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The train left Vancouver in the morning at 5.30 and reached Sapâ€" perton at 6.15. The track passes *A by a bridge over the Burnett Rivâ€" er, and a heavy flood had submergâ€" ed the track on both sides. The train was in the swirling waters alâ€" most before those on %oa,rd were aware the bridge had been reached. Locomotive 486, with Engineer k: A despatch from Toronto says : There there will be a rush into the Poreupine Lake gold district in morthern Ontario during the coming wirnter which will equal that into Gowganda of last winter is the opinâ€" ion of Mr. A. L. Reading of Toâ€" ronto, who has just returned from that part of the country. There are already hundreds of prospectors in the district, he says, and coming down the river on his way back to civilization he met no. less than gighteen canoes with prospectors on the way up. The rivers and lakes are now frozen up, and gangs of men are at work cutting a road through the bush from the head of Frederick House Lake to permit of Hundreds of Prospectors Are Going to Porcupine Lake. Woman Soaked Clothing in Oil and Ignited It. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N Y., says: Mrs. Florence Bishop, 60 years old, committed suicide on Wl BE RUSH FOR GOLD BRURNED HERSELE TO DEATH. A despatch from Vancouver, B. «C., says : Speeding through a how!â€" ing storm in the darkness, while the people of Vancouver and New Westâ€" mister slumbered in the long Sunâ€" «day morning rest, a gang of Japanâ€" <ese track laborers who had turned out to repair the ravages the Great Northern Railway had suffered â€"~during the worst night‘s weather in years went headlong to death, the bridge near Sapperton collapsing under the weight of the heavy work train. . At least twenty and perhaps thirty unfortunate Japanese _ aro reported dead, and others more or Tess seriously injured are in the hosâ€" pital here and at Westminster. Buiflalo Man Murdered in Public Library. A despatch from Buffalo says : Withoutâ€"explanation or warning, but with a deliberation that made the accomplishment of his murâ€" derous purpose simple, Charles Strohl, an employee of a bakery, walked into the readingâ€"room of the Buffalo Public Library on Friday, pulled a revolver and shot and inâ€" stantly killed Franz Stendtz, who boarded with Mrs. Decola on Broadâ€" way. The murderer rushed out of the building, pursued by a number of people, and turning into an alâ€" ley, exchanged shots with his purâ€" suers, one shot striking an officer in the hand, disabling him. By this time fifteen hundred people had gathered. Strohl, taking shelâ€" ter behind a brick wall, occasionâ€" ally looked over and fired. For fifteen minutes he held the crowd at bay. Finally, after the police bad fired 40 or 50 shots they exeâ€" cuted a flank movement. Strohl broke for cover, but was finally cornered and caught. A â€"despatch from Aurorsa says : Buffocated by coal gas which esâ€" caped from a new stove, Mrs. Reâ€" ‘becca Flintoff, her granddaughter, Laura McDonald, and a boarder, Fred Blake, were found dead on "Thursday in the home of Mrs. Flinâ€" toff on Machell avenue here. The discovery of the bedics was made about noon, when Mrs. C. W. Flinâ€" toff, a niece of Mrs. Flintoff, beâ€" «came suspicious that something was wrong when she did not notice any signs of life about the place. With «a neighbor she went to the home of Mrs. FElintoff, and after knocking â€"at the door and getting no response an entrance was forced. Admitâ€" Kance had to beâ€"secured by a rear Gas From a Coal Stove, Which Had Been Lighted for the First time. Car Full of Japanese Laborers RSubmerged in British Columbia. THREE PROPLE SUFFOCATHD SHOT BY A LUNATIC. OTHER RATLWAY HORROR So far the discoveries of free gold in this district have been confined to within a radius of three miles from Porcupine