HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1912-8-1, Page 2AT BRITAIN PREPARING
• Destroyeio in 18 1V1onths, and 8 atrial' Cruisers
to ciertnany's 2
A des etch fle:44 tiOreaknne ear&
IA• the bate oz the 'neva esti-
mates the Howse of Coramone
en Wednesday Winston. Speneer
Churehill, the Fireb Lord of the Ad-
miralty, replyieg to the critiairen
that he had made inadequate -pro-
vision to meet the meettee he had
deseribed, said, "We are spending
4345,000,000 this year twi4 we fin‘e
Wing- tp.epend more next year. We
are raising the peracattel of the
nay to 141,150 by ron and to 10,-
000 in 1914. All regards ceestrue-
tion, Germany this year is laying
down, two new ba,ttleships and ,we
Jeer. Next year Germany is leering
down sine extra and we two. This
year Germany is laying down two
email eruisers ; we are laying down
eight. Germany in the course of the
next 18 months is Laying down 21
destroyers; we 43. There is no
cause for panic or alarm."
WHOLE WORLD PREPARING.
A despatch froxn Perla say a : That
the world is, not yet on the eve of
the •oessatiou of the struggle be-
tween Great Britain and Germany
for nava1 aucreelaey ie the preva-
lent opinion ie. Fiane after ssareful
study a the reeent speech be Wins-
ton Oharehill in the lieuee Oora-
mons, The ,eoutinuartee of the rivs
airy between these two eountries
eattses a Dote of regret herebut
there is an inclieation 1» be'lieve,
that if it must go on Prane should
len- a lesson frem Englend's Pro-
cedure and herself increase her
navy.
The Ma•tirt, commenting on the
aubject, •says it is in a positioe to
declare that Italy and Austria, at
the instigation of Germany, are
about to build additional super -
Dreadnoughts, in regard to which
nothing has been permitted to
transpire. , Italy is to construct six
of these vessels, each of‘20,000 tons
displacement, and capable of steam-
ing at a• speed. of 25 knot, while
Austria, is to build three each of
them displacing 2.8,000 t,C)ne. The
newspaper continues: "The fulfil-
ment of this, programme will de -
the present naval equilibrium
in the Mediterranean and give a big
advantage to the Triple Allianee.
PRICES OF FARM PRONICTS
REPORTS FROM THE LEannsin TRACE
" CENTRES OF aiVIERICA.
"flees ef Cattle, Crain, Cheese and Other
• lien/demo at Home and abroad. )
BREADSTUFFS,
Toronto, July 30. -Flour -Winter. 90 per
cent. patents. 84.15 to $4,20. at seaboard,
and at $4.2t) to 84.25 for home consuinta
tion. Manitoba flours (these camtations
are for lute bags. in cotton ba as 10e more)
-First patents, $5.70; seemed patents. $6.20.
and strong bakers', $5, on track, Toronto.
Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 Northern. $1.-
e2 1-2. Ray ports; No. 2 at 61.09. and No.
3 at $1.05 to $1 05 1-2. Bar ports.
Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white, red and
-mixed. quoted at $1.05, outside.
Oats -Car lots of No. 2 Ontario quoted
M 46 to 46o, and No. 3 at 44o, on traok,
Toronto, No. 1 extra We C. feed, 44 to
450. Bay Perth, aml No. i at 43 to 44e,
liay ports.
Earley -Nominal.
Corn -Igo. 3 American yellow, 750, on
track, Bay Ports, and at 80 to ino, To -
yenta.
• Rye -Nominal.
lenekwheat,-Nominal.
Bran -Manitoba bran. $24, in bags, To-
ront,o freight. Shorts, ISM-
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COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Dairy, choke, 23 to 26e; bakers',
inferior, 20 to 210; creamery, 27 to 28e for
toile, and. 86e for solids.
Eggs -Case lots. 25 to 25o a dozen.
Inheesee-New cheese, 141.40 for large and.
141-ao for twins.
Beans -Rana -picked. $5 per bus1,e1;
primes, $2.85 to 82.90.
Inoney-Extracted, in tins, /1 to 12c per
lb.
