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Exeter Advocate, 1909-09-30, Page 7THE PEARY-COOK QIIARRELJCOENSCD_E\S ITEMSHE WORLD'S MARItEfS fAl'tENINGS F'hOM ALL OVER REPORTS FROM THE LEADING THE GLOBE. CENTRES. Peary's Evidence Now in the Hands of Arctic Club President. A de psteh from Portland, Maine, says : ('ommander Robert le Peary has placed all of his evi- dence to prove that I)r. Cook did tee reach the North Pole, as he hays he did, in the hands of Gen. Thomas Hubbard, of New York, the president of the Peary Arctic Club. Ile Nil! not make any fur- ther move in the controversy until Gen. Hubbard has gone over all the documents he received on Thursday, and the two have con- sutted together. Peary announced from the Lab- rador haven that he was bringing with him indisputable evidence to cut the ground from ,• under Dr. Cook's claim to Polar achieve- ments. He would not accept any invitations or ovations, he said lat- er, at Sydney, until the matter of Cook's pretensions had been final - 1; settled. On Thursday he turned over to the head of the associati n which had financed his recent Po- lar expeditions, and which shares with him the burden of present dis- comfort, the proof on which his claim to being the sole discoverer cI the North Pcle rests. Gen. Hub- bard, besides being the president ct the association as Peary's hack - c rs, is also a lawyer of high stand- ing, and Peary's personal counsel. ONLY WAY TO REACH POLE. A despatch _from New York says: Twelve hundred persons at- tended •the banquet given on Thursday night in the grand ball- room of the Waldorf and adjacent rooms in honor of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, by the Arctic Club, of America. The doctor made a speech, but added nothing to shat he has already said about. Iris dis- covery. He did not think he should have appealed to anybody fur a li- cense to look for the Pole. and ad- • ► a c. dta .t • i►rsn U A :-"Abr h g decd +, g 1 An army of white hien who at best are novices are a distinct hin- drance, while a cumbersome luxury (.f equipment is fatal to progress. We chose to live a life as simple as that of Adam. and we forced the strands of human endurance to scientific limits. If you will reach. the Pole there is no other way. We were not overburdened with the aids to pleasure and comfort, but I did not start for that purpose. The expenditure of a million dol- lars would not . have given us a greater advantage." TO BUILT) MEN-OF-W%I1. A Montreal Company Will Estab- lish a Plant. A despatch from Montreal says: It is stated here that a number of roniinent shipping men are form- ing a big ship -building company. They are planning to build a plant capable of turning out men-of-war, and in fact every kind of steam- ship. Sir Montagu Allan, inter - a iewcd on Wednesday, admitted that many prominent Canadians had been discussing t!ie project quietly fur some time, and had promised to unite in financing the scheme. "There has been nothing definite done yet," he said, "hut I 1( pe very shortly to see the com- pany well under way." Sir Mon- tagu said that as yet no decision •s to the site of a shipbuilding plant had been determined on, but admitted that a largo one would undoubtedly be established. + A 1' STR:1 I.I.1'S MILITIA. Will he Recruited From Fully Trained Men. According to a London Times de- spatch regarding the Australian defence scheme, cadet training be- gins in 1911 and citizen training in 1912. When the scheine is in full working order it is estimated that It. will provide 40,000 junior ca- dets, 75.000 senior cadets, and 55,- 000 citizen soldiers under 21. The militia, 25.000 strong, will thence- forth he recruited only from the lolly -trained men. It is hoped that after 1916 Australia will have a first line of 50,000 men ready to go any- where, a seeoud line of 50,000 ready t., act as garrisons, 'and a third line of 140.000 composed partly of teen who have had citizen training and partly of older -trained rescrv- i,ts. + TRIPLE EXI:('l l'll)N. Three 1'renchmen l nillotined While l roved .Ipplaude41. DIED ON WIFE'S GR -1W1'. Suicide of E. B. Hamilton in Beach- wood