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THE EXETER ADVOCATE, THURSDAY, MAY 4,.Olt
THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH
HAPPENINGS FI1031 ALL OVER
TEM GLOBE IN A
NUTSHELL.
Canada„ the Empire and. the World',.
it General Before Your
Eyes.
CANADA,
Several buildings of the Canada.
Car 4: Foundry Company at Am-
herst, N.S., were burned on Thurs-
day.
Mrs. H. S. Coulson was fatally
hurt vehile diivine• in an automo
I . it. bile with her hnsband.in Montreal,.
on Thursday.
The Grand Trunk will put four
new trains into service in AN ester
Ontario, including au early morn-
ng newspaper train out of Toron-
to.
Many bar -rooms thronghoact the
Province closed on Saturday night
as a result of local option voting
last January -
The Management
anuary,TheManagement Committee of
the Toronto Board ctf Education de-
Bided to abolish the public drink-
ng cup- in the Kcitoo's;
The lari'a Scotia Steel Company
Will establish as plant for turning
out the heaviest forgings required
for the new Canadian naval vessels,
Drying House of Dominion
Company Blown Up.
A despatch from Sand Point says ;
AS the result of an explosion in the
drying house of the Dominion Ex-
-plosives Company, one and a half:
.miles west of this place, a calamity
,whieli in cause and some of its re-
>ults ;almost exactly duplicated that
of a year ago in that seine powder
mills, four alien- were instantly
'hurled. intra eterrar ity and about
70Q daanane Wats done to the pro-
perty of the cornpany. The explo-
sion oeeltrred at 12,10 on Thursday
afternoon, and is said by the o
cfals of the eorapaaey to have been
due to the ignition of a quantity{ of
gas in the building where it took
place. The dead are: Dominic Ben -
Westport, aged 22; William
Brtactks, Sand Pointe aged 27;
Jo xepit Mills, Popular, North Lon-
don,England, aged 3S; Horace Me -
[1.1 Ottawa, aged 20.
Thti> eattastrophe was one as sucl-
cien as it was terrible in its effects.
iikit tout any thing that might in any
Explosive
way have given the unfortunate
vietims a warning the explosion
came. The dryizig house was disin-
tegrated in an instant and smashed
into kindling wood, which strewed
the surrounding landseape, William
Brooks and Dominic Bennet were.
inside the building, .Joseph Mills
and Horace McMullen standing on
its platform, The bodies of Ben.;
net and Initis Were Bicron into ata
erns, no trace of them having been
foaled. Those of Brooks and: Me -
Mullen. were recovered, that fat the
latter being almost impossible to
identify. Almerst miraculously
none of the other employes were in-
jured, though near by,
Besides the complete destruction
of the dx =iu e.
8 house, the sides a€;
the nitrate roeMS were staved in,
as teem the ends of the ice house
and a storeroom. -nem the dry-
ing house had been, nothing was,
left but a large hollow in the
ground, the result of the downward
action of the explosion.
> 4 TES -STILL YEAR.
A.dvuntuConsolidation Slrilc«
ingly Shotru in Resul0 of )utile
Leaf Millin;; Company.
A special despatch from Toronto
says; The sticecss attending upon
Gorisolidation when carried out on.
sowed business lines is strikingly
shown by the results obtained by
the Maple Loaf Milling Company
during its first year. This torn
puny represents a eousolidation of
the Maple Leaf Flour Mills Conn-
paey, Limited, and '.the licdley Sba.w
Milling Company, and its first an-
Bildt report' to be issued shortly
will, it is said, show that the Com-
pany on its present mills has earned
well beyond the urvidend require-
ments of its preferred stock. This
would leave the entire earnings
from the new (3,000 barrel mill'. -now
nearing• completion at Port Col-
borne to go towards the accumula-
tion of a strong reserve fund aud
dividends en the common stock.
•i*
The attempt of the Montreal
Street Railway employees to :form
a union was ]net by the company
discharging twenty -live conductors
and motormen..
9 GREAT BUILDIIG BOO1VI
Month of March Shows Total of 59,805,560
Permits in Canadian Cities
A despatch from Toronto says:
In the May number of Construc-
tion, the building situation in Ca-
nadian cities is reported to show an
average gain for March of 8 per
Bent. over the corresponding period
last year.
Apart from Winnipeg, where a de-
crease of 60 per cent. is noted, Ot-
tawa, with a set -back of 38 per
cent., and Lethbridge and London,
-with and
of 32 and 53 •per cent.
respectively, the situation is re-
garded as satisfactory.
