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weekend accidents take toll mother and children asphyxiated bathroom gas heater held to blame in guelph tragedy two schumacher miners burned to death accidental discharge of firearms takes one to assist at royal wedding triple tracedy guelph triple tragedy all but wiped out a guelph family saturday evening when mrs wesley heard 32 and her two young daughters alice beryl aged 9 and kuth irene aged 5 were asphyxiated in the bathroom of their home 31 london road west the mother and young est child were both dead when the tragedy was discovered while the older girl succumbed within an hour in the general hopital without re gaining consciousness returning home shortly after 7 oclock in the evening mr heard driver for a transport company missed three members of his family and investigating made the horrible discovery the bodies of his wife and the smaller child were slumped on the floor of the small bathroom while the other child who was on the verge of death was lying nearby doctors worked for some time in an effort to revive her but their efforts failed authorities believe a gas heater connected to the water tank in the bathroom was in operation while mrs heard was giving the two chil dren a bath and attribute the three deaths to the fact that the heater absorbed the oxygen in the small room feeling faint the mother evi dently turned off the heater but is thought to have collapsed immed aately afterward the family had lived in guelph only about two months moving here from the durdalk district coroner dr t h orton has not reached decision regarding an in quest by relatives death was due to fum es from the exhaust of his car a rubber tube attached to the car exhaust and running up through the door was discovered dr a b ruth erford coroner deemed an inquest unnecessary mckinley had suffered recentlv from a nervous breakdown found dead in car niagara falls ont with hose leading from the exhaust pipe into a closely sealed car the body of arnold lee raymond 29 of rich mond street thorold was found on the beechwoods road stamford township sunday it is believed that raymond made his fatal prepar ations during the night pieces of cloth had been used to make the in terior of the car as airtight as pos sible raymond was employed as a paper maker at the beaverboard plant just a year ago his father wa found dead in the basement of his home the gas jets being turned on and the windows sealed two burned to death schumacher thomas teasdale- 53 and william dawson 34 miners were burned to death early sunday morning as fire destroyed a tarpaper shack in which they were living aetr the mclntyro mine responding to tho alarm at 420 the fire department fought the blaze for half an hour before it was learn ed there was anybody in the build ing dawson was found slumped on the floor a few feet from the bed while teasdalo was found in a small fchemjcal laboratory near the outside of the shack coroner h e montgomery stated an inquest would bo unnecessary both men were war veterans hunter found shot sudbury the body of neil henry 27 garson mines was found satur day at headquarters lake with a 22 bullet through the head hi appeared to have been accidentally shot while hunting henry an em- loye of froom mine went out alone on a duck hunting expedition say ing he would return later to go to work prince urges englishspeaking youth to further war amity london man killed london ont out of hospital less than a month from his first experi ence joseph watson a former c p r engineer was struck again sat urday evening and died instantly be neath the wheels of a brewery truck lamond the truck driver was ar above is an exclusive photograph of archbishop germanos me tropolitan of thvatcra exarch of western and northern europe who will officiate at the ceremony in accordance to the rites of the l reck orthodox church at buckingham xalace following the wedding ot princess marina and the duke of kent prince george youngest son of the king which will take place in westminster abbey arch bishop germanos will also be present at the westminster abbey ceremony new york the jprince of wales urged the young generation of eng lishspeaking democrats to work for international understanding in a message read at a dinner of the eng lishspeaking union of the united states te prince sent the message as presideut of the englishspeaking union of the british empire read by th toastmaster at the dinner john w davis former u s ambas sador to great britain the message said the endeavor of the youth of the englishspeaking democracies should be directed to promoting not only voice of the press canada tax rates it has many times teir mutual interests but also in ternational understandings as the first step towards th economic re- covery on which the maintenance ot b p not peace and understanding throughout e the world will depend sir gerald campbell british con- suigeueral in new york in addres sing the dinner suggested that youth burden a community is called upon to bear a more accurate indication of the true tax rate is the assess ment levels