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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-09-10, Page 71 1 1 1 s 1. - FELL FELL 500 FEET FROG AINSNIP A Well Known Aeronaut Killed at the Maine Fair. A dcwisfetch f-unu Waterciii , Maine, easel: In full view of 25,000 horrified spectators on the Central Maine Fair grounds here late on �1edues d3 y,Chas.OliverlJones,cs , the well known aeronaut of Ham- nroudsport, N. Y., fell a distance of (.09 feet to his (teeth. Among the witnesses of the frightful plunge were the man's wife and child, and they were almost the first to reach his side after the accident. The aeronaut expired about an hour and a half after the tragic event. When the aeronaut reached a height of more than 500 feet the spectators were amazed to seo small tongues of flame issuing from under the gas bag in front of the motor. At this time the balloon had passed out of the fair grounds. .sier,eral winutee elapsed before Jones no- ticed the fire. Then he grasped the rip cord and by letting out the gas eedeavorod to reach the earth. The IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND! THE WORLD'S MARKETS NEWS RV M.III. ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land 'That Relgus Supreme In the Coni- werciul World. A white seal in the London zoo- leg...al gardens has turned black In the past six months the little Metropolitan Railway carried 45,- 243,931 passengers. lice wishire farmers say that REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grail), Cheese and Other Dairy !'reduce at Howe and Abroad. B R E.t!)STUFFS. Toronto, Sept. 8. -Flour -On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $3.30 to $3.35 in buyers' sacks outside fcr export. Manitoba machine had descended but a short hawks are ver audacious this Year}lour' first patents, $0; second pat- distauce, when a sudden burst of even attacking caged birds. y ' eats, $3.40, and strong bakers', flame enveloped the gas bag, the The embarking end disembarking $6.30. Wheat -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 work immediately separating of 40,000 passengers at the Isle of Man the other day was a record for the island. Several thousand Egyptian quail, worth about $9,500, were burnt to death in a fire at an aviary at Wood Green. Another unsuccessful attempt has recently been made to raise the sunken cruiser Gladiator off Yar- mouth, Isle of Wight. For sleeping in the open air at Stowupland a man was sentenced to a month's hard labor at Stow - market on Friday. Much damage has been done to larch trees on the Manchester wat- erworks estate at Thirintore by a plague of saw flips. At present more than 10,000 wo- men are engaged in factories and workshops in London, 8,000 of then in the clothing and allied trades. Itates collected in Sunderland for the period ending with July are $40,000 lower than the amount re- ceived in the corresponding period cf last year. The Nottingham City Council has decided to raise a loan of $110,000 in order that works designed to al- leviate the unemployed may he proceeded with. General Booth says he is going to South Africa in search of a new Canaan, in which the unemployed of this country can receive a wel conte and a home. Over sixty members of the Brie - lel Crimean and Indian Mutiny Veterans' Association were enter- tained by the Duke of Beaufort et Badminton on Friday. The winning bunch of wild flow- ers in a petition among the pupils r th:; Thoinlinsoe.-Clir!s.' Grammar School, Wigton (Cumberland), con- tained 229 different specimens. A party of Liverpool motorists passed through tho village of Ast- ley, in South Lancashire, where reckless motoring is causing much indignation, were pelted with rot- ten lemons. During the last few months four cases of cattle maiming have been reported to the Grimsby police. In each instance the outrage was com- mitted at night in mysterious cir- cumstances. A Fulham mother, to keep her l.aby safely in bed, tied a band round the little one. The child must have moved or fallen as the band tightened round its throat and strangled it. The Phoenix Assurance Company, Limited, of London, recently re- ceived 8260 "conscience money." The money was sent