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3:“.â€" .says: The trial of ‘ are now paying. ~ in 11111 or Owen Sound James Farish Creighton concluded on Thursday, the prisoner being found guilty of the charges of murdering his wife and. step-daughters in May last. The verdict was an unanimous one. In addressing the jury Mr. A. G. Mackay, counsel for the defence, pleaded that he be committed to an asylum for the remainder of his life. The judge, however, summed up against the prisoner, and, after the juryubrought in their verdict, sail that he would have been greatly disappointed had it been different A despatch from 82,000 DEFEN l) ERS. ] -Would Cost Australia £100,060 More, Says Ewing. A despatch from London says: In the Melbourne House of Repre- sentatives, on Tuesday, the Minisâ€" ~t_er of Defence, Ewing, moved the socond reading of the defence bill, and said that under the bill the Commonwealth would get, instead of. 20,000 men, enlisted under the vol- untary system, 82,000, costing only £100,000 sterling more than they The main duty of the British navy was to protect the heart of the Empire, and Australia on ht to be able to say to Britain: “V e have a national guard of 200,- 000 trained men which will enable us to keep inviolate our island con- tinent while you do bigger work with the navy.” >34 â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" CZARINA STILL VERY ILL. _. Nervous Breakdown Shows no Sign of Improvement. A despateh from St. Pctcrsburg says: It Is understood that the {Czarina’s prolonged nervous breakâ€" ._"dcv:n, arising from ~.her husband and children, has not been improved by her long yachting 'Vcruisc along the coast of Finland. anxiety over Her physicians insist upon her passâ€"1 '. ing the Winter in the south, but she} -~rcfuse_s to do so and her unless the Czar children accompany her. This is regarded as impossible, but the family fear to tell her Majesty, whose nervous condition makes the thwarting of her wishes dangerous. l-Hor relatives are anxious concern- ing her. ROUNDHO'USE BURNED. $20,000 Bamagc Done to C. P. R. Building at Moutrcal.‘ A despatch'from Montreal says: Fire broke out in the ’Outremont . roundhouse on the Canadian Pacificl Railway early on Thursday and re- sulted in damage estimated at $20,- 000. Ten locomotives were in the shed when the fire was discovered, and the employee of the company succeeded in getting six out of the burning building. Three were - wrecked by falling timber and fire. One locomotive, standing on the track in another part of the str 1':- ture, was not damaged. V _ 5‘4 R1900 it D G RAIN MOVEMENT. 2'31 Cars Received at Port Arthur in One Day (Her 0. N. R. A dcspatch from Winnipeg says: The greatest grain movement so far tins year was accomplished on the ~._.. _.._._. . ...__._._._._-.._.. Murderer Makes No and is Now in A dcspatch from Stratford says: What bears every evidence of hav- ing been a brutal murder was com- mitted on Wednesday'afternoon at the home of Wm. Peak, a respec- table farmer of Downie, two and a half miles west of this city. The victim was Mrs. Peak, aged 65 years and her alleged murderer is a negro named Frank Runchman. Mrs. Peak had been left alone in the house while her husband and two sons went to the fields. One of the sons, John, returned to the house about three o’clock to get a drink of water, and found Runch- man sitting on a. step of the cellar stairs, and his mother lying dead in the cellar, covered with blood, everything indicating that her head had hcon battered against the cel- J. 