Exeter Advocate, 1914-5-21, Page 31.11110•111 4.
Grain, Cattic and Cheese
Prices of These Products in the Leading
Markets are liere. Recorded
11 Breadstuff',
Toronto, May 19,—F1our—Onte,rio
'wheat, flours, 90 per cent.,' ;3.80 to
•53,85, seaboard, and at 53.56 to lam,
oronto. Manitoba—First patent% in
te bags, 55.60; do„ eeconds, 55.10;
etrong bakers', in Jute bags, $4.
Manitoba wheat—Bay ports—No. 1
Northern, 98e, and No. 2 at Beta.
Ontario wheat --No. 2 quoted at 51.03
to ;1.04, outside, and 51.06, on track,
Toronto.
Oats—No. 2 Ontario oats, 393 to 40o,
outside, and at 420, on track, Toronto.
Western Canada oats, 42e for No. 2, and
at 403c for No. 3, Bay ports,
Peas—$1 to 51.05. outside.
Barley—Good malting barley, 56 to
58c, aocording to quality.
Rye—No. 2 at 63 to 64o, outside.
Buckwheat -80o, outside.
Corn—No. 8 American, 76o, all -All,
'Toronto.
Bran—Manitoba, bran, 526 to $20 a
on, in bags, Toronto freight. Shorts,
$26 to 528,
a Country Produce. ,
Butter—Choice dairy, 18 to' 20c; in!
ferior, 15 to 1530; farmers' separator
;Prints, 21 to 220; creamery prints, fresh,
4,4 to 250; do., storage prints, 23 to 24c;
Solids, storage, 21 to 22c.
. Eggs -21 to 22o per dozen, in ease
lots.
• Honey—Extracted, in tins, 103 to llo
per lb., Clombs, $2.25 to 52.50 per doz-
en for No. 1, and $2,for No. 2.
Cheese—New cheese, 143 to 15c for
large, and 15 to 153c for twins.
Beans--1-land-picked, 52.15 to $2.20
Per bushel; primes, .$2.10 to 52.15.
Poultry—Fovrl, 16 to 180 per lb.;
chickens, 19 to 20e; ducks, 17 to 18c;
geese, 15 to 16c; turkeys, 20 to 23c.
Potatoes—Delawares, 51.20 to 51.25,
on track, here, and Ontarlos t 51.10
Per bag, On track.
Provimions.
Bacon; long clear, 15 to 16c'per lb. in
case lots. Ilarns—lVfedium, 18 to 183o;
do., heavy. 17 to 18o; rolls,' 15 to 153c;
breakfast bacon, 18 to 19c; backs, 22 to
24e.
Lard—Tlerces, 1220; tubs, 13c; pails,
133c.
Baled nay anti Straw.
Baled hay—No. 1 at 514.50 to $15 a
to on track here;; No. 2 quoted at $7.3
to $13.25, and clover at 510 to 511.
Baled straw—Car lots, 58.25 to 58.50,
on track, Toronto'.
Seeds.
Wholesale seed mesechants are selling
recleaned seeds to the trade, on the 100 -
lb. basis:—Red clover, No. 1, $19 to $21;
do., No. 2, $17 to 517.50; ,alsike, No. 1,
520.50 to 521; do., No. 2, 517 to 518;
Tirnothy, No. f, 58.50 to $9.50; do., No.
2. 57 to 57.25; alfalfa, No. 1, 514 to 515;
do.. No..2, $13 to $18:50. '
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, May 19.—Cash:—Wheat—
No. 1 Northern, 94c, No 2. Northern,
9,23c; No; 3 Northern, 902c; No. 4, 870;
No. 5, 793o; No, 6, 743c; feed, 693c; No.
1 rejected seeds, 897c; No. 2 rejected
seeds, 872e; No, 3 rejected seecle, 853c;
No. 1 smutty, 895c; No. 2 smutty, 873c;
No. 3 smutty, 853o; No, 1 . red Winter.
$43c; No. 2r&7 Winter, 923c; No. 3 red
Winter, 905o. Oats—No. 2 C.W“ 3780;
No, 3 C.W., 363c; No. 1 feed. 363c; No.
