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'.r ' DYNAMITE- on EXPLUDESâ€"LEADI Death and Havoc in the Town of Essex Centre. St. Thomas, Aug. idesâ€"Two killed out- right, one dead from shock, six serious- Iiy injured, one .fa'tally, and thirty-three. others with minor injuries. severil cars and many buildings completely demo-‘ fished and fully 75» per cent. of the houses in town damaged, causing mone- tary loss of at least $200000. Such is the result of the explosion of a car of ni'tro-glyeerinc in front of the‘M. C. R. depot at Essex Centre at 9.40 on Satur- day morning. The car of dynamite had reached Essex Centre on Friday night, and was placed on a side track to be taken to Amherstburg by a plug train in the morning. This train in charge of Conductor Tom Barry, Engineer David Cottrell, Fireman James Madi- gan, and Brakcman George Conlon and Joseph ltcharry, had picked up the car, and was backing "to the depot to await the arrival of the mail train from St. Thomas. Conductor Barry noticed that the nitro-glyccrine was leaking from the car, and as the drops fell on the rails they popped. Barry drew the atten- tzon of Depot Agent Stim-ers to the con- dition of affairs, and these two, with brakemen and others, went into the car and readjusted the boxes to try and stop the leakage. Half an hour later ‘the explosion occurred. McNarry and Conlon were helping to make up the (train. The former was on the ground giving the engine crew the signal to stack up as they backed up to the pas- ,seng-er coach, which constitutes .part of Itheir train, while Conlon was hanging 'on the rear end of the dynamite car. {Mr Stimers, station agent, was stand- !ing near the engine, evidently watching ,to see how much dynamite the car was ileaking. DEVASTATION NEAR AND FAR. When the dumfounded- townspeople came to their senses and realized that the place .had not been visited by an earthquake a rush was made to the de- pot. There the car of dynamite had dis- appeared, and in its place was a hole fully six feet deep and ten feet in dia- meter, two cars adjoining were reduced to debris, the passenger coach was shat- tered, the engine was a heap of twist- cd iron and steel, and the once hand- some stone depot wtas knocked out of shape. Search was made for the bodies of the dead and injured. Barry, Stim- ers, Cottrcll and Madigan were found aion g the track near the ruins of the de- pot, and all were living, but unconsci- ous. The bodies of McNarry and Con- 101. could not he found for some time, m “'EDDING BY BULLETIN. .â€" An Unusual Law Complicd \Vith in “’innipcg. ‘ A despatch from Winnipeg says: The following notice is to be found on the bulletin board in the City- Clerk’s office. “Take notice that the marriage is in- tended to be solemnizcd in the English Church Cathedral, at Shanghai, in China. on or about the 8th or 9th day of October, 1907, on arrival of the steamship Minnesota, sailing from S0- attle on September 10 next, between George Herbert Cole of Tientsin, North China, missionary, and JessieWVinnifrcd Singleton of the' city of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, spinster. Datâ€" ed this 7th day of August, 1907.” This is the first time that the City Clerk has been called on to post such a notice, and it is being done as a re- sult of advice from the British Consu- late in China. The notice will remain posted for two weeks, when the bride to be will secure a certificate from the City Clerk to the effect that the notice was posted, and that she has been for two weeks a resident in Winnipeg. q...â€" _.. CATCHING MANY “’lIALES. Quebec Company is Having a Success- ful Season. A despatch from Ottawa says. Mr. ’1‘. J. Code, accountant of the Depart- ment of Trade and Commerce, returned on Wednesday from a visit to the prin- c1pal points along the North Shore, which are touched at by the steamer Restigouche. Three days were spent. at Seven Islands, where the Quebec Steam Whaling Co. has its principal plant. ’i'wo whales had just been brought. in, the. larger of which weigh- ed over one hundred tons. The catch of the company up to a week ago was 37 whales for this season. A total of 00 was obtained for the whole of last season. __.'