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J f . / illllltlll STATEMENT mm. REPORTS FROM THE LEADIN » . Head- l‘i , ( K 1’ [P 5 ) 'L. .. ‘. y 'l f. I) l _ lllll ll Revenue and Expenditure of the Dominion for Eight Months. _ ' TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. ..'>.’., Engineer Rowe, cf Ottawa, Killed in on Collision on (113. R. c :1 l. -. l. ; A... 'i fix. 4.. . . pm. ‘ wyw ~ -- w 'K‘riyrxTfl .r. $225132: ..., .42, -mv-n..v~» w . A despatch from Ottawa sayszion the National The statement of public revenue and expenditures for the first eight months of the present fiscal year, as reported to the Finance Depart~ ment up to the end of the month, shows. a total revenue of $55,115,- 227, a total expenditure on consoli- dated fund account of $45,376,957, and a total expenditure on capital account of $22,156,394. The great Transcontinental Railway. As compared with the corresponding period of last year there is a decrease of $11,547,200 in revenue, an. increase of $3,832,501 in expenditure 'on consolidated fund account, and an increase of $5,501,907 in capital expenditure. The decrease in revenue is accoun- ted for mainly by the falling off‘Of $10,178,378 in the customs receipts, and $480,796 in excise. The Post- bulk 0f the latter was. Of course, otliee revenue increased by $77,000. WW $150,000 FIRE AT KINGSTON. Factory and Grocery Destroyed. A despatch from Kingston, says: The Wormwith Piano and W. G. Craig and Company, wholesale grocers, suffered losses by fire early Sunday morning toâ€" talling over $120,000. ' The fire broke, out in the varnish room in the piano factory about two o’clock and spread so rapidly that the three floors were soon in flames, and the rescue of the pianos, some 200 of them in course of construc- tion, was impossible. The safe of the company was saved, battery- men rolling it out of the building.- It contained notes and agreements to the value of $40,000. 1‘- TIlREE-YEARt-OLD SHOT. Piano Little Brother Pulled a Rifle From the Table. A despatch from Walkerville, says: A loaded rifle and childish curiosity on the part of Albert Cecile’s five-year-old son, Isadore, resulted in the accidental killing of threeâ€"year-old Bernedette Cecile at the family home in Sandwich East on~ Saturday. Isadore pulled a loaded rifle from the table, where it had been placed by an older brother, and pulled the trigger. There was a report and his little sister dropped to the floor, shot through the brain. srnuon BY A can. Mrs. Flanders of Branlloril May be Fatally Injured. ~ A despatch from Brantford, says: Mrs. Flanders, thirteen Oak street, received probably fatal in- juries on Sunday afternoon at Cainsville while about to board a Brantford and Hamilton Radial car. She misjudged the clearance of the car, the front end striking her and inflicting several injuries to her head. She was removed to the hospital. mâ€"IJEâ€"w ARE THESE DIAMONDS"! Mr. Fred. Dane Brings Precious Stones From North. A despatch from Toronto, says: Will Ontario’s big clay belt devel- op into a diamond field? That is the question some people are ask- ing, since Mr. Fred. Dane, T. 65 N. 0. Commissioner, returned from the north with a few stones that ' look like diamonds. These stones have been submitted to an expert, who declines to express any defin- ite opinion as yet. They were found east of the new town of Cochrane. Peculiar as it may seem, some few years ago a geologist reported that the blue clay of that particular re- gion closely resembled that in the vicinity of Bloemfontein. in the diamond fields of South Africa. It is said there is already some ex- citement in the north country over the find. Company WOMAN IIURLED TO DEATH. Wholesale Struck By a Train in Sight of Her Husband. A despatch from Guelph, says: Cut down before the eyes of her husband, Mrs. William McCul- lough on Friday evening met her death on the Grand Trunk cross- ing at Rockwood. Mrs. McCul- lough, who was about sixty years of age, and the wife of a well-known produce dealer of the village, was walking with her husband when they found the crossing blocked by a freight on the siding. The freight broke to clear the cross ing, and they started across be- tween the cars just as the through passenger train from Toronto came along the main line. Mrs. McCul- lough thought she could cross, perâ€" haps thinking the train would stop at the station. With a word to her husband she left his side and was hurled to instant death by the engine. ’ . mâ€".