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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1912-5-23, Page 6PROVINCIAL POLICE REPORT During Half Year 70 Per Cent, of the Cases Were Convicted A despatch from Toronto says: In the half -yearly report of Super- 2,tateident of Provincial Police for the period iron November 1 "to April 30, some 820 eases were- hand- led, which is a decrease of twenty- nine riser the corresponding period of a year. ttgo. Of these practically seventy per cent., ter 507,were con- vieted, 101 persons were diseharged, in the ease of ten the charges were -withdrawal, .and ninety-six stood awaiting trial. Of this latter num- ber -most of the -eases have since been disposed of by Judges on cir- euit. There were 220 persons prom wetted tender the liquor license eel, wbieh is an increase of nay - , lag eozaviettons were seeeared, nn inerease oi' forts` -five; seventeen ci:,al•°;es were (dismissed and three withdrawn, ` The seizoires show' an interesting eollectioaa, viz„ 5,3a•1 mottles of whiskey, MN gallons of whiskey in various receptacles, 141,- ra0 bottles of beer, 172 barrels :and cases of beer, forty-eight bottles of wine, thirty-eight bottles of brandy, sixty-eight bottles of gilt, and forty- two gallons of wines in different re- ceptacles. Under the offensive weapeans act, the sale of 514 revol- vers and pistols has been register- ed with the department, Under the game and fisheries act there, were seventy prosecutions, fort} -seven convictions and thirteezr cases dis- charged. Only ten remain to be dealt with at the present time, During the half year officers sta- tifpned at frontier points have hand- ed .over 340 persons to the Immigra- tion Department for deportation, or 183 more than in the cor•respond- .ing period last year, Mr, Rogers l emphasizes the fad that this is an important branch of the police work, and Points ant that the charges of vagrancy have been re- duced nearly fifty per cent, t1s a result of the prosecutions ed some $14,000 has been fines. le li DIES FROM RAT BITES. if teriaus Case of a Little Girl at London: despatch from London, Ont., says; The Miller baby which was bitten by rats at the home of Mrs. George Haslett, fork Street, where 't was being bearded by its mother, who is now in Berlin, died as a re- sult of .its injuries at Victoria Hos- pital on Thursdays morning. The; child was left ill its cot in the din - ilag-r lawn on the nights of ,April 25, wizen thirteen dais old, and when direovered by Mrs. I Iaslett in the morning was in a very serious ctan- dition. The hedelothing was satur- 2tNI with blood, and one .of the in- lanes nostrils, ., i s of l ., 1a.1 l p crtionsof its ears d leifi cheek had been bitten to b• GE. hundreds Killed by a 1..n -dilute Cyclone in lin-nary. .1 despatch from. Vienna says; In idle district of Szolnock, Central Hnangaay, a tornado wiped out four, tatarrkt:t towns within fifteen min - s, on Thursday. In Balvany os 4:a1•alja 340 'looses were swept away, leaving hundreds destitute and burying dead and dying in the ruins. It, the Village of Szasruate L10 ,houses were blown. away,. Of this Town of Inaba 'Gjfalu, with hun- dreds of houses. nothing remains. In one place' 170 houses form a great heap of debris. Military detach- ments have been sent to help the destitute population, It is .impossi Tier to estimate the loss of life, but it is feared it must reach several hundred. ,74 PRINCE OF WALES' 'PLANS. Going to England for Birthday. and Then Returns to Paris. A despatch from Paris says: The Prince cf. Wales, after the manoeu- vers of the French fleet in the Medi-_ telranean in June,which he will witness from the battleship Blanton, will g, 1 n r 1 to England t for his bi • -, s birthday, Junel elHe will return to Paris immediately after and will continue his studies until the (:owes regatta, the first week in. August. The Prince goes then to Scotland and will remain there until October, when he will enter Oxford. TITANIC FUND IS TOO BIG. Lord Mayor Dates Not Know What to Do With Surplus. A despatch from London says: The Lord Mayor foresees consider- able trouble as to what he is to do with the subscriptions to the . funds for the titanic sufferers. He says quite enough money has already been subscribed to relieve all dis- tress, but the