Exeter Times, 1907-06-20, Page 3MUTINY OF RED IIIISSAIIS
carious Disaffection in the Czar's
Favorite Regiment.
A despatch from St. retersburg; says: ed by direct political agitation, but was
the results of the loosening of all tate
bends of discipline duo to the present
tong -Brawn crisis. The soldiers are
vaguely dissatisfied, but they don't know
i' ac11v what they w tilt. Bence nnar-
c Ity is more probable that a swift,
ca•an-cut military revolution. The sin-
gular fact HMO these mutinies Ls that
they occur in the regiments most close -
The existence of serious disaffection !y connected with tite Czar. The ttus-
Carrie to light when Colonel Molostvuff, stirs are even dearer to him than was
commanding the regiment, ordered the the Preobranjensky Regiment, fur the
punishment of several soldiers, but the Czar served in the sixth squedeon, and
other s.,ldiers refused to inflict it. They at ttte last regimental fete spoke most
also refused to shout the usual salute- feelingly of how proud he felt at being
tion to they coniunnder on parade. entithal to wear the uniform of the
The upshot of the affair was the ar- famous regiment.
rest on Monday at '1'sarskoe-Selo of
the cenimaandei' of the "fled Ilussars,"
General 1'ctnivo Svlovo, aide-de-camp
tC and personal friend of the Czar. The
C;eneral wus conveyed to St. Peters-
burg and placed under domiciliary ar-
rest in the \\'inter Palace.
The fourth squadron of the regin eret
has been de'pr•ited of the privilege of
carrying the regimental (seers. All
the officers have been arrested, and the
regiment will probably 1,e transfe nod to
Melviet, where the Japanese prisoners
lived, and wanee tt.+) 1'reobrajeeshy
Regiment was sent Inst year by way of
punishment. A series of courts-martial
will follow in clue course.
From personal investigations it is
concluded that the mutiny was not cans.
tat technically was a mutiny, close-
ry resembling the mutiny of the I'reo-
bra:ensky Regiment just before the dis-
solution of the Dunia last year, has
occurred in the ranks c,f the Lifer Hus-
sars, better known as Ilia "Ited flus-
sars," at Tearskoe-Selo.
N.\\'A1. MUTINY "l11111:.V1'ENS.
A despatch to a London news agency
lroin Sebastopol says that Vice -Admir-
al \Vireo, who recently was appointed
successor of Admiral Skrydle►ff, in com-
mand of the Bieck Sea fleet, has sifted
cut and arrested the disaffected sea-
men at thnat port and placed 600 of
there on Ixiard a cruiser, under a
strong guard of the Pragski Regiment.
Additional arrests rests are being made, and
it probably will be ntcessery to fit out
arlotlr,•r penal cruiser. The seamen .;f
the fleet are exasperated, because no
charges have been preferred against the
arrested mon, and it Ls said that a mu-
tinous outbreak is likely to occur.
MONTREAL'S FIRE: LOSSES.
Nearly Three Million Dollars In the
Peet Six Months.
A despatch from Montreal says: Tttero
was received at the City flail on Wed-
nesday a striking document from the
Fire Underwriters' Association, saying
that on account of great lire losses by
insurance companies these cornprmie.
had decided to curtail the amount •,f
insurance that would rte given to the
public. '!'tris step was necessary In or-
der to give a better safeguard to the
companies. The document also calla
upon the city to at once take steps to
have all wires in the city placed in un-
derground mritluits. Special experts
have proven ie the underwriters that
many fires are due to the danger of
overhead wires, etc. 'fht' report, which
also touches upon other inipw,rtnnt mat-
ters, says that the Untlerevril•'r.;' Asso-
cintion. after nstectt research. have rea-
son to believe that seine of the recent
disastrous fires in the city are due to
fe•rLive wiring. The report also Mates
tt:at during the past six months fire in -
MR. (.IWF:Nw.ty'3 SALE.
Famous Breeding Farm at Cr st;tl City,
Man., Will Soon be a Memory.
A despatch from Crystal City, Mani-
toba. says: "Prairie Rune," which for
nearly twenty years has been with
breeders of Shorthorns and Ayrshire
curtly, Berkshire and Yorkshire swine,
and with many hundreds of people
with only a sensational interest in
pure-bred stock rt name to conjure with,
i.; no longer at breeder's farm. Ilon.
Thornes, Greenway, whose name has for,
these years been associated with the
great farm as owner and eele'cter of
sonie of the greatest prize -winners, not
only in the Province, but on the conti-
nent, on Thursday held his fifth an-
nual sale. 'This sale marked the disper-
sion of the "Prairie Home" herd. llence-
f.,rth "Prairie Houle" exists only in a
same that is a memory, or is being
perpetuated in some of the superb ani-
mals that have passed (tut from the
grates eef the fumy that has ht•en the
glory tet Crystal City and district iter
su:rnncu losses in the cit have been long. "Prairie Horne'' has been the Mecca for thousands who wished to
close upon three million dollars. 'Ills view the stock that has won the high.
raers seven dollars per capita of po-
pulation.
