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des presence of Henry Holgate, J. G. for oars. of an rel of their elation. a for tan : Kenny dnd Professor John Galbraith, -membens of the Canadian Government's y Bridge, Commission; a steel eye thirty feet long, fourteen inches wide lwo inches thick was subjected to a strain of 882 tons in' the testing depart: ment of the Phoenix Tron Company al oenixville' on Friday. ' The: bar. was "bridge. Wilh 28 square inches of surface; {he sirain was 63,000 pounds to {ke squave inch. The commissioners were gratified by- the test, and the offi- cdl the. Iron Company made no The bar was nob ade specially for the test, but is one of 'ail order which the company is filing for 'a bridge tc span the Missouri: River at St. Louis, dd 5 SHOT BY HIGHWAYMTN, for Young Montreal Man "Probably Fatally ; Wounded. A despaich from Monireal says: A Long | Young man naffied 'Oscar Delome, 23 s and {um and 'light, 15¢ to , 1640 of age, was held up near the rock. grounds late on Saturday t by two masked men. When he used tc give up his money they fired gt him, One of the bullets lodged in his head and will probably prove fatal. The ung man was on his way home to St. Yineont de Paul when' he was set upon the two highwaymen with a demand or his money. - His refusal to comply [with their 'demands has "him in a = Chalice Nofre Dame Hospital, The doctors have $6.10 fo $6.30; gl ven up hopes for his pecavery. His as- ie 3 Ei wi ed inthe early hours of Sunday morn. {s have nol been capiured. Ee Sai: IDEA DARING SAFE 'BLOWNG. © Fruit: Auction' Company's Premises Robbed. "A despatch from Montreal says: Gne he' most daring safeblowings" ever strated in this city was accomplishes ng, 'in © the Montreal Fruit Auction sap] Company's premises at 82 Mountain sireet. The police say that as a. piece cf finished work it is one of the finest they have ever seen. Apparently there 10 | were three attempts before the mén se- i | cured entrance to the building, but once of1aside they cleaned up things in an ef- fective way. They secured cash and 'fekeques amounting. to $500. AE ARE EMPRESS OF CITINA SUNK, 204 | She Lies in Victoria Harbor With Her 5 Deck Awash, i "A despatch from Vancouver, B. C.; says: The Canadian Pacific liner Em- press of China sank' alongside bér.dock in this harbor on Thursday, She lies on her port side" at an angle of 45 de: grees, with her main deck awash. A diver 'has found 'that her sea corks are, ds, {oren, but no one knows how they were opened," She lies'an a mud bottom, but the problem of. righting her involves :|:the task of "keeping 'her from turning turtle' The Empress of China is a mail steamer; valued: at about $1,000, hk and 'was die to sail for Tiong Korig on Thursdiy. ' She is 485 Yeo in orgs and. 1 was built in England in 1891. Th | compliny expects to. have ready lo sail nexi week, ed wil The light meters 19.461 were prescnled, 781 were correct; 5426 fust, and in slow, RE '| MONEY IN DEAD LETTER OFFICE. receding 12 months, quant 'siitils. produced was 85,001,389 proo| gallons, | All Canadian Whiskey has to be kept in warehouse for two years be- fore it can be sold. At (he beginning <b this year 17,034,420 proof: gallons 'werd in warehouse under the supervis- lon of excise 'officers. . In the nine months 303,594 gallons were éxported, as 'against: 277,005 gallons in the pre- ceding 12 months. The foreign demand for adian distillery products is steadily increasing, The average quantity of tobacea taken for consumption during the past four years was © 13,809,639 pounds; for the last nine months the .total was 12,101, 676 pounds, a substantial increase. The Number of cigars daken for consump: tion. was 154,253,260, as against 182, 178,436 in the preceding year. The an- nual consumption per - head of Spirits was 947 spirits, as against .861; beer, 5.585 gallons, as against 5.255; wine, 002 gallons (no increase), and tobacco, 2,953 pounds, as against 2,777 pounds. During the fiscal period 29,134 gas meters were presented for verification, 5.918 were correct, 9,781 were running too fast and 13,319 too slow. Of electric HID IS MOTHER'S BODY. Son Said Siranger Shot Her, and Ile Was Afraid to Tell, A despatch from Utica, N.Y., says: Mrs. James Scolt, of a farming settle- ment near Norwich, Chenango county, went riding with her son. last Friday. She did not return with the' young man, who said she had-remained at the house of a friend... His stories did not corres. pond, and on Tuesday he was arrested. Search was kept up for the woman, and on Wednesday the son was taken with the searchers. The woman's body was found in some woods with a bullet wound in the back of her head. Young Sccil has been in the Elmira Reforma- tory, and came out a' few months ago on parole. He declares that he saw a man shoot his mother, and says he was tog