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THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. BltlOADSTUFl^S. Toronto, May 13.â€" Wlioivtâ€" The ot- foiiiigs UTC light, iind bills of VGc for red and white fulled to di'iiw sellers to-day at outside poiiils; lioldi'is are asking 77c east and middle freights. Goose is steady at 70c for No. 2 f. o.b. vessel east and OOJ to ()7c for eais east. Spring is dull at 7uc for No. 2 east. jMaiiiloba rather easier; No. 1 Northern sold to-day at 85 to 851c grinding in transit. No. 1 hard is quoted at 88 to 88 }c and No. 2 Northern at 82 to 82ic grind- ing in transit. l''loiuâ€" The market is steiidy; 00 per cent, patents were hoiiglit to-day at equal to §2.85 in buyer.s' bags middle freights. Uhoiee brands are held 15 to 20c higher. Manitoba flour is steady at §3.83 to $4.20 for cars of Hungarian patents, at S3. CO to $3. 'JO for strong bakers', bags in- cluded, on the track, Toronto. Millfceilâ€" l.s steady at 810 to $1',).50 for cars of shorts and Sl(> for bran in bulk middle freights. Jlanitoba niillfeed is firmer at $22 for cars of shorts and $20 for bran, sacks included, Toronto freights. HarJey â€" Is quiet at 53c iov No. 1, 52c for No. 2, 50c for No. 3 extra, and 49c for No. 3 east and middle freights, and Ic more at lake ports. Kycâ€" Is scnrco and firm at 57 to 58c east and middle freights. Cornâ€" Is steady at CO to GOJc for Canada yellow west. Oat.sâ€" Arc steady at iiic bid east for No. 2 wliito and 43ic asked. They are quoted at 42 to 425c mid- <Ue freights. Qbtmeal â€" Is steady at $4.50 for cars of bags and ?4.05 for barrols o!) the track, Toronto, and 25c more for b'^oken lots. Peasâ€" Are steady at 80c for No. 2 cast and 78ic to 70c west. COUNTRY PUODUCK. Butter â€" The demand for creamertes is strong hut may be expected to le.s- Ben in proportion to the increased olTcrings of choice fresh-made dairies. The latter are offering more freely every day and will bo on the market In liberal supply before long. This will alter the relative prices and weaken the demand for creameries. Cicamery prints 22c to 23c do solids 20c to 21c Dairy lb rolls, choice ...IGc to 17c do lai'go rolls, choice.. .ICc to 17c do medium lie 1o 15c do low grade 10c to 12c Kgg.sâ€" I'riccs are well maintained at loc. The olTorings are l"fge, but there is an excellent demand. Potatoes â€" Offerings continue light, but the large demand from the Unit- ed States has fallen oft slightly. Prices, however, arc steady. Cars on the track hero are (pioted at 85c. I'otatocs out of storo are quoted at 90c to $1. I'oullry â€" Thei-o aro only small re- ceipts and the demand is light. Pri- ces arc steady at GO to 90c for chick- ens; turkeys are steady at 11 to 12c for old "tonis" and 13 to lie for froKh killed hoiis. Italed Hayâ€" The demand is strong anil offerings aro liberal. The mar- ket is steady at 810.50 for No. 1 timothy on track hero. Baled Straw â€" Demand Is light with fair offerings, at §5 on track here. er grades were slow of sale and weak- er, while all round (here was an eu.s- ler feeling. Good to choice export cattle were steady at from 5J to OJc per lb; light stufi Bold at from 4i to 5Jc per lb. The best butcher cattle aro steady and unchanged, but there was a lighter demand, and prices were easier for anything but the best cattle. Following is the range of quota- tions: â€" Cattle. Shippers, jier cwt 55.00 $6.25 IJo light 4.50 4.75 Butcher, choice 5.00 5.50 Butcher, ord. to good. 4.00 4.50 Stockers, per cwt 3.00 4.00 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, per cwt... 3.75 4.50 Yearlings, per cwt 5.00 5.50 .Spring lambs, each .... 2.O0 5.00 Bucks, per cwt 2.75 3, Milkers and Calves. Cows, each 25.00 50.00 Calves, each 2.00 10.00 Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt... 0.50 7.00 Light hogs, i)er cwt... 6.50 6.75 Heavy hogs, per cwt... 6.50 6.75 Sows per cwt 3.