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Exeter Advocate, 1908-08-27, Page 3CONSTABLES HELD AT BAY Italian Opened Fire on Them With a Winchester Rifle. A deaOtch from i'arry Sound says: Constables Ilay -toad and Kerr, of flying Inlet, arrived here en Wednesday, having in charge Frank Sporanco, an Italian, ac- cused of burglary and robbery at Key Harbor Junction, C. P. R., and who so far had eluded arrest. On Tuesday Provincial Constable Chas. Knight and District, Con- stable W. Madigan got trace of the Italian, who was working in a field, near Bying Inlet, fur a man named (looney, an Assyrian. As the con- stables approached the Italian he opened fire on them with an auto- matic rifle, the constables replying with revolver shots. Mr. Knight, feigning to have been shot, fell into some hushes. The other constable, seeing his companion fall and think- ing hint seriously wounded or kill- ed, turned and went to the Inlet for assistance and a medical man. Meantime, as soon as the Italian Tad emptied the rifle, Knight rose and ran toward him, and on the Italian turning, he shot him in the leg, inflicting a flesh wound in the thigh. As Knight reached the man he was savagely attacked with the clubbed ride and had his head cut open. He stuck to his elan, and using his revolver butt, brought Ilius down and handcuffed hint, but b3 this time became so exhausted with loss of blood and exertions of the strenuous fight that he was compelled to remain on the battle- field. Shortly afterward Madigan returned with assistance and both wounded constable and prisoner were cuuveycd to Bying Inlet, where the constable is confined to his bed from the injuries. Spor- anco is one of the three Italians elm broke into a boarding-house at Key Harbor Junction and stole about $80, the other two having been previously caught by Knight and landed in jail here, but from which they escaped in a clever man- ner and are still at large. Knight deserves great praise for his cour- age and good judgment. The coun- try is being searched for the es- caped two. NEGRO USED THE KNIFE. Captain of American Barge Stabbed at Quebec. A despatch fro:n Quebec says: A stabbing affray took place in St. Rochs on Tuesday eight about 10.30, in which aa American canal boat captain, 13. Poshby, of the barge Bigelow, received a serious wound. The party who committed the deed is a negro, and is still at large. It seems that the two men had a dis- pute with regard to the payment of a bet. The altercation became so heated that the negro whipped out a knife and plunged it into the body of the captain, inflicting a gash four or five inches in length. The unfortunate man was attended by Dr. Edge, who reports the injury at dangerous, though he hardly considers it. fatal. The Bigelow is in port with a cargo of coal which is being discharged here. QUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. Over a Hundred Chimneys Thrown Down at Eureka. A despatch from Eureka, Cal., says: Three sharp earthquake shocks which knocked down more than a hundred chimneys, shattered about forty plate glass windows in he business portion of Eureka, broke much mockery in the houses and sent - drany people hurrying from their beds into the streets, oc- curred here early on Wednesday. The damage reported so far is es- timated at between $2.000 and $3,- 000. The first and sharpest shock cause at 2.5e a.m. It was almost as severe as the one felt here on April 18, 1906. At 3.08 another slighter shock was experienced. fol- lowed by a third at 5.30 o'clock. The first shock caused practically all the damage. Reports from the Seazy ranch near Freshwater, six miles north. say that the earth- quake left a big fissure half a mile long. SIX BURNED TO DEATH. Terrible Result of the Race War in Tennessee. A despatch from Knoxville, Tenn., says: On Rich Mountain, several miles east of Jellies; and near the Anthras mining section, a negro shanty, where a helpless ne- gress ural her five children had