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Exeter Times, 1907-07-04, Page 3HINTS ON POTATO GROWING Special Investigation by the Provincial 'CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS ing, by lightning flashing along tho wine A warrant was sworn out for the ar- rest of Clarence Byrne, of New York, a (:hrislian Scientist, whose little daugh- tee died of pneumonia without medical HAPPENINGS Fi1O4 Alt qt'I-:n TUIi GLOBE. Department of Agriculture The Ontario Department of Agriculture 1s making an investigation into the potato industry of the Province by Mr. K. Smith, 13.S.A. Alter visiting the most important potato -growing sections of Ontario, he is preparing u special re- port for publication. fending the free report, which will probably show a more serious stale of affairs than Ls generally supposed, the following re- commendations aro put out with a view to impressing upon farmers the necessity of Immediate action. The treatment of potatoes to I: revent the rot is a matter of extreme importance. "Ontario produced fewer potatoes 1,06 than she ever produced in any single year in all the limo the I'rovin- cmal Department of Agriculture have been collecting information concerning the a^reages annually devoted to furan crops. \\'ithin the past few years the area planted to potatoes In this province Las decreased by 50,000 a^res ; the pro- duct by approximately 6,000,000 bush- els. Present indications are that the crop of 1907 will bo lighter than last year's with the high prices that have ruled for some time strongly maintained. Farmers, on the right kind of soil, who have planted a goal acreage to this clop this setting, will, if they are able to suc- cessfully bring their crop to maturity, reap larger returns from potatoes than they could likely derive from any line of farming in which they might engage, and It is to point out briefly one or two little thinge that in (hese days must bo attended to, if potato growing is to ho successfully accomplished, that this article has been prepared. Inability to cope with the rot has been the great cause ot failure in potato growing in Ontario, yet five dollars or even less, will cover the entire cost for material and labor required to treat ono acre of potatoes with Bordeaux Mix- ture, and this mixture poverty nindc and consistently and intelligently ap- plied is a certain Treventive of rot. From experiments oll:eielly conducted at Guelph, at Ottawa, and at practically every experiment station in the United Steles, and from the practical experi- ence of growers everywhere, Bordeaux Mixture has proven the only eifective remedy for Potato Rot. At Ottawa dur- ing the past three years, the average in- crease in yield from spraying with this mixture was 9S.5 bushels per acre. Bordeaux Mixture for potato spraying is made from the following formula :- Ccpper sulphate (bttestone or blue vitriol) 6 pounds. unslaked limo 5 pounds, water 40 to 50 gallons. As it Ls inconvenient to weigh the lime and copper at the time of mixing and quite imprdcticable to keep a sup- ply of ready -mixed Bordeaux on hand, lock solutions of the copper and lime are usually prepared ready for mixing n; required. '1'o prepare material suffi- cient to treat one acre of potatoes four times, proceed as folknvs : Place 72 pounds of Milestone in a bag or basket and suspend It near the surface in 36 gallons of water in a barrel. It will dis- solve in a few hours, and every gallon afterwards dipped Rum this barrel will contain exactly 2 pounds of blueslone. For the limn stock mixture take 60 pounds of fresh unslaked lime and 30 gallon, of water. Slake the lime by the use of as little of the water as possible, and when all is bi\,ken down, bring tho solution to standard strength by adding what remains of the 30 gallons of water. livery gallon of lime mixture now con- tains exue tly 2 pounds of lime. 