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Sulteas of Dairying Depends on the ~ Farmers Intelligence. spatch eS Brantford says: mnual conven-| ed: pr: closer tivation, which glegent to. suce' ne Se the dairying |» Increase rnings as a re- ih of she drained “fields, said Mr. ne Orastrea aid for the expenditure Ms tet. years, es to Se _ tn productivity from propore varia-~ ~ tion of crops. uty Minister James in his re- marks pointed that dairying proved the most difficult problem in manufac. In this connection he the various stages of the mil producing qua! former ie ition: » complicated business, demanding sh He urged merely Capeeets on the fari proper study o! ‘eeding ques- ion, and the Sean of well-equip- ped factories. These things would @ dai a wonderfully rich of th OF THE INDUSTRY. aecert Brodie paces the tay for PY 1900 to 1907 ans pro pi at atbeae had fallen off by 1,187. tons, the price aictived had been greater, Butte: ep reannsuGs had increased by 651 tons. & | trade. point was echaawe that increas- oduction from the individual the production of Seay ter has more than been miainteltiog during the past y ae C. F. Whitley delivered an_ad- dress ‘eeping the records of milk-produc- tion from each cow, by weighing ,234 pounds of mil! cow during the ae ot 6 months; Seymour any ant Sweaburg, 14 ounds and $67.58 and $59.44 per cow SIBERIA’S ares export of butter, he aid, was now second in volume to. the Danish, sd thromtened: to enter into seri: ous competition with the Canadian . The pat trans-Siberian railway had o an enorm- ous dairying Terxitory, where: pec- ple lived in primitive surroundings and where butter could be prodw te ceinoug 46 Canadian it few | to BR rniteat a aipee ad vanced seilretians There wi greate r Bk than general- i believed in the encouragement { larger home consumption. 800 LOAN GUARANTED. Ontario is ps Relieved of all Re- ility. A ee ise Toronto says: Province of Ontario eg been nn FROZEN TO DEATH. Vaterous, Sask. A sears from Natennute! ae says: Wil an glish is eS aran- d- | nesday night, received from. Hon. Mr. latheson, the Provincial Treasurer, who went to New a few days ago’ in connection with the ela the following telegram: ian TE Rear Co. the Morton pr ae a ustitionte that all certificates are can- and the matter closed.” ane ganrantes 4, ene Province was giv- i ra S a Corporation during the crisis of 1904. The cor- aay has immense pauneaiee at it Ste. Marie, Ont. the ac- tion SE the then Bc traaant in the lease of life, and was indirectly an immense boon to the town. Some time ago the Province was relieved ‘of $1,000,000 of the arantes, and the step outlined in the: 8 telegram eeleves. it of ais —_— ke PRINCE R UPERT LOTS. Arrangements for peng ing Townsite. j ee A lespate! from Montreal says: or placing Prince arket oing fotwar a cateae nents row cc “beautiful harbor, been divided up, Sener 1,500 lots in this district. All provision te streets, alle; parks, public buildings, ce waterfront and terminal facilities for railways and water shipping. SIRES a OTTAWA’S FIRE LOSS. Only $71,876 Last, Year; Compared With Walf Million in 1907. A despatch from Ottawa says: The total loss from fires in Ottawa] ; was much 88, as compared wi of over half a mnillion York! atte frozen ay ‘ae th claim just northwest of this ate on Saturday last under whee em peculiar circumstance: lett town for home early in the Ss he was not seen was instituted and ie body was found on a bluff about half a Pate Hes ond his pre His footsteps were followed right own dour, ed his m: a neighbor and bad pes the way t had anaes been frozen, as ae rae tellen ie quently in the snow. Mas Sn RES MAN BADLY LACERATED. Another Accident at Cobalt Due to itriking Old Charge. spatch from Cobalt says: On Tuesday another blasting accident, which may add another asaliey; oc- curred about six miles from in the direction of Lorraine Ba ship, through a missed hole being picked into. As a result. Botisse Ennabs, aged about 40, with a wife nd famil ig at Perkinsville, gushes, Saiyan Bho imote at with broken, and pie from been contracting with two partners in a shaft contract which was just being finished happened. TE ROSE SSE SN FIRE-DAMP AND DUST. Double Explosion in a Hungarian Mine. ‘A despatch from Veszprim, Hun- gary, says: Two explosions in the Auka coal m entombed two hundred and