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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1908-10-08, Page 7 (2)9 u h • 5 J ists* Tbr.ug1ithili b licetit'e:of t 0 , Is „ * , snd . 0 ,rist3rsitt 4ortia, ' a . ' siiight „ . • ; , .initIwr. wi!i ..1r s•i 44 ki g ) ' ) )4tt, , i ) i , lc; ol * Ant • sittin unk- ; i . J , , ie n e .* bets ilre, rds fromthe switehs'id ' be .C. 4it one •••, assfs !ov,' a east 40 Miles ai hour &t hat time, plowedthrough mound and struck the tender -of the Grand Trunk engine. Engineer 'John Smith, who- was in the light P$1410, was tieleifili 'dire** against -the side of the cab, but his ftremen escaped injury, and there wail but little damage. deep to .the tram. • . The man who was killed WAS Wil- liam Quinn; 42 years of age etes , neer on the C. P. R. express, 145 stelae Avenue, West VototitoJIe - " ter. The injured are :WiIlis ,3 ,•1 •e'VP'Sti „. the Switch a op . 'tit , angle, 1*0 ul p A. r t• sshon bruised *bou 7.j� tbe C. P. It. trein being a fe aiisiites latein leaving- Toronto a nt i . Tbis tahi does not ma 0 a Stop at Minticossind was going at *14504P41'1P00,-vrl Mit-1?-8 c thrOugbv. lititaieo talioik4 ,-"1 e Grand Trunk engine' ad just come out of the roundhouse and was visiting on the crossing for the O. P. .R. train to past!,. The crew was working in the engine and littls ex- pected an accident. The engieeer was waiting to start along as sbon sis the exprescpasSed A.11,4-s,ft man was outside, Sildeb explains i how he escaped njury. r, 82,000 DEFENDERS. , 'Would Cost Australia Matti*. More, Says Ewing. A de:match frora• •,London soya: in the Melbourne House of Retires sentative,s Tuesdases,stheelfinis- " '"UttintegErstiltiltr'Stnwd4` second "reading of the defence bill, and said that under the bill the Commonwealthswouldget, instead -of 20,000 nsen, enlisted under the vol- untary system, 62,000, costing only t100,000 sterling more than they . ate now paying. The main duty of the British navy was to protect the hcart of thesErapirev-and-Austrelia 'ought to be able to say to Britain: `'‘'We have * national guard of 200* - 000 trained men which will enable us to keep inviolate our island con- tinent while you do bigger work ,..eith the navy." DEATH IW DYNAMITE. ene Man /tilled and Another It. inred in Froatensie. 4 despatch from Kingston saya; Ari explosion of dynamite near Westbrook on Wednesday caused -4he death f Harry -Smit ouelyssin ed his brother from -"Clevehin bis Ohio.- The. men were 4A114293ed 113 blasting, when the s dy- namite Prematurely exploded, Har- ry Smith, aged 35, received the full force of the charge, dying almost instantly. His brother escaped with his life. His arm was so badly shattered, hounever, that he had to be brought to the Kingston Gener- Hosprtal to have, it amputated,. Both were married men. ' TORONTO'S POPULATION. rigures Show 14,101 Inerease Over ., Last Year. A despatch from Toronto sage: The population of the city of Toron- to is now 27,201, based on the At - treatment Commissioner's figures. This is an increase of 14,601 over the population of lest year, 272,000. In- ilisnifteli-as-• many-citizens-have-hee tinder the impression that the po vitiation laid gone up to 300,000, 4.te Assessment Commissioneee figures loill prove disappointing. orport.,...... pores.* WOMAN FATALLY BURNED. INP X1101004 in Home of Ken • ' County Fanner. *A slespateh from Chatham says: Mrs. George Jordan, aged 29, wife of a farmer near McKay's Vorners, died as the result of burns received in her home when is lamp exploded on 1 ednesday. She was almost . roa,st d alive, nearly ell her clothes Iseing burned from her, body. fler hush rid and one child survive her. CZARINA STILL VERY ILL. 