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Exeter Times, 1906-04-26, Page 6• • r._ ;;irn'n lIflfli1(111� 1 • Gtoierlia1k /{caldsbKr� SiteR r1E Gayest Cityon the North GeysErvills • as°Spta1A •..,. it American Continent Re��-=' duced to Veritable Hell in a Few Minutes. AN EYEWIENESS DESGRIBES INE LWFUI SHIES A despatch from San Francisco sa} Of the scenes that marked 11th emost trans- formation of this, the gayest, careless city on the continent, into wreck and a hell, it is hard to write. Inal. tate duy started with a blind gen- end panic goes without saying. 1'e°. Fie woke up with a start to find them- selves floundering on the floor. In such an earthquake as this it is human in- stinct to get out of doors, away from falling walls. They stumbled across the floors of their heaving houses to End that even the good earth upon which they placed their reliance was swaying and rising and falling, so that the sidewalks croched and great rents opened in the ground. The three min- utes which followed were an eternity of terror. We learn Isere of at least Iwo people who died of pure fright in that three minutes when there seemed no help on earth or Heaven. There was n roar like a great burst of thun- der, and from all about carte the crash of falling walls. It died down at last, leaving the earth quaking and quiver- ing like jelly. Men would run for- ward, stop as another shock, which might be greater any moment, seemed to take the earth from under their feet, and Ihrow themselves face downward on the ground in a perfect agony of feat'. s: small bank on Montgomery sat_. !, and shot him dead. But the p keeping fire lines, beating back over- zealous rescuers from the fallen houses and the burning blocks, and for a tint' these men plundered at will. News el this development was carried early to Mayor Schmitz, and it was this as much as anything which determined him and Gen. Funston carne over from the I-residio on the double quick with the whole garrison of United Stales troops to put the city under martial law. Or- eers were Lssued to the troops to shoot anyone caught in the act of looting, and the same orders were Lssued to the First Regiment, National Guard of Cali- fornia, when they -were mustered and called out later in the day. And all this Vine, and clear up until noon, the FOUND TIIEiR VOICES. It seemed to be two or three minutes after the great shock was over before people found their voices, There collotv' earth was shaking with little tremors, many of which brought down walls and chimneys. At each of these the res- cuers, even the firemen, would stop for a moment, paralyzed. The 8 o'clock, the heaviest after the big one, drove even those who had determined to stay by the stricken city to look for means of escape by water. A SAFETY COMMITTEE. There was an open park opposite the City Hall. Ilere, in default of a build- ing, the Board of Supervisors met and formed, together with 50 substantial citizens whom they had gathered, n committee of safety. They also set themselves to the problem of providing quarters for the dying and dead. Me- et' the screaming of women, tesla.' ninnies' Pavilion, across from the City themselves with terror, and the cries Hall, had escaped, and 1t was pressed of men. With one impulse people made into service at once. The police and the for the parks as far us possible front troops, working admirably together, falling walls. These speedily became passed the word that the dead and in - peeked wilt people in their night jured should bo brought there, since clothes, who screamed and moaned) nt the hospitals and morgues had become the little shocks which followed every choked, and toward that point, in the few minutes. The dawn was just break- early forenoon, thedrays. express wag- ing, but !hero was no other light, as ens, and hacks impressed as tempor- the gas and electric mains were gone, ary ambulances, took their course. and thi' street romps were all out. But •1•Itere were perhaps 400 injured people. before the dawn was while (here cane many of them terribly mangled, laid n light from the cast, the burning war.' eut on the floor before noon. house district. The braver men, with DEAD AND INJURED. no families to watch over, struck out tS kt Kt.NI tQ \\ CIA MI TONS ii1LRMEDA 1{11.0 glt_T ! r4 J 11 More . ,fgYSON - :.