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Exeter Advocate, 1909-07-08, Page 3GASOLINE TANK EXPLODED r Terrible Dominion Day Tragedy Reported From Nova Scotia. _f A despatch from Yar:nouth, N. been playing about the station cele - S., says: Two boys killed, four brat ing Uuminiou Day. Ono of serioui,ly injured soil a station theta had a candle and just before building destroyed on the Halifax the mishap be went into the station and Southwestern Railway at Shag- and asked the agent for a match, harbor, Shelburne County, result which she gave hire. He returned cd .•n 'Thursday from boys celebrat to his companions and an instant ing the glorious first and exploding later a deafening explosion was a barrol of gasoline. About 3 hoard. A barrel of gasoline had o'clock on Thursday afternoon it been standing on the station plat - was discovered that tite combined form. This explosive liquid was ig- passenger station and freight shed sited. was on fire and burning fiercely. A One of the boys was found dying locomotive was run up abreast of beyond the railroad track. The the scene and the train's fire up- top of his head was literally blown paratus was at once put to work, off and his brains were scattered with the result that the fire was about in a terrible manner. An - overcome as the building was about othet was found lying on the plat - half destroyed. The trainmen at form near the spot. where the barrel once commenced an investigation. stood. He had evidently bean From the. incoherent utterances rendered unconscious and had been of the wotni►u station agent it ap- burned to death in a very short peered that a number of boys, per- time. Four others wore found in haps seven or eignt all told, had various positions, all uncouscious. NEW CUSTOMS RECORDS. Last Month's Returns Beat -ill the June Records. A despatch from Toronto says: Customs collcetions at the port of Toronto for the mouth of June to- talled $924,063.21. This is the larg- est amount ever collected for June at this port., being $276,766.08 more than the amount for June last year, at which time apparently, the pinch of the general trade and financial depression was most severely felt. The ,lune collections for 1907 were $909.594.51, and for the same month in 1906, $732,677.70. The returns for the month of June, coming as they do with the wide- spread feeling of confidence, and Gas other evidences of renewed business and trading activity, stem to indicate that the tido his turn- ed strongly in the direction of re- newed gtneral prosperity. -1 CROPS LOOKING WELL. Abundant Harvest Promised in Saskatchewan and Alberta. A despatch from Ottawa says: Dr. Saunders, director of the ex- perimental farms, has telegraphed the Department of Agriculture from Indian Head, Sask., under date of June 30, as follows: -"Have seen crops over large arca in Saskatche- wan and Alberta. Grain in all districts visited has very healthy appearance. Is growing rapidly and promises well. \Winter wheat in Southern Alberta in some places partly Winter -killed has been re - sown with Spring grain crops from experimental faros here. Soine early varieties of grain beginning M head, although grain in sonic districts was sown late. Favorable conditions now prevailing justifying the expectation of an abundant harvest." RUNNING Ft'I.I. TIME. Orders issued For the Point Sl. Charles Shops. Montreal, July 1. -Notice has been posted up at the Grand Trunk's Point St. Charles shops to run full time. The new order means much to the Point. Since a year ago last August the time has l'ecn 7 to :, o'clock. and no work on Saturdays. The new• time will be from 7 to 6 weekdays. and 7 to 12 nn Saturdays. This makes 1' n hours a week more to each man, a substantial addition to the week- ly income. A DOUBLE DiROWNING. Yacht Struck by Squall and Upset Near Sorel, Que. A despatch from Montreal says: \Word was received in the city or, Thursday evening of a double yaen'- ing fatality near Sorel, by which two Montreal young men, Herbert Shaw and Archie Crossley, lost their lives. A third member of the crew, Ilert Hanna, the owner of the yacht, was saved. Tho