HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-09-09, Page 7GREAT PIRG ?N TOIIOTO
West Wing of Parliament Buildings Gutted
and Provincial Library Destroyed.
A despatch from Ter_: i says:
Entailing da,ungo of at least $600,-
000 levy than half of which is insur-
ed, and the irreparable loss of a
library e:f over 100,000 volumes,
many of which can never be replac-
ed, fire gutted the west vying of the
provincial parliament buildings in
the Queen's Park on Wedne,;clay
afternoon. The insurance, which
ewers the building alone, stands at
$750,000. in 45 companies.
In addition to the fire, water diol
much daniage, and the cellar of the
great steno pile is flooded to a depth
of several feet.
\VHERE IT ST.\RTED.
charred loaves. Beneath this and
to the east were the papers upon
which judges have been at work for
two ye'ar's in revising the statutes
of the province, and a determined
effort was made to save those, al-
though the ufTres of the legal de-
partment. in which they were kept,
THE WORLD'S MARKUS
fS
11E1'01018 FflOM THE 1.1: AULNt•
'MALE ('EN'I'ULy.
Prices of Cattle. Grain. Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Home and Abroad.
l:ltl.lD TUk'FS.
Toronto, Sept. 7.—Flour --- On-
tario flour new Winter wheat pat-
ents at kit to $4.05 in buyers' racks
ou track, Toronto; new wheet flour
for exports, $3.90 to $3.95 outside
were a drench of water which in buyers' sucks. Manitotet ilour,
Poured from upper floors. and %'IC first patents, $5.S0 on track, To -
filled with blinding smoke. This ronto ; '•ccond patents, $5.30, and
< fro" t was snece:stul, though the strong bakers', $5.10 to 85.20 on
papers were ninny of them drench- track, Toronto.
ed. ,\ like fight to save the records Manitoba Wheat --Ola No. 1
and deecuments of the railway com- Northern, 81.23 to $1.25, Georgrisn
mission in the upper floor of the Bay ports; new No. 1 Northern for
north end of the wing resulted in October shipment $1.01, and No. 2
the preserving of those valuable Northern, October shipment, 98,%4e,
The discovery of the blaze which papers and the greater part of the lake ports.
led to the first alarm was made by hydro -electric documents in Hon. Ontario Wheat-17ew No. 2, 97 to
98e at outside points.
a newspaperman as he was leaving
the first floor of the building. The
glass which covers the great Light-
well in the west wing of the main
section crashed through. Ho looked
up and saw smoke and flame and
rushed to the telephone in the at-
torney -general's department and
phoned to fire headquarters.
GOT 000P START.
When the firemen began to arrive
the fire was burning fiercely at the
roof over the fallen light glass, and
in the wing runui:-.g north and south
at the extreme west of the great
stone pile. Lines of hose were run
1:p outside and in through doors and
windows, and the flames did not
make any appreciable headway
eastward, but tore south into the
library and north into the offices in
that end of the wing. This was tho
long stretch in this wing, and it
was in this that the fiercest battle
was fought.
It was not long before the flames
were in possession of the library,
and the priceless books were driven
front the windows a shower of
:\dao► Beck's room were saved, al-
though the offices were gutted.
ROOF FELL IN SECTIONS.
The roof fell in sections. First it
was that section over tho light wet,
then the part over the library went
down with a great crash, and'later
smaller sections further to the
north. With every fall, there, were
great clouds of smoke and cinders
dotted with the bright spots that
wore burning papers.
The smouldering ruin which was
the west wing is now a gloomy
sight. It stands thorn a hulking
mass of blackened and disfigured
stone, roofless and dilapidated.
The whole western wing was de-
luged with water from the bnee-
ment to roof, and setting aside the
loss of the library, the great bulk
of the damage was caused by water
rather than fire.
With the exception of the private
office of the King's printer, all the
rooms in the wing with all their
valuable oak desks, chairs, filing
cabinets and general furnishings
are soaked and almost de.itroyed.
1110 GRANDE ON RAMPAGE.
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Immense 'Territory in Mexico is
Under Water.
