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MABilE lOY EXPLODlS CONDENSED NEWS ITEiMSlLEADING MARKETS One Man Killed and One Hurt on King's Wharf at Quebec. the A despatch from Quebec Bays : For want of expert direction on Friday forenoon a fatal explosion occurred on the King's Wharf in connection with the Quebec agency of the Marine and Fisheries De- (larlnient, which resulted in tho death of one man named Ludger Germaiue and serious injury to Siinother employee named Huppc. The agency is now busy getting ready tho buoys to be laid iu the St. Lawrence at the opening of navigation, and Be\eral workmen I were charging one of th« largo j buoys with calcium of carbonite, I which did not seem to fit. Ono I of tho workmen, presumably Ger- Imaine, lifted a piece of batten from the ground and coninienoed to 1 strike the carbon, when the ox- plosion took place. It was acceler- ated by the dump snow that cov- ered the ground on which tho large ' gas buoy stood. It is very evident [ thart, tho workmen were ignorant [of the danger in handling the cal- I cium of carbonite, and there was I no expert to direct them. UFOTINO IN CAIRO. Lanecrs and Mounted Policemen DiRpcrxc the Mob. A despatch from Cairo, Egypt, says : The new press law promul- gated last week, that provides pen- alty for tho spreading of false news or for inciten>ont against tli« public order, was followed on Thursday by riotous demonstra- tions in the streets of Cairo by a large body of students. Tho situ- ation became so threatening that lancers and mounted policemen had to be called out to disperse tho mob, which nurubered several thousand persons. The troops charged several limes and fire hose had finally to be brought into play to rout the demonKtrators. Further trouble is fearetl. The local garri- son has been placed under arms and ball cartridges have been serv- ed out so that the authorities may be prepared to cope with any even- tuality. * TUE CI STOMS REVENUE. March Inrrcase Nearly Four Hun- dred Thousand Dollars. A despatch from Ottawa says : Customs receipts of the Dominion for tho month of March, the last month of the fiscal year, show that the turn of the tide, which Bet in with the beginning of tho year in respect to customs revenue, 1% now increasingly apparent. For the mouth the total customs re- ceipts iiave been 94,747,291, an in- crease of $^91,189 as compared with March of last year. This is the l;r»t V.g increase in about a year and a half. For the twelve mouths of the fiscal year the cus- toms rev«.nuc has totalled $47,378,- 000, a decreaso of $10,488,032, as comj),-ired with 1907-03. TWO CHILDREN BIIRNKO. Mother Had to Jump From Window With Uabe. A deapatcih from Enio., Ont., Bays : A horrible occurrence hap- pened on tho farm of Jlobert 8tir- rot, north of tiiis village, at an early hour on Friday luorning, when his residence was burned, and two little children, Colin and Ruby, aged 7 and 5 years, respec- tively, perished in the flames. Every member of tho family was burned more or less, but Mr. Stir- ret was severely injured in the ef- fort to rescue his children. A married daughter, Mrs. Campbell, with her infant child but a week old, had a very narrow escape from a horrible death, being obliged to jump from a window into a snow- Lank with her babe. ALEX. MILLER .\RRE.STED. Charged With Killing John Kelt in Drunken t|uurrel. A despatch from Dryden, Ont., â- ays: Alex. Miller, who is accused of having killed his mate, John IJell, in a drunken brawl at Minni- taki on Thurstlay night by striking him on the side of the head with a lantern, was arr<'st-ed on Friday, and is in jail here. Provincial Constable Hanson made the ar- rest. Miller, it would seem, was quite unaware that the blow hod ' killed Bell. FAMILY ASPHYXIATED. Family of Mr. Jamcfi McLean, London, Found Unconscious. A de.'ipatch from London, Ont., says: At 6 o'clock on Friday oven- iug, when neighbors broke into tho house of James McLean, on Chos- ley avenue, it was to find McLean, his wife and three children in an unconscious condition from gas as- phyxiation. For eighteen hours they had been that way. All will probably recover except a ten- year-old girl, who is in a serious condition. The family retired about midnight on Thursday night. An hour later tho mother was awakened by the moaning of a child. She staggered into tho next room, to find the child vomiting, and then herself fell in a semi- conscious condition. The woman says that she never completely lost consciousness, but was physically unable to arise or even make a sound. When neighbors finally awoke her she thought it was but morning. Her husband, when aroused, murmured that he had overslept. 