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THBEE PlmjlFFOCTTED Gas From a Coal Stove, Which Had Been Lighted for the First time. A despatch from Aurora B«y» : Buffocated by coal gas which es- caped from a new stove, Mrs. Re- fMCoa Flintoff, hrr grauddaughtor, Laura McDouald, and a boarder, Fred Blaku, were found dead on ftursday in the home of Mrs. Flin- toff on MachcU avenue here. The discovery of the bedios was made about noon, when Mrs. C. W. Flin- toff, a niece of Mrs. Flintoff, be- •arue suspicious that something was Vrong when she did not notice any â- igns of life about the place. With • neighbor she went to the home of Mrs. Flintoff, and after knocking At the door and getting no response an entrance was forced. Admit- tance had to be secured by a rear door, as there were storm windows on the house. When the back door was forced in the smell of coal gas was so strong as to almost over- come those who had secured an en- trance. Fred Blake, who was a boarder, was found dead in his bed, and on going into the room occupi- ed by Mrs. Flintoff and her grand- daughter, both were found dead. Drs. Hillary and Stevenson, who were hastily summoned, gave it as their opinion that the three persons had been dead at least twenty-four hours. An examination of the bod- ies indicated death from suffocation, and Coroner Scott of Newmarket, after making an investigation, de- cided that an inquest was unneces- sary. ANOTHEB BAMAY HOBROR Car Full of Japanese Laborers Submerged in British Columbia. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C, says : Speeding through a howl- ing storm in the darkness, while the ptopLe of Vancouver and New West- Bister slumbered in the long Sun- day morning rest, a gang of Japan- ese track laborers who had turned out to repair the ravages the Great Northern Railway had suffered during the worst night's weather in tears went headlong to death, the ridge near Sapperton collapsing under the weight of the heavy work train. At least twenty and perhaps thirty unfortunate Japanese are reported dead, and others more or lens seriously injured are in the hos- pital here and at Westminster. The train left Vancouver in the morning at 5.30 and reached Sap- perton at 6.15. The track passes by a bridge over the Burnett Riv- er, and a heavy flood had submerg- ed the track on both sides. The train was in the swirling waters al- moRt before those on board were •ware the bridge had been reached. Locomotive 4S6, with Engineer SH«T M A LUNATIC. Buffalo Han lliirdcred in Publle Library. A despatch from Buffalo says : Without explanation or warning. but with a deliberation that made rous purpose simple, Charles t e aocoinplishment of his mur- Strohl, an employee of a bakery, wallcfd into the reading-room of the Buffalo Public Library on Friday, pullf-d a revolver and shot and in- stantly killrfi Franz Stendtz, who boan^ed with Mrs. Dccola on Broad- vay. The miirderer rushed out of the building, imrsiicd by a number of people, and turning into an al- ley, exohanRcd shots with his pur- suers, one hhot striking an officer Iq the hand, disabling him. By this time fifteen hundred people ktd gathered. Htrohl, taking shel- ter hfhinH a brick wall, occasion- ally liiokid over and fired. For jlfteen minutcii he held the crowd at bay. Finally, after the police bad fired 40 nr 50 shots they exe- cuted a flank movement. Strohl broke for cover, but was finally cornered and caught. bihxi:d dkrsklf to okath. VTonian Soaked Clothing in Oil and Ignited It. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N Y., says: Mrs. Florence Bishop, BO J ears old, committed suicide on Beattigor at the throttle and Fire- man Kent in the cab, passed over ia safety, but the first car, carry- ing the heavy road-making appara- tus, crashed through into the tor- rent, dragging the engine from one side and the car loaded with the men on the other into the water. Many of those on board were en- tangled in the wreckage and were drowned without a chance for their lives. Others were killed out- right. Three white men, the en- gineer, the fireman and Conductor Kllis, escaped, the two former with slight injuries. A white man named Davis was injured and is now in the Vancouver General Hospital. Three bodies recovered on this side of the river have been brought to Vancouver, five injured have b?en taken to the Memorial Hospital, while the remains of the other dead and others of the in- jured have been taken to Westmin- ster. The Burnett River carried some poor battered bodies out to the Fraser. Wednesday at her home in Coom- er's Road, a few miles from this city. She took her life by soaking her garments in coal oil and incin- erating herself. Alexander Gillies found Mrs. Bishop's body in a smoke house. It was a mass of burned flesh and charred bones. A note found among the dead wo- man's effects told of the writer's determination to end her life by fire. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS UAPfEKINrS FROM ALL OTKB TOE ULOBB. Trlecrk|»(il0 Briefs Prow Oar Own kMii Other Countriet ol Beeent Eveita. CANADA. Tenders for the new Quebec bridge will be called early in the coming year. Kev. George B. Cutten, B. D., of Columbus, Ohio, has been appoint- ed President of Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S. A frieight train ran into a stock train at Moose Jaw. Two stock- men, named Oliver and Bolton, were killed, and about twenty-five head of cattle. The London, Ont., City Council will ask the Lieutenant-Governor to declare the population to be 50,000, a ) that a vote on Sunday cars may be taken. Mrs. S. J. Guthrie and her daugh- ter Clara were arrested on a charge ot perjury in connection with the Barrie fire inquest. Mr. Guthrie gave bail for them. Mrs. Cawthrop of Caradoc town- ship has been the object of a num- ber of annoying tricks on the part of some cowardly enemy, and his latest prank was to pour coal oil into her well. The Nova Scotia Steel directors' meeting in Montreal, on Friday, declared a stock bonus of 20 per cent, and a dividend of I per cent, to holders of common stock, thus putting the common on a 4 per cent, basis. ITALIAN H.4.NGED. Spanelli Payn Penalty for Murder of Chinaman. A despatch from North Bay says : Sam Spanelli, a young Italian, was hanged here early on Friday morn- ing. He passed a rather restless night, being up several times. He walked calmly to the scaffold. Life was declared extinct at 7.17, thir- teen and three-quarter minutes af- ter the trap tell. Spanelli was con- victed before Judge Riddell of kill- ing a young Chinaman, Ming Chew, in a restaurant brawl at Hailey- bury, July SOth, using a dirk twelve inches long. Special precautions were taken by Sheriff Varin in view of sinister rumors that the prison- er was a Black Hand leader, and that Italians were coming into town in large numbers in pursuance of a plot to dynamite the jail. Four ex- tra constables were placed on duty but nothing occurred to cause trou- ble. WILL B E RM F OR fifllD Hundreds of Prospectors Are Going to Porcupine Laka A despatch from Toronto says : Th' ri! there will be a rush into the Porcupine Lake gi>ld district in noiihora Ontario during the coming winter which will equal that into GiAvganda of last winter is the opin- ion of Mr. A. L. Pleading of To- ronto, who has just returned from that part of the country. There are already hundreds of prospectors in the district, ho says, and roniing down the river on his way back to civilization he met no less than eifihtecn canoes with prospectors on the way up. The rivers and lakes are now frozen up, aid gangs of ODen are at work cutting a road through the bii'>h from the head of Fji^Jerick Uoii.sc Lak« t» permit of the entrance of sleighs. There are hundreds of prospectors waiting at Hailcybury until this road is com- pleted, and more prospectors are arriving at Hailcybury every day. So far the discoveries of free gold in this district have been confined to within a radius of three miles from Porcupine Lake, but the pros- pt-rtors have branched out for about ten or twelve miles. The dis- coveries made are all on the sur- face. There are marked indications of erosion in this section, while sur- rounding it are swamps and clay several feel in thickness, which facts lead pvospectors to believe that the gold extends over a considcrablo orea. GREAT BRITAIN. The Bishop of Hereford has an- nounced that he will support the budget because it means social wel- fare. Miss Chriatabel Pankhurst was prevented by students and others from speaking at a suffragette gath- ering at Bristol. It is rumored that Sir Maurice Debunscn may succeed Mr. James Bryce as British Ambassador to the United States. The President of the German Reichstag stated in London that in his opinion the day of high protec- tion is approaching its end. The British House of Commons accepted the amendments of the House of Lords to the Irish land bill and passed the measure. Great Britain and Germany are said to have reached au under- standing for co-operation in secur- ing the rights of the natives in the