2 feed. 35c. Barley—No, 8, 48e; No. e,
47e; -rejected, 440; feed, 4330. Fla)C---
No. 1 N.-W.C„ 51,36; No. 2 CANT., 51.33;
No. 3 C.W„ 51.23,
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, May 19.—Corn—American
No. 2 yellow, '76 to 7630. Oats—Cana-
dian Western, No.2; 43 to 433c; d0..
No. 3, 42 to 423c. Barley—Manitoba
feed, 50 to 510. Flour—Manitoba
Spring wheat patents, firsts, 55.60; do.,
seconds, 55.10; strong bakere', 54,90;
Winter patents, cholee, 55.25 to 55,50;
straight rollers, 54.70 to 54.90; do., in
bags, 52.20 to $2..35. Rolled oats—Bar-
rels, $4.60 to 54.55; bag of 90', lbs.,
52.123 to 52.15. Millfeed—Bran, 523;
'shorts, $25; middlings, $28; mouillie, 528
to $32. Nay—No. 2, per ton, car lots,
514 to 515.50. Cheese --Finest westerns,
123 to 129c; do., easterns, 111 to 1230.
Butter—Choiceet creamery. 23 to 233c;
seconds, 22 to 223c. Eges—Fresh, 23
to 24c; selected, 26 to 27o; No. 1 stock.
23o; No. 2, do., 21 to 22c. Potatoes—Per
bag, car lots, $1.05,to 51.20.
United Stated Markets.
• Minneapolis, Minn, May 19.—Wheat—
May,' 905o; July, Mc; No.'1 hard, 953c;
No. 1 Northern; 923c to 945c; • No. 2
Northern, 925c.. Corn—No. 3 yellow,
663 to 67c. "Oats—No. 3 white, 373 to
38e. Flour and bran, unchanged.
Duluth, Minn., May 19,—Wheat---No.
1 hard, 841e; No. 1 Northern, 935e; No.
2 Northern, 926e; July, 938 to 937c. Lin-
seed closed, cash, 51.5611; July, $1.673.
Live Stook ligarketsi
Toronto, • May 19.—Cattle—Choice
butchers, $7.90 to $8.36; good, 47.90 to
58.25; common cows, 55 to $5.25; can-
ners and cutter's, 53.60 to 54; choice
fait t000wrs.,5056.60 to 57.25; choice bulls,
Calves—Good veal, 58.75, to ats; com-
mon, 54.75 to 57.
•Stockers a.nd feeders—Steers, 800 to
900 paunds, 57.26 to 57.50; good qual-
ity, 700 to 800 pounds, $7 to $7.60; light,
56.26 to 57.25.
Sheen, and lambs—Light ewes, 56.50
to 57; heavy, 55.75 to $6.26; bucks,
$5.75 to 53.26; Spring lambs, each, 56
to $10; yearling lambs, 59 to 59.60, but
with 760 per head deducted for all the
buck lambs. .
1-Iogs—$S.40, fed and watered; $8.60;
off cars; 58, f.o.b. -
Montreal, May 19.—Prime beeves,
71 to -81c; medium, 53 to 76c; milkmen's
strippers. 5 to 7c3- common, 43 to 53c.'
Cows, 535 to 580 each; calves, 8.to 7c;
sheep, 63 to 8e; spring. lambs. 54- to 56
eaoh; hogs. 9e0.
EXPLOSION OF C.IIIEMICALS.
Shaletnres a Mile Away Damaged
By Flying Debris.
'A despatch from Detroit says:
a Ten men, most of them chemists,
were killed- by the explosion of
acid and oheinicals in the mixing -
room of the Mexican Crude Rubber
Company, on the West Side, here
1-.49 Fricla.y. Four other employes,
removed from the steaming debris,
were taken to a hospital. Two men
were less seriously hurt. The
-1 building, a one -storey atructure of
selid concrete and oement was al-
most obliterated. Other buildings
within a radius of a mile were more
• er less damaged. Th,e loss was es-
timated at $50,000. Among these
who es.caped were john H. Evans,
superintendent., and John 0. Tread-
well, manager of the plant. Just
:what caused the explosion probably
will never be known. In the mix-
ing -room was -a, large vat of molten
rubber being•prepared by a secret
process. Without a moment's warn-
ing •the building was. torn to pieces.
Every man who was in the mixing -
;cam at that moment was killed.