'these mixtures, if kept under cuter and eva- p wallet' prevented, will retain their strength all summer. In making the i3ordeaux it is impor- tant to rememt er that these strong "sleek" mixtures must never bo brought together. Pour 3 gallons of the blue - stone solution into n 40 -gallon barrel (an ordinary barrel holds between 4n and 50 gallons), half fill the barrel with water, adel 2% gallons of the lime solution, MI up with water, stir thoroughly and the mixture is ready for use. For apply:ng, a spray pump will bo found economical of Ial,or and mater- ials, and the gain in i:roduct from ono year's spraying of one acre of potatoes will usually pay the entire cost of such ne appliance, but if none is at hand, ib,rdcaux may be applied after the sumo manner as Paris Green would be applied in solution for bugs. Tho object is to keep the crop covered with the mixture during the season in which blight is liable to occur, and while modern spray- ing: machinery does this a little better than anything else, there are scores of farmers In Ontario who are obtaining gcite satisfactory results from applying the Bordeaux by whatever means are at their. disposal. 1n preparing the mix- ture whero any kind of power sprayers are to be used, always strain the limo sctution when mixing with the Blue- stone. The limo sometimes slakes lumpy and clogs in the nozzles. 1f re- quired Paris Green may be applied with the Bordeaux, adding half a pound of Paris Green to each barrel of the mix- tt:re. Spraying shot.ld begin about July 151h and the vines kept covered till Septem- ber. Four applications as required, will usually accomplish This. Some have got fairly satisfactory results from one good spraying just at the lime the disease be- gins to spread, and as wo gain in spray- ing experience, the number of applica- tion may perhaps he decreased, but ordinarily, it is hest to use the mixture at least four times. Bordeaux is the QQnly effective remedy yet devised for the control of potato blight. it is easy to snake and easy to apply, mud where properly made and thoroughly applied is certain to be effec- tive. The only precautions to observe in making are to use pure fresh materials end mix these in correct proportions and in the proper way, and in applying In keep the mixture on the vines during the season That blight is likely to ap- pear. Parliament Buildings, Toronto, June, 1907. TIIE MAIL SUBSIDIES. Amount Pahl Ont During Last Fiscal Year Totalled 81,128,876. A despatch from Ottawa says: Dur- ing the short -terns fiscal year ended March 31st last the small subsidies paid out by the !).,minion amounted to $1,- 12),,876. ns neatest $I127.511) in the full fiscal year 1905.6. Oftthis $16'1,666 was i( r the innil service in England. The subsidies 10 the Atlantic mail 'service in the Inst fiscal year amounted to $:373.- 916. as against $282.310 In the previous year. The bounties paid during the fis- cal year had a •total of $1.581,943, made up as toltow.s:-Iron and steel. $1.299.- 811; petroleum. $266,553; lead, 81.911; binder twine, 313,595. CtNtDA AND SOUTH ,tFltlf..t. Trade Between Two Countries to be Developed. A despatch from London says: Sir A. Jones. referring to his grant of free pns'ai;e to commercial travellers be- tween Canada and South Africa, says there should be an ennrrnous trnde be- tween Ilse two countries. The Elder. Dempster Company would do all they could to derelop it. A itE:tl. WHISKEY WtR. Three Moonshiners Dead and Twenty- three Captured. A despatch frotn Asheville, North Carolina, says: Three ►noonshiners killed, twenty-three captured and a (Use.. en or more illicit distilleries destroyed i • reported by an Asheville raiding party of revenue ofiieer.:, on 'ruesdny. headed by J. Will Roberts, at Piedmont,N. C.. a highly notorious section of the mountnins. Ikdwi ls' raiding party con - rested of Thirty or forty tarn heavily armed with Winchesters. The ►nunn- shiners gave fight and tired upon the revenue officers fmm ambush. Hun- dreds of shots were e\ehanged. `eve eral thousand gallons of whiskey were seized by the revenue officers. PICKPOCKETS 11%1'1.. Thousand Dollars Stolen in Winnipeg . Building. A despatch from Winnipeg says . i'Ickpockets are busy here. and nurser. ars thefts aro reporter. J. J. Miller. cut kora speculator, was relieved of n (lieu sand dollars in the el. -Inter in the Rank er Hamilton building on Wednesday afternoon just after he had cash.vl o (11.4ft. VICTIMS OF AUTOS 1,5T0 Six Months' Record of Accidents in Germany. A despatch from Berlin says: An aC- per munition on the part of persons Curate record of motor accidents and en the streets or ninths. 