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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-05-20, Page 71 29 1YIEN BLOWN TO ATOMS seeslier Four Tons of Dynamite Exploded Prema- turely Near Albany, N. Y. Altepateli from Albany, N. Y., says ;!There were 29 me.n killed shortly before 3 o'clock on Wed- nesday afternoon, following a pre- mature explosion of dynamite in the ('allanan quarries at South Bothlehe'rn, twelve miles south of Albany. There wore three injured. All within the explosion zone were instantly killed, and the bodies are unrecognizable. Tho dead include eight Americans and 21 Italians, the latter not being known by name. All the Americans are resi- rtont.s of the locality. Tho ten holes for Wednesday's blast wore drilled 20 feet back from the face of the bluff, which was 80 feet high. The holes were 76 feet deep, and five inches in diameter. It was to bo the biggest. blast of all, using over four tons of dynamite. The blast was scheduled fur five o'clock in the afternoon, and was expect - cd to dit bxlgo material fur 25,000 wagon loads of crushed stone. Those killed had successfully placed the charges in six of the holes, and were working upon the seventh when the shock cause. The explo- sion is supposed to have been caused by a defective cap. The 29 bodies were blown to atoms and scatter- ed all over the quarry. It was half an hour before anyone dared ap- proach the scone, fearing danger front other explosions. As a re- sult of the explosion, fear ha.s seized the 165 Italian laborers cm- rloyed about the quarry, and many have fled. CROPS 1N :APItile. Statement Issued by the Guvern- uteut Census Office. A despatch from Ottawa says : Tho census and statistics office is- sued on Wednesday a statement of crops and live stock for the month ci April. Vegetation is later than usual this year, and seeding has been delayed by the weather condi- tions throughout the Northwest Provinces. Winter wheat at the end of April was uniform in all pares of Ontario and compared with a standard crop it ranks at 76.5 per cont. Hay and clover av- erage 83 per cent. Fodder for stock has been ample, as is denoted by the condition of farm animals. Horses aro 92 per cent. of standard, mileh cows 88; other horned cattle 84, swine 91, and sheep 85.60 per cent. BUYING ALBER'T'A I..tND. A Scotch Commissioner Impressed ti With the !fest. It A despatch from Winnipeg says: ‘iii.. Western Canada has just reaped the first direct benefits of the visit of ti o Scottish Agricultural Com- mscion last year, ono of the com- iuissionc+rs, Mr. J. M. (lodge, hav- ing rct.ttrned and purchased 5,1,00 acres in southern Alberta, paying herefor $70,00. He is delighted • �,.- with the land, declaring it to be the richest ho has ever seen. This is likely to he followed by a largo influx of Scottish capital for invest- ment in land. ti r-. M LIGII'l'ED BY 11'lRELESS. ('our Thousand iaunps Burned lour (lours at Omaha. A despatch from Omaha. says: Tho Omaha Electrical Show was cur Wednesday night lighted by a wire- less current. The current came from the Government wireless sta- tion, five miles distant from where the show is being held. There were 4,000 incandesoont lamps a .d fir four hours the lamps were lighted by the wireless current. Tho sys- tem by which the experiment was made was a discovery by I)r. Fred- erick Millener, wireless expert of the Union Pacific Railroad. RUN OYER B1' LANA ROLLER. Little Girl Killed on ('arm in Sas- katchewan. A despatch from Tuxford, Sask., says : A horrible accident happened on the farm of E. Eaton, near here, ov Wednesday, when his little daughter, who w•as riding with hint ABDI`LS STRONG ROOMS. Keys Taken By Force From the Deposed Sultan. A special despatch from Salonika says that Talaat Bey, Vice -Presi- dent of the Chamber of Deputies, who was sent there to arrange with Abdul Hamid for the transference of his fortunes to the Government, suc- ceeded in obtaining the signature of the former Sultan for the with- drawal of funds from foreign banks, but that Abdul Hamid resolutely re- fused to deliver up the keys to two iron rooms in the Yiluiz Kiosk, which had resisted all efforts at forcible entry. After Talaat Bey's departure, the despatch says, officers of the guard, furious at the ex -Sultan's refusal to comply with the demand, rushed into his room and ordered him to surrender the keys without further parley. WOMAN LIKELY MURDERED. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TUE GLOBE. Telegraphlo Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. Grand Trunk Pacific officials deny that the men aro ill-treated in the construction camps. Wilfred Bishop, clerk in the Ot- tawa postollice, has been arrested on a charge of stealing letters. Hon. W. S. Fielding will go to London after the session ends to arrange for a fifty -million -dollar loan. The Government will appoint in- spectors of gear and tackle at sev- eral shipping ports of the Domin- ron. The Government is about to send a commission to Great Britaind NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND 1118 PEOPLE. Occurrences In the Land Thal (feigns Supreme in the Cows inertial World. St. Paul's school celebrates its four hundredth anniversary next month. Thousands of tons of sand have been deposited by the sea at South - church, Essex. Since August, 1905, the West nn BuDistress Committee has ex- pended 1331,145. Valuable machinery was destroy- ed by fire at the Coates !'ark Col- liery, Alfreton. On the South Beach at Yarmouth a scenic railway is to be bunt this summer at a cost of $75,000. At the Elliott Collieries of the aur Powell Duftry•n Company, lhy►u- Denurark to study the bacon in- flex Valley, two men were killed dustry. by the fall of a roof. Hon. Adam Beck's company is The Testament which ha.s been prepared to supply the city of Lon- used at the Essex Quarter Sessions don with two and a half million since 1750 has been replaced by a gallons of water daily. new one. Tho Railway Commission bas A ninety-one-year-old woman ordered that stations and passer- named Pratt was burned to death ger cars bo regularly cleaned out and kept in sanitary condition. Elmer Pennock, a medical stu- dent at Queen's, went suddenly in- accused at Yarmouth of stealing a sand at Brockville, on Thursday, pennyworth of coal, was dealtwith and attempted to kill his mother. as a first offender. Ho was couunitted to theasylum. The Queen has presented Mrs. Sir Richard Cartwright informed Close,chief aewardess of the Dov - Senator Loughotd that Canada er-Caais steamers, with a. gold would be represented at the Im- brooch set with brilliants. Dead twin babies (still born) were discovered in a large bag a woman had been seen to leave in the New the balance sheet of the Dominion Cross station, London. Simeon Snell, anted oto $837,6.10, but there o Bcalpresident of mou was a liability on the books of the British Medical Association and one of the leading opthalnuic sur- geons, died recently at Sheffield. Alderman John Banks, who died at Folkstone recently, was a mem- ber of the Town Council for fifty- two years, and was mayor six times. Among the articles stolen by bur- glars from the house of the Rev. Congress at Liverpool, on Thursday, A. Swann, vicar of Christ church, intimated that she was not in sync- Fulham, was a burglary insurance pathy with the suffragettes. I polity. A British departmental committcei During the past year $2,798,545, appointed to inquire into the queso of which $2,348,790 went to the Vic - tion has reported that there is a toric and Albert Museum, was meat combine in Britain. though it spent oa the national museums of is not at present powerful enough the United Kingdom. to endanger the country's mat For driving sheep in Islington trade. -- UNITED -UNITED STATES. (ler Body Found Under Suspicious Circumstances. A despatch from Vancouver, B.C., says: Face downwards the body of a well-dressed woman was dis- covered on Wednesday under a clump of brush in Burnaby. Noth-, ing near affords any clue except the remains of a small fire, wherein paper had been burned and pos- sibly the woman's hat. No person has been missed in New West- minster or vicinity for months. Tho cause of death is not yet ascertain- ed, but as the clothes aro badly turn in places, there is a probability that she meet with a violent death during a struggle. The corpse has apparently been exposed to tho elements about four months. 