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A despatch from Paris says: An )fiicial note issued on Wednesday gives details of the fighting in French West Africa between the :ombined forces of threesSultans ind a body of 300 French troops. The note states that Lieut.-Col. 31011, with a force of 500 men, en- ;ered Dridgele, the capital of Masâ€" 18111:, on November 3. On Novem- mr 9 the Sultans of Massalit, Doud- mourch and Wadai, with a, com- bined force of 5,000 men, made a lurious attack on the small French :elumn. The tribesmen were driven nfl after hard fighting. They left 500 dead on the field, including the Sultan of Massalit. The Sultan of Seudmoureh was wounded. HUNGr BY BELT FRGMPGLE A despatch from Niagara. Falls, Dnt., says: A man dangling in mid- Iil‘ from a, 40-foot pole on a, high gower line, unconscious and held .1] suspension by his leather safety 19.11:, with hands bleeding and ware-d to the bone from a. 2,200 mltage shock here on Friday, shrilled hundreds. The man was John Rid-dell, lately from Fort Wil- ian, Ont. He is employed on the :ity electrical staff. He had been uaking a connection with a live wire carrying 2,200 volts, when in lames McGrcgor, of North Bay, Dying When Found. A despatch from Parry Sound says: James McGregor, a-stoneâ€" mason, Who has resided here; a number of years, was on Friday morning found near his home in i. badly frozen condition, and died shortly after being found. Mcâ€" 6m} LEFT DEM] 0N THE FIELD 5,000 Men Attacked a French Column In West Africa, A Lineman at Niagara, Falls Received 2,200 Volts Strange Accident to» Young Hun- ter in Norfolk County. A despatch from St. Thomas says: it Beech Lane, Norfolk County, lames Pickensgill, aged 16'years, was instantly killed on Wednesday by being shot through the neck by 1, child four years of age. Pickens- gill, with a. companion, William Williamson, was out shooting rab- bits, after which they went to Wil- liamson’s home for dinner. They ltood their guns in the corner of the room, when the baby brotlm~ of young Williamson took the gin: and pointed it at Pickensgill, who was sitting on the floor, and pulled ahe trigger. The full charge struck :he victim in the neck and head, musing instant death. Deceased was a son of William Pickensgill, If Fairground. BHO‘I‘ DEAD BY YOUNG CHILD. } like increase, issued permits ag- gregating in value, $318,330. Fort William also made an advancement ’f 8 per cent, and Kingston’s per- 'A despatch‘from Toronto says: {n the eighteen Cities reporting to Construction for October, the total iggregate for permits issued imounted to 538,683,269, as com- )ared with $4,570,506 in the same month of last year. Toronto’s to- ‘al which approximates the three million mark, reflects an expansion that is little ShOIC of marvelous; but at that, considering the size of the two cities, it is hardly more re- markable than the showing made at Vancouver, where work amountâ€" ng to $1,286,955 was undertaken 38 against $507,615 in the month of )ctober, 1909. Peterboro’s loss of 11 per cent. was the greatest decrease noted. )ttawa. recorded an investment of 3438,9525, equivalent to ‘a. gain of .8 per cent; while Hamilton, with Returns UANAM’S BUILDING BOOM FROZEN TO DEATH. For October Show Not Diminishing The Government has ordered re- inforcements sent, but it will be six weeks before they can reach the scene. Lieut. Maillard, who has taken command of the French column, teâ€" legraphs that all is qujet at Abe< cher, wheré he is strongly entrench3 ed. The place, he says, is still well garrisoned. The French also suffered severe- ly. Lieut.