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far | | year. is foompany's consulting advi ty. fo meting of the Bun Power Com me - ago with. an. authorized capi- 1 of £300,000 to. work his sun- ral." t| Power pumping plant. Shuman that after the initial cost the intenance-of a sun-power plant 'was practically negligible. He ad-| ded that the power can be so Stored 8 to be available ireughout, Boys, the ry ox fhe: mentioned incidenta & Professor CO, V. had been able to obtain in rom the moon's rays. rr greene | FRANCE AND GERMANY, Increase the Place } Footing of Their | Armies. i A Jospaich from Cologne, Ger- , says: The new German mili- rr bill will add 84,000 recruits to the annual contingent called up for tiservice in the army, according to 'the well-informed Volks Zeitung. The total strength. of the peace {footing of the army will thus be in- creased by 168,000 men, bringing it up to 806,000, excluding officers. A despatch from Paris says: The French Cabinet has accepted the a, fd ecision of the Supreme Council of 'War, which pronounced on Tuesday in favor of a three years' term of |! (gervice in all branches of the army [instead of two years, as hitherto, pd the bill will be submitted to he Chamber of Deputies. The | measure will add 210,000 men at the lowest estimate to the peace foot- ing of the army, which at present stands at 678,783, excluding officers, 2 wim mein WOMEN RECEIVE SETBACK. v| Two States Kill M Mobasures to Exe tend the Franchise. 'A despatch rom Boston says: The cause of woman suffrage re- ceived a setback in two New Eng- Legislatures on Wednesday. euffe: had vr: several hearings, at which the question was debated in & spir- ited mafiner by prominent men and women, a committee inthe Massa- chusetts Legislature voted to re- port "leave to withdraw" on a bill providing for = a referendum on a éonstitutional amendment; which would eliminate the word tmale" from the provision defining the qualifications of a voter.. Bix mem- s of the committee voted against rage, three for it and two were pot recorded. ' A similar bill was HR in the Maine House by #x vote hty-nine to fifty-three, after 'been passed by the Senate. ge RECORD PRICE FOR BULLS. * Clipper Prince" o'r Sold tor Three Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars . despatch from Giielph Says! Spirited bidding featured the 'an: ure-bred bull sale under the auspices of the Guelph Fat Stock i - Brown & 'McCullough, cattle | srs at Great Falls, Montana, ripcipal' buyers, 'W. O ith was formed: some | second - patents, $4.8 in jute 0 ptoa Sakers , $4.60 in jute bags. HARE. ten' cents more per bar: Ontario nter flour, per cent, Tam 0 £05. bik Country Produce Wholssate. --Oold-storage, 18c to sh ougn is. are selling at 3 strict. ote he Iald 'at eese--Twins, new, 143-4o to 1Sc, and large, new, at 141-2¢; old cheese, twins, 150 to 151 $107, Bi prints, 31 to 3%; 'anizy, prin, 25 to 2%; d in tins and hy to. 300% 4 bd (bakere') 22 soroues-Diuckwheat, So in barrels; -straine 1812 & pound in 60-pound tind, 12 34e jo-pound, ins} 130 in b-pound tins; 0D honey, Ni $2.60 0 per dozen ; extra, $3 per dozen; N. o 1% 30 per r dozen, Pars Le. hi ns; wholesale, 126 to flo" 1 per pound; fowl, 100. to 1lo; ducks, So to ay live turkeys; 16o to 170; geese, 100, Dressed poultry, 20 to Jo above vee quotations, oepling dressed tur. keys, at 200 SE Sane--Primes) 8250 and 62.60 for hand- P Potatoes--Ontario per bag out of store; 80c in car lots. Spanish Onions~Per Per case, $2.40 to Provisions. Smoked and Dry Balted Meats--Rolle-- Bmoked! 