lived, was found burned to the ground nn Wednesday morning. None of the inmates had escaped. The burning is supposed to have been the work of the white miners and mountaineers, who objected to the negrees retraining in that sec- tion. For more than a week racial feeling has been inflamed in sever- al of the mines in the Jellico dis- trict. CO'ITON SPINNERS' WAGES. Are to be Reduced Five Per Cent. in Lancashire. A despatch from Manchester, England, says: The Lancashire Federation of Cotton Spinners has decided to reduce the wages of op- eratives 5 per cent. If the men de- cline to accept the reduction they will be locked out for a month. No- tice to this effect will at once be given to the operatives, 200,000 of whom would be immediately affect- ed in the event of a refusal to ac- cept the demands of their employ- ers. If the spinning operatives should be -locked out the weavers would also bo compelled to cease work, which would greatly increase the number affected. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS' SHE WORLD'S DIARI(ETS'THREE DOZEN MUST DIE HAPPE`'IN(S FROM ALi, OVER THE GLOBE. Telegraphic 11rie1, Fro v: Our Oen and tither Countries of Recent Evcats. CANADA. London electors will vote on the Sunday street car question. Barnum & Bailey's circus train was wrecked in British Columbia. Canadian sheep -breeders object to United States quarantine regu- lati(ns. hinanciers are offering to support the Banque de St. Hyacinthe of Montreal. (game Warden Tinsley has ex- pressed the opinion that the net- ting of minnows is illegal. Mayor Payette of Montreal is to be made a member of the French Legion of Honor. The damage done by forest fires in Vancouver is estimated at near- ly $5,000,000. Fears are entertained that there will be great distresa among labor- ing classes during the coning win- ter. Prof. W. Muir Edwards, B.Sc., C.E., of McGill, has been appoint- ed a lecturer at Edmonton Univer- sity. Earl Crewe, Colonial Secretary, has sent a message of sympathy with the Fcrnie fire sufferers to Ecarl Grey. The Hon. Geo. P. Graham. at Peterboro', declared that the Trent Canal must bo pushed to comple- tion. The National Transcontinental Railway Ouminission have received tenders for the construction of 676 miles of road. An English insurance company has refused to take any further business in London's congested business district because of the inadequate water supply. Canada's import show a decrease of $39,915,809 for the first four months of the fiscal year. In the same period the export of manu- factures increased to the extent of $350,000. TRAiN AND AUTO COLLIDED. GREAT I3RITAIN. Man and Wife Killed Near Minne- apolis. A despatch from Minneapolis. Minn., says: John elude, a weal- T. W. Burgess was compelled by an adverse tide to give up his at- tempt to switn the English Chan- nel when within a utile of his goal. Missionaries and workers frorn all parts of the world will take part in a great missionary conference to be held ip Edinburgh in 1910. thy Minneapolis brewer, and his wife wore killed on Wednesday at C'ottagowood, Lake Minnetonke, in a collision between their automo- bile and a train on the Minneapolis k St. Louis Railway. Two other oc- cupants of the automobile, Mrs. Edward Lebaire of New York city and her two-year-old daughter, L,.th received injuries which may prove fatal. R1(I STRUCK ill' TRAiN. Ten -year-old Roy Killed and Grand- mother injured. A despatch from Port Arthur, Ont., says: At Statile) , twenty miles from here, on 1Vednesday af- ternoon. a rig containing three per- sons, while crossing the railway track, was struck by a Canadian Northern work train. Edward McLeur, aged ten, was killed, tend hir grandmother, Mrs. S. A. Mc- Dowell, seriously injured. Miss McLear, the third ►ncrnber of the party, escaped uninjured. The in- jured woman nes brought here by special train. 