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The Brussels Post, 1902-6-19, Page 7THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Caine, pte in Trade Centres. mARKETs cm' Tim wortim. Torontot Juno 17. -Wheat -- The Market is quiet, and firmer, with No, al white and red winter quoted at 77 to 771c p.kc410 freight, No, 2 ainama gaoled at 75 to 76c middle height, and No. 2 goofie at 68e that, MenaObn, NO, 1, hard atoadY at 83c, Toronto and west; No. a Northern at 80ac, ancalsio. Nerth- can a 78*c, Toronto and west. Grinding lo traluat prices AO 'high- er, 33uc1w1teat Tile market is nomi- nal at 61 to eac east. nye) -- The market is dull, with prises nomiaal.. Peas - Trade dull, with No. 2 quoted at 75e west, Oats - The demand is fair, with pricesteady.. No. 2 white, 45 tO 46e middlo'freight, and 46c east. Jflou - Ninety per cent.. •Qatald° patent quoted at $2.92a middle freights, in buyers' sacks. Straight renews, in wood, quoted at $3.25 46 Manitoba flours are steady. Hungarian Patents, 34.05 to 34.25 dellaered an traek, Toronto, bag's included, and strong aakersa 33.80 to $8,95. Oatmeal - Car lots in bbls, 34.85 on track'and in sacks at 34,70. Broke)), lots, 25c extra, • Miltfeed - Bran ia than at, 318 to 818.50 outside. Shorts, 320.50 out- side. At Toronto, bi•an is 5l9, and shorts 321 in bulk. lianitoba.bran .320 in 'sacks, and shorts; $28 in sacks, Toronto. COUNTRY PRODETOE... Dried apples - Trade is quiet and prices unchanged at 5 to 54'c per lb. Eivaporated, 10a to 11a Hops - Trade quiet, with prices .steady at 130; yearlings, 7c. Honey - The 3aaarket is dull; comb, 52• to 32.25 per dozen. 13eans -- The market is dull at, 51 to 31,25..the latter for hand-picked, Hay, baled - The market is stea- dy, with fahademand; timothy, 510.- .50 to 511 for No. 1. Straw - The market is quiet, Car Jots on track quoted at 35 to 35.- .50, the latter for No. 1. Poultry -- Receipts aro small, and the demand fair. We quote:-Turs keys, young, 13e per lb.; do, old, 11 'to 12c; oldekene, 75 to 90c per pair. Potatoes -a This market is quiet, with car lots quoted at 72 to 750 per bag on track; small lots sell at :80 to 85e. TELE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter - The market is without change, with demand fair, and re- . eelpts equal to requirements. We quotea-Choice pound i•olle, 17 to . 18c; eltoice Mame retie an4-tubsal4 -to 15c; Medium, 13c; low grades, in tubs arid pails. 10 to 12c; creamery prints, X9 to 20c; and tubs, 18 to Eggs - The receipts are large, and feeling weaker. Case lots, 13a to 14c per dozen. Cheese Market is quiet, and _prices are unchanged. Now choice is jobbing at 10 to 104e, 110G PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are unchanged. Hog ,products in limited supply, ',with Prices firm; We quote: -Bacon, long 'clear, 11 to 114'c, in ton and case iots; mess pork, 321,50 to 322; do, -short, put, 323.50. . Smoked meats - Rams, 134'c to 14c; breakfast bacon, lla to 150; mile, 11* to 12c; bn.oks, 144' to 154; and shoulders, 11c. Lard - The market is firm, with good. demand. Wo quote tierces, llac; tubs, llatc; pails, 11/c; com- .Iteund, 9 to 100. , UNITED STATES' MARKETS. Beffalo, June 17. -- Plour,-Quiet .and dem. Wheat - Spring steady; No. a Northern ail., 760; whiter, goocll enquiry; No. 2 reit, 840. Corn - Quiet; No. 2 yellow, 671e; No. 8 :do., 67+c; No. 2 corn, 670; No. 8 do., 66+c. Oats - Strong; No. 2 white, 50c; No. :3 do., 494'c; No. 2 mixed, 4.70; No. 3 do., 46e. Rye - No. 1 in store offered at 614e. Toledo, June 17. - Wheat --Fairly active, firm; cash, 80e; June, 80c; July, 740; September, 73c. Corn - Dull, steady; cash, 624'm; July, 694e; .Soptember•58c; December, Ilac. Oats - Active, strong; cash, 44c; July, 874'c; new, 391c; September, 294c; new, 814c, Clovereeed-Dull, steady; cash, 35.074'; October, 35.