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THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, in Trade Centres. etc DREADSTUFFS. Toron«o, Sept. 2.â€" Wheatâ€" The market for Ontario grades iu weaker with ollcriiigs more liberal. Sales ot No. 2 white and rod winter are re- ported ut 08 to O'Jc west-. Manitoba wheats quiet; No. 1 hard 85Jc, grinding in transmit, and at 71) Jc Goderich; No. 1 Northern, 84ic g.i.t., and 781c Goderich, and No. '2 Northern, 8ajc g.i.t., and 76Jc Goderich. Oatsâ€" The marl<et is firm, owing to small olTerings. No. 2 q,uoted ut 32c west, for .September shipment. Cornâ€" The market is dull, with lit- tle or nothing doing. Prices are purely nominal. Uyo â€" The market is quiet, with No. 2 quoted ut 48 to 49c outside. Uarleyâ€" UlTerings small. New feed, dl.scolorcd, quoted at 3(> to 38c out- Bide, and No. 2 at 41 to 42c. Peas â€" Tlie market is lirm, with old No. 2 quoted at 77c west, and new at 75c woft. Flour â€" Ninety per cent, patents, mado of new wheat, quoted at 52.70 to. S2.72 middle fii'ight, ia buyers' sucks, for export. Straight rollers for domestic trade quoted at $3.15 to S3. 25 in bbls. Manitoba flour .steady. Hungarian patents, 53.85 to $4.10 delivered on track, Toronto, bugs included, and strong bakers', 83.60 to $3.80. Oatmeal â€" Car lots in bbls, $5 on track, and in sacks $4.90. Broken lot.s, 20 to 25c extra. Millfeedâ€" Bran ,' Is dull at $13.50 west, and shoi'ts at $19 west. Bran is 815 to 816 here, and sihorts $22 here Manitoba bran, $16.50 in Sacks-, and shorts $22 to $23 sacks, Toronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. ir..psâ€" Trade quiet, with prices unchanged at 13c, yearlings, 7c. Honeyâ€" The market is steady, with strained jobbing hei^ at 8 to SJc per lb., and combs at SI. 60 to $1.75. Beans- The market is firm, with prime qualities quoted here at $1.25 to $1.35, and hand-picked at $1.35 to $1.40. Hay, baledâ€" The market is quiet, with olTcrings moderate. New hay quoted at $8.50 to 59 a ton. .Straw- The market is quiet. Car lot.s, on tiack, <iuoted at $5.50. Poultryâ€" The mai'ket is steady. We quote :â€" Chickens, 60 to 75c; hons, 50 to ."ifK-; live chickens, 50 to 60c. Ducks, 00 to 75c per pair. Turkeys 10 to 12c per H>. I'otatoesâ€" Tl-e market is steady, wiUi fair demand. They sell' at Siic per bush, in quantities, and at 40 to 4 5c in small lota. 68 to 68ic. Cornâ€" <Julet; No. 2 yel- low. 671c; No. 3 do. 06lc; No. 2 corn, 66Jc; No. 3 do, 66c Oats- Dull; No. 2 white, 36c; No. 2 mixed, 294c; No. 3 do, 29c. Barleyâ€" West- ern, C(i to 67q. Ryeâ€" No. 1, 55Jc. Canal freights â€" Firm. Minneapolis. Sept. 2. â€" ^Whoutr-Sept 65Jc; Dec, 04 Jc; on truck No. 1 hard, 781c; No. 1 Northern, 76ic ; No. 2 Northern, 73Jc. Flour â€" Lower first patents, $3.85 to $3.05; second do., $3.70 to $3.80; first clears, $3 to $3.10; second do., $2.20. Branâ€" In bulk, $11.50. Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 2. â€" CIos(iâ€" Wheat â€" Lower; No. 1 Northern, 75 to 76c; No. 2 Northern, 74 to 75c ; December, 671c. Rye â€" Lower; No. 1, 524c. Barley â€" Lower; No. 2, 7Sc; sample, 40 to 60. Corn â€" Soplembor. 574c. Duluth, Sept. 2.â€" Clo^^eâ€"Wheatâ€" Cash, No. 1 hard, 72ic; No. 1 Northern, 70Jc; No. 2, Northern, 694c; No. 3 spring, 651c; September, 67|c; December, 65{c. Oatsâ€" Sep- tember, 311c; December, 29Jc. Toledo, Sept. 2 â€"Wheatâ€" Fairly active; oa.sier; cash, 71 Jc; Septem- ber, 71J; Utcombcr, 711; May, 724c. Corn â€" Dull ; weat; cash, 61c; S-ep- teinber, 59c; December, 41 Jc. Oats â€" Dull; steady; cash, 28c; Septem- ber, 33ic; December. 