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, INSURANCE l‘ Lloyd-George’s Measure Compelling Pro- tection for Certain Laboring ClasSes ' A despatch from London says: David Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the- Exchequer, on Thursday introduced the long- promised plan of State insurance against unemployment, Sickness and invalidity. Every worker whose annual earnings fall below: the income tax level of £160 (ap- proximately $800) will be compulâ€"t sorin insured against illness so as to assure him the receipt of five shil- lings per week during his incapa- city. Toward this the worker would contribute about oneâ€"half, the same being ' deducted from his wages, while the balance would be paid jointly by his employers and the State. The weekly assessment against the insured would be eight cents in the case of a man and six cents for a woman, representing, as the Chancellor put it, “two pints of ale or one ounce of tobacco.” Every one in the class mentioned between the ages of 16 and 65 is included in the plan. The employ- ers would paysix cents weekly for every employe and the Government M COURT. MOURNING ENDED. This Week Secs Opening of London Season’s. Festivities. A despatch from London says: The period of mourning at Court being at an end, mourning was disâ€" carded on Sunday, and there will be an advent of brilliant costumes at ' this week’s balls and dinners. The season’s festivities have already commenced, and debutantes are rushing to luncheons, to dinners, to balls, and to bed just before dawn. King George, Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and other members of the Royal Family attended a memorial ser- vice at Windsoron Saturday, on the first anniversary of the death of King Edward. Many friends of the late King were present and a great . many wreaths were sent to the chapel. The Archbishop of Canter- bury conducted the services. W.,, ._ . THREW HIMSELF INTO RIVER. .‘ Arthur Dnrochcr Commits Suicide ' at Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says: Arthur Durooher, aged 19, is said to have committed suicide by throw- ing himself into the river off the Thompson Line wharf on Friday. Constable Nadeau found a hard hat, in which was a Chinese laundry check, on the wharf Saturday. On the check was written the name “Arthur Durochcr.” Further iiiâ€" quiry showed that a sailor on the Frontenac had seen a young man British ' the insured. OB WUBKEBS‘PiIcs BF up Pniums BUSHING” IN contribute four cents for each of Mr. Lloyd-George estimated that his plan would affect 14,700,000 men and women. Provision is made whereby women will receive thirty shillings in maternity cases on conâ€" ,dition that they do not work for a month following child birth, and for free medical attendance for [every contributor. The state would also help in_the crusade against consumption pro- Ividing $7,500,000 to aid local au- lthorities in building sanitariums gand $5,000,000 towards their main- tenance. - Although in cases of permanent disability the sick allowance would be five shillings weekly, ten shil- lings would be allowed for the first three months inthe case of men REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE cssrnns or ' AMERICA. â€"â€"._ _â€". Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheeso and Other Produce at [Ionic and Abroad. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C_., says: Two weeks ago the Cana- _ dian Immigration Inspector, H. G. I BREADSTUFFs, Lawrence, who has but recently Toronto, May 9___Flour_Winter tbiefen appornted, instituted a special Wheat 90 per cent. patents, $3.40 e cit to stamp out-the wholesale to $3.45, Montreal freight. Mani railroading of undesirable foreign tuba flours*FirSt patents, $5.10; immigrants across the internationâ€" second patents, $4.60, and strong ill houndary in the Blaine .diStl'iCt' bakers’,’ $4.40, on track, Toronto. 