HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-07-25, Page 6LOIION A CITY OF t1LAMITY
Terrible Disasters in 1881; 1883, 1898- and Now
That of 1907.
TALES OF TIiE: DISASTER.
Mess E:tthel Earle, one of the girls who
was caught u1 the falling ruin of floors
and walls in the terrible disaeler al
London on 'Tuesday of last week, but
who Was extricated, is one of the pa-
tients in the hospital. In conversall$n
with a reporter she described lie►• ex-
perience.
DEATH OF CLARA MULLIN.
"I was standing near the centre of the
Brewster store with Libbie Smith and
May Ilardtngttam, when, without any
warning at all, thorn was a splitting
crush and a roar that sounded like an
explosion, and the walls of the build-
ing Seemed to be slating; westward. 1
remember crying out, `I.ibbie, we will
never get out of this alive.' 1 took about
two steps and was then hemmed in by
the ruin. Libbit' ran to me and we
placed our anus around one another,
and the debris seemed to surround us in
n minute. It was tho most frightful ex-
perienee 1 ever went through, and 1
ten you that the ordinary person has no
idea of how it feels to be caught in a
trap like that. One reads of a tragedy
like the San Francisco earthquake, but
cannot begin to realize ik, unless they
have an experience like mine. Poor
Cara Mullin was standing near us, and
after the walls had faller! I could hear
her moaning where she lay. Sho must
have been in great pain, for we heard
hr -r sobbing and crying, and yet wo
could not movo to do anything to assist
her. Not long after her moans ceased,
and instinctively we knew that the poor
girl was dead.
"\\'o Metro hemmed in on all sides.
\\'e lay in perfect darkness. We Haight
have been five or fifty feet tinder heats -
heavy walls, bricks and beams for all
we knew. for wo could hear nothing. It
seemed like elernity before help cuine.
1 wonder niy hair is not grey."
Miss I-ibbie Snaith, who Is a steno-
grapher, was injured internally, but she and a Heavy stearn coil falling on top
worked \'it11 the instinct of one to whom1of them. Gronns from the dying and
lite is dear and death is not far distant, agonizing cries from the injured, ming -
ti retain her senses after the crash. led in an appalling and never to bo for-
g(•lten chorus. Numerous thrilling es-
capes were recorded.
'THE WORLD'S MARKETS
gallon Into the cause of the disaster and
the responsible parties brought to book.
\Vltat was the immediate cause of the
collapse is stilt a mutter of surmise,
turd the ultimate verdict must be based
upon the expert testimony which will be
adduced nt tho inquest. At first the sup-
position :vis that rho inner portion of the
Crystal Hall gave way, carrying with it
the outer portion, which crushed into
and demolished the Brewster More. An-
other theory is now advanced that it
was the outer portion of tite building
fronting on the alley which first gave
way, and this eipiuiort is firmly hekl by
City Engineer Graydon. Six windows
were being inserted in rho wall facing
the alley, and the suggestion is nlado
that the supports were altogether in-
adequate. This, however, is a I•oiat
which will have to he cleared up at the
inquest, and although in certain quar-
ter blame Ls beim; attached to certain
individual.', the bulk of the citizens are
wise f withholding their censure until
they have obtained proper- grounds upon
which to baso their verdict.
SMUTS MOW OW :'ts1< tliAOtw
T1%A11 t''lfttal i •
!ekes el Gsld.. Gratin. Cheese and
Ohs, Dairy Pvoinsee sS Mos
and Abroad.
INDED TO 111111
TA MO ON DI G1 P 4GT• CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
1C111PPL Aids* et Doctor Coate . rii
aissl tr�llilw�d.
A despatch from St. Sohn, N. B., says: 1•A$'!f'a11Mt11G1 mom A11 Anal Tti1Nt
Dr. A B. Atherton. president of the GUM&
Toronto. July 23. -- Flour - Ontario
wheat 90 per cent. patents are $3.40 bid,
with $:3.50 asked in buyers' sacks, out-
side for export ; Manitoba first patents,
$1.75 to $5; second patents, $4.25 to
$4.50, and strong bakers', 81.20 to
$1.30.
Oats -No. 2 white aro quoted at 44%
lei 45c outside.
Peus-No. 2 quoted at 78 to 79c out-
side.
Barley -Prices purely nominal.
Wheut---No. 1 northern, 98%c. lake
ports, and No. 2 northern, tl;j,c, lake
ports; Ontario No. 2 white, 88c, and No.
2 red winter, 88e outside.
UUye--No. 2 nominal, at 70 to 71c out-
side.
Corn -No. 2 American corn 13 quoted
at 61% to 62c, Toronto, lake and rail.
