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UV vs- -' jfllervathevils Itoâ€"Inc,â€" N.'D., released three other prisoners, and 04cm ed. Leading photographic dry plate fac- torial o! the United States an! Eur Robert Crooks Co.. of Liverpool will build a new refinery near New York to fight the sugar trust. Gold in the United States treasury now amounts to $506,354,297. the largest amount ever held there. Four cars 0! a freight train on the Rock Island road were blown away by a cyclone near Hamblln, Kan. Two sate-blowers oygrpgwerefl the The July production of the C ‘ Creek lines was $2,312,500; “381‘; dividends}. 3691000- An American syndicate is after a forty-year lease of the Smith-Eastern Railway in England and is ready to deposit SSDMLOOO as a guarantee of a three per cent. dividend the first year and ultimately lixe eper cent. A locomotive on the Lacknwannn tdlroad blew up at Pancoast, Pa., killing the engineer. The delay in appointing a governor of Victoria in succession to Lord Brassey has been caused by Vic- toria's refusal to increase the Parlia- mentary grant of $25,000, which Mr. Chamberlain thinks too small. At a great Protestant meeting held in St. James' Hall, London, a reso~ lution was adopted protesting against any change in the King’s ac- cession declaration. A memorial em- bodying the resolution will be sent to the House of Commons. Southern Pacific is to equip its lines to burn oil for fuel. There were 74 deaths from small- pox in New York State during June. Three counterteiters with their out- fit were discovered in a South Da- kota canon. Mrs. Sarah Collins. an American, who was a saloon passenger on the steamer Furm~ssia, was fined 27 shil- lings and costs at. Belfast. for smug- gling three pounds 0! tobacco in a trunk. Cbicago machinists’ strike has endâ€" ed. The ' ' " umumcdmne-hour day is 'irnily es- UNITED STATES. An ice combine has been formed at Toledo, Ohio. British torpedo boat No. 81 has been sunk on the island 0! Alderncy, in the English Channel. No details have been received beyond the fact. that. there was no loss 0! life. Archbishops Ireland and Corrigan an] be made cardinals. The Dominion Government analysts endorse the idea propounded by medi- cal men that canned salmon should be stamped with the date on which the fish has been put, up, and that it should not be kept {or sale beyond a Certain number of years, on the grouml that. it is liable to deterior~ ale uml become dangerous to health. U BEAT BRITAIN. The King and Quocn t ' Cowes. . me gone to The half-dozen pioneers of the Mo- lakun community who have taken up settlement in the Saskatchewan Val- ley, west 01 Saskatoon and Prince Albert. are Well satisfied with the country. and will so rtport to the rest of their community, who are lo- cated in South Russia. Forest fires have destroyed a thou- sand acres of timber in Cumberland, Danie! l-Iauzuu. the president of the new SISJMJHJJOO steel trust, was born in Halt. and received his educa- tion in the Central and Grammar Schools in that town llmnjlton (‘itv Council thinks 810,- 000 is tuu much to spend on enter- taining the Duke 0! YOlk, and will Wait, for a. time until it decides the amount it will grant {or the purpose. At Kingston the customs import duties for July were 39,312.43; the inland revenue col!cctiuns were $15,- Geo. W. Dawson. assistant inspec- tor o! venue-mimics, will visit. the pcnittntmrio-s and jails 110m Mani- toba. tn the coast. during the ham part. 0! August. Montreal's Civic Reception Com- mittec is struggling with the mo- mentous question whether they will present the Duchess 01 Cornwall and York with a bouquet of red or white roses. Thc census returns, it is thought. will show an increase of 6,000 in the population of Wright. County, Que- N. J. Peterson. rancher, near Med- icine lint, committed suicide while haying, cutting his throat with a pen-knife. The man burned to death in the 1m: in the Carnctt House stables at St. Many a was (warm: Irnglc r. son of Christian I'lnglcr, 01 Logan Town- ship. Haumltnn City Council favors ihe Sunday watering o! streets traveqed by car tracks. a The Canadian Government. may protest. to Great Britain against its giving assistance to induce people to settle in South Atrica. C. F. Everett, a graduate of To- ronto University. has been appoint.