Exeter Times, 1902-12-18, Page 6molished a Venezuelan
Fort in Very Short
Order,
A Puerto Cabello, Veriezuela, dee-
eatch eteye: The British cruiser
Charybdis and the German cruiser
'Vinete, bombarded the fortress here
at 6 o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
The fire wits returned, but after a
bombardment of 45 minutes the
Venezuelan guns were silenced. Tbe
fortrese ie composed of Forts So-
la.no and tee Castle Lihertador. Af-
ter the firing ceased the Charybdis
'mint marines to occupy the castle.
Tlea fortress was almost demolished.
It is probable that may a few per-
sons were injured ley the shelling.
The commander of Castle Libertador
has been tateen prisoner. The ends, -
'ere are still here.
At 7 o'clock Sunday morning the
Charybdis and the Vineta, arrived
here searching for Venezuelan gun-
boats. The two cruieers sent their
boats into the inner port, but iind-
.
mg no gunboats, the boats i-eturn-
ed. The captain of the British mer-
chant steamer Topaze, which Wes
seized by the mob acre Inet Wecinese
day, then visited the com-
modore on board the Charybdis, and
lodged a. protest against the viola-
tion of his ship. The British cap-
tain returned an hour later with a
detachment of nety marines, who
took charge of the Topaze. The
populace were greatly excited at this.
incident, and raised the cry,. "To
arms!» but there was no disorder.
OUTRAGE TO BRITISH FLAG.
The British commodore then sent
a snessage to the authorities at
Puerto Cabello demanding immediate
setticefection for the actiosi of the
reel) in having hauled down the Bri-
tish flag from the Topaze, saying if
this satisfaction was not forthcoming
In two hours, at 5 o'clock, the fort-
ress and the Customs house would be
l'ombarded. On the receipt of this,
eemand the authorities sent a saes-,
sage to President Castro asking for
instructions.
A committee of merchants of Puer-
to Cabello then approached the
American Consul here, petitioning
tem to intervene. - The Consul ac-
cepted this mission, and visited the
cruisers, but he could obtain no al-
leration in the decision of 'the allies.
At a (-porter before 5 a reply was
received from. President Castro, who
authorized the chief official here . to
give the British commodore ample •
11.We-faction. Before this answer
could be communicated to the AMeri-
Can Consul the hour stipule -ed for
its receipt had arrived. The cruis-
ers innnediately opened fire on the
fortress. The fire was returned from
Fort Solana and Castle Libertatior.
White the fire continued there was
lete.nse excitenient in this port. Ev-
ery house in town was closed.
The people of Puerto Cabello can-
not account for this precipitate ac-
tion on the part of the allies, which
they consider to be proof that Great
Britain and Germany intend forcing
war upon Venezuela.
The British marines purpose to
matte use of the cannon in Castle
Libertador.
No damage was done to the town.
AN EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE
S IN ACTION
GEReIANY IS VERY MUCH DIS-
TURBED OVER IT.
Morbid Literature Drives Lovesick
Couples to Seek Death -
Students, Too.
The miniature romatic chain of
lakes in the suburbs of Berlin sur-
rounded with the thick primeval 1 or-
Bstry of Grunewald is the scene of
many pathetic and harrowing trage-
dies. Suicide is no crime in Ger-
snany, but, on the contrary, is still ,
regarded in certain philosophical and ;
sentimentally inclined circles as a
highly commendable proceeding with
which to follow the example of the
Melancholy Dane. Therefore, young
lovesick couples; young students fail-
ing to pass their examination after
years of study, and young xnen and,
women who have become saturated
with the modern literature of the
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Kant
schools, or who go to witness night
after night the suicidal "problem
Jays" at the leading theatres of
Berlin, steal aWay to the romantic!
seclusion of Grunewald, of Muggel
Bea, with its sylvan like surround-
ings, Havel lake, where ghosts are
still supposed to flutter over the wa-
ter, and to Schlachten sea, there to
ecek an untimely end,
Berlin is once more afflicted with
an epidemic of suicide. Medical and
pathological congresses. with Which
the eminent late Prof. Virchow was
ass:wetted have held academical
diS-
tnissions as to the causes of this re-
markable increase in suicides among
the young people. Not long ago the
body of a young, rising architect
was recovered from one of the sur-
rounding lakes, :old the newspapers
Meetly chronicled his death as dee
to "geistes storung," an elastic and
eenerally applied description when
lire doctors ceenot disceVer any othe
el'• motive. Several days after the
elticide of the young architect the
body of another young man was
found in a &orripartment Of a railway
train bound for Berlin. ,Lettere dis-
covered on his person revealed that
the two suicides had been chutes,- and -
heti decided in common to seek i'e-
id in death because, as one line of
the letter lediceted, ethe world,
with its Vellishnees, trivialities,
• end ite atmosphere crushing out the
noblest initincte of the soul, cern-'
pel us to eeek the world yonder,"
lefeltel D LtYrtizATtynn.