_.. .pf. MONTREAL SHORT OF “'ATER. Pumps "as Broken Down. A despatch from Montreal says: An- other of the big \Vorthington pumps, at the wheel house in Point St. Charles, is broken down and the greatest. diffi- culty is being experienced in trying to keep sullicient water in the reservoirs on the mountain. It is admitted in the .Waler Department that there may be something of a water famine again, and that the water pressure may be very poor in some districts of the city. One of the Big but they were located after along search. The former’s charred body. was underneath a pile of burning coal, and one hand was completely gone. Brake- man Conlon was blown to pieces, and sections of th body were gathered up in different places. Portions of the head were picked up about two hundred yards away. The concussion caused by the explosion wrought great havoc for a considerable distance on either side of the track and the rails were torn up for a hundred feet, or more. Pieces of track and car wheels were blown dis- tances as far as five blocks. , THE DEAD. GEO. CONLON, brakeman, Amherst- burg train; leaves wife and child in St. Thomas. JOSEPH McNARRY, Amherstburg, brakeman; ~leaves wife and child. Dr. JAMES BRlEN, aged resident of Essex, lying near point of death at home, passed away from shock of ex- plosion. SERIOUSLY INJURED. A. O. STIMERS, station agent, in neigh- borhood of two hundred cuts from fly- ing glass on right side of body; re- covery will be slow. He is totally deaf from explosion. DAVID COTRELL, engineer, St. Thom- as, cuts and bruises, rib broken and kidney punctured; recovery doubtful. JAMES MADIGAN, fireman, St. Thomas, cuts on forehead and right side, and arm badly injured; recovery will be slow. TIIOS. BARRY, conductor, of Amherst- burg, cuts on head and body. JAMES BROWN, Amherstburg, grain merchant, struck by portions of de pot; internal injuries. , INJURED. J A. ABBOTT, shock. telegraph- operator, DAVID HESS, fourteen cuts. MlClIAEI. FARRAUGI-l, mill hand, out on head. BERT ESSELIJNE, mill hand, out on head and body. MRS. JOSEPH BAILEY, cuts on head. MRS. MARTIN, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, cuts. - J R. CLEEVES, operator, cuts. MISS MARY COCKBURN. telephone operator, suffering from shock. MRS. A. O. STIMERS, cut by collaps- ing of her home. JAMES FOSTER, dered partially deaf. About a score of others out by falling glass and timbers. baggagcman, ren. ARE FOND OF CIGARE'I‘TES. Three Ilun- Canadians Smoked Over drcd Million. A despatch from Ottawa says: The In- land Revenue rcturns for the twelve months ending June 30 last show. that the consumption of cigarettes in Can- ada is growing at an alarming rate. For the twelve months the total number entered for consumptlion was 331,972,- 137, as compared with 269,334,937 for the corresponding period of 1905-00, an increase of nearly one-third. In 1901. the number of cigarettes entered for consumption was 250,800,387, and ten years ago it was only 93,798,000. ‘ The consumption of cigars for the twelve months ending June 30 last was 193,810,575, practically the same as for the preceding twelve months. Cigars made from Canadian tobacco numbered 2,820,721, as compared with 3,172,400 for the fiscal year 1905-00. The total consumption of tobacco of all kinds for the twelve months is estimated at 2,953 pounds per head of the population, the largest on record. In regar-dvto spirituous liquor, the consumption of beer shows the largest increase. For the twelve months, it was 5.585 gallons per head, as com- pared with 5.255 gallons per head in 1905-06. The consumption of spirits was .947 gallons per capita, and (f wines .092 gallons per head, both prac- Iltfly the same as for the previous year. vxnâ€" --â€"'- NORTHWEST \VANTS “’OOD. Fuel Famine May be Much More Serious than Expected. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The expected fuel famine in the northwest next winter may be made much more serious by a shortage of wood. A lot of the coal produccd in western Can- ada cannot be stored and it is doubt- ful if the hundred thousand tons which will be available along the line of the C. P. R. when winter sets in will he , Along the little or no sufficient for all needs. Canadian Northern line coal is being accumulated. During the winter Winnipeg burns a thousand cords of wood per day. There are only 41,950 tons altogether in sight. It is explained that last year the deep 'snow greatly hampered the wood-cutters in the bush. At the same time there is wood along the line of the C. N. R. for Winnipeg dealers, but they complain that there are no cars to move it. .3 . ""“,"""~<#~$v - ‘ 1.)“ BZREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Aug. 13.â€"â€"Ontario Wheatrâ€" Nominal; No. 2 white, 87c to 87%0. New wheat, about 830 to 840. Manitoba Wheatâ€"Easy; No. 1 north- ern, 900; No. 2 northern, 930. Comâ€"Steady; No. 2 yellow, 630 to 63%0, Toronto. Barleyâ€"Nominal at 54c for N0. 2. Outsâ€"Ontario, dull; No. 2 whit-e, 4334c outside; new oats, 390,_Chatham freights, September shipment. Manito- baâ€"No. 2 white, 43%0 to 440 on track at elevator. Peasâ€"Nominal at 790 for No. 2. Rye~â€"04c to 05c. Flourâ€"Ontarioâ€"9O per cent. patents, $3.35 bid, $3.40 asked; Manitoba first patents, $5 to $5.20; seconds, $4.40 to $4.50; strong bakcrs’, $4.20 to $4.30. Branâ€"$10 to $17, bulk Outside; shorts, in demand, about $19 to $20, outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter â€" Market continues steady, with little change in prices. Creamery prints . .. 2tct023c -do solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19c to 210 Dairy prints . . . . . . , 17cto 19c do solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17c to 180 Cheeseâ€"Quiet and unchanged at 120 to 12%0 for large and 12%0 for twins, in job lots here. Eggsâ€"Firm at 18c to 18%c; selects quoted from 190 to 19%0. - Beansâ€"$1.05 to $1.70 for handâ€"picked and $1.50 to $1.55 for primes. ‘ Potatoesâ€"Eastern, dull at 800 to 900 per bag; 'new potatoes, firm at $3.25 to $3.50 per barrel, in car lots on track. Balcd flayâ€"Quiet at. $13.50 to $14.50 for No. 1 timothy. New hay, $12.50, in car lots on track here. Baled Strawâ€"$7.25 to $7.50 per ton, in car lots on track here. PROVISIONS. Dressed flagsâ€"$9.75 for lightw-eights and $9.25 for heavies. Porkâ€"Short cut, $22.75 to $23 per barrel; mess, $20 to Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€"Long Clear bacon, 11c to 11%c for tons and cases; hams, medium and light, 15%c to 10c; heavy, 14%c to 15c; backs, 101/50 to 17c; shoulders, 10%c to lie; roll-s, 11%c; out of pickle, 1c less than smoked. Lard-Steady, tierces, 12c; tubs, 12%0; pails, 12%0. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Aug 13.â€"â€"Oats continue 01m, and sales of round lots of Maui- toba No. 2 white were made at 48%c, and car-lots at 49c per bushel, ere-store, The tone of the flour market is strong. Choice spring wheat patents, fair tone, $5.10 to $5.20; seconds. $4.50 to $4.60; winter wheat patents, $4.05 to $4.75; straight rollers, to $4.35; do., in bags, $1.95 ‘to $2.10; extras, $1.05 to $1.75. Rolled oats are still quiet at $1.25 per bag. Cornmeal is steady at $1.45 to $1.50. Manitoba bran in bags, $20; shorts, $23 to $25 per ton; Ontario bran in bags, $19 to $19.50; shorts, $22.50 to $23; milled mouille, $24 to $28 per ton; straight grain, $30 to $32. Baled hay remains steady, with fairly active demand. No. 1, $10 to $10.50; No. 2, $15 to $15.50; clover, $13.50 to $14, and clover mixed, $12.50 to $13 per ton in car lots. Butter is firmer at higher prices. Townships were quoted at 21%0 to 230, Quebec at 21%c to 21%0. Receipts to- day were 3.181 packages. Cheese shows no change. Ontario, 11%0 to 11%0; easterns, 110 to 11%). Eggs were firm. Sales of selected in single cases were made at 20c, and round lots of straight receipts at 10c; No. 1 candled at 17c. No. 2 candled at 14c, and No. 2 straight at 12%c per dozen. ‘ Provisionsâ€"~Barrels short cut mess, to $22.50; half-barrels. $11.25 to 811.75; clear fat back, $23.50 to 24.50; long cut heavy mess. $20.50 to $21.50; half-barrels (10.. $10.75 to $11.50; dry salt long clear bacon, 100 to 11%c; bar- rels plate beef, $14 to $16; half-barrels do., $7.50 to $8.25; barrels heavy mess beef, $1.0; half-barrels do., $5.50; com- pound lard, 10%c to 10%c; pure lard, tific to 12%c; kettle rendered, 130 to 13%1‘; hams. 12%c to 15%c, according to size; breakfast bacon, 140 to 15%c; Windsor bacon. 150 to 1.5%0; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $9.75 to $10; alive, $7.10 to $7.25. BUFFALO MARKETS. Buffalo, Aug. 13. â€" Flour â€" Quiet. \\’hcalâ€"Spring quiet; No. 1 Northern, 51.00%; Winter easier; No. 2 red. 910. Ccrnâ€"Easier; No. 2 yellow, 01c; No. 2 white, 590. Oatsâ€"Quiet; Ho. 2 white, 525%c: No. 3 white, 52%c. Canal freights â€"Unchangcd. NE\V YORK \VI-IEAT MARKET. New York, Aug. 13.â€"thatâ€"-No. 2 red 93%0 elevator; No. 2 red, 95c f.o.b. afioat; No. 1 Northern Duluth, $10184 f.o.b afloat; N0. 