to Britain Ascribed to United Stales. A London despatch says: The Board of Trade have collected particulars of the actual countries from which goods were consigned and also the actual des- tination of goods exported in 1901, and the result is tile publication of a blue- book as a supplement to the trade re- turns of That year, showing That while the imports of bacon from the Dominion 10 1904 were given as £1,865,159, her consignments to This country were actu- ally .02,719,488, a difference of nearly cne trillion being credited to the Unit - cd Stales, from whose ports the consign- ments were largely shipped. 'line same holds with other classes of Canadian meat. • NATAL MINISTRY REVOLT. On Account of, ae~nt Interference of .Home Government. A Pinternurrltzburg,Nutal, despatch says: The interference of the Colonial Ofllcc in Loudon with matters which the Natal Government considers to he outside of the Imperial jurisdiction led on Thurs- day, to the resignation of the Ministry, headed by Charles John Smythe. The kilter had confirmed the death sentence Imposed on twelve natives who took part in the murder of policemen during the recent uprising in this colony. \Vin- alon Churchill, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, cabled to Premier Smythe, ordering a suspension of the executions pending the home Govern- a,ent's consideration of the sentences. The Premier curtly refused to do so, and the Governor, Sir Henry M e(:ullun, Fostponed the executions. Thereupon, the ministry Immediately resigned. FEAR ABYSSINIAN RAIDS. Great Britain May (lave to Protect Fron- tier Tribes. A London despatch says: The situa- tion in Somnlilund, near the Abyssinian frontier, 15 causing anxiety ill view of the recent death of Itas Makonnen, Gov- einor of Ifarrar, who tend powerful pro- lititish Influence over the turbulent tribes. During the last Iwo months Abyssinian tribes have on three occas- ions raided the frontier tribes tinder Prltisli protection, and It is expected that Great Britain will be forced to lake sclion in order to protect tier subjects. Ilas Makonnen attempted to disarm the Abyssinian frontier tribesmen, but fail- ed, With a loss friendly Governor the tribes 1rob;ibly w i11 become more eg- gre-sive. BIG DAMAGES AWARDED. Nine Thousand teeters Against Railway Company, St, Thomas despatch says: Mine thou- sand dollars and co.Is was the verdict rt tern•vl by the jury At the Assize Court en Wednesday in the case brought by Mrs. Lillie Lena Seliwoob of this city ngnlnst the Michigan Central Redone for the death of her husband, Itnbert 11, ?-tliwooh, MI. le R. fh•emon, %fin was nanny scalded nt Allercllffe on No'ern- her 17, 1013. by the bursting of an arch flue in one of the big Atlantic type pas- senger engines. The jury were out for five hours, Mrs. Sclhwoob sued for 315,- 000. TO BUY ENA A CROWN. Public Sobecription 1n Re Taken 1p in Spain. A Mladr;d de.*palch sags: A electing of mayors. reprerentleg the elites, towns and villages of Spann, is t eing ni ranged e 1 n for the Ir >Ose f nr anlz o In n public D 1 S K Subscription to buy a royal crown ler the inure Queen. WEATHER A MONTH AHEAD Announcement of the Weather Chief at Washington. A New York despatch says: Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau at Washington, announced • on Monday night atthe dinner of the elaritirne As- sociation at the Waldorf-Astoria that the Weather Bureau alight soon issue forecasts of a whole month. Mr. Moore had been joked hard by Job E. iiedges when he arose, and he received permis- sion to add to his speech, already de- livered. Ile then said: "The Weather Bureau believes that for the first time in the history of meteorological science it has within its grasp the scientific basis of long-range weather forecasting -that is, forecasts of the character of the month__te. come, "1'lie details are not yet complete, and the system will not be adopted for sev- eral months yet. It may he possible, end i believe it will be, to tell you New Yorkers and members of the Maritime Exchange before this time next year what the character of the coming month will be." A FEARFUL BUTCHERY. Sicilian Laborers Slashed Each Other to Pieces. A despatch from Minneapolis, Minn., says : in a little two-storey, ramshackle frame building on