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re now prepared PTLY. ity of Sash, 1 the differâ€" ide sheeting. Quality Cheapor K EVELR. 44L 4 h and in his Old Stand Durbham Bakery, IL3D If WMRB rinciples. that ‘IO' ss Hoeaarse. HORL ath always Promptiv astended to. actory. al Discovery KRESS iture that all ordert IAKE KRES3, pwt® Amorlâ€" vÂ¥e powers which the pract n derful nuw bge a every» t stands ALF ean, 1Â¥ XU it ty thely nervy®e mony * hn ant@p n# 10 iring o un & & ie 4t= Brantford‘s Civic holiday is Aug. 14. The Union Bank of Canada will close Its Ottawa branch. The steamer Rosalie, with $150,000 in Klondike gold, is at Vancouver. / Broker R. Wilsonâ€"Smith, of Montreal, has purchased four per cent., bonds of Manitoba to the armount of $200,000, Mrs. H. Bradley, of Hamilton, who has nine children, has reported that she has been deserted by her busband. In the construction of the Governâ€" ment telegraph line in the Yukon, it is stated that excellent progress has been made. The Dawson Sun of July 4 confirms the reported death of exâ€"Mayor Stewâ€" art of Hamilton,. He died at Peel Rivâ€" er of scurvey. 1t is said that Premier Marchand, of Quebec, will be able to announce a surâ€" plus of $30,000 on the financial operaâ€" tions of the past year. Joe Fletcher, Railway street, a 10â€" yearâ€"old boy, of Hamilton, was found deada drunk on the market Monday, and was taken to the General Hosâ€" pilal Bantford has decided to spend $6,000 more on flood prevention works. The secretary of the Brantford Bechool Board has already received over 40 applications for the vacancy in the teaching staff of the Darling St. sechool. A Brockville girl named May Penâ€" nock, while playing at seeâ€"saw, fell and had one of her eyes torn out by a proâ€" truding nail, President Abearn _ of the Ottawa Electric Railway Co., announces that the company will donate $500 to charâ€" ity as a result of the success of the Bunday cars. The Manitoba Baptist College will be located at Brandon. Nathaniel Leech, a _ wellâ€"known Farmer, of Calgary, fell from a train and broke his neck. A new insect that bores into maple trees has appeared in Hamilton. The Montreal Street Railway, it is reported, is about to absorb the Montâ€" real Park & Island Railway. Mtr. Geo. T. Bell has been appointed lirs! assistant general passenger and ticket agent for the Grand Truuk Railway, with headquarters at Chiâ€" tago, vice Mr. E. H. Hughes assigned to other duties. A party of fifty Northwest Mounted Puoiice â€" will shortly leave for the Yukon to take the place of the men whose time has expired. It is also reâ€" ported at Winnipeg that the militia will be recalled this fall, ‘he promoters of the London Autoâ€" A prospectus has been issued for a new woollen lactoq to be started at Brantford. The capital stock is placâ€" ad at $05,000, and a large portion of thit sum has been subscribed by citiâ€" zens. ‘The provisional directors are Sheriff Watt, Ald. Leeming, F. Grabb, wl the Masseyâ€"Harris Co.; Dr. Mart, and G. W. Brohman. T‘he Investigating Committee of the Hamilton Council has decided to offer auggestion to the City Council that will bring about the saving of $1,225 per annum to the city. The following reductions in salaries were decided upâ€" on: Fire Chief Atchison, from $2,000 to $1,600 ; City Clerk Beasley, from $3.â€" 0S to $2,500, including salary as secâ€" retary of the Board of Education and Medical Health Officer Ryall, from $1,â€" OO to $800, exclusive of fees for attendâ€" ance upon maternity patients. GREAT BRIT. (N. British dye and colour manufacturâ€" ers are said to be forming a combine. Bir Wilirid Laurier has been invited to open Kingston‘s Fair on Sept. 11. The Bisley team will take back to Canada mnearly £500 in cash, as well as abundance of prizes. The agitation for a Criminal Court of Appeal in England, bas been reâ€" ne wed. The Sultana mine, in the Lake of the Woouds district, has been placed on the Lomdon market. Capital will be $1,â€" 275,000. Nearly every country in the world is represented by delegates wearing