â€"Col. Moll, a‘ lieutenant, two adjutants, three sergeants and twenty privates were killed, while twelve others are missing; and one officer, three non-commissiofied of- ficers and fifty-nine privates were wounded. The shock hurled him from the cross arm where he had been work ing and in the fall his belt caught and saved him from being dashed to the ground, nearly 40 feet below. Riddell was assisted down from the pole. He quickly regained con- sciousness and it was found that the thumb on one hand and the in; dex finger on the other we re burned through to the bone. some manner he received a shock that carried the fuLl voltage through hit: body. King George sent a, message on Saturday welcoming the American fleet officers, Who were the mzests of the British Government, at a luncheon in the House of Commons. New Brunswick Man Drowned Emsfing Lake on Poles. :K despatch from Fredericton, N. 135., says: Word of a drowning acâ€" cident at Indian Lake, Sudbury County, has reachgd here. Hedley Holmes, of Lakewlle Corner, was returning from a. camp in the lum- ber woods, and had to cross Indian Lake on the ice. He evidently exâ€" pected that he would have trouble in crossing, for he placed cedar fence poles underneath to support him if the ice gave way, and used a, lighter stick to test the ice ahead. In this way he reached within about 30 yards of the western shore, when the ice broke. Gregor has been addicted to drink, and it is thought he was trying to reach home in an intoxicated con- dition and was overcome by the in- tense cold of the night, the tem- perature registering 10 degrees beâ€" low zero. McGregor’s hands and face were badly cut from his fal- ling and trying to make his way on his hands and knees. Montreal’s great total of $1,907,- 140 is the second largest amount noted, and represents an invest3 mth of $1,278,795 more than was made on the same month last year. St. John also records an advance, a gain of 149 per cent. ; 'although Sydney, in the same section, is a. trifle behind her corresponding amount. In Winnipeg permits we're issued to the extent of $530,150. Calgary had a. total of $568,290, a gain of 40 per cent, while Victoria and Regina. are ahead by 18 and 376 per cent. respectively, the figures in the latter cases amounting to $247,975, as against $52,080 last year. mits amounted to $23,317. Port Arthur registered an increase of 731 per cent., the largest propor- tionate gain in the list. Other gains noted arezâ€"VVindsor, 82 per cent; Berlin, 43 per cent; and London, 2 per cent. ICE BROKE UNDER HIM. It' Buffalo, Dec. 13,â€"Spring wheat â€"â€"No. 1 Northern, carloads, store, $1.13%; Winter nominal. Cornâ€" N0. 3 yellow, 53c; No. 4 yellow, 51c, all on track, through billed. Oatsâ€"No. 4 white, 350. Barley~ Malting, 900. Ryeâ€"~No. 2, track, 86%0. Montreal, Dec. 13.â€"Oatsâ€"No. 2 Canadian Western, 39% to 39%0; extra No. 1 feed, 38% to 390; N0. 3 Canadian Western, 38% to 381/2c; No. 2 local white, 38%(:; No. 3 loâ€" cal white, 37%0; No. 4 local White, 37 to 37%0. Barleyâ€"Manitoba No. 4, 48 to 48%0. Flourâ€"Manitoba. Spring Wheat patents, firsts, $5.- 60; (10., seconds, $5.10; Winter wheat. patents, $4.75 to $5; Mani- toba strong bakers’, $4.90; straight rollers, $4.35 to $4.50; (10., in bags, $2 to $2.05; extras, $1.65 to $1.75. Feedâ€"Ontario bran, 18.50 to $19; Ontario middling, $22 to $22.50; Manitoba shorts, 821; Manitoba. bran, $18; pure grain mouillie; $31 to $32; mixed mouillie, $25 to $28. Cheeseâ€"Westerns, 115-8 to 11%c, and easterns, 11% to 11%0. But- terâ€"Choicest fall make creamery, 25% to 25%0, and eastern 241/2 to 24%c. Eggsâ€"Selected stock, 29 to 300; No. 1 stock, 25 to 260, and No. 2 at 19 to 20c. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 160 ; do., heavy, 15c; rolls, 12%0; shoulders, 12c; breakfast bacon, 180; backs (pea, meal) 181/90. ’ Lardâ€"â€"Tie rces, 13%c; pails, 14%c. Eggsâ€"«Case lots of pickled being 27c; cold storage, 27 to 280; select- ed, 30 to 31c, and strictly new laid, 35 to 370 per dozen. Baconâ€"Long clear, 13 to 13%(: per 1b. in case lots; mess pork, $24 to $24.50; short cut, $26 to $26.50. Butter~â€"Dairy prints, 22 to 230; choice dairy solids, 21 to 220; in- ferior, 18 to 190. Creamery, 27 to 280 per 1b. for rolls, 25c for solids and 24 to 24%0 for separator prints. Poultryâ€"Wholesale prices of dressed poultryâ€"Chickens, 12% to 140 per 1b.; fowl, 9 to 110 per 11).; ducks, 13 to 140 per lb.