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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-15, Page 4vaer vocate. SANDERS es DYER, Props. THRSDAY, Tun 15%, 1893 ,PINOTRIVTTI FOR voitasuc IT>uRpQsES, The time may not bo far distant • when Canadian homes will not only be lighted by electricity, but when their cooking and. yen thoir warming will be done by the same agent. But a few years have passed elect; electricity was a scientiffe toy. There aro men not yet old who can remember when the first practical eleetrie telegraph was tonstructed. It was then known that electricity could be employed to pro- duce power, light and motion; but no- body save visionaries belieyed that it would ever be possible to use it eco- nomically for such purposes. We now see the streets and many business houses and. private resideneds lighted by electricity. We ride on electric street cars, We shall probably, before many months be able to ride cousideir, able distances into the country by rad- ial railways opereted by electricity. Further, the same agent is already employed, to cook food and. even to warm buildings. It is gratifying to our national pride to know that the first practical and continuous warm- ing of a building by electrieity was in Canada. Messrs. Ahearn and Soper, of Ottawa, were the first to find a practi- cal solution to the problem of cooking food and warming houses by electric- ity. It is true that, while cooking by electricity is not only practicable but economical, the warming of residences by it is yet too expensive a luxury for common people to indulge in. Possi- bly it is too much even now to say that. For Mr. S. B. Jenkins has told the Chibago Electric club that by the last and best warming apparatus, "electricity at $0,015 per horse power hour, or $60 per horse power year of 4,000 hours, (which is 11 hours per diem on an average) is equivalent in practical useful heating effect to coal at $6 per ton, and the coal must be hard coal of the best quality, burned with good ordinary care and discret- ion." Those are his words, but when he enters into particulars his explana- tions do not appear to support his statements. For he says that "the av- erage well-built city house in a block requires an equipment for heating on the basis of an expenditure of electri- cal energy of one horsepower per 1,200 cubic feet of space,though this amount is by no means required to be used continuously, and is stated as a max- ium." A moderately-sized house—say 30 x 30 x 20—contains 18,000 cubic feet; and. if one horse power is needed for each 1,200 feet, it is manifest that fifteen horse power will be needed for the whole house. Apparently we must not reach that conclusion, for Mr. Jenkins immediate- ly after tells us that 2,000 pounds of coal burned under favorable conditions will produce "in useful effect' 1,600,000 heat units, and that "one horse -power of electricity produces 2,562 heat units." If that statement may be accepted, 600 horse -power hours will equal in heat- ing effect one ton of anthracite coal; and. 6,000 horse -power hours, or one and a half horse -power, working for 4,000,000 hours, would warm a house for which ten tons of coal are needed. There certainly seems to be a discrep- aney in the, statements of Mr. Jenkins. However that may be, nothing is more certain than that electricity will soon be used economically to light and warm houses and to cook food where- . ever water can be employed to create poever. • 1,1212271.01M.17.1:9=744151.11.507,17 -Jr• Dolid. Robbery. Although only three months in Mit ehell Mr. C. F, Witte's premises (Queen's Hotel) have been burglarized four times. The first night he was in town 'twelve yards of flannel were stolen from his house; the next time be lost a keg of lager beer, and later on he had about $210 abstracted from his pocket. Early Sunday snoring. several holes were bored through his bar room door with a brace and bit, and a piece of woodtaken out of one of the panels, The thief then passed a hand through 'the hole made and removed the bolt, thus giving cagy access to the bar. The small change in the till, and some cigars and licraor were carried off. As usual, there Is no clue to the thief, litial)an to and '4V1re Drowned. Pembrekes, Otte Stine 