native costumes at the Salvation Army‘s exhibition which opened at London on Wednesday. Dr. Peter Steins, a Russian, is in Fngiand, introducing a system of wireâ€" less telephone, which he says be bas invented. He says that it is as sucâ€" ceseful as the wire system and that voices can be recognized at long disâ€" tances. moble Co. have ordered an automoâ€" lwle carriage from Toronto, which, it i« expected, will arrive in a few days and will be operated by the street Iaiway strikers for the present. "I{ the present crop be harvested | «alely," said Mr. McCreary, Northwest . Commissioner, of Immigration, " we have advices which indicate that about | lour or five thousand United States| farmers, from lowa, Missouri, Kansas' and the Dakotas and other States will cross to Canadian soil. | A Glasgow despatch says a new Atâ€" lantic steamship service between that port and New York, will go into operaâ€" tion in the fall. The British Government bhas renewed its contracts with the Cunard and White Star Steamship Companies for the carrying of American mails. Truth says that the Queen hbas been undergoing a course of treatâ€" ment for ten weeks for her eyes, as sdvised by Prof. Pagenstecher, of Wiesbaden, and with the most sucâ€" cessful results. The Queen‘s eyeâ€" sight is no longer in danger, and an operation will be unnecessary. The United States Government has offered Miss Reid, a native of Kingâ€" ston, now residing at Boston, Mass., & position on the United States Conâ€" sulate staff at the City of Mexico, Mex. â€" Miss Reid is a trained nurse, who served with the United States soldiers through the recent war. In the House of Commons Michae} Davitt asked the Government if, in view of the fact that the conduct of Mrs. Maybrick in prison has been uniâ€" feorwmaly good, the Home Office would ews S ummary. CANADA. Recent Happenings Briefly Told. In a riot at Navasota, Texas, three white men were killed by negroes. A crowd) of negroes burned a church beâ€" longing to the white people. _ Tuck Mcody, Will Fuqua, and Van Wright, whilo trying to put out the fire, were whot by a crowd of negroes. _ White men are in pursuit of the negroes. not recommend Royal clemency in her case. Sir Mathew White Ridley said that he was unable to hold out hope ie se ie n t . I of exceptional treatment for Mrs. l_&'a'; prick. He was not aware of the exâ€" istence of any reason for clemency. UNITED STATES. The Epworth League convention deâ€" ilgt(l)ed to meet in San Francisco in §. The alleged British officers arrestâ€" ed at Johannesburg have been reâ€" leased. President McKinley has gone â€" to Lake Champlain for a stay of several weeks. The United States has expressed gret to Italy for the lynching of Italians in Louisiana. Emt TTTCL CC T OCT MERIUUITE l.-KlB chartered the steamer Siam belonging to the Oriental Steamship Company of Fiume, to transport troops to Manila. A train struck a tallyâ€"ho and killed five persons at Heindenbeim, Gerâ€" many. An American millionairess, "well known in New York society," has been arrested for shoplifting in the Louvre at Paris,. She paid for all the articles found at her Rotel and was released. An immense meeting of Uitlanders, hbeid at â€" Johannesburg _ Wednesday pnight, adopted resolutions denouncing the franchise law as wholly inadequate, and demanding effective guaranlees and a proper redistribution scheme. Immense quantities of fruit have perished as a result of the strike of freight haudlers on the Pennsylvania railway,. The United States hospital ship Morâ€" gan City, is at San Francisco with 473 sick and convalescent soldiers from the Philippines. The transport Sherman has left Maniia for San Francisco with the California Infantry and 275 discharged soldiers of other regiments. The United States Government has The steamer Bertha is at San Franâ€" cisco, from the Klondike, with 97 pasâ€" sengers, $1,000,000 in gold, and deâ€" tails of the loss of the Bens expediâ€" tion party of 16 persons. At the meeting in Buffaio of the commission appointed by the State Legisiature to investigate the