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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-04-15, Page 7AN AMICABLE AREEMET'CONDENSED2EPS ITEMS The C. P. 11., and Mechanical Unions Fettle Their Difficulties. A despatch from Winnipeg says: The question at issue between the C. P. R. and the Federated Mech- anical Unions of the company, which have been a subject of con- ference, have been amicably set- tled and a schedule and working agreement eminently satisfactory will be the result. A matter of prime importance to the older mon especially is their reinstatement to the pension roll, from which they were removed after tho strike. This has been conceded by the com- pany. It has also been agreed that any of the mechanics who struck last Summer on the Western lines, and who have not yet been taken back, shall bo at once re-engaged if they desire. A number of rnen at Medicine Hat and several Western points will be benefited by this. As a result of the conference and the conciliatory spirit in which both sides approached the consideration, it is expected that a long period of harmonious relations has been in- augurated. The schedules and ag- reements have nut yet been signed actually, but there is no doubt they will be immediately upon the re- turn of (;rant Hall, superintendent of motive power for the company in the West. Only comparative minor platters of detail remain to be settled. The company has been success- ful in its contention for separate and distinct schedules for the East- ern and 11 astern lines, but the actual composition of the schedule committee to conduct the Eastern negotiations has not yet been de- finitely e:ettled. The Western l'' nes desire representation thereon, but it. is not likely that this will be agreed to. A joint committee to ntept in Winnipeg and Montreal, vever, is by no means an im- possibility. The Western unions have secured the closed shop and the integrity of their organizations, which was somewhat impaired by the result of the strike. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS B1 M.111. ER031 IRE- i.AND'E SIIORES. Happenings in the Emerald Isle of Interest to Irish- men. England has 510 deaf mutes per milion of her population, against 770 in Ireland. A sum of $175 was collected in Slip. Cathedral in aid of Castlebar Gas Woks for the sum of $12,000. Four pike, weighing respectively 27, 13, 9 and 4 pounds, were recent- ly caught in the Barrow, near Car- low. Miss Isabel Smith, Drunicroon, Coleraine, has ben appinted in- structress in domestic economy for North Derry. MONEY LOST IN WRECK. Package Containing One to 'l'Irree Thousand Dollars Missing. A despatch from Brandon, Man., says: Several weeks ago tho C. P. R. express was wrecked between Elva and Pierson, on the Estevan branch of the C. P. R., and the baggage and inail cars were smash- ed badly. After the wreckage was cleared away the mail platter was transferred, and between that time and the arrival of the train at Na- pinka a package of money, contain- ing between one and three thou- sand dollars, consigned from a bank in Oxbow to the head office in Win- nipeg, disappeared. When the bag was taken off at Napinka it. was found that the registered sack had a hole in it, but it is impossible to say whether it was cut during the wreck or afterwards. Tho ex- press company officials and the Ur. George Ellis, said to bo the postoffico inspector aro conducting oldest Irish surgeon, died at his „ rigid inquiry, but so far have residence in Dublin, at the age of found no trace ofit.-- 100 t__100 years. PEELED TRIGGER WITII TOE. A bog slide occurred near Keady, County Armagh, at a cutting of the Italian Committed Snieidc-Could Armagh, Keady and Casticblaney Not Gel Work. ' new railway. In the last 50 years while the A despatch from Montreal says: population of Scotland has increas- Anot`ler tragedy in the Italian col- od by two millions, that of Ireland ony was revealed on Thursday has diminished by the same num- morning when the detective office Ler. was notified d that there had been a Messrs. Patrick O'Connor and shooting affray on Bi..t on street, a Terence Leonard have been re-elect.