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~ XULLED ON U. 8. RAILROADS Government Control of Butter and Cheese Factories. .A despatch from Quebec says : Hon. Mr. Caron has framed a law which proposes to place all cheese ani butter factories under the diâ€" rect control of the Government. On and after January 1, 1912, all proâ€" prictors of factories will have to present a certificate from a Govâ€" ernment inspector declaring that their building is sanitary and well equipped in order toâ€" receive perâ€" mission from the Minister of Agriâ€" culture to continue business, and ali new factories will have to seâ€" cure a permit from the Minister ibefore commencing operations. All bead cheese and butter makers will also have to show a certificate from the St. Hyacintheâ€"Dairy School or from an inspector in order to reâ€" flms their positions. 4,099 Lives Lost in Three Months, and the _ Number Injured Was 22491 A despatch from Washington, D. C., says: A large increase in the number of casualties on American railroads is shown by the report for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1909, as eompared with the corresponding quarter of 1908. A bullstin issued on Wednesday by the Interâ€"state Commerce Commission shows an inâ€" erease in the number of persons killed of 301, and in the number of injured of 5,645. The total number of persons killed was 1,099, and the total number injured 22,491. â€" Th _ Rioting natives in the province of Hunan, China, are burning vilâ€" lages and threatening all foreigners with death. Jewels valued at half a million dollars have been stolen from the Uspenski Cathedral, in the Kremâ€" lin, at Moscow. A despatch from _ Halbrite, Sask., says: Peter Erickson, whose home is in the Dirt Hills, was reâ€" turning from a visit to Weyburn on Bunday evening, and put up for phewfiig'ht at his brother Simon‘s place, 150 miles southwest of Halâ€" brite: Both retired in a room with storm windows on, and filled the stove with briquettes.. The followâ€" ing a‘ternoon at 4 o‘clock a neighâ€" bur found both men uncenscious, though still breathing. Physicians were called in and in the meantime ertificial respiration was used, reâ€" sulting in the recovery of Simon,. but Peter died before the doctors arrived. Simon is now out of danâ€" ger. : ‘A despatch from Ottawa says: A further instalment of the results <of the special investigation by the Department of Labor into the inâ€" crease in the cost of living during the past +wenty years was publishâ€" d on Friday. It relates to prices bdairy products and fish. A sumâ€" ary of the figures quoted shows that dairy products were at their lowest in 1896 and 1897, and at their highest in 1908, when the general level was 36.3 per cent. above the average for 1890 and 1899. Prices Slept in Room With Storm _ Winâ€" a% dows and Full Stove. ‘A despatch from Shawville, Que., says: Goaded to madness by the jikes and affronts of a halfâ€"dozen young men who were tormenting him, Mike Murphy, a gypsy, 55 years of age, on Wednesday night, shei and instantly killed two of Their number, Harry Howes, aged 22, and William Dale, aged 30. Both young men were killed by one shot fired point blank at a range of eighteen feet from an old muzzleâ€" "‘a,ding shotgun. Howes was standâ€" is immediately behind Dale, and the discharge of buckshot passed completely through Dale‘s body and entered that of Howes. Both dropped dead. The slayer, Murâ€" phy, smasegrrested by a private citiâ€" zoung Man Threw Stones and He Reâ€" ¢f sponded With Buckshot. How Dairy Products and Fish Prices Have Advanced in Twenty Years. EYPSY SLAYS TORMENTORS NCREASED COST OF LIVING TWO MEN ASPHYXIATED. QUEBEC DAIRY LA WS. iington, D.1present bulletin shows a compariâ€" case in the |son of what are called the "steam i1 American | roads‘‘ with the electric lines on e report for| which interstate traffic is carried. 