Fe 'this spring. be » .& work, af the Senate Oh Wednesday, Sena- _ cipalities, REPORTS FORM THE LEADING TRADE. CENTRES OF AMERICA. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Mar. 14.--Flour--Win- ter wheat, 90 per cent. patents, $3.- ¥5 'at seabord. Manitoba flours-- First patents, $5.40; second pat- ents, $4.90, and strong bakers', $4.70, on track, Toronto. . Manitoba wheat--No. 1 Northern, 97 to 97)4c, Bay ports; No. 2 North- ern, 95c, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 88740, Bay ports; carrying Winter NIAGARA POWER FOR FARMS Bill Introduced in the Ontario Legislature by the: Hon. Adam Beck z, despatch from Toronto says: e way has been opened for the extension of the Hydro-electric ser- vice to all the unurganized villages and farming districts in the power vone. Hon.,Adam Beck's 'promised bill to provide for the local distri- bution of electrical power was in- troduced in the Legislature on Wed- nesday, and when it becomes law enterprising sections of municipali- ties which have hitherto been pre- vented from securing power be- cause of the opposition of other sec- tions, will be able to go right ahead. e measure embodies the focal improvement principle, in that it provides the 'means whereby only e portion. 6f the municipality be- nefiting bears the expense. Under the terms of the bill any resident or number of residents may apply to the Council of a municipality to with the The enter into negotiations Hydro-electric Commission. Council must, after taking certain steps, enter inte a contract with the Commission to supply power to the applicants. The municipality may issue debentures to covey the expense incurred and levy a special rate. The rates charged for the power shall be large enough to re- turn to the municipality the interest and sinking fund upon the deben- tures. Unorganized villages m=y apply to the township Council upon the same basis ag groups of indiyidu- als, the costs incirred to be speci- ally assessed upon the village. | WELLAND INDUSTRIES. 2,000,000 Addition to Plant of Can- ada Car Company. A despatch from Welland, Ont., Bays: tals, located in the factory district f Welland, will be doubled in size The company have em exceedingly prosperous, and have fund it necessary to haye in~ creased accommodation. United Motors, manufacturers uf antama. biles, will erect their factory build- ing the coming summe As soon yas arrangements can be 'completed, "the Sons of England will erect a wee lodge and office building. It is understood that additions amounting to over two million dol- lars will be made to the plant of the Canada Car & Foundry Com- pany here. ' i POWER SUPPLY CUT DOWN. Most of the Establishments at Ot- tawa are Idle. A despatch from Ottawa says: With the issue of orders from the power arbitrator at the Chaudier for a further curtailment of the amount of water used for power purposes, Ottawa's industrial hive came practically to a standstill on Wednesday. The river is at a re- cord low level, and action is taken to protect the fire pressure. Booth's and Eddy's are only turning a few wheels and may close down en- tirely. The power companies light- ing the city and the street railway Miave their steam = auxiliaries at and will bave to cut down their services. i , PARADISE FOR DOMESTICS. ondon Paper's View of Their Di- versions in Canada. A despatch frum Ottawa says: tor McDonald, of British Columbia, called attention to an article in an English paper, the Mirror, which he said was misleading, as it order- ed servants to go to Canada, where the custom was to allow domestics The plant of the Electro Me. | FARMERS TO HOLD GRAIN. Orders to the Western Grain Growers. | Official A despately from Winnipeg says: Through the Grain Growers' Guide, the official organ of that powerful organization of the farmers in West- ern Canada, orders were on Wed- nesday sent broadcast that all grain of whatever character is to be - aeeeae from the markets, PUENMUIug the sane ntie 8 tha