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I) DEATH Al^miTDTION Despatches From London and Paris Tell of Fearful Havoc of Gale and Wind 'A despatch from London says : Partial returns received on Thurs- day from European seaports show that fully IIOO re.isels, mostly small fishing craft, have been lost in the â- torm of the last 48 hours, and that there has been loss of life in the â- inking of at least half of these boats. Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Boandinavian countries all report tremendous loss in property and life, with a greatly increased death roll feared from the isolation of nany towns by high water and snow blockades. The situation is the most appalling that Europe has known in many years. r.\RIS PARTLY AFLOAT. A despatch from Paris says : With the thermometer below troei!- 1ns point and the relentless river Beine continuing its devastating progress toward the top of the re- taining walls, Paris awoke on Thursday to what may prove the moKt terrible day in her history, aside from the crisis presented by .war. . Miles of hrr boulevards, one of â- ^he city's chief points of pride, have been washed away ; many of the most notable structures in the city, to see which traveh-rs have been wont to corns from the corners of the earth, have already suffered hea\-y loss and are in danger of col- lapse ; fifty thousand are homeless and subsisting on scant provisions furnished by the city, the indus- trial life of the city is completely •uspended, and the one thought in the mindi of the people is the im- â- ainenee of a staggering calamity that may yet come, if the Seine con- tinues t« rise. For ence Paris has been sobered. Tlie gay mood that permitted the people t-o look on the flood in its earlv .stages as a spectacle for their •nlertainment has departed, and grim fear i.s now in the hearts of •vfryone, and is plainly written iu the faced of all. Every subway in Parisâ€" and Paris has mora underground tunnels of cne sort and another, than any in the worldâ€" is now flooded. This is the causn of the enormous damage, a damage that in Paris alone (i likely to run over $100,000,- •00. These subterranean rivers h»ve caused the collapse of scores •i streets, and are responsible for we water that now stands in vary- lUK depths over nearly half of the oitf. Ensrineers declared on Tliuisday th*t if the water.s immediately sub- side, it will take two years to re pair the damage done in Paris' un- aergrnund world. Police and soldiers are literally driving hundreds of the poor from theii' homes in the inundated seo- tlons. Sceres of these houses have •heady tumbled in. Public halln, churches, school buildings, and even such magni&- reiii ."ttructiirns as the PAnlheon are being ronvpilc<l into refuses for the poor. Thrnusfh the cooperation of llie pr.lice, i-oidiers and Ked Cross Ificicties the thousands of destitute are being fairly well fed. Owing to the scarcity of food, onffee and rolls arc the priuci|>«l items iu the rations. Hums cofl'oe boilers are stfttinii'.^ on many of the street eornf iH. Early ou Thur?dnv the police found a woman, driven insuuc by the Hood, ond her five ismall chil- dren almost frozen on the top of the Butte Chauinonl in Park Hill. Her cBHc is but typical o; .lundreds •f othrr?. I'utiirc provision for the thou- saiid.s \>\ii-> have been rendered ab- solute destitute liy the (lood pre- sents u serious economic problem, thi'Ugh just now the authorities are cor.cerni'd v.hoUy with the present. It is a question of saving life now. A WEIRD SPKCT.AOLE. On I'riday night the city pre- tentcd a weird »ppi,lacle, the sol- diors, i-ailors, firemen and police hastily constructing temporary walls liv the light of camp fires and torches ill an endeavor to keep out the invading floods, while pickets patrol ihosu scctjon.s of the city which are plunged in darkness by the burs.ting of tho pas luain.s and the .stoppage of the cloclrio light plfllltH. The situation in the^ Place de rOjinra is grnvc. The entire tcrri- lorv ha.s been roped off as un.safe. It is said also that the new Equit- able Life Asijurancc building is in dangi'r of collapsn. BLOWING UP THE STHKETS. The devastation hns now penetra- ted the very heart of Paris; the gorges, rivers and sewers under- neath are literally liiowing \ip the streets, and the area of the sur- face overflowed by the water of tho Seine has been doubl/^d. Twelve of tho twenty-five bridges over the river have been clohcd, and the quays on either side fron> one city to t'ae other are either inundal.