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I CITI OF COBAl/r FIRE-SWEPT Early Morning Blaze Destroyed Over 2,00 Straotures. A <I«»patch from Cobalt say- : OobAlt is painfull; familiar with the iron clang of tbe fire bell in the •arly morning hours, and when the vbcle town was aroused at four o'clock on Friday, people found a blaze already painting the early morning sky red and knew that the inevitable bad happened, and that fire had broken into the jam of â- backs and crazy wooden buildings en the Ilaileybury-road, and fanned bj a ilight breeze, was cracking up the buildings around it like orange boxes. For six hours the fire raged, and the remit is the destruction of about 200 buildings, rendering homeless 2,000 people, in a district, about half a mile long by lOiJ yards wide, known as "Frenchtown" and tenanted chiefly by foreigners. The kss is placed at about 8300.000, while tlve insurance will be less than $50,000. This is because the insur- ance rates have been almost prohi- bitiveâ€"from 10 to 13 per cent.â€" and in some cases the companiea can- celled the risks held. The fire originated in Joe Lee's Chinese restaurant, supposedly from an overheated stove. Two waitresses, wbo roomed in the building, heard tbe flames crack- ling, and aroused the other inmates. As previous serious fires have ori- ginated in Chinese buildings there is a decidedly anti-Oriental senti- ment here to-day. The local volunteer firemen were assisted by the brigades from New Liskeard and Haileyfanry, which ar- rived by special train about 5.30. The water supply was inadequate and recourse was had to dynamite to blow up buildings in hopes of checking the progress of the fire. It was during the dynamiting of one building that a Finlander, who did not understand the warnings given him, and who rushed back in- to the house, was blown up and killed. BOBBERS OBTAII SIO.OOO Three Masked Men Held Up Manager cf Rainy River Eank. A despatch from Rainy River, Ont., says: In the most daring rob- bery ever perpetrated in this sec- tion of the country, the local branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia was robbed of between 19,000 and *10,- 000 shortly before no<3n on Iriday. While Manager Templeton was in tbe building alone three masked men, believed to be from Spooner, Minn., entered, and at the point of revolvers made Templeton abstain liom giving the alarm. One of the bandits kept him under cover while the other two made a rapid search for the currency. They were not long in finding the money owing to tbe fact that considerable cf it is always iu plain view at this time ft the day. After securing nearly 110,000 the robbers ran across the •treet and made north in the direc- tion of the C. P. R. tracks. Mana- ger Tempteton as soon as possible sounded the alarm and a posse was at once organized and is now in pursuit. The robbers were all the more daring from the fact that many pec'p'.e were on the streets and passing the bank while the ban- dits were at work. The revolvers with which the holdup was accomplished were sto- len from the John Weeks Hardware Company, Spooner, on the night of June 30, three men having previ- ously visited the store to look at firearms. Three answering the same description purchased cartridges from the Rat Portage Company's store at this point Friday morning. A regrettable accident occurred during the arming of the posse. A rifle was accidentally discharged in the hands of one of the men, the kuUet passing through the leg of Mr. Field, the accountant of the bank. MEETS HORRIBLE DEATn. De(r«>it Woman Aeronaut Dies on a Live Wire. A despatch frona Detroit, Mich., »ays : Entangled in a network of live wire«, many of them carrying high voltage electricity, Mrs. Dell Meixell, a female aeronaut, met a horrible death at Lowell, Mich., on Baturday afternoon. Mrs. Meixell's balloon ascension was one of the ^ features of a Fourth of July cele- bration. Tbe balloon rose grace- fully from the earth, but before it could reach a safe height, a gust of wind struck it and drove it at a high rate of speed towards a net- work of wires on the main street of the town. Mrs. Meixell saw her danger, and as the parachute bar neared the wires, she let go and caught the topmost cable. She missed her bold, but fell with her body directly across it. and hung as though dead, her feet twisted iu a mass of smaller wires below. Someone had presence of mind to telephone to the electric power plant to shut off the current, which was done with all possible speed. In the meantime, however, a small spiral column of smoke began to rise from the woman's body where it came in contact with the wires, and there were horrified cries from the spectators, who were compelled to look on while the current con- tinued its deadlv work. When the electricity was finally shut off the body of the unfortunate woman dropped to the ground forty feet ' below. Doctors found life in the inanimate form, but it was so slight that the woman died shortly after midnight. One hand was burned almost entirely off, and she was otherwise injured. TUREE PERSONS KILLED. Barna and IIou««s Demolished ia Saskatehcwau CycloDe. A de.spatch from Carievale, Sask.. says : .