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, 1., xi . :1 v ‘7' ,Qfi'zw‘wk ham-.5.“ 'Ahm N“ finw-VVWW V- v ~/'v'\'*n v"-/‘/"‘¥V «5 A. g y an HUNDRED "attain Unparalleled Disaster in West Virginia __. Coal {Mine .Virginia, says: The most terrible nine disaster in the coal history of West Virginia, and probably the great- est mining disaster in the history of the United States, occurred in mines numbers six and eight, of the Fairmont Coal Company, opposite Monongah, on the West Fork River on Thursday. It thought. that. at least 350 men have lost their lives. Six charred and blackened bodies lying in the improvised morgue pre- pared near the entrance to the mine. four men hovering between life and death from the awful bruises sustain- ed and the deadly gases inhaled. in a temporary hospital into which one of the company’s buildings has been trans- formed, and 300 men imprisoned by ions of coal and mine debris in the depths of the hills surrounding this mining town, with the chances all against a single one of them being alive. is the most acetirate. summary obtainable on Thursday night of the re- sults of the explosion. The explosion occurred shortly after 10 o‘clock, after the full force of 380 men had gone to work in the two mines affected. These mines are Nos. 0 and 8 of the Consolidated Coal (To. located in opposite sides of the West Fork Riv- er, but merged in their underground workings by a heading and on. the. sur- face by a great. steel tipple and bridge. CAUSED BY BLACK DAMP. There is much speculation as to the cause of the explosion, but the most generally accepted theory is that. it. re- sulted from black damp, scientificallv known as methane. It is believed that a miner attempted to set off a blast which blew out and ignited the highle nflammable substance found in. greater or" less quantities in all West virointu mines. However, all explanatimias of .-the cause up to this time are necessarily speculative. Only a thorough investi- gation after the mine is reopened will disclose the cause, if it is ever ascer- tained. ‘ The explosion affected both mines, and so far as is now known appears to have done about as} much damage 'A despalch from Fairmont, West \in one as in the other. It has not been been loosened and opening, and all of the underground established in which mine it originated. $5.30; seconds, $5.20; Evidencing the terrific force of the con- cussion, props in the entry of No. 6 mine, supporting the roof, were not only shattered and torn from their po- sitions, but were blown out of the en- try, and to the opposite side of the riv- er Other evidence of the awful force .s shown in every section of the mines that has been reached by the rescuers. lluge quantities of coal and rock have hurled into every structure is wrecked beyond semblance of the original shape. THE \VORK OF RESCUE. The entry of N0. 6 mine. 300 feet from the mouth is piled high with the wreckage of two strings of cars and two electric motors. Some of the res- cuers have climbed over this and Hound dead bodies beyond, but have made no attempt to remove these to the surface. partly because it would lre almost impossible to carry the bod- ies over the debris, but more because they do not want to lose any time in ‘reaching other sections of the mine where it is possible men still living may be imprisoned. The cars are be- ing right-ed as fast as possible and re- moved from the entry together with all ‘cther obstructions. l PATH ET [C S CEN ES . The scenes round about the entries in“. the mines and throughout the town are pathetic and heartrending. Wives. mothers and sweethearts, together with children and members of the stronger sex, move from place to place, vainly seeking information. and making no at- tempt to conceal their grief. 