Poultry --Wholesale pricee of choice
dressed aoultryi-Chickens, 16 to 22o ver
fowl, 13 to 14o; ducklings, 16 to 17e.
Line poultry, about 2o lower than the
above..
• Potatoes -Car lots of Ontariose in bags,
$1.40, and Delawares at $1.60.
PROVISIONS.
Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -Rolls -
Smoked, 13e to 13 1-20; hams, medium,
71-2o to 18o; heavy, 161-2 to 17e; break.
!at bacon, 181-20; long clear bacon, tons
•and eases. 14e to 141-2c: backs ,(plain),
20o; back, neeamealn alen
Green Meats -Out of pickle, le. less than
lintoked.
Peak -Short out, $24.50 to ,$25 per bar-
rel; mess pork, $20 to $21.
Lard -Tierces, 13 3-4e; tubs. 14e; pails,
14 1-4e.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Jarly • 30. -Oats, Canadian
Western, N. 2, 45 to 431-20; Canadian.West-
ern, No. 3. 44e; extra No. I feed, 45e. Bar-
ley Man. feed, 63 to 64e; malting, $1.05
to $1.07. Bimkwheat, No. 2, 76 to 76e, Flour.
Kan. spring wheat patelits, firsts; $5.80i
seconds. $5.30; strong bakers', $5.10: 'Win-
ter patents choice, 85.40' to $5.50; straieht
rollers $4.95 to $5.00; straight rollers, bags.
$2.40 to $2.45. Rolled oats, barrels, $5 05;
bags, 90 lbs.. $2.40. Bran, $22.00. Shorts,
$26.00. Middlings, $27.00. Idonillie, $30 to
434.00- Hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $16.00
to 817.00: Cheese, finest westerns, 131-8
to 131-4c; fineet ea,sterns. 123-6 to 12 5-8e.
Itutter, choicest erearaery, 26 1-4 to 26 1-2e,
seconds, 251en to 26o. Vacs, selected, 251.2
to 26 1-2e; No. 2 etc:n.1, 16 to 160. Potatoes,
per bait car lots, $1.60.
L/VE STOCIC MARKETS.
Montreal, July M. -Choice cattle, $6.75 to
VA; good. $6.00 to $6.75; fair, sue to $6.-
00; butchers' bulls, $4.00; do., 00Vre, dhoice,
65.011 to $5.50; conainort, $4.00 to $4,60. Old
sheep, 4o per 'pound and lambs 7e per lb.
Hogs, $6.76 to $9.00. Calves, from 8240 to
$10.00
Toronto, July 30.-B-e1chers' cattle
brought from $7 to $?..25, while good stuff
grades from $7 down to $6.50. Medium
'staff brought from $5.60 to $6.50. Light
heifers brought $4.50 to $4.80, and Stock-
ers, weighing 750 lbs., brought, $5. Good
(tows were firmer. ;Ming as high as $5.50
and bulls were worth room some bring-
ing from $5.50 to $6.00. Common cows
were worth from S2 to 83.50. Lambs
brought from $8 to $8.25. Sheep brought
from *3.50 to $4.76, and good calves $7.60.
with some rommou It...rodeo at $5.35, Sege
IMM.41•03019•••P•111001•0100,10*.
brought from $8.10 to $8.15 f.o.b. The price
for fed and watered stook was 4820 to $20
40 per hundredweight.
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UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Jena M. -Wheat -Any, 81.-
031-4, September, 94 3-8 to 94 1-2a; •Deceien
ber, 95 1-4o. Closing eash-No. 1 Lard, $1,-
05; No. 1 nTorthern. $1,04 1-2; No. 2 North-
ern, $1.02 1-2. Corn -No. 3 yellow. 741.2 to
75o. Oats -'-No. 3 white, 46 1-2e. Eye -No,
2. 70o.
Duluth, july 30. -Wheat -No. 1. bend,
$1.063-8; No. I. Northern, $1.04 3-8i No. 2
do,. $1.023.8; July. $1.04 bid; neptember,
96e; December, 96 3-40 asked.
vorpora Mortimer,
of the Army Service Corp's, Ottawa,
who won four matches at Bisley
and made a world's record.
