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Exeter Advocate, 1909-05-20, Page 71°9EN CONDENSED NEWS iTDISTILE WORLD'S MARICE IST REPORTS FROM THE 1.1:.1111Nt: TIRADE CENTRES. our Tons of Dynamite Exploded Preina- turely bear Albitny, N. Y. A despatch from Albany, N. V., be the biggest blast of all, using says: 'Tore were 29 meat killed ever four tons of dynamite. Tho shortly before :3 o'clock on Wed -blast was scheduled for five o'clock in the aft.ern(.on, and was expect- nesday afternoon, following a pre- e to dislc►dge •materia fur 2i3O)4) mature explosion of dynamite in wagon loads of crushed stone. Those the ('ullu.nam quarries at South killed had successfully pierced VW; Bt4tblehecn, twelve mikes eu,ut•h of charges in six of the holes, and Iny. There wore throe injured. were working upon the seventh eithiu the explosion zone were when the shock came. The explo- iustautly killed, and the bodies, are Sion is supposed to have been causcsct unrecognizable. The dead include by a defective cap. Tho 29 bodies tight Americans and 21 Italians, were blown to atoms and scatter - the latter net being known by et; all over the quarry. It was half :Janie. All Pie Americans aro resi- an hour before anyone dared ap- dents of the locality. Tho ten preach the scene, fearing danger 1:. les for \Vednesday's blast were from other explosions. As a re - drilled 20 feet back from the facie sult of the explosion, fear has of tho bluff, which was 80 feet high. s:izod the 165 hal an laborers em - 'file holes were 76 feet deep, and !Joyce' about the quarry, and many five inches in diameter. It was to have lied. r 21 Nt.i cmont leaned by the Govern - 1 CROPS IN APRIL. stent Census Office. A doapashch from Ottawa says : Tho censnx and statistics office is- sued on Wednesday a statement of crops and live stock for the month ci April. Vegetation is later than usual this year, and seeding has been delayed by the weather condi- tions throughout the Northwest Provinces. Winter wheat at the end of April was auriform in all pares of Ontario and compared with a standard creep it ranks at 7C.5 per cent. flay and clover av- erage 83 per cent. Fodder for stock has been ample, as is denoted by the condition of faun animals. Horses are 92 per cent. of standard, n►itch cows 158; other horncsd cattle 84, swine 91, and sheep 85.50 per cent. BUYING ALBERTA LAND. A Scotch Commissioner Impressed With the West. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Western Can-ada has just reaped the first direct benefits of the visit of the Scottish Agricultural Comn- m:s.ion last year, one of the com- missioners, Mr. J. M. Hedge, hav- ing returned and purchased 5,1,00 acres in southern Alberta, paying therefor $70,00. He is delighted smith the land, declaring it to be >the richest he has ever seen. This is likely to he followed by a largo ux of Scottish capital for invest - it in land. LIGHTED BY WIRELESS. Four 'fhousand Lamps Burned Four (lours at Omaha. A despatch from Omaha says: The Omaha Electrical Show was on Wednesday night lighted by a wire- less current. The current carne from the Government wireless sta- tion. five miles distant from where the show is being held. There were 4,000 incandescent lamps and for. four hours the lamps were lighted by the wireless current. The sys- tems by which the experiment was made was a discovery by 1)r. Fred- erick Millencr, wireless expert of the Union Pacific Railroad. f RUN 01.1:11 Iii' L.1N1) ROLLER. Little Girl Killed on Farm in Sns- kateheean. A despatch from Tuxford, Sask., says :A horrible accident happened on the farm of E. Eaton, near here, 1 on Wednesday, when his little daughter, who was riding with him on a land roller was run over and ' killed by the roller, following the runaway of the term. The father , was injured also, but not seriously. The horses were frightened by the whistle of a steam plow. A13DULS STRONG 1100318. Keys Taken By Force From the Deposed Sultan. A special despatch from Salonika says that Telaut Bey, Vico-Presi• dent of the Chamber of Deputies, who was sent there