- c l instructor in the technical classes in Ottawa; Collegiate Institute. Brmnford (‘ity Council has pro- hibited the use of trading stamps in that city. The telegraph line to Dawson City will not be in operation until the end of the present month. 74582.3 The Deputy Minister has returned tron: an inspection of the lntcrcolonâ€" ial railway. and reports it in excel- lent condition. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. IHE NEWS IN NIHSHHl "crating Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts at the Globe. Condensed and Assorted {or Buy CANADA. The collision occurred this side of Tuskar, at about 1:30 in the morn- ing. The log was very dense. The Kincora was struck amidships. All the passengers of the Oceanic were in bed at the time, and there was some commotion, until Capt. Cameron as- sured them that there Was not the least cause for alarm. The Kincora. was a coasting vessel, of 453 tons, trading between Waters ford and Limerick. She had a crew of 14 men. The Oceanic brought the seven survivors! to this port. Big Liner Oceanic Sinks Another steamer. A despatch from Queenstown says: â€"'l‘he White Star Line steamer Oceanic (Capt. Cameron) which sail- ed from Liverpool on Thursday for New York via Queensiown, arrived here this morning and reported hav- ing been in collision Thursday night, in the Irish channel, with the steam- er Kincora, of Waterford. Ireland. The Kincora sank. Seven persons were drowned. Headway was kept on the Oceanic after she struck the Kincora in order to give the crew of the latter a chance to clamber on board the Dev eanic. The boats were lowered to rescue every man possible. The Kincora sank very rapidly. The Oc- eanic remained in the vicinity of the collision until daylight, but nothing was then visible beyond some float- ing wreckage. The only damage sustained by the Oceanic consisted in a few dents to her pnrt plates. She proceeded at 3.50 p. m. Eight directors of the commercial banks in Kharkofl, Russia, which were recently taken possession of by the Government inspector, have been arrested, charged with having mis- appropriated the funds of the insti« tutions with which they were con- nected. The liabilities of the bunks amount to $10,030,000. The collision occurred in a fog. The bow of the Oceanic Was damaged. A Berlin paper declares that the only hope for an ilnprovmnent in the German iron market is a continuance of the labor troubles in America. The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Ati’nirs is engaged upon an extrudi- tion convention and general treaty of peace and friendship with the United States. Comte de la Vaulx. the aeronaut, who will attempt. to cross the Med- iterranean in a balloon about. the middle of August, has arrived in Toulon to superintend the prepara- tory arrangements. There have been heavy withdrawals from Germany of foreign credits, chiefly by French and English bank- ing firms. A Paris automobile firm is plan- ning u motor-driven flying machine, not. a balloon but something like it. 'l he British wmships Glory, I'clipse and Daphne and an! unexpectedly to- day at. Amoy. All is quiet there. Twenty 01 the twenty-six judges in Cook County, Ill., are taking vaca- tions, while 125 prisoners swelter in jail awaiting trial and 25,000 civil suits are unheard. James Ryan and Joe Morgan, at Lacrosse, Wis, held up and robbed a citizen. Within two hours they were arrested, tried and sentenced to three years at. hard labor. George McCabe. 