HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-08-28, Page 6AUTO ACCIDENT
AT NIAGARA FALLS,
Woman Lost Control of Car
Which Plunged Over
River Bank.
A despatch from Niagara Falls,
Ont,, says: -A fatal automobile acci-
dent occurred in Niagara Palls; N.Y.,
at 8 o'clock On Friday night, when a
motor car driven by Mrs. Kriel, wife
of Dr. Kriel, dentist, Niagara Falls..
N.Y„ went' over the bank and nearle
into the river just above the Michigan
Central bridge. Mrs. Kriel is dear.
as is her nine-year-old daughter, he,
mother-in-law is in a dying conditiin
in St. Mary's Hospital, and her son, a
boy of eight, is in a very serious con-
dition, There is said to have been five
occupants of the car, and it appears
from eye -witnesses' stories that •the
woman lost control coming down
Cleveland Ave., a fairly steep street,
could not make the turn, and. crashed
through a wooden wail and over the
bank. Assistance was at once called,
and on climbing down the steep bank
three bodies were found lying on the
rocks, lifer. Kriel, Sr.; and a boy
were found to be still alive but shock-
ingly injured, and were at once atter.d-
ed-to. One girl was dead when found,
Still farther down the car was found
wedged between SCUM' trees. Mrs.
Kriel was found there dead with
shocking ,'njuries. She was stile grasp -
hag the steering wheel. The spot
where the car went over is
nearly perpendicular and there
was no possible chance of
escape. The firemen are at work with
block and tache lifting the car and
digging among the debris for the
other possible victim. Several acci-
dents have occurred at this point.
Some years ago a similar accident
happened, when three lost their lives.
BRMSH FORCES
806540467 MEN
Empire's Wal' Effort Brought
7,130,230 From Mother
Country and Colonies.
A despatch from London says:—
The report of the War Cabinet for,
1918 summarizes as follows the Em-
pire's war effort:
The strength of the regular army
reserve and territorial forces on the
fourth of August, 1914, was 732,514,
Britain has since recruited 4,006,158
men, With other enlistments in the
United Kingdom and Canada the total
white enlistments in the whole Em-
pire were 7,130,280. The figures of
enlistments for races other than
white, enc:ted:ea over 1,250,000 from'
India, were 1,824,187, giving a grand
total for all races of the Empire of
8,654,41e7.
Ir. addition te these, Chinese and
other labor units were raised for
service in Salemiki. Egypt and Meso-
potamia.
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WHITMORE'S ESTIMATE
OF WESTERN CROPS
Forecasts 88,000,000 Bushels of
Wheat For Sask., 43 in Man.,
21 in Alta.
A despatch from Regina, Sask.,
says:—A. E. Whitmore of Regina, a
Close student of crop conditions for
many years, made a forecast that
Saskatchewan will have 88,890,000
bushels of wheat this year.
The Manitoba crop ha places at
48,695,000 and the Alberta crop at
21,951,600.
The yield in Saskatchewan, he
estimates at ten bushels; for Mani-
toba fifteen, and for Alberta she, He
has issued forecasts of the same
nature for a number of years, and
they have been remarkably accurate.
Last year, for instance, he estimated
20,000,000 bushels higher than others
made at the same time, and was with-
in 3,000,000 of the final Government
report.
LIVED FOR TWO HOURS
AFTER BLOWING OUT DRAINS
A despatch from South Porcupine
says:—Charles Morton Penny, who
lived with his wife and family on a
farm near Golden City, was found in
a dying condition in bed, having shot
himself through the head, blowing out
his brains. He died two hours after
being discovered. Penny was an Eng
lishinan. He has been despondent
lately,
WAR EFFORTS OF THE . ALLIES: INTERESTING (rTATIST. CAL CO
(FROM TITD ILLUSTTATED LONDON NEWS, .1'UNE 3$, 1919).
