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Exeter Advocate, 1909-08-12, Page 7CROPS DEVASTATED BY HAIL Great Storms. Traveling Eratically, Do Damage in the West. A despatch from VH- dreg says: van, had 2,000 acres devastated by 'The present are an •.::. days wee hail 1Veduesday, while on Thurs- the western farmer. Mid -August day Langhaut, Vorkton and Han - frequently bee* night frosty, which occasionally do great damage, but ao far the lowest temperatures have been well up in the forties. How- e ever, a danger peculiar to extretne- ly high temperatures is violent rain, which is nut infrequently pre- ceded by hail. Manitoba and Sas- katchewan are being daily visited by these storms, traveling errati- cally. The areas affected usually are small and individuals are suf- ferers rather than communities, and the aggregate will not materi- aIly suffer from this cause. Rosthern, in central Saskatche- ley, in the same province, suffered, four townships itt the latter stud two in Laugham being repotted to- tally destroyed, Yorktou'a loss bo- ing appraised at a thousand acres. The rain will invigorate and he.p tt, 611 the latter grains. It will do - lay the maturing of riper grains, giving rust and fougolds a chance to attack the grain, but this is not likely to affect anything seriously, and with the settling of the weather it is safe to say that better than an average crop will bo garnered. Tho heaviest rain of several aea- sons fell hero on Thursday after- noon, preceded by hail. OWEN SOUND MEN FINED. Big Clean-up of Illegal Liquor Dealers. A despatch from Owen Sound says: Fines totalling $1,150 were collected on !Wednesday from three botelmen and one drug store -keeper as a result of a campaign by Chief Inspector John Ayerst's men. Wil- liam Duncan and Donald McQueen of tho Duncan House had two con- victions each registered agaiust them and wore assessed $100 on each charge. Herb Wilkins of tho Central and his bar -keeper were assessed *250, one hundred on the first charge and a hundred and fifty on the second. T. C. Hatton, druggist, pleaded guilty to two charges, and was assessed $200 on each, $400 and costs. John Corbet of the Royal Hotel contributed $100 on one charge. The costs wero added in each case. A charge against Bert Howard of the Pater- son House was adjourned for ono week. The total amount in tines and costs will exceed $1,200. SER3I ON S WERE SHORT. .And Wealthy Auditor Was Delight- ed by Theta. A despatch front Pine Village, Indiana, says: The Rev. J. M. Wil- liams, a Methodist minister, re- ceived a deed on Wednesday for sixty acres of land, worth 8125 an acre, from Mr. and Mra. Burgoyne Davis, because he preached short sermons while pastor of the church which they attended. Mr. Mavis Is wealthy, and was so impressed with Use brevity and pointedness of the sermons of Mr. Williams that ho determined to make him independent. The decd specifies tho brevity of Mr. Williams' discourses es the consideration received for the land. The sixty acres comprise ono of tho most fertile tracts of land in MontgOntery county. 4. 1'011t DRO11 N FROM 110.1.1. Punt hent !loan Willi `c►cn :den oft 111/aril. A despatch from ('harlettetown, P. E. I , says :.1 drowning accident, resulting in the loss of four lives, occurred here on Thursday. A party of eight left the city for a pleasure resort opposite Charlotte - tee n, in a lobster boat to prepare fur a picnic to be held next Mon- day. It was necessary to land in a punt, a leaky craft. Seven of the men were on board, and when half the distance had been travers- tt'o it sank. The drowned are: Eph- raim (fellant, )carry Gallant, James Barnett and Daniel McAu- ley. i:phrairn Gallant leaves a widow and one son. The others were from 20 to 25, unmarried. C. P. H. I:TI'itEsS DI'1'C111':D. Four Coaches Go Over Etubauk- utent West of North Bay. A despatch from North Bay