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, attains Willi tllllllls Gravenhurst Sailor and Lindsay Teamster Share in Carnegie Fund.~ . A (.lcspatchdrom Pittsburg says: The ‘Cai‘nhgie llero Commission, at its fourth annual meeting held here on Wednesday, awarded nine silver and seven bronze medals for acts of heroism, besides $10,- 050 in cash to the heroes or their depen- dents, and monthly payments during life to two widows and their minor children. The awards include: John Bibby, aged 29, mate, of Graven- hurst, Ont., Canada, on Oct. 31, 1905, rescued James J-amieson, aged 40, and a companion, Who were thrown into Muskoka Lake when a storm capsized their skiffâ€"silver medal. WMâ€" LEADING JIABKETS BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Jan. 21.â€"Manitoba Wheatâ€"â€" No. 1 northern, $1.22; to. 2 northern, $1.17; feed wheat, 700; No. 2'fecd, 660. Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 -white, 980 to 98129; No. 2 red, 98c; No. 2 mixed, 97%0. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 760 to 790 outside; No. ' 3 extra, 75c to 760. Flourâ€"Winter wheat patents fer ex- port, offering at $3.85, ~ bids around $3.75; Manitoba patents, special brand, $5.80 to $6; seconds, $5.20 to $5.40; strong bakers’, $5.10 to $5.30. Peasâ€"82c.to 350 outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, SOC to 810. . Cornâ€"~No. 2 yellow American, 6434;:0 to 65c, Toronto freights; No. 3 yellow, kiln dried, 66%c; some old No. 3 yel- low offering zit-72C, with few buyers. Quotations on Canadian corn largely nominal at 57c. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 49%0 to 50c out- side, 52c track Toronto; No. 2 mixed, 1470 to 480. Buckwheatâ€"660. Branâ€"$19 outside; shorts, $21.50. ._..___.. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Trade in poultry shows little increase in activity. .Youngturkcys, extra choice. lie to 160 do choice ‘ .. 11c to 130 Young geese . . . . . . 9ct'o11c Young ducks .. . . . . . . 9c to 110 Chick-ens, choice .. 80 to 10c Old fowl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geto 8c Inferior chicks and fowls 50 to 70 Butterâ€"The market continues steady. Creamery prints .. 28c1030c do solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 27C to 280 Dairy prints . . . . . . . ' . . . . . . . 2 BC to 250 do solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22c to 230 Inferior .. 20cto2'ic - Cheeseâ€"13%c for large and 13%e for twins, in job lots here. Eggsâ€"Steady, storage selling at 210 to 2c per dozen in case lots; selects, 25c to 260 per dozen in case lots; se- tools, 250 to 26c. New-laid from 300 to 350. _. . Honeyâ€"Strained steady at lie to 120 per pound for till-pound pails, and 12c ti. 130 for -5 to 10-pound pails. Combs at $1.75 to $2.50 per dozen. r Beansâ€"$1.70 to $1.75 for prim-es am 81.80 to $1.85 for hand-picked. Potatoesâ€"70c to 750 per bag in car lets on track here. Baled Strawâ€"Quiet at $9.50 to $10.50 per ton on track here. Baled flayâ€"Timothy $16.50 to $17.50 in car lots on track here. __â€"â€"â€"â€" PROVISIONS. Porkâ€"Short cut, $22.75 to $23 per barrel; mess, $18 to $19. , Lardâ€"’l‘ierCCs, 11%0; tubs,.12c; pails, 1234c. , i ' r, Smoked and Dry Salted Mealsâ€"Long clear bacon, 10c to 10%0 for tons and cases; hams, large, medium and light, 140 to 15c; hams, 12%0 to 130; backs, 16%0 to 17c; shoulders, 10c; rolls,.100 to 10%c; breakfast bacon, 15c to 15%0; .__.-_._.___ 'A despatch from Sault‘ Ste. Marie, Ont., says : In an interview With one of the oilicials at the offices of the steel plant on Thursday morning a news- paper correspondent was informed that the plant would be closed down at once until further notice. A shortage of pig iron is given as the cause of the shut down. It is stated that during the cessa- tion of activities a number of repairs that are considered necessary will be made, so that, providing the plant is not closed for any length of ‘time, little time will be lost. by the men. .The repairs, it as. stated, would soon have to‘ be made _ 11-. any event, and the closing down at the present time will be in the interests ‘v't | ' easy; No. 2 red, $~1.05%i elevator; No. 2 brought $4.50 to $4.85 per cwt., medium an ant PLANT n A