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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-09-17, Page 7t FOIIEST NINES AAE RAGING People in the Settlements Are Alarmed at Their Approach. 'A despatch front Fort William says: %Viten the sun went down on Wednesday night it looked as though it was making a plunge into a mass of flames. All night the south-eastern heavens showed red and some people here declare that ashes and cinders were carried through the air, coming from either the stricken settlements on the south shore or from the burning districts in the Whitefish Valley. For the last week there have conte stories of burning forests. The whole south side of Mount Mc- Kay has been burned over and on Wednesday morning a telephone message from Hyman says that the people of that settlement are very uneasy. Only a few miles south of them the fires are burning and one settler has already been burned out. In the unsettled portions of Gillies and Scoble small fires are ,64oirning, but there is no possible way to cheek them except a heavy rainfall. The fire back of the moun- tain is in the Township of Pai- poonge, but up to the present has rot reached any of the settlements. SOLID WALL OF FIRE. A solid wall of flames twenty-five miles in length is said to stretch from Grand Mariao to Chicago Bay on the international boundary line. The Pigeon River Lumber Com- pany's camp at Chicago Bay is said to be destroyed. The flames are now approaching close to Hymers on the Gunflint branch of tho Ca- nadian Northern and the settlers are said to be very anxious. The flames are devouring everything in the White Fish Valley. There is a bad fire at Silver Mountain and Gunflint. Two Pigeon River lum- ber camps on the International boundary are destroyed. The fire in the Indian reserve is still burn- ing, but the Indians have it in check. There is another largo fire burning on Thunder Cape, near Silver Island. WORKMEN PLEAD FOR BREAD Twenty-five Thousand Unemployed in Glasgow Streets. A despatch from Glasgow, Scot- land, says: A remarkable scene was witnessed at the offices of tho City Council on Thursday after- noon. Crowds of the unemployed gathered in George Square before the Council convened, and a dele- gation of twelve was admitted to the meeting. The Councillors re- ceived the delegation by rising from their seats. The spokesman of the unemployed said that never before had there been such distress in Glasgow. "Every human unit," said this man, "is entitled to food. We make no outrageous request ; we are only hero to plead for the souls of hien and women. They demand work." Tho Chamberlain of the city re- plied with deep emotion. He said the Council had received the dele- gation in a spirit of brotherhood, and that it would do all in its pow - "Re to help tho o who needed work. Large budi.of troops were held in reserve in anticipation of rioting and attacks on property. The men, however, have decided to refrain from demonstrating for one week, in order to give the Council an op- portunity to adopt measures for the improvement of the situation. The police arrested a Socialist who in- cited a roan to resist arrest. He threw pepper in the eyes of the con- stables before they secured him. On Wednesday night three thou- sand of the unemployed organized a midnight march to one of the best quarters of the city. Mounted po- lice scattered the crowd and frus- trated its intention. Several ar- rests were made. Estimates of the number out of work in Glasgow and in tho towns along the Clyde run as high as 1510,- 000. This is the estimate of the So- cialist orators, and mon in a posi- tion to know call the figures ab- surd, but the most conservative ad- mit that the number must reach 25,000 MAKES THE OLD YOUNG. Sir lathes (:rant Describes His Wonderful Neurostone. A despatch from London says: Before the physiological section of the British Association Sir James Grant, of Ottawa, on Wednesday, delivered a full account of his neu- r .stone, which, acting on inactive nerve centres which become poisan- erl by noxious gases in age, clean - res them by. el atricity. Sir James said he would be enabled to aban- don spectacles and also increase general activity in conseugence of the use of the instrument. The discovery is the first successful ap- plication of electricity to humor cl:- gestivn. LIEUT.-GOVERNOR OF ONTARIO Hon. .1. M. (:ibson's .Appointment Finally .Announced. A despatch from Ottawa says: By the Governer in Council on Wed- nesday afternoon an order waspassed appointing Colonel the Hon. J. M. Gibson of Hamilton to he i.ieutenant-Governor of Ontario, in .accession to the retiring Lieuten- ant -Governor Sir Mortimer ('lark, whose five-year term of office ex- pired last spring. FIRE IN NOVA BITTEN BY A SPIDER. Sir C. 11. Tupper of 1'aneoever Laid Up Temporarily. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says : Sir C. II. Tupper :s cc•n- fined to his house suffering from the effects of a bite of a spider He was at Banff a week or imago, and was out among the trees, wh"'r he felt a sharp sting. As the p'i'n was only inementary, he thought little sof it at the time, but by evening a large lump had formed, and he has been suffering ever since. He is un- able to bear the contact of cloth ing, though no serious effects ate expected, as the trouble is merely local. .11:110\.11 T .1\I) 1.1 ON i'ormer Fatally Injured, but the Cub (:,caped. A despatch from New York says: in view of 7,000 persons at the Richmond County Fair. held at Dongan Hilts, Staten Island, on Wednesday, 1Vin. ('ohy, a youthful balloonist, of Milwaukee. Wis.. fell froin an exploded halloon and was mortally injured.A bay lion, which Coby had taken up with hirn, also fell, but landed on the prostrate form of the aeronaut and escaped unhurt. The �s'iiiling District Is Beiii With Water. .1 ,i.-.<1oat.ch from Sydney, N. f , ea; : No. 1 colliery of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co., on Wed- nesday. had a serious reminder of the big colliery- fire of 1491, when half the mine was drowned out. About 2 o'clock fire was discovered In the extreme southern part of sec- tion ;r, and a message was sent at once to the surface for aid. Sup- erintendent John Johnson. Manag- er (;rccawell, inspector Nicholson, and several officials were quickly on the scene, and found the sectiofi fitted :cith smoke, and that it was impossible to get within 100 yards of the ford where the fire originat- ed It is supposed the miners af- ter firing their shot of coal, as was their daily ct,stnni, left sense tire burning behind the coal, and after Flooded CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS!I'HE WORLD'S n,ARKETS;RAII,WAY BRIDGE BURNED HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TUE GLOBE. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Owl) and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. John Lloyd, a recently arrived 1Velsh,nan, committed suicide at Yorkton, Sask., by hanging. The Grand Trunk's Muskoka tourist business this year was the greatest on record. Thrashing shows bettor results than anticipated in the west, and again the farriers are looking for help. Percy Nettleton, who used a knife in a boys' fight at Fenelon Falls, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at Lindsay. Zarossi, Montreal's fugitive Itali- an banker, has been given his lib- erty in Mexico, the extradition proceedings having failed. There are ninny complaints at Montreal of a lake shipping com- bine to unduly increase rates and discriminate against the St. Law- rence route. C. Dynes, of Sapperton, B. C., was burned out on Wednesday morning, and in the evening was killed by a street car at New West- minster. The reported settlement between the Grand Trunk trainmen and the ccmpany is not a fact. The nego- tiations will be resumed in Novem- ber Prof. Piper of the mechanical and engineering staff of the University of British Columbia, died at Regi- na, on his way from England with his bride. Several new fruit inspectors have been appointed by the Government, and it is proposed to have ship- ments via the Niagara River more carefully looked after. Dr. Helen MacMurchy has com- plained to the Railway and Muni- cipal Board that the steps on street cars in Toronto and other Ontario municipalities are ton high. The Great Northern Railway has approved plans for its proposed Vancouver terminals, and will spend about half a million dollars in wharfage facilities on Burrard Inlet, as well as make expenditures for yardage. GREAT BRITAIN. The Minas Geraes, the most pow- erful warship ever built, was launched at Newcastle -on -Tyne on Thursday. She was built for Bra- zil. A Socialist leader in Glasgow threatens to reveal all the Masonic secrets unless the municipal au- thorities do something for the relief of the unemployed. John E. Redmond and Joseph Devlin were given a remarkable ovation at Queenstown on their leaving for America to attend the convention of the United Irish League. UNITED STATES. Several Japanese were killed in a fight with Portuguese in an Alas- kan cannery. Five children at Brighton, near St. Paul. Minn.. wore suffocated in u fire which broke out in their