Exeter Times, 1907-04-18, Page 3"y
FIFTEEN PERSONS CREMATED
North Shore of Lake Superior Scene of
Terrible C. P. R. Disaster.
A despatch from Chapleau, Ont., snys:
A terrible disaster by which toe west -
hound Imperial Limited was wrecked
and fifteen persons, chiefly English im-
migrants, were either killed or burned
le death, look place twenty-two titles
west of here at 110011 on \\'ednesilay.
The Teen was running at a little over
twenty mile, an hour and wns round-
ing u curve when belt, ash the baggage
car a rail broke. The car left the rails,
was torn away front Ile) engine anal
niall car ahead, and plunged down the
embankment to a small ice -covered lake.
It wtrs followed by two hriuigrrut cars.
The ears and a first-class coach crash-
ed into each other at the bottom of the
bank. The immigrant cars were crowd -
411d with people who were engaged in
!winking dinner. The acetylene lights
veere also burning. Frnrn these two
sources fire spread IIIn)ugh the debris
With incredible rapidity. The wounded,
seeing the Runes approaching, cried out
pitifully for help. Many of then( were
pinned down beneath the wreckage.
IIEROISM OF TIIE RESCUERS.
With spendid heroism the train crew
and passengers set about the work et
rescue. From the battered cars almost
a hundred persons made. (heir escape
before the workers were driven back by
lite flumes. The tate of some of the hie
prisontd passengers was horrible. One
of the three men among the victims was
caught by the feet between two coaches
and burned t) death. Until the flames
/surrounded him sten tried to move the
wreckage, persisting even after their
hands were burned and bleeding.
"IT IS TOO LATE FOR ME."
Another, a young roan, was caught
above the knees. The rescuers had al-
most freed him when the top of the car
give way, itis supports having been eat-
en through by the fire. The poor fellow
cried out, "Savo yourselves, it's too late
lot ate," and thrust his would-be rescu-
ers away.
It is impossible to say how many of
the victims were dead before the fire
scathed them, but. tes ,ix of then( were
cliildren, some of very tender years,
Uiey were probably killed outright and
sr.ved the more terrible fate.
As the injured emerged, battered and
blood -covered, the porters pulled out
nutlre,ses from the enrs that remained
Oh the track, and the more seriously in-
jured were laid In long rows along the
line and eared for as best they could
IT until doctors were secured front Chap -
lean and other nearby points. It took
seine lithe to reach Chapleau, as the
wires were interrupted and messages
had to go round by Chicago and back
t0 (:haplcau from the east. The auxil-
iary chane up linalty,_clenrcd the line
and halite(' back the six remaining ears
and ell the passengers. The people of
Chnpleau threw Iheir homes open to the
injur.ti 111141 the other survivors. many
of whom were almost crazed with grief.
AN OVERDO\\'EKING TRAGEDY.
One poor fePow named Goulding
cab-
led
n -led to friends in England, saying that
he hail lost his wife, his Iwo children
and his blin t brother. 'Then he added,
apparently not thinking of the incon-
g7uily of 1l, that the blind brother's dog
was dying of burns. What could be dome
for him nal for others in like case was
done by the kind-hearted Chaplenu peo-
ple ixfore the removal of the passengers
1.e Furl \\ illiam.
J. J. Nesin, of Ottawa, mail clerk on
fhe wrecked train, when seen, said he
was in his ear and witnessed the part-
ing of the train and the disaster Thal
( 'flowed. It seemed a miracle to him
that the Irvin crew were not killed. They
were in the baggage ear, which was
drrowded with trunks. After the fire had
pnmilinity burned itself out Mr. Niven
walked over 14) the blazing ruins and
,.nw pndi,1ine t masses nnu)ng the red
hot iron fittings that represenled the
bridles 111 the dead. Mu.t of them would
Fe eooiiiplefely incinerated. as it was in •
pnssihle to do nnything till the hint had
eubaded.
TIIE CASUALTY 1.i` T.
head. -Mrs. II. R. Champs .n and child;
11irs. it. Davidson, and child; \\ mitred
sand Sm -i,' 11orton, of Charing heath,
Krill. England; William Day, London,
enabled; C. 11. Goulding. his brother,
4mther:s wife and two children, of Pale-
slow-. Essex. England; Mrs. August
Djorklinel and Iwo children, of \\'or-
cesl.•r. %loss.
Serieu ly Ineirnl: - r'hnrles C;,!e nen,
Portsmouth. England. hands, face and
head burned.
