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Exeter Advocate, 1909-12-23, Page 9K .FDUBTEEIT WERE KILLED Traia Wreck on the Southern Railway Near Greensboro, N. C. A respatch from Greensboro, Jay was in one of the Pullmans, N.C., says: Lucid passenger train and who was repor• d dead, escap- No. 11 oil the Southern Railway, ed uninjured. The Goulds and known as the Richmond and At- their friend, R. H. Russell, of New \"ark, former editor of Tho Metro- politan Magazine, had just got out of their berths when the wreck oc- curred. Mr. Russell was badly hurt by coming in contact with a car -stove, and is at the hospital. The derailment was caused by a broken rail. The day coaches and Pullmans were thrown from the trestle into the creek twe:,ty feet below. lanta train, due in Greenshire at 6.40 a.m.. was wrecked at peede Fork trestle, ten miles uorth of here, card, esu N eon..soay, sod by evening twelve bodies had been re- moved bent the wreckage, and twenty-five injured aro in St. Leo's Hospital. Teo dead are believed to remain boncath the wreckage. George J. Gould, who with his son 000,000 OUT -OF -WORKS. What a Coal Strike in Great Bri- tain 11'i11 Do. A general coal strike falls little short of a national calamity. The yearly output from Great Britain's trines alone reaches the vast total of 260,0J0,00') tons. Of last year's output --261.512.214 tons -we ex- ported 62,547,17! tons, used 19,474,- 174 tons for steamships, and re- tained for home consumption 179,- 550,863 tons. Nine hundred thousand workers in Great Britain daily put out 900,- 0oo tons, and there are never more basin with a sort of bird lime, and than between 7,000,000 and 8,000,- leave it for the apes to blind thern- 000 tons of coal on sale at one time selves. If the Chinese story is to at the mine beaks. Consequently, be believed, the imitative craze is there is no such thing as coal stor- even more fatal in another waw, for age ; and in case of a national strike, the supply would, at the normal de- mand, be exhausted in a month, even wit:',' rigorous economy. Ey- .eryttitng would be at a standstill. A strike sends up prices, which increase still further as railways, ironworks, and such great indus- M ON KEY'S POST SENTINEL. Fight Under header and Roll Stones Down on Enemies. Aesop's ape, it will be remember- ed, wept on passing through a hu- man graveyard, overcome with sor- row for its dead ancestors, and that all monkeys are willing enough to be more like us than they are they show by their mimicry, says the London Tithes. An old authority tells that the easiest way to capture apes is for the hunter to pretend to shave him- self, then to wash his face, fill the tries bid against each other for the if you shoot one monkey of a band with a poisoned arrow, its neigh- bor, jealous of so unusual a decor- ation, will snatch the arrow from it and stab himself, only to have it torn away by a third, until in succession the whole troop have committed suicide. In their wild life baboons, as well black diamonds. 1. A month would as the langurs and many other i'utiice to see neat' all the 9,000,- monkeys, undoubtedly submit to OOC homes of Great retain without the authority of recognized leaders. fires. Gas, electricity, travel, There is co-operation between them shops, theatres would lee affected; to the extent that when fighting in the police would have no light to company one will go to the help of detect midnight marauders, and another which is bard pressed. chaos would heign supreme. Hun- In rocky ground they roll down dreds of thousands would be starv- stones upon their enemies, and ing, because', it is practically irnpos- when snaking a raid, as on an or - to needle an industry conce; ne.l chard which they believe to be with the making of anything which guarded, the attack is conducted has not to depend absolutely on on an organized plan, sentries be - coal. inp posted and scouts thrown out, which gradually feel their