to arrange with Abdul llamid for the transference of his fortunes to the Government, suc- ceeded in obtaining the signature of the former Sultan for the with- drawal of funds from foreign banks, , but that Abdul Hamid resolutely re- fused to deliver up the keys to two iron rooms in the Y iluiz Kiosk, which had resisted all efforts at forcible entry. After Talaat Bey's departure, the despatch says, officers of the guard, furious at the ex -Sultan's refusal to comply with the demand, rushed into his room and ordered him to surrender the keys without further parley. WOMAN LIKELY MURDERED. Her Body Found Under Suspicious 4'irc uutst antes. A despatch from Vancouver, 13.C., says: Face downwards the body of a well-dressed woman was dis- covered on Wednesday under a clump of brush in Burnaby. Noth- ing near affords any clue except the remains of a small fire, wherein paper had been burned and pos- sibly the woman's hat. No person has been missed in New West- minster or vicinity for months. The cause of death is not yet ascertain - .0d, but as the clothes are badly torn in places, there is a probability that she met with a violent, death during a struggle. The corpse has apparently been exposed to the elements about four months. 1..1D1' TEACHERS' SAL.IRiES. School Board of Winnipeg Made a Flat Increase of Fifty Dollars. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The School Board was generous on Tuesday night and gave the 240 ladies employed in the 30 city schools a flat' increase of $50 per annum, in addition to such in- creases to which they were entitled. It was explained that the city pay is the smallest anywhere. The hoard also issued authority to raise $200,000 on 35 -year bonds. sa- RiSKED LIFE FOR CHILDREN. I1other• Ran Through Plantes of (turning Hoose. A despatch front Sterling, Mani- toba, says : While outside milking her cows. Mrs. Harris Courtney discovered that her house was on fire. Winding her apron over her head the mother pluckily dashed through the fire and saved her four children, who were huddled in an inner room. Mrs. Courtney's hair caught fire and she was badly burned abort the head and ears. PILLAGES WERE WIPED 0 Entire District Laid Waste About Marash in the Recent Rioting. A despatch from Beirut. Turkey, sa=es : 'the recent rioting in the vi- kicinity of Marash has laid waste entire district. Marash iteelf s spared, for only afew per- tsons there acre killed, but within sixty smiles to the southwest a total S of sixteen \ il!.tges, with a Impala- ' tion of 8,000 : ells, have been prac- tieally wiped out. The only stir- I rivers are boys under ten and old women. The girls were carried away and the men killed. Tele- graphic reports received on Wed - 1 nestle.: declare that the hungry and 1 nak•.d number 11.000. immediate 1, rev f is required. The interior dis- t ' as are still far from settled, and :a a!1 directions the most heart- re"ding aecteints and appeals are beinsr ieecived tier.. ll('TiNEERS EXECUTED. A de -patch from Constantinople says: Constantinople witne-,sect an• other batch of executions on Wed- nesday morning w hen '24 mutineers of the army and navy were hanged in public within the city limits. This snakes a total of 38 exe.utions within :he capital since the revolu- tion of :April 13. Four of the mon on Wednesday were hanged near the Sultan's palace, eight at the niarinc barracks, eight in the I)jin- ti Maiden quarters of Stamboul and four at the War Office. it was desired to inapresss the people with the fact that the guilty had been punished, and had the hangings not been public the people would have thought that the condemned mon bad saved themselves by bribe ing ofli, ills or that the statement of their execution r: as nothing more than a political lie. There are rumors of a rising Of .Albanians at l'skub, about a hun- dred miles from Salonika. U.tl'I'ENIN(;s 1'IiOM ALL OVER TUE GLOBE. lelegraphlc Briefs From Our Ouu and Other Couu.t'ics ul Decent Events. CANADA. Grand Trunk Pacific officials d.•.ty teat the men aro ill -.seated ir. the construction camps. 11 rased 1•..saoa), dere in the Ot- tawa poatotuce, nits been arrested on a charge of stealing letters. lion. IV. S. I'ie.d.t.g will go to Lo..don after the session ends to arrange fur a fifty -(trillion -dollar teen. The Government will appoint in- spectors of gear and taci;e at sev- eral sapping ports of the Domin- ion. The Government is about to send a comruission to Great Britain and Denmark to study the bacon in- dustry. lion. Adapt Bcck'a compnny is prepared to supply the city of Lon- doi with two ai.d a half million gallons of water deity. The Railway Commission has ordered that stations and passen- ger cars be regularly cleaned out and kept in sanitary condition. Elmer Peaeuoek, a medical stu- dent at Queen's, wont suddenly in- sane at Brockville, on Thursday, and attempted to kill his mother. Ho was committed to the asylum. Sir Richard Cartwright informed Senator Lougho':d that Canada would be represented at the Im- perial Defence Conference in Lon- don, probably by Sir Frederick Bor- den and lion. L. P. l3rodeur. The worthless assets wiped out in the balance sheet of the Dominion amounted .to $837,616, but there was a liability on the books of 8363,887, and it, was also wiped out, leaving the net increase in the pub- lic debt, $437,759_ _ GREAT BRITAIN. Queen Alexandra, in a message of sympathy to the 1Vomen Nurses' Congress at Liverpool, on Thursday, intimated that she was not in sym-, pathy with the suffragettes. A British departmental committee appointed to inquire into the ewes -I tion has reported that there is a' meat combine 'n Britain, though it is not at present powerful enough to endanger the country's meat trade. IINITEI) STATES. A Chicago girl danced herself to death. The United States Senate on Thursday voted for a duty of 25 cents a ton on iron ore. Capt. Peter C. Heins, who shot and killed 1Villinm E. Annis on Long island last. August has been found guilty of manslaughter. GEN F:RAL. Premier Stolypin of Russia will remain at the head of the Cabinet. The Turkish troops at Erzeroum are said to be on the verge of mutiny. The element Emperor need the King of Italy met on Wednesday at the port of Brindisi. 1 The French ('hamper of Deputies on Thursday endorsed the Govern- ment's attitude with regard to the postal strike. ENGINE SMASHED 131' :1 ROCK.' Accident to Express on Kippewa Branch of the C. P. R. A despatch from North Bay says: A dangerous accident occurred on Wednesday on the Kippewa branch of the C. P. R. between Mattawa and Kippewa. Thr railway runs north from Mattnwa to the foot of Lake Tentiskaming, and winds its way through the l.aurentians, along narrow ledges far above the Ottawa River, and through many huge rock cuttings. As the passenger train north, heavily laden, was pass- ing through a particularly danger- ous section, where the ronelbefl clings to the mountainside, with the river many feet below, a five -ton rock crashed down the declivity, striking and smashing the locomo- tive. hut fortunately not forcing the train over the precipice into the rocky canyon. The passengers were severely shaken up by the sudden stop. but not seriously injur- ed. So tightly was the engine wedged by the immense rock that dynamite had to he utilized to clear the wreckage. .I 5M 1f.1..1`T1.1'M. Ten insane Persons Now Confined in Orangeville .Ial1. A despatch from Orangeville says: The colony of lunatic3 at present confined in the county jail here, numbering nine, was increased on Wednesday evening by the arrival of John ('arr of the township of Allaranth. ('arr arrived on the evening train in charge of Constable Laverty of Shelburne, having been committed as a dangerous lunatic by George Rutherford, Poliee Magis- trate of that village. ('arr is a farmer, aged ahem thirty -Ave. and will he medically examined as soon as pessibie. The aetliorities are de- termined to round up such people as are menace to the community. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce id BItEA1)STUFI?S. Toronto, May 18.