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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-04-15, Page 7AN A@IICADLE AGREEMENT The C. P. R. and Mechanical Unions Settle Their Difficulties. 4d^3pateli from Winnipeg says: Ti... questiuu at issue between the C. P. it. and the Federated Mech- anical C•tions of the company, which have been a subject of con- ference, hase been amicably set- tled and a schedule and working agreement eminently satisfactory will be the result. A matter of prime importance to the older men especially is their reinstatement to the pension roll, froin which they were removed after the 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 nut yet been taken back, shall be at once re-engaged if they desire. A number of men at Medicine Hat and several Western points will be benefited by this. As a result of the conference and tho conciliatory spirit in which both sides approached the consideration, it is expected that a long period of harmonious relations has been in- augurated. Tho schedules and ag- reements have not 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 matters of detail remain to bo settled. The company has bean success- ful in its contention for separate and distinct schedules for the East- ern and Western lines, but the actual composition of the schedule committee to conduct the Eastern negotiations has not yet been de- finitely settled. The Western lines desire representation thereon, but it is not likely that this will be agreed to. A joint committee to meet in 'Winnipeg and Montreal, however, 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 11Y MAIL FROM IRE- LAND'E SIIORF:S. 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 Sligo Cathedral in aid of Castlebar Gas Works for the sum of $12,000. Four 1>ike, weighing respectively 27, 13, 9 and 4 pounds, were recent- ly caught in the Barrow, near Car- low. Miss Isabel Smith, Drumcroon, Co!c+S•aine, has ben appinted in- structress in domestic economy for North Derry. Dr. George Ellis, said to be the oldelt Irish surgeon, died at his residence in Dublin, at the age of MONEY LOST IN WRECK. Package Containing One to Three Thousand Dollars Missing. A despatch from Brandon, Man., says: Several weeks ago the C. P. R. express was wrecked between Elva and Pierson, on the Estevan branch of the C. P. R., and the Four men were shot down by predicted a deficit of £500,000 in baggage and mail cars were smash- carbineors in Calabria while taking' ed badly. After the wreckage was part in an anti -tax riot. the budget and the irnpossibilty of cleared away the mail matter was France will collect a duty of $1201 Paying old age Pensions without transferred, and between that time on foreign balloons landing ou borrowing. Mr. Fisher, the Pre- and the arrival of the train at Na- French territory. I mier has declined to call the Ferier- pinka a package of money, contain- The violent speeches of labor ; al Parliament at an early date to ing between one and three thou- leaders in Paris have stirred up' dicuss the question of the offer of sand dollars, consigned from a bank fears that a bloody insurrection is a Dreadnought by tho C'omiuon- in Oxbow to the head office in Win- imminent. wealth. nipog, disappeared. When tho bag The Czar of Russia is planning; - 4• was taken off at Napinka it was an extensive foreign tour for the A DESTROYER 9l'\fi. found that the registered sack had summer, which may include Eng- -- a holo in it, but it is impossible land. Collided 11'ith St earner Off the to say whether it was cut during A new naturalization law promul- Coes( of Kent. the wreck or afterwards. The ex- gated at Pekin makes it impossible A despatch from London says: press company officials and the for a Chinaman to adopt foreign The British torpedo-boat dcstroy- postoffice inspector are conducting citizenship. er Blackwater was sunk at mid- is- rigid inquiry, but so far have night on \1•ednesday night otf Dun - found no trace of -it. GREAT BRITAIN. genees as a result of a collision The Earl of