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drownings cars burns take toll over weekend buffalo boy drowns at fort erie kitchener contractor victim of carbon monoxide poisoning fort erie raymond bender 13- yearold buffalo boy was drowned saturday night in the erie barge can al in full view of passengers of the fort erie and buffalo ferry when he fell from a girder of the canal bridge bender was dangling a rope to two friends in a rowboat beneath him when he lost his balance aud plunged into the water donald greene who was swimming nearby sought to res cue him but failed bender body was recovered in about 10 minutes by the us coastguard and eorts to revive him failed relief worker drowns ottawa unable to swim nick ifalashyn 21 worker at the rpckcliffe relief project stepped from a ledge of rock into a deep hole and was drown ed in the pool at a quarry three miles east of ottawa sunday dr j e craig coroner after in quiring into the circumstances said be did not think an inquest was ne cessary lialashyn had boon employed as a laborer at the relief camp since last september a native of poland he came to canada in 1927 monoxide victim kitchener william h braniff kitchener contractor fell a victim to carbon monoxide poisoning early sun day in the garage at his home here braniff was heard to drive in about two am after partaking of a heavy meal when his wife awoke at five and found him missing she investiga ted and round him dead behind the wheel of his automobile it is believed the heavy meal made him drowsy and that the doors of the garage were blown shut as he aoziil over hie wheel dr t f lions brgr eonnr investigated and de- cmi il again an iaques ruling that death had been purely accidental mr braniff was 49 years old and is survived by his wife two daughters and six sons boy killed by car guelph fouryearold harold nuttley died in hospital saturday af ter being srtuck down by an automo bile driven by samuel kirk of guelph girl dies of injuries peteruolio struck down by an automobile while playing on the side walk near her home in camphellford near here- betty west four died in hospital here sunday oscar campbell seymour township driver of the car was charged with criminal negligence before magistrate 1 m bygott and was remanded until june 22 on 1000 bail fatally eurned st catharines freda parcel 22 was fatally burned saturday when she suffered a fainting spell and fell against a stove her clothes caught lire and she was enveloped in flames when she recovered consciousness she ran to a neighbors home but died soon after to try transatlantic canpe trip boy bicyclist hurt stratford frank webster aged 12 of rr no 1 st marys is in the general hospital here critically injured as the result of an accident at rannoeh on number seven highway sunday when he was thrown from his bicycle the lad was struck by a car driven by john c greason of lon don who was going east towards st marys young webster is suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg fracture of the left arm and a possible fracture of the skull pro vincial police are investigating weigh gains by- all quintuplets increases of one and two ounces made by norhiern five corbeil out the famous quin tuple daughters of mrs oliva dionne sunday en led the third week of their lives and appeared in good health dr v it dafoe their physician reported all were in good condition and that they all hud gained weight in comparison with saturdays scale readings the gains varied from one to two ounces meanwhile mis dionne remained abed recovering from effects of fat- igue due to overexcitement that at tended visits of friends when she got up previously sunday quintuplet weights in oun ces compared with those of saturday were annette 41 y 10 yvonne i hi 42 cecil 37 35 emilia 3xv4 32 m marie 81 s0 the markets cases re- medium united farmers cooperative co saturday were paying ilie following p ices for produce eggs prices to farmers tur i large 18c a 10c 15c butter ontario xo i creamery 21 4c xo 21c poultry wholesale prices ou poultry as sup plied by the united farmers cooper ative co here saturday were quotations in cents live dressed a 11 jo 9 g 11 12 11 a 13 12 11 hens over 5 lbs four to live lbs three to four lbs old roosters spring chickens over 3j lbs is three to 3j lbs 2 to three lbs broilers iy to 2i lbs selling prices united farmers cooperative co saturday were offering products to re tail dealers at the following prices eggs grade a large cartons 21c grade a large loose 22c grade a medium 21c grade c 19c butter no 1 creamery prints 21c no 2 23 ie hay and straw no 2 timothy hay baled ton 1s no 3 timothy hay ton 16 to 17 straw wheat baled ton 10 oat straw 950 wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to toron to retail dealers j pork hams 214c sliotildtrs 10c bulls 13c pork iolut 21jc picnics 5c iard puro