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TERRIBLE EXP ISM WRECKS MAK. •
MOTH ELEVATOR AT PORT COLBORNE
Ten Dead, Sixteen Hurt, in Upheaval .Wiping Out Big Govern-
ment Grain Building With Two Million Dollar Loss.
Port Colborne, Aug. 10.• -At ten
eninutes-efter one o'clock on Saturday
afternoon a rerific explosion at the
mammoth Government elevator here
killed .tenmen, five of whom were
members - of the crew of the barge
Quebec, loading grain at the elevator,
severely injured nearly a score, com-
pletely wrecked the building, and
caused a property loss of over one
million dollars, Fire followed the ex-
plosion, and the flames are described
by survivors as more like the flash of
electricity than an ordinary fire. The
immenze building of concrete and steel
shook as if it were some toy in the
hand of a giant, the concrete roof was
threwn off, and the concrete floors
below were shattered. Two storeys
were blown from the lower section
of the building, which was 15Ce feet
high, and the higher secteon, while market. The monetary loss is well
One slab of concrete, 30 feet square,
was found 150 feet away.
The dead are: Joseph Latour, mate
of the barge Quebec, married, Cote St.
Paul, Quo,; Charles Aston, elevator
weighmaster, Port Colborne, married;
William Cook, assistant weighmaster,
Port Colborne, married; J. P. Hanham,
chief spouter, Port Colborne, married;ID. E. W. Mychener, assistant spouter,
Port Colborne, married; Alfred Leslie,
laborer, Port Colborne, married; Al-
bert Beck, assistant shipper, Port Col-
borne, married; Albert Dunlap, mar-
ine towerman, Port Colborne, single,
returned soldier; Clarence Hart, steve-
dore, Port Colborne, single.
Besides the terrible death fell, the
explosion is serious, in that it will
paralyze the removal of the Western
crop to the seaboard and the world's
it is partly intact, is like a rubbish over $2,000,000. The elevator will
handle no grain for a year, and- the
big grain steamer Quebec, which was
loading at the tine' is almost a com-
plete wreck. Muchof the grain can
be salvaged.
heap, with dangling girders and gap-
ing ends.
The whole' countryside was aroused
by the tremors of the explosion and
the air was filled with flying debris.
I V /A Tawr vim!
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Breitilstuffs.
es Toronto, Aug. 12. --Man. wheat -
No. 1 Northern, $2.243.•, No. 2 North-
ern, $2.21,%; Ne. 3 Northern, $2.17%;
No. 4 wheat, $2,11, in store Fort Wil-
liam.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 87%c;
No. 3 CW, 84%e; extra No. 1 feed,
853sc; No. 1 feed, 83%e; No. 2 feed,
80%c, in store Fort William.
Man. barley -No. 3 CW, $1.38%; 48c; do., henvy. ed t. 42c; eoeked, 33
No. 4 CW, $1.33%; rejected, $1.27%; to 65c; rolls, 35 to 31:c; brealefast
feed, $1.27%. bacon, 49 to 55e; backs, plain, 5C to
American corn -No. 3 yelow, nom- 51c; boneless, 56 to 58c; clear bellies,
mal; No. 4 yellow, nominal. 33 to 35c.
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 84 to Cured meats- long clear bacen, 32
87c, according to freights outside. to 33c; clear bellirs, 31 to 3dc.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per Lard -Pun tierces, nt. to 36%.cs
c.er lot, nominal; No. 2, do., $2.03 to tubs, 371, to 38c; pails, 87% to 6814c;
$2.08; No. 3, do, nominal, f.o.b. ship- prints, 38% to 39e. Compound tierces
ping points, .ccording to freights. 317c to 32c; tubs, 32 to 32%c; pails,
Ontario wheat -No. 1, 2 and 3 321h to 32%c; prints, 33 to 38%e.
Montreal, Aug. 12. -Oats, extra No.
1 feed, 97%c. Flour -new standard
grade, $11 to $11.10. Rolled oats,
bags, 90 lbs, $5.25. Bran, $42. Shorts,
$44. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots,
$5; primes $3.50 to $4; Imported hand-
picked Burnie or Indian, $3.50; Limas,
15c.