Carrick, who served i with the British steamer Hero. The against the Fenians in Canada in crew ut tttc Blackwater was saved. Italign Committed SuicideConld 1870, is dead. The Hero had her bows stove in. - Not Get Work. — The Blackwater had a displacement UNITED STATES. of 550 tons and was 225 feet long. Six hundred saloons and ten She had a complement of 70 men breweries will be forced out of busi-was capaote of steaming 25 ness in Michigan's nineteen "dry" knut.i all hour. counties.AN AERIAL CRUISE% A proposal to place barley on the ----- free __free list was voted down in the french Cloister of War Oilers House of representatives at Wash- ington. It will come up again. Prize for Best Design. sor. Detectives hurried to rho B oris of six the House of house and found the body of An Y a ma 1 ) A despatch fruui Paris says : Gen- toni Lalli, a lady about 10 years of Representatives at Washington de- I icquart, el iitister of War, has of- pails, 13',;e. ago, lying across a Fed, with a cided to retain the dollar a thous- fered a prize of $1,000 for the best -- _ double-barreled shotgun beside hits and duty on rough lumber. design of an aerial cruiser. The d 1 ) heart. One •z• condition provides for a steerable BUSINESS .1T MONTREAL. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TUE GLOBE. The ownership of a lust dog was established in a remarkable man- _ ner by the police of Frankfort, Tele ra bio Briefs From Our Otya Germany, recently, the dug hav- p ing recognized its master's voice and Other Countries of over the telephone. Recent Events. Courad Maier, a grocer, living in A suburban town, informed the po- CANADA. lice that his pet terrier, "Ami,'' Peterboro' will vote on local op had been stolen. The police tele phoned Maier that a dug answer - tion next January. Seeding is in progress over a tug Amis" description had been largo portion of the west. found in the possession of a suspi- The auction sale of Prince Rupert cions looking stranger, who claim lots will begin at Vancouver on ed that he had ov,ued the animal May 25th. for a long time. Tho Grand Trunk Pacific has let The telephone receiver was then contracts for a lot of new engines placed to the dog's ear, and Maier and steel rails. was instructed to talk to the ani- mal in familiar language. The dog reported on Campbell River, Van immediately gave every sign of re- cuuver Island. cognition, and barked with joy. A general advance in lumber is The Pseudo -owner was so terri- announced in W'innipeg, in connec- fied by the animal's sagacity that tion with an active building sea- he immediately confessed that he son. had stolen the dog. Mr. Justice Cannon has been ap- pointed commissioner by tho Que- NO PRICE TOO GREAT. bee Government to investigate Montreal civic affairs. To Pay for Australia's Defence, Conductor Harvey, who was in Says Mr. Deakin. charge of the train that ran into A despatch from Sydney says: the Windsor Station, Montreal, has West Australia will join Victoria been dismissed. and New South \Vales in offering a The two-year-old daughter of A. Krienke was killed by a train while Dreadnought to Britain. Speaking walking in For sloop at Southey, at a large meeting on Thursdpy, Mr. Deakin said that, having re- Sask.1Villiam Smith, from Hamilton, gard to Australia's isolation, no was killed at Lethbridge by falling Price was too great to pay for de froin the bridge being constructed fence. They should stand up be - by the C. P. R. side New Zealand. (Prolonged cheering.) The Commonwealth GENERAL. must pay its share to prove the unity of the empire. Mr. Deakin HE 'PHONED THE DOG. How a German Grocer Established Ownership. 10e years. PULLED TRIGGER WITH TOE. A bog slide occurred near Keady, County Armagh, at a cutting of the rmagh, Keady and Castleblaney n w railway. In the last, 50 years while the A despatch from Montreal says: population of Scotland has increas- Another tragedy in the Italian col - e4 by two millions, that of Ireland onY was revealed on Thursday has diminished by the same sups- morning when the detective office Ler. was notified that there had been a Messrs. Patrick O'Connor and shooting affray on Bisson street, a 'Terence Leonard have been re-elect.