says: The C. P. R. Atlantic Express, due at. North Bay at 9.55 on Thursday night, was ditched at 'Woman River, two hundred miles west of hero, at two o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The express was speeding along at a good rate, when suddenly, with- out warning of any kind, the pas- sengers were startled by terrible shocks and the crash of smashing timbers, as the ears left the rails. bucked and reared in the air, and then rolled down a six-foot embank- ment. Two Pullmans, one obser- vation car, and a first-class ear were piled up at the bottom of the hill. Investigation revealed a uum- her of passengers injured, but none seriously, so far as can be ascer- tained. The cause of the accident is unknown at present. Traffic was delayed froin five W ten hours. 4. CONDENSED !NEWS ITEMSfTIIE WORLD'S MARKETS HORSE RAN INTO ': II:tIN. One !Woman Killed and Another Fatally Injured. A despatch from Wawanesa, Man., says: :\ double tragedy oc- curred hero on Wednesday after- noon, whereby Mrs. H. H. Gran- ger, aged 37, of Moosoutin, was fa- tally injured, and Mrs. F. H. Gran- ger, aged 30, who lives six miles froin Whwaucsa, was instantly killed. The elder lady and the hos- tess wero driving near the O. N. U. tracks when the horse became uncontrollable and ran into an eastbound train. The mangled re- mains of the horse were carried a hundred yards and the train stop- ped. Mrs. F. H. Granger, who was childless, was quite dead, but Mrs. H. H. Granger lived for a short time after the accident. The lat- ter leaves three children and a husband. • MET DEATH IN 1% 1:1.1,. %Ir. ( ender {i►erenine try (;as at Legal, .tlherta. A despatch from \lurinvillo, Alta., says: .1 .-ed fatality occurred at Legal, twenty miles north, on Tuesday. A son of Aug. Cornier, digging a well, detected gas. How- ever, he continued at work. A neighbor named Rochon was over- come in the well. ('ornier. senior, went to the rescue and also col- lapsed. Tho lad immediately went to a neighhor'a for assistance and rho men were promptly removed from the well. {Lichen, although down the longest, thanks to a strong constitution. soon recovered consciousness and vigor, but Cor- nier was dead w hen ren;os ed. BLOOD FLOWING IN SPAIN There Is Wholesale Shooting of Prisoners in Barcelona. The Barcelona correspondent of the ',widen Telegraph says that for the present quiet is restored, set there arc certain doubts whe- ther the revolution has received its death blow. Martial law is still itt force. The civil guards and po- llee, armed with rifles, still patrol the streets. The wholesale shoot- ing of prisoners after court-martial (till gees on at the Fortress of hf••ntjuich. Rumor states that the revolutinnists will recommence outrages unless the remaining pris- oners are released. Arrests con- tinue on a Targe settle Prisoners are constantly seen with their lands tied behind their backs slid escorted by civil guards. Two well known journalists of .\nars histic tlAl't'ENINC9 FhOM ALL OVI:ltl IDE GLOBE. Teteert.i,nio Briefs Front Our Otv$ aad Other commies td accent Eseuts. ('ANA1).1. Hebrew bakers aro on strike at Montreal. By a vote of 537 to 77 Calgary de- cided in favor of Sunday cars. About 120 electrical workers at and at $4,90 to $5 on track, '1'u Winnipeg are on strike for inertias- ronto. Manitoba flour, first pat - ed j::y, ents, *6.10 to $6.20 on track, Te- Stauley, Sharpe of Kingsto :, aged ronto ; second patents, $5.65 to 19, was struck by an iron bar and $5.75, and strong bakers', $5.40 to fatally, injured. tp5.50 on track, Toronto. J. T. Kane, letter -sorter in the Manitoba 'Wheat -No. 1 North - Montreal Postofico, was arrested ern, $1.22 Georgian Bay ports; No. ou a charge of stealing letters. I2 at $1.19, and No. 3 at 81.18. Douglas Hamilton, a street rail- t Ontario Wheat -New, No. 2, $1 tray conductor, was arrested at a bushel. Hamilton