13,—Yester- .N, , • day as Mr: and ,Mrs. cison Whitmore,. with their neice, Miss Dunlop, and Miss Church, of Pembroke, were on the arm of the Ottawa Myer, known as the Chenaille; about 12 'miles from here, their boat , pset and Mr, and MM. Whit- • More were drOWned, MISS Church and , Miss Dunlop were rescued with Orient, ty by residents in the vicinity. •News of the Week in Brief ' Counterfeit $2 Dominion notes aro in eIrctilation in Kingston, Twenty -ix weddings are "hooked" in Bellyille for this month. Collingwood purposes to celebrate' Deminion day in grand style. he recent outbreak of smallpox at Winnipeg cost the city $15,000, Mr. Geo Easterbrook, of Tweed, has shippedri80 head of line cattle for Eng - ha During last week 3,422 cattle were exported for Great Britain from Mont- real. John Hodge is still living in London township 99 years old and is hale and hearty. The entire town of Puachmetti, Mex- ico, was destroyed by a storm the other day. Crops in the vicinity were also destroyed. Mr. Walter Fanning, of Belleville has shipped. 19 high grade horses for the States. The trial of U. F. Bridgeman, charg- with sheeting his wife, began in 1VIont- real Monday. The post -office in Fulton, N. Y. was robbed Tuesday night of $1,500 in stamps and money. Peel Conservatives will meet at Brampton June 21 to nominate a can- didate for the legislature. Sir William Dawson, principal of McGill college, has handed in his resige nation, owing to ill health. President Cleveland has appointed Daniel W. Marrata, North Dakota, c,on- sul general at Melbourne, Foxhall Keene's colt Domino won the great Eclipse stakes, worth $20,000 at Morris park on Saturday. Melchor Fox, one of the oldest and richest residents of Eau Claire, Wis., was murdered Thursday night. Gaudaur won the sculling race at Austin, Tex., Peterson second, Stan - bury third, and Rankin fourth. Rev. John McDougall has been elec- ted president of the Manitoba and Northnvest Methodist Conference. In Chicago Thursday wheat dropped to 63 cents a bushel, the lowest figure ever reached 01.1 the Board of Trade. G. W. Smalley cables that opinion is gaining ground that the home rule bill will never go through committee. The Lake Shore and Erie railroads have begun dischargieg extra trains for Chicago, because of lack of travel. G. P. Mills rode on a tricycle from Lands End to John O'Groat's house, about 700 miles, in 3 days and 16 hours, The two -year -colt Appomattox has been sold by the Wellington stable of Toronto to J.B. Dyer of New York for $7,500. Miss Marie Daisy Huck, daughter of Louis C. Huck, of Chicago,was married Thursday evening to the Marquis, Spinola. In view of what Hood's Sarsaparilla has done for others, is it not resonable to believe that it will also be of benefit to you? James Hayes, an inmate of the Aged Men's Home, London,wrs drown- ed while crossing the river Thames Tuesday. The enormous rainfall of the past three weeks has injured the corn and cotton crops in South Carolia fully 30 per cent. A terrible rainstorm swept Rice coun- ty Minn., on Thursday, doing $50,000 damage. The village of Dundas suf- fered the most severely. Mr. Harold James Reckitt, Liberal, who has represented Poutefract in the British commons, has been unseated, owing to bribery by agents. The railway trainmen, switchmen, conductors and. operators of the Grand Trunk railway met in London yester- day for organization purposes. The United States battleship Massa- chusetts was successfully launched from the shipyard of the Cramps at Philadelphia on Saturday morning. Four United States bicyclers who are wheeling from Buffalo to Quebec are delighted with our roads, and de- clare Canada to he the Wheelman's paradise. About 60 feet of tbe state dam at Troy., N. Y. gave way Mouday morn- ing,eausin„,0- a suspension of naviga- tion on the Champlain canal. The loss is $10,000. The Swedish Government has estab- lished on the coast nine stations for medical observations. The objeet of this measure is to protect the country from cholera. The Quebec government. has offered a reward of $1,000 for the detection of the murderers of the Edy family at Beach Ridge. The family offers an ad- ditional reward. Thos, Griffin, a G. T. R employee' while attempting to jump from an en- gine at Dundas on Sunday, fell on the track and was terribly injured. It is feared he will die. A large section of Fargo N. D.. was destroyeby fire Tuesday. Two thous-, and people are homeless and the loss is' now placed at $3,500,000, with $1,- 200,000 insurance. Frank Ives, the American, champion billiard player, beat the French champ, ion Fournil at Paris Friday in e. game. of 200 poldts np, The game was play- ed on a French table. rife 1?'