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A resolution favor 0! the South African («I at the mural-em- railway matters ut ‘duy. GREAT BRITAIN’S BUDGET less, Blfll‘lt Outbreak Against Operandrs ot Timber Factory. A (Icwalch {mm 'l‘okio says: An of- flcml report from Mtyazakt prefectum states that a mob of eighty persons at- tuckcd a timber factory, owned by Frenclnnen‘ in the Village of leo, May 5. doing considox-abin (Range to the Mary and the residences of the Frenchnwn. who either took refuge in the mountains or left 101' Kobe. No person was injured. Forty arrests have been made in connection with the at- iair. The motive for the attack has not yet been reported. The damage done is «stunned at about 3350.000. 1 Sm, have {r acknmvlvdga there ,mmulo Customs dul. has bl'Ql] cm principle is what has alr 'Americans cam Whaler Ocean. adj Mnckr-nzie f coasts of U1 Lies 0n noltom m be Estimated Revenue for 1908-9, $788,850,000» Estimated Expenditure, $764,345,000. son B: 1hwa ' C10“ 11 at h" 1hr A dvspnl budng \va: Commons. ‘ Asquilh. 1h ChuucciL 1' tht c‘: on 1hr" SD cor, Burncnu lium (mum, few hum-s m Chm‘hrmr-uu, will recover. [(vrnu crew rccov (Sth Flen Meet With Terrible Death by Scalding Steam. A dcspatch from Toronto says: Four men are dead as the result 01 the burst- ing of :1 defective pipe in the trailer 0! the stcnmnr Brockvlch on Saturday af- FGU‘R KILLED, ONE INJUREB n‘crmnont 5‘ llldcd on Th R. steamer Hn‘ nd. view rivnc taxatio JAPS ATTACK FRENCHMEN. [(‘Slpat ms alrem ay. the northern \\ HALERS PAY DUTIES. n. while anolher member of Inc was seriously sculdcd. but will 1'. The two firemen. Adolph gmu and Octave Cote, were kill- lhe spot. while the chic! engin- “*h “'1 I‘QV ) n MONTE/“Al SINK. in Hudson Bay Acknowledge Lanadian Authorhy. 11 1mm Ottawa says: Ameri- ‘5 operating in the ArcLic nccnt to the mouth of the River and eastward along the c islands as far as Beaufort ilh' \‘Cl' "10“ bubly du( is budu m ch 1t In 5k th dy been admitted in Hm} undoubted ownership of lands by the British 1m of SI. Laurenceâ€"Likon Total “'rt‘ck. rence on customs and at Pretoria, on Satur- DOS-If mtcn, and ms by in The arm a1ively s: Mani. as n Quebec says um‘ Montcalm, .luy night with first. time on record radian authority in s by the payment 0! ng an coloni 1.000 ndon says: The in the House 12‘ 1t .n the boiler 01 m Saturday af- member of lho aldcd. but will early union nt collected all, but (he Establishing ted in Hud« oilor, Hospila which the L. l calm l‘is won-non with the venom of a wild- cat. AI. last he suddenly collapsed, al- lowed himself to he handcuffed and came very quietly to Arthur, where he run-dined all Saturday and Sunday. Slayer ol Sergt. Lloyd Arrested on a Farm Near Arthur. A despalch from Arthur says: After a desperate struggle of ten minutes up and down under the boots of the startled homes at the Robb Bros.‘ farm, four mile; north of Elora, Private Meir, the murderer or Sergt. Lloyd, was finally overpowered by Chief Constable C. J. Farrel and Constable Cochrane of Ar- thur. Molr was carrying a 32 calibre revolver, loaded in five chambers, un- der his belt, and what use the desper- ate man would have made 0! it had not 'the officers taken him off his guard is sufficiently indicated by the fight he put up when he was pintoned from be- hind. unhitching a horse. The farmer and hired man went. into the stables and the ofliccrs followed them. Farrell be- gan to talk to Robb of his stock and the season, all the time