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PA RIS()NS:
1,3 =- CANADIANS
TILL IN Et ROPE
To Save Time in Demobilization;
Troops-51<II i?e(urin Via
U.S. Ports.
A despatch Emir London says:
Canadian troops will Cow be repatti J
atecl via. the United States to save
time in derpobelisution. airings for
American ports fat Lratlaes book-
ings, including officers; N.C:O.'s and
their wives, have been arranged, The
Bohemian sailed for Boston on Fri-
: d''ay, while the Celtic will go to New
York and the Cretic to. Portland. he
SS, Iluvoford is added to the military
seil'ings:
Canadians remaining in Europe now
nuinber 1:7.,300. Examination of the
War Office figures of repatriation of
the soldiers of the various dominions
indicates that Canada has mailer' much
the best showing for rapidity. Out of
about 265,000 troops in Europe at the
time of the armistice, Canade had, up
to August 9, repatriated 247,215; Aus-
tralis had returned 117,900 out,,pf
171,426 in Egypt and , Europe, New
Zealand had repatriated 43,600, and
South Africa 11,700. American sal-
ine from Britain have been rether
slow.
AMERICAN TOOT S
ILL 4 MEXICANS
Surrounded the Bandits in a
Blockhouse in the
Mountains.
A desppitch from Marfa, Tex.,
says:—Four Mexican bandits wire
killed by American troops in Mexico
Thursday. Captain Leonard Matlock,
who arrived here ,by airplane reported.
They were surrounded in a block-
house that the Mexicans had con-
' structed in a mountain pass. The'
bandits fought desperately when they
found they were trapped, and two
escaped. When the American troops
approached the blockhouse with the
intention of searching it- the Mexi-
cans opened fire from portholes.
CANADIAN HAY
WANTED BY BRITAIN
Old Country Can Absorb All
Dominion Has For Export.
A. despatch from London sayst—A
grave shortage of the British hay
crop has resulted in many urgent en-
quiries being placed with Canadian
trade representatives here for ' sup-
plies of Canadian hay. If Canada has
any hay for export she can sell all
of it over here,
The Government spokesman stated
in Parliament that the authorities
were watching the hay situation care-
fully, and that if prices rose to an
unreasonable Ievel they would con-
sider the advisability of fixing maxi-
mum prices. The Government would
, not, however, control the distribution
of the year's hay crop.
GREAT BRITAIN'S HIGH PLACE IN THE ALLIED
The figures given above (taken from an article in the June number of "The
Round Table") may be left to speak for themselves. Those who study them
carefully will see that this country holds a splendid record of military ef-
fort
tfort during the war. Discussing the limitations of statistical testimony,
the writer says: "It is Impossible, for instance, to measure the extent to
which the military effort of the United Kingdom was handicapped by the
necessity of making munitions for the Allies, assisting their finances, main-
taining the command of the sea, and keeping up the oversee carrying trade
ROLL OF HONOR: THE TESTIMONY OF FIGURES.
against the terrible toll exacted by the submarine. It is equally itnpos•
Bible to assess the magnificent moral effort by which Priince held four•
fifths of the Western Front until our new armies came to her aid, or that
which enabled Belgium to rise superior to the first, annihilating shock` of
the waves of the German advance. More imponderable even than these
is the force of instinct and of vision which sent the splendid Dominion con-
tingents across thousands of leagues of sea," The total of 5,704,416 United
Kingdom eplistments excludes the Navy, Merchant Service, and auxiliary
home services, --(Copyrighted in U.S.A. and Canada),
AERIAL MAIL SERVICE
BETWEEN TORONTO AND N. Y.
