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A despatch from Ottawa says : Trade returns for October show an increase of $2,602,074 in exports of g@omestic products and a decrease of $5,221,515 in imports of merchanâ€" dise entered for consumption, as compared with October of last year. The total value of domestic exports for the month was $26,299,212, as compared with 23,697,148 for the Same month last year. Exports of agricultural products increased by about four millions, while exports ol the mine and of animals and harts products each fell off about e _ alli~~>." Total imports, exclu oi coin and bullion, were $26,â€" Trade Returns for October Show Marked Improvement. THK TURN O0F THE TDE Mr. H. S. Holt has been elected Fresident of the Royal Bank. Eight Cases are Reported From Dorchester Township. _ A despatch from London, Ont., says: Eight cases of smallpox have been reported in Dorchester Townâ€" ship, two of the cases being of a malignant type. _ There are two cases on the outskirts of the city, and it is believed that in Middleâ€" sex County there cannot be less than a score of cases. After Severe Fighting the Mutinâ€" eers are Defeated. _A despatch from Shanghai says : News received here is to the effect that there was a mutiny among the Chinese troops at Anking after the anouncement of the death of the Emperor and Empress Dowager. The mutiny was suppressed after severe fighting. The British gunâ€" boat Wuhu has been sent to Ankâ€" ing. Two Men Were Robbing Store at Rosthern, Sask. â€"â€" â€"â€"A despatch from Rosthern, Sask., says : An attempt made on Monday morning to burglarize E. E. Rutâ€" tle‘s genersl store by two men reâ€" sulted in the death of one of them. Ruttle had a burglar alarm connectâ€" ed with his home, and when it rang be, with Clerk Edward Tadle ran to the store. Two men made a rush to escape, firing at Tadle, but misâ€" sing, and he fired a shot from a rifle, hitting one burglar in the stomach. The other man escaped. The man killed appeared to be a foreigner, five feet ten, of slight build. Two C. P. R. Freight Trains Colâ€" [ lide Near Burketon. A despatch from Burketon Juncâ€" tion says: Presumably as the result of the carelessness of a brakeman, mhree precious lives were instantly cut off in the early hours of Monâ€" day morning in a headâ€"on collision between two C. P. R. freight trains at Sandbank siding, half way beâ€" tween this place and Pontypool Station. _ The dead are: Edward Finley, engineer; James Sweet, fireman, and Albert Conroy, brakeâ€" man, all of West Toronto. The only other person injured was Enâ€" gineer Edward Dorricott, 365 Doâ€" vercourt road, Toronto, whoâ€"receivâ€" ea some nasty scalp wounds and a. Lruised back, but whose injuries are not serious. ‘ When the smoke and dirt had been cleared away it was seen that the street had been opened from doorstep to doorstep over an area of nearly a block. The loosened earth and debris had fallen into the excavation, burying the score of laâ€" sSMALLPOX IN MIDDLESEX. A despatch from New York says : Twentyâ€"five persons are believed to have lost their lives in an exploâ€" sion of gas which tore up a great section of Gold street, Brooklyn, on Friday. It is definitely known that fifteen persons were buried unâ€" der the hundreds of tons of earth and timber that were thrown into the air by the explosion, and ten morse persons are missing. _ The explosion occurred in a fiftyâ€"foot dGeep excavation that had been made in Gold street between York and Front streets, where a water main was being laid. The gas main reâ€" cently sprung a leak, and in a manâ€" ner unknown a spark came in conâ€" tact with the escaping gas. There was a terriffic explosion that liftâ€" ed the surface of the street for half a block in both directions, and hurled dirt, paving stones and deâ€" bris into the air. TWIENTYâ€"FIVE WEREK KILLED Gas Explosion in Excavation in Erooklyn Causes Their Death. CHINESE TRGCOPS MUTINY. THREE MEN EKILLED. BURGLAR KILLED. EFor the first seven months of the present fiscal year the imports enâ€" tered for home consumption tolalâ€" led $162,908,302, a decrease of $59,â€" 126,936, as compared with the same period of 1907. During the seven months coin and bullion were im ported to the. value of $7,212,812, as compared with $1,396;375° last year. Exports of domestic products for the seven months totalled $136,â€" 4093,263, a decrease of $12,962,595, Fhe â€"total trade for the_ seven months was $318,406,955, a decrease eof $73,915,.434. 