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believed to sus ol aie Homers w ¥ than $356,000 from Montreal at New Notion 5 C., on Beptember 14, 1911. Walters' right name is said to be Walter Davis. "A search of i personal effects belonging to the pair re- sulted in the reégovery of $2,020 in bills of the series taken from the bank. There was also $7,185.50 in bills; gold and silver, making a to- tal of $9,205.50, all of which the PRICES OF FARM: PRODUCTS REPORTS PROM poy LEADING TRADS CENTRES OF AMERICA. enn Prices of Cattle, Grain, Chesse and Othe! Produce at Home and Abrosd BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug. 13.~Flour--Winter wheat, 90 per cent, patents, 5% for mew, at 808: board, and at $3.85 home oonsump- tion. Manitoba or (these guctations are for jute bags, in cotton b 100 more) :--First patents, $5.70; secon Ba ents, $5.20, and strong bakers', $5, on track, Toronto. Matiitoba Wheat--No, 1, Northern, 41, 3 ports; No. ta and No. at hy 48. go sells at t0_63c, Wheat--No, 3 white, red mixed, 9% to 9c, outside. Peas--Nominal. Oats--O lots of No. Fi Ontario, 4 42 218 and 0. 1 @ Ww. 0. 00 d, 20, Bay ports, and No. 1 at 40130, Baur Nominal. Corn--No. 2 Amerioan yellow, 780, on $raok, Bay ports, and at 8%, Toronto; No. 3, slo, Toronto, and Tle, Bay ports. Rye--Nominal. Buckwheat--Nominal. Bran--Manitoba bran, & > bags, To- ronto freight. Shorts, $M to 925. COUNTRY Y PRODUCE. Butter Dairy, J choice, 33 bh 2503 Dhukers, inferior, 20 to 2c; choi A airy, tubs, for rolls, 3 to ; oreamery, 27 to R6o for solids. gs--Onse lota of new-lald, 850 per dos.; it Cheese--New cheeses, 1414 to 1418c for large, and 1412 to 1434c for ywisy, per ushel ; lesale. our Wholesse prices of choice dressad poultry :--Chickens, 18 to 1% Joe b.; hens, 13 to 140; ducklings, 16 to 170. dre. poultry, about 20 lower than the a Potatose--Canadisn, new, $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel PROVISIONS, Baocon--Long clear, 131-2 to ido in oase Lote. Pork--Bhort out, $24.50 to $25; do., m $20 to $21. Hams--Medinm to lent, box 12 to to 180; heavy, 161-2 to 170; rolls, 13 to 13180; j Draaki ast baoon, 18 to 130; tubs, 13140; pails, MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Aus. BOata-Canndish West. No. 2, 4 ; do, No. 3, #4 63 to 6do, ba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80; do., $5.39; strong bakers', $5.10; Win. ter patents, choice, $5.25; stra st rollers, to 84.0; do.. bas, $L.5 to 30, Rolled 90 ' 1bs,, $2.40. "middlings, 827; Hay--No. 2, per ton, to Chease-Finest, Went: ota 1314 to 13 finest Easierns, 121-2 0 1 te. B --Choloont creamery, 261-4 26 1-203 Seconds, 26 to 26140. E Se. ted, 28 to 29%; No, 2 stock, 21 to 28. Po- tatoes--Per bag, car lots, $1.60. gate--Barvels, 45 mouillie, oar lots, LIVE STOCK 'MARKETS. Al i3SrSiteery sold Jom, RE » pound and mon and 61-2 about 75c lower haw 5 selects Selling at | at jos per 400 Tb. Calves 0 » 13.-C, - ax. Jo 3 | dyke he Wheat se. | ; May, 96 3-80; ont io 3801 MAKING SAFE INVESTMENTS WHY BONDS FLUCTUATE IN MARKET PRICE. Their Value Is Governed by Law of Supply and Demand, Like. That of Everything Else--Unpopular Bonds Often Steady in Price Owing to Narrow Market--0iit- Edged Securities Appear to Have Reached "Reck Bottom." The articles contributed by "Investor" are for the sole purpose of guiding pros ive Javesiors, jud, it Joinible, of sav. from losing m hrough piseing it in I ile aiatrises. The artial and reliable character of the information may be relied upon. The writer of these articles and the publisher of this paper have no interests to serve in connection with this matter other than those of the reader. (By "Investor.") A man who invested was talking the other da; these bonds are such 0, Other Su ssougtios, 'why is it they fluctuate in price. Here a few years ago Toronto debentures sold at a price to yield only 334 to 4 per 'cent., and now you can buy them at a much lower price, ere the return is 414 to 4.30 per cent. perhaps, in a year's time the price will hay n, lucky It more people wi are those who want to sell up. If, on the other ha 8 buyers ate fewer i the Sellers the rice goes own, nothing partic 8 terious Te it. Moreover, od o Bumber of le who want to buy he Sotends on the. 1oaning value of money. jon . money is. vi cheap they buy the expensive, low-yiel a When money k-H Soar ae an to those of . higher when money is pL "ow.yild ho