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THE WOELFS I1IK1TS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese, and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. Toronto, Dec. 1.--Wheat--The market continues to rule steady, although offerings are more liberal. No. 2 white and red Winter quoted at 77* to 78c, low freights; No. 2 Spring is quoted at 73c east, and -- 3 71c east. Mani- At toba wheat unchanged, lake ports No. 1 Norther at 85c, and No. 2 Northern at 82*c. No. 1 hard nominal at 90c lake ports. For grinding in transit quotations are 6c higher than above. Oats--The market is quiet, with the feeling easier. No. 2 white is quoted at 28ic west, and at 29c low freights to New York. No. 1 whit# 30c east. Barley--The market is dull, with the prices steady. No. 2 quoted at 43c middle freights. No. 3 extra at 40c, and No. 3 at 38 to 39c middle freights. Rye--The market is quiet, with prices steady. Cars are quoted at 52 to 52Jc middle freights. Peas--Trade is dull, and prices unchanged. No. 2 white sold at 61c middle freights, and at 62c east. Corn--The market is quiet, and prices steady. No. 2 yellow American quoted at 53^c. on track. Toronto; No. 3 yellow at 53c, and No. 8 mixed at 52c, Toronto. Buckwheat--The market is firm, with fair demand. No. 2 quoted at 42 to 4 3c middle freights. Flour--Ninety per cent, patents are steady at $3.05 middle freights, in buyers' sacks, for export. Straight rollers of special brands, for domestic trade, quoted at $3.40 to $3.50 in bbls. Manitoba flours are steady; No. 1 patents, $4.55 to $4.60; No. 2 patents, $4.25 to $4.30, and strong bakers', $4.15 to $4.20 on -track, Toronto. Millfeed--Bran-■ steady at $16.50 and shorts at $18.50 here. At outside points bran is quoted at $13.50 to $14, and shorts at $17.50. Manitoba bran in sacks, $18, and shorts at $20 here. toba bran, In bags, $18; shorts, $20; beans, choice primes, $1.50 to $1.55 per bush., $1.40 to $1.50 in lots. Provisions--Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $19.50 to $20; light short cut, $18 to $18.50; American short cut clear, $17 to $17.60; American fat backs, $18 to $18.50; compound lard, 8c; Canadian lard. 8 to 8*c; kettle rendered, 10£c; hams, 11J to 13c; bacon, 14c; fresh killed abattoir hogs, $7.25; country dressed hogs, $6.50; live hogs, $5. Eggs --Candled selected, 24 to 25c; straight receipts, 21c; Montreal limed, 19c. Cheese--Ontario, 10 to 11c; Townships, 10i to lOJc; Quebec, 9*c. Butter--Townships creamery, 21± to 21ic; Quebec, 20* to 21c; Western dairy, 15 to 17c; Western rolls, to 18c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Dec. 1.--Wheat--December, 78,ic; May, 80c; on track. No. 1 hard, 81Jc; No. 1 Northern, 80^c; No. 2 Northern, 78*c; No. 3 Northern, 73 to 75'c. FIouy--First patents, $4.65 to $4.75; second, do., $4.55 to $4.65; first clears, $3.40; second, do., $2.30 to $2.40. Bran-- In bulk, $13.25. Duluth, Dec. 1.--Wheat--To arrive --No. 1 hard, 79Jc; No. 1 Northern, 77|c; No. 2 Northern, 75ic; December, 77ic; May, 79c. Buffalo, Dec. 1--Flour--Steady. Wheat--Unsettled; No. 1 Northern, 85}c; Winter, otl'erings light; No. 2 red 86c. Corn--Quiet; No. 2 yellow, 52ic; No. 2 corn 50>c. Oats--No-Barley--52 to 63c. Rye -No. 59c. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples--The market is quiet, prices steady. Winter fruit quo $1.75 to $2 per bbl. in car lot: at $2 to $2.50 in small quantities. Beans--There is a quiet trade, with prices steady. Prime beans are quoted at $1.65 to $1.70 per bush. Dried Apples--The demand is fair, with prices unchanged at 4* to 5c MEN RAN WILD IN WOODS. Englishmen Became Demented by Cold and Hunger. A Port Arthur, Ont., despatch says :--A frightful story comes from Kaministique, a station 20 miles west of here on the C. P. R. Four Englishmen arrived there Thursday and started to walk to the camp of Kelly and Close, some 12 miles distant, where they were to get employment. Two of the men, for some reason, returned and took the William, the other two ; Charles Gre Mite 1 , but i Hops--The market i Honey--The market is quic 78 per lb. for bulk, and at $2 for comb. Choice clover LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Dec. 1.