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Port Perry Star, 10 Jun 1908, p. 2

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© over 250 mies of ' proposed visit of King Edward to the © Prohibition has been' carried in North «Carolina by a majority of probably 40, 000, . ERT IRHTREN "Fishing Schooner Run Down in the Bay ' of, Fundy. A despatch from Halfax .says: Ot the dwenty men aboard the fishing schoan- €* Fame of Glouc.stcr, Mass., only two escaped when th: schooner went down on Tuesday n'ght in collision with the Dominion A'lantc Railway's liner Bos- fon in the Bay of Fundy. A thick fod which enveloped the schooner lights was the caue of the d saster. John Clark of St. John and Edward Pills of Halfax are the survivors. Th dead are: --Captain Thomas Fay, Ber- nard Daley, Thomas Stapleton, Michael Welvina, Thomas Powers, s°n., Thomes Powers, jun., Thomas Murphy, all of "New'oundland; William Fister and John Roy of Nova Scot'a; Michael Cor- wr, Williem Bailey, Barney Cashino of Bost n, and six men whosa names are unknown. The Boston was cresp'ng along at had spced in the fog off Yarmou'h, when the lights of the Fame suddenly pierced the darkness, {wo hundr d feet from the liner's bow. When the hoarse shou! of "Schooner dead aheadl' rong cut from 'the foretastle head, Captain Mackenzie sprang lo the engineer's tele- graph, and signalled. for full speed astern, but it was tod late, Before - the (ng nes hed commenced to reve.s, the Boston plunged into the low-lying schooner, just abalt ihe main- -rigging, and cut her in two. 'Liferoals were swung out 'from the steamer, but the wreck ¢l the schooner rad gone down within two minutes, and although the Boston cruiscd around the scena for over an hour, only Clark and Pits were rescued. Pitts rushed on deck, bul (he vessel sank under his [eel instantly, and 'he was carr.el down in the vortex. Going ,Ccown he clulched a piece of wreckage end on this finally came to the surface. He saw men dragged down all around him when the vessel sank, but when coming to the surface there were only four men lft. They were all poor swimmers, and 'ona by ane they sank, afr hel an hour from the time the schooner wes hit, CONDENSED. NEWS ITEMS UAFPENINGS FROM ALL O\V..: TUB GLOBE. ------ Tclegraph Briets From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. The bricklayers: strike at Montrcal is collaps ng. i The May Provincial crop report is «1 a 'avorable mature. Montreal citizens are asking their city 10 give $10,000 to the Quebec Battlefields fund William Scott, a little colored boy, was killed by lightning in Chatham township cn Saturday. The estate of the late Margaret Lums. d.n has pad $84,000 in suc:ess an dut.cs ito the Province. . Watirlao cougly contemplates taking country roads at a ccst of $200,000 or $300.000. Work on tho Stralford and St. Jo- seph radial line will scon be carried oul, A Chinese laundryman at Austin, Ma., sulferng with leprosy, has been sent back lo Canton, China. George B. Link committed suicide hy Jumping into the reservoir at Reserv Park, Toronto, on Saturday, The C. P. R. crop report of the cen- tral division of the west shows pgos- pects to Le unusually bright, James E. Anderson, public school in- spector al Brockville, has been arrested on a charge of bigamy, and pleads guilly. The Onlario Railway and Municipal Beard may make a rule that passongers will not bz allowed to occupy front seats <n o, en cars. Nearly a score of heavy burglaries have taken place at Moncton in the last iwo weeks, large~ amounts of money having teen stolen. Because servant girls are copying the Hemillon nurses' uniforms, lhe latter want a special weave of cloth for their uniforms. The construction of the eastern branch of the Grand Trunk Pacific be- tween Bo'estown and' Plaster Ro'k hes been let to the Toronto Construction Company. GREAT BRITAIN. The British Socialists are opposing the Czar of Russia, A bill providing for home rule for Scot- land was introduced in the British House of Commons on Wednesday. President Fallieres of France has been |g Siprofoundly impressed with the magnifl- /"eent reception accorded 'him in Landon, UNITED STATES, © Carrie Nation was fined $25 and post "for disorderly conduct at Pittsburg. Charles Lempke was struck by a base- ball at Ploughkeepsie, N.Y., and almost instantly killed. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, who directed the firing of the first shot in the civil war, is dead al Vicksburg, Miss. George Starkey, said to have a wife ond children at Hamilton, Ont., committ- éd suicide at Buffalo on Saturday. Frank Merritt, a middle-aged man in New York, has allowed doctors fo inocu- late him with tuberculosis germ in order te: experimenl with verious remedies. Six-year-old Anna Sheedy, of West 16th Street, New York, fell from a fourth storey window, but struck several lines and was only slightly bruised. Emanuel Cedrino, the noted Italian attomob'le driver, was killed on the Pimlico track at Baltimore, on Friday, while running 72 miles an hour. Claude F. Day, of New York, is suing his mother-in-law, Mrs. Turner, for $100,- 60C for alienating his wife's affeclions, Day says Mrs. Turner thought she was toc young to be a grandmother, and so otjected 10 her daughter having children. GENERAL. The outbreak of th» Mohmard tribes- men in India is collapsing. Enamels worth $60,000 have been alalen from the Cathedral at Limoges. The inhabitants of the Island of Sa- mos ere in revolt against their Prince. The Russian warship Peter the Great is fast agrovnd in the Gulf of Finland. Tre Britsh loss in the campaign against the Mohmands was 78 men kill- el and 153 wounded. Delagrange, the French acroplan'st, flew over six milcs with his machine at Rome on Wednesday. Five hundred and fcrly-nine insur- gents have been killed during fighting in Corea in the month of May The Pars Temps suggests that the time has come to substitute an Anglo- Fiench alliance for the present ent:nte, -- ee 12,000 EGGS COOKED. Fire Does" D. in Storeh 'Woodstock. A despatch from Woodstock says: One thousand dozens of eggs were destroyed on Friday nighl in a fire at Angus Rose's egg store here. The building was packed frcm cellar to attic with boxes filled with eggs. There was little damage 'to the building. The eggs were not insured, at pA WOMAN'S COURAGE REWARDED Bank Glves 8500.10 6 Woman Who Saved 843,000. A despatch from New York says: Mrs. Eva Jovernicka, the young Polish wo- 'man: who last Monday {frustrated the al- tempt of three men rob messengers + Jefferson - Ba of, $43,000 on oe received 'a reward of 8500 from the officers of th bank, She said] that she and her husband will at' onde return Yo Poland, where, with the $5001 Te a: nestegg, they will be in compara- live inderendence. - She fears 'she pemained in } ie country the, ack Hand will get "her fortune "away er, she says. UE 'Wm. Boskell, engineer, about head and } broken. John Baits tramp; 'badly. un and injuries serious, : : 'A despatch from Owen Sound says: Such is the list of injured. in the railway wreck that occured at midn: n day on the Canadian Pacific 'this point. The result, esides the in-. jured, is the destruction. of & big freight engine and' the engine on en ger train, the burning of the id ex: press car and the wrecking of e bag. gage car and smoker. The accident was a most peculiar one, Engine No. 1,490, which had just arrived with a freight train from Toronto, was | run up on. the roundhouse "siding, and Engineer Griffith had. left it and gone inlo the office. From