Exeter Advocate, 1913-5-22, Page 3•
Grain, Cattle and Cheese
Prices of These Products in the Leading
Markets are Here. Recorded
BroaciStulfe,
Toronto, May_ 20.--•Flour—Qntario wheat
$our, 90 per cent, patents, $3.90 to $4.00,
Montreal or Termite freight/a. Manitoba'
—First patents, iu. Jute bags, $5,30;. second
patents, in jute bees, $4.00; strong bak-
ers' in Jute bags, $4.60.
Manitoba Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 98c, on
track, Bay po.tte; No. 2 at 951.4e; No. 3
et 92 3.4c, Bay ports. For May shipment,
1-2c less.
Ontario 1n'hoat—No. 2 white and reel
wheat, 96 to 97o, outside; and inferior at
.about 76o.
Oath—Ontario oats, 331.2 to 34e, outside,
and at 370 on track, 'Toronto. Western
,Canada oats, 40e for No. 2 and at 38 1.4o
for No, 3, Bay ports, prompt shipment,
Peas -The market ie purely nominal.
Barley—Prices • nominal.
. Corn: No. 3 American corn, 62c, all -rail
and at 67 14o, c.i.f. Midland.
Rya—Prices nominal, .
Buohwheat--No. 2 at 62 to 53o, outside.
Bran -Manitoba bran, 318,60 to $19, in
bags, Toronto freight. Shorts, $20 to $21.
'Toronto.
Country Produce,
Butter—Dairy prints, choice, 23 to 250,•
Inferior, 18 to 19e; creamery, 28 to 30o fore
'rolls and 27 to 28c for choice.'
Eggs—Caeo lots, 20 to 210 here and at
17c outside.
Oheese-13 to 131-2c for tvtins, and at
121.2 to 13c for large.
Beans—Hand-pieked, $2,40 per bushel;
primes, $2 to $2,25, in a jobbing way.
Honey-17xtraotod, in tins, 123-4 to 13o
per U. for No, 1 •wholesale; combs, $2.50
to $3 per dozen for No. 1 and $2:40 for,
No. 2.
Poultry—Well fatted, clean, dry -picked'
stook:—Oh"lckens, 19 to 200 per ib.; fowl,
16 to 17o; turkeys, 20 to 210: Live poultry,
about 2o ldwer than the above.
Potatoes—Ontario stook, 45o per. bag, on
track; and Delawares at 65 to 67 1-2o per
lag, on track,
Provisions.
Bacon—Long clear, 1514 to 151-2e per lb.,
in ogee. lots. Pork—Short cuts, $26 to
$27; do., . mess, $21.50 to $22. Hame—Me.
-din= to light, 181.2 to 19e; heavy, 16 1-2 to
1:7o; rolls, 16c; breakfast bacon, 191-2 to
100; backs, 23 to 24o.
Lard—Tierces, 14 1-20; tubs, 14 1-2c,pails,
143.4c.
Baled May and Straw.
Baled Ray—No. 1 at $12.50, on track, To-
ronto; No. 2, $11. Mixed hay is quoted at
:$10.
Baled Straw—$8 to $8,50, on track, To
-
_route.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, May 20.—Corn, American No.
2 yellow, 64 to 65o, Oats, Canadian West-
ern, No. 2, 42o; Canadian. Western, No, 3,
401.20; extra No, 1 feed, 4'114c, Barley,
Man. Pcod, 49 to 50e; malting, 61 to 64c.
8uokwbeat, No, 2, 68 to 60e, Flour, Man.
Spring wheat ;patents, firsts, $15.40; eeoonds,
04.90k strong bakers',. $4.70; Winter 'pat-
ents, ehoico, 35.25;,straight rollers, $4,85 to
$4,90; straight rollers, bage, $2.20 to 32.36.