- 12+. . Duluth, Jane 17. - Close -Wheat Cash No. I, hard, 761c; No. 1 North - ere, 734e; No. 2 Northern, 72c; Manitoba No. 1 Northern cash, 78+e; No. 2 Northern, 734'e. Oats -- September, 294'c. Minneapolis, June 17. -- Close -- Wheat - July, 74S,c; September, 581c; on track, No. 1 hard, 780; No, 1 Northern, 75 to 75tc; No. 2 Northern, 78 to 785c. Milwaukee, Janie 17. - Wheat - Higher; close, No. 1 Northern, 77 to 774c; No. 2 Northern, 76 to 76*c; July, 713c. Rye - Steady; No, 58e. Barley -Higher, St. Louis, June 17. -- Wheat - -Clote6 --- Coati, 761c; July, 694e; September, 68/c. . LXVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, June 17, -At the Western, cattle yards to -day the receipts were 77 carloads of 'live stock, including 1,000 (attic, 1,226 sheep au d lambs, 1,200 hogs, 170 calves, and 25 Balch cows. ' Trade was Magic, and prices Were iii•mer for good stun', but for good stuff only. The advance woo more apparent than real ; the email quantity of . choice export cattle foiled a ready sale at prices thnt, ranged.fitan 6 to ftte per lb, and 16 a few easee as much as 610 Was pad. • Butcher cattle was in fair demand et from 41 to No per lb, and for choice lots about 10 to 160 higher, Ilat emninoa ,stuff ie no stronger or in hater demand than it Was bn TO9OdaY. lailch cows, stockOrS, 048011 Mills, and epringere aie pet quotably changed. 0004. atothers will sou. Choice Milell COWS are in dam'and Good to eimice veal calace two wanted herd. - Small Stuff is limner in price, and in bettor domancl, but not qiietablY thangod,, Nilelt ccin'a .ancl spetegers, Seld at $80 to $50 theta Calves Sold at from 32 to $10 each, or from 34,50 ta 35.50 Per cwt. $Pring leads are worth 32.50 to $5 each, Sheep are ateady and Wanted. at 35,76 to $4 for owes. Huth* are'Worth front 38 to $8,50 Per Owt. 1. Hoge, are wealcoe, ana the ten- dency in clownstard, 'Phe tem price of thole° hogs al 30,874' per cwt ; light and fat hogs are 36.62* per cwt. Hogs -To fetch the top price meet be of prime quality, and scale not below 100 nor above 200 lbs. Isollowiag is the rang,e of quota- tion Cattle. Shipper, per cwt... $5.25 56.50 do, light .„... 4.50 0.50 Butcher, choipe... ... „a... 4.75 5.60 Li it teller, ordinary to good.,.„ 8,75 4,40 Stockers, per cwt.,. 3.00 4.00 Sheep and Lamba, Choice owes, per cwt 8.75 4.15 Yearlinge, per -cwt.:. 5.00 5.50 Spring lambs, each ... 2.00 5.00 Botha, per cwt.. ... 3,25 8.50 • • Milkers and Calvo. Cows, eaoh..• 25.00 50.00 Calves, ... 2.00 10.00 Hogs. Choice hogat per, cwt.:- 6.75 6.874' Heavy Hogs, per cwt6.50 6.62* Sows, per cwt. ... 8.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt..... 0.00 2.00 SIX FAST sHIPS. British - Canadian Combine to Spend 342,500,000 on Fleet. A London despatch says: The newspapers here continue to discales the British shipping combine, as though the project hacl assumed quite tangible shape. The West- minster Gazette intimates that the Cunard Lino will not join in form- ing the proposed Canadian -British line, and it says that the Colonial Secretary,, Mr. Chamberlain, 'favors aubsidizing the latter project, rather than the Clunard plan, whith is more speeially directed against the Mor- gan shipping combine. According to tho Westminster Ga- zate the capital of the Canadian - British line will be 410,000,000 (350,000,000), of which £8,500,000 (812,500,000) will be expended on six 25 -knot vessels, and a dozein freight steemers. Including 2200,- 000 ($1,000;000) subsidy from Can- ada, the promoters,' it is added, -ex- pect a total subsidy of 4500,000 (32,500,000); besides • an Imperial guarantee of interest on the capital amounthig to 4800,000 (81,500,000) YeairtlY% tleWestminster Gazette' further .asserts that the negotiations for a guarantee of the interest on the cap- ital are so far advanced that. the only point . at issuo is whether it 8111111 1)8 24 per cent. or 3 per cent. ,FRENCH AND GERMANS. Boers Hope They. Kay Fight Thern. A Pretoria despatch says: In all 10,225 oors have surrendered up to 'date: Many are youngsters of 11 years .old and -upward. The ma- jority of them aro under thirty, though some of the burghers who have surrendered are septuagenar- ians Reports from all the districts say that the burghers are increase ingly- friendly, The only bitterness observable aniong the leading Boers. ;here is against Francs -and Gonna*. They declare' the waa was protract- ed unnecessarily, owing to hopes het d out' by the French and German :press. Some of 1.110.3:leers are so' In- censed that they have expressed the hope that 'some day they will fight on the side of the British against one of these powers. The anticipated friction between the surrendered Boers and their for- mer comrades of the National Scouts has not materialized to any extent. The Boers admit that they receiv- ed ammunition through Portuguese territory. ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT. Neglect of Ventilation lamented by Doctors. A Toronto despatch says: The twentieth minuet report ,of the Pro- vincial Board of Health has beep completed and issued. It is estim- ated that attotal of $11,000,000 ha been- expended by the province a and the municipalities or Ontario in the work of Preventing and driving 'out disease. Dr. Bryce ,wrItos of the 11=110290, thangli that lam come over the trablic mind withatigard to dis- peso peoVention, Tatenty• years, ago tubereulosis 19118 treated in th6 or- clineaty Way by family physicians, now the doctor who treats such cases is shunited, Dr, Nedgetts con- tribatee acnne valuable scientific pa- pers on the disease. The report al- so laments the. eoglect of Inte years of tam question of ventilation in fac- tories mica schools as having a seta 0115 bearing oat the prevention of ta be relit° eis CURLERS COMING. Will Visit Variotta Cities in. Caa- Ada Next Season. An Edinburgh despatch says: It ie propoSed to eend a Scottish earl - Mg team to Canada, aext season. At a representative meeting here to- day 4.5 eurlors agreed to go. The subjeot will bo remit( ed. to the Caledonam Curling Club for Etaproant anti the selection of the team. AWFUL BRIEF AT FERNIE, GRAPHIC DESCRIFTIChi QV THE MINING DISASTER, gr thorn andWives Tore Their Froni Their Heade - Pad Scenes. A graphic desorlption, olle Of the beat yet publithecl, og the Perilie, 0,, aline disaster; aPpeatiid in a aeo cent !male of the Guelph Mereury. wits; 'Written by William ThomS011, .8023 Of Andreill Th0211%121, 01 West Gartarearat, Me says: Arriving up there 'X witheased the most heart- rending sight. Women belonging to the families wile., live ot the laiowing that their hesbeitele, , Sone and loving friends were entombed in there and must pariah if iurt alreatlY killed by the explosion, there the/ were walling and pullieg their hair aettiallY trent their heads in their awful grief. J3y this time the res- cue party had commenced their sad and laboriolie work. Of course the terrific iorce of the explosionims torn out till the eupports•in themine and let the earth, rocks,:etc„' fill up the tunnel, and it is very slow work, and clangerotte, too, for the men to go in after them, The heat was so intense yeaterday that little headway was made, and the doctors have beenworking, night and day to bring the' men who go in to work and are soon overcome by gaA and must be brought around agent. It requires much of the same operation as trying to restore a man who has almost been drowned. BODY OF A LITTLE BOY. The first they found was. a little boy. He was near the mouth of 1.11S 1111110. Poor mothe41 she lost her husband le tho winter and had only two boys to support her. She has lost one of them and her two sons-in-law. Hard, hard, it is to see these people in their grief. Up to the present time somewhere about forty bodies havii been taken out, sonic looking quite natural, while others are beyond recognition. Some had their boots blown from their feet, and SOMO FOUIld under rocks that required three men to remove. You can imagine what the force was like when it blow the top of the fan house that circulates the air into the mine some 1,000 feet into the hir. A Irian was standing 200 yards from the mouth of the mine, and the concussion almost blew him off his 'feet, and the heat, he - said, was awful, After the men are tak- en from the mine they aro taken -to the wash house, and a gang of men remove the clothing and *ash theist They are then covered with white cotton, and placed on 'stretchers and identified. Then they tire placed on the train and brought clown town. One woman near us is left with 111110 children, another with six, another has eight left -the father end only son able to work were killed. One back 61 us lost two. boys under 20 years of age. "A VERY SAD STORY. One case I ean toll you of -a man X came dva from the mines with on Wedaesday. 1Th was sitting next to 2110 Slid tve began speaking. He salsa "I came here yesterday from Montana. Doing a little afraid of the mines there I thought X would try Ferule. I arrived Imre yesterday with my wife and am boarding' at the hotel. Just bought our furni- ture at your store yesterday. I. was up seeing the superintendent and axe going towork to -morrow." the poor fellow went in on Thurs- day afternoon on his first shift, and never came nut alive. They brought his body 'down to the church, and X happened to be there wben the wife came in. than nev- er 'forget it. The poor woman was taken up to the ono that belonged to her, as you know they are all Mama in rows. There was that pogamtWati7'alone among strangers, -sittingtaor kneeling there, feeling his in -ea -hardly believing that it was quite cold.. And oht it seemsinuch worse, no trains -running to brings friends' in milese they walk. There Wm. 