home. John Tuck rescued is mother and child from a burning house in Brooklyn, but was himself burned to death. Angelo Mazzo vas stabbed to death in Cleveland by a mean who had followed him from Sicily seek- ing his life. An express parcel worth $50.000 has been stolen from the Wells -Far - in Express Company at Portland, Ore. At Washington. nn Tuesday, Or- ville 11'right broke all aeroplane records by remaining in the air 62 minutes and flying :3a% miles. in the Supreme Court at Roches- ter. N. Y., the injunction restrain- inp the independent Order of For- esters from increasing their as- sessment rates was sustained. i)r. F. T. Ruslin, who was found dying from a bullet wound in Oma- ha a week ago. had been attempt - :ng suicide f'.r three years. even in- s sting tetanus and typhoid germs into his system. GENERAL. Holland has told President Cas- tro that he trust revoke his decree against Curacao before November 1st. :1 man has been arrested at Con- stantinople on a charge of attempt- ing to assassinate the Sultan of returning from lunch were unable Turkey in 1901. to put out the fire, and let it obtain Miss Annie 5. Peek of Providence, headway before calling for assist- R. 1., has succeeded in scaling (ince. 11'hen the officials arrived Mount Htiascarnr►, in l'eru, the with a :mintier of heroic volunteers highest peak in America. nothing could be done to prevent Unable to live in an atmosphere the spread of the fire. and they fin- filled with rumors of plots, the dnw- nlly decided to flood that section of ager Queen Maria Pia is preparing the mine from the surface by means to flee from Portugal to Italy. of air lines leading to the burning Special tests of motor provision district at the rate of 1.500 gallons end ammunition waggons are being Per minute. it will take about 48 made in the German army's grand hours to florid this diutriet. There manoeuvres in Alsace-Lorraine. are about eight fords to be drowned M. Delagrange e!tahlishcd a new out before the depth is reached. world's record with his aeroplane. at !sly. remaining in the air almost 3i minutes and living 17 miles. Count de Touiouse--Lautres. a swindler with an international re- putation. has been arrested at Ant- werp on a charge of cashing stolen coupons. The management have no fear fir the safety of the colliery as regards the ac, annotation of gases or other c;angers that generally follow simi- lar occurrences. They expect to have all the mine in working con- dition in a few days. REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Howe and Abroad. BItEADSTUFFS. Toronto, Sept. 15. -Flour - On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents, 133.3.5 to $3.40 in buyers' sacks out- side for export. Manitoba flour, first patents, $6; second patents, $:..40, and strong bakers' $5.30. Wheat -Manitoba wheat is easier, with old No. 1 Northern quoted at 31.16%; old No. 2 at $1.14%, and old No. 3 at $1.12. Now No. 1 Northern easier at $1.12, Georgian Bay ports. Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white and red quoted at 88 to 89c outside. Oats -Ontario new No. 2 white, 39%e outside; Manitoba rejected, 43% to 44c, lake ports. Peas -88 to 89e outside. Corn -Prices at 87%c for No. 2 American yellow, and at 87 for No. 3 American, on track, Toronto. Barley -No. 2 barley quoted at 54 to 59c, and No. 3 extra at 57e ou;;sjdo. Bran -Cars are quoted at $18 to 819 in bulk outside. Shorts quot- ed at $21 to $22 in bulk outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans -Primo, $2 to $2.10, and hand-picked, $2.20 to $2.25. Honey -Combs, No. 1, $1.50 to ff 1.75 per dozen, and No. -2, in 60 - pound tins, 9%c; No. 1 extracted, 10 to Ile per pound. Hay -No. 1 timothy quoted at $10.50 to $11.50 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at $7 to $9. Straw -$7.50 to $8.50 on track. Potatoes -New Ontario quoted at :e to 75c per bag in large lots, and Delewares at 85 to 90c per bag on track. Poultry -Chickens, spring, dress- ed. 12 to 13c per pound ; fowl, 10 to Ile; ducks, dressed, 10 to llc; turkeys, dressed, 13 to 16c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 22 to 23c; tubs, 20 to 22c; do., inferior, 18 to ltic. Creamery rolls, 23 to 26c, and eolids at 24 to 24%c. Eggs -20 to 21c per dozen in case lots. Cheese -Largo cheese, 13 to 13%c per pound, and twins 13% to 13%c. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 11% to 12c per pound in case lots; mess pork, $19 to $19.50; short cut, $23 to $23.50. Hanes -Light to medium, 14% to 15c; do., heavy, 12% to 13c; rolls, 10% to 11%c; shoulders, 10 to 10%c; backs, 17% to 18c ; breakfast bacon, 13 to 15%e. Lard -Tierces, 12%0; tubs, 13c; pails, 13%c. BUSINESS AT MONTIIE:AL. Montreal, Sept. 15. -Manitoba No. 2 white oats, 47% to 48c, No. 3 at 40% to 47c, and rejected at 45% to 40c per bushel, ex store. Flour -Choice Spring wheat pat- ents, $6; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat patents,'$5; straight rollers, 34.40 to $4.50; do., in bags, 32 to $2.10; extras, $1.05 to *1.75. Feed - Manitoba bran, $22 to 823; shorts, $25; Ontario bran, $21 to $22; mid- dlings, $26 to 827 ; shorts, $26 per ton, including bags; pure grain mouille, 830 to $35, and nulled grades, $25 to $2e, per ton. Pro- visions -Barrels short cut mess, $2'2.50; half -barrels, 311.50; clear fat back, $23; dry salt long clear backs, 11c; barrels plate beef, $17.50; ball -barrels do , $9; com- pound lard, $8% to 9',e : pure lard, it to 13c ; kettle rendered, 13 to 13%c; harts, 12% to 14c; breakfast bacon, 14 to I5c; Windsor bacon, 15 to 16c ; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $9.75; alive, $6.35 to $7. Eggs -No. 1, 19 to 20c; selects, 23 to 21c per dozen. Cheese - Iiiestern, 12;;s to 12%c ; eastern, 12% to 12%e. Butter -25c in round lc ts. UNITE() STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Sept. 15 -Wheat --Spring steady; No. 1 Norther.), carload-. store. $1.0n! , ; Winter ea,.v ; X. 2 red, 119'/2c to 81 ; No. 3 extra red, 071/e. Cern-- Firm : No. 2 white, 8 -4e. Oats --Easy : No. 2 whit', 53 to 53'/c; No. 3 white, 52'; to 521.4c; No. 4 white, 51% to 51',c. Barley -Feed to malting, 61 to 70e. Minneapolis, Sept. 15 --Wheat - Septenlher, 9'3'-s to 9,1%c; Deeem- her, 99',,; to 910,,:e: May, $1.03,.;;; No. 1 hard. 81.017„ to $1.0.2'4,; Nn. 1 northern, $1007. to $1.01,: No. i northern. 9t'- to 09-c; No. 3 northern. 96',e to 97%c. Flour - First patents, 35.66 to $5.73; sec- ond patents, 45.50 to $5.60; first The Canadian Pacific Atlantic Express Runs Into Ravine. A despatch from North Bay says: A bridge near 1Vliit.e River caught fire early on Wednesday morning, burned fiercely all day, and it was late in the afternoon before the biaze was under control. At 0 o'clock a.m., six miles west ',f White River, the first section of the C. P. It. Atlantic express, east- beund, ran into a ravine, the bridge spanning the chasm being in flames. The passengers were all Chinamen, passing through in bond from the coast, and they escaped injury. Engineer Nice, of Schrieber, was probably fatally injured, and his trenian suffered a broken leg. Tho engine turned over on its side, and the mail and baggage curs were burned. How the passengers es- caped injury seems miraculous. Tho bridge was 000 feet long. Toronto gains will take the Soo-Minneapo- 1i1 route until the bridge is repair- ed, as will the Imperial Limited and Pacific Express. The origin of the fire is a mys- tery, and incendiarism is suspected, although the continued dry spell may have caused ignition from a falling cinder of a passing engine. um, $3.25 to $3.80; common cows, 82 to $3 per cwt. Advances are reported in the prices of light stockers. Their quo- tations ranged from $3 to $4 per cwt. Tho offerings of calves were limited. Their prices ranged from 3 to 6c per pound. Though the deliveries of sheep and lambs were heavy, the calves held steady. Select hogs were firm in price at $6.70 per cwt., off cars, Toronto. Visitor -"How do you do, Tom- my ? I've come to stay at your hcuse a week, and I'm sure you can't oven guess who I am." Tom- rny-"I'll het you one thing." Visitor -"What?" Tommy - "I'll bet you're no relation of father's." CHINESE STiLL COMING. Appear to Prefer This Country to Any Other, Despite Poll Tax. A despatch from Ottawa says: Chinese are becoming heavy contri- butors to the revenue of Canada. During the fiscal year 1907 there were 1,481 Chinese who entered Canada for the first time, and each paid a head tax of 8500. This made the total for the year of $744,835. Arrivals of Chinese show no sign of deminution, but are rather on the increase, for during the first five months of the present year there have already arrived Chinese to the number of 1,095 who hays) paid into the Canadian Treasury 8552,690. or at the rate of over one hundred thousand dollars per month. STILL RULES THE WAVES Great Britain's Largest and Heaviest Warship Launched. A despatch from Portsmouth, Fngland, says: The St. Vincent, the largest and heaviest battleship ever built for the British navy, was launched successfully here on Thursday. The weather was fine and the sea smooth, and a great crowd saw the vessel take the water. As the warship slipped from