Tenth avenue six Greek or Sicilian laborers were horribly butchered some time between midnight Tuesday night and Wednesday mtr•rn- ing. The dead are Nicolo Demlri, Kiri° Dontri, Agne Karofll, Kirstan Yovke, Banken Kapanni and Unkn Naudnba. The building Blends less than half a block from \\'nshington avenue, the principal highway connecting Minnea- polis and St. Paul, and a stone's throw from the station of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. In this tumble --down structure n group of men toughy with knives and hatchets. The six victims were literally hacked to pieces. That the men fought among themselves, and were not murdered by Outsiders for re- venge, as was at first supposed, is the theory now advanced, although the po- lice are of the opinion that there are two or three men still al large who were con- cerned in the light. Six long knives and n bloody hatchet were found 111 the roost with the dead men, giving evidence flint every tnnn was armed with some sort of n %•enpon. The police scout the Mfafla theory. The murders were not committed for rob- bery, as much money was found un. touched. in n lin box on the floor of the room was found a check for 8373, mode out to Nicole 1)emlri. The box also contained 8500 in ltelinn gold picees and $100 In American curreney. Several snlchels were nlso found one being marked Ni.•olo Detntri. It contained the complete set of vestments of n Clerk C.alholin priest, even to the Inure. in this satchel were found pnssp-,rts in Turkish, fircek and french. MII\TO STANDS Bt' i IT(:IIR\1:11. Apg.ro es of a Large Eepenlinne nor. the forces In India. A despatch from Cnlrtdle says: A denunciation by native member, of the Viceroy's f:nuncil on Thursday. during n discussion of the budget, of the cn•rrm- nua military expenrlitnre denland.:.1 loot Kitchener, c.,mninndcr-in•ebi.'r the British turves in India, which speakers declared to be unneee- . "nrnv that Ian strength of . hrnhen." drew a warning reply t . • Earl Mimi), the Viceroy, %110 said ? hoped lnrlla %•m,t1 never t.. deer; into fake security. Ife nd•l.'•1: "1 cannot Nero, flint flu== n's ,'•• • nave minimized the d;)ngcr on 1i.• ; ter for all thee. I nm nfrni•l it. nhall be much more impelled 1., • er the effort Ibose reverses will 1.;,• • os the pride of a high-spirited race. 4. tinge peseta will feel competent 1. , cover her lost pre'►ige. and the pre. r,uw Aid or our•1. fAI 1. mine, r pv 1e a premium for , P , the Ira. urA ne.s c India." a t nd n REPORTS FROI T11E LEADING 11'I1.1T T11A11 CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Uome and Abroad. Toronto, April 3 - Flour - Ontario wheat patents are $3.05 in buyers' sacks outside for export. Manitoba first pat- ents are quoted at 54.31) to $4.40, To- ronto, and strong takers' at $3.90 to $ , 'Toronto. Bran is nouinal at $19 to 526 in bulk outside. Wheat - No. 2 mixed Ontario wonted at 75c outside, without sellers. No. 1 Northern, Manitoba, offered at 82c, Point Edward, Miay delivery, and No. 2 Northern at bee, Point Edward, May delivery, without bids. Oat .-No. 2 Manitoba white offered at 40e North Buy, without bids. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples - Choice stock, 83.25 to $3.75 per bhp., and inferior qualities, 82.25 to $2.50. Means - nand -picked, $1.75 to 51.80; r.rinies, $1.65 to 51.70. Honey -- The market is steady at 7 l.• 8c for strained, and $1.50 to 82 per dozen co►nbs. Hops - 15 to 1Sc per Ib. Hay - Cur lots of No. 1 timothy are quole'.l at 88 on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at $6. - Straw - $5.50 to $G per ton. Potatoes - Ontario stock, 65 to 75c per bag, and Eastern, 75 to SOc per bag on track. Poultry - Turkeys, fresh killed, 15c; chickens, 12 to 13e; live chickens, 7 to Pc per M. THE DAIRY MAIIKEt'S. Buller - Pound rolls are quoted r t 20% to 21c; large rolls, 19% to 20c; good to choice dairy tubs, 20 to 21e, and in- ferior at 16 to 17c Creamery prints sell al 26 to 27c, and solids at 24 to 24%e. Eggs - New laid are selling at 15% to Itic per dozen in case lots, and cold storage at 13c per dozen. Cheese - Large cheese, 14o, and twins at 14%e per Ib. 110G PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs in car lots are nominal. Bacon, long clear, 11 to 11%c per lb. in case lots; mess