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ying. House of 'A despatch from Sand Point says: "As the result of an explosion in the drying house of thé Dominion Ex- plosives Company, one and a half "miles west of this place, a calamity which in cause and some of its re- sults almast exactly duplicated that of a year ago in that same powder * mills, four men were instantly 'hurled into eternity and about $700 damage was done to the pro- perty of the company. The explo- gion occurred: at 12.10°on Thursday afternoon, and is said by the offi- cials of the company to have been dub to the ignition of a quantity of | gas in the building where it took place. The dead are: Dominic Ben- net, Westport, aged 22; William Brooks, Band Point, aged 97:1 Joseph Mills, Popular, North Lon- don, England, aged 38; Horace Mc- Mullen, Ottawa, aged 20. The catastrophe wag one as sud- den as it was terrible in its effects. Without anything that might in any Dominion 'Explosi gli. Company Blown Up. way have given the unfortunate) victims © a warning - the explosion came, * The drying house was disin- tegrated in an: instant and smashed into kindling wood, which strewed the surrounding landscape, William Brooks and Dominic Bennet were inside 'the building, Joseph Mills 'and Horace McMullen standing its platform. = The bodies of : oms, no trace of them having been found: . Those .of Brooks and Mc- Mullen were recovered; that of the latter being almost impossible to identify. Almost' miraculously none of the other employes were in- jured, though near by. Besides the ple destruction of the drying house, the sides of the nitrate rooms were staved in, as were the ends of the ice house and a storeroom. Where the dry- ing house" had been, nothing was left but a large hollow in the ly | ground, the result of the downward action of the explosion. EE -------------------------- . SUCCESSFUL YEAR. Advantages of Consolidation Strik- ingly Shown in Results of Maple Leaf Milling Company. A special despatch from Toronto says: The success attending upon consolidation when carried out on sound business lines is strikingly shown by the results obtained by the Maple Leaf Milling Company during its first year. This Com- pany represents a consolidation of the Maple Leaf Flour Mills Com- pany, Limited, and the Hedley Shaw Milling Company, and its first an- nual report to be issued shortly will, it is said, show that the Com- pany on its present mills has earned well beyond the wvidend require- ments of its preferred stock. This would leave the entire earnings from the new 6,000 barrel mill now nearing completion at Port Col- borne to go towards the accumula- tion of a strong reserve fund and dividends on the common stock. ema d, The attempt of ithe' Montreal Street Railway employees to form a union was met by the company discharging twenty-five conductors and motormen. A GREAT BUILDING BOOM Month of March Shows Total of $9,805,560 Permits in Canadian Cities St A despatch from Toronto says: In the May number of Construc- tion; the building situation in Ca- * nadian cities is reported to show an average gain for March of 8 per «cent. over the corresponding period last year. Apart from Winnipeg, where a de- "crease of 60 per cent. is noted, Ot-|dol © tawa, with a set-back of 38 per .eent., and Lethbridge and Londoit, with declines of 32 and 53 per cent: © respectively, the situation is. re: "garded as satisfactory. Toronto's investment of $2,910, "970, netting a gain of 39 per cent., - reflects a 'state of enormous activity. . In Vancouver, the work projected amounts to $2,147,798, as against $1,806,106 in the same period last year. - Calgary, with $1,012,260, is 143 per cent. better than her 'previ- ous. foresponding month, Medicine Hat, in the same province, by an advance of 1,700 per cent:, has the biggest proportionate in- crease noted in the list. Other Western 'gains = are :--Victoria, 14 per cent. ; Moose Jaw, 25 per cent.; and Regina, 65 per cent., the im: vestment in: the latter place amounting to over half a million ollars. In the province of Quebec, 'Mont: real shows the same. unremitting progress that has characterized her remarkable developisent during the Past two years. Permits: were is: sued for new: work amounting to 1,107,577, as 2a agaial Aa76,504 4 in the same period last year, noted being tho third amount recorded. for East. of these points, Sydney are' respectively mifar ars reat to the extent, of 40 and 30 Jcent., and 8: John ag report: 2 : net and Mills were blown into at-| the total th. | railways, double-tr d | the existin a7 bar tom thro Vrovinee closed on [ "tas a result of local last January. The. Management Committee of 'the Toronto Board of Educa de-| cided to abolish the public drink- |, ing 'cup in'the schools; The Nova Scotia Bteel Company will establish a plant for turning out the heaviest forgings requ for the new Canadian naval vesse ou GREAT BRITAIN. British Freemasons presented an 'address to the Duke of Conna: Arrests were made in connec! ion with the Charing Cross Bank fail- ure in London, A non:party deputation ariel on Premier Asquith the creation of an Imperial Council. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour will speak at a meeting in support: of arbitration treaty. GENERAL, A serious rising has taken place in Canton, China. The Fez relief column is in des- perate straits. The Australian Labor Ministry has sustained a serious defeat. tnt : DRIVEN FROM HOMES: Twenty-eight Families Flee - From Flames Early in Morning. A despatch from 'Montreal says: Twenty-eight families were driven from their homes shortly after one o'clock on Friday morning, Then fire broke out in the Mount Royal apartment house at the corner of Hutchinson street and St. Joseph boulevard, A poor water supply left the firemen 'almost helpless. The building: was valued at about $150,000, and was the subject of protest when it was erected a cou: ple of years ago, it being declared that in almost every respect if transgressed the building by-laws. REY Ry SUSPENSION REVOKED. - Fitty ©. P. R. Conductors Laid off in Alberta Back at Work. A despatch from Calgary says: Fifty C, P. R. conductors who were suspended from the Alberta lines of the company for alleged irregu- larities have been reinstated. The} railway men were instructed to re- rt at Montreal for investigation, ut. refused, and were suspended. hic wheat 20 to $3.45, toba- ' | second: patents," $4.80, dnd Biro bakers'; $4.40, on track, Toronto. Manitoba -Wheat--No. F North ern, 98%c cash, Bay ports; No. 2 at. 96¢, and No. 8 at 93%c; No. 1 quoted at 97%c - 8c." May deliv: N Xx ery, Bay ports. Ontario Wheat--~No. 2 red and | white, 83 to 85¢, outside Barley Malting ualities, 81 to 8c outside, and od, 83 to 8c out well as the. porsaflos and| Si of tie largest-ortice buildings 'are in ruins, Onts--Ontario grades, 34% to sin 4s 01 outside, and 36 to 37 on track; To- ronto. No.2 W..C. oats, B8}4e, and] & No. 3, 87%c, Bay ports. ._ Corn~No; 3 American yellow 60c, Toronto, all rail, and at B4 to 5440, Bay po Peas--No, he at 80 to Bie, outside. "Rye-- Prices a nominal. Buckwheat--No. 2 at 2 to. 830, | outside. Branc-Manitoba, $29.50 to $93, in bags, Toronto, and shorts, $24, in bags, Toronto, Ontario bran, $22 to $92.50, in in bags, Toronto. 4 COUNTRY PR PRODUCE. Apples--The market is dull. Beans--Car lots, $1.70 to $1.75 and small lots, $1.90. Honey--Extracted, in tins, .10 to 11¢ per 1b. ; No. 1 comb, wholesale, $2 to $2.50 per dozen; No. 2 comb; wholseale, $1.75 to 82 per dozen. ed hay--No. 1 at $12.00 to $13, on ea and No. 2 at 10.00 to $11.00; Baled Btraw--36. 50 to $7, track, Toronto." Potatoes--Car lots, 80 to 856: per bag, and New Brunswick at 95¢ to $1. Poultry a | Wholesale pices of dressed = poultry i--Chickens, 15 to 16c r 1b. ; turkeys, 19 to 2le per ive, 1 to 20 less. | | dei on LOCAL DAIRY MARKETS. : Butter-Dairy prints, 18 to 200; inferior, 16 16 to 17¢; Brine flict Fs The head 'of the railway conductors ed at took the matter up at C.P.R. head: quarters, (with the result that all the men: 'are back at work. x $65, 000 FOR RAILWAYS. Gorman Government Proposes a Huge Appropriation. : A despatch from Berlin says: The Government has laid : before the / Diet a bill appropriating $65,750, 000 for the building of secondary ing some - of roads, continuing the increase of $81,069,200 total | volume of imports and exports compared with the preceding yea of The aggregate for the year was |ne $759,004 trade oo ten years ago. for the year totalled increase of $86,114,364. Expo both domestic and foreign' thorta of totalled : $207,196,365. = Ex; ris of Eon a ' a rease $4,804,096 | Exports of foreign products co Ted $22,879,812, an increase of about | two and one-half millions. The ex- ports of con. and bullion last year 19030; No. 1 hard, $1.00%; No. 1 Northern, 990 to $1; No. 8 Nc erm, 28 to we Ni : or nearly double ste # {The 2d ding in tor this year was $73,297,585, an increasé-of £418 287 ,088, of over twenty per.