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FODHTEE N WEBE KILLED Train Wreck on the Southern Railway Near Greensboro, N. C. A respatch from Greensboro, N.C., Bays: Local passenger train No. 11 on the Southern Railway, knomi as the Richmond and At- lanta train, due in Greenshire at $M a.m.. wa« wrerWed at Reedv Fork trestle, ten miles north of here, early on VV ednv sday, and by evening twelve bodies had been re- mnv.<d fiom the wreckage, and twenty-five injured arc in St. Leo'e flo.-ipital. Two dead are believed to remain beneath the wreckage. George J. Gould, who with his son Jay was in one of the riillmans, and who was ropor- d dead, escap- ed uninjured. The Goulds and their friend, R. H. Russell, of New York, former editor of The Metro- politan Mrf^xzine, had just got out of their berths when the wreck oc- curred. Mr. Russell was badly hurt by coming in contact with a car-stove, and is at the hospital. The derailment was caused by a broken rail. The day coaches and Pullmans were thrown from the trestle into the creek twenty feet below. co\ulased news items feAFfKMNGS r^Oll ALL CVEB T>E uLeas. teleer4pnle Briefs Trmm Onr Ow* %*d Other Cciatrkea 0I >«(««t Efeata. CANADA, Berlin (Ont.) desires to be declar- ed a city. Mr. W. C. Archer, Postmaster »t Carapbellfurd, is dead. Canadian Northern Main line to Quebec may sidetrack Ottawa and Montreal. A carload of strikebreakers have been landed at bpringhill, N.S., to work in the mines. The House of Commons passed a resolution in favor of taking furth- er steps to fight tuberculosis. Montreal Irishmen subschbed $1,000 to help the cause of home rule in the British elections. The faculty of the Ontario Agri- cultural College asked the Govern- ment for increaitps in salaries. Fifteen hundred and ten students have registered at Queen's Univer- sity, a large increase over last year. The Manitoba Qovernmcnt has promised the grain-growers to es- tablish a system of elerators in that Province. Capt. O. H. Nicholson has been appointed Manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific steamship lines at VancouTer. Fire damaged the Norrish block Britain at Canada's expense and then rent them to the mother land. UNITED STATES. Six negro miners lost their lives in a coal pit in Kentucky. Seven persons lost their lives in a tenement fire in Cincinnati. Ilev. David C. Hughes, father of the Governor of New York, is dead. Five girls were burned to death in a Philadelphia factory on Fri- day. J. P. Morgan & Co. have acquir- ed control of nine telephone com- panies in Indiana and Ohio. War on the United States Steel Corporation has been declared by the leaders of organized labor. Five employees of the American Sugar Refining Company have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the United States Govern- ment out of customs dues. GENERAL. . Prince Albert will take the oath a.> King of Belgium on Thursday. The new Italian Premier has an- nounced that Italy will remain loy- al to the triple alliance. Grand Duke Michael Nicholaic- vitch, the Czar's grand-uncle, is dead at Cannes, France. Madame Gouin, widow of a prom- inent French financier, was mur- dered on a train near Paris, on Thursday. The second reading of the bill providing for compulsory military training has passed the New Zea- land House of Representatives. -J*. YOUNG COUPLE SHOT. at Guelph, on Friday, and Mr Jchn DaridsoB, furniture dealer, r,„,^ j, u„„„ ^j Winnipeg Wilh lost heavily. J. E. Wilkinson, refiner, and Alex. Littlejohn, Cobalt miner, have been arrested on charges of receiving stolen minerals. Charles Farr secured a $4,GO0 homeHtead by waiting on the steps •f the Rcgina land office from Thursday night until Saturday morning. Total deposits in Canada amount ed to $757,539,000 at the end of November, an increase for the year of $131,;«)3,000. Commercial loans antounted to $590,291,000. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Berwick, said it would be danger- ous to tax colonial wheat. Five men were killed in a train wreck at Cleveland, Ohio, on Sat- urday. Over seven and a half million dol- lars Christmas money has been sent to Europe by way of New York. George Salting has left the ]trit- ish nation his grout art collection, valued at from fifteen to twenty million dollars. Fireman Robrrtson was killed on Saturday when the Winnipeg flyer on the Great Northern was wreck- ed near Monticcllo, Minn. Mr. Austen Chaniborlnin was so perRistently interrupted at a poli- tical meeting at Bromsgrove that he wos unable to finish his speech. Mr. Lloyd-George declared at a meeting at Walworth on Friday that the colonies and foreign na- tionrf buy British goods only be- eause of their better quality or lov.'er price Sir Thomas Bhaughnessy, inter- viewed on his arrival in England, ata«3d that he woiild like to see Canada have war vessels built by Bullets In Head. A despatch from Winnipeg says . T)ovelopments on Friday in the •nysterioua case in which Miss Mc- Lean and her lover, O. Emmctt, were found on Thursday night in his room at their boarding-house w^th bullet wounds in the head, 'iidieate that after n dispute he had attempted to murder her and then commit suicide. Four shots were fired, one of which pierced the girl's skull over the temple, inflicting a dangerous but not fatal wound. Roth are now in the hos- pital, but will recover, and both will likely be arrested until the matter is thoroughly sifted. At present they refuse to discuss it, but have asked to see each other. They were to have been married next month. THE WORLD'S MARKETS nEPORTS FROM THE LEADING TBAOE CENTRES. Prises of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy ProAuoc at flomc aid Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. 21. â€" Flourâ€" On- tario wheat 90 per cent, patents, $4.30 to $4.35, in buyers' sacks on track, Toronto, and $4.20 to $4.25 outside in buyers' sacks. Mani- toba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.10 to $5.80, and strong bakers', $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. Monitoba Wheatâ€" No. 1 Northern $1.07 to $1.07><i. Bay ports, and No. 8 Northern $1.05 to $1.05VJ» Bay ports. Ontario Wheatâ€" No. 2 mixed $1.04 outside, and No. 2 white and red $1.04 to $1.05 outside. Barley â€" No. 2 60 to 62c outside, and No. 3 extra 58 to 59c outside. Oatsâ€" No.' 2 Ontario white 36 to 36%c outside, and 2S% to 39c on track, Toronto. per lb. ; coramou. stock, 2% to 3%c ; lean canners, 2c per pound. There were more springers than milch cows on the market, and prices ranged from $30 to 'B60 each. Grass-fed calves, 3 to 4Xc per lb. ; good veals, 6 to 6c per pound ; younger calves, $3 to $4 each. Sheep 4 to 4%c ; lambs, 6 to 6%c per pound. Good lots of fat hogs, ay, to 8%c per pound. Toronto, Dec. 21.â€" Fancy Christ- mas cattle and well finished butch- ers' were as strong as ever, the fftuner selling at $6 to $6.40, and the latter from $5 to $5.80. StocK- ers and feeders were steady and o few extra good North-Western cattle were sold for local killing. Milkers and springersâ€" Firm. One extra choice milch cow sold at $hO. Sheep and Lambsâ€" Very firm. Hogs â€" 25c dearer. Selects quoted at $7.75 f. 0. b., and $8, fed and watered. TWO CHILDREN PERISH. Fire Destroyed a Dwelling at Win- nipeg. 