Brun The market is unchanged, with
bran quoted at $17 to $17.50 in bulk out-
side. Shorts aro quoted at $19 outside.
COUNTRY PIRODUCE.
Deans---Hand-licked quoted at $1.65 to
$1.70, and primes at $150 to $1.55.
Stoney -Strained quoted at 11 to 12c
per le, and comb honey at 82 to $2.51)
lie'. dozen.
Huy --No. 1 timothy Is quoted at *11
to $15.50 Stere, and No. 2 at $12 to $13.
Straw -$7 to $7.50 a ton on track
here.
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PREVIOUS DISASTERS IN LONDON.
London, Ontario, seems to be a city
of terrible tragedies.
It is only a little over nine years ago
since the collapse of a platform at. itie
city hall trilled 23 people and injured
over one hundred others. A meeting
in celebration of a municipal election
was in progress, without the slightest
warning, the platform and the floor :,f
the hall gave way, precipitating about
150 persons to the floor below. Near
the platform stood a large iron safe,
which, going down %vett the floor, rid-
ded its terrible crushing iveight to the
ft:lling timbers, and pinned fast the un-
(oi tunate victims, who might otherwise
have had a chancre of escaping. The
chve-in occurred immediately over the
City Engineer's office, and more than
200 people were precipitated into the
funnel -shaped death trap, with the mato
ESCAPED SUFFOCATION.
"If it had not teen for the tact that
my right arra was free and Uninjured,
I would, undoubtedly, have choked and
suffocated after the accident," she said.
"It came \-itl►onrt a 'moment's warning.
Ethel Earle and i were not far 'apart
when it seemed to lh:e that the whole
building shivered. Then there was a
deafening roar and clatter and the
building seemed to crumple up. It was
a most terrifying moment. ent. The next
thing 1 knew 1 was swept off my feet
rind was caught fast in a !mess of debris.
A dense, choking dust rose from around
tee and a stream of dust and what
seemed like ashes began to rain down
around from the ruins above. In a short
time this filled my ears and got through
my hair. i got ray right arm tree and
I warded orf the stuff as it trickled
deawn from entering my mouth and
nostrils. Otherwise I should have been
suffocated."
PRAYED) TO DIE.
"While my plight seemed most des-
perate, I shall never forget• one terrible
part of it. Where I lay 1 could hear
the moans of Frank Smith, manager c f
the store, who was afterwards taken
out dead. The poor fellow was not
more than half a dozen feet away, it
seemed, and 1 heard him moan and cry
as I never l efore heard anyone. No
prayed repeatedly that he plight die and
have his terrible sufferings ended. I
heard him gasp tidally, '0, my God, let
me die.' it seemed range like a prayer
of resignation than anything else, al-
though I knew that his injuries tnttst
have been terrible from the agony in
hue voice. i heard no more from hint,
and he must have died soon after.
IS A Tft.1f'.
"No weeds can begin to picture the
Lerror of this time. 'I'o 1 e olive, yet
hemmed in by solid' substances that
Reeled as If no humnn force could
tier nr,ve there. sends the blood to the
1 cart in a sickening{ feeling of fear.
One would (do anything. I think, in e
time like that, to save his life. but when
fs ad,ktl to that the cries of others bad-
ly hurt. It is tcrribte.
"1 wonder my hair is not grey. It
Is difficult for me here in this coot
place, surrounded with attentive doe -
tens and kind, cheery nurses, to realiee
that 1 aryl not still in Ince wreck. If
I go to rhltvrp 1 awake with a start and
a cry. in my fancy the wnlls have hist
fallen again."
1''1'I.1. INVESTIGATION 1)1:Ai.1NDEfl.
ily common consent it ie admitted
that there nu,st bo a thonnigh inveslf
-
FLOOD CLAIMED 22.
It was the flood that caused the his-
tc,ric disaster preceding that. On May
10 and 11, 1883, the Thames overflowed
lie banks, and twenty-two people were
drowned. They were chiefly residents
c i the west of London.
WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OtJT. .
But the greatest tragedy of all - a
tragedy which it is hoped will never
be duplicated -occurred in 1881. It hap-
pened in the midst of merriment and
thoughtless mirth of the celebration ' f
the Queen's Birthday, May 24. Five
hundred excursionists were returning on
s steamer `Victoria" on the River
Thames. Carrying a lotus far in excess
of her capacity, the steamer collapsed
and 187 of the excursionists were
drowned in shallow water. Struggling
women and helpless children went to
watery graves, and whole families were
wiped out in that brief but agonizing
catastrophe.
(RIDER TERRIBLE SHADOW.
