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Durham Review (1897), 3 Aug 1899, p. 3

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â€"nts to the laterâ€" , rolling stock, ete., for claims Sault ed to @rbltration, s SIMPLICITY » of rules for railâ€" 00 ; Port Colborne nts. $150,000. JOUNDARY. artling or importâ€"~ pay #4@W@®THs to w a s Thowsand Dollar UWis Pipe in the _crrl.ory, are ip the" discusâ€" in the meanâ€" & T@ '.'|kia' o" wild * ‘American grasping LHS OHNE e re'urn;;lbfli emed sur L. "I made the mills. so I mun mplse matter to who still amok«â€" hen fire, and ao e as well rluamex®i thig s which were on the Alagâ€" sSir Charleg 14. arles paid itesmen in »babiy nog asuyre. He »rims that ience and him that hs powers ited Ha ntion that tainly lead 1 very proâ€" n meanâ€" him was ne to do is :0 do ule and emocralid i1 those of acted by : * Lancaâ€" \rchdeaâ€" Meric be ts M ire any _ Great There gement Canada s f the 'L;‘k;. C lpon its a meetâ€" ‘ommisâ€" ion was o madit censes s1 sub« n..body i. and + point giciam‘s 1 0t i TALl= h Colâ€" â€". and he 10 pro« ; from t â€" say rcu ue ind an by the phold nada. i time. + when AFr g= sOT it of D Sen rorth 111s@, . _ at urer, 1°r® OW Odâ€"~ W uilt hop ure D U® DaD lolâ€" i LO ;@% 1@ * ~ld 1¢ CANADA. Geo. Ashdown has been elected Mayor of Modern, Man. Miss May Smith committed suicide at Stony Mountain, Man. Pictos has voted to raise $15,000 for a nev elsctric light plant. The Gaspesia bhas been sold in 5t John‘s, Nfld., for salvage expenses. Robert G. Ingersoll, the wellâ€"known freeâ€"thinker, died suddenly yesterday. William Mullen, aged twenty, was drowned in the Thames near London last night. A returned Klondiker at Montreal says that $12,000,000 will be taken ou! of the Yukon this year. § The losses of the insurance companâ€" les by the recent Quebec fire amount to £59,000. The Manitoba I;egialature has deâ€" feated the bill allowing Winnipeg to #ake a Sunday car vote. s noudcalhc ces en Ti se iWt twren se d employed on a ranch near Wapella, Manitoba, accidentalily poisoned himself en Saturday. The Gurneyâ€"Tilden and D. Moo) Co. works in Hamilten have & their stoveâ€"moulders a 10 per cent creasge in their wages. J. H. 'uaru,'. wellâ€"toâ€"do farmer of Palgrave, committed suicide by shootâ€" :ll;g himseif, near Georgetown, yesterâ€" y. bas received to carry the be used¢ inste Humphrey â€" Guest, the 78â€"yearâ€"old thief who bas spent 42 years in priâ€" son, was sentenced to three years in penitentiary at Belleville yesterday. Mir. John Robinson, principal of Darâ€" ling street school, Brantford, bas reâ€" signed his position, to accepl a simiâ€" lar one under the Hamilton Sehool Board. Owing to the @iillicuily in PMVPT!UA iron girders and columns, work on the‘ new Grand Trunk general offices in Montreal has been discontinued until next year. % Halifax Board of Trade bas asked the Dominion Government to place a whisiling buoy at the entrance to Haliâ€" fax bharbour and a lightship off Samâ€" bro lsland. As soon as the street railway and railway deals at Hamilton have been completed by the Cataract Company Synaicate, it will turn its atteniion to the line to Guelph. The will of W. W. Turnbull, of St.‘ John, N. B.. disposes of an estate of $650,400 personalty,. St. John will bhave a bome â€" for incurables,.. to â€"cost $100,000 ouat of it, The â€" Governorâ€"General and _ Lady Minto bhave been invited by Carlyle Camp, No. 82, Sons of Scotland, to attend their â€" Caledonian games at. Chatbham, on Monday Aug. 14. A gailant railway laborer saved a disaster on the Canadian Pacific Ry., tracks at Kamloops by swimming twice across a stream to warn approaching trains of the destruction of the bridge by fire. The barbor Commissioners at Mon‘â€" real are now making the necessary imâ€" provements in readiness for the expectâ€" ed increase in traffic, arising from the deepening of the canals which will be completed this fall. An English boy nan;ed n,“f‘“ft?.