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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-09-03, Page 71 BROCKVILLE fNE 11;ORD'S MARKETS BIGAMIST REPORTS FROM THE LEADING John E. Anderson, School Inspector, and Local Preacher. A re'spateh from Kingston says: \Wednesday. afternoon, John E. An- derson, the bigamous Brockville school inspector and local preach- er sent to the penitentiary to serve a seven-year terra, died in the hos- pital of the institution. In April last be married the daughter of a Renfrew clergyman, furnished a fine house in Brockville, where he was school inspector. through forg- ed certificates, and in May his bi.g- arnous act was exposed through his real wif••'s family in Toronto. He was arrested at the itenfrew home of wife No. '2. After a week in jail he admitted his crime, and was sent to the penitentiary for seven years. Since his incarceration he has been a sick man. The disgrace broke hint down, and a malignant sere throat soon put him into the hospital, where he failed, till death released him on Wednesday. Ho was 52 years of age, though at the time of his second marriage he said he was but 39. After his sentence, Queen's University made enquiries, and learned that he claimed to be a graduate and specialist of the college. It was found that he had forged the necessary documents to make the showing. FINDER GETS DIAMONDS. Ten 'Thousand Dollar Prize for a Montreal Man. A despatch from Montreal says: Some time ago $10,000 worth of livings and diamonds were found in the, C. I'. R. station by a man named :Augustus Cooper. He was arrested on a charge of stealing them, but now they will become his property. This is the effect of a communication received from Mr. Ulric Lafontaine, Clerk of thi Crown, who is returning from Eig land, where he was sent as special commissioner to inquire into the ease. Mr. Lafontaine in his letter states that Mr. and Mrs. Burrows f London, the supposed owners of the diamonds, refuse to give evi • deuce. and waive all claim to the jewels. The diamonds are at pre- sent in the possession of the police, but will be turned over to Mr. Cooper. CANADA AHEAD OF BitITAIN. Member of Scottish Commission Praises Guelph College. A despatch from Guelph says: The Scottish agriculturists who aro now touring Canada arrived in Guelph on Wednesday morning and spent the day at, the O. A. C., in- specting the province's agricultur- al institution and being shown around by President ('reelnlan and bis staff. They had lunch at the college, and expressed themselves much impressed with what was be- ing done. One of there stated that Canada vas ahead of Britain in tho matter of agricultural education, and expressed the hope that the Imperial Government would awake 110"116, the import tcc of the great bene- fit: of such ilAtitutions as Canada cculd boast of. TB t) BROTHERS ERS KILLED. Crossing accident on the lnterco- loninl Near 'frurn. A despatch from Truro, N. S., says: Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock while No. 10 I. C. R. train was bowling along towards Truro and was approaching Eastville crossing a carriage containing two Mothers, sons of William Scott, Lernevale, was struck and the oc- cupants immediately killed. The Larne was also killed and the car- riage demolished. Both young men were on their way to Moose River gold mines. Their names were \falter and Herbert Scott. CAR E WITH EXI'L0S11'ES. Transportation ('omptwies MUNI Take I'recauliony. ;1 despatch from St. Petersburg 1 despatch hem Ottawa says: says: Details are given in Yakutsk As the result of the explosion of s newspapers of n resulting case o car of nitroglycerine at Essex some cannibalism of the nomadic tries tune ago, regulations have been 'of Lantuts, living on the River lasparc,l kr the handling of ex -1 Korkudin. in extreme north-west- pl,...iyes by transportation compare. ern Siberia. One of the 'mineds, res. '!'hese regulations, while de- driven desperate by hunger, de- signed to permit of the transporta. toured the Inghamof his brother's tion of explosives. will require wife and four children A party of •urtiens which will guard against hunters carte upon the desertad the !04s of life in Huy accident. The encampment. found the remains •1 railway cempnnies have expressed the bodies and reported the ease a desire to be heard before regufa. There was no vestige of food un tha lions are finally ado ited. premises. GOOD ('ItOP REPORT. Director Saunders of Experimental Farms in Alberta. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Director of Experimental Farms wires the Department of Agriculture from Lacombe, Alta., under date of the 25th ult., as fol- lows :-Winter wheat in this dis- trict all cut. Crops good. Most (1 the spring wheat is still stand- ing, but ripening fast. The heads are very plump and well filled. The weather is favorable. The frost of the 20th does not apnear to have injured the wheat much. Barley is cut and a large acreage of oats is also cut. The grain crops on the erperimcntal farms are very heavy. Tho winter wheat and early varie- ties of spring wheat are cut." t QUEBEC HAS A SURPLUS. Iteceipte Show Balance Over Ex- penditure of $I,035,698. A despatch from Quebec says: The official statement of revenue and expenditure of the Province of Quebec for the fiscal year ended on 30th of Juno last, has been issued bs the Provincial Treasurer, at- tested by the Assistant Treasurer, G. H. T. Machin, and the Provin- cial Auditor, Mr. A. H. Verret. and shows that the total ordinary re- ceipts amounted to 86,016,615.77, and the total ordinary and extra- ordinary expenditure, including $41,000 for public works, to $4,980, • 919.06, which leaves a surplus of $1,035,696.71. TO 'rt1(1•: RANK'S LAND. Tlt.1UE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Ilowo and Abroad. BREADSTUFF'S. Toronto, Sept. 1. -Ontario \\'heat -Old or new, No. 2 white and red, 85; s'c to 86%c; No. 2 mixed, 85c to 85%c. Manitoba Wheat -Nominal at 1.1.16 to $1.17 for Nu. 1 northern, lake ports. Barley -New No. 2, 580 to 60c; No. 3 X, btic to 57c; No. 3, 54d- to 55c. Oats -Ontario, new, 39c to 40c outside; old, nominal, at 45c to 46c outside; Manitoba, No. 3, 45c to 45%e; rejects, 43c to 44e, lake ports. Rye -New, G8c to 70e outside; old no stocks. Corn -Nominal at 8714c to 88c Tcronto freights for No. 2 yellow, and 86c to 861Ae for kiln -dried. Bran -$10 to $18 per ton in hulk outside ; in bags, $2 more. Shorts -at $20 to $21 per ton in bulk outside ; in bags, $2 more. Flour -Manitoba, first patents, t'0; seconds, $5.40; strong bakers', $5.30; Ontario winter wheat pat- ents, to $ $3.303.35. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Local wholesale butter quotat'ons are: - Creamery, prints .. ..... 25c to 26c do solids ... . ..... 23c to 24c Dairy prints, choice , . .. 23e to 24c do ordinary .... .. .... 21c to 22c Dairy, tubs .... .... .... 21c to 22c Inferior .... .. 17c to 18c Cheese -Large, 13%c to 13%c; twins, 13%c to 13%c. Eggs -20c to 21c per dozen in case lots. Poultry-SpOng chickens, live w•c ight, 15c to IGc ; fowl, I0c to 11c; ducks, 10c to 12c. Honey -Strained, 100 to Ile per pound. Beans -Primes, $2 to $2.10 ; hand- picked, $2.10 to $2.20. Potatoes -From 650 to 80c in farmers' waggons by the load. PROVISIONS. Pork -Short cut, $23.50 per bar - rd ; mess, $19 to $19.50. Lard -Tierces, 12%c; tubs, 12%e; pails, 124e. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats - Long clear bacon, 11%c to 111/ie, tens and cases; hams, medium and light, 14%c to 15c; hams, Targe, 124c to 13e; backs, 17%c to 18c; shoulders, 10c to 11c; rolls, 10%c to 11c; breakfast bacon, 15e to 15%e; ; green meats, out of pickle, Captain Dernier Ilan Orders to le less than smoked. Push 'Through ice' MONTREAL MARKETS. A despatch from Ottawa says: Montreal, Sept. l. -Flour -Mani - 'rho Canadian (lovernme.nt cruiser, tuba spring wheat patents, $0.10 to Arctic, which sailed from Quebec $6.20; second patents, $5.50 to $5. - last month, is under instructions 70; winter wheat patents, $5 to to