48 through slip - their crimes is kept in this country, and eery pavements, 20 through breakage en ni nlyst,S of the statistics sinews that of parts of the machine, and live during the half-year ended Sept. 30 through explosions. Suits were bonnglit last Ih r• were 2.290 auloti,obile nr•ei• in Rt' courts in 695 castes, mei g.f these stents un Germany, of-w•11iCh 673 cnuSed 621' were against elanuffoura. Injury to persons. r NL'\IRI:It OF MACiIINBS 27.026. The number of persons killed and gountil amount/el to 1,570, including On inn. 1 there were 27,020 autorno- 51 kelt. d. Of the latter. nine were biles, including motor cycles, in Ger- t rffeur?, nine passengers of the au- many. Of this total 1,211 aurrl )oohiles foibiles, and 33 other persons. were used for drayage and slimier pito CAUSES OF MIeIIAP poses, and of the remaining 25.e15 ma- chines 15,700 were motor cycles, and In 1.021 cases the cause of the acct- only 10,11.5 a,itomobiles in the casual dent oras determined. and in 488 cf sense. Mr,re than half of the latter Mese ton rapid running or failure to were of eight hnr.;e•p,wer. give the alarm eignnl was given es the In the City of Berlin there are 2,4i cause. In other cases 2211 were caused automobiles of all kinds. Of the total b; unskilful steering, DI through dtcre• move given 10,287 mechinea are 'teed gang of slop signals, S3 through tnri- for sport and plenaure and 10,699 for tare of brakes, 171 Through lack of pro -commercial purpoaea. Tekgraphf-. rack From Our Own mid Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. Prince Fushimi donated £50 to Toron- to charitable institutions. Reports received in 'Toronto stat) 11:at heavy rains have drowned out the fires around The salon. The Fruit Inspection Department has decided that small leery -boxes must ()attain four-fifths of a quart. John Lecovig, an employee of the \\'bite Bear mite nt ltossland, fell 7(X9 feet down the shaft and was killed. the Temiskaining & Northern Ontario Itailway will be completed by the end of the present season to the two lime thee -mile post. Mr. henry ()Brien, K.C., in a letter to the Mayor, stated that the children of Toronto were probably the worst on the, continent. The Canadian Northern Heftily has trim a branch line into Jtoose \tountuin, where Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann have very large iron ore deposits. The London & Southwestern Railway has settled with Mrs. \Valtcr Barmen, c•f Toronto, for £10,000 in an accident on last Dominion Day. GREAT BRITAIN. The British Commons by an over- whelming vote favored restriction of the potter of the I.ords. UNITED STATES. United Slates railmakers offer a perfect rail for $33 a ton. Wreck -causing roils cost 828. Seven persons were killed by the fall of a tenement in the Italian quarter of New York, on Tuesday. Col. 11. P. Brewster, of Atlanta, Ga., was shot and killed during a riot on an excursion train by French '1'arly, a negro. Because the parents of Carrie Strom, 1•► of Chicago, told tier they could not afford to give her a new graduation dress, the girl left her home. Mrs. Bell, an aged woman of Medicine Lodge, Kan., is missing, and is believed to have been blown away by ono of ttie tornadoes which visiles the place lately. Mrs. (:Inra Lemon and her son of four-. Teen were instantly killed in St. t'aul, Minn., %%bite taking in the family wash - treatment. Herbert Dahl, a Chicago waiter, com- plained in court of being struck In the !u.