‘fffii’ Lt â€"Gol. Hoimes, D. O. C€., has reâ€" quested the City Council of London to pay $2000 as an advancao towards the payment of the expenses of the militia called out in consequence . of _ the street car troubles. Jennie, the little daughter of Michâ€" ael Blakeney, of Halifax, while at play ran a rusty nail into her foot. Blood poisoning set in iand ullimntel‘y _ lockâ€" 3;;';6;&;;&&; from which after terâ€" tible suffering she died. The manufacturers of Brantford, inâ€" cluding _ the Cockshutt Plough Co., Masseyâ€"Harris Company, and Waterâ€" ous Engine Company, have oifered to donate the city $2,500 towards purâ€" poses of flood prevention. It is stated that the Bank of Montâ€" real paid $120,000 for the properties of the Canada Paper Co., and of the Boxer estate adjoining on Craig street, Montreal, which it bought a short time ago for the extension of its premises. J. Hughes, a Kansas man, trapp:ing in British Columbia, quarrelled with a quarterâ€"breed over the division of some skins, and shot him fatally. While the man was dying Hughes calâ€" led regularly on him, even digging a ftave beforebhand. He is under arâ€" rest The increased trade of the Dominâ€" ion Bridge Co., bas decided the manâ€" agement upon building an addition to their works at Lower Lachine. _ The addition will give the company an increased capacity from 7,00) to 8,000 tons per year, Or about 40 per cent. inâ€" crease in their present output. In the Manitoba Legislature Premâ€" ier Greenway said: It is not the inâ€" tention of the Government to introâ€" duce this session a measure prohibitâ€" ing the sale of intoxicating liquors to the full extent of the powers of the province. It is the intention to introâ€" Guca sach a measure in the first sesâ€" sion of the next Legisliature. Ottawa (City Council has accepted the proposal of the Street Railway Co. that, conditional upon being allowed to roa Sundazy cars the mileage paid to the city should be increased oneâ€" severth, seven tickets should be sold for 25 seuts, and that school children‘s ews Summary. islature has passed of the bill to perâ€" te on the Sunday D. Moore & have giveD Recent Hapfem'ngs Briefly Told. D= d: tickets, which are now sold 40 for $1, be accepted on the Sunday cars. » GREAT BRNITAIN. In London a great auk‘s °&E has sold for £300, a record price for an egg. Mrs. Gladstone was thrown from her gnny carriage at Hawarden, and was adly shaken up. Great Britain expects an average yield of whea‘ and barley, but a shortâ€" age in the oat crop. The Rev. Charles Graves, D.D., D. C. L., Bishop of Limerick, died _ Monâ€" day, in his 87th year. .« Twentyâ€"eight baitleships and cruisâ€" ers bave left Portland hbharbour for Belfast to take part in. the manceuâ€" vres. * The Rev. Frederick W. Macdonald, uncle of Rudyard Kipling, has been elected president of the Wesleyan Conference at London, Eng. Emperor William will give a cup and other prizes for a handicap race for cruisers during the Cowes yachtâ€" ing week, Y It is rumored in London that a batâ€" talion of the Scois Guards and a battalion of. the Grenadiers have been ordered to the Cape. e Unprecedented heat is prevailing in England, the thermometer registering 87 in the shade. Fatalities bhave o¢â€" curred. and sunstrokes are numerous, The London Electric Cab Co. hbhas dismissed its employes and closed its yard, chiefly in conséequence of the difâ€" ficulty it has bad in finding drivers for the vehicles. Mr. Henry Piunkettâ€"Greene, the wellâ€" known baritone, was married in Lonâ€" don to Gwendoline, daughier of Sit Hubert Parry, Director of the Royal College of Music. + The Duke of Westminster has preâ€" sented the 10,000 sovereigns won by Flying Fox on the race for the Eclipse Stakes on Sandown Park on Friday to the Royal Alexandra Hospital at Rhy!. lÂ¥+putations from the Obstetrical Soâ€" ci:ety, ithe Queen‘s Jubilee Instituie an« many women‘s societies will wait on the Duke of Devonshire to urge legislation for (the beneiit of nauidâ€" wives. Sir Jas. Vaughan, the wellâ€"known Bow street mag.sirate, announces that he is about to retire, after 35 years‘ service ia the principal London Police Court. Although 85, he is still vigorâ€" ous ln the British House of Commons yesâ€" terday Mr. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that the Government would maintain the strength of the navy on an equality with that of the combined French and Russian fleets, The British naval manceuvres will inâ€" involve a test of torpedoâ€"boat deâ€" stroyers against torpedo boais, and an attempt on the part of a supposed enemy to intercept a convoy of provi« sion ships coming from Canada to Britain. A London paper says that Emperor Wiiliam wished to artend the Queen‘s birthday ceiebration in England, but the British authorities considered the time inopportune and the Emperor took umbrage. It is said in London that Parliament i will pass the Pacific cable scheme this‘ session if it receives in time the deâ€" cision of the Australasian Governâ€"| ments on the new proposals made at | the recent conference. : Hon. Charles Gordon, nephew of the Marquis of Huntley and an officer of the Gordon Highlanders, called at the house of his cousin at 1 o‘clock in the morning, and, failing to arouse him, climbed to the roof by clinging to the waterspout. He lost his hold, fell to the ground and was killed. , In recognition of his services in the cause of Imperial penny postage, Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., has been preâ€" sented with the freedom of the City of London, as well as a gold casket, upon bne end of which there is a figâ€" ure representing Britannia, and at the o:jher end an allegorical figure of Canâ€" ada. In the British House of Commons, Mr. George Wyndham, Secretary for War, said that the three batteries of artillery ordered to Africa were EO0~ ing as retiefse or reinforcements, buLt, is â€" t soelied ce trtmcdi Aveni o â€"cuirrere a F should cireumstances require it, the batteries already there might be reâ€" tained and the reliefs would then beâ€" come reinforcements. UNITED STATES. There is little change in the street car strike situation at Cleveland. Chicago restaurants have advanced the price of steaks. A Chicago fireman has an invention to prevent hydrants freezing. Clar; _Ban'un, of the Red Cross Soâ€" ciety, from Cuba, bas returned to New York. General Aiger has resigned the Sece retaryship of War in Mr. McKinley‘s Cabinet. A berd of twentyâ€"ome cattle afflictâ€" ed with tuberculosis have been killed near Syracuse. Further trouble among the Pathans on the northwest frontier of Indian is reported. Independent telephone companies in the United States are consolidating to fight the Bell. The boiler of the Austrian torpedo boat A der exploded, killing a lien:enâ€" amt and fou: men. Mr. Elihu Root of New York has acâ€" cepted the Secretaryship of War in President McKiniey‘s Cabinet. It is understood that Elihu Root of New York will succeed General Alger as United States Secretary of War. At Poughkeepsie, N.Y., George Burâ€" gess, a civil engineer out of work, is fathelrling driftwood on the Hudson o sell. The Bank of England is in difficu}â€" tiesâ€"not the " old lady," but mn instiâ€" tution at Manchester, N.H. An order has been received by the National Electric Co., of Milford, Conn., for w complete sets of electric bells and fire alarm boxes for Windsor Casâ€" tle. The charge against the Jpflwra are rested some time ago in Johannesburg by the Transvaal authorities has been reduced from high treason to causing disorder. ie o7 At (Indianapolis, Munree Hedges, aged 106 years, walloped his son Hiâ€" ram RHedges, aged seventy, because Hiram came home in liquor and abusâ€" ed his wife. A Washington report says