. P. 8 0. E. convention cene- mittee at Montreal has arranfeed for the construction ole hugh clirung hall and. the serving' of 10,000 meals a day during the emivention. At 3 *toe]; Tuesday afternoon a band Of six robbers rushed into Benton- ville, Ark., with drawn,WineheSters and robbed the People's i3 'auk of all Re good currency, atnounting to $70,000, The weed market at Decatur, Midis) QPe• 1111:,(1Jalin%I.s: At'l°e1200.1 echelaletls Po fe lir°ti111.1elltclt . has meow which has giyen birth to four calves within nine months and all liy- ing a,nd doing well. That's the kiod of a cow to keep. Mr. Alexander McRae, mechanical engineer, of Toronto,- placed all the machinery in the new steamer City of Collingwood, and also conducted the trial trip of the yessel. Murderer John L. Osmond was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison Mon- day. It is saki to have been the most successful yet had. The current was applied for 40 seconds. Goo. H. Clarke, of Chicago, and Chas Harrah, of Detroit, have purchased 165 acres of land at the village of Tempts- seh, Ont., and will, it is said, establish a summer resort there, The Calfornia express No. 3, west bound on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, was held near Cimarron, Kansas, on Saturday morning., and. the express car robbed of about $2,000, by five bandits, The sums of money given to the Pope during his espiscopal jubilee by bands of pilgrims, by Catholic orders and by individuals amounts to 9,060,- 000 francs. The American pilgrims gave 600,000 francs. The cattle and sheep men in the Grand Junction neighborhood of Col orado are at war, Sheep are being poisoned by wholesale, and one herd- er has been shot at. The dispute is over the title to the land. • The inquest as to the cause of the collapse of Ford's old opera house at Washington began Mouday. During the testimony Col. Ainsworth narrowly escaped being rnobbed by excited rela- tives of some of the victims. Two white men in Pickens county, who had been in the habit of visiting colored women, was waylaid last night by white caps, who were white women in disguise, and were terribly flogged on account of their immorality. A spocial train with troops has been despatched from Si. Paul to the Lerch Lake Indian reservation in Min- nesota, where there is serious trouble arising out of the accidental shooting - of a young Indian by Dr. Walkert, the resident physician at Lerch.lake. The doctor was captured by the Indians, and it is feared he has been scalped or killed. At Monday's session of the Congre- gational union in London the various committees for the year were selected. Rev. W. F. Clarke offered his resigna- tion as a member but was prevailed upon to withdraw it. The proceedings of the union terminated Mouday night with a largely attended public meet- ing. The place of next year's meeting has not been decided upon. Burglars visited Sydenham, Ont., on Thursday night and blew open the safe in Mr. J. P. Lacey's store, but got noth- ing. Then they tried the post office, but could not get in. Mr. Griffith's store was entered, and the thieves stole his pocket book from his pants pocket, but were frightened 'Off before getting into the safe. The work was done with tools "borrowed" from Connell's black- smith shop and Aykroyd's carriage shop. The special, fast trains on :United' States railroads to the World'S fait are disaarded owing to lack, of 'pay., itig patronage, . It is reported at Philadelphia that a jewel case containing $75,000 worth of opals, and belonging. to Rev. W. L, Pope, a Catholic priest of Mexico, was stolen from a private room in the store of ex Postmaster General Wanamaker on Wednesday. At Stirling, Ont., Friday, the corrier stone of St:" Andrew's Presbyterian ehurch was laid under the auspices of Sterling lodge, I. 0. 