in an old mus- tard tin. and there was not the slightest clue as to the identity of the sender. :1t an inquest on the body of Thos. Hooper, 73, a greengrocer, cf Bath street, City road, London, it was stated that he lived for 10 days after breaking every rib and hi• 'collar -bone in a fall down the stairs. from the bag. Jones fell with the frame of his motor, and when the spectators reached him he was lying under it about a quarter of a mile from the fair grounds. Tho gas bag, which fell nearby, was completely destroy- ed CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS i tPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER THE G1.011E. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. Mr. J. A. Cummings walked off a train in his sleep at Kama and was killed. Dr. Milton L. Horsey of Montreal has given $10,000 to the Kingston Mining School. The Railway Commission is con- sidering regulations for carrying explosives on railways. Swift & Co. of Chicago aro said to be interested in an extensive stockyard and abattoir 'whom° at Wi nnipeg. In a row among drunken Italians at Fenelon Falls one span was slash- ed across the abdomen, and his al- leged assailant was arrested. A horse -thief is alleged to have stolen a horse and buggy from By- ron Beamer of Lincoln township, and set fire to the barn to cover Au theft. Mr. Boamer lost his barn machinery, horses and other stock and craps. GREAT BRITAIN. Prince Bolotoff, a Russian, will ettempt to cross the English Chan- nel with an aeroplane. The British bark Amazon was irmaiecked off t Welsh coast and 27 of her crew ere drowned. The Earl of posse, one of Ire- land's representative Peers in the House of Lords, is dead. Great damage has been cone in England and along the coast by terrific storms during the last two days. A madman caused a panie on the London Stock Exchange on Wed- resday by firing three shots from his resolver in the building. John E; Redmond, the Irish Na- tionalist leader, has declared the 'Irish University act to be one of the greatest emancipating measures of the century. UNITED STATES. The people of the northwestern States are agitating for the free ad- mission of Canadian lumber. Four seamen on the British hark Puritan wore suffocated in the hold of the vessel near Boston. Eight trolley cars loaded with ex- cursionists were stalled by potato hugs on the rails near Bristol, Conn. GENERAL. An edict issued in the name of the Emperor promisee the Chinese people a constitution in nine years. The Japanese steamer Bankoku �`•rore was sunk off (Tuba Preteeture is ith a loss of twenty-eight lives. A widespread political conspiracy including plans to murder 1.'rd Mine) and other high officials, has been revealed in India. The great oil fire near Tampi- co Mexico, which burned for two months. consuming $3,000,000 worth of oil, has been extinguished. LAND FOR WA It VETERANS. Militia Department IIas Issued Form of .application. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Militia Department has issued the forms of application for the land bounties under the Act of last ses- sion. The forms provide for the eases of officers, for non-commis- sioned officers and inen who were enlisted in Canada, for men who were not members of corps raised in Canade, but who otherwise serv- ed in South Africa, and for officers and inen who served in the corps which did not reach South Africa be -fore the close of the war. The applicants have, in the case of non - cents. and privates, to send in their discharges, which will be returned. All the applicants have to be sworn to before a commissioner. The forms of application can be obtain- ed either from the Militia Depart- ment or from any district officer commanding. Early application ;s advisable in order that the appli- cations may be passed upon by tho Militia Department and forwarded to the Department of the Interior, which will issue the warrants to the individuals concerned. BRAKES TAMPERED WITH. !tubber Tubes Under the Cars Found to be Cut. A despatch from Montreal says: A criminal attempt to interfere with a railway train was made on Tuesday night by parties unknown. Ar a train of freight ears was pull- ing out of the C. P. R. yard in Hoc'iclaga it was noticed by a brakeman that the pneumatic bakes were not working properly. The train was stopped, and it was found that about 50 rubber air tubes had been maliciously cut un- der the cars. 1f this had not been ncticcd in time the train crew be- lieved it would have been the cause of a serious wreck, with loss of life. Detectives have been notified, and at rests are likely to follow. --.tc SECTION II.