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was worn n nun REPORTS FROM THE LEADING Seven Men“ Wounded byfiQompany’SPQIiQe ,. ' in, Glace, Bay Strike, Traces. ' A despatch from_ Glace Bay, N. 8., says: Seven.men were struck by bullets on Wednesday after- noon fir-ed from. revolvers inthe hands of the coal company’s police. None of them were seriously hurt, two of them being struck in'the leg and another man having a' porâ€" , tion of one of his ears shot off. ’ ’ The row started over some men who were stealing coal fromvion'e .ofth-e little seams Which have .been opened up by strikers since the laâ€" bor troubles. A little to the east-.. ward of No. 2 min-e is the seashore and "along the'cliffs facing the sea appear small seams of the coal. These arc-of little economic value and have never been worked. The Coal Company’s leaSes and the of- ficials of the company have been forbidden the digging of ‘coal from these seams. ‘ Wednesday afternoon 'it was dis- STRANGLED IN' A Town-L. Three-year-old Boy Found Dead by His Mother. A despatch from Galt says: The little three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hastings, North Wat-er street, strangled himself on Thurs! day morning in the kitchen while his mother was working in the next room. He had been playing with the roller towel," and it is supposed becoming enmeshed in it, wastin- able to extricate himself. The lit-' tle fellow made no outcry, and his mother had no intimation of the accident until she had occasion to visit the kitchen, when she was hor- rified to find her son entangled in the towel and suspended in it. Drs. “’ardlaw and Charlton were at once summoned and every known method of resuscitation was tried, but without effect. 'Life was apparâ€" ently extinct when the mother made her discovery. q.~â€"-â€"â€"â€"_â€"â€" .A LONG SERIES OF THEFTS. J. G. Bess Stole From Many Hotels in Various Places. A despatch from Toronto says: "A remarkable series of thefts were admitted to have been committed by John. George Ross in the Police Court on Wednesday. Ross was arraigned on fivecharges of theft from local hotels, and to all he pleaded guilty and elected to be tried ,by Colonel‘Den‘ison. ' The charges'were of stealing suit cases filled with clothes and other ar- ticles. The case was remanded for a week to allow the police time to make investigations. His descripâ€" tion and finger_ prints have been sent to several cities in the United States where it is believed that he is wanted. -. ’1‘ . FELL FROM A LADDER. _ Sister {Mary Emmanuel Killed at Ottawa. 'A despatch from Ottawa says: Sister Mary Emmanuel, aged 35 years. of the Convent of the Preci- ous Blood was killed on Friday ev- ening through falling from .a ladâ€" der to the .floor of the convent sanctuary. She was engaged in washing the. ceiling near the altar, when the ladder slipped. She died from her injuries an hour later. . _>I<________ DOMINION REVENUE. .._.â€"- are“ Increase in customs Receipts the two children, Katharine and for September. A despatch from Ottawa says: Covered that two boys were takâ€" ing coal from the cliff and there-_ upon Norman McKenzie, accom- panied by‘ M. McAdam and three other policemen of "the coal r-com; pany, each armeds‘with a revolver, preceeded to the cliff to arrest the amateur miners. .. While, in the act of arresting them 'a'crowd gather- ed and commenced jeering‘the po- lice.