Cemetery. Ottawa. A despatch from Ottawa says: Lying across the grave of his young wife in Beechwood Cemetery, with a bullet hole through his brain, E. 11. Hamilton, a former resident of Ottawa and latterly employed in New York by a boot and shoe com- pany, was found dead on Thurs- day afternoon by the caretaker of the cemetery. A revolver lying be- side shim on the grave told the story of the su'cide. Hamilton's wife died a few months ago. after they had been married less than a year. On Wednesday he came from New York to look at her grave in the cemetery here. At noon on Thursday he called on the clerk at the cemetery and asked for the bill for the care of the plot. A few moments later a pistol shot was heard near the grave of Mrs. Ham- ilton, and the lifeless body of the despondent husband was found a few minutes later prone over the grave. The deceased was 35 years of age, and was formerly a mem- ber of the Ottawa police force. Chief County Constable Hamilton it an uncle. tr 1)11:1) ON HONEYMOON. Newly -Wedded Pair Asphyxiated in Boarding House. A despatch from Albany. N. Y.. says: En route from Farmington, Conn., to Hailstone, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Petchsrd were found dead on Wednesday in a room of a hoarding house, having been asphyxiated, after a four clays' honeymoon. TIie police ex pressed the belief that thoughtless- ly or through ignorance the hus• Land had blown out the gas. (1 marriage certificate, which was found in the room, showed that Petchard. aged 45, and his bride. May Hennessy, aged 22. were tear ried Sept. i8 last at Farmington, Conn. .\ despatch from Valence, Drome, W 1 I.h 1:1) 1 \ h tilt l' 11;1'. France, says: .\ triple execution by ly llindell, a Wenn • swede, Ilan guillotine took place in this city at Itis Neck Broken al Cohan.ills light on Wednesday. Three mien--Berruyer, Dat id and Liottard .t despatch from Cuba R. says: --were decapitated fur a series of S. 11indell, a young Swede. aged atrocious crimes in the Department 23. who had only been a short time of Drome, which created a reign of in the country and had just start - terror. No less than twelve mur ed work in the Cobalt t'entrnl tiers and 200 robberies are laid to mine. met instant death on Weal - the doors of these men. They teesday afternoon about 2 o'clock. eften tortured their victims w;th llindell had been watching the cage red-hot irons. A great crow.) wit going up and down and finally messed the. executions and applaud- walked tinder it as it was descend- ed wildly every time the knife ing. His neck ens broken and his iell. head badly crushed. THE \YAYE OF PROSPERITY Mr. F. W. Thompson's View of the Conditions in Canada. A despat4•h from Fort \William Mr. Holt indicated that the inter - sae s: "('anadat, from tact to west, ests represented Icy them will make extensive investments in the west. is undergoing a Nave 4,f prosperity The two gentlemen were closeted tient gives every indication of soli- all forenoon w i:c t'ity officials here, day from the ground up," said Mr. with a view t., reaching an agree - 11'. W. Thentpson, Vice -{'resident ment for est,.hlishing a wire and and General Manager of the Ogilvie rolling mill. to cost appreximate- 1i'ia'ur Mills Company, who has come iy one-third of a million dollars. se -t fer the purpose of deciding Should the city grant them camp - upon a site fora new flour mill of tion fur is short peritxl. construe - at (east 3.000 barrels a day cepa- lion will begin this fall. Mr. tits. Mr. Thompson arrived in Thornpw,n states that easy money Ter, 'William on Thur+das mei ting and bumper grain (raps cannot with Mr. 11 S. Bela l,'re.ident of help bet work wonders for the the Montreal Her.t, light & Power whole country, and especially the l'umpany. Both 31r. Thuiep;on aid west. Telegrapsle Briefs From Our Our sad Other Countries el Recent Events. The Temiskaruing d Northern Ontario Railway is now paying its way. Lieutenant -Governor Gibson for- mally opened the new waterworks at Guelph, on Thursday. A number of sheep belonging to Mr. Cecil Langford of Lue.don township were poisoned. There is no truth in the story that the C.P.R. will at once le eild is lakefront line east of Toronto. The C. P. R. an.tounces a reduc- tion of three cents a Nord on cable messages from Manitoba points. ► s Mr.Robertson, :1• a J.K. It son rt �1. , l Leen appointed lecturer in physics at Queen's Schoed of Mining, King- ston. The Ontario Hydro -electric Com- mission is prepared to supply Port Arthur with any amount of power required. Mr. 1 't Tisdale has been ap- pointed Superintendent of the Lake 'Superior division of the Grand Trunk Pacific, with headquarters at Fort William. GREAT IBRIT.