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Port Perry Star, 11 Mar 1914, p. 7

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; 8 by roops snd tribesmen in Afric. In the first of these Major James. Joyce Conry, of the Sennaught Py time had eet in an jos the 'Sudan,' Major Conry Ho charge of a contingent of an v en hattalion of the army. The leaders of the outlaws and otlior members of band - were killed and the remainder prisoners, Besides Major Conry, "the Frith troops lost three men killed oir four wounded. © = In tHe socond affair Lieut. Jones "was shok ghrough 'both loge dus daring an attakk on a stockade by Ab in British Fast Afri. Jdeut. Jones was wound- sinian <a. ed all his soldiers, .except three orde! These men at | Jones' command re-took 'the sbock- ade by assault, Two of the soldiers, both natives, then bors the wound- ed officer on a stretcher 500 miles to is- | his post. Blood Jones was oon: veyed to another where > & doe- tor--was statio His {soning mean-| SN g Ls & SL LE van . x "Late Sir Geo. W. Ross. found the doctor absent, however, and a journey to Nairobi was then started. On the way the stretcher was charged by ey rhinos, which the faithful orderlies killed, At Nyiri a doctor and nurse were found. The muscles of one of Jones' legs was so shrunk that the leg will al- ways be four inches shorter than the other and Jones will be a orip- ple for life, The doctors regard Jones' arrival at the hospital alive as miraculous, EXROMEATION OF CATTLE. The Rush to the States Is Appar- i : ently Over. A despateh from Ottawa says: ,, How the ¥imderwood tariff has oper- 'ated towards the export trade in Canadian cattle is Indicated in a Api in the House on Fri- -fay. hu the four months ended with Jan; joy lash 162,491 head of cattle A wore 'yond across the border, as arith 20,101 in the corres- nthe. The rush appar- : , for while 58,671 head werd enparied'i in October and 78,087 in November, in January the fig- ures' had declined to 5,500. AUSTRALIAN STRIKE SETTLED Employes in the Meat Trade Res turn to Work. A despatch from Sydney, N.8.W., says: A settlement was reached on Friday in the dispute between the employers and employes in the meat trade which had brought about a meat famine in this city lasting from February 16 till Iriday. The slaughtermen Mwtchers and meat ealosmen who had asked for big in- creases in wages and shorter work- ing hours agreed to resume work at the old rates pending an adjust- ment through the intermediary of the Minister of Labor: Braee's Seed Oats : Nore ortlyerny tops, very heayy yisiders straw. os fr - t is ow spionab merit, an immense yielder 'and ihe hth is thin and the grain weighs $2.00 h ere, Prices of paid, 11b. Boe, 21bs. 85c, ngr, Siberian, Abundarce, Scottish C| and 8 als Black Conqueror: A new variety from medium height, grain is plum; pear! ight rain and on # iat ey Meal, and eon ears? 'eck d0e, bushel $1.25 here, No. 72. A new variety, of fine nce. Iisa brand White Sat, enrly, and the straw is good a Sironk: wel Peck 6c, Bushel New 234 bifihel cotton bags 50 each extra, rbaove 3 Ibe. Sic, #1bs. Oc, 5 lbs, $1.10, 6 Toaespl 55. We cnu niso offer Daubeney, American Ban Cyper Black Tartarian and Blnch Victar,, IR BE--2% lonented, pegs Varynurnd Flower Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, Care den do Poultry Supplies, ct Frite Sor it. N A BRUCE & CO., Limited Seed Merchants ONTARIO {me is certainly marvelons. I ea 'now sleep Tike Ba hh am cate] : iF from trouble 1 January 19, when he contracted a ohill while making a speech in the Benate at Ottawa. He became seri- ously ill on January 24, and on Jan- uary 28 was removed to Toronto, where for a few days he appeared to recover somewhat. Sinee the middle of February, however. hope had been abandoned, and during the last week his death had been ex- pected hourly. HALIFAX WOMAN MURDERED. Struck With Sledge Hammer and Died in Hospital. + A despatch from Halifax, N.S. says: Mrs. Margaret Brown, a widow aged 50 years, was