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A BIGT‘ AT FORT WILLIAM Six Officers and Four Civilians Shot in the Fight. A desputch from Fort William, Ont, says: Nine men_we11e wotflxnfif ULIU., Dalia - L‘lllU lublâ€"l IVVAV '1 leum ed on Thursday morning in a fight between C.P.R. special constables and a number of striking truckers. It was shortly before noon that the trouble which precipitated the bigâ€" gest riot ever seen in Fort William started, and it came like an exâ€" plosion of a. barrel of gunpowder on a quiet. street. A posse of O.P.R. Felice which had been brought down rom Winnipeg, was matched from the sheds to the boardingâ€"house, in the vicinity. Their progress was accompanied by boots and yells and demonstrations from the large crowd of strikers. While the police were eating their dinner the strik- ers apparently determined that they would not be allowed to leave the boardingâ€"house. Constable Ball was the first one to make his ap pearance in the doorway, and he was immediately accosted by a. eou~ ple of burly strikers and told he would have to remain indoors, as well as his men. According to eye witnesses, the constable drew his baton and attempted to hit the triker. Quick as a flash the latter ad drawn a revolver and sent a. Iii-l general terms the filan 1,1‘0- Vides that all troops of self-gown)- bullet into the chief’s abdomen. A FIERCE BATTLE. Then the battle was on. Rifles and revolvers were brought into lay in every direction, shooting From the corners of houses and (tom behind cars, the fusilade of the men directed at the police last,â€" cd fully fifteen minutes. The strik- ers massed. and drove the C.P.R. men back into the bunkâ€"house. They fired through the windows, and were preparing to storm the house when Chief Dodds, backed A despatch from London says: In a speech at Bradford on Friday night, Secretary for War Haldane expressed the greatest satisfaction that; the Imperial Conference on the naval 'and military defences of the Empire hid arrived at an agno- ment. He announced that whim Lord Kitchener, the newlyâ€"appoint ed Inspector-General of the Medi- terranean fumes, was in Austm Iasia, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John French commander of the First Army Corps, was going to Canada to work out the details of the plum there. b Sergt. Taylor and the constables oi, the city force, prevailed on the strikers to stay away from the house. All the windows in the bunkâ€"house and all of the C.P.R. yard buildings were smashed by bullets. None of the victims are injured so seriously that death is likely to result, the only one for whom there are any fears is Constable Ball. A report. from the hospital late on Thursday night is that he is doing well and unless complications set War Secretary Announces His Appointment as Result of Imperial Conference. The strikers, in response to Chief Dodds, slowly retreated back to McTavish Street, but further they refused to budge, and they kept up an intermittent fire under the very eyes of the police officials. They loaded and fired regardless of the fact that they were ordered repeatedly in the name of the King to disperse to their homes. The battle lasted at least fifteen minutes, and in the meantime word of the situation was received by Mayor Pelletier, and he immediâ€" ately decided to call out the mili- tia. Later the M8. or proceeded to the docks and rang the Riot Act. Two hundred militiamen of the 96th Regiment; quickly assembled in both cities, and long before dark were on the scene and complete masters of the situation. The strikers, after their show of strength against the police earlier in the day, are now cowed and sub- missive. One great homogeneous Imper» ial British army, uniformly trained and equipped. is to be the outcome (5 the In:p?rԤa-l Conferences on she naval and military defences of the Cmpire held at: the Foreign Oflice. GEN. FRENCH FDR CANADA KEPT UP FIRE. THE INJURED. in will recover. penter, of the ( a wound in the cripple him, but ta life. IA. 111v. The list as fin- as can be ascer~ taincd now is:â€"- Sergt. Taylor, of city police, slight; C. M. Dicken- son, of Times Journal, slight; Chief Constable Ball, C.P-R. police, seri- ously wounded in abdomen; Con- stable Carpenter, C.P.R. constable, knee badly smashed; Two other 1 m... _ nuuu uuuuu J “new, , constables slightly wounded. Two strikers, Greeks, names unknown. John Lake, butcher at coal docks. bullet grazed forehead, only slight- ly wounded. The appearance of the militia on the scene had a. salutary effect on the mob and they scattered so quickly that it was not even neces- sary for the militiamen to load their rifles, although each man had been served with several rounds of ball cartridges. STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK. Fort William, Aug. 15.