tierces 3c tubs 10c pails lie prints dic shortening tierces s tubs 9c iils hie print ojc grain quotations following are quotations on toron to grain transactions for car lots pri ces on basis cif bay ports manitoba wheat no 1 northern slc no 2 northern 7sjc no 3 northern 70c no 4 northern 75c xo 5 northern 73c xo g northern 70c manitoba oats no 3 cw 41 1sc xo 1 feed 40 3se mixed feed oats 2smc manitoba barley no 3 cw is vic xo 1 cw 47fjc no 1 feed screen ings li per on argentine corn 7gc ontario grain approximate prices track shipping point wheat 99c to 102 oats 10c to 15c barley 4sc to 50c corn g5c to 70c rye 4sc to 50c buckwheat 5sc to goc live stock quotations steers up to 1050 lbs good and medium 175 510 do medium 400 450 do common 300 400 steers over 1050 lbs good and choice 550 g50 do medium 450 500 do common 400 450 heifers good and choice 475 500 do medium 400 450 do common 300 400 fed calves good and choice g00 025 do medium 450 550 cows good 325 350 do medium 300 325 do common 225 275 cahners and cutters 125 200 bulls good 300 350 do common 250 275 storker and feeder steers good 300 325 do common 250 275 j milkers and springers 2500 4000 calves good and choice veals 525 g00 do com and medium 300 500 crasser 250 300 hogs bacon foh 850 do off trucks 8s5 do off cars 925 good ewes and wether lambs 900 do medium 800 do culls 550 sheep good light 200 do heavies 100 do culls 100 above is john smith young canadian ami the canoe wnicn lie hopes to puuuic an ae om peterborough ont to pcterhoro england he will tiavel down the st lawrence hiver and cjulf of st- lawrence to st johns newfoundland and thence attempt the dangerous trip across the ocean to ireland he will use a lbfoot canoe queen mary sets example london queen mary set an ex ample for the people sunday when she ordered the gardeners at wind sor castle to discontinue the sprink lers and conserve water during the drouth endangering the countryside the london water board sharply criticized the management of ascot track where sprinklers all day long moved hack and forth over the vel vet turf while the city was threatened with a water shortage the authori ties feared unless rain falls shortly they may have to put the londoners on drinking water rations in many parts of england a few evaporating ponds form the sole wat er supply rapidly diminishing the devout in all churches in london prayed for rain at tile sugges tion of the bishop of london and similar plans were made for rain pray er meetings in the provincial dio ceses the press commented in exaspera tion on dispatches from the liner olympic reporting continuous rains for four days in the midatlantic reports from the continent said there was no sign of relief there the drought caused a plague of locusts in portugal dense clouds of the insects devastating fields at elvas so miles from lisbon bull causes council row fitness debated middlesex courty council divide on question 925 s50 g00 250 150 smells a rose dies as a result eustis fla they have buried mrs anna miller here the victim of ono of tile things sho cherished most beauty months ago mrs miller smelled the fragrance of a beautiful rose sho inhaled fungi from the flower which settled on her lungs and gradually grew until filially despite all efforts of medical science she died physicians said hers was one of iho seven deaths on record from the strango malady an ancient greek was everlast ingly right when he said creation is the victory of persuasion ard not of force franklin d itorsevelt london ont a division of mom bers of the middlesex county coun cil occurred at a recent meeting ov er the purchase of a bull for the herd at the house of refge stra th roy one faction declared that the ani mal was scrawny and looked like a heifer instead of a bull while the other group maintained that it v as still young and had not completed growing yet y reeve stewart robinson ailsa craig cattleman brought the matter before the council and was highly critical of the purchase mane by the special committee appointed it is not a beef type and it was a disgrace to pick it for such a fine holstein herd he emphatically ob served reeve simon mcleod con curred with this thought and it was divulged that the county had paid only 15 for the animal warden harold marr who was a member of the committee that made the purchase related how they had travelled the length of middlesex and elgin county for a good bull but in every case yankee buyers were n- head of them finally they bought the animal ot a dorchester farmer he said as a last resort why its head is wrong reeve robinson complained speaking about the bulls many faults you mean its on the wrong end reeve edgar doan jokingly rejoined closing the matter for the moment later in the evening mr mclcod proposed a resolution second by mr robinson that the bull recently pur chased be