Slightly Injured: -Lewis Gillett, 1.nn-
don, England; \VIII. \Vllliainson, Bran-
don, Manitoba; Joseph Gilisom, Salis-
bury; N. Creniss, Furl William; Alphonse
Ferladi, SI. Marie !fiance, Quebec; Ar -
chalet! Struthers, Cheltenham, Eng-
land; 5. Knight, Cambridge, England;
Ernest Kit ghl, Cambridge, Englund;
Harry \\'illiams, Manchester, England;
Jelin Tabestnll, Orkney Island; William
Hamilton, Duinfees, Scr,tlund;
Townsend, Scotland; Arthur McCrea,
Prince Cetward Island; Patrick Harvey
\\pylon, Scotland; Peter Bueroff, Win-
nipeg, Manitoba; Herbert Jacob, Athens,
Ont.; A. Decharfas, \\'oonsocket, H. l.;
Geo. Lacaloctre, Winnipeg; George
Hickey, Athens, Ont.; F.dwnrd Collier,
\Vest Sheffert!, Que.; J. C. Savage, \Vest
Stafford. Que.; Frank Schmidt, Winni-
peg; J. H. elarr, London, Englund; Rod-
ceek Davidson, Exshuw, Alberta; W. D.
\\ tile, \\'hileside; James Clarke, Carle-
ton, N. B.; Clnrence Sproule, New Glas-
gow, N. S.; H. Saunders, Schrieber,
Ont.; R. Gamble, Fort William. ••
FARMERS IN WEST ARE ANXIOUS.
Demand for llelp Is Far Greater Than
the Supply.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Thursday witnessed another big inrush
of settler's to the \Vest. Seven hundred
came on the trains from Montreal. The
newcomers are all• destined for paints
west of \Vinnipeg, many of them pm. -
posing to go to British Columbia, where
they will fake up duties in the coast
province; 375 Europeans who were also
passengers on Iho Virginian, and 150
British who crossed the Atlantic on the
Kensington. A large number are bent
on going to Alberta, where many have
already secured employment. Applica-
licns for help •still continue to be pour-
ing in by hundreds to the immigration
officials, who are taxed to their utmost
in providing suitable situations for the
new comers. With the near approach
of spring great anxiety is being felt by
the fanners, and the wages being offered
show a substantial increase over the
figures of a few weeks ago. Even as it
is the number of available men is not
nearly so great as the quota of applica-
tions. The dearth of help is particularly
being fell in Manitoba, ninny of the men
preferring to cast Their lot in Saskatch-
ewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
C. E. MASSON ACQUITTED.
Some i►oubl as to Who Struck the Blow
al hockey Match.
A despatch from Cornwall says :
Charles E. Mnsson, who was charged
with manslaughter in connection with
Hie death of the late Owen McCourt on
March 6. at a hockey match, was found
not guilty on Thursday at the Spring
Assizes, herd by Mr. Justice Magee.
Although five witnesses swore positively
that McCourt was struck and felled by
Masson, there were as many- more wit-
nesses who claimed that n few minutes
previously Me(:ourt reecho(' a vicious
Now from Chamberlain. 1'h defence
made a Mt of this evidence, andlhe out-
come was the acquittal of Masson.
d'
TRIED TO KILL. 11EI1 CHILDREN.
Wonrnn Gels Two Years for Attacking
Them With hatchet.
A de.pnlch from Woodstock. Ohl.,
says : At the Assize (':r,urt nn Thursday
Mrs. William Mites, en elderly women,
employed ns n laundress nboul the city,
reeeivtd her trial on the charge of as-
saulting, with Intent to kill, her two
children. Hallie. nged 25, rind her son,
under 20. The evidence went to show
lltnl the %v.ute) arose in the night, while
the Iwo children were sleeping, and nl-
Inceed them with a hntebel. No defence
was offered rind the weenie) war; sen-
tenced In Iwo years in King -ton Peni-
tentiary'.
F
LORD I:ItoNEn RESIGNS.
Ilas.'Spen1 Forty-nine Vents in C.ovrnr-
ment Service.
A despatch from London says : for-
eign Secretary Grey unmounted in the
House of Commons on Thui•sdny that
Lord Cromer. the il•ilish Agent and
Consul -General in Egypt lis resigned
his post for reasees of ill-hrrttlh, and Sir
Eldon Gorst tin 1 leen appointed to eke: -
Ned hhn.
TWENTY MILLIONS FACE DEATH
There Is Urgent Need for Famine Relief
in Russia.
A de -pitch from Lonclnn says: Dr
ht•rtnnrd, i0tnntissioner of the Society of
raged., who was sent to investigate fee
pt
Rnsruuu famine, writing from Samara,
April 1 snys:--
"'t•hrre are 20.M0.f00 people distribut-
e` in the south-eastern provinces of
Itu•,ia who cannot live to sae another
hal.est w:Ilioul aide"
In Samara. he adtis. thousands are
dying and 750.010 are starving. Of the
latter only 373,7011 are getting relief.
etre meal in 21 hours. As a meal Ls only
1w•) pntunls el bread and n bowl of
0,iiip, !Mei ocev)11111g to the cornlnis-
•loner, nrenns diving by degrees. Even
ibis nttogre tittle In counilesl Instane4.s
Ls de idrd among fenny mouths. There
are only sufficient funds on hand to
last until Mny 1, wherens nieney would
ee needed until the end of July when
the hnrvcst will bring relief.