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt O.CO 2.00 'f mjFFALO CHAIN SIAUKKTS. Buffalo, May 13. â€" Flour â€" Firm. Wheatâ€" .Spring dull; No. 1 Northern, carloads, 7a;c; winter. No. 2 red, 89c asked to arrive. Corn â€" Lower; No. 2 yellow, (JCJr; No. 3 do. Utile; No. 2 corn, (>0c; No. 3 do, 03c. Hats â€" Quiet and weak; No. 2 white, 'ISJc; No. -.i do, 47Jc; No. 2 mixed. 45'r; No. 3 do, 45c through billed. Hur- ley â€" Nothing doing. Uyo â€" No. ], (13}c. Canal freights â€" Steady. I'llOViSIONS. Packers aro very generally of the opinion tluit tho ju'cseut prices for hog products aro too low, and that there is every likelihood that an nd- vunco will occtir before the end of the week. Pork â€" Canada short cut, $22; hea- â- *'v mess, 821; clear shoidder mess, «18. Smoked and Dry Salted Aleal.s â€" Ivong, cleni' bacon, tons and cases, 10 to lOic; breakfast bacon, 14c. hams, 13 to 13Jc; rolls, lie; should- orB, TOJc; backH. I4c to 15c; green nicats out of picklo aro quoted at Ic U'Kfl than .smoked. Lardâ€" 'rierceL/, lljc, tubs 1 1 -ic ami pails lljc. F.UROPEAN tUUiN MARICETS. Lonflon, May 13. â€" (^lose- Wheat, on passage steadier. Maize, on pas- page ralher firmer. AVhcatâ€" I'^.nglisli <ountry markets of yesterday firm, J'"rench country markets quiet. Paris. May 13. â€" Close â€" Wheat., lone weak; Jlay 22f 10c, .September and December 20f 25c. Lf)ndon, May 13.â€" Close â€" Mark I.,anp miller marketâ€" Wheat, foreign Blenrly. Knglish firm, maize, Ameri- rnn nollilng doing. Dcnubian steady; flour, American steady, lOnglish stea- dy. I,IVF. STOCK MABKICT. Toron4o, May 13.â€" At tho Wostorii fi ttle yards to-day the leceipts were 50 carloads of livo stock, including 1 ,050 cattle, 500 hogs, i;i« sheep nnd lambs. 12(5 calvio -md a few milch cows. There won no quotable change for good cattio, but tho poor- 25,000 PEOPLE ENGULFED. Earthquake Destroys City of St. Pierre, F.W.I. A despatch to tho London Times from St. Tliomas sa,vs that tho city of St. Pierre, Martinicpie, French West Indies, and its inhabitants, with all the shipi>ing in tho harbor have been totally destroyed by a volcanic erui>tion. A de.s;i)atch to the London Daily Mail from St. Pierre, Martinique, dated Thursday, stated that the eruption of Momit Pelco continued. The Giiorin factory was overwlielmed with boiling mud on Monday. Twenly-foiu" persons aro known to ha\o been killed. The de.'q>atch added that there had been no eurthqtuakes up to tho time tho despatch was sent. It was announced from St. Thomas on Saturday, May 3, that St. Pierre had been covered with ashes to tho depth of cjuartcr of an inch as a resiilt of tho outbreak of the Mount Pclce volcano, and tho town appOiired to be enveloped in fog. A .second despatch from St. Thouuis, dated May 0, said tho flow of lava from the Mont Peleo vol- cano, had completely destroyed the {Juerin factories, sittuited about two miles from St. Pierre. It was also reported that about 1.50 per- sons had disappeared, and that a great panic jn'ovailed at St. Pierre. Another des|iatch from St. Thomas dated May 7, said that advices re- ceived that morning from tho Island of St, Vincent, 11. W. I., announced that 'or some day.-* earthquakes had lio<m experienced in the neighboi'hoo' of the Soufricre crater, whicli had been smoking and rumbling. V\\' people in tho vicinity of the vol- cano were leaving for places of safety. This St. Thonui.s despatch Haid further that cable coniniunic- lion with the Island of Arartiniqn( was interrupted tho morning of Mi\\ 7, and that cable communication southward from .St. Lucia, in Windward Islands, cea.sed suddenly tho .samo afternoon. It was reported that tho volcanic craters of Dominica, B.W.I. , were showing signs of acti\ity. .Saint Pierre was the principal town of tho Island of Martinique. Tt was- the largest town of the French West Indies, nnd tho chief entroport of those island.s. It was divided into two ((uarters by a rivnilet, over which were some hand- some bridges. It had numerous pidi- lic buildings and schools, a haiul- sonio theatre, and a botanic ijfarden. rt,s roadstead was defended liy .'