31c. Clover- seed â€" Active; easier; October, $5.55; January, 85.35. "FANCY APPLES," A Bcmarkable Consignment So Designated. An Ottawa despatcli says: The Do- minion fruit Inspector at Winnipeg ba.4 sent to the department a box of apples taken from the middle of a consignment of apples shipped to Winnipeg by a lirm in Gait, Ont. The apples were described by the shipper as "fancy Canadian ap- ples." The specimens sent to the department are very poor quality, indeed. Twenty of them weigh only 28 ounces. Twenty hen's eggs of good average size would weigh for- ty ounces. It is considered too bad that Ontario fruit is being shipped to the e-xcellent markets of Manito- ba and the Northwest Territories in this dishonest manner. It i."* killing the trade out, and playing directly into the hands of the fruit growers and shippers from California. The inspector has been instructed to pro- secute the shipper in this instance and every similar instance which comes under his notice. HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are unchanged, with few ofVcring. Cured moats are in good demand at steady prices. We quote :â€" Bacon, long clear, lie, in ton and cate lots. Pork, mess, $21.50; do short cut, $23.50. Smoked meats â€" Hams. 13 to 14o ; broiakfa.st bacon, 15c; rolls, 12 to 124c; backs, 15 to 154c; shoulders, 114c. Lardâ€" The market is steady. We quote :â€" 1'ierce.i, lie; tubs, lljc ; pails, ll)c; compound, 8) to 10c. THi; DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" The market is steady, with good demand for choice (|UnIities. Hulls scarce. Wo quote : â€" Choice l-ri) roll.s, 16c; selected dairy tubs, 15c; store-packed, uniform color, 134 to 14c; low grades, 13 to 121c; cioumery prints, lOJ to 20c, solids, 184 to 19c. Kggsâ€" Heceipts fair. Strictly fre.fh, 15 4 to 16c; ordinary store collected, C8 lulled, 14 to 144c; low grades and checks, 10 to lie. Cheese- Market quiet at unchnnKed prices. Wo quote : â€" Finest, lOJ to 10 ic; seconds, 04 to 10c. IVUHINRS.S AT MONTREAL. Montreal, .Sept. 2. â€" The local mar- ket-s continue quiet and unchanged. Grain â€" Manitoba wheat. No. 1 Northern, 74c; No. 2, 72c for Au- gust delivery; oats. No. 2 Manitoba white, '144 to ir.c; No. 2 Ontorios, 44 J to 4r)c; No. 3 Ontarlos and Manitoba feud oatn, 43ic in store ; new No. 2, 37c afloat. Flour' â€" Mani- toba best patents, $;i.90 to $4.10 ; strong bakers', $3.05 to $3.5)0 ; On- tario Hlraight rollers, $3.55 to $3.65, in bags, $1.70 (o $1,774 ; Ontario patents, $3.90 to $1.10 ; rolled oats, millcis' prices to Job- bers, $2.40 to $2.45 in bags, and $5 to 85.10 per bbl. Feedâ€" Mani- toba bran at $16 and shorts $23. baRs included; Ontario bran, in bulk, $15.50 to $16; shorts, in bulk, $2:3 in lots. Provisions â€" Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $25 ; com- •.)i)und reflncd lard, 9 lo 9Jc; pure Canadian lard, lie; finest lard, 12 to 131c; hums. 124 to 14r; Iwcon, 11 to l,")c; (Iro-Bort hogs, 57.,'iO ; fresli killed abattoir, $9.25 to $!>.,'>0 pnr 100 lbs. Cheeseâ€" Ontario, 9Jc, niid Quebec, 0|c; Townships. 910. Iluttef â€" ('hoico creamery, current re- ceipts, 19 to lOJc; held stock, 18 to l«lo; dairy, 1« to lOJc. KgRSâ€" Straight rercipts, 144c to 15c; No. 2, 13 to 134c. UNITKD .STATES MARKKTS. Itunaln, .Sept. 2â€" Flour â€" Steady. Wheatâ€" Hull and weak; No. 1 North- ern, old, in store, c.l.f., 7H4c; wln- t.-r duU; No. 2 red, 7340; No. 8 do. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Sept. 2.â€" At the Western cattle market to-day the receipts were 86 carloads, of ilvo stock, in- cluding 1,465 cattle, 1,400 sheep and lambs, 1,220 hogs, 40 calves, and a dozen milch cows. We had no quotable change in export cattle here, and trade was fair. Good to choice cattle sold at from $5.25 to $5.75 per cwt., with a few sales of selections at $6. Light export cat- tle is worth from $4.50 lo $5 per i cwt. For good to choice butcher | ^"^Betables cattle the quotations are from $4.