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Exeter Advocate, 1909-01-28, Page 3OPEMN6 OF PARLIAMCNT Cl overnor-General Read the Speo ch From the Throne in Senate Chamber. A d.•-1 ct 1i from Ottawa says: energetically. Four parties have The ferule! opening of Parliament been at work since August last. Up - took place on Thursday afternoon un the report it will be possible at 3 o'clock, and was attended by to reach a de. ision a3 to both the the customary ceremonial ; the ar- route to bo followed and the up - rival of his Excellency the Cover- proximate cost. nor -General and party from Gov- COVERS COST OF H. B. LINE. Ingrnment, House attended by a .11nounted military escort; the pres- The provision of the Dominion encl. of a guard of honor from the Lands Act of last session for the Cevernor-General's Fort. Guard, sale+ of pre-emptions and purchased the tiring of a salute from Nepean homesteads has created a now Point battery, and a brilliant as- source of revenue that will be suf- sembly in the Senate Chamber, ficient to bear the cost of the rail - where the speech from tho throns way to Hudson's Bay without bur - was read by his Excellency Earl dening the ordinary revenue. Froin Grey, outlining the sessional pro- September 1st, when the Act. came gramme of Government business. into force, until Jan. 1st, sales of 'TEs"T OF THE SPEECH. steads and purchased home- steads have amounted to over two Tu welcoming you to the perforin- million acres, all subject to home- ance of your duties at the first ses- stead rules. sion of a new Parliament, I desire FE'E'DERS FOR I. C. R. A to acknowledge, with devout thank- fulness, the abundant harvest wits► In pursuance of an announce - which divine Providence has again ment made during the concluding blessed us. session of last Parliament, a com• The Quebec Tercentenary festi- ntir.--siun was appointed to examine vities in July, which were honored various linos of railway connected by the gracious presence of his with the Intercolonial Railway, and lluyal Highness, the Prince of which might become valuable feed - Wales, as representing his Majesty. ers thereto. The report of this com- niarked an epoch in the history of mission has been received and will the 1)•.r.:. •i be placed before ,rou. IMPERIAL St'.MP.1THIES. The commissioner appointed for investigating the conduct of oflici- The generous support given to als in the Department of Marine this national celebration by the and Fisheries has concluded his la - Federal Prirliainent. and Provincial bor, but has not yet reported. His report, however, is expected at an early date, and when received will be placed in your hands. A measure will be submitted to you, based upon similar legislation enacted in 1906 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, aiming at the repression of the payment of secret commissions and gratuities both iu public and private business. You will be asked to consider measures relative to insurance, the civil service, immigration, natura- lization, and other subjects. POLICE SHOT SIX CHINESE. i•'ierce Riot at Transvaal Mine by 890 ('hin;uiien. A (despatch from Johannesburg, Transvaal, says: There was an out- break of fierce rioting at the Village of Deep imine on Thursday, in which six Chinamen lost their lives and a scorn were so seriously injured that they had to be sent to hospi- tals. The Chinese laborers at the mine have been in an ugly temper for some time past. Thursday morning 800 men refused to go to work and started wrecking the com- pound. The police were twice driv- en hack by the Chinamen. Eventu- ally they made use of their arias and order was restored. 