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A despatch from Nanking, China, »ays : That the de«ths due to famâ€" ine, and the pestilence following in _‘. Its wake, will total a million before s »pring, was the estimate submitted "to the relief committee here on Friâ€" day. +Relief workers are aghast with the realization of the task beâ€" _ fore them. Even were they in reâ€" ceipt of unlimited contributions for â€" relief, the ‘missionaries, doctors, * and other volunteer workers would be almost helpless in the face of bwo and oneâ€"half millions of sufferâ€" Ing people in the Anhui and Kiang §u Provinces. ‘A despatch from Colon says: Ratification of a contract between §ho Panama Government and the _ Balboa and Pacific Estates, Limitâ€" ed, of London, is expected at an early date in the Panama Assemâ€" bly. It will provide for a railroad from end to end of the Republic. Ib is the project long considered under the title of the Darien Line. . It is to open up the virgin country _ J on the Pacific slope and will paralâ€" lel that coast. One day it will be ~. n important link in the inevitable line linking North and South Amâ€" erica. A Yast Herds are Said to be Hauntâ€" ing Lake Athabaska. A despatch . from Edmonton, Alta., says: Edwarid Wylie, of Fort Chippewyan, who reached this city on Friday, after nearly a month‘s trip from the north by dog team, reports: that cariboo are haunting Lake Athabasca in vast herds, and coming nearer to civilization than ever before. He gives as a reason the excessive cold forcing the herds into thick timber that fringes the north shore of the lake. INYASION 0F THE STHIUS Report That She Will Not Attend the Coronation. A despatch from London says : It is stated, it has been definitely decided, the Queenâ€"mother will not rttend the coronation. British Capital to Build a Railroad Line Across Panama. DEATH LIST WILL BE MMLLIO» From the Famine and Pestilence in China Before Epring Arrives â€" THE 17th DREABDNOUEGHT p3 # ganen es 3 Measkh Hii es Tsc Kok h g, *bd 3 fosa>~ Weks Py Afus) peememes : tds hst 4 & eE ie urca Lnay Ples (€4 e 3 a T oak Cham Ne whomas s N ‘zf‘:f la No '}fi%fl‘: pacls> & \‘;’2“; “E’::; n 5 BdÂ¥ VA C vd . ~aae ts e g is t PM 2l ch.__ YS P Lopent bce. ze A tme$ A _ hay y s i C A despatch from London says:‘ fhe Thunderer, the 17th British Preadnought, and the fourth of the uperâ€"Dreadnought type, was sucâ€" tessfully launched from the yards of the Thames Iron Works Comâ€" any at Cannington on Wednesday® E‘he Archbishop of Canterbury conâ€" flucted the religious service precedâ€" \ng the christening by his wife, Mrs. Davidson. Fifteen thousand peoâ€" ple witnessed the ceremonies. The pfhicials gave a reception for the jeveral Government officials and Vigorous Health mmense Crowd Watches the Launching of the Thunderer. CARIBOU COME SOUTH. tone up weak stomachsâ€"supply the digestive Julces whigh are lackingâ€"enstre your food be!nfio;;ropcrly converted into brewn and sinew, ged blood and active brain. 50c. a at your druggist‘s or from 32 Natiozal Drug and Chemic=! Co. of Canade, Limited, THE QUEENâ€"MOTHER. Aâ€"DPRYâ€" A Lady Writes : "Why Didn‘t You Tell Us Before How Delicious It Is?" Sold Only in Airtight Packazes. @C® pySPFPSiA The United States is watching with an anxious eye this English invasion. â€" Ratification of the conâ€" tract will give Great Britain a footâ€" hold on the isthmus at the very brink of the canal and the right to assert a ‘"‘sphere of influence.