4 LAD(' 'TEACHERS' SAi A111ES. School Roard of Winnipeg 31ade a Fiat increase of Fifty Dollars. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The School Board was generous on Tuesday night and gave the 240 ladies employed in the 30 city schools n flat increase of $50 per annum, in addition to such in- creases to which they were entitled. it was explained that the city pay is the smallest anywhere. The board also issued authority to raise $200,000 on 35 -year bonds. M RISKED I,1FE FOR CHILDREN. Mother Ran Through Flames of Burning House. A despatch from Sterlis.g, Mani- toba, says: !While outside milking her cows, Mrs. Harris Courtney discovered that her house was on fire. 11 'tiding her apron over her on a land roller was run ovtr and head the mother pluckily dashed killed by the roller, following tho through the fire and saved her four runaway of the team. The father children, who were huddled in an inner room. Mrs. Courtney's hair caught fire and she was bndly burned about the head and ears. vas injured also, but not seriously. Tho horses were frightened by the whistle of a steads plow. VILLAGES \YERE WIPED 0 Entire District Laid Waste About Marash in the Recent Rioting. .iespatch from Beirut, Turkey, ys: The recent rioting in the vi- cinity of Marash has laid waste that entire district. Marash itself was spared, for only a few per- sons there were killed, but within sixty miles to the southwest a total of sixteen villages, with a popula- tion of 8,000 souls, have been prne- tieally wiped out. Tho only sur- vivors aro boys under ten and old women. The girls were carried away and the men killed. Tele- graphic rep„rte received on 1Wcd- nosday declare that the hungry and naked number 1.1,000. Innnediate relief is required. The interior dis- tricts are still far from settled, and from all directions the most heart- rending accounts and appeals ere laving received here. MVIM EERS EX EUUT1:1►. A despatch from Constantin'•; - says: Constantinople alto.•, -sed a:u other batch of executions on Wed- nesday morning when 24 mutineers of the army and navy were hanged in public within the city limits. This makes a total of 38 executions within the capital since the revolu- tion of April 13. Four of the men on \1'edncsclay were hanged near the Sultan's palace, eight at the marine Iia.rracks. eight in the 1)jin- zi Meidn.n quarters of Stamboul and four at the War Office. It was desired to impress the people with the fact that the guilty hod been punished, and had the hangings not been public the people would have thought that the condemned men bad raved themselves by brib- ing otfucial% or that the elatement of their execution was nothing more than n political lie. Thu s are rumors of a rising of .\lleeli els et 1-Neee, shout a btin- c' d :.a Salonika. while sitting before the lire at Wens Deane, Chichester. A watersrran, aged 75, who was Aerial Defence Conferenco in Lon- don, probably by Sir Frederick Bor- den and Hon. L. P. Brodeur. The worthless assets wiped out in $363,887, and it was also wiped out, leaving the net increase in the pub- lic debt $437,759. GREAT BRITAIN. Queen Alexandra, in a message of sympathy to the Women Nurses' A Chicago girl danced herself to death. make a profit of $7,430 this year The United titrates Senate25 by letting sites for roundabouts, Thursday voted for a duty of 2b( swings, and cocoanut shies in tho cents a ton on iron ore. ('apt. Peter C. Mains, who shet parks for bank holidays. and killed William E. Annis on Weighing 186% grains, a Greek Long Islond last August has been cosh (stater) of 13. C. 489 to 240, winch is considered by many the finest example in existence, was sold in London for $1,075. Goergo Mason, a glass worker, and his son John, aged eight years, parish on Sunday, in contravention of the Islington