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tmUlMli^fftumia n^i.j^,. !'nr««P0iMMqM«i wiPWNPna '9'mma0m9mtmm»o'ir. DECISION IS lEBEVOCABlE Russia Will Not Pay One Penny as Indemnity. Tho Stcndiird's correspondent at St. I'etcisl urjj snys thut Unitwi Status Ambassador Muyor still main- tains an alisoluto silonco regarding his brief inttrvifw of fifteen minutes with tlio C/.ar on Thursdoy. I{ci)oi;ts from tho jjalace sny llmt the Czar did not display any disiro to discuss Pnsidenl Itocsovelt's uicssaso, the contents of which are still uultnown. Tho curresijondfiit adds that tho ac- cie<lited si'ol<e.si:uin of tho Foicign Ollice on 'J'luirsday afternoon said; â€" 'I can state positively that tho (Jov- crnnient's decision not to pay one penny as indemnity or reimburse- ment, or whatever Japan may tei'm ft, in any form, is irrevocable." The same authority declared that the .Inpunese hud presented no new propositicns, fornuilly at least, and tliut tile entire (piest ion of jieaco or war depends, according to tlic I'"or- vinH Ollice, on the disposal of the de- mand for un intlunniity. The corres- pondent proceeds to give the follow- ing statement from a most compe- tent ollicial qiinrter: â- "I'ho free balance at the treasury is now JL;J'J..S(io.O(iO About £14,000,- 000 or £jr). (Hill. (100 v»ill be paid by the bunks for the September loan, thus creating a free balance of about i:-27.r,Wl,<.H)0. The new year will (ind Itussia with a free balance, without further loans, of from £10.000,000 to £20, 0(1(1, (KM). Under the law tho State Hank possesses the right to issue about £30,000,000 more paper against Ihv present j[old reserve, now amounting to £80,400,000, besides i;:i(),!)()0,000 abroad. Additional war expenses, besidrs the regular military appropriations, are about £80,008,- 000 yearly. Jt is admitted tixat tho famine is certain to reduce tho re- ceipts in 190.". and 190(i, but the au- thorities profess to be hopeful, and it ninsl be admitted that in spile of the great famine area the total har- vest is not far below the average." The coriespoiiilent adds Ihul tho present intcinul conditions could hardly l;o worse. From ;10 to 40 Wounded persons me tal«en to tho hospitals in Uiga daily. Tho citizens have taken matters into their own hands. All carry arms, and a mili- tia has been organi/e<l by means of which a state of complete anarchy is still averleil. F.very Slate through- out llie Ilalti<' district has a giiord of armed rifles. Nevertheless, it must bo remembered that the last mobilizalior. was attended by far fewer disturbances than the former. (!en. I.,inevileh's forces are now probably 100,000 stronger than Kouropatkin's were. STILL HAS IIOI'KS. The coricspoiident of the Times at St. I'etcrsburg suys: â€" "Thursday has ; brought tho convictiort that tho high- I est inlluences are at work hero as well us in Portsmouth to bring about I pence. This, added to- the optimist!'' i telegrams, keeps alive tho hopes of 'settlement. Tho Bourse has respond- j cU to this sang^uinc tendency. "The princijial factor is rec(%nl«ed to be the personal negotiations of President lloosevelt and tho Czar. It i;:^ rcgurdeil us signilicant that tho C*br has not closed tho avenue to further negotiations. It is whisper- ed that President Uoo^evclt has a de- termined ally among tho Czar's kins- men who is striving hard to counter- act warllko counsels." LA.ST KFFOKT MAS FAILED. Tho correspondent .'of the London Times ut St. I'etcrsburg says; â€" "From tho best information there is little doubt that I'i'esidont Roose- velt's elToits for peace have failed. An important meeting of the Hoard of