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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-05-13, Page 3ti- ' 1 LIIIIITNIMi'G01�UE1SEDNEWS HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OYER TILE GLOBE. Another Was Seriously Injured on the Campus of Woodstock College. A despatch from Woodstock, Ont., says : Iti the severe electrical storm which passed over the city late on Thursday afternoon lightning struck and killed Jaynes Merrigold, aged 15, of Zitutelten. Et'.gar Knight, aged 1'i, of Burk's Falb, was also struck, and for a time it, was thought that ho was fatally injured. He re- vitc•d, however, and at night was pronounced out of danger. Roth young men were studeets of Wood- stock College. and were on the campus when tho tragedy occurred. An inter -year football match was in progress when the storm came up, about 5.30 o'cloes, and a confer- ence took place as to whether or ant the game should be postponed. Most of the buys, together with a number of spectators, took shelter under it tree on the campus. When it was decided to postpone the game, all but Merrigold and Knight ran for the building. The two lads remained under the tree. The player,' had just reached the cullege building when a bolt struck young Merrigold and his companion. Seeing their plight, the boys rushed out and brought the Tads in. Mer- rigold only lived a short time, and it. was only by the utmost effort, by the doctors that Knight's life was unveil. The tree under which they were standing was not struck. The dead lad waa a son of Itobt. Mer- rigold, of Hamilton, formerly of this city. LORD SHOI.1'0 IS FREE. Was Charged With Shooting With Intent to Kill. A despatch from Nelson, B.C., says: The Grand Jury on Tuesday returned "no Lilt" in the case of Lord Sholto Douglas, who was charged with shooting with intent to kill .fames 11. Rowlands, a neigh- bor. 'ilio shooting occurred at Creston, where both lived, last September. Lord Sholto, return- ing home one day from a hunting trip, it is said, found Rowlands its the house decidedly tho worse for liquor. Lady Douglas was in tho houao at the time. Previously to this Douglas had forbidden Row- lands the house, and had particu- larly ordered hint nut to bring in any liquor. On this occasion, it appears, ho ordered Rowlands out, but he refused to go, whereupon Douglas went to a neighbor's, gut a gun, and returned and shot Row- lands. Tho action of tho Grand Jury has been received with a good deal of eatisfactiuu by the people generally. TOWN IN ALGOMA BURNED. Only a Few Building etre Left in Chelmsford. A despatch from Chelmsford says: •CI►elmsford was visited on Tuesday night by the most disastrous fire in the history of the town. Practical- ly the whole town, with the excep- •tion of two hotels and two churches, was burned to the ground. The fire started in the dwelling above Pyne Bros. general store by the ex- plosion of a gasoline Tamp at 10.15 p.m. At 12.30 the whole business block was a mass of ruins. The burned buildings include Pyne Bros.' general store, J. David's pool -room and barber situp, .1. Largo's general store, Dumas' shoo store, Caycn's bake shop, the Meth- odist church. and other buildings, including stables and outhouses. A conservative estimato of the total loss is $30,000, with little insurance. 'There was no fire protection in the towu. t ROYAL (THIEF TO SIN NATIONS. Letter from Prince of Wales Joys ously Acclaimed. A despatch from Brantford says: Three rousing war w hoops marked the conclusion of the reading of a long letter from the Prince of \Vales •to the Six Nation Indians in coon- these folk. who have grown hardy estry Association, there will not be til at Ohsweken on Tuesday. The from exposure to wind and weather' a stick of timber standing east of SHIPPERS AiIE JUBILANT. Charge for Changing Destination of Cary in Transit iteduced. A despatch from Montreal says: Notice was received on Wednesday by the transportation bureau of the Board of Trade that the Hailway Commission has passed an order fixing