39%c for No. 2, and 38%c for No 3, Bay ports. Peasâ€" 87 to 88c outside. Rye â€" No. 2 70 to 71c outside. Buckwheatâ€" 52 to 62 ^^c high freights, and 53 to 53%c, low freights. Cornâ€" New No. 2 yellow 68 to Cy%c on track, Toronto, and select- ed No. 3 at 66 to 67c., Toronto. Branâ€" $20.50 in bags. Toronto, and shorts $22 to $22.50. in bags, Toronto. A despatch from Winnipeg says : On Friday morning Ida aiid Tho- Canada west oats mas, children of Mr. Sydney Mas- COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples â€" $2 jto $3.50 per barrel, according to quality Beans â€" Car lots outside, $1.65 to $1.65, and small lots here $1.76 to $1.90. Honey â€" Combs, dozen, $2.23 to $3 ; extracted, lOj^c per lb. Hayâ€" No. 1 timothy $14 to $14.60, and No. 2 $12.50 to $13 on track, Toronto. Strawâ€" $7.50 to $3 on track, Tor- onto. Potatoes â€" 60c per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultry â€" Chickens, dressed, 11 to 13c per lb. ; fowl, 9 to 10c ; tur- keys, 16 to 18c per Ibs^ ducks, lb., 12 to 13c. ; geese, 10c p^ lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter â€" Pound prints, 13 to 25c; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 23c; in- ferior, 19 to 20c; creamery, 27 to 28c, and solids, 26 to 26j^c per lb. Eggs â€" Case lots of fresh gather- ed, 32 to 35c pp"" dozen, and stor- age, 25c. New laid, 40c in case lots. Cheeseâ€" 12ViC per lb. for largo, and 12%c for twins. ters, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the little home of the family at 296 Arnold avenue. The mother had left the house to call on a neighbor, and after an obscno© of only five minutes re- • turned to fiid the structure in flaraes. I?oalizi"g at once the dan- ger to the children, she rushed madly towards the front door, but collapsed from shock on the side- walk before she reached the house. She is now in the hospital in a cri- tical condition. In addition to the bereavement, the parents have ex- perienced the loss if all the home furnishings, as the house has been gutted. HOG PRODUCTS. Baconâ€" Long clear, 14 to 14%c per lb. in case lots; moss pork, $26 to $26.50; short cut, $28 to $29. Hams â€" Light to medium, 15 to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14Xc; rolls, 14 to UYiC; 8 julders, 12% to 13c; backs, 19 to 20c; breakfast bacon, 17% to 18c. Lardâ€" Tierces, 15%c; tubs, 16c; pails, lOXc. TONS OF PUDDING IN MAIL. Special Train of ChriHtmas Gifts Leaves Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says : Christmas mail distribution is breaking all records this year. A special Christmas mail train of eicht cars, with over two million letters and packages containing holiday gifts, left here on Sunday by the C. P. R. for Winnipeg. Most of the mail was from Great Britain, and it contained several tons of Christmas puddings sent to Brit- ish settlers in the West. Ten years ago it took only half a car to for- ward the Christmas mail to the West. The Embargo on Foreign Cattle at Dresden Responsible. A despatch from Dresden, Ger- many, says : Discussing the increas- ed price of meat in the second Chamber on Wednesday, Herr cattle be raised. Replying, the Premier denied that the cost ot bn'^ves and sheen on the hoof waa higher, and said that if the dress- P"i a^at ^rd '.icre-Ked e Koch, a Radical member, said that fact was due to the action of the doar meat meant dear bread and dear everything else in the way of food. He added that Gorman agri- culture, which was protected by high tariffs, was unable to supply sufficient beef to feed the popula- tion, which, as a result, was under- fed. He demanded that the em- bargo on American and Danish THE NEWEST WARSHIPS. Britain Will Shortly Lay Down Two Sea Monsters. A despatch from Birmingham says: The Post says the Admiralty is making arrangements for laying down before the end of the finan- ei-^.l voar two v^q^^Is w'lV^ wiM rq_ tablish a^ record in warship build- inT. Thev will be of almost 27.500 gross tonnaore. Their guns will number less than those on the Int- est Dreadnoughts, but the muz/le vf*looitv nn'l PriTKf r'l'i'^e ^''ll hp very much greater. The ships will be of hn entirely new comprsiio class, combining features of battle- ships and crui?!Prs. mid Uemen and the close coi.