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fiifixvuuz‘ 4.pw..~.......... .y.-. .‘ mg... ..........,.N....:........, e... .. . . . , MP LATE SEEDING' ‘0 INJURY Experience Has Proved That Early Spring Does Not Mean Big Crap. A despatch from Ottawa sa 5' O l i8 adVices from the West as tg theflciori outlook are satisfactory. The bulk of the seeding has been completed and ow- ing to the moist condition of the soil 1'. is believed that the backwardness of the season will not. be so prejudicial as generally believed in the East. It is pointed out that the old-timers in the West are of the opinion that the shortness of the growing season there does not operate against a good crop, and that as a rule the best crops have not been produced when the Spring is exceptionally early or the seeding completed at an early date. In support of this contention it is pointed out that in 1881, when seeding was not completed by the end of May, a splendid average crop was garnered, while in 1884, 1888, 1880 and 1897 seed- ing was late, but the crop yield was quite satisfactory. One official of the Interior Depart- ment summed up the situation on Wed- nesday when he said: “There is no need for alarm. If the lateness of seeding is ominous of anything it is ominous of good crop prospects. The West is not worrying; it is the East which is show- ing all the anxiety. M ___._â€"__.____.__._.___. FATAL ACCIDENT AT TORONTO. â€"-..._. One Killed, Three Injured at the Bay Street Railway Crossing. A despatch from'Toronto says : James 8 Fraser, of Leith, Scotland, chief engi- neer on the steamer Oorunna, which arrived here from Middlwboro', Eng- land, on Thursday, was instantly killed; Francis _Hart, of Aberdeen, Scotland, steward and cook on the steamer, was badly injured; W. M. Jevons, 248 Shaw Street, Toronto, was out about the head, and Edward Verral, of 285 Dundas Street, had his right arm broken, all as the result of failing to observe G. T. R. engine 834 as it pulled a string of freight cars eastward past the foot of Bay Street atabout 10.40 on Friday night. A level crossing without a single gateman and without proper lights to enable the thousands of passengers to and from the Island ferries and the other sleaniboats to see where they are going or what trains are passing, was respon- sible for the death of Fraser and' the maiming of the others. The man who was killed and his companion were go- ing south to their boat and the others were coming from the ferry boat. The attention of the C. P. R. shunter, J. Stewart, at the point, was drawn to the accident by hearing a woman scream, and on running to the spot he was hor- rified to see a man’s body lying. on the G. T. R. tracks and apparently cut in two. Fraser was a married man, and had part of his furniture on board the Cor- unna, as he intended settling in Canada. His wife was to have come out in Aug- ust next, and was to bring the balance cf the household goods and the baby. Hart is a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, and unmarried. Several of the crew of the Corunna came to the morgue to‘ identify the body of Fraser, and they were quite indignant that, as they said, trains were allowed to run on the streets without any protection to the pedes- trians. â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"~>I‘ “BUT-GOVERNOR DUNSMUIR. Ills Yacht Took Fire at Sea and Party Took to the Boats. A despatch from Vancouver-,3. C., says: While returning from Gardner In- let, after a month‘s hunting trip, on Friday, lion. James Dunsmuir, Lieuten- antâ€"Governor of British Columbia; Major Audain, his sonâ€"in-law; three guests, and a crew of thirteen, had a narrow escape, when the Thistle, Mr. Duns- niuir‘s $50,000 yacht, was burned to the water‘s edge in Queen Charlotte Sound. Mr. Dunsmuir and others on board were forced to take to the boats. and in 16 minutes after the alarm of fire was giv- en, the 'l‘liislle was burned to the water‘s edge. The cause of the fire is a mys- rtci-y. Five hundred gallons of gasoline were stored in the hold, and exploded. Mr. Dunsmuir and others in the boats traveled 32 miles before being sighted by a southbound steamer, which picked them up and brought them to Vancou- ver at noon on Sunday. All lost every- thing but the clothes they were. it CYCLONE IN NORFOLK. Two Houses were Blown Down in the Village of Nixon. A despatch from Simcoe, Ont., says: Buildings blown down, trees and fences uprooted, the tracks of