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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-10-08, Page 7C. FLYER WRECKED'i6ONDENSED �1'EIVS ITEMS.11. ittl'PI:N1Nt,S FROM .1L1. OPER 7111: 1,011 E. Crashed Through an Open ""imico Station. Switch at Telegraphic Briefs From Our Owu and Other ('ouutries of :\slit+patch front Minlicu says: Jan is, fireman on the ('. P. R. Resent Events. Through the apparent negligence of train, aged 28, Niugle, 97 Muleck A despatch from Stratford says: lar floor. Tho hands and clothing a new .;witehmau and operator at Avenue, Nest Toronto. He ix sof- (':1\:\D:\. What bears every evidence of hay- + i the negro were also bloodstained. Menace Station on 1'htlrbday eight feting from internal injuries, due \'.\V.C.A. celleeters at Stratford 'Potents, Oct. G.—Fluor On- ing been a brutal murder was (ann- um'The unfortunate w,nnan had eti- man was killed, another will to the inhalation of a great amount gathered on tag day (►1,000 in aid taxi„ wheat 90 per cent. patents, uritted on \Veduesday afternoon at dently been dead about nn hour likely die, alicl a third received in- ei steam, his right log is badly of their new builciiitg• >ka.50 in buyers' sacks uutxido fur t tIi found. ! eak gate rho alarm juries which, although out of a fa -scalded hem tho hip down, and is Application for anuuitiea under t'at"'rt. ?lfauitoba flour, firbt pat- the home of Wm. Peak, a respec- b. the neighb(trs, thin came to lite ta; nature, will disable him for also fractured below the knee, and the Uuturnmcnt's plan have already tints, $5.4U, on track, Toronto; see- table farmer of Downie, two and a city and notified the police. \%'hen Mullle time. The collision was be- the toes on his right foot aro badly Io eu received at Ottawa. and patents, $5.30, and strongbak_ half miles west of this city.The an officer returned the neighbors tweet' the fast C. P. R. train lcav- crushed. John iimith, :Sfi6 King The ;agent of the Manitoba Govc'rs', r5•!0. victim was hits. Peak, aged 05 years had ltunchman tied up, and he was leg 'Toronto at 7.15 and a Grand Street west, engineer on the Grand ernmeut says work wax found for Wheat — \lanitoba wheat for and her alleged murderer is a negro I•ruught here and lodged in jail. He Trunk light engine, which ryas 'Trunk light engine, had his right all who went tees on harvesters' 1r,nnpt shipment is quoted at $l.- named Frank Runchman. had evidently been drinking. standing on the siding at Mimic°. Tea fractured, his right shoulder excclr•slorla. Ui' for No. 1 Northern, and $1.43 for Mrs. Peak had been left. alone in Tho prisoner had the day previous The engine was al►ultt two hundred dialocated and was bruised about Sir Thomas Shaughnessy denies N'Te 2 Northern Georgian Bay the house while her husband and just completed a term of twenty voids (roto the switch and the U. the bract• positively that the C. P. It, is ne- ports. For October delivery, No, two sung went to the fields. One Guys in jail for vagrancy, having 1'. H. train, which flus going at the The accident happened about (;„tiatiog for the purchase of the 1 new is quoted at $1.02 arid No. of the sons, John, retur;led to the bten committed from Listowel, and tate of at least 10 miles an hour at l' 14), tI. C. P. It. train being a few Chicago Great Western. 