-ioma- tion maintained among the butch- ers. To admit American meat more freely would be, the Premier thought, to throw away the last trump'card held by Germany in its trade relations with the United States. The House took no action in the matter. â€" 1 PEARY'S CLAIMS REC06NIZEP A TRIO OF LEPERS. Moving About nt Will In Michigan Camp. A despatch from Detroit says : The authorities of Calumet, Mich., are confronted with an unusual and peculiar situation by reason of the fact that the State laws give them no jurisdiction or executive autho- rity to order the confinement of Stanislaus, the miner discovered last week to be infected with lep- rosy. Within the past few days two other men have been discover- ed bearing unmi8takeal)Io evidences of having acquired the horrible dis- ease. Loathsome patches of white hove appeared on their faces and bodies. All those men are being allowed to move about freely in the community, because there is no State law by which they can be iso- lated. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Dec. 21.â€" Oatsâ€" No. 2 Canada Western, 41% to 41'/4'c; No. 3 oats, 40% to 40%c ; bnrleyNo. 2, 66 to 07c ; Manitoba feed barley, 52 to 63c. Flourâ€" Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.70; do., patents, seconds, $6.20; Winter wheat patents, $5.60 to $6.60 ; Man- itoba strong bakers', $5; straight rollers, $5.10 to $6.25; straight rol- lers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. Feed â€"Ontario 'bran, $20.50 to $21.50; Ontario middlings, $23.00 to $23,- 50 • Manitoba bran,- $20 ; Manitoba shorts, $22 to $23 ; pure grain mou- illif. !it23 to $33 ; mixed mouillie, $26 to $27. Cheese â€" September made westerns, 11% to ll%c; October made, 11% to 11%; eastern, 11% to ll'i^c;. Butter â€" Choicest cream- ery, 25c; current receipts, 24% to 26c ; dairy 19 to 22c. Eggsâ€" Select- ed stock, 28 to 28%c, in single ra«fc8 at 290 ; No. 1 candled, 24% to 28c per dozen. DEATH OF DONALD GUNN. Peculiar and Simple Fatality on Yongc Street, Toronto. A despatch from Toronto says : From a fractured skull received by a fall in front of an automobile at the corner of Yonge street and Wilton avenue, Mr. Donald Gunn, President of Gnnn's, Limited, pork packers and provision merchants, died on Sunday morning in St. Michael's Hospital. The accident happened Saturday afternoon at obout 4.30 o'clock. Mr. Gunn was hurried to the hospital, where ho was operated upon, but death en- sued on Sunday morning at about 10 o'clock. HUNTERS SnO'B DOWN. In THE FRENCH TARIFF. Shnt8 Out Ame-ioan .4{rrieultur.i] Machinery. A desnatch from Paris savs ; D'mnar the consid^rat'on r-( *^o tar'ff hi" in the Chambor of Denn- ti^s on Wednesday a blaok eve was given to t-^** jTnnr»rt*»^»'^n nf 4w/»"i_ can agricultural machines by the adoption of «n amend"^p"t fixine the maximum rate on machines of over 400 k'loarrams fRSl.R lb« ^ wPiP-St at 15 franoR fapnroximat''V *2.R.'i^ per b"ndr<*d-''eifht. and t>ie min'*"""! rnt" ^t 1? frprmo Oti machines under 400 kilograms we'irht the mJiTimum is 22. nnd the Geographical Sooiety Presents Him With Medal. A despatch from Washington, DC, says: The National Geogra- phical Soeietv on Wednesday nicrht publio'v a'-claimed Commanfler Bo- be't E. Peary the discoverer of the North Pole, and in recoftnition thereof presented to him a gold med^l. In presenting the tronhy t") Commander Ppary, Prof. Willis L. Moore, president of the society, who acted as toaotma'ter, phrased his R»ntencps to refer to Command- er Pearv ns "the man" who had won the pn70. There was no re- fprenee <â- " Dr. Cook. Captain Ro- bert A. Bartlett, the marter of the. Roose'-eU. w^^o took thst stout 8*iii» into the ice farther than anv other cr.T*t ever tnent. also re'^eivpd a "•"d^l. Tb''' was nrcentrd by Ai^Via-fsador James Bryce, of Great Britain. SHELTERS AT FLAG STATIONS Railway r*'""''''*'"'* 'Tiis Sent Out a Draft Order. A deinateh f-om Ottawa S'^yst The Bni'wiv Comr"'«-'on h.