- disperse, but the orders were not promptly obeyed. The police, drew their revolvers and fired first in the air and then into the crowd; The wounded. men were arrested and placed in jail on acharge of “un- lawful assembly” have been issued for the arrest of land is included in the Dominion the men who used‘their revolvers. stones before they used their pis- tols, but the men of the crowd say not. a stone was threwn until the revolver shots were fired. The customs revenue of the minion for the» month just ending shows an increase of‘ no less than thirty-five per cent. over Septem- ber'of last year. tions were $5,437,458, an increase of $1,409,531. the fiscal year the customs revenue totals $28,781,068, ‘an- increase of $5,918,350, as compared with the first half of the last fiscal year. Frontenac Man Sent to Central John Hickey, of Clarendon, charg- ed with threatening to shoot his wife, was sentenced on Thursday to two years in Central Prison. The pri- charge of assault. ’homc drunk and began ill-treating Flonri'shcd Knife When Arrested on They ordered "the crowd to and ., warrants The police say the crowd threw ...._______â€"â€"â€"â€"~â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"‘_" Do- The total collecâ€" For the six months of >I<_ FIRED RIFLE AT WIFE. Pris’on for Two Years. A despatch from Kingston says: aggravated assault and soner plead-ed guilty to the first The man came his wife. He finally fired a rifle at her, the ball passing close to her head and entering the wall be- side the bed. ...__.... .2? ARMED BURGLAR CAUGHT. Verandah. A d-cspatch from Guelph says: With a knife in, his, hand, which he seemed determined to use, Wil- liam Hendrick, said to be of De- ltroit, was caught red-handed at half-past one o’clock on Friday morning on the varandah of the re- sidence of J. IV. Lyon, just after he had left the house through the window, by constable Greenway. A search of the burglar revealed a gold watch, two valuable- rings, one set with a diamond, and the other with pearls; a gold piece, and some change, which the prisoner says belongs to him, as well as a veil, some cigars and pen points, Which had been” taken from the Lyon residence. bI4_;â€"__._. ’PEBISII IN PRAIRIE FIRE. __._. Wife of Alberta Farmer and Two Children Victims. ' A despat-ch from..Ste_ttler, Alta, says: On Wednesday the wife of a farmer named Frank Grove-r, liv- ing ten miles south-east of Leo, and.her...two children lost their lives in a prairie. fire. The moth-er saw the fire approaching-her home and set out for a neighbor’s with Dorothy, aged four and two years, but was overtaken by the flames. Output of Ontario’s MILLIONS OUT OF MINERALS ._..__._-â€"â€"â€"- . Mines for Past Six Months Largely Increased. A despatch from Toronto says: The total value of the production of minerals in the Province of On- tario for the first six months of 1909 was 810,649,923, as against $8,082,â€" 201 for a similar period last year. There were shipped from the sil- vcr mines of Cobalt during the above period 15,360 tons of ore, inâ€" cluding concentrates, as against 9,â€" 209 tons in the same period of 1908, the increase in the quantity of sil- ver contents being about 45 per cent. Nickel increased 26 per cent. in quantity and pig iron 44 per cont. Iron ore remained about the same and there was a slight de- crease in copper. The mineral production is divided as follows: Value Arsenic, tons 1,519 28,320 Gold, ounces . 741 14,011 Silver, ounces .11,234,382 5,379,980 Quantity Cobalt, tons , 263 46,117 Copper, tons 3,741 -' 529,775 Nickel, tons 6,027 1,234,620 Iron ore, tons . 87,738 217,341 Pig iron, tons . 211,583 3,197,759 200 2,000 lZinc ore, tons . wheat 90 $4.05 in buyers’ Toronto, and $3.90 to $3.95 outside in buyers’ sacks. first patents, $5.60-on track, Toron- to; strong bakers’, $5 on track, Toronâ€" to. 331.00%, Bay ports, and No. 2 Nor- thern at 98%5, Bay ports. ' side. . Barleyâ€"No. 2 55 to 56c outside, andNo. 