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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-09-05, Page 2TORE COLLAPSES ve People Killed and Several Injured When. Big Departentel Building Caves In; A despatch from Peterboro says With no more warning than a few ominous cracks, that were immedi- ately una.ediately followed by a rending of tim- bers and crashing_ of brides and. rnortar, a big section of the largest departmental stare in the city, that of the J. C. Turnbull Co., George and Si.mooe streets, collapsed an Thursday morning, killing five and injuringmore or less seriously a1 - most a dozen of the occupants. The obvious cause of the calamity which occurred shortly before ten o'clock, was the weakening of the walls by extensive interior alterations, in- volving the removal of a brick parti- tion separating what formerly were two stores. During the whole days upwards of 100 people worked in the ruins, first rescuing the living, and later re- moving the bodies of the dead. Even after the last body, that of Miss Dorothy Sisson, had been un- covered at about 3.30 in the after- noon the working panty did not cease, for it was feared that there might be others. By eight o'clock in the evening it was learned that several whom it was feared lead 1•eea killed were safe, and only then did work cease. All those who were killed were working either on the first story oa- the third, the roof- of which was open to the sky. Over and over again marvel has been e'• pressed that with upward of 50 people in the store, including cus- tomers and employees, the list of dead and injured was not much longer than it is. /Perhaps the saddest of the many -'dad 'fe-stares of the da'T are the oases of Miss -Do, �•ot'ly Sisson and Miss Lily Boddisdle wl:o were em- ployed in the readvettade dress goods department on the first story. Ahcerding . to Miss Ola Mulligan, cashier, who miraculously escaped almost uninjured, Miss Sisson had just started to go down stairs. Miss Bodison Was waiting en lies. Eliza- beth Brown, a. customer, and .:disc Agnes Tucker was mailing on Mrs. J. A.. Finlay. Without Day wars, ing the first• • coor began to sink, et , then ;0th ii, treiner hiss Alin?i fo>rxid to timbers, +;last earl, b reeks; , ._ Police .Conetaable Patterson' was .standing on the corner of George and Simcoe streets opposite the fated building when he saw the brick wall bulge out at the first story. Then it fell, covering Sim- coe street to the further sidewalk with debris. Immediately the con- stable turned in the fire alarm.. The firemen and the remainder of the police force, including Chief Thomp- son, were on the scene in a few minutes. -Their first thought was to get out anyone who night be alive. The dad could wait till IM- er. Some could be, seen with heads or other p•arbs of their bodies pro- jeoting. Miss Mulligan was among the first to be rescued. Soong . the crowd which quickly gathered, all eager to do what they could, threatened to interfere with the work, and had to be held back. It was here that many of the saddest scenes ocoured. 'People who knew not whether friends or near rela- tives were dead or alive, struggled franitioally to get into the ruins. Cries and moans went up as bodies were removed and recognized. Again, there were joyous meetings between friends and those merci- fully preserved. Dead.—Miss Dorothy Verena Sis- son, age 25, of 287 Park street, Peterboro, saleslady in the store. 