â€"â€"The striking C. P. R. freight handlers will return to work to-morrow morning. A mass meeting of 5,000 strikers and friends was held this afternoon, and was addressed by Mayor Pelletier, who urged the men to resume employment and submit their grievance to a board of arbiâ€" tration under the Lemieux Disputes Act. General Manager Bury of the Canadian Pacific had previously given his consent to the mayor to take the men back if they agreed to arbitratio v. The striker‘= were inclined to demand the release of 15 companions sent to jail for riotâ€" ous conduct, and they also wanted the withdrawal of the troops, but Mayor Pelletier replied that the law must take its course. Finally, the strikers accepted the mayor’s proposal, and were given 36 hours within which to return to employ- ment with the company. Nearly 150 strikebreakers arrived this A Hungarian’s Effort to Tcrrm-ize the City. A despatch from Edmonton, Al- berta, says: A Hungarian desper- ado with a, loaded revolver and a dangerous-looking knife dashing east down Grierson street, and fir- ing back as he ran at Sergt Nicholâ€" son and other members of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, who were in pursuit, was the thrilling sight which gave Edmonton all the pictured appearances of the wild and woolly west for a few minutes In a recent speech outlining the probable strength of this army of the Empire, War Secretary Hal (lane estimated that the United Kingdom, Canada. Australia, New Zealand and South Africa could furnigh a total of fortyâ€"six divisâ€" ions. This is equivalent to twenty- three army corps, which is the strength of the German army. ing colonies shall undergo prec. so 1)} the same training as the home' regulars in order to be ready ’{u take their places beside the latter whenever and wherever necessity may arise. Military training col- leges along the lines of the stall college at. (Janiberly are to be 9.5+ tablished in the overâ€"sea domin» ions, and there is to be a continn ons interchange of officers from all parts of the Empire so as to en sure absolute uniformity of orgab- ization and training. November 4. on Saturday afternoon. The man who created the trouble, {ind who was eventually landed in the cells at the R. N. M. W. P. Barracks without killing or wounding any one of his pursuers or spectators, is named Milan Obernovitch. He told the police, through an inter- preter, that he came to Edâ€" monton a few days ago from Cal- gary, and that he has been in Can- ada about fourteen months. AUU cw; u.\,u.v.....v-_ morning, making hundred working toâ€"day, enabling steamer Manitoba to unload and get away. Parliament will probably meet on EDMONTSN THRILLED. over. Constable Car- the C.P.R. police, has 1 the knee which may .. but is not dangerous THE WORLD’S MARKE TS REPGRTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Toronto, Aug. 17.â€"â€"Flour â€" 0D- !ario wheat 90 per cent. patents from old wheat, $4.50 to $4.75 in buyers’ sacks outside for export, and $4.75 to $4.90 on track, To- l‘onto- Flour from new wheat, $4 to $4.10 outside. Manitoba flour first patents, $6.10 to $6.20 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.65 to $5.75, and strong bakers’, $5.40 to $5.50 on track, Toronto. Manitoba. WheatvNo. 1 Northâ€" c’l‘n, $1.19, Georgian Bay ports; No.2 at $11612, and No.3 at $1.1a- Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. Ontario Whéltâ€"New No. 2, 97 to 980, outside points. Barleyâ€"013 No. 3 extra, 61 to 620 outside. Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario white, 50 to 510 on track, Toronto, and 47 to 47%0 outside‘ No. 2 Western Can- ada oats, 45c, and N0. 3, 440, Bay ports. Peasâ€"Prices nominal. Buckwheatâ€"Prices nominal. Cornâ€"No. 2 American yellow 770 on track, Toronto. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 15% to 16C; (710., heavy, 14 to 14%c; rolls, 13 to 13%c; shoulders, 12% to 13c; backs, 18 to 18%0; breakfast ba- con, 16%,":0 17c. an Western, 47 to 47%c. Barleyâ€" No. 2, ’71 to 720; Manitoba. feed bafley, 66' to 67c; buckwheat. 