4. • REVOLVER IN EACH HAND. Darfng Thief Gets Away With Dia- monds at Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says Montreal is becoming famous through her epidemic of robberies and hold-ups. On Saturday night a daring robbery was committed on St. Lawrence street, when a thief smaslvod a window in a jewellery shop, secured $3,000 worth of dia- monds, and made good his oscaiMj after terrorizing tho crowd on tho street by flourishing a pair of re volvers. Ho then ran a short dis tance to Lagauchetiero street, and climbed into a waiting rig and es caped with his confreres. FOFND POWDER IN COAL. SouictUing Pretty Near a Tragedy at Itroekville. A despatch from Brockvillo says: Tiios. McOraw is a hero around the 0. T. It. shops at present. On Saturday afternoon while lighting an euKinc preparatory to a trip over the road and as tho coal was being shovelled into the fire box McQraw noticed a five-pound tin can of l)laKting powder used in tho mines for disinterfrating bitumin- ous coal. A sample of the powder on being tested proved a very pow- erful explosive. Had the can es- caped McOraw's eye it is hard to say what might havo boon the re- sult. nilFFALO'S «A8 SHUT OFF. Order Prohibiting Export of Na- tural l>a.s Now In Force. A despatch from Welland gays Tho Provincial Oas Company re ccivcd ofHcial notice from Ottawa that its permit to export natural gas, expiring Mar. 31, would not he renewed, and on Wednesday night at midnight tho supply going to Buffalo was shut off. One-third of the Buffalo supply came from Can- ada. The company has not yet de- cided what market it will seek for the gas which has been going to Buffalo, hut a meeting will bo lield soon to decide this matter. THE HM GE INYADl l HOST Seventy Thousand Americans Will Go Upon Farms in the West This Season. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Wealth is pouring over the border into Canada from the United States at the present at tho rate of nearly a million per weok, ac- cording to the estimates of those vho are in touch with the immi- gration movcmont. The influx is exceptionally large. Trains in two â- ections are the rule of tbe tioo line running into Moose Jaw, and •11 the trains are carrying large numbers of Americans from the fitales of the central west. Bpecial settlers' trains, with large numbers of cars loaded with eflecta, aro also being operated. The estimate of the local office is to the effect that 70,000 Americans will come in this season, taking up between 20,000 and as.OOO home- steads, and the number may pos- sibly reach a hundred thousand. At several points in Saskatehewan and Alberta tho rush has been so great that the Government has arranged to supply large furnished tents. These can be used not only by travellers from the United States, but also by those from East- ern Canad.'i and Europe. flAPPENlNCS FROM ALL OVER TUE GLORE. TelcBrn|>hlc Rrlefs From Our Omu and Other Countries of Recent Etcnts. CANADA. Six new constables were appoint- ed at Hamilton. The Senate iias killed the Lan- caster crossings bill again. Port Arthur will build a new Col- legiate Institute and gymnasium at a cost of $65,000. The Ontario Government's bill amending the license act increas- es tavern licenses in Toronto to $1,600. Paul S. Lesser, a Winnipeg clerk who absconded, has been captur- ed in Germany and will be brought back for trial. A company is asking assistance at I'ort Hopo to establish a daily steamship service between Picton and Toronto. Dr. Amj'ot has recommended that Springbank Park, London, Ont., be closed to the public, ow- ing to danger of pollution of tho city water supply. A hotel porter was fined a hun- dred dollars at Cobalt for supply- ing tho guests with liquor, un- known to tho proprietors. The guests paid the fine. Miss d'Armour, the young woman who told a sensational story of be- ing abducted and robbed at Mont- real, has confessed that the whole thing was manufactured. Several hundred pounds of honey was found between tho attic and the roof of Philip Cook's apartment house, corner of Queen's avenue and Colborne streets, London, Ont. Bank clearings in Toronto during March were $111,875,827, and dur- ing the first three months of tho year $328,236,792, the largest in any similar period in the history of the Toronto clearing house. A cartridge was found by the police of Hamilton in a yard next tr the Kinrade residence, on Fri- day, the bullet being the same size as those found in the body of the murdered girl. Mr. Robert King was killed near Grand Valley on "Thursday, by tho limb of a tree striking him. On hearing of the occurrence his wife was stricken with paralysis and died also. GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. Augustine Birrell reintro- duced the Irish lan<l purchase bill in the British Commons on Tues- day. 