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M» I III i«r <ir^*V'Mlfc --^-^^â€" â- NMi I THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle etc, In Trade Centres. Toronto, Marcfi H.â€" Wheatâ€" The market is quiet, with prices steady. No. 2 white and red bold at 70 to 70Jc middle freights. No. 2 spring nuuiiiiul ul 7Uc on Midland, and No. 2 goose at 07c on Midland. Manitoba wlieut steady; No. 1 bard, 8ric, all rail, grinding in tian.sit; No. 1 Northern, .SGc all rail, grinding in transit; No. 1 hard, HVJc North lluy ; No. 1 Northern, 85ic North lluy. Oats â€" Trade is quiet, with No. 2 white quoted ut 31c middle freights, and No. 1 white at 32Jc ea.st. Harlcyâ€" Trade is quiet, with No. 3 extra quoted «t '.VO^c middle freight, and No. 3 at 4.34 to 4'lc middle freight. Corn â€" No. 3 American yellow quot- ed at .">l!i to 53c on track Toronto. Canadian yellow, 4.5Jc west. I'cas â€" The market is dull, with No. 2 olTering at 71c high freights, Huckwhcatâ€" Sales of No. 2 at <3c cast. Klonr â€" Ninety per cent, patents iMU-hangod at $2.(57 middle freight, in Imyer.'i' sacks for export. Straight rollers of special brands for domes- tic trade quoted at S3. 25 to $3.40 in bhls. Manitoba (lour steady. No. 1 patent, $4.35 to $4.40. and sec- onds, $4.10. Strong bakers'. $3.90 to $4. bufjs included, Toronto. M ill feedâ€" liran $16 here, and sliorts $18. /Vt outside points bran is (pioted at SKi, and shorts at SI 7. 50. Manitoba bran in sacks, $iy, and shorts, $21 hero. COUNTRY PUODUCE. licans â€" Trade continues quiet. Mo- div:ni, 81.65 to $1.75 per bush, and hand-picked $1.90 to §2. llrietl applesâ€" Market continues very dull, with the price nominal at 3ic per 11). Evaporated, 6 to 6Jc. Honey â€" The market is quiet, with prices unchanged. Strained sells at 8 lo 8.ic per lb., and comb, at $1.25 to Si. 50. Hay. baledâ€" The market is quiet at unchanged prices. Choice timothy SIO on track, and mixed at $8 to $8.50. Straw â€" The market is quiet for car lots on track quoted at $5.50 to §(> a ton. Mai)le .syrupâ€" Five-gallon cans, $1 a gallon ; one-gallon cans, $1.10, ami half-gallon, (iOc. Onions â€" The market is dull at 40c per bush for Canadian. I'oultryâ€" Offerings a-o very small. We (juoto :â€" Fresh-killed dry picked turkeys, 15 to Kic, geese, '.) lo lie jier lb; ducl<H, '.)0c to Si. 2.5; chickens (young). 85c to $1.00; old helis, 60 to 70c per pair; frozen and held stock 2 to 3c per lb less than the above quotations. Potatoesâ€" Market steady. Cars on tracli, SI to $1.05; and snmll lots, $1.25 jier bag. creamery, 21 Jo; seconds, 18 ic ; Western rolls, 171 to 18c ; rolls, 10| to 17ic. UNITllU STATKS MAUKFTS. Minneapolis, Mar. 3.â€" Wheat, May, 761 to 78!c; July, 7(51c; on track. No. 1 hard, 7HJc; No. 1 Northern, 77J to 778c; No. 2 Northern, 76^ to 70|c. Dudalo, Mar. 3.â€" Flour, steady. Wheat^Winter, fair enquiry (or red; No. 1 white, 80c; No. 2 red, 80c ; .sjiring. light demand ; No. 1 hard, 78c. Cornâ€" Firm; No. 2 yellow, 52c; No. 2 corn, Sljc. Oats, steady ; No. 2 white, 42c; No. 2 mixed, 40ic. Ilarley â€" 54 to GOc to arrive; 50 to 03c spot. Ryeâ€" No. 1 in store, 59c. .St. r.ouis. Mar. 3.â€" Wheat closed- Cash, 71if; Mnv, 722c; July, 70ic. Milwaukee, Mai. 8.â€" Wheat, steady; >:o. 1 Northern, 80ic; No. 2 North- ern, 79ic; May, 77ic. Hyeâ€" Steady; No. 1, 51 to 52c. Barleyâ€" Steady ; No. 2, 64c; sample, 42 to 59c. Corn â€" May, 46c. Duluth. Mar. 3.