Foreign Affairs was held on Fri- day afternoon, at which Count Lamsdorii conferred with the mem- bers with regard to the lato.st de- velopments. After tho conference count Lamsdorff's representative said: â€" " 'Wo are in constant communlca- ti.m with M. de Witte, who has telc- i graphed many .suggestions, but I n.s- i sure you that tho situation has un- dergone no change. We still refuse I to c<msider indemnity in any shape I or manner or form.' j "The llour.sc opened buoyant on ; Saturday because of optimistic telc- •groms. but the buoyancy gave place ! to profound depression when the I brokers became r.onvinced that Pet- ierhof would not give way." The correspondent of tho London .Standard at St. Petersburg i|uotPS Irrivy Councilor Kokovtseff, the Min- 1 inter of Finance, as follows: I "If Japan persists in roimburse- jnieiit tho ovitlook for peace is ex- It reniely discouraging. In my opin- I ion Kussia will not pay an.v indom- Inity. T understand that the pleni- ] pfitcntiarics agree to transfer a por- tion of the railway to China, from .whom Hussia is entitled to receive its value. In the present condi- tlunn I wn.ild approve the handing over of lliot money to Japan to : purclmse ."-iaghnlien, which in eqiilvu- i lent t . on indemnity, which is a more playing with words." j INSISTS ON INPFMNITY. A <lespalch from Tokio says; Count Katsura. the I'rime Minister, is re- c ivlng hundreds of telegrams, let- ters and memorials urging the Clov- einmenl to insist on the peace terms ns originally proposed. It is under- stood (hut the Government adheres to the demand for an indemnity. V/OUNDED MEN STARVE. Russia Indifferent to Fate of Re- turned Soldiers. A despatch to the London Daily Hail from St. I'eteisburg says that thi-ro is growing indignation in St. Petersburg ovi>r the unpardoiuiiiie in- dillercncc of the Covernmcnt towards Boldiers who have returned from the Far Fast. (.)n nearly evcr.y street one sees soldiers with nil arm or leg, or both limbs missing, stretching forth their hands in a pitiable a)i- peal for aims. Home wear on their breast tho Cross of St. Ueorge, which is only given in case of great personal bravery. All have a right to be fed by the State nn<l receive a small pi'iiyioii, and if .vou ask why they beg, the uvswe.r Invariably Is tho old story of wholesale pecula- tions by ofllcinls. •'Tlieie have been hoi'ifying in- stances related to me," .-eys the cor- respondent, •'direct by soldiers wounded in battle. The.v lay for months in hospitnb: and then suffei'i-d increilible |irivalions on the long' joiirm-.y hcune, the nioney appro- | piiated for their fond having been I number of iilncos help is needed very badly. Tho wheat has attained the devolopmcnl where eslimates of the yield can b-i coiisidc;re<l nccurate, and tliosc offered nre better than unlici- patc<l. Around llrandou it is claim- ed that the yield will run from 2,') to 30 bushels to the acre; in the Moose- jaw section from 30 to HTi, and in southern Manitoba from UO to 0. Tile weather during the week has been pcrfe<'t, and cutting is now be- ing done just as rapidly as the farmers can accomplish it. There have been no repmls of damage, though thm- has been slight frost on the Portal .-.ection. 