And now comes the great calamity
of 1907 with lis tell of victims again
well up in double figures. No sooner is
one tragedy almost forgotten than an -
('(her occurs. Truly the shadow of ca-
lamity soems to perpetually haunt this
otherwise beautiful Canadian city.
STATESMAN STOLE $56,006.
Maritime Medical Society, in his annual
a:ddratss to that body on Wednesday,
evoke of the degeneracy which there
seems to to among the more highly ci-
vilized branches of the human race.
Ire advocated that we should not
hove schools at all unless it is po s
t,
provide theta with accommodation
tc a good healthy exercise.
Speaking of girls, he said: "Indeed,
we !rave for conte time been of the opin-
ion that the Public schools should be
closed to girls for axle or even two
years at a critical age."
Those who have been afflicted with
tuberculosis or are susceptible to it
should admit to being sterilized. Ile
ai o advocated refusal to allow first cote
eine to marry, and then said: `There
are said to be over 1,200 feeble-minded
unmarried women in the Dominion.
The danger of these women producing
children affected in the same manlier
was great. These menaces should be
segregated into public instllutViltS, c r
Lotter, perhaps, should be sterilized."
IMMIGRATION INTO CANADA.
Returns for May Show an Increase of
Twent)'thrte.s Per Cent.
A despatch flan Ottawa says: The
total immigration into Canada for the
month of May was 45,677, as compared
with 37,191 for May of last year, an in-
crease of 8,486, esr 23 per cent. The
immigration through ocean ports was
,8.755 and from lira United States 6.922.
The total immigration into Canada from
thy) 1st of July, 1906, to the 31st of May,
Potatoes -The market is dull for old 1907, was 211,39e, and for the s�aru
stock, one car lot being quoted at 90c1907,
of the fiscal year 1905-06 it was
to $1 per hal;. 161,744, an Lacrosse o1 52,651. The
Poultry -- Tur:eys, alive, 11 to 12c ; immigration into Oneida for the five
chickens, springy*, dressed, tut to 2t1e per nlr.ntlis of this calendar year was 131,-
tb ; fowl 9 to 10c 776as compared with 106,133 ter the
Signer Nasi, Former Minister. Arrested
by Order of Italian Sensate.
A despnlch from Rome says: General
surprise has Steen caused here by the,
arrest of Signor Nast, ex -Minister of
Public Instruction, who is charged with
b
having embezzled 3500,000 from the
State treasury. Hie secretary was alsnd
arrasled . Signor Nasi i rotestc
through counsel that his arrest was il-
legal. The arrests were made at the
direction of the Senate, before which the
ex -Minister will bo tried. lie rezently
trok his seat as a member of tate Cham.
Ler of Deputies.
ONLY ONE BROKE PAROLE.
Two Hundred and Ninety-nine Pria+on-
ears; Kept Faith.
A despatch front Ottawa says. Mr.
Archibald, parole officer of the Depart-
ment of Justice, says: Of the three hun-
dredprisoners allowed out on parol'
last year only one broke faith and had
to have the privilege cancelled.
SOT BY HER
NO SON
THE DAIIWY MA1IKE1'S. same months of 1e06, an increase of
2:,,613.
Butter -Pound rolls are quoted at 18 _._._--,1.-----
to 19e ; large rolls aro quoted at 17 to MAY MOVE '1'O ALBERTA.
173,1c. Creamery prints sell at 21 to 22c,
and solids at 19 to 20e. Doukttabors Likely to engage in Use the west
n dozen.
Eggs -Case lots selling at 173; to 18%c Beet Sugar Industry. The late Il•on. A. G. Blair's widow1ow has
at 12c, an
Telrgaraphie. Meta Frets Oat thus as!
Other Countries et Reuel
Events.
CANADA.
The tax rate of Toronto Junction was
flxcd at twenty-eight mills.
M:lctt live stock is reported lost in
forest fires in Alboma.
Horses and dogs at Moosontin, Sask.,
are suffering from rabies.
The Kingston Locomotive Works will
build 25 k,ceinotives ioretho Interculo-
ltial.
Plans have leen completed for the
new Engineering building at McGill
University.
Mayor Scott of Ottawa has recom-
mended that the city expropriate the
electric plant.
As few of the houses in Berlin are
numbered, postal delivery Stas` been de-
layed.
Hamilton is to get cheaper incandes-
cent lighting rates front the C'etaract
Power Co.
Ilosthern is said to be where the new
experimental Turin in Saskatchewan
will be located.
The Government are taking steps to
punish pm.)ple who publish slanders ,c-
garding the Dominion.
Libel suits asking for $280,000 dam-
nges have now been filed in connection
with the Cayuga murder trial.