\ severe storm passed over this district on Thursday night. The house of WTm. Hackett, who lives 15 imles north, was completely demolished, as was also his stable. One child, two years old, was kill- ed, and other members of the fam- ily were injured. Reports of the storm had been coming in on Fri- day, and tell tales of suffering and devastation. Three deaths have oc- curred, several others were so severely injured that their lives are I despaired of, and a score of peo- j pie were more or less injured in the I French settlement around St. An- 1 toine, 15 miles north of here. In I many cases farm buildings were to- I tally destroyed, together with stock, j the heaviest losers being the Hack- i ctt and Raymond families. Fourth of July carnage in the United States was heavy. SCORE OF HEN WEBE KILLED A Sudden Landslide Was Most at Newport, Eng.^ Disastrous. A despatch from Newport. Eng- lan<l, says : It is estimated that tweuty men perished on Friday by the sudden collapse of the west wall of the new lock at the entrance to the .\Ie.\andra dock where fifty men were working in a trench sixty feet deep, preparing for the laying of a conorcto foundation. Without warning the heavy shoring timbers gave way, the entire structure col- lapsing, and carrying down with it thusands of tons of earth, railway lines, many cars and four travel- linf; cranes. Tlve men at the bot- tom of the trench had no chance to rsc;!j>e, but many of those working nearer the surface were uninjured. Of the fifty men in the trench t* ^ Uy-'vis have been accounted fo» The work of rescuers begun im- mediately after the collapse, and three men were taken out alive. : The bodies of some of the dead also | were rescued. At uiidnight. aided ' by electric lights and flare lamps, 1 the rescuers were still busy with ' their work. Thousands of persons ' had gathered to watch the weird scene. Conversations were beiug held : with a few of the imprisoned men with the aid of speaking tubes and : stimulants and cigarettes were pass- i ed down to them ; but there was i little hope of rescuing the victims as ^ the removal of the debris that w.ijt pinning them down was likely to â-  cause further falls of earth and beams. GOXDE\SED XEWS ITEMS aAl'PEMNCg FKOM ALL OTEB TUE ULOBE. lelesraphie Briefs From Onr 0»a •ad Other Couutries «l Beccat Efeata. CANADA. Nearly ^1,250,000 cf Ontario's j ♦3,.T»X),0<X) loan has been subscribed Lord Strathcona has made a gilt of «.tOO,000 to McGiU University, I Montreal. Sergeant Bert Daniels fell off a ' gun carriage at Winnipeg, was run over and killed, on kcidny. Mr. D. D. Mann has made a satis- fact<jry settlement with the Cana- dian Northern engineers. The Manit<jba Gypsum Comparfy's works at Winnipeg were burned on Saturday. Loss i^60,0<X). Mrs. Oscar Shaw, mother of Mr. W. H. Shaw of Toronto, fell into a well at Morpeth, on Friday, and was taken out dead. A report comes from Amherst, N.S., toat Montreal capitalists have purchased the Rhodes, Curry- Company's car works. The trop report of the Ogilvie Fltjtir Mills Company tells that gr:iiu in the west on summer-fallow land is very heavy. Miss Jennie Guest of London, while suffering from despondency, threw herself into a cistern and was drowned, on Saturday. The residence of Mr. John Bow- ers of Gooderham was burned on Wednesday and his ten-year-old daughter lost her life in the fire. Bush fires are raging on both sides of the Montreal River near Elk Lake. Four settlers' houses and three shacks have been des- troyed. In tne Montreal graft inquiry a witness testified to having paid ex- Chief iienoit cf the Fire Brigade $S00 or $S00 from men taken on the forct. Toronto building permits from anuary 1 to June 30 totalled in value $d,«-29,3T5, or §3,816,130 more than in the corresponding period of 1903. I. McLaren of Fort William fell five hundred feet down the side of Mount McKay, and was saved from serious injury by plunging into a tree-top Injunctions have be-jn served oa the Mayor and City Clerk of Ham- ilton to prevent them from making a contract with the Hydro-electric Power Commission. A second plant for the electric smelting of ores is being erected in Sweden, and the matter is of great interest to Canada, where a similar enterprise may soon be started. GREAT BRITAIN. Dominion Day was celebrated in London with great pomp. Many eminent Canadians were present and made speeches. UNITED STATES. The United States Senate has fin- ished its discussion of tariff schedules. A Te.