Exeter Times, 1903-4-30, Page 6Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc
in Trade Ceatres.
MARKETS OF Tun WORLD.•
Toronto, April 2$. Tbe market
ie quiet end firm, No. 2 white and
red (voted aa 71 to 71ee low
freight. Nq. 2 sPring nominal at
70c on Midland, a,nel No. 2 goose
at 66e on Midland. Manitoba
weeat firm; No. 3. hard quoted at
thhee Goderide and No. 1 .Northere
at 80c Gotiericli, No. 1 hand,
grindieg in transit, 87-10 lake Porte,
and No. 1 Northern, 86e.
Oats -- Market is quiet anti /lima
No. 1 white quested at 813e east.
No. 2 widte quoted at 30c high
freight, and at 801e middle freight.
Barley - Trade is quiet, with No.
3 extra quoted et 48 to 44e middle
freight, and No, 8 at 40 to 41c
middle freight.
Rye - The market is quiet et 51c
middle freights.
Corn - lia,rezet is firtra. Canadian
feed corn quoted at 40 to 41e west,
and at 47e here. No. a American
yellow at 49ee on track, Toronto,
and No. 8 raixell at 49e.
Peas - No. 2 white is quoted at
64 to 65e west, and at 66e east.
nue Wheat - The Anarket is 'dull,
with prices nonainal at 41 to 42c
east for No, 2.
Flour -- Ninety per cent. patents
tiegebanged at $2.671, meddle freights
in buyers' sacks for export. Straight
rollers of special brands for domese
tic trade quoted. at $8.20 to $8,35
in bbls, Manitoba flour steady; No,
1 palents, $4.10 to. $4.20, and sec-
onds, a8.90 to $4.10; strong bakers,'
$3.80 to $4, bags included, Toronto.
Millfeed - Bran is firin at $18
here. At outside points bran is
quoted at $16.50 to $17, and shorts'
at $18, Manitoba bran, in sacks,
$19, and shorts at $20 to $21 herd.
TRE DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Butter - Receipts moderate, with
prices as a rule unceanged. Fresh,
large rolls, 18 to 19c; choice 1-1b.
rolls, 19 to 20e; selected dairy tube;
17 to lac; secondary grades, rolls
and tubs, 15 to 16e; creamery
prints, 23 to 241c; solids, 20 to 22c.
Eggs - The xnarket is firm, with
good demand. Sales to -day at 124e
per dozen.
Gheese - Market continued steady.
Old cheese, 14 to 1.4,c; new, Inc.
110G PRODUCTS.
Dreseed hogs are nominal. Cured
meats are unchanged, with a good
demand. We quote: Bacon, clear,
10 to 10e, in ton and case lots.
Poek - Mess, $21.50; 'doe ehort
cut, $22.50 to $23.
Smoked meats - Hams 13 to
13ee; rolls, Ili to 12c; shoulders,
14e; backs, 14 to 144c; breakfast
baeon, la to 144e.
Lard - The market is firm, with
good demand. We quole: Tierces
101c; tubs, 11c; pails, llec; come
pounl, 81 to 9-ele.
BUSINESS AT MOM MAL.
Montreal, April 28, Grain -.No.
1 Manitoba hard wheat, 77e; No. 1
Northeni,, 754c, April or May deliv-
ery; No. 2 oats in store here, at 37
t� 374c; rye, 51e east; beckwheat,
484 to 49e east, for May delivery;
peas, 64e high freights, 74 to 744c
afloat here; rye, 574 to Mc; buck-
wheat, 56 to 57e; No. 2 oats, 35c
afloat here; flaxseed, $1.20 on track
here. Flour -.Manitoba patents, $4
to $4.20; seconds, at $8.80 to $4;
Ontario straight rollers, $3.35 to
$3.50, in bags, $1.60 to $1.70, pat-
ents, $3.70 to $4. Rolled oats -
Millers' prices, $1.90 bags, and $1
per bbl. Feed - Manitoba bran,
$10 to $20, and shorts, $20 to $21,
bags included; Ontario bran, in bulk,
$17.50 to $18; shorts, in bulk, $20
to $21. Beans -In cars, on track,
$1.90. Provisions - Heavy Qua-
adian short cut pork, $24; short out
back, $23.50; ligbt short cut, 823;
compound relined lard, 84 to 9e;
pure Canadian laid, 10e to 11c; fin -
esteemed, 11 to llec; hams, 124 to
lace, bacon, 14 to 15c; fresh killed
abattoir hogs, $8.75 to $9. Eggsl-
New laid, 114 to 12c, Butter -
Strictly fresh, 20c. Cheese - On. -
'Ledo, 121e; Townships, 121c.
