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1; D i ,.. 7 i i _fi'dfimarmsua.Mm.............,...._-______ ._ , . ' Old fowl Cornâ€"Old No. 2 yellow Amercan 73c, Toronto freights; new, No. 3 yel- . low, 650 to 65%0; mixed, kiln-dried, 64%0. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 45%0, outside; mix- THE NEW MINT 18 [ll Silver and Copper Coins \Were Struck Off. A despatch from Ottawa says: The first Canadian coins to be minted in the Dominion were turned out at 3 o’clock on Thursday afternoon at the new Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint, which was officially opened by his Ex- cellency Earl Grey in the presence of '.members of the Government, promin- ent officials of State and a large crowd of Ottawa people we were invited to witness the formal opening. There was no speech-making in connection with the opening, his Excellency mere- ly declaring the Mint to be formally opened, and starting the machinery which coined the first silver fiifty-cent piece. The stamping machinery for the copper cent pieces was started simul- taneously, and a souvenir copper coin was presented to each person present, after a tour of the building had been made, and the various processes ex- plained by the officials in charge. The Mint will be kept in daily operation from now on, and will furnish a ready market for the product of Canadian cop- per and silver mines. It is the intention of the Government to build a refinery in connection with the Mint in order toinsure that gold and copper which is brought in for mlnting will be of the proper degree of purity for coinage. The cost of the re- finery will be about fifteen thousand dollans. Landauâ€"1min ..__â€"_~ BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Jan 7,â€"Manitoba Wheat.- No. 1 northern, about nominal at $1.20; No. 2 northern, $1.15; No. 3 northern, $1.11; feed w'hcat, 6-10; No. 2 feed, 54c, lake ports. Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 white, 960 to 07c; N0. 2 red, 950 to 966; No. 2 mixed, 95c. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 710 to 72c, outside; N0. 3 extra, 690 to 700. Flourâ€"Winter wheat patents for ex- port, selling at $3.70; Manitoba patent-s, special brand, $5.80 to $6; seconds, 55.20; strong bivkers’, $5.10. Peasâ€"83%c outside. ' Ryeâ€"No. 2, 800. 8d. 44%(: outside, 480 to 48%0 track Toronto. Buckwheatâ€"432C outside. Branâ€"10 in bulk outside; shorts, $21. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Young turkeys, extra choice. lie to 150 do choice . . . . . . . . . . . . 11010130 Young geese 90t0100 Young ducks . . . . . . . . . . . . . - 90 to i'D‘c SetolOc . . . . . 5cto 7c Inferior chicks and fowls .. lie to Sc Butterâ€"Jl‘he market is steady, with prices unchanged. Creamery prints .. 28cto 290 do solids .. 260M270 Dairy prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23c to 24c do solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 to 236 Inferior . . . . . 200to2lc Eggsâ€"Storage, 200 to 210 ‘per dozen in case lots; selects, 25c; strictly n-ew- laid nominal at 300. Potatoesâ€"700 to 75c per bag in car lots on track here. Beansâ€"$1.70 to $1.75 for primes and $1.80 to $1.85 for handwpicked. lloney-«Strained steady at 110 to 1.20 per pound for 60-pound pails, and 12c to tile for 5 to Iii-pound pails. Combs at $1.75 to $2.50 per dozen. ‘ Baled Strawâ€"Quiet at $9.50 to $10.50 per ton on track here. ' Baled Hayâ€"Timothy is worth from $16.50 to $17 in car lots on track here. Chickens, choice PROVISIONS. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 10c to 10%,0 for tons and cases; hams, large, medium and light, 140 to 150; hams, 12%0 to 130; backs, 16%6 to 17c; shoulders, 1.0c; rolls, 100 to 10%0; breakfast bacon, 150 to 15%0; green meats out of pickle, 10 less than smoked. ' Porkâ€"Short- cut, $22.75 to $23 per bar- rel; mess, $18 to $19. nan n Sillilfiitlt Ten Men Cast Away on an Island Off Cape A despatch from Boston says: A tale of shipwreck off Cape Horn, with its de- tails of terrible sufferings from cold, hunger and exposure, was related on Wednesday morning by Herman llarke, on arrival here on the steamer Horten- sius