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Exeter Advocate, 1908-10-29, Page 7► 1 t i } J A PEACEFUL - - ARRANGEMENTICONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS 1'11011 AL1. OVER TUE GLOBE. Settlement Regarding Bosnia and Herze- govina Is Impending. A d' deipatulteetrom London says: Although nettling very definite can be rec.,rded, eptimieni cuutinues to be the keynote of the situation so fat as Turkey. Bulgaria and Aus- tria are concerned. Grand Vizier Kiamil Pasha is quoted as saying that Austria refuses to appear at any conference of the powers, and that Germany therefore will also decline to participate. On the other hand, many reports from Austrian 1 I German sources reaffirm that a�direct Austro -Turkish settlement regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina is impending. The Bulgarian en - 4S still at Constantinople, where h( had another interview with the Ministers on Wednesday. All out- ward indications there point to a peaceful arrangement, although nothing of a convincing nature hastlangorous effervescence in Men-. ret conte thence confirming the tenegro and Servia alike is suppl- Paris alliance story. The belief that no conference will he •Celled increases everywhere. The story from Athens about fight- tween Bulgarians and Turks is not confirmed. All Greek news con- cerning Turkey is suspected until it is verified. It is stated in Constantinople that although 'Turkey abandoned the idea of mobilizing her forces, she has been moving and concentrating her troops already under arms dur- ing the last few days in such a manner that any invading Bulgari- an force would find itself menaced Telegraphic Briefs I't•nin Our Owu and Other countries of Recent Events. CANADA. The residence of Hon. T. Mayne Daly at Winnipeg was burned. Gas buoys at liar Point and op- posite Sarnia, recently installed, have been carried away. John Jocko, an Indian boy of Cornwall Island, was thrown from a horse and killed, on 'Thursday. Thomas Kelly k Sons of Winni- peg have been awarded the contract So far as known, nothing serious for the now car shops at Winnipeg has developed from tho arrest of •to connection with the G. T. 1'. ter Gen. Vukotityh, the special Mon -gni nal \William McInnes of the eo- tenegrin envoy to Servia, although g it will doubtless further inflame the logical survey, reports that there is anger of the Montenegrins when it a wide belt of good agricultural becomes generally known in that land that will be opened up by the country. The best check to the new Hudson Bay Railway. The Kingston Locomotive \\'arks have just closed a contract with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway for twenty-five engines to be delivered during the coming year. cd by nature, as in a few weeks military operations will be made impossible by the weather. Winter has already begun in the higher ing at Ujourinaya and I'alanka be- part of the Balkans. GREAT BRITAIN. Seventeen suffragettes were sen- tcncod to terms in jail in London 11'.15 13F:.1'l'F�N AND i1.1T 1)1E.11 I': mu MAKE RAIN. on Thursday. They refused to pay Man in Serious Condition as Result Professor Carl Meyers Will End they fines. Thomas Mackinnon Wood, Liber - of Assault. Forest Fires. al M. P. for St. Rollox, Glasgow, iu the British Commons, has been appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. A dospat,•h front London, Ont., says: Herbert Bombard, of 479 Vcrk Street, is in a semi-conscious condition as the result of being at- tacked on a down town thorough- fare on 'Tuesday night. The man was struck over the heart, and, as be has been a sufferer from heart trouble, the consequences were :serious. Although Bombard has not been able to give a detailed account -cf the attack, he, in his more con- scious moments, claims that a man by the name of Watson was the one who struck him, because ho refus- ed to make a monetary loan to the later when approached. One of Y nbard's ribs is broken and this :pierced his lung. COLOR LiNE AN OBSTACLE. 