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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-08-06, Page 7REAVY TIIE tt'ORIn MARKETS CONDENSED NEWS ITEMSt MILES T H DEAD MAN REPORTS FROM THE LEADING HAPPENINGS FROM :11.1. OVER '111.11)1: l' F: N i' H F; . T 11 }: (.LOBE. 1 Conditions at the End of July Aro Not f 1 aa So Rosy. 11 despatch from Winnipeg says : Crop conditions at the end of July art perhaps not quite so rosy as many expected thein to be. In spite of all the rain that fell in June, and which made many people worry for fear that the country was get- ting too much, there is a very gen- eral complaint of want of rain, and this has undoubtedly lessened the **rage yield, to what percentage only the thrashing machines can tell. Careful reading of the re- ports shows that while the harvest mill he much earlier than last year, it will not be a very early harvest, fur although on light land consider- able wheat will be cut on and about August 10, there will not bo much general cutting until the week of Prices of ('aide, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Prod eye at flouie and Abroad. BREA DST t' ITS. Toronto, Aug. 4. -Ontario Wheat -Old fall wheat quoted at 83c to 81c; new at Mc to 82e. Manitoba 'Wheat -Quotations at August 15 to 20, which is all the Georgian Bay ports: No. 1 north - way from a week to ten days later ern, $1.10%9; No. 2 northern, $1.- than either Taking the countryear from 06 d to. or 905. 07%; No. 3�northers, $1.0(1'/... Barley --1\o. 2, bac to 60c, out - however, conditions are decidedly side; No. 3X, 56c to 57e. better for reaping, without damage, Bran -Quoted at 816 to $18 per an average crop, so far as yield is ton in bulk, outside; in bags, $2 concerned, and much more than an more. average crop for quality. Corn -No. 3 yellow, nominal at An average crop, on the acreage Ste Toronto freights; kiln dried, now in, means at least very consid 82',1c to 83c. Oats --Ontario No. 2 white, nom- inal, 44e to 46c outside ; Manitoba, No. 2, 48c, lake ports; No. 3, 46%c; rejects, 45c. Shorts -$20 to $21 in bulk out- side; in bags $2 more. Flour -Manitoba, first patents, $6; seconds, $5.40; strong bakers' $5.30; Ontario winter wheat pat- ents, $3.20 to $3.30. erably over a hundred million bush- els, though how much over, it is difficult to say. .. THREW M.tN 01' ER BOARD... Heartless Action of Mate of the Steamer Standard. AV..spatch from Kenora says: During an altercation on Monday afternoon on board the steamer Standard, a work boat of Sutton & McArthur, a Swedish foreman in their employ threw overboard a young Scotchman named Robert Mc- Kay. All means were taken to res- cue hint, but without avail, and dur- ing the excitement that followed the Swede disappeared. A search for the Swede has been instituted. I.U1IBElt 1.S LOWER. Big ('nt in Prices Announced in the Nest on Wednesday. A despatch frorn Winnipeg says: Considerable reduction in the price of lumber was announced on Wed- nesday. Shiplap and boards have been reduced $3.50 per thousand, making the new price $17 per Unm- eant!. There is also a reduction in tv price of dimension lumber of 0..50 por thousand, which brings it down to $19 per thousand. This applies to all lumber from British Columbia and western points. 87,404 ALIENS NATURALIZED. Have Become Itrltish Subjects Since 1902. A dospatch from Ottawa says: Ac- cording to returns received at the State Department, 87,404 aliens have taken out naturalization pap- ers ns British subjects in Canada arho Act went into effect in 1902. tiring the periodetween July 1st, 1906, and Dec. 914, 1907, the num- ber naturalized was 17,714, of whom 7,279 were from the United States, and 306 were Japanese. + - GAVi•: BIRTH TO Tltll'I,E s. Occasion Celebrated in Great Style in Lachine household. A despatch from Montreal says: Mrs. Bertrand of Lachine gave birth to triplets on Tuesday. All three are% hale and hearty. She has been plf#ried six years, and has seven children. The house was decorated on Wednesday in honor of the event, and all and sundry were made wel- come. A FATAL SHOCK .1T QUEBEC Percy Daniels COMPS in Contact With Lite 11 ire. despatch from Quebec says: While installing a motor in a cold - storage warehouse on Wednesday JI r. l'ercy Daniels received a shock from a live wire, as a result of which he died an hour later. Deceased was well known in Toronto, where some years ago he worked for the General Electric Company. He was a nephew of Mr. H. B. Angus, di- reclor of the Bank of Montreal, an Ettashman by birth, about 30 