pork, 818 to $18.50; short cut, 422 to 822.50. Hams - Light to medium, 13 to 13%c; do., heavy, 12'%c; rolls, 11%c; shoulders 11c; backs 15% to 16e; breukfust bacon, 14'/•,c. Lard -Tierces, 10%c; tubs, 11c; pails, 11%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, April 3. -Grain - The en- quiry for Manitoba wheat from foreign sources lo -day was limited, and cable effers sliowcd no improvennient. The market for oats was steady. Demand was fair and prices held at the recent range, teing 37 to 38c for No. 4 oats; 38 to 38%e for No. 3, and 39 to 39%0 for No. 2, Flour -- Manitoba Spring wheat patents, $1.50; strong bakers', 84 to 54,- 10; Winter wheat patents, 84.25 to 81.- 50, and straight rollers 83.90 to $4 in ors d; in bags, 81.55 to $1.90. Rolled owls -82: to 3x.05 In bags of ninety pounds. Feed - Ontario brsn, in bulk, $20; shorts, in bags, 520 to $20.50; Mani- toba bran, in bags, 820; shorts, 821. Hay -- No. 1, $8 to $5.50 per ton on hack; No. 2. 57 to 87.50; clover, 85.501e $0, clover, mixed, 56 to 86.50. Potn- toes-i'r•r bag of 80 lbs., 65 to 70c. hon- ey - White clover, in comb, 13 to 14c per pound section; extract, 8 to 9c; buckwheat, 6% to 7c. Provisions - tleavy1Canadiun short cut pork, 821.50 light short cid, $20.00; American short cut 820.00; American cid clear fat Lacks, 820; eornpound lard, 7 to 7%c; Canadian pure inrd, 11% to 11%e; ket- tle rendered, 123 to 12%c; hams, 13 to 11%e; breakfast bacon, like \Vhrdsor ba- con, 15e: fresh killed nbattnir dressed hogs, 89.75 to $10; country dressed, $8.- 75 to 89.25; alive, $7.50 to $7.75 for se- lects. Eggs - New laid, 17e per dozen; storage 011(1 limed, 13e, nominal. Rut- ter -- Choice creamery, 22 to 22%e; un- dergrades, 20 to 21e; dairy, 19 lo 20c. Cheese -- Ontario, 13 to 13%e. i?NITED S'T'ATES MARKETS. TS, Milwaukee, April 3, -- Wheel. -- No. 1 Northern. 80 to 81c; No. 2 Northern, 70'; to 19%c; May, 7G/,c. Rye -- No. 1, fao to 60e. Barley - No. 2, 53c; sam- ple, %73 to 53c. Corn - No. 3 cash, 413; to 42;;e; May, 44c asked. 1)ululh,.4pril3.-\\'hent-No..1 Northern, 703 t'; Nn. 2 Nor'lhern, 71yc; May, 77!1'c; July, 75c; Septetnla•r, 77%c. St, Louts. April 3, - \\'hent - ('ash 82e: May. 71 ,e; July, 74%e. Mliuneapolia. April 3. - Wheat - May, 75.';.: July 78% to 78%e; September, 773ir•; No. 1 hard, 77c: No. 1 Northern, 7ti c; No. 2 do., 75e. Flour -- Unchang- ed. limn --- In bulk, $11. LIVE STOCK M:\11KE1'. Taranto, April 3. - There -ac a good active (rade foe choice cattle at!he West- ern Mlat•ket this morning aril priers held stendy to time inferior cattle nem less in rlemimd. Sheep mid Iambs %err firmer and hogs imelianged. Expnrl (111110 - Choice are quoted tet 51.03 In 81.25. medium to gond at 81.30 le 51.7t). other: at 84 to 81.25, bulls et 83.50 to $4 and rows at. 82,75 In 41, iintcliet•s' Cattle - t'icked lots, 81.73 to 83.10; good In choice, 31.40 lo 81.65; lair lt) geed, 53.75 to 81; Cnrlltl on, e12. - So to 43; rows, *2.73 to $4.25; bulla $3 In 41; canners. 51..41 to 82. Stockers 11110 leeelere .-- Short -keep feeders are quoted nt $4 to 81.50, heavy Goole at 4:1.s5 l.. 51.15, medium al 52,- ee 10 a3.5i1, boils o1 82 to 81.75, good • t: ,hers run al S3 to 83.65, light tit !2.. :. 1 , 81. rough lo (emotion at $2 to $2.- :.n I ladle at 81.75 to 82.511. Vii,'• t r •nos - - The range of prices of. f.•., quobel unchanged it 5:10 to so.,I ..1.-11. . 1, • _ - - Quelatinns nre um hanged c•,,, per It. e. • • 1, ',lel !Anita - - Kxpnrl sheep .1 250 lo e0,• per cwt. higher h. 43.75 for ewes and !4.:41 t, tear k... Landes nre quota! nt $1d,- s7.ao for prain•frel and *5.'o 1n h.r enix.vl. Spring lambs nre n, at *1 to. 87.:41 met. i Prices nre quoted unchanged s. rfor..• %r . 