'F. Creighton Was Convicted at Owen Sound... ‘ ’ . from' what it was. Creighton was terribly affected when he heard the verdict and had to be practically carried out of court, Weeping bit- tcrly the while. , At 8.30 on Thursday evening Mr. Justice Riddell sentenced Creigh- ton to be hanged on Dec. 3rd. In giving sentence, he said that the ac- cused had been guilty of one of the most atrocious crimes known to law and he would hold out no hope of Executive clemency. He must seek mercy at a higher tribunal, where it Was never refused to the peni- tent. Wm Canadian Northern Railway on Wednesday, when 231 cars of wheat were received at Port Arthur. The chief ofiicials of the line, who are closely watching the work of mov- ing the great crops down to the lake ports, are highly gratified at the way in which the task is being done. via DIED 0F STARV'A.’1‘10N. ~â€" Han Dropped Dead While Waiting for Bread. .~_ A despatch from New York says: tanding in the “bread line” and clutching in his hand a ticket which . within a few moments would have given him the food he so sorer needed, a man of 45, early on Thursday suddenly crumplel up, pitched to the ground and died. He was neatly dressed, but appeared. to have suffered from lack of nour- ishment. The body has not yet been identified. v .â€"â€">‘<~â€".â€"â€"_ BRITI SH RE VEN U E S D EC Ll NE. The Year Will Result in Deficit of $25,000,000. A despatch from London says: Further evidence of the depression in British commerce and finance '5 given by the revenue returns from April 1 to Sept. 30. The receipts for that period were £4,481,000 less than during the corresponding period last year. All items, except two, show a decline. It is figured that the year will result in a de- ficit of nearly £5,000,000. v 54 WOMAN FA'E‘ALLY BURNER. Lamp Exploded in Home of Kent County Farmer. A dos-patch from Cl‘iatham says: Mrs. George Jordan, aged 28, wife of a farmer near McKay’s Corners, died as the result of burns received in her home when a lamp exploded on Wednesday. She was almost roasted alive. nearly all her clothes being burned from her body. Her husband and one child survive her. g1,â€" â€"__. .â€" CANA DA’S IllltliIEST WOMAN. Widow of Late Robert Duusniuir Passes Away. A despatch from Victoria, B. 0., says: Mrs. Jean Oliver Dunsmuir, widow of the late Robert Dunsmuir, discoverer of the Wellington coal mines on Vancouver Island, died on Friday morning. Mrs. Dunsmuir, who was the richest woman in Canâ€" ada, was eighty years of age. -yl‘ Free postal delivery is being inâ€" augurated in St. Thomas. ruins it n: violin Attempt to Escape Stratford Jail. lar floor. The hands and clothing of the negro were also bloodstaincd. The unfortunate woman had evi- dently been dead about an hour when found. Peak gave the alarm to the neighbors, then came to the city and notified the police. When an olficer returned the neighbors had Runcluuah tied up, and he was brought here and lodged in jail. He had evidently been drinking. The prisoner had the day previous just completed a term of twenty days in jail for vagi'ancy, having bcen committed from Listowcl, and was wandering about the city on Wednesday forcnoon. He had on, when arrested, a policeman’s over- coat, which he had stolen from the men’s quarters here: The negro, ls‘unclunan, refuses to make any statement. ' - $3.50 in buyers’ THE WORLll? MARKETS a" P. E. REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. â€"_ Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheesc'and Other Dairy Produce-at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. V Toronto, Oct. 6.,â€"Flour â€"â€" On- tario wheat 00 per cent. patents, sacks outside for Manitoba flour, first pat- ents, $5.80, on track, Toronto; sec- jond patents, $5.30, and strong bakâ€" lers’. $5.10. export. Wheat â€" Manitoba wheat for prompt shipment is quoted at $1.