Zurich Herald, 1917-12-14, Page 211,
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The Disaster is the 'Mst Awful Catastrophe
Mich Has Befallen My City
in the Wond.
Harrowing Details of the Explosion Which Wrecked the Northern
Section of the City and Caused Death and Injury of Thou-
sands—Collision in the Harbor Between. French Munitions
Ship Mm Blanc and Belgian Relief Steamer, The Imo.
Id the roadway were the mangled re-
e- mains ef his little two-year-old child,
e who hnd met death while playing on
the. roadside.
Many of those composing the crews
xs of ships in the harbor were killed and
' injured, The damage alone the water]
front is very serious.
The munition ship, after the crew
left her, veered in towards the Hali-
fax side of the harbor, and the eity
received the full force of the explo-
e
sion
Many hundreds of people are dei
and thousands Are injured and hom
lege because o a frightful explosio
and the fire which followed it
Thursday of last week. All the e
teeme north end of the eity is devast-
ated. The city is cut off from tele-
graphic communication with the
world.
The .dieaster was caused primarily
by the Belgian relief steamer, th
. ' .
Tine. going out and a French munition
steamer, the Mount Blanc, entering
the harbor coming into collision. Then
the munition ship took fire and • the
crew left her. They landed on the
Dartmouth shore, and soon after the
ship blew up, with 5,000 tons of high
explosives. The Belgian ship was
beached on the shore of the hal.
bor opposite Halifax. Fragments o
the ship and her ammunition wer
scattered all over the northern part o
the city, and the violence of the ex
plosion wrecked all the buildings i
that part of the city.
f
f
n
"The most awful . catastrophe which
has befallen .
y ,n thee .
Such is the opinion of all officers an
Men who have returned from the fron
who have been in the thick of th
fighting since Canadians went into ac
tion, And they are right. The me
from the trenches, the men behind th
trenehes or in the rear, and the ma
who has been through the times o
A part of the town of Dartmouth is
also in ruins.
Nearly all the buildings in the dock-
yard are in reins.
Practically all the north end of the
city has been laid waste.
The destruction extends from North
street railwav station as far mirth
SI
CONFUSION OVER
WHISTLES 13IAMED
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Pilot Frank Frank Mackie, who was
on the munition ship, declares
that the accident was due to a
confusion of whistles, sounded by
the Belgian Relief steamer.
in addition to her cargo of muni-
tions, the Mont Blanc carried a
deokload of benzine, and this
caught fire, following the explo-
sion.
The Captain of the Mont Blanc
ordered his crew to take to the
boats. The men hastily left the
ship in two boats and rowed for
the Halifax side of the harbor,
which they reached in safety.
The men ran for refuge, as they
felt that an explosion was inevit-
able. Twenty minutes later the
explosion occurred, and the men
were hurled flat on the ground.
some battered beyond recognition, and
other
• ),
r BRITISH AND FRENCH MOPS
Enemy Driye
REACJ FRONT ITALIAN LINES
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„ Markets of the Workifl PEER
FO
Areadstuffs.
, .
No. 1 Northern, $2.231; No. 2 do„ $2.2017
Toronto, Dec, 11 -Manitoba Is
. • •'1,
No, 3 do. $2 171: Nti 4 vitae 32 01,
in Asiago Sector is Checked-Itallans Can, Now Wu re r ,', s2:
o. t eon tam, includlog2/e'lit.tx, in
Manitoba us -No. 2 0.11V.. 831e; No
Hold Passes. a C. W. Sffie: No. 1 extra feed, 80'e: No," IV
1 feed, 76% la store Fort Williani. 11'
Italian Headquarters in Northern suspended, with the enemy checked, if
Italy, Dec. 9. --British and Freneh not defeated, in his main design, of
troops have taken up their position$ breaking through to the Brenta Valley
in the front Italian lines on this and the plain a few miles below, al' -
front,
front, It will be cheering news to though he succeeded in advancing his
the allied world that allied reinforce- lines a short distance when the Rale
ments have now definitely taken their ians fell back 'Le new positioes,
place on the actual Italian front and These positions, guarding the F'ren-
are to -day occupying trenches in the zela and Gadena passes, have sue -
battered positions held by the Italian cessfully resisted all enemy efforts,
troops, now relieved for a needed re- and the Italians on the steep heights
spite. on each side of the passes rain down
The British position is around the artillery and rifle -fire and release
heights of Montello, on the upper huge boulders every time the enemy
Piave, where the batteries on the forces try to get through.