316 are a“ few figures 0f the 1'9' Manitoba .Wheatâ€"«No. 1 North- sults dumng 3‘ fortmght- em, $1, Bay ports; NO. 2 at 2752C, tired and fifty persons were arrest- and No. 3 at 95c. ' Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 red "and white, 84 to 860, outside. T 9 -. ' . ~ 1 . Barleyâ€"Maltingqualities, nomin- 112:: ‘4“:335; 373c5l/CICO. al, 67 to 68o, outSide. . in." $1 1,, $6. $1.15 _ . , _ Oatsâ€"Ontario grades 35% to 360, 7‘” ' " . ' outside, and 37% to 38c on track, Toronto. No. 2 W. C. oats, .390, and No. 3, 380, Bay ports. ~ Livas‘rocn MARKETS. ~____â€"___â€"â€"-â€"-â€"4 lineups . ' Inspector Lawrence Secures Many Con“ Victions at Cloverdale, B. C. at Cloverdalc, and fined amounts varying from $10 to $50, and then ordered to be deported. Two of the alleged ringleaders, who are said to have charged from $2 to $5 for each man piloted across the bor- der line, are now in jail at New Westminster, and two hundred per- sons were turned back at the boun- ,dary, being refused admission, but One hun- were not placed under arrest. The intending immigrants were . mostly ed, brought before the Magistrate Russians, Greeks and Italians. FIRED FROM WIND 0W. The Drunken Freak of a Young 4. Montrealcr. A despatch from Montreal says: .Monltl‘eallis‘ Milly 9-'â€"Ch0ice Shims Crazed by constant drinking, Jos. Cornâ€"No. 3 American yellow, 600, Toronto, and 55 to 55%c c,i.f., Bay ports. - I _ Peasâ€"No. 2 at 80 to 81c, outside. Ryeâ€"~None offering, with prices purely nominal. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2 quoted at 52 to 53c, outside. ' Branâ€"Manitobas at $22, in bags, Toronto, and shorts $23 to $23.50, in bags, 'Toronto. Ontario bran, $22, in bags, Toronto. ' and seven shillings six pence in the case of women. Those who can be shown to have invited incapacity would receive no insurance, though .any necessary medical treatment would be provid- ed. Clearwat-er Bay several days'ago, and men have also been sent, east lalong the line to battle with the serious outbreak there. Conditions are regarded as serious. '1‘ DREADNOUGHT DAMAGED. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beansâ€"Car lots, $1.70to $1.75, and small lots, $1.90. Honeyâ€"Extracted, in tins, 10 to 110 per 1b.; No. 1 comb, wholesale, $2 to $2.50 per dozen; No. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $2 per dozen. Baled Hayâ€"No. 1 at $12 to $13, on track, and No. 2 at $10 to $11. Baled Strawâ€"$6.50 to $7, on track, Toronto. ‘ ' Potatoesâ€"Car lots, 80 to 85c per bag, and New Brunswick at 950 to $1. Poultry â€"â€" Wholesale dressed poultry zâ€"Yearling chick- ens, 15 to 160 per lb; turkeys, 19 to 21c per lb. Live, 1 to 20 less. Double Bottom Buckled Up When Put in Dry Dock. A despatch from London.says: The Dreadnought cruiser Invincible was seriously damaged while being docked at Portsmouth on Tuesday for an overhauling. The moment the great weight rested on the wooden blocks the steel frames strengthening the vessel’s double bottom buckled, forcing the keel upward. The frames were bent like a bow, the immense weight of the ship bulging them out on both prices of ' . 1 - ' Sold at B/gc’ good at SC to 61/40: Belleau, a young Frenchâ€"Canadian falrly glOOd abd5y20_t0‘5%?i fill” at residing at 287 Delisle street, seized :2 t0 54°: and commF’h at,4AC to a revolver on Friday afternoon and AC 1361 Pouh - A few “home COWS = opened fire from a front window at brought as high as 5%0 and the corn: , passers-by on the street. Mr. D. inoner ones sold from that down to Nanette, a neighbor, was wounded 3Ac per pound. There were only in the back, and Constable Mail- a few bulls offered at prices ranging. leux in the arm in attempting to frgm. 3%0 to 5%0 1991‘ pound, as to arrest him. Neither victim is seri- quality. Hogs declined 150 to 250lously injured When the police fin- Per hundred P0und5~ _ ally forced their way into the house Toronto, May 9.â€"There was a. by a rear entrance they found Bel- Stmhg demand for @051 hghf’ but" leau had collapsed, and was lyins cher cattle from 900 to 1,050 lbs. in a, drunken stupor on the floor. eaCh, and these were even firmer His mother, with whom he had been thah the heavy Cattle at around living, said that he had been drink- $0-‘° to $9.35; common aha medl' ing heavily, and had the idea that um to fair light butchers rangedzlle was being persecuted by human- from $5.25 to, $5.65. Cows werelity in general quite firm at $4.40 to $5.15, but I bulls were not sp firm, and were '1‘ hard to sell. Sheep and lambs SAINTARY were steady, with a light‘supply. >1<_â€"â€"â€"- Brantford Board of Health Abolish- $8,000 FIRE AT LINDSAY. es Common Drinking Cup. , u I l ,, , A despatch from Brantford says: Lamb” company S