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UNITED STATES; ; There is malipox at Sitka, Alaska. ; former Governor Tanner, of Illinois, died suddenly; at Springfield. j An Indian outbreak is threatened a Shoshone reservation, Wyoming. Ir. J. Pierpont Morgan his bougb; n fine collation of antique? curiosities h Paris , A pooh“: containing {8,000 in our- It is said that there is no truth in the story thtt the condition of Earl Roberts' health is causing concern to his Iriends, and that his work at the flat Office is far behind. The full more of Purcell’a “Fairy Queen," which has been missing {or 200 years. In» been discovered in the PM!) of the Bunyan Academy of In a speech in London. Lord Raglan said that Englishmen should not be frightened by file idea of conscrip- tion. Germany has it in force now. The Bri‘ish Royal Geographical So- cicxy bu conferred a gold medal upon Arthur Donaldson Smith, the Amerio can African explorer. Sir John Edmund Commz‘rell, Ad- mirul of the British fleet from 1892 to 1899. is dead. lie- was Dom iu1829. The Natirmul Eistediod of Wales mm be held at Mar-{Ur this year. The Ottoman Embassy at Paris .wm leave unless the Sultan pays its salaries at once. The Royal Hospi'ial. London. 11:16 Just recei'vcd £10,000 (mm Alfred Baxmnwm'th. of the 111(va Mail. Twenty-two English steamers are engaged to carry American coal to France. The Archbishop of Canterbury says all th" rlergr; wf the Church of Eng- had then“ b- Luu'ried. The King will visit Ireland as soon as possible. Tb: official Gazette gives the total lumber of Boer. prisoners as 19,449. 'l‘iw Duke at Cambridge has just completed his 82nd year. ted in 1840 upon Hon. James Stuart, Clucf Jmtice 01 Louver Canada, who Wan regarded by Lord Unrbam. as the most prontound lawyer and jurist urn living in this C nadian Prov- The Minister of Agriculture has autbmile L. V. Labzlle 0:! St. Jacques to prt-palrc several cast» of Quebec- gwwn tobacco for the European mar- ket nor! to mka experiments to find out which kind at tobacco is best. for foreign trade. By thr.‘ death of Sir Charles James Stuart. Landon, be i4 succeeded in: the baromtcy by his. younger broth', Ma jar-General Edward And to w Stunt. colonel of tho LothE-an Regi- ment, Royal, Scents and a native of Qut-tgec.A Ll’be. baggnotcy was comfor- President O’Connell of hhe Machi- nists Union. who has named the strike beadquamters to Ton-unto in connection wifih the convention. says than strike will be won in the United States by next week. Ottarwa Council 01! the Board of Trade recommends that a memoriak be cent on every Board of Trade and Cbzmbcr of Commerce in the Empire asking (to-operation in considering the qumtion of State iawm-d cables. The Daminion Governmnnt has awarded to Fleming Ferguson. of Paisley, Scotland, the contract (at that? construction 0:! the new steel twin-screw steamer. A course a! military instruction for “3011er of high schools at collegiate instizutes in the Prm'ince will be com- mm'ed at Stanley Barracks, Toronto, on July 5 next. W. D. Bass, manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia at Charlottetown. Prince Edward Island, has been appointed to an important pmition in the Finance department at Ottawa. Sandwich Town Council has grant- ed a franchise to John Auld. M.P.P., to band an electric road (toms Wind- nor to Amherstburg. Geo. little, a well-known wrestler, in under arr-wt at Montreal. on a charge at defrauding a Montreal citizen out of $2.630. . Stanley Miflla . Co’s departmental atom at Hamilton: caught fire through the ”lanthanum combustion of some oilâ€"soaked cotton. Loss $10,000. Deputy Minister of Laboa' King has left Ottawa to attend the convention oi labor bureaus at St. Louis, Mo. Labor Law Ollicer Edward Wil- liams has deported six alien labor- ers from Little Current. Manitoulin Island. Tim bylaw to rmfi‘lo 830.000 to extend the waterworks system has been car- ried at Owen Sound. Vera Fou'bcs, the 4-year-old daugh- ter 0! Wm. Forbes, was run over and killed by a Waggon at Hamilton. be u'avéilpd by the Duchess 0! Yuri in Septembex. The Anglican ministers on! London and the London Ministerial Associa- tion. composed of cicrgymen of all other denominations have united in J. B. H. Neevc, who has beenimthe Dominion Government service since Confederation, has received notice of his superannuation, to take effect from July lat. The (hum-(fan smelting warts at Twain, 8.0., may build a lead refinery. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Btltalo, the United States, and All Parts ot the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Buy The new Russell Theatre at: Ottawa will cost '40,000. St. Joseph’s Convent at Post Arthur was damaged by time to the extent of John R. Tobin had his leg severed by a circular saw in a mill at Sar- ma. The Queen’s statue at Ottawgwill GREAT BRITAIN. C ANADA. Two Hundred Boers Surrender to the British in Boehuanaland. A deapatch tram Cape Town says: -â€"T!wo hundred Boers have sun-en. dcwd at Palapyo, Bechuanaland, and 42 waggon loads, of men, women and children ham surrendered at Fort Chili. Rhodesia. ' ' Kant; 15th, Wmt Huron and Hulton; 17th, Peel and Drayton Agricultural Society, or \Vest \Velli'ugton; 18th, South Ontario, and South Simcoc; 39th, South Oxford, Haldimand and North Oxford; 20th, East and ‘Vest Lambton and East Huron; let, North and West Bruce! and Dufferin; 22nd, North and South Norfolk; 24th, North Ontario and Pool; 25th, South Perth; 232b, South Grey and Parry Sound; 3‘ W South Bruce; 28th,\Vor-3t \Simcue. British Government Introducing Them in tha Dockyards. A despatch from Portsmouth says: â€"It is understood that the Admiralty Ins decided to introduce American l'a- tour-axving appliances in thw Govern- ment dockyrn'da. A pneumatic rivet- ting and drilling plant will be install- ed here, as the result of satisfactory. triabs in building thn cruiser Kent. Seven} othrsr American tools are now. being tested. Thirty-Two Excursions to the Model Farm Next Month. Arrangements have been complet- ed' by the Department of Agriculture for thirty-two excursions to the Mo- del Farm at Guelph: next month, unâ€" diet the. auSpices of the various Farm- ens’ Institutes. It is expected that they will be takem advantage of by forty thousand people. The dates and excursions are as followszâ€"June Lith, North and Centre Grey; 12th, .._I (‘0-..1. Ernst and Centre Simcoe; l3tfi,'N;)â€"rthr and South “Waterloo; and North Mid- dfe'sgx “4(1), East Middlescx and West FARMERS’ SUMMER OUTING. Storm'; and [loads at Puebla De A1- coccr, Spain, have resulted in the loss of two livw and injury to several persons. Engineers haw submitted to Russia pleura {or commenting the Black Sea with the Caspian Sea by a canal 550 versts long, and costing 300,000,000 roubles; . Three Ru'ssiln officers have been srmtonced to six months' imprison- ment for mapping Nggasaki harbour. in the vicinity of the fortificatjons. The Austrian Reichsrath has ap- p med the approyriation of 487,000,- 000 ILroncn, $97,000,060, for new rail- roads. An earthquake has occurred in Ma- laga, Spain. A number of housacs were damaged and a panic was. cre- ated among the inhabitants. . If Turkey does not at once satisfy Italy about: the arrest of an Italian postal agent at Preveza warships will be sent there. The population of Ireland is 4,456,- 546. a decrease of 5.8 per cent. Scot- land’s is 4,471,557, a heavy decrease in ten years. The population of Italy is now 32,449,754, an increase of 4,080,003 in the last twenty years. The Prime Minister of Cape Colony is opposed tothe introduction of Chine-so labourers. The German Government is experi- menting with the octuple system of telegraphy. The village of Aurenza, Italy, has been partially destroyed by earth- quake. Frank Heroy, am: of a Methodist clergyman, shot and killed Charles Vandarlyn, at Greenfield, near Kings;- ton, N.Y. Hexoy was drunk. The total number of plague cases at Cape Town up to date is 651, with 300 deaths. Over 300 men and boys have “tied up" the 00an Colliery at Shamokin, Pa" by {striking (or the enforcement of the semi-monthly pay law. Percy L. Johnson, an attorney, recently returned from Mexico, plead- ed guilty to embezzlement to $50,000 from three trust funds at Bridge- port, (301111., and was sentenced to six years imprisonment. “The largest bank in the world” is to be established by J. Pierpont Mor- gan, says a New York paper. . - It is thought that Edgar Van Ettan, general superintendent, will become president of tho New York Central Railway. John M. Glover. an ell-Congressman from the St. Louis, Missouri, district, is reported to have met his death in the floods, near Lowe, Colo. The strikes at St. Petersburg, are exudedâ€"by force. The pneumatic tube service is; to be established between New York and Boston by a company which is stark mg with a capital of ’5, 000, 000. Mrs. Josephine Keelat, who recently dicd in France, left to H. H. Haw- thorne, a veteran of the So‘udiers' Home, at Dayton, Ohio, a fortune of 83,500,000, his reward for saving her from drowning in Kent, Eng., in 1854. GENERAL. Nine hundred emigrants have gone from {Porto Rico to Hawaii. Russian poultry is rigidly inspected before admission into Germany” Peter Anderson. piano maker, in New. :York, allot and killed his son Gustave, aged 86 years because the latter called him “an old washer- woman." Telephone charges in France are be- ing reduced. Fatal election riots have occurred in Spain. Patrick J. Glenda. mayor of Loni luland City, N.Y., and a unique tic- nre In politics, is dead. Henry Mauick tnd Milton Boyd. of Wallace, Va., are reporth drowned in the flood in that section. rency has boa ’Itolen' from the mails tt Kanm City, UNITED STATES TOOLS. STILL COMING IN. Toronto, June 4.