Exeter Times, 1902-10-9, Page 4SII0C ING DOUBLE TRAGEDY
The Crime of Noah Hale
Near Sault Ste, Marley
Ontario.
• A $ault Ste, Marie, Out:, des-
patch sayej Noah Bale, one of the
best-known farmers he this district,
residing on the Reeple's Road, six
Miles horthwest of here, on Filday
Mereleg sleet and killed his eon,
lerank Male, attempted to inerder
his Own wife, and afteritards, it is
believed, comeeitted suicide.
Father and enii lived almost
opposite each other. -
Early Friday Morning the mother
and soe were seated at breakfast in
the sones bolls% When the old man
entered with a shotgun., and with-
out warning shot Frank. The gun
wae deluged with buckshot, whith
took effect in the victims • side.
Frank ran out of the house, but
fell in. the yard. The murderer
then turned oa his wife and beat her
With the butt of the gun. In -lathing
her down. He then ranout into the
yard, Where he KM his seri lying
dead. This seemed to make him
even more frenzied, and he ran back
into the house, saying that he
would kill his wife also.
In the meantime the woman had
recovered. her feet. He struck her
with the gun again, and she started
to: run. With , great difficulty the
injured woman reached the house of
her daughter, Mrs,. Pauther, who
lives half a mile distant, where she
still is. She suffered
A BROKEN ARW
and several bad woueds in the head
and body, but may recover. Alter
leasieg his wife Nale ran to the
w oods, and a little later a shot was
heard from that direction. It is
supposed that he committed suicide.
Coroner Dr. McLurg and Magis-
trate Norris, who went to the scene '
have returned to the Soo with the
body of the murdered man. Noah
Hale is a raarket gardener, and is
w ell known in the Canadian Soo.
Ile is 65 years of age. Frank Hale,
the victim, was unmarried, and was
well liked by all who knew him. He
was a hard-working. industrious
young man, and had acquired a
farm and a home by hie own ef-
forts.
Those who know the family say
that Mrs. Hale and the children nev-
er knew a moment's peace, as al-
most every day threats were made
against their lives. The old man
has always been somewhat peculiar,
and five years ago was arrested for
threatening the life of his wife.
Three weeks ago he was again ar-
rester), and on the same charge, and
was bound over to keep the peace.
Since his arrest the old man has
maide many threats against his
'Whole family, and those who have
heard him talk are not surprised at
what has 'happened. On account of
the trouble Frank took his mother
to his home two weeks ago. and
she has remained there since that.
STORY OF THE SHOOTING.
Following is the statement under
oath of Mary Martha Hale. mother
of the victim and wife of the mur-
derer. The statement was made to
Coroner Dr, McLurge
"Frank and I were at breakfast on
Friday morning when my husband
opened the door and fired at my
son. Ile then struck me on the
head: and aeross the face with the
butt of the gun. I heard my son
cry, 'Oh, dear.j Mushand then fol-
lowed me out of doors, and struck'
me again with the gun, knocking I
me down. He then went away, but f
returned in a few minutes, just as I
1 was getting up and saidj 'I hill- 1
ed Frank. and now I will finish yell.' I
I succeeded in getting to my daugh-
ter's house. My 'husband is subject
to bad spell's. I was at my son's
house, where he had asked me to
come and stay. I never gave my
husband any cause whatever to
have anything against me."
PLOT TO KILL MOTHER.
W. M. Brown Arrested at Coiling -
wood by Detective.
A Toronto despatch says: W.
Brown, a fireman employed at the
water works station at Colling-
wood, Ont., was placed under .ar-
rest on Wednesday evening by Pro-
vincial Detective Greer on a charge
of attempting to encompass the
death of his aged mother in •order
to secure the $1,500 insurance which
was on her life in the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Company.
Drown, who was at his post at the
water works when arrested, was
most emphatic in his protestations
of innocence. Ile declared positive-
ly that the policy on his mother's
life had lapsed in June, 1901, and
that he would have no object in
seeking her murder, as stated by his
:mouser, John Rose, an insurance
agent residing at 411 Yonge street,
this city.
DETAILS OF THE PLOT.
It was the story told to drown
Attorney Curry by Mr, John Rose
that led to Brown's arrest. Rose
was the agent who .made out the
Policy on Mrs. Brown's life. His
story is to the .thect that about one
month ago Browcaine to him and
coolly proposed the murder ,of the
old lady. The filet plan suggested
wee to take her over the Nottiewit-
saga River and drowa her, repre-
senting her death as accidental.