2 Northern at $1, Bay ports, house about three o'clock to get a was wandering about the city on that time, plowed through the minutes late in leaving Toronto Vito Micolli was sentenced to Ontario Wheat—No. 2 white is drink of water, and found Ranch- \Vednosday forenoon. He had on, gi ound and struck the tender of the Station. This train does not maks hlutg at Montreal on November 27, quoted at 93c outside; No. 2 red man sitting en a step of the cellar w'hon arrested, a policeman's over - John Smith, who was in the Tight a high rate of speed wrand Trunk engine. Engineer a stop at Mimics, was going at the some day that "Crooked Neck" Winter, tt2'•yt, and No. mixed, !lairs, and his mother lying dead coat, which he had stolen from the hen it passed Grand Smith pays the penalty for murder. `'t:e(' outside. It th.' cellar, covered with blued, men's quarters hero. The negro, engine, was violently thrown thrumgh �finiicu Station. The Deputy Puatmaater-General Caul- Oars—Onturiu No. 2 white, 38% everything indicating that her head I;unchman, refuses to make any against the side of the cab. but his Grand Trunk engine had just come to sailed on Monday for Austra_ t'+ 39c outside; Manitoba No. 2 had been battered against the cel- statement. fireman escaped injury, and there out of the roundhouse and was lia and New Zealand to discuss quoted at 44e, and rejected at. 42e, was but little damage done to the waiting on the crossing for the C. with those Covernnu+utx the goes- Coderieh. -- train. P. R. train to pass. The crew was ..,n of joint contributions to the Rye—No. 2 quoted at 79 to 80c 'I'Ite ratan who was killed was Wil- working in the engine and little ex- al! -red line project. outside. Liam Quinn, 42 years of age, en- petted an accident. Tho engineer __ — Buckwheat -65 to 67e outside. giueer en the C. P. R. express, 145 was waiting to start along as soon GREAT BRITAIN. Peas—Prices nominal at 88 to Pacific Atenuo, West Toronto. He as the express passed and the fire- 20e outside. leaves a widow, a son and a daugh- man was outside, which explaricsCorn—No. 2 American yellow ter. The injured are :— Willis how he escaped injury. nominal at 87%c en track, Toronto, and No. 3 at 87c. Marley—No. 2 barley quoted at 87c, and No. 3 extra at 55c out- side. Bran—Cars are quoted at $20 in bulk outside. Shorts quoted at $22 t. $23 in bulk outside. REPORTS FROM THE 1.1 ADIN1; 'FARMER'S 1lrJFE11UBDEIIED IN WORLD'S MARKETS TRADE CENTRES.— — Prices of ('altle. Grain, Cheese and Other hairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUF1'$. Murderer Makes No Attempt to Escape and is. Now in Stratford Jail. 82,000 DEFENDERS. Would Cost Australia £100,000 More, Says Ewing. A despatch from London says: In the Melbourne House of Repre- sentatives, on Tuesday, the Minis- ter of Defence, Ewing, moved the second reading of the defence bill, and said that under the bill the 'Commonwealth would get, instead of 20,000 Hien, enlisted under the vol- entary system, 82,000, costing only 2:100,000 sterling more than they ate now paying. The main duty of the British navy was to protect the heart of the Empire, and Australia *tight to be able t.o say to Britain : "We have a national guard of 200,- 000 trained Wren which will enable us to keep inviolate our island con- tinent while you do bigger work st ith the navy." dr DEDEATHDEATHBY DYNAMITE. Man Killed and Another In. Jared in Frontenae. A despatch from Kingston says: An explosion of dynamite near Westbrook on Wednesday caused :he death id Harry Smith and seri- ously inked his brother front Clecelattd, Ohio. The men were engaged in blasting, when the dy- namite prematurely exploded. Har- ry Smith, aged 35, received the full force of the charge, dying alrnost instantly. His brother escaped with his life. His arm was so badly shattered, however, that he had to be brought to the Kingston Gener- al Hospital to have it amputated. Both were married men.. TORONTO'S POPULATION. Figures Show 14.001 increase Over Last Tear. :\ despatch from Toronto says: The population of the city of Toron- te is now 287,201, based on the As- sessment Commissioner's figures. This is an increase of 14,801 over the population of last year, 272,(04). in - smirch as many citizens have been under the impression that the po- pulation had gone up to 300,000, a.,e Assessment Commissioner'sCommissioner'sfigures will prove disappointing. + WOM.tX F.1TA LIN BURN ED. _ 1, ttttp Exploded in How of Kent County Farmer.Farmer.