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%’%Yz ‘A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says: Infantile paralysis has invaded Canada. Two cases are known here, one of which is in St. Catharines, the other at Moon Lake, Ont. Threeâ€"yearâ€"old_ Rosa Hipple of §t. Catharines is seriousâ€" ly ill with the dread disease. She came to Canada from Cambridge, Engaad, several months ago when the Hipple family removed to this Dreaded _ Plague Spreads With Great Rapidity. A despatch from Trani, Italy says: During the past 24 hours th‘ere have been nine new cases and twelve deaths here from cholera, at Barletta, eight cases and seven deatas, at Margherita Savoia, five cases and two deaths, at San Ferâ€" dinando. . three cases and one death ; and at Trinitapoli four cases and three deaths. 5 Two Cases of Infantile Paralysis Has Invaded This Country. Tenâ€"ycarâ€"old Boy Saves a Drownâ€" ing Companion. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Jack Crawford, aged ten, is the hero ofâ€" Winnipeg. following his plucky action on Tuesday night in jumping into the Red River after Freddy Fryer, aged four, who had fallen into the stream. The little fellow fished up the drowning child and got him safely to land before other help had arrived. A moveâ€" ment is already on foot to get a Royal Humane medal for Crawâ€" ford. He learned to swim this sumâ€" mer. NEW DISEASE IN CANADA His Claim to Divine Right Strongâ€" ly Criticised. A despatch from Berlin says : The speech delivered er Thursday night by Emperor William at the Provincial banquet at Koenigsâ€" burg, and in which he reiterated and emphasized his belief in the Divine mandate by which he rules, referred to the Prussian Crown as bestowed by God‘s grace and not by Parliaments or people‘s assemâ€" blies, and laid a lance against the present movement for woman sufâ€" frage, is the political sensation of the hour. The leading organs of the German press devote extended comments to it, generally criticizâ€" ing the Emperor‘s utterances, and there are indications that the disâ€" course will have a deep political effect upon the country. ‘ The Season‘s Output Sold to Luckâ€" > now Buyer. A despatch from Simcoe says : Perhaps the most important deal in apples made in the Dominion this season was closed at Simcoe on Thursday last, when Mr. J; E. Johnson, manager of the Norfolk EFruitâ€"growers‘ Association, closed ‘out their season‘s pack, 30,000 barâ€" rels, to Mr. J. G. Anderson of Lucknow. One matter of great sigâ€" nificance in connection with this deal is the fact that up to about six years ago the county of Norâ€" folk was practically unknown as an appleâ€"growing district, when Mr. Johnson appeared on the scene, and with the coâ€"operative organization of the Growers, the membership of which is 355, took up the work of good orchard management, and brought it to such perfection in these few short years that the eyes of the entire appleâ€"purchasing world are now turned on Norfolk county. TRE TOLL TWO HUNDRE] Superintendent Weigel, of the Cour d‘ Alene National Forest, after receiving many reports of disaster to various parties of his six hunâ€" dred employees, posted a bulletin on Wednesday night in his office at Wallace, announcing the death of one hundred and fourteen men. He also expressed grave concern for the safety of Ranger Joseph B. Halm and seventyâ€"four men, who were surrounded by fire Saturday night in the forest on the Big Fork of the Cour d‘Alene River, near The Official Report of the National Forest Superintendent. ‘A despatch from Spokane, Washâ€" ington, says : Forest fires have slain more than two â€" hundred persons, nearly all fireâ€"fighters, in Idaho, according