1,.. ' 1, behlweiglite a $t .73 fat selects ate1 Vela for lights d fats.. THE LEGISIATl'RE AT TO- RONTO IS DOING. THE COUNTY COUNCILS' BILL. In moving the second reading of the Government's bill respecting County Councils, lion, Mr. Monteith noted that during the past year the people of the province had been given opportunity to freely discuss the proposed reversion to the old order of electing County Coun- cils by municipalities ranter than by electoral districts. General approval seemed to have: been expressed. At any rate there had been no serious opposi- tion made from any quarter. Mr. Mon- teith thought the now bill %ould tend to give a renewed interest to the work of the Township Councils and would tend to get better men for these coun- cils. The hill would do away with the anomaly of taxation without represen- tation. hereafter every municipality would have its representative in the County Council. OTTAWA MODEL SCHOOL. Mr. May wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to increase the salaries of certain teachers in the Provincial Model School at Otta- wa, so ns to place them on the same plane with the teachers in the 'Toronto Model Scheel. tion. Dr. Pyne replied briefly that It was not the intention of tine Govern- ment to make such increases during the present session. TEM1SKAMING LOAN. In reply to an inquiry by Mr. Iiar- court, Ilon. Col. Matheson stated that arrangements had been made to have the 'I'emiskurning loan to the extent of X1,200,000 underwritten in England, but as yet no particulars had been re- ceived with respect to the firms which had underwritten the amount. The price received by the province was 96°%, but of this °/, had to be paid the Imperial Government as stamp tax. TOO MUCH PATCII\VORK. Premier \VhiThey, in referring to the various amendments to the Assessment and Municipal Acts proposed; entered a protest against too much patchwork legislation In dealing with these Acts. He hoped the Municipal Committee would go very slow in slaking any amendments. 'There was danger in al- lowing different principles for different localities. FIREMEN :S ASSOCiATIONS. On request of the Attorney -General Mir. Fraser withdrew Ills bill to rid the Volunteer Firemen's Asseeinli m. Tho bill touches Government revenues, and as such should he introduced as a Gnvernment mcnsurc. Mr. Foy pro- mised to look into the measure. NE\V LiCENSE ACf. On the occasion of the second read ing of the new Liquor License Act the Provincial Secretary nnnounced a few changes which had been embodied in the bill. •On one or two points, too, ire said, the Government held no decided opinions and some minor alterations might be made before the measure be carne law. On the whole, however, the hill now possesses pretty much the Porn in which it will be entered on the sin lute books. The first draft contained a clause legalizing the sole of liquors to hotel guests at the table on Sunday. This, Mr. Fianna explained, was an oversight. ll was newer meant to be embo-died in the bill and had now been stricken nut. The granting of licenses to steamers and dining cars had been selling intoxicants it will only be those sailing long distances. It is not likely, however, that the Government will press the clause, though Mr. Manna re- marked that In the past liquors had hcen sold nn boats and dining cars in spite of the fact that such sale was n violation of the law, and as he had no doubt the practice would continue in the future the province fright as well have the benefit of Ilia t•cn•enuc to be got from it. In the matter of the two -'ears' term for local option, the secre.ery stated that the Government was indifferent about the length of time, but they were emphatically of the opinion ihnt their. should be nn inequality between that time and the time in which the question could be re -openers after the defeat of local option. In dealing with the clause providing ihnt three-fifths of the vote polled trust be secured to carry local option. Mfr. Hanna undermined objec- tions J.y quoting a number of termer temperance lenders, %•hn declnred in favor of a prcpundcrant majority in sticlt caries. DOMINION PARLIAMENT GOVERNOR GENERAL'S SPEECH AT THE OPENING. CONTROL OF TELEPHONES. Hon. H. It. Emmerson introduced n bill, the great feature of which is the placing of telephone rates under control of the Railway Commission. The Min- ister of Justice announced the Govern- ment's intention of making this control as effective ahs that now exercised over railway freight and passenger rates by the same tribunal. The bill also pro- vides for the inter:lionge of traffic ne. tween telephone companies, and re- moves a barrier to the entrance of in- dependent telephones to railway •ta- lions by removing from consideration in settling the compensation any ex- clusive contract between the railway and nny other telephone