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Grain, Cattle and Cheese . g Prices of These Products in the Leading Markets are Here Recorded roaditufft. Toronto. April 22.- Flour Ontario Hourt. 90 per rent, patenta. 1JJ90 to $3.95, Mont- real or Toronto freights. Manitoba*- Fiiwt patents, in juto bags. $5.30; socond patents. In jute bags, $4.80; strong bak- ers', in jute bags. $4.60. Manitoba WheatNo. 1 Northern. 9tc, on track. Bay ports; No. 2 at 951-4c; No. J at 9" IV. Bay porta. Ontario Wheat No. 2 whit* and red wheat, 94 to 96c, outeide, and sprouted, 73 to UBc. Outs Ontario oat, 33 to Me. outiide, and t 37o. on track, Toronto. Western CanadA.oats, 42o for No. 2, and 40n for No. 3. Bay ports; No. 3 C. W.. J6 to 3il-2o. at .opening of navigation. ^ Pens 90o to $1. oiiteide. Barley Porty-ight-lb. barley of good quality. Si to 53c, outside. Beed, 40 to IE! Corn Mo. 3 American oxirn, 62 to 621-2o. all-rail, and at 58c, at Bay portt, on opening of navigation. Rye -Prices are nominal. Buckwheat No. 2 at 52 to 53c. outside. Bran- Manitoba brau, $19, in bags, To- ronto freight. Shorts, $21. Toronto. Country Product. Butter Dairy print*, choice. 26 to 28o; do., tubs. 2 to 26t:; inferior. 21 to 22: creamery. 32 to JJo for rolla. and 30o for solidti. Eggs C'ase lots, 20c here, and at 16 to 17c outside. Cberav 14 l-2o for large, and 143-4c for twins. Beam -Uknd-pickd. $2.10 to $2.20 per bushel; primes, $2, in a jobbing way. Honey -Extracted, in tins. 12 l-2o to 13o per Ib. for No. 1. wholesale; combs, $2.50 to $3 per dozen for No. 1 and $2.40 or No. 2. Poultry Chickens, 18 to 20o per Ib.: fowl. 14 to 15o; turkeys, 20 to 21c. Live poultry, about 2u lower than the above. Potatoes Good Ontario atock, 60o per bag, on track, and DelawarB at 70o per bag. on track. Provisions. Bacon Long clear. 15 to 15 l-2c per Ib.. In case lots. Pork Short cut. $26 to $27; do., III.T-S. $21.50 to $22. Hams Medium to light. 181-2 to 183-4v; heavy, 161-2 to 17c; rolls, 16c; breakfast bacon, 191-2 to 20o; backs. 221-2c. Lard Tierces, 141-4c; tubs, 141-2c; pails. 14 Mo. Baled Hay and Straw. Baled Hay-No. 1 at $12 to $12.50. on track. Toronto; No. 2, $t0.50 to $11. Mixed hay .1 Quoted at $9.50 to $10. Baled Straw Good utraw at $8.50 to $9, on track, Toronto. Scuts. Merrhanta are quoting to farmeri, per hundredweight. a follows: Bed clover. No. 1. $26 to $26.50; do.. No. 2. $21; Alsike. No. 1. $28 to $31; do.. No. 2. $24.50 to $26.50: Timothy. No. 1, $7.60 to $8: do.. No. 2. $6 to $6.50; Alfalfa. No. 1, $1950 to 120.50, do.. No. 2. $17.50. Montreal Market*. Montreal. April 22. Oati Canadian Western. No. 2. ,- ; do.. No. 3. 401-2o: ex- tra No. 1 feed. 41 l-2c. Barley-Manitoba feed. 51 to 52c; malting. 70 to 75u. Buck- wheatNo. 2. 56 to 58c. Flour -Manitoba Hpring wheat pateutB, firsts, $540; do., econda. $4.90; strong bakers', $4.70; Win- ter patento, choice, $5.25; ntniiglit rollers, $4.85 to $4.90: do., in bage, $2.20 to $2.35. Rolled uutu Barri'lu. $4.20; bag of 90 Ibs., $1.971-2. Millfoed Bran. $20; shorts. $22; middling*, 125; mouillie, $30 to $35. Hay -No. 2 car lots, per ton, $12.50 to $13. Cheese Finest westerns, 13o: do., east- erns. 121-2 to 123-4c. Butter Choicest creamery. 32 to 33o; t-oond, 30 to 31c. Eggs I'TcHh. 21 to 22o. Potatoes Per bag. car lots, 50 to (5c. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg. April. 22.- Cash Wheat No. 1 Northern. 893-4c; No. 2 NortTOrn. 87o: No. 3 Northern. 84 l-4o; No. 4, 81o; "No. *. 764-2: No. 6. 711-2c; feed, 62o: No. 1 rejected seeds. 84c; No. 2 do., HIV; No. 3 do, 781-4c; No. 4 do.. 741-2c; No. S do.. 701-2o; No. 6 do., 661-2c: feed. tough, 61-2n; No. 1 red winter. 92c; No. 2 do., 891-4o; No. 3 do., 861-2c: No. 4 do.. 83 l-4c. Oats No. 2 C. W. 341-Sc; No. 3 C. W.. 321-4o; extra No. 1 feed. 331-4c; No. 1 feed. 32 l-4c; No. 2 feed 301-4. Barley No. 3, 49o; No. 4, 48o; re- jected. 43o; 'eed. 42n. Flax No. 1 N.-W.C.. $1.121-2: No. 2 C.W.. $1.10: No. 3 C.W., $1.03 1-2. United Statee Market*. Minneapolis. April 22. Wheat May, 86 l-8o; July. 883-8c; September, 883-4c. Cloning cash. No. 1 hard. 885-8c: No. 1 Northern, 865-8 to 881-8c; No. 2 Northern. 