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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1921,, 3 SINN FEIN KILL TWO POLICEMEN Murder in Belfast Hotel Close to Constabulary Headquarters. A despatch from Belfast says:-- Two members cf the Royal Irish Constabulary were murdered in their beds at the Railway View Hotel here on Wednesday night, and a third con-sfta.ble was gravely wounded. Five Sinn Feaners, it is alleged, committed the crime, the circumstances of which are mysterious. The three victims recently came to Belfast in mufti on special duty. One of the men was concerned in important inquiries and his comrades were acting as escort. The Railway View Hotel, where they stayed, is.close to the city headquarters of tbe R.I.C. As the bar was about to be closed for the night, about 9.30, five men who had been served with drink dashed toward the staircase leading to the bedrooms. They entered the room where the policemen had retired and a series of shots rang out. Revolvers in hard, the assassins returned' to the, bar and ordered the bar man to open the side door, by which they escaped. The Reverend J. A. Irwin, the Presbyterian minister who spoke in the United States with Eamonn de Valera during the Tatter's recent stay in that country, and who was arrested Monday and sent to the Baliykinlar internment camp, was released on bail on Thursday. A despatch from Dublin says:-- Baron Dunsany of Dunsany Castle, who was arrested on Wednesday when a quantity of obsolete ammunition was found in his castle, but who after-j wards was released, was re-arrested on Thursday and taken to an unknown destination. The arrest of Baron Dunsany resulted from the shooting of .game, a portion oi which was sent to England; The Baron, who is a keen sportsman, is said to have requested arid received permission from "republican Volunteers" to shoot birds on his estate. English friends to whom he sent the game returned it, saying they did not want to eat Sinn Fein birds. The military, learning of this, i ed Baron Dumsany's house, where FRENCH PRESIDENT ADVISES REDUCTION Better for France to Accept Less Indemnity Than to Break With England. A despatch from Paris says:-- President Millerand intervened in the reparation negotiations on Thursday and as a result of his peace-making efforts the Doumer demand for an indemnity total of 200,000,000,000 gold marks, which strained Ihe relations between the French and the British delegations, was thrown aside and the negotiations will henceforth proceed on the basis of the Boulogne plan of last July, which fixed the total at 100,000,000,000 marks gold, current value, payable in 42 years, with interest, bringing the grand total payments to about two hundred and fifty billion gold marks. Doumer's plan would have made Germany liable for more than four hundred billion gold marks ultimately. As a result of this situation M. Doumer may resign as French Finance Minister. As a result; of President Millerand' in calling There n galleries Queen Mar h7French"d7p- 1 ?^ally f Weekly Market Report NOW PART OF GREAT ELECTRIC SYSTEM ■ Toronto Power House at Niagara Falls which becomes the property of Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission under the recent purchase of the j 53c, according to freight: Toronto. M; nitaba wheat--No. 1 Northern .85%; No. 2 Northern, $1.82*4"; No. Northern., $1.77%; No. 4 wheat, .71. Manitoba oats--No. 2 CW, 47%c; o. 3 CW, 43%c; extra No.' 1 feed, %c; No. 1 feed., 42%c; No. 2 feed, Manitoba barley--No. 3 CW, 83%c; No. 4 CW, 69%c; rejected, 58%c: feed, 58 %c. All above in store, Fort William. Ontario wheat--F.o.b. shipping ! points, according to freights ou s ie. |No. 2 spring, $1.80 to $1.85; No. 2 I winter, $1.85 to $1.90. - American corn--Prompt shipment, j.No. 2 yellow, track, Toronto, 95c. Ontario oats--No. 3 white, 50 to j 85%c; hams, med., 38 to 41c; heavy/ 34 to 39c; cooked hams, 55 to 58c; backs, boneless. 55 to 60c; breakfast bacon, 42 to 50c; special, 50 to 56c; .cottage roils, 38 to 39c. Green meats--Out of pickle, lc less than smoked. Barrelled .