& hours, the palice making no_attempt to| U aay believed in the East. ~ ~ FATAL ACCIDENT AT TORORTO. : poy injured; W. M. Jevons, 248 Shaw was killed and his companion were go- ing south to their begin the others result of the' outbrehk of the Black St Meret "is S cae Sie * tie Mhend ta tee we aw . Does Not Mean Big Crop. "A despatch from Ottawa says: Official vices from the West as iA the crop cullook are satisfactory. The bulk of ing has been completed and ow- ing to the moist condition of the soil ft is. belieyed that the backwardness of the season will not be so prejudicial as 'a Be Polnie' out Pe the old-timers e West are o he opinion that "he shortness of i Spring is exceptionally early or the seeding completed at an éarly date. In support of this contention it is pointed out that in 1881, when seeding was. not completed by the end of May, a splendid average crop was garnered, while in 1884, 1888, 1889 and 1897 seed- ing was Jate, but the crop- yield was quite satisfactory. One official. of the Interior Depart- ment summed up the siluation on Wed- nesday' when he said: "There is no need {cr alarm. -If-the lateness of seeding is ominous of anything it is ominous cf good crop The West is nol pros: 4 }worrying;-it is the East which is show- Ly ing all the anxiety. One | Killed, Three Injured at the Bay Street Railway Crossing. A despatch from Toronto says: James S Fraser, of Leith, Scotland, chief engi- neer on. the steamer Corunna, which arrived here from' Middlesboro', Eng- land, on Thursday, was instantly killed; Francis Hart, of Aberdeen, Scotland, steward and cook on the steamer, was treet, Toronto, was cut about.the head, and Edward Verral, of 285 Dundas Street, had his right arm broken, all as the result of failing to observe G. T. R. engine 834 as it pulled a string of freight cars eastward past the foot of Bay Street at about 1040 on Friday night. : A level crossing without a_ single gateman and without proper lights to enable: the thousands of passengers to and from the Island ferries and the other steamboats to see wiiere they are going or what trains are passing, was respon- ible for the death of Fraser. and the maiming of the others. The man who were coming from th@®ferry boat. The atiention of the C. P. R. shunter, J. Stewart, at the point, was drawn to the accident; by hearing a woman scream, and on running to the spot he was hor- rified to see a man's body lying on the G. T. R. tracks and apparently cut in two. . Fraser was 4 married man, and had part of his furniture on board the Cor- unna, as he intended setiling in Canada. His wife was to have come out in Aug- ust next, and was to bring the balance ef the household goods and the . baby. Hart is a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, and_mnmarried. Several of the crew of fhe Corunna came to the morgue to identify the body of Fraser, and the were quite indignant thal, as they said, trains were allowed to run on the streets withoul any protection to ithe pedes- trians, ------ Je _--____ LIEUT.-GOVERNOR DUNSMUIR. His Yacht Took Fire at Sea and Party kK to the Boats. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., Bays: While returning from Gardner In- let, afler a month's hunting trip, on Friday, Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieulen- ant-Governor of British Columbia; Major Audain, his son-in-law; three guests, and a crew of thirteen, had a narrow escape, when the Thistle, Mr. Duns- muir's ,000 yacht, was burned to the water's edge in Queen Charlotte Sound. Mr. Dunsmuir and others on board were forced to take to the boats, and in 16 minules after the alarm of fire was giv- en, the Thistle was burned to the water's edge. The cause of the fire is a mys- tery. Five hundred gallons of gasoline were stored in the hold, and exploded. Mr. Dunsmuir and others in the boats traveled 32 miles before being sighted by a southbound steamer, which picked 4hem up and brought them to Vancou- * CYCLONE IN NORFOLK. Two Houses were Blown Down in the Village gf Nixon. A despatch from Simcoe, Ont., says: Buildings blown down, trees and fences uprooted, the tracks of the Wabash jocked by the contents of a huge coal chute and