on a charge of robbing, Barley -Old .No. the company. etc outstdo. Tho T. Az N. O. Railway Commis- Oats --No. 2 Ontario white, 54%c sion has decided to instal telephone to 55c on track, Toronto, and 52 to connections at various places on 52%c outside. No 2 Western Can - their line. I ada oats, 47e, and No. 3, 46o, Bay Sandy Ferguson of Toronto fell ever the bank of Niagara River at:d was saved by his clothing catching in a bush about fifty feet down tho bank. For assaulting Manager McEach- ren, a roan named Porteous Was sentenced at Glace Bay to two months in jail. Matthew Cherrie, who assaulted General Manager Duggan, was also sentenced to two shorts, $24, Toronto freights. months or a fine of thirty dollars. The Brotherhood of Locomotive COUNTRY PRODUCE. Firemen and Engineers, meeting in Winnipeg, passed a strong resolu- tion iu favor of a change in the law under which trainmen aro prose- cuted for carelessness in connec- tion with accidents. Optimists should not omit to note the large bloodstains on the uni- forms of the Red Cross men. The correspondent, in a despatch dated Monday, describes children playing at revolution, shooting at each other with toy rifles, and cry- ing "Viva la Republica." He de- clares it would take volumes to de- scribe the desolation now spread- ing its cloak over Barcelona. In speaking of the convent Church of the 'Magdalen, he says: "The whole place is a heap of ruins, around Billiard 'fable, which are still smoking. although A despatch from Lond• n says: the place was set on fire five days Frank Jay Mackey. the well-known ago in the garden there were California millionaire, who has re - thirty vaults where dead sisters aided chiefly in Lnaland for a num- were buried. The coffins from these ber of years, eats tined *10 and were pulled down and opened, and ecst•s on Wednesday in the Learn• tendencies were arrested Monday. the ceruses thrown about the gar- ington Police ('.,art for riding a declared that be had made a wager that he would ride into the local hotel and around tho billiard table, and, having won the wager, be was sentenced to pay- the fine REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices et Cattle. Grain, Cheese sad Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. B1RE:111STU]: FS. BOY 1(IIRIIERS LITTLE GIRL Six -Year -Old Child Tied to a Tree by Foster -Brother and Brains Beaten Out, A despatch from Guysboro', N.S., tied up to a tree, dead. They ap- says : A cold-blooded murder com- plied to the overseers of the poorToronto, Aug. 10. -!'lour --On- for assistance to bury the child, tarn) wheat t, per cent. patents mitted a week ago at Boylston, a Rout old wheat, 134.75 to $4.130 in few miles outside of this town, has buyers' sacks outside for export, just come to light. On Thursday afternoon the adopted thirteen - year -old son of Joseph Issert, a negro, living at Boylston, in the absence of his foster -parents, tied their six-year-old daughter to a tree and beat her brains out. Tho Isserts were away on a picnic, and returning home, found the child 3 extra, 61 to ports. Peas -Prices n-iminal. Buckwheat -Prices nominal. Corn-No. 2 American yellow, 77N to 78c on track, Toronto. Ca- nadian yellow, 75 to 70c on track, Toronto. Bran -$19.50 to 820 for Ontario bran outside in bulk. Manitoba, $22 in sacks, Toronto freights; GREAT BRITAIN. Emperor Nicholas concluded his visit to King Edward on Thursday afternoon, and on board the Im- perial yacht Standen, he left Cowes for Kiel, escorted by Rua- sian and British cruisers. UNITED STATES. President. Taft signed the Payne tariff hill at 'Washington on Thurs- day. Mrs. Panelli, an Italian woman, killed her husband and a woman with whom he had run away at C'anton, N. Y. William Haney, believed to be ono of the men concerned in the train hold-up at hocks, B. C., has been cornered by tlw Los Angeles