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AT WmPEG Two Cases of Embezzlement Discovered at the City Hall A despatch from Winnipeg says: Rumors of petty embezzlements in the City Hall, which buve been carefully withheld from tha public fur some time, were confirmed on Wedneoday, when it was officially itated in the Board of Control that Walter Magee, clerk in the solici- tor's office, had absconded with about $170, which he had secured In money coming into the depart- ment.- He had forged the solici- tor's signature to papers, and had cashed a check through thia means. Magee afterwards made his escape. This is the second defalcation in the City Hall discovered within a month. The other was in the tax office, where a man named Forbes is ac- cused of having misappropriated about a thousand dollars or more, by means of destroying stubs for receipts for tax payments. The defalcation was not discovered for a long time, until some parcels of land were offered for sale for non- payment of taxes, when the receipts were produced which indicated the guilt of the clerk. Others are said to be implicated and an effort is being made to hush the matter up on account of Forbes' relations. OX THE UP GBADE STILL. Doniiidon's Financial Statement For Nine Months. A despatch from Ottawa says : The total Dominion's revenue for December was $8,733,671, an in- crease of $1,650,216, or over twen- ty per cent., compared with Decem- ber of 1908. For the nine months tho revenue has been $73,390,080, an increase uf $11,091,497. The in- crease in the Customs revenue has been $9,361,421. The expenditure, on the other hand, shows for the nine months a decrease of $3,034,- 492 on consolidated fund account, and of $2,290,206 on capital ac- count. The total expenditure on consolidated fund account was $47,- 393,129, and on capital account $24,- 026,137, of which about seventeen millions was on the National Trans- continental Railway. During De- cember the net debt of the Domin- ion decreased by $690,638, and now stands at $322,234,079. APPLE shipme:sts. A Kc\r Record is Likely to be Made Thl.s Week. A despatch from Halifax says: , Apple shipments from Halifax will ^ b« \'ery heavy this week, and a new '' record for the week's export may bo made. The present indications are that about 50,000 barrels will R'l forward. The Furness Liner Shenandoah, which sailed for Lon- don on Wednesday afternoon, took 2J,000 barrels. This is the second largest cargo that has left Halifax this season. The C P. R. Liner Mount Temple will take over 10,000 barrels. Tho Allan Liner Gram- pian, whTch sails for Liverpool on Saturday, will have four or five thousand barrels on board, and the Furness Liner Ulunda will carry about 1,000 barrels on board. BBAKEHEN STAY ON TOP. Railways Say it Would be Danger- ous to Order OUierM'isc. A despatch from Ottawa says : Representatives of all th« big rail- way corporations before tho rail- way commission on Wednesday op- posed the proposition of the board to do away with brakemen on top of freight cars, thus reducing the necessity of high bridges and les- sening tho cost of grade separa- tions. Tho present system, it was CONDEMSED NEWS ITEMS aAPfEiMNGS r»0« ALL OTIll THE 6L08K. Xflecrk|>aio Briefs Froai Oar Owa Md Other Countries ol lUcMt Eveatsfe CANADA. Edmonton proposes to hold an Interprovincial Exposition in 1912. Fire at North Bay destroyed a number of buildings on Oak street, on Friday. The gross earnings of the C. P. R. last year will exceed one hun- dred million dollars. Montreal is gradually getting tlio better of the epidemic of typhoid that has raged ^ere recently. Mr. Franklin Stiver was caught in the machinery of his elevator at Stouffville and killed on Friday. Mrs. C. W. McLean, youngest daughter of tho late Senator tul- ford, died at Brockville, on Fri- day. Mrs. Smith of Northumberland street, Guelph, was found drowned in the cistern by her daughter, on Thursday. Efferson Lambert was killed in his sawmill near Welland, on Thurs- day, having had both legs taken off by a saw. The Roman Catholic church at St. Catherines parish, Portneuf, Quebec, was burned, with most of th" contents, on Thursday. Vice-President Whyte of the C. P. R. has ordered that doctors at argued, is a guarantee against,. ,. ^- ^ , brakemen going to sleep. i},ey \ ^o'^dme patientn be allowed to ride give certain signals to the engin- °° ('"«»»' *»•»"»'. "^^ »t »f often dif- ticult to secure medical attention £o' patients in the western districts in emergency. eer, and on grades must operate the pressure retaining valve to make the air brakes effective. The board decided to make no change. * FEWER DEER WERE KILLED. Ilnnter!) Were Not so Successful During Last Season. A despatch from Toronto says : Although more hunting licenses were issued last year, the number of deer brought out of the woods was smaller than in the previous year. Last year's kill totalled 3,- 92.'