'iho Salvation Army is planning to establish a "World's University of 'Humanity," to train workers for the Army's social service. The Naval League prize of $100 for an essay on "Shall Canada Have a Navy of Her Own (" was awarded to Mrs. Oliphant of Sim- coe street, Toronto. Sir Robert Hermon-IIodge, Un-j ionist, was elected to tho British House of Commons from Croydon. | His majority was more than 3,000j over his two opponents. The London Standard thinks the creation of a Canadian fleet would] be more useful to Britain than an alliance with a second-class naval power. Eleven suffragettes, arrested in an attack on tho British House of Commons, on Monday, have been sent to prison for terras varying from ono to three months. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, April 6â€" Flour â€" Ontario wheat 90 per cent, patents, $4.15 to $4.20 to-day in buyers' sacks out- side for export. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.70 to $5.90 on track Toronto ; second patents, $5.40 to $5.60, and strong bakers', $5 to $5.20. Wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern, $1.21, and No. 2 Northern, $1.18, Geor- gian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern, $1.27%( all rail, and No. 2 North- ern, $1.24%, all rail. Barleyâ€" -No. 3 extra, 60c outside. Oats â€" Ontario No. 2 white, 48c on track; Toronto ; No. 2 Western Canada oats, 47%c, Collingwood, and No. 3, 46e, Bay ports; No. 'i Western Canada, all rail, 51%c. Peas â€" 95c outside. Corn â€" No. 2 American yellow, 73%c, on track, Toronto, and No. 2 72%c on track, Toronto. Cana- dian corn, 71 to 72c on track, To- ronto. Bran â€" Cars, $23 in bulk outside. Shorts, $23 to $23.50 in bulk out- side. I iPAY Hard Working Post Office Employees' Salaries Will Be Advanced. UNITED STATES. John E. Ashworth, formerly of Oravenhurst, Ont., committed sui- cide at North Adams, Mass, on Friday. Tho imports of merchandise at New York for March were tho larg- est for any month in tho history (if the port. It is probable that President Eliot of Harvard University will not accept the position of Ambas- sador to Great Britain. Eight workmen were killed and eight injured by the explosion of four hundred pounds of dynamite at Indian Creek, Ohio. GENERAL. A ease of sleeping sickness has been discovered in Paris. The Franco-Canadian treaty was ratified in the French Senate by a vote of 217 to 6. Dr. Wm. Jones of t!hicago, a not- ed anthropologist, was murdered by Philippine hill men. Tho sloop Kearsarge went down off the Nicaraguan coast with twen- ty-one passengers and sailors. New South Wales and Victoria have decided to join their contribu- tions and present a Dreadnought to Britain. GREAT CANADIAN ORCHESTRA The concert of the Toronto Sym- phony Orchestra in Massey Hall, Torcmto, last week, was an unquali- fied success, and proved that we now have an orchestra in this country which will soon be tho equal of any such organization in America. The most unstinted praise is due to Mr. Welsman, tho C/onductor, and to tho performers themselves, not forgetting those who have shouldered the financial responsibility which made this fin- ished orchestra possible. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" $4.50 to $5.50 for choice qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for sec- onds. Beansâ€" Prime, $1.90 to $2, and hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bushel. Honeyâ€" Combj, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to He per pound. Hayâ€" -No. 1 timothy, $10.50 to $11 per ton on track hero, and lower grades at $8 to $0 a ton. Strawâ€" $7 to $u on track. Potatoesâ€" 65 to 70c per bag on track. Poultryâ€" Chickens, dressed, 15 to ICc per pound; fowl, 11 to 12o; tur- keys, 20 to 22c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butterâ€" Pound prints, 20 to 21c; tubs and large rolls, 15 to 17c; in- ferior, 13 to 14o ; creamery rolls, 25c, and solids, 20 to 21c. Eggsâ€" Case lots, 18 to 19c per dozen. Cheeseâ€" Large chocso, 13%c per pound, and twins, 14 to 14Xe. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 12 to 12%o per pound in caso lots ; mess pork, $20.50 to $21 ; short tut, $23 to $24. Hamsâ€" Light to medium, 14 to MKc; do., heavy, 13 to ISj/^c; rolls, II to nXc ; shoulders, 10%c ; backs, 16% to 17c ; breakfast bacon, 15% ; to 10c. I Lardâ€" Tiorccs, 13c; tubs, 13%o; pails, 13%o. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, April 6.