Exeter Times, 1908-07-16, Page 7SEVEN KILLED IN COLLISION
Two Passenger Trains Met Head-on Near
Medicine Hat.
A despatch front slud:clno Hat says:
Seven kil:ed and many injured is the
terrible result of a hi ad -on Loll(>iun be'-
tw•oen rho Sp<•kan.' flyer and tho Crow's
Nest passenger gain. which occurred
on 'fl:ur.day morning at tho crossing
ut Pruitas brickyard. near her.;.• The
do.ul are:-Jris. N:ch. •loon, engino'r;
41(wad Gray, (ir.•in ,u; Arch amlwlt,
baggagoniari' Duncan AteEac•hern, f a,-
& nokr from Bow Island; Jollies Shaw,
pass•:nger from flow Island. Scr:ousLy
hurt-Itober•t Twohey, orrgine'er; Combo-
tor
.muat or Mal;atto, Lemon] Black, brakes.
man.
Tho collision occurred when the trains
were going at a high rate of speed. The
(coil passenger pulled out of tho yards
at 8 o\.•luck and rho eondue•tor had or-
dero to meet the Spokane Ilyer at Cole-
ridge. The passenger was running into
That bion, when, oithout a moment's
warning, the Sj.okane flyer top ed
around an abrupt curve and in an in-
stant a cloud of staant toll the tato of
the awful collision. The injured wore
hurried to the hispital, whore J:ngin-
eer '1'wohey died a fo w hours later.
llrakcsmun Black is in a precarious
oondit:on and will probably die. Tho
cause of the collision is not definitely
known. I'aesengors Ob:Eachern and
Black, two well-known men, wire sit -
t ng together in the passenger o,ach
when the •tra°ns cline together. They
wero found dying later and only Lived
a snort tim'•. Baggigeman Atclrimbalt
was killed when trio cars telescoped.
Several pa. vngers had miraculous os.
capes.
TIIE DAIRY INDUSTRY.
Moro of 11►e Product Being Used at
Home -Big Figure.
A deispa'ch from Ottawa says: Mr. J.
A. Ruddick, Dominion Dairy Conttnis-
sioner, gee rv,denco betoro the Commit-
kke on Agriculture on Wednesday re-
garding the p yogi ess math by tho dairy -
Ing irdrstry of the Dominion. Ile ex -
planed that the reduction in exp arts of
dairy produce was at.'r,butoble to the
= targe'y increased home consumption.
% Mr. Ru:!d.ck gave figures furnished by
the census department to show that be-
i,ween 1900 and 1907 rho value of cream-
ery butter, cheese, milk and condensed
milk produced in Canada grew from
$29.200.000 to $35.450.000. The annual
valu.r to the country of all Canadian
dairy pie -ducts was about 894000,000.
Ten years ago thero was no condensed
milk p oducaxl in Canada; now there are
several" factories with an output valued
at nearly one million dollars.
CHINESE DR.IGON AWAKES.
Oraerital Merchants to Eslatdlsh Big
Stexnmsliip Lane.
•
A San Francisco despatch says: Tak-
ing advantage of aha boycott declared
tai China against Japan, the represent
(olives of a syndicate; of Chirps' capi-
talists are on board the' liner Siberia
on tho way to San Francisoo to make
preparations to e,tablish a $12000,000
stoasnship line between China and
Frisco. The synd acne will not only ion
hrr'rs between ports, but will establish
a system of river routes and by [rising
ernall boats will drain all tha shipping
of tho country into transpacific ves.ots.
Sir IAang Chan Doon, the former Min-
ister to Anter:ca. who was Knighted by
Queen Victoria, is the leading flguro in
awakening the Chinese dragon. He or-
';aniz,d .the syndicate, which includes
some of the highst omctals of China.
HARVEST IN :MANITOBA.
Chances 'fen to One in favor of a Very
Heavy Yield.
A despatch from Na nlrea! says: At
C. P.R. headquarters the Iollowietng state-
stiAnl regarding the western crop w'as
,given out by Mr. C. M. Bosworth, on
Ine.day:"Advices, from Winn:peg
el Vat the chances are ten to ono in
fv(o or
of an excrptbnaly heavy yield:
one of the old -lima har•nosta !n Manan-
ba June is the cr:tical month, and
precipitation in June was evorything
that could be desired. Tho long period
of cloudy wealher has had the result of
giving exceptional loot to 'lie plant,
and what is now w'sheet for in the west
is Lot. dry a. atter durin . the remain-
der of July and in tho in nth of August."
u1.
A RiNG IN THE CHEESE.
\Noncan Gels One Worth $1,6.)0 for
Eleven Cents.
A despatch from Bloomfield, N. J.,
says: Fritz Weber, a grocer nt No. 25
\\'ash ng(t n street, Rk omfl< id, s,ld
eleven cents' w.•rth of cheese to a wo-
man customer 'n Tuesday. A few
M urs later 4ho woman returned to the
store and naked Mr. \Velor if he Irnd
lost n 'Ormond rine. He said "No," for
ho had never own.dl one. Then the wo-
man produced a r.ng. set with three
gl'ce'en ng stones. whl•h she told \V'her
eh. found in this cheese he had sold her.