'I he crop Is undoubtodl.v the heaviest for '20 years. Weatber nt present is per- fect for harvesting operations, but farmers generally are huiidicapped b.v lack of labor, and thousniKls of acres have been knocked down by the bind- ers with the shettvcs still left on tho fluid with no one to stook them. * YOUNG GIRL SHOT. Serious Charge Against a Cape Breton Woman. LEADING MARKETS TOnONTO MARKETS. Wheatâ€" Ontarioâ€" New, No. 3 red and white. Toe to 7(}c; old, 77c to 78c, at outside points. Goose and spring nominal. Wheatâ€" Manitobaâ€" No. 1 northern for October delivery was offered here on Wednesday at 90c, lake ports, t'ash quotations are: â€" No. 1 north- ern, $105; No. 3 northern easier, 86c to 861c, lake ports. Flourâ€" Dealers' best bid for 90 per cent, patents for export is $3.10, buyers' sacks, east or west. Mani- toba prices are unchangwl. First patents, $5.30 to $5.40; second pa- tents. $5 to $5.10; bakers', $4.90 to •Millfeedâ€" Outarjoâ€"Bra^p,. $11.60 to $12 per ton iiriar lo.tsj^at outside pointB, shorts, §17 to $IW, according to quality. Manitoba bran $17, shorts $19, Toronto and equal freight points. QatKâ€" 284c to 29c for No. 2, new for export; old, 30c to 37c, at out- sifle points. IJarleyâ€" No\v or old, 38c to 43c, at outside points, according to quality. it.vc â€" Dull, 57c to 58c at outside points. t^orn â€" Canadian â€" Nominal, 53c to 54c, Chatham freights. American firm at 02c to 621c for No. 3 yellow, lake and rail freights. I'eas â€" 65c to 66c, at outside points. Ilolled Oats â€" Car lots in barrels arc quoted at $4.75 on track here, in bags at $4.50; 25c more for broken lots here and 40c outside. COUNTUY PRODUCE. Rut tcr â€" Quotations unchanged. Creamery, prints 22c to 23c do solids 21c 21Jc Dairy lb. rolls, good to choice 18c 20c do medium 17c 18c do tubs, good to choice 17c 18c do inferior 15c 16c Cheese â€" Quotations are unchanged at llic to lljc Egg.s â€" Continue firm at IHc to 18ic Potatoes â€" Quotations arc unchang- ed at 60c per bushel. Ruled Haj^No. 1 timoth.v is quot- ed at $7 to $7.50 per (on for car lots on track here, and No. 2 at $6. Haled Straw â€" Quiet and unchanged at $.').50 to Sfi per t<m for cur lots on track here. A dispatch from Halifax says: â€" stolen by oMlciuls. I'or weeks theyjKalic!. the ( welvo-year-old daughter starved on a diet of water and a of Juhii Mcfherson, Cuiw ilnton, is litth' bread given by charitable peo- serioUKly ill as the lesiill of a giiii- plc at stations on the Siberian liail- j shot wound ut the han<i« it is aj- woy. When they arrived at their na- ; lego<l, of a woninn named Adams. tivo villages the.v reixirted them- ' The girl v\ns picKing bliiebeiries when selves to the local authorities and the woman raisiHl a window and claimed the pensions promised to fired a shot, the bullet lo<lgiiig in tho them, but after the lirst ii;stalmenls gill's forearm. The wonutn, on bi'- no niori' was forthcoming, and lieing iiii, acciisi'd b.v the firl's father of wounded and unable to work, they ! tiring the shot, raised her handa have (bagged themselves to St. Pet- ] above her heati as if to take down a crsbiirg. | riilo from above the door, but made "The spectacle of these Russian ' no reply to the! accusation. Mr, Mc- heroes begging in the strerts is one' I'horson drew ii revolver to check tho of shame to an.yone less case-harden- ed than Gopormnent ofllcials, hut now, with a bud crop in view (axes that cannot be paid, tho sions of the soldiers are held to make up the deficit." and I on- back design. It is possible that the nian merely intended to frighten child and dischaigi'd the gun in uir. I FOOTWKAR WILL GO UP. wo- tho the HEAVIEST CHOP IN 20 YEARS. Wholesale Shoe Association ! cides to Advance Prices. Lack of Help is Handicapping Western Farmers. A A despatch from Wiiinli eg sa.vs-- So »a|)idly has the wheat rij;ened la le.spatcli from Quebec suys:â€" .\t the first annual uieetin;;- of the Wholesale .Shoo Association of ('nil adn. held on Weduesilny, a rfsoliition tho tJaiindian West di>ring tho past w.