company. The lender of the Opposition gave assurance That he would do all he could to assist in perfecting the measure. FISHERIES PROTECTION. A question of Mr. Boyce's was an- swered by Ilon. Mr. Brodeur to the effect that three inspectors and three officer.' on board of the cruiser Vigilant were employed for the protection of fisheries on the Great Lakes. No report had been made to the department that fish spawn lodged in Canadian %eaters in Lakes Huron and Superior were annual- ly taken by American boats to American hatcheries. PENSION SI:STEM. Dr. Daniel learned from Mr. Em►ner- son that the question of inaugurating a pension system for Intercolonial Railway employes was under' consideration. SELECTON OF LANDS. Mr. Roche learned from Mr. Oliver that the arrangcnient with the Canadian Pacific Railway for the final selection of ite lands in the Northwest, had been made in August, 1903, and that the last selections were to be made on June 30, 1901. TRANSC.ONTINENTAI, SURVEY. Mr. Crockett was told by Mr. Em►ner- son That there were 31 surveying parties Et work on the Transcontinental Rail- v.ay between Quebec and Winnipeg„ and Uwe' between Quebec and Moncton, it was Impossible to say when their work would be completed. M1.4IICONi STATIONS. Mr. Foster was told by lion. Mr. Bro- deur that $118,542 had been paid up to Dec. 31st last on account of Marconi wireless stations. TRENT VALLEY CANAL. A denudation of 400 from Peterbor- ough and other points along the route of the Trent Canal waited upon the Government on Thursday to urge the completion of that waterway. They were received In the Railway Commit - lee -room of the house of Commons, which was crowded hr the occasion. Mr. Hall, MLI'., introduced the depu- tation -as representing the municipali- ties, boards of trade, and manufactur- ing and farming interests to be served by the 'Trent Ciinal. No such question as the north or south mouth of the ca- nal was being considered, but the depu- - teflon was present to urge the construc- tion of the canal at the earliest possible I tune. Hon. Mr. Emmerson said the Govern - Ment was still in the canal business, and he was a friend of the Trent Canal. The canals were, like the Intercolonial, making deficits, in one sense mode sur- pluses, %% each were in the pockets of the people. Mr. Emmerson said Parlia- ment had already granted him money to build the canal. The field work was completed, but the plans and estimates were not ready. 'pilo Deputy Minister was attending to the rest of the work, and he hoped soon to be able to make an nnnouneement. When plans were ready the Cabinet would al once decide as to the route. The policy of the Gov- ernment was well known, for it had nl- ready spent considerable money. The intention was to go ahead with the work, Mlr, Paterson and Mr. Hyman spoke favoring to the project. IN PRISON IN RUSSi:1. Tile Imprisonment of a Canadian 'n Kussin was shade the stillest of n short discussion by Col. Ward, and the Gov - eminent promised to draw it to the at- tention of the Horne authorities. 11011 &41'1:1D ENTiRIES. 1 tent. -Ivo Nationalities Figure in the Return,. A desnalch from Otto%;. s;,> s: Home- stead entries to the nutlike. ..1 30,819. representing in all 77,5511 ;tis, were made in 51,nil•.11, the Nnrihe:e,t Ter- ritories and British Columbia during Iho last fiscal year. Some t%eilly.t vo nationalities figure iu the returns, 10 - eluding 4,281 English. 1 e25 Scotcl, and .421 Ir eel. 1:anadinns from 1 u,tluio numbered 4.ees5, and returned Canadians front the t'nife.l Slates. 183. There were. 8.5:12 citizens of the United States who Inok out entries. That the Doukhotors are breaking cutely from the communal .4y:•len is shown by Ibe fact that 207 be- cnlne homesteaders. The -bulk of llic foreigners v.lto Irnlneetended outside of Ameri•aus were. :Uistro-lI ingnrinns. Their strength oras 1,1131. The total homesteads taken sever nn nerenge of 4,931.010 ncres. Arrivals fro• the last Miert year al neenn mill inlnnil porta numbered 116,`2fel, of w'hotu e5.359 enine from the 11111 li Isles. 37.front the eolith), nt and leelnnd and235 43,G1i2 bnm the United Slates. 1.ns! year's arrivals of the same rinss wi•rc 13111.330. lo which palm the Iliifith fetes cnnlrihuled 7t , the continent and 'relnnd 31.785, end the United Stales 43,171. -4- 1,m1 4 .1'nd r'olen oil was .,.ler•ong the %eelil.ulr' in his home ;.t f.hieng.'