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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-06-17, Page 3FIRES IN NEW BRUNSWICK CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS 11Ll'PENINC4 I'RO% Al.l. OVEU 111E GLOBE. Rains Alone Can Cheek Devastation, Says - Crown Lands Deaprtment. A despatch from Fredericton, N. B., says: Late on Thursday al- teruuon the Crown Land Office gave out the information the the wind has made the forest fires worse than they have been since the outbreak. On the Mirainiehi the situation becomes most seri- ous. filen gathered from all sec- tions of the county are doing their ( utmost in fighting the flames, but 1 they seem to bo beyond all control. Tho Crown Land Department is doing everything within its power, and sparing no expense, in put- ting every aaailablo than in metaon to check the fires, but the work has evidently got beyond all human control. Word received at 6 t'clock on Thursday night says that rain alone can stop the fires and put an end to the destruction that is being wrought. A telephone message from Nap- padogan is to the effect that some Telegraphic Briefs From Our Ows sad Other Couulries 01 Recent Et cuts. CANADA. twenty miles ss, rich timber land a Kingston mnument to Sir eas Oliver 1fu vure to ect along this lino of the Grand Trunk Toronto's proportion of the street Pacific is all on fire. Large forces railway receipts for May was of hien are fighting the tires, which $-tti,:;4•t. are on land owned by the :Crvr Birks & Sons subscribed Brunswick Land Company and the $`lS Henryear to the Montreal Y.ht.U.ed Miramichi Lumber Company. The 82 ,0 siun fund. latter company on Thursday night The Bronx receipts of the T. & N. sent out, four hundred oleo from O Railway for April were $161,- Boiestown to combat the flamer. 869, a new record. Fire is raging at Knowlan Settle- Lieutenant -Governor Dunsuntir of wont, Northumberland, and at Eel British Columbia, whose term has River, forty miles up river. In these yet a year to run, is anxious to re- districts the whole population are tiro. out wo ing, strenuously fighting, Sir \William Macdonald has pur- little From all chased the Joseph property at Mon - of the n comes 'ane treat and presented it to McGill but ono University. unless rain results The liquidators of the York Loan will be most & Sar logs Company expect to de- but rk with sections the result. there rain the cou cry, try `Rain, conies serious. soon BANK MANAGER DISAPPEARS. Mystery Shrouds Fate of Saskatche- wan Man. A despatch from Grenfell, Sask., says: Excitement has been caused in the town by the mysterious dis- appearance of James Young Thompson, manager of the Grenfell Investment Company, bankers. Sunday, June 6, Thompson engaged a horse and buggy to drive to the home of Skilliter, a farmer living seven miles south-east of this town. But about five o'clock he turned up at the residence of Mr. Thorn- ton, Indian agent, living about seventeen miles north-east of Gren- fell. Thomson in.ormed Thornton that he had driven out to get a bath in Crooked Lake, which is three- quarters of a mile from Thornton's. He left the horse and buggy with Thornton, and walked to the lake, and disappeared. Sergt. Besonge and W. Peel made a thorough ex- amination of the bank, and re- port that everything is in its usual shape. -..------ TIIROWN UNDER A ROLLER. Thomas Rigney Killed by horses Running Away. A despatch from St. Mary's, Ont., says :-Thomas Rigney, a farm- er, aged 53, niet with a horribly + painful death on Wednesday at Granton, n few miles from here. He was working in the field with a roller and the horses became fright- ened in some way and ran away. Rigney was thrown under the rol- ler and sustained severe injuries, from which he distil five hours later. [ He was one of the pioneers of this province. C)GARETTES ARE BARBED. No One Allowed to Smoke Them In Seattle. A despatch from Seattle, Wash., says : Tho new anti -cigarette law went into effect on Thursday night. It is the opinion of the Attorney General's office that any person who has them in his possession is subject to fine and imprisonment. The Alaska -Yukon -Pacific Exposi- tion police will enforce the law strictly. No one will be permitted to smoke a cigarette on the grounds. FINGER PRINT SIGNATURE, Finger -print identification has been extended to commercial use:- by sesby the Postal Savings Bank of thi Philippines nt Manila. This Bank has recently issued a series of stamp deposit cards, on which are spaces for stumps of different values to I,e affixed. When the do pesit..r has stamps to the value of one peso on the card it is exchang- ed nt the bank for a deposit -book showing the amount to his credit. Opposite the lines for the owner's signature rind