Shortage of Pig, Iron Is Said L to Be the Cause. ' " Large Gasomctcr on Exploded. A despatch from Montreal says: Early Saturday mourning Montrcat was star- tled as if by an earthquake, the result of a terrific explosion caused by the blow- ing up of 500,000 cubic feet of gas. Ohe of the" gasonicters at the East-end station of the Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company on Harbor Street, exploded with a thunderous report, and the strangest part of it all is that not one of the company’s workmen was killed or even slightly injured. The gasomete-r is a total wreck. The iron work is twist- ed as if by some giant hand, and only a few feet of the sixty-foot wall is left standing. Hundreds of thousands of bricks are lying around, and all have fallen to the ground within a radius of ten yards of the outer wall of the gas- holdcr. The. conclusion therefore is that the terrific force generated by the lighted gas must have shot directly upwards. tied it done otherwise a row. of houses on the other; side of the street would have been razed to the ground and their occupants blown to atoms. The damage is placed at $30,000. __._._»x4._.__._ HAMILTON BOY KILLED. Was Slashed With Knife by Companion in :1 Fight. A de-spatch from Hamilton says: A lao' named Cummings, employed at th' McPherson shoe factory, died at a late hour on Friday night from wounds re- lceived in a fight with another work man named Kirkpatrick in that estab- lishment on Friday morning. The story as told to the police is that Kirk- '-patrick seized a knife when the light appeared to be going against him and slashed Cummings several times in the face. The wounded man was taken to the hospital, and it was thought at first that his injuries were notâ€"serious. Ile weakened very rapidly, however, and passed away about midnight. Kirk- pa trick was arrested soon after the fight took place on a charge of wounding, but it is likely that he will be called upon to answer a more serious Charge owing to the fatal termination of Cum- min gs’ injuries. Harbor Street Wm. Raymond, aged 38, a teamster, of Lindsay, Ont., Canada, on Feb. 27, 1906, rescued Victor Henry, 10 years old, who broke through ice while skating-â€" bronze medal and $300 to pay mortgage on house. Raymond had been ill and sustained a backset through exposure. I Wm. Gilmour, aged 34, of l\lont.rearl, Canada, a printer, who on July 1, 1905, leaped from a St. Lawrence River steam- er in an attempt to rescue John A. Moor- hcuse, aged 10, who fell from the third deckâ€"silver medal and $1,000 to pay mortgage on house. I green meats out of pickle, 10 less than smoked. MONTREAL MARKETS. . Montreal,"Jan. 21.â€"Thcre is no new development in the local flour situation. Choice spring wheat patents, $6.10 to $6.40; seconds, $5.50;_winter wheat pat- ents, $5.75; straight rollers, $5.50; do., in bags, $2.60 to $2.65; extra, $2.05 to $2.10. Manitoba bran, $23.50 to $24; *mid- dlings, $27 to $29 per ton, including bags; milled mouill-e, $28 to $32, and pure grain mo’uille, $35 to $37 per ton. Rolled oatsâ€"$2.75; corn, $1.60 to $1.70 per bag. There is no change in, the condition of the local cheese market except that, stocks are considerably less than they were last week. November tail-ends, 12%!) to 12%c; Octobcrs, 12%c to 13%c; Septembers, 13%0 to 13%c. - A fair volume of business is being transacted in butter, but supplies are limited. Grass goods, 28c; current re- ceipts, 260 to 27c. ' A fair volume of business is being transacted in eggs. Newly-laid, 30c; se- lects, 240 to 26c; No. 1 limed, 20c to 2'lc. Provisionsâ€"Barrels short cut. mess. $22.50 to $23; half barrels, $11.75 to $12.25; clear fat back, $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%c to 11%0; bar- rels :plato beef, $13.50 to $15; half her- rels do., $7.25 to $7.75; barrels heavy mess beef, $10 to $11; half barrels do., $5.50 to $6; compound lard. 100 to 110; pure lard, 12%c to 13c; kettle render- ed, 12%0 to 13c; hams, 120 to 13%0, ac- cording to size; breakfast bacon, 14c to 15c; '-Windsor bacon, 14%: to 15%0; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $8.- 75 to $9; live, $6.25 to $6.35. V b“ ’â€" CONVEi 1T I'REY TO FLAMES. __.