HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1908-12-03, Page 3lY[OVING WESTER WHEAT
Splendid Record Being Made By the
Railways This Year.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: rather than lower. Taking the av-
Up to date there has. passed inspec- erage of wheat passed inspection
tion at Winnipeg 40,403,000 bush- at 85 cents to the fanner, there has
el wheat of the crop of 190, or boon paid to them on the wheat
i''trty 9,000,000 bushels more than crop of 1903, $31,340,000. It is in -
had been inspected up to the end teresting to note the record of the
of December last year. Putting the ,arious roads, iu the movement of
exportable surplus of crop at 80,- the crop. Of the 43,973 cars inspec-
0001000 bushels, more than half of ted the C. 1'. R. handled 27,845, the
this•, surplus has already been in- C. N. R. 12,821, and the new G. T.
spectod, and before navigation dos- P. made the splendid record of 92t,
es on the 5th of December the and 2,383 ,went over tho Great
s'tou't will have run over 45,000,- Northern to Duluth.
000 bushels. In spite of the kicks Tho Canadian Pacific holds the
that continue to come from the paha for the largest number of cars
country as to car shortage, the west mover on such long hauls in the
has already got out, more wheat, period of two and a half months,
considering the distance it has to and evidence of the advantage of
travel, than any country has over ouuble tracking is fairly thrust in
moved iu the same period before. the face of every dealer of wheat,
Up to the end of September the The record of the G. T. 1'. for a
average price to the farther had new road is magnificent, for it must
run just about 85 cents per bushel be remembered that not a car mov-
for all grades. Tho average has ed on that road in September. The
not been made up since that time, record of nearly a thousand cars
but it, has certainly been higher, is for October and November aloud.
IT IS VERY DANGEROUS OIL
Prof. Parker, of Manitoba University, Says
•
It Is Worse Than Dynamite.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: been suggested. I tried it for spe-
"That oil, poured on a living fire, I cific gravity, for flash point, and
would be more dangerous than dy- 1 distilled it fractionally. I believe
that it contained a heavy percent-
age of naphtha, of low grade per-
haps. Gasoline would distill off be-
low 90 degrees, or even 70 degrees,
and only 2 or 3 per cent. of this oil
distilled off below 90 degrees. Tho
portion of 47 per cent. distilled at
between 90 and 130 degrees. There-
fore I think it contained, not gaso-
line, but naphtha. The flash point
was below what my machine will
register. Investigation shows that
the company charged with wholo-
saleing this oil has boon importing
naphtha largely."
namito or nitro-glycerine used si-
milarly."
Such was the startling statement
of Professor Parker of Manitoba
University, on Thursday, on the
completion of tests of samples of
oil obtained from the same source
as that which resulted in fifteen
deaths within a fortnight iu the
Province.
"This oil," said Professor Park-
er, "is extraordinary in some re-
ipeets. I do not think that, it was
adulterated with gasoline, as has
W. 11. MORTON STABBED.
Italian I,aborcr Thrusts Knife Into
His Breast.
A despatch from Niagara Falls
says: Following a dispute over
wages, Joo \'read, an Italian la-
borer, committed a murderous as -
tit on W. H. Morton at, Stant-
on Thursday afternoon. Mor-
on is foreman of a gang of labor-
ers who work on the roads in Stam-
ford township, and was paying the
loon off on the conclusion of the job.
Tread demanded more than had
leen agreed upon, and Morton re-
fused to pay him. F read walked
sea py, but in a fow minutes came
ba,t,k, and, without warning, stab-
bed Morton twice in the breast near
t!o heart with a dirk knife, and ran
..!T into the woods. The poli Is at -
tor a long chase, captured him.
Morton is in a very critical condi-
tion.
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I1UN1('ll'1i. ENTERPRISE,.
was 831,033. The not profit for the
sight years was $9,977.
HUDSON'S 11.1Y RAILWAY.
Rapid Progress fa Being Slade With
the Survey.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Reports received by the Railway
Deportment aro that rapid progress
is being made with the survey of
the proposed route of tho Hudson
Bay Railway. There aro at present
four parties in the field, consisting
in all of from seventy to ono hun-
dred men engaged in surveying al-
ternate routes. It is anticipated
that the engineers will be in a po-
sition to make a report, on which
n practically definite conclusion
may be based, by the end of Febru-
ary, for presentation to Parliament.