address is a square ruled off for the reception of hi• thumb -print ; so that, even if illi Cerate, depositors may readily be ideetife.l_ e --- ONTARIO BONDS SELL WELL. Treasurer Received Subscription for $100,000 Block. A despatch from Toronto says: Ontario's latest issue of bonds is selling like the proverbial hot cakes. Hon. A. G. Matheson, the Provincial Treasurer, who is the chief salesman of the securities, announces that on Wednesday a block of $100,000 worth was sub- scribed by one private individual. There were also a number of sub- script -ions for smaller amounts. The Government is, indeed, receiv- ing more applications for small blocks of this loan than it did for the earlier issue placed on the mar- ket in the same manner. There have been a number of enquiries regarding the loan from persons in Boston, New York and elsewhere. Hon. Mr. Matheson is well pleased with the progress made' 'toward raising the *3,500,000 required by the province. TWO ENGINEERS KILLED. Collision on the Great Northern Near Vancouver. A despatch from Vancouver, B. C., says: The Great. Northern Railway express from Seattle, due at Vancouver at 4 p.ni., running late, collided head-on with the Ouichon Limited. south -bound near Burnaby Lake, five miles from Vancouver, at half -past 4 on Thurs- day afternoon. Ralph McI'heeter and Robert Nichol, two engineers, were killed. The fireman on the (;uichon train. a stranger, was buried in the wreck and Is dead. C. C. Cornwall, a passenger, was badly injured in the back and taken tee the hospital unconscious. Twelve passengers wore injured. VOICE SHOT THROUGH AIR. Heard a Hundred Miles by Wireless Telephone. A despatch froin Toulon, France, says: The trials of wireless tele- phone service between the cruiser ('ondo and land stations have shown satisfactory progress. The cruiser, although equipped with shorter poles than at the time of the previous experiments, was able 1.s communicate on Wednesday at a distance of more than 100 miles. 1 few days ago conversation was carried on by the wireless system at a distance of 60 iniles. A TOWN DEVASTATED. Ther Two Hundred I'crnon.s Killed in Earthquake. A despatch from Padang. Suma- i tra, says: The town n o f bur nchi, 185 miles to the southeast of hid- ing, was devastated by an earth- •lnake on the ii ghts of June 3 and t. Two hundred and thirty people were killed and many others in- inred. The shock ..as accompanied '•y a tidal wage which swept away he native huts like cockleshells. FOUND DISMEMBERED BODY Mystery Surrounds Horrible Murder in New York City. A despatch from New York says: The headless and dismembere 1 b..dy of a man done up in two pack- agea, one containing the torso and the other the arms and legs, was found on Thursday night in charge of a 14 -year-old- boy who stood crying on the sidewalk of Oliver Street. at the side of Public S:hool No. 1. a block smith of Chatham Square The dism-: in:,r•ruscnt bad spparco•'v lessu do.e with a !teary, sharp ku a and s. ah a saw that orke 1 • eooth. Waste ens erid- enced by the unfinished character of the cuts at (t)Pr.lar' .•f tier / stumps, and i.v the fie! ! t'.::t t' . butcher had not taken the time to undress the body. In severing the head the knife was used just at. the base of the neck, cutting through the soft collar of the shirt. whirls ends in a ragged edge just. where the collar would join it. The Loy who had the bundle in his care gave a description of a man who he aid(' had entrusted them to him. The man looked like a Jew. It is 'sdieved the murderrd man wns a .len. Perhaps with the purpose of throe int the police nn the wrong ti1tl:. the words "Mack panel ' i.sd ',see printed nn each bundle. r.'. ,leiy, in F gliah. Clare a divident of 20 per cent, b.: - fore the end of the year. At. the General Sessions at Ham- ilton Mrs. Whitehorn lost a suit on a policy against the Canadian Guardian Company because ten cents of the premium was unpaid. GREAT BRITAIN. The French team won the King's Challenge Cup at the internation- al Horse Show in London. The second reacting of the finance bill was passed in the British Com- mons by 336 votes to 209. Tho London Tinges warns Britain to be ready for the storm which may break at any moment in inter- national politics. Mr. John E. Redmond has noti- fied the British Government that the Nationalist party intends to vote against the budget. Lord Roberts stated at the Im- perial Press Conference that the next twenty months woulu ho the important time for the empire. An English publisher accuses Mark Twain of appropriating, in his latest book, a chapter from a book by an English M. P. without mentioning the la4.ter's name. GENERAL. Franco proposes to spend $600,- 000,000 on her navy in the next ten years. A half million