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The Brussels Post, 1901-7-18, Page 7Ili NEN I fi 11111 THE VERY LATEST FROM az, THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Hems .bot Qu' Chen Country, Greet OrieelO, t thlited States, en( All Parts of tilfe 0,10R93 CalideaSed and Aeseittell /Or as Reed CANADA. There aro 20 (Agar monafactories in London. Ladies' day on the Guelph street railway realized $4.30, Hamilton Board of Trade has a momberehip of The Straits of Belle Ie le are re- ported to be bloeked with ice. There peased through the " ()anal 4,519,075 tons of freight dur- ing June, All the houses quarantined for emalliox in Montreal have been . re - Tax collector Butterfield's defalea,- tion is reported at Belleville to be oVer $16,000, Thelltolokame seat, of Rues/a, numbering 32,000 people, intend set. tling in Saskatchewan. The rifle submitted. by Sir Charles Ross to the Militia Ilepartmea is to be tested at Quebec, The R. & 0. Navigation Company will consteuct a ship railway for the the repair of ships at Sorel, Que. _Deputy Minister Smart is inspect- ing all the offices of the Interior De- partment between Whuilpeg and Van- couver. Three prisoners in Portage la Prairie jail were pardoned for help- ing capture [mother prisoner who was trying to escape. Mrs. liargaret Sampson, formerly of Hamilton, took carbolic acid at Niagara Falls. Her husband had deserted her. She was blind. Alarming reports regarding the Manitoba crop being in danger owing to wet weather are said to be un- founded. Crain -men say crop pros- pects are first-class. Jos. Ball,in More= district, was fiercely attacked by a bull, but a small dog attracted the animal's at- tention, mid Ball escaped, with brok- en ribs and wounds not dangerous. Wesley Trarrell, a Hamilton boy, stepped on a loose plank in a bridge over the Grand Trunk which was be- ing repaired, and ivas throwe 85 feet to the tracks below, and fatally injured. The monument to Queen Victoria has boon hoisted upon its granite Pedestat in the Parliament grounds at Ottawa. The Duke of Cornwall and York will perferm the unveiling ceremony. Carlisle D. Graham, wkio went through the Niagara Rapids in a barrel -boat on September 1, 1889, now declares that he will make the attempt to repeat tile Performance if he can elude the police, who are watching him. closely,. GREAT BRITAIN. Lord Russell's bigamy trial will begin in the Rouse of Lords July 18th. Six officials aro censured for errors In constructing the new English roy- al yacht. Mrs, Matthew Arnold, widow of the British poet critic and "Apostle of Culture," is dead at London. According, to a report just made there are 28,8n4 juvenile temperance societies in the British Islands, with a membership of 3,536,000. The statement of the British' Board of Trade for the month of June shows decreases of 11805,800 in im- ports and 112,450,000 in exports. 'The Diamond . Match Company, Limited, of England, has =alga - mated with Bryant & May, the fam- ous firm of match makers of Bow, Xing E,dward VII. has accepted from a member of Parliament a pre- sent of a number of 'American bronze turkeys, imported into England in a wild state. A bill will be introduced into the British Parliament legalizing hun- dreds of marriages now invalid be- cause performed in unlicensed churches. Orders have been received at Ports- mouth for several ships of the fleet reserve, including a torpedo-boat de- stroyer, to shortly join the Mediter- ranean squadron. The King has announced his inten- tion of presenting the 4th Battalion Royal Welsh Pusillers (Carnarvon Merioneth Militia) with a goat from the flock in Windsor Park, to re- place the ono that died recently. Lady Beatrice Pole -Carew and lier ,sister, Lady 0. Butler, have been 'awarded 1150 compensation at Clon- anel Quarter Sessions for the mali- cious burning of 500 acres of wood at Canaria. county, Tipperary, Afrs. •Ronalds, one of the Ainerican ladies who raised the fund with which the hospital ship Mairie was bought and equipped, has been gm,- zetted as an honorary lady of grace of the Order of St, John of Jerusalem The Secretary to the Admiralty announced in the House of Commons that the British, naval pa -evaluate , for this year includes ,three new bate tleships, six new cruisers, and ten improved torpedo-boat destroyers, Li the Roue.) of • Commons on Thursday, Mr. Chamberlani, the Co- lonial