her blocks she was christened by the Countess Beauchamp. Counting the three cruising bat- tleships of the Invincible class, the St. Vincent is the eighth vessel of the Dreadnought_type to be launch - o 1 in this country. The Admiral- ty has observed its usual reticence, with regard to the details of the design and construction of the St. Vincent, but from certain figures that were given out it is manifest that the experience gained from the construction of the Dreadnought has. been utilized in this vessel. It is believed that ;some of the addi- tional weight of the St. Vincent is to be accounted for by heavier ar- nianient for protection against tor- pedoes, and by improvements giv- ing greater security to those con- trolling the movements of the ship while in action. A number of for- eign naval attaches attended tho launching, on the invitation of the Admiralty. The St. Vincent was laid down in December of last year. She is sup- posed to be of about 10.250 tons and her cost has been given at $9,- 500,000. SCALED THE JAIL WALL. Prisoner at Brantford Makes His Escape. A despatch from Brantford says: About a month ago Wm. i'arker was convicted on a charge of horse - stealing and sentenced to jail here. He served nearly a month's time. Wednesday forenoon about 11 ,.'clock he escaped by scaling the jail wall, and officials are now searching the country for him. M.11' 111'11.9 TO I'E.1('E RIPER. C. P. R. Ilan Surveyor Pearce Re- porting on North Country. A despatch from Winnipeg says: William Pearce, railway surveyor, o; Calgary, was sent north some time ago by the C. P. It. to look into the conditions of the country in the Lesser Slave Lake and Peace River districts. He travelled through that country and will now take a report to his company. it is stated, though not officially, that this is She first move of the C. P. 11. towards building a line into the Werth country. HORSE HOLDS UP TRAiN. Dashed Across (Grand 'Trunk Steel Arch Bridge al falls. A despatch from Niagara Falls, N. Y., say's: On Thursday ,Horning a runaway horse, which started its mad flight in the Central freight yards, on the American side of the river, ran across tracks, over switches and out upon the upper deck of the Grand Trunk steel arch bridge. It crossed to the Canadian side. where it fell into a cattle guard, stopping traffic. It was res- cued with difficulty. l'N1)151ILtBLES APPl PPM ED. itnniigration Branch Deported Over 1.031 People. A despatch from Ottawa says : A return issued by the immigration branch of the Interior Department shows that from the 1st of January to the 31st of July 1,031 people have been deported from Canada to the cc unifies whence they came. Dur- ing the same period, 456 people were refused admission to Canada lit ocean port LA\YYER USES HIS FISTS o1 1)OSi11 1-iy i g ll g, Counsel Char gel Hein With and He Tried to Hit Him A despatch from St. John, N.11.,1 then tried to iii,loit 1110 lawyers' sriys : before Judge Ritchie ontable to tench Sir opponent, but 11 ednesday a remarkable court- I failing, he rushed around the end and atruek itaxter. An astonished room scene was enacted. While! police sergeant recovered enough the court was giving judgment in', 1o• rercil•e part of the effect of the clears. *s.3:, to $1.45; second clearsthe case of the striking St. John : blow as he rushed between the men. 13'1.50 to 83 r.0. Bran -In bulk, 818' printers against henry T. Hardy.' Baxter merely smiled and bell his to Sits 50• ' charged with 1 i.,inting the alien la- i : arm up at guard. helve Ilitehie for act by bringing niea hem the raked an apology to the court from 1.11'1: ST(1('K M. IIX :T. States to replace the strikers. .1. I Mr. Mullen. and it was made. Toronto, Sept. 15.--1'rices of 1'. Maxtor. counsel for Hardy. in- , The judge fined Hardy $250 or ehoiee export steers ranged from terjec•twi a remark, and Daniel I three months in jail, but said he was t3; .l4 to $5. 10 per cat. ; mediumMullen. remise) for the printers, ! io doubt as to his jurisdiction in were worth *1.50 to *3. and light Objected Words Sassed. and Mr. ; the ease. as the offence. if anv was were quoted at $3.75 to 84.25 per Baxter finally said the last time he 1 committed in the United States. Ile cwt interrupted the court it was when , would like the opinion of the Se - Select butchers' cattle sold• at the court %i as being lied to. '"Who picrnc. Court. A. de,i.,' t was nc- t1.50 to 81.50 per cwt. (loot! cattle. lied?.' asked Mr. ;Mullen. "You `cepted for Hardy, pending the ap- straight 10:---.18 of, $1 to $1.50; medi did," was the reply. Mr. Mullen peal. -