a maximum rate, of $3 per car for changing the destination of ears in transit. The railways some time ago increased the charge for this to a cont a hundreds pounds, which came to from $5 to $8 per car, and the shippers complained to the commission. The latter decided that tho railways had no right to base their chargo on the value of the service to tho eutsomer, but on the cost of the work to them, and reduced the rate to a uniform charge of $3, much to the jubilation of the shippers. ELECTRIFY SECTION OF G.T.P. An Important Project is Now L'uder Consideration. A despatch from Montreal says: The question of the electrification of the Grand Trunk Pacific or Na- tional Transcontinental Railway, from tho St. Lawrence River to Moncton, is now under the serious consideration of the Railway Com- mittee, the Dominion Government and tho New Brunswick Cabinet. Should it be carried out, as seems not improbable, it will be the most important railway electric project that has been proposed in any coun- try in the world, so far as mileage is concerned. BACK TO NATURE COLONY. New German Sect Whose Creed to go Without Clothes. A very curious pamphlet is being circulated describing a new German sect, whose whole creed is to go without clothes. They Jo this from sanitary and moral purposes. They base established themselves as a colony at a clearing in a forest about twenty miles from Berlin, and in the immediate vicinity of this lonely spot the stranger will casually conte across men, women, and children divested of every rag of clothing. The police are disin- clined to interfere so long as they keep to a very limited area. A very high state of morality is claimed, and it is declared that the rigors of a i'rusian winter in no way nffect is Telegraphic) Briefs From Our Ons laud Other Countries of Recent Eveuts. CANADA. Judge Harington of Now Bruns- wick 1s dead. Tito T. S. N. O. Railway Commis- sion gave au order for 2,000 tuns of rails. • A conference of Provincial Prem- iers may be held in British Columbia this year. The Attorney -Gencral of Ontario says tho investigation of tho Kin- rado case will not be dropped. Throe children of Charles Cross - ulna were suffocated in a fire that gutted the family residence at Sack- ville, N.11. THE WORLD'S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at BIL EADSTUFFS. Toronto, May 11. -Flour -Ontario wheat 110 per cent. patents $1.90 to $5 to -day in buyers' sacks outside fur export; on track, 'Toronto, $5.30 to::+5.40. Manitoba flour first patents, $6.10 to 0.40, on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.50 to $5.410, and strong bakers', $5.40 to ei,.50, on track, Toronto. Wheat -No. 1 Northern, May de- livery, 81.28, Bay ports; No. -2, $1.25% and No. 3 $1.23%. Ontario wheat -No. 2, 81.25 out- side. Barley -No. 3 extra GOc. outside, and Nu. 3 58c. outside. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white 4R to The Council of the Strathcona 481A c. on track, Toronto, and 40 Trust have decided to offer cash prizes for essays 011 the best method of introducing physical and military training in the schools. to 40% outside; No. 2 Western Can- ada 48c., and No. 3 47e. outside. Peas -No. 2, 95 to 96c. outside. Rye -No. 2 73 to 74c. outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 95 to 96c. out- side. Corn -No. 2 American yellow 8l%zc. on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at 80%c. on track, Toronto. Can- adian yellow, 75 to 76c. on track, Toronto. Bran -Cars of Manitoba, $23.50 in sacks; Toronto freights. Shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights. COUNTRY I'1RODUCE. GREAT BRITAIN. It is understood that an Lnperial conference on the defence of the empire will probably be called for July. Tho Cunard Steamship Line is estimating the tune lost by the stops made at Queenstown by mail steam- ers. J. Pointer, the Labor candidate, was elected to the British Commons from the Attercliffe division of Shef- fiotu. UNITED STATES. Walter Wellman will make an at- tempt in August to reach the