Secretary, announced that a bill woeld shortly be introduced changing the title of the Ring, s.o es to more clearly reeognizo his sover- eignty over the entire British Etre Mee, There is a rumor that Pear 'Ad- miral, Lord Charles Beresford wants to resign the (Imam:mid of the MOW- teerenean squadron next Pebrtmay, in order to be free to criticize the Gov- ernment's naval and inflititry Malley and its adminietration of alfaire itt general; The Scoteli iren and steel Mahon are preparing to ffenti en infinential deputation ot Manufaetneere to the United StxiIe lit Septelnber to study trade eoaditions with a edeW Of de- vieleg meana for better Ineetieg Arnerieteri eMapetitien p neutral markets, Great unenstriese prevails In Len- dou colniateial cirelea °Wing te the far-reaching reeult of the Gorman financial crisia. Many Britisii,erins having dealings with a erme,ey are making inquiries as to the stability et their customer% including those who have been for Years on their bo eke. Negotiationhave been in progress for some time looking to the estab- lishment ot a parcel poet between Canada mid Mexico. It has boon disecrvered, however, that under the United States postal regulation% Mosecl parcels cannot enter that eollatrY, so no parcels can bo allow- ed transmission between Canada and alexia() across the territory of Miele Sane. UNITED STATES. Ithaca, N, Ye le suffering frwn a frog Pest after the recent heavy rains. . Geroninao Parra was hanged for murder in Texas which he did not commit. Fourteen harvest hands in Suinker County, Ohio, nave been made in- sane by the heat. 'Phere were 17 coal and 137 gold - 'Malec' companies carrying on Ma- ness in the Transvaal before the war broke out. Seventy -live 'miners from the Klon- dike have arrived at Seattle with $1,000,000 in gold. At Huntingdon, Incliana, an ex- press train rem into a carriage, killing three persons, 10. A. McConkey, a fernier, killed John Bryant and his son with a club, at Albany, Mo, At Derby, Conn., a ,young man, Burton Griffin, died from the effects of a kissing bug's bite. There is a movement among rail- road companies at Chicago to dis- pense with train vendors, At Seattle J. P. Morgan & Co. bave purchased the Northern Pacific Steamship Company's Oriental lines. St. Agnes' Catholic Church, Brook- lyn, Was struck by lightning and en- tirely destroyed at a loss of $250,- 000. The President has signed the com- mission of William E. Taft, Ohio, to be Civil Governor of the Philip- pine Islands. At the next election in Iowa, there will be a warm contest between those favoring and opposing woman suffrage, Prof, Francis J. Burtwell, ornith- ologist, was accidentally strangled to death while descending from a tree on a rope. Topeka, Kansas, has a now order, called "The Independent Order of Men Who Refuse 'Po Pay The Other Fellow's Street Car Pare." Charles 11 Dituchy, of Troy, has filed a petition in bankruptcy with debts 5181,216, and assets, except such as will cover about $5,000 se- cured claims. A band of armed men hold up and robbed a train near Malta, Montana, Wednesday. In the shooting that ensued several persons were danger- ously injured. At a wedding in Now York last Sunday the bridegroom., the best man and the bridesmaid were all decked out in the daintiest shirt waist creations of all white. The United States statement of its public debt shows that at the close of the ilscal year, June 30, 1901, the debt, less cash in the Treasury, was 81,044,739,120, a decrease dur- ing June of $17,787,874. On account of the fear of ghouls, the body of Abraham Lincoln, which has been reposing in a temporary vault, while repairs were being made on the Lincoln monument, has been secretly replaced in a private vault within the monument, GENERAL, Five Atnericans were arrested in Pekin for looting. The Boer prisoners at St. Helmut have started a paper. The plague mortality at °aloe Town is 16 per coatso far. The Czar has contributed 54751000 to the landless peasantry oi Finland. Beet root is to be culikilated on 40,000 acres of land in Upper Egypt.. Tho Valley of the Volga will Suffer famine on account of the intense drought. A terrible storm at Simferopol, Crimea, washed away all the, bridges and drowned two children. On account of the plague at Con- stantinople, all nations will estab- lish quarantine against it. Cecil Rhodes will remove the re- mains of fallen Rhodesians