The woman was very happy and told
Oho grocer hor find would enable her
to taken need'd vacation. The ring'
1R ws•r 1) SI ,rt.)
STABBED A JUDGE.
Russian's Attempt 10 Assassinate Presi-
dent of Appeal Court.
A despatch from St. Petersburg says:
M. Dokracieninkoff. Pruuietond of the
Court of Appeal at St. Petersburg, who
was passing through the Petrozavosdalc,
was the victim of an altocpk-d asses.
sination on \Vednesday. Ho was seri-
oasly w•oundod by a knife stab in the
chest. Jlis assailant is a revulut:onary
workman. Trial of the pooplo accused
of L1ow:ng up Premier Stotypin's house
in A.ptekanslci Ostrof and robbing the
State Bank of 400,000 roubles Logan on
\Vednesday. Among the forty-four pri-
aeneas were five young girls belonging
to familiar and high functionaries, the
d'rinoess \lichetzka and Miles, Klinwff,
t\larkcoft, Souhinoff and Erniltacoff. Tho
trial is exeeckd to last ten days.
QUEBEC'S SURPLUS.
Treasurer Weir's Estimate of a Within
Dollars Largely Exceeded.
A e'espat'h from ainntreal says: Some
Vino riga lion. W. A. Weir, Provincial
Treasurer, prodic'ed a surplus of $1,-
600.000 for this year. Tho fiscal year
ended June 30. Aft•r paying all ordin-
ary and extraordinary expenditures for
the past year, Including items that are
sometime, c•Jxrrgrci to capital account,
and after paying $50,000 of $100000 vol-
e.[ for the Quebec Tercentenary, tho
whole of which oould kgiainately have
•teen hekl over to the following yoar,
and after settling up a number of back
obligations, which have been left in su-
s_ ensu (tom previous years, there still
r(mains a sum of eevernl thousands in
exCCe of the round million, with sono
further colk'otions yet to be made.
'YHE:1T CROP ABOUT AVER.IGE.
Report of Condition by the Unikeyt
Wales Agrlj;.uttoril Department.
A despatch from Washington says:
e.ring whoaL 'average condition 899.4
f.cr cont. of normal, 87.2 a year ago,
87.6 ten year.a. average. W.ntor wheat
at ante of harvest, 80.6 for cent, 78.3 a
year ago, 80.2 for ten year:. Corn 82.8
leer cent., 80.2 a year ago, 85.6 for ten
pars. with corn acreage c,tima.tod at
110.896.000. an increase of 1'.l per cent,
from last year. This was the Agricultur-
al Department's July report ann unced
on \Ve.!rncsJay. Oats condition averag-
ed 85.7 per cent.. 81 last year, ten year
average 87.5. amount of wheat remain•
:r.g on fauns July 1 was 5.3 t co cent. of
last year's crop, cqu.vaknt t, 33,797,000
bu:Lek.
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GIt1:1T UNION RTIool YARDS.
Threir ItfU Railroads uHI Unite at win.
A da:paleh from 1Vinnip eg says: A
tnowanent. has been on foot hone for
s tri time past to atabl:sh a municipal
stock yard, backel by the 1.ive S'ock
ShipperAs'oc:nton. it was given
its qu chs .on 'I'hursdny by the an-
nouncement of Mr. Whyte of the C. P.
11. to the effect that his company, to
tether w-:th the C. N. R. and G. T. P.,
W0/10 preparing to Ltr!'d and maintain
meat union yards as :on as the pro.
ject could bo w•o►ke.1 out, in which
small shipeers would haw Ih sir inter -
cols fully safeguarded in the mailer .:f
h ir►'es. 'Phis is regarded no one or
•• nr..st important nnnmrn'.menls ar-
f,•.•'ing Ibe livo sack irdu-try.
JUSTICE IN THE FAR YIIKO
Russian Mai derer Captured by Mounted
Police and Convicted in Short Older.
A despatch from Ottawa saps: The
floynt Northwest \totui led Police eNeel) te
speedy justice in the Yukon. On June
Ath last word was receive! in Dawson
that n Itri'i sian named Elfors shot and
kiHed a eeunpanion named Re rgman
tw. he utiles be:ow Selkirk, and also
we unek t another companion Hama! An -
dors in. Policeman Thomt,ln promptly
start<d n a canoe in pursuit of E t• rs,
and cal.tuned him the following day. On
Tuesdiy ('oniptroller White received a
wire from C.xnmt- ion,r Woode of
Daw:.on slating that Ettore had been
ocnye:tea and eentenced to be hanged
on OcIolor 6'h. The capture of the
lo!-'ner. the trial and Iho nk'n0c' was
hit.; e'ffe. od within one in nth of the
cc ern'.
