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startling Deed at Windsor of Man Arrested for Bicycle Stealing. t A <k5«p»t«h from Windsor Rays : [Without a word of waruing, Hcr- biau Martin, alios Kraft, a bicycle- thi<^f, pulled a big M-caliliro re- volver out of his hip pocket as the oflSotTH were about to search him »t jK)lio© hon«iqunrUvrs on Friday night, arid firc-d five thots in quick •»icoc«iion, ff'Ur of which t<x)k ef- fol 'c}<>org« r.. Quamby, care- tivker of Ibe (^ity Hall, is tlio moat •i riouslr woiindwl, the bullet en- t*riug throufjli the fleshy part of the arm and Kxlging in the back just >K-h!iKl tho shoulder. Police Ser- g«tiil William lloid was shot twice. One ball took off a piece of the fin- ger of hiji left hand, and another hit hiui in the right shoulder, mak- ing a bad but not serious tlesn wound. Policenvan William Lister was ehot -threugh the right arm. That none of the officers were killed if little short of a miracle, as the shots were fired at a range of less than five feet. Immediately after the shooting tho prisoner ran out of the build- ing and hid in McLaiu'fl lumber yard, close by, where ho was cap- tured a few minutes later by Po- liceman Frank Cade. Martin made no resistance. »KO>VNEn AT GALT. fwo Htudonts >Veut Out In Canoe and Upset. A despatch from Gait says : The Brst drowning accident of the season In the Orand River occurred about t o'clock on Friday afternoon. The »ictim was Carl Stahlschmidt, son of Mr. W. Ktahlschraidt of Preston. Clarouoe Goodfellow, son of Mr. B. Qoodfcllow. Gait, had a narrow escape. All went well until just back of the collegiate, when the eanne capsized. Goodfellow was kbift to swim, but 8tahl.schniidt was not. The former made ii heroic at- tempt to save his companion's life. He grasped him and held him above Ihe water for some time. Finally Etahlschmidt in his struggles car- ried Goodfellow down twice, and the latter was compelled to release his hold. He swam to the shore completely exhausted, and had to he assisted up the bank. Stahlachmidt â- ank iniinodiately. The body was recovered at 6 o'clock. TOWN IS ALGOM.V BrRNED. Only a Few Rulldins Are Left in Cbelm.itord. A despatch from Cliclmsford ;)ays : ChtiliiiKford was visited on Tuestlay night by the nmst disa-strcjus fire in the hi.-^tory of the town. Practical- ly the whole town, with the excep- tion of two hotels and two churches, was burned to the ground. Th.> fire started in the dwelling above I'yne IJros. general ttore by the fx- plosiuu of a gasoline lamp at 10.15 p.m. At lii.'iO the wliole business block was a mass of ruins. The burned buildings include Pyue Bros.' general bt<jru, J. David's pool-room and liarl>er shop, J. Large's general rtore, Dumus' shoe •tore, Cayen's bake shop, the Meth- odist church, and other buildings, including stables and outhouses. A conwirvative estimate of the total li'SH is 9^,000, with little insurance. There was no fire protection in the town. * FATHKR ATTACKED BOY, Bad Ca«« at Rrantford ArlHing Out of Theft Charge. A dospatch from Brantford says : The poliee had a i>eculiar case to deal with on Saturday. On Friday night Mof/Srs. Higginhotham L Cam- eron's Drug store was robbed. Suspicion fell on the fourteen-year- old boy employed at the store, and his detention followed. His father on being notified, went to the police station, where he became «o enrag- ed that he lost his mental balance, making an attc:npt to kill the boy. Three constables had all they could do to subdue him, but not before he had d.one considerable damage •t the police station. Only a cou- ple of dollars were secured at the robbery. TWO BIO FAILURES. Member of One Firm Placed Under Arrest at Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says : Two of the heaviest business fail- ure.8 that have occurred in Mont- real for a long time were filed here on Saturday, in each case there be- ing a very marked difference be- tween the liabilities and assets of the