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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-06-04, Page 7FOUR LIVES LOST WHEN PLEASURE BOAT CAPSIZES IN ST. LAWRENCE A despatch from Cornwall says:— she had Romeo Pelosse in her arms, The rushing waters of the St. Lawr-'olid as the boat went over, near the once River claimed as victims Thurso light buoy, grabbed a chain on it with one hand 'and held her nephew with day afternoon four members of a the other, being almost exhausted party of five who bad set out pleasure- when Mr. Hart rescued her from her bent but a few moments before to en- perilous position. The little boy died joy the delights of a row on the river, on reaching shore, although Drs. Alex. The tragedy occurred while the boat . Gardner and C. A. Stewart, who were was just opposite the links o7. the called to the scene, did all they could Cornwall Golf Club. to resuscitate him. They succeeded in Those drowned are: Mee. Aurel the case of .Aurore Dation, who woe. Lavigne,, aged' 18; Airrel Lavigne, sent to the General Hospital for aged 21.; Mrs. Romeo Pelosee, aged treatment, leaving there an hour or 19, and Romeo Pelosse, Jr., aged 11 so later, but the infant boy was ton months, who was alive when brought far gone to respond to their efforts. from the water, but expired shortly Mr. Hart sought for other members afterward: The. fifth of the party, of the party, but no trace of them Aurora Gatien, aged 4, sister of Mrs. could be found. In less than half an Pelosse, was saved. hour the river in the vicinity of'tle Just how the accident occurred is tragedy was black with boats, the oc- a mystery, but it is assumed that the supants using hooks in an endeavor to boat, a flat-bottomed craft, shipped recover the bodies from their watery water, and, when caught in the swift grave, current and eddy, near one of the About 9 o'clock Narcisse Caron and Govel.•nmentbuoys, capsized; The hie son, Fred, grappled the body of shouts of the victims brought Ernest Mrs. Pelosse, which was brought to Hart, caretaker at St. Lawrence Park, the shore, where her grief-stricken to the scene in a few moments, and husband was waiting, for any news he succeeded in rescuing Aurore Ga- that might conte. tien, who proved herself a heroine in The quadruple drowning, following making a brave but unsuccessful ate so closely upon the triple drowning at tempt to save her little nephew. Barnharts Island two weeks ago, has This little 4 -year-old child told how caused a sensation in the community. SIR EDWARD MORRISON SUCCUMBS AT OTTAWA Commander of Canadian Ar- tillery in World War Dies in 60th Year. A despatch from Ottawa says:= Major-General Sir Edward W. B. Morrison, K,C.M.G., K•C.B„ D.S.O., late adjutant -general at National De- fence Headquarters, a veteran of the South African War and officer com- manding the Canadian Artillery in France during the Great War, died Thursday morning in his 60th year. General Morrison was born in Lon- don on July 6,'1867, and was educated at Dr. Tassie's famous Galt Collegiate. He engaged in newspaper wont first ist d RECKLESS DRIVING CAUSES INJURIES Four Persons Hurt and Three Cars Wrecked in Collision Near Chatham. Chatham, Ont., May 81,—Two wo- men and a six-year-old girl, and :a main, are In St. Joseph's Hospital seriously injured,' as a result of an auto smash which occurred on the Provincial Highway about a mile west of Chatham at eight thirty to -night. The injured are: Mrs. Harry Rose, Miss Stella Dennomey, Rayburn Dere 'and and Clayton Ortut•ne, the six- yeat•-oldd•aughter of Harry Rose's sis- ter, all of Windsor. Their condition no angeroue. with the I-tamilton Spectator and later I A car carrying those who were in - with the Ottawa Citizen, where he was for some years editor-in-chief. While in Hamilton he joined the 4th Field Battery as a lieutenant and later transferred to the 2nd Field Battery, Ottawa. The South African War offered Morrison a chance to demonstrate his ability, and he returned home with many honors, including the D.S.O. He renewed his interest in militia work and devoted considerable attention to jured was going from Chatham to Windsor. In the car also were Harry Rose, the driver, and