'userof me trying to write as X woald like. This is Sunday morn- ing, no service in the churches. I can hear the singing of a funeral service of 11 young num who last Sunday sang in the Methodist their, end to- day they are burying Min, singing "Abide with me." I must go over. To -day will be an awful day; Word has come down that they 'have got nearly FORTY BODIES ALL XN A nnAp In the mine, and, of course, now they have to be buried at once. Yes- terday was a cad holiday. Funer- als all day, eight and nine at a time, so many that they are draw- ing them. to the graveyard in all kinds of rigs. Even the beer wag- ons were used to draw the dead. They have' a, large gang of ltngoes digging graves at the rate of 25 -per day, and that is as fast as they can get them out. The 0.d df ell ows buried four yesterday afternoon, two of them being a father and son, who .tvere the only two working in the family, oral it was hard to see that poor woman at the grave with two ehildren, . When we were at the graveyard yesterday on one side of us were 'the Orangemen paying the last rites to seam of their number, and on the other aide were the 'Ro- man Catholics laying away foutteen of theirs. From early morning 011- 411 late at night nothing but fun- erals on every hand. My, the peo- ple in the east Might give freely to tho relief feud for the bereft, for it is sorely needed. MINERS AltE INTELLIGENT. *I have nu idea that the idect pre- vails amongst the minds of eastern people that ruiners are ,00 in -damned atul rather ignorant class of people, but they are sadly mistaken. Some of the best calueated men to be found amytthere tiro in these ultimo here, graduates from college% in the old country, arid mee 113Canaan who have started out to go tato 001110 peofession,, end, •feeling they would be overcrowded, turned their hands to something °lee, Many of the miners hero haVo come from Neva Scotia and New BrUllaWielf, and are fOr the greater part tieoteli anci yorY intoillaopt. What elect thisr will baVe On the town, is easily linaght- ed, It will alinPly paralyze it for a long time to eome, ea people Nate reeelved stleh a, fright that It will be bead fee the coal theapany to offer indueements groat enough to got men to go baeic in again, A STRANGE SUNDAY, Sunday night -Maio had s, strange Sueday, Nothing hut"funerale from morning till night. Nearly all buried aow that have both recover - ea, They expect to get about .60 more bodies befere toanerrow night. They eeem to wine upon them in compeuies, provieg that, they were not allied outrag*ht, but have pal been gathered under s loader, try- ing to get out, nag beeu overtaken by the after -damp and smothered t6 death, As to the cause of aectdent nothing ha ,s been learnea, and prob- ably never will,. There are differ- ent supaoaitions as to cause, One is that same ;Muer must, have pierced hie lamp with ale pith, which ignit- ed the gas, but probably the real cause will never be teamed, as the men are all dead, and just where it occurred the men woald be blown to pieces, RICE MUST HANG. Court of Appeal's Decision Upheld by Supreme Court, An Ottawa. despatch 'says: The Supreme Court 01 Canada on Wed- nesday refused an application made by T. C. Robinette, K. 0„ of To- ronto for permission to appeal from the unanimous decision of the On- tario Court of Appeal in the SASS of Fred Lee Rice, sentenced to be hang- ed July 11, for murder. Under the law previous to 1897 there clearly would be no right of appeal from the unanimous judgment of the Pro- vincial Court of Appeal, but the contention of Mr. Robinette was that the wording of the amendment of 1897 enlarged the scope of ap- peals and vested the Supreme Court with authority to deal with tlie eaae. The Chief Justice and his col- leagues held, however, that the amendment of 1897 was ba.sed upon ohanges in the Ontario law which had no bearing upon crirainal caaes. In announcing the decision, Sir Henry Strong said:. "We are unanimous in our opinioil that clearly and plainly beyond doubt section 24 of the amendment of 1897 does not apply to critninel esses. This being the case, it woutd be almost trifling with the prisoner to hold out hopes by any postpone- iment of the decision." Mr. Rbbinette said after