to a no, - Menai mausoleum in Rhodesia. It is stated that three large steel compauies at Bilbao, Spain, have Ismnbined with a capital of $2,180,- 00. In an Italian regimeat whieh was marching from Pisa to Leghorn there were 80 cases of sunstroke, while many of the aoldiers dropped from exhaustion. The French Chamber of Deputies has voted supplementary credits amounting 10 80,000,000 francs to defray thoexpeeses of Frauce'e Chin- es The Berlin police are watching fer Attilo Plaid and Enrico (31511, Itl1an anarchists, who are described as in- tending to come to 13erlin for a criminal purpose," A light has occurred betweee Mus- sulnutns and ChrJLian at Gussingo, en the Albaeian-Montonemin fron- tier, toe Christittne beitg killed and many others wounded, ' The Belgium Government will sup- press all evideuces Of hostility to Great Britain. Prieme Von Holionlohe, fermorly German Taipei...MI Chanconor, died at negate, SWitzeriand. a The American Tiu Plato Works at Sharon, Pa., will grant no employe a vacation this summer folios lie goes on hie wedding tours IIARINTS OF TEE WORLD Prim Of Catt10,031033e, Gni% 40 Ili the Leading Market% 'rtrente, July 16.—Wheat —The wheat Market was firmer te-daY, with efferiefes restrieted, No, 2 white and red winter would have been taken at; Ole, north and west, and at 6.9e, middle freight, but beide ere asked, more, No, 1 spring le quoted at (ia to 65e, on Midland, anti )9o. 2 goose et 09 to 00e, Miele We freight, Manitoba wheat—Quiet, with bin. 1 hard quoted at Nrladlog transit; No, 5 xtt 77e, and No. 8 at 72c, For Toronto and West 20 lower. Millfeed, — The market ie steady, Bran quoted at $11,50, miadle freight, and sitorts itt $18, middle freight, ' Corm—The market is quiet, with offeelege email,. No, 2 Cana.dian yellow quoted at 4:040 west, and mixed .400 west. On track here the quotation is 40e. leye.--The market 15 dull, with prices nominal et 46c, middle freight Buckwheat.—Marketdull, with prices purely, nominal, Peas.—Nothing doing. Barley.—Market is steady; No, 2 quoted at 41e, middle freight, and at 400, high. freight. Oats,—The demand is fair, with sales to -day of several ears of No, 2 white at 30e, high freight, and of 10,000 bush. at 80/o, middle freight. Flour.—Tracle continues quiet, with exporters not offering more than $2.50 west for 90 per cent, patents in buyers' sacks, Straight rollers in barrels for Lower Provinces, $8, and Manitoba patents, ga, and strong bakers', $3.70. Oatmeal.---arierket quiet and steady, Car lots at 83.65 in bags, and $5.:75 in wood; small lots 20e extra.. DAIRY MARKETS. Dutter.—Choice qualities in good demand and Arm, but off grades hard sell. Pound rolls job at 16 to 163c; Iwo rolls, 14 to 153c; select- ed dairy, tubs, 16 to 164e; dairy, tins, crocks, and pails, le, to 1 medium grades, 13 to 14.c. Cre ery prints, 200; do. solids, 19 9 "-EasY.: No. 2 red, 730 aske,d; No. 1 white would. bring 74e. me No, ,2 51*01 Na. 13 do., raio; No. 2 Om, 510i No. 3 do., 503e through billed. Oats-4)4141ot I No, a white, tine; No. 2 mixed, 5, Dailey—Spot offered 50 to 51e, Rye No. 1, 56e oohed on tea* and in store. Detroft, July 10.—Wheat Wooed— No. 1 white, cash, 073e; No. 2 rod, 0530; ‘411Y, 663e; September, St. Louie, July 10,—W1ieat closed —Cash, 603c; July, 000; September, 61 d LIVE S9O-01C MARKET. Toronto, July 16,—The receipts at. the Western cattle market teday were 50 ear loade of live etock, in- 2elf:d12:1,gici11,2c05:se,attle, 1,234 sheep and lambs 1,000 hogs, 60 calves, and The enquiry all round was good, ariees were well maintained and an early °Merano° Was effected. The export cattle was of a good quality, and trade was brisk, Good to choice shippers ranged from 43 to 53c per pound, and light shippers are worth from 4* to 430 per pound. About everything sold, The butcher eattle hero toaay was as a rule a little better off in quality but for good stuff quotations aro steady, at from 4 to 440 per pound, and for picked lots 10 to 15e over was paid; ineditun to common stock W55 unchanged, but seine of the poorer stuff was slow of sale. There was a slow enquiry for stockers; not many here, and prices nominally unelningedt • Goosi feeders are scarce, steady and wanted. The small stuff was in ample sup- ply, but everything sold at steady, unchanged prices. There was an up- ward tendency in choice ewes. Export ewes fetch from 88,25 to 83.4.0 per cwt. Bucks sell at 23 to 2/c por pound. Butcher sheep (mine) are worth from $2.50 to 83 each, Spring lambs are worth $2.50 to 54 4eagesh. Hoare steady and unchanged. The best price for "singers" is 740 per pound; think fat and light hogs are worth filc per pound. 