<d or havt' been ropej^ off aa uJi-s.-rr-. The Esplanade Des Invalides is a sheet of water. Tho turgid flood has crept back almost to the Jar- din du Luxembourg on its left bank and invaded the Place de la Concord, which is closed and guard- ed by soldiers, and the lower Champs Elysses on the right bank. Disaster followed disaster during tho day. A gaping chasm opened in the lower Champs Elyssos, en- gulfing a cart and two men. One of the men was rescued, but the other with the horse was swept away to his death. A CITY OF SLIME. Papers are filled with pages of pitiful and terrifying details. War would hardly play such havoc. The city of light has become a city of slime filled with muddy waters. Business is almost at a standstill, and the hotels are crowded with persons who have fled from inun- dated homos. The prices of necessities are ad- vancing by leaps and bounds as the paralysis of transportation fa- cilities entering the city e.xtenda. Within the city there is practically ao means of transportation except by cabs and taxi-autos, tho owners of which charge fabulous prices. FLOODS RECEDE . While tho most imminent peril is over, the fall of the Seino since Sunday morning has only measur- ed lb% inches. At this rate it would require a fortnight for the river to reach its normal level. Fortunately, tidings from the flood- ed sections above Paris give hope of a more rapid subsidence. In the meantime, tho situation in Paris and in many places throughout the country, shows little improve- ment. Indeed, the ravages of the flood within tho city seemed actu- ally to increase on Sunday. The water was higher in somo parts, while the situation at the inun- dated towns between Paris and St. Germain Ttas distinctly graver. A stream of water 12 foot deep was rushing through Grennevillier- es and Colombes, making tlw. work of rcacue more difficult. Several of tho houses collapsed, and many persons were taken off tho roofs of their homes, where thoy had been clinging for days. Hundreds aro reported without food or shelter, and all day an army of troops and civilians worked in the flooded territory distributing provisions by boats to the thou- sands of victims who refu.sed to quit their hemes. EIGHT WKRE KILLED. A Bad Wreck on on English RalN way Lino. A despatch from London says : One of the most serious railway ao- oidents in England since tho disas- ter to the steamer train at Salis- bury in July, 1900, occurred at Stoat'i* Nest Station, near London, on the London and Brighton Rail- way on Saturday afternoon. Eight dead and about thirty injured were taken from the wreck. Two third- class ond a Pullman of a train from Brighton, travelling at a Hi)ecd of forty miles an hour, crashed into tho station. Tho third-class cars were completely wrecked and apart of tho building was domolished. The Pullman was thrown violently into the air, but was comparatively lit- tle damaged. Its pas.sengers es- caped with minor injuries. ECHO OF RAILWAY WRECK. Geo. Tpm, Berenred by C. I*. R. Disa.Hler, Losea Wife. A despatch from North Bay says i On Friday morning a casket left North Bay for Bruce Miaes, ac- companied by (Jeorge A. Tees, of Cochrane. Tho casket contained the body of hia wife, who died in North Bay hospitu.1 on Thur.sday, and as the train passed over the Spanish River bridge his mind was tortured by memory of the cala- mity which happened at the same hour of the same <lay, one wook ago, when his little daughter, Clara and his father in-law went duwn to death with other victims of the wreck. Unable to attend tho fun- oral of his only daughter or father- in-law, he sat by the bedside of his dying, wife till the end. Mrs. Ti^o.s was only twenty-five years of age and was operated upon only a few days before the. accident, of which she waa kept in ignorance. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS BAl'fENIXCS FROM ALL OTEB TUG GLOB£. Trleerkpiiie Briefs From Our Ow» n^d Other CoontrlM ol Recent Eveuta. CANADA. York County Council propose to reforest waste lands. Ayrshire breeders say cattle are needed in the west. The uniform for tho Provincial police has been selected. A new radial railway from Oril- liii to Toronto is proposed. The "abstain-trom-meat" move- ment has been inaugurated in To- ronto Many new raining concerns for the Porcupine district have been formed. The Manitoba Legislature has been summoned to meet on Feb- ruary 10. Arnold Shoebotham of London township was killed by falling tlirough a trapdoor in the barn. A large body of excellent coal is reported to have been struck at th» north ond of Vancouver Island. The Provincial Government wall secure part of Lord Strathcona's grant for physical training in schools. Mrs. W. Oulton was burned to death in » fire at Anaherst, N. S., that destroyed the Black printing establishment on Friday. Mr. William L. Grant, son of the late Principal, has been appointed to the new chair of colonial his- tory ab Queen's University. Mr. A. W. Campbell, Deputy Minister of Public Works for On- tario, haa been appointed Deputy Minister of Railways at Ottawa, to succeed Mr. M. J. Butler. Henry Rumple, T., H. &; B. en- gineer, was killed at Ifamilton when his engine jumped the track on Sunday. The engine and tender were burned. Through the reindeer going north into Alaska instead of to their usual winter grazing grounds near Hud- son's Bay the Mackenzie River In- dians were left on the verge of starvation. , The family of J. Kurtzraan of Hamilton had a narrow es^capo from their burning house on Sunday morning. Three hundred dollars in money and some jewellery was in- cluded in the loss. GREAT BRITAIN. The Unionists now have 270 mem- bers, the Liberals 272, the Labor- itcs 40 and the Nationalists 82. UNITED STATES. Two Buffalo women captured a burglar after a fierce fight. A woman was mtirdered in Cin- cinnati by being roasted to death on a gas stove. Frederick Marx, who discovered the process of making paper out of wood pulp, is dead near Utica. Lightning struck a barren spot on a Texan farm and revealed an oil well that has a flow of 200 barrels a day. President Taft has decided to press the suit looking to the disso- lution of the Union Pacific-South- ern Pacific merger. Plans are in the process of com- pletion for the creation of a copper merger, which will control the en- tire output of copper in the United States. The St. Panl mine at Cherry, III., in which over throe hundred min- ers lost their lives in November and which was sealed up in an attempt fcj extinguish the flames, will be opened this week. GENERAL. The new Imperial Legislative Council of India met for the first time on Tuesday. "The Newfoundlacd Governmeot will draw a substantial revenue from the island's hematite mines. M.\NY MORE WARSHIPS. Ureal Britain'.H Nuval FMimale.^ Provide Largo Additions. A flespatoh from Portsmoi'.th says: In well-informed naval circles it is understood that the ne\t Brit- ish naval e:-limalps will provide for fmir Drcddiion.nhls, two n'-iiimed cruisers, twenty foui- turpeilo-lxiai. 'Iff^troyers, ten sulmiorine.s, and 5,- UOO additional man. REACHING T» TlIK COAST. Track-Laying on the Grand Trunk Pa<'iflc. A despatch from Montreal says ; At tho a. T. P. offices figures have been given showing that 023 miles of stool arc now down on tho main line west of Winnipeg. This is mi ro than half way from Winnipeg to the coast. Taking off a hundred miles on the west ond, where steel is be- iuR laid now, and adding it to the finished line, would mako 1,0^3 miles (if track down, out of 1,7.">0 miles we.'it of Winnipeg, leavinR only a little over 700 milos of road tv> ho completed to open the way to Prince Rupert, COMET "A" OP 1010. Must Not be Confused With Hal- ley's ('(unci. A despatch from Shanghai says : The new comet discovered in Jo- hannesburg, South Africa, which is known as "Comet .