- | 50 to $5 per cwt., with medium to i common unsettled in price, and slow strange in selling. Some stuff left over. Good stockers (500 to 700 lbs), are worth from $3.25 to $3.74 per cwt. There is a fair demand for the right kind. Feeders are worth from $4.25 to $4.60 per cwt. There is not much en<iuiry for milch cows just now. They sell at from $25 to $42 each. Sheep arc about steady, but lambs are a little weaker to-day. No change in calves; a few good calves are wanted. Export ewes are worth irom $3.40 to $3.60 per cwt. Lambs at from $3.75 to $4.40 per cwt. Culled sheep sell at from $2 to $3 each. Ducks are worth from $2.50 to $2.75 per cwt. Calves are quoted at from $2 to $10 each, or from 3 to 5c per lb. AH the .small stuti here to-day sold readily. The top price for choice hogs is $7.25 per cwt., and light and tat hogs are quoted at $7 per cwt. Hogs to fetch the top price must be of prime quality, and scale not below 160 nor above 200 lbs. l-'ollowing is the range of quota- tions: STRANGE TALE FROM WEST Boukhobors Have Been Attacked by a Queer Mania. A Winnipeg despatch says: Private advices received hero on I'riday . by an official to the effect that the Do- minion Government will interfere in the case of the Doukhobors, who are suJTering from a religious mania. The foreigners are making no provision for the winter. Five thousand are now affected and the mania is spreading. They have discarded the use of horses and cattle, Claiming they are gods, ' and have let tliem run wild on the prairie. They will not eat the product of any animal, and live on bread, water, and a few A few weeks ago they decided not to weai- leather shoes or woolen clothing, following their beliefs. It is feared that thou.sands will .suffer if the mania does not abate or the Government does not foon act in some way. The Doukhobors are totally unprepared for a severe winter. Cattle. Shipper s. per cwt $5.25 $5.75 Do., lihht 4.25 5.00 Butcher , choice 4.50 5.00 Butcher ordinary to good 3.25 4.00 .Stockei s, per cwt 8.25 .Sheep and Liambs. 3.75 Choice ewes, per cwt... 3.40 3.60 Lambs, •per cwt 3.75 4.40 Ducks, per cwt 2.50 2.75 Culls. each 2.00 Milkers and Calves. 3.00 Cows, each 25.00 42.00 Calves, each 2.00 Hogs. 10.00 Choice hogs, per cwt... 7.00 7.25 Light hogs, per cwt ... 6.75 7.00 Heavy hogs, per cwt ... 6.75 7.00 Sows, per cwt 3.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt 0.00 2.00 THE GROWTH OF SIDNEY. steel Rail Mill Will Be in Opera- tion in a Few Months. An Ottawa despatch says: Mr. John McDougald, Conunissioner of Customs, returned on Friday from a visit to Sydney and other p«rts in the Maritime Provinces. ".Sydney," said the Commissioner, "is beginning to assume the appear- ance of a city. A srtoel rail mill will be erected before many months have expired, and other industries will! follow. Sydney will bo a sec- ond Pittsburg, but on a smaller scale. Sydney Minas is also going ahead. The Nova Scotia Steel Com- pany is laying out a new iron smelting plant, and the foundations for the furnaces and stoves are al- ready in. This plant will have a capacity of 250 tons of pig a day, and there is room alongside for an- other plant of the sumo capacity. The company will also install at an early date a new stool furnace." FOR BENEFIT OF LABOR. English Me::hanics Will Visit United States. the A l.,ondon despatch says : â€" Alfred Moseley, the diamond mei chant, who recently visited the United Slates to arrange for sending an industrial and educational com- mission to America, in\ited several British trades unionists and repre- sentatives of staple industries in the United Kingdom on Wednesday to visit the United Stales us his guests, for the purpose of examining into the industrial situation and progress with reference to their ef- fect on the position and prospects of the workingmen. After attending the opening of the building of the New York Chamber of Commerce each of the visitors will proceed to the section affording facilities for their respective lines of investiga- tion, in which they will be assisted by civic federationists and labor leaders. Mr. Moseley says the com- miiKrion will bo strictly non-political. 