The C. P. B. is being prosecuted be-
fore the Supreme Court of Manitoba for
violation of the Lord's Day Act.
Alderman Pauli (►f Strattord says that
the civic septic tanks are frauds and
will have to be rebuilt.
The site for the new isolation hospi-
tal at Londnn has been approved by
ih( provincial Board of Mein 0.
\Voives have destroyed a number cif
horses, valued at 25,000, in the Dine
vegan and Fort St. John districts in
1111111.-
d
" Tell My Friends That I Have Gone
to Giory."
Cheese --Large quoted A despatch from Winnipeg says : It ';even 130 valuable bolts from her late
twins at. 12';c.
1100 Pi1ODUC1'S.
Bacon, long clear, 10,'/. to 11%c per
111 in case lots; mess pork, $21 to $21.50;
short cut. $22.50 to e23.
Hams -Light to medium, 15 to 15%c;
dc,, heavy, 1t%c ; roll 11'/.,c ; shoul-
ders, 11c ; backs, 16%c ; breakfast ba-
con, 153;c.
Lard 'Tierces, 12c ; tubs, 123;c ; pails,
12%c.
'BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, July 23. -Manitoba No. 2
white oats sold at 49 to 49%0; Ontario
No. 2 at 48% to 49c, No. 3 at 473; to 4$c,
and No. 4 at 46% to 47c per bushel, ex
store. Flour ---Choice spring wheat pa-
tents, $5.10 to $5.20; choice se oiids,
$:.50 to $4.60; winter wheat patents,
Si.65 10 $4.75, straight rollers, $4.25 to
$4.35 ; do, in Large bags, $1.95 to $2.10;
extras, $1.65 to $1.75. Feed --Manitoba
bran, in bags, 319; shorts, $23 to $25
per ton ; Ontario bran, in bags $18.50
to $19; shorts, $22 to $22.50; milled
ntouillie. $2.1 to $28 e'er ton, and straight
grain, *30 to 832. Provisions --Barrels
short cert mess, $22 to $22.50; half-bnr-
rels, $11.25 to $11.75; clear fat bucks,
$23.50 to $2/4.50; long cut heavy mess,
$20.50 to $21.50; half -barrels do., $10.75
to $11.50; dry salt long clenr bacon,
10% to 11%e; plate beef, $14 to $16 ;
half -barrels do, $7.50 lo $8.25 ; heavy
mess beef, $10; hntf-barrels do, $5.50;
compound lard, 103; to 10'/.c ; pure
lard, 1234 to 12%c ; kettle rendered, 13
to 13%c; hauls, 11 to 15c ; breakfast
bacon, 14y, to 15c ; Windsor bac on.
1534 to 16c ; fresh killed abattoir dressed
hogs, 19.75 to 310; alive, 87.25 to $7.40.
Eggs -Straight candled, 173; to 18c.
hi 20% to 20%e• Que
A New Brunswick Woinan Very Serious-
ly Wounded.
A
despatch Morn Moncton, N.B., says:
Shdt by ! •evolver in the hands of her
ftve•y-ear-old sop, Maw. Sanford Ander-
son of E(tgeelt's. Landing, near Hills-
boro', was on Wednesday so seriously
!attired that she may die. She was oper-
alttd on but her condition to merlons.
Mat. Anderson, who V in n tlelteste rotate
e%' health, was sitting at a desk In
which her husband kept a loaded revol-
ver In securing writing material she
lett the Ammere�ontaining the revolver
took open, and her little eon the wea-
pon out. fits mother dM not none. him
a: tlr•+t, tint turned and saw him, end
quickly asked for the revolver, and asshe
reached to take It the little fellow pulled
alts trigger and the hone' entered his
mothers abdomen. A Moncton phy*t.
clan was summoned, and there are
hopes of Mrs. Anderson's recover/.
is stated that utero is a likelihoocs of the
1)oul.tlobors of Saskatchewan moving to
Southern Alberta and engaging in the
production of beet sugar. Representa-
tives of the colony have completed a
trip through a portion of Southern Al-
berta. where they inspected lands in
rho vicinity of Lethbridge end ilayinond.
in the West they also made most care -
fel inquiry into tho various processes
connected with the extraction of sugar
from the sugar -beset, and were through
the plants which have been established
there by Mormon settlers.
PEASANTS AND POLICE.
Sanguinary Conflicts in Central Russian
Provinces.
