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•iiajpf*'" *c :F10R1CE KllAJE'S STOBY 4 : Differs Tery Little From That Whicli She ! * Told the Detectives Hajuilton, Marchll.â€" AttheKin- "ETHEL IS SHOT SIX TIMES." rade murder iaqueat last night, | ' Florence Kinrade \v»8 in the wit- 1 . oess bux for three hours, and she i was closely cross-examined by Mr. "Blackstock with regard to the mur- â- ^der of her sist«r Ethel. The story , which sho told reveals so far no ^ new fact, although in the course of her evideace there can be ob- ^ served c-ertain discrepancies in • comparison with her former stories. Her evidence is also remarkable 'in regard to the incidents connect- *ed with her sojourn in th* south, ^and because at Rochester and Buf- falo she claimed to have stayed as <a guest at houses the addresses of which snd tlie names of their own- »ers she cannot remember. . THE MYSTERIOUS MISS ELLIOT. . Apparently she was introduced to her career as a soloist by a Miss 'Elliot, an English woman given to ! .travelling, whose present where- ' abouts she does not know, and who introduced herself to the girl at "the Macnab Church. So far as her •connection with Baum, with whom ,8he was associated at a vaudeville theatre in Portsmouth, is concern- ed, she admitted that he proposed ciarriage to her, having knowledge .of her engagement to Mr. Wright, but she said that she regarded his attentions as a joKe. ^ Both Miss Kinrade and her fa-. «ther, who was on the stand two hours, spoke of the family being •cared by mysterious men, suppos- ed tramps, and by an attempt to ireak into the house. Beyond lapses of memory Miss Kinrade gave her evidence clearly, although «vidently under high nervous ten- sion. 80ME SLIGHT DISCREPANCIES , Miss Kinrade said that she at- tempted to get out of the window Jif the parlor, but the assassin pulled her back. How it happened that she had previously said she had got out of the window she did not know. Neither could she ex- plain why, when she ran into the pack yard, she did not scale the fence, one easy to climb, and, get assistance. As to the number of shots the witness was unable to tpeak definitely. She thought that X)ne was fired while she was up- stairs. At least she heard a bang, â- â- but did not realize that it was « shooting. One shot was fired at „ herself as she ran out of the front ,^oor. A MOMENT OF SILENCE. The silence of the court-room be- ' came tense at one point when Mr. ' Blackstock, after going over Miss h Kinrade's story, asked her if sho had not at one time told of strug- gling with the man in the dining- ' room and there actually seeing her . sister, who had come to seo what , was the matter, shot dead. "Now, did you tell that?" de- manded the lawyer. There was a long pause before > the voice of the slender girl in > black answered faintly, "Not that I know of." [ "Did you tell that to anyone?" , "Not that I remember." "Tell me this. Miss Kinrade, was Ethel Kinrade, your sister, shot in your siglit at the foot of the din- ing-room stairs 1" The reply came in a weary mono- tone like a recital of which the speaker is tired: "All I know is, I came in and saw her lying at the foot of the stairs." DRAMATIC INCIDENT. At 20 minutes to 2 o'clock, this morning, in answer to a direct question by Mr. BlackstO'lc as to whether she could identify her sis- ter's uiurderer. Miss Kinrade with • little cry answered: "I don't know his name, but, Oh, I should know him if I saw him," and faint- ed. Doctors came to her, and on the motion of Mr. Hobson the in- quest was adjourned till 7 o'clock on Thursday evening. A VERY STARTLING QUESTION An extract from the evidence of Mr. Kinrade, father of Florence, at the inquest on Wednesday night, given in answer to Mr. Blackstock's questions : "Is it true that when you canio Into your front hall that day you , said, 'I have expected this would happen for a long time' 1" ; "No." I "Will you swear you did not use , the expression?" > "I can't for sure." "If you u.sed an expression of that kind you cannot give me any teason for your use of it?" "There are two reasons I might give if I did say it. In the first place, if I said it that was when I thought it was Florence who was killed. There arose an idea that the man who had been following ber down south had been crazy enough to try to stop her marrying tile young minister by shooting her. Then I thought too, it might have been one of those tramps." "But you cannot swear positive- ly that you did not make that irtatemeut?" "Well, not for sure." Hamilton, Mar. 11.