way for- • ward to make sure that the coast is clear, while the main body re- mains in concealment behind until told that the road is open. From the fact that the sentries stay posted throughout the raid, 44---- THE :_ THE GUNNER OF WINDSOR. The Oldest Soldier in the British Army. Gunner Samuel Parsons, al- getting for themselves no share of though nearly eighty-five years of the plunder, it has been assumed age, is still on the active list, and 'that there must be some sort of di- vision of the proceeds afterward. Man, again, has been differentiat- ed from all other creatures as being a tool using animal, but more than on. kind of monkey takes a stone in its hand and with it breaks the nuts which are too hard to be crack - o I with the teeth. or, a recent Sunday celebrated his jubilee as the King's Gunner in the great round tower at Windsor Castle. He is the Grand Old Man of Windsor. and he and his wife are a wonderful couple. The gun- ner is probably the oldest soldier in the British army, and has drawn his full pay for sixty-five years. He was born in the parish of Morval, East Loo, Cornwall, in 1825, and at the age of nineteen enlisted in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. fie fought nt Tnkerman and went over the battlefield of Balaclava af- ter the famous charge. "During all the fifty years I have been on the Round Tower," he said the other day, "there has newer been an accident -only to the flags. I have had as many as five flags torn to shreds in one day, and one morning last year I could not hoist a flag at all, as the wind was so strong, and no flag flew from the mast that clay. "I hitt e to be particular about hoietine the flag exactly at sunrise and hauling it down at sunset. One evcning I was unwell and my grand- daughter pulled down the flag. It was tau tuinutcs before sunset, and the King noticed the error. In June. when we have - the longest clays, I ala 00 the tower often when the clock strikes 3.30. I don't nave any alarm clock to wake me up." CAUSE AND EFFECT. A pessimist is a person who has lived w ith an optimist. .+ M1IIUERED THREE PERSONS John Mesei "bund Guilty at Suska. loon-- Defence Was Insanity. A despatch from Saskatoon says: John Mesci was on Thursday found guilty of murdering Geo. Thorburn on Nov. 4 near Quill Lake, Sask. The jury was nut but three minutes. The preliminary evidence contain - co a confession by Mcsci and the defence was that of insanity. 1 CHINESE MURDER. ('hinn,nan Ilestroy's I'outler douse on lturrnrd Inlet. B. l'. :1 despatch from Vancouver says: News reaehcd the city Friday after- noon that a Chinaman killed anoth- er and set fire to the black powder house of the British Columbia Pow- der \Works ( olneenw in the north arm of Bullard Inlet on Thursday morning. The powder house was ent irely destroyed. 4.--- 1 he easieet way to send a gond dollar after a bad one is to engage in a Iaesnit. KING OF BELGIUM IS DEAD Aged Monarch Died at 2.35 on Friday Morning. k 4 •spatc•h from Brussels says: Jutg Leopold died at 2.35 o'clock wn Friday morning. his aged and asted body being unable to stand the strain put upon it. The col- tap•c occurred suddenly, and at a moment when the doctors seeming- ly had the greatest hopes for his recoil r'. After n restful day the patier;t was al.!e to silawlp kr a brief eeritd early in the evening, and the night passed quietly, until 2 hock, when alarming symptoms appeared. suddenly the King turned and celled to f)r. Thiriar that he tt as suffocating. I)r. De- part(' was oinenoned, and the two physicians olid everything possible to prolong life. but without avail. Thc end came quickly, atld. after heat was escorted outride by tho J CONDENSED NEWS 1TE;►IS1TtIE WORLD'S 1►IARI{ETA. GERMANS U.tl'NENING9 FILM ALL OYER REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TUE GLOB& TRADE CENTILES. Telegrt.pnle Briefs From Oar Owe sad Other Countries el Rexent Events. CANADA. Berlin (Ont.) desires to be