-is adoiited. that, ov/ing to the cost week that the harvest help has not of raw materiul in the nianufnclure been broiighl <>nrly reo'-f'-. ( ml T'n ,,( boots ami shoes, it is al^-iliitely crop report issued Dy tho C. P. II. lucessaiy to increase the iirlie of on fhursilay com)dains ibut in a^uods. MONTRF.AL MARKETS. Grain â€" Flourâ€" Manitoba spring wheat j)atents, $5.80 to $5.40; strong bakers', .$5 to $.").10; winter wheat patents, $5.10 to $5.25, and straight rollers, $4.75 to §4.90 in wood, in bugs $2.25 to $2.35; rolled oats, $2.40 to $2,425 per bag; pearl hominy, $1.«5 to $1.90 in bags of 98 pounds; cornmeul, $1.45 to $1.50 per bug. ilillfeed â€" Ontario bran in bulk at $14.50 to $15; shorts, $19 to $20; Manitoba bran in bags, $17 to $18; shorts, $20 to $21. jlayâ€" No. 1, $8.50 to $9 per ton on the truck; No. 2, $7.50 to $8; clover, $6 to $6.25; clover mixo<l, $0.50 to $7. Oat.sâ€" No. 2, 42c to 43c pei bushel. No. 3, 41c old crop. Heaiis â€" Choice primes, $1.05 to $1.70 per bushel. Peus â€" Boiling, none; No. 2 in car lots, H4c to 85c. Potatoesâ€" New potatoes in bags of 80 pounds, 50c to 55c. Honey â€" White clover in comb 12c to 13c per section in one pound sections; extract in lO-pound tins, 8c to 9c; in 60-pouiid tins, 7c to 8c. Provision.s â€" Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $20 to $21; light short cut, $18 to $19; Anierlean cut clear fat back, $19. .W to $20.75; com- pound lard, 53c to OJc; (^anadian pure lurd, lOfc to lie; kettle ren- dered, lie uccording to quality hams, 12c to Ktc to 14c, according to size; bncon, 13c to 14c- fresh kill- ed abattoir hogs, $10; nlivo, $7.25 to $7.4(.> f(U' mixed lots. Eggsâ€" Straight slock. $174e to IHc; No. 1 candled, 19c to 'iOc. Hutler â€" tlhoice croamei.v. 22ic to 2a3c; undergrades, 21 Jc to 2aic; dairy, 18c to 2()c. tiatsâ€" Prices show little change. Rolled Oats â€" Arc in oiil.v a nomi- nal demand and tho feeling on the market is easier. Cornmeutâ€" Pe.iil hominy is in mod- erate re<iuest. Hay â€" A fairly brisk demand gives a lirm undeilone to the market lor baled hay. PUFFAIiO GRAIN MARKET. Flourâ€" Quiet and steady. Whea :.a^ while, 83c. Corn firm; No. 2 yellow, OtLJc; No 2 corn, .591c. Oats strong No. 2 white, 29c; No. 2 mixed, 271c. Har!(!y, Ohio, sold at 45c. Rye un sett hid; No. 2, 02c asked. Cunal freights steady. JAPS WERE IITEN BACK Gen. Linevitch Reports Three Al= leged Victories. CATTLE MARKET. The run of cat Ho Toronto Market c again liglit anil, w for all kinds, prices tuined. Fxiu.rt cuttle, choice.. ill) good to medium.. do others Hulls Cows llutclu'is' picked good to choice fair to good do conunoii do cows I'.ulls l-'eedeis ering at tho I'uesday was some deman;l re well nuiin- S4.50 4.20 4.00 3.50 3.00 4.10 3.9t) 3.40 2. 50 2.50 2.,-i0 3.(}0 $4.75 4 40 4. -10 4.00 3.76 4. -10 4.10 3. Hit 3.25 a.-io 3., 50 4.(10 JAPS ARE CONCENTRATING. A despatch to St. Petersburg from Guntziiling, the headquarters of the Russian army in Manchurio, says that the Japanese are concentrating at Litzntai, in the Valley of the Rivers Tz.in, Khoun, and Gounian, whence iO,0(X) of them are advanc- ing in a northerly direction. The Fmpercr has received the fol- lowing from Gen. Linevitch: "Ad- vanced Ru.ssian detachments on Sun- day, drove back the Japanese from their positions. One detachment in tho T/.ino Valley occupied the Vil- lage of Lagovtzeakzy; another oper- ated in the direction of Schimiad/.y, and a third dislodged tho Japanese from their position on tho south- ward of Mopeyschan. The three Ru.ssian columns drove the Japanese back to their position near Send- jun." Gen. Linevitch also