The commlesioner especially appeals
for canned trick. He says there are
300,000 children to Samara Provinoe
who have no milk and are forced to eel
coarse bread noels of acorns, powdered
wand and cucumbers, resultingLn thou-
sands of deaths and much dhease. fn
conclusion, the oommMlotter
to the Anflo•8excate ger MIAOW!
Savo "twenty millions K».
legs who are dylag �`�•rpr
from Starvation.
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
TItAI Si CEN/'ItES.
Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and
Other Pales Pr etece at IIou
and Abroad.
Toronto, April 10. - Flour - Ontario
wheat 9e per cent. patents are quoted at
82.05 to $2.67 In buyers' sacks outside
for export. Manitoba first patents, $1.50;
second patents, 8S, and strong bakers',
15.1.90, X90, Toronto.
Wheat - Manitoba grades are un-
cluinged. No. 1 Manitoba hard limited
at 92 10 92%e, North Bay, all rail.; No.
1 northern at 91c ; No. hard quoted at
87%e lake ports; No. 1 northern at bOc
lake ports, and No. 2 northern at 84c
lake ports.
Corn -No. 3 American corn is quoted
at 52 to 52%c on track, Toronto. Cana-
dian corn is quoted at 46 to 47c, Cha-
tham freights. -
13rerS•arce and nominal at 820 curt -
side. in bulk.' Shorts are quoted at $22
outside.
CALI. BOARD.
Wheat -No. 2 Ontario while offered at.
74e east, without bids. No. 2 mixed
offered at 71%c enroute to New York on
basis of 78 per cent. points, while 71c
was bid on train lino west. No. 2 goose,
65.: bid east. No. 1 northern, 90c bid
spot North Bay, without sellers.
Barley -No. 2 wanted at 520 at 78 per
cent. points on C.P.H., and No. 3 extra
wanted at 51c, but none offered.
Peas -No. 2 offered at 790 outside,
without bids.
Oats -No. 2 white offered at. 3e%c, on
a Se rate to Toronto, with 38%c bid.
Corn -No. 3 American yellow, 51c bid
spot, Toronto.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples -Good to choice winter stock,
$1e50 to $3.50 per bbl.
Beans -(land -picked selling at $1.50.
and primes at 81.35 to $1.40.
Honey -Strained quoted at 11 to 120
per lb, and comb honey at $2 to (12.50
per dozen.
Hops -New quoted at 18 to 21e.
Ilay-No. 1 timothy is quoted at $12 to
$13.50 here, and No. 2 at $8 to $10.
Straw -$7 to $7.25 a ton, 011 track
here.
Potatoes - Ontario, &5c per bag, on
track, and New Brunswick, 90 to 95c per
bag.
Poultry -Turkeys, fresh killed, 13 to
14c ; chickens, dressed, 12 to 14c; do,
alive, 9 to 10e per It ; fowl, alive, 7 to
8e; ducks, dressed, 11 to 12c ; geese, 10
t•, llc per tb.
'HIE DAIRY MAHKF.TS.
Butter -Pound rolls are quoted at 24
to 25c ; tubs, 21 to 23c ; large rolls, 21 to
23c. Creamery prints sell tit 27 to 28c,
and solids al 25 to 26c. •
Eggs -New laid are quoted at 16 to 17c
per dozen, in case lots.
Cheese -Large cheese, 13% to 14c, and
twins, 14% to 14%e.
110G PRODUCTS.
Dressed hogs In car lots are un-
changed, with prices quoted at $8.30 to
$8.50 here. Bacon, long clear, 11 to I1%c
per tb, in case lots; mess pork, $21 to
$22.50; short cul, 323 to $23.50.
11ams-fight to medium, 15%c; ; do,
heavy, 14%c ; rolls, 11%c ; shoulders,
Ile ; backs, 16%e; breakfast bacon,
15%c.
Lard -Tierces, 12%e; tubs, 12%c;
pails, 12%c.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, April 16. -Grain -The local
demand for oafs continues to be limited.