three young men left Lake Side on Thursday morning with the yacht Red Fea- ther, one of the speediest, boats on Lake St. Louis, intending to make a cruise to Lake Champlain for the tercentenary there. The yacht was struck by a squall somewhere neat Sorel, disntasted and upset, an 1 two of the young men were drowned, while the thrd was saved. + - FATALITIES .AT 'TORONTO. Drowned. Struck by 'Trolley, Jumped from Bridge. A despatch from Toronto says: Returning from a day's sportat Oakville, where he had taken part :n a number of athletic events, John 11. Wilkie, a young Scotchman, who had just bid his cousin good -night. was struck down by a street car at King and Simcoe streets at 10 o'clock on Thursday night, and died a few moments later. While bath- ing in the long pond at the island en Thursday morning, lt-year-old Leonard Bulstrodo, 101 Cooper av- enue, West Toronto, was drowned. and Alfred Frost, porter at Orr Bros., jumped to Ids death from the Glen -road bridge in the early hours of Thursday morning. THE FLOOR (i.AYE WAY. Fatal Accident at the ('ower Sta- tion at Ottawa. A despatch from Ottawa says: James Ingrain, an employee of the Ottawa Electric Railway Company died on 'Thursday morning ns a re- sult of injuries sustained in a fall through the collapse of a floor at the power station. With two other men. John Canty and John Wilson, Ingram was working above the channel leading to the power wheels when the floor suddenly gave way, and the three teen fell through a distance of twenty feet. Ingram Was recited unconscious, aftrr be - was rescued unconscious, after Ne- to the ('haudiere. Canty and \\il- son escaped with minor injuries. MESSINA AGAIN SHAKEN Ruins of Former Buildings Demolished With Loss of Life. A despatch front Messina, Sicily, says : Six months after the de- vastating earthquake of 1)ee. 28, which laid waste over a scorn of cities and towns in L'alebria and Sicily and killed 200,000 people, Messina and Iteggi.• were on Thurs- day morning again visited by an earthquake which, had they been rebuilt. would have laid thein a Owned time in ruins. Earthquake stocks both here and in Reggio at 7.20 t.'rlock on Thursday morning created a panie among the people of these two cities. Walls of houses that were not completely destroyed in the visitation of last December were shaken down and one woman was killed. The earth shacks have been be- coming more intense recently and on Wednesday night they were suffi- ciently se•err to cause alarm. The ,hicks of Thursday morning were accompanied by deep roaring sounds. The first one was folfewed lbs an explosion like the roar of cannon. and lasted between eight and ten seconds, which seemed an eternity to the terrified popula- tion. It i:i said that this quake was of greater severity than the fatal one of the night of December 29. The wooden houses and huts erected for the accommodation of the people seemed to be thrown from one side to another. ('ries filled the air as the people fled in terror. On the night of Dee. 29, the first shock was followed by a circular movement of the ground. Five minutes later there came another quake accompanied by another roaring sound. This completed the destruction. The remains of the devastated houses collapsed and the entire district was covered by a dense cloud of dust. . TEN KILLED Rome. July 1 -Private telegrams from Mcsssina give the number of persons as ten, including a lieu- tenant, two anldiers and two ear- bineers. CONDENSED NEWS 1TE;NSTTHE WORLD'S MAR1iEfS' OAPPLNINCS FRO)) ALL OTI U 111L GLOBE. 