-â€"The receipts of live stock at the western cattle yards today were 57 carloads, includ- ing 1,050 cattle. 850 hogs, 127 sheep and lambs, 56 calves, and a dozen milch cows. We had unmistakable signs of a reaction in the cattle trade todgy: Chicago, June 4.-â€"â€"Higher cables, continued drought in the spring wheat districts, reports of damage by Hessian fly, caused an active wheat. market. today. Reports late in the session of rains in the North- west, the gains were more than wip- ed out. July closed kc lower. July corn 3c higher. July oats, unchang- ed, and provisions from unchanged to Sc higher; July wheat. opened a shade to {c to kc higher at 74c to 74%0. Milwaukee, June 4.â€"Barlcyâ€"Dull; 1:19. 2, 560 to 57¢; sample, 400 to Toledo, June 4.-â€"Clover seedâ€"Cash $6.50; October, $5.22“. Oilâ€"Un- changed. Buffalo, June 4.â€"eF10urâ€"-Quiet and steady. Wheatâ€"Spring, few cars spot sold; N0. 1 Northern, old, car- loads, 8:3;c; (l0., new, Blue. Winter wheatâ€"Nothing (lone; N0. 2 red is quoted at, 78c; N0. 1 white. 770 on track, Bull‘ulo. Cornâ€"~Dull; N0. 2 yellow, 46.3w; N0. 3 (10., 46c; N0. 2 com, 45%: to 452C; N0. 3 do., 4516 45-; (3, through billed. Outs-â€" Easy; N0. 2 white, 3233c; N0. 3do., 32c; N0. 2 mixed, 300; N0. 3 (10., 29-50, through billed. Barleyâ€"Too irregular to quote. Ryeâ€"Quiet; N0. 1 in store and on track oll‘ered at 593; N0. 2, on track, 580. Cheeseâ€"~Markct is quiet. Full creams, September, 9§c to 93c; do., new, 9c. Eggsâ€"Market, is steady at 10k: to 110- pcr dozen, in large lots. and oc- casionully ll-Pc fox case lots. No. ,chips, 8}, c to 90. Lardâ€"Pails, 11c; tubs, 1026; tier- ccs, 101a to loge. DA] RY MARK ETS. Butterâ€"Receipts are moderate. and prices unchanged. Pound rolls sell at. 13c to 140; new, in tubs, at. 122.0 to 130 per 11); inferior, 10c to 12 ; crcmncry boxes 1750 to 18c, and pounds 18;c to 19c. Smoked meats-zâ€"Ilzms, heavy 12.1.c; medium. 13c; light,13'c Rolls, 11 to 114C; backs, 14c to 15c, and shoulders, 1050 to 11¢. f 1311le hayâ€"â€"Cholce timothy on "track here, 511 to $11.50. . Strawâ€"Steady. Car lots on track $5.50 to $6 :1. ton. DRESSI'ID IIOGS AND PROVI- SIGNS. Dressed hogs are firm at $8.75 to $9.25 for small lots. Provisions firm. Quotations are as follows:â€" Bacon, long clear, loose, in car lots, 10c, and in case lots, 101c to 103C. Short cut pork, $20 to $20.50; heavy mess park, 819 to $19.50 shoulder mess, $15. Beansâ€"The market is unchanged. Ordinary white beans bring $1.40 to $1.50; choice hand-picked beans $1.60. ”armyâ€"Dealers quote from 10c to 103,0 for 5, 10, or ($04!). tins. ac- cording to size of order. Comb hon- ey sells at $1.50 to $2.40, according to Weight and quality. IIopsâ€"-Quict. â€"Choi'cc 1000 growth are quoted at 14c to 150, and year- lings at 86 to 100. Maple syrupâ€"Market dull; five-gal- lon tins are $1 per imperial gallon; $1.10 to $1.15 for gallon tins, and 85c to 000. for wine gailon tins. Dried apples-JPN: market. rules quiet. Dried apples, 3 to 3-;c; evap- orated quoted at 5c to 5:0 for car lots, and jabbing: at sgc. ...... \OUCJVI I, ‘UVO J‘DIJC‘l Clé’,“3, ‘l|.,a- en, 7550 to $1. Cabbage, dozen, 40c to "Sc. Onions, dozen, 100. ‘ars- Icy, dozen, 150 to 200. Gardcn stuffâ€"Spinach, peck, 10c Watercress, 150 to 2.00. Rhubarb, dozen, 150 to 25c. Celery, dozen, $1 to $1.25. Lettuce, 20c. Raul- fishes, dozen, 150. Asparagus, doz- Field produce, etcâ€"Onions, $1.10 to $1.25 per bag. Curmts, 45c to 500 per bag. Parsnips, per bag, 40c to 50c. PRODUCE. Potatoesâ€"The market. is quiet. and prices steady. Car lots quoted at. 27c to 280. They sell out. of store at 350 to 40c per bag. Oatmealearkctl finchanged} cur lots at, $3.65, in bags, and at $3.75 in mood; small lots 206 extra. . va"'~- Oats=-â€"-l\larket rules firm, with sales of No. 2 at 32c, middle Heights. No. 1 firm at 33c to 33.30 east. Flourâ€"The demand is fair and pri- ces steady; 90 per cent. ordinary patents, buyers’ bags, sold at $2.65, middle heights choice lots, 15c to 20c more; Manitoba. patents, $4.25, and strong bakers’, $3.95 to 8-1. Millfeedâ€"Js quiet and prices stea- dy. Bran, in car