A despatch from Austin, Texas,
says: The Rio Grande from the
mouth of the San Jose River down
to its mouth, a distance of 150 miles,
Is on the biggest rampage ou re-
cord. The flood waters of tho Sati
Jose and San Juan Rivers and their
tributaries oro pouring in on the
Mexican side, a scope of territory
thirty to forty miles wide is under
water and an enormous amount of
damage has alreerly been done. See-
eral towns in the lower valley or
the Texas side aro already under
water, and the river is still rising.
No loss of life is reported.
A I'I' 11.1.I NG IiE.1THH 11.1'['1:.
1.233 Children Bled in Montreal In
Taree )lotifhs.
A despatch from Montreal says:
The appalling mortality among chil-
dren in Montreal is well shown by
the figures fur the three hot months
of the year, arid it is safe to say
that no other city in Canada or per-
haps on the continent has such a
terrible recor& in the three
months there were 2.127 deaths of
irhieh 1,2133 were children or 58 per
cent Tho figures went as high as
70 per cent. for some weeks. Tho
highest death rate was the week of
July 21, when the thermometer was
85, when of 211 deaths 153 were
Children.
ELECTRIC SMELL 1NG.
Swedish Expert liere to Establish
Furnaces.
A despatch from Ottawa nays:
Mr. A. Gronwall of Ludvika, Swe-
den, is in Ottawa in connection with
proposals now under way to estab-
lish furnaces in Canada for the elec-
tric smelting of iron ores, on the
same principle as is now in success-
ful operation in Sweden. Mr. (iron -
wall is one of the three Swedish
engineers who have spent the last
three years in perfecting the elec-
tric smelting process along the lines
first laid down by Dr. Hoene',
Deputy Minister of Mines for C'an-
ada. 11 r. Louis Simpson of this
city, who has been actively interest-
ed in the electric smelting process
for same years past, is now forming
a company to establish an electric
smelting industry at a power site
at the Chats, some thirty miles west
d Ottawa, on the Ottawa River.
1'1N11) LORD L.ISC};LLES.
Earl Grey's Mlle Shit Deer in
British Columbia.
:1 despatch from Victoria, B.C.,
says : Lord Lascellee, Aide -do ('atop
to Earl Grey, was fined $275 in the
Police Court hero on Wednesday
for shooting deer out of season. Two
fine (cads which Lord ',ascetics had
turned over to the local taxider-
mist for mounting were spited and
destroyed. The incident is being
tnittiutited locally, but it is almost
without precedent in Canada.
THE NORTH POLE IIEACIIE
Dr. Cook, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Reported to
Have Achieved the Impossible.
A despatch front London says:
/,r. Frederick A. ('ook, of Brook-
lyn, U. S. .. , arrived at Lerwick,
to the Sheil:c::d islands on Wed-
nesday morning, (rum the Arctic
regions, where ho hes Leen for
nearly three years. He. reports
thnt he has discovered the North
Pole. Dr. Cook declares, accord-
ing to the brief telegrams which
reach London, that he attained the
latitude of 90 degrees north on
April 21, 1008.
lir. Cook carne nut of the un-
known wilds at tho dose of May,
this year, at the Greenland Colony
of t';J,errutvik He was taken on
board the 1►anish etoainship Bans
Fired, which makes a regular Stop
at Lerwick The vessel remained
there only a short time, a;id then
enntinued her vo%nge to Copenhag-
en She ie due to reach there on
Saturday The Danish inspector of
f.ree'tland, whoa was on hoard the
Har• Egged. also telegraphs that
P1 ok reached the Pole Ile
sat • that the Iskimee who aeeom-
g; inied Dr Cook confirm all the
ei.eails of the story which he tells.
ST.\Ti'Mi1:NT B1 T/11 ('OOK.
£ despatch from Paris says:
The )'aria edition of the New York
Herald of 1Ve(Inculay morning pub-
lishes a• signed statement from i)r.