heights are already in action, and rifle This has continued until the ital-
fire answers the steady sniping from ians seem reasonably assured of
across the river. The French position holding the passes and compelling. the
is in an equally impoetant sector. enemy to look for another line of ap-
The Battle of Asiago is virtually ;preach.
CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA.
London, Dec. 9.-A proclamation to
the Russian nation has been issued by
the Russian Government announcing
that "Kaledines and Korniloff, as-
sisted by the Imperialists and Consti-
tutional Democrats, have raised 'a re!
g _ as agon volt and declared war the Don re-
1 Halifax, Dec. 9. -To -day, after an -
'other terrible night, when the wind
blew a hurricane and the rain fell in
torrents, upo; conditions becoming
normal again, the relief work and the
search for the dead was .•continued.
M,
Y more bodies . save soeen found
and . the number at the various
.morgues is 1,050.
As yet no defititeeatatement can
be made about the total number of
dead, though four thousand is given
as the figure that may ultimately be
reached.
Acting on orders the poll e began
the arrest to -day of all German citi-
zens of Halifax, whetherAi or we -
men. At six o'clock sev' nien and
one 'womafl. had been locked up, and
the police are after the others, who
will be jailed as fast as they can be
found.
as Africville, to Bedford Basin:and
covers about two square mules.
The buildings which were not de-
stroyed by the explosion were laid
waste by the fire that followed.
Thousands Homeless
Thousands of persons are rendered
homeless. The Academy of Mfisic and
many ether public buildings have been
thrown open to house the homeless.
Five hundred tents have been erect -
e ed on the Common, and these will be
occupied by the troops, who have
n given up their barracks to house the
homeless women and children.
Temporary hospitals and morgues
distrees in London and the southeas
coast when Zeppelins and enemy air
planes bombed the Capital of the
Empire and the coastal towns, they
all know that they never met with
such dire casualties as befell the city
of Halifax on Thursday of last week.
.At nine o'clock on Thursday of last
week the city was enjoying its usual
period of calm and the streets were
crowded with people wending their
way to work, little thinking of that
which in a few minutes was to befall
them.
Suddenly, like a bolt from the blue,
there carne an explosion. From one
end of the city to the other glass fell,
and people were lifted from the side-
walks and thrown flat into the streets.
In the down -town offices, just begin-
ning to hum with the usual day's ac-
tivities, clerks and heeds alike cower-
edunder the shower of falling glass
and plaster which fell about them
The collision was a terrific one, the
munition boat being pierced on the
poet side almost to the engine -
room. The relief veseel, which was
prtietically uninjured, kept going
ahead with the wounded craft, and
Whee the fire wae seen to break
aboned her, backed away, and the
crew etarted to abandon her.
The Mont Blanc drifted away, a
burning wreck, while the relief boat
beached neat. Tuft's Cove on the Dart-
mouth side of the harbor. Seventeen
minutes after the collision the explo-
t
tfle (nee 1115
explosion houses crumpled like decks
of cards, while the unfortunate resi-
dents wore swept to death_ in the de-
bris.
The main damage was done in the
north end of the city, known as Rich -
Mond, which was opposite the point
of the vesesels' vollision. Here the
'damage was so extensive as to be to-
tally beyond the field of description,
eatreet after street is in ruins and
flamee swept twee the district.