Another reeent ertfie which revectled
the- eeisoneeis influ.ence of the
ern .'stoicisin of German iibilosorihe"
4nd literature wee; recently coneltul-
al in a 'crintilial ceitut. .A vpmw
student, attending the Berlin Royale
University, and a meMber of the
class of philosophy and jurispra-
Once, bad murdered his sweetheare.,
in a most atrocioes returner. Ile bad
literally slashed the body to pieces.
Upon the remains he had strewn
roses and evergreens, which he had
brought from the woods after corn-
' netting his crime. When nightfall
came ho locked hie room and wan-
dered forth. into the forests, roemed
about all aight, in the darkness, and
'next morning, haggard and wild-
eyed, he walked into the police sta-
tion and boldly informed the ser-
geant sitting at his desk of what
lie had done. Officers were despatch-
ed to the scene of the murder and
there found the 'remains of the young
girl who had jilted him and was
about to have given her hand to
another.
leefore court the stud -eat, named
Fisher, assumed a nonchalant but
free air. He unfolded his life. Be
said that he had suffered eevere• mole
tification erota early youth, because
of his ugly features, and had never
known the affection of a meether of
the fair sex. When a student at the
royal university he had become fond-
ly attached to his young victim. But
she would not listen to his pleas.
turned back to my books and
read Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and
Hegel, and therein I saw that if life
doe e not hold forth any promise; if
you are convinced that you have no
mission to Mall, and are more of a
burden than a helpmeet to your fel-
lowinae, suicide is righteous and no
crime. So the purpose gradually
grew stronger to commit suicide and
to take the life of Minna. first. I had
intended to carry out this purpose
when I went into the woods, but did
not have the courage. I ani not
mentally disturbed, but conscious of
my guilt and crirae. It is right,
therefore, that I should be execut-
ed."
DAUGHTER'S MURDERER.
One of the most eminent specialists
on mental maladies examined Fisher,
but could find no signs of degener-
acy, but on the contrary evidences
of a strong faculty of justice. Fisher
was committed back to jail to await
a final determination. The mother
of the girl he murdered was one of
his regular visitors, and even. sent
him flowers, saying that her ' grief
for the loss of her daughter did not
overweigh her sympathy for the mis-
fortune and sorrows of young Fisher.
One of the favorite haunts of young
suicides is the small, quiet, Jake near
Castle Gnu ldslight
promontory overlooking the dark
sheet of water is Castle Grunewald,
an old castle constructed in the six-
teenth century, but remodeled ...since
then and used by officers of the Ber-
lin garrison as 0, hunting lodge dur-
ing the hunting season in fall. Other-
wise the •old ruin is deserted and
neighbor e claim still to see at the
windows the white figure of a beau-
tiful women who disappeared sud-
denly. It was claimed that the
beautiful Lady Marjorie was mur-
dered and her remains buried in the
subterranean regions of the _ old
castle, but never was there any ac-
tual proof of this, and the court con-
tinued its festivities and gayeties in
the salons overhead. The old castle
was a favorite rendezvous for hands
of robbers who held sway in Grune-
weld and the highways in the sub-
urbs of Berlin. I3ut these nests have
been broken up by the vigilance of
police. Nevertheless the romantic
old ruin bas often served after that
for duels, and behind the protecting
walls inclosing the schloss duelists
fought with pistols or swords safe
from interrupticn. The supersti-
tion of the neighbors is still such
that no one dares to wander too
close to the schloss at nighttime, so
that those contemplating suicide are
'safe from intrusion.
PERIODICAL EPIDEMICS.
A few days ago. the correspondent
of a. Paris journal was wandering
leisurely along the banks of the lit-
tle lake near the schloss when"he saw
bair floating epee the surface. En-
tering a rowboet nearby he made a
closer inspection and discovered the
body of a beautiful young girl
standing upright in the water and
having evidently walked out until
the waters closed over her head. She
was fashionably dressed, but with no
papers to show her identity. Several
days later the remains were identi-
fied at the morgue by the parents,
who said that she had sultered dis-
appointment in love.