Miss Reba Plant. Ahead of them, two cars were ap- proaching, and were apparently rac- ing. One of these was driven by A. Best, and in it were his wife and three children. The other oar was driven by B. Mann of this city and _ _ .. _ --�BAR ON TUBERCULOSIS DECLARED AT a lea ¢ ehasSuilt- gecof Treason ' CONFERENCE OF CANADIAN SCIENTISTSAdeapatah from London says:— Nearly 850 years' after herr execution for conspiracy against the life air A despatch, from Otawa says:—A II. M. Tory, President of the National _Queen •Elizabeth, modern science in Research Council, . the role of a belated champion -cif At the conclusion of the proceed -i Mary, Queen of '•Seote, has declared ings all were agreed that this had her guiltless of the charge, been the most important scientific con-, Ainsworth Mitchell, Home Office femme ever held in Canada. expert, alter spending several years The conference, primarily, was collecting and ex^mining ori tool re called for- the purpose of bringing, cords and Bethel docume ts, ink under review: the, present position of parchment seals sail d tails of hand research in connection' with,tubercul-1 writing, has stated ,laiir'litsly that the joint auspices of the National Re- osis in man and in animals, with al Mary, Queen of_stote, could not pos- search Council' of Canada and - the view to laying down a program of .sibly have written the letters which Federal Det. of Agriculture, and the f rther research to be undertaken by, caused her to be sent io the scaffold.' P g u the Dept. of Agriculture. the'Research i Mr: ZViiteheil, pitblishiitg rite result Council and the various: universities in, of'his'investi ll, pet in the Anse num Canada, After a complete survey of ilei• of Discovery; produces evidence the present position of the tuberculosis to show that the lettere ase,'ibed 'to problem a set of projects was outlined. Mary were in the handwriting of het! These are being submitted to- various secretary and betrayer, William Melt - land of Letllingten. Mr. Mitchell, who is the author of'"Science and TCriminals," and other wo its, has fig- ' ( MARKETS used in important trials where the dk authenticity of documents played a vital part. HORIZONTAL 1-TIn'Ive 17--Troploel'fruit (pl.) 18—Wander 14 -Kingly 16—Collected .17—Ardor 18—Happening 19—Girl's name 20 -Hat material 21—CIvll Engineer (abbr.) 22—Negative 23—Burn 24—Large plants 26—Storms 81—Somber 82—HeeItate 86—Rocks 88—Impede 39—Toward 40—To cut off 41—A human being 42—Father (familiar) 48—Artlste' stands 46—Avarlclous persona 49—Lees 50 -Head covering 92—Blaspheme 63—The whole range of anything 66—Sensitiveness of feeling 69—lndefInite article 60—Abbr. for name of a continent. 61—A minute particle 64—Scent 65 -Several things considered as a whole 67—Mohammedan chief 68—Nature 69—email Spanish' horse 70—An elderly man 71—Soaked In a liquid 72 Argued 72, c 7Hr ,KTtteeNATIONAL SYNDICATE. VERTICAL 1 --Likes better 2—Part - 3—Egg shaped `• 4—Dlspatohed 8 -Build 6- WWanderers 7—Prohibited 8—Female singing voices 9—One spots 10—Cognomen 11—Girl's name 12—More precocious 15—You 26 Coneumo 27—Rose all 28—Water fowl 20—Printer's measure 30—Exchanges for monel, 32—Overpowering fear 33 -Part of verb "to be" 34 -The one above 88—Burns 87—Wireless call for ald 88 --Cut of pork 43—Newspaper writers 44—For example (abbr.) 45—An animal 47—Day of the week (abbr.) 48—Cut off 60—Preserved 61—Kicked, as a football 53 -Determine by measurement 54 --Nice perception 56—Entrance 67—Contend with 58—Woody plant 61—Plateau 62—Overlook 63—Part of 'automobile 66—Within he had one male. passenger with him. When the two cars approached the the European situation, being always Windsor party, they were foreed to convinced that Germany intended to turn out to chs another ins in the strike was ahead of them and going the Commanding Canadian r- turn his car into the ditch; which was tillery Brigade, General Morrison too deep, crowded to the right edge went to France in February, 1915, as far as he could but not far enough, and his first action was the second aiod the cars piled into him head-on. battle of Ypres. In 1915, as Briga- dier -General, he commanded the 2nd Division Artillery. In December, 1915, he took over all the corps artillery and it was under his direction that the 450 Canadian guns thundered at Vimy Ridge. From there he hammer- • -e- ed -through to Mons and Germany. He was five times mentioned in despatch- es and was given the honor of knight- hood. in the 1st C d' A • same direction: Rose, unwilling to Bad Weather is Moving Slowly Toward North Pole Stockholm, Sweden, May 31.