-meats--Bean pork, $35; short cut or family back, boneless, j $47.60; pickled roll®, $53 to $56; mess pork, $38 to 41c. Dry salted meats--Long clears, in tons, 23% to 27 %e; "in cases, 26% to 27%c; clear bellies, 29% to 30%c; fat backs, 22 to 24c. Lard--Tierces, 24 to 24%c; tubs. 25 to 25%c; pails. 25% to 25%c; prints, 25% to 27%c; shortening tierces, 15% to 16c per lb. Choice heavy steers, $10.50 to 811; -^Malting, 90 to 95c, A Letter From London befo* daylhe"si.totion! peop'le abovt' lovers come ;i not allc lomats and of a speech by Lloyd George late looks bright. The reparation negotiations were to have been reopened at 11 o'clock Thursday morning. At 9 o'clock M. Millr-rand called Briand to the Elysee i would; but trusts to th her pursue As for l be very few picture are not visited by eral times a year? She' at a galh when ther but if stray picture white she is there to b: thei good taste to let amplest pleasure of and told him the Doumer plw „ not do ,and it would be better for all knew their France to accept less than to break, Her Majesty v her alliance with England. really cultured. M. Briand got in touch with Mr.! attend her> and who Lloyd George and the morning session I name to tne ®x s, I suppose if we ents as well as does might claim to be The curators who was called off while the Premiers conferred privately. The discussion was resumed at 4 o'clock, when Mr. Lloyd George presents-.! his point of view. The tenor of his speech was the indemnity matter must cot a setlement now and that ideals t appr s the e the Queen Alexandra po; otional artistic temperament to a . marked degree. There is little doubt that that had she been allowed to embrace e to a stage career, the world would have nust gained a great actress. When she was ileal methods. He quite a child she used to write novel-d demanded a j ettes of the most romantic nature. Unfortunately, none of these romantic effusions of Queen Alexandra's girlhood have been preserved. great war which leaves fo ties in a chaotic tutu tangle: but I hear that Mr. Balfo; Hamar Greenwood the othe • told Sir day that CONSTANTINOPLE AGAIN AN ALLIED CITY Turkish Cabinet Has Yielded Control" of Finances to Entente. A despatch from Constantinople says:--The Turkish Cabinet has accepted the allied stipulations in re-gar' to the control of the finances and thereby 1,200,000 Turkish pounds have become available to the Government, which will be immediately ap-plie-1 to officials' salaries. Recent Constantinople despatches sure meed that with ihe exception of ties Sultan none of the Turkish officials bad received salaries for the past four months, all the sources of revenue being in the hands cf the sua me of the rmtice given the Tin-ish bovernment last week by the al lies tnat a renewed military occupa tion of Constantinople was .imminan tc guard against threatened disorders owii j.: to Nationalist and Bolshevi actii itics and because of the failur of the Turks to ratify the Peae Treaty. good heavy steers, $9.50 to $10; butchers' cattle, choice, $9 to $9.50; do, good, $7.50 to $8.50; do, med., $5.75 to $6.75; do, com., $5 to $5.50; but-prompt shipment, straight rm «dls, choice, $8 to $9; do, good, seaboard, $8.50. '| $7 to $8; do, com., $5 to $6; butchers' Peas--No, 2, $1.80 to $1.85. outside.! cows» choice, $7.50 to $8.50; do, good, Manitoba flour--Track, Toronto: j $6-25 to P> do, com., $4 to 5; feeders, First patents, $10.90; second patents ! $7-75 to $8.75; do, 900 lbs., $7.25 to $10.40. I $8.25; do, 800 lbs,, $5.75 to $6.75; do, Buckwheat--No. 2, $1.05 to $1.10. |com., $5 to $6; canners and cutters, Rye--No. 2, nominal; No. 3 $1 55 ?3 to $4.50; milkers, good to choice, to $1.60. | $85 to $150; do, com. and med, $50 Millfeed--Carlots, delivered To-1to $60; lambs, yearlings, $9 to $9.50; ronto freights, bags included. Bran, I do> spring, $11.50 to $11.75; calves, per ton, $40, firm; shorts, per ton,! Sood to choice,' $16 to $17; sheep, $6 $47.25; feed to $7.50; hogs, fed and watered, $15.25 to $15.50; do, weighed off cars, $15.50 to $15.75; do, f.o.b, $14.25 to $14.50; do, country points, $14 to $14.25 Montreal. Oats, Can. west. No. 2, 67c; do, No. day he came! ss w 40c- 8' 68c- Flour, Man. spring wheat pa-upos an Irish woman digging up her Ol^argarine-Best grade, 83 to tents fig» $10.90. Rolled oats, bag patch of potatoes, and, he made some J 3^heese_New, ^ 31 to 3ly | ^I^T^S,^^ remark concerning their quality. twins, 31% to 32c; old, large, 32' to: $28 to $29. "Ah, bad luck to Mr. Balfour!" ex- 35c. j ' Cheese, fii < -i , em 27 to 27%c. claimed the woman. "I wish I could! Maple syrup--Onergal. tins, $3.50. i Butter, choicest creamery, 53% to «w» Wm!" Honey, extracted--White clover! 