'etyma Breakdown Showa no Sign of Inaproveasent. A desipatch from St. Petersburg says: It is understood that the Czarina'smolongelknerriut . Ler husband and thildren, has no 'teen improved by her 1.911.K Ittehtin cruise aleng the coast of Finland. Her physicians insist upon her pass- ing the, Winter in the south, but she refuses to do so unless the Czar and her children accompany her. This is Tegarded-ass-impassible.,---bu the fannly-fear-t whose nervous condition makes the thwarting of her wishes dangerous. Her relatives ere isnxious iconcern- , ing her. ROUNDHOUSE BURNED. $20,00* Damage Doric to C. P. R. Building at Montreal. - A despatch from Montreal says: Eire broke out in the Outromont roundhouse on -the -Canadian Pacific Railway early on Thursday an suited in damage estimated at $° coo. Ton locomotives were in the sl-eir whenthefire was discovered, and the employes of the company succeeded in getting six out of the burning building. Three We'-3wrecked by falling timber and fire. One locomotive, standing on the track in -another part of the str iss ture, was not damaged. • RECORD GRAIN MOVEMENT 231 Cars Reeeived at Port Arthur in One Day Oyer C. N. R. A despatch from Winnipeg Says: The greatest grain movement so far this year was accomplished on the Canadian Northern Raily/4sy on Wednesday, when 231 cars of wheat duef :ii of Inc line, who are closely watching the work of mov- ingthe great crops down to the -portk, Are lliglity-sfiatifie dr- a the way in which the twill_ is being done. BRITISH REVENUES DECLINE. The tear Will Resilt in Deficit of MAMA.. A despatch from " London sayti: Further evidence of the depression in British commerce and finance ,s given by the revenue returns from April 1 to Sept. 30. The receipts for that period were £4,481,000 less than during the , corresponding period last year. All items, exeept two, show* decline. It is figured that the year will ,result in' a de- altit of arly £5,000,000. - • '4 '1VS I I.1/40011. GI/0111/4* • ligrotatuf loot* *$it Ott 1 zt 3tt , ,r WO -t 101404* ll ho' est on harvester Sir Thiene , •ro au e .• oliiiting fot theur f the p se as hicage, Great „Western. Vito Ilicoill was smarmed to , hang at ontreal 00 Novem.,ber 27, the barna ay that "Creoketl-Necit- ' pztM the penalty for murder. uty Postmaster-GeneralCoul- ter sailed on Monday for .A.uotras lia and Now. Zealand to discuss with those Governments the flues - ton of joint contributions to the all -red line project. GREAT BRITA/N. Ste-Ottilie elected Lord Mayor of London. Penny postage between Great" Britain and the ,United States is now in force. Britain's foreign trade for the ant six months of the present year aggregated £449,003,000. TINITED STATES. Th —if laborers v!ere..1.011-ea iitr 9 • A plevdershonstessnearsCherlotte, 11., blew up, killing ten persons and injuring twenty. Seven persons were drowned by the sinking of a pleasure launch in the Catument River near Chicago. Aceidents4n-thooal wines of the States seasniedstlwileath si• 2S men duping the lest calendar year. A. circus lion escaped near NOW Brunswick, N. J., and, after roam- ing over the country all night, was killed by a TWArk with a shotgun. GENERAL, Canada won the internationa gymnastic competition at Rome. Cardinal Merry del Val„ Papal Secretary of State, is to retire. A Premix promoter has given Wilbur Wright an order for fifty aeroplanes. Floods ah-otTt klyderbad, ht rad**, have caused the loss of hundreds of lives. Argentina will make an attempt to obtain admission for her cattle into the British market. The defence bill before the Au- stralian Parliament makes provis- ion for the enlistment of 82,— men. Twenty British sailors lost their lives in the wreck of the ship Loch Finials off the coast of Taeman'in. The defeat of his troops, before Tabriz has persuaded the Shah of Persia to set Oct. 30 as the (ley for the reassembling of Parliament Premier Deakin of Austr cabled President Roosevelt, him to visit Australia on to Africa. The President wee received` at Port Arthur. The plied that it --will be impos do so. alia h• as ,urging Montreal, Oct. , 6. -Oats --No. his way white are quoted at 45 to 45,4c; has re- No. 