donations are ; stili corning in. There will be a surplus of a considerable amount, to which consideration must now be given. aeI IFI OF •REFOItESTA1'1kON. More Tree -,Planting Will Be Done ?l#: Guelph.. A des ateh from Guelph says Commissioner Rya n, accompanied by Manager Foster of the Water- works Department and Prof. Zavitz of the 4< a't, College, paid a trip of imspeetion to the park at the source of Guelph's water supply.near Ar kelt, on Thursday. It was decided t_Itat more rel'orestinc should he 4lon e this fall, Already ten thou- sand trees have been ;planted' to in- sure a steady water supply, and in the future to be a valuable asset to Guelph. 1,1., S 1'Iti,1 N I'1tEMI .I -.R I31;IN I). Sudden Malady Likely to Precipi- tate Crisis in the'abil t. (, to A despatch from Vienna says: The Austrian Premier, Count' Stuergh, was suddenly stricken 1. with blindness on Wednesday, and ,1 the attending physicians fear he may not recover his .sight, Tho Emperor has asked the Minister of t the Interior, Dr. K, Ifeinoldl D'Udynski, to act in the interim. The Premier's retirement probably will involve a Cabinet crisis, IIANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN. ^^- western, No, 3, 511.2 to 52c; do., extra ROYAL PALACE OF DENH.ARR, THE LATE KING AND HIS QUEEN. PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF 41me4i1CA. t'lige s of Cattle, Crain, 1 heo$a and Other Produce at Homo and Abrl ad, 111 EADSTtil PS, Toronto. May 21.- -Flour-•-'Winter wheat, 90 per eeut. patents, 54.05 at seabaard, and at $4,10 to $4.20 for home eousurnp- tioin. Manitoba flours--)`irat patents, $5.,. 70; second patents. 5520, and strong bak- ers', 55, on track, Toronto, 3lauitoba Wheat -No, 1. Northern, $1.- 10 1-2. clay ports; No, 2 at 51.07 1.2, and No, 3 at 51,041-2, Bay ports. Feed wheat,_ 68e, Bay .ports. Ontario wheat --No. 2 whit', red aztd wired, $1.05 to 51.06. out. side, Peaam-No. 2 shipping Peas, 51.25. outside.. Oats -Car lots of No. 2 Ontario, 49e, and No.. 3 at 47e, outside, No, 2 Ontario, 51 to 52e, on track, Torouta. No. 1 extra W, C. f* ed, 49c. Bay ports. and N. 1' at 48c, Bay porta, e:Pra-No, 3 Amerman yellow quoted at 821.2q, .Say ports, and at 860. 9u trach �,raM41tP. itye -Prices nominal, Bue wheatT7Q to 72e, outside. Bran•- t."�uiteba 11ran, 525. lit ba s, TO rout* freight, Shorts -527, COUNTRY PRO/MICE, Angles -$3 50 to $5 ,per barrel,. l3eaua-Swa11, lots of :handpicked, 52.70 to $2.75 per bushel; primes, 52.E+0 to $2.-65, /Toney -Extracted. in tins. 11 to 12o per U. Contb9 52,50 to 52.75 a dozen,. Baled a --N � a ed il; a, ,. ]8 S to 519 a tan. Clo- ver, C G cr mixed. 14to x 515.50, on track. Baled Straw --411 to 511.50, on track, To. ionto, Potatoes -Car lots of Ontnrios, in bags, 51.75 to 51.80, and Delawares at $1.85 to 51,90, Out-or.store, $1.95 to 52. Imported po,ataes, 51.60,in ear lots. and 51.60. out - of -store. Poultry --wholesale prices of, choice dressed po'altry:-Chielteny, 15 to 17o per 1h.: fowl, 11 to 12o; bucks. 12 to 14e: tur- keys. 20 to 21e., Tawe poultry, about 2e ewer than the above. BUT F,R, Ear,S, CHEESE. Butter --Thiry. choice, 25 to 26e ' b37tcrs•, nforior, 21 to- 22e: creamery, 29 to 30e, for roils, and 28 to 29c for solids, o Etrgx�-- 7ew•1aid, 22 to 23e per dozen, in eaRe IotR. Cheese -New Sheese, 141.2 to 15e Iyer pound. MONT11LtL MARKETS. Montreal. May 21. -Oats -Canadian West- ern, No, 2, 551.2 to 56c; do.. Canadian. No. 1 feed. 521.2 to sac. Barley-SIan. feed, 5 to 66e: do., malting, $1,05 to $1.06, Buc1t- outhern Express Co. Decline In -:6 wheat• -•No. 2,. 74 to 75e. Flour-Man.pring wheat patents. firsts 55.80; do., ecouds, $5 30; do.. strong bakers', 55.10; do. Winter patents choice, 55.25 to 55.35; do.. straight rollers. 54,80; do., straight formation as :to Losses. A despatch from New Orleans s says; Southern Express Company officials here declined to vouchsafe r any information as to the amount of money secured by robbers, who early on Wednesday held up .a Queen & Crescent .flyer south of Hattiesburg and dynamited the ex- press car. It is denied, however, that the robbers obtained a sum approxirnately $140,000, the losses reported. RAILWAY TROUBLE SETTLED. Sir William Mackenzie l/laide Terms %'Vith Trainmen. A despatch from Winnipeg says: It is announced that Sir Wm. Mac- kenzie has arranged an amicable settlement with the Canadian Nor- thern Railway trainmen, and that the American crews which have been running,Northern Pacific and Great Northern trains from x the boundary will in future not oper- ate the trains in Canada,` WORK STARTED ON T.I,'\T1EL. C.N.R. Expect to have `500 'Ceti .at Work at i1Lontr ea 1. A despatch, spa ch• from Montreal .says Work on thebig C.N:R.tunnel un- der the Mountain. has 'started, and in a day or two the company expect to have 500 men at work. 