4. - RAVAGES 01' CHOLERA. Working its Way Down illack Nea Along Caucasus ('onsst. A despatch from St. Petersburg says : The centre of virulence in the cholera epidemic has been transfer - led to Rostov -on -the -Don. where 31 new eases and 10 deaths were re- ported Aug. 17. From the Province of Astrakhan 61 new oASPs and 21 deaths were reported (in the same day. The filu,lera is now working itr way down the Black Sea along Ow ('amasus roast. FIRE IN THE MAYPOLE 1INE Sevepty Miners Entombed at Wigan, 1 England, A despatch from Wigan. England. land the air purified. When the sacs : The worst fears have been! first rescue party descended on realized in the cxplosien which oc-I iledneFd:tc morning the sight that curred in the Maypole thine on I met their eyes ea. horrifying. Not Tuesday. The entombed miners far from the button of the shaft number abort seventy. and it is nil- !eighteen hodies sere found, all possible that any of them can have' frightfully mutilated. legs and arms survived. Effort* at rescue. how. i being blown ,off, anal heads hatter - ever, continue unceasingly. Thirty cd almost beyond recognition. bodies were discovered on Wednes- I The management of the mine de - day in the workings, but the fumes dares that between 60 and 70 men from the burning coal prevented t, ere under ground at the time of the rescuing party from reaching the others that undoubtedly are ly- ing down in the mine. A few bo.}ies were br(.ntrbt. to the surface. lilt all were so blr„krned and mutilated head all night refused to leave nn - that identification was impossible. til the bodies of the dead are t will he impossible to make A le ought to the surface. Nothing thorough examination of the work- else will convince thein of the hope- ing until the fire has Leen subdued 1.•s.11eas of waiting. the explosion. and shot there is no hope that anc(ii,e w ill be brought cut alive. The women and children. however. who remained at the pit UNITED STATES. Experiments are being made at Pittsburg with an ozone water purifier. Twenty-five ncgroes were lynched en the United States in the last sixty days. Picnickers near Camden, N.J., found the body of a mart of 35 in a trunk in a ravine. Two rival merchants at Robin- sonville, Miss., fought a duel with pistols. cloth will die. Rev. James 1). ('helps, Treasur- er of Syracuse University, commit- ted suicide at Utica, N. Y. Eighty per emit. of the coal mines along the Monongahela are idle, on account of the low water in the river. Chicago euntoms officials have seized tapestries, paintings and sta- tuary valued at $80,000 as being falsely entered. The United States has given Rol- land a free hand to act against Venezuela so lung as no military occupation of territory takes place. (1ENERAi.. Japanese spies have been arrest- ed in Peter the Great stay, south ,f Vladivostok. The Turkish (hand Vizer has promised to withdraw Turkish troops frnm Persian territory. Holland (lops net want the aid of tiny other nations in her demon- stration against Venezuela. Leaders of the Young 'Parks will meet in (lrneva shortly to consider the question of deposing the Sul- tan. it is hinted at. Berlin that King l;dwnrd's %fait to the Kaiser may result in an Anglo -German under- standing. The neve Turkish Cabinet hall suffered a serious leas throng,' the death of Redid) Pasha, the War Minister. Count Zeppelin. the airship in- ventor, is prenaring to build three giant balloon halls, besides factori- ( s and quarters for workmen. Abdel A ziz. the Sultan of Mo- rocco. won a ce,mnlete vietory over his brother. Nulai Hefei. killing 300 of the latter's men and wound- ing 500. -- -+- -- 11. 1'. SR % 1 1' A I'I'(tl \'I I:i). New General Menarer for Lake Superior ('orlseration. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie. sacs: W. C. etrauf of t'har- Ir'tswn, W. Va , has been app„int- es' (general Manager of the lake Superior ('or'p,•raticm. He is ex- pected to arri'.' this week to take charge of the allied industries of the mint any. Sraef was formerly General Manager of the Kanawha .c West Virginia Railway. REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Price, of Faille, (,t::iu, Cheese and 011ier Hairy Produce at Rome and Abroad. BRLAD,STUFFS, Toronto, Aug. 25 --Ontario Wheat -Old or new, No. 2 white and red, �3c to 86c; No. 2 ulixeci, 85e. Manitoba Wheat --- Nominal at 1'1.17 to $1.18 for No. 1 northern, lake ports; other grades at propor- tionate values. Oats -Ontario, new, 39c to 40c Many Condemned to Death By Russian Courts in Two Days. A despatch frorn St. Petersburg says: There were ten more death sentences in Russia on Wednesday, five at Vilna, two at Warsaw and three at Lodz. On Tuesday there were 26, a sinister record. Two of the men were former sailors at- taehed to the Black Sea fleet, and I.ad been found guilty of taking the lead in an attempt to pillage an outside; old, nominal, at 45e to 46c estate. The others were convicted outside; Manitoba, No. 3, 46c to t train robberies and murders. 46%c; rejects, 44%c to 45c, lake There were two executions en ports. Tuesday at Warsaw, one at Tiflis Barley -New No. 2, 57c to b8e; and several at St. Petersburg. No. 3 X, 55c to 56c; No. 3, 53c to 54e. Rye -New, 65c to 70c bid outside; old, no stocks. Corn -Nominal at 88c to 88%c Toronto freights for No. 2 yellow, and 86%c to 87c for kiln -dried. Bran -Quoted at $16 to $18 per ton in bulk outside; in bags, $2 more. Shorts -$20 to $21 per ton in bulk outside; in bags, $2 more. Flour -Manitoba, first patents, $6; seconds, $5.40; strong bakers', $5.30; Ontario winter wheat pat- ents, $3.30 to $3.35. COUNTRY PRODUCTS. Cheese -Large, 13c to 13%c; twins, 13%c to 13%c. Butter - Wholesale quotations are: - Creamery, prints .... ... 25c to 26c do solids .... .... .... 23c to 24c Dairy prints, choice - . .. 23c to 24c do ordinary .... .... .. 21e to 22e Dairy, tubs .... .... .... 21c to 22e Inferior .... .... .... .. 17c to 18c Eggs -20c to 21c per dozen in case lots. Poultry - Spring chickens, live weight, 13c to 15c; fowl, 1Oc to 11c; ducks, 100 to 12c; dressed, 2c high- er. Honey -Strained, 10c to Ilc per pound. Beans --Primes, $2 to $2.10; hand- picked, $2.10 to $2.20. Potatoes -60c to 80c per bushel in farmers' waggons. PROVISIONS. Pork -Short cut, $23.50 per bar - lel ; loess, $19 to $19.50. Lard -Tierces, 12c; tubs, 12%e; pails, 12%e. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats - Long clear bacon, 11%c to 11'/,c, tons and cases; hams, mediem and light, 14%c to 15e; hams, large, 12%e to 13c; hacks, 17%c to 18c; shoulders, IOc to llc; rolls, 10%c to 11e; breakfast -bacon, 15c to 15%c; green meats, out of pickle, le less than smoked. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Aug. 26. -Wheat - September, $1.01% to $1.01;2; De- cember, 98•'%c ; No. 1 hard, $1.24 ; No. 1 Northern, $1.24 ; No. 2 North- ern, $1.20 to $1.21; No. 3 North- ern, $1.13 to $1.14. Flour - First patents, $6.15 to $6.25; second pat- ents, 86 to $6.15; first clears, $4.- 35 to $4.45; second clears, $3.50 to $^.60. Bran -In bulk, $19.50 to $20. Buffalo, Aug. 25---Wheat.-Winter higher: No. 2 red, 98''c ; No. 3 ex- tra red, 97e; No. 2 white, 99e ; No. 2 mixed, 98e. (`urn -Higher; No. 3 yellow, 84e; No. 4 yellow, 83e; No. 3 corn, 81 to 82c; No. 4 corn, 79 to 80e; No. 3 white, 83e. Oats - Higher; No. 2 white, 51% to 51Yc; No. 3 white, 50% to 50%e; No. 4 white, 49% to 49',e. Rye -No. 2, track, 81e. CATTLE MARK E'1'. Toronto, Aug. 25. -Irl export cat- tle sales %ere recorded in two in- stances on a basis of $5.40 per cwt. Light exportcattle brought $4.50 t•• $5 per cwt. There is a fair de- mand for butchers' cattle at firin priers. The hichrst figure given out was $4.90 paid for some pretty fair cattle. Buyers maintain that $s would be paid for select stock Prices of good cows were up 20 to 40e per cwt. Select butchers' cat- tle. $4.h0 to $5.10; good loads. $4.- 40 to $4.75; medium, $3.60 to $4.25; common, $2.50 to $3.50; best Cows. $3.70 to $4.40; common cows, $2. SC to $3.50; bulls, $2 to $4; canners $i to $2 per cwt. Calves were quoted at 3 to Pie per pound. MONTREAL MAIRKi':TS. Montreal, Ain;. 