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Montreal, Sept. 8.â€"The local mar- kets were fairly active. Some of the millers have raised their quota- tions for Manitoba, flour by 15 cents and high patents are now qaoted at $4.50 to $4.60. Locally oats are stronger, selling at 35§c afloat for export, September delivery. Cheese has made another jump, and 110 is now asked, though not often paid, [or finest Western colored. White Quebecs have gone up to log-c, and even loge, is asked for them by some dealers. This closing together of the different grades of cheese seems to indicate a genuine short- ness of supply, as compared with demand, though much of the actual buying is probably speculation for winter prices. Some recession in price is not improbable if the large make continues later into the auâ€" tumn than dealers expect, but it is not likely that the price will go down much. The Liverpool spot quotation is up to 52s per cwt. for colored. Butter is firm. but un- changed as to price. Gavinâ€"Peas, 68c high freights; 72c afloat here; rye, 53c east, 58gc afloat here; buck- wheat, 48 to 49c; oats, old, No. 2, 8743c in store here; new 35:}(3 afloat here; September delivery; flaxseed, $1.15 on track here; feed barley, 50c; No. 3 barley, 522.0; corn, 60c for N04 8 yellow American. Flourâ€"Manito- ba patents, $4.50 to $4.60; seconds, 84.20 to $4.30; strong bakers', $3.75 to $3.95; Ontario straight rollers, $3.60 to $3.70, in bags, $1.75 to $1.85: patents, $3.75 to $4: extras, $1.55 to $1.60. Feed-â€" Manitoba bran, $17; shorts, 819, bags included: Ontario bran in bulk, $16 to $16.50; shorts in bulk $19 to $20: beans, choice, primes, $1.60. Provisionsâ€"Heavy Canadian short, cut pork, $19 to $21; light short cut, 519: compound lard 9-} to 101:; finest lard, 10} to llfic; hams, 13; to 14:}c; bacon. 14 to 15c; live hogs. $6.25 to $6.50: fresh killed abattoir hogs, $9; American clear backs. $13.75: clear shoulder pork, $18.50. Eggsâ€"Candled, selected. 17 to 17§C; No. 1, 15c; straight receipts, 14c; N0\ 2, 12c. Cheeseâ€"Ontario, 103 to 11¢: townships, 10-}c; Quebec, 1010.. Butterâ€"Townships creamery, 19} to 20c; Quebec 193; Western; daily 15“. Honeyâ€"White clover, in sections, 11 to 12c per section; in 1011c. Button 19% to 20¢; ( daily 15“. in sections, 1] 10â€"1b tins, 8c Minneapolis, Sept. 8.â€"Flour~H.ighâ€" er on cars; first patents, $4.50 to $4.60; second patents, $4.40 to $4.50; first clears, $3.50 to $3.60; second clears, $2.65 to $2.75. Bran uâ€"In bulk, $12.30 to $12.7 . $13.75 E-ggsâ€"‘ No. 1, N0} 2, to 11c St. Lbuis, Mo. Sept. 8,â€"Wheat closed :â€"â€"Cash, 830; Sept., 83c; Dec., 87c: May, 89%. Hayâ€"The market is qyiet, with de- mand fairly good. No. 1 new will bring 39 on track, Toronto. Strawâ€"Tho market is quiet at $5.25 to $5.50 per ton for car lots on track. Hopsâ€"Trade dull. with puices nom- inal at 317 to $20. _Honeyâ€"The market is steady at 7 to 7‘30 for bulk, and $1 to $1.50 for combs. Potatoesâ€"The offerings are fair, and prices are steady. Car lots are quoted at 4-00 per bush., and small lots at 50 to 55c per bush. Poultryâ€"The market is stead} Chickens, 60 to 75c per pair. Ducks 70 to 90c per pair. Turkeys, 12 to 13¢ per lb. Bufi'ald, N.Y., Sept. 8.â€"Flourâ€"â€"â€" Steady. Wheatâ€"Spring. No. 2 white 81c; winter, unsettled; No. 2 red, in Flourâ€"Ninet per cent. patents quoted at to $3.021; middle heights, in buyers' sacks, for export. Straight. rollers of special brands for domestic trade quoted at $3.35 to $3.50 in bbls. Manitoba. flours firm. No. 1 patents, $4.45 to $4.55; No. 2 patents, $4.15 to $4.25. and strong bakers' $4 to $4.15 on track Toronto. Cornâ€"The market is quiet and firm. No. 3 American yellow quot- ed at 60c on track, Toronto. Can- adian corn nominal. Millfeedâ€"Bran steady at, $16, and shorts at $18 here. At outside points bran is quoted at $12.50 to $13. and shorts at $17.50 to $18. Manitoba. bran in sacks, $17, and shorts at $19 here. Hoaryâ€"Trade cohtinues dull, with prices unchanged. Prime whites are quoted at $1.75 a bushel. Prices of Grain, Cattle. etc in Trade Centres. Toronto, Sept. 8.â€"â€"Wheatâ€"-The market is quiet, with fcellng firmer. No. 2 White and red winter, new, quoted at 750 low freights. Spring wheat, 73c for No. 2 cast, and goose 680 for No. 2 cast. Manitoba. wheat 15 nominally flrm. No. 1 hard is quoted at 99c. No. 1 Northern at 97c, and No. 2 Northern at 95c Goderlch. The quotations grinding in transit are: No. 1 hard, $1.05; No. 1 Northern, $1.04; and N0. 