lots, 512 west, and shorts $13 to $14 west. Cornâ€"Market continues quiet with Canada. yellow quoted at 40%: to 41c, and mixed at 40c west; yellow,_2n track, 4cm. Buckw'heutâ€"None ofl'cring; market firm. side. 7 H ’ Ducks are Wérth from 25c to 36 Barley-Market rules quiet; No. 2,130? pound. quoted at, 50c, lake ports, and at! “Barnyardcrs” are unchanged at. Me to 45¢, middle freights; No. 3 from 40 to 4:50 per pound. extra, 43c, middle freights. ‘ Spring lambs are Worth from $2.50 Oats=~§larkct rules firm, with sales ._t0 35 each. - ‘- Toronto, June 4. â€"- Wheatâ€"The wheat market was steady today. No. 2 white and red. sold at 680 to 68ic, middle freights’ to Montreal, and it is quoted! at 684C. to 69¢, low rate to! New York. No. 1 goose quoted at' 67:}0! low freight, and spring sold at 680 to 69c, middle freight to Port- land, and 700 east. Manitobal wheat higher, with quotations as. follows, Montreal freight, g. i. t.:â€" No. 1 hard, 92c; No. 2 hard, 880; No. 3 hard, 810. Prices Toronto Peasâ€"Market is firm, with offerings small. Quotations, 66c to 67c out.- side. Ryeâ€"The mufket is quiet, with prices unchanged at. 50c to 510, mid- dlg Heights. MARKETS. OF THE WORLD .:!b~’!!9‘l$ Prices 0! Cattle. 0113333. an“. 33 In the Leading Markets. -l LIVE STOCK MARKETS. GRAIN. and Insider Commandant Kritzinger tothe Enorthward of Bailey. There is much ‘locnl apprehension, and the town ,! guard remains all night in the trench- i e8. Passenger traffic to the north is suspended, and freight is proceeding wilder an armed escort. The banks close at noon. Bailey is about twen- ty miles north of Queenstown, on the line from Port Elizabeth to the Orange river. It is about forty miles south of Stormberg, in the dis- trict which General Gatacre held. British Warships to Test Two Kinds in a Race. 'A deepatch from London sayszâ€"An interesting test of boilers has been arranged by the Parliamentary Boil- ur Committee, which has ordered a. full speed trial between the second- class cruiser Hyacinthe, of 5,000 tons displacement, fitted with Belleville boilers and the secondâ€"class cruiser Minerva, of the same tonnage, fitted with Scotch boilers. The two vessels will start simultaneously from a home port and run to Gibraltar with ; the object of detemm ming which class of boiler can best stand the strain of a long run at high pressure. Several sugar refiners in Russia have requested the Government to lower the tariff on sugar curried on the railroads and intended for export into foreign Asiotio countries. - The elevation of Lord Milner to the peerage created a number of new reâ€" cords in that line. He is the first man who was created a peer on a Fri- day and gazetterl the following Tues- dayâ€"record time. He is the first man who has ever taken his title from his lodgings. He is the first statesman who, having been received on his arâ€" rival by almost every member of the Administration, was received almost immediately afterward 'by the Sovâ€" ereign, and the first guest within memory invited to dine and sleep at Windsor castle who was commanded to‘atay nnothezr night. A déspatch tromUQuée'nstown, Cape Colony, says th_e ‘Bogrgqre massing ; A special deSpatch from Pretoria 'snyszâ€"A Limited number: of permits will be t: :‘aznted next week for the im- portation of “soft goods" into Jo-, hannesbwrg. Each permit will allow' the. importation of, not to exceed, ten , toms of goods, fifty per cent. of which , must be clothing, suitable fur cold' weather, and thirty per cent. of clothing suitable fdr the poorer§ classes. Boot makers will be allowed i to impart goods not exceeding fiVez' tons in weight, fifty per cent. of which must be suitable for the poorer! classes. 'A ball to commemorate thei' entry of the British troops will bef givcm at Johannesburg on Fridayi night. i :Shippcrs, per cwt ...... $4 .50 :Butchcr, choice, do... 4.25 .Butcher, 0rd. to good. 3.50 “Butcher inferior ...... 2. 75 ;Stockms, per cwt.... 3.. 50 prort hulls, per cwt. 3.7 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, pm cwt. 350 gLamhs. grainâ€"fed. cwt. 4.50 Do., burnyards. cwt. 4. 