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1 ^STv' .: THE RU SSIANS RETIRED Decided Advance of the Japanese Extreme Right. RUSSIANS RETREAT. A despatch from Tokio sajs;â€" Army heaaiiiiaiters reijorls the occupation of Vingen-Cheng, thirty-five niilos north oi Iling-King, and of I'achiatsu on the IJailung Koad, by two co- operating colutiins. The Itiissians re- tired in much confusion. This move- ment marlis the lirst decided advance of the Japanese extieiiie right, which has hitherto been much behind the i western columns. The report made! by Gen. i-.inevilch of a Cos.sack raid ; on tho railway near Kaiyuan is not j coHiiiuied. A despatch from Seoul states that j on Wectr.cfuiay i.-.^t ihirti Co.-.:i_^"'".- appeared near Yingpan, but were inx- me: lately repulsed by the Japanese telegraphers stationed there. LEADINfi MARKETS BREABSTUFFS. Toronto, April 18.â€" UTieat^-Ontario The market continui.s dull, with buyers and sellers ap<;rt, quotations teing $1.02 to $1.01 for No. 2 red and white, spring 96c and goose 89c, Manitoba, for delivery at lake ports on the opening of navigalion, lirnier; quotations are: â€" No. 1 north- ern, 99ic; No. 2, <J(>c; No. 3, S'Jc. Flour â€" One lot was sold at $4.70. Quebec, with bags, equal to about $4.20 hi-re. The market is ea.->i.;r with 90 per cent, patents (juoted at $4. Mo to $4.45. buyers' sacl>s, east and west, 15c to 20c higher for choice. Manitoba, $.").. "^O to $.').60 for first palent.s, $5.10 to So. 40 for second patents, and $.5 to $.5.30 for Hussiaa cruisers I<os.sia, Gromoboi, and Bogatyr, and it is supposed, though the Admiralty does not con- firm the supposition, that they have put to sea to eHect a diversion and prevent mine-laying. Considerable ! irritation is manifested in naval cir- | cles at the activity of British ships j In C'hine.se water.s, whii'h are report- j ed to be .steaming from Hong Kong j to Singapore, and their action is at- bakers'. tributed to a desire to keep in touch Millfoed â€" Continues firm and .scarce, with the Russian squadron and re- | with the general market at SIT for port its movements to the world at i bran and $18. .'50 to $19 for short.s. large and to great Britain's ally in | Manitoba, $21 for shorts and !jl9 particular, as happened in the ca.se j for brun. i of the Briti.sh armored cruiser Sutlej, j Bai'iey â€" Dull; 46c to 47c for -N'o. 2. I which arrived at Kingapore, Straits 44c to 45c for No. 3 extra, and IHc Settlement, yesterday, and reported | for No. 3 malting outside, Toro:ito having passed the Rus.sian second i freights. KILLED WIFE AN D CHILD A Terrible Murder Committed at Penetanguishene. A Penetanguishene despatch sa.vs: "I wa.s jealous, and they at)U.ied me and started to kick mc on Wednes- day night outside our house. .So I Barrie, and the jury is substantially as follows: "I am the husband of the murdered woman, Maggie Desroches. I Know what happened at our house on Wed- hit my wife on the head with an ! nesday night. I was splitting 'vood axe, and when Annie, the little girl. ! there about 8.30 o'clock wh.'n An- hit her too. T killed ISrrOHTANT FIGHT SOON. A despatch from St. Petersburg Bajs: â€" A private despatch fnnn Gun- ty.uling says that a large Japanese force is heauing towards Kirin be- yond the i;each of the Russian out- posts. A large bo<ly of Manohurian bandits is moving north beyond the ran^e of the Russian right. Thy Japanese are driving the vil- lagers into the Russian lines, Causing great confusion. An important en- gagement is expected in a few days. OYAMA NOT YET READY. A despatch from Hua-Shu Pass Kays: â€" The expected Japanese turning movement is not developing, but pre- parations, it is understood, continue. Reinforcements, food and ammunition are being brought up from New- Chwang. The Japanese outposts ex- tend thirty miles on either side of the railroad. Pacific squadran at daylight, 11, steaming north. April STOESSEL CONDEMNED. JAPANESE WARSHIPS. A despatch from Washington says: â€" Information has reached here, through Europe, that the Japanese navy has within the last few days commissioned ten new destroyers, built in Japanese ship-yards. It is believed that within si.x weeks 25 ad- ditional destroyers, under rush or- ders, will be put in commission. Three hundred and eighty-one mines, planted by the Japanese in front of Port Arthur, have been taken up and planted elsewhere. ARMIES