But, though the Mounted Police in the
Yukon are doing most effectivo work.
(kannmissioner Wood writes that in view
of kho influx of hundreds of gnmb:ers,
dis-olute women. prutcssivnal labor agi-
tators and foreigners of the 'lowest and
n:.st ignorant tyre. from Ala_Jca and
ether United Stat•^ p •ints, the fordo at
his dtspeaal is a't• gether too mall to
n'cel the demands node up,n It. The
hole po'ioe force of the Yirkon Terri-
tory now cons•sts of only 75. of whom
1 ut 44 aro avatlaLie for actual police
work.
I'fIE WORLD'S 61AR1(ETSTGHARITIES Of THE RICH CONDENSED NEWS ITEDISIGREAT FIRE IN EAST BOSTON
ill:PolmTs FROM 111E LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Prkes of Cattle, Grain, l.teess anJ
011ier Dairy Produce at home
trod Abroad.
L3IU ADSIUFFS.
Toronto, July 14. -Ontario \V/teat
No. 2 white, red or mixed, 78e to 79c
Manitoba \Vhe'ut-Market quotatons
at Cksorgian Bay poi ts, No. 1 nortlorn,
$1.07%,; No. 2 northern, $1.04'4; Ne. 3
northern, 31.01X.
Corn -No. 2 yellow, higher at 81c to
82c outside.
Oats-l►ntar'.o, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c,
outside; No. 2, niixod, 42c; Alarntoba No.
2, 42c lake ports; pleas, 37c lake ports.
Barley --No. 2, 53o to 55c.
Peas --No. 2 quiet. nominally quoted
at 90o
Rye -No. 2, novo offering; quotations
aLout 85c.
Bu kwtteat - No. 2 nomtnally quoted
65c lb 68c.
Bran -Quoted at $15 to $16 in bulk
outside; shorts. 380 to $21; quotations
Ina &livery in bags $2 mote.
Flour - Manitoba pal; nts, special
brands, 36; seconds, $5.40; e.trong butt -
ars'. 85.30; winter wheat pa'enls sill ng
at $3.10.
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COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Creamery, prints. 23c to ?4c;
creamery, solids, 22c to 23c; dairy prints,
choice. 21c to 22c; dairy prints, ord,n-
ory, 20c to 21c; dairy tubs, 19c to 20c;
inferior, 16c to 17c.
Egger -.New -laid aro quoted at 18c to
20c per dozen in caro kris,.
Chceao-Local wJiolesata dealers' quo -
lotions aro 13e for largo and 13Xc tor
twins.
Honey -New strained Is 10c per
pcuund.
Beano -Primes, 82 to 32.10; handpick-
ed, 32.10 to $2.15.
Potatoes -Oka Ontarlos are worth $1.-
10
1:10 to $1.20 per bag, and new Americans
Si in car lots, on track here.
PROVISONS.
Pork -Short cut, 323 to $23.50 per bar-
rel; hiss, $18.50 4o $19.
Lard Tierces, 12c; dubs, 123c; pails,
12%c.
Smoked and Dry Salted ltfoats-Long
clear baron, Ite to 11} c, tons and vis-
a -a, hams, medium and light, 14314c to
15c; hams, large, 12%c to 13c; tack, 17c
to 17%c; shou dens, IOc to 10Xc; ro1Ls,
10c to 10%c; breakfast bacon, 15c to
15%c; green meats, out of picklc, lc toss
than smoked.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, July IL -Flour -Manitoba
spring wheat patents. $6.10 to 86.20; sea
c. nd patents, $5.50 to 35.70; winter
wheat patent,, 85 to 35.50; stra'gh' rol-
lers, 84.25 to $4.50; in brigs, $1.95 to
32.10; ex.ra, 31.50 to $1.70.
Rolled Oats -$2.75 in bags of 90
pounds.
Oafs -No. 2, 49c to 50c; No. 3. 460 to
463c; No. 4, 45e to 4534c; rejected, 44c,
f fanitoba rejrck'd, 463 to 46%c.
Cornmeal -$1.75 to $1.85 per bog.
Millfeod-Ontario bran, in bags, $20.-
50 to $21.50; shorts, 823 to 824; Manito-
ba bran, in bag,, $22 t, $23; shorts, $24
to 825.
Provisions-Bb!s short cut mess pork,
€23.50; half barr,'14, $11.50; cloar fat
backs, 823; dry sag kung c'ear backs, 11c;
barrel; plate be: f, $17.50; half buries
do., $9; compound lard, 8%c to 9Xe;
pure Iasi, 12Xc to 13e; kettle render d,
13a to 13xc; hams. 12Xc to 14", accord-
ing to s ze; breakfast bacon. 14c to 15c;
Windsor bacon, 15c to 16 fresh k'lkd
a1allo:1-dressed hogs, $9.75; hvo, 37 to
87.25.
Chose -Westerns quoted at 11 */,c bo
12". and casterns at 1tyc lo 11Xc.