%IN. Mr. A. J. Balfour criticized the Lloyd -George budget in a speech at Birmingham, on Wednesday. UNITED STATES. Crude rubber has reached the highest price ever known. Robert Hoe, the manufacturer of printing presses, is dead. A Chinaman living near Oakland. Cal., has invented an aeroplane. Otto T. Barnard was nominated for Mayor of New York by the al- lied Republican and independent forces. Lord Northcliffe, speaking at Portland, Ore., on the European situation, stated that foolish op- timism was greatly to be deprecat- ed. W. J. Bower, an arctic explorer, who has just returned to San Fran- crtco, reports finding a new tribe of Eskimos in Prince Albert Land. Complaints have been made by State's Attorney \Wayn►an of Chi- cago that whole juries aro tainted through conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice. A Grand Jury at Council Bluffs, la., has indicted eighty-three men on, charges of conspiracy to de- fraud in connection with the pro- motion of alleged fake races. Three women were killed and three men and a woman seriously injured when the automobile in which they were riding jumped over a trestle at Seattle, on Wednes- day. -- GENERAL. Two men. one of them a priest, were killed in a religious riotat Castro, Spain. The Moors were defeated with a loss of 400 men is battle with the Spaniards on Monday and Tuesday. The Australian defence bill pro- poses to expend I:2.500,000 annu- ally on the military and naval forc- e.; of the ('otnrnunecalth. .1N .tI lOMO111LE CORPS. Experiment to he Tried in Thanks. giving hay Manoeuvres. :1 despatch from Ottawa says: Arrangements are under way for the formation of an automobile corps in connection with the Ot- tawa militia. It is said that up- wards of a hundred automobiles would be available to assist in the field manoeuvres here on Thanks- giving Day. and it is expected a tiial will be made of their practi- cahility in transport ing atop 4, car- rying supplies, keeping up Tines of communication, etc. if the experi- ment proves successful here the Militia Department may encour- age the formation of similar corps in other cities. KILLED 1IY ,1EROPi..1NE. Death of Captain Ferber While Making a Test Flight. A despatch from Boulogne says: Captain Ferber, an officer of the French army, was killed near here (:n (Wednesday morning while test- ing an aeroplane. 'While in the air the machine turned completely over. and then dashed to the ground. Captain Ferber was crushed to death by the motor. POISON RE.1PPE.111ED. Death of Mrs. T. F. Swayze al St. Catharines'. A despatch from St. Catharines St. vs : Mrs. Theodore F. Swayze, wife of N. S. & T. II. Conductor Swayze, died very suddenly on Wednesday under peculiar circum- stances. Some years ago she was poisoned by eating toadstools in ►ntstake for mushrooms. When t :ken ill this time the effects of the poi ening came hack and terminat- ed `atally. She was in her fifty-sec- ond year. Prices of Cattle. Grain. Cheese and 011ier hairy Produce at Howe and :Abroad. BREADSTUFF'S. Toronto, Sept. 29• -Flour - On- tario flour 90 per cent. patents, $4 to $4.05 in buyers' sacks on track, Toronto, and at $3.90 to $3.95 out- side in buyer's sacks. Manitoba [icor, first patents, $5.50 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.30, and strong bakers, $5.10 to $5.20 ou track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -New No. 1 Northern, $1.04%. Bay ports, and No• 2 Northern at $1.0.2' : spot, Bay ports. No. 1 Northern, $1.0.2, Bay ports, October shipment, and No. 2 $1.00, October shipment. Ontario Wheat -No. 2, 9S to 