A despetch from Mozart, Bucsia, says:
Peasant disorders on the Kholsehe\'ni-
koff estate resulted on Wednesday in a
sanguinary conflict with the rural po-
lice. A number of policemen were de-
spatched to the estate. upon receipt of
news that the peasants had begun arbi-
trarily to cut down the grass on trio
18eado\ws. Upon their refusal to desist
the p`,lice 4ir(v1 a volley which killed or
wounded a total of eleven of the coun-
trymen.
SOU'GiIT OLD P,ASTt'RFS.
Winnipeg Buffalo Swam Assinlboinc
and Return, d to Silser Heights.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: An-
ncyed at the myrinds of fleas and mos-
quitoes, and tired of being held captive
in a strange and unfamiliar domicile.
the herd of buffalo on Tuesdi.y brsike
away from their new home at the City
Butter -Townships, 4 - Park, swam the A ieiniboine, and cone
bee, eeei to 203,c ; Gulateo, 20e; wes. fcrtahly settled down at their old guar-
lern 17X to 1Rc. Cheese -Mee. dairy,, ters on Lord Stralhcona's Silver
; 'Townships, 113, w"eights farm.
fern, 113, to 11/c
113>,c ; Quebec, Ile. NEW BUILDiNG FOR McGILL-
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
husband's library to the Ottawa Public
Library.
Crop reports from all over Canada
coollected by the Moleon's Bank indicate
that crepe are from ten days to two
Nyeeks late.
While returning from n fishing trip,
1. Pinkerton, of Fort William, had this
foot crushed by a train, and a doctor
amputated the foot with a penknife.
A monument will tie erected on Drum-
mond 1011, at Niagara. in memory of
Capt. Trull, U.S.A.; and some of his
cntupany who were killed near the spot.
After staying away for 15 months to
escal)e the law, \Vnm. Dawson was spot-
ted on his return 10 Quebec city and
sent to the penitentiary for two years.
It is stated that flay tnillioir dollars
capital will be required' by Messrs. Mac-
kenzie & Mann for their smelter and
ear works, which they propose to estate
lett at Asltbr'idge's I3ay, Toronto.
A despatch from Niagara Falls, N.Y..
says : People who had on Thursday
evening gathered in Prospect Park and
in Victoria fork, were startled ut 7.4(1
o'clock to sty the body of n elan come
dancing down the rapids of the Ameri-
can channel and plunge over the Ameri-
can Falls. As the man Cantu mveeping
along with tho currents and waves it
looked tis though he was waving fare-
well to those on shore. but it is likely
that the waves gave the motion they felt
was a human effort to say tureewef.
This latest suicide is known to have
entered the bridge between the main-
land and Green Island from the Island
end. He walked out to ihmm second bay
on a crutt;h and u cane, and theme he
climbed over th0 wall of the bridge and
dropped into the rapid,. lie left lois
crutch and cane behind, also a note
which reads': "Tell my frieneLs that 1
have gone tq glory." This neat as well
as the crutch, bears the initials "J.D.."
and no doubt t1►ey\will b0 a great help
in identifying the lnat1. Inquiry at the
hotels does not reveal that any of the
guests are missing, tier do any of them
report having a guest who was lame.
The body made the awful plunge over
the brink about 20 feet out from Pros-
pect Point, and when it was announced
in the park that a human lining was
plunging down the rapids toward the
)Nulls (hero was a berrying of many to
the point to witness the terrible clung*
to eternity. The rush was irllpulsiv) on
the part of some. and ttany were sad -
doled by the eight. Superintendent
Perry has the article's left behind.
the purchaser makes that the liquors are
to be used for medicinal purposes.
GENE11.11..
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GREAT BiIITAIN.
Sir \Ven. henry Perkin, founder of
tie' coal tar colony Iltdustry, died oil
Sunday in London.
Complaints are being made al London
that the Japanese are endeavoring 10
sht,t out Great Britain and the United
Scales Irian trade in Corea.
'l'lhe engagement is announced in Lon-
don of Miss Florence Padelford, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Ernest. Cunard by her first
marriage, and the Honorable Robert
Victor Grosvenor, eldest son and heir of
Lord F.bury.
Toledo, July 23. -Wheat --(:ash, 9!c ; Will Itiei)lare Engineering Structure Re -
July, 92c; September, 9334c ; Decern- Gently Destroyed by fire.
bre, 97yc. Corn -Cash, 55%c ; July, A despatch from Montreal says: Plans
553;c ; September, 55%c ; i)ccemt+er, have been completed for (tin construc-
51 j;c. Oats -Cash, 4534e ; July, 4534c ; ikon of the new engineerinut buliding ?t
September, 3834c ; December, ?9yc. f11cGi11 University. M take the place ' 1
St. Souls, July 23.--\\'heat-(:avli, 89e; the
one destroyed by tiro on April. A
September, 903/c ; December, 91%c. building permit was granted to the Mc -
1.1\'E STOCK MARKET. GUI authorities on Wednesday. The
new structure, which will be one of the
Toronto, July 23. -('voice exporters finest of its kind on the continent, will
sold from $5.60 to $5.90; bulls from be fireproof, and it le estirmated that the
$4.50 le $5. test will be in the vicinity of 3275,000•
Choice but,he& cattle sold from $5 ..._---•• ----
1,) $5.25, and several cattle were reported
*41.75.