Butter --Finest creamery, 23c to 23Xc
in round lots and 24c to gc;ceri,
Eggs--Sak'e of selected stock were
made at 2lc; No. 1 at 1990 and No. 2 at
16c per dozen.
UNITED STATUS M.\lhK1TS.
Buffalo, J ily 14 - Wheat -- Spring
stronger; No. 1 Northam carloads,
won, $1.15x,; Winter firm; No. 2, red,
Lora -weak; No. 3, yellow, 78xc;
No. 3, corn. 76 to 7631,c; No. 3, white,
563fc. Oate--racier; No. 2, white, 58c;
No. 3. white, 50Xc. Barky-Fccd to
mall ng, 68 to 72e. Rye -No. 2 on track,
80e; Canal freights, wheat 5c to New
\o•k.
NI nr:eapxols, July 14 -Wheat -July,
81.104; September. 923jc; No. I hard.
81.14%; No. 1 Northern, $1.12%; No. 2
Northern, $1.10!„ No. 3 Northern, 31.-
04.%. Four -First ):at'nta, $5.40 to $5.-
50; sec. nil pnt»nts. $5.30 to $5.45; first
cleats, 5).35 to 31.45; second clews. $3:
50 to $3.60. Rrnn--in Bulk, 318.50.
\lilevnuk.'e', \-his., July 14. -Wheat -
No. 1 N ,rther•n, $1.15 to $1.16: No. •2
Northern, $1.12 to $1.11; SeptembMr,
88!•;, to 88'/, c bid. Hoc.- No. 1, 75 to
75Xc. Ilnrley--`o. 2, 86e; sample, 55
to 67c. Corn --.No. 3 cash, 71 to 72c;
September, 72sjc bid,
Duluth. July 14--\Vheat-:No. 1 hoot,
$1.13%; No. 1 Noerlhern. $1.12'.x,: No. 2
Norttern, $1.09; July, $1.00; SeptemLer,
9t;; c.
New Volt, July 14. -Spot firm; No. 2
red, 97e to 9$e e'evator; No. 2 r,e1, 99c
Ic' arr.ve, f.o.b. alt al; No. 1 northern,
Du'ri'h. 31.19%„ f.o.b. aflonl; No. 2 hard
water. $1.043( f.o.b. afloat.
(:.%TpLE. \IA11Kr:r.
Toronto. July 14. --There is still a
(rod demand for pond butcher cattle
n► prices ringing from $1.75 to 35.35.
Choice (owe are still high at $3.75 ho
1•:.50. but common cows are slow and
heavy. Nol many stockers aro nn Ih.'
matk't. and the range of prig's ie wide,
from Q2.25 for light up to a.i high as
33.75 for Kea v.
Shote and montes are steady. Calves
aro p erhaps a hale (bnlreie
in spilo of I1►e large run of hogs. the
prioe of them was up to $6.85. feat and
amend oft cars, Toronto, and in in-
stances higher pric('s than thews were
pad for hogs of extra choice (vialety.
The man who acts like a millionaire
is a b offer. for a millionaire never acts
that way.
INTEREs (NG i:X.1ml'I.1'.4 or 1\11'('1.•
SIVE 4:1:NI:ROStt'.
Mr. Rockefeller helps the I'oor • - Mr.
Jarmo R. Keene is a Good
Giver.
Mr. Rockefeller. the oil magnate, is.
and always has been, a very systema -
to giver. So much per oent. of his in-
come ho distribute each year, and a
very good percentage it is. Near.* ago,
when ho earned kss than 2,0u0 annu-
ally, he gave away Iho soon perocnt-
ago that he gives to -day, and (man a
very early age he has pravtised and
p.rcachod the duty of putting aside so
much of ono'.s income -how 'ver small
it be --for rho benefit of the pow. Mr.
Levi T. Schofield, en inn mento friend of
the millionaire, relaters how, when the
civil war broke out in 1861. Itockcfelr
k:r called him into his room ono day
and gave hum 8300 out of his s'rong-
[rix. A4 tho Fume time ho guaranle.d
'edt givo Iho family of each of twelve
no'd.crs 3300 a year trail the war was
over, although at this limo he was
known to be worth only 810,000.
A S"TOCK13110laillS GENf.1IOSITY.
Many atories are told of Mr. Jnm•'s R.
Keene's boyish unpettus'y regarding
i•hi'anthropic matters, of wtOctt tho fol-
I•.w.ng is oro of the toot: Ono morning
ho was sitting In the famous Hoffman
Howe oaf° in New York with ha friend
Arthur A. Housman, Look ng out of the
window at a blinding snowstorm that
was raging. Keene, aft_r a m',mc'nts
silent contrmplaLon, turnod t) Homo
man and said, "Tits is a terr:b o s'orni,
and will bring untold sulfering to the
.poor." Housman uszonlcd, and for a
few minutes thero was silenoe. 'Then
Beene suddenly jumped up and ex-
ctamed, "1 dell you what ('11 do. If you
will give 85,000 I will give 325,000, and
we will have It distribulod wheno :4 will
do the most good." Housman was a
hit startled at tho suggestion, but cheer-
fully agreed to the propositon; and the
fol'owing day tho 330,000 was distri-
buted among Um fro.zing and destitute
pe':or of New York.
