HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-04-13, Page 3BLOC E RUNNER CAUGHT
WITH CARCO OF RAW RUBBER
Ship iPrbnI Brazil, With r2o Tons on Board, Seized
: Off the Orkney islands.
A deep Licht from London says: The
ttra dleart steamer Saldanha de, Game,
which ettili;<i from Para, Brazil, Feb.
d, for New York -with a cargo of 120
One of new rubber, has been seized
eat the Orkney Islands by a British
patrol Desk,- Tho ship and her cargo
have been placed in the prize courb.
This is bc+lieved to be a deliberate:
case of attempted hlookade 'twining,
e li that the officials hero contending h t a
New Cron* Para for N w Yor
could never havegotten so fes' off
her course. This is the first selattre
mach -by the Admiralty of a complete
cargo of rubber.
ONTARIO "DRY"
UNTIL JUNE, 1919
Prohibii,'ioet so be Effective September,.
46, 1916. •
A desliatc.0 from Toronto says:
Prohibition will bo put into force in
Ontarid on September 16 next. The.
referendum on bine prohibition will -be
taken on tate first Monday in June,
1010. 'Chis mesas the Province will
110 "dr'y" • untit that date. The liquor
license art now in force in the Pro -
Once win be repeated when the On-
iar�io tem,peranee act (prohibition)
oes Otto effect. If when the referen-
um is floret& the people, vote against
prohibition, present lieenseholders
Will probenly get their licenses back,
t
ti 5t is now
�aekk ' where localo 0
dzstr l;s to
but , woptiou
force Oil ireolain "dry!' In other
Words, the siituat,ioe will bo just as it
is at .present. The Government is
tonsiclering the case oE-licenseholders
who have long teases on their hands.
.1
ALLIES MASTERS
IN AIR FIGHTING
40 German Planes Brought ()owe
During Month, of Marc(.r
,
A. deepateh 'from London says a= -
French and British aviators brough4
down 42 German planes on the west
front during March, it was stated on
i''
Thursday in reply to the official Ger-
man claim issued Wednesday that only
14 German .aeroplanes were lost.
MAX ; THE GOOD SAMARITAN,
Two Good Stories of a Most Intellb
gent Dog.
A wonderfully Intelligent, lovable
11 wasand well-bred co to Max,tt 'Tax , the hero
of Mrs. T, P. O'Connor's book, "Dog
Stars."
Ile was different from all, other dogs,
writes Mrs. O'Connor. Zits eyes, deed
brown, thoughtful, kind, intelligent,
and, above all, reasonable, were ea-
forgetable. He was dumb, but he
spoke continually with those true,
$10.000,000 SUBSCRIBED TO honest eyes.
THE PATRIOTIC FUND. One night, after he had been with
us a few months, he went out at nevem
Sufficient to Last Till After 1916 it is o'clock and did not come back. It was
dreadful weather in January, raining,
sleeting and very cold At eleven
• A despatch from Ottawa says: o'clock I called and whistled; these
More than $10,000,000 Inas been sub- was uo sight or sound of hire, the
teethe,' by the people of Canada to street was empty, and I finally elosed
the Patriotic Fund- This sum is esti the door with a very heavy heart.
mated to lest l 11 the end of the first Although his collar bore this iescrip-
ew months in 1017. The great num- tion
btax, T. P. O'Connor's friend,
of enlistments daring the past 3a Grosvenor Plead, S. W.
tew months has added a greater bur- that would surely bring him back, if
en Co the fund and now each month only for the reward, I felt disappoin-
ts being dispensed a sum far in ex- tad in hint; he seemed so wise, and it
ease of that anticipated a year ago. was positively stupid to get lost.
an February, 1910, the total paid to T slept •badly, and at, cm Annie rho
dependent;; was in the neighborhood
of $525,(100, which is the largest
month's disburriement .since the war
began. 9 cr the first time it exceeded
the half-iniilidn mark. The amount
requisitioned ter March is $600,000.
'
HUNGRY IN AN HOUR
AI?TER, THEIR MEALS.
Estimated:
Food Scarcity in Germany Grows
More Serious.