60; Hogs to'fetch the top price must am- be of prime quality, and scale not to below 160 -nor above 200 pounds, quote.- Eggs.—The market Is steady, with fine, fresh stock selling at 113 to 1.2c per dozea in case lots. Second, 10c. Cheese.—Market quiet and prices steady. Full cream, SePteinber, 950; do new, 93 to 93c. DRESSED ITOGS AND pnovP-... SIONS. Dressed llogs are unchanged here at $9.25 to $9.75. Rog products firm, as follows:—I3a.con, long clear, ton and case lots, 11c. Pork—afess, $19.50; do, short out, $21. Smoked Meats.—Hams, 134 to 14c; breakfast bacon, 14 to 15e; rolls, 114 to 12, beaks, laic, and shoul,d- ers, 11c. Lard.—Palls, 114 to 113e; tubs, 113c; tierces, 110. MONTREAL MA.REETS, Montreal, July 16.—The markets show little change. The grain ram.- ket 'continues quiet. Ontario flour is becoming very scarce. Buyers have so cleaned up the market, o ing to low freight rates, that man millers in Ontario have closed dow while others are on the point of d ixig so. They are consequctntly wri g their agents in this city to take no further orders in these brands. Grain—No. 1 Ontario spring wheat, afloat, May 78c; peas, 77c, afloat. No. 1 oats, 853c; No. 2 oats, 844 t 85e; buckwheat, 58.3; rye, 55e, and: No. 2 barley, 50c. Flour, Manitob patents, 54.20; strong bakers', 83.9 to 84; straight rollers, 58.30 t $8.45, in bags 81.60 to $1.65; On tario patents, 53.75 to $4 Feed Manitoba bran at $13.50 to $1.4 shorts, 816; Ontario bran in bulk $1.5 to 816; shorts, in bulk, 815.5 to 516; middlings, in bulk, $17 t 817.50. Rolred oats—Millers' price to jobbers $8.70 to 83.80 per bbl., and $1.773 in bags. Provisions — Heavy Canadian short-cut mess pork, boneless, 820.50 to $21; fam- ily short-cut back pork, 819.50 to $20; heavy short-cut clear pork, $19 to $19.50; pure Cana,dian lard, in 275-1b. tierces, 1130; parchment-lin- od, 500 -lb. boxes, 11Ic; parchment - lined pails, 200 lbs., 3.2c; tin pails, 111e; tins, a, 0, 10 lbs., 12 to 12Ic; compound refined lard in 875-11). tierces, 113c; parchment -lined wood ' pails 20 lbs., 8c; tin pails, 20 /be., 73c; hams, 121 to 140; and bacon 14 to lfic per lb; fresh -killed hogs, 59.50 04 to 810 per /00 lbs. Butter, creamery, 10e to 20e; seconds c 18 to 181cadairy, 16 to 161c. Eggs — Good-sized lots Of No. 1, 11 to 1.130; No, 2, 84 to 93c. Cheese -- Ontario, 03c; Quebec, 81c; Maple products — New syrup at 6ac per lb. in wood, 70 to 75c per tin, sugar, 0 to 10c per lb. Potatoes—Jobbers. prices, 50 to 60c. P m ollowg is the range of tions:— Cattle. Shippers, per cwt.... .... $4.75 • light 4.25 I3utcher, choice, do 4,00 Butcher, ordto good 8.25 Dutcher, inferior... 2.75 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per cwt8.25 3.40 Yearlings, grainfed,owt 4.00 4.50 Culled sheep, each 2.50 3,00 Lambs, spring, each. -5.50 1.00 Bucks, per cwt... 2.50 2.75 Milkers and Caves. cows, eath ,...........20.00 45.00 Calv?s, each 2.00 10.00 Choice hogs, per cwt6.75 7.25 Light hogs, per cwt6.50 6.75 Heavy hogs, per cwt6,50 6.75 Stags, per cwt....- 0.00 2,00 $5.124 4.624 4.60 3.75 8.00 LARGEST OUTBREAK. TO BARVBST Tfir CRop. North-West 8441 to Regain TIVelve A despatTelh; fUreS.141:4e rTtilo'nto says:— Twelve thousand farm laborers will be required fro= Ithestern Canada to harvest the enormous wheat (iron which 11 is expeeted Manitoba and the Northwest will yield this year. This number is approximatelY• What 11 te thought will have to be sup- plied from outside sources if the great crop Is to be safely harvested, and while onleial 11511105 have net yet come forward from the Manitoba Gavernment it is likely that the fig- ures gfven will be found practically correct. It must be it record crop to require this number of outside harvestere. The largest number ever sent out be. fore was to thousand, tevo years ago, Lest year, owing to the failure oi the crops in Manitoba farm hands 'froze. Ontario were not needed, and the railwaye did not run their usual farm laborers', exeursiens. leIr. W. Scott, a representative of the Mani- toba Government, hoe been in To- ronto .inquiring into the prospects for securing men from this Province, and stating that 12,000 hands