Keane once cxprostsed his views on
charity. and these aro so praclienl and
,sh...w the character of the rnale natio so
clearly that it scans wall to give thorn
.here. "1 Letieve," aro slid. "nn giving
rr:orcey when pcopla nod it, and to peo-
ple who aro in actual want, regardless
of the causes of their wants.
IF A MAN LS HUNGRY
he should be fed, and et once. II ho
has became accusevned to drink and his
sostom needs a drink, it should be givon
to him. Never mind what his past has
been. It it be a woman who is in need,
it is of no importance whether she is
worthy or not. Tho question is whe-
ther she is hungry, or is in need of
clothe., or shoes or fuel. Such assist -
arae is generally asked by Bic roan or
woman who .hasrnad3 a tn.s!ake of sonic
:ert or other, It is generally due 1e
this lack of character that they come
to want. Th -:se are the persons who
need help and the ones) 1 seek to assist
when 1 give money. \Vhen poor people
are in Hood it is not Loiks but food and
clotting an4 cue al that Il:ey want."
Perhaps there never was a more intor-
eating or less ostentatious plulanthro-
p st Than the late Merry Fleischman,
who in Witted tho now famous "bread
line" which still ass ml'h overy night
te rocelvo free gratis coffee and nulls,
though the originator of the charity has
tong since been dead. F!oiSC!•Oran urs..:.d
to dress up In poor and r•aggod gar -
men's, and go al:out the kiwaot parts
of Now Yo, k : oxkng out worthy objects
of Its charity.
i1E 11\1) '.:..NY ADVENTURES.
Cit one occwa:on he sat down on a door-
step, and while resting there with his
head bent a poor and wretched -looking
woman came up to him and asked if he
wero ill. So many peoplo had passed
wi•iltout taking any notice of l►hn that
Fie schmnn d••cidod to try %higher her
sympathy were real or asswned.
lie thereupon answered tint by Was
t:ol ill -only hungry. ifo hadn't had
anything to eat ata that day, he said.
Tors came into Lae eyes of Iho w. man
and, taking from her pocket a vary
black and grimylool(ing rag, which
might onto have hen a handkerchief,
she and 4 one cornor of It and to k out
a 10 cent place. "Como with me," she
said. Fle:sciuuan followed her and Ih'y
stoppo l at a "lunch waken," whero the
woman ordered him a curt of cof(.r and
".Inkeret" (diughnut.). whrch'the m llion-
aire was oblig"d to c.,nsume. The coot
was 5 cents, and the nickel that was
lett the woman very carefully 110.1 in
lir corner of her handkerchief again.
B. fore parting Fleisetunan loomed the
Lamer of th's Truly philanthiop.c wo-
man. and subsequently sot her up in a
little business of her own, and to -day
she is a
PROSPEROUS AND H:\PFY WOMAN.
Mr. F'eLachman frequent'y t- kl the story
lo the credit of her whom, Ma mid. he
should always regard as lho greakst
and most unselfish philanthrop et he
ever mot.
There is nn interesting story told of
the late Cornelius Vandrbhll ro'ative to
tow he once made a fortune for a wi-
e'nw of an old fel`ow•sprculator. The
husband of Ulla woman had diel and
left her pcnnilosa. One day, Mon she
was :owing in a capital els house, she
)earl a great mining operation being
(!L hosed. She was enough verse.1 in
ntoalcs to reonlize that a great deal was
ori hand. Taking s ow (Notion,' ear-
ring.), which she had treasured is the
iael gift which h"r hu -hand hod given
her, she went with them to Vanderbilt
and begged that he would invest them
for her in the particular mining stock
which she had heard cliscuSS"1.
Il turned out that the information she
had received was the "tip" that 'ender -
hill was looking for, and it cemo poi
to time to hap h m mak-, a large sum.
"You have done me a great ,0ry oe," he
said; "keep your diamonds, and 1 will
Invest some mon"y for you." And he
did invest a sum which, when the s'ock
V. -k 811 unprece Ic'ntd turn upward,
y.cldc l the astute woman oorrr•lhing
Like $500,010.
111P1'1'.\t:Gs 1'110%1 AL.f. OVER THE
GI.ttltl:.
'3 ele graphic Briefs I'
Our 0w n and
Other Commies of Recant
Events.
CANADA.
Now strnrts in Throe Ilivcrs aro to bo
66 foot wi,kv.
Land 011 l'onrg'e► street, Toronto, sold
for mono than $5,000 per (toe.
11. Cltanbet•s was drowned at Port
Sandtk,'ad by hes tattoo) upset' ng.
The C. • P. R. will establish Y. M.