\ of 1910," and I. ' many has been confused with Halley's comet, vas sighted by the observatory here on Wednesday , uinht. It was 'leen abiiut one hour niul lifty minut'.'s before the ajipear- I aiico oC the planet Vcuus. THE WORLD'S MARKEFS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Feb. 1.â€" Flourâ€" Ontario wheat 90 per cent, patents, $4.ao to $4.35 in buyers' sacks on track, Toronto, and $4.20 to $4.25 out- side, in buyers' sacks. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.70 on track, Toronto; second patents, $6.70 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.20 to $6.30, and strong bakers', $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheatâ€" No. 1 North- ern, $1.13, Bay ports, and No. 2 Northern, $l.Uj^, Bay ports. Ontario Wheatâ€" No. 2 mixed $1.07, and No. 2 white and red $1.03 outside. Barleyâ€" No. 2 57c outside; No. 3 extra, 55c ; No. 3 at 60 to 52c, and feed, 48c outside. Oatsâ€" No. 2 Ontario white, 37 to 38c outside, and 40 to 40j^c on track, Toronto. Canada West oats, 42 to 42>ic for No. 2, and 41 to 41}^c for No. 3, Bay ports. Peasâ€" 85 to 86c outside. Ryeâ€" No. 2, C6 to 67o outside. Buckwheatâ€" 53c high freights, and 54o low freights. Cornâ€" New kiln-dried, 76 to 77c, and No. 3 new yellow selected, 73%c, Toronto freights. Bran â€" $22 in bags, Toronto, and shorts, $23.50 in bags, Toronto. THE FlI ANCES OF OSMfl Statement of the Treasurer Laid Before the Legislature. COUNTfiY PRODUCE. Applesâ€" $2.60 to $4 per barrel, according to quality. Beans â€" Car lots outside, $1.66 to $1.70, and small lots here at $1.90 to $2. Honey â€" Combs, dozen, $2.25 to $3: extracted, lOj^c per lb. Baled Hayâ€" No. I timothy, $13.- 60 to $14, and No. 2 at $12 to $12.- 50 on track, Toronto. Baled Straw â€" $7.60 on track, lo- ronto. Potatoes â€" 47 to 60c per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultryâ€" Turkeys, dressed, 17 to 18c per lb ; ducks, 13 to 15c ; geese, 12 to 13o; chickens, 13 to 14c, and fowls, 10 to lie. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter â€" Pound prints, 22 to S3%c; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 22c; inferior, 18 to 20c; creamery, 2'' to 28c, and solids, 28 to 26%c per lb. Rggsâ€" Case lots of new lai(J, 33c per dozen, and storage, 25o per dor on. Ckeese â€" 12}^ per lb. for large, and at 13o for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon â€" Long clear, 14J^ to l.lo per lb io caso lots; mess pork, $^7 to $27.60 ; short cut, $29 to $29.50. Hams â€" Light to medium, 15><; to 16c; do., heavy, 14^ to 15c; rolls, 14 to 14%g; breakfast bacon, 17)4 to 18c. Lardâ€" Tierces, 15%c tubs, 16c; pails, 16)ic. BUSINESS .\T MONTREAL. Montreal, Feb. 1. -Oatsâ€" No. 2 Canadian Western, 45 to 4a%c ; No. 2, 44 to 44>ic ; Ontario No. 2, white 43c ; Ontario No. 3 white, 42c ; On- tario No. 4 white, 41c. Barley â€" No. 2, 08 to 69c; Manitoba feed barley, 63 to 65o Flour â€" Manito- b^ Spring wheat patents, ursts, $5.80; do., seconds, $5.30; Winter wheat patents, $5.50 to $5. GO; Ma- nitoba strong bakers', $5.10; straight rollers, $5.10 to $.'5.20; straight rollers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. Feedâ€" Ontario bran, $22.- 50 to $23; Ontario middlbg.^, $23.- 50 to $24 ; Manitoba brae, $22 ; Ma- nitoba shorts, $23 ; pure grain mou- illo, $31 to $33; mixed mouille, $27 to $29. Cheese â€" Westerns, Uj-g to 12o, and easterns, l\% to ll%o. Butter â€" Choicest creamery, 25^9 to 2ac, and fresh receipts, 2-1 to 25c. Eggs â€" Selected new laid, 3S to 40c; selected No. 1 stock, 30 to 32e, and No. 1 candled 27 to 28c per dozen. UNITED STATES M.ARKETS. St. Louis, Feb. 1.