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UNITED STATES MARIS.ETS.
Milwavkee, April 28. - :Wheel --
Firm; No. 1 Northern, &Olen No. 2
Northern, 77 to 791c; May, 77/c
bid. 'Rye - Steally;. No, 1, 52c.
13arley-Steady; No. 2, 60c; sample,
40 to 55e. Corns -May, 444c.
Duluth, April 2S. -,Wheat - To ar-
rive, No. 1 hand, 781c; No. 1 North-
ern, 76ec; May, 764e; No. 2 North -
on, 7.5ee; May, 783c; July, 764c.
Oats - May, 384c.
Buiealo, April 28. -- Flour -
.Stcade. Wheat Spring easy; No.
1 Northern °tiered at 824e; winter,
active °molter, firm; No. 2 white,
81e; No. 2 red, 80e. Corn- Quiet;
No. 3 yellow, 511e; No. ,2 corn, 51c.
Oats - Quiet; No. 8 White, 39e. No.
2 mixed, 35c....13arley-Track, 52 to
56e. Rye -o. 1, .57 to 58c asked.
Minneapolis, April 28. - 'Wheat
761c; May, 744e; July, 74ee;
tin track, NO. 1 hard, 771e; No. 1
' Northern, 761c; No. 2 Northern,
75ec; No. 8 Northern, 78e to 77e.
Dlour - First patents, $4.05 to $4.-
15; second patents, 83.95 to $4.05;
first clears, $2.45 to $3.05; eceond
clears, $2.45. Bran-T.n bulk, $10
to $10.50.
LIVE STOOK m.AnacnT.
Toronto, Avail 'There were
not rrian,y °hole° exporters' offered at
the Western Cattle Market to -day,
but pricce were ineintained. There
• a. good Yearly idine, 3.,ao6
1,275 lbs. each, offered, Ana sold at
$4,35 to 34.50. Tliey were not as
fa as 'they have been. • In butchers'
buying was animated, and prices
were iheri at the advance previously
reported. There was not etcrugh of
theseoffered to supply the demand.
The market for sheep was steady to
W▪ ong, and spring lambs were firm.
The leoereil deeoription of celve$
were not Wanted, bet there was a,
Arm Ione peoealent n theme of geed
quality.
The prices of hop reneexicel Steady`
and truchener,ed.
The rim amounted to 68 cam eon.
tainiug 1,057 eattle„ 226 sheep.. 2se
000 hogs, and 39 ealve,%
no following is 'the range of gee-
tations:
'exporters' cattle- Per 100 lbs.
Metre to choice .„ ...$4..50 $5.10
Bulls ... 4.. ..4 4.. 8.75 4r,20
Buteliers'-
Picked lots ,—.. .., 4.85 4.70
Good loads 3.70 4.00
Medium 8.70 4.00
Bulls - 3,00 8.70
cows 4114 *04 4/ 4 R. 8.50 3.80
Heifers ..„ 3.50 0.00
Feeders, light ... 4.00 4.40
leeedere, short keeps 4.40 4.70
Stoceers 3.00 4,00
Sheep -
Expo. t ewes, light 4.50 5.00
bucks . 8.50 4.00
Grate -fed Iambs 5,50 6.00
Do., bugles. 5.00 5,50
Barnyard lamba ..„8,50 4.50
Calves, each 2.00 10.00
Sows ... 4.50 5,00
Stags• . 3,00 4,00
Selects, '16 E96
lbs..„ 6.40 0,00
Thick fgts 6.15 0.00
Lights ... 6.15 0.00
-BLOW FOR BRITISH.
.44-14-•
Ten Officers and 180 Men Killed
in a Battle With Somalis.. -
A London tie.sPatch says.: The War
office on Thueseay received. kern
13rigadier General Manning, in • toile.
ratted of tee British. forces in Soma-
liland, a despatch dated twenty
miles westward of Galant Somali-
land, April 18, in which a serious
British reverse is reported.
A flying coluxim under Col. Cobbe,
left Galacli, April 10th to recon-
noitre the road to Walwal but ow-
ing to difficulty in finding the road
and shortness of water be was about
to leave his protected camp when
firing was beard in the direction of
a party 'under Capt. Olivey which
was also reconnoitering.
SENT TO THE RESCUE.
