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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1907-09-11, Page 7I Swears That Train Was Travelling at Rate o of Less Than 20 Miles. 'A despatch from Toronto says: There is every indication that the investiga­ tion into the cause of the Caledon dis­ aster is to be a very thorough one. The principal evidence was that adduced by Engineer Hodge, who was driving the •train.. Mr. T. C. Robinette, K. C., appeared on behalf of Engineer; Mr. Angus Mc- Murchy represented the C. P. R., and County Crown Attorney McFadden, of Peel, appeared on behalf of the Crown. THE. ENGINEER’S STORY. George Hodge, the engineer of the ill- fated train, was called, and immediate­ ly he got on the stand his counsel, Mr. Robinette, K. C., had entered a formal objection to Hodge giving evidence, so as to obtain the protection of the court Concerning anything which he might is-sy to incriminate himself. “I think,” said the coroner, “it would be well to allow the witness to give nis evidence in. this way, that if he objects to answer a question because it might incriminate him, then he has the pro­ tection which he craves. That answer could not be used against him.” “At the same time,” remarked the coroner to Hedge, “you are not excus­ ed from answering any question which may be asked you here.” “I am quite satisfied with that,” Mr. Robinette replied. The examination of Hodge was then proceeded with. He deposed:—“I left Markdale at 7.31, and had a good run to Orangeville, which we reached at 8.55. There were three cars added there and we left between 9.05 a.tn. and 9.06 a.m. We reached Caledon at 9.20, and received an order to run one hour late of the original schedule. We left Cale- con at 9.21, and before reaching the curve, and about 150 yards from the slow board, I slowed down and shut off steam. I applied the brakes about a quarter of a mile from where the ac­ cident occurred, and I felt the brake hold.. This made a reduction of 7 lbs. WHOLE HOUSE STRIPPED. Ottawa Man Loses $4,000 of Plate and Jewellery by Burglars. A despatch from Ottawa says : The residence of Mr. D. M. Finnic, assistant general manager of the Bank of Ottawa, was burglarized on Wednesday, and diamonds, jewellery and plate to the amount of nearly $4,000 abstracted. The burglars, evidently experts, had first made sure of the fact that the family were absent and went about their work Systematically and deliberately. The thieves gained an entrance to the pre­ mises by the rear basement windows and proceeded from floor to floor, col­ lecting movable valuables and jewellery. The house was practically stripped of everything of value of a movable nature. _____—--------- TWO MURDER MYSTERIES. Search of a Quarry Near Montreal May Solve Them. A despatch from Montreal says : Act­ ing under the instructions of Provincial Detective McCaskill, a quarry in the neighborhood of Montreal is being drained to ascertain whether a St. Vin­ cent de Paul convict’s story of two mur­ ders is true. This man told the detective that he knew the man who murdered Ellen Quinn a few years ago, as well as a Chinaman two months later. Both crimes have remained unsolved. The weapons with which the crimes are al­ leged to have been committed were thrown into the quarry afterwards, ac­ cording to the convict’s story. -----------. FIFTEEN BURNED TO DEATH. ITotel at Shelton, Washington, Destroyed by Fire. A despatch from Tacoma, Wash., gays : Fire destroyed the Webb Hotel at Shelton, 20 miles from Tacoma, on Wednesday night. It is reported fifteen persons perished. Miss Bailey and Mrs. Mudge, both of Shelton, are known to be among the lost. All the other victims are believed to be men. Seven bodies have been recovered. HINDUS BEATEN BY WHITES Driven From U. S. Territory They Make for Canada. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says; Six Hindus, badly beaten and maltreated by a mob, are in the hospital at Bellingham, Washingion; 400 are finding-sanctuary in the jail and public buildings, and 150 beaten, hungry and half naked,^are on their way to British Columbia. These are the results of a savage outbreak of local sentiment in the United States town on Wednesday even­ ing.The trouble started in the Pelly Street district, which is filled with Hindustani lodging houses. These houses were cleaned out, and the occupants driven out of the town. From there the mob swept down to the waterfront and the lumber mill. After the lumber mill was visited the white employees swelled the mob, and. every black man was hustled outside; - Here the police suggested that the unfortunates should be taken to jail. The proposal was hailed with delight, on the air pressure of the brake, which was sufficient, in my opinion, to steady the train. Just before the accident I was about to release the brakes.” “Did you release the brakes?” “No, sir. Not intentionally.” Describing the accident, Hodge said he felt the engine give a sudden lurch, and found himself out on the ground. Hodge explained that at the time the engine gave a lurch he was thrown to the norih, and as he had his hand on the brake it would have the effect of releasing the brake. HODGES EPERIENCE. Replying to Mr. Robinette, Hodge said he had been acting as engineer of a freight train since January of this year, but had had experience as a fire­ man since December, 1902. He had only previously to last Tuesday run one passenger train over this line. He was between 23 and 24 years of age. In answer to Mr. McFadden he said:— “I took one train up the night before. There were passengers on it. That was the only passenger train I had run over this line.” BRAKES WORKED WELL. The brakes were working well. He examined the brake after the accident and he could not find anything to ac­ count for the accident. “What do you think yourself was the cause of hie accident?” “I couldn’t say.” “The engine was all right?” “Yes.” “And the roadbed was all right ” "Yes.” Between Caledon and the slow board 20 miles an hour was the highest speed reached. Replying to a juror, witness said he had been on continuous duty since 10.15 the previous night. He had had a good rest the previous day. His hours of work average 9 or 10. The coroner pointed out that the wit­ ness had already been working about e'even hours at the time of the accident. WEAK SPOT IN TIIE LAW. Eighteen Chinese Cause Government Officials Worry. A despatch from Ottawa says : There are eighteen Chinese in custody in Syd­ ney who are providing a puzzle for the chief controller of Chinese immigration in Ottawa, and who seem to have hit upon a flaw in the fabric of Canadian law. The Chinese came ashore from the schooner Co lores, which brought them from Newfoundland. The captain al­ leged that they escaped. They were seized by the customs officials as smug­ gled goods, and are now in jail. The law provides that the Chinese who enter Canada irregularly may be placed in jail for a year, but it makes no further provision regarding them. No authority is given to deport. It is not considered good policy to keep eighteen Chinese in jail ior a year and then give them their liberty, without even the payment of the $500 entrance fee. A year in jail is hardly considered a qualification for permanent Canadian residence. The only thing apparently that can be done is to keep the Chinese until a law may be passed next session for their deporta­ tion, and then send them back. WORK TIN FIELDS FOR STATE. Transvaal Government’s Solution of Un­ employed Problem. A despatch from Johannesburg says : The Transvaal Government, with the view of helping to solve the problem of the unemployed, has decided to work the tin fields of Petersburg district in the interest of the State. General Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, has gone to that district with engineers and repre­ sentatives of the Rand unemployed. The miners’ scheme is to advance wages to the men to enable them to obtain tools. The workmen are also to share in the profits, according to the miners’ scheme. Prospectors who are already on the ground and have been waiting for it to be thrown open, are angry, as are also hundreds of agents of the big mining groups. and the Hindus were hustled along. The mob kept up its work till early morning, when Darson’s mill at Whatcom Lake was visited and hundreds of Hindus brought in from there. The police were helpless, authority was paralyzed, and foi five hours a mob of white men raided the mills where the blacks were work­ ing and battered down the doors of the lodging houses where they sought shel­ ter and dragged them from their beds. Mayor Black has organized fifty armed deputies for the protection of the