â€" Wheat, May, $1.11%; January, $1.00>$. Duluth, Feb l.~Wheat-No. 1 hard, $1.13%; No. 1 Northern, $1.- 12%; No. 2 Northorn, $1.10%; May, 81.12% bid; July, $1.12% nominal. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Fob. 1. --Prime bofves sold at 5>i to 6c per lb. ; pretty good animals, 4 to 5o ; common stock, 2% to 'lo per lb. ; large milch cows, $05 oaoh ; other cows. $.^0 t ^ $55 each. Calves, 3% to 6c per lb. Sheep, about 4%c per lb ;lambs, Oi< to «VjC. Good lots of fat hogs about 9c per lb. Toronto, Feb. 1.â€" Tho top-uotch pi ice paid for picked steers of the export class was $fl.K.">, and the^e wore bou}?ht for local killing; $5 t" li!5.50 was the |irev;iiliiij! prices j fnr good to choice ot, ichors'. Stockers and feeders were strong, oue straight load averaging !)eo lbs. A despatch from Toronto says: Ontario's revenue for tho fiscal year of 1009 which was only 10 months, totalled $7,477,924.94, while the expenditure was $7,545,540.40. The changing of the fiscal year to end on October 31 last year thus cutting out the two chief revenue- producing months of the year is re- sponsible for this deficit. The chief items of revenue are subsidies from the Dominion Gov- ernment, $2,128,772.08; interest on investments, $102,766.22, as com- pared with $64,931.68 last year. Lands, forests and mines, $2,- 028,224.48, as compared with $2,- 430,429.38. From licenses, $353,- 92S.06, as compared with $577,771.11 last year; from law stamps, 883,- 1S5.55 as compared with $95,695.15 last year; from game and fisheries $8,347.35 as compared with $101,- 053.56; agricultiire, $104,956.42 as compared with $87,722.05 last year; from succession dues, $618,049.02 as compared with $1,134,893.88; T. and N. O. earnings, $550,000 as compared with $350,000 last year. From corporations there was col- lected in taxes $719,148.09 as com- pared with $695,482.31 last year. Civil government for the past fis- cal year of ten^ months cost $357,- 680.64; legislation, $221,221 ; ad„in istration of justice, $639,1:H.19| education, $1,452,162.11; public in- stitution maintenance, $906,311. 06| Central Prison industries, $48,484,- 22; colonization and immigration, $34,203.84; agriculture, $493,410.19| hospitals and charities, $340,589.93 j colonization roads, $449,209.66 1 charges on crown lands, $503,296.- 81 ; commutation volunteer veter- ans' land grants, $3,050. Payments on open account! were :â€" Hospitals for In.sane, $160,- 906.55; Mercer Reformatory, $6,- 656.47; Central Prison, $3,525.04 j Osgoode Hall, $21,565.28; Normal schools, $57,441.18; Agricultural College, $12,269.58; common school lands, $4,377.76; criminal investi- gations, $3,800.18; aid to railways, $35,000. selling at $5.15. Milkers and springers were steady at recent quotations. Calves were firm. Sheep and lambs steady, with a tendency to weaker prices for lambs. Hogs unchanged at $8.25 f.o.b. and $8.50 fed and watered for selects. $90,000,000 WORTH. Sloncy Value to Canada of Ameri- can Invasion. A despatch from Washington says : More than $90,000,000 worth of Americans were exported to Ca- nada last year. That, at least, is the effect of emigration from the United States to Canada in 1909, according to tho report of U. S. Consul Conant at Windsor, Ont. The total number of emigrants from the United States for the year was 90,148, and the Canadian Immi- gration Commissioner has estmiat- cd that the overage wealth of these American settlers was $1,000. "There are several reasons advanc- cdcd by authorities for the large in- crease of immigration into Canadi- an tersitory," says Consul Conant, ''but the one given the most cred- ence is the easy manaer tn which homestead lands con be obtafai«d, and the inducements held out to prospective settlers." A NEW KING FOR INDLV. Conspirators PL-inncd to Establish a Government. A despatch from Lahore, British India, says : It developed at tho trial on Wednesday of an alleged Indian conspirator that tho plana of the conspiracy against the Brit- ish Indian Government included the