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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1912-2-1, Page 3gING AND QUEEN EC�llEB Malta Was :fin Pete to reet " heir, ajes a e on Arrival �A despatch; from Malta says; King George and, Queen Mary land ,ed here on Wednesday, and were ,.givenan enthusiastic welcome. The picturesque harbor of La Valletta, formerly held by the Knights of St. John as the most easterly bulwark cif Christendom .in the Mediterran- ean, was gaily decorated, a,ndetho British .fleet thundered a Royal sa- lute. The King and Queen were received in state by General Sir Ian 8, Ifamilton, eemmander-in- eirief of the Mediterranean depart- ment ; Chief justice Sir J Car- bone, anen hers of the Legislative Council, and a crowd of iler'bles.. A d rive through troop -lined streets to Government House was followed by a reception, at which most of the Meltese officials and noblemen were presented to the. King and Queen. Although many of the;! Maltese are closely related to the Italians, they hate>t:ze7rneighbors, and much prefer self-government under British rule. Therefore, the reception .accorded their Majesties was. one of the rarest entrhustie. they have received since they Left England, Beside the British Medi- terranean fleet, which was present in virtually full strength, a squad- ron of Frenwh warehips, iunder the command of Admiral Boue de La- peyrere, ,joined in the greeting, thus marking, the existing friendship be- tween Great Britain and France, The City of Valetta is thronged with British and French visitors, who have Bone especially to participate in the festivities,. tTES Wet lited 4.ttat y I awls t y Tur" s. spirkeh from €label, ']"gPsis, letai1a of the engagemeht rks and Arabs and n near Ghirgariaill, ten railer aleng pelf, ori. Textuary ere, and show Oghting the ad temperer- rlall. have rr t at the. Baia ;lest withdrawn. Btaats laden with contraband appreaaelieed the store and olaened: a heavy Are on the Italian forces. At the same time 1,000 "Turkish re eider a at X111'40;1' 4 prepared to attack the Italians from the rear, The Italians would inevitably bane been annihilated if by c1u neve an aeroplane, cowing out to try its motor, lead not been S ean by the Turks, who became so alarmed that they were unable tea eaa1•ry out the turning movement, The? Rept; up their uritis, however, until nightfall. no Italians lost fifty* killed and thirty wounded, DA1tIN4l IxrA Ali: ItOltB)F;RY of l?~oya1. I;alnlr o>' Y uieuu- r'ci� is I1e1el ill. A despatch from `� ancouver saaya: The loyal Blank of Canada branch, at the corner of Main street and Seventeenth avenue, was literally clammed out of all its dash ,by two robbers at 11 a'rlocic on Friday .morning, and Ledger - keeper Harrison was knocked, un- taonseious for resisting the hold-up. Tbe itlnounnt of loot secured by the robbers is unknown, because A. A. Stceces, Manager of the branch, refuses to make a statement. It is, however, estimated that between 81,,000 and $5,000 was taken. In- stead of going out the way they entered, the two men unlocked the back door and :made their exit that ivay. Excellent descriptions of the robbers, orae of whom was tall and the other short, were obtained. STRANGE PROVISION IN WILL laconic to Stiuut for One Hundred Years. .despatoh from Halifax, -fir sayslast Crisman, a merchant of Meteghan River, Digby, N.S., died sonetime ago and left' an estate of about $500,000. After certain comparatively small legacies were paid the will provided that the ca- pital should be invested ,and the come allowed to accumulate for 100 years. At the end -of