â€" Pcaaâ€" No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04. Oatsâ€" Canadian Western No. 2, 51 to 51%c; extra No. 1 feed, 50% to 51c ; No. 1 feed, 50 to 50' jC ; Ontario No. 2, 50 to 50%c; Ontario No. 3, 49 to 49%c ; Ontario No. 4, 48 to 48%c ; No. 2 barley, 59% to 60c; buckwheat, barley, 59% to Oc ; buckwheat, G«% to 70c. Flourâ€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80 ti> $6; Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, seconds, $5.30 to $5.50; Mani- toba strong bakers', $5.10 to $5.30; Winter wheat patents, $5.40 to $0.50; straight rollers, $6 to $5.10; do., in bags, $2.25 to $2.45; extra, iu bags, $1.95 to $2.05. Feed â€" Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; do., shorts, $24 to $25; Ontario bran, $23 to $24; do., shorts, $24.50 to $25; Ontario middlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain mouille, $33 to $36; mixed mouillo, $28 to $30. Cheese â€" White quoted at 12% to 13c. Butter â€" Fall nade creamery, 21 to 21 %e, while Winter made is quoted at 20 to 20%c. Eggsâ€" 21 to 22o per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, April 6.â€" Wheat-Spring firnxer; No. 1, carloads store, $1.22%; Winter higher; No. 2 re<l, $1.28; No. 3 extra rod, $1.20%; No. 2 white, $1.26; No. 2 mixed, $1.27%. Cornâ€" Higher; No. 3 yel- low, 70%c; No. 4 yellow, 69%c ; No. 3 corn, 69% to 70c ; No. 4 corn, 69%e; No. 3 w-liite, 70%c. Oats- Steady; No. 3 white, 56%c. Minneapolis, April 0.â€" Wheat â€" May, $1.10% to $1.16%; July, $1.- 17% to $1.17%; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.19%; No. 1 Northern, $1.18%; No. 2 Northern, $1.16% to $1.16%; No. 3 Northern, $1.12% to $1.14%. Flourâ€" First patents, $5.65 to $5.- 75; second patents, $5.55 to $5.65; first clears, $4.35 to $4.45 ; second clears, $3.16 to $3.25. Branâ€" In bulk, $23 to $23.50. A despatch from Ottawa says : Hon. Mr. Lemieux, Postmaster- General, has given notice of a re- Bolujtion in the Commons which will bring good news to over one thousand employees in the outside service of the department. The resolution provides for a general advance in salary to messengers, porters, letter-carriers, box collec- tors, stampers, sorters and fourth- class clerks. The increases average over $150 a year. For messengers, porters, letter- carriers and box collectors the new schedule will be as follows : â€" >arade A, $1.75 per day; grade B, $2; grade C, $2.25; grade D, $2.50; grade E, $2.75. The present schedules are 50 cents less in each case. The average number of working days in the year for each man is 313 ; consequent'/y the in- crease is $156 per year. There is a further betterment in the condi- tions of the men by allowing those in grade A to go into grade B after only three months' service. in the case of fourth-class clerks the minimum salary, which is now practically only $361, is increased to $,'500, and tho annual increase of $100 is provided up to a maxi- mum of $700. In the case of stampers and sort- ers the minimum salary is raised from $400 to $500. The action of the Postmaster- General extends to the letter-car- riers and other outside employees of the Postolhce Department the same measure of justice as ha* been accorded to members of the inside service generally by tho re- cent increases of salary. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, April 6.â€" Exporters' were in fairly active demand and prices firm for well finished cattle. Other grades declined. Stoekers and feeders were wanted, and the few offering quickly changed hands. Milch cows and springers were dull. Sheep and lambsâ€" Firm and un- changed. Calves â€" Quiet and lower. Hogsâ€" Steady and unchanged. Se- lect at $6.90 f.o.b. and $7.15, fed and watered. Montreal, April 0â€" Trade in cat- tle was rather slow, with the pric-, es a shade lower; prime beteveii sold at 6% to 6%c per po^ind, but they were not extra ; pretty good animals sold at 4% to 6c, and com- mon stock at 2% to 4c. per pound. | Calves sold at from $2 to $7 each. Sheep at about 5%c per pound ; lambs at 0% to 7c per pound ; Spring lambs at from $4 to $6 each. Good lots of fat hogs sold at 7% to 8c per pound. « FRENCH RUNNER CHAMPION. Slirubb and Longboat Failed to Finish In Marathon Race. A despatch from New Y'ork says : Honri St. Yves of France won the great international Marathon Der- by for professional runners at the National League baseball park hero on Saturday. Dorando Pietri of Italy was second, John J. Hayes of New York third and Matthew Maloney of Yonkers, N. Y., fourth. Tom Longboat, the Canadian In- dian, quit the track in the nine- teenth mile, and Alfred Shrubb of England gave up in the twenty- fifth mile. Both were completely exhausted trying to keep the ter- rific pace set by the Frenchman. Shrubb made a game struggle from the twentieth to the twenty-fifth mile, but the pace was too fast and tho distance too far for him. St. Yves, the almost unknown, who figured but little in the fore- casts of the race, covered tho Marathon distance, 26 miles 385 yards, in 2 hours 40 minutes 503-? seconds, a remarkable performance under the conditions, and finisheti with a fast