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33% " A despatch from Roberval, Que., says: The Coroner's jury which has been investigating the extraordin- ary mystery surrounding the death ol Auguste Lemieux in the wilds of northern Quebec on Friday after- xnoon brought in a verdict complete- _ ls exonerating Joseph Grasset,. the only man alive apparently who knows anything at all about the affair. At the same time the jury found that the circynstaycrs point- Lard--Tierees, 130; tubs, 13)de; pails, 131Ae. Montreal, April 13.-Peas--No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04. Oats-Canadian Western, No, 2, 51 to 51Y.fe; extra, yo. 1 fegd, 50243 to p19; No. 1 feed, Bacon-Long clear, 12 to 12yie per pound in case lots; mess pork, $20.50 to 81T; short cut,_$23 to $24. Barns-Light to medium, 14 to 145.30; do,, heavy, 13 to 13%c; rolls, ll to 11Xc; shoulders, 10Yic; backs, 1614 to 17e; breakfast bacon, 15%, to 16c. EM KILLED AND EATEN that he should be arrested if he ever turnod up. lt is not, how- ever, timught that Bernard will ever be seen again, the general opinion being that after the death Apples-i50 to $5.50 for choice qugglitgies, and .83.50,.io $4 for see: ondis'." _e.P'." 'm.' I. '. _ Honey-r-Ctr/s, $2 to $2.75 per dozen}. atuletrahaed,yio Ile per pound. Har-No. I timothy, $10.50 to $11 per ton on' track here," and Iowa}; grades $8.:to $9 a, ton. Striiw--$7 to $8 on track. Potatoes--6tyif to 70e per bag on track; gsbto the third member of the riarti-, a. Frenchman named Bernard, as the guilty man, and it was ordered Butter-Pound prints, 20 to 21e; tubs and large rolls, 15 to 17e; in- ferior, 13 to 140; creamery rolls, 250, and solids, 20 to 21c. Eggs-Case lots 18 to 19e per doz. Cheese-Large, 14 to 14)dc per bound, and twins, 14% to 14Ac; new cheese, 13%0. Case of Cannibalism in the Province of Quebec Investigated. Beatle-Prime, $1.90 to $2, and hand-pielred, $2.10 _ to $2.15 per bushel. H'oultry-cltielren, dressed,, 15 to 16e per pound; fowl, 11 to 120; tur- keys, 20. t9 22c per pound. Prices ot battle, Grain, Cheese and _ Other Dairy Piiiuiuee at BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, April 13.--Inous---On- tame wheat, 90 per cent. patents, $4.50 to $4.55 to-day in burers.s' sacks outside for export. Manl- toba flour/first patents, $5.70 to $5.90 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.40 to $5.60, and strong 'ia_lqyvs', 85 to $5.20, A -* ' 'Cydrif-cu-Nd."' 2'-~A‘mer‘icau “yellow. 'ig to 74)4e dm truck; Toronto, and No. 2 73 to 73%0 on track, Toronto. Canadian corn, 71% to 720 d‘h'tmpk, Toronto. ""e _. _ Bran-Cars, $23.50 in bulk out- side. Shorts, $23.50}to $24 Jn bulk outside. - . J, -,' _ 3 ' Wheat-No. 1 Northern. $1.26%, and No. 2 Northern, $1.23%, Geor- gian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern 151.33%, all rail, and No. 2 North- ern, $1.30%, all rail. Oats-Ontario No. 2 white, 47% to 48c on.track, Toronto, and 45%0 outside. No. 2 Western Canada. oats, 471/20, Collingwood, and No. 3, 46)ie, Bay ports; No. 2 West- ern Canada, all rail, 51%6. Peas-No. 2 quoted at 95'Ac out- side THE W ORLD’S MAME IS Shortly after 5 o’clock on Friday morning the second sections of trains numbers five and six came together one mile east of Tweed. Apparently the accident was due to fthe night operator at Kaladar hav- ing fallen \asleep and accepted or- ders for a train that had passed his station while he was asleep. The "only persons injured were eng1n- iitr Williams of Havelock, and bag- gagimran Emery O. Winters of 14 Alma avenue, Toronto. Both were on the west-bound train, which was travellir1g'at a rate of 25 miles an REPORTS FROM THE LEADING' TRADE CENTRES. Operator at Kaladar Reported That the ." Westbound Train Had Not Passed. TEAMS WWW AT WW BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. to sol/go; Ohtario No 2, 50 ti THE DAIRY MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Mr ,, HOG PRODUCTS. Miss Jeanette