Honey -Extracted clover, 5 -lb. tins,
24 to 25c; 10 -ib. tins, 234 to 24c;
60 -lb. tins, 23 to 24c; buckwheat, 60 -Ib.
tins,18 to 19c. Comb -1 -16 -oz., $4.50
to $5 doz; 10 -oz,, $3.50 to $4 doz,
Maple stroducts--Syrup, per imper-
ial gallon, $2.45 to $2.50; per 5 imper-
ial gallons:, i2.&5 to $2 40; sugar, lb.,
27c.
Provon isi'3 •-"W holesale.
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 4t to
an
Spring, nomal.
Barley -Malting, $1.29 to $1.33, ac-
sording to freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal.
Rye -Nominal.
Manitoba flour -Government stand- $28. Cheese, finest easterns 25e.
erd, $11, Toronto. Butter, choicest creamery, 52% 'to 53c.
Ontario flour -Government stand- Eggs, fresh, 62 to 64c; selected, 58e;
ard,, $10.25 to $10.50, in bags, Mon- No. 1 stock, 52c; No. 2 stock, 45c. shipment;Po-
, $
treal, prompt do, $10.25 to tatoes, per bagcar lots, 2.25 to
10.50, in jute bags, Toronto, prompt $2.75. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed,
shipment.
$83 to $33.50. Lard, pure, woodpails,
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mon-
20 lbs. net, 38%c.
Live Stock Markets.
treal freights, bags included, bran,
Toronto, Aug. 12. -Choice heavy
per ton, $42 to $45; shorts, per ton, steers, $14 to $14.75; good heavy
344 to $50; good feed flour, per bag, steers, $13 to $13.50 butchers' cattle,
$3.25 to 63.35. choice, $12.75 to $13.25; do, good,
Hay -No. 1, per ton $22 to $24; mese to $12; do, med,, $11.25 to
mixed, per ton, $10 to tori,
To- $11.50; do, corn., $7 to $8; bulls, choice,
route. I $10 to $11; do, med., $10.25 to $10.75;
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $10 to $11, do, rough, $8 to $8.25; butchers' cows,
;rack, Toronto. choice, $10 to $10.50; do, good, $9.25
Country Produce -Wholesale. to $9.75; do, med., $8.50 to $9; do,
Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to Com., $7 to $8; stockers, $8.75 to
Be; prints, 38 to 40c- creamery, fresh $11.75; feeders, $11.50 to $12; canners
made solids, 60 to 561/2c; prints, 50ee, and cutters, $4.50 to $6.25; milkers,
to 51c. good to choice, $110 to $140; do, corn.
Eggs -44 to 45c. and med., $65 to $75; springers, $90
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens, to $150; light ewes, $8 to $10; year -
5c; roosters,
25c; fowl, 30 to 32c; lings,$10.50 to $13; spring lambs, per
ducklings, 32c; turkeys, 35 to 40c; cwt.,$17 to $20; calves, good to choice,
squabs, doz., $G. $17.50 to $20.50; hogs, fed and water -
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 36c; ed, $24.75; do, weighed off cars, $25;
roosters, 22c; fowl, 26 to 30c; duck- do, f.o.b., $28.75,
flings, 300; turkeys, 30c. Montreal, Aug. 12. -Hogs, $24 to
Wholesalers are selling to the retail $24.50 per 100 lbs., weighed off cars;
trade at the following prices: lambs, 16c per lb. Butches' tattle,
Cheese -New, large,
28 to 29c;
$9.50 to $11.50; canners, $6 to $9, per
twins, 28% to 29tee; triplets, 29 to 100 lbs,
60c; Stilton, 29 to 30c.
Butter -Fresh dairy. choice, 46 to
48c; creamery prints, 55 to 56c.
Margarine -36 to 38e.