--Business in butlers', exporters-' and short-keep feelers was brisk at the Western Market to-day, and values were higher than before. Sheep and lambs were in good demand, and although the offerings wore free all were sold early. Hogs were weak in price, with a lower tendency. Butchers' cattle continued to sell readily and prices held strong. • Several choice loads were sold at $1.25 per cwt. Quotations were as follows :--Choice butchers', 1.000 to 1,100 lbs., $4 to $4.25; good loads, 950 to 1,050 lbs, $3.50 to $3.75; fair and medium loads, $3.2:5 to $3.-50; commoi!, $2.75 to $3; rough and inferior. $2 to $2.51); canners, $1.75 Trade in export cows was steady on light receipts, while common to fair butchers' were not vory plentiful and and consequently were all sold early. Wo quote :--Export cows, 1.200 to 1.300 lbs, $3.12$ to $3.60- cows 800 to 1,100 lbs, $2.40 to $3.10; 'gages rough cows, $1.75 up. lyear The feature of the era and stoekors wa Jmand for the best descriptions. Quo-t 29 to tations (o!low :--Heav- feeders, 1,200 to 1,300 lbs, $4 to $*.25; feeders, nt ft t„ 950 to 1,100 lbs, $3.50 to $4; feed-, . ors, 800 to 950 lbs, $.",.25 to $3.5t>-„ | stockers. 600 to 8CO lbs, $2.50 to oncy, $3. 6to<,k calves 400 lbs f2 2- FARMER IS PROSPEROUS. Ie Owns Property Worth Over $1,000,000,000. A Toronto despatch says :--Tho irrners of Ontario are in an unusually prosperous condition just now, according to the annual report of the Provincial Bureau of Industries. There were 15,084 mortgages le-rorded laf.t year, valued at $10,890, 615, to secure existing debts. and 142, valued at $1,099,158, for future eadorsation. whereas seven years ago 21,789 mortgages were registered. The number of chattel mort-against farmers last as 7,235, the »t for feed- I years. The aggrega brisk de-i gages was $2,85< mortgages were 12 more than last ycai $3,767,516. The total values in 1902 were :-- t in In 1895 the 288, over 5,000 and represented ...$601,860,063 ... 237.289,668 ... 62,199,787 ... 140,514,814 EESULTS ABE.SURPEISINB INVESTIGATION OF SEEDS FOR 1903. Secured From Merchants and Tested in the Seed Laboratory, Ottawa. The continued investigation into the conditions under which agricultural seeds are sold in Canada has been given a rather extensi\e scope during 1903. The report of the work done by the Seed Division during 1902 was published in Bul'etin, No. 8. In the spring of the current year, one thousand one hundred and twelve samples of grass, clover, flax, cereal, root crop and garden vegetables seeds were secured from merchants in all parts of Canada and tested in the Seed Laboratory, Ottawa. In addition to these, one hundred and twenty-five samples of analysed had dim heir destir the employ of Charles Greer, while teaming between the camp and Kaministique, saw two men in the bush. They were without shoes and appar-tly demented. Their clothing was in. and when discovered they yell-j grass and clover seeds like Indians, and made off into ior farmers and seed the woods. The police of Fort Will: telegraphed for, and went thout doing anything to locale them, and they wild in the woods without in zero weather. Searchi parties from the camps were matched, and one of the men fou a.dly frozen but still alive. Though i a terrible condition, and his cloth-ig