-•e\- eral forts. Tho Fnipress Jd.seplilne was born there ir 1703. The Island of Martiru(|ue cnntninp .se\cral extinct volcnnees, tho highest I)oiiit being Mont Pclee, with nn altitude of 4,4.^0 feet. TOTALLY DKSTROYF,r). A .St. Thomas, D.W'.T., dcs]>atch says :â€" Tlie British steamer Koddnm, Capt. Freeman, which left St. Lucia Wednesday, for Martinique, re- turned to St. Liicia on Thursday afternoon. Tho lloddam brings a re- port that the town of St. Pierre, Martinique, the commercial centre and largest cit^y of tho French West Indies, witli a po|>uUition ol n 25,000, has been totally destro.vod as a result of the volcanic disturb- ances in tho island. Almost all the inhabitants of .St. I'ioi-re aro said to have l)een killed. Tho Iloddum repoits that all the shipping in ti port has also been <leslroyed. The tjue'.iec Steamship Conqiany's steam- er Horainia is mentioned as having been lost with all on noard. The Roddam was almost completely wrecked. Her captain was seriou.ily burned, nnd seventeen of her crow are dead. .ST. VINCENT MAY BE RUINED. A despatch from London says ; Tho Colonial Oflice here has received a de.siiatch from .Sir Hobort Llewel- lyn . <;overn(U- of the Windward Is- lands, dated Kingston, .St. Vincent Friday. The Governor says that the Soufrioro volcano,, in the north-wes- tern part of the Island of St. Vii cent, British West Indies, continued in activit.','. Earth sho.-iis h.id oc- curred for a week pa it bui. no'. . timlly in Kingston. On Wednesday a big cloud of steam himg o\er the Soufriere, nnd tlio inhabitants, who Were greatly alarmed, were (locl.iia'; to Chatenu Belair. n'he:o wero al- ready 300 refugees there, wiui were being fed by the authorities. A despatch from Kingston. J.t nuiica, says : It is iaipo.ssib'j f;>r vessels to approach Martinique, and for this reason full details of tha disaster aro slow in reaching tlie other islands. Two vessels have been lost with all on board in endeavor- ing to api)roach St. Pierre. Much apprehension is felt regarding the fate of St. Vincent. Professor .lohn Milne, tho eminent seismologist, says ho is positive that no earthcpjako has occurred in Mar- tinique. The destruction was due en- tirely to a volcanic eruption. lie adds ;â€" "My seismic observatory has shown no sign of an earthquake with- in a week. No seismic disturbances from the West Indies have been noted since April 19, when there wa.T a marked record from Guatemala. What has jirobably Imppened is that Mont Peleo has tjlown its head olT, as the head of a cylinder blows out when the steam pressure is too great." LATEST FROM THF CARIBBEAN. Tho city of St. Pierro was de- stroyed in less than thirty seconds. In that short period the harvest of death was reaped. The total list of victims will ap- proximate fully 30,000. But one man out of the total pop- ulation of tho town is known to have escaped. Relief expeditions from neighboring islands have landed and are bur.n- ing the dead. A cable steamer has reached Fort do France, fourteen miles fru.n S\ Pierre, with 450 survivors, i)ickod up along the shore. Jtorne Rouge, a fashionable suburb of ,St. Pierre, escaped. Tlio French Go\ernor of Martinique fled to t!iat place nnd was saved. Fourteen of the steamer Roraima's crew were among tho thirty saved by the French cruiser Suchet and taken to Guadaloupe. The U. .S. Navy Department has ordered the cruiser Cincinnati from San Domingo to Martinique to give assistance. Tiio French and British Governments aro sending assistance ST. VINCENT THREATENED. The Soufriere (Sulphur Pit) in Eruption. A St. L'Lcia, B.W-.!., despatch says â€" The entire northern end of the British Island of St. Vincent has been laid waste by volcanic erup- tion. » The British lieutenant in charge of the garrison here reports that