691/.2 to 700. Flourâ€"Manitoba. Spring Wheat patents, firsts, $6.30; do., seconds, $5.80; Winter wheat patâ€" ents, $6.50; Manitoba strong bak- ers, $5.60; straight rollers, $6.25 to $6.35; do, in bags, $290 to $3; extras, in bags, $2.70 to $2.80. Feed~~â€"Manitoba bran, $22; 010., shorts, $24; pure grain mouille, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cheese~Westerm 11% to 11%(:; easterns at 11% to 11%0. Rutterâ€"Finest creamery, 21% to 21%0. Eggsâ€"Selected 240; N0. 1 candlod, 20c. Minneapolis, Aug. 17.â€"Wheatâ€" Sept, 98% to 98%0; Dec, 95% to 95%6; May, 99% to 99%0; cash, N0. 1 hard, $1.36; No. 1 Northern, $1.- 35; N0. 2 Northern, $1.33; No. 3 Northern, $1.28 to $1.30. Bran - In 100â€"11). sacks, $20.50. Flour â€" First patents. $5.90 to $6-10; secâ€" ond patents, $5.80 to $6; first clears $4.95 ’m $5.25; second clear’s, $3.- 35 to $3.65. Chicago. Ang 17.â€"â€"Cash wheat! No. 2 red, 1.00).: to $1.02%; No. 3 red. 890 to 351.00%; N0. 2 hard, $1.00}; to $1.04; No. 3 hard, 89c 10 $1.02. Cornâ€"N0. ‘2. (37% to 680; No. 2 white, 71 to 71%(;; N0. 2 yelâ€" low, 63% to 69C; No. 3, 670; N0. 3 white. 71%(3; No. 3 yellow, 68% t-r: 690; No. 4, (55 to 66¢, Oatsâ€"No. 3 White. to 373/10; standard, 37% to 37 }«Qc. Branâ€"$19.50 to $20 for Ontario bran outside in bulk. Manitoba, $22 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24, Toronto freights. Hayâ€"N0. 1 timothy, $13 to $14 a. ton on track here, and lower grades $9 to $10.50. Strawâ€"$7.50 to $8 on track. P0tat0es~United States new, $275 to $3 per barrel; new Cana- dian, 75 to 90c per bushel. Poultry â€"â€" Chickens, yearlihgs, dressed. 13 to 15c per pound; fowl, 10 to 110; turkeys, 14 to 160 per pound. pp; uuuuv“ Baconâ€"Long clear, 13% to Me per pound in case lots; mess pork, $23.50; shprr’cr cut, $25250 to Beansâ€"Prime, $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. con, 16% to 17c. LardwTierces, 14%0; tubs, 14%c; pads, 150. Butter-Pound prints, 19 to 200; tubs and large rolls; 18 to 19c; in- ferior, 15 to 160; creamery, 23 to 23%0, and separator, 19 to 200 per pound. L Eggsâ€"Case lots, 21% to 220 per dozen. Cheeseâ€"42c: for large, and 12%0 for twins. Montreal, Aug. 17-â€"Oats-â€"No. 2 Canadian Western, 48% to 490; N0. 1 extra feed, 48 to 48%6; No. 1 feed, 47% to 48%0; N9. B‘Canadi- Montreal. Aug. 17.»â€"--Pri=" c 1 sold at 51/50 per 11).; preiiv annuals, 4 f0 50; comm : UNITED STATES MARKETS BUSINESS AT MONTREAL THE DAIRY MARKETS LIVE STOCK M A RTKICT COUNTRY PRODUCE. HOG PRODUCTS BREADSTUFFS. (5 " no A despatcli from Halifax, N. 8., says: The report of another rich strike of gold in the eastern part of Halifax county reached the city on Tuesday. The strike has been made at Meagher’s Grant, near Musquodobolt. For some time it has been known to certain parties that a rich body of arsenic was situ- ated near Meaglicr's Grant. About three weeks ago Oéis Mills of Mea- gher’s Grant? Captain Richard Williams and Ernest Hill of Dart~ mouth took up a number of claims and started working for arsenic. Strike of Very Rich Quartz Reported From Halifax County. GOLD FOUND IN NOVA SCOTIA 2‘73 to 3310 per lb. There were sev- eral superior milch cows on the market, for which from $55 to $60 was asked; the other cows sold at $25 to $50 each. One buyer bought eight good calves at $9 each; com- mon calves sold at $3 to $5 each. Shippers are paying 40 per lb. for good large sheep; the others sell at 3% to 3%c per lb. Lambs sell at 6 to 6%0 per lb. Good lots of fat hogs sold at about 8%0 per lb. _ Toronto, Aug. l7.-â€"~Extra choice well finished butchers’ steers and heifers sold at $5.60 per cwt., whilst $5.30 and $5.40 were easily obtain- at for ordinary good loads. Ex- porters’ $6 to $625 per cwt. Young lambs were» 50 to 750 higher than last week. Sheep and calves also hardened. Hogs, $7.65 f.o.b., and $7.90, fed and watered. Eleven-Year-Old Girl I’luckily Plunges Into River. A despatch from Morrisburg says: While some little girls were bath- ing in the St. Lawrence River, near Point Iroquois, Beryl Pelton, daughter of the editor of The St. Lawrence News, stepped into a deep hole, with a treacherous unâ€" dercurrent. She was swept off her feet in a moment and was being carried out into the main current “hen her young sister. Norma, 11 years of age, standing on the bank, without a moment’s hesitation, rushed into the river with her clothes and shoes on, and, wading out nearly to her neck, succeeded in reaching her older sister and with difliculty pulled her into shal- low water, thus saving her life. Two Huntsville Laborers Meet. With Sudden Death. A despatch from Huntsville says: Caught under a. mass of falling gravel in the pit in which they were working, James Hughes and John Beswick Inet death