— Swedish Arctic authorities continue optimistic concerning Capt. Roald Amundsen and the members of his flying expedition to the North Pole, notwithstanding that nothing has been heard from them since they left King's Bay, Spitsbergen, more than a week ago.. One expert, K. J. Stadner, gives the opinion that a successful flight would entail elaborate observations, thus delaying the return. It is pointed out by the authorities All three cars were badly wrecked. April Fire Loss Lower by $331,795 Than in April, 1924 A despatch from Toronto says:— The property toll exacted by some 1,046 fires in the province during the month of .April was, according to sta- tistics prepared by the Provincial Fire Marshal's Department, $1,072,700. This total represents a drop of $331,- 705 from the total for the correspond- ing month of last year, despite the fact that the number of fires is great- er by 238. In Toronto alone during the month the total number of fires was 224, and the total loss $119,070. "There were no large fires in April;" comments the Fire Marshal in the course of his report, adding: "but the number of fires shows, a very large' increase over the month of April, 1924. Barn fires during the month were numerous and heavy. Factory fires continued to show favorable re- duction." that bad weather is slowly moving Twenty-seven thousand gallons of toward the Polo region, and may be water are contained in one inch of expected to reach there in a few days. rain over one acre of land. SEVEN INJURED WHEN PASSENGER BOATS RADIAL I-IITS AUTO HAVE A CLOSE CALL TorantoMotoring Party Meets Keewatin Escaped With Loss Mishap -Hurled Into Ditch. of Rudder in Lake Superior Toronto, June L—Three women Fog. were seriously injured and four other A' despatch from Port, Arthur, Ont., persons, all Toronto residents, were badly bruised and shaken up when a radial car on the Metropolitan divi- sion of the Hydro Electric Radials crashed into a large touring automo- bile, owned and driven by Thomas Robinson, aged 50, 26 Pinewood Ave., last night near the south- end of Hogg's Hollow Hill, North Yonge St. There were sax adults and a boy in the car. The latter was sitting in the front seat with his father, and escaped with bruises about the face, Tho injured: Thomas Robinson, aged 50, 26 Pine- so .far submerged as to prevent the wood Ave., cut and bruised about the staving in of the bow. The steamer face and arms, and suffering from struck twice, the first time about mid - shock. ships, the second time nearer the Mrs. Thomas Robinson, aged 45, 26 stein, which carried away the ship's Pinewood Ave., probable internal in- rudder and rudder frame and did in- juries, and suffering from shock. jury to the bottom. Master Willie Robinson, aged 10, 26 The exact damage cannot be ascer- Pinewood Ave., face bruised, tained at present, but it is stated that Harry Buckner, aged 22, 487 Du when the ship crossed over the reef pont St., scalp wounds. and- settled she listed to starboard, NIrs. Harry Bucicne.t, aged 20, 4871 and pumps were required to keep her Dupont St., abrasions and suffering, on an even keel, which would indicate from shock. !injury to ballast tank,. George Buckner, aged 25, 144 Ham -I Wireless again proved a big factor Ilton St., face -and arms bruised and in securing relief as hardly a second back strained. dor two had elapsed from the first dis- The accident happened about 8.30 tress call sent out from the steamer o'clock within 200 yards of the Radial before it was answered by the big' station, and at one of the' most danger -.Government station at Port Arthur. says :—The steamer Keewatin, of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Great Lakes Service, which went on. the rocks at Passage Island, 42 miles from Port Arthur, during a dense fog at 3.45 Friday morning, limped