push its way through Lancaster 85.50; straight rollers, $4.25 to 84. - Sound and Melville Sound, if the 50; in bags, $1.95 to $2.10; extra, , ice. permits, to Bank's Land, and 8180 to $1.70. t•) take possession of that territory lt,>Iled Oats -$2.59 in bags of 90 and other islands in the vicinity. pounds. Rolle 11 the ice blocks the passage west- Cornmeal -$1.85 to $1.9:, per bag. ward, the vessel is to visit the Gulf Oats -Manitoba, No. 2, tee; No. of Boothia, and may either return s 476 ; rejected, 40e per bushel. in the fall of 1909 or stay over un- 117c; cd -Ontario bran, in bags, til 1910. Captain Bernier is under $21 to $22; shorts, $24 to $25. stiict injunctions to take no course Cheese -19%c to 12%c and east - erns at 12'c to 127;,6. Batter -24e in round lots and 24',6 to grocers. Eggs -Selected, 23c; No. 1 at 20c and Ny. 3 at 16c per dozen. Provisions -- Barrel. short cut mess, $22.50; half barrels, $11.50; clear fat back, $23; dry salt. long clear backs, Ile; barrels plate beef, 1;17.50; half barrels do., $9; com- pound lard, 8',c to 91/4e; pure turd, 12'/.,,• to 13e; kettle rendered, 13c t., 13',e; hams, 12' is to )4c, accord- ing to size; brcak;a:.t bacon, 14c to use; Windsor bacon, 15c to 16c ; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $10; live, $6.752227. UNITED STATES MARKETS. w',,ich might result in international c, nr),ii;ati its. A STARViNG CANNIBAL. Ale His Brother's Wife and }bur Children. THIRTY HNEIIS SUFFOCATED Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 1.-Wheat--- -pring easier; No. 1 Northern, car - ;..ads, store, $1.18; Winter, firm. t 'ern -F irm. Oats -Firm. Barley - Eyed to malting, 06 to 70c. Rye - No. 2 on track, 80c. Minneapolis, Sept. 1. --Wheat - Sept.,$ 1.00 to $1.00%; Dec., 9S';c ; cash, No 1 hard, $1.04%; No. 1 'Northern, $1.0234: No. 2 Northern, .09%e; No. 3 90 Northern, %c. Flour They Were Entombed by Fire in an�--First patents. l,:).75 6.96; sec - end patents. $5.00 to $5.70; first ,•lcars, $1.35 to 84.45 ; second clears J Okla Gents, Cool Mine, (13.50 to $3.60; bran. in bulk, 1118.- 50 to $19.75. A despatch from McAlester, Okla., says: Here than 1;,,ity 015 wets suffocated un Wednesday morning in hailer, Okla., coal mine No 1, near )faileyyille, four- teen miles east of Me.1lester, when fire destroyed the hoisting shaft and nir shaft and cut oft air from the men below. Twenty-five mules were suffocated and some of their bodies were horned. Exploration. in the channels on Wednesday afternoon revealed .that none of the then met death by horning. but that all were suffo- to the moisting shaft and the air- CATTLE MARKET. shaft, and all communication with Toronto, Sept. I.-C'hnico butcher the top was cut off. The first indi- cattle were almost lacking. A very cation the people at the surface few. to -day 501(1 as high as $5 per I•ad of the trouhle was the flames cwt., and a number of fairly good and smoke coining out of the top butchers' brought between *4 and of the shaft. $4 +:1)01e. 11nndreds of miners rushed to the There was a little better propor- scene and tried to get into the air tion of good cows. one or two very shaft, but this was impossible as fancy ones of which brought *1 50, Mantes and smoke were coming up and a number of others over *4. that way with such force as to drive The run of calves was light The them hack. Then an effort was range of prices is from $3 to $6 30 trade to operate the cages running Sheep and tenths were offered in up and down the hoisting shaft, but very large numbers. The pries are glinted unchanged at $3 to 84.25 for sheep. and $5 to 85 75 for Iambs. The hog market is steady at QR. - 50. fed and watered, for selects. and $R for lights. for the latter of which there is no demand. fated. it was found that the cages, the After the miners had gene down cables and the guides had been in the cage n fire broke out, oeea 1 timed. There was absolutely no sionrd by the ignition barrel help for the imprisoned miners. r ( oil which a miner was trying to The property loss may reach *50, - •divide. The (lathes spread at once 000. 