edging up to Meir, who seemed quite unconcerned. When Farrell was quite sure he was their mnn he sprang and pinioned Mom’s arms to his sides, and in a sec- t’Dd (‘nch-rane pitched on to the strugâ€" gling pair. Motr is far the smaller man of the three, but has the build of a sprinter and the physique of the all- 1:.1md athlete he claims to be. Both Farrell and Cochranc are in the m‘ime Constable Farrell of Arthur first. got wind of Molr through W. E. Draper, tha stage driver between Arthur and Fergus, who had seen Meir while d-riv- ing past the Robb farm, and heard that he carried a loaded revolver with him always under his belt. Then David Robb got hold of a Stratiord paper and was at once struck with the resemblance lmlh the ml and the description bore to their hired man. Saturday night Farrell and (Lochrane dmvo out to the llobb farm in plain clothes. Just as lhey arrived they saw David Robb and Mth whom Illey at once recognized unhilching a horse. The farmer and hired man went. inlo the stables and lein bu wrapped in tho scalding steam and \vnrc so (callully scaldcd lhal. they both sucâ€" cumbed a few hours attm' their admit- tance to Grace Hospital, whom they were hurried in the police ambulance. (Zhnrlxincau manang to escape into the outer air and apprise the rest. of the new above of the madly nature of the explosion, the faint rumbling at which had only been heard on deck. The men dived for the hold. and in Spite of the deadly clouds of steam soon had the {our men on deck, two dead, and two alive but [rightfully scaldcd. The bodies of Cote an Chav- ugoau were taken to the Morgue, and Danton and Gouin were hurried to Grace Hospital. Here Gouin was plunged into a boracic acid bath. and Panten was wrapped in picric acid bandages, but the two men were too seriously injured for any remedy. Fred Charboneau was taken to Grace Hos- pital in a cab. He said that Gouin. I’lanlen and he were standing in the engine mom, when there was an ex- plosion, and they were all enveloped in scalding steam. He oontdnued:â€"“l had to fight my way through the en- gine mom to the companionway, and I thought at one time I should never make it. Fortunately I did not swal- low as much steam as the others." Charboneau's back and limbs are bad- ly scalded. but little doubt is entertained or his recovery. ‘ ire m PRIVATE MOIR CAPTURED. \Vl nv telegraph company. which pm- to cover 1he whole Dominion, is organized at Montreal. athlete he claims to be. Bolh l and Cochrune are in the prime and heavily built, but for fully {nutes the unequal struggle went the stable. Moir fighting to reach new bu The adm iss e scalding steam and we] aldcd that they both 511 hours after their udmi ce Hospital, where thc in the police ambulnno anugod to escape into t‘ apprife the rest of it mnng to escape into me apprife the rest of the the deadly nature of the faint rumbling 01 which t reduces the duly J 19 Is 10d per I un- me Oatsâ€"Rolled oats. $3.12% per bag; cornmeal, $1.636 to $1.75 per bag. Butterâ€"Round Lots are now selling at 280 and jobbng lots to grocers at 29c per .pound. Millfecdâ€"Menitoba bran, $22 to $23; shoris. $23 to $24; Ontario grain, shorts, $22 to $22.50; middlings, $24 to $25; shorts, $25 to $27 per ton, including bags, and pure grain mouille at $32 to $34. Eggsâ€"Fresh eggs in jobbing lots are selling at 180 to 18%0 per dozen. single cases at 181/,c to 19¢. Provisionsâ€"Barrels short cut mess, $21; hall barrels. $10.75; clear lat backs, $22 to $23; long cut heavy, $20; half barrels d0., $10.50; dry salt long clear backs. loxc; barmls ,plalc beef, $13.50 to $15; half barrels do.. $7.25 tn $7.75; barrels heavy mess beef. $10 to $11; hall barrels do., $5.50 10 $6; compound lard, 8%c to Sc; pure lard, “Xe to 14%c; kelllc rendered, 11%c to 12c; hams, 120 K 13%c. according to size; breakfast bacon, Me to 15c; \Vindsor baCOn. 