3 at 44 to 444c, and No. 4 at sible to 433. to 44e, with Manitoba old crop No. 2 white at 47 to 47%e. No. 3 at 40 to 464e, and. rejected ,at 45 I*Jax.rstorr.....kleur %mit° a -Spring wheat patents, se;eondsi patents, *5 to *510; straight rol- lers, $4.40 to *4.0; do. in bags, 4/* to $2.10; extras, *1.6; to $1.t. Feed -Manitoba bran, $21 to *22l shorts, *25; Ontario bran, *et to $21; iniddlingl, $26 to $27; sheds, 4,26per ton, including bap ; pure grain. mouille, $30 to $35; milled grades, $23 to *SS per ton. Pro- visions -Barrels short cut mess, se2.50; half -barrels, %ULM; ckar fat back, $23; dry salt long clear hacks, 11; barrels plate beef, f117.50 haltbarrels, do., *its pound lard, 8% fo We; pure lard; 12% to 13e; kettle rendered, 13 to 1334`0; 'hams, 1234e to 14e; break- , MISPLACED.S.YMPATI/Y. fast bacon, 14 to 15e; Windsor ha - Benevolent Old Gent, -"I am sors eon," 15 to 10e; fresh killed :that- rt.,,folniny, to See you hawse black, toir dressed hogs, 010,25 to $10.50; 01WW.VROM. UMW 41Exatil. Etnnip thee o, 11 , * fir*, Chii 4iati Ah .•* sisse e ',9140.51d r r " ri.5tit pat , very, No quoted .02,. and No • Northern at $1, Baty ports. ntario Wheat -Nos * • -white ,,,isor quoted at, Sac• Outside ; No. 2 red Winter, 9234c,, and No. 2 mixed, 0134e outside. Oists-Ontarie, No. 2 white, 38N to 300 outside; Manitoba' No. 2 %stinted at 44e; and rejected at 42°2 oderich. Rye --No. 2 quoted at 79 to 800 outside. Buckwheats--63 to 67e outside. Peas -Prices nominal at 88 to Corn -No. 2 nominal at 8/34e a.nci No. 3 at 870 Barley -No. 2 47c, and No. 3 American yellow on track, Toronto. bailey quoted at •extra at 53e out - Bran -Care are quoted at $20 in bulk outsides Shorts quoted at $22 t. $23 in bulk outside. UST „ Apples, -$1.50 to $2.40 per bbl. -Beans-Prime,- $e -to -44:10, -and hand-picked, $2.20 to $2.25. Honey -Combs, No. 1, $1.50 to 81.75 per dozen, and No. 2, in 60; Pound tins, 9%c; No. I extracted, to to 11,c per pound. Hay -Nos 1 timothy quoted at fo--$11-.50--a ton oh tract here, and No, 2 at $7 to $8. Straw-4OE.70 to $7 on track,. Potatoes --c per bag, and Dela- wares at 70c per bag on track. Poultry ----(Thickens, Spring, dress- ed, 10 to 110 per pound; fowl, 9 to 93e; ducks, 11 to ite per pound. 411: THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter-Potind.print, 22 to 23, tubs, 20 to 22e; inferiorr.46 Creamery rolls,_25 to 116e, and sol- ids at -24 2,13,4e. Eggs -Case lots, 21 to 220 per -dozen. - • Cheese -Large cheese, 1334 to 131/.0 per pound, ancrtwins,_13gstO 13,s4c. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 123 to 13e per pound in ease lots; -mess pork, $19 to $19.50; short cut, $23.50. Ifams-Light to medium 1434 to 15e; do., bean?, 12% to lie; rolls, 11 to 11c; shoulders, 10% to 10%c; backs, 17% to 18e; breakfast bacon, 16 to 15%e. • Lard -Tierces, 13%c; tubs 13c - pals, 14e. • BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. ardon De4 nu Ottawa says: An ststraordina y affair *oc(urred o Wednesday night as s. result of which, I). 1). Reardon, driver for Elettric Transfer C0121Pall7, is dead, Ana Thomas For, * 'abort riding at 64 Perey Street,* is .tiy- iog„. It seems that both men were reysitsv attention to the same girl whole identity lot' the present i unknown. ' Reardon, was walking with the young lady on Wednesdey night on Asliburnham Hill, at the extreme end of Laurie* Avenue litest, in the canity of St. jean Baptiste urth, where the *hrspt se* 14"fier*A',,WattP:,' StitSt 0.,411 tv initiates at a, sharp, roeky int, fully forty feet above h street lecl. ox had beetifollow- 1nr the contilt, and, overtaking he got nto an Altereatio with eardons' iwhich led ..to blow and a senile, each man trying to throw he other over the eliff. The sill as that both men went over, Reardon falling oh the jagged rocks with Fc on top, of hon. Reet4on's Ault us trashed in, and Fox's in- inries sire of suCh * nature that he I not likely to