'Macken- zie & Mann state that trains will be running through the tunnel in two years. ROYII4TY WATCH CkVkbff King arid- Queen's Interest in the Manoeu vres at Aldershot A c.;patch from London . says Icing George )v"atehed the cavalry manoeuvres at AIdershot from horseback < n t,ha' hilitop, whither the Queen had gone in an'automo- bile to join him, on Thuraday. Ti e Qitem] carne. out of the aaitornobile, but was harcll} able to stand." the boisterous gale,. She was obliged to grab her hat to hold it from the wind and the dust of the, galloping horses, whish together raised 5nOUhG i1 t z t clouds5 which hrf' „ n n hid thesoldiers. AYterwal-db there 'Was an arduous mimic. artillery bat - tie. The airmen tried to ;co-operate in the manoeuvres, butwere:pre-. vented by the terrible gale. King George purposes spending ' four or five days in the field with the troops, ruai oeuvring,,, at Aldershot about the last. week of this nnonth.,. Ex- cept that lire will lodge at the pala tial' Royal pavilion, the visit will be informal, The King will`. spend the days in the " saddle :like an oitiina -y� trooper. He will ills) thoroughly 2S C the 11 nS aviation school and Y 1 „tory. oilers, bags. 52.25 to $2.35, Itollei oats - Barrels, 55.85; do„ bags. 90 lbs„ 52.55. Bran -$25.00: shorts. 527,00; niiddlinus, 529 00; mouillie, $30.00 to $34.00. Ray -No, 2, per tong ear lots, 518.50 to 519.00, Choose -Finest Wcstern5. 133.4c; do.. finest East - erns, .13'1-4 to 13 1-2c. Butter -Choicest creamery. 261-2 to 27e do., seconds, 251-2c to 26c, Errs -Fresh. 23 to 231-2c; do.. No. 2 stock, 18 to 20c. Potatoes -Per bag, car 1ets, $1.70 to 51.75. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis. May 21. -Wheat -May, $1.- 14 1-8; July, 1-2;81.14September, 51.057-8 to $1.06; No. 1. hard, 1.17; No. 1 Northern, $1.16 to 51.161-2; No. 2 Northern, 5114 to 81.14 1-2; No. 3 whaat, $1.12 to 51.121.2. No. 3 yellow corn, 771-2 to 781.25. No. 3 white oats, 55e, No. 2 rye, 874-2c. Bran. 523.50 to 524.00. Flour -First patents, $5.50 to 55.- 75; second patents. , & P $5:15 to $5A5; first clears. $3,90 to 54.15; second clears, 52.80 to 53.10. Buffalo, May 21. -Spring wheat. No, 1 Northern, carloads, store. 51217-8; Win- ter, No. 2 red, 51.22; No. 3 red, $1.20; No. 2 white. 5121. Corn; steady. Oats, No. 2 white. 60 3.4c; No. 3 white, 601.4c; No. 4 white, 59 1-4c. Barley, malting, $1.17 to $1.8D. . LIVE STOOK—MARI{ETS. Montreal. May. 21. -Cattle -Prime beeves, 71-2e to 8c; medium, 53.40 to 71.4e; com- mon, 41-4c to 51-2c; milch' cows, 530 to 570; calves, 21.2c to 61-2c; sheep. 5c to 61-4c; spring'lambs, 53.50- to 56.50 each; hogs, 9 1-2c. , Toronto, May 21. -Cattle -Extra choice heavy -steers for butcher and export, $7.- 30 to 57.50; good medium to choice butcher,. loads, 56.40 to $7.30; mixed light butcher, 56 to 56.25; common, ' 53.50 to 55.60; tau ners, 52 -to 83: choice butcher cows, firm, at :$5.25 to 56.50; :bulls, 55 to 56.25. Stockers -Steady demand at 55.25 to $6 for good quality; extra choice heavy feeders 56.25 to 56.50. Calves -Good, veal, 53 to $7.50 bobs, 51.50 to $2.50. Sheen -Choice ewes, 55 to 56: bucks and culls, 54 to 85: spring 'Lambs. 