\ despatch from Chatham rays: Mrs. George Jordan, aged 2'i, wife of a farmer near MeKay's Owners, died as the result of burns received in her home when a lamp exploded en 11'ednerday. She was almost roasted alive, nearly all her clothes Leing Marne( freer her holy. Her busban,l :and one child stir%ive her. CZARINACZARINASTILI. VERY H.L. Sir George Truscott has been electcd Lord Mayor of London. Penny postage between Great Britain and the United States is now in force. Britain's foreign trade for the Nervous Breakdown Shows no Sign first six months Of the present year of Improvement. aggregated £449,003,000. A despatch from St. Petersburg UNITED ST-\'rEs. says: It is understood that the 'three laborers were killed in a Czarina's prolonged nervous hreak- dcwn, arising from anxiety over her husband and children, has not Leen improved by her long yachting cruise along the coast of Finland. Her physicians insist upon her pass - railroad collision near Poughkeep- sie, N. Y. A powder -House near Charlotte. N. ('., blew up, killing ton persons and injuring twenty. ing the Winter in the south, lint she Sevenpersons wore drowned by refuses to do so unless the Czar the sinking of a pleasure launch in and her children accompany her. the Calunient River near Chicago. This is regarded as impossible, butAccidents in the coal mines of the the family fear to toll her Majesty, but. States caused the death of whose nervous condition makes the 3.1.25 men during the last calendar thwarting of her wishes dangerous. year. Her relatives are anxious concern -1 A circus lion escaped near New ing her. Brunswick, N. J., and, after roam- ing over the country all night, was 'I'' killed by a roan with a shotgun. GENERAL. ROUNDHOUSE BURNED. $20,000 Damage Done lo C. P. R. Building at Montreal. A despatch from Montreal says: Fire broke out in the Outrenl,nt roundhouse on the Canadian Pacific Railway early on Thursday and re- sulted in damage estimated at $20,- 000. Ten locomotives were in the skid when the fire was discovered, and the employes of the company succeeded in getting six out of the Corning building. Three wet -11 wrecked by falling timber and tire. One locomotive, standing on the track in another part of the str i•:- ture, was not damaged. Canada won the international gymnastic competition at Rome. Cardinal Merry del Val., Papal Secretary of State, is to retire. A French promoter has given Wilbur Wright an order for fifty aeroplanes. Floods about Hyderl,ad, in India, have caused the loss of hundreds of lives. Argentina will make an attempt to obtain admission for her cattle HOG PRODUCTS, the British market. The defence bill before the :\u- Bacon --Long clear, 12% to 13c r tralian Parliament makes prof iR. per putout in case lots ; mess pork, sun for the enlistment of 82, . • $19 to $19.50 ; short cut, $23.50. men. Ifams---Light to medium, 14% to Twenty British sailors teat. their lac; do., heavy, 12% to 13c ; rolls, RECORD GRAIN MOVEMENT. lives in the wreck of the ship Lech 1' to 11%c; shoulders, 10'% to 10%c; Finlas off the coast of Tasmania. backs, 17',y to 18e; breakfast bacon, '33I ('ars Received at fort Arthur The defeat of his troops before l:, to 15'.c. AGED 118 TEARS. DIED OF STARVATION. in One Day Over C. N. R. Tabriz has persuaded the. Shah of ►Lard Tierces, ia' je; tubs, 13.'c Persia to ste Oct. 30 as the day for i a=1s' 1_tc• heath of an Old Colored Resident A despatch from Winnipeg say's: tho reasseaehling of Parliament. of Louden. The greatest grain movement so far Premier Deakin of .\ustealia has BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.