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-;....W;1-;-..:.._......ns._ V . . a wife and four children. Splendid Record Being ' Made By the Railways This Year. A despatch from W’innipeg says: rather than lower. Taking the av- Up to date there has passed inspec-- crage of wheat passed inspection tion at Winnipeg 40,400,000 bush- at 85 cents to the farmer, there has els of wheat of the crop of 1903, or been paid to them on the wheat nearly 9,000,000 bushels more than crop of 1.903, $34,340,000. It is in- had been inspected up to the end teresting to note the record of the of December last year. Putting the various roads, in the movement of exportable surplus of crop at 80,â€" the crop. Of the 43,973 cars inspec- C00,000 bushels, more than half of ted the C. P. R. handled 27,845, the that surplus has already been in-l C. N. R. 12,821, and the new G. T. spected, and before navigation clos-K P. made the splendid record of 924, es 0'1 the 5th of December the and 2,383 went over the Great amount will have run over 45,010,- Northern to Duluth. 000 bushels. In spite of the kicks The Canadian Pacific holds the that continue to come from the ’ palm for the largest number of cars country as to car shortage, the west5 mover on such long hauls in the has already got out more wheat, period of two-and a half months; considering the distance it has to and evidence of thejadvantage of travel, than any country has everio'ouble tracking is fairly thrust m moved in the same period before. the face of every dealer of wheat. Up to the end of September the The record of the G. T. P. for a average price to the farmer had new 10ad is magnificent, for it must run just about 85 cents per bushel be remembered that not a car mov- for all grades. The average has ed on that road in September. The not been made up since that time, record of nearly a thousand cars but it has certainly been higher, is for October and November alone. WWW" IIAMONIC LAUNCHED. ment’s Licensing Bill at the second . T" - lreading by 272 to 96 votes. The The Finest Product of Canadian ; Liberal party has for thevpagt ‘txyo Shipbuilding. imonths regarded this as rthe inevifiiâ€" A 'dsefipatlch from COHingWOOd hgfievfgiie dciiriiihge thldl.ne‘i[‘thegycii:i'al says: ort y after 2 o’clock on . . r . . 7 . 4 Thursday afternoon the ropes holdfl election campaign, use this as one ' ‘. - - . f their many reasons forcnding,r 1ng~the splendid steel steamer Barf? . ] monic were severed simultaneous-l the House Of Lords' They set'for‘m’ ly and thatremendous tonnage of furthermore, that the bill, being a . - 7 . ~ ' ~ tside‘ the steel slid gracefully down the ways Ie‘ pm-lo- measme’ Is on. into the water and another audi- JurlSdmtlon'Of the House Of Lords' gen hwas II\1Iia¢:le to the fleet of the . ,â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".}. ort ern avigation Company. The , ' initial dip of the Hainonic was W- IL MORTON SIA'BBED‘ reeted 1) th t ‘11" ‘1 ~ "3 I . " . a f... shortlists»Hanan we we \Vl‘lhistles of the several steamers in His Breast. t e harbor added their welcome to ‘ - c, , the new recruit. The customary A .defip?f0h- from bottle of wine was broken upon the says' 0 owmg 3' a “’1 we prow of the boat by Mrs. H. Edwages’ Joe Fread’an Italian 13‘ Gildersleeve, Wife of the generaliborer, committed a murderous as~ ! It on W. H. Morton at .Stam- manager of the company who per- gall , v . ._ formed her task just as the steamer fwd on Thul Sday aft”! noon' M01 ' . nrr labor- stamed on the way for her first sub_ ton is foreman of 1. ga D of c mersion ers whowork on the roads in Stam- £4 ‘ men off on the conclusion of thejob. PARDON CAME TOO LATE, Fread demanded more than had -~- been agreed upon, and Morton reâ€" Death of Capt. N. F. Harbottle fused to pay him. Fread walked From Cancer. . away, but in a few minutes came . back and without warning stab- "A despatch from Edmonton says: -’ ’ . . _ . _ ’, Captain N. E Harbottle’ the de_ bed Morton tw1ce in the breast near - _ - , the heart with a dirk knife, and ran fligétlnghzdfigogeiiiléléagdtfvegingil off into the woods. The poli-l), af- ) . w . . - ter a leng chase captured him. sentence, died suddenly in the peniâ€"l ‘ . . . J" . . . tontiary on Friday morning from! yolton ls m a..vuy crltlca’lcpndl‘ cancer of the stomach. He had 'mn' been operated upon and never ral- lied. A peculiarly sad feature of the case was the fact that one hour .. after his death a Pardon 4111‘in Rapid Progress is Being Made With from Ottawa, which had been file Sm.vcy_ ranted b order in Council after g y A despatch from Ottawa says: gthe precarious condition of his _ , health was made known to the