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RECIPRUUITY CLAUSE KILLED No Free Trade in Coal Between Canada and the United States. Found in Lower Niagara River Badly Decomposed. A dcspatch from Niagara Falls, N. Y., says: The headless body of awoman taken from the lower Niagara River on Saturday is sup- posed to be that of Mrs. Cathar- ine Whipple, of Buffalo, who jumped into the river above the Falls on April 22nd, during the Spring ice jam. Decomposition A despatch from \Vashington says: Rather unexpectedly to itself the Senate late on Wednesday con- cluded its consideration of the coal schedules. The Finance Committee through Mr. Aldrich reported an amendment fixing the duty on bituminous coal and shale at; sixty cents per ton ; on coal slack or culm, ‘ cents per ton; coke and ‘ or fuel at twenty rawback The Dominion Government will establish two experimental farms in the country tributary to the G. T. P., one in northern Saskatche wan, and the other in Alberta. They now have. an ofiicial out there inspecting the lands available. G. '1‘. Pacific Tracks Will be Laid Into City by July 7. A despaxtch from Winnipeg says: Mord was received here on Friday from the end of the steel on the G. T. P. that the track will be laid into Edmonton by July 7. Gangs are now 48 miles from that city, but the strength will be doubled and they will now be able to lay from four to six miles per day. Ballasting gangs are well up with the work, and the entire line will be ready for traffic when the crop begins to move. The line will be 794 miles between this city and Edmonton. Wheat, the great staple crop of the country, has a reported area of 7,750,400 acres, which is 1,140,000 acres more than last year. In the Maritime Provinces and Quebec there is little change, but in Onâ€" tario the area is less by 106,600 acres, of which 88,300 acres is fall wheat. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta show an area of 6,878,â€" 000 acres, being 1,254,000 acres more than last year. The condition of fall wheat at the 15th of June was 82.15, and of spring wheat 92.15 per cent. of the standard for a, full crop. The area of oats in the Dominion is 9,302,600 acres, which is 1,361,- 600 acres more than last year, and its condition is reported as 92.32 per onet. Barley, the cereal crop next in importance, has a total area, of 1,864,900 acres, or 119,200 acres more than last year, and its condi- tion is 91.49 per cent. Rye and peas are less than last year, with conditionspf 87.90 and 90.59 respecâ€" tively. Rain Is Needed in Some Sections of the Maratime Provinces. In general the report shows that despite the backwardness of the spring, which retarded early growth in practically all sections of the country, conditions in all the Proâ€" vinces are now very satisfactory, and except in some localities of the Maritime Provinces, where the rain- fall has been light, there is promise of an excellent harvest. 'A despatch from Ottawa. says: A bulletin covering the conditions of crops and live stock in all parts of Canada as reported by special correspondents of the Agricultural Department, under date of June 15th, was isued by the census and statistics office on Thursday. WOMAN’S BODY RECOVERED. APPROACHING EDMONTON. Mirxed grains, with 582,000 acres, VEBNMENT CROP REPORT By a vote of fifty to twenty- eight, the Senate Finance Com- mittee’s amendment placing a duty of $1.50 a thousand feet on sawed lumber, with differentials on fin- ished lumber was carried. This is fifty cents below the Ding- rates. In quick succession paragraphs of the 10 were agreed to. "s offered by Mr. ed to by the Sen- pl)oards was in- $1.50 per thou- was so far advanced that immedi- ate burial was necessary. Identi- fication may be established by the few shreds of clothing which still Cling to the body when it was taken from the water. The body of anâ€" other woman is floating about in the whirlpool. It is believed to be that of Mrs. Vesper, who last Sunâ€" day afternoon jumped into the river at Eagle Park, Grand Island. Russian General and His Daughter Killed. A despatch from Warsaw says: Gen. Sytin, chief of the gendarmen ie, while returning to Kielce on Saturday, was ambushed by banâ€" dits, who fired several volleys at him. The General was shot through the breast. He died on Sunday night. His daughter, who was ac- companying him, was killed. A pa~ tro], sent in pursuit of the bandits, lost one killed