43 years of age, committed suicide at New York. He had been a striker, but returned to work. Daily he was hooted and his- sed at. by the strikers and his neigh- bors and it is thought he was driven insane. A woman and two men were taken from jail and lynched at Carrollton, La. They were suspected of murder. While crossing a field George Hum- erickhouse, a farmer of Wells County, Indiana, was attacked by a mad bull and killed. Delegates to the New York Cham- ber of Commerce, recently returned from London, have contributed 325,-- 000 to the Victoria Memorial Fund. Gcorgc and Joseph Prothcrs, farm- ers. were instantly killed at Ellctts- ville. Ind., by lightning, which struck a. tree under which they had taken shelter. R. L. P‘osburgh, the father of May Fosburgh. who was shot and killed August 20, 1901), at Pittsfield, Mass, has withdrawn all rewards previous- ly offered and substituted one of $1,500 for the arrest and conviction of the guilty persons. Mrs. Mary Torrey, o! Muncie, Ind., is violently insane from injuries in- flicted by a rejected suitor, Peter 'l‘illbury, who asked her to marry him, and upon her refusal he emptied a bottle of carbolic acid in her face, blinding her entirely and burning her about the upper part 0! the body. Walter Sheppard was shot and in- stantly killed by Henry Vittatoc, near Pleasure Ridge, Ky. The young men had quarrelled, shaken hands and then resumed their quarrel. Colored pcop!c of Cape Town have passed resolutions of confidence in Lord Milncr. One 0! the horses 01 the Chicago fire brigade fell dead while going to a fire. Heat caused its death. The men had a narrow escape. A black tiger with Robinson's cir- cus at Logansport, Ind., got far enough through the bars of its cage to lay open to the bone the flesh on the top of the head and face of a. 6- ycar-old son of John Rush, an indul- gent father, who held his boy close to the animal’s cage. Chicago will have an Irish demon- stration August. 15, at. which Michael Davitt will speak on England’s treat- ment of the Boers. GENERAL. There are 3,000 Boer prisoner. in Bermuda. The Czar is getting fat. sinu his recent illness. Americans are barred from office in Cuba under the new constitution. 090 may combine, with a capital of William Lepley, a blacksmith, was killed by a bear that. is kept. on ex- hibition at the Palisade boat. land- ing, at Iowa Falls, Ia. DROWN:D IN COLLISION. cm'. 'eszc; No. 3 spi'ing, 64zc. Oats â€"35c. Cornâ€"55c. Milwaukcc, Aug. 13.-â€"â€"-Wheat closed â€"â€"Higher ; N0. 1 Northern, 72 to 725C ; N0. 2 Northern, 70} to 71§c ; September, 71%c. Ryeâ€"Steady ; No. 1, 565 to 563C. Barleyâ€"Steady; No. 2, 56c. Cornâ€"September, 57.16. Duluth, Aug. 13.-â€"-Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, cash. 7331c ; SeptemLer, 713c; No. 1 Northern, cash, 70%c; Sefitemâ€" ber, 702c; August, 70-:c; October, 703C; December, 714m No. 2 North- Toledo, Aug. 13.â€"Cash and Au- gust, 71£cz September. 721c; De- cember, 745c. Cornâ€"Cash, 56gc; September, 5743c ; December 58c. Oatsâ€"Cash, 35k; September. 35c ; December, 36c. Ry-57c. Cloverâ€" Cash and October, $6.225. Oilâ€" Buffalo, Aug. 13.â€"â€"I"lourâ€"Stcudy. Spring Wheatâ€"Quiet : N0. 1 North- ern, old, 7920 : do new, 76.},c. Win- ter Wheatâ€"Dull but firm : No. 2 rod, 74rac ; No. 1 white, 75c. (Jm'uâ€" Steady ; No. 2 yellow. 61c ; No. 3 do, 60~,-‘.c ; N0. 2 white, old, 42% ; do, new. 395C : No. 2 mixed, nom- inal, 375c ; 01d, 39c. Barleyâ€"No- thing doing. Ryeâ€"No. 2. 55¢. Unchanged. Toronto, Aug. 18.â€"'I‘he receipts were heavy at. the Western Cattle Market toâ€"day, but the quality of Lmnb, spring .......... 9.00 10.00 Mutton 5.50 6.50 Veal, choice... .. 7.50 8.50 Minneapolis. Aug. ] 3.-â€"-\\'heut.â€"â€" September. 6322 to 683C ; December, 70} to 70;c ; on track No. 1 hard, 7152c ; No. 1 Northern, 603C ; No. 2 Northern. 