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ERAN ERED a i vipa! For Eleven Months of Fiscal Year the Total trade Was Over a Billion Dollars ; Foahin ¥ i p ty despatch from Ottawa says: An) | Sleses eh trade of well over a 1 ya! is shaw, in a states 3 billion dolla by ay . | Minister of Customs, Tink stated | ment indicates 'a steady expansion "of the gommerce of the Dominion, notwithstanding a long period of money stringency. « For the 'eleven mnths of the fiseal year, that is to the' end of last month; the total trade of Canada amounted 5 to $1,019,685,000, as against $962,511;- 000 for the corresponding period of the' previous fiscal year. . The ex- ports of domestic products amount- ed jn value to $404,887,000, the jm- ports "amounting to '$585,227,000. Exports of domestie products in the D. Reid; {ye TEE ovibd of fhe pi vious. fiseal Fear were, SAG30, 890,000, n the, Dresent, tJ ; dik Ie exports" totalled '$20,554,000, including : manufactur- ed goods, $4,674,000; . agricultural produce, $5,058,000; animals and their produce, $8,427,000. The ex- ports under these heads i in the same' period a year ago were: manufac- tured goods, $3,950,000; agricultur-, 5 al produce, $7,545,000; 'animals and their produce, $2,861,000. Tt will be seen that substantial increases took place in the exports of manu- factured goods and of animals and their produce, while the exports of agricultural produce: 'decreased. PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS meronTy "ROM me LEADING TRAD) ENTRES OF AMERICA Prices of cattle; Crain, Cheese ang Onn Sraduce at Home and Abroad » Breadstufls. Toronto, March 24 --Flour--Ontario wheat flours, 90 per cent. are Juoted 'at $3.90, seaboard, and $3. 95 to $4, Toron- to. Manitobas--First patents, in jute 5.60; do., Seconds, $6.20; strong bakers', in jute bags, Manitoba wheat--Bay jorthern, 994c; gnd No. 2, 971c; Goder- h, ic more. 1 Northern, North Bay, $1,044 to $1. 05; and No, 2, $1.03 Ontario wheat--Market is firm. No. 2 quoted at 98c to $1, outside, according to freight; and $1, on track, "moronto. ats--No. 2 Ontario oats quoted 'at 27% to 38c, outside, and at 40 to 40ic, on track, Toronto. Western Canada oats quoted at Abe for No. 2, and at 40c for No. 3, Bay, por eas--None ering with prices nom- ihal at 98c to $1, outside. Barley--Good malting at 68 to 60c, outside, quality. 5 A ports--No. 1 quoted to barley according Corn--The market {is higher. New No: 8 American is quoted 5 704c, all rail, Toronto. Canadian quoted at 663} to 67c. Rye--No. 2 is quoted at 62 to 63c, outside. Buckwheat--Prices purely nominal, in absence of offerings. Bran--Manitoba bran is firm at $28 to $24 a ton, in bags, Toronto freight. Shorts, ET to $26. Country Produce. Tutter--The market is steady with good demand for choice qualities, Choice dairy, 22 to 23c; inferior, 18 to 19¢; farmers' separatcer prints, 23 to 26c; creamery prints, fresh, 32c; do., storage prints, 28¢; solids, storage, 26 to 26ic. Eggs---The market continues easy, case dots of new-laid selling at 28 0 3Je per dozen. Cheese--New cheese quoted at 153 to 154c for large, and 16 to. 163¢ Tor Yuin. Beans--Hand-picked quoted at $2.16 to $2.20 per bushel; primes, ' $2.10 2.15. to Honey--Extracted, 11 to 12¢ per 1h. for $3 96 per dozen for No. $2.50 for No. 2. Poultry--Fowl, 13 chickens, 18 to 19¢; 17c; geese, 16 to 16¢; turkeys, 20 to 23c. + Potatoes--The market is firm, with offérings limited. Ontarios are quoted at 90c¢ per bag, on track, and Delawares at %5c to $1, bin track, car lots, in tins, quoted at No. 1; combs, $3 to 1, and $2.40 to to 15¢ per 1lb.; ducks, 15 to Provisions, ~Gured meats are quoted as follows:-- Tlacon, [long clear, 15 to 16c per 1b, in cage lots. TPork--Short cut, $28.60 do. mess, $24.50. Hams--Medium, 18 to °, do., heavy, 17 to 18c; rolls, 15 to " breakfust bacon, 18 to 19¢; backs, Af ard fTierces, 14}c; tubs, 144c; pails, Baled Hay and Straw. faled Hay--The offerings are falr with prices