Five minutee after the explosion
puttered the streets were filled with
4 tesror-stricken mob of people, all
trying to make their way as best
they might to the outskirts in order
to get out ef the range of whet they
thought to be a Gseman raid
V,himen ruehed in terror-stricken
Mobs through the etreete, many of
them with eh i a re n el a eped to their
breaste. In their eyes Wa 1, a look of
terror as 1 l'uiy milt' gird i mobs
through the I;treeis with blood -stain- -
Ssd facee and endeavored to gt•.1 any -
*here from the failing masoery and
crumbling walls.
Among the hundreds who were kill-
ied hy the explosion was nee particula
?arty ead case of a .Canadian Govern- 0
employee named , MacDonald, b
who, on slashing to his home after the d
oxplosion, found that all his family f
0,oneisting of his wife and four ail-
Aren, had perished. Before Lira on t
as. been opene e 55 11001 houses
in the western section of the city. The
doctors and nurses worked heroically
in rendering aid to the injured,
Later,Details
Order is beginning to be restored.
The fire department reports all fires
under control, and the emergency
committee has matters well in -hand.
A howling blizzard set in Friday
afternoon and impeded the rescue
work, butethe homeless are being tem -
All the survivors of the Norwegian
steamer Imo, which collide'd with the
French munition ship 11t Blanc
were made prisoners by Ms British
naval authoritiea to -day.,,
Lamedoc, of th t **Won ,1111 Mopt
Blanc; and Pilot' McKay, who was
bringing the vessel in when it was
rammed by the relief .ship Imo, are
also to be placed under arrest. The
pilot on the Belgian boat is dead.
porarily sheltered and made es coin- --Aid for the stricken city of Halifax A despatch from London says: The
Portable as possible pending the ar- 'When the official Government in- was started forward on Thursday British have slightly advanced their
rival of supplies, doctors and nurses,' vestigation of the munitions ship ex a night by the American Red Cross. On line southwest of La Vac eerie on th
gion against "the people and the re -
volution." •
The proclamation adds that "the
Constitutional Democrats and bour-
geoisie are supplying the revolting
generals with scores of millions."
"The Workmen's and Soldiers' dele-
gates have ordered the necessary
movements of troops against the
counter-revolution and issued decrees
authorizing the local revolutionary
garrisons to attack the -enemies of the
people without awaiting orders from
the supreme authorities and forbid-
ding any attempts at mediation."
CEREAL FOOD FOOD IN PACKAGES.
fire to the Kifri coal mines, as fires
were observed. burning there Thurs-
day.
"The total captures between Mon-
day and. Wednesday were 227 psis-
= oners, including the commander of
the 156th Regiment and six other
tofficers, two field guns and one ma-
ehme-gun."
HMC ADJUSTS
Americad'corn-No. 3 yellow, nominal.
Ontario oats -No. 0 white, 75 to 70o,
nominal; No, 2, do., 74 to 75c, nominal,
tteeording toareiglits outside
Ontario wheal --New, No. 2 'Wintee,
52,22; haffis, In store, Montreal,
Peas --No, 2, 53.70 to 53.30, according
to freights outside.
51.23 to 51,24, ac-
cording to freights outside
litailtwheat-51.45 to 51.10. rtecording
to freights outside.
No, 2, $1.75, accordlog to
freights outside.