Hindus, and those of them who return to work will do so armed. The explana­ tion given of the affair is that every day the whites in mills are being replaced by blacks. It is said that the Hindus have become insolent, pushing women into the gutter and insulting them on the street cars. “Drive out the Hindus !” was the cry to which the mob marched on Wednes­ day night.. THE WORLD’S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Catlie, Grain, Cheese and Oilier Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. Toronto, Sept. 10. — Flour — Ontario wheat 90 per cent patents are firmer at $3.45 bid in buyers’ sacks outside for export. Manitoba first patents, $5 to $5.20; second patents, $4.50 to $4.60, and strong bakers’, $4.30 to $4.40. Wheat—No. 1 Manitoba hard quoted at $1.04; No. 1 northern, $1.03, lake ports; No. 2 northern, $1, lake ports. Oats—New No. 2 Ontario oats are quoted at 41 to 42c outside. Corn—No. 2 American yellow is quoted at 73%c, Toronto freights, and mixed at 72c. Bran—The market is nominal at $19 in bulk, outside. Shorts are quoted at $23 to $24 outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans—Hand-picked, quiet at $1.70 to $1.75, and primes at $1.50 to $1.60. Honey—13c per lb in 10-lb tins. Hay—No. 1 timothy is quoted at $14 to $15 here, in car lots. Straw—$7.50 a ton on track here. Potatoes—50 to 65c pei’ bushel. Poultry—Turkeys, dressed, 14 to 15c pei Tb; chickens, spring, alive, 10 to 11c; dressed, 12 to 13c; ducks, alive, 9 to 10c; do, dressed, 11 to 12c. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter—Pound prints, 21 to 22c, and large rolls, 20 to 21c. Creamery rules at 21 to 25c, and solids at 22 to 23c. Eggs—Choice stock selling at 19c per dozen in case lots. Cheese—Large sells at 12%c, and twins at 12%c per ib. HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs in car lots are nominal. Bacon, long clear, 11 to ll%c per ib in case lots; mess pork, $20 to $21; short cut, $22.50 to $23. Hams—Light to medium, 15% to 16c; do, heavy, 14 to 15c; rolls, ll%c; shoul­ ders, 10% to 11c; backs, 16% to 17c; breakfast bacon, 15% to 16c. Lard—Tierces, 12c; tubs, 12%c; pails, 12%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 10.—Grain—The local market for oats is. strong and prices have scored a further advance of %c per bushel. Manitoba No. 2 white were made at 50c, and a few odd cars of Ontario No. 2 white sold at 49%c per bushel ex store. Flour—Choice spring wheat patents, $5.50; seconds, $4.90; winter wheat, patents, $4.60 to $4.75; straight rollers, $4.25 to $4.35; do, in bags, $1.95 to $2.10; extras, $1.65 to $1.75. Feed—The market for millfeed is stronger; Manitoba bran, in bags, $21 to $22; shorts, $24 to $26 per ton; Ontario bran, in bags, $20 to $21; shorts, $23.50 to $24; milled mouillie, $25 per ton, and straight grain, $26 to $30. Cheese—The public cable from Liverpool quotes white cheese at 56s and colored at 57s 6d to­ day; this is an advance of 6d on the col­ ored. The local market is unchanged, and prices range from 12% to 12%c for Westerns. Butter—Buyers’ prices for finest townships creamery are from 21% to 22c, but holders are not at all anxious to sell at those figures. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Duluth, Sept. 10.—Whealr-No. 1 hard, $1.08%; No. 1 northern, $1.08; No. 2 northern, $1.06; September, $1.07; De­ cember, $1.06%; May, $1.10%. Milwaukee, Sept. 10.—Wheat—No. 1 northern, $1.05 to $1.07; No. 2 northern, $1.02 to $1.04; December, $1.00%. Rye- No. 1, 87% to 88c. Barley—No. 2, 80%c; sample, 74 to 89c. Corn—No. 3, cash, 63% to 64c; December, 61%c. Minneapolis, Sept. 10.—Wheat—Sep­ tember, $1.03%; December, $1.05; No. 1 hard, old, $1.08%; No. 1 hard, new, $1.08%; No. 1 northern, old, $1.07%; No. 1 northern, new, $1.06% to $1.06%; No. 2 northern, old, $1.04%; No. 2 north­ ern, new, $1.03% to $1.04%; No. 3 north­ ern, $t to $1.03. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, Sept. 10.—Prices in butchers’ cattle were about 10c lower at the West- ein Market to-day. Little business was transacted in ex­ porters’ cattle. Prices ranged nominal­ ly from $4.75 to $5.10 for choice, and $4.25 to $4.50 for medium. In butchers’ cattle the few good lots sold readily, while the common and medium grades were plentiful and lower. The following were the quota­ tions:—Best butchers’, $4.50 to $4.85; medium and fair butchers’, $4.25 to $4.