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3} L C K9 T. uen Eit .“‘6"“ UE 93‘, men working in the mine were Bince the abandonment of the Engâ€" lish Channel tunnel scheme the shatlt at Dover has been used as a coal mine. ]!'. was suddeniy flooded and eight of The sysdicate appointed by Camâ€" bridge University to consider the quesâ€" tion of granting degrees to women reâ€" commends that the degree of B.A. be conferred by diploma upon those who t~â€" weeks prior to returning to Canada. Miss Emily Soldene, the celebrated burlesque actress, bas published a book teiling of the escapades of the gilded youth of London thirty years ago, when she was a reigning favourite. It was stated in the Imperial Parâ€" liament that the proposal to create reâ€" imental districts in the colonies bhad Ln referred to the Dominion of Canâ€" ada for an opirion thereon. Sir Donald Smith Canadian High Commissioner in England has sailed for Canada to consult with the Governâ€" ment regarding immigration matters. Lieutenantâ€"Governor Kirkpatrick will leave the hospital in London this week and proceed to Brighton for four or five weeks prior to returning@ to Canada The Prince of \\a.l_es is enjoying boliday in the Riviera. It is stated that Mr. H. S. Osler, reâ€" presenting a Toronto syndicate, has seâ€" eured options on a majority of the Hamilton Street Railway ‘stock, the H. and D. stock, and about 50 per cent. of the Radial Railway stock. Atlantic â€" steamers arriving in the Clyde report exiremely _ tempestuous weather the last few days. bave already passed or hereafter passâ€" ng the final tripos. 5 An agreement has been reached by a joint committee of the Chatham City Council and Mr. L. ]-.‘.t l\lly'ers, gf Chiâ€" 0, representing capitalists who are urgparetr to build the City and Suburâ€" Ln Electric railway, and to construct and maintain an electric lighting plant. The Government has been asked by residents of Ottawa _ and portions of Russell and Carleton counties to spend about $35,000 in lowering the bottom of the Rideau river near the outlet, where it is shallow, and to let off the water from the Rideau lakes early in the spring by means of the Rideau canâ€" SL 1t Dravant thae ammla.s apompl The local branch of the National Council of Women has petitioned the London City Council to impose restricâ€" tions on the sale of cigarettes, and it is probable that the petition will be granted. Mr. William Smith, exâ€"Deputy Minâ€" ister of Maurine and Fisheries, fiy;e(l on Saturday in Ottawa, aged 76 years. He L.d served in the Department of Marâ€" e and lFisheries continuously from Confederation until he was reflired a year ago. Two people, one aged 70 and the other 72, were married in Ottawa on Wednesâ€" day. _ Their parish priest refused to marry them, gut they secured, the apâ€" proval of the Archbishop. On Thursday afternoon three small boys fell through the ice at Chatham, when four men went to their rescue and also fell in. It was with great difâ€" ficulty that all seven were finally resâ€" oued. The Hamilton chief of police intends making a test case to see whether the lottery under the management of the Promotive of Art Association of Montâ€" real comes under the criminal code. Mr. Torrance, the Canadian agent of the Dominion steamship line, has been instructed from Enflish headquarters to withdraw any offers made to the Canadian Government in connection with the fast service. Mr. Joseph Martin, exâ€"M.P., of (Winâ€" nipeg confirms the statement that he bas been appointed special counsel for the C.P.R. The Montreal Street Railway earnâ€" Ings for February were $89,951, an inâ€" orease of $2,5057 over the same month of last year. Mr. Wim. Seager, a resident of Lonâ€" don, was probably fatally injured by failing from a train at Brokenbead station, Man. 1 A dele{ation from the parishes along the south shore of the St. Lawrence waited on the Ministry at Ottawa to urge the extension of the Intercolonial Railway to Montreal. The C.P.R. have sent a party of surâ€" veyors out to southern Britisy Columâ€" bia to survey a railway im the mining country. A Fish and Game Protective Associaâ€" tion has been organized in Woodstock, to see that the game laws are enforced and to stock certain districts with quail. Mr. James Hemworth of Rossland is to be given the Royal Humane Soâ€" clety‘s medal for heroic conduct in sayvâ€" ing the lives of two of his mates at the bottom of a shaft. Mr. Laurier sat for his portrait in Montreal. When completed it will be presented to the Premier by his Montâ€" real friends. The Kingston cotton mill, which has closed down temporarily, will, after next week, only run three days _ The Brockville Town Council is conâ€" mdering the advisability of passing a byâ€"law imposing a tax upon bicycles. Captain Provost of the Montreal fire Imfi:;ie, has decided to accept the offer to become chief of Ottawa fire brigade. Mr. Geo. H. Orr of