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li < baHoIery in odebec Thieves Held Up Teller and Fired at His Wife. â-  A despatch from Monli(>al says: Another bank robbery has been re- ported from Ste. Anne, a small vil- lage near St. Hyaciuthe. Six mask- ^ men blew open the Bafo in the Banque Kationale at Ste. Anne's, on Wednesday night, and eecured «l)ovit $2,000. Mr. A. Cadoret, the teller, was awakened at 1 a.m. by » noise in the bank, and wont down Ic investigate. He was held up at the point of a revolver. Hia wife tried to escape from the house by â-  window, but was fired at twice by the gang. After blowing open the •afc, they took a hand-car and went ir the direction of St. Hyacinthe, but near the town took to the woodi. They seemed to be experts at their work and to be absolutely fearless. A large dog which kept guard at the bank was chloroformed and then the attack on the safe was made. It required five shots to blow it open, but while some of the party worked the others kept guard. The police are trying to effect their capture. The opinion is expressed at detective headquarters that this gang is the same that has operated so actively throughout the Province during the year. CANADA GETS TUE GRAIN. American Wheat Being Carried Over Our ^Valor Route. A despatch from Montreal says; Over 2,500,000 bushels of grain have arrived in Montreal through the Lachinc canal during the first half of October. Full October reports of past years have never shown Core than two millions, and the ct that nearly three million bush- Ala of wheat are scheduled to reach Hontreal before the month's end bears out the recent sUtcnients to (be effect that the American wheat Is being carried from the American rail route to the water route of Canada. A HARTEST IN FIXES. $18,887 Has Been Collected in Co- balt Court. A despatch from Cobalt says : According to a report prepared by llagistrate Atkinson $18,887 has been collected in fines in the Co- balt Provincial Court in the year ending Sept. 1st, 1909. This docs Bot include blind pig raids or the total fur the district would be eas- ily $30,000. Three hundred and nmely-four cases have been fined, 07 ca^es dismissed and 22 persons Bent down. DIES AT DAVGHTER'S GRAVE. Montreal Policeman Knd<i His Life â€"Was Molaneholy. A despatch from Montreal aays : Wandering to his daughter's grave !d Mount Royal Cemetery, on Thursday, Constable McQuira of the West St. Catherine-street police â- tation, shot and killed himself. While wandering through the ce- Bietery he had met an employe trim- Ming the graves, and borrowed a Eencil with which he scribbled a krewell note. He had grieved over tlie death of his daughter. MAKE MISTAKE IN BOTTLES. Lontliin Boy's Moiher Ailminlstored Poiwii for Medicine. A despatch from London, Ont., â- ays : The young son of S. B. Put- â- am. of 721 Queen's Avenue, is in Tictcria Hospital in a .serious con- dition as the result of being given e»rboHc acid in mistake for medi- Sje. The boy's mother got up in e niglit and made a mistake in tbo bottles. WATI'll DAM UlRST. THcnly-flvc Persons Drowned by Flood in Turkey. A despatch from Constantinople â- ays : Twenty-five persons were drowned on Thursday following the burKting of a dam at Lake Derkos. The la'Kc is thirty miles north-west #1 this city and supplies water for the capital. Russia may send troops into Fin- land to force the people to comply J»lth the wishes of the Russian Oov- •rnnicnt. C. N. R. WESTERN TERMINAL. To be Qualsino on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. A despatch from Victoria, B. C, s^ys: Mr. D. D. Mann of the Ca- nadian Northern Railway in a con- ference with representatives of the Board of Trade, stated that the ul- timate terminal point of the C. N. R. on the Pacific seaboard was Quatsino on the west coast of Van- couver Island. Mr. Mann urged the people of the island to unite for the construction of a lino of rail- way the whole length of the island when population would pour into the country. Having concluded his negotiations with the government, Mr. Mann returns to the cast at once. It is believed that these ne- gotiations have been successful, and that Premier McBride has agreed to guarantee the bonds for the ex- tension of the Canadian Northern from Edmonton to Vancouver, with a connection to Vancouver Island by ferry. 