woald be needed. Ontario is relied upon to supply the majority of the farm laborers required, but Quebec and the Marithrie Provinces will also be drawn upon to as large an extent as possible, It seems to be a ques- tion, indeed, as to whether enough mon can be secured. . The Canadian Pacific Railway is fully alive to the necessity of ob- taining enough men to harvest the crop, and this year will run the farm laborers' excursions a little earlier in, the season than usual. While the arrangements are not -yet completed, it is expected that three excursions will be run from Ontario between August 5th and 704. The rate go- ing will be 510 from all points in Ontario, with $1.8 the single return faro. The Manitoba Government is at present receiving reports from all points in the wheat growing terri- tory as to the exact number of men that w111 be needed, and that infor- mation will be issued shortly. Mr. James Hartney, Emigration Agent for the Manitoba Government in To- ronto, is out in the Province arrang- ing for excursions. Be is at present operating aromid Arnprior, Packen- ham and Calibogie, on the Canada Atlantic line. These are lumbering districts, but if work is scarce there men might be secured for Manitoba who otherwise would not think- of going out. Western Ontario always sends a large number of farm. hands to the west when they are required there, and with the high wages that garded as likely to be a very large 0 are pretty certain to be :d the excursion from that distriet is m- "FORT CANADA." South African Constabulary Like Their Work. A despatch frozn Ottawa, says :— Li a private letter writtea from ICrugersdorp, Capt. Lawless, of the South African Constabulary, says iis command has just finished eon- treating a fort which they have ailed Fort Canada. At Krugers orp they built three block -houses, even feet high, and with a five-foot• 0,dius. Through these block -houses re loopholes. The men are con- Lantly sniping at the Boers. Just couple of days before the letter as seat one of the men was shot rem ambush by a Boer. III fact he enemy pretty well surround the tation. The work is hard, but we re in perfect health and like the fe," he says. With Lawless are apts. Bristol and Bennett, POLICE GUARD. 1 There Were 98 Cases of Smallpox c in Brant County. w- A despatch froni. Toronto says :— Y Dr. C. A. Rodgetts has returned a from investigating the smallpox out - 0" break B at Scotland, In rant Colin- a t" ty. The 'disease existed in the town- a, ships of Burford, Oakland and Mid- f ham. Dr. Ilodgetts visited 84 t houses, and found there had been al- s together since April no less than. 08 a cases of smallpox or varioloid (which is smallpox modified by vac - ciliation). Of the remaining 56 por- e sons who wore in the infested houses, • 45 had been successfully vaccinated, thus forming a striking contrast, the - inspector remarks, to the 81 myna - 'ciliated persons who had suffered 6 from, the disease. Dr. Iledgetts O comments on the difficulty of proper - O ly diagnosing smallpox, which in 'UNITED STATES MARKETS, Milwaukee, July 16.—Wheat, stea- dier close, No. 1 Northern, 664 to 604c; No, 2, do., 68 to 643e; Sopt„ 64[1e. sept. corn, 494 to 5Nc. Rye —SteadY; No. 1, 484e. Barley -- Steady; No, 2, 54e; sample, 85 to 8530. Toledo, July 16.—Cash end July, 661e; Sept., 653c; Deo., Mc. "Corn— Cash and july, 48e; Sept„ 4040 ; Dec. 49c. Oats—Cash, July and Sept., 8000. leye-51c. Cloverseed - -Cash, prime, 56,50, Oil—Unchang- ed' Minneapolis, July 16.--Close— Wheat—Cash, 62)0; Puly, 613 to 6130; Sept, 613; on track, No. 1, hard, 6,1e; No, 1 Northern, 623; No. 2 do,, 61 c. Duluth, July 16.— Close — Wheat— Cash, No, 1 hard, 68ilieNo. 1 North- ern, 653e; No, 2 do., 6010; July, No. 1 Northern,' 65d0; Oats and corn— Nene. Dullalo, July 16.