â€" Mrs. Hickey, to whose house Florence ran after the tragedy, testified that Flo- lepce's words were : "Ethel is shot; is shot six times." She also said that the girl had on her hat when she arrived. Dr. McNichol said Florence's story to him, told almost immedi- ately after the tragedy, was that a man forced himself into the house, and threatened her with a pistol. She struggled with him for the weapon, and Ethel, hearing the noise, came downstairs, screamed and was shot. Inspector McMahon testified that when Mrs. Kinrade came to the station to complain of tramps sho was perfectly collected. Detective Bleakely, who went up tc the house when the alarm was given, described the position of the body. There was a chair near the window with a pair of lady's rubbers near it. If Ethel had been shot sitting on the chair her head would probably fall where the pool of blood was on the floor. _ When Mr. Kinrade arrived he said in ex- cited tones as he passed: "I just expected something like this would happen." Mrs. Isabel Kinrade. mother of the murdered girl, said that she left the house at 3 o'clock, and did not know that anything had hap- pened until she saw the commotion in front of the house. Gertrude, the youngest member of the family, and Ernest, the eld- est, testified that their sisters never quarreled. Neither ever saw or heard of firearms in the house, or heard of Florence bringing a revolver with her from the South. FLORENCE KINRADE FAINTED Hamilton, March 12.â€" "If there was no man there, then only you two girls would be left. That will do. Miss Kinrade." Such was the sentence with which Mr. George Tate Blackstock, K.C., closed his second examination of; Florence Kinrade in the inquiry j as to the cause of the death of her sister Ethel under circumstances which make it stand out with ghast- 1 ly prominence in the criminal aa-j nals of Canada. The girl, who had been subjected to one of the most trying ordeals that ever a girl passed through, leaned back in her I chair in the witness box with white, | drawn face and drooping eyelids, | and one tensely stretched hand! clasping tho rail in front of licr. ! Throughout the court, not so ! crowded as on previous occasions, went a deep sigh as the hearers appreciated the meaning of Mr. Blackstock's last remark. CARRIED FROM THE COURT. Then the slight, black-clothed figure collapsed, and the constable in attendance called for Nurse | Walker to coma to her patient's as-| sistance. Apparently she had col-j lapsed utterly. Outside in the hall the nurse, who had been pacing , the hall with aii.\.ious steps and: bated breath as the ordeal within the closed doors w«.'nt on hour af ter ^ hour, was heard to say, "They wi!l| kill her." Her anxiety for her charge was marked on her face as she hurried into the court, and no less disturbed was Mr. Clair Mont- rose Wright, Miss Kinrade's fiance, who came in with the nurse. Dr. Bruce Smith and Dr. Clarke, who had been intently watching the ease, hurried to tlie girl's assist- ance. "I SEE THAT M.AN ; HE WILL CHOKE ME!" Tenderly she was lifted from the stand, and was being carried from the court where with one black- gloved hand flung out, as if to ward ofl some approaching peril, she shrieked: "1 see that man, I see that man ; he will choke nic ; he will shoot me,'' and shriek after shriek rang through the building. STORIES REGARDING REVOL- VERS. Two facts stood out in the evi- dence. The first was the statement by Earl Kinrade that he understood that his sister had practised with a revolver. It was, he said, com- mon talk among the family. The second was that Florence Kinrade denied emphatically that she had ever handled firearms. Apart from these facts the evi- dence was also noticeable for the new elements introduced into her story, and that persons in the neighborhood heard nothing of the shooting at the time it is supposed to have occurred. Subsequently the inquest was adjourned until a week from to- night, when the medical evidence will be taken and the inquiry closed. rilE WORLD'S MARKETS BEPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattio, Grain, Cheese ond Other Dairy Produce at Uomo uud Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Mar. 16.