682C. Flourâ€"First pat- ents, $3.95 to $3.95 ; second pat- ents, 83.60 to $3.75 ; first. meats, 82.90 to $3 ; second clears. $2.20. Drank-In bulk, $13.50 to $14. llay, old, per ton ...... day, new, per ton.... Straw. per ton... ...... Dressed hogs... Butter, in 1!). rolls.... Butter, crcamcry ...... Chickens. per pair.... Ducks, per pair ......... Turkeys, per II)... ..... Eggs, new laid ...... Eggs, held, per (102.... Potatoes, new, bush. Tomatoes, basket. Beef, forequurtcrs Beef. hindqum'ters Roof, medium, curcuse Beef, choice ...... Lamb, yearling Lamb, spring . ...... Mutton Veal, choice... ...... Following is the range of quota- tions : Wheat, white ............ S 0.69 .8 0.69} Wheat. red. .............. 0.69 0.69) Wheat, goose ....... 0.66 0.67 Wheat. spring ...... 0.60 0.00 Oats ....................... 0. 39 0 . 39 .1- Pcas ....................... 0.66 0.00 Barley ...... ‘ .............. 0.4.3 0.00 Rye ........ Receipts of grain were small to- day, The only wheat. was a load of poor goose, which sold at, 65c. One load of oats brought 393C. May is firmer, there being sales of 10 loads at $13 to $13.51) for old, and at. $9.50 to $11 for new. Straw nom- ‘inal at 810. Toronto, Aug. 13.-â€"Wheat-â€"The loâ€" cal market is very dull, with nothing doing in Ontario grades. Cables ra- ther disappointing. No. 2 red and white winter nominal at 660 middle freight for export. New wheat nom- 1 spring on Midland quoted at 67 to 68c. Manitoba wheat firm. No. 1 hard sold at 82c, grinding in tran- sit, and No. 2 hard at 80c, grinding in transit. For Toronto and west 2c lower. Millfeedâ€"Thc market. is quiet. Bran quoted at. $12 west, and shorts at $14. 50 to $15 west. Dressed hugs are firm at $9.50 to $9.75. 110;; products in good de- mand. We quotaâ€"Bacon, long clear, ton and case lots, 11 to .lléc: pork, mess, 819.5“; (10.. short, cut, 21. Flourâ€"The market is firm. with moderate demand from exporters. Ninety per cent. sold at $2. 55 in buyers’ bags, middle freight. Straight rollers, in bbls.. for Lower Provinces. $3.10 to $3.20. Manito- ba patents $4, and- strong akers’ $3.70. Butterâ€"The market, is steady. Fin- est grades, in both dairy rolls and tubs man with ready sale. We quotaâ€"Selected dairy tubs, 16} to 17c; choice. 1-11). rolls. 17 to 18c; second grades, in rolls. tubs, and pails, 15 to 143C; bakers', J40; creamery prints firm, 20 to 210; so]- ids, 193» to 20¢. Smoked numtsâ€"llzuns, 1-1 to 15c; breakfast, bacon, 15 tu 16c; rolls, 120; backs, 15.}. to 16c, and shoul- dm's, 11§C. Lardâ€"Pails, .11;c; tubs, llic; fiicrccs, 11c.' Cor'n-‘I‘he malket is now firm, with saks of Canadian No.2 at 52c west. Ryeâ€"The market is quiet, and prices nominal at 46 to 46gc middle freight. Oatmealâ€"JIarket is unchanged. Car lots at $3.75 in bags and $3.85 in wood. Broken lots, Toronto, 2536 per bbl extra. I ggs â€"â€" Mmkot unchanged. We quote: -â€".-\'c':w laid, 12c; ordinary. 11 to llgc; chips and seconds, 7 to Be. Cheeseâ€"'l'hc market is firm at 110 to loge. PcasVâ€"Tl‘rwade quiet, with prices nolninally unchanged. Buckwheatâ€"Market dull, with prices purely nominal. Barlcy4-Tradc (full. New feed bar- 1931 quotgd at. 39c, August shipment. Qatarâ€"The market is'lluicc, with of- ferings restricted. White are quoted at 35c locally. and at 34-30 for ex- port. New sold at 31c middle freight August shipment. MARKETS OF T. WORLD Prices of Cattle. Cheasa, (into. Inc. In the Leading Hunts. DRESSED HUGS AND Pl{()~ VISIONS. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. THE STREET MARKET. THE DAIRY MARKET s 0.60 0.69 0.66 0.69 0.39 0.66 0.43 0.55 13.00 9.50 mm 9.51) 0.12 11.00 10.00 9.75 0 ‘20 0.25 0.75 1.00 0.12 (L 17 0.14 1.25 0.00 5.50 O 0-.) 6.50 1 ~3.. 0 0.69; 0.69; 0.67 0.00 0.30.}- 0.00 0.00 0.00 .1 â€"-'U _ And John D. Rockefeller is credit.