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THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. MARKETS OF THE WORLD. Poronto, July isl.--Wheat. -- Tho i quiet and steady. Ontario red and white quoted 75c middle, and at 751c east; No. 2 spring is quoted at 71c middle freights; No. 2 goose at 66c on Midland. Manitoba wheat steady; No. 1 hard quoted at 88c, Goderich, and No. 1 Northern at 8 1 hard, 94c grindi lake and rail, and No. 1 Northern 93c. Oats--The market is quiet and steady. No. 2 white quoted at 32 to 3i2ic middle freigh',, and at 31 1 to 31f high freights. No. 1 white, 334c east. Barley--Trade 9s quiet, with nc business reported. No. 3 extra quoted at 41c middle freights, and No. 3 at 42± to 43c. Rye--The market is steady middle freight for No. 2. Peast--Trade dull, with No. 2 white quoted at 61c high freight, and 63c cast. Corn--Market is steady; No. 3 Ai eriean yellow quoted at 571c . track, Toronto; and No. 3 mixed 57c, Toronto. Canadian corn purely Flour--Ninety per cent, patents sold to-day at $2.80 middle freights, in buyers' sacks, for export. Straight rollers of special brands for domestic trade quoted at $3.25 to $3.45 in bbls. Manitoba floui steady; No. 1 patents, $4.20 to $4.30, and strong bakers', $3.90 to $4, in bags, Toronto. Millfeed--Bran steady at $17 and shorts $18.50 here. At outside points bran is quoted at $15 to $15 50, and shorts at $17. Manitoba bran, in sacks, $19, and shorts at $22 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans--Trade is very quiet, w prices nominal. Prime white quoted at $1.65 to $1.75 a bush. - Hay--The market is firm, with demand fair. No. 1 timothy is woi $11 to $11.25 on track, Toronto Straw-^The market is quiet at $5.-25 to $5.50 per ton lor car lots, track. Hops--Trade dull, with prices nc l 20c. ings of 70 to 75c inal i per bushol. Poultiy--Spring chickens are quoted at 60 to 75c per pair; turkeys, 12 to 13c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter---The market is steady, with receipts good and fair demand lor best qualities. We quote:--Choice 1-Ib. rolls, P5 to 16c; dairy tubs, uniform coloi"s~15c; secondary grades, ~~ • packed?'! 2 to 13c; creamery prints, 18 to 19c; solids, 171 to ISic. Eggs--Market is dull. We quote:-- Fresh candled ' stock, 14 to 141c;i seconds and checks, 10 to 11c. Cheese--Market quiet, and prices unchanged. We quote:--Finest, 10 to lOJc. HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are unchanged. Cured meats are steady, with a good demand. We quote:--Bacon, clear, 10 to lOic, in ton and case lots. Pork, mess, $21; do, short cut, $22.50. Smoked meatsi--Hams, 13 to 13Jc; rolls, 11 to lljc; shoulders, 101c; backs, 14 to 15c; breakfast bacon, 14c. Lard--Market is dull. Tierces, ! tubs, 9-fc; pails, 10c; compound to 9c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL Montreal, July 21.--(Special. The local markets show little chai Butter is rather quiet, though a business is being done in cheese, unchanged prices. Tho Liverr quotation is lower again, at 48s for colored, and 47c for wli Grainr-Peas, 63c high freights, here; rye, 52e east, 581c afloat h buckwheat LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, July 2d.--Trade in butters' and exporters' cattle was quiet at tho Western market to-day, and prices were barely steady. The leading feature was the scarcity of good qualities of butchers' cattle, and the abundant offerings of lower grades cf inferior cows that were not wanted y local butchers, and therefore almost unsaleable. Buyers here object to the farmers up-country loading poorly finished stuff on them while they iiave( or should have, plenty of pasture for at least two or three months yet. Canners and low grade cows were much on sale. There was also a dearth of good exporters' descriptions, and buyers had to go to Chicago to obtain v they wanted. There seems t< plenty of good stuff in the country, but it is not coming here, as holders there aro hanging on to their stock in the hope of an advance in prices there before long. There was little enquiry for either feeders or stockers, and the offerings were light, and values about steady. A better tone in sheep prevailed, and all offering were sold early. Calves were firm, but tho offering!: being fairly liberal no change in their values was recorded. Tho run of cattle was not heavy. It comprised 1,083 cattle, 1,28? sheep, 1,721 hogs, and 69 calves Tho most of the exporters were posed of at from $4.70 to $5 per cwt. Ton to fifteen cents higher was paid in a few exceptional Butchers' classes sold lower, owing to the inferior quality of the offerings. We quote:--S4.50 to $4.65 per cwt.; loads of good, $4.30 to $4.50; fair to good, $4 to $4.30; medium to fair, $3.20 to $4; common to fair, $3.50 to §3.85; rougl] to common grass-fed cattle. $2.35 tc S3.2-5 per cwt. Milch < There v feeders o $30 1 Export Cattle- Per 100 lbs. Medium to heavy $4 70 $5 121 Butchers- Picked lots ... ,„ .