-111our-.Quiet and easy, Speiere wheat—Strong but dull; No. 1 Northern, old, 7140; do., aiew, 704e, eakoacls; No. 1 North- ern, olch 0.1.1., 704e. Winter wheat SpeCial Peotection for the Heir - Apparent in Canada. A despatch from Ottawa. says: - 00101 interest is being taken in the iangements for the protectioa of Royal party while they are in nada., and that the arrangemente this protection Will be very coin- ete. t is stated that the secret police 11 be considerable augmented for e time the Duke is in Canada, and at only picked men will be engaged. All trains arriving in cities where • Royal visitors are staying will closely watched for suspicious aracters, and if any are found, it said they will be arrested and clo- ed until it is deemed safe to set ni free again. Sp this case, as in numy others, was at supposed to be chickenpox. In the th neighborhood affected, two-thirds of °a the people were unprotected by vac- foi cination, tho result of which, the lel doctor says, ifl an object lesson to I other municipalities, wi Dr. Hodgetts is of opinion that th unless prompt and efficient measures th are taken oy municipalities in re- porting suspicious cases and securing th general vaccination the approach of be the autumn will see an outbreak eh more alarming and mere disastrous than any seen for some years, The tai:She following tabie showing the ages of the various patients in the Scotland outbreak is of interest :— Under ono year, 2 cases; 1. to 10, 40 cases; 10 to 20, 18 eases; 20 to 80, 18 cases ; 30 to .10, 10 cases ; 40 Dir to 50, 7 cases ; 50 to GO, 5 cases ; 60 to 70, 3 cases. A ' Th s 4 RAILWAY TELEPHONES. 8k1 iPt:s ONTREAL'S POPULATION. eatery Increases it 5,000 Over Last Year. despatch from Montreal says :— a Montreal Directory, which was ed on Wednesday, estimates the mlation of Montreal and out- rts itt 816,000. Last Yoar's O- ath was 340,000. In the city par the compilers of the directory mate that there ere 297,000, eh leaves a 'population of 40,000 the outskirts. The directerY tains 85,009 names and eutuner- s the residents of the eight Mend - streets of Montreal. The direct - shows that the city is in it from, ng condition, for the collectors lames were able to discover only 33 unoccupied stores and rest- ces. This is just a thousand less u they found without, occupants Year:. pro Telegraphie Communication Be- esti A despatch from Scranton, Pa., tWeen Stations to bo Given Up. coeilhi says: — U'elegraphie communication atn,, between atatioes of the Delaware, „ed Lazio:lemma, & Western Railroad will %, within a few months be a thing of 1),Z the past, so far as its connection with the railroad is concerned. Tele- "a`.,i phones, equipped with phonographs, !;'-'• so that an exact record of every , dell word spoken can be obtained, ore be- 11„a,,,, ing rapidly instituted for the tole - graph keys. This experiment has been tried on the Morris. and Essex division of the railroad, and is said bdellehalIaitg"Tl°la8teri?tave pimvenmoesatisfa169 tory than even its Most saaguinh supporters enticipated. All the branches of the Delaware, Lecke.- Teo walnut & Western systeni aro being on equipped With the phenographie tole- of t phone, and within a few months, beg; according to Mr. Clarke's estimate, man the Mein line from Now York to BufIbo - falo will be operated by the tow system. NAVAL MANOEUVRES. Vessels of the Navy te be En- gaged. despatch from Lohdon says:— Admiralty issued instructions Wednesday night for 160 vessels he navy to (sewage in manoeuvres 'ming July 20. During these oeuvres the two mein fleets of partleipating vessels will con- tend for the command of the English Channel, ' SKIM APRIcAri maas, Tho, Ape with. the Mike ea Doard th 4 tlespotohferor Oir. tte,wit says ;— The Medale which are t0. be present- ed to Oaxiadian. South Afrienn sol- diers by Ms 'loyal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York are on board 3131. M O. Oplilr, which ie eon., Veying the Royal parte. They are in charge of Lieutenant the Duke of Roxburgh°, who, upon the arrival of of the Ophir in Quebec, will hand them over to the general °Meer own- manding, and the next day they will be presented by Das Royal Highness. This arrangements means that the medals 10111 not be engraved, so that as in the case of =me of the medals of 1835, the engraving will, have to be croMe at the expense of the Judi,- vidual recipient or of his regiment. It appears that all the medals for the Australian and Canadian con- tirigents were sent out together in the Oplair, The Duke of Roxburgh, in whoee charge they are, is a lieu- tenant in the Ith Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, •er THE NEW OBSERTATORY. Expeeted to be Equipped and Ready for Use in the Year. ' despatch from Ottawa says a - Work on the new Government tamer- vatory at the Central Experimental Farra will be begun within a month, and the institution is expected to be equipped and ready for use in the course of the year. It will be sit- uated at the north