The Brussels Post, 1900-12-20, Page 6BOARS CAPT1JE IIORSES.
Stopped Two Trains and Took
British Remounts.
A despatch from Pretoria trays: -A
train proceed'ung from Natal to Jo-
Jlannesburer was helm up early Satur-
day morning by 150 Score near Vlak-
eaagle. The Boers used oxen to pull
up two letaSV:hs of reds, and the
train, which contained remounts for
the troops, was nacsasarily compelled
to stop. The burghers made the
horses jump out or the truoks and cap -
tared 13'0 of them.
A second train, convoying provisions,
Woe fired on, and the engineer was
wounded. The l000motive was slightly
damaged, The mem in °burgs of the
train were compelled to alight and
wartob the Boers getting the torsos
off the trate ahead.
While this was being done, a third
train, with a few s'oldiars aboard, acme
up. As soon OS the saldiors saw what
was going on, they opened fire on the
Boers, who having secured the horses
galloped away on thein. They loft
tuts truoks untouched.
Later tbe rails' were relaid and the
trains proceeded.
The Boers raided the Riverton road
station on Tuesday. They are being
followed up.
MARKETS OF THE WORLD
Prices oe Cattle, Chines, Grain, &e
in the Leading Mareeee.
THE STREET MARKET.
Toronto, Dec. 18. -On the street to-
day 400 Bush white wheat sold al 67 to
671-2e., 400 bush. red wheat at' 671-2
to tiSb, 1,000 bush, goose wheat, at 61
to 61p1 -2o.. 1.000 bush. barley at 40 to
455., 000 bush oats at 29 to 300 ; twenty
bee loads of of hay soil at $12to
$14 a ton, and six loads oe straw at
$19 to $12.50. Dressed hogs sold at 37
aeollowing are the range of quota-
tions:
Wheat,white, straight $0.07 30.671-2
Straw, per ton 1'2.00 12.54
N\ heat, goose 0.81 0.611-2
Wheat, spring 0.t4) tree
f'e'te 0.00 0.05
Marley ,..-.... ,.. 0.40 . 0.45
R;ra ...0.00 0.51.
Oets, ..................... 0.29 0,30
Hay, per ton 12,00 14.00
Straw, per ton ...... 12,00 12.50
Meisel here 7.40 7.03
Buster, lb. rolls ...... 0.20 0.22
Eggs, new laid 024 0.26
C'hi•'kens. per pair 0.30 0.40
Turkeys. per lb. 0,09 . 0 10
Genese, par 1b. 0.561-2 0.03
Ducks, per pair 0,45 . 0.70
Potat,ese, per bag 0,35 0.40
Ap,-•ies, ehu'ioe, per bbl1.15 2.00
Apple:. fall, uen' bbl0.75 1.25
Beo2, bend flutrters 7.00 3.10
Beef, fore quarters 4,00 6.00
Boer, carcases ..... .-5,50 7.50
Olives, each . 7,u0 8.50
Mut ton, per ib............ 0.05 0.07
Lambs, spring, per lb. 0.07 0.081-2
)A;RY MARKETS.
Butter -Trade is active. D,mani is
good, supplies large and prices easy.
An excellent local trade is being done.
Commiseion houses sell to the trade
as fo.lews: Dairy. tubs and pails,
choice, 171-2 to 18 1-2c; medium, 16 to
161-2c; poor. 13 to 15c; dairy prints,
o.oice, 18 to 19% large rolls, good to
ebeice, 17 to 18c; creamery boxes, 20
Cheese -Full cream. July and Aug-
ust make sells at 11 to 111-2a
PJIOD'10E.
For loads bl the best cattle 41-2,
4 3-4 and 50, pele Lb. was paid, and
a, loud ox two of Christmas stuff sold
at 51-4c per ib. Medium cattle was
e fair sale to, -day, butt common cattle
was slow and not wanted.
Feeders are quiet end unchanged at
the prices of last Tuesday.
Stockers were quiet ; light are worth
from 111-2 to 3e: per Ib„ and (heavy
feeders are quoted at from 3 to 31-2e
per lb., with a little over for prime
( stockers,
There ware only a few milch cows
here, a.nd the enquiry was dull.