both largo craters on St. Vincent are emitting enormous volumes of smoke lava and hot ashca. The northern end of the island is cut off from tho soutlieru end by an tmomious stream of lava, which is destroying cx'crything in its path. .Small craters uro bursting overy- whero. No vessel can approach the north- ern shore of tho island on accjunt of tho intense heat and the steam which is coming from all sides. It is estimated now (liat fully 2(in lives have been lost on tho Island of .St. Vincent. It is thought that when details aro received i ho luss of life will prove to bo ninoh heavier. Kingston, tho capital of tho is-- land, is covered with ashes, and is Ijcing bombarded with stones from tho volcanic craters. ASHES CARRIED 250 MILKS OUT TO SEA. Tho terrific force of the eru|.tion at .St. Vincent may be illustrated by one incident. Ashes in gi'eat quan- tity fell on tho deck of tho Britisl .•steamship Coyn, Capt. Eton, when Mho was 250 miles away from the island. Cable communic.Ttion between the i.slands south of .St. Lucia is inter- rupted, but tho (ire from the crater of Mount .Soufriere, Island of â-  St. Vincent, can be seen from here, 21 miles away. In fact tho llames aro vis'blo for fortv miles. FRUIT CROP RU^ED. Reports from Niagara Show Se- rious Damage. A .St. Catharines, t)nt., desjiatch says :â€" Whejo .Saturday cveryt.hing ga,\o promi..!e of a bountiful crop throughout this district, now all is gloom and desolation. Tho heavy frost of Saturday night and .Sun- day morning has caused almost in- calculable damage to the fruit \n all directions. There are six degrees of frost in tho city, and from eight to ten dogiccH in tho country. For about half a mile along the lake shore tho peaches and gr.apes are iu>t so .far advanced, and thus will escape to a certain. extent, but at all other points tho peach and graiKj crops will bo almost com- pletely ruined. The buds and blos- soms being well advanced, the buds on tho grapo-.vine.'» worp frozen stil'f. All tho strawlx?rries that wero in bloom aro riiinod, nnd the loss all through the district will be very heavy. Plums and apples being hardier and later, have escaped somewhat. Tomato and other ten- der plants flint had been set out by thousands all through (ho district were also completely ruined. STRUCK BED OF COAL. Was Boring for Water at Portage la Prairie. A Winnipeg despatch says : 'Jlic flovcrnment well-boring machii^o, while boring for w.ater at Portn^o la Prairie, str\ic]< a bed of coal nl a depth oP 138 feet. An exnndnatlon will be mn.(!o to stoo if It' in of coin- ittci'cial value. PRINCIPAL GRANT DEAD. Head of KingstoTi University Passes Away. A Kingston despatch says:â€" Prin- cipal Grant of tJueen'H University died at 11.05 .Saturday morning. Tho end was fully expected. Dr. (;,\r- i-att nt 10.30 reported that the pa- tient had been attacked by oedema of the lungs and could not survive under the most favorable circum- slunces more than a few hours. It was not, however, anticipated that the end would come so shortly. The disease progressed rapidly from 10.- 30. â-  Tho serous fluid filled the lungs, and the functions of the entire sys- tem ceased shortly bofoi-o H o'clock. Tho change from tho comatose state to <lissolutiou was extremely grad- ual, and at 11.15 Dr. Garratt, after a most careful examination, an- nounced that death had taken place. it is almost needless to state that sorrow is general throughout the city, for the eminent principal of Queen's was as well liked ns he was known. HIS SCHOOL DAYS. George Monro Grant was born Dec. 22, 1835, at StcUarton, County Pictoii, Nova Scotia, the son of a school teacher, who later removed to Pictoii, where the son attended Pic- tou Academy. When 16 years of nge he entered tho West River Seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova .Scotia, and two years later was elected by the committee of the Sy- nod of Nova .Scotia as one of four students