262,585, as compared with $ 500 fo;" October, 1907. Chas. T. Moffatt, Law Clerk, Shoots Himself Dead. A despatch from Ottawa says: Chas. T. Moffatt, law clerk in the office of Gemmill & May, took his life at noon on Sunday. He went into the janitor‘s room of the Carleâ€" ton Chambers, where his firm has offices. and fired a bullet from a fertyâ€"fourâ€"calibre revolver through his bead, dying instantly.. He was twentyâ€"eight years of age, and a son of the late R. B. Moffatt of Amherst, N.S., who was for many years Clerk of the Commons Railâ€" way Committee. The young man bad no financial troubles, and deâ€" spondency due to illness is supâ€" posed to ~have occasioned the deed. _ He was unmarried, and made his home here with a broâ€" ther and stepmother A despatch from Winnipeg says : Thos. Hicks, a C. P. R. car cleanâ€" er, is under arrest, suspected of murdering Eccles Lennox, a Grand Trunk Pacific brakesman, at Portâ€" age La Prairie. On Monday Lenâ€" nox started for the Old Country to bring his family to Canada; his dead body was found in a car the next morning in the C. P. R. yards at Winnipeg. He was shot through the head, and a revolver lay by his side. There was $60 in his pocket, and it is thought to be a case of suicide. Hicks is charged with havâ€" ing killed Lennox, after having had a row with him over money, and. left the gun by his side to suggest] suicide. Evaporating Plants Criticized by the Factory Inspectors. A despatch from Toronto says: When the Ontario factory inspecâ€" tors_submit their report to Hon. James S. Duff, Minister of Agriâ€" culture, they will severely conâ€" _demn the present methods employâ€" ed in many of the apple evaporating factories in Ontario. _ Instances will be shown of these evaporators started in all manner of places â€" from barns to skating rinksâ€"where there has beea an absolute disreâ€" gard for anything like sanitary conâ€" ditions. There have been no waâ€" ter, towels, or conveniences of any kind, and, in some cases, the help have been obliged to walk on the apples. The reports will show that there has been a general improveâ€" ment of the canning factories and evaporating factories in the Niaâ€"‘ gara Peninsula. Samuel Trout, who lived near the scene, lost his life in attempting to save a woman who was passing through Gold street at the time of the explosion and fall into the trench. Trout was caught by the flames from the blazing gas main and roasted alive. The woman was dragged out of the trench and savâ€" ed by a boy. .. Gold street was crowded with school children, when the exploâ€" sion occurred,. and that scores of childrén were not killed or injured was remarkable. _ A _ woman and three children were almost opposite the excavation when the earth crumbled under their feet and they were swept down into the hole unsier tons of wreckage. Two other chilâ€" dren were on the opposite side of the street whon the sidewalk caved in and they lost their lives. borers who werse at work when the accident happened.. Great tongues of flame shot out of the crevices in the street, and beside them geysers of water leaped ‘intovthe air from a water main that had been shatâ€" tered by the explosion. Two bodies were sticking out of the wreckage. MURDER IN RAILWAY CAR. 9,2109, 404 FRUIT FACTORY ABUSES. SUICIBE AT QOTTAWA. â€" Car Cleaner Under Arâ€" rest at Winnipeg. $31,484,â€" bor Toronto, Nov. 24.