Toronto has beep elected President of the _ Canadian Wheelmen‘s Association without oppeâ€" sition. s ‘The annual report of the C. P. R. for the year 1896 shows net earnings of $8,107,581. Fire in the Hannah Street Methoâ€" dist Church at Hamilton damaTed the Bunday School room considerably. Mr. W. C. Macdonaid of Montreal has made another gift to McGiil Uniâ€" versity amounting to over $600,000. _ Ottawa proposes to spend $150,000 in improving its fire system and walerâ€" works. The statement that a state of tenâ€" There is a good demand for farm labâ€" orers and domestic help in Manitobs. Seventyâ€"three private bi.ls are entâ€" ered for the coming session of Parliaâ€" CANADA. Mayor Bingham, of Ottawa has given his February sa.ary to charities. A find of E{:rolonm is reported on the farm of . Jonn Rasbery, West Flamboro‘ . THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. 1i NHS i A NTSHR resting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Giobe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. prévent fhe spring floods â€"GREAT BRITAIN. Three American Toughs Brutally Assault an Hallan at Nlagara. Falls, Ont. A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says:â€"A desperate stabbing and asâ€" sault affair took place near the Colâ€" legiate Institute about three o‘clock on Tuesday afternoon. Three toughs nnmed John A. Hayes, John McCarthy and George Specht came over from the American side in an intoxicated conâ€" dition. They met an Italian named Rocco and a boy peddling fruit, and, grabbing the boy, they threw him into the ditch, and sat on to the italian. He fled, followed by the trio, and while getting over a fence fell. They jumpâ€" ed on him, and Specht struck him on the head with a rock, inflicting a terâ€" rible wound. While kicking him, Rocâ€" co drew a knife and stabbed Specht in the hback. At this time some .people interfered, and possibly saved _ Rog co‘s life, as the tou:fi:]were evidently bent on murdering him. Chief Young and Officer Mains arâ€" rested the tri0o at the bridge before they returned to the American side of the River. Hayes and McCarthy are railroad men, while Specht is employâ€" ed as a butcher. Rocco‘s wounds were drossed by Dr. Kellam, and Specht‘s stab is not very, serious. on shore, although the vessel displayed the usual signals and had obtained pratique. President Kruger has ordered the Chief Justice and the judges of the High Court on the South African Reâ€" public to comform to the law passed by the Volksraad on February 25th, placing their court under the jurisâ€" diction of the Volksraad, within fourâ€" teen days and warns them not to arâ€" rogate to themselves the right to place their own interpretation upon the conâ€" stitution of the country. Emperor William is advocating drasâ€" tis measures for uprooting Socialism, and the Socialist press has made a defiâ€" ant reply. The italian Embassy at Constantinâ€" ople has demanded formal satisfaction for the firing of a shot across the bows of an Italian mail sieamer while passâ€" ing through the Straits of the Dardanâ€" elles on Tuesday by one of the forts Commercial reports from the United States indicate no particular change in the general condition of trade across the line; it is claimed that there is in progress a steady, although slow improvement, as a better demand for products appears to be exfiorienced all round, while speculative buying is goâ€" ing on in some lines on account of proâ€" bable change in duties; this is partiâ€" cularly in case with wool. Reports of recent failures in the States show an »ncrease in nuimnuer, but a decrease in liatilities which latter phase is due to the caution for some time past exâ€" ercised in giving large credits. . In Cleveland and other places some strikes have occurred ; in the Lake iron mines wages will probably be reduced ; but the total industrial force at work is said to be steadily increasing. GENEBRAL. It is reported in Canea that 2,000 and 6,979 deaths. Prince Bismarck is suffering from a severe attack of influenza. Three French battleships anda cruâ€" iser have been ordered to sail immediâ€" ately from Toulon for the Island of Crete, to reinforce the French fleet in those waters. A Turkish gunboat, believed to be the Euphrates, has been wrecked on the coast of Epirus. The fate of her crew is not reported. A number of German soldiers comâ€" mitted suicide last week as the result of cruel treatment. Japan intends to demand satisfaction from Spain for the murder of Japanese merchants on the Caroline group of islands. The members of the German Reichâ€" stag have been thrown into consternaâ€" tion by the enormous vote demanded for increasing the navy. The left wing of the monastery of St. Bernard has been destroyed by an ayâ€" alanche, and the monks had to tunnel through the snow to make their exit. The dervishes are making great preâ€" parations to resist the advance of the