that out of 56 officers and 1,316 men of the Second Oregon Regiment only 49 were killed in battle or died of disease in the Philippines. Fred Riehlman, of Otisco, N. Y. bhas been fined $10 for hitching a horse by its tongue to a traction enâ€" gine and then starting the engine. The animal reared tearing out five inches of its tongue. The reciprocity treaties negotiated by the United States with Bermuda and other British West India colonies were signed on Tuesday at Washingâ€" ton by the representatives of Great Briâ€" tain and the United States. Senator Fairbanks, chairman of the Joint Highâ€"American Canadian Comâ€" mission, still expresses confidence that some arrangement may be made which wili result in a resumption of negotiâ€" ations on the Alaskan boundary. The Assistani Secretary of the Treasury, Spaulding, at Washington, has remitted the penalty of $3,200 imâ€" posed on the Canadian steamer Comâ€" fort for violation of the law forbidâ€" ding the carriage of coastwise pasâ€" sengers by carrying a Fourth of July party from Marine City, Mich., to anâ€" other point in the United States via a Canadian port. of George M. Valentine, cashier of the suspended Middlesex County Bink at Perth Amboy, NJ., was sentenced to six years in the New Jersey Peniâ€" tentiary. He bhad pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny in connection with his misappropriations of about $200,â€" 000 from the Middiesex County Bink. The fu‘l amount of the defalcation has not been ascertained, but it is underâ€" stood that it exceeds $208,000. GENERAL. Storms have devasted Chili. Forest fires are raging in Sweden. Drouth is causing distress in Cuba. Tobacco is a drug on Havana marâ€" There is more reported fighiing in Samoa. ~ * Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, will tour Central India in October. ket The Pope has resolved to conduct personally the religious ceremonies opening the century. tour Ceniral india in UVCtobDeLT. . The United States system is replacâ€" ing the Spanish in the Manilla courts. iiecvm â€"ruins have â€"flooded Ma;nl;). They are moving about the streets boats. A French menagerie proprietor bhas accepted a â€" Spaniard‘s Challenge to match a buil against two hons. Hundreds of Spanish laborers engagâ€" ed by the naval contractors at Gibâ€" raltar, are on stroke and threaten riots. Cuba s crops, especially sugar, are sufftering from lack of rain, though this is the rainy season. The British cruiser Bonaventure, reâ€" porited ashore in a bad position at Cornilov, has been floated to Hong Kong. The Indian Government has anneXâ€" ed Nushki, in B:loochistan, paying an annua! rental for the territory to the Khan of Kelat. They are predicting Gen. Pellieux s dismissal from his command in Paris He is now charged with lying to the Minister of War. . Naval Lieut, Boissman, the late Czarewitch s Companion, shot himself when upbraided by the Czar for allowâ€" inx the Czarwitch *o go cyciing alone. The Newfoundiand Supreme Court has reduced to $6,500 the saivage for rescuing the Canadian jiner Gaspesia from the ice fioes in St. Lawrence Gulf. A Melbourne despatch says Lhuti the Eastern Extension Telegraph Comâ€". pany has made an offer to the Vice toria Government to lay a cable from Australa to South Africa without cost to the colonies. A terrific tornado in the Russian province of Pensa, almost destroyed the City of Nikolaajewshoje. Sixe teen bodies have been taken out of the ruing and it is believed that the loss of life will reach nearly 200. The closing of the Newfoundland Legislature was marked by the presâ€" ence of 1,000 British seamen and maâ€" rines. A peaceful settlement of the French shore difficulty was foresbhadâ€" owed in the Governor‘s speech. The International Peace Conference yesterday passed resolutions in favor of the prohibition of the use in war of expanding bullets and also of aspby xiâ€" ating projectiles, The