3 extra at 53 to 540 out- side. 37 to 380 outside. West oats, 37%c, spot, Bay ports. side. 75 to'75%c on track, Toronto. for Ontario bran, and $20.50 to $21 for shorts in bulk. per barrel, and hand~picked apples $2 to $2.75. picked, $2.40 to $2.15 per bushel. $3; extracted, 100 per 1b. $16 a ton on track here, and No. 2 .at $14 to $14.50. track for Ontario, and 75c for New Brunsw1ck. tr: 14-0 per 1b.; fowl, 11 to 13c; turâ€" keys, 17 to 190 per 1b.; ducks, 11 to '13c. tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19c; in- ferior, 17 to 180; creamery, 25 to 260, and separator, 22 to 230 per lb and at 12%c for twins. per lb.incase lots; mess pork $26 to $26.50; short cut, $27.50. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 16 to Vancouver, 16%0; do., heavy, 14% to 15c; rolls, 14% to 14%0; 13%c; back-s, 18 to 19c; breakfast bacon, 17 to 17%0. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 66 to 67c; Manitoba patents, TRADE CENTRES. "'.â€"‘ Other. Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREAD STUFFS. Toronto, Oct. 5.-â€"Flourâ€"â€"Ontario per cent. patents, $4 to sacks on track, b :1 Manitoba flour, second patents, $5.10, and Manitoba wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern S Wheatâ€"4N0. 2, 97c outâ€" Ontario - s Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario whit-e, new, New Canada 5 Peasâ€"No. 2 new, 78 to 80c out- Ryeâ€"No. 68 to 700 outside. Buckwheatâ€"55 to 56c outside. Cornâ€"No. 2 American yellow, Branâ€"$18 to $19 outside in bulk COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples-Wind falls, $1 to $1.50 Beansâ€"Prime, $2.25, and hand- Honeyâ€"Comlbs, dozen, $2.25 to Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy, $15.50 to Strawâ€"$9 to $9.50. ] Potatoesâ€"~55 to 600 per bag on Poultryâ€"Chickens, dressed, 12 THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 20 toh22c; Eggsâ€"Case lots, 250 per doz. Cheeseâ€"12%c per lb. for large, HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€"Long clear, 15 to 15%0 shoulders, 13% to Lardâ€"Tierces, 15 to 15%0; tubs, 15% to 15%c; pails, 15 to 15%c. ‘ w. .... BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Oct. 5.â€"â€"Oatsâ€"â€"â€"No. 2 Canadian Western, 42% .to 430. feed barley, 64 to 650. Buckwheat, 55 to 55%6. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.70; d-o., seconds, $5.20; Winter-wheat $5.50; ~Manito-bal "strong bakers’, $5; straight rollers, $5.25; do., in bags, $2.25 .to $2.50. Food â€"â€"Ontario bran, $21 to'$22;.~ 101173; tario middlings, $22.50 to‘ $23.50;, Manitoba bran, $21; Manitoba" shorts,'$23 to $24; pure grain mou-ille, $33 to $35 ; mixed mouille, $25 to $27. Cheeseâ€"westerns, 11% to 11%0, and easterns at 11% to 11%c. Butterâ€"FineSt creamery, 24% to 250, Eggsâ€"Selected stock, 25% to 260; No. 1 candied at 22% to 23c, and No. 2 at 16 to 190 per dozen. 4 UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Oct. 5â€"Wheatâ€"Sep- tember, 98% to 93%c; December, 98%c; May, 951.01%; cashLNo. :1 hard, $1.02%; No. 1 Northern, $1.â€" 013/8; N0. 2 Northern, 99%c; No. 3 Northern, 95%c. Flourâ€"First pat- ents, $5.20 to $5.30; second pat- ents, $5 to.$5.10; first clears, $4.- 35 to $4.55; second clears, $3.10 to $3.30. Bran in 100-lb. sacks, $19.50- C‘hicago, Oct. 5.â€"C‘ash wheat â€" No. 2 red, $1.16 to $1.17; No. 3. red, $1.09 'to $1.14; No. 2 hard, $1.05 to 131.08%; No.‘3 hard, $1.â€" 01’to 351.06%: No. 1 Northern, $1.,â€" 05 to $1.09; No. 2 Northern, $1.03 to $1.06; No.13 Spring, $1.00 to $1.05. Cornâ€"No. 2, (i-tto 6--I%c; No. 2 yellow, 64% to 64%c; No. 3, 64 to 64%0; No. 3 yellow, 64%0; No. 4, 63%c. Oats-No. 2 white, 42%0; N0. 3 white, 39 to- 39%c; No. 4 white, 36 to 39c; standard, 4231c. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. One of the pleasant features of Thursday’s military pageant was the hearty interest evidently felt two reception accorded them. From the first to the found merit a-plenty in these sai- lors here to join'in the Hudson-Ful- ton celebration, to whom the city has been paying special tribute for Ur was quick to merit and unstinted in approval of it where found. They cheered the Britlsh jacks in their odd-looking light infantry with the gold globe on their collars, which tells in every part of the werld. well-setup sailors from the Brit- ish ships in their service uniform aroused great enthusiasm, the ac- claim subsiding only to rise again as all the details of precision and salute. ,_______-____________.____.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"--â€"â€"-== sold at 5 to 5%c per goo-d animals. 4. to 5c, and the com: mon stock, 2% to 3%0 per lb. Small» hard-looking bulls, 2c per lb. ; milch cows from $30 to $55 each. Grassâ€" fcd calVes, 2% to 3%c, and good veals, 4 to 5%c per lb. {lg/2 to 40, and lambs, 5 to 5%c per 1 . 8% to 9c per lb. prime picked cattle sold at $6, but the $4.85 to $5.25. were strong. Milkers and spring- crs were in steady demand and sold well, as high as $69 being paid for a few extra choice cows. . Steady and unchanged. Sheep and Lambsâ€"Steady. Selects quoted at $8 f.o.b., and $8.25 fed and watered. C. I’. R. President Says It Will back in MOntreal on Saturday from his annual trip of inspection over the IVest-ern portion of the ,C. P. It. system. The trip extended over the whole of the principal lines of the C. P. R; between Montreal and quircd Chicago and Great Western Railway. West had been extremely gratify~ Vingto-hirn, he. said. There were progress and where, and plenty of new people and new capital were: coming in. All the good things that had been true, Sir Thomas remarked. double-tracked across the prairies. .Winnipeg to Brandon will be the Montreal, Oct. 5.â€"Primc beevcs beam 86 feet. S ' umaqnmwfiamwmuer-z.~:azW:M‘ :_,4.'.‘L}E§‘afi&fiylv v.- w .'-i’.~_~;.:;.:.'-:.;vgym},7 I _. _ ._ BRITISH TABS IN NEW "1:73;. ’14" Jeremiahasa‘mm :.~_‘ é: «1.1.. YLNI Here Come the British! " Was the Cry: Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and of Everybody.- A despatâ€"ch from New York says: perfect alignment of movement y the crowd in the British sailors nd marines, and the apprecia- last, the crowd week, and did not hesitate to how its appreciation. The crowd recognize tactical traw hats, and the Royal Marine the tory of battles and hard service The lb. ; pretty Sheep, Good lots of fat hogs sold at Toronto, Oct. 5.â€"â€"A few extra general average for straight oads of good butchers’ was from Good butcher cows Calvesâ€"u Hogs-Firmer. ___,__»z«______ D 0 UBLE TRACK PRAIRIES. Have to be Done. V A despatch from Montreal says: Sir Thomas Shaughnessy arrived and also over the “Soo” lines, and the recently ac- What he had seen in the development everyâ€" said about this year’s harvest were He believed this year’s harvest would bring $120,000,000 of money into the country. “There has been some talk about the C. P. R. being Is there anything in that ’2” he was asked. “Yes, I think that, will have to be done eventually,” he re- plied, “and double tracking from first step.” >1<___.___ A Spanish General. three officers and fourteen men were killed in a brush with the Moors on I‘riday. _ ._._.____..._- THE body stood up preparatory to giving King'Edward’s men just such ception as the King’s Australian subjects tendered the men of the Atlantic fleet in Melbourne 3. little over a year ago. time in the memory of the oldest of those present column of fighting men had parad», ed through the streets of New York. ‘ The Inflexible’s Britishers, and well 'did it sustain its reputation as one of the finest‘ 11 Unknown N. 