Rose, who Claims that he was sim-
ply leading Brown on, demurred at
this plan, so the son brought for -
Ward another scheme, that of poi-
soning her. Detroit Was hit upon
as the place for the deed. Rose
wae to receive $500 for his share in
the murder. Bresen gave Rose $20,
$10 at one time and 310 subsequent-
ly, to, defray expenses, and one day
Rose stexted out 'with the old lady
on what,. it is stated, the Soil be-
lieverl Would be her lest journey Ori
Darth. Rosa came to Toronto with
Mrs. Brown. during Exhibition week,
and secured lodgment for her with
Joseph Levi, 89 Edward street,- a
former reeident of C,ollingwood, who
knew the ola lady, During her stay
in Toronto Mrs, Brown did not say
anything regarding the alleged plot.
Rose declares that while in dolling.
wood he acquainted several friends
With Brown's proposal. It was Mr.
W, J, Peck who induced Rose to
make the statement to Crown At-
torney Curry, which the agent, af-
ter consulting a lawyer, subeequent-
ly refused to sign.
Vase left the employ of the Union
Mutual Life Insurance Company some
time ago to become traveling agent
for the Cootinentel Life insurance
Company. On hearing of his con-
nection with the Brown affair Man-
.
aeee s, o le on men a, , sus-
pended Rose, The agent admitted
on Wednesday that he had bean in-
discreet in acceptiug the money from
Brown, but stated that he had acted
in what he thought was the best in-
terests of the old lady and the
company concerned.
•
THE STRIKE CONTINUES.
The Confereuce at Washington.
Was a Failure.
A Washington deepaten says
The great coal conference between
the. President end repreeentativesof
the operators ant miners came to
an end at the temporary White
House at 1.55 o'cleck an. Friday
afternoon, with a failure to reach an
agreement-. Apparently the reek
upon which the conference split was
recognition of the miners' union.
The President urged the contending
parties to cease strife in the in-
terests of the public welfare. The
millers, through the President of
their union, expressed a willingness
to siabmit the differences to the
arbitration of a tribunal to Le nam-
ed by the President, and to enter
into an agreement to abide by the
tomes fixed .by the axbiteators for a
period of from one to five years.
The employers, through the Preei-
dents of the coal companies and a
leading independent mine operator,
squarely refused arbitration, de -
flounced the miners' labor organiza-
tion as a lawless and anarchistic
body, with which they could and
would have no dealing, and demand-
ed Federal troopsto insure com-
plete protection to workers and
their families in the mining region,
and court proceedings againet the
miners' union. They offered, if the
men returned to worn, to submit
the grievances at individual col-
lieries to the decision of the Ju,dges
of the Court of Common Pleas for
the District gf Permsyleania, in
which the colliery was located. Ther
the matter closed. Both the miners
and the operators returned to their
several localities, each saying that
FRENCH MINERS' STRIKE.
Trying to Keep Workers Out of
the Collieries. •
A ra:IS deipatch nays :-The
strike of the French coal miners is
spreading. Crowds of strikers etand
around the mouths of the different
pits and try to induce the men who
are willing to work not to desicend.
A. number of pickets tried to pre-
vent miners at Lens from going to
work, but gendarmes interfered, and
the mimes proceeded to their labor.1
It is reported that at a secret ni.eet-
ing of the Federated Miners it was.
unanimouely agreed that the order
for a general strike be dieeetcd es-
pecially against the mine owners.
Prime Minioter Combes has ins
formed the miners- National Com-
mittee that the Government will do
its utmost to pass legislation. pro-
viding for a working day of eight
hours and for indermity and pen-
sions for persons meeting with ac-
cidents due to their employment.
M. Combos refuses to deal with the
question 01 mininnun wage, saying
that such a matter can only be
settled by free contract between the
employers and the employed. It is
considered that the strike is bound
to fell, as the men. tack funds.. The
millers not belonging to the Fetlete-
tion have .iseued a manifest refusing
to be instruments of revolutionary
THE SEALING SEASON.
WILL ENFORCE ORDER,
.Gevernoe Steele May Call Otre the
- A Harrisburg, despatch says:
Governor Slope intends to suppress
rioting in the coal regtous.' .is
deteemined to- maintain order even
if he • should • be compelled
to call to tams • not only
the °etre National Guard of
the State, but its enrolled mil -
nine' of 0110 million men.. in feet,
it is 90, id by a peemieent inemher Of
the Guardthat a call for the entire
oteneieation is probable. Cloven:en
Stone is known to be greatly Worried
and much grievea bythe failure .01 No. 2 spring quoted et 65c oast,
President Roosevelt to. effect e NeW Manitoba wheat is weaker, with
settlement through the medium of Sales pf No1. herd at S(1 JO 80e,c,
the Washington confeeenth. Ne had grinding in transit, aed at 74 to
71ec Goderich and Port Herein. No.
dime all in his pokier as Governor
toward the establieliniett o arnica- 1 Northern, 78 to 7$1c, grinding in
ble, relations by advising with itiflu- transit, and 72 to 72,1e Goderich
ential ineu repreeentipg both vides, and Pert Huron.
and was forced to admit that his 0o -tee -The market is quiet, with
prices steady. Sales of N. 2 281c
Middle freights.