8,000 MORE CARS. Figtirea Which Show Size o! Manitoba's Crop. A despatch from Toronto says :â€" Crops ai'c all the word about the hotels these days, and people who never took an interest in such com- mon subjects before are to be heard expatiating upon the good results that will follow the safe in-gathering of the Northwest crops. One man said, looking at the financial side, that last year's crop (Uled up the old holes, but this year's crop would result in new investments and a period of boom and building in th(j West such as had ne\er before been witnessed. A practical man. looking at the problem of moving the crop, pointed out that if the crop were only 8,000,000 bushels larger than last year, this would require 8,000 more cars ot the largest size. i.e.. 1,000-busheI cars. If thee \\ere made up in 3p-car trains, it would mean 2G6 more trams this year than last to carry out the crop. As a matter of fact, the cars will average nearer 600 bushels than 1,000. so that the number of trains required to haul O'Jt the crop in excess of last year will be near 500. Suppos- ing that the wheat crop of the whole Canadian West amounts to 7.5.000.- 000 bushels. and that it will be loaded in 000-bushel cars, mado up into trains of 30 cars, and a train started from Winnipeg every hour, it would take 171 days, or nearly six months to get it shipped out. In the meantime, the crops in On- tario are not to be despised. From the spots that were supposed to be drowned out by excessive rains come reports of 40 bushels of wh(>at to the acre. Hay, especially in the late districts, is a magnificent crop, while oats will surpass any crop gathered in the Ia.st twenty years. WILL SUPPLY FARM HELP. Government Establish a Labor Bureau at Toronto. A despatch from Toronto says: The Ontario Bureau of Coloniza- tion imiuigration branch which has hitherto kept a couple of men at the old Parliament buildings, is to be moved to an oflTice in the arcade of the Union Sttition. The office will really be an employment agency for farm laborers from England, operat- ing under the ' direction of the bur- eau. The farm pupil system will also bo encouraged. The bureau will also place residents of Canadian cities, wlio are capable of doing farm work, either as laborers in old Ontario or as s-ottlers in New On- tario. INVASION NOT A MENACE. Mr. Fisher Thinks Americans Will Build Mills. A Montreal despatch says : â€" Mr. Sydney Fisher, Minister ot Agricul- ture, was in the city on Wedjiesday on his return from a tour in the Lake St. John district. Speaking in reply to the statements recently made in some quarters that the largo influx of American settlers into the Northwest foreshadowed Ameri- can control and reciprocal arrange- ments so that American . millers might grind the wheat raised by American farmers in Canada. Mr. Fisher said it was more likely that American millers would come into Canada and erect mills to grind it. It would make no great dilTercnco where the capital came from, whether it was American or not, so that it came in and developed the rcst>urce8 of the Canadian Dominion. "One thing may bo stated," added Mr. Fisher, "and it has not been publishc<l yet; â€" 70 per cent, of the Americon immigrants who have come into the Canadian Northwest from the United States have been natural- ized as British subjects. Of the re- maining- .30 per cent., in many cases there were disabilities which pre- vented them being naturalized, but thot showing Is. 1 think, highly sut- ii?factory." FOR CANADIAN PULP. Big English Paper Combine in Process of Operation. An Ottawa despatch says :â€" It is said that a paper combine is in