people lined the route followed by the funeral pro- cession of M. Chaucard, the French Merchant prince. The Russian Duma has accused Dr. Duhrovin, President of the Lea- gue of Russian People, of organiz- ing political murders. UNITEi) STATES. Rev. Dr. Edward Everett. Halo died at his home at Roxbury, Mass., on Thursday. There is some fear among the tariff framers at Washington that President Taft will veto the new tariff bill. W. A. Gates of San Francisco stated at Buffalo that Japan had deliberately violated her agreement to restrict emigration to Canada. The Board of Engineers appoint- ed to investigate the proposed lakes -to -gulf deep waterway have reported to Congress that such a waterway is not desirable. FIREMAN KILLED. Others injured by Collapse of a Building at Halifax. A despatch from Halifax says: Halifax was threatened with a big fire on Wednesday afternoon, but the department succeeded in con- fining it to the structure in which it started. Nevertheless, it cost the life of one fireman, and severe bruises and narrow escapes from death by half a dozen others in the collapse of the building. The blaze was in the wooden building occupied by the Nova Scotia Fur- nishing Company, adjeintng their main brick structure. After the fire had been got under control the wooden buiidii:g cottapsei while a score of firemen were at work within it. or on the roof. A mass of debris fell upon the hien, but all were dug nut with more or Tess injuries, excepting James Tynan. who was at work with the hose when the roof fell in. Ho was struck by a beam, and instant- ly killed. WAS ofr $125,000 FiRE IN QI'ERI:('. Mills and a Number of duelling Howe Ilestrnced. A despatch from Quebec says: A serious fire broke out shortly after noon on Wednesday in the mill and lumber and wooden house THE WORLD'S MARKS fS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese aatfl Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BItEADST GFES. Toronto, June 15. -Flour --On- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.50 to *5.60 to -day in buyers' sacks outside for export; on track, Toronto, $5.75 to *5.80; Manitoba flour; first patents, $6.20 to $6.40 on track, Toronto; second patients, $5.80 to $6, and strong bakers', $5.63 to 83.70 on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern $1.34, Georgian Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.31% and No. 3 at 51.30. Ontario wheat -No. 2, 51.35 to 51.40 outside. Barley -Feed, 62 to 630 outside. Oats -No. '2 Ontario white 130 to Ole on track, Toronto, and 58 to 58%c outside. No. 2 Western Can- ada oats 61%c, and No. 3 60%c, Bay ports. Peas -Prices nominal. Rye --No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 70c outside. Corn --No. 2 American yellow, 83c on track, Toronto; No. 3 82%c on track, Toronto; Canadian yel- low, 76% to 77%c on track, Toronto. Bran -Manitoba, $23.50 to $24 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24.50 to $25, Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples $4 to $5 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans -prime, $2, and hand- picked, $2.1b to $2.20 per bushel. 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 88 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 90 to 95c per bag on track. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 10 to 17e per lb; fowl, 12 to 14c; turkeys, 16 to 18c per lb. 'IHE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound -prints, 18 to 19c; tubs and large rolls, id to 161Ac; in- ferior, 14 to 15c. Creamery rolls, 21 to 22c, and solids, 18 to 19c. Eggs -Case lots, 18% to 19c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, old, 14 to 14%e per Ib. and twins 14% to 14%e. New quoted at 12%c for large and 13c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon, long clear, 13% to 13%e per Ib in case lots; mess pork, $23; short cut, $25 to $25.60. Ilams-Light to medium, 15% to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to 14%e; rolls, 12;z to 12%c; shoulders, 11% to 12c; basks, 17% to 18c; breakfast bacon, 16% to 17c. Lard -Tierces, 14c; tubs, 14%c; pails, 14%c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal. June 15. -Oats -No. 2 Canadian Western, 62c; extra No. 1. 61%c; No. 1 feed, 61„e; No. 3 Canadian Western, 01c. Barley - No. 2, 72% to 74c; Manitoba feed barley, 67% to 68c; buckwheat, 69% to 70c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30 to *6.50; do., seconds, $5.80 to $6; Manitoba strong bakers', $5.60 tee $5.80; Winter wheat patents, $6. 75; straight rollers, $0.50 to $6.60; do., in bags, $3.13 to $3.20; extra, in bags, $2.65 to $2.80. Feed -- llanitoba bran, $22 to 823; do., shorts, *24 to $25; pure grain mou filo, $33 to $35; mixed mouille, 828 to $30. Cheese --Westerns. 