Such losses, it is claimed.
besides bring enormous in the extreme,
are unnecessary. -
27 ROUSE:S DE:aTROyI:D.
Conflagration at 51. Iles mond -Y hole
Villnt;e Was Threatened.
A despatch from (nrei e says: The
I'riri-h of St. itaynmond, County of Poi t
Neuf, atM,ut thirty miles from this city.
was on \Vednct-day afternoon yisit*'1
by a conflagration which, for a time.
threalert'•d to wipe out .the village. A
fire started at Dire end of the village
tile) ut 3 p.rn.. when three houses were
destroyed and 21 horsess, wllileathis flee
was still burning another fire started
ab ent half a mile further west, on tri
main street of the village. A detach-
ment et the Quebec fire lerigado was
bent by avp'ccial train to St. Raymund
anti stiMeetltevl in controlling the fire,
but not before :1 private residences
were completely destroyed. For a liner'
great fear eas anticipated tear the saf-
e1of the church. as the second house
from the Pi'esln•lery fell a prey to the
flumes. The Quebec and local fire de--
,.'irttnt'nts rettinined at work all night.
STitIK1:RS 1.1111:1► IN 1111: .tilt.
They Inlin,idarted ♦len 11'nrkinit at fort
Arthur.
A despatch fr.un Port Arthur says:
The Canadian Net thorn Italia ay brought
cue hundred and sixty men Hun Win-
nipeg on Wednesday morning to .e•
place in part lib longsttoren&'n now
fait nn strike. After working about two
l.eurs telly of them went 001 t'llh the
6trikers. The remainder, together with
a few t►dht•1'o are now working the yes.
lets nl these wharves. About 10 o'clock
on Tuesday night a number of the slrik-
e^rs tv.'nt over to Canadian I'ncilic Rail -
t•: ay shed No. 5, where the steamer
(:e'runnn was unloading. and threaten-
ed to shoot any man who continued
work en her. After a few shop were
fi'eei in the nir the teen quit. Tti.'y
turned up next morning, however. and
work is proceeding as fast as possible.
At the Canadian Pacific Midway sheds
they are so congested with freight that
until they can get men to Maul the cars
out the discharging 01 vessels will be
very slow. None hal Greeks and Itali-
ans at there at the present time.
Itl'1tiN(:1 iE:1.n•gi tl t1(►It I►IN►N NI:11.
MS Morse Slt'Jgs'dl Off Submerged
�itt11e. Throaintl Ilint Into Creek.
:t despaMh from Springfield, Il►s..
sats: Mayor David S. tiritflhs of this
city, was drutyncd and Fine (thief Peter
Jr,ce,t►s narrowly escaped a similar fat.'
on Wednesday afternoon by their ht res
stepping oft a submerged bridge ten
nines eouihweet of this city while they
were crossing a creek to attend a fish-
ing party. The 1►t ily ryas l(44 cr1'•1.
Mayor Griffiths was horn it Ilane;lton,
Ontario. on May :i. 1873. his mother.
John Griffiths. h tv.ng been there
MC/ a tisit to her parents,
rid children.
'.-t horrors at Winnipeg. 'Toronto and
Duthie.. The splendid barns are still
here, and these with the broad acres
rind rit-i,tuo of 11se stock, will forth-
with be dt.posed of.
ltII'OItJ 4 Ill ;I1i-;lt ; I I'OR7:s LOWEll
Trade InertasP for April and May
Eleven Millions.
A despatch from Ottawa says: Can-
nda :s trade figures for the first Iwo
months of the present fiscal year, reel-
ing May 30 last, show an increase of
no less than 811,903,790, and nearly 25
per cent. in the value of the iniporls,
as compared with April and May e•f
1K4. Imports for May alone were
$33,935,525. en Increase of 87.275,564.
This largely increased importation na-
turally resulted in n corresponding in-
crease of revenue from duties. For the
Iwo menthe ttte duties collected totalled
8a•588,690. an increase of 81,533,261 over
the corresponding period of last yenr.
011 the other ti;,nt1, the exports Chew
a considerable falling off. due largely
:c the Iatene is of the opening of spring
navigation and the kmg;sttor•emen's
strike at Montreal. Exports for the
two months totalled *.10,9s,349 a de-
crease of 85.226,892 from last year. The
decrease for May alone was 81.8,40,097.
Exports of products of the forest de-
creased 8717,281; animals and their pit)•
duce. 8423.335; agriculture, 8928.,;15.
For the two months the decrease in ng-
riculturnl products was $2,507,276; the,
pr.etlucls of the mine increased 86.34,331.
'late tole, trade for the two months was
SO -.,539, 739, an increase of $16.676.898.
ItF:1'1►1.1 I:It 11 tS 11 tNI)1.
1 t11'et1►1%11e 11 "nr+n I:ha►ses a thiriilar
and secures His Arrest.
A despatch from Iteginn says: in the
.Supreme Court. on Thursthty, ,Mathies
Greenstein was found guilty of burglar-
icusly hrenking into the house of Mrs.