'Miss Lily A. Boddison, age 23, of 274 William street, Peterboro, sales- lady in the store; Mrs. f lizabeth Brown, widow, age about 40, of 264 Hunter street, Peterboro, a customer; Mrs. John Kelly, age about 50, wife of John Kelly, a farmer near Norwood; Alfred Cuff, age 35, a bricklayer, married, of Braidwod avenue, Pets.', To. The injured. Mrs. J. A. Finlay, of Norwood, back and legs seriously injured, She is still in a oritical condition; Henry J. Manley, . carpenter, of 175 Edinburgh street, Peterboro, both legs broken and badly bruised and shaken up. Con- dition erieieal; Mrs. Sidney Middle- ton, of Smith, badly bruised and suffering from shock; Mrs. Agnes Tucker, formerly of Norwood, a saleslady in the store. Head and face badly bruised and out, The foxegoing insured are in the hospi- The following sustained slight in- jurieis,_but-are able -to get around: -se.' Geo. Shearer, carpenter; • George Curtis, bricklayer. PRICES OF FARM PRO UCTS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRAOB CENTRES OF AMERICA. Prices of Cattle, Crain, Cheese anti Other Produce at Home and Abroad. Breadstuffs. Toronto, Sept. 2.—Flour—Ontario wheat flours, 90 ' per cont., old, $4 to $4.10. To- ronto and Montreal freight. Flour made of new wheat, $3.60. seaboard. Manitobas First patents, in jute bags, $5.40; do„ sec- onds, $4.90; strong bakers; in jute bags, $4.70. Manitoba wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1 on track, Bay Porte; No. 2 at 99o, No. 3. 94c, Bay ports. Ontario wheat—New No. 2 wheat at 85 to 86e, outside. Oats—No. 2 Ontario bate, 33 to 34e, out. side, and at 36e, on track, Toronto; new oats; 33e, outside. Western Canada oate, 40 1-2c for No, 2 and at 390 for No, 3, Say labrts. 1 eae—Nominal. Barley -50 to 62c, outside 55e Toronto. Oorn—No. a Amerfoan corn. 781.20. c.i.f., Midland. ,ye—Nominal. Buckwheat—Nominal. Bran—Manitoba bran, $20 a ton, in bags, Toronto. •freights. • Shorts, $21, Toronto. Country Produce. Wholesale dealers quotations to retail - ere are;,- Butter Ohoioe da1r7, 23 to 250; inferior, 17 to 19c; creamery, 26 to 27o for rolls and 24 to 250 for solids. Eggs—Case lots of new -laid, 25o; selects, to 270 per dozen; fresh, 20 to 210, and sw- eets, 16 to 18c, Cheese—New cheese, 13 3-4 to 14o for large, and 141-20 for twins. Beans—Rand-picked, $2.25 to $2.35 per bushel; primes, $1.75 to $2. Honey --Extracted, in tines 101.2 to 120 per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, $1.20 to $2.75 per dozen for No. 1. and $2,26 tb $2,60 for No. 2. roultry—•Hens, 16 to 17e per 1b; Spring chickens, 20 to 210; ducks. 16 to 170; geese, 13 to 14e; turkeys, 18 to 200, Potatoes—Native, $1.20 to $1.25 per 90 1b. hag. Provisions. Bacon, long elear. 16 3.4 to 160 per 1b. in case lots. Pork—Short cut, $29; do., mese, $24. $ams -•-•Medium to light, 211.2 to 22c; heavy, 20 to 201-2o; rolls, 170; ,breakfast bacon, 22o; backs, 24 to 25o, Lard—Tierces, 141.4cs tube, 13 ir20; party;_ 143.40. 'Baled Hay and Straw. Baled hay—$12 to $13, on track, Toron- to. Old hay—No. 1 hay. $14 to $14.50, on track,` Toronto, and No, 2 at $11 to' $131 No. 3, $8 to $9, Baled straw—$8 to $8.60, on track. To- tont0. Montreal Markets, Montreal, Sept, 2. -Oats, Canadian West - Ern. No. 2, 401-2 to 410; Cana.dfan Western, No. 3. 391-2 to 40c; extra, No. 1 feed, 401.2 to 41e, Barley. Mn,,afeed, 60 to 510; malt. Ing, 62 to 64o, Buckwheat, No; 2, 58 to 6Co, Flour, Man., Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.60; seconds, $5.10; strong bakers', $4.90; Winter patents, choice, $5.25 to 05,50; straight .rollers, $6 to $5.10r straight rol- lers, bags, $2.30 to $2.40. Roller oats, bar- rele, $4.75; bags, 90 lbs., $2.26. Pram, $21. Shorts, $23. Middlings, $26. Mouillie, $26 to $32. Hay, No. 2, per ton, oar lots, $12 to $13. Meese, /Meet westerns. 13 to 131-4c; finest easterns, 12 5 8 to 12 7-80. But- ter, choicest creamery, 24 to 241.4e; sec- onds, 2312 to 233.40. Eggs, fresh, 32c; sel- ected, 290; No. 1 stock, 260; No. 2 stock, 20c. Winnipeg Grain. Montreal, Sept. 2.—Cash—Wheat, No, 1 Northern, 941-4o; No. 2 Northern, 931.40; No. 3 Northern, 883-4o; No. 4, Inc; No, 5, 72120; No. 6, 68c; feed. 60 1-2c; No. 2, tough, 84120; No. 3, tough, 821-2c; No. 4 tough, 7312x; No. 5 tough, 65 1-2o; No. 6, tough, 610; feed, tough, 541--20. Oats—No, 2 O.W„ 343.40; No. 3 C.W., 34 1-20; extra No. 1 feed, 343-40; No. 1 feed. 341-2o; No. 2 feed, 32 i -4o. Barley --No. 3, 453-4o; No. 4, 441.20; reject- ed, 41o; feed, 41e. Flax—No. 1 N.W.O„ $1.31; No. 2 O.iW., $L28; No. 3 C.W„ $1.16. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Sept. 2.—Wheat—September, 855.80; December, 891 -Be; May, 941.8 to 941-4c; No. 1 hard, 881-8o; No. 1 Northern, 87 to 89 3 -Bo ; No, 2, do„ 85 to 86 3-80. Corn —No. 3 yellow. 701.2 to 710. Oats—No. 3 White, 38 3.4 to 391.4o. Rye --No. 2, 621-4 to 640. Flour and Bran—Unchanged. Duluth, September 2,—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 893.8o; No. 1 Northern, 883.80; N0. 2, do., 86 3.8 to 86 7.80 September, 87 5-8e; Decem- ber, 89 6.8o; May, 94 7.80 asked. Linseed - 21.48 1-2; inseed-21.481-2; September. $(47' 1-2 bid; October, $1.48 3.4 bid; November, $1.48 3.4 bid; De. comber; $1.47 1-2 bid. Live Stock Markets, Toronto, Sept. 2.--Cattle--•Choice export, $6.50 to $6.80; choice butchers, $6.25 to $6.40; good 'medium, $5.65 to $5,90; common, $4 to $5; canners, $2 to $2:50; cutters, $3 to $3.25; fat cows, 6.25 to $6.75; common cows, $3.50 to $4. Calvos—Good veal, $5 to $7; choice, 88,25 to $9; common, $3 to $3,50. Stockers and feeders --Steers, 700 to 800 pounds, 84.50 to '$5; extra choice heavy feeders, 900 pounds, $5 to $5.50; rough Bast - ern, 400 to 650 pounds, $2.50 to $4.25. Sheep and lambs—Light ewes, $4.26 to $5.25 heavy, $3 tb $3.50; bucks, $3 to $3.50; spring lambs, $7,76 to $8.25. Hogs—$9.65 f.o.b.; $10 fed and -watered, and $10.25 off care. - Montreal, Sept. x, --Primo beeves, 6'1.4 to 61.20; common, 2 to 63-4c. Calves, 23.4 to 61-20, Sheep, 41-4 to 41.2o, Lainbs, 61-2e. Bogs. 10c. Toronto's assessment advanced •$81,000,000 since last year, Aid, Richter of London was elect- ed President of Ontario Municipal Association, The veteran shot, "Tons" Mit- thell, won the Grand Aggregate at the D.L,A. range, Mrs. Joseph. Pedlar, of Lindsay, died of apoplexy from excitement over a fire across .the street, while her husband was' helping to pub it out; 3ohxi McAlpr Millionaire lumberman `'j uluth, formerly of Prescott County, On- tario, shot to death in his kspme.; • DISASTriouS pIRE AT LONDON Western Fair Grounds Suffer a Loss of $100,000, A despatch frdm London, Ont., says : Fire, which it is ,believed was caused by a tramp, following, the circus smoking in • a cattle 'shed early on Friday, swepe the Western Fair Grounds, causing a loss of $100,000. 'The ,big ina,chinery hall, carriage buildings, pig. and Sheep buildings, and about -one-third .of 'the big horse -sheds are apile of ashes. The buildings were ail frame, and, fanned by a high wind, the flames 'licked them up in a few min- utes- The fact that the :heavy show- er, an hour or two before, had soak ed the roofs of adjeipieg-buildings, probably prevented the whole of the fair buildings and the grand stand from going. The large Grand Trunk unloading platform and many cars were burned, and, the half-mill/pa dollar G.T.R. ear works,:°just across the street from the horse sheds was on fire many times, but was saved by the efforts of •the company's own fire department. As the fair was to open this week, the maltagement is up against a big problem. An ef- fort will be made bo secure tents to put the exhibits in in'tht:-meantime, President Reid states that:tlhe loss is fully covered by insurt�x . The' fair, he'says, will, ga `.ifs"usual, Fee from bt�arig, jsaa' "`;iii e:*loss e» :f bon r o about A - quarter t o. ar . f , .. �j - e ar 2 ��� ajd- legs, they unanimousl;' elrp ess the - hope that bigger and 'better build- linostgs. than ever will assplace those MAKING BUTTER, TESTS. Ontario Ilas a Good AVer'age for Water Content. A°despatch from Ottawa says A number of inspectors employed by the Dairy and Cold Storage branch of the Department of Agri- culture, are now on a tour of the country taking samples of butter in order to ascertain ifthe pro- visions of the Dairy Act 'Are being complied withas regards moisture content. Nearly one hundred samples have been taken hi Eastern Ontario already, and the average water content, as determined by test, was 12.92 per cent,, which was well under the legal limit of 16 per cent. Only three samples' exceeded the moisture limit. The makers +were warned, and more ;samples will be taken from time to'tinie, Of-; fenders are liable to a heavy fine for infractions of the Act: ` Last' winter a number of dealers in: Van- couver were heavily fined, it will be remembered, for reworking New Zealand butter and adding moisture to it. GRAIN INCREASE 80 PER CENT. Mixed, Farming Has 111ade Big Strides in, the West. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Aceording to crop reports cowAmlc d by the Calgary Oredit Min"e sso- cltion,, covering all the southern portion of the province and -as far north as Stettler, the grain yield will be about 30 per oent. in excess of last year and will, be praetically all. marketable, Tremendous in- creases in mixed farming' autput aro reported. For instance, ,teth- bridge district which •lest year .ship - pod 50,000 hogs will this year mar- ket 450,000. It is expected that the. hog output of the province will be considerably in excess of one mil lion head as compared with ,200,000 last year, Homestead entries in. Western Canada for the first half of the pre- sent year totalled 15,1.54, Thie is a decrease of °ver twenty per cent. es coin.pared with the first six months of 1912. MNED TO LEAVE MEXICO President Wilson Calls Upon the rs 000 Americans to Return to the United States,. A despatch from Washington says; President Wilson proclaimed his' new policy of non-interference in the Mexicali situation before a joint session of the .two Houses of Congress on Wecl atetsday afternoon, The' delivery of the address: follow- ed President .-Missal's decision no longe) ,to Wait upon Huerta's pol- icy of proerastination and delay. The President, after • frankly ac- knowledging failure of the Lind • mission, outlined she /sewpolicy of the United .States. towards Mexico, namely—non-interference. Presideaat Wilson proposes to let 1915. J. C. Grew, charge d affaires • destiny., He entertains the strong hope that ',eventually ..the pride of Huerta willhe brolcea, and that all .factionssyil1 realize the neces- sity :of yielding :to,, the Amerioan mediation demands. The President •does not consider this new policy of non-interference as closing the door for future. American efforts towards a peace - Sul solution of the present difficulty: In fact, he expressed the rima be- lief that not rattily days . will elapse "before we shall triumph as. the friend of Mexico,:: ;• It isslikely that the United States will have the co-operation of the powers; of the world in the em- bargo on shipments of arms and ammunition into Mexico. Intim- ations were thrown out by Senator Barron, chairman of the Foreige Re- lations Committee, that such a course would be the logical one for other Governments to follow, Pre- sident Wilson has made it known that the United States has had' the moral 'support of several of the greare spowers in the mediartioss ne- gotiations, and it is the general be- lief now that these Governments will lend ahelping hand to the United. States in cutting off mili- tary ' supphes from Mexico. QUARREL ENDS IN MURDER. Toronto Hotel Mehl. Killed in Li An Altercation.. - A despatch from Toronto says: As the result of an altercation in the kitchen of Smith's :hotel at the corner of Queen and. Simooe streets on Wednesday . morning, Lizzie Ives, a woman about 35 years of age, who lived on Elizabeth street, was killed, and James Dickenson, 230 Simeoe street, another kitchen employe, is under arrest on a charge of murder. The argument which :,led to the fight started short- ly before eight o'clock when .the woman asked the accused to take some ice to the refrigerator. When he refused the Woman is alleged to have struck im, and when,he hit back she, fell under the blow, and striking a table broke her neck. As soon as the . man i saw that he had badly injured,, the woman he ran out of the hotel, but he was found. in his room about threse:hours later in ,a . bad state of intoxication; He . - ft'k e w ,t n to polios headquarters. .NEW GRAIN ROUTE.