00 , D0., spring, each... 250 :Bucks, per cwt............ 2.50 I Milkcrs and Calves. Convoy Attacked, But Boers Were Finally Repulsed. A despateh from Potohe-fstroom says the Bee-vs made two determined at- tacks on u British convoy in a drift near Ventersdorp. The waggons had choked the. drift. The Boers were finally repulsed leaving fourteen dead on the field. The British loss, which was severe, is not stated. Choice hogs Light hogs, 9 Heavy hogs, Saws, per Sta gs, per Cows, each ..... Calves, each” The best price for “singers” is 71¢ per pound; thick fat and light, hogs are; worth 6£c per pound. Hogs to Hitch this top price must be of prime quality, and scale not balmy 160 nor above 200 pounds. Following is the range ‘0! quota- mans:â€" There was no change in hogs to- day. Gruiancd yearlings are worth from 4;} t9 510 per pound. The run_ of “small stfifl” was light and it all sold early at steady and uqchangcd prices. Equrt mics are firm at from 3§c to lie per pound. Good to prime veal calves are wanted up to around $10 each. while all really good stun sold well at steady -' prices there was slacken- Good to choice export cattle sold at from 43c to 51¢ per pound, but light shippers were not wanted. Still there was a fair clearance. Some choice butcher cattle sold up to 5c today, but there was a limited enquiry, and sales were not brisk. Other grades of cattle are inclined to weaken, and a heavy run tomor- row (Wednesday) may cause a serious break in prices. ers; the supply was short, and prices ranger from 4c to 4k per pound. Light feeders are worth from 3§c to 4c per pound. Wanted. Milch cows sold at from $25 to $50 each today. Choice milkcrs are wanted. There, was a small demand for ex- port bulls; trade was dull at from 35: to 4c per pound. A BOILER COMPETITION. BRITISH LOSS SEVERE. few good ‘to choice stockers per thOOO....”OOO per cwt............ Hogs. per cwt... per cwt... per cwt... Cattle. 6.75 6.50 6.50 0.00 55500 2.7.7.0.“. 7.6.( )4“? 4 .50 5.00 3.00 3.2' c) .5 4.00 TH E CLIMATE. ; A highly important fact establish- *ed by the thorough investigation hnade by the explorers is the favorâ€" ,‘able character of the climate for ag- sriculture. Exaggerated ideas as to ithe coldness of the region have long [prevailed which the publication of the report should do much to dispel. At many of the Hudson’s Bay posts visited by the explorers it was found ithat gardens were or had been kept lwhere all the vegetables ordinarily ;produced in Southern Ontario, in- {cluding cucumbers and tomatoes. iwere grown. No drawback is ex- 'perienced from summer frosts, the l “amount of water surface and the exâ€" .umsivo forests tdnpering the sever- ;Ilty of the white: A characteristic "feature of some stricta is the pro- fuse growth of was upon low and TIMBER AND PULPWOOD. Great anticipations had been form- ,ed as to the extent and value of the spruce and other timber growing on the northein slope of the height of E,land and the reports of the explor- aLtion more than justified the most sanguine estimates of the forest lwealth here awaiting development. 30! course the closest estimate that icould possibly be made by experts gof the quantities covering so vast an {area in the limited time allowed :them is merely an approximation, and, as owing to the inability of ;some of the parties to finish the 7work laid out for them, large areas fwere left unvisited, the figures given by no means represent the total Etimber product of the country. The pine-bearing region does not extend Liar beyond the height of land. InE the region around Lakes 'l‘emagami and Lady Evelyn in the southern portion of the district of Nipissing, jthe quantity of red and white pine is 'estimated at 300,000,000 feet board 'measure. The total pine-bearing {area in this section comprises some .1650 square miles. There are also some scattered pine tracts in other 'parts and considerable quantities “are found in the Wabigoon River re- gion. The great factor of future inâ€" dustrial development is, of course, the extensive forests of spruce, jack- pine and poplar available for pulp wood which cover the greater por- tion of the territory explored. the total estimate being 288. 000. 000 Ecords, of which 100. 000, 000 cords are in the district of Algoma and 150,000,000 in Thunder Bay. Much of the spruce, which is the predom- inant tree of Northern Ontario. is of sufficient size and quality to fur- nish excellent timber and supply the place, of the pine as construction material and for other industrial USES . ’ l l E The report of the survey and ex- .ploration has just been issued by 'the Provincial Department of Crown Lands. It comprises a volume of ;about 300 pages, extensively illus- trated with cuts reproduced from photographs taken by the explorers, gand contains a vast amount of infor- lmation in detail as to the resources, iproducts and character of the region straversed, which will be of great ‘value in connection with future leg- ;islation. While the main results of the exploration were made public 'some time since, there are many in- fteresting facts with regard to the gNorth country here presented for the 'first