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"rm-w I w, (“firâ€"WW--. _......._. _.... v - r. "."‘,‘T""7": til Six Thousand Cotton Operators Went On ' Strike on Monday. ' A despatch from Montreal says: La- bor troubles are accumulating here very rapidly. Some six thousand cot- ton operatives went on strike on Mon- ‘day because the Dominion Textile Com- any and the Montreal Cotton Company ave decided to reduce wages by ten per cent. The mills were only running four days a. week, being idle on Fridays and Saturdays, but the management feel that in view of the conditions of trade they will have to reduce expenses still. further. Cotton operatives claim that an injustice has been done them, and have decided to quit w-m‘k. Speaking for the textile workers, Mr. \V‘ilfrid Paquette, their Secretary, said:â€" "We can afford to be out of work till _________~_____.______._._..__â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"- TWENTY PERISII IN HOTEL FIRE. ._â€".__ Many Guests Die in Their Rooms From Murdered .by a Servian Miner Near Suffocation. A despatch from Fort Wayne, Indi- ana, says: A fire that is believed to have originated in the elevator shaft of the Hotel Avelin-e at an early hour on Sun- rlay morning, resulted in the loss of I‘aenty lives. More than a dozen per- sons were injured, some of them seri- ously. The fire was started at 3.30, in the elevator shaft, and bell boys were Sent to'warn the guests. Five minutes later, the entire shaft, from the main Iloor to the sixth, was in flames, and when the excited guests, clad in night clothes, reached the elevator, escape by Iliat means was impossible, and the corridors of all the floors were filled with blinding smoke. The guests were forced back to their rooms, as it was impossible to make their way through the suffocating smoke to the stair- ways. In an instant every floor was in a. state of intense excitement, men, wo- men and children dodging into the cor- ridors and back into their rooms screaming and calling for help. The lire alarm called the entire department but, and it was but a few minutes be- Icre ladders were run up at all avail- able places, and many of the guests Were taken down in safety. Many, however, could! not be reached, and stood with agonizing cries in the win- dows and on the ledges around the hotel, appealing for help. There were about 711 guests register- ed in the hotel, as near as can be learned. Thirteen bodies have been recovered, and twelve are missing. It is barely possible that other lives were lost, as this number, with the injured now in the hospitals, and those known to have escaped, does not make up the full number supposed to have been in the hotel. Guests that opened their doors at the first alarm were driven back by the flames and smoke. It is believed many died from suffocation. r3 VAULT \VALL TUNNELED. Unsuccessful Attempt to: Rob Bank of Commerce in Winnipeg Suburb. A dcspatch from Winnipeg says: A daring but unsuccessful attempt was made last Sunday night to rob the branch of the Canadian Bank of Comâ€" merce at Weston, a suburb of Winni- peg. The fact developed on Wed-nes- llay, when a hole six inches square was funneled through the outer wall of the vault, but the burglars did not succeed in securing entrance or getting away with any booty. “HEM BURIED UNDER MASS 0F BRICK. ‘â€" Two Men Met Death in’Mime tin Brit- ilsh Columbia. A dcspatch from Vancouver says: News has reached here of a fatal cave- iu at the mine near Phoenix. Christo- pher Martin, aged forty-five, and Kings- ley Smith, a young Englishman, were working on the {loo-foot level on Sunday afternoon, when an enormous mass of rock was dislodged, completely bury- ing them. a. a..