a bulletin issued last year by the is not getting a square deal from citizcns reiearch institute of can- tho generation now in control of world affairs wo must confess he said that we have made more than an average bad mess of what was not such a bad world at the time it was con- lined to our care getting the news by pony express the markets 1roduce prices united farmers cooperative co saturday were paying the following prices for produce eggs grade al in cartons through asscciations 50c and with cases returned a large 38c a rested on a manslaughter charge and medium 35c a pullets 28c b was later released on bail mons remembers aid of canadians killed in crash st catharines one man was killed and another injured when a car crashed into a disabled truck on ontario street highway saturday night thomas veronie 29 single i of 14 ontario street port dalhousie died in the general hospital this morning from extensive head in juries suffered in the crash ver onie was a passenger in a car driven by albert whales port dalhousie the truck in charge of fred scro- bones orchard park st catharines was being towed on the highway from a driveway when it was straddling the road the two rope broke leaving it across the highway it was in this position when whales car crashed into it provincial police are investigating mine boss killed sudbury edward darwin bos at the creigcuon mine here was killed instantly saturday when a limber fell on iiim as he walked beneath it in a shaft of the ininj the timber struck him on the head smashed his safety hat and crushed his skull darwin was widely known through out northern ontario lie had work ed in th god mines at timmins and kirkland lake his widow and two children survive exhaust fumes fatal owen sound allen mckinley 47 unmarried farmer who lived a short distance from owen sound was found dead at the wheel of his auto mobile in the laneway of his home shift near montreal a cable from the bur gomaster and aldermen of the bel gian city of mons expressing their good wiocs on the anniversary of the armistice and the liberation of the city on mons by canadian troops has been received by majorgeneral sir frederick looriiis who com manded the 3rd canadian infantry division in france at this time when remembering for the 16th time the anniversary of the armistice of november 11 1918 and the liberation of the city of mons by the valiant canadian troops we wish to express in behalf of the city administration and the entire population our affectionate senti ments and good wishes the cable stated we shall faithfully conserve the souvenir of your glorious dead which we shall fraternally associate with our own on tho occasion of the patriotic ceremonies on november 11 to this homage to your fallen brothers on the soil of our city we wish to add an affectionate thought for yourself and for the canadian army the cable concludes the last fly of summer tis the last fly of summer left zooming alone all his loather companions are faded and gone no lady bug june hug nor beetle is nigh to swim in the cuslard or dance on the pie ill not leave thee thou lone one to pine on the pane i have hit at you often but swat once again so gladly i scatter your wings legs and head and then i can hardly be sure you are dead new york sun 20c c lcc butter ontario no 1 cream- ery 19v no 2 19c poultry quotations in cents live dressed a a hens over 5 lbs 9 12 8 11 3 to 4 lbs 7 10 3 to 3 lbs 6 9 6 8 spring chickens 12 16 614 to 6 lbs 11 15 5 to 5v4 10 14- wzvt to 5 lbs 9 13 under ivz lbs 8 12 broilers 1 to 214 lbs 11 15 hunters campfire discharges rifle yarmouth ns a campfire al most brought death to joe burill while he slept in a roughly built leanto a heavy breeze began to blow and the fire started to spread reach ing his side the heat discharged his rifle and the shot lodged in a bundle scarcely an inch from burrills body hay and straw no 2 timothy hay baled ton 1750 to 1850 no 3 timothy hay ton 15 to 16 straw wheat bal ed ton 10 oat straw 750 to 850 wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers arc quoting the following prices to to ronto retail dealers pork ham 1714c shoulders 12c butts 15c pork loins 20c picnics 1114c lard pure tierces 12c tubs 1214c pails 1314c prints 13c shortening tierces 9c tubs 914c pails 10c prints 914c building contracts given in canada increase 393 per cent this year grain quotations following are saturdays closing quotations on toronto grain trans actions for car lots prices on basis cif bay ports manitoba wheat no 1 northern 84c no 2 northern 80c no 3 northern 78c no 4 northern 74c no 5 northern g814c no c north ern 0814c manitoba oats no 2 cw 48c no 3 cw 4476 c no 1 feed 42ic mixed feed oats 34c manitoba barley o 3 cw 5654c no 1 feed screenings 21 per ton south african corn 92c ontario grain approximate prices track shopping point wheat 90 to 92c oats 30 to 33c barley 43 to j 44c corn 70 to 73c rye 45 to 47c buckwheat 40 to 42c malting barley 64 to 66c soviets seeking 100per cent vote st thomas timesjournal the times has been recalling events of 100 years ago when charles dickens was a reportei