into port at six o'clock in the afternoon in tow of the tu-: Whalen and Bowman, of the Dominion Towing and Salvage Co., and went into drydock. The steamer had a narrow escape, passengers say, and disaster was prob- ably averted by the fact that the reef on which the big steamer -struck was l1j� �T � out points on Hogg's Hollow Bill. The' half an hour later tags were on their 24-HOUR WATCH SUPPLANTSi COMPASS hill was jammed with automobiles way to render assistance. moving in both directions. The con- The I;eewatin will be out of the ser- ONgostian became so intense after the vice for some time, probably two a�ILLAN EXPEDITION A despatch from Washington 'says :—A twenty-four hour watch may supplant the compass when the amphi- bian planes assigned to the MacMillan Arctic expedition fly 'under the mid- night sun this Summer in search of an unknown continent: -, In maltir,- this: announcement to -I e day,' the National _Geographic Society said: "A major navigation problem ofl Arctic flying is - the fact that the mag- netic. pole is in the Hudson's Bay re- gion thousand sten of Canada, more than a o miles away from the North Pole. Dept., is the employment of "a twenty- four-hour wenty four-hour watch. The 'top of the earth' for flying purposes, may be re- garded as flat. Since the • sun circles • !. around this region in twenty-four hours, if one lays down a watch with '24 o'clock' pointing to the Greenwich meridisin, the hour hand would follow the sun around the dial. In flying, therefore, one has only to keep the -hour hand.:toward the sun and realize that this hour hand not silly marks the time, but the exact direction- at that time. "A special twenty -four-hour watch face, which makes allowance for eec- tain variations due to latituden and has onlyone hand -,-the hour hand—which casts a distinct shadow. is being made. r•• _ot the use of the flyers at Command - Y erByrd's request. I, (A combined chronometer and min dial,similar inprinciple to that de- scribed above, was carried by Amund- sen inhisn north lar e e t a Polar flight, the e fat - of which 's still undetermined 1 t Am- undsen's instrument was made on his design by the Goorz Instrument Co. of Germany) "Thus mentis that -if one were fly- ing to the 'froth the.. ma neon pole t g p No) tit Polo he would be flying due would his: compass. ass.- That won d 10 Yp the per- formance 'easy io remember, but.1 e p 1 l at angles to formttnca of the needle g ipranks,- that axis and its queer re- gardless of known magnetic 'habits, make the ordinary compass a very P r fickle indicator in 11 northtxn y g "A simpler device, suggested by. Al..' bort H.Be :stead head of „the Nation - sl Geographic Societv's.;Cartograpltic accident that traffic was blocked for weeks. A new rudder frame will have almost an- hour. There being no' to be placed and it is thought that county constables in the vicinity, Con -1 some of the bottom plates have been. stab:e Dunlop, of No. 12 Police Sea- damaged. tion, assumed charge of traffic after! The United States and Dominion the injured people had been carried Transportation Company's steamer to the home of Dr. Robinson, path -1 America is on the rocks ten miles from oogist: at the General Hospital: Tho' Grand'Marias. She was en route from house was,stha only one in the neigh-' Port Arthur to, Duluth with passen boyhood and the injured women had to g?l's• She got into trouble during last be carried up a steep hill in order to, night's fog, one of the thickest ever reach. the premises on Glen Eche known one Lake Superior. She is, re Drive. ported not badly damaged and it is expected will be in sersice again next Monday. Solution of last week's puzzle. ��L14111Iii® 10V-121121yr MOO a • ®© Z „F., - DI ®0 s s Q NIEI ORM • x N� Wit. -. a LUil ®F "e' i P2 ��� . a� IYllai 1 LJ�N gi %2T r ll rr . . friM� c MU, 0S Jill •• NTE O I A 9 t• .