IL X. THAW STILL INSANE.
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Public Safety Demands That He
Remain in Asylum.
A despatch from White Plains,
N.Y., says : Harry K. Thaw, in the
eyes of the law, is still insane and
must remain in the asylum where
he was placed on. February 1, 1908,
after he killed Stanford White.
Justice Keogh of the Supreme
Court On Friday denied Thaw's ap-
plication for freedom. The Court
took the ground that Thaw's re-
lease would be detrimental -to pub -
lie safety,
BES SWARM IN SCARECROW.
Farmer Finds Trousers Legs Filled
With Honey..
A despatch' front Kingston, N.Y.,
says: When Ellis Osterhout,
Plattekill farmer, SSW bees swarm-
ing about an old scarecrow in his
e,orn -field on Tuesday he investi-
gated and found that a big colony
of bees had taken possession of the
figure. The trousers legs were filled
with honey. Oaterhoet left the
heels at work. He says he will not
hive them until later in the season,
when more honey has been stored.
SQUINT-EYED
MEN BARRED
Dominion Railway Board Issues Series of Rules on
• the Subject
•A despatch frem Ottawa says:
Men who squint (xi' are eross-eyed
can no longer heecnne engineers,
ilrenien, trainmen or brakeinee on
Canadian railways.
Following its recent judgment the
le:minion Railway Cominiaeion has
iasued a series of uniform rules
governing the deter/flirtation of
vieual aeuity, coloa pereeption mut
hearing of railway employees, and
anise% them is a clause banning the
quieting or °nee -eyed man, This
is not the telly defect barred. Ap-
plicants muse not be aecepted if
they use glasses for near vision,
though when the distant 'vision of
an employee ean be. improved by
pod glaases their u8Se is eneourag-
Colorablitalness is aleo barred;
and good hearing powers are strin-
gently insisted upon. Applicants
must be able to hear and repeat
names and numbers spoken in a,
conversational tone at a distance
of twenty foot.
• Employees must be re-examined
in all these particulars after any
illnese or accidett which might have
rafp,etod them, at Well se before
promotion,
UFT FAMITJES )10)1}114188.
CluUtpUrst Russ Great Pantos° In
Pennsylvania.
i& &natal fmn, oeueensyine,
Sari: Fifty families are tem-
porarily homeless), $100,000 darner
WriliS done, bniktings an,d bektges
were washed away, and railroad
•traffics wae aupended Thialear ae
a, result a a cloudburat on Wanes -
day afternoon. The lower streets
of the town were rivers, and stores
an,d resideneee were, eerroueded by
from four te fisee of water.
There was a reign of terror in the
town about, one o'clock in theater -
noon, when it was rumored three
dams about five miles above Dun-
• bar had bust, and a repetition oe
the Austin disaster wae feared oraf
tune.
AEROPLANE CARRIES GUN.
Twenty Rounds Fired at 400 Feet
In a Stiff Breeze.
A despatch frora London, Eng-
land, says : Experiments with a
• quiok-firing gun in an aeroplane
made by the Royal Flying Corps of
Fa.rnhoeaugh on Thursday proved
• entirely successful and are regard-
ed as another step in the advance
of the aeroplane and waterplane
as a means of land and sea defence.
The test with the qu'ek-firing gun
was made in a stiff breeze, Set a
height of 400 feet„ Some twenty
rounds of ammunition were fired at
imaginary objects on the plane
directly beneath the aeroplane.
The result ha,c1 little effect uponthe
machine.
PIERA rN RUINS.
The Earthquake Shock ,Lasted
Forty Seconds.
A despatch from Lima, Perna
says: A destructive ea-rthquake oe-
curred on Wednesday morning at
Piura, capital of the Department of
Piura, the most northerly of the Pa-
cific departments. The shock lasted
forty seconds, and the eity is said
to be almost in ruins. While ad-
vices from that district are meagre,
it is reported that a number of chil-
drenevere kiika and many persons
injured. Among the latter was Mr.
Bleeker, agent of 'the South Ameri-
can. Insurance Company. The dry
be.d of a river was torn open and
jets of water thrown out. Piurar, or
San Mire' de Piura., lies 120 miles
north-northwest •of La Lambayeque,
It ha,s a pepulation of 12,000.