Manitoba, flour -First Patents. -in ;lute
g'4, 511,50' 2nd, do., $11; strong 51 AO, !toroth°. •
MUST Id
In Order
ee •
• pe'll;oerbren
tlungs 11
they suh
Ontario doer -Winter, according to 11
59.0(3. in bags. Montreal; $9,75. :".1 •
mixed, do., 313 to 515. track Toronto.,
freights, hags I nelnd ea --Bran. 'per tun,
Toronto; $9,70 bulk. seaboard, prompt • ;; tihowC41e'r-ctr(111
527; shorts, do., 543; middlings. do„.
of wood
$4,7 to 543; good feed flour, uor bag. • -
Hay• ---No. 1, now, her ton, 516 to 4'171
Millfeed--Car lots, (hill cored Montreal .• 11
11... them.
t$:3114.12esr;e4,,,z.,(,atit.).10ie, per ton, 50 to $0,50, .k
bone -dr:
Product
blades
forced (1
Country Produce-Vfholeaule
Some
'700 reV
geared
power
propell•
ends ee
600 mil
A 0
pressen
ed by
Ameri
Washb
known
apart.
ance 1
seriou
counts
In ;
force
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speed
and t
. when
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iBRITISH GAIN
- per lb, 36 to 88c.
i ny.i, -Fresh gathered eggs, 47 to 4se.
AGAINST TURK growpt,t,r:,„-, „:\,..vii1;;),1,70,7iiisprie=$113.111tfi
points.
51.95 for first-class. stock. f.o.b., outside
_
Wholesalers are selling to the retail
Russians Aid to Mesopotamia Cheese -New large 23 to 231e• twins
trade at the following prices: -
Success, . large twin, 26 to Mc.
23, to 23:0; early (dynes% 251 to 26e:
Butter-Presh dairy, ebnice, 40 to 41c;
London, Dec. 9. -The following offi- creamery -prints, 45 to 46c; solids, 44 to
cial statement concerning operations 46c.
in Mesopotamia was issued to -day:. NEgigs•-New laid. In eartons, 60 to 62e;
"After securing Sakaltutan Pass 46 to PC•:'.ag°. 42 to M.,: aelec), storage.
Tuesday the Turks were pursued to t tizessed poultry --Spring ehickens. 27
the village of Karak Tepe, 25 miles 54 to 54.50; turkeys, 30 to 33e; duekS,
20 to 220
oy 22 to 25e; soulibs, per doz.,
Spring, 23 to 25e; geese.
north of Deli Abbas, through which
the enemy was driven after a sharp :hickens, lb.; 20e; hells, 16 to'2.0e•
l'iv It . T 1- • ., 2, •, . ' g
engagement. The pursuit was made `auicks. .Spring. 20 to 22e: geese, 18c. ''
over difficulties over bogs and inter- 32.50; 12 El,';tra2, V211) to16 2oz.,
Strained, tins. 2/'s and 5's, 19 1.051,951%
seated by numerous watercourses. The!, e, lie 's, isi to Ise; 60's, 18 to
British and Russians fighting on oursl*Li3e-ans-1°Canadith
right flank showed great powers of to'. $6.'t",!; P'ei• 11111X11.'tnhialdsn-dni-ilieeiii:c
ehidilwi 10.0.
endurance, overcoming all- obstacles. 171e,
Poatoes. o•n track --Ontario. bag, 52.10
"Friday our aeroplanes bombed t•o $2.25 Delawares, bag. $2.25 to $2.59.
Tux Kurmatli with good results. •.
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nutter-tS'reamery. solids, pet, lb. 421
to 43e; pt•ints, per lb. 43 to 431c; dairy.
"It is reported the Turks have set
Food Controller Announces Change in
Regulations. ..
A despatch from Ottawa says: An-
nouncement is made by the Food Con-
troller that licenses would be issued,
permitting the manufacture and im-
portation of specific cereal foods in
packages of less weight than twenty
pounds, under certain regulations.
Dealers, other than those manufactur-
ing or importing packages of cereals,
will be exempted from the provisions
of the orderLin-Council of Octobei- 19,
AMERICAN RED
CROSS SENDS AID
A despatch from :Washington says:
CA BRM LINE
British Slightly Advance Lines
Southwest of La Vacquerie.