â€" Flour â€" On- tario wheat 00 per cent, patents $4.10 to $4.15 in buyers' sacks out- side for export. Manitoba flour ; first patents, $6.70 to $5.90 on track, Toronto ; second patents, 85.20 to $5.40, and strong bakers', $5 to $3.20. Wheatâ€" Manitoba wheat, $1.20 for No. 1 Northern, and $1.17 for No. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern, $1.24, all rail, and No. 2 Northern, $1.21 all rail. Oatsâ€" Ontario No. 2 white, 48^0 on track, Toronto ; No. 2 Western Canada oats, 48c. Collingwood, and No. 3 at 46% to 47c Colling- wood. Peasâ€" No. 2 92%c outside. Corn â€" No. 2 American yellow, 74 to 74%c on track, Toronto, and No. 3 yellow at 73 to 73j^c, To- ronto. Canadian corn, 72 to 73c on track, Toronto. Branâ€" Cars, $23 in bulk outside. Shorts, $23 to 5S23.50 in bulk out- side. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" $4.50 to $5.50 for choice qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for sec- onds. • Beansâ€" Prime, $1.90 to S2, and handpicked, $2.10 to |2.1a per bushel. Honeyâ€" Combs, $2.25 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10% to He per pound. Hayâ€" No. 1 timothy, $10.75 to $11.25 per ton on track here, and lower grades, $9 to $10 a ton. Strawâ€" $7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes â€" 60 to 65c per bag on track. Poultry â€" Chickens, dressed, 12 to 14c per pound ; fowl, 10 to He; tur- keys, 17 to 19c per pound. â€"Steady; Nj. 1 Northern, $1.10% t.> $1.17; No. 2 Northern, $1.14% to $1.15; July, $1.03 asked. Rye â€"No. 1, 79^4 to 80c. Cornâ€" May, 68c bid. Barleyâ€" Standard, a7c; sample, 84% to e7c ; No. 3, 65 to 6Cc; No. 4, 64% to 66c. Minneapolis, MareJj 10 â€" Wheat -May, $1.11?^; July, $1.12%; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.14%; No. I Northdrn, $1.13%; No. i North- ern, $1.11% to $1.11%; No. 3 Northern, $1.07% to $1.09%. Bran â€"In bulk, $23 to $23.50. Flour- First patents, $5.55 to $5.66; sec- ond patents, $5.45 to $5.55; first clears, $4.40 to $4.50; second clears. $3.15 to $3.25. Duluth, March 16.â€" Wheat â€" No. 1 hard, $1.11; No. 1 Northern, $1.- 13; No. 2 Northern, $1-11; May, $1.12; July, $1.12%; Sept., $1. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Mar. 16. â€" Choice e.x- porters' sold at $5.50 ; medium qua- lity at $5 to $5.25; the best picked butchers' at $8 ; several straight loads, however, went at 4i4.80. The demand for good stockers and feed- ers continues, and dealers bad no difficulty in disposing of the small number offering at satisfactory prices. There were' a number of young lambs on sale. These and sheep were in fair demand at last week's quotations. Calves were firm and unchanged. Hogs â€" Select at $6.90 f.o.b. and $7.15 fed and watered. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 20 to 21c; tubs and large rolls, 13 to 20c ; in-, feior, 15 to 17c ; creamery rolls, 25 to 26c, and solids, 22 to 23c. Eggsâ€" Case l<»ts of new laid, 24 to 2oc per dozeii. Cheese â€" Large cheese, 13%c per pound, and twins, 14c. FAR.HER SAVEB A TRAIN. Flagged the G. T. R, E.vpres8 This Side of Saruia. A despatch from London, Ont., says : The G. T. R. passenger train due here at 1.10 p.m., on Friday from Sarnia was doubtless saved from being ditched two miles east of Sarnia by a farmer's presence of mind. The farmer (whose name could not be learned) discovered a broken rail near Perch Creek bridge, and standing on the tracks flagged the train, which was com- ing at a good rate of speed. The train was