31, 1909, as| The total number of persons killed rresponding| on the electric lines was 26, and lstin issued | 642 were injured, in the months of Interâ€"state | October, November and December, hows an inâ€"|1909. _ The quarter here reviewed of persons | was one in which there was a large number of| velume of traffic on the principal tal number | railr ads, and those classes of casuâ€" 99, and the‘ alties which occur mainly in the 2,491. â€" The freight service show heavier totals. Will Pass Through Sarnia Tunnel Each Week. A despatch from Port Huron, Mich., says : The Grand Trunk Railâ€" way has secured the contract of hauling the National Car Line Comâ€" pany‘s cattle trains from Chicago to Boston, which means that over three hundred cars of cattle will pars through the tunnel every week, and that additional men will be given employment at this terâ€" minal." There is also a probability that feeding and watering quarters for the cattle will be erected at this point. â€" Signed by Miners of Central Pennsylvania. A despatch from Altoona, Pa., says: After being in session until midnight Saturday night the coal operators and miners of the Cenâ€" tral Pennsylvania buituminous disâ€" trict signed a wage scale agreeâ€" ment to hold good for two years from April 1. The miners gained their contention for an increasge in wages, but relinquished some of their â€"demands on less important questions. No Living Miners in the Mulga Mine. A despatch from Birmingham, Alabama, says : Black damp is slowâ€" ly disappearing from the workings of the Mulga mine, in which 43 men were entombed by an explosion Wednesday, and rescuers are now able to stay underground 45 minâ€" utes at a time. A negro‘s body was brought to the surface on Friday, avd half a dozen others have been found.. Mine Inspector Neal enâ€" tered the mine, and later said he did not believe that anyone was alive in the mine. Gas has peneâ€" trated every cranny of the mine since the explosion. In fish there has been a similar rise in prices, the average being 34 per cent. higher in 1909 than in the decade 1890 and 1899.. The lowest year shown is 1892, since when prices have advanced 40.8 per cent. in 1909 were slightly lower than in 1908, though eggs were considerâ€" ably higher, being 71.5 per cent. apove the average. Since 1897 the price of eggs has advanced approxiâ€" mately 122 per cent. In the case of dairy produce generally, prices have advanced 46.6 per cent. since 1897. Murphy has scarcely a friend in the place. For three years he has openly defied the authorities to oust him from the property on which he ‘"squatted‘‘ immediately _ outside the corporation limit at the southâ€" erly end of the town. There, in a miserable hovel, he has lived with his gypsy wife amid poverty and filth and squalor, avowedly hostile to everyone in Shawville. On the cther hand, the two young men wheo are dead were of good familâ€" ies, and were themselves highly reâ€" spected, hence the very strong feeling â€" which _ prevails against Murphy. zen and lodged in the jail. His wife was also jailed, charged with being an accomplice in the crime. A TWO YEARS‘ CONTRACT. FORTYâ€"THREE MEN DEAD. 800 CARS OF CATTLE Montreal, April 26.â€"Choice steers brought $7.50 to $7.85 ; fair to good, $5.80 to $6.40; fair, $5 to $5.50; cows, $6.25; bulls, $6; hogs, $10.â€" 50; sows, $9.50; sheep steady at $4.75 to $6, while lambs sold at $7.50 to $9; calves brought all the way from $2.50 to $10. New York, April 26.â€"Wheatâ€" No. 2 red, $1.413:¢ nominal oA.f., No. 1 northern, $1.15%4 f.0.b., openâ€" ing navigation. Option wheat was weak and lower at the start under further liquidation on the weak cables and poor cash demand, but prices regained the loss on covering by shorts and closed at unchanged to c net decline. . Toronto, April 26.â€"The average range for the best quality of steers ana heifers was from $6:50 to $7, mixed mouillie, $25 to $28. Rolled Oatsâ€"Per _ barrel, $4.05; do per bag, $1.90; cornmeal, per barrel, $3.40 to $3.50. Cheeseâ€"Old cheese 12%e and fodders at 12%ec. Butter â€"Old stock, 28%e¢ to 29e and new milk creamery, 30c to 3lc. Eggsâ€"â€" Selected lots, 23¢ to 24¢ and straight receipts, 19c to 20c per dozen. Rolls, smoked, 15%c to 16¢; meâ€" dium and light hams, 18e to 18%¢; heavy, 16%e¢ to 17¢; bacon, 19%¢ to Montreal, April 26.â€"There is sti‘l very little business passing in the local flour market.. Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80; do seconds, $5.30; winter wheat patents, $5.50 to $5.60; Manitoba strong bakers, $5.10; straight rolâ€" lers, $5.10 to $5.25; do. in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. _ Millfeedâ€"Ontario bran, $20.50 to $21; Ontario midâ€" dlings, $22 to $23; Manitoba bran, $21; Manitoba shorts, $21 to $22; pure grain mouillie, $32 to $33; Wholesale quotations :â€" _ Porkâ€"Short cut, $31 to $31.50 per barrel; mess, $28.50 to $29. Lardâ€"Firm ; tierces, â€"16%ec. to I6:ic; tubs, I6‘%e to 17c; pails, 16%e; stocks very light. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" Long clear bacon, tons and cases, 154%6; backs (plain), 21c to 21%%c¢; backs (peameal), 21%¢ to 22¢ ; shoulâ€" der hams, 14e to 14%c; green meats out of pickle, le less than smoked. S Beansâ€"$2 to $2.10 per bushel for primes and ats $2.15 to $2.25 per bushel for handâ€"picked. Potatoes â€" Delaware> potatoes, 45e per bag in car lots, and 55e to 60c per bag out of store. _ Cheeseâ€"13¢ per pound for large to 13Â¥%c for twins. ‘Cornâ€"American No. 2 kilnâ€"dried yellow, 66e to 664%e; No. 3 yellow, kilnâ€"dried, 65%e to 66¢; No. 3 yelâ€" low, 64%e; Canadian corn, 60c to 6i¢, Toronto freights. Oatsâ€"Canada western, No. 2, 30/%¢, on track, bay ports. For opening of navigation, No. 2 C. W. afce; No. 3 C. W. 37¢, at lake ports ; Orntario, No. 2 white, 36e to 36%c, outside; No. 3 white, 35¢ to 85%¢, outside; 38%¢ on track Toronto. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 53¢ to 54¢c; No. 3 extra, blc to 5%¢; No. 3, 466 to 47¢ outside ; Manitoba, No.: 4, 52%e¢, on track, lake ports. Peasâ€"No. 2, 75¢ to 76c. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 67e to 68c. f Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, 5lce. Manitoba Flourâ€"Quotations at Toronto are:â€"First patents, $5.70; second patents, $5.20; strong bakâ€" ers‘, $5; 90 per cent., Glasgow freights, 288. Butterâ€"The market for good quaâ€" lity of butter is still very firm. Creamery prints .. .... 830¢ to 32%¢ Separator prints .. .... 25¢ to 26¢ Dairy prints (choice) .. 24e to 25¢ Large tolls â€".;:... .... 98e to 24c Inferior) ... ... :. uk. Horto.tee Syrupâ€"$1 to $1.10 per imperial gallon. Ontario Flourâ€"Winter wheat patâ€" ents for export, $4.05 to $4.10 in buyers‘ bags, outside. Millfeedâ€"Manitoba bran, $20 per ton; shorts, $22 per ton, track, Toâ€" ronto. Ontario bran, $22 per ton ; shorts, $23 per ton, on track, Toâ€" ronto. Eggsâ€"20c to 21c per dozen in case lots. THE WORLD‘S MARKEIS Foronto, April _ 26. â€" Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 mixed winter wheat, $1.06 to $1.07 outside. Manitoba _ Wheatâ€"Spot No. 1 noerthern, $1.09; No. 2 northern, $1.07 on â€" track, lake ports. _ For opening of navigation, No. 1 northâ€" ern, $1.05; No. 2 northern, $1.03 at lake ports. m REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Rrices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET LIVE STOCK MARKETS. MONTREAL MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUCKE. BREADSTUEFS. PROVISIONS. It is expected that full details in connection with the public offering will be made public within a few days. The firm of Cawthra Mulock & Co.. members of the Toronto Stock Exchange, have made arrangements for a public offering of $2,000,000 of the 7 per cent. Cumulative Preâ€" ferred Stock at $100.00 per share, the same to carry with it a bonus equal to 25 per cent. of common stock, that is for every four shares of the preferred stock subscribed for the applicant will receive as a bonus one share of common stock. The new Company has taken over the properties of the Hedley Shaw Milling Company, Limited, and the Maple Leaf Flour Mills Company, Limited, and in addition secures fiom the new interests that have become identified with the Comâ€" pany $1,000,000, additional cash eapital, which besides permitting of the erection of a modern 6,000 barrel mill and a million bushel elevator and storage warehouse at Port Colborne, will supply the new Cempany with further working capital. It is understood that Mr. Cawthra Mulock, Toronto, is assoâ€" clated with Mr. Hedley Shaw of the Hedley Shaw Milling Company, Limited, and Mr. D. C. Cameron, President of the Maple Leaf Flour Mills Company, Limited, in the orâ€" ganization of the new councetn. The ability of the Company to easily earn the 7 per cent. Cumulaâ€" tive Preferred dividend on $2,500,â€" 000 of preferred stock is indicated by the net earnings of the old Comâ€" panies, as per certificate of Messrs. Price, Waterhouse & Company, which shows that from September: 25th, 1908, from which date the plants of the Maple® Leaf : Flour Mills Company, Limited, were in operation, to August 20th, 1909, these net earnings amounted to $218,843.00, and from August the 2ist, 1909 to February 28th, 1910, the net earnings of the Companies amounted to $166,793.00. This would be equal to over 13 per cent. on the preferred stock, and the payâ€" ment of the 7 per cent. dividend on that stock would leave slightly over 6 per cent for distribution on the common stock.. The New Comâ€" pany‘s earning power will be very greatly increased once the new mill now under erection at Port Colâ€" berne is completed. ' BIG MILLING _ REâ€"ORGANIZAâ€" TION. 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The reason for the remarkably low rate lies in the fact that some Confesses to Killing Wife, But No Witnesses to Prove It. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N Y., says: A peculiar situation has developed here as a result of the alleged confesston that he mutâ€" dered his wife here six years ago, made at Waukegan, Ill., on Satâ€" urday, by Foster Johnson, a Tusâ€" carora Indian. Johnson says that he pushed his wife into the rapids above the falls.. It is claimed by lawyers that the confession he made carnot be used against Johnson in a tral, and it is impossible to get coerroborative evidence against him, as there were no witnesses. ‘‘The thing that makes me confess the murder of my wife,""‘ Johnson said, ‘‘was that before I killed her, and when she told me that she intendâ€" ed to commit suicide, she asked me for a nice gravestone, and I promâ€" ised her I would get it. I have never done so, and it has haunted me I see her head in the river in my dreams, and have hardly enâ€" joyed a peaceful night in all these vears." ‘ A ONFâ€"OENT GRAIN RATE Several Charters Made at An Unusual, Figure at Fort William. was the end of a man outworn by grief and acute agony of body. Wednesday was a bad day for the little knot of anxious watchers at the bedside. For long hours the grey, aquiline features lay moulded in the inertia of death, while the pulse sank lower and lower, but late, at night the patient passed from stupor into the first natural sleep he had known since he reâ€" turned from Bermuda, and on Thursday morning awoke refreshâ€" ed, even faintly cheerful and in full possession of all his faculties. â€"He A despatch from Redding, Conn., says:â€" Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) died painlessly at 6.30 o‘clock Thursday night of anâ€" gina pectoris. He lapsed into coma at 3 o‘clock in the afternoon and never recovered consciousness. 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It has been figured out that, adding the wages of the crew to the insurance rates,. a boat with a cargo of grain at n cent a bushel is actually losing vesselâ€"owners put their boats into commission before the supply of 1 Suddenly Attacked N. A. Bolton ‘ With an Axe. A despatch from Cardinal says : While two men were engaged in cutting up a pig on Thursday, Alâ€" bert Holmes, a farmer, living about twc miles west of this place, sudâ€" denly attacked N. A. Bolton with an axe, inflicting wounds on the top of the head and behind the ear, killing him instantly. It is said that Holmes‘ mind was unhinged by the purchase of the farm from his victim, believing he paid too much for it. He took poison last week in an attempt at su‘cide. The mrrderer escaped to the woods. Ho was met by a boy named George Perry, whom he warned to keep away or he would kill him too. To ths boy he also announced his inâ€" tention of going into the swamp to kill himself{. â€" He thereupon plunged inte the swamp of about 60 acres which lies behind his farm. Bolton, his victim, was a man of about 40 years. He leaves a widow and one son. Mark Twain died, as truly as i8 car be said of any man, of a broâ€" ken heart. The death of H. H. Rogers, a close friend, was a se vere blow. The death of his daughâ€" ter, Jean, who was seized with an attack of epilepsy last fall while in her bath, was an added blow from which he never recovered. It was then that the stabbing pains in the heart began. recognized bis daughter, Carrie (Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitch), spoke a rational word or two, and, feeling himself unequal for conversation, wrote out in pencil : ‘"Give me my glasses.""‘ These were his last words. Laying aside his glasses aind pencil, he sank first into revâ€" erie and later into final unconsciâ€" ousness.. There was no thought at the time, however, that the end was so near. FARMER KILLS COMPANION.