- “a.” :(V' the autumn without any great suffering. We will never accept the reduction of wages. I fail to understand the action of the employers, because four weeks ago the Montreal Cotton Company dc- clarcd' a dividend of eight per cent., and the Dominion Textile Company of sev- en per cent. It is not going to make times better for them to cut our pay. We are. prepared for a long struggle." Four hundred and fifty bricklaye-rs went on strike here on Friday morning. They want a uniform 'wago of fifty cents an hour, while the Builders‘ Ex- change will give flfty cents to first- class and thlirtyrfive cents to second- class‘ men. The stonemaso-ns contemplate follow- ing the bricklayers' example. ITALIAN \VOMAN KILLED. Lethbridge. A despatch from Lethbridge, Alberta, says: M. Zagaly, a Servian coal miner. employed. as an engineer 0n screenings 1'1 Galt’s mine, brutally murdered Mrs. Bracedi, an Italian woman, on the road between hero and the mines on Friday. He had been boarding with her and her husband, and had given her money to keep forbim. When he met her on Friday he asked for it and she refused to give it to him. This so incensed Zagaliy that‘he shot her and then cut her threat. The murdered woman's nine-yearold son was with her at the time, but escaped. The murderer then turned his rewolwer on himself, shoot- ing himself three times. Nine small children are left mother-less. ____....p___..__ C. N. R. MEN ACCEPT. â€"...â€"- teductidn of \Vagc‘s in Mechanich De- parimentfs. A de-spatch from Winnipeg says: The - agreement between. the C. R. and us shopmcn has been signed as a re- sult of the conference between the of- ficials and the men. The unions took a very fair and reasonable view of the situation, and in view of the companys decline in business agreed to accept a reduction in wages averaging about two cents per hour. Some classes of labor are not affected at all by the re- duction, and the status of the unions will not be interfered with. Oflicials are greatly pleased with the spirit shown by the men, and it is believed the re- sult will have an important bearing on the C. P. R. negotiations. >3 TO STREVGTIIEN CHINA’S NAVY. Large Number of Battleships to he Purchased. A dcspatch from Shanghai says: The Board of War has framed a scheme which will greatly strengthen Chinas navy, It, proposes the formation of three new squadrons, each to consist of one battleship, two first-class, four or five second-class and five or six thirds-class cruisers, several gunboats, destroyers, torpedo boats, one or two submarines, and transports. It is in- tended to build and maintain the navy with revenue from the coast previuces. ad...â€" A'I‘TACKEI) BY DERVISIIES. The Governor of Blue Nile Province “’ounded. A despatch from Cairo, Egypt, says: A British subject, Scott Moncrieff, Dc- puty Inspector of the Blue Nile prov- ince, and a native official have been assassinated at the instance of a local sheik, who proclaimed himself prophet at Mesalamieh, about one hundred and fifty miles from Khartoum. A small punitive force, led by the Governor 0' the province, was attacked by a inur- derous band of dcrvishes. During the fighting the Governor was wounded, and two native officers were killed. moan till i CRUISER .â€" Two Hundred and Forty Killed on a Japanese Warship. 'A despatch from Tokio says: About two hundred and forty men and ofllcors lost their lives on Thursday morning as the result of an explosion in the stern magazine of the training cruiser Matsushima. The explosion took place while the cruiser was anchoring at Ma- kang, a harbor on the Pcseadore‘s Is- lands. Immediately after the explosion the vessel sank until only her bridge Was visible. There were about 355 men and fifty cadets and officers aboard the cruiser at the time of the accident. Of these about 175 were'rescued by boats from the cruisers llashaidato and Itsu- kushima. The majority of the officers, however, and it is believed more than half the cadets, were lost. Among the latter were the sons of Prince Oyama, Field Marshal, and of Baron China, ViceMinister of Foreign Affairs. Cap- tain-s Yashiro and Yoshimori are also thought to have been lost. The cause of the explosion is unknown. er on larger o‘ierings. ‘twins, in job lots here; new-make, 13c LEADING MARKETS BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, May 5.â€"-Manitoba Wheatâ€"â€" For the opening, No. 1 northern, $1.- 17%; No. 2, 1.13%; No. 3, $1.0m; feed Wheat. (ii-34c; No. 2 feed, 59c; Georgian Bay ports. ' ' Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 white, 920 “1' 1303111. of shipment; No. 2 red, 01%0 (It: hoint of shipment; No. 2 mixed. 910; 1.30050. 809 to 90c. Cornâ€"No. .2, non eoffering; worth about 7/10 to arrive; No. 3 yellow, 72c to 73c, Toronto freight; N0. 