- ed with owning easily one-third of the Standard O_il stock. ,,-_I A- If this Deccmber's dividend is equal to last Dcccmbcr’s, 10 per cent., this year's profits will beat the for- mer high record. They will be 5.0 per cent. vuuv ‘vv-â€"â€"" Upwto 18%)?) the company used to pay 12 per cent. per annum. In 1896 the dividend jumped to 31 per But, Wall Street, when not joking about mosquitoes, firmly believes that the Standard Oil will pay, not 10 per cent, but. 20 per centmext December, making its dividend for 1901 60 per cent., 860,000,000 ; ‘9' _ _'__ gent. In 1897 it. w'as _ 33 per cent... in 1898 80 per cent., and in 1899 33 The trust established a new high record last, year in piping profits to stockholders, when it paid out 48 per cent. in all about, $48, 000, 000. 40 PE R CPI N'l‘ THUS 1‘ AR. This year, so far, it has paid 40 per cent. But the days must grow longer and cold must kill the mosquitoes more surely than does crude. petro- leum. Wall Street firmly believes that Standard 0“ will declare a dividend for the final quarter of last year that will be no less than the dividend for the final quurser of last year. And then it was 10 per cent. It was suspected in Wall Street that, besides, the Standard Oil Trust Was giving away a few hun- dred dollars’ worth of oil in the at- tempt to destroy mosquitoes. Hence the comparatively low dividend. But because “"0 poor trust. declar- ed a quarterly dividend of only 8 per cent. its stock fell 4 points, to 768. Last. fall the price touched 832. Men in Wall Street were telling each other that the great trust. (le- clnrcd only an 8 per cent. dividend because the mosquitoes are so “bad." The countrymen cannot burn lamps when the light. utt'ucts millions of mosquitoes. cent., $12,000,000. The dividend for the third quarter, as- has just been said, if; 8 per cent., $8,000,000. can I, In 0 1"}! UCHL. , ’5, LR)”, {"H' So the total dividend thus far this year is 40 per cm t. on the $100.- 0()U,0()O capitalization, or $40,000,- AHA ’l‘he capitalization of the trust, is about $100,000,000. The declara- tion of the dividend means the dis- tribution of about $8,000,000 among the Standard Oil’s Stockholders. This dividend is the third declared by the company during the calendar year. The dividend fer the first quarter this year, paid in March, 1001. was 20 per cent., $20,0(N’LHUO. The. dividend for the second quarter paid in June, 1901, Was 1:3. per A despatch from New York says :â€" The directors of the Standard Oil Jonipany, at their meeting on Tues.- day, declared a dividend of 8 per cent., $8 a share on the cmnmon stock of the company. This dividend is payable (in September 16 next. and they were very slow of sale: Prices were about steady throughout the list. Exporters and butchers' were the only classes which showed any activity, and in these there were many head left over. Small stuff was ofiered liberally, but trade was dull. Hogs were unchanged. The total run was 79 loads, including 1,851 cattle, 1,316 sheep and lambs, 37 calves and 602 hogs. Export cattle, choice, per cwt ...... ...... 8 4.60 $ 5.05 do medium, per cwt. 4.25 4.60 do cows, per cwt ...... 3.75 4.25 Butchers’ cattle, pick- ed lots ................ . 4.40 4.75 do choice... ............ 4.00 4.40 do fair ............ . ..... 3.50 4.00 do common ............ 3.00 :- .50 do cows ........ . ....... 3.00 3.75 do bulls ................. . 3.00 3.50 Bulls, export, heavy, per cwt ............... 3.75 4.25 do light, per cwt ...... 3.50 3.75 Feeders, short-keep... , 4.25 4.75 do medium ............ . 3.50 4.25 do light ................ 3.25 3.50 Stockers, 400 to 600 lbs ...................... 3.00 3.25 do oil-colors... 2.25 3.00 Milch cows, each ....... 30.00 48.00 Sheep, export, cweS. per cwt ................... 3.40 3.50 do bucks, per cwt.... 2.50 3.00 do culls, each ........ . 2.00 3.00 Lambs, each ............. g 2.50 3.50 do per cwt ............. 4.25 4.50 Calves, per head... 1.00 8.00 Hogs, choice, per cwt. 7.25 0.0 Hogs, corn-fed, per 1 cwt ................... 