time. EXTENT OF ARABLE LAND. The most important discovery made by the explorers is as to the extent of lirstclass arable land availâ€" ;able for settlement. The area of ithe great clay belt, extending west- ‘ward from the Quebec boundary Ithrough Nipissing and Algoma and ;into Thunder Bay district, is at least 24,500 miles, making an almost 11n- broken stretch of good farming land. This is nearly three-quarters the ex- ‘tent of the present settled pmtion of the Province south of Lake Nipis- sing. The Whole country is a net- work of rivers, st1ea1ns and lakes, ‘lall'ording an easy means of communi- cation and magnificent water-poxxms for i11dust1ial enterprises and elec- t1ical development. Moreover, the extensive water~surface rendexs the territory especially favor able for a1..- riculture and stock-111ising, as it ensu1es it against the protracted droughts which form one of the great drawbacks to successful farm- ing in a prairie count1y. I11 addi- tion to this arable area, which is just receiving a narrow fringe of settlement at its eastern ext1emity adjoining Lake Temiscaming, the clay land in the townships around Dryden in the Rainy Itiver district Was found to extend northward in the Waldgoon Valley, forming a to-‘ tal area in that vicinity of about 600 square miles. â€"-â€"“v. ‘0‘“ O :the previous session of the Legisla- ~ture the sum of $40,000 had been discoveries Were made, but the re voted for this purpose, the desirabil-- ‘ports of the geologists are Valuable ity of a more adequate knowledge oftas establishing the characteristics 0! :the country, with a. view to itslthe various rock formations and 'speedy opening up by railways and‘thns furnishing prospectors with a 'other means of communication, befgmde to the quarters in which their ling universally admitted. The re_:researches are likely to meet with 'gion to be explored, embracing some success. Traces 0’ 3'0” were found sixty million acres, was divided into m several places, and though the {ten exploration districts. Each of careful ‘analysis made did ”0t d‘“ the parties to which a district “78”?le “8 presence in paying quan- iallotted comprised a surveyor, aitities in any of the samples, the re- fland and timber estimator and a’sults Were such as “0 aflord 'encour- fgeologist, who were instructed twagemcnt for closer examination. ‘make the fullest investigations theiAmoug other matters carefully not- ;time at their disposal and the large} 9d by the explorer were the annuals. 'extent of country to be coveredil’Sh’ and vegetation of the territory, would permit, extending to cvcry‘2the.volume being full of information 'natural feature or characteristic Of‘oi interest both to the sportsman ithe territory having any bearing up- and ”)9 ”3‘9"““51' 'on its fitness for settlement or 000- An immediate result of the explor- nomic development. ation has been the setting apart by â€"'--- ‘7'..-v' No specially important mimral dâ€"fl-ber and Pulp! no Chan-mlu‘ During the slimmer of 1900 the‘ Government of t portion' exploration parties into tha ; of New Ontario lying north of the‘ Canadian Pacific Railway for the‘ purpose of‘ ascertaining, approxi-’ mately, at least. the value of the} great natural resources of a then comparatively little knOWn region, in land, timber and minerals. At ‘L- â€"â€" An enquiry is to be made in the French Chamber of Dvputies in re- gard to the presume of the Russian Ambassador to Germany at Hot: during Emperor William's celebra- tion at the Cat’s birthday. The Indemnity Which China Will Have to Raise. :A despatch from Berlin Bayszâ€"It i5 semi-officixlly announced that the question of the amount of the indcm- nity which China is to pay to the power: has been settled an the lines of the British proposal. The British proposal placed the indemnity at 450 million tncls, $292,500,000, plus int”- Hon. Sidney Fin-"her and Prof. Rob- ertssn have arrived m London, and are interviciwmg Ihe departments; So far as is kndwn here. 111- Gov- ernmnt. in View of the return with." shipbuilding trade to war". 2.”!‘lliill conditions, is making it. km A; that it is willing to naive suggrstions from leading houses, off-sting a spe- cial bum); in addition to n subsidy to secure the building of the nhips in Canada. 