â€"Sales of the best butchers‘ â€"steers ard heifers ranged from $4.25 to $4.50 per cwt. Good loads were sold at $4 to $4.â€" 95â€" and medium at $3.35 to $3.75. Common cattle could be had from $1.75 per ewt. upwards. _ â€" Quotaâ€" tions for light stockers ranged from §1.75â€"to $2.:25 per ewt. For the best milch cows as high as $70 was paid. The ordinary cows sold around $30 each. Choice veal calves are wanted. Sheep were steady and unchanged, while lambs were slow of sale. Select hogs continued to sell at $6.25 per ewt. fed and watered, Toronto. Milwaukee, Nov. 24.â€"Wheat â€" No. 2 northern, $1.08; No. 2 northâ€" ern, $1.06;, May, $1.07%% bid. Rye â€"No. 1, T5%4e. Barleyâ€"Standard, 65:%e; No. 8; 60 to. 62c : No: 4. 60c. Cornâ€"May, 63 to 63%e bid. Minneapolis, Nov. 24.â€"Wheat â€" Dec., $1.014; May, $1.08‘¢ ; No. 1 tard, $1:08‘4; No. 1 Northern, $1.â€" 07 to $1.07!4 ; No. 2 Northern, $1.â€" 05 to $1.0514 ; No. 3 Northern, $1.â€" 02%f to $1.04%. Flourâ€"First patâ€" ents, $5.40 to $5.65; second patâ€" ents, $5.25 to $5.50; first clears, $4 to $4.30 ; second clears, $3 to $3.20. 4 at 43%%c per bushel, ex store. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat pat ents, firsts at $6, seconds at $5.50; Winter wheat patents, $5 to $5.25 ; straight rollers, $4.60 to $4.70 ; do., in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; extras, $1.. 75 to $1.85. Feedâ€"Manitoba bran at $21; shorts, $24; Ontario bran, $21.50 to $22; middlings, $25 to §#26 ; shorts, $24.50 to $25 per ton. Oheeseâ€"Westerns were quoted at 12%c to 12%%c¢ and easterns at 11%c¢ to 12. Butterâ€"Finest creamery was quoted at 27e in round lots, and 27‘%c to 28¢ to grocers. Eggsâ€"Newâ€" laids were quoted at 29c to 30c, seâ€" lected at 25¢ to 25%c¢, No. 1 at 22¢ to 23¢, and No2 at 17‘%e. Montreal, Nov. 24.â€"Grain=â€"Caâ€" nadian Western No. 2 white oats are selling at 46!%c¢, No. 3 at 451%c¢, extra No. 1 feed oats at 45%c, and No. 1 feed at 45¢c. Ontario No. 2 white at 45¢c, No. 3 at 44c, and No. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" Long clear bacon, 12c to 12c ; tons and cases, hams, large, 12%c to 13¢; small, 14e to 14%c¢; backs, 17¢ to 17%ec; shoulders, 10c to 10%c; rolls, 11c to 11%e; breakfast baâ€" con, 15¢ to 16¢; green meats out of pickle, lc less than smoked. Lardâ€"Tierces, 13¢; tubs, 13%e; pails, 13%c. _ Cheeseâ€"Large, 131/;0 peri proiurnd and twins, 13%c. Porkâ€"Short cut, $23.50 per barâ€" rel; mess, $19 to $19.50. Eggsâ€"Case lots of storage, 22 to 23¢ per dozen, while new laid are quoted at 28 to 30c per dozen. A dangerous shoal has been found ar the entrance to Goderich harâ€" Butterâ€"Pound prints, 22 to 24¢; tubs, 22 to 23¢; inferior, 19 to 20c. Creamery rolls, 27 to 28¢, and solâ€" ids, 254 to_ 26¢. Eoultryâ€"Chickens, â€" dressed, 9 to 10c per pound ; fowl, 7 to 8¢; ducks, 9 to 10¢c; geese, 8 to 9¢ per pound ; turkeys, 12 to 12%%c per pound. & 5 Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy quoted at $11 to $11.50 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at $7 to 858. Strawâ€"$6.50 to $8 on track. Potatoesâ€"Ontario 60 to 62e per bag. Delawares, 75 to 80c per bag on traeck. â€" ; Honeyâ€"Combs, $2.25 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to l1c per pound. Beansâ€"Prime, $1.80 to $1.85, and handâ€"picked, $1.90 to $1.95 per bushel. Applesâ€"Winter stock quoted at $2.50 to $3.50 per barrel for good qualities, and at $1.50 to $2 for cooking apples. UNITED STATES MARKETS Millfeedâ€"Bran, $20 to $20.50 per ton in bags, outside; shorts, $21 bulk, $24.50 in bags, Montreal. Cornâ€"Old, 77%e to 78c, Toronto freights, for No. 2 or 3 yellow ; new No. 3 yellow, T1l4e to 72e, Toronto freights. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 76¢ to 77c. Peasâ€"No. 2, 85¢ to 86¢, outside. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, ‘b4c to B5¢. Flourâ€"Manitoba, ‘first patents, $5.80, seconds, $5.30; strong bakâ€" ers‘, $5.10; Ontario winter wheat patents, for export, $3.70 to $3.75 outside. 3 Oatsâ€"Ontario No. 2 white, 38!%c¢ t> 59%%c, outside; No. 3 mixed, 27%c to 38¢, outside. _ Manitoba No. 2 western Canads, 43%e¢ to 44c or track, lake ports; No. 3, 41i%c to 42¢; No: l.extra feed offered at same level. _ Barleyâ€"No. 2, 56e to 5614c ; No. 2 extra, B5e to 55‘%c; No. 3, 53¢ to 53%e. Toronto, â€" Nov. â€" 24. â€" Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 white or red, outside, 92¢ to 93¢; No. 2 mixed, 92c to 92%c. Manitoba Wheatâ€"Spot, No. 1 northern, $1.08 to $1.08!%; No. 2 northern, $1.05 to $1.051%, lake ports. LEADING MARKETS BUSINESS AT MONTREAL THE DAIRY MARKETS. CATTLEâ€"MARKETâ€" COUNTRY PRODUCE BREADSTUEFS. PROVISIONS Struck by Milk Wagon Waile Slidâ€" ing on Ottawa Street. \ _ despatch from â€" Ottawa says: \ little girl named Beatrice Dawâ€" onyâ€"aged five years, was killed while â€"eagsting of Saturday down one of the suburban streets. A milk wagon came down the hill and knocked her down. Entertained by Lord Mayor and Corporation of London. A despatch from London says : The King and Quen of Sweden, who are at present in England as the guests of King Edward at Windsor, paid a state visit to London on Wednesday and were entertained at luncheon in the Guildhall by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London. An address was presentâ€" ed to the King of Sweden in a gold casket. George F. Johnson Sentenced to be Hanged at Kenora. A despatch from Kenora says: George F. Johnson was on Wedâ€" nesday found guilty of murdering Mrs. Ackerman on July 28 and senâ€" tenced by Judge : Britton to be banged on January 20th. The jury was out only twenty minutes. The crime was a peculiarly brutal and unprovoked one. Johnson declared that he could not remember ever having struck Mrs. Ackerman. sSWEDEN‘S KING AND QUEEN FOR MURDERING A WOMAN. Eight Cases in North Part of Peterâ€" borough County. A despatch from Peterborough, Ont., says: Smallpox has broken out in the lumber camps in Cavenâ€" dish Township, in the north of Peâ€" terborough County. There are cight cases. The disease is said to be of a mild type. Dr. Smythe, of the Provincial Board of Health, has arâ€" rived to take charge of the cases. Dr. Thomas M. Wilson of Atwocd Succumbed to Discase. A despatch from Startford says : Dr. Thomas M. Wilson of Atwood, Ont., died of glanders on Thursâ€" day at the Chicago Presbyterian Hospital. He is supposed to have become infected while pursuing a postâ€"graduate course at the Rushâ€" well Medical College. SMALLPOX IN LUMBER CAMPS Australian State Legislature Passâ€" es Bill. A despatch from Melbourne, Auâ€" stralia, says: The Victoria Legislaâ€" tive Council has passed the bill emâ€" powering women to vote at the State elections. This bill previousâ€" ly had been rejected several times. The women throughout Australia have now won the right of suffrage in both Commonwealth and State elections. a VÂ¥OTES FOR WOMEN AT LAST. Canada Prohibits Importation Owâ€" ing to Discase. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Governnorâ€"Generalâ€"inâ€"Council has passed an order prohibiting the importation. into Canada of cattle or hides from the State of Pennsylâ€" vania for a period of _ six months. from date. â€" This has Bbeeft fourd necessary owing to a severe outâ€" break of foot and â€" mouth disease‘ there. BARS PENNSYLYANIA CATT ment of this court is that you be taken from here to the place whence you came, and there kept in close confinement until Thursday, the 11th day of February, 1909, and that you be taken thence to the place of execution, and. there kanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.