0, F. Grand Master Jolliffe, Grand Secretary J. B. King, Grand Warden Hoyt and past G. , M Bell being present. Nineteen years ago the Rev. Mr. Hubbal, a Methodist minister, of Leam- ington, borrowed $20 S. Wigle ,Se Son, of that place. Mr. H. shortly after left the country, but did not pay the hill, A few days ago, however, he sent the firm a moneyorder for $23. Between Lockport and Lemont, Ill., on Friday, over 2,000 striking quarry:, men and drainage men attempted to keep 500 non-union men from working on the drain canal. The 500 men were given Winchesters and revolvers and used them to the extent of killing 8 strikers, wounding 20 and taking 32 prisoners. World's Fair Notes. In the Injunction suit brought by the United States to restrain the local directors of the World's Fair from op- ening the gates on Sunday, judgement' has been given that the exposition must be closed on Sunday. Two Judg es held this view, while the third held that the gates should be kept open. Judge Wood has decided to allow the World's Fair directors to appeal against the injunction closing the Fair on Sun days. Secretary of War Lemont was, one of the victims selected by a picltpocket at the world's Fair Friday. The thief was arrested while looking over • the contents of two of Mr. Lamont's pock- ets. • At the seventy-seventh annual tneet- ing of the Atnerlean Bible Society held in New York it was stated that the disbursements for the past year amounted to $536 5870 The total .re- ceipts from all splines were $578,930 It was announced that the Society was making an exhibit at the World's Fair of the Bible and 13ible portions printed its 242 different languages and dialetts which it prints in the Bible Rouge. A souvenir pamphlet has atho been issued containing. the verse John 3: 16, in °eels of these langttages, Huron. County Council 04 ett 11(‘ d ' 11 1 c• r ake, and in tile,end William Mo- rn , 0 ..,f-0 erie , was annota e a a salary of $100 per annum.—Adjourued till 4 0.111. The -JMee session was. opened on Tuesday' lest at Goderich, all the mem- hers. present. he warden addressed . the'' Council on various. matters Which', had arisen since last meeting, and the minutea- of the meetioge of the warden' s committee were read and filed, A xesointiort,*issed by the eouneil of Frontetiac, relative 'to the Legislat- ive,e •sehool. gra eta tO: and high Schools was referred to special •cotnknit. tee, .A letter froirnIelpeS J. • OS Patterson, stating that the council' has full .con- trol of the' McCarthy and Scott act tines was read and bled. • . A letter from John Esson,- respecting a new bridge to erected ' fiaydeld was referred to Road Bridge cow- Mittee, and a letter front Sheriff bons calling attention to the condition of the Court room wee referred to Counte, Property committee. Applications were read to have the following persons placed on the list of County wards: A. McLean and Marg- aret McGinn, Goderich;, Joseph Seenp- spn and Susan Raesoin, Stephen ;Sarah 'Williams, Brussels; James Barnes, West Wa wanosh. Petition from S. S. No, 11, Hay, ; to have a change in' section boundaries, and from the East and West Riding Farmer's Institutes to have the usual grants, were referred to Executive; committee. The to vnehips of Stephen and Ash field put in applications for a share of the Cost of maintaining -bridges, Re ferred to Road and Bridge Coin. The reports of the Treasurer, Clerk ,(regarding supplies and • stationery) and of the auditors were referred to Finance committee. The jailor's report was referred to County Property committee, and tend- ers for Stationery. , supplies were re- ferred to the Executive committee. The papers in the award of the ar bitrators re. Morris vs. the County Were presented and 200 copies ordered printed for distribution among the members. The council then adjourned until] 10 o'clock Wednesday. 