�atiol.usscR i Map of the Stricken District Showing Towns Badly by the Earthquake. ONTARIO LEGISLATURE WHAT TII1 LEGISi.ATI'ItE AT TO• ItorTO IS DOING. NEW PIIOVINCIAI. LOAN. lion. Mr. Matheson formally intro- duced a motion for the issue of $3,°U0,- WC. 3,000),{114 inscribed stock or bonds for the Tetniskuming Railway. Out of the con- solidalet hinds on hand $1,900,1110 bus leen already advanced, and this will 1.e tepluced from the new loan. which is 10 le the Canadian one. The loan will not be gloated until July, when tenders wl e ll b called for by the Government THE 1 WORLD'S MARKETS DOMINION PARLIAMENT REPORTS F ICON TIIU LEADING TII.0 E CF`IRI.S. Prices of Cantle. Grain, Cheese end m Other Dairy Produce al doe and Abroad. Toronto, April 24.- Flour -Ontario utx•at patents are quoted at 83.10 bid et $ it tellers' sacks outside for export. Mn- it.,La first patents are quilled ul 84.30 to X1.50 Toronto, and strung bakers' at $4, Toronto. luau is nominal at 819.50.50 h Ilun. Mr. Matheson believes that should' to 820 in bulk, outside. No. 3 American a subsidy bo received from the Domin- ion the loan will be sufficient to finish the second contract on the road, after which about fifty miles remain to reach the G. T. P. Railway. GAMEY MONEY. Wrecked A bill was introduced to enable the money in the hands of the Court of Judicature in connection with the Gamey charges to be paid to the Lieutenanl- Governor in Council, olio may dispose c'1 it for benevolent purposes. PHARMACY BILL AMENDED. Mr. Downey's bill to amend the Phar- macy Act met with considerable oppo- silion In the committee stage, but fin- ally went through with only one arnend- ndent, and that a not very impm•tent one. people. Not more than one-fourth of tory tescrvatton is go n is to be a j'reat these can have escaped to Oakluna d•, pi oblem.S So, eindeed, come talo it town the peninsula, and at least X00,000 people No supplies must be homeless in the parks or the at present. The people have been liv- Fyesidio military reservation. All the stores aon nd handed e pout es by f roes ukl cess hospitals except the free City Hospital are have been destroyed, and they have. 1-ut the wholesale res lesalf provisions s engone with teen dragging the injured, sick and d} rve- ing from place to place of safely all lion is imminent. day Thursday. A. late report by a West- There is plenty of tnoney In sight for ern Union wire direct from San Fran- relief. The Government has appropriat- e:sco confirms the despatch which Gen. ed it million ls d las andee, least New ]York. Funston sent to the \\ ar Department million he problem however, rs not much early on Thursday evening. 11e said then that the flanges had crossed Van Ness Avenue, the dividing line between the better residence district and the rest of the city, and that the town was doomed. As a matter of fact, every- thing worth mentioning except This re- sidence district was burned over or on 11 fe by tate ofternaon. The flames fin- ished with the district down -town. ran south through what remained of the tenement district, extended out through the mission, a region of cheap res- dences, and leaped to Nob 11111, where stand the great mansions of the early - day California millionaires. Before That time the water supply had leen wholly exhausted. Even the sewers were sucked dry. At two o'clock the frmen l.rought to the