Recently a young couple were dis-
covered lying dead in each other's
arms in Grunewald. Letters discov-
ered showed that they had premedi-
tated this end together because the
parents of the young man vvould not
consent to their marriage. The av-
erage young German is loyal to his
exactas and their command is often
his law, Such a family tragedy oc-
curred not long ego in efoabit, where
the parents were stronly religious
and had pieced great hopes upon
their son, who Was to study for •the
ministry, •Instead, the young "can-
diclat theolog" determined to as -
Mine another profession, and one
day introduced his sweetheart as 'his
intended wife„ There was a pcene,
and next morreng tile remains of the
young inan'Ivere taken from SchIctch-
ten sea, near this city. When his
fiancee woe queried an to the motive
of the young man's death she laugbe
ed and said:
"HO Was a yeting fool, He bought
The` clothes and jewels and we had a
eleaeant time, But he had such
stupid parent% fem. sorry lm eb...
it ,, •
leoptitar indignation ie now and
then aroused to a high pite1a by the
rernarkabee eurnbee of Faith i.rege-
(tee_ and ministerial synods adopt
resolutioes clamoring for restrictive
laws. For in 13erlia the pious and
religious etenient has beet) intellect
back by the modern skeptical peel-
osophice taught the yaung end by
the socictlistie doctrine with Whith
Berlin je pertheafecl.
WAGES TOO SMALee
One other primattsor il eiticideis
the exce,esively small wages prod to
young men wito have de:vetted ranee
years to studyieg their erofessioas.
leite such an income they are un-
eble to enjoy the coxaforts bi wed-
ded life. Amoeg these there are
government and city temployes, Who
may work cliligeutly until they are
gdr0acIMelato 4w5leichYeatrrieyolad,re bp°Iir-°orire.iotte
elid
by the civil service rules aeords
theta a, sufficient income to become
xnerried. Consequently; the "vers
eat txties" system has become a
recognized institution, reenctioeed by
eutsiteosne and not followed with Pen-
aiThe reeent mortuary statistics of
the city of Berlin reveal as usual a
large number of student suicides.
leer° it is- that one encounters ono
of the gravest ills of modern Ger-
xnany, Ireagite a young man of
high strung nature studying from his
18th to his 30th year and passing
through all the successive grades, the
primary school, the gymnasium, tee
preparatory university, the royal
university, and then filing. his Pa-
pers with the officials appointed to
test his qualifications before the title
of doctor of medicine, of law, or of
philosophy, etc., is bestowed, and
then being rejected because of the
exceedingly severe requirements. Ful-
ly half their lives have been devoted
to study without obtaining a penny
of income and spending their youth
in study, while the proportion of
successful candidate is small as coin -
parcel with these who are rejected
and must try over again orseek
some other occupation, Some are
unable to endure the disgrace of a
failure at examination and commit
suicide.
The average young German is a
serious minded young philosopher
who has not much use for mysticism
and religion, of the orthodox kind.
There is perhaps no other ,nation in
which the ybung, unmarried maid-
ens are so prone to be swayed by
sentiment as in Germany. All this
is prolific soil for the gloomy mod -
era philosophies.
CANADA'S GRAIN WANTED.
Drotith in Australia Will Benefit
Canada.
A despatch frena Ottawa says :-
TheNovember "report of Commis-
sioner .1. S. nuke in Australia
reached the Government on Satur-
day. It says that shower' have
Melee in the coastal districts, but
that in Queensland and in the in-
terior of New South Wales and Vic-
toria drought still continues. Wheat
oats, corn and barley will all have
to be imported for some months.
Complaints are made of slowness in
filling orders sent -to Canada for
Sour. Canadian oats have found a
ready sale, but proper standtuds are
required to regulate the sale. Aus-
tralia to -day offers a good market
for barley and peas'. Mr. Larke
thinks that efforts should be made
to ship Manitoba wheat fromVan-
couver instea:d of its being shipped
!from New York in American bot-
toms.
WILL DOUBLE POWER.
,„.
Canadian Company at Falls to
Extend Wheel Pit.
A despatch from Niagara, Falls,
Ont., says' :-Contractors Dawson
and Riley, who bave charge of the
construction of the Canadian Ni-
agara Power Company's wheel. pit,
are 'about to sign. a. coatract with
the company to extend the wheel
pit to over double its present ca-
pacity. The wheel pit is now con-
structed to accommodate five .tur-
bine wheels, each of 10,000 horse-
power. The wheel -pit, with it& ex-
tension, will accommodate six ad-
ditional turbines', each of 10,000
horse -power, bringing the total horse
power up to 110,000. The total
length of the wheel pit will be 540
feet.
POISON IN PLAGUE SERUM.
Painful Occurrence Reported From
the Penjaube
A despatch frota Allehabad, ,India,'
says :-A MOSt pitinful Occurrence in
connection with the great anti -plague
inoculation scheme in the Punjaub
is reported. As is well known, the
Indian Government is practice*
inoculating the whole population
with leonine's serum. 33y some mis-
adventure as yet unexplained the
inhabitants of a, village near Clujerat
were inoculated with a poisonous
serum instead of the remedy, and
over twenty' of thern died.. The na-
tive papers are urging the Govern-
ment to make an investigation. No.
official statement has as yet' leen
forthcoming.
