_CHRISTMAS JOY J Here‘s Wishing You the fomeee c# > preerv en riigrs mm le s § aniniaher es e e Ieveat a «se c e o e ol iess e inaprarty® "u P ie im en nc in esA *R P e Cns mt Gerpedfilie es ard mt t :;L:;;r-fï¬Â»â€˜:;:‘.:;i%i-:’. w ie on e ioi e C o s y y > s nc e " m e «d o e <p Sawe C e e ie ie "';1:7:"»-.,;\'\,"Ai‘,-‘;.,?&»’::'}f".sx“i,"*‘ * PTwenty Persons Buried Alive in White Haven, England. A despatch from White Haven, England, says: Twenty persons were buried alive in a landslide x ‘here on Friday when a retaining _ _wall gave way. A great mass of parth swept down upon a row of .cottages and a woman, who saw ithe danger, tried to give the ocâ€" _ _ sgupants warning, was killed. Workâ€" .‘men are working with feverish haste o uncover the bodies. Little Lad‘s "Merry Christmas®" Was Best Present. ‘A few years ago on UChristmas morning there came a bold knockâ€" ing at the front door of the house in hich the writer then lived. ‘The door was opened, and there Etood a very little boy, poorly dresâ€" sed, but rich in smiles and holiday happiness. His bright eyes sparkâ€" led and his cheeks were crimsonâ€" more from excess of cold than surâ€" plus of red blood. A while before the writer had done himself a service by doing a small service for this boy. The little fellow hadn‘t a cent with which to buy a gift to express his appreciaâ€" fon, but he was big enough and PAine enough to give the best he had, and, though he doesn‘t know it, his mope for a Merry Christmas was the Ereatesb gift which came to that ouse that day. "I come to give you a Christmas present,"‘ he said briskly. But he did not hold out anything as he spoke, "I come to say to you, I hope zou’ll have a Merry Christmas,‘‘ e added, and having delivered this gift, he turned and ran off as fast as he could. : BURIED UNDER TONS OF ROCK Three Workmen Killed at Hillsâ€" bora‘, N. B., Quarrics. A despatch from Hillsboro‘, N.B., says : Buried beneath three or four hundred tons of rock and their lives Anstantly snuffed out was the terâ€" rible fate that befell three workâ€" men in the Albert Manufacturing Company‘s quarries at Hillsboro,, Albert county, about 3 o‘clock on Friday afternoon, while several others had miraculous escapnes. "The dead are: Fred Nelson, aged 40; Edward Collett, aged 45, and "Theophilus Allain, aged 21. Octay Duplissey was severely injured. &CARNEGTIE‘S GREKEAT HFI ’1;.!;;1» Mohammedans They Were Asâ€" > signed to Protect. ~ A despatch from Caleutta says: ‘The Bakrid Mohammedan festival, which it was anticipated would be productive, of riots, passed quietly rnough until Tuesday evening, when thirtyâ€"two Hindu policemen ‘pmployed to guard one of the Maâ€" hommedan mosques refused to alâ€" Yow the Mohammedans to sacrifice sows and clubbed the worshippers. E‘he policemen have been arrested djor mutiny. $10,000,000 in EBonds for the Cause of Universal Peace A despatch from Washington| says: Surrounded by 27 trustees of Ahis choosing, comprising former Cabinet members, exâ€"Ambassadors, college presidents, lawyers, and educators, â€" Andrew ‘Carnegie on Wednesday â€"transferred $10,000,â€" in five per cent. first mortgage s, value $11,500,000, to be deâ€" primarily to the establishâ€" of unmiversal peace by the en of war between nations ch friction as may impair ogress and happiness of IS CHRISTMAS GIFT. e war between nations ave ceased the fund is to be plied to such altruistic purposes will "best help man in his glorious ascent onward and upâ€" ward,"‘ by the banishment of the "‘most degrading evil or evils‘‘ then HINDU POLICE MUTINY. FATAL LANDSLIDE. Monrtreal Woman Put Out Flames by Rolling Victin in Snmnow. A despatch from Montreal says : Pulled from the kitchen, her §arâ€" ments in flames from the explosion of gasoline, with which she was cleaning a skirt, only the presence of mind of Mrs. Adolphe Robillard, 409 Denis Street, saved Delima Marcil, 40 years of age, employed as a servant, from death by burnâ€" ing: Muis. Robillard threw the shricking servant in the snow and rolled her body until the flames were extinguished. The woman was ‘conveyed to the Notre Dame Hosâ€" ‘pital in the ambulance. Mrs. Roâ€" billard sustained painful burns to ) i CS ~A5 her. hands, unhurt. Prominent Winrnipeg Railway Conâ€". tractor Missing for Weeks. ‘ A despatch from Winnipeg