•e with a lepton pie and Injured other- wise by James \'into and John Azzato in a r.staurant. Frank C. Randle, of \\'innipenk, Conn., drowned himself in a mill pend, when h) learned that his father, who died last week, had left hien $30,000. Grief hnd weakened the boy's mind. A Guernsey calf belonging to an im- ported herd, for which Mr. Arthur Meeker had lately paid $3.2.000, enjoyed an automobile ride from Chicago to Mt. Forest, 111., the other day, as tho guest of its owner. GENERAL. Sir John Hall, a former Premier of New Zealand. is dead. Order has been restored in the wine- growers' district of France!. Franco and the United States are en- ceavering to negotiate a new coinnter- cia! treaty. WIIiSKEY SMUGGLING STOPPED. Cust(vns Cruiser's in St. Lawrence Keep Too Sharp a Walch. A despatch from Ottawa says: Mr. F. i Jones, Chief Preventive Olficcr of Customs, has just returned to Ottawa after a trip of inspection through the 'Maritime Provinces and along the south-eastern frontier. Mr. Jones re- ports that the wholesale snuggling cf whiskey up the St. Lawrence is at an end, due to the vigilance of the Cus- toms' cruisers. Two vessels, tho Con- staice and the Gladiator, aro keptin the service, but If they were withdrawn, doubtless. the illegal traffic would quickly spring up again. GREAT FIRE AT BERLIN, GERMANY. Warehouses and Stables Destroyed -- Explosion Narrowly Averted. A d' patch from Berlin says: One of the largest fires Berlin has ever known, or. \Vednesdny destroyed lite great warehouses and stables of the Berlin Omnibus Company. The whole fire bre prole vainly fought the flames for ►nnny hours, but the firemen saved the ad- joining Royal victualling warehouse, where 5,000,000 litres of spirits were stored. These were threatened for a long tirne, causing fears of a terrific ex- plosion. FOREIGNERS SWEfili LEN A Marked Increase Shown in Natural- ization Statistics. A despatch from Ottawa says: The re- turns of naturalization in Canada for 1906 have been tabulated by the Secre- tary of Siite's Department, and show that a very large prepxortion of (:an- aua's new citizen: from foreign cowl- Ir:es are taking the oath of allegiance. During the year the naturalization totalled 10.242, as compared with 6,632 err the previous year, an increase g 1 :..610. The Nnturalizalion Act requires three years residence in the Dominion before rapers of citizenship can be taken out. Taking into consideeelion the fact that only the heads of families and young nacn over 21 years of age of for- eign birth nerd to take the oath of nl- Iegiance, the total of 10,242 for Met year probably represents a foreign ire- cent. migration of thirty to forty thoircand. And since three years' residence is re- quired It will be seen that almost the weole foreign immigration of 1903 has become naturalized by law. Tho total naturalizntions of immi- grants from United Stales were 3,888, which, compared with the immigration figures of 1902-03. show that nearly all the American male settlers in the \Vest are taking the oath of allegiance to the British Crown. The total immigration for the month of April wee 41.051, as compared with 3e,313 for April of last year, an increase :.f 25 per cent. For the ten months, tuly 1 to April 30, the immigration was 10.718, compared with 124.031 for the corresponding months of the fiscal year. an increase of 4,687 or 36 per RED CLOVER SITED. Anticipated Thal It Will Again Be Short for the Season of 1908. On account of partial failure in Cana e!s and the United Males of the 11K6 crop of pled Clover seed, large quantities were imported from Europe for the past sea s.ua s trail.. The supply was deplete' e:,rly in \lay. and the retail erica have been unusually high in consequence. No red clover seed Is Toeing tarried over for next season's trade. The red clever crop, not only in Canada but in the united Stales and in Europe, is now reported to have suffered severely from prolonged cold weather during 1tiin h, .I on accountprole :\ •oil and May: nn of 1 Y• 1.1,10 reduction in yield of hay and other fodder , but particularly lee -wise Ingest fields of red clover are killer ant in places, it is nnticipnted That the areas left for net clover seed will le.