Rolled oats, barrels, . $4.35; bage, 90 lbe.,
$2.05. Bran, :$17.80 to .$18....Shorts, $20 to
$21. Middliuge, $22 to 323. M-ouillie, '$27
to $33,. Hay, No. 2, per ton ear lite, $14
to $14.50. Ciheese, finest, westerns, 1112 to
113-4e; finest easterne, 10 3-4 to 110. Butter,
choicest creamery, 26 to 26 1-20; seconds, 25
to 251-2o, Egge, freeh, 21 to '220. Pete -
toes, per bag, car lots, 50 to 60o.
Winnipeg' Wheat.
Winnipeg, May 20.—Casil :—Wheat -No. 1
l ortberzt, 913.80; No. 2 Northern, 88 3-80;
No. 3 Northern, 85o; No. 4, 811-20; No. 1
rejected seode, 861.4c; No. 2 do„ 831.4o; N0.
rdo., 801.4e; No. 1.tough/23e; No, 2 do.,
820; No. 3 do., 79c; 740. 41do„ 74,1.4o; No. -1
red Winter, 913.80.; No. 2 do„ 89 3-8o; No.
3 do,, 8¢0'; No. 4 do„ 8112, Oats -No. 2
tl. W„ 33 3-4c; No. 3 O. W„ 311 4e; extra
No. 1 feed,' 333-4c; No, 1 feed, 323•4c; No:
2 feed, 30 3-4e. Barley—No. 3, 470; No. 4,
453.4e. Flax --No. 1 N. W. C., $1.131.2; No,
2 O.W'.,. $1.111.2; No. 3, C. W., 31.031-2.
'United States Markets.
Minneapolis, May 20. --'Wheat-May,
863=4e; July, 881.20;; September, 89 1-4o.
Cash—No. 1 hard, 910; No. 1 Northern, 89
to 901.20; No. 2, do., 87 to 881.20. Corn—
No. 3'yellow, 58 to 581-20. Oats -34 1-2 to 36o,
Rye—No. 2, 56 to 581.2e, Flour—Unebang-
ed. Bran—$i6 to :$17.
Duluth, May 20.—Wheat—No. 1 hard,
901-4c; No. 1 Northern, 891.4o; No. 2, do.,
86 3-4 to 871-4c; May, 880; July, 891-4o bid;
September, 89 5.8 to 893-4e asked.
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Live Stock Markets,
Montreal, May 20. --Prime beeves, 71-8 to
71-2o; medium, 51.4 to 7o; milkmen's strip-
pers, 41.2 to 51-2c; common, 4 to Se. Milch
cows, $30 to $75 each; calves, 21-2 to 7c;
sheep, 5 to 51-2c; epring lambe, $4 to $6
each. flogs, 101=2 to 10 3-4o.
Toronto, May 20.—Cattle--Choice export,
35.50 to $7.20; choice butchers, $6,60• to $7;
good medium, $6 to $6.25; common; $5 to
$6.25; cows; $5.25 to $5.75; bulls, $5.25 to
35.76; 'canners, $2 to.; $2.50; cutters,"$3.25 to
$3 75. —Calves—Good veal, $5 to $7; choice,
$8,50 to $9; common, $3 to $3.25. 'Stockers
and feeders—Steers, 700 to 1,000' lbs., $4.50
to $6.25; yearlings, $3.10 to • 33,50; extra
choice heavy feeders;' 900 lbs., $5.85 to. 36.
Milkere and Springers :Steady demand
for 'good stock at from $40 to $75. Sheep
and .Lambs—Light ewes, $6 to 37.25; heavy,
$5 to $6; iambs, $8.25 .to $10; bucks, $4.50
to $6. Hogs—$9 85 to $9.90 fed and wat-
ered, $9.50 f.o.b., and $10,10 o8 oars.
]3IT OF ALASKA FOR BRITAIN.
Bill In She U. S. House Would Be
a "Glorious Achievement."