disposed of and a lx or 2x bull be purchased as soon as possible refer it to the jail comniihce one councillor cried but the resolution was left in the hands of the house of refuge commit tee for consideration all social advance starts with somebodys sensitized conscience harry emerson fodlck leather strap used on boys 9 pupils flogged mountie saw whipping of india youths shubenacadie ns a leather strap with seven tails was exhibited before mr justice l a audette as the in strument used to flog 19 pupils at the indian school here following the thaft of 5341 from the sister superiors office the flogging was described by the rev j p mackie principal of the school whose aid the boys had been beaten across the back in the presene of a royal canadian mounted police constable sitting as a royal commissioner mr justice audette opened the of ficial inquiry father mackie the first witness said the boys had been lined up one at a time and told to remove thiir shirts and lower their undershirts they had been beaten across tneir backs by him and edward macleod the schools carpenter and engineer in the presence of r c m p cm- stable thurston examining the strap he identified it and said that three thongs wer missing he remembered one had bro ken off while the boys were being pun ished when the theft had been reported ti him father mackie suspected one of the boys had sent for the boy and constable thurston he and the constable immediately began an in vestigation father mackie said the constable had gone to some of the stores and learned that boys had been purchas ing icuth organs candy cakes sn1 other things some of these articles had been found by the beds of sonic of the hoys sister rosita told the commissioner 5344 had been missed from the chif- fionier in the office of the sister sup erior she went to father mackie who was ill in hod at the time and told him taking with her the tin box she had nothing to dowith the pun ishment she said one of the boys had told her he had seen other boys with the cash box and that one of the hoys had admitted taking 2 father mackie denied a report that the strap had been soaked in vinegar before the whippings had been admin istered half of license fees reimned to fishermen st thomas owners of gillnet fishing tugs and launches out of port stanley received cheques front the ontario department of fisheries at toronto for 50 per cent of the li cense feo ihey paid this year tug owners were returned 100 and launch owners 20 the returns were made in response to a request made by a delegation from the lake erie fishermens association which met don george ii challles minister of game and fisheries in toronto marhleiiead mass because in his letter to congressman john j o- comyir of new york he called him a thing willard rt jackson received a curt reply the letter tle longressnian receiv ed said in part do you things in washington ever think of the people who own utility stock or do you just p iy to our public at i erne oconnor replied- yoi apparent live in the ligit lowi mir j revenue gain of 11 million may alone 7368062 in ad vance 49 1933 month in can adaforeign trade up ottawa canadas revenues dur ing the month or may were increased by 7308002 and for the lirst two i months of the current fiscal year the increase was 11059035 according to figures just issued for may both customs duties and excise taxes were up more than 3000000 j reflecting an increase of nearly 50 per cent in imports customs duties during may amounted to 8803153 1 compared with 520s157 for the same month last year excise taxes totalled 10217102 an increase of 3390535 over may of 1933 excise duties amounted to 3- 423406 or 501209 more than the corresponding month a year ago sun dry collections were off 1s000 for the month total collections were 22512952 as against 15174- 889 or an increase of nearly 50 per cent- total collections for the two months of the fiscal year amounted to 34- 438117 compared with 23379082 for the same period of 1933 or anincrease likewise of nearly 50 per cent canadas foreign trade bounded up 11 per cent in may compared with the same month of 1933 the minister revealed during the month exports and imports had a value of 1107s2- 515 compared with 78502907 for the month of may 1933 for the two months of the current fiscal year this countrys volume of foreign trade lias increased from 118- 971913 last year lo 177179394 this year or an upward surge of slightly more than 4s per cent during may the value of canadian exports was 57899511 as against 15570337 tor the same month of 1933 while imports increased from 32926030 t 52ss300t own weight in eggs regina a barred rock hen owned by mrs pauline firunner here has gone a long way in its attempt to set up a record it goes in for laying double and triple yolked eggs it laid six large sized ones and ono normal ono in a week