843-8 to 861-Sc. No. 3 yellow corn, 53 l-2o. No. 3 white oat. 31 1-2 to 32c. No. 2 rye, 56 to 58r. Bran, $16 to $17. Flour, in wood, f.o.b. Minneapolis, flrat patents, $4.- 30 to $4.65: second patents, $4.15 to $4.50; first clears, $3.10 to $3.40; second clears, $260 to $2.80. Duluth, April 22. Wheat No. 1 hard, B77-8c: No. 1 Northern. 867-8c; No. 2 Nor- thern. 837-8 to 847-8c; May, 87 3-8c bid; July. 891-4c; September. 89 l-2c bid; No. 1 Northern to arrive, 867-8c. Linseed, $1.- 283-4 to $1.287-8; to arrive. $1.283-8 to *!.- 287-8: May, $1.287-8: July, $1.311-4 bid: September, $1.32 3-4 bid : October. $1.32 1-8 oeked. Live Stock Markets. MontreaJ, April 12 -Prime beeves, 7 to near 71-4: medium, 51-4 to 63-4: common, 4 to 5. Milch rows, S35 to $70 each; calvee, 21-2 to 6; sheep, 5 to 5 1-2; lambs, 7 to 71-2; apring lumb. $5 to $6 each; hogs, about 12 1-2. Toronto. April 22. Cattle-Choice export. 650 to $6.75; choice butcher. $6.40 to $6.- 60; good medium. $6.00 to $6.50; common, ?5 to $5.25; cows, $5.25 to $5.75; bulls. $5.25 to $6.75; canners, $2 to $2.50; cutters. $3.25 to $3.75. Calvea Good veal, $5 to $7; choice-. $8.50 to $9: common, $3 to $3.25. Stookers and Feeders St<er. 700 to 1.000 pound*. $4.50 to $6.75: yearlings. $310 to $3.50; extra choice heavy feeders. 900 pounds. $5.85 to $6. Milk-Ts and Spring- ere From $50 to $72. Sheep and Lamb* higbt ewes, $6 to $7.25: heavy. $5 to $6: imbs. $8.25 to $10: bucks. $4.50 to $6. Uogn-89.55 to $9.60. fed and watered ; $9.20 to $9.25 f.o.b., and $9.85 off can. f _ d, _ __ Welland County License Commis- sioners cautioned sixty hobelkeepers to keep the law. MAY GRIDIRON PROVINCE Government Bill Empowers Municipalities to Con- struct and Operate Hydro Radial Lines A despatch from Toronto says : Just before the Legislature rose on Wednesday evening Hon. Adam. Beck introduced an Act for the public construction and operation of electric railways that provider the machinery by which municipali- ties throughout the province can secure for themselves either inde- pendently or by co-operation the transportation service so many of them have urgently needed. Under the new legislation they will be able to proceed in three ways. They can go to the Hydro-Electric Com- mission and have that body con- struct, operate and maintain a line ; they can have the commission construct it and operate and main- tain it themselves, or they can both construct and operate under due supervision and with the assistance . of the commission. The idea back of the whole bill is thut the municipalities must meet the whole burden. The prov- ince assumes no financial liability. It is not- the iuteotion to use the credit of the province, the method provided being similar to that by which the muryiapalities undertake the local distribution of power, meeting the cost by issuing deben- tures. The right-of-way of the Hydro-Electric 'transmission sys- tem will, of course, be used to ad- vantage, and this will be rented to the municipalities by the cominis ion. In moving the first reading of the bill Hon. -Mr. Beck referred tu the fact that the Government and commission had been waited upon and urged to adopt a plan of en- oouraging the construction of elec- tric railways along the right-of-way of the commission used for tho transmission of power. "Railway construction and oper- ation," he Raid, "has not been considered a money-making pro- position. Consequently we feel that the matter should receive care- ful consideration and the fullest investigation before such an enter- prise is gone into." He added that the construction of rural lines that had been considered impossible might be possible under the condi- tions made by the new legislation. The bilL provides, first, that the Hydro-Electric Power Commission, whenever required by the Lieuton- ant-Qovernor-in-C'oncil so to do, may enquire into, examine, invesr tigate and report upen the cost of constructing and operating electric railways in any locality where pow- er is supplied by the commission, with an estimate of the probable revenue, the practicability of the enterprise, and the economic value to the locality served by it. Two or more municipal corpora- tions may