â€"~"lâ€"-â€"’â€"â€" FOUR MEN SHOT IN CAROUSE. One Will Die as the Result of the B and at Kenora. 'A despatch from Kenora, says: Four men were wounded on W :d nesday night in a shooting affray which took place at Dryden, Out A party of men were drinking in a house on the outskirts‘of the town. when one of the party, Joseph Miti- roy, suddenly jumped up and fired five shots from an automatic revolv- er. Four shots took effect. The wounded are: Richard Denna,‘of London, Eng, shot in the ah i)- men; will die. Daniel Foy, shot- in neck and right side. A. Stanton,‘ shot in knee. Wm. Sharpe, shot in thigh. Millroy was arrested and brought to Kenora. He will be tried next Saturday. q.._.__._ IN DIAN S AND TUBERC ULO SIS. Falling Oil in Population Attribut- (Hi to This Disease. A despatch form Ottawa says: Ravages of tubercolosis among the Indians of Canada is indicated in the annual report of the Depart- ment of Indian Affairs, which has been just issued. During the fiscal year ending last March tne Indian population numbered 110,000, a de- crease of 40. The preceding year showed an increase of 169. To tub- ercolosis alone is the falling off at- tributed. The report notes that the Indians are becoming more self-re- liant. The expenditure for destitu- tion, which ten years ago was $372,000, is now $143,000. _____._,,,____ SEVENTX WERE DRSWNED. Japanese Steamer Ginscl Maru Foundeer Oll‘ Shauntung. A despatch from Kobe, Japan, says: Word has been received here that the Japanese steamer Ginscl Maru foundercd off W'eihaiwei on November 30th. Seventy persons were lost. ' m___â€".â€"â€"â€".â€"___â€"__.~._M_ n TTT TTT TTTTT Tu The Government Is Prepared to Deal With Applications. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Government of Canada is now prepared to actively begin business as issuers of old~age annuities. The final order in Council approving the actuarial rates adopted has been passed. Literature explaining the advantages of the system as a guar- antee against penury in old age and detailing its Investment fea- tures has been sent out for distri- the country, and applications for annultles received from intending purchasers will be promptly dealt- with by the office in charge of ML. S. T. Bast-ode in Ottawa. A staff of lectures to explain and popularâ€" ize the scheme will hold public meet~ ings in all districts of Canada dur- ing the winter. Dr. Sampson of Windsor, Ont., will be at the head of the lecturing staff, and will be- gin a series of meetings in Ontario $1.12; cash No. 1 BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. 8.â€"Ontario Wheat â€"l\'o. 2 white or red, outside, 930. to 940.; No. 2 mixed, 930. to 93%0- No. 2 goose wheat, 900. outside. Manitoba wheatâ€"Spot, No. 1 northern, $10872 to $1.09; No. 2 northern, 351.05% to $1.06; No. 3 northern, $1.03% to $1.04 on track, lake ports. Oatsâ€"Ontario No. '2' white, 390. to 400. outside; No. 2 mixed, 370. to 380. outside. western Canada, 430. to 43%0. on track, lake ports; extra No. 1 feed, 4111/20.; No. 1 feed, 410., on track, lake ports. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 55%0. to 560.; No. :534extra, 540 to 550.; No. 3, 530. to c. Cornâ€"Old, 74%0. to 750. To- ronto freights, for No. 2 or 3 yellow; new No. 3 yellow, 700. to 70%c., Toronto freights. ’ Millfeedâ€"Bran, $20 to $21 per ton in bags, outside; shorts, $22 to $23, in bags outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 740. to 74%0. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, 550. outside. Flourâ€"Manitoba, first patents, $5.80, seconds, $5.30; strong bak- ers, $5.10; Ontario winter wheat patents, for export, $3.70 to $3.75, outside. to 560. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Poultryâ€"Wholesale prices are :â€" Chickens, dressed, choice, 110. to 120.; chickens, dressed, 90. to 100.; fowl, 80. to 90.; turkeys, 120. to 140.; ducks, 100. to 110.; geese, 90. to 100. Butterâ€"Local wholesale quota- tionszâ€"Creamery, choice, pound, 270. to 290.; dairy prints, choice, 250. to 260.; dairy store prints and large rolls, 220. to 240.; dairy, in- ferior, 200. to 210. . Cheeseâ€"Large, 131/40 to 13%0.; twins, 13%0. to 133/40. Eggsâ€"Strictly new-laid, 310. to 320.; .farmers’, 240. to 250.; stor- age, 220. to 240. per dozen in case lots. Applesâ€"$1.75 to $3.25 per barrel, according to variety and quality. Potatoes~Car~lot prices are 600. to 650. per'bag on track, Toronto. PROVISIONS. Porkâ€"Short cut, $22.50, to $23 per barrel; mess, $19 to $19.50. Lard tierces, 12%c.; tubs, 12%0.; pails, 130. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" Long clear bacon, 11%0. to 11%c., tons and cases; hams, large, 12%0. to 130., small, 140. to 14%c.; backs, 170. to 17%0.; shoulders, 100. to 107.20.; rolls, 110. to 11%.; break- fast bacon, 14120. to 150.; green meats out of pickle, 10. less than smoked. - BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal Dec. 8.â€"â€"Grainâ€"Cana- dian Western, No. 2, White cats are selling at 46}/._.'c., No. 3 at 45%0., ex- tra No. 1 feed oats at 450., and No. 1 feed at 450.; Ontario No. 2 white at 450., No. 3 at 440. and No. 4 at 43%0. per bushel, ex. store. Flour â€"Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts at $6; seconds at $5.50; win- ter wheat at $4.60 to $4.70; do., in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; extras, $1.75 to $1.85. Feedâ€"There is no 'change in millfecd, for which the demand continues fairly good. Manitoba bran at $21; sliOl'tS, $24; Ontario bran, $21 to $21.50; middlings, $24.50 to $25.50; shorts, $24.50 to $25 per ton, including bags; pure grain mouillie, 30 to $32; milled grades, $25 to $28 per ton. Cheese â€"-The local market continues steady. with westerns quoted at 12%0. to 121/.30. Butt0r~The market is firm, finest creamery being quoted at 270. in round lots, and 27%0. to 280. in a jobbing way. Eggsâ€"There were no knew developments in the local egg situation, prices being steady, under a fair demand for local consumption. New-laid, 290. to 300.; selected stock at 250. to 25%0. ; No. 1 stock, 220. to 230., and No. 2 stock at 17%0. per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, Dec. 8.â€"â€"Wheat No. 1 northern, $1.10 to $1.11; No. 2 northern, $1.08 to $1.09; May, 531.10% asked. Ryeâ€"No. 1, 750. Cornâ€"May, 62%0. bid. Barleyâ€"â€" Standard, 6401; samples, 560. to 63340. Minneapolis, Dec. 8.â€"thatâ€" December, $1.07}; to $1.03; May, hard, 551.12%; Manitoba No. 2. A despatch from Pembroke, says: sprained ankle and minor bruises. Another fatal wreck took place one and a. half miles east of here on Thursday morning. A light engine from Smith’s Falls collided with the C.P.R. local leaving here at 7.50, and as a result Fred Rowe, of Ot- tawa, engineer in charge of the local, was instantly killed, and R. Crawford, Ottawa, fireman; Mail Clerk Purcell, Engineer. Nagle, Smith’s Falls, and W. 0. Both, baggageman, suffered slight injur- ies. The baggage car of the pas- senger train was badly damaged, but none of the passengers were hurt. Both train and engine werr travelling at high speed and me‘f on a curve. 'Both engines werr badly wrecked. The.engines were almost on each other before the danger was noticed. Engineer Rowe reversed immediately, anl in domgso warned Fireman Crawford, who jumped, and escaped with Uâ€"â€"â€"-â€"_‘ Rowe was pinned between the en- glue and tender. Death was in- stantaneous. His head and shoul- ders were above the wreckage, but were scorched. His lower limbs were also burned and scald- ed. Fireman Patton, of the light engine, was going to jump when he was hurled out of the window and down the bank, sustaining a num- ber of bruises. Engineer Nagle got caught at the tender by the 008.1, which was piled on him. He was quickly released by the men pasâ€" sengers and was able to walk to the station, as he had only a num- Ioer of bruises and his leg scalded. The light engine should have stopped at Granges Station, about ten miles east of here. Instead an effort was made to reach Pembroke and the fatal collision was the re- suit. The engineer’s watch had’ stopped, which misled him as to the abtime he had to make Pembroke. STUDENTS tilt-f tiff llllll’l‘ Queens’ Men at Kingston Celebrated Alma. _A despatch from Kingston, says: Kingston police had a vigorous battle with 500 Queen’s University students on Saturday night. Af- ter ithe Alma Mater Society elec- tions 500 Queen’s men set out at 8.30 o’clock for a night of riot, and charged the Grand Opera House, where a play was in pregress. The front and rear of the theatre were attacked and extra police help. was called. One‘ big student received such a battering from those in charge of the 'galle‘ry that he was carried out unconscious. From Princess street the students hurled eggs and stones and created wild scenes. police station. running fight for six blocks. The efforts of the collegians to free the prisoners proved ineffectual and w: northern, 231.09% to $1.09. Bran â€"â€"$18.75. Flourâ€"First patents, $5.55 to $5.90; $5.40 to $5.65; first clears, $4.30 to $4.50; second clears, $3.20 to $3.50. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, Dec. 8.â€"â€"The range of values for the best lots of butchâ€" ers’ cattle was from $4.40 to $4.75 per cwt. Good loads of steeers and heifers were worth $4 to $4.50 per cwt. Medium cattle sold at $3.50 to $4 per cwt., and common ones at $3 to $3.50. As high as $4 per cwt. was obtained for choice cows. Common to medium cows were sold at $2 to $3.25 per cwt. Light and rough stockers are still sold at a discount. Mileh cows were easier. Prices for lambs ranged up to $5 per cwt. Ewes were steady at $3.25 Finally two police-I men grabbed one of the ringleadersr and started down the street for the; A big mob of stu-lhimself a dents followed, "and there was a second patents, I - ___________,__.____â€"_â€"â€"â€"___.___ Mater- Elections. several .more fell into the hands of the law. On the market square near the police station the climax occurred. Ten policemen, assisted by several pugilist-ic citizens and artillerymen, held the mob off, but the police received some cracks with axe handles and pieces of lumber which the crazed students wielded. Three constables were fiercely attacked _ and had to be rescued. Many collegians also re- ceived a clubbing and were knockâ€" ed off their feet. The police get hold of six ringleaders and held every one of them. At_the station house the students tried to storm the place, but the sight of the re- volvers in the hands of the con- stables cowcd them. Mayor Ross, professor in Queen’s Medical College, and Police Magis- trate Farrel. a trustee of the uni- versity,, refused to liberate the arrested students. ( to $3.60 per cwt. Select hogs con- tinued to sell at $6 per cwt. fed and watered, off cars, Toronto. A.___ SWAILOWED RA T POISON. Mistake of Annie Babcoek of Brant- foril Costs Her Life. A despatch from Brantford, says: Annie Babeock, aged 34 years, is dead as aresult of taking rat pois- on in mistake for headache pow- ders. She was employed as a do- mestic at A. E. Brown’s, Murray street. Being troubled with head- ache on Sunday morning she took the powder and died in convul- sions. Coroner Ashton, on inves- tigating the case, came to the con- clusion that she got the powders and the poison confused, as some of the latter was found in her room. TTT it run TTT Mt Port au Prince Isiln the Hands of an ‘ Insurgent Mob. A despatch from Port au Prince, Hayti, says: President Nerd Alexis has been deposed and Port on Prince is in the hands of the The deposed Presi- dent is now safe on board the French 'training ship Duguay Troin, General Antoine Simon, the leader of the insurgents, is march- ing upon the peninsula with an army of 5,000, and General Legitime has been proclaimed the new Presi- dent. - At the last moment President Alexis yielded to the urging of those about him and decided to take re- fuge aboard the French warship. At 5 o’clock on Wednesday a salute of 21 guns announced his departure from the palace under guard of a battalion of infantry and squadron revolutionists. to the wharf, seated in a carriage with the French Minister and with the French tri-color over his shoul- ders, the crowls of armed men and women about heaped curses on the head of the aged man. When at last the landing stage was reached the mob lost all restraint and the scene became tragic and shameful. Infuriatcd women broke through the cordon of troops and shrieked the 00arsest insults into the very face of the President, who strove bravely to appear undismayed. ‘hcy tried to hurl themselves upon him and fought with hands and feet against the sol-"line, who found dif- ficulty in forcing them back. One woman did succeed in reaching Nm'd .-’\lc:<is just as he was embark- ing, and made a sweep at him with :2. murderous knife, but the blow fell \Lfi':e;~! __.1‘ gonna“... Lution by postmasters throughout in a few days. No. 1 northern, 31.11%; No. 2 yOf cavalry, and as he drove down short. If.» a _ m - F J»ng -______‘__‘ . ‘N‘J £‘-«f".l:.~; 3;!- ‘ . . v hip» " mom”-.- -‘ "“~â€"“‘â€"'..‘.‘ fW ' a..." - ‘1‘.“ 1 mt“-