insolvent firms. Israel Gross- man went under with liabilities of $85,816. It is estimated by the liquidators that his assets will be in the neighborhood of $10,000, after taking out the secured credi- tors. After being in business for less tlian a year, Messrs. Shaer and Klia«>pli, also assigned on Satur- day, 'i'hey had accumulated liabili- ties of 931,023, and outside of their secured cretlitora their estate is ap- praised at about $7,000. Mr. Elia- tvoph, the financial member of tlie firm, was arrested, charged with attempting to defraud his credi- tors. He pleaded not guilty and waa liberated on $1,000 bail. STRIKE AT OWEN SOUND. C. P. It. Docknicn ho Decide by a Large Majority. A despatch from Owen Sound says : The result of a ballot of the striking Canadian Pacific llailway through freight men taken on Sun- day, wais an almost unanimous de- cision to (ontinue the strike and reject the offer made on Saturday night by the oomijany of a scale of IG cents an hour for day work and 18 cents an hour for Sunday and Inight work. The suggestion of some of the leaders that the men would accept this offer was turned down on Saturday night at a meet- ing in Victoria Park and again at a meeting in the Town Hall, where a ballot «howed 115 against and 15 for the acceptance of the offer. INDIAN CONSPIRATORS. Eighteen Wore Sentenced in Court at Alipur. A despatch from Calcutta says : Sentences were handed down on Thursday in the court of Alipur, a buburb of Calcutta, in the cases of thirty-five natives who were arrest- ed here last summer charged with complicity in the Anarchist conspir- acy of May, 1008. Two of the men were comlemned to death, ten to transportation for life, three to transportation for ten years, three to transportation for seven years, while eighteen were acquitted. Ashutosh Biswas, a public prose- cutor, who was engagixl in the con- duct of these cases, was shot dead in the Alipur court last February. TO BUILD DIRIBIBLE AIRSHIPS Scientific Department Has Been Created by the British Government I A despatch from London says : i The Government has taken an im- portant step in recogniiion of the obviously growing seriousness of tlie problem of aeronautics from the { â-  --'national standpoint, by the creating! of a new scientific department to study the problem in reference to | Imperial defence. Prime Minister; Asquith announced on Wednesday' In the House of Commons that the| vork of devising and building diri- ; gible airships had been divided be- tween the army and the navy. With the view to ensuring that the highest scientific talent will be brought to ; bear on the task, the Government has requested the National Physical Laboratory to organize a special; department for continuous invpsti^ gations, experimental and other-! wise, of the questions which must from time to time he solved in or- j der to adequately guide the con- ; struction of airships. The invcsti • ^P gations will be carried out iindT' ^r» special committee, of which f-rird . ^KLuyMgh is president, and R. T. | Glazebrook, chairman. Several other prominent physicists are mem bers. Adequate funds have been allotted for the work. From a conversation with Secre- tary of War Haldane it was gath- ered that the Government's De- fence Committee is resolved to try to place Great Britain in the fore- front of the world in scientific in- vestigation of aviation. The new department will exist for continuous research, and experiment with models, somewhat as warship de- signers do. The army and navy are experimenting with air veKsels of all types, and will submit their prob- lems to the committee, which will endeavor to discover sufficiently the causes of defects, and ssiggest remedies, which will be toateil by the evperimenters. The aim is (o mnke the organization the most com- plete in the world. It is under- 'tood thnt the visit of Orville nnd Wilbur Wricrht to the Wnr Office hnd a direct bearing on the new scb^m«. CO\Dti\SED i\EWS