99c at outside pointe Barley -For future delivery No. 2 55 to 56e, and No. 3 extra 53 to b4c outside. Oats -No. 2 Ontario white, new, 37% to 38%c outside. New Can- ada West oats, 39c, bay ports. Peas -No. 2 new, 77 to 80c out- side. Rye -No. 2, 73 to 75c outside. Buckwheat -55 to 56c outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow, 77 to 77%c on track, Toronto. Cana- dian, 75c on track, Toronto. Bran -$19 outside in bulk for On- tario bran, and $21 to $21.50 for shorts in bulk. Manitoba bran, $21.50 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $24, Toronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -Cooking apples, $1.75 to $2 per barrel. and eating apples at $2.25 to $2.75. Beans -Prime, $2.25, and hand- picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. lfouey-Combs, dozen, 82.25 to $3; extracted, 10c 'per Ib. Hay -No. 1 timothy,' $15.50 to $16 a ton on track here, and No. 2 at $14 to $14.50. Straw -$9 to $9.50. Potatoes -60 to 65c per bag on track for Ontarios, and 75c fur New Brunswick. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 14 to 15c per lb.; fowl, 9 to 10e; turkeys, 17 to 18c per Ib. ; ducks, lh., 12 to 18c. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 22c : tubs and large rolls, 18 to 19c ; in- ferior, 17 to 18c; creamery, 24 to 25e, and separator, 22 to 23c per Ib: Eggs -Case lots, 25c dozen. Cheese -12%c per Ib. for large. and at 13;,c for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear,. 15 to 15%c pet lb. in case Tots: press pork, 8.5 to $25.50; short cut, $27 to $27.50. Hams -Light to medium, 16 to 161,;e; do., heavy, 14% to 15c; rolls, 14 to 141/c; shoulders, 13 to 13%e: Lacks, 18 to 19c; breakfast bacon. 17 to 17%e. Lard -Tierces, 15e; tubs, 15%c: trails, 15%c. BUSINESS :1T MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 28.-Oats-Xo. Canadian \Western, 43`, to 44%c: No. 3 Canadian Western, 423, 14 fa'ie: barley, No. 2, 66 to 67c; Ma- nitoha feed barley, 61 to 65c; buck wheat, :,:4 to 55%e. Flour -Mani- toba Spring wheat patents, firsts. [45.90; Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, seconds, $5.40; (Winter wheat patents, $5.50; Manitoba. strong l.akers', $5.20; straight rollers, $5 to $5.25; straight rollers, in hags. 0.2.35 te. $2.50. heed ---Ontario bran, $22 to $23; Ontario mid- dlings. $23.50 to $24.50; Manitobe bran, $22; pure grain mouille, $3^ t•, $31; mixed mouille. $25 to 827. Cheese -Westerns, 11% to 11'.e. and cnsterns at 11',,; to 11'2c. But- ter -Finest creamery, 21;9 to 25c. 1:ggs-Selected stock. 25' z to 26c; No. 1 candled, 22!:9 to 23c, and No. 2 at 18 to 19e per dozen. UNITED STATES M.\itKF.TS Minneape.lis, Sept. 2'1. - Wheat - Sept., Dec; Dec.. 97',c ; May. 81.- 01%; ('ash, N. 1 hard, ?I1)1'/„ to 81.01%; No. 1 Northern, $1.00% to $1.00%; No. 2 Northern, 98% to gab/5e; No. 3 Northern 96% to 97Nc. Flour -First patents. $5.10 to $5.- yC; se^ond patents, 34.90 to $5; first clears, $1.35 to $1.53; second clears, $3.10 to $3.30. Bran - In 100-1b. sacks, $19.50. Buffalo, Sept. 29 -Wheat -Spring heat stronger; No. 1 Northern, carloads. store. $1.05%; Winter. higher ; No. 2 red, $1.11 ; Ni. 2 white, $1.12. Corn -Easier; No. :1 yellow, 72%c: No. 4 yellow. 711;c; No. 3 corn, 71c; No. 4 corn, 7')'. e; No. 3 white, 71'.,e. Oats -Firm. ('anal freights -Wheat, 4';c to New York. LiVE STOCK N1.1111:1:T Montreal, Sept es.- i'i int lwet•es sold at 5 to 5',c per Ih. ; pretty good animals. 3' to 4'%e. and the common stock, 2% to 31,e per lb. ; milch cows from $30 to 855 each. Sheep 3' 9 to 3',e. and lambs 3% to 5;yc per lb. Gond BUTCHERED BY PEASANTS Thirty Are Dead and One Hundred and Fifty Seriously Injured at Kiev, Russia. A despatch from Berlin nays: Another meassacre of the Jews by the Russians has taken place at Kiev, according to information re seised on We4iuesday by prumi'1 ent Jews of this city. The latest outrage began on last Thursday, the Jewish New Yeas's Day, and lasted for three days, during which time 18 Jews were killed outright, 12 so severely in- jured that they subsequently dike', and 150 seriously injured. Ther^ were a thousand lesser casualtir,, besides the