54 to 57 each. Hogs $8.90 to 59, fed and watered, ' 58.65 f.o.b. •n T 7i 1 r, PUN. FOR1 Iz '.l'IIIID�4, l I0N Three 1[onths .:for Seven Industrial .W o.z leers of the World. A despatch from Kamloops, B.C. says: Seven' Industrial Workmen. of the World, found .guilty of inti- midation in connection with the'. strike on the Canadian Northern,' were sentenced at the Assizes here on Thursday to three months in pri- son. Four of the men—Quirk,' Miscinen. Olson and Schoulder- -were Portree guilty of assault and for this , received : an additional six months each, In passing sentence Chief, Justice Hunter said : "You are free to join' any °organization you wish;,, but when you act as you did in this' ease; you, may .get into the grip of the law. The people of '.;his Province are• law-abiding and en infringernentof the law will not. be tolerated." The Sasicatcheivan. Department of 1. _x cu ittt e..r p rr•is - seeding n g<, carnpax,sW6.11 with other years. ;t5 The large building 211 this picture represents the Danish royal palace. The figure inset above is that of the. latthate Kinof Qug.Ji'reeenderiek;Alexandthatrbelow hios ine, w now becomes the Queen Dowager,. ^1•a k Truckle Shoots His Wife in ;a Jealous kit. : despatch from. 1-iailailtonn. says; A shocking- erime was committed in the heart of the city on Saturday morning M but rut 1 1ocl ock a when r Frank Truckle shot and almost in- stantly killed his wife at the corner of Park and Market streets, The shooting was witnessed by a num- ber of persons, who chased the mur- derer, After pursuing him for about a 'mile he was surrounded at the corner of Park and Duke streets, and, seeing .that escape was impossible, turned the revolver that caused his wife's death on himself, and indicted a wound from which he died an Sunday morning. , He was hurried to the City --Hospital in an unconscious state, but recov- ered econseiottsness during the af- ternoon. Jealousy is the cause of the tragedy. STEAMER 13 URNIl1). Iona Sinks Fifteen iti1es Out on Lake Ontario. A despatch from Kingston says: The Montreal -owned steamer Iona, coal laiden, took fire shortly before midnight it Lake Ontario on Sat- urday and was burned to the' water's edge, subsequently sink- ing. The captain and crew of twelve men took to a lifeboat and were driven before a violent gale, finally landing on Sunday morning at Henderson Harbor, N. Y. The vessel was fifteen miles north of Oswego when fire was discovered near the boiler - loom and, after an - effectual attempts to,, it, the men left the vessel. They were thoroughly exhausted on reaching land. K` ItEPLY TO GERHANY. Supplementary Estimates to be Presented by the Admiralty. A despatch from London says : • 5 Ms. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced in the .ForuGA of Commons on Wednesday. that in view of the additional sums to be expended by Germany on na- val, construction 'under the new German naval bill, avhich passed its second reading in the Reichstag on Tuesday, he would certainly have to present supplementary naval es- timates this year; as he : had inti- mated in nti=mated'in his speech when introduc- ing in the naval rt < va1 budget. t . .A Chinesee leper at 11Iontreal is to be deported. `He must be quaran- tined the whole journey home. THE NEWS .IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENINGS FltOM ALL OVER THE GLOBE IN A NUTSHELL. Canada, the Empire and the World in General Beforo Your Eye% 0A AD.A:, Harold Legg wits drowned while canoeing at London, Opt, Newrlanswick eleetioT}S. will be held about June 1sth, E. T, Mott is the new president. of Winnipeg Board of Trade. Five stowaways were found on the steamer Montcalln at Quebec. Stratford's tax rate will be 20 mills, an.inerease of one-half mill, Guelph radial railway- employes still get 1X, cents all hour increase. Tag day in Berlin and 'Waterloo re lized ,$2,400 tor hospitiid purpos- es, One thousand men from northern Ontario will make an excursion to Toronto on June 21,. Two hundred thousand tons of ice have been stored for use in Toronto this summer.. Over 12,000,000 acres has been, seeded to wheat in the three west- ern Provinces. Fire did $100,000 damage to the Royal City Mill at New Westmin- ster. Farmers in the Temiskaming dis- triet Caro going in for;potato cul - The The bodies of three Titanic Vie- tilns in a boat were picked up by the Oceanic and buried at sea. Contracts have been let for the C,P„It. s - million -dollar irrigation work in Alberta. A company is negotiating with the Montreal City Council with the object of providing an autobus ser- vice. ” Mrs. Julia '.Buchanan of Pem- broke has been acquitted of the charge of attempting to poison Da- vid Moldy. It is reported at Ottawa that Hon. W, J. Hanna has been offered. the Chairmanship cif the Railway Commission. The steamer Ames ran into the swing bridge at Hamilton on Fri- day, damaging the structure and effectively blocking the harbor. The Canadian