Exeter Advocate, 1908-10-29, Page 7 (2)EVORTS VR031 HW MOO
TRADE CENTRES..
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-of tzt
'fl:trieseing
therefore will Also ing tb Itwdas in uv
dceline to r et -o ;inner any
enY report ustrian an force would find itself monism
rteaSs sources reaffirm that on its flank.
a)dirct Aristro-Turkish settlement .So far as kriown, nothing' serious
eg!irding Resnia and Herzgoviosis has developed from the arrest of
is impending. The Bulgarian en- Gen. Vukotitch, the special Mon.
¶O ix still at Constantinople, where tertegrin envoy to Servos, although!
c, had another int,erview with the it will doubtless further inflame the
Ministers on 'Wednesday. All out- anger of the Montenegrins when it
ward indications there point to a becomes generally iknown in that
peaceful- arrangement, although country. The best check to the
nothing of a eonvincing- nature hasdangerous effervescence in Mon-
et tome thence confirming the tenegro and Servia alike is suppli-
ed by nature, as in a few weeks
military operations will be made
inspossible by the weather. Winter
luis already begun in the higher
-ing at Thourmaya and Palanka be- part of the Balkans.
Parts alliance story.
The belief that no 'conference will
e se„11/cd increases everywhere.
The-atory from Athens about fight-
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A despatch from London, Ont.,
says: ;Herbert Bombard, of 479
3Lork Street, is in a seini-Coliskious
eondition *is the result of bein
at -
fare on Tuesday nights -• The in
was truck over the _heart, and, as
be • has been a sufferer from heart
'trouble,the conicroni6s were
;serious. Although Bombard has not
been aide to give a detailed account
• , the attack, he, in his more eon-
oua moments, chinas that a Man
by the name of Watson was thesone
wh track hint, because he refu5-
.ed to a monetary loan to the
laLter when appyoaehed. One of
Pfnibard's ribs is broken and this
pzerced his lung.
- A despatch from Utica, N. Y.,
says: Professor Carl F.. Meyers of
• -Frankfort, ei suburb of -this city,.
is oin 0 . t i 0
ttAtki-es;:thltromt,-;fit.:-
extinguielteds- Mrs- Masers is
•veteran balloonist and aeronautt-
eat engineer, and claims that down
in Texas spine years ago he produc-
rain that -spread over several
States. His salan is to send up into
the sky a big baloon filled with
gases, which he explodes with an
electric spark, Professor Meyers
has been engaged by several paper
companies of northern New York,
whose forest lands are melting away
to ashes, to make rain. He con-
tends that the Mohawk Valley is
bettor place to start the rain, and
that 03ICO 'begun the rainfall will
extend to the mountains. The first
baboon will be exploded within a
few days between this city and
Frankfort.
COLOR UNE AN OBSTACLE.
'DlcuIty in SU" of Unification of
South Aftiea.
A despatch from Durban, Natal,
says: Some of the Cape delegate
sto the -Union Conference oppose °sub
And out any unification. A major-
ity, however, may accept a cern-
:promise between unificatiort and
federation, rather than wreck the
C eation. The question of pm
cc r Vote, whielthe Cape, is ling trouble. A
'
4
t ew only exists
suggestion is being Made to abolish
the color tine throughout South
"rice-, and raise the franchise
.Ortsirtdard, but the objection is that
arge number of whites may also
be excluded.
• A TUROCVLOS1S HOSPITAL.
' .----.
Conditional - Gift of $30,000 to
Montreal League.
• A despatch froze Montreal says:
1 It was announced on Wednesday
that the Montreal league for the
prevention of tuberculosis had ac-
cepted the offer made by Lieut. -
Col. Burland to provide a tubercu-
losis -dispensary and -institute at a
cost of $50,000, providing the
league would raise an endowment
of $50,000. Col. Burland has pur-
chased a building in Belmont Park
and is having it converted into a
hospital and dispensary. It will be
known as the Riirtand Institute as
a merrnorial to Col. Burland's par-
ents.
*Winnipeg Woman-Ilitneit
Child Eseaped.
espatch from Winnipeg saws:
Martha -E. Swett, of 38 Union
ntte„Elmwood, a suburb of this
ety, was burned to death in her
Ome on Tuesday night while trying
o save her child in a fire caused
Y the explosion of a coal ail stove.
The child escaped unhurt.
to *114 Dollars.
• A ilelipatch from Winnipeg says:
The Provincial - Government has
)hteed detectives on private resi-
nets in which telephones have
teea installed, and if they find that
mera are being kepi, as in the
tase in many homes: they raise the
'rate, to $50, imposing a business
'
uorirlimMonrp41.4.00.04•11141
-TIfltE}; MIMS FOIL $11).