CANAD/AN TENT ADOPTED.
Imperial Authorities Will Use It
for Field Hospitals.
A despatch from Ottawa says :-
The Imperial Government has adopt-
ed the Canadian hospital tent
which is the joint. invention* of
Surgron-Oeneral Neilson and Mr.
Joseph Berry, of Ottawa,. Two were
erected in the drill hall for Lord
DundOnald's inspection The general
expressed himself as greatly pleased
With them. Lord Kitchener eaw the
tent in South Africa, and Was high-
ly delighted with it, Three- special
tents are to be shipped to Woolwich
next week for inspeetion. by Lord
Roberte and the authorities of the
Wee Office.
mirsH AND BLOOD SALES.
Wornen and Children Opealy Sold
. in Corea.,
desepieteli -Irma Vicelike says
The Peiseian journals state that in
consecpience • of the. -repeated failure
of the Mier -Vests, the sale' of women
and girls has etiormously increased
in Corea. .3ii theft- homes and on the
Market -piece "theee poor victims are
openly bertered to the cry of "Buy
girls pretty' girlie cheap girls 1" A
child fetches ten ehillingse a girt of
re about £6, and rich merehents are
said to do a large blueness in leer-
ing the children of the poor, feeclieg
theta up end ?Jollier them. afterWards
at a big pi o.it,
LEADING MARKETS.
The Puling Prices in Live Stock
and lipeatistoffs,
Toronto, Dec, 16,--Wheat--Mareet
is erne No, e witite and red wln-
ter quoted at 68 to 68-ec middle
feeights. No. 2 spring- nominal at,
65e Us 66c outside,. and No. 2 goose
at 65e east, Manitoba Wheat firmer;
No. 1 hard, 87 to 87ec grieding in
transit ; No. 1 Northern, 85-ee
grindieg in transit ; No. 3 hard
quoted at 81. to 814c Goderich, Mee -
ford, and Owen Sound; and No. 1
Northern at 79e at those points.
Oats -The market is steady, with
sales of, No. 2 white at $0*e high
freights.
Peas -No. 2 white quoted at e 78c
middle freights.
13arley-Tee market is quiet, with
No. 3 extra quoted at 4e to 45e
middle freight, and No. 3 at 42c
middle freight.
13uelewheat-Trade is quiet, and
prices nominal at about 52c out -
side,
Corn -Market dull, with buyers of
new Canadian at 46e west. No. 8
new American, yellow nominal at 54e
on track, Toronto.
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents
are dull at $2.70 middle freights, in
buyers' saelcs, fOr export. Straight
rollers of special brands for domestic
trade, quoted at $3.26 to $3.35 in
tibia, Manitoba flour staedy. • Hun-
garian ,patents, $4.10 to $4.20, de-
livered on track, Toronto, bags in -
eluded; and Manitoba strong bakers',
$3.80 to $3.90. •
• Afillfeed-Bran, $15 in bulk here,
and :shorts at $17. At outside
points bran is quoted at $14. Mani-
toba bran, in sacks', $17, and shorts,
$19 here.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -There is a fair trade 'and
prices. are firm. We quote :-Finest
1-111 rolls, 18 to 19c; choice large
rolls, 17 to 18c; selected dairy tubs,'
161,1- to 17c; secondary grades, rolls
and tubs, 14 to 15c; creamery prints,
23 to 28 -Sc; solids, 21 to 2.2e. I
Eggs -The market continues steady.
We quote : Strictly new laid, 24 to
25c; fresh store gathered, 20 to 21c;,
cold storage, 19 to 20c; limed, 17
to 18e; seconds, 13 to 15c.
Cbeese--Market continues dull. We
quote : Finest, 12e to 13c; seconds,
12 to 12ec.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs are steady, with cer-
loads quoted at $7.35 to $7.50.
Cured meats in small supply, with
prices firm. We quote : Bacon, long
clear, 11 to 11.ec, in ton. and case
lots. Pork -Mess, $21; do, short
cut, $23.
Smoked hcome, 131 to 11c; rolls,
12 to 12ec; shoulders, 11 to llic ;
backs, 15 to 151c; breakfast bacon,'
15 tq 15e,c.
Lard -Demand is fair, and prices
unchanged. We quote . Tierces, 11d ;
tubs, 11-10- pails, nee; compound,
81 to 101e.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Beans -The market is dull; medium
brine $1.75 per bush, and hand-'
picke'rd, $2.
Dried apples -Market quiet, with.
prices nominal at 4c per lb. • Eva-,
porated jobbing at 61 to 7c per lb.
Honey -The market is steady, with
strained jobbing at S to Sec per,
Ib., and comb at $1.50 to $1.75. I
Hay, baled -The market is firm,'
with offerings limited. Car lots
worth $9.25 to $10 on track, the
latter for No. 1, which is scarce.- 1
Straw -The market is quiet, with
car lots on track quoted at $5.25 to
$5•50 a ton for first-class oat straw. !