- 40‘ common, $3.25 to $4.10; cows, good, $3.75 to $4; cows, rough and common, $1.25 to $3.50 per cwt. Hogs sold at $6.25 for selects, and $6 per cwt. for lights and fats. Cflfc UPSIDE. DOWN ezia SAP.silt L( gDEAPLAY /DSnOLISNEOCAR CAPS STI LL , Rails, CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OYER TIIE GLOBE. Telegraph Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. The G. T. R. have fixed upon a site ter a new station for London. Petitions are being circulated in Lon­ don for Sunday street cars. The Manitoba Government awarded a contract for a telephone exchange building in Winnipeg. Milk producers In the Province of Ontario are considering the advisabil­ ity of advancing the price of milk. Col., the Hon. J. S. Hendrie, has been appointed commander of the Royal Victorian Order. The freshman’s class at Queen’s Uni­ versity will likely be the largest in the history of the institution. The number of typhoid fever cases in Winnipeg is much fewer for August than for the same month last year. Plans have been made for a s’x storey building to be erected on the wrecked Crystal Hall, London. C. P. R. Live Steck Agent McMullen says there will be a rchuction in the number of cattle shipped from the west thte year. Hamilton building permits for Au­ gust total $120,555 as compared with $444,860 for the corresponding month last year; The barns of the Macdonald Agricul­tural College at St. Anne de Bellevue, Que., were struck by lightning and burned to the ground on Wednesday. D. McCool, formerly General Road­ master of the eastern division of the Grand Trunk, has. left the Great North­ ern and resumed his old duties in Montreal. The Spring Hill miners now on strike, will make no overtures with the com­ pany, and insist that the next advance must come from that sale. The shipping federation of Montreal has made a contribution of $250 to the Montreal police benefit fund as an ap­ preciation of the policemen’s work dur­ ing the strike. The customs revenue of the Dominion ter the month of August shows the phenomenal increase of over a million dollars over the returns for August, 1906, the total receipts for the past month being $5,643,402. Government contractors hereafter must keep a record of payments made Io workmen in their employ, and the books or documents containing such record shall be open for inspection by the fair wages officers of the Govern­ ment. UNITED STATES. Seven births occurred on the steam­ er Kroonlani on her irip to New York. One death from bubonic plague and two new cases are reported from San Francisco. The body of L. A. Henderson of Touchwood Hills, Sask., was found in a lagoon in a Chicago park. An advance of 25 cents per ton for anthracite coal is reported from New York for the coming season. A new Jewish synagogue, one of the finest in America, has been erected m Boston at a cost of $500,000. The United Slates Navy Department contemplates increasing the strength of its Atlantic fleet from eighteen to twen­ ty-eight battleships. The Henry Phipps Institute at Phila­ delphia has issued a report stating that alcohol neither prevents, cures nor pre­ disposes to tuberculosis. Geo. Duval, of Talbotville, and W. L. Walker, of Lawrence Station, wero fined at St. Thomas $30 and $100 re­ spectively for supplying watered milk. Mrs. Samuel Rabonivit, the young wife of a Bristol, Conn., merchant, had him before the court in that town on the charge of contributing only ten cents a day to her support. Plaintive cries from a parrot were ire means of leading to the discovery of the lifeless body of Mrs. Katharine Ware, an octogenarian recluse, who was asphyxiated in her home ip Phila­ delphia, United States District Judge De Haven has sentenced John A. Benson and E. B. Perrin, recently convicted of land frauds, to ten years’ imprison­ ment in the Alameda, Cal., county jail and to pay a fine of $1,000 each. Mrs. E. T. Hughes lost her purse, containing jewellery worth $1,000, in a car in New York city, and an hour afterward it was returned to her resi­ dence by a young woman, who refused to give her name or take a reward. GENERAL. The tariff is becoming a vital issue in Australian politics. The preliminary elections for the third ENGINE ON IT51SJQE Plan of Wreck at Caledon Last Week. (From The Toronto Telegram). A Painter