reports the re- pulse of a detachment of Japanese which was advancing on Kiaujorou- jou, in Corea. UNDER THEIR OWN STEAM. A despatch from Tokio says: The battleship Peresviet, which was sunk in the harbor of Port Arthur, and afterwards raised by the Japanese, arrived ut Sasebo on Wednesday un- <ler her own steam. Tho cruiser Rayan, which was also ral.sed by the Jupaiiese, reached Sasebo on Thurs- day. PLANS OF LINEVITCH. A despatch to the London Daily Telegraph from New l^hwang says that Gen. Linevitch is still strength- ening his extreme right. His plan appears to be to divide the Japan- ese into two or more bodies b.v com- pelling them to devote their atten- tion to their left flank and thus pre- vent the eii ing of the railway be- tween Hurbin and Vladivostock. Numbers of Russians arc continu- ally surrendering as outcome of the revolutionary spirit which prevails throughout the army, even among the higher olllcers. This is why Oen. Linevitch will probably assume the odensive. There are skirmishes between rival scouts daily, the men getting to within fifty yards of each other. Tho most advanced lines on both sides are so irregular and make so many sharp angles that each side is able to menace the cnem.v's rear. ROJE.STVENSKY NEARLY WELL,. A despatch from St. Petersburg says; Vice-Ad miral Rojcstvcnsky, in a letter to his family, says he ex- pects to have fully recovered from the wounds received in the Battle of the Sea of Japan by tho middle of September, when ho will start for Russia with the permission of tlie Japanese Government. JAPAN ORDERS GUNS. A despatch to the London Dally Mail from Hamburg says that the Krupps have received an order from Japan for sheet-iron and guns for the fleet of the value of $2,250,000. VESSEL M^FLOATED. A despatch from Tokio says: The Russian torpedo-boat destroyer Sil- ny, sunk in tho harbor of Port Ar- thur during tho siege, has been re- floated TYPHOID IN MANCHURIA. A despatch from Liadiapudze, Man- churia, says:â€" Reports telling of a largo number of typhoid fever cases among the soldiers have been exag- gerated. There are some cases, but tho general state of health in tho army is excellent. As typhoid gen- erally urises through "the soldiers drinking (mboileti woter, movable machines for the boiling of water are being rapidly established. ITie Japanese advance along the railroad has ceased. They have withdrawn to Shahedzy. OPERATIONS ON THE AMUR. A despatch from Tokio says: â€" Rear-Admiral Kataoka has reported to tho Imperial Navy Department that the naval division sent up the Anmr River bombarded und destroy- ed two Russian guard stations at Zharet and l.,ai:iervo, on the south bunk of tho river. These stations had recently been reinforced. .do medium 3.30 3.60 do bulls 2.50 3.50' Stockers, good 3.50 3.80] do rough to com.... 2.50 3:tH) ' Bulls 1.75 2.50 Milch cows, each 30.00 50.00 Export ewes, per cwt. 4.00 4.15 do bucks, per cwt ... 3.00 3.40 j do culls, each 3.00 4.00 Spring lumbs, each 5.50 6.10. Calves, per lb 8i 54 do each 2.00 10.00 Hogs, selects, per cwt 7.10 0.00 do lights 6.85 0.00 do fats 6.85 0.00 VIOB SLAYS FARMER'S SON li2- Year-old Lad Shot Dead and Sister Wounded. A Norwood, Ont., despatch says: Thos. K. Hill, about 12 years old, son of Robert Hill, a farmer, was shot and instantly killed about 12 o'clock on Thursday night at his father's residence, north half of lot 1-1 in the 7th con. of Dummer. about H miles north of Norwood, and his sister Mabel Hill was shot in tho arm by a mob supposed to be the neighbors of the Hill family. Hud blood has been existing in the locality for some years. The count.v authoritlcB have been communicated with and the affair will lie investi- gated at onco. Enqiiir.v at Peterboro. 