1 CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TILE GLOBE. Telegraphic Briefs from Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. The fire in the C. P. R. coal piles at Hort \I'itliaru has been extingu- ished. Police Captain Cameron of Glas- gow was robbed of $200 by Mont- real pickpockets. Sir Louis Jetts, retiring Lieuten- ant -Governor of Quebec, will re- turn to the Bench. The town of Delorimier will be annexed to Montreal on October 1st. The population is nearly 7,- 000. Mr. I3. H. Kerr's three-year-old daughter was killed at Milltown, N B., by a horse falling upon her. There has been a great falling off in the amount of pulpwood car- ried by the Temiskaming At, North- ern Ontario Railway. Joseph Bithel was acquitted on the charge of assaulting a con- stable at Montreal, it being shown that the constable struck him first to keep him buck from the fire lines. GREAT BRITAIN. Britain's fifth battleship of the Dreadnought type will be launch- ed at Portsmouth on Sept. 106. The wife of Major-General Laurel was found mysteriously murdered i a dense wood near Sevenoaks, not far from London. UNITED STATES. Ten or fifteen negro laborers lost their lives in the floods at Augusta, Ga. A lone highwayman held up and robbed seven coaches of tourists in Yellowstone Park. John Lynch, imprisoned in a New York sewer, was drowned by water from flooded cellars. Rev. Albert Frick, a Presbyteri- an minister, shot and killed Wm - self in a New York hotel. The succession and transfer taxes on the estate of the late Russell Sage amounted to $667,593. Two persons were drowned and seventeen aro missing as the result of the washing away of a bridge at Camden, Ga. Frank Bryant murdered Thomas Brady in Chicago because the latter groaned in his sleep, when Bryant was not feeling well. The trial of the Heine brothers, who are accused of the murder of William E. Annis, will probably commence about. Oct. 1st. The Atlas Portland Cement Co. has been awarded the contract to supply 4.500,000 barrels of cement for use in the construction of the Panama ('anal. Detectives in New York discover- ed over $15,000 worth of jewels, silks and furs in the house of Mrs. Minnie Curtis, whom they arrested foi complicity in several robberies. Charles Knisley, a young English- man captured at fort Huron, will be deported to England, where fie has been sentenced to life impri-on- nient for being implicated in a mur- der. GENERAL. Abd-el-Azi/. the deposed Sultan t.f Morocco, will take refuge in Da- hrascus. Argentina has decided to build two battleships and a flotilla of tor - redo boats and destroyers. Baron Mnkino Nobuski will pro - ',ably succeed Count Kumura as Japanese Ambassador at London. Baron Speck Von Sternberg, Ger- man Ambassador to the United States, died suddenly at Heidcl- I, c rg. A Berlin teneher caused a run on the Freidriehberger Bank by advis- ing his pupils to tell their parents that the institution was insolvent. A Vetizuelan court has found the French ('able Company guilty of complicity in the Mates revolution against. President Castro, and has imposed a fine of $5,000,000. '4'-----. - A LOVER'S QUARREL. Montreal .Youth and Girl Try to Poison Themselves. A despatch from Montreal says • As a result of a lover's quarr.;1, Fred 1linto, twenty years of age, and Miss Nellie Burton. shout twenty years of age. tried to poi son themselves at 93 ('adieux str' •' r•n Wednesday. The were hurr;e l to the general hospital, where a stomach pump was used with go ,e1 effect. it was at first feared th•.: the young girl was fatally poison" f lit at a late hour she was report,• 1 as being out of danger. Minto will also recover. T11'0 t'1111.1)REN BURNT:D, iloose of Peter Gend, Near i:thel- berl, Destroyed. A despatch from Dauphin, Man , says: Tv' children of Peter (Good, a fanner living near Ethelbert, were burned to death on Sunday night. The fire caught in the up- per story, where the children were cut out of their only chance of es- cape. The hay was six and the girl three years old. SHOT BY MASKED ROBBERS Midway, British Columbia, Hotel -Keeper Murdered in His Hotel, .