%ND WAS SIiOT. Boy Carrying Itilte .accidentally Discharged it. A despatch from Kingston says: James Ferguson, a section hand on the Grand Trunk. was accidentally shot in the left arm on Weduesday morning by a hey napped Henry Knox. Knox was bringing a rifle into the city to have repairs made. Be was carrying it with the barrel towards the track, when it accident- ally expl ,ded. hitting Ferguson 'n the arum. The bullet entered just above the elbow, passing thrnugh the muscle and entering his side. Fortunately the fore° of the bullet w as spent when it entered the roan's side or fatal results might have followed. f Some men seem to extend a standing offer to tho public to sit. down on them. Mistress (angrily) -"How dare von talk back to me in that way 1 never saw such impudence. You have a lot of nerve to call your- self a lady's maid." New Maid - "i don't eall myself that now. ma'am ; but T was a lady's maid before 1 get this job." X25,-000,000 LOSS BY FIRE normous Damage in British Columbia During the Season. A despatch from Victoria. B. C.. ys: The heavy rains of the pant •w days have worked incalculable in all hut extinguishing the. ,rest tires that have for weeks son raging in the ('owichan dia- iet and thence t.,w•ard the heart Vancouver island. Tho fire con - end in the vicinity of the Meunt icker mining camp, where all save vc buildings in what is quite a ntrishing mining village went up flames. The cream of the island s nest cessible ti+dbor wealth has been licked up by the fares, and the C. P. R., the Vicente and (.'hemain- e:s Lumber Company and the Cowi- chan and Ladysmith Lumber Com- panies are heavy sufferers, their losses running far into six figures. It is estimated that forest fires thea far this season throughout British celurnhia have caused loss- es approximating $85,000,000. The heaviest of these losses was in the Crow 's Ne -t, section, where the de- structien of the Town of Fernie r as a heavy contribution to the partily zing total. a. . QUEENS AND BULLFIGHTING. Victoria of Spain Hopes to Win Even 11 Others Did Fail. Queen Victoria, of Spain is, it is said, anxious to abolish in her coun- try the enormities of bullfighting ; she has hitherto consented to at- tend at this favorite national sport, but the hast time she went, shortly Lt•fure Don Jaime's birth, what she witnessed filled her with horror and grief. So she has caused to be re%ived the: memory of the fact that the great Queen Isabella, when she re- turned from conquering the Moors, declared that it was her wish to abolish bullfighting as a cruel short which, she asserted, had been in- troduced by the Pay nim Moors and which was unworthy of a Christian race. UNITED STATES MARKETS. if the .Spaniards of to -day are re- Buffalo, Sept. 8. -Wheat -Spring minded that the Queen whose fine- higher ; Winter easier ; No. 2 red, mory they adore was only prep ent 99c No. 3 extra red, 97';c ; N. 2 td by her death from putting down white, t %c; No. Y mixed, 99e. Corn tht cruel sport it is hoped that they _Firmer; No. 3 yellow, Ste; No 4 may allow their present Queen to yellow, 83c; No. 3 white, 8.3e. Otis make it at leapt unfashionable for -Easier ; No. 2 white, 53 4 t • 51s; ladies to attend on such sights. No. 3 white, 52'/ to 53c ; Yo. 4 Queen Christina tried to do an white, 51 to 52e. Bari -Meed in the early days of her rule as tc malting, 63 to Me. Regent, says the London Minneapolis. Sept. 8.-W! cat - Illustrated News, but she had so flee.$1 : May, $1.03 ; ('a No. r+etch else to contend with that she 1 h, ard $1.03' No. 1 N , .'u t. had to abandon this unpopular ra- 81 n2ss ; No. 2 Needier',. '+'► to form. It seemed impossible not long ago @I 00'4; No. 3 Northern. 