declar- ed a city. Canadian Northern Main line to Quebec may sidetrack Ottawa and Montreal. A carload of strikebreakers have been landed at Springhill, N.S., to work in the mines. Tho House of Commons passed a resolution in favor of taking furth- er steps to fight tuberculosis. Tho faculty of the Ontario Agri- cultural College asked the Govern- ment for increases in salaries. Fifteen hundred and ten students have registered at Queen's Univer- sity, a large increase over last year. The Manitoba Government has promised the grain -growers to es- tablish a system of elevators in that Province. J. E. Wilkinson, refiner, and Alex. Littlejohn, Cobalt miner, have been arrested on charges of receiving stolen minerals. Beckwheatt- 52 to 52','c high Charles Farr secured a $:},600 freights, and 53 to 53%e, !sae hemeetead by waiting on the steps freights• of the Retsina lard office from3oto axon track, NTorontoo. 2 lland ssow elect- tay night until Saturday ed No. 3 at 66 to 67c., Toronto. morning. Bran -$20.50 in bags, Toronto, end shorts $22 to $22.50, in bags, Toronto. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. 21. -Flour -On- tario µheat 90 per cent. patents, $4.30 to $4.35, in buyers' sacks on track, Toronto, and 64.20 to 64.25 outside in buyers' sacks. Mani- toba flour, first patents, $5.60 on track, Toronto; second patents, 85.10 to $5.20, and strong bakers', $4.90 to $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 Northern $1.07 to $1.073e, I3ay ports, and No. 2 Northern $1.05 to $1.05%, Bay ports. - Ontario Wheat -No. 2 mixed 31.0-1 outside, and No. 2 white and red $1.04 to $1.05 outside. Barley -No. 2 GO to 62e outside, and No. 3 extra 58 to 59c outside. Oats -No. 2 Ontario white 36 to 36%c outside, and 38% to 39c on track, Toronto. Canada west oats 39%c for No. 2, and 38%c fur No. 3, Bay ports. Peas --87 to 88c outside. Rye -No. 2 70 to 71c outside. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Edward Grey, speaking nt P•erw'icla eni(I it world he danger- ous to tax colonial wheat. George Salting has left the Brit- ish nation his great art collection, valued at from fifteen to twenty million dollars. Mr. Austen Chamberlain was so persistently interrupted at a poli- tical meeting at Bromsgrove that be wes unable to finish his speech. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, inter- viewed on his arrival in England, stated that he would like t(t see Canada have war vessels built by Britain at Canada's expense and then rent them to the mother land. UNITED STATES. Six negro miners lost their lives in a coal pit in Kentucky. Seven nor -ons lost tl•e'r lives in a tenement fire in Cincinnati. Rev. David C. Hughes, father of the Governor of New York, is deed. . War on the United States Steel Corporation has been declared by the leaders of organized labor. GENERAL. Madame Gouin, widow of n prom- inent French financier, was mur- dered on a train near Paris, on Thursday. The second reading of the bill providing for compulsory military training has passed the New Zea- land House of Representatives. - -- BIG R.1IL'.V.11' I RO.I!:('T. Lines to Run Sorl'► an,' south From Edn►onlon. A despatch from I:dnronton says: During the last tee. d tyv pl'tlls have been formulating whish will result in the carrying out of the biggest railway project yet pl;tn- ned in the west. The project is backed by millions and will open up Athabasca and Peace River sec- tions to a great extent. The charter granted to the Northern Empire Railway Compnny and the Manitoba k British Columbia Railway Company has been trans- ferred to new company, headed by Henry Roy, a millionaire. The I:ewly-organizer) company is enpi- tnlizeil at $4.500,000. It will ask for a guarantee of bonds by the l;overnrnrnt, for the construction of a line north and south of Edmon- ton. One line is to he projected through Peace itiser Crossing and thus into the mountains and to Dawson. ,1 branch ie nle0 to be projected cast from McMurray to Fort Churchill on the Hurls.