Angloâ€"Egyptian expedition. Since the beginning of the plague at Bombay there have been 8,383 cases Mussulmans who were confined in the fortress near Selino have been massaâ€" Famine in many parts of Spain and threatened _ Carlist risings are giving the Spanish Government much uneasiâ€" Helen Margaret Mulvany, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Muivany, who died & few years ago in Toronto, died the othâ€" er day in a Buffalo hospital, where she ptx_lderwent an operation for appendicâ€" itis. _ President Cleveland, on Wednesday signed the bill authorizing the conâ€" struction of a railway bridge over tha St. Lawrence river, connecting Hogâ€" ansport, N. Y., and Cornwall, Ont. The Chicago City Council, by an unanimous vote, has passed an ordinâ€" ance requiring tobacconists to take out. a bundred dollar license for the sale of cigarettes. The mining town of Wyoming. Pa with a population of four thousand inâ€" habitants, is caving in, and it is feared it will be engulfed in the mine on which it is built. 1 Cbsuncei M. Depew has accepted the chairmanship of the Board of Control of the Joint Traffic Association. Exâ€"Governor Johni D. Long, of Bingâ€" ham, Mass., has accia&ted the navy portâ€" folio in President McKinley‘s Cabinet. The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company has inaugurated a system! or retrenchments at all of its collieries. Mr. Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York, has accepted a gmition in the McKinley Cabinet, probably the Secretaryship of the Interior. It is expected that Col. John Hay will assume office as United States Ambasâ€" ;adqx" to St. James‘ about the middle of pril. The directors of Mount Holyoke Colâ€" lege announce the gift to the college of $40000 for a dormitory by John D« Rockefeller. Theodore Durant, the convicted murâ€" derer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams, has been refused a new trial at San Franscisco. Mr. Andrew Carnegie is seriously ill at Greenwich Conn. The Feninsular Car department of the Micbilg;m _ Feninsular Car Comâ€" pany. of troit, has closed down. sion exists between Great Britain and Belgium _ regarding the â€" indemnity claimed for the arrest of Ben Tillett, the English labour agitator, at Antâ€" werp last year, is demied at the Forâ€" eign Office, which declares that the noeâ€" gotiations on the subject are proâ€" ceeding amicably. § STABBING AFFRAY, UNITED STATES. ONTARIO ARCHI TORONTO Regarding the gold fields of Ontario some interesting information is %j\'en by Mr. W. Mclunis. He says: " While in the Lakeâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"Woods, the Regina and Sultana mines were visited. The vein in the case of the former of these traverses both an intrusive area of alternate hornblende granit, and a Keeâ€" watin diabase, the Jline of contact beâ€" tween the two cutting the drifts in the mine, and showing an overlap of the diabase by the granite. At the Sulâ€" tana the vein occurs in a very much crushed and sheared hornblende granâ€" ite, which occurs here, as it does generglly. as an intrusive mass not far rom *thescontact between the biotiteâ€" ed under any circumstances, but it is believed that with smelters built on the spot, cheap fuel, and improved proâ€" cesses, those with a valuation 01 $8 and upwards will eventually be profitâ€" ably treated." have, however, been erected at a dozen or more of the principal mines, and machine drills with their quicker reâ€" sults are rapidly supplanting hand labour. The Le Roi and War Eagle are still the principal producing mines in the camp, but considerable shipments at irregular intervals have also been made from the Josie, Iron Mask, Cliff, Evening Star, Crown Point, and others, and it is highly probable that with the extensive development work now in {)mgress the output from these will be argely increased in the near future. The Rossland ores as a rule are not of high grade, and a large proportion of those in sight cannot be profitably worked under present conditions. The cost of freight and treatment is given at $10 to $14 per ton. If the cost of mining, & variable factor, is added to this, it will be evident that ores carryâ€" ing less value than $15 per ton can only be worked at present at a slender proâ€" fit,» if at all. In order to utilize this material, reductions in both freight and smelting charges are imperative , and will doubtless be made as the treatâ€" ment of the ore becomes better underâ€" stood and competing lines of communiâ€" cation are opened up. Should the railâ€" way now projected through the Crow‘s Nest pass be built and the mines conâ€" nected with the extensive coal fields known to exist in the Rocky mountain range, fuel, the principle item in the expense of smeltinf. could be obtained at a much lower figure than at preâ€" sent, and the smelting charges reduced in proportion. A large percentage of the ores are too