steady. No. 1 Is quoted at $14 to $14.50 a ton, on tracks, here; No. 2 quoted at $13 to $13.50, and mixed at $12 to $12:50 Baled straw--Car lots, $8.50 to $8.75 on track, Toronto: Montreal Markets, Montreal, Mar, 24---Corn--American No. 2 yellow, 78% to Tic. Oats--Canadian Western, No. 2, 44 to 44ic; do, No, 3 433 fc. Barley--Manitoba feed, 49 to ¢; malting, 68 to 70¢. ' Flouy-- Manitoba Spring wheat patents, HFIY DROWN firsts, $5.60; dos seconds, $5.10; strong Dak ers'y '$4,9 Winter patents, Shotce, $5.25 to $5.50; Oy ht rollers, Je1 0 $4.907 do,, in bags, 2:20 to $2.3 Hora oats ~--HBarrels, a 35 to . 45, 50) of 90 1bs., $2.10. Millfeed--Bran, $23; middlings, 328: mouillle, Hay--No. 2, rv ton, Car lots, $13 to $14. Cheese Finest Rent: erns, 14% to 14ic; do. easterns, 13% to Tide. Butter--Chofeest' creamery, 29% to 30c; seconds, 273 to 28c, Fggs--Fresh, 3%. Potatoes--Der bag, car lots, 85 to Dresged LL Abattoir-killed, 3 50 to $13.75. short mess, barrels, 35 to 45 pleces, $29; Canada short cut back, barrels, 45 to 65 ieces, $28.60. Lard--Compound, tierccs, Bis Ibs.» 103c; do.,, wood pails, 20 lbs. 10§¢e; pure, tierces, 876 '1ps., -14%¢; wood pails, 20 lbs, met, 14iec. net, do., United States Markets. Minneapolis, March 24--Close:--- Wheat--May, 91c bid; July, 924c asked; No. 1 hard, 94% to 95¢; No, 1 Northern, 923 to 93%c; No. 2 Northern, 90% to 91%c. Corn--No. 3 yellow, 50 to 6lc. Oats-- No. 3 white, 364 to 37¢. "Flour and bran changed, March 24. --Linseed--Cash, $1, Be Maw, $1. Sa Aue $1. 618 Wheat ---No. 1 har orthern, 924¢; No. y tate, oie: May, 93%c; July, 93ic. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, March 24.--Cattle--Choice butchers, $7.80 to $8. 255 good, $7 to 7.20; medium, $6.60 to $7.60; common, 5.46 to $5.76; choice cows, $6.70 to 8.756; good, £5.75 to $6.50; com 5.75 to $6.20; cutters and cant 3.15. to $3.60; choice bulls, $6.76 7.60; good, $56.80 to $6.60; common, $4.15 to $5.40 Stockers and feeders--Steers, 7 to $8.30; good, $5.15 to $6.40; ee $5; springers, to $82; $8.65 to choice, light, milkers, Calves--Ciood veal, $11.50; medium, $7 to $9. Sheep and lambs---Light ewes, $5.50 to 4 heavy, $2 to $3.60; Spring lambs, $9 to $9.50. Hogs--$8.76 to $8.90 f.o.b.: $9.15 $9.26 fed and watered; $9.50 off cars. Montreal, 'March 24--Choice steers Seda at $8.26 to $8.40, good at $7.76 to fair at $6.76 to $7. 25, and common at $6 to §6 per cwt. ~The demand fon butchers' cows was good at prices-rang- ing from $5 to $7, and hulls sold at $5 to $7.25 per cwt. Choice milkers; $90 to $100, and lower grades $60 to $80 each. The tone of the market for hogs was firm, with an advance in price of 60c per ewt. The demand was good, and as the offerings were smaller than gen- erally expected by the trade, an early clearance was made of Ontario selected stock at $0.80, and Manitobas at $9.50 per cwt., weighed off cars. Tho trade in sheep and lambs was quiet at $5.60 to $6.60 for the former, and at $8.50 to $9 for the latter per cwt. The demand for calves was good at prices ranging from $3 to $15 each, andyin some cases as high as $25 was realized for some extra choice stock, a to John Swanwick, a London téam- ster, had his back hroken when a steel door toppled over on him. Sir Sandford Fleming has been unanimously re-elected Chancellor of Queen's University for the ensu- ing three years. This is hig thir- teenth election. The case of Stead Gamble, of To~ ronto, business agent for the Iron- workers' Union, charged with dam- aging a coil of rope, has been tra- versed util fall. IN COLLISION Italian Torpedo Boat: Crashes [ato a Pleasure ' Launch--Victims Iostly Women and Children 'A despatch from Venice says: Fifty of the sixty-five passengers on' a_ steam launch, most of whom were women and children, were drowned when a.torpedo hoat-crash- ed into a pleasure vessel near Lido on Friday. The people 'on the launch were ooming to Venice from Lido, where --o-large: number of excursionists had | spent the