> deer, as compared with 4,387 ia the 190S season. Besides the deer, there were also 24 moose killed. One reason of the smaller number killed during the last sea- son was that no settlers' licenses were issued. /: s^ lO^D STRATHCONA'S GIFT. Dollars ^ Twcnty-Flvc Thousand Cabled to Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says : Lords trathcona on Thursday after- Boon cabled $25,000 to the commit- ti'<i in charge of the funds for the Emergency Typhoid Hospital, which has just been created out of a dis- used factory by the activity of a number of citizens, and has offered 'a further $100,000 to start a fund for whatever steps are deemed es- sential to prevent further out- breaks. la ; A HUNDRED-MILE CHASE. f wo Hnlf-brocds Caught After Long Chase. A despatch from Portage Prairie, Man., says : H. Sioux and Jeff Sioux, French halfbreeds of the Giswold reservation, who are accused ^of selling liquor that re- sulted in Charlie Hall's death here a few days ago, were brought into the city on Wednesday, having been arrested at Clandcboye by Detec- tive Guertin and Constable Garri- och, after a hundred-mile chase. The men may be tried for man- slaughter. The officers had their faces frozen on the trip. WHEAT CROP $141,S20,0(KI. Is an Increase of $50,000,000 Over That of 1908. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Department of Agriculture re- ports that the total wheat crop of Canada last year was 166,744,000 bushels, averaging 21% bushels per acre, with an average market value cf 84 4-6 cents per bushel, thus ag- gregating for the whole crop $141,- 320,000. In 1908 the crop was 112,- 434,000 bushels, averaging 17 bush- els per acre, with an average mar- ket value of 81 1-10 cents per bush- el, aggregating for the whole crop 891,228,000. FELL THROUGH A MAN-HOLE. Timothy Dorsey Killed In a Win- nipeg Fire Hall. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Timothy Dorsey of Lucan, Ont., was instantly killed here on Wed- nesday afternoon in a most pecu- liar accident. With an acquaint- ance he had gone to No. 2 fire hall to call on a mutual friend, who is a member of the brigade, and while inspecting the hall and equipment Dorsey fell through a man-hole in the engineer's sleeping apartments and broke his neck. GREAT BRITAIN. Tho British Conservatives are complaining of rowdyism at their meetings, especially in London. The British Government has promised $100,000 toward tho ex- penses of Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition. Sir. Winston Churchill, speaking at Dundee, declared for the pay- ment of members of Parliament and the nationalization of railways. Mr. John Burns, President of tho Britiili Local Government Board, was assaulted by an unidentified man while leaving a political meet- ing in London. Lord Lansdowne, speaking at Liverpool, opposed an elective House of Lords, but indicated that he was prepared to accept the pro- posals of the Rosebery commission. _*â€" OTTAWA'S DEATH RATE. Averaged Less Than U Per Thou- sand of Population. A despatch from Ottawa says: The death rate of Ottawa during 1909 was 15.7 per thousand, or a total of 1307, the lowest on record, lu 1908 the rate was 17.5 per thou- sand. The population of Ottawa is now 83,360. ^1 BDSHIIG IN THE CBMll Farmers of Quebec Taking of Tariff Mistake. Advantage A despatch from Ottawa says : 'As a result of a mistake in the new American tariff, making the duty on cream five cents per gallon in- stead of five cents per pound, as was the evident intention of the framors of the Payne-AJdrich bill, Canadian farmers, eapeoially in the province of Quebec, have been do- ing a rushing Dusiness in respect marketing oretffl intonded for inuiacture into bvttor ih the it(d States, b it ««tlauiMI that iiring KoTombei *lone cream from the Province of Quebec equi- valent to 250,000 lbs. of butter was shipped into the United States. Cream is also being shipped from Brockville district and from points in western Ontario in considerable quantities. As a result of the loop- hole provided in the American tar- iff the Canadian fanners hare shipped during the past four months srobaUy *wo hundred thou- sand