A despatch from Copenhagen says;
A Dane returned front Berlin 'states
iirat the weekly bread allowance for
Itcherson . Is only sufficient for
P Y
bice days. On the remaining clays
they eat potato
cakes. There is, how-
ever, an Increasipg shortage of pota-
toes. The price of a small cake is
pIgllt cents. A dollar meal ata res
aurenb is o small that people aro
later. A
smile n hour glass
a
glr
ungry
o4 taw of poor quality costs ten
on
e'
a m
ala cup
coffeeee is twenty -
ye cents. The greatest shortage is in
imp.
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APPY CARD SYSTEM
Ti) MEAT IN GERMANY
Third of a Pound Per Capita Daily is
Alloyed Outside Bertin.
/1. despt tete ;frorn Berlin Sia -57;e:
eat. cards c til be introduc
lw4u is ene1 ateeny on April
Ittutg consumption of 160 grammes
• one-third pound), per capita daily,
Tceept on two eneatless days each
eek. Bavaria has forbidden sale of
canned tents, whole hams, whole san-
tage,etc,. to individuals, to prevent
the aceumulation of stocks in advance.
Individual neat cards probably will
not P e lotted ie. Berlin, • Regulation
of distribution will be effected by
limiting the supply for each retailer.
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WHAT CA Itn45 GERMANY
)LOW SHIPS WERE SUNK ?
A dosptytcih :from Amsterdam says:
a -Commenting on the Ammerican en-
qulries reveling the torpedoing of
o steamers''nesex and Englishman,
The Hamhltrg Nachdicltten says :-I
i1$llho in (5'crittany cares whether these
&hips were l.u,•pedoed by German sub-
merines or not ? They belonged toy
Ind were used. by the enemy and were
(ledtroyed, That is all we care about
at the moment."
moment she fetched my tea it there
was any news of Max. She {:aid no,
and I dressed, wrote out a description
of him, slipped on my waterproof, for
it was still ralnieg, and started for
the neatest police station, Walking
down Grosvenor Road towards West-
minster, I passed an untenanted
house, and there an the doorstep sat
Max, wet and bedraggled, beside a
sick dog wbo, stretched at his leer,
was breathing aeayily. Max stooped
his noble Meati and licked Niru. Lift-
ing it he saw rue, and gave a suctaess-
ion of joyful, explanatory barks. Ile
knew that help had come, and he told
me why he had been out all night,
r 14cetnai to •cam he dog
eta o t i
8
1 Y
to the Dogs home and Max Colintved
$2,149 2NTERNED •
IN GREAT BRI'TAIN.I
A despatch from London says Her-
barb Samuel, the Home Seevetaey, in
tepty to a question le the Souse of
{iommons cn04nesday, said the
number of civil ans in British intern-
btent canips at present was 32149.
The number released from these
camps between October and April 1,
he said, was 884.
INTERNAL TROUBLES
RIFE IN BULGARIA
A despatch from Athens says: --
M. Ghenadiefl, former Foreign Minis-
ter of. I3ulgatia has been •arested at
Sofia with seven others It is believ-
ppd that eight are charged with intrigu-
i.'ng against tate Government.
BLOCKS 114 GERMANY ,
SET AIIFIAD ONE HOUR
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A. despatch from Bet'lin says :-'The
'German Fed -oral Council has passed a
toast -we providing that on May 1 all
Clothe shall be set ahead one hour. The
ihoasure was proposed for hygienic
end economic reasons, as lengthening
worlang time during claylight and de-
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TILE WEEK'S DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WA►t.
The Germans Still contintc to hammer awayat the defences of Verdun, but their progress is slow, Indeed.
obtained it would( seem from the tactics adopted by, General Joffra that some of the. so-called successes obta i ed by the
Germans aro prepared for them by the French in order to lead them in well -set traps. On Friday night of last
week the Germans began a violent attack on the Village of, Vaux. These was a severe fight in which the enemy
lost heavily, and when the French gave up the position there was only a ruined village:
On Monday the French opened an attack on Vaux and recaptured it and on Tuesday the Germans started a
lreavY. Y artiller bombardment of the position. This was kept up for several hour's, after which the German
infantry came up to the assault. The French had their Machine guns in position and their infantry well en-
trenched and kept up a constant fire on the advancing Germans. With great persistence these stuck to their
task and were mowed down by the heavy fire. Finally they withdrew from the attack,
But it would seem, that the Germans prefer now to make separate attacks on certain positions at erre time
in place of a general attack on all the defences of the city. At the time they were being driven back front
their second advance against Vaux on the east•side of the Meuse they made an attack on the Froth position
at 1laucourt-between Nlalantourt and Bethiecourt. In this they were repulsed. Many other small attacks
have been carried on through the week.