from South American ports. Harke was a. memlM‘ of the crew of the Ameri- can barque Prussia, which was wrecked on Staten Island, Cape item, on June t9, while on a voyage from Norfolk, V'a., to Port Townsend, Washington. The vessel struck a rock and in an endeavor to roach land four of the crew were drowned while Capt. Andrew Johnson was so weakened by exposure that he died the day after, and ten survivors reached the barren island. “I lived a lifetime in those few weeks when we were cast away on that desert bit of rock,” Ilarkc said. “It was bitterly cold. Capt. Johnson was trying to make New Year‘s Island light. The wind in- creas'fl to such frightful velocity that Lardâ€"Tierccs, 11%0; tubs, 12c; pails, 12%0. BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, Jan. 7â€"Wheatâ€"Spring high- er; No. 1 Northern, 831.17% earload; Winter firm, No. 2 red, $1.05. Cornâ€" Firm; No. 2 yellow, 61c; No. 2 white, 60%c. Oatsâ€"Steady; No. 2 white, 540; No. 2 mixed, 49%0. Barleyâ€"980 to $1.10. Ryeâ€"900, No. 1, on track. fl...â€" NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, Jan. 7.â€"-Wheatâ€"Spot, firm; No. 2 red, $1.06% elevator and $1.07% f.o.b., afloat; No. 1 northern, Duluth, 531.23%, f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, $1.17}§ f.o.b. afloat. ‘ LIVE STOECMARKET. Toronto, Jan. 7.â€"â€"Prices of butcher cattle get within touching distance of $5. Good to choice sold at $4 to $4.60, medium to good at $3.50 to $4, and com- mon from $2.25 up to around $3. Cows were scarce and higher, choice selling from $3.25 to $3.85; medium, $2.50 to $3, and common, $1.50 to $2; canners, 750 to $1. There is a fair market for the right class of stockers. Prices range from $2.75 to $3.50,'but cattle worth from $2.85 to $3 are the most in demand. Milkers are steady, with prices show- in T no material change. Choico, $40 to $5 ; medium, $25 to $35. The run of calves was very small, So to 60 per lb still ruling. Choice lambs sold from $5.25 to $5.60, with common grading down to $4.50. Sheep were firm, but quotations were un- changed, export ewes selling from $3.75 t: $4.25, with bucks and culls at $2.50 to $3. The hog market was steady. The top figure paid was $5.70, with medium at $5.45. Rough hogs were quoted about 50c belowselects. M..- .3..__...... TRIED TO KILL, THEN SUICIDED. w British Officer Ends Life Under Pecu- liar Circumstances. A despatch from London says: Major Coates Phillips, an officer who distin- guished himself in the South African War, committed suicide here on Tuesday night under sensational circumstances. The Major had been divorced. Some time ago he made an attempt to kill him- self in the residence of his former wife, but was restrained. Tuesday night he returned to the home of Mrs. Coates Phillips and forced an entrance. Hts former wife, her mother and a solicitor were in the house, but when they saw the excited man break in they fled. The Major opened fire with his revolver, aiming at everyone he could see, and then blew out his brains. The solicitor and the mother of Mrs. Coates Phillips were wounded, but not seriously. .... g4... _ London’s fire losses for 1907 total $30,000. Horn. ~ the barque was ashore and a wreck be- fore anyone realized where we were. She broke up at once, amleveryone of 11.“. jumped overboard. Eleven of the thirteen reached a. jagged rock, where there was a bit of hard, white sand and overhanging cliff. “At dawn Sabata, the Japanese cook, and Harry Hammond, a sailor were missing. They may have been crushed where the ship went: asunder or per- haps were drowned in trying to reach the rock. We were almost fiozcn. “The strip of sand was about 300 feet long, and we saw the ledge that over- hung our position was completely im- passable. There was no escape. Capt. Johnson was suffering from an injury. We shielded him as best we might by forming a circle about him. He seemed to freeze stiff almost. before the last breath had left his body. We managed it bury him in the sand. We collected a little driftwood for a fire and constructed a rough shelter." . u. one-Himamusu .«Lr'.":£1.4.‘l.‘hu'.’d - Famous Oarsman Succumbs to Attack of Pneumonia. . yuan-qurvis‘ssvnc .