• ronsider•- 0lly below the average for Canada, Heel that the supply of good. clean, No. 1 s,•ed will again be short for the season of 1908. In view of We present a.ueditions of the trnde of red clover seedx and of the not clover crop, 1 desire to advise farmers in the Presence of Ontario That it will he well for them to coneider the expeid- be well for them to consider the expedl- eney of utilizing as far ns possible those that can be made clean by weeding. and of saving them for the purpose of see(!. Ks1'rierlee has shown that the largest yields and hest ()entity of re.1 clover seer) nre otMinee1 from We eetiond crop -the first first crop being pastured off until about June 201h, when all roughnge and weed growth should be hummed with a Mower having the cutter -bar tilted well up. With this method. the ravages of the clover seed nudge nre largely avoid - cd. If the first crop be cut for tiny, tho cid ehouid 1.' taken as rnrly ns possible. In faking the seonnd cut of rel clover fo^ seod, it is well to remcml er that each of 1110 weeds- ribgrnss, calehfiy, curled deck, and others -produce from 10.000 to 50,000 sccds, or about ono hundred timer ns many seeds as are produced by a red clover plant. Further, that the pread tn, prices now paid in favor of e woe, clean No. 1 seed will continue to range from 50 cents to *2.50 per bushel, and may amount to from 81 to even $10 per acre, and In any case is more than d•sible the cost of the labor required le pill! and remove such weals from the seed crisp before it is cut. heroes market- ing fanners are invited to send a small sample of their grass m' clover seed: with their none and address enclosed, which sinners should be accurately re- presentative of the bulk lot, addressed to the Seeel G,l,nlssioner, Dept. of Aga i• enIliire, Ottawa. and within Three or four days They will receive in return a sl11tentent showing its pereenleg' purity. and the kinds and proportion of iox- ious weed seeds. if any. that are corn- Ininel in it. \V Ih .si r i .sitch information rrnnti n they will better know its value %viten eontp:wed with the current quotations for seeds of the vorious grades of qual- ity. T. G. Il1VNO19, Seed Inspector (or Ontario. STARTLI\G EVIDENCE. Cook of the Crystal Stream in Fear of Fire. A despatch fmm St. Joliet, N.i1., snys : A sensation was cause,) on Wednesday at the inqueet at (id's Isian•l into the banning of the Crystal Stream, in wheel four men lost their lives, by the lesti• runny of Mrs. 11ny Colemon, cook nn the steamer. She sntd she was in fen- of Me. ate! this was chiefly t.eca►s) .ti's. Chase, the slew•ardecs, hnd told her ven- gennco against the Crystal Stream tinct leen threntene,t if it took ten yenrs. She thought Cnptnin G. H. ferry of the steamer Aberdeen, who formerly one 011 the Crystal Stria'''. was the man meant as hawing threatened the steamer. clip. fain Perry was shown this statement on the arrival of his stennner here on Wed- nesday, and he denied it strongly. He Imputed n motive lo \ire. Coleman, shy• in„ ho was influential in having her ilii - charged from the steamer Star home yenrs ago. An English mile Is 5.280 fit, a nag. licit mile Is 0,090 feet. THE PERILS OF LABOR No Less Than 91 Fatalities Reported During May. A despatch from Ottawa says: Re- perk o-pods to the labor Department show that the number of !redo disputes dur- ing May was 49, an increase of twelve over Der corresponding month of 1906. 