.Corn -The market is quiet, with
Cane:Wen yellow geoted at 60 to
Ole west. No, 8 yellow Ameeidan
(motet' at 6Sc on teeth here.- .
Ree-sThe market is quiet. No, 2
quoted et 47c west, and at e9c thee.
Barley -Market is quiet, and prices
steady. • Feed quoted at 85 to 88c,
middle &eights, and No. 8 extre at
89 to 10e..:
Duckwbeat-Prices ace enthangee
at 48c cash and west.• :
Flour -Ninety per cent . patents
quoted at $2,62 to 32.65 middle
freights, in buyers' sacks for •Port. Straight ;Straight rollers, of special
brands,- for domestic trade, $8.25 to
38.30 it barrels. Hungarian pat-
ents, 38.85 to 34,25, delivered on
THE MARKETS
Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Tracie Centres.
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• MAR10ET5 Ole (XTIE WORLD,
Toronto, Oct. 7.-Wheat-Tracle is
quiet, with prices steady. Ontario
No. 2 white and red winter eell at
05 to Gee middle freights, aud
Sprouted white wheat at 00 to 62e.
No. 2 goose nomiaal at 62c, and
good purposes were fruitful of . no
advanee teiWer4 a resumption of
work in the mines. Ne at one. time
entertaited the idea of eteding the
Pennsylvania. Legislature into extra
seseion in the hope of • arbitration
measures being thected to deter -
Imine the great strike struggle, but
his abortive conference with , John
Mitchell and representatives speak-
ing for the miners conerincod him
that the contention Was too fermi:de
able to be settled by legislation or
by anything he could do. The un-
satisfactory outcome at Washington
bus semply confirmed him. iii this
opinion, and nothing further will be
done by him except. complying with
deleands for more troops if the three
j thousend in service should be inade-
quate to the preservation of peace
en the regions covered by the strike, track, Toronto, begs bleb:idea, and
He expresses hie purpose to Supprese
_L strong bakers, 33,60 to 38.95.
all ri o 1 ous demonstrations. While 1 °ate -teal -Car lots, in bbls., $4.85
not lots 20 to 25c extra
appreliendine a repetition Of the en track, and in sacks, 34.75. Brok-
,
scenes in Pitteb%rg• a (matter of , a. --
en
century ego-, ne feels assured that Millfeed-Bran is quoted at 312 to
no revolt coeld result in much de- 312,50 west, and enorts at 317
et:ruction of life or property, in view west. Bran quiet here at 314, and
sheets at 319. Manitoba bran, 317
of a well disciplined, well equipped,
and large army-, supplied With ee-L ia seeks, and shorts at 323 in sacks,
ery appliance to make it epeeddToronto.
y .
..e_
effectie-e. rifliere has already been
expended in calling into active per -
vice the militia, about 3150,000.
All the money that could be dis-
bursed in any contingency could be
obtaired from the State Treasury
without resort to special legislation.
BRITISH ARTILLERY TEST.
New Manner of Painting Guns and
Limbers.
A London despatch says: A nov-
el artillery experiment .has just
taken place at Aldershot. By an.
bigenious method of painting the
guns and Iimbersethe three primary
colors, red, blue, and yellow, they
hate been found to harmonize with
any sort of ground or background eo.
admirably that at a short -distance
they are difficult to locate. Six
guns so painted were placed on Fax
Hills, and -the artillery 'officers et
Aidersnot were invited to teir. :and
locate them with field glasses at a
dietance of about 3,000 yards. Al-
though all the Officers knew the di-
rection in which the guns lay, not
one was able to point all of - them
out. Scene horse artillery that was
sent forward to engage the guns .ad-
vanced within 1,000 yards before
they located theM.-
„reen
ARMENIANS TORTURED,
Exactions and Barbarities Beyond
Description.
A. despatch from Constantinople
says: Despite the Sultan's assur-
ances to the contrary, the Armeni-
ans are having a bad time at Hat-
chadour. Two directors of a school
itt Nazaret have been hung on a
charge of favoring agitation against
the Sultan In consequence of the
oppression many have embraced
Catholicism in order to obtain pro-
tection. At Baghtchedjki, where the
Araerican mission has been establish-
ed, twenty families have done this.
The locai priests at Sighert have
written the patridi•ch that the exac-
tions and tortures of the .Armenians
are beyond description, and many
Anneniens have been forced to take
up Iseamism. One form of torietire
is the cramming the mouth of the
-teethe with straw, and then light-
ing it. One hundred and tee note-.