Here are soma of the principal trans-
actions to -day: -
A. load of extra choice butcher cat-
tle, bought by Mr. Crawford, aver-
age 1,25'0 lbs., price 5 1-4c per lb., less
310 On the deal.
Masses. Dunn Bros. bought several
bunches of steers at prices ranging
from 41-2 up to 5c. per Lb.
Mr. W. 11, Dean purohased several
bunches of shipping cattle at from
41-2 to 4 3-4o per lb.
The same dealer also purchased a
lot of export bulls at from. 4 to 41-2o
per lb.
Messrs. Crawford and Hunnisett
bought severral loads of good to choice
butcher cattle at from 4 to 5e. par ib.
,3Lr. Levack lmught several loads of
choice butcher cattle at from 41-2 to
5c ler lb.
M•easrs. Lunness and Haligan made
several deal° at 4 and 41-4c per lb,
Mr. Smith bought a dozen butcher
cattle, average 1,000 lbs., at 41-4e
per lb.
A load of 22 butcher cattle, average
1,210 lbs., sold at 41-8c per lb.
There was a fair clearance of all
but the truest common cattle.
Sheep and lambs were 1a steady de-
mand; sheep were perhaps a shade
easier, but lambs were, if anything, task."
a. shade dearer.
Good calves are, wanted.
Hogs are unchanged and steady.
Hogs to fetch the top price must
be of prime quality, and scale not be-
low. 10) nor above 900 lbs.
Following is the range of quota-
tions: -
Cattle.
Eggs -Fresh eggs are getting scar -
Der
as cold weather becomes mere!
prevalent, Limed are is fair dem tad
end steady. Prises; are as follows -
Boiling Mock, 22 to 23e; fresh gather-
ed, 17 Lq 19c; limed, 150.
Poultry -Receipts to -day were'
larger, but the weather was favour-
able, and prices were firm. Turkeys
were especially firm, probably owing
to the large 'execute to Britain for the
Christmas trade. Dunks were also
firmer. Prices were firm. Quotations
are as £olliowe:-Ohickens, per pair,
:25 to 40a; ducks, per pair, 40 to G5c;
.turkeys, per lb., 81-2 to 9 1-2e; geese,
per lb., 0 to 7e.
Pole::o,•a-Firm. Car lots, on track
here, seed to-daf at Soo, Sales, out of
store, awe mallet at 35 to 40a.
Field produce, etc. -Turnips, out of
store, etc per Lag; onions 10e; per bag;
carrots, ,.Oa per, bag; appd,as, per bo,.,
40a to F1; sweet potatoes, per bbl.,
32.50.
Dried fruits -Dried apples sell at 3
1.2 be 4c; aa.t evaporated at 5 to 6 1-2c.
k3.ems-Ordinary w.htte beans bring
Slate to 31.25; chaise band -picked
lateen are quoted.at $1.40 10 31.45.
)3oaey-Dealers quote from o to 0 1-20
per lb., for 10,10, or 60-1b,, stns, a cord-
ing' to the size of the ordee. Comb
honey aaees at '$2.40 to 32.75 per dozen
fleet ions.
Ba.ey hay-b'irm. Choice timothy, on
tree: hoes, 310.25; two -ton lots, de-
livered, sell sit 311.
Baled cutin -Very scarce. Car lots
of goodstraw, on track here, wou,d
bring 37.50.
(lops -Quiet. Now crop is quoted here
Wi 14 to 16o; and yearlings at 9 to 10o.
Toronto Dec. 18. -At the ,western
eett'e yards to -day we have u heavy
run, as aboo0 80 carloads of live stock
came in, Cattle has been arriving
revery day this week, and some excel-
lent specimens of Christmas cattle are
sinong the reoeipte,
There was some shipping trade in
cattle dome to -day, and prices, advanc-
ed, good cattle selling up to 5c per
Lb., and Lu a few instances a little
more was paid for selections. Prices
ranged from 41-2 to 50. per Ib.