Lake, but the prosâ€" pectors have branched out for about ten or twelve miles. The disâ€" coveries made are all on the surâ€" face. There are marked indications of erosion in this section, while surâ€" rounding it are swamps and clay several feet in thickness, which facts lead prospectors to believe that the gold extends over a considerable area. the entrance of sleighs. There are hundreds of prospectors waiting, at Haileybury until this road is comâ€" pleted, and more prospectors are arriving at Haileybury every day. Spanelli Pays Penalty for Murder of Chinaman. A despatch from North Bay says : Sam Spanelli, a young Italian, was hanged here early on Friday mornâ€" ing. He passed a rather restless night, being up several times. He walked calmly to the scaffold. Life was declared extinct at 7.17, thirâ€" teen and threeâ€"quarter minutes afâ€" ter the trap fell. Spanelli was conâ€" victed before Judge Riddell of killâ€" ing a young Chinaman, Ming Chew, in a restaurant brawl at Haileyâ€" bury, July 30th, using a dirk twelve irches long. _ Special precautions were taken by Sheriff Varin in view of sinister rumors that the prisonâ€" ez was a Black Hand leader, and that Italians were coming into town in large numbers in pursuance of a plot to dynamite the jail. Four exâ€" tra constables were placed on duty but nothing occurred to cause trouâ€" ble. Wednesday at her home in Coomâ€" er‘s Road, a few miles from this city. Bhe took her life by soaking her garments in coal cil and incinâ€" erating herself. Alexander Gilltes found Mrs. Bishop‘s body in a smoke house. It was a mass of burned flesh and charred bones. A note found among the dead woâ€" man‘s effects told of the writer‘s determination to end her life by fire. door, as there were storm windows on the house. When the back door was forced in the smell of coal gas was so strong as to, almost overâ€" come those who had secured an enâ€" trance. _ Fred Blake, who was a boarder, was found dead in his bed, and on going into the room occupiâ€" ed by Mrs. Flintoff and her grandâ€" daughter, both were found dead. Drs. Hillary and Stevenson, who were hastily summoned, gave it as their opinion that the three persons had been dead at least twentyâ€"four hours. An examinstion of the bodâ€" ies indicated death from suffocation, and Coroner Scott of Newmarket, after making an investigation, deâ€" cided that an inquest was unnecesâ€" sary. Many of those on board were enâ€" tangled in the wreckage and were drowned without a chance for their lives. _ Others were killed outâ€" right. Three white men, the enâ€" gincer, the fireman and Conductor Ellis, escaped, the two former with slight injuries. A white man named Davis was injured and is now in the Vancouver General Hospital. Three bodies recovered on this side of the river have been brought to Vancouver, five injured have been taken to the Memorial Hospital, while the remains of the other dead and others of the inâ€" jured have been taken to Westminâ€" ster. _ The Burnett River carried some poor battered bodies out to the Fraser. Beattigor at the throttle and Fireâ€" man Kent in the cab, passed over ia safety, but the first car, carryâ€" ing the heavy roadâ€"making apparaâ€" tus, crashed through into the torâ€" rent, dragging the engine from one side ard the car loaded with the men on the other into the water. ITALIAN HANGED. Over Two Hundred Japanese Minâ€" ers in Danger. A despatch from Tokio says: Heavy loss of life is feared as the result of an explosion on Thursday in a coal mine at Onoura, Fukuoka Province. Fifteen men are known to have perished, while 228 miners are entombed in the workings. Every effort is being made to rescue them, but their fate as yet is in doubt. Hubert Latham, the aviator, rode to & hunting party in his monoâ€" plane and returned in the same way, carrying game bag and gun. Several applications have been made