CITY OF COBALT FIRE-SWEPT™™=2"5 2,00 &t Early Morning Blaze Destroyed Over ructures, ‘A despatch from Cobalt say~: ‘Cobalt is painfully familiar with the ivon clang of the fire bell in the early morning hours, and when the whole town was arou at four o’clock on ceased pools found a inting the early morning sky red AH: knew that 8, {nevitable had happened, and t! into the jam vat oKes. For six hours the fire raged, a' the result is the destruction ma about 200 buildings, rendering homeless 2,000 people, in a district, about half a mile long by 100 yards wide, known as “Frenchtown’’ an nd loss is: placed at about while the i BN ged will be less than 150, is is because the insur- ance rates liege been almost prohi- bitive—from 10 to 18 per cent.—and ses the companies can- celled the risks held. The fire originated in Joo Leo's Chios secede ainpoeealy from an overheated stove, ‘Two waitresses, who roomed tl flames crack- ginated in Chinese buildings there is a decidedly anti-Oriental senti- t here to-day. The local volunteer firemen were Neo rived by sp was during t ene building ee a Saas who did not understand the partes given him, and who rushed back in tw the house, was blown up an ROBBERS OBTAIN $10,000 Three Masked Men Held Up Manager of Rainy River Bank. the fact. that ManRactanie of i always in plain view at thi cf the day. tion of the 0. P. otia was is time After securing nearly $10,000 the robbers ran across the street and made north in the direc- R. tracks. Mana- sounded the alarm and a posse was once organized ow in ‘The robber rere all the io Fage ue many people were mabe ects and passing the ae elites ee hak | dits were at w The ferctan: with which the holdup was accomplished were sto- , |len from the John Weeks Hardware description from the store at this point Friday morning. A regrettable accident eee during the arming of the posse. A net dlaeharged in the hands ~of one of the puller rete Hitec h Mr. Field, the seventy of the Ss ger Templeton as soon as possible ban! CONDUCTOR KILLED. Fatality on West of North Bay. A despatch Mas North Bay says: ‘Ashland Ardell . R. conductor, was killed me meats fifty-five miles west of North Bay, on We nesday n the track. Ardell’s train was Gl by a freight.wreck which had bloc! ed i line, and had mated out to @ far nipeg ees Bi, mangled body be- ursday morn- ing picked u ing by a aaa a widow. and one Bay. fo CaS HERG METAL WORKERS ON STRIKE. Over 10,000 ae ane in Pittsburg A despatch 5 Pittsburg pia Reports received here o: day show. thatthe ‘strike a “the ‘Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, as a result of the open shop order, is effective in Spastically. all the an mills of the American Shee Tin ing importajson, of strike-I Broskers: SIX rf UICIDES' BODIES. More Bodies Recovered From the Niagara: Whivlpool. A despatch from Niagara: Falls, Ont., says:-Two more floaters were discovered in Thursday, minus “| arms hese two, ait the four aE Whirlpool an ower. River, make six bodies re- covered during the past ten days. ue C. P. R. Fifty Miles uses One miile away, child in: North i aka in value the. Whielpool on| ¥® ell pe ac Théy are nob the results of any re- cent suicides, but bodies thaz are to “have Oe eres of suppost Niagara’s charms 0} mths ago. extricating Shenae cai the rocks, where they have been held fast for months Se Sh poe ale FULL TIME. Orders Issued For the Point St. Char! shops. Montreal, ee 1.—Notice has been posted up at the Grand Trunk’s Point St. Charles shops to run full time. The new order means much to the Point. Since a year ago last August the time has been 7 to 5 o’clock, and -n work on Saturdays. Tho new time will be from 7 to 6 weekdays, and 7 to 12 on Saturdays, This makes ten hours a week more to each man, a ee addition to the weék- ly-incom WHEN TO VISIT THE DENTIST. Most people do not visit a dentist until driven to do so by a distressing toothache. But when week a gone far enough to cause e best efforts ae a skilful dentist ie r fully repair the damage. Asta teeth are, of course, bet- than none, but they. cannot with the Spee ones. guard the general heal ing an aseptic condition mouth, as well making it pos- siblé to masticate one’s food thor- Intelligent caus of the