HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1914-4-9, Page 3Grain, Cattle and Cheese
Prices of These Products In the• Leading
Markets are Here Recorded
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Breach/tars
Toronto, A.pri). 7.— olour--Ontaria
wheat flours, ee per cent., $3,85, aea.
board, and at 33.05 to $1, Toronto. Pawn-
teals—First patents, in jute bag%
53.60; clo.eeeconde, 35.10; strong bakers',
in jute bake, 34.00.
Manitoba wheat—Bay ports—No. 1
.Nerthern, 97e, anel No. 2, 953/4e; Goderich
lc more. No. 1 Northern, North Bay,
•31.031, and No, 2, $1,011.
• Oetario.wheal—No, 2 at 98c to $1, out-
side, according to freight, and 31'on
track Toronto
Oats—No, 2 Oatario oats, as to 30e,
outside, and at 41 to 4-2c, on track, To-
aoato. Western Canada oats quoted at
41/e for No. 2, and at 40ec for No. 3,
Bay ports.
Peas --08c to $1, outside.
learley—Good maltilig barley, 57 to
-58c, outeitle, according to eualltY.
• liYe—NO. 2 at 63 to 64e, outside.
B00kwheat-75 to 76c, outside;
Core—New No, 3 American, 73c, all
rail, Toronto. Canadian, 69 o 70e.
etrart—elanitoba bean, 324 to 325 a
ton, in bags, Termite .freight. phorts,
326 to 327.
Country Pretlace• "
Butter—Otwico dairy, 22 to 23c: le-
ferior, 18. to 19c; farmers' separator
pleats, 28 to 26e; creamery prints, fresh,
31 to 32c; do., storage prints, 27 to 28e;
solids, storage, 25 to 26,
s --20e per dozen, in ease lots.'
Cheeee—New oheese. 151 to 15.2e for
large, and .161c for twins.
13eans—e1e.nd-picked, 30.20 to $2.25 per
letisitel; primes, 32.15 to 32.20.
• tioney---lextracted, •in Ling, 11 to 12e
,per lb, for No. 1; combs, 33 to $3.25. per
--t,dozen for No. 1, and $2.40 to 32.50 fee
No, 2.
Poultry—Fowl, • 15 to 18e per lb.;
chickens, 19 to 20e; 'clucks, 17 to 18c;
geese, 15 to 16e; turkeye, 20 to 23c.
Potatoes—Ontarios. 85c per- bag. ot
track, and Delawares at 35c, on track,
car lots.
P.rovisione. - •
'Bacon—Long- clear, 15 to 16e per lb.
in case lots. Hams—Medium, 18 to 18hc;
do., heavy, 17. to 18e; rolls, 15 to 151e;
breakfast bacon, 18 to 19o; 'backs, 22 to
21e. '
Lard—TierceS, 1.31e; tubs 13.2e; paUs
140.
Seeds.
Wholesale seed merchants are selling
re -cleaned seeds to the trade, OD the
100-1b, basis—Red clover, No. 1, en to
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21; do., No. 2, 3'17.50 to 318.50; alsilte,
a 1, $10 to 321; do., No. 2, $17 to $18.50;
Imothy, No. 1, 88.50 to $9.50; do., No.
, 37.25 to $7.50: alfalfa, No. 1, $144o
15; do., No. 2, $13 to e13.60.
Montreal Markets,
Montreal, • April 7.—Corn—Arnerlcan
No. 2 yellow, 77e to 78c. Oats—Canadi-
an Western, No. 2, 43e to 41c; do., No. 3,
13 to 431c. Liarley--Xanitoba feed, 49
to 50(r malting 58 to 70e. Flour—
Manitoba, Spring, •wheat paterts, firsts,
$5.00; do.. eeeonde, 35,10; etrong I -
$4.e0; \\rimerpatents; choice, !' J•25
to 35.50; Stralget rollers, $4.70 to e •00;
do. in liege. 33.30 to e2.35, onea
opits-4;arrels, $4,25 to 14.55; bat: or.
00' lbs., 12 to 32.15., Milifeed--Bran,
$23; shorts, 125; middlings, $281 /noun-
iie, $28 to 332. Ifay—No. 2, per ton, oar
lots. 313 to $14. Cheese --Finest west-
erns, 141 te 15c; do., easterns, 14 to
1110, Butter—Choicest creamery, 1.8 to
281e; seconds, el to 271 ,
21 to 23c. Potatoes—Per bag, car lots.