to the Paris authorities for permission to establish slaughterâ€" houses for the slaughter of dogs. Count Leo Tolstoi has appealed to the people of the world to stop the growth of armies and navies. The negotiations looking to peace in Morocco have proved futile and hostilities have been resumed. Volcanic eruptions continue with increasing violence in Teneriffe. Quantities of ancient art treaâ€" sures are said to have been discovâ€" ered under an ancient castle in South Spain. § : A number of prominent financial men in the United States are backâ€" ing the Wright brothers in a corâ€" poration for the manufacture of aeroplanes. Plans have been submitted to the New York Board of Estimates for the construction of an aqueduct 300 feet beneath the surface of the city. GONDENSED NEWS ITEMS Tenders for the new Quebec bridge will be called early in the coming year. s John Stuart Kennedy, the millionâ€" aire, who died recently. in New York, left $5,000,000 to the Presbyâ€" terian Foreign Mission Board. Six persons were killed at Los Angeles when a trolley car struck the automobile in which they were riding. s A girl employed in a Pittsburg departmental store contracted lepâ€" rosy from false hair which she purâ€" chased and wore. Four persons lost theirâ€" lives through an explosion on a gasoline launch at Muskegon, Mich. Two members ofâ€"a wedding party were killed in Georgia when their automobile fell from a bridge. Great Britain and Germany are said to have reached an underâ€" standing for coâ€"operation in securâ€" ing the rights of the natives in the Congo. $ Mr. A. V. Dicey, the eminent constitutional authority, supports the House of Lords because he beâ€" lieves the budget tends toward corâ€" ruption. Rev. George B. Cutten, B, D., of Columbus, Ohio, has been appointâ€" ed President of Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S. A frieight train ran into a stock train at Moose Jaw. Iwo stockâ€" men, named Oliver and Bolton, were killed, and about twentyâ€"five head of cattle. Telegraphilo Bricfs From Onr Ow» aad OQther Countrics ef Recent Events. The London, Ont., City Council will ask the Lieutenantâ€"Governor to declare the population to be 50,000, s> that a vote on Sunday cars may be taken. The Bishop of Hereford has anâ€" nounced that he will support the budget because it means social welâ€" fare. The President of the German Reichstag stated in London that in his opinion the day of high protecâ€" tion is approaching its end. The British House of Commons accepted the amendments of the House of Lords to the Irish land bill and passed the measure. Mrs. 8. J. Guthrie and her daughâ€" ter Clara were arrested on a charge of perjury in connection with t}}e Barrie fire inquest. Mr. Guthrie gave bail for them. Mrs. Cawthrop of Caradoc townâ€" ship has been the object of a numâ€" ber of annoying tricks on the part of some cowardly enemy, and his latest prank was to pour coal oil into her well. The Nova Scotia Steel directors‘ meeting in Montreal, on Friday, declared a stock bonus of 20 per cent. and a dividend of 1 per cent. to holders of common stock, thus putting the common on a 4 per cent. basis. Miss Christabel Pankhurst was prevented by students and others from speaking at a suffragette gathâ€" ering at Bristol. It is rumored that Sir Maurice Debunsen may succeed Mr. James Bryce as British Ambassador to the United States. ARAFPENXNINGS FROM ALL OVEE TVE GLOBE. ENTOMBED IN A MINE. UNITED STATES GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL. CANADA. Buffalo, Nov. 30.â€"Wheatâ€"Spring wheat firm; No. 1 Northern, carâ€" loads store $1.12%c; Winter steady. Cornâ€"Firmer ; No. 3 yellow, 64%4e ; No. 4 yellow, 62¢; No. 4 corn, 60c. Oatsâ€"Stronger; Barley feed to malting, 63 to 70c. Montreal, Nov. 30.