2 Northern, $1.01. Outsâ€"The market is steady, with fair demand. Sales of new No. 2 white at 30c low insights to New 'A'pplesâ€"The offerings of fall fruit are large, and prices steady. Choice stock, 65 to 75¢ per bbl. York. Old No. 2 quoted at 80c 10w Heights to New York. 01d No. 2 quoted at 30c high freights, and No. 1 at 310 east. IE UNITED STATES MARKETS BUSINESS AT MONTREAL {E MARKETS COUNTRY PRODUCE. Elderly Woman Commits Suicide at Terrapin Point. A Niagara. Falls. N.Y., dcspateh says: Late on Thursday afternoon a woman, aged about fifty years, whose name and place of residence has not yet been ascertained, committed sui- cide by leaping into the river, a few feet from the brink of the Horse- shoe Falls, at Terrapin Point. Her body was swept over the falls. Her cape, pocketbook, and lunch were left behind. She had 46 cents in cash. The cape is of black, coarse materi- '11, with hood lined with plaid. The lunch was in a candy box, bearing the words. “Mason's, Berkeley." A Constantinople despatch says 2â€"â€" Three explosions occurred on Wednes- day on the Austrian steamer Vaskaâ€" pu, soon after leaving the Bulgarian port of Bui‘gas en route for Conâ€" stantinople, by which twentyâ€"nine persons perished. The steamer caught fire, and had to be beached at Missurea, eighteen miles north of Burgas. A telegram conveying this news was received by the agent; here of the Hungarian Levant Line, to which the Vaskapu belongs. The captain and officers of the steamer and six of her crew were among the dead. The Vasknpu sailed from Varna, Bulgaria, and after calling at Burgas was steaming through the Black Sea to Constantinople, when the explosions took place on board. The steamer was of 1,076 tons, 260 feet beam and a depth of 16.9 feet. Fatalities in Disaster on Southern Railway, S. C. A Charlotte, N. 0., despatch says: A northâ€"bound passenger train on the Southern Railway, between Rock Hill and Yorkville, F. 0., went through Fishing Creek bridge on Thursday morning. Eight persons were killed outright, five or six fatâ€" ally hurt, and fifteen 01' sixteen pas- sengers were more or less injured. The fireman, mail clerk and baggage- man were buried under the wreck. Julius Johnston of Toyal Hill. 8.0., is fatally hurt; W. '1‘. Slaughter of Hickory, S. 0., and Conductor Tur- ner were seriously injured. 01' the fatally injured four are negroes. Rot- ten timbers are said to have caused the wreck. A Toronto despatch says :â€"Ac- cording to information received at the City Engineer's Department the lake level is a foot higher than at this time last year, and 21 inches higher than it was seven years ago. Engineers have not been able to disâ€" cover the reason for this. The lake level seems to rise gradually during every seven years. and having reach- ed lts maximum height, declines. It was asserted however, that, the water would rise still higher. CAN DISCOVER NO CAUSE. For Height of Lake Levelâ€"May go Still Higher. do light Sheep, export Bucks .......... Culls ........... Calves, each . Spring lambs Toronto, Sept. 8.â€"At the city Cattle Market toâ€"(lay there was a good run of stock. comprising, all told. 85 cars, with 1,082 head of cattle, 2,733 sheep and lambs, 1,489 hogs, 45 calves. The market for cattle was a. little slow, with butch- crs' prices on the Whole a little cas- ier. Some fair loads of butchers' cattle sold at from $3.80 to $4; 5x- tru choice butchm's' at $4.25 to $4.35. There was rather too much light stufi ofiermg, which proves a drag on the market. There is a lit- tle more life in the export trade at low prices. Some good exporters, about 1,400 pounds, sold at $4.80. There is some enquiry for good stock- ers, about 900 to 1,000 pounds, at $3.65 to $3.85. A few lots of feedâ€" ing steers and bulls. 1,000 to 1,100 pounds, sold at $2.75 for the bulls, and at $50 for the steers. There Will soon be a good demand for this class of cattle for the distillerics. The sheep market was fairly steady under a heavy run. Hogs are unchanged at $6 to $6.25. Export, heavy . . . . . . 8 4 25 to $4 80 Export, Light ‘1; 10 4 25 Bulls, export, heavy, cwt. ............... ,.. 3 50 3 75 do light ............. 3 00 8 50 Feeders, light, 800 lbs. and upwards ....... 3 25 3 35 Stockers, 400 to 800 Tbs. .................... 3 00 3 40 do 900 lbs. 3 65 375 Butchers' choice do do do ‘ do rough ............ Light stock bulls, cwt Mil‘ch cows ............. Hogs, best ,.. do light ............ Sheep, export, cwt . store, held at 85430. Cornâ€"Firm. No. 2 yellow, 59kt; No. 2 com, 57} to 57ic. Oatsâ€"Strong. No. 2 white, 3915c; No. 2 mixed, 36c. Barleyâ€" Old in store, 56c. Ryeâ€"No. 1 Wis- consin, 563m c.i.f. Canal heightsâ€" Steady. Disastrous Explosions on the Aus- ‘trian Steamer. EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED. TWENTY-MN E KILLED. LEAFED OVER FALLS. CATTLE MARK ET. cattle, Wonderful Development of the In- dustry. A despatch from Lagos, British West Africa to London, reports that there has been a. wonderful develop- ment of the cotton-growing dndustry in the interior. It has been found necessary to put on extra. trains in order to bring the large output to the coast. A Kingston despatch says zâ€"Avilla Bourassa, of Montreal, who killed his wife a. year ago, and over Whose trial there was intense interest, died on Tuesday in the Kingston Peniten- tiary, to which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. His illness was hardly of a day's duration. He was in the insane ward for a. time. American Girl to Marry Duke of Roxburgh. A London despatch says :â€"The engagement is announced of Miss May Goolot t0 the Duke of Boxâ€" burgh. The Duke of Roxburgh is now the guest of Mrs. Ogden Goelet, mother of Miss May Goolct, at Newâ€" port, R.I. Iie accompanied the Prince of Wales during his tour of Canada. ‘ A London despatch says: The con- dition of afiairs exposed to the War Commission in their report continues to be the subject of scathing criti- cism in the press. One foreign at- tache is reported as saying: “We knew it was bad, but not as bad as the report would indicate.“ Lord Lansdowne is severely cenâ€" sured in some quarters and his res- ignation demanded from the War Of- flce management. What is being done to effect reforms is the serious question the nation is making. The report says that as the War Office is lacking in organization, and is rotten, the army can never be sound. Sudden End of a. Montreal Wife- Murderer. The Five Finger Coal mines, on the Yukon, above Dawson, are pro- ducing heavily this summer. ‘ Five thousand tons will be shipped from those mines to Dawson before the end of navigation. The mines over- look the river, and coal is shot from the mouth of the tunnel to barges lying moored below in the Yukon. The mines were discovered in 1898. and have been worked to some ex- tent over since, but not so much in previous years as now. Eighteen men are engaged in the mines at present. The first 200 feet in from the out- er edge of the hill. in the Five Finâ€" gers mines, the vein now being Worked dips 15 degrees, and from there on 20 degrees. The coal lies like a. huge sheet spread on the horiâ€" zontal, with the gradual dip back from the river. Double Fatality on a, Bridge at Brandon, Man. A Brandon, Mam, despatch says: On Friday morning a traction en- gine with two men Went through the First Street bridge, and both men were instantly killed. Shortly after nine o’clock Dick Chambers, of Brandon, aged 35 years, and William Curle, of Aitkinside, aged 60, were in the cab. of the engine. which was a brand new one, going over the bridge, when the rear end of the enâ€" gine crushed through the bridge, turning a complete somersault, and landed in the mud below, a. distance of about 25 'feet, crushing both men underneath it. Their deaths were in- stantaneous. The boiler exploded, letting out the steam, and extinâ€" guishing the fire. The men Were horâ€" ribly crushed. Both men were Well- known here, were married, and leave families. Chambers leaves a small family, and Curie a large family of grownâ€"up sons and daughters living in the vicinity of Brandon. Five Thousand Tons to be Ship- ped This Season. A Dawson desputch suys: Coal mines are being exploited in the Yu- kon. The Coal Creek Company at Fortyâ€"Mile is opening large proper- ties and building twelve miles of nar- row gauge railroad on which to haul the coal to the Yukon River, where it Will be dumped on barges to be towed to Dawson. The vein now being Worked is forty feet above the water's edge. It be- gins with a width of two feet, and at the furthest point now reached is three and one-half to four feet thick. Quality and thickness increase with depth. Two other veins exist in the same hill at different elevations. One is at the Water’s edge, and another twenty feet above. The third, the one now being worked, is twenty feet above the