the. Wabash blocked by the contents of a huge coal chute and its ruins, is the result of a cyclone which at 5 o’clock on Sunday evening swept the district a few miles west of here, the centre of which is the Village of Nixon. Great damage was done inf Nixon, two houses being blown down and a grocery store badly wrecked. In one of the houses destroyed an old lady named Croft had a very nar- row escape. She was in bed, ill and alone, when the building crumpled up and collapsed like a house of cards. III as she was, however, she managed to crawl out of the debris, and beyond a few severe bruises and a bad fright, sus- tained no injury. In the other house no one was injured. So far as is reported from the stricken district there has been no loss of life, but the loss to the far- mers will be heavy, and later details are likely to increase the extent of the disaster. In Simcoe the storm was very severe, but no great damage was done. __.___..1,_.__._. TORNADO S\VEEPS TEXAS. _._...â€" Fourteen Meet Death in the Path of the Storm. A despatch from Fort Worth, Texas, says: A severe rain and electrical storm swept over northern Texas on Friday night, causing much damage to proper- tv and some loss of life. At least three persons are known to have been killed by lightning. Near Denton, eight mem- bers of the Wardlaw family were in- jured, one fatally, when the home was overturned by wind. Scores of barns and other small buildings were destroy- ed The eastern portion of Willspoiiit was struck by a tornado, which cut a swath 200 yards wide, killing three per. sons and injuring many others. Emory was circled by the tornado, and six per- sons were killed, while forty or fifty were injured. Every building on the county poor farm was demolished, as well as several residences. The great- est destruction, however, occurred in the negro settlement. Many of those injured may die. At Gribble Springs two persons were killed and a score or more injured. ‘7 v; DEATH OF MRS. MCKINLEY. _ Widow of the Late President Passes Away at Canton, Ohio. A despatch from Canton, Ohio, says: At 1.05 o’clock on Sunday afternoon Mrs. Wm. McKinley, the widow of the late President McKinley, fell into the sleep that knows no awakening. The transition from life to death was so peaceful and gradual that it was with difficulty the vigilant physicians and at- tendants noted when dissolution came. ES Furnished the Black Hundred With Clubs. A despatch from Odessa says: Fiftyâ€" threc persons were taken to hospitals suffering from broken heads or limbs, or Otherwise dangerously injured, as a of liuttner's Spinning Mill were shot down on Friday morning by a patrol of result. of the outbreak of the Black Hundreds here on Tuesday, following the assassination of three police oflicers. In addition, about a hundred persons were less seriously injured. The vic- tims included women, children and stu- dents. 1l is she ed that, out of revenge for the assassina ion of the three oflicers, whom the Jews had nicknamed the “heroes of the anti-Jewish riots,” the police turned the Black Hundreds loose, armed with clubs and rubber sticks. Jewish pedestrians were brutally beaten and many houses in the Jewish quarter were looted and their occupants as- saulted. The disorder lasted for some hours, the police making no attempt to suppres: it. Further outrages are ex- peeled. COSSACK OUTRAGE. A despatch from Lodz, Russia Poland, says: Forty-five officials and workmen Cossacks, because a band of terrorists attacked a mail wagon in the neighbor- hood, killed a' Cossack guard and wounded another Cossack and two post- oflice officials. TO BLO\V UP WHOLE PALACE. A despatch from St. Petersburg savs: Referring I them showed their connection with United States Anarchists and also with Russian deserters who are now in the It was their object. to make one tremendous explosion, involv- Unlled Slates. log all the inmates of the palace. to Prime Minister Stolypin’s account of the plot against. the Czar, the Novoc Vrcmya says that conspirators succeeded during the winter in entering service at the palace. Letters found on . _..-..-â€"------ Liiiiiiiitf MARKETS .â€" BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, May 28.â€"Call board quota- tions were:â€" Barleyâ€"N0. 2, 55c bid; No. 3 extra, 53c bid; No. 3, 520 bid. b‘g'easâ€"No. 2, Bio asked, outside; 760 l . Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 450 asked, outside; No. 2 mixed, 42c bid, outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 740 asked, outside; 710 ' bid. Prices are:â€"â€" \Vlicatâ€"Ontarioâ€"No. 2 white winter, 86c to 870; No. 2 red, 86:: to 870; No. 2 mixed, 85c to 870. ’ Wheatâ€"It'laniloba â€"- Lake portsâ€"No. 1 hard, 080 to title; No. 1 northern, We to 080; No. 2 northern, 05c. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 42%0 to 43%0, out- side; No. 2 mixed, li-lc. Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow American, file to C20, lake and rail, 65c asked all rail To- ronto basis. ‘ Ryeâ€"71%c to 72c. Barleyâ€"N0. 2. 53%0 to 54c outside; No. 3 extra, 52%0 to 530; No. 3, 51%c to 52c. Flourâ€"Onlarioâ€"OO per cent. patents, $3 to $3.10, no bidders; Manitoba first patents, $4.75; seconds, $4.15 to $4.20; bakers’, $4.05, Toronto. ' Branâ€"$21 to $22; shorts quoted at $22 to $23 outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butterâ€"Demand is good and supplies heavy. Creamery, prints . . . . . . . . . . . 240 to 25c do solids . .. 21c to 22 Dairy, prints . . . . . 100to2lc Cheeseâ€"Prices are firm at 130 for large and 13%0 for twins. Eggsâ€"Steady at 17c to 180 per dozen, in case lots. Honeyâ€"Pails, lie to 12c 1b.; combs, $1.50 to $2.50 per dozen, according to quality. Beansâ€"$1.50 to $1.55 for hand-picked and $1.35 to SlJiO for primes. Potatoesâ€"Firm; Delawares, $1.10 to 81.20 in car lots on track here. Ontario nominal. Baled flayâ€"$12.50 to $13.50 per ion for No. 1 timothy and $11 to $11.50 for secondary grades, in car lots here. Baled Strawâ€"~Steady at $6.50 to $7 per ton, in car lots her-e. PROVISIONS. Dressed i-Iogs â€"â€" Firm at $0.50 for lightweights and $9 for heavies, farm- ers’ lots. Porkâ€"Short cut, $23 to $23.50 per bar- rel; mess, $21 to $21.50. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats â€"- Long clear bacon, 110 to 11%0 for tons and cases; hams, medium and light, 15%c to 16c; heavy, 14%0 to 150; backs, 16%0 ii .170; shoulders, 110 to 11%c; rolls, 11%c; out of pickle, 1c less than. smoked. Lard~Priccs arc:â€"â€"Ti.erccs, 12%0; tubs, 12%c; pails, 12%0. BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, May 28,â€"Flourâ€"Dull. Wheat â€"Spuing firm; No. 1 Northern, S’l.00;, Winter firm; N0. 2 white, $31.03. Corn â€"i:‘.asier; No. 2 yellow. Size; No. 2 white 62c. Oats â€"â€" Firm; No. 2 white, 50%0; No. .2 mixed, liSc. Barley â€"â€"Strong; c.i.f. offered 85‘to 87c. Rye â€"â€"Scarce; N0. 2, c.i.f. quoted 82c. Ca- nal heightsâ€"Unchanged. NE\V YORK \VIIEAT MARKET. New York, May 28.â€"Wheat-Spot. firm; No. 2 red, 81.05% elevator; No. 2 red, $1.00 fob. afloat; No. 1. northern Duluth, 951.15% f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 551.10%, f.o.b. afloat. v v To BUILD BLAST FURNACE. ._â€"â€"- A Million Dollar Plant. for Sault Ste. Mario. A despatch from Sault. Ste. Marie, Mich, says: Because they cannot get pig iron fast enough to supply the plant without buying in the American market a: exhorbitant prices, the Algoma Steel Company will at once commence the erection of a $1,000,000 blast furnace. Superintendent Lewis says it will be the largest. furnace in Canada, and its erection will be followed at once with a big coke plant to supply the steel works. .â€"â€"-â€"’mfl{‘â€" â€". . ,_._. CAUGHT IN FIERY FLOOD. Five Men Burned to Death at Pitts- burg, Penn. A despatch from Pillsburg, Pa., says: Five men were killed and four fatally injured about 6 o’clock on Tuesday night at the Eliza furnace of Jones 8.: Laughlin Steel Co. The accident was directly due to a "slip" which resulted in an explo- sion. Molten metal was thrown over the men, almost cremating them. The acci- dent is similar to one which occurred last January, when fifteen men were killed. .1. AN ATTRACTIVE EXHIBIT. ..___ ls Praised by All. mouths. _._..... .x._._.__ on Friday. .of planting, owing to the high price of Canada‘s Pavilion at Dublin Exhibition. A despatch from London says; The Morning Post, referring to the Dublin Exhibition, says the Canadian Pavilion is beautifully designed and arranged with consummate skill. It is proving one of the most attractive spots in the exhi- bilion, and its praise is in all men’s Thieves stole nearly eight hundred dollars’ worth of valuables from the residence of Fred. T. Coghlan at Guelph was : was}? SMELTING BY _______.L;£: iiiiitnitin Dre Haanel‘ Shows Thatâ€"Process to Be Cheap and Home], Dominion Superintendent of Mines, has prepared a very valuable re- port upon the results of experiments conducted last year at Sault Ste. Marie with the thermoelectric process of smelt- ing Canadian iron ores. The report shows that the experiments have been very;successful, and have demonstrated that Canada’s large resources of magneâ€" -lile ores can be as economically smelled as hematite ores by the electric recess and that ores .of high sulphur pcontent can be made into pig iron containing only a few thousandt-hs of one per cent. of sulphur. Dr. liaancl estimates that a 10,000 horsepower plant, capable of pro- A despatch from Ottawa says: Dr.