reeovor. When the men commenced ght it' the irl• ist the cam. 1020,1 tilted to be very .pretty. and *sitar itiosirers, ran 111 '”" ?tit''',4' • I/04 , STEAMERAITIktiLD't A,SitOitt. Survivors of Star of I* a Second Shipwreck. A despatch from Victoria, B. O. says: The steamer Humboldt, 3343 tons, on the route between Seattle and fikagway, is ashore in Active 'Pass. She strikk on rocks off Ren der Island. The steamer will prove a total loss, but ail thejlasseligers, thout twenty-five in nutriber, were saved. The steamer had on board eighteen survivors of the ill-fated ehip Star of Bengal-, which -was lost near Wrangel. • , a i Promising 'Youtli-"You and be ?terry for your own lit got two r live, $7,25 to *7.30.• Cheese -West - 0 Nose ern, 12% to 12.,%e; tistern, 121: to no, bov icp. Butter -25c in round lots. 26e jobbing. Eggs -No. 1,19 to 20e: ,seleets, 23 tot'44e, pet doz., !iris Brown, why' going through all those 6 .tionst IS he trainiegfor , Keay, stri.-Itiown - he's niereli getting in forst the carpets. Charmir guest, wb after disi You've lia 'Guest • lit: very psrl Kidd you'd punish mating the through the sierriew Irrepressible Child 08 tort 1 - teas (to'4711 cei refusing dish O so, distressid. 'dinner at AV' ,ou--btt I have to about my food.,' John t1 with y. He kipt noissio afl morning c',000 *stet my fault. I told you is Ilre•sigims• before we start. STATES S4RK:11 e/ �ct.4:—,Wh1akk-Sp wheat firnier; 'N'o, 1 Northern, ea lt:atls, stores $1.054; Winer trong; No. 2 white, *1.03. E*sier; No. 3 yellow, 81e; No. 4 yel- oir, 830; No. 3 corn, SI to 83%4S No 4 hooka, 813 to ftie; No. 3 8234e. Oets--.Steady. Louis, Oct. it --Wheat-Oish, Septernher, $1.00%; 1)es $1.00X; 1.40y. 8i.o. " Minneapolii Minn, Oet.0. %neat -Sept., 44.91%; Dee., 41. - 01; *kr, *too; No 1 ham. *1.- t1% to al.0474; No 1 Norther ItlyOgi. to *1.0374; No. 2 Norther *EOM to $1„017;; No. $ 'Northe e to 114,00%. Vionr-First pot $itylli to *AO; 0004 potent, 00 to $5.71; first clears, $t.* tn second clears, *3.00 to #.3. Brau la bulk, *Pt, to $0.1:40,, • 40,, rt?..1,41t 4,s4, W.ea („(e'm '403Pel f*ion ;. k W4U, 4;9014' ed orderer ***it negro 4,14* 1 WeflttotTiefe1ff5. Onc of the sons, ,Tohns returned to tne house 'about three o'clock to get as drink of wiser, enst found Reeds, num sitting on a„ ptep of the cello *tiara, and his mother ling tie*d the cellayr, epveretl with blood, verything indicating that her head had been battereij against the eel - o ratford Jai ; rfleit n. . „it!! „ I11 .Ofl ,Ruijehnian, lought hem etvi PST 3 0 ay In- 3ai or vagrancy,71.1 bcen committed from Listowel, and was wandering . about the city on Wednesday forenoon He Aeri arrested, a policeman's over- coat, which he had stolen from tit* nveres quarters here. The negro, Itunchres,n, refuses to make any statement. LIVE STOOK MARKET. Toronto, Oet, 0.-Seleete and heifers sold at $4.40 to 4. per cwt. Choice vow's were solti as isigns***4-perseirtsissentisliisrhers a few special easesd , An improvement was reported in the, demand for feeder a and etock- ers, as well as for distillery bulls and steers. Distillery feeders sold at $2.40 to $3.75, according to their weights and quality.. A firm market was recorded for mach cows. The best ones sold up $05 each. "rhe range for the gen- ▪ nngt.w$23e2ter'sinikeii Choicc veal talVeS wetit'ut4 about half a cent to -day. The quotations were -346 640 per pound. Prices were unchanged in sheep and 'Iambi, Hogs wee weak in price at $6.73, fed and watered, for selects. WOMAN WINS MED. Prize d Britts* Pharmaceutical Society. ---A,"dosimtchvitImiwliondo*.say. For the. first tune in the history of the Britioh Pharmaeeutical Society, the Persian medal, the blue•ribbon prize in pharmacy,hex been won by a woman. The successful cantle - date is Gertrude H. Wren, 140 WERE DROWNED. t, g1100.0/10.1 Stoanseeiturts Down Ferry Dwain -;77.7,774-7TiiiihrShmilliWility77-7-7-- ,A despatch from Constentinople :mays : A "Stearn-LS-hiponTWdnesday - rari down mid sank a ferry boat.at the mouth of Smyrna harbor. One hundred and forty persons were drowned. tont.