British and United States delegates voted against the proposition. Work bas been begun on the conâ€" struction of a passage from the cell of Capt. Dreyfus to the hbhall in which the courtâ€"martial before which he is to be tried will sit. This will enable the prisoner to escape the annoyance of observation by the curious. A triple murder of an American named Ward and two Japanese woâ€" men at Yokobhama, the supposed cause being jealousy, brings an Amâ€" erican ssilor named Miller under the Japanese law as the suspected murâ€" derer. This is the first case under the new treaties. Negotiations by an United Statesâ€" syndicate have been closed for the sale of Popocatepti volcano, Mexico, and $500,000 in gold, the purchase price, has been paid to Gen. Gasper Sanchez, who owned and operated the sulphur deposits in the crater of the volcano for the past 25 years. A mysterious epidemic which has been prevailing recently among the cattle on the Swediah Island of Gothâ€" land, has spread to the human beings in the district, and a Jarge number of Terrible Death of a Wealthy Nova Scotina. A despatch from Halifax, N.S., says : â€"The dwelling of John Mcintyre, a rich and aged‘ resident of Lawrenceâ€" o4 by ty io Seturdey aightand ihs o# urday and the owner, who had lived there 30:0 for & years, was burned to death. patients have been admitted to the hospitals. Some of the cases are exâ€" tremely difficult to diagnose. Cattle are dying by hundreds throughout the Island as a result of the epidemic. BUKNED WITH HIS HOUSE. NEIGHBORS SÂ¥ELT SMOKE, A MONTREAL MAN‘S NARROW ESâ€" CAPE FROM DEATH BY BURNING. P en en on e mss o ns firemen were called, and although the nearest box is about a quarter of a mile away, they were on hand in time to save the house from total destrucâ€" tion. Paquin was resuscitated with great difficulty. He bhad a very narrow °Sâ€" cape from death. It is believed that in lighting a lamp when he went to bed a piece of tge brimstone Oor & fxece of the burning match must have alien on the table cloth, which is said to bhave scommunicated the fire to a cradle near by. Theclothes apparentâ€" ly smouldered until the outbreak was discovered just in time to save Paâ€" quin‘s life. An Oxford County Girl Dies Seddenly From shock. ‘ A despatch from Woodstock, Ont., says:â€"Miss Jane Grier, 21 years old, daughter of Mr. Grier, of the 7th conâ€" cession, East Oxford, died at her home on Monday afternoon, _A few weeks ago Miss Grier went to stay with _ a friend of hers in Dumfries. She was enâ€" joying the best of health. One evenâ€" ing on retiring at the usual bhour, as it was not very dark, Miss Grier did not take a light to her room. The apartâ€" ment only being lit by the expiring twilight, the objects therein were not plainly discernible. The young lady removed her apparel and proceeded to get into bed, but as she reached out her hand to turn down the bed clothes it came in contact with a face. _ _ With a piercing shriek Miss Grier fell back insensible. Her cry startled the inmates of the house, who rushed to her room to find her in _a swoon, from which she only partially recoverâ€" ed. It appears that she had previously occupied the spare room by herself, and on the night referred to a neighbour‘s child, who was stopping at the house, was put into the bed unknown to her, .Miss Grier never recovered from the shock. | Sritish Steamer Reaches Newfound‘and l Badly Damaged. | _A despatch from St. John‘s, Nfld., \says:â€"The British steamer Jobhn Bright, \Captain Keene, from Batuscan, via ‘Quebec, July 14th, for London, with ! lumber and general cargo, has arrived ‘here with bow stove in by collision | with an iceberg in the Straite of Belle |\Isle. She has a bhuge fracture in the {foreâ€"compartment, the hole being many feet wide and extending from above the | waterâ€"line to the keel. It will be necesâ€" \sary for her to go into dryâ€"dock and \{nake