Toronto's investment of $2,210,-
770, netting a, gain. of 39 per cent.,
'reflects a state of enormous" activity.
In Vancouver, the work projected'
amount's, to $2,147,798, as against
$1,806,106 in the same period last
:year. Calgary, with $1,012,260, is
143 per cent. better than;her previ
vus` corresponding' month. Edmon-
ton has a gain of 3 per cent.. while
Medicine Hat, in the same province,
by an advance of 1,700 per cent.,
has the biggest proportionate in-
crease noted in' the list. Other
Westerns gains are :—Victoria, 34
per cent.; Moose Jaw, 25 per cent.,
and Regina, 65 per cent., the in-
vestment in the ' latter place
amounting to over half a million
dollars.
In the province of -Quebec, Mont-
real shows the same unremitting
progress that has characterized her
remarkable development during the
past two years. Permits were is-
sued for new work amounting to
1,107,577, as against $676,804 in the
same peidod last year, the total
noted being the third highest
amount recorded for the, month.
East of these points, Halifax and
Sydney are.respectively in the ar-
rear
S5 .Yp y
r
rear to the extent of and40'30 per
b
St. John again 'fails to
cent., and
report.
OR0)',ATI01
COVTINGE\T
�\All,the Members Must Assemble For Seven
Da'i Drill and Instruction
A despatch from Ottawa says
Orders were issued on Wednesday
regarding the .Coronation contin-
gent, The men will be paid in'ae-
cordance, With the rank they hold
on the contingent not the rank they
hold in their own regiment,: They
will also he granted efficiency ray
andfi -ld allo� vanee, • .All. the mere-
e_._
hers' of the eo ntingent must as-
as-
semble', for seven days' drill and in -
f o a•.,strn z '
c s at the 'depot of the'arm
.iif•,the . ervi`ce to' -'ivhi h th ey belong,
;for three days ' further at Que.
i''��bec" , l,...''prioi toezis knentfor ri
and
niThe .cavalry t,1 assemble at
i
peg, T>i- nto and St.' John
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sten and the 'garrison. artillery at
Quebec. They assemble at. King-
ston
on May�, 29 , a.(ci at Quebec on
May 23. All the dismounted corps
assemble at Quebec' on May a55�n i 23.
Tho officers will provide thein
-
selves with uniforms ' of the branch
of scrvice to which they belong The
nUiI=Lollin issioned officers and anon
will take theirs, :with them to the
i- 'arra,nt
� I: n. All Fti
point of ,leo �zlii, „za
and none-conimissi jned offi-
cers
Will receive a free is-
suecexs, and )ncxz F
r :e i e clothing
o, of%e _suit of ne � c . c_
and tw-o'pairs of'' ankle boots
i.
The contingent as.dI 7embarlien !
the 15t ..,(`;. .l',inpress of. Ire- '
,7inae 1 in , � Far
Tres-
from' Quebec, and will leave
r')O01 ;en r,1? :e +•e.t•itn tr1j>. on
Live .. l i
Jade C ner R. S.. "lr.al )i e„c, of Brita),i
is
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GREAT BBITA.IN.
Eritish Freemasons presented an
address to the Doke of C'onnaughe.
Arrests were made in connection
with the Charing Cross Bank fail-
ure in London.
A non-party deputation urged on
Premier <Asquith the creation of an
Imperial Council,
Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour will
speak at meeting; an support of
arbitration treaty.
GENERAL,
A :serious risinghas taken place
in Canton, Chin,
The ,Fez relief coition is i>ii des-
erato straits -
The Australian Labor Ministry
as stietuined a serious defeat.
J 1T 1, l`1103L 11031ES.
Twenty-eight Families Flee krona
Flames Early in lLoruing.
.A despatch from Montreal says:
Twenty-eight families; -were driven
from their homes shortly after onti
o'clock on Friday morning, when
fire broke out in the Mount Royal
aprartrneut house at the corner of
Hutchinson strdet and St, Joseph
boulevard. A poor water supply
left the firemen almost' helpless.
The building was valued aft about
9150,000, and was the subject of
protest when it Was erected a cou-
ple of years ago, it being declared.
that in almost every respect it
transgressed the building by-laws.
SUSPENSION IlEYO1i iD*.
Fifty C. P. R. Conductors .f aid Off
in Alberta Back at Work.
A despatch from Calgary says:
FiftY C. P. R. conductors who were
suspended from the Alberta lines
of the company for alleged irregu-
larities have been reinstated. The
railway Men were instructed to re-
port at Montreal for investigation,
but refused, and were suspended.
The head of the railway conductors
took the matter up at C.P.R. Bead
quarters, with the result that all•
the men are back . at work.