volunteer helpers the news that there was no more dyna- mite. it passed from mouth to mouth. to help. They were in the early morn- Every physician in the city volunteer- ing; light able to see the business di • ed, and they got together enough bite of the city -burning bcfor' them trained nurses to do the work. There Protn every direction came the fire en- stere fewer corpses, too busy were the gines, culled from the outlying district, forces of order In stopping the conffa- t'y the general alarm rung In by the as- gralion and caring for the living to sistants of the. deed elect. care for the dead. The first wagons CHINESE IN A FIIIGi1T brought a whole fnmily-father, mother The spur of the quake ran up the hill and three children ---all hall dead le except the baby, who had n terrible cut et. which Chinatown is situated, and across the forehead and a broken arm. shook down part of the crazy 111 These had been dragged out from the Luildings on the southern edge. It ruins of their house, on the water front. lore down, too, some of the Italian ten- As the day wore on, and the wind merits. The rush to Portsmouth Square changed, the fire along the water front went on nlmost unchecked by the po- burned itself out, and ran on further lice, who had more business elsewhere. clown South Market street. Except The Chinese came out of their under- for the fire the city Is in darkness. The ground burrows like rats, and tumbled refugees coming over late report that 'Into the square, beating such gongs the parks are filled with people sleep - and playing such noisy instruments es ing out of doors, under guard of the Ailey had snatched up. They were met troops. oil the other side by the refugees of the Italian gunner. SAN FRANCISCO IS GONE. The panic became a madness. At Unless all Information is greatly ex• least two Chinamen were taken to the agtgerated (hero rennins nothing left morgue dead of knife wounds, given of the city except outlying suburbs, n tot no other reason, 11 seems, Ihan the few blocks on the water front and a madness of the panic. '{'here are ten narrow district of middle-class rest- Ihousnnd Chinese in the gunrter, and nano de lying along Golden Gate Park. there are thousands of Italians, Spent• ale American city was ever so nearly ads and Mexicans the other side. destroyed as this, and outside of the 11 stented as thouevery one of (hese, earthquake the (ire is probably the together with the rit every riff -raft of the Barbary ,cotes{ his American hisfc+ry. The eily roast. made for {hal one block of open has n population of more than 400,000 lend. The uncontrolled streams met in the centre of the square and piled upon the edges. There they fought all the morning tinlil the troops restored or- der with their bayonets. BANKS REMOVE GOLD. Then. as the dawn broke and the Irwer city began to be overhung with the smoke of burning buildings. there came n back -eddy. Cabmen, linkmen, drivers of express wagons rind trucks, idre(1 nt enormous prices, began carting away from the lower city the valuables 1 the hotels, which saw their doom In the Ores which were breaking out every- where, and the spurts of the gas mains. 1:ven the banks began to lake out their bullion and secnrilies, and. under guard °t half-dressed clerks sent them to Ile hills. whence came to -day the sal•alion et San Francisco. One old nighthawk cob driven by a cabman mail with ter- ror carries more than $1,000.000 In cur- iipe anti securities. Men pulling corpses or baoken two plc from fallen buildings slopne.l t, curse these pr tecSions es they pas eel 'lime and twain a line of w'ngons and cats would run on lo an Impnee ►l;le barrier of debris. where some bail t:ns iMac) fallen into the stre'ct. and weitil eplle tin tall the guards cleared a wuy through the streets. S1ttY1' DOWN THIEVES. Anti then the vnnilala formed and Vent