dollMTt' worth of oream into the United Btotee, vhioh, under the old UaiS •! Are eenti per lb., would have been kept out. UNITED STATES. Detroit streets will be patrolled by 160 plainclothes policemen. Eleven persons are dead in Cali- fornia from ptomaine poison in fruit. J. P. Morgan and his associates may form further trust company mergers in the near future. Governor Hughes of New York ha? advised the State Legislature tn pass an act prohibiting oral bet- ting. Three men were killed by the ex- plosion of a gas oven in an enamel plant at Jamestown, N. Y., on Thursday. Gifford Pinchot has been dismiss- ed by order of President Taft from his position as Chief Forester of the United States. Frank Pabst, head of an Alaba- ma brewery, committed suicide be- cause prohibition robbed him of his means of livelihood. The body of Isaac Finkelstein was found in a tunnel which he was driving under a New York street toward a bank he hoped to rob. GENERAL. The Roosevelt expedition in Af- rica has discovered a new animal. De La Grange, the famous avi- ator, was killed by the falling of his machine during a flight at Bor- deaux Fire caused by the illuminations on a Christmas tree did great dam- age in the royal Grecian palace at Tatoi. Hubert Latham reached a height of between 3,400 and 3,600 feet in his aeroplane at Mourmelon, France, on Friday. * ,_ ATE WHOLE BOX FULL. Child Near "Soo" Died of Overdose of Patent Medicine. A despatch from Sault Sto. Marie, Ont., says: The four-year- old daughter of John Edwards is dead in a lumber camp back of Soarchmont. A few days ago Ed- wards came to town to do some shopping, and among his purchases was a box of a certain patent medi- cine. This was sent to the camp for his wife, but fell into the hands o( the little girl, who ate the box full, with fatal results. TOIR OF THE EMPIRE. May be Made by British Princes Ne.\t Year. A despatch from Melbourne says: The Argue states that a r!:i''ato let- ter received here indicate? that the Princes Edward and .\lbcrt will tear the Empire in 1911, probably THE WORLD'S MARKEFS BEPOSTS FSOM TME LEADINO TRADE GENTSES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produco at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Jan. 11.â€" Floui^â€" On- tario wheat 90 per cent, patents, 8i.30 to $4.35 in buyers' sacks, on track, Toronto, and $4.20 to $4.25 outside, in buyers' sacks. Manito- ba flour, first patents, $6.60 on track, Toronto; second pateats, $0.10 to $0.20, and strong bakers' $4.90 to $0, on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern $1.13, Bay ports, and No. 2 North- ern, $1.11, Bay ports. Ontario Wheatâ€" No. 2 mixed, $1.06 to $1.07, and No. 2 white and red, $1.1)7 outside. Barley â€" No. 2, 5Sc outside; No. 3 extra, 55 to 56c ; No. 3 50 to 62c, aied feed, 48c outside. Oatsâ€" No. 2 Ontario white, 36% ti 37c outside, and 39 to 40c on track, Toronto. Canada West oats, 40%c for No. 2, and 39^c for No. 3, Bay ports. Peas â€" 85 to SCo outside. Rye â€" No. 2, 68c outside. Buckwheatâ€" 52c high freights, and 53c low freights. Corn â€" New No. 2 yellow, 72j'a to 73c, Toronto, and selected No. 3 at C9c, Toronto. Bran â€" .$21 in bags, Toronto, and shorts, $22.50 to $23 in bags, To- ronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples â€" .$2..")0 to $4 per barrel, according to quality. Beans â€" Car lots outside, $1.55 to $1.65 and small lots here at $1.76 to $1.90. Honey â€" Combs, dozen, $2.25 to $3 ; extracted, 10,'{c per lb. Hay â€" No. 1 timothy,, $13.50 to $14, and No. 2 at $12 to $12.75 on track, Toronto. Strawâ€" $7.50 to $8 on track, To- rrnto. Potatoes â€" 60c per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultry â€" Chickens, dressed, 11 to 12c per lb. ; fowl, 9c ; turkeys, 16 to 18o per lb.; ducks, lb., 13 to 14c; geese, 12 to 13c. THE DAIKY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 23 to 25c; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 23c ; in- ferior, 19 to 20c; creamery, 27 to 2Sc, and solids, 2G to 20%c per lb. Eggs â€" Case lots of new laid 37 to 3Sc per dozen, and storage, 25c per dozen. Cheese â€" 12%c per lb. for large, and at lii%c for twins. POBCIIPfflE eOlD FIELDS Mr. J. F. Whitson Eeports That New Gold Mining District Is Promising. '•â- tfiu^f!