.01:11,1,1'(1\ NEAR 11RO('1iV11.LE
Fite Children Stricken -- Thought
Brockville's Light and Power 11 Was ('hicks' -pox.
Plant Shoes a Profit. In
despatch. from Brockville says:
1n the village of Lyn, five miles
A despatch from Brockville says: from Brockville, five cases of small -
Tho report on the operation of the pox were diagnosed on Wednesday
Brockville municipal -owned light by Brockville's Medical Health Of -
and power plant fur the past year, ficer. The patients were children
trade public on Thursday, shows a in four different houses, some of
net profit of $1,523. Besides the whom had almost recovered, while
working expenses, which amounted others were in the worst stages. It
to $32,267, there was paid out of wns generally believed that the
the revenue, interest to the sum of children were suffering from chick -
$5,0s6 and the debenture debt re- rn-pox, thercfere no precautionary
diced $7,011. The total revenue measures were taken.
WAR IN BALKA8 1llIENT
Tho Trouble Is Now Believed to Have
Como to a Head.
A despatch from London says :!kith boycott caused declines at the
Friday has been a day of uneasi- bourses of Vienna and Budapest,
Less and even alarm. Various re- which were partly checked by a
ports, all t-eenting to harmonize t hasty official announcement dont'
with each other, crested n belief ' ing some of the ruinors, especially
that the Balkan trouble had come the fight between Aust rinns and
to a head, and that war was very Servtans.
op n Tho general interpretation The position was in no wise bet-
e withdrawal of Marquis Pal- lered when it was learned that the j t i)t, i; 11.11'('.1LLUM DEAD.av►. bet-
,...10
the .\u, t rian Ambassador liovernment had confiscated f' ur
at Constantinople, as a disguised Vienna newspapers for reporting 1'nw•d sway at Ger, Bay, Mani.
ultimatum to 'Tnrkcy, Russia's un• the movements of troops particular- tonlin Island.
favorable reply to the Austrian note ly at Semlin.
concerning a conference, the re- It is impossible to say haw far .A ri. -patch from (lore Bay. Mani -
ported definite conclusion of an al- the day's alarm was justified, hut tonlin, t.nv4' Judge Archibald Mac-
liance between Turkey. Mteittene nothing can bo definitely n:certain- Callum, formerly a Toronto news-
gro and Servia, the alleged clash ed to show that tho situation is paper inan and a prominent pofiti-
nf an Austrian column with a Ser- r, ally worse than it has been for cal worker, died hero on Thursday
vian guerilla hand, the rumored in- the last few days. Nevertheless the of pneumonia. Judge MacCallum
crease of troops in Bosnia, and a uneasiness is general, and the out.- leaves A widow and a family of
fresh coneornation at Semin. c-lr,'- look is very obscure. 1t is stated young children.
site Belgrade. ~cl;cre it ,en, a> ,,it in diplornntic quarters that the --- --- 4•
ed a plot t•' teurd.•r :.n a :•tris' prevest difficulties lie in the direr• ''Well. yonug Dr. Slicer has made
Miai'ter had been it , .., , o i. s.•re . tion of nn .\tistrian-Russian dis- his tn.trk already, hasn't het"
the pnesipal cause. r,! ''•" , ,, .t. : agreetnent, and the probability of "Yes; did it on his first cases,
'sent. Th'se. raided : t1 s :et ,st an alliance between Turkey. Moo. ''(treat Scot! What did he dol"
sal ccasperatiou c.iu-ed •se T•tr•,+enegro and Servia '•VaceinaLP.l him!"
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
li.tl'l'I:\I\t:M FROM AI.1. Oh1:11
'1 IIF: GLOBE.
1 clegraphio Briefs From Our Own
and Other Countries of
ltecc•ut Etents.
OANA DA.
Gambling is said to be almost a
rnarria at \Winnipeg.
Tho tax rate fur Niagara Falls
will bo 21 or 22 mills.
Mr. James R. McNeil of Ottawa
has left $20,0W to charities in that
city.