<»'» sect out a draft ord^r reoiiinn'r »n ra'l- vav comna»>ie« to ponstnift at all nr>;->ta knoTn (le " flsflr station^." R'-'elters or wo-'-'nff-roomi for p«bs- min'mnm 9 francs, irrespective ol "ntrnT^ r\r frriaht. tb^ samej^o be weight. AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS Lone MS^J^Ine H»i«hand Ofv«»^ His Wife n Snrnri««»» nt Ifnll. A despatch from Ottawa says : * f- ter hi»Rring no word from hor hns- bend for pixtfen years, and not Vnowin«r whether h<» was .ilire ir dead. Mrs. Henri Garieny. of Hull, onencfj the door of hor house on Wpd'>esdav, in response to a ring, and fojind her lon«t rn'ooi"? spouse stand'n^ on tb<» doo'-'sten Mr. Vr. Garier>y left TTn'l for the weak '"n 1893. leavinsr b«»hind a wifi» and four vonng children. I'or twelve voars he was in the far uor*h of the western prnvinoes. where there was no mail serx-'cp. Three vcirs aiio he came to Winnipeg, and Wedn»»s- d.iv returned home unexn<»otedU'. bringing with bim a eons'dernVi'e pile of money amassed in the west. Thirty-One Lost Their Lives Eastern W'oods. A dcsoateh from Boston says : Thirty-one human lives were sacri- ficed in the hunting season ended on Wednesday night. Twenty- three persons wore killed by being mistaken for deer or by the acci- dental or careless discharge of fire- arras in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, and in the Canadian Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Con- tributory causes added eight more deaths. Among the score or more known to have been seriously in- jured five are not expected to re- cover, two will lose their sight, and half a dozen more will be maimed for life. St. rl'>ne wi^hii six months. W'OTe \hp rpve'ivi* is pot I("<> than 815- n^n f-hp d(»"ot "b.-ill b» what '8 known I!" '^'''o. 9 itandard. At T^oiptS whprp rT,^y^-T,nYltq of fTTain ornount to 50 ono V„sVpl,| n. ve*"", t<»TT>norarv nirpptsi shall b«» »""ovi<^ed in tbe shionini» ae-'son The nro- Dn<!«»rl ord°r will be argued her* next month. BROTHER MICHAEL DEAD. Fatal Acrident to Principal of Francis School. .\ despatch from Toronto says : Turning quickly in parting from a friend on the comer of Arthur street and Euclid avenue. Brother Michael Reilly of the Ordor-«f Christian Brothers. 23 McDonnell sfpiare, walked in front of a west- bound Duudas car. No. 1298, was struck down and almost instantly killed at about 8 0'0'ork on Fri- day evening. Brother Matthew of the same order, who was with him, was also knocked down, receiving comparatively slight injuries about the shoulder and head. DEATH OF HON. A. GORDON Third Son »f Farl of Aberdeen Dead in London. A despat'-h from London savs; Hon. Archibald Ian Gordon died on Friday from injuries received in an automobile accident on No- vomber 28. He was the third so» of the Earl of .\berdpen. This week his ongasement to Miss Violet As- O'tith, dnuehter of the Premier, whom the poet William Watson ao cused of having "the serpent's tongue," was to have been an- nounced. Miss Asouith had been in almost constant attendance upon her fiance since the accident, and was with him when he died. MRS. THOMAS HUNT KILLED. Fatal Accident at a Crossing Near Ottawa. « A despatch from Otttawa says ; Mrs. Thomas Hunt of Osgoode township was instafttly killed on Friday by a C. P. R. express from I'roscott at a level crossing near th<j city. She was driving alone when the horso took fright