ils ruins, is the result of a evening swept -the district a few miles west of here, the centre.of which is the Village of Nixon. .Great damage was, done in Nixon, two houses being blown dewn and a grocery store badly wrecked. In one of the houses destroyed an old lady named Croft had a very nar- row escape. She was in bed, ill and alone, when the building crumpkd up and collapsed like a house of cards. Ml as she was, however, she managed to craw] out of the debris, and beyond a few severe bruises and a bad fright, sus- tained no injury. In the other house no one was injured. So far as is reported from the stricken district there has been no loss of life, but the loss to the far- mers will be heavy, and later details are' likely to increase the exlent of t disaster. In Simooe the storm was very severe, but no great damage was done. \ _ FR \ il TORNADO SWEEPS TEXAS. Fourteen Meet Death in the Path of the Storm. A despatch from Fort Worth, Texas, suys: A severe rain and electrical storm swept over northern Texas on Friday night, causing mu u .ma@,e 'to proper- ty and some loss o, \ife.. At least three persons are known to have been killed by lightning. Near Denton, eight mem- bers of the Wardlaw family were in- jured, one fatally, when the home was overturned by wind. Soores of barns and other smal! buildings were destroy- ed The eastern portion of Wiulspoint was struck by a tornado, which cut a swath 200 yards wide, killing three per- sons and injuring many others. Emory was circled by the tornado, and six per- sons were kijled, while forty or fifty were injured. Every building on the county poor farm was demolished, as well as several residences. The greal- est destruction, however, occurred in the negro settlement. Many of those injured may die. At Gribble Springs two persons were killed and a score cr more injured. j--_. DEATII OF MRS. McKINLEY. Widow of the Late President Passes Away at Canton, Ohio. A 1 from Canton, Ohio. says: At 1.8 o'clock on Sunday afternoon Mrs. Wm. McKinley, the widow of the late President McKinley, fell into the sleep that knows no awakening. The transition from life to death was so peaceful and gradual that it was with difficulty the vigilant physicians and at- ver at noon on Sunday. All lost every- thing but the clothes they wore, tendants noted when dissolution came. POLICE ARMED THE RIOTERS Furnished the Black Hundred With Clubs. A deSpatch from Odessa says: Fifty- {hree persons were taken to hospilals suffering from broken heads or limbs, or otherwise dangerously injured, as a Hundreds here on Tuesday, following the assassination of three police officers. In addition, about a hundred persons were less seriously injured. The vic- tims included women, children and slu- dents. It is alleged that, out of revenge for the assassination of the three officers, whom 'the Jews had nicknamed. the of the anti-Jewish riots," the Baulted. Further outrages are ¢x- ike one jo. Hing al the inmates: of COSSACK OUTRAGE. A despatch from Lodz, Russia Poland, says: Forty-five olficials and workmen of Kuttner's Spinning Mill were shot Cossacks, because a band of terroris attacked a mail wagon in the neighbor- hood, killed a Cossack guard and wounded another Cossack and two post- office officials, : TO BLOW UP WHOLE PALACE. A despatch from St. Petersburg says ;| Mo Referring to Prime Minister Stolypin's account of the plot against the Czar, the Novoe Vremya says that conspirators succeeded during the winter in entering service at the palace. Letters found on them showed their connection with United States Anarchists and also with Russian deserters who-are now in the States. It was-fheir object. to as sion, involv- ° eee cyclone which at 5 o'clock on Sunday | pe, down on Friday morning by a patrol of| ,iied ts Toronto, bys eese 38 Leah No a oD "No, & S8¢- bid; No: 3 extra Sac Bid? No 9, tee B "sate es 'Peas-- No. 2. Sic asked, outside; 7%6c id. Oats--No, 2 white, 45¢ asked, 'outside; No. 2 mixed; 42c bid, outside. aoe 2, 74c asked, outside; 7ic Prices are:-- Wheat--Ontario--No, 2 white winter, §6c to 87c; No. 2 red, 86c to 87c; No. 2 mixed, 85c to 87c. Wheat--Manitoba -- Lake - porls--No. 1 hard, 98c to 99c; No. 1 northern, 97c to ; No. 2 northern, 95c. Oats--No. 2 white, 423¢c to 4334c, out- side; No. 2 mixed, Alc, Corn--No. 3 yellow American, 6ic to (2c, lake and rail, 65¢ asked all rail To- ranto basis. Rye--7ixe to 72ec. Barley--No. 2. 