Col. Plunkett with 160 men of the
second battalion of the King's Afri-
can Rifles, 48 nien of the sec,ontl
Silcbs and two maxim guts were at
once tlespatcbed te Ms relief. It
turned out that Olivey had not been
attacked, but Col. Plunkett on join.-
ing hint continued to press onward
to the open country seven miles
westward of Gumburru, where he
was attacked by a. very strong force
ot mounted troops and the enemy's
infantry, who attacked at close.
quarters. He kept back tee enemy
anti' he had no more ammunition,
when he formed a square and oiling
-
ed with bayonets in the direction of
I Col. Cobbe's protected caanp. He
moved some distance in this man-
ner, but a great many men, includ-
ing Col. Plunkett himself, were kill-
ed or worunded by the pursuing ene-
my.
ANNIIII.LA.TED THEM ALL.
"At la.st the enemy's infantry over-
whelmed the square and annihilated
thein a.11, with the exception of 87
fugitives above mentioned."
The despatch closes with a list oL
the "officers and men missing, and
no doubt killed in action," namely
Col. A. W. V. Plunkett, Captains
Johnston, Stewart, Olivey, Morris
and McKinnon, and Lieuts. Gaynor
and Bell, all of tee King's. African
Rifles; Capt, efizey of tee second
Sikhs, Capt. Sime of the Indian Me-
dical staff, two white privates, 48
men of the second Sikhs and 121
men of the African Rifles. The two
maxim guns also were lost.
General Manning added that be
was about to march to the relief of
Col. Cobbe.
CURE FOR CONSUMPTION,
Mixture of Eucaeyptus Oil, Sul-
phur and Charcoal.
A Berlin despatch says :-What is
claimed by its inventoe as an en-
tirely new remedial treatment for
eansumption is attracting 'tee atten-
tion of lung specialists gad the medi-
cal profession generally. It con-
sists of the inhalation of a vapor
produced by heating a mixture of
eucalyptus oil, sulphur, and char-
coal, and it is stated that it is
more effective than any serum or
other remedy hitherto tried. Robert
Schneider, a druggist, of Berlin,
conceived the idea while travelling
in parts of Australia where the en-
ealyptus tree grows luxuriantly.
Consumption is practically unknown
among the inhabitants of these dis-
tricts, and sutTerers from the disease
who go there speedily improve.
Herr Schneider, upon returning to
Berlin, communicated his idea to
Prof. Somnierfeid a. p'hysician of
repute who experimented In. ,severaf
hospitjaIs for six months. As a re-
sult, sixty out of 100 patient'etreate
ed by him were completely cured.
The inhalation of the vapor kills the
bacilli. In some cases the patients
were kept in an atmosphere impreg-
nated with the fumes •night and day
until they showed signs of relief.
Dr. Soramerfeld will read a paper
on the subject before the Berlin
Medical Society, asserting that the
new curative agent, which is called
sanosin, constitutes an enormous
edsvance in the treatment of tuber-
culosis.
SHIPBUILDING AT SYDNEY.
Xndications that the Plerett Is to
Be Built,
A Sydney, et S., &Spat& says;
The report thet a shipbuildieg plant
will be establirehed here is revived by
the purchaee of a. fifteen tholleand
dollar eite by the Canadian Bank
of Commerce,: upon width It sleety
thoueand 'dollar buffeting "will be er-
ected, It is stated that this outlay
is based upon in:formation, that the
plant is to be built,. '
THOUSANDS MOURN.
Rennet Pee4 to the Late Lieniag
Governor,
A Toronto deepateh says: 'Gado' e
clouded April sky, With a, sullen
northeast wind murmuring threats
of rain oe•snow, the Venable of Sir
Oliver nfewae, once Premier, the late
LiekftaGoverner of tho Province or
Ontario,, were laid away in Menet
Pleasant Conetery on Wednesday
afternoon of last week, with all the
cireeenstences of public grief.
The funeral was one which will
take ph. e, in the milers of Toron-:
tautens, with the celebra,tioe of the
burial of Queda Victoria. No more
obvious instance of the respect in
which the late Lieut, -Governor was
betel can be found than the unani-
mous obsereanee of the funeral
shown by all citizens. There evae
no hint of polities, or section, or 'de-
nomination; nor was there. a trace of
the distinction so often dividing
those of )110 office from others. Sir
Oliver Mowat remainell. in death as
in life, c1, man of the people, and the
whole people expressed grief at• his
removal.
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enereenee
THE LATE SIR OLIVER MOW.A.T.
Toronto has seldom eree so ha-
peeseive and extensive a, funeral. The
y bands, the mounted troops,
tho pale -beat evs, the mourners, in
all the panoply of Woe, the long line
of carriages, bearing private citizens,
and peiblic representatives; more
than ail perhaps, the solemn lines
of men in black, marching; these all
showed the universal respect in
ainch the deceased was held, and the
effort to pay fitting honor and tn.-
bete to les menrory.