Gov- Reports recelVed by the Rallway ernment. Capt. Harbottle leaves .Depai‘tment are that rapid Progress 1: being made With the survey of the proposedroute of the Hudson â€"â€"â€"’1‘_-â€" Bay Railway. There are at present four parties in the field, CODSIStil’lg __ in all of from seventy to one hun- Ncw British Measure Buried by area men engaged m.surve.y1.ng al‘ 279 to 98 votes ternate routes. It'ls antic1pate " ’ " that the engineers Wlll be in a po- A despatch from London says: Sition to make a report, on which The House of. Lords on Friday reâ€" a practically definite conclusion jected, in accordance with their re- may be based, by the end of Febru- solution of Nov. 24, the Govern- ary, for presentation to Parliament. WAR ill dildllldllllllllillll The Trouble Is Now Believed to -Have Come to a Head. 1' . )‘4 HUD SON’S BAY RAILWAY. A despatch from London says: kish boycott caused declines at the laminarâ€"ini ford township, and was paying the _ THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. 0â€".- Priccs of Cattle, Grain,,Chccse and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. 1.â€"â€"Ontario Wheat â€" No. 2 white or red, outside, 93c to 940; No. 2 mixed, 930 to 9312c. Manitoba Vi'heat~No. 1 northern, $10772 to $1.08; No. 2 northern, $1.04}; to $1.05 lake ports. Oatswontai'io No. 2 white, 390 to 40%0 outSide; No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c, outSide, 43%0 on track, lake ports; extra No. 1 feed, 41%0; No. 1 feed, 410, on track, lake ports. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 55%0 to 560; No. 3 extra, 54c to 550; No. 3, 530 to 540. . Cornâ€"Old, 74%0 to 750, Toronto freights, for No. 2 or 3 yellow; new No. 3 yellow, 710 to 71%c, Toronto freights. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 750 to 760, outside. I’eas~â€"No. 2, 85c to 860 outside. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, 550 to 560, out- side. - Flourâ€"Manitoba, first patents, $5.80; seconds, $5.30; strong bakâ€" ers’, $5.10; Ontario winter wheat patents, for export, $3.70 to $3.75, cut-side. Millfeedâ€"Bran, $20 to $21 per ton in «bags, outside; shorts, $22 to $23, in bags, outside. ’ COUNTRY PRODUCE. -Apples-â€"â€"Winter, $3 to $4 per bar- rel for good qualities, and at $2 to $2.50 for cooking apples. Bean’sâ€"Prime, $1.80 to $1.85, and handâ€"picked, $1.90 to $1.95 per Lushel. Honeyâ€"~Combs, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to 110 per pound. Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy quoted at $11 No. 2 at $7 to $8. Strawâ€"$6.50 to $8 or. track. Potatoesâ€"Imlawares, 75 to 800 per bag on track. ' Poultryâ€"Chickens, dressed, 9 to 100 per pound; fowl, 7 to 8c; ducks, 9 to 100; geese, 8 to 90 per pound; turkeys, 12 to 12}./_.c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 24 to 260; tubs, 23 to 24c; inferior, 20 to 210. Creamery rolls, 27% to 280, and sol'ds, 25% to 260. : ~Eggsâ€"“Case lots of storage, 23 to 24c per dozen, while new laid are quoted at 30 to 32c per dozen. pound, and twins, 13%0. PROVISIONS. Porkâ€"Short cut, $22.50 to $23 per barrel; mess, $19 to $19.50. Lardâ€"Jl‘ierces, 12%0; tubs, 12%0; pails, 18c. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€"- Long clear bacon, 1134c to 11%c, tons and.eases; hams, large 121/25 to 130, small 140 to 14%0; backs, 170 to 17%0; shoulders, 100 to 10%0; rolls, 110 to 11%0; breakfast bacon, 15c to 160; green meats out of pickle 10 less than smoked. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Dec. 1.â€"â€"AGrainâ€"Cana- dian Western No. 2 white cats are selling at 46720; No. 3, 451/20; extra No. 1 feed cats at 45%0; No. 1 feed at 450; Ontario No. 2 white, 45 to 45%c; No. 3, 44 to 44120; No. 4, 43%~ to 44c per Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat patâ€" ents, firsts, $6; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat patents, $5 to $5.25; straight rollers, $4.60 to $4.70; do., in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; extra, $1.- 7) to $1.85. Feedâ€"Ontario bran, $21.50 to $22; middlings, $25 to $26; shorts, $24.50 to $25 per ton, including bags; pure grain mouille, $30 to $32; milled grades, $25 to $28 per ton. Cheeseâ€"12%, to 12%0, and easterns at 11% to 120. Butter â€"27c in round lots, and 27% to 280 - in a jobbing way. Eggsâ€"New laid, MDDNMTDET” â€"â€" BEASING Almost of Daily Occurrence. A (195131113911 from Calcutta says: Agurpara. There were three other The Situation in India has not Europeans in the carriage at the ShQWD suCh. a menace of serious up- same time. Nonewas injured. Last risings as it does toâ€"day for many Monday night District Supt. of P0- years past. Attacks and attempts lice Clough was murdered by a na- on the lives of Englishmen, ofiicials tive at Lyallpur. The native ap~ and C1V1l1€tnS are of almost daily 00- proached the superintendent while currence._ Lord Minto, the Vice- he was asleep and .cut open his roy of India, returned here on Wed- head with a spade. ~ nesday_ from the north, cutting The native, named Chownhury, short his excursion in this territory who on November ‘7 made an at- for the purpose of considering mca- tempt here upon the life of Sir An- sures'to cope with the native dis- drew Henderson Fraser, the Lieut.