\as woman cleared $60,000 last year on loo acres of Bermuda onions. The Republican party agreed to raise the ta.x on cigars, cigarettes and plug tobacco. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King and Dr. Grenfell received degrees from Harvard University. The Mississippi Legislature took action against the Standard Oil Company under the anti-trust law. The Tennessee night-riders who »-ere senttenced to death for the murder of Captain Rankin have been granted a new trial. The State of Tennessee went dry at midnight on Wednesday night. Bargain-hunters, looking for cheap liquor, were very numerous. Former President Eliot of Har- vard has been appointed President- Emeritus. He will get a salary and a present of half a million dollars. The National Bank in Ironwood. Mich., suspended on Friday, and the arrest of its main officials fol- lowed. The grossest mismanage- ment is alleged. GENERAL. .\ proposal was made that a Zep- pelin airship try to reach the north pole. Tuan Fang, a progressive states- man, has been made Viceroy of the Chinese province of Chihli. Chancellor Von Buelow of Ger- many has intimated that he will re- tire as soon as his finance reform measures have been disposed of. .\ member of the German Reich- st-ag delivered an address in which he warned Great Britain and Europe against the .\merican peril. + HORSE BIT OFF HER EAR. Woodstock Woniao Was Petting .\aiiual ia Ganlea. A despatch from Woodstock. Ont., savs : Mrs. Butler, wife of R. E. Butler, heat! of the R. E. But- ler Lumber Company, was petting her horse in the garden on Satur- day when the animal got her ear between its teeth ai>d bit the great- ei part of the ii>emlK>r off The ear was touixl aflerwards on the ground and an eideavor wil". be made to graft it ou ag.«iu. THE WORLD'S MARKETS KEFOBTS FROM THE LEADING TRACE CEMBES. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese a«* Other Dairy Produce at Uoiae aad Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, July 6. â€" Flour â€" Ontario wheat 9C per cent, patents, #5.41/ to DoMQ to-day in buyers' sacks out- side for export, and at #3.60 to $5.- '* on track, 'Toronto. Manitoba fiour, first patents, #6.20 to #ti.40 (.a track, Toronto ; second patents, #6.75 to #6.90, and str-jng bakers', $5.50 to #5.70 oa track, 'Toronto. Manitoba Wheatâ€" No. I North- era, .Sl.37%, Georgian Eiy porta; No. 2 at #I.35i^, and No. 3 at «I.33J^. Ontario Wheatâ€" No. 2 $1.34 to fI.3o outside. Barleyâ€" Feed barley 60 to 62c out- side. Oatsâ€" No. 2 Ontario white 5S to 58%c on track, Toronto, and 54,"/i to !5c outside. No. 2 Western Canada oats, 57c, and No. 3 oCc, Bay ports. Peas â€" Prices purely nominal. Rye â€" No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat â€" No. 2. 70c outside. Corn â€" No. 2 .\merican yellow. Sic <>c track, Toronto. Canadian yel- low, 73 to T6c. Toronto freights. Branâ€" #^0.30 to $21 for Ontario bran outside in bulk. Manitoba, $23 to #23.50 in sacks. Toronto freights. ; shorts, $24.50 to $23. To- ronto freights. COl*NTRY PRODUCE. -â- Ipples â€" $t to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans- Prime. $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked. $2.40 to $2.43 per bushel. Maple Syrup.â€" 95c to $1 a gallon. Hayâ€" No. I timothy at Sll.30 to $13.00 a ton on track here, and low- er grades. $S to $9. Straw â€" $7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes â€" Car lots of oid, 6o to 75c per bag, on track. Poultry â€" Chickens, yearlings, dressed. 12 to 13c per lb. ; fowl, 10 to lie; turkeys, 16 to ISc per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints. 19 to 20c ; tubs and large rolls. H to ISc ; in- ferior. 15 to 16c ; creamery, 23 to 24c, and separator. 20 to 21c per lb. Eggs â€" Case lots, 20c per dozen. Cheese â€" Large cheese, old, 14 to U%c per lb., and twins, 14% to 14j<c. New quoted at 12Jic for large, and at 12j.i for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon â€" Long clear, 13^^ to IS'-iJc per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $23 to $23.30; short cut, $25 to $23 50. Hams â€" Light to medium, 13,' j to ICc; do., heavy, 14 to 14' ,c; rolls, 12;i to 13c; shoulders, ll'^ to 12c: backs, IS to ISJic; breakfast bacon, ICJi to 17c. Lardâ€" Tierces, UHc ; tubs, UJic . pails, 14'ic. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal. July 6.â€" Oats, No. 2 Canadian Western. 60c ; extra No. 1 feed, 595ic; No. 1 feed. 39'. ^c; No 3 Canadian Western. 59c ; barley, No. 2, 72^.] to 74c; Manitoba feed barley, 67;i to 6Sc : buckwheat. ^9% to 70c. Flour â€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30; Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, sec- onds, $3. SO : Manitoba strong bak- ers', $3.60; Winter wheat patents, $6.75; straight rollers, $6.50 to $6.- 60; straight rollers, in bags. $3.15 to $3.20 ; extras, in bags. $2.63 to $2. SO. Feedâ€" Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; Manitoba shorts, $24 to $25; pure grain mouille, $33 to $35: mixed mouille, $2S to $30. Cheese â€" Westerns, llfi to ll%c. and east- erns at n?i to lt>jC. Butterâ€" Fin- est creamery 22'ic. Eggs â€" la), to 19c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, July 6.â€" Wheatâ€" Spring wheat steady ; No. 1 Northern. Northern, carloads store, $1.32j'4 ; Winter nominal. Corn â€" Easier: No. 3 yellow, 77'3C; No. 4 yellow. Te/'jC; Ko. 3 yellow, ""Jjc; No. 4 yellow 76Jic; No. 3 corn. 761'^ to 77V4c; No. 4 corn, 73,'.iC; No. 3 white. 80c. Oatsâ€" Easier ; No. 2 white, 57c ; No. 3 white, 56c ; No. 4 white, 55c. BarJey â€" Feed to malting. 70 to 73c. Chicago, July 6.â€" No. 2 red wheat, $1.40; No. 3 red, $1.30 to $1.35; No. 2 hard. $1.33 to $1.38; No. 3 hard, 1 20 to $1.23; No. 1 Northern, $1.29 to $1.32. Corn- No. 2, 72 to 72',;e; No. 3 yellow, 73' ac; No. 3, 71 'j to 72? jc; No. 3 yellow, 73 to 73?ic; No. 4. 70 to 70;,c. Oatsâ€" No. 3. 47e : No. 3 white, 4S to 51c : No. 4 white, 4S to 50c ; standard, 52c. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal. July 6.â€" There was on- ly one load of really prime stall- fed cattle on the market, and these were held at &}ic per pound but without sales. The other cattle sold at 3/4 to b].,v per lb. .\ large bull, weighing over l.SOO lbs. was sold for $71 ; milch cows sold at $23 to $50 each ; calve* sold at $2.50 to $9 each : sheep sold at 3,' 3 to 4c per lb : lambs sold at $3.50 to $5.50 each ; good lots of fat hogs sold at $}» to S'«c per lb. IA DIPLOMAT ASSASSINATED The Famous Statesman, Curzon Wyllie, Shot Dead in London. A despatch from London, Eng- land, says : A sUrtling double as- iasiiination of a political character occurrel late on Thursday night towards the conclusion of a public gathering at the Imperial Institute. A.a Indian student, whose name is not known, shot and killed Lieut. - Coiunel Sir Vviiliam HuU Curzon VVyiiie and Dr. Calas La Loaca of Shanghai. W'yliie, who had held important Indian appointments, fell dead on the spot. He showed signs of life after he fell and was hurried to St George's Hospital, but on arrival there it was found that he was dea I. Those near the assassin seized and held him until the arrival of the police. He had two revolvers, a dagger and a knife. All were new, and it is believed that the crime was premed'ated. The gathering at the Imperial Institute, a building devoted to Indian anj other cclonial functions, was an "at home" to Indian stud- ents. D. W. Thorbum, one of the guests, thus graphically describes the scene attending the murdors : â€" "It wa.^ n^',^r 11 o'clock, and the musical prugra nm« was just con- cluding when I saw a middle-aged English gentleman conversing with a young Indian student. "Suddenly the native drew a re- volver and fired four sh.:ta with the greatest rapidity at the head of the Englishman. "Then came another shot as th« Englishman fell, and a sixth, which struck an elderly Indian gentle- man standing a few yards off, aad who fell shot in the side. "I rushed at the assassin aad others sprang forward at the sam« time. We seized him, bat he strug- gled, and, wrestling one hand free, placed the revolver to his fureh««4 and pulled the trigger. It clicked harmies.sly, as he had fired all his shots. Meantime there was a ter- rible scene and commoticn, aad the folding doors were finally closed to prevent the people from looking on the fearful sigh«. "At this moment someone ex- claimed. "Why, it is CurxoB Wyllie.' Then a stately woman in evening dress came upstairs from the cloak room to discover whab had happened. Looking at the re- cumbent figure, and not immediate- ly recognizing it, she said, 'Poor fellow.' She then knelt down and as she looked closely at the dis- figured fat-e, a look of horror leM- ed into her eyes and she exclaimed : "It ia my husband?' It was Lady Wyllie, who had left her husband only a few minutes previously. 