pro- cess of formation. Ilie combine is alleged to embrace eleven ot the largest paper mills in England. To supply the output these mills require 2,000 acres ot pulp lands, which are located in Canada, not fur from Ot- tawa, and upon which the proposed combine hold an option. The capi- talization ot the company is placed at $25,000,000. MARRIED IN A BALLOON. Couple TTnited at a Haight of One Mile at a Va.iT. A Bingliamton, N. Y., despatch says: Thomas L. Dennett, of the Fletcher Manufacturing Company, of Providence. and Miss Edith Ring, who is an employe of the Manches- ter Mill, were married on a wager in a balloon at a height of one mile, before a large crowd of spectators, at a Tioga. Pa., fair. A prize had been oflei-ed the couple who would bo married in a balloon, and a friend ot Bennett's, knowing of his approaching wedding, in a joke wrote to him offering to wager $25 that he dare not accept the propos- ition. Dennett conferred with his fiance and she consented. A minis- ter was found who was willing to go up with them and the ceremony was performed in midair. The descent was safely made and the couple said the experience was a most delight- ful and novel one. NEWSJTEMS. Tele§:raphic Briefs From AU Over the Globe. CANADA. Quebec is to have a colony of Fin- landers. Operations of boring for oil near Belleville will bo resumed. Commander Spain will investigate recent wrecks in the St. Lawrence. * The erection of Montreal's new court house will bo commenced next s»pring. There is a scarcity of vacant liouses in .Sydney, Cape Breton. The city keeps growing. Petroleum h.as been found on the property of Mr. N. Telreau. a Hull notary, about nine miles from Gat- ineau. â- John -Sullivan, black.smith. of St. John. N. B.. left an estate valued at $4,000. Of this one thousand is to be spent in a marble tomb. Western Canada offers a splendid field for settlement of Italians, ac- cording to Signor Benedatto de Pa- oli, now at Ottawa, who will make a report to the "Italian authori- ties." Mr. .John Gillies is at the head of a party of cavitalists who • will buy the old smelter site in Kingston for $9,0OO, if they receive certain con- cefsions. The nature of the industry to be established is not known. J. W. Tyrrell of Hamilton. who has just returned from Klondike, says that Dawson City has been over-boomed, and that merchants are leaving it. The gold output this year will not bo more than halt of that of the previous year. ^ Major Howe. .Superintendent of the Northwest Mounted Police, Macleod district, is dead at Macleod, N.W. T. He joined the police in 1879, served in the Northwest Rebellion and in South Africa, being mada Superintendent ot Police on his ro* turn. GREAT BRITAIN. Lord Roberts and General French have been presented with the free- dom of Canterbury. Lord Wolseley. who was reported to have described the United States army as the best in the world, says the report was correct. The annual report of the Labor Department of the Board of Trade shows a decline in the wages bill ot the United Kingdom for the first time .since 1895. no less than 625.- 000 miners being affected during tli» first half of the present year. TORONTO GIRL DROWNED. Four Others Meet Death at Bat- tle Creek. A Battle Creek, Mich., despatch says: Five members of a boating party of si.x employes of the Battle Creek Sanitarium were drowned on Wednesday night in Lake Goguac. Their boat was run down by the steamer Welcome. Among the dead is Fannie Willis, nurse, whoso home is near Toronto. Ont. The party was returning to the Sanitarium Villa about ten o'clock, just as the little steamer Welcome Wius leaving licr dock, with an excursion party. In some unexplained way the Wel- come ran the rowboat down and crushed it. All the occupants were thrown into the water. UNITED STATES. Sept. 15th about 100,000 