ITEMS DAPPENlXnS FROr.l ALL OVER TUG GLOBE. Tf'egrnphle Briefs From Our 0«u •ud Other Countries ol Recent Events. CANADA. Judge Hanington of ^iew Bruns- wick is dead. The T. & N. 0. Railway Commis- sion gave an order for 2,000 tons of rails. A conference of Provincial Prem- iers may be held in British Columbia this year. The C. N. R. has taken over the charter of the Saskatcnewaja Northwestern Railway. The Attorney-General of Ontario says the investigation of the Kin- rade case will not be dropped. The organization of a corps of school cadet instructors is authoriz- ed by the Department of Militia. Three children of Charles Cross- man were suffocated in a fire that gutted the family residence at Sack- villo, N.B. John Ostrander, a Hamilton cab driver, was sentenced to two months in pail for overcluirging a passenger. Mr. W. B. Calder of Beamsville, who was stopped and robbed by a highwayman, followed the thief and etiectod hia capture with the aid of a policeman. 'i'he Council of the Strathcona Trust have decided to offer cash prizes for essays on the best method of introducing physical and military training in the schools. GRE.VT BRITAIN. In a speech at Liverpool Lord Charles Beresford lectured the Briti&h people upon their excita- bility. It is understood that an Imperial conference on the defence of the empire will probably be called for July. The Cunard Steamship Line is estimating the time lo.«it by the stops made at Uuecnstown by mail steam- ers. J. Pointer, the Labor candidate, wfls elected to the British Commons from the Attercliffe division of Shef- field. UNITED STATES. The steamer Shores is reported lost on Lake Superior, with twenty- one passengers on hoard. Walter Wellman will make an at- tempt in August to reach the north pole in a dirigible balloon. Seventy-seven persons were kill- ed by automobiles in New York during the past twelve months. Prof. Chas. A. Publow, of Cor- nell University, has been offered a place on the Royal Commission whi;;h is to investigate the sources of Canada's milk supply. QKNERAL. The Shah of Persia has proclaim- ed a political amnesty. Hilmi Pasha has again become (5rand Vizier of Turkey. Two men and a boy were killed by a live wire in Paris. The Shah of Persia has garnted his people a new constitution. The general weakness of the Pope Im causing anxiety at the Vatican The explosion of a bomb injured twenty persons in Buenos Ay res. Massacres of Christians took place at Adana again on Monday. Chancellor Von Buelow threatens to resign unelss his financial reform plans are adopted. Thirteen civilians and soldiers convicted of murder wore hanged in Constantinople on Monday. The French Onvernment has bid defiance to the ' 'bor unions that are trying to f< e its haod. The girding of the sword on Mo- hemraed V., the new Sultan, took place at Constantinople on Monday. A compromise will probably be reached on the points in dispute in regard to the South African Union. Five hundred pianos and nearly ten thousand revolvers have been found in the Yildiz Kiosk, the pat- aoe of the deposed Sultan. Premier Clemenceau of France declares ho will resign rather than yield to the revolutionary civil ser- vants. It is believed that the crew of the .'\merican whaling ship, Carrie D. Knowles, who have been mourned 0,1 dead for over four years, are in- carcerated in a Venezuelan prison. TIMBER (;01NG FAST. None East of Rorkio.s In Fifty Yea 1-8, Says Expert. A despatch from Chicago says: Within ten or fifteen years, accord- ing to J. H. Finney, Secretary and Treasurer of the Appalachian F'or- cstry Association, there will not be a stick of timber standing east of the Rockies, and within fifty years the entire country will he as bar- ren of timber as the American des- ert, unless something is done to avert the disaster. This statement is made in a communication to the TralBc Club. Regarding the coal situation, Mr. Finney declares the country con^junies on an average fi\e tons per