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“I told you,” said he to a. news- paper representative on Wednes- day, “when you enquired on the subject a. few days ago that, some nine months since, I instructed the olficers on “the boundary line’to keep a sharp lookout and make; {.6159 oifiis‘satisfied‘ Americzifi‘ 'setlgg tiers returning to” the United States. This has been done and. I‘ am now in possession of the actual facts regarding the soâ€"called exoâ€"i dug; ‘ . . _ . .An Insane Man's Trick Near Maniwaki, on the 0. P. R Line. ' A despateh' from Winnipeg says: The reports so persistently circu- lated by the papers of the United States about Americans who have come to Canada. returning'in a. dis- satisfied spirit is a myth. Here are the facts as set forth by J. Bruce Walker, Dominion Commissioner of Immigration :â€" BARBIUADED THE BY. TRACK A special to The Temps, of Paris, {10m Madrid says that the Spanish Government has now received from the Vatican a. categorical refusal to proceed with the negotiations for ?! despabch from Ottawa says: The passengers on Wednesday morning’s O. P. R. train from Ma- niwaki to Ottawa had a narrow es- cape from death through the time- ly discovery by John Barker, 3, sec- tionman, of an attempt to wreck the: train through the placing of a barricade of planks, stakes. spikes and a ladder on the tracks along the deep ravine by Louis Richard, an insane man. found wandering in the vicinity.q Richard was arrested and sent for trial, in the Hull Re- corder's Court. Barker, while pro- United States Farmers Are Not Returning to That Country. CANADIAN A EXODU’S A MYTH is a. “faithful Protestant." The amendment to the declaration amused considerable feeling in England among the opponents of the Roman Catholic Church, and upon the second reading there were street demonstrations outside the House of Parliament. Maisonneuve Family of Seven Near- ly Wiped Out. ‘A-despatch from Montreal says: Ptomaine poisoning nearly wiped out a family of seven ,on Friday morning, when Dr. Cyphiot discov- ered"’Mr.” and Mrs. Champagne and five children suffering severely at their home, 228 Vallee lane, Mai- sonneuve. The poisoning is attri- buted to a tin of canned corn that the family had for supper on Thurs- day night. The story told is that shortly after 7 o’clock on Thurs- day evening the family complained of pains. Mrs. Champagne seemed the worst. Though her husband felt bad effects also, he was able to summon Dr. Cyphiot, who lives a short distance away. He immediâ€" ately administered antidotes. As the children at that time did not complain, it was not thought that they were affected. Friday morning, however, another hurry call was sent to the doctor, and on his ar- rival he found the whole family laid up. Administration of antidotes saved all the lives. Spain Recalls Ambassador at the Vatican. Declaration Bill Secured a Large Majority. A; despatch from London says: The bill modifying the declaration on rel7gion required of the King upon accession passed the House'of Commons upon third reading on Friday by a. vote of 225 to 52. In its final form the bill not only elimin- ates the phrases ofiensive to the Roman Catholic subjects of his Ma.- jesty, but it also makes it accept- able to the N onconformists by strik- ing out the proposed statement of adherence to the Established Church. King George is now re- quired to declare merely that he RELATIONS BROKEN OFF. PASSED THE COMMONS. PTOMAINE POISONING. 1’ “It is purely a myth and without ‘the slightest foundation in fact. On Saturday last I telegraphed to every oflicer along the boundary line between Winnipeg and the mountains. Here are the facts:â€" Tlie Customs reports indicate the frllowing persons, describing them- selves as farmers, having returned to the United States since Janu< ary l, viz. :â€" January . . . . . . 11 February . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 _‘Ma.rch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 " April ...... . . . . . . . . . 78 I .sMay 27v ~~June . . . . . . 11 . July . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 “A total of 184 persons declaring themselves to be farmers returning to the United States from Canada.” As a Boy He Was Defendant in 9. Famous Trial. ‘ A despatch from London says: Sir Henry Tichborne, who, as a. child, was defendant in Arthur Or- ton’s historic attempt to possess himself of the Tichborne estates, is dead. Sir Henry was a famous big game hunter. He returned from an expedition to Africa. last Saturday, and on his arrival home had a paraé lytic stroke, to which he succumbed. Spain once More to be Scene of Civil War. A despatch from Madrid says: Ominous reports are received folâ€" lowing the publication of the news that a. rupture between the Spam‘ ish Government and the Vatican appears imminent. At San Sebas- hen Don Jaime, the Pretender, has issued a. manifesto, in which he says he will lead the Carlists in the bat- tle which he intimates may be comâ€" ing soon. ceeding down the track in advance of the train, found a. switch near Burbidge Station openTwith planks plauoed on the line, also a twelve- ioot log and a, twenty-foot ladder. Spikes had also been placed on the rails. Nearby he found Richard, who, on being questioned, said that he wanted the train to run along another track. a revision of the Concordat unless the imperial decree of June 10, which authorized non-religious soâ€" cieties to display the insignia. for public worship,'is Withdrawn, The correspondent adds that Premier Canalejus is resolved not to yield thiel point and will advise King Al- t‘ouso to recall Senor do Oieda, .the‘ Spanish ambasSAdor‘ to the Vati-‘ can, and suspend diplomatic rela- tions with the holy see. Telephone Poles and Trees Were Levelled. A despatch from London, Ont., says: A terrific rain and wind storm swept over London and the district west of here on Friday afternoon. Trees by the dozen were blown down about the city, and breaking trolley wires tied up some of the street railway line’s. The top of a fir tree blew down on a. team of horses in a funeral at Woodland Cemetery, but the driver was able to control them. Lightning struck ,a house on the Hamilton road and dzd $600 damage. A de-spatch froEn Madrid says: Diplomatic Telations between Spain and the Vatican were broken off on Thursday. “I have no use for the ballast train which is coming along, and I do not want it to come this way,” was Richamd’s naive explanation. He will be examinedlby’ the doctors for insanity. SIR II. TICHBORNE DEAD. BIG STORM AT LONDON. CARLISTS WILL RISE. .‘.-u .....- o a... n. It. CID-inf :- . u... u....- .- .... ..- .~ 1....- .uo n...â€" .-.--. .. ..--.. Buffalo, 'Aug. 2.‘â€"â€"Wheatâ€"â€"Spring 'whe’at steady; No. 1" Northern, Carâ€" londs, store, 31.28%; Winter firm. Cumâ€"No. 3 yellow, 716‘, No. 4 yel- low, 69c; No. Show, 690; No, 4 corn, 66%c, all on track, through bi17ed. 'OatsaNo.»2‘white,' 47;;0; Eggsâ€"4Se'leâ€"cted stock, 21c down; straight receipts, 1’70 to 17%c doa~ en; second grade, 12%0 to 130. Cheeséâ€"Weétern, 11c to eastern, 10%0 to llcn Butchâ€"Best creamery, creamery, 21%0. Flourâ€"Manitoba spring patents, firsts, $6.30; do.. seconds, $5.80; wmter wheat patents, $5.40 to $5.- 50;“Manitoba strong bakers’. $5.60; straight rollersy‘, $5.20 to $5.25; straight rollers. in bags, 82.50 to $2.60; extras, $1.90 to $2. Cloverw-Mixed, $10.50 to $11; clover2 $9 139 $10. Millfeedâ€"Bran, Ontario, $20.50 to $21; Manitoba, $20; middlings, Ontario, $21 to $22; shorts, Mani- toba, $22; mouillie, pure grain, $33 to $34; mixed, $28 to $29. Oatsâ€"Car lots, (ax-store, No. 2 Canada west, 44%(2 to 450; N0. 3, 3/30 to 440. Hayâ€"No. 1, $14.50 to $15; No. 2 extra, $13.50 to $14; No. 2, $12 to $12.50. Chmâ€"American No. 2 yellow, car lots, emstore, 73%0; No. 3 yellow, 73c. Montreal. Aug 2.â€"â€"Commea1 â€" $3.20‘to $3.30 per babel. Rolled Oatsâ€"$4.85 per barrel and $2 to $2.20 pelj bag. Barleyâ€"Cir lotsiex-store, No. 3, 540; No. 4, 50;. Rolls, smoked, 150 to 15%0';â€"me~ dium and light hams, 180 to 18%0; heavy, 16%c to 170; bacon, 19c to 20(. Green meats out of pickle, lc less than smoked. MillfeedLquitoba bran, $20 per ton; shorts, $22 per ton, track, To- ronto. Ontario bran, $20 per ton; shorts, $22' mar ton on track, To- ronto. Butterâ€"~Creamery prints, 230 to 24c ; sepuator prints, 200 to 21c; dairy prints (choice), 190 to 2°C; 60., tubs, 180; inferior tubs, 16c to 17¢. Potatoesâ€"New potdtoés, $2.45 to $2.50 per barrel in car lots on track Ton-onto; old‘Ontarios from 25c to 450 per bag. ‘ v Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" Lc ng clear bacon. tons and cases, 15‘/2c to 16c; backs (plain, $21c to 2l%c; backs (pea-meal), 21%c to 220; shoulder hams, Me to 14%0. Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese 3-6 Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug. 2.â€"â€"Ontario Wheat -â€"Old No. 2 winter, $1.09 to $1.10 outside; new, nominal at $1 to $1.- 02 outside. Barleyâ€"No. 2, 51c to 520; No. 3 ext-m, 49c to 500; No. 3, 460 to 470 outside; Manitoba, No. '4, 46%0 on flack, lakn Peas.â€"â€"No. 2, 69c to 70c. ' Mani+oba Flourâ€"Quotations at Toronto armâ€"First» patents, 86.- ‘20i second patents, $5.70; strong bakers’, $5.50; 90' per cent., Glas- gow heights, 25s. Wholesale quotations 2â€"- Pork~â€"Short out, $31 to $31.50 pep barrel; mesa, $28 to $28.50. Oatsâ€"Canada. western, No. 2, 440; No. 3 Canada. western, 427,0, at; lake ports for immediate ship- ment; Ontario No. 2 white, 400 to 41c, outside; No. 3 white, 380 to 39¢ outside; 44c to 45c on track, To- ronto. V Ontaria Fléur~ Winter wheat pa}:â€" entr nominal at. $4.30 to $4.50 m buyers’ bugs, outside. Eggsâ€"19c to 191/,c per dozen in case lots. Cheeseâ€"11%c for large and 11%!) per lb. for twins; old cheese, 12%0 to 12%0. Beafisâ€"fiz to $2.10 per bushel for primes and at $2.15 to $2.25 per bu_shel for hind-picked.; v Lardâ€"Tierces, '151/‘0; tubs, 15%(2 ; pails, _15Zc; gtqcks step/d3. Manitoba Wheatâ€"Nominal. No. 1 northern,‘ $1.19; No. 2 northern, $1.16; No. 3 northern, $1.13, at lake ports for immediate shipment. Coinâ€"American No. 2 fiellow, 731/2?) to 740; No. 3 yellow, 72%0 to 739, Toronto heights. THE WORLD’S MARKE PS REPORTS FRO}! THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. UNITED STATES MARKETS. MONTREAL MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUCE. PROVISIONS. 221 ‘c Reportedx'l‘hat June 23 Next Year y is Fixed for Ceremény. A despatch from London says: Is is reported here that the King’s coronation will be on June 21 or June‘23; 1911; ‘ ‘ Canada Will be Represented at Parliamentary Inaugural. A despatch from Ottawa, says: The Brotherhood of the Dominion Beyond the Seas will be recognized by Canada, by sending a. Minister of the Crown to the opening of the first Parliament of United South Aft-ion, in November next. _ The name of the Cabinet Minister who will be deputed to represent Can- ada, will not be announced until Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s return to the capital next month. Two More Cases Discovered, Mak- ing a Total of Thirty-Two. A despatch from Brnntford says: The recurrence of smallpox con- tinues in this city, and two more cases were discovered on Wednes- day, making a. total of 32, all of a mild nature. A general vaccination cider has been asked for from the city council by the-health authori- ties, but refused on the ground that the situation is not serious enough. The provincial authorities may be called in to give advice. The cases are distributed in several parts of the city and the hospital accommoi detion is insufficient. i MINISTER TO SOUTH AFRICA. Little of Old Crop Apparently Stor- ed in West. A despatch from Ottawa. says: Apparently little of the Western wheat crop is stored there, but quickly put in transit eastward. The receipts at the terminal eleva- t(r--' at Fort William and Port Ar- thur show this. From Sept. lat, 1909, to May 31, 1910, 92,715,344 bushels of grain were received at these points, of which 66,11L,141 were wheat, and oats 20,120,488 Rushels. The rest was barley and, ax. Summer COttago at Keeivatin \Beach Destroyed. A despatch from Kenora. says: The bush fires which died away last week, following the ruins, have been smouldering since, and broke ( ut with fury on Thursday, threat- ening the entire colony of campers at Keewatin Beach, a resort of Win- n'peg society people, who have many‘costly summer cottages there. It is reported that three or four outlying cottages were destroyed on Thursday afternoon, and that un- less the wind dies down several more are certain to go before morning. A despatch from St. Petersburg says : The extent of the cholera epi- demic is revealed in figures made publ'c by the Government Sanitary Commission on Thursday. The stricken region now includes 42 provinces and territories of Euro- pean Russia, and since the outbreak of the disease last May there have been a total of 37,652 cases, wit-11 16,651 deaths. Toronto, Aug. 2.