Manitoba No. 2 white were quoted at
43%c, No. 3 at 43e; Ontario No. 2 white,
n. 43c, No. 3 at 42%c, and No. 4 at 41%c
per bushel ex store. Flour -Spring
wheat patents, $1.50 to 41.60 ; seconds,
8i; winter wheat patents. 84 to 84.15
straight rollers, $3.55 to $3.65; do, In
hags, $1.G0 to $1.70; extras, 81.45 to
$i.55. Feed -Manitoba bron, in bags,
$21: Fhmis, $22 per ton ; Ontario Iran,
in bags. 824.50 to $25 ; shorts, $25 to
826 ; milled mouhllie, $22 to 825 per ton;
anti straight grain, 828 to $30. Provi-
sions-- Barrels short cut Riess, *22 In
823.50: half -bids do, 811.75 to $12.50
clear fat backs. 824 to 824.50; long cut
heavy mess, 820.50 to 822 ; half -ibis
do. $1t1.75 to 811.50; dry salt long clear
liaison. 12 10 12%e ; barrels plate hoef,
811 le 812.50: half-bbls do, 86.25 to
*6.75 ; ferrels heavy mess beef, $8.50;
half -Mils do, $4.75 ; compound laid, fe%
to 10%e : pure lard, 11% to 13e ; kettle -
rendered, 13 to 13%c ; harts, 13 to iG;d,c;
breakfast bacon. 15 In 16c ; Windsor
bacon, 15% 10 10%c ; fresh killed abat-
toir dressed hugs, 810 to $10.25; olive,
87.50 to $7.60. Eggs -16% to 17c.
Cheese--Oeto)eer made, while, 13%c;
colored, 14c norninal ; fodder. 12%e.
Butter-Nt•w milk creamery, 30 to 30%e
held creamery, 28 to 29c.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Milwaukee. April 16. -- Wheat -No. 1
northern. 82!x, 10 83%e; No. 2 northern,
R1 to 82',e : May. 77e;; In 77%c asked.
ityn--No. 1. 70 to 70e4e. Barley -No. 2,
71'; to 72e ; simple. 58 to 71c. Corn -
No. 3. cash. 4334 to 44c; May. 47%c bld.
Duluth. April 16. -Wheat -No. 1 hard,
83c ; No. 1 northern, 82c; No. 2 north-
ern. 80%e : May, 110c; July, 82%c;
Sept.. 81%e.
Minneapolis. April 16.- Wheal--Mny,
; July. 81% to 81!ec ; No. 1 herd.
82% to 82*.e: No. 1 northern. 81"; to
R1?.e ; No. 2 northern. 79'„ to 79! c
No. 3 northern, 76% to 78r.
(:A't'fLE MAIHKEr.
Toronto, April 16.- Prices were well
maintained for goal cattle at the West -
err. Market.
Export cattle were not plentiful.
Prices ranged from 84.80 to 85.40 per
cwt. Good to choice longs brought 85.10
to 85.40 per cwt.
Picked butchers' cattle, 84.85 to $5.10;
hilt to medium, $4 to 84.75 : common,
$3 in .93.00; cows, 83.50 to 81.25; can-
ners. 81.50 per cwt up.
Short -keeps sold at $4.40 to 84.75. and
feeders brought $4.25 to *4.50. Good
stockers were worth 89.!5 to 84 per cwt.
Good grain -fed lambs, $7.50 to 89 per
Owl; common lambs at $5.50 to 16 per
FM; •pith lamb, 13 to $8 each ; ex•
ra'a, P.10 la $6; bucks, $4.50 to
M Ar 'sad
/ ts.
g1+ou�1 N./5 for selects, and
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CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
UAl'V'ENITGS FHoII ALL OVER Tuts
GI.ou1L
Tetegraphl•? Briefs from Our Owa and
Other Countries el Rectal
Events.
CANADA.
l3rnutford's tax rate is 21 mills on the
dollar.
Galls tax rale may be 23% mulls this
year.
Hamilton will spend $62,000 011 the
waterworks.
Fire insurance in Winnipeg will go
ui: 011e per cent.
The civic power plant of Winnipeg
will cost $3,000,000.
Pickets for it lottery in Ireland are be-
ing circulated in Toronto.
The Hamilton street railway are buy-
ing second-hand cars.
The population of Montreal is officially
declared to be 350,000.
\Vinnipeg fire insurance rales are to
be increased one per cent. all round.
The first seeding in the Northwest is
reported from Portage plains.
1'ho C.P.II. wdi place two extra
steamers on the upper lakes this season.
Work on the new- smelter ut Thorold
has commenced.
A school for Hebrew children is to be
started in Toronto.
Dr. McQueen. an Edinburgh physician,
was found dead on the railway this side
of Winnipeg on Saturday.
The Gananoque inn, a summer hotel,
was destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss,
$90,000.
Lord Aylmer. inspector -General of the
Canadian Militia, has been retired by
order in Council.
The painters and paperhangers of
Hamilton are demanding a wage of 40
cents per hour.
Brakeman Fyole, of Winnipeg, had his
fool caught In & frog at Emerson, Man.,
and was killed by a C.P.R. train.
Goal miners at Springhill 1lrenes, N.S.,
have gone out on strike, owing to dif-
ferences with the non-union miners.