Onions -Market is steady at 40 to
45e per bush for Canadian. •I
Poultry --Offerings of boxed lots
large, and prices steady. Chickens,
old, 40 to 45c per, Pair, and young, ,
60 to 70c; live, 45 to 50e. Ducks,
dressed, 60 to 75e per pair. Geese,
6 to • 7c per Ib.: and turkeys,' 9 to
10e per lb. for young.
Potatoes -The market is firm, car
lotssbeing cleated at 87 to 00c per
bag on teack. Small lots sell at $1
to 81.10.
CATTLE MARKETS.
Toronto, Dee. 16. -Choice fancy
heifers for the Christmas trade
were selling at $5.40 to $5.50 tor.
prices and for very choice. ' Good
loads of butchers' and export • mixed
i sold at $4.50 to $5.25: Loads . of
I mixed steers, 950 to 1,050 tbs.,' sold
at $1. Light butcher cattle, 900 to
950 lbs., $3.75 to $8.90. Export'
cattle, mixed steers and cows, 1,100 -
to, 1,800 Mee sold &ji loads at $4.50
to 85.25. Rough: gattle, canners, '
and common butchers,' at 81.75 to
..$2.25. Feeders scarce, bulls, • pi5o
to 3,400 lbs, at • $2.50 to $3.26 ;
steers, 1,000 to 1,050 lbs, $3.75 to
$4.
Lambs ' were firmer at $3•75 to
$4.25; sheep, $3 te $3,12,e, but no-
thing doing in -export. • ., -
'Togs michanged. at $6 for best, and
$5.75 for lights and fats.
T1i9 day's receiPts Were 82 cars,
with 3,200 'ciettle; 880 seeep tied
lambs, 826 hogs, and 15 calves,
;Feeders, .. Steers, 1,050 ••
. , . ... . $112e
do hulls, 1,800 The,- 2.75 3.30.
Export" heavy.. 4.001 5.25
Eeport cattle. light-- e.75
export, healer,
........ 3.75 4.00
do light,- , „ "3.00 3.25
Feeders, light, 800 113s.
and upwards- . 3,00 3,25
Stockers, 400 to 800 .
2.00 2.75
do 900 lbs ,„ 325
Beectiers' cattle, choice 4.00 5.50
do medium-- ... 3.50 4.00
do picked... „.„ 4,85 1,50
do bulls... , -. 3.25 3.50
Light stock belle, et,. e.25 3.00
cowe.., 30,00 50.00
Hogs, beete., .„ 6,00
do light-, . , 5,75
Sheep, export, ewt„. 3,12*
Bucks, ,„ 2.50 2,75
2,25 2,60
Lambs- ..,„ .
Cave, each- ..., 2.00 3.0,00
Coleman rough eows and
8.00
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Dec, 10.--enhe markets
continue quiet, with values about
steedy, Grain -No. 1 hard Mani
toba, 69e FQxt William, No, 1
Northeen, (171c, Deeembee shipment;
Ontario red and white 'heat, 70e
afloat; peas, '712ec high freights ;
127ec, 48!os9t:srte; ;N800.e.se
y
extra barley, 490; lerckwheat, 55c
east. • Flour - Manitoba patents,
$4,20; Strong bakers', 88.90 ;
Oxi-
ta.rio straight rollers, $3,60 to
$3,65; in bags, $1,70 te $1.75; pat-
ents, $3.70 to $4.10. Rolled oats --
enema, price e to jobbers, $2 in bags
and ee.3.5 per bbl. Feecl-letanitoba
bran, e17.50 to $18; shorts, $20,
bags inceirded; Ontario brim in bulk,
816.50 to $17.50; shorts in bulk,
$19. Beane ---Quotations are nom-
inal at $2 in cars on track. Pro-
visione-Hea,vy Canadian short cut
pork, $25; -light short cut, $24 ;
compound refined lard. 81- to 91c;
pure Canadian lard, 11c; finest lard
12 to 12*c; hams, 12 to 181-e ;
bacon, 12 to • 15c; dressed hogs,
$7.50; fresh killed abattoir, $9.25
to $9.50 per 100 lbs. Eggs -Select-
ed, 24 to 25c;. candled stock, 19/
to 20ec; straight receipts-, 18* to
19e; No. 2, 16*c. Honey -Best
clover in sections, 11 to 12c per
section; in 10 -Ib tins, 9* to, 10c ;
in bulk, 8c. Poultry -Turkeys and
ducks, 12-ec per Me young chickens,
10*c; fowls, -8ee per lb,; geese, Sec
per lb. Cheese --Ontario, 12*c and
Townships, 12c. 13utter - Fancy
Townships creamery, 22 to 22e c ;
fine screamery; 21ec; Ontario crearne
ere", 20ec; dairy butter, 161 to 17c
for selections.