to bo sent to the University of Glasgow to be fitted for tho min- istry of the Presbyterian Church. At Glasgow he took the highest honors in philosophy, and also carried off first prizes in classics, moral phil- osophy, and chemistry, and the .sec- ond prize in logic. In divinity he took the lord rector's prize of 30 guineas for tho best essay on Hin- doo literatui-o and philosophy. IN THE MINISTRY. Upon his leturn to Canada he hold missionary charges in tho Maritime Provinces, and in 1863 was inducted to the pastorale of .St. Matthew's Church, Halifax. Ho became prin- cipal of Qnofu's (JoUege at Kingston and received the degree of D. D. from Gla.sgow. .> In 1872, with Sanford Fleming, he made a trip across the continent, in- specting tho location of tho Canadian Pacific Railway line, and later wrote tho book '-Ocean to Ocean." Among his other works are "New Year .Ser- mons," 1 80.5-0(1; "Reformers of the Nineteenth Ceiitur.v," 1807; "Advan- tages of Imperial Federation." 1889; "(Jur National Objects and Aims," 1890; "The Religions of tho "World in Relation to Christianity," 1894; '•The Heligions of the World," 1895. In 1.M89 Principal Grant was elect- etl Aloderalor of the Oeneral Assem- bly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, and in ]8i)l President of the Royal .Society of Canada. In 1872 be married Wiss Jessie Lawson of Halifax, who died about a year ago. -♦- HRROISIVr AT LADYSWITH. Artillery Sergeant Rewarded for an Act of Devotion. A London despatch says: Anion}; the men who received distinguished conduct medals from Lieut.-Uoneral .Sir W. Butler at Davenport, wrs .Sersoant lloseley, late Koyal Field Artillery, who lost his leg and an arm at Ladysmith. By tbciaid of an artificial leg an.l arm the gallant sergeant presented an ordinary u|i|ieiirance (Ui the par- ade ground. A chair was placed for his accommodation, but he walked to the table and saluted when roceivirg the nio<lal from Geiw:>ral Butlor. The reneral tuld tho story of Hose- ley's heroism. While lying terribly wi.uudi'il acioss tho gun lu: had- serv- ed ho called to his conipiinions who wero uninjured to roll; hi.s body aside and cunthuic the service of tho gunâ€" - an act of devotion, said lioneral Butler, that was beyond all praise. an act of gallantry that would vie with any iu the history of dceds| ol heroisan . DATE OF PEACE. May 80 Heported To Be the Set. Day A despatch received at Lisbon from Dclagoa Bay, Portngue.se East Africa, says that peace in .South Africa is certain to result from the conference of tho Boer leaders to bo held at Verecniging, Transvaal, Slay 1,5. It is sai*l, tho desiwrtch con- tinues, that pence will be ollicially proclaimed May 20. Preparations are afoot for general rejoicings. After having met the burghers in tho hold and explained to them tho British terms, tho Boer loaders were to meet at Vereeniging and reach a final decision on the sidijcct of peace. A despatch from London said it was oltlcially a.sscrtod that after their conterenro at Verecniging tho Boer leaders would proceed to Pre- toria and announco to Lord Kit- chener their decision in regard to tlic peace terms they were prepared to accept. NATIVES ATTACK LAAGER. Burghers Had Recently Burned Down Thoir Kraals. A Vrybeid, Southeastern Transvaal despatch says : â€" Natives, whoso kraals - wore recently burned by biirghors. attacked a Boer laager in (lie vicini(y of .Scheepeis" Nek. May 5, and killed thirty-two Boors. • NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From Over the Globe. All CANADA. Woodstock's police force is to be increa-sc'd. The ice on the Yukon is breaking up on the upper reaches. The C.P.R. has granted an increase of pay to its machinists. Winnipeg's realty assessment now total.