The Canadian Pacific Hallway Tele-
graph Company has advanced the wages
of Its employees five dollars a month.
The Chatham Board of Education
unanimously decided in favor of abolish-
ing entrance examinations to collegiate
Institutes.
- Miss Campbell, who saved the children
of her class In the llochelaga fire, will
b” presented with a gold medal at
Argenteuil.
A car ferry for the Grand Trunk Rail-
way to run between Cobourg and Char-
lotte was launched in 'Toronto on Sat-
urday.
Col. Vidal has been appointed Inspec-
tor -General of the Militia an.. Col. Les-
sard suceeecls him as Adjutant -General.
Lr rd Aylmer was not dismissed, but
was retired because of the age limit.
A contract has been given by the Can-
adian Pacific Railway for the construc-
tion of a branch line between Peterboro'
and Victoria Ifarkor at a cost of nearly
$3,000,000.
On Friday a Brantford bartender was
fined for selling liquor to two youths
under age and two girls under fifteen
years, who were caught drinking toge-
ther in the place.
George Wood was hilled in a drunken
row at Edmonton on Friday, and there
is evidence That Dick Hood, a jockey,
committed the murder by striking Wood
on the back of the head with a hatchet.
GREAT BRITAIN.
I.ord Crooner in his report Issues a
warning against the possibility of a pan -
Islam war.
The C.P.R. has secured Sandon dock
at Liverpool for the accommodation of
its Atlantic fleet.
Lord Elgin has issued n circular to ex -
colonial Governors, asking them not to
engage in commercial enterprises in the
colonies formerly aominislered by them.
UNITED SPATES.
A mother and four children perished
in a tenement house fire at Parolee, N.J.
James J. Hill has retired from the
presidency of lho Great Northern Rail-
road.
Two cent a mile passenger rale for
Michigan has been decided on by the
PLOT TO MURDER GRAND flBKE
Alert Soldier Saved the Life of Nicholas
Nicholavitch.
A despatch from Sl. Petersburg says:
11 was announced on \Vedas clay that
another aUcuipt on the life of Grauiii
Duke le:cholas Nieholaiet'itch, president
of the Council of Defence, and a sec-
ond cousin of Emperor Nicholas, had
been toiled. The Grand Duke, accom-
panit'd by his brother, Peter Nicholaie-
vach, was returning from Tsarskoe-
Bak), by train at boo o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning.
Witter the train reached Kusinine, 13
Inik•s from St. Petersburg, It was
brought lo a sudden slop by a fusilnde
of shots born the track ;side. A sentry
was interrogated and said he had seen
feur rnen hiding behind an embank-
ment, and evidently awaiting the conn-
ing of the train. Ile at once began
shooting, firing in all twelve shots. The
four men succeeded in getting away un.
in j meed.
Every foot of the remainder of the
track into St. Petersburg was carefully
searched before the two Grind Dukes
%entered to complete their journey.
'fin reported attempt on the life of
Grand Duke Nicholas, related in the
lotego:ng deepat•h, bears a shiking
similarity to the attempt made to kill
him on Feb. 27. On this occasion the
scene was on a ear between 'l'sarrke,c-
Selo and St. Petersburg. A guard pa-
trolling the track near the station tit
SI. Petersburg end of the lute caught
a man dressed as to workman in the act
of replacing n wooden box in the mid-
dle of the track. \Vhen he saw the
guard the 1111111 fled and jumping tete
a cab made his eseatee. Ti►e box on the
!reek was found to contain an infer-
nal machine of great power. The train
stopped before it reached the machine.
Grand Duke Nicholas often has leen
referred to as a possible regent of
Russia in case of the adbicalion of the
Emperor. He Ls among those under
s•ntence of death by the terrorists.
INCREASE IN TRADE WIT11 STATES.
11 is Very Much Larger Than That With
Great Britain.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Trade
returns of the Dominion for the past
fiscal year indicate that the increase -n
(:anode's trade with the United States
has been considerably ntoro than double
the increase in the trade with Great
Britain. Trade with other British pos-
sessions has remained comparatively
about fhe same in volunc, whie (rade
with foreign countries other than the
United States shows a fair Increase.
Figures for the last nratll► of the fiscal
year are not yet available, but for the
eleven months ending February 2811h
last the increase in imports from Great
Britain over the corresponding period of
1b054i was $13,640,512 and the exports
to Great Britnin 89,02.5,030, making a
total increase in trade with Great Bri-
tain amounting to $2.2,064,542. During
the same period the increase in Imports
from the United States was $31,654,696
and in exports to the United Stales
818,309,330, making a total increase in
trade with the republic of $49,964.032.
Canada's total trade with tine other Bri-
tish posse.ssions im'rensel during the
eleven months by 8392,153, cnd with
foreign countries other than the United
Stales the increase was $4,727.707.
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BOER WAI1 IIF:ROH S' MONUMENT.
Earl Grey Will Ile Present al Unveiling
In Montreal.
A despatch from Montreal says: The
Governor-General will be present at the
unveiling on May 2I, of the monument
in Dominion 5q(1810 to the memory of
the Canadian soldiers who lost their
lives in the South African War. Princi-
pal Peterson, chairman of the Citizens'
Committee That rais•'d the funds for the
erection of the monument, has been in-
formed That the statue is on the way
from Paris lo Havre, and as soon as it
is shipped from Havre preparations will
to commenced for the unveiling. Ar-
rangements will be made to have every
department of the militia represented at
ttc ceremony
TR:i(:KME N ARF. HAPPY.
C. P. n. Giles Them an Increase on
Western Lines.
A despatch lrmn Winnipeg says: Ne-
gotiations which have been in pre)gress
for several weeks between the C. 1'. It.
and representatives of the Maintennncc
of \Vay on the lines from Fort William
tc Vancouver terminated in a mutually
satisfactory agreement, under which a
Senate. new schedule has been drafted granting
in incrense of hventy coils per dny to
each man. \Voges previously- ranged
from 81.50 to $2.35 per day. and in fu-
ture the minimum will be 31.70 and the
maximum 82.55. Over 3,54)0 men are
effected.
New York clubmen are barring British
visitors from the privileges of their
organizations.
San Francisco is in total darkness.
Fire destroyed bolt) gas and electric
light plants.
United Stiles Steel Corpxerrtlion will
construct a $10.00I,O00 steel plant in
Duluth.
James E. Gilmour, Meyer -elect of Cari-
bou. (:ol., dropped dead w bile celebrat-
ing his victory.
Canadians resident in 13ufh110 have
termed a Canadian flub and expect 10
secure a mentl-ership of Iwo hundred.
Eight negroes were killed and fifteen
injured on Saturday h► it freight (rain
wreck in Georgia.
One hundred and evenly Aniericnn
seller)] leachers will snit for the Philip-
pines by the end of May.
Secretary Hoot and representatives
from Salvador and Mcxieo are negnlin-
ling et Washington with a view to
bringing about the end of the war in
Central :Unrricu.
An indictment enntaining inc hundred
nnrl seventy -Ove counts has been re-
turned against John 11. \\'nlsh, former
i're.sident of the • hn•ngn National Bank,
charging him with ntisnpptying the
bank's funds rind making false returns.
GENERAL..
Socialists hove secured Pighly sit els
out of hyo hundred in the Finnish Diet.
The earthquake al Billie, Armenia,
did much dainage. Ninny are camping
In the snow.
The peasant dislurbnncas throughout
Moldavia and Wallachia have been com-
pletely suppressed.
Corruption prevails to such an extent
in Morocco That both civil and military
officials are enriching themselves at the
expense of the country.
the Honduran and Nicnrngl►nn melte
ttonary armies are accused of plundering
and murdering in '1 egiictgalpa.
A reactionary plot. having or Ila ob•
ject the dissolution of the flume, has
been mnearlhed at St. Petersburg.
fin
nol judge a boy by his post. judge
Pint by his future --then you will begin
to realize how important it 1s to judge
wisely.
AFFI ICII'ED JAMAICA.
Cattle Dying of Drought-- More heavy
Shocks at Kingston.
A despatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
says : Sleepers were thoiw•n out of their
beds by a stork of ear•Ihelunke early
Tuesday morning, but the damage done
to buildings wns immaterial. A drought
is killing the cattle on the island and is
ruining the crops. The insurance corn -
panics are trying to arrange a 00111.
promise in the cases in which they nre
not protected by an earthquake elaut'
in their policies.
ROTH 1.165 (:UT OFF.
MIrnthrona Citiren Run Oter by Express
and killed.
A despatch from Slrnllicona says:
E. J. McMillin. a wrll•knmvn citizen.
whose parcels and family reside nl
Strnlford. Ont.. was run over by the
midnight express in front of the L.l'.H.
station on Tuesday night. Itnth legs
were rut off. and the unfot Innate young
man silcClirniCd to his injuries a eev
hours Inter. Ile formerly was a medeal
student in 'I'otonto university.
t
Bf: i'ATiEN7' \\'ITil BOYS.
Behold the crimes we have commit-
ted against boys in the sacred name
of justice) For an offence committed
In the hasty impulse of youth, arrested,
convicted, imprisoned: good name gone,
empleyuient lost, friends sucpleious, so-
ciety indifferent. prospects blighted. In-
centive In noble living taken away -
tied all that the majesty of the law
might be vPielicnled! Thousands of fright
v(Img lites lave gone down to desiruc•
tion before this mighty juggernaut. -J.
