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ie srr $2 Husk > 8 p A! despatch from Toronto says: That there was no fire rope in the room he fsccupied in the Queen's Hotel, Tillson- burg, wes the statement made on Thulsday by W."T. A. Proctor, a travel- ling salesman for Austin & Co., of No. 60 Yonge street. ONE FIRE ESCAPE. "There was no rope in my room, No. 6 .and the only fire escape was on the side of the hotel, running from the third to the second slorey, then a drop the street. People stood at their win- dows as long as they pessibly could tying for help and seek ng desperately a way down. Miss Gray stood that way {or some lime before she jumped. 1 think most of those that did jump had done so Lelore I got out. I was waked up by hearing women screaming. My bedroom floor was hot as | stepped on it. The room was full of smoke, and 1 oould hear the roar of the flame all around me. ESCAPE CUT OFF. "I grabbed my clothes and m ip. and got out in the hallway, thinking to get down the way I came, by the Tadin sla"rs. But 1 could see this was #mposs ble as the stairs were in flames. I groped round and finally struck the back stairs, carrying my trousers coal and olher clothes and my grip. It seem- ed 'to me when 1 saw escape cul off by the main stairs that I was going to die T.ght there, and'it was not a nice thought at all. Halfway down the back slairs I fell the rest of the flight, and managed i: reach the street. | saved my under- clothing, but had dropped my trousers as 1 fell, and when I went back after them 1 found a portion of the charred cloth, including 'the pocket, which had cenlained 860. 1 discovered a corner ci the wad of money still there un- burned. They say I can have them re- deemed at the bank. "A man that crawled to the rcof says that Wheatley must have tried to a cape and that he was not in his room when the roof fell. He reard someone ¢cughing underncath him, and he thinks it was Wheatley. "Besides my trousers 1 lost a $50 gold watch and a number of personal tr.nk- cls. GOOD CROP PROSPECTS. Beneficial Rains Have Been Falling in Manitoba, A despatch from Winnipeg says: Re- perts from all parts of the grain dis- trict of the Canadian Northwest show timely rains for the past 24 hours While it was a cold rain in some dis- tricts, agricultural in'erests regard the situation generally as very satisfactory. Secding is complete and the moisture has been evenly distributed through the season. Crop prospects in Western Canada were never more flattering, with a largely increased acreage, -------- WHAT CHINAMEN PAY. alf of Nearfy 8700,000 Goes to Province of British Columbia. A despalch from Ottawa says: The roll tax of $500 on each Chinese immi- grant into Canada brought the Federal Treasury last year no less a sum than $690,000. The total arrivals of Chinese were 1,380, each paying $500 on entry, Under terms of the act half the tax goes to the Dominion and half to British Col- umbia, where nearly all the Celéstials remain. On Tuesday the Finance Depart- ment provided a check to the Provincial Government for $345,000, being half the tclal amount received. The entries of Chinese in other Provinces were as fol- lows: --Onlario, 1; Saskatchewan, 1; New Brunswick, 4; Nova Scotia, 3; Quebec, 74. AN ATTEMPTED MU ---- Desperate Attack With Club Tutorripted : | By a Neighbor, Fok) A despacth from Brockville says: rurderous assault was made on Wedhes- 'day upon Robert Stewart, a %0-yeo farmer, living on the second eo "Elizabethtown, RAID PLACE WOU Traveller Tells of the Fatal Tillsonburg AY Fire j with a cloth. : When ve od. club; but in the struggle a GOOD WORK OF VOLUNTEERS, "The volunteer five - force did great work. They Had ten men at work with five steams of hose, and ihe pressure was 80 good they semt the waler right aver the building. They got their- lad- ders up quickly tco, and saved a num- ber that way. I saw two of them stand: ing on the upper balcony on ..e hotel front, with the flames creeping around their feet, while a third was throwing pails of water on the fire lo keep it down, so that the two men could play the hose in through the top window. "The people in the inside rooms had an awful time. The fire was burning in a square circle in the centre of the building, and this fact prevented any from penetrating through it to reach the stairs. "Several people used the fire 'escapes on the side. Mr. Malone was