^"^^ ''â- '*°' T?""""'" "^y •â-  unnamed township south of Tisdale. "1 :t J!J_°:e P'-o«n>«ng than any- Several hundred prospectors are in en is in On- tliing in Ontario except Cobalt,' said Mr. J. F. Whitson, assistant chief of the surveys branch of the Ontario Government, on his return tiom the Porcupine gold district Thursday afternoon. "There scarcely anything like it tario." Ten days ago Mr. Whitson went to northern Ontario for tlie pur- pose of investigating the possibili- ties of the district so far as. gold production was concerned, and he returned with a most optimistic re- port for the Hon. Frank Cochrane, Mmister of Lands, Forests and Mines. "Two thousand claims have been staked in four townships," said M Whitson. "All of Whitney and Ti„ dale Townships, except that owned by veterans, has been staked ; about two-thirds of Shaw Townsliip, aoiith of Whitney, and two-thirds of the the woods doing development work on the claims which were staked in the last two months. "There is a road from mileage 222 in to the Porcupine district, which was finished about ten days ago, having been constructed by the prospectors and people owning stop- ping places on the way. The O'Brien Mining Company and the New York Syndicate have 25 men aft work developing properties near the southwest corner of Tifidale Townsliip. One of these, which is managed by Mr. Timmins, of the La Rose Mine, has a quartz dyke passing tlirough it which has been stripped for over 1,300 feet. It i« about 20 ft'Ct wide, and free gold can be seen across the whole dyke in many places. There is nothing else like it in Ontario. It ia far more promising than anything in Ontario except Cobalt." per lb. Good lots of fat hogs, 9 to 9^0 per lb. Toronto, Jan. 11.- Choice well finished butihers' sold up to $5.60, whilst S5 to $5.50 w re common prices; common to medium quality butchers' were firm at $3.75 to 84.- 90 ; cows sold all the way from $3 to $4.50. Milkers and springers were slightly easier. Sheep and lambs steady and unchanged at last quo- tations. Hogs firm at $8.15 f.o.b. and $8.40 fed and watered for se- lects. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 14]^ to 14%c per lb. in case lots ; mess pork, $26 to $27 ; short cut, $28 to $29. Hamsâ€" Light to medium, 15 to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to Uj.^c; rolls, 14 to 143<c; shoulders, 13 to 13Xc; backs, 19 to 20c; breakfast bacon, ny„ to 18c. Lard â€" Tierces, 15%c; tubs, 16c; pails, le^ic. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal. Jan. 11.â€" Oats, No. 2 Canadian Western, 43J^ to 43>ic; No. 3, 42X to 42Kc ; barley. No. 2, 63 to 69c ; Manitoba feed barley, 53 to 55c. Flourâ€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents,, firsts, $5.70; Ma- nitoba Spring wheat patents, sec- onds, $5.20 ; Winter wheat patents, $5.50 to $5.60; Manitoba strong bakers', $5; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.20 ; straight rollers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. Feedâ€" Ontario bran, $21.50 to $22; Ontario middlings, $23 to $23.60 ; Manitoba bran, $21 ; Manitoba shorts, $22 to $23; pure grain mouille, $30 to $32 ; mixed mouille, $26 to $28. Cheeseâ€" Sep- tember and October make, ll%c, and November make, lie. Butter â€" choicest creamery, 263'j to 28c. Eggs â€" strictly new-laid, 40 to 42c ; selected No. 1 stock, 29 to 30c, and No. 1 candled, 26 to 27c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Jan. 11. â€" Spring wheat. No. 1 Northern, carloads store, $1.- 23%; Winter firm. Cornâ€" No. 3 yellow, 673^0 ; No. 4 yellow, 66%c ; No. 3 corn, 66^;; to 07c ; No. 4 corn. 65 to 65%c ; No. 3 white, GV/,c. Oats â€" No. 2 white. 51c ; No. 3 white, .•50c ; No. 4 white, 48% to 49%c. Bar- leyâ€"Feed to malting, 60 to 7Gc. Rye â€"No. 2, track, 84c. Minneapolis, Jan. U. - - Wheat â€" May, $1.13%; July, $1.12%; cash wheat, No. 2 hard, $1.1 tl^ to $1.- 16%; No. 1 Northern, $1.14 to $1.- Ib: No. 2 Northern, $1.12 to $1.13. Bran- In 100-lb. sacks, $22 to $22.- 50 Flourâ€" First patents, $5.60 to $5.80; second patents, $5.40 to $5.- 60- first clears, $4.35 to $4.55; sec- ond clears, $3.30 to $3.60. MONEY IN WOLVTS. Irappcr Near Port Arthur Collects Bounties. A despatch from Port Arthur says : John Scott came in from Kee- wene on the Canadian Northern on Thursday with ten wolf skins, col- lecting a bounty on each of fifteen dollars. He poisoned them all. \ short time previously he shot three, so tho bounty collected in the laat month is about two hundred dol- lars. Trappers report a large in- crease in tho number of coyotes in tlie wooded districts of western On- tario, coming off the plains of Ma- nitoba and Minnesota, driven by the increase of population there. TEN CARS WERE SMASHED. Accident on the Canadian Pacific at Loon Lake. A despatch from Fort William says : Ten