General Sir Percy Lake sent an important despatch to London on Wednesday stetting that early that morn-
ing he had attacked and captured it strongly fortified position of the Turks at Umm-el-Ronna below Kut -el -
Amara. This news gives hope that the forces of General 'Townshend which have been shut up in Kut -el -Amara
since last December will soon be relieved, as the captured position is the last really strong one between Sir
Percy Lake's forces and the beleaguered troops.
The Germans again made several air -raids over the British Isles during the week -end, and some consider-
able damage was done to human life, but no military damage was obtained. One of the Zeppelins WAS brought
clown in the Thames and her crew captured.
Holland's action in rapidly mobilizing her army at the time she was having a dispute with Germany has
caused the kaiser to withdraw some of his troops from other fields and station them along. the. , Dutch border.
The frontier o£ holland and Belgium also is being made ready Sol any alt oft that part.
rIb
hl eem that t11e Germans are lemming a lesson front their heavy losses around Verdun, for they ttots ar
have somewhat changed their style of infantry attack. In the fighting on Tuesday last they advanced against
the French, not in serried ranks, bub in extended formation, making short bounds forward in comparatively
shall bodies as occasion offered. • The French, •however, have of late been attaining a superiority of fire, and
the Germans got to a position in the attack on Chauffeur Wood near Douamont, within fifty yards of the
French. An assault was out of the question. Retirementtwas equally out of the question, and the advanced
lines of Germans had to lie on the surface of the ground, or in whatever trenches they could dig while lying, but
all the time under an effective fire of musketry and shrapnel,
i, !tall e
rn,nwus°..
WATIDNVILL>r,
14 n •f B rl • MARCONI INVENTION
Q� --No. 3, OS1,tc; No. 4, v71/ic; reject- FOR USE OF
ed, 521/2e. feed, 5214e. Flax -No. 1 --
�t feed, 38 ; No, 2 feed, 3735o. Barley
Markets cot t55'ALLIES.
N.W.C., $1,873 c; No. 2 C.W., $1.84%aWizard of Wireless Has Perfected
i3rettdstutfs. - Improvements.
Montreal Markets. A despatch from Paris says:
G
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gii=
bottrcal, April 11. ern-Aneti elmoMarconi has invented a sPbcial
can No. 2 yellow, 86 to 86e. Oats-- apparatus based on a new principle
Canadian Western, No, 2, 521/2 to which is dastinecl to make a sensation -
53c; No. 3, 501/4 to 515; extra No. 1 ai change in the operation of aero -
feed, 501,6 to 51c,; No, 2 local white, planes and dirigibles. This announce-
hoc; No. 3 local white, 40c; No. 4 ment has just been made, according to
local while, 48e. Barley -Manitoba a Rome despatch to the Journal des
n
reed, 08 to 71c; malting; 76 to 77e. Debuts Marconi has at the same
Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat- time carried on important wireless
ents, firsts, $6.00; seconds, $6.10; telegraphy researches with great sue-,
strong bakers', $6.90; Winter patents, cess. His inventions will be Mime.
choice, $600; straight rollers, $5.30 to diately employed by the Italian army,
$5.40; do., bags, $2.45 to 42.50. Roll- after which they will be placed at the
ed oats-Bbls, e$5.00 to .$5,10; (lo, bags disposition of Italy's allies.
90 lbs, $2.35 to .$2.40. Bran, $24, 3•
Shorts, $26, • Middlings, $28. to $30. NOT 'ME, DANGEROUS ALIENS.