A despatch from Toronto says:—
Concurrent with the visit to Toronto
of his Royal Highness, the Prince of
Wales, the Postmaster -General auth-
orized the Aero Club of Canada to
convey a mail, containing unregister-
ed letters only, by airplane, from To-
ronto, Ont., to New York, N.Y.,
which closed at the general post office,
Toronto, at 10 a.m., Monday, Aug. 25,
1919, All letters enclosed in this mail
had to be fully prepaid, both as to
postage and war 'tax, and to comply
with the regulations of Canada, and
ill .1 1 1 ;i
were forwarded only at the risk of the
renders, who were required to endorse
on the address side of the letters,
"Via Airplane," as an indication of
their willingness to accept these con-
ditions.
FRENCH AIRPLANE GOLIATH
IS GIVEN UP AS LOST
A. despatch from Paris says:—The
French airplane Goliath, which has
not been seen since it left Mogador,
Morocco, for Dakar last week, genes-
ally was given up as lost ,in aviation
circles. The Faiman Company, build-
ers of the airplane which carried
eight passengers, was still without
news of the machine.
A Golden Newspaper.
The London Daily Mail has printed
a special "Peace Number" in gold,
which forms a lasting, beautiful and
historic souvenir of the tremendous
events of the Inst five years. It con-
tains a complete record of the world
crisis and its solution, from the signa-
tures of the famous"scrap of paper"
to a photograph of the actual signing.
of Peace,
Practically imperishable, with its
golden "ink" and perfect paper, this
3a2iEt. Z7 C*2E Ei "UIP
Peace Number will he a thing to pass
on to the next generation, to show
what manner of men made, fought,
and settled the Great War, -
A list of famous contributors in-
cludes the names of: Viscount North-
cliffe, Mr. Joseph Conrad, Colonel
Sohn Buchan, Viscountess Rhondda,
"George A, Birmingham" (Canon Han-
nay), Sir A. Canon Doyle, the Countess
of Dudley, Sir A. Pinero, and the Bish-
op of Birmingham.
The price is 25 cents, or post free
anywhere in the world 40 cents. Or-
ders should be sent to "Golden Num-
ber, Carmelite House, London, E. C. 4,"
. ----gym
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OVER 1,100 DIVORCES
SOUGHT IN MANITOBA
The. Majority of Applicants Are
Returned Soldiers.
A. despatch from Winnipeg .says: ---
An announcement made at the law
courts Thursday 'states that there are
more than eleven hundred divorce ap-
plications filed for hearing when the
Court of King's Bench opens for the
fall sittings, September 15. Six
judges will be occupied hearing the
cases. In the majority of cases, the
divorce applications are being made
by soldiers, who have returned to fin.
their wives have been unfaithful, The
cost of obtaining' a divorce is from
;200 up, according to lawyers.
PRINCE INAUGURATES
BATTLEFIELD PARK, QUEBEC
A despatch from Quebec says;—At
8 o'clock Friday afternoon the Prince,
attended by his chief of .staff and his
suite, motored from the Citadel to the,
Montcalm monument on Lansdowne
Dark, where his Royal Highness de-
posited a wreath. He then proceeded
along Grande Atlee to the Battlefields
Park, where he laid another wreath
on the Wolfe monument and after-
wards unfurled the Union Jack at the
new flagstaff for the park.
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Tidings From S cotltnI
Six'Lees Knowles, brother-in-law of -
Lord Strathspey, has received the
Tort'itorial Decoration.
Sergt: G. el, Adams, Seaforthe,
ewardoli the . Distinguished Conduct
Medal, is a native of l3rora,
One of Glasgow`s best- known shire
owners passed awey recently in the
person of William Robertson.
Baron Bailie a A, Poison, Boner
Bridge, has- given £50 to the local
Fallen eleroes' Memorial Fund.
The Order of the British. Empire'
has been' conferred on Provost D. S.
Shaw, Fort William, Inverness,
The Croix de Guerre has been
awarded to .Sergi. Charles Reran,
D,C.II., of the 0th Cordon Highlanders,
The Regent Pities U. F. Church,
Craigpark, Dennistoun.,, recently held
their centenary oeiebratimt services,
The experiment of carrying parcels
by special tram car's in Glasgow has
failed, owing to lack of public sup-
port.