be authorized by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council to enter 1 into an agreement with the commission (1) for the construction, equipment and operation of an electric- rail way,, to be operated by power supplied by the commission; or (2) for its construction by the commission and for its operation by the corporation ; or (3) for its construction and operation by the corporation or corporations, and in either case for supply of electric power by the commission. The agreement with the commis- sion shall include the location of the OUR LETTER FROM TORIDTO INTERESTING SITS OF OOS8IP FROM THE QUEEN CITY. Str Henry Pellltt't Oltt to th* Qu.en'j Own Roglment Tho Clly's Food Bill for a Year Bullnm Wutor Again. The gift by Hir Henry Pellatt of a large plot of laud in a populous ettction of the city, to be used for drill purposes exclu- sively by the QUBH'B Own Regiment, oalla attention once more to this worthy Knight, who in in many ropeut the moat spectacular figure In Canadian finance. Hir Henry believes In doing things in a big way when his enthusiasm in aroused. The Queen's Own Regiment, Maid to h<. Canadae crank oorpn, luis ulwaya hud Sir Henry's enthusiasm. He haa served In it liinirinlf throughout almost liia en- tire life-time and iu all ranks from private to colonel. The jaunts he took the regiment on are matters of history, first sending the bugle band to England and afterwards arranging the transpor- tation of th* entire, regiment to tak part day, they were found to be insufficient, and before the tumiul could be pumped empty of water, to nay nothing of get- ting the sand cleaned oul, half the city was without a supply of water of any kind. Naturally, uiero was u great out- burst of indignation. The vrntorworke' officials threw up their hands and re- sumed pumping through tU tunuel, leav- ing the problem of getting the sand out of It to a more propitious occasion, if that ever arrives. The chief result of tlio Incident was to brlun a harvest to the private companies which supply spring water, as a good many citizens through long usage have acquired a distaste for the boiled and chlorinated, variety. Baseball on Again. Thn opening of the baseball neabon finds the fans not any too hopeful. For the sent gift of drill ground* is estimated in <-UH)I value at something like ?1 20.000. Sir Henrjr h some other enthusiasms. He has been a generous patron uf Trinity College and of Urare Hospital. His House on the Hill. But pprhape bin outstanding enthusiasm ': la the residence he in building for him- Bi'lf on the hill overlooking Toronto, at the head of Spadina and YValmer lloade. No description c-un convey an adeu.ua.te j idea of the sice and solidity of this man- 1 mini. It has been under construction for i two years. that the team Is not in shape. Perhaps an explanation of this lies iu -! fact that there haa not been competition among the uewspnuers In fulaome adula- tion of the heroes of the diamond. In- stead of each newspaper Mending a cor- respondent with the team on Its training trip this vrui . as in former years, only one correspondent, representing all the paperg. accompanied the team. On paper th* orirauiratkm Uue not Haem to be as strong an last year. It oontaiua a num- dlrectlon of the popular' Manager Joe Kelly may develop into a good fighting machine. line of railway, the character of the equipment and the service, and tho maximum tolls and fares to be chargeable thereon ; the proportion in which the cost of construction, equipment, maintenance and oper- ation shall be borne by each of the corporations interested ; the pro- portion of the revenue to be distri- buted to the corporation after de- ducting the charges for rental of right-of-way, power, etc. The entire undertaking will be municipally owned, and the prov- ince will not be liable for a dollar of expenditure. To meet the cost of the railways the municipalities shall have power to issue forty- year debentures, but these deben- tures will not be 'protected by a provincial guarantee. N The Act requires the Council of every municipality entering into a contract with the commission to an- nually raise and pay over