4 Legislatures, and by the peoples of Canada, of the. other Dominions, and of the United Kingdom, em- phasized the community of sympa- thy which binds the various parts of the British Empire to each other, and to the throne and person of his Majesty the King. The presence of representatives from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, and from the great and friendly repub- lics of France and the United States, with the ships of war of the three nations, served not only to acid lustre to the occasion, but to provide an assurance of increasing amity and peace. U. S. TREATY READY. I have much pleasure in announc- ing that a treaty relating to the great lakes and other international waterways has, been agreed upou between his Majesty and the Gov- ernment of the United States of America, and is now awaiting rati- fication. Both countries are to be congratulated uu having arrived at an amicable settlement, which I trust will remove during the life- time of the treaty many vexed ques- tions from the field of controversy. The treaty and papers relating thereto will be laid before you in due course. ASSISTANCE TO SICILY. The appalling calamity which has befallen Sicily and Southern Italy, and caused a total destruction of life and property absolutely unpre- cedented and unequalled in the long series of historic disasters, has in- duced my Government to offer as- sistance. DEPRESSION C'ALLS FOR CAU- TION. A little more than a year ago, the whole civilized world entered into a period of commercial, industrial and financial depression, which may not yet have completely spent its force; signs there are, however, that it is gradually passing away. While it is hardly disputable that owing to the abundance and elas- ticity of her resources Canada has suffered Icss than other nations, this depression has seriously affect- ed our trade. producing an appreci- able shrinkage, in the public re- venue. and calling for exceptional caution in the administration of our national nfftairs. PART OF G. T. P. WORKING. i'l-BLIC ACCOUNTS. Reports for the Year Ending March 31 Lam( PreMrnted. A despatch from Ottawa says: The public accounts for the fiscal year ended March 31 last year were presented on Thursday to parlia- ment. Receipts on account of con- solidated fund were $96,054,503; ex- penditures, $76,641,451. Expendi- tures chargeable to capital totaled *30,429,906, while other expendi- tures c ndi- tures were fur railway subsidies 32,037,621); for bounties 2,787,354. The net debt was $277,960,959, an increase of 814,248,999. The year ending March 31, the government made a profit of 9291.2058 upon its silver coinage, 11:1(1 $4,411 upon its copper coinage. TONS OF DYNAMITE BLEW P1 Four Killed and Ten Injured at \%'oi'ke In New Jersey. 'I't.a rapid settlement of the new .\ despatch from Newark. N. J., Province., calls ter new lines of says: Four men were killed and ten transportation. The c-,nstruction of others injured. one fatally, when the trans -,continental railway has several tons of dynamite in one of been vigor lusty pressed forward the buildings of the Forcite Pow- dering the last year. The line was der Works, at Lake Hopatcong, open fur the carrying of the crops blew up late on Wednesday. The tarn Winnipeg to the Battle River, detonation shook the country for a distanee of 675 miles. miles arcnnid, and blew the building Exploratory surveys for a railway containing it to atoms. Of the four - from the Western wheat fields to teen mien who were working. not Hudson's Bay are being pu!hed one escaped death , r injury. TRAGEDY AT KRONAII, SAS Mrs. Frank Engle and Four Children Were Burned to Death. despot ': i, •11 Kronen, Sask., was '• ,•.sated before she could \W hilt. Frank Engle, a well- reach t 1.m. The boy who escaped t •1 • fernier, was absent from house trade three unsuccessful attempts fire destroyed his house, his wife to rescue the family, but was driven and f n r children. t h c eldest ten back each time, the stairs giving years of age. perishing in the way in the last attempt. The fire flame,. One bov sixteen )ears started about 1 n'elock on Wedne:. old. who slept d,wnstairs. escaped. day morning from an overheated The moth ‘r. who also slept down• stovepipe. Mr. Engle was en a stairs. attempted to re -erne the chit- bu9iness trip to Milestone when the dren t) at were asleep upstairs, but terrible calamity occurred. COXhi.NSED VIEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALi. OVER THE (;1.013 