GUNBOAT NOW.
t' have sold lir to $►.?3. Medium and
Ste -
ordinary bubeh(�rs' sold from 31.25 to tailed States Asks Permission to Ste -
*1.75. (:unite cows were steady at $3.7fi tion One at !E<oeheeter.
to $4.25. but common and rough were
bull and easy at $2.25 to $3. Bulls told A despatch from Washington says :
from $.1.51) to 11.25. Permission has bo.tn asked by the
Choice stockers we're quoted from $3.50 American Stale Department of the Bri-
t,. 83.75. and common from $2.50 to $3. tish Government to station the little
These quotations, however, were gener- gunboat Sandovtsl,. now a.ciSig ed V)
ally nominal. the use of the naval militia at New York,
'.Stitch cows were quiet and unchanged at Rochester for the benefit of the Wh-
at $35 to 855 for choice, and $25 to 330 b�t�New
t of lheootti tills on rk, at liester for the
Lake Ontario.
for common.
Veal calve were steady at 3c to 6c --.-4.-----
per Ib, dttnW BIRDS TAKE THEIR BATNS.
Sheep and lambs eont.lnued steady. articular in the mak.
Ewes sold from $1.50 to $4.75, and Birds are very F
bucks unit culls et 83.50 to $4. Lambs
sold (min Std to *SAO per cwt.
lines were easy and tulchang(d at the
recent advance. Selects 36.90.
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IILOOD WAS DRAWN.
Montreal Recorder Imposes a Ueevy
rine on Horse -rater.
A despatch from Montreal says: Fif-
teen (Sollars or one month was the pen-
alty given by Recorder Dupuis on Wed-
needay morning in the case of Ovilon
Boss charged with cruelly beating his
horse. The case was one of peculiar
interest in view of ilecorder Dupuis reg.
cent decisions about cruelly to aniQtals,
In this instance there was the res hotly
et an eye witness and blood hed ac.
Nally Bowed groin the siders of tLa ani•
real.
The Czar and his. family
on a cruise for the summer.
Over aa' inion persons have died from
tt'.e plague in India during the last :ix
chorales.
Fourteen persons have bo en drowned
nt Marstrand, Sweden, by the upsetting
cf n sailboat.
President Falliises of France to re-
duce expenses, has banished costly fish
from les table.
General Ail:ihanoff, 0 iver,iot General
of ICutais, was blown to pieces by a
1►.hnhb placed by revolutionists.
1'incartls were posted in Seoul fro r-
ougttf:ares on 'Thursday, 'calling for the
death of alt tate Japaneaa officials in
the city. -
King Menelik of Abyssinia is raising
al army of 20.1100glen, arld it Ls ruml-
ored that he intends ntakinlg War upon
Italy.
Sir William B. Crerner, founder . f
the Int ceparliarnerlt;iry •(o ,lfcrcnce's,
was knighted in a trod; cunt by the
King.
Venezuela has lntimnted that it will
refuse to pay the $2.0)0,00(1 ckt.t to its
Belgian creditors. This decision is mun-
trary to the finding of TIte Hague tri-
bunal, and the Belgian Government !s
doing its utmost to induce Venezuela
to carry out The% Hague verdict.
have gone
UNI'TEi) STATES.
Dr. Edward 11. Taylor is the new
Mayor of San Francisco.
Three children were swept away by a
flood at ?Ai:C000mbs, West Virginia, on
Thursday.
The output of the mines at Cripple
Creek, Col.. for the pail six months ex -
coeds $7,000,000.
At Ulicn, N. Y., Charles Stucky fell
seven storeys and wits instantly ki11t11,
and struck a pedestrian who may also
die.
Frank Bailey, a negro, was lynched
b: a mob at a small town twenty-five
miles north-east of Oklahoma for as -
sniffling a railroad man.
The Standard Oil Company gives a
general denial to the State's charge of
conspiracy in restrnint of trade and
trying to stifle competition.
Places of l,usitles conducted by
Greeks in Roanoke, \'a., were wrecked
in a race not, which bids fair to bring
on international complications.
President Itoosevett has sent a gift In
the University of Berlin consisting of his
works in nine veluni'a, beautifully
bound ntt(1 bearing his nutogrnph.