to the commission such sums as may be required by it in the construction, equipment, maintenance and opera- tion of the railway, including the costs of the supply of electrical power to the extent fixed in the agreement, and provides that de- bentures may be issued, payable in not more than forty years, for that purpose. The Act makes it unnecessary to secure the assent of the electors to any by-law to raise such monies. ivIiK-li in themselves resemble a baronial cattle. When complete the residence will un- doubtedly be the most expensive and elaborate to be found in the Dominion of Canada, and will vie with those to be found at least anywhere on the Am- i erican continent. What the cost will ba no ono knows, but it will probably be no leas than $1,000,000. I The house has become one of the show places of the mty, and aighUseern are not considered to have completed their rounds until they visit what is sometimes earp- Ingly referred to as --Pellatt's Folly." De- 1 spite thtw and tiimilar blighting remarks, one cannot but feel an admiration for the conception and execution of the idea. [ wtu-i-u the Money Conies From. Sir Henry Pe.llatt's career on the Ben of Canadian nuance ha been mnrki<d by ups and downs, but chiefly UPH. The buoy- ancy of Canadian buRiness during the past few years haw carried him well forward. While he has not yet been regarded an ono of the ui'Wit wealthy men in the coun- ' try it Is known that he haa acquired a very Ian:" fortune, and that n, number of his ventures have been attended with re- markable HUocesa. This is a fact which is not fully appreciated by Canadians, who regard hin nrenent venture iu the ' castle building lino aa a piece of erratic extravagance. As an example of hie success, it may be , M< IN--! that in purchasing the site of Ills ' residence he mtuln a remarkable coup, i That was ome years ago, when land even as dose to the city as the site is \ WUH Helling, not at no much a foot, but I In block by the acre. Sir Henry purclmw- ed the entire block from Hpadinu Avenue went to BathurKt street and from the face 1 of the hill north to SI Clair Avenue, re- 1 tamine what amounte to two or three city . squares for tho site of his residence, but sub-dividing the rest and selling it under restrictions as a high clesti residential district. It iu tated that 1m was able to acquire the land at what figured out at about 13 a foot frontage and that what he sold netted him about MS a foot front- ago. It Is now selling much higher than that, lome of It perhaps as high aa 1100 a I foot, but in this inatanoe, at least, ST Henry was willing to let somebody !* get some of the profit. U la probable i that this single land transaction netted him enough to pay the entire cost of hi* mansion. And this la not the only real estate deal that Sir Henry has partici- pated In during the last tlvo years. A Hydro-Electric Opponent, At the time of bin abiorption by the Mackeniie-Munn interests, Hir Henry held a controlling iiiton-Mt In the stock of the Toronto Electric Light Co. He had always betm rary optimistic- about tb. ftitur* of- thin oomuany, and on every* reoewton of the stoek had bought large block* of it. Humor has it that in the in8ctkjii.*bjf/ihih uthe Company wan Hold I-) the Toronto . 8*reet Railway and allied Interest*, Sir Henry Pellatt secured a cool million iu each. He wan one of the original promoters of the Electric Devel- opment Company, and was exceedingly annoyed because the certainty of tre- mendous profits In th i venture was modi- fied by the competition of th* Ontario Government with its Hydro-Eleotrlo policy. It is frequently stated that Rlr Henry'c lack of tact had much to do with the an- tagonism which developed between Sir. James Whitney and t ho Electric capital- ' lets. Another financial traimlKition which 11- hn>trntei< fltr Henry's tactics is HHJ.I to have oouurred in connection with the stock of a salmon-packing industry in British Columbia, known on the stuck exchange as B. 0. Packers. At a period of dull times, shortly after ita organization, the stock of this company fell on evil days. Hir Henry did not know anything about salmon packing himself, but