.. nn Thursdny eight n1► unknown nenn seized tin Irian I a 1. and. li Ming: bis h•'nd with one hand, slashed 11: n01* with a knife. SASS ATCIIEI\'.tN LEGISLATURE. First of New Mosinee Opened and a Speaker Elected. A despatch from Regina says: . The first Legislature of Saskatchewan was declared open on Thursday afternoon, b; Lieut. -Gov, Forget. The opening ceremonies differed but little in regard to officio! form and ceremony from the summoning of the 'I'crritnrie.1 Assem- blies. Thomas McNttil. M.P.P. for Salt- coats, was elecle•l Speaker. The speech from the throne made spreial reference to projected rnilwny di'iloprnent, and announced the consolidation and revi- ton of the laws now in force. • P11111 QUOITS FOR 51 1V011. Tao Ilrotherc-In-La% Who fulled n lie Vole. A decp;il.1. from ala Greve. Ino .h, says: lioberl Lipton mud We J. Anderson, 1•r•others-in-la%• null partnere in the braking lirnl of Anderson, Lipton & Co.. who %•ere enndidales for Slaynrand (IMP' nal ewers hl the returns. with 2:9 wales re el, will pitch n game of quoits %vitt, the Mayoralty at slake, 11 is titm- rre,l That some yeni•s ago. when the tae, e. r•' nulling but friends. they tie; i r.. .hers. but were lrndeter- e,,,,, • te wtiicit slsn uld Imre his IL slnry gr,es Ihnl. they Then ,I• b. I 1114,1- and nl.ide.l by the de.lis- i.el1, lun'ed n happy one to hofh. S 1111.11K 1'LO %T1\G MINE. Iml,anrcp 1'Ishilie neat Itt.v ii Up tail seven \r..iiie. A despite!' !teen Tokio says . 't fish- ing bent slh ick a floating mine Mai, h •'6th off the coast of the Province ••1 1:••hize Intim). p.nn, end vvns WWII up. S. ver Of Iter crew of lett nun arc tnlss- ing. - CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS JAPS SELF SACRIFICE IU.11'PENINGS FROM ALL OPER 7Ut. GLOBE. TeIegraphi Briefs From Our Own and Uiber Countries of Recent Occurrence. CANADA. Fire in the marine stores building at Ottawa did 32,00u damage on Friday. The new G.1'.11. depot at London will cost $100,000. The fever outbreak at Fort William .o now under control. John 11111, the Indian, on Thursday, was acquitted of murder at Brantford. Alterations to be nrnde to 'Toronto hotels will cost nearly $130,000. Toronto's Civic Holiday will be cele- brated this year on August 6. The contract for the new postoflice ut Regina has been let. it will cost $170,- Ou0. As a result of the new license law Toronto will receive in lite neigI4 orhood of 8115,060 in revenue. Ilon. Mr. Manna states that the Gov- ernment does not propose to issue liquor licenses to steamers, The Government has ordered an audit el the hooks of St. Thomas at the re- quest of the municipality. The directors of the Woodstock Y.M.C.A. have decided to erect a new building to cost about $25,000. Young railway men of Moose Jaw are going to raise 810,000 among themselves for Y.M.C.A. work. 11011. John Dryden has been appointed a member of a commission to inquire into the agricultural condition of Tro- land, The Toronto and Hamilton electric cars will be running across Burlington Beach within a year, says Allan Royce, the solicitor. Annie I'eterrnan, a young Polish girl, was found dead on a vacant lot at Win- r:peg, on Saturday, with no marks of violence on tier body. Mr. Alex. McCay of West 7.orra was found dead in his stable, on Saturday night, and it is supposed he was tram- pled to death by a horse. Three Alberta towns will apply at iho present session of the Legislature for incorporation as cities -namely, \Vetas- kiwin, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. The York Grand Jury In its present- ment said that the entrusting of inade- quately paid young men with the hand- ling of large sums of money was a very frequent cause of breaches of trust. The Ontario Government promises a grant of 84,000 to the Consumption Sani- tarium of Hamilton, and an allowance et $1.50 per week for each patient. George Babington, a twelve -year-old Ottawa boy, was shot and seriously wounded by a companion while the two were hunting in the woods on Saturday. Chatham colored citizens have peti- tioned the License Commissioners for a license for a colored men's hotel. They say they can get liquor at the existing houses, but