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i he, A despateh from Ottawa says: ak-| 'From what I have seen since I ¢| Wired ten days ago I am eonvine ario Flour--New winter wheat lor future delivery, $3.75 to a at the mills, Ge? lfeed--Manitoba bran, $20: pe 1; shorts, $22 per ton, track, To- ran, $20 per ton; shorts, $23 per ton on track, To- I] : COUNTRY PRODUCE. 'Butter-- Creamery prints; 23¢ to (240; separator prints, 200 to 2c; dairy prings (choice); 19¢ to 20c; do, tubs, 180 inferior tubs, 16c to r dozen. ha c per pound for rge and -11%c per pound for ans---$2-to $2.10 per bushel fo! Prithes and at $2.15 to $3.25 for aand- picked. s ~ Potatoes--8$1 to $1.10 per bushel. PROVISIONS. - 1 Wholesale quotations i-- +f Pork--Bhort cut,' $30 to $30.50 GE. ids 'barrel; mess; $27.50 to $98. ppallin fol vg been ard. Tiorees, "14%; tubs; 14%e alt wife ails, 158; stocks steady. fel, with his aeroplane! PL iC0 FD SAA Mets P Long clear bacon, tons snd cases, : 40 16¢; backs: (plain), 21c to oo | 813204 backs (pea-meal), 213 c to | 890; shoulder hams, 140 to 14}4c. "| Rolls, smoked, 156 10 15)40; me- P| dium and light hams, 18%¢ to 190; heavy, 17c to 17%¢; bacon, 19¢ to 20c Green meats out of pickle; lc less than smoked. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL, tch from Montreal says:| Montreal, Aug. 18:~-Oats-No. 8 rd, Minister of | Canadian Western, 42 +3 43%; No. ho oity on|3, 403% to '4lc. Barley--No. 1, 53 sw; he | to 54a; No. 4, 49 to 60c. = Flour-- excellent| Manitoba Spring wheat » patents, , and that! firsts, $630; do., seconds, $5.80; ab he has Sent| Winter wheat patents, $5.50; Ma- ey more! nitcba strong = bakers', $5.60; by settlers i J tai rol- ear," said |lers, in bags 2.60 ; extras, big iAP Feed Ontario 000 to the Cam | Th : ¢ 'Deeply sym-| I pathize with' of oy 43 hy ¢ of Mon | 85.000 as my contribution to their ed that 'my estimate of a yield of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat for 'the three provinces will 'be found a fair one." Thus telegraphs Wil- Ham Q, White, immigration inspec- tor of the department here, on Wednesday night. r. White has been on a tour of thio Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberts wheat fields; especiauly to note the condition of the crops and the progress of settlement. iving from, Lethbridge, he says from there i= 'Any attempts to, depreci- TORE HOLES IN WOMAN'S SHOE Freak of Lightning Which Struck Carleton County House. A despatch from Ottawa says: Mrs. Bims, of Westhoro, had great holes burned by lightning, in the shoe on her right foot, and her stocking cut into shreds, but the foot only slightly burned. Mr. and Mrs. Sims and their child were sit- ting at the door watching the storm on Friday: when the Bott struck them. All three were rendered un- conscious. The father and baby boy were not hurt and recovered in a moment, Mys: Sims' escape was miraculonis. "One-half of the shoe was almost all -butned away, while the other half was untouched. The child's 'cot 'was 'burned slightly, "and a hole knocked through the back of the house. ey RIOTERS KILLED BY TROOPS. Assembled to Protest Against High Price of Food. A' despatch from: Rome 'says: Four rioters were killed and more than 100 wounded on Wednesday by being fired upon by troops: at Bari, which is 69 miles north-west of Brindisi. A meeting had been calléd to protest against the high prices of food, and a great crowd assembled. Revolutionary speech- es were made and when the officers ordered the mob to disperse they savagely attacked' the carbineers, who had been sent to preserve. or- der. The troops fired twice, when the rioters Soattered; Joaving the dead and' wounded behind, Btrong reinforcements have been sent to the town, as' 'further trouble is feared. : RR, Rpg FROM LORD STRATHCONA. Five Thousand" "Dollars for Camp- bellton Relief Fund, A despatch from Chatham, N. B.; says: Governor Tweedie. on Friday night received a cablegram from Lord. Btrathcona contributing $5, ton relief fund of Campbellton as reported in your borin Th ad ia 53 45 - Hy Wheat. ate the crop of Central Alberta are, made with an obvious purpose, and no attention should be paid tol & them. = I have travelled by road! and train, north, east and west of Edmonton, and I have never seen! better stands of wheat, oats and barley. It will be found that the yields through this section will run from 20 $030 bushels of wheat and from 50 to 70 bushels of oats'! In Southern Alberta Mr. White reports partial failures, but inti- mates that the extent of these has been exaggerated and says he found -the people quite contented with even a meagre crop after five, years of abundant harvest. XN ON ROAD TO RECOVERY. Symptoms of Mayor Gaynor Cons tinue Favorable, The following bulletin was issued an Friday night by the doctors attendance upon Mayor Gaynor "The Mayor has passed a comfor- table afternoon. 'All his symptom continue to be favorable." = Up Eriday afternoon © Mayor - Gayno passed the greater part of the day in 'a natural restful sleep, his a tendants said. No one was allows ed to disturb him, not even th members of his family nora party of officials' from the New¥ork City Hall 'who visited the hospital. the Mayor's dwakening refreshe trom his sleep 'and' giving every! evidence of steady improvement thy air of cheerfulness which h made itself .. manifest "during the niorning became, if anything, more pronounced. is , OE FLOODED WITH BOGUS COINS. Niogara District is Sultering From Excellent Imitations, A despatch from St. Catharines says: This city ahd other towns in {the Niagara district are being floods |ed with bogus 25 and 50-cent pieg-| les," The banks are warning peop to look out'for the bad money. The counterfeits are excellent imitations of the genuine coins and it is said about the only wav to detect: them, a3 they ring true, is through a sligh$ oversight on the part of the mak- er. In the genuine coins the crowned head is upside down when the reverse side. is read, in spurious ones both sides are top~ ed the same: It is believed the fos: coing 'were manufactured im Buffalo 'and this district is being planted with them first. \ em ann TRAIN CRASHED INTO AUTO, Three Persons Killed and Foux Severely Injured. A despatch from Logansport,' ndiana, says: Taree persons wera killed outright and four wera ses verely injured when a south-bound = passenger. train on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad struck aa ad n at a crossing 'one mile east' of Rochester, Ind., on Friday tomobile GE § g }