comâ€" merce of the port of New York and ascertain why it was declining, Mr. Ueorge E. Macy, representing P. D. Armour, of Chicago. said that his firm A EFrench engineer named Chevalier and bis wife, who were capiured a while ago by Turkish brigands, have been ransomed by the Porte, which paid £10,000, Turkish, for their reâ€" lease. The Government of the Isiand of Crete was formally bhanded over to the Cretans by the British authorities on Monday, the British fiag being finally lowered. The immigration of Mussulâ€" mins continues, Strong opposition to the Jamaicaâ€" United States treaty bas arisen in Jaâ€" maica. The Gleaner explains that unâ€" der present conditions Europe offers a better market than the United States, and that, these.ore, American reciproâ€" city is mno favor to Jamaica. "On the conitrary," the Gleaner addg, ‘"the Armour, of Chicago, said that his firm exported grain â€" via Montreal and Philadelphia, because Montreal is now the cheapest route from Chicago and the Northwest. A Paris detsgatch says the political outlook _ in taly is _ exceedingly grave. It is reported that Baron de Rothsâ€" child will distrioute 500,000 francs among the poor of Paris as an offering in meammory of Adis wife who died last week, Two Augustinian friars who _ had landed at Mamla from the Hong Kong ship have beem arrested, It is said they had documenis upon their persons showing they were agents of the Filiâ€" pino Junta at Hong Kong, and that they intended to bear messages to Aguinaldo. The battleship Suffren was launched on Tuesday. she is the largest ship in the French navy, being of 12,500 ons displacement. The military prosecutor at the trials of the Spanish Generais Toral and Jaudener will demand that both be imprisoned for life, and lose all rax’lk, Senate will bhelp us by throwing out the treaty, and thus raise more revâ€" enue, whilst in such an event _ there could be no retaliation." The strike of dockmen at Antwerp is‘ spreading. There is serious rioting in many towns in Austria over the fhew taxâ€" boa s and pensiuns,mthe former for baving surrendered Santiago, and the iatt‘r for capivulating at Manila. Hurricane LMills Fify Inbabitants in One Place Aionc. A despatch from Victoria, B.C., says : â€"Oriental news by ithe Kimshia Maru. arnving Li {o lo ~in : :â€" fo.lowing :â€" A terrible hurricane swept the Japâ€" anese coast from 8th to lith of Juiy. In Ushijimamura, Oyie dictrict, Tounâ€" shima prefecture, seventy houses were washed away, and fifty persons were killed and thirty are missing. 6 In Sai%oâ€"Mura. Itano district, the same prefecture, over forty houses were demolished and many people are missâ€" ing. At Aiga Mura, Kitamuro disâ€" trict, Miye prefecture, a landslide ocâ€" curred on the night of the 10th, owing to the heavy rains. es s l Five bhouses were crushed under the debris, and twentyâ€"eight persons were â€"ither killed or injured, Railway trafâ€" fic east of the Yanagi, on the Sanyo railway, is still interrupted in conseâ€" quence of damage done to the track. GENERAL. French crop reports are encouragâ€" FATAL STCRM SWEEPS JAPAN. Thirsday night, contains the Weird Story Rela y a Returned Goldâ€" Beekerâ€"lylml’ Ltke Sheep. A despatch from Vancouver, BC., says: â€"*‘"They were dying like sheep all around me," said C. W. Petrie, just back from a fifteen months‘ trip up the allâ€"Canadian route to Klondike, via the Strickeen river, " I cannot give deâ€" tails ; I cannot remember names. Myâ€" "I can say with all truthfulness that eighty miles up the Teslin there are dead miners lying around everywhere and miners‘ kits strewn all over. There is lots of gold there, but it is guarded by the angel of death. Some day it will be known as the richest diggings in Klondike country." self and _ another Frenchkâ€"Canadian reached eighty miles up the Teslin, where a number of men were prospectâ€" ing with great luck. It was a rich diggings. We set at work at once and struck it lucky right off. On the secâ€" ond day we became sick with a strange malady, and crawled to another tent for help. Here we found one man dead and two dying. They told us that the whole camp was dying off like sheep. " At another tent we found two sick men. One told us that the dead bodies of miners who had scurvyy bhad been thrown into the river near the digâ€" gings, where almost still water existâ€" ed, that the bodies had tainted the water, and that all who drank it were taken sickâ€"that most were dead. That corpses were lying all over the ground or had been rolled into the river. 