A. branches at divisional points.
Twenty new freight cars aro be
tu•ncd out daily for the G. T. P.
Tho G.'1'. P will carry grain from Ed-
Inciiton to \Vinnili•g this [all.
'The C. 1'. R. are beginning their cam-
paign for 25,000 harvesters f. r rho west.
Il is said British capitalis'.a aro ncgo-
elating for the purchase of tie" Tilbury
o.i liklds.
There is an enormous growth in the
number of students at the University of
Toronto.
'l'ho Hudson's Bay Railway wilt bo
.1 -hill without delay, says Icon. G. 1'.
Graham.
A four-ronmod addition is to bo built
at Orlllia Collegiate Institute as a cost
of 810,000.
Port Arthur Board of Toads Inas pro-
eenkd a flag to lliu now C. 1'. it. lake
liner Assinuboia,
Chas. M. Ilays will increas thofacili-
ties of Ilse G. T. It. for handling milk
'.n Montreal.
\yards 3 and 4 of London show an
increase of 1.181 population, anal an in-
crease; of $456,665 in sowocsm int.
Windsor keeps up its reputation as
the Gretna Green of Canada by 672 mar-
riages for the first half of tho year.
Ine�poctor Duncan, obiol of the City
DetecWve. Department, Toronto, is to bo
ene of the personal guards of the Prince
of Wales ret Quebec.
Senator G. W. floss wants tho law
tr oompot boys with tobacco to d:sc'oso
where they purchased it in order to
prosecute the seller.
A Montreal merchant Is suing th' city
for his fire loss, alleging that rho bri-
gade was inefficient and did not take
Um proper stops in fighting the fire.
The Immigration. Department is ac-
Uvoly engaged in turning tack undesir-
able immigrants from the United States
who aro driven to sock work in the Do-
minion.
Evidence given before the special
committee at Ottawa showed that half
a million more would have completed
tJre Quebec bridgo had the disaster not
taken place.
A militia order has been issued per-
mitting civil servants to attend the
military camps of instruction without
any deduction of time from their regu-
lar holidays.
Loss a Million and a Half, Mostly Upon
Boston and Albany Railroad.
A despatch from Boston, Mass., says:
Fanned by a brisk itorth wind, a (ire,
Lelioved t, havo ben caused by spon-
tnnM1ous eombusti.,n or a locomotive
spark, swept nearly a quarter of a mule
C' of tho harbor front of East Boston late
on Wednesday, caus.n a property loss
g I
• a Y
i
ono ,stunakrl at nearly 51,500,000. ►\(uch
of the lois falls upon alto Boston & Al-
bany Itailn)ad. Daniel Sullivan. a
watchman at tho Cunard Liner pier. is
missing, and it is fcaro1 that ho pe•-
inhed in the flannes,
\Vedneolay's fire was the most de-
.-touctive that has occurr'e1 along the
harbor front in many years. The ilames
spread with remarkable rap`dity, and
by the lime the first flte-lighting ap-
paratrns arrived alio filo was beyond
einlrol and knping from pier to pier.
Within a hall-liou:• after the first burst
of flames was dlscovered four p`ors,
Ohre) warehouses, a gran elevator con-
tain ng 30,000 bushels of grain and
OHEAT BRITAIN.
Tho third reading of the old -age pen-
sion bill passed the British Commons.
'Piro I.u.sitania, on her first day out
from Qi;o• t:gown, sal'e1 613 miles,
breaking all previous. rocurds.
The second reading of the bill giving
an eighWrour day to miners within fivo
yoars has passed tiro Brit.sh Comnn :na.
The Juno statement of the British
Board of '(rade shows done acv of £8,-
346,000 in imports and £20,789,500 in ex-
perts.
Tho rise and fall of the British limer-
ick craze is sh :wr► by the fact that from
July to 11' enib r, 1907. 10.881,000 six -
lenity .)vestal orders were' issued, while
firs year the numixu is under half a
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UNiTi;D STATES.
James Hart was arrested at Sheens -
hood Bay for belting a dinner on a re-
sult of a race.
James Mayes, a Westinghouse em-
ployr, at Stanford, Con., is alive after
a shook of 11.000 volts.
Four children and the father of two
(:t them wero kilted near Lois Angeles
by tui elcclric car striking their wag-
gon.
Polito Gary of the United States Steel
Corporal:on says that Iho iron ant stool
hr:siness has boon bettor the last fort-
night.
Ono hundred wca'lhy lumbermen in
Stirl•ss of the south and middle woat are
pi nning t, forma merger with ,i capi-
tol of $300.000,000.
Nathan [.ovine, a youth of twenty.
onnt-ssxd to tho New York potioe that
he had robb.d nearly every tlrst.class
Intel In thio c ly.
\Villi,un Reiman, n Now York jewel -
tor, has ordered a house to be bull ret
Peng Isla[.) that will revolve like a
r•nilwny turntable',
Nev i°nglnnd ►rinnufacttuers have pro-
'estod against the too of khaki el eh of
BOOM u►nnuf.:cjure for Iho unt•,rrns or
Unittl States soldiers.