The company manufactured imita-
tion leather, and, it is understood
that ether and other explosives were
Used in large quantities. Becanse
bf the secret prooess of preparing
the crude rubber, employes were
not allowed to leave their depa,rt-
aten.t to enter other parts of the
plant. POW of the einployes knew
each other, and it Was Some time
before the victims were identified.
TWO EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
Men Declared With Dying Breath
Companion Did Deed.,
tee despatch from Vancouver, B.O.,
sa,ys : • "As God is my judge, Clark
id killing." These were the only
ords aver approxim,ating eanfes-
pion made by Frank Da,vis just be-
fore he and Herm.an Clark Were ex-
ecuted by Executioner Ellis at New
Westminster jail for the murder on
ll/f,ay 28 last year ,of Police Celesta, -
tale Archibald, of Vancouver. Each
Man has coneistentla Warned the
15ther for the mime ever since both
were arrested( within' a, few hours
after the murder. The two men
*ere pronounced dead .13 minutes
Otter the trap was sprung. Clark
'burned and sneered at Davis as the
two walked to the seaffeld.
4,9KITAIN WANTS REPARA!..I1ON.
—are
•
despatch from Washington says :
e ease of William S. Denton, the
tbith subjeat killed atJuarez
koala threatenitgly on the,
Ooneta:
ilaitaonalist horizon. Great laritairt
has announced that it will exited
4.etequate teparation for this eaent;
„ha doers. ove responsibility can' rbe
hod Upon atathoritie•s from whom
Oath rtPal'SitiOn eas be deraanded.
TOWNS SWEPT AWAY.
"Water Rising a Foot a Minute,"
Said illessage.
Tacoma, May' .17. —Faiebanks
Alaska'cables thetkaCirele City,
Eagle City, and scores 'het-. wood -
choppers and mining camps,, with
many native villages ,along the ,Yu-
kon aho,ve Fort Yukon ha,ae ;been
destroyed by the, worst flood in -the
h1540e7 of the north, a.ccorcling to
meagre reports received to -night.
"Ice jammed somewh.ere below
here and wa,ter tieing at the rate
of more than a foot per minute.
Everybody taking to foothills." This
was the brief rn:essage flashed- franc
the wireless station tat Circle City
and picked, up at Fort Gibbon
. Eked merles. on the Yukon show
that water in the past rose more
than a. hundred feet whea ice
med in the canyons. Circle Oirty
and Eagle City areonly thirty feet
above the Yukon's neanna,1
FLYING TRAIN'S FREAKS.
Lifted 40 -Pound Boy, Car and Chair
Into the Air.
A despatch from London siva :
M. Bachelet's flying train. continues
to attract attention. M. Baehelet
wound up a demonstration of his
• invention by lifting a boy into the
ain in his model passenger car. A
by five years old, weighing forty-
two pounds,sat in a wicker chair;
Bachelea switched on the cur-
rent; and car, oha•ir and boy rose
from the coils and remained sup-
ported in the -air in Mehemet ooffin-
like effect. The little passenger
jumped when he was suddenly
jerked upwards, but quickly broke
into smiles and obviously enj•oyeci
his experience as the first passen-
ger on a flying_train. The medel
car weighs eighteen pounds, so that
the total weight lifted was sixty
pounds.
COLLIER TURNED TURTLE.
Cargo Shifted Suddenly, and 12
Sailors Were Lost.
A despatch from Landon says;
The 'steam collier Turret Hill has
stink, owing to the shifting of her
cargo, off South Wold, in the North
Sea, The chief engineer, who was
picked up by a passing steaenere
said that the steamer turned tur-
tle, heeling over so rapidly that
there was no olea,nee to lannoh the
boats. The eaptain of the Turret
Hill was picked up by another
steamer after he ihad clung for eve-
eral hours to a hife-buoy, . The re-
mainder of the crew, numbering 12,
are believed te have been drowned.
A steam pilot cutter wassunk ori
Wednesday by a steamer in Brietel
Channel. Zee men were drowned
and 18 saved.
Iteck—"De you play any inetru-
menti" Peek (eaday)--"Only sec-
ond fiddle at home,''
$1,405,950,040 IN nuns.
bout Half id Ontario's Farms Are
Burdened By Mortgage.