Harkness, former.. ly of Toronto, a nurse in a St. Louis hospital, gave a patient a dose of poison by mistake and he died sooh after. Sudden Fire in Business Section (if . Lennox, Mass. A despatch from; Lennox, Mask.",' says: Six people lost their lives, {three others were badly burned, and a property loss of between $200,000 and $300,000 was caused by a. fire in the heart of the busi- ness section of this town early on Sunday. Four business blocks, two dwellings and two other structures were destroyed. The dead are: Edweard C. Ventress, electrician; Mrs. Edward C. Ventress, Miss Les- lie Ventress, Miss Alice French, bookkeeper; Miss Isabel Cook, bookkeeper; Miss Mary Sparks, school teacher. The death of Miss French was one of the pitiful tra- gedies of, the morning. While the fire was at its height,' a. woman was seen to climb out of a flame- filled room onto a verandah on the second story, with her night cloth- ing and hair ablaze. [Staggering to the railing she leaped to the side- walk, landing in a heap within dive or six feet of the blazing walls. Some of the horrified onlookers at- tempted to rush in to drag her out but the intense heat drove them back and not until several hours later, was the body recovered. Toronto, April 13.--Export trade washfairly active" and prices firm fer eho'i'ee-"well-finished , cattle. . But- eher's cattle of the better grade, were in good demand, and sold at' $4.90. _ to $5:. Medium and com- mon grades Were easier. Stockers and feeders-demand good and supply limited. Milch cows and springers--F1et. Calves- Steady a}; last” quotations. Sheep and" lk,hrb's"--d Unchdngedlé Hogs-- ste' lected at $6.90 f.o.b., and 87.15,"fe'd and Watered. : _" LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, April 13. - Prime beeves sold at 5% to a little over 60 per pound; pretty good animals at tld to 5%c; common stock, 3 to 40 per pound. Milch cows sold at $25 to $55 each. Calves sold if; $2.50 to $25 each, or 3 to 6Ae per. pound. Sheep sold at about- 5Ae; lambs at 6% to 70 per pound.' Good lotspof fat hogs sold at from 7%0 to near 80 per pound. 50yie; Ontario No. 3, 49 to 491Ac; Ontario No. 4, 48 to 4YAc. Barley --No. 2, 66 to 67e. Feed-59)4 to 600. Buekwheab-69y; to 700. Flour --Maniiroba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, $5.30 to $5.50; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.10 to $5.30; Winter wheat pat- ents, $5.50 to $5.65; straight roll- ers, $5.10 to $5.25; straight rollers in bags, $2.50 to $2.55; extra, in bags, $2.10 to $2.20. Feed-Mani, tobs bran, $22 to $23; Manitoba, shorts, $24 to $25; Ontario bran, $23 to $24; Ontario shorts, $24.50 to $25; Ontario middlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain mouilie, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cheese-lily; to 13c. Butter-20A) tc 21c and fresh receipts at 190.) Eggs-io to 21e per dozen. l hour. The other train was not go- ing faster than ten miles an hour. Some of the cars on the east- bound train were derailed or dam- aged and_were used afterwards to take passengers west. None of the passenger coaches on tho west- bound train were damaged, except that a pair of steps was knocked off one. An empty baggage car was telescoped by the partially loaded express car. Both engines are damaged, but not beyond repair; both remained upright, but one was slightly off the track. Six BURNED {I‘O;DEATH. f" Algernon (iaais g4rrib"urira/ the poet, died at, Putney, England, on '8attrrday, _ "_-' "i"'.' '. .- , : ( France will collect a duty of $120 Von foreign balloons landing on Iiheneh territory. _ . f. . Railway Commission Orders Grand Trunk to Build One. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Railway Commission on Thurs. day morning issued an order that the G. T. R. construct a station at Guelphnayd bear the entire. cost French Minister of War Offers Prize for Best Design. A despatch from Paris says: Gen- Picquart, Minister of War, has of- fered a prize of $1,000 for the best design of an aerial cruiser. The condition provides for a steerable ship, which must be able to main- tain a. speed of at least 31 miles an hour for 15 hours, with six pas- sengers. Its total volume is not to exceed 6,500 cubic meters, its to, tal length 90 meters, height 20 metres and diameter through the centre 20 metres. The Payne tariff bill passed the House of Representatives at Wash, ington on Friday by a vote of 217 to 161. 9f the building. The application “as made by the city of Guelph, the present station facilities being inadequate. A proposal to place barley on the free list was voted down in the House of representatives at Wash, ington. It W111 come up again. Lo’rd Charles Beresford.has dir. clined nineteen invitations to stand for Parliament. The Grand Trunk half-yearly re- port shows 2443,078 available for dividends. The net profits were S960,427. Mrs. Georgia, Allyn Sampson, am cused at Lyons, N. Y., of the mur- der of her husband, was found not guilty. . .. Six hundred saloons and ten breweries will be forced out of busi- ness in Michigan's nineteen "dry" counties. By a, majority of six the House of Representatives at Washington de, cided to retain the dollar a thous- and duty on rough lumber, ViThe marl orCarrielr, Who Served against the Fenians in Canada. in 1870,' iidead, F __ _ l' - _ , Du Maurier's play, "An English- man's Home,” was hissed off the stage at Berlin Syndag night. The Czar of Russia is planning an,.ex_tensiye _fpeign tour,fpr the summer, whichjmzyy include" Eng'f land., - . " I _ T _"" a" V This violent speeches of labor leaders in Paris' have istirrtd up fear/s that, a bloody ii1surreption is imminent. _ 't “A'hew naturalization 1aw,promul- gated at Pekin makes it impossible fora. Chinaman to adopt foreign citizenship. _,. _ I.» A. l "4 Conductor Harvey, who was in charge of the train that ran into the Windsor Station, Montreal, has been dismissed. Four men ovehs' shdt _doiiris.by earbineers in Calabria while talrint part in an_tyntitax 'ri0_t. - ..s-a-- Charles Cook, a twelve-year-old boy, was crushed to death by the upsetting of a, load of logs at Fev- ersham. Mr. Justice Cannon has been ap- pointed commissioner by tho Que- bee Government to investigate Montreal civic affairs. “William Smith, from Hamilton, was killed at Lethbridge by falling' from the bridge beinreorrsitrupte4 bd the C. P. R. 1 l V i The two-year-old daughter of A. Krienke was killed by a train while walking in her sleep at Southey, Sask. . = A general advance in lumber is 1nnoun.cted 1n Winnipeg, 1n connec~ tlon with an actlve building sea- son. - A Cornwall hotelkeeper was fined $150 and costs tttwo charges of _selling liquor to Ir1diyys., _ A souiig aoman gave birth t? a child on a train while travelling from Sturgeon Falls to Ottawa. Telegraphic Briefs From max-'0“ and Other Countries ot Recent Events. CANADA. .Peterboro' will vote on local op- tion next January. beeding is in progress over a, large portion of the vest. A 191; of damage was dole. by flood and Ice in the Niagara River. cop The auction sale oi' Prince Rupert lots will begin at Vancouver on May 25th. - _ _ The Grand Trunk Pacific has. let contracts for a lot bf new englneS and steel rails. A great find of magnefsic iron is reported on Campbell Itiver, Van- couver Island. HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE. GUELPR'S NEW STATION. :. " GREAT BRITAIN. "We J NDENSED NEWS ITEMS AN AERIAL CRUISER. UNITED STATES. GENERAL. Collided With Steamer Off the Coast of Kent. A despatch from London says: Tho British torpedo-boat destroy- er Blackwater was sunk at mid- night on Wednesday night off Dun- geness as a result of a collision with the British steamer Hero. The crew of the Blackwater was saved. The Hero had her bows stove in. The Blackwater had a displacement of 550 tons and was 225 feet long. She had a com lement of 70 men and was capable of steaming 25 knots an hour. Killed Keeper at Des