police. GENERAL. Eighty thousand men have been locked out by employers in Sweden. The British steamer Maori foun- dered on the South African coast. A number of towns in the Span- ish province of Catalonia have pro- claimed a republic. The British steamer Waratah, en route from Sydney, N.S.W., with 300 persons aboard, is miss- ing. Charles Brown. a Buffalo hanker, committed suicide on board the steamer S'atlerlsnd near Antwerp. i'IN'1:U I'\Ill:it 11011,0 EP, 1Ir. N1,1111;1111.. Johnin IS a-4 Fat- ally Injured. .1 despatch frons Lethbridge says: Norman Lewis Jolinson, aged 3e, single, a homesteader in the Porcupine Hills, met with a most Peculiar and fatal accident on 1Wedne'day. lie was digging a holo beside a big boulder to bury it, whe n the boulder slid in on hint, half burying hint, and forcing the pick into his kg from the ankle to the knee. He was there 44 hours before the neighbors discovered and rescued him. He was taken to Pincher ('reek Hospital, but soon died. His brother is a doctor in Toronto. s1'ol.I;N I111.1.Y'l'll1(1 L.ITIN(i. Trader+ Bank Unsigned Notes .tp- pear In Frontenae. :\ despateh from Kingston says: Bills on the Traders Bank, and stolen from l'. 1'. 1t. train some months ago, arc reported to be in circulation in North Frnntenac. Tho bills are insufficiently signed, as they do not bear the name of the manager of the bank at To- ronto. Detectives are at work and are seeking to trace the bills hack to the original passers. They have descriptions of men seeking to get rid of them at country stores and country stations. .t FOOLISH MILLIONAIRE. Rune on Horse into lintel and litany offeers and soldiers are de- Glen. Then they were placed rn horse on a footpath. Mr. Mac es eerting and crossing the frontier. sheets and heaped in a pile and llany bodies have been found un- set on fire. The rooms were pit - O'er the ruins of the consents Ment- !aged. What walls are left aro in. ters of the Red Cross can be 'till scribed with drawings and writings ken transporting charred remains. too obscene to repeat." Beans -Prime, 82.20 to 82.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $13 to $14 a ton on track hero, and lower grades $9 to $10.50. Straw -$7 to $7.50 on track. Potatoes -United States new, *•s per barrel; new Canadian, $1.- 10 to $1.15 per bushel. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings, dressed, 12 to 13c per lb.; fowl, 9 to 10e; turkeys, 14 to 16c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20e; tubs and largo rolls, 18 to 19e; in- ferior, 15 to 16c; creamery, 23 to 23%e, and separator, 19 to 20c per Eggs -Case lots, 21'A to 22c per dozen. Cheese -New, 12c for large and 12%c for twins. HOU PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long dear, 13% to 14e per Ib. in case lots; meas pork, 8'23.50 ; short cut, $`26.50 to $26. Hares -Light to medium, 15% to 10c; do., heavy, 1•f to 14%e; rolls, 12% to 13c; shoulders, 12 to 12}4c ; hacks, 19 to 18%e, and breakfast bacon, 16'/i to 17e. Lard -Tierces, 14%c; tubs, 14%c pails, 13c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Aug. 10. --Oats - No. 2 Canadian Western, 50 to 51e; No. 1 extra feed, 49" to 50%c; Nu. 1 feed, 49% to 50'.',c ; No. 3 Cana- dian Western, 49 to 50c. Barley - No. 2, 71 to 72e; Manitoba feed bar- ley, 60 to 67c. Buckwheat - 69;4 to 70e. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, *0.30; Mani- toba Spring whtat patents, 500- ends, $5.s0; Winter wheat patents, 80.50; Manitoba strong bakers, $5.60; straight rollers, 86.:.5 to *6.35; straight rollers in hags, 82•- 1.0 to $;3: extras in bags, $2.70 to $2.90. feet{ --Manitoba bran, 822; Manitoba shorts, $21; pure grain n:ouille, $33 to 835; mixed muffle, $28 to $:30. Cheese- --Westerns, 11', to 11'.e; eastern. 