extensive repairs before proceedâ€" ing. i Nine Men Killed and Four Injured in a British Torpedo Boat Bestroyer Exâ€" ploston. A despatch from London, says:â€" During her trial toâ€"day on the Solent, an explosion occurred on board the torpedoâ€"boat destroyer Bullfinch, killâ€" ingâ€"nine and injuring four of those on board. It was the worst naval acciâ€" dent of this nature that has occurred in the British navy in 20 years. The victims were terribly injured, steam and boiling water filling the engineâ€" room. s o en d F _ The Bullfinch is one of the latestâ€" designed, 30â€"knot iorpedoâ€"boat deâ€" strpyers. _ _ _ _ _ Cig y While the Bullfinch was running at ber full sfeed of 30 knots the connectâ€" ing rod of the starboard engine broke, and, striking the cylinder, knocked off its end. The engineâ€"room presented a terrible sight. The imjured were groaning in agony. One man, who had apparently been struck by some fiying metal, had ‘his head nearly torn Falls From His Airship in Presence of One Thousand People. A despatch from Cleveland, says:â€"S. H. Hawkins, an aeronaut, was killed in a balloon ascension at Euclid Beach park this evening. After ascending 500 tu;‘hu\lvlu:ok&ckod:nr:.m the traâ€" pese, a receiving injuries from which godlod an hbour later. The accident was witnessed by off. FOUND HER BED OCCUPIED. WILL DEPORT CANADIANS. A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION. MANY SEE BALLOONIST DIE RAN DOWN AN ICEBERG. Dies Seddenly Canadlan Detectives on the Lookout for a Chicago De.aviter, A despatch from Montreal says:â€" The Montreal detectives have been askâ€" ed to be on the lookout for William A}â€" exander Stewart Graham, of Chicago, a defaulter, it is alleged, to the exâ€" tent of about $75,000. Graham is a Canadian, born near Montreal, and it is thought that be may be captured ‘at either Montreal or Otrawa. He was formerly school agent in Chicago, as wel} as clerk and secretary of the Board of Education. He is charged with emâ€" bezzling the bonds of the board. Graâ€" ham confesses to a shortage of $23,â€" 003, and in an open letter written afâ€" ter his flight, and given to his wife, offers property worth $24,000 to covâ€" er the shortage. He has lost ali his savâ€" ings and the school funds in stock specâ€" ulation, and in (the attempt to make a fortune in a short time. 900 Employes of <anadian Copper Co. Idieâ€"Want Encrease of Wages. A despatch from Sudbury, says:â€" Quite a scnsation was caused hbere by a‘l the men employed in the mines of the Canadian Copper Company, abou nine bhundred, having gone on strike for bigher wages, The men in the smelters wili also go out toâ€"night. The wages of the miners and surface men bhave been cut down twice in the past tem years, first by 10 per cent., and the second time by 5 per cent. The men now demand a raise all round of 15 per cent. or the wages paid at the start. The cost of living, they claim, has â€" increased, with _ schools and churches to keep up, and men of famâ€" lies especially find it hard to live deâ€" cently on the scale of wages now paid and keep out of debt. There is no disturbance, and negoliaâ€" tions for a settiement of the trouble are going on. Montreal | @Mcer _ Receives a â€" Rertous | Wound. ‘ A despatch from Montreal, says:â€" Acting Detective Richard, of the cilyl police force, is confined to his home | suffering â€" from a dangerous â€" knife wound, inflicted upon him while in the . discharge of his duty on St. James street at an early hour on Sunday morning, @nd Michael Lafieur, a labourer, bas been arrested on a charge of inflicting the wound with inâ€" tent to kill. Lafleur and a number â€" of friends were coming out of a saloon on St. James street shortly after midâ€" lmght. The crowd was noisy, and sevâ€" eral officers, including â€"Richard, who were near by, altempied to disperse \the crowd. â€" Lafleur drew a knife and ‘stabbed Richard in