Eggs -No. l's, 53 to 54e; seleets,
56 to 58c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
50c; roosters, 28 to 80c,• fowl, 37 to
138c; turkeys, 40 to 45c; ducklings, lb.,
R5 to 40c; squabs, doz., $7; geese, 28
to 30c.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 45c;
fowl, 30 to 35c.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bus.,
SOLDIERS' WIVES
COMING TO CANADA
•
A despatch from London says: -
British wives of Canadian soldiers
now going out to settle in the Domin-
ion now number thirty thousand. The
movement initiated by the Khaki Col-
lege to give special training to these
for Canadian life, has been remark-
ably successful.
SCENIC AT MONTREAL
_DESTROY D BY FRE WITH LOSS OF LIFE
Number of Victims May Reach Twenty -Wooden Structure at
Dominion Park Takes Fire While Horrified Spectators
Powerless to Help.
•
Montreal, Aug. 10. -Charred be-
yond the possibility of recognition, the
bpdies of three men, three women and
a boy were recovered to -night from
the ruins sefe the Mystie Rill and part
Of the Scenic Railway, which were
destroyed by fire at Dominion Park,
an amusement resort near this city.
It is thought that several more bodies
will be recovered to -morrow; when
the wreck is seerched. The exact
wise of the fire is unknown, but it is
thought it may he been started by
a cigarette or a match. The flames
spread quielsly and were fanned by a
westerly wind, which blew toward the
river front, and it is to this that is
due the salvation of the entire park.
When the firemen arrived the
Mystic Rill was enveloped in flames,
They heard shouts far help and moans
of agony, but it was impossible to aid
the vietims. They broke clown the
walls, and in this way got a few per-
sons out. When the Scenic Railway
fell with a crash into the roaring fur-
nace) it is ,stated that there was a car-
load of people on it at the time.
The death -list of the Dominion
Park fire, may be increased to possibly
fifteen or twenty.
P.1,411.00.
THE REAL PILLAR OF SOCIETY.
It's a good rule that works BOTH ways. When the farmer supports the home • merchant and the home
merchant supports the farmer, you have the real pillar of society. The farmer would have a poor farm if he did
not have a good home market. And the merchant can't build up the home market alone. He must have the sup-
port of the farmer. Likewise, the merchant has poor business when the SERVICE he gives is not the best pos-
sible. The trade must be even. The services must be mutual. So, the picture you are looking at NOW should
be true from both ends. If it doesn't quite suit you this way, turn the paper around. NOW you have seen the
REAL PILLAR OP SOCIETY. The ferref Molding the merchant and.the.,merchant upholding the farmer.
A "STRIA REPLIES
TO PEACE TREATY
Prepared to Sign But Thinks
Conditions Should Be
Modified.
A despatch from Paris says: -
The Austrian counter -proposals to the
peace terms have been handed to the
Allied Mission at St. Germain-en-
Laye. The counter -proposals were
broughteat once to Paris and delivered
to the Supreme Council of the Peace
Conference.
The Austrian observations on th
treaty were considered in Peace Con
ference circles to be very temporat
in tone,
The Austrian reply said the dole
gation realized Austria's position wa
that of a defeated power, but corn
plained that its territory had been
limited in too sweeping a manner.
Particular objection was offered to
the loss of Southern Bohemia and the
Tyrol district.
The Austrians state they also be-
lieve they have been greatly ov.er-
charged, as two-thirds of the debt oft
the Austro-Hungarian State is being
loaded upon them. They say that pro-
portion is too heavy, oonsidering their
small population, and they are not
sure they can live under such condi-
tions.
A special appeal was made by the
Austrians for an oral discussion of
the treaty. They said they believed
such a discussion would result in a
more complete understanding of the
conditions imposed.
Although 'the Austnians indicated
very clearly their intention of sign -
in, even if the treaty is not modi-
fied, yet they expressed the hope
that some modification may be effect-
ed.
BRITISH MOTOR CREW
SINKS "RED" CRUISER
ORDER OF MERIT
FOR LLOYD GEORGE
His Majesty the King Acknow-
ledges Services of Prime
Minister.