721 to 80c.
Winnipeg Grain.
_Winnipeg, April 7,--Caslit—Wheat,
No.1 Northern, 893e; No. e Northern,
87e; No. 3 .Northern, S5Re; No.4, 823c;
No. 5, 80e, No, 6, roc, 'Leal. 70e; No. 1
rejected seeds, 852e; No. 2 rejected seeds,
838e; No. 3 rejected seeds, 8.13ee No. 1
smutty, • 855c; No. 2 smutty, 831e: NO.
3 smutty'811e: No 1 red Winter, Mc;
No 2 reclAVinter, 851E; -NC '3 red Winter,
85110. pats -'--No. 2 ` 0. -We 34ic; No. 3 C.
W., 33/c; No. 2 feed, 32ee. Barley --No,
3, ':44a.; No. 4, 4210; rejected, 411e; feed,
eee. Flax ---No, 1 31.37; No. 2
CW., $1.31; Ne." 3'0.W., 31.88.
•United - States Markets.
Mi nnee Polls. • April 7.WheatMay.
883e; July, 90 to 0050; No. 1 bard, 081
to 1123e; Ne. 1 Northern, 894 to Sleet No.
2, do., 87; to 890. Coru—No.
61e lo 620, Oats—No, 3 white, 351 to
353e, Flour—Fanny patents, 34.60, in
wood; first clears, 33.45, in jute; second
patents. 32.75, in jute. Bran, 325.
Duluth, ,April 1,—Wheat—No. 1 hard,
912e; No. 1 Northern, 9011e; No. 2, doe
883e; May, 200e; July, ellee September,
873c. Lineeecl—Cash $1 68; •may,
31.50; Juiy 31.608eSeptetubee, 31.603.
Live 'Stock 134arkets.
Toronto, APril 7.=Ca1tle--Cholee but-
chers', 37.60 to eS; good, 37.25 to 37,40;
medium, 36.30 to 37.25; coenmon, 35 to
35.60; choice cows, 36.50 to 36.75;
good, $5.60 to 36.25; common, 34.40 to
35.50; cutters and canners. $3.15 to
33.60; ehoiee bulls, 36.60 to $3; good,
$5.60 to 30.40;. common, $4 to 35.35.
Stockers and feeders—Steers, ehoice, 37
to 38.50; good. 35.40 to 36.30; light,
33.50 to $4.75; springers, to 380; milk-
ers, to 390. Calves—Good vgals, $8.65
to 311; medium, 37 to 39. Sheep and
lamhs-teLight ewes, 35.50 to 37; heavY,
$3 to 53.50; Spring lambs, $9 to 39.50.
I1'ogs—$0.85 to 39.50, fed and watered;
30.65 to $9,75, off ears; $9 to $0.10,
f.o.b.
Montreal, April 7. --Prime beeves, 74c
to 83.ci a few extra steers, Sec, and
large fat cows, 730 to 71e: medium, 51e
to 71e; commen. 43e to 51c; eows, 340
to $75; ealvee. 3.3e to The. Sheep, 6c to
Gee: lambs, 810 to 9e; spring lambs, $5
to 36 each. Hogs, 100; North-West
hogs, 91e.
MILITANTS FIRE A tA.STLE.
I:dike Was About to Become a Pubs.
lie Technical Institute.
A despatch from. London says:
Suffragettes tried to burn Lisburn
Castle, County • Antrim, Ireland,
which was formerly owned by the
, late Sir John. Murray Scott, who
' eisequeathed about $6,000,000 to
Lady Sackville, and over whose
will there was a bitter contest last
(
July. 'Me castle was about to be-
come a public technical institute.
inflammables and the usual Suffrae
gate papers were found in the
vieinity. be damage to the castle
was •slight. •
May Richardson, the militant
Suffragette who sloshed the Rokeby
"Venus" in the National Gallery,'
has been on•a hunger- strike since
she was sent to jail for sLx months
en March 12. The authorities have,
130w -resorted to. forcible feeding.
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OFFICER TO•REPORT O'N ICE.
• Goverpment Will Co-operate With
• United States Patrol.
