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Two who roomed in the building, heard the flames crack- ling, and aroused the other inmates. inevitable had happened, and that As previous serious fires have ori- fire had broken into the jam of shacks and crazy wooden buildings on the Haileybury-road, and fanned by a slight breeze, was cracking up the buildings around it like orange boxes. For six hours the fire raged, and the result is the destruction of about 200 buildings, rendering homeless 2,000 people, in a district, about half a mile long by 100 yards wide, known as “Frenchtown” and ginated in Chinese buildings there is a decidedly anti-Oriental senti- ment here to-day. The local volunteer firemen were assisted by the brigades from New Liskeard and Haileybury, which ar- rived by special train about 5.30. The water supply was inadequate and recourse was had to dynamite to blow up buildings in hopes of checking the progress of the fire. It was during the dynamiting of tenanted chiefly by foreigners. The one building that a Finlander, who loss is placed at about $300,000, while the insurance will be less than $50,000. This is because the insur- ance rates have been almost prohi- did not understand the warnings given him, and who rushed back iii- to the house, was blown up and an i m_.___________.___~_.. _ _...__.. Bflllll $18.0 killed. Three Masked Men Held Up Manager 0 Rainy River Bank. ' A despatch from Rainy River, ‘Ont., says: In the most daring robâ€" bery ever perpetrated in this sec- tion of the country, the local branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia was robbed of between $9,000 and $10,- 000 shortly before noon on Friday. While Manager Templeton was in the building alone three masked 'nien, believed to be from Spooner, Minn., entered, and at the point of revolvers made Templeton abstain from giving the alarm. One of the bandits kept him under cover while the other two made a rapid search for the currency. They were not long in finding the money owing to the fact that considerable of it is always in plain view at this time If the day. After securing nearly $10,000 the robbers ran across the street and made north in the direc- sounded the alarm and a posse was at once organized and is now in pursuit. The robbers were all the more daring from the fact that many people were on the streets and passing the bank while the ban- dits were at work. The revolvers with which the holdup was accomplished were sto- len from the John Weeks Hardware Company, Spooner, on the night of June 30, three men having preVi- ously visited the store to look at firearms. Three answering the same description purchased cartridges from the Rat Portage Company’s store at this point Friday morning. A regrettable accident occurred during the arming of the posse. A rifle was accidentally discharged in the hands of one of the men, the bullet passing through the leg of 'tion of the C. P. R. tracks. Manaâ€" Mr. Field, the accountant of the ,g‘er Templeton as soon as possible bank. MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH. _â€" Dciroit Woman Acronaut Dies on a Live Wire. A despatch from Detroit, Mich, says: Entangled in a network of live wires, many of them carrying high voltage electricity, Mrs. Dell Meixeh, a female aeronaut, met a horrible death at Lowell, Mich, on Saturday afternoon. _Mrs. Meixell’s balloon ascension was one of the features of a Fourth of July celeâ€" bration. The balloon rose grace- fully from the earth, but before it could reach a safe height, a gust of wind struck it and drove it at a high rate of speed towards a net- work of wires on the main street of the town. Mrs. Meixell saw her danger, and as the parachute bar neared the wires, she let go and caught the topmost cable. She missed her hold, but fell wit-h her body directly across it, and hung as though dead, her feet twist-ed in a-mass of smaller wires below. Someone had presence of mind to telephone to the electric power plant to shut off the current, which was done with all possible speed. In the meantime, however, a small spiral column of smoke began to rise from the woman’s body where it came in contact with the wires, and there were horrified cries from the spectators, who were compelled to look on while the current con- tinued its deadly work. When the electricity was finally shut off the body of the unfortunate woman dropped to the ground