â€"There were good butcher cattle,‘ which brought as high as $5.90 and $6, but the most of the transactions show fig- ures ranging from $4.50 to 85.50, Cows for butcher purposes sold at $4 to $4.50 per cwt. for the high grades, while cOmmon and medium c1. ws brought from $3 to $3.60 and $3 75. Sheep were fairly steady, but lambs are quoted down to $7.- 25 per cwt. as the top price. Hogs remain unchanged at: $9.25 to $9.- Recently there has been a, strat- ling increase in the number of vic- Dulhth, Aug.v’2.â€"Wheatrâ€"No. 1 hard, cash, $1.27%; No. 1 North- Nu. 3 white, 45%0; No. 4 white, 440. Barlewaalting, 68 to 730. er , rcaah, $12514? July. 81.24%; Sespbember, $1.16X; December, $1.- 124. » The Cholera Is Making Great RaVages » in St. Petersburg. TWELVE DEATHS'EVEBY DAY‘ KING'S CORfiTNATION DATE. SMALLPOX IN BRANTFORD. FIRE BREAKS OUT AGAIN. 'LIVE STOCK MARKET. WHEAT MOVED FAST. Strike-breakers at New York At- tacked by Strike Sympathizers. A despetch from New York says: Two men were shot and killed, four dangerously wounded, and a. score more or less seriously injured in a. riot of strike sympathizers on Thursday at- the plant of the Ameri- can Sugar Refining Company in Williamsburg, where a. strike has been in progress for a month. Crowds of sympathizers threw bricks at the strikebreekers from housetops, and when the non-un- ion men started out with their trucks to deliver sugar a. rush was made for the waggons. The police }on the trucks returned the fire of‘ ;tho_: crowd and two of the rioters‘ iwere shot, It is reported that ,others were hurt in the melee and hurried away by friends. Spread of Cattle Plague is Reportq ed From Yorkshire. 1 A despatch from London says ‘An’séc'ond outbreak of foot anlé Wuth diseaéé‘ 1&5 "reported fro Yorkshire. A. . ‘ ' Mr. A. E. Faulker of Brantford has secured the contract for thq new Collegiate Institute at Dunn: viile‘nt $36;'0'09./ ‘ -. r " Montreal Murderer Passes Away at Kingston. A despntch from Kingston, Ont, says: Francois Lnurant, of Mont‘i rearl, sent to prison in 1889 for lifo‘ on conviction of murder, died in; prison here, on Wednesday, where, he spent 21 years. He was to have been hanged, but the sentence was commuted and he put in five years in St. Vincent de Paul Penitenti-l my, but, becoming insano,‘ he waLs‘ transferred here. han.~Corohé1"V§ffi§§§‘é"5f 1;. Man- rice, in whose jurisdiction thgacciâ€" dent- took place, has been {fitified by the Attorney-General to proceed to the scene and investigate the af- fair. On his way to hold the inâ€" quest, Coroner Vanessa will be cmnpelled to make about thirty miles on foot, and it will be a. week before he returns. A despatch from Quebec says: So far as can be ascertained nine workmen are dead as a, result of the fearful explosion on the line of the G. T. P. construction work, over one hundred miles west of La Tuque. Most of the victims ere foreigners, and the only names so far received armâ€"Jim Walsh, 0. Chaloner, P. Clouet, K. Selo and P. Green. Those gravely injured aresz. Knox, J. Charles, John Foley, F- Hesisqceglsanir-“mshena: tims. During the week ending July 23 no less than 13,374 cases warez reported, and of these 5,979 ter-j minated fatally. Some time agq the scourge made its appearance in this city, and for the past fortnight there has been a, daily averageon forty cases and twelve deaths in the capital. Wednesday there were 54 cases and 18 deaths reported here. In the local hospitals there are 514 cholera suspects, including 33 children. Lots Adjoining Union Station Sold for $150,000. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The property adjoining the new Union Station on the north on Main street south, has been sold, it is said, for $1,000 per foot. The lot or lots included in the sale com- prise one hundred and fifty 'feet im«. mediately north and adjoining the Union Station on Main Street south and the price paid is said to be $150,000 for the entire property, The vender of 100 feet of the pro- perty was the Scottish, Manitoba & North-West Realty Company and the vendor of the remaining ,50 feet. T. H. Gilmouryof Winnipeg. The purchaser will not be announced, but the C. N. R. or G. T. R. is said to be the interested party. Further Details of the Explosion on BIG LAND DEAL IN WINNIPEG. DIE!) IN PENITENTIARY. NINE MEN WERE KILLED. TWO KILLED IN A RIOT. A SECOND OUTBREAK. the G. T. P.