side of tlie farm, which is the roost accessible point from the electric railway line. The standard time, which is now obtain- ed for Ottawa daily from McGill University, will be furnished by the new observatory, the 152 -inch equa- torial telescope for which is now being constructed in Cleveland, MAUVE, LILAC, GREY. Also Black and White Can be Worn Dur. lug Royal Visit A despatch from Ottawa, says:— Major Maude, Governer General's secretary, has issued the following memo in reference to the Royal visit:— "During the forthcoming visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, and York to Canada half raourning should be wore by ladies, according to Queen Alexandra's orders, that is, mauve, lilac, grey, or black and white." Addresses for presentation to his Royal Highness should be commenced 08 follows:—"To Ris Royal Highness George Frederick Ernest Albert; Duke of Cornwall and York, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Eillarney,K.G., P. C., K. P., G. C. M. G., G. C. V. D., LL. D. , D. C. L., etc., et. May it please your Royal High»ess." If desired reference may be made to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall and York in the body of the address. BURGLAR'S QUEER DEATH. Eilled by Explosion of Nitro -Glycerine in Efis Bip Pociket. A despatch from Dubuque, Iowa, says:—An unknowet burglar was over- taken by retributive -justice at Ben- ton, Wis., on Monday night. He was forcing an entrance to a cream- ery office when it trap door fell, striking and exploding a quantity of notro-glyceriee he Was carrying in his hip pocket. Ha was instantly killed and the mangled body waa found in the morning. HE WILL MARRY AGAIN. Lord Rosebory Said to be Betrothed to the Duchess or Albany. A. despatch from Manchester says: —The Daily Despatch claims to have good authority for stating that the Duchess of Albany, widow of Queen Victoria's fourth son, is about to be betrothed to Lord Rosebery. The paper says that the Duchess will ac- company the King on his forthcom- ing visit to Scotland, and that the formal announcement of the betroth- al will be made during his Majesty's stay at Holyrood, or iMmediately after, THE DUKE'S CHARGERS. Department of militia caned Upon to Provide Twelve. A despatch from Ottawa says:— The Department of Militia has receiv- ed from his Excellency the Governor- General, a request for the horses which are to be used as mounts for the Duke of Cornwall and York, his party and staff. The requisition calls for eight thoroughly trained chargers for the use of IL 11. IL and party on reviews, and four other chargers, which aro to be blacks, for the use of the staff, making a total of twelve chargers wMch the De- partment will have to provide. BOER PRISONERS ESCAPE. .They Wore Speedily Itooaptured arid put in Irons. A despatch from Hamilton, Ber- muda, says:—Three Boer prisoners of war escaped on Tuesday night from the island in the sound on which they had been confined. They were recaptured mid put in irons, Barr:mu & Bailey's circus train has been in collision at Beauthen, Upper Silesia. Ono pereon was killed arid several were injured. Great damage was done to the material of the show. The Berlin Vossisehe Zoltung printS an editorial, declaring that Germany, undo no conditions, Would permit Franco to acquire Morocco or the key to the Mediterranean near Gib- raltar, .A, nun, whose expulsion from a re- ligions order hail been brought about by Abbe Fouchard of Nantes, France, attacked with it club as he knelt at the clumel altar and dan- gerously wottaded 11 BOERS SH131,14gP T1•18 VA% 110*4144°4d 05 Ron, Mr, Xcerheidt Aural) agar° uto nYee• A. despatch from Dope Town fleet% —The homestead of the lion, lar Ug erboldt, near ilfurrayeburg, wee burnesi by it hand of rebele linden Commandant Schooners lafit MondaY. Zar, lierholdt wee insul ted and threatened, Ilis family was elected from the house, and compelled to witness its destruction, Its Valtiable contents were looted. Mr. lIerholde arrived at, Graaf( Roinot on Weds* day. The Doors under Conroy' atteeked the Town of Canmbell last Priday-6 and demanded its surrender, Title was refused, aod after half an hour'e truce for the removal of the wen= and children to a place of safetYe ilring began. The Dre of the Deere quickly weakened, but sniping) coil- tinued until sunset. The Boers re- tired during the night; The Dritish sullered no