'Y., says: about 35 years old, early on Wed- were grasped by the crowd. “Here come the British,” every- yelled, and then they all a 1‘6“ It was the first when a. British, band headed the. .val bands on the seven seas. The Britishers got a great recep-g ion all along the line, and when the colorâ€"bearers with the Union' Jack and the passed, the people stood up in hon- or of the colors, while the Ameri- cans and foreign officers who were in the . . their right hands at their caps in Admiral’s pennant stand stood at attention, JUMPED INTO RIVER. .__.._ Joseph Gay of Ottawa Takes His: Own Life. A despatch from Ottawa says»! Joseph Gay of Ottawa, 23 years of age, a, clerk in the Marine Depart- ment, and at one time Secretary to Hon. Mr. Brodeur, committed sui- cide on Thursday morning by jump- ing into the Ottawa men saw him across the bridge and leap from the failing into the river, forty feet be~ ow. and put off to the rescue, but the swift-flowing river away before reach it. office in the only a few days ago after a long; holiday in the country north of Ot-’ tawa, from an illness brought on by overâ€" study. It is supposed that the sui-' cide was the result of a recurrence of the malady from which he pre- viou-sly suffered. off the interprovineial bridge River. Several run out half way A boat was hastily procured ~ bore the body: the rescuers could Mr. Gay returned to his: Marine Departmentl where he went to recover _____.._.,,,... SUICIDE AT THE FALLS. Man Jumped From. Bridge Into River. A despatch from Niagara Falls, An unknown man, nesday jumped from the upper steel‘ arch bridge into the Niagara Riverl and was drowned. He was seen to, make the leap by Frank O’Neil, a; workman, and by several bridge employes. The body appeared on: the surface for an instant and then was lost to view. ‘ 5X4_,____‘ "AXNUITIES POPULAR. Superintemlont Reports Receipts Already of $280,000. 1 A despatch from Ottawa says: The superintendent of annuities, Mr. S. T. Bastedo, announces that the receipts on this new branch of the public service have already ex‘; ceeded $280,000. Applications con«' tinue to come in from all parts of Canada, andthe system has al- ready passed beyond the stage 01" experiment. Hon. J. J. Curran of Montreal died on Friday. l {c __ NiPTUNE'LAUNUHin Great Britain’s Eighth Dreadnought in the Water. A despatch from Portsmouth, ly ten feet longer and two feet wid~ England, says: Theileptun-e, Great lritain’s eighth battleship of the Dreadnought class, or her eleventh, including the. three battleship crui- sers, Inllexible. Indolnitable, and Invincible, was successfully launch- ed here on ThurSday, and named by the Duchess of Albany in the pre~ sence of a great concourse. bulkheads of this super-Dread- nought arc so heavily armored that experts consider her practically un- sinkable by a torpedo. The er than any of her predecessoral She exceeds the Dreadnought type" by 2,270 and the Be-lleraphon by 1,650 tons. She has turbine enâ€" ginespf 34,000 indicated horsepowfi' or. giving a speed of 21 knots‘an' hour. . ,, l The Neptune has been described as “the last word” in battleships. , new fifty-calibre pattern, whio has a greater range and penetraq 1 tion than the 12-inch guns now 1111 Her ten 12-inch guns will be of the, h I The Neptune was Commenced at use, and in addition she will car- I'ortsmouth on January 9th of this ry four-inch She has a displacement of pedo attacks. feet, and siders he is consequent- armed vessel thus far built. year. 20,250 tons, length 510 . guns for repelling tor- The Admiralty con~ her the» most powerfully. em .4-.-:"?'¢‘I« . v P l I l l l 1 l l ,‘ 1... _ 3"1" #0 W ~“e”e\r‘J\MfJ\a~rv’~/‘~J _.’,‘ 3":- ,« l‘fflvfwww‘w’wwe. J» )g......i~»f , '1. «lemon? Vi. v