â€" Wheatâ€" Cash, No. 1 hard. 77c; No. 1 Northern, 76c ; May, 77ic; No. 2 Northern, 76c ; May, 771c; July 77c. Oat.sâ€" May, 34c. CATn"J.R MARKET. Toronto, March 3. - There was a light run at the cattle market to- day, with a fair demand for all kinds of butchers' cattle, a few en- quiries for export, but very few of- fering, and enquiries for stockers and feeders of good quality. It is said the reason for the light supply of exporters is that farmers have made up their minds to hold on to their stock for a while yet, rather than let them go at lower prices than they have been getting. They are inclined to believe, in fact, that good prices will yet be realized, in spite of the fact that a few of the dealers have been able to buy just recently a few loads of export cattle in the United States at compara- tively low prices. This is a condi- tion they think is not likely to last long. At all events, the drovers are apparently not succeeding very well in inducing the farmers to part with their best cattle at reduced prices. Some good exporters were looked for in the market this morning, but were not to be found. A few lots were bought, but they were not first-class quality, and the prices were not high. There was a fairly good butcher trade at stetldy prices, good loads selling at $4 to $4.25, picked lots $4.40. Sheep and lambs were firm, lambs, grain ted, selling at $5 to $5.60. Hogs have again advanced and are now up to the $0 mark again, and $5.75 for lights and fats. Feeders, steers, 1,050 Ills $3.50 $3.75 do bulls, 1,300 lbs... 2.75 3.30 F.xport, heavy 4.40 4.75 Rxport cattle, light ... 3.75 4.00 nulls, export, heavy cwt 3.50 4.25 do light 3.00 3.50 Feodert;, licrht, 800 lbs. and up.:'rds 3.00 3.50 Stockers, 40U fo 800 lbs 2.00 2.75 do 900 lbs 3.25 llutchers' cattle, choice 4.00 MURDER IN BUFFALO. Found Dead in Smoking Boonx With Skull Beaten In. A liufTalo despatch says : â€" Edwin L. Hurdick, president of E. L. Uur- dick and Comii)uny, was murdered early on I''rlday at his homo in Ash- land avenue. Ho was last seen alive on Thursday night at 10.30, when he bade the otiier members of the household good-night and started for his room, apparently with the intention of retiring for the night. Friday morning bis body, clad in an undershirt, was found lying in a couch in a small room off the lower hall, used by Hurdick as a smoking room. 'I'ho body was covered with a rug and a number of sofa pillows. The head had been crushotl with some blunt instrument, and the blows wore delivered with such force that the skull was fractured in sev- eral places. A thorough examination of the house .showed that the outside door was locked, and the spring lock was in its place when the servants got up on Friday morning. The kitchen window was partly raised, but there were no marks on the snow outside or upon the window sill to indicate anything. All the other windows and doors of the house were securely fastened. No weapon could be found anywhere. On the table in the smok- ing-room the detectives found a bottle partly filled with whinkey and the remains of a light lunch. Mem- bers of the family declare that Hurdick never partook of the food of which the lunch was composed, and never drank liquor while eating. It is believed that Hurdick was call- ed downstairs by a ring or knock at the door after he was ready for bed, and that he admitted someone he knew well, and took the visitor into the den for a talk, and to par- take of the luncheon found there. Mrs. Durdick, the murdered man's wife, left home two months ago, with the intention, it is said, of not returning. It is known that they did not live happily together. On December H proceedings for divorce wore filed in the county clerk's office by Mr. Burdick. CANADA'S PRODUCE. Commissioner to Australia Speaks Favorably. An Ottawa despatch says :â€" The nepartment of Trade and Conuncrce is In receipt of a lengthy report from Mr. J. H. Larke, Canadian Com- mercial Agent for Australasia, in which he states that "rains of No- vember and December have been fol- lowed by exceedingly hot waves, with scorching winds, which undid tho ad- vantages of the rains