~ affection, which the authorities have Governor of Bengal, on Vi’ednesday been forced to. recognize as alarm- pleaded guilty and was sentenced mgly OT} the 1001‘6386- to imprisonment for life. On Wednesday night a Bengali The pOlice are taking remark- made an. unsuccessful attempt to able precautions to safeguard Lord kill Public Prosecutor I-Iume with Minto, and this is regarded as most a bomb in a railroad carriage, near Significant. W Attempt on the Lives of Englishmen. to $11.50 a ton on track here, and UNITED. STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, Dec.'1â€"Wheat~No. 1 Northern, $1.051/2; No. 2 Northern, $1.04 to $1.05; May, $1.08 asked. pics, 57 to (540; No. 3, 57 to 610; Nov., 570. Dec., $1.04%; May, $1.09%; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.08% to $1.08%; No. 1 Northern, $1.07% to $1.07%; No. 2 Northern, $1.053/2 to $1.053/4; No. 4 Northern, $1.01% to $1.04. Bran â€"$18.25 to $18.50. patents, $5.40 to $5.65; second pa- tents, $5.25 to $5.50; first clears, $4.00 to $4.30; second clears, $3.0C t0 Buffalo, Dec. 1.â€"Wheatâ€"Spring, steady; No. 1 Northern, earloads, store, $1.09%‘; Winter, higher; No. 2 red, $1.08%; No. 3 extra red, $1.07%; No. 2 white,, $1.04; No. mixed, $1.07. Germâ€"Easier; No. 3 yellow, 67c; No. 4 yellow, 66%0; No. 4 corn, 65%0 to 66c; No. 3 white, 670. Oatsâ€"Steady; No. 2 white, 53% to 53%c; No. 2 rye, track, 810. HER LIFE FOR A EGG. Mrs. Tony Verve 'illl,0f Hamilton, Killed by a 031'. A despatch from Hamilton: says: In. an attempt to save her dog from inJury by a Radial car on Sunday levening about 5 o’clock Mrs. Tony IVerveranan, Whitfield avenue, lost 'her own life. She and her husband Cheeseâ€"Large cheese, 13%c ‘per' were walking along the tracks near Irondale, and hearing a car ap- proach, they stepped aside out of danger. The dog remained on the track, and as it was in danger of being struck, Mrs. Ververanan ran on the track to save it. As she bent forward to pick it up the corner of the car struck her on the head. knocking her senseless. The car was stopped, and she was taken to the City Hospital, where the doctors operated on her. Her skull Ryeâ€"No. 1, 75c. Cornâ€"May, 62780 hid. Barleyâ€"Standard, 64c; sam- Minneapolis, Dec. 1.â€"Whea‘t ~â€"â€" Flour â€" First ed in the mine, the death list will exceed the company’s estimate by at‘least 50. ._..____rz<â€"_ ‘ ST. JERDM J’S DAMAGED. Berlin Studentsâ€"‘Wm'k Hard to Save New Buildings. A despatch from Berlin says: Fire did $35,000 damage to St. J-e- rome’s College early on Sunday morning, destroying the oldest of the college buildings, which was used as a notiviate chapel, dormiâ€" tory and society hall. Several bilâ€" liard tables, a piano, an organ and other valuable furniture were de. stroyed, as well as practically all the clothing of 12 students who slept there. The volunteer brigade of students had'streams playing on the flames before the arrival of the city brigade. F SIX MEN SUFFO CATED . Were Working in Salt Mine on 011t- skirts of Detroit. A despatch from Detroit says: Six men were suffocated to death on Saturday afternoon in the Vil- lage of Oakwood, on the western outskirts of Detroit. They were at work 500 feet down in a shaft beâ€" ing sunk for a salt mine, when the canvas tube which supplied them with air became clogged, and the shaft filled with gas. Four bodies have been recovered. a. A HUNDRED DRDWNED. Coasting Steamer Went Down elf the Philippines. A despatch from Manila says: The "casting steamer Ponting, car- rying a large number of laborers (from Narvaian to the ricefields in Pangasinan province, struck a rock and sank on Thursday night during la storm, off the town of San Fer- nando, in Union province. It is estimated that a hundred of the was too badly fractured for surgi- passengers and crew of the Pont- cal aid to be of any benefit, and she died' about an hour later. >15 138 MINERS DEAD. _~ Explosion in Pittsburg-Bui‘l’alc Coal Mine. A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says: Twenty-five bodies, all but two of them horribly mutilated, and 131151191 ex Stone several