he engaged two experts at a price of $5,000 to visit British Columbia and go into the possi- bilities of the Industry. They reported that the Company was all right. Sir I Henry immediately hegan buying the stock, which wan selling around $30 or $40 a share, and before anyone realized what j had happened ho had a controlling inter- j eat in the company. The views of IUH experts proved well founded, and tho stock is now worth several times what Sir Henry paid for it. In this wan an- j other mint of money for the venturesome | capitalist. Sir Henry In on tho boards of a score ] or moru loading financial companies, and II.-IH more or Ices substantial interests in them all. Hln hobby IH horticulture. His green- hoiiws ure the equal Of any to bo found in Canada. Toronto's Food Bill. Rome poraon with a taste for fifirureg has bouti working out how much food Toronto consumes in a year. He him arrived at the v<-'iili that no lees than 450,000,000 pounds of food-stuffs are required annu- ally to keep the wolf from the door in Toronto. In this it i figured that no less than 14,267,811 duien of eggs are Included. While tho llgura may look large, when it ie divided up among the approximately half million citlions. it does not look out of ih. i way. It provides for about 900 pound* por person r yMir,' which Is at the rate ot about only 21-1 pound* a day. which does not seem exorbitant. It is figured that the value of a year's ipoly of food for Toronto In no leu than Sto.000,000. On the "Bolltd Water Waggon." Toronto has. juat been having another week on the "boilixl water waggon," and. M It turns out. all to no avail. Two year* ago, when tho intnke pipe broke, a large quantity of nand wa drawn Into tho tunnel under tho bay. The presence of thin sand wa< demonstrated by the occasional sediment in the water and by a sorious amount of damage being caused to machinery. It was sinpected. also, that It contained Impurities. Finally the Waterworks Department decided t.hM the tunnel would have to b cleaned, and to thin ond shut oft the supply coming trm-ngli It and nsked tho oltloens to get along, on the amount of water that could be pumped through two old pipes lying on the bottom of tho ewage-polluted bay. and which have been In disuse for a great many years. One of tlimii 1<I the historic plpa that on one occasion roes to tho tot) "' the bay, thereby canning tho greatest water famine In the city's history. Though thetto two pine* have a oauaaity of 35,000,000 gallons of water > IMMIGRATION FOR LAST YEAR 150,000 Cam<> From Britain and 139,000 From the States. A despatch from Ottawa says : "During the fiscal year ended March 31st, 1913, 402,432 immigrants ar- rived in Canada. This total is made up of 150,542 British, 139,009 from the United States, and 112,881 from all other countries co-mhined. Im- migration to Canada for the preced- ing fiscal year, tho twelve months ended March 31st, 1912, was: Bri- tish, 138,121 ; from the United States, 133,710 ; and from all other countries combined) 82,403 ; total 354,237. Percentages of increases are : British, 9 per cent. ; American., 4 per cent. ; other countries 37 per cent. ; total 14 per cent. To illus- trate the magnitude of the figures just quoted, it is necessary to only state that last years' immigration, to Canada is greater than the total population of New Brunswick, ac- cording to the census of 1911, by more than fifty thousand souls. CAl'T. SCOTT'S DIARY. It Enhances the Glory of Every Man in the Expedition. A despatch from London says : Lady Scott, the wife of Captain 11. Scott, who lost his life in tho Ant- arctic, has written a letter to the newspapers in which she- expresses her thanks for the sympathy ex- tended to her in her bereavement and thanks everybody for their gen- erosity in subscriptions to memorial funds. She adds that her husband's diary will be published in full as soon as practicable. "Every word in tho diary," Lady Scott says, "goes to enhance the glory of the expedition and the work of every officer and man concerned in it." Items of News by Wire Notes of Interest as to What Is Going; on All Over the World J HUGE FLEET SAILS. Sixty Grain Carriers Open Naviga- tion From Twin Ciii.