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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-01-10, Page 2of and 482. the 6, e In The $26,- ,794, and rho eign pro uce $2,712,613, .340,752. LESS FOR YUKON. Receives Proposal to Dangerous Sletionsl fr.un Ottawa says: The ''reless 'Telegraph Company a proposition to the Gov - the installation of wire - stations to bridge over the rtlon of the route on tho elegraph system between Dawson, which by reason and wiaei,lorms is so li- •uption In Winter time. wants a subsidy of 850,000 atlon of its plant and a of $50,000 for each year ion. The De Forest peo- to cit the existing tolls at the present time are rds from eastern points. licit in working the Yu- er $1(N),000, -$' ILF:Y'S CONFESSION. rraek,rtal S;.slcm of Dri- 'OCs of no Value: an London says : F:arl ssing a gathering of pupils at Gravesend, Ecotype(' system of edu. glish aristocratic class confession : "i place u as an example of de- ition. i went through bile school course, and roily education. t found elor of arts of cont- ain knowledge of 1 never found of 1 without any German or hope you fig that lo for to to first clears, 12 . Bran, thee, Jan. 8. -\\•hent -1\'o. 1 • 7$3 lo 793 c; No. 2 northern, . May, 76,e,c. Itye-Nu. 1, 65 Barley -,Nu, 2, 553 to 56e; san,- !5 to 55 ;c. Corn-Stendy; No. 3 cash, 39 to 39X; May, 433. to 43O;c asked. 8. --- Wheal --May, No. t htud, 77ii; 10 IKiii3firil NEW n, 77�; Io 78c • Ku 2 • 7i!�c. Flour -First $1.30; second pnlentcs, clears, $3.25 to $3.35; to 75'/ac' �No. 3I LIVE STOCK A1:\ItlCt:7'. nand- Telenet), Jan. 8.-Ilusinees at the City herr, at (rattle Martens showed coiesiderabie ire - I • new, Butcher Cattle -Picked butcher.,' sold pruveutevnt this morning. ulu. 'u1• to $1.50 to $1.65, but this was the 0 offered. top price. Choice sold Irani $1.10 to 50c outside, $1.40- Stuckets and Feeders --Were Lal a few good cattle would lied a sale. !'rices are rather firmer that ju italiuts. Milch Cows and Calves -Are steady. Sheep -Are sleudy and lambs 11 Hogs -..The market for hugs shot aucu advof Y5e. and prices aro 79,: outside, 35,%e bid for 'gills to Nev mien Zine west, 72c east, without \TIOY I1RODUCI:. nd lo choice winter stock, 3.25 per lob!. Ilund-picked selling at 81.50 to lid primes al 81.35. ey-Strained quoted at 810 to 12c 1b, and combs al $2 to $2.50 per n. Haps-New quoted at 18 to 21c. Hay -No. 1 timothy soiree, and q at $12.50 to $14 on track hero; quoted at $9. Straw -$7 a ton on trick hero. i'olatues--Ontario, 65 to 70c per un Irick, and New Brunswick. 75 to 80c per bag. Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 12 to 14c; chickens, dressed, 8 to 9c; alive, 6 to 70 per lb; fowl, alive, 4 to 5e; ducks, dressed, 8 to 10c; do, alive, 6 to 7c per Ib; geese, 8 to 10c per tib. THE DAiRY MARKL•'TS. Buller -Pound rolls are quoted at 22 to 24c; tubs, 19 to 21e; largo rolls, 20 to 23c; creamery prints sell at 25 to 26c, and solids at 23'% to 24c. Eggs-Slorage, 23 to 24c per dozen, and limed 22c; new laid, nominal at 34) to 35c. Cheese -Large cheese, 13 to 13,Se, and twins, 13X,c. noted No. 2 Will Be Longer and Larger Than New Battleships. A de,patdt from Lo1.►n says: Accord ing to Mc Berlin correspondent of the • London Daily Mail, the Kaiser has de- cided to eclipse the world in a new :uuwr•eti cruiser already' prejce•t.