that time the accumulated funis, principal and interest, are to be divided, one- half going to charities in Ireland and the other half to build a hos- pital in every county in Nova Sco- tia. The will provided that the } Archbishop of Halifax should ap- point three trustees 'of the estate. His Grace has named Mayor J. A. Chisholm, of Halifax, Judge Wal- lace and T. W. Murphy. Cosman was a widower and had no 'children. Br: " ri AN CES Premier Si ion ;1nnrnnee. a Su plias'elephoues Pa3 ing• A deepateli from Edmonton:. ys; Premier Sift -on delivered his t szaeeeh in the Her ee on, ay afternoon, He quoted to sirew that the present asp 11e Province, exclusive a cine system, to public rete„ were $7,733,070, AN "ALTERNATIVE HUDSON BAy,ROUTE AN ALTERNATIVE HUDSON 'RAY ROUTE UT.E Hon Mr. Cochrane has announced that the HudsonStreets `re impracticable as grain route from Western Ca ada,'owing to lee, that the grain may be carried from the terminal of the Hudson: Bay Railway, across James Bay t ? the Mattawa River, and thence to the National. Tr ansrontinenta,1 Railway, Probably" by a spur Bale. Thle • would gave Cq0 Miles of railway haul, The heap shrsus the pet; ose,1 route and its alternative, and fits liabilities rn treasury bond issued 87,203,333, leaving as surdas to the credit of the I'ro- vineo 'ot $440,2413. Ile, cengratu- latei the P.rovinee on the success of the Government edaarinistraation of the telephone system. Every year lienee the Oovernnaent took control, after paying the cost of inairltenaance, operaat:on, eto,: there has been a surplus. The Premier announced that it had been decided to increase the sessional indemnity of members from $1,003 to $1,000, 'and provision was also made .for a, salary of $1,400 extra for the lead - ex of the Opposition, 1'OnEST1:RI' .atSSOCI&TION. 1w11nlid Convention Will, be Melfi at Ottawa Feb, 50 and 8th. The thirteenth. Annual Meeting and Convention of the Canadian Forestry Association, lander the patronage of HH,R:H. the Governor- General, for . the reading and discussion of papers, the reception of reports, election of officers, and other business, will be held in the Railway Committees Itoom, Parlia- ment Buildings, Ottawa, on Wed- nesday and Thursday, Feb. 7th and 8th, 1912, and to it all friends of forest eonservatian aro mated. The aim is to make, this the most Practical conventionyet held, and to this end the gentl.emon who will read papers end niake addresses will direct their attention to sub- jeots now pressing for immediate solution in Canada. .j, DEBT or NEW YO'TtR CITY. Exceeds 'Public Debt of the United States by $20,000,000. A despatch from. New York says: According to oilieial figures ,sub mitted on Wednesday to .Mayor Gaynor by the Finance Depart- ment, New York City's total debt at the beginning of 1912 was $1,- 037,811,718, 1,037,811,718, or ` approximately $20,- 000,000 more than the :public debt of the United States. During 1911. the funded debt increased $71,432,- 485 of which •$44,200,000 represents bond issues for rapid .transit work and the new water supply system. Samuel Alex was fineda thou- sand dollars at Sault Ste. Marie for five violations of the liquor law. He is alleged to have sold a patent medicine for whiskey. QIJEBEC AS OODSD�PJ Budget Speech ' of Hon. Mr. Yaakenzie Shows Encouraging Features STORY O' t I[EI'.,tDISI1.. 