-- 1 x-~'~‘_‘ 2:2. ~.-. «.m -‘ ~ ' KILLED IN BUFFALO. Terrible Death of 'Lieut.-C0l. John‘s“ Cautley. A despatch from Buffalo says: After passing through several campaigns in India, the Soildan and South Africa, without suffering a single wound, fate reserved a horrible death for Lieuten- ant-Colonel John C. Cautley, retired, whose winter headquarters were at the Grand Union Hotel in Toronto. As he stepped off a Main street car in this, city on Sunday afternoon at Bryant street on his way to visit his two daugh- ters, he was struck by a car travelling in an opposite direction. and his mang- led body carried for 130 feet before the motorman brought the car to a stop. The accident occurred in front of the Frontier Hospital. Surgeons from this institution carried the dead colonel into the hospital, and after the body had been reviewed by Medical Examiner I-Iowland it was removed to the home of Attorney John M. Provost, No. 2,120 lnwood avenue, where his two daugh- ters are stopping. Both girls, who at. tend the Technical High School here, were prostrated by the sight of their mutilated father. The medal which he wore was found crushed against his heart, The body will be shipped to a brother in Baltimore for burial. Lieu.~ tenant-Colonel Caulley had belonged to the Royal West Kent Regiment. Ile had seen service in India, in the Gor- don relief expedition, and at Majuba f-Iill, retiring from the army in 1891-. He leaves a wife and son in England. mfiâ€" -_ -â€" C.P.R. \VRECK NEAR CIIAI’LEAU. Lindsay Lady Killed and Scores of People injured. A despatch from Montreal says: An- other fatal wreck on the C.P.R. took place early on Friday morning half way ken 80-113. rail caused east-bound express No 2 to leave the track. A baggage car and coach were derailed, and turned on their sides, and Mrs. B. Slowen, of Lind- say, Ont., was killed. The following passengers - were injured :â€"â€"Alex. Ross, Dundurn, Sask.,’ lost right hand; W. Reynolds, Montreal, head out; Duncan Livingston, Durham, Ont., shoulder bruised; Lewis Harte, Deloraine, Mam, head out; E. E. Perkins, Port Arthur, Peter McKenn Black, cut on head; David Lindsay, Iondon, cut on head; Eu M'cLane, Paynton, Sash, head and hand cut; Dan McDougull, St. Al- mon, Ont., cut on head; Robert Mat- thews, Moose Jaw, back injured; A. Gil- christ, Glennanan, Ont., scalp wound. in addition to these passengers, Jus. Hale and James Stanley, employcs or the C.P.R. at Chapleau, were aiSO injured. The accident happened on the Lake Su- perior division, the headquarters of which are at North Bay, of which J. 1". Brady is general superintendent. The accident occurred at a. point about 114 miles east of North Bay, and the train was running east. _____..;4_____ ANTI»SUICIDE BUREAUS. ..._._. ucsuu of-the First Year's Work no- period. A despatch from London says: Twelve months ago Gen. Booth of the Salva- tion Army started anti-suicide bureaus in various cities of the world, and he now has issued a review of the year's work. Altogether 1,125 men and 90 women sought the assistance of the London bureau to save them from self- destruction, while at least an equal number applied at the bureaus in other cities. It appears from ,the review that the seekers for help belonged mainly to the middle class. More than half of them attributed the desire to end their lives to financial embarrassment or thopeless poverty. From the small number of women applicants Gen. Booth deduces that they are better able to bear up under sorrows and trials than men. He thinks it safe to say, that 75% of the applicants have been diverted from contemplated suicide and helped to surmount their difficulties. extâ€"fl GOOD. FOR CATTLEME‘J. Mild “Winter Has Been Easy on Feed in ' the “test. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Mild weather and the absence of snow have been a blessing to be people who have cattle in those dis riots where it was impossible to put up sufficient hay last fall for winter loader. Up to the prcsent the cattle have been browsing on the prairits and it has been unnecessary tc give them any extra. feed. Thus farâ€" mers and stockmen have effected an immense saving on their hay supplies. Some stockmen killed off or sold to their herds, and others secured a supply of straw, to help out in case of pressure, and it is now felt that the winter will be passed without loss. -._._._..._..