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nt fifty miles off Milwaukee carrying with her thirty persons. As nearly as pa oe 4 aig B® oul ry, left Milwaukes. late 'on ursday 'for Ludington. A few urs out of port a heavy gale was encountered. The boat at onos be- gan to pitch and toss, and it was /oot long before the loaded freight cars on the decks became loosened from their moorings and 'oareen wildly eo. The gale incr:a ed, and so Mi hi an b be learned the |on RE are all About the same, themselves to the life rafts. The seas were running so high it w found" impossible to launch any violent 'did the sea 03: me that | the jmany of the crew and passengers be jan to fit themselves out with life "belts. i Captain Peter Kilty wap on the 'bridge, and realizing: the grave sdanger in which his vessel was, he 'began at once to take all precau- {$ions possible. To the wireless op- erator he sent orders to send out, the "0. Q. D."' signal, and 15 con- ftinue sending it so long as the ship swag aflost.. The 'operator. followed «instructions, and * went down" with the wreck, his hand still on ONDENSED NEWS ITEMS SAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER . THE GLOBE. clegraphlo Briefs From Our OWa and Other Countries of Recent Events. '" CANADA. Mrs. Overholt of Eastwood drop- ped dead at Woodstock on Friday. The Grand . Trunk Pacific has odin = § 3 Fpurchased w gite farid hoteliat Vie: storia, B, OC. vo A' plan for a railway from the .~ @bounaary to Peace River is now ¥betore the Alberta Government. 4 Joseph Lang and John Montgom- 'y were drowned at Moose Jaw by upsetting of their boat. The Experimental Union ' meet: ings will be held at Guelph in Jan- tuary instead of the time of the Winter Fair, It is stated at Winnipeg that the (Hudson Bay Company will make large extensions to their stores ere. The new Grand Trunk Pacific elevator at Fort William, said to be the largest in the world, is open for business, g Mr. David Horn, chief grain fn. spector at Winnipeg, has resigned "to take the management of an ele- yator as Port Arthur. ; + The regulations regarding , the tran: portation and muzzling of dogs Ontario 'will not he relaxed until Jécomber at the earliest." * A jury at Gretna, Man., returned & verdict indicating murder in the onseé of O. Hiebert, who was found dead in his house with a wound in his head; The C. P. R. night operator at Indian Head was held up by an armed: man and robbed of ten dollars. Twenty dollars was also taken from the till, An Italian Government agent bas been inspecting land 'in the "west, and says the Italian Govern- ment is about to encourage the emi- gration of a good class of farmers. - Mr. Orvid Jacobson, Norwegian . Oonsul at Montreal, warns his fel- ~ low-countrymen against coming to OC to work on railway con: 'struction, on the ground that cons _ tractors do 'not treat their men fairly, and the precautions against accid ent are not properly observed. a EAN A few moments before 3 went down Crew mana 1 work the twenty-nine loaded cars overboard, in ! boat would right itself. But the effort came too late, Too =n water had entered, and the fires had been extinguished. A niinuf Adter the bobt went down. She sank} like a bullet, and drew do ith. her. the bodies of many who had} jumped into the swirling waters at the last moment, . - w Waled will take; in July next ' Loraine, the sector who Hakbak to. flying} 'flew almost across .th ish Sea in his aeroplane 'on Stn: Ye ) f place UNITED STATES. {Lloyd W. Bowers, Wuited States | Solicitor-General, is dead. Yi "A Legislative Committee has be: gun an investigation of graft chiarg- es at 'Albany. : & A Ten men weré killed 'by the fall he hope that the |: of a-rock in the old Erie tunnel apf | New York, .. ; Many Ri Hinehart, the Pittsburg authoress, is in danger of becom: ing totally blind. °! # hx W. R. Hearst has called on Cdl. the Re- Roosevelt 'to wage war publican bosses in New York, "«. Three men lost their lives in & fire on the United States battleship North Dakota off Fort Monroe, on Thursday. The Btate Department at Wash- ington has expressed the opinion |! that the award of The Hague tri- |" Soo bunal is a victory for the United States. : A John F. Ehrgott' of Yarmouth, N. B., 'was arrested -at-Boston and taken to New York to face a charge of defrauding. the United States | Customs eight yeans ago. Bome fifty-eight persons, many of them accused of first degree murder in connection 'with the lynching of a private detective in July, have been placed on trial at Newark, 0, : ein GENERAL; Barry II1., a renowned St. Bern- ard dog, was kidled in an avalanche in the Alps. George Chavez, a Peruvian avia- tor, reached an altitude of 8,793 feet in France on Thursday. soiergines rgd FIVE STORES LOOTED, A Bad Gang Visits Town of Red- vers, Saskatchewan, A despatch from Redvers, Sask., says: Burglars, believed to be the gang that has been operating in western towns for some weeks past, five stores here on Saturday night and attempted to gain an en: try to two others by breaking the 88. They were surprised by the' of 'building when the bank '| made at 231-2 to 240; a Long clear bacon, tons and cases, 150 to 161-20; backs (plain), 206 to 2c; backs (pea-meal), 201-26 to 211-%¢. y Green meats out of pickle, lc legs than smoked. 3 BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 13.--Oats--No, 21 Canadian Western, 4134 to 42¢c; No, 8,.403-8 to 401.2." Barley No. 1, 53 to bdo; No. 4, 50¢. Flour | --Manitoba Spring wheat patents | firsts, 86; do., seconds, $5.50: Win- | | ter. wheat. patents, 85:75; Manito- ba. wheat patents, $5.30; straight rollers, $5.25; do. : oe fo. $2.60; extras, Feed--Ontario bran Ontario middling bran, $20; Manitoba shorts, $99; pure grain mouillie, 831° to $39; mixed mouillie, $25 to $28. Cheese --western, 11 to 111-8c; eastern 105-8 to 103-4c. ' Butter~Choicesit | 238-4 to 24c; seconds at 231-4 to 231-2¢, Eg stock were 19to. 19 1.901 steaight recoiote: Tar] -2¢; straight recei and No. 2 stock, 1h to Mor UNITED STATES MARKETS. $2.15 to. $2. ,- $20.50 to $2 yl bags; $2.60 be lings, $22; 'Manitoba |, the: fire escape to. Wwe been 7 +b Packers Quoted 'Them at 18 Cents Per Pound Wholesale. = A despatch from: Chacago says: resh pork loins were quoted by e the highest price ever reached in the history of the POTE packing industry at Chicago. Retail prices ranged from 24 to 26 cents a pounds | also establishing new high records. ite the high prices; managers packers' branch honses assert at they could not get all the pork they needed: to meet 'the re- rements of consumers. :