HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-04-08, Page 7GENERAL 1CREASE IN PAY
Hard Working Post Office Employees'
Salaries Will Be Advanced.
_3A despatch from Ottawa says:
Mr. Lemieux, Postmaster-
eneral, has given notice of a re-
solu,tiun in the Commons which
will bring good news to over oue
thousand employees in the outside
ser% ice of the department. The
resolution provides for a general
rdvance in salary to messengers,
s;rters, letter -carriers, box collec-
\ stuu;pers, t;orlers and fourth-
s clerks. The increases average
$150 a year.
messengers, porters, letter-
s and box collectors the new
will be as follows :-vrade
$1.75 per day ; grade 13. $2;
hide 0, $2.25; grade 1), $2.50;
grade E, $2.75. The pre est
schedules are 50 cents less in each
case. The average number of
working days in the year for each
1,4•
pian is 313; consequently the in-
crease is $156 per year. There is
a further betterment in the condi-
tions of the men by alloeing those
in grade A to go into grade B after
only three months' service.
In the caso of fourth-class clerks
the minimum. salary, which is now
practically only $361, is increased
t,c, $500, and the annual increase
of $100 is provided up to a maxi-
mum of $700.
In the case of stantpers and sort-
ers the minimum salary is raised
from $100 to $500.
The action of the Postmaster -
General extends to the letter-car-
riors and other outside employees
of the Postoffice Department the
same measure of justice as has
been accorded to members of the
inside service ge-nerally by the re-
cent increases of salary.
PROFITS Ol' TH EM1NT.
Silver and Copper Coinage Yield
Large Returns.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
A return showing the financial re-
sult of the operations of the Royal
Mint last year indicates that it is
a most profitable investment for
the country. Although, owing to
the financial depression, the
amount of new coinage required
was not up to the normal of recent
years, and the c•utput of the new
Mint was consequently restricted,
thus decreasing the profits, there
was a gross profit in the silver and
copper coin minted during 1908
amounting to $194,431. The expen-
ses of maintenance and salaries
t:•talled $71,939, leaving a net pro-
fit, exclusive of interest on capital
investment, of $82,492. Tho amount
of silver coined was $313,338, the
profit being $175,709. The value of
the copper coinage was $23,290, the
profit being $18,709.
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SWALLOWED TIIE SPOONS.
THE CUSTOMS REVENUE.
March Increase Nearly Four Hun-
dred Thousand Dollars.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Customs receipts of the Dominion
for the month of March, the last
month of tho fiscal year, show
that tho turn of the tide, which
set in with the beginning of the
year in respect to customs revenue,
is now increasingly apparent. For
the month the total customs re-
ceipts have been $4,747,291, an in-
crease of $391,169 as compared
with March of last year. This is
the first big increase in about a
year and a half. For the twelve
months of the fiscal year the cus-
toms revenue has totalled $47,378,-
000, a decrease of $10,488,632, as
compared with 1907-03.
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NEW OPIUM L.tW.
Now Unlawful to Import or Pre-
pare the Drug for Smoking.
A despatch from Vancouver
says: On Thursday the new opium
law forbidding the importing and
Three Takeo from Philadelphia preparing of smoking -opium both
Man's Storuaeh. in Canada and the United States
went into effect. The drug may be
procured for medicinal purposes.
Over a hundred pounds of opium,
seized by the customs officials at
an a fork were removed from his Tacoma, was auctioned there on
stomach. Since Ur. C. G. Davis Tuesday. One Vancouver firin nd-
mitted to Mr. Mackenzie King
.1 Philadelphia despatch says:
George 1Vojcechowski was operat-
ed on at the Episcopal Hospital
0 on Tuesday, and three spoons
perated on the sante patient last
Thursday, and found a kitchen
fork, wrapped with a ball of twine,
lodged in his throat, the man has
been hailed its "the human os-
trich." Ile complained of pain in
swallowing his food. The opera-
tion on his throat followed. His
staking an annual profit of $150,000.
The Victoria factories closed
months ago. Three months was
given for the disposal of the stock.
'HEED OF SUFFRAGETTES.
sister paid a visit to the hospital • Little Sympathy Shown in .another
and said she believed he had swal- fruitless Raid.