Moines--40 Bullets Shot Into Rim. A despatch from Des Moines, Iowa, says: "Tom," an elephant in the winter quarters of the Yankee Robinson circus, ran amuck on Thursday night, and, seizing his keeper, Charles Bellow, hurled him high into tho air and then trampled him to death. The excited beast then ran through the animal park, uprooted small trees, destroyed three circus waggons and demolish.. ed a bridge across a lagoon. Forty bullets were shot into the elephant before he was subdued. Package Containing One to Three Thousand Dollars Missing. A despatch from Brandon, Man., Says: Severalwwe'eks ago the IJ. P. .R. express was wrecked between Elva and Pierson, on the Estevan branch of the C. P. R., and the baggage and. mail cars were smash- ed badly. ,After .the wreckage was cleared/asia, the_.mai1 matter was transferred, and between that}; time and the arrival oi the.train at Ny pinka a package of money, contain- ing. betweenrone and three thou- fririrki, 4p.1Ji)is,ij'?oi1yisr1ed: from 91b ank iynv'Oxbow tti the' hisouroffiess in Win- nipeg, disappeared. W.htm the, bag was taken off at Napinka. it was found that the regasteredzaclrhad .a, .holer in it, but it is. jrrrp9ssirle to say whether it was/but during the wreck or afterwards. The' ex- irrésii' Company -tifiieiids _ ahd the poisto'ffiee inspector are conducting a. rigid inquiry, but so far hats fotitid zitystraeirof it. . ' _ Italian Committed suieidii--Cou1i1 Not Get Work. V A despatch from Montreal says: Another tragedy in the Italian ool~ ony was revealed on Thursday morning when the detective office was notified that there had been a shooting affray on Bisnon street, a, side street running north from St. Antoine street, just west of Wind- sor Detectives hurried to the house and found the body of Am toni Lalli, a, lady about 16 fears of age, lying across a bed, with a double-barrel) shotgun beside him and a wound over his heart. One barrel had been discharged, and there were marks on the wall as though the shot had one through the body. The boy has been unable to get work since last fall, and it is supposed he became despondent and shoe himself by pulling the trig- get of the gun with his foot, from which the boot had been taken. To Pay for Australia'tr Defence, Says Mr. Deakin. A despatch from Sydney says: West Australia, will join Victoria. and New South Wales in offeringa Dreadnought to' Britain. Speaking at a, large meeting on Thursday, Mr. Dealliin Said that, having re- gard to Australia/s isolation, no price was too great to pay for de- fence. They should stand up be- side New Zealand. (Prolonged cheering.) The Commonwealth must pay its share to prove the unity of the empire. Mr. Deakin predicted a deficit of S500,000 in the budget and the impossibilty of paying old-age pensions without borrowing. Mr. Fisher, the Pre- mier has declined to call the Feder- al Parliament at an early date to dieuss the question of the offer of a Dreadnought by the Common: wealth. Ridge Runs Through Township of E1ieilr--Said to Carry Coal. A despatch from Omemeeeays: Coal has been found on the farm of Mr. George J. Winn, 8th COnces- sion of Emily township, and as a, result there-is considerable excite- ment in the community. Mr. Winn noticed strata of what looked like dark rock protruding from the earth on a, path along a ridge of land running through , his, farm. The formation strongly resembled coal, and pieces of it, when placed on a. fire, burned, leaving Cinders" similar to those produced by coal. The ridge in which the, coal was found runs through the township of Emily to Mount Pleasant. A" gentleman. who Waited thisdi’s’trict last summer, and who was interest» ed in the Pennsylvania, coal mines, is said to have held the opinion that this ridge'of hills, was cool- bearing. F _ / ' .PULLED TRIGGER WITH TOE. COAL IN EASTERN ONTARIO. ELEPHANT RAN AME CE. MONEY LOST IN WVRECK. A DESTROYER SUNK. N0 PRICE TOO GREAT. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The question at issue between the C. P. R. and the Federated Mech- anical Unions of the company, which have been a subject of con- ference, have been amicably set- tled and a schedule and working agreement eminently satisfactory will be the result. A matter of prime, importance to the older men especially is their reinstatement to the pension roll, from which they were _rtyrnoved after the strike. This has been conceded by the com- pany. It has also been agreed that anrof the mechanics who struck last Bummer on the Western lines, and who have not yet been taken back, shall be at once re-engaged if they desire. A number of men at Medicine Bat and several Western points will be benetited by this, As a, result of the conference and the conciliatory spirit in which both sides approached the consideration, it is expected that a long period of harmonious relations has been in- United, States indicate that the {rush of American settlers -to the Canadian west this yea? will break all records. On Thursday Superin- tendent of Immigration Séott‘re- ceived a, telegram from W. J. White, Inspectorof United States agencies, iror'rrlijyilcapei Washing; ton, stating that the flood of American land-seekers from the Pacifie States to Alberta: and, Sas, katchewan is beyond all expecta- tions. The office at S okane is crowded with home-seeEBrS' and their tt1,m1l1tys anx10us a, who "e land in Canada. For the firstthree months of this year‘1,360 left 8po- kane, an increase of f50.'pé.r.stsntrc, over the corresponding period of last year. The increase in carloads pt settlttrieffects is over 100 per cent. Two Boys Run '0r"er, at jorrtreai, one Beheaded, .. _ A despatch from Montreal says: A terrible double fatality occured here Friday evening, in which two young boys returning from church were crushed to death by a street car. The two lads, Joseph Mac- donald, nine years old, and Joseph Linner, fourteen years, were stand- ing on the tracks'at the corner of Papineau Road and Mount Royal Avenue, immediately behind th car. There is a. switch at the corner where the cars are turned, and sud- denly the car backed up to take the switch, knocking the two boys down and running over them. The acci- dent was not noticed until the car passed, when their mangled bodies were found. Both were terribly cut up, one boy's head being com- pletely severed from his shoulders, while the older lad's legs were cut off. Death in each case must have been insetantaneous. M AMIBABLE AGREEMENT The C P, R. and Mechanical Unions Settle Their Difficulties, Rush Into the West This Year will Break all Records. A despatch from Ottawa, says: Reports received by the Immigra- tion Pepatfrnent frogn agents in the Both forces soon became lost in the dense undergrowth and high elephant grass. The British heard the enemy booting and calling in the distance. They encountered the greatest diffieulty, the track be- ing completely blocked with trees, while the natives had also dug pits sometimes as much as a, hundred yards long, and plentifully be- strewn the route with dangerous spikes, which pierced the soldiers feet. Eventually the column came to open ground, by which time two of the soldiers had been spiked through the feet. The enemy at once opened fire, but were repulsed. The column then marched to an el- evated position. The enemy now A despatch from London says: Remarkable detalls of the on- slaught of a thousand cannibal nativirV upon the Anglo-German Bofsodary Commission in unexplor- td r6qntry in Northern Nigeria have {cached London. A feature ofthe action was that British and German "troops fought together to repel the native attack. At 5 o'clock on Christmas Day this combined Anglo-German force marched out from Sonlrwalla; an unmapped page on the frontier, and subsequently divided into two columns, the German commissioner, Lieut. von Stephani (Reuter's Agency states) bang in command of one, and Capt. Heathcote of the other. British and