Parish Act, John Fuller was, at the London Police Court, fined aixpence. The London County Council will TIIE WORLD'S MAHtTS.TUNISIAN DAMAGED BY ICE found guilty of manslaughter. GEN ERAL. Premier Stolypin of Russia will remain at the head of the Cabinet. were found dead in their house at The Turkish troops at Eueroum St. Helens. They bad evidently are said to be on the verge of ( been suffocated by gas. mutiny. been Ait, an island in tho The German. Emperor and the King Thames at Surbiton, for over 50 of Italy met on \Wednesday at the years the headquartere, of Kingston The French Chamber of Deputies port of Brindisi. j itott•ing Clubwas sold by auction recently atthe Mart for $:50,000. It has cost the ratepayers $3,500 to maintain the children of Wil- liam Terry, who was remanded at the Lambeth Pollee Court recently. on a charge of deserting them. The Queen has sent a cheque for $125 to assist in the restoration of St. Peter's church, Walpole, near on Thurs•lny endorsed the Govern- ment's attitude with regard to the postal strike. ENGINE SMASHED 131' .t ROCK. accident to Express on iiippena Braueh of the C. 1'. It. REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese sad Other Dairy Produce al BREADSTUFF'S. Toronto, May 18. -Flour -Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents $5.15 to $5.25 to -day iu buyers' sacks out- side for export; on track, Toronto, $5.40 to 8..50. Manitoba flour; first p,.tents, $6.20 to ti6.40 on track, Toronto; second patents, $5.70 to $5.80, and strong bakers', $5.b0 to $5.60, on track, Toronto. Wheat -No. 1 Northern, May de- livery, $1.27, Bay ports; ;\o. 2, $1.24j; and No. 3, $1.23. Ontario wheal ---$1.25 to $1.28 for No. 2, according to location and de- mand. Barley -No. 3 extra 60 to 61c out- side., and No. 3 58c outside. Oats -Ontario No. 2. 48%c on track, Toronto, and 46 to 47c out- side; No. 2 Western Canada 49c. and No. 3 48e, Bay ports. Peas -No 2, 95 to 96c outside. Rye -No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 62 to 04c out- side. Corn No. 2 American yellow 81 4c on track, Toronto, and No. 2 at 80%c on track, Toronto; e ana- diat yellow, 76e on track, Toronto. Bran -Manitoba $23.50 in sacks, Toronto freights; shorts, $2-1.50 to 825, 'Toronto freignts. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples $4 to $s for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.00 for seconds. 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 Ilc per pound. Maple syrup -95c to $1 a gallon. Hay -No. 1 timothy $13 to $13.50 a ton on track here, and lower grades, $11 to $11.50 a ton. Straw -$7.50 to $3 on track. Potatoes -Car lots, 90c per bag on truck. Delawares, $1.10 to $1.15. I1 tiltry-Chickens, dressed, 16 to 18c per Ib; fowl, 12 to 14c; turkeys, 20 to 220 per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 22c; tubs and large rolls, 16 to 18e; infer- ior, 14 to 15e; creamery rolls, 23 to 25e, and solids, 19 to 20c. Eggs -Case lots 19c per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese. old, 14 to 14%c per lb. and twins, 14% to 14%c; new cheese, dull at 12,E to 12%e. HOO PRODUCTS. I3acon long clear, 13 to 13%c per lb in case lots; muss pork $21 to $21.50; short cut, $23 to $24. Hams -Light to medium, 14 to 15c; do., heavy, 13 to 13%c; rolls, 11% to 11%e; shoulders, 10% to lie; backs 17 to 17%c; breakfast bacon, 15% to 16c. Lard -Tierces, 13%c; tubs, 13%c; pails, 13%c. • BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Third Accident to Allan Liners Since the Opening of Navigation. A despatch from Montreal says: A marooni3raua was on 'Phurs day received by the Allan Lino from Captain Fcurfull of the Tunisian, stating that that vessel had suffered an accident almost similar to that which recently befell the Lake Champlain, and that he bad been /•0urpellcxd to put into St. Johne, Newfoundland. for safety. The Tunisian, while steaming slowly, inward -bound, through heavy field ice, struck an unusually heavy mass and started a. plate under her forepeak. The broken plate caused quite a h::;:'•7• leak, and Cap- tain Fairfull