and one mortally wounded. Numerous attempts were made to rduce the rate, and there was one effort to obtain free coal, but all were voted down and the commitâ€" tee’s scale retained. Machines Killing Three Persons Every Two Weeks. A despatch from Chicago says: Automobiles are killing Chicagoans this year at the rate of three per- sons every two weeks. In 1907 the slaughter was one person every three _weeks, according to police statistics. CHICA GO’S AUTO SLAUGHTER The drouth of summer and autumn was less severe last year than in 1907, but, it had the effect of reducing the number of farm aniâ€" mals in the older Provinces. In the whole of Canada. horses exceed the number of last; year by 14,324, whilst milch cows are less by 68,440, other horned cattle by 245,057, sheep by 126,014 and swine by 457,349. and hay and clover, with 8,210,300 acres, are practically of the same extent; as last year. The former has a reported condition of 91.71 and the latter of 90.36 per cent. At the end of June, 1906, there were 122,392 farms in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and at the end of 1908 the homesteads entered (less all cancel- ations) increased the number to 190,234, or by 10,853,760 acres. In Manitoba the men increase of the two and oneâ€"half years was 4,393; in Saskatchewan, 41,423, and in A1- berta, 22,020, but these figures do not take account. of farm lands pur- chased from railway companies and other corporations in the: same period. 7 The frovince showing the largest area of oats is Ontario, with 3,142,- 200 acres, and also the largest area of hay and clover, with 3,535,- 600 acres. Quebec is the next highest in hay and clover, with 2,923,600 acres. This Province has also 1,574,100 acres in oats. WIn the three ’Maritime Provinces the total area in oats is 529,300 acres. The condition of pastIâ€"xre is 93.55 per cent. Saskatchewan has 1,847,000 acres in oats, Manitoba 1,390,000 acres and Alberta 820,000 aqres. A AMBUSIIED BY BANDITS. tn 25 cents to $6; Manitoba strong bukers’, $5.60 to $5.80; Winter wheat patâ€" ents, $6.75; straight rollers, $6.50 to $6.60; (10., in bags, $3.15 to $3.20; extra. in bags, $2.65 to $2,- 80. Feedâ€"â€"Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; (10., shorts, $24 to $25; pure grain mouille, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cheeseâ€" Westeljns, 11% to 120, and easterns at, 11%, to 11%. Butterâ€"Finest creamery, 23 to 23%0. Eggsâ€"48% to 190 per dozen. - Chicago. June 29.â€"â€"Wheat â€" No. 2 red, $1.50 to $1.55; No. 3 red, $1.35 to $1.40; No. 2 hard, $1.25 tn $1.26; No. 3 hard, $1.20 to $1,- 24; No. 1 Northern, $1.30 to $1.32; No.2 Northern, $1.25 to $1.28; No. 3 Spring, $1.17 to $1.25. Cornâ€"No. 2, 73% to 73%0; N0. 2 white, '75 to 75%0 ; No. 2 yellow, 73% to 740; No. 3, '73 to 73%0; No. 3 yellow, 73% to 73%«3; No. 4, 71% to 720.. Oatsâ€"â€" N0. 2 white, 57%0; No. 3 White, '51 t» 560; No. 4 white, 50 to 54c; stan- dard, 560. ’ Minneapolis, June 29.â€"Wheat â€"- July, $1.27% to $1.27%; Sept, $1.08%; Dec, $1.06%; Cash, No. 1 hard, $1.31%; No. 1 Northern; $1.29% to 351.30%; No. 2 Northern, $1.27% to 351.28%. F1011r~First patents, $6.30 to $6.50; second patâ€" ents. $6.20 to $6.40; first clears, $5.05 to $5.25; second clears, $3.65 __ 923.85. Branâ€"In bulk, $22 to Montreal, June 29. â€"â€" Grain â€" Oatsâ€"No. 2 Canadian Western, 60 tn 60%0; extra No. 1 feed, 59% to 60%(1; N0. 1 feed, 59% to 600; N0. 3 Canadian Western, 58% to 590. Barleyâ€"Na 2, 72% to 74c; Maniâ€" toba. feed barley, 67% to 680. Buckâ€" wheatâ€"69% to 700. Flourâ€"Maniâ€" toba, Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30 to $6.50; do., seconds, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba strong bukers’, $5.60 to $5.80; Winter wheat patâ€" ents, $6.75;‘stra'ightl rollers, $6.50 In“... THE WORLD’S MARKE TS Bacon, long clear, 13% to 13%(3 per 1b. in case lots; mess pork, $23 to $23.50; short cut; $25.50 to $26. HamsflLight to medium, 51/2' to 160; (10., heavy, 14 to 14%0; rolls, 12% to 13C; shoulders, 11% to 12c; backs, 171/; to 18%c; breakfast bacon, 16% to 170. _.~./ .1 Butterâ€"Pound prints, 20 to 210; tubs and large rolls, 18 t0190; inâ€" ferior, 15 to 160; creamery, 23 to 24c, and separator, 21 to 220 per lb. Eggsâ€"19 to 20¢ per dozen. Cheeseâ€"«Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%0 per lb, and twins, 14% to 14%0. New quoted at 121/21: for large, and at, 12110 for twins. r Viliofiltry â€"â€" Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 14 to 150 per 1b; fowl, 10 to 110; turkeys, 16 to 18c per 1b. nuyv", ,,( LardwTi‘erces, 14 t0 14%0; tubs, 1434 to 143-220; pails, 14% to 14%0. Ontario wheatâ€"No. 2, $1.35 outâ€" side. Barleyâ€"GO to 620 outside. Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario white 590 on track, Toronto, and 55V2 to 560 out;- side. N0. 2 Western Canada, oats, 600, and No. 3, 590 Bay ports. Peasâ€"prices nominal. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, TOC outside. Cornâ€"No. 2 American yellow, 82 to 82%(2 on track, Toronto, Cana- dian yellow, 76c outside, and 79 to 800 on track, Tomnto. bushel. Maple syrupâ€"95c to $1 a gallon. Hayâ€"N0. 1 timothy, $12.50 to $13 a, ton on track here, and lower grades at; $9 to $10 a ton. Strawâ€"$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoesâ€"Car lots, 80 to 850 per bag on track. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, June 29.â€"â€"Flourâ€"â€"Ontarâ€" i0 wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.30 to $5.40 toâ€"day in buyers’ sacks outâ€" side for export, and at $5.40 on track, Toronto. Manitoba. flour; first patent-s, $b.20 to $6.40 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.80 to $6, and strong bakers’, $5.65 to $5.75 on track, Toronto. Branâ€"Ontario, $21 in bulk outâ€" side. Manitoba, $23 to $23.50 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freight-s. Applesâ€"$4 to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 f01:sgconds. BéansmPrime, $2.20 to $2.25, and handpicked, $2.40 to $2.45 per REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Manitoba. wheatâ€"Noll Northern, $1.35 Georgian Bay ports; N0. 2 at $1.33, and No.3 at $1.31. UNITED STATES MARKETS. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. THE DAIRY MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUCE. HOG PRODUCTS. ELEVEN PEEEEE EEEWEEE F. W. Sussex Disappears Front: Roca‘nvillc, Sask. ' A despatch from Rocanville, Sash, says: F. W. Sussex, teller in the Union Bank here, has mys- teriously disappeared and the in- spector from Winnipeg is here makâ€" ing an investigation, but so far noâ€" thing has been given out for pubi‘; Iication. Sussex came here from Palmerston, Ont. ‘1 Western Miners Said to be Behind With Orders. ' A despatch from Regina, SCSk., says: Already there are serious forebodings as to the probable re- sult of the great strike in the west- ern coal fields on supplies for this Province next winter. The mines are hundreds of cars behind in or- ders now, and cannot possibly catch up with the business, which has a1? ways kept them running acadin to suppiy the demands. It is difficult at this time to see how a. famine among the homesteaders can be avoided. Dealers are doing the best they can to safeguard against this, and will lay in as large sup- plies from the American mines-as possible. Rowboat Swamped in_'Gale While Crossing ’ Lake Killarney. A despatch from Killarney, Ire- land, says: A large rowboat, carâ€" rying five American and four Eng- lish tourists and four Irish boat- men, was swamped in a gale while crossing Lower Killarney Lake on Wednesday afternoon. All of the tourists and two of the boatinen were drowned. The Victims are:â€" Mrs. A. A. Hilton and son, of Ta- coma, Wash; Mr. and Mrs. Longâ€" head, or Louglieaol, of Boston; Miss M. H. Catum, or Cotum, of Mas- sachusetts (town not- known); Rev. B. Barton and sister, of London; and Miss Florence Wilkinson and cousisn, of Brentwood, Essex; Boatmen Con. Tooney and Con. Gleason. The boat was a, four-(Jared craft, used for' taking visitors about the lake. Most of the passengers were guests at the Great Southern Ho- Toronto, June 29.â€"Exporters’ of the prime variety sold as high as $6.55, and ordinary loads were firm ar. $6 to $6.40. The supply of butchers’ fell far short of the de- mand and prices rose accordingâ€" ly. The finest grades of this class \"616 firm at $5.50 to $5.80; ordin- ary good loads selling freely at $5 to $5.25. Cows were in strong de- mand and took a, rise of 15 to 200. Stockers and Feedersâ€"Steam de- mand, but supply short. Milkers and Springersâ€"Good milkers and near springers wanted. Sheep Lambsâ€"«Easier, except for Spring lambs, which were quoted at 81/; to 9%43 per lb. Hogsâ€"Selects quoted at $7.75 f.o.b., and $8, fed'Iand watered. A despatch from Wehrum, }en,.n,, says: As the result of an exnogion of gas in mine No. 4 of the helmâ€" wanna Coal & (Joke Conpany, shortly after 7 o’clock on Wednes- day morning, seventeen liners were killed and sixteen ilj‘med. With the exception of one ova-lose kill-ed, they are foreigners. Just what caused the explosion hf,S not hczen ascertained, but it prlbamy resuslted from an accumulatgn of gas. Montreal, June 29. ~ Prime beeves sold at; '6 to €5ng p01 1b.; pretty good ammals, 4% to 5%0; common stock, 2%.