Thief, With a Rad it.
cord, Gets Heavy 'Sentence.
A de:-,p-ateh from Brockville says:
Ambrose Godkin'aged 23, was on,
Wednesday senteneed by Jtuke
lieDenald to three years in o
Kingston Penitentiary for tlie theft
ef $10-; - • bail rord
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT,
Colts Knocked Ladder Over and
•`- Man Was Killed.
A despatch from St. Catharines
says: A young man, named Went-
-worth,-&-resident-01-43seirnibyrwa
engaged on Tuesday on a flit -five
ces adder .pain mg ga e end
0! a large bank barn owned by Mr.
Willzaflu lionsberger, a mile south
of Jordan. The ladder was fasten -
to the fence with ropes. Some
colts playing around the barn got
tangled in the rope and pulled the
bidder over. Wentworth was
thrown from the ladder to the
ground -arid killed -instantly.
LOST HOME AND BARNS.
✓ Residing Nears bow
Suffers Iteitvily. •
A despatch from Peterboro' says:
By a fire starting at the top of a
large' straw stack near ono of his
barns, Mr. W. j. Young,a farmer,
living near this eity, lost thityear's
harvest, three barns and Ins resi-
&nee, and Ivas slightly burned him-
self in trying to, lead a horse gut
of the burning, stable. '
A hatclt from Manila says:
Belated reports indicate that the
svirm of betober le in the Nyasa -
was the worst and moit
,struetive within 'the memory of
14 int; inhabitants of the valley.
The eflicial figurea are not yet
atAilahle,asotany'spliices have not
l'eeti-heara'Miii,"'hut it scents ter -
1 in that th. i ,nizmbsr`4,;(' clout will
',11 A 41-000 4 '
typhoon and
torrential rain t throughout the
'alley and in the mountains. Tht
rivers, were flooded: and in ma -
plates rose la a; heiglot of *0 feet
.sweeping everything b,efore them itt
their path to the se*. Iliindred
were swept
• enitnale and hots
tWay by Atte Wattref,
The Government h
o coast guard cutter
rtidition& and trgarn
It i reported that
ken out among
despatche
e relief.
investigate
he ebole'r%
hi refuges.
horse and killed, ori,..Thirsday.
Tbtqmas SAly-tr-fions`-ol-Wintt
peg terve been awarded the contrae
for the new car shop's att Winnipe
conneetion with the G. T. P4 ter
minal.
Mr. William McInnes of the gen
logical survey, reports that there i
a wide belt of good agriculture
land that will be opened up by th
new Ifudson Bay Beltway.
The Kingston isocontotive Work
have just closed a contract with th
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway fo
twenty-five engines to be delivere
during the coming year.
W enitoba Ir L4J4
-
fWi 1-Nottlierif;41X
t,
for No. 2 "Sforthern, Georgian Bay
g ports. •
.. Ontario Wbest--No 2 rhittf
to 90Me outside; No 2 red Winte
- 99e; and No. 2 mixed, 89% to 900
s outside.
1 Oats-entario Nii.oS 2 white 374 to
e 28c outside, end et 40,!../4 to. 41c on
track, Toronto, No. Western Can -
0 Ma oats quoted 4 42*, Goderich.
e Rye -No. 2 quoted at 753e outs
✓ side.
d Buckwheat -58 to 600 outside.
Peas -,Nos% 2 quoted at 85% to
80e otitaide.
Corn -No. 2 American yellow
s nominal at 86e on tracks, Toronte.
and No. a at 84e.
• GREAT BRITAIN.
Seventeen suffragettes were son
rins-ittsjacion
o *Alit "P".t" Vet
-Thoinicilkrabkintion Ws„Rgt,7.
taitteLSO,HrilStAiltatii*L-41%
the British Conunons, has been
appointed • :Under-Secretary for
Foreign- Affairs. •
,of the Government's Clan to iniee
the $ituation.7,T1ia gravity o
ease arising from the feet that luni-
dreds of thousand s are on
'of starvation through lack
was fully xeco,gnized by the
mier, but he Sitid be could not un-
dertake, in the legislative field, to
Olifuwar
3 'orbit°, 74%c. Oats -Easier; N�. 3
white, 50 to 50e; No. 4 white, 48%
to 49e• Barley Feed to maltin
59 to 05e. J1,4 -No. 2 on track,
• 80%c.
• CATTLE MARkET.
Toronto, Oct. 27.-Tbe best load
of' cattle on the market was one of
• ;.11"ssitsstehstrats.