136 Deaths Among U. 8. soldiers in the Philippines. A despatch from Seaitle, Wash., says: â€"The Times prints what purports to be a full list of fatalities in the Amerâ€" ican army in the Philippines up to June 2. The list was furnished by Fred F. Eitell, a representative of the Manila Freedom, who claims to have obtained it from the records of the Surgeonâ€"General‘s office at Manila. " We crawled away from the pesâ€" tilential spot for we couldn‘t walk. We peeped into each tent as we passed. All were dead. Everyone seemed dead but us. We reached a mountain stream at last, where the Mounted Police overâ€" took us. I was delirious and remember little. Finally we became well enough to reach the coast. The total number of fatalities is 736 â€"23 officers, 639 privates, and 14 civilâ€" ians attached to the army. A remarkâ€" able feature of the record is found in the statement that the number of ofâ€" ficers killed in battle is out of proporâ€" tion to the number of privates killed. On the other band, fewer officers died from â€" disease, proportionately, than privates. Out of the 23 officers dead, 16 were killed in action, two were drownâ€" ed, and five died of disease. Of the 699 privates, 294 died of wounds received in action ; nine were killed accidentally ; 23 were drowned, and seven committed suicide. One hundred and six died of typhoid fever, 89 of smallpox. and 14 of meningitis. The remainder died from various diseases. +2 _Of the 14 deaths among civilians seven were from smallpox and three from gun shot wounds received in acâ€" tion. Left Alone in the Suggy it Was Thrown Outâ€"Mother Prostrated. A despatch from Chatbham, Ont., says:â€"Thursday afternoon Mrs. Isaac Brown, of the l11th concession of Dover, and a npeighbour drove into the orâ€" chard to get some apples. | The horse was tled to a tree, and the sevenâ€" months‘ old baby of Mrs. Brown was left in the rig. The horse, standing uneasily from the flies, threw the baby over the dashboard, and it fell beneath the horse‘s feet. _ Before the horrorâ€" stricken mother could reach her baby she saw the horse plant one of its feet on the infant‘s hbead, crushing its brains and life out. The mother was completely overcome by the awful ocâ€" curre:=1ce. Fireman and Engineer Kilied and Many Others injured. A despatch from Port Jervis, N. Y., says:â€"A freight and a fast passenger train were wrecked on the Erie road near Lackawanna on Saturday night. Two lives were lost, and between 25 and 30 were injured. The killed were Stephen Outwater, Port Jervis, enâ€" gineer, and Fred Sells, Port Jervis, fireman, A landslide caused the deâ€" railment of twenty cars of a freight, and the debris was piled upon the westbound tracks just as the No. 7 Chicago express from New York for Buffalo put in an appearance, running at, the rate of 50 miles an hour. The engine of the express train crashed into the wreck, and the baggage car, combination and buffet car, and two Pullman sleepers, were piled on the tracks immediately in front of the wrecked freight cars. The first sleeper was split into two parts, and the pasâ€" sengers were thrown 30 feet down a bank. Fire at once broke out, and four cars of No. 7 and nine of the freight cars were burned. C. P. E. Report of the Crops in tie Northâ€" West. A despatch from Winnipeg, Man., says:â€"The C.P.R. has just had compilâ€" ed a comprehensive report on the conâ€" dition of the wheat crops in Maniâ€" toba and Territories. From every disâ€" trict the accounts are of the most glowing character. Grain is in a healâ€" thy condition, maturing well, and promises a heavy