25. --Oats arc in quiet demand. Manitoba. No. 2 white. 48c; No. 2, 47c, and reject- ed. 45c per bushel, ex -store. Flour was fair. Choice spring wheat patents, $6 to 8(3.10; sec- (nds, $5.50; winter wheat patents, $5; straight rollers, $4.30 to $4.50; do., in bags, 111.90 to $2.10; extras, $1.65 to $1.75. Manitoba bran. S.22 to *23: shorts $25; Ontario bran. $21 to $22; middlings, *21 to $25; shorts, $26 per ton, including hags; pure grain mouille, *30 to $32. and milled grades. $25 to $2g per ton. Pro%is;ons - Barrel... short cut mess. 132`2.5) half harrpls, 811.50; clear fat. backs, $23: dry salt long clear backs, Ile; barrels plate beef. *17.50; half•barrele do., $9. Com - pound lard, 8%c to 9,';c; pure lard, 12%c to 13c; kettle rendered, 13c to 13%c; hauls, 12,-c to 14e, accord- ing to size; breakfast bacon, 14c to 15c; Windsor bacon, 15c to 16e; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $10; live. 86.75 to $7. The butter local market is steady, finest creamery being quoted at 2:3%c in round lots, and 24c to 24%c i, a jobbing way. Prices of eggs are firm under a good demand. Selected stook 23e; No. 1, 20c, and No. 2, 16c per doz- en. Western cheese were quoted at 12%e to 12%c, and easterns at 12%c to 12%e. Receipts to -day were 7,- 037 boxes, as against 17,517 on the corresponding date last year. SIX BURNED TO DEATH. Children Lost Their Lives at Col- fax, Washington. A despatch from Colfax, Wash., says: Six children are dead and two others are burned so seriously that recovery is doubtful at the H. W. Schultz ranch between Colfax and Belrouse, resulting from a fire that destroyed their home on Wednes- day night. Four of the dead were children of Schultz. The other two were children of W. W. Fox, a brother-in-law. The nton were away harvesting, and the :pothers were attending a theatrical performance. The two eldest Schultz girls at- tempted to rescue the children, but lost the way to the door, and were forced to drop the babies to snake their own escape. The cause of the fire is a mystery. ANOTHER CANOE VICTIM. Miss Margaret Copland, of Mont- real, Drowned. A despatch from Montreal says: Miss Maragaret Copeland, of this city, was drowned on Wednesday in Lake St. Joseph, near St. Adolphe de Howard, while mit boating. She wan paddling with her l,rother when a gust of wind upset their canoe about 30 feet from the shore. Young t.'oplend immediate- ly dived after his sinter, and made a gallant attempt to rescue her, but when close to shore she clung so tightly to hint that both went down and he lost his hold. Even then the lad dived several times, bet failed to find his sister, and finally became exhausted, and when he reached the shore was picked up uneonsc' . Miss Copland's body was later recovered. She was a teacher in Prince Alpert School. s - -- BEVONI) CON'T'ROL. Forest Fires Continue to Ito Great Damage in British Columbia. A despatch from Cranhrook, B. ('.. says a bush fire near Kimberley ir; beyond control, and is running north towards Skookunchuek Creek. Sullivan and Kimberley are safe. There is a bad forest fire one toile east if Moyle. Another fire is burning at Ryan. No rain for over a month has made everything 140 dry that fire -fighting is very difTi cult. A second unsuccessful attempt was made on Tuesday evening to assassinate the Chief of Police of I'yatigorsk, M. Von Oglio. Three peen emptied their revolvers at the Chief, but failed to hit him. The police shot down one of the revo- lutionists, but the other two es- caped. A despatch from Tcherdyn tells of an awned collision between the in- habitants of two neighboring vil- lages over the ownership of a piece of disputed land. in which two men were killed and several seriously wounded. "DEAD" WOMAN REVIVED. Resuscitated Atter Her Life Had Apparently Fled. A despatch from New Britain, Conn., says : After (saving been pro- nounced dead by the medical ex- aminer as a result of