years of age, and unmarried. PLAGUE SWEEPS RUSSIA. Condition of Towns Opens Way for Cholera Harvest. A despatch from St. Petersburg says: The cholera that has made its appearance in Russia this year is most virulent. Out of 12 cases in Tsaritsyn there have been 11 deaths. According to investigations made by Deputy Von Anrep, who is a dis- tinguished medical authority, the sanitary conditions in the Volga towns are horrible. The absence of a sewerage system and water works puts the inhabitants at the mercy of the epidemic, and the cholera will reap a full harvest. +- -- NOVA SCO_IA'S CROPS. Government Summer Report Esti- mates barge Average. A despatch from Halifax says: T'.e Nova Scotia Government's Summer Crop Report has been issu- ed. Compared with the average crop of a normal year, the depart- ment makes the following estimate if six leading crops this season, ono hundred per cent. being taken as an average. Hay, 90 per cent.; oats and other grains, 97; potatoes and roots, 105; apples, 100; plums, 90; Small fruits, 90. a _ 11'ELLINGTON'8 OitDERS. Iron Duke Wrote Orders on .Asses' Skins, which were Returned. .. It has been stated that the Duke of \Vcllington wrote his orders on horseback. On this point Priscilla, Lady Burghesh, questioned him and received the following explanation : "Ile said it was his constant prac- tice in action, and peculiarly latter- ly, to write down the orders he sent by his aides de camp. Having found that the verbal orders were either incorr'ctly delivered or not compre- hended, he adopted the practice of carrying in his pocket loose sheets of asses' skin of the size of a large card (such as the invitaions from court are printed on) and a pencil, and when he had an order to send tie wrote it with his pencil on one side of those sheets in his hand, the aides de camp standing at his horse's head the while." As an evidence of the Duke's frugal mind it may be added that after the action was over the nsses' skins were returned to him to bo cleaned and used over again. Let na e+,nclude with an interest- ing note concerning the young Queen Victoria. "yesterday, com- ing out of town, we met. the Queen driving in an open carriage ; and I saw her so well ; in a white chip bon- net, very pretty and neat, smiling and looking pleased and happy. She was quite a pretty girl, with a peculiar sweet and intelligent coun- tenance." + COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter -Receipts aro still large and still the market keeps strong. Creamery, prints .. ..... 24e to 25c (lo solids .. . .. .... 23c to 24c Dairy prints, choice .. .. 23cto24e do ordinary .... .... .. 21c to 22c Dairy, tubs .... .... .... 21c to 22c Inferior .... .... .. . ... 17c to 18c Cheese -12%c and 13c for largo and 13c to 13%c for twins. Eggs -Prices are easier at 20c to 21e. Beans -Prices are 82 to $2.10 for prime and 82.10 to $2.20 for hand- picked. Potatoes-Ontarios, 90c to $1.15 per bushel; Americans, $3.35 to $3.60 per barrel in car lots on track hero. PROVISION MARKET. Pork -Short cut, $23.50 per bar- rel ; meas, $19 to $13.50. Lard -Tierces, 12c ; tubs, 12'''4c ; pails, 12%c. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats - Long clear bacon, llYse to 11%c, tens and cases; harms, medium and light, 14'4c to l:;c ; hams, large, 12%c to 13c ; backs, 17%c to 18c; shoulders, 10e to 10%c ; rolls, 10%e to 11c; breakfast bacon, the to 15%c; green moats, out of pickle, lc less than smoked. MONTREAL. MARKETS. 'i elegt•apbie Briefs Frani Our ().s u and Other t'ouutriee of Recent Events. CANADA. Lord Roberts will go as far west as Banff. Woodstock ratepayers defeated the bylaw to pros rue funds fur a new school. 11. S. Price. a farmer of Otonabeo township, is a cousin of Lord Roberts. Fred Howe, a clerk in Hamilton City Hall, was fined $t for loitering on the sidewalk. A. H. Pridy was arrested at Win- nipeg for robbing the mails. lie was a postoffice employee. Lindsay council has authorized a $10,000 issue of debentures to pur- chase an ozone filtration plant. Hamilton Board of Health want milk dealers to place their names on bottles, and be responsible for the contents. Isaac Scigliano, the Italian. want- ed ct .Sault Ste Marie for the mur- der of a follow -countryman, was ar- rested in Michigan and brought back. Nova Scotia is sending the Prin- cess of Wales a mink coat with fur trimmings and with buttons of 24 - karat gold worth about $8,000. Brockville boys teased an old man named Kenv'lle until he picke�d up a stone and struck George Whaley in the face, inflicting an