The fi fire-damp; the s explosion and was followed by fire. The flames have so far been confin- to one section of the mine, an cones ly, fighting back the flames and us- men, ing miners and forty-five dead | padies. have been brought up out of the pit. Tt is expected that the Deanna UE ia igre he weed if the flames can be held in check. SEER OE OE A A eh Earthquake Shocks Felt ae Mian, Venice |< and Fl orence. te despatch “here on Wednesday morning. The} ~ people rushed out from their hous-| gathered i in the place of St.! and’ other open. squares. was much excited comme: | questi Hots but calm in gen- Sever: ai “eral was sat cae Gemsge was done, ai ight to be | tis | ue to. the fact that he TUSER of this system of constru lespatch from Miles oe An’) earth shock was felt here on sWed-(a vipa morning and. caused con- My from ‘Venice suys: ‘siderable alarm. ‘fwo earth shocks were experienced {ple rushed from their house: A number Of peo- s and congregated in the Cathedral Square. There was no Tepptition \of the quake, and calm was subs qrinedtly restored. No damage was ft Laceiatek from Florence says: al earth shocks were record- ed here on Wedeeed ay ice, at intervals of two secoi ple rushed out ae a houses epe tion of Calabria disasters. — nn ceased calm. was Renee and the work of the day resume William be Lost His Life Near tea when the accident |, Y | Nebogatoff have rties are working tireless-| 8° | Min Peo- | say: CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALE OVER THE GLOBE. Telegraphic Bricts From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA, -|A new canala from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario is proje Hampe Tor wae bred. Dene OW. Senator J. K. Kerr of Toronto, has been appointed Speaker of the on the benefits derived from | Bena’ Mr. Pe: Lorne McDougall, ex-Au- ditor- General, died at Ottawa, on ay. e | Frida; Prof. Sexton of Halifax says Ca- nada needs a national system of aber aasaes education. Mr. Robert Fleming of Edinburgh i Plant his pieaneles have already put $8,000, Soo industries. Chace aeitieal the custom whereby U: architects are allowed to do busi- ness in Canada, Tho contract for Montreal’s ice been let to Charles the building will cost about $7 e Winnipeg “city Council will |® fetes y the street railwa: and power plant from the company now operating t! Al cera ot Montreal is Renee ce aeidina an a ponent for the city stables until the con- tractor would pay him $1,000. Professor Prince has been ap- pointed by the Dominion Govern- ment to confer with the Provincial Governments regarding the fisher- ies. Henry Dingle, a South African veteran, sold his land grant, and was robbed of the $400 he received oS it in an Ottawa hotel, on Fri- Emerson , has been seni ed toa faonth 4a jail for cverchara™ ing for "tickets and pocketing the surplu GREAT BRITAIN. Carrie Nation was arrested dur- ing a raid on a saloon in Newcastle- on-Tyne. Sir Conan Doyle was operated on on Sunday for an pascal affec- . He is recov The first step ae noe taken to- tional Blupowpee reduction of conpetition and the on eae of freight charges. UNITED STATES. bill has passed the Tenessee Senate prohibiting the sale of li- quor within ny SSRIS a the State. . A. L, Lowel has been gee by cn corporation of Harva: versity to succeed Pr euanes on liot, who retires in May The suit of the ” United alee Government to dissolve the ard Oil Company has already ar the litigants $10,000,000. ie ‘disorganization caused by the eo tne pric- es of lemons have ced 75. cents to a dollar a boxi is Nee York. Cardeno F. King, a former Bos- ton broker, was sentenced to not larceny. and ei The Hains teal at: iushing, ¥., ended in the acquittal, on Fri dag. ok the acchised. who wan ohare: eel with aiding his ‘prother to mur- der Wm cae wrecker of ‘ue: Farmers ea ean atan Et Mateny Westhaabinel Pasties Bain senteuped sa. Uttecte eaten prison. GENERAL. The e of Connaught visited the ruins of Messina on Tresday. A telephone exchange has been installed at fehee France, by a ‘oronto com) A revolt, Pe entia the exist- ence of the meee oe believed to be imminent in Port man was Sere vies from the ruins of Messina after having been a fortnight entombe: aterno, an eminent Italian scientist, declares Messina. can nev- er be rebuilt upon its former site. ral Stoessel Admiral for a pardon