casualties. Another cousin of rt. E. Sauer hae been captured at Stormberg.150 carried documents showing that lie served under the Doer General De Wet, 11, D. Sauer, brother of the former Commissioner of Public Works, was recently convicted of be- ing a ringleader of the Cape Colony Iiebele, and sentenced to it Year's 134- prisonment, SIXTY SETTLERS HOMELESS. ' netaus of Disastrous Forest Fires in thA • Temisearaingue District, A despatch from Toronto says: -- Disastrous forest fires raged in the neighborhood of Liskeard, Teinis- camingue District, during the early part of last week. Particulars were received by the Crown Lands Depart- ment on Thursday, which show that the conflagration raged over eight townships. Hudson, Kerns, Dymond, MaileY, EMT's, and Casey were cone- nietely burned over, and th.e settlers, some 00 in. number, lose all they, poseess, crops, buildings, and out- fits. Most of these were Poor men.: who had gone into the woods te make homes for themselves, antr therefore they are destitute. The Government will undertake measures of aid, but private assistance will be extremely welcome, The heavy rain- fall of July 3 ended the conflagra- tion, The village of Liskeard was for a time seriously threatened. For- tun.ately no lives were lost, accord-, Mg to all accounts, and the Town- ships of Armstrong and Milliarcle which were settled this sununere were practically unharmed, CHINESE GUNS FOR CANADA, British Government Makes the Dominion a Present of Two Cannon. A. despatch from Ottawa says:— eCsatninaacia itemtoenhtaovess a ociouptlien c of liinese War. His Excellency the Governor, General has received the following message from the lieutenant -general commanding the British aontingentt China Bald force:— "Sir, I have the honor to inform you that the principal ordaance of& cer of the Mina field force has, un.- - der instructions from me, despatch, ed the two guns shown in the attache ed statement for presentation to thel Canadian Government. The gun9. were shipped at Take on the 904 May, and have been consigned through to Ottawa, via Shanghai: and Vancouver to the address of Col., Pine:tilt, in charge of militia de, fences." The guns are of brass, smooth bore, being four cwt, each, the calibre being 8.25. They are about five feot long, replete with Chinese inscriptions, a.nd have the old-fash- itolirgudburass rings or hoops cast about EIGHT MEN KILLED. construction Train Falls Throue Erldge Under Repair. A despatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says:—According to information giv- en ant on Thursday afternoon at the headquarters of the Nickle Plate road' here, eight men were killed as the result of the collapse of it bridge at Springneld, Pa., while a construc- tion train was passing over tha structure, The bridge was being re* paired. When the locomotive and cars went down a gang of Italian laborers working beneath the bridge" were caught. At least, seven of thee Italians were instemtly killed, and ae number of others badly injured. pi A. Moore, of Conneaut, Ohio, the: conductor, was else instantly killed, The names of the dead laborers have' not yet been learned, SANITARY REGULATIONS. tnstruetione Issued for tho Unorganized Districts. A despatch from Toronto says:' - Tho Provincial Health Otecer, note ing under instructions from the Pro, vincial Secretary, has issued in Pam- phlet for= the regulations adopted by the Provincial Board of lIerilth„ under the authority of the act pas- sed last session, respecting sanitary, regulations la unorganized territor- ies, The ownen manager, agent- er foreman of any lumbering or netting camp, sawmill, smelting works or other inclestry or of any railway construction camp, lc:mated in an un- organized district, is made responsie hie for carrying out the regulations. Provision is made for preper venti- lation for dwelling houses occimied by the employees, and for the crate, Lion of it hospital building, or, he lien thereof, it propeely-equipped double -walled tent, With all fee/Mime for heatieg and ventimtion, Must he kept on hand i11 case of necessitye The pamphlet is being sent to all min owners in unorganized districts end ethers who come under the reg- ul a Lions. The costliest theatre-tieket over. sold. was for a Jenny Lind concert in 1850. lt brought 5650. ' Pushiest is busitiess, t1fl1iis the customer happens to be a lady, in which 0580 it becomes Strategy,