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. mum/3:1 “.2. .. ma..-» «u’mv‘r, .... .. Trampled to Death Seats in Hall in England. 'A 'despatch from Barnsley, England, in Bush for Better The scene was a terrible one, the cries says: Sixteen children were trampled of the injured and tho moans of the dy- to death and forty others, several of whom cannot live, were injured, in a mad rush for better seats at an outer- tainment given in the public hall here on Saturday afternoon. There was a great rush to secure ad- mittance to the entertainment, and when the show opened every seat was taken, and the gallery was literally packed with children, who filled the aisles and were dangerously massed against the lower railing. With a view to relieving this crowding in the gallery the attendants decided to transfer some of the children to the body of the house, and one of the ushers called out, “Some of you children come downstairs.” Immediately the rush started, and within a few seconds hundreds of chil- dren were being trampled under foot. Even those who had seats in the gal- lery, doubtless being panic-stricken by, the screams and struggles of the crowds fighting to reach the staircases, joined in the stampede. ,. fl THE W ORLD’S MARKETS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. REI’O RTS .__. Prices of Cattle, Grain, (30056 3"" Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. Toronto, Jan. 14. â€" Flour â€"â€" Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents are quoted at $3.70 to $3.75 in buyers’ sacks outside for export. Manitoba flour unchanged; first patents, 86; second patents, $5.30 to 85.40, and strong bakers’, $5.20. Wheatâ€"ltlanitoba grades were quiet. No. 1 Northern quoted at $1.21, lake ports; No. 2 Northern quoted at $1.16. lake ports; and No. 3 Northern at $1.13, lake ports. Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 white and red quoted at 97 to 980 outside, and No. 2 mixed at 96 to 96%0 outside. Oatsâ€"N0. 2 white on track, Toronto, 49% to 500, and outside at 47 to 47%0. Cornâ€"N0. 3 American new yellow is quoted at 660, Toronto, and kiln-dried new No. 3 mixed at 65%c, Toronto. Ryeâ€"No. 2 quoted at 81 to 820 outside. Buckwheatâ€"62c outside. Barleyâ€"No. 2 quoted at 75c outside No. 3 extra at 72c outside, and No. 3 '. 70c outside. Branâ€"$18.50 to $19 in bulk outside. Shorts are quoted at $21 to $22 outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€"Winter, $2 to $3.25 per barrel. Reansâ€"-Prime, $1.65 to $1.70; and hand-picked, $1.80 to $1.85. ' Honeyâ€"‘12 to 13-0 per lb for strained. and at $1.75 to for combs. l’oultryâ€"'l‘urkeys, dressed, 12 to 14c pet lb for choice; chickens, alive, 5 to 60 p01 lb; dressed, 9 to 10c; ducks, dressed, 9 to lie per lb; geese, dressed, 9 to 100. Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy quoted at $16.50 to $17.50 here in car lots. Strawâ€"Steady at $9.50 to $10.50 a ton on track here. Potatoesâ€"Car lots are quoted at '70 to 75¢ per bag on track. TIIE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 24 to 25c, and large rolls, 22 to 23c; do, inferior, 20 to 24c. Creamery rules at 28 to 290, and solids at 25 to 260. Eggsâ€"Cold storage are quoted at 20 to .210 and upwards. Cheeseâ€"13% to 13%0 in a jobbing way. IIOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 10 to 10%c per lb in case lots; mess poi-kit $18 to $10; short cut. to IIam-Sâ€"â€"I.ight to medium, 14% to 15c: (10, heavy, 12% to 13c; rolls, 10%c; shoulders, 10c; backs. 16 to 16%0; break- fast. bacon, 114% to 15c. ' Lardâ€"Tierces, 11%c; tubs,1.2c; pails. 12%0. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Jan. S.â€"-(Special.)â€"Grainâ€" The market for oats is firm; car lots Ontario No. 2 white at 520, No. 3 at 48 to 48%c, No. 4 at 47 to 47%c, and re- ing causing the greatest excitement among those gathered in the body of the hall. Police and ushers rushed to the head of the staircase, which was literally strewn with dead and dying, and by the most dCSperate efforts managed to drag some of the struggling 'children to the corridors below. It was with the greatâ€" est difficulty that. a panic. among the children in the lower part of the house was averted, all of these eventually be- ing taken to the streets in safety. When the reserve police arrived they found the narrow stairway practically blocked with bodies, which