north polo in a dirigible balloon. Seventy-seven persons were kill- ed by automobiles in Now York during the past twelve months. Prof. Chas. A. Publow, of Cor- nell University, has been offered a place on the Royal Commission which is to investigate the sources of Canada's milk supply. GENERAL. Hilrni Pasha has again Grand Vizier of Turkey. Two men and a boy were killed by a live wire in Paris. Tho Shah of Persia has garnted his people a new constitution. Massacres of Christians took place at Adana again on Monday. Chancellor Von Buolow threatens to resign unelss his financial reform plans are adopted. Thirteen civilians and soldiers convicted of murder were hanged in Constantinople on Monday. The French Government has bid defiance to the labor unions that are trying to force its hand. A compromise will probably be reached on the points in dispute in regard to the South African Union. Five hundred pianos and nearly ten thousand revolvers have been found in the .Yildiz Kiosk, the pat- aco of the deposed Sultan. It is believed that the crew of the American whaling ship, Carrie I). Knowles, who have been mourned as dead for over four years, aro in- carcerated in a Venezuelan prison. become TIMBER GOING FAST. None Fast of Rockies in Fifty Years, Says Expert. A despatch from Chicago says: Within ten or fifteen years, accord- ing to J. H. Finney, Secretary and Treasurer of the Appalachian For - Prince thanked the chiefs fur elect- anal who lead a very out-of-door lug him to the Turtle Clan. and ex- existenee. Tressed the belief that shouldthe 'f' occasion arise tho Six Nat ions A man never realizes his wife's would be found worthy of their superiority until he attempts to put glorious traditions in tho field. a crying baby to sleep. TO BUILD DIRIGIBLE AIRSHIPS Scientific Department Has Been Created by the British Government. A despatch from London says: The t;.,tertrment has taken an im- I portant step in recognition of the obviously growing seriousness of the problem of aeronautics from the i national standpoint, by the creating of a new scientific department to study the problem in reference to! Imperial defence. Primo Minister Asquith as:nounced on Wednesday in the House of Commons that the w,•rk of devising and building diri- gible airships had been divided be- tween the army and the navy. With for view to ensuring that the highest. scientific talent will be brought to bear on the task, the Government has requested the National Physical Lnhoretory to organize a .special department for continuous investi• gitiut►s. experimental and other- wise, of the questions which must from time to time be solved in or• der to adequately guide the con- struction of airships. The investi- gations will be carried mit un•l.•r a special eemni'ttr•. , of which Le'd Rayleigh is Irsesidcnt, and R. T. Glazebrook, chairman. Several 1 other prominent physici,,t.; are mem- bers. Adequate fund, have been allotted for the work. From a cunt ersation with S4 erc- tary of War Haldane it was gath- ered that the Government's De- fence Committee is resolved to try to place Great Britain in the fore- front of the world in scientific in- vestigation of aviation. The new department will exist for continuous research, and experiment with models, somewhat as warship de- signers do. The army and navy are experimenting with air telesis of all types, and will submit their prob- lems to the committee, which will endeavor to discover sufficiently the causes of defects. and suagest remedies. which will be tested by the experimenters. The nim is to make the organization the horst ••en:- plete in the world. it is 'mass - stood that the visit of Orville and Wilbur Wright to the War Office hart a direct bearing on the new scheme. the Rockies, and within fifty years the entire country will be as bar- ren of timber as the American des - ort, unless something is done to avert the disaster. This statement is made in a communication to the Traffic Club. Regarding the coal situation, Mr. Finney declares the country consumes on an average five tons per capita and wastes three. 