which together weigh ed ono pound 3 12 ounces at the end of 11 vo weeks the hen had pro duced its own weight in eggs four die for death of one bronx murder syndicate members go to chair story like fiction new york at sing sing in the little room with the horrible chair j the bronx murder syndicate sat down to death four die one by one the undertaker f pasqua the speakeasy operator an thony marino the bartender joseph murphy and the fruit dalor dan iel kreisberger died for the sum of g0o a man threw the switch kill- in currents of electricty poured from tightly fastened electrodes aud the state of new york has aveneged the strangest murder in its history the murder victim was mike mal- loy a nobody a derelict of grog lou ses with a castiron constiution af terwards he was to be called iron man malloy he was so hard to ki the murder syndicate sought half a dozen times to slay him and failed at last in a desperate combination f gin and gas they got him mike malloy was not a fellow who would ordinarily be marked for mut- der he had nothing neither mony nor enemies he asked little of the world and offered little insurance motive to the undertaker the speakeasy man the bartender and the fruit dealer however mike malloy held possibilities of money if his life it was worthless anyway wasnt if could be insured and then he should die who would be the wiser the quartet could collect the insurance 2000 the plan was carried out right down to the point of the murder it was then the plotters began having their troubles malloy would not die he wasnt putting up any deliberate resistance so far as he knew tnis happygolucky mike malloythe four men were his friends his pals reg ular fellas first the murderers tried to kill malloy through his stomach they served him oysters pickled in pois m alcohol he ate them with relish and lived they served him food loaccd with ground tin he never even know it they gave him tainted sardines he would not die they launched a plot to kill him with wood alcohol letting him ha e all he wanted anytime he had a capacity he always came back seed ing more of that good likker spoiled plot desperate the plotters abandoned such lethal niceties as ground tin and poisoned oysters a scheme to shoot him down failed when a woman giar- ced from a nearby window unwitting ly foiling the plot before it could bo executed then most amazing of all they stupified malloy with liquor and took him unconscious to a little travelled roadway they laid him in the street and ran an automobile over hin back and forth it didnt kill mallow he was picked up by a passing car and soon was back to see his pals once more lickng his lips at the prospects of more free drinks finally they got him to a furnish ed room filled him again with drinks to the point of stupefaction and then turned on the gas the gas did it at sing sing in another furnished room electricty did it voice of the press canada ford prices reduced detroit reductions of from 10 to 15 in list prices for 1931 foul vs passenger cars and 10 to 20 in list prices of ford vs commercial cars were announced recently the re ductions became effective june 15 independent wives not as good home- makers as husbands new york financially indepen dent women frequently are less inter ested in their homes ban their hus bands says viola brothers shore au thor and playwright men have more real sentiment deeper disinterested loyalties and less selfishness she be lieves in an interview mrs shore ex pressed this opinion if a wife is feeling heady over her independence a man in the home may not be so very important to her women talk and act more about love hut i think men take it moro seriously and are more inclined to consider the other partner in an emergency she suggests that perhaps this re sults from the newness of the role financial independence forced upon women a role to which they are not yet fully adjusted those couples who put more effort into keeping ono lire burning get more out of life she believes most land cleared in colchester n gesto colchester north town ship according to the 1931 assess ment roll has 25893 acres of cleared land l77i acres of wood land 2- 093 i acres of slash land 572 acres of waste land 145 acres of railway lands the value of farm land is set at 127s3g0 buildings 134575 rail way land 7s95 buildings 1000 telegraph and telephones 5555s business assessment 600 the pop ulation is 1015 i agree with joseph jefferson that fine voices have ruined more actors than whiskey lionel barrymore will rogers applauded hollywood the movie colony accepted will rogers film comedian as a stage actor following his first appearance here in eugene oneills ah wilderness i wonder what barrymoro would say now will rogers commented as ho was drawn from backstage by ap plause as the last curtain dropped tho cast does all the work and i lake all