the judg- ment was delivered: "We have still one thence of saving the prisoner, and that is, by applying for execu- tive clemency. X shall follow that up at 011CO3 iid 11111 seeing the Min- ister of Justice to -day. We will base our case chiefly on the ground that there was nothing to show that Rice fired the shot or 'was guilty of the crime." • No BITTERNESS, SAYS KEMP Thinks British and Boers Will Harmonize Well. A Trafeking 'despatch says: Com- mandant Kemp, General Delarey's trusty lieutenant, who has just sur- rendered, now intends to take up farming. He, said his comiliand, consisting of 1,000 men, surrender- ed at Doornkop June 6. A- fewamen were still out, but they were thin- ing in. He had been axe* to yielding, but recognized the opinion of the majority. "We did our best," continued the conunantlant, "and must therefore be satisfied. As Lord Kitchener said, no shame y attached to our giving up. We wore outnumbered. We might have continued fighting for another couple of years, but with no certainty of success. I am quite satisifled with the terms, and have no ill-faeling against England. "I think there will be no bitter- ness in the future. "We shall get on eal right togeth- er. I expected to win, and only quite recently realized the hopeless- ness of our nose. I have given the burghers my reasons for yielding. One reason was that the eastern Part of the Transvaal had no food- stuffs whatever. .Weet Transvaal, however, had enough. food foe two years more. "Regarding the concentration casnps, I am quite convinced now that everything, is itt good order." PECULIAR CASE. Stranger Gives Doctored Candies to a Young Man. A London despatch says: The po- lice aro investigating a peculiar poisoning case. While a young couple were seated in the stalls of a variety theatre a, fussy, talkative elderly 'lemon alongside of the yoang man produeed a box of cho- colates, nod the young man good- naturedly accepted and ate some of the contents. The young woman with him declined to pm•take. Short- ly afterward the elderly man lee the theatre, The youth became drowsy and then unconscious. A physician Was summoned, andfound that the youtli WLIS suffering from the thects of a poison. The victim remained unconscious for two 'clays, but is now recoveriag. The police have aot located the prisoner. ELEPHANT WENT MAD. -- Two Hundred Nen Necessary to Strangle It. A Tours, France, despatch snye: A crowd of abont 8,000 witnessed the killing of •L'he largest of llornitm and Dailey's performing elephants, in the City Park, itt inialnight on ThutadaY. The animal auddenla went, ninsi, broke ita chnitla and Wed to kill ite keepers, while on the way to the railroad etation, and hatl to be slain immediately. iwo hundred men tugged at the rope which Strangled it. DEATH OF BAK J2HALE 'OQVIIHN,ATION THAT 554ST11OYS T5454 IMEAPBTIT, PgST, Xt. Will Hill the %Sect and Doe Not Injure the Host Tender DP. thiPieS F1:40.ehe0Si:, DOnfinion 93n- tonlologist, has seat the follewing interesting report to the Minister of Agriculture for Ontario The great desideratum in the past bas been to discover a remedy for the San Jose seale which would kill the Mile, bet at the same Mine would not injure the treated treee, Mr. Gem•ge Fisher, by instimetion eS the Proyineiel Minister of Agelculs term with this express end In view, has carried on 11, 211084 OXWISIVO Pe- rks of experitaente, and has at'last found a remedy 'whieli fi•om present appearauces seems to meet, all se- quilements. This conaiste 'of an onwleion of crude petroleum and soap. This has been a,pplied to all kinds of fruit trees, includhig the peach, without any apparent injury, and with quite satisfactory res•ults ao far as killing the scale is con- cerned. A feature of this remedy is that it is much camper than the whale oil soap troatnieut, which was the best previously known remedy. It °oats four cents to treat a tree with the emulsion, while tho whale oil soap costs ten cents. Thia work done by Mr. Fisher for tho Ontario Government I consider the greatest advance yet made In tit's warfare against the San Jose scale. cthich la by far the worst insect enemy fruit growers ever had to contend with. To sum the matter up, the fruit grower iv now provided with a remedy which he ran safely use on peach trees and other delicate trees at about ONE-THIRD Trial COST of the best previously known remecia- with more certainty of destroying the insect. Besides this the trees ‚will be left in a condition to with- stand further infestation for a much longer time. Added to this it is a remedy which can be safely applied by any fruit grower with an ordin- ary apraying pump, and can he pre- pared by anyone without difficulty and without special apparatus which de canifet make for himself at home. Another discovery of importance which has been made in these On- tario experiments is an emulsion of fish oil and soap, which is equally effective and sale, but which costs da cents a tree. The advantages of this emulsion are that at a cost of two- thirds of the whale oil soap we have a, mixture which can easily be made at home which contains the same in- gredients in known quantities, wbich can 170 varied in accordance with the requirements of the case and the kind of tree to be treated. Xt is hoped that further experiments will show that the cost of this remedy can also be reduced. The fruit growers of Americas are certainly to be congratulated on the results of these experiments, par- ticularly of the discovery of the crude oil emulsion, It hes for 801110 ti2110 been knotin that the crude oil Was fatal to the scale, but there was considerable danger in using it, and it most certainly could not be re- commended for general use by fruit growers. We now have a cheap and effective remedy which all can use 55,4 ely. WRECKAGE OF CONDOR. Piled lap on Scott Islands Eight Feet High. A Victoria, B. C., *despatch says: The Dominion Government steamer Quadra returned on Thursday after- noon from a trip along the west coast in search of the missing seal- ing schooner Holz:to, which is now a month 'overdue, a.nd has been giv- en up as lost with her crew of five whites andAattIncliarts. The Quadrat found a great Quantity of wreckage along the coast. and brought 8,001e of it down;• ,C01,vt-none can be posi- tively identified ats coming off the missing achooner. Capt. Walbran reports that on the Scott Islands, north Of Valle0111701` Islaiad, IVIIi0h are seldom visited, wreckage is piled up to a height, of eight feet. Much of this is from ILAI.S. Condor. The collier Matteawaa, which went down off Cape Flattery, and the Walla Walla, stink in collisioe with the French barque Max off the 'Califor- nia, coast. The currents set in on this island, carrying the flotsam of the sea to their rocky shores. The crow of the Quadra were un- able, to fled the human body said to have been Washed ashore on the- le - land, but found the body of a sea lion, which may have led to the re- port that a, body had been washea ashore. ADULTERATED SEEDS, Department of Agriculture Making Experiments. An Ottawa despatch says: G. IC Clarice, B.S.A., chief of the Seed Di- vision of the Department of Agricul- ture, is engaged in important tests of adultera.ted seeds. A staff has batill selected to examine and separ- ate all samples bought and sent in by farmers, and when the &ads,. weeds, etc.' have been separated the good seedis placed in ancubators end the results noted. Some ex- ceedingly . valea.ble data is already being collected on the aubaect, which will be invalun.ble to the airiness in helping them in future to sow their fields with the best Reeds, free of weals. .A. bill is being framed for the purpose of protesting the farm - e1:4 mut 011401011141 penalties for the sale of adulterated soda. LONG AVENUE OIS TREES. Japan has an avenue of trees fllty miles in length. The tress are the eryptoterra, met everyone is a PSI, feet specimen, quite straighi, from 120 fret to 1.10 feet in height, and 4,141 feet to in feet in circumferenee. The n.venue extends trom tho town of Mutatio, to Nikko, NEWS ITE Telegraphic Briefs Frain Ali Over the Globe, CANADA, Ottawa onni dowers balfe advanc," ed the aria) to $7.50 a ton. The eavalry calliP at Niagara Will last froin the 1790 .until the 28th of Jolla Middlesex County has expended 351,914 sine January and received 5108,935, Just 230 Canadians were killed or died from fever since the mita break of the war. The coal minors' strike at Spring, hill, 5, S., has been settled and the men have returned to works Cape 13reton mining towns have contributed 53,000 toward the fund for the relief of Feriae miners' fam- ilies. Senator Weak of New Brunswick, has given 51,000 to the university of that province, The Senator is in his 99th year. The report that kfr. J. Plerpont Morgan has presented a. piece of tap- estry, valued at, 3500,000, to King Edward, seems to be untrue. The