Gives Startling Evidence at the Quebec Bridge Inquest. A despatch from Quebec says: The sensation of the sitting of the Coroner’s inquests in connection with the bridge disaster was the testimony of Alexander Ouimet, one of the bridge workmen. Ouimet, who was a painter, had gone to the land for a drink of water, and was returning when he saw the bridge be­ gin to settle. He at once started back to land, but had one of his heels caught and crushed. He stated on Wednesday that he had known of a crack three- quarters of an inch wide and twenty inches long in one of the arches starting from the main pier. He had known of Russian Duma are now in full progress. Four persons were killed by lightning which struck a Catholic church in Weste Prussia. Four hundred partially finished build­ ings have been abandoned in Havana by striking masons. The negotiations for a renewal of the Newfoundland fisheries modus vivendi have been completed. Ten Austrian soldiers have already died of exhaustion during the army­ manoeuvres at Wiener-Neustadt. Striking dock laborers at Antwerp flung a number of freight cars into the canal and set fire to a large lumber yard. There is danger of a serious clash be­ tween the troops of Japan and China in trie fertile territory lying between the Yalu and Tamen Rivers. Wreckers near Berlin derailed the ex­ press from St. Petersburg, probably in an attempt to kill the Russian Grand Duke Nicholas, who is shortly to pay a visit to the German Emperor. ----------*---------- CHINA’S STRONG MEN. Are Being Called to Council by Dowager Empress. A despatch from Pekin says: The Dowager Empress has appointed Yuan Shikai to be a member of the Board of Foreign Affairs and a Grand Council­ lor of the Fourth Class. In the for­ eign Office he will rank as third Min­ ister. Chang Chitung, Viceroy of Shangsha, has also been appointed a Grand Coun­ cillor of the Fourth Class. The Vice­ roy was summoned to Pekin recently to consult with the Dowager Empress regarding the alarming growth of anti- Manchu sentiment in China, on which subject Yuan Shikai has been consult­ ing with her Majesty. The Dowager Empress, in. thus sur­ rounding herself with the strongest and most eminent men of the empire, has surprised even those who were aware j of the throne’s apprehension and its de­ termination to fortify the Government to the utmost. --------------------■ CRASHED THROUGH BRIDGE. Thoma's Clark, Driver of Traction En­ gine, Killed. A despatch from Brantford says: Thomas Clark, farmer, of Brantford township, was killed on Wednesday •morning by being crushed to death by a traction engine which he was driving and which crashed through the bridge over Fairchild’s Creek on the Hamilton road, five miles east of here. He was pinned under the engine in the water. Clark was unmarried and 32 yeans old. FIVE YEARS FOR BRIBERY. San Francisco Man Sent to Prison for Bribing Civic Official. A despatch from San Francisco says: Louis Glass, Vice-President of the Paci­ fic States Telephone & Telegraph Com­ pany, convicted of having bribed Super­ visor Lonegan to vote against granting a franchise to the Home Telephone Com­ pany, was on Wednesday sentenced by Superior Judge Lawlor to five years’ imprisonment in the State prison at San Quentin. ----------------------- - SHOT DEAD BY BROTHER. Minncdosa Lad Victim of a Hunting Accident. A despatch from Minnedosa, Man., says : A shooting fatality occurred here Monday evening in which an 11-year-old lad, named John Stewart, lost his life. His twin-brother, Bert, was shooting blackbirds with a 22 rifle and did not notice his brother running in front of him. He received a shot, from which he expired almost immediately. this crack since May last, but had never said anything about it, as he had not thought that there was any danger. The witness pointed out on the plans the exact spot at which he had observed the crack. The meeting of the citizens to take steps to provide means to relieve the pressing wants of the families of the bridge victims was held on Wednesday, afternoon, Mayor Garneau presiding. The Mayor announced having received a number of subscriptions for the dis­ tressed, and nearly a thousand dollars was immediately subscribed. FROM TIIE ARCTIC WILDS. Steamer Has Arrived From Northern Canadian Points. A despatch from Athabaska Landing says : The steamer