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Lardâ€"Pure tierces, 17% to 18c; tLbs, 18 to 1835c; pails, 19‘»; to 19:; prints, 20 to 210; shortening, tierces, 14% to 150; tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails, 16 to 16%; c; blocks, 17 to 17%0. Heavy steers. choice, $7.50 to $8.10; do. good, S7 to $7.25: butcher bteers, choice, $7 to $7.75; butcher heifers, choice, $6.50 to $7.50; do, good, $6.00 to $6.50; do, common, $5.00 to $5.50; butcher cows, choice, $5.25 to $6.50; do. fair to good, $4.00 to $5.00; butcher bulls, good. $5.00 to $6.00: Bolomias. $3.50 to $400- steers, choice, $7 to $7.75; butcher heifers, choice, $6.50 to $7.50; do, good, $6.00 to $6.50; do, common, $5.00 to $5.50; butcher cows, choice, $5.25 to $6.50; do, fair to good, $4.00 to $5.00; butcher bulls, good, $5.00 to $6.00; Bolognas, $3.50 to $4.00; canners and cutters, $2.50 to $3.50; springershchoice. $85 to $100: good 33 to Eggs boneless. 39 to 45c. Cured meatsâ€"â€"Long clear bacon, CO to 70 lbs., $24.25; 70 to 90 lbs.. $23.75: 20 Ibs. and up, 22.34; lightweight rolls in barrels, $42.50; heavyweight rolls, $39420 per bbl. to $5.00; butcher bulls, good, $5.00 to $6.00; Bolognas, $3.50 to $4.00; canners and cutters, $2.50 to $3.50; springershchoice, $85 to $100; good milch cows, $75 to $85; medium cows. Smoked meatsâ€"Hams, med., 32 to 34¢; cooked hams, 47 to 490; smoked N113, 22c; cottage, 25 to 2’19; break- fast bacon, 32 to 380; special brand ‘breal'cfastnbaccn. 33 to 89c: backs. Chaeseâ€"New, large, 20c; twins 21c; triplets, 22c; Stiltons, 23c. Old large, 25c; twins, 26c; triplets, 27c. “Buttf‘râ€"Finest creamer p1ji_nts 38 to 38350; No. 1 creamelty, 3.61/g_t0 37%; No. 2, 34% to 35‘/2c. Dan-y pripts, 2717:? ta C9‘éc. Ont. flourâ€"Toronto, 90 per cent. pat, per barrel, in can-lots. Toronto, $6.95; seaboard. in bulk, $6.10. Strawâ€"~Carlots, per ton, $9 to $9.30. Screeningsâ€"Standard, recleaned, f. 0.b. bay ports, per ton, $22.50. Chaeseâ€"New, large, 20c; twins, _21¢; trjplets, 22c; Stiltons, 23c. Old, Ont. good milling wheatâ€"$1.36 to $1.38, f.o.b. shipping points, accord- ing to freights. Barley. makingâ€"62 to 64¢. Buckwheatâ€"No. 2, 72¢. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 85¢. Man. flourâ€"First pat., $9, Toronto; do,_seconid pat, $8.50. Man; oatsâ€"No. 2 CW., nominal; No. 3, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 4954C; N0- 2 feed, 47%c; Western grain quota- tions in c.i.f. bay ports. Am. corn. track, Torontoâ€"No. 2 yellow, 85%(‘; No. 3, yellow, 821/2c. Millfeedâ€"Del.. Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $31.25; shorts, per ton, $33.25; middlings, $49.25; good feed flour, per»bag‘,_$2._30. Ont.‘ 6hts~44 to 46¢; -f.o.b. s‘h'ipping points. $1.5 No‘ '. . ._ .. i _f'1'nursnay. ant. HjaJnal itii‘sel limrsen, her The Pippin was dragged fourteen wegmn’ Second “'0” said “day that mifvc to oi'cn watcr oz‘cr the frozen thin ice and open wan: were found, my of Part Care“? at T9119}. be_ at the North Pole, Lu: no land was fore it couid be put off for the trip discovered in the Arctic wastes by down the coast of the Bering Sea. It the Anlh‘llil'it‘ll-RhSWOl‘th expedition. -was a cold and {:Ioomy voyage. Considerable time was spent at the Captain Peterson piloted the little North Pole making ohservations, the launch in which the quartet left last Norge having descended to within 600111ight to complete the voyage origin- feet of the ice, and rose to an alti- ally planned for the airship from tude of 4,000 feet. iSpitzbergen to Nome. Over Point Barrow, on the Adri-l A small band of natives and whites atic coast, 550 miles northwest of from Nome and the surrounding dis. here, ice formed on the whirling proâ€"{trict greeted the trans-polar fliers pel-lers of the ship and then broke;when they airived at the mouth of off, cutting the big gas bag. LossiSnake River seven miles west of of hydrogen gas made the Norg‘e cx-iName. The Snake River, which flows tremely heavy.l iinto the Bering Sea, affords Nome its A fair wind aided it on the voy- only harbor. age from Barrow to TeIler. The Amundsen was leader of the crew of eightwn arrived at Teller Arctic 'flight; Ellsworth second in very tired, but in excellent physical command; Omdahl and Wistling‘ condition. especially