- side street running north from 8t. ed chairman and vice-chairman re- Antoine street, just west of \Vind- spectivcly, of Granard Rural Coun- cil. "-• The collection initiated by the Most Rev. Dr. McHugh in the Derry Diocese on behalf of the sufferers of the Italian earthquake has amounted $1,093. Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan has pre- sented over 50 volumes of high- class literature to the library of tin' Catholic Young Men's Society of Waterford On the way to a funeral at Lough Egish, the hearse toppled over and the driver, John Car- ragher, was pinned underneath and seriously injured. 1)r. Isaac Clarke, Medical Of- feer of Ruucknnlowor Dispensary Dist' ict, in Belmullet Union, has resigned to take up an important eppointntent in \Vestneath. Mayo County Council has con- firmed its guarantee in favor of the • B,'1mullet ('olloonev Railway pro- jr.t in connection with the pro- posed new :Ill -Red Route. '1 he first farmers' bacon curing factory in the United Kingdom, started a little over a year ago at I(uscrea, County Tipperary, is proving a susses. A fire which destroyed a portion of the Hellen mills, County Kil- dare, occurred recently. The por- tion destroyed was operated by Mr. Ilejarty in the manufacture of food -stuffs of various kinds. Personal estate valued at $1,- ft55,,cxm, wa.s left, by Nicholas Murphy, of Carrigmore, Cork, ehairman of the Cork Distilleries Company. He bequeathed $1,000 for charitable. purposes. nmare Rural Council have citrithe Ie to erectionaof latsingle r's cot- s under the new scheme at a price of $950, although cottages were built last lime for $450. A despatch frons Denver, Col., Toni Mannion, well-known in says : Prohibition won in most Ferinnnagh, and nearly 100 years places in the municipal elections old, was found lying almost dead in held in Colorado. Colorado a workhouse in innishinore. He Springs went dry by 2,000 majority. died in the ambulance on its way That city has never had a saloon, to the workhouse. but the election will prevent drug The Lord Chief Justice of Ireland stores from selling liquor in the was able to congratulate the grand future. Le Junta. Canon ('ity and jury at \Wicklow• Assizes. March 1st, Castle hock all voted against the that there was no cases to go he- saloons, while ('ripple ('reek and fore them. and was presented with Colorado City remain wet. th.' customary white gloves. :\ despatch from Milwaukee. Wis., There has been a second victim says: Mnnicil�al eleetione were held of the disastrous bnggslide at Kil- in a large number of cities thronsth- mere, ('o. Galway -Mrs. Catherine out 1Visconsin on Tuesday, the Brammelly, who rushed from her question of -lirenee" or "no lie - house in her night attire, on the ense" beeig nn irtue. License fatal morning when the bog rash• carried in a majority of the cities ed down the valley. and town ► heard froin TIIE WOILD'S MARHHE TS REPORTS FROM TILE LEADING TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Calle, Grain, Cheese and Other Dairy Praduco at BREADSTUFF$. Toronto, April 13. -Flour -On- tario wheat, 90 per cent. patents, *4.50 to $4.55 to -day in buyers' sacks outside fur export. Mani - tuba flour, first patents, $5.70 to $5.90 op track, Toronto; second patents, $5.40 to $5.00, and strung bakers', $5 1) $5.20. Wheat -No. 1 Northern. $1.26/, and No. 2 Northern, $1.23%, Geor- gian Bay ports. No. 1 Nurthern $1.334, all rail, and No. 2 North- ern, $1.30%, all rail. Oats --Ontario No. 2 white, 47% to 48c on track, Toronto, and 453zc outside. No. 2 Western Canada oats, 47;�c, Collingwood, and No. 3, 46�1e, Bay ports; No. 2 West- ern Canada, all rail, 51 2c. Peas --No. 2 quoted at 95%c out- side Corn --No. 2 American yellow, 74 to 74'4c on track, Toronto, and No. 2 73 to 73%c on truck, Toronto. Canadian corn, 71% to 72c on track, 'Toronto. Bran -Cars, $23.50 in bulk out- side. Shorts, $23.50 to $24 in bulk outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples -$4.50 to $5.50 for choice qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for sec - Beans --Prime, $1.00 to $2, and hand-picked, $2.10 to $2.15 per bushel. Honey -Combs, $2 to $2.75 per dozen, and strained, 10 to llc per pound. Hay -No. 1 timothy, $10.50 to $11 per ton on track here, and lower grades 88 to $9 a ton. Straw -$7 to $8 on track. Potatoes -07% to 70c per bag on track. I'oultry-Chickens, dressed, 15 to 16c per pound ; fowl, 11 to 12c ; tur- keys, 20 to 22c per pound. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -Pound prints, 20 to 21c; tubs and largo rolls, 15 to 17c; in- ferior, 13 to 14c; creamery rolls, 25c, and solids, 20 to 21c. John Leyland, writing in the Eggs -Case lots 18 to 190 per doz. London Chronicle, says: Cheese --Largo, 14 to 14%c per There appears to have beer n. pound, and twins, 14% to 14%c; good deal of loose talking and now cheese 13'/c. writing on the subject of British ' ' and German shipbuilding and tho HOG PRODUCTS. promise of the future. No cause for a panic or immediate alarm Bacon --Long clear, 12 to 12'Ao exists, but there is every reason per pound in case lots; iness pork, for vigilance and zealous prepare - $20.50 to $21; short cut, $23 to $24. tion, as I shall endeavor to show. hams --Light to medium, 14 to \\ a are not without some grounds 143;;P ; do., heavy, 13 to 132c ; rolls, of certainty as to what Germany is 11 to 11%c; shoulders, 10>c; backs, doing. That the Dreadnoughts 10% to 17c; breakfast bacon, 15% Nassau and Westfalen will be com- to lee. pleted in the autumn of the pro - Lard --Tierces, 13c; tubs, 13%c; sent year has been announced. The former, through some mischance, sank in the basin at Wiinelmshaven and men to the number of 8,000 and a wound over his to? have been working night and day barrel had been discharged, and AMERICAN SETTLERS. ship, which must be able to main- Montreal, April 13. -Pons. on that ship and a sister vessel to there were narks on the wall as -- tats a speed of at least 31 miles an 2. $1.03 to $1.04. Oats -Canadian make good the delay, and there can though the shot had gono through Rush Into the 1Weat This Year will i+..ur for 15 hours, with six pas- Western, No. 2, 51 to 5134c; extra, be no doubt that both the Nassau the body. The Foy had been unable Break all Records, sengers. Its total volume is not to . No. 1 feed, 50!; to 51c; No. 1 feed, and Westfalen will be ready at the to get work since last fall, and it exceed 0,500 cubic meters, its to. 50 to 5034c; Ontario No. 2, 50 to appointed time. The Rheinland is supposed he became despondent A despatch from Ott:wa says: tal length GO meters, height 20 b0, lc; Ontario No. 3f 49 to 49/c; and Posen, which were begun three and shot himself by pulling the trig- Reports received by the Immigra- metres and diameter through the Ontario No. 4, 48 to 4A/c. Barley months later-i.e., in the Bummer of thegun with his foot, from lion Department from agents in the centre 20 metres. --No. 2, 66 to 67c. Feed -59/ to of 1907 -will be reaif at about the ger'United States indicate that the. _ GOe. Buckwheat, --69% to 70c. Floury which tho boot had been taken. rush of American settlers to the' �� -Manitoba Spring shoat patents, same time or a few weeks later. 4. Canadian west this year will break 13h1i\F,1) I� ill`) SII'1t h. •• firsts, $5.S0 to $ri; Manitoba Spring Taid,are being andbuilt at the Vulkanmnna COAL IN EASTERN ONTARIO. all records. On Thursday Superin C. J. Morris I'otlnd Dead Near wheat patents, seconds, 85.30 to (Krupp) yard, Kiel, nd which are out tendont of Immigration Scott re- $e.50; Manitoba strong bakers', Ridge Runs Through Township oft coved a telegram from \V. J. Milestone, Sask. 85.10 to $5.30; Winter wheat pat- pacing the Government dockyards. Emily --Said to Carry Coal. White, Inspector of United States A despatch from Milestone, Sask., ents, $5.50 to $5.65; straight roll- Thus we nave four Drenanot;ghts. A despatch from Omemeo says: agencies, from Spokane, Washing- says: The shack of C. J. Morris on ers, $5.10 to $5.25; straight rollers ton, stating that the flood of his claim, fifteen milds south was in bags, $2.50 to $2.55: extra, in TWENTY TO SEVENTEEN. Coal has been found on the farm g" of Mr. George J. Winn, 8th conces-lmerican land seekers Pram the burned on Monday night, and Mor- baste, $2.10 to $2.20. Feed --Mani- siun of Emily township, and as a Pacific States to Alberta and Sas- ris perished in the flames. Tho toha bran, $22 to $23; Manitoba There are three others building katchowan is beyond all expects- tragedy was discovered bythe shorts, $23 t•+ $2:,: Ontario Fran, at Wilhelmshaven; the Howland result there is considerable excite tions. The office at Spokane is neighbors next morning. $23 to $24; Ontario shorts, ,ez ..4.50 yard, Kiel (which has sprung into crowded with hums seekers and g g to $25; Ontario middlings, $25 to new importance ing association with their families anxious to take up `—�9• $25.30; pure groin mouille, $33 to Krupp); and the Vee,cr yard, Bre lend in Canada. For the first three KING .11.F0 N'iO S AUTO. '10. $35; :nixed nuuille, $2`i to $30. men ; and these, begun in the sum - months of this year 1,360 loft 6po Th - Cheese ---I2'; to I••^•c. Butter -20!4 finer of last year, will be completed kane, an increase of 50 per cent. (,°lii'1''d 11'ilh That of Ilii Queen tc 21c and fresh receipts at 19c. before the end of 1910 or early in GERMAN EXPANSION. over the corresponding period of - No One Injured. Eggs --20 to 21c per dozen. 1911. So much, thou, is certain All these stand apart from the last year. Tho increase in carloads s with regard to seven German rent State dockyards at Kiel ane :1 despatch f rmu, Madrid says : --- g of settlors' effects is over 100 per King Alfonso and Queen Victoria LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Dreadnoughts. Three others be- at Wilhelmshaven, which at last is cent. recently had n narrow cecape from long to the year 1909, and there has now being developed into the sa- '' injury. '1 h' King was leasing the Montreal, April 13. - Primo been feverish activity in accelerat cont largest shipyard in the world. palace cnurt)ard mei the Queen beeves sold at 5,4 to a litho over ing preparations for them. 1,0ST IN THE WOOD`. was entering in their automobiles,ec 11C1 pound ; pretty good animals Thus we arrive at thirteen Ger- It is for the foreign Office and rho lAdmiralty to say with what object Cardinal and Icing. Giron 1'p Last when the machines came into colat 4jc to 5%c; common stock, 3 to man Dreadnoughts, being pre• lisio in the narrow passage. Both per pound. Mitchces iCOWS sold at sumably those referred to by Ad this Prodigious expansion of Ger- ---- mon shipbuilding resours tak- 1l inter, May be Alive. automobiles were badly damaged, $25 to $55 each. Calves sold at miral %on Tirpitz. But these ships ing place. We find no ces lel to A despatch from Fort William but their Majesties wore nut hurt. E2.50 to $25 earl'. nr 3 to 61/,c Iper aro independent of the German In' it in this country, where the pause says: There ,'eema to be n strong pound. Sheep sold at about 5„c; domitables, I•'. G, II and I, which in shipbuilding after the launch of probability that Cardinal slid King, larch.: at 634 to 7c per pound. Good also belong to tele Ihcadncjugiit the Dreadnought had a depressing tho shantymen who were given up $CIE\'('F: OF' ROADS. lots +,f fat hogs sold at from 7%c category. F will tic ready in the effect upon the private yards. in COLORADO GOiNG DRY. as lost during the winter, aro still to near Re per pound. autumn of next year, or possihl) this connection come rucnunt of the alive. They lost their way coming :1t the recent Road Conference, earlier; 0 a few months later; and grist Krupp estahlisliments, which, Many Municipalities Carried a I'ro• from Smith's camp, but now the in Paris, it was decided that the -”" 11 and I, which belong to the y ars building warships, make all rho ••• - report comes in that since they dis• Proper spreading of tar on ma enne HILL 'f0 ENTER WINNIPEG. 