$1,500,000 FOR A NEW HOTEL.
Montreal to Have One of the Finest
• on the Continent.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Negotiations are now under way
for a new hotel for Montreal, to
oecupy the site of the present High
School. The oonstruction of the
new hotel, which, it is claimed, will
be one of the finest on the conti-
nent, will cost in the neighborhood
of $1,500,000. According to reports
& local firm is arranging for a bond
flotation in connection with the new
hotel, whieh -will have• ample betak-
ing, including among the interested
parties the Grand Trunk Railway.
The land would cost about $1,800,-
006, making the total cost of the ho-
tel $3,300,000. -•
Vium.••••.ftw•HP.
TNFANT PARALYSIS.
Twenty-eight Cases Discovered at
Buffalo.
A despatch from Buffalo eays:
• Twenty-eight eases of infantile par-
alysis were discovered by officers of
the Health Department in a partial
canvass of the city on 'Wednesday,
and steps were at once taken to
combat what appears to be a seri-
ous outbreak of the disease. For-
eign families on the east side fur-
nishealathe bulk of the eases already
loeated, although -two children exit-
fering from the disease live in Days
Park, in the west side residence
section of the. city, Three of the
twenty-eight cases resulted fatally
on Wednesday, '• •
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WHEAT .CUTTING STARTS.
Operations Have Commenced in
Southern Alberta.
A despatch , from Lethbridge,
Alta., says: Wheat cutting in Al-
berta' eommenced on Wednesday.
Supt. Fairfield, of the Experinten-
,tal Farm, has turned binders into
several plots of winter wheat which
is ripe and in fine condition far cut-
ting. 11. A. Seggitt, e farmer at
Chin, has be,gen cuttitg a600-aern
field north •of Chin. °lifting will be
general ever the south within the
text ten days. •
leArLWAYS ENTER APPEAL.
Against Order to Provide Safe.
guards- A.gainst Fires en Lines,
A despatch from OttaWa saves
The C.P.R., G.T,Its, and C.N.R.
have entered an appeal to the Su-
preme (exult, aganist the order of
the Railway Commission under
which they ar-e direated to provide
expiesive eafegoards against fires
along "(bele .litea in the west, Tbe
companies in a rtuttl3er of cases al-
lege leek of itriaalictioe.
Gordon D. Envoy died at Corn.
wailInOrn than One hutdred yeas
old.
MAkINO..S.Affl."IfSTMEp.
NIUNIOIPAIL. MARKETS NOW APPEAR YO
OE VERY LOW, AND IMPROVEMENT
Lel KS let,
Thireforei want Theo ofeny Donde-
There are Some Other Ways ler a Kan
to use HIS reosien-IVIleing Stooks Offer
a SWIM* WAY to CO Rid ef Ite
The articles einlerileented by "Inneelier"
ire for the sole purpose of •gaining peon
eettivestore, wed,, if possible, of et.4.
WIT thein trete loping. money threaten
platen, it in "Wildecat" enterpreses.
linpattial wad reliable elterstener of ine
information may be relied Upon. wile
Writer of these artielee tbs.Ineliz18"°
of this paper heve interejit'Iinn"
In conaection with this matter °thee than
those of the reader,
(yThe ealarketfor"UlettYuestiti7i:a)1. bonds be
been peaty quiet during the vise te'W
Months. Prices have declined and the
amount ef businees has, sinokened, all
because of the faot that the LOndon mar -
het is not in a receptive mood. The rea-
sons for London's present attitude aro
several. •First, of course. 002008 the un-
easiness in the political situation; then
the flame reeling respecting the foreign
situation. The tremendous amount of is-
sues of recent years has, too, caused a
glut in the market.. And, finally. there
18 always neeeesary a period of digestion
after any prolonged period of satisfying
hunger -financial or physical -and Eng -
lend. hoe • been gobbling up everything
that has offered, for along time past, and.
le no quietly eneoying a rest, while the
process of amiimilittion proceeds.
