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___________â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"__:â€"â€"*â€"_â€"Mâ€"â€"__â€"Fâ€"â€"_Hâ€"â€"_â€"â€"â€"â€"_ THE WORM}? mums REPORTS FROM THE LEADING Note. Wheel Turning Between St. Paul and Seattle - A dcspatch from St. Paul, Minne- sota, says: The strike of switchmen on the Northern transcontinental lines between St. Paul and the Pa- cific coast has already involved 65,- 000 people directly and indirectly, and before the strike is adjusted it is believed that 150,000 persons will have been affected. Not a wheel is turning on any freight train be- tween St. Paul and Seattle. In Min- neapolis three of the big flour mills have closed down for the reason that they could not receive grain nor ship flour. At'St. Cloud, Minn‘., the Great Northern has closed its shops, putting 500 men in idleness. Al Superior, Wis, the Great North- ern has closed down its shops and docks, crowding out 350 men. At St. Cloud, in the granite works, 500 men were thrown out of employ- ment because of thc uncertainty of the future. From St. Cloud, Wilâ€" mar, Fargo, Grand Forks, James- town. Devil’s Lake, Minot, Billings, Livingston, Butte and Helena 1651 engine crews were called off. The switchmen have allowed perishable freight to be attached to passenger trains to be taken to terminal sta- tions, but this only applies to the next 12 hours. This ' situation is practically the same clear to the coast. The chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen on Wednesday advised the general managers of all the Western railroads that if any attempt is made to replace the striking switchmen by non-union men he will call a strike. The; situation at present is tons: That] none of the jobbers of Chicago, the Twin Cities or Duluth can ship a single article except by express. Not a farmer in the Northâ€"West can deliver to the commission houses of the Twin Cities except by express. That the prospective Christmas bu- siness throughout the North-West on all lines is paralyzed. Milling and manufacturing industries are hourly being suspended and the loss in money runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars every 24 hours. "This is the most farâ€"reaching and M A COAL SIIORTAGE. Dealch in the West Neglected to Stock Up. A despatch from Regina says: With the sudden dip in temperaâ€" ture which has occurred come re- ports of a dangerous shortage of uel in some localities. This has been carefully investigated by the Government, with a view to ascer- taining who is responsible for the situation. It has been learned that the railways have done everything possible to facilitate shipments, and ave urged the dealers to lay in stocks in advance, but the advice has not been acted upon. The mines have been able to supply all the or- ders promptly, and therefore it is strictly up to the dealers in the variâ€" ous centres. However, the situa- tion is not yet an alarming one, al- though many towns liave only a hand~to-mouth supply. M A [)ARING ROBBERY. _.__â€"_. Two Masked Men Hold up Merchant at Lewisville, N. B. A dospatch from Monoton, N. 13., says: A boldâ€"up of the wild west variety was successfully pulled off at Lewisville, a suburb of Moncton early on Friday night by two maskâ€" ed mcn, unknown. The despera- docs entered the store of W. R. Williams just after dark, and with cocked revolvers held the proprie- tor and two clerks at bay while the A drspatch from Winnipeg suys:l The climax of a $5,000 robbery oc-l curred on Thursday, when John A. I Barnett. a railway mail clerk, was‘ arrested charged with the crime. ltl i: the sequel of the disappoarnncel of a package containing $5,885 from l the mails on tho Carirnn-Hartney bran-sh of the Canadian Northern liuilwny on Nov. 1. The police: found $1.000 of the stolen money} on Wednesday, but admit the prob-i lem of solving the mysterious affair? is puzzling them. i Barnett took his arrest molly.l -_.______.,______.â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"~â€"â€",__ nun 111 Bill 1103111111 Railway Clerk Charged With Steal- ing Money Package. TRADE CENTRES. â€"â€" on any Freight Train Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. 7.â€"â€"Flourâ€"-Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents, to $4.35 in buyers’ sack-s on track, Toronto, and $4.20 to $4.25 out- side in buyers’ sacks. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.10 to $5.20. and strong bakers’, $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern $1.04, Bay ports, and No. 2 Northâ€" ern, $1.02%, Bay ports. Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 mixed, $1.03 to $1.04 outside, and No. 2 white and red, $1.04 outside. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 60 to file outside, and No. 3 extra, 58 to 59c outside. Oatsâ€"â€"No. 2 Ontario white, 36 to 5370 outside. Canada West cats, 37% to 380 for No. 2, and 36% to 37c for No. 3, Bay ports. Peasâ€"ST to 880 outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 72 to 730 outside. Buckwheatâ€"53c high freights, and 54c low freights . ' Cornâ€"Old No. 3 American yelâ€" low, 71% to 720 Toronto, and new No. 3 yellow, 65%0 on track, To- ronto. ‘ ' ' ranâ€"$20.50 in bags, Toronto, and shorts, $23 to $23.50, in bags, Toronto. disastrous strike that has occurred in the West for 25 years, and the determination on both sides to fight to a finish promises to prolong the struggle for weeks. Telegrams from the northern Min- nesota iron range towns on Wedâ€" nesday night, which includes a po- pulation of more than 175,000. say that if the strike continues for a week there will be a food famine in all of the towns. One of the ef- ccts of the strike is the suspension of the big packingâ€"houses at South St. Paul. They can neither receive live stock nor ship their present supply of produce. STRIKE ABOUT OVER. With,1,500 men imported to take the places of the striking switchmen who are members of the Switch- men’s Union of North America and those strikers who are members of the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men returning to work, managers of the Great Northern and North- ern Pacific Railroads on Friday night asserted that the strike was about over. The strike leaders, however, de- spite the desertion of the trainmcn and the gradual resumption of traf- fic. asserted that the strike had only begun. Freight congestion is not appreciably relieved. After a conference on Friday afternoon with, President Hawley of the ' Switchmen’s Union and E. W. Decker of the clearing house, Governor Eberhardt announced that a well-defined movement had been started to effect a settlement of the strike. President L. W. Hill of the Great Northern said there could be no truth to any talk of settlement even with individual railroads, as the General Managers had decided that they would all stand together. Mr. Hill said that the railroads could get enough men in the east to take the strikers’ places, but that they did not want to bring them all in now, preferring to give the old men a chance to return as individuals. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€"$2 to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality. Beansâ€"Car lots outside, $1.50 to $1.60, and small lots here'$1.70 to $1.90. , Honeyâ€"â€"Combs. dozen, $2.25 to $3; extracted, 10%0 per lb. Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy, $14.50 to $15 and No. 2 $13 to $14 on track, To~ ronto. Strawâ€"$7.50 to $8 on track, Toâ€" ronto. Potatoesâ€"45 to 500 per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultryâ€"Chickens, dressed, 11 to 120 per 1b.; fowl, 8 to 90; turkeys, 15 to 160 per lb; ducks, 1b., 11 to 120; geese, 9 to ICC per lb. â€".__. v..- THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Pound prints, 23 to 24-0; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 220; in- ferior, 18 to 19c; creamery, 27 to 280, and solids, 26 to 26%0 per 1b. Eggsâ€"Case lots, 30 to 32c per dozen for fresh, and 25 to 260 for storage. Cheese-12%c per lb. for large, and at 1234c for twins. till was ransacked and twenty dol- lars taken. The men then backed out and fled in the darkness. The robbei‘y'was done so quickly that the young woman bookkeeper at work in the office did not know it happened till she‘xwas told. A HUNTER’S MISTAKE. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€"Long clear, 13% to 140 per lb. in case lots; mess 'p‘ork, $26; short out, $29 to $29.50. Hamsâ€"~Light to medium, 14% to 15%0; do., heavy, 3% to 14c; rolls, 14 to 14%0; shoulders, 12% to 13c; backs, 19 to 200; breakfast bacon, 17 to 180. Lardâ€"Tierccs, 15340; tubs, 160; pails, 1614c. John -Smith Kills W. McCrcary, Taking Him for a Beer. A despatch from. Rathwell, Mani- toba, says: The first fatality of the big game shooting season occurred near here on Wednesday afternoon, when John Smith shot and killed W. McCreary in mistake for a deer. The bullet hit McCrea-ry full in the chest and caused instant death. His two brothers were in the bush with him and at once conveyed the body to this town. Smith also came in and gave himself up to the police. a POISON IN GERMAN HOSPITAL BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Dec. 7.~Oats, No. 2 Canada Western, 40% to 410; barâ€" ley, No. 2, 66 to 670; Manitoba feed barley, 52 to 530; buckwheat, 58 to 58%6. Flour-â€"-Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.70; Maniâ€" toba Spring wheat patents. sec- onds, $5.20; W'inter wheat patents, $5.60; Manitoba strong bakers, $5; straight rollers,‘ $5.10 to $5.25; straight rollers in bags. $2.40 to $2.50. Feedâ€"«Ontario bran, $20.- 50 to $21.50; Ontario middlings, $23 to $23.50; Manitoba bran, $19 to $20; Manitoba shorts, $22 to $23; pure grain mouille. $32 to $33; mixed mouillc, $25 to $27. Cheese â€"â€""\Vesterns, 11% to 11%0 for late Fall make, and 11% to 12c for Sep- tember make, with easterns 11% to 11%0. Butter~September creamâ€" cry, 25 to 25%c, and current re- ceipts at 24 to 24%0. Eggsâ€"Select- ed stock. 27 to 28c, and No. 1 cand- lod at 25 to 26c per dozen. 70 Deaths May Result From Crime of Tmploye. A despatch from Berlin says: Five hundred and forty-seven pati- ents in the asylum at Friedrichs- berg, near Hamburg. are ill from the effects of poisoned rice, which is supposed to have been given to them by one of the cmploycs. Two patients have died from eating the poisoned food and sixty-eight cases are considered hopeless. Portions of the rice which were not eaten are being chemically analyzed. UNITED STATES MARKETS. wheat, No. 1 Northern, carloads, store, $1.11; Winter. No. 2 red, $1.21; No. 2 white, $1.22. employed a lawyer and was remand- No, 3 yellow, 62%c: N0. 4 yellow ed for one week. His salary is $1.80 601/40,; No. 3 corn,- Gbc- No, 4 com, per day and he has been in the ser- ’580'; No. 3 white, 61c. , Oatsâ€"N0 z; vicc for one year. The detectives lwbitc, 4434c. ' u of the city, the railway ' post-Ofilce department tuining the utmost the case. They and thol Chicago, Dec. 7.â€"â€"Wheat â€" Cash are maln- ih’o. 2 red. $1.19 to $1.21; No. 3 red secrecy about $1.12 to $41.17; No. 2 hard, 81.07% admit, however. to $1.09; No. 3 hard, $1.02 to $1.- Ithat several persons are involved '06; No. 1 Northern, $1_ogl/§ to $1” iu the robbery and that a number of thefts of equal interest have oc- curred recently in the service which have not been explained. The sug- gestion is that all have been comâ€" initted by the same gang. 09%; No. 2 Northern, 331.05% to $1.08; No. 3 Spring. $1.03 to $1,- 06. Cornâ€"No. 2 white, old, 021.: to 633720; No. 3 new, 58%c; 2:0,],(3' white, new, 56%0; No. 3 yellow, new. 57 to 58c. Oatsâ€"2T0. 2 white, Buffalo, Dec. 7.~~Wheatâ€"â€"Spring Cornâ€" nun in stories of hardship the Bay of Fundy. poot, aged 55 small 20-foot fishing grounds. They were seen hauling their trawls at 10 o’clock the same morning by Capt. Nelson Thurber, of the schooner Swan, and nothing was seen of them until about one o’clock on Thursday af- ternoon, when they were picked up off Trinity Ledge, 20 miles from land, by Capt. A. J. Thurber, of 42%0; No. 3, 40%c;‘No. 3 white, 40% to 41%c; No. 4 white, 510; standard, 41% to 42%0. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Dec. 7.â€"Primc beeves 4% to 5%0 per pound; pretty good animals, 3% to 4%c; common stock, 2 to 30 per 1b.; lean canners, 1% to 20 per pound; milch cows, from $30 to $60 each; calves from 3 to 5%0 per lb. ; sheep from 3% to 4%0 per 1b.; lambs at 5% to 6%0 per 1b.; good lots of fat hogs, 8% to 8:340 per l'b. Toronto, Dec. 7.â€"â€"A few choice picked steers and heifers realized $5 to Butcher-5’ cows of the choice class were very much wanted. a few selects selling at $4.80, whilst $4 to $4.50 were common prices for well-finished aniâ€" mals. Stockers and feeders are still being bought by farmers. Milk- ers and springers were the only stock that showed any signs of be- ing easier. Calves of the. choice va- riety reached the $7 mark. Sheep and lambs, despite the abundant supply, were very firm. lects quoted at $7.50 f.o.b., $7.75, fed and watered. >" .._â€" -‘__._.‘_._._. DISSCLE’TIDN JAN {'A R Y 8. a...â€" Uatcs for the idler-lion in Britain Deliniicly Fixed. - A despatch from London The dates of ‘tho chief political events of the next twr; months are now definitely known. Dissolution will take place on January 8. first borough olecti-zms will be on Jan. 13, and the first county elections on January 19. tions will end on Jun. :31, and ill", first meeting of the new Parliament-i will take place on Feb. 1-1. A BY LI'M 1191.1qu B 1' ii ST. 1 iOtlau‘n Institution Damaged. \ No Inmates Injured. A. despatch from Ottawa- says: The explosion of a boiler in St. Patrick’s Asylum, Lauricr Avenue wcst, on Saturday morning, badly damaged the building, but injured none of the 200 inmates. Brick walls in the basement were demol- IT 39« to hinges, CXtraJIi'or the sub-structure of the sold up to $5.50, and several lotsi Hogsâ€"“Sew . ‘ . w and the open market in Chicago. I_\‘111e- say