to work. Routed{ out from the Gene along Ito, wharves, tate {rats (I the San EranehCO water front. the drifters who have renehed tl.' back• eddy of Furonean rivilir.dlk;n. • rawled rut and leLffe. I,.,t.., triuuht one ditlhC11ii LOCAL TELEI'iIONtS. Ilon. Mr. Beck's measure was report- ai with only one amendment subunit - ted by Mr. Beck, by which existing lines raay be vested in the municipality with the consent of their owners. yellow corn is said to be umth on truck, Toronto. wheal -No. 2 „pita offered at 79C outside, with 78e bid, and No. 2 mixed offered at 78,4C outside, with 73c bid. No. 1 Northern, 83%c bid on track, Owen Sound, shiement within three weeks. and 83c bid Owen Sound, shipment 10 days, but none offered. No. 2 Northern, 82c bid Point Edward, May delivery. Barley -No. 2 wanted at 50c outside, NO SUNDAY TRAVELING. Hon. Mr. Hendrie's Itailvay Bill was t:uvanced another stage in conunittee end reported to the ]louse with certain amendments to be considered. In objecting to the Sunday clauses Mr. Bowyer noted that many roads running out of Hamilton tad the privilege of running on Sunday, as did also those operating under Dominion charters. '1 his would be denied to provincial lines.- 1'o this the Premier replied that he believed the people favored the pro- hibitory clauses, and the Government intended to stand by these sections. REGISTRATON STANDS A YEAI1. Premier Whitney announced the wilh- d,nwal of his bill to abolish manhood si.ffrage registration in Ontario. The rol'I:S AND I'ItOCEE1►IN(:'i 01' THE OITA\1 A IIOCsE. PE TItOLEUM COMPANY. Mr. Barker was 'nf•►nno11 Gy Mr. F:nuue•son that the New Brunswick Petroleum Company lad been Meer - potato' in lett with an authorized capital of $1,010,0(10 in 100.000 shores of 810 each, and non -assessable. Mr. Em- merson had not been a shareholder or in any way Interested) at the time of th formation of the company. nor June, 1901, when he porch shares, and he had no 0th than these In the company. scribed capital at the {1110 01 tion was 32,000 shares, and at ft was 76,861). Mr. Euuuel'son h disposed of any of his stock In the party. without sellers. Oats --No. 2 white offered nt 38%c 10 arrive, Toronto, with 37%c bid. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples --Choice stock, 81 to $4.25 per bbl, and inferior qualities, $3 to $3.25. Beans -(land -picked selling at 81.80 to 51.85, and prince at $1.70 to $1.75. Honey -Strained honey quoted at 8 to 83ec per lb, ant4Combs, 81.75 to $2 per dozen. Ilops--12 to 17c per Th. Ilay--Car lots of No. 1 timothy aro quoted at $8.50 to 89 on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at 50.50. Straw -$5.50 to Se per ton. Potatoes -Ontario stock, 70 to 5 er bag, and Eastern, 82 to 85e perg track. Poultry -Turkeys, fresh kille,l. 16c; chickens, 13 l0 15c; live chickens, l0 to llc per lb. one of money as of ways and means of I•,emicr said that there would be a gen- gelling supplies through quickly. This Is absolutely the greatest disas- ter that ever overcame nn American city, and one of the great ilres of his- tory. Beside it the Chicago, Boston, and l{nitimore fires are almost unimport- ant. REFORMS IN JAPAN. An Interview With Count Aoki al Victoria, B.C. A Victoria, R.C., despatch says: On the Empress of China which arrived on Wednesday was Count Aoki, the new Japanese Mini,ler to Washington. The Count declares that the crops this year in his country will be good, and that by September all danger of famine will be over. 