A despatch from Ottawa isays
Carrying out its pat b of the conven-
• tion ooncluded eolne months ago in
London aegareling the safety. of life
at sea. the Marine Department is
cooperating with the "United States
Government, which has two steam-
ers patrollieg the track of the North
Atlantic and making careful obser-
vations and reports a.s t -o ice ton-
•` elitions. An Officer is to be placed
at Cape Race, and to Eim will be
direebeel all information from the
patrol or other steamers as to the
location of ice fields or iceberg.
Two messages will be flashed out
• dejle--- east and west, giving steam-
, ers eastbeund and westbound full
inFormation as to the loea-tion of lee
fields. While Cape Race is the m.ost
eeetral point for all -year-round
traffic arrangements ha,ve also been
made 'for a similar information ser-
vice being oi:ieratexl at, Belle Isle
from October.
CLASHED WITH P 0 LI Cly
One litindrea S. Petersburg Riot-
ers Arrested.
A despateh from St, Petersburg
says: The strike mused by the epi-
demic of a nity,eteriotts malady in
factories her is spreading rapidly.
Mat!' factories are affected, end
eller /lumber of workers who have
quit through fear of contagion is
now about 170,000, There were sev-
eral demeastratione in the streets
on "Wednesday, and 'the workers
,elaelted with the police, Oue hun
tired of the rioters were arrested,
SOIlle were injured, The,,OWnere Of
the Trugoinik Rubber Factoty,
*Mel) is one of thos-e, affeeted, have
es'y'tenteci a holiday, with pay, to the
iemplOyd3,
UP TO ONE DOLLAR.
Maximum Amount to Be Carried in
the Maile.
A despatch from Ottawa, says:
c'The recent regalation against
sending money through the mails,
save by registered post, will be
modified so as to exempt amounts
nob exceeding $1,", said Dr. Conl-
ter, Deputy Postmaster -General.
The regulation against sending
money in unregistered letters was
designed to remove the temptation
from postal employes to steal from
the mails, several cases of this kind
having beep deteeted in various
cities. .4 present, letters violat-
ing- the rule are being sent to the
dead letter office. It has been
pointed out to the clepartmentehow-
ever, that it is a hardehip to com-
pel the registration of trifling
amounts, as the hazard of sending
theni unregistered does not justify
the extra OXI3elleee
FIVE TOURIST HOTELS BURN.
Guests "Were Driven Scantily Clad
Into the Streets.
A despatch from St. Augustine,
Fla,, 'says: Flames that swept
throtrgh two long blocks in the
heart of 81. Augustine along the
bay shore destroyed five tourist
hotels, a theatre, the courthouse,
and numerous residences, with an
estimated toss of. $500,000 to $750,-
000. There. was no life loss, but
numbers of guests in the hotels
were.forced ±0 flee scantily clad into
the streets,. while others were car-
ried down ladders by .firemen and
volunteers.
Two persons wlio jumped in their
flight from the flames were sexious-
ly injured. Miss Alice M: Smith,
of Amherst, N. S., who leaped frern
the secondeflooe window of the Fiore
ida House to escape the fire, suf-
fered a broken ba,ek and leg, and
will elle. Several other persons
sustained minor injuries.
TWO DROPPED DEAD.
D.
Couple Saw Street Fight with
Fatal ResullA.,
A despatch from Wo rcester,
Mass., says: Patrick Eaglet:on, 70
years old, of Duggan Street, Spen-
cer, and Mrs. Dennis .Arseneault,
60 'Years old, of 48 IVIaple, Street,
Spencer, dropped dead frem fright
in the street asi, they witnessed it
three-coreered fight between Mar-
tin Niederberger, a chauffeur, and
Stanley Orutt and Charles Bannon.
The fight took place on the street
and M. Eagleton, who was 'waiting
fee a, teelley car, collapsed on the
he
with, fright, and died, be-
fore a elector' could be ealled. Mrs,
Arseneault sank to the fleet of the
waiting-ttabien during the row and
she Wa.8" dedel before help eould
reach her.
SiltIAIERS PEIII811 oN FLOES.
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4'....sitlitiates of the Dead Vary Freon
Fifty to One Bemired,
A despatch from $t, ,folin's, New-
foundland, seye: Death travelled
in a gale that overtook the sealillg
fleets lieve. The steamer Newfound-
land lost probably -fifty of her crew,
while as many iore, it is feared,
will be maimed as a result of expo -
1 care. T1 1
ie men est were far from their
ships killing seals when the storm
with I/111141ns; snow, swooped down
upon them. They were exposed for
48 hours before assistance arrived,
and in that time many succumbed.
The Newfoundland was one of:a
fleet of fifteen ships, carrying over
2,000 men, ecattered ataorig the ice
floes near Belle, Isle Strait. The
crews were on the floes hunting
seals whieh have their homes on
these crystal plains., and the hunt
had takerk them from fOlir to six
miles from their ehips.
When the blizzard came the cre„ves
of the other steamers managed to
regain their vessels, but thelees on
which the Newfoundland's Men
were hunting 'drifted a,way from the
main body of ice, and when dark-
ness fell that night not one had re-
turned. The ship's crew numbered
150, of whom 120 were on the ice.
Captain Wesley Kean, his efficers,
engineers, stokers and cooks, re-
mained aboard.
The weather cleared and Captain
Kean signalled the steamers Bella -
venture and Stephan°, which were
nearest him, of the loss of his men.
These two' vessels, being fast end
powerful, ,smashed their way into
the floes in search of the missing
men.
'Captain Randell, of the Bell/e-
vent/ire, 'sent a wireless message
that he had. -twenty-eight living rnen
aboard, and there wereetwo others
on the ice 'that he had not yet res-
cued. He estimated forty men were
dead, ,and there were thirty still un-
accounted for. He stated that the
survivors were so exhausted that
they could not walk and had to be
hoisted aboard the vessel.
Stories of Survivors.
The horror :of his. experience on
the ice failed to depress the spirits
of Mike Sheehan, one et the el/r-
ed-ears. Be was considered a bad
case by the Believe/A-axe's physi-
cians. His face, hands and feet
were frostbitten, and the condition
'was aggravated by the man' s retet-
less aeltierity.
When the rescue ship tied up to
the dock-. Mike eluded hie care-
takers, slipped oyer the side and
met a few friends with whom he
roamed about the city for taro
hours, while the police and hospital
orderlies searched for him. When
he was located at last, he Wa,s
premptly sent to the hospital. Be
refused to go in afnambulance, and
a cheering orowd followed him as he
marched up the street, limping
badly. Sheehan said he owed his
life in part to 'a bit of blood-soaked.
hard tack, which he found lying be-
side a dead Tian'. •
He described the way in whieh,
one of his comrades, Daniel ',Dow-.
ney, met .death. Exhausted' and
realizing tliat he was deemed, Dow-
ney took .off his belt, seratehed his
name on it, buckled it about him
again. and krieib down and prayed.
Then he stretched hhes,elf out and
waited the end wjethoub a 1111Trientr.
Lost 60 Hours.
One survivor, Michael Tobie, of
Fermeuee, was out for 60 hours.
Re Was led away from the resit by
the whistle of the steamer Ste-
phano, and, becoming bewildered,
went astray .a,eeel was not picked up
until some houre aftee the others
had been found. He will lose one
ear, probe/Ay both of his feet. The
edges df all his teeth were broken
off from -chewing chunks of ice to
quenele hie"thiest. Ile knew that he
mast keep walking and nob get his
feet wet, and despite the deaden-
ing fatigue -and the blinding enow,
he was able to avoid the many holes
in the floes until the afternoon of
the thirdialay, when he made out the
Stephan°. Within a milo,her he
sank into a pile of ice slush, which
•obilled him through. Arousing hini-
self 'he stumbled onward, half -
blinded, only to walk into a p,00l
of. water kace-deep. He was un
able to extricate- himself, but his
plight was ,seen by four men from
the, Stephan°, who pulled him out.
Upon reaching the tship's clock he
ol 1 ap s ect an d was -unconscious 24
h•ours. His clothing had to be cub
rom his body, and both his feet
vere feoz,en. He subeisbed ali the
ime on the ice and only three bis
-
tilts', which he husbanded careful -
y., One of the Ste,p,hatie's, men
sked how he felt when be thought
-le was dying.
"Dying 2" said Tobin, c"l never
bought of , it.''