A . despatch from London says: -
King George has conferred upon Pre-
mier David Lloyd George the Order
of Merit as a sign.bT his appreciation
of Mr. Lloyd George's war services. In
a letter to the Premier, dated Buck-
ingham Palace, Aug. 5, announcing
the award, the King says:
GERMAN FOKKERS
RULEDARE OUT
Barred From Taking Part in Fly-
ing Contest Between New
York and Toronto.
A despatch from New York says:-
Three German Fokker type airplanes,
which were to have been piloted by
Canadian and American army officers
in the international flying contest be-
tween New York and Toronto on Aug.
25, have been ruled out, it was an -
My Dear Prime Minister, -Honors nounced by the American Flying Club,
e and rewards to officers of the army, The 'planes, which are trophies of
- navy and air force having been sub- war surrendered to the British and
e mitted to Parliament, I feel that my American armies, wee originally
people will share with me regret that
.. it is not possible to express the na- entered, according to a statement by
s the Flying Club, to demonstrate the
tion's grateful recognition of the per-
_ sistent services rendered by the Prime superiority of allied models over the
Minister, both in carrying the- war to best type of German machine, but
a victorious end, and in securing an when a vigorous protest was entered
improved, but the tramway strike con -
honorable peace. To rectifysonic-
by Captain Bose,
of the French High
tinues and there is a great scarcity
what this omission, and personally to Commission, against what he termed
of bread.
mark my high appreciation of these the "Advertisement of German -made
services, it gives` inc great pleasure It was announced in the House of
the Order of Merit. goods," the club immediately cancel- Commons that for the week ending
to confer upon you
"Believe me, your ver s sincerely, led the entries. July 26 the coal output was nearly
low*
Libau, Lettland, Aug. 10. -It is now
revealed that a British motorboat
crew of our men only torpedoed the
Bolshevik cruiser Clog, of 6,770 tons,
in the Gulf of Finland.
• One whole building will be devoted
to Canadian war trophies at the Can-
adian National Exhibition, 'while the
big guns, aeroplanes and other large
relies will be distributed around the
grounds, giving the Big Fair a truly
victory atmosphere.
SOLDIER .CENOTAPH
MADE PERMANENT
Monument in Whitehall to be
Removed to Parliament
Square. •
London, Aug. 10.-A large number
of British people strongly resent the
decision of the Goyernrnent not to
allow them to construct private
memorials over the graves of rela-
tives killed on the battlefields of.
France, at the Dardanelles and. other
places, and to keep all memorials uni-
form. They say they should be allow-
ed to honor their dead as they wish
them to be honored, and all the sturdy
independence of .mind of the Britishers
is aroused. The question affects very
home throughout the country.
The question of the p.ermaensy of
the cenotaph to "the glorious dead"
now standing in Whitehall also is be-
ing raised. Every day sees the rich
and poor, old and young, bringing
wreaths to place ea the cenotaph situ-
ated in the middle of the busy street
procession of traffic. It is real demo-
cracy; there is no soolal, no other dis-
tinctions among . those gathered
around the simple mo-nument to pay
their tribute to relatives lest in the
war.
Many tears have been Flied, and
the spot has become sacred to the
men who died. Now it is proposed
to renueve the monument to Parlia-
ment Square in front of Westminster
Abbey and to make it marble. But it
is /minted out that Marble is unsuit-
able in Great Britain. In eighty years
marble monuments fall to pieces, the.
inscriptions became unreadable, and
one marble statue lose one per cent.
of its weight in a year in Manchester.
Portland stone is recommended, as
the "King Charles the First," plinth
made of this material, resisted the
weather two hundred and fifty years.
There is now to be a keeper, prefer-
ably a soldier's widow, for the ceno-
taphs to keep the flowers and wreaths
in order.
BRITAIN LEADS IN
BUILDING OF SHIPS
A - despatch from London says: -
Great Britain maintains the lead in
:the world's shipping, although the
margin of superiority has been vastly
reduced by the United States ship-
building- output and the losses due to
the war.