'miner Guelph Baan Salved Sever.tl ILi'i•es, but Died Himself. A despatch from Guelph says Word has been receives here that by fighting a pack of timber wolees single-handed all night long Harry E. Fennell, laately'of ;Deaver, Colo,,' but up to rix years ago residing in Guelph, saved the lives of seven girls and the other men who were in a party and died as the result of the exposure he was forced to en- dure. Venanell's desperate SOti with the wolves took place year `1,Iuc1 on Bay. He and a chum were, l 1«t trapping up near dson Bay and went to a party or -came that some' half-breeds were giving. They were the only people near, wild on the way horse were given a ride trit'a 1 . another man Atld some girlsin a' bobsleigh. It was late at night and they were chased by wolves. Mr. Fennell got out and got fele a tree and told the others to ran the horses to their eabin and he would fight the wolves. The others want- ed 'to stay, but be begged them to go on and not take env chances with the girls, They then went home, but could hear shots all night. Fennell killed nine wolves. The men went back at daylight and there was only three wolves left. Fennel was so cold hea could hardly walk, and dial before, they 'could get help, the nearest doctor being sixty miles away. 1L11) RUSH FOR GOLD. llinito nes, Manitoba, is Now Overrun by Pros:meters. A. despatch from Minitonas, Ma- nitoba;, says: One hundred more gold prospectors arrived onThurs- day night from scattered points in the United States and Canada. Not much prospecting is doing, only a wild desire to stake regardless of location. The private ear of Mr. R. 3. Mackenzie, of the Canadian Northern, is here, with his mining expert from California and several others. They left at daybreak for the scene of action with the nec- essary equipment. Several are looking for residential and busi- ness sites, and the stampede is on in earnest, with all public buildings full of men, lying all night on floors like sardines. Excitement and crowds are increasing ` every hour. A despatch from Quebec says:puts of $600,000, with provision for At Thursday. afternoon's session of �, increased ,amounts for the -cause of the House,' Hon. 'Mr: Mackenzie, education,'for_the constructien of Provincial Treasurer, delivered his iron bridges, for the abolition of annual Budget speech, tyhicli toll gates, and for the large loan proved an interesting revierv-of the for the- iinprovemeets of roads, financial state of the Province for which are: to be' built with the; co - the past year, with encouraging es- operation of the municipalities of timates for the coming twelve the Province. For the past year, months. The ordinary b receipts it was shown that both the receipts amounted to $7,032,744, and the and the' expenditures had exceeded ordinary expenditures" to $E1. 1).26 - ,the" estimates, the former by $1, 834,. making.", „surplus of` $9051 910° 128,240, and the latter, ordinary But as there had been an addition- and extraordinary, by $716,902-. al extraordinar5 y expenditure ''of Cernilrg to the estima`es for the, p �. $298005 ti_lc: actual surphls was an- year 1912-13, the hon. Meister'' es- aton cecl as'A7ein $607,845. iron ,,r th the ordinary revenue g i,x, , t� _1 ,c ne� 29 also ,Thc\ Pr�wir, ia.1 S" ...,1 and 'r,c" l . Treasurer em- well d. reach �,,,1�.,, , ha i'/, 1• tho 1 r s.i `t ar and extra- p e.t tl., increasing prosperity estimated the oz.l n y. Q. be a h ... u h "�o efe.l' di. es,:;at $6 700,-:. .a# r„uc, a -�, i s1),ch" the Govern- ern s- ..,;tars :er.pen.l.Atur.,, fi.s able ho announce a sti:r- r'. 1 Ili TO DISBND ©W CHURCH. Hoene Secretary , Will lntrodnee Bill at Coming Session. A despatch from London. says:— :— Addressing an enthusiastic meeting at Queen's Hall on Thursday night, Reginald McKenna, the Home Sec- retary,' said that early in the com- ing session of Parliament he would introduce a bill for the liti,p t._�,e .a s lishment and disendowirent of the Church in Wales. All the ,resources of the Government, he added, would be used to carry the mea- sure into a law. FOR 191 IU) a': IN FRANCE. F •ench:nair .'