to figures compiled on Wednesday night from latest reâ€" ports. KiISER RAISES TEMPEST. NORFOLK APPLE CROP. CHOLERA IN ITALY. A CHILD HERO. A despatch from London says: The worst outbreak of rabies that has appeared for some time occurâ€" red at the farm of A. & D. Mcâ€" Intyre, big stock raisers of Lobo, where two fine cows are already dead and others are affected. The farm is a mile from that of D. Campbell, where a horse died last March from rabies, and eight peoâ€" ple were sent to the Pasteur Inâ€" stitute for treatment. It is supposâ€" ed McIntyre‘s cows were infected in some way from the horse. New York Mayor Eating Three Square Meals. A despatch from New York says : The bullet wound in Mayor Gayâ€" nor‘s neck has healed on the outâ€" side and the irritation of the throat caused by granulation on the inside has ceased. The Mayor eats heartâ€" ily and is now back to his regular diet of three square meals a day. He is allowed to take a little exerâ€" cise in the hospital corridors. country. Gertrude, the twelveâ€" yearâ€"old daughter of George M. Tuttle, the County Attorney of Niagara County, and a prominent lawyer of Niagara Falls, N. Y., is suffering from the disease at the family‘s summer kome as Moon Lake. Dr. Horton, Tuttle‘s family physician, and Dr. Mackenzie, Toâ€" ronto, a specialist, are both in atâ€" tendance. Two Cows Die of Disease and O thers are Infected. United States Capitalists Offer $2,000,000 For It. A despatch from Montreal says : A group of New York and Philaâ€" delphia capitalists have offered two million dollars for Nun‘s Island, at the foot of the Lachine Rapids. The island is owned by the Sisters of the Congregation, and they are considering the offer. The island is required for the rearing of kids, whose skin is used in the manufacâ€" ture of gloves. The island is large and is cne of the beauty spots in the vicinity of the city. The charred bodies of twentyâ€"five fireâ€"fighters were found on Tuesday on Setzer Creek, in the St. Joe country. Two severely scorched Japanese dragged themselves to Avery, Idaho, on Tuesday night, and told of the death of ten of their companions. The twelve men, emâ€" ployees of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad, had gone out to fight fires. They were surâ€" rounded by flames, and only two men escaped. The number of deaths in Washington was on Wed:â€" nesday reduced to three, all in the Pen d‘Oriellic Valley, near Newâ€" port. One of three victims, Mrs. Ernest Reinhardt, wife of a ranchâ€" er, is the only woman known to have been burned to death in any of the fires. TO PURCHASE NUN‘S ISLAND. A Travelling Showman was Torn to Picces. A despatch from Montreal says : Word reached the city on Friday night from St. Martine that a trayâ€" elling showman with a bear, in the neighborhood, had been terribly mauled and killed while drunk by the animal, which he had omitted to muzzle. . The man had been drinking in a tavern at St. Martine, leaving the bear tied in a camp on the outskirts. On returning he lay down to sleep, and the unmuzzled bear practically tore him to pieces. A despatch from Holden, Alta., says: â€" Stewart â€" Robinson, aged eight, the son of a farmer near here, had both feet severed by the knives of a mower driven by an older brother on Tuesday when he stumbled in front of the mower and his legs were caught in the cutâ€"box.. The brother stopped the bleeding by tying shoe laces around the mangled limbs, and although medical aid could not be secured for several hours, the boy has a fair chance for recovery. where another party lost thirteen men. Youth Stumbles â€" Against Mowing Machine and Loses Both Feet. GAYNOR‘S WOUND HEALED. CUT BY MOWER KNIVES. KILLED BY A