reciprocity "agreeme nt, as an al- leged combine in the United States of grain men propose to Lk up the price enormously. cs as if no more grain will be hipped from the three prairie provinces, or from the head §f the Canadian lakes, till after seeding, as grain growers al- ways follow their orders implicitly. -------- PASSENGER KILLED. Express on the Intercolonial Crash- es Into Local Train. A despatch from Newcastle, N. -, Says: and several others injured when the Maritime express from Halifax for Montreal crashed into a local los} train at Derby Junction, four miles south of here, on Thursday. The passenger killed was Angus M¢ Dougall, who was riding on the la cal train. All of those injured were also passengers on the local. ! train bound from Neweastle fo Blackville was standing on the} branch line when the Maritune ex: , press took the open switeh and crashed into the rear. a WEEKLY BOATS TO GERMANY. Six Steamers 'Meiwera Montreal and German Ports. A despatch from Montreal says: Six passenger and freight steamers, forming a direct weckly servi « be- tween Germany and Canada, 1s the latest feature announced = for the approaching shipping season. The steamers will be run under the di- rection of the Canada line, and will ply from the ports of Hamburg, Bremen and Rotterdam to Quebec to go beating and play tennis each afternoon. and Montreal. THE ACT WILL BE AMENDED Legislation Will Allow Only Bona Fide Residents. to Vote on Local Option A despatch from Toronto says: An important change in the local option law, which will considerably alter the situation in some muni- will. be introduced in the Ontario Legislature during the present session. The change will practically limit to bona fide resi- dents of a municipality those entit- Jed to vote upon a local option by- law Haws W. J. Hanna, Provincial Secretary, in replying to Mr. ok padfoot during the discusssio over the three-fifths clause, stated that the Government would intro- duce legislation that would put an end to the complaints made by both temperance and liquor people in connectian with local option con- tests under the present lag. The amendment will prevent property- owners from voting unless they are residents of the municipality inter- ested: "The man who lives fifty miles away from the place can have no. real interest in a local option contest,"' explained Hon. Mr.. n! Banta. One passenger was killed 'can No. storage at Goderich, lc extra Ontario Wheat--No. 2 white and red Winter 80 to 8lc outside. Barley--Malting qualities, 64 to 65c outside, according to quality, and feed at 53 to 55c outside. Oats--Ontario No. 2 white, 34 to 344%4c, on track, Toronto, and 31% to 32c outside. No. 2 W. C. oats, 36% acy Bay ports, and No. 2 at 35 to 35%c, Bay. port Corn--No. 3 ns Sle, To- ronto freight. Peas--No. 2 at 80 to Sic outside. Rye--65 to 67c outside. Buckwheat--No. 1 at 484 outside. Bran--Manitobas at $22, in bags, Toron.v, and shorts, 24, in bags, Torontu. Ontario bran, $22 to $22.- 50, in sacks, Toronto, and shorts, $24 to $24.50. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Appies--Spys, $5 to $5.50; Bald- wins, $4 to $4.50; Greenings, $4 to $4.50; No. 2 assurted, $3.50 to $4.50 per barrel. Beans--Car lots, $1.75 to $1.80, and small lots, $1.40 to $2. Honey--Extracted, in tins, 10 to ile per lb.; No. 1 comb, wholesale, 2 to $2.50 per dozen; Ne. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $2 per dozen. Baled hay--No. 1 at $12 to $13 on track, and No. 2 at $9 to $10.50. Ba straw--$6.50 to $7, on itrack, Toronto. Potatoes--Car luts, to 49c 80 to 85c per ag. Poultry---Wholesale prices of dressed poultry :--Chickens, 15 to Ite per lb. ; fowl, 11 to 13¢ per Ib. ; turkeys, 19 to 2le per lb. Live, 1 to 2c less. THE DAIRY MARKETS. rie ville we eD7igt et iit t to 18c. Creamery, 26 to 27c per lb. for rells, 24e for solids, and 22 to 23c for separator prints. Eggs--Case lots of new-laid, 22c per dozen. Cheese--Large 13%c, and twins at 1344c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Mar. 14.