injury that will disfigure him for life. GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is re- ported to be in a very grave condi- tion. A British board will inquire into the methods of preserving moat. Mr. Lloyd -George blames the ex- penditure on armament for Ger- many's distrust of Britain. Three hundred British members of Parliament are pledged to the re- moval of the cattle embargo. The delegates attending the Uni- versal Peace Congress in London were welcomed by the King and Queen. Sir Edward Grey warmly repudi- ates the idca that Britain's foreign policy is aimed at the isolation of Germany. To prevent further friction with Lord Charles Beresford, Sir Percy Scott has been appointed to a new command. UNITED STATES. North Dakota. is to erect a monu- Montrcal, Aug. 4. -Flour -Mani- ment to Theodore Roosevelt. tabu spring wheat patents, $6.10 to A negro charged with assaulting $0.20; second patents, 85.50 to $5.- a white woman was burned at the 70: winter wheat patents. 85 to stake by a mob in the public square 85.50 ; straight rollers, $4.25 to at Greenville, Texas. ts1.50; in bags, $1.95 to 82.10, ex- tra, 81.50 to $1.70. GENERAL. Rolled Oats -$2.50 in bags of 90 pro British. pounds. Turkish Moslems aro now strong T Uut•s-No. 2, 48c; No. 3, 47c; re- ly W. K. Vanderbilt's stepson was jected, 46c. killed in a motor car accident in Cornmeal -$1.85 to $1.95 per bag. Millfeed-Ontcrio bran, in bags, France.A Chinese vessel foundered in a *20.50 to $21.50; shorts, $23 to $24 Manitoba bran, in bags, 822 to $23; typhoon near Clanton and 300 per- shorts, $21 to $25. sons were drowned. Provisions - Barrels short cut Oen. Von der Goltz. of the Ger- mess, 822.50; half barrels, $11.50; man army, will reorganize the Turk - clear fat backs, $23; dry salt long ish army. clear backs, 1lc ; barrels plate beef, $17.50; half barrels do., $9; com- pound lard, 3%c to 9'+e; pure lard, 12%c to 13e ; kettle renered, 13c to 13'/,c; hams, 12%c to 14c, ac- e(.rding to size ; breakfast bacon, 14c to 15e; Windsor bacon, 15c to 1(e ; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs. $9.75 to $10; live, $8.85 to $7. Eggs -Selected stock, 23c ; No. 1, 2.0c, and No. 2. 16c per dozen. Cheese -Westerns are quoted at 12e to 12'%c and easterns at il';c t., 11'/.c. I IT ED STATES M.1RKETS. Buffalo. Aug. 4. -Spring wheat- , We never know what we can do Firmer ; No. - Northern, carloads. (.Des not court secrecy. till w' try, and then very often we store, $1.17%; Winter firmer. Corn Many an alliance with sin is nre sorry we found out. I -Lower ; No. 3 yellow, 82c ; No. 4 hit -den by a defiance of the def 1-Lower sic; :co. 3 cern, 5Oc; No. No father ever lost any of the 4 corn. 79c ; X. 3 white. Sic. Oats time he spent with his children. o. •s ('lark Kennedy. the Englishman who was captured by Moorish bri- gands. has been released. SENTENCE SERMONS. Pertified virtue is but vice. You cannot work for Cod without love for men. A deadhead is almost sure to be a blockhead. Sighing for a lost Eden will not make a new earth. Easy street is not a thoroughfare to heaven. The double faced man always is convincing -to himself. There is no love in the charity that THE mioE wERE OFF \N The man with manycorny alanvpurry'3-1;zr.;,;,e,:,20.7,h,i.t,,:i,„.6,2x.; Bar- wants to go barefoot in the crowd. ley --Feed to malting Cn to tz,e people with patty heads usual( I k that 11e h to Their Absence From Ship Almost Caused a Naval Disaster. j despatch from London say - .ght occur at any time it. any sub - While the British submarine VW- marine, was due to the failure of la was mamma% ring off Folkestone, certain springs to work properly on No. 9 was seen to be falling he- account of the rollinz of the boat. hind, flying n-igtial of distress. A ' These spring' are connected with rescue party was organized, and the; the valves by which the noxious crew, consisting of two officers and' gases are expelled from the boat. nine men, were found unconscious It had been the custom until re- in the boat. ( cently for British submarines to it seems that the officers were in carr,: white :Mee in the well. These the conning tower, and, noticing little animal. are p. culiarly suscep- that no attention was paid to the title t.+ the fumes of petr,.l, and eignals they sent below, descended as the Leavy gas invades the well the hatches and saw the crew lying first their squeaking series ns a about too enscious from the fumes warning in the case of an accident of petrol. to tshich they, ton, fell like the recent one' Several weeks sietims. The men were finally re- lige the British .1dl.1iralt% ordcr.'d snscitated on being brought to the that the mice should ha earr'ed no op:n air. The accident, which longer. brittle - y' New York. :\ng. 4. -Spot steady ; like to t fin Ia they n No. 2 red. fns ;e to $1 elevator; No. hearts. 