lards'The Brantford Board of Health, Bail-1y Gutted- following the lead of London, Toâ€" A despatch from Lindsay says; rontoand Berlin, has recommend- , 1 . . . A somewhat serious fire occurred atled that the common dl‘lhkmg CUP the Baker Lumber Company’s in schools and public institutions be labolished and that the individual REFORMS. _._- Baker sides. The clock was immediately refilled and the Invincible floated out. An examination showed the extent and serious nature of the in~ jury and repairs are likely to be long and costly. The Invincible has given continual trouble ever [since she was put in commission. Her guns have not been fired for more than a year, owing to difficul- ties with the electricity operated barbette. "‘ >I< YOUTH DIES FROM LOCKJAW. Latliam’s Knee With Rifle Bullet. A despatch from Brockville says: Allan J. Latham, fourteen years gold, son of Robert Latham of Sher- Wood Springs, was shooting fish two Allan J. Grazed yard in the east ward at about 5.30 Saturday evening, by which over a quarter of a million feet of beech and hemlock lumber and half 3. mil- lion shingles were destroyed. A G.T.R. car, filled with shingles, was also destrpyed. The fire, which is supposed to have started from a spark from a passing steamer, proved a stubborn one to fight, and althought under control during the night, the firemen were not released until four o’clock Sunday mornâ€" ing. The loss is roughly estimated at about $8,000. _______,,,_ DIED 0N WAY TO SCHOOL. â€"â€" Montreal Teacher Street Car. A despatch from Montreal says: Alexander Shewan, Principal of ‘ DAIRY MARKET. Butterâ€"Dairy prints, 18 to 200; inferior, 16 to 17c. Creamery at 23 to 24c per lb. for rolls, 21% to 220 for solids, and 21 to 220 for sep- arator prints. Eggsâ€"Case lots per dozen. CheesewLarge, 14c, and twins at 14%c. New cheese 13 to 13%c in a jobbing way. - ..-.__â€"â€" quoted at 180 HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 10% to 11c per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $20; do., short cut, to $23.50; pickled rolls, $19 to $20. Hamsâ€"«Light to medium, 150; do., heavy, 12 to 13c; rolls, 10% to 110; breakfast bacon, 15% to 171:; Collapses in a- throw himself into the river on.weekS ago, when the bullet from a . Frldayi ahd that the me?“ ha“ been rifle grazed his left knee, causing a 'swept away in the swift current. Slight scratch Nothing was Durocher’s father said that the thought of the injury until Sam} oung man had been drinking heav- day‘ when loch-aw developed, and - backs, 18 to 18%0. pails, llc. __.._ BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Lardâ€"Tierces, 10%0; tubs, 10%c; Lansdowne Protestant School, died suddenly on the way to school on Thursday morning. Although suf- fering from influenza and advised by his doctor to stay at home, Mr. ily and had left the house in a pas- sion at noon on Friday, threaten- ing to drown himself. râ€"* '- FOREST FIRE NEAR KEJORA. ._.._ Feared That It May "Spread Over a Wide Area. 7 planting a garden after sustaining ldeath ensued on Wednesday night. The deceased had been assisting in the scratch. . F4 EXP ORT S G REATER. Britain's Imports, However, Show Shewan started out for school as usual about 8.30 o’clock. But while he was on a street car his illness became so apparent that the conductor stopped the car at On- tario street and went to his assist- ance. He was taken from the car Montreal, May 9.â€"Oatsâ€"Cana- dian Western, No. 2, 40% to 40%c, car lots ex store; extra No. 1 feed, 39% to 40c; No. 3 C. W., 39% to 39%0; No. 2 local white, 39 to 39%c; No. 3 local white, 38% to 390; No. Flour~â€" A despatch from Kenora, Ont., ‘1 Large Falling 0m says: A big bush fire is raging near A despatch from London says: the east end of Clcarwatel‘ Bay. The April statement of the Board about 16 miles from here, and, witligof Trade shows a decrease of $38,â€" the very dry conditions that are at i32(5,000 in imports and an increase present existing, it may spread over | of $2,001,000 in exports. The prin- considerable territory. East of‘cipal decreases in the imports were her-e, between Taehe and Ignace, $5,000,000 in foodstuffs, $7,500,000 and four miles from the latter point, in raw cotton, aiid~..