charged with landing the Captain Roald Amundsen, LincolniNorge. ' Ellsworth, Captain Oscar Wisting The remaining fourteen men comâ€" and Lieut. Oskar Omdahl, of the crew prising the crew were left at Teller of 18 of the dirigible Norge, arrived'with the big: dirigible, which has; here from Telfer, 75 miles northwest: now been deflated. It is to be made in the launch Pippin at 5 a.m. today! ready for shipment by steamer to The Norg‘e reached Teller from SpitZ- the United States. Considerable time was spent at the North Pole making (.i‘servations, the Norge having descended to within 600 feet of the ice, and rose to an alti- tude of 4,000 feet. Over Point Barrow, on the Adri- atic coast, 550 miles northwest of here, ice formed on the whirling pro- pellers of the ship and then broke off, cutting the big gas bag. Loss of hydrogen gas made the Norge ex- tremely heavy, A fair wind aided it on the voy- age from Barrow to Teiler. The crew of eighteen arrived at Teller very tired, but in excellent physical condition. ICE AND WATER, BUT NO LAND, i 4 FOUND BY AMUNDSEN PARTY Nome, Alaska, ant Hja.1naz' R wegian, second yi: thin ice :md open at the North Pole discovered in the the Amundsuu-I‘Il'. Its 2 1A ext r Ste THE MARKETS Butte 351C: TORONTO. wheatâ€"No. 1 North, $1.61; North, $1.56; No. 3 North, $1 '4 American No . 2 C.W.. 61‘, a no. 1 leeu, Mlv’gc. hour ‘ing wheat pats., firsts. $9 $8.50; strong bakers’, $8.30 Iats, choice. $6.7“ to $6.8C MONTREAI IE 2591b. tins, 14 to 14%c: atsâ€"Hams, med., 32 to 1 feed nag, 2 Shorts extl‘ Go le, Lu: no land was 0 Arctic wastes by lisworth expedition. me was spent at the ng (dwservations, the mended to within 600 May 16 terns qua {Ii pasteu ( Emery. i 4| 32 ;econds 0 W per storage Mid it .lT The same vessel was badly burned at her winter quarters here two years ago. She was a wooden ves- sel of 847 tons. The steamer was en route to ()gdensburg from Buf- Halifax, N.S.â€"William Hardiman, 40, and his nephew, Clarence Walsh, 18, lobster fishermen of Prospect. this county, were given- up as drowned Friday night when the boat in which they set out early in the morning to take up their lobster traps, was found on the shore, bottom~up. It was be- lieved by their fellow-fishermen that they had taken a heavy catch and capsized the boat. The weather was calm. The Charles Horn Lumber Captain Chri mand. N.S. Lobster Fishermen Given Up as Drowned Crew of Charles Horn Res- cued by Passing Vessel and Landed Safely. Piulnn, May 16.~T'ne steamer Charies Horn was burned and sunk nfi' Peter's Point, in Lake Ontario, today. The crew of seventeen were picked up by a passing steamer and landed at Cape Vincent. Just returned to Toronto from six months‘ study of mental hygiene (1e velopments in England, France, Belâ€" gium, Germany and other European cem-I‘es at the request of the Rocke- feller Foundation. He advocates more attention to supervision of mental cases in the community by voluntary societies as a means to reduce ins'ti- tutional costs and more moderate priced and more extend-ed private in- stitutional ("are for feeme minded. STEAMER BURNS AND SINKS IN LAKE hergen, via the North Pole, at Thursdax'. Dr. C. M. Hincks Horn is owned by the (‘ompany of Chicago. tensen was in com- 5 west of which flows is Nome its PROGR 8 [mm ESS OF THE NORGE ACROSS THE ARCTiC FROM The operations at present consist entirely of repair work on the older portion of the line. About 100,000 ties are spread along the line and another 300,000 are on order. Duncan Campbell, an old Mac- kenzie & Mann employee, has been placed in charge of the work‘ It is underflood that the order is “full speed ahead" and that no time will he lost in getting down to real work. The Pas, Manâ€"A train consisting of eighteen cars of ties has gone north for the Hudson Bay Railway. There are now about 100 men working on the line and it is expected that an additional 200 laborers will be at Work within the next two weeks. Old Road-bed Being Repaired Ready for Rush to Bay. Winnipegâ€"Two seapI-anes have been rushed to the scene of the for- est fires which menace wide areas in the Lao du Bonnet and Grand Beach districts of Manitoba. Reports from the forest patrol indicate that the fires are being subdued. Rain, which was fairly general throughout the Province. aided the fire-fighters. WORK STARTED ON HUDSON BAY LINE it. Three small bush fires have al- ready been reported along the A.C. R., caused by trains, and rangers have had to extinguish only two fires in Prince Township, started by settiers. The bush is very dry. Fort William.