-. O Q E :�� E : T'" lei `R ria R r,'",t u T Y a ' 27 Seamen Perish in Storm on BrittanCoast A despatch from Qliimper, France, says -seven of thirty-two Y Y Y ) seamen in two ,sinal. boats -vere. drowned during ' a storm along n tthe g Brittany coast. Life-saving boats put out from the St.:'Brieuc station, but ,esee hurled back bythe heat/ 'seas, Y .e s, of the.Department The Prefect melt of I F nusteee and other government auth- orities visited the scene of the dis- aster. combined attack on tuberculosis, in which every research institution in Canada will co-operate, and in which the "brains" of the scientists of the Dominion will be pooled, was inaugur- ated here Wednesday alight, The campaign is to proceed under Re- program to be followed was agreed upon at a conference held here Tues- day and Wednesday, at which every prominent bacteriologist and pathol- ogist in Canada was in attendance. The conference met under the joint chairmanship of Dr. J. H. Grisdale, Dep. Minister of Agriculture, and Dr. institutions in Canada with a view to obtaining their fullest co-operation. ANOTHER AXE MURDER OCCURS NEAR HEARST Suspect is Held by Provincial TORONTO. ¢ Officers Who Are Baffled by Man. wheat—No. 1 Nocth., $2; Reparations C",oillniission ' No. 2 North., $1,97; No. North., Payment Crime in Northern Ontario. $1.92; No. 4 wheat, not quoted. ReReports by Germany -- A despatch from Cobalt says:—An- Man' oats—No 2 CW, not quoted;' P No, 3 CW, 62 se; extra No, 1 feed, A despatel from Paris says:—Ger- ether axe murder, the second within eeee,e; No, 1 feed, 58c; ,No. 2 feed, many has paid the;reparatlons asked Na few weeps, is reported f o (3538c. of her, the Reparations Cofnmiseion orth country. The victim of this All the above e.i.f, bay worts. declared on Friday for the flirt time second crime is the watchman ata American corn, track, toronto—No. in its existence: It met especially to mill nine miles west of Hearst, but 2 yellow, $1-25• make this mormal statement: on the his name has not yet been discovered n2ill•feed—Del., Montreal freights, r8;equest of the Council of Ambaes- by the authorities, and his employers, sho'rts,ltper. ton, $30;iiluddliner gs, $80 adore, which wanted the statement o1 the Thompson-Heyland Lumber Co., good feed flour, per bag, $2.80. record before framing the note t4 with offices in Cochrane, can throw Ontario oats—ominal, f.o,b. ship- Germany on disarmament, which will no light on the man's identity. ping points. declare the Allies are ready to evacu- The victim's head had boon smash-, Ont. wheat—No. 2 winter nominal; ate Cologne' as soon as Germany has ed in with the blade of an axe, which No. 8 winter, not quoted; 1(o. 1 com-disarmed to the satisfaction of the had penetrated through to his brain. I mercial, not quoted, f.o.b., shipping Inter -Allied Commission in control.. Tho head was almost severed from the' points accordin8 to freights. Bailey—Malting, not quoted.. The note probably will be .delivered body, 'Buckwheat—No. 2, nominal, in Berlin Tuesday by the Ambassadors An inquest has been opened at Rye—No. 2, nominal. of France, Great Britain, Belgium, Hearst by Coroner H. E. Tucker, butI Man, flour, first pat., $10.40, To -"Italy and japan. theproceedings were adjourned to i ront; do, second pat•, 89,90, Toronto. permit of further investigation. Pastry flour, bags, $7:b0, Charged with vagrancy, a man who: SStraw--Carlots, per ton, $8.00 to Icing George and Queen Mary is suspected of kno:ving•something ofl$8.0. Screenings —Standard, recleaned, Lay Cornerstone for Lloyds the crime is being detained by the f.o.b, bay ports, per ton, $24.00. A despatch from Londonsays:— The officers et Hearst Jail. I • Hay—No. 2,pa m s ys: per ton, $13:00 to Tho man who was killed acted as $14.00; No. 8, per ton, $11,00 to The King and. Queen, accompanied by watchman at a Roasington plant and$12,00; mixed, per ton, $9.00 to Prince Henry, drove in semi -state he lived in a shack nisi the C.N,R.' 11.00; lower grades, x0,00 to $9.00. through that ancient part of London line. ' He met his death some time' Cheese—New, large 20 to 20efic; known as The City, to Leadenhall twins, 21 to 22e; triplets, 22 to 23c; Street, where Their Majesties laid the during Sunday. j Several blows were struck accord -I Stfltotwns, 23 to 24c. Oki, large, 27 to cornerstone fax a new building for 28c;twins, 28 to Oc; triplets, 28 Lloyds, the Great British shipping, ins to the- Coroner. The victim was to Oc. last seen alive about 9 o'clock on Sun -1 Butter—Finest creamery prints, 37 banking and insurance firm which day evening, and his body was die- to 38c; No. 1 creamery, 35 to 87c; evolved from a seventeenth century No. 2, 83 to 340; dairy prints, 29 to coflee house into an international in- stitution. At Temple Bar, where the cavalcade entered the city proper, a crowd wit- nessed the quaint ceremony, preserved from olden times, wherein the King asked and received from the Lord Mayer permission to enter the gates of London. 