'Difficulty in Way of Unification of South Africa. A despatch from Durban. Natal, says: Sono of the Cape delegates to the Union Conference oppose o'it and out any unification. A major- ity, however, may accept a com- promise between unification and ft iteration, rather than wreck the c 'enation. The _question of tho cctorgn'vote, whichow only exists at the ('ape, is calling trouble. A suggestion is being made to abolish the color line throughout South Africa, and raise the franchise standard, but the objection is that a large number of whites may also be excluded. ,j, -_- 1)I1:1) SAVING CHILD. Winnipeg Woman Burned in Ilorue -Child Escaped. A. despatch from Winnipeg says: Mt Martha E. Swett, of 39 Uninn A enue, Elmwood, a suburb of thin tett', was burned to death in her house on Tuesday night while trying to save her child in a fire caused by the explosion of a coal oil stove. The child escaped unhurt. -----+----- 'P110NF:S IN I.OIIGiNG-IIOUSES Manitoba Government liaises Bate to Fifty Dollars. .1 despatch frons Winnipeg says: 'The Provincial Government has placed detectives on private resi- (lenr('s in which telephones have 1 een installed. and if they find that reein.•r{ aro being kept, as in the (ase in many homes. they raise the rate to $e0, imposing a business tart THREE 1 EARS FOR :+10. Itrockyille 'thief. 1Wilti ;1 Bad Re- cord. bele Heat) !0141ene1`. t .le.:patch front Brocktiile says: Ambreee Godkin, aged 25, wns en li Wednesday sentenced by ,fudge McDonald to three years in e Kingst„n Penitentiary for the theft of 81(1. Ile has a had record. i� A despatch from Utica, N. Y., says : Professor Carl F. Meyers of Frankfort, a suburb of this city, is going to pluck a rainstorm from the skies, that the forest fires niay be extinguished. Mr. Meyers is a veteran balloonist and aeronauti- cal engineer, and claims that down to Texas some years ago 110 produc- ed rain that spread over several States. His plan is to send up into the sky a big baloon filled with gases, which lie explodes with an electric spark. Professor Meyers has been engaged by several paper companies of northern New York, whose forest lands are melting away to ashes, to make rain. He con- tends that the Mohawk Valley is a better place to start the rain, and that once begun the rainfall will extend to the mountains. The first balloon will be exploded within a few days between this city and Frankfort. - -•p- A TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL. Conditional t:ife of $50,000 to Montreal League. A despatch from Montreal says: It was announced on Wednesday that the Montreal league for the prevention of tuberculosis had ac- cepted the offer made by Lieut. - Col. Rutland to provide a tubercu- losis dispensary and institute at a cost of $50,000, providing the league would raise an endowment of $50,001. ('.4. Rurland has pur- chased a huilding in Belmont Park and is having it converted into a hospital and dispensary. It will be known as the. Rurland Institute as n memorial to Col. Burland's par- ents. A PE('I.L1.1R ACCIDENT. Colts Knocked Ladder Over and Man Was Killed. A despatch from St. Catharines Faye: A young elan named Went- worth, a resident of Grimsby, was engaged on Tuesday on a fifty-five foot ladder painting the gable end o`. n large bunk barn owned by Mr. William Hunsherger, a mile south 4.f Jordan. The ladder was fasten- ed to the fence with ropes. Sonie colts playing around the barn got tangled in the rope and pulled the ladder over. !1'entwerth was thrown from the ladder to the ground and killed instantly. LOST 11011E AND BARNS. Farmer Residing Near Pelerboro' Suffers Heavily. HIE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM Till: LEADING TRADE CENTILES. • Prices of cattle. Grain, cheese and Other hairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BitEA1)STUFI'S. Toronto, Oct. 27 -Flour -Ontario tt heat, 90 per cent. patents, quot- ed at $3.55 in buyers' sacks, out- side, for export. Manitoba flour, forst patents, $5.50 on track, To- mato; second patents, $5.30; and strong bakers', $5.10. Wheat -Manitoba wheat $1.03 for No. 1 Northern, and at $1.02'•y for No. 2 Northern, Georgian Bay ports FUND FOR THE BNEPbOYEB The British Government Is Prepared to Provide for Them A despatch from London says: grapple with the permanent causes Tho very serious matter of the un- 1 thereof until the fleet session. The employed in England carte up for Government. he said, was proper - discussion in the House of Com- e•t to provide a fund of $1,500,000 mons on Wednesday afternoon, but to help the unemployed and the Ad- a larger dole of money than last miralty was giving out orders for year and the expediting of the the construction of nine torpedo - naval shipbuilding programme were boat destroyers and five unarmored the only expedients proposed by cruisers, to cost a total of 812,500, - Premier Asquith in his unfolding 000, two months earlier than origin - of the Government's plan to meet illy bad been intended. The Pre - the situation. The gravity of .eie mier made also a bid for recrut s, case arising from the fact that hon- saving that t1:Q \Wile Office was Ontario Wheat -No. 2 vwliit(j J0 dieds of thousands are on o, 'y to take on 23,006 hien o of starvation through lack o[, ter training in the special re - to 90%c outside ; No. 2 red Winter,1 «as fn11y rein hired b • tlo 3 ca 9Cc ;.and No. 2 mixed, 89% to 90e ►,tier, but llo said be could not n- t(-�nteet the demands oft the Labor outside. dortake, in the legislative field, to� members of the House. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white 37% to ?8c outside, and at 40!4 to 410 on track, 'Toronto, No. 2 Western Can- 3 white, 74%c. Oats -Easier ; No. 3 SNOW TEN FEET DEEP. Ada oats quoted at 42%e, Goderich. white, 50 to 50%c ; No. 4 white, 48', Rye -No. 2 quoted at 78%c out- to 49c. Barley -Feed to malting, Snowplows nt Work on Main Lines side. 59 to 65c. Rye -No. 2 on track, of C. P. 1t. and 4.'. N. 11. Buckwheat -58 to 60c outside. S0', (4c. Peas -No. 2 quoted at 85% to A despatch from Winnipeg says: 86c outside. CATTLE MARKET. The C. P. R. and C. N. R. main Corn -No. 2 American yellow lines in the west are still snow - nominal at 8Gc on tracks, Toronto, Toronto, Oet. 27. -Tho best load bound. In the vicinity of Medicine and No. 3 at 85%c. of cattle on the market was one of Hat and Maple Creek the snow is Barley -No. 2 barley quoted at fairly good exporters that sold at ten feet deep in some of the cuts, 56c and No. 3 extra at 54 to 541/2"c $4.50 per cwt. Selected butchers' end snow plows are at work clear- ' cattle, $4.50 to *4.G5; good loads, ing the tracks. Tho storm is now outside. $3.90 to $4.35 ; medium $3.35 to Bran -Cars are quoted at $19 in ;subsiding. Shorts noted at $3.75; common, which were most bulk to outside.$22.50 in bulk outside. abundant, 82.50 to $3.25; choice$22 OTT.' V1'S POP1'LATION. cows, $3 to $3.75 ; common cows, COUNTRY PRODUCE. $1.50 to $2.75 per cwt. The offer- The Civic Assessment Gives the ('a- ings of canners wore large and 75c pita) 80,000. to $1 per cwt. was paid for the bulk of them. Prices for milch A despatch from Ottawa says: cows ranged from $25 to $70 each The returns of the civic assessment for coronion to choice cows. Export department for this year show that ewes were quoted at $3.25 to $3.50 Ottawa's population has now pass - per cwt ; bucks and culls sold at $9 cd the 80,000 mark. The popula- to $2.50, and lambs at 84 to 84.50 tion has increased by 4,091 during per cwt. Hogs continued to sell at the past twelve months and is now $6.25 per cwt. for selects. S0,281. UNITED STATES.Apples-Winter stock, $2.00 to A gale a train in \Wis- $2.50 per barrel for the best, and cousin, killing wreckedsilaborers. i , at $1.50 to $1.75 for cooking apples. Floods are doing greatabodamage in Beans -Prime, $1.80 to $1.85, and hand-picked, $1.90 to $1.95 per bushel. Honey -Combs, 82.25 to $2.75 per dc.zen, and strained, 10 to 10%c per pound. Hay --No. 1 timothy quoted at $11 to $11.50 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at $7.00 to $8.00. Straw -$6 to $7 on track. Potatoes-Ontarios, 50 to 55c per bag. Delawares are 65 to 70c per bag on track. Poultry -Chickens, Spring, dress- ed, 10 to 11c per pound; foul, 7 to 8c; ducks, 9c per pound; young turkeys, 14 to 15c per pound. central and northern Oklahoma. Four persons were killed in a tor- nado and cloudburst near Clayton, N. M. The Carnegie Hero Fund Com- mittee has awarded 48 medals and $40,000 in cash awards. Forest fires are causing the death of thousands of trout in the streams of New York State. Four children were burned to death in the destruction of a min- er's house at Summit, Pa., on Mon- day. An attentpt will shortly be trade to raise the Royal Savage, the flag- ship of Benedict Arnold, sunk in Lake Chatnplain in 1776. The Big Four Railroad has prom- ised its employees an increase in pay and work if Taft is elected, and a cut of 10 per cent. if Bryan suc- ceeds. Cap. Rankin, a prominent attor- ney of Trenton, 'Penn., was taken front his hotel at Walnutlog, Tenn., and murdered by night -riders. Broughton Brandenburg, who sold The New York Times the fam- eus Cleveland letter, predicting the election of Taft, has been arrested on a charge of forgery. • GENERAL. Central Europe is experiencing the coldest weather since 1866. Eleven hundred persons were killed in the recent typhoon near Changchow, china. The Chinese bill itf rights prom- ises that by 1917 China will be a Parliamentary• country like Japan or Russia. + IMMIGRATION t'1'T IN HALF. Great falling Off to the Figures for September. A despatch from Ottawa says: The total immigration into Canada for September was 10,097, ns com- pared with 19,057 for the same month last year, a decrease of 47 pet cent. From January 1st until the end of September the arrivals vin ocean ports were 51,977, as compared with 191,020 for the same period last year. The immigration for the nine months of this year from the United States was 45,653, es compared with 41,509 for the ratne period of last year, an in - A despatch from Teterboro' says: crease of 844, or two per cent. The By a fire starting at the top of a total immigration into Canada from large straw stack near one of his all quarters for the first nine barns, Mr. W. J. Young. a farmer, months of this year was 197,630, as lit ing near this city, lost this year's compared with 235,829 for the sante harvest, three barns and his resi- period of last year, a decrease of (knee, and was slightly hurried him- 105,199, or forty-six per cent. self in trying to lead a home out of the burning stable. THROE HUNDRED AAE DEA THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 23 to 24c; tubs, 22 to 23c; inferior, 19 to 20c. Creamery rolls, 26 to 26%c, and solids, 2114 to 25%c. Eggs -Case lots, 22 to 23c per doz- en. Cheese -Large cheese, 13c per dozen, and twins, 13%e. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 12% to 12%c rer pound in case lots; mess pork, $19.00 to 819.50; short cut, $23.50. Hams -Light to medium, 14 to 14%e; ; do., heavy, 19 to 13c; rolls, 11 to 11!;c; shoulders, 10 to 10%c; backs, 16„ to 17e; breakfast bacon, 15 to 15%c. Lard -Tierces, 13c; tubs, 13%c; pails, 13%c. YEAR'S WHEAT CROP The Prairie Provinces Produced 95,818,000 Bushels. A despatch front Ottawa says:4 Ontario's wheat yield for this year, according to reports received by the Agricultural Department corre- spondents in all parts of the Prov- ince, is estimated at 17,264,000 bushels, an average of 21 bushels per acre. Tho oat crop