According to Thomas Dawson, a
argm- number of men reached the
tephano, the nearest ship,- ae neon
11 the day the blizzard broke. After
esting, they decided to try to reach
he Newfoundland, fi've hours' walk
istant, and this was the chaise Cif
he appalling death list,
An hour after leaving the Ste-
hano, he said, the allow blotted
ut all. observation. They wander
d ainilesely about, and eame tipen
00 Seals they had killed during the
orning; Had they 8140(111 by these,
ere-emee,
3p'
id, 'De oe'',15" fri4K4hove
beee earved, for the sealer would haVe
furnished fuel for 48 hours, Ile, is
badly froien, etied wiil iteee both
feet, 'end probebly all his fingers.
, Drank Seal's Blood.
A seal which James Donovan
killed during the ;eerie saved
a-ocorelireg to his etory, Ile
says he ,drained the wa,rai blood
in to a n -min and ,cleank it, and
isaVed'un a suleply 'foe a latter emer-
gency.
Seventeen of 'the men, including
Jere e011,Way, drifted.away from the
main floe on a,' large sheet of ice
Wecineeday night. By Thursday
morning only Conway anti two
°there remained alive.
TWO TRAINMEN KILLED.
work Train li'reeked Owing to Un-
dermining of Roadbed.
d.
despatch from Toronto says:
Undermined by the spring fleods,
a onlvert on, the new Lake Shore
Line of the. Canadian Pacifie Rail-
way collapsed while a work train
was running over it, hurling the
locomotive and tender to the bottom
of a twenty -foot ravine and.derait-
ing the following car, instantly kill-
ing the engineer aud firema•n and
seelously injuring a member of the
train crew, The casualty list- is a's
follows: Killed—George Vincent,
engineer; Albert Sinclair, fireman.
Injured—Albert Shelstone, brakes -
man, injured about the body and
head, believed to be suffering !rem
internal injurieS,, bat will recover.
The train was the first to pass
over the newly-conistructed roa,c1
this year. It was collecting work
• cars left along the line during t•he
past season, and arrived at the
Cherrywooel culvert about 11 o'clock
in the morning. At the time the
train was running slowly, and when
.the engine reached the centre of the
viaclutt the structure collapsed.
The locomotive dropped twenty feet
into the ravine, dragging -the tender
with it. Fortunately the coupling
connecting the following work car
snapped, but not before that car
WaS dragged from the rails.
Engineer Vincent failed to lea,p
from the cab, and when the engine
rolled upon its side at the bottom
of the ravine was pinned ander-
neath ib and was instantly „killed.
Fireman Sinclair succeeded in leap-
ing from the cab, but was so seri-
ously injured by his fall that he
eitecumbed a few ininute5 later.
r.
Shelstene, was on the
fallowing work car, and when it was
derailed was thrown into the ra-
vine.
STREET'S STREWN WITH DEAD.
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Torreon Falls and Remnant of Fed-
eral Army of Mexico Flees.
• A cle,spateli from Torreon, Mex.,
via Gomez Palacio, says : Torreon,
strewn with dead and wounded of a
six-day battle was occupied by the
rebels on. Prida,y on the heels of the
fleeing Fecierals.
In all the fighting, no foreigner
was killed or injured. The, taking
of Torreon marks the climax, of the
first campaign of the revolution to
oust Victoriano Ilueeta from Mexico
City. It gives the Constitutional-
ists virtual -control over the whole
northern tier of Mexican States .
The fighting began a week ago
and was almost continuous. At
first Villa, attempted assaults on the
strong Federal positions in day-
light, but these Droved costly, so
the days weee spent in -cannonading
and the nights in assaults.
Positions were taken a,ncl lost
time and again. Several nighb at-
tacks sent the Federals scurrying
from strong positions, but at day-
break the captors would be eom-
pelleel to abandon them by the
strength and acmiracy of the
enemy's artillery fire, -much of
which is said to have been directed
by French .and German gunners.
1,50 :Killed, .1,000 Wounded.•
General Villa estimated his own
losses at 500 killed, and 1,500
wounded, and the Federal loss at
1,000 killed and 2,500 wounded.
IODINE FOR CATTLE DISEASE.
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Radical Cure for Anthrax and
Other Ailments.