Tee funeral started for Mount
Pleasant Cexuetery at three. o'clock.
Previoes to this therewas a sl
scrvi o at Goeerement House,
ducted by Rev. Principal Cavell,
Knox College; RCN'. Arinsti
Black, St. Andrew's -Chinch; 3
Alexander Gandier, St. Ja
Square Presbyte: ian Church.
The route of the precession
from Gove•'ament House up 'Sin
street to King street, along I
street to Yonge street, ane
Yonge street to tbe cemetery. I
in the civic towers were tolled
the order of the Mayor while
funeral was proceeding, and 131:
S weal -man gave similar instruct
legardince the bells of St. Ja
Cathe'ral.
At the grave the :41.111.e Poletn
and simelicity which marked the
vices at: Government House was
served. Rev. Alfred Gandier
a porlion of Scriptime and led
prayer. The peop-le joined in
peating tee Lord'sprayer,met
the lemeeiction clideed tete F.C.F17
The Fie menalie-s of the Caith
Society who acted as pall -bon
lowered the coffin into the gr
The family burying ground is lo
ed in plot W. and Sir Olive
buried n eih of ane el ose beside
grave in we•eh his wife was laid
years aeo. It was a plain gr
comeletely lined with evergreens.
KING EDWARD AT NAPL
Welcome on Behalf of King
ma.nuel of Italy.
A. Naples, Itay, despatch says
The Royal yacht Victoria, and Al-
bert, with King Edward en board,
atrived here on Thursday and re-
ceived an enthusiastic welcome. The
Italian sema;c1ron saluted and the
crews manned. ship and cheered
warmly. After the yacht had an-
chored Xing Edward received the
Duke of Abruezi, the newly appoint-
ed Foreign Minister Morin, and
others, who welcomed his Majesty
in the name' of •King Victor Em-
manuel.
The Royal yacht was escorted'
ten British -warships, which answer-
ed the salutes of the Italian ships
and land batteries. The German
Crown Prince, Feeeleriele William,
his brother, Peince Eitel, die Crown
Prince- Louis of Portugal, vieited
Xing 'Edward. The town was gaily
decorated with flags, but rainy
weather marred the festivities.
King Edward subsequently visited
the Queen 6f Portugal on board the
yacht Amelia, the German Princes
on Board the Sapphire and the Duke
of Abruzzi on board .the Italian
cruiser Liguira. Later the King
landed and visited the Museura,
'ME ROWE OF GOIOONS
Notes. of Proceedings in the Can-
adian Pae,iienaent,
LUMBER COMBINE,
Mr, Scott (W. Assiniboia), called
attention to an alleged combination
eXietieg• between "the Manereeterers
and dealers in lumber, Tbe prices as
reeult had been greatly thereased
throughout the West. He Wished, to
.ask Mr. Fielding whether any atten-
tion. had yet been paid to this mat-
ter.
Mr. Fielding replied that the at-
tention 'of the Muse had been called
to the alleged combine by several
member's. 'There WW1) tWO Ch1,13MS
under whieh the matter might be
dinsidered. •The first was a eertion
of the• Crinenal (ode dealing with
unlawful eaten), while the wand
made peevision for an inveetientioe
into alleged unlawful combines, and
provided that in case' their existence
were proved, the duties on the goods
defected could be abolisbed. •He had
been ccnsulted by the Hon. Mr.
Greenway With regard to this allogel
combine, and had pointed out to him
that before official actiou could be
taken, formal representations must
be matte to the Government. Mr.
Greenway undertook to do this, and
promised to send a letter on the
subject to the Government. Nothing
Would be doee mita the arrival of
thislt:tee,
• SADDLES FOR CONTINGENT:
In 3tee1y to elre Monk; Sir Feelere
ick Bordee, said nthat the eteddlee
and bridles tor the lase Canadian
South African contingeet Wore eine
nished fiom the Canadian inl'itoeY.
stores. They were used, Mel as far
as 1 e know no complaints about
them had over been made.
AWARDING MEDALS.
Replying lo Me. Ta.ylor, Sir Frede
eriek Borden said that, the Cana.dia•rt
Government hat' no power to award
medals to the last contingent, which
wan trete! ed in eveier way exactly as
were regiments from Groat Britain
and other colonies. -
SOUTFIF.RN PINE.
Mr. Fanereon Was informed by Mr.
Blair that the Gove-nment bad no
intention of emoting Scan orn pine
for Government railway ties.
MACKENZIE AND MANN LINES.