â€"â€"Several forest fires are raging near here, due to the longâ€" continued dry spell. ’The Forestry Department announces that all forest fires are under control, but that rain, and lots of it, is badly needed. Algoma, Thunder Bay and Eastern Manitoba Report Outbreaks. Sault. Ste. Marie, Ontâ€"A report from Massey says that the first bush fire of the season started across the Saubfe River, and caused consider- able alarm in that town, which was filled with smoke. The Forestry De~ partment at Nairn was notified of the fire and a party of rangers were sent out immediater to extinguish FIRST FOREST FIRES BREAK OUT IN NORTH Joseph Pelow, a laborer, had borâ€" rowed the car from a friend to give the family and friends an outing. Returning to the city he stopped the car at a way-side gasoline filling sta- tion. As the gas was being pumped into the tank it spurted out over the hot engine and immediately ignited, enveloping the whole front of the machine in flames. Mrs. Pelow and little Josephine were a mass of flames when dragged out of the car, and Mr. Pelow, who had been attending to the gas-filling operation, was burned in attempt- ing to extinguish the flaming cloth- ing on his wife. Mrs. Tough was‘ burned in extinguishing the burning‘ clothing on little Josephine. - Thel other children were sitting in the‘ rear seat, and escaped with only minor burns. about the legs and ar year-old daughter Jost critical state from bun arms and legs. Th rushed to a hospital he The other victims, received onIy minor Joseph Pelow, hush: Joseph Pelbw, and driv Joseph Pelow, Jr., age lotte Pelow, aged eigh Charlotte Pelow, in the S. J. Tough. mother 0 and three other childre and Albert Mitchell. Tank of Automobile I Filled When Liquid Takes Fire. Ottawa, Ont., May 16.â€"Eieven persons, mastly children, were burned, two of them seriousiy, near here this afternoon, when gasoline, being poured into the tank under the hood of their automobile, caught fire, enveloping them in flames. Mrs. Joseph Peiow was seriously burned about >t_he legs and arms. Her fouiw GASOLINE lGI‘JITES 11 PEOPLE BURNED , husband of Mrs. and driver of the car; J12, aged two; Charâ€" red eight; Lizzie and r, in their teens; Mrs. 10ther of Mrs.â€"Peiow, ' children, John, Mary who 6 a} ile Being 15, were: of Mrs '6 1‘6 howeV 111 both A“? u an Doncaster, Eng. â€" Sixty-eight miners have been sentenced to three months’ hard labor for breach of the emergency regulations during the general strike by interfering with road transports. The leader was also fined £20 in addition, with an altern- ative sentence of two months uniess he could pay the fine. Sixty-Eight Miners Sent to Jail for Transport Interference Windsor, May 16.~Struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. Lillian Allen, a local resident, last night near 10 o'clock, Douglas Delisle, 11 years old, was almost instantly kill- ed. The boy ran from behind park~ ed cars to meet his grandparents, who zilighted from a motor bus near his home. The coat, left on the bank, gave the name of a Buffalo store, but there was no other clue to the idenâ€" tity of the woman. River men are keeping close watch on the waters low the Falls, but so far without avail. age, wade into the river and be car- ried over the brink of the American Falls. The tourists say they saw the “11121311 walk down the little path from Goat Island, sit on a seat for a few minutes, take ofl‘" her hat, coat and gloves, and walk into the river. Her body was soon caught in the swirling current and she was thrown over the brink. Running to Grandparents Youngster is Killed by Car Niagara Falls, Ont, May 16.