says: The body of Neil Keith, a railzoad contractor of this city, who has been missing for the past six weeks, was discovered on Saturday in the hills several miles distant from his ‘camp at. Maryfeld, southwest of Moosejaw, Sask. At the time of his disappearance he was in a poor state of health and is supposed to have been delitious. The late Mr. Keith was one of the best known contractors in western Canada. Sea Walls Were Demolished in Many Places. s A despatch from London says : After a fortnight of wet and stormy weather throughout the United Kingdom one of the fiercest weosts erlyâ€"gatesâ€"â€"ver recorded swept through the country on Eriday. Enormous damage has been done on the Western and Southern Engâ€" lish coasts. Sea walls have been demolished in many places. Sevâ€" eral shops and houses at Ilfracomâ€" be have been smashed by the sea, and their contents washed out. Numerous wrecks have been reportâ€" ed and a score of lives have been lost. Disastrous floods have occurâ€" red in many places, where miles of country is submerged and the crops ruined. The temperature is abnorâ€" mally high. NEIL KEITH FOUND DEAD. PETTY SMUGSLING IS RIFE. Additional Scarchers Appointed at the Falls. C A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says: Petty smuggling of small merchandise here has grown to such magnitude during the last month that the wustoms Departâ€" ment has taken the precaution to. appoint two additional searchers to watch the two bridges for foot trafic~ One of the new inspectors is a woman, Miss J. L. Ogilvie. The favorite scheme now in vogue here is to wear new clothing urder old or to carry the old attire in bunâ€" dles. Another plan much used is to slip small objects into empty dinner pails. Working people reâ€" turning from the other side of the river will have to open their dinâ€" sAYED SERYANT‘S LIFE. ner baskets in the future harassing mankind. As Mr. Carnegie read an infor-{ mal deed of trust, announcing at, length the general purpose of his gift, there was prolonged applause. | He then explained the incidents, which inspired the giving of the, money at this time and declared with emphasis that if the EnglishJ speaking race in the United States and Great Britain once consolidatâ€" ed in the movement for internaâ€" tional peace, the success of the measure in the rest of the world would be assured. That Great Briâ€" tain stood ready to coâ€"operate with the United States Mr. Carnegie said he felt certain, and all that was needed, he added, was the conâ€" currence of the President and Senâ€" ate in promulgating theâ€"movement on behalf of the United States. cALE SwWEEPS BRITAIN. ined painful burns to but otherwise escaped Best of REPORTS FROM THE LEABING TRADE CENTEES. Prices ef Caitle, Grain, Chcese and Cther Bairy Produce at Gome and Asroad. BREADSTUFEFS. Toronto, Dec. 20.â€"Flourâ€"Winter wheat 90 per cent. patents, ‘$3.55 to $3.60, seaboard. Manitoba floursâ€"First patents, $5.40, secâ€" ond patents, $4.90, and strong bakâ€" ers‘, $4.70, on track, Toronto. . t un I L L 4y 99. imave Wce t en NOe O tulinn en Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northâ€" ern, 98c, Bay ports; No. 2 Northâ€" ern 95%e¢, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 93¢, Bay poris. § Inek fare aoe n eoome n Ontario wheatâ€"86¢ outside for No. 2 whits and red Winter. Barleyâ€"56 to 58e outside, and feed, 48 to 50c outside. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 35¢, on track, Toronto, and 32 to 32%4c outside ; No. 2 W. C. omts, 238¢, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 36%4c, Bay ports. C e ies Bsce anthe n beconin ie ie Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 35¢, on track, Toronto, and 32 to 32%4¢ outside ; No. 2 W. C. oats, 38¢, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 36%4c, Bay ports. CGornâ€"New No. 2 American, 54¢, prompt shipment, Toronto freights. Peasâ€"No. 2 shipping, T77 to 78¢ outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2 at 59 to 60¢ outside. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2 at 46 to 47¢ outside. Branâ€"Manitoba, $19 in bags, Toronto, and shorts $21, in bags, Toronto. Ontario bran, $19, in sacks, Toronto, and shorts, §$22. Applesâ€"Spys, $4.50 to $6; Baldâ€" wins, $4 to $5; Greenings, $4 to $4.50; No. 2 assorted, $3.50 to $3.75 per barrel. Beansâ€"Car lots, $1.60â€" to $1.70, and small lots, $1.80 to $1.90. Honeyâ€"Extracted, in tins, 10% to ilo per lb.; No. 1 comb, wholeâ€" sale, $2 to $2.25 per dozen ; No. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $1.85 per dozen. Baled Hayâ€"No. 1 $12.50 to $13 on track, and No. 2 at $10 to §11. Baled Strawâ€"$7 to $7.50 on track, Toronto. Poultryâ€"Wholesale _ prices ofi dressed poultryâ€"Chickens, 124. to. 13e per lb.; fowl, 9 to 11e per lb. 5) ducks, 13 to 14e per 1b ; turkeys, 17 to 19¢ per lb, and geese, 12 to 12%e per lb. Live, 1 to 2¢ less. _ Potatoesâ€"Car lots, 70 to 75c per bas. ‘ Butterâ€"Dairy p.uuts, 22 to 24¢, choice dairy solids, 21 to 22¢, inâ€" ferior, 18 to 19¢. Creamery, 27 to ase per lo. for rolls, 25e for solids, and 24 to 25¢ for separator prints. Eggsâ€"Case lots of pickled bring 27e, cold storage, 27 to 28¢,; selectâ€" ed, 30 to 31c, and strictly newâ€"laid, sb to 46c per doezen. _ Cheeseâ€"Large, 12}%c, and twins, 19°%%C. Baconâ€"Long clear, 13 to 13}%c per lb. in case lots,; mess pork, $24 to $24.50; short cut, $26 to $26.50 Hamsâ€"Light.to medium, 16¢,; do., heavy, 15¢; rolls, 12%¢; shoulders, 12¢c; breakfast bacon, 18¢; backs (pea meal), 18}4%¢. _ Lardâ€"Tierces, 13%¢; tubs, 14¢, pails, 1414.¢. Montreal, Dec. 20.â€"Oatsâ€"No. 2 Canadian Western, 39% to 39%¢; extra No. 1 feed, 384c¢; No. 3 Caâ€" nadian Western, 384 to 38)%4¢c; No. 2 local white, 37!%c; No. 3 local white, 36%6; No. 4 local white, 35%Mc. Barleyâ€"Manitoba No. 4, 48 to 48%c. Flourâ€"Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.60;, do., seconds, $5.10 ; Winter wheat patâ€" ents, $4.75 to $5; Manitoba strong bakers‘, $4.90; straight rollers, $4.-‘ 35 to $4.50; do., in bags, $2 to $2.â€" 05; extras, $1.65 to $1.75. Feedâ€" Ontario bran, $18.50 to $19; Onâ€" tario middlings, $22 to $22.50; Maâ€" nitoba shorts, $21 to $22, Manitoâ€" ba bran, $18 to $20; pure grain mouillie, $31 to $32; mixed mouilâ€" lie, $25 to $28. Cheeseâ€"Finest westerg colored. 11‘ to 11 7â€"8¢; finest western white at 11% to !115â€"9e, and easterns, 11}4 to 1‘%¢. Butterâ€"UChoicest Fallâ€"make creamâ€" ery, 25% to 26¢, and seconds 24‘4 to 250. Eggsâ€"Selected stock, 29 to 30¢; No: 1 stock, 25 to 26¢, and No. dâ€"at 10 to 20¢. Montreal, Dec. 20.â€"Steers sold at from $4.50 for ordinary stock to $6 for choice; cows, $3.50 to $4.50; bulls, $3.95 to $4.50. Sheep were firm at $4.25 and lambs at $6 to 86.â€" 10. Hogsâ€"$7.40 and sows at §$6.45. Calves brought all the way from §2 to $13. . w 19 aEsol Memee en o seR Ds Donies Toronto, Dec. 20.â€"Good butcher caitle met with a strong demand and several leads sold as high as $6.60 per cwt. Good mediurm ceows brought in the neighborheed of $5.â€" 25 and hesvy bulls about $4.85. Sheep were steady, but lambs were a little off color. Hogs are unâ€" changed. & Knickerâ€"So Jones has invented a Christmas tie? Dockerâ€"â€"â€"{’e-s; one cide is for the wite‘s iasto and tho olher _ for ike man‘s. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. COUNTRY PRODUC WORLD‘S MARKEIS THE DAIRY MARKETS. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. HOG PRODUCTS. A HOLIDAY BOON LOTS OF WHEAT IN EUROPE. Will About Equal Unprecedented| Yield of 1909. A despatch from Washington says: Foreign crop conditions, as reported to the U“p S. Department of Agriculture, were announced by the department on Thursday. In most of the principal cerealâ€"producâ€" ing nations agriculture during the past month has made seasonable progress, the most noteworthy exâ€" ceptions being in some countries of western and central Europe, where the completion of Autumn seeding has been retarded and expected inâ€" creases in areas sown are not likeâ€" ly to be realized. Early official ¢sâ€" timates of the 1910 wheat crop of Europe will now need revision. The final official estimate of the importâ€" ant crop of Russia exceeds expecâ€" ‘tations, and puts the 1910 yield of the empire at 773,000,000 bushels, or only 10,000,000 bushels less than the high record output of 19809. In view of these figures it is obvious |that the total European wheat |crop almost, if not quite, equals |\the unprecedented abundance of the previous season. S Guarding the Coast of the North| Atlantic. _ A despatch from Halifax â€" says : In addition to serving the people of the Magdalenes in case of a cable break, the new Magdaiene Island wireless station will be an outpost from which early information as to ice conditions can be obtained and the probable time of the resuming of \ navigation to and from the North Atlantic coast ports foretold, as. also possible dangers to the transâ€" atlantic service in the early sumâ€" mer months from huge masses of \ice. Three operators are to be in charge during the winter months and two in the summer. The keepâ€" ing open during the whole of the coming season of Point Amour and Belle Isle stations will also be of benefit in keeping tab on the ice conditions. Wireless Station at Port Arthur is Now Working. l A despatch from Port Arthur says: The wireless telegraph station here is now in full working order. Itb was opened on Saturday afterâ€" noon, Mayor Matthews sending greotings to the Mayor of Duluth. The local operator has already conâ€" versed over a distance of 1,200 miles with stations on the Atlantic soast. t o gi n e \ INLAND REVENUE RISES. An Increase During Past Month of | ©900,000. A RUNAWAY ELEVATOR. A despatch from Ottawa _ says: The total revenue of the Inland Péevenue Department for the month of November was $1,651,023, as compared with $1,449,309 in No:â€" vembor, 1909. The revenue from > e en o "2n ki ve 20 0 get e alos c amne en excite duties was $1,625,267, of which $625,906 was paid on tobacâ€" co, $810,339 on spirits, $128,226 on malt and $42,453 on cigars. Rritish Boslermakers Vote to Acâ€" capt Terms. A despatch from Loadon says: The boilermakers‘ lockout, affectâ€" inz 50,000 men in the yards of the: Shipbuilding Employers‘ Federaâ€". tion, onded on Wednesday with the acceptance by the men of the terms made by the ereploeyers. The lockâ€" out was instituted on Sept. 2, folâ€" lewing & strike of the riveters emâ€" ployed at the Walker shipyards at Newcastleâ€"onâ€"Tyne. The Federaâ€" tion asserted that che strike was a violation of the agreement made between the Federation and nineâ€" teen workmen‘s societies last spring |\for the prevention of strikes and }lockouts. and declared a lockout to remain in force until the boilerâ€" NEW WIRELESS STATION. TALKED OVER 1,200 MILES. makers‘ society was prepared to suarantee theâ€" {fxlfillment sof the acrecement. THE LOCKOUT ENDED. The Vote in Sashatchewan _ Went Against It. ‘ A despatch from Regina, Sask.,. says: While the figures have still to come in from a few rural disâ€" tricts, returns from Monday‘s local option election now tabulated show that the local option forces were generally defeated throughout the Province. Altogether 159 licenses were involved by the byâ€"laws voted on, and of these only twentyâ€"sevâ€" en, or less than oneâ€"ffth, have been cut off. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Two more local option byâ€"laws were quashed on Wednesday in the Police Court, when decisions were given in the cases of the town of Carman and the rural municipality of Portage la Prairie. Both were on technicalities. _ New â€" byâ€"laws must be drafted and submitted to the electors. Strikes Blamed for Falling Off in Canada Last Year. A despatch from Ottawa says : There was a decrease of 384,836 tons in the production of coal in Canada last year as compared with the previous year, according to the annual report on Canadian minerâ€" al production. This is the first year in fourteen in which a deâ€" erease has to be recorded, and the coal miners‘ strike at Sydney and Springhill, N.S., is ‘blamed. Tho total production was . 10,501,475 ltons, valued at $24,781,236, as comâ€" |pared with a production of 10,886,â€" 311 â€"tons, valued at $25,194,573, in 1908. Even at that, however, the output was more than twice that of ten years ago, and four times that of Atwenty years ago. BECREASE IN COAL OUTPUT Shipped from Smithfield in Virginâ€"| iaâ€"Specialty Cured. A despatch from _ Washington says : King George will have Smithâ€" field ham, cured as only the Nan:â€" samond county, Virginia, hog raiâ€" ser knows how to cure them, on the table at his Christmas dinner. A box containing fifty genuine Virâ€" ginia Smithfield hams has been shipped to the Countess of Stafâ€" ford at Chandos House, but intenâ€" ded for King George. This is the first shipment of hams to royalty. in England since the death of King Edward. The hams were cured and |shipped by E. L. Barrow. 1t is tsaid the new King of England got his first taste of the real Smithfield ham from the table of his grandâ€" ‘mother, the late Queen Victoria. \Every year she had fifty or more hams shipped direct from Smithâ€" field. The hams shipped King ’George were from cornâ€"fed hogs especially cured and prepared for ‘him. LOCAL OPTION BEATEN. BABE KILLED, MOTHER HURT. Fatal Mishap of Ottawa Woman on Stairs in Her Home. A despatch from Ottawa says: While Mrs. E. A. Bauce, of 68 Seeâ€" ond Avenue, was bringing her seyvâ€" enâ€"monthsâ€"old baby downstairs on Wednesday evening, she fell at the top landing. In the tumble her babe was instantly killed and the mother suffered a broken arm. CANADA‘S HLARVEST O0F 1910 Dr. Saurder‘s Says the Class of Immr station Does Not Benefit Agriculture A despatch frowmu. Ottawa says: The preliminary estimate of the total wheat output of Canada for the year 1910, as communicated to the Parliamentary _ Agricultural Commission by Dr. Saunders, Supâ€" erintendent of the Dominion Exâ€" perimental _ Farms, is 122,785,000 bushels, a falling off from actual figures of last year. Hon. Sydney Fisher, however, exâ€" pressed expectancy that the actual figures when procured would make \;a better showing. The shrinkage occurred through tue drought in HAMS FOR THE KING. GONDENSED NEWS IJTEMS UAPPENINGS FROM ALL OYVER TIHE GLOBK. Telegraphic Briefs From Our OwR ard Other Countries of Recent Events. Canada will send a military conâ€" tingent of 700 men to the Coronaâ€" tion. Every public school in Canada will receive a book on physical culâ€" ture. The Ontario Government will conâ€" tinue in the policy of helping to bring out domestics to Canada. . Reports from Bollevue mine, in Alberta, place the number of dead at thirty or thirtyâ€"two. Local option carried in elever municipalities in Saskatchewan and was defeated in twentyâ€"one. A Cargary, jeweller was robbe(j of eight hundred dollars‘ worth precious stones. 4 Edward Kellar was run down and fatally injured by a radial car neat Hamilton. 7 _ Prof. Haultain says that the value of Canada‘s mineral output would exceed that of agriculture. Saskatchewan â€" temperance men claim they were robbed of several municipalities in the recent local option vote by fraud and perjury. ‘A bold thief broke‘ a window in a St. Catharines jewellery store and carried off $300 _ worth.â€"ol gosas) . s s « 3 dn oo rerone, © antint Three men were asphyxiated by coal gas in a shanty at Luseland, Sask., and a fourth had a very nar. row escape from death. § A sad story comes from Winni peg of 30 men being sent on a 65 mile tramp for work, and finding they were not wanted when they arrived at the place indicated. Rosella Carifelle of Gatineau Point, on Friday, broke through the ice of the Gatineau River and swam a distance of 100 yards to the other side, where she was able to crawl out. The accouchement of Queen Mary is expected in March. Mr. Balfour‘s referendum propoâ€" sal has created a serious split in the Unionist forces. It is stated that Federal home rule will be one of the supjects fos discussion at the Imperial Confers ence next year. It is proposed to make old Fort Mackinac a garrison for United States troops. _ > A blinding blizzard along the Massachusetts coast, on Friday, reâ€" sulted in many shipping casualtief and. it is feared, loss of life. . | . Majorâ€"General Wood arew attention to the unpreparedness of the United States to resist invasion by foreign troops. Serious floods are reported from northern Italy. It is reported that the Federal troops have inflicted a heavy defeat on the insurgent forces in the Chi« huahua district of Mexico. the wesetrn Province, Ontaric and the east, showing an increase. The combined yield of wheat, cats and barley is estimated at 445,420,000 bushels. _ While the grain output has tallen off, that of hay and other fodder haes increasâ€" Dr. ‘Saunders‘ 24th annual reâ€" port pointed out that Canadian agriculture had suffered during the past year from ‘"the quantity of poor material which immigration has brought to our land. Many of those coming from Europa especialâ€" ly have almost averything to loarn.‘"* GREAT BRITAIN. UNITED STATES. CANADA. GENERAL. Wood â€" â€" dtew ~~