7'elegraphlo Briefs From Onr Owa and Other Countries el RTeecet Eteuts. CANADA. Nearly $1,250,000 of Ontario's $3,500,000 h,an has been subscribed. Tho residence of Mr. John Bow- ers of (;ooderhant was burned on \Vednesday and his ten -year-old daughter lost her life in the fire. A report coupes from Amherst, N. S., that Montreal capitalists have purchased the Rhodes, Curry Company's car works. The crop report of the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company tells that grain in the west on summer -fallow land is very heavy. Bush. fires aro raging on both sides of the Montreal River near Elk Lake. four settlers' houses and three shacks have been des- troyed. In the Montreal graft inquiry n witness testified to having paid ex - Chief itenoit of the Fire Brigade $600 or $900 from men taken on the forst. I. McLaren of Fort William full five hundred feet, down the side of Monnt McKay, and was saved from serious injury by plunging into a tree -top. Injunctions have been served on the Mayor and City Clerk of Ham- ilton to prevent them from making a contract with the Hydro -electric Power Commission. A second plant for the electric smelting of ores is being erected in Sweden, and the matter is of great interest to Canada, where a similar enterprise may soon be started. GREAT BRITAIN. Dominion Day was celebrated in London with great pomp. Many eminent Canadians were present and made speeches. UNITED STATES. The United States Senate has fin- ished its discussion of tariff schedules. A Texas woman cleared $00,000 last year on 135 acres of Bermuda unions. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King and Pr. Grenfell received degrees from Harvard University. The Mississippi Legislature took action against the Standard Oil Company under the anti-trust law. The State of Tennessee went dry at midnight on Wednesday night. Bargain -hunters, looking for cheap liquor, were very numerous. GI?xI:I1:1L. Tuan Fang, a progressive states- man, has been made Viceroy of the Chinese province of Chihli. Chancellor Von Buelow of Ger- many has intimated that he wilt re- tire as soon as his finance reform measures have been disposed of. -- --tet,-- SIN SUICIDES' BODIES. More Bodies Recovered From the Niagara Whirlpool. A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says : Two more floaters were discovered in the Whirlpool on Thursday, minus legs, arms and head. These two, with the four al- ready taken from the Whirlpool and Lower River, snake six bodies re- :•overed.chiring the past ten days. They are not the results of any re- cent suicides, but bodies that are supposed to have been . ictinis of Niagara's charms of months ago, extricating themselves from the rocks, where they have been held fust for months. -- CONI) I'('TOII KILLED. Fatality on C. l'. R. Fitly Niles West of North Bay. .1 despatch from North Bay says: :\shland Ardell, C. P. R. conductor, was killed near Markstay. fifty-five miles west of North Bay, on Wed- nesday night, while walking along the track. Ardell's train was stalled by a freight wreck which had block- ed the line, and he had walked out to a farm house one mile away, where a party was in progress. Re- turning to his train he trust have been struck by the westhnund \Win- nipeg express. his mangled body be- ing picked up on Thursday morn- ii.g by a section man. Arden leaves a widow and one child in North Bay. ____a•_ _ MET.111. WORKERS ON STRIKE Over (0,i00 Men (sol in Pittsburg District. A despatch from Pittsburg says: Reports received here nn Thurs- day show that the strike of the Amalgamated Association of iron, Steel and Tin \Workers, as a result of the open shop order, is effective REPORTS FROI THE 1 FADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, (:raln, Chee'.e and Other Dairy Produce at plume and Abroad. Bits:ADST LEES. Toronto, July 6. -Flour -Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $5.40 to $5.130 to -day in buyers' sacks out- side for export, and at $3.60 to $5.- 90 un track, Toronto. Manitoba flour, first patents, $6.20 to 86.40 CAI track, Toronto; second patents, $5.75 to 85.90, and strung bakers', $5.50 to $5.70 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 North- ern, $1.37%, Georgian Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.35%, and No. 3 at $1.33 Ontario Wheat -No. 2 $1.34 to $1.35 outside. Barley -Feed barley 60 to 62c out- side. Oats -No. 2 Ontario white 58 to 58%c on track, Toronto, and 54':! to 55c outside. No. 2 Western Canada oats, 57c, and No. 3 56c, Bay ports. Peas -Prices purely nominal. Ryes --No. 2, 74 to 75c outside. Buckwheat -No. 2, 70c outside. Corti -No. 2 Atnc•rican yellow, 81c on track, Toronto. Canadian yel- low, 75 to 76c, Toronto freights. Bran --$20.50 to $21 for Ontario bran outside in bulk. Manitoba, 823 to $23.50 in sacks, Toronto freights.; shorts, $24.50 to $25, To- ronto freights. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$t to $3 for choice quali- ties, and $3 to $3.50 for seconds. Beans -Prince, $2.20 to $2.25, and hand-picked, $2.40 to $2.45 per bushel. Maple Syrup. -95c to $1 a gallon. Hay -No. 1 timothy at $11.50 to $12.00 a ton on track here, and low- er grades, $8 to $9. Straw -$7 to $7.50 on Potatoes -Car lots of 75c per bag, on track. Poultry - Chickens, yearlings. dressed, 12 to 13e per Ib. ; fowl, 10 to plc; turkeys, 16 to 18e per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 19 to 20c; tubs and Large rolls, 18 to 19c; in- ferior, 15 -to 16c; creamery, 23 to 24c, and separator, 20 to 21c per lb. Eggs -Case lots, 20c per dozen. Cheese -Largo cheese, old, 14 to 14%e per lb., and twins, 11% to 1-t 2c. New quoted at 12%c for large, and at12`/, for twins. HOG PRODUCTS. iBacon-Long clear, 13% to 13%e e per ib. in case lets ; mess pork, *23 to $23.50; short cut, $25 to $25.50. Hams -Light to medium, 15'1 to 1Gc ; do., heavy, 14 to 14!..2c; rolls, 12!/ to 13c ; shoulders, 11% to 12c; backs, 19 to 18%c; breakfast bacon, 16% to 17e. Lard --Tierces, 11%c; tubs, 14%e; pails, l t',ic. BUSINESS .\T MONTREAL. Montreal, July 8. -Oat'. No. 2 Canadian Western, 60e; extra No. 1 feed, 59,;c; No. 1 feed, 59''.,c; No. 3 Canadian Western. 59e ; barley, No. 2, 72' to 74c ; Manitoba feed barley, 67 ! , to CSSe ; buckwheat, 69% to 70e. Flour--Manitoha Spring wheat patents, firsts, 36.30; Mani- toba Spring . wheat patents, sec- onds, 85.80; Mttnit.,ba strong bak- ers', $5.60: Winter wheat patents, *6.75; straight rollers, 80.50 to $0. GO; st raignt rollers, in bags. $3.15 t., $3.20; extras, in bags, $2.65 to $2.80. Feed---Miulitoha bran, *22 to $23; Manitoba shorts, $21 to $25; pure grain niouille, $33 to $33; mixed snouille, $29 to $30. Cheese -Westerns, 11% to 11%e, and east - erns at 11% to 11%e. Butter -Fin- est creamery 2.21c. Eggs -18% to lee per dozen. track. old, 65 to UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, July O. -Wheat -Spring wheat steady ; No. 1 Northern, Northern, carloads store, $1.32;'4 ; Winter nominal. Corn -Easier ; N... 3 }.slow', 77';;c; No. 4 yellow, Ne. 3 yellow, 77%e; No. 4 1•,.11„w• 761 .• No. :3 corn, 76% to ; Ni 4 corn, 7:►'..c; No. 3 white, tine. Oats ---Easier ; No. 2 white, 57c; No. 3 white, 50,e; No. 4 white. 55c. Barka,• ---Feed to malting, 70 to 73e, Chicago, July 6.-- No. 2 red wheat, ittl.40; No. 3 red, $1.30 to $1.35: No. '2 hard, $1.35 to 61.36; No. 3 hard, 1.20 to $1.23; No. 1 Northern. $1.29 1., 81.32. Corn -- N.._ •2 72 to 721..c; No. 2 yellow, ..c : No. 3. ;ft, ! t to 72Na No. 3 yellow. 73 to 73%e; No. 4. 70 to 7o' .e. Oats -No. • 3. 17C: No- 3 whit••. 18 to 51e: No 1 white. IM (0 50c: 'tandard. -'c. DIPLOMAT ASSASSINATED The Famous Statesman, Curzon Wyllie, Shot Dead in London. A despatcit from London, Eng- land, says: -1 startling double as sassination of a political char'ac'ter occurrel late on Thursday night towards the conclusion of a public gathering at the Imperial Institute. An Indian student, whose name is not known, shot and killed Lieut.- Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Cates La Loaca of Shanghai. Wyllie, who had held important Indian appointments, fell dead on the spot. He showed signs of life after ho fell and was hurried to St. George's Hospital, but on arrival there it was found that he was dea 1. Those near the assassin seized and held hits until the arrival of the police. Ho had two revolvers, a dagger and a knife. All were new, and it, is believed that the crime was premediated. The gathering at the Imperial Institute, a building devoted to Indian an" other colonial functions, was an "at home" to Indian stud- ents. 1). W. Thorburn, one of the guests, thus graphically describes the scene attending the murders:- "It was hear 11 o'clock, and the musical programme was just con- cluding when I saw a middle-aged English gentleman conversing with a young Indian student. "Suddenly the