$05,000,000 FOR RAILWAYS.
German Government Proposes a
Huge Appropriation.
A despatch from Berlin says : The
Government has laid before the
Diet a bill appropriating $65,750,-
000
65,750,-000 for the building of secondary
railways, double -tracking some of
the existing roads, continuing the
electrification` of the lines °between
Madgeburg, Haile and Leipsic, ,.be
ginning the efin
lines the Silesian
ctri'Mountaincatiosof and
providing new rolling stock.
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EMIGRATION TO CANADA.
Increase for Last Fiscal- Year Ayas
49 Per Cent.
A despatch from Ottawa' --says:
The total immigration into Canada
for the fiscal .year ending March 31
last was 311,084. The immigration'
from the United States was 121,451,
and by ocean ports' 189,633. The
total ".immigration for the previous
fiscal year was 208,794: 103,798 be-'
ing from the United ,States and
104,996 t'.
cntcrcdb�' ocean ports. The
e
or theela,st'fiscal } 'tar was
1nW t'
49 per cent:.
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c,t4 ha telfrozChicago s
ay s;
Four armed robbers, who hadTa
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entered the jewelry
jy
store of '.Edward Alberti, 724E l'lil-
v1z(,n,y° on Wednesday.
prop' OV and -. a,`':cleric
beat the ap l,. t t
I tr7nc , „ l :withplunder
,ie;� 71c,ss; , a,a n
.on t
51;,-� ,'
We know and users a Royal Yeast Cakes know that these
are the best good of the kind in the World. Bread made with
Royal Yeast will keep moist and fresh longer than that nia.cie with
any other. Dla not expe •iF ent—there is no other "just as good.”
E,. W aril,LET't PQ.. LTD.- T r{,nt*, ort.
u if lthest honors at an Expostoona. Montreal
R,9, 2ti"
yztcai a Jlvrartletl iiF
PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS
itr.PQRTS rtton 'til LEADING
TRADE CENTRES 01?
a'icca of Cattle, Grain
and Other. Prodtic;c all
and Abroad.
BBI ADS:I UFFS,
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Toronto, May 2,--F1014-4 r
v1W4t 80 per cent. patents,
to f,43,0. Montreal freight. Man
tuba hours--Firsa patents, $:5.JOt
scoond' patents. and strong
bakers", 14, 1p, en taaack, Toronto.
Manitoba Wheat—No. 1 North -
11, 9S.3c eash, Bay* ports; No, 2
at 90e, and No. 3 at 03e!'a'ce No. 1
quoted at 0734e to 98e. May deny-
er ,, I ay ports,
iluteri° W3teet—No. acct anct
white, 83 to ya Ie, trutside.
Burley—Malting qualities, 07 to
G. outside, and feed, 03 to 570 out;
flats--.Ontariof;rtees, 3434 to 350
7
trutside, and 30.to 341( on traelc, To-
o, No, 2 W. C. oats, 33e, and'
37,Ke, Bay ports.
Corm -No. 3 American yellol
6O0, Toronto, all rail, and at 54 to
?, c, Buz,. ports,
Peas—No. 2 at 80 to 81e, outside.
llyc--Priees purely nominal.
Buckwheat—No. 2 at 52 to 53e,
outside.
Bran--Manitohas, $22.0 to $23,
in bags, Torortto, and shorts, S`4,
in bags, Toronto. Ontario brach,
$22 to .$22.50, in bags, Toronto.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples—Tlie market is dull.
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Beans—Car lots, $1,70 to $1.75
and small'. lots, .$1.90.
Honey—,Extracted, in. tins, 10 to
110 per lb.; No. 1 comb, wholesale,
$2 to $2.50 per dozen; No. 2 comb,
wholesale, $1.75 to $2 per dozen.
Baled hay—\''o. 1 at $12.00 to $13,
�`
on track and a d
No. o. 2 at 10
0. 0 to
$11.00,
Baled Straw -16.50 to $ 7, on
track, Toronto.
Potatcese-Car lots, 80' to. S5c per
bag, and Ncsv Brunswiek at, 95e to
$1.
Poultry - Wholesale prices of
dressed poultry:—Chickens, 15 to
160 per ib. ;. turkcys, 19 to 21c per
lb. Live, 1 to 2c less.
LOCAL DAIRY MARKETS. ,..
Butter—Dairy, prints, 18 to 20c;
inferior, 16 to 17c. Creamery quot-
ed at" 25 to 26e per Ib. for rolls, 23
to 23,14e for solids, and 22 to 23c for
separator prints.