'liul. little news can be given them, and. such as they do get is bad. None is encour- aged to hope that anyone in the mine has survived the explosion and the suf- focating gas that immediately after filled the mine. From time to time there comes Word from the searchers in the mine that bodies have been found at one place or another, and in nearly every instance it is also stated that the bodies are either terribly torn and mangled or burned and blackened. mm W EBB-TIDE or EMfcnfvriofv. Undesirablc Hordes are Pouring in on Germany. A ‘dcspatch from London says: Ac- cording to a Berlin despatch, Ger- many is tremendously alarmed over the economic consequences of the emi- grant rush from America. A corre- spondent says: “It is feared that the tens of thousands of Russian Poles, Lithuanians, Hungarians Greeks, and Italians, landing at Hamburg and Bre- men, aftcr having spent their last coins on passage money back, may become stranded in Germany, and put the al- ready overcrowded domestic labor mar- ket in a critical position.” The Im- perial. Government is being urged to consider “whether Germany should not. Immediately resort to the vigorous pro- hibitiye measures enforced by the American immigration authorities and arbitrarily put up bars against the for- rent of homeless undesirables.” _._._.1, ._, .â€" IIUSSIA IIAS GUNPOWDER PLOT. Scheme to Blow Up Eniperor, Imperial Palace and Dame. A dcspaich from Paris says: A Ge- neva despatch received here states that the police have discovered a Russian terrorist plot to assassinate the Em- peror, blow up the Imperial Palace and the Dame, and pillage the Imperial Bank of Russia. One arrest. has been made in connection with the alleged plot. HANG-ED AT HAMLOOPS. Cinnamon, Killed Man “'ho Stole "is Money. Sam Lock, a A despatch from Vancouver says: Sam Lock, Chinamau, was executed on Wednesday morning in. the jail yard at Ixamloops. Groaning and very nervous, the aged Chinaman walked to the gallows. Sam Lock, who was for years cook for J. E. Hobs-on in Carl- boo, last April killed a countryman who had stolen his savings. The mur- derer had been forty years in the coun- try, and up to that time had borne a good reputation. ~ --â€"â€"â€"»z«.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- STRUCK \VOLF “71TH GUN. r...â€" The Pietce Was known German “ins Killed. A dcspatch from Sheho. Saskatche- watn, says: Details have just been re- ceived of a distressing fatality in the neighborhood of Ebenezer, about thirty miles southeast. A German, name un- known, had come to the district. for the purpose of hunting, and went out on horseback, accompanied by his hounds. Having run down a wolf, he alighted and struck it on the head with the bar- rel of his gun. This broke the barrels, land again he struck the wolf with the stock of the gun, when the gun explod- ed and the full charge entered the man’s body in the neighborhood of the heart, killing him instantly. Messenger Sarprised Two Burglars at ,Work in Montreal Bank. A d‘cspatch from Montreal says: A desperate gang of burglars is infesting Montreal, and their latest exploit was a particularly hold one. At a late hour on Wednesday night Mr. Alarie, the mes- senger at the central branch of the Bantu d’Hoehelaga, on St. Catherine Street, was alarmed to hear the buzzer if.- his room go off. He knew that some one must have entered the bank, and ' hastily dressing himself, be rushed out from his house, which is at. the end of a lane behind the bank, and entered by the door at St. Catherine Street. He saw a light burning near the outer door of the principal safe, where there is. as a rule. no light. At once he entered the manager's office, and taking his revolver from a drawer, crawled cautiously near the light. Two men were trying the combination of the outer door of the vault. Walking on tip toe to surprise them, he himself was surprised. The robbers had detected his presence, and a revolver shot was fired. The mes- senger’s escape was marvellous, for the burglar’s bullet passed through his hat, and then, crashing through the glass of a window, flattened itself against a brick wall in the lane. Alar-ie fired back, and immediater one of the burglars switched off the ligh . Before the messenger could cut off their retreat they had found their way out by the open door. The messen- er quickly followed, but there was no me of the robbers. Discharged, and - Un- . ~ 'Westem market to-day. marketer tilt’lfilllt swan Tllll inn BREADSTUFFS. ‘Toronto, Dec. 10.â€".\'lanitoba Wheat-â€" No. 1 hard, nominal; No. 1-northern. $1.15; No. 2, $1.101/2; No. 3 northern, $1.06. \ Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 white or red, about title; No. 2 mixed, 05c, outside; goose, 88c. Barleyâ€"No. 2. 