no accommodation. The Canadian Northern Railway and Tommie Dwellings, Limited, have paid 8325,000 for a block of land in the east- ern part of Toronto, where freight sheds and workingmen's houses are to be erected. The altar drapery in the Roman Ca- tholic church nt St. Catharines was set on fire by a fallen candle on Sunday. The men In the congregation prevented a panic by holding the women and chil- dren, while others rushed up and assist- ed the priests to smother the flames with overcoats and carpels. GREAT BRITAIN. A little daughter of Andrew Macdon- ald of Glasgow was buried at sen, and a favorite dog, Daisy, was so distressed that she followed the body overboard. UNITED STATES. In a snow slide at Ouray, Col., a number of miners were swept to death. Lawyer Browne of New York was sen- tenced to serve twenty years for pro. Cueing false heirs to an estate. Rufus Johnson and George Small were banged nt Mount Jolly, N. J., on Setae. day, for murder. Marine advices from Detroit predict that nnvigution will scarcely open on the upper lakes until the middle of April. Guisseppe Marne. nn Millen, was hanged nt Newark, N.J., on Thursday, after being four times sentenced to death. Miss Sadie Kemper died at her home at Yorlt, Pie, from the effect of a pow- der taken for acute attack of headache. Incorporation for n company to build a bridge across the Niagara River is be- ing sought at Albany. 1t is part of n plan to connect 'Toronto and Buffalo by a double -track electric railroad. Immediate measures to save the scenic beauty of Niagat'a Fulls were ndvncated In the report of the American section cf the Waterways Commission. \Villia►n Carr, n negro of Plaquemine. La., was lynched on Wednesday night for stealing and killing a cow. Thirty- five masked Wren took him from the enn- sttbles and hanged him to a railroad bridge. Johnson, the negro of Chatta- nooga, Tenn., convicted of n serious crime, in whose case Ijto United Stoles supreme Court granted nn nppeal, wns lynched on Tuesday. A determined mob battered down the jail doors rind look Johnson out and lynched him, Mrs. Jnn. %lorrison, of Cuntlrn!n, neer Pootsville, 1'n., was shot and killed as she lny in bed early to -day, by one of three meeker! burglars. 'Il is believed that the w error recognized the rnbt.rr, and that %%heti he lcarned she had dis- covered his identity he shot her. TWO KILLED, ONE INJURED 1:'spin.ion ul Bailer of Mill in Northern Quebec Lumber Woolly. A Montreal despaleh says: Repot t eeei•ed in the city en Thursday gar. • the detnils of a serious accident at Ai andel, Que.. about 5 o'clock on \\'will• dry evening. 'Ilse men were all at woo. in the mill %lien the largo boiler es- oind.vl, Lalling two then and nerinusit uijuring it third. The dead are Hugh' Wade and Douglns Wade, sons of the rroprieter. A workingnrnn mined Mil - ell, who Wal Standing near by, was bad- ly injured, • CJIANGEs WAit BROUGHT 1011 \YOB MEN'S II.11t1-DIU:.ING, Enormous Sums Have Been t3ubscribetI ply These Sturdy Lillie People. Of all her earthly possessions a Japan- ese women most valuers her hili ! is her crown, her veil, the mar hirer her womanhood, that which tells her and others what she is. The country title for tee house mistress Is "0 Ka+ii .i "she of the honorable ha ' " 441 1..text to the binding of the obi, eitji is the murk of modesty, nothing is of such im- portance as the care of the hair, few sacrifices so great as the relinquishment of the proper dressing thereof. As for dressing tier hair herself, no Japanese woman can do That, and all, except the most miserably poor, have been in the habit of paying 30 sen (14 sen) a month to the hair -dresser to take care of it for them. Since the beginning of the war this sum has been almost universally laid aside to hand over to the war fund, and, corning regularly from millions of women. has amounted to a very respectnbfo whole. The mull has been a culiioue change in the appearance of these sturdy little patriots, says Mrs. Hugh Fraser in the London Times. When 1 was In Japan before 1 hardly ever saw a wornan with her hair down; now there are hundreds in the streets, their silky locks being merely turned back from the forehead with a comb and hanging down in a beautiful mantle FAR BELO\V THEIR WAISTS. The methodical