For ordinary butcher cattle there
(was not ina0h change and business was
quiet, but all the good to prime cute
eta sole rluickly et firm high •prices.
RAIDIYG
HAIR BERi,EY.
Stores Looted and Mail Bags Rifled
By Boers.
A• despatch' from Fouetcere Streams
eay1;-A party of ten Boers, under
Paul Mart's, a Transvaal Boer op
parole, sarprissed the 'nhabitante of
Border leading on Sunday, and seized
Civet of ,elm Cape Mounted Polios, who
were tditting la Barnes' store, took
their horses, anti after completely
rifling the men, ordered them to pro-
ceed to Fourteen Streams and tell tho
British that 1,000 Boors were await-
ing them, They looted a store,
and the mail -bag, and made Barnes
himself prisoner, subsequently reload=
ing him on condition that he wondd
remain at the tattling. From 'Cooties'
store they also oommtundeered a large
quentlty of grids, for wheat they
gave a promissory note. Two shots
were fired by the 'party ab a ganger'e
wife, but they missed.
Mr. McCra, a Phokwe'ni farmer,
who was proceeding to Fourteen
Streams, was taken prisoner, butt
was immediately released. The Boers
subsequently evacuated the siding.
Natives state that the Boers fired
upon a passenger train, and that
t'wo shots passed through a little
girl's beast, afterwards wounding a
man and a woman.
Neither railways nor telegraphs
have been injured. Monday armour-
ed passenger trains proceeded south.
A patrol of tea men, ender Lieuten-
ant Fitzgerald, visited the siding,'but
found no lsigns of the Boers, although'
• o had already visited the stored
foe .provislone,
'Mr. and Mrs. Rebores, of Dgeefon-
tcan Yarm, twenty-eight miles east oD
noshed, with their two da'iughters and
their eon, who is only, Six years old,
have arrived here after suffering
severe privatiouss at the hands of the
Boors, Their 'farm was raided by a
party of the enemy, under Captain
Hendrik Snit. Mr, liaberts was in
bed wale ;rheumatic fever, (but he was
made to get up toed wall plaeed in a
cart, while his wife rend ohildren were
convened to walk, They( started at
Sonar in the afternoon; and walked
twelve miles, When they halted for
the night. Next morning they walk-
od fneern hix to ten miles, when the
ladies were unable to proceed further.
Another cart 'wee commandeered
for the family, and two days; later
they arrived at Petrusburg. Here
they were housed in a dirty room
with a mud floor, and were given
nothing to eat or drink until the next
day at noon, when they received some
mollies. They were only in the
hands of the Bo5rs for a fortnight,
and during that time •,Mr. Roberts be-
came so 'dl that he had to be attended
by a Boer doctor, through• whose in-
fluence his family, was eventually re-
leased. He then procured an ox -wag-
gon and came to Kimberley. Ile is
still ignorant of the fate of his
farm and belongings:
ROBERTS ON FARM -BURNING
Hopes the Necessity for Extreme
Measures Will Disappear.
A despatch from London says :-In
a memorandum to the Premier of Cape
Colony, Sir John Gordon Sprigg, Lord
Roberts explains that farm -burning
has been ordered strictly in a000rd-
ance with the usages of war. He says
in part:-
"Whether the people whose houses
are burned are actual accessories to
the outtimg of railways and other
'damage must be lett to the general
officers commanding to decide. They
must be trusted to make a full en-
quiry before having recourse to ex-
treme measures; but as this is esean-
tiolly police work, I anticipate that
when tbe police ars established we
shall find the necessity for burning
gradually disappear, with less danger
of the innocent suffering, and that
my successor will eventually be able
to abolish altogether a distasteful
Shippers, per cwt. 3 4.25 a 5.00
Seekers, per cwt. .,. 2.25 3.00
Butcher, choice do..-..... 4.00 4.70
Buttner, me 'rum 10 gad.. 350 .0)
Butcher, in erior 3.OJ 3.30
Stockers, per cwt.....,, 2.25 3a0
Export bulls, per cwt.... 3.25 4.00
$heap and Lambs. t
Sheep, per owt, 13.75 3 25
Lamas, per cwt . ... 3.50 4 3)
Bucks, per cwt. .. 2.50 300
bilkers and Calves.