$6,665,000 in raw a fire is raging, and there are also wool. The exports of cotton goods fires in some portions of the country increased $6,250,000, but other tex- very close to the main lint of the tiles. metals and machinery showed CLP.R. Fire rangers started for l losses. »â€"_.__._._â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" ___...___._.__.____.__.______.._â€"___.__._ _ _ uninitiinninns Largest in Canada, Outside of Winnipeg, to Be Ereoted in Quebec A despatch from Quebec sayszgworkshops are most extensive and The greatesto'ailway workshops inftlie large meeting at the board of Canada outside of Winnipeg will trade was much impressed with the be erected within a few miles of project. Quebec City, in connection with the; It was announced that tenders Grand Trunk Pacific, according to ? would be called for the erection of the plans presented at the board of the new station, of the Grand Trunk trade building on Thursday after- Pacific in Quebec at the end of the noon by Hon. S. N. Parent, chair-lmonth, and the tenders for the man of the transcontinental com- 3 workshops would be called as soon mission. The plans of this proposed as details had been arranged. 4 local white, 37% to 380. Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.30; seconds, $4.80; Win- ter wheat patents, $4.50; strong bakers’, $4.60; straight rollers, $4 to $4.10; in bags, $1.80 to $1.90. Rolled oatsâ€"Per barrel, $4.35; bag of 90 lbs., 2.05. Cornâ€"American No. 3 yellow, 60 to 610. Millfe'cdâ€" Bran, Ontario, $23 to $24; Mani- toba, $22 to $23; middlings, On- tario, $25; shorts, Manitoba, $24 to $25; mouillie, $25 to $30. Eggsâ€" Fresh, 17 to 190. Cheeseâ€"Westerns, 11% to 11%0. Butterâ€"Choicest, 20% to 21c; seconds, 18 to 20c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, May 9.â€"Wheat â€"- May, 97%0; July, 98 5-8 to 98 3-4c; September, 915-sc; No. 1 hard, $1.01; No. 1 Northern, 99 to $1.- 00%; No. 2 Northern,..96 to 99c; No. 3 wheat, 94 to 970. Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, 51c. Oatsâ€"No. 3 white, 30% to 31%c. Rye-No. 2, $1.04. Branâ€"$21.50 to $22. Flourâ€"First patents, $4.60 to $4.90; second pat- ents, $4.50 to $4.80; first clears, $3.10 to $3.55; second clears, $2.10 to $2.75., - Buffalo, May 9.â€"Wheatâ€"Spring, INO. .1 Northern, carloads store, '1.047-8; Winter,‘No. 2 red. 95c. ,Cornâ€"â€"N0. 3 yellow, 57%0; No. 4 iyellow, 56c: No. 3 corn, 5514;; to 56¢; No.. on track through liiilpzl to the police station on Ontario street, but was beyond human aid by the time he was carried into the building. a ~_.._-â€" g A little boy named Dombreuski of Montreal was choked to death with pepper that is supposed to have been put into his mouth by an older brother. L year’s output was $4,000,000. paper cups or the spray fountains be used instead. Hereafter all meat sold on the market is to be ' wrapped in clean paper, instead of old used newspapers as heretofore. >1“ CLEAN UP IN KLONDIKE. Believed That Gold Output Will be Largest in Years. A despatch from Dawson, Yukon Territory, says: The Spring clean- up in the Klondike district has be« gun. Water is running everywhere, and hydraulic plants are getting in- to action. All the large dredge: have started, and individual min- ers are washing out their filter dumps. It is believed that the gold output this year will be the largest in years, early estimates placing the yield in excess of $5,000,000. >14 FEARS THE YELLOW I’ERIL.K Australia's Premier Says Defence Measures are Needed. A despateh from Victoria, B. (3., says: That Australia fears the Ori« ent was the opinion expressed by Frank Wilson, Premier of western Australia, who arrived on Wednes- day by the steamer Zealandia en route to London to attend the Coronation. “Unless we people of Australia prepare to defend it, we will lose it,” he said. “The defence movement, the construction of an Australian navy, was not begun too soon.” A despatch from Toronto says: In a. letter to Rev. E. P. McKay, secretary of the Presbyterian Foreign Missions, Miss A. Bostick, missionary in China, gives an acâ€" count of the conditions in China at the present time. “Wheat bran now sells for what was ordinarily considered the'higli price for good flour,” she states, i“an::l dried potato leaves read-r sale. sun’s nun Honors Drv nai‘d cakes made. 4 corn. 51V. 1 “Va . ‘ ' . . . . 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