â€"- Fine Structure at St. Remi, Quebec, “'as Totally Destroyed. A dospalch from St. Remi, Que, says: The Convent of St. Anne at this place, a fine structure, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday, involving a loss of _near- ‘ly $50,000. A large number of children were in the convent, but fortunately no lives were lost. The fire started shortly before noon, being caused, so far as can be ascertained, by a defective chnnney, and the.flames spread with great rapid- itv. Owing to the inadequate fire ap- pliances there was very little chance of fighting the flames, but almost the en- tire .pOpula'lion of the Village turned out and battled with the fire, succeeding in saving a large quantity of the contents and keeping the fire confined to the con- vent building. The nuns and children were got from the building, at the out- set. BUFFALO MARKET; Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 21.â€"Wheat â€"- Spring. dull; No. 1. NOPitl~Cl‘_ll,h$l.:1§; No. 2 red, $1.04; winter,” easy.”â€" Cornâ€"Low- er; No. 2 white, 61c; No. 2 yellow, 62c. Oatsâ€"Firm; No. 2 mixed, 54%0; No.» 2 white, 54%0. Barleyâ€"$112) $1.15. Rye â€"No. 1, 90c asked, track. ' NE\V YORK \VIIEAT MARKET. .New York, Jan. 2'1.â€"â€"‘Wheatâ€"â€"Spot red, $1.07 f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 81.21% f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, $1.17% fob. afloa1t._,_.,.,,.,, ,. .. LIVE srocirtianim'r. Tor-onto, Jan. 21.â€"Litntle was doing in exporters? cattle“ A few bulls .were sold at $4 to $4.75 .per cwt., with an coca: sional bid of’$4.50 for an extra 'choice animal.- Some“ export cows brought: $4.50 per cwt.‘ " - V . Choice loads 'of butchers’ .4 .33.; _. _ machine neronnn. __â€" Accident at a Moving Picture Show at . Ingcrsoll. A dos-patch from Ingersoll say-s: a result of the inflammable cellu'leud film becoming ignited, the moving pic- ture machine at the Theatorium ex- ploded on Thursday night and. the build- ing caught fire: After corisxde'rable ex- ‘citement, which, fortunately, was not attended by. serious consequences, the audience escaped in safety through a rear exit.” The picture machine was being operated in the window, and the large plate glass was shattered. The blaze was: extinguished by the firemen, . but not before considerable damage had resulted. There was no insurance _on the machine, which was valued at $350, and which, with other articles, was completely destroyed. The damage fe- the building is fully covered by in- surance. ‘-' ‘ v ‘ steers to good ones were worth $4 to $4.40, and common to medium $3 to $4 per cwt. Choice cows were qtthed1at"$3.- 50 to $4, medium at $3 to "$3.25, com! men at $1.75 to $2.75,- canners75'c to $1por cwt. ' " ' ' i A few lots of smokers and.;feqders 0110 __l A; TROLLEY furs SLEIGII. '- Fcnr Occupants Thrown Out and Sus- tained Injuries. A despatch from London, 0111., says: Four persons are lying‘in the hospitals as the result of an accident at the South- western Traction Company’s crossing at SimCOC Street at 6 o’clock on Thursday night. A sleigh containing Albert Mur- den and his, ten-yearâ€"old son Albert, Josephlvlardiman' and his twelve-year-old daughter...Beatrice, was crossing the tracks, when one of the heavy cars struck the vehicle, slewing it around and throwing the occupantsheavily to the ground. Hardimon was knocked un. conscious, and was thought'atflrst to be seriously injured, but at the hospital he of all concerned. ,It is _,figured that the repairs contemplated will keep about-700 men employed, until the entire staff is again taken on. The blast furnaces are not affected by tlr shortage-of pig iron and will run at their full capacity. This will assure .em. ployment for a full staff of men on the Algoma Central, as the furnaces keep the train crews busy at all'times-. ' Everything considered, the shut down will not be found a great hardship, un- less the opening of the plant is prolonged further than the officials anticipate. A large percentage of; men nuilhdemain at work on repairs, and the staff will be added toes circumstances warrant:- ' " nice l-lardiman and the elder Murden were slightly injured, and the ,Murden Loy’s hip was dislocated. was found to be but slightly hurt. "Bea-, At. the Western Dairymen’s Conven- tion held in Woodstock last wetk, Mr. John McQuaker of Owen Sound, Pros Sident of the association? stated in his address that the past year had been a good one in the dairying business in western Ontario. About $35,882 had, he said, been spent in improvements on factories, and $16,954 on creameries in _thc territory. The prices for dairy pro- ducts during 1907 had been generally high, and a larger percentage of but.