Cows, each .._. --- `d1.00
Calves, each 2.00
Hogs.
Choloe bogs, per cwt5 75
Light Mee, per cwt. 5,50
Heavy hegs, per ewt. 5.60
Sows
S tags u3
BR,?ADOTUF4'S, ETC,
Wheat -Ontario wheat is very du 1.
Dealers say that it is difficul.: to
make sales at present, and prices are
hugely nominal. S'Ianitobas a s in
some demand by milers. Nu. 2 is le
fair denetied, but rather easier to -day,
No. 1 hard is firm, owing to scar-
city. Quotations a.e as ro lows: Red
winter, (10 to 63 1-2e: and whue, 63 to
831-2c, middle freights; geese wheat,
02a, middle freights; No. 1 spring
wheat, east, 66a: Manitoba, No. 1 hard,
old, g.i.t,• 93:, and No. 2, at 871-2c.
No. 1 hard. North Say, 911-2c,
leattl.eod-f5otrce. Ton lots, at. the
mill door, sail as follows: 13 an, 31e to
312.50; and shorts, 511 to 3 4,50, nest.
Corn -Is' toy. Nu. 1 American yel-
low, 401-2a, on (reek here, and mixed,
451-3u,
Pees-C,nf tette steely to iris. E .-
porleta were in the market as elv-
ers again to -day. No. 2 wee middle
Barley steady, but ra.her quiet.
freights, at 011-20: and cant, 02e.
Some of the exporters will probably
begin buying again next week, as
more eiaan freight sense is now in
sight. No. 2, east, 41 1-2c, and middle
freighta, 401-2c; No. 8 extra, 40e. east;
and 39a. middle freights.
Rye -Easy. New rye, 40c. were, and
47c. east,
Buckwheat, -About steady. Car
Lots, west, are quoted at 40c., and east
at 500,
THE CANADIANS SAIL.
Second Contingent 1.eeefves an En
thuslastic bend -Of'.
A despatch from Cape Town says:
A public farewell was given this morn-
ing to 1,800 Australian and Canadian
troops, who were about to start for
their homes. The Mayor made an ad-
dress, in which he hailed the colonial
troops as heroes of the Empire. 'He
said they had many times been in tight
corners, but the idea of hoisting the;
white flag never entered their heads,
Col. Richard°, of the Canadians, in
replying to the Mayor's address, said
50,00 that the Dominion troops had not been
8,0 fighting solely for South Afrioan in-
terests, but for their own.
Governor Sir Alfred Milner, accom-
panied by his staff, went to the docks
tet bid the troops fs,rewe1l. He thank -
eel the contingents for their services,
and dwelt ratess the • fact that their
presence in South Africa had streng-
thened the bonds of the Empire.
6.13
5 75
5.75
• ,10
2.53
GER 4A.NS IN TRANVAAL.
1hedr epu sign Con temned by
Speaks s in the solehatag.
A dospeeth fume Berlin., says; Ia
the Reichstag on Wednesday Baron
v.rn it:c.h,.hafen, Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairis, referring to
the expulsion of Germalms from the
Traerivaal wad the Orange Free State
territories, said;-
"Iteeas appeared to me that the ex-
pulsions le many cases have 'been un-
juaU,fiabte, bath 'ti to rause and MOM,
war, and ountrary to the prinoiples of
ia.tertrws.tl.enal law, and an expression
of this view has been mode in London.
"CM lee ether hand, the Germans
who hove been fighting side. sal' side
wi,h the Boers have met with abappy
lent. They have been dismiseek with-
out pay and told, 'Ws did not invite
e.