A"7"1Zut 10 per °ea. of the total
value of the farm property in On-
• tario is morbgages, •aecording to a
statement appearing in the report
of Hen, James S, Duff, Minister of
Agriculture, for the year just pass-
ed. 'This eonelusion is arrived at ae
a result of a/cativaes undertaken by
the thirty-seven represeatatives of
tho Department, who found that 45
per cent. of the farms were mort-
gaged, and one-third -would be a
fair estimate of the amount of- the
mortgages.
This financial survey of fa•rin con-
ditions, as it might be call.ed, is an
innovation in the annual report, arid
informatien was eseertained under
the following heads: (1) The percen-
tage of farms mortgaged, per cent.
ofmortgages in value of farms, and
whether increasing or decreasing;
(2) the extent of deposits by tar:fl-
ees in savings banks; (3) the extent
ef the demand on, the part of farm-
ers for loans; (4) rate of inteahet
paid on both long and short -date
lowne; (5) whetheathe loans are on
the purchasing of land only or are
for financing farm operations.
Bankers business men, lawyers,
registry ace officials and proifii-
nent farmers 'were relied on for the
information gathered, •and the an-
swers are ebneidered reasonably re-
liable.
• There seems to be a unanimous
view that mortgages are decreasing
in number. Payments 4re reported
as being proanptly‘met. A propor-
tion of the mortgages,. it is &seer-
tain.ed, have been taen to ena.ble
specula.tian in western real estate.
With regard to deposits, it is
stated that these have materially
inerea,sed in recent years. One
county estimates a20 to 30 pee cent.
increa.se '• another 70 to 90 per cent.;
another 75 per cent. No accurate
ftgures ca,n be given of the total
amount of farmers', deposits, but
from estimates furnished from the
different counties,
it is assumed that
the farmers of Ontario have one
hundred n,illion dollars at their
credit. To sho-w that this is not an
exaggerated sum,' if is pointed .out
that the farm wealth ef the Pro-
vince is valued at $1,405,950,940.
• The demand for loans does 'net
appear .fo have b,een heavy during
the post year. The, interest' rate
varied from 51/2.• to 7 per cent. On
long loans and from 7 to 8 and per-
haps 10 per cent. • in the newer dis-
tricts on short -date loans. , •
These faces are interpreted, by the,
department. as having an e.pt,iraiste
tone.
C.N.R. UPPER LINE.
Northern Ontaa--io Section_ Will Be
Ready in the Tall.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
Some time next fall the Canadian
Northern line, 'now under construc-
tion from Ottawa to Port Arthur
via Pembroke Eastport, Nor
Bay, and Sudbury, th
lry,, will be put in
operation for ireight and local traf-
fic and probably for traffic of all
kinds, says Sir Donald eilann, vice-
president of the C.N.R. .With the
eompletion of this line frain Ottawa
to Port Arthur, the• Canadian
Northern will have a through line
in operation from Quebec to Bri-
tish Columbia.
'
TWO ARMY AVIATORS RULED.
Machine Turned Over After They
Struck .the Ground.
A despatch from North Allerton;
England, safe Tw.o more Britieh
army aviators Were killed near here
during a combined flight by:al-squa-
dron of military aeroplanes from
Scotland. to Salisbury Plain. The
victims were Lieut. J. • Erapsote, of
the Royal Fusiliers, and Sergeant
Dud:more, •who' was acting as me-
chanic. • The aecident oeturred
while the &via:tone. ivere. ;trying to
land in a dense fog. The machine
struck the ground sharply and ()vele
turned, •the two occupants being
killed by the motor falling on
them.
MONTREAL POLICE FORCE.
Two Hundred Constableand Ten
Deteetives Will Be Added.
A clespatah from Morareal say:
7..hvo hundred additional pellce con-
stables and ten deteotives, at a coat
for the rest of the year of $120,572,
are to be added ,a,t °nee to •the Mont-
real force, Chief Campeau gets
$1,000 increase in salary and ,ein
autormobile for his own ase. 'This
was decided on Wednesday by the
Board of Control. •
HAMILTON FACTORIES BUSY.
Several of Them Have Started to
• Work Overtime.