UNITED -STATES MARKETS.
Duluth, Dec. 1,6. -Wheat --Cath, No.
1 hard, 78ee; No. 1 Northern, 73.1c;
No. 2 Northern, 70ec; December,
72ec; May, 75ec. Macaroni -No, 1,
67ec; No. 2, 43ec. Cats -December,
811e; May, 831c.
Milwaukee, Dec. 16. -Wheat ---High-
er; No. 1 Northern, 77 to 77ec ;
No. 2 Northern, 75 to 764-e; May,
76ec. Rye -Firm, No. 1, 51e to
52e. 13arley-Steady; No 2, 64c ;
sample, 35 to 54ec. Corn -May 441c
Minneapolis, Dec. 16. -Wheat --
?3e; May, 7ee to 74-ec; on track,
No, 1 hard, 75e; No. 1 Northern
'74ec; No. 2 Northern, 78ec.
St. Louis, Dec. 16. -Closed -Wheat
Dee., 701c; May, 76c.
WHEAT SHIPMENTS.
Receipts at Fort William Show
Big Increase.
A despatch from Montreal says :-
All of the big harvest of the North-
West that can conic down by water
this season has now left Fort Wil-
liam, the upper lake terminus of the
C.P.R. The navigation season on
the lakes has now closed, and the
company can ship no more grain by
water until the spring. Whatever
wheat comes east will come by the
long railway journey from Winnipeg
to the port of St. John. The details
of the whole of the season's traffic
were received by the management on
Wednesday. They show that from
the first of September to the close
of navigation the receipts at Fort
William were 15490,424 bushels, as
against 12,008,235 last year. The
foregoing- hgures represent what went
into the elevators. Out of this mule-
tity 14,768,91.2 bushels went out at
the elevators into the steamers as
against 12,085,781 last year. The
quantity marketed in C.P.R.: estab-
lishments in the Northwest, that is
wheat brought to their station build-
ings and small district elevators,
upon which the faemers are able to
realize, aggregate 22,945,863 bushels
as against 18,4,91,003 last year.
These figures tire the biggest that
have been reached. The quantity
marketed was 24 per cent. more than
last year, the quantity received nt
Fort William 28 per cent., rind the
quantity shipped from Fort William
22 per cent. more than last year.
FOOVAND MOUTH DISEASE.
United States Veterinary Speaks
on Cattle Infection.
A despatch from Ithaca, N.Y.,
says :-Dr. Hames Law, of Cornell
Veterinary College, who for the past
few weeks has been working in con-
junction with the Federal authorities
for the suppression of foot and
mouth disease among the cattle of
New England, arrived in Ithaca from
New England an Thursday. He stat-
ed that the disease was well under
control, and that the authorities
had not yet arrived at coeclutions as
to the origin. It was practieally
certain, he said, that the eontagion
did not -originate at Alberta, Can-
ada, as was at first sepposece A
rigid examination- of the docks at
Montreal indicated that the disease
did not come feom Canada. Dr. Law
bas not formed any toeclusion as to
the origin of the disease. He stated
that the contagion could be stamped
out only by, earnest co-operation of
farmers in. infected districts.
*450' 4.25
..;BRITISH LAWYER's FALL.
, , .
Imprisoninen.t for Xisappropriata
ing.' tunes.
A eespatth from London. says :--
Robert Harding- Mil ward, formei'ly
solicitor of the Duke of Marlborough,
and at One time a leading lawyer ;of
the Midland Counties, Was on Thurs-
day sentenced to six years penal
sereitude for misappropriating $14,-
000 frora it lirm whjcli becanle banle•
rept in June,
DYNAMITE EXPLODED.
Six Persons Killed 6,nd Many Ina
, 'jured.,
A despatch from Berlin says :-
There wee tm explosion of between
five and see tons of -dynamite on
Thurstiee at Derma near Derthrund,
Westphalia, -while it was being un-
loaded. Six peesoee were killed neid
nany others steei-e infured, •
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Tlie 'Very Latest Items Frain All
Parts of
DOMINION.
The average attendaece at Strat-
ford Public schools is 1,194.
The O.P.R. will build a new 400,-
000 buthel elevator at Port Ar-
thur.
Winnipeg's fuel supply is short,
and few dealers have either wood
or coal.
Legislations are likely to be enact-
ed fixing the period of annual drill
of the Canadian militia at ten days,
Kingston citizens expect to have
sufficient, coal to land them the win-
ter, it is selling at $7,50 per ton.
Burglars blew open the town safe
dt Teem, N.S., and secured $7.90
belonging to the Bible Society.