141/2c h 15%c; fresh k'illod abattoir dressed hogs, $9.50 to $9.75; live, $6.85 to $7. Buffalo. May 12. â€" Wheat â€"â€" Spring strong; No. 1 Northern, 31.10%. car- lnads; Winter higher; No. 2 red. $1.07. Corryâ€"Cash higher; No. 2 yellow, 74c. Oatsâ€"Strong; N0. 2 mixed. 51%0; No. 2 while. 56%0. Barleyâ€"76 to 85c. Rye â€"N0‘. 1 track. 90c. Landâ€"Tierces, llxc; tubs, 11%c; pails 12c Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 10%0, tons and. cases; hams, medium and light. 12c 10 13c; hams, large, 11%0 to 120; bucks. 16c to 16%0; shoulders, 9%0 to 10c; rolls, 100 Lc 10%c; breakfast bacon. 14c to 15c; green meats out of pxckle, 10 less than smoked 7 Chbeseâ€"Ncw make is selling at 11%c b0 11%0, old make is quoted at 120 to 13%c. Minneapolis, May 12.â€"Whontâ€"No. 1 hard, $1.11%; No. 1 Northern, 31.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.07%; No. 3 North- ern. 99%6 to 31.04%; May. S1.08%; July, 511.07% to $1.07V: Sept. 9191c. Flourâ€" FirsL patents. $5.45 to $5.60; second pa- 521.07% to 31 First patents tents, 85.35 b 54.30; secom Branâ€"In bul Milwaukee, Northern, $1 em. $1.09 u straight, bags, $2 $1.90. 2 while‘ 56%0. â€"No‘. 1 track. Minneapolis, hard. 321.11%; Porkâ€"Short out, $21 to $21.50 per bar- rel; mess. $17.50 to $18. Monireul‘, May 12.â€"An active local bpsiness is being done in flour. Choice spring wheat patents. $6.10; seconds, $5.50; winter wheat patents, $5.50; Cheeseâ€"The new make is not offering very freely, but sufficiently so to meet the demand; MC for large and 14540 for twins, in job lots here; now make, 120 lol large and 12%0 for twins. Maple Syrupâ€"$1 to $1.10 per gallon. Baled Struwfi‘ss to $9 per ton. Baled Hayâ€"Timothy is quoted at $15 to $15.50 in car lots on tracks here. Beansâ€"$1.70 to $1.75 for primes and $1310 to $3.85 for hand-picked. Honeyâ€"Strained steady at lie to 120 per pound for 60-pound pails, and 12c to 130 for 5 to 10 pound pails. Combs at $1.75 m 32.50 per dozen. bra-n CTS .' Emberâ€"Prices Small offerings. Crejamery. prints do solidsâ€"u” .. . . . . . . . . .. 27ct0280 Dairy prmts 26cto27c do large rolls . . . . . . . . . 24010 250 do solids . . . . . . . 23010240 Inferior . . . . . . 20cm 21c Potatoesâ€"Ohififidném to 900; Delaâ€" ware, 950 to $1, in car lots on track here. Wholesale Eggsâ€"The usually high ‘Iaid, 17c. r LEADING MARKETS Comâ€"No. 3 ye ronto freight; NC Flour-Manitot Ryeâ€"N0. Buckwhe OMSâ€"NC Oatsâ€"«No. 2 while, 47%0 1 track Toronto; No. 2 mi Branâ€"$26.50 to $25 here. Shortsâ€"$525 at the mills. On! Barley UNITED STATES MARKETS Ho MONTREAL MARKETS. $1.10} COUNTRY PRODUCE rollers, $5 to $5.25; (10., iri 35 to $2.50; extras, $1.80 to 0nd bull \V 1‘ ATTI \vint luy Iiiâ€"There was not more Xe o! load-s of export caUJe. May han BR): PROVISIONS. Quotations are:â€" .pnloe is still firm and un for this time of year. New . $21.75 to $2 May 12.â€"\ : 1b $1.13; N 31.10%: My \IO. 3 mixed. 1c less. orba. patents, speciz .onds. $5.40; strong ha] tcr wheat patents, $3.4 Z, 55c; holders ask 60c 90c, outside. came and wanted, 880 ADSTUFF S 3d, 93 allow, are firmer again [2.