\ despatch frons Phoenix, 13. C., un the intruders, wounding one. says The town of Midway, 12 ,Hiles The strangers retailiated, Thomet Nom here, was the scone of a sen_ receiving a bullet in the shoulder sutiunal hold-up on Wednesday and abdomen, after which he stag - 1 ) ge red through a side door into a night, when ('barley Thomet of the room. The desperadoes got into Midway Hotel was shut and instant- the room through another entrance Is killed by highwaymen. Two and shut three more bullets into tate masked mea entered the hotel at body of the dying man. They then 9 o'clock, and at the point of a gun made their escape. Bloodhounds four neon, including Thomet, were arc being brought from Spokane to, told to throw up their hands. Tho- put on the trail of the criminals. met, being behind the bar, put his One of the desperadoes is thought hand on a revolver and opened fire to be seriously wounded. THE RULER OF TURKEY FEW MEN ALIVE WHO HAVE BEEN 80 MALIGNED. Mistrust of Subjects - Some Pecu- liar Stories Concerning the Sultan. There is probably few Hien alive to -day who have been more malign- ed than has Abdul Hamid, the Sul- tan of Turkey; yet, in spite of his uncuviable reputation he has con- tinued to sit on his perilous throne fur over thirty years, says a writer in M.A.P. Abdul Hamid is one of the strangest mixtures of bravery and cowardice, cunning and st- plicsim- plicityty that it is possible to imagine, and 80 much has been written and said about him that to obtain any- thing like an accurate idea of his real character is almost impossible. Like most autocratic Monarchs he goes about in hourly dread of as- sassination, and it is said that bo spends as much as £180 a night to have his bedroom securely guard- ed. The Sultan's mistrust of his sub- jects has sometimes led to curi- ous results. A few years ago he was on his way to the mosque, when ho suddenly noticed that some new telegraph wires had been stretched across the roadway. No one to this day knows what ho thought would happen, but he gave orders for the royal procession to halt, and messengers were sent off post-haste to the telegraph com- pany to fetch men to cut down the wires. After considerable delay this was actually done. and then the Sultan and his retinue proceeded on their way. Not content with merely having the wires destroyed. Abdul Ramie] also commanded that they were on no account to be re- placed. "ONLY MY VOICE." Tho Sultan's love of ruling was once exemplified in an extraordin- ary manner. He had purchased a parrot, of which he grew very fund, and he spent tnauy hours in teach- ing it, to speak. Tho bird was an apt pupil, and learned to irritate its august master's voice to perfection. One day the parrot was (ranging in its cage in the Sultan's private apartment, when it suddenly called out the name of his Majesty's fav- orite attendant. The latter canto At the sumnoam, but Abdul Manuel flew into a towering passion. 'Tear- ing the unfurtututtc bird from its cage he killed it on the spot ; then, turning to the frightened servant, he said : "Understand that in fu- ture oaly my voice shall commas 1 here"' lint Abdul Ilamid has n softer and altogether nobler side 10 lyjs character, and those who know• hent intimately have spoken eloquently of his kindness. His own dread of physical pain hes made him thoughtful of the welfare of others, and he has had a hospital built which is kept up entirely at his own expense. This hospital is princi- pally for the use of women and chil- dren. but anyone is eligible for ad- mission, and every patient is treat- ed entirely free of charge. Even f• reigners and strangers are ndmit- ted, and the whole concern is run sin the most- up-to-date lines. DIPLOMACY. The Sultan is a born diplomat, although occasionally his diplomacy is hardly comfortable with English ideas. The story is told of a cer- tain