the stomach, The ‘wounded man was taken to the hosâ€" Expertmenis | With Wleciric Lights im | British Quiana I.'n-urce-nlul. \ A despatch from Kingston, says:â€"| The city of Georgetown, British Guiâ€". ana, has recentiy adopted the electric light. The ars lamps. became cenâ€" tres of attraction to cockles, a series of small beetle which swarm in myâ€" riads along the coast and river shores ait the commencement of the Guinan rainy season, and each :amp was speedily filled to the brim. ‘Lhbe front ranks of the insects then came in conâ€" tact with the current, which eet their bodies on lire. _ Line immediate result was that the lamps were rendered useâ€" less for illuminating purposes, and vast clouds of _ intolerably noxious fumes emanated from them and floatâ€" ‘ed into the neignboring houses, the inmates of which were driven nearly C. P. R. Lboses Many Thousand Feet of On | logs on myrr ABoume be» ' A despatch from Winnipeg says:â€"| Serious bush fires have been raging along the Crow s Nest Pass railway | from below Michael to Coil Cree. Tne o4 town oi Fernie and other settiements | wrer oniy saved by the strenuous efâ€"| MINERS STRIKE AT SUDBURY. forts of the men, who remained on guard night and day. Five houses were burned near the coke ovens at Fernie. The C.P.R. have lost thousands upon thousands of feet of cut logs along the river bank near Hosmer, and will probably lose a greal deal more beâ€" fore the fires burn themseives oul,. Millions of feet of fine sianding timâ€" ber have also been destroyed auring the past two Four Mundred Polish Inmailecs Attack the Aitendants With Kanives and Cinbs, A despatch from Berlin, says:â€"At the poorâ€"house at Schrimm, in the Proâ€" vince of Posen, on Friday last, nearly 400 inmates, most of them Poles, atâ€" tacked the attendants and overseers with knives and clubs, The police were summoned and were attacked by the rioters and were obliged to use their weapons in selfâ€"defence. Several of the rioters were seriously wounded, but finally the ringleaders were arâ€" rested and order was restored. true enough, but it has been found that his bite is not as dangerous as Mbhdsfia.nndflnwtudo by his great tee will heal up quickâ€" SPECULATED INX STOCKsS. HOT BATTLE IN A POORâ€"EOUSE. STABBED BY A PRIONER. {The lion is the King of the Beasts, FIRES IN C40W‘S NEST PASS. LION BIJES. Tnlilo e ts 501 cair ) + M P £ s ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO MARKETS 0F THE WORLD. Prices of Grain, Cattle, Cheese, &¢ . in the Leading Marus Toronto, July 28. â€"At the cattle mar« ket toâ€"day we had a total of 65 loads, including 1,500 hogs, between eight and nine bhundred sheep and lambs, thirty caives, and a few milk cows. The catile trade was very duil, botk for export and butcher stuffl, the re sult being that several loads were unsold. ibhe enquiry for shipping cattie is quiet, principally on account of the London and Liverpool markets, where low prices which are prevailing in the values have been for a few days someâ€" thng very like demoralized. We had some good stuif here this morning, but quoiations ranged from $1Â¥ to $1.80 per cwt., with p$o as about the limit for prime cattle, a lot or 1two of selections were said to have fetched a York shilling more ; but anything beâ€" youd $ was in no seuse a representaâ€" tive figure. The trade is in bad shape just now, Butcher caitle was also dull, and all gradesâ€"except a liitle extra choice stufiâ€"sold slowly at from $3 to $8.75; and for the best $4 to $4.251â€"2 per cwt. At the close some cattle was une gold. Stockers and feeders are unchangea. Good bulls are worth from $3.50 io $4 per owt., the enguiry was slow toâ€" dMilkers range from $25 to $47 each and a few choice cows are wanted. _ Calves were easy at from $250 to $6 each, but a few choice calves will sell We There was a fair demand for ship ping sheep at steady unchanged prices, bui inferior grades were a shade more easy. â€" The best sheep sold up to $8.00 per cwl., as a top figure. Lambs ferch about six cents per 1b, or from $3 to $4.50 each. Choice lambs are in fair demand. Too many light bogs continue 1O scome forward, but we bad only & small run toâ€"day, and prices are steady and unchanged.. & C Catue,. Shippers, per cwl. . . $125 §$500 Buicher, choice do. . . 