'tette loss in working days was approxi- mately 88,325 as compared with 45,675 ua May of last year. The increase is largely due to the strike of coal miners in the west, and of longshoremen :n Montreal. There were about 411 firms and 11,697 employees affected by the va•i-,us disputes. '!'here was a marked upward tendency in wage, in nearly all lines of industry during the month. The number of new agreements with respect to wages re- ported to the department was consider- ably in excess of that during tho cor- responding period in any previous year since 1903. Nearly all the new agree- ments were on the basis of higher wage schedules. In the majeriiy of cases the increases were obtained as a result cf amicable negotiations and without friction between employers and em- ployees. During May (here were 287 %•ork peo- ple injured in industrial accidents. Of these 91 were fatal and 196 resulted in serious uljur•ics. Railway accidents were responsible for twenty fatalities and thirty by there were injured. THE WORLD'S MARKETS IILt'ORTS rnOM '-"ire LEADING IRA! Ii CENTRES. Pekes el Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at llama and Abroad. Toronto, July 2. -Flour - Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents are quoted nl $:1.40 in buyers' sacks, outside, for export. 1laniloba first patents. $4.75; second patents, $4.20 to $4.25, and strong bakers', $1.05 to $1.10. Wheat --No. 1 Manitoba hard is quot- ed at 95c. lake ports; No. 1 Northern at 95%c, rind No. 2 Northern at Ole. On- tario wheat is steady, wilh,No. 2 white and red Winter quoted at 90 to 91c out- side. Corn -No. 2 American corn is quoted at 60%c to 61c, 'Toronto, lako and rail. Bran -The market is easier, with g 1 - firings at 819 track, 'Toronto. Shorts quoted at 819 to $20 outside. CALL BOARD. Wheat -No. 2 Ontario white offered ot 91%c outside. with 89c bid. No. 2 ted Winter, 89%c bid outside and west, without. sellers. No. 2 mixed offered rt 91c outside, without bids. Barley -No. 2 was 53c bid outside, and 48c bid for a load, September or October delivery. �No. 3 extra also 48c bid for a load, September or October, v: ithout offerings. No. 3 barley, 50c bid outside. !'ens --No. 2 offered at 8(c outside, without bids. OSts-No. 2 while offered at 46c out- side :and at 45%c on a 6c rate to Toron- to, with 44yc bid. COUNTIIY PRODUCE. Beans -Hand-picked quoted at 81.50, and primes at $1.35 to $1.40. honey -Strained quoted at 11 to 12c per tb. and comb honey at 82 to $2.50 per dozen. play -No. 1 timothy is quoted at $14 to 815.50 here, and No. 2 nt 12 to $13. Stinw-$7 to $7.50 n ton on track here. Potatoes -Ontario, 81.15 to 81.20 per lag on track, and New itr•unswick, fi1.30 per bag. Poultry -Turkeys. alive, 11 to 14c; chickens, Spring, 18 to 20c per tb. fowl 9 to IOc. TiIE DAIRi' MARKETS. Rutter -found rolls are quoted at 17 to l8c; tubs nominal at 17 to l2 c; large rolls are quoted at 17 to 17%c. Cream- ery prints sell at 20 to 22c, and solids at 19 to 19%c. Eggs -Case lots sell at 17 to 18c a (14 zea, Cheese-l.nrge quoted at 12%c, and twins at 12%c. IIOG f11Onl'('rs. Dressed hogs in car Iota ;eke nominal. Recon, long clear, 10% to 1I%c per lb. in case lots; melts perk, $21 to 821,50; short cut, 822.50 to 823. hams -bight to medium, 15%c; do., heavy. 14%c; rolls, 11)Ce; shoulders, 1le; backs, 1G ,c; brenkfnst bacon, 15)4c. Lard -Tierces, 12c; tubs, 12%c; pails, 12'%c. BUSINESS AT MO.\"rItE.u.. Montrenl. July 2. - Grain --Tire local market far nal.: Irntntnel steady under :t moderate demand for car lots. Mamie lokn No. 1 white sold at 49 to 49%c, Ontario No. 2 al 48% to 39e. NO. 3 at 6'. 47%l0 48c andNo.I , �r Sett, 4, r c bushel ex store.Flour . spring wheat patents. $5.11) lo 85.:'O e.econ.Ls, $;.511 to $1.60; winter wheat patents, $1.515; straight roller.., $S.10 In $S.25; do, In bags, $1.90 to $2; extras, $1.60. eed-1laniloba bran, in bags, $21; shorts, 822 to $23 per ton ; Ontario bran, in hags, $19.50 to $20; shorts, $22 to $:2.50; milled mouillie, $24 to $28 per ton, and straight grain, 830 to $.12. Provisions -Barrels short cut mess, $22 to $22.50; half -barrels, $11.25 to $11.75; clear fat backs, $23.50 to 824.50; long cut heavy nie5s, $20.50 to $21.50; half - barrels do, $10.75 to $1L50; dry salt long clear bacon, 10% to 11%c; barrels pinto beef, 814 to $16; half -barrels do, $7.50 to 88.25; barrels heavy mess beef, 810; half -barrels do, $5.50; compound lard, 10% to 10%c • puro lard, 12% to 12%c; kettle rendered, 13 to 13%c; hams, 14 to 16c ; breakfast bacon, 14% to 15c: Windsor bacon, 15% to 1Gc; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $10; alive, $7 to $7.25. Eggs -16 to l6%c. Butler- Tr.wnships, 20% to 21c ; Quebec, 20)lc ; Ontario, 20c ; Western dairy, 17% to 18c. Cheese -Western, 11% to 11%c; Townships, 11%c; Quebec, 11%c. UNrrED STATES MAIIKETS. Milwaukee, July 2. -Wheat --No. 1 northern, $1.02 to $1.04 ; No. 2 northern, 99: to 31.01; September, 99%c. Rye - No. 1, 87 to 87%c. Barley -No. 2, 76c ; sample, G4 to 75c. Corn -No. 3 cash, 52 to 52%c; September, 53ysc asked. Duluth, July 2. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1,00%; No. 1 northern, 99%c ; No. 2 northern, 98c ; July, 99c ; September, $1; December, 97%c. Minneapolis, July 2. - When( -July, 98%c; September, 98%c; No. 1 hard, $1.02 ; No. 1 northern, $1.01; No. 2 northern, 99 to 99%c; No. 3 northern, 95 to 96c. Flour -Firm; first patents, $4.95 to $5.05; second patents, $5.80 to $4.90; first clears, $3.55 to $3.65; se- cond clears, $2.75 to $2.85. Bran -In bulk, $15.25 to $15.50. BMW FOUND NIOTIIER DEAD. Lying on Floor, With Lace Twisted Around Throat. A despatch from Toronto says: Ly- ing face downward on the floor, with a faded piece of taco knotted six limes and twisted tightly about her throat. Nlargaret, the young wife of Michael Hawes. a carpenter, living at 108 Rich- mond Street west, was found dead from st-anguluthon by her little four-year-old son Norman about 5 o'clock on Thurs- day night. His cries attracted Mrs. Louisa \tiller, who rooms in the sante house, and who informed rho authori- ties. Mrs. Hawes had Leen in ill -health foe some time, suffering particularly front rheumatism, which was oggrn- vnted by living in the two rooms which the little family had in the cellnr of the rooming hoose on Adelaide Street. She left two children. a boy aged four years and a girl of truce years. Bi4EtD IN SEALED BAGS. Direct From Baker 10 Consumer is Idea of Winnipeg Controller. A despatch from Winnipeg says: En- cased in a sealed oiled paper ling and direct. from the holier to consumer, without hnndlei by delivery boys or storekec W. Ila bread mpeg. before move in the tilt Rrilish A (1 slated Lord post Kgypl lion e THE TROUBLES War Department N Revolution A despntch from 51. Petersburg says: The police on Tuesday night searched 1 department of the War Ministry anal found It to be the headquni t. rs of ono of the revnhtfionnry groups. \loch 11 - legal literature was seized. The buds!. Ing was cordoned by police during the search, but only one arrest was nnnde. A'FI'ACK ON GUARD 1101'SE. A despatch from Krasney.arsk. Si- beria, says: The allnck on the guard 1. ,(154' and detention prison here, which began June 21. wns resumed on Tues• day nghl by revolutionists, who occur cd o('ipen. the It a fusi,u- driver wear krlkd. The prison of Kras- noyarsk is '.ne of the hulling places for rolitieol piisoners on their way to more distant ptnces of Siberian exile. SIXTY' OFFICERS ARRESTED, A despatch to a London news agenPy from Odessa says it is nulhnrilnliyely reported that sixty nfTicer+ of the south- ern fritillary district. severnl of therm ce:nn('cbe, with the Odessa garrison, 1 ave be. n arrested. MUTILATED THE CORPSE STORY OF AN ATR(Wl01:S (:ItLMY COMES FROM CIIIN.t. Bride Murdered and Body Cut Up by Mothr-iu-Law and 11albers of Husband's Faintly. News of one of the most alrocioue crimes ever le.ard of was brought l0 Vancouver, 13. C., by passengers on the steamer Monteagle. %•hie% nrr•ived :n port the other morning. It appears that a family living near the listen ye - men, In Siayang, China, recently re. ceived into the ltou:.ehold a wife for one of the sons. Tho wife was a girl of sixteen years of age. Shortly after her coming the faller -in-law took sick and deed. The ignorant and superstitious