BEAR. RABIES IN LOBO. Overalls Caught in Machinery â€" Body Blocked the Wheels. A despatch from Port Arthur says: Wm. Smith, foreman of the annex at King‘s elevator, was killâ€" ed on Wednesday afternoon as a reâ€" sult of his overalls being caught in the machinery. No one saw the acâ€" cident, and the body was found when other employees investigated the blockade which it caused. He was 35 years of age, and leaves a vwife and two children. A Peculiar Incident Happened at Bolieville. g. A despatch from Belleville says : A peculiarâ€" incident happened in this city on Thursday morning. Walter H. Reeves, a clever hockey player, died here on Wednesday. It seems that his father owned a horso which the dead boy used to drive. Thursday morning a broâ€" ther of the deceased hitched up the horse and drove to the front of his father‘s house, where the dead body of Walter Reeves was lying. The horse whinnied a few times, looked around as though he were looking for someone and dropped dead. ELEYATOR FOREMAN KILLED. Crashed Through Factory Ceiling, But Hurt No One. A despatch from Kingsten says : A big tank full of whey at the Mosâ€" cow cheese factory crashed down through the ceiling of the make room on Wednesday. The stays holding up the tank gave way. Forâ€" tunately the cheeseâ€"makers were not in the room when the accident happened. Brandon and Trench, the alleged British spies in Germany, are to be tried at Leipzig. The convention annexing Corea to Japan has been signed. Election disorders as a protest against the Government are feared in Portugal. es s $ An automobilo crashed into a construction train at Queen‘s Borâ€" ough, N. Y., and two persons were killed and nine injured. Joseph A. Gadoua, C.N.R. station agent at Huberdeau, Quebec, was sent to jail for a year for stealing a valise. Damage estimated at one million dollars was caused by a tornado in Michigan. _ / _ _ 8 Exâ€"President Roosevelt promises to expose crooked and grafting ofâ€" ficials in public life. * The kidnapper who stole a fourâ€" yearâ€"old boy at Kingston, N. Y., strangled him to death. _ _ _ Professor James of Harvard is dead. Telegraphic Bricfs From Our OwSD ard Other Countrics of » Recent Events. CANADA. The cost of dsepening the Welâ€" (l)e(x)gd Canal is placed at $50,000,â€" The output of the Ontario mines for the first half of the year amounted to over twelve million dollars. Highâ€"priced whiskey has resultâ€" ed in a marked decrease of drunkâ€" enness in the United Kingdom. The International Congress of Sailors and Seamen resolved to deâ€" clare an international strike if its grievances are not remedied. Several men were injured in a strike riot near Scranton, Pa., on Friday. The list of dead in the forest fires in Montana and Idaho numbers hundreds. One of the women attendants at Hamilton Asylum is said to be unâ€" der surveillance in connection with Moir‘s escape. News comes from Quebec that the Hon. Jules Allard_ has made the announcement of an increase of $120,000 over the previous year in the revenue of the Crown Lands Department. A raimnbow trout weighing 35 pounds was caught in a dredge at Sault Ste. Marie. The first shipment of new wheat bas arrived at Port Arthur from St. Agathe. John Penny, a C. P. R. switchâ€" man, was killed by an engine at North Bay on Friday. Archibald Orr was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. at Montreal for gouging his wife‘s eye out. . 3 By the arrest of a man who gave his name as John Bagley the Toâ€" ronto police believe they have in custody a forger and thief. GONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVEER TUE GLOBE. HORSE DROPPED DEAD. TANK OF WHEY FELL. UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL. Buffs‘s. . Aug: 30.