-.rresteil at :Regina for 'tillinga lonsa.a. A despateh from Regina, Sask., says: Emile Oscar Pougnet has been arrested near here on a. charge of mur dcr colnniitted` near Paris, France. on January 9, 18.10. It is;. alleged he m}iridered andmutilated6 Mrs. ruisienre Leal and, his fe:enc S tit•irc: �. 1 , .6st,sea $5,000 Dre, e, :es to' F l,r < x S at net w A llesrateh floor 5.a trlci satis' :King lA1.fonso has coleb,aie;l his 11ftmo gday ,by :•,(loTl i2*)i;` i 800 nl° the rid' • and . 1.1y remitting eight I � U death sn_ A SOCIA IST LEADER HERR REBEL, fender of the ear;urn Socialists, who cut • a. wide swath 1n the recent general elections la Ge many. They are rapidly gaining, xtrenwth in the a elclrstu, . 1 � T � iii. �� � .�i9 � PAR APil IIE.YEAR'S LABOR llTSPBTE8 Department Returns Sheering' Loss of and Settlement reached_ A. despatch from Ottawa says: statistics issued by the Labor De- pertinent show that approximately 2,013,740 working days were lost by employees in Canada through trade disputes during the past year, as coznpared with the loss of ap- proximately 718,745, days: in 1910,.. There were approximately 28,218 employees involved, directly and indirectly, in trade disputes last year, compared with 19,594 during the preceding twelve months, The increase in the figures for last year was due largely to the coal miners' strike in Alberta and British Co- lumbia, involving 7,000 wen for nearly "eight lxroeths, The only other large strikes were the coal miners' strike at Springhill, N, S., which was settled on May. 22, and the strike of the building trades in Yaueoutier during June and July:, S OF FARM tEl'9it,l PROM. T.13 ] TRAD P. CENTRES ,A3iERI CA Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese An al Other Produce at Home and Ab roait. IinlaADSTVEES, l lour -Winter as1ie tionrS-40irst 0 ,ay rostra, et el O;ltario wheat No.. heel, f2 to 93e, outs,ltr. s --(1e0:1 gbirpinr,peau $1.10 eti de. Oats -Car lots ' of outside at 43 1.2e. tined srf 421•2e;, on track, 1 nro�nte, !. 2 Western Commie sant, el No. 3. feed, 45 1-2 to 4i --43 lira, quoted at «io quoted 5 at 42 to a t 461-:'c. 49 to 49 i.7e, Bay Ports. to 26r, out• t'eral 2 ea. 3 ,":zucr3.va'r Ye;totc, A1o, 'ia onto 71 1, FK"o -JGa to 41, ©utsirle. iltarkwl:cat-65 to 67e, on ts7gle. Leen-•-lfanitoba bran, 524, in bags, onto freight. Shorts, 325.50, COUNTRY PRODUCE. HAPPENINGS PROB. ALL OVER Apples -winter stook, 32,73 to barrel. THE " GLOBE IN A 1♦eans-Small lots of hand-picked, $2.35 N U°TSHELL. to 32.43 her bushel, IT ney-Extracted, in tins, 11 to 12c per 0 Iwr me Of the ninety-eight strikes throughout the Dominion, which o0 carrell last year, forty-two,'took place in the Province of Ontario and nineteen in ,the Province of Quebec.- Demands for higher wages caused strikes in forty -two eases, while the question of wagesin re- gard to threatened reductions, .etc.,. also entered into twenty-one other disputes. The employers won in thirty- three of the strikes, and employees in twenty-three, while in nineteen eases a compromise WAS reached, In the ether eases the settlement was indefinite. or not reported. Durthg the past ten years, out of a total of 1,079 trade disputes in Canada, the employers won 333 cases and the employees ee it s 380. In 244 cases the strife Was eettled by a, coanprom-: a. 2 Ioca1 white, 47 to 471-2e: No. a iia, 46 to 461.2o; No. 4 do.. 45 to 451.2o.. Barley -Malting, 98o; to 84. Buckwheat -No, 2, 74 to 72e, '•four -Manitoba faring wheat Patents, bests:, 35.60; do,, seconds, xttrcrnir 'bakers', 34.90; winter patents, chalce, 34,76 to 35; straight rollers, 34.30 to 34,40; do., Dass, 53 to 82.10, Boiled oats llarreis, 94.63; bags, 93 lbs., 82,20,. L'ran-323; shorts, 323: middlings, 528; M01411ie. 322 to 854. Nay -No, 2, per ton, ear lots. 315 to $15.50, Cheese -Finest Western. 