1W onillio, 430 to $35, Hay -No. i;, per
ton, ear lots, $20,00 to $20,50. Cheese Only Destitute Ones May Work on
t
•-:E'inost westerns, 1S3„ to S80'a,c; fiat- Farms; to be Reasonably T'aci. ,
est easterne, 18 to Mee. Butter- A despatch from Ottawa says: The
Choicestlereamery, 83 to 34c; seconds, suggestion that interned alien enemies
80 to 31.E e. {Eggs--Fresb, 26 to 27c. should be released to help in Canadian
Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, 41,75 to farming operations does not propose
$1,80, to include those interned for offensive
l3ualcwbeat-09 to 70e, acaarciing to reasons, but only those taken in
freights outside. UOited States Markely. charge because of destitution. P tan-
g ars would have to pay thele reason -
Rye -No, 1 conrnet•ciW, 88 to 89c; Minneapolis, April 11. -Wheat- aril for their work, Some sob:have
rejected, according 'to sample, 84 to 'Ally, $1,1.01/s to 41,19Y; July.{ $1.02%; Y
86c Recording to freights outside. No. 1 hard, $L243&.; No. 1 Nortlier'n, already been released for service.
Toronto, April IL -Manitoba Wheat
i
No Northern,,tado. 1 '].,16 N
o. 2,,
$1 i4S1.; No. 3, do. $1.111/4, in store,
behind, saw the stranger safely sbeb I`ort William.
tared, then ran back to Grosvenor Manitoba oats -No. 2'OW., 43c.;
Road, Ho was too much fatigued No. 3, do., 41c.. extra No. 1 feed, 41e; to
eat, but drank thirstier and slept all No. 1 feed,40e,in r
the rest of the day. store, Port William
The policeman en night duty said American corn -No. 3 yellow, 83/c,
that at nine o'clock he had seen Max
seat himself by the helpless stray
spaniel, and a n
p every t Y hou • r, when be
passed, Max was still keeping faithful
watt*, and occasionally stooping his
head to give the sick dog a lick of
encouragement and cheer,
There never was such a softener of
obdurate hearts as he --never any dog
and few human beings possessed of
each boundless. tact. We were togeth-
er one evening, traveling in the ttuder-
ground, A pale, worried, dyspeptic
looking man got in at Meneingtot Sta.
tlou, seated himself opposite us, push-
ed iris hat wearily back front his fore-
head, unfolded a newspaper and began
to react. Max jumped down from, his
place beside me, sat himself in trout
of the stranger and laid nit paw gent-
ly ou his' knee. The mann took no
notice of hint. I9'o tried the other paw
ea tete other knee, Still there was no
response. He then jumped lightly on
tate seat beside the gentleman and
leaned against his shoulder. The man
read on. Max leaned more and more
trustingly toward 11lm, but the ratan
completely ignored him. The minutes
were slippiatg by ---we were to get out
at Sloane Square ---when, quite gently
and softly, Max dropped his silky paw
on the Ulan's opened newspaper. Tito
track, Toronto.
Canadian corn -Feed, 68. t0 70c,
on track, Toronto..
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 44 to
45e; conmerciall 43 to 44c, according
to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 winter, pee
car lot, 41.02 to $1.04; No. 1 com-
mercial, 99e, to $$1.01.; No. 2, do., 97 to
99e; No. ,8, do., 94 to 96e; feed wheat,
86 to 88e, according to freights out-
side.
Peas -No. 2, $1.50; according to
sample, r$1 to $1.30, according to
freights outside,
Barley -Malting, 02 to 63e; recce
59 to 62c, according to freights out-
side,
HAVE YOU 4, POLICY
IN THE
Li
INSURANCE CO. ?
ANOTHER BRITISH VICTORY
IN THE TIGRIS CAMPAIGN
One Division Operates on Each Bank of River, and
During Day Five Lines of Trenches Were Takeli.
A despatch from London says: The
following .official 'statement was issued
•
a
Thune -
an Thursday:-
`!General Lake, reports that the Ti-
gris corps under the command of
Lieut, -Genera] Sir George F. Gor-
Tinge, who succeeded General Aylmer,
attacked the enemy's entrenched post.
tion at Umm-el-Henna on Wednesday,
Our trenches had been pushed forward
by means' of sups to within 100 yards
of the enemy's position, and the lead-
ing battalions of the 18th Division
then rushed the enemy's first and
second lines in quick succession.