or the commutation of their sentences. Admiral Rojestvensky, who ci manded the Russian fleet at the dis- astrous battle of the Sea of Japan dead, he: British and 8 Pekin pare asked the Chinese se Foreign 0 give rea- sons for the ciarate of Yuan Shi ai. eee eee MOB BURNED CARS. i Drastic Action in Rio Jancira to NORTHORY ITALY SHAKEN’ Setilo Fare Dispute. A despatch from Rio Janeiro : Twelve cars of the American- burned by a mob cause the company sw ered unsatisfae-| The police were unable to| h «eo company, | oe shel ened its! ieee: bo submit to any reform Mayr might. deem Besesary one quiet has phen restore: on Monday fas ‘snow A SETTLER ASPHY XIATED. Body pe fore it Was Discovered. A despatch from Davidson, Sask., Another lonely homesteader a sa a anplanahaly fate. The vi Marmoy, who lived eighteen He “had been asphyxiated by coal gas, and the body lay in his shack for tws weeks before it was dis- coveres ed. s box factory in Brant: i A little or no poteutecen: and. th fac’ y ee the lost fantidil of perspi tesa ©. P. R. Agent Tully of ee te’ MC- 176, - | never blisters. hen Saied to.ns! Prussia will have a deficit of g44,-| #° = : Waited Rislasl is d Wie ae Shanty Two Weeks Be- h HEALTH ITCHING. Pruritus, or itching, is nota dis- ut is a symptom of © many unhealthy states of the Aieee or merely of the skin, that it has given rise to a formidable is af. prescriptions and pueneaiane rv treatment. eal of ite called” “sary ror which gives rise to a most disagree- able and persistent form of itching, which sometimes does not stop even after the skin seems to have healed. form, called “‘senile pruritus,” attacks old people whose | circulation is defective and whose alls + has much to do with the con- stant sentacn of the ome 0. le complain of so bit- tenly; any which is often so aggra- vat eaten the general | health if not life itself, by reason ib ae irritation ote lee of rest. hing that sues g will relieve the itching in many or Pine cases. most intense and horrible form ect meacehius to the 8, are driven almost crazy by the is itching is caused by t S met, not by poe = the. impel- i ich, but. b useho! st of all, by rubbing the spot with a piece of ecmmon soa n nervous itching, where there | is no break inthe skin, great relief is otten obsmed by menthol, which relieves by substituting one sensa- tion for another, but of nee no curative effect Persons with tnin and irritable skins, prone to itch easily, should always wear silk or soft gauze un- dergarments, and i wear woolen undetwear should take care that it does not come next to the po 9, iL There are as many lotions and CaS for the relief of this trou- s there are causes for it, but! Aan should be eae only by the physician who has ascertained | » the cause in each particular case.— Youth’s Companion. HEALTH HIZTS. Ginger Plaster—Ground used for plasters sontad o tard.is just as good to “‘draw’”’ ginger as a disinfectant carbolic acid willl ™ mix readily with water, if the lat- ter is boile Useful Toothache Remedy.—Fill a small cup with Boiling vinegar. Dip a piece of ¢ n- 901 into Tae Tub he gums tet the vinegar be as hot as you can endure. Stop the aching tooth with ee ree wool. In five minutes the 1 SES eae erase ne ee two spblicagons sare 4 ma Trea’ for —However ak ea aes shoot straight and hard from the point of a douche, hung high, water as hot as can be borne directly int cut longer it will take to cuts will close in just a eaten in which the flesh grew naturally as oats, 's | $65 a deep cut, but then done and no suppuration to follow. $$$ QUARANTINE MODIFIED. U. S. Horses May be Shipped Via Canadian Ports, ee A despatch from Ottawa says:| Bi An important relaxation in the Canadian cattle quarantine regu- lations has been made in fayor of js New pro- no nae carrying live stock from an American port |¢ could call at a Canadian port to take on cargo. The disease having heen practically stamped out, it has |* decided that steamers | 0 5.4 any other tle or other freight. FORTY-FOUR STABS, = Okio, Man Attacked |), le With a Ponknife. A despa from Hamilton, Ohio, says: Rudolph Wirtz, Secretary of the W Ey Transfer Co., a promin- Ge business man, went” insane on Wednesday and ran amuck, injur- ing six persons, including his wife, who will probably die.» Wirtz as- man forty times in the face, breast, cut out her Martin, Eeeaer