‘‘ This was the senâ€" tence that Mr. Justice Riddell proâ€" rounced upon the Ruthenian who under the guise of friendship enâ€" ticed a young fellowâ€"countryman, Olvickh Loutick, a stranger in Caâ€" nada, into a lonely wood near Erâ€" indale, and with a heavy bludgeon beat the poor boy to death. Stephen Szweryda Fouad Guilty at Brampton. A despatch from Brampton, Ont., says : Stephen Szweryda, the judgâ€" A despatch from Niagara Falls says: Chief of Police Lyons of Niâ€" agra Falls, N. Y., has received inâ€" formation that Edward Lee, alias Blackie, who it is alleged murdered Patrolman MceCormick and seriousâ€" ly injured Patrolman Manger of the Niagara Falls, N. Y., police on the evening of July 22 last, after escaping from Toronto Jail with five cthers, has been apprehended in Berlin, Germany. The German auâ€" thorities claim the man they have answers in every detail to the deâ€" scription sert them of Lee, and ask it the American authorities will extradite. GIRL KILLED COASTING. German Police Think They Have Toronto Jail Breakeor. WILL HANG FOR MURDER. DIED OF GLANDERS. ED. LEE CAPTURED »e TLE,. A despatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, says: Patrick J. Creedon, aged fertyâ€"five, an inventor, and a naâ€" tive of Peterboro‘, Ont., was found dead on Wednesday afternoon in his room at the Burnet House. Dr. Coe of the Coroner‘s staff stated he believed death to be due to natural causes, probably a hemorrhage brought on as a result of starvaâ€" tion. The man was last seen in the bhotel lobby at noon on Monday. The failure of the porters to obtain a response to their knocks on his door necessitated the employment of the pass key and resulted in the finding of the man dead on his Peterboro‘, Ont., Man Found Dead ' Cincinnati Hotel. HK DKD 0E STARVA Thrown Out of Cab and Dragged Behind Galloping Horse. A despatch from Montarel says : Andrew Fox of Toronto was found Four of a Family go Through the ITce at Red River. A despatch from Selkirk, Maniâ€" toba, says : Four lives were lost in the Red River on Wednesday. The victims were:â€"_C. Favel, a fisherâ€" man, and his wife and two chilâ€" dren. They were travelling over the ice by dog train to the mouth of the river to open winter fishing quarters, when they all went through a weak spot.. Mrs. Favel had thrown her little baby up on the solid ice when she went through herself, and it was found shortly afterwards, safe and sound. The cthers had been swept away. ‘ on which it was placed became ovâ€" erbalanced on the rollers, and the machine struck a pinch bar which Williams was using. He was struck on the right side, causing immediate death. . Port Elgin Man Killed by Overbalâ€" arciag of Machine. A despatch from Port Elgin, Ont., says: Edward Williams, a welder, was killed on Thursday morning in ths Dominion Pressed Stee!l Works. While he and other helpers were moving a riveting machine, the base Plaos of the Grand Trunk Pacifc for Fort William. .A despatch from Winnipeg says : Mr. W. R. Sinks, General Manager of the Stewart Company, who will build a big handling warehouse for the G. °E. _P. at HFort William, is here preparing to undertake the contract. He says this mammoth elevator involves the largest conâ€" tract of â€"the kind let in America. The tanks of the new storage wareâ€" house will be of concrete and will have a capacity of three and a quarâ€" ter million busheis, and the estiâ€" mated cost is about $1,250,000. ue, South Vancouver, tapped the startied occupant, Hiram G. Campâ€" bell, on the shoulder, and put him under arrest on a charge of grand larceny, alleged to have been comâ€" mitted at Columbizs Falls, Montana. Campbell has been living quistly in South Vancouver for the past two A despatch from Vancouver says : A search which has lasted four years throughout the United States, castern Canada and Mexico, was concluded on Tuesday night, when Provincial Constable Smith stepped into a house on Seventeenth avenâ€" AFTSR FIUR YEARS SHARC in the frog. She tried to: pull it out, but without success, and though she called for help, no perâ€" son was near. Shortly