sprint in good condi tion. Dorando was four minuter for'y-seven and three-fifths secondt behind the Frenchman, while Hayes, the third man, followed the Italian across tho finishing line three minutes and fifty seconds lat- er. No time was taken on Maloney, the fourth man. St. Yves took down $5,000 of the prize money, Dorando $2,300, Hayes $1,500, and Maloney $1,000. Shrubb and Long boat go unrewarded for their brave efforts. WOMAN FELL FROM BRIDGE. Mrs. Howard of Brewnsville Hurt at St. Thomas. A despatch from St. Thomas says: Falling 90 feet from the Pere Marquette bridge hero on Friday night, Mrs. Mary Howard of Brownsville was badly hurt. Mrs. lieward was on a visit to her sis- ter, Mrs. Fred Smith, Regent street, and in returning to that ad- dress after being downtown took a short cut over the bridge. While crossing over she overbalanced her- self and fell. Her fall was broken by .sonio wires. Her right car was nearly torn off, her jaw was hurt and she was also hurt internally. At the hospital it was said she would recover. The injured woman is tho wife of Mr. Chas. Howard, a Michigan Central employee at Brownsville. WEST'S GREVT DEMAND. Implement Dealers I'uablo to Fill Their Orders. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Western implement dealers arc having great difficulty^ in filling their spring orders, which have exceeded in volume all estimates ot the trade. Manufacturers can- not rush orders, as their output in a majority of cases is already sold ahead. An enormous business 18 being done in ploughs, thrashers and smaller implements. AIRSHIPS .VT PETAWAWA. Canadian Aviators Will be Invited to Conduct Experiments. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Government will give assist- ance to Messrs. McCurdy and Bald- win, the Canadian aeronauts, to enable them to continue their ex- periments. They will probably be invited to go to Petawawa camp and conduct airship operations there at the expense of the Militia l)epartmeut. LEAPED TO HIS DEATH. Spectacular Suicide at Niagara Falls. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N. Y., says: An unknown man, about 38 years old, ou Sunday af- ternoon, committed suicide by jumping into the river from Luna Island. A score of people saw hira iwcpt over the falls. The man's iictions were not unusual, and, even >vheu he clamhercd up im the bridge railing, no one supposed he was go- ing to jump. He stood on the rail- iua; for a second <jr two peering down into the water and then dived in head-foremost. He was describ- ed as an unsuually handsome man, weighing about 180 pounds, with black hair ai'.d moustache. His overcoat v.as found on tho bridge. -*- DRANK CARBOLIC ACID. Four-year-old Loudon Boy Has a Narrow Escape. A despatch from London, Ont., says : Harold Dent, aged four years, son ot Mr. Chester Dont, Rectory street, on Tuesday night picked up a bottle of crude carbolic acid by nrstake and drank part of tho contents. Drs. Lindsay and W. J. Stevenson were called, and used a stomach pump. The boy's throat and mouth were badly burned, but he is now doing fairly well. KILLED IN COBALT MINE. St. Thomas Pro.spector Met Death Near Haileybury. A despatch from St. Thomas, Ont., says: Word was received in tho city on Friday morning that J. P. Bailey, mining prospector, of St. Thomas, was killed in a mine near Haileybury on Thursday. The deceased had been in the employ of the Elgin Cobalt Mining and Developing Company for four yeais, the members of the company all being well known St. Thomas ixsople. Mother Made Cannibals of Her Two Children. A despatch from Detroit says : A horrible story, almost incredible in its barbarity and gruesomeness, is told by Hilton George, an em- ployee of tho Hudson's Bay Com- pany in tho Algoma district, who arrived at Tvaverso City, Mich,, on Saturday to visit relatives. George, who had been with the Huds<in's Bay Company for four years and is in charge of an im- portant post near Lake Nepigon, was notified that a family of Indi- ans living in an out-of-the-way spot was in imminent danger of starva- tion. He immediately started out (in snowshoes with a dog team, carrying supplies for the beleagur- ' ed ones. When he reached tho Indian wigwam in the wilderness a terrible sight greeted him. The mother, knowing assistance \>as on the way, had doled out the provisions carefully, but delay was too long and tho children were crying for food. Taking the keen hunting knife from its sheath, the devoted mother cut several strips o( flesh from her own body and up- on this she fed the little ones. George immediately had tho suf- fering mother and her family con- veyed to tho nearest post, where the woman is now makmg a brar* fight for life. The chiWren ar* well and strong. .ivi .%uji-t./^..>';>1^