In Canada there is no great slaokening
In the demands for murtioipals, although
there are, • of course, quiet epells.The
quietnese in Englarid has resulted in a
lowering of pricea in many cases,. and
consequently there are many munteipal
bonds on the market at present selling
• considerably below the priees of even a
year ago. 11 15 quite possible that if the
Loadou rnarnet remains eniet for a long,
period- the prices may shade a bit fur-
ther, Happily, however. the probability
of a long period of quiet in England is
not likely', and as a natural eorollarve
=Mies are not likely to depress further.
Probably after a nezioclof quietness the
prices willbegin to move upward, for there
is observable at present a tendenoy for
money to cheapen, and with cheaper
money: bonds cannot fail to respond with
an advance in ,price. Indeed, it annears
quite likely that within the next two
yeare some of the prices quoted at pre-
sentnowvin appear as low as those of 1907
d
litany people do not like municiipal
bonds as investments because thee' are
not exciting and their yield is small. All
of which is quite true, But the average
man vehen he puts away bis savings in a
bank is not going to complain because
there is no min on the institution in
which he deposits his mosey, though, good -
nests kttows, it is exciting enough when it
happente ene may ooraplain, however, that
the, rate M too low, and in that he has
his own remedy in Ins own hands -he oan
buy bonds.
If be buys industrial bonds he takes a
certain amount of risk, varying in pro-
position to the certain or uncertain char-
acter of tne leueiness. Bonds of compan-
ies supplying the necessaries of life, such
as the bonds of the large packing com-
panies, flour mills, eto.. are, muslin speak --
in. safe enough for the average man. To
repay him for his ale:Otis- greater risk
these bonds pay a considerably better rate
of interest. If he wantto take a lesser
risk than the more speculative industrial
bonds, but hesitates over buying the more
table industrials, he can Purchase •the
debentures of western towns, which are
by no means gilt-edged, yet are Safe
enough short of a national ealainity. But
if he wants a nigh degree of safety Ca-
nadian city debentures, railroad. equip-
ment heeds and. bonds of most' Rubin, ser-
vice companies would. answer his purpose.
Indeed, .12 he were to buy municipals at
the present time he would, as sureeested
above, stand a verv good °harm of mak,
inn a, modest profit through an increase
in the market value of his holdings. .•
17, however, he is a speculator he can
buy shares, and stand a fair oliance of
making a profit if he 'uses discretion and
does not bny on margin. At the present
timeethough, I do not think shares a wise
thine-. to buy. Most of them are pretty
high, and "pretty high" means a good
chance for a.fall. '
If. he is realleneneanmeateeeaed wants to
make a "pile" '& lose all, he fla, alienate
recourse to the mining market. There his
chances are about 1,000 M 1 a,ga,infit hts
making anything, but there is always
someone glad to sell some minin,g s'ocks
for real money. If he would rather have
the minima. shares than his money here's
his chane. They often make nice well
paper -or insoles for boots that are too
large. It's rather expensive, however.
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TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE
INTERESTING 00821IP FROM ONTARIO'S
CAPITA.
•"The Peenient Pleb" and NI. ciaaraotorts.
this -Toronto emu/ball Club- "rho
• City's Finanees-
x. n10111102', "the Deopie's Bob" or b7-
ono days, has been in trouble again 'eel
see Public. This 'time the trouble has
been with hes -Eleotrieal Developenent Gee
whittle M gupposen to bring Iliegare, power
to Toronto to run the street railway and
all the faetories whien have- not gone
over to the Hideo Eleotrie for their. ope-
nly. Every Ulna there has been a little
t1nu24e In tne air an cloud la the
Oka the Myer lute gone off, once for flee
are, leafiren the'people dependent on the
teat ears to get home the best way ellen
knew I16w and elesie.e down morel; of face
toriee. What the trouble is no one out -
fade the confidence of "le J." knows. Re
says It won't occur again and you cian
believe him or not as you like.
R, 3, SHEDS IS TROUBLES.