second. The two lower ledges are of unknown quality and thickness. All the ledges seem to extend along the entire front a quar- ter of a mile. COAL MINES ON THE YUKON Strong Feeling Aroused by Report of War Commission. WEST AFRICAN COTTON. DIED IN PENITENTIARY. LANSDOWNE CENSURED. FELL TO THEIR DEATH. WILL HARRY A DUKE. A London despatch says: The annual report of the Markets Com- mittee of the city corporation says trade from Canada is increasing very considerably. From 1893 to 1902 there were delivered at the market 229,043 cattle and 193,440 sheep from Canada. Sad End of Two-yearâ€"old Child at Kingston. A Kingston despatch says: On Friday afternoon the twoâ€"year-old child of Abraham Storms, caretaker at “Alivington,” was drowned in a tub of Water. The mother was outâ€" side hanging out clothes, and when she returned found the child dead in the tub. She had been left on the floor. Will Greatly Increase Power With Steam Pressure. A London despatch says: Some leading British engineers are experi- menting with a, new turbine engine which is said to develop 100 horseâ€" power with the expenditure of only twelve pounds of saturated steam. This means a speed of twenty-eight or thirty knots for the same cost as a. 24-knot service. Indian Rulers Want Britain to Set Apart May 24th. A despatch from London says 1â€"â€" Several Maharajahs in India have written to Lord Bath expressing their willingness to make May 24 Empire Day provided Great Britain \dil set. the example. From the Rambler-Cariboo mine at McGulgan comes word that the rich- est find of ore that has been struck on the property has been uncovered almost simultaneously in two places, one at the bottom of the sevenâ€"foot level tunnel, and the other on the surface about one thousand feet disâ€" tant in a line. The new find conâ€" sists of solid ore running 193 ounces of silver and 70 per cent. lead to the ton. On the surface strike two! men in two days have taken out five tons of the ore. The condition of gold makes it ap- pear that there will be gold in large quantities or some rich placer digg- ings along the Eight Mlle Creek, and prospectors both young and old are new hard at work panning the creek bottom. Eight Mile Creek runs in- to Trout Lake about three miles south of the town of that name, and ls a little over twenty miles north of Poplar Creek. At Gerrard, at the foot of the lake, there have also been some rich strikes of ore made this week. Scarcity of Teachers Reported by the Department. A Toronto despatch says :â€"The Ontario Education Department re- ports a scarcity of teachers in some parts of the province, and owing to additions to the Normal School ca- pacity have more accommodation than needed for the number of teach- ers in training. It has been decid- ed to admit. to the Normal schools a. limited number of students who have junior leaving certificates, but have not had the year of practical experi- ence in teaching which the regulaâ€" tions require. These on passing will be granted an interim certificate which will be made permanent on successfully teaching for one year. Department Will Erect a. Light- house at Pointe Noire. -A Quebec despatch says :-â€"’1‘he Fed- eral Government has deCided to light the River Saguenay, traversed by the Richelieu and Ontario Navigaâ€" tion Company passenger boats. Mr. Gregory, the Quebec agent of the Marine and Fisheries Department. has left for Tadousac with a. number of workmen to erect a lighthouse at Pointe No‘ire, near the scene where the steamer Carolina. went on the rocks. Exports of Cattle and Sheep to Britain Show Increase Rich Strike of Gold on Eight lYLilo Creek, 13. C. A Nelson, B.C., (lesputch says :-â€"-A rich strike of gold about three miles from Trout Lake has almost depop- ulated that town. The prospector who made the strike came in on Sunday night for supplies and ex~- hibith n teaspoonful of gold dust which he had panned from a. shovelâ€" ful o! decomposed ore. He also stated that the ledge of decomposed rock was several feet wide. Al- though it was dusk when he came the excitement engendered by the find was so intense that many par- ties lmd started out for the new strike by midnight. One of the first to go was Mrs. Jowerr, a woman prospector, who, riding a cayuse, went bravely up the steep and rocky trail carrying a. lantern to pick out the trail. The find was on Eight Mile Creek, and is reached by an old trail lead- ing to a mine further up the. moun- tain. By