Car & Foundry Company is to establish new shops at Fort William with a capacity of seven thousand wood and steel cars yearly. The Carney Lumber Company's mill at Owon Sound. was burped on Saturday, entailing a loss of $150,- 000. The main building of the Ham ilton,Glass Works was also destroy eel, A work train with twenty- w otic men, droppedthrough a bridge at . Bassano, •73,C a distance of 40 feet,. Barry Smith was killed and ,L R.. Constantine and M, F, Ogden fa- tally injured,' " GREAT BRITAIN. The second reading of the Welsh dis-establishment bill was passed by a majority, of $7 votes. The people. of St. Kilda, Scotland, are threatened with starvation. A warship has been sent to the rescue, The British Government may buy Penryhn Castle, near 'Bangor, North, Wales, for the Prince of Wales. A Board of Trade committee was appointed; to advise as to best meth- ods of increasing safety of ships at sea. Sir Cosmo Duff -Gordon denied the eharge that he had objected to going to thee rescue of the Titanic victinns after the vessel sank, UNITED STATES. Counsel for the United States Steel Corporation have refused to produce certain "papers demanded in the government scut to dissolve the trust, GENERAL. Rome restaurants miist not S bread and rolls not wrapped in per - Thirteen were killed and forty- five injured in a railway collision In Paris. A. Munich "loan shark" who .' charged 350 per cent .interest, has been given five --years in prison. The negotiations regarding terms in connection with the proposed. loan to China were suspended ow- ing to Russian 4abjeetions, The, 'Italian naval and military authorities succeeded in reproduc- ing the humanan voice in a message by wireless telephony, at 1t distance of 160., utiles, Women in Berlin refused to at- tend theatres, where, by order of the police, they had to remove their hats. So theatre managers have secured a court order allowing the hats to be worn. Two French aviators, Capt. Belie - mer and M. L. ,Beauvais, were kill - cd and another one. M, L"Holl paean; ; badly injured in two acci- dents. Nine French airmen have beon."killed in two weeks, 1,ve pa, 1 MINIRS 'TO RESUME WORT,;. Ratify Agreement Entered Into by the Officers. A despatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: By a vote of 323 to 1.1t the anthracite brine workers in con- vention on Saturday ratified the agreement entered into by their sub -committee with the coal oper- ators, and ordered the 170,000 men and boys employed in and about tho mines to return to work on Wednesday, The ,suspension, which is thus ended, began March 31, or seven weeks ago, when the agree- ment entered into in 1909 expired, "ALEXANDRA. DAY" Il JUNE Novel Idea Has Peen Put Into Effect By .Society Ladies in London A despatch from London ,says:: A number of well-known society ladies leave hit upon a very bright and no- vel idea in which to holier Queen Alexandra, and .at the' same time benefit the many hospitals, homes and charities in which her Majesty is interested. On a certain day at the end of June -to be called . "Al- matters the Countess of Wilton be - has always taken the greatest per- sonal interest, while, of course, others will be natural looms, most- ly from the sellers!,Own hat -houses. Roses will predominate, and next to the rose will come Queen Alex andra's favorite flower, the "lex andra" carnation.. Already a com- mittee has tet ars been formed to' a.rrangc exandra Day"—a. band of society leaders, with many' willing helpers-, wi l self in the streets; of London flowers of all sorts, and the honey so collected; will be handed to Queen Alexandra for diStribtotidn among herPe t charities. ,Some of the flowers will be a,a tifiicial made by those clever little'cripple -children ing the president, while nxember alnon the g s, who are all rporking hard - enrolling helpers ardenr•olling.helpers and arranging the hutidred,,and one details, are "the Duchess o£"Marlborough, the Mar- chioness of Dufferin and Ava, the 14iarcl i Uri 5 of (Jac w c,' and many others 1\ c tillers to add, Queen Al- exandra herself is taking a keen in -1 in whose work ..'Que.en Alexandra 'terest in the arrangements. PI G.17TIE S IN THE BRITISH INQUIRY :INTO TILE THAW DISASTER. tw 4 1R RUFU ' ISAA.C5 , < � GRE i\pw" D, (35, -Ki --'7;7 7 3`ttt r o -ss_ ULv;avd