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y th van than at any time in the st two or three years. Mrs. lain was wheeled out on the lawn mberlain, who never left her "emaciated and |, ushand's side since he was stricken | feeble when he Titted hig hat * to ith paralysis seven y&ars ago, and | friends and neighbors in acknow- | Pe gon, 'Austen Chamberlain, were "with his w . receiv several dred constituents. Mr. Ohambe and appeared very ledgment of their salutes. Capt. Kendall of Wrecked Em press of Ireland and His Wife. Photographed at the Inquiry. IMMIGRATION RETURNS. ¥ell OR Fifty-three Per Cent. in April and May. * A despatch from Ottawa says: Immigration returns for April and May, the first two months of the present fiscal year, show a decrease of no less than 78,270, or 53 per cent., as compared "with April and May of last year. The total for the two months was 68,163, including 20,375 British, 20,713 American and 7,085 from other countries. The total immigration for the year is likely to be less than 150,000, or back to where it was some ten years ago. The decrease is mostly in im- migration from Great Britain, which declined by 38,565, or nearly 66 per cent., as compared with the corresponding two months of last year. The falling off in immigration 4rom the United Btates was 12,794, and in immigration from other for- eign countries it was 28,911. ns M ARCOND'S P PROPHECY. Expects to Talk Across Atlantic Before End of 1914. A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: "Mr. Marconi contem- plates being able to telephone from Carnayon, Wales, to New York, be- fore the end of this year,"' was the statement made on Wednesday by the manager of the company, in tes-. tifying before the Dominions Royal Commission on Imperial communi- cations. It was added that Mr. Marconi also anticipated increasing the speed of the wireless telegraph to 300 words a minute. PRINCE OF WALES NESTEGG : His Financial Advisers Have ade Some Profitable Ventures London ayes : ales next year enty-first birthday ato the personal con- enues 'of D ? FISHES BODY FROM RIVER. Foul Play is Feared in Death of Frank O'Leary. A despatch from Haileybury says: While angling at the end of the Nant Haileybury wharf Joe Sherill fished up a body at the end of his line. It had apparently been in the water but was identified as that of Frank O'Leary, a. camp cook. BSherill's line hook caught in some time, the clothing and the fisherman won dered what had happened, until the body came tothe surface. From the appearance of the body | $7 foul play is feared in the death of O'Leary. There is a wound on the back of the head. Dootors think |; this was sustained before he go into the water. rrr fe WHALE IN P.E.I. HARBOR. The Monster, in His Excitement, Made a Dash Up the River. A despatch from Charlottetown, P.E.I, says: There was consid harbor before he found his way ou again. A number of motor boat were chaging the strange visitor. pe Sir Francis J. Campbell, who died 78, was ex-Princi- pal of the Royal College and Aca- demy of Music for thé Blind. He in London, aged was born in Tennessee, and lost hi sight when four years old For Him : done.» very well for the Prince. Nok very the; h ver a y purchased £80,- Sppresiated 3 in the val er- able excitement about the harbor on Friday owing to the appearance of | f a good-sized whale, which seemed to become bewildered once he got inside, and took a trip part way up one of the rivers which flow into the of seouyifice; which have 1 Fi in jute ui stro juts pags Ta'eo Ontart tario Hour winter wheat oF, gent. pa 2 Ig offered 7 8.76, sea Jaten Cornmeal--Yellow, 98 98 1b. sac oronto. Coun oy Frotuon. 'Who! Be trade oles pri ronowin Ti Eggs--Strictly hey, E on nlas 24 to 26c; axtte firsts, EY 26¢; or arg fits firsts, 5.2 to LL , TI 0 tac ow large, 0 twin, in to 14%c; old, oi 8, 17¢. Butter--Creamery prints, iy 32 to 26¢; farmers' separator' gi to 20c; ry prints, 17 to 19¢; b * Beans Primes, bushel, $2.18; H. P. ns--Primes, bushe! $2.30 to $2.30; rg Honey-- Buckwheat, 7¢ a tins, strained F130 in 6 1b. 2.56 per dozen; ex: Ui. 2% 2 'per Ne No. 3, #5 i --Fowl, dressed, hea: 15 18 to 14c; live, fat, 10 to 3 dressed. milkfed, "ag to 250; 18 to 19¢; live yearling, 18 to Thos brofiers, 20 to 220: turkeys, dress- ed, 19 to 30¢; alive, 15 to 160 Onions--Egyptians, 112 lbs, $7. Potatoes--Ontagios, $1.40 to $1.50 er bag out of store; New Brunawicks, $1.60 out of store; new pota- $5.26 to $6.75. 4a. bb. 