some. cause un- known Lhe engine, of its own 'accord evi- dently, started to back up, and started down along the track at ever-increasing speed. The night passenger express, due here at 10 o'clock, was two hours late, and as it rounded the curve at Murray's Cut and came down the grade ab full speed met the runaway engine in front of the Keenan Lumber Company's ills. The impact was terrific. resulting wrecking of the engine and tender the {he passenger train and converting it into scrap; and the tender of the runaway locomolive, which rebounded 'and went flying back on the rails toward town. The tender of the passenger coach tele- scoped the mail and express car, which m turn splintered the baggage car back as far as the doorway. In the mail car Mail Clerk Kearns was caught and held fast for a moment, while the flying parcels and boxes in the ex- press car inflicted the injuries that Ex- press Messenger Dockrill received. Harry Stone was pinned down under a pile of baggage, ald his arm was broken in a number of places. Conductor McCreary was badly swaken up and his arm bro- ken. Engincer Boskell is the most ser lously injured. 1°» was shot through a tele in the side of Lie cab, and held fast until released. Wilson, the fireman, was also got out with difficulty,-and both were badly cut, bruised' and scalded. TWO MEN "DEAD. . Owen Sound, May $1--Williafi Bou- skill, the engnecr on the passenger train which collided Bi the runaway engine in the C. P. R. yards on Friday mglit, died fram his injuries shortly al- ter he was received at the Hospital. Another death occurred em Sunday morning Robert E. Curran, the mail clerk, collapsed very unexpectedly and succumbed lo the injuries which at first seemed to be little more than a frac- tured collar bone. He complained «' the shaking up that he had received, and for a few moments after the collision: occurred he was quite dazed. It was not until a few hours before he died that any serious injury was detected, and death was the reult of hemorrhage $4.50 and compresson of the brain, He leaves ¢ widow, whom he married less* than six months ago. He came from Tees- water and was on the Toronto-Owen Sound run about a year and a half of his Brg years in the mail train ser PRATER Sa MISSING MAN TURNS UP. ~ Long Lost Robert or Claims 86,000 Lett By His Son, A despatch from Cornwall says: Robe! Orr and his wile separated whem lived in Cornwall some thirty years ago, and drifted apart, the Wife keeping the children, 'Last Tall the son, Charles Ofe, died in Vancouver, B.C., Waving $6,000. | This was claimed by the mother, Mrs, Alvira Ore, of 143 'College avenue, Tor tu, and 'on her affidavit the husband Ww declared legally dead, and a portion of the son's estate was {urned over to her. Mr. Orr, however, is alive, He has been. living-at Ironton, Ohio, and is now in Cornwall to see his sister, Mrs. Williaj Tackaberry, and other old friends, easily identify him. He claims to be-his son's legal heir, ond. is going after the l's money. He called at his wile's Toron address with o view to a Selententy bub she declined lo sed him, 5 way al |? ~| $92.50; hall barrels, $11.50; ; 13%; hams, 12%e to 1 they | 30 ' 4c; He Fumie, 496 No; 2 led, 3% « Bran--$22 har Su a BE COUNTRY PRODUCE, Eggs--Ncw-laid, 17 to 18. Buller--Pr ces cent alk 'around. Creamery, prints 0 SOAS ..ii van seve Es Dairy yrints .... do large reols SAE wea vy Infevor .... iii. uiih sae, 16cto 170 Honey--Strained steady at '11¢ to 12¢ per pound; for 60-pound pails, and' 1% fo 13c for 5 to 10-pound' pails. Combs al $1.75 to $2.50 rer dozen. . Potato:s--Ontar:o, "00; Delaware, ot, in car '0's on trek here, The new maka fs offering "more: freely; 14c-{.r large and 14% for lwins, in job Mis here; new make, 12¢ fo* large and 12¥c for twins.' Bea ans--$1.90 to 82 for primes, and $2 k. $2.10 for hand-picked, Map'e Syrup--$1 to $1.10 per gallon. Baled Straw--$8 to 89 per tom. Baled Hay--Tmothy is quoted al $15 per ton in: car los on. track here, "awe aawkog 4 PROVISIONS, Pork---Short cut, $21 to $21.50 per barrel; mess, $17.50 to $18, Lard--T.erces, 1134¢; tubs, 11%c; pails, Smoked and Dry Salted Mests=Long clear "bacon, 10%e, tons cases; hams, medium and light, Pg lo 133c: hems, large. 