--Flour-Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents $5.15 to to-uay in buyers' sacks out- side for export; on track, Toronto, tj.40 to ....o0. Manitoba flour; tirs patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track Toronto; second patents, $5.70 to ;s., e% and strong bakers', (15.50 to t; ,.t •), un track, Toronto. Y. heat -No. 1 Northern, May de livery, $1.27, Bay ports; \o. 2, $1.24% and No. 3, $1.23. Ontario wheat -$1.25 to $1.28 for No. 2, according to location and de- niand. Unrloy--No. 3 extra 60 to 61c out- side, and No. 3 58c outside. Oats -Ontario No. 2. 48%c on track, Toronto, and 46 to 47c out- side ; No. 2 Western Canada 49c. and No. 3 48c, Bay ports. Peas -No 2, 95 to 90c outside. Rye --No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 62 to Glc out- side. ! (porn No. 2 American yellow 81%e on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at 80%c on track, Toronto; Cana- dian yellow, 76c on track, Toronto. Bran -Manitoba $23.50 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freignts. t COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples $4 to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to 83.00 for seconds. Beans -Prince, $1.90 to $2, and hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bushel. Honey -Combs, 82 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to plc per pound. Maple syrup -95c to $1 a gallon. Hay -No. 1 timothy $13 to $13.50 a ton on track here, and lower grades, $11 to $11.50 a ton. Straw -$7.50 to $8 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 90c per hug on track. Delawares, $1.10 to $1.15. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 16 to 18c per lb; fowl, 12 to 14c; turkeys, 20 to 22c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -found prints, 20 to 22c; tubs and large rolls, 16 to 18e; infer- ior, 14 to 15e; creamery rolls, 23 to 25c, and solids, 19 to 20e. Eggs -Case lots lfc per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%o per Ih. and twins, 14% to 14'/.,c; new cheese, dull at 12% to 12%c. -_ - HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon long clear, 13 to 13%c per lb in case lots; mess pork $21 to 321.50; short cut, $23 to $24. Hams -Light to medium, 14 to 15c; do., heavy, 13 to 13%c; rolls, 11% to 11i4c; shoulders, 10% to tic; backs 17 to 17'/,e; breakfast bacon, 15% to 16c. i,ard-Tierces, 13%c; tubs, 13%c; pails, 13%c. BUSYNESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, May 18. -Peas --No. 2, $1.03 to 81.06. Oats -Canadian Western, No. 2, 52% to 53c; c-xtra, 1 o. 1 feed, 51% to 52c; No. 1 feed, 51 to 51%e. Barley -No. 2, 70 to 72c ; Manitoba feed, 60 to 60%c. Buck- wheat --69!, to 70c. Flour -Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $0.30; Manitoba Spring wheat, patents, seconds, $5.ti0; Manitoba strong bakers, $5.00; Winter wheat patents $6.15 to $6.25; straight roll- er, $0 to $6.10; straight rollers., in bags, 2.90 to 83; extra, in bags, 82.50 to $2.60. heed-- Manitoba bran, 822 to 423; Manitoba shorts, $24 to $25; Ontario bran. 823 to $24; Ontario Mu rts. *24 50 to $25; On- tario middlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain mouillie. 833 to $35; mixed mouillie, $28 to 830. Cheese --121, to 12%c, and easterns at 12 to 12%c. Butter -2I'/, to 22c. Eggs 10 to 10'/,c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS Chicago. May 1s.- Wheat -- No 2 red, *1.45; No. 3 red, $1.30 to $1.42; No. '2 hard, 81.28 to $1.35; No. 3 hard, $1.2.1 to $1.30; No. 1 Northern, $1.28 to $1.30; No. 2 Northern, $1.26 to 81.29; No. 3 Spring, 81.21 to $1.28. Corn - No. 2. 75 to 76c; No. 2 yellow, 75% to 76; No. 3, 75 to 75%e; No. 3 white, 75% to 76c; No. 3 yellow, 75% to 76c; No. 4, 74 to 74%c. Oats -- No. 2 white, 59% to 59%e; No. 3 e kite, 5P% to 59s,c ; No. 4 white, 54 to 58!.,c ; stat:dard, 59 to 59'. C. Minneapolis. May 18. -Wheat - May, $1.26, July, $I.24%; Sept., 81.07%; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.29'•; to $1.29%; No. 1 Northern, 81.27'e to $1.28%; No. 2 Northern, $1.23" to $1.261t; No. 3 Northern, $1 .234 to $1.2Flour--First patent. , $6.10 to $8.30; second patents, $6 to $6.20; first clear., $1.75 to $4.