nearly all gor.o, he was brought , Fort Willi sspital, where it was ascertained s named was Burns. But slight apes are entertained for his recov-•y. The other man wa.s found or Wednesday afternoon in the wood, dead. They had apparently lost heir way, and through cold and lunger, their minds became unbal-.need, though when found they were .'itbin a few miles of civilization, "he dead man has not yet been ic.en-ified. Win. Burns, who was rescu-d, came from Newcastle, Ont. FOUR FIREMEN KILLED. Collapse An Omaha, Neb., despatch says: Four firemen were burned to death on Thursday, with a property loss amounting to $300,000, as the result of a fire in the wholesale grocery house of Allan Bros., at 9th and Jones streets. The firemen who were killed were working about 40 feet inside the Allan building, when the floor above unexpectedly collapsed, catching the men, with no chance of escape, and with no possibilityt of their comrades rescuing them. Theii With each sample obtained for vestigation, information closed giving the name of the dealer and the place where it was sold, the price per pound or per bushel the origin of the seed. In this ncction it is interesting to note that the prices paid by farmers foi and clover seeds were no geif the actual value of the sample average prices per one hundred pounds of Timothy, Alsike, and Red Clover seeds, as shown by the information cards received with the samples, have been calculated, and the results are somewhat surprising. Ii these are to be taken as a fair find that in Ontario, first grade Timothy sold for $5.39 per hundred; second grade for $6.24 and lower grades for $5.52. In Quebec first grade Red Clover averaged $15.50; second grade $12.55, and grades $15.15. In the Maii-Provinces Alsike of the best grade sold for an average of $17.00; icond grade $16.50, and lower grades $16.45 per hundred pounds. IN THOSE CALCULATIONS > nature of the impurities contained in the samples was, of course, not taken into consideration. Samples containing 90 per cent, or over of good seed were rated as first grade; samples containing between 80 and 90 per cent as second grade; and samples containing less than 80 [xir 'e. It may be pointed out that no sample of Alsike containing 90 per cent or over of pure and germinable seed was obtained in the province of Qubec. hundred and six samples of. Timothy seed were analysed and of theso eighty-four contained 90 per cent or over of pure and germinable seeds. Scventy-awo of ttip.se-lamples contained ie&&fo@$j&0()0 weed seeds per lb., one hundred and sixty-two contained fewer than 5,000, and sixteen contained more than 10,000. Jut of otic hundred and thirty-six mples of Alsike that were anair-cd ly six contained 90 per cent or and germinable GAS EXPLODED. A Wiarton despatch says: Tho list of accidents through acet5'lene gas has increased by an explosion in tho store of E. D. Weber, on Thursday. Mr. Weber, with several others," was removing tho gas plant from his cellar to a storehouse in the rear, and in disconnecting the parts brought a lamp too close- An explosion at once followed. Mr. Weber, Mr. J. Tilley, and Mr. Manvers were badly burned. --f--■--■ A NEW MAHDI. despatch from London says :-- v Mahdi, or Mad Mullah, is making trouble in the Soudan, and it has been found necessary to send troops from Khartoum to quell and disperse the malcontents that surround him. Tho man in command of this expeditionary force is the redoubtable Col. Bryan T. Mahon, a County Galway man, who won re-i for leading the column that re-1 Mafeking in the Boer War. Mahon, who is military commander of the Kordofan region, has with him a column of Egyptian cavalry, and it is expected that he will make quick work of the new Mahc'i, vho is operating in the Kordofan listrict. The fact that Col. Mahon imself has taken command of the sxpedition shows that the uprising is ■on.