Germans Fight Shoulder to T 7 Shoulder in Northern Nigeria. WW h) REM ATTACK KILLED BY ASTREET CAB. AMERICAN SETTLERS. Many Municipalities Carried a Pro. bition Law. A despatch from Denver, COL, says: Prohibition 'Won in most places in the municipal elections iheld in Colorado. Colorado i Springs Went Cl'ry by.2,000 majority. That city has never had a, saloon) but the election will prevent (huge, stores from selling liquor in the a future. La, Junta, Canon City and Castle Rock‘all s:oried against the ,seloons, While Cripple Creek and Colorado City remain wet. I . A despatch from Milwaukee, Wis., , éays ".' Municipal elections Werel‘heldrr _ »~ I in a large number of cities through- out Wisconsin on Tuesday, the "question of "litenst" or "no He- lense" being an Issue. LiutsHrsw carried in a majorityof the cities land towns heard £56m: "r. _ . The company has been success- ful in its contention for separate and distinct schedules for the Eut- ern and Western lines, but the actual composition of the schedule committee to conduct the Eastern negotiations has not yet been ds. finitely settled. The Western lines desire representation thereon. but it is. not likely that thi, ill be agreed to. A joint conmutme to meet in Winnipeg and Montreal, however, is by no means an im- possibility. The Western unions have secured the closed shop and the integrity of their orgtsnimstioaad which was somewhat impaired bx the result of the strike. Cardinal and King, Given Up Last Winter, May be Alive. A despatch from Fort William says: There seems to be a, strong probability that Cardinal and King,, the shantymen who were given 11E as lost during the winter, are still; alive. They lost their way coming' from Srriith's camp, but now the report comes in that since they dis.) appeared two men answering their, description applied to a, house out' there for a meal, saying they had been lost. in the bush for a time,; but were making their way to an- augurated. The schedules and ag. reements have not yet been signed actually, but there is no doubt they will be immediately upon the re- turn of Grant Hall, superintendent of motive power for the company iw the West. Only comparative minor matters of detail remain to be settled. other camp. Collided With That 'of His Altprert ", --No One Injured. A despatch from hftsdriid-cisiys: King _.AHonso.and Queen Victoria recpptly htrdia narrow escape from injury; lhe King was leaving the palace courtyard and the Queen was entering/m their automobiles, when the machines came intoreol- lision in themarrow passage, Both automobiles were badly, do 1stted, but their Majesties were z/Jl2i'),'t,'f News of the German column was only received on 11116 return to camp. Lieut. von Stephani report- ed that at noon a very large force surrounded the German column in the bush and opened a heavy at- tack, in which Lieut. von Stephani was wounded in two places, one of his non-commissioned ofheeribeing also hit on the wrist, and two,men being killed. For over an hour the column was desperately engaged. A _second German nory-eommissiort- ed officer was shot through the sleeve while serving his Maxim. As the column retired, “the natives made many attempts to rush it: - Although dantgerouslysimded,' Lieu. von Stephani brought: the column out of acuon with .irreat gallantry, being assisted by Capt. Moore, R.E., who was attached to the force. " -' . offered a splendid target for the Maxim, but the gun jammed, and was out of action for some time. At this moment the rattlmg of the Germans' Maxim could be heard on the other side of the hills: Capt. Heathcote having burned some houses to indicate his where- abouts to the, German column, de.. seended to the enemy in the open. There a brisk running fight was maintained, and the enemy were f1nally driven off. Meantime a third force, under Lieut. Homan, which-had ben despatched from Sohksvalla, became engaged. KIN fl ALFONSO’S AUTO. COLORADO GOING DRY. LOST IN THE WOODS.