• A5; second clears, 83.35 to $3.55. Bran -In bulk. $24 to $21.50. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, May 18.--A large pre• p.•rti••n of the butchers' cattle acre milkmen's strippers, which sold at s from 3' to 4%e per pound, prime beeves sold at 5'a; to a little over 6e; pretty good animals, 4', to 5',20; common stock, 3 to 4%c per pound. Milch cow', $30 to over $64) each. Calves, flit to $8 each. pretty good Third Accident to Allan Liners Since the Opening of Navigation. A despatch from Montreal says: A mareonigra,n was on Thursday received by the Allan Line from Captain Fairfull of the Tunisian, stating that that vessel had suffered an accident almost similar to that which recently befell the Lake Champlain, and that he had been compelled to put into St. Johne, Newfoundland, for safety. The Tunisian, while steaming slowly, inward -bound, through heavy field ice, struck an unusually heavy mass and started a plate under her fore'peak. The broken plate caused quite a heavy leak, and Cap- tain Fairfull considered it his duty to head at once for St. John's,! which was only sixty utiles dis- . tant. The vessel will be overhauled there, and if it is found that she has sustained serious injuries the passengers will bo forwarded from St. John's across Newfoundland to Port Basque by rail, thence by the Reid Newfoundland Company's boats to Sydney, where they will be taken by special trains to St. John, N.B., and Montreal. 11 the Tunisian has to go into dry dock the passengers booked for her sail- ing from Montreal on the 21st in- :)t.•r.tct will be transferred to an- other of the Allan boats. This is the third accident the Allan boats have suffered since the opening of navigation, the Corinthian and Si- berian having both met with mis- haps. lots, 8.1 to $5 per head. Sheep sold at 5 to near 6c per pound; lambs at $3.50 to $6 each. Good lots of fat hogs at about 8%c per pound. Toronto, May 18. -There was an abundant supply of choice cattle in both export and butchers' classes, which sold readily at top-notch prices. One very fine bunch of nine export steers realized $6.25, and several loads sold at $6 and over. Choice butchers' cattle sold firm at $5.25 to 85.50, and heavy cows at $5. Stockers and feeders wero in strong demand. Milkers and springers est•rong, except for common stock, which are not want- ed. Calves steady and unchanged. Sheep and lambs dearer. Hogs -- Strong demand; selects are quotes. at $7.60, fed and watered, and $7.35 f.o.b. FELL 8111 7'IIOt:SAND FEET. Three Men Killed in the Red Jacket Mine in Michigan. A despatch from Calumet, Mich., says: Death which was swift and sure, but none the leas terrible, came to three miners at the Red Jacket mine here on Thursday afternoon when the ground upon which they were at work suddenly gave way, precipitating all three into a yawning abyss. For a dist- ance of six thousand feet the shaft runs down into the very bowels of the earth, and through this openmg tete unfortunate men were shot ns though impelled by a mighty cata• pult. The bodies were crushed in- to an unrecognizable mass of blood and splintered bone. The men were all foreigners. The shaft of the Red Jacket urine is famous all over the world as the deepest working mine in existence. WOMAN CRI'SiiED 111' TRIM. Was ('raveling Between Pars in Yards at North Bay. A despatch from North Bay sas ; : Mrs. Benjamin Pattersn, a woman of forty, was ground beneath the wheels of a train in the east yards of the C. 1'. B. on Wednesday' night. The- I'attersons live beside the tracks and frequently eroasthe yards. Mrs. Patterson was crawl- ing under a train on a siding when it started. Both of her legs were amputated, and she died on Thurs- day morning. Four little children are left motherless, as well as n husband out of work. 11is eighteen - year -old daughter died suddenly two weeks ago. 4• 1''111: 1'i:.IiIS FOR STABBING. Stiff Sentence Passed en a Prisoner at Belleville. A despatch from Belleville says: Manual Hannah. a resid ! t of the northern part of Hastings