GhNEILAL.
A revolution has broken out in rho
reoub:io of Ilondurns.
German ofileei.s on active a, mere are
to wear swer.ls,
\:e nragua Is recruiting an army l,, ad
Ilonduras in hor fight against revolu-
1:onar:ew.
V••ntly n Ihousnn•i Coreans have boon
n:urikr.d by Cnrean insurgents in Iho
kat four months.
Tho Russ'an M n eter of Finance) will
prof ably float nnol!hcr loan of 8230.000, -
ON, in the autumn.
Between one hundred and ono bun -
(Ire! and fifty f•er.9one were killed in the
f'ar•agunyen revolution.
Tho Swiss referendum to prr,h bit the
m ,nufnctnre and sato of nb;intho car-
r:eel by 80.000 mrrjorily.
Frrnoh lnxp:ayers need not disclose
their private oco•tunls when income lax
ns';ossm•'nls are .sought.
Tern workm.'n wcrto kilted in Sl. Pet-
ersburg on Thursday by the rollarse of
the roof of a building in course of con-
struucllin.
Three Annamite omcer,f ha:.' Leo les
hea.kil at nano!. Coch'n Ch'na, for
a.rnplicity in a plot to poison the
French garrison,
4,-.....
Pe.i ije wast.' a lot of valuable time
in fooaah arguments.
many loaded !might cars, hal been dol
sth oyod.
Suv,u al vessels and lighters nor lowly
too -aped destruction. The big Leyland
Lino steamer Devonian was !mete:[ a4
one of the piers which was dcs'ruy.'d,
but the craft was warpod out int) tie
etr:arn w.tt.ot, sustaining any damage.
Loss fortunate was Iho I•a•quo Belmont
et Yarmouth, N. S. The Belmont was
moored by tho pier where rho fire start.
ed. and by the limo the vessel was
moved t, a place of safety her super-
etructure and rigging had beton practl•
catty destroyed. The lite -masted schoon.
oe Paul Palmer and the four -masted
schooner 0. 11. Brown were cons:d rah.
ly damaged.
The (too started at 4.15 p.m. in a wore -
house on pier No. 1 filled with contbuss
tittle mntertal such as Egyptian cotton
and oil. A hundred laborers wero at
work on the pier at the •tince, and witty
all of them It was a race for life.
SHIPPING OF MONTREAL.
The Port Makes a New Tonnage Record
Tilts Yoar.
A despatch from Montreal says: Mont-
roal harbor has made a new record in
the tonnage of seagoing vessels. Tho
number which have .arrived in pont up
to July 1 is, 246. representing a tonnago
of 655,155. or an increase of twenty-
eight v sseis and 79,467 (.ns over 1907.
This beats all moords exo piing in .1905,
when the total number of vesse:le up to
July 1 was 253, representing a tonnage
of 6(t',I83, this being only an increase
of seven ve sets, but a decrease of 52,-
970 in tonnage. Since tho opening of
navigation for the prosent season the
revenue r000avcd by the harbor commis-
sioners of ,Montreal has amounted to
$90.710, as against 376,697 for last year,
or un Increase of 314,013. In the past
threo years the harbor has been deep -
mod fivo feet. This improvement has
helpe] to bring larger vea'sels to the
port.
BIG COAL PROPERTY SALE. .
Negilthttlons for Purchase of British
Columbia Areas.
A despatch from Victoria, B. C., says:
L is learned on excellent authoray that
negotiations for ono of the largost (foals
ever put through on Vancouver Island
are now in progress, the complotion of
which will mean the ,passing of iiia ex-
tensive oonl interests oontrolled by Hon.
Joins Dcnsmuur into the hands of John
Arbuthnot, ex•.\fayor of Winnipeg, and
n number of Ncw Yeo* millionaires, of
wh m Luke Wishart Ls one. Tho
remount involved is upward of 85,000,-
000. Mr. Dunsmuir has &gritted his
willingness to sell and only the questi.in
of tonne remains to be settled. The
Wellington eollierles, which Dunsmuir
controls, embrace large ssddpp'ng mines
rear Ladysmith and Cumberland, where
the majority of vessels plying on the
coast fill their bunkers.
PUSHING NORTHWARD EAST.
The People's itailway Will Soon he
Finished.
A despat••h from Toronto says: The
*trot has been laid across the Millwood
River on the Temiskarning & Northern
Ontario Ra luny to a f:oint within thirty
mile; of the joint'on with the National
Traasonnt n+•n'nl Railway. Tie bridge
across the Driftwood, ono of the most
difficult pieces of work in connection
with the extension of the railway, was
completed on the 4th of July. Tho lay-
ing of the steel, which is now down to
a )joint 218 miles north of North Bay,
on the last section of the road, will to
a.numencrd 011 the 13th of next month.
KILLED C111i.1) WITII SCISSORS.
