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-Sf- MNW^I^ ROBBEBIES ON m G. F. B. i 1 Claimed to Have Been Solved by the Arrest of a Negro After a Long Chase. A despatch from North Bay, Ont,, says: The mystery of many robberies of passengers on C. P. R. trains west of North Bay during the last month, which caused the rail- .way company great annoyance, and seemed destined to bafBe the best detective skill, has, it is claimed, by the authorities, been solved in the arrest on Wednesday of a ne- gro, giving the name of Lament. Pinkerton Detective Murray, of Boston, who has been working on the case for several weeks, chased Lamont to Moose Jaw, his quarry doubling back from that point and managing to elude the detective until Wednesday, when C. P. B,. Constable Williams arrested him at North Bay and wired Detective Murray of his capture. Murray arrived and identified the prisoner as the man wanted. Lamont has been travelling back and forth on niglit trains. When asked his rea- son for travelling so extensively, he said he was just fishing. Lamont was identified by C. P. il' officials as having made his head- quarters at Schreiber, where he occasioned the company consider- oble trouble. He was remanded to jail for eight days in order that his record could be looked up. lEADINfi MARKETS BREAD8TUFFS. Toronto, July 21.â€" Ontario Wheat â€" No. 2 white, red or mixed, 81c to 82c. Manitoba Wheat â€" Market quota- tions at Georgian Bay Ports : No. 1 northern, $1.10; No. 2 northern, *1.07; No. 3 northern, $1.04%. Corn â€" No. 2 yellow, steady at 63c to 84c, Toronto freights. Oats â€" Ontario. No. 2 white, 46c to 46c outside; No. 2 mixed, 43j^c; 2, 44%c, lake ports ; rejects, 40c to 41c, Manitoba No. No. 3, 43%c; lake ports. Barleyâ€" No. 8, 560 to 60c; No. 3 X, 55c. I'eas â€" No. 2 nominally quoted at GOc. Ryeâ€" No. 2, none offering; quota- tions nr^minal around bjc. Buckwheat â€" No. 2 nominally quoted .Cic to 68c. Branâ€" Quoted at $I.'5 to $16 in •bulk outside; shorts, $20 to $21 in bulk outside ; quotations for deliv- ery in bags $2 more. Flour â€" Manitoba patents, special biands, $0; seconds, $5.40; strong takers', $B.30; winter wheat pat- ents selling at $3.15 bid. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter â€" Wholesale prices are : â€" Creamery, prints, 24c to 25c; creamery, solids, 23c to 24c ; dairy prints, choice, 22c to 23c ; dairy prints, ordinary, 20c to 2Ic ; dairy tubs, 19c to 20c; inferior, 16c to 17c. Eggs â€" Prices range from 19%0 to 21c per dozen in case lots. Cheese â€" Prices of new range be- tween 12%c to 13c for large, and 13}^c to 13%c for twins. Ucans â€" $2 for primes and $2.10 foi hand-picked. Potatoesâ€" Imported new potatoes arc quoted at $4 to $4.20 per bar- rul in car lots on track here. PROVISIONS. Local quotations arc : â€" Porkâ€" Short cut, $23 to $23.50 per barrel; mess, $19 to $19.50. Lardâ€" Tierces, 12c; tubs, 12%c ; pails, I2j^c. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats â€" Long dear bacon, ll/^c to ll%c, tons and cases ; hamM, medium and light, 14%c to 15c; hams, large, 12>^c to 13c; backs, ITc to 17%c ; ehouldcrs, 10c to 10%c ; rolls, lOj-^c to lie; breakfast bacon, 15c to 16%c ; green meats, out of pickle, Ic less than smoked. Manitoba spring wheat patents, $0.10 to $6.20; second patents, $5.- 50 to $5.70; winter wheat patents, $6 to $5.50; straight rollers, $4.25 to $4.60; in bags, $1.95 to $2.10; extra, $1.50 to $1.70. Rolled Oatsâ€" $2.50 in bags of 90 pounds. Oatsâ€" No. 2, 49c to 50c; No. 3, 46c to 46%c ; No. 4, 45c to 45%c ; re- jected, 44c ; Manitoba, rejected (nominal), 44c to 45c. Cornmealâ€" $1.85 to $1.96 per bag. Millfoed â€" Ontario bran, in bags, $20.50 to $21.50; shorts, $23 to $94; Manitoba bran, in bags, $22 to $23; shorts, $24 to $36. Cheese- ll%c to 12c for westerns and at llj^c to ll%c for easterns. Butterâ€" 23c to 23^0 for round lots and at 24c in a jobbing way for creamery. Eggs â€" Sales of selected stock were made at 22c, No. 1 19c, and No. 2 at 10c per dozen. Provisions â€" Barrels short cut mess, $22.50; half-barrels, $11.50; clear fat back, $23; dry salt long clear backs, lie; barrels plate beef, $17.50; half-barrels do., $9; com- pound lard, 3%c to 9Xc ; pure lard, 12>^c to 13c ; kettle rendered, 13c to ISVaC; hams, 12VJc to 14c, ac- cording to size ; breakfast bacon, Mc to 16c; Windsor bacon, 15c to lec; fresh killed abattoir dressod hogs, $0.75 to $10; live, $6.85 to $7. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, July 21. â€"'Flour â€" UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, July 21. â€" Wheat â€" Spring higher; No. 1 Northern, carloads, store, $1.11%; Winter lower; No. 2 red, 92%c; No. 2 white, 95c ; No. 2 mixed, 94c. Corn â€"Easy ; No. 3 yellow, 79Xc ; No. 3 corn, 76% to 77Xc; No. 3 white, 78%c. Oats- Firm ; No. 2 white, C2c ; No. 3 white, 60c. Barley â€" Feed to malting, 66c to 76c. Rye â€" No. 2 on track, 79c. Minneapolis, July 21. â€" Wheat â€" No. 1 northern, $1.10%; No. 2 Northern, $1.14% to $1.14%; No. 3 Northern, $1.09% to $1.12%; No. No. 1 hard, $1.18%; July, $1.14; September, 96% to 96%c. Flour- Firm ; first patents, $6.65 to $5.80; second patents, $5.55 to $5.70; first clears, $4.35 to $4.45; second clears, $3.50 to $3.60. Bran, in bulk, $19.00 to $19.50. Milwaukee, July 21 â€" Wheat â€" No. 1 Northern, $1.17 to $1.18; No. 2 Northern, $1.15 to $1.16; Sept., 00% to 00%c bid. Ryeâ€" No. 1, 74% to 76c. Barleyâ€" No. 2, 75c ; sample, 00 to 72c. Cornâ€" No. 3 cash, 73% to 74%c; Sept., 74%c bid. New York, July 21. â€" Wheat â€" Spot, easy ; No. S red, 97%c to 99c, elevator; No. 2 red, $1.00% f.o.b. afloit ; No. 1 northern, Dnluth, $1.22%, f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 bard winter, 9107% f.o.b. afloat. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, July £1. â€" Prices were reported 10c to 15c higher in some cases, but for the greater part they were steady. The demand for exporters shows a slight improve- ment. Good butchers' were very scarce and what there were brought very good prices. Cows were firm, although no material change was noticeable in the prices. There was a good supply of sheep and lambs, and the demand was good, so the market was just about steady. Local prices of choice live hogs are $6.90 per cwt., fed and watered off cars Toronto. SCHEME WILL BE EXTIBED Several Ontario Counties Are Likely to Have Forest Nurseries. A despatch from Toronto says: Tb« Ontario Government's farm forestry scheme which has boon initiated by the acquiring at the cost of $1,000 one hundred acres of Innd in Norfolk county to be used an a forest nursery is to bo expand- ed as quickly as possible. The Minister of Agriculture has suggest- ed that suitable places for the es- tablishmnnt of furthor nurseries would be Durham, Simcoe and I.ambton counties, in all of which are largo arean of lands which have been declared to bo unrent- able for agricultural purposes. The wnrk tinder the department has been progressing steadily. In the last two years something like half a million young white nine trees have been imported from Ger- many and distributed through tiie medium of the Agricultural Col- lege at Quolph. In connection with the Government nurseries it is proposed to utilize the services of the graduates of the Agricultur- al College who have taken a course in forestry. With regard to the largo scheme of reforastration which will doubtless be undertaken by the Government at some future time the idea which has been ad- vocftted by the Hon. Nelson Mon- tcith it that they should reforest some ol the large areas in tb^ north. SEVEN PRISONERS ESCAPE. Broke Through One of the Rooms at Toronto Jail. A despatch from Toronto says : A Skillfully-planned and boldly-ex- ecuted escape from Toronto Jail was made on Friday by seven pris- oners, who got clear away. It was few minutes prior to 4 o'clock that the escape was discovered, but as the prisoners were all dressed in their usual clothes there was no- thing to distinguish them from or- dinary citizens once they were out- side the jail grounds. The men who got away were confined in a corridor where are kept those pris- oners who are there awaiting sen- tence or trial. From the evidence it was apparent that the escape had been planned for some time, and the secret carefully kept among the dozen or more prisoners who were confined in this particular corri- dor. As will be seen from their records several of the men are well-known criminals, three of them United States crooks, and it is not at all improbable that help was received from the outside. Securing a key to the door of a chamber known as the death cham- ber, and used for the hanging of the negro, John Boyd, one of the number entered there daily, and with the lever used on the drop of the scaffold dug through the wall t' the yard, where the prisoners were faced by the jail wall twenty feet high. "They apparently stood on each other's shoulders till one reached the top, and the others were drawn up by jail bedclothes, and lowered down the other side cf the wall in the same manner. Then a short dash along a lane and they were at liberty. The following a.rc the names of the prisoners, with their records, who escaped : â€" Alexander Rose, lawaiting seutenco on two charges of felonious wounding. Henry Churchill, committed for trial on charge of robbing Pullman cars on Grand Trunk. John C. Clark, broke jail from Newcastle, Penn., June 15, 1908, arrested in Toron- to for theft. William D. Jones, broke jail from Newcastle, Penn., arrested here for theft. Robert Snow, escaped from Mimico Indus- trial School on June 19. Edward Lee, awaiting sentence for theft. John Copeland, awaiting sentence for theft. A SAD PICNIC THIS. Driver of Tally-ho Fatally Injured at Guclph. A despatch from Guelph says : \ fatal accident occurred on Sat- urday to a jolly party of Guelph printers and their friends through which Fred Anderson lost his life. Anderson was employed in Hoop- er's livery stable and was the driv- er on a four-horse tallyho, which was taking the Guelph party to Puslinch Lake, where they were to join a printers' nicnic from Gait. The accident, which was of a trifling nature and yet resulted fatally, happened on Waterloo avenue just after the start was made. The wheel caught in the street car switch, causing the vehicle to slew, and Anderson was thrown from his scat and under the heavy wheels. The front wheels passed over his legs, but the hind wheel caught the middle of his body, crushing him in such a manner as to cause death a couple of hours later in the hospital. The unfortunate fel- low was brought back in the tally- ho and the trip was called off. An- derson was a married man and was well known and rospootod in the city. AMTHER HEAB-OS C OLLISION Winnipeg-Toronto Train Met a Freight Near Current Kiver. A despatch from Port Arthur says : The Winnipeg-Toronto train which passed through here on Sunday afternoon met in a head- on collision with a freight-train just east cf the Current River, and only the fact that the recent flood there had necessitated the building cf a new bridge over which trains run slowly prevented a serious dis- aster. The train was going only about ten miles an hour when it struck the freight, and though sev- eral cars were oadly damaged, only the fireman and engineer of the passenger train, W. Morris and C. Bowles of Schrieber, and the news agent and waiter on the dining car were injured. They were bad ly shaken up and bruised. ' The freight crew saw the passen. ger train approaching and jumpe* after stopping their train, but no\ in time to give warning to the paa- senger train. It is stated that the accident was caused by a mistakt on the part of the freight in usini orders issued Saturday instead ol those issued on Sunday. No. 9^ v^â- as cancelled on Saturday on ac- count of trouble west of here, an< orders then were issued for th« fi eight trains to run through with, out regard to the passenger sche- dule. One of these orders wai used on Sunday. George Roos ol Schrieber was the conductor of the freight. THE WEST WANTS MEN. The Labor Scarcity Likely to be a Serious Problem. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Grain in all parts of the west is showing the benefits of the recent rains, and everywhere the situation is very encouraging. Developments are few and steady growth is the principal feature. W'heat heaus are filling out in fine style, giving pro- mise of heavy yields, tjnusual con- cern is felt regarding the supply of harvest hands this year. "The in- terval -between the harvest In On- tario and that in Manitoba is like- ly to be shorter than ever before, and overlapping may interfere with excursions to the west. Mr. William Whyte of the Canadian Pacific Railway believes 25,000 men are required in the three Prov- inces, and a campaign will be started early to secure that num- ber. The labor situation is likely to cause some cnxiety before the season is over. TWO MEN 81 FF0C.4TED. Were Enf^agod in Excavating for Bridge at Letbbridgo. A despatch from Lethbridge, Alta., says: A double fatality oc- curred on Wednesday afternoon, when