low gnu{’e to be workâ€" The details of the investigations of the department during the past year are given in the reports of the exâ€" plorers. Mr. R.G. McConnell, who had charge of the work in Kootenay disâ€" trict, says:â€"‘*" Mining has made satisâ€" factory advances on all sides in West Kootenay during the past season. Prospectors, the pioneers of the indusâ€" try, swarmed over the country, making ‘numberless locations everywhere. _ A fair percentage of the prospects of previous years, on which development work has been done, promise to become mines, and the older mines show no signs of deterioration as developed. Several new camps, notably Waterloo, Champion Creek, the North Fork of the Salmon, and the Springer Creek district, have come into prominence, while the older ones have developed inâ€" to recognized mining centres. The outâ€" put of ore has largely increased, and the capacity of the smelters has been more than doubled in order to meet the demand. Favourable reports from competent men have been received in regard to a number of outlying disâ€" tricts which have not yet been exâ€" amined, and it is altogether probable that with the advent of easy comâ€" munication the successes of Trail creek and the Slocan will be repeated in East Kootenay, Boundary Creek, the Larâ€" do, the Big Bend, and other places. Capital has flowed freely into the disâ€" trict during tne season but it is to be feared that an undue proportion of it has found its way into the pockets of speculators rather than into legitimate mining. In Rossland and vicinity, alâ€" though there has been a good deal of‘ scarcely warranted speculation, much: conscientious development and prosâ€" pecting work is being carried on, the result of which in large part will not be known for some time yet, as the hard eruptive rocks of the district neâ€" cessarily make mining a slow and exâ€" pensive operation. is just issued from the press, is parâ€" ticularly interesting this year, as givâ€" ing the opinion of the department and ‘“-S geologists upon the mining activity of the past season in Ontario and British Columbia. Mr.‘ Dawson has summarized the reports of his staff, and presents them tothe public in conâ€" densed shape. Speaking generally on the mining boom, the chief of the surâ€" vey makes the following observaâ€" tions:â€"‘" During the past year very notable progress has been made in the development of the mineral resources of Canada, both in the way of actual work and in attracting the attention and interest of capital. British Colâ€" umbia has begun to evidence its value as a permanent producer of the preâ€" cious metals in a manner long foreâ€" seen by those who have paid attenâ€" tion to its geological structure and position. In Ontario, wherever the Huroniansystem is developed and has been examined, valuable mines, more particularly those of gold, are being discovered and opened up. In Nova Scotia renewed interest has been shown in gold mining, and, with improved machinery and methods, the output is likely soon to be greatly increased. Other mineral industriee throughout the country, whether already establishâ€" ed or in course of devslopment, share in a general appreciation." THE KOOTENAY DISTRICT. Opinions of Geologistsâ€"Notable Progress in the Development of Miningâ€"Output to be Ircreased. The annual report of Mr. Dawson, the director of the Geological Survey,which REPORTS OF EXPLORERS ON THE GOLD FIELDS. ABsOUT CANADA‘$ MIKNES ONTARIO‘S GOLD FIELDS COMPRESSOR PLANTS The smoker huwr the abyss. Enâ€" gineer William tcheon _ escaped death, but his firaman, Joe Boleman, was killed. Conductor George Sears, of Terre Haute, who was in the smoker, was also killed. Canvonball Expre«s Harled Down an Em bankment, A despatch from Evamsville, Ind., says:â€"The most disastrous wreck that has ever happened on the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad took place on Wednasday morning between 12 and 1 o‘clock, as the train known as the "Midnight Cannonball" from Chicago was coming south over the road. The recent rains have had a terrible efâ€" fect on the roadbed, and the entire serâ€" vice of the road has been directed since last Friday in getting the road in sbhape for travel. It was pronounced safe last night, and train service was resumed. _ All trains had orders to proceed cautiously on slow time for safety, and the train that was wreckâ€" ed was coming on under these orders. At a point threeâ€"quarters of a mile north of Hazelton, the roadbed, which is built on an embankiment, suddenly gave way, and the engine, baggage car, and a part of the smoker went down. The engine turned over, but the baggage car remained upright. ness. She is to sit in her carriage, so the story goes, while the mighty conâ€" ?regation around ber and extending ar away through adjoining streets join in prayer and praise. Realization of this plan depends on the caprices of English