Lowed several other articles of
kitchen furniture. He confessed A despatch from London says:
to three spoons and an extra fork, The militant woman Suffragists
which were roccvered on Tuesday. made another attempt on Wednes-
_.-; day afternoon to gain access to
the buildings of Parliament, but
WEST'S CBE 1T ill:11.tN1). they were easily foiled by the
-- police, who were expecting theta
Implement De;:lers Unable to Fill and had taken precautions. The
Their Ordrrs, public is getting tired of these fre-
quent exhibitions before the Houses
A despatch from Winnipeg says: of Parlian►cat and the women whom
Western implement dealers are the police drove back among the
having great difficulty in filling spectators received scant sympathy.
Eight or ten of the most persistent
of then' were arrested.
,hear spring orders. which have
exceeded iu solumc all estimates
(.1 the trade. Manufacturers can-
not. rush :orders, as their output
iu a majority of eases is already
s.•' 4 ahead. An enormous busiuess
it ht ing done in ploughs, thrashers
and smaller implements.
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11RSIIIPS .1T I'l:1'.1W.tWA.
Canadian .aviators Will he Invited
to ('ondun Experiments,
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Tho Government will give asaist-
ance to Messrs. McCurdy and Bald-
win. the Canadian aeronauts, to
enable thein to continue their ex-
peritnents. They will probably be
111' it.cd to go to Petawawa camp
and conduct airship operations
there at the expense of the Militia
Department.
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i..AY HEAVY ON CONSCIENCE.
Pie Stolen 27 Years :Igo by Guelph
Hospital Patient.
A despatch from Guelph says:
After 27 years' remorse for the theft
of a pie from the General Hospital,
Guelph, has overtaken Joseph
Brown, of Selkirk Avenue, Winni-
peg, has written to the matron of
the institution, here, enclosing ten
cents in stamps to case his consci-
ence. Brown 27 years ago was a
patient at the hospital with typhoid
fever. When he was recovering,
he says, the matron allowed him to
gn into the kitchen when hungry,
and one day. in getting some
articles of clothing from the laun-
dry, the pie was taken.
rillt.E ABE INVADING INS
enty f r Thousand
housand Americans Will Go o
Upon Farms in the West This Season,
1 do,pn•chcn Winnipeg says. large nun.hcrsctears landed w
ith
Wealth pouring
over the border I effects, are also being operated.
into Canada from the united !The estimate of the local office is
tl, the effect that. 70,000 Americans
States at the present at the rate will come in this tenscn, taking up
of nearly a million per week. ac- !between 20.000 and t',000 home -
cording to the estimat(`s of those steads. and the number inay res-
ell') are in touch with the Mimi-'
sibly reach a hundred thousand.
gration n ossinent. The influx is At several points in Sa,katehewan
excepti••nally large Trains in tee anal Alberta the rash has been so
se:ti is are the rule .•f the Soo great th,t the (Ieverrnnent has
line running into lf•,,,:c Jaw, and • Rr'ansr•vl t.• sepp!s Targe furnished
itll the tr1.1 to a :• . i; rytr,g large tents These ye l he eyed not only
numbers ..f Ameri.'sis from the ; 1)% 1ra, el le rs at the United
tl s'es of the centre' eel.. Rtes, but also by these from East-
;.;.. rsttlers' teetjs, with ern Cha ►.1a and Eurepie
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
11.1!'1'!:NINCS FROM AL1. OVER
701: GLARE.
Telegraphic Briefs From Our Ot.0
and Other Countries of
Recent Events.
CANADA.
Six new constables were appoint-
ed at Hamilton.
The Senate has killed tho Lan-
cast.er crossings bill again.
Port Arthur will build a new Col-
legiate Institute and gymnasium at
a cost of $65,000.
The Ontario Government's bill
amending the license act increas-
es tavern licenses in Toronto to
81,600.
Paul 3. Lesser, a Winnipeg clerk
who absconded, has been captur-
ed in Germany and will be brought
hack fur trial.
A company is asking assistance
at Port Hope to establish a daily
steamship service between Picton
and Toronto.
1)r. Amyot has recommended
that Springbank Park, London,
Ont., be closed to the public, ow-
ing to danger of pollution of the
city water supply.