1£09 and 1910, before the end of guns, gun -mountings and armor - appeared two men answering their mrzed roads is an effective rnenna _- 1912. In this way we arrive at the, plating for the whsle navy, will 11 - description applied to a house out of preventing dust. The method ie,venteen Dreadnoughts indicated iustrate the conditi►n of affairs there for a meal, saying they had is largely used in France. Ahunt Great Northern Will he There by by Mr. Asqu'th and Mr. McKenna with which we are confronted. been lost in the bush for a time, one-third of a gallon of tar is used September. He Says. as to be completed in the last nam- but were making their way to an- _ -1. n for each square yard of surface.edyear. Mr. Beifour's estimate Enough has been said to show g ) q A Flo,'patch from Winnipeg t=oys: how ,'erinue is the effort being other camp. The roads last lcinger, and the east. rho Great Northern Railway tiled of twenty-one ships is based on the mode by Germany to excel in tho _ t, of maintenanee is reduced. In the plans for its entry into this city, hypothesis that four additional race for naval supremacy. There GUELPH'S NEW STATION. United States nil is employed to a and President ]fill on Thursday ships will be laid down in 1911, and is no immediate danger, but we considerable extent to prevent dust tnade a positive declaration that will be so accelerated that they shall have to make up our minds Railway ('olnlnlsslon Order. Grand and preserve the surface of r,.ada• his road would rt,u into Winnipeg also will he ready in 1912. Tho to hear Feaster burdens in the The oil is spread from carts, dur- by Sep:ember 1 next. This is one point to be kept in view is future. Trunk to BuildOne. ing the mn'.cing of the mail, to the of the most important commercial that if the German programe A deepatch fi in Oita•.va says: amount r.f one or twn gallons per incidents that could well be iinag should be accelerated in this way, The Railway (' nunisaion on Tours- sgnere yard. The f reneh read ined, if the new line affords compe- we can expedite our own to keep day morning issued an order thatengineers recommend the planting tition, which now is lacking under pace with it. It is obviously of the G. T. ii construct a station of tree,' along roadeides ns a means the joint freight arrangements. vital importance to keep the lend, at (t►ielph and hear the entire costof preventing dust. in France all Many big firms will save thousands for otherwise national and imper cf Ila' building. The application romis notless than 33 feet wide• •.1 dollars, provided the (treat ial safety will be throxn into an ens made by the city of Guelph, me required to have a single line Northern will give through rates even balance. the Present station facilities being of trees on eaeh side. at distnn•res filen the east on the same basis as We have eight Dreadnought.% inadegnata. apart varying from iR t•, 32 ft et. now prevails to St. Paul. I built and building, and four InAL Al A - UNITE TO REPEb ATTACK British and Germans Fight Shoulder to Shoulder in Northern Nigeria. A despatch from London says: offered a splendid target for the Remareablo details of the on- Maxim, but the gun jammed, and ataught of a thousand cannibal was out of action for Some time. names upon the Anglo -German At this moment the rattling of the Boundary Commission in unexplor- Germans' Maxim could be heard ou ed country in Northern Nigeria the other side of the hills. have reached London. A feature Capt. Heathcote having burned of the action was that British and some houses to indicate his whero• German troops fought together to abouts to the German column, de - repel the native attack. scended to the enemy in the open. At 5 o'clock on Christmas I)ay There a brisk running fight was the combined Anglo -German force maintained, and the enemy sero marched out from Sonkwalla, an finally driven off. Meantime a unmapped place on the frontier, third force, under Lieut. Homan, and subsequently divided