Midnight Sun ar­ rived from Grand Rapid on Tuesday, bringing Hudson's Bay Company’s furs from tiie far north. Among the pas­ sengers were Inspector D. W. Howard, of the R. N. W. M. P., who has been in charge of the police post at Peel River in the Mackenzie district for the last two years, and four constables; Bishop Breannatt of Fort Resolution, and Bishop Girouard, I>esser Slave Lake; Rev. M. Lucas and family of Fort Simp­ son ; Alfred Harrison and others. Mr. Harrison, who has been in the Arctic Circle for the past two years, and who has made a successful trip to Banks Land, reports that Mr. Stefanson ar­ rived at Herschel Island from F®rt Anx­ ious Island, reporting that the Duchess of Bedford, the ship belonging to the Anglo-American expedition, had filled, with water, and they- had removed everything to the main shore, and that the ship would probably sink. Captain Mikleson, Mr. Leffingwell, and another man, whose name he did not know, had left the ship in February, with sixty days’ provisions, for the supposed land to the north, and had been gone seventy days, and no news had been received from them. One of their train of dogs had returned, and it is likely the party will never be heard from again. Mr. Harrison will proceed to Edmonton at once. Constable Walker of R. N. W. M. P., at Herschel Island, and Mate Stein of the wrecked whaler Bonasae, and two whale boats, arrived at Fort McPherson from the Island on July 10, to await the arrival of Wrighley to take police sup­ plies to Herschel Island, also the de­ tachment with Major Jarvis and Con­ stable Carter, who relieves Constable Walker. The weather in the far north last win­ ter was exceptionally^-fine, whe^--com­ pared with the winter tof 19Q3. '------—------ 82,222,060 BUSHELS WHEAT. North-West Grain Dealers’ Association Issues Estimate of Crops. A despatch from Winnipeg says : Th? North-West Grain Dealers’ Association handed out on Thursday, through Frank O. Fowler, secretary, their crop estimate for this year for Manitoba, Saskatche­ wan and Alberta. It is a most favorable one. It is as follows :— Wheat, 5,013,544 acres at 16.4 bushels per acre, 82,222,000 bushels. Oats, 2,373,030 acres at 36.9 bushels per acre, 87,565,000 bushels. Barley, 663,833 acres at 28.1 bushels pei' acre, 18,654,000 bushels. Flax, 105,050 acres at 12.5 bushels per acre, 1,313,125 bushels. Wheat of old erop in farmers’ hands to market, 800,000 bushels. Oats of old crop in farmers’ hands to market, 492,000 bushels. The statement says:—“The above statement may be increased or de-' creased according to the weather con­ ditions prevailing from now on for har­ vesting, as a large proportion of the heaviest yielding crop is not yet ready to cut, and will not be for eight or.tep days. “The damage from yarious efiutsesjs far less than at first estimated-?-and is. but a small percentage.” , . -----------*------.— WOLVES TORE BOY’S ARM; < Accident lo a Lillie Lad in Winnipeg Menagerie. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Walter Brewer, a lad of 9 years of age, met with a painful injury on Tuesday afternoon at River Park by having one of his arms nearly torn to shreds by wolves that are in the menagerie there. The little fellow was feeding one of the animals some grass through the wires, and in taking the grass a wolf took the boy’s thumb inlo his mouth and bit it so that it made the blood flow. This gave the beast a taste of blood and made it savage for more. Three or four other wolves which were in the enclosure at­ tacked the boy's arm, and before aid could be summoned they had terribly lacerated it. A man came to the relief and beat the wolves off. The boy was sent to St. Boniface Hospital. The doc­ tors fear that the arm will have to be amputated. DEATH IN NIAGARA GORGE. Unknown Man Plunges from Upper Steel Arch Bridge. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N.Y., says : At nine o’clock on Wednesday night a man, whose identity has not been ascertained, leaped to death from the centre of the upper, steel arch bridge. There was a crowd on the structure at the Lime, viewing the illumination of the Falls, and it is thought the intense light of the projectors so dazed the unfortu­ nate man that he did not know what he was doing. Many witnessed the plunge from the railing of the bridge to death in the river, 200 feet below.