crop. Harvesting in some sections will begin about 15th August, but will not be general beâ€" fore the 20th. The barley harvest has commenced in a few localities. HORSE STEPS ON BABY‘S HEAD. DIED BY BATTLE AND DISEASE. VERITABLE CAMP OF DEATH. ACCOUNTS ARE GLOWING. TWO TRAINS WRECKED. LAND OF THE HEATHER. The Doings of Scottish Peeple and Items oi Interest From England‘s Northern Nelghbor. At a meeting of Kingshorn Town Council, Councillor S. Crawford was appointed provost by five votes to two. The Glasgow fund for the erection of a statue of Mr. Gladstone now amounts to about £4,000, and the committee have agreed to invite designs from eminent sculptors. The Rev. Wm. Taylor, assistant to the Rev. Hugzh Mair, Wellpark Free church, 6lasgow, has been unanimousâ€" ly elected minister of North Yell Free church. Mr. Alex. Campbell, lately keeper under Mr. J. C. Stewart at Kinlochâ€" moidart, has been appointed head keeper at Inverlochy Castle with Lord Abinger. John Naismith, a carter, committed suicide in Bis bedroom, Glasgow, by hanging bimself with a piece of rope affixed to a nail in the wall over the bead of he bed. INTERESIING NEWS FROM SCOT LAND‘S BONNY BRAES. Mr. John McDonald, Deputy Procurâ€" atorâ€"Fiscal, Storonoway, has been apâ€" pointed clerk and treasurer of the %G_hool Boards of Lochs Barvas and ig. The value of fish landed in Shetâ€" land during the month of May was £7,120 against £5,245 in the corresâ€" ponding month of last year. The Rev. Alexander Cockburn Buchâ€" anan, B.D., formerly assistant at Motherwell, was recently ordained and inducted as assistant and s:ucessor to Rev. D. Keitb, Forres. The Rev. J. N. McLennan, M.A., who has mimstered to the Established church congregation at Kyleakin for about a year, has been appointed to the church at Daiwhinnie. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, secretary for Scotland, is expected shortly to pay a visit to his relative, Mrs. Wardrop, of Edinburgh, who has taken Killieâ€" hunily House for the season. _ A child named Isabella Hood, aged 15 monihs, daughter of Maithew Hood, Ayr, succumbed recently to injuries reâ€" ceived from falling into a tub of hot water while its mother was absent. The death bas just occurred at Ayt of the Rev. Henry Harcus, the oldest Baptist minister in Scotland. _ Mr. Harcus was born in the island of Westâ€" ray, Orkney, on the 10th of May, 1810. Mr. Wiiliam Fraser, son of Mr. Alexâ€" ander Fraser, chemist, Forres, bhas taken the first prize in the class of materia medica at Aberdeen Univerâ€" sity, and been awarded the bronze medal. John Cameron, fireman of the steamâ€" ship Chevalier, sailing between the Crinan Canal and Corpach, dropped down dead on the run to Corpach, the excessive hbheat being the immediate cause of death. At an Edinburgh Town Council meeling it was remitted to the Treasâ€" urer‘s Committee to consider the adâ€" visability of closing the Burns Monuâ€" ment and transferring the relics to the museum in the council chambers. A memorial bust of the late Dr. Thomas Morrison, who was for nearly baif a century rector of the Free Church Training College, Glasgow, has been unveiled in that institution by Sir John Neilson Cuthbertson, chairâ€" of Glasgow School Board. At a meeting of the Cemeteries Comâ€" mittee of Dundee Town Council, a depuâ€" tation appeared from the Dundee Free Presbytery in support of a request that Sunday funerals should be discontinued unless in cases where there were exâ€" ceptional circumstances. The matter was remitted to the convener and the cemeteries superintendent to consider and report. It was reported at a meeting of the Aberdeen Town Council that negotiaâ€" tions had been completed with the city of Aberdeen Land Association for the formation of a street which will form part of a boulevard, which is intended to encircle the city. The street, plantâ€" ed on each side»â€"with trees, will be 80 feet in width, a mile long, and cost £2,700. The whole boulevard scheme will probably cost £20,000. Mrc. John Williamson, a native of Fortrose, who lately left for