Ambler of Qu'Appelle on May 25. \ti
Ambler stated that she had slept tvilh
n loaded revolver under her pillow far
twenty years. When Gruenstein's pres-
ence in the house was detected Mto
ehnsell the ninn out of the house set
the point of her revel' er. She follow-
ed hire into the street. mut succeeded
in rousing Constable (Mass, who arrest-
ed the tnnn. Sentence was deferred.
K II.I .I:1► (11' 1.14:I I I N I NC:,
Bolt Tears Clothing Off tl;,,,'.
Near %u: Ih It dire•(„rd.
% ale►.�paatrtt front N•.rtlt it it1kford.
Sask.. says: %With Ills wife watching
turn through the window. Frantaits
Grosjenn, rancher, living !hely miffs
northeast of her.'. vas instnnt'v killed
by a bolt of lightning on Salunlay af-
ternoon. Ile wee brought here kr
burtal. Grisjean was leading a horse
when tho a•-c►,Ient oeciir•red. The
horse was knocked hown, led recovered.
The boll literally !ere the clothing from
Grosj.,an.s body. The dead man aas
55 years old, married. and hid five
sons.
Hods
THE WORLD'S MARKETS
DEPORTS FitoM nut LEADING
MAI IC CENTRES.
'nets of Cattle. Grain, Ghee» an/
Ouse Dalry Ptro#iuee at Noon
and Abroad.
Toronto, June 18. ---Fleur - Ontario
wheat 90 per ccitt. patents are quoted
at 83.35 to 53.45 in buyers' sacks out• Toronto Street Itailway earnings for
seeiin lir export. Manitoba first pat- May were $27'),773.12.
t,.1s, 84.75; second patents, 81.20 to flans are being prepared for a new
$1.30, and strong h:tket�', i1t15 to $1.25. wing to the Provincial Parliament build -
Wheat -No 1. Manitoba hard is quote ilig.s.
cd tit 95,'.',c lake ports; No. 1 Northern Hamilton Bonn! of Education has in -
at 9334e, and No. 2 Northern at Mc. On- creased teachers' and caretakers' sal-
tarin wheat is steady, wall No. 2 quot- aril's.
tel at 88 to 89c outside. The 1. ('. R. will hereafter be known
Corn --No. 2 American corn is quoted (:nsunaJathe. ".1. ft. C." Interc.,lonial Railway,
at 613L 'Toronto, lake and rail
Bran -Prices nominal at $19 to $20 The Duluth, Rainy Lake and Winnl-
c,utside in bulk; shorts are quoted at peg Railway tuts begun erecting its
821' to 821 outside. bridge across itainy River.
CALI. BOARD. Eighteen restaurant keepers at \Vin -
Oats --No. 2 white offered at 46c out- nepeg were fined 81 and costs each for
Side, without bids. selling 011 Sunday.
1)r. R. W. Bell, Provincial Health In-
spector, reports many cases of small -
fele in Leeds and Grenville counties.
The Montreal Street Railway Com-
pany will give the poor of tho city free
rales in special cars during the hot
tnu1111Ls.
It is said that an offer well rip in the
millions has been made the Government
foe the mineralized portion of the Gil-
kes limit.
It is proposed to store some 60,000
tons of coal in Saskatchewan during
this summer to prevent another fanl-
ine next winter.
The O'Boyle Brothers' Construction
Co., of North Bay, have been awurdet1
the contract for the Teniiskanting Rail-
v:ay stores building at that place.
'lite earnings of the London and
Part Stanley Rallway for 1906 total
$143,736.06, and London receives ten
per cent. on all receipts above 8847.000.
Mrs. William Allbright, "prophetess,'
has warned the .Mayor of Vancouver to
"come out and bring the people, as
there will be a tidal wave and moun-
tain eruptions."
A hobo fitted himself quarters in a
small steam yacht shipped on the C.
P. R. from Montreal to Seattle and rode
across the continent unnoticed.
The bodies of Samuel Rankin and
Mrs. Patterson. both old residents of
Stratford, were found in the water on
Ilhu4xfay. Meth had cornnitttedi sui-
c!de at different places and titne:s.
A number of hay dealers of Montreal
have entered suit in the Exchequer
Court to collect 8310,0011 for tray ship-
ped by tht•tn to South Africa during the
war and not taken by the Government.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
i
UAl'?ENINGS 'nom Alf rnF.n TIW
GLOBE.
Telegrapttl ; Briefs From Our One aa/
Other Countries of Iteuol
Events.
CANADA,
COUN"I'IRY PttOI)UCE.
Apples --Good to alnico Winter stock,
$..50 to $3.50 per bbl.
Beans -Hand-picked quoted at $1.50,
and primes at 81.35 to $1.40.
phoney --Strained quoted at 11 to 12e
per Ib., and comb honey at 82 to 82.50
per dozen.
Ilny-No. 1 timothy Is caviled at 814
1, $15 here, and No. 2 at $12 to $13.
Straw -$7 to 87.50 a ton oil tract. here.
Potatoes -Ontario, 81.15 to 81.20 per
nag on track, and Net; Brunswick,
$1.30 per bag.