'fho biggest problem, he says, now before the Government of Jape,' Is the nationalization of the railways. and already they have decided on taking over seventeen lines. iteduction in the tern of military service Is also receiving; consideration. The soreness over the terms of peace, he says, is now sub- siding, allowing the Government to de- vote allenlion to domestic problems. Although there has been considerable consumption of flour from this country, Count Aoki says the Jap is not likely to abandon his main diet of rice, nor does he look for it big market for the ares of British Columbia in his country. which, he :nys, is also very rich In minerals. Also on board the Empress was 0 band of Sikhs, belonging to a Hong Kong regiment. recently disbanded by "NO MORE DYN.\MITI:''' This cry was the doom of San Fran- cisco. As a last resort, Gen. Funston emp- tied the artillery magazines of the l're- r;idio, and the troops and firemen tele(' to make a last stand at Van Ness Av- enue, west of which lie the homes of the rich and well-to-do. Funston's tele- gram at 8 o'clock on Thursday night showed that they had failed. and the He news over the direct wire cunfirn- e !'this. Many must have died in the flre. At 1•'nst four men were shot during the ('.ny for looting. The unburied deal. ninny of them half burned In the ruins, tri. leooming a problem. It may be- come necessary to sink innny Indies in the bay or ocean. Owing to the lire, which caught many structures before the dead could be token out of them. the real morinhl). will never be known. It Is hn1t1 to estimate the loss of mon- ey. it may be said drat practically all Improvements on real eslete nntl n great part of the personal properly are The loss will certainly be tame than e200,000.000. The Inst assessment toll gives the value of land and improve - mettle in San Francisco al 8102.1011.000. The Insurance held In San Francisco is estimated in New Yory nt from 8.150,- memo .1:,0;((X,r1n0 to ll13'90,0rx),00%). This estimate is Lased on the payment of premiums. The housing of the honu•less people who are sleeping in the parks and tine mill - DEL MONTE HOTEL AT MONTEREY. Where three chlntney fell through the roof, kitting ...e.uommos!- And inhlf$llo several 1h t1_!' a. • bridal eral revision of the election law next year. n the meantime there would t e no election, and no harm could be done by postponing the reform. FRANCHISE TO WOMEN. The House divided on Mr. Smith's (Peel) bill to give the provincial fran- chise to women who vole In municipal elections, but this radical proposal found only eight supporters besides the mover. The members generally were inclined to creat the bill as a joke. BORING FOR OIL. Mr. McCarthy (Calgary) was told by Mr. Oliver that 83,000 had been appro- priated by she Government to assist in boring for oil, etc., near Edmonton. 'fhe Nath -West Gas and 011 Company, of Edmonton, had welled to the Govelll- inent for an advance for this purpose, and the Government hal advanced them{ $1.000 for the same purpose. Mr. Mc- Carthy was also told by lion. Mr. Ilty- ntan that the money voted during the last two sessions for a land titles °Vico at Calgary had not been expended. GOVERNMENT LAND. Mr. McCarthy learned from Mr. Oliver that an application had been received for the sale 'lo a syndicate of a large tract of Government land in Alberta, between Calgary and Edmonton, in Ute vicinity of Lacombe. No price was proposed for the land, and the Govermnent had taken no action in the way of having a valu- ation made. THE DAiRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound rolls are quoted at 20 to 21c; large rolls, 19 to 20c; good to choice dairy tubs, 17 to 20c, and inferior at 1Gc. Creamery prints sell at 24 so 25e, and solids at 22 to 23c. Eggs -Sales at 15 to 15%c per dozen in ease 1010. Cheese -Large at 14%c per Ib. 11OG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs in car lots are nominal. Bacon, long clear, 11% to 11%c per lb in case lots; mess pork, 820 to $20.50; short cut, 822.50 to $23. tic; Ilams-Light to medium, 13% so do., heavy, 13c; rolls, 11%c; shoulders, 11c; backs, 15% to 16c; breakfast bacon, 15c. pails, Lard -'Pierces, llc; tubs, Ilyc; 11 %c. cheese, 14c, and twins New cheese, 13%e. LAKE ENDER LARGE CITY. Charleston, W. Va., in n State of Great Excitement. A despatch from Charleston, West Virginia, says: The city of Charleston was thrown IMO excitement 0r► Tucs- any by the discovery of a gigantic cave directly beneath the town. The cave contains a -large lake. Men blasting rock nettle the discovery of the lake and cav- ern when the discharge caused' the earth to crumble and fall in, leaving a great hole. Workmen ventured into the cavern, exploring it for a consider- able distance. They discovered the lake, and, returning to the surface, procur- ed a small bon!, in which they rowed about for several hundred yards. There nye limestone formations in the cavern emitter to those In the nobel Luray . r ves. The water in the lake is remark- ally pure and Is cold and sweet to the the taste. A systematic exploration of the cavern will be begun to -day. Imperial authority. who will seek work in the mills of British Columbia. ARREST C. P. R. I:HI'L01'IiS. Systetnatic Stealing Iles Been Guinlg and \]any Arrests follow. A Winnipeg desprtoh enys : A whole. sale arrest of C.P.11. employes, Includ- ing yardmen. sw'itelunen, brakemen. conductors and engineers, on the charge of stealing merchandise irons cars, fol- lowed letine good! detective work. Ilobberies from cars have been syste- matically canted on for years. A shard time ago tate C.P.ii. impelled n pro- fessionnl "fence" from Chicago and he tuts been purchasing the Paolo' geode and returning Them 10 the company. Gradually he delecl el the men involved and the areas followed. Fifteen war- rants have leen Iesucd and the majority of the accused men tire under ni•rci;l. 11 is probable thin other warrants w ill be i.stexl. 7.1 1.1' RI:V01.T iI'ItE %DI\1:. Disquieting News from Natal ln.i.'•ritl Troops are Read). A London despatch says : Is -quieting news continues to arrive hem Natal, when) the Zulus are either befriending the rebel chief. ilnmbanla, or are re- training from assI lingg in the efforts (hail are being made to capful.. hitn. 'I he loyal tribes are mobilizing:.:., I the Government is enrolling son Oi tlame teer lu- feer fomes. The imperi:,l ih.-pc at elaritzburg are l•-t•I hi teae.lr. IMO 1'R t11t1I: 1'11{1: i.Oe"I '. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, April 21. -There- was some inmproventent in the demand for Mani- toba wheat from foreign sources to -day, and cables were about one cent per bushel higher. The out market contin- ues very strong, being 40% to 41c for No. 2, 3934 to 40c for No. 3, 3834 to 39c for No. 4. Flour -Manitoba spring pa- tents, 81.50, strong bakers', 81 to $.1.10; Winter wheal patents, $4.10 l0 81.30 ;, straight rollers, 83.80 to 83.90; do., in bags, 81.70 to 81.80; extras, • 51.35 to 51.45. Feed --Manitoba bran, in bogs, 819.50; Ontario bran, in Lags, 519.50 to 520; shoats, 520.50 to $21; ,pilled mouille, 820 to $25; straight grain mouille, 528 to $29 per ton. Rolled oats -81.90 t8 811t5 in bags of 90 lbs. flay -No to >'8.50 per ton on Track; No. 2, $7 to 57.50; clover, 55.50 to $G; clover, ,nixed, 50 to 86.50. Means --Prince pea beans, 81.60 to 51.05 per bushel; hand-picked, 51.75 per bushel. Potlttoes--Per bag of 80 lbs, 60 to 65c. Iloney-White clover, in comb, 13 to lie eer Ib section; ex- tract, 7 to 73.;c; buckwheat, 51.', to Gc. 1'royisinns-llcnvy Canadian short cut pork, 821.50; light short cut. 820; Amer- ican tut clear fat backs, 520; compound lard, 7 to 7%c; Canadian pure lard, 1131 to 1134e; kettle rendered, 12% to 12%c; hams, 13 to 1434c; breakfast bacon, 1Gc; Windsor bacon, 15c; fresh killed abat- toir dressed hogs, 510.25 ; country dressed. $9.25 to $9.50: alive, 87.50 to 57.60 for selectslozeEggs-New Ruth laid, iholed► to 15%c per creamery. 