- side street running north from at. ed chairman and vice-chairman re- Antoine street, just west of Wind- spectively, of Granard Rural Colin- sor. Detectives hurried to tho cit house and found the body of An - Tho collection initiated by tho toni Lalli, a lady about 10 years of Most Rev. Dr. McHugh in the ace, lying across a bed, with a 1)erry Diocese on behalf of the double-barreled shotgun beside hint sufferers of the Italian earthquake barrel wound ad bover his heart. One has amounted $1,093. Me -t Rev. Dr. Sheehan has pre- there were marks on they wall as rented over 50 volumes of high- though the shot had gone through class literature to the library of the body. The boy had been unable the Catholic Young Men's Society to get work since last fall, and it of Waterfordie supposed he became despondent On the way to a funeral at and shot himself by pulling the trig- Longh Egish, the hearse toppled wer f the which the boot had been with his e►takenot, . over and the driver, John ('ar- ragher, was pinned underneathand seriously injured. ('0.t1. 1N EASTERN ONTARIO. 1)r. Isaac Clarke, Medical Of- ficer of Knoeknalower Dispensary Ridge' Runs Through Township e1 District, in Belmullet Union, has Emily --Said to Carry Coal. resigned to take up an important .1 despatch from ()mettle* says: appointment in Westneath. Coal has been found on the farin Mayo County Council has eon- ei( Mr. George J. Winn. 8th conces- finned its guarantee in fat or of t.lic niun of Emily township, and es a Belmullet ('ollooney itailway pro- result, there is considerahl • etc:ite- j,•,•t in connection with the pro- mont in tho community. Mr. Winn posed new All -Red Route. noticed strata of what looked like The first farmers' bacon curing dark rock protruding from the factory in the United Kingdom, earth on a path along a ridge of started a little over a year ago at laud running thiiiugh his farts. Rewrote, County Tipperary, is The formation stro:igly rerenibled proving a succes. coal, and pieces of it, when (►laced A fire which destroyed a portion on a fire, burned. leaving cinders of the Hellen mills, ('aunty Kil- similar to three produced by coal. dare, occurred recently. The per- The ridge in which the coal wss tion destroyed was operated by found runs through the township Mr. Hegarty in the manufacture of of Emily to Mount Pleasant.. .1 food -'tuffs of various kinds. gentleman who visited this district Personal estate valued at $I,- last rummer. and who was interest, 255„,00n. was left by Nicholas cd in the Pennsylvania coal trines, Murphy. of ('arrigniore. ('ork, is said to have held the opinion chairman of the (',ark Distilleries that this ridge of hills was coal• Company He bequeathed $4,000 i bearing. for charitable purposes. - 4--- • • - Kenmare Rural Council have COLORADO GOING II IC{'. been unable to obtain it single tend er for the erection of laborer's cot- Man) innicipiilllies Parried a I'rel- tages ander the nett scheme at a bides Lets. price of AO;to. although entteges were built last time for $450. 1 despatch from Denver, ('ol., Toni Mannion. well-known in says: Prohibition won in most Fermanagh. and nearly 100 years places in the municipal elections+ r•ld. was (wind lying almost dead in held in Colorado. Colorado a workheui r in innishmore. He Springs went dry by 2,000 majority. died in the ambulance nn its way That city has never had it saloon, to the workhousebut the election will prevent drug 1'he Lord Chief Justice of Ireland stores from selling liquor in the was aide to congratulate the grand future. La Junta. (.'anon City and jury at Wicklow Assiren, March 1st, Castle Rock all toted against the that there was no eases to go he. saloons, while ('ripple ('reek and fore them, Arid was presented with ('olnrad„ Cite remain wet• the ce,•tomarr• white glote,. A despatch from Milwaukee, There hay been a second %ictim •ays • Municipal elections were held of the disastrous bogelide at Kil- in a large number of cities through• more, (•.. Galw as %Ire Catherine Writ Wisconsin nn Tuesday, the Bra►ntnelly. who rushed from her gine-tion i,f •'license" or "nn lie house in her night attire, on the env.