E. Telegraphic Briefs From Our Ouu and Other Countries of Recent Li eats. CANADA. Building prospects at Winnipeg this year are exceedingly good. The civil servants at Ottawa have received an increase of 8150 each. The total output of Ontario mines in 1907 aggregated in value $25,- 000,000. Hyde Park Public School, near London, Ont., has been closed on account of an outbreak of diph- theria. Joint stock companies incorpor- ated in Ontario in 1907 and 1908 have an aggregate capitalization of $600,000,000. Mrs. J. U. Filteau was burned to death at Quebec in a fire that de- stroyed the Behind building, on Thursday. The Ontario Governmentis con- sidering the question of extending the T. k N. O. Railway from Charl- ton to Elk Lake. The Attorney -General has ad- dressed a strong letter to Police Magistrates in regard to law en- forcement against disorderly houses A C. P. H. express was wrecked near Andover, N. B., on Thursday The express, mail and baggage cars were burned. The mails were saved. Oliver Pepin was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for as- saulting a jeweller'3 store at Mont- real and attempting to rob the store. Mrs. Eccles Lennox is suing the C. P. R. for damages for the death of her husband, who was murdered in the company's yard at Winnipeg. Negotiations between the city and the street railway at Winnipeg have been broken off, and the Coun- cil will go ahead with the munici- pal power plant. A plumber named Royal was suf- focated while working in the Cote des Neiges College at Montreal, on Thursday. His torch exploded, and he could not get out. Over five hundred loaves of bread :were seized in a Jewish bakery at \Winipeg, fur being short in weight. The proprietor offered a bribe of $100 to the officials, and will have to answer in court_ GREAT 13RIT.IIN. The Londt,n unemployed had a clash with the police in Berkeley Square on Thursday. UNITED STATES. Two men were drowned in one foot of water near Plattsburg, N.Y. A Long Island girl swallowed half a paper of pins, so that she would not have to go to school. Eleven foreigners, stupid from li- quor taken at a wedding, were burned to death at Goodtown, Pa. Both Ifouses of the Tenessee Leg- islature passed the Prohibition act over the Governor's veto on Wed- nesday. Two thousand residents of Belle- vue, n suburb of Pittsburg, Pa., are ill from drinking water with sewage in it. The Waterways Treaty between Canada and the United States has Leen favorably reported to the United States Senate. President Roosevelt has asked that action on the anti-Japanese bills now before the California Leg- islature be delayed. Governor Dene tn of Illinois,ois in his message to the State Assembly, urged the completion of a lakes -to - gulf deep waterway. Gonipers, Mitchell and Morrison, the three American labor leaders, have declared that they will ask no pardon in connection with their re- cent conviction. Frank H. Bell of Toronto has en- tered an action in the Probate Court at Boston to break the will of his nu,ther. who, thinking him dead, had left her property to others. GENERAL. Half a million suicides yearly aro said to he due to the use of opium. New Zealand licensed victuallers have decided to employ no barmaids in their establishments henceforth. .1 wide -spread plot, having for its aim the overthrow of the con- stitution, has been discovered in Turkey. The South African Union con- s•ention has solved all tho prob- lems set before it with the excep- tion of the choice cif a capital. The Young Australian party has issued a manifesto demanding that Australian citizens shall own, con- trol and rule the Commonwealth MURDERER WAS HANGED. HIE WORLD'S MARKETS RAILWAY COMPANYBLANED` IMPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, (;rain. Cheese and Other hairy Produce at Houle and Abroad. Verdict of Coroner's Jury on the Fatality at Grimsby. A despatch from Grimsby says: 13RI:AI>ST[ FI'S. Great interest was taken in the Toronto. Jan. 20. --Flour - On- enquiry into the level crossing ac- tario wheat 90 per cent. patents cident at Grimsby, by which five quoted at $3.70 to 83.75 to -day in lives were lost. The Town Hall at buyers' sacks outside for export. Grimsby, where the investigation Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.80 v.as condti('tcd by Coroner Alexan- un track, Toronto; second patents, der, was crowded on Wednesday $5.30, and strong bakers', $5.10 to to such extent that standing room $5.20. was at a premium. The trend of Wheat -Manitoba wheat, $1.09 to the evidence was solely as to the $1.03'%j for No. 1 Northern, at $1.