â€"Prime beeves sold at 45c to 5lc per lb., pretty good animals at 3!fc to 4‘%c, and the common stock at 2¢ to 3¢c, while the lean canners brought from 1%ec to 2c per lb. Milch cows, $30 to No. 2 ted, $1.19 to $1.23; No. 3 red, $1.10 to $#1.:18; No. 2 hard, $1:10%7 to $L11l{ > No.: 3. hard, $1.03 to $1.090: No. 1 Northern, $1.11 to $1.â€" 12: â€" No. 2â€" Northern, $1.08 to $1.00%%; No. 3 Spring, $1.06 to $1.â€" 09 â€"Cornâ€"No. 2, 63 to 63%ec; No. 2 yellow, 64)4c; No. 3 (new), 59%c; No. 3 white (new), 59 to 59%%c¢; No. 3 yellow (new), 50%e¢; No. 83, 40¢; No. 4 (new), 57 to 598%e. Oatsâ€" No. 2 white, 42¢; No. 3 white, 40¢; No. 3 white, 39‘% to 40¢c; No.. 4 white, 39 to 39%e¢;, standard, 41%%c. Montreal, Nov. 30.â€"Oats â€" No. 2 Canadian Western, 40% to 41l%c. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 66 to 67e; Manitoba feed barley, 52 to 53¢ bushel. Buckâ€" wheatâ€"58 to 58%¢._ Flourâ€"Maaiâ€" toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.70; Manitoba Spring wheat patâ€" ents, seconds, $5.20; Winter wheat patents, $5.50 to $6; Manitoba strong bakers‘, $5; straight rollers, $5.10 to. $5.25; straight rollers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. _ Feedâ€"Onâ€" tario bran, $20 to $21.50 ; Ontario middlings, $23 to $23.50 ; Manitoba bran, $19 to $20; Manitoba shorts, $22 to $23 ; pure grain moulille, $32 to $33; mouille, $25 to $27. Cheese â€"â€"Westerns, 11% to. 11%e¢â€" for late Fall make, while early Fall make is held at 11% to 12¢. Butter â€" Finest creamery, 25 to 25%fc, and fresh receipts, 244 to 25¢. Eggsâ€" Selected stock, 27 to 28¢, and No. 1 candlel at 25 to 26¢ per dozen. THE WORLDS MARKETS Toronto, Nov. 30.â€"Flour â€" Onâ€" tario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $4.30 to $4.35 in buyers‘ sacks on track, Toronto, and $4.15 to $4.20 outside in buyers‘ sacks, Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto ; second patents, $5.10 to $5.20, and strong bakers‘, $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. > REPORTS FROM THE LEADING 7 TRADE CENTRES. : Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern §1.04‘5, Bay ports, and No. 2 Northern, $1.03, Bay ports. & Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2 mixed, $1.â€" 01 to$1.05 outside, and No. 2 white and red at $1.05 and $1.06 outside. Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario white, new, 37 to 38c outside. Canada West oats, 38%e for No. 2, and 37%¢ for No. 3, Bay ports. Peasâ€"88 to 89¢ outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 74 to 75¢ outside. Buckwheatâ€"55¢ â€" high freights, and at 56e low freights. * en Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 15 to 16¢; do., heavy, 14 to 14%e: rolls, 14 to 14‘%¢; shoulders, i2% to 13¢; backs, 19 to 20¢; breakfast bacon, 17 to 18e. es Lardâ€"Tierces, 151c¢; tubs, 15%c pails, 16c. § Strawâ€"$8.50 to $9.50 on track, Toronto. Potatoesâ€"45 to 50c per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultryâ€"Chickens, dressed, 11 to 13¢ per lb.; fowl, 8 to 9¢; turkeys, 15 toâ€"Ite lb.:; ducks, Ib., U to 12¢, geese, 9 to 10¢ per lIb. Butter=â€"Pound prints, 23 to 24¢; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 22e inferior, 18 to 19¢c; creamery, 26% to 27%4c, and solids, 25 to 25!%c per 1b a@e Baconâ€"Long clear, 14 to 14%e per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $26.50; short cut, $28 to $28.50. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 60 to 61c outside, and No. 3 extra, 58 to 59c outside. Cornâ€"Old No. 2 American yelâ€" low, 72 to 72%e Toronto, and new No. 3 yellow, 67e track, Toronto. Honeyâ€"Combs, dozen, $2.25 to $3; extracted, 10%c per lb. Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy $15 to $15:50 and No. 2 at $13.50 to $14 on track, Toronto. Cheeseâ€"12%%c per lb. for large aud at 12%c for twins. Prices of Caftle, Grain, Chcese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUEFS. Branâ€"$21 in bags, Toronto, an 1 shorts, $23.50 in bags, Toronto. Applesâ€"$2 to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality. Beansâ€"$1.60 to $1.65 per bushel at outside points in large lots. UNITED STATES MARKETS Chicago, Nov. 30.