Two hays, resi cctivety four and six
years old, were found by the pn11ce,
sinning, in New Heaven, (ann. Their
parents had started for Italy and left
the children alone.
A cloud of long -winged yellow huge
clogged the machinery of a steamboat
near St. Louis, and the Mat had to
step until the engines could bo 1itied
from the insects.
A girl sentenced to serve twenty
months in an Alabama prison, wee kept
there for twelve years. until she died. a
ing of their toilettes. Some use water clerk's mistake having made the sentence
only, others dust and water, and others y
rend twenty ears.
dost mono. Wild ducks feeding by salt A NewyYerliye 1►ortert(der, tnarricd fico
water will bathe only 1n fresh Wafer, months ago, Stabbed his wife, inflicting
nine wounds, then jumped from the roof
n1 n four -storey building. He will die,
but his wife will recover.
Fred. 11, Magill, formerly cashier of
the Kerner National Hank of Clinton,
111., was arreeteti tat San Diego, Cal,
with his wife on a charge of killing
Magill'* first wife_ at Clinton two
months .
The Mormon t,;hurch to Salt Lake
City has purchased the farm lying near
Palmyra, N.Y., where Joseph Smith
steed his early manhood, and where ho
is said to have found the plate from
which the Mormon Bible was printed.
The County Attorney has decreed that
every men who buys liquor of the drug
tikes and dislikesla the watt. pf'tatcres In Topeka, Ketnses, must sign his
___ own and real gauge to tM of ldavII whlcli
NEW DEPOT FOR OTTAWA.
DASHED IDA DE TO DEATH.
Terrible Crime of a Drunken Negro in
New York.
A despatch from New York 'says: in
a frenzy, John Hester, a negro who hall
leen (Winking, seimi the year -and -a -
half -old son of Mrs. Samuel Fischer, at
Leng Branch, N. 1., on Wednesday,
find swinging; heen1 high above itis }read
deshed the child upon the pavenle•nt.
The baby may die. The Fischer child,
who was only able to toddle about, was
',laying in trent of his horse when an
crgan grinder came along. The, baby's
attempts to dame to the music caught
tee negro's eye. Hester caught hire up
and began to whirl around earl the
boy in his nems. Alarmed, Mrs. Fischer
called to him to put the baby down,
whereupon he hided him \vratu[ully
10 the stone pavement and ran. The
negro was caught.
JUMP1:D TO DEATH.
Chicago Stenographer Leaped From Fit -
Veath Floor to Pavement.
A despatch from Chicago say's: While
talking to friends on the fifteenth faeor
o,: the Masonic Temple, on Thursday,
Miss Anna Normoyle, a stenographer.
deliberately walled to an open court
window and w[ttil>tut a word of warning
threw herself to the stone pavement of
the rotunda, 250 feet below. The girl
was mutilated utmost beyond recogni•
tion. No Carrie is known for the sui-
cide.
Plans for Million Dollar Stott and
Motet are Filed. is
A despatch from Ottawa says: Plans
for the new (ir•nnd 'Trunk station and
t:tilling rlollat; hotel in Ottawa have been
filed with the !Hallway Committee of the
Privy Cooticd. The plans centenhplate .1
terminal station on the site of the pre-
sent Central Station to cost one-quarter
of a million. The station will be oblong
shape and will be surmounted l+y a
b►rge dome. The hotel \vitt be just to, the
north of the station, abutting the cast
bank of the canal. The building Is
planned in a semi -gothic style, and \viii
overlook Major Hill Park and Sapper.
Bridge. No room is left ter a lawn.
and it single lino of track leads under an
nrchway of the hotel out to the C.P.U.
lino running over the Inter -provincial
bridge to Hitlll.
FOR M1'RDER IN RUSSIA.
Inlniigrant Arrested for (:rune Commit-
ted in Europe.
A despatch from Winnipeg says: A
iiuesian, named Matthias Itaszhicwicz,
i-; under arrest hero en the charge • f
murder committed in Russia al Mani-
nnpaiski, two years ego. The Iluseian
Government communicated with the
British Government, which in turn Coin -
with the Provincial Govern-
taaenl. Details aro lacking, but it is be-
l8evcd That the crime is a poi►ticnl one.