and dushcd across the railway track in trout of the train. She was 35 years of age, and leaves three children KING OF BELGIPM IS DEAB Aged Monarch Died at 2.35 on Friday Morning;. A doRpatek from Brussels says: King Leopold died at 8.36 o'clock on Friday morning, his aged and wasted body being unable to stand ike strain put upon it. Tho col- lapse occurred suddenly, and at a moment when the doctors seeming- ly had the greatest hopes for his recovery. After a restful day tho period early in the evening, and the night passed quietly, until B o'clock, when alarming symptoms appeared. Suddenly the King turned and called to Dr. Thiriar that he was suflncating. Dr. I)e< page was summoned, and tbe two physicians did everything possible to prolong life, but without^ avail. Tho end caroo quickly, and, after patient wu abb to sleep for a brief a spell of weakness, poacofull/ UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Deo. 21. â€" Wh'iat â€" December, $1.10; MAy, IKI.10% ; cash wheat No. 1 hard, $1.12% to $1.13; No. 1 Northern, $1.12 to $1.12%; No. 2 Northern, $1.10 to $1.10%. Flour (in wood, f.o.b, Minneapolis) â€" First patents, $5.60 to $5.80; second patents, $5.40 to $3. GO; first clears, $4.55 to $4.C5; second clears, $8.50 to $8.00. Bran in hundred-lb. sacks, $21. Chicago, December 21. â€" Cash wheatâ€" No. 8 red, $1.25 to $1.27%; No. 3 rod, $1.19 to $1.23; No. 2 Northern, $1.12 to $1.14; No. 3 3, 60 to 60%c; No. 3 white, 00 to 60%c; No. 3 yellow, 60 to 60%c; No. 4, 67 to B7%o; No. 4 yellow, 67 to B7%c. Oats, â€" No. 2 white, 44%c ; No. 3 white, 42% to 44c ; No. 4 white, 48% to 43%c ; standard, 45c. LIVE STflCK MARKETS. Montreal, I>ec. 91. -A few of the MURDERED THREE PERSONS John Mesei Fouud (•uilty at Snska- toonâ€" Defence Was Insanity. A despatch from Saskatoon says: John Mesci was on Thursday found guilty of murdering Goo. Thorburn on Nov. 4 near Quill Lake, Sask. Tho jury was out but three minutes. The preliminary evidence contain- eo a coufoBsiun by Mesci and tho defence was that of insanity. CAMDA' S TRADE IS BOOING November Figures Over $73. 000.000- A.D Increase of $62,000,000 in 8 Months A CHINESE MURDER. Chinaman Destroys Powder House on Bnrrord Inlet, R. C. A despatch from Vancouver •xyn : News reached the city Friday after- noon that a Chinaman killed anoth- er and set ire to the black powder house of the British Columbia Pow- der Works Company in tho north arm of Burrard Inleb on Thursday morning. The powder house waa beat animals sold at from 4 to 4j> entirely destroyed. A despatch from Ottawa says: Tho trade figures of tho Dominion fot tho month of November show another large jump, both in imports and o.vports, as compared with No- vember of last year, the innporta increasing by no less than $10,- 727,690, or nearly 40 per cent, over last year, and the exports increas- ing by $3,043,489, or about ten per cent. For the first eight months of the current fiscal year the to- tal trade has been $430,939,213, an increase of $62,037,872 over tl»e« cor- responding eight months of 1903. Of this increase $45,2^0.868 waa in imports and $14,970 23a ia ex- ports of domestic produots. , The total trade for November Was $73,151,731, and tor tbe eight months the total trade was $439,- 959,213. Imports for November to- talled $35,434,039, and for th« eight months $240,103,431. Bx- ports of domestic products for No- vember totalled $36,315,718, or practically equal to the value of tha imports. E.Tports of domostie pro- ducts for the eight months total* led $183,050,727. The total customs revenue for eight months has been $38,9»S,47a, an increase of $6,210,009. Fot tho last mouth the increase of cu8« ti>ma revenne was $1,422,617, tbf. largest inere?i<'e 'n any ene month •'â- 'thin the \: ?.t two voara.