establishment of an independent kingdom with a King, an Imperial Council of five, a House of Princes, and a House of Commons, the lat- ter having a membership of thirty. The seat of government was to ba at Delhi. SEDITION m REGIMENT. Tea Soldiers Have Been Arrested at Calcutta. A despatch from Calcutta, India, says : A sensation has been caused here by the news that ten men be- longing to the 10th Jats, a native infantry regiment, who aro station- ed here, have been arrested and placed in jail on a charge of being | concerned in sedition. The mili- tary authorities are naturally re- ticent, but with regard to the regi- ment, which will most likely bo im- mediately transferred, it is believ- ed that very few men aro affect- ed Direct efforts have beon made to tamper with_ the fidelity of the soldiers. Tho men arrested are now confined in separate cells, and it 's hoped that valuable facts may be discovered. Eleven men have been indicted in Chicago for conspiring to defraud tho city on a civic improvenjent contract. KEEP LIQUOR OUT. Propoaal to Regulate Transporta- tion in Canada. A de.spatch from Ottawa says : la the Senate on Tuesday Sir R. W Scott introduced a bill to regu- late the transportation of intoxicat. ing liquors, forbidding any trans- portation company or individual t« curry liquor into any Province, county, city, or municipality which has declared for prohibition for use in such places. An exception is made, allowiug an individual to bring in liquor to tho amount of five gallons for his own use. There is another exception in favor of Provinces to enable liquor to bo taken in for sale under medical prescriptions or for industrial pur- poses. -^ BIG SEIZURE OF FURS. Hudson's Bay Company's Shipment Tied Up at Ottawa. A despatch from Ottawa saysi The biggest seizure of furs ever made in Ottawa took place on Wed- nesday morning at the Union Do- pot, when District Gam© Inspector T E. Loveday confiscated a bale ol furs valued at $6,000. The bale contained furs of all descriptions, and was consigned to the Hudson's Bay Company at its headquarters v\ London. Tho shipment was on the Soo train, which arrived in Ot- tawa early Wednesday morning. It was shipped in tho north. EARL CARRIXGTON NAMED. May SutJcecd Earl Grey as Govcr* nor-Ceneral. A despatch from London 8,ays : II is now stated that the Earl of Ca-r- rington will succeed Eaxl Grey as Governor-General of Canada. LIFE SAFESyi CIMDA There Are Fewer Murders, Proportionately, Here Than Elsewhere. A despatch from Ithaca, N. Y., says : While optimistic over the fu- ture of this country, Dr. Andrew D. White, former President of Cor- nell University, and ex;-A)nbassa- dor to Oormany and Rusiua, sees gvavo danger in tuo prcvnlouco of crime, especially murder, which continues in thi.s country. Ho finds that homicide is forty-three lime.s greater in the United States th.-vn in ('anada, while it is seven times jjreater than in Belgium, which he considers tho worst coun- try in Europe. The average crim- inal, ho continued, serves but scv- e'l years of a life scntenc", while one out of 64 murderers is convict jej. j ''The. number of felonious hemi- i<idcs per year per raillion (if ])<>â-  ' pulatii'U for viirious countries i» ix* follows," Dr. White said :â€"" Can - !vJa, 3; Germany, 4 to 5; England and Wales, 10 to 11 ; France, 10 to l.=>; Belgium, 16; United Hl.itea, over 129. The.so figures arc based on an average taken for eight years. Yet I am not a pesHimi.it. 1 bo- licvo that tho world is better to- t'ay than it ever was before, I bo- Hevo that in the future it will bo better than it is to-day." In answer to the argument that punishment of crinio dops not stop the crime, ho gave instances of so- calle.d "epidemics" or ra\irder which wcro stopped at once by tho hai>ging of several of those found guilty. Dr. While had little sym- pathy for what ho called the jiiicudo-scitnliiic theory that crimo i-. a disease. "Tho truth of Iha iD.itler is th.'it crime is crime and v'i««-'»so ia diisoasc," he said.