53%c to 54c outside; No. 3 extra, 5234c to. 53c; No. 3, 513¢c to 52e. Flour--Ontario--90 per cent. patents, Siwto $3.10..no bidders; Manitoba first patents, $4.75; seconds, $4.15 to $4.20; bakers', $4.05, Toronto. Bran--$21 to $22; shorts quotcd at to $23 outside. * $22 - COUNTRY PRODUCE. Bulter--Demand is good and supplies 24c to 25c +. 21c to 22¢ vy. Creamery, prints do solids: ....-... Dairy, prints .... esses 19¢ to 2ic Cheese--Prices are firm at 13c for lurge and 13c for twins. Eggs--Steady at 17c to 18c per dozen, in case lots. . Honey--Pails, lic to 12c %.; combs, $1.50 to $2.50 per dozen, according to quality. Beans--$1.50 to $1.55 for hand-picked and $1.35 to $1.40 for primes. Potatoes--Firm; Delawares, $1.10 to $1.20 in car lots on track here. Ontario nominal. Baled Hay--$12.50 to $13.50 per ton for No. 1 timothy and $11 to $11.50 for secondary grades, in car lots here. Baled Straw--Steady at $6.50 to $7 per ton, in car lots here. PROVISIONS. Dressel Hogs -- Firm at $9.50 for lightweights and $9 for heavies, farm- ers' lots. Pork--Short cut, $23 to $23.50 per bar- rel; mess, $21 to $21.50. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -- Long clear bacon, lic to 1134¢ for tons and cases; hams, medium and light, 1534c tc 16c; heavy, 1434c to 15c; backs, 16%4c t: 1%c; shoulders, 1f¢ to 11}gc; rolls, 1c; out of pickle, Ic less thanesmoked. Lard--Prices are:--Tierces, 12}4c; tubs, W24c; pails, 12%c. . BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, May 28.--Flour--Dull. Wheat --Spring firm; Ne. 1 Northern, $1.49; Winter firm; No. 2 white, $1.08. Corn --Fasier: No. 2 white 62c. . 48c. Barley --Strong; cif. offered 85 to Bic. Rye --Scarce; No, 2, c.if. quoled--82c. Ca- nal freights--Unchanged. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, May 28.--Wheat--Spot firm; No. 2 red, $1.053{ elevator; No. 2 red, $1.06 f.0.b. afloal; No. 1 northern Duluth, $1.15% f.0.b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, $1.10% f.0.b. afloat. ------f_--_--___--_--_ TO BUILD BLAST FURNACE. A Million Dollar Plant for Sault Ste. Marie. A despaich from Sault Ste, Marie, Mich.. says: Because they cannot get pig iron fast enough to supply the plant without buying in the American market a. exhorbitant prices. the Algoma Slee] Company will at once commence the erection of a $1,000,000 blast furnace. Superintendent Lewis says it will be the largest furnace in Canada, and its erection will be followed at once with a big coke plant to supply the steel works. -- =_---e CAUGHT IN FIERY FLOOD. Five Men Burned to Death at Pitts- burg, Penn. A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says: Five men were killed and four fatally injured about 6 o'clock on Tuesday night at the Eliza furnace of Jones & Laughlin Sleel Co. The accident was directly due to a "slip" which resulled in an explo- sion. Molten metal was thrown over the en, almost cremating them. The acci- dent is similar to one which occurred last January, when fifleen men were ee --____ AN ATTRACTIVE EXHIBIT. Canada's Pavilion at Dublin Exhibition Is Praised by All. A despatch from London says: The rning. Post, referring to the Dublin Exhibition, says: the Canadian Pavilion is u gned and arranged with consummate skill. It is proving one of the most attractive spots in the exhi- bition, and ils praise is in all men's mouths. 5 Segissh SIRT PF stole nearly eight hundred ih of yaoabi from . the {1 May 2%.