1370, outside; N10. 3. extra, (Me to 05c; prices are nominal. Flourâ€"Ontario winter wheat, $3.75 bid; Manitoba patents, special brand, strong bakers, $5.10. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white. 460 to 470, out~ side; mixed, 450 to 400, Outside. Ryeâ€"70c, outside. Peasâ€"80c. outside. Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow American, 70%0 to 710, Toronto freighls; new corn, 1550 to 65%c, December delivery. Buckwheatrâ€"GQc. outside. Bramâ€"$10 to $20, in bulk outside; shorts, $21 to 322. -.__~â€"-‘ COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butterâ€"Market holds steady at un- changed quotations. Creamery, prints do solids .. 200 to 30c. . 206 to 27c Dairy prints . . .. . . . . . . 25c to 27c do solids . . . . . 230 to 24-3 inferior . . . . . . 20c to 22c. Cheeseâ€"Very steady at 13gb 101‘ large and 1394c for twins. Eggsâ€"Storage easy at 22c. to 23c per dozen in case lots, selects, 200; strictly newâ€"laid nominal at about 3th to 350. Poultryâ€"Market is eaSy Owing to the heavy supply. Chickens. choice .. 7cto Sc 1010 fowl 5cto Sc Inferior . . . . . 4cto Young geese .. 7cto 8c Ducks. choice SC to 00 Young turkeys 1001012c Thin turkeys . . . . . . 09 to Sc Rotatoes~Steady at. 050 10000 per bag in car lots on track here. Beansâ€"$1.75 to $1.85 for primes and $1.85 to $1.05 for hand-picked. I-Ioncy-Strained steady at lie to 120 per pound for (ill-pound pails, and 12c to 13c for 5 to iii-pound pails. Combs at $1.75 to $2.50yper dozen. Youis-orrâ€"llimlqtiarters. 11140 to 130; front quarters. 5c; carcases. 8340 to 0G. ‘ Ralod llayâ€"ft‘imothy quoted at $17.50 to $18.50 in car lots on track here. Baird Strawâ€"Market. is quiet at $0.50 if $10.50 per ton on track here. PROVISIONS. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats-Long clear bacon, 10%c to lie for tons and cases; hams, medium and light, 15c to 15%c: heavy, 13%c to Me; backs, 10%0 to '17c; shoulders, 10c to 10,1'gc; robs, 103§c to lie; breakfast bacon, 15c to 15%0; green meats out. of pickle, to less than smoked. t Porkâ€"Short cut, barrels; mess, $10 to l.ardâ€"â€"Easicr:"’ firm; tierees, tubs, 12%c; pails, 12%0. to for 11%c; MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Dec. ifO.â€"There is no new feature :in the local flour market. Choice spring patents, $0.10; seconds, $5.50; winter wheat patents, $5.75; straight rollers, $5.50; do., in bags, $2.60 to $2.65; extra, $2.05 to $2.10. Manitoba bran aft $23; shorts, at Ontario bran, at. $23.50 to $24; middlings, at $27 to per ton, including bags; milled mouille, at $28 to $32, and pure grain mouillc, at. $35 to $37 per ton. Rolled oats, at 363.17% per bag; corn meal, at $1.75 to $1.85 per bag. Pnovisions~â€"Barrcls. short cut mess, $22.50 to $23; half barrels, $11175 to $12.25; clear fat backs, $23.50 to $24.- 50; long cut heavy mess, $21 to $23; half barrels (10., 810.50 to $11.25; dry salt long clear bacon, 10%c to 11%c; barrels plate beef. $13.50 "to $.15; half barrels do., to $7.75; barrels heavy mess beef, $10 to $11; half bar- rels (10., $5.50 to $0; compound lard, 100 to lie; pure lard, 12%0 to 13c; ket- tle rendered, 13%c to Me; hams, 12%0 to 13%0, according to size; breakfast bacon, Me to 15c; 14%6 to 15360; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $8.50 to $8.75; alive, $5- 50 to $5.75. There is a strong undertone to the local cheese market. October tail ends, 120 to 12%c; September, 13c. A moderate and steady inquiry pre- vails for butter. Grass goods, 280 to 28%c; current receipts, stall fed, 26c to 27%0. . There is no new feature in the local [egg market. Newly laid, 32c; selects, 24%c to 25c; No. 1, 21%0 to 22%0 per dozen. __.._â€"-_ ,BUFFALO MARKETS. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 10.â€"Wheat -â€" No. 2 red, $1.01; Winter, steady. Cornâ€" Stronger; No. 2 white, 05%c; No. 2 yellow, 6094c. Oatsâ€"Firmer; No. 2 mixed. 471/2-c; No. 2 white, 55%0. Bar- leyâ€"05c to $1.15. Rye~No. i, 89 to 90c. NE\V YORK “7 HEAT MARKET. New York, Dec. 10.â€"that â€"â€" Spot easy; No. 2 red, 311.00% in elevator and 01.01% f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Du- luth, 31.15% fob. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 31.10% Lab. afloat. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, Dec. 10.â€"Trade in nearly all classes of cattle was active at the Light rough. Windsor ba con, Spring, tower; No. 1 northern, $1.11;' Won Honors in Sheep at Live Stool: Show at Chicago: ' A ‘despatch from Chicago says: The judging of the sheep classes at the international Live Stock Show was finish-ed on Thursday, the exhibits from the Province of Ontario sweeping the field. The total entries in this depart- ment are 1.101), as against 801 in 1006. lcpreseutatives of the Japanese dovermnent attended the show on lnursday making arraf'igcn'ientfs for the purchase of Clydesdale and flack- ney horses. It is said that $400,000 has been appropriated for expenditure in this country and Canada on horses of heavy bone and muscle. The Ontario-bred grand champion steer of the lntcrnatiozmt Live Stock Show, the most honored animal of all the thousands that are being exhibited stockers were about the only class which did not. sell well. A few loads at the stock yards this week, sold at auction on Thursday for 24 cents a lpound on the hoof. This price is nmch 1 lower than those of form-er shows. Roan King is the premier l'iecf-bcaring beast who was knocked down at this price. Tht. Shorthorn calf that swept the field went to a packing company of Buffalo. The total sum paid for him was $250.20, his weight being 1,080. The grand champion was followed at the auction block by the blue ribbon cor-lot of steers, exhibited by titans [{rambeck. They went at 5 cents a pound. the average per animal being $122.16, and the total for the load being $1,832.40. A year ago the grand cham- pion car-tot went at 17 cents a pound. netting $0,000.00. WM DOMINION “NANCICS. x... of cattle were of fairly good quality, Revenue for Eight Months Over Sixty- and these brought pretty fair prices. The greater inunber. however. were tight, and not well finished. Some might be described as having no fin- 1511 at all. [logs were unchanged. The deliveries were 174 cars, containing cattle, 3.780 sheep and lambs, 500 hogs, and 142 calves. Of these 35 cars were en route from Chicago to the seaboard. About the only liquiness transacted ir. cxporicrs’ cattle was the sale of one load, 1.450 pounds, for $4.80 per cwt. Butc’hers’ cattle. best. $4.50 to $4.75; fair to good, loads of, $4 to $4.25: me- dium. $3.25 to $3.50; export cows, 50 to $3.75; good butchers’ cows. 33 to medium cows, $2.50 to comn'ion, to $2.25; canners, 750 to 009 per cwt. l'l-uyers from the country were en- quiring for feeders and stockers. Light rough animals sold‘at $1.50 to $2.40 per cwt., and good steers were more in demand at 82.50 to $3.60 per cwt. Mitch cows were firm at $40 to $70 each for choice, and $25 to $40 each for medium ones. Calves were steady in price at 3 to Sc per pound. Sheep and lambs were brought for« ward liberally. Prices were unchang- ed at $3.75 to $4 per cwt. for export ewes, 952.50 to $3 for bucks and culls, and St to for sheep and lambs. Hogsâ€"Selects and fats continued to sell at $4.75 to $5 per cwt., and sows were \\’-tf)l'tll $3.50 per cwt. "if. ._.__.. DEATH OF KING OSCAR. .1110 End Game. Peacefully on Sunday Afternoon. A despatch from Stockholm, SWedcn, says: King Oscar died at 0.15 o’clockl on Sunday morning. He was uncon- scious since 3 o’clock on Saturday after- aroon, at which time he spoke his last words, thanking his surgeon for re- lieving his pain. He. also, for a, brief time, recognized Queen Sophia and Princess Ingeborg, one of his. daugh- ters-in-law, to whom he said “'l‘hanks,’ ond then relapsed into coma. After this his strength steadily ldssened. The members of his family and: court officials assembled at 8 o’clock in. the room in which his Majesty lay (lying and remained until the end, Queen So- phia sat by the bedside and held her dying husband’s hand. Shortly before he died the aged Queen, who for more than half a century had been .King Os» car‘s companion and helpmxcet, knelt by the bedside and offered a short, touching prayer. litl‘l‘lt for the A (lespatch from Montreal says: With the departure of the steam barge Nicarc agua on Tuesday of last week the busr- ness of the canals here may be said to have closed for the season, aft-er the most successful year in the history of the St. Lawrence system. ‘ In the number of vessels passmg through, in the amount of general mer- chandise carried, in the number of pas- sengers travelling on river steamer-sand most particularly in the amount of gram transferred from the West to the harbor of Mont-cal, his season marks a tremen- dous increase over the figures of any previous year. Last year showeda great increase over the summer of 100;), but, large as the margin was, it was not. at all equal to the difference between the seasons of 1006 and.