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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1911-09-08, Page 2TIIIIEflY ON OIILY � �c E Man Was Found Killed and His' Partner Dead From. Poison, e rA. lospatch troln Winnipeg, Man., s v+;ys : The tragedy of a lonely shack in the far northern wilds of West - n Canada is recalled iu detail by the arrival in Winnipeg of a letter to Mrs, Mills, wife of Cap- tain 3. W. Mills, of the Hudson's Bay Company steamer Mackenzie River, plying between Fort Mc- Pl;erson•and Fort Smith. The let- ter tells the story of a young clerk who when bringing out the mail in the Spring, on June 6, found Pete `M•eland dead with his head Crushed and 'V. S. Elever, the other man's prospecting partner, dead of poi- son; self administered, and 'a con- fession signed by the latter, telling of the whole tragedy. The scene of the horror is Salt River, about five hundred miles north of Great Slave Lake. The confession read a,s fol- lows: "I have been sick a long time; I am not crazy, but 'have simply been goaded to death. He (Mc - land) thought I had inure money than I have, and has been trying to finish me, I -tried to get him to go after same medicine, but he.. would not, wishing to have Me die. So, good -bye. -W. S. Elever." A further confession read as fol- lows "1 have just killed the man that was killing me, so good-bye, and God bless you all.. I am awfully weak and down since the last of March, so there is nothing but death for ine. Cruel treatment drove me to kill Pete. Ship every- thing out and pay George Walker $10.-W. S." - The two bodies were buried to- gether after the inquest, whirh re- turned a verdict of murder and sui- cide. A large stock of fur and the sum of $104 were found in the shack. T E NEMS IN A PARAGRAPH EAPI'ENINGS FROM ALL OVER TIIE GLOBE IN A NUTSHELL. Canada, the Empire and the World in General" Before Tour Eyee. CANADA. e The wages of canal employees have been increased. Low ;water in the Cornwall canal ,has dosed down the cotton and paper mills. The Central; Railway' of Canada claims 1,300,000 acres- of land un- der an old grant. • Emile Lisotte was shot while try- ing to stop a fight in Montreal, and died in the hospital. - Forty thousand harvest laborers re taken into western Cauade . the C.P.R. and C.N.R. lira. McIntyre of Brantford was fatally burned When her clothes and bedding caught fire from a lamp. Montreal plice are alleged to leave ill-treated: Alphonse Lefarge, a, .man who died shortly after his 3'rest. Guelph Council will consider the question of cancelling the agree- ment with the People's .Railway after due notice. -- Sub Fire Chief Martin of Mont- real has been suspended from duty as a result of his difference with Chief Tremblay. GREAT BRITAIN. British coal miners are agitating Tor a minimum wage. The Canadian Artillery team now in Britain won an important con- test. Owing to the drought in India the King has sanctioned the cur- tailment of the Delhi durbar pro- gramme. of the Camorra, now on trial for murder at Viterbo, Italy, were condemned to three months' im- prisonment for insulting the presi-. dent of the court. Mlle Arria By, a leading femin- ist of Toulon, France, and an ac- complished revolver shot; is deter- mined to fight a duel with an edi- tor who criticized an article she had written in which she argued that women ought to, live and die unmarried. PRICES OF FARC PROI ICTS t.lil'QfTS PROM T111 LE:1,D6G TRADE CENTRES O' . AMERICA. ('rices of Cattle, (rain, Cheese and Other Produce at Donde' and Abroad. BItEA.DSTUFFS. Toronto, Sept. 5. -The Wheat Markets are steady, with some scarcity of Mani tobaa. Cables weaker for wheat and stronger for corn. Flour -Winter wheat, 90 per cent. pat- ents, at $3.45, Montreal freights Mani- toba flours -First patents, $5.30; seooiui patents, $4.80, and strong bakers', $4.63, on track, Toronto. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern quot- ed at $1.061.2, Bay ports; No. 2 at 41.08, and No. 3 at '$1.03. Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, red or; mixed,' new, quoted at 821-2 to 2312c,,; outside. Peas -85 to 86c, f.o.b. cars, outside. Oats -Ontario grades, new No, 2 at 38o,. outside, and of No. 3 at 36o, outside. No. 2 Western Canada, 43c, and No. 3 at 42 Bay ports. Barley -Prices nominal at 60 to 70e, out- side, according to test. No. 2 worth 70, to 75e, outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow quoted, at 67c, Bay ports, °and 71 1-2e, Torontq. Rye -Car Iota outside, 72c. Buckwheat -No. 2 at 64c, outside, Bran-•Manitobas at $22, in bags, Tc ronto, and shorts $25, in bags, Torcut Ontario bran, $22, in bags, Toronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. CONFESSES TO ARSON. Witnesses in Montreal Case Tells How He Fired Hotel. A despatch from Montreal says: Henry Carufel, in the witness -box on Friday, related to Judge Lanctot how at --the instigation of Ovilla Lambert, the lesee of the hotel,,. 4e had set fire to Peloquin's Hotel 'en May 26 last. As a result of his con- fe'ssion, Ovilla Lambert, who up to date had been out on bail for $6,- 000, 'eves sent to jail to await his trial; The cross-examination con- ducted by Mr. N. K. • Laflamme brought out the, fact that Carufel had perjured himself no less than seven times during the investiga- tion before Fire Commissioner Ritchie a fee days after the fire. a. FELL TIIROi'•GII TRESTLE. Laborer on, Construction Gang 'at Merritton Tilled. GENERAL. A mass meeting was held in Ber- lin to protest against intervention of Britain in Morocco. Anxiety prevails in France as to the outcome of negotiations with Germany, but war is regarded as highly improbable. Alfonso, ,the alleged head of the Demonists, and another member �UIiIV Di. N llthES OF JL S T- eir Quarter in Constantinople to be Purged by Fire - • A despatch from London says A special . despatch received here 'on Friday from Constantinople says that the prefect of police has notified the chief rabbi of the Gov- ernment's decision to burn down all the old. houses belonging to. Jews in the I3oukeny quarter, as the bailclins .are regarded to be hot - "r,; s of cholera. Thousands of dwel- 1e in the Ghettos will thereby be ri• 'lered homeless, and the leaders of , ie Jewish community are taking s.,xs to provide for them. The cholera epidemic is obtaining a Efirmer hold in Turkey. Partial re- turns made by the health authori� ties show that of August 31 there Were 70 cholera cases and 25 deaths from the disease in Constantinople. In addition to these total:, there was a heavy mortality in the Turkish garrison and at the Albanian camps on the outskirts of Beikus. At Usk - up, in the Vilayet of iCossova, there is an average '0!. 50 cases daily, while at Monastir, in Macedonia, the disease is equally virulent. t y r of the market was easier, with s�6 of selected lots at $7.50, and mixed reavy lots at $6.50 to $7.25 per cwt., need off cars. tf "i 11AItEAU- HALL IMPROVEMENTS TS to Interior Being Given a Thor. oun_•h Renovation. despatch from Ottawa says : :onsive Improvements are being lied forward at Rideau Hall dur- the absence of his Excellency 1 Grey at Toronto, in prepara- for the coming of the Duke of nn -aught. '.The interior is being 'letely renovated, and the ex - will also be improved. The -built--during the regime of ansdowne as Governor -Gen - ,s been torn down, and its taken by a garage of suffic,,-i i; to accommodatefour avto- The suggestion made dome ego that another addition he made to the front of the `Hall will not at present be n, and the facade will re - it is for` some time at least.. Beans -Small lots of hand-picked quo at $2.25 per bushel. Honey --Extracted, in tins; 10 to ib. Combe, $2 to $2.25, Baled hay No. 1 8 quoted $14, on track, and N9o.,'2 at Baled., straw -86 to $6.50, ronto. Potatoes -Car lots, in ba :.