‘00 41/2c per 1b_ Milch cows from $25 to $55 gach, most of the sales being at from $35 to $45 each. Calves, from $2.50 to $10 each. Sheep at 40 pen 1b.; lambs from $3.75 to near $6 inch. Good lots of fat hogs sold al‘gl/B t3 8%(3 per jb. ’ The few men who escaped from the mine were burned and blackenâ€" ed, indicating that the force ,f the explosion was heavy. None oithem KILLED IN A DUAL MI E Seventeen Miner: Sufloeated or Burned to Death in Pennsylvania Mine. NOW IT IS COAL FAMINE. BANK TE‘LLER MISSING. LIVE STOCK MARKETS, {lteL The party started out on Wed- l‘r:esday morning sight-seeing. When the lower lake was reached it was liound that a, heavy wind from the north-west was blowing. Several iother boats that had started over ’he same course put back. It. was not long before anxiety began to be ielt concerning the boat which had continued on the course, and searchers, who put out when the wind died down a little, discover- ed her overturned with two of the heatmen clinging to the keel. The Rev. Mr. Barton and two of the women could be seen in the dis- tance, supported by an car, but they sank before the rescuers could rbach them. The others had already disappeared. was in condition to give details, but from one it was learned that the explosion seemed to strike every portion of the mine simul< taneously. As soon as it was known that an accident had occurred at the mine, the greatest excitement prevailed both at the mine and in the'little hamlet, a, short distance away. Wives, mothers, sisters, and bro- ihers rushed to the mouth of the mine tearfully imploring some- news us to the fate of their loved ones. A number of the foreign women, screaming and crying, tried to rush into the dark pit of death. First Stccl Made in the Open Hearth Furnace. A despsatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says: Mr. W. C. Franz, manager of the Lake Su- perior Corporation, in an interview stated that the new No. 3 open hearth furnace made its first steel on Wednesday. The foundation work on No. 3 blast furnace has been started and it is expected that in two weeks time work will be commenced on the new structural mill, which will include all require- ments for making structural steel. The making of steel in the new open hearth furnace on Wednesday brings to successful culmination the first improvement under the new management, that is, since. English capital was introduced into the con- cern. Mr. Franz said it would take about a year to complete the blast furnace and about seven months to have the structural steel mill in operation. Packers Urge Upon Government That Local Dealers be Included. A despatch from Ottawa says: The extension of the meat inspec- tion provisions to local meat busi- ness and compensation for animals condemned and seized were urged befove Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Hon. Sydney Fisher on Wednesday morn- ing by a deputation which included representatives of Blackwell and Flavelle, Toronto; Laing & 00., of Montreal; Matthews, of Ottawa; Hatton, of Collingwood; Fearman, of Hamilton, all big firms doing boLn interprovincial and export business. The delegation declared that the provisions of the pui'e food act to which they were subjected should be extended by Provincial legislation to local butchers and packers who do business in a single Province only and are therefore not subject to the Dominion act. Sir Wilfrid and Hon. Mr. Fisher were urged to use their influence with the Provincial Legislature to have local pure food legislation similar to the Dominion act. The Ministers proâ€" mised to use their influence to have the request carried out. EXPANSION OF “800” WORKS. The German Emperor has refused to accept the resignation of Chan- cellor Von Buelow. The Emperor of Russia reached Stockholm on Saturday to pay a. visit to the King of Sweden. EXTEND M EAT. IN SPEC’I‘ION. -Th.e- two boutmen who were res- cued wcrc too exhausted to give any account of the accident.