23'% to 24c; uuderggrades, 19 to 21c; dairy, 18 to 20c. Cheese -Col- ored, 12%e; white, 12%c. - \VIBE FENCING. Mr. Clements was told by Mr. Oliver that the Government was neither build- ing nor proposing to build any wird fencing on boundary lines between the United Stales and Canada tills year. COMMONS 1N\'ITFS KING. Both sides of the Commons joined enthusiastically In support of a resolu- tion inviting his Majesty King Edward to visit Canada. The 'lotion was intro- duced by Mr. Belcourt and seconded by Mr. Northrup. They made eloquent speeches in favor of the resolution, and were followed by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mr. Borden,. Col. Hughes, Messrs. Mil- ler, Boursssa, and Chishohn. On Sir Wilfrid :s suggestion lite address was amended so as to leave it an open ques- tion with the King, should the invitation be accepted, to visit Me Dominion at a lime most convenient to their ftfajes- ties,- instead of on the occasion of the opening of the Quebec Bridge, as, sug- gested by Mr. Belcourt 111:el:1'll (.(10D ,tT COit.t1.T. Resident Inspector Scott Forwards a Few filets- \leasles Only. A despatch front Termite says: Sani- tary. Inspector Samuel Scott has present - (41 to Dr. Ilodgetts his first. report t s resident inspector of the Cobalt district. In all, he has covered thirty-six [woe - lectors and mining camps, and in these seven lumdred men are at work. Co - 1 -all is estimated Ly Mr. Scott to have ;t.Ot0, and moot Sato houses. The (Oinking of water that has not been toiled is prohibited. Otte case of mens - leo is the only instance known of a con• legions disease In the. town, Dud that has been isolated. Dr. llodgclts and Inspector Heli will likely vigil Cobalt in the ear future to push the health campaign. Tarnier•, in Boom Di•11111. 11aniU.bit, sull(r 1 Portage la ('l ..h ,e. \Inn.. •1. >I•; t h . Word conn . from Bagel dis- '. wt. liftc.•ii miles w' el. of seri•,us loco . hien. rr 1u a i uihl of Lurlt and i-rnirie lire-. On Smelay the oulLuil.l- (;• ere.. J. 3 •n(•.a were deetroyt•dt. + Crean n bash time and in 1) dim.' t'o, buildings i,. - writ -tee Iwo e, couple and`{.alvei MA 1!. l,_- hi ( I .•. _ .._.� ., .,,,,.a►ing;, and w It •i n, .lam �� ST1111E11, Ilt'f NO tl.tl.ICE. e Haul \ea. 1►i-chariged fur emblem' at tw it: l•'. A deipateh from Buffalo -roe: Rudolph Schilling. 19 years old, who fatally slate red Fred J. ()Fermis during a thiol quarrel at the plant of Trott it Leltli- ,. orth Co., Buffalo, about ten days no, IIt.%GEDl' IN NORTH VICTORIA. Man Found Dead in the Bush with Head Split Open. A despatch from Lindsay says: Word was received on Thursday from Kirk - field giving the pnrliculnrs of a terrible occurrence in the neighborhood of that village. Two men, named Miller and Dillon, had been In the employ of a farmer named McNulty, living about four miles north. Wednesday morning at an early hour they were given a job of chopping wood in a bush on the !ann. Their employer. after issuing accessary directions, returned to the barn to fetal his cattle. About ten o'clock McNulty returned to Ona Miller lying dead be- side a log he had been culling. the ground deluged with blood that had flowed from a wound in the head. Dillon was nowhere to be tieCil. II is supposed the two men had quarreled. Dillon has been placed under arrest. Brantford's tax rate will to 22 mills. A new grain exchange will be built at \Vinnlpeg, to cost 5250,000. The Welland Canal opened for traffic on Monday. The revenue from Provincial Cro\y� lands last year was $2,199,401.76. Nova Semites net debt is 53,373..310 and iter surplus is $20,S22. The new C. P. 11. hotel at WInr►igog is to be called the Royal Alexandra. Hamilton carpenters are ngitating tot 35 ceflue-cent rnase. Ilrantsntfordan hourPark, a Commissionerstnehave purchased a perk in Euglc Place for $4.0'0. The Lake of the Woods Milling Com - natty will build thirty new elevators in the west. The C. P. 11. will make the port of Quebec for (heir whole steamship set'. vice. Mayor Ellis of Ottawa has been given a verdict for $1,000 in his sull again.