1'o u l try -Turkeys,
chickens, alive, 12c
9e.
alive, 12 to 13c;
per Ib.; fowl, 8 to
TILE DAIRY MARKETS.
Rutter -Pound rolls are quoted at )8
le 20c; tubs nornilal at 18 to 19c., large
rolls are. quoted at 18c. Creamery prints
sell at 21 to 23c, and solids at 20 to
215;c.
Eggs --Case lots sell at 175; to 18c a
doz.
Cheeses --Large are quoted at 13c per
it'., and twins at 133 to 13},e.
IIOG I'1iODUC1'S.
Bacon -Long clear, 11 to 113. o per
M. in case lots; mess pork, 821 to $21.-
56; short cut, 823 to $23.50.
Hams -Light to nledirun, 15%c; do.,
Leavy:, 143' c; rails, 11 re; should►'rzs,
Ile; backs. 16';c; breakfast bacon,
15'/,c.
Lard -Tierces, 12%e; ; hills, 12'-,c; pails,
,a
e.
BUSINESS A'1' MOV fl1E:\i..
Montreal, Jeune 18.-Grain-\fanitobn,
No. 2 white, 49,144: Ontario, No. 2 at
49c; No. 3 at 48c; No. 4 at 47e per bustl-
e: ex More. Flour--(:Iloice spring
wheat patents, 85.10 to 85.20; seconds,
SON) to $1.60: Winter wheat patents,
t•045; straight rollers, $1.10 to 84.25•
dee. in lings. 81.50 to $2; extras, $1.60.
Feed -Manitoba bran. in bags, 821; sherts
822 per ton; Ontario bran in bag.821 le
$21.50; shore, 822 to 822.50; milled
niouille, $24 to 82.8 per ton, and straight
groin, 830 to $32. Provisions -Barrels,
short cut mess, $22 to $2.2.50; half-har-
rels, $11.25 to 811.75; clear fat back. UNITED STATES.
$23.50 to $24.50; long cut heavy macs, '1'Ire operators of lit,' Western Union
820.50 to 821.50; half -turrets do., $10.75 Telegraph Company are threatening to
10 811.50; dry salt, long clear Jenson. strike.
1n% to 11'4c; barrels. Plato beef. 811 fn The longshoremen at New York have
$16; half -barrels do., 87.50 to 85._':►; cecicted to return to work on the best
ticavy mess beef, 81U; half-bnrrels do., terms obtainable.
S5.55o; compound lard, 103 to 10%c: Japanese in the United States binnte
jure lard, 12',' to 12%c; kettle rendered, the German Emperor for the race t1,0u-
13 to 13';ct hams, 14 to 16e; brenkittst bles in San Francisco,
bacon, 14% to 15c; Windsor bacon, 15y, A big white cat is the loving foster
to 1Gc; fresh killed. abattoir dressed neither of four Ralinntin pup'pie's in
hogs. 810; alive, $7.25 to 87.10. Eggs a New York lire station.
--17% to 114y,0. Butter -Township. John M. Parker. who says he is from
20; to 20'1c: Quebec. 20; to 203;(; Tt,ronto, has confessed to the I'hiladel-
Ontario, 20e; Western dairy. 18 to 18jc. p Ilia police that he is n burglar.
(:bees,' --Western, 114c. At Winstead, Conn., three cows ,ate
hear Lly of grass on w hieli had been
1'N 1'1'1:1) SFA'I'F.s \IARKI:7'S. emptied some paris green. Tttey died.
Two women were killed and three
other persons were seriously hurt in
1111 automobile accident in indinnapoli=,
Intl. '
The united States Government has of-
fered Britain the same trade comes.
c
.ion( ;ts were given Germany by the
recent agreement.
Carrie Nation. alter haranguing{ a
cr;►wl in front of n down -town saloon
em \\ ,ashingtnn, was arrested for being
disorderly.
011teial statements from the Iowa crop
4crvice place the Iowa crops from 17 to
LIVE S'rO(:K \LtltKl:l'S. 1R per cent, behind their condition n
year ago at this lime.
Toronto. June 1R. --Expert (rade ,,ta- Because his mother had spanked
quiet. but with it continued good de- tains, Calif McCoy. aged eleven years,
n,nnd for heavy, well-finish/al sleek. ,Ilea and instantly kilted her nI their
fleece quality sold bean 85.30 to 85.9,. farm. nine miles north of Bassett,
nut picked cattle were sold al stilt. hiezh- Neb.
er prices. thre extra fine steers, weigh- President Roosevelt. speaking to the'
ing nllogeliler about 4,700 las„ bringing Nelionnl Editorial Aesoeialion at alines.