mother at once put the blame on the litho daughter -In-law, claiming that some ►uistuke had been made by the geomancer in reckoning with the eight characters, and that she, there - fere, net being the one psyehologically 01 or Intended for the home, had t•rought I ad luck and evil influences, which Lind caused the death of the old r.tan. She therefore pronounced the death penalty, and proceeded to execiit• 14. She poured }oiling oil over the poor girl, drove five big nails into her brain and TWO THROUGH i1Elt NECK. The mother-in-law was assisted to the cruel deed by a couple of other fe- males in the family. They cut the flesh cif portions of the body, but after all was done they lacked the courage to- w -rap the corpse, and put it In boa which the water carrier had brought. They made him do it, thereby letting him see how terribly the poor body had Leen mutilated. He called three others, and together they carried the corpse cut at the south gate. The old woman had given the Hien some cash. but, having completed their job, they returned for more. She re- fused their demands, and threatened ro send therm to the yamen to be whipped, her son, the husband of the murdered girl, being employed in the hsien ya- men. This enraged tho men, who start- ; a row, in which they made tree use of their knowledge of the crimp. The crowd which gathered heard it, and 14 spread like wildfire. The story reached the ears of every official and citizen, and the listen was compelled to MAKE AN INVESTIGATION. Ile tried to quiet matters by making the water carrier retract the story he had given out. For this reason he had the gallows cage brought into evert, and, pointing at It, told the ratan That l e would be lung there if on exhuma- tion of the body his story proved to be false. Moreover, the o(tlein! wrote out and sealed the death warrant. The water carrier did not deviate a hair's-breadth from the story. ile said: "hang mo it you like, but 1 will not tnlA back one word." So the hsien had to mako a Trip to the south. gate. The body was exhum- e.) and the terrible story confirmed in every detail. Public feeling irunning very high, and at the time this Mont- eagle sailed demands %%ere being made for an exemplary execution. MARK TWAIN AT OXFORD. Receives Degree, Along WPM Many Dia• Ungoished Men. A despatch from Oxford, Englund, says : With thirty amen distinguished in politics, religion, art, seienco or letters, including Premier Campbell-liannerntnn, Lord Chancellor loreburn, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Lowther, General Booth of the Salvation Army, Rudyard Kipling and the Archbishop of Armagh, Mark 'Twain (Samuel 1.. Cle- mens) received a university degree here on 'Thursday. United Slates Ambassador Reid received the degree of doctor of civil laws, as did General Booth. 4 JUVENIi.E COURTS IN ONT:t111O. Juvenile Courts in the Province et Ontario, Canada, preceded those cn the \\'estern States, and were established iso a"-1 other cilice in 1894. The nve been conducted in a quiet servative tnnrmer and have not anything like the publicity the movement in Chicago and but they have, nevertheless, ing effective work and saving hi'dren from a conlinunnce in The children's courts are con- y the regular judges and mag - the populnllon i•f the various l being sulllcienlly Inrge as yet t n special judge. In 'Toronto ne thousand children aro an- ealt with in the court. and ;ff les as London. Hamilton and the reinnber varies from ons and Idly to three hundred. TS TWO MIi.LION LOAN. etch fern Montreal says: The Montreal has succeeded In et• temporary loan of two million in England. It wns at flrsl in- to raise a loan of five nmillions metal period of forty years, but o tine unfnvornble conditions .:f hey market the idea was nban• n.l n temporary Ivan for a smal- ourut wee substituted. 'f he loan we've months and the city pays cent. interest, which is consid- favorable rate. her Fred --What! 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