‘; turkeys, 17 to 190 per 1b., and geese, 12 to 12%0 per lb. Live. 1 to 20 less. Baled huy~N0. 1 at $12.50 to $13.50 on track, and No. 2‘ at $10 to $11. ' Baled Strawâ€"$6.50 to track, Toronto. ' Potatoesâ€"Car lots, 70 to 750 per bag. Beansâ€"Car lots, $1.00 to $1.70, and small lots $1.80 to $1.90. Honeyâ€"Extracted, in tins. 10% to 11c ‘per 1b.; N0. 1 comb, wholesale $2 to $2.25 per dozen; N0. 2 comb, wholesale, $1.75 to $1.85 per doz- Branâ€"Manitobas, $19, in bags, Toronto. Ontario bran, $19.50, in sacks, Toronto, and shorts, $22.- 50, in sacks. I Applesâ€"Spys, $4.50 to $5.50; Baldwins, $4 to $4.75; Greenings, $4 to $4.50; No. 2 assorted, $3.50 per barrel. ' Cornâ€"Nev»; ~N10. BVAI‘nerican, 54c, prompt shipment, Toronto freights, an_d 51%,}:0 52c, Bayrports. Peasâ€"No. 2 shipping, '79 to 800 outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2 at 59 to 600 outside. Buckwheatâ€"~No. 2 at 470 out- side. Oatsâ€"No. 2 white, 36, on track, Toronto, and at 330 outside; No. 2 W. C. oats, 38c, Bay ports, and N9: 3 at 361/20, Bay ports. Barleyâ€"Making qualities, 56 to 580 outside, and feed, 48 to 50c outâ€" side. Manitoba, Wheacâ€"â€"No. 1 North- ern, 98%c, Bay ports; No. 2'Nor- them, 95%0, Bay ports, and No. 3 at 931/20, Bay ports. Ontarib 'WhéatLâ€"85 to 86%0 out- side for N0. 2 White and red Win- ter. UNITED STATES MARKETS. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. l3.â€"~FIourâ€"Win- ter wheat 90 per cent. patents, $3.- 45 to $3.50 outside, in buyers’ sacks. Manitoba floursâ€"First patents, $5.- 40; second patents, $4.90, and strong bakers’, $4.70, on track, To- ronto. THE WORLD'S MARKE TS REPORTS FROM THE LEADISG TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. Grain. Cheese and Other Dairy Produco at Home and Abroad. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. THE DAIRY MARKETS. COUNTRY PRODUCE. HOG PRODUCTS. tubs, 14c; A despatch from Ottawa says: The financial statement of the Do- minion for the first eight months of the current fiscal year shows a total revenue of $75,875,446, an in- crease of $11,218,937,‘ or nearly eighteen ‘per cent., as compared with the corresponding period of last year. For November alone the increase was $1,312,137. Expendi- ture on consolidated fund account for the eight months was $47,638,- Expenditures and Receipts for Eight Months of the Current Fiscal Year l A despatch from Fernie, B. 0., says: Forty-five miners were enâ€" tombed on Friday about i) o’clock in the Bellevue colleries, situated a. short distance from Frank, Al- berta. Of these eighteen have been rescued alive; twenty dead bodies were recovered. Div-the remaining seven in the gas-crammed pits, four are believed to be alive. These four are in the upper workings, which they succeeded in walling off, to prevent the spread of the gas. The other three may be alive, but the supposition is that they are (lead. By midnight the mine was sufficiently cleared of smoke so that workmen could enter to rescue THE FINANCES 0N CANADA An engine and seven cars WEI-f) burned as a result of a collislon near Sedgewxck, Sask. Twenty Dead, Eighteen Rescued,- Near Pernie, BO. Sentence 0f MoNulty and Mary Dolan Commuted. A despabch from Ottawa says: The Government has decided to recommend the. commutation of the sentence of Thomas McNulty and Mary Dolan to life imprisonment. They were sentenced to be hanged on Friday at Barrie. DISASTER IN A DUAL MINE High. Low. Butcher cattle, choice..$6.00 $5.70 Butcher cattle, good.... 5.65 5.25 Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . 4.55 4.30 Best feeders .... . . . . . . 5.30 5.20 Lambs . . . . . . . . 6.00 5.50 Sheep, ewes . . . . . . 4.60 4.30 Hogs, at country points. 6.50 Hogs, fed and watered, ‘Toronto .. .. 6.85 Toronto, Dec. l3.â€"An analysis of some transactions shows the follow- ing result :â€" Montreal, Dec. 13.