carbolic ac'd poisoning on Tuesday night, and permission for the removal of her body given, Mrs. Eva \Vashkiewis- ki. of this city was later revived by another physician and is now ex- pected to recover. Mrs. Washkie- w-iski, who is 48 years old, drank a large quantity of the acid, and then summoned her frie,ids and board- ers in the house, saying that she wished to say good-bye to them, as she was going on a long journey. She then lay down on a couch and soon became unconscious. The po- lice were notified, and taking with them Medical Examiner T. C. Wright went to the house. Dr. Wright, it is alleged, pronounced the woman dead and gave permis- sion for the removal of the body. Soon after his departure, it is said, another physician revived and re- stored her to consciousness. TWO MEN MET DEATH. Fell on Their Heads and Never Re- gained Consciousness. A despatch from Renfrew, Ont., says: While engaged in loading telephone poles on a flat car at Caldwell's station, on Thursday, Jos. Sutherland, of that place, met death almost instantly by falling bnekward Off the top of the car and striking on the back of his head. He died in about an hour after the fall, before medical attendance could arrive. Ile was 45 years of age. and unmarried. M.cOhcan, a prominent far- mer of Bromley, and a member of the Township Council. died on Wed- resday from injuries received by a fatal fall. IIe was working in his barn and was sta-olilg in the mnw ellen he was struck by the hayfork, knocking hire from where he was standing, and falling on the barn floor on his head. He was about 50 years of ase. and leaves a family og young children. His wife died about two the ago. PRELIM INAR! ES. The faraier lied the toothache, and to save a trip to town and a dentist's fee he asked his plan Jake to pill (Olt the aching tooth. Jake led hire to the barn, '.rated him on a bench, and took from the harness - room a pair of very large, rusty pincers. "Here goes," he said, and brac- ing himself, extracted a huge tooth. The farmer clapped his hand to his jaw and pointed reproachfully to the large, white tooth 1n the pin - eerie "Why, Jake," he moaned, "that's the wrong one " "1 know," said Jake. bracing himself :main; "but now I can get at the other handier." He ---"Do you believe nil this about man being eesccnded from a monkey 1" She "Von surely haven't the face to deny it "' THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY Deposits By Public in Canada Show an In- crease of Over $7, 000, 000. A despatch from Ottawa says: their money in speculative ventures. The bank statement. for July was Deposits elsewhere than in Can - issued on Thursday night. The ada show the astonishing increase changes from last tnonth are signi- rtr the month of *9,051,000. ficant. They indicate that the pen- Thr total liabilities for July are ple of Canada have the money, but $756,328,349, an increase of $9,584, - are adopting a conservative policy. 099. The statement is of a distinctly Turning to the assets of the hopeful character. banks, the speeie in hand shows an On the liability side of the ac- iecrease of $750.000. and I)oruin- csunt the notes in circulation show lin notes of $3,250,000. a decrease of $1,456,000. The hal- The balance due from other hanks suer due to the Dominion (govern- or agencies in the United States mint has been resnced by $5,100.- ale inerrasrd by $7,121,00), anti from banks in foreign countries by *9,082,000. ('all and short loans in Canada have decreased by *1.083,- ('1x., and elsewhere than in Canada have increased by $2,159,060. Current loans in Canada show a reduction of $9.252,000 The total assets amounted to $936.411,830, a• compared with $926,017,629. 000, while the balance due to pro- vincial Governments has increase] by $1.750.600. Deposits by the public, payable on demand in Canada, have in- creased by *3.573,000, and payable (.n notice, $3.779.00. This is re- garded as clear evidence that. the Canadian public are not risking