IN TOUCH. A despatch from Tokio says: It is reported that the main force of the Russ-ians, which retired in the direc- tion of Hsingking, has reached Kir- in. The rear-jruar<l, which is esti mated at 12,000 men, continues in the vicinity of Harlungcheng, closely in touch with the Japanese van guard. The main force, which re- tired from Kaiyuan, over the Kirin road, is reported at Kirin, with a rear-guard of eight thousand men at Itsuchow, llaklusu and At.sulipao keeping in touch with the Japanese forces. Charigchen is evidently the rallying point of the C'hangtu and Fakumen forces. -Although a force, estimated at thirteen thotisand men, has been detailed to occupy Fenchu, an<l three thous.<ind men to hold Pamicnchen. the latter force seems assigned to cheek and retard the Japanese ad- Vance. The following offlcial announcement was made on Friday: â€" "Otu- force advancintj eastward via Fushun and Hailung road encountered and de- feated the enemy on the morning of the 12th Qt Frhoulu, seven miles east of Yingpan. The enemy's strength was one regiment of in- fantry, six squadrons of cavalry and lour guns. Our force then occupied Tsangshih, about 19 miles west of Yingpan. The euemy n retreating toward Hailung fought at every step. "Tho enemy on the Kirin road has gradually retreated since the 11th, a portion of this force still remain- ing to bar the pa-ssage of the Yushu River. "No change has occurred in the Changlu or Fahkmcn districts except occasional cavalry skirmishes." A despatch from Gen. l.inevitch, dated April 13, to Rnipcror Nichol- as, says:â€" "Our cavalry April 9th destroyeil the railroad and wires near Yakutzu, and between Kaiyuan and Changtu, and April 10 the cav- alry cut the telegraph line near Kaiyupn." 100,000 AT VLADIVOSTOCK. A de.spatch from Tokio sajs:â€" It is reported here that the Russians are continually reinforcing the garrison at VladiVdStock. and that the work of strengthening the fortress is pro- gressing constantly. It is said that the plane of the Uu6sii\ns contem- plate a garrison numbering 100, IXK) men with 500 gwn^. Many addition- al batteries, redoubts, liai-ricrs and pits are in Course of construction and enormous amounts of ammuni- tion arc being accumulated. The 1: i-^sians, it is said, hope to so •quip the fortress that it will be capable of withstanding a siege. A despatch from Cracow fa.vs: â€" Ac- Cording to a newspaper here, the commission appointed to enquire in- to the surrender of Port Arthur has condemned Gen. Stoessel. who sur- rendered the fortress, to be shot. The sentence is a formality, it not being intended to execute it. READY TO RENEW B.\TTLE. A despatch from Paris says: â€" Cap- tain Rode telegraphs to the Matin that he has been the guest of Gen. Kaulbars, commander of the second Manchurian army, at the Russian front. His observations showed that the Russiiin army had been reinforc- ed and io prepared to renew the bat- tle. The troops manoeuvre daily in battle formation. The Japanese cavalry advance guard, the despatch adds, is barely ten miles away, and frequently cav- alry skirmishes take place. The pris- oners captured have sabre cuts on their heads, showing hand-to-hand skirmishes. WILL CAPTURE VLADIVOSTOCK. A despatch from Washington says: Field-Marshal Oyama plans to cap- ture Vla<iivostock before the Russian fleet, or any part of it, can reach that port. This information has been received here through trust- worthy charmels. For the Japanese the capture of Vladivostock would be a trump card. The thawing of the soil and the muddincss of the roads is a factor now working heav- ily against them. But if they suc- ceed they will have checkmated a possible Russian move â€" the a.ssem- blage of a part of their fleets at this strong base, and subsequent harass- ment of Japanese shipping and raids on transports. In laying out their strategy the Japanese have tried to foresee all possible contingencies. Among the.sc is the chance that Rojestvcnsky may be able with a part of his fleet to escape Togo's ships and make his way to Vladivostock. Even if there should be a pitched battle between the squacJrons and the Japanese were decidedly the victors In the engage- ment, a considerable number of Rus- sian ships might make their way to the naval base, and, by strengthening the defence there, make it a much harder nut to crack afterward. If the land forces of Japan can capture Vladivostock during the coming three or four weeks, or before the surviv- ors of Rojestvensky's fleet can get there, a great point will have been scored. The Japanese believe they can take Vladivostock during the coming month. Almost any time now may come news of the arrival of Gen. Kawaraura's army before the city. It is Well known that Oyama is making a flank movement in force toward Kirin and to the eastward thereof. This force is supporting Kawamura, who should now he near the city. NEW RUSSIAN LOAN. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times sa.vs a report is published that the Government in- tends to shortly float another loan of 250,000,000 roubles ($12.5.000,- 000). It is reported that the former loan has not yet been fully sub- scribed for. Uyeâ€" Nominal: 69c to 70c for No. 2 f. o. b. outside. Corn â€" 47c to 48c for yellow and 46c to 47c for mixed f.o.b. Cha'ham freights; American, No. 3 yellow, 55c to 55ic: mixed, 54Jc to S.'ic on track Toronto. Oat.s â€" 40c to 41c for No. 2 whit", 42c east. Rolled Oatsâ€" S4..'J5 for cars of bags and $4.60 for bar r. Is on track here: 2r)c more for broken lo.s here and 40c outside. Peasâ€" 68c to (J9c for No 2 we?»t and east, and 70c for milling. Buckwheatâ€" 59c to 60c east and West. WFIGHING OF CHEESE. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter â€" Quotations are unchanged. Creamery, prints 23c to 25c do solids 22c to 2;?c Dairy tubs, medium IGc to 17c do inferior 14c to 15c Dairy Yb. rolls, good to choice 21c to 22c do large rolls 19c to 20c do nwdium I7c to 18c Cheese â€" Is firm in tone and quoted unchanged at 12c for large ana 12ic for twins. Kggsâ€" The tone of the market is slightly firm, although eggs are sell- ing at both 14-ic and 1,5c. Potatoesâ€" Offerings are plentiful and the market is easy in tone. On- tario, 60c on track and 65c to 70c out of store; eastern, 60c to 65c ou track and 70c to 75c out of store. Cheese â€" Ontario fall white and col- ored, at 12r to 12Jc. Eggsâ€" New laid at 15c. Butterâ€" Finest creamery, 24c; roll t utter, 22c to 2:3c in baskets. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, April 18.- The demand for all kinds of oats is light; No. 2 oats are quoted at io^c to 46c in store, and No. 3 at 44Jc to 45c. and Peterboros at 42ic on track. No. 2 peas are quoted at 70c ailoat, Ma.v, Flour. â€" Manitoba strong bakers', $5.30 to $5.50, and patents, $5.60 to $5.80. Ontario straight rollers, in bags. $2.50 to $2.55; in barrels. $5.35 to $5.45; patents, $5.70 to $5.80. Millfeed â€" JIanitoba bran, in bags, $18 to $19 per ton: shorts, $20 to $21. There is very little (Ontario feed to be had. and prices are about $16 per ton high»r than MaTlitoba. Hay â€" Prices are easier at $9 to $9.2.5 for No. 1, $.S to $8.25 for No. 2, and S7 to $7. .50 for shippiuy; hay. Provisions!â€" Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $16.50 to $17.50; li;;ht short cut $16.50 to $17; American cut clear fat back, $20; compound lard, 6ic to 7c: (^anadian lard. 6Jc to 7 5c; kettle rpndered. 3Jc to 9ic; according to quality of hams, $1.20 to $1.23: bacon, 12c; fresh killed abattoir hogs, $9 to $9.2.5; mixed, $6.25; .se- lect, $6.50 to $6.65 off cars, cut pork. $16.50 to $17.50. Baled Hay â€" The market is easy in tone and is quoted unchanged at $8 per ton for No. 1 timothy in car lots on track here, and $7 for mixed and clover. Baled Straw â€" Car lots on track here are quoted unchant;ed at $6 per ton. screamed them both and then stabbed them | with my pocket knife to make :iure of ' the job. Then I stripped their â-  clothes from them and hid their bodies in the cellar beneath Uie house." . That, in bold, gruespmc outline, is I the confession made by Alexander Desroches at the coroner's inquest I held here on Thursdiiy aiteinoon to I investigate the terribly brutal mur- 1 der of Mrs. Desroches and her 13- j year-old daughter Annie, at their j house, .a Sfiualid-looklng structure, i near the railroad track, at the west ; end of the town, on Wednesday j night at 8.30. | Desroches, who is a French-Cana- i dian of about 35 yeai.s old, assig^ns ' no cause for the deed, beyond the ( I fact that he was angry and jealous. ' Desroches told his story to the cor- oner's jury coolly and quietly, and showed no trace of insnnity. He has always borne a fairly good character in the n^jighborhood. and has never been convicti'd before of any crimin- al offence. There are no traces of insanity in his family, which in- cludes a number of wrll-to-do people in Tiny Township, near this town. He has, however, been always re- garded as being a little "soft " men- tally. The murdered woman, whom he married some four years ago. ha.c eight children before marriage, and her name was Mrs. Margaret Priske. THE MURDERER'S STATFMENT. His sworn statement, as made to Crown Attorney J. R. Cotter, of nie Priske came home and asked where her mother was. She w.nl to Ward's a neighbor's house, to look for her. but did not lind her. When .