,
which are already pouring in on Plosion begins here it will be testified the special train sent from Boston by Gambrel front, it was announced of- to 4.1 pieees, $5.3 to $53; Canada sheet
the Governor of Massachusetts were ficially on Thursday. cut back, hthrels, 45 to 55 nieces, $50 to
special trains from other cities of the that the Monte Blanc carried.. 4,000
551. 1,a1d-Compound. wood pails. 20
province and New Brunswick, and will : tons of TNT, the highest eXplosive six experienced disaster relief workers ' On Tuesday night, the official state- lbs net. 25 to 26e; do., pure, wood pans,
ben- V.rth eft:entities of surgical supplies, ment says, the British troops with- 20 Ilia net, 271 to 28e.
be largely supplemented from Mame, ever known, and a deck load of
Massachusetts, New York, Quebetfand zinc • bedding and clothing, and asespecial drew to the southwest of Noyelles-
Ontario ose Se turday. . Temporary — e Cross train from New 'leek car- sur-l'Escaut and Bourton Wood. The Winnipeg Grain
ried food, mattresses, blankets, sweat- withdrawal, it is added, was accom- oats -No.
- Winnipeg, Doc. 11 ---Cash prices: -
hospitals have been secured in sheds The estimate of material required 2 C.W8310;. No,
• and stores where inmates of charit- for the temporary repairs to be done ers, overcoats and a large quantity of plished without the Germans appear- ,1,9„iee. ; !kx„trt,1 1.7:;1 je'eg. "i'-'1`:'eN.:to, Igeeda'
able institutions whose buildings are in Halifax so as to make damaged clothing for women and children. : Mg to be aware of it until late yes- kin: eSio. 4, keeii- 'resedt-i';e4ii:
houses available, and which have been terday. sato Flax -No. 1 NW C.. $3.041; No.
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in danger of collapse will be removed
BAKERS MUST SAVE 22 C.N.V. $ .95.
IThe Bank of Nova Scotia will furnish' prepared by the reconstruction sec- Minor hostile attacks south of . ' --
WHEAT FOR ALLIES' NEED.
1 all necessary funds to the various tion of the Halifax Relief Committee, Bowl= Wood were etepulsed with
Provisions -Wholesale
Smoked meats -Hams. medium, 30 to
31c; do.,heavy, 26 to 27e; cooked, 41 to
42e; rols, 27 to 28c: breakfast bacon,
iftst°4432cto; b4a4ecks, plain, 40 to 410; bone -
Cured meats -long clear baron, 27
to 28c lb; (dear bellies, 261 to 27c.
Lard -Pure lard. tierces, 20 to 290
tubs, 281 to 291c; pails, 29 to 291e
compound, tierces, 24 to 94/e: tubs, 241
to 241e: pails, 241 to 241e.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Dec. 11 -Oats -Canadian
Western, .No. 3, 901c; extra No."1. feed.
908c; No. 2 local White, 85c; No. 3, do.,
84es.„ FlourMani tan Spring wheat
pateffts, fIrSts, 511; do., seconds, 511.10:
strong bakers', $10.90; straight .rollers,
bags. 55.20 to $5,25. Milifeed,-q3Pan,
$35 to 337; shorts, 340 to 542; middling%
548 to 550; mouillie, 5'65 to 556. aay-
No. 2, per ton, ear lots, $15.50. Cheese
-Finest westerns, 21$c; easterns,
2110, Butter -Choicest Ceeamery, 43 to
431e: seconds, 42 to 423e, 16ggs-Fresh,
54 to 55c; selected, 44 to 45u: No. 1
stock. 40 to 41r: No. 2, do., 3S to 39r.
Dressed hogs----Abattair-k(lled, 525 to
$25.50; do., eountry, 524 to 524.50. Pork
-Heavy Canada short mess, barrels. 35
muted. states Plarkots
It is estimated that as much as a
committees now organized. follows:
sorted sizes.
Glass, 1,01)0,000 lights or panes, as -
W. J. Hanna, Food Controller, hag PORTUGUESE REBELS
A despatch from Ottawa says: Hon. severe loss to the enemy.