of ae Co., Harry Summerton, Hirschner and George Long, ae ‘they will recover. °. ports. TRAD THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING E CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Preduce at T. tario wheat 3.70 in buyers’ export, Tome BREA ito, » $8.50 01 tl ae 1 Northern, i. sie ail rail, ne No. 2 Northern at 1.10), | Dr. 90 per and Abroad. ADSTUFFS. Jan. cent, patents, track, Ja ports, 1 feed, 42¢ lake tye id No. —No. 2 3 at ‘lorn—No. Shorts 68 to ae “outside, Barley—No. 2 barley BES, a: eee ars OF a t 520. Shack bel 3A to 56%e outside. Peas—No. 2 quoted at 86 to 86%e outside. ; 2 American yellow nominal at Gi ‘ye_on track, to, and No. ronte; Canadian, Bran—Cars, $19.50 ‘Toron- 3 yellow at 0870, To «aie in bulk o} $21 a "$22 in full COUNTRY PRODUCE. uns to Apples—Winter Geo pec Marre tar wood oualition and $2 to ¢3 for. cooking apples. s—Prim hand -picked, $1.80 dns Gombe $2 dozen, and strained, 10 to 1 Hay—No. 1 $11 per ton on track here, and No stock, $3.50 t ne, $1.70 t to 0 $1.75, an $1.85 pe: to $2.7, a timothy, 7 . Straw—$7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes—Ontarios, 60c per bag. Delawares, 75 to 80c per bag on track. Poultry—Chickens, dressed, 11 to 18¢ per pound ; fowl, 8 to 9c; ducks, 13¢; geese, 11 to 12¢; turkeys, 11 to 18e per pounc nd, THE DAIRY | MARKETS. to 30c, dozen. and n Butter—Pound prints, 25 to 26e; tubs and large rolls, 22 to 23; in- eer rolls, Eggs—Case lots of ote storage, 5 to 26e per dozen; selections, 29 ew laid 33 to 35¢ per spear aig cheese, 1314 ge per pound, and twins, hue. HOG Bacon—Long clear, OKC 5 eae y PRODUCTS. 10} to 11 Hams—Light to medium, es do., 10%c; Vicks, 16 Ge ee hiesbtack bacon, 14% to Ibe. Lard—Tierces, pails, 12%. 12c; tubs, 12% BUSINESS AT MONTREAL, ts, Canadian port for cat-|No 66 a ing, arket Canadian | white, 464c; No. 5 ep Monies: Jan. 19.— oats is for Barley. Manitoba % pe \—May, 61% to 61% wa ley Sind No. 3, . | eats, seconds, ers’, $5. on Winter wheat pales, $5 to as, No. 2, ‘Western No, extra feed, 46¢ 19,—Flour—On- sacks outside for setae sigur first. pat- Toronto; sec- = ond patents, "$0. 2p and strong bak- on » $5.10 to $5. fesse Maritain” wheat, $1.09 and r per ¢ per $10.50 to 12e; rolls 10% rain — The stronger, and Paeck wate na eunel ice per el to-da, : Pte. Moir, who shot and kill-) a Berke Lloyd in ihe. Wolseley Barracks here, Rey on Thursda; afternoon acquil of murder, ar ter 15 a aoliberation by jury, on the und of anacsitt iis sae be sent oe ths insane asylum Hamilton ene doctors: Dr. W. son, eee of the London . Clark, head of ; . Bruce Johnson, of srarniee; tes- tified, “and all agreed, that Moir was an epileptic, and ‘that when the murder was committed he was in a befogged, semi-conscious con- dition and knew pees: nothing of what was takin; was quite possible that Moir Salebt act 4 a despatch from London, Ont.,!in a fairly reasonable manner ant still know nothing of what he wae doing. Counsel agreed to dispens> with addresses and a William Meredith ‘summe: briefly, point! ont that the evidence went all one way to indicate Moir’s ir SRS Robin- verdi This trial shows wer from epi- leptics such as the unfortunate pris soner. Such people may go around without haying knowle dge of their Condition and their edie: mania may develop at any tim for selected, fed and watered. But- cher—Active deman i class of t late prices. Stockers—Firm a $3 10 $8.73 good heavy feeders, #4 WANTED ee DOLL LL SHOT, Baby Near AS Sask., Killed by Her Five-year-old Brother. espelch Bon, Arcola, Sask., re) a half year old etna ng- pie until ite sic), eee it r-old brother on shoot Kor doll, ay CAUSE vide had taken a dislike to it. ed up ths gun and fired point tank at the doll in front of her. ‘The charge wen through the baby’s body, killing her instantly. e | where they STARVED FOR TEN DAYS. Party of Three Men Lost on Lake Wianipegosis. ‘A despatch from Winnipegosis, : ‘T. Walker and two ago to walk in eighty ies, cold. They became separated from his compan- ions and has almost certainly per- ished. The Galicians were found accident on the ice of the lake, had fallen helpless on oy Seo and were at once bur- ried to the Heakiiel in Dauphin, een found necessary ion will lose a foot. without food for picked up by a pasty at fishermen, Beareh for the b Walker is Progressing, but there ie hope f finding him aliv A despatch from Kamloops, B. C., says: At one o’clock on Frilzy afternoon train No. 97 was derailed |? by a snow slide about 7% miles cast of Yale, on account of recent ee y snowfalls in this district. ‘ain was being handled by two ¢ baggage, mail, cannery and colonist | went dow ra other cars ;| were also d s Cal trainmen and a number ofj engers injured.’ None of the bank of the] when CARS PLUNGED DOWN BANK Two Engineers Were Killed Near aleY British Columbia. injuries are serious and the gengers are being made comfortable he sleeping cars, which were as Soret The train is report- ed to | Th ea and these, together with | snow 5 for, ied the accident turn- ous relief seadden iad sFOAtek were killed and | tr; North Bend and an otter with tors and nurses from Vancouver. _ THE DEADLY COAL GAS. Edward a County Family Nearly, Asph sp spatch from Kingston says: Prince A de Yo. 2|'The famiigh of Mr. Dulmage, Bloom: 0. e |3, 44 to thes Oatene 43%o. buckwheat, 59 to nitoba Spring —No. wheat patents, frets Spring wheat p: ong ie 25; straight rolle: 324.50 5 .75. Flour—First. patents, $5. o cB 60 second patents, $5.25 first clears, leet clears, $2. 95 t rd, Gl%e. Duluth Jan. $1. were Firm, to $4.70; straight rollers, in hei bran, $21 to $21.50; Ontario aires $24 to §: $24,50 to $25; pure grain oes ie, Ontario middlin; “fo | South Africa, to 0 $3.05. 19. — Wheat - ae 2 me Myo. oe 66e 3 samples. 62 to 63c; 19.—Wheat—No. No.1. Northern, 2 Northern, $1,057 Wheat — Firm; “carloads, $L135 Corn—Steady. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Jan. which we: + firm prices, "Bo. 30 t 6: ‘igher. zH paid for the fairly heavy run to-day, including a large number of poorly finishe autos wit choice stockers and heavy feeders. phere and lambs—Market firm. and. Hogs—Prices firm at $6.50 for $4.00 to $4.10; ‘i 1 19. ae butcher cattle were scarce, and only a mod- t | erate supply ae eran cattle offer- Behe sata field, narrowly eseaped sephysis: d of the coal stov a le ug and the house ‘had ested cite ee gas. boy 4-year-old daughter ie uncon- scious for hou. Sar ee QUAKE AT JOHANNESBURG. African Points. A despatch from Cape Town says: Beveral earthquakes have oc- ‘}eurred recently in ABR Aiea of One wi mn Fri- | day at sTauaaneatite Snes eda age was Several Gther Shocks Felt at South] * TREES RARE A AS DIAMONDS. The Pass ‘Things 4 are Lomine to in’ the United Sta A. despatch says: ‘The tim country when sents will as diamonds unless immediate steps mits: Washington rici sautbers Suen at the 28th ‘ann! al. meeting of the American Fores- try ‘gotten “here bb: Wed he Secretary declared that 5 ing three tunes as mio! see) t shine and White Mountain forest We must not depend too much on Congress: quarter of a million acres eac! year. A despatch froin Guelph, says: A serious accident, fortunat ly not attended with loss of life, oc- curred shortly after eleven o'clock Thursday morning on the south Be of the Grand Trunk Railway, two miles from Guelph Junction. When the heavily-laden morning passenger train. wh at was in the vivinit Pri ‘the rear coach le: tt Chi to a broken tire, and beh m- to the ditch, ‘The coach ed, and a scene of terri. aoe | r|on ‘| a Guetantae th Brantford professional hockey team which played } on Wednesda night, and the Hamiltor mite curling team, going home from t Fergus bonspiel. p: untae of these receiv- ed more or less serious injuries, but it is not yet_known_ if any of them. are likely to prove fatal, aS seri- ously red ander Stewart, Guelph, both res serious- ly hurt} re Bartman, Tober- mory, back eA) -!son, Hamilton ; usly injured, and | off ~ ANY INJURED IN WRECK Broken Tire Threw Railway Coach Into the Ditch Near Guelph. Ont., eee internal injuries, extent nob os known ; J. Marks, Brantford, arm en, ribs teed , and. severe The following sustained in- juric Bry He MeCor ail, ‘ph R. Jasper, ‘Guelph M. Darlin ‘allen Moore, Banincen » geline Holm and Mis Hes speler. of the Brantfor were lap Sinith, aid, Bee LATER, many persons in the accident in the R, “pein line on Thursday mornings een *eonclitded Bes "as elaréd there is the alight doubt but that a Lire on the wheel of tite rear truck ¢ internal Sogilnien’ George Gillis, Ac- and was the cause of the, leaving the track, MOIR ESCAPES THE GALLOWS London Murderer Will Spend His Life in Insane Asylum.