§.- EDWARD IMNLAN lS DEAD. A despatch from Toronto says: Ed- ward Hanlan, former champion common of the world, died at his residence, 189 Beverley Street, shortly before 1 o'clock on Saturday morning from pneumouia. He had been ill for about ten days, and his physician, Dr. T. F. McMahon, gave up hope early in the week. The patient was unconscious for several days, with occasional rallies, and he recognized his wife for the last time on Friday morn- ing. Mr. l-Ianlan was born on Toronto Island fifty-two years ago, and was al- ways a resident of this city. vf‘ Whitby‘s council was elected by ac- claniation. between Chapleau and Cartier. A bro-. dealers a. considerable proportion of ‘ . liliLUG ' Olllll’li Rushed Into Pit in Steel Converter at Pittsburg. A (Impala from Duisburg. P0110. hardly be other than that some of the‘ says: Two men were killed and thirâ€" teen others seriously injured by an ex. plosion in converter No. 3 of the Edgar Thomson plant of the United States Steel (.‘orporation at North Braddock, about seven miles east of here, on Wed- nesday. .The two men killed were foreigners. Six of the injured were Americans, and the others Slavs. All were removed to a hospital in this city, where it was said their injuries were not serious. No official statement of the cause of the explosion has been issued, but old converter mill men say” the cause could I in the pit. molten metal sifted through the soap- stone lining of the converter and came ill contact with the steel sheathing which perhaps was damp. When the explosion occurred the bot-‘ tom of the converter dropped out, throw- ing 15 tons of molten metal into the pit where 15 men were working at the ladies... There was no explosion wlfen‘ the hot mass of steel struck the bottom of the pit, but instead flames of burning gas were sent up which burned the .men The two men who were killed had been working under the con.- verter, and their bodies were terribly mangled. C NDENSTSD NEWS lTEM‘ GLOBE. h Other Countries of ltcccnt Events. ' CANADA. ‘ The Bell memorial fund at113rantford totals $40,000. ' iuilding operations in Montreal last year total $8,403,129. Bank clearings for 1.907 in Toronto amounted to $1,228,905,al7. A new jail is needed at Woodstock, the present building beingovercrowded. Judge Ermatingcr, of St. Thomas, holds that fishermen are not scamen. Permits to erect buildings. month $2,758,540 were issued in Hamilton in 1907. The Crown Bank of Canada is to be amalgamated with the Northern of Win- nipeg. . John Bird was fatally injured at Paris by being crushed in an elevator, on Saturday. « Peterboro' will promote a bill before the Legislature to elect its Aldermen every two years. Customs duties collected in Toronto last year. were $1,611,262.23, an increase (f $1,561,976.58. ' lion. .I. ll. Cameron has been formal- ly proclaimed Justice of the Kings lench in Manitoba. The C. I’. R. is taking off trains in the west, owing to a falling off in pas- senger truffle. If. W. Walker, general auditor of the G. T. R., has retired after over 50 years’ service. Canada's total customs revenue for December was $4,093,060, a decrease, and the first in years. The C. P. R. will issue over twenty- four millions of new stock to the pre- sent shareholders at par. Miss Margaret McBride of St. Tho- mas committed suicide by taking car~ belie acid on Saturday. Dominion Government wireless sta- tions are doing business regularly be- tween Victoria and Pachcna. George Kelly was killed in the Trethe- wey mine at Cobalt on Thursday, by a bucket dropping down the shaft. It has been decided to keep Brock- ville schools closed on account of the smallpox outbreak. Twelve patients are in the hospital. John Timson was run over by a freight. train at Hamilton, on Wednes- day. One leg had to be amputated and the other is broken. An explosion of gasoline at the es- tablishment of the James Dye \‘x’orks, Toronto, blew out a. side of the build- ing, on Thursday. The Manitoba Government have bought the Bell Telephone system in the Province, the price reported being Engineer John J. Walker was killed Pttiti A despatch from St. Petersburg says: E) cept for the discharge of firearms, the conflict which was fought between some Revolutionists and the police in an old street in Riga the other day might have been taken for an assault in the days of Peter the Great, for the Government forces entered the attack wearing steel breastplates and helmets. The revolu- tionists occupied the top rooms of a five- storey house. The door was barricaded, sion a woman of fifty-seven, named Greta 'l‘omson, replied: “We shall not surrender without. a fight." At the some instant a volley was fired through the door by the imitates, the Utah and when the police demanded adinis-, torn off in a collision at Tilsonburg, on Thursday. The customs receipts at Montreal for 1907 total $16,870,465. an increase of HAPPENINGS FRO.“ ALL 0\..-‘i THE $3,732,849 over the previous year- I-Ion. J. D. Cameron, former Attor-, hey-General of Manitoba, has been ap-t pointed a justice of the King's Benclm In a fight on Friday night. in the ltaliâ€"f 'l‘cle ‘, . .. . . . “mph Briefs “0‘” 0"“ 0“" and an quarter of Montreal one man was‘ shot dead and. another was stabbed and shot, and will hardly recover. l . M4’___ ! T\V0 BROTHERS KlLLED. A Charge of Dynamite Exploded Unexr pectedly. A despatch from Kenora says: in a, dynamite fatality on Thursday even-1 ing on the Transcontinental. Railway. construction works at Hawk, some miles. east of here, John and Joseph Dwyer lost their lives. T be men, who are brothers, had a contract for blasting, and while engaged in filling a hole that had been recently sprung, the charge unexpectedly exploded, killing both almost instantly. The bodies of the victims arrived hero on Friday, on route for Port Arthur, where their fa», ther, Denis Dwyer, a florist, resdes- \VALKED OFF “1TH THE MONEY Man With Revolver Robs in Winnipeg Grocery Store. A despatch from Winnipeg says: A daring hold-up was coolly and successâ€"‘~ ing, when a stranger walked into F1'an-' cis' grocery store in North Winnipeg about 6 D.lil., when there was only one clerk on duty. He poked a revolver under the clerk’s nose and compelled him to hand over the cash in the till, amounting in all to $72. lie made good his escape. - .._____.,x,_. CUT STEREET CAR IN T‘NO. C. P. R. Train and Ottawa Electric Car Collideâ€"Man Killed. A despatch from Ottawa says: A Canadian Pacific freight train on the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Railway 'ool" lid-ed with an Ottawa electric car on‘, St. Patrick street, near New Edinburgh,‘ on Friday, cutting the street car in two.‘ Although several people were in the: street car, only one woman was inâ€"‘ jured and the motorman received a: scalp wound. The street car fell on at. man working alongside the street and; killed him. Ills name was August; Waunk, about 60 years old, he leaves ._._._._,x‘._._.__. “THE \VAY OUT." Inscription on Bottle. From Which SulJ cide Drank Poison. ‘ A despatch from London says: From’ a bottle labelled “The Way Out," Dr; Wilkins, formerly of the Manchester University, on Wednesday drank a dose and J. McCray, brakeman, had his leg of Panst acid and died, ‘â€" A Four-chr Battle Took Place in. St. ’ Petersbnrg. bullets rattling against the armor of the men outside, one of whom was slightlyi wounded. The police then entercd'ané adjoining attic, from which the revoluJ lionists could be more readily attackedJ. and for four hours a continuous tire was; directed through the walls. Graduallyj the replies of the revolutionth became less frequent, and finally ceased. i The police then broke into the apart-t moms and found four dead, including the woman 'l‘omson. lying on the floor. There were also five men and two girls wounded. They had tired about seven hundred shots and were armed with n. Mauser rifle and three Browning revel. vers. A. fully carriEd out here on Saturday cvenâ€", “ 'w {whirer “ ‘W'; at megawaqu :‘x :5.» A r guns We’re? 'I‘W 4.! v ‘5.‘_;..'_.‘:.._:r‘