- being an issue. License fatal morning wizen the hog rush- enrried in a majority of the cities ed duel' the %alley- ',nil towns heard (rota. HAPPENINGS 11:031 ALL OVER 1t11: (:LOBE. Telegraphic Briefs from Oar Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA. Peterboro' will vote on local op- tion next January. Seeding is in progress over a large portion of the west. The auction sale of Prince Rupert lots will begin at Vancouver on May 25th. The Grand Trunk Pacific has let contracts fur a lot of new engines and steel rails. A great find of magnetic iron is reported on Campbell River, Van- couver island. A general advance in lumber is announced in Winnipeg, in connec- tion with an active building sea- son. Mr. Justice Cannon has been ap- pointed commissioner by the Quo- bec Government to investigate Montreal civic affairs. Conductor Harvey, who was in charge of the train that ran into the Windsor Station, Montreal, has been dismissed. The two-year-old daughter of A. Krienke was killed by a train while walking in her sleep at Suuthoy, Sask. William Smith, from Hamilton, was killed at Lethbridge by falling from the bridge being constructed by the C. P. 1t. THE WORLD'S WHETS. RI:FORTS I'I1011 Tui: I.1;.1DIN(. TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Produce at BREA DSTUFFS. Toronto, April 13.--- Flour -On- tario wheat, 90 per cent. yetents, $4.50 to $4.55 to -day in buyers' sacks outbide for export.. Mani- toba flour, first patents, 85.70 to $5.90 ou track, Toronto; second patents, $5.40 to $5.60, and strong teukors', $5 to $5.20. 1Vheat-No. 1 Northern. $1.26%, and No. 2 Northern, $1.23%, Geor- gian Bay ports. No. 1 Northern *1.33%, all rail. and No. 2 North- ern, $1.30', all rail. Oats -Ontario No. 2 white, 47% to 48e on track, Toronto, and 45%c outside. No. 2 Western Canada oats, 47%e, Collingwood, and No. 3, 46%e, Bay ports; No. 2 West- ern Canada, all rail, 51%c. Peas -No. 2 quoted at 95%c out- side. Corn -No. 2 American yellow. 74 to 74%e on track, Toronto, and No. 2 73 to 73%c on track, Toronto. Canadian corn, 71% to 72e on track, Toronto. Bran --Cars, $23.50 in bulk out- side. Shorts, $23.50 to $21 in bulk outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$4.50 to $5.50 for choice qualities,. and $3.50 to $4 for sec- onds. Beans -Prime, $1.60 to $2, and GENERAL. band -picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per Four rnen were shot down by bushel. carbineers in Calabria while taking Honey -Combs, *2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to tic per part in an anti -tux riot. France will collect a duty of $120 pound. on foreign balloons lauding on Hay -No. 1 timothy, $10.50 to French territory. $11. per ton on track here, and The violent speeches of labor lower grades $8 to $9 a ton. leaders in Paris have stirred up Straw -$7 to $8 on track. fears that a bloody insurrection is Potatoes -07% to 70c per bag on imminent. t rack. 'Inc'Czar of Russia is planning Poultry -Chickens, dressed, 15 to an extensive foreign tour for the lac per pound; fowl, 11 to 12c ; tur- summer, which may include Eng- kers, 20 to 22c per pound. land. A new naturalization law promul- THE DAIRY MARKETS. gated at Pekin makes it impossible Butter-Poundprints, 20 to for a Chinaman to adopt foreign 21c; citizenship. tubs and large rolls, 15 to 17c; in- ferior, 13 to 14c ; • creamery rolls, GREAT BRITAIN.• 25c, and solids, 20 to 21c. Eggs ---Case lots 18 to 19c per doz. The Earl of Carrick, who served Cheese -Large, 1.1 to 14%c per against the Fenians in Canada in pound, and twins, 14% to 14%e; 1870, is dead. now cheese, 13'/,c. UNITED STATES. Six hundred saloons and ten breweries will be forced out of busi- ness in Michigan's nineteen "dry" counties. A proposal to place barley on the free list was voted down in the Ilouse of representatives at %Vash- ington. it will conte up again. By a majority of nix the House of Representatives at Washington de- cided to retain the dollar a thous- and duty on rough lumber. 