3: to liyc. for duelling ever to be abolished at a means of settling personal dis- putes and wiping out insults among gentlemen. but Queen Victoria achieved it. Acting through her }ytrshand. she so arranged that duel- ling should never again be resorted to by men in the army to end their qunrrels or to defend their own haler. and this was speedily ac- cepted as possible and right in civil life too. Northern at 81.17%; old No. 2 at $1.14%, and old No. 3 at $1.12. Now No. 1 Northern, $1.13, and No. 2 at $1.11, lake ports. Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white and red quoted at 86 to 86%,c outside. Oats -Ontario, new, No. 2 white, 39c on track ; Manitoba No. 3 quot- ed at 44%c, and rejected, 43%c to 44c, lake ports. Rye -Buyers at 73c outside. Peas -85c outside. Corn -Prices at 88e for No. 2 American yellow, and at 87c for No. 3 American, on track, Toronto. Barley -No. 2 barley quoted at 55 to 60c, and No. 3 extra at 57e outside. Bran -Cars are quoted at $18 in bulk outside. Shorts quoted at $21 to $22 in bulk outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Bec.ns-Primo, 82 to 82.10, and !•and -picked, 82.20 to 82.25. Honey -Combs, No. 1, $1.50 to $1.75 per dozen, and No. 2, in 60 - pound tins, 9%c; No. 1 extractei, :0 to llc per pound. Hay -No. 1 timothy $9 to $10 a ton ont track here, and No. 2 at $x;.50 to $7. Straw -86 to $7.50 in car lots. Potatoes -New Canadian quote 1 at 55 to 65c per bushel in large Iota; Now Brunswick potatoes, $1 per bag, on track. Poultry -Chickens, spring, dress- ed, 13 to 14c per pound ; fowl, 10 to 12e; ducks, dressed, 10 to Ile; turkeys, dressed, 15 to 10c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 22 to 23e; tubs, 20 to 21c d'o ; lTtidfloi;-i0-44: 19c. i$-1 - 19c. Creamery rolls, 25 to 26c, and solids at 24 to 24'Ac. Eggs --20 to 21c per dozen in case lots. Cheese -Large, 13 to 13'.e per pound, and twins 13% to l::j„c; old cheese, 15 to 15340. 1100 PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clears, 11% to 11%e per pound in case lots ; mess pork, $19 to 819.50; short cut, 823 to 8'23.50. Hams -Light to medium, 143', to 15e; do., heavy, 19 to 12%e; rolls, 10', to 11%c; shoulders, 10 to l01,4e; hacks, 17�t,/' to 18e; breakfast bacon, 15 to if5ysc. Lard -Tierces, 12%e; tubs, 12%c; pails, 19%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 8. - Grain - Manitoba No. 2 white at 48e, No. 3 at 47c and rejected at 4itc per bush- el, in car lots, ex store. Flour - Choice spring wheat patents, $4 to $0.10; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat patents, 85; straight rollers. $4.30 to 81.50; do., in bags, 82 to $2.10; extras, $1.85 to $1.75. Mill - feed -Manitoba bran, $22 to 823. shorts, 825; Ontario bran, 4121 t+. 822; middlings, $20 to *27; snorts, $26 per ton, including bags : pure graiu mouille, 830 to $35, and mill- ed grades, 825 to $28 per ton. Fin- est westerns 12% to 12%e, and east - erns, 12% to 12%c. flutter - 25e fot finest creamery. and round lots are quoted at 24e. Eggs- -Sales of selected stock were made nt. 24c, No. 1 at 20e and No. 2 at 18c per dc.ten. l'roviaions-Barrels short bldg., 1.50 ; half I 1 mess, U ole $ c t clear fat hacks, $23; dry snit clear bucks, 11e; barrels plate heef. 817.- 50; half bhls., do., $9.00; compound lard. 834 to 2%e; pure lard, 12%e to 13c; kettle rendered. 13 to 13;c; hams, 12% to Ile ; breakfast bacon, 14 to 15c ; Windsor bacon, 15 to 16c; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $d.75; live, 87 to 87.10. B 1 h lk $18 8 ; ,Jr9 s) 11 THE WORLD AGAIIZSTBRITAIN Combined Crusade Will Proce3d on the New Patent Law. A despatch from Leaden says: A despatch to the London Daily Mail from Berlin says the great manufacturing nations of the world have taken preliminary steps in a crusade against the new British pat- ent law. The project originated with the Trade and Pnte.it Congress, which was in session at Stockholm. from Aug. 20 to Aug. 30. All the delegates to the congress, includ- ing those from the United States, expressed the opinion that radical measures were necessary to bring Great Britain to terms. It was de- cided that this could be attained by the various nations passing mere restrictive patent laws, and by "negotiating patent treaties be- tween nations which