A hotel porter was fined a hun-
dred dollars at Cobalt, for supply-
ing the guests with liquor, un-
known to the proprietors. The
guests paid the fine.
Several hundred pounds of honey
was found between the attic and
the roof of Philip C'ook's apartment
house, corner of Queen's avenue
and Colborne streets, London, Ont.
Bank clearings in Toronto during
March were $111,875,827, and dur-
ing the first- three months of the
year $328,236,792, tho largest in
any similar period in the history
of the Toronto clearing house.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Mr. Augustine Birrell reintro-
duced the Irish land purchase bill
in the British Commons on TuQs-
day.
The Naval League prize of $400
for an essay on "Shall Canada
Have a Navy of Her Own 4" was
awarded to Mrs. Oliphant of Sim -
coo street, Toronto.
Sir Robert Hermon -Hodge, Un-
ionist, was elected to the British
House of Commons from Croydon.
His majority was more than 3,000
over his two opponents.
Tho London Standard thinks the
creation of a Canadian fleet would
be moro useful to Britain than an
alliance with a second-class naval
power.
Eleven suffragettes, arrested in
an attack on the British House of
Commons, on Monday, have been
sent to prison for terms varying
from one to three months.
UNITED STATES.
It is probable that President
Eliot of Harvard University will
not accept the position of Ambas-
sador to Great Britain.
Eight workmen were killed and
eight injures! by the explosion of
four hundred pounds of dynamite
at Indian Creek, Ohio.
GENERAL.
A caso of sleeping sickness has
boon discovered in Paris.
'Tho Franco -Canadian treaty was
ratified in the French Senate by a
vote of 217 to 0.
Dr. \a'nt. Jones of Chicago, a n4 -
ed anthropologist, was murdered
by Philippine hill men.
Tho sloop Koarsarge went down
off the Nicaraguan coast with twen-
ty -ono passengers and sailors.
Now South Wales and Victoria
have decided to join their contribu-
tions and present a Dreadnought to
Britain.
Count Zeppelin's great airship
became unmanageable in a gale in
Bavaria, but was finally brought
to the ground, after eleven hours.
TWO CIIILDREN BURNED.
Mo{hcr Had to Jump Froin Window
With Babe.
.a despatch from Entn., Ont.,
says: A horrible occurrence hap-
pened on the farm of Robert Stir -
ret, north of this village, at an
IN MERRY OLD ENGLANDITIIE WORLD'S MARKETS
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS I'EO1'l.E.
Occurrences In the Land That
Reigns Supremo in tho Com.
wercial World.
Sir John Tenniel, the famous
Punch cartoonist, has entered his
90th year, and is quite blind.
The British cruiser Pelorus, 2,-
135 tons, is undertaking a voyage
up the Amazon river, 2,!500 miles.
During the past year no less than
$38,714,580 has been contributed to
707 charitable institution4 in Lon-
don.
A detachment of the Second
Yorkshire Regiment, numbering
200, from South Africa, has arriv-
ed at Scarboro.
King Edward has issued a royal
order forbidding tho opening of
theatres, music halls and opera
houses on Sunday.
A strong movement is on foot in
England to compel parents to keep
boys in school until they aro sev-
enteen.
The slipper trade in the Hessen -
dale valley has experienced a leng-
thy depression, but several [Hills
have now received largo orders.
Shot in Hoxhantshirq district, a
female heron was found to have
in its gullet a full-grown weasel,
apparently only a few hours dead.
A little Worcester vase, painted
with exotic birds and branches on
a dark blue scale -pattern ground,
was sold in London for $1,250.
Thomas Baines, aged 75, has just
died at Tamworth Workhouse, af-
ter being an inmate for 63 years.
He cost the ratepayers $3,300.
In South Hampshire some excite-
ment was caused on a recent night
by the appearance of a meteor,
said to be as big to the eye as a
football.
Sir Edward Payson Willis has
given the Bishop of Bristol a cheque
for $75,000 to clear off the debt on
the Bishop's Palace, erected eight
years ago.
Jeremiah O'Connor was executed
in Durham prison for the murder
of a young woman named Mary
Donnelly, at West Stanley in De-
cember last.