It is a weed thing that "R. .T." carriee
his troubles lightly. He tells a onaraoter-
latic story on himself. One evening he
Was driving home alone "up the hill" to
hie comfortable reeidenee beyond the eity
limits.; and, therefore beyond the eitv tax-
gatherep. • His big touring motor oar
°bourne up to a ladv pedestrian labori-
ously climbing the beeline,elatighbornike
he asked her to take a "lift.'tShe accept-
ed, and explained that the had been un-
able to End room in a street ear.
"If there's one man in Toronto 1 de-
test," she said vehemently, "it's that
men Moraine, Do you know him?"
The general znanager confessed that he
dia.
"Do you know any good about nimP"
she asked.
"No," said Mr, Fleming. dubiously, "not
Much."
FLEMING'S ABILITY.
There has always been an impreasion
that Sir 'William Mitokenzie chose Flem-
ing because of hilt "eity hall influence,"
but this is doing the manager an -injus-
tice. ' Dattletless t,he real reason of the
choice was that Mr. Fleming is a man ef
great executive capacity, such as the
street railway really needed. •
Mr. Fleminu is a product of Toronto -
of the more or less despised east end. As
a barefoot lad ate played on the muddy
banks of the Don. Later he was care-
taker of Parliainent street Methodieb
church, and reoently told of getting up
at 4 &aka on Sunday mornings to light
the fires. When he grew up he started
a coal and wood yard and then went in-
to real skate. Re took to raunMipal
Politics as a duck takes to water. Re
was elected alderman, and did good work
ou the assessment, committee. When it
was announced he was to run for mayor
People thougnt it a joke. But he ran and
was elected. That was in 1891, ivlaen he
vanquished E. B. Osier, now Sir Edmund.
Five times afterwards he was elected, and
left tb,e Mayor'e. chair to become Assess-
ment Commissioner, thence to the street
mantras,.
Mr. Fleming has had reverses; he in-
vitee them by his energy' and his daring.
Efe was caught financially in the land
boom in the nineties, and he hag suffered
defeat at the polls. But he leas a ohne-
sophioal temperament. The scars of the
land smash are now being wiped out,
for his salary is said to be in the nelgh-
borj000d of 820,000 a year, with an mica-
onal $10,000 bonus thrown in.
TICE BASEBALL PROSPECTS.
When the Toronto Baseball Club struck
third place in the Eastern League the
croakers said they had reached their lim-
it Indeed, before the season °emend bets
at even money were made that the Leafs
would not finish one, two,, three. During
the losing streaks some of the criticism
was directed at Manager f.Voe" Kelly.
They said he did not maintain discipline,
and that he did not supply the inseira-
tion necessary to make his team of all
stars get together. But he may fool the
critics properly by the end of the season.
When -the team loses' at home after a
winning streak on the road the players'
excuse is that the Island grounds, where
they not only play, but practise and live,
are damp and eive them rheumatism.
There is a grcfwing feeling that profee.
sional baseball in the last few years has
been taken too seriously by the news-
papers, and through them by the public.
Baseball es all right, but after all it is
chiefly a commercial proposition, based
on human optimism. And it is rather too
much to expect every one of eight teams
to be a pennant winner every year.
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" "A TAXPAYING MONTH,
The Iasi week of Jelly es interesting to
the Toronto taxpayer becauee he is then
required to pay the first instalment of
the year's taxes. The other instalments
fall due in September and. November -re-
spectively. A system of penalties ensure'h
prompt payments. And for the last few
days before qthe final date the approach-
es th the City Treasurer's office are
thronged with a stern and tinenthusian
tic crowd of thrifty ratepayers.
•Financing Tomato has become a seri-
ous matter. The expenditure this year
will run well over $5,000,000, a sum much
beyond the requirements for the ordin-
ary activities of the government for th'e
entire • Province of Ontario.' Here are
some of the big items which go to make
ttp such an impressive total:
Debt charges ...... $2,e40,136
Onurts .........,. 135,024
Police Department .... 689,508
Jail . • 47,830
Public ,Schools...... 1,647,041
Inigh neb.00ls ..... 229,141
Technical Schools • ' 98,819
Separate Schools .... 118,160.