â€"â€"Steers, choice sold for $5.50 to $5.75; a few at $5.75; medium, $4.75 to $5; cows, common, $2.75 to $3; cows good, $4 to 4.50; bulls, common, $3.50; bulls, good. $4.25. Sheepâ€"$3.75 to $4, and lambs, $6. Hogs, $7.10 to $7.25, and sows, $6.10 to $6.25. Calves from $3 to $12. Minneapolis, Dec. Iiiâ€"Wheat â€"- N0. 1 hard," cash, $1.045â€"8; N0. 1 Northern, cashH $1.031â€"8; Decem- ber, $1.01%; May, $1.04 7-8; July, $1.05 7-8. C. P. R. liner Lake Manitoba from Liverpool, and the C. P. R. liner Montreal of the London and Antâ€" werp service. All have heavy pas- senger lists. A despatch from St. John, N. B., :says: While a very large number of people are on their way to the Old Country to spend the Christmas season at home, the number leaving England to spend the holiday on this side of the Atlantic is not small. ,bout 2,000 newcomers are en route to St. John in four steamers, the Allen liner Grampian, the C. P. R. liner Empress of Britain, the The Steamers Leaving Canada Carry Great Many Passengers GOING HflME FOR CHRISTMAS The numbcr now en route hnme LIVE STOCK MARKETS. ULEM ENCY FOR TWO. The t6taZl net debt Em Novembel 80 was $327,764,621, a decrease dun ing the month of $535,356 Capital expenditure for the eighii months was $19,123,941, or a miL lion and a half less than the CE“ pital expenditure spending period last year. { 1 v for the correr 846, an increase of nearly $5,000,» 000. The revenue for the eight months was a little over $28,000,0001 in excess of the expenditure on con‘-‘ solida’oed fund account. ten reported that others were still living, and the searchers penetrat- ed further into the workings, where eight more were found in the early hours of the morning. Appeals for help were sent to Fernie, where the Provincial Gov- ernment of British Columbia have recently installed a splendid rescue apparatus. A special train was immediately made up by Mr. Uren, superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Two bodies were first found by the rescue party. Then ten men, alive, but some of them in fearful shape, were found at about the same time that two more bodies were recovered. The their friends. A despatch from Halifax says: The trial is on of D. M. Ferguson, charged with setting fire to the big Ferguson Block in Amherst recent‘ 1y, owned ,by l‘crguson himself. Seymour Miner, who is also undo! arrest in connection with the case, was the star witness on Wednes- day. He detailed how, on Oct. 2, at the instigation of Ferguson, he set fire to the premises in three places, and then, escaping from the place, donned the uniform of an Amherst fireman, and hurried to the scene. A despatch from Niagara. Falls, Ont., says: Courtland Harlowe. aged 23, of Manchester, N. Y., head end brakesman on a. Michi~ gan Central Railroad freight, fell between the cars one-third of the way out on the Cantilever bridge at 5 o’clock on Wednesday morn- ing. After two trucks had passed over his legs close to the body, he seized the railing of the bridge, and drew himself off the track to the tie ends. There he lay, partly over the water, 200 feet below, till the train had passed. He did not lose consciousness and called for help. His cries were heard in the G. T. R. yards, 300 yards away, and he was taken to the hospital. Both limbs were amputated and he sank steadily and died at 4 o’clock Wed- nesday afternoon. Set Building on Fire and Tool: His Place Among Firemen. Fortitude of a Brakeman on a Bridge at the Falls. including: those wno saith-i on th! Allan liner Victorian on Thurs- day, is 4,357, in five steamers. The Allan turbiner Victorian, which sailed on Friday, took away about 1,200. The Lake Manitoba sailed on Monday, and the Empress 01 lBritain on the 16th, are the C. P. R. Christmas sailings, while the Victorian sailing on Friday, and the Grampian on the 15th, are the Allan’s Christmas sailings, as are the Athenia that sailed on Thurs- day and the Cassandra, on Tues- day. While it is not possible yet to give any figures it is anticipated that all these steamers will carry‘ a great many passengers. PLAYED A D'uUBLE ROLE. BADLY MAN GLED.