The reward of the cabman who
takes to Scotland Yard "things left
behind" is fixed at, half a crown
in the pound on the vuluo of the
article.
Lord Levet sailed fer South
Africa recently on a visit, of in-
spection to the Government agri-
cultural settlements as well as to
his own property in those parts.
To wipe out a debt, of $270, a
defendant at an English Court was
ordered to pay $1.20 a month -so
that the instalments will be spread
over eighteen years.
The Tipton (Staffs.) police report
the death of Richard Langford,
aged ono year, who, while playing
ie the house, swallowed a marble
and was choked.
Tho First Battalion, King's
Royal Rifles, which has just re-
turned to England after 19 years'
absence on foreign service, is to
form part of the Portsmouth garri-
son.
By the opening of the new Che-
shire railway between Wilmslow
and Levenshulme a quicker route
is provided for expresses between
I
(Manchester.
.ondun au 1
The keel plate of the cruiser In-
defatigablo to be launched in Oc-
tober, was laid at Devonport re-
cently. She '.will be the largest
cruiser afloat, her length being 570
feet.
Sir James Dewar, who was pre-
sented by the Prince of Wales with
the Albert medal of the Royal So-
ciety, is known pre-eminently in
connection with the liquefaction of
gases.
Examination of the'. records of
3.000 cancer cases of which the
Middlesex Hospital, London. has
notes have shown that there is no
evidence that the disease is inherit-
ed.
HUNTiNG BY TEi.EI'HONE.
Sportsmen Called When Geese are
Sighted on Prairies.
The rural telephone plays nn im-
early hour on Friday morning, portant part in bird shooting in
when his residence was burned, the prairie provinces of Canada.
and two little children, Colin and There is an abundance) of geese,
Ruby, aged 7 and 5 years, respec- (ducks and prairie chicken in Mani-
tively, perished in the flames. toba, Saskatchewan and Alhcrtn
Every member of the family was
burned more or less. but Mr. Stir -
ret was severely injured in the ef-
fort to rescue his children. A
and the shooting is good clear up
to the limits of tho cities.
Let a flock of geese be sighted
breed -
married daughter, Mrs. Campbell, on its way south from the with her infant, child but a week ing grounds on the shores of Mid-
with
had a very narrow escape from sun bay or up the Yukon or on
a horrible death, being obliged to its return north in the spring. and
jump from a window into a snow- the telephone is brought into play
bank with her babe. to summon sportsmen for twenty
•
miles around. The birds make 75; second patents. *5.53 to $5.05;
first ('.\N:aDI.1N OR('H1M'`I)A overnight stops wherever they find first clears. $4.35 to $4.45; second
water and the gunners spend most clears, $3.15 to $3.25. Bran ----In
The concert of the Toronto Sym- or the night in preparation. bulk, $.23 to $23.50.
phony Orchestra in Massey Hall, They dig holes (deep enough to
Toronto, last week, was an unquali- conceal a roan and setdeeovs abort LIVE STOCK MARKET.fled success. and proved that we thirty yards away. Experienced
n 'w have an orchestra in this hunters will wait until the flock is Toronto. April 6. Esti( iters'
country which will soon bo the passing and then shoot into the were in fnirly active demand and
equal of any such organization in flock from behind. It has been prices firm f. r well finished cattle.
America. The most unstinted shown that shot is more effective Other grade, - .1 sr lined. Stockers
praise is due to Mr. Weisman. the
Conductor, and to the perferrners
themselses, not forgetting those
who have shouldered the financial
responsibility which made this fin-
ished orchestra possible.
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Dairy Produce at
Came and Abroad.
BREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, April 0 -Flour --Ontario
wheat 90 per cent. patents, $1.15 to
84.20 to -day in buyers' sacks out-
side for export. Manitoba flour,
first patents, $5.70 to $5.90 on track
Toronto; second patents, $5.40 to
$5.60, and strong bakers', $5 to
85.20.
Wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.21,
and No. 2 Northern, $1.18, Geor-
gian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern,
$1.27%( all rail, and No. 2 North-
ern, $1.24%, all rail.
Barley -No. 3 extra, 60e outside.
Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 48e
on track, Toronto; No. 2 Western
Canada oats, 47'/.,c, Collingwood,
and No. 3, 46c, Bay ports; No. 2
Western Canada, all rail, 51%c.
Peas -95c outside.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow,
73%e, on track, Toronto, and No.
2 72%c on track, Toronto. Cana-
dian corn, 71 to 72c on track, To-
ronto.
Bran -Cars, $23 in bulk outside.
Shorts, 823 to $23.50 in bulk out-
side.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -$1.50 to $5.50 for choice
qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for sec -
Beans -Prime, $1.90 to $2, and
hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per
bushel.
Honey -Combs, $2 to $2.75 per
dozen, and strained, 10 to 1lc per
pound.
Hay -No. 1 timothy, *10.50 to
$11 per ,son on track here-, and
lower grades at 88 to $9 a tun.
Straw -$7 to $u on track.
Potatoes -65 to 70c per bag on
track.
Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 15 to
16c per pound; fowl, 11 to 12c; tur-
keys, 20 to 22c per pound.
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 21c;
tubs and largo rolls, 15 to 17c; in-
ferior, 13 to 14c; creamery rolls,
25c, and solids, 20 to 21c.
Eggs -Case lots, 18 to 19c per
dozen.
Cheese -Largo cheese, 133,;c per
pound, and twins, 14 to 14'4c.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon -Long clear, 12 to 12;e
per pound in case lots; mess pork,
820.50 to $21; short cut, $23 to $24.
Hams -Light to medium. 1,1 to
14%c; do., heavy, 13 to 13%c ; rolls,
11 to 11%c; shoulders, 10%e; backs,
16% to 17c; breakfast bacun, 15'4
to 16c.
Lard -Tierces, 13c; tubs, 13%c;
pails, 13%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, April 6. -Peas -No. 2,
$1.03 to $1.04. Oats -Canadian
Western ..'o. 2, 51 to 51,'„c ; extra
No. 1 feed, 50% to 51c; No. 1 feed,
50 to 50%c; Ontario No. '2, 50 to
50%e; Ontario No. 3, 49 to 49%c;
Ontario No. 4. 48 to 48%e; No. 2
barlch•, 69', to 60c; buckwheat,
GLfla%r,1 es 59% to
buckwheat,
,
to
70c. Flour ---Manitoba
Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80
to $0; Manitoba Spring wheat pat-
ents, seconds, $5.30 to $5.50; Mani -
tuba strong bakers', $5.10 to *5.30;
1Vinter wheat patents, $5.10 to
$5.50; straight rollers, $5 to $5.10;
do., in bags, $2.25 to *2.45; extra,
in bags. *1.95 to $2.05. Deed -
Mnnitoba bran, $22 to *23; do.,
shorts, $21 to $25; Ontario bran,
$23 to $24; do.. shorts. 8`24.50 to
$25; Ontario middlings. 82a to
825.50; pure grain tnuuillc. $33 to
$35; ,nixed mouille, 824 to $30.
Cheese -White quoted at I2'{ to
13c. Rutter- Fall made creamery,
21 to 211/:;c, while Winter made is
quoted at 20 to 20;;,e. Eggs- 21 to
22e per dozen.
l•NifI-1r STATES 111AitKETS.
Buffalo, April 0. -Wheat - Spring
firmer; No. 1, carloads store,
$1.22%; Winter higher ; No. 2 red,
$1.28; No. :3 extra red, $I.28!;
No. 2 white, $1.26; No. 2 mixed.
81.2;:.. horn -Higher : No. 3 yel-
low, 70%c ; No. 4 yellow. 69%c ;
No. 3 corn. 69% to 70e; No. 4 corn,
69%e; No. 3 white, 70';e. Oats -
Steady ; No. 3 white, 56%e.
Minneapolis, April 6. -Wheat --
May, *1.10'/y to $1.14%; July $1.-
17% to $1.17!...1: cash. No. 1 hard.
*1.19%; No. 1 Northern, $1.18%;
No. 2 Northern. $1.10% to $1.16%;
No. 3 Northern. 81.12% to @1.11'';.
Flour ---First patents. $5.65 to 8:,. -
this way than when the attack is
made from the front.