Eggs—Case lots, 17 to. 18e per
dozen.
Cheese—Large, 14c, and twins,
14a4e. New cheese 1234 to 13c in a
jobbing way.
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HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon—Long clear, 10,14.to 11c
per lb. in case lots; mess pork, $20;
do., short cut, $23 to $23.50; pick-
leds rolls, $19 to $20.
Flatus—Light to medium; 15c; do.,
heavy, 12 to 13c ; ro115, 11 to 11/c;
breakfast bacon, 15' to 17e; backs,
18 to 1.81,4e.
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Lard—Tierces, 10%c ; tubs, 1Dc;
pails, 11i3c.
BUSINESS AT MONTBEAL.
Montreal,May 2. -The demand
from foreign buyers for Manitoba
Spring wheat was poor, and 'bids
were 4%c per quarter lower. Oats—
Canadian Western, No.%
2, 40Tto
_0f c, car lots ex store ; extra No.
1 feed, 39% to 40c; No. 3 C. W.,
39 to 39fc;; No. 2 local white,
38X to384c; No. 3 local white.`
37Y, to
38c; No. 4 local while,' 37'4
to 37]/„c„ Flour-eManitoba Spring
wheal patents, firsts $5.30; clo.,
BANOB, IVI9INE, FIRS SWEPT
'ublic bins adurches Wiped .t •
—Six Mill o1. Dc Ii r
aos�a
A despatch from Banger, Maine,
says; Damage already estimated at
nearly $0,000,000 has• been caused
by a fire which broke oat in Paean
and Robinson's coal sheds on Broad
Street shortly after , o' ;lv:
k on
Salndiw afternoon.w
T o persons
are known to have been killed. and
(hr°er 20 have keep injured. Every-
thing north of York Street, from
ICenduskeag stream to the east side
of Broadway, has been burned.
Nearly all of the fine residences in
clic utast exclusive suction of the
city air
well as the post -office and
all of the largest chalice and basilic:
lauildings are in ruins. The Fin
C'tangregationaal Church en 33wat
way, cry e of the oldest in the State;
:St, Jul n's Episcopal, the Central
t'otagregational, on Fxtneh Street,
and the Universal. Church, are gono
as are the Windsor Hotel and High
School bending, The Bangor Pub -
lie Library with one of the most
valuable collection.e of books in
New .England, is totally destroyed.
Thousands are Walking the streets
homeless and destitute. Dynamite,
powder, aiacl thousands of cartridges
in the L. Crosby Company's sport-
iaag goods store exploded. The elec-
tric. lighta are out, trolley cars are
neat running, and the t-elephcrne syn
earn is also out of eommissiou.
phare than, a square mile wide of
be lraasihless section of tido city. liras.
teeaA burned tip, Tb* City° Hall
ow escaped the dames, al-
it stood directly in the path
of
liBA'S PRABE FOR YEAR
Exceeds 759,000,000,'earlJ Double That
of Ten Years Ago
A. despatch Irom Ottawa says:
Final figures of the trade of Canada
during the past fiscal year show tui
increase of $81,952,200 in the total
volume of imports and exports as
1
con
maxeda Cd withttt G preceding 5year.
l.
The aggregate for the year was
$^,.,r
9,091,393, or nearly double the
trade of ten years ago. Imports
for the
�"
e totaJl •
c.d 1G 9
1580_7
� an
increase of $86,114,364. Exports of
both domestic and foreign products
totalled $297,196,365. Exports of
domestic products totalled $274,-
361,553, a decrease of $1,894,984.
Exports of foreign products total-
led $22,8+9,412, an increase of about
two and one-half millions. The ex-
ports of coin and bullion last year
totalled $7,290,1.55, a$ compared
with ;92,50.4,530 for 1209-10. The ix -
porta, according to the principal
products, were as follows :--Exports
or the ming, $42,7S7,501, an .increase
of $2,700,000. Exports of agricul-
ture, 982
,001,284, a decrease of
nearly eight millions, Exports of
"r
the forest, $4�,43:1,O;i7, a decrease
of a little over two millions. Ex -
wits of manufactures 935,283,118,
an increase of nearly four millions.
Exports of fisheries, $15,G75,514, or
practically the same as the preced-
ing year. Exports of animals and
their products 953,244,174, a- de-
crease of a million and a half.
The Customs revenue for this year
was 973,297,525, an increase of 912,-
287,033, or over twenty per cent.
90Xc; No. 1 hard, $1.003; No. 1.