were crushed in some cases almost beyond recognition. Scores of children were found later to be suffering from fractured bones and se- vere lacerations, caused by the indescribâ€" able manner in which they had been I trampled upon. Soon after the accident the approaches to the hall were crowded with sobbing women searching for their missing chil- dren. jccted at 460 per bushel ex store. Flourâ€"Choice spring wheat patents, $6.10 to 86.25; seconds, to $5.65 winter wheat patents, $5.50: straight rollers, $5 to $5.25; do, in bags, $2.25 to $2.50; extra-s, $1.30 to $1.90. Feedâ€"â€" Manitoba bran, $22; shorts, $23; On- tario bran, $22 to $22.50; middlings, $24 to $25; shorts, $22.50 to $23 per ton, in- cluding bags; milled mouillie, $26 to $28; and pure grain, mouillie, $33 to $35 per ton. Provisionsâ€"Barrels short cut mess. $22.50 to $23,; half barrels, $11.75 to $12.25; clear fat backs, $23.50 to $24.50: long cut heavy mess, $21 to $24; half barrels do, $10.50 to $11.25; dry salt long clear backs, 10% to 11%0; barrels plate beef, $13.50 to $115; half barrels do,. $7.25 to $7.75; barrels heavy mess beef, $10 to $11; half barrels do, $5.50 to $6; compound lard, 10 to 110; pure lard, 12% to 130; kettle rendered,,12% to '13c; hams, 12 to 13%c; breakfast bacon, '14- to 150 Windsor bacon, 14% to 15%c; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $8.75 to $9.25; alive, $6.50. Butterâ€"September, 23 to 29c; fresh receipts, 26 to 27c; dairy, '3 to 250. Cheeseâ€"13% to 13%c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, Jan. 14.â€"Wheatâ€"-No. 1 Northern, $1.13 to $1.14; No. 2 Northern, $1.10 to 351.11%; May, {51.05% asked. Ryeâ€"Higher; N0. 1, 83% to 840. Barley â€"No. 2, $1.04; sample, 709 to $1.04. Comâ€"No. 3, 56to 59c; May, 40 to 60%c bid. Duluth, Jan. 14.â€"â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, 81.11%; No. 1 Northern, 331.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.07%; May, 81.12%; July, 81.13%. V St. Louis, Jan. 14-.â€"Wheatâ€"â€"Cash. 81.01%; May, $1.05; July, 95%0. 4 Minneapolis. Jan. 14.â€"thatâ€"â€"l\fay, 511.12%; July, $1.12%; No. .1 hard, $1.14%: No. '1 Northern, $1.12",,; No. 2 Northern, $1.10“,,; No. 3 Northern. 81.06% to 341.08%. .ll‘lourâ€"Steady: First patents. $5.70 to $5.80; second patents. $5.60 to $5.70; first clears, $4.30 to $4.40; second clears, $3.50 to $3.60. Branâ€"In bulk, $19.50. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Jan. .14.â€"Pickcd butchers sold between $4.70 and $4.80 with choice lots from $4.25 to $4.50; medium to good, $3.75 to $4.25; common to medium, $2.75 to $3.75. Choice cow-s sold from $3.50 to $3.85, with a little higher price paid in one or two instances. Medium quality cows, $3 to $3.40; common cows. to $2.75; canners, 75c to $1.00, Canning bulls sold at $2 to $2.50, Buying for‘cxport was again limited to bulls, a numb-er selling at $3,50 {,0 $4.25, with extra good quality ranging up to 84.50. Choice stockers were quoted at. frOm it! to $3.75, with light weights from $2 to $2.75. Calves were steady pound. There was the usual steady demand for good milch-ers, choice selling at $4.0 to $55, with medium at $25 to $35, Export. ewes sold at $3.75 to $4.25. bucks and culls $3 to $3.50; lambs sold at $4 to $6, according to quality. Hogs lwere steady at $5.90 for the best; $5.65 for medium, and $5.40 for common, at 30 to (Sc per in in u ‘ « Three Years in Penitentiary for Attempt- « ted Stabbing. - ' A despatch from Montreal says: Judge Choquettc placed himself on remit in the Court of Special Sessions oil-Than- day as being determined to put a stop to the habit so common among Italians in this city of carrying and using wea- pcns. A _ _ . . “You are a foreigner. seven months in this coui’itry," said his llouol', in senâ€" tencing a young Italian uanicd Michaela Marina to three years in penitentiary, “and it is proved that without. the slightest provocation you look out a razor and struck Antonio Tutti on the neck, causing him bodily harm. For- tunately you did not commit murder. Italians in this country must understand that they have to stop these practicesâ€"â€" that they must not carry knives or razors. This is a quiet country, yet in this city we hear every day of quarrels and murders. Such quarrels and mur- ders most be put a stop to. Anyone who is found guilty of such offence as at present before this court will be most severely punished. The highest penalty I in the present instance is three years in penitentiary, and I inflict three years." _,_.