Wailross in Noose law 110101 Commits
Crime White Insane.
A despatch from Ani oso Jaw, Sask.,
vay.9: In a tmrorary flt. of..insanity, on
Tios•.tay alien) ton. Mary Galbraith, a
wat'tosoo in the Coinmercinl 11..101, took
tho Iffe of her new born chill with a
small pair of embroidery scss)rs. The
young woman is a. daughter of Ar:drew
Galbraith, a fanner ' 1 this district, nnei
formerly of Se.•aforth.Ontario. Miss
(.:Beath Ls now in the hospital. and
haw bon formally paved under arr ot.
WEAPONS WERE IMPOUNDED.
Italfarn Laborers in New Brunswick Dls-
armed of Guns and Knives.
A despatch from St. John, N. B.. says[
In consequenco of recent inunl.rs, New
Brunswick authorities deckled to disarm
all Italians corning to work on the
Grand Trunk Pacific. On Tuesday a
party of sixty were searched and rho
ocnstables secured enough knivcns and
revolvers to equip an Infantry company.
Tho Italians strenuously objected, but
were overoomo.
CHILD CRIMINALS.
An Alarming Incranse in the Number to
New York.
A despatch from New York says: kc -
cording to the report Lssuod by Police
C•c ntncisx:oncr Bingham, aro increase In
crimo among the children of the great-
en' city Is alarming. So tar this year
2,860 children under sixtoen years of
age havo been arrested, against 1,725
last year. The number of boys and
girls from sixteen to twenty years
reached Iho total last year of 2,319.
whiles so far this year 6.133 have boon
arrosted.
KILLED BY 11:1YFOiRK.
Lhtle .Son .of Mr. Oliver Iturton of
Vaughan Stabbed in itreast.
A despatch from Woodbridge says: A
fatal accident occurred on Thurs,kiy on
the farm of Mr. Oliver Burton. ninth
ooncass:on, kat No. 1, Vaughan township.
\Vhilo loading hay his little son, six
years old, wits on the wagon. Tho
horso started suddenly, overbalancing
rho hired moan. As he fell the lark piers
a! the child's breast. lie died shortly
after.
MOSQUITOES 110LD UP TOWN.
Pest so Bad In New Westin/niter Tfiat
3101s Close Down.
A doapalch from Vanoouvcr, B. C.,
says: A dense cloud of mosquitoes haA
swept Into New Westminster and taken
p ss::ssian of Iho town. So serous a
matter tuts tate pest 1 ecome that the mon
at some of the lumber mills on tho
Fraser Rivor were driven out by the
stinging hosts, and the mine havo been
obliged to shut down temporarily. At
Cloverdale a baby wos so badly bitten
that its life is seriously endangered.
4.
D1(01' LE'rfF:R RATE.
Will Probably go Into F:flect on float
of Next Aunt;i.
:1 ,despatch from Ottawa says: The
drop letter rate of one cent an ounce
will probably go into a (f. ct in the Otos
cf Canada on August first.
LAIIOfl-SAVING DIVIC1:S.
"Do you know. Sam. That a man doeM
not have to do as much work now as
11.! did ton years ago?"
"Yes, sah, 1 know it, soh; why, 1'*
teen married nearly eight years. sahl"
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NEEDS NEiIVE.
"\\'oukt Advise me to go Into politcsi'
"Young mon,' answered Senator Sor-
ghum. "the mere fact that you aro eco
me1leot nv to ask adwioo about it proves
that you aro unfit for the profssien."
WELL -DIGGER'S ESCAPE
Cooped in Narrow Space by Suspended
Horse ---Climbed Out Just in Time.
A despatch from Saskatoon, Sask.,
says: Harold Br't.scoe, of .\f•xsten, had a
sensational cscap3 from apparently in-
evitable deal)) al the bottom of a•15•foot
well. %ihich he was digging. on \\'cd-
nes'ay. iia brother Jim worked an the
surface, and drove the horse which
drew up Iho buck• is of earth. 7'he
h ,roe proved hare) 10 manage. and en.
tanglol Itself in the runn ng gear.
wh'rcup on it backed to v nr.ls the mouth
of the ae't. an open ng four lost in di•
am••ter. Jfm clung 'o tho ;rairnnr:s held,
but it clipped over the 1 r nk f. i half its
long:h, water! it hung staspootel by por•
Ilona of Iho hern.ess and running gear,
herring his brother's nb ula above, and
stnrllnl by then sudden obstruct.on of
the light, the man at the lottom of the
well lo ;tool up gieickly. ik'alizing he
p tit, he pro;.ed his pick on end and
crouched under it, hoping to ward off
Iho felting iorse. Ho then managed to
catch the bucket, which awing about
eight feet from the well bottom and
climbed up the rote, at the risk of Being
noshed by n ardden motion of aha
horx►. Ice Jn„t renetied the lop when
IA Karnes: and soar hailing the horse
gave way. and the animal fell to the
bottom of the well.