sometime on Friday afternoon. When they had not returned to town by seven o’clock on Friday night, a. search party, fearing an accident, was or- ganized and hurried to the pit, two miles distant. Beswick was found under nine inches of gravel and Hughes under about fifteen inches. The mass had fallen several feet and the men would not know what struck them. Hughes leaves a widow and three children. Runaway North Vancouver Car Fell Into Inlet. A despatch from Vancouver, B. (1., says: Nine people were more or less painfully injured on Thursday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, when a Norlth Vancouver street car ran away, owing to the brakes failing to work, and fell into the inlet. The motorman, Kelly, jumped at Frst A dcspntch from London, Ont, says: Catherine Iii-ash, aged fourâ€" teen montlis. whame parents live at the corner of Victoria and Colborne streets, was, on Tuesday evening, saved from druwning through the alarm given by a collie that was (-l‘ainod Von-by. The baby girl, in (Jam. 3 txrmxwl. fell into a rain- lnu‘i‘cl 1).;1'iiall}; sunk in the ground. NIKE PERSONS ARE INJURED. The Sagaoious Collie Gave an Alarm; - While Chained Up. CHILD’S LIFE SAVED BY DOG KILLED IN GRAVEL PIT. SAVES SI STER‘S LIFE. a ram- “round. <. and A good deal of this quartz was struck and an assay was made which showed $12 per ton arsenic and $3 per ton gold. Men were engaged to work the claim, and it was not until Tuesday that any startling discovery was made. Then a. vein of quartz was uncovered which proved to be not only rich in up senic, but also to have a. far largec percentage of gold. It is stated that mining men who have seen the samples of the ore pronounce it to be the best they have ever i* to be_ the best they seen’. Street, and injured his skull, but Conductor Jones stuck to his post, because he said he was afraid the women and children would try and clambcr out into the watexr. His nose was broken. Mr. Arnold Kea- ly is among the injured. The pas- sengers were rather panicky, but several showed great pluck. Net Earnings in June, u(‘7',4'75; For Six Months, $377,529. A despatch from Toronto says: Temiskaming and Northern Onâ€" tario Railway earnings continue to mount upward. The report for June shows a remarkably good state of affairs. The gross revenue from operation for the month was $131,850. The expenses were $73,â€" 648, leaving a net revenue from operation of $58,202. The amount received from ore royalties was $19,273, making the total net re- ceipts $77,475, as compared with $30,573 for June, 1908. For six months ended June 30, the net revâ€" enue from operation was $309,174 and from ore royalties $68_,355, making a total of $377,529, compar- ed with $55,103 for the same period last year. “This return,” said Hon. A. J. Matheson, provincial secretary, on Friday, “is most graâ€" tifying both to the government and to the commission. I am in ho es that we will have enough surp us revenue to pay the amount required for interest and sinking fund on the whole cost of the road.” Some Striking Samples From; Northern Ontario. 1 A despatch from Toronto says: Mr. J. G. Campbell,} Crown Lands agent at Coch-i rane, on the T. &_N. 0. Railway, has forwarded to the Provincial De-. partment of Agriculture some splen-i did samples of grains grown in Lamarche tOWnship. The speci- mens give some idea. of the agri cultural possibilities of the northâ€"~ ern district now being opened up.1 The hay is 61% inches in height,i the oats 50%, and the wheat 48% i , l inches. 1 Got Between Tender and Baggage Car and Was Killed. - A despatch from Montreal says: The Boston & Maine express, which left Sherbrooke on Tuesday night, met with a pebuliar mishap at Eu- stis. When going at a fair speed a. loose horse on the road jumped be-: tween the tender and the baggage car, with the result that two cars were derailed and the horse instant! 1y killed. No one on the train wad injured. Prince Albert Masons will erect a. sixty-thousand-dollar temple. ever, and the mother, looking about, discovered the child’s feet‘ protuding from the water barrel.) The little one was at once pulledl out and a doctor brought. The baby was then unconscious and“ black in the face; but after an hour- she began to revive and no serious results are expected, unless un- fm‘oseen complications develop? When the child was rescued the dng’s demonstmltions of lay "'r‘l'? as Ell-cmmus 232 Ind he: ' "w :2‘ '1' 9 il 1% ll'.) had 3:) Mill? 7“. ' z, HORSE JUMPED INTO TRAIN. BIG GROWTH IN GRAIN. T. N. 0. PROFITS.