â€" Three tourists wére horrified on Satâ€" urday, afternoon to see a woman, apparently about 6‘0'01' 65 years of SWEPT TO HER DEATH OVER THE CATARACT Woman Deliberater Suicides at Falls in Sight of Tourists. Schaules recounted the flight ofI himself and Heald after they had} taken a guard’s automobile at the’ reformatory and headed for Detroit. Travelling a short distance, theyI came upon EdWard J. Frederick, a] Grand Rapids salesman, who was driving to his home. At the point! of guns taken from their guard they. compelled Frederick to drive them‘ to Elkhart, Ind., where they let him' go, after making him promise tol delay reporting their whereabout,:. Schaules begged the arresting of- ficers to shoot him, saying he would rather die than return to prison. He was a patient at the tuberculosis hospital, and is said to be in the last stages of the disease. All Recaptured. Detroit, May 16.â€"The last of the five convicts who escaped from the. State reformatory at Ionia last week, have been accounted for with the capâ€"' ture here yesterday of James T. Schaules, 29 years Heald, aged 19. Schaules begged the arresting of- ficers to shoot him, saying he would rather die than return to prison. He was a patient at the tuberculosis hospital, and is said to be in the last stages of the disease. Schaules recounted the flight of himself and Heald after they had taken a guard’s automobile at the 01d, and Edgal" Mrs. Nathan Fitch, of Norfolk . County, Remembered the 1 Pioneer Days Following War of 1812. l Simeoe.â€"â€"Mrs. Nathan Fitch, claim- ed to be the oldest woman in Canada, died on May 13 at Norfolk County iIndustrial Home in her 111th year. ’ Until a week ago she had been bright, ‘ active and cheerful, and able to enjoy ;the daily routine at the institution, of which she had been the centre of attraction for the past six years. She passed away peacefully and painless- ly. Mrs. Fitch was an inveterate ; pipe smoker. ' LAST OF F UGITIVES ARE HELD BY POLICE Dr. Albert Durrant Wats Poet and humanist, who died 5 in his Toronto home, in his 68 ‘ive Convicts Who Escaped From Michigan Prison Are FP' " AMuuoser" ’W’ _°L= 'MAY22 ‘9'25‘\r $8911 1 .4 1960.1 2:16 he died suddenly in his 68th year. 7W SO" Montre-al.â€"-A British War Office communication to Sir Frederick Wli- liams-Tayior regarding his son, Cap- tain Travers Williams-Taylor, whose death in the Sudan was reported Tuesday, is to the effect that a bulâ€" let pierced the officer's head, while another had gone through his chest. The communication contained no fur- ther details, but said that a miiitary inquiry is now in progress. Tilsonburg, May 16,â€"The Cana- dian Milk Products Company, Ltd., centralizing its Canadian manufac- ture of new Klim products and other articles in the local piant, have pur- chased the receiving stations at Otterviile and Kelvin, Ont.. from the Borden Milk Company, which will add 35,000 to 40,000 pounds of raw milk daily to its plant here. Fol- lowing three months of inst-ailing new upâ€"toâ€"date machinery at a cost of more than $200,000, manufactur- ing started Saturday, with huge ex- port and local orders on hand which will ensure the district farmers a steady market for their milk at com- petitive prices. The laboratory is now being moved here from Bur- ford, and tests for all its Canadian plants will be made at Tilsonburg in the future. Military Inquiry Launched Into Death of Canadian ers. Nathan Fitch, of Norfolk 1 County, Remembered the ‘ Pioneer Days Following \Nar of 1812. She remembered when grain was all cut by reaping-hooks, until scythes came into vogue, and all threshing was performed with flails. She remembered when folks went to church with oxâ€"carts and when women rode behind the men on horseback to camp-meeting. Big Plant in Tillsonburg Is Opened by Milk Company Retaining full possession of all her faculties until her death, Mrs. Fitch delighted to recall the pioneer days of Ontario, and while, of course, she did not remember the War of 1812, her father served under Brock and familiarized her with its history. Mrs. Fitch was born in Niagara, and was baptized in St. Mark’s Ang- lican Church there by Rev. Dr. Ad- dison, the first rector. She was niar- ried in 1848 and lived in Port Burâ€" well for 70 years. Six years ago she celebrated her 105th birthday by dancing a two-step quite creditably with her grandson. . Bristow slashed his wife’s throat after a quarrel. Then he turned on his 17-year-old daughter, Dana, who had come into the room to see what the troubie was about. She eiuded him and slipped out into the street to give the alarm. The girl’s screams for help