murder- ously attacked with a sledge-ham- mer in her home, 25 Bilby Street, early Sunday morning, and died of her injuries at the Victoria General Hospital the same night. James Murphy was arrested by the police, and will have to face a charge of murder in the Police Court. Fam- ily troubles are alleced to be the cause of the crime. Murphy is said to have been married to a daugh- ter of the dead woman. Surette ~ AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Fiscal Year, A despatch from Ottawa says: Canadian trade in agricultural im- plements is summarized in a return tabled in the House on Friday deal- ing with the last fiscal year. Can- ada imported binders, reapers, mowers, plows, seeders and culti- vators to a total value of $2,080,527, and exported during the same per- icd a total of $3,223,866. The im- plements most largely imported were plows, while binders led im the exports. rg LIFE'S ROAD Smoothed hy Change of Food. Worry is a big load to carry and an unnecessary one. When accom- panied by indigestion it certainly is cause for the blues. | easily thrown off and life's road be made easy and comfortable by pro- per eating and the cultivation of good cheer. Read what an Eastern woman says: N 1 "Two years ago I made the ac- quaintance of Grape-Nuts and have used the food once a day and some- times twice, ever since. . "At the time I began to use it life was a burden. I was for years | afflicted with bilious sick headache, "cansed by indigestion, and nothing | e o seemed to relieve me. ad loa ms became sb severe 1 h and ties have been Instiled Canada's Trade During. the Last : But the whole trouble may be § v my work for tire at a 2 fea 1 sleep ig proper- into my blood --cheeks are rosy with color, and I thank that day that 1 heard of so gran a medicine as - Hamilton's Pills." ® Bvery woman should use these pills | ~ |regularly because good health pays, and it's good, vigorous health that comes to all who use Dr. Hamilton's Mandmke and Butternut Pills. Selene PACES OF FARM PRODLETS QEPORTYS "ROM oe LEADING TaADY CENTRES OF 'AMERICA '| Frices or Catite, Crain, Choess ans OM €riduce at Home and Abroad Broadatufts. oont., $3.80 to $3.85, seaboard, flours, 90 t Tonto. oh nitobaac Firat 1.00 1-4, and No. 2, 98 1 oderich, 1-40 more, No. 1 y Bay. SLO 12 to $1.05, and No. $102 1-2 to $1.06 Ontario wheat--No side, according to treat, and 9c track, Toronto. Oats--No, 2 Onaga oats, 37 to outside, and at 39 1 ronto. Western Qanadta Sue, Ho for No. 2, and 29 1-2 for No. Poag~-98 to 81, outai Fe to 37 1-2, outside, accordin Corn--New No, Toronto. Rye---No. 2 at 62 to 6%, outside. to quality American, "69c, all rall, Toronto freight. Shorts, $25. Country Produce. Butter--Choice dairy, 22 to 23¢; 18 to 19: farmers' woparator prints; nk creamery prints, 30 to 3le; 2%; gtorage prints, 27 to 280; wolids, 5 1-2 to %6c. inferior, 3 to 3o dozen Cheese--New. 15 1.20 for tw 5 Beans--Hand-ple 'bushel; primes, Honey Extre b. for No. 1; or No. 1, and § Poultry Fowl, 1 ong, 17 to 1%; to 160: turkeys, ner Wh iis io $2.20 ale 15 to 170; geese, 20 to 23e. track, and Delawares at track, car lots. Provisiona, Bacon--Long clear, 15 to 16¢ iid lots. Pork---Short cont, 824.50. Hams--Medium, 18 to 18 1-4 LY 17 to 1Be; rolls, 15 to 15 1:20; Baled Hay and Straw. Baled h on track here: No. 2 quoted at £13 $1360, and mixed at $12 to $12 60, Baled straw--Car lots, track, Toronto Winnipeg Crain. Winnipeg, wlaken 10.--Coash ~--~Wheat--No. 1 Northern, 90 1-20: No. 2 Jorihern, 88 78¢; 0. 3 Northern, a it "No. 4, 83 140; No. 6, TTo; N. 73 1:90; feed, Eos No, 1 res , 86 1 Wri No. ¢ rejected seeds, .. 3 rejected eoeds, 830; No amutty, 86 1-40; No. 3 emutty, 84 1-20; No. §amutty, 83; No. 1 red Winter, No. 2 red Winter, 88 7-80; No. 3% 0. 