Immigration to Canada from
April to October decreased 48 per
cent.
The smelter at Chippewa is work-
ing day and night on Cobalt ores.
Capt. Maitland was killed at•
Kingston by a fall from his vessel,
on Thursday.
The St. Catharines Board of
Trade is agitating to stop the ex-
port of natural gas.
Tho C. P. R. is preparing to erect
a mammoth coal haudling plant at
Fort Will;am.
Hindus at Vancouver have enter-
ed a strong protest agaiust being
sent to British Honduras.
For tho nine months ending Sep-
tember 30 Ontario's mines produc-
ed mineral worth $12,205,795.
Alberta is to build hor own rail-
ways, and Premier Rutherford will
pros:de over the now department.
-A four-year-old boy nained An-
derson fell and struck his head on
a table at Calgary, and was fatally
iojured.
Madame St. Andre was sentenc-
ed at Montreal to three months in
jail for attempting to poison the
horse of a saloon -keeper.
Canada has been divided into in-
spection districts by the Railway
Commission and tho work appor-
tioned among a staff.
Kingston Board of Education has
Leen ordered by Chancellor Boyd to
admit children who aro not vaccin-
ated to the schools.
A munber of vessel -owners have
raised the rate for carrying grain
from the head of the lakes to Geor-
gian Bay porta from two to three
cents a bushel.
Four thousand men and large
quantities of material for the Na-
tional Transcontinental will be sent
in over the now Lake Superior
branch from Fort William.
A bull driven by II. Flaata nt
Midalo, Sask., suddenly attacked
flint. The animal had him down
and was attempting to gore hint,
when a collie dog aft aeked the bull
and kept at it until Mr. Flaata was
SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS' FEUDS
Bush Vendetta That Is the Cause
of Malty ('rimes.
Miss Young, of the South Sea Is-
land Evangelical Mission, who has
recently returned to Brisbane, Aus-
tralia, after four months among
Solomon Island natives, has many
interesting things to relate as to
their customs, says the London
Standard. Native murders, it ap-
pears, are of frequent occurrence,
but a great many are the result of
feuds between different tribes.
Two Christian boys belonging to
the mission at Malls were brutally
clone to death, and another Chris-
tian native at Fiu was also murder-
ed. Tho crimes were unprovoked,
but were committed because the
islanders believed in having a life
for n life. If a man belongiug to a
tribe is killed by another tribe there;
is no peace until the death is
avenged, and it generally happens
that the tnost inoffensive man in
the offending tribe falls a victim.
Tho native who was killed at Fiu
left the mission station accompan-
ied by a child to visit his garden
some distance away. The bushmen
came down, chatted with him, and
they ate food together. Then the
bushmen suddenly turned on him
and killed him to avenge a murder
committed by his tribe some time
previously.
On another occasion, at Onepelu,
the head station of the mission, a
native came and associated with the
Christian boys and shortly before
daylight one morning this man se-
cured an axe, struck a Christian
boy on the head and ran away. The
injured boy was attended by a
woman missionary and subsequently
recovered.
Miss Young adds that a young
Kaneko of about 18 years was re-
cently brought from an adjoining
island, but it was found necessary
to send him away to another sta-
tion. It appears that some years
ago the tribe from which the boy
was taken had murdered a man bo -
longing to a bush tribe near the
station. How the natives got to
know the boy was there is a mys-
tery, but nevertheless it became
known. One day a native who had
not been near the mission station
for a year suddenly made his ap-
pearance. The boy was carefully
watched and at night slept in a
room occupied by a missionary, but
he became so terrified that it was
necessary to send him elsewhere.
Miss Young says that the author-
ities aro doing all they can to pre-
vent the importation of rifles and
ammunition, but for all that the
bushmen become possessed of rifles.
some of the firearms arc of a very
able to snake his escape. old pattern. They aro certainly
Judge Monet has granted the np- not supplied by white traders, who
plication for a change of venue, and are too much concerned about their
Hon. P. H. Iloy will bo tried at own safety to supply the natives
Montreal on a charge of making with weapons of destruction. It is
false returns to tho Government in
connection with the St. John's
Bank.
(-1 EN ERAL.