in many sec- tions of New South Wales. The growing grass has been withered, and the maize crops shriveled as by a fiamo. The other States have not sufifercd to the same extent. Ex- perts are still at work estimating the Australian wheat crop, but the latest figures still indicate that some 10,000,000 bushels v/ill be required to make up the shortage. It is sup- I)oscd that about 130,000 tons of wheat and flour have been ordered, lea\-ing about 170.000 to be bought. Nearly all the flour purchased is strong wheat flour, but the wheat is largely softer wheat from Cali- fornia. The mixture used for bread is one-third or one-fourth Manitoba flour, balance from soft wheat. To- wards the close of the year there may bo an opening for considerable quantities of Canadian oats. Mr. Larke proceeds : â€" "Something over ten tons of frozen turkeys and geese arrived here by the Aorangi from Smith's Falls ; it was perfectly pre- served and as. sweet as when killed. As a whole, it was a very nice lot of birds." Orders have been given for continued shipments of frozen hogs. Some of the last shipments are declared superior to Chicago hogs, but rather neavy, prices 12 to 13c. c.i.f. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" The local butter market Is qi;iet, with prices unchanged. Wo quote : â€" Finest 1-lb rolls, 18 to 19c; selected dairy tubs, 17 to 18c ; choice large rolls, 17 to 18c ; sec- ond grades (rolls and tubs), 13 to 15c; creamery prints, 21i to 23c ; solids, 20c. I'.gg.s â€" New laid, selling at 17c ; cold storage, 10 lo 12c, as to qual- ity; pickled, 11 to 1 Mc. Cheeseâ€" Market steady. We quoto : Finest Septembers, 134c; seconds, llic; twins, 14c. HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are steady, with car lots of Western selling at $7.50 to $7.00, and Northern at $7.05 to $7.75. Cured meals steady, with demand fair. Wo (pioto : llacon, clear 10 to lOic, in ton and ca.so lots. I'ork. mess, $21.50; do., short cat. $22.50. Smoked hums, 13 to IHJc; rolls, 11 J lo 12c; shoulders, 14c; backs, 11 (o 14 Jc; breakfu.st bacon, 14 to "IJc. Lard â€" Market steady. Wo quoto : â€" Tierces, lOJc; tuba, lOJc ; pails, Uc. do medium 3.50 do picked 4.40 do bulls 3.00 do rough 2.75 Light stock bulls, cwt 2.25 Milch cows 30.00 Hogs, best 6.00 do light 5.75 Sheep, export, cwt .... 3.75 Bucks 2. .50 Cuius 2.25 Lambs 4.75 Calves, each 2.00 4.40 3.75 4.75 3.25 3.25 3.00 50.00 THE FAST SERVICE. Parliament Will Be Asked to Ratify C. P. R. Contract A Montreal despatch says : â€" Mr. J'"ielding, Dominion Finance Minister, arrived in Montreal on Saturday. 1 and dining the day had a long con- ference with Sir Thomas Shaugh- nessy. president of the Canadian Pacific. No announcement was nuide regarding the result of the confer- ence, but it is learned from well-in- fornuil sources that the Dominion Government will at the approaching se.ssion a:ik Parliament to ratify a contract with the Canadian Pacific for a fast steamship service between Camida and Croat Britain. It is stated that Sir Richard Cartwright, Mr. Fielding, and other leading moml)ers of the Cabinet favor the granting of tlie contract to the Canadian I'ac'lic and that Mr. Blair, the Minister of Railways, has with- drawn his opposition. Sir Thonuis Shaughnes.sy left for New York on Sunday night on his way to Eng- land, where ho will spend a month. It is understood that Mr. D. W. Campbell, Montreal manager of the Kldor-Denipster company, will be the nu\iu\ger of the new Canadian Paci- fic Atlantic steamship service. ANTICIPATE A CLASH. Is NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over tlie Globe. CANADA. Sydney, N. S., is to be incorporat- ed a city. The population is now 15,000. During the past sea-son 758 sea- going vessels arrived at the port of Montreal. The total loss by (ire in Brantford last year Was $114,794, covered by 8209,500 insuranco. The advisability of providing cold storage facilities en route to the Yukon is under consideration. 