•n Bay. 1•:NEM1' 01' NICOTINE. Carrie Nation Fights Tohneeo When She Sees H. .1 despatch from !Washington, 1).C., says: " You ought not. to Fmoke," admonished Carrie Na- ti.•n. the hatchet -wielder in the cause of temperance, to the door- keeper. ns she entered the gallery of the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The doorkeeper just laughed. L•1 one of the corridor, adjoining the House Chamber, a messenger was smoking a cigarette. " Riff!" went a blow at the (lemon of nicotine, and Carrie Nation's right arm shot the cigarette into the air. Mrs. Nation played no favorites, but nta(lc a general round of the Capitol. In the Sup- reme Court she spent a q:aiet quar- ter of an hour listening to legal ar- guments. In the Senat., office building she started to harangue the crowd from the intern r steps, a spell of weakness. peacefully. ,Capitol police. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$$2 to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality. Beans -Car lots outside, $1.55 to $1.65, and small lots here $1.75 to $1.90. HonorCombs, dezea, $2.25 to $3: estrncted, 10%c per lb. Hay -No. 1 timothy $11 to $14.50, and No. 2 $12.50 to $13 on track, Toronto. Straw -$7.50 to $9 on track, Tor- onto. Potatoes -502 per bag on track for Ontarios. Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 11 t:, 13c per Ib. ; fowl, 9 to 10c; tur- keys, 16 to 18c per Ib. ; ducks, lb., 12 to 13c.; geese, I0c per lb. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter --Pound prints, 13 to 25c; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 23e ; in- ferior, 19 to 20e; creamery, 27 to 28c, and solids, 26 to 26%e per Ib. Eggs-Csso lots of fresh gather- ed, 32 to 35c per dozen, and stor- ago, 25c. New laid, 40c in case lots. - Cheese -12%c per lb. for large, and 12%c for twins. 110(1 PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long -clear, 14 to 14','.e per lb. in case lots; mess pork, 826 to $26.50; short cut, 828 to 829. Hams --Light to nreditun, 15 to 16c; do., heavy, 14 to I4%c; rolls, 14 to 14%e; shoulders, 121; to 13c; becks, 19 to 20c; breakfast bacon, to 18c. Lard --Tierces, 15';c; tubs, IOc; pails, 10%e. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Dee. 21. -Oat. -No. 2 C'nnada Western, 41% to 41%e; N. 3 oats, 401 to 401,4e; barley\o. 2, 66 to 67c; Manitoba feed barley, 52 to 53:•. Floor -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 95.70: do., patents, seconds, $5.20; Winter wheat patents, 83.50 to 85.00; Man- itoba strong bakers', $5 ; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.25; straight rol- lers, in bags, $2.40 to 62.50. Feed -Ontario bran, $20.50 to $21.50: Ontario middlings, *23.00 to $23,- 50 • Maniteha bran, $'20; Manitoba shorts, $22 to $23; pure grain ntou- illie, *23 to *33 ; mixed muuillie, *25 t') 827. Cheese -September made westerns, 11 ' to 11%c; October made, 11'•, to 1-1%; eastern, 11'„ to 11%e;. ihatter-Choicest cream- ery, 25c; current receipts, 2}'.: to 2&'; dart• 19 to 22e. Eggs -Select- ed stock. 24 to 28!,.c, in single leo s n1 29e; No. 1 candled, 2.11 ' to :'3•• per dozen. UNITEi) STATES M. RK Baia. t'.a. Minneapolis, Dec. 21.-- 1Wh December. $1.10; Mee.. hl.ltl'', : cash wheat No. 1 1)01(1, 81.131_ to $1.13; No. 1 Northern, *1.12 to $1.12;;; No. 2 Northern, *1.10 to $1.10!. • Flour (in wood. f.o.l,. Minneapolis) -First patent+, 9.,.60 to 85.80; second patents, $5.10 to *5.60; first clears, 81.55 to $I.65; second clears, ¢9.50 to $g.rt'1 Bran i•t hundred lb, sacks, $21. Chicago, December 21. - ('asli wheat --Nn. 2 red, $1.25 to *1.27! f; No. 3 red, 81.19 to 81.23; No. 2 Northern, *1.12 to $1.14; No. 3 Spring, 21.03 to $1.13. Corn -No. 3, GO to 60%c; No. 3 white, 60 to 60%e; No. 3 t•eIl(.w, 60 to 60%e; No. 1. 