into two which had ben despatched from columns, the German commissioner, Sonkwalla, became engaged. Lieut. von Stephani (Reuter's News of the German column was Agency states) being in command only received on one return to of one, and Capt. Heathcote of camp. Lieut. von Stephani report - the other. cd that at noon a very large force Both forces soon became lost in surrounded the German column in the dense undergrowth and high the bush and ope,ted a heavy at - elephant grass. Tho British heard tack, in which Lieut. von Stephani the enemy hooting and calling in was wounded in two places, one of the distance. They encountered his non-commissioned officers being the greatest difficulty, the track be- also hit on the wrist, and two men ing completely blocked with trees, being killed. For over an hour the while the natives had also dug pits column was desperately engaged. sometimes as much as a hundred A second German non -commission - yards long, and plentifully be- ed officer was shot through the strewn the route with dangerous sleeve while serving his Maxim. As spikes, which pierced the soldiers the column retired, the natives foct. Eventually the column came made many attempts to rush it. to open ground, by which time two Although dangerously wounded, of the soldiers had been spiked Lieut. von Stephani brought the through the feet. The enemy at column out of action with great once opened fire, but were repulsed. gallantry, being assisted by Capt. The column then marched to an el- Moore, R.F.., who was attached to evated position. The enemy now the force. NATIONS ARE STRIVING BRITAIN IN TIIE LEAD IN DREADNOUGHT BUILDING. No Reason for Panic, Says John Leyland in the London Chronicle. mcnt in the cntnmunity. Mr. %Winn noticed strata of what looked like dark rock protruding froin tho earth on a path along a ridge of land running through his farm. The formation strongly resembled coal, and pieces of it, when placed on a fire, burned, leaving cinders similar to those produced by coal. The ridge in which the coal was found runs through the township of Emily to Mount Pleasant. A gentleman who visited this district last summer. anal who was interest- ed in the Pennsylvania coal mines, it said to have held the opinion that this ridge of hills was coal - bearing. domitables, making twelve in all,, and we are laying uown four more,. and providing moans to begin another four, presumably on April,, 1910 (to be completed in 1912), mak- ing twenty Dreadnoughts to op- pose the seventeen of the Germans. Meanwhile it will be possible, and may be necessary, to lay down other ships in 1910-11, completing them also in 1912. There is, there- fore, good reason to trust the Government 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 Dread- noughts, and an overwhelming superiority in pre -Dreadnought ships. BENEFITS OF CONTINUITY. 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 began with the Navy Law of 1898, was doubled by that of ib00, and was expanded and accelerated by the amendments of 1900 and 1908. Tho consequence of this definite and ordered developments of the Ger- man navy has been an enormous increase in the shipbuilding re- sources of the country. The Germania yard at Kiel has grown enormously; the Howland yard has begun to build the largest ships in association with it ; the Vulknn yard at Stettin, which has slips for the building of four largo ships at the salvo times is opening a new establishment on the Elbe, for which a large dryduck is com- pleting; Blohm and Voss. at Ham- burg, aro building the big cruiser - battleships ; the Weser yard at Bre- men has largely increased its ac- commodation within the last two years, so that it can have on the stock] four largo ships at the same time, and Schichau has opened an establishment at Danzig for tho largest work, in addition to his destroyer yard at EIbing. SLEEPLESSNESS. New Pastor- ' My sermon to day hastily prepared, but 1 was glad to note that none of the con- gregatnn went to alecpp." Hostis �ina11 tho flies was awful to day."