"The third line was captured by 0
o'clock in the .morning under the
support of artillery and machine gun
fire. The 18th Division continued
bhoir victorious advance, and by 7
1Vlarnitoba floor' -First patents, in $t 20% to $1.231/2; No, 2 Northern,
jute hags, 46.50; second patents. in I $1,16,3;1 to 41.20%. Corn ---No. 3 yen
jute bags, $6; strong bakers' in jute low, 75 to 76e. Oats -Na. 3 white, 42
bags, $5.80, Toronto, to 421c. Flour unchanged. Bran -
Ontario flour -Winter, according to $18.25 to $19.00.
sample, $4,15 to $025, track, Taranto; Duluth, April 11. -Wheat -No. 1
$4.25 to $4.85, bulk seaboard, prompt hard, $1221/6 No. 1 Northern, 41.1985
shipment. to 1.201,43; No. 2 Northern 41.151/4 to
man turned to find the dogsmiling MZiilfeecl-Car lets, delivered Mont
tuniably in his very face: g real £reiglits-I3ran, par ton, $25;
„ shorts, per ton, $26; middlings, _per
You've eonduored, old fellow, he ton, 427; goad feed flour, per bag,
said, shaking hands with hint. "I $1.60 to 41.70, " •
don't like dogs, but if they wore alt
like you I'd bless the tribe," Country Produce,
SPAIN DEMANDS EXPLANATION
FROM GERMANY.
A despatch from Madrid says :-
The Spanish Cabinet has decided to
instruct the Ambassador at Berlin to
request from the German. Government
an explanation of the sinking of the
Spanish. steamer Vigo and a defiettion
of its policy with regard to the rights
of neuttzls on rho seas.
GERMANY TO SEIZE ALL
COCOA, TEA AND COFFEE.
A despatch from Copenhagen says:,
The Cologne Gazette, a copy of which
has been received here, says it ex-
pects the German government to ap-
ply the ticket system and seize all
stocks of cocoa, tea and coffee.
ALLIED WARSHIPS
SINK ENEMY SUB.
A despatch from Paris says: A Gor-
man stibmarine was sunk on Thursday
by a squadron ;o£ French and British
warships,. the Ministry of Marine an-
nolneer] Thursday night. The crew
of the submarine was captured.
,t.
The Remedy.
I told yam. father I loved you rnore
than any girl I've ever met."
"And what did father say?"
Tie said, to try to meet some more
g inn"
Butter-. Fresli dairy, choice, 20 to
32e; inferior, 25 to 26e; croanieey
prints, 35 to 37e; solids, 38 to 84c,
Eggs -New -laic(, 23 to 24e; do., in
cartons, 24 to 25c.
Honey -Prices in. 10 to 30-11). tins,
13 to lee. Combs --No. 1, $2.75 to $3;
No. 2, $2,25 to $2.40.
Beans -$4 to $4.40, the latter foe
hand-picked.
Poultry --Chickens, 21. to 22e; fowls,
18 to 19c; ducks, 20 to 22r; geese, 18
to 20e; turkeys, 25c,
Cheese --Large, 19e; twins, 1014o.
Maple syrup -$1.30 per 81/2 -gallon
tin
Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario, $1.80
to $1.85, and New Brunswicks at $1.90
to $1.95 per bag, on track.
Provisions.
Bacon, long clear, 161/2 to 17c per
111, in case lots. 1 -lame -Medium, 21
to • 22e;; do„ heavy, 17 to 20c; rolls,
171/2 to 18c; breakfast bacon, 21 to
24c; backs, plain, 25 to 26e; boneless
backs, 28 to 29c.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 151 to
151/4c, and pails, 16% to 16c; com-
pound, 13% to 1435c.
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, April 11. -Cash queta-
tions i -Wheat-No. 1 Northern,
$1.1636; No. 2 Northern, $1.1414; No,
3 Northern, $1.101/e; No. 4, $1.081/4;
No. 5, 9941c; No. 6, 91%c; food 86%c.
oats -No. 2 C.W., 4215;0; No. 3 C.W.,
402c; extra No. 1 feed, 40,;te; No, 1 can always get an audiieace,
$1181/4. Lbiseecl-Cash, $2.13 to
$2,131/2; May, 42.13; July, 42.14.