Ines have protested to the palace
againet, the ill -usage and torture of
the Armenians.
politicians. There are about 12,000
men on strike, Troops have been
sent to some of the affected des-
tricte.
BURNED TO A CRISP.
Lantern Set Fire .to a Young
Girl's Clothing.
A Woodbridge, Ont., despatch says:
One of the saddest accidents which
have °warred here for many years
happened at the home of Mr. Alex-
ander Card, Eighth avenue, on Wed-
nesday evening, ,about 6.80. • Miss
Amy -Card, his youngest dtaighter,
had lit the lantern, and was going
outside when she tripped on some-
thing and the lantern exploded, set-
ting fire to her clothing. She ran
outside and her sister Aggie follow-
ed her to try to put out the flames,
and in doing so she also caught
fire. The flames had sethred such
it start on Amy's clothing that
was impossible to extinguish them,
and she was literally btunied to a
criep. Aggie was seriously burned
abont the:Jags, and she will recover,
but there are no hopes for Amy.
TO TRY GERALD SIFTON.
Special Court, to Be Meld in No
venebee,
A London deepatch says: A .ape-
itial will try Gerald Sifton
for the minder of his father on No-
vember 3rd. Mr, Justice Britton
Will preside
Canadian Fleet Found Conditions
Unfavorable.
An Ottawa despatch says: The
present season hae been a disesteems.
one for the Canadian sealing in-
dustry oil the Pacific coast. Its ealch
has been very small. The veesels
are not yet all returned to port,
but those who have tome:in &iv
that the conditions Were uidavora-
bl% and the industry a total fail-
ure 'wherever tried. ()no of the
schooners could gather only 79 seties
altogether in a hent that lasted
from januarse
. • .
LOST' WITH -ALL ON BOARD
Three Hundred Chinese Go Down
With a, Steamer.
A Vittoria; 13- O., deepatch says:.
Advices by mail from eibine .tell 02
the loss 'of the stetenee Sane Leong,
off the China theet. The Wesel,
which was' belied from Rangoon, -to
Amoy, and ehlbarked three hundred:
Chine:ea at Singapore, is believed to
have heen lost in the typeoon„ wlth
41] oim hOttrd , . • '
AMOY SWEPT 13Y. FIR1-6.
,---- •
Large Part of Foreign Settlement
Wiped Ott,
London, Oct. 5.--A deepateh to the
London Star from Itong gong says
the native city of .Amoy is bernieg
and the fire IS spreading rapidly. The
foreign hong& (mereantife esti-0)118h-
ments or Itietoetee for foreign trade)
Imee, been deetroyecl.
HOG PRODUCTS.
-Dressed hogs are unchanged, with
receipts moderate. Cured meats are
in active demand, with prices firm.
We quote -Bacon, long .clear, 11c, in
ton and case lots. Pork, mess,
321.50; do., short cut, 328.50.
Smoked Hams, 13-1c; rolls, 12 to
12ec; shoulders, nee; backs, 15 to
16c; breakfast bacon, 14 to 15c.
Lard -The market is unchanged.
We quote -Tierces, 101c; tubs, 11c;
pails, 11e to llec; compound, 81
to 10c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Oct. 7. -The local mar-
kets are fairly active, with values
steady. Grain -No. 1 hard Manito-
ba, 70c, Fort -William.; No: 1 North-
ern, 68c, October shipment; Ontario
red and white wheat, 73e afloat; new
crop peas, 77e afloat, and do., oats,
No. 2 eele afloat to arrive, and 33c
afloat spot; 38 to 33ec en store for
local account; rye, 5135c afloat; :No
3 bar1e3n 47c afloat; buckwheat, 54c
afloat; barley, No. 3, 46c afloat.
Flour -Manitoba patents, 34; strong
bakers', 33.70 to 33.80; Ontario
straight rollers, 33.45 to •33.60 111
bags, 31,65 to $1.721; patents, 33.-
70 to 31. Rolled oats, millers
prices to jcibbers. 32.15 to $2.25 in
bags, and 31.50 to 84.60 per bar-
rel. Seed -Manitoba bran, 315 to
316; shorts, 322, bags included; On-
tario bran, in bulk, 315; shorts, in
bulk, 320. Provisions -Heavy Can-
adian short cut pork, 325; compound
refined lard, 9 to 9,/sc; pure Cana-
dian. lard, 11c; finest lard, 12 to
121c; hams, 12e to 14c; bacon, 11
to 15c; dressed hogs, 37.50; fresh
killed abattoir, 39.85 to 39.50 per
100 lbs. Cheese -Ontario, 101 •to
10ec; townships, 10§ to 10ec; Que-
bec, 10e to 10e -c. Butter -Fancy
township's, creamery, 201 to 20e;
fine creamery, . 1.9e to 20e; Oatario
creamery; 18e to 19c; dairy butter,
15 to 151c. Eig,g,s-Selected, 1S1 to
19e; candled stock, 16e to 17a:
straight receipts, 16c; No. 2, 13/
to 14e. Honey --Best clover, in sec-
tions, 11 to 12c per section; in 10 -
lb. tins, 9e to 1.0c; in bulk, Sc.