destruction of sever11 hundred thousand dollars' worth .ef Jewish property. The Jews haft but scant means of defending themselves, and succeeded in kill Ing but three of their Russian as sailants and injuring a score. The reactionary party is respon- sible for the latest anti-Jewish outbreak. It became enraged at the Jews for their support of tap reform movement, and decided t inaugurate the Jewish New Year with another attack on the Jew several of which have darkened Kiev's history in the last few yea's. Hundreds of peasants were hired l•y the reactionary party and they leu in Ow attack on the Jews. At the height of the mob's frenzy 100 Jewish women and girls were seized ha the drunken rioters, stripped of their clothes, chained together in a long line and paraded naked through the streets, tthile the crowds of Russians jeered. reviled and spat upon them. Two Jewish toys who sought to defend the wo- men against this outrage were seized by the leaders and thrown into a nearby bonfire that had been built of the plunder of sacked Jew- ish houses, and roasted alive, while the mob danced abut the flames. One of the first. acts of the snob, which had been made drunk before b1 ing turned loose for the murder- ous work. was to rush to the syna- gcgue, where the rabbi was butch- ered and the congregation driven from the building. The edifice was then demolished. lots of fat hogs Bold at 9 to 91/sc per lb. Toronto, Sept. 28. - Straight loads of prime to medium butch- ers' sold at from $4.85 to $5.50, but ali other grades were from 15 to 25c lower. Very few exporters' were on the market, and there were slightly easier in price. Stockers and feeders of the better class were much wanted, but the rougher sort were hard to sell. Choice cows were equally strong, as Was the de- mand for good milkers and spring- ers. Sheep were steady. but lambs were fully 20c lower. Calves steady. Hogs receded 25e, and are now quoted at $8.15 f.o.b. and $8.40 fed and watered. THEY MUST WORK. Suffragettes Senleneed to Prison With (lard Labor. A despatch from London sales • Ordinary imprisonment eying failed to check rioting on the part of the suffragettes, a Magistrate at Birmingham on Wednesday ar- ternoon sentenced Mary Leigh ural Charlotte Marsh. two of the ring- leaders in the outbreak at tee meeting in Birmingham the night of September 17, when Premie► As- quith delivered an address open the budget, to two and three months, respectively, at bard labor. Another woman was given one month at hard labor and others various terms of simple imprison- ment. When the sentences were nr:nonnced a number of suffragettes in court picked up whatever they could lay their hands on in the form of missiles and broke the win- dows of the court room. WITH F:SS BURN EI) O1 1'. -- Montreal Newspaper tiutiered Healy Loss. A despatch (rem Montreal says: The Mentrea.l 11'itness ofiice was ;uttered by fire. which broke out about 6.30 un Thursday night. The damage is estimated at from $50,- 000 to $75,000. Several neighbor- ing stores and offices also suffered. The fire was discovered at 6.30 by men working in the job room, but 'tow it originated is a mystery. The Ilanies began their work on the top floor. nest in an i•aeredihly short time the whole upper flat was reckod. The roof then fell in 5n41 added to the damage. Flames ole their way down through the other floors to the press room in 'he basement. In addition to the Image by fire. the loss by water tt ill he considerable. :\ rrange- •nents have been made with The Gazette to publish the paper for the present. There was an insur- •true of $150,000 on the buildi ig and ;v)ntcnts. ROY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. 1.11111' 51.1...r Held Rifle and it Went 011 ae She Put it Donn. \ despatch from Begot, Man., says : Murray. the seven-year-old .on of Neil Johnson of itosendale, was ae&ide•itally shot through the head last night, dying three hours after. The hired man had return - (41 from the elevator. and a five- year-old sister climbed into the eager', sh -re a 22 -calibre rifle lay loaded. I'cc•',.sed following closely sift a baby in his arms, started te, climb over the wheel as the little girl picked up the rifle. The father 11 LION OF TERROR. ordered her to lay the rifle down, - • but the rifle discharged. and the Bomb I.'ple.