the Sandâ€" wich Islands in the capacity of archiâ€" tect and road surveyor, has just been appointed road surveyor for Keekeuâ€" baeie, Homkua, Hawail. The action by, the heirâ€"atâ€"law of the late Mr. John Hope, W.S., Edinburgh, for reduction of two testamentary deeds by which the deceased left his means to further the causes of total abstinence and Protestantism, has been compromisedâ€"the pursuer receiving £15,000 out of a total estate of about £400.000. The inhabitants of Thurso in the far north of Scotiand, are at present underâ€" going a most curious, if unpleasant, experience. The other day during a strong wind, over a hundred bottleâ€" nosed whales were stranded along the sands close to the town. To remove them, far loas bury thermi, was out of the power of the inhabitants, ard the summer sun, woich is pouring its rays upon the b:ar~ 4 bott‘enoses, is making the little town alm»st uninhabitable. Short of a convulsion of nature to clear the offensiveness of the odour, Thurâ€" sonians have the prospect of being rompelled to vacate their homes for the remainder of the summer. Mr. Jobn Henderson, Glebe Farm, Midâ€"Calder, was recenily gored to death by a buil, The animal had been restive all day, and when Mr. Henderâ€" son went to let it out as usual inta the fields it attacked him. Mr. Henderâ€" son‘s young daughter made a brave atâ€" tempt to beat off the animal with a hay fork, but bad to run from the infuriatâ€" ed brute. Mr. Hendersons injuries were so severe that they bhad fatal results. It appears that a ballast train, conâ€" sisting of five cars, in charge of Conâ€" ductor Kelley and Driver McCurdy, alter being unloaded was backing downgrade to the gravel pitat Moshâ€" erville, about 15 miles {rom Windsor, when four cars loaded with workmen Jjumped the track. One car remainâ€" ed on the track, but the others went over an embankment. Mabinny, about iorty years of age, said to belong to Halifax, was thrown from one car a distance of thirty feet down the embankment against a stump, and the car ialling upon bhim, pinned him there. He was instantly killed, his body being badly mangled. Eddie Slater, water boy of the train, who was 16 years of age, and a son of K. J. U, Siater, of Brooklyn, was caught in ihe wheels of one of the cars and was almost mutilated and inâ€" stantly killed. Terrible Smashâ€"Up on a New Line in Nova Bceotiaâ€"Two Workmen Meet Death. A despatch from Windsor, N. &., says:â€"A serious accident was reported Friday afternoon on the Midland railâ€" way, which is being built from Windâ€" sor, where the big fire occurred two years ago, to Truro. A train bas arâ€" rived at Windsor from the scene of the accident. Cable Car Feli Six Thousand Feetâ€"One Passenger iiled, Orhers EFataily Â¥nâ€" jured. A despaitch from Vienna, says:â€"A frightfui catastrophe is reported £: om Meran, in the Austrian Tyrol, the health resort where the crown Prince Alfred of Saxâ€"Cobourg, grandson of Queen Victoria, met hbis death last spring. A party of tourists was going up the side of the Schneeberg when the cable by which the car is moved broke while the car was near Abe summit, The car, which was filled with passenâ€" gers. was precipilated a distance of U,â€" WV feet, and was dashed to pieces in the valley below, PR Bix other workmen were more or less hurt, but none dangerously. They were fiung against one another, and thrown off the cars. The engine did not leave the track. The road where the accident occurred is said to have been in good order for a new road, it being bailasted. One of ike passengers, Prof. August Herbert, the violin virtuoso, was inâ€" stantly killed. George von Ompsteda, a popular German novelâ€"wrilter, was so badly injured that he cannot reâ€" cover. ; There were 12 passengers in the car. Of these, five are fatally injured, while the others are suflering from broken liumbs â€"wnd bruises, and from prostration by shock, Dr. Maurice Weeks, of Brooklyn, telephoned for Dr. J. W. Reed, of this town, who accompanied Dr. Morris by special train. â€" These three medical gentlemen