COUNTRY PRO,DUCE.
Beans -Tho market is nrm, with
prime qualities quoted here at 31.10,
and hand-picked at 31,50,
Dried Apples-Offertngs moderate.
Evaporated jobbing at 61 to 7e per
lb.
Hops -Trade quiet, with prices un-
changed at 13c; yearlings, 7c. ,
Honey -The market is steady, with
strained jobbing here at 8 to Be per
lb., and comb at 31.50 to 31.65.
May, bated -The market is firm,
with offerings moderate. No. 1
timothy is quoted at. 39-75 to 310 a
ton on track here.'
. Strew -The naarket .is quiet, with
car lots on track quoted at 35.50.
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Onions-IVIarket steady at 31.90 to
39 Per barrel. ,
Poultry -The market is. quiet.
ter dull; No, e red, 74ee, (leen -
Dull; No. 2 yellow, 05c; No, 8 de ,
640; No. 2 corn, 6134e; No. 8 do.,
63/c. Oats -Strong; No. 2 white,
8.5c; No, 3 do., 31 to 841e; No. 2.
mixed, 8310; No. 8 cioe 31o, Bar-
ley -Western, 52 to 62c, Rexe--,No,
1, 54o. •Canal freights -Firm -
St. Louis; Oct. 7. -Wheat -Closed
-Cash, 67c; , December, 67e; Mayr
69ec.
LIVE STOCK mAnkrrs.
Toronto, Oct. 7. -At the Western
cettle yards to -day the receipts were
95 cat -loads • of live stock, including
1,615 cattle, 1,783, sheep and lambs,
1,100 hogs, 10 calves, and 15 mild.
cows. The export trade is only fair.
Prices in the Oid Country axe
down, and the demand is easy. For
good to choice shippers the prices
run from 44 to 51c per pound, and
for shippers from 11., to 44o
per pound. '..Phere were too many
butcher cattle on the market, for
business requirements. For What
little good cattle there was offered
prices were steady, and unchanged,
but for anything; but the best values
Were lower; and the sales slow.
Good to choice cattle sold at from
4 to 4,ec per pound, and for picked
lots a trifle more was occasionally
paid.
Mitch cows are worth from 325 to
315 each. A few good cows are
wanted. Export bulls are unchang-
ed in prices, but the once -111y is
slow. The enquiry for stockers- is
light just now. Prices range from
8 to Sec per pound. Too many have
been coming in lately. Feeders
range from 81' to eic pee pound.
Not much doing.. Good to choice
bulls are worth from 3e to to per
pound,
In small stuff to -day lambs were a
little firmer, but sheep were off. The
quotations foe ewes are from 33.25
to 33.40 per cwt. Lambs are worth
from. 38.25 to 38.75 per cwt. Culled
Sheep are selling at from 32 to 33
each. Bucks fetch 'from 32.50 to
$2.75 per cwt.
Calves are worth- from 32 to $10
each. Good veal calves are want-
ed.
Following is the range of
or live stock at the Toronto
yards to -day:
Cattle.
Shippers, per cwt.... -34.75
Do., light 4.25
Butcher, choice ... 1.00
Butcher, • ordieary to
good ... 8,00
Stockers, per cwt 3.00
Sheep and Lambs.
Choice „ewes, per cwt 8.25
Lambs, per cwt 3.25
Ducks, per cwt 2.50
.Culled sheep, each .... 2.60
Milkers and Calves.
Cows, each -25.00 45-00
Calves, each ... 2.00:10.00
Hogs.
Choice hogs, per cwt6.25
Light hogs, per cwt6.00
Heavy hogs, per cwt 6.00
Sows, per cwt 4.00
Stags, per cwt 2.00
'prices
cattle
35.25
1.60
4.75
1.00
3.50
3.40
8.40
2.75
3.00
6.50
6.25
6.25
4.50
2.50
GOLD FOR CUNARD LINE.
The Company 'Will Remain a Bri-
tish Concern.