46- t:l'ELPii'S LOW TAX RATE. Profits of Municipal Enterprises Lighten the Burden. A despatch from Guelph says: Tho Finance Committee have brought in their report, with a tax rate for the year of fourteen and a half mills. The estimated profits from the civic -owned utilities are: Guelph Junction Railway, $25,000; waterworks, $19.000; street rail- way. $3,240; gas and electric light. $13.146.80. Municipal ownership last year gave the city a fourteen - mill rate, tho lowest of any city in Canada, and this year it is but half a mill higher. 4h FIVE TEARS IN KINGSTON. Aloysius Guerin Was Sentenced al A despatch from Stratford says: Aloysius (Jrt_rin, who was f.iund guilty of manslaughter ou Tlr:►rs- day in eonnr'r•tion with the death of Alex. Suther:arel, of West %worm. who was fennel dyad in the rear of Guer:n's re+Y.!e:we on S7th last. was on Thur'day mer ting sen- tenced b} Mr. Justice Riddell to hve year: i i hiuv'ton Pen:trntiary. BURNEB IN PRAIRIE FIRE Theodore Bruning, a Saskatchewan Farmer Lost His Lite. .A despatch front Moose Jaw says: from Minto, N. D. Ho was start - The body of Theodore limning, a ing farming on a large scale, 1►aeiu8 farther, who lived about eighty-five two sections of land. He leaves a utiles south of Moose Jaw, reached the city un Thursday morning. He had lust his life in a prairie fire which started near Limerick on Monday, and bore westward with widow, but nu faioily. Tho latest reports from the burn• ed districts to the south and south- west of the city confirm the worst fears respecting the serious nature of the damage done. Many set. - terrible rapidity. Bruning's own tiers lust nearly everything they place was well protected and he possessed. One of the heaviest rushed over to help save the place losers was H. Cathcart, who had a of u neighbor by starting a back thrashing outfit, a stable, a shod, fire. The main fire came on so rapidly, however, that, before ho could got to a place of safety the flames were upon him. .he unfor- tunate titan lived through the night, but died Tuesday morning. He was 38 years of age, and had been in the and such machinery destroyed, making a total loss of $5,000. Henry liatrs lost considerable grain, his implements and a large new barn, making a total loss of about $3,000. J. Downey lost two cars of lumber, which he had just removed country less than a year, corning to his faint to erect new buildings. 5 to Gc. per lb. Lambs, $3.50 to $6.50 each. Good tuts of fat hugs sold at about, 8c. per 1b. Toronto, May 13. -'the demand for butcher cattle was so strong that everything of fair quality and weight sold readily at from $5 to $5.50. Stockers and feeders rose from 25 to 50 cents. Heavy feeding steers -were selling from $5 up- wards. Milkers and springers, ac - Apples -$4 to 85 fur choioo qual- tato demand for best grades, but ities, and $3 to 83.50 for seconds. continua unsaleable. Calves, firm Leans -Prime, $1.90 to $2, and and unchanged. Sheep and lambs, hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per firm and unchanged. Hogs, $7.40 bushel. to $7.50 fed and watered, and $7.15 Honey -Combs, $2 to $2.75 per to $7.25 f.o.b. dozen, and strained, 10 to llc. per - .+ lb. PITTSBURG'S S GR.tE fERS. Maple Syrup -95c. to 81 a gallon. Councilmen and Those Who Bribed Hay -No. 1 tiimahy, 12 to 813 acoat. Local scientists who have ton on track here, and lower grades Them Sentenced. viewed the feathered monster aro :rt• $10 to $10.50 a ton. Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 85 to 90c. per bag on track. Delawares, $1.10 to $1.15. Poultry --Chickens, dressed, 15 to 17c. per lb.; fowl, 12 to 13c. ; for sentences follow : A. A. Ramsey, keys, 20 to 22c. per ib' former National Bank President, THE DAIRY MARKETS. convicted of bribery, one year and six months imprisonment and a fine Butter -Pound prints, 21 to 23e; of $1,000; Captain John F. Klein, tubs and large rolls, 16 to 18c; in Councilman, two years and a fine of forior, 14 to 15c. ; creamery rolls, $1,000 on the bribery conviction, and 25 to 26c., and solids, 20 to 21c. one year and six months on the con - I11 It i) AS BIG :1S A MAN. Captured After a Fierce Fight Near Atlantic City. A despatch from Atlantic City, N. J., says: Attacked by art immense bird of unknown species, supposed to be a ntentber of the pelican family, Capt. Geo. Doughty fought the battle of his life shortly before day- light on Wednesday morning, be- fore he was able to vanquish his feathered antagonist, which he knocked down with an oar. After coufirmation of his weird tale Capt. Doughty on his return to this city showed arms pinched black and blue, and shredded clothing, along with the strange bird, which he trussed up and brought, home in his A despatch from Pittsburg, Penn., still uncertain of its species. It says: Sentences were imposed in weighs over 100 pounds, and stands almost as tall as a man. Accord - the Criminal Court on Wednesday by Judge Fraser on seven persons ing to the story told by Doughty, he was sculling his boat along in convicted within the last, few weeks front, of Runt Point, near Rrigan in the municipal graft cases. Th tine, shortly before daylight on Wednesday morning, and in a dense fog, when he was attacked by the bird. The bird is still alive, and will be presented to some collec- tion if it survives the heating it re- ceived during the battle. i'---- - B. C. RANCHES E'IRESWEPT, Settlers aro Forced to Their Lives. A despatch from Kamloops, B. C., says: Hundreds of thousands of dollars in property have been des- troyed aud•seores of ranchers forc- ed to lice for their lives as tho re- sult of a disastrous bush fire that swept the country from Notch Hill as far east as Three Valley and south from Sicamous as far as Ver- non. Among the losses aro two large sawmills, the Carlin Mill, $75,000, and the Carrigan Mill, oa Salmon River, $35,000. Several mill A despatch from Calcutta says: hands had to ileo for their lives. Sentences were handed clown on Three large bush fires have been Thursday in the court of Alipur, a burning for several days and a gale Eggs -Case lots, 19e. per dozen. Cheese -Largo cheese, old, 14 to 11%e. per pound and twins, 14% to 14%o.; new cheese, dull at 12% to 12%e. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 13 to 13%e. per 1b. in case lots; mess pork, $21 to $21.50; short cut, $23 to $21. Hams --Light to medium, 14 to 15c, do. heavy, 13 to 13%c.; rolls, 11% to 11%c.; shoulders, 10% to 11c.; backs, 17 to 17%c.; breakfast bacon 15% to 16c. Lard -Tierces, 13%e.; tubs, 13%c.; ; pails, 13%c. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, May 5: Peas -No. 2, $1.05 to $1.00. Oats -Canadian Western No. 2, 52 to 52%c.; extra No. 1 feed, 51 to 51%e.; No. 1 feed, 50% to Mc.; No. 2 barley, 66 to 67c.; feed, 59% to OOc. ; buckwheat, 99% to 70c. Flour --Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.10; do., seconds, $5.60; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.10; Winter wheat patents, $5.75; straight rol- lers, $5.50 to $5.60; do., in bags, *2.70 to $2.75; extras, in bags, $2.25 to $2.35. Feed -Manitoba bran. $22 to 823; do., shorts, 824 to *25; Ontario bran, $23 to $24; do.. shorts, $21.50 to $25; Ontario tniddlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain metallic, $33 to $35; mixed mouillic $2s to $30. Cheese -11% to 11%e. Butter -24% to 25e.; old stock, 19% to 22%e. Eggs -19 to 19%e. per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Chicago May 1L -Wheat -Cash - No. 2 red, $1.4s to $1.49%; No. 3 red, $1.43 to $1.47; No. '2 hard. $1.29 to $1.39; No. 3 hard, $1.25 to $1.33; No. 1 Northern, $1.30 to $1.314; No. 2 Northern, $1.27 to $1.30; No. 3 Spring, $1.25 to 81.30. Corn -No. 2, 74 to 74%c.; No. 2 white, 75c. ; No. 2 yellow, 74% to 78c. ; No. 8, 73 to 73%c. ; No. 3 fellow, 74% to 74%e.; No. 4, 73c. Oats -No. 2 white, 58c.; No. 3 white, 56 to 59c.; No. 4 white, 55 to 57e. ; standard, 58c. Minneapolis, May 11. -Wheat - May, $1.28%; July, $1.26%; Sept.. $1.07% to $1.07'x; Cash, No. 1 hard. $1.29'; to $1.29%; No. 1 Northern, $1.28% to $1.2e%; No. 2 Northern, $1.20% to 81.26%; No. 3 Northern, (11.24% to $1.25%. Flour --First patents, $6.10 to $6.30; second patents, $0 to $6.20; first clears, 8.1.75 to $4.0; second clears $3.45 to 13.55. Bran --In bulk, $23.50 to $21. LAVE STOCK MAitKET. Nrontreal, May 11.