Ftc<lerick A. ('ook, which is dated
Hans Ege.d, Lerwick, Wednesday,
on his experiences in the .Arctic
region :
After a prolonged tight with
famine and (rests.' says 1)r. Cook,
"w4` have at Inst succeeded in
reaching the Pole. .1 new highway,
with an interesting 'strip '•f ar,iinat-
e(' n.iture, has been explored and
lig game haunts located, which will
delight sport+;nen and extend the
Eskimo horizon.
"Land has ben discovered which
rests on earth's northernmost
rocks. A triangle of 30,000 square
miles has been cut out of the ter-
restrial unknown. The expedition
was the outcome of n Sumner
cruise in the Arctic seas schooner
Bradley, which arrival at limits of
navigation in Smith Sound late in
Augu-', 1907 Here conditions t ere
found to lounch a venture to 'thc
Pole J. 11. Ilradler liberally dap
plied from his vessels snitsble pro-
% isions for local use. My own
equipment for emergencies served
well for every purpose in the Are-
tic,rr
Barley—No. 2, 55e out .idee and
No. 3 extra at 51 to 53e outside
Oats—No. 2 Ontario white now,
3' to 38c outside. No. 2 Western
Canada old oats 43c, and No. 3, 420,
Bay ports.
Peas --Prices nominal.
Rye—No. 2, 6Se outside.
Buckwheat—Prices nominal.
Corn --No. 2 Amerieau yellow,
77':, to 78e on track, Toronto. Ca-
nadian, 75 to 76c on track, Toronto.
Bran—$20 to $20 50 for Ontario
bran outside in bulk. Manitoba,
$21 in sacks, Toronto freights;
shorts, $2.1, Toronto freights.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -82.50 to 83 per barrel.
Beans—Prince $2.25 to $2.30, and
hand-picked, $2.50 to $2.60 per
bush.
Hay—No. 1 timothy, $14.50 to $15
a tort on track here. and No. 2 at
$1:3 t o 813.50.
Straw --$9 to $9.50.
1'oiltoes -60 to 65e per hag on
track fur Ontsrios.
Poultry—Chickens, dressed, 14 to
13c per Ib. ; fool, 10 to 12c; turkey;,
to to 17c per lb.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter --Pound prints. 19 to 21c:
tubs and large rolls, 14 to 19e; in-
ferior, 16 to 17e ; creamery, 23 to
21e•, and separator, 223,', to 23,4c
per 11,.
Eggs -23c per dozen for case lots.
(:heoso-12%c per lb. for largo,
and 13c for twins.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon—hong clear, 1:3% to 14c
per 11,. in case lots ; mess pork,
$21.50 to $a5; short cut. $20.50 to
$27.
Tlants—Light to medium, 15 to
16c; du., heavy, t t to 14'/.,c ; rolls,
13',!, to 14c; shoulders, 12% to 13c;
backs, 18 to 14!/.2"c; breakfast ba-
con, 16;(c.
Lard—Tierces, 1-1?_c; tubs, 11,{e;
pair, 15e.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Sept. 7.—The market
for oats is steady; No. 2 Canadian
Western, 411/2 to 45c; No. 3 Cana-
dian \Vestere, 43% to 41c. Barley
---No. 2, 66 to 67c; Manitoba feed
barley, 61 to 65c. Flour—Manito-
ba Spring wheat patents, firsts,
$5.00; Manitoba Spring wheat pat-
ents, seconds, $5.40; Winter wheat
patents, $3.75; Manitoba strong
bakers', $5.20; straight rollers, $5.-
50; straight rollers in bags, $2.60.
Feed -Ontario bran, 822 to $23; On-
tario middlings, 82:3.50 to Q21.50;
Manitoba bran, $22; Manitoba
shorts, $24; 'nine grain inouille,
833 to 834; mixed mouille, $25 to
$27. Cheese—Westerns, i1% to
117,4c, and Fasterns, 11'tl to 11%c.
Butter—Creamery, 23c. Eggs—Se-
lected stock, 25),4 to 26c; No. l
cind!ed at 2•l,'y to 23e. and No. " CONDENSED
at to to 19e per dozen.