1. { Il tail(' 1 N SETTLERS. Montreal, April 13. -Peas -No. 2. $1.03 to $1.04. Oats -Canadian 11INI Into the Wet 'Thin Year will 1Vcstorn, No. 2, 51 to 51; r; extra, Break all Records. No. 1 feed, 5034 to 51c; No. 1 feed, 50 to 60%e; Ontario No. 2, 50 to A despatch 1ro,u Ottawa says: 50%e; Ontario No. 3, 49 to 49%,c; Reports received by the lnunsgia- Ontario No. 4. 48 to 48%e. Barley lien Department. from agents in the -- No. 2, (Ili to 67c. Feed -f,9/ to United States indicate that the Gee. Buckwheat -09% to 70e. Four rush of American settlers to the -Manitoba Spring wheat patents, Canadian west this year will break firsts, 85.80 to $0; Manitoba Spring all records. On Thursday. Superin- wheat patents, seconds. *5.:30 to tendent of innnigrati„n Scottre- $5.50; Manitoba strung bakers', ceived a telegram from W. J.: 85.10 t.e $5.30; Winter wheat pat - White, Inspector of United States ents, $5.50 to $5.05; straight roll- ageneies, from Spokane, Washing-: ers, 85.10 to $5.25; straight r••llers ton, etating that the flood of . ill bags. 82.54) t„ 82.55; extra, in Anu rican laud -seekers from the Lege, $2 in tee 82.20. feed -- Mani - Pacific States to Alberta nand Nae• • lobe bran. :$22 to $23; Manitoba katehew•an is beyond all expecte• 1 shorts, 821 t„ $25; Ontario bran, Lions. The office at Spokane is' $23 to 824 ; Ontario shorts. $24.50 crowded with home -seekers and to $25; Ontario middlings, $26 to their families anxious to take up *25.50; purr* grain 'nonlife, $33 to land in Canada. For the first three • 835; mixed niouille, 8.23 to $30. months of this year 1,300 left Spo- ('heese-12'4 to 13e. Butter -20% kine, an increase of 50 per cent. to 21e and fresh rer•eipte at 10e. ever the corresponding period of Eggs-- t•e 21e per dozen. last year. The increase in carloads: gg of settlers' effects is over 100 pert 1.1{'1; STOCK MARKETS. cent. Montreal. .April 13 Prime LOST IN THE V.00DS. beeves sold at 5'..; to a little Durr r.c per pound; pretty good animals Cardinal and King. Garen 1'p Lae! at 1!; to 5%c; common stock. :3 to Winter, Is be Alive. If per pound. Milch cows soldd at $25 to 855 each. ('elves nod 111 .1 despatch from Fort William $2.50 to 825 each, or 3 to 0''c per says: There seems to be a strong )round. Sheep sold at about 61/4e; probability that Cardinal and King, , Iambs at Wee to 7e per pound. Good the shantymen who were given an lots of fat hogs sold at from 7',c as lust during the winter, are still to near 8o per pound. alive. They lost their way coming from Smith's camp, but now the +---- report conies in that eince they dis PILL TO EN'1 I:R WINNIPEG. appeared two rnen answering their _ loseription applied to it house out Great Northern Will be There by there for a meal. saying they bad been lost in the hush for a time. September. Ile gay+. but were making their way to an .1 <le.pateh (rem Winnipeg se: s other camp. . The (treat. Northern ltallwat filed ¢ I plan•, for its entry int() this city. GCFLl'll'8 NEW S1'.1Tit)e. and President Hill on Thursday made a positive declaration that Railway ('ommiwslon Order+ Grand his road would run into Winn;pest *rusk to Rudd One. , by September 1 next. This is one of the most iinpertant comn►errial .1 despat:h from Ottawa sacs: incidents that could well be imeg The i(ailwway ('otnmission on 'I'hurs- ined, if the new line tffeerds r„mpe- day morning issued an order that titian. which now is lacking under the G. T R e•citstruet a stition the joint freight erranv'tnt. ►ee. at Guelph and hear the entire cost Many big firms will save thousand: ••f the building. The application of dollars. presided the Great viae made by 1''r' city of (1H040. Northern will give through reste• the pre est •:at• en facilities being fleet the e3.1 en the same b:l-is e, :oath gr,:;s. now prevails to St. l'aul. HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon --Long clear, 12 to 1214 per pound in case lots; Mess pork, $20.50 to $21; short cut, $23 to $24. Hams -Light to medium, 14 to 141,4e; do., heavy, 13 to 13%c; rolls, 11 to 11yc ; shoulders, 10%e; backs, 10% to 17c ; breakfast bacon, 15% to lac. Lard -Tierces, 13c; tubs, 13%c; pails, 133%e. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. UNITE TO REPEL ATTACK British and Germans Fight Shoulder to Shoulder in Northern Nigeria. A despatch from London says: Remarkuble details of the on- slaught of a thousand cannibal natives upon the Anglo -German Boundary Commission in unexplor- ed country in Northern Nigeria have reached London. A feature cf the action was that British and German troops fought together to repel the native attack. At 5 o'clock on Christmas Day the combined Anglo -German force marched out from Sonkwalla, an unmapped place on the frontier, and subsequently divided into two columns, the German commissioner, Lieut. von Stephani (Rent:r's Agency states) being in command of one, and Capt.. Heathcote of the other. Both forces soon became lost in the dense undergrowth and high elephant grass. The British heard the enemy hooting and calling in the distance. They encountered the greatest difficulty, the track be- ing completely {hocked with trees, while the natives bad also slug pits sometimes as much as a hundred yards long, and plentifully be- stt'ewn the route with dangerous spikes, which pierced the soldiers feet. Eventually the column came to open ground, by which time two of the soldiers had been spiked through the feet. The enemy at once opened fire, but were repulsed. The column then marched to an el- evated position. The enemy now offered a splendid target for the Maxim, but the gun jammed, and was out of action fur some tiuno. At this moment the rattling of the Germans' Maxim could be heard ou the other side of the hills. ('apt. Heathcote having burned some houses to indicate his where- abouts to the German column, de- scended to the enemy iu the open. There a brisk running fight was maintained, and the enemy were finally driven off. Meantime a third force, under Lieut. Homan, which had ben despatched imus Sonkw•alla, became engaged. News of the German column was only received on Inc return to camp. Lieut. von Stephani report- ed that at noon a very large force surrounded the German column in the bush and op Beed a heavy at- tack, in which Lieut. von Stephan! was wounded in two places, one of his non-commissioned officers being also hit on the wrist, and two men being killed. For over an hour the column was desperately engaged. A second German non-commission- ed officer was shotthrough the sleeve while serving his Maxim. As the column retired, the natives made many attempts to rush it. Although dangerously wounded, Lieut. von Stephani brought the column nut of action with great gallantry, being assisted by ('apt. Moore, R.E., who was attached to the force. NATIONS ARE STRIVING an iii; obare ,ykg urw`n four merle, and providing means to begin another four, presumably on April,. BRITAIN iN THE LEAD iN 1910 (to bo completed in 1912), mak- DIlE.1,DN00011'1' 111.`ILDiNG. ing twenty Dreadnoughts to op- pose the seventeen of the Germans. Meanwhile it will be possible, and may be necessary, to lay down Ito Reason for Pattie, Says John other ships in 1910-11, completing Leyland in the London them also in 1912. Thantis, there- fore, good reason to trust the ('hrouicle• Goverui ent and the Admiralty to do what is right in the matter. There is the less reason to give way to panic and excitement, be- cause we have also the Lord Nelson and Agamemnon, which can well lie in the line with the i)read- no►ghts, and an overwhelming superiority in pre-Dreadnough$ ships. John Leyland, writing in tho London Chronicle, says: There appears to have befit R gond deal of loose talking and writing on the subject of British and German shipbuilding and the promise of the future. No cause for a panic or immediate alarm exists, but there is every reason for vigilance and zealous prepara- tion, as 1 shall endeavor to show. We are not without some grounds of certainty as to. what Germany is doing. That the Dreadnoughts Nassau and Westfalen will be com- pleted in they autumn of the pre- sent year has been announced. The former, through some mischance, sank in the basin at 1Vilnelmshaven and mets to the number of 8,000 have been working night and day on that ship and as sister vessel to slake good the delay. and there can be no doubt. that both the Nassau and Westfalen will he ready at the appointed time. The Rheinland and Posen, which were begun three months later-- i.e. in the summer