after her Hiram G. Campbell, of South Vancouver, B. C.. Arrested. A despatch from Hamilton says : Violet Norton, the twelveâ€"yearâ€"old daughter of Edward Norton, Flamâ€" boro‘ street, Dundas, was run over by a Hamilton & Dundas car in Dundas about 5 o‘clock on Thursâ€" day evening and received isjuries from which she died at her home about 10 o‘clock the same night. Miss Norton was crossing the tracks near the~ canal when her foot caught Twelveâ€"Yearâ€"0ld Dundas Girl Run Over . and Fatally Injured. HMLPLESS IN FAQE 0F DEATE ANDREW FOX MURDERED. CNLY THE BABY SAVED. A MAMMOTH ELEYATOR. BAR STRUCK HIS SIDE. bked. He was partia Creedon. came to CUi: Wednesday, November gotiate with Arthur EFr er and Charles 8. B erganization of a comp on the market a bit th bad patented, and, his secret process of haj i1 the manufacture of bad held a number of with Burdsall and Ho getiations had proceed tent of obtaining the of several thousand do talize a $75,000 compa found on the man by dicate that he was ma Lundy‘s Lane Methodis ted the 113th anniversa church on Sunday. Fire in Montana Minecâ€"Liitle Hope for Imprisored Moea. A despatch from Butte, Mont., says: Fire in the Northâ€"western‘ Improvement Company‘s mine at Red Lodge on Friday caused th> death of six miners and entomb»d aboutâ€" 20 others, who ‘have a slim chanee to escape. _A local fire d>â€" partment and 50 local voluntears took out of the mine more than 100 men, many of them completely ex hausted. Those rescued. declar>d that there is little hop- score of men entombed. Discovery Near Flor Islarnd, Thune dor Bay District. A despatch from Port Arthur says: One of the richest and most extensive discoveries of copper in this district was made within the last few days near Flor Island, off Isle St. Ignac, at the entrarce to Nepigon Strait, by Didace Caruâ€" fel of Sudbury. It is said to ex= tend for miles, and ~the deposits seem to run through a chain~g mines continuing from Lamb Is land lighthouse eastward. Carufel and his associate have taken up sev: enteen claims. o‘clock on FEriday morniang. He was thrown out of a cab by the cabâ€" Criver and dragged behind his galâ€" loping horse. The tragedy occurâ€" red on St. James street rear the Grand Trunk station. Fox was in the cab with oare or two other men, when a quarrel arose, and it is said the cab driver took part in the row. Two young inen who profess to ke eyeâ€"witnesses _ say that the cabby had smashed the man on the face and knocked him apparently unconâ€" scious to the ground. After knockâ€" ing the man down the cabby got into the sleigh, caught hold of the uncorscious man by the foot, and drove off down the street cast at a furiors pace, dragging the man afe ter him over the rouch snow. dead on St. James street at I years, his wife being with him. The couple had the reputation of bein retiring in disposition and were wefi spoken of in the neighborhood. The crime Campbell is accused of comâ€" mitting was the theft of $10,004 from a lumber company of Columâ€" bia Falls, of which he was amoffi cial. During his residence in VR couver Campbell is reported to hay, made considerable money in specil lation, and he is said to have inâ€" terested himself in a local manifacâ€" turing establishmeat, through the acquisition of stock in the business foot was caught she heard Jc.he’Ea&_% approaching._ She cried to try and attract the motorman‘s attention â€" and threw her body to one side, . but the spot was unlighted and he . could not hear her cries over the noise made by the car. The first bg§ knew of the accident was after the | car wheels had passed over her leg. This was terribly crushed near the kneo.. She was taken home, whera_ Dr. Ryckert was called. He first thought she would be brought ta the city hospital for treatment, but she was too weak from loss of blood . and shock, and rapidly declined. SIX DEAD, 20 ENTOMBED. GREAT FIZLD OF COPPER. partiall 1p 12.