11% to 11 '2e. Rutter- Finest creamery, 22e. Eggs --2-Ic, and No. 1 candled at 30c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS. and this was granted. later the suspicions of the authorities were aroused, and it was decided to ex - !Anne the body and hold an autopsy. This was done, and then it was as- certained that the child had beets murdered. Tho boy was arrested. An inquiry was held before Coro- ner Ewart and a verdict of murder returned. Two other boys aro also held as accomplices. feeders -83 to $3.60. Hugs -Se - leets quoted at 87.95 f.o.b. and at $8.10, fed and watered. S'1111 -1'K itl' GRAVEL PLOUGH. Peculiar Injury to a young Woman Near Sudbury. A despatch from Norte Bay says: A peculiar accident occurred on the C. P. It. Toronto-Sudhury branch on Tuesday evening at Rumford, six miles oast of Sud- tury. Emma Dube, a young wo- man of eighteen years, of Wanup, was walking with her sister along the track when a work train ap- proached. Tho spreading metal wings of the gravel plough strut -- Emma full in the face, breaking her nose and cutting and lacerating her face. Sho was taken to Sud- bury Hospital, where she lies in a Critical condition. 4F SLEEP -!WALKER KILLED. A St. John, N. ll.. iloy Falls From a Window. A despatch from St. John,.N. B., says: Victor Nicholson, a -fifteen- year-old lad, while walking in his his sleep on Wednesday night at his home, fell from an open win- dow in the third story to tho side- walk below and was instantly killed. The boy's mother heard him moving about his room, and rushed in in time to grab the boy's night shirt as he was falling, but the garment parted in her hands and the boy was :lashed to death, his skull being crushed in. 4. - REACHED THE CENTURY. Death of Alexander 31. s(0;i at London. Oi;t. A dospateh from London says: Mr. Alex. M. Scott died here on Wednesday night, aged 100 years and 2 months. He served under Papineau in 1937, was in Califor- nia during the gold rush, and was a veteran of the American Civil War. Ile lived hero 40 years. His father lived to be 107, and a sister died in Scotland 3 years ago aged 102. Of a family of six the youngest to die was 96. 4F-- (..1N.INOQUE G111f, .tRBE'TED. Charged With Theft of $3.000 From Local Itnil►tay. A despatch from Gananoquo says: On Tuesday Chief Bourke placed tinder arrest Miss Grace Henderson. She is charged with the theft of 82,6'2 from the Thou- sand Island Railway Company, of which she was hoe.kkeeper. also with the theft of a cheque for $570 from the Axle Company paid in freight charges. and another cheque for *96.01. paid by a retail hoose• Before Justice of the Peace Murphy she pleaded not guilty and was allowed to go on 'pail of 86,000. Chicago. Aug. 10.- -Cash wheat-- =-- No. '2 red, 81.172% to $1.05%; No. Ti/E 3 red, 98c to $1.0.2%; No. 2 hard, $1.03 to $1.09; No. 3 hard. ei.00 to $1.04';. torn -No. 2, 06 to 07c; No. 2 yellow, 69 to 69c; No. 3, G6 to 66%e; No. 4. 62 to 64e. Oats - No. 2 white, 39c; No. 3 white. 37% to 30,e. standard, 39%c. Minneapolis, :\ng. 10. -Wheat - Sept.. 81.00'; to $1,01; Dee., 99'; to 99%c ; cash, No. 1 Northern. 81.- 23; No. 2 Northern. $1.23; No. 3 Northern, *1.19 to 81.21: No. 1 despatch from Durum, $1.05; No. 2 Durum. *1.- Bran--In 100-1b. sacks, *20.- says: The labor conflict 50. Flour -First patents, 85.90 to shows signs of becoming more acute $6; second patents. 85.70 to $5.90; and the ranks of the strikers are first clears. 84.95 to 85.23 ; second considerably swelled. But the gen- clears, 83.33 to $3.55. eral strike called for Wednesday has not yet beconie entirely effec- tive. Many organizations, although r; n,pathiring with the strikers, l.esitate to join thein actively. The employees of the street car lines and the cab drivers stopped Rork and neither cabs nor street cars are available. The troops are protecting the gas works and the electric lighting plant, and this step has ineeuged the workmen, whose leader threatens to call a strike unless the soldiers are with- drawn. A corps of workmen come thou• sand troag Is being organized with the object of maintaining order. and the people generally, blinkers, n:'r ELECTRIC SMELTING. Dr. Haanel Says Ontario and Que- bec Can Beat the World. A despatch from Ottawa says: Another report favoring the smelt- ing of iron ores by electricity will shortly be issued by Dr. Haanel, Director of Mines. Ho has recent - investigated the electric smelting process of the world and has found that sixty electric furnaces have been established during the last four years. Lt Sweden the cost of smelting is 812.10 a ton. but in his report Dr. Haanel will say that v ith the abundance of water -pow- ers in Ontario and Quebec the cost in Canada should be much lower. YOUNG GIRL'S SUICIDE. Clara Braithwaite Found Hanging From a Tree. A despatch from Brantford says: Clara Braithwaite, a girl thirteen years of age, the daughter of George Braithwaite, hotelkeeper at Harrisburg, was found hanging front a tree in the orchard near her father's house early on !Wednesday (vetting. The body was first no- ticed by the crew of a Grand Trunk train running past the spot. The train was stopped and the crew, on cutting the body down, found life extinct. The case is thought to be suicide, although 3 motive is lack- ing. 4F 31.ANUEf, TO ViSIT ENGLAND. Portugal's Ruler Accepts Imitation From King Edward. A despatch from Lisbon says: King Manuel has accepted an invi- te' nvi- te -ion front King Edward to visit England in the early Autumn. Tho invitation was couched in most cor- dial terns. No mention of King Manuel'e marriage was in it, but the opinion is general that the sub- ject will be discussed during the visit. N1:1V" Ftsitl:itl REG l'L.t1'IONS. Cull 'tear's Notice Given Before 'fhcy Take Effect. :\ despatch from Ottawa says: The new international regulations to govern the fisheries of Canada and the United States, agreed upon 1y Prof. E. E. Prince and Prof. David Starr Jordan. will not go into effect until 1911. They will bo published simultaneously in De- cember next, so that a full year's notice will be given to all con- cerned. ,1,__ -_.- CSE!) RAZOR ON HOTEL. 3IAN. (;come Gould 11as Fitted $20 and t'usls al Brantford. .1 despatch from Brantford says: Twenty dollars and costs was the fine imposed by Police Magistrate Livingston on Wednesday morning on George Mould for slashing Wes- ley Scott. proprietor of the Lang. ford Hotel, with a razor last week. PEOPbE ARS AR11Mi The Labor Trouble in Sweden Is Be- coming More Acute. A Stockholm in Sweden LIVE STOCK MARRKETS Montreal, Aug. 10 -.1 few of the hest cattle sold nt about 5%e per lb.; pretty good animals sold at 4 to 5e per lb ; common stock at 2% to 3',e per Ih. ; milch cows told at $25 to $50 each. Calves sold at *2.50 to $9 each. Sheep sold at 3% to 4c per Ib lambs at about 6%e per lb. GOood lots of fat hogs sold at about Arc per lb. Toronto, Aug 18 Shoop and lambs were \seek trate 0 to 28e low• er all round (`afteq - .1 trifle dear- er. Milkers and Springers Steady, but as t.hAre Waris eery fee on offer, prices were firm Atookere and chants, etc.. are arming themselves for self-protec•tien. The gun shops of the city are prrctically denuded of revolvers and small arms. Although the railroad men have not derided to strike, the Govern- ment is taking the precaution to 8uard the tracks with troops. fear- ing attempts to blow up bridges or injure the permanent way. Quan- tities of dynamite are reported to have mysteriously disappeared re- cently from the Government stores. The leaders of the strikers claim that the end of the week will see a notable spread of the movement ; that the railroad, postal. telegraph and telephone employees, and the jprinters will by that time have oined. All milk supplies have been cut off and thousands of babies are suf- fering from lack of nourishment and clap from cows' milk to n''i.ic. 1 1 1 4 41 4 4 •