â€"â€"M $1.10} ars MARKET. rod fl: .v} go outside; 49c mixed, 460. re. nitoba Wheatâ€"- No. 2, $1.15%: port whi 1T 98‘: to 75c, 1c less 66; No L. 3425 to to $3.00. 29c to file 27c to 280 26c to 27c 240 to 250 230 10 24c 20c to 210 90c oval-)1 north No. 2 vie : to out- ial 1k [I VICTIMS NOW NUMBER NINE fibhéTbodriesT and there is nine doubt but the number of murders may be swelled to a score or morerwhe'n all the More Bodies Found in House of the Indiana Assassin. A despntch from Lapowle. Indiana, says: The horrors of the murder mill at the late home of Mrs. Belle Gunnoss are increasing with the finding of addi- facts are known. One body, the sixth, was added to the list on Wednesday. when diggers unearthed the remains of a man, and within an hour the detach- ed 'bones of two other Victims were found. The work of digging goes on s‘.0\vly, but the sheriff is arranging to have the ground of the entire farmyard excavated to a depth of five or six feet, experiences on Wednesday showing that it is not only the “soft spots" that hide the bones of human beings. for Grand Trunk Management Gi-ves Denial to Report. A despatch from Montreal says: The Grand Trunk management announced on Wednesday that mere was no trulh m a report to the effect that a general decrease of 10 per cent. had been de- cided upon in the wages of employes under the rank of superintendent and the higher officers, to come into effect on June 15L Record Prim for Ninety Ounces at Lon- don Auction. Wednesday among a pile oi 510: the Gunuess premises. A search A despatch from London says: At an auction sale at Christie‘s of the late Marchioncsg of Coyngham’s art collec- tion, silverware and dishes, weighing tcgethcr 90 ounces, :1 gift of George IV , In an ancestor of the Marchioness. sold for $21,000. This is a record price. The‘ hog market, 'is weak. Thé‘ de» mand is rather quiet, as the provision trade is dull at this season. The offerings of calves have been very heavy of mm and the market .is becom- ing loaded up with them. The prices have eu-sed of! considerably. There is a strong demand for cows and bulls for butchering purposes. and the price of some of the best of these approached $5, while anything that sold at less than $3 was of’veryvpoor quaâ€" lily. Even canners were higher at $1.- 50 to $2.50. Not many stookers were oflered and the demand continues steady, but prices are not advanced. been [or some time .past an employee of the Galt‘ Hespcler & Berlln Railway, arrived in Huntsville early Friday morn- ing, and after breakfasting at an hotel proceedvd to the home of his wife's par- mts on the opposite bank of the river from the town. On the way he called at the district schoolhouse and inquired o-‘ his little son, who was in attend. ancc, if his mother was at home. and upon receiving an affirmative answer, WOOL‘Odfi‘d to the house. Upon being Some of these sold up to $6. and one 0' two at even more than lhat. Choice heavy export bulls in several inslances sold at $5. There were 0. very few choice specimens of butchers’ cattle, which sold as high as $6, but the great majority could not be classified as betr icv than medium quality. Sheep and lambs are steady and quiet Spflng _lambs are quoted unchanged. TRAGEDY AT HUNTSVILLE? Nelson Smith Shot His Wife and CommittedSuicide A dospalch from Huntsville, Onl., says: A double tragedy was enacted here on Friday, resulting in the dram of Nelson Smith, formerly of Allan- dalc, Ont., and his young wife. former-Iv Miss Martha Goldlé of This placefi'vhb has been