capita and wastes three. THE WORLD'S MARKEFS BEFORTS FROU THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle. Ornin, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Toronto, May 11. â€" Flourâ€" Ontario wheat 90 per cent, patents $4.90 to $5 to-day in buyers' sacks outside for export; on track, Toronto, $5.30 to $5.40. Manitoba flour first patents, $6.10 to $6.40, on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.50 to $5.90, and strong bakers', $5.40 to $5.80, on track, Toronto. Wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern, May de- livery, $1.28, Bay ports; No. 2, $1.25}.;; and No. 3 $1.23%. Ontario wheatâ€" No. 2, $1.25 out- side. Barleyâ€" No. 3 extra 60c. outside, and No. 3 68c. outside. Oatsâ€" Ontario No. 2 white 48 to m'/i c. on track, Toronto, and 46 to <i6\^ outside; No. 2 Western Can- ada 48c., and No. 3 47c. outside. Peasâ€" No. 2, 95 to 96c. outside. Ryeâ€" No. 2 73 to 74c. outside. Buckwheatâ€" No. 2, 93 to 96o. out- side. Corn â€" No. 2 American yellow 81%c. on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at 80%c. on track, Toronto. Can- adian yellow, 75 to 7Cc. on track, Toronto. Branâ€" Cars of Manitoba, $23.50 in sacks ; Toronto freights. Shorts, $sl4.o0 to $25, Toionto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. App!c8--$4 to $3 for choice qual ities, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beansâ€" Prime, $1.90 to $2, and hand picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bushel. Honeyâ€" Combs, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to He. per lb. Maple Syrupâ€" &3c. to $1 a gallon. Hay â€" No. 1 timothy, 12 to $13 a ton on track here, and lower grades at $10 to $10.50 a ton. !-lrawâ€" $7.00 to $8 on track. Potatoesâ€" Car lota, 85 to 90c. per bag on track. Dela wares, $1.10 to $1.15. Poultry â€" Chickens, dressed, 15 to 17c. per lb. ; fowl, 12 to 13c. ; tur- keys, 20 to 22c. per lb. LIGHTSIN II KILLS STOOEi Another Was Seriously Injured on the Campus of Woodstock College. A despatch from Woodstock, Ont., says : In the severe electrical storm which passed over the city late on Thursday afternoon lightning struck and killed James Merrigold, aged 15, of Hamilton. Edgar Knight, aged 18, of Burk's Falls, was also struck, and for a time it was thought that he was fatally injured. Ho re- vived, however, and at night was pronounced out of danger. Both young men were students of Wood- jstocic College, and were on the campus when the tragedy occurred. An inter-year football match was in progress when the storm came up, about 6.30 o'clocK, and a confer- ence took place as to whether or not the game should be postponed. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound print.s, 21 to 23c; tubs and large rolls, 16 to ISc ; in- ferior, 14 to 15c. ; creamery rolls, 20 to 26c., and solids, 20 to 21c. F^ggsâ€" Case lots, 10c. i>er dozen. Cheese â€" Large cheese, old, 14 to llj.'ic. per pound and twins, 14}-^ to 14%c. ; new cheese, dull at 12/^ to 12y,c. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" fK)ng clear, 13 to 13Xc. per lb. in case lots ; mess pork, $21 tu $21.00; short cut, $23 Uj $24. Hamsâ€" Light to medium, 14 to I5c, do. heavy, 13 to 13}^c. ; rolls, 11% to llJic. ; shoulders, 10% to lie; backs, 17 to 17%c. ; breakfast bacon 15% to ICc. Lardâ€" Tierces, 13%c. ; tubs, 13%c. ; pails, 13?ic. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, May 5 : Peasâ€" No. 2, $1.05 to $1.00. Oats -Canadian Western No. 2, 52 to 52%c. ; e.\tra No. 1 feed, 51 to 61}<c. ; No. 1 feed, 50% to 50c. ; No. 2 barley, 66 to 67c. , teed, 59}.^ to COc. ; buckwheat, 09% to 70o. Flour- Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.10; do., seconds, $5.00; Manit-i.)ba .strong bakers', $5.40; Winter wheat patents, $5.75; straight rol- lers, $5.50 to $6.00; do., in bags, $2.70 to $2.75; extras, in bags, $2.25 to $2.36. Feedâ€" Manitoba bran, $22 to $23; do., shorts, $24 to $25; Ontario bran, $23 to $21; do., shorts, $24.50 to $23; Ontario middlings, $25 to $26.50; pure gr.