considered it his duty to head at once for St. John's, which was only sixty miles dis- Montreal, May 18. -Peas ---No. 2, $1.05 to $1.00. Oats -Canadian Western, No. 2, 52% to 53c; extra, 1. o. 1 feed, 51% to 52c ; No. 1 feed, 51 to 511,•Yc. Barley -No. 2, 70 to 72e ; Manitoba feed, 60 to 60%c. Buck- wheat -09'A to 70c. Flour-Mani- tnha Spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.30; Manitoba Spring wheat, patents, seconds, $5.80: Manitoba strong bakers, $5.60; Winter wheat patents $6.15 to $6.25; straight roll- ers Lynn, which is said to he ers, 80 to $6.10; straight rollers, in A despatch from North Bay says' the finest v•illage •church in the bags, 2.00 to $3; extra, in bags, A dangerous accident occurred on count $2..,0 to 8160. Feed -Manitoba Wednesday on the Kippewa branch Placed in a wickerwork coffin, bran, $2'l to 8`23; Manitoba shorts, of the C. P. R. between Mnttawa the body of Mrs. Sheppard, wife, $24 to $25; Ontario bran, $23 to 824; and Kippow•a. Tht railway runs .of Col. $hcppard, D.S.U., was at Ontario shorts, 824.50 to $25; On - north from Mattawa to the foot. of Usmiugton, Duract, conveyed to the Lake Temisknming, and winds it9 grave on a farm cart covered with way through the Laurentians, along Iloeera. narrow ledges far above the Ottawa! According i+► the Iron and Coal River, 811(1 through minty huge I Trades Review the production of rock cuttings. As the pnsaengerl in the United Kingdom last train north, heavily laden, was pass - pig -iron g inq through a particularly danger -1 year ntnounted. go 9,289,810 tons, nus section. whore the roadbefl as commute! with 9,923,853 tons in clings to the rnonntninside, with the, commute! 1907 and 10,149,388 tons in 1900. river many feet below, at five -ton rock crashed down the declivity, striking and smashing the locomo- tive., but fortunntely not forcing the Ry Sight of Dromedary in a ('Ir - train over the precipice into the 1'118 Parade. rocky canyon. The passengers were severely shaken up by the A valuable horse was frightened sudden stop. but not seriously injur- !o death at Elizabeth, New Jersey, ed. So tightly was tno engine the other day, by the sightof a wedgo•d by the immense rock that big dromedary in a passing circus dynamite had to be utilized to clear parade. Tho parade was going the wreckage. -.-,1, .t SM.lLI, .1 S1 I, U 31. Ten insane Persons Now Confined `'tyles, had stopped there to let the in Orangeville .(nil.ptrade go by. ! When the dromedary came along A despatch from Orangeville says: the horse gave every evidence of in - The colony of lunatics at present tense fright. Rearing and plung• confined in the county jail here, ing in the shafts, it gave a neigh numbering nine, was increased on and a snort, and then collapsed, !Wednesday- evening by the arrival talling to the pavefnent. After giv- of John Carr of the township of ing a few couvlusive kicks the ani- Allaranth. (-'arr arrived on the teal stiffened and was dead. evening train in charge of Constable 1 The dromedary seemed to he Laverty of Shelburne. hosing Leen about as badly frightened as the committed as a dangerous lenatiel horse. and the men attending it by George Itutherferd, Pollee Mat~is-thael n bard time to control the ani - trate of that villsze. Carr is 0 :Ilia! For a time the big cancel farmer, aged nboat th'rty five. nodi nettle 'ucl► n commotion that the will be mcdicelly examiner) ►1s e,•ut as peesihle. The nulhoritres are de- termined to round tip such pee 1. HORSE SCARED TO DEATH. through First street, and the Iroro, Si t0 59%;c; standard, 59 to 69,2c. wa, was which was attached to a delivery .Minneapolis, May 18. -Wheat -- Iirgo-ton street standing 'driver, at ►urtseph May, $1.20; July, 81.211,;; Sept., $1.07%; cash, No. 1 hard. $1.28% to 81.29%; No. 1 Northern, 81.27% to 81.28%; No. 2 Northern. 81.25% to $1.20%; No. 3 Northern. 81.23•% to 81.25;;. Flour -Fires patents, 80.10 to $6.30; second patents, $0 to $0.20; first clears, 84.75 to $1.