' I` `n• tt wn, urged the necessity of changes in
I:ute•tter enttle were tittered freely. Die system of lexnlic,n and in the utlli--
.feto quality soli! at from 85.60 to $5.'S. ;ng t E nnturnl resources.
e Oh a few cattle pleked from citeie-, Tr•s ing; lo port two men who were
i•,nds selling around lite $t, mark. (keel fighting. Father John A. Clnr•k, rector
tentinary Welters' sold frena $5.10 to of the I:n1both' ehurrh nt Collinsville,
Aeon. Medium, $3 to 85.25; choice Conn.. was set upon by both and his
easy' sold from $!..'►t1 to $1.75; common skull fractured by their blows.
cel\y+. sc:3 to 8.1.41►. With five children de'pernfely ill
Stocker: of g0U to 1100 Ms. were in de- with , ear•let fever and one dead, her-
e and nt 81 to $1,50; lightweights sold hent Whitney n Christinn Scientist lis-
nt :3.25 to 83.75. ing nrnr Concord N.11.• has refused to
\Inch cows o ere firer at $1.i to 860 nllow them to be attended by a physi-
fie choice and 825 to 830 for eontrnon. clan.
Vent calves were steady at 3c to Gc
pet Ib.
Sheep tied Iambs were firm and slight -
1•: higher.
The market for hogs Is easy, blit quo-
tations are unchanged at $6:10 for
s, !eche
GREAT
The retirement of Lord t)uncl•-nnld
from the British Army has been an-
nounced.
Crop reports from Europe indicate that
the wheat yield will be greater than at
first expected.
The first- reading of the amendment
le. the British North America act ren-
dered necessary by the agreement to
increase Provincial sul,.sidies was pass-
ed in the British Clouse of Commons -,n
Thuya lay.
Duluth, .Tune±
18. -Wheat -No. 1 hard.
164c; No. 1 Northern. 953ic; No. 2
Northern, 9t7,;t•; July, 95 ',c; Sept.,
0SKie: Ik'c.. 9t e.
Minnen1M-,1is. Jure 1R. -Wheat -- July,
95)%c; September, 94340; No. 1 hard,
tte' rte .19': No. 1 Northern. 97,.E 1„
9$c; No. 2 Northern, 95% to 96%e: Ne,.
3 Northern. 93 to Ole. Flour - First
[intents, 85 to $5.10; second paten►,.
$4.90 to *5; first Owe. 8.3.55 to $3.1.:,:
Second clears. 82.75 to $2.85. ilran in
bulk, $16 to 816.'25.
1.11‘11111:111.%1N .t'1' Itllt\IIN1.11 t11.
(:t,11►p.ar.alt11a% a (.real
SIM" 1, 110 His Friend..
1 the p:a' teem Birmingham. Eng-
land. says. \Ir. and Mr-. Joseph (.karn-
terlain arr.: rd here on Thursday from
Landon. The health of Mr. t:hammer•
lain is Improving. but his comparative
te'iplessneee was n great ehnck lo hie
friends who assembled nt the railrmnd
station to meet him. All irate were
raised in respeettul silence as his car-
riege drove away.
rd:NI:lt.\r..
The Kaiser is to meet the Czar dur-
ing a summer trip in :-ieandinavin.
The President of Nicaragua has de-
nied that his State hits deeiared war on
Guatemala.
Walter Vols, a wall -knew it Stt ist tra-
veller. hue leen hurtled to death by na-
tives in Liberia.
Twenty eight pa'ssengcrs were drown-
ed by nee 1. iim -ring of a French
sI. amcr off the itarbatk,s.
The teller dosses of Tokio fake no
stock in the elarinist cries over the San
i'rant;isa, (roubles.
'Hie French (.ioternment has t'(fer,d
(., renut their initd taxes he fide )e.ers
to the revolting wine grower,.
Louis Voile!, n Frena, fi.ht•rne:,n. . as
p.icktd up off the N'rwtuundlr+nd I►tltikz,
after teeing two Weeks ;chlor in
Lettets patelli establishing the (ie -
JAMAICA AGAIN SIIAKEN
len
Violent Earthquake Throws Down
Newly Erected Walls.
A despatch from K,ngeton, Jamaica,
says: A violent earthquake occurred at
1.20 a.m. here on Thursday. It was
the first in six weeks and canto from
the southeast. It was especially severo
at fort Itt'yal, destroying the walls ('f
the temporary buildings under con-
struction.
The violent slaking caused a panic
tuue,ng the troops there. and in the dash
for the open forty Men of the Royal
Garrison Artillery and !loyal Engineers
v.ero injured. Eleven of them ‘ver'e seri-
ously hurt and fifteen are in tho temple
tat.
7'he psnic was intensincd by a curi-
ous turbulence of the ,sea near the coast.
en paces, three extra fine steers, weigh -
were injured at Uppack camp it a sirni•
lar dash to the Open. Nu Casualties
are repelled lHuong civilians.
A despatch fro:n Santiago, Chile,
says: A severe earthquake was experi-
enced on Thursday at Valvivia. Sev-
eral buildings and the railroad bridges
there were destre;yett and tivo persons
were killed. Vaiviyia is on 11tc seacoast,
about 500 utiles south of Valparaiso.
It has a population of 10,000.
tinge River Colony on exactly the same
basis as the 'Transvaal have been is-
sued.