2. $1 00% f.o.b. afloat: No. 1 north- Talking moonshine about being ern Duluth. *1.22'•; f.o.b. afloat : sunshiny does not tnnke this world No. 2 hard winter. $1.01', f...1.. any brighter. afloat He who succeeds in dodging duty is si►rpri•ed to find hem success i1cif taklestnm.,re than "Keep off the Losses in St ock Market Cause Suicide of dgesgrass" signs to mark the path of righteous nes'. Folk' who take their time fr.•m every clock nr.• always sure the son is elf st bsoule. A despatch from (Montreal says :' h..tei, where he found Gray lying Many are soured on life because1his led unc••nscimra. An arnhu- they hate been tryin;- to tick. its The business men received a shock lance was summoned, and he was 0 spice do for the bread of life .iii Wednesday lien it was learned speedily conveyed to the Royal of people w(lld haven d •od that Mr Victor Gray, a promin- Victoria Hospital, where everything deal mere faith in the Almighty if cat stockbroker, had committed eats done to save his lite. but (death be would show more docility to their suicide (luring the night by swal- came(' this morning. 1••n-ing chloral. He was despond- Mr. Gray ens a member of the When a man steals the` (,ori. from , ,it ,.ver heavy losses and had been fit m of J. H. Dun & Company. and elm aye tells ternsclf that he ,;nal le to sleep for some time. ens a n.eniber of the Montreal ,,it/ •.ev for it wit,. t' . ';t .f re- T,,esday :night he went to a hotel Stock Exchange. He was ala, .t 33 ,n the city and shout 3.2') called up years of age. and a year ago mar Mr. 11.•bbiu. a friend in Westmount, tied Miss Clayton of Ottawa. His nrel bade him goo.( -bye, saying it h••rne was originally in ilalifax, v,t• for the hint time. His friend where h- has a sister living at pro- . ei:e esrmed and hurried ta the sent. +- ('.1N.11).1'S )ft•'Io N. To l'ente.tl Brilair.'- i nsudehip With United �! tea, A despatch from Len.i ., ways • The Daily 'Telegraph say, ; ,c Quebec battlefields will be hall .wed ground. consecrated foresrr to the genius ..1 Canadian nationa;ity- w it'.in the em- pire. which will one day piny a great part in the world's affairs. The highest mission of t'anada is t.1 stand between V= ' •;o and the 1. nited States. holdieg each hs the bard. The times the hi -:hest tt; h;:te to the see e =. • f the Tel vest sr, ary. it . ,.vs (e er' . i es . .,. te be true to 1. • . • - •' 1• ' • e C. end to 11...,i c•.+ t.. - ..... n Gruesome Expelience of a Leeds County Farmer. A despatch from Brockville Few amen have the gruesome ex- perience of driving for utiles beside a dead man, but that was what hap- pened to Frederick Vickery on \\'ednesday. :1n old man named William Davis has been living with Vickery, who is a farmer at !.fillies, a few miles north of the Town. Davis has been ailing tor ;Dune con- siderable time past and finally Vick- ery felt that he could not assume the responsibility any longer. Ac- cordingly he drove the old roan into t••wn for the purpose of having him treated at the General Hospital. When Vickery reached the hos- pital he was horrified to find that 1• s companion was sitting quietly in the buggy, his head slightly for- ward on his chest, stone dead. As it was nut now a case for the hos- pital the only course left was to summon the police and the coroner. No inquest was considered ne- cessary as the man, who was about seventy years of age, had died from natural causes. Vickery cannot say at what time Davis died. LANDS WHICH DISAPPEAR VAST AREAS COVERED BY OCEAN ONCE DRY LAND. Fortunately the Mightiest Changes Are Very `lowly Brought .t bout. Tho recent discovery that a group of little islands some hundreds of miles south of Now Zealand were once part of a great continenti't mass extending in all probability to Antarctica and South America, which finally sank beneath the ocean leaving only these remnants, calls attention to the fact that there aro vast areas now covered by the sea which were once dry land. The pro- cess of disappearance was very slow. It involved no cataclysm or sudden catastrophe overwhelming all ani- mal and vegetable life, but the work went on century after century till great surfaces were a part of the sea floor. Events often occur that recall such vicissitudes. Not long after