- ter and cheese had been consumed at home than had hitherto been the case. LACK OF FARM LABOR. The scarcity of farm labor was ac- counted for by Mr. J. H. Grisdale of Ottawa as due to the fact that farmers will not make all-year contracts with their help. “Let me tell you this,” he said; “you can get labor, and good la- bor at that, if you will engage your man for a year. How can you expect ,that the best men are to be had when they can earn only in the summer months? on winter they are forced to ' find other employment. You pay high wages for poor man t0'work for you seven or eight months in the year. I tell you that it would pay you better to give a good man. a good wage and keep him from year to year.” Mr. (irisdale held that. dairy farming was the most profitable form of agriculture" for Ontario. To get the utmost profit from the farm, however, he insisted that the soil should be worked to a greater extent; that the farmer should keep all the cows possible, and that he should pursue some definite plan in regard to a rotation of crops. CANADA’S COMPETITORS. Mr. J. A. Ruddick, commissioner on EARTHQUAKE IN IIAYTI. Number of Ilouses Were Destroyed and Others Damaged. A despatch from Port au Prince, I‘layti, says: ’ A serious earthquake has occur- red at Gonaives, sixty-five miles north- west of this city. A few houses have been destroyed and others were dam- aged. No loss of life has been reported; Communication with the town is broken. The shocks continue. The first was fol- lowed by a tidal wave. Among the buildâ€" in gs destroyed are the commercial house of llerrmann, Adder St Joliber. Gonaivcs is one of the most thriving towns of the la Itian republic. It ts,,a Bishop’s See, and has a population of about 18,600. .\r_____.14___.__ BITTEN BY A RAT. ___. Death of a Little Baby in Fredericks- burg From Shock. ' A desfpatch from Belleville says: A singular death befall John, the young- est son. of Mr. tmd Mrs. Fred Falen lIawley, South Fredericksburg, near Naprancc. The child was a, year and three months old, and while asleep was attacked by a rat and his shoulder and hand were terribly bitten, the child dying from the shock. It is supposed the rat attacked the boy’s shoulder and that his hand was bitten repeatedly while attempting to ward off therat. _____.p_____ CIIILD BURNED TO DEATH. .__. ller Lit-tie Brother Set Fire to Her Dress. ' A derlmlph inom Streetsville; Ontt,’ . . says: The seven-yearnold daughter :xof" Mr. Wiilliam McKenzie was. flatal'ty burn-ed- about noon. While the child’s mother was at a neighbor's for a pail of water her little brother set her dress on fire with a match at the stove. She was dreadfully :burned from her knees upward, and died a few ‘hoursiaft‘er- Wards. Mr. McKenzie moved here about a year ago. an Wilt annual]; ‘ in the industry, experts had been low-‘ l cold-storage and dairying for the Do~ minian Government, pointed Guide the: convention that the countries which are- _' likely to compete with Canada in sup- .Dtying the world’s demand for cheese and butter are Siberia. and Australian These are the countries which are show- ing the greatest growth in their butter eXDO'rts during the recent years. Denâ€" _‘ I mark and Holland offered keen compo-t g! E tition in the cheese industry; New Zea-- land, too, had been increasing h-er- i t x/ if f 22-. were sold at $3.50 per cwt. Light stock- ers .were worth $2 to $2.75 per cwt. .‘F Milcli__,_oows sold at $40 to $55 each' f01f Choice, and $25 to $351 for common .341" to fair. - . -- H Calves were slightly higher‘at'?) to 6% cents .per pound. b Eixportdewes s-gld at '$4"tto $4.40, no is an culls, 3 to $4, and lambs . . to $6.25 pa. cwt. A Largely Attended Convention Held. Sdelgott hots; sold at $5.70 and-"light " an as a. 5.15 per cwt. ‘ v 13; . r . st -, ,, at Woodstock. ,, ' MONTREAL SIIAKEN. .