•d for 17u7. One of the first ucL- of the Guv- eminent after the elections will le) to - asI. lite It, r, fisl,rg to asce:rtuin a great quiet, increase in the pr';posed tonnage of the ready cruiser, giving it a displacement of 20,- 1 lust 0)0 tons. The vessel will be equippe,l with turbine engines, designed to give very her n greater sped than that of any 1 cruiser yet designed. She will be net rn1. only larger and more powerful limnis an tiny other cruiser cheat t t $6.4o for choice selcete and $6.15 lights and fats, fed and watered, M.tejID1 THREATENS EGYPT, now for Reports of His I)en111 Four Years Ago Said to be Unfounded. A despatch from Alexandria, P.gypl, says : Sake' el IChalidt, president and delegate of the Central Committee of the 1s1• • t - anis Lntun, who was recently ex- , pellet' frons Tangier and 'funis by the bag F Thursday from Benghazi, having travel- led two mouths and a half oveI-k,nd by way of biotite'. Ile declines to divulge the object of his visit, but holds creden- tials as the bend of the Scnoussi sect, which enabled hies to travel through Tri- poli with the greatest facility. Ile reports that great excitement pre - veils throughout Cyrenaica owing to news that the alalidi, who was believed 10 have died four years ago, is still olive. Ilo has a copy of a letter ad- dressed to all Sennussi monasteries, re- lating that the herd of Ilio sect had been seen recently in the guise of a dervish in the neighborhood of Ahechn, capi- tal of \\'adni. This letter sends a mes- sage of hope to the Senoussl, adding: "The time is approaching when Moslems will be rid of Ito Christians." Members of the sect are firmly con- vinced That their chief is still alive and will soon leave Kuf►'u at the head of a largo army to reconquer Algeria, Tunis and Egypt. IIOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs in car lots aro un- changed. Bacon, long clear, 11X. to IISSe per ib in case lots; mess pork, 121 to $21.50; short cut. $23. Hams -Light to medium, 15 to 153 c ; do, heavy, 14 to 14'/.,c ; rolls, 11%c; shoulders, 11c; backs, 16 to I6X,c; break- fast bacon, 15 to 15X,c. i.nrd-Pierces, i1'/.c; tubs, 12c; pails, 12Sc. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Jan. 8. -Grain -Oats are un- changed on spot; No. 2 while. 24%v; No. 3 white, 41X, to 42c; No. 4, 40X to 41e per bushel ex store. Flour -Quiet and unchanged; choice spring wheat patents, $1.50 to $4.60; seconds, $4; winter wheat patents, 81.10 to $t25; straight rollers, ..1.1 " „ 1 o- 53.75 do, to bags, to *1.75; extras; 81.50 to 81.60. feed- lill- feed firm; Manitoba bran, in bags, 821; shorts. 822 per ton; Ontario bran In bags, $21 to $21.50; shorts, *22 to $22.50; milled meanie, 8.1 to 825 per ton, and straighIt:nrestshort�f lcutnle.s, g 2 to 824; half - barrels, $11.25 lo 811.75; clear fat backs, 823.50; long cul heavy mess, $20.50; half - barrels do, 810.75; dry salt lung clear bacon, 10X., lo 11 ,c; barrels plate beef, 81; to 813; half -barrels do, 86.50 to $7; Woes heavy mess beef, 811; half -bar- rels do, 86; compound lard, 8X to 9c; pure lard, 12x- to 13c; kettle rendered, 133 lo 14c; hams, 13 to 14X,c; breakfast bacon, 15 to 16c; Windsor bacon, 15 to 16c; fresh killed nballoir dressed hogs, *9.25; alive, $6.50 to $6.e5. l'ggs-Se. Iecls, 25 to 26c; No. 1 candled, 20 to 21e. Cheese -October male.', Onlorio, 12X. to 12X,c; Nove•utber make, 11% to '12c. Buller -Choicest creamery, 253 to 263 c; niediunl grades, 23X to 24X,c. UNITED STATES MAlKEN. Duluth, Jan. 8. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, 77Xe ; No. 1 northern. 77yc ; No. 2, 74,v;c; May, 78X,c; July, , ►c. tench Government, arrived here on POISON ON THE BREAD, Striking Rakers al Chicago /held on Serious Charge, A despatch) frorn Chicago says: Four men said to be members of the Bakers' Union have been arrested on the charge GI pulling acid on hundreds of loaves el bread dl.etribute.i among Ito Jewish residents on lie west side. A strike is in progress at 0 local bakery, and 11 is clamed that strike sympathizers threw the acid d a► d also Io deia rm loads of bread and rolls after rtthey bl ad left Ilio bakery. The police have con- fiscated nonny baskets of poisoned bread, and are fielding them for evidence. in 1h: pockets of the four amen arrested were foiled bottles of carbolic acid and packages of powdered red iodo- form. TELL-TALE FINGER