$1.26 to $1.40. Poultry -Chickens, 15 to 16o 11 to 12c, ducks, 14c; turi3' Live poultry about 2o low Above. A despatch from St. Catharines says : Carlo Sergnesso, an Italian laborer employed on a construc- tion gang on the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway, lost his life 'at Merritton trestle on Friday while unloading a carload of ballast. He slipped through a. compartment and sustained injur- ies to his .skull, death being almost instantaneous. STRIKE IN R[; SSI& SPREADS. Volunteer Fleet is Affeeted--lliany Steamers Tied tp. A despatch from Odessa says : The seamen's strike at Black Sea ports is extending to the volunteer fleet. Thirteen mail and passen- ger steamer's are now tied up. A railway strike is threatened and 10,000 factory hands have struck at Lodz. BEZuIIM PREPARES FOR BAR Fears German Invasion Would Follow Outbreak of E ostilities. :A despatch from London Says: Belgium is preparing for Contine. genies in the event of war between Prance and Germany. The Bel gians know by experience that the neutrality of their country would be very difficult to safeguard in reel) circumstances, and they fear that a German invasion would take place in a few hours after an, out- • break of hostilities. The Belgian elinister of War has given instruc- tions for all forts on the Meuse, especially around Liege, to be fur- nished with men and ammunition. BUTTER Butter =Dairy pr 16 to 1.7o. Creamed, per 'Ib. for roils, an Eggs p;ferin strictly near -laid quotGa' at 19 to 20e ner dozen,.. Cheese -The market here Large quoted at 14e per ib. at 14 1-2e. 'GAR ON UP GRADE. • at Canning Time Will ousiy Affect Consumer: telt from New York says: es here showed con- sday over the high fling in' the sugar was •ano'her ad- d during the day ng a hill cent weeks, and the any years. Com - of the canning nee is 6f vital in- ers all over the attributed primarily ar beet crop in En - wing prolonged drouth mer. To make matters he Cuban crop, which fur - ie bulk of raw material for an ' refiners, also proved prices began to soar. ATTACK FORT. RROG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 12e per lb., lots. Pork, short cut, $23; do., m to $21. Hams -Medium to light, 17 to- 18 heavy, 15 to 151.2c; ro11s,, 113-4 t breakfast bacon, 17 to 18c; backs,, to tOc. . Lard -Tierces, 10 1.2c; tubs, 103.4c Sic. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 5. -Oats -Can, Western, No. 2, 441.4 to 441.2e, e ex store; extra No. 1 feed, 43 3.4 to 44c 3 C W 4314 to c, 4312 Flour-ManitalXa FINE YACHT SURE. Belonged to W. L. Harkness, a Standard Oil Millionaire. A despatch from Fort William says: The ocean-going yacht Gu- nilda, owned by Wm. L. Harkness, the Standard Oil millionaire, went ashore in Lake Superior on Wed- nesday, and the 3 passengers were taken off in life -boats safely on Thursday. The crew stuck by the boat, but when the tug Whalen pulled the vessel off the rocky ledge she began to sink at once, and went down in a few minutes. The crew escaped in time to avoid being carried down with the ves- sel. The Guni.lda lies in 300 feet of water, and will never be recov- ered. Driven off in Crimea After a Sharif Fight. despatch from St. Petersburg Spring wheat patents, erste; $5.40; oe l P,s,yS: A report has reached here onde, $4.90; Winter wheat patents, 04.50 + z.p12] Keroh, j in the Crimea, that a to $4.75; strong bakers', $4.70; straight of pirates landed; and attack - rollers, $4 to $4.10; .in bags, $1.85 to Si. ',eanti The soldiers re- lbs., fortress. Rolled oats, pea barrel, $4.95; bag of 90 Flied to the shots of their assail - lbs., 82.35. Corn -American No. 3 yellow, .NORWAY'S ARMY MUTINOUS. Government is Called i'pon to Cheek Spread of Socialism. 70 1-4c. Millfeed-Bran, Ontario, :$22. to $23; Manitoba, $21 to $22; middlings, On- tario, $26 to .$26; aborts, Man., $24; mutt, illio, $26 to $31. Eggs, selected, 24 to 526e; No. 1 stock, 20 to 22c. Cheese -Westerns, 131.2 to 133.40; easterns, 131;4 to 131.8e. Butter, choicest, 26 to 26'1.4c; seconds, 251.2 to 25 3-48. ;CNITTD STATES 111AR3{ETS.. Plans for rapid mobilization are being studied, and the forts at Na- mur are being fitted with new can- non of the Hotchkiss type. The annual manoeuvres of the Belgian army will not take place this year. Disquieting rumors are afloat as to the prospects of war between France and Germany. Several Bel- gian journals affirm that Adolphe Messiny, the French Minister of War, has caused the attention of the Belgian Government to be di- rected to the weakness and neglect- ed condition of this country's de -- fences on the German frontier. Minneapolis, Sept. 6. - Wheat -Septem- ber, $1.003.8; December, 51.02 1-4 to $1.023-8; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.04 7.8; No. 1. North- ern, $1.02 to $1.04 3-8; No. 2 Northern, 97 3.0c to $1.02 3-8; No. 3 wheat, 93 3.8 to 99 Me. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 611.2e. Oats -No. 3 white, 413.8 to 42c. Rye -No. 2, 80 to 801.2c, Bran -$20.50 to $21. Flour -First patents, $4.90 to $5.20; second patents, $4.40 to $4.65; first clears, $3.25 to $3.45; second clears, 52.26 to $2.40. Buffalo, Sept. 5. -Spring wheat -No of- ferings; Winter, No. 2 red, 920; No. .3 red, 90c; No. 2 white, 90e. Corn -May, No. 3 yellow, 69c; No. 4 yellow, 671.4c; No. 3 corn, 67e, all on track, through billed. Oats -No. 2 white, 44 3-4e; No. 3 white, 44c; . No. 4 white, 43c. Barley Malting, $1,19 to 51.241. LIVE STOCK MARKETS, Montreal, Sept. 5 -Choice steers sold at 61.4e, good at 61-4 to 6e, fairly good at 51.4 to 5 1-2a, fair at 43.4 to Se, and cern,. mon at 41.4 to 41.2e per Pound. Cdws brought from 4 to 51.2c, and bulls from 3 to 41-2c per pound. Lambe sold at 60, and sheep at 33.4 to'4c per pound. Calves were scarce. The supply of hogs was ample ter 1111 all regtuiremente, and the encs with a heavy rifle fire, wound- mrig many; Fifteen pirates were eeptured, while most of the others tuaede off in boats. FOOTPRINTS. II prints Are Fount! in the Are:lent • ' IBabylOietut Bricks, The "sands of time" may shift. and destroy the .chance impression, but the sun -baked clay holds its re- cord for future generations to in- terpret. The present restoration of the Venetian. (:anlpanile has brought to light some curious dis- coveries. One of the bricks used in its original construction bears the imprint of a horseshoe.. Some ancient steer •evidently stamped upon the bit of .clay before it hard-' erred, It has long been believed • that the horse of that period wore shoes which were strapped reran its feet. This impression proves, on the other hand, that shoeing with nails was not unknown in 'those days. The story of prints inadvert- ently made upon soft brick is an in- teresting one. Mr. Francis T. Buckland gives some examples of such impressions in his "Curiosi- ties of Natural History." Some clear and unmistakable im- prints are found in the ancient Babylonian bricks. A vagabond dog, strolling by the siill soft clay, put his foot on the brick and left a distinct mark which obliterated in part the etters of the royal inscrip- tion. The dog has been dead for thousands of years; the king with whose title the brick was stamped is only a name in history, yet the little recident is as clear to -day as when it happened. Some old Egyptoan bricks bear the marks of eats' feet. and one re- tains the tiny prints of the little jerboa. Sheep's hoof -marks have been found on old Roman bricks. One villa tells the story of a rain- storm while its building material was in the process pf making. The bricks are covered with little round pits made by the falling drops, and the earthworms, enticed by the wet, have crawled over the soft surface. One Roman brick bears the print of a boy's fingers. Did the urchin get a egolding for meddling'" A brick is not the only substance which relates its former iinpres- sions. An. elephant; a resident of an English zoo, stepped on the fresh pool. Tire large foot -print thus left which a wandering chick fell and was drowned. Mr. Buckland tells of some my- sterious footprints which he'diseov- ered, which caused him a. good deal of puzzling thought. He noticed, time and again, in a quiet London street, strange marks in the mud or snow, which apparently were made by the thick -•soled boots with iron- shod heels. •But the prints were separated, each toe being two feat from the corresponding heel, and the well-defined toe pointed back- ward. Again and again Mr. Buck- land tried to explain the trail. At last, after a heavy shower one day, he tracked the prints to their source. Ho f.ntind the marks were made by a cripple who could not walk up- right. To save his knees he had cut 'hobnailed boots in two, strapped the heels to his knees, and put the toes on his feet. He crawled on his knees and toes, and so thee heels were in front of the toes. OWE LIVES TO THE DOG. Family's Narrow Escape From Burning House -Dog Perished. A despatch from