In the new edition of Lloyd's Reg-
ister, which is the first issued free
of censorship since the beginning of
the war, the rate between this coun-
try and the United States is clearly
shown. It demonstrates that in spite
of competition from the American
side, Great Britain's advantage, in
bigger ships particularly, is high, al-
though the tables are incomplete, in
so far as they do not take into ac-
count the distribution among the al-
lies of 1,768 German beats whieh at
the date of the armistice had not been
captured or requisitioned.
BRITISH LABOR
SITUATION UNCHANGED
- -
A despatch from London seys:-
There is virtually no change in the
labor situation, The strikes of bakers
and Yorkshire miners are still unset-
tled, but the railway position in Lon-
don is resuming its normal condition,
The situation at Liverpool is greatly
"GEAGE R.I." It is understood that Captain Bose fifty per cent. under the previous
. -e_... has cabled the French Government average. Other interesting announce-
AFGHIN AMIR for permission to enter three French ments in Parliament were that the
LOSES SUBSIDY machines in place of the Fakkers. Government was preparing a bill fer
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future regulation of the liquor trade
Simlae India, Aug. 10. -The Amir
H.R.H. the ----. ______Prince exceptional
e. -of Wales will re- cases, and also that, in a few Germans were being admitted
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view the Boy Scouts while in Toronto. to England to trade under close
An invitation will be issued by the- scrutinse.
of Afghanistan, under the peace tree-
tw signed with Great Britain last
week, not only loses his annual sub-
sidy of .$600,000, bet more than $5,- Canadian National Exhibition to the
MANITOBA WILL HARVEST
000,000 in subsidy which it appears he various Boy Scout councils through -
45,000,000 BUSHELS WHEAT
had on deposit with the Government out the province, and it is expected
of India. Confiscation of these ar- that the gathering will he quite the
s
rears is a hard blow for "Reed- largest scout gatA despatch from Winnipeg ays:-.hering ever held in
bullah.Toronto. Manitoba will harvest approximately
...=••••1•M•144.411.01.0.0.10•Wwn,m 45,000,000 bushels of wheat this year,
according to an estimate given out by
Wireleler‘r, PreyincOl ;ell** of.
Tield I be fifi-A, x§ o pr -
The wheat acrage of the prose.
ince is said to be nearly 3,000,000
acres. "19
F,stimating the price of wheat at
$2.25 per bushel, Manitoba's wheat
crop thus will be worth $101,250,000,
es compared with $112,710,000 last
year, when the yield was -51,000,000.
bushels and the price $2.21, per buehel.
Red rust is reported in a number
The victory spirit will dominate the
Canadian National Exhibition this
year, and the Dominion war trophies,
the Canadian War Memorials •paint-
ings, Grenadier Guards 13and, and
German U-boat will furnish a real
khaki background for the event,
The New Leader of thq Libeial Party
William Lyon Mackenzie King, into
whose hands has been entrusted the
mantle of leadership laid aside by Sir
Wilfrid Littnrlef.„ i! a direct descend-
ant upon the'iriaternai side of William
Lyon Mackenzie, a fact that has been
a potent influence in winning him rec-
.
ognition and preferment in tho Liberal
party. He was Canada's first Minister
of Labor, but back of his appointment
were years of definite preparation for
just such a post. He began his train-
ing in the University' of Toronto,
where he won the •Blake Scholarship
in Arts and Law in 1808. Later, he
took a ursine in political economy at
Chicago in 189627, and at Harvard
from 1897 to 1000, His deep interest
in labor questions led to his appoint-
ment in 1900 as Deputy -Minister of
Labor, and during the eight years he
served in that capacity he acted as
conciliator in two score of important
industrial strikes, He was called into
the Cabinet of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in
1909, and for two years acted as Min--
ister of Labor. In the reciprocity
election of 1911 he went down to de -
feet with many of his colleagues, and
retired from public lifo for the thne.
Some years ago he accepted service
with the Rockefeller Foundation In
connection with 'social investirsations,
The new leader is 44 years old,
of Scotch ancestry and Presbyterian
foup'ytt.,