weather. Some features can be accurately foretold. The eight creagnâ€"coloured horses, never seen unâ€" less at the grandest ceremonies, will draw the Queen‘s carriage. The proâ€" cession from Buckingham palace to St. Paul‘s will include most of the perâ€" sonages and notables of the jubilee proâ€" cession, but will be on a vaster scale. Every country and provincial town will send representatives, and the number of regular and volunteer troops will far exceed any total hitherto massed in London. The forecasts of the Queen‘s jubilee progress through London whicg are appearing in the press are ventures on probabilities. None of them has offiâ€" clal sanction. An openâ€"air ceremony in front of St. Paul‘s is said to be arâ€" ranged because of the Queen‘s lameâ€" The westâ€"end goldsmiths and silverâ€" smiths have already prepared for the diamond jubilee celebration. Sevâ€" eral windows contain a great variety of medals which have been struck ready for distribution at gatherings in June. On the occasion of the previous jubiâ€" lee celebration many thousands of these medals were distributed to school children. ‘The making of the day, public boliday has givenm a great imâ€" petus to this trade. It is learned that among the bhonâ€" ours to be granted in the forthcoming diamond jubilee another knighthood will be conferred on a leading westâ€" end theatrical manager. Much specuâ€" lation has been indulged in as to the fortunate recipient of the distinction. It is more than probable that Charles Wyntham will be the one favoured. The Government has decided to signalize the occasion of her Majesty‘s jubilee, by among other things, the issue of a new coinage, which will be put in circulation next June. The design is said to be of a very bandâ€" some and striking character, and inâ€" cludes new pennies with a most arâ€" tistic design on the lines of the design at present in use. Windows in Great Demandâ€"Jubilee Coins and Medalsâ€"HMonours to be Conferredâ€"â€" Great Preparations. The London newspapers are filled with planks for the celebration of the Queen‘s diamond jubilee, and speculaâ€" tion in windows has already begun. Opposite St. Paul‘s cathedral they are already asking £200 for a small room with two windows. THE ROYAL PROGRESS THROUGH THE GREAT CITY. Mr. W. H. Smith, and it has been corâ€" rected on the regular edition of the map." Mr. Mcinnis also reports that promising veins of gold have been reâ€" ported north of the C. P. R., along the Minaitake lake, Keewatin belt, which is a continuation northâ€"easterly of the Wabigoon lake area. Specimens assayed gave small quantities of gold, enough at least to confirm the 06â€" currence of gold in the ion. A numâ€" ber of claims have beezrefocated along the shores of Manitou lake, as well as about little Manitou lake. sive masses. I know of no case where goldâ€"bearing veins have been found to occur in the main body of the biotite {nems areas, which we have classed as aurentian. On a preliminary edition of the Seine river sheet, the rocks, in which the Saw Bill vein occurs, were so classed, but this was owing to a misâ€" interpretation of the notes of the late NEW DISCOVERIES of goldâ€"bearing veins have been made in various places in the district, notâ€" ably about Shoal lake, where the Mikâ€" ado and other properties have been atâ€" tracting attention. Here. as in the Seâ€" ine river country, the gold has been found in every case of which we have any record at no great distance from the contact between the Keewatin and intrusive granitoid rocks, which occur most frequently as narrow rims along the edge of the more extensive areas of biotite gneiss, but which also invade the Keewatin rocks, as isolated instruâ€" were found to pan well, and an averâ€" age value of more than twenty dolâ€" lars to the ton is claimed for the whole band. Considerable activity has been shown in developing and exâ€" ploitingwgold properties about Lake of the Woods generally, and attention is being again devoted to various proâ€" perties which have lain undevelopetf for years. gneiss area and an area of Keewatin rocks. The Scramble mine, which lies to the north of the railway, within six or crushed diorites, and .close to the miles of Rat Portage, occurs in a band of Keewatin hornblende schists, edge of the Rossland granite area. Some surface stripping has been done here, and a shallow shaft has been sunk on a band 25 to 35 feet in width, made up lariely of quartz and heavily charged with iron f)yrites, oocurrmq both in thin sheets along the planes o both in thin sheets afonq the planes of cleavage and irre%lar y distributed throu%h its mass. Parts of the band were found to pan well, and an averâ€" THE DIAMOND JUBILEE DISASTROUS WRECK. A special from Birmingham, Ala., says:â€"The northâ€"bound express train, No. 4, on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, due at Louisville at 12.25 noon‘ Wednesday, was held up