-vin mouillie, $33 to $35; mixed mouillie 928 to $30. Chee8C~ll% to ll%c. Butter- -24% to 25c. ; old stock, 19% to 22%o. Eggs -10 to 19%c. per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Chicago May U.â€" Wheatâ€" Ca.shâ€" No. 2 red, $1.43 to $1.49%; No. 3 red, $1.43 to $1.47; No. 2 hard, $1.20 to $1.39; No. 3 haixl, $1.25 to $1.33; No. 1 Northern, $1.30 to $1.31%; No. 2 Northern, $1.27 to $1.30; No. 3 Spring, $1.25 to $1.30. Corn-No. 2, 74 to 74%c. ; No. 2 white, 75c. ; No. 2 yellow, 74?-i to 76c. ; No. 3, 73 to 73%c. ; No. 3 yellow, 74V^ to 74%c. ; No. 4, 73c. Oats-No. 2 whiU', 68c. ; No. 3 white, 60 to 58c. ; No. 4 white, 65 to 57c. ; standard, 58c. Minneapolis, May 11.â€" Wheat- May, $1.28%; July, $1.25%; Sept.. $1.07% to $l.07»-i; Cash, No. 1 hard, $1.29% to $1.29%; No. 1 Northern, $1.28% to $1.28%; No. 2 Northern, $1.20% to $1.26%; No. 3 Northern, $1.24% to 8123%. Flour â€"First patents, $6.10 to $6.30; second patents, $0 to $6.20; first clears, $4.75 to $4.96; second clears $3.45 to $3.65. Branâ€" In bulk, $23.50 to $24. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Montreal, May 11.- Milkmen's strippers sold from 3% to near 3o. per lb. ; prime beeves sold at 6}^ to 6c. ; pretty good animals, i}^ to 5%c. ; common stock, 3 to 4%o. per \h. Milch cows from $86 to $6B each. Calves from $2 to $8 each. The sheep were all shorn, and sold at ( to 6o. per lb. Lambs, (8.60 to Most of the -boys, together with « number of spectators, took shelter under a tree on the campus. When it was decided to postpone the game, all but Merrigold and Knight ran for the building. The ' two lad^j remained under the tree. The players had just reached the college building when a bolt struck ' young Merrigold and his companion. ' Seeing their plight, the boys rushed , out and brought the lads in. Mer- rigold only lived a short time, and ' it was only by the utmost effort by the doctors that Knight's life was.' saved. The tree under which they, were standing was not struck. Tha^ dead lad was a son of Robt. Mer-* rigold, of Hamilton, formerly of this city. $6.50 each. Good lota of fat hogs bold at about 8c. per lb. Toronto, May 13.â€" The demand for butcher cattle was so strong that everything of fair quality and weight sold readily at from $5 to $5.50. Stockera and feeders rose from 23 to 50 cents. Heavy feeding steers were selling from $5 up- wards. Milkers and springers, ac- taive demand fur best grades, but common unsaleable. Calves, firm and unchanged. Sheep and lambs, firm and unchanged. Hogs, $7.40 to $7.50 fed and watered, and $7.13 to $7.25 Lo.b. BLINDED BY LI.HE. Two Ottawa ChUdrcn Victims of an Explosion. A despatch from Ottawa says : Sparling Beach, the ten-year-old son of Mr. Beach of 273 McLeod street, had an eye burned out and the other injured, and his four- year-old sister, Annie P^ach, had her eyes also burned in an explo- sion of lime. The boy and his sis- ter were playing in the yard with a tomato can filled with lime, and wishing to see it boil, poured water into the can. Both children wore leaning over it at the time, when it e.xplcded in their faces, with the results stat-od. It is probahlo that the boy will eventually lose his eight, while the girl will probably recover the u&e of both her eyes. ROYAL CniEF TO SI.\ NATIONS. Letter from Prince of Wales Joy- ously Acciaiuied. A despatch from Branlford says: Three rousing war whoops marked the conclusion of the reading of a long letter from the Prince of Wales to the Six Nation Indians in coun- cil at Ohsweken on Tuewlay. The Prince thanked tlie chiefs for elect ing him to the Turtle Clan, and ex- pressed the belief that should the occasion arise the Six Nations would bo found worthy of their glorious traditions in the field. B. C. RANCHES FIRESWEPT. Settlers are Forced to Flee for* Their Lives. A despatch from Kamloops, B. C," says; Hundreds of thousands of" dollars in property