members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will demand an increase in wages of 20 per cent. Census officers say that illiteracy among adult males i.s less than halt as prevalent in tho large cities as it is in the rest of the United States. It is likely that Armour and Swift, who have cornered tho cold storage egg market, will be heavy losers through tho coolness of tho summer, as very few eggs have been spoiled by the heat, and prices are likely to "fall. Every dog and cat within tiic con- fines of the town ot Stroh. La- grange County, Indiana, has been killed by order of tlie health author- itie.s. who believe that tho canines and felines are responsible for en epidemic ot diphtheria which is rag- ing in the village. Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews' claim that celibacy promotes crime re- ceive.'* confirmation from statistics collected by tho Chicago librarian. Hugo S. Gro.sser, according to which 21,467 persons arrested in Chiciy this year were single and only 045 were married. TUNNEL QUITE FEASIBLE. Borings in Bed of St. Lawrence Indicate No Obstacles. A Montreal despatch says: The authorities of tho Quebec Southern Railway expect that the borings and sounding in connection with the pro- po.sed tunnel under the St. Lawrence will be completed this week. No serious physical obstructions have been found in the bed of the river, and in fact the soil and rock are ot the quality best suited for tunnel purposes. When the soundings have been finished tho plans will be pre- pared at once and forwarded to Ot- tawa for approval by the Oovern- mont. According to the charter ot the company their plans must be in the hands ot the Oovernmont within alx months of the time when tho Act ot Parliament was passed. THREATENED STRIKE. 100,000 Trainmen Demand In- crease of Wages. A Milwaukee despatch sa.vs : â€" By September 15th, ' the large railway systtms ot the country will be con- fronted with a domund by KJO.OOO memlM-rs of tho Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen for an increase in wages, which will mean an addition- al outlay of $1,000,000 a month for wages by railroads in the country, or the alternative ot a strike, which will eclipse all provioiLs strikes, in- cluding tho demonstiatli n ot tho American Kail way Union in 1894. Tho dotnands, which have, been for- mulated here, hut not yet presented, are for an increase ot 20 per cent, in wages. i Fourteen mines arc in active opcr- uticm through tho anthracite coal region, and they produce tor ship- ment about 2.500 tons each day. GENERAL. . American capitalists have offered to establish a trolley car lino in St. Peter.sburg. Large depo.-^its of iron ore of in- comparable richness have been found in Norway. B3xperiments in wireless telephon- ing were successfully conducted be- tween Sussnitz and Kolberg, PomeP- ania. a distance of 105 miles. Marguerite Duclerie, a brilliant star of the music hall stage ten years ago. has ju.st died in a Paris garret of starvation. A mammoth beef packing plant will he erected in Mexico, and a campaign against the United States beef trust will be entered upon. « HALIFAX GABHISON. 3th Battalion, England, Will Re- lieve Canadians. A despatch from Ottawa says : â€" .Semi-ollicial telegrams from Halifax to tho Militia Department confirnji the report chat tho Royal Canadian Regiment, which has been acting as a garrison thei-e lor tho past two years is to be relloveil by tho 5th lUiltalion, Royal Garrison Regiment from F.ngland. It is not known whether the Canadian regiment will be di.sbandcd or not. There is a proi>osilion on foot to increase the permanent force, and perha|» those officers and men now . at Halifax who de.sire to remain may bo dividcit among tho military schools at Lon- don. Toronto, St. John's, Que. and Frcdcricton^ S^ mm' ggggg^gggm ifiH« â- M m