self-sacrifice prac- ticed by all classes during the war has caused the amount furnished by private subscriptions to attain an enormous figure. The multi -millionaires, Iwasaki, the Mitsui family and other great finan- ciers and manufacturers have given nobly out of their vast revenues. Bank- ing corporations have done the same. Tire great noble have done as much in their way, but at the magnitude of their contributions, bought with the sacrifice of inestimable heirlooms, the World can only guess. The stone walled, iron shuttered storehouses, built well away from the palatial dome, so as to avoid the rise of lire, yet near enough to be under the watchful eyes of master, stew- ard and stout retainers -these have given up the hoarded beauties and riches of centuries. \Vaal it must hate cost the silent pride of the grim Japanese grandee to have the unique kakemono unrolled for the dealer's inspection, to look over for the last time the incredibly exquisite gold articles of some fifteenth century Prin- cess's dressing table, the storied blade won by a warrior ancestor from a con- quered enemy -what shades must have hovered round, what picturasn)yeL, have passed before the eyes of the desandant who drew these troasures from their hiding places and gave them over to the modern nlebian dealer -to sell -for Ja- pans 1f the price of the gift be what tt costs the giver the Japanese nobles have passed all computation in the offerings they have MADE FOR THE WAR. No one will ever know the whole tale of private endeavor, private sacrifice, which has gone to make up the great result. Poor old women who had lost an only son In the field brought their tiny savings. "Let it go to the boy's com- rades," they said, "IL will help thein to fight a little longer." The flsherwivea and shell gatherers at Enoshlrna col- lected great bundles of the seaweed, whicl► the Japanese make into succulent soup and brought it to the distract com- missarial office for the soldiers, Tobac- conists, great and small, sent Inrge per- iodical provisions of cigarettes; the bis- cuit makers -their trade la one of the most flourishing in Japan -contributed tons of their wares, the blanket weavers did the same, those who could not give any money gave in kind, generously, to their own deprivation. The little girls made thousands of the white caps with red crosses, 8 lanillfar sight now, as the invalids are moved, e hundred at n time (each In his separate, jinrikishn, with the coolie extra Well dressed to do the heroes honor), from one depot or hospital to another. The object of which the invalid Is most proud and which will go back with him to his home to be treasunsl by his de- scendants is that flat white cotton cap VITH THE RED CROSS ON IT. \Vhy Is the cap such a treasured' Be- cause the clever Japanese surgeons, hurrying over the field plied with dead and dying, fearing to miss some suffer- er in the darkness and the contusion, bethought themselves of Inventing a sign which the advance party who went ahead to find those In need of help could place on such to distinguish them iron► the poor fellows that wero past It. Whenever the scouts found a man still breathing they dropped the, Ng %I.ito cep on Ids head --or on tits body If his head were laid operf-end wherever Iho surgeons sow this sign int will shine out crudely uud clearly even on a dark night) they knew there was a morte tended, a life to bo suced for te'- se.n- try. FELL »PING FROM 1115 BUGGY. 1'ron►inent Physician of Cohnur(r Strick- en Drt inn (0 n Patient. A despatch f.,.m (:nhr.nrg says: I)r. W. .1. Dough's, a prominent (:obourg phy- sician, wns suddenly stricken down on '11ursdny while In the performneet' of hie professional duties. About 11.311 n. fe. he left his ofllce to visit a patient in the country. and. contrary to his usual custom, was driving alone. ee hen about three-quarters of n mile east of his residence he %as seen by n.:cupnnts f Iwo other vehicles to !earl not of his 'g,'y. end Then to fall out. They lin- . •I,:dely went In his ascietnnee, k) ,,i,e•,ecr ton question he spoke ohne and u eflerv.ard expired. William T. James dont Seitoilen Pa., of blood poisoning. In a light ;with A. itnrlvay, James was knoci,r,l deem and bitten through the lip-, mew poiaoning and death mulled.