3 mixed, 113 less. I , Flourâ€"Manitoba patents, 51360131 brands, $6 to $6.10; seconds, $5.40 to strong bakers’, $5.30; winter Wheat patents, $3.110. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 52c to 550. Peasâ€"No. 2, 00c, outside. Ryeâ€"Strong; No. 2-, 870 to 880 out- side. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, Olga to 65c. CELLSâ€"No. 2 white, 116%: outside; [180 on track Toronto; No. 2 mixed, life. Branâ€"$25 on track Toronto. Shorts~â€"Scarcc, 82/1- f.o.b. mills. â€"_â€"â€" COUNTRY PRODUCE. Wholesale quotations are: Eggsâ€"Ncw-laid, 160 to 1'70. Butterâ€"Tho parket tends to be weak- Creamery, prints . . . . . . 200 to 310 do solids .. . . 280 to 2th Dairy prints . . . . . . 25c1026c do large rolls . . . . . . . . . . . . 24c to 250 do solids .. . .. 23cto2/ic Inferior '.. . . . . . . 200 to 210 Feloniesâ€"Ontario, 85c to 000; Dela- ware, 95010 $1, in car lots on track here. Beans-$1.7O to $1.75 for primes and $1.80 to for hand-picked. Honeyâ€"Strained steady at 110 to 120 per pound for Gil-pound pails and 12c to 130 for 5 to ill-pound pails. Combs at $1.75 to $2.50 per dozen. Cheese-111C for large and 1iy2c for for large and ‘13}{c for twins. Maple Syrupâ€"$1 to $1.10 per gallon. Balcd Strawâ€"$8 to $0 per ton. Baled flayâ€"Timothy is quotcd’at $15 to $15.50 in car lots on tracks here. M 1100 PRODUCTS. Baconâ€"Long clear, :10 to 10%0 per pound in case lots; mess .pork, $18 to $18.50; short cut, $21 to $21.50. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 1:3 to 13%c; do., heavy, 11% to '12c; rolls, 0% to 10c; shoulders, 9%0; backs, ch; breakfast bacon, file. Lardâ€"Tierces, 11%c; pails, 12c. ~ 11%c; tubs, MONTREAL MARKETS. Mont-real May 5.â€"~I.ocal and foreign demand for spring wheat flour is fairly active and a moderate trade is pass- ing. Choice spring wheat patents, $6.10 to $6.20; second, $5.50 to $5.70; winter wheat patents, $5.10; straight rollers, $11.50 to $34.75;,do in bags, to $2.35; extra. $1.85 to $1.00. » Branâ€"The market for Ontario bran is easier and several cars were. offered at $23.50 per ton, including bag-s. which shows a decline 'of $1 per ton on previ- ous sales. Manitoba bran. $23; shorts $25; Ontario bran, $23.50 to $211; mid- dlings, $26 to $27; shorts. $24.50 to $25 per ton, including bags; pure grain mouille. $34 to $35, and milled grades, $25 to $30 per ton. Provisionsâ€"Barrels short cut mess, $21; half barrels, $10.75; clear fat back, to $23; long cut heavy mess, ; half barrels do.. $10.50; dry salt long clear backs, 10};c; barrels plate beef. $13.50 to- $15; half barrels do.. $7.25 to $7.75; barreis heavy mess beef. $10 to $1]; half barrels do.. $5.50 to $6; com. pound lard, 3%0 to 00; pure lard. 11%c to 1194c; kettle rendered, 11%0 to 12c; hams, 12c to 13,141, according to size; breakfast bae'm. tie to .150: Windsor bacon, 14%c to 15%(‘; fresh killed abat- toir dressed hogs, $0.75 to 310; live, $0.50 to $6.75. Eggsâ€"1'70 per dozen for single cases and 16c for round lots. Cheeseâ€"Old colored quoted at. 1251c to 13c and white at 1123/40 to 12%0; new make is quoted at 11%0 to 11%c. Re- ceipts to-day were 038 boxes. Butterâ€"«New-makc creamcry quoted it 28c 10- 28%0 in round lots and 28%c to 29c to grocers. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, May 5.â€"Wheat â€"- Spring, steady; No. it Northern, 151.00%, car. loads; \Vinler, firmer; No. 2 red, $1,. 03%, Cornâ€"Strong; No. 2 yellow, 72%(3. Oatsâ€"â€"I_.ower; N0. 2 white, 56c; No. 2 mixed, 52c. Barleyâ€"S3 to 000, Ryeâ€"No. 1, on track, 88c. .‘vfinneapolis, May 5.â€"\\‘heatâ€"~Cash. May, 31.05%; July. 51.03% to (21.01%; September, ooze; 1‘0. 1 hard, 951.03% to 841.00%; No. 1 Northern, $1.06% to 31.07%: No. 2 Northern, SLIM-Z to $1.. 05%. Flourâ€"First patents. $5.35 to $5.50; second patents, $5.25 to $5.40; first clears, $4.10 to $4.25; second clears, 83.30 10 $3.10. Branâ€"In bulk, $21 to $21.25. ltfilwaulcee, May 5.-â€"Wheatâ€"No, 1 Northern, $1.00 to $1.10; No. 2 Northern, 51.07% to $1.00; July, 87,7gc asked. Rye -â€"-No. 1, 800. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 81c; sam. pic, 64 to 80c. Cornâ€"No. 3, cash, 66 to 67%0; May, 67%0. New York, May 5.â€"-Wheat â€" Spot, steady; No. 2 red, $1.06, elevator; No, 2 red, $1.08 f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 north- ern, Duluth, $1.15%, f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, $1.12% f.o.'b. afloat. __.___ CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, May 5.â€"â€"Choice cattle were perhaps a little firmer, as there were so few offered. No extwtptionally fine w-.~ a... so. ..... \. 1ND MN H Two Brothers Graduated First and Second at McGill and Won Scholarships. A despaich from ltfontreal says: An interesting story of brotherly love and courageous work under the affliction of total blindness was unveiled at McGill University on Thursday, whln two brothers. Thomas and Willgam Stewart, graduated in law, coming re- spectivcly first and sccoa‘d in their class, and winning two out of three scholarships. Thomas S. Stew-art is totally blind, through the carelessness of an ocullst. Nine years ago he in- jured one of his eyes with a knife, and specialists declared that to save the ‘ sight of the other the bad eyemust be removed. Mr. Stewart underwent the Operation, but. by some extraordinary piece of carelessness the operator took out the good eye, with the result that when the patient came out of the other he was completely blind. Und-ismayed â€"â€"â€"â€"‘_â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"_ _____â€"â€"._..â€"___â€" cattle were on the market, only a few selling at over $5.50. is a better demand for good butcher cattle for the local trade than for ex- port, and some of these sold at higher prices than were paid for exporters. Cows and bulls were unchanged from last week, cows ranging from $2.50 to $4.60; and bulls from $3 to $4.60. A number of stockers and feeders which were bound for the east stopped off here, but were not for sale. The few loads that were offered sold at $3 to $11.50. Consignments of calves were reduc- offerings of sheep and lambs were also comparatively light, which kept pricrs steady. Spring lambs are becoming a little more plentiful, and are slightly easwr. The hog market is steady, but rather weak, as there was a large run of bags. The average price for selects was $6.40, fed and watered, Toronto, and $6.15 for heavies. .x..__.. BLOWING OUT FURNACES. __ Steel Plant at the $00 to Shut Dorm Entirely. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.. says: The Algoma Steel Company on Saturday followed: the recent shut- down of the rail mill by blowing out blast furnace No. 1. No. 2 will blow out this week. This will leave every launch of the steel industry here idle, thus shutting 1,500 men out of employ- ment. The. company in a. statement says that owing to financial troubles the Canadian railroads refuse to place orders for rails. No premises are made as to when the plant will resume, al- though it is said the company hopes to resume in June. This is the first. shut- down since the resumption after the collapse of Clergue’s old Consolidated Lake. Superior Company. The plant is the second largest in Canada. _â€"â€"â€"»x« nor suoors LITTLE srsrcn. Was Playing With Gun When “’capon Was Discharged. A deslpatch from Sackville, N. 13., says: News has come here of a tragedy of Upper lloekport on Wednesday of- ternoon. whereby the threeyear-olrf. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tower had the top of her head blown off through the discharge of a gun in the hands of her six-yearâ€"old brother. It is understood that in the absence of the parents the boy took the gun from its W . Some heavy ex. ~â€" port bulls brought $4.25 to $1.60. There ‘ew Turbine Cruiser Made Twenty- ed and prices were a little firmer. The\Mamh 16 185‘- by this, he undertook to pursue his studies in law at McGill, and ever since then his brother has devoted himself ti him, making his studies with -him and accompanying him to ' college sports and through all the phases of university lifewpractically making him self a seeing medium for his blind bro- ther. As a result of this unusual dove- tion the blind Stewart came out at the head of his close, while his brother came second, and each won the Sir William Macdonald scholarship, which entitles them to a year‘s residence in Paris to perfect themselves in the French language and study law at the Montpelier Law School. Dean Walton paid a warm eulogium to the two broy fhers in conferring the degree, and the two were heartily cheered by the au~ dience as they came forward. _____________._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"1 INDOMITABLE SWIFT EST VESSEL. eight Knots. A dcspatch. from Glasgow says: It is' unofficially reported that the new crui.