by six masked men near Calera Tuesday morning. The train bhad stopped at a water tank in the woods whem two men boarded the engine and covered the engimeer and fireman with pisto‘s, and forced them to uncoup‘le the locomotive and express car from the remainder of the train and run forward haif a mile with it. Here four more men were in waiting. The messenger refused to open the safe. ‘Vhen the door wa« broken open, the messerger was covered with pisâ€" tols and forced to open the safe. _ A number of packages of money were seâ€" cured. The total amount is not krown but it is said to have been large. Louisviile and Nashville Express Robberv. ing of the Lambton Woolen Mills is an encouraging feature. Hardware quist with values generally unchanged. The grocery trade shows improvement. There is a better demand for coffees and sugars, prices of which rule Tirm. Canned peas are hbigher. Leather dealâ€" ers are doing fairly well, with prices firm. . . . The grain trade has been dull during the week. There is no exâ€" port demand for wheat or flour, and prices are heavy. Transactions in wheat is confined to an occasional car for millâ€" ers. Barley a trifle firm. Money reâ€" mains easy at unchanged rates; call loans 41â€"2 per cent., and prime comâ€" mercial paper is discounted at 6 per cent. Gpeculation has been quiet, m( there are evidences of imnrovement. Prices are firmer with good investment demand for bank share, but little stock coming out. Railway, Gas and Assurâ€" ance stocks are stronger. Business in wholesale circles at Toâ€" ronto this week, was fair. The volume, although not large, is encouraging to dealers generally. The outlook will imâ€" rrove after this week. ‘The failures are ikely to show a considerable decrease. There is not likely to be any more surprises, as the weak houses have alâ€" ready been weeded out. Payments are not as good as most dealers could wish for, but collectively they are not bad. The millinery houses report the booking of a good many orders, and the spring movement in dry goods is well under way. There was a large number of country dealers in the city. The openâ€" goods remaing dull, and country orders are characterized by their general moâ€" deration, though _ fairly numerous. There is evident depression among the manufacturers of domestic fabrics, dealâ€" ers in raw wool reporting very light business, and there has been talk of some curtailment in the production of cottons. Boot and shoe men show fair activity in the manufacture and delivâ€" ery of spring footwear, and there is a little more enquiry for leather, in which line values are very firmly held, owing to the general strength of the hide marâ€" ket both locally and abroad. Metals and hardware are inactive, and the booking of spring import orders is beâ€" ing delayed by tariff uncertainties. Some fair early spring deliveries are being made of paints, glass, etc. The money market presents no new feaâ€" tures, call money being readily availâ€" able at 4 per cent. in stocks there has been some access of strength within the last day or two. ____| _ } General Montreai trade advices inâ€" dicate that there is practically no change in the business situation, and that there bhas as yet been little inâ€" crease in the distribution of merchanâ€" dise countrywards, while general colâ€" lections continue to rule slow. In groâ€" ceries, except for some fair seasonable business in fish, canned goods, etc., the demand is of a "hand to mouth" charâ€" acter. Bugars bhold the late slight adâ€" vn,llct'.é. but the little improvement in enquiry, noted last week, has not been maintained. City retail business in dry The bulls on wheat claim that for twenty years previous to January 1 1897, the supplies for Europe avemgatf nearly 9,000,000 bushels a week, for the eight weeks intervening, supplies have averaged less than 5,000,000, and last week ran as low as 8,265,000 bushels. The bull theory is that the excessive supply of two months ago has been eaten into, and that inside of the next thirty days imports must begin to reâ€" plenish for the months which must inâ€" tervene before the new crop. . s The visible sup‘{)ly of wheat in the United States and Canada is 43,797,000 bushels, a decrease of 1.418,000 bushels for the week. The amount afloat to Europe is 22,880,000 bushels, a decrease of 1,7600,000 for the week. ‘The visiâ€" ble, with amount afloat, totals 66,â€" 677,000 bushels, as against 92,569,000 bushels a year ago, a decrease of 25,â€" 892,000 buszels. hok 2o O melk l a s The Russian full official report gives the total wheat crop 887,640,000 bushâ€" els, and the â€" year before 464,304,000 els, and this year before 464,304,000 bushels. Despatches from Azov state that the growing crops are seriously damaged. We learn that the New Brunsvwick Legislature now in session, propose to introduce a Bill imposing an annual tax of §20 or $30 an commercial travâ€" elers; exempting