A despatch from Paris, France,
rays: The Academy of Sciences
came out the other day in advocacy
of the use of iodine on diseased
cattle. The academy asserts that,
iodine is 'a rat:Heal cure for anthrax
and other ailments. Prof. Perrier
said that all cattle which showed
signs of eruption on the hide in the
shape of boils or other sores should
be lanced' in the sore placee ancl
cubic centimeter of iodine applied,
ilUDSON'S DAY CO.'S REPORT.
Serious Diminution in the Sale of
Farm Lands.
A despatch from London says:
An official return of land sales ol
the Ilucleon's Ba,y Company for the
past 12 menths shOW8 eerious dimi
nution. Sales of farm lands de -
dined by 2115,006, or nearly 60 per
cent. Town lots decreased by
Le247,200, or more than 00 per Cent.
Tetal reempte for the past 12
months were 4468,400, as againet,
:t705;600 in the preceding period.
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Items
of News by Wire
Notes of Interest as to What is Ooing
on All Over the World
Canada.
Airs. IlfarePare t J. Durrefl, Toron-
to, comrilitted ,suieide.
Alfred Noyea the English poet,
was heartily welcomed in Toronto,
The contreet has been let for a
high school at Winchester, the fifth
in Dundas county. ,
The Provincial Hydro-Eleefric
• Commission ordered a• report on the
affairs of the Toronto eysbeen•
Mrs. Squirrel, an Indian woman,
with her husband and little
teeutItclitei:dgoeearireiol!psortelit,iNoneN.v Liskearcl
Mrs, Ella Janes is suing the C',o-
bait Lake, Mining C!o. for $10,000
Lor the death of her llueband, killed
by a falling derrick. •
David Web et ta r, ebief engineer of
Brantford water works, was pre-
sented with a gold watch in boner
of his 25 years of 'service.
A oonference will be held to ar-
range for the appointment of a joint
committee of the Senabe and Com-
mons to revise the Railway Aet.
jelin Marie it wholesale grocer of
London, died suddenly, being taken
ill on his way with his wife and
some friends to a lecture.
Joseph Hanna., a farmer of Kin-
loss, while repairing a windmill, got
his clOthing caught in the machin-
ery, but held on to a post whila his
clothes were torn from his body.
Allan Tarsier, of the, Brockville
Customs staff, died suddenly in the
same chair in which his father pass-
ed' away suddenly nearly 40 years
ago and in the same room in which
he ITIaS,
Miss Gladys Meredith, of Brant-
ford, was awarded $1,500 damages
and costs by a. jury at the Assizes
against Dr. E. C. Ashton for as-
sault, an outcome of her arrest and
examination.
Stanley Snelling, formerly of
Brantford, reported to have been
killed in a. motoring accident at
Sudbury a, couple of days ago, is
now said to be alive and well, no
such accident having taken place.
. A. M. Crombie, formerly manager
of the Montreal branch of the Bank
of Commerce, also connected ,with
other banking and eommereial insti-
tittions, died at Montreal in his 77111
year.
The Chile. W. Gant liferelen, the
largest, and longest freight steamer
on Cie great lakes, havieg cape -
city ef twenty trains of thirey ears
eeeh, was launched for the'Canada
Steamship Linea Lida by the Wes-
tern Dryclock & Shipbuildiag Co.,
at Port Arthur.
Constable Allan P. Roe-ce was ap-
pointed Chief elf Pollee by Port
Hope Council, , and immediately
suspended for thirty days by the
Mayor, who will refer eertain
charges to the County ,fudge for
investigation.
Lieut, -Col, Wm, It. King, who is
dead at Geergeville, Que., raised
the first company of the Lotbiniere
and Megantic regiment during the
Trent affair, ,anel after eommending
it as captain rose te the command
of the regiment.
John M. Barker, a Dominion
Government licensed employment
agent, was again found gnilty at
North )3ay before Magistrate Wes.
garof overcharging immigrants,
and was fined $10 and costs or
thirty days, in jail, and .an order
made for e-etbitution. His victims
were Spaniards unable to speak
English. ),
A charge of indtteing a. clerk to
steal the revolver which was given
30 Krafchenko to aid his escape
from Winnipeg jail and one of re-
ceiving atolen goods will be pressed
by outside parties against J, R.
Baxter', who turned Crown evi-denee
in regerd to the escape and was
promised immunity by the authori-
ties.
G eneral.
Frederick 1Veyerhauser, the
world's lumber king, died at Paisa-
elena, Cal.