Three petitions bae-ing reference to
the Maceenzie aud Mann railway en-
lerprires were presented. The Ed-
monton, Yukon, and Peelle: Com-
pany, which is the Western end of
the eoncern, seeks an extension of
time, and also power to build a
Id
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to
e
ne
is
A MURDERER CRUCIFIED.
Chinese Desperado Confessed to
Having Killed 60 People.
A Vancouver aespatch says :-Ad-
vices were received by the Ernpress
of China of the crucifixion of a
Chinese desperado in Kwangteng,
who confessed to sixty murders.
This murderer, Mauling J'in, Was de-
ceryed into Shunteh-risien by a. man
whose father he had Murdered, and
when he confessed to so Many crimes
It Was decided that decapitation
was too lenient a punishment, and
he was crucified. He was nailed by
the hands and feet to ti wooden
cross, and placed on one of the city
bridges as a Wareing to malefactors,
Be lingered for three days, when he
steceumbed to hie .teenehle sufferings,
•
ns:
es
1 -
ed
on teem cserar-731113 •N. kr • al
pro'duotion of anthracite cpal • last
year was 86,911,551 toes. This is a
ee rease of 22,994,400. tone, com-
pared with the precluction of 1901,
dee to the five and a half months'
strike. To mine this Coal 800 lives
were lost and. 640 men were injured
out of a total of 148,141 711C/1 em-
ploye:1. In 1901, working full time,
513men were killed and 1,245 in-
jured.. The total production of bi-
tuminous- coal lase year was 98,-
947,170 tons, an-increase,over .the
previous year ref 18,032,934 loxes,
which was principally due to the
greet &mane for fuel &wine Lite an-
thracite strike, ellie report also
shows total number of employes in
soft coal regions as 135,386, an in-
creattee of 17,784compared with the
year 1901; persons killed, 456; in-
crease, 155; injured, 861; increase,
202.
FUNERAL FIREWORKS.
Oriental Ceremonies at the Grave
of the Late Lee 'Yung.
A Toronto &snatch: says: The fun-
eral of Lee Yung, the Chinaman
wh.o died at the General Hospital
on Sunday, attracted considerable
interest on Tueeclay afternoon. Rela-
tives were present from London and
Owen Sound. It occurred from Mat-
thew's underta.king eseablisbanent.
Mr. Williams, of the lidetropolitan
.Chlurch, conducted a brief service.
The rest of the funeral was Oriental.
At the grave gaily -colored papers,
bearing Chinese characters, were dis-
tributed, anti while the earth was
being thrown in on the coffiu the
Chinamen set off firecrackers, This
was foll6well by the lightieg of a
boner° and joss Sticks, the plazing
of candles, cigareetes, raisins and
a roast chicken on the grave.
Premier Balfour reptidisited,any
itt-
tentlon on the part of,the Govern-
ment of giving htql:10 rule to Ireland.
add .Cleher4 '
LEGI8LATIVR A8STI 13 Y.
=TT.
Deiegs of Our Law Makers at
Toronto.
A big batch of reports were laid
on the table of the. Legislature,
among whieh wine the report of the
Outario Leber Bureau, showing that
in.1,902 there Were 129 strikes, in-
volveig 1e1,788 persoun and 79.3
estahliehments, covering 1,1/12 days.
Of the Strikes 58 were succeseite.
The report of the Superintencieet
of Colenization Roads shows that
200 miles of roads had been opened,
748 iniles repaired, and 0,002 feet
oi beidging and improvements, at e
cost of $196,240.07.
The report, of the Inepector of
Lunatic and Idiot Asylums showed
the cost of mallet:mune to Ire
$050,385,87, against $0e8,675,77 in
1901„ The average cost per patient,
after deducting revenue, was 3108.
87, against $103,01 in 1901. Tne
number or patients was 9139, against
902 in 3901. The revenue was
8101,076.20, against $90,077,46. in
1001, ,
The, report of the Institute • for
the 131ind allows that there were
118 inmates -5'7 males and 56 fe-
males. The cost of maintenence was
$29,227.98, an average of 3203,81,
as against $274.72 in 1901. The
average nueiber of pupils was 111,
as against 118 in 1901.
The report el the instintee for
the Deaf and Dumb at Belleville
showed a total cost of Maintenance
of $41e962.70, against $.$7,5211,20
in 11901, and a yearly cost per pupil
of 3169.81, against $184.92 in 1901.
The number of pupils was 253.
The report of the Minister • of
Public Wores is an interesting
Volume, It shows that in the pro-
vince there are 7,101 miles of rail-
way in oixmation, with 110 under
construction. The latter are -Iron -
dale, Bancroft aud Ottawa Railway,
eight miles ; Algoma Central, 106
miles; and Manitoulin & North
Shore five nines.
The ;report of Hospitals and Char-
ities says two more County Houses
of Refuge have been established dur-
ing the year, at Perth and Whitby.
The number of patients in the hos-
pitals of the Province on the 1st
October, lean was 2,287 ; number
admitted during the year, 29,883 ;
total ninnber of patients treated
during the year, 33,113. The re-
venue of hospitals from all sources,
other than the Clovernment grant,
was. 8581,585.56, and the Procincial
errant for lest year was $11.0,000.
There 'was expended for maintenance
of hospitals during the year 3673,-
000.21: the average cost per patient
per day was 83 4-5 ce the percentage
of the Provincial grant to the total
expenditure for maintenance was .16..
There are about 100 Homes for old
people. orphanages, Magdaler, Asy-
lum., Convaleseent Homes and
Homes for Incurables in the Pro -
Vince having anansenagate population.
of 9,059 ; and the annual expendi-
ture for maintenance, apart from
the Government grant, was $845,-
014.22. The Provincial grant to
these institutions for the past year
is $74,502.83.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
The sacred volume of information
known as the "Public Accounts"
was laid on the table and ceetains
over 200 pages. Tire total appro-
priation inviter the bill of supply
was $4,196,025.
In the various departments the
amount expended was $4,064,66342.
The total of unexpended appro-
priation reaches the SUM of 3347,-
768.58, while the over -expended is
$216,400.44.
The total receipts 'of the province
are given as $4,291,082, of which
31,488,084 is from Crown lands,
$122,855 from public institutions,
31,196,872 Dominion subsidy and
special grant, and $1e5e319 interest
oe capital held, debts due by the
Dominion and interest on invest-
menht
Tc;
expenditure is 34,345,003, un-
der bill of supple and fixed charges.
,The latter are railway subside- fund,
$126,177.11 ; annuities; 3102,900 ;
municipal drainage debentures, 31,-
625.11 ; university grant, $40,444,-
75, and common school fund of
$9193.18. Of the entire expendi-
ture $3,875,6e4 was expended as
follows :
Civil government, $285;203 ; leg-
ielation, $140,771 ; achninistration
of 'justice, $482,753;. education,
$801,909 "; public institutions, main-
tenance, $864e308 iraMigration,
34,777; agriculture, $284,339 ; hose
pitals •and charities, 3216,521 ; re-
pairs and maintenance public build -
pairs and maintenance public build-
ings, 391,293; locks, darns, etc.,
$14,954 ; colonisation roads, 3106,-
246 ; charges Crown lands, 8227,-
070; surveys, inspections, etc., 31,-
831 ; refunds, $22,292 ; iniscellan-
wOufthe s'3127$92:826,51169 collected as sue -
cession duties,' $7e,388 came from
the County of York r-$11,000 'from
C. H. Hubbard, 39,000 from j. IT.
Beatty, $10,000 from Sir Frank
Smith, and ,310,000 from Hugh
Reran. The estate of John Ryan
has also deposited $25,000 in lieu
of bonds. From Northumberland
and Durham the estate of Henry
Covert paid $19,500.
HE TORTURED CHILDREN.
••••••••••••••.1
John. Earl, a St. Louis Showman
Sent to Workhouse.
A St Louis despatch says :-John
Earl, who was arrested for tortur-
ing two children whom he hard
adopted, has been fined $1,000, and
in default, was sent to the work-
house. Testimony showed that
Earl, who is ,a showman, beat with
sticks and straps and burned with a
hot iron a boy and girl Whom he
atternpteel to train for an acrobatic
Show. The children Were in a hor-
rible condition %ellen rescued by the
.police,
.NEWSITEYIS0
Telegraphic Briefs From Ali
Over the Giobe.
CANADA,
The Toronto Grenadiers will visit
St. Thomas on Victoria DaY.
Windsor lost nineteen hundred dol-
lars on its municipal woodyard.
Contracts have been awarded for
many new buildings in Collingwood.
Winnipeg pollee fore° has been lie
creased by the adeitrion of ten new
men.
The o.rat. expect to have ten
nxillioii bushel elevator capacity at
Port William this year.
A company has been farmed to
promote English settlement .in New
Ontario,
It is proposed to run two through
express trains on the LC.R. from
Montreal to Halifax.
According to a census bulletin the
total value of farm property in New
Brunswick is- 350,506,03.8,
St. Thomas Street Railway Com-
pany hes purchased two more new
cars, costing $2,000 each. ,„
Vancouver Council has increased
the salary of its corporation labor-
ers from 18 to 20 cents per hour...