Christiania says : The Norwegian press is call- ing upon the Government to adopt stern measures to prevent the spread of Socialism in the army. The Young Socialist party has se- cured enormous influence over the soldiers, and mutinous ,scenes aro constantly occurring .,a the drill grounds. Two serious •affairs of this kind happened at .Stenkjaer incl Gai:derroen, soldiers storml.ig .the" Dolle and liberating ecmra?dus Whom they considered to have been unjustly imprisoned. THREE ENGINEERS DROl7 NEiD Were Employed on Canadian Northern Construction State. A despatch from Port .Arthur says : An upturned canoe found on Lake Helen, above Lake leipigon, following their non -arrival at Nipi- gon Station as expected, indicates the drowning of Division Engineer R.,H. McCoy and Resident l'eagi,.i- eers C.' H. Nelson and Drum, of C.N.R. construction staff. The most. left camp at Exander Sunday ev- ening for Nipigon, telephoning to Nipigon that they were departing. Their route lay across Lake Helen, between their camp and Nipigon River, and when they did not ar- rive search was made, resulting in the finding on Tuesday on the shores of Lake Helen of the up- turned canoe and floating paddles. McCoy was 48, married, and came from the Western States. Drum and Nelson also are Americans, and their residences unknown. FREN1JII OPEN MAF PT`s If the Storekeeper Charges Too Much They Wreck His Shop, A despatch from Paris says: Tho . agitation against the high prices 'of provisions continues, and disorders of considerable. pr.)por- tions were reported en Wednesday frond twelve places in Northern Trance. The usual procedure is for a crowd of women of the !ower class to assemble and do their mar- keting together, carrying large pla- cards, upon which are written the prices which the women are willing to pay. If the shopkeeper assents to sell his goods at the price offer- ed, the .women buy; but if he re- fuses, -fuses, they pitch all, of his stock into the street, The man next door generally yields, though the crowd in its excitement may sack the place out of spite without enquir- ing whether the dealer is willing to reduce the price of leis goods. The police ordinarily are inadequate to keep peace with the movement, and tragi -comic incidents are deported from some localities where the store -keepers have attemnted to defend their stock. A butcher named Froissart, at Henin-Lietard, in Pas -de -Calais, was patrolling the sidewalk in front of his shop on horseback, when his Place was stormed by a crowd of 300 women, who demanded that he lower his prices. Froissart charg- ed into the mob, yelling find waving a;stick, with which he knocked over several of the manifestants before he was pulled from his horse. Fifteen hundred weavers from, Isle, a suburb of this city, marched into Saint Quentin on Wednesday and sacked 80 stores where eatables were on sale. The police finally dis- persed the rioters, • A despatch from Ottawa says: The lives of six people were saved by a dog in a fire early on Wednes- day morning, which destroyed the residence of Alex. McDougall, near the Ottawa Golf Club. The bark- ing of the animal awakened the family just in time to get out of the building. in safety, though almost suffocated by smoke. The faithftil dog, however, lost its life, no trace of it having been found, after the fire. The residence was one of the finest country homes around the capital. The loss is about $25,000 - se -- WILL . --WILL COST A MILLION. 'fenders Received for Transeoittin-' • ectal Terminus at Quebec. A despatch from Ottawa says: More than half a dozen tenders were received Friday by the Na- tional Transcontinental Railway Commissioners for the consti;lietion ' of the Grand Trunk Pacific termin- us at Quebec, which will cost about a million dollars. The contract will not be let for a week or ten days, however, as the merits of the various bids haye to be looked into. Several contractors, who have sub- mitted tenders, are in the city' • to -day. ALL OVER HIM. • "You, there, in the overalls," ` shouted the cross-examining law- yer, "how much are you paid ..for belling untruths 4" "Less than you are," retorted the man, "or you'd be in overalls., told."