â€"Cash Wheatâ€" Eggsâ€"Case lots, 30 to 32¢ per dozâ€" i for fresh, and 26 to 27¢ for storâ€" BUSINESS AT MONTREAL LIVE STOCK MARKETS THE DAIRY MARKETS COUNTRY PRODUCE. HOG PRODUCTS. A despatch from Uherry, Tilinâ€" ois, says : Not since the recovery of the first bodies from the depth of the fireâ€"wrecked St. Paul mine here bave such scenes been witnessed as the heartrending picture at tae sealed mouth of the mine on Thursâ€" day. Hundreds of griefâ€"stricken women, with worn faces and fatherâ€" less children clinging in fear to their dresses, gathered in groups about the shaft of the mine, sobbing and moaning. Their sacred â€" dead are lost for ever. The realization of the horrible end of the great disâ€" aster has aroused a frantic grief. Women fell on their knees, dragâ€" ging their children with them, sobâ€" bing out their cries of despair. Many men in Cherry still cling to the belief that with the sealing of the mine living men _ among the nearly 200 still missing have been doomed to death. â€" Mine experts 18E FNANCES OF QONTAR A despatch from Toronto says: Owing to the fact that the Provinâ€" cial revenue for the short year of ten months is considerably over the estimate and that the Province has not spent as much as was voted by the Legislature last session, Hon. A. J. Matheson stated on EFriday morning that Ontario‘s revâ€" enue would be within $100,000 of the expenditure, while the calendar year would show a surplus of sevâ€" eral hundred thousand dollars. In this estimate no account is taken o‘ capital expenditure on the powâ€" er scheme, the T. & N. O. Railway and good roads. The Provincial Government Makes an = Important Announcement. The Crop all Thrashed or Securely Stacked. A despatch from Regina says: It is estimated by C. P. R. officiâ€" als that not more than five per cent. of the entire crop in Saskatâ€" chewan remains unthrashed at the present time, and this is all secureâ€" Iy stacked. In the other two Provâ€" inces all the grain was thrashed some time ago. All the requireâ€" ments of cars for shipping have been remarkably well met. Sad Scenes Round the Sealed Shaft of St. Paul Mine. Toronto, Nov. 30.â€"Stockers and feeders were in active demand, especially shortâ€"keep steers and heifers. Milkers and springers woere a little easier ; this was due rather because the cows were not in the best condition than to any falling off in the demand. Sheep and lambs were steady to firm. Calves firm and unchanged. Hogs weak at $7.â€" 85 to $7.40 f.o.b. and $7.60 toâ€"$7. 65, fed and watered. Important Capture Made on Lake Superior. A â€" despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says : On Thursday afâ€" ternoon Game Warden _ Calbeck made an important seizure of tugs and fishing equipment at Richardâ€" son‘s Harbor, Lake Superior. The tugs Argo and Alberta belonging to Gerow Bros. of Rossport were captured, thse charge being fishing out of season. Seven men, includâ€" ing four of the Gerow brothers, were brought to the Soo, and served with papers on Friday. _A large auantity of fish were taken with the seized tugs. THEY WANT THSR DKAD $60 each. Calves, from 3¢ to near 6e per lb., sheep, 3%c¢ to a little over 3%c per lb., lambs 54c to 6c per lb. Good lots of fat hogs sold as 8‘4e.to 8%¢ per lb. Sentenced to Ten Years for Embezâ€" zlement. A despatch from Madison, Wisâ€" | consin, says: Phil Allen, jun., forâ€" mer Viceâ€"President of the First National Bank of Mineral Point, Wis., appeared on Friday before Judge Sanborn in the United States District Court, pleaded guilty to four out of twentyâ€"six counts inl the indictment against him, and was sentenced to ten years in the Federal Prison at Fort