-? S23,912,06O, witU 86,558,210 exemptions. Population 48,397. Ottawa is receiving ofTera from sev- eral telephone compuniofs desirous ol installing a system in opposition to the Bell. Hong Lee, the Kingston Chinesa .laundrynian, who has gi-ven liberalljl to tiiicon's University, has siib- scrihed §25 to tho Y.M.C.A. As a result of a petition of sixti of Braiitford'.s business uien, the city will celebrate Victoria Day on May 2G, instead of .Saturday, the 24tli. Tho Canadian Pacific announces re- ductions in Freight ratos between Lake Superior and Manitoba points ranging from 40 to 41 cents per IOC poniids. The City Council of Ot.tawa has decided to introduce a by-law cotn- pelling tho removal of all signs. veraiKtahs, or other projections ii the streets. The Northwest Commercial I'ra- velei's have purchased a ju'oniincnt busines.s corner in Winnipeg, and will erect there .an eight-storey office biulding. Oweiii Sound assessors' returii.-i show a population of 9,414, an in- crease over last year of 159, and an assessment of $3,529,991, an in- crease of a quarter of a million. Some members of tho Hamilton Board of Education object to tho forming of a rille cluh among mem- bin's of tho CoUegiatu instituto- They should wait till t.liey aro old enough to join tlie 13th Ilegiinent. GREAT BRITAIN. Orders have hccn is.siietl for the Imperial Yeomanry battalions now at Aldershot to embark for South Africa. Tho King and the Queen with thr' own hands placed in position sev- eral of the young saplings planted recently in tho grounds of Buc.kin, iiam Palace. Tho allegeh combination of British .Shiivowuers to keep up tho freights on Uritish goods has attracted the attention of tho Governmeut. UNITED STATES. The U. .S. Steel Corporation em- ployed 1. 58, 263 men- during tho past year, and paid out in wages S112,- 829,198. Miss llebcccB, French, a publin .school teacher of Marinette, Wis., has gono insane over her lovo for cats. James Duffleld, elected niayoi' ol Buckner, 0., on a prohibition ticket, has been fined for selling liciuor co\- trary to law. Former City Treasurer Oerst, o( BulTalo, was fined Sl.OOO and dis- missed for complicity iu defalcations amounting to $40,000. Because a teacher at a public school in Philadelphia sat on a bible while playing the piano, tho stool being too low, a row was stavie i which tho directors bad t.o investi gate and sett io. Samuel Wendell Williston, professoi oA GeoloK.v in the Univorsit.v o[ Kansas, and author of ISO scientific papers aiif. books, has been chosoi head professor of paleontology in tho University of Chicago. On Saturday of this week Mayor Low, of New York, will Miake ai undergroinid trip in an automobih through the large 15-toot sewer that in being built to tlrain the entiri Bay Uidge section of Brooklyn. Senator Tillman made a. violer.t .speech in the Senate at Washiuglou on Wodr^sday. in which be hoped tho United .States would turn from their "game of deviltry in the PhM- ippines" oivl assist the .South to rid herself of the threat of negro dom- ination. GKNKR/VL. The revolt in Portugal is against; bad government and execrable ad ministiatiim. A British subject name<i Allcocjc has lieeu murdered in his own gar- den near Tctuau. Morocco. Serious carthcpiakcs have occurred' in .Spain, destroying a number of house-) and terrifying tho people. The young king Alfonso will wear fifty. dilVeient unifoiins during th> festivities attendant on his ucce..-- sion. Two Austrian Dcpiitie.s have fought another bloody duel in \' icnna in which both were cut and sUishcd ter- ribly. Frighteiiod by rumi>rs thut Kussda is preparing for war with .lapan, many Chinese traders have loft Port Arthur for Shanghai. In all parts of tho Orange Uive( Colony the Dutch are cnteiliig witli great spirit into the arrangements for tho coronation celebrations. At Moscow a fire caused by th( Carelessness of a workman has ro suited in tho destruction of sil stcaniero and several work.shops. The Kmprcss Dowager of China i credited with having dovcloped ipiid 11 crazo for foreign wa,\s. paiticu larly in the directiou of social fiini tions. m r