Thirty Sorvians were slain in a
fight with Austrians on the frontier
of Herzegovina.
Twenty men were killed in a fight
between Austrians and Scrvians on
the Bosnian frontier.
UNITED STATES.
A New Jersey girl was frightened
to death by a mouse which ran
across the floor in her home.
Four persons were drowned when
the steamer Finance was sunk off
Sandy Hook in collision with the
White Star steamer Oeorgio, on
Thursday.
Ray Lamphere, accused of the
murder of Mrs. thinness, the owner
of the murder farm at Laporte, Ind..
has been found guilty of arson and
given an indeterminate term in the
State prison.
GRi?-\'1' BR IT.\TN.
Ontario, 'Iris i'h Columbia and
Nova Scotia were 'warded gold me-
dals at tho colonial Fruit Show in
London.
Mr. Ilirrell has introduced n bill
into the British House of Commons
to facilitate the purchase of land
for the tenants in Ireland.
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I.0 I l'I:D INTO ('AN.1T..
ilrantford Ilan ('aught by Train on
Bridge Took Chances.
A despatch from Brantford says:
George ITansconibe, in crossing the
trestle bridge over the canal on
Thursday morning, was caught by
the T., H. and 11 gravel train. Ba-
ther than be run down he plunged
into tho canal, from which he wns
later rescued without injury.
alleged that some of the boys ship
to New Guinea and while there
buy rifles and ammunition. It has
happened that some of the boys
when searched have had ainmuni-
tion in their possession.
4`
HORDESOF BIRDS.
-
Flocks So Great That Farmers
Have Not Planted.
The eastern countries of 1'nt;l,uul
aro suffering as the rest of the
country will stiffer, from such a
plague of starlings as has never
heen known, says the London Daily
Mail.
'The long and steady east wind
which has brought unusual hosts of
migrants safe across the North Sea
has especially favored the short
winged starling. In places in the
neighborhood of King's Lynn farm-
ers are refraining from sowing
their corn because they say it is
useless before the onset of these
hordes.
Shooting them is useless. Tho
flock at which you fire swing around
and settle close behind you, and
however many are killed the loss
makes no apparent gap in the num-
bers, and the birds are almost
without the instinct of soli-preser-
vat ion.
'tturlings are not the only birds in
exceptional force. The wild geese,
whose persistent affection for Lore
Leicester's estate is one of the
strangest phenomena in local mi-
gration, having arrived in thous-
ands. Their wild chattering can he
heard from a great distance, and
now and 'gain they can be seen in
a great cloud in the air nt several
miles distance. Tho voracity of this
multitude is so great that they will
ruin some of the best grazing
marshes in the distrie t. quite stripp-
ing it of young grass before they go
back across the seas.
Nowhere in England is to he seen
a spectacle quite so strange as this
noisy host of great birds, which are
regarded as almost sacred and loft
unmolested for the groat part of
their stay.
Tho east winds which have saved
these and other birds from all the
perils of the journey across the
North Sea have rather diminished
the usual number of snipe and
woodcock, whioh seem to have
flown straight 'cross to Ireland and
the west coast Put nearly all ether
hicda Are exceptionally numerous,
thr Aa th'a"no'i, nearly such quan-
t' td ,t�r.,...ngs, which have no
1 in the eastern countries.
rim WORLD'S MARKETS
Itl:1'0111'S FROM THE LEADING
TRADE l'ENIIII:4.
!'rices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Uowo and Abroad.
BRE ADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Dec. 1. -Ontario Wheat
- No. 2 white or red, outside, 93e
to 94e; Nu. 2 mixed, 93c to 93;c.
Manitoba \Wheat -N o. 1 northern,
$1.07% to $1.0a; No. 2 northern,
61.04% to $1.05 lake ports.
Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 39c, nosday from the north, cutting The native, 'mined Chnw•nhury,
to 40%o outside ; No. 2 mixed, 37o; short his excursion in this territory who on November 7 made an at -
to 38e, outside, 434c on track, lake!rer the purpose of considering mea- tempt here upon the life of Sir An -
INDIA'S IINREST INCREASING
Attempt on the Lives of Englishmen
Almost of Daily Occurrenc.