Leavenâ€" worth, Kansas, the maximum unâ€" der the law of any one count. Alâ€" len was charged with embezzling $168,000 from the Mineral Point bank. The subtraction of the months of sASKATCHEWAN IS HAPPY. BANKEER SENT TO PRISON. TWO TUGS SEIZED. _â€"Rumors, which were started by remarks of miners who lingered about the shaft, had it that there existed a plot to "rush‘‘ the ming plant and destroy the sealing. The company officials scouted the idea and declared they did not expost trouble. "They are thinking only of sayâ€" ing property and don‘t care about the dead;""‘ exclaimed one greyâ€" haired Scotch miner. ‘"We want our dead. The women want the bodies. Thecompany . will never get any service from these miners."‘ The dissatisfaction of the miners at the step taken by the mine offiâ€" cials was openly voiced. ‘‘Nothing can be done until the fire has died out, and the extreme danger of entering the shaft is eliminated,‘‘ declared W. W. Tayâ€" lor, superintendent of the mine. November and December removes considerable revenue, notably in liâ€" cense fees and timber duties. The increase in revenue over the estiâ€" mates for the ten months amounts to about $1,250,000, the most notâ€" able increases being: Crown lands, $500,000; law stamps, $35,000 ; pubâ€" lic institutions, $20,00; Central Priâ€" son industries, $7,000; â€" Provincia‘ Secretary‘s Department, $82,000; Agricultural Department and staâ€" tionary engineers, $28,000; succesâ€" sion duties, $275,000; supplemenâ€" tary _ revenue, $29,000; license branch,. $50,000 ;â€"_‘T. & N. 0. Railâ€" way, $250,000;â€" game and fish branch, $17,000, and collected arâ€" rears of Algoma taxes, $9,800. scout the idea and state that such is an impossibility. ’ Tons of Rock Foll on Railway af Niagara Falils. _ A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says: One of the worst landâ€" slides in many months tied the Gorge Railroad up for some time on Wednesday.. Tons of rock fell from the river bank, burying the scenic railway tracks. Dynamiting had to be resorted to before the debris could be cleared away. No one was injured. The Compagnie Transatlantic is planning to run mail steamers beâ€" tween France and Canada to win in the students‘ stock judgâ€" ing contest. Practically every State i1 the Urion was represented in some few classes, while Canada has no small part in the exposition. Parâ€" ticularly notable were the Canadian entries of sheep and hogs. The State university experiment farms have important entries in all classâ€" es, many of their cattle plainly showing championship class. The independent exhoitors are not, however, so fearsome of their pork entries as they have been in past years. Homesteader Nearly Kills Wile and Wrecked Hoase. A despatch from Lethbridge says: Augusfflfffiimesowski,. a _homeâ€" steader, four miles south of_ Bow Island, on Tuesday put two sticks of dynamite in the stove to thaw. His wife saw smoke coming from the oven and opened the door. EBhe dynamite exploded, and pieces. of steel struck Mrs. Lesowski in sevâ€" eval places and nearly blinded her. She was taken to Lethbridge Hosâ€" pital, and will likely live. The house was wrecked, but no oneâ€"elso was hurt. t n The Quebec Government sent 700 volumes for the Provincial library. Has Big Display at Exhibition of Live Stock. A despatch from Uhicago says: Canada is playing its usual importâ€" ant part in the International Live Stock Exposition, which is now on in full swing. Ontario, especially, is well represented. _ Beside the latge display of stock from that province, the Agricultural College of Ontario has its young stock exâ€" perts in judging contests. The Agâ€" ricultural College of Ontarico, which is probably the best known instituâ€" tion of its kind in the world, is conâ€" ceded better than an even chance CANADA AT CHICAGO SHOoW. DYNAMITE IN THE GOYVEN. nax®sting In coRo®.