- condition of the crossing where the 00 to $1.06,'.1 for No. 2 Northern, fatality occurred. It was shown by and at $1.04 for No. 3 Northern, the evidence of the night operator Georgian Bay ports. No. 1 North- that there are eight trains in ei- ern at $1.13% to $1.14, all rail, and ther direction through the night, No. 2 Northern at $1.10% to $1.11, and that they run at various rates all rail. of speed, ranging from twenty-five Oats ----Ontario No. 3 white at 39% to forty-five miles an hour. to 40c outside, and at 42 to 42%e The jury after a brief consider - on track, Toronto; No. 2 Western ation, returned the following von - Canada oats at 45e, lake ports, and diet, which is meeting with general No. 1 feed, 42c, lake ports. approval throughout the district :- Rye -No. 2 quoted at 69 to 70c + - outside.r $1.07'; asked. Rye -No. 1, 77%e. Barley -No. 2 barley quoted at 56 Corn -May, 61%c asked. Barley - to 57c outside; No. 3 extra at 54 Standard, 66c; samples, 61% to 65c; to 55c, and No. 3 at 52 to 53e. No. 3, 61''A to 63c; No. 4, 61 to 62c. Buckwheat -56 to 58.4c outside. Peas -No. 2 quoted at 86 to 87c CATTLE MARKET. outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow nominal at 67%c, on track, Toron- to, and No. 3 yellow at 60%c, To- ronto; Canadian, 64c. Bran -Cars are quoted at $19.50 in bulk outside. Shorts quoted at $21 to $22 in bulk outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -Winter stock quoted at $3.50 to $4.50 per barrel for good qualities, and at 82 to $3 for cook- ing apples. Beans -Prime, $1.85 to $1.90, and band -picked, $1.95 to $2 per bush. Honey -Combs, $2.25 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10% to ltc per pound. Hay -No. 1 timothy is quoted at $11 per ton on track here, and No. 2 at $8. Straw -$7 to 87.50 on track. Potatoes-Ontarios 60 to 62%c per bag. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 11 to 13c per pound; fowl, 9 to 10e; ducks 11 to 13c; geese, 11 to 12c; turkeys, 17 to 18c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 24 to 25c; tubs and large rolls. 22 to 23c; in- ferior, 20 to 21e. Creamery rolls, 27 to 28c, and solids, 26 to 20%c. Eggs -('ase lets of cold storage. 2:; to 2Ce per dozen; pickled, 24 to 25c, and new laid are quoted at 35e per dozen. Cheese -Large cheese, 13%c per pound, and twins, 13'/,c. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, I0% to Ile per pound in case lots; mess pork, $19 to $19.50; short cut, $22.50 to $23. Hams -Light to medium, 13', j to 14e; do., heavy, 12'1r; rolls, 10,1,= to Ile; shoulders, 10 to lo!;e ; backs 16 to 16%c; breakfast bacon, 14% to 15e. Lard --Tierces, 12%c; tubs, 12%e; pails, 13c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Jan. 26. --Peas -- No. 2, 91 to 9bc. Oats -Canadian West- ern No. 2, 47c; extra No. 1 feed, 46%e; No. 1 feed, 45'/,c ; Ontario No. 2 white, 45%c; Ontario No. 3, 44'.e; Ontario No. 4, 43%e; No. 2 barley, 63 to 64%c; Manitoba feed barley, 55% to 50e; buckwheat, 55'; to 56c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, first~, $5.60 to $5.90; Manitoba Spring wheat patents, seconds, $5.10 to $5.40; Manitoba strong bakers', $4.90 to $5.20; Winter wheat patents. $5 to 15.25; straight rollers, $4.60 to $4.70; do., in hags, $2.15 to $2.25; extras, in bags, $1.75 to *Lea. Feed -Manitoba bran, $21 to $22; Manitoba shorts, $24 ; Ontario bran $21 to 821.50; shorts, $24 to $24.