- 95; second clears, $3.35 to 83.55. Bran -In bulk, 834 to 821.50. LiVE STOCK MARKETS. taut. The vessel will ba<-: auled there, and if it is found that silo has sustained serious injuries tho passengers will be forwarded front St. John's across Newfoundland to Port Basque by rail, thence by tho Reid Newfoundland Compa&niy's boats to Sydney, whore they will be taken by special trains to St. John, N.13., and Montreal. If the Tunisian has to go into dry dock the passengers booked for her sail- ing from Montreal on the 21st in- ' tetant will be transferred to an- other of the Allan boats. This is the third accident the Allan brats have suffered since the opening of navigation, the Corinthian and Si- berian having both met mitis mis- haps. lots, $4 to $5 per head. Sheep sold at 5 to near 6e per pound; lambs at $3.50 to 86 each. Good lots of fat hogs at about 13%c per round. Toronto, May 18. -There was an abundant supply of choice cattle in both export and butchers' classes, which sold readily at stop -notch prices. Ono very fine bunch of nine export steers realized $6.25, and several loads sold at 86 and over. Choice butchers' cattle sold firm at $5.25 to $5.50, and heavy cows at $5. Stockers and feeders were in strong demand. Milkers and springers s•.trong, except for common stock, which aro not want- ed. Calves steady and tit:changed. Sheep and lambs dearer. Hogs - Strong demand; selects aro quotes. at $7.60, fed and watered, and 57.35 f.o.b. tario middlings, $25 to $25.50; pure grain mouillic, $33 to $35; mixed mouillie, *28 to $30. Cheese -12''% to 12%c, and easter•ns at 12 to 12%c. Butter -21% to 22c. Eggs 19 to 19%c per dozen. UNITED STATES MARKETS Chicago, May 18. -Wheat - No. 2 red, $1.45; No. 3 red, $1.30 to $1.42; No. 2 hard, 81.28 to $1.35; No. 3 hard, $1.24 to $1.30; No. 1 Northern. `11.29 to 81.30; No. 2 Northern. $l.`2ti to 81.297 h'o. 3 Spring, 81.21 to $1.28. Corn - No. 2. 75 to 76c; No. 2 yellow, 75% to 70; No. 3, 75 to 75%c; No. 3 white, 75N to 76c; No. 3 yellow, 75'A to 76c; No. 4, 71 to 7.3%c Oats -- No. 2 white, 59% to 59%c; No. 3 ttbite, 58% to 69%e; No. 4 white, cloud which lined t he street Was ;w:u1 stricken. Inns +tbe attendants fi,aally Kot the 5! 111111 quieted and as are a menses, 1.. th.• community t::c p; mule n►ovrd on. Montreal, May 18.---A largo pro• port icon of the butchers' cattle were milkrnen's strippers. which sold at from 3% to 4%e per pound, prime beeves sold at 5':l to a little over 6c; pretty g'xxl animals. 4'; to 5%e; common stock. 3 to 4'c per pound. Milch cows. $30 to ()ter $60 each. Calve*, 82 to *8 each, pretty good FELL ,l. SIX THOUSAND FEET. Three Men Billed in the Red Jacket Mine in Michigan. A despatch from Calumet, Mich., says : Death which was swift and sure, but none the less terrible, came to three miners at the Red Jacket mine hero on Thursday afternoon when the ground upon which they were at work suddenly gave way, precipitating all three into a yawning abyss. For a dist•• ante of six thousand feet the shaft runs down into the very bowels of the earth, and through this opening file unfortunate men were shot as though impelled by a mighty cata• pull. The bodies were crushed in- to an unrecognizable mass of blood and splintered bone. The men were all foreigners. The shaft of the Iced Jacket mine is famous all over the world as the deepest working mine in existence. M WOMAN CRUSHED i11• TRAIN. Was Crawling Between Yards at North Bay. A despatch from North Bay says: Mrs. Benjamin Patterson, a woman of forty, was ground beneath the wheels of a train in the cast yards of the C. P. R. on Wednesday night. The Pattersons live beside the tracks and frequently cross de yards. Mrs. Patterson Was crawl- ing under a train 011 a siding when it started. Both of her legs were amputated, and she died on Thurs- day morning. Four little children are left motherless, as well as a husband out of work. His eighteen - year -old daughter died suddenly two weeks ago. -3. FiV1 1'1:.11RS FOiR STABBING. Cars in 'Will' EARTH'S INTERIOR (HEAT. Costly Evperiment Made Neces- sary by Decreasing Coal Supply. Sir William ltamsay's recent sug- gestion that the interior heat of the earth might be