'syrup--Pure, Imperial $1 to $1.10; wine gallon, 76¢ to 8b. Nasi, comb hone; 1, tra, $2 to gozen. | Poul 18¢; Hehe, o fens. lon, Provisions. Wholesalers are selling to the trade on the following price basis: Smoked and dry salted meats, rolls-- Smoked, 14% to 16¢; Ahams, medium, 18 to 184c; heavy, 17 to'1 8c; breakfast ba- con, 18 to 19c¢; long clear bacon, tons, 14c: cases 14ic; backs, plain, 20c; spe- cial, 22 to 23¢; boneless backs, 28 to 34c. Green meats--oOut of pickle, 1c less than smoked. os Lard--Tierces, 12ic to 12iec. Baled Hay. Liocal merchants are buying on track, Toronto, at the Tcllewing Prices 1--Baled $12. 9550 16. 3 $13; 3's Foes 0 3, $8 to $9; baled Sav 4 #9 to 3a 50, Winnipeg Grain, ° Jvinnipes. July 7.--~Cash:--No. 1 Nor- thern, 88c; No. 2 Nozthern, 86%c; No. 3 Northern, 85¢c; No. 4. 81c. Oats--No. 3 CW. #1 Uaited States Markets. Minreapolis, Jul 7.~Wheat--July, 334: September, 78§¢; No. 1 hard, 88, No. 1 Northern, 87 to 874c; No. 2 Northern, 88 to 863c. Corn--No. 3 yel- low, 83 to 63jc. Oa No. 8 white, 3) to 35¢c. Flour and bran--Unchanged. July 1 7.--~Wheat--No. 1 hard, 883c; No. 1 Northern, Sac No. 2 Nor- thern, 86ic to 8bfc; ul y, 86fic. Poses --Cash and July, $1.67%. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, July 7.--Cattle--Choice but- "| chers, $8.26 to $8.60; good medium; $8 to $8.15; common cows, $6 to $5.60; canners and cutters, $2.50 to $4; choice fat cows, $6. 50 to $7; cholce bulls, $7 to Calves--Good veal, $8.25 to $10.50; common, $4.76 to Stockers and feeders--Steers; 700 to 900 1bs., $7 to $7.26; light stockers, $6 0 . 26. ogs--$8 5e fed and yatered, $8.96 off cars, and $8 to $8.10 f.o.b. Sheep and amheLight ewes, 3 heavy, $3.60 to.$4.50; bucks, $3. 31.80; spring lam bs, Lt to wile By und; yi ing oa "Schon cows--Mar! Rn at $60 to Montreal Markets. ontreal,: July 7.--Corn--American Na 2 yellow, 78 to 785, Oats--Canadian Western, 0. 3, 44 to 44ic; do, No, & 433 to 43%c. Barley---Man. feed, 66 tO §6c. Flour--Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5550 .60; seconds, $6.10; strong bak- ore' $ 'Winter patents; choice, 5.26; 'straight Lote, $4.70 HY 5; do. 0:55 88 5 5 $2. 20, Rolled oats, varies, 28. per ton, car lots, --rinest, westerns 124 fo i do., eas: erns, 12%c. ter--Ch ers, oh bs 24jc; Bute 2 28¢c. gs--Fresh, 22 to 23¢} HL 26 to 27c; No. 1 stock, 23¢; No. 2 stock, 20 to 2ic. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, i 10 to $1.4 errr ft STORM IN FRANCE. Lightning Struck Tent in Camp, Killing Two Soldiers. A despatch from Paris says: Electric storms broke the heat way t t 8 . At. Bourges, Depar of Cher, lightning struck a | where troops w re in camp, fre suds farmer badly bo fall of rain 'and large hail did great damage i two soldiers and seriously injuring The - ion Railway , sitting in ion ln heard affecting several Ontario palities. 33 years, comumi suicide on the |: public thoroughfare by dfinking | + carboli¢ acid. By an order in Council the cold- storage act has been amended to' provide that the public be given i preference in the matter of storage under certain conditions. R. M. C. Toothe, a London' bar- o| rister, was fined $25 and costs by Magistrate Judd for seizing Henry C. Short by the throat when the latter made a face at him in the course of cross-examination in a county court case. A ruling by Chairman McKeown at Fredericton, that anyone doing business with the Government must answer a summons, greatly widened the probe into the cost of the St. John Valley Railway and the charges against Premier Flemming. Harvey L. Virgil, an aubomobile salesman, who killed Martin Pe man, a street sweeper, by running him down in a midnight ride ab Vancouver, was given twe and a half years in prison. It was al leged that he framed up a perjured defense. The Ontario Association of the Deaf, meeting in London, adopted a resolution asking the Damizion Government to remove the deaf the Dominion from the ee of undesirables and another to con: 2 | tinue the agitation to have the On- tario Government establish a home lo. : {for aged and infirm deaf in the pro- vince, Great Britain, Nationalists and Orangemen had a serious clash at Omagh. Sir Benjamin Stone, President of the National Photographic Recor Association, is dead. Edmund Payne, a comedian well- known to English theatre- -goers, is dead, aged 49. Fifty thousand rifles, it is rumor: ed, have been landed for the Na- tionalists in Ireland, The employers and employees of the International Paper Company signed a one-year agreement. The Unionist-Peers have assumed a more conciliatory attitude