is estimated at 108,791,000 bushels, an average of 35 bushels per acre. The barley crop, 21,570,000 bushels, an aver- age of '29 bushels per acre. The hay and clover crop 5,329,000 toes, un average of 1% tons per acre. The total wheat crop of Manito- ba is estimated at 51,748,000 bush- els, an average of 17% bushels per acre. Saskatchewan's wheat crop is placed at 35,940,000 bushels, an av- erage of 15 bushels per acre. Al- berta's wheat crop is estimated at 8,130,000 bushels, an average of 30 bushels per acre. For oat crop the estimated total yields are : Manito- ba, 50,267,000 bushels, or 38 per acre; Saskatchewan, 29, 763,000 bushels, or 32 per acre; Alberta, 25,451,000 bushels, or 49 per acro. HE TICKLED DYNAMITE. A Quarryman instantly Killed Near Montreal. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL., A despatch from Montreal says: e Montreal, Oct. 27 --Ontario No. was harles killeDd mers, a quarry worker, by a combination of 2 white oats quoted at 43% to 44c; carelessness and an unexploded No. 3 at 42' j to 43c; No. 4 at 49 to blast on Thursday afternoon at St. to 42%c; Manitoba No. 2 white, 45 Constant, in a quarry.The werk- •o 45%e; No. 3, 44 to 44;1c, anti re- men at the quarry had drilled a jected, 43 to 43'yc per bushel ex Bole and placed a blast. They store. Flour ---Manitoba Spring fired the fuse and retired, but the wheat patents, firsts, $6; seconds, ilynanlite did not explode. After $5.50; Winter wheat patents, $5 to waiting a few minutes, the quarry - *5.23; straight rollers, 84.50 to $4.- men became tired, and Demers, de - G0; do., in (lags, 82.10 to $9.20; ex- spite the warnings of his fellow- tras, 81.75 to 81.85. Feed- Mani- workers. approuemed the hole and teba bran, $21 to $22; shorts, 825; started tickling it with an iron rod Ontario bran, 821.50 to 829; midd- to see u hat was wrong. The fuse lings, $26 to $27 ; shorts, *23 to had gone ening. but the dynan►ite 825.50 per ton, including hags; was in good t•. orkirig order and ex - pure grain mouille, 830 to x35; plotted, hurling Deniers many feet milled grades. $25 to $25 per ton. it the air. Ile was later picked up Provisions -Barrels short cut Inca, ilneunscious with a broken tee nn(1 $22.50; half -barrels do., $11.50: :arm and generally badly mangled. clear fat backs, *�23; dry salt long lir. was taken into tit. constant, clear backs, Ile; hnrrel, plate beef. eeier(• he died en 'Thursday even - 817.50; half -barrels do., rig; cola- 1.K wi.tltout regaining conscious - pound lard, lard, R':� to 9%c ; pure lard. 12'q to 13e ; kettle rendered, 13 t•• 13'eee ; dams, 12Y., to 140; breakfast bacon, 14 to 15;..; Windsor hneon, lei to 16e; fresh k aimlt.ir dressed hogs, 89.30: lite, i(teeo to $6.75. (`heese:- \WeS14".11, 121/i to 12%e. ltnttcr - 2!'.• in round i.,1s ; SMALLPDX IN EDM1'NDSToN. New Brunswick Town lifts Sixty Cases of Mild Type. A despatch from Fredericton, N. P.., says : I)r. E. B. Fisher, Secre- tary of the Provincial Board of Health, said on Thursday night that there were sixty cases of smallpox in the town of Edmundston, N. B., and that 25 houses are quarantined. The disease, he says. is of a mild type, and he thinks the spread can be prevented. The only fear is tho coming Of cold weather. The (>7►ly explanation of the source of the contagion is that it was brought 03 men working on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction. STARVED TO DEATH IN ('AR. Was Stealing a Ride and ('ar Was Sealed 1'p. \ despatch from Buffalo says: The body of a negro was found in it freight car opened here on Thurs- day. Death was due to starvation gss. r.nd thirst. The car Was shipped from fine Bluffs, Ark.. on Oet. 2, :Ind had been rebilled from St. The Kaiser's fourth son. August Louis, Mo., but wns not opened at Williartt, wns married on Tuesday .11 the latter place. In the ear was to the daughter of tiie Duke of , consignment of goods from I'rovi- Schlese ig-Hol.tein. (knee. 11. 1. 26!., to 27c in jobbing lots. I•t The market is weak and e . of DEvELopmENT new laid were male at _; . ,•t 11111: FRIEND (11' 1111111\. cd stock, 21',.r; Xo. 1, 20 . .. . 111k at 17'Yc per dozen. In N;inchnr•ia. Ito:;. are Ghee as -- Don ries. UNITED STATES MAI:1,1 '1'- ip Men is the dog the friend Duluth, Oet. 27 -\Went \o. 1 :Two t 1 hoilsand Men Are Now Employed �' - - . - I (.f man, but in Manchuria he is hard. 5 .81.01N; No. 1 N.,rthern. ! 11� the Vicinity of Dawson. more strictly the friend of woman. ..1.01.,,, No. 2 Northern. :•.1.111'.,; Terrible llestruetion of Life and Property . There the dowry of a young woman Dec., $1.01 Nfny, *l.0:, •„ : I ►et., __ _.. -_ in the Philippines. dues net consist .ef hard cash as in 1!1.0'1'e: $1 t. '2 Europe, but in a certain number of :Minneapolis. Oet. •l7. When' ._ A despatch trent 11innipeg says: Sleek dogs with thick or silken hair. 1)e. , 81.01'-., ; 11a.. 81 0,', to 81.- 1)1.. Barrett. formerly of Kingston, - ^ The girl's status may almost be 05'. ; No. 1 hard, $1.01',:: No. 1 , Ont.. nett/ meth( al eflieer for the torrential rains throughout the i guessed by her wedding portion of Northern, 81.03,1S; No. 2 Northern, ! Guggenheims in the Yukon, has valley and in the mountains. The' (logs. if she receive six she is poor ; ltl.01':i to $1.02; No. 3 Northern, I nae•he.l here on his tea) �hotne on rivers were flooded. and in many' if a dozen. her parents are in easy ft6.-.;c to $1. Flour -First patents, a .iv 'we'll's' furlough. The e'en - places rose to a height of 30 feel, eircumstances!• and if melte dozen *5.20 to $5.40; second patents, 83 pane Iiat0 about Ittn thousand men weeping everything before theta iii i' may he taken that she comes t•. 83.20; first clears. :4:3.90 to 81.- c n.plo%ed in the t i. itiil3 of Dawson. their path to the sea. Ifundredsi from a rich family. They are ear.'-' 20; second clears, $2.90 to 83.20. The tottiritite.tiownt of the Guggeit• of animals am! house.] were swept i fully fattened fee their savers- flesh. Bran --in hulk. *17.50 to *le. •brims in the country is said to be 8% ay by the waters. and their skirts after death hc;utile l:nffalo, N. Y.. Ort. _'- 1WI. 11 11. the vi a:-i,herbeee of twelve mil- The Government luta despatched i coverlets, peli•ees, vests f,.r hue_ - Spring stronger . N,.. 1 rtl,(•ni,. ;lion dello, • .noel the nmol:nt . t r l'eeti hear,) (rem. hitt 11 semis eer- a coast guard glitter et. Itl('estigate 1 ters, or bedside carpets which (ars„ads, $1.0.,'.: 41 reel le i:.::nt( Ine1•e•.i .• 1. t in that the number of dead will renditions and '•rgainkc relief. I t.cnrc••iv ever wear net. Er,•:, to its Corn - -Lower; No e yel!• lt, :.e::; Tile ,.iel a ••f the country for the I -i:-h 3101 it is reported that the cholerel fur the /Iry eioe of the dog is earta 4\1. 4 yellee. 7,c; \.,. :, •.1 n. ;,1:•l,I,_ •e,; _. ,- •, will )ie hitePen one There was a heavy typhoon and has broken out ann,ng the refugee:+.1 and lasting. It.. 78c; No. 4 core, 76 to 7:c; Ne. late! t.•,. mullion doilnrs mote than OF THE YBKON A d' -patch from Manila says : Iielatr.l reports indicate that the sevens of October 12 in the ('ayagi- n, valley was the worst and most (: ••tructite ithin the memory of living inhabitants of the valley. The effieial figures are not yet t..vailal.lc, as many place., have not last season. the 1„tal fer the year being over five millions Next year, when the mnrhinery now being Oared is in operatt•,n, the output u ill be inercnacd to eight millions, and later the total output will pro- habit- be further increased to ten n.:lli ,ns per annum. The det•el'.p- Ine11t work is being dime wholly by large companies, the individual miner bring rare l'enals nod (:itehee are bring dug and dredger built for the work of future years. There will be about four thousand people in Dawson during the sir. ter.