The arrested man will fight extradition
on the ground that he 1s not the man.
but that his brother George is the man
wanted.
and fly inland twenty or thirty mile's in
order to get a fresh -water bath. Spar•
rows take two kinds of baths, water and
dust, They are not particular about the
former, but for the latter only the clean -
e -1 anti Grit's dust will serve. The car-
tridge takes a learn bath. &retching
off the turf, ho loosesis a square foot of
rich , chocolnh-colored loam, end there-
in bathes his sleek plumage. All birds
love a bath of ashes. Anyone who walks
through a fletd That has recently been
burned orf, will note every 11111e while
a disturbance in the charred ash -heaps,
and, shaking oft • Ane cloud ot ash -
dust, many burls will rise. Those who
m•Inlaln avlarlets cannot suceeead unless
They pay strict attention to (heir birds'
RIO CIIEQEE FIiOM O'BRiEN MILT.
itoyalty for Last Quarter Amounted to
Over 8116,000.
A despatch from Toronto says : Hort.
Col. Matheson has rceseivt'et a cheque
fee $116,516.31 from the O'llrien mine,
obeing; the royalty for the three
rtlentmonths
ending July 1. niy the e'
t
litigation esime months ngo, the pro-
vince receives a royally of 24 per cent.
o; the output at the 1:it's mouth. As the
O'Brien is one of late best paying mines
in the (:batt rmmn. this menns nice tee
revenues. For the fleet three menthe I111t
t•enr 5439!11► wr+a Tined. tvhilsa inst full
n cheque for 2115.000 wen received, Thee
mcnns that this one rnln' elenn chenned
ntou'I direr -quarters ji! n nlitllon dollars'
worth of oro_
STEEL R%i1, CONTR \CTS.
Government Ord -wino Sixty-five 'Thou-
sand Tons.
A decnnteh !leen (letnwa seri: raft•
tr•arte for sixl4•-fl\•e tluou►cnr't fors (.1
sled mita. nitart'eatine et.sten.non. fee
the Nr'tinnnl T.ran eontinentel Rnil\wne.
l:nv' been n\war ed ht the rsovernment
to taw Ilonlint,n iron & Steel Cmmnnnv
of Sydney and to the Sox! Coninnnv.
The fernier eaennenv get :lett 43.E
tons. the first half to 1►e djellwmrei1 in
Ne yernbt'r 'f thio year. nn.l the l,alanen
in July. 1!tsh(t. The coo (''rnnnnv 1011
nieke 22.000 tens, the ftrct half to he
delivered In November, 190e, and the
balance in 1909.
FISgEflY TROBLE AGAIN
Newfoundlanders Want Hague Tribunal
to Deal with Difficulty.
A despatch from Washington says:
The appronch o! the first el August,
narking the beginning of the new her-
ring fishing seae'n en the coat of New-
foundland is n matter of great concern
to the state Department. for it finds
the fl,hei'ios controversy between An11!r-
ica and ('rent 13ritatn in it most con-
fused and unsatt.fpctory shape.
he modu-s vivendi entered into last
TRY TO Pili;\'L1aT I'1tl(.'i ION.
ly against the wishei of the Newfound-
landers. American fishermen were per-
mitted to ply their vocation unmolested
oft the shores of that Inland, expired
with the close of the fishing seascoti.
NEWFOUNDL.hSNl)Et'S STAND.
it was the expectation of bolls the
American end British Governments That
before the opening of tt• wit g oson
some permanent arrtngetthen o0 ilei P0
readied that would remove all future
fr:etion on this score.
flte Newfoundlanders. howevor, wore
Insistent upon their rights to legislate
iocally for the fisheries so long as they
did trot tn terms discriminate against
Atltiltcalltas Gatming In so doing they
were not infringing the treaty rights et
the Americans.
The British Go\erntt►ent has apparent•
ly been (!riven finally to concede the
r.:undner►s of this c•T)nlsentiotl, or at least
It 1194 teen neg'itinled through Ambas-
sr,dor Reird on that basis.
TRY TO PI1EVENT F flICTrO�•.
Indications 800 It t it will be dillicu1t
to reach any Lind of a rwrma:u. ;it Fel-
tvm'rht of the 1riouble, aril 100 \wlit,:A
effort of the ncewhtintor4 is apparently
concentrated for the moment on 'he
drefttng of sonrre fora► of tmotius vivcndl
to guard against lihe devet p':ttlt of
fr:ctlon on Rhe fishing Alen) al might,
itt the Ind, cause g+';:ous results,
The tact is that the occasion is Qt)
that calls for much mutual coneess o
If there 12 to be Lof))n' jrulduts vlveocti,
and the Newft.undiiiii]ert Are not Is it
C114 that there should be until IHeyt
tome suMetent asi1tence that they' Can
lave a satisfactory permanent arrange•
t1 nt. To 'tint end tatsy have suggested
e reference of the whole subject of enn•
t;lcting treaty and legislative rights 1
the permanent Hague Tribunal.
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