'A group of men near by were holding the a.ssassin, whose other victim was groaning on the ground a few yards away." MESSIIA AOAIS SBAKEN Ruins of Former Buildings Demolished With Loss of Life. A despatch from Messina, Sicily, says : Six months after the de- vastating earthquake of Dec. 2S, which laid waste over a score of cities and towns in Calebria and Sicily and killed 200,000 people, Messina and Reggio *ere on Thurs- day morning again visited by an earthquake which, had they been rebuilt, would have laid them a second time in ruins. Earthquake shocks both here and in Reggio at 7.20 o'clock on Thursday morning created a panic among the people of these two cities. W'ails of houses that were not completely destroyed in the visitation of last December were shaken down and one woman was killed. The earth shocks have been be- coming more intense recently and on Wednesday night they were suffi- ciently severe to cause alarm. The shccks of Thursday morning were accompanied by deep roaring soun-ds. The first one was followed by an explosion like the roar of cannon, and lasted between eieht and ten seconds, which seemed an eternity to the terrified popula- tion. It ia said that this quaka was of greater se.erity than the fatal one of the night of December 2S. The wooden houses aad huts erected for the accommodation o£ the people seemed to be thrown from one side to another. Cries filled the air as the people Ced in terror. On the night of Dec. 2S, the firs* shock was followed by a circular tU'-vement of the ground. Five minjtes later thete came another quake accompanied by arot'ner roaring sound. This complefed the destruction. The remains if the devastated houses collapsed and the entire district was covered by a dense cloud of dust. TEN KILLED. Rome. July 1 â€"Private te!eq:raro9 from Messsina give tha number of persons as ten. including a lieu- tenant, two soldiers and two car- bineers. CONDICTOR KILLED. Fatality on C. P. R. Fifty MUes West of North Bay. A despatch from North Bay savs : Ashland Ardell, C. P. R. coaductor. was killed near Markstay, fifty-five miles west cf North Bay. en Wed- nesday night, while walking along the track, .\rdeirs train was stalled by a freight wreck which had block- ed the line, and he had walked out tc a farm house one mile away, where a party was in progress. Re- turning to his train he must have been struck by the westbound Win- nipeg express, his mangled body be- ing picked up on Thursday morn- ing by a section man. .Ardell leaves a widow and one chikl in North Bay. CROPS LOOKING WELL. The; are ia Exeelleat Condition is Manitoba. A despatch from Ottawa says: i The following telegram was receir- ' ed on Sunday from Dr. Saunders, • the director of experimental farms, by the Department of Agriculture: â-  "Crops throughout Manitoba look- !ing very well. Will average a short- er growth than crops in Saskatche- I wan a:'d Alberta, due probably to i later t "ving. Now growing rapid- f ly. Wt-athcr very favorable. At Brandon Experimental Farm crops are in excellent condition aad well advanced.'' Senator Aldrich declares in favor of corporation tax. 6AS0LISE TAM EXPLODED Terrible Dominion Day Tragedy Reported From Nova Scotia. A despatch from Yarmouth. N. S., says: Two boys killed, four seriously injured and a station building destroyed on the Halifax and Southwestern Railway at Shag- harbor, Shelburne County, result ed on Thursday from boys celebrat ing the glorious first and exploding a barrel of gasoline. .\bout 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon it was discovere«l that the combined passenger station and freight shed was on fire and burning fiercely. A locomotive was run up abreast of the scene and the train's fire ap- paratus was at once put to work, with the result that the fire was overcome as the building was about half destroyed. The trainmen at once commc:-,.f d an investigation. From the incoherent utterances of the womau station agent it ap- peared that a number of boys, per- haps seven or eight ail told, had been playing about the station cele- brating Dominion Day. One of them had a candle and just before the mishap he went into the station and asked the agent for a match, which she gave him. He returned to his companions and an instant later a deafening explosion was heard. A barrel of gasoline had been stacuing on the station plat- form. This explosive liquid was ig- uiced. »« One of the boys was found dying beyond the railroad track. The top of his head was literally blown oft and his brains were scattered about in a terrible manner. An- other was found lying on the plat- form ncarthe spot where the barrel stood. He had evidently been rendered unconscious and bad been burned to death in a very short time. Four ethers were foaad ia various positions, all^^-oamoBK â- Iha