57 to 57' ; No. 4 yellow, 57 Thc Embargo on Foreign Cattle at Dresden Responsible. A despatch from Dresden, Ger- many. says: Discussing tate increas- ed price of meat in the second Chamber on Wednesday, Herr Koch, a Radical member, said that dear meat meant dear bread and dear everything else in the way of fond. Ile added that German agri- culture, which was protected by high tariffs, was unable to supply sufficient beef to feed the popula- tion, which, as a result, was under- fed. He demanded that the em - cattle be raised. Replying, the Premier denied that the cost of beeves and sheen nn the hoof was higher, and said that if the dress - e(1 rnl'at had i u:re'•:+rd in r•t1.•e the fact was due to the action of the mid Ilomen and the close combina- tion maintained among the butch- ers. To admit American meat more freely would be, the I'remier thought, to throw away the last trump card held by Germany in its trade relations with the United bargo on American and Danish nathe mattertes. The �ouse took no action best animals sold at from 4 to 4Jje PE.tRY'S CLAIMS RECOGNIZED per lb.; common stock, 2% to 3%,,c; lean canners, 2c per pound. There were more springers than. milch cows on the market, and prices ranged from $30 to 860 each. Grass-fed calves, 3 to 4Y,c per lb.; good weals, 5 to Ge per pound; younger calves, $3 to $4 each. Sheep 4 to 4%c; lambs. 6 to 0%c per pound. Good lots of fat hogs, 8X to 8%c per pound. Toronto, Dec. 21. -Fancy Christ- mas cattle and well finished butch- ers' were as strong as ever, the former selling at *6 to $6.40, and the latter from $5 to $5.80. Stock- ers and feeders were steady and a few extra good North-Western cattle were sold for local killing. Milkers and springers -Firm. One extra choice milch cow sold at $S0. Sheep and Lambs -Very firm. Hogs -25e dearer. Selects quoted at $7.75 f. o. h., and $8, fed and metered. A TRIO OF i.I:PERS. Moving About at Will in Miehiga:: Camp. A desprtch from Detroit says: The authorities of Calumet, Mich.. Geographical Society i'resents Him With Medal. A despatch from Washington, D.C., says: The National Geogra- phical Society on Wednesday night publicly acclaimed Commander Ro- bert E. Peary the discoverer of the North Pule, and in recognition thereof presented to him a gold mcdel. In presenting the trophy to Commander Peary, Prof. Willis L. Moore, president of the society, who acted _s toastmaster, phrased his sentences to refer to Command- er Peary as " the man " who had won the prize. There was no re- ference to Dr. Cook. Captain Ro- bert A. Bartlett, the master .:f the Roosevelt. who took that stout ship into the ice farther than any other eraft ever went, also received a medel. This was presented by Ambassador James Bryce, of Great Britain. TILE N EWES; WARSHIPS. Britain 11111 Shortly Lay Down Two Sen Monsters. A despatch from Birmingham aro confronted with an unusual and Rays: I'he Post says the Admiralty is making arrangements for lac ing peculiar situation by reason of the down before the end of the ff•tan- fact that the $t'sto •lacss give them ctrl epee two yes -els vh;e'• r•;►i rq_ no jurisdiction or executive autho- tablish a record i►i warship build- rity to order the confinement of ing. They will bo of almost 27,500 Stanislnns, the miner discovered ,gross tonnage. Their guns will last week to bo infected with lep- number less then those on the lat- rosy. Within the past few days est Dreadnoughts, but the muzzle two other men have been discover- velocity and firing mane •••;tl hq ed bearing unmistakeable evirlences very much greater. The ships will of having acquired the horrible dis- be of an entirely new comp( site ease. Loathsome patches of white class, contbinine features of battle - have appeared on their faces and ships and cruisers. bodies. Al! these men are .being _ ,I,__ allowed to move about freely in the community, because there is no State law by which they can bo iso- lated. 4 111-N1 ERS 51101' DOWN. Thirty -Ore i.n.l Their i.iyl'S in Eastern lfoud•+. 