-s. A despatch from Port Arthur says : * Un Saturday there passed through Thunder Bay eastward bound, from Port Arthur and her twin city of Fort William, sixty great lako freighters, laden with approximately 12,290,000 bushels of wheat, oats, flax and barley, being the vast fleet which has been lying in the Twin City harbors during the past winter, and which the open- ing of navigation has net free. HUSBAND HELD FOR Ml III) EH. Montreal Man Arrested Who Said Wife Was Killed in Struggle. A despatch from Montreal says : Morris Seifert, who originally claimed thai, his wifo was mortally shot in a struggle between them over a revolver she had pointed at him, has been found criminally re- sponsible for her death by a coro- ner's* jury and has been arrested charged with murder. Seifert now contends that ho was reading the paper at the time the fatal shot was j fired and that he sprang to his feet to see his wife fall to tho ground. ON THE MEND. She-^-And how is your bachelor friend 1 He When I saw him last he WAS mending very slowly. She Indeed ! I didn't know he'd been ill. He He hasn't been. H was darning his sock*. Canada. Navigation opened at the head of tho flakes eight days earlier than last year. Mr. R. W. Crowley was appoint- ed Chief Inspector of Toronto Pub- lic Schools. From Montreal to Vancouver in 72 hours is the objective of the C.P.R. Waterloo County Council will spend $30,000 on making model roads this season. Prairie fires are reported from Saskatchewan, several farmers hav- ing been burned out. St. Thomas Y.M.C.A. raised more than $67,000 in its campaign for $50,000 for a new building. West Elgin License Commission ers refused licenses to four hotels in St. Thomas and held over one more. Christian Bender, a retired far- mer, was fatally injured by a horse's playful kick at the Listowel Horse Show. David Mitchell, a M. C. R. con- ductor, was instantly killed by be- ing crushed under a falling car at Wellaud. The bounties on iron and steel are, it is understood, not to be re- moved, but there will likely be some revision of duties. Alex. Sinclair, prohably the old- est resident of Middlesex county, died in Ixuidon on Thursday, aged a hundred and two years. Miss Gladys Meredith of Brant- ford was awarded 81,500. damages against the chief of police and two other officers and Dr. Ashton for false arrest, imprisonment and as- sault. Gideon King was drowned while driving across a bridge owing to its having boen weakened by the rise of water caused by the dynamiting of a dam on the Napanee River .it Hichinbrookc. H. Boulder, an Englishman, dropped dead at E. D. Smith's factory, Winona, one. hour after Htarting on his first job in Canada. His widow and family arc in Eng- land. Nova Scotia's estimates show Revenue, $1,902,010, and expendi- ture, 81.890,788, including $.'$42,000 for education; interest, $424,744; public charities, $242,000; road", $230,000. Waterloo County Council' will buy a motor car for F. C. Hart, District Agricultural Inspector of Gait, to enable him to travel tho county giv- ing farmers instructions iu apraying and proper drainage. The militia department and the national bureau of brooding are co- operating whereby the military manoeuvre areas north of Medicine Hat and io British Columbia will be utilized for the breeding of horses. Chief Engineer Bowden, of the Department of Railways and Ca- nals, and Engineer Weller, who is in charge of the new Wetland Ca- nal construction, have returned from an educational trip to the Pa- nama Canal Zone. Great Britain. Great Britain's Budget this year totals 200,000,000. Sir Charles Pay Rose, Bart., M. P., died from the effects of an air- ship flight in London. Holyrood Castle, the famous Roy- al castle in Edinburgh, has been closed because of damage done by suffragettes. Militants decorated "Tho Monu- ment" in London with flags and campaign streamers. , West-end business houses in Lon- don have entered action for 2,000 sustained by window-smashing suf- fragettes. Geo. Lansbury, former Socialist M.P., who advised suffragettes to destroy property, has been called to court under the statute provid- ing for preventive justice. I nii.