forty feet below. Doctors found life in the inanimate form, but it was so slight that the woman died shortly after midnight. One hand was burned almost entirely off, and she was otherwise injured. >3- Fourth of July carnage in the United States was heavy. sun n in nu can A Sudden Landslide Was Most A despatch from Newport, Eng- land, rays: It is estimated that twenty men perished on Friday by the sudden collapse of the west wall of the new look at the entrance to the Alexandra dock where fifty men were working in a trench sixty feet deep, preparing for the laying of J concrete foundation. Without warning the heavy shoring timbers gave way, the entire steucturc col- lapsing, and carrying down with it thus-kinds of tons sf earth, railway lines. many cars and four travel- liuu, cranes. The men at the bot- tom of the trench had no chance to escape, L)ut many _of those working nearer the surface were uninjured. Of the fifty men in the trench twenty-six have been accounted for. at Nevvport, Eng, Disastrous. The work of rescuers begun im- mediately after the Vollapse, and three men were taken out alive. The bodies cf some of the dead also were rescued. At midnight, aided by \lectric lights and flare lamps, the rescuers were still busy with their work. Thousands of persons had gathered to watch the weird scene. Conversations were being held with a few of the imprisoned men with the aid of speaking tubes and stimulants and cigarettes were passâ€" ed down to them; but there was little hope of rescuing the victims as the removal of the debris that was pinning‘th-em down was likely to cause further falls of earth and beams. ,K. THE wont? mums A D A REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. .â€" l’rices'oi Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. _a BREAD STUFFS. Toronto, July 6.â€"-F10ur-â€"Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.40 to $5.60 to~day in buyers’ sacks out- side for export, and at $5.60 to $5.- 96 on track, Toronto. Manitoba flour, first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.75 to $5.90, and strong bakers’, $5.50 to $5.70 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 North- .ern, $1.37%, Georgian Bay ports; No. 2 at 351.35%, and No. 3 at 551.33%. Ontario Wheatâ€"~No. 2 $1.34 to $1.35 outside. _ Barleyâ€"Feed barley 60 to 620 out- side. Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario, white 58 to 58%c on track, Toronto, and 54% to 1350 outside. No. 2 Western Canada ‘ oats, 57c, and No. 3 560, Bay ports. Peasâ€"Prices purely nominal. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 74 to 750 outside. Buckwheatâ€"N0. 2, 700 outside. Corn~No. 2 American yellow, 810 (:1: track, Toronto. Canadian yel~ low, 75 to 760, Toronto freights. Branâ€"$20.50 to $21 for Ontario bran outside in bulk. Manitoba, $23 to $23.50 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25. To- ronto freights. . COUNTRT FRODUCE. Applesâ€"$4 to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beansâ€"Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked. $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Maple Sy'i'iip.495c to $1 a gallon. Hayâ€"â€"No. 1 timothy at $11.50 to $12.00 a ton on track here, and low- 01 grades, $8 to $9. Strawâ€"«$7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoesâ€"Car lots of old, 65 to 75c per bag, on track. Poultry â€"-â€" Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 12 to 130 per 1b.; low], 10 to lie; turkeys, 16 to 18c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 19 to 200; tubs and large rolls, 18 to 190; inâ€" ferior, 15 to 160; creamer-y, 23 to 2-40, and separator, 20 to 21c per lb. Eggsâ€"Case lots, 200 per dozen. Cheeseâ€"Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%c per 1b., and twins, 14% to 1412c. New quoted at 12%c for large, and at 12% for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. BaconwLong clear, 13% to 13%0 per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $23 to $23.50; short cut, $25 to $25.50. Haiiisâ€"â€"â€"Liglit to medium, 15% to 100; do., heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls, 12% to 130; shoulders, 11% to 12c; backs, 18 to 18%c; breakfast bacon, 16% to 170. Lard~Tierces, 14%0; tubs, 14%c; pails, 14%0. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, July 6.â€"Oats, No. 2 Canadian Western, 600; extra No. 1 feed, 59%0; No. 1 feed, 59%0; No. 3 Canadian Western, 590; barley, No. 2, 72% to 74c; Manitoba feed barley, 67% to 680; buckwheat, 69% to 700. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30; Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, sec- onds, $5.80; Manitoba strong bak- ers’, $5.60; Winter wheat patents, $6.75; straidht rollers, $6.50 to $6.- 60; straight rollers, in bags, $3.15 to $3.20; extras, in bags, $2.65 to $2.80. ll‘eedâ€"Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; Manitoba shorts, $24 to $25; pure grain mouillc, $33 to $35; mixed niouille, $28 to $30. Cheese ~â€"Wcsterns, 11% to 11%0, and castâ€" crns at 11% to 11%c. Buttonâ€"Finâ€" est creamery' 22%0. Eggsâ€"18% to 190 per dozen. ~.- â€"â€"-â€"- UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, July 6.â€"â€"'Wheatâ€"â€"Spring wheat steady; No. 1 Northern, Northern, cai'loads store, 531.32%; Winter nominal. Cornâ€"Easier; No. 3 yellow, 77%0; No. 4 yellow, 76%0; No. 3 yellow, 771/80; No. 4 77%0; No.4 corn, 75%0; No. :3 white, 80c. Oatsâ€"~Easier; No. 2 white, 570; No. 3 white, 56c; N0. 4 white, 550.- malting, 70 to 730. Chicagi, July 6.â€"â€"No. 2 wheat, $1.40; No. 3 red, $1.30 to $1.35; No. 2 hard, to $1.36; NO. 3 hard. 1-90 t0 $1.93; No. llwith the result that the fire was about in a terrible manner. Northern, $1.29 to No. 2, 72 to 72%0; No. 2 yellow, 73340; No. 3, Til/.3 to 72%0; NW :3 0. 4, TO to , yellow, 73 to 73’,’._i('; i - 701/20. , Oatsâ€"No. 3. l l50c; standard, 52c. yellow 76%0; No. 3 corn, 76% tel 47c: No '1 v NM.~_ _â€"â€"â€" A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: A startling double as- sassination of a political character occurred late on Thursday night towards the conclusion of a public gathering at the Imperial Institute. An Indian student, whose name is not known, shot and killed Lieut.- Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Calas La Loaca of ShanghaL Wyllie, who had held important Indian appointments, fell dead on the spot. He showed signs of life after he fell and was hurried to St. George’s Hospital, but on arrival there it was found that he was deal. Those near the assassin seized and held him until the arrival of the police. He had two revolvers, a dagger and a knife. All were new, and it is believed that the crime was premediated. The gathering at the Imperial Institute, a building devoted to Indian and other colonial functions, was an “at home” to Indian studâ€" ents. D. W. Thorburn, one of the guests, thus graphically describes the scene attending the murders :â€" “It was near 11 o’clock, and the musical programme was just con~ eluding when I saw a middle-aged English gentleman conversing with a young Indian student. “Suddenly the native drew a reâ€" volver and fired four shots with Tsuss nun The Famous Statesmanâ€"Ourmn Wyllie Shot Dead in London. l the greatest rapidity at the head of the Englishman. “Then came another shot as the Englishman fell, and a sixth, which struck an elderly Indian gentleâ€" man standing a few yards off, and who fell shot in the side. “I rushed at the assassin and others sprang forward at the same time. We seized him, but he strug- gled, and, wrestling one hand free, placed the revolver to his forehead and pulled the trigger. ' It clicked harmlessly, as he had fired all his shots. Meantime there was a ter. rible scene and commotion, and the folding doors were finally closed to prevent the people from looking on the fearful sight. “Atthis moment someone ex- claimed. ‘Why, it is Curzon; Wyllic.’ Then a stately woman' in evening dress came upstairs from the cloak room to discover what had happened. Looking at the reâ€" cumbent figure, and not immediate- ly recognizing it, she said, ‘Poor fellow.’ She then knelt down and as she looked closely at the disâ€" figured face, a look of horror leap-' ed into her eyes and she exclaimed: ‘It is my husband?’ It was Lady VVyllie, who had left her husband only a few minutes previously. “A group of men near by were holding the assassin, whose 1other victim was groaning on the ground a few yards away.” LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, July 6.