• O.N.E. to Haul Freight From. Port Arthur to Sudbury. • A despatch from Toronto says: The opening of another grain route from the West to the East was of- ficially announced on Friday by the 'Canadian Northern Railway. It was stated that the company is pre- pared to haul grain over their new transcontinental line from Port Ar- thus to ;Sudbury, and then south to Toronto by the beginning of win- ter if the crop is heavy enough to necessitate another outlet. CIGARETTE STARTS FIRE. Fine Barn And Thrashing Outfit D estroyed. A dispatch from -Belleville says : A little cigarette that was careless- ly being smoked by one of the men assisting in the season's threshing is said to have been the cause of a disastrous fire a quarter of a mile west of Frankford, • on . Wednesday afternoon. As a result the fine large three-storey barn of Mr, Leonard Sine, his season's crop of grain and hay, and the threshing separator and water tank belong- ing to Mr. Court Smith of Stock- dale are now a heap of ashes, A federal commission to investi- gate prison reform has been ap- pointed. - DYNAMITE EXPLODED. Two Mien Lose Their Lives in Mine at Cobalt. A despatch from Timmins, Ont., says: Early on Wednesday morn- ing at the Hollinger Reserve an explosion occurred whereby two men, Jack Nolan, a drill runner, and Mike Tereske, a deck hand, were killed. Pereske had just tak- en down a supply of dynamite and reached the heading where Nolan was working when the explosion occurred. As far as can be ascer- tained, the explosion was a pure accident, and the cause will prob- ably remain an unsolved mystery. THE SALMON PACK. The Total Was Only 180,000 for the 'Year Just Closing. A despatch from Vancouver, B. 0., says: The canneries of Northern British Columbia report a lean year for • the season just closing, the sockeye sal• y mon pack totalling only 180,000 cases, The average• pack o ,. the last 16 years was 750,000 'cases. Puget Sound canneries, however, report a big "season. The Fraser River pack amounts to 500,000 cases this year, against a million -in 1911. INSTANTLY KILLED.. W. Becker, of Waterloo, - Meets - Death by Electricity. A despatch from Waterloo, Ont., says: Catching hold of the handle of a derrick which had come into contact with a Hydro wire, and which had thrown .two of his com- panions, W. Thomas and P. Sch- weitzer, to the ground, seriously injuring them, W. Becker himself received the full 13,000 volts which the line Carried, and was instantly killed, at the new building of the Kuntz Brewery Company on Wed- nesday morning: Physicians who rushed to the scene, found that the man had been instantly killed. ACCIDENT TO DR. COLEMAN. A despatch from. Vancouver,. C., says: Dr, A. P. Coleman, pro- fessor of geology at the University of Toronto, a member of the party of visiting geologists, sustained fracture of his right leg in a fall while descending a inoun:tain at Field, Dr. Coleman will aeconipany the excursion party to the Yukon. He is a leading member of the Canadian Alpine Club, n RESTS AND EXECUTIONS 'Many Chinese Legislators And Others Flee to the South for Their Lives. A despatch from Pekin says: A crisis was reached here on Wednes- day .owing, to the arrest of nine more members of the Chinese Par- liament, Since the .proclamation of martial law in the capital arrests and summery executions have been of frequent oocurrenee, several of the victims -being members of Par- liament. -Many of the deputies have departed for the south in fear for their lives, and the assembly of e Parliamentary quorum has been prevented numerous caeca - nous owing to rumors that the po- A lice intended to make further ar- rests. The Senate, passed a motion .dele- gating the Speaker wand Deputy Speaker to visit Provisi,ohal Pre - aslant Yuan Shi Kai and 'ask him for an explanation of the arrests, and also to enquire whether he still desired to govern China. with the help of the Parliament or not, At