__ ._ ___.__.__ __ __._1 A despatch from St. Thomas says: A terrible crossing fatality occurred at Cedar Springs, near Bothwel'l, on Sat- urday night, when the Pere Marquette " FATIIER AND DAUGHTER KILLED. Shocking Crossing Accident at Cedar A Springs. uâ€"n- ‘ , ll CAUGHT. due “91333: Employed as Engineer in a Tunnel at travelling at forty miles an hour, a democrat waggon in which were seated Samuel Crouch and David Tole, elderly farmers residing near Blenheim, and Mr. Crouch’s twentjyl-five-ycar-old daughter. All three \VLI'G thrown about one hundred feet, and Mr. Crouch and hits daughter killed instantly. Mr. Crouch was almost scalped and other- wise mangled, while the girl. had her neck broken. Mr. Tole was severely injured, and no hopes are entertained f0! his recovery. Mr. Tolc was taken to Blenheim for medical treatment, while the bodies of Mr. Crouch and his daughter were taken to the station, and are held pending inquiry. The fit; was demolished, one horse instantly killed, and the other so badly injured it had to be destroyed. The party had been to Chatham, and were returning home when lhe_aecidcnt occurred. It is believed they thought the train would stop” at Cedar Springs, a flag station. _.___.i.___...._. EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. Taking Advantage of Their Work. New A dcspatch from New York says: Af- ter a ceaseless search of years, Jan Janoff Pourcn, alleged to he a notorious Russian brigaud who is wanted in. the Province of Livonia, lus- sin, for murder, arson and robberies without number, was caught here on W ed-n esd a y . complaint of the Russian (.Ionsul-Gcnâ€" oral, M. De Ledygensky, and hold for further examination and the arrival of fox-tradition papers. I’ourcn is a mild~looking man, and submitted without protest. lie was cmploycxi as an engineer in one of the East River tunnels. He admitted his identity by indicating that the photo- W” ‘ __ A DRAYLOAD, OI“ BOOTY. The Winnipeg Police Bring Off a Big Haul. Agriculturists ous crimes in A dcspatch from Ottawa says: The twentieth annual report of the work done and in progress at the several Do- :inion experimental farms was tabled in tt'e Commons on Friday. It contains the results of many important and carefully conducted experin'ients in agriculture, horticulture and arborculture carried on during the last year. The director, Dr. Wm. Saunders, notes that the large and constantly increasing demand by the farmers of the Dominion for the publica- tions issued from the experimental farms, the rapidly extending correspon- dence, and the readiness shown every- where lo co-opcrate with the work of the farms in testing new and promising varieties of cereals furnish gratifying evidence of the desire for the latest scientific ii‘iformalion among the agri- culturists of Canada. Duriu g 1906 nearly 48,000 farmers have joined in copperh- tive tests of seeds for the improvement of crops. Sixteen thousand samples of grain of various kinds were sent out to farmers in Quebec and scven thousand to Ontario farmers. >I< MURDERED RY STRANGER. Alexander Svartz Shot Down at White- mouth, Manitoba. A dcspatch from Whilemouth, Man, says: Alex. Swartz was murdered in cold blood by an unknown nianflpkear bore on Thursday night for the sake of a small sum of money. He had 130011 in Winnipeg, where he sold three cars of wcod, realizing $150. He returned on the evening train, and was seen to leave the station to walk to his home, accompan- ied by a stranger. Next day his body was found beside the River road, about three-quarters of a mile from town, with a bullet through the head; The pockets had been rifled. The presumption is that the murderer shot Swart'l. and then hastened back to the station and caught thr- exprcss for the west. The dead man leaves a widow and three little children. %._¢-â€"â€"- ..,. “’ALL FELL ON FIREMEN. _._.