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A despatch from: _ Washington
:says: A proposal to cede to Great
Britain the coast 'strip of South -
,
Alaska, 536 mile's.• long and
in some places 8 et 10 miles wide,
was made in a joint resolution in
troduced by Representative Ste-
phens, of Texas, at the request of.
the Universal ' Peace Union at
Philadelphia. The resolution. re-
•quests President Willson to nego-
tiate- with Great Britain, for a co :3 -
mission to; inve's'tigate tire possibil-
ity of rectifying the boundary of
• South-eastern Alaska, "for the
benefit of both parties." The pre-
amble sets forth that the border.
should be adjusted to remove the
unnatural boundary by which the
Yukon Territory, the northern half
of British Columbia and almosst the
entire Mackenzie Bastin, an aggre-
gate area ,nearly ;aa large as the
States east of the Mississippi River,
are shut off by the coast strip from
free .use of 'Ute most direct route to`'
the .Pacific. The resolution sug-
gests that, uch :a, move would set-a,n
example in the policy of mutua,1
concession that would con's'titute a
"glorious achievement in history."
THE BERLIN VISIT.
Kaiser Will Receive King and
Queen at Leltrte Station.
A. desspatch from," Berlin stye
Berlin is looking forward to the
-most' interesting week of the year,
oosn encing',at noon on Wednes—
day, when King George and Queen
Mary of England will arrive at
Lehrte Station, where they will be
peraona,llly received by the Kaiser
and. conducted '1» the palace.
Utter -den -Linden will •dai'l'y he the
scene of en animated military pie;
ture. The Czar and his daughter,
Princess Olga, arrive on Thursday.
The interest of the. Berlin public is
far' greater in therm, rthan in the Bri-
tish sovereigns; and high prirc,es are
demanded foo w'indow's along the
route from the A:nhalter Station to
the palace
z.
OPIUM FARMERS CREMATED.,
Had Assembled to Resist . D estriic-
tion of . Poppy Crop.
'A despatch from Shanghai says:
Sixty-seven Chinese; farmers were.
burned to death on Sunday in a
temple in Hunan province, where
they had ga'ther'ed toe ddscues resis-
tance to the troops sent by the Im-
perial Government to destroy the,
poppy orop in'- the " war against
opium. According to a`despatch to
the China Daily New the eoldiaris
nest fire to the building, is lv'hioh
more than once hundred cultivators
of opium of the S11eneauting district
in the western part of the province
had assembled on the arrival, of the
troops.
George S. Murdock,
Sonof a Hamilton doctor, has.
been appointed by the 'Government
to accompany Stefansson,,in.charge
of one of the geological parties.
J 01,Y
HUMAN FLESH A LUXURY.
In New Hebrides, : According to a
New South Wales Minister.
.A despatch from Sydney, S.S.W.,
says: Cannibalism in its worst
form' exists among the natives, ,of
the New Hebrides Islands, in the
South Pacific, according to astate-
ment by Rev. Th,oma,s Gillen at the
Presby-teriasn Assembly ` of New
South Wales in support of previoti"s
statements anade in oonn;ection with
the Islands. ' Huena,n flesh is looked
upon as a luxury, and tribal wars
invariably end with a ."banquet"
unchecked by the . authorities, he
declared.
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PACIFIC WATER IN—CANAL.
Giant Blast at Pana;ul:a Demolishes
Dyke South of Locks.
' A despatch from . P•anama Bays,
The waters.of the Pacific Ocean
were on Sunday let into the Pan-
ama. Can'a'l. :A' giant blast, ,coin -
posed -of 32,750 pounds of dynamite,
was •shot, demolishing the dyke .to.
the ,south of the Miraflores locks
and ,allowing the water to flew into
an ,extensive section in which exca-
vations have practically been com-
pleted,. The blast was eucce,s'sful in
every way, and the, vibration was.
felt in .Panama City as though
there had been a sight earthquake..
NEW STEAMERS 1'OR C. '.R.
Two Liners for the Atlantic Trade
Shortly to be Built.