have been des- . troyed and scores of ranchers fore- , ed to flee for their lives as the re- sult of a disastrous bush fire that swept the country from Notch Hill a.s far east as 'Three Valley and south from Sicamous as far as Ver- non. Among the losses are two large sawmills, the Carlin Mill, $75,000, and the Carrigan Mill, on Salmon River, $35,000. Several mill hands had to flee for their lives. Three large bush fires have been burning for several days and a gale soon brought them into contact. In Mara District the loss will be heaviest, for scores of ranch pro- perties are completely devastated. On the main line of the C.P.R. fences and telegraph lines are destroyed for nearly twenty miles. West of Kamloops wires are down from high winds. Reports show that destructive fires arc still burn- ing in Spallumcheen Valley, near Enderby. LAKE CHAMPLAIN DAMAGED. Big C. P. R. Liner Had a Narrow Escape. A do8pat<^h from St. John's Nfid., says : A very narrow escape was encountered by the C. P. R. liner Lake Champlain, inward bound, with her 737 passengers ou Thurs- day evening, when the big vessel collided, head-on, with an iceberg, sustaining injuries which neces.sit- ated her putting into port and land- ing her passengers hero. The acci- dent occunc'd some fifty miles out from Cape Race, about 6 o'clock in the evening, during a dense fog. ', Fortunately, the Lake C'hamplain • was going very slowly, or there ' would he no report of the accident until the wreckage was picked up, as nothing is so disastrous to a steamer as a collision with an ice- berg. BUBIED II PBAI RIE FIRE Theodore Bruuing, a Saskatchewan Farmer Lost His Lite. A despatch from Moose Jaw says: The body of Theodore Bruning, a farmer, who lived about eighty-five miles south of Moose Jaw, reached the city on Thursday morning. He had lost his life in a prairie fire which started near Limerick on Monday, and bore westward with terrible rapidity. Bruniiig's own place was well protected and he rushed over to help save the place of a neighbor by starting a back fire. The main fire came on so rapidly, however, that before he could get to a place of safety the flames were upon him. The unfor- tunate man lived through the night, but died Tuesday morning, lie was 38 years of age, and liad been in the country Icsa than a year, coming from Minlo, N. D. He was start- ing farming on a large scale, having two sections of land. He leaves a widow, hut no faii/ily. The latest reports from the burn- ed districts to the south and south- west of the city confirm the worst fears respecting the serious nature of the damage done. Many set- tlers lost nearly everything they possessed. One of the heaviest losers was H. Cathcart, who had a thrashing outfit, a stable, a shed, and much machinery destroyed, making a total loss of $5,000. Henry Kates lost considerable grain, his implements and a large new ham, making a total loss of about $3,000. J. Downey lost two cars of lumber, which he had just removed to his faim to erect new buildings. MILITIA MPS MUST BE DRY Stringent Orders Have Been Issued to Commanding Officers. A despatch from Ottawa says: As a result of a conference of the Dominion AUianoe and the Moral and Social Reform Council with Sir Frederick Borden and the Militia Council recently regarding camps of instruction. Colonel Lcssard, .\djut- ant-Qeneral, has sent out the fol- lowing letter to the various militia officers :- "In view of the near ap- proach of the dates for the cnmps oi Instruotion this yoar, I have toe honor by direction to inform you that the Minister wishes you to tak-o all possible precautions to prevent the sale of liquor in camps, in offi- cers' as well as in all other messes and canteens, even to members of the same, it being contrary to law. I am to state that the Minister will hold you as well as all other com- mandants personally responsible that the law is not broken, and that no spirituous liquor whatever is sold ia the oan^B,"