150; hams, medium, 180 to 18 1-40; heavy, 1160 to 16120; breakfast bacon, 1% to. 19 1-20; long Fleas bacon, tons and cas- es, 141.2 to Jos backs (plain), 22; acks (pgameal), 22 1.20; Green Meats--Out of pickle, 10 less than smoked. Dorie---Shont cut, 82% to $28 per barrel; , $21 to a téroes, 141-40; tubs, 141-2 pails, 1CE CONDITIONS IN LAKES. St. Mary's River Frozen Over; Also St. Clair River and Lake, A despatch from Barnia says: According to reports received at this port, the ice conditions in the lakes are as follows: In Lake Bu- perior there is ice west of White- fish Point 'and at Duluth for about twenty-five miles off shore. The Bt. Mary's River is frozen over en- tirely, while in the Mackenzie Straits the ice is solid and about two feet thick, In Lake Huron many icefields are floating about, but are not very thick. The St. Clair River is frozen solid from Sarnia to the mouth. Lake 8t. Clair, is frozen over about fourteen inches thick. The lower Detroit is filled with ice, while Lake Erie has many floating floes of small thick- ness. ere Men 200 PASSENGERS LOST. ee When British Steamship Founder- ed in the Sea of Marmora. A despatch from Constantinople says: The British steamship Calva- dos foundered during a blizzard in the Bea of Marmora on March 1. fhe. crew .and 200 passengers were ost ei Eg p Be ve 9 to > 0 Bo Ai ah \ Minneapolis, H. -- Me 9100. to. 8880; #680; Hop? a 880; No, 1 86 No. 1 : to 85680; No, 2. ay R130 1a hei bg an--§17.50 Ay FO Floar-- Bufo March mw t--No, 1 hard, 8380 to J No. 1 ort northern, 0 Mase ua 847-80; "No. 2 northe 30 May, 86 3-80; July, ao b "ho bla Saptember, t0 g Montreal Markets. Montreal, March 11. -- Qora--Ameriean No. 2 allow, 61 1-2. wi 2 in eave fg) g $5. A rollers, i 90; straight 'rollers, " Rage 8 to 'ges ido, § an bags do. | § Butter--Chofcess * creamery, 29%. to 29 1. Wo Hor solos 248 to gs Fresh, 280 ted, 200: to 205 No, 1 stock, 6% 180;" No. stock, 14o Je 30 ho Potatoos--Ber bag, car lots . "Live Stock Markets. Montreal, Mar. 11.--The top: foe for best steers "was $6.75, and the 83 to $10 each, as sige and guaiity. Bales of selected lots ¥ Yoke werd 'made at 810.10 to, $1025 per 100 1bs,, weighed off cars, Toronto, March if, = Cattle = Choice butcher. $6.50 to to 86 . Milkers and Bpringer: 'rom 872. Bheep and Lambs--Light 'ewes, to 87; heavy 85 to $6; lambs, #8 to $9.50; bucks, $4.50 to 8% Hogs 85.60 to $9.65, fed and watered, and $9.15 f.ob FIFTY KILLED B BY DYNAMITE. Explosion Near "Baltimore Caused Buildings to Rook. A despatch from Baltimore, Maryland, says: Fifty lives were probably lost and forty persous hurt when the British ship Alum Chine, loading with dynamite for the Panama Canal, blew up ofl Hawkin's Point: on Friday morn- ing. A barge with 340 tons of dy- namite alongside also blew up. It is. believed fire caused the explo- sion. At least four of the crews of the vessels were. killed; others leaped into the water. Three. of the crew of the U. 8. collier Jason, 700 feet away, were killed and ten fatally hurt, the ship's upper works being swept away. Bix of the crew of the tug Atlantic lying alongside the'Alum Chine were killed and the tug practically destroyed. ' Forty stevedores are unaccounted for. It they were on the steamer it is ¢on- sidered certain that' they perished.' The tremendous explosion shook the country for miles around. Win- dows were broken and chimneys knocked off houses-a dozen or more miles from the scene of the disas- ter. At Sparrows Point a school house was partly destroyed and sev- eral children hurt. Baltimore was shaken as if by am earthquake and tall buildings in the centre of the city were rocked by the shock. GREEKS CAPTURE JANINA Tufkish Garrison of 32,000 Men Surrender to ths Bese from Athens, (reece, Greek Army The batteries on the heights of a riish § fortress of Ja- | Bizani, 'which had been the main- with its 'the 'possess of Teun, ih i army on Thursday, af- | ence by 11: o'clock on nig Jorma ove of th fhe gh dorm peo surrender was pe ion of stay | of the defence, were unable to iand the pelting of the shells, and had been reduced' to co somplets wi sil- The Greeks p mornin th 'movement ating he alter. - | forwar d 1 niin oceupied ; battéries i rh nd Elan Hills Hills,