A PAINCeLY GIIOT.
toed Monne sta'phen ('fears Aberdeen
le 11 rel ry .1 1f,b1.
despatch from Landon, says: -
Lord Mount Stephen, formerly presi-
Oats-firmer. No. 2 white oats, dent of. the Canadian 1'''•'r' has
middte £reigbta, are 1n demand at d'ontet,0 £95,000 to the Prorre a 1ber-
201-4o; and east at 263-4o. Mixed
oats, east, 20o. Light white oats and does for th°purpose 04 Clea 'n; the
mixed oats, west, 24o, 'Aberdeen, infirmary of debt.
POWERS SIGN Tf3E NOTE.
Count Von Buelow's Proposals
Agreed to by the Allies. •
A deopatchi from Newt York says; -
Herr Von Holloben, the German A'm-
bassador, in discussing the Chinese
situation, Ls quoted in a Washington
despatch 05 paying; -
"'Phe Chinese question, so fax as
vital issues are concerned, may be
treated as solved. Tee work el the
powers in Chinais now one of detail.
"The vital ,questions from this time
well be the dispositions of the various
treaty rights and concessions. Ger-
many stands .for open porta and free
access to the Oriental trade. If new
treaters are negotiated -individually
by the powers with China -or cailect-
ively by the Oesegress of Ministers
nate in session a t Pekin -other ques-
tions of detail and administration
may obtrude themselves."
POWERS AGREE ON J.OLOT NOTE.
A despatch. from London, says; -
The negotiations of the powers ire re-
gard to the ja9wt China note were
concluded satisfactorily on Tuesday,
all agreeing to the coaditione identi-
cally as outlined by Count Von Rue -
low, the Imperial Obannellor .of Ger-
many, November 19, with the excep-
tion of the introductory clause. saying
the demands are irrevocable, which
is eliminated.
FARM -BURNING ORDER.
Text of Lord Roberts' Regulation
on the Subject.
:A despatr(h from London says:
Forty-one proclamations of Lord Rob-
erts have been pulbished. They have
beau mostly summarized previously in
the newspapers. The last one, dated
November 18, says: "As there ap-
pears to be sores misunderstanding
as regards the burning of farms, tbe
Commander -in -Chief wishes the fol-
lowing to be the lines upon which
general officers commanding are to
aot: No farm is to be burned except
for an act of treachery, or when our
troops are fired on from the premises,
or as punishment for the breaking
o£ the telegraph or railway, or when
used as bases of operation for raids,
and then only with' the direot con-
sent of the general officer commend-
ing. The mere fact that a burgher
is ..'bsent on commando is on no ac-
count to be used as a reason for
burning his house, All cattle, .wag-
gons and foodstuffs are to be remov-
ed from all farms. If Lhat ds impos-
sible they are to bo destroyed, whe-
ther the owner ie present or not."
FIGHTING IN E WEST.
Rein)oreenlents Sent to Col. Mey-
leek at Wonderfontein,
A despatch from Cape Town says:-
•Col. Meyrick has been heavily eneag-
ed with the Boers at Wonderfontein,
on the western border of the Trans-
vaal. Lord Methuen bas sent rein-
forcements 'to beat off the enemy.
PcNSIONS FOR DISABLED.
Minister of Militia Will lntroduee
Bill This "ession.
A deepatcb from Ottawa aaye;-
'l'he ntlnister of Militia will intro -
Nee, ii lilt at at the coming session
of Parliament to Previde a pension
fund for the Canadian roldicrs who
were disabled im 80 L1i Afrtoa.
'AMBLE MAHDISASTEx
Steamer Capsizes Near long Kong
200 Lives Are Lost.
A desp'ttrlm froth. HOW la'o'ng says ;-
A frightful disaster resulting in the
lees of two hundred, )Lyes 000urred on
the West ,river. A tnrtautfeil overboard
Pram a abeamor near Itloleow', and the
Baur hundred Ipassowg..ees aboard invade
a mesh be the table of the vessel to
see what would become of bin.
It trnnspbres 1915 the steamer was
overloaded, aged the l,adden ;Moven
distri'butioat of weight caused her to
capsize,
Everybody was thrown into the
them two bemired of the passengers
water, and .before aid meld roach
were drowne(i.
DUTCH IVIINISTRY'S REPLY.