--Oats--Cana- dian Western, No. 2, 38% to 38), car lots, ex-store; extra No. | feed, iis to 38; No. 3 C. W., 37% to ; No. 2 local white, 37%4c¢; No. pay 36 4c; No. 4 local vile, 35% Flour--Manitoba Spring wit patents, firsts, $5.60; seconds, $5.10; Winter wheat pat- ents, $4.50 to $4.75; strong bakers', $4.90; +1, aight rollers, $4.25 to $4. in Lags, $1.90 to 82. Rolled Per barrel, $3.90; bag of 80 Ibs., $1.95. Feed barley, car lots, 49 to 50c. Corn--Ameri- 3 yellow, 55 to 56c. Mill- 'feed---Bran, Ontario, $22 to $23; Manitoba, $21 tg..823; middlings, Ontario, $24 to 823; shorts, Mani- tuba, $23-to $25; mouillie, $25 to 830. Eggs--Selected, 23c; fresh, to 27e; No. 1 stock, 20c; ito a 1Sc. Cheese-- Westerns, 113-5 'te, 12¢; easterns, 1114 to 1134. ter---Choicest, 26 to 26'3,c; seconds, 24 to lex-stare, 25! e: UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, March 14.--Wheat~ May, 975-8c; July, 98% to 98%c; September, 90 5-Sc. Cash No. } hard, 993,¢; Nu. 1 Northern, 98 to 99'4c; No. 2 Northern, 95!4 to 97c¢; No. 3 wheat "4 to 98%. Bran-- #20 to 821. Tlour--First patents, $4.65 to $4.95; do., seconds, $4.55 to $4.84; first clears, $3.05 to $3.55; do., seconds, $2.05 to $2.70. Buffalo, March 14.--Wheat -- Spring, No. 1 Northern, carloads ee $1.04). ; Winter, No. 2 red, ; No. 2 Whit@ye Corn--No. 34 vellow. 49c; No. "4 yellow, 44%4c, on track, through billed. Oats--Steady. Barley--Malting, 95c to $1 LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, March 14. Choice steers sold at 6c, good at 534c, fair- ly good at 5c, fair at 5c, and com- mon at 4% to 4%e per lb. Prices for cows were 4c per |b. lower, ranging from 34 to 5c, and bulls were \% to Ye per Ib. cheaper at from 3% to 5c per lb. Sales in calves were made at from $2.50 to $8 each. Sales of selected hogs were made at $7.50 to $7.75 per ewt., weighed off cars. Toronto, March 14.--Choice heavy cattle, butcher or export, $5.- 85 to $5.90; good to medium heavy, $5.50 to $5.70; "'Vight medium, $5.25 PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS! .- peffectively keeps all shipping from all imitations. as much. Used in Canadian homes te produce © delicious home-made bread, and a sup- ply is always included 'in Species ' and Campers' Outfits. Decline They never give satisfaction and cost just E. W. GILLETT CO. LTD. Winnipeg Toronto, Ont Aworded highest bonors at all io. ar. sit: seal ig saa eens Bi ¢ SA jontreal to -85; general run of cows, $4.40 to $4.75; good bulls, heavy, $5 to $5.25; medium rough, $4 to $4.50; canners and common, $2 to 83. Sheep--Firm at $4.50 to $4.85. Lambs--Light, firia, at 86 to $6.- 75. Hogs--Market steady and un- changed at $6.75 f.0.b. and $7.05 and watered. aiid hogs over 220 pounds, 50c lex oo WHOLE TOWN WIPED OUT. Big Powder Plant 60 Miles From Chicago Blew Up. A despatch from Chicago says: The big plant of the Dupont Pow- der Co., located near the little town of Pleasant Prairie, just across the line from Wisconsin, near Ken- osha, and Sixty miles from Chicago, "blew up' on Thursday night with terrific force. The shock was felt for many miles around. In Chi- cago many large buildings in loop were shaken. The Boston Store, one of the largest buildings in the loop, was so severely shaken that large plate glass windows were broken and fell on passing pedes- trians in the street below. Pleasant rairie is entirely wiped out, avel not a building remains of a «sce prosperous little town. One life is known to be lost, but up to the present time it is impossible to say just bow many more. he pro- perty loss is estimated at $1,500,000. ~-- BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROGRAM Estimates Show Increase of $63,000,000. Over Previous Year, A despatch from London says The naval estimates issued on Thursday night provide for the ex- penditure of #221,962,500, an in- crease of $63,000,000 over the pre- vious year. The cost of new con- struction is fixed at $15,318,585. The