*e came back I told her I did not know where her mother was, as she had not been at the house. Annie went awa.v again, and soon came back with her mo' her. They abused me and ''icked rao outnifin t.hi' hiiun;- Then I picked up an axe and hit my wife on the head. Shii never moved afterwards. Anni'i screameti, and I hit her, too, with the axe. I'licn I dragged them both inside the house, I and, as Annie still showed signs of i life, I hit her again with another ! axe. I had broken the lirst a.xe when I hit her. I undresseil them i both and hid their bodies In the cel- ; lar. I also stabbed them both with i my pocket-knife to make sure they ; were dead. I did not know what I i Was doing. I was very angry. They ! had both quarrelod with me that ; morning wh>n I went to work. I ! Washed the blood stains o(T the floor, I so that they would not show, and ! then threw their clothes in the cel- lar." I The two axes and the pocfcet-knife I were submitted in court as evidence. ! Desroches hud a few blood stains ou j his clothes when arrested. I Desroches is a well-built man, clean : shaven, and of intelligent appear- j ance. He cannot speak Ennrlish, an<i !his evidence was given to the court through an interpreter. He is not easil.y angered, and those who have known him for years are most sur- prised at the horrible deed to which he has confessed. do fair 2.75 do rough to <?om 2.00 Bulls 1.75 Milch cowr>, each 30.00 Export ewrs, per cwt. 4.75 do b'lcks, per cwt... 3.75 Mixed sheep 4.50 Lambs, ewes and weathers 7.23 do bucks 6.50 barnyard do 5.50 Bpfing do. each 3.00 Calves, per lb 8i each 2.00 Hogs, selects, per cwt. 6.25 f ' 2.90| 2.60I 2-50 , Fire 70.00 5..50 4.50 5.0O THE CHILDREN ESCAPED Occurs in the Sunnysid* Orphanage, Toronto. A Toronto despatch .says: Two hundred children at the Sacred Heart Orphanage, Sunny.si(le, had as nar- , . . ^ row escape from doath on Saturday 7.UOi'''Sht as they will probably ever 6.50 have again, and escape. At 10 6.(X) o'clock a tire was discovered in the 5-^ north wtng of the building in a 8.00 clothes press. Electric wires are O.OO supposed to have caused the tire. An alarm was t>ent in. and all the reels in the western portion of the city re- sponded. Luckily the tire was soon extinguished. and the damage Russian Authorities See Shadows j amounted to only ?200, covered Ly of Coming Tragedy. insurance. . r . , , n.i. t.» ' '"'''' orphanage is throe stoi-evs in A London despatch says: Ihe St. height. Th- nearesrt. hv.Irants are Petersburg correspondent of the Daily ; 200 y.-ud.s from the building, one at Maw's boat-house, a;id one on Sun- nyside Avenue. On the top floor of the building about seventy children, all under live years of age are kept, and haci the (Ire gained headway these children would surely have MASSACRES ARE FEARED Telegraph sa.vs that well grounded fears are entertained by the public ; authorities and private citizens that \ the anarchy which now prevails throughout the empire may shortly 1 culminate in a series of sanguinary j I been burned. Some of the larger \ children wito taken into the long I halls, but did not have to leave the building. ! LONDON CHURChTeNSUS. masseicivs. l^ork shadows of this tra- gedy are already falling ajul e.xerting a paralyzing influence. Owing to the threatening outlook troops that are needed by Gen. Linevitch are kept back, the Agrarian Reforni Coramis- | sions have Ijeen dissolved, every kind j of meelina has been forbicktcn. anU i _, ^, ,. . _ "I . plain writin^^ and speaking are so- I Methodists Lead AngUcans Sec- verelv punished, while industrial and { ond-Only One Infidel, commerci.-xl enterpri.se is numbed. I A London, Ont., despatch says: How profoundly the Governmont be- | Figures of the church census in this lieves in forthcoming troubles may ; <^''Y '^"^ *f"'^ °"'^ °° W,_-dnesday bo inferred front the circumstances nUFFALO MARKirrS. Buffalo. April 18.â€" Flourâ€" Steady. Wheat â€" Firm; No. 1 carloads, $1.13. Winter stronger: No. 2 red, $1.10. Corn â€" .Strong; No. 2 yellow, ,54 J c; No. 3 corn, .52c. Oats â€" Unsettled; No. 2 white, 341c: No. 2 mi-xed, ;l3c. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, April 18.â€" The run was fairly large, but not sufficiently so that already sixteen recently mobol- ized rogiimonts of Cossacks, whose deiarture was countermanded, have been disturbed in districts in which the troubles are e.xpected to be moat serious and in the indus-trial centres of Riga, Liha'i, Dvinsk, Yazovva and Kazan. ITip correspondent cites further in- dications that the internal conditions are n<ost gloomy. He intimates that May day is likely to see an outbreak of e.xten.sive riots. He says that bombs are being manufactured iu large quantities in .St. Petersburg anfl the provinces. Hon. Sydney Fisher Confers the Trade at Montreal. With'*" supply all demands, and prices , Manitoba will 90.000 MEN NEEDED. From West for More Assist- ance in Farm Work. A Winnipeg despatch s«i.vb: "Ex- tending over the whole of this year. Cry were night, aJKl show adherents here of 37 diflerent sects. The returns for the more prominent bodies were as fol- lows:â€" Methodists 11,225 Anglicans 8,545 Presbyterians 7,123 Baptists 3,750 Roman Catholics 3,385 Congregationalists 515 One iuiidol was included in the re- turns. tion took t lace Friday mortiin;.r in the council chamber of the Itoard of IVade. Represeutativen of the var- [ lous country cheese boards were also I present, and gave their views on the 1 matter in question. WJth those tho A despatch from St. Petersburg | Minister will he able to devi.se a unl- lipys: â€" 'Phcro is nn embargo on news , form method of weighing, which will fiuin Vladivostock concerning the be binding on the trade. VLADIVOSTOCK SQIIADRON. A Montreal despatch says: â€" Hon. Sydney Fisher. Mini.<<ter of Agricul- ture, came to the city on Friday for 1 the purpo.se of holding a (Viiference | with the chee.se trade relative to the j do others 4.75 problem, which i.M a rather vexed ' Kulls 4.50 one, of the weighing of cheese. The i Butchors' good to ch'e. 5.00 coiiference with representatives of the fair to pood do 4.60 Montreal Hiitter and Cheese .V.-jsocia- I mixed lots, medium... 3.75 do common 3.00 do cows 2.50 Bulls 2.50 do common to fair... 3.75 Feeders, short-keep .... 4.25 (!o 10 to U cwt 4.40 do 9 to 10 cwt 4.00 require the help of for all kinds of cattle :!dvance<l 10c 1 about 90,000 incomers for seeding, to 2oc per cwt.. and in some ca.ses j haying, harvesting and farm work aSc. Trade for all classes of cattle 'generally," said J. J. Golden. Pre- was brisk. |vincial Immigration Comraissioner. Export cattle, choice. $5 25 to 5.75 "This is a substantial increase over do Kood to medium.. 5.00 5.20. last year, when about 5O.O00 were 5.00! brought in for that purpo.>!C. The S.OOjcla.ss of immigrants cominR to this S.SO province this year is much superior *•"" trt that ni' nnv nrav-intia ^^nn " do bulls 3.40 Stockers. good „.. 3.00 4.50 3.50 4.50 3.30 4..50 4.0O 4.75 4.50 3.80 4.00 to that oi any previous one. Reports from the "Soo" Line are that settlers arc pouring Into the West from the States in unpi-ecedent- ed numbers. ♦ Tho Canadian agent in Mexico says Canadian winter apples, carefully seloctcd ai.d packed, will find a good market there. WHITES DRIVE OUT JAPS. British Columbians Object to Ori- ental Labor. A Vancouver, B.C.. despatch says: Oriental labor has been driven out of a mill at Salmo. A party of thirty-three nicn, ten of whom were Chinese and twenty-three Japemise, were taken from this city to tho Kootenay nhin^le mill at Salmo. The whites refused to allow the Ori- entals to leave the station, and forced them to take the ni-.xt train to Nelson, the nearest station. The company say they require the Ori- entals, and cannot work without them. Another attempt will bo made, with the aid of tho provincial police, to land the A>tiaiics in Salmo. CRANE COLLAPSED. Eleven Men Killed in Russian Navy Yard. A .St. Petersburg despatch says: There wo-s a crane disaster ,-it tho PutilofT Iron Work.f 00 Tues.Iay. A crane collapsed and rrnshed down up- on two gunboats, breaking the decks and killing eleven men and wounding fifteen.