‘" Once having attained this no one expects England to loosen its grip. It was expected American opposiâ€" tion would prevent completion of the negotiations, but now it seems plain the contract will be closed within a few weeks. The line will begin at David and will be extendâ€" ed eastward toward the Columbian ‘border. Many Factories Running Shortâ€" handed at London. â€" A despatch from London, Ont., says: London‘s factories are exâ€" periencing trouble through their employees being sick. As a result many of them are running shortâ€" handed. Grippe, an epidemic of which has been prevalent in the city for the past mounth, is keeping many of the factory men at home. Office staffs throughout the city are diminished in size. . An estimate shows that on an average more than a hundred employees of the factories of the city have been off work daily for the past month with colds and grippe. Office managers also report that they cannot keep any kind of system in their office. Some of the stenographers or clerks are staying at home every day. Murder is now adding to the death roll, reported William F. Junkim, Presbyterian missionary at Suchien. In their desperation at the lack of food, he said, the bolâ€" der of the natives have formed maâ€" rauding bands, who stop at noâ€" thing in robbing wayfarers and plundering houses. In many towns persons wearing good clothes fear to go on the street at night, lest they be waylaid and stripped of their garments, which can be sold for cash by the starving highwayâ€" men. Scores of instances of kidâ€" napping have been reported. other prominent personages preâ€" sent. The Thunderer had a displaceâ€" ment of 22,680 tons and will be equipped with turbines with a toâ€" tal of 27,000 horseâ€"power. She is expected to make a speed of 21 knots an hour. The vessel is 584 feet in length, and is armed with ten 13.5â€"inch guns and twentyâ€"four 4â€"inch guns. She is the largest vesâ€" sel ever launched so far up the Thames. Three thousand workmen were employed in her construction. â€"the power to enjoy to the full life‘s work and pleasureâ€"comes only with a good digestion. he,, ABLETS & I a f EPIDPEMIC OF GRIP. Montreal PRISES OF FARKN PRODUCTS REPORTS FORM THE LELDING TRADE CENTRES OF s AMERICA. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheeso and Other Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUEFEFS. Toronto, Feb. 7.â€"Flourâ€"Winter wheat 90 per cent. patents, $3.55 at. seaboard. Manitoba floursâ€" First patents, $5.40; second patâ€" ents, $4.90, and strong bakers‘, $4.170, on track, Torounto. _ _ Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern $1.011%, Bay ports ; No. 2 Northern, 99c, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 96%4c. Bay ports, with Winter storage at Goderich 1c extra. Ontario Wheatâ€"No. 2 white, 5€c, and No. 2 red and mixed 85¢, outâ€" side. Barleyâ€"Malting qualities, 5$ to 60c, outside, and feed 48 to 5ue ortâ€" side. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 35 to 36c, on track, Toronto, and 33 to 33!4¢ cutâ€" side; No. 2 W. C. oats, 37!}%c, Bay ports, and No. 2 at 36¢, Bay p‘orts. IEAEAEAETUERE c ie NeA en hi n t ic hi in Eut h eA oo Cornâ€"No. 2 American yellow, 52)%c, prompt shipment, Toronto freights. Peasâ€"No. 2 at 82 to 83¢ outside. Ryeâ€"64 to 64%c, outside. Buckwheatâ€"No. 1 at 48 to 49¢, outside. Branâ€"Manitobas at $22, in bags, Toronto, and shorts, $24, in bags, Toronto, and bran $22, in sacks, Toronto, and shorts $24. Semers Poultryâ€"Wholesale _ pricesâ€" of dressed poultry :â€"Chickens, 15 to 16e per lb. ; fowl, 11 to 13¢ per 1D.; ducks, 16 to 18¢ per lb.; turkeys, 19 to 21c per lb, and geese, 13 to 13c per lb. Live, 1 to 2¢ less. _ Beansâ€"Car lots, $1.70 to. $1.75, and small lots, $1.85 to .$1'9(,)1, Applesâ€"Spys, $4.50 to $6; Baldâ€" wins, $4 to $5; Greenings, $4 to $4.50; No. 2 assorted, $3.50 to $4.â€" 50 per barrel. Honeyâ€"Extracted, in tins, 10% to 11c per lb. No. 1 comb, wholesale, $2 to $2.50 per dozen; No. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $2 per dozen. Baled Hayâ€"No. 1 at $12.50 to $13, on track, andl No. 2 at $9.50 to $10.50. Baled Strawâ€"$7 to $7.50, on track, Toronto. Potatoesâ€"Car lots 75 to 80c per bag. $ Butterâ€"Dairy prints, 21 to 22¢; choice dairy solids, 21 to 22¢,, inferâ€" ior, 17 to 19¢; choice large rolls, 20c. Creamery quoted at 286 per lb. for rolls, 25e for solids, and 23 to 24e for separaror prints. Eggsâ€"Case lots of pickled bring 25 to 26¢; cold storage, 26 to 27¢ ; fresh, 28¢, and strictly newâ€"laid, 30c per dozen. Cheeseâ€"Large, _ 13¢, 13%e. Baconâ€"Long clear, 11% to 12¢ per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $21.50 to $22; do., short cut, $25 to $25.50; pickled rolls, $22 to $22.50. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 15 to 16c; do., heavy, 14¢;, rolls, 124 to 13¢; breakfast bacon, 17 to 17%e; backs, 1s to 19c. Uflllfl\.D, MRESv ie soed Lardâ€"Tierces, 12%¢; tubs, pails, 13}4¢c. Toronto, Feb. 7.â€"Oatsâ€"Canaâ€" dian Western, No. 2, 40 to 40}%c, car lots, ex store;, extra No. 1 feed, 39 to 39)%¢c; No. 3 C. W., 38%%4 to 38%e¢; No. 2 local white, 3734 to 38¢ ; No. 3 local white, 36% to 37¢ ; No. 4 local white, 35%f to 36e. _ EFlourâ€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.:60; seconds, $5.10; Winâ€" ter wheat patents, $4.75 to $5; strong bakers‘, $4.90; straight rolâ€" lers, $4.35 to $4.50; in bags, $2 to $2.10. _ Rolled oatsâ€"Per barrel, $4.45; bag of 90 lbs., $2.10. Feed barleyâ€"Car lots, ex store, 49 to ‘50c. Cornâ€"American No. 3 yellow, 5614 to . 57c. Millfeedâ€"Bran, Onâ€" tario, $19 to $20; Manitoba, $20 to $22; middlings, Ontario, $22.50 to $g23 ; shorts, Manitoba, $22 to $24; mouillie, $25 to $30. Eggsâ€"Selectâ€" ed, 28¢ ; do., fresh, 32¢ ; No. 1 stock, 25¢ ; No. 2, 21 to 23¢. Cheeseâ€"Westâ€" erns, 113% to 12l%4¢c; easterns, 11% to 11¢%¢. Butterâ€"Choicest, 2544 to 25%%c; seconds, gals to 23:%e. ed ; No. 2 white, ys‘4c asked. Corn â€"â€"No. 3 yellow, 49}{ic; No. 4 yelâ€" low, 47%¢, all on track, through billed. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 36¢; No. 3 white, 35)%c; Nu. 4 white, 34%e. Barleyâ€"Malting, 90 to 95¢. Ryeâ€" No. 2, on track, 84c. Minneapolis, Feb. 7â€"Wheatâ€" May, $1.06 58 to $1.06% ; July, $1.â€" 04% to $1.0417â€"8; No. 1 hard, $1.â€" 053â€"8; .No. 1 NortEkern, $1.03 to §1.0t7â€"8; No. 2 RNofrthern, â€"$1_ to $1.027â€"8; No. 3 wheat, 98c to $1.01. Branâ€" $29 to $22.50. Flourâ€"First patents, $4.15 to $5.15; do., seeâ€" Buffalo, Feb. 7.â€"Wheatâ€"Spring, No. 1 Northern, carloads store $1.â€" 125â€"8; Winter, No. 2 red, 98¢ askâ€" TUNITED STATES MARKETS. THE DAIRY MARKETS. MONTREAL MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUUE. H0G PRODUCTS. and twins Montreal, Feb. 7.â€"Some choice steers met a good demand at 6%c¢ to 6%c, and the common grades brought the same prices as quoted above. The market for hogs was Uy 20¢ to 25¢ per 100 lbs., lower with sales of selected lots at $7.75 to $7.90 per 100 lbs., weighed off cars. Toronto, Feb. 7.â€"The top price for.a good bunch of export cattle, 1,250 to 1,300 lbs., was $6.25. â€" A few selected cattle of the export class were bought for local butchâ€" ering at $5.90 to $6.20.. Good loads of choice butcher, 900 to 1,000 lbs., sold steady at $5.60 to $5.75; meâ€" dium, $5.25 to $5.50; good cows steady at $5 to $5.25 ; common cows easier at $3.25 to $4; good bulls, $4 to $5.10; canners, $2.50 to $2.â€" 75. Lambs, $6.20 to $6.40. Sheep, $4.95 to $4.75. Hogs, $7.15 f:.o.b.; THE NEWS TN A PARAGRAPH Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before Your Eyes. CANADA. Three aeroplanes are under conâ€" struction in Toronto. A. G. Ferguson, Manager of the Dominion Bazrk at Hanley, Sask., shot himsâ€"lf «ead. Miss Annie Clobesky of Guelph stepped off a moving train at Clifâ€" ton, and was seriously injured. Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux gave noâ€" tice in the Commons of a bill to allow slot stamp machines to be atâ€" tached to letter boxes. and $7.40 to $7.50 fed and watered. HKAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TH®E GLOBE IN A NUTSHELL. The C. P. R. has let contracts for a big dam in Bow River, which wiil bring half a million acres of land under irrigation. George Murray of St. Catharines was fined $50 for personating an elector and voting at the municipal election ir Thorold township. The merger of the Amesâ€"Holden Company and the James McCready Company, shoe manufacturers, has been completed. For robbing Conductor &rmâ€" strong of Toronto when he was hurt in a wreck, William Payne was sen tenced at London to six months‘ imprisonment. The body of Dolphus Drouillard, a farmer, missing for about two months, was found in the river near Sandwich on Saturday. It is supâ€" posed he was robbed and murdered. Albert Smith of London towaâ€" ship, who had been given un as dead by his family, returned unexâ€" pectedly the other day. While sitâ€" ting in his brother‘s house he dropâ€" ped dead. Judge Snider reversed Magistrate Jelfs‘ judgment at Hamilton in a recent liquor case and fined Robert Gardner $50. The defendant is a hotel proprietor, and the sale was made by a bellboy from a flask. GREAT BRITAIN. Mylius, who _ slandered King George, has been sent to jail for one year. Warrants have been issued in connection with New Jersey dynaâ€" mite explosion. _ The great powers are coâ€"operatâ€" ing to stamp out plague in China. The capitulation of Juarez, Mexiâ€" co, to the insurgents is imminent. Was Captured by the Canadians at Paardeberg. A ‘despatch â€" from Klerksdorp, Transvaal, says: General Piet A. Cronje, the noted Boer general, who was captured by the Royal The United States Government have agreed to act as mediators in Honduras. Canadian Regiment at Paardeberg in 1900, died on Saturday. GENERAL. Another great landslide has taken place on the Panama Canal. § LIVE STOCK MARKETS. GEN. CRONJE IS DEAD. UNITED STATES. A despatch from Brantford says : The lives of six men, including five trainmen and gne passenger, were lost and several injured in a terâ€" rible catastrophe on the Buffalo and Goderich line of the Grand Trunk Railway, which happened at 9.20 Saturday night, three and a half miles west ot Paris, and midâ€" way between Paris and Drumbo. The catastrophe was the result of a headâ€"on collisivon between the westbound passenger train, running from Buffalo to Stratford, and a mogul engine in charge of Engineer Robert Errett of Sarnia, running light from Stratford to Fort Ertie. THRRIBLE RALWAY WRECK Five Trainmen and One Passenger Killed on G. T. R. Buffalo and Godetrich Line. The dead are: A. Turner, enginâ€" eer, Stratford; leaves wife and grown up family. J. D. Smith, fireâ€" man, Stratford ; leaves a wife and family.. Peter McFarland, baggageâ€" man, Goderich; married, no chilâ€" dren. John Whitelaw, express mesâ€" senger, Goderick, â€" formerly _ of Whitbhy ; wife suffering from shock. William Tye, mail clerk, Goderich ; leaves wife and grown up family. D. J. Crozier, passenger, Drumbo. The list of injured includes the following: W. J. May, mail clerk, Hamilton, severely scalded; W. T. Henderson, city solicitor, Brantâ€" ford, back injured; William Mcelnâ€" tosh, customs clerk, Brantford, back injured ; George Hunt, Brantâ€" ford, shaken up; Robert Errett, engineer, minor bruises _ and sprains. 