A despatch from London . says
It was learned: on Wednesday that
the Canadian Pacific !Railway will.
build two new Atlantic liners of
about tho size of the Alsatian of the
Allan Line.,
OUR LETTER FROM TORRID)
WHAT is 13EINC UISCUSSEO IN THE
CITY et THE rttettNT TIME -
(NOW and Inside Legislative Halle—Dan-
ger of High Water- Enorrnous ,:!soiree
" Millions for Scheele.
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As this is written the tulip beds sur.
roundinW the Parliament Buildings in
Queen's Park are a •"•blaze of glory, the
verdure of the grass and treses has readied:
a mid-June maturity and the idyllic scene
breathes no suspicion of the stirring
events within the brown stone walls that
marked the elosiug days- of the aoseion of
1913. ,SomowaY the tranquility and beauty
of May in Queen'e Park do not fit in with
violent partisan dieputes. A wintry Beene
is not inappropriate. .After one has braved
the stinging west wind which: in February
or March sweeps -torose the long paved
'path from College street to the building's
and as"virls and eddies around. the .entrance
with particular viciousness, it seems to be
in: accord with the fitness of tizinge' that
the warring of the elements outside should
be matched with ,political turbulence in-
side.
A. May prorogation of the Legislature
i5 unusual.. Needless to say, it Is not po-
Pular , with, the members, and when the
Lieutenant Governor (garbed this time in
plain black trousers, not the gay white
satin which earlier in the year added, to
the splendor of the occasion). attended to
despatch the final fot•malitiee, there was.
a baro quorum of members in attendance.
The Proiadfoot ohargee which wore the'
chief cause ofthe late prorogation pre-
vented the annual': dlebanding being char-
acterized by that, feeling of goodfollowship
among the members wlli0h is generally
observable. . The British House of Com-
mons has .been, described as the first club
in the world, and the spirit of tbo club ie
noticeable ,also in the Legislature. Tr;
ordinary timesmembers of the opposing
parties mix on thrms of the, utmost friend-
liness,.and one who pictures them as mor-
tal enemies; hardly speaking to one .an
other, is badly mistaken. But an incident
Buell as the Proudfoot attack, rousing
partisan feelings and resulting in charges
of,.uufairnees on both sides, does much to.
bury interparty ;friendliness. On such
occasions the good fellows retire to the
background and the fighters come to the
front.
Lake Ontario on Rampage.
Soule apprehension is felt on account of
the unusually high level of the water in
Lake Ontario during the present year: It
l's now almost three feet higher than the
average and aS it generally continues ris
ing until early in June, it ie possible that
all records, which have been kept . for 50
Food back, will be broken.
No .one understands what causes the
fluctuation of the water level In the Great
Lakes. At Toronto flactnatioirs have been
observed covering a range,of six feet, The
lowest ever recorded was when the level
'sank. to 242.92 feet above the mean: sea level
at New York. Thle was on May 18th, 1895.
The highest reached was on May 6th, 1870,
when the level . was 248.96 feet above the
mean lovel'rat New York. For' a few weeks
past the level has been hovering around
248 feet, or, as is technically described,
36 inches above zero. Zero being a point
fixed. at 245 feet above the New York level.
Theories that the high water is caused
by unusually big spring freshets do not
stand investigation. One geologist, says
that peculiar vibrations of the earth's sur -
thee causes the water to rise and fall.
The danger of high water is the damage
that may be occasioned to wharves, docks
and beaches and the "inconvenience caused
to shipping. The water in 'Toronto har-
bor is now close to the top of the wharves
and boats unload under difficulties. Some
authorities fear that if we were to hate
a severe and long continued storm from
the east, which would pile the water up
atthis end of the Lake, the result to To-
ronto's Inland might be disastrous. The
Island is only a sand bar and at no point
]s morethan a few feet above -the level
of the lake. High water has flooded it
before, but a severe storm might have a
more disastrons effect in shifting its very
foundations.
Toronto Has "Big Eyes."