attended to the wounded. Ur. Weeks took charge of the two dead bodies, and will hold an inquest at Brooklyn. The Sschuneeverg is one of the highest mouniains in the Austrian Alps, At its foot, by the Rivers Passer and Adige, is the town of Meran, a celeâ€" brated health resort, containing 8,000 inbabitants. _ It is noted for grapeâ€" cure and wheyâ€"cure _ establishments, Here also is Dr. Kabn‘s famous saniâ€" tarium, the place where Crown Prince Alfred of Saxeâ€"Coburg was sent to reâ€" cuperate. Report â€" That Pressure on the â€" Brain Threatens Insanity, A despatch from Stockholm, says:â€" Private letters â€" received from St. Petersburg declare that no doubt exâ€" ists in the minds of persons of the inâ€" rer court circle that the Czar intends soon to make his brother, the Grand Duke Michael, regent of the empire. The birth of the Grand Duchess Olga in 1895 was a grevious disappointâ€" ment to the Czar, who bhad his beart set on the birth of a son. In 1897 came Tatiana, also a girl, and since that time his Majesty bhas prayâ€" ed incessantly for an heir. The recent birth of a third daughter, followed by the death of his brother, the Czarowitch,is said to have plungâ€" ed him in melancholy, and bis physiâ€" cians fear that unless the pressure on the brain, which they have diagnosed, is relieved, his reason may be permanâ€" ently impaired. Said to be Cuused by Earthquakes in Japin. A tidal wave was seen lately at Vicâ€" toria and along the North Pacific coast, doubtless caused by one of the many earthquakes that afflict Japan. Fichermen on the river in boats noticâ€" ed soon after noon a series of waves coming into the river, increasing the volume of water considerably. . The waves continued to grow until they became dangerous. _ Between 2 and 3 o‘clock they were from three to six feet high. The disturbance lasted all the afternoon, but gradually diminishâ€" ed by 6 o‘clock. A number of the largest waves were timed, and it was found that they came about a mile apart and travelled a mile in about three minutes. â€" News is received from Honolulu that the western coast of Hawaii was visited by tidal waves of great force at about the same time. At Keanhou the water reached points thirtyâ€"five feet above the sea. . ‘The shocks of the earthquake were, it apâ€" An action brought by Mr. Ernest T. Hooley in the Edinburgh Court of Sesâ€" sions to recover £50,000 from William Gardner Sinclair, damages for breach of an agreement to sell to him the rights of a peper-chuin machine, has been settled, Mr. Hooley receiving This arrangement will be temporary its permanency being contingent on the Emperor‘s regaining his health through an operationâ€"trepanning â€"â€" which he is about to undergo. . taly. I1s THE CZAR GOING MAD ? PACIFIC TIDAL WAVES TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. f the earthqt;aake were, it apâ€" registered by instruments in TORONTO Butcher stuif of goou qualily was in fair demand at Inrom $8.70 o $4.20, and this ail found a ready sale, but medium to common mei a dull demand at decidedly weaker though perbaps scarerly quotable lower prices . lhe poorer stuif did not all sell. & In shipping cattle Mr. lronsides was purchasing almost everyibing that came along, and prices are practically unchanged, at from $4.70 to $5 per ewt. for choise export cattle, and light shippers feiched from $4%5 o §4.00 per cw*. For a iew lows of selecâ€" tions from opeâ€"eighth to oneâ€"quarier more was occasionally paid. Trade was slow, much inferior cat tle was here, and for anything but really choice caltle, prices were weakâ€" er. Stockers were in light supply at from $3 t0 $8.25 per owi. Milkers, feeders, etc., are unchanged Calves are worth from $2.0 to $# each. Good veal calves are wanted. Lambs were too pleniiful bere thit morning, at from 4 to 4 1â€"2¢ per pound. or from $2.50 to $8.70 each. _ _ _ a CWL. _ Bucks sold at from $2.590 10 $2.75 pes ecwt. in the Leading Marts. Toronto, Aug. 4.