Northern, 99e to 91; No. 2 Nortll-
-ern, 96 to 96,!c; No. 3 wheat, .94 to
97c. Bran -921. to 922. Flour —
First patents, $4.60 to $4.90; sec-
ond patents, 194.50 to 94.80; first
clears, $3.10 to 93.55; second clears,
92.10 to 92.75.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Montreal,, May 2.—Choice steers
sold at 61,4c, good at 6 to 63.c, fair-
ly good at 5j4 to 5%c, and the low-
er grades at 5 to 5/c per lb. Cows
and bulls ranged from 3% to 514
per Ib. as 10 quality. Sales of se-
lected lots of hogs were made at;
$6.75 per 100 lbs., weighed on ears.
Sheep brought 94, to 96 each;. and
Spring lambs from 95 to $7 each
as to quality.
_.
Toronto,2
May 2. --Heavy steers
and Mills were 25 or 35c lower than
last week. Light butcher heifers
from 900 to 1,050 lbs. eacli were the
best sellers. Cows, 94.60 to $3.25,
but heavy bulls were' off a lot. not
selling any higher than 9.4.90
Stockers and feeders, 94.50 to -95.-
50. Sheep and lambs sold up to 96.-
65. Good milkers sold at -around
950 or 900 each. Hogs and veal
calves were practically- unchanged,
but Spring lambs have nearly reach-
ed normal prices. Sales were re-
corded in the neighborhood of $6
each.
.44
Mr. J. I'. 'Wises, the well-known
Prescott distiller, is dead.
The Provincial Government has
bought 1,300 acres of waste laud in
Norfolk . lnty o
,,COL y for experimental
purposes.
C[IOOI, PEACHERS �IL�FD
`three Known to Have Perished, Eiglit,Other3„
Believed to be Dead in Railway Wreck
A despateh from, •Easton,, Penn., an fire h3 ex l ding oilk;'the wreck.-
says : Tirice'persons lost their
estn2 cxs,. $4.o,;O;-St '. _:e2��}zL ,.ntGs7nn• vetl }Liot e1is
L, .coachg.
sid.ea3�il),,d zn
seconds, $4.8.0; Winter wheat pat -are acidIelletank aloe,' the..lack when t,3
l;ong bakers$4.60; the rails.
g ht :rollers, .$4 to $4.25, dln, In d.au,anemulla zundie•dothoi
..
The• entire train was -quickly .gin-
. f to. �1.., of oats-- were -injured uredl batnr a4 aia,ernoon at ,..1,.completely,
b.u� a, -•S, 1 a 5 b�. Relied at, J c ,,ed � �lti Haines and
Per barrel;..94.1 5 ;; bag: of 90 lbs., Martin's Creek, ,N N. . a . a. wreck - cox. s m ' ', ' .
� z z L c, , � , n ze l,. z u ect,by the fire. [1_c e1 L�
91.95. Cor---Anlerican No. 3. =el
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low, 60 'to 60%c. MMillfeed—.Bran,
Ontario;$f $23 to $24 ; Alaniloba, 522
to $23; mictcilio4 e7 ,Ontario,' $23 to
694.; shorts, ``141aniroba $25; mein-
illie 925, to 9. -: Eggs --Fresh 7
,-..-� 9, 30tea ...., .... •
to 195,: Cheese --Westerns
'.. 2 „
11 5=8c. Butter—Choicest,, ...2c. sec-
onds, 20,io 21c: •
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illinneap z:�,:• lY1aY L. cal
tt aix�.,977-Sr::
of an excursion train; c tl•r)•`il)g nUciing persons, seven of wheel]
170 school - teachers and friend x ere wcc.n m ` and- l
5 � 1i�etl I,z.Litica;'ara'
from Utica and Syracuse, N. Y. believes to have been tai
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anti vicinity. to Washington, for. a death. in the wreckage. ” Th fi cL g
€' � ., i�,ctiil
week's outing. The train. was one 01 charred,' bones . led thel a•i d
n .... .- . -lI CYlC1
fui nishea the teachers by t,he Dela- wrecei g cit4s canch ,,o
x
ware, Lackawanna Wextern R. that .they arc dead. T1,
^ etu<P'
Of
R., and the accident ccurr � d while he 2of e arc -
o e the Wreck has not yet Lc:�z7 �,,yr..r
it was
travelling at a high rate of taine.
c.
".fc place
; ,. ti
..,:u� the a; f
i
s� cI over'a stretch of track con- cent �cclrretil had bc��il .lit«-)
trolled b rho Penns rlvania 'oeirs '
'lame locomotive jumped ,...the true.,,,ma'"y. lla
1 c.z _etiti
the, ears topialed over and were set, train leaving the ','i 1'•.
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