two men, Frank Rush, an Englishman, and George E. Thomp- son, from North Dakota, met sud- den death by gas suffocation. A hole 30 feet deep had been sunk by the C. P. R. to test the foundation fo» « pier for the big bridge, and an abandoned entry to the Gait Mine wa.s found. Work was dis- continued on account of the gas. DOWNFALL THROUH DRINK Once Prosperous Man Brought His Family to Ruin. A despatch from Montreal says ; Seven years ago William Wright, head of the Wright Paper Com- pany, was rated at $65,000. * In 1904 he failed, owing to his fond- ness for drink. On Friday, on complaint of Jiis wife, he was sent t) jail for three months. In giv- ing evidence she said: "He drank it all, and I have no home now. I am a pauper and my children are starving after having all that money could buy." UPSET IN A SQUALL. Young Man and Woman Drowned, Child Rescued. A despatch from Halifax says : While sailing on Bedford Basin late Wednesday afternoon Una Roy, aged seventeen, and William Muir, aged sixteen, were drowned, and- Margaret Muir, aged twelve, a sis- ter of the last named victim, waa rescued, after being half an hour in the water. When the party left Bedford at 4 o'clock the weather was fine and the water calm, but suddenly a terrific thunderstorm set in, and before the party could make the shore a heavy squall swept down from the north, and capsized the boat. The three occu- pants were hurled into the water about a Quarter of a mile from the shore. As the craft begftn to fill and settle down in the water, Muir seized the two oars, passing one to his little sister and the other to Miss Roy. The latter, however, scon sank, and Muir, exhausted from his efforts to keep the two girls afloat, also went down. Little Margaret, however, clung to the oar, and her screams for help at- tracted the attention of a man named Wilkes, who was on the shore, and, procuring a boat, he rescued the little girl. The victims are members of prominent Halifax families summering at Bedford. Miss Roy is a daughter of Mr. J. E. Boy, and William Muir a son of Mr. Andrew Muir. IRON NEAR MONTREAL. Very Important Discovery by a C. P. R. Ottleial. A despatch from Montreal says : A leading official of the C. P. R. made the statement on Thursday - that in the Laurcntian Mountains, within 100 miles of Montreal, were the largest iron ore deposits in Canada; in fact, the ore area was miles square in extent. "The re- ports are now before me, showing sixty per cent, of iron to a ton of earth. I leave Montreal on Friday for the purpose of endeavoring to bring into realization what would have been yesterday described as a dream. Until we have completed the preliminaries it would be most injudicious to give particulars, but the genuineness of the find is be- yond question," was the closing comment of the official. WOLFE MEMORIAL. Service will bo Held at His Tomb in Oreenyloh Church. A despatch from London says : On the day of dadication at Quebec there will be a memorial seryice at St. Altoge Church, at Greenwich, where Wolfe is buried. The Lord Mayor and sherlfh will attend, and it i9 hoped detaohmenta of Wolfe's regiments will alio be preieatt James MoMananey Said It Was the Only; Way to Save Her From Drowning. A despatch from Montreal says : A sailor by the name of James Mc- Manancy on board the S.S. Nianga of the Elder-Dempster Line, saved the life of a woman on Wednesday morning, who had fallen off the wharf. She was walking along the wharf in an intoxicated condition and fell into the river. McMananey jumped in after her and brought her to the edge. As soon as she was safe the woman started to scream and oall for help, saying that her rescuer was trying to murder her. Then she grasped the sailor's hair and com- menced to pull it out in bandfuls. Tldi 9«U8«^ MoMananey to release his hold on the woman, and she fell: back into the water again, pulling her rescuer with her by the hair.: Then started a battle under the' water, for when the woman came up a few seconds afterwards it waa seen that her nose was bleeding badly. By this time a boat had been sent out from the shore and tha parties rescued. When McMananey was seen after- wards he was suffering from a sor« head where the woman had pulM at his hair. When asked if he htM struck the woman he replied that hi had, as this was the only way ii which he could save her. She hV • death grip on him.