‘i scr lndomitable, which is now undergn ing hc-r speed trials, has beaten all rcâ€" conds, making 28 'knots over a measurâ€" ed mile on the Clyde, and 26% knots in. the continuous steaming trial. The In- domitabte is fitted with turbines, and her contract speed is only 25 knots. She'_ is of 17,250 tons displacement, and 530%, feet in length. She was launched our “1...”. 73,000 STOLEN FROM TRAIN. ..._â€". \Vclls-Fargo Express Car Robbed Near Torrcon, Mexico. ‘ A dcspatch from City of Mexico says: Advices from Torren say that when the northbound passenger train on the Mex- ican Railroad reached that place on Friday it was found that a “Bells-Fargo express package containing $73,000 was missing from the express car. There is no clue to the robbery and so far as known no arrest has been made, _ v M r â€"â€">‘1 IMPORTS FALLING OFF. .â€" Dominion Customs Returns. for .fhe Month Show Decrease. A dospatch from Ottawa says: The customs revenue of the Dominion for the month of April was $3,449,947, 0- decrease of $1,018,446, as compared with April of last year, due to the con- tinued decrease in imports, consequent upon the caution now being exercised L-y wholesale merchants and others in the matter of purchases abroad during, the period of dCPI‘CSSi'On- _,_._â€".-»i<~ -â€"â€"--â€" ANOTIIER SLIDE 0F RIVER BANK. M Further Damage at Quebec Village is: Feared. A despatch from Notre Dame de la Salctte, Que, say-s: Another landslide occurred here on Thursday night, when about 20 feet of the west bank slid inâ€"- to the river. It is feared that if the rain- does not cease the whole of the west» err: bank within a distance of 100 feet. will slide into the river. No more bedâ€" ies have been reclaimed, and it is now feared. that they will not be. >l< , Martin Price was sentenced at Gut-lph to fifteen years in penitentiary for burg,- place and in some way discharged it. 'lill‘y. _________._â€"â€"-â€"a ~ i can no no rung _____._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Uncle Killed Her Because He Had 3. Com. mand From Heaven to Do So. A despatch from Boston, Penn. says: A coroner’s jury at Nazareth, near here, late on Wednesday returned a verdict charging Robert Bach-man with the murder of Irene May Smith, his sev- en-year-old niece, who, it is alleged, was offered as a sacrifice by her par- ents and uncle, members of a fanati- ca' religious sect. The mother, who had been arrested in connection with the child’s death, was released from custody. The father remains in jail. Bachman insists that the child was posscssed of the devil and that he killed her by command from heaven. He maintains that he did no wrong and that God will protect him. He cries out 'from his cell that he is to be cruci- fied, and pleads with the jailer to hurry the execution that he may appear be- fore the throne of God, Who sent. him to earth to perform a great mission for the salvation of mankind. Smith is in a pitfable condition both mentally and physically. On 'Wednesday he was seized with several fits and rolled fr0m his cot to the floor, where be tossed clout, shouting and praying. Ilc ap- pears to know little or nothing of the killing of his daughter, and when the subject is broached to him he insists that nothing wrong has happened and that his brothcnin-law was directed by the holy spirit. Mrs. Smith, on the other hand, is rational and realizes the awful gravity: of the situation. She is heart-broken and wails piteously over the tragic fate of her child. She declares the religion! she and her husband adopted is a' myth, and that they were not acting by: direction of God. She never had much faith in the teachings of the sect, but. joined them in order to keep peace in, the family. Her husband, she says, was good and kind to her, but when she objected to the new religion he. would become furious. When she went to Nazareth last Saturday to attend the meeting that ended in the murder of. her daughter she says she had no idea of the intentions of the party to. kill her child. ‘ ) '- i : 3 t i 3' g ) ‘ I