â€" 03 for No. 1 Northern, and $1.04 for No. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay )crts. For October delivery, No. 1 new is quoted at $1.02, and No. 2 Northern at $1, Bay ports. Ontario Wheatâ€"edge. 2 white is. quoted at 93c outside; No. 2 red Winter, 92%c, and No. 2 mixed, I9]}60 outside. Oatsâ€"Ontario No. 2 white, 38% to 39c outside; Manitoba No. 2 quoted at 44c, and rejected at 42c, 'Goderich. . " Ryeâ€"â€"No. 2 quoted at 79 to 800 outside. ' Buckwheatâ€"65 to 67c outside.’ Peasâ€"Prices nominal at 88 to 900 outside. Cornâ€"No. 2' American yellow nominal at 87%c on track, Toronto, and No. 3 at 87c. Barley-No. 2 barley quoted at 57c, and No. 3 extra at 550 .out- side. - ' Branâ€"Cars are quoted at $20 in bulk outside. Shorts quoted at $22 to $23 in bulk outside. COUNTRY raccoon. Applesâ€"$1.50 to $2.50 per bbl. Beansâ€"Prime, $2 to $2.10, and handâ€"picked, $2.20 to $2.25. Honeyâ€"Combs, No. 1, $1.50 to $1.75 per dozen. and No. 2, in (50â€" pcund tins, 0%c; No. 1 extracted- ' 10 to 110 per pound. » Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy quoted {Lt-$11 to $11.50 a ton on track here, and NO. 2 at $7 to $8. i Strawâ€"$6.70 to $7 on track. Potatoesâ€"~05c per bag, and Dela,â€" wvares at 70c per bag on track. Poultryâ€"Ohickens, Spring, dress= en. 10 to 110 per pound; fowl, 9 to Mil/go; ducks, 11 to 120 per pounds THE AIRY M A ll KETS. Butterâ€"Poundprints, 22 to 23c; tubs, 20 to 220; inferior, 18 to 19c. Creamery rolls, 25 to 260, and sol- lids at 241 to surge. ' liggs~llasc lots, 21 ldoscn. Cheeseâ€"Large cheese, 13% to 13%(: per pound, and twins, 13% to 183/,0. to 22c per HOG PRODUCTS. I _ Baconâ€"Long clear, 12% to 13c per pound in case lots; mess pork, $19 to $19.50; short cut, $23.50. Hams-~Light to medium, 14% to 150; (lo., heavy, 12% to 130; rolls, 1‘ to 1134c; shoulders, 101/2 to 10,340; backs, 1714 to 180; breakfast bacon, 15 to 15%0. v Lardâ€"Tierces, 13}§c; tubs, 13%c; pails, 14c. ' BUSINESS AT llIlONTRE AL. 6.â€"Oatsâ€"~â€"No. 2 at 45 to 453/30; Montreal, Oct. white are quoted [No 3 at 44 to 441/2c, and No. 4 at 487.; to Me, with Manitoba old crop 1‘30. 2 white at 4.7 to 47%0. N0.. 3 at 46 to 461/30, and rejected at 45 to 45%0 per bushel, cx-store. Flour , â€"-â€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, $6; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat patents, $5 to $5.10; straight rolâ€" lers, $4.40 to $4.50; do., in bags, $2 to $2.10; extras, $1.05 to 311.75. Pectinâ€"Manitoba bran, $21 to $22, shorts, Ontario bran, 821 to middlings, $2Gto $27; shorts, $26 per ton, including bags; pure grain mouillc, $30 to $35; milled grades, $25 to $28 per ton. .Pro- visions Barrels short out mess, $22.50; halfâ€"barrels, $11.50; 'clcar fat back, $.23; dry salt long clear hacks, 11c; barrels plate beef, $17.50; half-barrels, do., $9; com- pound lard, 8% to 9%0; pure lard, 12%. to 13c; kettle rendered, 1310 13);;(3; hams, 121/20 to 1-10; break- fast bacon, 14 to 150; Windsor ba- con, 15 to 16c; fresh killed abat- toir dressed hogs. $10.25 to $10.50; llive, $7.25 to $7.50. fiCheeseâ€"West- icrn, 12%; to 12750; Eastern, 12% to 12fiéc. Butterâ€"#250 in round lots, 20c. jobbing. Eggsâ€"N0. 1, 19 to 200; selects, 23 to 240, per doz. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Oct. 6.â€"â€"Wheatâ€"Spring wheat firmer; No. 1 Northern, car- loads, store, 931.05%; Winter strong; No. 2 white, $1.03. Cornâ€"â€" Easier ; No. 3 yellow, 840; No. 4- yel- low, 830; No. 3 com, 83 to 83%c; No. 4 corn, 81% to 820; No. 3 white, 823/gc. Oatsâ€"Steady. St. Louis, Oct. 6.