-il Htate*. Jorsey City has voted for govern- ment by commission. Buffalo may establish a hospital for treatment of drunkards. It is reported that Dr. F. F. Friedmann has sold his secret for- mula for $1,500,000. A mothers' pension bill providing for monthly payments to indigent mothers by the counties of Penn- sylvania has paused the legislature. Mayor Gay nor of New York has authorized the city to advertise in Canada for student nursesi owing to the scarcity of applicants in that city. Frank Mushck, fifteen, was shot and killed at Cleveland by Harry Bondom, 41, who says that the lad and his playmatea annoyed him while at work. Depression of trade, due to the recent floods in tho middle wst, is given by the McElwain Shoo Com- pany for closing its eleven factories in Manchester, N.H. (ieueral. Rebellion continues to spread throughout Mexico. Amazing charges were made in the Reichstag against the German armor pinto manufacturers. Four men were killed and a fifth is dying as the result of an army balloon explosion near Paris, on Thursday. The Grpek Parliament voted King Constantino a civil list of $400.000 and the Dowager Queen Olga $60,- 000. Karl Kopf, a fencing master prominent in sporting circles in Berlin, has been arrested at Frank- fort-on-the-Muin on the charge of having killed his first two wives, and of trying to ]>oison the third one for the insurance. Bl 0V SAILED 1H.UUU MILES. Strayed From Lovm, Rounded tho Horn and Landed in AuMtraliu. A despatch from I^evis, Que., says : A gas huoy placed to mark the wreck near here of thejTraveriw pier in 1911, was carried away by- ice, and has been picked up iu New South Wales, a distance of 10,000 miles. Apparently it travelled south until picked up by tho equatxjriaf currents and was borne to tho southernmost end of the continent, thenco around Capo Horn to the finding point. I I (.11 I FOR Ki:. OF WU1SKKY. Hun- ' Fort William .Stab Euch Other and Ono May Dip. A despatch from Fort William says : Gustav Swawerie and Steve Gorpy, two Finlanders, fought A desperate duel over possession of a keg of whiskey at Tolulu on> Wed- nesday at noon, from which both emerged covered with wounds. Swaworie'g condition is critical, as he was stabbed no less than seven times about the head, face and shoulders. Gorpy was also stabbed in half a dozen places, but none ol his wounds is considered serious. IHIR< HILL FOR GERMANY. Invites First Lord of Hi ni-li Admiralty to Visit Him. A despatch from Berlin pays : A newspaper here prints a statement that th* Kaiser lias. invited Winston Chun-hill, the First Lord of the Ad- miralty, who recently proposed that the nnt'ons should cease their naval constructions for u year, to be his personal guost at Kiel during the yachting week. APPEALS TO CHRISTIANS Chinese Republican Government Formally Asks Day of Prayer for Nation A despatch from Pekin says : An appeal made by the Chinese- Gov- ernment to all the Christian churches in China to set aside April 27 as a day for prayer that China may be guided to a wise solution of the critical problems besetting her, it regarded here as striking evidence of the extraordinary changes which have taken place in tho nation since tho revolution. The appeal ws distributed broad- cast by telegraph on Thursday to all the governors and high officials within whose jurisdiction Christian communities ara to be found. It WIM also aent M the leaders of tho various missions. Prayer wa re- quested in t.he appeal for i.ho Na- tional Assembly, fur the new Gov- ernment, for the President <>f th Republic who is yet to b elected, for the constitution of tho Republic, for the recognition of the Republic Jby the powers, for the mainton.inofl of peace and for the election ol strong and virtuous men to office. Tho representatives of the provin- cial authorities are instructed t attend tho services. A similar ser? vice has been held already in Pekin' at tho request of the Government.! The appeal lias given extraordinary satisfaction to mission circles, where it is pointed out that this i the first time In the history of the world that such a request Ims come (rotn a uon-Chritian nation.