Lord Roberts was elected Presi-
dent of the League of British Cove-
nanters.
A. Maurice Low, apeakines to a
Philadelphia convention, said that
Great Britain sought no more ter -
tit oree,
COLONEL J. E. B. SEELY.
Britain's Secretary for War Is a
Man of Brilliant Parts.
"Col. J. E. B. Seely, whose resig-
nation' from the post of Secretary
for War was refused by Premier
Asquith after he had, told the Rouse
of Commons that he alone was re-
sponsible for the tactie.al.bluiader
which led to the meeting of the
army officers and their subsequent
reinstatement with guarantees that
they would not be. required to
coerce Ulster into ,aceepting Home
Rule, but only to preserve law and
order, is a man of brilliant parts.
It wouldhave effectually. put an
end to his political 'career had his
resignation been accepted, and the
empire at large will rejoice that it
was not necessary to lose his ser-
vices from the War Qffice.
Col. J. E. B Seedy.
When he was made Under-Seeee-
tarv of State for War he was fetid
to be the first yeomanry (mounted
hinteer) offie,er to attain to the
latter office,: rank aed experience in
the regular arany, being hitherto
considered a necessary qualifica-
tion. Mr. Seely is a lawyer by pro-
fession, but has eleyeted much of
his spare time to his velunteer due
ties, He was serving with the Im-
perial Yeomanry in South Africa,,
when, in May, 1900, Sir Richaed
Webber, Wa.s raised to the peerage,
and it vacaney occurred in the
House ef Cam:mons in the represen-
tation of the Isle of Wight. In
spite of his ab sena e— w h lob doubt -
lees, 'considering the`eircuinstartees1
Made the electoral heart grow
fonder—he kept his, seat for the
litieniets by a four -figure majority.
Yfhis pheriemenal -,stectes was, in
some measure, ascribed to the ener-.
getic haip and great fatally infiu-
eace of fds wife, who is the daughter
of Colon -el the Hon. H. Crichton,
and granddaughter of the Earl of
Erne.
Mr. Seely separated from the
majority of bis pasty on the issue of
tariff reform, and pres,ented himself
at the election of 1906 as a Radica,1
candidate in the Abeecromby Divie
sion ef Liverpool, and was elected;
His selection in 1908 to succeed Mr.
Churchill as Under,Se-cretary fox
the Colonies was understood to be
largely at that gentleman's wish.
At ,the general election in January,
1910, Mr. Seely was defeated in Liv-
erpool, and a seat was found for
him in Ilkeston by the eetire,
ment of Sir Walter Foster, Mr.
Seely is an able and learned man,
but his style has been criticized as
too heavy and "large" for the
House of Coarmo4.,n_s.
GATE KNOCKOUT DROPS.
Men Who Administered Them Sent
to Prison.
A- despatch from Winnipeg says:
Tw•o years in the penitentiary was
the sentence imposed upon *Robert
Metcalf, a bartender formerly em-
ployed ae a local hotel, for admires
istering knoeketit.drops by means
of liquor for the purpose of raba
leery. His tompanion inerime,
Sendlak, the hall porter at the
same hotel, was sentenced to one
year in jail by Magistrate MacDon
TO MARK UNKNOWN GRAVES.
Goderich Will Erect a Stone Over
Unidentified Sailors.
A de -spa bah from Goderich, Ont.,
says : The Town Council has decided
to erect a knalbStene over the
graves of the five unidentifiied sail -
01'$l whose bodies wee° washed
ashore -after the November storm.
A design of tombstone AV rLS
tO the eau/mil and accepted,
Famous Performing Roree.
The death has eecurred of a won-
derful performing horse, Alpha,
which belonged to Mr. R, 1), C.
Shaw, of Great Hale, England, The
animal, whieh 'had performed before
several members of the Royal Fam-
ily, could play the Natiorial An -
thein on a 'harmonium, could write
its •own name on a slate with chalk
held in its etionble essd could de
difficutt sums in the first four rales,
Another hove, Little Beta, els° be-
ionging to Mr. Shaw, aceompanied
Alpha -on show, and together they
eotild play "Home, Sweet Rome,''
with belle_faLte_ne4d.„ on their feet.
In -the year ending March
81,401 immigrants arrived at flh
fees:, an inerestee of 1,208, •