one, and a woman also got down that way. HAD A PRESENTMENT. "I must have had some presentiment of the fire, for the night before 1 had a local jeweller there who came to see my samples, | opened one trunk and took cut a cutlery tray, and then I said, 'No, 1 won't open any more here to-night. This old fire-trap might go at any min- ute.' 1 arranged to show him the rest 'n the morning. "I saw one man, whose name I wont tell, climb back up a ladder down which he had escaped, aftr his stick pin. His room was in the back, where the fire was not so bad. Not content with this, he made the journey again, after 'us tooth brush. IN PANIC OVER SOCKS. "Another man was running around excitedly, declaring that he had lost his socks in the fire, and asking for the proprietor, saying some one must pay [or them. "You can't say too much for the fire- men. They stuck to their wark with heams dropping all around them, and they went through the building looking for Whealley, when it was dangerous W do so. : "That morning they tell me only one ol the employes of the steel plant showed up at work, and Tillson's hadn't a man show up. Every onc was at the fire.' SIXTY WERE KILLED. Dilgrims Ground to Death in Belgian Train Wreck. A despalch from Antwerp says: A rail- road accident of unprecedented horror in the annals of Belgian train disasters occurred at 9.06 on Thursday morning ul Contich, a slation six miles southeast © Antwerp on the main line, An express train from Antwerp to Brussels crashed into a train loaded with pilgrims, mostly workmen and peasants on their way to a local shrine. This train was standing on a siding. Several of its cars were telescoped and shattered to matchwood. The total number of dead is placed" at sixly and the wounded at over one hun- dred. The engineer and fireman of the express were among the killed, THREE COACHES LEFT RAILS. C. N. R. Flyer Wrecked Near Winnipeg --Fireman Injured. A despalch from Winnipeg says: The Canadian Northern "Flyer" which left here on Tuesday night for Minneapolis and St. Paul, was wrecked al Cartier Station, 15 miles south of here. The tender of the engine left the rails first throwing the engine on ils side. Three coaches left the rails, The express, mail and pPoggage cars, and second-class coach. about the shoulders and back. The pas- sengers escaped with only a bad shak- ing up. tu fo 3 : 2 Fireman McBride was injured | loa "| sample, 60 to | Northern, $1.04 | Nene 3 Barley--No. 2, 55¢ 10: 60x Peas--No. 2,-92¢ 10' 94c, outside: Rye--No, 2 scarés and' wi G Buckwheat--No. 2, 643c ta 65. Oals--No. 2 white, 49c to 50¢ outside; No 2 mixed, 473c oulside, ' * ' Bran--§24.50 to $25 here. Shorts--825 at the mills, COUNTRY PRODUCE, Wholesale quotations arei-- Eggs--New~laid, Tic to 18¢. - : Butiter--Prices are lower, and" further declines are expected, | a Creamery, prints .... .... «. 26ct027 do solids +. 24o lo 25¢ Dairy prints do large rolls Inferior Honey--Strained steady at iic to 12¢ per pound for 60-pound pails,"and 12¢ to 13c for 5 to 10-pound pails. Combs at $1.75 to $2.50 per dozen.: Potatoes--Ontario, 90c; Delaware, $1, in car lots on track here. = Cheese--Firm; 4c for large and 14%c for twins, in job lois here; new make, 12 for large and 123c for twins. Beans--$1.85 to $1.90 for primes, and £1.95 to 82 for hand-picked, ~~ Maple Syrup--81 to $1.10 per gallon. Baled Straw--8$8 to $9 per ion Baled Hoy--Timothy is quoted af $12 lo $14, in car lots on- tracks here, PROVISIONS: © Pork--Short cut, $21 fo $21.50 per bar- rel; mess, $17.50 to $18. Lard--Tierces, 114c¢; tubs, 11%¢; pals, C pl whe Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -- Long clear bacon, 10¥}c, lens and cases; hams,, medium and light, 12¢ to 134c; hams, large, 11}%c to 12c: backs, 16¢ lo 16%4c; shou'ders, 9%c to 10c; rolls, 10c to 10¥c; breakfast bacon, 146 to 15c; green meats, out of pickle, 1¢ Jess than smoked 12 MONTREAL MARKETS. Montrzal, May 26.