2 hard Winter, 95%0. Lly E STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Aug 13.â€"Little business was transacted in exporters’ cattle. The quotations ranged from $5.15 to $5.50 per cwt. for fair to good, and $4.90 to $5.10 for medium exporters’. Butchers’ cattle, choice. equal in qua- lity to exporters' cattle, $4.80 to 85 per cwt.; mixed butchers’ cattle, $3.40 to $4.25; common cow-s, $2.50 to $3; good cows, $3.40 to $3.60. Good stockers sold at 82.75 to $3.25. Heavier stockers were worth $3.25 to 83.50 per cwt. ...._........ .e._._â€"..._.. __ Names Bltt wan awn ‘ nu. Caused Aboutf$50,000 Damagein Montreal“ Warehouse. ...~_ A despatch from Montreal says: A peculiar accident, resulting in heavy damage, occurred early on Thursday morning, when a huge water tow/er at the back ,of the building occupied by Messrs. Hermann Wolff 85 Co., general importers, 170 McGill Street, fell with a terrific crash. Fortunately few people were. about and no one was in the Vicunty at the time. There was practi- cally no warning that. anything unto- ward was likely to occur, for after a few seconds of grinding noises, the crash told of an accident. As the tower fell to the westward the large supply pipe was severed at the top of the build- ing ,and in a few minutes the water had burst through on the five storeys like a broken dam, and every room was soon flooded. As the tower fell across the narrow lane at the back of the building it struck the opposite building, 18 St. ‘Maurice Street, occupied by the Tamilâ€" kandc Tea Co., with great force, the iron pillars and supports crashing through the roof and smashing it like so much matchwood. The crash was so severe that all the people in the neigh- boring buildings ran out into the street. Much of the water from the tank fell in through the broken roof and very many chests of tea were ruined. Bounding off the Tamilkande Company’s building, the debris of the wrecked tower fell into the lane beneath, breaking windows and woodwark in its descent, another loud crash being heard as it reached the ground. The force of the fall is shown in the twisted and bent ironwork of the sup- ports and the triangular base on which the tower rested. Most of the wood- work that fell was splintered into kind- ling wood, The damage is estimated at $50,000. â€".â€"â€"vâ€"â€"â€"â€"_â€"_â€"_._.â€"____.____â€". 1,109 lbs, were worth $4.50 to $4.75 per cwt. Spring lambs were _easy at 5% to The “leather is Favorable and r 6%c per lb. Export ewes-were worth $4.50 to $4.85 per cwt. Iâ€"Iogs were 15 cents lower. Selects sold at $6.75, and lights and fats at $0.50 per cwt. ,w......p.~ FORTY YEARS IN PRISON. IIeavy Sentence for the Leader of a Bad Gang. A despatch from New York says: August Van Fahrig, the convicted leader of a gang of burglars, who terrorized Nassau county residents for nearly six months. was on Wednesday sent to Sing Sing Prison for a term of forty years at hard labor, by County Judge Jackson at Mineola, Long Island. Christian Schlang, another member of the gang, who turned State evidence, was sent to Sing Sing for twentyâ€"five years, and his mother, Mrs. Alma Schlang, who pleaded guilty of receiv- ing stolen goods, was sent to Auburn Prison for five years. Christian Schlang is only nineteen years old. Ingrid Wil- lemus, twenty years of age, the sweet- heart of young Schlang, who was also arrested, and who gave valuable infor- mation convicting the robbers, will be given her liberty. She says she will return to her home in Virginia, and be- gin life anew. {4â€"4 ._...... SCOURGE OF “’OLVES. Woman and Children Dragged Out and Eaten. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Word received from Fort Chippewyan, under date of July 1, indicates that wolves are becoming a positive scourge in the far north. An Indian woman and two children had been dragged out of their tepce and devoured. Deer and. other animals are being depleted by the packs. The Indians refuse to kill them, even under the inducement. of the $10 bounty, owing to supersti- tion and a belief in the transmigration of souls. ’ The same despatch says that. the po- lice are close on the trail of Fiscbry, the half-breed swindler, wanted on a charge of forgery and embezzling $25,000. -4- â€"-..