7.00 0.00 ‘ Hogs, light, per cwt... 0.75 0.00 Hogs, fat, per cwt... .. 6.75 0.00i Sows, per cwt .......... 4.00 4.50l Rockefeller Clears $20,000,000 in Dividends. the stock was rather poor and busi- ness was slow. There was a good demand for choice cattle. but. the supply was short and the offerings did not last long. There was an abundance of halt-finished cattle, particularly in the export branch, In the five and three-quutcr years BLAME THE M‘USQUI'I‘OICS. JOHN I). ROCKI'IF ELLE]! STANDARD OIL. month ; say $150,000 4.40 4.00 3.50 3.00 3.50 3.00 3.00 3.50 4. 50 8. 0) 0.00 W. P. 4.75 4.40 gm}: 4.(’U B: S. 3.50 J 1 3.75 J??? 3-50 J. S: A. F). 43? Josop 21;: WP. . d 4.55 J. w. J. W. Exports Show a Falling Off Com- pared With July. 1900. A despatch from London says:â€"- The British trade returns for July show that. there was an increase in £1“ 0 786 ‘ “V. v 'â€" use every precaution in passing Orient steamers to prevent the in- troduction of the disease here. The Queen Adelaide, which arrived Mon- day night, was very thoroughly fu- migated, and the same will be the case with the Empress of Japan. due Wednesday, and the Idzumi Mari, due Thursday. BRITISH IMPORTS INCREASE A despatch from Victoria. 13.0.. says :â€"()n account, of the prevalence of bubonic plague in Hong Kong. Dr. Watt. superintendent. of Williams Head quarantine station, has re- ceived instructions from Ottawa to A despaich from London says :â€" Always anxious to better the con- dition of young women, and espe- cially to save them from the drud- gory of poorly paid domestic service, the beautiful Countess of “arwick has inaugurated a branch of the Agricultural College at Reading for women. and hopes by its means to ag iin widen the sphere of usefulness for her proteges. Lady “arwick is a clever business woman, and al- though sparing neither pains nor ex- pense in inaugumting her various schemes for the advancement of the women of the poorer class. she in- sists upon putting these schemes on a self-supporting basis. Extreme Care Taken in Inspection of Steamers. A despateh from London says :â€" Assaults (m policemen have become so numerous in certain districts in London that the authorities have been petitioned to permit the police to carry revolvers. London policemen carry only clubs. in deference to the wishes of the people, who some years ago agitat- ecl against the revolver as being too dangerous to entrust them with. The result is that in attacking burglars Or'highwaymen they have only their clubs to protect themselves against assaults with knife, revolver. and knuckle-(luster. London is becoming Worse than Chicago. At nights there is a reign of terror on all roads leading to and from the suburbs. (:arrotting has become a common form of crime. Lady Warwick Institutes Agricul tural College. Garmttlng and Highway Assaults Common in London beginning January 1, 1896, there- fore, the company has distributed $215,000,000 to its stockholders on a capitalization of about. $100,000,- 000. This infinitely surpasses the records of all other corporations. Guelph Agricultural College ................................................... 98.7.". “ “ It will be noted that the average scoring of Canadian cheese is very high and uniform. The committee who judged them. A. C. Bryce. Mont- real; S. B. Richardson. New York. and II. C. Whyte. Wisconsin. compli- mented the Canadians on their exceptional success and said that no betâ€" ter cheese are made in America. W J. R. Barge, Bluevale, Ont... J. R. Durgc, Bluev,ale Ont" Stcuart R. Payne, Warsaw, E. 0. Kennedy, “elland 0000000 OUR CHEESE EXHIBIT. POLICE TO CARRY GUNS. WOMEN FARMERS. BUBONIC PLAGUE. . Hap, Assistant (Special by Martha Craig.) IIUMI‘I'I‘RAIJI'I canadatoooooo- Canada........ once this coin has been paid by you the Chlnaman, coolle or shopman. will generally stick to his bargain. even if the result. to him be loss. When you engage a servant or make a bargain in China it is not. considered binding until “the faster.