native drew a re- volver and fired four shots with the greatest rapidity at the bead of the Englishman. "Then cause another sir•t as the Englishman fell, and a sixth, which struck an elderly Indian gentle- man standing a few yards off, and who fell shot in the side. "1 rushed at the assassin and others sprang forward at the same time. We seized hits, but he strug- gled, and, wrestling cane hand free, platxxl the revolver to his forehead and pulled the trigger. It clicked harmlessly, as he had fired all his shots. Meantime there was a ter- rible scene and commotion, and the folding doors were finally closed to prevent the people from looking oil the fearful sighs. "At this moment someone ex- claimed. 'Why, it is Curzon Wyllie."Then a stately woman in evening dress came upstairs front the cloak room to discover what had happened. Looking at the re- cumbent. figure, and not immediate- ly recognizing it, she said, 'Poor fellow.' She then knelt down and as she looked closely at the dis- figured face, a look of horror leap- ed into her eyes and she exclaimed: 'It is my husband It was Lady Wyllie, who had left her husband only Afew minutes previously. ''A group of men near by were holding the assassin, whose other victim was groaning on the ground a few yards away." TO RESCUE DROWNING HOW TO APPROACH A STRUG- GLING PERSON. Valuable hints Which, if Acted Upon, May be the Means of faring lives. Tho annual advice to those who go near the water either with or without knowing how to swim is now in order. Some expert infor- mation on how to deal with tho drowning is afforded by Recreation, which ceuti,ns would-be saviors against attempting a rescue fully dressed. "It takes but an instant to re- move your outer clothing and this will more than s ltwriter,e "and anmade a up byyour being able to swim faster in getting to him and freer in carrying hire ashore. Proceed immediately to undress and while so doing think fast. "Of course, my advise to bo de- lihertte is not intended to mean that you should lose any time. 1 have known men to wait after the person in danger had disappeared hemhemsight, under the impression that a drowning person comes to the surface three titnes. That tra- dition is senseless and has been re- sponsible for many fatalities. "A drowning pian may rise a dozen times or go under once and -,ever bo seen again ; there is no telling. Make up your -rind, there- fore, that when a head sinks the situation is critical and not a sec- ond should be lost. If the body is visible, under the water there is no difficulty in securing it, but if the water is muddy, more especially if a tide or a current is running, use judgment, for you will need all your faculties to be successful. \WHERE TO 1)IVE. 'Take your first dive from a point above where the body has last been seen, or bubbles have indicated its 1 i,cation, and work down stream. Thus you Will not tire bucking the current, nor will you tniss the body if it has caught some submerged obstacle; while if it is free you will soon overtake it by swimming. ' "On reaching it, if under water, try to seise the clothing at the Lack of the neck ; in the absence of these lift by the armpits, the el.in or the hair. if the bottom is rocky or sandy and you are dear it, take a good pushoff, but if the water is too deep or the bottom s; soft and muddy saint to the sut - face. using legs and free arrn. "Now, before describing how to carry n victim ashore it will be well to touch on the most dangerous j base of life saying, the resene of 1 crsnns, trade frantic by fear "Water polo players ha% e re- cently (let eloped a system of breaks and bokis that has been adopted by scientific life sitters and has been a.t.f invaluable assistance to them. its most simple features are W111110 LIVI: STOCK M.\REET$. reach .,f any one and will enable Ninntre►t1. ,Tui. 6.- There was . tt- tori to handle even the worst eas- c� its contra rat i.e •nfety. ly one load of really prime ...raft �I;('l'ItING \HOLD fed rattle on the market. ants these in practically all the union mills were held at 6';,• per pound but I„ appr,•a'•hing a struaglts•g of the Ameri-'an Sheet and 'fin wi►I,out •n;, . The other settle ,;., n •1.