‘ ducing 120 tons of pig iron per day Of Practical. twenty-four hours, would cost $700.000r and that, allowing for interest and de- preciation of plant, the cost of smelting: would be $2.43 per ton. Adding the cost of ore, charcoal, labor, electric cncrg)’, and other running expenses, he esti- mates that a ton of pig iron could be: made for 310,60. The electric smelling works now being erected at Welland are expected to produce from thirty-five to, forty tons of pig iron per day. The re- port lays much stress upon the possibil- ity of developing Canada’s many iron, deposits by means of the water powersj which are to be found throughout theâ€"j Dominion, pointing out that many water- powers exist in Ontario and Quebec surrounded by iron ore fields. WW . FOREST SEEDING. May be Done, But Cost is Little, it Any. Less Than Planting. _RCProducing a forest by sowing seed directly on the area to be put into trees is feasible. It is, however, a method little used on this continent up to the present, for it has been found that the cost has been as great, at least, as that seed and the cultivation which must be given.io the ground to be sown. A good seed bed is just as important for sowing forest tree seeds on as it is for sowing grain on. Hence the whole area on which it is proposed to sow tree seeds must be carefully cultivated, instead of only a small proportion, as in planting. This, at least, applies to broadcast seeding. A great objection to seeding, at pre- sent, is the high price of the seed, and in the case of some species, its scar- city at any price. The present price of white pine seed, for example, is two and two and a half dollars per pound. In Germany it is customary to sow six pounds of white pine seed to the acre. Thus the expenditure for seed alone would be $12 to $15. Still, it would be possible to do with smaller quantities of seed, though in this country so little sowing has been done that we scarcely have a standard to go by in this re- gard. Another disadvantage of seeding is flint we can never count on getting a good mixed crop of trees by seeding. To avoid the expense of cultivating the whole area various plans have been tried. Often small spots (“seed-spots”) are taken and carefully worked, and the seed sown in these. These spots may vary in. area from one square foot to thirty square feet., the best land being selected, of course, in every case. Again furrows may be ploughed, at some dis- tance apart, and the seed sown in these arrows; or strips, several feet in width, may be prepared. For nut trees, such as chestnut, oak, hickory and beech, seeding is the best way to reproduce them. These trees make a vigorous root growth and are very awkward to handle in planting, even the first year. So the best way to do is to sow the nuts right on the area on which you want the trees, pro- vided there is no danger of squirrels or other animals destroying the nuts. Make holes where you wish the trecsto come up, and in each hole place three rr four nuts. and the result will pro- bably be satisfactory. The depth of the covering of soil is another point of importance. It will usually be found to cover the seeds to the depth of the longest diameter of the seed. . r.../â€"â€".IÂ¥4._.. DRANK nonsn' MEDICINE. __â€"â€"â€". Death of William Rickard, of Westmins- fer Township. A despatch from London, Ont., says: William Rickard, a well-known West- minster township farmer, died on Satur- day afternoon at the home of a neighbor from the effects of drinking from a bot- tle containing medicine he had bought for his horses. Richard was in town dur- ing the day, and obtained the medicine from a veterinary. It contained a large proportion of belladonna. Before driv- ing home he bought a bottle of whiskey. He stopped at the home of a neighbor, talked for a time, and left for Tempo postoflice to get his mail. He turned later and exclaimed, “My God, I have poisoned myself.” Dr. Routledge of Lambelh was called, but was unable to do anything for him. The only theory advanced is that he took the horse medi- cine in mistake for whiskey. eI<__._.