in london when readers of the times- journal realize that news of an im portant event on the other side of the ocean is published within a few- seconds of happening with an ex tended report appearing within half an hour or so it is interesting to learn that the great london daily prided itself on the promptitude of its reports before the days of the telegraph trains steam printing typewriters or the telephone its reporters at home and abroad relied on a sort of pony express system being told to spare no ex pense either as to the number or quality of the horses referring to an important speech by lord durham zt glasgow in 1834 it is recorded the times sent down to glasgow two of its best parliamentary reporters and in or der at the same time to do all that could be done to get the report of lord durhams speech brought as speedily as possible to the times office relays of postmen and horses there being no railways at the time were stationed at conven ient distances between glasgow and london i the journey from glasgow to moscowsoviet russia today london 400 miles was p initiated the campaign for elections to the village soviets with the slogan get out 100 per cent of the eligible voters london acclaims memory of haig this is the first general election since farm collectivization became widespread and spectacular meth ods have been adopted to enlis the peasants in social construction in the approaching elections there will be 10000000 new voters with 90000000 in all eligible to vote the local soviets will elect dele gates to the district soviets which in turn will elect representatives to the provincial soviets and these soviets will elect provincial con gresses which will name 1986 dele gates to the allunion soviet con gress the supreme authority of soviet russia this congress will meet jan 14 for the first time in three years any 13yearold can learn grammar princeton nj gertrude formed ab the rate of 15 miles a hour the result was that the speech of lord durham appeared in the times at full length a day before it otherwise could have done the expenses amounted to 200 but the unprecedented achievement created a great sensation throughout the country during a byelection in devon shire dickens was- up against the times hang tho expense service and made several journeys between exe ter and london a distance of some 170 miles on one occasion when they were approaching honiton about 16 miles on the way denison of the times who was more fami liar than dickens with the country and the way of innkeepers told his postboy to run into the golden lion yard by the back way knowing that a pair of horses would be ready harnessed in the yard with the post boy waiting for a job denison reckoned that thus he would get possession of the horses i before his colleague alighted and stein came in at the front door so it modernist poet and author made her proved denison got the horses and speaking debut before a college aud- took the lead ience befuddling 500 princeton un- dur th same byelection dic- dergraduates and faculty members kens wasmore f against with extracts from her works us rival on anot trip for he i was tremendously concerned in cm the finding out what was myself inside zit- m0 iw f nd i changed horses together they i think thats general of college stu- three minutcg i i bribed the postboys tremendous- the only way you can live with out being bored she said is to feel ly and we came in literally neck most beautiful and neck the ever saw charles dickens was zealous upward trend continued in october volume moving against seasonal tendency all provinces join in move toronto building contracts awar ded in the dominion for october as compiled by mnclean building re ports limited amounted to 11152- 700 bringing l ho total for the year to date to io297s00 an increase of 893 pcr cent over the 10 montjis total for 1913 of 78145000 in maintaining in october the up ward trend which started six months mso the volume of building moved egalnst the seasonal trend as october jisually brings a slowing up of actlv- ty due to the approach of winter ontario accounted for more than talt of the october total with jg-3g0- 800 quebec caino next with 2737- 800 ah tio provinces now register increases over the corresponding pe riod of 1933 contemplated construction report ed for the first timo in october am ounted to 13997000 as compared with 11240700 for soptcmber the total for the year to dato is 219250- 900 as compared with 171814900 for tho corresponding period of 1933 an increase of 277 pcr cent some of tho biggest contracts awar ded in ontario were toronto addi tion and alteration to office building 600000 mindcn ontario dam and power house 502000 quebec ware houses 100000 toronto nurses homo 250000 noranda quebec mainland equipment 200000 horse shoe lake hc dam 175000 win nipeg addition to hospital 1u000 85675 poster bought london a mnn walking down a london street saw a hoard outside tho middlesex hospital announcing that they still needed 85675 pounds for their 1200000 pound extension scheme he walked into the hospital drew out his cheque book and