County, was. on Wed' e'day tnorl'ing, before Judge Dcroche. found guilty of stabbing Louts Saucier and in8iet- ing grievous bodily harm. He was sentenced to five d ears in the peni- tentiary. He was also convicted of assaulting a man named William Baudry, and was sentenced to two years in the penitet:: iary, sentenc- es to run concurrently. TAP EARTH'S INTERIOR HEAT. Costly Evperiutent Made Neces- sary by Decreasing Coal Supply. Sir William Ramsay's recent sug- gestion that the interior heat of the earth might be tapped by means of a bore hole, is not exactly new. indeed, experiments have actually been undertaken with that and in view. One of the most important was carried out some years back by the German Government at a place called Paruschowitz, in Silesia, when a depth of 9,572 feet was reached. Of course, the bore is of very slender dimensions, three feet six inches in diameter at the top, decreasing gradually to two feet six inches at the der:h of ono mile, at which it remains for the rest of the distance. At La Chapelle is a bore of a si- milar kind. and nearly as deep, constructed by the French Govern- ment for experimental purposes; and another similar one exists near Stavropol. in Southern Russia. In each case, it was the original intention to carry the bore much lower, but the expenw was found to be prohibitive, when contrasted with the prespeetive results. That is the worst of such work. After h certain depth the cost iucreasca by. leaps and bounds, and the time occupied lengthens proportionately. Thus. .the Hon. Charles Parsons, of turbine fame, who has made a special study of the question, esti- mates that to drill a holo ten miles deep through the earth's crust would ct $25,090,000, and take eighty years.ul Tho job is'a stupendous one. Yet it may be necessary for us to un- dertake it. Our coal supply will not last forever, and, when this is exhausted, the greatest industrial communities will be those that have the most direct means of access to rho stored -up heat of the earth'a interior. D11'I'l('1'L1'IES SETTLED. C. 1'. R. Mechanics and Company Reach an Agreement. A despatch from Winnipeg saps: It is stated on reliable authority that• the dilFicultics between the C. P. R. and their mechanics have been satisfactorily settled. All the strikers are to be reinstated, and the old witg,e schedule restored practically, and old conditions re- verted to. O. 11. Warl represent- ed the machinists, and H. H. Vaughan tho company. While no mention is made, it. is understood the men arc not returning to their pre• ions standing on the pensimt roll. .-____-+--- --- FELL ON A CROWBAR. Fernier Near Ottawa Rifled While Alding a Neighbor. A despatch from Ottawa says: Cotler l'. Morgan, a farmer, living near linzeld.•n, was fatally injured on 1Vt•tlnei'day evening, while as- sisting in the erection of a drising shed for a neighbor. He slipped from a Fill, and in falling landed on the sharp end of a crowbar standing upright in the giound. Ile died a few hours afterwards. INFANT KILLED BY A SAT Child's Fattier Saw a Large Rodent Leap From the Cradle, A despatch from Ottawa sa<< Death as the result of the bite e:f rat was the sad fate of little Ea gree Jatnheau, the 9 -days -old . of Mr. and Mra. Eugene Jn'nl.••'... of 131 Iiesserer Street. on TI,‘,,- day ft„u- day morning. after having he :t verely bitten on the hand In n lnrv•' grey- rat. The infant devcl. r• •' hlocd-poisoning. Th.' halo- slept abyslept in its carriage in the:Ir room a.• its pa:ents for s.•ses. nights, awl on Friday night 1n.' this was a1'o the cn'e. Mrs. .1a' , beau retired about 1 o'clock, her i al.•1 being alreedt asleep. At 2 o 4!.•e'k 'hr els ,awakened lJ the '.rand of the 11.11) 's cry. mrd aroused lirr husband. 1)n jumping .rat of hast he fay. ;.. large grey rat 1 • ip lean the carriage to the tu'l e•.•are in spite •.f bit attempts k el it 'l'ht• b.t!.y wits 1•••.71.1 ., :1 N.:: i.ad covered \- it 1,! ..1 .,• Wtt•. o'+ the •'•i • • ;s. 1,, es '11• e 'r! vesi•t 1. `.. t,•, n.,' .).•1 ntr Rati e1,• 1r \. c,,.1 OW infest cies, r.l!••e y el••s;',