1514 to 151.2e; Joest EaSteres, 143.4 to 3.61.20. natter -choicest oream- a ryx 33 to 54e;. seconds, 32 to 52 1-2a, ;Eggs res'ia. 46 t+a 10; selected, 43 to 34c No. 1 strack, 20 40 e, Potatoes -Per bag, oar 1Gte.. 31,40, UNITED STATES lllAP„B1f+TS., gooks. Jan. 40, -Wheat, 2ta', 32., 1,9634; July, 31.071-2; 0$o. 1. -4;. No. 1 Northern. 31.061-4 to I31.063.4. .'Nall 2 Northern, $1,041.4 to 31,, i3 s Sia. 2 wheat, 31,031-4 to 31.023.4; Cs;rtilVea. 3 yellow, 621 2c. Oats -No. 3 w0dte, 42o. R,yc-Ng, 2. 83 to 89e. Bran a$:4 10 324,50. Flour-'i'irst Latents. 35.10 tri 35:40: second patents. $4.75 to 35; first se;lravaa, 33,50 tg 33,85; second clears, 32.40 to $2;80. Buafalo, ,Tan 30,» -Spring wheat No. 1 ,Northern, carloads, store. 31.15-1.2; Winter, 'No. 2 red, 31.93; No. 3 red, 31; No. 2 white. $1.02, COru-No, 3 yellow, 621.4e; No. 4 "Sslim, 663.4e, all on track, through billed. Oats -No, 2 white. 541.4e No, 3 °.white, 533.4c; 14o. 4 white, 523.4c. Barley -Malting« 31,25 to el mm. Ib, Cornus, 32,50 to 32.75. Canada, the Empire and the World Baled hay -No. 1 at 316,50 to 317, on in General Before Your Eyes. CANADA. There are now seven cages of smallpox at Montreal. York County Council proposed to tax autos for road improvement, Sugar prices have been again re- duced by ten cents throughout On- tario and at Winnipeg - A Grimsby farmer said the price - of -food problem could, be solved by the producer and retailer getting closer together. Owen Sound -hotel proprietors , have decided to increase rates ow- ing to the strict enforcefnent of the local option law. Three foreigners were injured, one fatally, by drilling into an old charge on the Canadian Northern line near North Bay. The, Lake Erio Coal Company, it is said, lies submitted an offer to the London City Council to elec- trify the Port Stanley Railway. The William Davies Company have ,decided to close their Harris - ton pork-packing arriston:pork-packing branch, but may use the building as a cold -storage. A sufferer from an infectious dis- ease is` housed in an old shed in a cemetery near Brantford, the city having no place to keep him pro- perly. Peter Peterson of Cobalt was sentenced to ten years in peniten- tiary for writing a Black Rand letter to Manager Goodall of the Imperial Bank. GREAT BRITAIN. Troops will be despatched to Bel- fast to preserve the peace between Unionists and Nationalists. Tho tension in :Belfast has been somewhat reliet-ed by a change of venue for, the Churchill home rule meetirg. , Mr. ,' Winston t -0n Ghurch.11, while abai:claning the Ulster Hall as a place 01 ' r;ect=i ag insists on his Tight, to speak in. the city of Bel- fast,. CIJINERAL, .. . _n €tesum«>n r. of . -hostilities L Chzn'see.ns. lraz_.c .._:li,s ntes 0P ,-,the ,b-tlher. xcle.3c'of 'lili'1£S -taken' bylraiians 'board i; r x. r enc,l track, and No. 2 at 314 to 3115. Baled straw -$8 to 59, on track, Toronto, Potatoes -Car lots, in bags, quoted at $1.50, and. Delawares at 31.60 to 31,65, Oat - of -store, 31.65 to 31.75. Poultry -Wholesale 1rrfcPs of droned poultry; -Chickens, 14 to 16e, per Ib; fowl, 10 to 12c; ducks, 15 to lGc; geese, 13 to 15c; turkeys, 