113¢ lo 12c; tacks, 16¢ to 163; shoulders, 9%c: to: "106; rolls, "1Uc to' 10%c;- break'ast. bacon, 14 to 15¢; green meats, out of pickle, 1c less than smoked, ' . NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, June 2 -- Wheat ~~ Spot casy; No. 2 red, $1.04, elevator; No. 2 red, $1.01 J Lob. afloat; No. 1 Rory, ern Duluth | $l. 19 1.0.b.; afloat; No. hard winter, $1.12%, 1.0.b. afloat. MONTREAL MARKETS, Montreal, June 2.--Flour-- Manitoba spring wheal patents, $640 to $6.20; sec- ond patents, $5.50 to 85.70; winter wheat to $5; in bags, $2.15 lo $2.25; ex- tra, $1.50 to $1.90. Rolled Oats--$2.75, in bags of 90 Ibs. Odts--No, 2, 51% ¢ to 523e¢; No. 8. 49¢ 46c; Manitoba rejected, 0c, North Bay, Cornmeal --$1.60 to $1.70 per bag. 20.50; Sotls, 85 to Provisions--Barrels - short cut ness, clear fat| clear backs, {1 bucks, $23; dry sall or Bo = ack ; re 110; barrels plate beef, $1 {rels do, $9; compound lard, 8%c to 93{¢; bes pure Jard, 12%¢ to 13¢; eltle render 10 size; breakiast bacon 3 1505 Windsor bacon, 15¢ to io go id dressed hogs, $9.25; Tive, page--The miirket 1s fet, fhe ie quoted at 11¥e it Vik " Butler--<The sharkeh is stondy lodiy ay ot Ere Sealine, fines finest: a Srl a Packages, compared with have dec: ined another Patents, $5.25 to 85.75; straight rollers, [~ 15 50c; No. 4, 47c to 48¢; rejected, 45¢ tal kc, accord: | killed | 60 to [2 A dcepsten first move ing-8 new o "the Bay Touts is being. Government. A 8! Pad iol ringing ne 1 cent out by nterior tment lo lay out the townsite of Fort Churchill; the future' metropols of Hudson's Be and the dérminus of the: proposed H son's Bay Railway. "The future ally will be Yeouted on the eastern side of the river, opposi'e the ruins of Old Fort Prince of Wales; and across the river from the Hudson's Bay Company trad ing. post, Plans and draw/ngs of ein the DROWNED: IN BAY LAKE, Two Swedish Prospectors Upset From 1 a "Canoe. LA despateh from Cobalt says: A double 'drowning accident took place last week cn Bay: Lake, when two Swedish pros. pectors for Mr. Archie Gillies were drowned while out fishing in a' canoe. Trey were Eric Helenjus, aged twenly- eight, and Otto. Pyyliko, aged thirty- one. They, were not long out when af squall suddenly arose and capsized thelr | canoe. Both bodies were recovered from the lake shortly en and Jere {gken in 'charge by M rles Camp- Tell, underlaver, of: Cobalt, Afothop Swedish | Dopector = ising i the | bu Anama I'd mn, thought that he, foo, Sg oy drowned. trie $0 ~ MECHANICS WILL Not RECEDE, A despatch from Winnipeg says: The |' members of the' mechanical unions here are not 'alarmed by. the despatc |. on Wednesday Milfeod--Oaari bran, in" bugs, 83 lo | $96." & PR Aion Oltawa says: Ayes Fh a in the difcelo ee) Su tor western | via the i5 Now. [EPR Men Persist in in Demands for Con- | "ciation Board, dy under | seliler real estate. It is expected «that he Car measure providing fer the cons i of 'a railway fo Hudson's. on the | brought down in the Comm or rps al © = "in, fh end young men 'aré seriously result of a Zoolish trick - night. The four were out fe fo gre were' ¢ chocolal landin Lt telegraph pe a g up aga a grap "upsetting tive buggy, Miss Lac Miss. Lizzie -Hul slaulls: tured, Gabi a "A adspaich Halifax GEE pr a or ro

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