The windier the day the better.
for then the gnese fly low. Mest
geese are shot when flying less thin
furty yards from tho ground.
and feeder- ser,• wanted. and the
few offering quick'o ch'seged ham' -
Milch cops and spr:Hirers were dtu'I.
Sheep and lamb. -- Firm and un-
chaeged. Calves --Quiet and Inoses
Hogs -Steady and unchanged. :}e
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ARINE BIIOY EXPLOflES
Ono Man Killed and One Hurt
King's Wharf at Quebec.
A despatch
For want of
from Quebec says:
expert direction on
Friday forenoon a fatal explosion
occurred on the King's Wharf in
connection with the Quebec agency
of the Marine and Fisheries De-
partment, which resulted in the
death of one man named I.udger
Germaine and serious injury to
another employee named Hoppe.
The agency is now busy getting
ready the buoys to he laid in the
St. Lawrence at the opening of
navigation, and several workmen
on the
were charging one of the largo
buoys with calcium of carbenite,
which did not seem to fit. Ono
of the workmen, presumably Ger-
maine, lifted a piece of batten frons
the ground and commenced te
strike the carbon, when the ex-
plosion took place. It was acceler-
ated by the damp snow that cov-
ered the ground on which the large
gas buoy stood. It is very evident
that the workmen were ignorant
of the danger in handling the cal-
cium of carbonito, and there was
no expert to direct them.
lett at $6.90
and watered.
Montreal, April 6. -Trade in cat-
tle was rather slow, with the pric-
es ;a shade lower; primo bs ove!t
sold at 5% to 5%c per pound, but
they were not extra; pretty good
animals sold at 4% to 5c, and com-
mon stock at 2% to 4c. per pound.
Calves sold at from $2 to $7 each.
Sheep at about 5'4! per pound;
lambs at 6% to 7c per pound;
Spring lambs at from $4 to $6 each.
Good lots of fat hogs sold at 7%
to 8c per pound.
FAMILY ASPIIYXIATED.
f.o.b. and $7.15, fed
Family of Mr. James McLean,
London, Found Unconscious.
A despatch from London, Ont.,
says: At 6 o'clock on Friday even-
ing, when neighbors broke into the
house of James McLean, on Ches-
ley avenue, it was to find McLean,
his wife and three children in an
unconscious condition from gas as -
LONDON LE.1RNS TO FRIVOL.
Expatiates on the Joy of Playleg
the Fool a Little.
"It is a common cause of com-
plaint against English people, and
English men in particular, that,
they cannot let themselves go, or
in other words that they cannot
frivol and 'play the fool,' " says
the Lady's Pictorial. "There is
nothing so good for the individual's
spirits and the nation's gayety as
to bo childish on occasion and fool-
ishly young.
"On the Continent they consider
the best means to this end is. to don
dominoes and false noses and blow
penny trumpets, dance in the open
air, and so on. In England we
do none of these things and so we
are told, store's the pity.
"Desperate efforts are now being
made to correct this mistake on
our part. London is now a gay
city; we are making the most of
our restaurants, the cafe is creep-
phyxiation. For eighteen hours ing into favor, we are no longer
they had been that way. All will so chary about decorating our
houses and making a brave show
when we get a chance of organiz-
ing a procession.
"There aro signs and tokens
that tho carnival spirit hovers over
us. Tho artists' fancy ball idea
has been warmly taken up, the
roller skating carnival at Olympia,
to which none aro admitted who
are not in fancy dress, has found
favor in the sight of the public,
and this year the restaurants made
merry at Mardi Gras dinners.
"By all means let us make more
of Shrove Tuesday. It is a day for
frivolling across the Channel. Lot
us frivol here. We have seen how
the Christmas parties organised by
foreign managers of our big hotels
are enjoyed by the stolid English,
and without doubt if we are shown
how to keep Shrove Tuesday in
Continental fashion we shall not
now bo slow to enter into its spirit.
We are learning the pleasures and
ignoring the silliness and childish-
ness of 'dressing up,: we are dis-
covering the art of frivolling."
probably recover except a ten-
year -old girl, who is in a serious
condition. Tho family retired
about midnight on Thursday night.
