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a '% een gathering a th about seven o'clock, only 0 oF Heme were on the y were useless. : prder followed the sive), of the Hocal passenger train from Toronto E freight. Half a dozen Thiel 'detectives, 'a couple of trainmen Road Foreman 'Szsmmer of| Belleville were = in the station i agent's office, when the crowd made an ominous movement in that direc- " tion. Those inside bolted the door. "but. while some of the crowd used a truck for a battering Tam, others began to stone the win- dcws, and others again got out the company's' hose and began to flood the office. : The occupants, unable to with: 'stand' the siege, ' + ABIG CONSOLIDATION, All Cempanies Munutacturing Wood Working Machinery and Tools; Mr. @arnet P. Grant, to-day 'made' the official announcement in conngetion" with the Canada Ma- chinery Corporation consolidation 'and the Companies to be included fa it. " Tn his announcement Mr, Grant stated that the new. Company would include the MacGregor, Gourlay & Company, Limited, of Galt, On- tario; The John Ballantine & Com- any, Limited, 'of Preston, Ontario; The espeler Machinery Company, Limited, 'of Hespeler, Ontario, and the Woodworking Machinery .De- partments of Goldie & : MeCulloch Company, Limitéd, of Galt, On- tario, and of the Sussex Manufac- * tering! Company, Limited, of Suse sex, N. B. ; The capitalization of ' the new Company will be as follows: Authorized, Now Issued. First Mortgage 6 p. -¢. sinking Fund bonds ..8$1,000,000 $400,000 Preferred Stock, 7 p. ¢. Cumula- k tive 1,500,000 850,000 Common Btock . 1,500,000 625,000 The 'Companies taken over con- stitute practically all the concerns in Canada manufacturing the light- er grades of woodworking machin: ery and tools. They also constitute a large percentage of the manufac- suring éapacity of iron working tocls in Canada. The headquarters of the new Company will "be at Galt, Ontario. The intention of the new Company «is to perfect the organization of the different factories upon a uni- form basis, thereby eliminating the excessive duplicating of special ma- chinery which has taken place in the ast. P The Canada Machinery Corpora- tion has been fortunate in the men it has secured for its first Board of Directors, as it will include, ac- cording , to the official 'announce- ment made to-day, all the leading interests. who have built up the various Companies : that are now being included in this important ocusolidation. Forbes, President of the Taylor: Fcrbes Company of Guelph, will be came out on the' Te 80 to the otlier Toronto men and a despatch: em to go cute about tl . Course, from Montreal, i His shirt. special - officer to protect. trains along the line to Montreal. cox says he r when windows, doors and furni- tvre of the station are practically destroyed. y £5 the First President of the New Cempany, the Vice-Presidents be- ing Mr. R. L. McOull Goldie, McCul Galt, and Mr.'8. H. White, dent of the Sussex Manufacturing Ce.; Ltd., of Sussex, N. B., while the other directors will be Mr. T, H. Watson of Toronto, Vice President end General Manager of the Can- ada Bolt and Nut Co., Alec. G. Gourley of Galt, Garnet P, Grant, Mcntreal, President Dominion Can- ners, and Harry : Cockshutt of Prantford, Managing Director of the Cockshutt Plow Co. Mr. George D. Forbes, the Pre- sident of the new Company, when atked to-day to point out the re- sults that would be achieved through the consolidation, "stated that they might briefly bé summar- ized as follows: Increased efficiency resulting in economies by specializing the "out- put at the different factories aud by eliminating the unnecessary dupli- cation 'both in the output and pate terns. Savings to be effected in the pur- chase of raw material and in admin- istration, economies in selling, dis- tributing, manufacturing and trans- portation charges. re Ms NEW EARLY WHEAT. Twenty-six Acres Cut Near Care man, Manitoba. A despatch from Carman, Man., says: M. W. H. Elford; farming three miles 'south of Carman, out a field of 26 acres of wheat on J uly 18. The wheat is a new bearded variety known as Hungarian red. This year it will go 18 bushels to the acre, but in an ordinary year will yield 25 to 30 bushels. 