Definitely Deellnes to Do Anything
for Kruger.
A. despatch fron The Hague says, -
The Dutoh government on 'Tuesday
finally'and definitely refused to take
the initiative in behalf of arbitration
between the Transvaal and Groat
Britain,
The decision of the government was
communicated in an interview be-
tween Mr. Krugee and Dr. Loyds and
the Dutch Foreign Minister and the
Minister of Finance, N. G. Pierson.
Mr, Kruger explained that the object
of his journey was to disseminate the
idea of arbitration, and the Dutch
Ministers replied that the rola of the
Netherlands must be passive. The in-
itiative belonged to the great powers,
they added. When they should Lave
reached a decision 'the Dutch govern-
ment might see what it could do.
A serenade of Mr. Kruger by the
scholars fixed for Tuesday night, was
pt.ohiblted by the police out- of fear
of disturbance,
15.000 CASES OF TYPHOID.
Nearly Four Thousand of Whieh
Proved Fatal.
'A despatch from London says: -A
question in the House of Commons on
Tuesday elicited the statement that
there had been 16,625 %a.s'ee of typhoid
fever among the British troops in
South Africa, and that of this number
3,642 had proved fatal.
ECONOIg1C CRISIS.
Extreerdinary Slump In Prices of Mori.
tope Pond., to Gerlaany.
Aeoord'nug to a Berlin despatch
there has been, each a slump in the
prices of •mor•t'ga.ge brands that un-
less public com,fidenee is restored the
economio stability of Germany will
be imperilled.
The ameouwt et mortgage bonds in
circulation is five millions of marks,
31,250,000,000. The mortgage franks
were the ) riaucipal sources of supply
to the money market, their bonds be-
ing regarded as first-class securities.
This oo,nfidence hats disappeared and
the public areselling bonds indiscrim-
inately. The P,om.eranian Bank in one
week purchased 34,000,000worth of its
own bonds. The First Preussische
Hypothek Bank, and the Deutsche
Grundsehuld Bank. are unable to meet
the strain, and the Government has
appointed receivers in both cases. The
Papers demand the arrest of Directors
Sandsn and Schmidt,
BUSINESS PARALYZED.
Newfoundland's Railroads Blocked by
Snowstorms.
A despatch tram St. J•ohm,'se Nfld,.
says; -Fierce snowstorms continue to
beset the island, -locking the rail-
roads and paralyzing 'the transport
system generally. Mr. Reid, the cane
tractor, has given, op running, the
street. railroad in St. John's until
,next spring, awing to Ohm heavy fall
of snonv. Several vessels are now
overdue along the coast, and it is
feared that they have foundered in
the gales. The colonial cruiser Mania
was driven ashore do Monday inthe
storm, end carried away a part at her
keel. She is leaking badly.
DROUGIHT IN AUSTRALIA.
Not theist' Wheat for Bread ht Sew
Sunlit wales
.A despatch from Ottawa, Bays: J. S.
Larke, Canadian oommeroial agent in
Auatralin, reports that there is a poor
MI:look/ for good crops in Now. South
Wale, owing to the drought. Some
oe the whes(L was cut for hay, and if
rein did not arrive soon there would
not be enough; for bread, far less for
exporting. Viotor'a and. South Aus-
tralia promised better.
YIELD GOLD.
Klondike and Ala$ka lietarils for the Pre.
50114 rear.
A deepa,teh from San Francisco, says:
-A careful estimate of the total yield
of gold from tbc Klondike end Alaska,
including' Nome, fox the present year
Mee been completed by a . smelting
company, noting in conjunction with
the statistician od the San Francisco'
mint. The amount aggregates 325,-
724,223.81, divided ps folldwe:-Klon-
dike, '$21,858,829.17; Nome, 34,305,894.-
61. .
$PARK8 ROM TR WE
Newsy Items About Ourselves and
Our Neighbors -Something of
Interest From Every Quar-
ter of the Globe.
CANADA,
Parliament may meat February 6th,
A new building may be, erected for
the Supreme Court at Ottawa.
"Brantford citiaans have endorsed the
proposal to ereot a soldiers' memorial.
An important development of cxaain
eries in the North-west Territories.
Canada will be represented at the
Glasgow Exhibition which opens next
May.
The Kingston Board of Works has
decided to exclude uon-union labour-
ers' for the prevent.
M. J. Haney has beeome a partner
of Hon. Wm. Harty in the Kingston
Locomotive Works,
Woodstock ratepayers will vote on
the question of incorporation as a
city et the January elections.
Gen. Sir Charles Warren may sure
Geed Lord Seymour in command at
Halifax.
The Hamilton "City Improvement
Society" has awarded several prizes to
citizens, for the most attractive lawns
and windows.
Hon. Sydney Fisher will go to Glas-
gow next month to superintend the
arrangements for Canada's exhibit at
the fair there,
Dr. Andersen, of Toronto Univer-
sity, has been appointed assistant to
the Government quarantine officer at
Vietoria, B.C.
The Dominion authorities are con-
sidering the question of protecting
the Welland canal against attacks of
lawless characters
The Edler-Dempster Company will
likely use the North German Lloyd
steamer Elba, recently purchased, on
the St. Lawrence, route.
Hamilton polieemen will get 5 cents
more a -day on their pay, but their
contributions to the benefit fund
have also been increased.
The Central Canada Exhibition, Ot-
tawa, has a deficit of $4,189, the re-
ceipts tits year being only 329,975,
while expenditure was 333,101.
David Horn inspected 4,970,870 bush-
els of wheat in Manitoba during Sep-
tember, October and November,
against 13,087,460 bushels inspected
during the same period last year.
The American Cereal Contpany is to
establish a factory at Peterboro'. It
will employ from 50) to 800 hands, and
elf the town has to do is to leave the
assessment of the company at 358,-
700 for 42 years.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Mr. Kipling has gone to South Af-
rica to recruit his health.
A New York company is planning
to build surface railway lines in Lon-
don.
For publishing skill competitions in
his paper a London newspaper mac
was fined 5300 and costa.
The London Star and Leader are
being sued for alleged libel by a bro-
ther of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain.
The late Lteut. Francis N. Parsons,
of the Essex regiment, has been
awarded the Vietoria Cross by the
Queen,
Sir Charles Welby, Bart., 0.13.; M.P.,
has been appointed to assist in the
re -organization of the British War
Department.
A station has been established at
Lapanne, Belgium, for the exchange
of wireless telegraphic messages be-
tween Belgium and England,
The statement of the British Board
of Trade for the month of November
shows increases of ;65,488,000 in im-
ports, and 552,700 in exports.
Lord Roberta is expected to arrive
in London on January 3, He will be
met by the Prince and :Princess DI
Wales, and will proceed to 81. Paul's
Cathedral, where especial service of
thanksgiving will be held.
The British members of the Inter-
national Arbitration Count are Lord
Pauncefote ,Sir Edward Malet, tho
late British Ambassador to Germany;
Lord Justice of Appeals, and Prof.
John Westlake, professor of Inter-
national law at Cambridge University.
UNITh1D STATES.
Another negro lynching is reported
from, Rome, Georgia.
Geo. S. House, attorney, Joliet, 111„
died from the effedts'of it sorateh on
his toe.
el 111'iahlgau epmpany Stas reoelye3
an order for 300 earls tram a rallreed
in Spain
1)c+aver, Col,, (Mr Pouncll -has
ocnscd prize fights at 3550 Bee eeoh
perfeemenoe.
The annual eattenatos if tllc United
States Government for the :doming
year one tor 32011,743,762.
Mrs, John Hossack, of New Virginia,
Le,, was arrested et her btiabend's
grave, charged with lits murder,
Tyrone, Pa., has deuliited the gift of
a $50,000 pabiio library, as its intiin-
tenontee would be too expansive.
The jndgos tor the proposed United
Status Supreme Comet in the Philip.
Pines, are to number five with aalariee
of 3.0,000 eaolt.
Just$2,145 -wets paid for a :prize
stens, weighing 1,430 peunde, at. the.
Chicago Fat Stook Sbow on a'riday-'
thee highest price on record..
1?. C. Howitt, sen of former Mayos
Hewitt, of New York, has Invented
"a commerefal vapor light," whlob
may revolutionize the lighting 01 tbo
world,
H. B. Goodman, a Chicago million-
aire, risked lits life to save the lives
of others, in a mine accident near Al-
toona, Pa., Both; his logs had to be
amputated.
Capt. W. A. Andrews' of Boston, who
has oroseed Lhe Atlantic in a small
boat fear times, and failed in three
other attempts, will Ley again, this
time in an 11 -foot foiling canoe.
Wm. Seaton, aged 22, attempted the
extermination of an entire party of
bis relatives at Seattle, Wash. Twe
of the six he, had left for dead will re.
cover. 'Be was shot twice before being
caiptuxed,
The United States Government has
appropriated $100,000 for the pur-
chase of 3,000 °attic and 500 brood
mares ' to improve the stook of Cuban
tanners, to whom they will be sold
on "easy terms,"
A report is rife in Net. York that
'Vickers, Sons, & Maxim, Limited, of
England, have instituted negotlationa
for the purchase of the Midvale Steel
Works and tis Cramp Shipbuilding
Company of Philadelphia.
GENERAL,w
An electric railay is to be built
up Mount Beano,
Japan intends bo build her own
warships hereafter.
Berlin's population is 1,884,345, an
increase of 200,000 in five years.
The scarcity of Boal in France is
crippling industrial interests.
So far 52 Catholic missioaariea and
0,000 native Christians have been
massaored in China.
The Sultan has agree to pay claims
al Germamr4 injured in Morocuo and to
punish the offenders.
Ocaiservativeand agrarian journals
object to the Kaiser's decree that
English meet be taugbt in the schools.
Tile cotton crop in Central Asia is
expected be be excellent this year, ac-
cording to Vice -Consul Smith at
Moscow.t
W,ha'is known as the; foot and
mouth disease is prevalent in Char-
ente and neighbouring departments
in France.
Owing to recent . heavy rains tho
River Serene, in Belgium, has over-
flowed the suburbs and Inundated' a
portion of Ibe city of Brussels.
In Northern and Southern Luzon
the Philippine rebels are unusually
active and American troops are kept
busy. The rebels fight and retreat
like the Briers, lauL the Amartcun re-
ports indicate that many of the in-
surgents are killed.
A GRUESOME CARGO.
1,300 Mond Salorsand Soldiers brought
to 5113 Pr.uelsee.
A despatch from Sam Francisco, says
-The transport Haewuook arrived on
Munduy from Manila by way of Naga-
saki, with a gruesome cargo. it
cmmsisted of the bodies; of about f11-
teenhundred sailers and soldiers who
either died in battle or succumbed
Lo the ravages 0f disease. en the Phil-
ippines, Cbina, anon Ind Honoluld.
This is the largest number of bodies
brought bona einem the outbreak of
the Spaniel°-Ainarlcun war. '1'h llan-
Leek will likely remaisi in itl'aarantine
for tt few days.
The bodies will be convoyed '10 Pre-
tidio and placed in the buildings
there pending internment or shipment
• e the homes of, the relatives.
--.-e-
h'it(15"T B.LNK NOTE.
In the showcases devoted Lo exhibits
of early printing from Japan and
Cbina the British Museum authorities
have just placed an interesting addi-
tion -a Chinese !Dank note issued dar-
ing Lbe ,reign of the Emperor Hung -
Wu, A. D. 1105-1399. This is the curl-
iest specimen of a bank note known
to exist in tiny country, and is 300
years earlier than the establishment
at Stockholm of the first European
bank which issued notes. Abont 18
imehss in length, and half that in
width, it is a ouripes looking docu-
ment.
VALUE OF MUSIC.
ltrs, Maternal -I ant sorry you are
going back be Genteelly. Had f not
bailer get another music Loaehor for
my daughter t
Prof. Von Note Id ees nod n000s•
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easy, She knows enough museek to;
get naarrled