•ions in the `x11.1.•11 of bullet entered one'ide of the little Bitr•relena. lad's face, penetrating almost to ;\ despatch from So: ase a -a, the other side. Medical aid was Slain. say : liarcelonr is evident' s:.mmoned. but the lad died with passing though anot'he'r r fern of vat regaining consciousness. terror. The situatie a titre-104mi + Spain is disquieting. Not n dry "Yes.- rejoined Murphy. ''It 1 a passes in iinreele,na v ith.,aat 1►u'nh rerna,.cahle world. I just had en explosions 111 the street, but the experience much like that u►yrelf• Government supple. n..;v. 1 was calking duan tine, street not these orcurren•e4 \Warring+ are ten minutes ago, met o mreceivaof t)i leour and phaco --tw•o, mind you-thandaf reit neveren sh'-re exlplosi.r11 oil', uc•cur 81141 met before." they are almost always fulfilled. 111(311 EST TOWN IN THE WORLD Mining Station Run Far Up in the Andes. Cerro de Pasco is the highest town in the world. The remark- able broad gauge railway by which it is reached passes over a higher altitude -about that of Mont Diane -and there are mining camps and Indian villages at greater eleva- tions. It is also true that there are higher railway stations, for on the Arequipa-Puno lino the station of Crucero Alto attains the stupend- ous elevation of 14,660 feet ; I.at at ;1,200 feet above the sea level there i, no other real town of 8,000 in- habitants, with a railway station, telegraph, telephones, churches, shops, clubs, hospitals and vice- ccnsuls. It is a wonderful example '1 American enterprise, says the London Spectator. The section of the railway which tuns from Oroya tc this town oo- longs to the Cerro de Pasco Min- ing Company, and is extremely cemfortable, smooth running and fast, considering the gradients. It passes through fine grassy valleys grazed by countless herds of lla- mas, and the blue sky, the spark- ling streams, the snow peaks, com- bine with the green pastures to give a delightful variety of colors which afford a striking contrast to the uniform brown hue of the barren Chilean Andes. To get a fair vies of Cerro de Pasco it is necessary to go to the top of a high rock near the railway station. The town, with its little thatched houses and narrow streets hes in a lat•ge undulating basin in which the chief features are the tall chimneys and other buildings belonging to the mines. In the dis- tance a Targe lake can be seen, and all around the horizon is studded with snowcapped heights. At our feet is a busy scene. The useful Indian is everywhere - now driving herds of llamas, the univer- sal mountain carrier. now riding mules or driving carriages over the undulating roads --and all his busi- ness is a part 441 the great work of extracting copper and silver from the deep shafts. The rosy cheeks 4f the Indian children, whose heal- thy color shines through their brown akin, is an unusual sight in sallow South America, for the cli- mate is healthy and ins-igui'ating. Itt the sinter there is n great deal of rain and sleet, but the summer is bright and crisp and all the year round the temperature itt equable, one of moderate cold in which the thermometer seld:,m falls much bo - low freezing point. Everything at Cerro 41e Pasco is "run" by the American. There is a spacious club where lends are played nightly, and in the hollow below there is a base1,aIi ground. Both these games are characteris- tically American. they are played at high pressure the whole time, the biggest thatch can be played in about one an41 a half hours. and the players are near enough to the spectators to hear the comments, eneeuraging or otherwise, that are ltherally bestosed. The hospital - ''.s of the Americans is unbounded and the life is one of the utmost good feeling and good fellowship. The only drawback to the visitor's enjoyment itt the soroche or moun- tain sickness, which is almost eer- :ain to attack a newcomer unless 1 e ascends by very gentle stages. 4 4 4 1 4 1 7 a 1 4 4 i e 4 1 1 1