â€"â€"thatâ€"â€"Cash, 'Orashed Through an 1 I Mimico “dildo Switch at Station. A despatch from Mimieo says: Through the apparent negligence of a new-switchman and operator at Mimico Station on Thursday night one man was killed, another will likely die, and a third received in- juries which, although not of a fa.- tal nature, will disable him for some time. tween the fast (1. P. R. train leav- ing Toronto at 7.15 and a Grand Trunk light engine, which we'll standing on the siding at Mimico. The engine was about two hundred yards from the switch and the C. l’. R. train, which was going at the rate of at least 40 miles an hour at that, time, plowed through the giound and struck the tender of the Grand Trunk engine. Engineer John Smith, who was in the light engine, was violently thrown against the side of the cab, but his fireman escaped injury, and there was but little damage done to the train. ' The man who was killed was Wil- liam Quinn, 42 years of age, en- gineer on the C. P. R. express, 145 Pacific Avenue, West Toronto. He leaves a widow, a son and a daughâ€" ter. The injured 'are:â€"â€" Willis The collision was be-| 'Jarvis, fireman on the C. P. R. ltrain, aged 28, single, 97 Mulock Avenue. West Toronto. He is suf- fering from internal injuries, due to the inhalation of a great amount of steam, his right leg is badly scaldcd from the hip down, and is also fractured below the knee, and the toes on his right foot are badly jcrushcd. John Smith, 306 King 'Street west, engineer on the Grant jTi-unk light engine, had his right i right shoulder a leg fractured, his dislocated and was the head. The accident happened about 17.40, the C. P. R. train being a few lminutes late in leaving Toronto 'Sl’ation. This train does not make a stop at Mimico and was going at la high rate of speed when it passed throu h Miniico Station. _4 The Gran Trunk engine had just come out of the roundhouse and was waiting on the crossing for the C. P R. train to pass. The crew was working in the engine and little ex- pected an accident. The engineer was waiting to start along as soon as the express passed and the fire- ...man was outside, which explains how he escaped injury. b ru isc d ab out W 31.00%; September, 831.00%; Deâ€" cember, $1.00Z; May, $1.03Z. ' Minneapolis, Minn, Oct. 6. â€" Wheat~Scpt., $1.01%; Dec., $1.- 017/,,; May, $1.06; No. 1 hard, $1.- 04% to $1.04%; No. 1 Northern, $1.03% to $1.03%; No. 2 Northern, 531.01% to 331.01%; No. 3 Northern, 9530/80 to 311.00%. Flourâ€"First pat- ents, $5.75 to $5.90; second patents, 55.60 to $5.75; first clears, $4.45 to $4.55; second clears, $3.50 to $3.60. Branâ€"In bulk, $18 to $18.50. LIVE STOCK MARKET; , Toronto, 6.e~Selected steers and heifers sold at $4.40 to $4.65 per cwt. Choice cows were sold as high as $4 per cut, and higher in a few special cases. 1 .. An improvement was reported in the‘dcmand for feeders and stockâ€" ers, as well as for distillery bulls and Steers. Distillery feeders sold at $2.40 to $3.75, according to their weights and quality. A firm market was recorded for milch cows. The best ones sold up to $05 each. The range for the genâ€" eral offerings was to $60 ca'ch. Choice veal calves went up about half a cent toâ€"day. The quotations were 3 to 6%0 per pound. , Prices _were unchanged in sheep and lambs. . Hogs were weak in price at $6.75, fed and watered, for selects. )7 ‘ n..- C. P. R. STRIKE SETTLED. Company Will TalieMcn Back 33 Places are Found. A dccpatch from Mont-areal says: . -.' . .,,‘ ' .r;\ ,‘I, 'Ihc b.g ('1. 