A London thspateh says: The
Cunard Steamship Company remains
a British concern, and the newspa-
pers are chuckling over a defeat of
Mr. Morgan and the Atlantic ship-
ping combine. An, annual subsidy
of £150,000 will be paid by the
Government, and the company 'win
build two large steamers for the Ate
lantie trade. The Government, will
lend the. money .2 or the construction
of these vessels, charging interest at
the rate of 2/ per cent., and the
company will repay the loan by an-
nual payments extending over 20
years: The agreement is to remain
in force for 20 years after the com-
pletion of the second steamer, and
an undertaking is to be given that
the company will not unduly raise
freight rates. It was generally be-
lieved. in Liverpool last night that
Sir Christopher 'Furness and • Sir
Alfred Jones will make an ,otiler to
the' Cunard Company, which may
end in their taking a heed in the
business of the company. It is he -
11 ee• •
ed t et , C
new untied boats
will be the fastest liners, afloat. They
will be capable of steainieg 25
knots an hour, end this will mean
that Great Bri-fain will wrest frone.
Gerixiany the Laurels for Speed and
supreinacy on the Atlantic.
WILL BUY MORE RIFLES.
substantial Sum Likely to Be
Voted at Next Session.
An Ottawa despatch says: Major-
General Dundonald has had an.... ex-
ceptionally busy time during the
past five or six weeks, and the ex-
perience he has gained will doubtlese
lead to important recomeeendations.
It is expected that Parliament next
session will be asked to vote a sub -
There sum foe the purchase of
There is a fair demand for rive pines.
There are only 40,000
chickens, which sell at 50 to 65c
pair, and dressed et 55 to 75c pi):1; stand of Lee- enfields in the windier,
pair, Ducks, 65 to 80c. Terkeys,jand with 1.111e el -looting boonung
a paetime all over Canada, more
young, 11.c per lb., and 01(5, 9c.
Potatoes -The market is steady. rifles will certainly be necessary.
Car lots quoted at 65 to 70e per
bag, on track hero. Small lots out
of store sell at 90c per bag.
UNITED' STATES MA MOM'S.
Milwaukee, Oct. '7. -Wheat -No. 1
Northern, 721 to 78ec; No. 2 North-
ern, .70 to 71ec; December, 69ec.
Ilye-Dull; No. 1, 50c. Barley -
Steady; NO. 2, 73e; sample, 40 to
58e. Corn -December, 47ec.
Dearth, Ott, V. -Wheat closed -
Cash, No. 1 bard, 69ec; No, 1
Northern, 68 e c, No. 2 Noi thei.
6511c; • 'December, 660; May, 680.
MacarOni-No. 1. 64et; No. 2, 62ec,
Oats-e-Detemeer, 284e.
Minneapolis, Oct. 7. -Wheat closed
-December, 664e; May, 6134c; on
teak, No. 1 hard, 60ee; No, 1
Northern, 68/01 N. 2 Northern,
661e.
Buleceo, Oct. 7. - iliotir - Firm,
Wheat -- Sprite; firm; No. 3. North -
INSPECT, ONTARIO FARMS.
Boer Delegates Will Visit Agricul-
tural College.
A Toronto .despatch sive :-The,
d egati on of B nee farmers, wh o hcivc
just arrived to investigate Canade's
agricultural reemirces end mothode,
will shortly visit Ontario under the
tutelage of officials of the, Dominion
Government. During their tour or
Ontario the visitor:I will be escorted
prolific)] y by ATI. . Creel an, wipe:in-
to/I dent 61 aricul tu ral societies of
Ontario. The GUelph Agricultural
College will be inspeeted, as well as
Vaeious hums in the neighborhood,
The I3ore delegation well aloe
Pay a flying visit to the Niagara
fruit distriete The date o1 their
arrival, here ,is not as yet at -
ern, epot, carloads, 75ec asked; win- nounce
NEWS
ITEMS.
Telegraphic 13riefs From All
Over the Globe.
CANADA.
Berliu has a population of 10,112,
1-nuni1ton, aceordeng to the .1iitest
asseeisment, has a population of 54,-
0:35.
Peterboro's population, by the lat-
est :essessment, is 11,067, .an increase
ef 470.
• The customs cruiser Gladiator
has- capturecl $2,000 worth of
smuggled liquor at Little Bras.
d'Or, N. S.
The Finance Committee of Ottawa
has determined to purehaee 5,000
tons of coal and 1,500 cords of
wood for the use of citteens.
Swift & Coe of Chicago, haw
taken over the Fowler's Pork Pack-
ing Company at Hamilton, and will
establish a large plant there.
A Cape Breton nshermen named
Fred. Campbell While out in a row
boat was chased by monster whale,
and had a narrow escape.
One of the chartered banks at
Brandon has over 4,000 notes foe
collection against farmers, for im-
plement dealers, aggregating over
3350,000.