-4" rx,,,twazi Creighton Was Convicted at Owen Sound. A despatch from Owen &send vs: The trial of James Farish Creighton concluded. on Thursday, the prisoner being found guilty of the.charges ,of murdering _his wife and step -daughters in May last: The verdiet was 401_ u nanim 4nte one. In addressing the jury Mr. A. G. Mackay, counsel for the defence, pleaded that he be committed to an asylum for the remainder of his life. The judge, however, etimmed up against the prisoner: and, after the jury brought in their verdict, sail that he . would have been jgreatly dieappointed had it -been different from what it was. Creighton was terribly affected when he heard the -verdict and had to be practiW4 carried out of court, weeping hit- terlythe while. At 8.30 on Thursday evening Mr. sentenced Creigh- ton -to be hanged on Dec. 3rd, In , giving sentence, he said that theries cused had been guilty of one of -the most atrocious crimes known to law and he would hold out no hope of Executive clemency. He must seek mercy at 4 -higher tribunal, whern it was never refused to the, peni- tent. AGED US YEARS. - Death of au Old Colored Resiaent of Losidin.' A despatch from London, Ont., says: One of the oldest residents of Canada passed quietly away at the Aged People's Home, on Tuesday nights in the person of Rev. Alex- ander /fens who had just attain- ed the. 1181k year .of his -ant and *116-Tviiir174-inany years Tzunliter ptist Church. He had resided in and about Lon- don for sixty years. For, the Put! four years Rev. Mr. Mans had been' an inmate of the Aged People's Home, but tip to • his death was strong and active. He had no ease, but like ars Otal clock, simply ran down. Ile was born of slave parents,- and grew up in slavery, but when a man. of about fifty he caned and cisme to Canada. ., • * Nowwed 'Them es Area t near as good as the ones mother used to make" Mrs. Newwed - *sires, s;nd your salary ain't near as good as the"one my ,fether used te make. either!" DIED „OF STARVATION. Nair liroppei-Destd-Whiirr Waiting -- for Bread. A despatch from New York says - Standing in the "bread line" and clutching in his hand a ticket wh:vb within a few moments would have given him the food he so merely needed, a 'man of 45, early on Thursday suddenly cr.umplei up, was neatly dressed, but appeared - to have suffered from hick of usur- ishatent. The body has net yet been identified. PARIS GREEN IN WELL. Mast Charged With Attempt' to Pol. sou a . A despatch 'from Ottawa says: Anthony Dacey, of eintloy, ,Jis -10 lail at Hull ehatged viith attempt- ing te _poison Mr, Itohort Brown, members of his family and 'other re- sidents of the township, It is said that out of spite he threw a quan- tity of Paris green into a well, used by * number of *familiee. e istrioi pried; itir despatch- frwu Bombay says: AtDrwbrofr over thqusand per- 8(118 perished in the llods recent egtritordinary ra,1 11 is ed that the unburied towlies the Letitia will, cause * peitis The mister .sit Hydersibed wss ofle of the most audden and most Iappsling in tlke history of India. It jt luculeted that 33.,900 cubit, feet rf ter struck the City every see - rush of the. flood lasted. A Jene so of '110*,ei 40141111 swept rwsy. flns.foarthof tj* city, whore id polio** lived. " :n.dm is now * ',fast a nusginire of black inud, front whieh arises an an ling steatite the neighboring , Villege of Gliaaliguda a. thousAnd houses were desr.d. There were many heroic resmos 14 both *bites iiind durbt, the catastrophe, ;lea,Miing fof don (lead is now itistiveii going on The workers wear clothinir soaked with disinfectants ind.their mouths and nuseS are covered because of the. a ors.Elephants are being used to deniOlish dangerously shat., Tho estimates . of lot Of dead varyOwe plse. slret,'"*e t a1.,10,000. sstss, A AY