1 fi• covered inside the shack about 11 a.m. Monday. - Considerable ' mystery surrounds this murder, and Provincial head - 80c. Eggs—Fresh extras, in cartons, 36 to 37e; loose, 34c; fresh firsts, 82c; quarters here, while declaring that seconds, 29c.u 1 Live poultry—Chickens, spring, Ib., robbery probably was the motive, are 55c; hens, over 4 to 6 lbs. 20c; do 3 awaiting further reports from Con- to 4 lbs., 18c; spring chickens, 4 lbs. stables Bush and Cita, who are fol- and over, M.P., 24c; do, corn fed., 22c; lowing up the case. roosters, 15c; ducklings, 6 lbs. and up, 22c. Dressed poultry—Chickens, spring, SASKATCHEWAN GRAIN lb., 05c; hens, over 4 to 5 lbs., 28c; GROWING EVENLY do, 3 to 4 lbs., 22c; spring chickens, 4 lbs. and over, M.F,, 85c; do, corn fed, 82c; roosters, 20c; ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, 27c. Beans—Canadian, handpicked, Ib., 638c; primes, Gc. Maple products—Syrup per im- perial gal., $2.40; per 5- al.. tin $2,30 Rainfall Reported in Pracically All Districts. Regina, Sask., May 81.—With the exception of a fent/ isolated areas, per gal.; maple sugar, 1 ., 26 iso 26c. wheat is growing well and evenly in Honey -60 -ib. tins 13r/3e per Ib. all districts of Seskatehewan, accord- 10-1b. tins, 18 c; 5 -lel. tins, 14c; 2.•,,b-; ing to a crop report issued Saturday lb. tins, 16,4 to 16c. by the Saskatchewan Co-operative Smoked meats—Hams, med., 30c; Elevator Co. Only slight damage from hams, 46c; smoked rolls, 22c; ottage, 24c; breakfast bacon, 30 to I frost and drifting is reported. Show- c82e: special brand breakfast bacon, ors ori good heavy rains have fallen at 85e; backs, boneless, 35 to 42c. practically all points and a good root Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 50 system has developed almost every- to '70 lbs., $22; 70 to 91) lbs., $20.50• 'where. Cutworms have appeared, but 20 lbs: and up, 519.50; lightweight `the report indicates the damage from rolls, in barrels, $30,50; heavy - that source is light. weight rolls, $34.50 per bbl. Winnipeg, May 30.—p'ollowing the Lard—Pure tierces, 183hc; tubs, mid-season break, the inarket recover- 19c; pails, tierces, 1 ; prints, 20�.c; short- ening 14c; tubs, 14 c; pails, ed appreciably, May closing out at 15e; blocks, 16c. 51.8894, down 3'4 cents from Friday's, Heavy steers, choice, $7.75 to $8; final price. do, good, $7.25 to $7.75; butcher steers, Interest was practically confined to choice, $7 to $7.60 do, good, $5.50 the passing month whish fluctuated to $6.75; do, med., $5.75 to 56; do, com, violently over a range of GH. The`$6 to $5.50; butcher heifers, extreme decline to -day reflected a dip choice, $7 to $7.50; do, mod., $6 to of 16 cents from the recent high of cows, do, cone, $5 to $5,60; butcher g cows, choice, $5,75 to $6; do, fair to 52.00'4. I good, $4.50 to $5.50; canners and cut- July utJuly and October maintained a ters, $2.50 to $2.75; butcher bulls, steady tone throughout the session,' good, 54.50 to $5.50; do, ±air, $3.75 to the former closing at $1.781, while 54; bologna, $2.50 to $3.25; feeding the deferred future` was up Ye at. steers, good, $6.50 to 57; do, fair, $5 good, , do, fair, $4.50 to 5.25; calves, choice, o $9.50 to $10.50; do, med., 57 to $8; do, Red Flag of Russia Displayed coin., 55 to.