programme includes five Dread- noughts, three protected cruisers, one unarmored cruiser, twenty de- stroyers, six submarines, and increase in the jeensine! of the navy of 3,000 m The Right Hon. "Reginald McKen- na, First Lord of the Admiralty, favored five dreadnoughts, but the radical section of the Cabinet and Liberal party of the Cabinet and Liberal party insisted that four would -- suffice. Mr. McKenna"s statement shows that a comprom- ¢) ise has "heen reached between the insistent radical demands for naval 'economy and the dAdmiralty au- 'thorities. According to this, by April ? the battleship Neptune, the armored cruiser Indefatigable, and five protected cruisers will be avail- able for service, while the vessels under construction will include ten battleships, three armored cruisers, seven protected and three unarmor ed cruisers, thirty-two destroyers, and twelve submarines. It is pointed out that a consider able amount of the estimates is to be increased pay for the tter- ment of the men's conditions and 'dockvard construction at Rosyth. | It is said that a heavy new con- struction programme, which will in- clude eight Dreadnoughts, is pro- jected for next year. 707, and in the next 744. The num- ber has risen steadily until in 1909 the number of people divorced amounted to 1,480. In the same way DYNAMITE TO OPEN HARBOR. No Other Way of Clearing Entranee to Sydney, Nova Scotia. A despatch from Halifax It may be necessary mite to open Sydney is nearly sixteen inches in' thick- ness, but the real obstacle is an ice barrier, which has formed across } the mouth of the harbor, and which is now about sixteen'feet thick. It is made of lolly ice and snow, and says: to use dyna- Harbor to the port. The dynamiting of this huge mass of ice is now being con- sidered. Sea captains say that it can be moved in no other way. It would take a whole summer's sun to melt it. Very few people have any idea of the quantity and thick- ness of the ice on the coast. A sea captain stated that in some places the ice has piled tier upon tier, un- til it reached the great height of something like sixty feet. 'ore ENGLAND'S LOW BIRTH RATE. Fewer Marriages, More Divorces and a Lower Mortality. The main facts that emerge trom the great mass of information in the vital statistics for. 1909, just issued by the Registrar-General, are that both birth and death rates in Eng- land and Wales continue to decline and that marriages are fewer and, generally speaking, contracted lat- the number of divorced people mar- rying again has risen from 104 in 1876 to 737 in 1909. Almost four-fifths of the mar- riages contracted in 1909 were sol- emnized with religious ceremonial. This shows a steady increase of such marriages since 1851. Relig- tah TH WATS « JAAR, were fewer The birth rate in 1909 was no less than 2.2 per 1,000 below the aver- age in the ten preceding years. The result is that in spite of the contin- ual decline in mortality the natur- al increase of the population by ex- cess of births over deaths has fallen from 14.56 in 1876-80 to 11.8 r 1,000. The mean annual birth rate in the former period was 35.35 per 1,000, which fell in 1909 to 25.57. The mean annual death rate in 1876-80 was 20.79 per 1,000, which has fallen steadily to 14.49 in 1909. As to the causes of mortality, the report records the fact that the death rate from cancer was the highest on record, showing an in- crease of 29 per million living upon the rate of 1908. Death rates from both tuberculosis as a whole and from phthisis were the lowest on record. Infantile mortality also showed a further marked decline, the rate of 109 per 1,000 births be- ing the lowest yet reached. . -- PENCIL LIGHTS THE WAY. The very latest thing in fhis age of wonders, says the Londen Daily er in life than they used to be. Marriages in 1909 corresponded | to a rate of 14.6 persens married | per 1,000 of the population of all ages, being 1.1 below the average | rate in the decade 1899-1908. The | proportion