20 to 235, Live poultry about 2c lower than the :above. BUTTE%%, EGGS, CHEESE. Butter -Dairy, choice, in wrappers, 23 to 30e; large rolls, 27 to 28e, and inferior, tabs, 18 to 19e. Creamery, 34 to 7.5c for rolls, and 32 to 330 for solids, per lb. Eggs -Strictly new -laid, 35e, delivered here, and fresh at 29 to 30c per dozen, in case lots. Cheese -Large, 16e, and ficins at 161-2e per lb 7100 PRODUCTS. Bacon -Long clear, 111-2 to 113-4n per lb., in case lots. Pork -Short cut, 322 50; do., mess, 519.50 to 520. Hams --Medium to light, 16 to 16 1.20; heavy, . 14 to 14 1-2c; rolls, 103-4 to lie; breakfast bacon, 16 to 17c; backs, 19 to 20c. Lard -Tierces, 113.4c; tubs, 12c; pails, 121,4e. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, Jara. 30.—Oats Canadian Y •n Y 2,491 -2 -to 50e• do.,No. 1Pes�ea 103, 471.2 to 48c; extra No. 1 feed. 481-2 to 49e; LTvn STOCI MARKETS. Stoatreal, San. 30,-Butohers' cattle, choice, 35.75 to 57; do., medium, 35 to 36.50; do., common, °33 to 34; canners, 32.50 to 33; 'butchers' cattle, choice cows, 35.25 to $5.550; do , medium, $3 to 35; do.. bulls, $3.50 to 35,50; milkers, choice, each, 370 to 375; do.. common and medium, each, $45 to $55; springers," 330 to $40. Sheep -Ewen, 34.50 to 34.75; bucks and cues, ;34 to 3425; lambs, 36.50 tp 37. TTogs -y. o. b.. 37. Calves -$3 to 312, Toronto, Jan.. 30. -The trade is still good ehotoe ,, and sevcral loads broughtfor els blah as steers$7 ,and 3725. Cotes and bulls- ranged from 32,50 to 35. Canners wore bought at around $1.50. Sheep were steady, but trade was dull. Lambs were also easier at 36 to 36.75. Hogs and calves were unchanged.There wasa fairly nrtive demand for good mill; cows, but common ones were not ,ranted. Milkers are now selling from 350 to 310. DIED FROM RABIES: Valuable € Cnies Bitten bp a Mad' ilea A despatch from Hempstead, N. Y., says: Champion, the third of the string of imported polo ponies of John S. Phipps, of the Meadow - brook Polo Club, was destroyed on 'Wednesday because of an attack of rabies. The pony was valued at $4,000, and was imported from England ' for the polo snatch be- tween teams of the United, States and England. last sunznrer. Two weeks ago rabies developed 10 the Phipps polo stables after a cur dog had bit, Gay Roy, a 34,000 pony, and`also a $5,000 brood mare. Both these animals died within a few days. Capture One of the Kaiser Seats '�;, 1? German ll Elections i o� the .� e�. man Election despatch from Berlin says : Thursday's second`ba,llots brow ht the Socialist strength in the now Reichstag to well over one, hun" dred. The Socialist, '1)r. hieb kne,olit, captured the coveted "Kai- ser K i division":fPotsdam, sE .;' a where the principal residences of the Em- peror, the Crown Prince, and other members of the :Imperial fa2nily are . situated. The now nlenliCr, for Potsdam, where all. the crack regiments' of the army are „ aririsoneti- onlyrecently finished -, 1 y sl rinnr_ an eighteen -months' ,-months' sen- . — ..: .:. 1 at (ii es° tence in a fortress for anti -militar- ist propaganda. Dr. 'Liebkneeht who defeated the Conservative Burgomaster of. Potsdam, is a biil- ialll barrister, and son of one of `lie, founders of the Socialist party. Ire is also a member of"the Pens- , This true si:ilei Diet. .Ch ..: is the.:. fir= t �_.,1.,,, in .: the history of'the Empire, that one of the "kaiser seats'' has fallen ,in- to the hands of a Socialist, and the joy of the crowd gatileral in. front ` i ' t the of the.office of The 'ti Gxt gel. s t Socialist Pa cr, knew no bounds the result wasannounced when: fcnno n c d on, Thursday night,: