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_.....__....__..__..__..â€"~.~â€"-â€"â€"- Al PHILADELPHIA f: a: . up..- LT SM ~_________â€".-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-- EXPLOSIQN KILLS T’Illllll 300 “‘E WSW“ Bill Flllll REPORTS FROM THE LEAD-1N0 . 0 _______________._.â€"â€"â€"-â€"- , I a i ? ? L b 5;. if' f: hv‘x ,.H - Vim“.- W s. e" ,. Tragedy at Hulton Coal Mine, Near Bolton, England A despatch from Bolton, Eng- land, says: More than 300 colliers lost their lives on Wednesday in an explosion in the Little Hulton Colliery of the Hulton Colliery Company, which is located a litâ€" tle distance outside this city. The explosion occurred early in the‘ miners are still alive. present. Inspector Gerrard issued a report after making a descent in: to the pit, in which he declared that it was impossible that any of the Toward mid- night, however, two more miners were found alive. They were. terâ€" ribly burned, and are in a. critical . . l . . morning, soon after the miners had condition. entered the pit to begin work- Its‘ force was terrific, and later inves- tigation showed that the low-er pas- sages had been blocked. Heroic efforts were made by rescue parties all day long, but a fierce fire which the rescuers from penetrating be- yond four hundred yards into the workings. At halfâ€"past nine o’clock on Wed- nesday night all the rescuers were called out of the mine, and a conâ€" ference was held, at which Govern- ment Inspector Gerrard, the engin- eers and the mine manager were i rescuers that , more followed the explosion preventedlfound {diva It was announced that 40 bodies had been “collected at the bottom of the shaft, and that they should be brought up as soon as possible. A flicker of hope still animates the men may be The first rescue party brought out eight men, stil living, bututhe majority of these were in a serious condition from tho noxious gases. Ten bodies also were removed, and twenty additional bodies were _ found partly covered by heavy falls thlLlilEN l‘lltll Five Thousand Wanted to Build the Grand Trqu A despatch from Montreal says: portation of Asiatic labor. Pacific Mr. Mr. W. Stewart of the firm of Foley Stewart is hopeful of getting the Walsh & Stewart, contractors for the mountain sections of th.n Grand Trunk Pacific, which will repre- sent an outlay of many millions of dollars, has left for Scotland to secure labor for the gigantic under~ taking. There is very little labor available on the Pacific coast, and public sentiment will not tolerate, ,nor will the Dominion or Provin- cial Governments sanction the im- five thousand men he needs to build the road through the mountains. He says these men will make good settlers, after the road is cons-truc- ted. “They will cost us more,” said Mr. Stewart, “than Asiatics would have done, but the railway and the country will have the adâ€" vantage of five thdusand acclima-. tizcd settlers of the finest'race the world has produced.” ‘ ”_____,__'_"‘._'_‘~_.â€"_‘W___â€"â€"~â€"â€"â€"'â€""‘â€"°__.__"'_______.'â€"â€"â€"â€"-'_'____.â€"_â€""â€"‘__â€"~___.. ICE CREAM Is in. Rionfir. Seventy Per Cent. Measures Up‘to New Standard. A despatch ,fI‘OlD. Ottawa says: A bulletin issued from the labora- tory of the Inland Revenue De- partment shows that at least sev- enty per cent. of the ice cream sold in Canada measures up to the new standard required under the-regu- lations passed by order in Council last month. An analysis of 125 samples of ice cream on sale in various sections of the Dominion gave. 77 fully up to or above the standard of 14 per cent. of milk fat; 11 samples were nearly up to the standard; 31 were somewhat below, and six were greatly below the standard. The bulletin says there has been a very marked im- provement in the quality of Cana- dian ice cream during the past two years. Kc... RAILWAYS 1m]; Donn WELL. Reports of Business in the West Show Enormous Increase. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The reports on the passenger and} traffic business from the three rail- roads, the C. P. R., C. N. R. and G. T. P., show an enormous in- crease during 1910 over all previ- ous years. . Although no actual fig- ures cane be obtained up to date, as far as can be estimated. the increase on each of these roads during: the present year is over 20 per 'cent. SMUG GLED FROM CANADA. Systematic Breach of Law Among Thousand Islands. A despatch from Brockville says: Special United States Customs of- ficers have been engaged the past three weeks at Alexandria Bay in- vestigating smuggling operations carried on from Canada among the Thousand Islands the past three or four years. Over one hundred per- sons havc been caught in the net tity of goods confisCated and hun- dreds of dollars collected in clu- ties. .___._.._.z<_._._._ COMMISSION ’ron ELEVATORS _â€" Main Provision of Coming Bill to Amend Grain Act. ' A despatch from Ottawa. says: It is semi-officially announced that the bill to amend the Grain Act prepared by Sir Richard Cartwright will place the terminal grain eleva- tors undér a commission. It will also authorize the Government at ,any time by an order-in-Council to take over these elevators and to operate them as public utilities. K4-â€"__.- Peter Beaucage, a young Indian, was struck by a train near North Bay and lay beside the track for most of the night before being dis- cOVcr'ed. He had some bones. bro- ken and was badly frozen. m” Remarkable Growth CANADA Wittâ€"BEL mo "of Commerce V'ith Argentine Republic . A dcspatch from Ottawa says: An order-in-Council has - been passed appointing Mr. H. R. Pous- settc Canadian Trade Commission- er to the Argentine Republic, with headquarters at Buenos Ayrcs. . I‘his appointment is the outcome of ’ the negotiations which have been proceeding for some time between the Government and Mr. Horatio Meyer, Consul-General of Argen- there entirely in charge of Mr J. A. Chesealy, who will close the of- fice;at-Cape Town and establish headquarters at Durban, which is the chief centre of trade between Canada and South Africa. , Canada’s total~trade with Argen- tina in 1909 was over five million dollars. Of this, $2,867,785 repre- sented exports of Canadian goods, which is more than Canadia- export- and fines {ringing 253113811 33 $1,500 lb. for rolls, 25c_for solids, and 24 have been imposed, beSides a quan- to 250 for separator prints." ' ' ' TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. Grain. Cheese and Other Dairy .Producc at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. 27.â€"â€"-Flourâ€"Win- ter wheatw90 per cént. patents, $3.- 55 to $3160 seaboard. Manitoba floursâ€"First patents, $5.40; sec- ond patents, $4.90, and strong bakâ€" ers’, $4.70, on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern 980, Bay ports; No. Northern, 95%0, Bay ports, and 119: 3 at 930, Bay ports. _ " ' ' Ontario wheatâ€"85% to 860 outside for No. 2 white and red Winter. Barbyâ€"The market is quiet, with malting qualities 56 to 58c outside, and feed 48 to 500 outside. Oatsâ€"â€"No. 2 white, 35c, Qntrack, Toronto, and 32 L0 32%0 outside; No. 2 W. C. oats, 380, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 36%c, Bay ports. Cornâ€"New N o. 2 American, 52% to 530, prompt shipment, Toronto freights. Peasâ€"No. 2 shipping,‘780, out- side. Ryeâ€"No. 2 at 600 outside. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2 at 4.6 to 47c :zzliâ€"Man‘itobas, $19, in bags, I; i...“ , . Toronto, and shorts, $21, in bags, Toronto. Ontario bran, $19, in sacks, Toronto, and shorts, $22. -COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€"Spys, $4.50 to $6; Bald- wins 84 to $5; Greenings, $4 to $4.- 50; No. 2dassortevd, $3.50 to $3.70 per barrel. , , Beansâ€"Car lots, $1.60 to $1.70, and small lots, $1.80 to $1.85, Honeyâ€"Extracted, in tins, 10% to 110 per 1b.; No. 1 comb, wholesale, $2 to $2.25 per dozen; No. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $1.85 per dozen. Bale-d hayâ€"The market is quiet, with No. 1 at $12.50 to $13 on track, and No. 2 at $10 to $11. Baled strawâ€"$6.50 to $7.25 on track, Toronto. Potatoesâ€"Car lots, 70 to 75c per bag. Poultryâ€"VVholesale prices of dressed poultry -:â€"-Chickens, _13 to 150 per 1b.; fowl, 10 to 110 per lb.; ducks, 13 to 150 per 1b.; turkeys, 20 to 21c per 1b., and geese, 13 to 140 per lb. Live, 1 to 2c less. â€". ~,.â€"- THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€"Dairy prints, 22 to 240; choice dairy solids, 21 to 220; infer- ior, 18 to 190; choice large rolls, 21 to 220. Creamery, 27 to 280 per Eggsâ€"Case lots of pickled bring 27c; cold storage, 27 to- 280; select- ed, 30 to 310, and strictly newâ€"laid, 38c per dozen. Cheeseâ€"Large at twins 12%(3. ’1‘ 12%c, and HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€"Long clear, 12%. to 13c per lb. in case lots; mess .pork, $24; short out, $26. Ham'sâ€"Light to medium, 160 ; do., heavy, 15c; rolls, 12%0; shoulders, 11%c; breakfast bacon, 18c; backs (pea meal), 18%0. Lardâ€":Ticrces, 12%0; tubs, 12%0; pails, 130. ._â€"â€"- BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, Dec. 27.â€"-Oats â€"â€" No. 2 Canadian Western, 39% to 39%c; extra No. 1 feed, 38%0; No. 3 Ca- 2 local white, 37%0; No. 3 local white, 36%0; No. 4 local white, 3512c. Barleyâ€"Manitoba No. 4, 48 to 48%0. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.60; do., seconds, $5.10; Winter wheat patents, $4.75 to $5; Manitoba strong bake'rs’, $4.90; straight rolâ€" lers, $4.35 to $4.50; do., in bags, $2 to $2.05: extras, $1.65 to $1.75. Peachâ€"Ontario bran, $18.50 to $19; Ontario middling, $22 to $22.50; Manitoba shorts, $21 to .22; Ma- nitoba bran, $18 to $20; pure grain mouillie, $31 to $32, mixed mouili' lie, $25 to $28. Cheeseâ€"~Westerns, 115-8 to 12c, and easterns. 11%»to Ill/3c. Butterâ€"Choiccst, 25%c, and seconds, 24% to 24%,0. Eggsâ€" Selected stock, 32c; No. 1 stock, 2, 23 to 240. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Dec. 27.â€"â€"Wheatâ€"â€"Spring wheat, No. 1 Northern, carloads, store, 31.12%. Cornâ€"No. 3 yel- low, 48543'c; No. 4 yellow, 46%0 on nadian Western, 38% to 38%0; No.| Four Firemen Killed, Twenty Buried in ‘ Ruins and Twelve Injured A despatch from Philadelphia says: Four firemen are known to be dead, twenty are thought to be buried in the ruins and twelve others are in hospitals as the re- sult of a fire on Wednesday night in the leather factory of Freelan- der & Company, 1,116-1,120 North Bodine street. It was first report- ed that Chief Baxter of the fire deâ€" partment was among those still in the ruins, but while he was injured, he escaped being carried down by the falling walls. While the firemen were fighting the flames from the roofs of adjoin- ing dwellingâ€"houses, the south wall of the‘ big building crashed down upon them. ' At the time there were at least 35 men on these buildings, and all were carried down. Four were later- takcn out dead. Twelve were able to extricate themselves from the mass of bricks and twist- d iron girders, butmit is thought that twenty men are still in the ruins. Not all of ,these are dead or seriously injured. rv W -~.._______________________..â€"___â€"__..____._.______. Northern, cash, $1.01; Dec., $1.- 00%; May,"$1.03; July, $1.037-8. _.â€".â€"a LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Dec. 27.â€"â€"Good butcher cattle brought $6 per cwt. in sev- eral cases, and the prevailing quo- tation was between $5.85 and $6. Medium cattle were quite firm, but culls were perhaps 10c. off Sheep and lambs were steady, but hogs picked up about 150. To-day’s quo- tations were $6.75 f.o.b. and $7 fed and watered at Toronto. . __________r_____ THE KING NEEDS inn. C u-" Duke of Connaught Not-Likely to Come to Canada. A dcspatch from Ottawa says: There is a growing belief in official circles at Ottawa that the Duke of Connaught will not succeed Earl CONDENSED NEW S ITEMS cirrnxixcs rum-i ALL crux: THE cross. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. Deposits in Canadian banks at the end of Novemberqamounted to over $840,000,000, as shown in the Government’s monthly statement. A decree from Rome forbid: priests from holding office in fin- ancial, industrial or fraternal aor- gamzations. ' Hon. M. Cochran-e, in an inter- view, pointed out that the Porcu- . . "4 . - . . Grey as Governor-General of Can-11mm gold field ,,,,,,, ,mi, N, pros, ada. There has been a Semi-official hint received that King George is finding the demands upon his time so great and functions so numerâ€" ous that he has to have the aid of a Prince of the blood with public experience, as both Queen Victoria and King Edward had, to repreâ€" sent them at hospital openings and: similar functions. As the Prince of Wales is too young for such tasks the Duke of Connaught is the only member of the family available, and it is found he cannot be spared to Canada. 0 . . DEL..