~ One Killed and Two Seriously Injured at Montreal. - A despatch from Montreal says: As the result of a small fire on Notro Dame street on Sunday night one fireman is dead and two others seriously injured. Fire broke out in a small fancy goods store through an overheated stove. The store was on the ground floor of a ramshackle three-storey brick building, and while fighting the flames part of the wall fell out, crushing Napoleon Gagnon, N. Narbonne and V. Laâ€" mouchc, firemen. Gagnon died on his way to the hospital, and the others are badly injured. "The loss by fire was trifling, and apart from the falling wall the building was uninjured. -â€"->I< MAY SAVE MANY LIVES. Passenger Cars to he Equipped \Vith ExtinguiSIiers. ’ A desipatch from Ottawa says: With a view to preventing fires in connection with railway wrecks and the consequent burning to death of tilOse who might be caught in the wreckage, the Rail- way Commission has passed an order compelling all railway companies to install two fire extinguishers in each passenger coach. A fine of is im- posed for each failure to comply with the order. The companies are given until January next to have extinguish- ers placed on all cars now in use. __....-___ .1. AN ENORMOUS DEFICIT. ._â€"â€" I-‘russian Government Will Have to Pro- cure $110,500,000. A despatch from Berlin says: In the course of the sitting on Wednesday of the Laudtag, Baron Von Rheinbaben, Prussian Minister of State and Finance, went over the figures of the Prussian budget for 1908. The total is $840,500,000 and shows the enormous deficit of $110,- 500,000. A loan is to be issued for $63,- 000,000; $10,000,000 will be obtained by increased taxation, and the remainder wil; be covered, it is hoped, by augment- ing the revenue receipts. The causes of this deficit are diminution in the reve- nues, fresh expenditures for railroads, and increases in the salaries of State officials. A destpatch from Winnipeg says: A gang of desperate burglars, who have been operating here for the past week, were cleverly rounded up by the police on Friday afternoon, and all are now under arrest. By a lucky circumstance they were discovered at work in Co hcn‘s store by a patrolman on Friday morning. All escaped arrest but one, who gave the name of A. Fortescuc, but his personality afforded a clue which - led to the capture of the entire gang early in the afternoon. At the head- quarters of the gang the police «secured a big dray load of stolen merchandise 0! a miscellaneous character. The rob- bers pitched a camp in a bush two miles from the city. They confessed to the police that they had intended S'tCtllil’lg a team of horses on Friday tight and driving over the border with the loot. Among the spoils. were eighty- fivc watches, which had been stolen in Brandrm. The men gave the names of B. i\1artin, II. Boyd,.li. Calder, M. Roy- mond, and all of them are English- 111 CD . >13 ACCIDENTS AT MONTREAL. Old Man Knocked Down by Runaway Horse and Killed. A dcspatch from Montreal says: An old gentleman, about seventy years of age, was knocked down and run over by a runaway horse at the corner of Friday and sustained inuries from which he died. The victim when taken to the General Hospital said his name was Simpson, but that was all he could say before he became unconscious. There was nothing found in .hisâ€" pockets by which he could be identified. Miss-Marguerite Savage, about forty years of age, dropped dead at the Em- pire Cafe, corner of Craig and St. Alex- ander streets on Friday. Deceased had been boarding in the house about a week. .. ’l‘lobcrt “Cartwright, employed on the Grand Trunk Railway, was admitted to the General Hospital early on Fri- day morning with both his hands and his feet out off. He is unable. to ex- .plain‘ the cause of the accident. ._ .__-__>F_.â€"â€"â€" WINNIPEG TO NEW YORK. New Railway Connection Expected to Give Forty-cight-hour Service. ’ A despatch' from Winnipeg says; lacing Winnipeg within 48 hours of New York is one of the possibilities, it may be said probabilities, of the new connection that the Canadian Northern secures by the completion of the Winni- peg 8; Duluth Railway. It is figured out that a Service can be arranged by which a traveller leaving Winnipeg, say, on Thursday morning at 8 o‘clock, can he landed in New york at. about the same hour on Saturday morning. ‘ w r . n sensational section of the French press continues to dwell upon the probabil- ity of a clash between Japan and the United States. La Press on Wednesâ€" day published a long interview with Jvaucs Flach, the historian and pro- fessor in the College of France, who declares his belief that a conflict is cer- tain for the reason that Japan seeks war. He advises