- Milkmen's strippers sold friim 3' , to near ;le. per ib. ; prime beeves so:d at 5' t•, Ge. ; pretty good animal}. 4% to 5%e.; ; common stock. 3 to 414,c. p'r lh. Mileh cows from $25 to 855 cat'►. Calves from $2 t•, $1 each. The steep were ell s::er.:. cad so:d at spiracy conviction; Joseph C. Wasson and Win. Brand, former Councilmen, each one year and six months and a fine of $500 for con- spiracy; H. M. Bolger, hotelkeeper, two years and a fine of 8500 for bribery; Charles Colbert and John Colbert, convicted of attempting to bribe a jury in the itamsay bribery case, two years and a fine of 8500 each. .1. iNDi.1N CONSI'ZR.tTORS. Eighteen Were Sentenced In Court at Alipur. Flee for suburb of Calcutta, in the cases of thirty-five satires who were arrest- ed here last summer charged with complicity in the Anarchist conspir- acy of May, 1909. Two of the men wore condemned to death, ten to transportation for life, three to transportation for ten years, three to transportation fur seven years, while eight.een were acquitted. Ashutosh Biswas, n public prose- cutor, who was engaged in tho con- duct of these cases, was shot dead ist the Alipur court last February. EX -CHIEF ESCAPES PRISON. Was I,et Go on Suspended Sen- tence at Chatham. A despatch from Chatham, Ont., says: Ex-Polioe Chief Kimball, of Tilbury, who shot W. J. Healey dead while attempting to arrest him, was let off on suspended sen- tence on Thursday morning. Mr. Justice Teetzel declared ho was satisfied of the good character of the prisr.ner. Itis conviction would he a warning to all constables to be careful with firearms, the judge saying no (Aver has a right to shoot at a flc:•ing roan. A largo delegation of citizens were present in Kimball's favor. this city soon brought them into contact. In Mara District the loss will bo heaviest, for scores of ranch pro- perties arc completely devastated. On the train line of the C'.1'.it. fences and telegraph lines are destroyed for nearly twenty miles. West of Kamloops wires are down front high winds. Reports show that destructive fires are still burn- ing in Spalluincheen Valley, near Enderby. -- + MI'S'T STAY ON 1115 JOB. Governor of Sandwich .fail Sen teneed to Ten Days In Jail. A despatch front Windsor says: Governor Harmon of Sandwich who was adjudged guilty of con- tempt of court by Judge Smith be- cause ho failed to appear in his court when ordered, and a a4 ren- tenced to ten days' imprisonment in his own bastilc, was on Thurs- day afternoon served with a war- rant, by i/ailiff St. Louis, ordering his detentionHarmon was in fin- ancial difficulties before he received his present apointrnent, and this day's action is the uutconic of a judgment summons at the suit of the Nelson Hardware Company of MILITIA CAMPS MUST BE DRY Stringent Orders Have Been Issued tc Commanding Officers, A despatch from Ottawa says: As a result of a conference of the Dominion Alliance and the Moral and Social Reform Council with Sir Frederick Borden and the Militia Council recently rcgnrding ceisips of instruction. Colones Lersard, :ldjnt. ant -General, has sent mit the rot - Iowinz letter to t',e serious militia officers :--"In t 'rw of Cie near ap- f roach of the dales for the camps c,f inr:truct:om this yr::r, I have tato ; honor by direction to inform you that the Minister wishes you to take all possible precautions to prevent the- sale of liquor to camps, in hili- errs' as well as in all other messes and canteens, even to members of the saute. it being contrary to law. I am to state that the Minister will hold yen as well as all ether coin• n►andants personally responsible tint the law is not broken. and Hint no spirituous liquor ahatcs• r is sold in tho camp."