According to the estimates, of 'the City
of Toronto,for the financial year, the City
proposes to spend the enormous sum of
$39,146,142.00; This figure is deceptive. The
actual current expenditures for the year
amount to $11,744,956.00. The balance of
something over $27,000,000.00 is made up
of items which might be described as ca-
pital expenditures, that is, they are for
permanent improvement's. The significant
thing -about the figure is that it indicates
what' an enormous development is under
way. The largest item in the total is an
amount of less than seven million dollars
for a waterworks extension scheme. There
is another two and`a half million dollars
provided for the Moor Street Viaduct. An
item of approycimately one million dollars
is;. set aside for a garbage incinerator
plant. The other items are the ordinary
run of public works. That they should
amount to such a large totalindicates the
present temper of the citizens generally
toward extension.
There is no possibility that all of this
sum .will be spent during the present year.
The cash will' be raised by the sale of
bonds and debentures, and as there se al-
ready some, twelve million dollars of these
securities- undigested, the prospects for
freeh salee are notof the best, ,k vaa„with
the money available it would not be pos-
sible to do more than begin a number of
the public„works included in this year's
estimates.,
Of the eleven million odd, ta be spent
on current , expenditures, almost,- three
and a half million is provided by revenue
producing- assets such as the waterworks..
The balance of $8,546,638 is to be raised
by taxation, which is to be levied on the
tax -payer at the rate of 191-2 'mils. On
the whole it may be said that the city is
taking Mr. W. F. Maclean's advice and has
been getting "big eyes.”
Attacks on Toronto's Schools.
Toronto spends over..a million and a half
dollars a yearon the maintenance of'ite
public .schools: It spends another quarter
of a million on the _ maintenance of its
high schools, and a further hundred thou-
sand on the maintenance of its technical
and commercial- schools. In: addition, it
spent last year practically a million dol-
lars on school buildings and sites, so that
the present rate of expenditure means that
practically three million dollars a year is
being spent by the city on its public school
system.
One of the industrious trustees has been
doing :some` figuring; 'with the result that
he estimates that in one high school of the
city it is costing $690 a year to teach and
Provide accommodation for each upper
school •pupil, add that in all but bne or
two collegiate' this cost exceeds $100 per
pupil. At B;arbord Street Collegiate, which
is perhaps the best known, the coet was
$140 per pupil.. Each pupil in the publio
schools cost no lees than $40' a year.
In spite of these large figures, Mayor
Hocken ie, on record as declaring that the
school system in Toronto to -day ie no bet-
ter than- it was forty years ago, if as
good. There is adisposition In many quar-
ters to criticize the system because of the
Eads and frills. The latest attraction in
Which this tendency is showing itself is in
the deoision to engage a head teacher of
dressmaking at a salary of $1,500 a year,
The argument in favor of the fads and
frills is that they are practical, but it is
doubtful if they always realize that
standard.
Mayor Hocken is advoeating .a radical
change in the system of levying taxation
for eohool purposes. At present the sdhool
taxes aro included in the general tax rate
and roughly amount to about one-third of
the total, or a faction over six Mills en
the dollar. The taxest are collected by the
city, but the City Council has little juris-
diction in the spending (if the money,
whlydz is ,clone, by the Board of ladueetiou,
Tho Mayor's scheme is to separate the
school taxes from the general 'taxes and
let the 7'3oard of Education be directly re
spottelbic to the people for the collection
of its own mon0Y .and the spending of it
iia tk 0017 Ibe Board of 0Iducation extrava,
gent• and . apparently waute to wash his
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SIIOT DQWN WIFE ON STREET.
Ilton Put Bullet In Ills Own Brain
and Cut Ills Throat.