The Berlin 'Tageblatt says it learns
that the French Japanese treaty con-
tains a clause guaranteeing the open
door in China for all mations.
r
JIELD FAST, FATALLY SCt1.UED.
Terrible fate of an Engineer at Olsen
Sound Cement 1Vorks.
A despatch from Owen Seine! says:
A terrible fatality occurred here in
Thursday afternoon by the upsetting of
the portable crane used at the Imperial
Cement (bit pang's mills fur handling
coal and marl. Engiitecr Harvey Frank
was the sole operator of the machine,
and, while no one saws theenccident un-
til the crash (nine, (rem the condition
of the apparatus after the accident, it
was quite evident that Ire had dropped
the },room at too low an angle, and :n
turning at a rapid rale the momentum
had overthrown the crane. hruuk WAS
inside the house, and was caught by
some plates and held in such a posi-
tron that the steam from a broken con-
nection enveloped the upper pillion t f
he; t►cxly, literally pariesilitsg hip, and
getting drown his throat into his lungs,
hastened his death, which occurred a
short limo after his renewal to the hos-
eital. He was about 32 year; of ago
and leaves a widow and three small
children.
1NIi.i.ION FOR 7'IMiBE:R LIMITS.
'►
New York S. ndirate :tfter Properly
in the }fest.
A despatch from . St. Jolrn, N. B.,
says: Negotiations have been in progress
for some time through a .St. John bro-
ker for the sale of one of the most valu-
ntole tracts of limber land in British
Gemlike. The land is situated on Gra-
ham Mand, one of the (charlotte group,
ea the coast, and includes seventy-
eight square miles, every foot of which
covered with magnificent timber.
Tho land runs all round the shores cf
Madan Harbor, none of the limber be-
ing more than two miles from water.
It has been surveyed Three limes of !rite,
rend is estimated to contain 1,500,000.-
tof1 feet of limber. including spruce, fir
and he►nl'e1•k. The hind Is 11044' owned
I+y a nu►nht'r of \' astern Canadians.
I'ecently a New York syndicate has been
negotiating for it, and on Thursday
made an offer of one million dollars
cash. The syndicate has also put down
fifteen thousand dollars for a three -
months' option to permit of a final sur-
vey. This offer will be accepted.
11.t 1'Oit S(:11111TZ G1.11.TY.
San Frew -he -0's Chief of i•:Net•ulivt,
(:ontieted of Extortion.
• A despatch from San Francisco says:
\i;►ye.r• Eugene S•airn11, was on Thurs-
day night found guilty of extorting
rueeney (nom keepers of French restau-
rants in This city. This Ls the first for-
mal conyiclic'n in the anti -graft c•11n,-
praien inaugurated several months ego.
Abe Ituet. who was indicted ler simi-
lar t,ffenres, pleaded guilty to the
charges and nppenred as a witness
against Schmitz.
\\'hen the verdict was a»tIounced
Schmitz sat unmoved, with his left hand
to his chin. Ile npp;,rently did not un-
derstand, and asked Barrette "\\ het
1, il.''
"Guilty." said Harrell. ttra.,t-r.'s
hent (he ppett to the table, but he ..how.
ed no other sign of en►utiein.
111:1‘1:1t 11O111:s 1_i: til 1:‘11111..4. refusal on any more loans.
MILLIONS FOR COFFEE
GERMAN BUNKERS IIELP fftZlL TO
MARKET THE CROP.
They Loan 810,000.000. Which firings
the Brazilian Coffee States
Fund to 895,000,000.
Another loan has been made, amount -
Ing to *10,000,000. in furtherance of the
plan of leading coffee merchants of this
cc un pry and Europe to assist the coffee
Slake of Brazil in prolltably market -
fog the great crops of coffee raised with-
in the last year or two.
As was the cure in previous loans,
fhe money is paid directly to Sao
Paulo, one of the coffee Stales, but In-
stead of the loan being made with cof-
fee as collateral, the bankers 'linking
the loan have taken over on lease the
Soracnbana hallway Company, one (•f
the most important railroads of Sao
Paulo. it was announced in the coffee
trade yesterday that the most recent
len in connection with the coffee plan
was made by the Dresdner Bank of Ger-
many.
NINETY-FIVE MILLION.
Adding the $10,000,000 now pledged
through the lease of the railroad, the
coflte Slates of Brazil have now raised
•the enormous sure of 895,000.000 in pur-
SI trace of the plan to irnprovo the coffee
trade of Brazil. It is also lenrned from
local members of the syndicate that
there are now held as collateral 7.500,-
000 bags of coffee. Of this amount
Hamburg, New York and London mer-
chants and bankers hold 6,000,000 bags,
and still more is to be bought from the
funds raised by the loan made by the
Ilresdner Bank.
\VAS NATi0N:\I.IS\f.
The plan, in fact, has evoked hostile
criticism from many leading banking
interests of Europe, afro assert that the
scheme is impracticable and a breach
t
f economic laws.
Nevertheless the federal Congress of
13rnzil recently received a message front
the !'resident of the republic containing
the information that the coffee question
was a national issue and not simply a
question of the coffee States. Tho Pre-
eident.s message also stated that :he
federal government would indorse and
puarantee air the coffee Steles to she
amount of 875,000,000. whiett was
agreed up;.n and was enacted into law
in August last.
2.000.000 BAGS SlORi:11.
According to !fernier) Sielcken :he
syndicate formed! ',r iginnlly arn',ng mer-
chants to assist the el.ffee trade of Bra -
PI and incidentally to bolster the de-
clining market has now taken 6,000,000
Dregs of coffee as collateral for advan-e.s
in cash made to the pt•icipal coffee
Stott'.
\\ h.,•n the first lean on coffee was
made in behalf of the severe! Stales,
000,000 tags were stored in this city,
Bremen, Hamburg, and other centres
where the coffee merchants, members
et the syndicate, had warehouses. It
e as subsequently found necessary to
it.crcase this nutrient of coffee, as the
removal of 2,000,01)0 bags from the mar-
ker hncl no appreciable effect in odva'u--
ing prices. Additional advances were
trade frorn time to lune and new syndi-
cates firmed. and it is now stnted that
fully 6.000.000 bags nye Held by n score
or more of coffee importers and mer-
chants of this country and Europe.
LEASE: OF It.tIL\WAY CO.
The Scttroeders of London and the
Nation City Hank brought out a coffee
loan several months ego and had the
Ther nest Schroeder leonn amounted to
Decrease for 'rtelee 11„rril,• ttlraimed 11'000,000. Wiwi) the present loan.
to Set erity of 1% infer. ► r•ornpleted yesterday. was broached to
A despatch from Ottawa says: Home. these interests it is understood that
steed entries for the twelve "mitts trey waived (heir right to mnke a fur -
stead April 30 last totalled 34.19. For Cher loan. with the result that the Weed-
ending
preceding{ twelve menthe the Hurn- ner Brink financed the tr•nnsnctkan, rand
ler of homesteads taken up was 40,-
(x)8. The decrease of 5eila in the num.
her of entries ter the pnst year as com-
pared on the twelve nw nabs ending
tpril, 19t16. is attributed in part to the
'muslin! severity it the Winter, and in
part to the lack of adequate irnnspor-
Irdtion facilities in the sections of the
wintry open to I,'-►nestendere.
C't\rink\ I:tl"11.1: �liur.
instead of coffee as collateral took so t'r
on a lease the Soracnbnna itnil4t:,y
Company.
Sne Paulo, anus► of the'prineipal eroffec
Sfnte., MRs new advnnced $5 a hag cn
'er►4si,(ain ting,,s of et -(toe. and has raised
altogether nirfut 835.000.000 in various
loans. The Siete of Rio has raisedt 810,-
000010, and it is understood font the
(Perm gco•crnrne'nt of lentil has gurus
'mice(' n loan of $10,000,000 to one of
the coffee states.
(lytic,!!' h. tnrd•r.e:an %'l. p It:,titlacrs E'.tTtI. •i-1 111.1:T ('til (11 ta' tI.
don .tll►erla fl'intui tr..
On • Killed. 1t.ehe tired. in Collision
A despatch (►earn \t• I ine 1lat..1lhelr
Ia. says: Serart. .\ .•n. of the R.N.• Near 1.1nd,nttc1-
\\ .11.1'.. has reported from the Willow A despatch ft1,rn \ to^.o,lyer, B. c..
(re k detachment on the boundary Zine tiny:: in a collision between two ate
that it ler a number of C Hund, 1
g nn cattle turban ears it mile and a half firm the
t.aa%I' been shat down by Anweican sheep! (ay nt 6 c►'clr►'k on \\'cdlnr: •l.ty, J.
rr,nchers �n'th of Wild fierce r.:tt, •. A I lir'(:all, of New \Westminster, was killed,
1 nook to the number ref 151► w. re the $ end four Irwin/ate three Chinamen.
ina, Ballets. 'Hwy Wert' steel on Milk + told meetlive %%lute Crely- injuMdl.
Ret t r. The outrage has been, reported Sense naay die. The nsott,:,rnetr oyer-
t't 1h • li.Y.•W.tt.l'. hendqunrl.ra where inn
inn their orders. Both (*sirs ttt're 4 -
(relit i .ales are Iv/ nig I:dken I- inatr- en►t:'ishe•d1, Itrtl thrown down a sixty-foot,gurnte a tho,ough inteenaat:e,til. embankment.
l flttnt.
RAVAGES OF GREEN BUG
COSTING UNITED STATES F.t,Rt11si1e/
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
Southern t%bea! Growing States Ilan
a New Peet -Loss to Farmers
89,0110,008.
What beast, bird or insect in the
United .States bus the most expenstvo
appelite"
At first thought one might say an
elephant, or perhaps a goat, when he
goes in for old Engiish tapestries c•r
greenback currency.
Yet neither of those animals nor any
other that can be named. is costing as
much to feed as an insignificant filth+
ga'ecu hugs which i, just now disninyang
the farmers of 'Texas Kansas, Oklahoma,
Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, :tnd is up-
setting the busines.s interests of the!