A despatch from Calcutta says: Agurpara. There were three ether
Tho situation in India has nut j Europeans in the carriage at the
shown such a menace of serious up- J saute time. None, was injured. Last
risings as it does to -day for many ii Monday night District Suitt. of Po-
Jears past. Attacks and attempts Tice Clough was murdered h' a na-
on the lives of Englishmen, officials the at Lyallpur. The native up-
end civilians aro of almost daily oc- preached the superintendent while
currenco. Lord Minto, the Vice- he was asleep and cut open his
roy of India, returned here on Wed- head with a spade.
ports; extra No. 1 feed, 41%e; No.
1 feed, 41c, on track, lake ports.
Barley -No. 2. 552c to 56c; No.
3 extra, 54c to 55c; No. 3, 53c to
54o.
Corn -Old, 74%c to 75c, Toronto
freights, for No. 2 or 3 yellow ; new
No. 3 yellow, 710 to 71%e, Toronto
freights.
Ityo-No. 2, 75c to 76e, outside.
Peas --No. 2, 85e to 86e outside.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 55c to 50c, out-
side.
Flour -Manitoba, first patents,
$5.80; seconds, $5.30; strong bak-
ers', $5.10; Ontario winter wheat
patents, for export, $3.70 to $3.75,
c utsido.
Millfced-Bran, $20 to - $21 per
ton in bags, outside; shorts, $22 to
$23, 'n bags, outside.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -Winter, $3 to $4 per bar-
rel for good qualities, and at $2
to $2.50 for cooking apples.
Beans -Prime, $1.80 to $1.85, and
hand-picked, $1.90 to $1.95 per
bushel.
Honey -Combs, $2 to $2.75 per
dozen, and strained, 10 to llc per
pound.
Hay -No. 1 timothy quoted at $11
to $11.50 a ton on track here, and
No. 2 nt $7 to $8.
Straw -$6.50 to $8 on track.
Potatoes -Delawares, 75 to 80c
per bag on track.
Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 9 to
10c per pound; fowl, 7 to 8e; ducks,
9 to 10c; geese, 8 to 9c per pound;
turkeys, 12 to 12%c per pound.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Buttor-Pound prints, 24 to 26c;
tubs, 23 to 24c; inferior, 20 to 21c.
Creamery rolls, 27% to 28c, and
sol'ds, 25% to 26c.
Eggs -Case lots of storage, 23 to
24c per dozen, while new laid are
quoted at 30 to 32c per dozen.
Cheese -Large cheese, 13Xc per
pound, and twins, 13%c.
PROVISIONS.
Pork-Sh rt cut, $22.50 to $23
per barrel ; mess, 819 to $19.50.
Lard -Tierces, 12%c; tubs, 12%c;
bails, 13e.
Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -
Long clear bacon, 11'/,c to 11%e,
tons and cases; hams, largo 12%c
to 13c, small 14c to 11%c; backs,
17c to 17%c; shoulders, 100 to 10%c;
rolls, 110 to 11%e; breakfast bacon,
15c to 16c ; green meats out of pickle
lc less than stroked.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Dec. 1. -Grain -Cana -
than Western No. 2 white oats are
Felling at 46%c; No. 3, 45%c; extra
No. 1 feed oats at 45%c; No. 1 feed
at 45c; Ontario No. 2 white, 45 to
45%c; No. 3, 44 to 44%c; No. 4,
43% to .1.1c per bushel ex store.
Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat-
ents, firsts, $6; seconds, 85.50;
Winter wheat patents, $5 to $5.25;
straight rollers, $4.60 to $4.70; do.,
in bags, $2.15 to 82,25; extra. $1.-
75 to 81.85. Feed --Ontario bran,
$21.50 to $22; middlings, $25 to
$26; shorts, $2.1.50 to $25 per ton,
including bags; pure grain mouille,
830 to $32; nulled grades. 823 to
$29 per ton. Cheese -12% to 12%c,
and casterns at 11;4 to 12c. Butter
-27c in round lots, and 273 to 28c
in a jobbing way. Eggs -New laid,
29 to 30c ; selected stock, 25 to 25%e ;
No. 1 stock, 22 to 23c, and Nu. 2
stock, 17%c per dozen.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.Toronto, Dec. 1.--:' scarcity of
choice cattle was reported. A
buyer said that he was willing to
pay $5 for a load of extra choice
butchers' cattle, but he could not
find them. The best prices ruled
around $4.40 per cwt. Straight
loads of good cattle were sold at
$4 to $4.25 per cwt. Tho prices
of mediumcattle varied from $3
to $1 per cwt. Choice cows were
tell up to $3.75 per cwt. Commonand mediumcows brought $2 to $3
per cwt. Few heavy feeders of good
quality were offered. A demand
from the country persisted for them
at current prices. Sheep and lambs
were in better demand. Select hogs
continued to sell at 80.25 per cut..