will waive the domestic patent laws so far as Cie treaty power is concern.d. Arrangements for a coalition against Great Britain will proceed without delay. It is expected that the discussion in congress of the proposed new American Patent Act will give an impetus to the move- ment, and it is hoped that the mat- ter a ill by Spring have progressed to a point where Great Britain will be effectually isolated. It is believ- ed that British manufacturers will then bo compelled to press the Gov- ernment to repeal the Act, or snake treaties with other countries. Ger- many intends to repeal her present patent law, which is not enforced rigidly. She will then be in a po- sition to combire with other nations against Groat Britain. THE FUTURE BATTLESHIP BRITAIN'S DREADNOL'GIITS AND COMING DESIGNS. Two Monster Ships Begun This Year, One of 19,200 Tous With Turbine Engines. The coming of the Dreadnoughts, aa all the world knows, has meant a complete revolution in naval con- struction. In the opinion of most naval officers the future is to the Power which possesses must of those ships and can use them well, writes H. W. Wilson in the Londua Daily Mail. It will be of interest, then, in view of the pause which has been niade during tho present year in shipbuilding, to examine how the British navy stands in this latest tope of ship and what are the de- signs likely to be adopted in the near future. The Admiralty is com- mitted to the large battleship and it will scarcely go back. Nor would it be wise to do so in view of the feet that almost all foreign Powers are fa thing,',:. -:piing British de- signs. -•�...._ For the present year two mons 1' ships -a battleship and a cruiser - have been voted. The battleship, contrary to the reports circulated, will be similar in all important re- spects to the St. Vincents. That is to say, she will displace 19,200 tens or thereabouts, will carry ten or twelve 12 -inch guns. and will be propelled by turbine engines actu- ated by steam. Thus she will make up the group of four St. Vincents, and when she is completed for sea the British navy will possess two groups, each four strong, of all big gun battleships. The other vessel will resemble the Invineibles, with improvements, and will complete the group of four 25 -knot cruiser battleship'. SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENT. It will bo seen that there is no- thing sensational in the design of the ships for this year which aro meant to fill gape in the existing ..rganizatinn. But next year it is possible that there may be now and startling departures. From hints which Ministers and others have dripped, the Admiralty will be coin - pilled to ask for no fewer than five monster battleships. More may be needed, but this must nec- essarily depend on the progress which foreign ships make in tho next few months. Germany, it must be remember- ed, has to -day building or sanction - td seven battleships of Dread- nought type (against the British Dight) and two, or possibly three, cruisers of the Invincible type (against the British four). And un- der her fixed programme she will ray down three more monster bat- tleships and one more monster crui- ser next year, the battleships, it is Itlievcd, displacing 21,000 tows or cu en more. :1 British programme of five battleships and one cruiser would bring the British total of Dreadnoughts up to only eighteen, s against the German total of thirteen or fourteen. The British margin of four or five ships. which it would give. would be far less than what the strict two Power standard demands. 1f. then, we assume that the British programme consists of fit e battleships and one improved in- vincible --and nethina less will sat- isfy the claims of national security -it is probable that the :Admiralty will Inv clown one group of four im- ptoved alt. Vincents--four brittle - ships. that is to say. each earrving twelve 12-ineh puns. But the fifth battleship may quite possibly he AN EXPERIMENTAL SHIP. ran- n u o -First patents. $5.45 t0 p:, '5; s-oc a new type, built rapidly and feared and patents, $5.6o to 135.6,0; fiat t, ith the object of gaining expert - clears, 84.35 to 81.45; sceend clear, ence for a new class which