--Call board quota- Dr. Baanel ; Shows. That Process to -- Cheap and ied A despatch from Ollawa says: D Haanel, Dominion Superintentont of Mines, has prepared a very valuable 're- port upon the results of experiments conducted Jast year at Sault Ste, Marie with the thermo-electric process of smelt- ing adian iron ores. The report Shows that the experiments have. been very successful, and have demonstrated that Canada's large resources of magne- lile ores can be as economically smelted a5 hematite ores by the electric process, and that ores of high sulphur content can be made into pig iron containing only a few thousandths of one per cent. of sulphur.' Dr. Haanel estimates that a 10,000 horsepower plant, capable of pro- ducing 120 tons 'of pig iron per day of twenty-four hours, would cost $700,000, ° and that, allowing for interest and de preciation of plant, the cost.of smelling would be $2.43 per ton. Adding the cost of ore, charcoal, Jabor, electric energy, and other running expenses, esti- mates that a ton of pig iron could be made for $10,69, The electric smelting works now being erected at Welland are expected to produce from thirty-five to| forty tons of pig iron per day. The re- port lays much stress upon the possibil- ity of develoning 'Canada's many iron, deposits by means of the water powers. which are to be found throughout the Dominion, pointing out that many water powers exist in Ontario and Quebes surrounded by iron ore fields. si FOREST SEEDING, May be Done, But Cost is Little, if Any, Less Than Planting. Reproducing a forest by sowing seed directly on the area to be put into trees S feasible, It is, however, a method Ettle used on this continent up to the present, for it has been found that the cost has been as 'great, at Jeast,; as-that of planting, owing to the high price of seed and_the cultivation which must be given to the ground to be sown. A good 'seed bed is just as important for sowing forest tree~seeds on as it is for sowing grain on. Hence the whole crea on which it is proposed to sow tree seeds must be carefully cultivated, iustead 'of only a small proportion, as in planting. This, at least, applies to broadcast seeding. A great objection to seeding, at pre- sent, is the high price of the seed, and lin the case of some species, its scar- icity at any price. The present price of white pine seed, for exampie, is two and two and a half dollars per pound. In Germany it is customary to sow six founds of whife pine seed to the acre, Thus the expenditure for seed alone would be $12 to $15. Still, it would be possible to do with smaller quantilies of seed, though in this country so lillle sowing has been done that we scarcely have a standard to go by in this re- gard. Another disadvantage of seeding is that we can never count on gelling a good mixed crop of trées by seeding. To avoid the expense of cultivating the whole area various plans have been tried. Often small spots ("seed-spols") are taken and Carefully worked, and the seed sown in these. These spots may vary in area from one square foot to thirty square feet., the best Jand being selected, of course, In every case. Again jfurrows may be ploughed, al some dis- itance apart, and the seed sown in these furrows; or strips, several feet in width, jMiay be prepared. | For nut trees, such as chesinut, oak, hickory and beech, seeding is the best way to reproduce them. These trees make a vigorous root growth and are very awkward to handle in planting, even the first year. So the best way 1e do is to sow the nuts right on the area on which you want the trees, pro- vided there is no danger of squirrels or other animals destroying the nuls. Make holes where you wish the trees to come up, and in each hole place three er four nuts, and the result will pro- bably be satisfactory. The depth of the covering of soil is another point of importance... IL will usually be found to cover the seeds to 'he depth of the longest diameter of the seed. . -- ---- DRANK HORSE MEDICINE. Death of Wiiliam. Rickard, of Westmins- ter Township.' A despatch from London, Ont., says: William Rickard, a well-known West- minster township farmer, died on Satur- day afternoon at the home of a neighbor from the effects of drinking froma bot- tle containing medicine he had bought for his horses. Rickard was in town dur- ing the day, and obtained the medicine from a veterinary. Ht contained a large proportion of belladonna. Before driv- ing home he bought a bottle of whiskey. Hc stopped at the home of a neighbor, talked for a time, and left for Tempo pestoffice to get his mail. He turned later and exclaimed, "My God, I have poisoned myself." Dr. Routledge of Lambeth was called, but was unable to de anything for him. The only theory advanced is that he took the horse medi- cine in mistake for whiskey. BRUTAL CRIME IN MANITOBA. Young English Immigrant Murders Daughter of -a Killarney Farmer. A despatch from Killarney, Man., says: A brutal crime startled this com- munity on Wednesday afternoon, when a young English immigrant named Lawrence Rowland assaulted Miss Geor- gina Brown, a farmer's daughter, and then murdered her. He. afterwards made an unsuccessful allempt to com- mit. suicide. The girl kept-house for heg brother on a farm t®o miles from he Gowland had been m i hi there for two years past. brother was absent from home ho this afternoon and il: was during this the ¢ was commit-| GULF STREAM OUT OF COURSE. Sea Captain's Theory Regarding Cold Weather, A despatch from New York says: Captain J. Lumsdane, of the Anchor Liner Astoria, from Glasgow, has found a reason for the cold weather. He says the Gulf Stream, which ordinarily has a range between 46 and-55 degrees_north latitude, is away to the north, and he found a high barometer with a southerly. wind, which is unusual for the Atlantic. "] don't say that the Gulf Stream is out of its margin," said the captain, "put it is to the northward of its normal course... This accounts for our winter weather at home in Scotland, where we have been having snow every other day. We don't have the seasons we used to have." When the Astoria was about 1,000 miles off Sandy Hook on Saturday she passed through a field of twenty ice- bergs. The icebergs were all medium- sized, and were scatiered over a wide area. --_-----¥ U. S. FLAG TORN DOWN. Work of Two Hoodlums at Winnipeg on Friday. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Two hoodlums, whose patriotism excecded their discretion, tore the flag off the American Vice-Consulate on Friday afternoon, and the regrettable incident has created a most unpleasant situation. No one regrets it more than does Dr. Jones, the new American sul, who has just arrived here from Dalney, where he had been stationed for several years previously. Out of courtesy ta Canadian sentiment he had flown the Union Jack to-day under the Slars and Stripes. Ib was the first time such had been done since the late lamented Con- sul Taylor's tenure of office, and no- thing could have been appreciated more by the citizens. Consequently the inci- dent is all the more regretted. Two men were seen doing it by a lady next door, pul, unfortunately, she did not call at tention to it at once, and it is unlikely that their identity will be discovered. PLAYED WITH DYNAMITE. Carcless Workmen Left It In the Way of Children. A despatch from Winnipeg says: A terrible explosion was averted here on Tuesday, more by good luck than any- thing else. Some careless workmen had left a box of dynamite lying under the sidewalk on Beverley street, and chil- dren playing around discovered it and amused themselves with twenty-five sticks of the terrible explosive. Passers- by noticed -their danger, and warned them and then called the police. When the latter arrived the dynamite was: strewn around indiscriminately, and a laborer who was standing by when the officers arrived, to show his contempt foz it, threw one of the sticks against a house. Luckily it did not explode. The police confiscated the entire lot. . ' NEGROES FIGHT FOR LIFE. « --- t Six Lives' Lost and Six Injured in @ . Georgia Lynching. A despatch from Reidsville, Ga., says: Two negroes were lynched and four per- sons are dead and six others injured as the net resull-of an attempted assault made on Monday night on Mrs. Loma Morrow (white), a widow, about six miles from here, by Flem Padget, a ne- gro. Two of the Padget family are the ones lynched, and the death or injury of the olhers followéd the efforts of a posse -- tu capture Padget. ae BLIZZARD IN DAKOTA, Three Days' Rain Culminated in a _ Snowstorm. A despatch from Sturgis; S.D., says: After three days and nights of steady rain, snow fell on Saturday afternoon, culminating in a blizzaru at night. The Blackhills:. country i thoroughly for two] sib! Complaints have reached the State Department at Washington that tne nese in ere bee by molt,