• -, sauna. and if pnssii.le Pinte ('ompan�. n suh'idiary of the ‘e/ii .t1 Per ib. .\ )n, -g'' i1. al the hack. 1f be ,'hews Tait i t United States St. el ('empnny. The bell. ecivhine ro er 1.S00 lbs "1' t• to ion of gral.t•ing wildly keep, hia' strikers. nitride -ring 7.010 to 10.- ..:hl for r71: -nisei, cow..n:tl at .,R ..;ri. v..ur foot until r..n can "i" Penn'st. tit• ;.. (1i,i'• and 1\'est s''-• t o 4 rc .:1. b : 4.81%0,' 'old at $`2.:•n ,, ,, „lieof his wti,tb. its d..i.sq Virginia. hese n t `':.•1 i•'tv'.tretin►t' to r4 melt: fib.• t. -.. id , r ::1-. t,. 11' ,:•e the right t19nd for tie. rizlit Fer,•`er Pr`.itl'tlt Flo.' of Har ns yet. and t'l• r:i s ""'44?1.. r !t,: 1:1111!'••,.l,l nt 03.50 to a:, :.o 1!t and the left for the leis led leis lose apn..inted President nu nnn.,anec 1 the (-Nell ; c.o. d 1 i • . 1 fill- hoc, .0!,1 at 1 ' On s, e1:rin a I . Irl. .w.il r 1;n. importation . t .:i., u,,... C.; to 8.,•' per :b. 1,: -!;ly arout:d and throw ;.,at' fre9 am around his neck. This places him in your power, and no matter how he struggles you will bo able to carry him in safety. "Another good way advocated by eater polo players is W approach the man boldly, and as soon as ha lifts his arun to clutch you to plant your open hand squarely under hie armpit, allow yourself to sink, turn- ing your body outwardly, and then shoving hits over you corse to the surface. 1f this is done correctly you will find yourself behind liiin, looking at the back of his head, when it will be an easy matter to place on him any hold you want. "Professional life savers often re- commend splashing water in the face of a struggling person on the ground that it snakes hint turn Irons you. My experience has been that it only increases his terror and ex-. citenlent. '1.eg holds are the great fear A life savers. Let a powerful non encircle you with his legs and nine times out of ten you arc a goner. To be caught either by legs or urine from the rear is also generally fa- tal, for Lack holds are almost im- possible to break. Against these two danger's you should guard care- fully. ('-\RYING A VICTIM. "There are several ways of carry. ing the victim of a drowning acci- dent ashore. 1f he is only exhaust - cd let him place both hands on your shoulders and then se iii either the breast or hack' stroke. "If he is unconscious turn him on his back and use the back stroke yourself, sustaining him by placing your arms around him and your halide on his chest, or seize him under his chin, or hold him by the clothes at the back of the neck, or by the hail'. A struggling person r3 made helpless Ly the first boll nlent ioncd. "(upon reaching terra firma the first object should be to expel from the lungs of the victim any water that may have been taken in. I)o not stand him on his head, as do so many well meaning but ignorant people. "Begin the loosening or remov- ing cl•,tlting front waist, chest and neck, then if there is anything round to be bad ---like n barrel or •t log -place him face down on it and roll it gently back and forth it,at it will press on abdomen and sto- mach and force the water out. if nettling round is at hand make a small bundle of clothes or use a chair or stool and press the water eat with yotir hands. "When the lungs are free it is necessary t•, apply artificial respira- tion until they have been restored to natural breathing. First, care , should be taken to dean mouth and 'threat thoreughiy with a handker- thief, towel or cl•.th. Next seize { the longue and eit her tie it just be - 1 gond the lips or hold it there, so that it will not be drawn in with the intake •.t air and obstruct the pas•oige. "Lt many cases the application 01 smelling salts or pungent herbs t•• the patient's nostrils or the tick- 1 ling of his throat with a feather will at this stage he sufficient to start respiration if not you should use either the ,tnisersnlly taught Syl- .e-ts r method of tongue traction. ' i'n'ner :\ldrt •11 declares in fast- t•f corporation sax i:-. -.ire's 11e will %let a salar3' and 1 p►esent of half a million dollars.