Congo. Mr. A. V. Dicey, the eminent constitutional authority, supports the House of Lords because he be- lieves the budget tends toward cor- ruption. UNITED STATES. Four persons lost their lives through an explosion on a gasoline launch at Muskegon, Mich. Two members of a wedding party were killed in Georgia when their automobile fell from a bridge. Six persons were killed at Los Angeles when a trolley car struck the automobile in which they were riding. John Stuart Kennedy., the million- aire, who died recently in New York, left $6,000,000 to the Presby- terian Foreign Mission Board. A girl employed in a Pittsburg departmental store contracted lep- rosy from false hair which she pur- chased and wore. Plans have been submitted to the New York Board of Estimates for the construction of an aqueduct 300 feet beneath the surface of the city. A number of prominent financial men in the United States are back- ing the Wright brothers in a cor- poration for the manufacture of aeroplanes. GENERAL. Volcanic eruptions continue with increasing violence in Teneriffe. Count Leo Tolstoi has appealed to the people of the world to stop the growth of armies and navies. The negotiations looking to peace ill Morocco have proved futile and hostilities have been resumed. Quantities of ancient art trea- sures are said to have been discov- ered under an ancient castle in South Spain. Hubert Latham, the aviator, rode to a hunting party in his mono- plane and returned in the same way, carrying game bag and g'rn. Several applications have been made to the Paris authorities for permission to establish slaughter- houses for the slaughter of dogs. ENTOMBED IN A MINK. Over Two llundrpd JnpanpHC Min« era in Danger. A despatch from Tokio .says ; Heavy loss of life is feared as the result of an e.rplosion on Thursday in a coal mine at Ononra, Fukuoka Province. Fifteen men are known to have perished, while 22S minerHnve entombed in the workings. Every effort is being made to rescue thein, but their fate as yet is in doubt. THE WORLD'S MARKEFS UEPOBTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Nov. 30.â€" Flour â€" On- tario wheat 90 per cent, patents, $4.30 to $4.35 in buyers' sacks on track, Toronto, and $4.15 to $4.:20 outside in buyers' sacks, Manitoba flour, first patents, $6.60 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.10 to $e.20, and strong bakers', $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat â€" No. 1 Northern $1.04%, Bay ports, and No. 2 Northern, $1.03, Bay ports. Ontario wheat â€" No. 2 mixed, $1.- 04 to$1.05 outside, and No. 2 white and red at $1.05 and $1.0G outside. Barley â€" No. 2, 60 to 01c outside, and No. 3 extra, 58 to 59c outside. Oats â€" No. 8 Ontario white, new, 37 to 38c outside. Canada West oats, 38>ic for No. 2, and 37%c for No. 3, Bay ports. Peasâ€" 88 to 89c outside. Ryeâ€" No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat â€" 55c high freights, and at 66c low freights. Corn â€" Old No. 2 American yel- low, 72 to 72><;c Toronto, and new No. 3 yellow, 67c track, Toronto. Branâ€" $21 in bags, Toronto, ani shorts, $23.50 in bags, Toronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" $2 to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality. Beansâ€" $1.60 to $1.65 per bushel at outside points in large lots. Honey â€" Combs, dozen, $2.25 to $3; extracted, 10%c per lb. Hayâ€" No. 1 timothy $15 to $15.50 and No. 2 at $13.50 to $14 on track, Toronto. Strawâ€" $8.50 to $9.50 on track, Toronto. Potatoes â€" 45 to 50c per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultryâ€" Chickens, dressed, 11 to 13c per lb. ; fowl, 8 to 9c ; turkeys, 16 to 17c lb. ; ducks, lb., 11 to 12c, geese, 9 to 10c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 23 to 24c; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 22c; inferior, 18 to 19c; creamery, 26% to 27%c, and solids, 25 to 25%c per lb Eggsâ€" Case lots, 30 to 32c per doz- en for fresh, and 26 to 27c for stor- age. Cheese â€" 12VsC per lb. for large, and at 12%c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 11 to 14%c per lb. in case lots ; mess porK, $26.50; short cut, $28 to $28.50. Hams â€" Light to medium, 15 to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14'-ic ; rolls, 14 to 14%c; shoulders, 12^ to 13c; backs, 19 to 20c; breakfast bacon, 17 to 18c. Lardâ€" Tierces, 16%c; tubs, 16%c; pails, 16c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Nov. 30. â€" Oats â€" No. 8 Canadian Western, 40% to 41j<^c. Barleyâ€" No. 2, 60 to 67c ; Manitoba feed barley, 62 to 63c bushel. Buck- wheat -58 to 58%c. Flourâ€" Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.70 ; Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, seconds, $6.20; Winter wheat patents, $5.50 to $6; Manitoba strong bakers', $6; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.25; straight rollers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.60. Feedâ€" On- tario bran, $20 to $21.50; Ontario middlings, $23 to $23.50; Manitoba bran, $10 to $20; Manitoba shorts, $22 to $23; pure grain mouille, $32 to $33 ; mouille, $25 to $27. Cheese â€" Westerns, 11?^ to ll%c for late Fall make, while early Fall make 15 held at U% to 12c. Butter â€" Finest creamery, 25 to 25Xe, and fresh receipts, 24% to 25c. Eggs â€" Selected stock, 27 to 28c, and No. 1 candlel at 25 to 26c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Chicago, Nov. 30.â€" Cash Wheat â€" No. 2 red, $1.19 to $1.23 ; No. 3 red. Si. 10 to $1.18; No. 2 hard, $1.10% to $1.11%; No. 3 hard, $1.03 to $1.09; No. 1 Northern, $1.11 to $1.- 12; No. 2 Northern, $1.08 to 81.09%; No. 3 Spring, $1.06 to $1.- 09 Cornâ€" No. 2, 63 to 63%c ; No. 2 yellow, 64%c ; No. 3 (new), 59%c ; No. 3 white (new), 69 to 59%c ; No. 3 yellow (new), 60%c ; No. 3, 40c; No. 4 (new), 67 to 68%c. Oats- No. 2 white., 42c ; No. 3 white, 40o ; No. 3 white, 39% to 40c; No.. 4 white, 39 to 39%c ; standard, 41%c. Buffalo, Nov. 30.â€" Wheatâ€" Spring wheat firm ; No. 1 Northern, car- loads store $1.12%c; Winter steady. Cornâ€" Firmer ; No. 3 yellow, 64%c ; No. 4 yellow, 62c ; No. 4 corn, 00c. Oatsâ€" Stronger ; Barley feed to malting, 63 to 70c. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Nov. 30.â€" Prime beeves sold at 4%c to 5%c per lb., pretty good animals at 3%c to 4%c, and the common stock at 2o to 3c, while the loan canners brought from l!<Jc to 2c per lb. Milch cows, $30 to THE "FI NANCES' OF ONTARIO The Provincial (jovernment Makes an Important Announcement A despatch from Toronto says : Owing to the fact that the Provin- cial revenue for the short year of ten months is considerably over the estimate and that the Province has not spent as much as was voted by the Legislature last session, Hon. A. J. Matheson stated on Friday morning that Ontario's rev- enue would be within $100,000 of the expenditure, while the calendar year would show a surplus of sev- eral hundred thousand dollars. In this estimate no account is taken of capital expenditure on the pow- er scheme, the T. & N. O. Railway and good roads. The subtraction of the months of November and December removes considerable revenue, notably in li- cense fees and timber duties. Tho increase in revenue over the esti- mates for the ten months amounts to about $1,250,000, the most not- able increa.ses being: Crown lands, $500,000; law stamps, $5,000; pub- lic institutions, $20,00 ; Central Pri- son industries, $7,000; Provincial Secretary's Department, $82,000; Agricultural Department and sta- tionary engineers, $28,000 ; succes- sion duties, $275,000; supplemen- tary revenue, $29,000 ; license branch, $50,000; T. & N. O. Rail- way, $250,000 ; game and fish branch, $17,000, and collected, ar- rears of Algoma ta.^es, $9,800. $60 each. Calves, from 3c to near 6c per lb., sheep, 3%c to a httle over 3%c per lb., lanibs 5>ic to 6c per lb. Good lots of fat hogs sold a: 8>ic to 8%c per lb. Toronto, Nov. 30.â€" Stockers and feeders were in active demand, especially short-keep steers and heifers. Milkers and springers were a little easier ; this was due rather because the cows were not in the best condition than to any falling off in the demand. Sheep and lambs were steady to firm. Calves firm and unchanged. Hogs weak at $7.- 33 to $7.40 f.o.b. and $7.60 to $7.- 65, fed and watered. BANKER SENT TO PRISON. Sentenced to Ten Years for EmbeZ' zlenicnt. A despatch from Madison, Wis- consin, says: Phil Allen, jun., for- mer Vice-President of the First National Bank of Mineral Point, Wis., appeared on Friday before Judge Sanborn in the United States District Court, pleaded guilty to four out of twenty-six counts in the indictment against him, and was sentenced to ten years in the iFederal Prison at Fort Leaven- worth, Kansas, the maximum un- der the law of any one count. Al- len was charged with embezzling $168,000 from the Mineral Point bank. TWO TUGS SEIZED. Important C.iptnre Made on Lake Superior. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says: On Thursday af- ternoon Game Warden Calbeck made an important seizure of tugs and fishing equipment at Richard- son's Harbor, Lake Superior. The tugs Argo and Alberta belonging to Gerow Bros, of Rossport were captured, the charge being fishing out of season. Seven men, includ- ing four of the Gerow brothers, were brought to the Soo, and served with papers on Friday. A largo quantity of fish were taken with the seized tugs. CANADA AT CHICAGO SHOW. Has Big Display at Exhibition oi Live Stock. A despatch from Chicago says : Canada is playing its usual import- ant part in the International Live Stock Exposition, which is now on in full swing. Ontario, especially, ia well represented. Beside the large display of stock from that province, the Agricultural College of Ontario has its young stock ex- perts in judging contests. The Ag- ricultural College of Ontario, which is probably the best known institu- tion of its kind in the world, is con- coded better than an even chance til win in the student?' stock judg- ing contest. Practically every State ii the Union was represented in some few classes, while Canada has no small part in the exposition. Par- ticularly notable were the Canadian entries of sheep and hogs. The State university experiment farms have important entries in all class- es, many of their cattle plainly showing championship class. The independent oxhioitors are not, however, so fearsome of their pork entries as they have been in past years. SASK.ATCHEWAN IS HAPPY. The Crop all Thrashed or Securely Stacked. A despatch from Regina says: It is estimated by C. P. R. offici- als that not more than five per cent, of the entire crop in Saskat- chewan remains unthrashed at tho present time, and this is all secure- ly stacked. In the other two Prov- inces all the grain was thrashed some time ago. All the require- ments of cars for shipping have been remarkably well met. DYNAMITE IN THE OVEN. Homesteader Nearly Kills Wife and Wrecked House. A despatch from Lethbridge says : August Lesowski, a home- eteader, four miles south of Bow Island, on Tuesday put two sticks of dynamite in the stove to thaw. His wife saw smoke coming from the oven and opened the door. Tho dynamite exploded, and pieces of Eteel struck Mrs. Lesowski in sev- eral places and nearly blinded her. She was tak^n to Lethbridge Hos- pital, and will likely live. The house was wrecked, but no one els« was hurt. LANDSLIDE IN GORGE. Tons of Rark Fell on Railway at Niagara Falls. A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says: One of the worst land- slides in many months tied the Gorge Railroad up for some time on Wednesday. Tons of rock tell from the river bank, burying ttie scenic railway tracks. Dynamiting had to be resorted to before the debris could be cleared away. No one was injured. The Quebec Government sent 700 volumes for the Provincial library. The Compagnie Transatlantic is planning to run mail steamers be- tween France and Canada. THEY W ANT THE IR DEAB Sad Scenes Round the Sealed Shaf^ of St. Paul Mine. A despatch from Cherry, Illin- ois, says : Not since the recovery of the first bodies from the depth of the fire-wrecked St. Paurmino here have such scenes been witnessed as the heartrending picture at Ine sealed mouth of the mine on Thurs- day. Hundreds of grief-stricken women, with worn faces and father- loss children clinging in fear to their dresses, gathered in groups about the shaft of the mine, sobbing and moaning. Their sacred dead arc lost for ever. Tho realization of the horrible end of the great dis- aster has aroused a frantic grief. Women fell on their knees, drag- ging their children with thoni, sob- bing out their cries of despair. Many men in Cherry still cling to tho belief that with the sealing of the mine living men auion?: the nearly 200 .still missing have been I doomed to death. Mine experts scout the idea and state that such, is an impossibility. "Nothing can be done until the fire has died out, and the extreme danger of entering the shaft is eliminated," declared W. W. Tay- lor, superintendent of the mine. The dissatisfaction of the miners at the step taken by the mine offi- cials was openly voiced. "They are thinking only of sav- ing property and don't care about tho dead," exclaimed one groy- haired Scotch miner. "Wo want our dead. The women want tho bodies. The company will never get any service from these miners." Rumors, which were started by remarks of miners who lingered about the shaft, had it that there existed a plot to "rush" tho min« plant and destroy the scaling. Tho company officials scouted the idea and declared they did not expect , troublo. ^mm .1