PRINTS. New Recruit Was Wanted for Wife - murder. A despatch from Columbus, Ohio, says: When George W. Deacon, who en- listed in Cleveland a few days ago, was being examined al the Columbus bar- re.cks on Wednesday, he grew agitated awhile IIie imprint of his fingers was being taken. ,Asking to be excusal to gel n drink of seater, he disappeared. Wihice:les gthntht t liebeh ldrforeauthoriti al Detroit, where la to have murde e i hiswifo. Deacu)i iouuld knot be localed. TERSBURG DIGTRTOWJ an Put a Buret Into the Prefect's Brain. elersburg says: unite, prefect , was elle' nt the In - divine :,t of arrests in St. Petersburg during the three day.; preceding Dec. 29. The pris- oners, who included 33 women, were chargee) with "revolutionary activity and illegal election agitation." it was adder that further arrests and searches were proceeding vigorously. On Nov. 1t last von der Lauuili, net- ing, it Is said, under n hint from a high - is. authority, dispersed a meeting of con- stitutional I)e►noerals in SI. Petersburg, which he himself had previously sane - Honed. SUPPRESSED '1'111; ItL'sS. On Nov. 23 last von der l.aunilz sup. ed the Russ of Sl. Petersburg, be - of the publication of an article by rnvaeff, n well known jurist, who d what he termed "Use delrase- f all antral curssciuwncss in OF Conn iN itUSSIA, (to:,, Odessa says: Snow- lir'z.u•ds n( exc•t•pth(1 t ra•. ilim�t Ih:rnu►ttiaitt south• ler n flu.sia. 'I oink! 415 interrupted ruin great reperled. Accenting b, ac- :=on11 sii rmnbrel 1,1 the, astern pruvtncca alone.) ur will 1 larger anal mare powerful then any ex- is ing battleship include) til Kr neughl coag SoIsunGermany's rt. !)reed- y_s tiros I101181:H IS A (:\NAUItN. Charles I'owh'y Slates His Homo Is at Berlin, Ont. CIA despatch rl s 1'owlev , r w:13ur►,'slel by �d1 detec- tives at Accu slatinn, near Richmond. on Wednesday, as the roan who held up the Seaboard Air Lino train near Lacrosse, lust Sunday night and relieved a number of the Pullman ear passengers of their ninny and other valuables, se- curing Mend 81,000 worth of booty. Ile was identified by the conductor and por- ta of the train. llo was longed in jail here, and tvill be delivered to the suthor- ilies of Mecklenburg county, in which tho crime was committed, for trial. The penally for Vie offence may be death, under rho laws of Virginia, in the dis- crellon of the jury. "My home Is in Rcrlin, Ontario, Can- ada," ho said. . 1y sister lives there. I have three brothers, Norman. William and Benjamin Pooley, who have been travelling with a circus. My father, 'William Puwley, sen., lives in Ottawa." Powley told three or four different stories. JEWELS RECOVERED. Diamonds Worth 84,000 Vound In a Railway Car. A despatch from Savannah, Georgia, says: Jewels, principally diamonds, valued by a local expert at $50,000, were recovered on Wednesdaot by the At- lantic Coat Line and will Ire sent on to Diony lies Miranda, a Cubaq, who is awaiting their arrival at Jacksonville, Fla., before proceeding on his way to Havana. Senior Miranda and his wits 1(11 New York on Monday. They had a satchel containing rho jewels. Al Jacksonville they complained of the loss of tho ' ew 1 e s. J Two oftheir r clloty- sengers, n woman and her daughter, were arrested but subsequently released. The jewels were found by the negro porter in rho toilet room of a car, where it is supposed they may have been left by the thief lo be secured later when opportunity offered. -44. itLSSIAN 1111/GET. Estimates Show Expenditure of 21523#- 41.1,000 for Six Alou's. A despatch from St. Petersburg says: he preliminary budget estimates pre- rnred by the Ministry et Finance for the t:st six months of 1907, commencing an. 14, provides S523,415,000 for regular ependiture, an Increa::e of 818,896,oi)O r 3.7 per cent., company! with Um sc►ni- uman expenditure for the Sarno period 