'Tt has stood 'the test of drought and' the high winds which prevailed this sea- son in' & remarkable manner. Last year this wheat matured in 85 days. Ii matured as early or earlier than fall wheat, and was about the same milling quality as Alberta winter wheat, with "the great advantage that it goes about 68 pounds to the bushel. Mr. Elford = got a 11 quantity of wheat several Years ago from the Argentine Republic, pital, Mis shire wan souk ked s0id bo had bein Bred so oh : fire ¢ 'British VA party who i Preparing 4 cnatch rou e coum ave ~ be d in Brandon Asp um as insane. op of constructing vessels for the Canadian navy. The Government has determined ito admit railway laborers on the Same terms as agricultural laborers t+ relieve the demand for that class of labor in the west. i Fire at Owen' Sound on Friday destroyed Davis, Smith & Malone's coal yards, the Dominion Trans- portation = Company's warehouse, and Godirey & "Ribbald's btorehouse, besides a num smaller buildings, fh nein. GREAT BRITAIN. King (eorge's civil list was passed in the British House of Com- mons on Friday. Fa The London. Times announces the constitution of a new hody designed to be to English literature whit the French Academy is to French, It is stated that the' Lords may seek to gain prestige in Britain by rejecting the accession declaration bill if "they find the - agitation against it growing. . UNITED STATES. r of President Taft in a speech at : Eastport, "Me., advocated recipro- city with Canada. Two women were burned tc death and a baby fatally burned in a fire ak Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thurs- ay i innit GENERAL. A revolution has broken out in onduras. Seven hundred families of Jews have already been driven from ov. An aeroplane at Barcelona was struck by lightning and thrown to thie ground in flames. A diamond weighing over 101 car- ats has been found in the Premier mine in South Africa. Gs FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, Has Appeared on a Farm In Yorke shire, England. A 'despatoh from London says: The foot-and-mouth ~ diseake, fro which the cattle of Great Britain been free. has Appeared grain i of twenty Doukhoboyrs| = uly 26 nter, $1.00 to 2, 690 fo 700. Manitoba Flour--Quotations Tcronto are First patents, $6. second patents, $5.70; stron, ers'. +50 5:90 'per ee freights, 980. © © Ontario. =~ Flour~Winter patents nominal at $4.30 to $4.80 in buyers' 8, outside. | Millfeed--Manitoba bran; $30, per ton; shorts, $22 per ton, track, To- roato, Ontario. bran, $20 per ton; sherts, $22 per ton on: track, To- ronto. Sr COUNTRY PRODUCE. . Butter--Local = 'wholesale 'quota- tions :--Creamery prints, 230 to 940; separator prints, 20c to 2c; dairy prints, choice. 19¢ to 20¢; do., tubs, 7 "to 1807; inferior tubs, 160. Eggs--190 to 19%c per dozen 'in case lots, Toronto. a Cheese--New cheese, 113c for large and 11%c per lb. for twins ; old cheese. 12%c to 13%0. Beans--82 £082.10 for primes and $2.10 to $2.25 per bushel for hand: picked : Po tatoes have come in, selling at $1 to $1.25 per bushel," New Ameri- can' stock, '$2.25 per barrel in car ote on track, Toronto. Old pota: toes, 160 to. 30¢ per bag. "PROVISIONS. " Wholesale quotations ;-- Pork--8hort out, $31 to $31.50 per barrel; mess $98 to $28.50; rd--Firm | tierces; 15)0; tubs, : 18% c; stocks steady, Dey Salted Meats ~~ Lard--F Joe >; pails, Smoked and ono) ar in Yorkshire. A wide! area around the affected district toes--A few new Ontario po- trom Kenora, A despatch says: Bush fires are burning store, $1.31}; ~Firmer; No. 4 yellow, 68 No." 4 corn,