holiday, - Ste Joseph's Day, Box The launch had havdly: 'started | « and distance, and did not alter his course, with the result that the tor- pedo boat struck his vessel with ter rific force. ! The launch sank immediately, in deep water, taking down all those in. the cabin, who were drowned: The other fifteen passengers, who} were on Mock, 3 were picked: ap from Le 'when the torpedo hoat was sighted, whe coming ab high-speed ard the harbor. i captain eed, the la miscalculated the speed 4 Pork--Heavy Canada | "The Late Hon. William Patterson, MARK TWAIN AND WHISTLER. | How the Artist Was "Taken In" By the Great Humorist. One time Mark Twain met James McNeil Whistler, the artist. A friend having warned the humorist that the painter was a confirmed joker, Mark solemnly averred that he would get the better of Whistler should' the laiter attémpt~ "'any funny business." 'Bo when the two had been introduced, which event took place in Whistler's studio, Twain, assuming-the air of hopeless stupidity, approached "a 'just com- pleted painting, and said, 'Not at all bad, Mr. Whistler; not at all bad. Only,"' he added, reflectively, cloud effect, "if T were you I'd do away with that cloud. "Great heavens sir!" exclaimed Whistler, almost beside himself. "Be care- ful arid don't touch that; the paint ie not dry yet."' "Oh, I don't mind that,"' replied Mark, with an air of perfect nonchalance, "I'm wearing with a motion as if to rub out af, Appointed Libera the Sena DE eensto to el Sir ih bEvoSsInE LIBRARY SOLD. Lack of Funds Prevents British Mu- seum Fron Seenring oa London, Sotheby announced this "evening 'that they were authorized to state that the Duke of Devonshire, im order to meet the heavy burden im: sigting of the Caxbons and the Kem: ble collection of plays."" There has been long and eager competition among = Englishmen, Americans and Germans to possess the library. Each new. offer was promptly 'eclipsed - until Henry E. Huntington made a bid which ended the contest. The British Museum officials made great efforts to obtain the library for the museum, but were compelled to retire from the fight early; owing to/lack of money. It is said that the Germans stayed in the fight longer than any British bidder. men $4 Fire destroyed the 300,000-bushel gloves." WHERE SEVERAL elevator of the Pioneer Grain Co. lat Magrath Harbor. LIVES WERE LOST. Looking Down Into the Ruins of the Woodbine Hotel. FIVE VICTIMS OF OF HOTEL FIRE. The Toll of Death i in the Disastrous Blaze of Last Week. A despatch from: Toronto gays: With the finding of two more bodies in the ruins of the Woodbine Hetel the toll of death has been bro; ht to five. The discovery made a! shows that some of the identifica. tions made earlier in the week were incorrect, and as a result the body of a man supposed to be Max Cohen was sent to New York, while, as a' ~~. |matterof fact, the real Max Cohen was only. found Friday afternoon. Five bodies have so far been found, four of which have been positively identified as those of Frederick Lev- inson, Max Cohen, both of New York, Charles' Wilmot, 'of 'Belle yille, and John A. Graham; of Lion- don, Ont. Who the fifth man is cannot be found out, but 'may be Charles Thurston, of Buffalo. It was after a gang of men had been working for hours that the two bodies were found. They were lying side by side, one man having the other. These two and Levingon, who had ing together ab. the hotel, "ond accotding to the story' ott Cle 0 was with _ them i th ¢ night of the fire, when ho made his ed 9-YEAR-OLD. BOY DROWNED. ins Was Pushed Into the River While ' Playing. oA despatch from Toronto says: while plajing on the bank of the Humber, near Howland's grist mill, with several of his companions, Harold Mathers, the nine-year-old son of Mr. Fred Mathers, plasterer, of Lambton Mills, was accidentally pushed into the river and drowned, There is a strong current at this paint, and itis feared that his little body may have. ben" carried. down the river below the ice jam at Bloor Street. bn en my WANTED 7 T0 KNOW The Truth About & Grape-Nuts Food. It doesn't matter so much what you hear about a thing, it's what you know that counts. And correct knowledge is most likely to, 'como his"arm locked around the leg of Ra in| March 18. -- Messrs. dead. posed. by the death duties, has sold| A a small 'portion' of his libraty, con: {ite [with built in 1877. "Govride aesidont on 2 March 8, is e to the Ronton Cit; Application hain irts to restrain | of J. N. Gow, of Ham re to i over Dr. E. F. Armstrong, Great Britain. Hon, A.'J. Balfour was struck in the face by a stone thrown by a boy at Nice. 2 United States. A report to Washington states that W. S. Benton was stabbed to death in Gen. Villa's 'office at Juar- ez, and the body Epuijated and in- teired in Juarez, _! General. . W..B.. Gomez has been elected president of Brazil. The South African Senate insted the Strike Indemnity Bill, 25-9. A great conflagration at Varna, It is ond: that W. 8. Benton 'was stabbed {#6 death 4n a quarrel General Villa, Queen Eleanor of Bulgaria and' suite 'will vigit the United States and probably Canada during May. "A ¢onvention has opened in the | capital of China to amend the Re- publican constitution, The Swedish steamer Torhild has foundered off the Spanish coast with a loss of ten lives. The Torhild was CADET KI KILLED. Dropped 80 Feet Fr From Top of Royal Military College. A despatch from Kingston, Ont., SAYS : Falling a distance of eighty feet while on .the. Royal Military '| College water tower to take a pho- tograph, Cadet Gilbert 8. Fry, of Montreal, 19 years of age, met in- stant. death, young man, ac- companied by a comrade, started to climb to the top of the tower. Fry had gained the top, andthe 'other cadet was half-way up, when the former missed his footing and came tumbling down, almost carrying the other cadet with him; The deceased entered the WL Military College in 1911, and would have graduated in June, He was a very clever young fellow and highly '| esteemed both by his professors and clagsmates. He was a member of the senior Rugby team and promi- nent in sports generally. Arrange- ments for the uneral | have not yet been completed. Jouneil from. biting a oridipal § iff hap taken 'possession of || A. *Tenllel, unseated a as apr ; of Cobalt, bécatse he held @ mining || contract, we re-elected by ten votes Bulgaria, resulted from a fire in a |; spirits factory, COAL MONOPOLY ATTACKED Suits Launched o Against Several Carriers in U.S. Courts. A despatch from New York says: A suit to break the Lehigh Valley Railroad's alleged anthracite coal monopoly was begun by the Gov- ernment in the United States Dis- trict Court in this city on' Thars= day. In a petition filed by Freder- ick. R. Couderts Special Assistant Attorney-General, the Lehigh, directors and subsidiary companies are accused of violating the Inte state Commerce and the TIA An injunction to preve anthracite coal" is sought, an Government also asks that the road company. be enjoined from rying coal in which it has terest. It ig a dissolution w won by 'the Gover mt, will com pel the Lehigh . Railroad Company to disassociate itself from' coal companies, which, according to the petition, it controls. + Similar suits against the Lacka- wanna and Reading Railroads ave well under way,-and it is expected that other coal carriers will be suod| in consequence of a general decree of the Supreme Cours group against which monopoly is! charged should be proceeded against separately. i i FOUND DEAD AFTER DUCKING Ice-Cold Dip Cnused Death of rt tawa Man. A despatch from Prescott say: Charles J. Jones of Ottawa = found dead in his room in the andra Hotel here. "He wat Ba water. Coming to the ( changed his wet clot}g®s and A found dead. He was a nephew of Allan Jones of Prescott, ~ pail longed to a very prominent He leaves a wife and two small dren. The body was forward Ottawa for intermen ; that each 7h