After drilling for two months gas
has been struck at Waterford on the
farm of Thos. Thompson, at the
depth of 930 feet,
For heating the Parliament build-
ings and Government blocks at Ot-
tawa there are available 1,100 tons
of anthracite, and aelarge stock of
soft coal, while the tunnel con -
sump -teen is 6,000 tons of anthra-
cite, and about 400 tons of soft.
The anthracite will last until
Christmas, atter which soft coal
will be used if necessary.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Experiments are to he made by
tee British' Admiralty with a new
tya,hpee foilf,gt-wcaltaeses-t
ai,wiek,
sist-
ter ship to the Dinegal, has just
been launched at *Glasgow.
Sightseers last week paid eearly a
thousen.d dollars for admission to
the state apartments at Windsor
Castle.
Considerable difficulty is being ex-
perienced in England in obtaining
rum -1217A! .for the Royal Garrison Al-
it is stated in London that a
Cardiff firm has booked a single
American. order for 15,000 tons of
steam coal.
It is reported once more that LordRosebery will marry Lady Naylor -
Leyland, formerly Jennie Chamber-
lain of New Yoe*. • ,
Mrs. t3etey Moore, who has just
died at Bishop's' Teignton, Devon,
aged 102, is stated to have been the
oldest, member of the Wesleyan
Church.
• The naval barracks at Portsmouth
are now approaching completion.
The riew building will accommodate
4,000 sailers, who will sleep in
hammocks, as. aboard ship.
- Three huedred and forty-nine ca-
dets have joined this term at the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Colonel Kitson, the new governor,
made no speech at the parade.
The Lord Mayor's show will pass
through the famous Petticoat Lane,
London, this year, in the Portsoken
Ward, of which Sir Marcus Samuel,
the Lord Mayor elect, is alderman.
Official statistics of meat imports
into Britain, it is stated, show that
popular 'prejudice against foreign
meat is on the wane, and that 75
Per cent. of the meat eaten to -day
is foreign.
Latest Customs returns show an
increase of nearly 14 per cent. per
month in the consumption of to-
bacco in the British Isles. Nearly
seven million pounds of tobacco are
imported per month.
The bodies of about 80 murderers
have been buried at Newgate Pri-
son, London. In view of the demo-
lition of the building the sanitary
authorities are taking action with
a. view to the removal and re -inter-
ment of the remains.
UNITED-' STATES.
Secretary of War RoOt will retire
from pubeic life in the course of a
few months and return to the prac-
tice of law in New York.
Rev. Thoinas Neal of Middleton,
N. Y., dreamed that he had found
oil, and a company is boring at the
spot which he sew in his dream.'
The beef trust enquire- at St.
Louis ba.s developed the fact that
stale sausages are dipped it a chem-
,icat solution to ma,ke then). look
I freeshe '
the ir' time New 'York'
Iothds
Milktrust has advanced its prime,
and imp overi slimen t aenong thildren
I is resulting, Ilut' the pi101t will 11 ke-
fly go still higher.
Lieut. -Commander W. V. Bronaugh
of the United States Navy blew out
hie brains on the deck of the nettle -
seep in tee Navy Yard, New York.
Worry over his duties wan the cauee,
GENERAL.
Five hunclred ti nil thirty-two tone
of cigarettes were expoi•ted last
year from Egypt
' Since the • outbreak of 'cholera in
Egypt,. July 15, there were 86,658
eases,. and 30,938 &albs.
Ou account of the failure of the
Finnish arveet, feeding stliffs 1or
cattle ere itunentably scarce,.
The council of the Bank of Spain-
hae approved the project for :estab-
lishing brandies of the bank in
Paris and London.
The gross revenue for Newfoande
laud for the quarter eliding 'Senteili-
ber 80, was 3550,000, the largest
ie the col (my ' s history,
The Trades and Leber Column Ga-
iziestiti
leTio.ate
dosepoeouellocliolsnyt,rahawttes
Bri-
lile labiti
mareet is greatly overslocken
An Agrarian revolt has occurred
Vadadeny, Hungary, where the
peasants have ravaged property, do-
ing dein:age to the amount of 31,-
000,000. Proops restoted order, 11
of the peaeants being killed and 40
Woentlede
ROADS FOR NEW ONTARIQi
Nailer Niles of Colonization Roads
C empleted.