East.
Thr' appetite of the g;rnin•aphis ---teele
I,ieally the toxoptera graminunt but rt:r
all practical purp.)sea just plain Green
plug -is costing ilie farmers of the Unit -
el States nttlliuii: of dollars.
\VHEA'i' \\'ITHF.IIS.
When tho farmers of Kansas and Ok-
lallarna, in April, noticed that their
wheat was withering on the stalk, they
at first attributed the trouble to the ra-
tter excessive cold weather.
investigation, however, revealed that
wheat in other equally cold sections
was not affected, and it was found that
wherever such trouble was a multitude
c' insects, so small they would hardly
he detected by a asual observer, wero
found a1see
After W. D. Hunter, of the United
Slates Department of Agriculture, re-
pe:rtcd last January that the green bug
was destroying growing wheat in Tex-
as, the department decided it was time
to make his acyuaintance and prepare
fo • hitn. So F. M. Webster, in targe
of the cereal and foreign -plant inveetl-
g ttionS for the government, set out to
study hint.
Mr. Webster found that the bug was
fist described from Bologna, Italy --in
1S52, and that ten years later its press-
ence in America was for the first limn
discovered. According to the Italians,
reports, the bug had been so thick in
the .(beets of 13e►logna as to cati.S0 111e
profile great annoyance.
FIItST IN AMERICA.
I.ittle notice of hire wits taken when
he first made his appearance in Ameri-
ca, but when, in 1884, he was found in
great abundance on wheat near Cabin
John, Maryland, and sivaullatieenisly !n
Indiana, Mr. \Vebster mode his n'.-
g11inlance.
The official is of the opinion that out•
breaks of Use pest. in Europe and
America are erratic. The bug sudden-
ly appears in immense swarms in fields
of grain in the spring,►, ruins the crop
over large areas of country and doesn't
appear again in destructive numbers
for, perhaps, many years.
On such occasions there seems to oe
some mysterious fact whicit accounts
f. r its rapid propagation. Where there
were but ,1 few, suddenly great sonans
infest the air, alight upon the wheat,
turning whole fields of thrifty grain in-
to brown, dwarfed plants that 1►roduco
no heads. or else, reaching a height of
not more than six or eight inches, have
heads that are foreshortened and nearly
devoid of grain.
f�ORTIIEfiXMOf.\fit'.
So hardy are they thSTat itl is I►ehovcd
they breed as far r►c,rth as St. Louis
and (;incinnati during the tv1ulo win-
ter. though the eggs laid in the fall in
such cold temperatures probably re-
main unhatched until spring.
Young green bugs develop to adults,
rind themselves begin to reproduce
within the space of a week, so that in
fevornhle weather several generhtions
may he fully represented in the some,
territory by young of all ages, the
dinged and wingless feiva$ s.
The common lady bug is a great de-
stroyer of this green pest.
Piofeeser E. Dwight Sanderson,
while at the 'Texas experiment station,
carne to the concl1Lsit,n that to Texas
the natureal encnlit c of the green hang
ordinarily destroy .licit large numbers
.,f the pest as to hold it in check. Said
\Ir. Webster:
"We really know far too little of Ilaia
pest to be able to deal with it sati,fne-
tt.rily. It would seers that the later in
the fall the grain were sown the less at-
traction there would be for the peat le
invade the fields in the fall. tate sow-
ing, Then, is Mout the only preventa-
tive measure that can he suggested.
ROLLING \\'11.1. HELP.
"Elul," he ndds, "1t is pie -sopa, that
a greet many of the aphides could le•'
destroyed by roiling the fields as soon
es the pests Appear on the leaves in
any considerable numbers.
"Brushing over the fields with a brush
drag rnnde by fastening the ends of
limns or bushes yen hold's rnnde In ,t
rail, or piece of hyo -by -four inch tim-
ber. might also pr ive beneficial."
Ile else suggests dusting that fl'-t'ts
with slaked lento nt n time when the
pest Is clustered en the leap e';.
EVIDENCE.
"Toil married a hero, didn't you?"
"Why, t didn't know it; what act of
heroism slid he ever perform 7"
"Ile married you." _
-.4,
QUESTION.
George: "Pnpa, who is (lint fenny
laking ratan 7
yaps : '"Phut, my son. is Mr. Snaith.
tie is a self-nr,tde 10110."
i;corge : "1\'nc he sal:stied when he'd
finished, papa 1''
it's dbm»lIIt t.-� r nrle•r,larid \' by 501110
tuvn eat brans fe,ntt.
I:gtltiisnl is the gluo that enables 3
elan to utumself.
Rm;vnget "1stsayck. Jomnaphis, can ynu tett mo
who ons the grenteet financier (Air
hived?" J•►nes-"Na, 1 rani." Rmwn --
"�'ell. 11 was Nc.atl.'' J'.nes---•'flow in
5.11, mnko nt o+it"'" wn- "\Vett,
Noalt w,+s Ihmole to feint ni company
when the whole 44 orhi was
Itroin Ifgtridt►.
lion. Sect"