will 83.50 to $3 Oo figure in the programmes of 1910 Prayer is measured by its aspir- ation rather than by the informa- tion it sends to heaven. Life wouldn't be worth the living if it was a contineens Fuccesaion of pudding and ice cream. and 1911. Here neieh will obvious - ly depend on Or, action of foreign r.inary vine at nominal prices. Powers and whether the reports --- prove correct which credit the (fcr- Gentleman- "Waiter. bring me man Adreirnity with the intention sone rabbit rte." 1Vaiter-"Yes, cf building vessel3 far larger and sir. .1rd what'll yon have to fel- more powerfully armed th..n any low h" Gentleman--"1niigesti.n, yet designed. 1 expect." If such an experimental ship is to be built with great speed to obtain experience the orders for her guns,; barbettes and machinery will bo• given well in advance, before she in even voted, and they may be, placed in the summer or autumn of the present year. Tho same course was followed in the case of the Dreadnought. Tho new ship will not improbably carry a new monster gun, the 13.5 inch, eight or ten of which may ho mounted, and will thus carry out the policy of 'but-Dreadoinighting the Dreadnought." One or two of these guns, according to report, have been building for some months and the employment of them in the St. Vincent class is known to have Feon considered and only reluctant- ly abandoned. All the details are confidential, but the German naval handbooks will supply the public' with what is certainly an intelligent guess and possibly accurate infor- mation. According to thein the new 13.5 inch gun will weigh 86 tons, or nearly 30 tons more than the ex- isting 12 inch weapon: will be about 52 feet long, and will fire a shell weighing about 1,300 pounds or 1,- .100 pounds, as against the 12 inch shell's 850 pounds. Such huge pro- jectiles would pierce five feet of iron and tear their way through tho 1 st modern armor at battle range. To'it gens of the siva and length snt +1'f -'hey will he able to firms nn either hrea� + of extreme difficulty so long as funnels remain. But there is some hope of getting rid of them an 1 thus giving A CLEAR FIELD OF FIRE. The Belleville company is said to lie Designing a boiler which needs :1 funnel above water to discharge the waste products of combustion and there is the bare possibility that producer gas engines might he adopted. The firm of Vickers -Max- im has prepared designs for battle- ships driven by producer gas. and it is understood that it is ready to turn out a Dreadnought using gas forthwith if it finds any power ad- senturous enough to try such an experiment. The Admiralty, how- ever, is not at all likely to install the gas engine in battleships until it has been thoroughly tried in merchantmen arid smaller cruisers. But that it will finally come may be taken as certain. The British battleship of 1910 may thus be a vessel of 25,000 tons, mounting eight or ten 86 ton guns, which will he so arranged as to fire on Dither broadside. She will re- semble the new Brazilian chips in carrying twe.n'y 4.7 inch or 0 inch guns for defence against torpedo attack, and will thus he exempt from the most serious failing of the original Drcadnnught -- the entire absence of a medium battery. � � �BARRED O1�•r. t: � IMMIGRANTS I1.1 T 323 Were Refused .ldnit'-inn to Canada. A despatch from Ottawa says; On tho first of April last inspectors were placed Meng the international Ltindary and fcr the three menthe ceding :loth June last 323 people were refused admission into Can- ada from the United States. Froin tat January to 30th June 437 ion• migrants were refused landing at ocean p.,rts, and during the :;amp period •m72 were returned to the countries whence they came by the Immigration Department. f BIRDS ALSO DRINK WIN!:. Wine sent itunnent on Maggiore, from plentiful is the pre - the sh-,res of lake the village of lid - one to (hemline, Switzerland, that it is given freely to tramps „n•, ask ter a drink. Tho poorest people lenge n bowl of wine on the window -i! f •r nil comers. It is frequent- ly retiiied, and even the birds share the h.•.ptt•►lity. The farmers, in order o, wake room for the (seeing ventage, are getting rid of their er- so at