Ambassador who while walking in the streets of Constantinople saw one of his Majesty's closed carri- ages, closely guarded from the pry- ing eyes of the populace. The Am- bassador was indiscreet enough to endeavor to peep into this vehicle, but henick{ • repented of his folly 1 q � p 1 ty when he received a stinging blow t f the face from an attendant. Mad with rage, he demanded an audi- ence of Abdul Hamid, which was granted. After listening quietly to the Ambassador's tale of woe the Sultan smiled and said :-"I have carefully considered your case, and see exactly how the matter stands. You are, of course, a gentleman, and you would never have commit- ted such n breach of good manners as you allege took place; therefore, your Excellency, no attendant could possibly have struck you. Tho whole affair must bo a product of your fancy. Let us then dismiss it." What the Ambassador thought has not been recorded. 4, -- SAVED HIS FATHER'S LIFE. Harry ('line, of Ingersoll, is a Lit- tle Ilero. A despatch from Ingersoll says: Harry Cline, the little thirteen - year -old son of Mr. W. A. Cline of this town, is wing looked upon a: a young hero. While swiniming across the Thames Hiver, east, of hero, on Wednesday, with his eight-year-old son, Melvin, un his back, Harry's father was seized with a cramp. He became uncon- scious and sank with the young- ster. Harry, who was on the back, stripped off his clothing, and, div- ing, rescued both father and bro- ther from the fiftten feet, of water that is found at that spot. Mr. Cline and his three boys were out fishing, and were attempting to cross the river in order to make a short cut to town when the accident happened. The younger lad could not swine. - 1sS1:SS`IENT FR.11•DS. Montreal Properties i:scape Taxa- tion .altogether. A despatch from Montreal says: Some startling revelations havo leen made by• the new city asses- s( rs. It has been discovered that :n ono division of the city alone over twenty dwellings were not as- sessed by the old officials; that a lege yard in the city, with various dwellings and other structures up- on it, had escaped assessment for untold years; and that properties which are now being assessed at 1+9,000 were escaping with an as- sessment of $lax). There will be a civic investigation. RUN DOWN I V TR.tIN. I'cicrboro' Man Meets Death en Route to ftlrrel, Man. A despatch from Winnipeg says! Geo. M. Young, of Poterboro' Ont., was killed by a train on Weil. nesday. Ile was en route to Bit• rel, Man., to take charge of a tbreshing gang. ESTIMATES OF GRAIN YIELD Northwest Dealers' Association Place tho Wheat Crop at 107,000,000 Bushels. A d•• -patch from Winnipeg says: 11.5 bushels, g,+ rag a total pr •. •l.:t - The Northwest Grain Dealers' As- tion of I,424,:s30 bushels. sc.ciation has issued a revised esti- The association also est.,.. .• , mate of the production of the Cana- that 150,000 bushels of who,tt i .,i than west this season as a result of 100,000 bushels of old oats are still the tour taken by the members t wo P1 the fanners' hands. weeks ago. It places the wheat The statement adds that about 75 acreage at 6.055,(00, and the river- per cent. of the wheat cutting will age yield at 17.7 bushels, giving a be e':•rpleted by the end of the pro• total production of 107.181.000 111101- sent week. cls. The previ•,us estimate of the The acreage of oats is placed at a heat acreage. made June 1, is re- 2,c07,00i►, and the average yield at garde,' as too small, and an in - :e.6 bushels, giving a total pro• crease of :, per (eat. has bee') trade. duction of 93.153,500 bushels. There has assn routs frost damages The err. -age of barley is Alar -d •n rev erai clist r• as, the extent of at e55.650, and the average yield whirl► it is itnp.,:_sible t , tell until at 211.1 bushels, giving a total pre- the harvestin;e is completed, hilt it duction of 21.999,415 hush.•15. 14 not thought that that-, has been The acreage of flax is placed at any considerable amount of dime 193,420, and the average yield at age. 1