frightened to: tell about. it. ' ion TRANSFER OF ESQUIMAULT. Will be Immediately Handed Over to Canadian Government. A despalch from Ottawa says: Not- withstanding recent rumors to the con- trary, the naval station af Esquimault, B.C., will shortly pass inlo the control ol -the Canadian Government. The Im- perial authorities, after having arranged nearly twc years ago to hand over the dry dock and station at Esquimault to the Dominion, experienced some doubt as to whether the Canadian Government was in a position to maintain the eM- ciency of the establishment there as a naval base, but during his recent visit to England, the Minister of Marine gave the necessary assurances, with the re- sult that the transfer is to be made with- Gut further delay. ROYAL VISIT TO CANADA? Piince Arthur of Connaught May Come : "Next Year. 'A despatch from London says: The correspondent - Gf the Canadian Associ- ated 'Press has heard that the King will be represented by Prince Arthur of Con- naught at the tercentenary of the found- ing ot, Quebec mext year. The. Prince is fo be accompanied by an imposing suite, and it is likely that the Prince, after the Quebec - celebration, may tour Canada. Calling on Wednesday at Clarence FHcuse, the Canadian: Associafed - Press 'was fold that nothing definite was known there regarding the Prince visit ing Quebec, but it was not unlikely he ight. Ag - TWENTY YEARS IN: PRISON. | \Would.be Mrderer of Girl Sentenced af Would Murderer Sir] Sentence A' /despiteh from. Sherbrooke, Que,, We was sentence m in Tt ii to Ibourne, on the iced 10 twenty Lt 1] The. carclessness: of some people in financial matlers is evidenced by the annual report of the Post-Office Departs! ment, "During the last nine months 3.1 906 letters, containing $15,602; 1,796" 'cheques for $213,319; 3.300 money and! express orders, for $51,604, found their way fo the Dead Letler Office. . ba s revenue of the Post Office. for the fiscal period was $6,535,093, and | the expenditure = $5,452,701, leaving o surplus of $1,082,301, The number of post-offices in' operas tion ort April 1st was 11,377. The gross postal revenue of Toronto was $998, 951, the highest of any city in Canada.' Other cities are: -- : Hamillon cree 00 8125,711 London .... . F ,869 Kingston .... cave 32511 Windsor . Brantford Oltawa Montreal . Quebec Halifax . St, John . Winnipeg .... . Calgary .... . Vancouver . Victoria .... . THE OLD, OLD STORY. Two Men Shot Dead in Mistake for Deer. A despatch from Ogdensburg, N. Y.,, says: Willian Durgan, aged 27 years,' ol Lake Placid, was shot and instant.' ly killed by George Marlin, of Avery-' ville, who mistook him for a deer. Both were members of a large hunting party, Orin Porter, aged 17, of Tunbridge, while hunting decr, was shot and al- most instantly killed by a companion shout the same age, named Tupper. Tupper's gun was accidentally discharg- ed, the ball enlering Porter's head. rnd \ SUE RAILWAYS ARE BUSY. Gieatest Volume of Freight Ever Carried in Canada, : A despatch from Oitawa says: Re- perts to the Labor Department show that the amount of freight handled by the railway and other transportation com- penies in the past few weeks has been| greater than at any previous period in! tlie history ct the Dominion. Owing to the scarcity of labor several large rail- way construction projects are being withheld until the [facilities for carrying oul the work have been increased. ~Up- wards of 1,500 miles of track will be completed during (he present year, in addition to some 3,011 miles under con- structicn. NINETY-SIX WERE FATAL, 310 Industrial Accidents in September Reported to Department. A despaich from Otlawa says: Indus- trina] accidents occurring to 340 indivi- dual work people in Canada during the month of September, 1907, were reported te the Department of Labor, Of these, 05 were falal and 244 resulted in serious injuries. In addition, five fatal accidents were. reported as. having taken place prior lo the beginning of the month, in. formation not having beef received by the department before September, 1907, The number of fatal accidents reported in Seplember, 1907, was 70 less than tha previous menth, and six more than in September, 1006. ----p-- SEIZED ILLICIT PLANT. Inland 'Revenue Officers at Brantford Also Confiscated Tobacco. A despatch from Brantford says; Col- lector Donohue; of the Inland Revenue Department, and a posse of counly ccn- stables made an important seizure of an illicit tobacco and cigar-making plant on the oulskirts of the city on Wednesday night. ~~ Over 1,000 pounds of tobacco were confiscated. The clifenders are known and will be prosecuted. PPR SHER WA (ie ACH Mr. Osborne of The Ferl Frances Times repudiates the interview publishs eu in'Nes York, in which he is mada ti tell a story of cannibalism among the Indians in Keewatin. yy 4