1906. The greatest part of the increase ill be nbsorbed In the payment of in - rest on the big loan of 1900, which in- cased the total Interest charges from 1,093,030 to $93,730,0(k). Itll:11 !WINTER tl, n. Mr. Cochran Receives Ore front Temagamd Silver Region. Ir J e et et w. to cr 11 110 A despatch froin Toronto says: lion. Frank Cochrane, Minister of Lads, Forests and Aloes, has received some rich samples of mineral from the new silver -cobalt diaries to iho 'I'emngoIl►I reserve. They wcrn liken from the sur- fnce of the goalie', and came from de- posits dis.'oven'cl by two local men, I.rolhers by the name of White. It i, said That they have been offered already one million dollars for their claims. SF:ITi.EJIRIVT OF THE NEST. New Dill Proposes to Throw Open Odd Numbered Scc1fons. A despatch from Ottawa says; 1•t;o hill which is to be Introduced by Mr. Oliver In amend the Dominion Lands Act proposes to throw open for settl.•- m;'nlthe r,dd numbered seeli01151 of Western hands with the right to 111e set- tlers to purchase 160 neres adjoining' their hr ;nestcnd of a similar orreape. This privilege of pre-enq,lion will also be extender In present settlers. estimated that there are 73,0(ven I; of land stilt available for settle„ the Nest, exclusive of land held to the railways and land companies. MtN1' STORES DI:S 1ltoyi.:N. $I,-":,n,nno Fire on the Gun Wharf al Portsmouth. A despatch from Portsmouth, Eng- land. says : The fro wfilch broke out nn \\,dn.wdny night among the camp and storesequipment caused (I(Irnage,acc�ording to the (await estimates, to the 11rnomnt of $1,25ti,itio. Theentire equipment ou,-sj,1►an ► A111ougtllhe confl al;ra- 11111 Ls under control, masses of 'In,,.11. Bering blankets and ulher elms uecu• riunelly break out Into fresh flames. :c vessel of the Dadnouelit type has been under construction for suu►o weeks at Brennen. The enlargement of lite slip at Stettin 1s bring !nitrite.' for 4 secunl vessel of ;he sante typo. Their construc- tion will lo secret, and the details will n ,l bo published. The work is being carried on at such high press0re that. e ough workmen cannot be obtained. SUIIMAIIINES FOR Flt:\NCE. A despatch from Paris says: The Ad- s mirally'• Nae ordered the cunslructeen off four sulanariue cruisers. which are n to be superior to any existing type cf similar vessel.. They are to be of tart len.;, Iu have r► speed of fifteen knots o011 Iir surface, and ur. to have a radi- tte of action of2,500 miles. Large Sal Ila A despatch from Alegi • , Duringf Meet, the year ende there have leen shipped t , eledicine Ilat di>Irict, 1,521 Iteltitsio horses, 13,596 cattle, 12,171 sheep un( 232.25e puurtds of wool, The shipmou4 of horses and cattle exceeded the best year cunsiderubly. cspeei; the fernier, and there would ea been 1,500 more rattle sluj)1 the shortage in cars. In 1 menter•e; Iloeses, 2.7, 025; sheep. 13,424, and pounds. This year's imp. ll.irees, 1,1,6e; cattle, 545, a 411. CO-EDIT:.iT,ON DENOUN(:E !tilted Schools Bad Edurafiuually, o ally and Physically. A despatch from Landon, England, ays: At a conference of head Itacl,ers 1 Leamington, \hiss Cleghorn, brad ut largo eleruenIary school at Shchi enuulced co-education. She said 11 ools were r n,treducatioixed noally, merally ployr s: catty. It was inipo.o.ihte for a heed teacher to have proper individual !nllu- ence over the pupils. It was solid that girLs exercised a good influence over boys, but sho was sorry to say Iher•o were a great many bad little girls, :Ind it was not good for boys to be unser their influence. Other teachers de- nounced the wised system. MING EDWARD ROBUST. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM AIL OVER T111 CLODS. Tetegraldal•' Driers From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent CANADA. The Ternishamtng & Northern Ontario Railway has paid $158,000 into treasury. l.cantinten anlcresle•cf strike of oilgton onnManitoulinreiisland. in a Fire in the business portion of Ninga, Man., on Friday, causal a loss of $54)0, 000. It is estimated that 45,090 immigrants Settled In Onuhea►•, nd that next year thetario totaldring willtbe yeover a 50,- 000. A Russell Cameron, a wealthy and popular young man, was found dead in hie room at Ottawa, on Friday, with a bullet wound in his temple. alluA verdict against Frank of nattier has been returned Italianwho stabbed William Dow inlie a quurrel nearr Snakeskin Lake on Christmas night. A big nther was shot on the grounds of Senator Macdonald, at Vic- toria, B. C. Carl:orry, Man., is In the pinch of the WllhouI fuel famine, coal. the town being atmos) Railroads in Canada have spent this year about $62.1X)1.0(10 in construction work rand equipment. Pittsburg capitalists are pulling five ndlliol alollars into Parry Sound copper properties. Mrs. ilow•fe, an aged resident of Brant- ford, was seriously injured and her house wrecked by an explosion of natural gas on Saturday . This Manson Censolidnled Mines, noir Port Arthur, shipped a carload of siker ore, valued at 815,000, to Omaha, un Thursday. N111118011 & Allen of Winnipeg have been given charge of the Canadian Northern legal business west of the takes. The C.P.R. audit department employes in Mont•enl have been granted a 10 per cent. increase in wages. An electric railway running through Canadian territory from the Detroit Inver to Niagara Is projected be Michi- gan capitalists. John Dyer was sentenced al Hamilton on Monday to a year In Ilse Central for stealing articles from churches. Steps are being taken at Hamilton to secure the release of flee men sentenced for rioting in cc,nneetieti with the street railway strike. His Imperial Highness, General Prince Fu.hiu►1, of Japan, will pass through kande on his way hunte front a visit In Icing Edward. It has been diseoveed That the chim- ney of the llnrris dwelling at Niagara i'alls ons completely blooke'd with snot, which explains how the family were buffocaled. A. Ferguson's horn. stock rine) imple- ments at Southwyn. Man., were burned on Monday. Ilia eulire family herr•e stricken with typhoid guile recently, and n prairie Ore lust fail destroyed his hay• His Majesty Joined In the Pheasant Shooting at Chatsworth. A despatch from London says: Bing Edward, who is visiting the Duke of Devansliire at Chatsworth, joined in the pheasant shooting. His activity denotes that he is now more robust than ter some time. When he was at Shahs worth a year age he was driven to tho coverts in n carriage, from which tie shot, On Thursday he rodo to the cov- erts in a cab and shot on rout. THE P.tRA3IR CIUN. Multiplies Appallingly; Dies Out in 17014 Generation. According to the London Morning Post the paramecium is u very active, slipper shaped and minute beast which multiplies so rapidly that there is only erre thing which saves us pour human beings from being crowded off the earth. This one saving grace about the para- 1mecia is that they die out with the 170th generation. It is pointed out that 11 the paramecia should have a run ,a luck and should succeed in reachin the 9J01h generation with everybod (that is, every paramecia' body) alive the sun, moon and star's would crowded. For it only 353 generations of meecla could be preserved they w be In bulk bigger than ant hesIto� ' .. . ,• tit el, and as they went on ►nultiplyin the surface of the sphere would be grow- ing outward at the rate of miles a se ond. In view nt such depressing posslbili lies ft causes one same enertsifless to know that English professors have been experimenting with the paramecia, giv- ing them stimulants and tiding soma of Them over that critical 170th genera- (inrr. They Irie l various sli►nulanls, but achieved the hest results with alcohol. The