„ 4 50 ,4 65 Good loads ...... .... 4 40 Medium............... 4 00 4 30 Fair .................... 3 60 4 00 3 00 4. KK) Feeders, light ...... 3 25 4 00 4 26 Stockers............... 2 50 3 75 Sheep- 3 60 Do., bucks..... 3 00 Spring lambs ........ 2 25 4 50 Calves, per cwt. ...... 3 50 5 OO Hogs- 3 SO 4 00 Stags .................. 2 00 0 OO Selects, 160 to 20O 5 65" 0 OO Thick fats......... . 6 40 0 00 Light.................. 5 40 0 OO CZAR ABOLISHES "CAT" No More Corporal Punishment i Russian Prisons. A St. Petersburg- despatch says :• The Rirzhevia Vedomoftfi yavs Iht the Czar has abolished the harshest remnants of the barbaric put mcnts of former times, namely, tigation with cudgels and ca nine-tails, chaining to tho car shaving head, which were still flicted for certain offences on sons exiled to penal settleai«it bin.: t frequc . . The cudgel laced in the n Notes of Proceedings in the Canadian Parliament. INSPECTION FEES. Mr. Prefontaine moved a tion that it was expedient to the Steamboat Inspection A make provision for the abolition of steamiboat inspection fees anid dues, arid for the better regulation of yachts propelled by gas, fluid nap-tha, or electric motors. Mr. Prefontaine explained that the bill intended to legalize tho abolition of the fees • promised by the Go ment some time ago. Power to be taken to reimpose the dues by order-in-Council if such should be deemed necessary, after a period of two years. In regard to yachts, it was proposed that where they were o t)hree tons they should be requi to carry a life buoy and one preserver for each person on board, and if thoy carried passengers they should be subject to the general law. It was also proposed to abolish inspection fees in tho ca sels from foreign countries which impose no fees on Canadian Hois was a measure of reciprocity with the United States. Tlie re luttions wore adopted, and a founded on them introduced i read a first time. MR. BLAIR'S RESIGNATION. The galleries were crowded their utmost. capacity, even aisles being occupied by a mass ladies and gentlemen, who patiently stood fOT nearly two hour's listening intently to the important uf i.er-awcee of the Premier and his late colleague in reference to tlie withdrawal of Hon. A. G. Blair fnam $55 the Cabinet. The Premier's ar noiuncement was dignified, and cor cisely set forth that his colleague' withdrawal was due, not to a dij ference of opinion regarding tfc nocespity of another transecntini nt al route, but simply to a disagree ment as to mode of constructioi and operation. While expressing for himself and the other members of the Administration his regret at tho severance from tlie Cabinet of an able colleague, Sir Wilfrild pivssnd gratification that upon qUastions of public policy, except this one. Mr. Blair is in accoid wit It the Government. Mr. Blair with some ein(VhiiMs >mive a refiutotion of the newspu; ports concerning alleged with his colleague*?, wfaom tirely exonerated from the allegations of discourtesy or caballing. He repelled .with scorn the suggestion that he had boon prompted by pique in his resignation, and spoke with deep feeling of the severance of the connection with his collvagur®. Ho attributed his resignation to in-ttbiSKv <o endorse, tihe Govertnjncjtt's - ,y9dfLtR a second line > of Quebec to Miomcton, alleling a*vu destroying the Intercolonial, or to embark upon the construction of a railway from Quebec to Winnipeg, without first obtaining more definite information. "Hair wanted the Government satiiied with declaring its in-ri^-j tonucn to construct a transeonti-cas- nental line as soon as the need t-o'- arose, and in the meantime making and an appropriation for a toorcjigSi ex-1 in-' ploration of the territory to be n per- traversed. That road, when coin-its or pleted, should, bo said, either be • j^in-i operated by the Goveitimient through CHINESE MINERS KILLED Explosion A Vancouver, B. C, despatch says: Twenty Chinamen, who disobeyed the law forbidding the employment of Mongolians underground, paid the penalty on Wednesday night, when twelve were killed and eight severely burned through an explosion in No. 3 incline, No. 6 shaft, of tho Wellington Collieries at Cumberland, owned by former Premier Dunsmuir and bis associates. It was