'H.e Vancouver Assay Office receiv- ed $1,153,014.50 worth of bullion for testing during the past year. The No\a Scotia Government has practically intimated its intention of starting an agricultural college tor the province. Fifteen Minnesota capitali.^ts visit- ed Fort Francis, in the Rainy River district, with the object of investing their money about there. The total grain shipments from Montreal last season were 1,883,821 bushels behind the previous year, but there was a big increase in wheat. The Canadian-American Coal Com- pany's mine at Frank. Alberta, is now producing and shipping over l,ij00 tons of coal per day out of a single mine. Next year will mark the 75th an- niversai-j' of the commencement of lectures at McGill University, Mon- treal. The graduates will erect a memorial building at a cost of $100,000. Robert Douglas, a former resident of St. Catharines. writing from Cairo Town. South Africa, says there is a good market for Canadian apples there, and tells of one ship- ment which brought $7.50 per bar- rel. GREAT BRITAIN. Voli^ntary ollerings in the Anglican churches of England last vear totalled $41,085,000. The m.emorial of the late General Sir Samuel Browne. V. C, which is to bo put in St. Paul's Cathedral, Russian Publicists Think V/ar Inevitable. A St. Petersburg despatch says Some publicists are of the opinion that only the sternest language to- wards Turkey can prevent a war be- tween Russia and Turkey in the spring. They believe that Turkey will pursue bands of Macedonian re- volutionists across the Bulgarian frontier, and that public opinion |jg finished, and will shortly be p lac- will compel Russia to interfere. The ip^j ,„ position. Russians thoroughly understand that Though beaten with sticks and slaa a war with Turkey will be a more Though beaten with sticks and severe one than that in 1878. Offi-]giashed with a butchers knife. a rers are quoted as saying that the | bull terrier which seized a fallen Turkish army is the best in the (tramway hor.sc by the neck in South world owing to its U«rman organiz- I shields," would not let go till killed ation and armament. There is an i by a policeman's baton, inclination hero to anticipate G-er- Census returns show that 846 men man financial support of Turkey .and 1,424 unmarried and 946 mar- aud in view of the situation fore- ried women or widows work work in bodings of a clash with Tui-key are glove factories in Somerset, and 38 freely expressed in private. al-|nien and 1,002 women make gloves though they are carefully suppressed j at their homos. In ten years the in the new.spapers. A HUMAN OSTRICH. stomach of a Man Who Said Had Indigestion. He, 4.25 2.75 2.50 5.(>0 10.00 PLANS PERFECTED. IIUSINF.SS AT MONTRRAL. Montreal, March 3. â€" Grain â€" No. 1 Manitoba hard wheat, 74c; No. 1 Northern, 72c, February delivery ; No. 1 hard, 77c; No. 1 Northern, 7.5c; I'X store. May delivery ; peas, 71 high freights; oats, No. 2 in store here, 371 to 37ic, 31 ic high frelijlits; rye, lOJc cast; buckwheat, 4Hj| to 41)c east. Flourâ€" Manitoba jiHtents. $4.40 to $4.50 ; seconds, $4.10 to $1.20; Ontario atrnlght rcdler.s. $:»..W to $3.05; In hags, $1.70 to $1.75; patents, $3.70 to $4.10. J''ch.h1â€" Manitoba bran, $10 to $20; shorts. $21 to $22, bags in- rlnded: Ontario bran In hulk, $18 to IIH.Vl; shorts in bulk, $20 to $31. I'rovislonH â€" Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $24 to $25 ; short cut bnck.M, $23 50 to 324; light short cut, $2.T to $24; compound rollned lard. RJ to Oc; pure Canadian Inrd. Itc ; flnost Inrd. 12 to 124c; hnma, 12) to 134r; bacon. 