1). Strlke’ “.hlch has“ morning tlulll fill 101 .lllbl). been agitating labor circles for the past two months. is at an end. It was settled on Sunday night, and the men return. to work under con- ditions against which they struck two months ago. By the terms of the sct‘lcment the men agree to ac- cept the finding of the" majority of the Arbitration Committee. This is what they refused to accept beâ€" fore. The C. P. It, on their part, simply agree to take back the men as they find room for them on their staffs. They also agree that there shall be no discrimination against the men who went out. The men will lose their pensions and seni- ority, and many of them will be un- : ‘itllttttl o able to secure their old places, as the C. P. R. is under contract to rrtain all of the men they secured during the past two months, but as many of these are not expert ma- chinists it is thought that there will be a gradual weeding out of the re- cruits, and their places will be tak- en by the old C. P. R. experts. .__I .._.._>z< STEA H ER 11 U MBOLDT ASBG’RE. jSurvivors of Star of Bengal in a Second Shipwreck. A dcspatch from Victoria, B. 0., says: The steamer Humboldt, 330 tons, on the route between Seattle and‘Ska-gwa‘y, is ashore in Active Pass. She struck. on rocks off Ren- der Island; The steamer will prove a total loss, but all the passengers, about twentyâ€"five in number, were saved. The steamer had on board eighteen survivors of the illâ€"fated ship Star of Bengal, which was lost | near Wrangcl. v s..,‘,____._- R0 ll ll. l) l) P51 ST-(i i’l‘l (' 5*} CAFE . Bin-gloss at Milvortou Blow it Open - Sunday Morning. A. dcspatch from Startford says: Shortly after midnnrht on Sur I morning burglars (‘:li.:.‘l‘-'“".i tho pot-st- , office at lvlilverton, blew open the safe and got away with 551200 in stamps and in cash. To facili- tate-their departure they stole a team from the Quwm's Hotel sta- bles and driving to h 'ziti'an'd. whore 2 they left ll“). l1(v‘;‘.‘~.,, {it'll it), a. free ' on a side slrc-M.‘ haul-(led the early it is supposed lhcro u‘i'rc four ll‘f‘ll in the party, as they purchased ibis number of tickets. There is no dc- finitc clue to their identiiyfi -.__-__- .â€"‘,§_.. .. -u... " RUNS “REEF? EN “HELL. Man (‘luirgml'll’ilh Attempt io l’oi- son a Family. A dcspatch from (.‘Itt:i‘~.'.'a-sa_\'s: jail at Hull charged with attempt- , ing to poison Mr. Robert Brown, members of his family and other rc- sideuts of the township. It is said that out of spite he threw a quan- tity of Paris grccn into a well used by a number of families. llill tilil‘ll David Rheardon Dead, and Thomas Fox Probably Fatally injured. A dcspatch from Ottawa says: An extraordinary affair occurred on Wednesday night as a result of which, D. D. llcardon,.a driver for the Electric Transfer Company, is dead, and Thomas Fox, a laborer, residing at ($4 Percy Street, is dy- ing. It seems that both men were paying attention to the same girl, whose identity for the present is unknown. . I ll-eardon was walking with the young lady on Wednesday night on Ashburnham Hill, at-the extreme end ofLaurier Avenue west, in the vicinity of St. Jean Baptiste Church, where the roadway abrupt- :.~ t;::zrmm=rz:flifimmwtw ly terminates at a sharp, rocky point, fully forty. _, feet above the street level. Fox had been follow- ing, the couple, and, overtaking them, he got into. an altercation with Re‘ar‘don, which led to blows and a scuffle, ' each man 'trying to throw the other over the cliff. The result was that both men went over, lleardon falling On the jagged rocks, with Fox on top of him. Reardon’s skull was crushed-in, and Fox’s in~ juries are of such a nature thathe is not likely to rcc‘ox'cr. .. When the men commenccdffight ‘ing the girl in the case, who is re- ‘puted to be very pretty, and with many admirers, ran home. Anthony Daccy, of (.‘antlcy, is In ' la'a'I-s;r,‘~. iv * - .