for some weeks visiting at the home of her parents just outside the town of Huntsville. The details of the murder and suicide are as followsâ€"Mr. Smith, who has been [0}: sqrpe thuepast an employee 0’ N0 REDUCTION IN \VAGES. $21,000 FOR his young wife, formerly Eoldic of this place, who ome weeks visiting at the parents just outside the was nev und on about 11 SILVERW'ARE. ‘VC UI'K ash t 11161 barnyard this afternoon .revealed two more bodies, marking four for the day, and a total of nine. The belief is growing that Mrs. Gun- ROSS was not, burned in- the fire at her hume, but, that the body supposed to Le hers is really lhat of another woman. The basis for this belie! is that the head of the body supposed to be Mrs. Gunness‘ is missing. The autopsy hold‘ immediately after the fire revraled thatl \vliiie the head was apparently burned off. the rest of the body was scarcely scorched. Many persons think Mrs. Gunness is now on her way to Norway. The bewnenl and walls of [he bum- (‘d Gunnees’ home “ere examined on Russian Govnmor and His Wife Esq capedâ€"Pnsscrâ€"by Killed. A despatch from \‘eronczhj, Russia, says: A bomb was thrown on Wed.nes-" day under the carriage of Gen. Bibik- (if, Governor of the department. as he was driving with his wife to church. Neither the Governor nor his wife was injured, but a. woman who was passing at the instant of the explosion was i killed by A A despatch from Odessa saiys: The failure is announced of two of l e largâ€" est sugar manufacturing and 1 fining Sons. and the Chorkassky Refinin The liabilities of the former amou $16,500,000 and of the latter to $3, 060. \\’< bodieé were Unidentified Two Young Boys Hunting Gophers Near Clarcsholm, Alberta. A despalch from Clamshoim. Allan, saâ€"ys: George Miller, aged 11. 11nd Wi‘m 12am MLLi-rr, agul 9, were trying :0 kn] gophers‘ the one with a gun and the other with a sling. The elder boy Shut the younger in the breast. causing a terrible wound, from which he died n Tuesday night. Mrs. Goldie. sen . left the room for a. few nmmmts. and was horrified to hour terrified screams and two revolver shots in quick succession, and upon entering the room found the murderer standing over the br-dy of his dead wife, with the revolver siiii in his hand. She uitempt- ed to disarm him, but he rushod past her out to the ground, and. putting the. revolver to his head. blew his own. brains out. The 0611150 or the tragedy is not defl- niteiy known as yet, but is believed to have been insane and unreasoning jenb ousy on the part of the husband. The murdered woman was about '30 years of age, and very popular and highly re- spected in this her native town. Outbreak of Dread Discascâ€"fiwo An!- mals \Vere Shot. i A despalch 1mm Brockvilki) says‘. Glandch has broken out umomg the horses of Grenville County. TW1 ant- nzuls belongmg to a man named 95. Whitley, were ordered to be shut {011E3- wilh. The remainvng horses of the tar were placed under quarantine. IL is thought the epidemic has been nippeu m the bud admitted he was shown into it: parlorand received by his wiic and niolher-m- lhw, Mrs. James Goldie, and he engaged in friendly conversation wilh men for 591710 time, exhibiting no signs of Ngcr or excitement. Largest Manufacturch in the World- Oxxe 820,000,000. ,ld fen lie on nesday GIA NDERS IN GRENVILLE. BOMB UNDER CARRIAGE SUGAR REFINERS FAIL. SHOT HIS BROTHER. ;. Shah“ nt tar om The onsumed her nd Guy Lam- a [T the Smulzcr r bodies. to have >011 rec three f five Lcing Hele