4- FOURTH MAIN LINE. C. P. R. Completed Road From Saskatoon to Weta.skiwin. A despatch from Winnipeg says : The new C. P. R. line from Saska- toon to Wetaskiwin, in Northern Alberta, is now completed, and the company is celebrating the comple- tion of the second main line through the prairies giving direct connec- tion between Winnipeg and F.dmon- ton. This makes the fourth main line between Winnipeg and the far west, and all will eventually go through to the Pacific coast. It is officially stated that the C. P. R. have completed the survey of a line through the Pine River Pass in the Rockies in Northern Alberta, and this will bo a continuation of the lino from Wetaskiwin. BIG REFINERY AT ST. JOHN. It Will Cost Two Millions-City to Grant Exemptions. A despatch from St. John, N. B., says : F. C. Durant of New York, H. M. Day of Montreal, and others will erect a sugar refinery here to cost $2,000,000, and to employ at least 500 men. The ciTy will give a free site and exemption from tax- cc and water rates for a term of years. LOSSES IN FOREST FIRES. Totaled Over .$2r),0()0,000 in Canada Last Year. A despatch from Ottawa says : The C<!nsus and Statistics Monthly shows that there were 835 forest fires in Canada in IMS, by which 50,290,000 feet of timber, board measure, were damaged or destroy- ed, and the value of the timber and improvements destroyed amounted to $25,533,550. Twenty-two lives were lost. The main causes of the forest fires were sparks from rail- way locomotives, bush burning by settlers, and carelessness by trav- elers and sportsmen. SCENE I N BRITIS H HODSE Labor Member's Hope for Those Who Signed Ferrer's Death Warrant A despatch from London says: In unusual scene was created in tlie Bouse »>f Commons on Tuesday light by the Socialist member fur Torki5liire, Albert Victor (Jrayson, id William J. Tliorne, labor mcm- Br for South-west Ham. Tlie locialist members tried to adjourn ^e House to discuss the execution Barcelona of Prof. Ferrer, but Labor and Radical members pre- sent only sixteen would vote. pray^oii and Thome then anathe- matized their colleagues, calling |hom "bhameful cowards." Thome shouted otit that it was Us pious hope that "those who Higned Ferrer's death warrant will \fi sent to heaven by the chemical parcel post." Gray. son made an attempt to move for the expulsion of the Spanish Ambassador, but this was prevent- ed by the Speaker, while the pro- test of the Socialist forces agairst the killing of Grayson's motion was quickly silenced by the majority. Arthur Henderson, a leading La- bor member of the House, opened the discussion by questioning the Foreign Secretary on Britain s at- titude toward the Ferrer incident. The Secretary roit»onded that the flovernmeiit at i.r time was in pos- session of special information re- garding the Fetrer ease, and that the proper policy of non interfer- ence with the internal affairs of a foreign country had been followed. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS BAPi'EMNGS FBOM ILL OTEB THE QLOBB. Telegrkpfele Brteh Frtm Our Owa a«d Otber Countries •! Eeceat Evcuta. CANADA. Mayor Golding of Brampton died suddenly on Thursday. Lawand Bros., wholesale dry ?:ood8 merchants of Montreal, have ailed. Levi Dell, a trackman, was killed on the railway at Welland, on Wed- nesday. Miss Rothwcll of Port Stanley was found drowned beside the piers on Thursday. A Government inspector is inves- tigating reported gold finds in Whitney township, Ontario. The King pressed a button at Chichester, England, and opened the Royal Edward Institute at Montreal on Thursday. On Thursday, Sandy Monacelli was sentenced at Woodstock, N. B., to life imprisonment for manslaugh- ter of a companion named Lagani. The Southwestern Traction Line, running out of London, has been purchased by a syndicate of Lon- don, Hamilton and Toronto men. The jury at Pcterboro, on Thurs- day, acquitted the Jopling brothers of the charge of manslaughter in connection with Arthur Bollard's death. The Soo eastbound express was ditched at North Bay by some boys who tampered with the switch. Two men were hurt, but not very seri- ously. It is officially announced that the fire insurance companies will pay the Province of Ontario 81 16,130 for the losses iu the Parlinient build- ings fire. Workmen excavating for a new building on St. Catherine street, Montreal, found the ruins of an old French outpost in a fair state of preservation. Guelph City Council passed a re- solution in favor of allowing towns of over 7,000 population to appoint a commission and do away with the City Council. The foreign trade of the Domin- ion for the first six months of the current fiscal year amounted to $30I,390,0.S8. The figures now equal those of the boom times of 1907. THE WORLD'S MARKEFS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Ckoese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Oct. 26 â€" Flourâ€" Ontario wheat 90 per cent, patents $4.16 to $4.25 in buyers' sacks on track, Toronto, and $4 to $4.10 outside in buyers' sacks. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, To- ronto ; second patents, $5.10, and strong bakers', $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern $1.02>^, Bay ports, and No. 2 Nor- thern at $1.01, Bay ports. Ontario wheat â€" No. 2 mixed $1 outside, and No. 2 white and red Winter, $1 to $1.01 outside. Barleyâ€" No. 2, 57 to 5Sc outside, and No. 3 extra at 56c outside. j Oats â€" No. 2 Ontario white, new, Z(i% to 37%c outside. New Cana- du West outs, 39c for No. 2, and 38t for No. 3, Bay ports. Peas â€" 84 to SGc outside. Ryeâ€" No. 2 70 to 72c outside. Buckwheat â€" 55 to 56c outside. Corn â€" No. 2 American yellow, C9>^ to 70c on track, Toronto. Bran â€" $21 in bags, and shorts, $23.50 in bags. BUSINESS BOOM NE XT YEAB Railway Men Are Expecting the Briskest Time in Many Years. GREAT BRITAIN. The Grand Trunk shareholders at a meeting in London, on Thurs- day, voted Sir Charles Rivers Wil- son, the retiring President, a pen- sion of £ 1,500 a year. Prof. Martin Elkenburg, a well- known Swedish scientist, was charg- ed in London with attempted mur- der in connection with the recent Swedish bomb outrages. UNITED STATES. Tuberculosis causes ten thousand deaths a year in New York. Mrs. Pankhurst, the suffragette leader, arrived in New York on Wednesday. Ten men were killed in an explo- sion in a mine at Hartshorne, Okla., on Thursday. Theodore llizzo was found guilty at Utica, on Thursday, of murder- ing two small children. Henry W. Mack, counsel for Dr. Cook, says his client is the victim of a widespread conspiracy. Robert S. Lovett has been elect- ed President of the Union Pacific Railroad in succession to the late E. H. Harriman. Elsie Bowman, a sixteen-year-old girl from Southampton, Ontario, was found on the point of starva- tion at Cincinnati, on Wednesday. Mrs. 0. G. Hubbard, mother-in- law of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell's son, was killed in an automo- bile accident in Washington, on Wednesday. The presence of a league among importers and customs weighers has been indicated as the result of a trial for fraud at New York. GKXERAL. Owing to hostile attacks the Span- i.sh Government has resigned. Count de Lambert, the French aviator, flew over the Ei£fel Tower in his aeroplane. A bloody battle followed an at- tempt of Haytien insurgents to am- bush a body of loyal troops. The German F.niperor's South Af- rican diamond fields are said to have been robbed of large numbers of fine stones. * INDIANS ARE INRULY. Redskins in Rainy River District Seonro Whiskey. .