unnecessary pain and suffering, as as serious disfigure ement. And SAG a man tells lies eping his mouth shut 10,150,000 is estimated to be the sane populati ion. SCORE OF MEN WERE KILLED A Sudden Landslide at Newport, Eng. Was Most Disastrous. A despatch poe Newport, Eng- Jand, says: estimated that twenty men erisied on Friday by were working in a trench sixty feet “deép; prevepag (08 it the laying of a concrete found: .. Without warning the ae Sate timbers ave way, the entire structure col- men ousands of persons had tas setioree to watch the weird with the aid of speaking t stimulants and cigarettes ners Sates down to them ; but there was little hope of rescuing the victims'us] the removal of Hs lebris that was gaat them down was likely to tw cause beam: any cases rther falls of earth and); QAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TLE GLOBE. Telegraphic Briefs From Onr Own and Other Countries ef Becont Events. CANADA. Nearly $1,250,000 of Ontario’s $3,500,000 loan has been subscribed. is -ten- en old daughter lost Hee te tiv the Lord Strathcona has made a sift of $500,000 to MeGul every Montreal. Sergeant Bert Daniels fell off a gun carriage at Wi innipes, was run over ord. i led, on Eri Shaw, en of Mr. We i. Shaw of Toronto, fell into a well at Morpeth, on Frida; ‘ay, and was taken out dead. A menor comes from Amber rst, N. toat Montreal capitalists have pisiniet the les, Curry Company’s car works. The Be report of the Ogilvie Flour. Mills Company tells. that grain in the west on summer-fallow land is yery heavy. Bush fires are eee: on both oS of oo , Montreal River near settlers’ houses ee idea aliens ees de ee the Montreal graft inquiry a witness testified to having pai Buiel, wetiett ot cherie Erggade 3800 or $900 from men taken on the foret. Toronto building permits from anuary 1 to June 30 totalled ir value $8, 829,375, or $3,816,130 more than in’ the corresponding period | * of 1908, I. McLaren of Fort m fell five huadred feet down ee le of Mount McKay, and was saved from serious injury by plunging into a tree-top. Injunctions have been served on the Mayor and City Clerk of Ham- ilton to prevent them from making a contract with the Hydro- lectrie 8 © | interest t6 Canada, where a similar *| enterprise may soon be stated. GREAT BRITAIN. Dominion Day was celebrated in n with erent pomp: Many eminent Canad were present ¢|and made speeches. UNITED STATES. The United States Senate has fin- a: ished its discussion of schedul. A Texas woman cleared $60,00u last year on 185 acres of Bermuda onions. The Republican party agreed to raise tho tax on cigars, cigarettes and plug tobacco: W. L. Mackenzie King and De “Grenfell LAS degrees from Harvard Univ The Miselaeipp SPaalature took the Standard Oil at midnight on Wednesday _ night. Bargain-bunters, looking for cheap liquor,/were:very “ni Former President: Eliot of Har- vard has been appointed eee Emeritus. He will get a salary and a present of half a million dollars. The National Bank in Ironwood, on Friday, an lowed. The grossest mismanage- ment is alleged. GENERAL. oposal was made Zep- pelin Lizebii try to ithe ne st pole. Tuan Fang, a progressive states- man, has been made eis! of the Chinese province of Chihli.. < Chancellor Von Buelow of Ger- many has intimated that ho will re- tire as soon as his finance reform measures have been disposed of. Sy THE FLOOR GAVE WAY. Fatal Accident at the Power Sta- tion at Ottawi A despatch from Ottawa says: James Ingram, an employee of the Ottawa Electric Railway Company died on Thursday morning as a re- sult of injuries sustained in a ae through the collapse of a floor ai n, John Canty and John ae Pes was working — above channel leading to.the power maces when the floor suddenly gave way, and the three men fell through a ante at twenty feet. was recued unconscious, son escaped with minor injuries. ae Snes THREE PERSONS KILLED. Barns and Houses Saskatchewan Cyclone. A. des} feom Carievale, Sask:, says: A se’ storm passed over this istrict on Taran night. The house of Wm. Hackett, who lives 15 imles north, was ees demolished, as was also severely injured that ore he are lespaired of, and a sco! "he ple were more or less ior in aa Cy eaviest losers ee the Hack- ett