the American fleet to be on the watch for' a sudden Japan- ese descent, and asks: “Who knows if the attack made by the Japanese on the Russmn ships at Chemulpo will not be repeated upon the American ships to-morrow?” Continuing, M. Flach ad- vises Great Britain and France to inter- York. graph of Pourcn, in possession of the Hem-1y two detectives, was a picture of himself. The Russian is charged with 111111191“ Riga, Livonia, where, . with sevoral fellow-countrymen, he fer» rorizccl the prevince and defied arrest. It was the custom of the brigands to. make demands upon citizens for large- Ilc was arrested on theisums of money, and after the expra- [ion of several days, if the money was not forthcoming, they Would rob the houses and set them afire. When the inmates resisted, they were murdered, it is said. Pour-en and his associates are charged with being particularly active in 1906.. having, it is charged, committed a. number of murders and robberies. REVENUE INCREASED. Statement For .First Nine Months of Fiscal Year. A despatch from Ottawa says: The ' statcn'ient of revenue and expenditure of the Dominion for - the first nine- months of the present fiscal year shows a total revenue of $73,955,958, an inâ€"v crease of $7,097,205 as compared with. the corresponding period of 1906, and a, total expenditure on consolidated fund account of $15,667,086, an increase of $8,616,976. On capital account the total. expenditure for the nine months was $19,271,966, an increase of about (on millions, as compared with the cor- respond'ng prriod of 1906. The increase' is of course, due to a largerexpendi- lure last year on the construction of the National 'I‘ranscontinental Railway, t‘ e exin'nditurc on which now averagesâ€" ovcr one million dollars per month. ()1 the total increase in revenue dur- ingthenincmouthscnding with Decem~ lycr 87107338 came from customs, halt“ a million from excise and half a milâ€" lion from the postotlice. ' .2. _ AFTER MANY YEARS. ' . Dakota Man Finds “life and Children in Rranlford. A despaich from Brantford says: A. man named Chambers is here from Dakota on a strange mission. Ilc claims that seven years ago his wife deserted him, taking away two children, a boy' and a girl. For years he heard nothing; of them, until lately he learned they St. Mark and St. Catherine streets on were supposed to be living in this vici. nity. The father communicated with the authorities, with the result that the trio have been found in Echo Place. The woman is now residing with another man and their two sons. The Dakota father has taken proceedings to recover his children. -.>'4 RAILROAD MEN LAID OFF. .__â€" Illinois Central Drops 4,000 Men From Pay-roll. A dcspalch from New Orleans says: Between 3,000 and 4,090 Illinois Co. em- ploycs have been dropped from the pay- roll on account of "the financial situa- tioiu This was the announcement hero on Tuesday night of J. T. I-Iarahan, preâ€" sident of the Illinois Central Railroad. who said if he could possibly prevent it no more men would be iaid off. up}. TRANSVAAL GOLD. A Record Output for the Month of" ' December. A dcspalch from London says: The 'f‘ra‘nsvaal yield of gold for the mouth of December makes a new record. The out- put was 583,526 ounces of the yellow metal, which is 28,499 ounces over the previous highest yield for ainonth. The value of the December output is placed a: £2,478,659. ' Jacques 'FlaCh'lssues Warning to the United States. A despatch from Paris says:, The vcne, and put an end to the trouble ;before it is too late. The Echo dc Paris. prints an inter- vicw, emanating, it says, frOm ‘an “authorized Japanese source” with the object of showing that Japan is so ab-, sorde with the mainland of Asia that war with America is impossible. “The entire attention of Japan,” says the interview. “is occupied with China and Corea, where developments are oc- curring which arc giving Tokio the greatest concern: China has just dis- missed a number of Japanese instruc- tors, who have been replaced with Ger- mans. “The message of the Emperor of M: pan clearly indicates that the country 1.. looking to the far East, and noti - the direction of America." no em- ‘_ '2 'U‘, i i j I . l . -, .., .~ '~ _ .. Cy _: v v, ». ~ . ,f ‘vfi‘fll‘ifiXâ€"g ' 4‘ .v. a “an. ...‘ , .2 ., -‘A'x‘ny‘ -e;¢.r‘-x--,. v x. 2' ~. ~.. g ran): .wa. I “:2: ‘t. "y, “a .._.A t ,xx