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a law. says : Wednesday morning during the parative per: establishment. in ups : First, per establishment ; second, those with products of between $200,000 and $1,000,000 per establishment, and, third, those running over one million dollars per establishment. Compared with 'the census of 1901, which was. for the calendar year 1900, there were in the first class 178 works producing each $500,000 and over in 1905, as against 72 in 1900; in the second class there were 62 works producing $750,000 and over in 1905, as against 24 in 1900, and in the third class there were 17 works producing $2,500,000 and over, as against 6 in 1900. There were four works in 1905 producing each $5,000,000 and: over," whereas not one faclory had reached the amount in 1900. SOME GREAT PRODUCERS. The: greatest volume of production by a single factory in 1905 was over $8,000, 000, and the greatest in 1900 was under $4.500,000. ..The production of all works e ocorded in the year 1900 was $481,053,371, and in C 0 0 1905 it was $717,118,092. e| Medium grades were sleady at $4.50 t e| £4.90. Choice cows were firmer at $3.7 x $4.25; common to medium, $2.50 to Stocker and feeder trade continued quiet, with a fair demand for good qua- lity at $3.50 to $3.75. Mileh cows, were dull, with quota- tions unchanged at $30 to $50 for choice and 820 to $25 for common. Veal calves were quiet and unchanged at 3c lo 6c per pound. Sheep and lambs were steady. Ewes sold slightly lower at $4.50-to $4.75, and bucks and culls from $3.50 to* $4. Lambs sold from 7c to 8%c per pound. Hogs were unchanged at Tuesday's advance; selects were quoted at 6.75. L CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. A Flash of Lightning Ignited Her Clothing. A despatch from Moncton, N. B., says: During a severe electrical storm which swept this section on Tuesday afternoon thirteen-year-old Mary Trites was killed by a bolt of lightning in her home, two miles from Painsec Junction. The child had gone upstairs in company with her little sister to lower a window, and had just placed her right hand on the sash when there came a terrific peal of thunder, followed by a vivid light ning flash. Almost instantly the cloth- ing of the little girl sprang into a blaze, and she was hurled back against the foot of the bed which stood in the room. The other child, frightened bLy the thunder, threw herself on the floor and cried out to her mother, When the latter rushed upstairs she found the eldest child on the floor terribly burned and lifted her onto the bed, where she expired a few minutes later. Her arm and breast had been fearfully burned, and it is thought that her back was broken by the shock, The child was a daughter of George Trites, I. C. R. sec- tion foreman. The house was quite badly damaged by the bolt, Lp in WHEELS CRUSHED OUT HIS LIFE. Caradoc Lad Thrown Erom Wagon 'When - Team 'Took Fright, A "despaich from Strathroy says: Harry, the 'only son of Mr. and Mrs. John McWhinney, who lives about a mile and a half from town on the Ninth Concession of "Caradoc, had his life crushed out at an-early hour on Friday o | morning. . While his father was hilching up a team to go for a load of lumber, ol the little fellow, who was six years old, climbed info the wagon. Suddenly one o {of the horses sprang forward and 1 the lad. <The hind wi passed over his 'body, and he died in twenly minutes be- fore the doctor arrived. adian sugar refi average . $4,288,065. per smelling establi el past | the average $2, ing and- ] averaging ASL grist mills averaging six flouring. $3,318,242, four for mills averaging. $1,715,333, All told, there weré in 1905 eighty establishments with an annual produc-{ tion of over one million dollars each, 88 compared with thirty-nine in 1901, GROWTH OF POPULATION. Canada now has a population of ! six and a half millions. The di nent} of Census and Statistics has recentiyy made a careful and elaborate estima of the population, It found that on first day of April, this year, the pop tion of Canada was, as nearly as cou be estimated, 6,504,900." This is a Loi population in six 'years, since decennial census; of 1,133,585. 'The totall population in 1901 was 5,371,315. If resent 'rate of growth is maintai Canada will show a population of © seven and a hall millions when the ne: census is taken. Since April 1 last the immi totalled over 100,000, so that the total population at the present date is in neighborhood of $6,600,000. n TWO MUST DIE ON GALLOWS, Cebinet Considers Three Appeals for} Executive Clemency. A despatch from Ottawa says: Thr appeals for executive clemency in i case of men sentenced to death haw been considered by the Cabinet. = Im two of the cases it was decided' that th law must take its course. decision was deferred, pending the ceipt of a further report from the jud who tried the case. The two murdere who must pay the penalty of the! crimes are a man named Dale, who two years ago shot two Frenchmen in Brits ish Columbia, and Ching Lung, & China» man, who stabbed a man in the Kool enay District a year ago. The man nas a respite is Frank Capellf, convic ed of the slaying of one, Dow, at White. slone, in the Parry Sound District. --p-- -------- RIOTS IN TRANSVAAL. Dynamite Outrages in Conhection With) the Strike, A despatch from Johannesburg, South Africa, says: The dynamite outrages arising from the strike situation throughout the mining regions cons tinue. The first fatalities occurred om Friday, when Kilfoi"s Hotel at Boks burg was blown up. Three men were killed and several were injured. Am attempt also was made to damage Jumpers' deep mine. A native wi caught in the act of placing a slick © dynamite at a point where its explosio would cut off a number of white mine! in the underground workings. T. sirikers will appeal to Premier Bot to force the mine companies to arbitra the differences between them and. | men, ' A Ei PRISON BINDER TWINE. Seventeen Carloads Shipped From Kingy - ston to Alberta, 2 A despatch Irom Kingston. saysg Sevenleen carloads of binder twine, comy prising the output of the penitentiary factory, has been 'forwarded by siete ers to Fort William and thence by train to the farmers' association "of R Province. The prices paid range from cents to 11% cenis per pound. : aero fists DOUKIIOBORS ON TREK. Thirty-Six Fanatics Have Started. on Pilgrimage to the East. A despatch from Ottawa says: Ad vices received by the government are { the_ effect that 36 fanalical Doukhol have started on a pilgrimage to East, They have crossed from catq chewan into Manitoba and Swan River, and it will now devolve upon the Ma toba government to dispose of them.