--Flour -- Manitoba spring wheat patents, $6.10 $386.20; sec- ond patents, $5.50 to 85.70; winter wheat palents, $5.25 to $5.75; ws rollers, §1.50 to $5; in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; ex!ra, $1.50 to $1.90. * Rolled Oals--$2.75, in bags of 90 pounds. Oats--No. 2, 51%c to 52%c; No. 3, 49¢ fc 502; No. 4, 47c to 48¢c; rejected, 45¢ to 4Rc; Manitoba rejected, -50c, North Bay. Cornmeal--$1.60 to $1.70 per bag. Millleed--Ontario bran, in bags, $23 to $23.50; shorts. $25 lo $26; Muniloba bran, in bags, $23; shorls, $25 to $26. Cheesc--Receipts of cheese to-day were 4,850 boxcs, as compared with 4,585 box- cz: for the same date last year. Butter--Local market is du!l and weak, with western quoted-at 11)4c and east. erns at 113{c. Eggs--Fair trade is reported In select ec stock at 19c; No. 1, 17)c and No. 2 16c per dozen, Provisions--Barrels short cut mess, $22.50; half barrels, $11.50; clear. fat backs, $23; dry salt long clear backs, ic; barrels plate beef, $17.50; half 'har. rels do., $9; compound lard, 8%c to 9}¢; pure lard, 12)c to 13c; kettle rend 4 13¢ lo 13%4¢; hams, 123c to 14c, acoords ing lo size; breakfast bacon, 14c, accord. ing to size; breakfast bacon, 14c to 156; Windsor bacon, 156 W 16¢; fresh-killed abattoir-dressed hogs, $9.50; live, $6.60 lo $6.75. FF -- UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, May 26. -- Wheat -- Spring higher; No, 1 Norihern, $1.07% car ds; No. 2 fed, $1.02; Winter easy, Ccrn--Higher; No. 2 white, 80c; No. 2 yellow, 803¢c. Oais--Easier; No. 2 mix- ed, 52¢; No. 2 white, 513c, Barley-- 75 to 85c. Rye--No. 1 on track, 90c." Minneapolis, May 26.--Wheal-- May, $1.05%; July, $LOAY to 81.04%; Sept..|t to $1.03 | 90%ec; No. 1 hard, 1.08% No: 1 Northern; $1.07%4; No. 2 Northern, AR} 81.04% lo $1.05; No, 3 Northern, 98 {0 v. | 85.60; 'Flour--First patents, $5.45 ta second patents, $5.30 to 85.45; first cars, $4.25 to 84.35; sécond clears; $3.- Bt $3.65. Bran--In bulk, $21,75 ot 'sidence in London, on 'Thu oe 'bl Milwaukee, May 26.--Wheal--Nq. Northern, $1.10 (o $1.11; No. 2 Northern $1.08 10-$1.00%: July, 89%c asked, Rys-- No. 1, 8k 10 '8k3c. 'Barley--No. 2, i i 4 $i oui ey orl ~ yb) 1 RY af tay Jaliing upon rds, Toronto. 2 of struggle be- 1 2 ges iggle: iwen the C. P. R. an the mechanical = unions. a - Lar : The steamer Calvin carried away three gots in te Welland Canal, and traffic thare is suipended for repairs. Jamos Young, the hired man why as: saulled Mr. Robt. Stewart with a club, near Brockville, was arrested near his mother's house, after three days' c.ase by the censiables,' yd fo F. B. Deacon was acquitted at Start ford of a chargé of stealing a note for $1,000, on the ground of an €rror: in bookkeaping. ' Hon, A. B. Aylesworth has given no- tice: of an amendment to the criminal code to increase {he penalty for selling cigarettes {0 minors. UNITED STATES. Five persons were killed by a tornado in 'Kansa$ and Iowa, on Thursday. W. H. Marsh, the wealthy Brooklyn manufacturer who: died of hydrophob.a, was a Canadian, $Y The suspension of the Allegheny Na-: tonal Bank leaves the C.ty of Pillsburg rraclically without funds. Seven young people were drowned while on a moonlight excursion at Clar- cudon, Arkansas, on Wednesday. Rev, S. A. Colfinan, a prominent Methodist minisler of Fairmount, W. Va. killed his wife on Wednesday while he was lemporarily insane. George Sterry, an = aged millionaire | drug exporter, tvas shot by his son at New York becaue he intended marrying a young Brooklyn school teacher. Dr. O'Brien of the Slate Hospital at Massilon, Ohio, claims to have dicover- «l the pares"s bacillus and to have been successful in irealing the discase. A Grand Jury at Laporte, Ind., has re- turned eeven indictments, five of them charg ng murder, against Ray Lamp- here, Mrs." Guinness' hired man. Hedley J. Gardine®; formerly conneot- el with tte Royal Bank of Canada, has been arrested at Providance, R. 1. charged with slecaling 13,000 shares of Bay Slate gas stock al Boston. GREAT BRITAIN. As a result of recent disasiers night manoevers will be discontinued in the navy. The British steamer Lalona collided off The Lizard with the Japanic, on Wednes- day, and went down: Dr. Newlon Friend, a reputable Suf- folk physician, vouches for a cure of rheumatism by bee stings. Six militant suffragists who were de-| 2P¢ monstrating in front of Mr. Asquithis re. hursday, were arrested and sent to prison. Phe 2 'he Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com: pany has voled to increase ils capital to £750,000 by -the jssue of £250,000 prefer- ence stock . ; King Edward has withdrawn his ex quatur, granted in 1907 to John H. Shir ley, United Slates Consul-at Charloile- town, P.E.I YS i y GENERAL, The Swiks Government is trying to ban- ish absinthe, CL A Serphinoft, a Russian gardener, grows roses. olor is- rampant 'among the British Bive