.s. 84:itiloin.8701 ts. Ds0, 11--norli-a'1*O'.. 3
741 to 751c. Flour-lInclutirgeiti, _pram
yellow, $1.05 On ts-No. 3 w late.
—
ough glees to provide for the city's
year will be required to furnish en -
Putty, 50 tons. .
sent a message to the bakers' carmen- OVERTHOW GOVERNMENT. Duluth, Dec, lie -Linseed- On track,
tion in Toronto urging upon the dele- -- 52.331: to arrive, 53.261; -December.
,.' needs. Omitting altogether the Sashes, 18,000.
Doors, 2,000; scantling: 250,000 b.m gates the necessity of considering by 'Madrid, Dec. 9.--A telegram re- 1%.12.34 "ke'l M"' 53.23.1' JulY. 53.211
1wrecked district, which eventually will what meane the consumption of wheat ceived here from Oporto says that the ,
I3oards (matched), 3,000,000 feei.
be rebuilt, in that portion of the city,
Wall board, 300,000 square feet. the distance of Europe from Argen- --
.in this country slight be reduced. He revolution in,Portugal has ended with !
still standing. there is scarcely a: ben.
Roofing paper, 5,000 square feet. states in his message that owing to
house in which the glass is intact." It
is as if the whole city had been built,
Nails, 1,000 kegs, 214, to 4 inches, tina and Australia the allies will be
and all the glassing left for one job.
Live Stook Markets
the success of the revolutionaries, and I Toronto, Dec. 11-10xtra choice heavy
that the Government has resigned.
Dr. Affonso Costa, former Premier
Stores are doing bueiness without, The above does not include any ma -
daylight, as all windows are now terials which may be required for
boarded up, and artificial light is used dwellings which have been completely
by day and night, demoliehed„ nor for public buildings,
Among the citizens still able to at- railway terminals, manufacturing, in-
tend to business, bendaged heads and .dustrial buildings or walls. All de-
,sirous of forwarding material should
hands are common sights, and for the
most part, they think themselves communicate with Col. Robert e. Low,
fortunate to have escaped that well, Chairman Reconstruction Cormnittee,
Halifax Hotel, Halifax, so as to avoid
overlapping.
The battlefields of Europe do not
furnish a parallel to the scenes wit-
nessed at Halifax, says Duncan Grey,
who • arrived in St. John on Friday.
He was engaged in inspecting shells
in a shed on the waterfront when the
devastation began, and barely escap-
ed before the building collapsed. This.
is.his story:
"A few seconds after the roar of the
explosion a gust of wind swept
through the shed and then down came.
pillars, boards and beams, I rushed
to the open and the si'ht that met my
gaze was. theeworst-thatI hope ever to
see- in this world.
"I have been in the trenches in
Orance. I have gone 'over the top,'
Friends and comrades have been shot
n my presence. I have seen scores
f dead men lying upon the battlefield,
ut the sight that greeted me yesters
ay was a thousand times worse, and
ar more pathetic.
"I saw. people -lying around under
imbers, stones and other debris;
-e-,
Dartmouth, N. S., Dec. 9. -This
town, on the opposite shore to Halifax,
caught the edge of the destructive
blast from the munition ship Mont
Blanc. A number of manufacturing
plants were destroyed and several
rows of houses blown down. The loss
of life was one hundred and fifty.
An appeal for $25,000,000 was made
to the people of Canada by the May-
ors of Halifax and Dartmouth to -day,
and this figure is taken as represent-
ing only a part of the material dam-
age done by the explosion of the car-
go of the Mont Blanc last Thursday.
Sir Robert Borden announced that
pending a full consideration of the
needs of those who have suffered by
the calamity the Dominion Govern-
ment had made a preliminary appro-
priation of $1,000,000 for immediate
relief. The amount will be imme-
diately at the disposal of the local
relief committee.