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UNITED STATES M.11;Iil:'1'.4
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 7. -
Wheat- -Sept., 9-I jbe ; Dec., 6'2',;•
]flay, tails'. ('ash—No. 1 hard,
; No. 1 Northern, 98ie ; ICu.
2 Northern, 96,14e; No. 3 Northern,
Flour—First patents,
$5.15. 4.27 ; second pateuts, 85.-
15 to $5.2n; first clears, $1.45 to
$4.6J; soeund clears, 83.30 to $3.-
511. Bran ---In 100 -pound ' sacks,
$19.50 to $20.
Chicago. Sept. 7.- Cash wheat --
No. 2 red, $1.04 to $1.05; No. 3 rod,
t'9c to 81.02; No. v hard, $1.01 to
$1.021,-; No. 3 hard, 97c to $1.01;
No. 2 Northern, $1 01 to $1.02; No.
5 Spring, 95c to $1.00. Corn ---No.
2, 68'4 to 69%c; No. 2 white, 69 to
69%e; No. 2 yellow, (94c; No, 3,
6sjv to C9c; No. 3 white, G9c; No.
3 yellow, 69%c No. 4, 67c. Oats—
No. 3 white, 37 to 39e; No. 4 white,
30r/y to 37',u'c; standard, 381/, to
39%c.
LIVE STOCK MARE ETS.
Montreal, Sept. 7.—Choice steers
sold 5 to 5%c; good at 4% to 4%c;
medium, 4 to 4%c; cows. 3 to 4 jYc,
and bulls, 2 to 3;4c per pound. The
price of Iambs declined %c per
pound, with sales at 5%e; sheep,
3,'•;e per pound. Calves, $3 to 815
per head. Hogs—Sales of the bet-
tor grades wore registered at S'3.-
75 to $9 per 100 pounds, weighed
oft the cars.
NO CRIMINAL INTENT.
Light Sentence on Clerk for Ale.
eh -acting Postal )latter.
A despatch front Lindsay says:
G. C. Henley, the young Ix+st-office
clerk charged with abstracting mat-
ter from the mails, was up before
P. M. Jackson on Wednesday. The
evidence went to show that there
was no criminal intent, and the
magistrate sentenced him to one-
half hour in jail.
Fro tt viow of 1';trlittnl(`ttt buildings, Toronto, showing the \Vest Wing (the left of Picture
which was destroyed.
'fi)Itoa 1 t)'3 (.I1O1Si 11.
(iptinri.nr of the People of Ilio
Queen City.
Toronto is a great financial cen-
tre. creeping up close to Montreal.
There are 11 banks with head of-
fices here, only 6 in Montreal. Life
insurance compnnie, a ith head of-
fices in Toronto carry policies of
$313,011,736, and there are 15 fire
companies with their beadqunrters
in Toronto.
in 1903 the hank clearings were
8808,7181,260. Since 11105 they have
exceeded one billion dellars each
year.
Tho customs duties at Toronlu
r(ached 1(11,611,267 ill 1907.
Toronto does the biggest post
office business in Canada. In 190h
the revenue was $1,o7e.193. Mont-
real's was 8938,936.
Toronto's street railway paid
865.230 as percentege to the city in
1892. l.a.t year it paid $117,297 out
of the fares paid by 89,1 :9,571 pas
to ngers.
Toronto is the headquarters for
the (government of Ontario.
it. is the leading musical centro
it Canada and supports seven first-
class choral organizations, one with
a world-wide reputation.
For its size it is the best theatri-
cal centro in America. It has eight
theatres which took in nearly 81,-
500,000 last season.
It. is a military centre.
it is the hest athletic city in Can-
ada and contributed eighteen out
of the thirty-four on the Canadian
team at the Olympic games.