s : ; The. l 1131;} § Parliament The nlcc- this month. But ' lSlliltllSllS n Tllllllll DAYS 1 __L“â€"â€"â€"- Terrible Experience of Two Nova Scotie Fishermen. A despatch from Digby, N. S-,ltlie schooner Venus, and brought says: One of the most appallinglinto Westport in an exhausted con- and suffering dition. ever eXpemenced by Nova E’cm’w‘lhalf days in their open boat, with fishermen comes from Westport, on the machinery Last Monday out food, helpless, and exposed to morning at three o’clock, Geo. Re- one of the worst series of storms years, and his son, in years. . Ray, aged 20, left Westport in a to give an account of their terrible gasoline boat for the experiences. They had been for three and a broken down, withâ€" Thcy are as yet unable When their engine broke down they were compelled to lie at anchor throughout the recent gales until Thursday morning, when they broke adrift from their 'moor- lugs and were carried to sea. The heavy rains supplied them. With water or they would have perished. The doctor thinks that, with care, the men will recover. ~ M ished, doors were blown off their" the flooring on the main flat of the building was blown up- ward, and the walls were damaged. The damage will probably amount to at least $4,000. The boiler which burst had been out of order but had been repaired. “0' bâ€"â€"â€"â€"-‘ QUEBEC BRIDGE CONTRACT. M. 1’. Davis, Ottawa Contractor, Will Build Substructure. from Montreal says: that the contract new. Quebec bridge has been awarded to Mr. M. 1’. Davis, the Ottawa contractor, who built the original pier work. The price of the new work is stated as in the neighborâ€" hood of $2,509,000. A despatch It is understood {a ‘ MIG REST l3 i? RICE EVER PAID . l’riinc Steer Sold at Chicago for Ten Cents :1 Pound. A despatch from Chicago says: Prime steers ,on Wednesday reach- ed the highest price ever paid on teen steers, averaging 1,572 pounds, sold at $9.50 per hundredâ€"weight, and ten yearliugs, weighing 1,081 pounds. also sold at the same price. A single head sold at ten cents per pound. .o _____._,,,, Will!) ADJDURN {1X 17TH. Commons Will Rr-zm-u-iiihlc on Ninth of Next Month. A dcspatch from Ottawa says: will adjourn for the Christmas holidays on the 17th of and will resume sittings on Jan. 101'l1; ’i‘WD KILLi-llf 0N 'i‘RAt‘KS. Remains of 7112111 and Woman Found Near Montreal. _\ despair-h From Bulontreal says: The badly mangled remains of a man and woman 'werc found along the G.T.ll. traclra. corner St. ’l'lii'. zabm'h Street: and (Jole- St. Paul Road, on Thursday night. It is supposed the couple were walking along the track to Turcot Village, when they were run down by an engine. iii-331111111} ___..._.a __.â€"â€"a~â€"._...._____.__.n _ _. The Great Campaign Against the House of Lords Has Begun A despatch from On the order of King Edward Par- liament was prorogued with the usual formalities on Friday after- noon. The proceedings were brief and the attendance small. In fact the private members of. the Cham- bers were almost outnumbered by the Ministers in attendance. Both Houses met at 2 o’clock, when the Black Rod proceeded im- mediately to the lower House to re- quest the attendance of the Com- monch at the upper House to hear the Royal speech. The speech was read by Lord High Chancellor Lore- burn, who was supported by Vis- count Althrop, the Lord Chamber- lain, Lord MacDonncll, Lord Pent~ land, Secretary for Scotland, and Lord Haver'sham. r The only reference to the politi- cal crisis in the speech of proroga- tion was in the clause addressed to the House of Commons in which [the King thanked the members for lthe national expenditures. éthe f‘.il(.\}’:i‘lo:1 of the provision font) expire are in 11;,» or...» .s'; T1118 ncwal.” London says: concluded: “I regret that the pro- vision has proved unav' ding.” Beyond this the speech made the usual references to the visits of foreign Sovereigns, the friendly rc- lations with foreign powers and the legislation passed during the ses- sion. On the matter of. foreign re- lations, the speech continued: “The difficulties which arose in southâ€"eastern Europe in the autumn a year ago have resulted happily in a practical solution for, the maintenance of peace. while the constitutional regime in Turkey continues to make satisfactmry pro- gross. unfortunately 1 1 “Subject to certain reservations, made by my plcnipotentiarics at the time of signature, I have to ratify the conventions which. result- cd from the conference held at The Hague in 1907. Agreements with Germany, Sweden. Norway, Switâ€" zerland and Portugal have been renewed for u l'l'z'l'izer term of five years and otle ll.2‘l‘l‘(’.il:i"'ll§l about -.‘.-l rc-