Thousand gondarmes wil he scat ive thousan mes be sca ered. throughout Corea io. preserve of- "The Chinese rebels in. Yunnan provirice 'haye captured. a raflway. and defeated 'Government. roo; RR adn ; 1,08 & 4 0 Much Produce Went Down with Thom. £3 IRL +1 son Liner mer, ERTL EL A despalch form Londen says: The [Thomson Line steanier -Latona, 'Which left Montreal on May 8th for London, and Nab hi steamer. Japanic, bound for Montevideo, carried a very of farm produce, mostly" fro The Lalona was only three years old, and:one of the finest freight boals afloat. | She had a refrigerator plant which could give a lemperature of 17 below zero. She was valued at 000, and her cargo, which is also a loss, was worth $340 ides butter and eggs, the Latona carried 18,000 boxes. of cheese' from C. W. Riley and Co., of Ingersoll, and T. Ballantyne -and Son, Straiford, also cheese in crock from the McLaren's Im- perial' Cheese Company. The Davies Packing Company had a large consignment of meal on board, as did also the "Matthews Company, of Prantford and Peterboro; the Ingersoll Packing Company, the Whyte Packing Company, of Stratford; the Canadian Packing Company, 'of London, and thé Fearman Company, of Hamilton. The Canadian Canners lost a Jarge shipment of canned goods. The vessel and carge are said to have been Tully insured, 'The principal Ontarjo meal packers Jost 79% packages of meat, Ontario shippers were losers in cheesey peas; lea, lawn rowers, lumber 'and doors, . Gordon and Ironsides were shippers of all the cattle. = ' pmo agim-- WELL EQUIPPED FOR. BISLEY. Pcinted Bullets and Re-barrelled Rifics for Conadian Team. A Cespaich from Ottawa says: The Domin'on' Rifle Ass'calicn has ode a supply of pointed bullets for the Bisley O'ympic team, The team is all equip- ped wih Lec-Enfield rifles, newly re 'barreled and tes'el. Tre association is thus doing everything it can lo place the team in as go d o poston as pos- eib'e for the great shooting match's in competition with teams from all parts of 'the world. - The Sutherland S'ght Co. has donated 20 aperlurs s'ghts, of the latest miodel, to the - team; and as riure, or peep sights = are allowed valuable cargo m Ontario -- both at the Olympic games and at the Bisley meet, thes: wil be the sights used by the Canadians, - . 105 FATAL ACCIDENTS. Returns. for April Show 289 More People a Injured; : ; rial accidents occurring to 289 individuals "Work people of Canada during the month of April, 1008, were reported to: the De- partment of Labor, Of 'these 105 were 'fatal, and 184 resulted in serious injuries. fn Sadun, five fafal accidenls were re pe as having taken place prior 10 41 fatal accidents reported in April, 1908, was 24 more than in the previous month, and ori lets than in April, 1907, . 4 . | nesday night in favor of the the A despalch from Otlawa says: Indus.| 'thi beginning of the month, information | train Ls eh ob De To off the 'Lizard in collision: with | maica, in Janua ideo ed in the King's Bench division on companies. interasied in - ses. curred. "The insurance j claimed' that the earthquake caused {h fires, and thal consequently they. pratectel from the claims for : under the earthquake in their-policies. The pre: was brought 'by a a month. Many witnesses were bro; {rem Jamaica, and leading cout engaged 'by. both sides. Seige di MRS. GUINNESS' TEETH. A despatch from South Norla i Jy identified. A despatéh from Laportd, Ind. The upper and lower plates of a teeth from the mouth of Mrs. Belle ness were found on Tuesday in the of the Guinness' home." "This beyond the shadow of a. doubt, Sheriff -Smutzer. "that Mrs, "was burned to dcath in the fi P. Norton, who made tke lower pl positively identified it; He also iden the lower plate, having frequent il, although it was made before came Mrs; Guinness' dentist. The of 'a certificate of death of Jen and the turning over of the bod oner Mack to her relatives in puis the official stamp of. iden! upon one of the bodies found al Guinness farm regarding which there Has" been much controversy. a Breaking of an Old Dam Puts *" lages Under Water, A despatch from: Montreal says was received here on Wednesday mast extraordinary flood atl Que., and Point Fortune, Qué, has been caused bythe revkq nCes, 'gh Carillon, which' supplies light, to boring. villages, has been. put business and all will be in dar some time, SE le of. it por such sa for' the: