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s- 1 ^pm^ TWEIT Y-FIYE WEB E KILLED Gas Explosion in Excavation in Brooklyn Causes Their Death. A despatch from New York says : Twenty-live persons arc believed to liave lost their lives in an explo- eion of gas wliieli tore up a great section of Gold street, Brooklyn, on Friday. It is definitely known that fifteen persons were buried un- der the hundreds of tons of earth and timber that were thrown into the air by the explosion, and ten niore persons are missing. The explosion occurred in a fifty-foot deep excavation that had been made in Gold street between York and Front streets, where a water main was being laid. The gas main re- cently sprung a leak, and in a man- ner unknown a spark came in con- tact with the escaping gas. There was a torriffic explosion that lift- ed the surface of the street for half n block in both directions, and hurled dirt, paving stones and de- Lris into the air. When the smoke and dirt had been cleared away it was seen that the street had been opened from doorstep to doorstep over an area of nearly a block. The loosened earth and debris had fallen into the excavation, burying the score of la- borers who were at work when tlie accident happened. Great tongues of flame shot out of the crevices in the street, and beside them geysers of water leaped into the air from B water main that had been shat- tered by the explosion. Two bodies were sticking out of the wreckage. Gold street was crowded wi'..h school children, when the explo- sion occurred, and that scores of children were not killed or injured was remarkable. A woman and three children were almost opposite the excavation when the earth crumbled under their feet and they were swept down into the hole un:'.f r tons of wreckage. Two other chil- dren were on the opposite side of the street when the sidewalk caved in and they lost their lives. Samuel Trout, who lived near the scene, lost his life in attempting to save a woman who was passing through Gold street at the time of the explosion and fell into the trench. Trout was caught by the (lames from the blazing gas main and roasted alive. The woman was dragged out of the trench and sav- ed by a boy. SllRDKR IN RAILWAY CAR. â- C. P. R. Car Cleaner Under Ar- rcat at AVinnipcg. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Thos. Hicks, a C. P. R. car clean- er, is under arrest, suspected of murdering Eccles Lennox, a Grand Trunk Pacific brakesman, at Port- ago La Prairie. On Monday Len- nox started for the Old Country l6 urirg his family to Canada ; his dead body was found in a car the next morning in the C. 1'. P. yards at Winnipeg. Ho was shot through the hi-ad, and a revolver lay by his side. There was $60 in his pocket, and it is thought to be a case of Buicido. Hicks is charged with hav- ing killed Lennox, after having had a row with bin- over money, and left the gun by his side to suggest suicide. " A â-  SUICIDE AT OTTAWA. Chas. T. MolTaK, Law Clerk, Shoots Ilinmeit Dead. A despatch from Ottawa says : Chas. T. Moffatt, law clerk in the office of GemmiU k May, took his life at noon on Sunday. He went into the janitor'.s room of the Carle- ton Chambers, where his firm has offices, and fired a bullet from a fr,rty-four-calibre revolver through his head, dying instantly. Ho was twenty-eight years of ago, and a Bon of the late 11. B. Moffatt of Amherst, N.S., who was for many years Clerk of the Commons Kail- way Committee. The young man had no financial troubles, and dc- fipondenay duo to illness is sup- posed to have occasioned the deed. He was unmarried, and made his home hero with a bro- ther and stepmother. CIUNESK TROOPH MUTINY. After Severe Fighliti!; the Mutin- eers nrc Defeated. A despatch from Shanghai says : News received hero is to the effect that there was a mutiny among llie C.'hinese troops at Anking after the ononiicement of the death of the Kmporor and Einjiress Dowager. The mutiny was suppressed after Kovern fighting. Tlie British gun- boat Wuhu has been sent to Ank- ing. ED. LEE C.VPTURED? German Police Think They Hare Toronto Jail Breaker. A despatch from Niagara Falls says : Chief of Police Lyons of Ni- agra Falls, N. Y., has received in- formation that Edward Lee, alias Blackio, who it is alleged murdered Patrolman McCormick and serious- ly injured Patrolman Manger of the Niagara Falls, N. Y., police on the evening of July 22 last, after escaping from Toronto Jail with five ethers, has been apprehended in Berlin, Germany. The German au- thorities claim the man they have answers in every detail to the de- scription sent them of Lee, and ask it the American authorities will extradite. 41 GIRL KILLED COASTING. Struck by Milk Wagon Wliilc Slid- ing on Ottawa Street. A despatch from Ottawa says: A little girl named Beatrice Daw- son, aged five years, was killed iwhile coasting of Saturday down one of the suburban streets. A milk wagon came down the hill and knocked her down. ONLY TOE BABY SAVED. Four of a Family go Thr«»ugh the Ice at Red River. A despatch from Selkirk, Mani- toba, says : Four lives were lost in the llod Uiver on Wednesday, The victims were : C. Favel, a fisher- man, and his wife and two chil- dren. They were travelling over the ice by dog train to the mouth of the river to open winter fishing quarters, when they all went through a weak spot. Mrs. Favel had thrown her little baby up on the solid ice when alio wont through herself, and it was found shortly afterwards, safe and sound. The others had been swept away. ^ Mr. F. A. Acland has been ap- pointed Deputy Minister of Labor, in succession to Mr. Mackenzie King. James McQueen was kidnapped at Emerson, Man., and taken across the border by United States secret service officers. TURI OF Trade Returns for October Show Marked Improvement. A despatch from Ottawa says : Trade returns for October show an increase of ^2,002,071 in exports of domestic products and a decreise of $6,221,515 in imports of merchan- dise entered for consumption, as cf.mpared with October of last year. The total value of domestic exports for the month was $20,209,212, as compared with 2;j,097,l»H for the same month last year. Exports of agricultural pnnlnets increased by about four millions, while exports f.f the mine and of animals and their products each fell off about me million. Total imports, exclu- tive of coin and bullion, were $20,- THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices o! Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Uouic and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Nov. 21. â€" Ontario wheatâ€" No. 2 white or red, outside, 02( to flSc; No. 2 mixed, 92c to S2%c. Manitoba Wheatâ€" Spot, No. I northern, 31.08 to $1.08^; No. 2 northern, jSl.Oa to $1.05X, lake ports. Oatsâ€" Ontario No. 2 white, 38%c tj 'ioy^c, outside; No. 3 mixed, 37%c to 38c, outside. Manitoba No. 2 western Canada, 43%c to 44c or. track, lake ports; No. 3, 41%c tc 42c; No. 1 extra feed offered at same level. Barleyâ€" No. 2, 66c to 66%c ; No. 3 extra, 55c to 553'::c ; No. 3, 63c to 63%c. Coinâ€" Old, 77>^c to 78c, Toronto freights, for No. 2 or 3 yellow ; new No. 3 yellow, 71 %c to 72c, Toronto freights. Ryeâ€" No. 2, 76c to 77c. Peasâ€" No. 2, 85c to 8<3c, outside. Buckwheat â€" No. 2, 54c to 55c. Flour â€" Manitoba, first patents, $5.80, seconds, $5.30 ; strong bak- ers', $5.10; Ontario winter wheat patents, for export, $3.70 to $3.75 outside. Millfcedâ€" Bran, $20 to $20.50 per ton in bags, outside ; shorts, $21 bulk, $21.50 in bags, Montreal. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples â€" Winter stock quoted at $2.50 to $3.50 per barrel for good qualities, and at $1.50 to $2 for cooking apples. Beansâ€" Prime, $1.80 to $1.85, and haod-picked, $1.0U to $1.95 per bushel. Honeyâ€" Combs, $2.25 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to lie per pound. Hayâ€" No. 1 timothy quoted at $11 to $11.50 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at $7 to $8. Strawâ€" $0.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes â€" Ontario 60 to 62c per bag. Delawares, 75 to 80c per bag on track. Poultry â€" Chickens, dressed, 9 to 10c per pound ; fowl, 7 to 8c ; ducks, to 10c; geese, 8 to 9c per pound ; turkeys, 12 to 12%c per pound. HELPLES S II FACE OF DEATH Twelve-Year-Old Dundas Girl Run Over and Fatally Injured A despatch from Hamilton says : Violet Norton, the twelve-year-old daughter of Edward Norton, Flam- boro' street, Dundas, was run over by a Hamilton & Dundas car in Dundas about 5 o'clock on Thurs- day evening and received injuries from which she died at her home about 10 o'clock the same night. Miss Norton was crossing the tracks near the canal when her foot caught in the frog. She tried to pull it out, but without success, and though she called for help, no per- son was near. Shortly after her foot was caught she heard the car approaching. She cried to try and attract the motorman's attention and threw her body to one side, but the spot was unlighted and he could not hear her cries over the noise made by the car. The first he knew of the accident was after the car wheels had passed over her leg. This was terribly crushed near the knee. She v.as taken home, where Dr. Ryckert was called. He first thought she would be brought to the city hospital for treatment, but she was too we.ik from loss of blood and shock, and rapidly declined. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, Nov. 24. â€" Sales of the best butchers' steers and heifers ranged from $4.25 to $4.50 per cwt. Good loads were sold at $4 to $4.- 25 and medium at $3.35 to $3.75. Common cattle could be had from $1.75 per cwt. upwards. Quota- tions for light stockers ranged from $1.75 to $2.25 per cwt. For the best milch cows as high a": $70 was paid. The ordinary cows sold around $30 each. Choice \eal calves are wanted. Sheep were steady and unchanged, while Iambs were slow of sale. Select hogs continued to sell at $6.25 per cwt. fed and watered, Toronto. 202,085, as compared with $31,484,- 600 for October, 1907. For the first seven months of the present fiscal year the imports en- tered for home consumption total- led $102,008,302, a decrease of $59,- 720,936, as compared with the same period of 1007. During the seven months coin and bullion were im- ported to the value of $7,212,812, as compared with $1,396,375 last year. Exports of domestic products for the seven months totalled $136,- 408,263, a decrease of $12,802,525. The total trade for the seven n)onths was $318,406,985, a decrease of $73,216,434. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 22 to 2-lc ; tubs, 22 to 23c ; inferior, 19 to 20c. Creamery rolls, 27 to 28c, and sol- ids, 25% to 26c. F'ggsâ€" Case lots of storage, 22 to 23c per dozen, while new laid are quoted at 28 to 30c per dozen. Chooseâ€" Largo, 13}ic per pound, and twins, 13%c. PROVISIONS. Porkâ€" Short cut, $23.50 per bar- rel ; mess, $10 to $19.50. Lardâ€" Tierces, 13c; tubs, 13%c; paila, nj^c. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats â€" Long clear bacon, 12c to 12Xc ; tons and cases, hams, large, 12%c to 13c; small, lie to Hj-^c ; backs, 17c to 17%c; shoulders, 10c to 10%c; rolls, lie to n%c; breakfast ba- con, lac to 16c ; green meats out of pickle, Ic less than smoked. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Nov. 24. â€" Grainâ€" Ca- nadian Western No. 2 white oats are selling at 4r>V^c, No. 3 at 45/.:;c, extra No. 1 feed oats at 45j'.^c, and No. 1 feed at 45c. Ontario No. 2 whito at 45c, No. 3 at 44c, and No. 4 at 43%c per bushel, ex store. F"lourâ€" Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts at $0, seconds at $5.60; Winter wheat patents, $5 to $5.25; straight rollers, $1.60 to $4.70; do., in bags, $2.15 to $2.25; extras, $1.- 75 to $1.85. Feedâ€" Manitoba bran at $21; shorts, $21; Ontario bran, $21.50 to $22; middlings, $23 to $26; shorts, $24.50 to $25 per ton. Cheeseâ€" Westerns were quoted at 12Xc to 12!/»c and easterns at II'hC to 12. Butter â€" F'inest creamery was qnoted at 27c in round lots, and 27 y,c to 28c to grocers. Eggsâ€" New- laids were quoted at 29c to 30c, se- lected at 25c to 25%c, No. 1 at 22c (o 23c, and No. 2 at 17j-^c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Nov. 24. â€" Wheat â€" Dec, $1.04; May, $I.08j;;; No. 1 hard, $1.03V<; No. 1 Northern, $1.- 07 to $1.07^; No. 2 Northern, $1.- Or, to $1.05>4; No. 3 Northern, $1.- 02% to $1.04%. Flourâ€" First pat- ents, $5.40 to $5.65 ; second pat- ents, $5.25 to $5.60; first clears, $4 to $4.30; second clears, $3 to $3.30. Milwaukee, Nov. 24.â€" Wheat â€" No. 2 northern, $1.08; No. 2 north- ern, $1.06; May. $1.07% bid. Rye I â€"No. 1. 7r>'/c. Barleyâ€" Standard, iin%c; No. 3,' 60 to C2c; No. 4, We. 