and Raymond families, £ the power ee: With two Sea into Demolished in| 2% YOUNG FOLKS THE CRYSTAL CAVE. The sun shone brightly over the | islands of Bermuda, and a Bale chick's erommcwicn all ane oleanders and wild mowers seeme: to have the special favor of its van On a platform of soft, cool grass lay stretched at full 1 two young negro lads, natives of nm was perhaps younger. Not far below day the broad ox d away -to the left te the’ little fc foot ple It was dur- ing the spring month when the is- lands wear their most joyous ae ing. Every little flower, plant a1 pattie up into the sunshine. Carl, the older of, the two boys, rolled over and seomingly. buried his face in the soft earth, in which poctiiae he lay perfectly quae for a Fat m inute. “there is cold air blowing up into ‘ace |”? he exclaimed, springing two years iS) to hs techs Edgar mall opening ia the rota that ait to the casual a rabbit- hole ; ressed their faces into it, a cold draft told fhe that it came from many feet belo “There must be a cave down there,”’ said Carl, “‘and I am going to make the hole bigger.”” soon return- ad to be bottomiess, and whi dropped in large stones the noise of the ee ae was lost ia silence, nany feet b: Carl otily. piel off his coat and hat. “I’m going down,” he and when I a you iy. ne,’ whereupon he m downward, half- pe ball ial in ee and disappeared in the Rieck seeming ages of suspense, Edgar heard his calling; ne the dark cave was too muc the lad’s pourags and he nhodted’ to his friend toc up. Again oe sound of crumbling rock, and Carl stood beside him. “No: must get a rope aaa candles to take down,”’ “for it’s black as night, and all ‘the stones I broke off fell into water.’ The children were very mystri- ous and excited on their return. home that night, ee they had decid- ed not to mention the discovery pai further eee Gare had hed a Gening found the two little workmen again on the scene. On the ground lay rope, hoards, nails and lanterns. First, the Ness, where there was no sound but the y murmur of the unseen water. h the aid of the lanterns, the children. began to. carefully ‘pick their way forward through the semi- ness. + looked like’ huge icicles of m the roof, 3 2 a Bes ently they stood on the land’s edge, and before them stretched a sheet: of perfectly transparent turquoise- ue water. Here they sat down, nailed eave, its smooth surface broken only by four small islands of whitest stone, and everywhere from the roof hung the crystal eiadiise Co! mupletely fascinated by the new wonders t! ch paddled about all day; and when they finally ssc the world above, the sun had set. For two noms the discoverers ee say in the strangest an arin play; placed which, when lighted, brought the distant parts of the cave dimly view, an ere among the shadows the children swam played marvelous games ze the 5 Oy “and by other children were let into the secret, and the news spread rapidly over the little village of Bailey? s Bay. ne day, accom: n dick iether they led portion of the field, ans fight of stairs laid, down Sia by world may safely descend into the boys’ fairyland, wi n brently illuminated by electric light, oyer it: aters: while little Soares bridges have been laid from end to end, a distance of seven cat The lads ‘have left Bermuda, and of the States, where they were sent by the grateful owners of the land under whigh lies the now _world- famous recat: Cave.—Youth’s Com »panion. abe G Brown: #‘ What did your wife say iA ont being so late home the Jones: "Nothing ab ‘al. She its sat down at the plano aay elie ‘Tell me the old, old ey | dressed, 12 to 190, per s|3. Canadi icicles or 4 LEADING MARKETS BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, July 6.—Flour—Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.40 to $5.60 to-day in buyers’ sacks out- Bide ee export, and at $5.60 to $5.- rack, Toronto. Manitoba ae first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 Toronto; second patents, $5.75 to $5.90, and strong bakers’, $5.50 to $5.70 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat—No. 1 North- ern, $1.37%, Georgian Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.35%, and No. 3 at $1.33. Pntatie. dkuen sb 2 $1.34 to $1.35. 