ood etd to de- cline 'in price unt ir yield approxi mates the more nearly the loanin of money, while when money is plentiful and & the average rate low the reverse takes resent time money is command. ing a he rate, aud, as a result, the price of high-grade bonds has declined. thermore, the past year has seen a large number of small fires, houses, factories, warehouses, etc, and the usual number of large ones, several towns having been oally wiped out by fire.' The result m, of course, that companies have had levers when An] insurance oom; they must as' the amo has n Trig ghte ten all holt p tioyholders inte can. cellation, aos ir good consequently their means of existing and Diaking an Y foommo, or raise the money ties Ja and ay off the losses. To raise Hey b 1s DECesSATy Jo sell so nts, and the oy "order a talisate ready MAr n order a sale. This, of farther to depress the pre inig) Tor ey rade, Jt also means that these companies are rarily out of the market for bonds a eriod 'more or less prolon| durkng o Hey re catching up the ny of cash Tenerve y consider it ned this year, and' so avin power has been the mar] for 'high grade De ae conmyisred; the best Judges of ng oon: of Of the bond nd market are of the opinion: that the price of bo has, about reached *rook Pod Money ls showing an mistakable Yenden: soy toy ward 1 lower priest and while: Engl been out of the Brkes now for a yr Beh period n of buying from that quar- ay not to ment! fire - insur- ance companies, ade bonds to resume former at least move Sp. dx from the the very tive prices they now ang It is easily ween; om hen. tha that Hustuations in bond p! "|p infers ¢ the "Sarton marker = hediuiing lo A i bp o.b Crear' 27 and ra hm, AT WIFE'S TEA, hn, which" will you 0 | pavel our own value, by the Bre | shortly to be rem: oved to The Wreck Commission ee mpress of Britain respo colliding with the collier Hi Beveral nurses have wood Hospital, hingston, for tawa to assist in attending res cases. T. G. Meredith, K.C:, London, Ont., was * appointed Corporation Counsel of Toronto at a salary of $15,000. A natural gas explosion at Loam: ington wrecked a large house being built for Canning Company em- ployees. Mrs. Geo. T. Tuckett, wife of the head of the Tuckett Tobacco Co. Hamilton, died after a few weeks' illness. J. H. Driscoll, former manager of the McOlary Manufacturing /0o.'s branch in Winnipeg, was Jalled by a street car. Miss Rose Zaibe died at: Hamil ton as a result of eating candies. Four others were seized with vio- lent convulsions, The Montreal Harbor Commis- sioners will this fall begin building their new elevators, each of 8,500... 000 bushels capacity. Lake and ocean going vessels will be required to have wireless equip- ment as a result of the recent In- ternational Congress, Between $20,000 and $98,000 dam- age was done by fire to Peck & Wills' sash and door factory and other buildings in Belleville, : Dr. D Robertson, rar of Haltol, and some years ago its representative in the islature, died suddenly at Nelson, C. Allan Williams, seven-year-old son of John Williams, physical in structor at Ridley College, was drowned in Twelve Mile Creek. Dr.: Daniel: Meagher of Montreal was found déad in the home relative he was visiting in oy ston. Heart trouble was the cause. Montreal workingmen will erect a monument to Mr. J. A. Ty founder of the Trades and Labor Council in that city, who: died two years ago.' Twenty-five thousand dollars' worth of Cobalt silver was shipped as|on Friday by the Teutonic to the Bank of England to be mined into British coins. Police Sergeant Abraham Nash a member of the Windsor force for: | twenty-six years, and distingui for bravery, has been appointed & Provincial detective. GREAT BRITAIN. Premier Borden may pay a visit tg Germany before his return. © Two suffragettes were sentenced. to five years' imprisonment in Dublin court. Sixty sM.P.'s and a number Ri Peers witnessed the military ae planes in flight on Balisbury Plain on Thursday. Mr. Asquith: announced that a Committee would be appointed to inquire into. the atrocities in the Peruvian rubber distyi The ' Master of Elibank, Chief Liberal 'Whip, has been raised $0. the Peerage and resigned his in the House of Commons. * "The Unionist candidate, Bir John Randles, was returned for North- west Manchester, rendered vacani resignation of the Lil Boab Teed ea, bouillon, cold, cof- |" lemonade 1' s