-hiered serious. Col. Mahon war? villi Kitchener in the DongoJa and Nile campaigns, aided in the capture of the old Khalifa, and was decorated for his services. He also served x with distinction. ---f- S BITE PROVES FATAL. It TICKS FROM THE WEE, Telegraphic Briefs From Our Owi and Other Countries of CANADA. There are thirty cases of scarlet fever in Brantford at present. Recently 400 caribou have been killed in Dawson neighborhood. Extensive improvements are proposed to the Provincia buildings at Winnipeg. Negotiations are in progress sndid tending to Woodstock, llection of western >m British Columbia it St. Louis has ar- despatch from Paterson, :--Samuel Dykatra, dead t bite, was buried on Thursday j powers, and i his homo at 159 Franklin will grant jt, and the body was Interred in j running po Fairlawn Cemetery. Some days ago port Arthu Spy apples for exhibition e rived at Ottawa. On Friday, Miss Louiso Pogson or Oshawa took a dose of strychnine in istako for cough medicine and died in fifteen minutes. The Canada Furniture Manufacturers, Limited, will probably commence the construction of a large factory in Woodstock shortly. E. H. Crockford was arrested at Toronto charged with sending a letter to the wife of a clergyman a) Sorel, Que., threatening inurdei. It is said that Col. Drury of,Kingston is to bo appointed to command the Royal Canadian Artillery, with an office at head quarters in Ottawa. Twenty-two engineers and assistants out-fitted at North Bay and have left to complete the survey foi the Grand Trunk Pacific from Nort* Bay. Mr. Robert Bickerdiko, M.F., and Mr. Desola, of Montreal, are urging upon the Government the construction of floating docks at Montreal and other points. The Toronto Exhibiti will ask for the submiss law to raise $200,000 improvements. The financial statement shows a balance of $54,596. Norman Taylor, 24 years old, o! Llodminster, N.W.T., while leading a nervous horse, tied the end of tin halter to his wrist with a slip knot. The horse ran away and he wai dragged to death. Prof. Nicol, of Queen's University, Kingston, has returned from a trip through New Ontario bringing with him half a ton of silver ore, in pieces, some of which weigh twenty-fiv« pounds, which will be added to th« museum of (he School of Mines. I It is reported at Fort William that the Canadian Northern propos* building a line from North Bay oi Sudbury on the Canadian Pacifu Railway to Toronto, over which th< Canadian Pacific may ha-* i directors i of a by-■ building i the < P. R. the Canadian Northeri over their line from 1 of i track are quoted bag for good quali Poultry--The den THE DAIRY MARK per Milch c< each. T andjj. Armst I are 1 Hogs 9 to ! lower, r pair. ;200 lbs 70 to j $3.25 to 1,000 weed seeds per pound; than limited.* Price We quote'-- I MAY BE EATEN BY WOLVES \1 F. X. Guertin, despatch says: The , vn' from a letter receiv-.y on Thursday is that I 1 of Ottawa, the woods- I iappearod from a camp j 2,000 WORDS A MINUTE. New Telegraphic Apparatus perimented With. eixty-s 5,000, and twenty-two contained more than 10,000. Two hundred and six samples of Red Clover were Obtained from small dealers and of these eighty samples contained 90 per cent or over of pure and germjunble seed. Sixty-five of them contained fewer than 1,000 weed seeds per pound, one hundred and twenty-five contain fewer than 5,000, and forty-four contained more than 10,000. It is well to note that a large proportion of those samples obtained for investigation were purchased from irresponsible dealers in villages and small towns. The reliable seed houses retail large quantities of high