pararttcrcla were constanlly im- mersed In a liqu d rompnsed of one part et spirit to 5,000 In 1'0,001) Weis of water. The result was That the periods of de- pression were w;ped nut. The curve o' vitality no longer showed the tenni- 011S r eur ee nt falls. At the same lits:e the rale of growth and division --that i; to say, Ise k:gical activity -was in':reaseel by as mach ns 3i) per cent. Something of the sante effect was produced by strychnine, but lis re was n remarkable difference 1:. the (undone alai action of Ole two di ug, for whereas the beneficial effect of alcohol endured a(Ier the drug ceased 1 • he administered, that of strychnine did not. Alcnhnl exacted no "physiological usti►'y," 10 spite of the prodigiopsly In- crea.se:l rate of living. It was beneficial 1:1 its after effects. A cenun vise the In Debella, pressed 011 ("HEATRRI'1'.\I\. The Dui have won Right. lion. Augustine Rirreil is men- Thirty n lionel ns a passible candidate: for the, rel'ef in 11 Chief Secretaryship of Ireland. It is expected that the 1tig;t1 Nun. James Ilryce will be named head of the British delegation to the next Hague 1'eaco Conferinice. illee tins been appointed to ro- ws of Cuba. in Ecuador has been sup - (1 a new president elected. ch Troops in Ilse lust Indies n vista. aver the 1tajnh tio. Zillion persons r quite fantino. I:ssin. Gorman). Pantry will 1;ernuI,,v $51.750 0q11 The Shah 1 lie Live►'pool Daily Post states that signed the Mr. Joseph Chamberlain may live fort Socialists keenly years, but is dead ao far as any out in tho f political work is concerned. 1 tor. is Maiming to earns Ir'r in• 1 n new model rifle. s roleninl syslern coot herr hast year. and Crown Princ+ :,( f', , ;in new ronsliluliun on r,n:‘l.,y. nt Lodz have forced a luel:- actories by their rule of ter - UNITED STATES. Fifteen per: ons have been killed in the race war in elississippi. Ale' ander J. Cassini. Ih'e;i.'enl of I toe � n eve Prnnylv:u►ia 1tullroad. died suddenlyat I Eleven NI 1'h-ladelphin on Fr•iinv, I wore killed ban 1 of Yng A prominent Jni;nnece ecnnomlct has probers' a great Onanc:al crisis in Japan. thr.'nler Jng the overthrow Ism %' ofroken 111 a preeent I Japanese Sttcinllsl. nt San Francke) advocate the overthrow of Mikado, ihrst- dent chid King. J. J. 11i11 has denied the report that Ise win refire from the Presidency of 1(se ('.real Northern. Ileo. 1'. K. Crowley, of St. Patrick's Church, Denison. Texas. while pulling on 1u19 vestments to celebrate High Mass, dropped dead on 1\'ednesdne. Three tncn were killed and (nor pro- bably falally w•ould,sI In a fight nn Tuesday night bole son guards employed by the West Kcnlueky real Company nt Sturgis, Union County, Ky., and the striking miners at that place. . Falling into n sponge miser full of dough at the Miss bakery at Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Iho h, Vankirec, n ons whirled round round 111101 every I,or,,' 111 bis body WW1 cu nsh,yl. \1 hen 11:e u:;rchino Wes skip. pad bo was taken) taut dead. exicnns and one. American near \'nlencia, Mexico, by ,t ut Indians. Socialists nt I.edi, it►Issin. hay threnten'•il that they will compel (-Vireo to feet and lodge 1be unemployed. M. Ticino, Foriun Alini.sler of Hata- has anr►onncil flint the io)licy of 1a Government is to le "peace and di pity." The inlian Na3nnal (:ongreee has e pressed Indignation Ihnt Ilinhsos tl -pied the right of ciIizen,ht o - 'I'ransvaai. Admiral Nebngntoff and I1tre ether officers were condemned to death by a Russian cowl -inertial ler surrendering atnt the tattle of the Sea of Japan. The French, G man an! Russian ex. th one have arrive,) nl I'asltkent, Astntir. Itussla, iii en'e tlee c•tip.,, ni January 14. in ddition lu (flaking Iho usual observe'', s the e.\pr,1:1►oris wilt study llw sondes n of the upper air 1/ means of bailee and automatic in:.lrr meats. r 1