11% to 12e, and easterns, 11% to 11%c. Butter -Finest creamery 22%c. Eggs --l0 to 20c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, .Tune 15. -Wheat - July, $1.30;,; Sept., $1.11% to *1.- 11%; Dec., $1.08%; cash, No. 1 hard, , $1.35 to $1.35%; No. 1 Northern, $1.30%; No. 2 Northern, 61.32 to $1.32%; No. 3 Northern, $1.29% to $1.31%. Flour - First patents, $6.40 to $6.60; second pat- ents, 86.30 to *0.50; first. clears, $5.05 to $5.25; second clears $3.65 to *3.85. Bran -In hulk, $23.50 to $24. Chicago. ,Tune 15. --Cash wheat -- No. 2 red. *1.60; No. 3 red, $1.513%; No. 2 herd, 81.31 to $1.32; No. 3 hard, 51.29 to $1.31 ; No. 1 North- ern. *1.32 to *1.33; No 2 North- ern, e1.32 to $1.33; No. 2 North- ern. $1.30 to 81.32 ; No. 3 Northern, 51.24 le *1.28. Corn -No. 2, 75%c; No. '2 white, 76c; No. 2 yellow, 75% to 75%c; No. 3, 75%c; No. 3 white, 76c; No. 3 yellow, 75'/, to 7t4';c; No. 4, 74 to 74%e. LIVE STOCK MARK Frs. Montreal, June 15.-- Primo beeves froin 6 to 7%c per Ib. Pretty good district of St. !loch's. By one aniinals sold at 5 to b%e; milkmen's c'cleck the lumber mill of Reiland strippers at 3', to 5c per lb. Milch and Clignac and several adjoining cows from *25 to $60 each ; calves, dwellings were in flames. People $2 50 to $8 each, or 4e per ib ; kr many blocks around became sheep, 5 to 51,4e per lb.; Iambs, $4 panic-stricken, encumbering the to $6 each. Good lots of fat hogs streets with their household goods. about 8'/c per lb. The loan will run about $100,000 or Toronto, June 15. -The demard $125.0011. The heaviest losers are for butcher cattle is still strong the Reiland and (lignite lumber mills and the Parisian (brut Co., both practically destroyed. Twenty •r thirty hcui es were burned. THE GATES CARRIED AWAY Three Boats Swept Down and Badly Damaged at Sault Sto. Marie. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says: On Wednesday afternoon the Canadian Soo locks were practically put out of com- mission by one of the worst acci- dents that ever happened in ma- rine circles in the Soo or vicinity. At present the water from Lake Superior is pouring through in a torrent, and it will probably be a iionth before the locks are again ;urailable for marine trade. Three boats, the Assiniboia of the C. P. R. Line; the ferry G. Walker of the Gilchrist fleet, and the Cres cent City all figured in the acci- dent. The overflow of water threat ens to wash out the piers at the foot c.f the locks. At 2 on Wednesday afternoon the Assiniboia was in the lucks, bound down ; she was 101 hexed by the Crescent City. The Walker was coming up the river, presumably to lock through on an up trip. Just as the Crescent was enter:ng the canal, and before the gates could be closed at the upper end, the 1Valker crashed into the lower gates, breaking them and al- lowing the Assiniboia and Crescent to rush down with the overflow of water. The Assiniboia missed the Wal- ker, barely grazing her side, but the Crescent dashed into her and received a hole in her side six feet square. Tho Walker was also con- siderably damaged. The Crescent• and the Assiniboia proceeded to the Michigan side, where both now lie. Tho Assiniboia seems to have suffered minor injuries, while the Crescent is now lying on the bot- tom. The Walker reached the cen- tre of the river and grounded, and was later towed to the Michigan side by two tugs. Her injuries are not yet known. Passengers on the Assiniboia are not yet aware how close they cane to death. Had the boat turned turtle in the locks not a soul would have escaped. A movable dam at the head of the locks is being placed in posi- tion at the present time in an en- deavor to have the locks repaired, but since it has not, yet been tried there is some doubt as to its ef- fectiveness. The four large gates have been swept away, and there remain only the frail emergency gates, which are not of much use, providing the dans refuses to work. The accident will not, of course, seriously delay navigation as the United States and Canadian ca- nals are open to ships of either nation, and the business will be done entirely through tho United States locks till repairs are made. NOT SO SERIOUS. A despatch from Ottawa says* A telegram received at the Depart- ment of Railways and Canals on Thursday evening from Mr. J. W. Ls B. Ross, superintending en- gineer at Sault Ste. Marie, would indicate that the damage to the canal is not quite so serious as at first estimated. The auxiliary gates and the pair of guard gates were found to be safe, and this no doubt accounts for the engineer's expec- tation that repairs will be effected within a short time. Mr. Ross wired to the Acting Deputy Minis- ter, Mr. L. K. Jones, "The lock may be ready by Monday night, but further delay is possible." Hon. Mr. Graham accordingly left for the "Soo" at 1.10 Friday morning. Cu to $5.75. The top price paid for exporters was $6.50, but well fin- ished cattle of this class were firm at $6.25 to $6.40. Stockers and feeders continue in strong demand, with only a limited supply on offer. Milkers and Springers -Firm ar.d unchanged. Sheep and lambs - Steady at last quotations. Calves -Firm. Hogs -Selects, $7.50 f. o. b., and $7.75 fed and watered. T -- PLUNGED INTO WELL. Thomas Marshall Commits Spieide at St. Andrews, N. B. A despatch from St. Andrews, N.B., says: Thos. Marshall leaped out of bed at 2 o'clock on Wednes- day morning, declaring he would drown himself. He ran towards the well in the shed, his wife fol- lowing him. She tried to restrain him, and there was a struggle. Finding she could not dissuade hien. and fearing that she would he dragged into the well, she let hien go, and he plunged in, head fore moat, and was drowned. He had been in poor health, and it is thought his troubles had driven him crazy. A wife and child sur vire. and light exporters wore freely bought for killing purposes. 50 was paid for the latter class. whilst choice butchers were firm at 83. - + KILLED IN ('01.I.1SION. 11r. McGrath, of Schreiber, Burled Under Engine. A despatch from North Bay says: Two work trains on the C. P. B. met in a head-on collision on Wed• nestle!' morning, near Dalton, 200 miles west of North Bay, wrecking both trains and causing a delay of eight, hours to traffic. A workman named McGrath. of Schreiber, in charge of one of the work trains, was buried beneath the engine and killed. (Merge Coleman. train• master, White River section, re- ceived severe injuries. but will re- cover. A number of othera received minor injuries, scratches and CROPS IN FINE SHAPE.a Good Fall of Rain and Warm We- ther Has Prevailed. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The weekly crop report of the Ca- nadian Pacific Railway is to hand and is as favorable as ever. The oendition of the crop is splendid. A considerable amount of rain has fallen during the past week. The weather remained warm with the exception of a few points, where there was rather a cool wave pre- vailing. Prospects were never bet- ter for a good crop up t e the pre- sent time. Rosser reports wheat four inches high and barley just through the ground. At Burnside wheat is ten to twelve inches high and oats three to five inches. Vari- ous other points report wheat show- ing from three to seven indica.,t.- CONVI('T USED AXE. Desperate Fight With Guards at St. Vincent de Paul. A despatch from Montreal sayst Details have leaked out of a des- perate fight which occurred at St. Vineent de Paul Penitentiary last Saturday, between a Polish con- vict named Stonislas Avis, who attacked the guards with an axe, and was, after a struggle, shot in the arm. Ava is serving a twelve- rar sentence, and as soon as he is out of the hospital will have to face the courts on another charge. -1E ('UT ITER OWN THROAT. Bet?'n WomanCommits Suicide While insnne. A despatch from Berlin, 0111.,says: Mrs. Peter Lantz. a woman about 50 years old. committed sui- cide on Wednesday evening at iter home here by cutting her throat with a razor. after having trod to cut an opening into her heart. She had for some time shown signs of in- sanity. She leaves a husband and fires hildren. 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 bruises. A FLOOD OF MOLTEN METAL 1 Three Bodies Burned to a Crisp at Wheeling, West Virginia. A despatch from Wheeling, W. Va , rave : In a horrible accident here on Wednesday night at least six men were burned to a crisp. .lour fatally injured and ten aeri- utisly hurt. Thirty others had oar• row escapes. Shortly afte- eight o'clock a "slip'' occurred in one of the furnaces of the \t heeling Steel & Iron Company A force of workmen, numbering fifty, were gathered about the tur.tare laking ready to dr ill in for the ions •,'clock east. With.;tit a me 711^11t .5 warn- ing there was a terrifi^ roar and great masses of molten iron spurted from the furnace. sw-".17;ng down the workmen. 'Twenty or more were caught in the onrush. Kix men are known to h1%P been enught by the hot iron. and their bodies burned to a crisp Fourteen others were badly mutilated. Aetna and legs were burned off, and some were showered from head to foot with white hot metal. All the mea were foreigners. Frederick Zimmerman, manager of tho furnace, was serioualy burned in attempting to save some (1 the men from death. As one man was swept past him in the stream <•f molten iron, he reached forth aid grasped the poor fellow's arm. which parted from the toffy, and .he victim sank to Eery death. What vaulted the trident has not been definitely d. sided.