2 Following in the wake of the colâ€" lision came a terrible, devastating fire, which incinerated the bodies of a couple of the victims, and made an easy prey of the three splinterâ€" ed coaches of the train. The fire left nothing but the bare trucks and wheels, and a mass of twisted iron and charred ruin. OWwWASs 17 MINUTES LATE. The illâ€"fated train left Brantford 17 minutes late, and was running THNDEES FQR TEN YESSELS A despatch from Ottawa says : The Government has called for tenâ€" ders for the construction of the ten new vessels of the Canadian navy, contemplated in the initial buildâ€" ing programme, viz., four Rristcls and six destroyers of the latest imâ€" proved type. The plans and speciâ€" fications are, as has already been stated, based on the plans received from the Admiralty last fall and emâ€" brace the very latest advances in naval science. The tenders are not publicly. advertised, since followâ€" ing the rule of the Admiralty, deâ€" tails have to be kept secret, and only firms in whom the department Four Bristols and Six Destroyers of the Latest Type. A despatch from Toronto says: In his budget speech on Thursday, the Hon. A. J. Matheson, Provinâ€" cial Treasurer, said that the total estimates. for the year are $11,â€" 394,361, and the total estimated exâ€" penditures, including $2,644,900 on capital account, are $10,283,787. The increase in the succession duties during the year amounted to $180,000. % The excess over estimates of the receipts during the year was $600,â€" 000. * FEATURES 0F THE BUDGKT Ontario‘s Estimated Revenues Will Exceed $11,000,000 and Expenditure $10,000,000. ® In apite of the spread of local THE VICTIMS. in charge of Conductor Ausbrook, with full right of way. None of the crew were aware of the approachâ€" ing engine, which, it is understood, had running onders to its destinaâ€" tion and "to avoid regulars.‘‘ The engine should have stopped. afp Drumbro, but instead, proceeded on to Paris, colliding halfway with the passenger train. Had the lat, ter been on time the two would have met at Drumbo. Whether the crew of the engins had forgotten about the passenger train, or wheâ€" ther orders were mistaken, is & matter which could not be learned out of the usual railway reticence. BAGGAGE CAR TELESCOPED. At the National Corn Show at Columbus, Ohio. A despatch from Ottawa saysl A telegram was received on Friday by the Department of the Interio® announcing that Hill and Sons, of Lloydminster, had captured the Silver Trophy Sweepstakes, valug $1,500, for the best peck of oats at the National Corn Show, now in progress at Columbus, Ohio. The Reserve Sweepstakes, for the besb peck of wheat, was won by Norman Chanz, Davis, Saskatchewan. § When the crash cccurred the pasâ€" senger train was travelling at about 35 miles an hour, according to the Brantford passengers. The engine must have been going much faster, as it struck with such impact that the baggage car was completely telâ€" escoped, and the mail end of the smoking car driven in, where the passengers were buried in flying splinters and glass. > s Darkness immediately enveloped the train and its struggling occuâ€" pants, the excitement and confusâ€" ion being greatly enhanced by the fire, which rapidly spread from the old coal oil lamps in use on the train. . has confidence and who might be bona fide tenderers, will have ac= cess thereto. 3 Letters have been sent to all the leading British and Canadian firms who are in a position to tender, inâ€" viting them to inspect the plaas and put in tenders. It is stipulats ed that all the vessels must be buil# in Canada. Tenders must be in by, April next. When submitted they will be gone over by the experts of the Navy Department and probâ€" ably some time must elapse then before a decision is reached as to which tender shall be accepted, all the conditions being considered. option the increase in revenue from In all cases ercolrt the Temise kaming and Ontario Railway, the revenue has exceeded the estiâ€" mates. In the case of the Governâ€" ment railway there was a falling ofi in receipts below _ estimates of $205,000. â€" SGeveral bills are to be introduca* ed this session which will increamy the revenue of the province. licenses was $80,000. _The province can now show asâ€" sets of $24,000,000 against liabili« ties of $22,.000,000. _ _ _ â€" .. CANADIANS WON PRIZES. Miw