The Empress of India, which Sae
just arrived at Victoria, had a
cargo of silk from the Orient valued
at $2,000,000.
It is reported that an English
syndicate seeka a, concession of 2,-
c000100n1
,00zat iO(acres)np
uiriie
i) new Ontario for
Two thousand British settlers, who
are expected to arrive in the spring,
will be located along the line of the
Can Northern Railway, west
of Saskatoon.
-Sir Thomas Shaughnessy says the
C.P.R. was unable to get all elle
locomotivee it required owing to the
very prosperoua conditioix of manu-
facturing. ,
The e Territorial Government has
apelied to the Dominion Government
to arrange for an extensive sale of
school lands in the Territories, and
the sales will be held in May and
June next.
Dr. T. D. Adams Logan, Professor
oe Geology at McGill University, has
been granted $25,000 by the Car-
negie Institute of 'Washington to
enable him to continue his important
experiments on the flow of rocks.
D. J. O'Grady of the Customs pre-
ventive staff, has been detailed to
watch the boundary between Quebec
and the country to the south, in or-
der to see that the embargo on live
stock, bides, etc., from, the New
England States is carried out,
Lieut. -Col. Steele, commanding the
South African Mounted Police, in
the Pretoria district, has written to
Dr. McEachran, dean of the McGill
faculty of comparative medicine,
asking hita to supply four veterinary
graduates for work in South Africa.
MEAT DIET FOR. SOLDIERS,
Military Succesees Largely Dile to
Pare of Moo.
A despatch from London Seers :-
Nathaniel P1, Yorke-1)al/4es, Lon,/
don's fainoeS consulting, physiciayi
in dietelies, whose establishment, ei
IIarley street is ahnost'es Wen
known as Guy's 1-loepitel, Mee for-
warded to Secretaries Root Ants
Long and Gees. Miles and Cerbiu
statemeet containing his corichisioes
as to the proper feeding, for fighting
men. Ire has placed similar docu-
ments in the ha.ricle of King Edward,
the authorities of the Admiralty and
of the War Oflice. Spealcing on Wed-
nesday Mr. Yorke -Davies seid
"Ware have been, lost and won by
Coramissary departments, Thee fate'
of peoples M civil conflict depends
on the character of the food they
eat, Soldiers and sailors in thee
country at present get too much
bread and too little meat. The
military successes of the ancletet
Greelcs were due to their fare. which
consisted of plain meats and ahnost
nothing else. Much of Fiegland'a
trouble in South Africa was the re -
suit of diet. The transports landed
the seoldiers on tee battlefield overlat
from their consumption of stareh.
Rich food makes leen effeminate and
cowardly ; animal food makes them
courageous and hardy. Amerieaee
army is the best in^ the .world, be-
cause its feeding is more neaely right
than that of any other nation. Ithe-
sia comes pent. Tenglane is alert',
Germany is fourth, and France a
bad flftJi. The soldier, especially tbe
growin soldier, thould levee ono
pound of meat each day in peace,
and an extra quarter of it pound
during war."
HAND OF VANDALS.
Historic Structure at Niagara Is
m Danger.
. A St. Catharines despatch sees ---
Historic old Port George, on• the
Canadian side at the mouth of the
Niagara River, around the ruins of
which cruster so many memories, has
fallen a prey to the vandal end the
utilitarian, and the fortress around
the walls of which the Ere of war
burned fiercely in 1312-13 and 11, Ss
on a fair way towards demolition,
and total extinction as an hietoeical
landmark. It appears that the spirit
of improvement has taken possession
of the Council of the Town of lel-
agara-on-the-ilake, and has impelled •
them to lay gravel sidewalks to, re-
place the plank walks at present in
else.. The gravel for the new walks
is being taken from the old fort, to
the great danger of that part of the
structure that still remains. Irthe
excavation of grairel be continued
much longer the walls will inevitably
collapse. Some time ago an un-
sightly building used as a barn was
erected close to the old fort, not-
withstanding the protests of those
who would preeerve -undefiled the as-
sociations of the spot. Great iadeg
nation is felt that the Niagara towel
authorities should not only permit
the desecration of the historic lort,
but should deliberately become pat-
ticipators in such desecration.
FOREIGN.
Severe storms have caused great
den -nage throughout the Crimea.
Large United ..States orders for
coal and iron continue to be placed
in England. -
Notes are being exchanged between
the European Governments as to the
steps to be taken against anarchists.
• :Four more schooners have been
lost off Newfoundland, one with her
entire crew of ten persons.
The bakers and butchers have
struck work at Marseilles in sym-
pathy with the striking dock labor-
ers.
St. James' Hall, London, and cer-
tain adjoining properties are in
danger of being demolished to make
room for a large hotel.