- ing penny" has been paid. Although his bad faith is notorious in some matters. yet. to do him justice, when A farm near llroadhouse, in York- shire, pays annually to the land- lord a snowball in midsummer and a red rose at. Christmas. The manor of Foston is held by a rental of two arrows and a loaf of bread. Au cs- tate in the north of llngland is held by the exhibition before a court every seven tears of a certain vase owned by the family ; anotl.r,e in Suffolk. by an annual rental of two white doves. A desputch from St. I‘etershurg sayszâ€"The continued drought has ex- tended the area of crop damage, which includes the Baltic provinces. In the west Siberian and Volga pro- vinCes an almost total crop failure is expected. Continued Drought Has Extended Area of Damage. ENTERPRISE AT THE 500. Contract for Power Plant â€" New Flour Hill. A despatch from Ottawa says:â€" The contract for the second water power canal at the fine is likely to be aWarded to Mr. George Goodwin, of this city. The canal will he the same length as the present power channel. but will he larger, 26 feet deep and 150 feet wide. The excavaâ€" tion will include 1300,0100 cubic yards of rock, and 40,000 cubic yards of earth. The hc-adgatrs and power house are not included in the specifi- cation. New York Ian's Sorrow Drove Him Insane. A (lespatch from New York says:â€" August Schwab, 65 years of age, a. real estate agent, shot himself through the hunt late on Thursday, and died on the grave of his two sons, whose death, within a few days of each other. {our 3ears ago. all'eet- ed the man’s mind. Leaving his wife earlier in the day. he told her to light the candles in their l‘OUln. claiming it 'as the anniversary 0! the death of the eldest son. The. wife emnplietl. and Was waitingr in the lighted rnum when she received word of the finding of her husband's; body in the eenwtery mi Long 15-! land. I The (.‘lergue syndicate intend oper- ating at the Son one at the largest flour mills on this continent. a mill with a capacity of nearly 4,000 bar- rels per day, The output of this mill it is intended to ship direct to ling- hmd by the new ocean-going stealin- ers to be constructed with at View to the utilization of the St. Lawrence canals. SUICIDED 0N SONS’ GRAVE RUSSIAN CROP FAILURE. SERVA N'I‘S IN CHI NA. CURIOUS TI‘INUIU'IS. !-AIEIIOAI. Division at the 20 per cent. (:’4: ()0 on 96.00 ~ ~ 97.56 H .. 97.25 H .. 97.00 “ " 98.75 do 00 96.50 “ “ 97.50 “ " 97.00 “ “ A period of five seconds between a flash of lightning and thunder means that. the flash was a mile distant. from the observer. Thunder has never been heard over 14 mlles lrom the flash. though artillery he: been heard at 120 mil“. A (lcspntch from Victoria. B. C., snys:-l~‘rum an uninipeaclinble source the Nagasaki Press learns that Gen» era! (:ribski, the military governor of llluguvmtchensk and districts. cmninittcd suicide un July 14 us he was upprtmching the above city on his return from St. 1’ ~tersburg. He “’HS returning in disgrace. after en- deavoring to explain the massacre of thousands of Chinese by his Coo- sucks a year ago by the fact that the telegram “Fling Chinese acre-I Amoor,” sent from St. l‘etersbum. was received in his absence and in- terpreted “Fling Chinese in Amoor.” Disgraced by _C_z_ar for Massacre of The existence of iron in the 'I‘hun- cier lluy (lit-strict. has been suspected {or some time, but. only recently has any prospecting been done there. The American Steel Company has taken and applied for about, 8,000 acres of mineral land, while one of Mr. Clergue's an-rprises. the Algomu Commercial Company. has from pro-‘â€" pvctors the choice of between 4,000 and 5,000 acres. Important Discoveries Mada in Thunder Bay District . A despateh from Toronto says:-â€"- 'New and important discoveries 01‘ iron have been