fed and watered, Toronto.
UNITED STATES M.\11KETS.
Milwaukee, Dec. 1--Wheat--No. 1
Northern, $,.0034: No. 2 Northern,
81.01 to $1.05; Jtay. 81.09 asked.
RyesNo. 1, 73e. Corn -May, 62',;elid. Marley -Standard, 64e; sam.
ples. 57 to 64c; No. 3, 57 to Ole:
Nev., 57c.
Minneapolis, Dec. 1. -\hent --
Dec., $1.01', : May, 81.09%; cash.
No. 1 hard, $1.08' i to $1.08' ; No.
sures to cope with the native dis-
affection, which the authorities have
been forced to recognize as alarm-
ingly on the increase.
On Wednesday night a Bengali
made an unsuccessful attempt to
kill Public Prosecutor Hume with
a bomb in a railroad carriage, near
drew Henderson Fraser, the Lieut.-
Governor of Bengal, on Wednesday
pleaded guilty and w.ts sentenced
to imprisonment for lifo.
The police are taking remark-
able precautions to safeguard Lord
Minto, and this is regarded as uu,st
significant.
1 Northern, $1.07% to $1.07%; No.
2 Northern, $1.05' q to $1.05%; No.
4 Northern, $1.01% to $1.04. Bran
-$18.25 to $18.50. Flour - First
patents, $5.40 to $5.65; second pa-
tents, $5.25 to $5.50; first clears,
$4.00 to $4.30; second clears, $3.00
to $3.30.
Buffalo, Dec. 1. -\Wheat -Spring,
steady; No. 1 Northern, carloads,
store, $1.09%; Winter, higher ; No.
8 red, $1.08%; No. 3 extra red,
$1.07%; No. 2 white„ $1.04; No.
2 mixed, $1.07. Corn -Easier ; No.
3 yellow, 67c; No. 4 yellow, 66%o ;
No. 4 corn, 65%c to 66e; No. 3
,white, 67c. Oats -Steady; No. 2
white, 53% to 53%e; No. 2 rye,
track, 81c.
MICHIGAN QUARANTINED.
Canada Takes Further Action In
Cattle Disease.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The outbreak of the foot and mouth
disease in the State of Michigan
led the authorities of tho Depart-
ment on Wednesday to add that
State to the list of those under
quarantine, making four up to the
pr"sent, namely ; New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Mi-
chigan. The transit of animals
across the boundary from these
States into Canada is absolutely
barred. Tho regulations have put
a stop not only to the passage of
stock trains through Canada from
points in the United States, but
will also prohibit vehicles crossing
from the States into the Dominion.
Lord Strathcona has cabled the ap-
preciation of the British Board of
Trade at Canada's action.
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IIAMONIC LAUNCHED.
Tho Finest Product of Canadian
Shipbuilding.
A dospatch from Collingwood
says: Shortly after 2 o'clock on
Thursday afternoon the ropes hold-
ing the splendid steel steamer Ha-
monic were severed simultaneous-
ly an't the tremendous tonnage of
steel slid gracefully down the ways
into the water and another addi-
tion was made to the fiect of the
Northern Navigation Company. The
initial dip of the Hamonic was
greeted b3- the tumultuous cheering
of fully 10,000 people, while the
whistles of the several steamers in
the harbor added their welcome to
the new recruit. Tho customary
bottle of wine was broken upon the
prow of the boat by Mrs. H. II.
Gildersleeve, wife of - the general
manager of the company, who per-
formed her task just as the steamer
started on the way for her first sub-
mersion.