â€"We had over eight loads come in to the western caltle yards this morning, including 1,6% hogs, 1,400 sheep, and lambs, 100 calvem and a couple of dozen milkers. Bogs were firm toâ€"day, and uhe mgbl kind are a ready saie. . For prume hogs, scaiing ftrom 1W to 200 lbs., 0 iâ€"4¢ per pound, was paid; for light fat and bearvy fat the price is 4 1â€"2 per pound but poor lean hogs are not fetching more than 4c per pound. Bows are fetching 36 per pound. Btags sell at J¢ per pound. Biore bogs will not sell. Foliowing is ue range of current quolations :â€" Ewes, per cwt. . Bucks, per ¢wt. Epring lambs, each Cows, each. Calves, each MARKETS 0F THE WORLD. Shippers, per CwWt. Butchers, choise do. . Butcher, med. to good Butcher, inforior. _ . Hogs, Choice hogs, per cwt. . Light hogs, pekp CWLl « Heavy hogs, per cwil. . Prices of Grain, Cattle, Cheese, &¢ Buifalo, Aug 4.â€"bpring wheal â€" Quiet; No. 1 Norithernm, spot, 70 iâ€"4, No. 2 Northern, 7i%4c; No. 1 bhard, spring, 76 iâ€"2 to 70 8â€"8¢. Winter wheatâ€" Duil, weak; No. 2 red, 72¢, acked. Cornâ€" Easy ; No. 2 yeilow, 88 iâ€"s 10 88 8â€"4¢,; No. 3 yellow, 86 iâ€"4c, No. 2 corn, 88¢,; No. 8 corn, $784¢. Oatsâ€"Quiet, unsetlied; No. z white, 28 iâ€"2 to 2¥¢;, No. 3 white, 2i 1â€"2%¢c; No. 4 white, 26¢,;, No. 2 mixed, 26 iâ€"4c; No. 3 mixed, 26c. Bariey â€" New crop offered toâ€"day ; good weight, fair color, held at 42¢; dark, 40c asked. Ryeâ€"Nothing doing; No. 1, on Lrack, quoted at bic. â€" Canal Ireightsâ€"Quset, Fiourâ€"Quiet; unchanged. Detroit, Aug. 4.â€"W hearâ€"Closedâ€"No. 1, white, cash, 72 lâ€"40c ; No. 2 red, cash, and July, 72 i~4; beptember, 74¢;, Je cember, 76¢. Milwaukee, Aug. 4â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northern, 72 iâ€"2¢, No. 2, Northern, Tle, Ryeâ€"No. 1, 52 1â€"2¢. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 400 eample, 85 to 40c. \ Toledo, Aug. 4â€"Wheatâ€"No. 2, cask and July, 71 1â€"2¢; September, 725â€"t0 Cormnâ€"No. 2, mixed, B4¢c. Oatsâ€"No. i mixed, cash and July, 23 126. Ryeâ€" No. 2 cash, 32 1â€"2¢. Cloverseedâ€"P rime cash, new, $38.95. October, $4.45, Oilâ€" Unchanged. Minneapolis, Aug. 4.â€"Flourâ€" Un changed. B.un, in bu‘k, $9.105 io $i0, Duluth, Minn., Aug. 4â€"Wheatâ€"No 1 harda, cash, 734 3â€"6¢ ; July, 78 8â€"8¢ , No. 1 Northern, cash, 70 5â€"8¢.; July, 70 aâ€"8c; September, 70 i1â€"8¢ ; December, 71 iâ€"be ; No. 2 Nortbhern, 66 1â€"#¢; No, 3 spring, 63 5â€"8c. llcnnu;-Daar me, Nelly !| How hbave you torn that great bhole in your pinaâ€" fore? It wasn‘t there this morning. Nellyâ€"Where do you suppose it was Body of Enknosa . san Kecovered . al Niagawra ialls=. A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont, says:â€"Tuesday morning (he body of e man was fished out of ihe whiripoo! by Harry Preston and Howard Lake of this town. The description of the body is as follows:â€"Height 5 foot i€ inches, fairly stout, dark bair, grey beard, wore biueâ€"biack serge or worslâ€" ed trousers and vest, grey undershir and â€" drawers, striped negligee shiurt marked with maker‘s brand, eagle made by Grenwalds, Bradford, Pa. laundry mark on sbirt L. W., black s.ring tie, fawn colored suspenders brown and whice colon socks, black laced shoes size 8 or 9. In his vesi pocket was a siver case waich, â€" No. 1816.:31, Ligin _ Natuioma Watch Co., movement No. #.125. On the back of uhe bead was a iarg« scalp wound. From indicadons the mar did not come over the lails, and fou, play is suspected. It is thought thal the body was thrown into the river, as it has the appearance of having beer in the water about one month. The body was banded over to Underâ€" taker Morse to keep for identilication tGovernment | Commutes Bs seatence i6 14°¢ Imprisonment. A despatch from Ottawa . says :â€" The Cabinet on Tuesday .decided . ic commute io life imprisonment lne death sentence of Edward O‘Neill, aged 16, now in Whitby gaol. The boy killed an old man with a poker because he would not give him a quarter. The boy was to Rave been hanged Aug. 17. FLOATING IN THE WEIRLPOOL wes sold at from $3 to $8.60 pos O‘NEILL WILi NOT HANG #sheep and Lamos Milkers and Calves, Oattle $42% . $500 879 4 25 $ 00 45 00 7 00 270 3 75