Hospitals 125,000
• Board of Health .... .... 122,957
Inolation Hospital .... 56,765
Law Department . 36,350
Assessment Depart:merit .. 87,909-
•
Charitable Grants .... .... 94,950
Roadways e... 147,389
Snow Cleaning 5E4,664
• Engineering Salaries; 48,060
Street Cleaning ..., .. 519,336
Street Watering...„..... ,
Maintenance of Stables ... 59,592'
Waterworks 408,913
Firemen's Salaries 314,700
Fire Hydrants (water) ..,,157,950
Street Lighting ,... .. '247,205'
aitY nfall Maintenance ... 59,229
ekrenitect's • Salaries ..• 42,816
Official, Salaries . .. 150,056
Nat all of the $9,000:000 expenditures has
te be raised by direct taxation. The water-
workd department, for exaMplethvides
nearly $1,000,000 revenue, The- street nail -
Way company, under its agreement, now
Vields almost another $1,000,500 annually.
Licensee contribute o'ver,$200,000, • The me
hibition may -yield. a profit of $60,000. But,
when all the eources ofereventie nave beeff
exhausted there 'remaine a aubstantial
sum of $6,286,963 to be raised by taxes,
Title is raised on an eesesimiebt of
596,145. Reduced to what the individual
pays *his 'means that a Mae weft pro-
perty astiesteed at $5,000 has to Out un
5e, whicle with his loeal improvements for
sidewalks, pavementse etc., brings his
taXes to more than $100.
• As( may be judged front the size of the:
annual debt ,ellargeg, the Miens -debt leas
readied large nrorottione. The groat
debt stands at 843,000,000, reduced he cash
$1,000,000 and ineeittmente ,of $9,000,000 to
a net anionet of $33,000,000, Offsetting Me'
in nart is OA fad that, the preperty owned
by the oily 18 worth at :least $20,000,000,
Ineeerthelees, it came as seliaethinyt of
o shoek M many eitizeits to learn that
the M&Yor •6,nd, the Cite Treasurer had
felled to sell $5,000,000 more bonds in Eng.
An*old man, William Ford who
was lost in the woods for Several
daYS, died in a London hospital as
result, of hie atifferings.
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COST OF LIVING IN GERAANY.
Total Extra Cost for Beef Is US, -
000,000 Per Annum,
A despatch from Berlin says
While the total. charges of the Ger-
man army and navy, including this
year's increases, is less than •$5
per head per,year, a German econo-
mists Dr. George Goldstein has
computed that each Berliner will
pay 21 marks or approximately -
$5) more for meat this year than he
would have paid ten years ago. For
the nominal family of five or six this
represents an extra drain on. the
family exchequer of $25 or $30, Dr.
Goldstein arrives at his figures by
taking the total dressed weight of
Cattle, sheep, -swine, etc., slaugh-
tered for Berlin consumption an-
nually and multiplying this by the
inereasss in the retail prices • per
pound as shown by the official sta-
tistics over the average price ten
years ago. For greater Berlin the
total extra cost issabout $18,000,000
per annum.
TO OPERATE FIST FREIGHT.
C.N.R. MontrealsOttawa Service
First—Later to Toronto.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Sir. Donald Mann was in Montreal
on Wednesday, personally superin-
tending the operations in connee-
tion with the boring of the tunnel
under the mountain for the en -
teatime of the Canadian Northern
into Montreal. Sir Donald expects
that the line which the company is
building between Ottawa and To-
ronte will be opened late -in the fall;
an,d as a measure preparatory to
this Mr. D. B. Hanna, the Vies -
President and , General Manager,
has just eempleted arrangements
for the opening of a fast freight
service .between Montreal and Ot.
taw& with a view to extending it to
Toronto. The company • has also
established its own cartage com-
pany in Ottawa to collect and de-
liver freight.
BANK ROBBED OF $2,000,
Knock Two Northern Crown, Offi-
• cials Unconscious.
despafah from Vancouver says:
L oFnidf toyn tohnoulvsaeididn essdtiaiyk e r Ts
, him'ereawdead
As
Two robbers, one a short and the a fight between strikers and "blaek-
other a tall man, held up the legs."