14 to LV ; dresstrd hogs, $8.2.'r ; fresh killed abattoir hogs, fH.FiO to $9 per 100 ItiN F/ggsâ€" Now lold. 20 to 31c; selected. 16c; Montreal limed, 12) to IHc Chees€>-Ontarlo, 13 to ISfc ; Tuwus>iij>b. I3c. Duttoi^-Town«ihl)Jti Are Nearly 4,0C0 Macedonians Ready For Action. A Sofia, Bulgaria, despatch says : â€" Unal)ated energy, both in words and deeds, marks the hostility ot the Macodouian rovoUitionists toward the programme of Turkish reforms delineil by K.u.ssia and Austria and supported by ICurope. SaratolT and Michaelovsky, the leaders of the rebels, who.'io arrest was decreed by Itussia, have escaped the clutches of the Bulgarian ofilcers. They are now engagwl in an active campaign of ineitemont, traveling from one band of Bulgarian revolutionists to another and perfecting arrangements for the proposed uprising in the spring. Bands of from sixty to 100 revolu- tionists have been got together in 34 dilTeront parts of North Mace- donia by these chiefs. Nearly 4,000 insurrectionists are imder arms and ready for action in the south. The leaders keep the people's S|>irit of revolt nlivo by telling thciu to re- member how the Tiuk has ne\-er cur- ried out any reform and assuring them that the progrommo drown up by the powers does nothing more than touch the surface of the Maeo- donian grievances, and that every stipulation will bo violatetl by the Sultnn after a show of compliance. Sensible students of the situation roallzo that the agitators arc lead- ing a forlorn hope, now that they have been deprived of their (rump card of European opposition to ff- fectivo military measures on the part of the Sultan. Ahdid Ilamid is now free to deal summarily with the re- volutionists. Hence It Is likely that their persistence of armt><l Moeo- donians in disorder at the present Juncture in s.vnonymous with their nnnhilation. on CANADA PROTESTS. Objects to American Jurists Alaskan Tribunal. An Ottawa despatch says : â€" The Canadian protest against the ap- (lointment of Messrs. Lodge and Turner as Alaskan boundary com- missioners lia.s gone forward to the Imperial authorities. Ot course, it is hardly likely that anything will come of it, e.s the British Govern- mont will not send an ofticial com- munication to Washington on the subject. The protest, however, will do goo<l in that it will open the eyes of the British people to the manner in which the United States carry out their obligations. In di- rect antithesis to the action of the Washington authorities, the British commissioners to be appointed will be men of the highest standing and the names ot L(»rd Alvestone, Lor<l Chief .lustice of Kngland : Sir John Boyd, Toronto, and Mr. .Justice Ar- mour, Ottawa, are very favorably mentioned in otllcial circles. numbers have decreased by nearly one-fifth. In London 2,652 births and 1.569 deaths were registered last week. The births were 80. and the deaths 139. below the average. The 1.509 deaths included 41 from measles, six .A Buffalo despatch says :â€" Phy-'from scarlet fever, eight from diph- sicians at the Krie County Hospital itheria. 7() from whooping-cough, four state that as a result of an opera- 1 from enteric fever, and 19 from lion performed at the hospital. 453 itl'arrhoea. DifTerent forms of vio- carpet tacks. 41 small kaifo blades.iler.ee caused 77 deaths. Of these 16 142 screw nails. 40 pin points, re- sembling the points im a shoemak- er's awl. si.x and one-half ounces of ground glass and a wire chain about throe inches in length were taken from the stomach of the patient. Claiule Trimble, twenty-four years old, who claims to be a cook. lie went to the hospital complaining of indigestion and dull pains in the stomach. Tlie physicians report that the patient is in a fair way to re- covery. DEATH RATE INCREASES. Report of Provincial Health partment. De- were cases of suicide, while the re- maining 61 were attributed to acci- dent or negligence. UNITED STATES. Representatives of Knglish rail- ways will visit the United States to study American railway methods. Although 80 years old, Mrs. Ab- rani Ver How, of Williamson, N. Y., jaws. The typhoid fover epidemic at Ithaca, N.Y., has so tar resulted in the death of eighteen students and sixteen citizens, is cutting a new set of teeth in both The United States Senate has ayi- propriated $2,000,000 for the pur- chase ot a site tor the New York po.st-oftico building. Society people at Holly Springs, Miss., are very indignant because Judge I,owry charged the grand jury to indict progressive euchre players. Because he would not pay his mo- YOUNG GIRL'S FATAL ERROR Underestimated Effect of a Dose of Carbolic Acid. A Toronto despatch says ; â€" Four- toen-year-old Itona Mills, daughter of Mrs. U. Armstrong, died at the General Hospital on Friday at 10.15 a.m. from the criects of carbolic acid poisoning, having taken a mixture of carbolic and glycerine early in the morning nt her home, 14 Regent avenue. It is alleged that the girl had been angered by her mother's resolution to go away on a visit, and that she told her 8top,ather aho had made up her mind to make her- self sick In order to force her moth- er to romnln at home. The threat was not taken .seriously, but that she niront what she said w«s appar- ent when the girl was foiind lying on her hod unconscious with the empty bottle near by. Me<lical aid was summoned, but nil cRorts to re- Tlv* her proved futll*, A Toronto despatch says : â€" Ac- cording to the monthly report for January. issued by the Provincial Hoard of Health, the death rate of Ontario was slightly higher than for the corresponding period ot last i' year. The total number of deaths j ,hpr a three months' board bill. Uber from all causes was 2,143. asj^ry. of Logansport. Ind.. has been .sent to jail at the instigation ot his against 2.('>23 in fron\ contagious follows :â€" lt)02. The deaths diseases were ns Scarlatina Diphtheria Measles Whooping cough 7 Typhoid @.... 81 Tuberculosis ICl) 1902. ... 38 ... 48 ... 21 1903. 90 59 6 9 25 175 BLEW OUT THE GAS. Three Farmers in Winnipeg Likely to Die. A Winnipeg despatch soys : â€" Throe farmers from Minnesota named W. tllson, J. W. Peterson ond A. J. Ncillson. who arrivetl on 1'hursday on a land seeking expe- dition, were found asphyxlati>d in their room at a city hotel this morning. They are not yet dead, but have ben\ unconscious up to a ItttP hour, and very little hope is held out for their recovery, All are married men, about forty years of age. One of the party evidently blew out the gas. Five hundred Imperial troops we"o nmbu.shod by rebels in Kwnngsi Pro- vince. China, and killed. mother. The first blow was struck on Wed- nesdn.v on the work of constructing the I'ennsylvania Railroad tunnel un- der the East and North llivers and through New York city. The Senate of \Yisconsin passoil a measure declaring the kei>ping ot gambling resorts to be a felony; the Montana House ot Kepresentatives passed a bill to licenst> gambling. Eight miners were killed, twelve wounded, two fatally, n^d one ne- gro deputy marshal wa.<! shot to death in o pitched battle at Wright's coal works, Raleigh county.^ W. \'a.. on 'IXicsday night. Three otilcials wore wounded. GENKRAL. Tin has been discovered near Cape Town. King Leopold will visit the Unitoi States in April, says a Brussels de- spatch. Printed in English and devoted to commerce, a new daily newspaiXM- is about to bo Issued in St. Peler«s- burg. South African corrospomienis of London newspoiwrs say that the feel- ing of «ecurity in Cape Colony is greater now than at any time sinci 'Jie Jameson raid. /f