\ despatch from Mine Centre, Ont., says: How to handle drunken Indians is getting serious in the Rainy River District. Redskins ranguig up and down the Seine riv er between Shoal Lake and Turtle Lake, and women and children along the route are in apprehen- sion of being attacked. The Indi- ans are securing whiskey, are con- stantly drunk, and in trouble. If some one does not take steps to stop the sale of liquor to Indians, ii. is felt there will be a tragedy some day. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" $1.25 to $2.75 per bar- rel, according to quality. Beansâ€" $1.50 to $1.00 per bushel at outside points. Honey â€" Combs, dozen, $2.25 to $3; extracted, 10c per lb. Hayâ€" No. 1 timothy, $15.50 tc $16 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at $14 to $14.50. Straw â€" $8.73 to $9.50. Potatoes â€" 47 to 50c per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultry â€" Chickens, dressed, 12 to 13c per lb.; fowl 9 to 10c; tur- keys, 17 to ISc per lb; ducks, lb., 12 to 13c ; geese, 10 to 12c per lb. 'A despatch from Pittsburg, Pcnn., says: That the revival of business and general confidence has taken a new grip on shippers and manufacturers is indicated here by orders that have been placed for cars and locomotives by various railroad companies. Kailroad men say that the great volume of business that has be?n booked for manufacturers will ne- cessitate an enormous outlay by the railroads for new equipment. Or- ders for cars and locomotives ag- gregating $8,650,000 have been placed within the last week. The Baltimore and Ohio, the Erie and Norfolk and Western railroads have arranged for a total of 310 new locomotives. The New York Cen- tral system has placed orders her« foi four thousand steel ears of th^ Gondola type. Orders for 100,00<| steel cars and 1,100 locomotives ha^ been placed previous to the latest orders. The largest order for loco- motives ever placed at one time bj a railroad became known Tuesday, when it was learned that the Balti< more and Ohio will place orders fol 250 engines of various types among different locomotive works over th« country. Railroad men expect the heavies! freight traffic in years, starting th« first of the year, and all lines art placing orders for additional cars. and lambs at 5%c to 6c per pound. Good lots of fat hogs 8%c to 8%o per pound. Toronto, Oct. 20.â€" There was a keen demand for choice butchers'. Prime picked steers and heifers selling up to $5.25. Straight loads of good to choice at $4.80 to $3. Butcher and feeder bulls were a shade easier, but prime steers and heifers were very much .M-anted. Milkers and springers were strong, extra choice milch cows selling as high as $73 each SWEPT OVERBOARD. .Mrs. T. Sampson, of Brisbane, Drowned at Sea. A despatch from Victoria, B C, says : Swept away by a great ses which washed the decks of the Ca- nadian-Australian liner Mara.'.a, which arrived here on Wednesday, Mrs. T. Sampson, of Bri.sbano was drowned before her husband's eyes during a strong gale in whicli tti4 wind blew sixtv miles an hour w:ie>i _.„ ^._ Sheep were ., ,. u t o j steady, but lambs were easier ow- '"« ""^'f ^'*^*".u"/u ?"!.