offered to buy the poster for the sum required he was mr e w mewerstcin he took his seat on the hospital board for the first time i prince arthur of connnught wel coming him thanked mr mcycrstcin for a first gift of 30000 pounds and a second gift of 70000 pounds then mr mcycrstein remarked that it was his birthday and that he wanted to give himself a present offered his cheque it brouglft his gifts to the fund to 185675 pounds the meeting accepted the offer and that every individual has a history that is worth investigating l her remarks why make a fuss about grammar when anv 13yearold an1 abe reporter on the morning can learn it drew laughter and apl chronicle and in one of his writings pl states that probably no other repor- sie appeared in a rough brown ter in england spcrji so much time skirt a brown and yellow sweater low- heeled shoos and hatless when at tho conclusion of her lecture she asked if there were any questions her dazed audience made no reply she grinned and walked off the plat form rushing across country in postchaises in 1865 he told a newspapermens banquet that i have oftei transcribed for the printer from my shorthand notes important public speeches in which tho strictest accuracy was required and a mistake in which would have even to a young man severely com- promisng writing on the palm of my hand by the light of a dark lnn- orphans friend stops in edmonton millionaire orphans friend j d i tern in a postchaisc and four gal oconnell recently visited edmonton j loping through a wild country and during his annual 50000mile tour of through the dead of tho night at all america he inspected thehe then surprising rate of 15 miles orphans institution which bears his name and as well looked into some of his financial interests including real estate and wheat lands mr oconnell would not give any thing to homes for the aged he an nounced he himself is a septu agenarian well theyve had their opportunities and their lives and ap parently wasted them oh i have nothing against the old folks im just a lot more interested in orphans 1 an hour through all the ages the reporter seems to be destined to bo tho man who is always in a hurry prince of wales present at biq demonstration in al bert hall king at ceno taph london ten thousand exservice men packed albert hall sunday night at the british legions festival of remembrance fifty old con- temptibles who received their first war honors at mons carried the legion banners another little party in the throng consisted of the aged chelsea pen sioners whose fighting was done in the days when war was less scien tific than in 19141918 the orchestra pit was filled with nurses and other women who went through the war a great wave of enthusiasm swept the audience when the prince of wales entered accompanied by ad miral jellicoc the prince was at tired in a lounge suit with an in conspicuous poppy in his button- hope he stood for several minutes on the platform waving his pro gram in acknowledgment of the magnificent salutation he received pictures of famous british war leaders were hrnwn ol the screen that of the ate field marshal earl haig was received with prolonged cheers and shouts of good old dug- gie lloyd george taunted what about lloyd george now shouted someone in the gallery the reference to the wartime premiers memoirs in which he assailed the capability of haig and other military men was greeted with an outburst of cheers and- laughter- the proceedings however became quietly solemn a short time later led by the massed band of the bri gade of guards the throng sang onward christian soldiers and other hymns the roll of drums was impressive and the singing of kip lings recessional was moving the most dramatic moment of all came when the lights were lowered and the legion banners were brought forward by exservice men who are now gardeners of war graves in var ious military cemeteries tho last post was sounded and the prince re cited a verse of lawrence binyons ode to the fallen this was followed by the reveille and the concluding hymn 0 vali ant heart the culminating act of the great service was the showering from the roof of more than one mil lion poppies each representing a british life sacrificed in the great wp king leads in simple rites at the cenotaph national shrine in the capital of the empire the king the prince of wales and the duke of york joined thousands of others in a simple brief service pay ing homage to the memory of the war dead the queen the duchess of york and other royal personages watched the service from a window of the hone office the king bareheaded and dressed in the khaki uniform of a field- marshal placed a wreath upon the memorial guns then bowed his head in signal for a twominute silence the sound of taps from military bugles released the tension of the huge congregation which sang a hymn then filed past the memorial to deposit floral tributes another solemn and impressive service was held at westminister abbey where the tomb of the un known warrior was the terminus for the pilgrimages of the warbereaved tho duke of kent son of the king