Live Stock Markets-
Toronto, :April 11. -Choice heavy
steers, 48,85 to 48.70; butchers' cat-
tle, choice, $8.00 to {$8.25; do,, good,
47.75 to 47.85; do., medium, $7.25 to
$7.60; do.,, common, $6.60 to $6.75;
butchers' hull., choice, 47.25 to $7.50;
do,, good bulls, $6.85 to $7,00; do..
rough bulls,, $4.65 to 45.15; butchers'
cows, ehoicee $6.75 to $7.25; do., good,
46.25 to $6.59; do., nediunt,. 45.85 to
46.10; do., :common, $6.25 to $5.75;
Stockers, 7,00 to 850 lbs., $6.60 to
47.25; Chuic'e feeders, dehorrned, 950 to ,
1,000 lhs ,47.15 to $7,50; Canners and
cutters $8.75 to $4.60; milkers,, choice,
each, $76,00 to 4100.00; de, corn, and
med„ each, 440.00 to $00,00; springers,
$650.00 to $100,00 light ewes, $8,50 to
$0,60; sheep, heavy, $0.00 to 47.50;
yearlings, $1.0.50 to 12.00; backs and
culls, 43.50 to 44.50; lambs, choice,
$11.00 to $13.00; spring lambs, $7.00
to 10.50; calves, good to choice, $9.00
to $10.00; do., medium, $7.25 to $8.50;
hogs, fed and Watered, $10.955; do„
weighed off cars, $11.40 to $11.50; tie,
Lon., $10,66, •
Montreal, April 11,-Buteber steeds
-Best, $8 to 48,25; good, 47.60 to $8;
fair, $7.25 to $7,60; medium, :$7 t8
$7.40; rough, $6.76 to $7.25. Butcher
bulls, best $6.70 to $7.20; medium,
$6.10 to $61.60; common, $5,60; can-
ners, $4 to $5, klogs---Selects,
411,25 to $11.75; roughs and mixed
lots, 410.50 to $11; common, 410.25;
sows, $7.85. to $8,10. Sheep -6c. to
8c.;. lantbs, $9 to $12. Calves --Milk
feel, $7 to $9.
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Money talks, and what's.'more it
PRINCE GEORGE OF ENGLAND,
kang•qi: fourth sea, wlic, at. Lao age,
will Join the navy In sometne
a.m. had ci i'ven the enemy out of his
fourth and fifth lines, •
".Aeroplane reconnaissances then re
-
Ported that the. enemy was strongly
reinforcing his entrenchments at Pe -
labia and Sannayyat, positions 6,000
and 12,000 yards, respectively, from
the front trenches at Umm-el-Henna.
As those positions could only be ap-
proached over very open ground, Gen-
eral Gorringe ordered a further at-
tack deferred until 'evening.
"In the meantime, on the right
bank r the io 8d Di vla n,underGeneral
Keary, captured the enemy's trenches
opposite the Felahie position. Dur-'
ing the afternoon the enemy on this
bank made a strong counter-attack
with infantry and cavalry, supported
by guns. This counter-attack was
successfully repulsed, and the position
won was consolidated,'
From the Middle West
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND 13R1-
TIHH COLUMBIA.
Items Front Provinces Where Many"
Ontario Boys and Girls Aro
Living -
Winnipeg secured 1,575 recruits
during eight days recently.
Nearly 12,000 men have been re-
cruited in Calgary for the various
corps, and recruiting is still going
011,
It is unlikely that Winnipeg's new
City Hall will be built this summer,
the cost, probably $2,000,000, being
too great.
Twelve carloads of settlors' effects
came through Winnipeg stock yards
one day recently during the week,
bound west.
Dr. 11. B. Steele left Lethbridge
last week for England,. having ob-
tained a lieutenant's commission in
the arm imperial .
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It is said that Alberta troops will
go again to Calgary camp, and thttb
preparations are being made to rte-
commoilate 20,000 men.
Mrs, George Fox, of Rapid City,
Man., was burned beyond recogni-
tion and her bones reduced to ashes
when her clothing caught fire.
Tho manufacture of sewer pipe
will be commenced within a short
time at Medicine Hatt in the plant of
the Alberta Clay Products Company.
There is something of an oil boom
in the Cardston district as a result
of the exploration work planned for
the big dome of that section. Every
lease is taken.
Calgaryspeculators are beginning
to take a great interest in port.. Many
are buying and selling that commo-
dity on marginal deals at the local
brokerage•oifiees.
FREAKY MISSILES.
Queer Shells That This War Has
Produced.