â€" I YOUNG BRIDE’S DEATH. â€"â€" Travelled Seven Thousand Miles to Marry. A despatch from Edmonton says: After travelling 7,000 miles from New Zealand to join her prospec- tive husband, Oswald Hall, a prosâ€" perous farmer of Vermilion, Lydia Bentley was. married to him the other day as she‘lay on a cot‘in MiSericordia Hospital here. The neXt day Surgeons operated on her in an effort to save her life, but on Thursday she died. The young woman travelled all the way from New Zealand in order to be marâ€" ried here on Christmas Day. She became ill on the boat, but kept on until she mashed Edmonton. $5,666 FOR STARVING. American Red Cross Sends Relief for l’ekin Famine. A despatch from Washington says: The American Red Cross, on Friday, cabled the sum of $5,000 to Wm. J. Calhoun, American Minis- ter at Pekin, for the relief of the sufferers from the famine in the province in thg Huai River Valley. Two or three million people are affected. pects, but """-I‘(- .. naming .‘iigjainsi “Wild-crfl .. _. The from Niagara wai turned on at Hamilton on Wednes‘ day night. Hon. J. S. Hendrie oft ficiatedand speeches were-made by Messrs. Beck, McNaught and .others. . ‘ _ After being on strike thirteen Iweeks, Montreal plumbers gave up the'struggle and returned to work. George How, 3. Kingston sailor, fell in a snowbankwhile drunk. A dog barked, a constable investigat- ed and the man’s life was saved. At Prince Albert, Sask., Willie Taylor, aged 12, was shooting at a mark, and accidentally shot' his eightâ€"year-old sister, who died shortly afterwards. Effie Petrie, a young Scotch doâ€" mestic, of Amherst, N. S., poured coal oil on the kitchen stove. There was an explosion and the unfortuâ€" nate girl was so severely burned \that she died. GREAT BRITAIN. At the conclusion of the British elections the Liberal coalition forcâ€" es have a majority of 126 over the Unionists. The method of fingerprint idenâ€" tification failed in a London, 'Eng., court for the first time on record. UNITED STATES. Centennial celebration in com- memoration of the Battle of Lake ,Erie will be held in 1913. l Nettie McConachie, of Port Huron, Mich, died of hydropho- bia, after being bitten by a dog two years ago. GENERAL. The Mexican insurgents held up a Federal troop train at Mal Paso for five hours and inflicted heavy losses on the Government forces. llLlLLl it l‘ltlllllllll KILLED . Ammonia Exploded “at ' the Chicago” Union Stock Yards A despatch from Chicago says: Fire Marshal James Horan, and be- tween twenty-five and thirty of his injured on Thursday in a fire which at an earlyhour had caused $1,- 500,000 damage. An overhanging wooden 'eanopy fell from the beef house of Morris and Company, where the fire started, carrying with it tons of red hot-bricks and debris upon two companies of fire- men and the chief, crushing them to death and cncasing, their bodies |fircmcn were killed and forty others I Assistant Chief Wm. Burrought iand Lieut. Fitzgerald were with‘the marshal under the canopy when it ’ fell, receiving specific orders for directing the fight against the ever" spreading flames in other quartersI and they went down to their death with Marshal Horan. ' Other firemen, witnesses of the fate of their chief,- deserted for a brief time other parts of the blaz- ing structure, and sought with their bare hands to drag apart - the glowing bricks and debris which covered the bodies of their chiel, and his companions. The entire crews of engine coni- ‘tma to Canada. Mr. Poussctte 13 ed to France that year, although in a veritable furnace into which 27c, and No. itiack, through billed. Oatsâ€"No. 2 at present Trade Commissroner‘at imports from the .latter countrviwhite. 35%c; No; 3 white, 35%c; their comrades were unable to dig Durban) 1“ Natal, 1’“ 5111091311901". “'01’0 01/91" ten milllons- A syndl- No. 4 white, 3434c. Barleyâ€"Malt for several hours. Nearly all those panics 51 and 53 are said to be sanlzatlon 0f. the South African cat-e'hfis WP?! formed to promote ing, 86 to 909. who were not killed outright when lamong the dead. In addition six the walls fell were roasted to death imembct‘s of another company, No. Minneapolis, ‘Dec. 27.â€"â€"Wheatâ€"- 1,29. and a few of N!) AR nun-IS Lanna Union, it has been decided to place trade bxikxmxn Canada and Argen- ‘ No. 1 hard, cash, $1.02%;. No. 1,1:cforc lie-1p could reach them”, the Canadian trade 1‘01)1‘€St.‘11t;‘.t1\’e am. ,9 771"'.‘-"v“i4’ "‘3'. Efififitww'f " ;W w~sviam.~ann " ~ 4-1.. ‘11â€"»; w. a- i.- 3