stopped in time by En- gineer Thomas Bruce, and the crew, including Fireman Pook and Con- ductor Douglas, temporarily re- paired the track, so that the ex- press could proceed, then a man was placed to guard the break and the section gang notified. HOG PRODUCTS. Bicon â€" Long clear, 11% to 12c per piund in case lots ; mess pork, !i«20 to $i0.50; short cut, 823 to $24. Hams â€" Light to medium, 14 to 1-J%c; do., heavy, 13 to 13%c ; rolls, 10% to He; shoulders, 10%c ; backs, 16 to 16%c ; breakfast bacon, 15>^ to 10c. Lard â€" Tierces, 12%c ; tubs, 13c ; pails, 13%c. BUSINESS IN MONTREAI,. Montreal, March 10. â€" Peas â€" No. 2, 08% to 99c. Oatsâ€" Canaijjian Western No. 2, 51 to Sljjjc; <S5ttra No. 1 feed, 50% to 51c ; No. 1 feed, 50 to 50%c ; Ontario No. 2, 50 to 50%c ; Ontario No. 3, 49 to 49,' .jC ; Ontario No. 4, 43 to 48%c. Barley â€"No. 2, 63% to 65c; Manitoba feed, 58 to 5S%c. Buckwheat â€" 55% to 6Cc. Flour â€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80 to $6 ; Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, seconds, $5.30 to $5.50; Ma- nitoba strong bakers, $5.10 to $5.- 30; Winter wheat patents, |5.40 to $5.50; straight rollers, $5 to $5.10; straight rollers in bags, $2.- 3ii to $2.45; extra in b.ags, $1.95 tc .$2.05. Feedâ€" Manitoba bran, $22 ; Manitoba shorts, $24 ; Ontario bran, $23 to $24; Ontario shorts, $2-1.50 to $25; Ontario middlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain mouilTe, $33 to $35 ; mixed mouille, $28 to $30. Cheeseâ€" Finest western, 13 to 13%c; easterns, 12% to 12%c. But- ter â€" Fall creamery, 21c ; Western creamery, 20c. Egjjrs â€" The demand continues good, and the undertone to 'the market is stronger, with sales at 28 to 30c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, March 16. â€" Wheat ROBBING THE I. C. R. System of Frauds .\.Ilegcd Against Ot&cials. A despat-ch from Montreal says : What is said to be a series of frauds ag.^inst the Government has been brought to light, and sevcr.^1 of the higher officials of the I. C. R. in this city and Moncton are impli- cated. The frauds consist in false weighing at several poiiits along the system, and have caused heavy losses to the road. It is st*tcd here that a complete investigation has been ordered and suspensions and arrests will follow as a result. The false billing of lumber between here and Point Levis was the caure 0*^ the discovery. Two cars loaded with lumber for Nieolet were in- spected by a high official, who found them to be sixty thousand pounds over the weight paid for. Other reports of a like nature have been received and a general clcan-up of the system will likely take place. FflCB IWJBEAfflOlHTS Are Provided For in Great Britain's Naval Programme. A despatch from London says : The eagerly awaited British naval estimates, about which there has been so much controversy inside and outside the Cabinet, were is- sued on Friday evening. A com- promise won the day, for the esti- mates provide for a total expendi- ture of $175,713,500, an increase of $14,116,000 over the estimates of 19081909. The new building programme provides for four Dreadnoughts, six protected cruisers, twenty tor- pedo-boat destroyers and a number of sub-marines, the latter to cost $5,000,000. The Government may in the course of the financial year find it necessary to make preparations for the rapid construction of four more large armored ships to be commenc- ed on April 1, 1910. The Govern- ment, therefore, asks Parliament for powers to enable them to b* prepared to lay down on April 1, 1910, additional ships which can be completed in March, 1912. An interesting point in the esti- mates is that the Admiralty has under consideration the use of dir- igible airships for naval purpose* and has decided to carry out ex- periments and construct an aerial vessel. Under Mr. McKenna's programme Great Britain should have by the end of 1911 fourteen vessels of the Dreadnought type, against thir- teen to be then completed by Ger- many. Mr. McKenna intimated that « bill would shortly be introduced to sanction the arrangement by which