Two hurelred and eighty bills were
submitted for royal assent as a re-
sult of the eecenesession eelfelliceic
Legisleture.
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy has an-
nouncep„ the, purchaee of. the -Elder-.
Dempster steamship Monmouth by
tho
The income of the G.T.R. station
in the village of Acton was the
largest in its history last month,
being over $12,000.
Brandon Board of Trade has pass-
ed a resolutiou endorsing the idea of
appointing Lord Strathcone, Gov-,
ernor-Gencral of Canada.
A "necktie social" recently took
place ot Itrantford in aid of a chari-
table institution. During,' intermis-
sion neckties wore sold by auction.
Patrons of the Stratford Gas and
Electric Light Ge, are indignant at,
the announcement of from 25 to 100
per cent. advance in the 'Slice of
light.
W. A. Campbell, a newspaper man
of Portland,' Oregon, has purchased
, 20,000 acres of land in the Verraile
lion River Colony, near Mr. Barrett
British colony.
The Deering Harvester Company
have just let contracts for $250,000
Iworth of new buildings at Hamilton
and .may spend a quarter of a mil-
lion more for the same purpose.
The Nipissing and J ernes Bay Rail-
way Company want authority to
'construct a line from the junction of
the Callender branch railway with
the C.P.R. to Moose Factory, on
James Bay.
According to a statement by the
Northwest Grain Dealers' Associa-
tion, there is still 14,783,758 bush-
els of wheat to be forwarded to
lake ports by Manitoba and Terri-
torial farmers.
CollingWood ministers have ad-
dressed a memorial to their local
councillors, calling their attentimi to
the open violation of the Liquor
Act as regards Saturday night and
Sunday selling.
McKinnon, a Victoria labor union
Man, who was on strike and who as-
saulted a man'who was filling his
position, was severely reprimanded
by the judge and sentenced to six
labor.
months imprisonment with hard
In his address at the annual meet-
ing of the Canadian Association for
the Prevention of Consumption, at
Ottawa, Lord Minto stated his be-
lief that there were in Canada ane
rurally not less than 80,000 cases of
tuberculosis. The number of deaths
was 9,000. According to the annual
report, read by Dr. H. B. Small,
out of 36 hospitals in the Dominion
but 13 had special accommodation
for consumptive patients.
UNITED STATES.
The steamship Minnesota, launched
at New London, Conn., is said to
be the largest cargo carrier hi the
world.
Ray, 18, and Joseph Wil-
liams, 30, of Toronto, Ont., are in
jail at Pontiac, Mich., charged with
burglarizing a store at Milford.
Saturday three masked men held
up a :trolley car in Chicago, con-
taining eight men and one woman,
and got $200 and four watches.
.A. largo syndicate of Ohioians at
Springfield, is organizing a $2,000,-
000 company here for investment in
Canadian mines, woods and rail-
roads.
George Vaughan, a farm laborer of
Knoxville, Tenn., found $1,000 in
ten and twenty dollar gold pieces in
the stump of a hollow tree, hidden
by robbers soon aftet the civil war.
Superintendent Boyd, of the New
Yoek State Department Of Public
Works,has issued aix ord,r that the
Erie, Oswego' and ChaniPlain canals
be, (wen for navigation et noon on
Mrei' 2nd. •
. For years past the miners employ-
ed -bee the Pennsylvania Coal Com-
pany in and about Pittston have had
the privilege of purchasing coal for
their own use at special prices; but
an order has been issued that work-
men will have to pay an advance of
50 cents a ton on stove and chest-
nut and an advance of 25 cents on
pea coal.
GENERAL.
Lord Charles Beresford has assum-
ed command of the Channel dread-
ron.
13ulgariari brigands are alleged to
have Ina,sSaered 165 people in one
1VIussulana,n
The national convention at Dublin
enthusiastically endorsed the prin-
eiple of the land bill,
Lieut. -Col, Temple 'West, of the
British Grenadier Guards, who died
at 'Nice,, left .$1,0Q0,000 for publie
be,jiests, 1arge1y for art.
EAU TO PAY LARGE HES
WHAT IT COSTS TO BECONE
AN EARL,
-0-.
*rou Plight Support a:Peerage on
an Income of e50e-
William Pitt one0e0r00.connuended to
George III, that any mate with an
income of $100,000 a year should be
nuede it peer if he so desired.
it would be possible, according to
an English paper, to support ae peer-
age oxi an income meets, less than
that. Indeed, many a peer of re-
cent deation, as well as of ancient
date, is able to maintain his dignity
with great aitecess on $50,000 a
year or even less. But the un-
avoidable initial expenses which a
peer is called upon to defray total
up at the very least close on 34,-
000.