A despatch from Toronto says:
In a fit of lea1o,ns' rage front seeing
his wife walking with another man
on Jarvis Street after midnight o11
Saturday morning Frank Biancette,
a sailor on the. C.P E. Steamer
Keewatin, shot her three timeaw,with
a revolver, and afterwards turned
the weapon upon himself. 1 caring'
that he was not fatally wounded
the man then attempted to eommit
suicide by cutting his throat with a
pocket knife. 'Bincette now lies in
St. Micheal'e Hospital probably
fatally wounded, while his -wife is in
the General Hospital suffering;£roan
three bullet wounds. She will
probably recover.
LIVED WITHHEART EXPOSED.
Case of Canadian Regarded as
Unique by Physicians. ,
A despatch from St.. John, N,B.;
says : Joseph Carey,. whose case
was regarded es unique by the
medical profession, died here on
Thursday. Carey underwent an
operation in Boston six years ago
for lung trouble and part of the
left lung was removed. In per-
forming the operation it was found
necessary to remove ,,several of the
ribs, leavingg the .heart ; partly ex-
posed. The beats of the heart could
be seen plainly through the thin tis-
anes which covered that organ word
many physicians took .advantage of
the opportunity to 'study its action
while at its accustomed work in the
body of a living main. Carey re-
covered his usual health following
the operation and had worked daily
for the „last four years.
CONSTABLES. HELD FOR. THEFT
Regina Policemen, Said to Have
Misinterpreted Their Duty.
A despatch from Regina says:
Two members of the city - police
force, former Winnipeg men, Con-
stables Ogilvie . and McCauley, are
under arrest on a charge of theft.
Tlh,e men were en night duty. One
of their duties was to try all the
doors in the business section. One
of these constables, it is alleged,
found the door: 'of a clothing estab-
lishment open, and helped himself
to a Panama hat, a raisn,00st, and a
suit of clothes''. The ,other, finding
the door of a wholesale warehouse
open, it is alleged, took asupply of
'andies.
KINC'S SON AT HALIFAX.
Prince Albert is Officially Regarded.
as an Ordinary Cadet.
A despatch from, Halifax say's:
H.M.S. 'Cumberland, with Prince
Albert, Sing George's 'second son,
on board, arrived in port on Thurs-
day morning. There was no spe-
cial salute fired from the citadel,
and no ofl'ieial reeo'gnition will be
taken of the fact that the training
ship includes a Prince of the Blood.
in her company,` Prince Albert be-
ing treated as an ordinary cadet.
NINE KILLED BY TORNADO.
Storm Reported to Have Injured.
Many in. Towns of Nebraska.
A despatch from Lincoln, Nebras-
?ka,`sa,ys A tornado struck' the
town of Seward, thirty males west
,of .Linoomii, 11122 WesIteedaw,y nlgilt,
:about 6. o'clock. Nine are dead,
;and many injured.
POWERS HOLD SCUTARI.
:Montenegrin Soldiers Escort Naval
Force Into the City.
A despatch- from Cettinje, Mon-
tenegro, "says : An international
naval force, commanded by Vice
Admiral Cecil Burney, of the Brit--
ish. navy, took possession on Wed-
nesday of the fortress of Scutari.
The international force was escort-
ed into the city by. a Montenegrin
guard of- honor.
-FOUR" MILLION HOTEL.
Montreal to Have New One Under
Belmont Management.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Montreal is to have anew $4,000,000
hotel erected :on the 'site of St.
George's Chuirch on Dominion
Square. 'T'he hotel, which will not
be started/for a year, is to have six
hundred rooms and be ander the
same management •as. the Hotel
Belmont, of New York.
;WAGNER TO 1131 HANGED.
lIe Tilled Constable' Westaway
When Caigbt Robbing a Store.
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A, despatch from Nanaimo, B. C.,.
says: Henry Wagner was sentenced'
to be hanged August 8, for the mur-
der of Constable Westaway at 'Un-
ion, B, C., on May 4th. . Wagner
had been robbing a grocery when
interrupted by the policeman. He
has a long criminal'record.
Items of News by Wire.