1 d^snatch from Boston says: Thirty-one Truman lives were sacrt- freed in the hunting season ended on Wednesday night. Twenty- three persons were killed by be:ng mistaken for deer or by the acci- dental or careless discharge of fire- arms in Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont. and Massachesetts, and in the Cana ling, Pr.,vinccs of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia'. Con- tributory causes added eight more deaths. Among the score or snore known to have been seriously in- jured five are not expected to re- cover, two will lose their sigl►t, and half a dozen more will be maimed for life. S11F1.'fl:lt' 1T VIA f. S'l'.1'1•IO\S itnlloes ('omma-•i,,t) ilas Sent Out :I Draft Order. .1 despatch from . Ottawa says: The Railway ('otnminsion has sent out n dinft order requiring all rail- wav conrpanie's to construct at all point• known as " flag stations," shelters or wasting-rr•onls for pass- enger: or fi' ight, the same t.. be done within six months. \Where the retenne i•+ not les: than 815 - non the 'iep..t sl►nll b•' vthat is known :1e No. l 'tin lard. .1t points where shipments of grain amount to 5:1,110) linsliels :t seal', temporary nee tits shall he provided in the "hipping season. The pro- posed (order till be argil( (1 here nest month. UF: LTH OF HON. 1. GORDON. Third Son of Earl of .lherdeen Dead in London. .1 tk-spatc•h front Lau(1o0 int • Iron. Archibald ian Gordon died on Friday from injuries reeeited 1') nn nlltmmobile accident no No- vember 29. Ile was the third 'ou of the Earl of Aberdeen. This week his engagement to Miss Violet As - THE FRENC1l TARIFF. Shuts Out .1nu'r•iean .tgrieulteral Machinery. A des►,at'h from Paris says, During the consideration of the tar'fT bill -in the Chamber of Depu- ting on \Vednesday a black eye was given to tae imn,nrt''tinn of .lmeri- can agricultural machines by tho adoption of an amendment fixing the maximum rite on machines of over 400 kil:,grntns (881.6 lbs.) weight at 15 francs (approximately $2.S5) per hundred -weight, au(i the minimum rate at 12 franc'. (1n machines under 400 kilograms weight the maximum is 22, and the minimum 9 franc-', irespec•tive of v. -eight. 11"I Cts el TEEN 1'l: %IIS l.i'ii Missing Husband Eire. lfis Wife n Surprise al (lull. A despatch from Ottawa mays: •1f - ter hearing no word from her hus- band for sixteen Sears, nod not knowing whether he was alive or dead, Mrs. Henri Gariepy, of Hull. emoted the door of her bort• a (.n 1Vrdnesday, in response to a ring, and found her loner missing spouse standing on the doorstep. M r. Mr. (iariepy left Hull Inc the wesit in 149:1, leaving behind n wife and four young children. For twelve years be was in the for north of the western provinces, where there was no mail service. Three years ago he came to Winnipeg, mnd -i►V lues - (lay returned home unexpecte , bringing with hint a considerable pile of money amassed in the west. KINGSTON .11 1►(. f: R011ltt:ll. 1'nlnablc pin 1Val. stolen From His Chambers. .1 despatch fr..ra Kingston saes: Judge Price on Wednesday morn - ins; laid his evt•rcoal. Pend, and came(. scarf pin in his chambers rand tent two to the County Court. At one o'clock on his re- t'Irn he (oond flint hi! rivarters 11.1,1 !Oren .'n,.',crl rtu.l ltd• tablet, pin Toren. i'tl It 111: 01(' 11. Ir 1 r: 1 I l l 11. 111;.. Reit • t,r.•at It/mailer' In I.on• t ► 57%'e. Oats, - No. 2 white, (Itrit11. daughter of the Premier, dee I ;tit (•r•11 ,e 417,r: No. 3 white, 42% to 44e; lite, cohort the poet 11'illinm Watson rte- 1 d,••t,atch f,..•.;a• s; 1 1 (nowt' of having "the .ert'etiI'. Otto Ilett. the•eetl, Ate t mag. 4 white. 42„ to 43%e; standard, t5c. - tt.tlaue, was to have been an- k not`. hnq rn•• � r(ounced. Miss Asquith had been e %; t , •,. meat the $1:,1),(1(sl patellen by ilia . ,... in almost constant attendance upon her, th-• late Alfred 11eit. to the Montreal. c. 41.--A few of the was fianhehsince henthe he ld died. :zed 1'ni.er. t•. of London for il.e bent. f. t, of u1c•fi(ai T. -seen -h. . f.ilF: STOCK MARKETS.