J Kel-m.
New
POSTAL
ACT APPROVED.
Arrangement with United Stales
EUective May 80.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Post -office Department on Wednesday
received information from Washington
That the new convention respecting
second-class (natter passing between the
Iwo eomitries had been approved by
President Roosevelt. It will go into effect
on May 8th next, and is terminable upon
six months' notice, given by either
country to the other. The amendment
agreed upon imposes a rate of ono cent
for each four ounces upon newspapers.
When separately addressed copies in-
tended for delivery at. one post -office are
enclosed under one wrapper bearing the
address of such office, the individual
.copies are to be delivered to the address-
ees without further charge.
DROUGHT IN ANDALUSIA.
Failure of Crops Entails Much Misery --
Praying for Rain.
A despatch from Madrid, Spain, says:
The continued drought in Andalusia is
likely to have most serious results. The
beet root crop in the District of Grenada
threatens to be a total failure, and fento
are entertainer) for the whent crop
throughout Southern Spain. There is
great misery and distress in this part of
the oountry. Public prayer:, ter rain
kayo been offered in all 11►e churches.
The Government has declared its inabil-
ity to oope with the distress, but it is
hoped That a bill in favor of irrigation
will be brought forward at the opening
of the Cortes.
-- 4.
FAST TRAINS IN ENGLAND.
One Non -slop run of Over =5 Miles in
4 (lours 10 Minutes.
The most phenomenal and, in fact, the
world's record non-stop runs for length
and sustained high speed, says an Eng-
lish correspondent of The Ir,n•1'rall, are
ruade by the Cornish Reviera limited ex-
presses, which daily run in each direc-
tion between Landon and Plymouth,
225% miles. without an intermediate
stop, in four hours ten minutes.
• When it is remembered thnt the last
fitly -two miles of the rum are over a
winding switchback read, where grades
of any steepness up to 1 In 40 abound,
some idea will be formed of the difficult
task set to the locnmotive.s.
The average speed of these trains be-
tween London and Exeter, 173% utiles,
i; 57.9 miles per hour, and the same
timing is also made by two oiner down
expro`ses which daily run to this town
without an intermediate slop.
Vfaler, is picked up fermi track troughs
no less than three limes by all (hese four
trains. and the down Riviera limited de-
taches three independent slip coaches,
one niter the other. during the journey.
Before the new direct line to the west
of England via \\'eehury was opened, the
runs mode by these two world-famous
trains were more a.stonlshing still, as
the distance covered by Them daily
without slopping was 245% miles• even-
ly miles more than at present. while
th) average booked speed fur 152 miles
was 00.6 miles per hour. including a se-
vere :;lack at Rath, rind n worse one
through Ilristol, four minutes being con -
S11111011 by 1% tulles of curved road
ll:rough the Inner loon.
However, these limited expresses keep
excellent lime, and have proved so re-
munerative that they are being contin-
ued through the winter menthe. the time
1,; P13nhonlh having been cut to four
hours seven minute., with the down
train. while the up limited now call, al
An additional non -slap express hns,
also been put nn (1'4)111 Exeter. bringing
Ihc number of these 173'; utiles non-
stop expresses on this one English rail-
way to four. in addttinn to the down
Itnvitee limited with its 225% utiles run.
SENTENCE SEH\IONS.
A long sermon hes n short life.
You cannot teach n hog by talking.
Many Think of pelf-pily ns snintlhmt.s.
There is no "but' to the Irull► that God
is love.
A man speaks rno't boldly during his
silence.
There can be no virtue In any but a
vital religion.
A roans kick gives no indieelk,n of i►ie
contribution.
The measure of the money mill is Iia
man it makes.
It is better to be trained by (rouble
Than be a (rain of it.
The only religion n men has Is that
which he gives nw•ey.
The music of this outlet comes from
lives wont with love.
The min with the most brass in his
(see .sten has the least.
Ile who eats things evil ntv: nys is sure
that the %strld is rotten.
FIRST SEEN IN A DREAM
MURDEROUS AssAI'1.T 1 I'ON TURFS
PERSONS FORETOLD.
Pam tied Wedding Ring, IfuuUht Haub
ver With Proceeds, Shut Stteel.
heart and Tao Others.
Two weeks ago, John French, a young
miner of Sheffield, England, went to a
jeweler and bought a gold wedding ring
to place on the linger of pretty ,Norah
('ale. Ile pawned the ring unit used
the money he got on it to buy a revol-
ver, with which he attempted to inur-
derh13 the girl. After seriously wounding
ler and t'. other people he blew out
brains.
The affair is one of the mist melo-
dramatic that ever occurred in Shellleld,
and a curious fact in connection with
it was that it was foretold in a dream
which the mother of one of the victims
Lad on the night before the tragedy uc-
currd.