-
eatitles. *4.50 to -$4.04;s1rood
oslit•safre-meeltsents---48185-4
--170,1*Iiiittiii***11161essiOefsEsiff'di
abundant, $2.50 to $3.25; choice
cows' $3 to *3.75; common COWS,
$1.59to $2•75 per cwt._ The offer-
--41-1seissew
of them. ' Pricea-fors mil
COWS' ranged from $25 to $70 each
for cornmon to choice COWL _Export
Owes -were quoted at $3.25 to $3.50
per cwt; bucks and trills aold at $2
to $2.50, and lambs at $4 to $4.50
per cwt. Hogs continued to sell at
$6.25 per cwt. for seleets.
e wrec c in Wis-
consin, lentil:1g' six 'laborers.
Floods are doing great damage in
central and northern Oklahoma.
Four persons were-killedin a t
nado and cloudburst near Clayton,
The Carnegie Hero Fund Com-
snitteeshassa•warded 43 medals and
$40,000 in cash averds. '
Forest fires are causing the death
of thousands of trout in the streams
of New York State.
Four children were burned to
death in the destruction of a min-
er's house at Summit, Pa., on Mon-
day.
An attempt will shortly be made
to raise the Royal Savage, the flag-
ship of Benedict Arnold, sunk sti
Lake -Champlain in 1770: '
Te Big Four Railroad has prom-
ised its empleyees an increase in
pay and work if Taft113elected, ana
a cut of 10 per „cent. if Bryan sue
ceeds.
Cap. Rankini,A prominent attor-
ney of Trenton, -Tenn., was taken
front his hotel at Wainutlog, Tenn.,
and murdered by night -riders.
Broughton Brandenburg, svho
sold The New York Times the ups:
eus Cleveland letter, predicting the
election of Taft, has been arrested
on a eharge of forgery. •
• GENERAL.
Central Europe is- expe• riencing
the coldest weather since 1880.
Eleven hundred persons were
killed in the recent typhoon near
Changehovr, China.
The Chinese bill of rights prent-
isee that by 1-911 China will be a
Parliamentary country like japan
or Russia.
-IIALF.
Itillag-OrtirtlieFlittres for
September.
A despatch fronts Ottawa says:
The total immigration into Canada
for September was 10,091„ as cern-
pared with .19,05/ for the same
month last year, a decrease of 47
pet cent. From January ist until
the end of September the arrivals
via oceali porta were 81,917, as
compared with 191,020 for the same
reriod last year. The immigration
or the nine. months of this year
from the United States was 45,053,
compared with 41,809 for OW
same period of last year, an in-
crease of 614, or two per cent. The
total immigration into Canada from
all ,souarters for tho, first nine
months Of this year was 127,030, as
compared with 2350329 for the seine
Period of last Year, a decrease of
10i,10.0, or forty-six per cent.
•
)
ttl purist) or .vomA$.
,
111Maaekvrla, I1ogAt!e given.
• DowrieS."
Everywhere is the flog the frioid
ef man, but in Manchuria he is•
more strictly the friend of woman.
There the dowry of 'a young woman
doesnot consist of hard cash as in
Europe, hot in* certain nitinher of
sleek dogs with thick or silken hair.
The .girls status may., almost be
guesed by her wedding litortion of
If she receive siit she i* poor,
dozen. her parents are in easy
mstaneess and it twelve deltil
y be taken 'that she tAmes
rich family. They are
fulh fattened for their savory flesh,
tl their tkins after death bez'onte
riots, elistes, vesta. for bun.
or bedsude WhiChl
-11VfM1-1111t.Ereu tOr fts-
frt'ze
tiil. dog it wariii
Attrts-ss tottlessmt&tOst
persharrel
at. *1.50.10 $tliteforscooking apples.
Beans -Prime, $1.80 to .1.85, And
hand-picked, $1.90 to $1.95 per
bushel.
Honey -Combs, $2,25 to $2.75 per
dozen, and strained, 10 to to* per
pound.
Hay -No. 1 timothy quoted at $11
to $11.50 alon on track -here, and
No. 2 at $7,00 to $8.00.
Straw -$6 to $7 on track.
Potatoes--Outarios, 50 to 55c per
bag. Delawares ate 05 to 70c per
bag on track.
Poultry -Chickens, Spring, dress-
ed, 19 to lle perspound; fowl, 7 to
Se; (kick), .9* perpound; young
turkeys, 14 to 15e per pound.
•••••••..10.1•0
THE DAIRY MARKETS.
Butter -Pound prints, 23 to 240;
Vohs 22 to 23e; inferior, 19 to 20c.