01 Siparioy-ecd barley 60 to 62c out- ‘Gate —No, 2 Ontario white 58 to sacks, Toronto freights. ; shorts, $24.50 to $25, To- ronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Houle Se to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans—Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and pee picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per ushel. Maple Syrup.—95c to $1 a gallon. Hay—No. 1 timothy at $11.50 to $12.00 a ton on ea here, and low- ar grades, $8 bf daira | ia ‘Sr ee on track. Potatoes— OE ee of old, 65 to 15¢ per bag, o: Poultry — CHReGE: ene .3 fowl, 11 to lle; turkeys, 16 to 18¢ per THE DAIRY MARKETS, Butter—Pound prints, 19 to 200 tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19¢; in- ferio>, 15 to 16c; creamery, 23 to 2dc, and separator, 20 to ie per Ib, Eggs—Case lots, 20¢ per dozen, Cheese—Large cheese, a 4 ) 14%c per lb., and twins, 14% 14%c. New quoted at targe, and at 2M fo for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon—Long clear, 13% to 19Ye por lb. in case lots; mess pork, $23 to $23.50; short cut, $25 to $25.50. Hams— ig! medi 16c; do., heavy, 12% to 18c; shoulders, 11% to 12¢ backs, 18 ue 1840; breakfast bacon, | 16% to asd Neccek, 14%; tubs, 14%0, pails, 14%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL, qanee ge July 6.—Oats, No. 2 Canad n Western, ns extra No. 1 feed, 289403 N lor'l feed, 5940; No. Severe 5903 barley, No. 2, 734, to 74¢; Manitoba barley, 67% to ae ‘buckwheat, on Flo anitoba Sprii Soe patents, firsts, $6.90; Mani- 26.75; straight rollers, $6.50.to $6.- 60; straight rollers, in bags, on s to $3.20; eee in bags, $2.80. Feed—Manitoba bras ea to $235 “Manitoba ‘shorts, $24 to $25 pure grain mouill e, to $35; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cheese ’ | —Westerns, 1% to 11%, ae east- B erns at 11% to 11%e. —Fin- est creamery ‘6 Tiggs—18% to 19¢ per dozen UNITED irae MARKETS. Buffalo, July 6—Wheat—Spring | a whea' 0. orthern, Toten carloads Rae 1.32% 5 ‘inter ‘orn—Basier : 2 No. 8 yellow, TT%e; No. 4 yellow, 7640; No. 8 yellow, T7%c; No. 4 yellow 764¢; No. 3 corn, 76% to TBC 5 35 No. 3 3 har 20 8. 3 No. 1 Nastkeus. $1. 29 to $1.32. Corn— 2, 72 to 72%4c; No. 2 yellow, 73%40; No. 8, 71% "2c; No. 3 Tore. white, 48 A Bigs ene. 4 white, 43 to 50c; standard, 5: LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, July 6.—There was on- ly one. load of really prime ea fed cattle on the market, and the: were held at 6%c per pound but ‘he other cattle to $8 each; sheep to 4e per lb; lambs sold at $3.50 to $5.50 each; good lots of fat hogs sold at 8% to 8%o per |b. See CROPS LOOKL WELL. Abundant Harvest Promised ia Saskatchewan and Alberta. A despatch from Ottawa r. Saunders, director of 1] perimental farms, has Ar the Department of Agriculture from Indian Head, Sask., under date of Tunes 30, as follows:—‘‘Have seen crops over large area in Saskatche- W (i in in all districts visited has very appearance. ee x. Patly ‘Winter-killed bas been re- nm with Spring grain Stops from expen fi Some overcomi a varieties of grain hosting head, although grain 2 some Gistricts was sown late, Favorable conditions now prevailing Lae ing ie ee ation of an abundant 12% for a Shot Dead A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: A startling double as- sassination of a political character oceurrei late on Thursday night towards the conclusion of a public gathering at the Imperial Institute. ndian student, whose name is Wyilie and Dr. Calas La Loaca of Shanghai, Wyllie, who had held uaportent alan appointments, fell dead o George’s Hospital, but on arrival there it was found that he was deal. Those near the assassin seized and eld him until the arrival of the police. He ha two revalvets, a dagger and a knifo, All were new, and it is believed that the crime was premedial h Institute, a buildi Indian-and other “oolumat functions, was an ‘“‘at hom ian ros ents. ehh one of tl guests, thus ‘graphically eeciaties the arene. attending the murders ;— near 11 o’clock, and the. riaateal programme was just con- cluding when I saw a middle-aged English gentleman conversing with a young Indian idenly the ce The Famous Statesman, Curzon Wyllie, % the ¢' 2) gathering -6¢ the: Traparial