travelers domiciled in New Brunswick or representing _ New Brunswick houses. United States securities, including stocks and bonds, are higher owing to cheap money and to incoming adminisâ€" tration of the McKinley government, so the republican press put it. The world‘s shipments of wheat last week were only 2,636,000 bushels, the smallest recorded. During the corresâ€" ponding week of last year they were, 5,437,000 bushels. : ; _ The net earnings of Canadian Pacifâ€" ic for January were $373,3438 a decrease of $122,607 as compared with the corâ€" responding month of last year. Business Man. The net gold in the United States treasury is $148,661,000. Grand Trunk Railway first preferâ€" ence stock is selling in London at 34. The earnings of the Toronto Railway Co., for February were $69,744, a deâ€" crease of $3,231. _ _ The Commercial Cable Company has declared the usual quarterly dividend Stocks of wheat at Fort William and Port Arthur are 2,740,627 bushels, as against 3,212,480 bushels a year ago Stocks of wheat at Toronto are 208,â€" 688 bushels, as against 217,776 bushels a week ago, and 29,466 bushels a year Some Items of Interest to the Busy THB FIELD OF COMMERCE HELD UP THE TRAIN. Alarming Mumors as ¢o Her Majesty‘s Condition, A despatch from London says:â€"Deâ€" spite the statement in medical papers that the Qreen is in perfect health, considering her age, the statement is again published and emanates from a very excellent source, that the Sovâ€" ereign is nearly werless to walk. Sciatica is what the gleen suffers from, and Iatelfi it has become so much worse that, with support, she can onlg' walk a few feet, and that with difficulty. She has to be carried up and down stairs and into her carrie ?e, and whee}â€" ed from room to room. It is this fact which has necessitated the Prince of a few feet, and that with difficulty. She has to be carried up and down stairs and into her carrie ?e, and whee}â€" ed from room to room. It is this fact which has necessitated the Prince of Wales and the Dake of c‘onnaught takâ€" Alarming Rumors ing so much on their shoulders ip conâ€" nection with the jubiles festivities, der the upturned flat, and with a heavy bheart tried to make the land that he could see. After walking by day, and trying to keep himsel{ from freezing by night, he landed at Lowland Cove, about eight miles west of here, last night, and was taken cure ol by peoâ€" ple who found him and broughi ‘:im to the tolegraph office. His feet are badly frozen, and he is suffering with snow blindness. He says the onl‘y perâ€" son on Bird Rock is the widow of Corâ€" mier. Charlie Turbide perished about two o‘clock on Saturday _ morning, and Cormier died a little after daylight. He (Turbide) left them on the ice unâ€" Three Men Driven Out to Sea on Floating in 100 yards of the shore ice, the wind being moderate from the northâ€"west. After they got on the ice it began runâ€" ning, and the wind increased. It was impossible for them to get back, and they drifted off in a southâ€"easterly diâ€" rection. In trying so hard to regain the Rock they got in the water sevâ€" erael times, and got their clothes all wet. R A despatch from Halifax, N. S., says: â€"Arsen Turbide, assistant keeper of the Bird Rock light, reports that on Friday afternoon he and his two asâ€" sistants, Damien Cormier, aged 64, and Charlie Turbide, aged 17, left the Rock to capture some seals that were withâ€" A dispatch from Pretoria says:â€"The entire bench 0%> ie High Court of the Sauth African .epublic have u{)prov- ed of the action of the Chief Justice in closing the High Court as a mark of resentment of the action of the Volksâ€" raad in placing the caurt under the jurisdiction of the legislative body. ed amoung persons within the Minisâ€" terial circle that Mr. Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, has sent an emâ€" phatic message to President Kruger, of the Bouth African Republic, that the Aliens Act which is in operation in the Transvaal is in contravention of the provisions of the London convention of 1884, and miuist be withdrawn. The Manchester Guardian says the relations between Great Britain and the Government of the Transvaal are very much strained, and that Mr. Chamberlain is anxious that the inevitâ€" able struggle between the two shall come as quickly as possible. | According to the Guardian General Lord Wolseley, Commanderâ€"inâ€"Chief of the British army, is said to have esâ€" timated that 20,000 British troo would be suificient to conquer tg: Boers. In the meantime it is underâ€" stood that l‘resident Kruger, of the Transvaal Republic, is unmoved, and is prepared to resist all interference on the part of England at all costs. Kruger. A dispatch from London says:â€"The St. Jnmes‘Gazette says it is rumourâ€" Mr. Chamberlain‘s Stand with President bhad two children. He is said to bhave another wife living with another man at Niagara Falls, N.Y. The murdered woman left him about six months 0{0 for this cause and laid complaint to the police authoritiee at Suspension Bridge, where they lived at the time, charging that he attempted to smother bher. He was arrested and stood his trial and was acquitted. She had him arrested a second time for threatening to shoot her. He was given his liberty on $500 bonds to keep the peace ;gecte&. 