â€"â€" ELEVEN KILLED IN \VRECK. â€"â€"_â€" Three Passenger Cars Demolished on German Railway. A despatch from Berlin says: A pas« scngcr train was derailed on Tuesday night between l’osen and Thorn. The two engines were overturned and three cars were demolished. The official re- port says that eleven persons were killed and ten injured. Among the dead are Prince Alexander Begotoff, two sons of Count Keyeserling of Milan, Russia, and a Russian captain who was accom- panying them. T Many Guestsof Regina Restaurant" OPTIMISTIC CROP OUTLOOK. Damage Done. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The most optimistic crop report for several weeks was handed out by the C. P. R on Thursdayâ€"“Weather favorable; crops doing fine, no damage,” is reported all along the line this week, only one or two places reporting any damage. The rain which has fallen in such generous quantities has been of great benefit, and as a consequence the grain is fil- ling out nicely. The report from Bran- don section is encouraging, although in the immediate vicinity of Chater the crops are suffering on account of lack of rain. In the Emerson section there has been some slight damage from ball, but not much. Farmers in Manitoba are finding it a difficult task in securing farm help, and now harvesting time is so close the situation is becoming somewhat serious. Farm laborers seem very scarce this year, notwithstanding the stream of immigrants that have been pouring into the West from all parts of the world. The scarcity is a diffiâ€" cult matter to explain, as within the last few years wages have almost doubled and the average wage now paid by farmers is about $35 to $45 per month. .-â€"-..â€"â€":,2... SACRIFICED IIIS LIFE. Cleveland Man Died in Attempting to Save Another. A despatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says: In a vain endeavor to save John l‘iezick from burning to death on the roof of the Central blast furnace in Tuesday night l\tcholas Thomas sacri- ‘ficetl his own life. Thomas died in an ambulance. en route to a hospital. Be- z.ek, taken to the hospital, expired a few hours afterwards. Sparks ignited Brzick’s clothing when he was repair~ ing a chimney. Thomas in attempting to extinguish the flames was fearfully burned himself. ‘ JFâ€"m KANSAS “IIIEAT CROP. “'ill Ilave 05,000,000 Bushclsâ€"Decrcase From Last _Ycar. ! A despatch from Topeka, Kansas, says: After having passed through a greater variety of vicissitudes than ever, beset the crop in any previous year,‘ Kansas has managed to come out with a yield of approximately $5,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. This pro-I duction is 28,000,000 bushels below the harvest of 1900, but only five of the, crops raised in the past ten years have, been materially larger. Reports to the, Kansas Board of Agriculture indicate that the corn crop is making rapid and satisfactory growth and will be up to, last year’s great output of 187,000,000. bushels. t ‘ PttllltlllGE Are Poisoned A despatch from Regina says: A Three of the sufferers, Ilarry Stewart, sensation was caused in the city on Fri- Cyrus \V‘intcrs and John Fortune, were day by the news that a number of conveyed to boarders at Steele’s restaurant on Lorne Street had been poisoned by a solution of arsenic in the porridge partakcn of by them at breakfast. It appears that the proprietors of the restaurant lent a quantity of oatmeal on Thursday to the Chinese proprietor of the- adjacent eat- ing; house. The oatmeal was duly re- turned and Steele used some of it to cook the morning meal. Mrs. Steele and eight or nine guests ate of the porridge and almost immediately afterwards were seized with severe internal pains ac- companied by vomiting. Doctors Thomp- son and Meek were summoned and by natural means and stomach pumps the Good feeders, 1,050 to greater part of the food was ejected. Victoria llospital, where their condition aroused grave anxiety. There is, however, some ground for hop- ing that all those attacked will recover. The unused oatmeal was confiscated and a portion of it submitted to Dr. Charlton, Provincial Bacteriologist, who certified to the presence of arsenic. The Chinaman who returned the oatmeal, and generally known here as Mac, has been arrested. A fact which, tmless dis- proved, appears to weigh against him is that an invoice shows that he purchased two weeks ago a quantity of oatmeal, all of which had not. been used. What. valid reason he had to borrow oatmeal with a stock already in his possess-ion remains a. mystery. , '1 n . v