OreLnery rolls, 20 to ' 20%c, and
sclids'244 to 25%c.
Eggs -Case lots, 22 to 23c per doz-
Cheese-LaiTe cheese, lac Per
dozen, and twins, 13%c.
HOG PRODUCTS. ,
Bacon -Long clear, 12% to 1234c
per pound in case lots; mess pork,
$19.00 to $19.50; short cut, $23.50.
Hams -Light to medium, 14 to
14c; do:, heavy, 12 to 13c; rolls,
11 to llge; shoulders, 10 to -40%e;
backs, 16% to 17c; breakfast bacon,
45- -to- 15%e;
Lard -Tierces, 13e; tubs, 1334c;
pails, 134e.
. •
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL,
Montreal, Oct. 27 -Ontario NO.
white oats quoted at 43% to 44c;
No. 3 et 424 to 43c; No. 4 it 42 to
to 42%q; Manitoba No. 2 white 45
• 0 45%0 ;No. 3., 44 to 44Xis ancere-
jected, 43 to 4334o per 'bushel- ex
-Avnteh4r-
wheat pear -is, =Inds,
$5.50; 'Winter what patents, is to
$5.25; straight rollers, $4.50 to $4.-
00; do., in bags, $2.10 to $2.20; ex-
tras, $1.75 to $1.85. Feed -Mani-
toba bran, $21 to $22; shorts, *25;
Ontario bran, *21.50 to $22 ;- midd-
lings, 020 to $e; shorts; '4325 to
$25.50 ' per ton, 'including bags;
pure grain monilia, $30 to $35;
milled grades, *25' to $2g per ton.
Provisions -Barrels short cut ines$,
$4.59; talf-barrels do., 'ILO;
clear fit backs, $23; dry salt long
clear backi, ile; barrel, plate beef,
-$11.50; half -barrels do., $9;- tom -
pound lard, 8,34 to 9Yicl pure lard„,
12,W to 13e; kettle rendered, 13 to
1346; hams, 12g to 14e: breakfast,
bacon, 14 to 15;; Windsor boon/
15 to 10e; . fresh killed abattoir
dressed hop, $0.504. live, 60,50 to
e6.75. • elicesn-Western, 1'41 to
12,k. Buttet-2-13a in round' lots;
26j - to 27c in jabbing, lois.
The is weak and iltles of
.0w 1111,W; I ieleet-
d, Vigo ; No. 1, ‘20e, end
71/0,1per doe.
ut trdcs fu
4 t tred
5 f41,0auud kosarmOre,
to cost a totAt*12,500,
.
been intended. The
ermadersalso se -bid for recrultsis- that th's_War Otilee WA1S
to 'take on.. .11M9.-uten o
ear training in the special re-
The,sa proppsels quite fell
c meet the demands of the Labor
members of the House.
SNOW TEN -On DEEP.
Snowplows, at Work on Main Linea
of C. P., R. rind Cs N. U.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
The 0. P. R. and C. N. R. main
lines in, the west are still snow-
bound. In the vicinity of Medicine
Hat and /tlaple Creek the snow is
et-deep-inssomesof-therscat
itta-s-no-w plows -are at work clears----soierssso-'"gsr-ssf'ssss
g-1he4rseks4---The isterto-is--neW
4!,t1k4k,,,,-)1,41,44;)411:10,A
Civic Assessment Gives the Ca*
A despatelr---froins Ottawa -saya-t-
Tbe returns of the civic assessment
department for this year show that
Ottawa's population has now pass-
t.d the 80,000 mark. The popula-
tion has increased by 4,024 during
the past twelve months and is now
80,294.
• A -despatch -from -Ottawa says:
Ontario's wheat yield- tor this year,
• according to reports received by the
Agricultural Department corre-
spondents in all parts of the Prov -
i
ince, s estimated at 17,264,000
bushels, an average of 21 loushels
• per acre. The oat crop is estimated
at 108,794,000 -bushels, an average of
35 bushels per are. The barley
crop, 21,570,000 4ushele, an aver-
age of 20 bushels per acre. The
• bay and clover crop 5,329,000 tons,
un average of 1%•tons per acre.
The total wheat crop of Manito-
ba is estimated at' 51,748,000 bush-
els, an average of 17% bushels per
acre. Saskatchewan's -wheat crop is
placed at 35,940,000 bushels, an av-
eraee of 15 bushels per acre.
bate's wheat crop is estimated at
8,120,000 bushels, an average of 30
bashels per acre. For oat crop the
cstitnateol total yields are: Manito-
ba, 50,201,000 • bushels, or $8 per
acre; Saskatchewan, 29,703,000
beetle's,' or 32 per acre; Alberta,
25,451,000 bushsels, or 49 per acre.