reported to the Do- partmcnt of Crown Lands as having been made in the Thunder Bay dis- trict. to the east of Lake Nipigon. The deposit consists of two easily observable veins. separated by an in- terval of about three miles, running parallel to each other to a distance of about ten mile-s from the lake shore. The surface deposits show the ore to be of the hematite variety of low grade, about 4-0 per cent. purâ€" ity. It cannot, of course. as yet be estimated how the deposit will pan out, but apparently there exists a larger body than either in the Hat- tawan or Atikokan ranges further West, although the ore in the latter places is of a higher quality. Mrs. Davis recognized him as her assailant, and the negro broke down and wept. He admitted his guilt. and pleaded for mercy, but was drug- ged from the house to the woods, where the crowd had gathered. He was chained to an iron pipe in the ground, and both whites and blacks were piling hrushwood around the Make. A match was applied to the pile, and the negro's body Was quickly consumed. The crowd then quickly dispersed. in her garden. Pennington choked the woman into inscnuibility. A large posse was quickly organized with bloodhounds, and they chased the negro until curly Wednesday morning, when he was captured in a swamp. lie was bound hand and foot and taken to the. Davis home for identification. Pennington had committed a brut- al assault upon Mrs. J. G. Davis, wifn of one of the most. prominent, farmers: of ()ochy County, and had confessed his guilt. The crime ‘1“! committed 'l‘uosduy afternoon, while Mrs. lluvis Wm; gathering vtgetablen An Alabama, Mob Tobe Von- geance on n Negro. A dcsputch from Birmingham, Aim, sayszâ€"John Wesley, it negro, was burned at the stake near l'lnterprib'c. Aim. before a crowd of .500 enraged and (ictcrniiiwd citizens of (foll'ey County on Wednesday morning. The mob was cniiiposod of both whites and blacks, and though tho victim ploudvd for nn-rcy, and frunticaliy en- dcavm‘od to break the chains that tightly bound him, not it trace of sympathy was shown. us in time. The stomach being al- most a vital organ presents greater dillieulties, but it can be removed. and the patient can get along with- i out gr -at inconvenience." ‘ “So far as 1 can learn there have been but three operations performed in which the entire stomach has been removed. The German opertb tion before mentioned; the Bodman operation. in Newark. and one in Brooklyn. (â€"111 next Tuesday I will remove the stomach of a man who has been sullen-mg from cancer for some time. If he did not undergo the operation his death would be a certainty within a. few weeks. It he stands the operation I can promise him a renewed lease of life and there is a possibility of it cure. At any rate. he will not sufler the torture» that come in the last days of a cancer \‘ict im. " A New York In Hopes for It: Lens: of Lilo. A despatch new New York Rays -- ‘The life 0! the Empress lIederick of Germany would probably have been saved had she permitted sur- geons to rommc th stomach when it was first ascertained that she was suflering from cancer." 'I‘his statement was made Monday afternoon by Dr. “'ilfrid G. Franck. who in April last performed an op- eration of the kind, removing the stomach of D. G. Dodinun, of Net?- ark, NJ. 0n next Tuesday afterâ€" noon. ut the Metropolitan Hospital, Dr. Frolick expects to remove the stomach of a business man of this city, who is nearly dead from cun- C(‘l' “The first operation of (his kind of which 1 can get any information was performed in Germany bx Dr. Schluucr. a well-known surgeon and scientist," continued Dr. Frulick. ” It prolonged the puticnt's lite for $01!“: time and put an end to his suffering. We have no trouble rc- nmving cancer in othcr par“) o! the- body, when the cases are brought to BURNED AT THE STAKE. WILL REMOVE STOHACH. GENERAL SUICIDES. DEPOSITS OF IRON.