- 50: middlings, $24.50 to $25: pure grain manilla, 828 to $30; mixed leonine, les to $27. Cheese -Fin- est western, 122 to 12%e; east- ern, 12 to 12%e. Butter -- Finest creamery, 26% to 27c; fresh re- ceipts, 25%to 26c. Eggs -New laid eggs, 35 to 40e; selected stock, 28 to 29c; No. 1 stock, 25 to 26c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Jan. 20. -- Wheat - Spring, steady; No. 1 Northern. carloads, store, $1.14',4; Winter, firmer; No. 2 red, *1.10; No. 2 extra red, /1.08%; No. 2 white, 91.08: No. 2 mixed, $1.09. ('ern -Higher ; No. 3 yellow, 63% to Glc; No. 4 yellow, 63 to 63%c; No. 4, 62'„ to 62%c; No. 3 white, C63' e; George Johnson Went Calmly to No 2 r ed, 'oli�, Iran a' 4 �4Wheat - the Seaffold at Keoora. May. 81 09%; July, 81 08%; No. 1 A despatch from Kendra says : hard. +11.11 to $1.11%; No. 1 North - George F. Johnsen, the 24 -year-old ern. 91.10'x; No. 2 Northern 11. - murderer of Mrs. ('hsrl's :Acker- 09'4 to $1.08%; N.e 3 Nortier•n, than, was hanged nn Wednesdrf• $1.0114 to $1.064. Bran -819.00 tnorninz. He went to depth calm- to 919.50. Fleur --First patents. ly. Ile was a hired man at the $1.05; second patents, 95.25 to $5. - Ackerman home and suddenly ap- 45: first clears, 84 to $4.10; second peered to go insane. He killed the clears, $2 93 to 83.05. woman with a hatchet, hut. claimed Milwaukee. Ja',t. 26. -Wheat -- later npt to have known what he No. 1 Northern, 1+1.12; No. 2 Was doing. Northern, $1.10; May, $1.073 to Toronto, Jan. 26. -Exporters - Good demand for choice bulls and steers. Butchers' -Best quality and heavy cattle in strong demand at firm prices. All others down. Milch cows in active demand, but common not wanted. Calves - Steady at last week's prices. Sheep and lambs -Market steady at lower prices. Hogs -Steady and unchang- ed. Stockers -Good demand and market steady to firmer at 83 to $3.75; good heavy feeders, $4 to $4.25; short -keep, $4.50 to 84.00. HUSBAND 110 YEARS OLD. Arrested In Toronto for Non -Sup- port of Wife. A despatch from Toronto says: To have lived to the ago of 110 years --65 as a slave in the South- ern States -every day of which was spent in hard and earnest toil, and then to he arrested for non-support, was the fate which awaited Win. H. Morgan and which came to hien on Wednesday night, when he was lot ked in a cell at the Court Street Police Station on a warrant issued by his second wife, who is 56 years of age. When taken to the station the old than told the story of his life in a few words, without appar- ently realizing his position. He re- called the days spent under the lash on the Southern plantations, and his comparatively happy life in Canada during the past 45 years, and then quietly went to his cell. According to his wife, he has money in the bank, but she says that she could never find out how much he had. She gave no details when she laid the complaint. BANK STATEMENT. .tn increase in Amount et Deposits Noted for December. A despatch from Ottawa says: The bank statement for the month of December shows an increase of savings deposits frons 8200.315,809 in November, to $210,180,115, and an increase in depeeits upon aur - rent account from ,m b 410180,1 7 to 41129,719,21s. Current loans in ('a - nada have decreased from 11515,- 698,476 to 8511,509,909. "That the said Wm. Wilson, Ida Wilson, Geo. Teeter, Jennie Ger- trude Teeter, and Gordon Nelson, carne to their deaths from being struck by a Grand 'trunk express on Depot Street cr.issing at 2.55 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 16. We ex- onerate the train crew from any re- sponsibility. We censure the Grand Trunk Railway Company for re- moving the night watchman when the said crossing had only a single track, and culpable negligence in view of the past accidents, together with the fernier jury's verdict, for not protecting the said crossing with watchman and gates, and thus preventing the recent accident. "We also consider this an ex- tremely dangerous crossing, and re- commend the Railway Commission to take steps at once to have the said crossing properly protected." NURSE'S GOOD L1'CK. Miss Ethel (Allies Left a Fortune by u Grateful Patient. A despatch from Chatham says: A report has been received here to the effect