of iofveara aa in 1,000 males aged years and upward rose from isa in 1571 to 411 in 1901, and the corresponding proportion of spinsters from 361 to 395, The marriage rate in 1909 compared with that of 1876-80 shows a fali of no less than 17.4 per cent. The fall in the marriage rate has been greater among widowers and widows than among the unmarried. It is pointed out that the number of widows is always much greater than that of widowers because, firstly, men marry later in life than wom- en; secondly, the duration of maie life is shorter than that of female life, and thirdly, the proportion of widows who remarry is much lower than that of widowers who*remar The mean age of all the bachelors who married was 27.98 years in Lon- don and 27.18 in the rest of the country, while the mean age of their wives was 26.02 and 25.55 re- spectively. Divorces were more numerous in 1909 than in any previous year. Marriages of persons described as divorced have also steadily increas- ed, and in 1909 were the highest on record. Looking at the figures, it is seen that the average number of persons diyorced annually in the period 1876-80 was 554. The average in the to, $5.45 ; mixed, rough, common, $4 next five year: was 67i, in the next Mail, is a pencil with a tiny clec- tric light in the end of it, by which the sheet of paper is illuminated as the writer proceeds. is inven- !tion is being used by a lot of motor- ists and doctors and others who need to use a pencil in emergen- cies, and sometimes in total dark- ness, THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENINGS FROM ALL.OVER THE GLOBE INA NUTSHELL. Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before Your u EX3., re Canada is called upon:to give $100,000 to aid Chinese famine suf- ferers. "The Georges" of Ontario' will join in the presentation of a Coro- nation gift. Gordon Comper, an _ eighteen- year-old married boy of Kingston, committed suicide by drinking car- bolic aci The famous old Evergreen House in Prince Edward county was sold by auction for $160. The encroach- ing sandbanks are rapidly destroy- ing the property. GREAT BRITAIN. British trade contnie to show remarkable increase Lord Kitchener will command the troops at the Coronation. The Liberal candidate was re- turned in the Northeast Lanark- shire bye-election. UNITED STATES. The U. dered a mobilization of army navy. The United States Government has decided that the revolution in Mexico must end. S.- Government have or- and ----- GENERAL. that President It is reported Diaz is dying. PTY PER CENT. NGHEASE Census Commissioner Blue Tells of Ar- rangements [For Coming Census. A despatch from Ottawa says: 'We hope and feel that the census of Canada to be taken this summer will show an increase in the popu- lation of the country over that of the last official census jn 1901 of at least fifty per cent," said Mr. Ar- -- Blue, Census Commission- on Thu reday morning. Mr. Blue stated that all the Commis- sioners had been appointed and that the enumerators would be appoint- ed shortly. The work will be commenced on June.1 and will consume more time than the last one, owing to the large | 1 increase in population and the ad- ditional ground to be covered. Ac- cording to Mr. Blue's estimate the sg coneee will show the total popula-. tion of Canada to be nearly 8,000,- 000. In 1901 it was about 5,371,000. The estimate is largely based on the immigration figures for the past ten years and the natural increases during that perio Mr. Blue said he felt that the Maritime Provinces would show @ slight increase. Unfortunately for these Provinces, however, many im- migrants who originally intended to settle in them had been lured farther west. He 'thought, how- ever, that in spite of 'the small im- migration to the eastern Provinces they would show an increase over 1901 All the other Provinces of the Dominion would show substan-: tial increases. The Proviaces' of the northwest would show large in-. creases. comer mist x PLY