evidently frightened Brisâ€" tow, who turned the razor on his own throat. He died in Hotel Dieu shortly before noon on Thursday. The coupie are survived by three chil- dren. The previous evening Bristow was seen crying on the main street of the little village. A woman asked him if he was in trouble. He replied that “she would know all about it OLDEST WOMAN IN CANADA DIES AT 111 the Bri ESSEX COUNTY VILLAGE [S SCENE (3F DGUBLE TRAGEDY CAUSED BY JEALOUSY NOQTH CAVE tow‘ resu of a frenzied outburst by KNOW Hull, Que., May 16,â€"Mr. Justice 'I.. Loranger, sitting in the Superior ‘Court for Pontiac District, has handed down judgment awarding ers. S'anchira Kostenuk of Hull, the ;sum of $5,000 damages from W. J. §Evans, Montreal contractor, as the result of the death of her son, Alex- ‘ander Kostenuk, accidentally killed at Bryson, December 4,’1924, while he was working for Evans. Kostenuk, a bricklayer, was working on a scaffold when the ac- cident occurred, the scaffold break- ing and throwing him some 80 feet to the ground, causing instant death. I $600 perm Improvement in Showing of Government Marine Montreal, May 16.â€"Fifteen hun- dred emigrants, mostly from the British Isles and the northern Euro- pean countries, passed through Mont- real over the week-end on their way to the West. They were for the most part agriculturists. Among the number was a party being conducted to the Clan Donald, Hebridean set- tlement in Alberta, by Rev. Father McDonnell of the Scottish Immigra- tion Aid Society. Thirty families were included in this group. With the addition of a few more families at present en route to Canada, the colony will be complete. A further colony will he establish- ed next year, Father McDonnell an- nounced, 8,000 acres having been se- cured at Saddle Lake, near St. Paul de Metis, in Alberta. Many Settlers Arrive for Western Farms Dr. Yen has assumed for the time being the posts of Premier and For- eign Minister, although the name of Alfred Sze has been announced as Foreign Minister. Dr. V. K. Welâ€" lington Koo, former Minister to Great Brta-in and the United States, becomes Minister of Finance and Yang Wenâ€"kai Minister of Com- merce. Woman Awarded $5,000 for Death of Husband Although the new regime is with- out the status of a ruling Cabinet, it is understood that it will operate as the Executive with the consent of the military factions in actual con- trol of the situation. Chief among the military authorities concerned are Marshal Wu Pei-fu, leader of the old Chihli party; Marshal Chang Tso«lln, dictator of Manchuria,and General Li Ching-lin, risen to power through his command of the Man- churian-Shantung levies, whose pressure caused the withdrawal of the national armies from the Capi- tal. Presidency vacant by virtue-of'the resignation of President Ts‘ao Kun on May 1, and that; it would assume the functions of the Chief Executive. Pekin.â€"A new Government has been set up in Pekinâ€"a reconstituJ tion of the Cabinet of Dr. W. W. Yen, which functioned late in 1924, before Marshal Feng Yuhsiang‘ be- came a dominant figure in the Capi- tal. The new Cabinet announced the Bristow was born, at South Fred- ericksburg, Lennox County, Ont. Mrs. Bristow’s home was in Ohio. Both were regarded as good citizens and no one had ever suspected that there was any serious breach between the man and his wife. FORMED IN CHINA Cabinet Will Work With Mili- tary F orcesâ€"Dr. Yen is Pre- mier and Foreign Minister. NEw GOVERNMENT 1's troubles. Some three years ago he had lost heavily through his tobacco crop being burned. He had never recovered from this setback. The two worries are thought to have temporarin unbalanced the man’s mind. The double tragedy was the result. ‘ in a few hours." The motive of the crime is laid to jealousy. The police declare Bristow was over-shadowed by his wife, who book a prominent part in the affairs of the community. He was intensely jeaious, they say, and possessed a violent temper. They had quarrel-Zed recently. Bristow was known to be wozsied by financial troubles. Some three years ago he had lost heavily through his tobacco crop being burned. He had never recovered from this setback. To Be Named Elizabeth. M up Jlt tha 3600.500 nce .H' :ex'abiom nt Mer- ing th! :0. 1926 nprove- in the 41