•
dependent during the next three or
four months on Canada and the Unit-
ed States for wheat supplies, and
every effort should be made to see
that that need is met.
steers, 511,50 to 512; do., good heavy-,
510.75 to 511.40; butchers' eattIe. 00°1(.5.
510,50 to $10.75: do„ good, $9,75 to $10;
and Minister of Finance, has formed a (12.:15ineilium, 59 to 11-2e; do„ common.
5t._ to 58.25; buteherif bulls, choice.
Provisional Government, including Dr.
53,5e i o $9.25; do., good bulls, $7.65 to
Sidome Paes, formerly Portuguese
Minister to Germany. It is reported
that all is quiet in Lisbon and Oporto,
BlITISH CAPTURE OLDEST TOWN !N
THE WORLD, ANCIENT HEBRON
Situated 20 Miles South-West .bf Jerusalem—Site of th e Tombs
of Abraham and Other Patriarchs.
A despatch from Lonclem says: ham, Isaac and Jacob, to which the
General E. H. Allenby reports that he -20,000 Mussubrians and the 2,000 for-
eigners alike do reverence,
has occupied the town of Hebron, in
One of the oldest towns in the
Palestine, the British War Office offi-
world, Hebron, in the days of Jose--
eially announces to -night. . phus, was believed to have existed for
.Ancient Hebron, to -day called by 2,300 years. According to legends of
the Arabian name El Khulil, is sits the Jewish and Samaritan writers,
uated about 20 miles south-west of the "field of Damascus," near the
Jerusalem, with approximately 15,000 town, is that stretch of red earth from
inhabitants, Although the British a handful of which God created
forces are nearer to Jerusalem on the Adam.
west and the north-west, the taking There'is a grotto pointed out as the
of Hebron is of interest because tra- place where Adam and Eve hid after
clition identifies it as the site of the their expulsion :from Paradise -the
farchs. It is a hill of shining white murdered by Cain. The Mussulinans
tombs of .A.braham and other pa,- spot where they mourned for Abel,
tri
houses banked about a noble mosque, even mark the place, three miles to
and set between hills rich with olive, the south-east, where the Murder oc-
fig and pomegranite trees. In the curred, and have a tomb which they
mosque is the reputesl-tomb of Abra- believe to be Cain's.
58; do., medium bulls, $7,10 to 57.35;
du.. rough bulls, 55.25 to 50,24; butch-
ers' Cows, choice, $8.75 to 59.25; do.,
good, 57,85 to $9.95: do,, medium, 36.85
to 57; stockers, 57.25 to 38.50; feeders.
59,25 to 510: canners and cutters, $5,15
to 55.50; milkers, good to choice, 555 to
$135; do., coin. and med„ $75 to $90:
Springers, 590 to 5130; light ewes, 512
to 514; sheep, heavy, 56 to 57,75; year-
lings, 512.25 to $13.25; lambs, 517,35 to
518; calves, enol to choiee, 312 to $15.25
hogs, fed mid watered, 517.25 to $17,50
do., weighed off •cars, $1.7.50 to 517.75
do.. fob., 516.25 to 516,75.
THREETHS1- 'FRU' TO ARCTIC
Expedition Will Lettee Dawson Soon
To Get Mails.
A despatch from Dawson says: , A
Canadian R.N.W.M.P, expedition is
being formed here to leave Dawson
about the first of the year for the Arc-
tic coast. The party will go directly
across the Rocky Mountains through
Seely Pass to Fort McPherson, 500
miles, all in the wilderness, using dog
teams: Corp. Richardson will have
charge, with three other officers and
Indian guides. making so the party.
At Fort McPherson they will meet a
patrol 'Mint Herschel Island, which
turns 'back there, after exchanging
mails. • The expedition will reach
Dawson en the return trip in March,
possibly 'winging advices from the
Arctie expedition of Stefanesen and
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