A Toronto despatth sive: (iood
Road e Conaapiesioner A. W. Camp,
bell reports that the Colonization
Roads Department has been unusual-
ly busy this. year building roads in
the Nipissing, Alg•onia, Thunder
Bay, and Rainy River Districts of
New Ontario. About 3175,000 has
been spent on road building Z1 then
regions during the past summer,
325,000 more than was expended on
similar work last year. Altogether
this season about 800 miles of new
roads have been conetructecl, while
450 miles of repairs have been exe-
cuted. Last year 3,50 miles of
roadways were built, with 724 ninth
of repairs. These roadways, built
by tbe Government, are not the or-
dinary concession and side lines so
familiar to the farmers of old On-
tario, but simply leading roads,
analogous to the county roads of
the more settled districts, One
roadway of more than 60 miles in
length was built this season. As
most of these ,roads are laid through
virgin forest, the labor of construc-
tion is very geeat; the track has to
be chopped through the forest, then
the stumps grubbed or, blasted out,
after which the roadway is prepar-
ed, graded with a 20 -foot -wide drive-
way, and ditches on either side.
Commissioner Campbell reports that
these new roads are being increasing-
ly needed year by year owing to
the rapid development of :these New
Ontario settlements.
IS HOLDING ITS OWN.
COnsuraption Caused Death of 172
People- Last August.
A Toronto despatch says :-The
usual monthly report for August on ei
the vital statistics of the province'
has bee11 prepared by Provincial -
Health Officer Dr. Bryce. Seven
hundredeand eighteen municipalities,
representing- ninety-one per cept. of
Ontario's 2,182,942 people, reported
1,912 deaths, as conipared with 1,-
928 for the same month last year,
with reports covering about the
same population. The deaths from
contagious diseases were
tine, 10, as compered with a
year ago; diphtheria, 18, 16 :last
year ; whooping cough, 21, 12 in
1001 ; tuberculosis claimed 172 vic-
tims this August, and 171 &mil*
the same month of 1901. There
were no deaths from measles daring
August last past, and three in its
predecessor. Typhoid victims num-
bered 26 in this repine ; the corres-
ponding report for last year gave
80. As usual consumption, is re-
sponsible for not far ,from ten per
cent, of the total inorthiity.
GETTING YUKON TRADE.
Canada Overcoming American.
Competition.
1
An Ottawa despatch says :-Can-
ada is getting hold of the Tieleon
trade: During tree in•st two or three
years of its existence as a mining
ca,mp the trade of the,Klondike was
controlled by the United States
business men. Strong efforts were
made to in,duce Canadians to go
after it, and the latest returns show
that they have done se and succenecl-
ed in capturing very nearly two
thirds of it. The Customs Depart-
ment has received an unrevised
statement of goodsentering the Yu-
kon and Northern British Columbia
by the White Pas e Railway and
Yukon routes for the year ending
Jet= 30 last. The Canadian, goods
entering the country amounted teen
38,100,191, and the foreign goods'
31,192,861, an excess of Canadian
goods over foreign of $1,916,870.
-
Factory extensions- are contem-
plated in Brantford. which will aggre-
gate 3800,000, and be completed be-
fore Christmas. -
Beginning on October lst last the
instils from Dawson and other places
north of White Horse, Yukon Terri-
tory, are restricted to letters, post-
cards and it limited quantity of
newsimers.
The War Office has a scheme for
the employment of a large number
of ex -soldiers.
The British .labor market is moralised by the large number of
discharged soldiers from. South Af-
rica looking for -work.
Their Majesties will attend a cor-
Onation Thanksgiving service, at St.
Paul's Cathedral on Sumney morn-
ing, October 26.
The rope of a car ascending the
shaft of a coal mine at Pontypool,
Wales, broke and the eight meu in it
fell 300 yards to the bottom. All
were killed,
Believing he had beer; ruined by
the soaring price of. coal, Henry
Scheel, it wealthy wholesale coal
merchant of New York, shot him -
1f deed. •
Judge Brooks sentenced Mein:rick
A. Ames, formerly superinteedent
01 Police of Minneapolie, Mina, -ed
'rex yeere and a half in the penitene
tiary for accepting a bribe,
According to a report eiest made
public Preei tithe '116-6'seYeett-
granted fewer paedons, and denied
more, pr op oe ti °nattily, than any
President for many years.
Grieving a'biout, the death of his
children, five of which died 61 con-
sumption , Dr. ,Tolin Byrne, Amer -
ice's greatest gynecologist, died of
a broken heart on Therseley itt
wi teerl a nd
Tn• a meeting of physiciane discus, -
sing the tephoi•d fever etiedemic, at
Chiengo, the 3,10,000,000 drainage
ere of the greatest from 1111
euginf,,ering point Of vieW in the
World, Was den:milted as a "Stt1P011-r
doue blender.",
In the bribery investigetien et St.
Louis, Mo., a former countiiman, al -
tee swearing that he had refesed
one bribe of 350,000, adMitted thet
$5,000' a 1month bad been paid to
bim tor each of half a dozen tenni- •
amen, He likewise involved in the
transaction prominent men whose
names had not hereto f ore been
deagged into the huge standee