An hour later the mother was
awakened by the moaning of a
child. She staggered into the next
room, to find the child vomiting,
and then herself fell in a semi-
conscious condition. The woman
says that she never completely lost
consciousness, but was physically
unable to arise or even make a
sound. When neighbors finally
awoke her she thought it was but
morning. Her husband, when
aroused, murmured that he had
overslept.
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1118 ('.►T'fi.E POISONED.
Strathroy Butcher Suffers a Serious
Loris.
A despatch from Strathroy, Ont.,
says : After wintering a herd of nine
cattle, Samuel McCandles, a prom-
inent butcher of this town, went
to his farm, about two miles south
of here, on Thursday to find that
three of the animals had been pois-
oned, two were dead and a third
had to be killed. That the ani-
mals hnd been poisoned was ex-
plained by the fact that, a small
package of Paris green was found
in a corner of the barn. Mr. Mc -
Candles is at a loss to know who
committed the outrage.
BUFFALO'S GAS SHUT OFF.
Order Prohibiting Export of Na-
tural (:as Now in Force.
:a despatch from Welland says:
The Provincial Gas Company re-
ceived official notice from Ottawa
that its permit to export natural
gas. expiring Mar. 31. would not be
renewed. and on Wednesday night
at midnight the supply going to
Buffalo wns shut off. One-third of
the Buffalo supply came from Can-
ada. The company has not yet de-
cided what market it will seek for
the gas which has been going to
iiuffale. but a meeting will be held
soon to decide this matter.
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DEFICIT 01' OV lilt £13.000.000.
British Revenue .1:1.500.0110 Len.,
Than Estimates.
A despatch from London says.
The British revenue retains for the
fiscal year ender! en Wednesday
show a total revenue approximately
£1,300.000 below the estimates.
This is better than was expected.
The expenditure is not stated. but
it is known to have considerably
exceeded the estimate. The most
favorable calculation' are that the
deficit to be faced in 1909-10 w ill
Dlta\h 1'.1RROLI(' .ACID.
Four-year-old London Boy Has a
Narrow Escape.
:a despatch frons Lenden. Ont.,
says: Harold i) el. aged four
years, son of 1I • e '; •stir Dent.
ilec'L..ry 5 trent. e-dey night
picked up R b.,tt r r;;de carbolse
aeid by m stake and drunk part of
t he conteels. II,,. Lindsay IIA
1\ .1. Stc'ensen mere eellyd. and
utetl n stomach pump. The ho} s'
throat and mouth were badly
burned. but he is now doing fairly'
well.
KILLED IN (_0811:1' MINE.
St. Thomas Prospector Met Death
Near Haileybury.
A despatch from St. Thomas,
Ont., says: Word was received in
tho city on Friday morning that
J. P. Bailey, mining prospector, of
St. Thomas, was killed in a mine
The
near Haileybury on Thursday.
deceased had been in the employ
of the Elgin Cobalt Mining and
Developing Company for four
yews, the members of the company
all being well known St. Thomas
people.
CHARGE OF MANSi..AI'GHTER.
Stratford Man, in Whose Yard
Rudy was Found, Arrested.
:a despatch from Stratford says:
In connection with the death of
the late Alexander Sutherland, of
West Zorra, n charge of manslnugh-
't,er has been preferred against
Aloysius Guerin, at the back door
of whore hour° the lifeless body of
Sutherland was found on the moru-
ing of Feb. 26th last.
1 1'si;i 1,11: LAMP.
A little ( hild Burned to Death at
Saskatoon.
A despatch from Snskt•toon,
Sask., says : A little child of John
Rowit, while sitting in a go-eart
Flaying beside the table, around
which its mother ens busy getting
!upper, pulled the cloth and upset
the lamp on itself. on Thursday. It
was burned to death before thcs
horrified mother could extinguish
the flames.
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TO S('('('EI:D Ki'1'('l1ENER.
Sir O'Iloore ('reagh to he ('otnnran•
der-in•('hief In India.
:a drepa telt from London says:
Gen. Sir ('Moore Crcagh has been
nppointed Commander -in -Chief in
India. to succeed Gen. Lord Kit-
chener. w hen the latter retires in
.august.
She- ''Mr. Gamble used to ha
rather uild. 1)n yen think 110'I1
snake Jane a good husband t" He
- "Jane'll make hint a good bus.
band'."
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