mall Uipit lumber of direct from these large firms lercentage of samples of g-ooc i bother for sol 'o ajudi. emedtes tr however, he became so ill I he"had to be taken to tho hos-| v he died Monday night. | S ears oil, and leaves a i our children. irt of Tno Ta.te James tne I best painting, "La P tence. de la Porcelaine," was sold ounrt'. idon for $25,000. of foreign s >oth officers. hav» X-RAY RIVAL. After f co tho Dublin 'eland the otl; hen left only t The British Admiralty has subst uted an order for three vessels of thi ler for three battleships with a ro-ord tonnage of 18,000 tons each. 11 TED STATUS. s 10,000 n idle. The er if this had been dor. SEEDS FROM GREi T BRITAIN, ike and four- niey National Memorial has $550,000 in hand, ure under discussion, auction in New York, a i of the late President old for $145. ful f I had I -olth. Mrs. Lul Cheese--Market HOG PRODUCTS unchanged. Dressed hogs i offerings liberal. Sales at $6 dcliv-lwas i ered bore. Cured meats unchanged, did n with a fair demand. We quote:-- was r Bacon, long clear, 10c in ton and ! the le case lots. Mess pork, $17; do.Jlndiai short cut, $19 to $19.50. Iabout --Hams, light to me- weeks 1 O ho ha The post- 'ge: in is able seeds. The a' I the three samples of Abi were said to be English | and germiimbk CANADA BUTTER ACT. A despatch fro , killed herself, I Mr. and Mrs. I'd ward Warren, wh | started May 19th on a 3,000 milt | drive to California from Lowville, N.Y., have reached Los Angeles, Cal. 7 \ New York city's budget for 1904 j allows over $106,000,000 for tha _ | running expenses of tho city govern-jmont. Last year it was $97,000,000. * | Freight rales cast of Buffalo have | "been advanced for the remainder of the year a half-cent per bushel on i, 13 2}c; n 131. c; , 10J t 1 5c break- j ed 1 BUSINESS AT MC Montreal, Dec. 1.-- VI Is steady at 79c for N, Fort William. The M< oats is slow, and thei BUY TIMBER IN CANADA. TO SPEND $2,500,000. .PR. Considering Plan F Winnipeg- Improvements. uspatch says Mark ket continues dull : changed. The Bit stocks oi butter being held in the city at present are very light for this time of year. Western rolls in packages of about 30 pounds sell at 18c. Poultry is still scarce, and the demand continues good Grain--Peas, 71J to 72c afloat here; rye, 53c east and 58c afloat here; buckwheat, 52c afloat; No. 2 oats, 35J to 35Jc in store, 34c afloat; No.3, lc less; flaxseed, SI. 15 on track h:-re: No. 3 barley, 50c. Flour--Manitoba patents, $4.60: seconds. $4.30; strong bakers', $4.05 to $4.30; Ontario straight rollers, $3.90 to $4; in bags. $1.85 to $1.95; patents, $4 to $4.25; ex- -The , of the Canadian Pacific this city has still under n the plans of the new m and terminal facilities h the' new workshops at the company will likely i milli , Mi:. ! Com and Chile, purity £t A MODERN JUGGERNAUT. The B0 i , $1.0 5 SI.70; i $3.80 pei }18.50; shorts, $20 bag, , $1.-Feed- RAILWAY TO PEKING gina! pi. tl, in tr.e waiiiug-mpany found that etail dealers in Canada, eem that much of our be: id Alsike and Red Clovei exported. While It is desi AN ALL-CANADIAN RAILWAY Have Completed Survey I The speei of the Line. opening c Petersburg despatch says: islature < >y has been completed for a commend; ria, B.C., despatch says i from the throne at thi the British Columbio l Thursdaj 1 the pushing forward Leg- the Chinese c TROOPS TO FIGHT RUSSIA. Viceroys of Thirteen Provinces Are Prepared. A despatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Shanghai s-ays that the Viceroys ci thirteen provinces outside of Chili have made an offer to tho Throne to send 90,000 foreign drilled troops to fight Russia for Manchuria, SULTAN FINALLY CONSENT But Says Humilia Must be A vi ThePForte at iv with the plication