'SECOND DAY—WEDNESDAY. Council resumed at 10 o'clock. A letter from the warden of Lamb - ton county regarding bridge at Grand Bend, was referred to Road and. Bridge committee, and a letter claiming dam- ages for Mr, McInnes on account of ac- cident at Exeter bridge, was referred to Finanee committee, as were a num- ber of accounts. Also applications to have the following persons placed' on the list of county wards: 'Robert, Margaret and William Currie, of the township of Ashfield, and Joanna Mc- Kay, of the town of Goderich. An application for the usual grant to the South Huron Farmers' Institute was referred to Finance Com.. The township of Hullett made appli cation for the county to assume share of cost of maintaining certain bridges. The report of the County Commis- sioner was read and referred to conn. mit tee. The committee appointed. last Janu- ary to investigate the claim of John Carpenter, made report which was re- ferred to Finance Com. Three tenders for heating the Court House were referred to County Prop. erty committee, and the conucil then adjourned until 10 a.m. Thursday. THIRD DAY—THURSDAY. Minutes of previous session read and appioved. An application from officers of the 83rd Batt. asking for a grant to the members wheu on service was re- ferred to executive committee. One from the Horticultural Society was sent to same committee, During this session a number of old persons were proposed af county wards the final result being:that eleven were added to the roll, thus making- 21 for '93 so far. A deputation from Wingham was heard by the Council regarding a bridge in the municipality. The mat- ter was finally referred to Road and Bridge Com. A letter and report from J T. Gar - row regarding the Morris township ar- bitration was referred to Special Com mittee; session then adjourned. Council met at 3.30. Supplementary report of Jailer Dick- son read and sent to Property Commit- tee. The Executive Committee reported against granting: assistance to the vol- unteers while in camp. Beacom, se- coeded by Woods, moved that $400 be granted. Cox, seconded b,y Errott, that $200 be granted. Proudfoot, seconded by Watson, that 10c, per day be granted. All the mo- tions were lost on a division. Garvin moved, seconded by McDon- ald, that 25 be granted to the East, West and South Huron. Farmers' In- stitute ---lost. 100 of grant was made to the fruit exhibit at Chicago. Torrance and Moody moved to strike it out --lost. On motion of Either and MoEwan the clerk was instructed to get the solicit- ors' opinion on section 520,Municipal Aol A motion of Proudfoot and McPher- son, to erect, a House of Refuge was re- ferred to Executive Committee. The Committee reported against the mot- ion. A final vote was then taken when 22 voted for the House of Refuge and 28 against. riann.Y. The clothing stolen • from Nixon Sturdy recently was purchased by the County Council for the stealers, Thus the clothing they stole will be their own legally on their release from pris 011. Caretaker Reid resigned his position £14 caretaker, The resignation 'Was ac- cepted; at a futtire session seven ANA- natieme wore read 1 r 11 111 11 f The Exeoutive Committee—On mot-, ion of Proudfoot and Folt, referred to it—recommended that one hundred dollars be granted to caretaker Reid. The recommendation was adopted, On aeeount of the plebisite to be tak en at new year it was resolved to have another vote on the Poor 1 -louse ques- tion at the next municipal election, HOFFMAN'S e VEADACHE 4-44*.,--; POW 1:$: MRS AkL READAQI-1, eeresee, :17v a,'e :Aot aaeor. 7,4 21: -Tri och vizi coo but ,va pouts Aro?. a bob: (2214 4/10y ct,,o At4VM16,48 They aro not a netlianlop Denote tlie Weeit. The four month old child of Rev. J. E. Hunter, the evangelist, died Friday night in St. Thomas, • A lad named Frank Bills was drown- ed while bathing in a pond in the east end Toronto, Monday afternoon. Tho body of Willie Parsons, a five. year old boy who lived in London South, was found in the Thames Wed nesday, J. .Avery Tracy, a millionaire, died suddenly: at EiderPa., on Monday from the effects of an injury caused by a mail, beg which hat been fiueg from a car a few weeks ago, hitting him on the head. Michael Dombrowski, 10 years old, was drowned Thursday hist at Guelph. Arthur Little, aged 11, of Utica N. Y., ran away from home to avoid going to school. He was arrested and locked up oyer night. In the morning he was found with a bullet hole in his head, and died shortly after, Wm. Higgins, an M. 0, R brakeman of Welland was run over and killed near Welland Wednesday. Joseph Brigdon, aged 13, was killed in the shunting yard of the C. P. R. at Carleton Place Monday. 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