20 miles from Norwood, shows that consider- able bail blood has existed in the neighborhood for some time. there having been numerous cases of cat- tle poiKiniing an<l born burning. Mr. Hill himself is said to have d('clarcd that he knew who did the shooting, and that the shot waS tired through tho hou.se from the (Ulside. On the other hand, several neighbors say that Hill has been very unpopular and that if a shot was fired by any of the other farm- e'-s thc.v say it was only done to frighten Hill. A CONFESSION. A startling climax occurred on Siattirdn.v morning in tho Hill trag- cily in Dummer township, when u young nam named t.'harles (low votu- taril.v surrendered hin:Helf lo lltgh ConstubK) Cochrane at Warsaw, con- fessing that he was the perjietrator of tho crime, which, ho Htatcs, was motiveless, and intended merely us a youthful prank. (low is a young man who bears un cxemplury jiyst record, and comes of a highly esteemed family. Ho is a South African veteran, and an ex- pert rlf'o shot, having intended to I leave in the course of a lew da.vs for I :)ttnwn to take j>art in the Dominion I Rillo Association matchefl. I Ho is a son of Mr. lohn Gow, a I former resident of Ashburnham, now i living about four miUs (;usl of War- - saw, and one of the most highl.y le Koecled families of the township. Gow states that on the night of the tragedy he was in company with William, James and Ivdward Dewart, tJcorge Galligher and Stewart, and James Murphy, the mob who it was alleged attacked the Hill residence. Ho lired the shots responsible for the fatality merely as a prjink. The jury returned a verdict of ac- cidental death, and did not condemn Gow for the shootinj;. Mrs Hill, mother of tho dead boy, was furious when she heard the ver- dict, and, pointing her finger at St(>wart Murphy, cried: "You grinned at me. Vou laughed at mo niui my dead boy lying in th# house." Murphy donied to Ihv-riO about him that he hud luockod the womaiU i BANNER YEAR FOR FARMERS. Minister of Agriculture Speaks Highly of Prospects. A de.spatch from Toronto says: Hon. Nelson Moateith. Minister of Agriculture, exjiressed his belief on 1'hursday that the present would prove to be a banner year for tho farmer, cri ])s being good and prices high. Wheat is better than last year; fruit is good; apples fairly plentiful in some districts, though poor in others. Tho grea; problem, he thought, was getting the crop moved. The Pnitod States railways afford greater farili- lies than the Canadian. They really try to move the crop. Thoujrh tho.v charge U-»er rates, they got "a much large freightage and are thus recom- pensed. DESERTIONS AT QUEBEC. Sixty Men Said to Have Left the British Naval Squadron. A despatch from Quebec says: â€" A large desert ion from the warships composing the second cruiser squad- ron is cuusing the naval aulhoritii-» much anxiety. It is said that no le.ss than sixl.v .seamen have left their vessels and made their way out ol reach of their officers. Out of this number no less than twenty men aro said lo have deserted from tho flag- ship. JUDGE ELLIOTT'S DEATH. Had Served Nearly Fifty Years on tho Bench. A desptitch from London, Ont., sa.vs:â€" Judge William F.liiott, for years senior Judge of tie county of .Middlesex, i.-assed awa.v i;t his rc- sidenro in the city on Thursday night, after a I'lig illnerS. 'I'he dis- tinguished gentleman letircd but two .veurs ago from active dmics of iiear- l.v 50 yours ou the l»i-nch, having eorinleted ))erhaps the longest term e of ill"- Judge in Camidian history.