Chile's beautiful port of Valparaiso was destroyed by earthquake on August 16 1908, the news came that the island of Mas a Tierra, on which Alexander Selkirk was cast away for five years, his unhappy fate suggest- ing to Defoe the story of Robinson Crusoe, had sunk beneath the waves. The story was incorrect, but it called again to mind the facts that are believed to prove that the Juan Fernandez group, to which this island belongs, was formerly A PART OF SOUTH AMERICA. Land once rose above the wide waste of waters that now separates the islands from the mainland. Among the many proofs of this may be mentioned here only the two varieties of humming binds peculiar to Chile that have been seen on the islands et er since they were first visited. It is not very uncommon for vol- canic islands atter they have been thrust above the surface to disap- pear again. The island Krakatoa was literally blown into the air by a world shaking explosion in Au- gust, 1893, and the great wave that resulted, over 100 feet high, swept over the northern coast of Java, drowning 36,000 people. Falcon Island came into view above the Pacific nearly twenty years ago, sank again in about ten years and once more has come into view. A part of Bogaslov on the Alaskan coast disappeared after s few years and other land has recent- ly risen in the same neighborhood. Far out in the Pacific in 1904, near the Bonin Islands, a new bit of land rose above the sea and the Japanese raised their flag over it and gave it the name of Nushima to their ac- quisition. It has slipped from their grasp. however. for the following year it molted away to nine feet above sea level and the last vestige of it has now disappeared. Ferdinandea, which rose above the Mediterranean in 1931, had a similar history. with the addition of A HUMOROUS ELEMENT. The whole world talked about it, and all the more because England and the King of the Two Sicilies dis- puted over its possession. It came majestically into view on July 8 and about the middle of Au- gust it was imposing to look upon as its broad expanse towered 200 feet above the sea. But its lifo was short. Diplomatic exchanges as to the ownership of Fcrdinandea, couched in firm though polite lan- guage, were still in progress when the waves closed above the island in December. A coral island is sometimes torn to pieces by a great storm, showing teat islands disappear in more ways than one. This happened to the anatoll in the Marshall group in 1905, when it happened to be in the path of a terrible hurricane. Waves about forty feet high swept over the hapless speck of land,, carrying every particle of verdure and every form of life into the sea, and not a human being was saved. The upper part of the coral was broken off and swept away, and a few days later nothing but the placid waters of the ocean were seen where the anatoll had stood. But such events aro a part of our modern history and base little re- semblance to the mighty movements that have buried wide lands beneath the sea. North of Europe is the shal- low Barents Sea, whose bottom geologists now have no doubt was once above the water, so that Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen and Frans Josef Land were - A PART OF EUROPE. Iceland, southern Greenland and a few other islands are all that is left above water of the great land bridge that once joined Europe and America, though we find in the sub- marine ridge that extenus all the way from Iceland to Scotland a part of the foundation of that land. It has been for some time conclu- sively proved that a land mass once connected Madagascar with south- ern India and Coylon, allowing the passage from Asia to Africa of land animals whose appearance in the West was once regarded as inexplic- able. So the rock crust of the earth has its calamities and its revolutions like the human race that lives on it. Fortunately the mightiest and inest far reaching of these disturbances are not cataclysmal and the changes are very slowly brought about. 4 -- WHAT'S A VACATION! A life insurance policy. A smile on the face of Father Time. An investment in the Bank ..f Health. The slot in:) which your sa,iogs drop. The funny supplement .,f life's news- paper. The sugar • coating to the bitter pill of work. An addition in health by a sub- traction in wealth. A rest wherein you work harder in spending your money than you ever did in earning it. SWALLOWED A FATAL DOSE Montreal Broker. I,.• n l •1 n(•^. 11 '' 'as•. 1,. Shut .:t '; .{. iii•rozi h.tnds nrr c vie who is nn 1.• the o„r • to t .e