6, , 45 10 feod, 4 Montreal Markets. Montreal, March 10, -- Corn, American Xo. 2 yellow, 72 1-2 to 73¢c. Oats, Canadinn aterhs 1% 44c, Canadian Western Ne 3, 38 debe extra No. 1 feed, 43 1-20, Ba Tin feed, 49 wo 500: maltin to 66e, CLR, No. 5 66 to bc. F our, Man Sein wheat patents, firste, $5.60; seconde, 85.10; etrong bakers', $4.90; Win- 5 to $5.25; straight 76; do., bags, $2.10 to 90 lbs, $2 to $2 £23. y, idling, 8 soni, $28 0. per ton car lots, ih to #15, " Cheese, finest Jresterns, 14 14 to 14 1-20; do., easterns, 13 3-4 to 4c. But. ter, chelcest ereamery, 27 1.2 By 28¢c. Eggs, Jresh, 34 to 360. Potatoos, per bag, car , 85 to 950. United States Markets. Minneanclie, March 10.--Wheat--May, 90 34 to 90 7 July, 9214 to ed: "No. 1 hard, 3 sudo 9 34 to 92 No. 2 Northern, 88 3-4 to 90 3-40; No. 3 wheat, 86 1-4 to 83 1-4¢c. Corn --No. 8. a ids Bs i Oats Ne 3 ur--Fancy patents, aes to firat clears, PA nte; at-No, 32 1-4c; N: Fay 1 Nosthern n, 80 14 10 90 A No. u Ep 90.14c; May, % 1 My utters a to &3 4 1 7. to o 3 pS bul 5 Bel" ta SA Ag Heer, Jia 75; good, 85. ; Wgh <haios, t, 83 5 Janiero, the capi- Tai) was a state of sieg siege. his Toronto, March 10.---Flour--Ontario wheat 2 to Northern, at 9% to fhe. out~ on -3 to 40c, on track, To- Barley--Good malting a 56 to 58¢, Bran--Manitoba bran $23 a ton, in bags, G2 to solids, 27 Btn Co lote of new-laid, 33 to Me per dozen; elorage, eelects, 3%, and storage, 6 to 15 1-40 for large, and per to 1560 per lb.; chick: 15 Potatoes--Ortarios, 85 to 87¢ per hag, on to 9c, on brcaxtast bacon, 18 to 19; backs, 22 to Lard--Tierces, 14 1-4c; tube, 14 1.2; pails, 14 ho. win ve: Dp hov--No. 1 at $14 to $1450 a ton, to $8.50 to $3.75, on 92 3.80 aek- | i or 1 Northera, 3 pond SE 50, oo jute; whim March 10 ig 38; May, . 81.69 he: mon, So i hob to 7 TEE oh Se: to 8 1-20; + hope, 10 aching Busuos Ayres | Tug GLOBE 1¥ A NUTSHELL. sf ; nis, the Empire and the World | Au 'General Before Your Eyes. 'Canada. * Montres) Irishmen, Catholics nd | Protestants, will celebrate St. Pat- Nick's Day together in a banquet. , The Government 'declined to in- hb angurute the 'old-age pension sys- | d tem for Canada at the present time. i Leonard McQibbon was sentenced to seven years for shooting and kill- his cousin, John McGibbon, at Dalesyille, Que George Aitkin, active in public affairs in Brant county, died on the farm where he was horn seventy- three years ago, -in South Dumfries. The Bathurst, N.B., Lumber Company announces that it has completed plans for the erection of a fifty-ton sulphite pulpmill at Bathurst, The Mayors of Sault Ste. Marie and Steelton led a deputation to Ottawa to ask for Federal aid in i £1 | Superior region. Increased tariffs for sections and drawing-rooms in sleeping cars, which were some time ago an- nounced hy the railways, have been 'suspended by the Railway Commis- sion pending an inquiry, The Sarnia Fence Co. has agreed to turn over its entire Western business to the Grain Growers' Crain Company, which will pay an agréed price per ton for the output of the factory, and will retail it. L. H. Packard, manufacturer of shoe polishes, a trustee of the C. M.A., and one of the most promi nent Y.M.C.A. supporters in Can- ada, diced in Montreal on Friday at the age of seventy-five. The Dominion Railway Board de- cision in the Western freight rates case will not be given fof some weeks, because of the dificulty en- conntered in comparing Hastern rates, where water competition is a factor, with those in the West. Great Britain. Militant Suffragettes were en- gaged in a fierce fight at a Labor meeting in London. The London Chronicle says tha Asquith Government will finish out its full term and will not dissolve this year. Winston Churchill, addressing the Royal Institute Club, considered a trans-Atlanite aeroplane flight too risky at present. The London Times, not long ago reduced in price from 8-pence to 2-pence, is soon to become a penny paper as the circulation has grown only 3,000. Total abstinence from alcoholic stimulants will be strictly observed during Sir Ernest Shackleton's trip across the Bouth Polar continent. Sugar will be used freely to provide bodily wamuth. A memorial signed by 310 mem- bers of the British Parliament, in- cluding