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RLN DOWN BY TRAIN.
Mrs. Gowdy and Granddaughter
Seriously Injured.
A despatch from Welland says:
On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Wil-
liam Gowdy of Buffalo, accompani-
ed by her grandadughter, Merlon
Hatt, six years old, were run down
by a (;rand Trunk frieight train
backing on them at the depot hero.
Both received serious injuries. Two
doctors are in attendance. It is
hoped the injuries may not prove
fatal. The crossing is very danger-
ous, and many narrow escapes have
occurred.
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79 RESULTED FATALLY.
241 Employes Victims of Aeeidents
During October.
A despatch from Ottawa says :
Industrial accidents occurring to
211 individual work people in Ca-
nada during the month of October,
1908, were reported to the Depart-
ment of Labor. Of these, 79 were
fatal and 162 resulted its serious
injuries. In addition, two fatal ac-
cidents were reported as having
taken place prior to the beginning
of the month, information not hav-
ing been received by the depart-
ment before October. 1903. The
',umber of fatal accidents reported
in October, 1903. was 23 less than
in the previous month and 61 less
than in October, 1907. The num-
ber of non-fatal accidents reported
in October, 1908, was eight more
than in the preceding month and
144 loss than in October, 1907.
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E.1ST BUFFALO YARDS.
To he iso -opened for Reception of
Stook to Slaughter.
A despatch from Buffalo, N. Y.,
says: The East Buffalo Stockyards
re -opened on Monday for the recep-
tion of live stock for local consump-
tion. This was decided at a meet-
ing of the Livo Stock Association
with State and Federal quarantine
(iticors on \Wednesday. Cattle and
sheep for slaughter only will be re-
ceived. No 'shippers" or "feeders"
will be allowed to come into the
yards. It was also stipulated that
the live stock must comp in disin-
fected ears, and must be unloaded
at disinfected pens. This means a
resumption of the bulk of the stock
3ards business, for transactions its
stock for slaughter usually forms
about two-thirds of the cattle busi-
ness there.
IMMIGRATION FROM FRANCE.
Mr. J. E. Cyr Makes Fourth Panna
dinn Agent In That t'ouutry.
A despatch from Ottawa says t
Mr. J. E. Cyr, ex -MLI'. for I'ro-
vencher, has been appointed an im-
migration agent for Canada in
Franco. Mr. Cyr will seek to pro-
tnote, especially, the emigration of
French agriculturists to the Prairie
Provinces. Tho immigration de-
partment is also encouraging emi-
gration from the rural districts of
Franco and Belgium by n compaigu
of advertising the resources of Ca-
nada through moving picture exhi-
bitions. Mr. Cyr'e appointment in-
creases the number of Canadian inn -
migration agents in France to four.
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BACK TO iNIIIA.
Government May Deport Hindu.,
Now in ilritisli Colunil►ia.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
As there does not seem to be any
likelihood of the Ilindus in British
Columbia accepting the proposal
to be transferred to British Hondu-
ras, it is said that the Interisr De-
partment may take the extreme step
of deporting thein to India. The
climate of British Columbia is held
to bo altogether unsuitable for
Hindus.
OPItITYL IN T11E PENITENTIARY
Tailor Insti actor Has Peen Suspended
Pending Investigation.
,\ despatch from Kingston e,cs : material wns coming from. Two
The tailor instructor of the peni- prisoners under the instructor were
tentiary is under suspicion pending using the drug, and one of thein is
an investigation into the finding in now in the prison hospital. !lawone of his rooms in the institution the stuff got into the storeroom no
a quantity of opium, tobacco. ono can tell. Some years ago a
money and two watches purchased Targe quantity of stolen goods were'
at Eaton's in Toronto. The sus- found under the floor of the archi-
pended official denies all knowledge test's room at the prison, but he:
as to how these materials found knew nothing about the matter.
their way into his department. The I Some prisoner c were suspected nI
.iiscovery was tneds by the prion ! hiding the stuff, and there is no
authorities that ••piton and tobacco, doubt the present ease is a piece
were bring used. aHyl a prisoner' of convict sleight-of-hand work. lo -
gave information as to where the l specter ilaw son still investigate.
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