Notes of Interest as to What Is Going
on All. Over the World
Cltnada: a number of sheep, hay and a
A radial electric :•line is soon,to
be built from Hamilton to Galt,
Hon. _Alex, Murray, Speaker of
the Alberta Legislature, died.at.
Winuipeg, 'aged 74,
'Hee. Frank Cochrane will be in-
vited to turn: the first sod of the
Welland ship canal at Thorold,
Galt ratepayees will be,asked for
p f1
$125,000 for 'school purposes and
water works extension.
Nineteen trades: unions in Scute
Water'l'oo organized as the South
Waterloo Fedderartion of Labor.
Brantford is offering a free site
and other inducements to lure the
Coniagas 'smelter from Thorold.
A fire caused probably by ' a
match or cigar stub badly damaged
the Bay of Quints bridge. at Belie
villa,
The Winnipeg General Hospital.
ambulance while a;e•spond •ng to a
call ran over and. killed a youth
named Oral Stewart.
Edniethto,n will have a street rail-
way connection with St. Albert,
nine' miles` :•nor�thwest. Gasoline
cars will be run. �-
Montreal is to have a four -mil-
lion -dollar hotel on Dominion
Square, under . the . same manage-
went as the Belmont, of New York.
Miss Lois B. Hutchinson, of To-
ronto, is to be granted a homestead
of 360 acres in Western Canada, by
special aet of `Parliament.
It is estimated that in Ontario
about 18 per' cent. and in Alberta
about 43.5 per; cent. of the areas
sown wheat .last fall have been.
winter killed.
Queen Mary has consented to
press the button and unveil the
monument that the Dominion Gov-
ernment
ov
ernment has erected on the Stony
Creek battlefield.
The funeral of Mr, W. E. Davis,
passenger traffic manager of the
Grand Trunk lines, was one of the
largest and most impressive : Mont -
.real has witisessed.
Several. of Montreal's' veteran
civic official's are slated- for retire-
ment in the process of reorganiza-
tion. They include the city clerk,
the health officer, and the building
and boiler inspectors.
A German immigrant, en route
from - New York to Chicago on the
Grand Trunk Railway . express, re-
ported' to the London police thatTe
had been robbed of $2,600 in oath
between Hamilton and • London.
The will of the late Wm: Percival
of London, Ont., provides than af-
ter the death of his sister his es-
tate of about $60;000 is to go to
the orphan homes of Ashley Down,
Bristol, Tn+ aglaond.
Fire did $30,000 damage at Bow
Park Farm, near Brantford, on
Saturday, including the death of
thirty-two' horses, about fifty pigs,
e much
number of buildings and Maple-
meets.
mXple-meets.
Great 'Britain.
A sacred picture in a elver& in
England was' defaced by inilitante.
A plot ef the 'militants to kidnap
41, Cabinet Minister wae revealed in
e'rnment to, relieve itself a Mies
Christobel Pankhurst
A bomb was mailed by- the mill -
tante to the Magistrate of the Bow
'Street Court in Londou.
An America,n made an offe'r to
London papers eommenst
length en the proposed visit of the
United States rta,val squadron to
the -Mediterranean.
Two men seispeotecl oft prepating
td carry out the militant threat to
blow up an expres,s train were a,r-
The Loudon °Trades Council re-
eents the appointm'ent of the new
United States Ambassador to Great
Britain, Mr. Walteali. Page.
Lord Norton writes to the Lone
don Post to suggeab that the -cen-
tenary of peace is a, golden ,oppor-
tunity fer America, Engla,nd and
Germa,ny to enter into- an interna-
tional arbitration treaty.
United States.
A Canadian claim dating from.
1812 is being dealt with by the in-,
ton.
Coralu'ct,ors on forty-eight eastern
railw,a,ys in the United States will
present their demands for an in-
crease in wages from 15 to 20 per
cent. Tuly 1, a.riel if the roads refuse
to a,rbitrate a strike may be order-
ed within a fortnight following.