that Miss Ethel Gillies has been left a fortune of $200,000 by a patient whore she nursed through a fatal illness. It is stated that the young lady was pursuing her calling in ono of the large American hospitals when a mall thought to be suffering with a fatal sickness was brought to the hos- pital. Through the weeks in which the man hovered on the verge of death the young lady did all that was possible to alleviate his suffer- ings. The end finally came. and then it was found that the plan had been possessed of considerable means. He had no close relationa, the story goes, and left the greater part of his fortune of 8200,000 to the young lady who had been kind to him. ANOTHER EAR'I'1IQ1'AtiE. Second Shock Experienced in .t'i- nlie Turkey. A despatch from Smyrna. .1 .:tie Turkey, says: Another earthquake was experienced here at 2.10 on Wednesday morning, but no dam- age was done. News of the effects of the shock of Tuesday continues to come in slowly. Over 300 dwel- lings were destroyed in villages in the Phocaea district, twenty-five utiles northwest of Smyrna, but only a few persons lost their lives. At Menomen two persons were kill- ed and ten houses collapsed, and two persons lost their live., and a number of buildings were damaged at Cassaba. The local authorities have sent out doctors, tents and food. 4•- SS'11'1i ORIENTAL I1'd.FN9011. Lady Violet Elliot Mei ricsl to f.urli Charles Filzinauriee. A de'patch from Calcutta slyest Lady Violet Mary Liliot, third daughter of the Earl of Minto, Vice- roy of India, was united in marri- age on Wednesday to Lord Charles George Francis Fitzmaurice, sec- ond sou of the Marquis of Lans- downe. The ceremony took place in St. Paul's Cathedral, and was most brilliant. There vas much Orien'al splendor in evidence. Tho Bishop of Calcutta officiated. 53 MEN BURNEP TO DEATH An Explosion at Chicago Caused a rlrerriilo Tragedy. A despatch from Chicago says: of the disaster dawned upon the Blown to pieces by exploding pow- men• der, burned to death by the result -One of the workmen, with it cool• er head than his fellows, Abandon - ant fire, or drowned in the icy ed the shouting and frantic men on waters of Lake Michigan, was the the crib platform, and Made his fate on \\'ednesday of fifty-three way through the smoke to a little workmen Ville were working on a enclosure in which was a telephone submarine tunnel at a wooden crib, that cnmuntnicalcd with the sh ►ro a toile and a half from shore. The stat 1' 11. crib was used in the construction CRY FOR HELP('i'T 511.1111'. of a new submarine water tunnel The drowsy attend:int ou ahem connecting with the south side shore was brought into action by a via.. of the city at 73rd Street. lent ringing of the telephone hell, Ninety-five wurkn:en were em- and this was the mes ige hic!1 ' e& ploycd in the crib and the connect- on foot the work of rescue: tag tunnel at the time of the explo- "The crib on fire. 1'•.r Gel's cion, which started the fire and sake send help at once or WO will blew or drove men into the water. be 'eeriest' alive. The tug --'' Owing to the difli•:ulty exp'riencer! At this paint cvmntuuivateei by small craft in rea_hiee the crib ceased. (luring the Winter, n: '' of the The tt'g T. M. M.rofor,t, in workmen employed en t'•. work. charge cf Cant. Johnse,t. a• ;,1 - particularly those wh t h a.",, few- el'or within a short di.ta- c f •' Ries, slept in temporary bunks on imperilled crib, wa; th• fir-: t the crib. It :..ta past as thes., men into the wort: of rr T• • e } w7 -'''1 r t A '' I a i been a. R c.l for he d e•s wade imp 1 1• t ,� t� :.) h ( i t r work that the re:plot ioa ra:carred reach the in;p, :: '.1 i in a small 1• •sd:'r house about 160 small boat was r. -^d • •••! 1 . t yards fr •ta the crib structure pi' injured to the e.tca►ner .1 t : per. !i. seas not anti! the 'lames cue those who had plan- and lan and strtlint• •m.oke penetrated t!:g waters of the bake rather " so -reviled "lit ing-room" of the evil) the tlen:e, c i:irh ::c'C r'. i.:g , t'.9 and the tunnel that the full impart crib structu;e. 4