participated in ceremonies at the edinburgh cenotaph similar cere monies were held in the principal cities of britain and throughout the farflung empire ada gives assessment figures and net debt figures for 17 canadian cities for the year 1931 worked out on a per capita basis these figures arc as follows assess net dbt toronto 1cg1 13819 victoria 1511 22920 windsor 1414 18407 ottawa 1250 10193 london 1220 10943 montreal 1201 saint john 1116 vancouver 1091 winnipeg 10s5 hamilton halifax quebec rcgina edmonton saskatoon calgary charlottetown 1002 9s9 900 872 840 801 789 707 average 1085 winnipeg tribune 4031 21917 7505 12094 15143 17326 15511 27600 19192 15221 9704 311213 no never in that condition one of these days some enterpris ing pyjama firm is going to turn out suits in which the trousers and coat will be of a different color did you ever struggle to try to get your feet through the sleeve oshawa -times- drive slow a letter appearing in the toronto globe over the signature of mr a w baird principal of the renfrew collegiate will be read with con siderable interest in kingston not merely because of its subject mat ter but because of the fact that a w baird is one of queens most brilliant graduates and at the pre sent time occupies an important position in our educational world mr baird takes issue with ths rev c graham jones of campbell- ville who receently wrote to the globe complaining of such highway signs as school drive slow mr baird points out that slow is quite correct an draws attention to the following on page 542 of modern english usage by h w fowler slow adverb in spite of the en croachments of slowly slow main tains itself as at least an idiomatic possibility under some conditions of the conditions the chief is that the adverb and not the verb should contain the real point compare we forged slowly ahead where the slowness is an unessential item with sing as slow as you can where the slowness is all that mat ters these highway signs have bother ed others besides the rev mr jones of campbellville and some of us may even have the temerity to take issue with mr fowler however as mr baird points out it is evident that those responsible for the signs have good authority for their use we doubt however if they were aware of this fact- kingston whig- standard change in rulership in the last 24 years eight mon- archs of nations containing about 750 million persons have lost their thrones the monarchs ruled rus sia germany austriahungary china portugal greece spain and turkey rulcrship has passed from monarchy to money power as it did in france a century ago the citi zen ottawa the labrador doctor believes world entering cycle of colder and wetter weather washington if you asked j b kinccr united states weather bur- creston bc dyking 100000 i prince albert sask addition to w- the rcconstrucion fund became closed oltal 71 noil 13 it i i i u ivincer unuea oiuies weuuiur xui- tne boys and girls who if given a m cau official to guoss what tho woa- cnance today will bo the grown tlap will lia tnv iha navf vpsffl ther will be for the next hed 2a years people who run this world next year theyve got to have their chance thats my life work that and fighting the booze traffic you cant make that too strong the language i mean thats the one thing that vi3lon toid th0 cosmos ciub ti im more interested in than i am t ls e rcason to suspect the even in orovidinc funds for orphans- unlted stalcs p tno worm is colder and welter kinccr chief of the climatology dl- on the threshold of a change of ell mate for tho past quarter of a century dor is developed and eventually bc- at 69 sir wilfred grenfell has decided that his active days in the medical missionary field are about over sailing for england with lady grenfell the man whose name isr synonymous with labrador admit ted that he was getting too old to drive a dog team and must hence forth take things easy that does not mean however that sir wilfred will be content to retire and spend his declining years in contemplating the noble work which brought him knighthood in 1927 sturdy ruddy cheeked a pic ture of health despite his strenuous life the doctor will continue to be the driving force behind the in ternational grenfell association only those who have been to lab rador and talked with its hardy people can appreciate the high re gard in which sir wilfred is held what he has done over a period of more than forty years to ameliorate conditions of life in a land where there are few pleasures and much poverty must be measured in terms of the future if as sir wilfred believes labra- ho found tho world has had incrcaa- comes one of the important sections ing warmth and decreasing rainfall of the continent it will be due in no records of periods before that show small measure to one who placed a cycles of rising and falling tempera- literal interpretation on the words luro and rain lasting about tho same of twenty centuries ago inasmuch number of years he said he believes as yc have done it unto the least of anohcr turn of the weather time may these my brethren ye have done it be imminent unto me