Ottawa Government aas agreed to give $15,000 towards the cost of transporting to Montreal any troops that Luny desire to take part in the review in that city on coron- ation day. 3. M. afacoun, of the Geological Survey, has left Ottawa for Van- couver in connection with the work of establishing the boundary line be- tween Canada end the United States In that province. The soldiers' memorial to be er: ected in Jubilee Park, Brantford, will be one of the fmest in Canada - the bronze figure of a mounted in- fantrannan-7 feet six inches in height with three reliefs., A baby carriage, containing the 12-monthsao1d child of Mr. Albert Deandry, Parliamentary Librsmy, Ottawa, rolled over a 20-4004 cliff on Thursday, and the child was thrown out and cut, but not fatally Mimed. GREAT BRITAIN. It is reported in London that Sir Thomas Lipton. has definitely decid- ed to challenge for the America's Cup in 1903. Mr, Whitelaw Reid, the American special Ambassador to the King's Coronation, received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Cambridge University on Thursday. UNITED STATES. Seven persons were drowned during a gale at New York on Saturday. Mark Twain was made an LL.D of Missouri University on Thursday. Louis Kauffeld, of Mathews, Ind., has discovered the process of manu- facturing malleable glass. Lord Pauncefote's remains will probably be taken to England about July 1 on the U. S. S. Brooklyn. Because his wife paid too much at- tention to a pet dog, George Role - cher hanged himself at Camden, 11.3, New York is to have the most magnificent hotel in the world. It will be twenty storeys high and cost $1.0,000,000. United States consuls report that American goods have to compete in Germany. with German goods ma.de. in imitation of the American pro- ducts. In a collision between the whale - back Thomas Wilson and the steamer George J. Hadley near Duluth, on Saturday, the Wilson was sunk and nine of her crew drowned. Jim Black, a negro, implicated in ,the murder of a wonian, was lynched in South Carolina by a mob of men who secured him from a, posse of eta- cere while on route to jail. add general An epidemic of lockjaw has broken out among the cyclone injured vic- tims of GoliEtd, Texas. Five persons have died during the last week. The victims so far have all been white people, but now the negroes have been attacked. GENERAL. Germany has adopted grey -brown as the war paint of its torpedo boats France has just ordered thirteen tow submarines which are to be sub- mersible 111 five minutes, In a duel between the Italian Min- ister of Foreign Affairs and a mem- ber of the Chamber, the latter was wounded in the ear and a reconcilla- lion lollowed. When using the old transport Sur- couf as a target recently, the French northern squadron fired 840 shots and hit the vessel some forty times before she sank. The ltstasian courts have given Saradsowa, an opera singer, $50,000 damages 'against a railway because in an accident five of her teeth were knocked out, preventing her from singing. Professor Virchow, the world's foremost physiologist, has taken a dose of, borax daily for years past, and this has resulted in benefit to Ms health. Professor Virchow cele- brated his 80111 birthday by tak- ing a, double dose of borax. Disapproving of the lady his son wished to marry, Lieutenant-Colonel Von ICuylce, .01 the Prussian army, is alleged to have had the young masa plaeod in a lunatic asylum, al- though his is quite srine. As a wedding party was maiming from church in a' caar-a-bene at Spires, Bavaria, on Saturclay, the horse took bight and bolted on' to the railway line in front Of an ex- press trnin.• ,The Mac went mad, the bridegroom had one of his legs cat MT, and both his father and brother Ware killed. All.:401111).WIPTH11.011141.11...., aovir THE ET,ISY 744,1TH54il SBgNPS TEX DAT, ' Some Xnteresting Natters of hrto., went and Mirth Gathered At Hunffx011141.11'.gi e,11310,%°11:.g;s 4-',000,000 P9Tatia011c:14141.114111.0011 41 a an'ttlartalUtul'Otl. daily,W foi• St. Joseph, MO, is to e0St, 31g, 000,000, The mines of Wilketharre, pa., are in &maps' of tiro end flood because of the reeent strike. Of 51,081,006 in inheritance taxes Paid in New York state New York eity farnishes 58,803,0912. Bablea cliocked at the church door and safe return guaranteed is the latest thing in church circles in Old- eago. Chicago is popularly considered the wickedest city in the United StateS,, and yet