â€"Wheat â€" Spring wheat, No. 1 Northern, carloads store, $1.18 ; Winter, No. 2 red, $1.03; No. 2 white, $1.01: Cornâ€"No. 3 yellow, 66c; No. 4 yelâ€" low, 64c; No. 3 corn, 64)%c; No. 4 corn, 62)%c¢, all on track through billed. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 36%4c¢; No. 3 white, 36¢; No. 4 white, 34%ec Barleyâ€"Malting, 73 to 75c. Ryeâ€" No. 2, on track, i8c. Canal freightsâ€"Wheat to New York, 4%c. Toronto, Aug. 30.â€"a few selectâ€" ed steers and heifers were bought for local killing at $5.85 to $6.‘The best butchers‘ ranged from $5.30 to $5.65, medium at $4.90 to $5.25. St. Louis, Aug. 830.â€"Wheatâ€" September, 98%c; December, $1.â€" 024. Montreal, Aug. 30.â€"Calves, $3 to, $12; live hogs, $9 to $9.50 per 100 pounds; sheep, 4e to 4‘fc pound ; lambs, $3.50 to $5; steers, choice, 6e to 6e ; good, 5%¢ to 6c ; middle; 54e to 5)%¢; fair, 4%%¢c to 5e ; common, 444¢ to 4%e. Butterâ€"Best creamery, 23c to 23%4c¢; creamery, 21%c to 22%%c. Eggsâ€"Selected stock, 21c to 22%¢ dozen; straight receipts, 17% to 18e doz. ; second grade, 12¢ to 12%c. Flourâ€"Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30; do., seconds, $5.80; winter wheat patents, $5.40 to $5.50; Manitoba strong bakers, $5.60; straight rollers, $5.20 to $5.25; straight rollers in bags, $2.50 to $2.60; extras, $2.15 to $2.25. Cheeseâ€"Western, 11e to 11%%¢; eastern, 10%e to 11c. Millfeedâ€"Bran, Ontario, _ $20.50 to $21; Manitoba, $20; middlings, Ontario, $21 to $22; shorts, Maniâ€" toba, $22 mouillie, pure grain, $33 t» $34; mixed, $28 to $29, Hayâ€"No. 1, $14.50 to $15; No. 2 extra, $13.50 to $14; No. 2, $12 to $12.50; clover, mixed, $10.50 to $11 ; clover, $9 to $10. Corn â€" American No. 2 yellow, car lots, ex store, T1‘%c; No. 3 yellow, 70%c¢ to T1¢c. Oatsâ€"Car lots, ex store, No. 2 Canada western, 41c to 41%4%c; No. 3, 394 to 40c. Montreal, Aug. 30.â€"Barleyâ€"Car lots, ex store, No. 3, 53¢ to 54¢, No. 4, 49¢ to 50¢. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" Long clear bacon, tons and cases, 15c to 15!%4¢; backs (plain), 21¢ to 21%%4c; backs (peaâ€"meal), 21%c to 22¢. _ Wholesale quotations :â€" Rollsâ€"Smoked, 15¢ to 15c ; meâ€" dium and light hams, 19¢ to 19%%c¢; heavy, 17%c to 18¢; bacon, 19¢ to 20¢. Green meats out of pickle, 1¢ less than smoked. Porkâ€"Short cut, $30 to $30.50 per barrel; mess, $27.50 to $28. _ Lardâ€"Tierces, 14}4c;, tubs, 14}4¢; pails, 14%e; stocks steady. Eggsâ€"19c per dozen in case lots. Cheeseâ€"11%c per pound for large and 11%c per pound for twins. _ Butterâ€"Creamery prints, 23¢ to 24¢c; separator prints, 20¢ to 21¢; dairy prints (choice), 19¢ to 20¢; do., tubs, 18¢ ; inferior tubs, 16¢ to 17¢. e Barleyâ€"No. 2, Sle to 52¢; No. 3 etxra, 49c to 50¢c; No. 3, 46¢ to 47¢c outside. Peasâ€"No. 2, 76c to 78c. Manitoba Flourâ€"Quotations at Toronto are :â€"First patents, $6.20 ; second patents, $5.70; strong bakâ€" ers‘, $5.50; 90 per cent., Glasgow freights, 258. Beansâ€"$2 to $2.10 per bushel for primes and $2.15 for handâ€"picked. Honeyâ€"9c to 10c for strained in 60â€"pound tins; 5 to 10â€"pound tins, $‘%¢ to 10%c; No. 1 comb, $1.75 to $2 per dozen ; No. 2, $1.50. Potatoesâ€"70c to 90c per bag. Ontario Flourâ€"New winter wheat flour, for future delivery, $3.75 to $3.85, at the mills. Millfeedâ€"Manitoba bran, $20 per ton; shorts, $22 per ton, track, Toâ€" ronto. Ontario bran, $20 per ton ; shorts, $22 per ton on track, Toâ€" ronto. FToronto, â€" Aug.. 30..â€" Ontario Wheatâ€"Old No. 2 winter nominal at $1.02 outside; new, 95c to 98¢ outside, according to location. Cornâ€"American No. 2 ye 69%c to 70c, Toronto freights Oatsâ€"Canada Western, No. 2, 41%c; No. 3 Canada Western, 40¢, at lake ports, for immediate shipâ€" ment; Ontario No. 2 white, 38¢ to 39¢ outside; No. 3 white, 37¢ to 38¢ outside, 41c to 42¢ on track, Toronâ€" to ; new oats, nominally, 35¢ to 36¢. Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 northâ€" ern, $1.12; No. 2 northern, $1.10%% ; No. 3 northern, $1.08 at lake ports for immediate shipment. THE WORLD‘S MARKETS EEPORTS PROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Chcese and Other Dairy Produco at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUEFS. UNITED STATES MARKETS. EIVE_ _ STOCK MONTREAL MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PROVISIONS. MARKETS. 2 yellow, Womar Sliced Off Ear of Her Talâ€" kative Husband. A despatch from New York says : Because her husband talked too much as she put it, Mrs. Martin Coon sliced off his right ear on Wednesday with a razor. ‘‘Yes, I cut off his ear, and I‘m glad of it,""‘ said the woman, when arrestâ€" ed. "He talked too much and that annoyed me." Twenty Juveniles to Appear Before London Magistrate. A despatch from London, Ont., says: Twenty juveniles will appear before Magistrate Love on a charge of breaking into C. P. R. bonded cars and stealing goods therefrom. The police believe from the apparâ€" ently systematic manner in which the thefts were carried on that oldâ€" er people are behind the lads. Canadian Northern Stcamers Will Make it Canadian Port. A despatch from Halifax says: The offfcial announcement that Halifax is to be the Winter terâ€" minal of the Royal Line steamers was received on Wednesday mornâ€" ing by P. Mooney, the Halifax agent for the Canadian Northern steamships. HALIFAX WINTER TERMINAL Immigrant Special Ran Into Light Engine. A despatch from Belleville says : An immigrant special train from the east ran into a light ongine in the G. T. R. yard here at 6 o‘clock on Saturday â€" morning. Peter Young, engineer on the light enâ€" gine, and Edwin Brewer, car imâ€" spector, who was riding on the enâ€" gine, were both instantly killed. The victims are both married men with families, and resided here. Both engines were badly wrecked. Robert Weir, of Brockville, was enâ€" gineer on the special, his fireman being a Montreal man. The latter sustained slight injuries. Cows and bulls were steady at from $3.50 to $5, a few extra choice cows selling up to $5.25. The demand for stockers and feeders is getting stronger. Several loads were sold at from $4 to $5.25. Sheep were steady. Lambs, slow and 50¢ lowâ€" er. Hogsâ€"Firm ; selects were quotâ€" ed at $8.50 to $8.60 f.o.b. and $8.â€" T5 to $9 fed and watered. The injured are :â€"Mrs. F. S. Mcâ€" Bean, Chicago, right leg fractured, taken to Flint Hospital; Albert B. Watts, Edmonton, Alta., face and hands blistered badly, but conâ€" dition not serious; removed to Flint Hospital. Clinton A. Davis of 598 West St. Catherine street, Montreal. _A son of Mrs. Woodâ€" ward, burned on all parts of the body, condition grave, lies in the A despatch from Durand, Mich., says: Six dead, seven seriously inâ€" jured, and three slightly is given out here on Thurscay night by the Grand Trunk Railway Company as the official casuality list resulting from â€"Wednesday night‘s rearâ€"end collision between two eastâ€"bound trains. The dead :â€" Mrs. Squires‘ residence is thought to be Chicaâ€" go, but this is uncertain. Master Squires, the tenâ€"yearâ€"old son of Mrs. Squires, was crushed. and burned. Mrs. Alma Woodward, en route from Chicago to Port Huron, Mich., was badly burned about the body, but her hair was scarcely touched. A nurse, name unknown, from St. John‘s Hospital, Chicago, accompanying Mrs. Woodward, was burned to a charred mass. Mr. James McBean of Chicago was also burned to a crisp, and