tapped by means of a bore bole, is not exactly new. indeed, experiments have actually been undertaken with that end in view. Ono of the most important was carried out some years back by the German Government at a place called Paruschowitz, in Silesia, when a depth of 9,572 feet was reached. Of course, the bore is of very slender dimensions, three feet six iuches in diameter at the top, decreasing gradually to two feet six inches at the depth of one mile, at which it remains for the rest of tho distance. At La Chapelle is a bore of a si- milar kind, and nearly as deep, constructed by the French Govern- ment for experimental purposes; and another similar one exists near Stavropol, in Southern Russia. In each case, it was the original intention to carry the bore notch lower, but the expense was found to be prohibitive, when contrasted with the prespective results. That is the worst of such work. After a certain depth the cost increases by leaps and bounds, and the time occupied lengthens proportionately. Thus, the Hon. Charles Parsons, of turbine fame, who has made a special study of tho question, esti- mates that to drill a. hole ten miles deep through the earth's crust would cost $25,000,000, and take eighty years. The job is a stupendous one. Yet it may be necessary for us to un- dertake it. Our coal supply will not lust forever, and, when this is exhausted, the greatest industrial communities will be those that have tho most direct means of access to the stored -up heat of the earth's interior. Stitt Sentence Passed on a Prisoner at Belleville. A despatch from Belleville says: Manual Hannah, a resident of the northern part of Hastings County, was, on Wednesday morning, before Judge Doroche, found guilty of stabbing Louis Saucier and inflict- ing grievous bcdily harm. Ifo was sentenced to five years in the peni- tentiary. Ho was also convicted of assaulting a man named William Baudry, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, sentenc= es to run concurrently. 4 DIFFICULTIES SETTLE((. C. P. R. Mechanics and Company (teach an Agreement. A despatch from Winnipeg says: It is stated on reliable authority that the difficulties between the U. I'. R. and their mechanics have been satisfactorily settled. All the strikers are to be reinstated, and the old wage sohedulo restored practically, and old conditions re- verted to. U. H. 1Varl represent - cd the machinists, and II. If. Vaughan the Company. While no mention is made, it is understood the men are not returning to their previous standing on the peusien 1011. FELL ON A t'ROW'B.tll. Farmer Near Ottawa Killed While Aiding a Neighbor. A despatch from Ottawa says: Culler ('.Morgan, n farmer, living near Hazelden, was fatally injured on Wednesday evening, while as- sisting in the erection of n diking shed for a neighbor. He slipped from a sill, and in falling landed on the sharp end of a crowbar standing upright in the ground. He died a few hours afterwards. INFANT KILLED BY A RAT Child's Father Saw a Large Rodent Leap From the Cradle. A despatch from Ottawa says: Death as the result of the bite of a rat nes the sad fate of little Eu- gene Janibean. the 9 -days -old son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Jamheau, of 131 13es'erer Street. on Thurs- day morning. nftcr having been se- verely bitten en the hand by a large grey rat. The infant developed blood -poisoning. The baby had slept in its carriage in the sane room ns its parents for steeral nights, and on Friday night last 1 this was also the cafe. Mrs. ,lam- beau retired about 1 o'clock, her husband being already asleep. At 2 o'clock she was awakened by the sound of the baby's cry, and aroused her husband. On pimping out of bed he saw sr large grey rat leap from the carriage ty the floor, and escape in spite of hiss attempts to kill it. The baby wag found with its left had covered with blond (roan F's en bites ern the inside of the palm. Medical assistanc•r eats summoned. and an antiseptic ap- plied, but blood poisoning seen set tri. and the infant grew rapidly wursc, until death ensued.