- A despatch from London, this year w•ns accomplished on the cabled President Ruesevelt, urging Montreal, Oct. R. --(tats Nu. says: One of the oldest ndon, Ont., , Canadian Northern Railway on hint to visit. Australia on his way white are quoted at 43 to 45;ic; Canada Wednesday, when 231 cars of wheat to Africa. The President has re- \'o. 3 at it to 44sc, and No. 4 at Canada passed quietly away at the Aged People's Home, on Tuesday night, in the person of Rev. Alex- given him the food lie so sorely ander !fans, who had just attain- needed, a roan of 45, early on ed the 118th year of his age, and Thursday suddenly crumpled up, who was for many years minister pitched to the ground and di t;1. He of Horten Street Baptist Church. was neatly dressed, but appeerel He had resided in and about Lon- to have suffered from lack of welt - don fer silty years. For the past ishment. The body has not yet becu four years Rev. Mr. Mans had been identified. an inmate of the Aged People's Homme, but up to his death was strung and active. He had no dis- 'eee. but like an old clock, simply ran down. Ile was born of slave parents. and grew up in slavery, Cut when a man of about fifty he escaped and came to Canada. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples—$1.50 to $2.50 per bbl. Beans—Prince, $2 to $2.10, and hand-picked, $2.20 to $2.25. Prices were unchanged in sheep Honey ---Combs, No. 1, $1.50 to and lamb 81.75 per dozen, and No. 2, in 00- Hogs weTe weak in price at $8-75, pound tins, 9}c; No. 1 extracted, 10 to 1lc per pound. fed and watered, for selects. Huy—No. 1 timothy quoted at $11 tr, $11.50 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at $7 to $8. Straw ---$6.70 to $7 on track. Potatoes—bac per bag, and Dela- wares at 70c per bag on track. Poultry—Chickona, Spring, dress- ed, 10 to 11c per pound; fowl, 9 to 9i:;c ; ducks, 11 to 12c per pound. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Oct. 6. ---Selected steers and heifers sold at $4.40 to $4.05 per cwt. Choice cows were sold as high as $4 per cwt., and higher in a few special cases. An improvement was reported in the demand for feeders and stock- ers, as well as for distillery bulls and steers. Distillery feeders sold at $2.40 to 83.75, according to their weights and quality. WOM:tN WINS MEDAL. Takes Highest Prize of British Pharmaceutical Society. A despatch from London says: For the first time in the history of the British Pharmaceutical Society, the Persian modal, the blue ribbon rrize in pharmacy, has been won be a woman. The successful candi- date is Gertrude H. Wren. A firm market was recorded for --4. 110 WERE DROWNED. Milch cows. The best ones sold up — it; $65 each. The range for the gen• Steamer Runs Down Ferry Boat in eral offerings was $25 to $60 each. a Turkish Harbor.Choice veal calves went up about half a cent to -day. The quotations A despatch from Constantinople v; ere 3 to 6%c per pound. says: A steamship on Wednesday ran down and sank a ferry boat at the mouth of Smyrna harbor. One hundred and forty persons were drowned. THE D.\IRY MARKETS. Butler --Pound -prints, 22 to 23e; tubs, '20 to 22c; inferior, 18 to 19c. (-'tea►ners' rolls, 25 to 26c, and sol- ids at 2.1 to 21%c. Eggs ---Case lots, `21 to 22e per dozen. Cheese—Large cheese, 13% to 13%c per pound, and twins, 13% to 13%e. MURDERER DOOMED TO DIS J. F. Creighton Was Convicted at Owen Sound. A despatch from Owen Sound says: Tho trial of Jaynes Parish Creighton concluded on Thursday, the prisoner being found guilty of the charges of murdering his wife and stop -daughters in May last: The verdict was an unanimous one. In addressing the jury Mr. A. G. Mackay, counsel for the defence, pleaded that he be committed to an asylum for the remainder of his life. The judge, however, summed up against the prisoner, and, after the jury brought in their verdict, sail that he would