'l‘h Canadian l_:-’1<i’ic Com- pan y is still Spoken 01 8.3 (ha most. llkolh' company to nu: cassfully unâ€" dertakc the enter-fin ~c. _ -‘ A â€" _ Special Bonus if Ship's Are Built in Canada. A despite!) from Lon {on says :â€"-'I‘hc fast mail service, negotiations are in a more elementary stage than the statements made in th-0 Canadian Parliament suggest. ’Ihn Govern- ment has no thought of .Mr. l'ctvrsun or the Elder-Dumpster Oompmy in‘ connection with the service. I (The. match was applied, and for {if- | teen minutes the body burned. and via half an hour only the charred bouo+ (were left as a reminder of the negro‘s crime and his fate. The crowd dis- persed as orderly as it gathered,and at 8.3;) the city was quiet. scene of the crime. The negro was placed on a barrel mud chained to a stake, and cans of kerosene ou'l poured upon him and his clothes until clothes and barrel were well saturated. MUST PAY $300,000,000. When the cringe had been reported i a. well armed posse was soon mov'ng in every direction in Search of the criminal. B‘oodhoumda more secured and all night a fruitless search “2125‘ continued. About 2100:), a tour: 2 .tr- (rived announcing that the negro had been captured by two wt her negroes, two miles Bouth of the city. Passes: wette immediately on the trail, but ; the capturera evwded detection, and succeeded in getting their prisoner“ quickly into the city, and in turn-i it); him over to the {Eva-if! of Folk! county. In le°sthan it) minutes after: I transfer had been made the street became congested with people. and the crowd, in spite of the sheriff and a strong guard of extra. de-puties,wlio made every effort to protect him from mob violence, secured the pris- oner, and took up the march to the scene of the crime. An immediate result of the explor- ation has been the setting apart by the government of the pine-bearing regions around Lake Temagami as a forest reserve. in order to protect the pine from the danger of destruc- tion by fire which grows constantly more imminent, owing to the influx of settlers, prospectors and tourists. This will secure a supply of timber in perpetuity to the adjoining settle- ments, which are certain to receive considerable accessions of population within a few years. The undertak- ing by the government of the con- struction of the 'l‘emiseaining Rail- way and the liberal aid granted to other railway enterprises are largely the outcome of the increased appre- ciation of the value of our Northern heritage resulting from the emwlora‘~ tion. Neflo Burned Alive by a Mob in Florida for Murder. A despatch from Bariow, Fia., says: -â€"Fr(rd. Rochelle, a negro, thirty-five ymrs of age, who at noon on Thurs- day criminally asqaulted and then murdered Mrs. Rena ’l‘aggart, a well- known and respectable white wo- man of this city, was burned at the stake here rarly next evening in the presence of a throng of peopio. The burning was on the scene of the. nu;- zro’a crime, within 101) yards of the principal thoroughfare of this city. success. Traces of gold were found in several places, and though the careful analysis made did not de- velop its presence in paying quan- tities in any of the samples, the reâ€" sults Were such as to un‘ord encour- agement for closer examination. Among other matters carefully not- ~â€"v -0.va uuu unw wuvu. no sulphur and only a trace of phos- phorus. with a low percentage 0! moisture and ash. which renders it a valuable fuel. The land overlaid by these peaty tracts is 0! good quality, and when the country shall have become sufliciently settled to make drainage operations practica- ble and profitable much of it may be brought into cultivation. THE GEOLOGIS'I‘S’ REPORTS. N0 SDCCially important mimral discoveries Were made, but the re- ports of the geologists are valuable as establishing the characteristics of the various rock formations and‘ thus furnishing prospectors with a: guide to the quarters in which their‘ researches are likely to moot with success. Traces of fluid wnrn Cninul râ€"mâ€"vu "" v' â€"" the north of Luke Abitibi. The peat taken from then. bogs, on analysiS. shows a high percentage of volatile combgstible matter and fixed carbon. "my ground. which by crud“! dooompoaition form- beds of peat love?“ feet. in depth. The most ex- tensxve 0f thm donnflits are in ihe tensive 0! these acpouts are in the eastern part otANipiulng district to ‘kfi “‘hAlA - - FAST MAIL SERVICE. PAID THE PI-LI'LAJII‘Yv Five Hundred Skeletons Found on t , A Farm tn th: Niagara District. | A tit-match from Jordan. says:â€" Whjt is Mr 1y to prove a very valu- able {End to collectors of curio; and to the history of this country watt ;-:un arthod on the Andrms than form new: Jordan the other day, in ”K :thtp: of about five hundrtd «kale. ’tono and bits of curios. Th‘ «Imus into in size from that of an infant to Mb lul ly dcvdole one of .111 adult. Judging from that (a t. .z.