the bows he said i dont j know what the drama is all about but i am trying to wrasslo with it its the only racket ive never been mix ed up la before i k over expanded had we beeu told 15 years ago that in 1931 we would send our wheat production program into a nosedive how mauy of the improvements we have made in the meantime we would have curtailed we are built for 5- 000000 people iu the prairie prov inces today we have 2500000 people lethbiidge herald they tell the truth on holidays and sundays when no daily papers are publish el invariab ly a lloek of false rumors take wing to hy hither aud thither until tho newspapers the next day kill them by refuting or merely by ignoring then the newspapers are the great eradicalors of false stories moncton transcript why doge bury bones we heard a discussion as to why dogs bury bones in the ground one man was complaining about the hab its of his dog and also of his neigh bors he said it interfered with his gardening for the dog always wauled to pick on the wrong spot he was certain it was just a streak of the contrary in his dog why couldnt he eat his bono when he got it instead of taking it off and burying it only to return in a day or so to dig it out one of the other men who has had wide experience with dogs of vari ous kinds said the dog buried the bone in order to season it he ex plained that some people preferred to let fowl hang for a while before using it and also that beef was much better for eating after it had been allowed to stand for a number of days after killing the dog has the same sort of a taste with his bones ho puts them under the ground so they will get a certain taste of which tho dog is fond unless a dog is very hun gry be will bury a bone before eat ing it and the reason is he likes his bones seasoned stratford beacon herald appreciation it is well to know that there is at least one man in public affairs who has an appreciation of the press this is lord londonderry secretary for air in the british government speaking of the brtish press he said we find the press men fair and helpful sparing in their criticism and generous in their praise this is regarding hie press in the light it deserves lo be regarded leth biidge herald trees or- desert the swirling dust storms that have swept over the interior of the north american continent require the seri ous attention of canada and the unit ed states the dakota illinois manitoba and saskatchewan it they do not soon start a program of tree- planting and croprotation will re semble a desert a sahara infertile and arid the binding quality the fibre is being taken from the soil when croprotation is ignored when green fields and green woods disap pear watersheds are lost when watersheds are lost power and sus tenance the very essentials of llfo itself are lost also vancouver sun and no chlorine test some of these days the siiult to which methods of water purification are of real interest in spite of the fact that it has at its door one of the greatest natural sources of water supply in the world may decide to investigate the method of sterilizing the water by ozonization this me thod which is iu use in several large european cities such as paris nancy nice and so on a total of 100 having plants installed is also now being used in some english communities it is said lo be equally efficacious in the killing of germs with the chlorina- tion process sault star stop at crossings every little while some advocate arises to suggest a law making it compulsory for all motor vehicles lo come to a dead stop before crossing railway tracks motor buses now voluntarily comply with such a regu lation but the general public seem to think they are safe in their own cars than they are in buses for what reason we do not know for buses are usually controlled by the most experi enced drivers chatham news scots buy our bacon in spite of a striking decrease in the total imports of bacon into scot land in the first quarter of the year shipments from canada reveal a largo increase over the corresponding per iod of 1933 purchases from denmark and the netherlands were reduced in each caso by about 50 per cent as compared with the first quarter ot 1933 on the other hand shipments from the dominion increased almost 300 per cent brandon sun grandmothers way best it is exceedingly interesting to read that dr knight dunlap professor of physchology at johns hopkins uni versity heartily disapproves of the modern lethlmcry its good for him method of rearing babies when a baby cried in grandmothers tlmo says dr dunlap ihey figured some thing was wrong and it was tho same way with the indians after all grandmother and the indians knew a great deal about babies and ho adds that the highly recommended method of leaving babies severely al- ono is richly productive of social maladjustments later kitchener record