It is a ('ity of beautiful homes, a
city of growing eeelth, a city of
developing art.
it is a city that has led the way
i, n nniespal government by a Beard
i Centro'. Winnipeg followed,
then Ottawa, Hamilton has legisla-
tive f(rr.i•'i,•r and Memtr:.I is in -
6111T
l;: t ' c' hest a,.et of the city
apart fr,'ni the mental tune of puh-
lie e•;nr:i„uthe splendid optirn-
i•u, nes u: ie. • Oiecac alio are eco•
Went, that the growth of the past
is of no mushroom order, but is
firer, grounded on a rock of per-
manency. It is this that is behind
the establishment of costly and
beautiful branch hanks all over the
city ; the erection of huge office
buildings; thn enlargement of the
factories, the warehouses, the de-
partmental nod the retail stores. It
is this that is breaking the 8:1,225,-
800 buildings record of 1907 ; this
Hutt persuaded the ratepnyors to
vete $2,100,000 for a trunk sewer;
$750,000 for n filtration plant and,
it may be, 112,750.000 for an electri-
cal distribution plant. It is that
that will persuade the city to spend
$2.000,000 for the elevation of the
steatn tracks and *700.000 for a sea
wall that will regain its waterfront
this splendid a;tin:i:nt will conte to
tho aid of all great proj(•cte that
are (leorred neces'ary for the de-
v-elepment of Toronto in the future.
-•-The News.
partly flayed before moving," and
so treneherous that in the days
w hen dingoes were more commonly
kept as pets by the oolonists than,
as a result of bitter experience, is
the case to -day, it w•a' no unusual
thing for the dog which had been
brought up with every tenderness
from puppyhood to turn suddenly
er its toaster or mistress. or, what
was more frequent, when left in
temporary charge of an empty
house to seize the opportunity to
raid the sheepfold or the poultry
runs.
On such occasions it "ravens
cion as the golf, killing not to sat-
isfy its hunger, but in the unre-
strninahlo firs of a brute instinct,
1') that given time enough it will
not lease one fnw-1 or one sheep
alive. That it does net need much
time, mot -cover, is shown by the
statement of Thomas Ward that
"one dingo in the course of a few
hours Inas been known to destroy
several score of sheep." For its
fighting ability the same authority
declares it t'e be a match for most
THE :A1'STRA1.1 +►i DINGO. domestic dogs of double its size.
\Vh(•n wild it hunts in packs.
its Treachery and Deaructirene•s— vital' are said sometimes to include
Will Feign Death. as many as n hundred individuals,
tkoug.i from six to a dozen is the
There are some who believe, common number ; and the only Au -
though the evidence scema against slraliari animal which it. is uneer
them, that certain of the wild dogs, tain if ,;ee peek can ever pull down
like the Australian dingo • yellow ie (in -geite of Mr. 5ig,!ing) the "old
dog dingo, alway' dusty ,ngaroo.
in the sun" are the ---- - +
wild state of a r1t e, just BERLIN',"1 t 1 t \1 111 \ 11:W.as the parish doggy o,us coun-
tries have travelled half the read 'Thirty I'hou•and '1 roapa i'aseed
toward becoming wild animals
again, says the London Times.
As one sees the dingo here in the
gardens it looks not merely like a
domesticated dog. but like a dog
of a distinctl engaging and ami-
cable kind. The dingo's character
belies its gentle leeks. "Quarrel-
some, sly and treacherous." an
Australian naturalist has called It.
Poj"
ddard tinThe Cambridge Napre's returned to the p 90
sly it is that according to Mr.
13alace reach 10,0 fwelve hundred beat -
twat History'') it feigns death through the prinei1'al Atreets ',f , ie' have already been reo<►tered and
"with such persistence that an in- Berlin and were a eerod by the placed in beefily eonstrneted
dtvidual has been kiivwn to bs creeds `morgues.
NEWS ITEMS
t1Al't'I:NINGS 1'iti))! Af.L ol}:-D
1UL•' t;LURE.
Trlerrspnle Ltrlefs Prem Onr Oaf
sad Other Countries (1
Bercut Events.
CANADA.
Provincial license officers seized
large quantities of liquor in New
Ontario.
The Sarin Theatre at Hamilton
was damaged by tire on Wednes-
day.
The Government has fixed Mon-
day, October 25t1t, ns Thanksgiving
Day.
An outbreak of scarlet fever is re-
ported at the Boys' Home in Ham-
ilton.
The steamer Kathleen was struck
by lightning and burned at Stur-
geon Point, on \Vedne day.