‘ Mould :say it must have boon :- s. 3 . .t- vit- ‘lngc desatroyod by son)“ [U H 5% cm (only. But “ho were th y: “:lhrro was no settlement of uh tes there to glue destroyed. and btforc th: advent 'of the ~iwhte men there two great ’tribas of lndims. the. Hurons on the west and the Iroquois on thz out, had agrwcd by treaty to recognize this territory between tho. two great balms. from Niagara encoding west- Iururd about 40 miles, as neutral ter- ntory. English tcientlsts are generally rep. that! in regard to the sported di».~ covery by Prof. \V. H. Pickering. of Harvard lecrvatory. of snow in tha moon. One member of the Royal A52. trcnomical [Society said “why that Prof. .E. C. Pickering. of HnrvurJ University. was a great. man, and anything he said mould he .rccoivod with the greatest m-‘pnct. but his brother. Prof. W. [1. Picks-flag. Mm not. equxlly relEabl". In any cam the Royal A:-tmnovnic.al hointy will nut dim the matter until it «waive: Prat. Pichctlnt's photograph; Englfsh Scloqtfisu Doubt the Alleged ‘ A desmtch from 'London says:â€" Information has been received of the death at Mafeklng, Ull Tel). 1“. of Alexander (‘. Fraser. :t native ol Abrinchen. Dem-used, who Was only 27, was in the employment 0! Messrs. Maiedonaild Macintosh, merchants, lVCl'llL‘S‘i. At the out~ break of the war he Was among the Ilirst to join Buden-l’oWell'x \olun- teei force in defence of Muteking He {helped to capture Commandant lilofl. 'lhc body of the Rev. Malcolm Me- Coll “as taken out of the (‘rinun ,canal at Ardrislmig recentlv 'l‘l1e idece. ed was last seen shoitly after ten making his “11y home to the munse along the banks of the canal, and as his hat was found in the can- 'nl in the morning, trawling opera- tions were l..egu11. with the remit that the body Was found where tho hat was seen. The deceased was minister at Ardrishuig hr about twenty years, but resigned quite ro- ccntly. DUG UP A GRAVEYARD. . The body of a man was Waslwd up ~reccntly on the bunch opposite ‘Brmtdsea, near Frusvrlmrgh. Tno head was gone, as nlsu were parts of the arms and legs. The mnains were identified as those of J. Mc- Grcgor, a young man. a 000.01.? by trade. son of John Donald Mcfll‘c‘ hwr, who went umissiug Um. 31“ Must. Earl Aberdeen inspected the Edin- burgh Battalion Doys' Brigade with- in the Merchiston Castle Colleglato grounds. More than 1.000 boy. were on parade. An efiort is being made that cut- tages. rather than tenement houses, be erected on the (.‘lws'gmv munivipnl land near Alexandra Park, for occu- pancy by workiugmen. A sensation has been caused in Aberdeen by the. issue of :1 Warren! for the arrest. of Mr. J. M. Perm» son. a prominent. advocate, for UN alleged embezzlement of trust. funds Auchtormuchty has a modern Sam- son. lie lifted {our gates ofl' the-ir hinges and left, them lying on the roadway. He did it for fun, but had to pay 30 shillings {or the cupm'. Mr. Thomas Brand, one of the now rapidly diminishing band which formed the “Thin Red Line," hu- dicd in Aberdeen. in his 72nd year. He joined the 93rd Sutherland High- landers in 1841. at. the age of 16 years. DUIHC mm: nuttor Was caused it Glasgow when the news loulu-d out. that Mr. James Wilson hick, former- ly a magistrate of the city and an ardent. temperance refunucr. had been arrested on a charge of solicit.- ing and acetgpting a bribe of £600. - - _â€"-~vâ€" tr- V'" The example of Glasgow in seeking to run the liquor trumc under per- fect municipal control and owner- ship is extended to various parts 0! Rentrcwshirc. The Glasgow "Municipal Public House" scheme is receiving the unit;- ed support of the labor organizations and the umwd opposition of the Major Mathesou, proprietor of the Lewis. is introducing young stagl from England {or the improvement of the various deer forests on the is- land. Out of 55 cases of infectious dis- ease in Southond, 25 were, in the opinion of the medical omcur 0! health, due to the outing of shellfish. The Scottish once has refused to permit. the body of George J ohnsmn. the Fife millionaire-hermit, to be ex- humcd. Lcith will have a. £2,000 statue at Queen Victoria. the site {or which has been selected at. the foot. of Leith Walk. The Rev. Peter Mourns, Cold- stream. died recently in the 84th year of his age and 54th of his win- istry. Great draught: of herring have during the past. few days been caught on‘ the Haddington coast. Iolchmou Ago-mu cow and flu lulu- haloâ€"Duct o: On a mum'- Iou. an. to. Mr. Alex. Ewing, long a respected â€"' resident. in Dumbarton, has reached his hundmdth birthday. D INTERESTING NEWS FRO! SCOT- LAND’S BANKS AND BRAKES. ' FRO! BONNIE SCOTLAND. Some lit! In mm SNOW IN THE MOON. bccn caused in IQ of a warrant, ' J. M. l"cc'gu- hmcutc. {or the