A filial youth of the town of
Michela& in Hungary, has been ar-
rested charged with keeping his
father in a pig sty for two years.
In two years more Spain will have
a new and modern navy and navy
yards and arsenals equal to other
nations, says Senor Toca, the Span-
ish Minister of Marine.
Queen Victoria's first pair of shoes
were made at Sidmouth, Devon,
eighty-two years ago, and china slip-
pers of the same size and shape are
being sold there now.
Six hours after leaving Yarmouth
the fithing boat Taatallioe returned
with, 105,000 herrings, ,caught after
her' /Mtshad been only forty min-
utes in the water.
The Countess of Warwick has en-
tered into an arrangement with the
Salvation Army colony at Had-
leigh, Essex, for the supply of .
huge number of laborers to carry
out extensive gardening work.
A lady has applied to the Divorce
Court at Sydney,..N.S.W., for her
divorce suit tie be heard at the
judge's "earliest., convenience." as
she had received a fresh offer of
marriage.
- Sir John French, at the banquet
given him by the Edinburgh corpora-
tipn, said the Scottish regiments
bad shown in the late war greater
gallantry, if that were possible, than
during any:, previous campaign.
The Russian Goveimment has issued
orders that no Mohammedan shall
marry under 14 years of age, there-
by angering the Tartar and `fur-
coman chiefs of Turkestan, who are
accustomed to marrying girls be-
tween the ages of 10, and 12.
'rhe Dublin sleing's Bench has de-
cided that as bees are "dangerous
and mischievous el -eaten -es, accustom-
ed to sting mankind" they, must not
he kept in "unreasonable numbers."
Most people who ha,-ve come in con-
tact withthe wrong end of orie of
thoee- insects will welconie this
judgment.
_
' SUICIDES' IN .A.RIVIY.
Prevalence Has Led Authorities to
Investigate. '
-des.rpatc,11 from -Vienna sayS :-A
startlingincrease ,in suicide in the'
iltmgaiian, army fins erotheea the
authorities to an investigation, iix
recrUltS- belonging • to a single regi-
ment hare committed suicide in two
ontlisi •
STARVED INDIAN. TO DEATH,
Five Iderabere of the Teibe Indict-
ed for Murder, '
A despatch from Victoria, 11-0.,
says I -Toenail Indianswho
elat-ved ',amen of their tribe to
death for .Witcheraft, have been in-
eieted .for inurder at Juneau.
PILES OF CORPSES. .
Undecomposed Bodies of Illetose
-Slain in 1796.
A despatch from Rome says :-Ac-
counts reach Rome -sof a very grim
diecovery that has been, made under
the castle at Aquila. It was noticed
by one of the Eolcliers who aro gar-
risoned in the castle that a largo
part of the cellars in the foundation
are bricked up. Obtaining leave to
explore, he broke open the wall, andi a_
taking • it lighted • torch, climbed
-
through. What was his borror to
'find himself standieg among piles
of corpses. The ghastliest part about
the dreadful charnel -house was that
by some strange property of the air
the bodies were only withered instead
of decomposed. Thus the skin and;,
the hair of tee beards and mouse'.
tactics were all perfectly preserved,
and even the _expressions on the
faces. 11 is believed that the bodies
must be those of :the killed at
Aquila,' when the French invaded
Italy in 1796 under Napoleon. •
Five of the best preserved bodies
were removed for examination, ' the
others have been left in 'peace.
BLEW FouR 'TOWERS.
Success of One of Colunans Operate
ing Against Waziris. •
A. despatch from l'esha.evur says :-
Col. Redford, , commanding one of
the columns in the Kabel Klee ex-
pedition, has surprised illeoza. He
blew up four towers, and took .tea
prisoners. There were no Britieh
casualtiee. This will render further
operations unnecessary. The column
is returning to Kohat. The chief
commissioner has left for Tochi to
consider . the question of eettlement
and to eleeiele open future action,
NEW AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.
It Will Be nuilt on the Land
Grant Principle.
• A despatelt from Adelaide, Sop
Australia, seys South
tralian 0 oVernment will shortly ad-
vertiee for bide in AMerica, Theeland,
Germany, and France for the con-
structioh of a teanseontleental •rail-
way from Adelaide to Port Darwin
on the land grant Prineene.
INCITED TLC! MTJ1D31111.
Irish ese-M.P. Sentenced to Eight
irt o Atha ' ImprisOnineat,
A despatch from Dublia says :-
Dennis Kilbride, former member 'of
Parliament, was found guilty on
Wednesdays at the' Leinster Aesizee of
initing in speech the murder of
leajeteeleeeral Meares:, of Cot Itity`
• -
Westrileath, and stnitenCed to •eight
Months' iniprisonthent, •
, :In the marketing dietricts of 'Lens
don small orangea are being Sold at '
a penny per deems.,