the Canadian Government had un- dertaken to maintain for the Im- perial navy, naval establishments at Halifax and Esquimalt. BUILDING IP THE WEST. About .530.01)0,000 Worth of Now Work This Year. A despatch from Winnipeg says : It is estimated that thirty million dollars' worth of new buildings will be erected in ten cities of western Canada during the present season. In this a.mount the twin cities at the head of the lakes are expected to share to the extent of six millions. Winnipeg will run between ten and twelve millions, and the balance will be distribut- ed between Brandon, Regina, Moose Jaw, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver. â€"â€"â€"•J, â€" .\ switchman's forgetfulness al- lowed a Wabash passenger train to run into a freight at St. Thomas on Sunday morning. One lady pas- senger and the engineer were painfully injured. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS RAPPEXIXCS FROM ALL OTEU TUE GLOBE. Telegraphic Rricfs From Oar Own â- nd Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. Picton's new $50,000 collegiate institute was formally opened on Friday. There is an unprecedente*! de- mand for lots in the new town of Gowganda. Dr. Glasgow, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Dragoons, died at Welland, on Saturday. Winnipeg Street Railway men will as'K for a nine-hour-day at the present rate of pay. The Patriotic Fund Association has made an additional grant of $4,000 to Trooper Mulloy. Mr. Donald Sutherland, ex-M.P., has been appointed head of the Provincial C<;lonization Bureau. Provision for a new Central Pri- son will be made during the present session of the Ontario Legislature. "The C. P. R., it is reported, will build two or three new steamers for the Pacific coast trade at Esqui- malt. Mr. John Foster of Petrolia was found dead in a ditch by the road on Friday. His horse was also dead. The Quebec Government will spend ten thousand dollars on a monument to the late Houoro Mcr- cier. Montreal Irishmen are taking ac- i tion to stop the display of offen- sive caricatures of their country- men. G. E. Stewart, the insane mur- dered, has been removed from the ' jail at Orangcville to Hamilton ,\sylum. Mr. Graham's scheme for the protection of railway crossings i was favorably received by the ' House of Commons. Mr. Fielding has given notice of a resolution for a Government loan of ten million dollars to the Grand Trunk Paciric. A scheme is broached at Mont- , real for the erection of a great un- ion station on the site of the Wind- sor and Bonaventure stations. Convict Clark, who escapes from penitentiary with Bill Miner, has been brought back to New West- minster from Mount Vernon. Col. Turnbull, formerly Com- mandant of the Montreal Artillery Brigade, was found dead in his lodgings at Ottawa on Friday. Willie Woodward, aged thirteen, was killed at Lucan, on Friday, being caught in the shafting of a planing mill where he was working. Over a thousand Doukhobors in the west are going out to settle on the new lands recently purchased l\v the community in British Ce- lumbia. The arrivals and departures of Japanese for the months of Janu- ary and February showed a net in- crease of three to the colony im Canada. It is reported at Winnipeg that the Manitoba Legislature will hold a summer session to consider the boundary agreement, and that » general election will probably fol- low soon. A Buffalo physician has offered the skull of Capt. Brant, the great Indian Chieftain, to Brantford. The Brantford authorities had the grave opened some time ago and the skull was there then. GREAT BRITAIN. By a treaty with Siam signed en Thursday three new States were ad- ded to the British Empire. Mr. Asquith, speaking in Lon- don, declared that free trade waa in no danger. The assault on i* could be repelled. Calais lacemakers boycotted a large lace factory and threatened tc burn it because the owners were contemplating a removal to the United States. M. Cailloux, the French Minister of Finance, is expected to resign as the result of a quarrel with the Minister of Marine on the