Messrs, Balfour and Law, over half the Unionist members of | the House, practically all the Na- | tionalists and Laborites, and over one-third of the Liberals, asks the British Government to exhibit at San Francisco sXposition developing iron deposits in the Lake | MOST PERFECT MADE THE INCREASED NUTRITI- | OUS VALUE OF BREAD MADE. YEAST CAKES SHOULD se fl SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE TO || THE CAREFUL HOUSEWIFE TO GIVE THIS IMPORTANT FOOD ITEM THE ATTENTION | TO WHICH IT 18 JUSTLY EN- X TITLED, ] HOME BREAD'BAKING RE- DUCES THE NIOH COST OF LIVING BY LESSENING THE AMOUNT OF EXPENSIVE MEATS REQUIRED TO 8UP- PLY THE NECESSARY NOUR- ISHMENT TO THE BODY. E. W. GILLETT Co. Lo. TORONTO, ONT. WINNIPEG MONTREAL United States. President Wilson, in' his message to Congress, on Thursday, urged the immediate repeal of the Panama tolls exemption clause, The Interstate Commerce Coms mittee of the United States House favorably reported the bill to repeal] the Panama tolls exemption clause.| Fewer cases of drunkenness and improvement in business has result- ed from prohibition law which went into effect in Tennessee on March 1J Henry Green, pioneer manufac- turer of X-ray tubes, died at Hart- ford, Conn., of carcinoma fof the liver, induced by X-ray poisoning. He was an Englishman, aged 55. Envoys of General Felix Diaz, who went to Washington to find out what support he would get if he re turned to Mexico to lead a revolu- tionary party, got a chilly recep- tion. Ceneral, The two Frenoh 'Siamese twins" horn last fall, were separated by surgeons in Paris. As King Christian of Denmark was entering a new church an old woman stopped him and said, 'God bless you. I want you to build more churches." - RIOTING o : IN POLAND. Many Jews Have Fled For Fear ol Their Lives. A despatch from Cracow, Poland, says: It is reported herve that there has been serious rioting at Lodz, Russia Poland, because of a rumor that a Jewish merchant and his wife had murdered a Christian boy. A mob attacked the couple, whe wero seriously injured. The rioters then tried to raid a synagogue. but vere prevented by the police. Many Ton 8 have fled from the place. TWO SPIES TR Documents on the British 65 ED IN LONDON Nawy Found In the Pods session of Two Germans s A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: A remarkable story was told in the Bow Street Police Court on Wednesday afternoon in unfold- ing a case in which Frederick Adolphus Gould, a cigar merchaat, and his wife, Maul Gould, were 'charged with espionage. The wo- man was arrested at the Charing Cross Station on February 22 as she was about to depart for Ostend. She had in her possession three en- velopes containing important docu- i ments relating to the British navy. The man was drrested at his home At i rth, where it is alleged other incriminating documents con- ry the navy were found. Mrs. Gould denied all knowledge of the contents of the envelope, and her husband confirmed her. Mr. Bodkin, opening the case for | an efiort? It Do you feel constantly tired so Mint cversihing is an Indication that the Kid the prosecution, said it was fairly clear that Gould, whose real name is believed to be Adolf Friedrich Schroeder, acted for a long time as a spy in this country. One of the documents found gave a short his- tory of Gould's life. He was born in Germany in 1564 and lived in England from 1568 to 1868. He then returned to Germany to complets his education. In 1870, when: the Franco-Prussian war broke out, he joined the army, receiving the Iron Cross and o Captainey. Gould went to America in 1585 and again in 1900. Gould carried on COTTESDORS dence with an individual at Brus- sels supposed. to be agent for fors eign Governments, One wittiess said Gould told him he was -an agent of the German Governments The prisoners were remanded. r . doing their work of filtering the ies are bioad, GI will help you. healthy condition aud N FILS. 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