box cars were demolish- ed in a rear-end collision at Loon Lake, a small C. P. R. station, fif- teen miles east of Port Arthur, Monday morning. Two freights were involved, and engine 742 crashed into the caboose of the train drawn by engine 705, throw- ing ten cars over the embankment. The train crew of the front train had a narrow escape, but fortunate- ly had left the caboose a few mo- Iments before the accident occur- red. Engine No. 742 was damaged considerable. GUESSES .Vr THE RESILT. Some Conservatives Cuufldent of » Victory In Britain. A despatch from London unys t The Conservative Weekly Observer prints forecasts of the result of the elections by experts on both sides, showing the most remarkable dif- ference of opinion. One of the Con- servatives predicts a Conservative majority of ninety, another forty. Another says that the Government will have a majority of si.xteen. A Radical forecast gives the Govern- ment a majority of 200. Another Radical places it at 110, while still a third believes that the Conser- vatives will win by eight. The Ob- server points out that these esti- mates show the strongest conflict in expectations ever known on the eve of an election in Great Britain. HOSPITAL SWALLOWED UP. Ground Opened and En);ulfed it â€" Seven Persons Perished. A despatch from Vienna says i .An extraordinary accident occur- red on Saturday at Raibl, in Car- inthia. The sudden collapse of tho site of a disu.sed mine completely engulfed a small hospital building. >i<>t a vestige of tho hospital ret niuincd, and only a huge cavity q;-" l)eared in the ground. Seven,' mates of the hospital, inoli Surgeon Wesseley and his family, perished. LIT A FIBE IIN A CAR. Detroit Man Undertook to Warm Up Passengers. A despatch from Detroit says : Jerry Yorke, a former league base- ball umpire, created some excite- ment in a Michigan avenue street cat on the way down town on Wed- nesday morning. The car was cold and tho pas.scngers complained loudly to tho conductor. Suddenly Yorko pulled a bundle of news- papers from his pocket, and, plac- ing them on the floor in the middle of the car, set them on fire "to warm up the car," as he explained. The conductor ejected Y'orke from the car, but the passengers enjoy- ed the experience hugely. STUDENTS HAVE HOOKWORM. A Third of Those at Tulanc College Infi-cted. A despatch from New Orleans, La., says: Consternation prevails among tho 100 or nmre students of Tulane College, following the ex- amination of every student for hookworm. It is now announced that more than a third of the stu- dents were found to be infected with tho parasite. Practicaliy all said to be thus affect.cd are appar- ently robust specimens of manhood. French troops defeated 200 native deserters in a sanguinary battle in Cochin China. A UMQUE RECORD. Elected Reeve for the FoHy-flrst Term. A despatch from Ottawa says: Charles Molir of Fitzroy township, Carleton county, has e:;tab'i«he'J a unique municipal record. He has just been re-elected Reeve of P'itz- roy for the list consecutive time. Mr. Mohr is one of the pioneers of the Ottawa Valley, and his stand- ing with the community is evident from the rpmarkable fart that for 4i years he has been annually elect- ed to the highest municipal office in their gift. It is officially announced that the Legislature of Ontario has been called to meet on Tuesday, Janu- ary 25. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Montreal, Jan. 11â€" Pretty good animals sold at 4 to Gc, and the common stock at 3 to 3%c per lb. Milch cows from $30 to $53 each ; calves from 3 to 5%c per lb. ; sheep AFFRAY AT PHIEIIX Seventy Men in a Fight in British Columbia Camp. A despatch from Grand Forks, B C, says: Reports heretofore carefully guarded and hushed up have reached here and been con- firmed that the fight between two sections of miners at Phoenix, B. C, on New Year's Eve was a most serious aft'air. At least 70 men T/cre on sides in the fight, which took place near one of the hotels, and was the Welsh and English accompanied by a fleet of warships. ' about 4%c per lb. ; lambs, C to ej^^c J against the Italians. Throe men are reported dead, and fifteen are in the hospital as a result of the af- fair. This is denied at Phoenix, but a minor who arrived from Phoe- nix on Wednesday confirms the story. He was himself a participant in the fight, as his appearance amply demonstrated. The row began in a small wa^, but some bad blood that had beea rising for some timo between the miners of different nat«onalitie« caused a general battle.