The suffragists woe a taotical vic-
tory at Washington when the Sen-
ate Committee on Woman Suffrage
ordered a fa,vorable report on the
resolution submitting to the States
• eonstitutional amendment giving -
women equal suffrage rights with
General.
The French Chamber of Deputiee
defeate,d a resolution to revoke all
gambling licenses.
Britain and Germany are report-
ed to have come to an agreement
regarding the Bagdad Railway.
One aviator was killed and two
others injured in an aeroplane eol-
The Italian Government has re -
yoked the la,w of 1906 providingthat
telephone girls in the Government's .
service must not marry betwe,en the
ages of etghteen and twenty-five.
CANCER CAUSES AND CURE.
Dr. K. Hart Gives Entirely New
Theory Before French Academy.
A despatch from Paris says :
Dr. Keating Hart, the French can-
cer specialist, laid before the A.e,a-
demy of Medicine on Wednes,clay an
entirely' new theory of the causes
of cancer, The main feateres of his
theory are : First, that the (heti:Ise
ettensii-liereaitarfriinCsecond that
it is local at the cemmencemen't and
consequently curable, Recalling the
two hypotheses now dividing )nedi-
cal men into two camps, one declar-
ing that malignant tumors were
caused by a parasite, and the other
that a cancer was simply composed
of normal cells transformed in one
way or another, Dr. Hart declared
that the former was irrational in
the present condition of science be-
cause the cancerous cell acts quite
differently from an infected one: On
the contrary, it is just like a cell
with exaggerated vitality. Hes
pointed out that it is sufficient for
'these cells to be divided into pieces,
for it to be imcapable of reproduc-
ing the disease, while in every other
infectious malady no amonnt of
crushing is sufficient to prevent fur-
ther inoculation.
Sugar a Big Factor.
He also brought evidence to urge
the closest eonnection betweee char-
acteristic, ordinary eells end those
of eancerous tissue, and to demon-
strate the sole and deep difference
between them as a question of the
amount of nourishment and, speed
in, reproduction. He deelared th
after a, long series of researches arid
a most careful collection ef data he
discovered that the development ef
cancer was in direct proportion to
the amount of <sugar the organiza-
tion Shas at its disposal. To stip-
Port this statement he reminded his
hearers that eancer wet specially
severe among diabetic p,atients.
the other hand, he pointed out that
eancer always develops around
those points of the body whieh are
a:instantly. more or less inflamed,
and juSt where the blood vessels are
dilated and the heat the greatest: `
Here he declared the cells were ex-
posed to a double forcing action,
ex• tra quantity of Vona- lorouglit
them and heating ,for the same r.ea-
ManY May b'e Saved..
The new treatment of cancer
whereby he declares he will be able
to save from certain death a large
number' or pattelts abandoned by
the rest ,of the feel:1St:Se-it botlagene.s
in the reduction of food. to a mini-
mum in order to fast, if possible to
starve the overgrown cells. The lo -
eel treatment consists in first the
usual surgical operation where this
is possible, fellowed by an applica-
tion of what is known as a fulguree
,tion stream of high-tension by elec-
tric sparks directed against the af-
fected part. In this way, he declar-
ed, more than thrice the number of
lasting cures win be effected than
is possible with the surgeon's knife'
alone.
Dr. Keating Hart's address,
which was receive,d with the great-
est interest by the Academy, was
followed by further evidence in sup-
port of the same theory by Dr. Guel-
pa, also a recognized authority in
this branch of pathology, who gave
the particulars of two cases where
he cured serious 'cancers in dia-
betic persons by severe fasting and
purging. The staternents of the two
scientists are considered among
medical men here to be ef the high-
est importance to the progress of
Seven British 1110ejaelets Drowned.
In the Vieth of Forth.
Sev est Brit jell lu e j ek'ete Star ling
‘011 a,. holiday trip weSe drowned on
Sited y, en e val boat eh o a rd
which they were preceediY1g
Greaten, three miles from this eita,
by a reugh sea.
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