Mr. Macpherson, who has been ap-
pointed Chief 'iuepector of Scotland
Yard, is a native of D.inan Bridge,
Morayshire.
A. Mackie, M.A., master of mathe-
niatics`and science at Tale Academy,
has been appointed rector of that in-
stitution.
The cleath is announced at Dingwall
of John Munro, who conducted a baker
business at Dingwall for nearly fifty
years,
A tablet has been erected teethe
West End School, Elgin, in memory
of the 117 old scholars who were
killed in the war.
Lord Lovat'has arranged tie sell hie
estates at Stronolairg, Corriegarth,
Glendoc and Klein, comprising 50,650
acres. '
The French Government has award-
ed the Croix ole -Guerre with palms to
Sergt, R. Valentine, Seaforthe, Los-.
siemouth.
Maj. A, R. Munro, award 'the Ter-
ritorial Decoration, is a brothe'ir of the
Rt. Icon. Robert Munro, Secretary for
Scotland,
Sergi. Robert Logic, Scottish Rifles,
who has been awarded the D.C.101., is
a son of the lab James -Logic, Port
Gordon.
The death took place recently at the
Preston Royal Infirmary of Nurse
Jeannie Gibson, daughter of the late
Bailie G'.bson, Elgin,
The Croix de Chevalier has been
conferred on Capt..1. A. Laurie, D.S.C.,
nephew of Sir Claude V. 10. Laurie,
formerly of Fairburn.
SUFFICIENT PUNISHMENT,
Amusing Story Told by Britisher In
Occupied Germany.
Under British administration in oc-
cupied Germany a great deal of so-
sponsibility falls on the burgomaster,
When his authority breaks down or
when there aro breaches of the rev. -
lotions, a military court tries the
eases and imposes fines of various
amounts. There are .est good many
cases of theft and of toed smuggling.
One amusing case of theft in which
the punishment fitted the crime came
under any notice, says Bishop Prod -
sham ie the Curnhill Magazine. A
sapper complained to his commanding
officer that a. parcel of his that had
lately arrived front England had been
opened, and that some cakes and a
bottle of sugar-coated cascara pills
had been removed.
The owner of the billet, a stout
baker, wee promptly interrogated. Ho
denied with tears all knowledge of
the theft. His wife, also in tears, af-
firmed her innocence. The five trill
dren howled out their innocence of all
matter connected with the parcel.
Then some one remembered that a
tow -headed smell boy, a neighbor's
son, had been in the lime. When
they asked him" if he knew anything
about the matter, he acknowledged
that he had eaten the cakes, big and
little. Did lie know anything about
the medicine? No, he had seen no
medicine, but a little bottle of confec-
tions he had seen and also eaten. glad
he eaten all? Yes, he lead all con -
see necl-tend he was not feeling went
THE FIRST FOUNTAIN PEN.
Invention of a Frenchman is Still Ite
Use in Paris.
A fountain pen made in 1864 is still
In use in Paris. It was patented that
same year by Jean Benoit Mallet, au
engineer, and the firm that still car-
ries on the business.'founded by him
asserts that this was the first fours"
taro pen ever made.
Mallet was the inventor of the gold.
pen with the raby point, perhaps the
easiest writing and noel durable nib
ever Put on the market. But it id
necessarily ,expensive, In 1843 MaI-
Iet substituted iridium as a point for
his pens. At the same time he pro-
vided a reservoir for the ink. This
was the germ from which grew the ',,
idea of storing ink in the handle.
Mallat's fountain pen differs only
slightly from our modern ones. Itrwas
self -filling, but the flow of ink was re-
gulated by a little turn -screw on the
Bide. mild, however, was soon given
up, as it became clogged.
It would be interesting to know,
what was the date of the earliest
patent on a fountain pen in America
or England,