ing devoted to| ew e-| victim was groaning on the ground dre volver and fired four ae oath in London. the greatest rapidity at the head of the Englishm: “Phen came another shot as the eaeharian fell, and a sixth, which struck an elderly Indian _ gentle- man standing a few pares off, and see dels shot in the side. ushed at the assassin and ane sprang forward at the same time. We seized him, but he puaeS clack and pulled the trigger. It clicked harmlessly, as he had fired all his shots. Meantime there was a rible scene and otion, the folding doors were finally closed to prevent the people from looking on the fearful si this meee someone x- claimed, y, it is Wyllie.’ in evening dress came upstairs from holding the assassin, w! whose other a few yards away. A despatch from Messina, Sicily, aye: Six months after the de: vastating earthquake of Dos. which laid waste over a score i) rebuilt, Bue second ti completely iusteoad in the visitation of last December were shaken down and one woman was ki earth shocks Gesacaie of Thursday morning wibie accompanied by deep roaring sounds. pale first one was followed by an explosion like the roar of hati Be lasted between eight 28. , erected for the accommodation of f| minutes later there Sear dome THESSINA AGAIN SHAKEN ‘|Ruins of Former Buildings Demolished 4 With Loss of Life, a and ten seconds, which seemed an fatal one of the night of December The wooden houses and huts filled the air as the people fled in terror, On the night of Dec, 28, the first shock was followed Bye a Bash tent movemen accompanied by another ‘ing sound. This completed the destruction. ‘he remains of the astated houses collapsed and the ehh pac Uttek —: bob Yered by a dense cloud of TEN “KILLED. Rome, July 1.—Private telegrams from Messsina give persons as ten, including a lieu- tenant, two soldiers and two car- bineers. iinerte NEW CUSTOMS RECORDS. A despatch from Toronto says: Customs poyceuane ig the port of Toronto for of June to- talled $924,063.21. Th a is the larg- est amount ever collected for June at this port, being $276,766.08 more pinch of the general. trade and financial depression was most severely felt. The sune collections for 1907 wero $909,594.51, and for business and trading activity, stem to indicate that the tide his turn- ed strongly in the direction of re- newed gtneral PEE 2 SESE a A Toe A DOUBLE DROWNING. ™3| Yacht Struck by y Squall and Upset i Nea’ Sorel, Que. Word was received in the city on eas ya Last Month’s Returns Beat All tho J Revords. 4 drowned, while the thrd was saved. Se j | Returning fro a day’ “A despatch from nee says: |and H of Thursday morning. 5 ee morning with the yacht et gue of the speediest nae on Lake St. Louis, intending to make. @ cruise ges Lake Chaney Yom the <i he tercentenary there. e yacht was so struck by a squall somewhere near Sorel, dismasted and upset, und two "of the young men were » FATALITIES AT TORONTO. Drowned, Struck by ‘Trolley, Jumped from Bridge. A despatch sath apkont says? y % sport ab Se Oy i a number of See, pad ae Wilkie, a young an, who * hia just bid his et aodtiahts was struck down by a street car ab ing in the long pond at the island Z 14-year-old 5) S 8 = ea g go6 es = a Bros. jumy Glen-road bridge in the early hours their lives, A third member of the Senator Aldrich declares in fayor ae corporation tax. 3 A despaich froin Yar 8., says: Two boys ane eriously injured and a station baiiding destroyed on the Halifax nd South ak teak ed on Thur ala jay fr ing the glorious first end ee arre! From the incoherent utterances of the woman station agent it ap- Ss sevea or eight Terrible Dominion Day Tragedy Rapdried e From Nova Scotia. — ae N.. been playing about the station cele- ‘four | brating Dominion Day. On + | stood. = GASOLINE TANK EXPLODED if them had a candle-and just before the mishap he went into the station ‘and-asked the agent for a mate i He returned been standing on tl orm. This explosive liquid was iy- nite 5 One of the boys was found ene other was found lying on the plat- form near the spot. uuers the barrel. ently been peared that a Seay of boys, per- hap: all , hed 1 rendered nope sete had been oe to hein a very short ‘our Lana were found in Bouigoos, unconscio as, NE