This was an elderly woman named
Fitzsimmons. Her son, Thomas Fitz-
simmons, was French's landlord -or
rather his host, for It Was purely as an
act of charity that the miner was taken
Into the Fitzsimmons household some
Ave weeks ago, at a time
WiIEN HE WAS OUT OF WORK.
Soon afterward French fell In love with
Norah (:ole, who was a servant In Fitz-
simmons's employment, and before long
he succeeded In making her promise to
marry him -the arrangement being that
their marriage should take place at a
registry office in a fortlnighl's lime.
Apparently, however, the miner, who
was of rather o brutal type, had gained
the girl's consent largely through bully-
ing her, for a few days ago she told
lien she had changed her mind. And
next day she was warned by her em-
ployer's mother not even to go out
with French, who, the elder Mrs. Fitz-
simmons declared, was dangerous. Tho
old lady asserted That on the previous
night she had dreamed that shots had
been fired in their kitchen and that the
as,nilant was French.
Next day. when the Fitzsimmons
family and two of their neighbors were
silting in the kitchen. French suddenly
came in. Going up to Norah Cole he
asked her if chs intended to marry him
and the girl pluckily replied that she
was not going to have anything to do
with hhn.
FRENCH THEN DREW A REVOLVER,
fired al the min Fitzsimmons. then et
Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, who had a
hnl,p on her knee and then turned to
the girl.
Ile told her to prepare lo die. Sho
fell on her knees and implored him not
1.. kill her, but he was unmoved by her
appealing cries. 11e fired three .hats
al her. and then shot himself in the
Lend with the last bullet left In the re-
volver and fell dead.
Fitzsimmons escaped with but slight
injury. but Mrs. Filzshmnon's nose
was blown away. while I1' girl %Alai
seriously hurt.
On Frenelest body being seirehed, a
Pawn ticket for n wedding ring was
hemi] in one of his pickets. \Vith the
proceeds the roan tied first taken out
it gun !Iroise. Then he bought the re-
volver and cartridges.
AXI: IN TREASON- TRIALS.
Sharp Edge Turned Toward Prisoner
When Sentence is Pronounced.
Every one is aware of the dreadfully
significant part 'the executioner's axe
plays In a trill for high treason. The
sharp symbol of death is carried before
the prisoner. with ils blunt side turn-
ed toward him so long as tie hns not
been sentenced, say. Macmillan's Maga-
zine, and just before sentence Is pro-
nounced the tshnrp edge is turned his
way.
Evelyn. who was present at the trial
of Ford Stafford In 1689, tells us that
the axe was turned edgeways to the un-
fortunate nobleman ro soon as it was
ascertained that the wiling of the Peers
went against hien--an effective but
ghastly pine of stage ninnage►nent
which must have had n sickening fas-
cination for the unhappy and probably
innocent min. In these days, now hap-
pli • gone by, no one scents to have
reflected on the unne'essary cruelty c•f
borrowing tri - feel.-ngv of men about to
die by such shocking judieinl by-play.
Not every prisoner Treated this purely
symbolic but otherwise superfluous and
unp'ensant ceremony conlentpluous-
1y a, did lord Ralmerino. When Iho
three conches conveyed the Lords KIl-
rnernnck, Balmerino and Crornnrtie
from the Tower to be guillemot! ht \Vesl-
minsler, on July 28. 1746. n difficulty
arose. 1t was not Inid down 1.y pr'c-
seription or u••- in which mach if (here
were more than one the felnl axe hid
to he carried. "Oh. put itte -- thing(
in her." cried brave old Ralinerino,
don't core."
Vel. nelw,Ihslnndtng its eentempt for
this horrid syndw)i. the undaunted old
Ran cheerfully suffered denlh for his
attachment h. another symbol. the
\\ bite (:oeknd,: but Lord Kilmnrnoek, in
the next coach, w•as dreadfully fright•
ened. as he t•hnwed himself to bc, by
his thorough reali-rnlion of what the nee
in' axe v. told mean to him. Ile In-
quired minutely into all the details- of
an Pxecntien, wanted the Groomer of
the Tearer In bell hien whether his head
would roll or rebound, and when on
the s:•offolrl he snw• the executioner
die -sed in whits. with a while apron,
he w•hlepered Io his chaplain, "1ton►e,
how terrible'
A (, t'Es' FION OF DEPTHS.
"You are beneath my contempt. sir f'
"So you are beneath mine, and I'm
piling on mere every minute."
Doesn't it just seem ns If tl;>> inenthly
rent day crimes nround quicker Than the
weekly pa) day?
"There Is a wnra of One syllable In tile
English lnngitng.. Ihnt is nlw•nys spelled
wrong. c:eesi by Iho mot t'dnenle.l
people." 'Weil it is 11;41 ?" "The. word
•w i.ongl, " ,