Show J COMEK OT the billies line things their cwi ma io DARD speciale F man dec 24 the ogilvie milling co the largest bax organ izat on in canada lias secured a corner on all the wheat in the province of manitoba and the northwest amounting to about four millions of buchel bu ahel it ia an obien secret that the duty on flour would be increase at the pending beeston of the dominion parliament from fifty cents to a dollar a barbou barrou barong pressure is being brought to induce the government to increase the tariff aa the tariff is at present minneapolis millers are able to periodically flood the eastern canadian market much to the of winnipeg millers the Ogil vies have large mills in the northwest and their deal cuts a lot of other milling companies out of sufficient wheat to keep their mills going wheat has bounce up to eighty cents and over in the country di to FIJI draw fitta F chronicle J NEW YORK dec 24 atie aldaire of chiu fong iho latest young nepolean of to be more complicated ihan ever day and the total amount of the young mans will be nearly lie is baill missing aej BB d to be on the nay to china fong has floated a large amount of commercial commer Lial paper and it i he was to play draw by a young law er and dropped beveral thousand dellaa of at that game the loads are crad bcd with having precipitated his in bus ibets aare ruy F service I 1 N Y dec 21 A 2 buim special bays to con artna are being actively circulated in the hop groling of he bbate asking fur an of the import anty on hops from S calita a pound the tariff rate to 0 cents per new york grow era have hod several unfavorable grabons and poor crops in and prices have at the same time ruled low owing to european competition the dis growers therefore will abc CoD greM aa a measure of relief in revising the tariff to impose higher duties on imported hops it is understood der stood that congressman david wilber of the district 3 constituency largely enquired in hop growing will champion the cause ol 01 the petitioners petition ers in the house the old war borse estai special F chronicle service YOKE dec 24 emma bryan ahe poor old war nurse who is coo fined in the tomba because as she says ehe sticks to the truth in declaring that lawyer louis grant swindled her out 0 her property had a fainting spell on sunday afternoon in chapel eclie said yesterday 1 I have endured all sorts of bodily ills since and now in my old age I 1 am a prisoner here in this gloomy prison I 1 the prospects are that I 1 will hae to spend dav here may the lords will be done mrs alice ll who fame on from call ornia to spend christmas with her and who is now at plainfield new jersey sent a letter to her paying have good courage a stout heart and faith in a higher i ower Sli baj ewer A F chronicle service TORONTO ont dec 24 W H sherman defaulting secretary of the big warehousing company of buffalo charged with forging warehouse ware houe re on to the extent of and u in has been in jail here for many was tried before the anty andre today senator williami of buffalo paid that he wag of the opinion that offense offence was not the extraditable one of forgery because he had used the nama of the firm without being authorized authorised by formal re alution the bet of alie companas comp anys incorporator shermans Sher mans chai ces of acquittal are cooil lodgment will be given tomorrow 1 christinas tr in tha white noose gradam Sr ADAm special S F chronicle service I 1 dc 24 there ia a christmas tree in the white house the first that haa been seen there since seven yera ago when nellie arthar invited in a few young friends the holiday B with her it stands in alie b ue room which president arthur abed to occupy and which was fixed ap and re papered and painted last fall mrs harrison and mrs mckee are engaged in decorating it today to day and the president is expected to take a band in the work himself to night for the comfort and happiness of diaby mckee is much mere important to him than the wishes of any office seeker or politician STANDARD special F chronicle service 1 OTTAWA dec 24 the people of anish columba are wild with excitement cit ement over the statement that the dominion government will ask parliament to amend the chineis restriction act so as to allow the free immigration of chinese into canada A mas meeting was held at victoria last week at which this resolution was unanimously passed that in the opinion of this meeting the repeal of the chinese immigration act would be highly prejudicial to the province fats trainer Rtin 8 STANDARD special A F chronicle service RACINE wis dec 24 el bith era who has handled J I 1 cases tanna of fast horses and is noted for alie time he ha got from jay kye se has arrived in bacine from california he intimates that hn has tendered liis resignation to mr case to po into effect soon it is understood that he has accepted a place with a california horse man dread PARIS dec 24 the of reigns and rages A con terence of lawyer which was to have commenced yesterday did not because alie majority of alie speakers were ill from berlin are to the effect eliat there is no abatement of the evil there in brunswick Bru it has assumed lie malignant 1 pe and there have been many deater at frankfort it is increasing alie train v ays ceas d operations because the employees empo are all ill at antwerp the disease ia increasing but it is dimin ahing among both alie garrison aad the people at auis cr dam it has appeared at Dardi echt among the ol diera aad failers fai lors and in factories it isey cerious in the bar at Brug fels and halt the car biners of the corps ils guides are ill spelling of dec 24 dv has an interesting ani cloon the german attitude stanley in which it days that it german eh thui asta for colonial colu nial development should attempt to follow the lame attacks upon by stanley they would themselves mean spirited people in the lowest bence of the word in the reception of stanley the people of berlin should not allow themselves to be influenced by any other feelings than those of admiration for his condare con raRe resolution and they must honor him as a guest of the emperor and as alie greatest living african explorer limi aej cal dee 24 A boat tonta ning eight sailors frim the united state ash comm sion steamer albar the albatross at mare island navy yard lat night and started for vallejo alie night was dark and the tide running and the boat upset when near the united states bleamer thetis A waa lowered from the thetis and five men were rescued ilnia itell dec 24 upon the arrival in london of lie was given an reception by a lare crowd which had gatli ered lo 10 uel come him he visited the exchange today to day and the members subscribed for him on the spot on christmas ef dec 24 time lier cons lost their elivea in a rail oad accident here t night they bere J D formerly station anent at Weli uette and bis M ife and child while creasing the titika they were struik by a passing train bew balm dec 24 annabil price alie new minister to the united stales tt as tody to dy pre bunted to the Pres dent by secretary B a no the haual complimentary add were made and pa dac 24 A quinan carrying a small baby was baruck by a uain near hero this morning the oman was injured and the child waa killed pa dc 21 very likht witnessed hero even luK A family of eight persona of mother and father and bis children were la starving condition oear and here to INS tent to the county home the saadat faces of the elder people and hollow eyes and hungry looks of the little ones el cited much sympathy pAthy from the spectator but little money or assistance the parents had taken ill from fever and aa they lived in an 1 place the children could procure no aid their condition waa accidental 1 discovered by a farmer the family haa reached bach a stage that it is thought none can recover |