dismembered, were taken on Sunday from the mine of the Pitts- burg-Buffalo Coal Co., at Marian- na, where an explosion occurred on Saturday. Officials of the company who said on Saturday night that over 125 had been killed, on Sunâ€" day night admit that 138 men went down the shaft to work On Saturâ€" day morning. According to minâ€" ers and others familiar with the A ing were drowned. The steamer Viscaya rescued 55. A patrol of constabulary, which. was established immediately after the accident, picked up fifteen bodies, and many were coming ashore. It is. not. known whether any Americans or Europeans were aboard the wreck- ed steamer. >i< Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia were awarded gold me- dals at the colonial Fruit Show in London. Mr. Birrell has introduced a bill into the British House of Commons to facilitate the purchase of land for the tenants in~ Ireland. The army budget for Prussia, Saxony and Wurtemburg estimates the expenditure for 1909 at $180,- 500,000, 0. $6,500,000 less than in 1908. i-,...........__._. A _ . Friday has been a day of uneasz- bourses of Vienna and Budapest, ness and even alarm. Various reâ€" ports, all seeming to harmonize with each other, created a belief that the Balkan trouble had come to a head, and that war was very near. The general interpretation of the withdrawal of Marquis Pal- lavicinni, the Austrian Ambassador at Constantinople, as a. disguised ultimatum to Turkey, Russia’s un- which were partly checked by a hasty official announcement deny- ing some of the rumors, especially the‘fight between Austrians and Servians. The position was in no wise bet- tered when it was learned that the Government had confiscated four Vienna newspapers for reporting the movements of troops particular- 29 to 30c; selected stock, 25 to 251/20; No. 1 stock, 22 to 230, and No. 2 stock, 17%c per dozen. ui number of men generally employ- _ cannons imr Towns, D... 1.-â€"A scanty of Tail-or Instructor Has Been Suspended choice cattle was reported. A . . . Pending Investigation. buyer said that he was willing to pay $5 for a load of extra choice butchers’ cattle, but he could not 'find them. The best prices ruled around $4.40 per cwt. Straight favorable reply to the Austrian note ly at Semlin. concerning a conference, the re- It is impossible to say how far orted definite conclusion of an al- the day’s alarm was justified, but loads of good cattle were sold at iance between Turkey, Montene- nothing can be definitely ascertain- $4 to $4.25 per cwt. The prices gro and Servia, the alleged clashled to show that the situation is of medium cattle varied from $3 of an Austrian column with a Ser- really worse than it has been for to $4 per cwt. Choice cows were vian guerilla band, the rumored in- the last few days. Nevertheless the gold up to $3.75 per cwt. Common crease of troops in Bosnia, and a uneasiness is general, and the out- and medium cows brought $2 to $3 fresh concernation at Seniin, oppo- look is very obscure. It is stated per cwt. Few heavy feeders of good A demand site Belgrade, where it was assert- in diplomatic quarters that the quality were offered. ed a plot to murder an Austrian Minister had been discovered, were the principal causes of the excite- ment. These, added to the univer» rx-asnm‘ation caused by the Tur- A despatch from Kingston says: material was coming from. Two The tailor instructor of the peni- prisoners under the instructor were tentiary is under. suspicion pending using the drug, and one of them is an investigation into the finding in now in the prison hospital. How one of his rooms in the institution the stuff got into the storeroom no a quantity of opium, tobacco, one can tell. Some years ago a money and two watches purchased. large quantity of stolen goods were at Eaton’s in Toronto. The B'ISâ€" ’ found under the floor of the archi- pended official denies all knowledge , tect’s room at the prison, but he as to how these materials found knew nothing about the matter. gravest difficulties lierin the direc- tion of an Austrian-Russian dis~ agreement, and the probability of an alliance between Turkey, Mon- tenegro and Servia. from the country persisted for them their way into his department. The Some prisoners were suspected of at current prices. Sheep and lambs discovery was made by the prison hiding the stuff, and there is no were in better demand. Select hogs authorities that opium and tobacco doubt the present case is a piece continued to sell at $6.25 per cwt., were being used, and a prisonerl ol' convict sleightâ€"cfâ€"hand work. In- fed and watered, Toronto. gave information as to Where the specter Dawson will investigate