the statistics show that it contains 1,100 churches. The population of Sehenectady, at„ headquarters or the Eilsissfrooimii- dustries, has Jumped since 18,655 to 47,625 in population, A negro, Jehn McKee, died fa Philadelphia on the 6111 ult. end loft an estate worth about 52,000,000. He owned 400 houses in the Quaker A disinherited grandnephew of the late tam Wililam Whitewright, of Now York city, sued for a share in the 57,500,000, and has settled for about 3500,000. Washington, D: C., is to have et new union railroad depot which will cost. $5,000,0,00. It wil1 be con- structed of white marble and will have a frontage of 700 feet. Incorporation of the New Orleans Pulp and Paper Company, capital $2,000,000, to utilize sugar cane from watch the sugar has been pressed, took place last week, Germany furnishes more than One- fourth of the loreign born inunigra- tion to this country, 25.8 per cent.; Ireland is next, with 15.6 per cent., and Britain follows With 8.1 per cent. Work on the present scheme of un- derground railways is only half com- pleted, and already agitation has be- g -an for still another subway to be built on the east side of New York city, A promoter who says he has dis- covered Noah's Ark embedded in perpetual snow iri Mount Ararat wants Senator Hanna to furnish funds for bringing it to the St. Louis Exhibition. The wells of preparing the old, un- flnished tunnel between. Jersey City and New York. for completiou as a trolley tube is progressing, and will, be M readiness for the boring of the unfinielied quarter of the tunnel in a short time. About fifty per cent, of the flour mill capacity of. Minneapolis will be 'idle this week and. thereafter, until conditions shall improve. This means the loss of time to about 1,- 000 mill employees. Tho Hudson Valley Railroad Com-, peaty has built two electric engines, to be used a.s an experiment in haul - his is the first cianrat'heTstate to make meinl!chot!atie°1igielli'dsott,a'dthe commercial metropo- lis of Maine, is 108 miles northeast of Boston, and 297 miles southeast of Montreal. The population of the city by the census of 1900 was 50,- 145. Last morith 57,175 immigrants were landed at Ellis Island. They had sums that footed up to 5811,- 018. Of the entire number 44,172 had less than $80 each in their pos- session, and 1428 had that sum or 070T. A MILITARY BAKERY. The trials which ha.ve been now foe a lang time carried out in the.milia tary bakery in. Vienna to prepare a satisfactory biscuit ration for the army have,"14is stated by an Aus- trian military journal, been at length crowned with seccess. The charetcteristio feature in the rtew biscuit seams to be that the dough is rolled out in long thin strips and then partially baked. The strips are next cut up into small prisms,, which are made up in a small card- board box. It is claimed that the biscuit thus prepared is more diges- tible than the ordinary form, that it keeps better, and is protected from dust and damp, while the ra- tions are more easily served out to the men. An improved bread ra- tion for use iti field hospitals and for issue to convalescents has also been prepared. This so-called "bread conserve" is made of fine wheat meal mil', eggs, sugar, and aniseed, and is stated to form both a nourishing and palatable food, ACOTDENTAL CONVERTS. There are more people than there ought to be in this country who worship patent medicine.% but a mis- sionary- in Burmn gives an account of how she wne the innocent cause of the worship of empty medichte bottles having lieeti instituted. Ile one of her tours she came upon a village where cholera was raging. Having with her a quantity of pain- killer, and thinking that she might . at least allay the suffering somewhat she wait from house to house ad- ministerieg the remedy, and left a number of bottles to be used after she had gone. When she returned to the village, some months later she ants met by the head man of the community, who cheered and delight- ed her by this intelligence : "Teach- er, we have eome over to your sides the medicine, cilti us so much good that am have accepted, your god." Overjoyed n,t this news, she was mutilated to the house of tile head man, who opened the door of a room and Showed her the peat -killer bot- tles solamuly arranged in 11. l'0N8 141011 OS MICH ; and before them the whole company immediately pros- trated themselves in worship. More ships possesa the whin) "Mary" than any other..