HE TICKLED DYNAMITE.
A. Quarryman Instantly Killed Near
Montreal.
-
A despatch from Montreal says:
Charles Deniers, a quarry worker,
was killed by a combination of
carelessness and an unexploded
blast on Thursday afternoon at St.
Constant, in a quarry. The work-
men at ,the quarry had drilled a
'bcle. and placed a blast. They
fed the luisismsalsratirett;
ynamite did. apt explode After
waiting Mk fill minutes, the ,quarr3r-
men becsine tired, and Demers, de-
spite the warnings of his fellow -
workers, approacned the hole and
started tickling it with an iron rod
to see what was wrong. The fuse
had gone wrong, but the, dynamite
was in good vorking order and ex.
chided, hailing Deniers many feet
in the air. If was later picked up
uticonscious svith a broken leg and
arrre end generally badly mangled.
Ile was taken -into St. Constant,
4.40.1ere8tvathhoe iite(rio0glatiiriThrwlindca,111,7vyloVews11:1
-1100k ,
The Kaiser's fourth son, Augast
*William, was married on Tuesday
to the daughter Of the Duke; of
Schleswig-/folstein.
SMALLPDX IN EDMUNDSTON.
New Brunswick Town Has Sixty
Cases of MN Type.
A dispatch from Fredericton, N.
B., says: Dr. E. B. Fisher, Secre-
tary of the Provincial Board of
Health, said on Thursday night that
there were sixty cases of smallpox
in the town of Edmundston, N. B.,
and that 25 houses are quarantined.
The disease, he says is of a mild
, hirthinics-tim-spreadscan
be Trevented. The only fear la the
coming of cold weAther. The only
explanation of the • source of the
contagion is that it Was brought
by men working on the Grand
Trunk Pacifie Railway construction.
STAitVED TO DEATH IN CAR.
A despatch from Buffalo says.:
The body of St negro wa,s found in,
fkeight car opened, here on Thurs.-
dity. "Yeeth-Wes-drie to st4rvation
ind thirst. The car ivaa shipped
from Pine Bluffs,. Ark., on Oct. 2,
and had been rebilled from St,
Louis„ Mos, but. wasnot opened it
at the latter plate. In the car Was •
onsignment of goods from Provis
(knee, "R. 1..
ES MAIMETS.
7 -Wheat --No. 1
rd, $1.01%; No. 1 Northern,
.0414; No. 2 Northern, i$1,0 ;
ee.r *1.01/(k ; May, *1.0;Y:,
*1.012/4; ‘10101,-, $1.03.
• Minneapolis, Oet. 27.- Wheat --',- A d
ez., $1.01%; ' $1,OV1 to $1.. l)r. I
0574; No. .1 hard, .01!4; N. 1;;Ont.,,
Northern, $1.03,14 . 2Northern Gugge
61.011.c ter $1.0‘.:3; o. 3 Nerthern: 11 maelted .
%Go to $1- Flou Vint 'Paterthen, SW t2+1411 ils furlough. The t(m.
f5.20 to $5.40; second patents, $3 palo 114.;€, about two thousand 'men
tl. $3.20; first clears, \$3.90 to $i.; eteple.$cd ta thy Il'icinity,of Davfsuil,
20; seeond clears, $2.90 to $3.20. The totaritcwstment,ot the Guggen-
Bran-,40 hulk, *11.46 to $1‘. 4 itilliTh in the estuary ia said to be
Buffalo, N... Y.. Oct. et: , , Wb it ti.4 the virieltbnrit,tod of twelve, WI,
ring stronger; :tio, t' Nottla,ro,', 1..'ssta dollars. and the anment iu
rar1*d, 1 .Vs' *. ,A:.q.t tel(l'i
e-
, M
04, 7;r7, * -o-f• t ntry. for the
i
. l',1will (twee.% one
Vos lion, deliats ropa 414in
,,mipePt
bit frozn Winnipeg aso
formerly of Kingston,
medical effier for Vie
is in the Yuken, has
ou his way home on
last sellsOn, the total for they
being over five Miiiiotts. 'Next year*
when the , machinery now being
plaeed is in operation, the output
be increased t) eight millions,'
and later the total output will pro.:
!Ably be further increased'. to ten
'Mons per ofinurn! The develop.,
ot work is being done wholly by
ge companies,. the individual
miner being vire, Cansis And
taehts ere beingsdug and dredgei.
for the work of future years.
There will be thnnv*nd
,Peotaei Dawson during the aur.
ter. .1 ,
otAt.