First of all, there aro big fees tie
be paid. There are five gratles of
nobility -baron, viscount, eaxl, Inaro
quis and duke. The fee of a baron
is $750, of a viscount $1,000, of an
earl $1,250, of a marquis $1,500,
and of a duke - the highest rank in
the peerage -$1,750. Part of these
fees goes to the national excliequer
and part to support the College. `of
Arms in Queen Victoria street, by
which all questions of arms and -her-
aldry are decided.
It is a singular fact that -when
Wellington took his seat in the
House of Lords for the first thue,
on ,Tune 28, 1814, he was a baron,
a viscount, an earl, a marquis and
a 'duke all rolled Into one.
WHAT WELLINGTON PAID.
These dignities had been conferred
'upon him from time to time in their
order by distinct grants for his iser-
vices during the long war with
France, and it was only when, on
the overthrow of Napoleon, the last
and highest patent of nobility was
bestowe'd that he was able to take
his seat in the House of Lords. 'The
combieed fees which Wellington .had
to pay for the five patents of no-
bility amounted to $6,250.
A peer must wear the robes of his.
rank in the peerage on his introduc-
tion to the House of Lords. These
robes are made of scarlet cleth,
slashed with ermine, the wearer's
rank in tbe peerage being denoted by
the number of bars of white fur
which tra-verse the robe back 'and
front. A dtbke displays four bars of
eienine, a marquis three and a half,
an earl three, it viscount two, and a,
baron one. Ea.cli robe costs be-
tween $200 and $250.
Then there is the coronet. The
occasions are yare upon, which peers
are called upon to wear their crowne
are called upon to wear their
crowns. The coronet of earl rank
of the peerage consists of a cap of
crimson, velvet turned up with er-
mine and surmounted by a golden
tassel.
STYLES OF CORONETS.
It is in the design of the coronet's,
outer circle of gold and silver Oar'
the various ceders of nobility are
distinguiseed. .A baron's coronet
has a plain circle of gold surmount-
ed by six silver balls. The circle of
geld in a viscount's coronet is jew-
elled, and there are twelve sneer
balls. Prom the jewelled circle of
gold iri an ,earl's coronet rise eight
points, also of gold, upon each of
which there is a silver ball, arid be-
tween each point, close to 'the cir-
cle, is a gold strawberry' leaf. The
coronet of a marquis has •a row of
silver balls, placed not o11 points,
but on the circle of gold, and be-
tween each is a gold strawberry leaf;
and a duke's coronet has a wreath
of gold strawberry leaves over the
jewelled circle of gold. The gold-
smith's charge for making a coronet
ranges from 450 guiteas.
Among other expenses of a peer are
a fee of $50 to tbe College of Arms
for a grant of arms, a tax of two
guineas a year for displaying these
armorial bearings on his carriage,
and a further tax of about $5 a
year for engraving them on his pri-
vate note paper.
BRITISH BUDGET.
A Reduction of Four Pence in the
Income Tax.
A despatch from London. says :-
The features of the British budget,
introduced by Mr. Ititahie, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequere on Thurs-
day, are :-
Income tax reduced from ls 3d to
114 in the pound.
The abolition :of the duty on
grain.
Taxes on sugar and coal rernain
unchanged. -
Estimated expeaditure, $719,7/70,-
006.
Estimated revenue, 3773,850,000.
Cost of the wars in South Afriea.
and China -four years -$1,08e,000,-
000, of which $840,000,000 has -been
defrayed by revenue.
National debt, ineluding the war
debt, 33,991,745,000.
MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE
(Iles
Train Wrecker Sentenced to Fif-
'teen Years.
A Fairfax., Va.; despatch says: The
jury in the case of Robert Hamilton,
charged with wrecking the New Yoek.,
and Florida express on the South-
ern Railway at Ravenswood, Va.,
February 15, when tivo people were
killed, has brought in a vet:diet qf „Oh
neurder in the second degree and fix- •"'`
ed the punishment at fifteen years hi
the penitentiary.
Elaborate preparzetions are being
made in Paris to welcome King Ed -
ware.
The house at Pretoria owned by
ex -President Kruger was sold at auc-
tion far .320,000.
Russia has demanded from Turkey
a large cash indemnity and the
buildieg of a , memorial chapel, ia
reparation for the murder of the
Consul at Mitrovitza
The Daily Telegraph estimates ,ho
British national debt at R.800,0 Ore
000, compered withege85,000;000 La\
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