â€"_ BRUTAL cmnn IN MANITOBA. Young English Immigrant Murders Daughter of a Killarncy Farmer. A despatch from Killarney, Man., says: A brutal crime startled this com- munity on Wednesday afternoon, when a young English immigrant named Lawrence Rowland assaulted Miss Geor- gina. Brown, a farmer’s daughter. and then murdered her. He afterwards made an unsuccessful attempt to com- mit suicide. The girl kept house for her brother on a farm two miles from here. Gowland had been making his home there for two years past. The brother was absent from home for two hours this afternoon and it was during this time that the crime was commit- ted. The murderer cut the girl’s throat with a razor, and then his own with a hutcher knife. GULF STREAM OUT OF COURSE. Sea Captain’s Theory Regarding Cold‘ Weather. A despatch from New York says: Captain J. Lumsdane, of the Anchor; Liner Astoria, from Glasgow, has found‘ a reason for the cold weather. He says. the Gulf Stream, which ordinarily has a range between 4-6 and 55 degrees north latitude, is away to the north, and he found a high barometer with a southerly, wind, which is unusual for the Atlantic. “1 don’t say that. the Gulf Stream is- out of its margin,” said the captain,. “but it is to the northward of its normal- course. This accounts for our winter‘ weather at home in Scotland, where we- have been having snow every other day. We don’t have the seasons we uscd to« have.” When the Astoria was about 1,000: miles off Sandy Hook on Saturday she passed through a field of twenty ice-~ bergs. The icebergs were all medium- sized, and were scattered over a wide area. )XA.____...â€" U. S. FLAG TORN DOWN. -‘ Vork of Two IIoodlums at ‘Winnipeg 011' Friday. A despatch from Winnipeg says ; Two. hoodlums, whose patriotism exceeded; their discretion, tore the flag off the- Amcrican Vice-Consulate on Friday afternoon, and the regret-table incident. has created a most unpleasant situation. No one regrets it more than does Dr. Jones, the new American Viee-(bnsul, who has just. arrived here from Dalnoy, where he had been stationed for several years previously. Out of courtesy to Canadian sentiment he had flown the Union Jack toâ€"day under the Stars and Stripes. It was the first time such had been done since the late lamented Con: sul Taylor's tenure of office, and no- thing could have been apprccmtcd more bv the citizens. Consequently the incl- client is all the more regretted. Two men were seen doing it by a lady next door, but, unfortunately, she did not call at: tention to it at once, and it is unlikely that their identity will be discovered. - bledâ€".â€" .. PLAYED \VI’I‘II DYNAMITE. p..â€" Careless \Vorkmcn Left It Ingthc Way of Children. A despatch from Winnipeg says: A; terrible explosion was averted here on- Tuesday, more by good luck than any-_ thing else. Some careless workmen had left a box of dynamite lying under the sidewalk on Beverley street, and chil-~ dren playing around discovered it and. amused sticks of the terrible explosive. Passcrs-' by noticed their danger, and warned them and then called the police. When; the latter arrived he dynamite was; strewn around indiscriminately, and a, laborer who was standing by when the ofliccrs arrived, to show his contempt for it, throw one of the sticks against a, house. Luckily it did not. explode. The police confiscated the entire lot. NEGROES. radar FOR urn. Six Lives Lost and Six Injured‘in a Georgia Lynching. A despatch from Reidsville, (3a., says: Two ncgrocs were lynched and four per- sons are dead and six others injured as the net result- ‘of an attempted assault made on Monday night. on Mrs. Loma Morrow (while), a widow, about six miles from here, by Flem Padget, a ne- gro. Two of the Padget family are the ones lynched, and the death or injury of the others followed the efforts of a posse to capture Padgct. >Xs..__.-._._. BLIZZARD IN DAKOTA. Three Days" Rain Cubninaied in a Snowstorm. A despatch from Slurgis, S.D., says: After three days and nights of steady rain, snow fell on Saturday aflcri'ioon, culminating in a blizzard at night. The Blackhills country is thorougle drenched, streams are Overflowing, many bridges are gone, and travel through the country is almost impos- sible. 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