54% e. Eggs, fresh, 82c. Potatoes, ed the ■ honey in 60-30-lb. tins, per lb., 23 to | per bag. car lots, $1.45 to $1.50. 1 But le fers com $5 50 to $7; butcher cows, med., $5 te $7; can he would not change positions with Sir Hamar, as Chief Secretary for Ireland, is occupying the position ||u; white middlings which Mr. Balfour occupied over! flour, $2.50 to $2.75. thirty years ago, and some of Mr. I Eggs--New-laid, cartons, 85 to 90c; Balfour's memories are distinctly selects, 77 to 80c; No. 1, 75 to 77c. lively. ! Butter--Creamery prints, 56 to Ee relates one story with a touch! 59c5 fresh-made, 59 to 61c; bakers', of humor in it. Ons day he came j 38„,° 45c- „ x z „„ Oleomargarine--Best grade, 83 to statesman, s Tbe worn: gazed hard ("'Well, su scrutiny, "h the divil's n ed!" Balfour," f5ppiT%ging, ^ttnf^^otT^ ,', . Churning Cream--Toronto e, she said, after the \ ies are quoting for Churning cream, 1 often heard that i 60c per lb. fat, f.o.b. shipping uobits, i black a The diary habit of which we have], heard so much recently is, I ■ formed, a confirmed one in the Royal Family. The Queen bought a number of diaries at the Advertisers' Exhibition at the White City, many of which were, no doubt, for her friends. Her own one each year comes from the same firm that has always had her patronage, and is mounted in beautiful purple leather. * £ £ * King HaaKon or Norway, wno V1SW ed England recently with Pr for a stay at Sandringham, is a stickler for punctuality. While aboard the steamer Roljo, Prince Ol-af appeared at the break fast table ten minutes late. After th told by the King that h i his r l for a of a Foreign Se: particularly ai The committee that has been sitting to decide the proper names for the great battles of the war has completed its duties, and will report to tie Government forthwith. These names are necessary in order that due course they may be emblazoned on the colors of the regiments en gaged,' ■ and the bars bearing thei titles may be prepared for individuals But the rank and file has its ow; names for these actions. Ask a sol dier "who was there, for instance, t give a name to the third battle o „_--------- Ftmrteen thousand pounds is to be spent on the enlargement of the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, including the provision of | fresh reading, writing, and typewrit-meal j ing rooms. The structural alterations must I will cause the Gallery apartments to pun-j extend some way towards the Clock j Tower. There are at present 159 | journalists who are members of the :t ary 1 Gallery, and the existing accommoda-;r . a I tion is quite inadequate.--BIG BEN. BLOOD OF ANIMALS INSTEAD OF MEAT Diet of Preserved Blood Advocated by Doukhobor. A despatch from Calgary says:--If proposals mads* by Pe er Veregin, head -of tlie Doukhobors in Canada, are adopted, as he inopes they will be, the: eating of meat in the civilized world j will be entirely done away with, and' a diet of preserved blood, drawn from | live cattle, will take its place. Mr. | Veregin has made repeated tests, and! is convinced that the form of susten-1 tion that he proposes will be far more beneficial to the human race than meat ean be, and, further, that its •world-wide adoption will cause the world's supply of cattle to be replenished in a very short space of Warriors' Day in Great Britain A despatch from London says: --A Warriors' Day, on which the proceeds of an extra performance at every legitimate theatre, movie house and music hall in Great Britain are to be devoted to the relief of unemployed service men, will be held on March 81. The Prince of Wales has bee; actively supporting the scheme and Sir George Perley and other High Commissioners have been approached to suggest that the method adopted in Great Britain be made