The tremendous shells which the
huge cannon of' the Germans and al-
lies send through the air are not only
missiles sent forth by the great guns
that have no parallels in history. The
gas shell, the weeping shell, the de -
/woolen shell, the sneezing shell and
the musical shell are all new with
this 'war and so freaky in their ac-
tions that civilization would never
have dreamed of them in former
years.
The gas shell explodes and scat-
ters poisonous gases about among the
soldiers, and a breath of it is enough
to ]till a man, The weeping shells, or
lachr'ym'atory shells, as the Germans
call them, are fired with the object of
blurring the eyesight of the oppon-
ents. When the shell bursts it makes
the tears of those about flow in great
quantities and prevents them from
seeing the sights of their rifles. It
contains ammonia in high degree and
causes intense pain to the suffered.
The sneezing shell is much similar
to it and gives off a bluish vapor on
blunting, which causes the soldiers
near by to go into paroxysms of
sneezing, and of course prevents
them 'from using their weapons.
The air depression shell produces
many deaths. Troops exposed to the
violent change in the atmospheric
pt'essure brought about by this ex-
plosion suffer exactly as do aeronauts
who descend too rapidly or workmen
who suddenly come into the open air
after long inclosure in compressed
alt ambers, the effect being to re-
lease the air and carbonic acid sus-
pendedn the blood and transforming
them into 'bubbles of gas. These bub-
bles are drtven by the action of the
heart into the capillary vessels, stop-
ping the. circulation and causing in-
stant death.
The musical shell was tined by the
Turks in the Dardanelles and consist-
ed of an ordinery shell with a small
iron ball attached to it by a chain,
this appendage causing a curious sing-
ing noise to be made as it few through
the air. -
6 PEOPLE MURDERED.
NEAR SASKATOON
Farm Annuals Also shot Down and
Buildings Set of
Fire.
A despatch from Saskatoon, Sask.,
says: A whole family of six was wip-.
ed out in the Wai.aw district on Wed-
nesday night, when Prokop Manclture,
his wife, a brother•-in-Iaw and three
children were murdered, the house
burned over their dying boclies, and
their animals shot clown and left bo
perish in the burning buildings. The
crime was discovered when a neighbor
walking out of his house on Thursday
morning, saw the still -smoking ruins
of the Manclntre homestead. Tho
crime was evidently committed by a
madman, in' whose hands the rifle
found in the ruins had evidently been
used with terrible effect. No trace of
the murderer has been discovered.
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CITORLS GIRL SOLDIER'S TTI7IR.',
Legacy of $755,000 Left to Fiancee by
Officer Killed at Front.
Through the death in action
at
u Chapelle f Lieut. LdivarRoss
vo p eoV
Moloch of the Gordon highlanders,
Pel ht i•1 1
Miss Pat Peel, chorus girl ^tvtohas
been earning 45 a weeklies inherited
a fortune of 475,000.
The romance has just oome to light
through Miss Peel tendering her resig-
nation from the revue "Beep to the
Right," in which she Was playing at
the Grand Theatre, Clapham Junc-
tion, London. Miss Peel, who says
she is a cousin of Sir Robert Peel, ex•1
plains that she met Lieut. Mnioch. at
Brighton before the war and that he
fell itt love with her. Snbject to a
life interest, lie made her sole residu-
ary 'legates under Iris will. All the
legal formalities have been complied
with and probate has been granted.
"I received my first intimation of
Lieut, Muleeh's death," she said, "from
reading it in the official casualty lists.
Then T remembered the will. He had
shown it to me when he was over in
England on leave, This is how it ran:
'In the event amt. death I give all my
possession's and effects to Mary Pa-
tricia Sheer' -that, you know, is my
real 115100.
"Tho witness who attested the will
was also killed at the .front. So the
validity of the document had to be
established in the courts, That didn't
take twenty minutes,"
MONOPOLY IN BREAD .
IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
A despatch from Sydney, N,S,W.
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says: The Legislature has passed a
bill which established a monopoly in
}Tread -malting and the selling of bread:
in New South Wales.
The Surest Sign.
"Tho. Greens are going to have a.
part to -night"
"How do you .know? Been invite
ed ?"
'No, Mrs. Green was over to her-{
rote our silverware,"
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