-_ ''. ing to the big supply. Hogs, $7.50 f.o.b., and $7.75 fed and watered. FOUR YEARS IN CANADA. ney, and many others had narro'* escapes. Steward Noble was swept against the rail, clinging to two lit- tle girls rescued by him. Fireman Anderson had both legs broken, and from 13 to 20 passengers and seamen were swept in a ma ;s of broken deck fittings, but one l-'f'« only was lost. Mrs. Sampson \'ai swept against the rail with su-;h force that it broke and she was' ca"'- ried into the sea. Lifebuoys wore thrown and a boat made ready for THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 21 to 22c; tubs and large rolls, 19 to 20c ; in- ferior, 17 to 18c; creamery, 25 to 2Co, and solids, 23 to 24c per lb. Eggsâ€" Case lots, 25c per dozen for fresh, and 27 to 23c for new laid. Cheeseâ€" ISj^c per lb. for large! and at 121^0 for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 15 to 15%c per lb. in ca.se lots ; mess pork, $25; short cut, $27.50 to $23. Hamsâ€" Light to medium, 15% to 10,'^c; do., heavy, 14j^ to 15c; rolls, Uli to 15c ; shoulders, V2% to 13c ; backs, 18% to 19c ; breakfast bacon, 17c. Lardâ€" Tierces, 15>ic ; tubs, 15%c; pails, IS'^c. Redfort's Rrother-in-Iaw Docs Not Believe His Story. A despatch from London says : The right name of Bedfort, the roan who says he murdered Ethel Kin- rade at Hamilton, Ont., is John Gorry. He was born in London. His brother-in-law called at the i lowering, but it would have b"i?a Bu.xton prison on Wednesday. Bed- j madness to lower it even had the fort was well dressed when he ar- unfortunate woman been sightel a!- rived in this country and had con- i ter the vessel stopped as soon a< '.in siderable money. He did not look ' warning cries were heard on tin like a man who had worked his pas- , bridge. Mrs. Sampson was a y u tii; sage over. His brother-in-law does not believe Bedfort committed the crime, as he confesses to doing. There is no insanity in the family. Bedfort would not tell his brother- in-law the name of the steamer he came over in. Bedfort was four years in Canada, but when writing t(. his relatives in this country he always gave the same postoffice aH his address. woman, 22 years of age. FARMAN'S GREAT FLIGHT. Forty-seven Miles in an Hour and a HalL TYPHOON IN CHINA. Many Ca.snal(les Caused on Coast Near Hong Kong. A despatch from Hong Kong says : Many casualties attended a typhoon that played havoc with the native shipping, and damaged other vessels at various points on tho coast, during Wednesday night. A* this port the Standard Oil steam- er Lyndhurst fouled the Japanese steamer Hong Kong Maru, and both were damaged. At Macao tha Patria was BUSINESS .\T MONTREAL. Montreal, Oct. 20.â€" Old crop oats, No. 2 Canadian Western, 42% to 43c ; new crop oats. No. 2 Canadian Western, 41?^ to 42c. Barley â€" No. j 2 60 to 07c ; Manitoba feed barley, 1 52 to 53c. Buckwheat -57c. Flourâ€" I Manitoba Spring wheat patents, I $5.70; Manitoba spring wheat pat- j ents, seconds, $3.20; Winter wheat, patents, $5.50; Manitoba strong: bakers', $3; straight rollers, $3 to $5.25; straight rollcr.s in bags, $2.- 33 to $8.50. Feedâ€" Ontario bran, $21 to $22; Ontario middlings, $23.- 50 to $24; Manitoba bran, $21 ; Ma- nitoba shorts, $23 to 824 ; pure grain mouille, $33 to $33; mixed inouille, $25 to $27. Cheeseâ€" West- erns, 11% to U/gC, and easterns at 11 to ll%c. Butterâ€" Finest cream- ery, 24 to 24%e. Eggsâ€" Selected stock, 27 to 28c; No. 1 candled at 25 to 26c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Oct. 26.â€" Wheatâ€" Spring wheat, steady ; No. 1 Northern, car- loads, store, $1.09%; Winter, firm. Cornâ€" Higher ; No. 3 yellow, 60,%c ; No. 4 yellow, G6c ; No. 3 corn, 65c; No. 4 coTn, 64%c; No. 3 white, 66%c. Oatsâ€" Higher; No. 2 white, 44%c; No. 3 white, 43%c ; No. 4 white, 42%e. Barleyâ€" Feed to malt- ing, 60 to 70c. Chicago, Oct. 26.â€" Wheat â€" Cash No. 2 red, $1.20 to $1.22; No. 3 red, $1.16 to Si. 20; No. 2 hard, $1.- 1(; to $1.12; No. 3 hard, $1.06 to $1.10; No. 1 Northern, $1.06 to $1.- 08%; No. 2 Northern, $1.04 to $1.- 03, No. 3 Spring, $1.03 to $1.06. Cornâ€" No. 2, Cl%c; No. 2 white, 61% to 8IJ4C; No. 2 yellow, 61% to 01 %c ; No. 3, 01 to 61%c ; No. 3 yel- low, 61% to 61 %c. Datsâ€" No. 2, 40c; No. 3, 39%c; No. 3 white, 40 to 41c; No. 4 white, 88% to 40c; standard, 41 to 41%c. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Oct. 26.â€" Good cattle were scarce and higlier priced. Six Northwest heifers sold at i^ic. per pound and from that down to 3%o per pound for pretty good animals. Common and lean stock sold from l%c to 3%c per pound. Bulls from 2c to 3p iier pound. Milch cows, $30 to $00 each. Calves frrun 2,! ,'c to 4c per pound ; good veals, .3c to &I0O ner ouund. Sheep about 3c'. A despatch from Blackpool, Eng land, says: Henry Farman, the Portuguese gnnboat French aeronaut, on Wednesday j lifted from its moorings, and car- accomplished at the aviation meet ried up the Canton River, where by far tho finest flight that has been it stranded on a flooded rice field, witnessed in this country. The Many houses were blown down iq Frenchman covered 47 miles and the vicinity of Macao, where junki 1,184 yards in one hour 32 minutes and fishing smacks in large num. 16 4-5 seconds. In the first hour he bers foundered, involving raanj made 30 miles and 1,577 yards, and the spectators cried out in their en- thusiasm that he had established a world's record. This is not so, how- ever, as Paulhan flew 34 7-10 miles iu sixty minutes at Rheims. casualties. FOUND DEAD IN BUGGY. MURDERED AS TRAITORl Russian Revolutionist Disappear* From St. Petersburg. A despatch from St. Petersburg Sewing Machine Aeent Expires **^'' 'J^i* ''"^'^^ â€"^T''*'''^'^ fu*^*" ,. f, . ,1 spatch from Pans uiforming then> A ear (. obalt. ^f the disappearance from that city .\ despatch from Cobalt says : , of one of the principal agents of tha While driving by the Buckingham Central Committee of Social Revo- Hotel, at North Cobalt, a gentle- ' lutionists. The police here think man on Tuesday night mat a buggy, Ithat this disappearance may hay* apparently without a driver. On some connection with two mysterl- making an examination he discov-ious murders recently committed in ered the body of James McGee, a ! this city. Tho theory of the polic« sewing machine agent, who had left ! i"- that the victims were revolution- Cobalt for Hailcybury about a half- i ists, whose good faith had boeo hour previous. [suspected by their associates. TBIS E IPLOSIYE IS SAFE Can be Hammered, Heated or Shocked by Detonator Without Exploding, A despatch from Washington says: A new explosive, a British in- vention which possesses possibili- bilities, it is said, of revolutioniz- ing the blasting work in connection with the construction of the Pana- ma Canal, has been tested on the Isthmus of Panama recently, and as a result the Panama Canal Com- mission ordered twenty tons of it for trial. The inventor's exhaustive tests before the members of the Isth- mian Canal Conunission showed that it is absolutely impossible to explode it by ordinary means. It was hampered with a sledge, shot into by a rifle, burned, and ordin- arv dynamite detonators were ex- l)lodod in it both by fuse and by eli>ctricity, but the compound was inert. Not until a special detona- tor was inserted could the sub- stance bo exploded ; but then, in a few shots that were shot off, it .â- jhowod itself more powerful than dynamite. It can only be set off by heating a small platinum wire just inside the open end by an elec- tric spark or fuse. It will not ex- plode by concussion. It is claimed that the new explo- sive is 60 per cent, stronger than the 66 per cent, grade of dynamite, and that the cost of manufacturing will b.> more than $20 per ton cheaper. So confident is the British inventor that he will secure the contract to furnish all tho explosives to be used on the canal next year, it is stated that he has organized a company whicli will at on^e erect a factory on the Isthmus with a capacity o! b'tv.ecn 6,0<10 and 7,000 tons por aunuiii.