'lt’he' xhfir?léffi; is about 32 or years of age and for some years unâ€" til lat.el% had been employed around the G. T. R. yards here as yardman. He married the murdered woman some ten years ago in Montana and by her present in destitute circumstances, Both parents, although poor, are reâ€" but refused to walk to the police staâ€" tion and a carriage bhad to be called to take him to the cells, where hbe was n{»_laeed behind the bars. In the meantime the fire department put the flames out and the woman was carried down to Cole & Merriam‘s drug store and physicians called, who found she was beyond their aid, having died while be!nf carried down stairs. The two children, a boy of six and a girl of four 1Yeara. were rescued half suffocatâ€" ed. ‘The murderer was until lately 4 resident of this town, where he has lived since childbood, and has an aged father and mother residing bere at shots were fatal and she expired a few minutes after being shot. The murderer set fire to the room after doing the shooting. He ran down stairs and ¢urned down the alley beâ€" hind the drug store block. The alarm of fire was promptly given by women living on the same floor, who yelled *""Murder." The police near by purâ€" sued the murderer down the alley into North avenue, opposite the New York Central Station, to the Royal Hotel and arrested him and promptly bhandâ€" cuflfed him. He showes no resistance breast as she lay in bed in her rooms over Cole & Merriam‘s drug store at the corner of Main and Ontario streets at Suspension Bridge, N.Y., where she had been living the past few months, separated from hber husband, with her two children, seeking a divorce. Both Wife‘s Breast, A despatch from Niagara Falls, NY says:â€"At 10.30 o‘clock on Monday evening Robert J. Powley murdered his wife by shooting her twice in the THE QUEEN‘S HEALTH AN AFRICAN CRISIS. FROZEN TO DEATH. MURDERED HIS WIFE. J. Powley, Formerly of Ningara , Ount., Fires Two Bullets Into Mis 4%% % A 4 F é, â€"g ‘ in $ n ts, THI x'/ P a e * SS 7 4 wis o C@ompounp * UILES‘ (Gan.) VECETADI and Mileoo® Sanatin Prices Tho und 258. * sale rbpn; vitality and eners of the " Mother :;‘-*‘u__r#‘ 5...""-"".......&': "A. M. €."* MEDICI g78 St. Paul $ Medisices exrpressed to any & fm:ous melais ol 1h t crops out in one soe copper ; in another as here it is lead and si there, lead and copper ; the ore will have a 1 of copper and a small 3!4 and gold; at th locan Lake nothing e silver dry ores ; the O Golden Lirip mines yi milling ores, and the Creek shows a percenta tyfive to ninety per c« ing oresâ€"or all that is ized. The old Poor miles below Nelson, i milling mine, which, a ing worked slowly an made a profit of from 000 during the past fi1 * WILDCATS" AN Mr. Bailey says tha sates " wildeat " swin those who are expend energy in the country ers that there has lbeen of thing in British C« any muning country w acquainted. In a celebr cerning the way to c eatching of the hare s & necessary preliminary considers it jusi as v tending investor to ie is a mine. Being assu is veritably a mine, which an independent a ginser has reported 1 which the assays are al and which is being pr who are considered ho walks of life, Mr. Baile " It is a gre continues Mr. one knows of one is that th about two hun fifty to a bhun absolutely crc but in many est trail. \ of low grade ty ounces of per cent. of ly impossible transit are « bave been e competent o1 is beyond q the Crow‘s N utmost impor ars provincio total loss to Canada, and ! United State considerable every day." A WONl a&cross (1 sence of the coun is unders pass through its lying 150 Steele sectior wery best of c is indispensal The ore is n sary Lo 1. time that marketa ing and 1 these me: "lt is this v that is hinde: the country," instance, in \h Murphy Creck Perry Creek, i tions there ar OL ore in sight. in the British C between eight ar all the camps an tion upon the a of the metals ex ince during the cluding gold, sib greater than th. try on earth. ‘}} the value of th. at over $3,000,000 the sections now â€"â€"Rossland, Ain Toad Mountain NEED RAIL\ A WOMDSRTU Kts Presont Is Greai, 4 mense ~Pransport IJ so That All § ork MR. BAILEY DEsC! MINING R ated at a pr about half Mr. 8. S. Bailey h: to call himsel{ a mi tucky, he started as train of a bhundre mules, thirtyâ€"Afour y been interested in mi or another ever sinc ed or owned minas i Oregon, Utah and W now mining interesis Ainsworth, where he Dellie mine, and in may section. 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