A despa,teh flame Hainiataa
Several of the Nage east end menu-
factuting ;concerns have started to
work' overtime, The ofeelals of tho
Steer Company of Canada- report
that busieess is picking up, and
they expect to have their plant
we:eking at full capeeity again soon,
The Canadian Westinghouse Corn. -
patty also reports linproved eendi-
t iota., •
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PEA elf CROP ENTIRE FAILURE
---
The Yield in Niagara District Will'
ile, Poorest ia Many Years.
A despatch from St. Cathealnes
says; The past two weeks have eon -
firmed the repeated early predic-
tions that the peach crop in the Nia-
gara district will be the pooreet in
many years, notwithstandieg the
large acreage of young trees that
this year' ehould reach the bearing
• stage for the first time. -
Sitelt well-known Laid prominent
gro-wers as Major Hiseotte Jas. Ons-
low, Salem Muir, and Jas. BradY
f Niagara township unhesitatingly
say that -the peach crop is praeti
cally* ruined, and that there will
not be five hundred baskets of
peaches marketed in the•vicinity af
Virgil and Niagara -on -the -Lake.
Major HisoOtt avert that instead of
the usual thousands of baskets that
he and many neighbors usually ship
growers will not have enough for
their own use, Messrs. Onslow,
Bernard, James, Aikens, and a le'w
others along the lake road say they
cannot find a single bud in their
orchards.
While, the failure of the peach
crop will be felt heavily by commis-
sion men and transportatien com-
panies, the .hlow will fall the most
heavily upon the young farmers who
have bought portions of farms at
high figures with little capital be-
hind them and have devoted all
their land and energy to growing
peaches instead of a mixed crop.
• Japanese plums, too, will be
searce, but a fair crop of standard
variety of plums and pears is prom-
ised, providing afew warm day e are
;experienced. The smaller fruits,
such as strawberries and raspher-
ri-es, promise well.
A. ,W. McCulabin, Dominion Plant
Pathologist, in investigating the
conditions west of St. Catharines,
along the hike shore, found a grow-
er with a peach orchaad of from
eight to ten acre e wh-o offered to
take one dolla,r for his entire crop,
SWINDLED G-ERMANS.
Fake Baron Brought Them to Can-
ada to Farm.
• A despatch from North Ba3,- says:
A man giving his name as Baron
Loner Itieventhal, who ha,s been
making his headquarters at North
Cobalt, Ilea run foul of the law, and
is new in Sudbury Jail as a, result
of his peculiar business transah-
• tions. • Rieventhal advertised in
German. , agricultural newspapers
for a manager to conduct a. Cana,-
.dian. farm oonsisting of 1,400 acres.
He also advertised in Germany for
pupils,' ? stutly Canadian foaming,
anertapiif $15 a month till -bran fees.
Radar& Ruum applied for the posi-
tion of manager, and after consider-
able correspondence• agreed to come
to Canada and manage the farm for
three years, at the end of which
time he was to receive 400 acres of
land beside a monetary considera-
tion. , Rut= came to Canada and
arrived at Noeth Bay, where he met
the "Baron," and the two went to
Warren.. • The "Baron" indueed
Ruum to hand over $550 as an evi-
dence of good faith, and Rieven-
thal then quietly purchased a $8,000
farm from a farmer near Warren,
paying $500 down to bind the bar-
gain. Ruum was introduced to his
new ditties; but became suspicious
and caused his employer's arrest.
Police Magistrate Brodie convioted
the "Baron" of fra,ud a,nd remand-
ed him for s:entence.
_Another young German arived re-
cently to learn Can.adian farming
under the "Baron.," only to find
tha.t he had been duped.
HARD ON OPIUM SMOKERS.
To Be Shot it Found Smoking at
• Chengtu.
• A despatch from Peking, China„
says a Peesone under forty years of
age are to be shot if found smoking
opium at-Chengtu, in the province
of Sze-Ohuen, after the expiratien
of a period of twenty-one days from
Saturday, according to a, govern-
ment announcement just issued.
Those above forty are to be sen-
tenced to terms of penal servitude.
The campaign against opium smolc-
ingh as reached each a point that all
opium smokers in the province are
compelled to submit themselves to
a cotirs.e of treatment. .
STORMY TIMES ON PACIFIC. '
Europeans and Asiaties May Meet
In Deadly Struggle.
A ele.spatch from Auckland, New
Zealand, gays: Sir Ian, Hamilton,
speaking- on Tuesday, taid that des-
pite its charming name the Pacific
is if anything, destined to be more
seormy than other more or loss dis-
tinguished parts of the globe.