of 1907 - will be ready at about the same time or n few• weeks later. They are being built nt the Vulkan yard. Stettin, and the Germania (Krupp) yard. Kiel. which are out- pacing the Government dockyards. Titus we Have four Ureannoughts. '1'11' ENT 'I'O SEVENTEEN . There are three others building at ,Villichnshaven ; the Howland yard, Kiel (which has sprung into new importance in association with Krupp); and the 11'eser yard, Bre- men ; and these, begun in the surn- nie•r of Inst year, will he completed before the end of 1910 or early in 1911. So much. then, is certain Allthese stand apart from the with regard to seven German fh►ce ushers he- great State dockyard, at Kiel and long to the year 1009. and there hay at 11 ilhrlm(lsen, which at last is now beet: fat in erish actin t in accelerat eonti being dewveloped into the ne- ing prrparaationy lor thein. ce) largest shipyard in the orld. 'I'huy we artitr at thirteen Ger- mail is for the foreign ORice and the man Ihendneughts, being prr,. Admiralty to say with what object semahly those referred to by Ad- this prodigious expansion „f tak- miralGer- man ton Tirpitr.. But these ships man shipbuilding resources is aro independent of the German In. ing place. We find no parallel to doreitables, F. (., 11 and 1, which it in this country. where the palma also batons to the Drcadnelugl,t in shipbuilding after the launch of category, h will tie ready in t he the Dreadnought had a depressing eat of next t e or possibly the effect upon the private yards. In er earli: G a few months later ; and this cennrctinn some account of the H and 1, which belong to the y ars great Krupp establishment.+. a hide, 11i09 and 1910, before (he end of building warships, make all the I102. In this ony vie arrive at the, Runs, gun mountings and armor- srtenteen Dreadnought's indicatedplating for the whole nary, will il- by fir. reand 11 r. McKennalu�trate the cnndifi�n of affairs as to be completed in the last earn- with which wr Art• ceanfront., cd seer Barlow s estimate 1'nouiKh has brrn •aid t., .haw of t w 1.111,one ships is based on the how t,erionn is the effort being hyper hesis that four additional made by Germany to excel in the ships will be laid down in 1011, and rase for nasel aunremacy There is eo i will he so arcelrrated that they mmediate ,Innger, lout we aIle will he ready in 1912. The shall have to make uu ••ur minis point to be kept in tires is . to hrnr brasier burdens in the that if the German programs. fnfure. should be acerlerited in this ony.' w e can expedite x.111• 04511 to keep parr with it. It is obciouat '.1 I SLEEPLESSNESS vital importance ei keep the lead, ' New l'e'ts -' My .erm.,n le 4120 for othereise national Reit imprr• o ae hit 4.11V preper•'d, hat 1 was ial safety will be limier) into an ! a'0<) 4„ rate fila\ nee, of t coo. rrn hni..nee• HIV eat ,n we•tt lit Aces " N'.. lia%e eight 1)readnenglt s „ t'. c res'.! Yon "No ; the Ge!pertr.'iel building, and four 1.►-' uta. AKf t! to day." BENEFITS OF s'ONTINU ITY. The great advantage that the Germans possess is the continuity and certainty of the naval policy that results from the measured ex- pansion of the fleet, which begun with the Nays• Law of 1898. was doubled by that of b.1)0, and was expanded and accelerated by the amendments of 1903 and 1903. TNet consequence of this definite and ordered developments of the Ger- man 111avy has been an enormous increase in the shipbuilding re- sources of the country. The Germania yard nt Kiel has grown enormously ; the Howl+u►d yard has begun to build the largest ships in aseociat' with it ; the Vulkan yard at Stettin, which has slips for the building of four large ships nt the snme time, is opening a new establishment on the Elbe, for which a large drydoek is corn - ;Acting; Blenm and Voss, at Ham- burg, are building the big cruiser- hatt leships ; the Weser yard at Bre- men has largely increased its ac- commodation within the last two year'.. so that it ten have on the Mocks four large shipe at the Raine time. and Schiclinu has opened an establishment at hansig for the target work, in addition to his destroyer yard at laking. (U'.R NIAN EXI'.1NNION