Mrs. E. Gilâ€" pin of 25 East 46th place, Chicago, was scalded and burned. Wreck Horror on the Grand Trunk Railâ€" way in Michigan. _ S KILLED, TEN INJURM BONDED CARS LOOTED. CURE FOR GARRULITY. TWO MEN KILLED. Opening in Great Britain for Cerâ€" cals From Canada. A despatch from Ottawa says: Mr. Mussens, the Canadian Trade Commissioner at Leeds, has made a report to the Trade and Comâ€" merce Department that there is a marked falling off in the supply of bacon from Canada and the Unite@ States, and that British grocers are booming breakfast foods in place of it. He thinks it a good opening for Canadian cereal manufacturâ€" ers. Mr. Mussens also reports a demand for Canadias kone; and turkeys. FARMS FOR PERSECUTED JEWS Philanthropic Scheme to Setthe 200,000 of Them in Alberta. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Particulars of a huge coloniza@@n scheme of a semiâ€"philantrophic ture, promoted by prominent Je ish bankers and merchants â€" OE France, England and Russia, were made public here by a prominent English financier visiting Winniâ€" peg. The scheme is to colonize two hundred thousan« of the persecutâ€" ed Jews of lower Russia on farms which will be prepared for them in Alberta. Agents of the syndicate are understood to have been in the west for several weeks, and to fa\;. a large tract northwest of Edmonâ€" ton. _ The present plan is to give the immigrants twenty years in which to pay for the farms. _ Crippen Was Hooted on Arrival at Euston Station. A despatch from London says: Dr. H. H. Crippen and Miss Leâ€" neve were given a hostile reception by a mob on their arrival at Eusgâ€" ton Station on Saturday evening. Crippen, who is on the verge of _ nervous collapse, is being closeâ€" ly guarded. He slept little toward the end of the voyage over. @‘ bad many books, but read few of them. He talked little, but mutâ€" tered to himself. _ Extra guards were placed over him during the last two nights of the ocean trip. Unseen by the passengers, the x‘ oner walked the top deck in We early morning and in the evening handcuffed to Inspectors Dew and Mitchell. Crippen had no commuâ€" nication â€" with Miss Leneve, who went on deck in the evening with her wardresses. Miss Lenevo was cheerful and talked freely to the wardresses. Inspector Dew foolâ€" ed the waiting crowd at Liverpool, landing at the landingâ€"stage aft, and taking his charges at once infto the train for London. That there were nineteen passenâ€" gers in the telescoped Pullman was established on Thursday afternoon. All of these, say the railway peoâ€" ple, have been accounted for. _ Ta Assistant Superintendent Fitzi‘ at Montreal thet Durand off wired that there were nineteon pasâ€" sengers in the Nebraska, of whom six were killed and the remains identified. Five injured are in the hospital at Durand, one of whom is likely to die. Eight passengers conâ€" tinued their journey to their desâ€" tinations, having escaped from the forward end of the car uninjured. Engineer Mitchell of train No. 14 is in Flint hospital seriously inâ€" jured, but will recover. . The fir{:’ man on No. 4 is badly but not ser% ously burnt. Aside from the loss oÂ¥ the car by fire, the damage to the equipment will be slight. . Thomas House, Durand. Mrs. Lesâ€" lie Dochler, Tavistock, Ont., 41 years old, was taken to Flint Hosâ€" pital with a fractured right leg ana hip. Mrs. F. S. Shelterz, Chicaâ€" go, right arm fractured and sufferâ€" ing from internal injuries, lies in Flint Hospital. D. B. Mitchell of Battle Creek, engineer on No. 4. cuts and bruises. Geo. Donaldson of Battle Creek, fireman on No. 4, probably fatally scalded, now under care of physicians at Durand: BACONX SUPPLY FALLS OFF. CROWD WAS HOSTILE.