Owing to increased traffic extra
trains arc to be put on the T. & N.
O. Railway.
The Grand Trunk Railway has
moved its yards and engines from
East Toronto to Mimico.
A young son of Mr. Fentiman was
killed at, Ottawa by a cart turning
over on top of him, on Wednesday.
Mr. F. A. Acland has gond to
Gtaeo Bay to report to the Labor
Department on the strike situation.
"Itev." Jantes I.oudsiak was sen-
tenced at Fort 1Villia+n to five years
in penitentiary for robbing stores.
Mr. A. J Nixon of London, Ont.,
has been appointed chief e•f the how
operating branch of the Railway
Commission.
Dr. John Beath has been sent to
Europe by the Ontario Government
in search of information regarding
the training of artisans.
(1RE:1T BRITAIN.
Lord Rosebery will speak at an
anti -budget meeting at Glasgow.
Lord 1)e Clifford was killed in an
automobile accident at Brighton,
England, on Wednesday.
Speaking to a deputation of cat-
tle importers on Thursday Mr. As-
quith would hold out no hope that
the embargo on banadian cattle
would bo removed.
UNITED STATES.
Three trainmen were killed in a
collision near Huntington, 1'a., on
Wednesday.
Seven children were suffocated in
a fire in an orphanage On Long Is-
land, on Tuesday.
Fire almost destroyed the steant-
ec Northwind in a gale on Lake Su-
perior, on Wednesday.
Tho Schuylkill \'alley, in Pennsyl-
vania, is suffering from the worst
drouth it has exeperienced in fifty
years.
Mr. Harriman has issued a state-
ment to the press, in which he says
that his physicians have told hien
he only needs rest.
A chauffeur arrested at New York
repeatedly for fast driving was for-
bidden by the court ever to drive
a car in the State again.
A lone highwayman held up an
express train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, near Lewiston, Pa., hut
did not get more than 8100 in •
money.
Cal?NE11Afe.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
in Rome on Tuesday.
Count Zeppelin damagNl his bal-
loon on his return flight from Her-,
lin. and had to descend.
The attempt to tow the first Ger•,
man Drendnougght \\'estplialen
down the Weser ended in failure.
1.1110'1'Oi'E ON ,1f:1topI.1 ii.
Nee .1it-Indian Invention fur fly-
ing in a N ind.
:\ despatch from London says : •
Two Australians, of the names of
Healy and Roberts, are testing here;
an invention which they claim will
enable thein to ignore the w -i 'd and
113 in any weather. Speakir• • -A-
ly, the invention is a gyros, , • at-
tachment to the engine, cie using
balance in any circumstance*. 'I'b(s
actual method of the appiicnt i• n the
inve•ntcers are keeping a secret Tho
tests arc going on in Eso ' oh
three types of aeroplanes
TRIED TO 511.f..11.1'O N SO.
Barcelona 1'ofice .tire -t a Noted.
ons Anarchist.
.\ despatch from Madrid says:
The police of itarcelona l'rocines
base 'iteeeeded in arresting i ran -
rise,' Ferrer, a notorious .\nere't
ist. who has been want. d ter s
long time in connection tt;t'e e -
ber of outrages it is r,t:0 i
that he was n member eef t1.• ..i. {
r';ponsib'e for the bomb out raw. 1
sic occai-ion ,,f King Alfonso's V (' 1 -
Before haieer. I cling.
A de'ipatch from Berlin sae s :
1 111.1'111 !Jai' (0,(10(1.
Emperor William attended the Au-
tumn review on Wednesday of the lforrurs of ifeeientt I'londee 1 ndor-
Berlin and Potsdam gam ons en • anlod.
the Templehof Parade (ground. The
review was the usual brilliant spec- , .\ de'•pnteh fr. , I , : sal:,
tach. Thirty theetssand troops of i says Reliable a•l• , ',I •h-
all brsneites took part in t!ie ma-; terry dregate that t1.e. iia
nnuvre+ The Emperor and f•:m• ; (tom the flne•el•:'tricken diets i• + till