"Whilst we deplore sueh a contin-
gency," he said, "it is conceivable
that in the future there will be
greater and more terrible bonvul-
eion,s than in the past, The Pacific
is the, meeting ground, not Of nee
'Lions, hub of continents, and her
might be decided whether A niatics
or Europeans shall guide the des-
tiny of this plenote" ,
«fudge rtugh McDonald Hen ry of
alaiifaa was aecidentally drowned
1
in the mill-raee, near Riverside
Pok, Giaelph, on Friday,
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Items of Ncws by Wire
Notes of Interest as to What Is Going
on MI Cover the World
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Canadao
J. S.
ed amieaon, :M.A., has resign
-
he principalshipof thMorris-
burg Collegiate Institute, after 31
years.
Qwea Sound will vote on June 6
on by-laws' to aid a, dry doek and
shipping company, the Union Ce-
ment Co., and the Canada, Yeast
• A. Bell and J, Pickering, car in -
were drowned by the up-
setting of their boat in the rapid
current at White River, Port. Ar-
thur.
Mrs, Alfred Smith of Owen Sound
was horrified on. awaking in the
morning to find ,her little three -
months -old infanb dead in the bed
beside her. ,
The retail merchants of Prince Al-
bert, Seek., following the leael of
Regina and Meese Jaw, favor put-
ting forward the clocks one hour
from June till September.
Threatening to rob several of the
city's steres ,unless they are given
work, the unemployed of Edmonbon
are about to live up tci one of their
mottoes, `'Work, starve or steal."
Chief of Police Alf, Cuddy, of
Oalga.ry, is being sued by the local
lodge of the Chinese Masonic Order
for $1,000 for raiding their premisesi
on the theory that it was a 'gam-
bling house.
Great' Britain.
Referring to the desire of Bristol
to hold an all-Ca.nadian exhibition,
extending over four months, in
1916, the London Financial Time
approves of the general idea, but
would have it in Landoll..
It
is understood, aecording to the
London Standard, that Sir Edward
Grey advises that no useful purpose
will be served by South American
mediators into Mexieohs ille, and
that he will indicate to the cabinet
a line of,policy villa will go far to
minimize the possibility of . further
bloodshed. •
• United States
An earthquake was felt ia Ogden,
Utah.
Charges of arson, murder, man-
slaughter and larceny against Major
Patriek J. Hamrock of the let Regi -
meet, Colorado National Guard,'
Were filed before a general court-
martial at Denver, resulting from
the recent strike war:
So great was the crush to view
tae catafalque, containing the body
of one of the marines killed in Vera
Oruz in the rotunda, of the muni-
cipal building at Chicago, that
scores of women fainbed, while name(
caught in the smothering press,'
cried for air.
General.
The Mexican Federals evacuated
Tampico and the rebels are in com-
mend.
An anti-rnilitariet, who is a. mem-
ber of the array reserve, stabbed
Major Correia to death in a street
in Covilhao, Portugal. Soldiers
raided the prison and lynched him.l
A friendly Mexican army officer,
has informed General Funston that
seventy murderers imprisoned in
the prison of San Juan de Uluoa e
were released by mistake by the
Americans.
The Allan liner Mongolia, ar-
riving at St. Johns, Nfld., from
Glasgow, repoets the -worst condi-
tions regarding the number and size
of icebergs from the Grand. Banks
ever experienced by anybody on
board.
TWO MEN SHOT DEAD.
Fatal Fight Occurred After a Pub-
lic Dance.
Alele,spateh from North Bay says:
Wonian River, a small baralet on
the Canadian Pacific Railway main
line, 200 miles west of North Bay,.
was the scene of a tragic shooting
affray Friday night, whieh resulted
in twO- men being shot iv -death. A
puhlie dance wai being held; and it
as said that ;considerable liquor was
toneumed by the male dancers,
with the result that a free fight oc-
curred. John Chapman of L'Ora
ginal, Ont., and °seine° Fortin, of
Woman River, drew guns iand be-
gan shoetireg at each other. Both
men were shot dead.
NEED FOR PENAL REFORM.
National Conference of Charities
• ' and Corrections.