<I Mr. Black for libel. Angus Macdonald of Renfrew ': 'g killed al Cobalt by a freight train alt F'rtday. Sir Rnbcrt 'Newborn, former Prc'ittdr of Newfoundland, died at St. John, MI Friday. The Atlantic fest 1111)11 contract t ill be shared by the Aliens with (he.( . - UNITED STATES M.\RI I'S. Minneapolis, April 24t -Wheal -May, 7814,c; July, 804 to 80%c; September, 78%c; No. 1 hard, 81%c; No. 1 Northern, 81 ye; No. 2 do., 934c; No. 3 Spring, 7734 to 71434. flour-letehnngetl. St. Louis, April M. -Wheat -Cush, 87e; May. 80%c; hay, 77'1e. Milwaukee, \\'Is.. April IL -Wheat - No. 1 Northern, 82 to tt334c; No. 2 do., 78 to 82c; May. 8134 In 81%e. Rye ---No. 1. 61'10 fisc. Barky --No. 2, 5a to 55%e; sample, 45 to 55e. Corn --No. 3 cash, 4734 to 4s.•; May, 16%e. I)111101. Minn- Arrll 24.- \Wheat --Nn. 1 Northern. 1•I':• : No. 2 eo.. 193;e: May, c $0 ': );it,. `1', . ;-''•rnber, 79eee. feet.; -I''• e mei] j -.i'. Termite. .\;.i 1 ; \ fairly heavy run of cattle wee "tf.'rliie :it the Western Market this morning. Export Cattle -Choice are quoted) nt 81.90 to $5.25, medium to Boca at 5.1.30 to 541.70, others at 81 t•, $1.25. bulls at was discharge.] by Judge' !Iiirphy on "41.50 to EI, and cows at te.;5 to 81. \\'e•dncstIny. 4)1•cimis formerly lived in Ih•nntford. Ont. Judge efurphy con- ducted an inquest Tueeday. Ile be. tiered Int slabbing was done without malice or forethought. -+--- -- PIIII.I.II" Gilt N11 11 11111.. the York {..scut I'ae.i,l.ul 1'mnntitUd Int Trial. A Toronto desenlch says : 1• ,,It Phillipe, pis stdent of the York Cvunly Loan and Savings Company, was on Thur -day conu(hitc•l for trial I.y Police Mnglslrnte Denison. There wile a long coat-r••n• • 1+•lscon ted. Denise]) and the Fi-.ttn aiterte; . end subsequently Phillips nignr,l over fu Ibe shart'holrlers of Ihr. York Lean all the properly In dispute. inelhfin* About eltet'1 in cash. I'leell'S tc'.- ^dhuilie.1 1. i ,111 in hyo securities of 81.Z#) each. R itcir r Cattle -Picked doh. kt.rt so; peel to choice, $4.40 to 51.61; fair lo go..d. M4.75 lo 84; corrunon. 82.50 to 83: cows, 82.75 to 8125; bulls, $.1 to 51; canners, $1.:,0 to 52. sex:l ers end Fe. -dere --• Seort-keep feeders are etiettd at et to $1.50, heave feeders at $3.R5 to 8;.15, tnndiutn at 52.50 to 53.50; bulls at 52 to 52.75, good stockers run at $3 to 53.05, light el $2.75 to 53, rough common at . t0 52.75, and bulls al 51.7:, to 52.50. Milch (:'aw s - 5%(► Io 550 each. Calves-'Tliey ere quoted at 3 to (',e per ie. Sheep and Lambs--Expotl sheep an' quoted 25 to 75c per cwt. lower fit $I''(1 In 55 ter ewes and 83.30 to 53.75 for luck. Groin -fed lambs Ate 25 10 50e tower el 50.23 to 50.;3. Anil spring lambs are also caster at 113 to $G each. flogs--Unchnntr'I al 87.15 r•er col. for whole and $6.00 for lights and fats• kid and watered. steamers. Of the ninety-three deaths in Hamilton last month, only three were of con- sumption. The Deletion farm, near Davidson, Sack.. will have Vele acres under crop Ihl.e year. Ti:') Crhnailinn `nrUurn Railway 1a increasing its Iernuinnl and freight hacililics in Toronto. itlatIford Public Sell s,l Board will enlarge two sceptres and build a ne',V one to C(,St 850,00o. 7 he (,overnors of McGill Unitersitg have decided to confer the dcgrac ..1 1.1 It nn Arvin Larncggie. The Grand 'Trunk Pacific hne pineal nn order for i!fly thousand bins of steel rail: at the Soo. South Canada's commercial agent in Africa w riles that Canadinn pine doors are of poor quality. Dr. Roll. Bel. Chief oenlopist .^•f Canada. is In Cobalt making a thorough survey of the raining distrhl. The Prince Edward island Legisla- ture ture has passel it measure irni.oaielg a minimum Ns el 10A00 on banks. •