have been greatly disappointed had it been different from what it was. Creighton was terribly affected when ho heard the verdict and had to bo practically carried out of court, weeping bit- terly the while. At 8.30 on Thursday evening Mr. Justice Riddell sentenced Creigh- ton to be hanged on Dec. 3rd. In giving sentence, he said that the re- cused had been guilty of one of the most atrocious crimes known to law and he would hold out no hope of Executive clemency. He roust seek mercy at a higher tribunal, where it was never refused to the peni- tent. were received at Port Arthur. The !lied that it will be impossible to 43% to 44e, with Mauiteha old crop chief i!ficials of the line, who are do so. No. 2 white at 47 to 47%e. No. 3 closely watehiug the work of mot•- at •tit to 46%c, and rejected at 46 ing the great crops down to the _+' to 451. a per bushel, ex -store. Flour lake ports, are highly gratified at STEAMER HUMBOLDT .1S11ORIi':. ---Manitoba .Spring wheat patents, the was in which the task is being -- $6; seconds, $5.50; Winter wheat done'. Survivors of Star of Bengal in a patents, 85 to 85.10; straight rol- lers, $1.40 to $4.50; do., in bags, $f t•, $2.10; extras, $1 63 to $1.45. Feed—Manitoba bran, $21 to $22, The Year Will Result in Deficit of tuns, on the route between Seattle shorts, $25; Ontario bran, $21 to :$_':►.0410,01Nt, and Skagway, is ashore in :\elite $22; middlings, $26 to $27; shorts, Pass. She struck on rocks eff Ren. $2G per ton, including bags ; pure A despatch from London says: der island. The ateamrr will prv,te grain mouille, $30 to pi 35; nulled Further evidence of the depression ,► lutist less, but all the pas.engers, grades, $25 to *28 per ton. Pru - ►n British commerce and finance se►►out twenty five' in number, were visions----llarrels short cut mess, given by the revenue returns from saved. The Rteamcr hurl un hoard $22.50; half-harrels, $11.50; clear April 1 to Sept. 30. The receipts eighteen survivors „f the ill fated, fat back, 82:1; dry salt long clear for that portedwere R1041, 000 less ship filar of Bengal. which was lust rucks, Ile ; barrels plate beef, near Wrangel. — — 4 ---- BRITISH RI:1'E\I ES DI:('LINE;, Second Shipwreck. .\ despatch from Victoria, 11. C., says: 'Cite steamer Humboldt, 330 ,an dunrlg the corresponding period last year. All items, except two, 511(588 a decline. It is figured that the year till result in a de - licit of nearly i'5.noo,000. 14EN FOUGIIT TO THE DEATH \+17.50; half -barrels, do., $9; com- pound lard, re'-, to 9%c; pure lard, to 1:3c; kettle rendered, 1:3 to 131,:',e; hangs, 12!..a. is 14e; break- MiSP1.ACE1) SYMPATHY. Mast bacon, 11 to I5e; 11'indser ba- con, 15 to 16e ; fresh killed abat• teir dressed begs, 810.95 to $10.50: live, 87.25 to $7.50. Cheese—West- ern, I2'.. to I2'',e; Eastern, 12% to and be sorry fur your alt it iltt10 h.,v 12'0c Butter --23c in round lets, --he's got two!" _?Its jobl,ing. Eggs --Ne. I, 19 t„ 20c; .elects, 23 to 21e, per doz. — David B. Reardon Deed, and Thomas Fox Mrs. Jones -- -Good gra,-i„us,1 17NITH) ST%TVS M:\IIKI:•TS. Mrs. Brown, why is your husband' Buffalo, Oct. ,; Wheat - :Spring going through all those ,truuge ac• • wheat. firmer ; \•• 1 Northern, car• tions 1 Is he training for a prize - leads, store, l.i s - ; Wittier roc fight 1” Mrs. Brown -"Not at all : strong: No. 2 white, *1.03. ('oln-- :1 despatch from Ott.lwn says: An ly terminates at a sharp, rocky he's merely getting in form to beat )`.osier; \o.:3 yellow, etc; \u. 4 yel- low, affair occurred on Point. fully forty- feet above the the carpets. low, 7y3C; No. 3 corn, 83 to 83'2c; Wenight as a result of street islet Fox had been f,►lluw- No. 1 porn. aI i to 182c:: which, D. i). Bearden. a driver for thfP'n,tIs, couplget e, and, ovealtertaking (harming Hostess (to dyspeptic white, 82%e. Oats—Steady. Mu Electric Transfer Company, iQ guest, who has been refusing dish St. Louis, Oct. 0.