toward the Irish home rule amending: bill. Gen. Richardson of the Ulster Volunteers has issued an order per: mitting them to carry arms in the streets. leader of the Trish ' ati $1,500 for the Natio lisp volua- teers fund. Augustine Birrell, * Chief Soore: tary for Ireland, states that the Na- $8 tionalist volunteers, the armed fol-| lowers of the Irish Nationalist par. ty, number 114, 000 men, e Unionists in the House of! Lords are anxious for a peaceful and early nt of the "home rule question. ¢ United States. Memphis, Tenn., will agit ents | for every rat \ Lassen Peak, a volcano! n biuf, Cal, is sending oko a mile tis persistently reported i Washington that the United Staten is about to interfere actively. in the tien troubles. ' : o Ernest Austin, 'a_young man of Poe mploge yh been ea ada less than three years and have tion by the secretary of the muni- announcement: made by Mr. W. D. Beott, Superintendent of don a tion, and 'it furnishes a solution of some of the Tabor trou- bles which Canadian cities are ex- periencing just BOW, By far the largest p rion of those out of work in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and other ocen- tres are foreigners, and of these many have come to Canada within the last three years. If the secre- ITALIAN SCULLER WINS. Toronto Oarsman Collapses in Boat at Winning Post. A despot | from Heiley-on- Thames, Fogland, "says: «In the Diamond Sculls, Dibble, of Toronto, who went away at 34 to Sing 's 35, by one-half 'length up #| to the stand, The Italian: shortly afterwards drew level, and at the half-way, reached in 4.07, Dibble mare, bug, the the Lialian res ad ast, - and. three-quarter his wash. At the cule "Binigaglia led by 1% lengths, and the race was over, the Italian winging by five lengths in 8.83. "Dibble: collapsed at the winning post and fell out of d | the boat, but was promptly rescued by the umpire's launch. hibit! SEER ENGLISH BARONET DROWNED. Midnight River Ps Party on Thames Ends in a Tragedy. : A despatch from London says: A 'gay 'midnight river party ended in a tragedy in the small hours of Friday morning when the young baronet, Sir Denis Anson, 'and: a bandsman, who. tried bo rescue him, were drowned in the Thames off Battersea Church, while 'the young 'Count Constantin, Benckendorff, a son of the Russian Ambassador, who 'went. to the aid "of the other : wy WINS CROSS OF HONOR. Presentation to Coxwain Harris, of British Life-Saving Service. A despatch from Washington says : Presentation of the American Cross of 'Honor to Coxwain Sidney Har- vice, was announced on Wednesday Thomas Herndon, president of ty. Ambassador Page pre- alte he thus honored. become yDublie charges will be de: ported by the Tnigeation =} iment ver the Act after es : cipality concerned. This was the |b tary of the city certifies that cer- them half-mile. led by one length. At od by} giving Sombie | two, had the narrowest kind of an}: is, of the British Ihfe-Saving Ser- of hortand, president of ithe Royal National Life Boat Insti- tution, which each year designates gome hero in the United Kingdom me wi only h ihe charg 0 or rie' from ch ee artment Mr. Beott to a delega garians and Fs which waits ed on him in regard to the problem of finding employment. The work." ings of the Immigration Act were explained to them, and they were told that it would be strictly en- forced. They were, however, all offered employment on" i they were willing to take it up, and this proposal willbe considered by . FARMER SHOT DEAD. Angry Chinaman Kills Him at ' Bromhead, Sask. A despatch from FEstevan, Sas katchewan, says: Bidler, a farmer, was ghot and killed on' * Tuesday evening at Bromhead by. Lee Han, a Chinese restaurant pro: prietor, The Chinaman was ar ed, and appeared on pre trial before Magistrate Spers, : 'who committed him for trial. er, bad been drinking during the and late in the afternoon occa to the Chinaman's, where h tened to clean out thi Han told him to stand backed toward the rear out of the way of Bidler, Hy ue } tinued to advance, and as. the Chinaman could not get out of his way, after warning Bidler he would shoot, he fired the shot, killing Bid-, ler instantly. Threats were made. {to lynch the Chinaman, and the po- lice to avoid trouble, hurried the other Chinamen out "of the town to, Estevan. mite Fees SUFFRAGETTES PROTEST. Object to Women Being Left Out of King's Birthday Honor List. A despatch from London says: The Women's Freedom iv H. Nielson, has i ee Joos a two years' missionary tou oo Europe. They stated that