__. a; t I . cheese export to Great Britain by leaps i and bounds. Mr. Ruddick thought, i. hrwever, that the making of cheese LU‘ l\~ew.Zealand might fall eff, since but._ for was the proper dairy product of} :E that country.- The Argentine ticpubâ€"Z fiéii he, so often rumored to Le a coming. \ _._‘,, competitor in the dairy market, would it: never, Mr. Ruddick thought, become- 4, a serious factor in the situation. lre- i land had developed a creamery 1ndus~ try in recent years, so that there were- now in the Green Isle over 800 plants. The annual export of butter in Eng “2... land avcmged $30,000.000. .lrash but- if»; for was nearest to Canadian in quahty- . INCREASE IN EXPORTS. Mr. M. S". Schell, member for=SOuth . Oxford in the Dominion HOLL‘C, quoted figures showing.tllat Canada's exports , a of dairy products had increased be-j E [- tween'1368 and 1903 from $550,000 to v f $24,712,000. Since 1903, the banner year: or. For the year ending March, 1908, the exports would probably be not. more than $20.000.000. '- _‘ llon. Nelson Monteith, Minister of‘ j 3 Agriculture for Ontario, outlin'd briefly 3' the measures which the Gmernmcnt ‘ are taking for the protection-andder ‘ ‘ velopment of the dairy industry. g - â€"~~â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"--â€"â€"._.~â€" THREE DIE IN THREE “’EEKS. - Brampton Family the Victims 'of a. ‘ Tragic Visitation. 1 main-u. ‘ w” i A dosrpatch from Brampton says: Rarely has a sadder' visitation ever-- taken a community than that which-has befalle'n a Brampton family in the past- throe weeks. In that time the father and mother and a sonâ€"inâ€"law have-‘all , died under peculiarly sad ,_ conditions- 3, James Fallis, Sr., died on the 28th of December from erysipelas «find blood ' poisoning. I-lis son-ile-aw, Alex. Brod-'1. 4 dy. 48 years of age, was at the ‘deatn.f’}r!. , bed and contracted the disease the 'fol- » "3 . ,1 lowing day, and died on Jan. 8. Mijs-. ' l Fallis, aged 70-9 years, was almost int-3‘- , mediater strickendown with. the same ' j ,' fatal malady, and she too passed away“ f about eight o’clock on Thursday night. - ; 5: The family are amongst the oldest and -__ i best known in the town. ' . WV!“ V"â€""X‘"‘â€" ' A: Six \VEEKS ENTOMBED. Three Nevada Miners-Rescued After 46 ' A Days Below. ' A dCSpatch from Ely, Nevada says; V After having been entomde fortyâ€"six; , days: one thousand'feet below the Sun; . face inthe Alpha shaft of the Girouxi mine, A. -D..'Baile'y, l’. .I. Brown and; Fred McDonald were rescued on Sat-: urday' night. V Whistles all over tho' camp 'blew loudly, while crowds cheer- ed in the streets ,of Ely to the ringing .of-‘bells. "l‘hc men had been cut-embed « on December 4th. Two Greeks wh . were working with them were kill by the canola of the strait. - it: .It is expected that the Belgian Parlia1 mentary Comn'iission will pejch hem Leopold’s Congo treaty, though it will y r J endorse some of it. ~ - v. . Japan has warned China that'ishe will cease paying duties on her goods sent to: Manchuria unless the customs laws are; enforced against Russia, New M001‘li‘jfihiSultanv’lhkes a Long“? A despatch from Tangiersays: The holy war which has been so often threaten-ed in Morocco and proclaimed here and there by individual priests and chiefs, seems now to be beginning in earnest. Mulai Hafid, who is now Threatened 5t6p. . _ ' -' ' will shortly be proclaimed at, Fez, and, QT a sudden blaze of fanaticism‘ through-I ' C cut the country is feared. I I ‘ ‘ FEARS FOR COAST TOWNS. . A despaich from London says: The is " Tangier correspondent of the Times acknowledged as Sultan throughout Morocco, except in the coast towns, has formally proclaimed a Jehad, and iublic cricrs are exhorting the people of Marrakesh to rise and exterminate all Christians. There" is,. great chite- ment in the city. Mulai llafid isn’t:- ported lobe marching to attack the Fronch. ,‘It is expected that the Jehad telegraphs that the Moroccan situation has been made more serious Owing to the proclamation of the Jehad, or holy war. He adds that immediate energetic steps are necessary to protect Euro. peans in the coast towns. It is believ- .t-d" no' Europeans are now in the inter ‘ 101‘.