Monday morning the trail was black with people, among whom were women and children all eager to see the place where the gold could be taken out so freely. RELAXED REGULATIONS. CANADIAN LIVE STOCK. NEW STEAM TURBINE. UNIVERSAL EMPIRE DAY LIGHTING SAGUENAY. DROW‘NED IN A TUB. A NEW KLONDIKE. A London despatch says: The Canadian emigration oflice has cabled Emigration Commissioner at Winni- peg asking that stringent enquiry be made into complaints received by London newspapers from emigrants sent out by so-called emigration agencies. These complaints publish- ed here are bound to do an immense amount of harm to emigration to Canada. FOUGHT WITH BAYONETS. A Pekin dcspatc on Thursday betw and four' American bayonets, and tW( were seriously wo Fred E. McKcand. of Chicago. is alleged to have defrauded Geo. llar~ rison, manager of the Merchants Bank at Neepawa out. of $1,180 by cashing a worthless cheque. As soon as the new Highland Regiâ€" ment is formed in Hamilton the Gov- ernment will issue the new service uniforms and make a grant towards the procuring of the Highland dress, A line of $10 was imposed by the post-ofllce inspector in London on a. young man, who. although aware that it was contrary to the law, had enclosed correspondence in a news- paper prepaid at newspaper rates only. The decision of the coal companies to restrict the production of anthra- Citc by suspending Work for a. time will result in the departure of thousâ€" ands of miners to the South. One company has engaged 1.000 for. its operations at Thurber, Texas. GENERAL. It is reported that a. syndicate of American capitalists is about to pur- chase the whole stock of Braziiian coffee. Italian Socialists Preparing a. Demonstration. A despntch from Rome, to the London Lender, says the Italian Exâ€" ecutive Committee of the Socialist party has resolved to promote a. general strike in that country on the day that the Czar arrives there on his visit to King Victor Emman- uel. at the end of October. They have decided to organize meetings to protest against the idea. of a. Gov- ernment founded on liberty and pro- gress, inviting an autocrat to visit its capital. The Socialists, accord- ing to the resolutions adopted by the executive committee, are asked to line the streets of Rome, through which the CZar is supposed to drive, and to hoot as the Russian autocrat passes by. The Italian Government officials are making preparations to combat this movement and prevent any possible disturbance. Four collieries of the Union Coal Company at Shamokin, Pa., employ- ing 5,000 men and boys, were closed down on Thursday for an indefinite period on account of the overstocked coal market. The August just passed was the coldest August ever known in New York, according to the records of the Weather bureau, which go back to 1871. Lady Minto and Daughters Start on Two Months’ Trip. An Ottawa. despatch says tâ€"Tho Countess of Minto, accompanied by her two eldest daughters. Ladies Eilen and Ruby Elliott, and Captain Bell, A.D.C., left on the Imperial Limited on Wednesday afternoon for Vancouver, en route to Japan on a. two months‘ visit. At ’I‘okio they will be the guests of Sir Claude Muc- donnld, the British Ambassador. The Governor-General, Sir Wm. Mulock, Lady Laurier, and a large number of citizens of Ottawa, were at the sta- tion to say goodâ€"bye, and they gave her Excelency a rousing cheer as the train pulled out of the station. French Soldiers at Pekin Wound Two Americans. The Y. M. C. A. will open a night school at Ih'antford. It is rumored that a new fort is to be constructed at Esquimault, B. C. The Middlesex Bur Association have decided that. a Canadian Diâ€" vorce Court is needed. By an explosion in Knob Hill mine at Phoenix, B. C., Bern Schartinâ€" borg, aged 21, lost the sight of one Wheat is now being carried be~ tween Winnipeg, and Port Arthur, over the Canadian Northern railway for six COINS a. bushel. The Ontario Government has sent, the County of \Ventworth a cheque for $19,466.66 in connection with the million-dollar grant for good roads. Letters From Canada. Published in London Papers. The last of the smallpox patients have been discharged from the Lon- don Hospital. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. NEWS NEWS. WILL HURT EMIGRATION. CZAR WILL BE OFF FOR JAPAN. UNITED STATES spatch says: In a fight between French soldiers 2ricuns the French used 1 two of the Americans 1 wounded. CANADA WEL COMED