375 425 Buicher, med., to good. 820 _ 3 0 Buicher, _ inferior. . 300 8 20 Prame hogs, scaling from 160 to 200 lbs, d l#¢ per Ib. was paid ; for light, fat and heavy fat the price is 4 sâ€"4¢ per Ib., but poor, lean hogs are not reigqhing more (than 4¢ per ib. Sows are fetchng 8¢ per ib. Biags sell at Z6 per 1b. Siume bogs will not sell. Follawing is the range of current quotations;â€" 0_ 0_ \ Bulfalo, July 28.â€"Spring wheat â€" \Bteady No. i Northerm, spol, 75¢c, No, 2 Norithern, 70 #&4¢c; No. 1 hard spring, \75 12 to 70 &4¢c. Winter wheat â€"Duil; No. 2 red, new, offered at 78 1â€"2¢, on Ewes, per CWlL. .0. 4d Bucks per ¢wt. .0. 280 Spring lambs, each, . 30 i Miikers and Calves, Cnws each. . . .. .+ 2800 Cows, each,. Calves, each Choice bogs, pes <WL Lighi hogs per cWl. . Heavy hogs, per cWL. on track,. _ Cormnâ€"Quiet, No. 2 yeliow, 88 3â€"4c; No. 8 yeliow, 88 1â€"2¢; No, 2 corm, 88 1â€"2¢c, No. 3 corn, 38e, Oatsâ€" Easien No. 2 white, 2¥¢, No. 8 white, 28 1â€"20, No. 4 white, 27 1z uo 28¢; No, 2 mixed, 27 1â€"=2¢, No. 3 mixed, 26 1â€"2¢. Ryeâ€"Nowâ€" inal. Canal freightsâ€"Quiet, easy. blour â€"â€"Bteady. â€"D;l-rv.;;. Mich., July 28.â€"Wheat clos ed:â€"Xo. 1 white, cash, 71 1â€"2¢, Ao. 2, red, cash, and July, 71 1â€"2¢, sepitemâ€" l y EVCY Miiwaukee, July 28.â€"Wheatâ€"No 1 Northern, 72 iâ€"2¢, No. 2 Noritbern, Tle Ryeâ€"No. 1, 58c. Barileyâ€"No. 2, 40 1â€"2G sample 85 to 40c. Minneapolia, July 28.â€"EFlour 3 DC branâ€"Unchanged. Toledo, Ohio, July 28.â€"Wheat â€" ANu. 2, cash, and July, 70 1â€"2¢; September, 7 1â€"4c bid. â€" Cornâ€"No. 2 mixed, d1 1â€"lo. Oatsâ€"No. 2 mixed, 2034â€"4c. Myeâ€"No. 2, casbh, 70¢ asked. Cloverseedâ€"Primgé cash, new, $3.95;, October, $8.17 iâ€"2. Oil â€"Unchanged. Duluth, July 28.â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 bard, cash, 728â€"4¢c, July, 728â€"ic; No. 1 Nor«â€"‘ thern, cash, 70¢; July, 70¢; sepiember, 69 5â€"8¢c; December, 70 5â€"88, No. 2 Northe 1 left hands must either be kept on | Of very near the floor, and the strap (bat is held between them kept taut. This guarantees a un form dsiunve be: ween the combatants. They are quite near enough to burt each other severely, sometimes fatally. Now the man who bas been ucky epough to draw the first call sings out: ‘Jack, where be yet" to which bis opponent must immediately answer, "Here I be." Then the first mam strikes where be imagines his opponebt to be, with the beavy leather strap. 1t be bits bis man be is entitled to anothe er blow, may call out again. "Jack, where be yet" and the other muslt an« swer, ‘"BHere I be." This may be copâ€" tinued uptil the first man misses when be must take his turn at being ‘atruck. p F The others form a ring around (be two fighters, bets are made and each faction encourages and applaud its chosen fighter. There are regula rounds, and the game is usually kept up until one or the other is carried off the scene seriously wounded. BHard heads can stand knocks and volunteers for the cruel sport an ulil{ found. At the beginning there k usually no malice. A bard blow 4 struck â€" it is expected, because it U the game. . But it not infrequent happene that the game develops inti "JACK, WiERE BE YE?" Sheep and Lambs. Hogs e game is usually kePI r the other is carried of ously wounded. can stand knocks an( r the cruel sport an Lt the beginning there L lice. A bard blow 4 ; expected, because it U But it not infrequentl the game develops int 4 10 45 00 6 GQ 2 70 512 14 4 87 14 4 87 18 * 4

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