-â€"â€"There was on- ly one load of really prime stall- fed cattle on the market, and these we're held at 6%0 per pound but without sales. The other cattle sold at 2% to 5%c per lb. A large bull, weighing over 1,800 lbs. was sold for $71; milch cows sold ‘at $25 to $50 each; calves sold at $2.50 to $8 each; sheep sold at 3% to 40 per lb; lambs sold at $3.50 to $5.50 each; good lots of fat hogs sold at 8% to 8%0 per lb. of THREE PERSON S KILLED . Burns and Houses Demolished in Saskatchewan Cyclone. A despatch from Caricvale, Sask., says: A severe storm passed over this district on Thursday night. The house of Wm. Hackett, who lives 15 imles north, was completely demolished, as was also his stable. One child, two years old, was kill- ed, and other members of the fam- ily were injured. Reports of the storm had been coming in on Fri- day, and tell tales .of suffering and devastation. Three deaths have oc- curred, several others were so severely injured that their lives are dcspaired of, and a score of peoâ€" ple were more or less injured in the French settlement around St. An- toine, 15 miles north of here. In many cases farm buildings were to.- t-ally destroyed, together with stock, the heaviest losers being the Hack- ett and Raymond families. vâ€".â€"â€"-â€"-â€" COND UC'l‘OR KILLED . Fatality on C. P. R. Fifty Miles West of North Bay. A despatch from North Bay says: Saturday. isuin nu upon I J Ashland Ardell, C. P. R. conductor, was killed near Markstay, fifty-five miles west of North Bay, on Wed- nesday night, while walking along the track. Ardell’s train was stalled by a freight wreck which had block- ed the line, and he had walked out to a farm house one mile away, where a party was in progress. Re- turning to his train he must have been struck by the westbound Win- nipeg express, his mangled body be-- ing picked up on Thursday morn- ing by a section man. Ardell leaves a widow and one child in North Bay. cncrs LOOKING WELL. They are in Excellent Condition in Manitoba. ' A despatch from Ottawa says: The following telegram was receiv- ed on Sunday from Dr. Saunders, the director of experimental farms; by the Department of Agriculture:‘ “Crops throughout Manitoba lookâ€" ing very well. Will average a short4 or growth than crops in Sasl<atche-’._ wan and Alberta, due probably to later sowing. Now growing rapidi ly. Weather very favorable. At Branden Experimental Farm crops are in excellent condition and well advanced.” ' ....... ._..._>X<__ Lord Strathcona has made ,a gift of $500,000 to McCill University, Montreal. = Sergeant Bert Daniels fell off a gun carriage at Winnipeg, was run over and killed, on Friday. Mr. D. D. Mann has made a satisâ€".f factory settlement with the Cana-' dian Northern engineers. v The Manitoba Gypsum Company’s works at Winnipeg were burned on Loss $60,000. -, l Terrible Dominion Day Tragedy Reperted; From Nova Scotia. ‘ ' A despatch from Yarmouth, N. S., says: Two boys killed, four seriously injured and a station building destroyed on the Halifax and Southwestern Railway at Shag- lharbor, Shelburne County, result l ed on Thursday from boys celebrat ing the glorious first and exploding a barrel of gasoline. About 3 o’clock on Thursday afternoon it was discovered that the combined was on fire and burning fiercely. A l rod locomotive was run up abreast of beyond the railroad track. been playing about the station cele-I brating Dominion Day. One of. them had a candle and just before the mishap he went into the station’ and asked the agent for a match 1 which she gave him. He returned to his companions and an instant later a deafening explosion, was. heard. A barrel of gasoline had been standing on the“ station plat: form. This explosive liquid was ig-‘ Bal‘lcyâ€"Fecd. to lpassenger station and freight shed nitcd. ' One of the boys was found dying The ‘thc scene. and the train’s fire ap- _ top of his head was literally blown paratus was at once put to work, 3 off and his brains were scattered half destroyed. once cormnonccd an investigation.'stood. I‘Ic An- : . . l - C'ornâ€" overcome as the building was about ‘ other was found lying on the plat- Thc trainincn at form near the spot where the barrel had evidently been a I - From the incohm-cnt utterances rendered unconscious and had been i l I l ' of thn woman station agent it :ip- burned to death in a very short white, 48 to 51c: i\o. 4 white, 4's j'm:n'x=:l ily-it a number of boys. pcr- time. Your others were found in 'l'm‘s seven or cignt all told, had various positions, all lll‘i‘lil'HTJ'flfillS. - .â€" __.,..___.. .. __.. ..... ._...._.-....-......._-- .m. ~dv‘m4v‘»_-‘yâ€"-§«â€" a - wee-w 1 '. ‘ ‘ ‘W’ _sécagmkgxuu -‘ .. a a -' .4 y- ~- ~' ~'-.-\ 2, ...r ,. . ' ‘s~“v"__’..~â€"'