‘1907. The transportation of wheat. of pre- mier importance in the records of the St. Lawrence canal revenue returns, reached a total of almost double the number of bushels carried down last year, while the total for corn, though not so great, was almost triple last years figures. Rolled in a vat» of pulp and scalding water was the terrible experience of Under the grain heading the Cheese, cal-es six Millions. A despitch from Ottawa says: The financial statement of the Dtnuinion giv- ting the total revenue and expemliturc lint the present fiscal year, according '10 returns furnished the Finance Depart- went up to November :10, shows a total revenue for the first eight months. April to November inclusive, of $00,002,427, and a total cxpciutiiure of $58,108,043. Total revenue increased by $0,148.875, the increase for last month being $761.,- Of the aggregate increase in reve- , nut- for the eight months $7,210,810 was ‘ customs receipts, 3740.881 from excise, $437,310 from postoflice, ’and $532,047. from public works, including railways. The total net debt of the Dominion on November 30111 stood at $254,090,874, an increase of $2,500,141 during the month. â€". ..._ . ._r1¢~. FELL INTO SCALDXIN'G PULP. . Man Had to ‘Wade Ten Feet Before He Could Escape. A despatch from Montreal says: Leslie Williams, 20 years of age, of Tupper Lake, N. Y. The vat was six feet deep and the young man had to, wade ten feet before he could get out of the stuff. By this time his flesh was pat-boiled from head to foot, and by the time he dragged himself out of the hole he was in a wretched stale and son collapsed and fell back into the boiling water. Williams was finally res-cued‘by some of his couri'ades and after a medical. consultation it was de- cided to bring him to Montreal. After en'fcrgcncy treatment of cold cream and sweet oil. to prevent the skin from peeli-ug'off, he was brought to the city and taken to the General Hospital where he died on Saturday. ._.___- .q. l PLANS FOR NAVAL BASE. - ‘v’ork “'ill Soon Commence at Rosyth, Scotland. A .despatch from Glasgow, says: The plans for the great new naval base at Rosyth, Scotland, have been complet- ed, and the work will commence early in 1008. The basin will. cover an area In” fifty-six acres. with a depth of thirty- six feet at. all tides. Access will be ob- ltamcd through a lock 850 feet long.‘ The basin is to be practically square, with quay accommodation for twenty" two warships, although this may be doubled. The plans provide for the con- struction of a gravng dock to accom- modate the largest of this amount 01 ships. it? 1 St. Lawrence Waterways. Made Record Season. only decreases in totals were in barley, ftaxseed, and flour, and these were very small in proportion to the whole amount of each carried. The returns for passenger trafllc are sinnewhat surprising, in view of the late coming of the summer weather and the general inelcniency which prevailed, two reasons, which were. expected to cause a decrease, instead of that, however, the figures of last summer are battered by upwards of fifteen thousand. In total tonnage the increase amounts to almost two hundred thousand tons. The principal shipments of the season are as follows: . t 11007. 1906. iWheal, bushels . . . . . 16,444.938 8,411,165 Corn, bushels 3,770,860 1,460,846 Peas, bushels . . . . . . . 3,689 (3,875 Oats, bushels . . . . . .. 3,219,565 2,100,831} ’Barlcy, bushels 428,519 770,120 I lye, bushels 81,000 25,000 iii‘iaxseed, bushels 1,757,808 2,694,452 lf‘lour, barrels 46,227 76,171 ~l-1ggs, cases 11,471 (5,037 Butter, cases ..._..... 4,484 3,553 242,391 223,551 . ..'..‘._.....-.' ....'..~~» v "hm-- ..--..... r ..,.-...‘.'.~.... .. « ... .. ....-~n.:‘. :