$6; much cows choice, $70 in London on May Da Ito 580; do, fair, $40 to 550; springers, Y y'— l choice, 75,. to 90;$good light sheep, The red flagof Rusait flewproudly/I $5.50 to 79.50; hedvies and bucks, $5:50 to $7.50; good ewe lambs, $14 over Chesham House, the headquarters! to $15; do, med., 510 to $12; do, culls, in London of the Soviet Government,' $8 to $9; spring lambs, each, 57 to on May 1, says The London Daily Ex.' $13; hogs;9thick smooths, fed and press. M. Rakowski and his staff!watered' 51...10; do, f.ob., $11.50; do, cauntry points, 511.25; do, off cars, $12.60; select premium, 52.37. MONTREAL. • 51.51. •to$6.25; stockers,55.50 to $6; made complete holiday. May Day was adopted as a great Communist and Socialist festival thirty-six years ago by the Interna- Oats, Can. west., No. 2, 72,4c; do, tional Socialist Congress in Paris. No. 3, 6544c; extra No. 1 feed, 63c. Soviet Russia is the only country Flour, , Man. spring wheat eatopat., firsts, that makes universal holiday, of the $ 9,70; winter pats., choice, 57 90 to $8; day, for in 1918 - the Bolshevist Gov- Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., $3.65. Bran, ermnent extended the.idea of a Labor $28.25 to $20.25. Shorts, $80.25 to Day and made a national fete of it, $81,25. Middlings, 536.25 to $37.25. with anti -imperial demonstrations. Hay No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14 to 515. Another Earthquake Beans, $2.70 per bus.; cheese, finest wests.i 17% to 17 /sc; cheese, finest ar 7 to 17 c butter, No. 1 atMurraysts,. 17% .s, , Occurs M �ra Bay Y pasteurized, 32i z to 38c• butter No . Quebec,May 31.—A period of three1 creamery, 8144 to 32c; butter, sec - recorded �sterdaYwhen wor d w 'bao,oc- I3n5 dsto 30� ;to 81c egge, fresh specials, 3Gc• eggs fresh firsts, 82c;potatoes, months duringwhich earthquakes currel intermittently in Canada was' 370eggs,fresh extras, 84 to , asPerg,car lots,Gpc. received of a shock in the Murray Bay Good steers, 57.75; gd. baby. beeves, district. TPa carica beg Y gan February I $8.25; com, bulls, 53.75 to 54; com. 20, when .a major disturbance rocked cows, 53.50 to $4.25; calves, 7 to ed. to. do, com. 7G0•'do m G $6.50; the c_starn part of the Continent. pis entitled a place high itl.the list The quake on Friday night caused pail -fed, $4;75 to 55.50; hogs,,set red 1 of soldiers who have ably served the lots, $12.50 too$12.75; do, selects, no damage. $13.25; sows, $9.50 to' $10. (British commonweal* Airplane Used by Drummer to Call on Arctic Customers. A despatch from Fairbanks, Alaska, says:—The first commercial airplane trip north of the Arctic Circle was made from here recently by Joe Me- herin, merchandise broker and com- mercial traveler, of Seattle, San Francisco and Juneau. With Noel Wein as a pilot, Meherin flew to Fort Yukon with a complete line of samples in 2 hours and 15 minutes. This trip ordinarily takes two weeks by river boat. Beaver Fur Sale at Eclnzonton Average Price $12.78 A despatch from Edmonton, Alta., says:—The largest heaver fur sale by the Provincial Game Guardian's Dept. for some years past was put through a few days ago, when 216 pelts were sold to local dealers. The average price realized was $12.78, and the top price in the lot was $100 for three particularly fine skins, All the furs disposed of at this sale had been taken .under special permitgranted by the Game Guardian Field Marshal French. Whatever place may be finally assigned the Earl of Ypres in the his- tory of Britain's part in the World War, no subsequent revelations can rob his name of the lustre that at- tached to his supremo effort on the battlefield from which his title was derived. Lord French was the fore- most factor in the creation of the "First Ilundred Thousand," as the nucleus of that greater force whose firm stand on the Continental fore- shore saved the day for the Allies and for embattled civilization. When French's great service was performed,. it was undoubtedly .well for the further conduct of the British offensive that. the command reme c P. o d Was intrusted to Haig. But in a year and a half of intensive warfare he had justified the faitlereposed in him as the brilliant tactician of the South African tear, As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland until the Home Rule Partition 'Act became effective, he served the Imperial cause with courage and firm- ness in a critical junctare. Whateverp olicies of statecraft ' f or manoeuvres i al oeuvresnrite field may continuo to be controversial` issues in the a - P sisalof his career t he sot down to P, his record so much that was for the indisputable advantage of the canes in which his sword was drawn that1 c w to