A despatch from Memphis, Tenn,,
says: Need at reform in American
and Canadian penal system § was
pointed out on Wednesda,y night by
speakers before the National Con-
ference of Charities and Correc-
tions. While ,different methods of
prison administratinen were ad-
vanced, all the speakers agreed
that outdoor einployment, less re-
striction and kind treatinent were
the most important agents in the
work of reforming criminals.
ea --
Hon. F. D. Monk, foamer Minis-
ter. of Public Works, died at his
home in Montreal on Friday, after
a lengthy illness.
TElk.i MONTHS FOR THEFT.,
Magistrate Determined to Make
Example of First Culprit.
A despatoh from Stratford says:
Williams Abraham, a teamster, was
this morning sentenced by Magis-
trate Otoane in the Police Court to
ten months in the Onta,riteRefeirma-;
tery for the theft, of a horee-clippee
from, the table of the McLeod Mille'.
ing' Company. He pleaded gia1ty.1
"There'a going to he a clean-up of
just su.cli as you," said the Magis-!
trate, in passing sentence. "Unfor-1
turtately for 3,ourse,Lf.you happen to
be the .first, but there are °there
around the -city who, if -they do net
mend their:ways, will be do-ssat there
with you."
The Obliging Papa.
Youth Wilmarth sought an inter-.
'view with Mr. Carpenter.
"I'd like," said the young man
nervously, "to maary your dangle,.
sir."
• "Well, I've 'got six," responded
the obliging father. "Take all you
want."
Bea.uty is only skin deep, but a
lot of intelligence, isn't very mucb
below the scalp either.
The Moen:ton church, has eist.a,b-'
lishad a .00mferesace with headquar-
ters &kat. John'N.B.
Alexander Ross, aged 87 years,'
was burned to death in a fire evhich
started in the home of his brother,'
David Ross, 107 Nerth Bay Street,
Hamilton, on Thursday. The fire
started in the victim's item, evi-
dently from a coal oil above.
ELEVEN DAYS IN OPEN BOAT
•
Small Craft FrOm the Burned Columbian Picked
up Near Sable Island
Washington, May 17.—Four sur-
vivois of & boatload of fifteen who
escaped in the t;hird boat of the
freight, ,s.teamer Columbian, bund
at eta on May 8, were picked up to-
day by the U.S. revenue cutter
Seneca forty mike .sotith of Sable
Island, according to a despatch re-
ecived h.c,re.' from the cutter to-
'1148ht
• 1Veti their Short :allowance of his,-
euit. and Water had failed, they
ipatintairied life by chewing boot
leaiilliar and the few eibray erumbe
of hard tack. Rain watee served
•them when their water ,cask went
dra. The first, two: days after drift'
lag away from the burning Colum-
bian they saw three etestmers,too
far 'away -4e be eignalleel.
The despatch from, Captain
Sothereton, of the Seneca, follows :-.-
'Sable ,Ieland., SS. Seneca :---
"Ten a.m. torty miles uth •
Sable Island; esecu.ect lifeboat With
Officer Robert Tata, Sailors Os.eter
Kendal, Peter Belanger, Fireman
Mieba.el • tialevigsen, survivoes af
,firfteen. Oiler George Hull died 031
the tenth. Peter Tniel died to -day,
the otheas between thedates,
namely, Engineer Margette, Fire-
man Anderson, Antanio, Richmera
Gustafson, Jakob, Boy Dickman,!
Coak Sehrizaberger, Sailor Chriee
tens,en. All died of emposure and
hunger. Shore allowanee bieouite
and water. Eating hiecuit erumbe
and boot leather when reseire•d'
Sew three steamers first thwo days,'
ticeie sinas. Much rain. Fine tea
day. All under doctor, doing well,'
• (Signed) '
Tbe four are the litet of those who
lett the illefataci steam,er Columbian
on 1.:111,6 night, of. May 8 in alf effOrt
to escape the frightful consequenees
of a, fire and explosion aboard ship
at tea,
Eleven others thee.° were in the
small eraft When .he loft the aide of
the Leyland linea but thie feeeneen
nt t.e.11, when the &mean, eenle bo
the lettecor at thefrail craft, butt
five rem ained meb had
and Ole by one, as ,i,hey xlawiy
paSsedont of exiStenee their bodies.
were. (*St Ovenboatd. .'A.tother died,
aftede being rescued.