'Coru--M»y, 63 to 63;^ic bid. WILL HANG FOR MURDER. Stephen Szweryda Found Guilty at Brampton. .A despatch from Brampton, Ont., says: "Stephen Szweryda, the judg- ment of this court is that you be taken from here to the place whence you came, and there kept in close confinement until Thursday, the nth day of February, 1909, and that you be taken thence to the place of execution, and there hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul." This was the sen- tence that Mr. Justice Riddell pro- nounced upon the Ruthenian who under the guise of friendship en- ticed a young fellow-countryman, Olvickh Loutick, a stranger in Ca- nada, into a lonely wood near Er- indale, and with a heavy bludgeon beat the poor boy to death. ANDREW FOX MURDERED. Thrown Out of Cah and Dragged Behind Galloping Horse. A despatch from Montarel says : Andrew Fox of Toronto was found dead on St. Ja-mes street at I '('clock on Friday morning. He was thrown out of a cab by the cab- driver and dragged behind his gal- loping horse. The tragedy occur- red on St. James street near the Grand Trunk station. Fox was in the cab with one or two other men, when a quarrel arose, and it is said the cab driver took part in the row. Two young men who profess to be co'e-witnesses say that the cabby had smashed the man on the face and knocked him apparently uncon- scious to the ground. After knock- ing the man down the cabby got into the sleigh, caught hold of th« unconscious man by the foot, and drove off down the street east at a furious pace, dragging the man af- ter him over the rough snow. «_ A MAM.MOTIl ELEVATOR. Plans of the Grand Trunk Pacific for Fort William. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Mr. W. R. Sinks, General Manager of the Stewart Company, who will build a big handling warehouse for the G. T. P. at Fort William, is here preparing to undertake the contract. Ho says this mammoth ] elevator involves the largest con- I tract of the kind let in America. I "The tanks of the new stt rage ware- ] house will be of concrete and will have a capacity of three and a quar- ter million bushels, and the esti- mated cost is about $1,250,000. GREAT FIELD OF COPPER. Discovery Near Flor Island, Thun- der Bay District. A despatch from Port Arthur says : One of the richest and most extensive discoveries of copper in- this district was made within the last few days near Flor Island, off Isle St. Ignac, at the entrance to Nepigon Strait, by Didace Caru- fel of Sudbury. It is said to ex- tend for miles, and the deposits seem to run through a chain of mines continuing from Lamb Is- land lighthouse eastward. Carufel and his apsociate have taken up sev- enteen claims. SMALLPO.V IN LUMBER CAMPS Eight Case.s in North Part of Peter- borough County. A despatch- from Peterborough, Ont., says: Smallpox has broken out in the lumber camps in Caven- dish 'Township, in the north of Pc tcrborough County. There are eight cases, 'fho disease is said to be of a mild type. Dr. Smythe, of the Provincial Board of Health, has ar- rived to take charge of the cases. VOTES FOR WOMEN AT LAST. Australian State Legislature Pass- es Bill. A despatch from Melbourne, Au- stralia, says: The Victoria Legisla- tive Council has passed the bill em- powering women to vote at the State elections. This bill previous- ly had been rejected several times. The women throughout Australia have now won the right of suffrage it' both Commonwealth and State elections. 1 DIED OF GLANDERS. Dr. Thomas M. Wilson of Atwood Succumbed to Disease. A despatch from Startford says: Dr. Thomas M. Wilson of Atwood, Ont., died of glanders on Thurs- day at the Chicago Presbyterian Hospital. He is supposed to have become infected while pursuing a post-graduate course at the Rush- well Medical College. HE HIED OF STA BYATIM Peterboro', Ont, Man Found Dead in a Cincinnati Hotel. .\ despatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, says : Patrick J. Crcedon, aged forty-five, an inventor, and a na- tive of Peterboro', Ont., was found dead on Wednesday afternoon in hit room at the Burnet House. Dr. Coo of the C\)roner's staff stated he believed death to be due to natural causes, probably a hemorrhage brought on os a result of starva- tion. The man was last seen in the hotel lobby at noon on Monday. The failure of the porters to obtain a response to their knocks on his door necessitated the employment of the pass key and resulted in the fiudiox of t>ib« fi»a d«u4 on tua bed. He was partially dressed. Creedon came to Cincinnati on Wednesday, November Uth, to ne- gotiate with Arthur Francis Hoov- ci and Charles S. Burdsall the organization of a company to put on the market a bit that Creedon liad^ patented, and also to employ his secret pri'Cess of hardening steel i.i the manufacture of the bit. Ho had held a number of conferences with Burdsall and Hoover and ne- gotiations had proc'/ded to the e.\- tent of obtaining the subscription; of several thousand dollars to capi- talize a $75,000 company. Paper* found on the man by Dr, Coe in- rii/»»t« ^v-** *»« was married.