question of naval apprupriatioas. The Revenue For February About Equals Last Year's. A despatch from Ottawa says : The financial statement of the Do- minion for the month of February indicates that the difficulties which the Finance Minister has had to meet during the past year or so in respect to .falling revenues and in- creasing expenditures are now practically at an end. The total revenue for the month was $6,567,- 186, as compared with $6,577,027 for February of last year. Expen- diture on consolidated fund ac- count was $3,936,626, a decrease of $-124,192, and on capital account, $22,486,653, a decrease of $1,030,- 435. Tho net debt of the Dominion decreased by $171,237. During th« month the customs revenue increos- ed by $41,000, and the miscellane- ous revenue by $128, 1-40. The ex- cise revenue decreased $123,239. For the eleven months of current fiscal year the entries up to the last day of February on the books of the Finance Department show a total revenue of .isi'5,.W'l,822, a de- crease of $12,096,477, as compared with the corresponding period of [ 1907-03. The expenditure on con- solidated fund account totalled I $67,004,482, an increase of $6,284,- 489. On capital account the expen- diture for the eleven months was $39,302,102, as compared with $25,- 768,488 in 1907-8. The total net debt of tho Dominion on Feb. 27 was $308,054,780. UNITED ST.\TES. A Polish priest was shot in his rectory at Newark, N. J., by three unknown men. The number of lives lost in the Arkansas tornado is now estimated at forty-two. The United States tariff bill pro- vides for reciprocity with Canada ia coal. .\ man at Marlboro', Mass.. has eaten nothing for thirty-eight days. He hopes to cure cancer by fasting. The Missouri two-cent-fare law was quashed by the courts, as not allowing a reasonable profit to the railroads. The new United States tariff bill removes the duty on hides and re- duces that on lumber, steel and leather products. The British steamer Tamarao, which arrived at Philadelphia yes- tert'ay, reported having fallen in with "over fifty icebergs northeast CI the Grand Banks. Three bankers, now convicts in the West^'rn Penitentiary in Pennsvlvania, have discovered & shortage of over $26,000 in the penitentiary's books. .GENERAL. King .\lfonso and his Queen are holidaying in Andalusia. President Castro is said to bo about to leave France for Venzue- la. Twenty-seven workmen were killed in Salsburg, Austria, by tui avalanche. The Cuban House of Representa^ tativcs passed a bill legalizing cock-fighting. Two .\narchists were shot in % hght with the police at Yekateria- oslav, Russia. OF caiaTa gbeat rush to tie west The Authorities at Winnipeg Are Prepar- ing for a Busy Season. A despatch from Winnipeg says : The immigration authorities are preparing for one of the greatest seasons in the history of western settlement. Discussing the pros- pects on Wednesday, Commissioner \\ alker said : â€" "Judging from the thousands of inquiries which we have received at the Winnipeg offices and tho re- ports which we have received from agents in the L'uited States. Great Britain and the continent of Europe, 1 have no hesitation in say- ing that the year 1009 will .show a very great inciease over any pro- ceding year. Of course, in the year liiOH the Government of Canada adopted stringent measures to check immigration. The result of this action on the part of the Gor- erament was that ihere was a con- siderable leduction in eniigratiuit from Great Britain during the last fiscal year, and from all causes there was a decrease in that year amounting to 48 per cent., as com- pared with the pre\ious fiscal ye.ir. O' this restrictive policy we have already felt the benefit. There were in the city fewer unemployetl men • than tiiore were in previous .vears, and much fewer th:iu there would have been had wc pcrmitlcd an extra fifty thousand \cry poor Europeans to be sent into the country during that yciir. Wc have ftUo iiad during tho past winter a very great reduction in the uun»biT (;f needy people coming to Iminigri- tion Mali for food."