the same tiitne the Senate re- solved not to sit again if the reply, of Yuan Shi Kai proved unsatisfac- tory. The Lower House passed re-; solutions in a similar strain.' THE NEYI5 IH A PARA SPO BtAPpENING:S F1(i0llx ALL OVER THE GLOBE IN A NUT SJTELL..; Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before Your' Jeyes.. Canada. Six woanee. are to ' be deported from Toronto institutions, Edmund Hayes,`jr., of Farming- ton, Me., killed M in exico, .foratt- erly lived • in Haileybury, Ont. Supreme Chief Ranger Stevenson of the I. O. F. announces that he would establish ahome for aged Foresters. A horse from the stable of Kin' George is to be given to the Do minion Government breeding de partment. • Mrs. John Oalcutt, who passe. away recently in Strath.roy in he 92nd year, was a great -great -grew grandmother. - Nicholes Bawlf, dean of the gran trade in, Winnipeg, says -the west ern grain crop will average 20 bush els to the acre, 0. A. Woods, L C. R. enginee indicted for manslaughter as th result of a wreck, was freed by grand jttiry at Bathurst,- N.B. It is understood that a Brigs firm, Baldray, Yerburgh &. Hutch inson," is the lowest tenderer fin the Toronto harbor improvements John Place, Socialist M.P.P.' 'fo Nanaimo, B. C., was committed fo trial on a charge of being in pos session of stolen property, being pistol taken from aspecial Pro vincial constable during a, riot. . F. L. Fellowes, city engineer, e Vancouver, has been retired as result of water pipes approved b his eastern representatives bein found :below -the standard, causin the city aloes of several thousan dollars. G14t. Britain. Premier Asquith was rough handled by two suffragettes wh playing golf in Scotland on Thur day. Lord Aberdeen .has refused to a der an inquiry intokeksagoncluCt Londonderry pollee>; .in the, rel riots. The present'prosperity of Eng] ,industry is in lice by" -a s -o f ic. return showing that benkruptc last year were the lowest in years. G eneral. The Palace of Peace was inaugu ated with imposing ceremony at T1 Hague on Thursday. The Servian Government has d clined to co-operate with the Ca negie Commission investigating t alleged Balkan atrocities on a, count of the presence among tl• members of Professor Paul N. Mi ukoff, leader of the Constitution Democrats in the Russian Duma. A CUSTOi1 STATEMENT. Remarkable Increase in Import tion of Fresh Lamb. A despatch from Ottawa sway. That the Canadian people are co suming much more fresh and ca ned meats and lamb and import a correspondingly less quantity live cattle and salt beef is indioat in a statistical memorandum of Customs Department. In 1904 total of 36,549 horned cattle we imported. In the fiseal year end March last this hadfallen, off 8,128 head, On the other ha' importations of 'sheep have inere ed greatly. In 1904 the total w 72,568 and in 1913, 229,743, S beef to the extent of 2,878,6 pounds was imported in 1904. L year it fell/toff to 1,433,582 poun The consumption of canned me 1•as year t y a, was 2,162,637 pounds, double that of 1904, while fr lamb importations have gra from 157,587 pounds in 1904 ta. 630,818 pounds in 1913, 1,800 itURA.L MAIL ROUTES A. Large Number Of Country r OO1ees Rave Been Closed. A despatch fi om Ottawa ` sa The rural mail delivery system . undergone an immense inere within the Rest year. At the sent time eighteen hundred ro are in operation. While a num of routes are being established the West, the eery -lee is much m largely centred in the East, e ei,ally in Ontario, which hat played a much greatertandem utilize it. The result has been closing of, a large number of e try post -offices. 9 5 t t. c 1; a a: a tic ha is to ce th co of tri evi ru Pe. lei rui an' by has lre or pat A hab get dig( Stra face ever man keel new Th rest, eW) 'Th ose $ by „Oa; ian8 Live ere tr ay;+ You ellen Iso 11 live er. Slee e t erves Slee; ilk ;4 fectjr ter e brc Dial he ily' 8 t to rriag a ma, e dei dile ties. red! 1 br; and ratify ng. tiful ed al ding. e' ne ire k.,