Northern OrOMI Bank at Central • Mr. Lloyd Georga announeld in
Park, six miles out of Vancouver, the House of Oomraous the -lets:
at. 10 o'clock on Thursday evening. tion of the Government nitro -
They had been loitering in the vial-
dua bill to deal withlaber dis-
eity for halt an hour, having come
ce
putes. i
•
there' asiele eelaserae aaed . wig, - •71:1-ZY- Mr. A.squith in a Jpeech in the.
covered Manager '6. 0. Templeere
'eolnieseee, emphasied the peaceful
with a gun and also held up his as -4
rei: ations '"eszisfing "Vetween Britain
sistant, Tompkins, both of Whom and all the powers, ineluding Ger-
weie having lunch. They .attempt- any. •
ed to force Temple to open the eats, The La Follette wool bill passed
but 'he refused, and one etreek him the U. S. Senate. The Senate by
.over the bead with a piece of lead 37 to 26 votes carried an amend -
Pipe. They put Tompkins out of ment to the excise bill for repeal
bu'siness' in the eame manner, and of Can,actian, reciprocity act. . I
then broke open a cash. box and
• stole $2,000. They•got away in their
rig. When Temple recovered con-
sciousness he telephoned fer help,
bet the rebbers have not been cap-
tured.
THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH
••••••••••,
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER
THE GLOBE -IN A..
NETSHELL.'
Canada, the Empire and the 'World
In General Before Your -
Eve..'•
CANADA.
Four valuable colts were killed
by lightning near Kendal.
Earry Littely was seriously
burned by molten metal at Guelph.
Alex. Scott was drowned in an
attempt to shoot the Sault Rapid's
in 'a, canoe. •
Capt. Geoige Diek, a well-known
mariner of the upper • lakes, was
found *dead of heart disease at
Kingston. •
Two thousand members of the In-
dustrial Workers of the World Went
on strike on the Grand Trunk Pa-
cific.
The plans are ready for the build-
ing of the 0.N.B;. Toronto -Hamil-
ton line. .
Nelson Cope, aged eighty-one of
Oopetown, broke his neck by a fall
from his rig,
Twenty thousand harvesters are
wanted along the transcontinental
line of the C. N. R.
A. McCormick, farni.laberer, w
run over and ldlled by a, fast G.T.T
• freight train at Trenton.
'Mitchell Siwatie and Char
Leaf, Indians, were drowned in t
Serge River, near St. Regis..
Finlay McGibbon, brother of the
Mayor of Sarnia, dropped dead
when about to go for a walk.
Fifty cases of blindness mira,cu-
lously eured are reported from the
shrine of Cote des NefAes, Qeebee.
• Harry Gilmore, aweitieg trial for
assault on his four weeks' bride,
'committed suicide in the Hamilton
Police Court.
Wm.S. Bryant, jun., of Plain-
.
field, N.J., was .accidentally ehoked
to death at the Arda,murchen Club,
Central Argyle, N.S.
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UNITED STATES.
Rev. Dr. Griffith John,. for
55 years a missionary in China, is
:dead.
GENERAL. -
The Albanians captured Pristine
and Prisretd from the Turks.
TOWNSITE COLLECTIONS.
Neplmw Is Charged
• -with Theft.
A despatch from Calgary, Alta.,
says: H. M. Hanbnry, 22, & neph-
ew of the millionaire lumber dealer
of Brandon, Man., is under arrest
in the city cells for alleged theft of
$422,50 from the North Prince Al-
bert Townsite Company of Calgary.
The theft is said to have been com-
mitted" ab out June 16, and the
arnotnt represents money which it
is alleged was collected by lIanbury
while acting as a,sales agent for thes
comtrany. Bail has been set at
$1,400.
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• GREAT APPLE CROP.
Indications Are For Big Yield All
Over Canada.
A despatch fret(' Ottawa., says
Chief Goverement Freit Inspector
McNeill reports that from, returns
sent in to the ,Cipikriarieni; from all
parts of- Oana,da, there are indica-.
tions of a great apple yield this
year, espeeially SO in British Co'
tunbia. Noya SeCrtia,8 erop ia ex-
pected te be a r'ecord ,otto, while
that in Ontario gives promise of
being fair.