general throughout the British Empire on ■ he same date for the purpose of benefiting workless ex-sol-die rs in the various Dominions. House Shortage in England Being Alleviated A despatch from London says: --TJie acute housing shortage continues, but is being slowly alleviated. According to the current issue of Housing, published by the housing department of ' the Ministry of Health, some j 60,000 houses were constructed last year. More than 5,500 permits for private dwellings were issued in London alone. In addition to the government housing schemes, municipal housing schemes and private home building, there is a new factor in English building in the modern office buildings now being erected in London's business districts. 'meats--Rolls, 27% to $3.25 to $3.75; cutters, $4 to $5: butcher bulls, com., $5 to $6.50. 'Good veal, $13 to $14; med., $10 to $13; grass, $5.50 to $6. Ewes, $5 to $6.50; lambs, good, $12; com., $10 to $11.50. Hogs, off-ear weights, selects, $17.50. Must Save France From Bankruptcy | A despatch from Paris says:! --"Unless France receives one] hundred and twelve billion- j marks in reparations she will be ! bankrupt." Thus Paul Doumer, Finance j Minister of France, summed up ! the situation before the Supreme ! Council. Opening the discussion i of-the amount of indemnitv to I De required Irom uermany,' tne \ French Finance Minister declared : "If any nation must be bankrupt, it should be Germany. France must have 54,000,000,000 francs for pensions and 58,000,-000,000 francs for reconstruction." New Member of Manitoba Cabinet Col. C. D. McPherson, Portage la Prairie, who lias been sworn in as Minister of Public Works, succeeding Hon. G. A. Grierson. Estimate of League of Nations' Expenses A despatch from Geneva says: --The League of Nations has just appointed the Swiss Govern-, ment's financial department to --.----- act as the Auditors of the Trinidad lizards are raised to prey League accounts. Total esti- upon insects which seriously damage mates of League expenses for 11921 are 21,000,000 gold francs. growing sugar WESTERN WHEAT NEARLY MARKETED Only 50,000,000 Bushels, of Which 40,000,000 Held for Seed. A despatch from Regin says:--Less than 50,000,000 bushels of marketable wheat remain in the West, is the esti-of A. E. Wilson, Seed Graii K. K. Homuth, U.F.O. member of t.bo Ontario Legislature for Waterloo, who moved the address in reply to the speech from the Throne. Woman Jurors First Time in History A despatch from London says: -London's ancient law court? enjoyed a red letter day last reek when for the first time in history women were empanelled jurors in. a British divorce Commissioner. Out of a total crop cast 223,100,000 bushels, approxi-l Six women sitting mately 133,000,000 have been inspected. Of the remainder 40,000,000 bushels are being held for seed. With the exception of one or two isolate..! districts the farmers have sufficient seed wheat, but considerable quantities of oats and barley will have to be bought by the commission for resale for seed for the coining spring. The thrifty Turk does not paint his house, not because he cannot get the paint or because he likes tbe look of it better unpainted, but because t shabbier the outside of a building Turkey the lower is the tax. But that is a good deal like our own system, under which increased neatness is sure to be seized upon by the assessors as an excuse for a new rate. There is much to be said for the scheme of revaluing farm realties only once in five years unless the property has suffered meantime from fire, flood, earthquake or other disaster. men will decide one of London's most sensational trials before Justice Horridge, who recently heard the Marlborough case. The women jurors sat in the second row of the jury box and attracted almost as much attention as the case itself. He Bit. First Class Scout--"Do you see that house up there?" Second Class Scout--"Yes, what First Class Scout--"Well, that house was built with money made from many sufferings, writhings, agonies and much blood." Second Class Scout--"What beast lives there?" First Class Scout--"My dentist." Why lock up the family skeleton if you are going to give the neighbors