feared that several white men were also victims, but it was afterwards learned that thero was only one employed in the mine, and he escaped with nothing worso than a shaking. Tho explosion is attributed to firedamp, but its origin is mysterious, as all the miners carried safety lamps, owing to the gassy state of the working, and all the lamps wero found to be locked. The actual explosion was so slight that next to TO PREVENT TAINTED MILK Careful Investigations of 1 Dominion Department of Agriculture. The patrons distance from the less, it was deadly in its nature, for, as is usual in long-wall workings, it swept the face, killing and scorch- No sign of the disaster was apparent at the pit head, and nothing was known until the cage was run up and frightened Chinamen reached tho top. when they excitedly told of a fire. Thirty-eight out of' the fifty Chinamen employed underground reached the top in safety, and then a while rescue party went down to search for the others. The dead bodies of the dozen wero reached, but not without some danger to the searchers, because of after-damp, which prostrated one pit boss. The colliery company claims that the law prohibiting the employment of the Chinese underground is unconstitutional. cheese factory plying only good pure milk, free from taints or bad flavors. Thousands of dollars are lost to the ci try annually because patrons send to the factories tainted milk, which, if used at all, not only precludes the manufacture of first class cheese, but diminishes the quantity of cheese per 100 pounds of milk. Some of chief causes of tainted or gassy milk have been enumerated by the Dairy Division of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, in order that pati may be induced to guard against them. In many cases the sourc trouble may be found in the undesirable germs that get into the n felt at a short during and after milking. These germs are always associa with filth in some form or otl Careful investigations show that very large proportion of the cases taints or bad flavors in milk air! products are caused by the germs which are always present in droppings of animals. Such germs are to be found in large numbers wherever such droppings are deposited. The mud of stagnant ponds, where cattle are allowed to drink, and the surfaces of barn-yards or milking-yards are always swarming with them. For this reason the udders and flanks of cows should always bo brushed before milking to the dried mud, particles of hairs, etc., which might otherwise fall into the milk pail. STATUE TO WASHINGTON A London despatch says :--At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Pilgrims' Club on Wednesday omtnittee was appointed give effect i tihe i UIHLVLO riilwivy fl- uid t at" M.t newspurer, by prolongation or by solitary confinemient one hundred days with bre water except every third de " t food v "" " R. L. Borden paid a graceful to to Mr. Blair's diligence anti .y, and assured him the opposi-offered to him by that side of House bad not been personal. Parte entered a protest against The of . v,i e .(,"•;■-George W/as|hingt( cided that the subscriptions should be entirely confined to British subjects. ArcMleacon Sinclair, fin suAinutting the plan to the society, "Englishmen have at last fully i"«-<jtrni'/.ed the great qualities of Washington. I feel assured that nothing will be miore popular in this country than such a tribute to that great man of English birth, who has done so much for the world's history, aot only for the young nation across the sea, but for Great Bri- Archdeacon Sincli that he was authoris place for the statue Cathads-al. asmewmced St. Paul' OUR FRUIT IN THE WEST. •nt The Fruit Division, Ottawa, gives out the following statement'-- Numerous reojuests have been recc from Manitoba and the Northwest Territories for Ontario fruit of the best quality,- put up in neat and attractive packages of the sort the Western dealers prefer to Imndl this Western trade for the Ontario fruit growers, but up-to-date me-hode of packing and shipping will rave to be adopted at once, or the jself had not enjoyed j whole ol this grc"t and growing ' of their colleagues i business will be captured by the Am--- and Sir Uricans. TRIED TO BURN HERSELF •plied that d.ui o collca had , -.ii In-, r Philp, of Winnipeg, I almost exclu! nket NO GRAIN TO CARRY 381 1 39c i $1.15 on track 1 No. 3 barley, 3 yellow Ame patents, $4.20 t ; feed t flaxseed, nvl irley, 50c; bu 3c for No. ti„ -Manitoba so< nined bid ill be cly by fruit and British se of appb s. Accord-ekages want- trkeC i ! tho ing bakers', $3.50; $19; shorts, $: eluded; Ontar . to $18; shorts, middlings, $21 Canadian short, c short cut backs, $2 $21.50; compound t 9c; pure Canadian finest lard, 11 to to 141c; bacon, : killed abattoir hogs Butter--Townships 181 c; Quebec, 18c; ery, 171c: Western c --Ontario colored, Townships, 9-Jc; Qu --Candled, 16c; 14c; No. 2, 121c. in 10-Ib. tins 8c. to $22, bags in-, - bran, in bulk, $17 n bulk, $20 to $21; following:-- Early apples, the bushel box; pears, the half-Vox, holdin twenty pounds of wrapped frui peaches and plums, the crate holding four boxes, similar to those used by California shippers, and which arc tvell known in all Canadian markets. • he ; Ontai t ical TWO TRAMPS KILLED ipture the Westi by perfecting 1 n end of the busi-l up the ex IK', rder Honey--White UNITED STATES MARKI Duluth, July 21.--Wheat--Tc 75J to 75fc; on 891c; No. 1 Nor Northern, S71c; ; to 841c. Milwaukee, J Steady; No. 1 Nc new September, ' Dull; No. 1, 54-lc 2, 58 to 60c; Com--September, , 88c; September, Barley--Dull; : ample, 45 to • 50J to 50{c. KINDNESS WON HIM $?000 Man Nursed Guest in Hotel and Now Gets Legacy. ico to Winnipeg. At present frequently forwarded by ex-om Toronto to Winnipeg via i Falls, and even via Mont-. with the through It is that tho fruit I from 18 to 24 hours Baj via COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING | een Japan and Rus-i Improving. ? if soi equently fruit in modern merely to send the East does STRAINING THE MILK, while it is necessary to remove the visible dirt, does not get rid of these foul germs, whicn are the actual cause of the tainted, gassy milk. Improperly cleaned milk palls, strainers and milk cans are constant sources of contamination. The whey tank is a common source of infection at those factories where the whey is returned to the patrons in the milk cans. This practice is detrimental to successful cheese-making, but when it cannot be arranged to have the whey disposed of in some other way, the tanks should be kept thoroughly clean in order to lessen the danger of contamination. They should be emptied at least once a It is a well-known fact that milk will absorb some odors to which it is exposed. Warm milk will absorb odors quite as freely as that which has been cooled; hence the necessity for removing it from the stable or milking-yard as soon as possible after it is drawn. An abundant supply of pure water for the cows is one of the essentials for the production of good milk. When cows are compelled to drink water of swamps, muddy ponds, or sluggish streams and ditches In which there is decaying animal matter, including their own droppings, there is a constant menace to their health, and unless the cows are in good health they cannot give first-class milk. Moreover the mud, often full of foul germs, which collects on the legs, flanks and udders of the cows, and falls into the milk at the time of milking, is a direct source of infection which is often overlooked. IMPROPER FEEDING. There is in Canada an abundance of good, wholesome food available for cattle feeding purposes. The natural pastures are, on the whole, excellent, and it is only in limited districts or at certain seasons of the year that trouble is experienced with weed flavors. Among the cultivated foods, turnips and rape are two prominent exceptions to the rule of suitability which applies in general to Canadian fodder crops. While thoy are undoubtedly valuable in a ration for growing or dry cattle, if turnips and rape are fed, even in limited quantities, to milking cows, thero is a likelihood of imparting to the milk a taint which cannot be eliminated by any process known to heesemaker's art. Some first foods when fed alone, and t< s, will cause indigestion ant thus indirectly affect the milk. One :ample of this kind is found green clover. In conclusion, it may bo said 1 when cows have free access to salt all times they will giv lk, which will have a better fav-and keep sweet longer than when they do not get any at all, it only at intervals. . NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From AH Over the Globe. CANADA. Fort William ratepayers have passed a by-law to raise $40,000 for a new town hall. London city council has given a "Don't-spit-on-t he-sidewalk" by-law its third reading. Counterfeit Canadian $i! bills and $1 American notes raised to $10 arfl circulating in Kingston. The financial statement of the affairs of the Hamilton Board of Trade shows a deficit of $105.41. Heavy downfalls of rain are causing floods in the vicinity of Calgary, Alberta. The Bow River rose fiv« feet in twenty-'our hours. From $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 gold dust will be taken from the Klondike this season, more than last year, according to estimates of officials, mine owners and bank man-Montreal cab drivers are protesting against the street railway company running a tourist car named "Seeing Montreal," and as a consequenci it has to have police protection. E. A. H. Haggart, of Kingston, Jamaica, in an interview in Mont< real, said Canadian business men were not paying sufficient attention to the West Indies, as the peopU there would sooner trade with Can. -ada than the States. Talmage Carr was tried at St. John, N. B., on a charge of setting fire to the house in which his adored lived because her parents had forbidden him to keep company with hei and their engagement had been broken. - GREAT BRITAIN. At present there are 124 miles oi reets in Edinburgh lit by gas. A Methodist college to be called McDougall, will be established all Edmonton. Princess Louise unveiled a memor-al bust of Sir Arthur Sullivan in London. The body of John Gasgoin, an Ottawa barber, missing since last spring, has been found in the Ottawa >ld landmark, the Dunedln Hois about to disappear from High street, Edinburgh. It was a popular resort. 3irmini.;imm Gas Committe* place-:! contracts for 483,000 tons of oal at a reduction of 6d. per ton in last year's prices. The coalmast.fra throughout Scotland have made a claim for threepence a day reduction on the wages f over 70,000 miners. In commemoration of their Majesties' coronation a magnificent loving cup has been added by tho corporation of London to the plato at the Mansion House. Many thousands of spindles in the Bolton cotton trade are now running short time. The position L> Decerning serious, as each week hundreds of hands are affected. Orders have been issued for the cruisers Iris and Mercury to commission as training ships in which the boys will learn stokehold work as well as seamanship. Princess Henry of Battenberg is to be asked to accept the freedom of tho borough when she visits Scarborough on July 28th to open the new town hall and unveil the star tue of the late Queen. on tho Thingvalla Line pier at Ho- American manufacturers propose to restrain organized labor with a fund of $1,500,000. Three peoplo were killed and fifty injured in a Missouri Pacific wreck on Saturday. After a violent quarrel Adolph C. Dallam shot his wife dead and then tted suicide, at Philadelphia. Foi TOAST KING IN PURE WATER --King London despatch Edward has taken actic greatly please loyal tee naval officer wrote to his Majesty asking him if lie would isaue order that when his health v oasted it need not be drunk wine. The King replied throu secretary that the Lords of 1 AVbuirnlty probably would not 1: bis interfering by isfeutng orders, I pould be glad to have it ciri lated privately that he considered as't as much honored' by those drinking it in water as by those ing wine. -- Despatch- M»\ He i. i,_ -,. •» , viuou, « a rate wiuun wji .'allVille. Ind. paro favorably with that „, .there. He l joyed by Oregon and Califorr complete understanding. d ened with death for "publishing WEDS AT NINETY-TWO ide Forth-three, Bridegrooi Happy as a Boy A Lynchburg, Va., despatch £ Larkin Nortoi and Mrs. Lui ty-three, were Mr. Larkin i s old, Sayers, aged for-ried on Wednesday, happy and gay as a bby of twenty, and couldn't be-more chipper if he knew he hod another century of life ahead of him. shot during a fight on an excursion steamer, at Uniontown, Ky. Twp of tho men are dead. Anthracite in almost boundless quantity has been discovered in Routte county, Col., on the line of the Moffatt Railroad. An express train on the Pennsylvania Railway struck a wagon containing a picnic party of ten people, at Red Hank, east of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday night, killing foul and injuring the others. A mob composed of 30O white peoplo sought the life of Minnie Pearl, a negro woman, of Peoria, 111., who beat a white boy, 11 years old. with a club until his body was covered with deep wounds. Th* police saved her. GENERAL. The Austro-Hnn&arian has again urged lTulgari from her warlike enterpri EIGHT WERE KILLED. A despatch from Liverpool says The Southport express train, crowd-with passengers, jumped th< k on Wednesday evening at Waterloo, five miles from Liverpool. Eight persons were killed and 15 injured, according to late reports. WOMAN MIDGET DIES. Hot Weather Carries Off Misg Mary J. Piercey. A despatch from New York says-, iss Mary J. Piercoy, said to hava been one of the smallest women in world, is dead at her home in r fatal illness.