--Wheat---Cash. 1 with Reardon, which led to blows niter dish)—"i'm so distressed. yI 00',, : September. $1.00%; 1)e - dead. and Thomas Fox, a laborer, and a scuffle, each man trying to Yuu''.e had no dinner at all: ' centher, 81 00% : May. *1.03' . residing at 64 Percy Street, is ,ty- throe the other over the cliff. The Guest -"Thank you—but I have to Minneapolis, Minn.. Oct. 6. - • ing It seems that both men were letup was that both men went over, 1, tory particular about my food." \\'heat—Sept.., 411.01'4'; Dec- *1.- faying attention is the same girl, Reardon falling en the jagged rocks, 01';;; May, $1 on; No. 1 hard, $1.• w•h,•-e identity for the present is with Fix on top of him. Reardon's Mrs. Kidd "Really, John! I wish 017, to $1.01%; No. 1 Northern, unknown• skull +.as crushed in, and Fox's in• you'd punish this boy. Ile kept Re,+r,tim was walking with the juries are of such a nature that he sterna lady on Wednesday night on is not likely to recover. Arhhnrnham Hill, at the extreme When the men commenced fight - end of Laurier Avenue west, in the ing the girl in the case, who is re - vicinity 'if St. ,lean Baptiste f ute,l to he very pretty, and with Church. where the roadway abrupt- many admirers, ran home. Benevolent Old (:eat 1 am sor- ry, Johnny, to see you have a black eye." Promising Youth .. Yell go hole'. Probably FatallS Injured. - making the queerest noises all tl,r .ugh the service this morning. irrepressible Child -- "Boo bon! 'Te asn't Wry faulti told yen I stag a tire engine before we start- ed." $1.03%„ to *1.113';; No. 2 Northern, $1.01'„ to $I.01':i ; No. 3 Northern. P 3 c to 81.00';. Fleur- First pat- ents. $5.75 to $5.90: second patents. Its.f30 to $5.75: first. clears, $1.15 to 8i :)5; second clears, 93.50 to $3.r,6. Bran --In hulk, Sin to Sin 5'). Man Dropped Dead While Waiting for Bread. A despatch from New York saws • Standing in the "bread line" and clutching in his hand a ticket w•h:eh within a few moments would have -+ Mr. Newwed-- "'These pies aren't r.ear as good as the ones mother esed to make." Mrs. Newwed -- "Yes, and your salary ain't near as geed as the rine my father used tc make. either!" 4 PARIS GREEN iN WELL. Man Charged With .11tentpt to Poi. son a family. .\ despatch from Ottawa says: Anthony Dacey. of Cantley, is in jail at Hull charged with attempt- ing to poison Mr. Hobert Brown, members „f his family and other re- sidents of the township. 1t is said that out of ?;pile he threw a quan- tity of Paris green into a well used by a numbor of families. PESTILENCE NOW FEARED t[errihle Mortality Reported in the Flooded District of India. A despatch fr Bombay says: , is now a twst quagmire of black At Dewhrolr over a th nlsnnd per- uncal, from whieli arises an appal- At perished in the floods cane'(, ling sire -h. In the neigll►oreer Mate of (;hanliguda a thons•►u,l C: the recent cslraordinary res as. hou.ros aero destr...ed. It is feared that the unburied bodies There were 1118113 heroic re.,•ues ,.1 the victims will cause a ',esti- I heti' whites and tlatit,•s d.lrieg Icnce. the catastrophe. assts: log for ,h,: The disaster at Hyderabad WWI (1, .t,l i. now acutely going on Tint one of the most sudden and most w, rkers wear clot},uig soaked with appalling in the history of India. It di infeetants and -their mouths and ;r caluculated that 33,000 cubic feet noses are covered because of the of water struck the city every sec- had odors. Elephants are being end the rush of the flood lasted. A used to demolish dangerously Oust - dense mass of houses was swept tered buildings. The estimates of e.way. One-fourth of the city, where the number of dead at y. One plac- e latye hundred thousand persons lived, es it at 10,000.