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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1912-08-02, Page 2GREAT BRITMN PREPARING 43 Destroyers in i8 Months, and 8 Small Lruisers to Germany's 2 'A. despatch from London says : In the debate on the naval esti- mates in the House. of Commons on Wednesday Winston Spencer Churchill, the First Lord of theAd- niralty, replyin to :they criticism that he had made inadequate pro-. vision to met the menace he had described, said, "We ,are spending a 1 4•.5,000,000 this year and we are going to spend more next year. We. are raising the personnel of the. navy to 141,150 by 1913 and to 146,- 000 in 1914. As regards construc- tion, Germany this year is laying down two new battleships and we four. Next year Germany is laying down one esd ra and we two. This year Germany is laying down two small cruisers ; 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 from Paris says: That the world is not yet on the eve of the cessation of the struggle be- tween Great Britain and Germany for naval supremacy is the preva- lent reva lent opinion in France after careful study of the recent speech by Wins ton Churchill in the House of Cora- mons. omirons. The continuance of the riv- alry between those two countries Causes a note of regret here, but there is an inclination to believe that if it must go on France' should learn a lesson from. England's pro- cedure and herself increase her navy. The Matin, commenting on the subject, says it is in a. position to declare that Italy and Austria at tlieinstigation 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 knots, while Austria" is to build three, each of them displacing 26,000 tons. The newspaper continues : "The fulfil- ment of this programme will de- stroy the present naval equilibrium in the Mediterranean and give a big advantage to the Triple Alliance." PRICES Of FARII l ILU 63C 1 S 1 gshe00 t ep.S p50;b nmaoan a a�mb 7 4 per Oh Hogs, $8.75 to $9.00. Calves. from $2.00 to $10.00 - Toronto, July 30.-Butehers' cattle brought from $7 to $7.25, while good stuff grades from $7 down to $6.50. Medium stuff brought from $5.50 • to $6,50. Light heifers brought $4.50 to $4.80, and stock- ers, weighing 750 lbs., brought $5. Good cows were firmer; going as high as $5.60 and bulls were worth more, some bring- ing from $5.50 to $6.00. Common cows were worth from $2 to 83.50. Lambs brought from $8 to $8.25. Sheep brought from $3.50 to $4.75, and good calves $7.50, with some common grades at $5.35. Hogs brought from $8.10 to 8815 f.o.b. The price for fed and watered stook was $8.30 to $8.- 40 8:40 per hundredweight. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, July 30. -Wheat -July, $1.• 031.4, September, 94 3-8 to 941.2o ; Decem- ber, 95 1-4o, Closing cash -No. 1 hard, $1: 05; No. 1 Northern, $1.041.2; No. 2 North- ern, $1.021.2. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 741-2 to 75c. Oats -No. 3 white, 46 1.2o, Rye -No. 2, 70c. Duluth. July 30. -Wheat -No, 1 hard, $1.05 3-8; No. 1 Northern, $1.04 3-8; No. 2 do., $1.023-8; Slily, $1.04 bid; September, 96o; December. 96 3.4e asked. FIFTY FAMILIES HOMELESS. Myr Cloudburst Does -Greet, f#a age .i (REPORTS FROM T145 LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. Prices of Cattle, Crain, Cheese and Other Produce at Homo and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto. July 30. -Flour -Winter. 90 ner Cent. patents, $4.16 to 64.20. at seaboard, and at $4.20 to 84.25 for home oonsumn- tion. Manitoba flours (these ouotatione are for lute bags. in cotton bags 100 more) -First patents. $5.70; second natente. $5.20. and strong bakers'. $5, on track. Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 Northern. 81: 121.2. Bay ports; No. 2 at $1.09. and No. 3 at $1.05 to $1.051-2. Bay Ports. Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white, red and mixed, quoted at $1.05, outside. Peas -Nominal. Oats -Car lots of No. 2 Ontario quoted at 46 to 46o, and No. 3 at 44c, on track, eroronto. No. 1 extra W. C. feed, 44 to 45c. Bay porch, and No. 1 at 43 to 44c, Bay ports. Barley -Nominal. Corn -No. 3 Americas yellow, 75a, on track, Bay ports, and at 80 to 81o, To. Tonto. Rye -Nominal.. Buckwheat -Nominal. Bran -Manitoba bran, $24, in bags, To• Tonto freight. shorts, $28- - • cOtrrrni prior eco r .7A'to 21e•,' or0a=0�7'tri `' o •tor s: a,ud 20c for solids. Eggs -tease lots, 23 to 25o a dozen. Cheese -New cheese, 14 1-4o for large and 141-20 for twins. Beans -Handpicked, $3 per bushel; primes. $2.85 to $2.90. Roney -Extracted, in tins, 11 to 12o per ib. Poultry -Wholesale prices of choice dressed poultry; -Chickens, 18 to 22o per Ib.;. fowl, 13 to 14c; ducklings, 16 to 170. Live poultry, about Zo lower than the above. Potatoes -Oar lots of Ontarios, in bags, 81.40, and Delawares at $1.50. PROVISIONS. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats -Rolls - Smoked, 13e to 131.2o; hams, medium, 17 1-2c to i8o; heavy, 161.2 to 170: break- fast bacon, 81-2c; long clear bacon, tons and oases, 14e to 141-20; backs (plain), 20o; backs, (peameal), Ole. Green Meats -Ont of pickle, lo. less than tunoked. Pork -Short cut, $24.50 to $25 per bar. rel; mess pork, $20 to $21. • Lard -Tierces, 133.4o; tuba, 14e; pails, 141.40. MONTREAL MARKETS, • Montreal, July 30. -Oats, Canadian Western, N. 2, 45 to 45 1-2c; Canadian Weat- ern, No. 3, 440; extra No. 1 fend, 45e. Bar- ley. Man. feed, 63 to 640; malting, $105 to $1.07. Buckwheat, No. 2, 75 to 76o. Flour, ' Man. spring wheat patents, firsts, '$5.80; seconds, $6.30; strong bakers', $5.10; Win. - ter patents ohoioe, $5.40 to $5.50; straight rollers $4,95 to $5.00; straight rollers, bags, 82.40 to $2.45, Rolled oats, barrels, $5 06; ,• bags, 90 lbs., $2.40. • Bran, $22.00. Shorts, $26,00. Middlings, $27.00,, Mouillie, $30 to 134.00, Hay, 14o. 2, per ton, car lots, $16.00 to $17.00. Cheese, finest westerns, 131:8 to 131.4o; finest easterns, 123.8 to 125.8c. Butter, slice r Cost creamery. 261.4 to 261.2e, seconds, 251.2 to 260. Ernes, selected, 251.2 to 26 1-2c; No. 2 stook, 16 to 16e. Potatoes, per bag. car lots, $1.60. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. afontreal, July 30. -Choice cattle, $6,75 to A despatch from 'Connellsville, Pa,., says: , Fifty families are tem- porarily homeless, $100,000 damage was done, buildings and bridges were washed away, and railroad traffic was suspended at Dunbar as a result of a cloudburst on Wednes- day afternoon. The lower streets of the- town were rivers, and -stores and residences were surrounded by from four to six feet of water. There was a reign of terror in the town about one o'clock in theafter- noon, when. it was rumored three dams about five miles above Dun- bar had burst, and a, repetition of the Austin disaster was feared for a time. AEROPLANE CARRIES GUN. Twenty Rounds Fired at 400 Feet In a Stiff Breeze. A despatch from London, Eng- land, says: Experiments with a quick -firing gun in an aeroplane made by the .Royal 'Flying Corps of Farnborough on. Thursday proved entirely successful and are regard- ed ard- ed ,as another step in the advance of -the aeroplane and waterplane as a means of land and sea defence. The test with the quack -firing gun was made in .a stiff breeze, at a height of 400 feet. Some twenty, rounds of ammunition were fired at imaginary objects on the , plane directly beneath the aeroplane. The result had little effect upon the machine. , SQUINT-EYED MEN BARRED Dominion Railway Board Issues Series of Rules on the Subject A despatch from Ottawa says: Men who squint or are cross-eyed can no longer become engineers, firemen, trainnnen or brakemen on Canadian railways. Following its recent judgihent the Detn.inion Railway Commission has issued a series, of uniform rules governing the determination of visual acuity,, color perception and hearing of railway employees, 'and among them is a clause banning the squi?ting or cross-eyed man, This is not the only defect barred. Ap- plicants roust not be accepted if they use glasses for near vision, though when the distant vision of an employee can beimproved by good glasses their use is encourag- ed. Color blindness is also barred,, and good hearing powers are strin- gently insisted upon. Applicants must be able to hear and repeat names and numbers spoken in e, conversational tone at a distance of twenty feet; Employees must be re-examined in all 'these particulars after any illness or accident which might have affected them, as .well as before proinotion, 1 1,NE. ROBBED OF $ Knock Two Northern Cr dais . Unconscious. A despatch from Vancouver Two robbers, one a short other 'a tall man, lielcl,. Northern Crown Bank at Park, six miles out of gra At 10 o'olook on Thursday e They had been loitering in't7; nity for half an hour, havin there with a 'horse and ri covered = Manager C. 0. with a gun and also held up h sistant, Tompkins, both of ,w were having lunch, They Atte of ed to force Temple to open the sai£e, but he refused, and one struck bilxt over the head with a piece of lead pipe. They put Tompkins out . of business in the same manner, and then broke open acash box and stole $2,000. They got away in their rig. When Temple recovered con- sciousness he telephoned for help, but the robbers have not been cap- tured. 'uerporal Mortimer, of the'Army Service Corps, Ottawa, who won four matches at Bisle -and made a world's record. '- • COST OF LIVING IN GERMAN?. Total Extra Cost fon Iitsef Is -$1E;- .^ 060' per.. Attu!, + tell i er;.,n say - :. While the total charges of the Gea~ man army and navy, including this year's increases, is less'' than $5 per head per year, a German econo- mist, 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 tile increase in the retail prices per pound as .shown by the official sta- tistics overthe average price ten years ago... For greater Berlin the total extra cost is about $18,000,000 per annum. PIUR A IN R.UINS.. The Earthquake Shock Lasted Forty Seconds. A despatch from. Lima, Peru, says: A destructive earthquake oc- curred on 'Wednesday morning sit Piura, capital of the Department of Piura, the most northerly ef the Pa- cific departments.- The shook lasted forty seconds, and the city is .said to be almost in ruins. While ad= vices from that district are meagre, it is reported that .a number of chil- dren were killed and many persons injured. Among the latter was Mr. Blacker, agent of the South Amerir can Insurance Company. The dry bed of a river was torn openand jets of water thrown out. Pium or San Miguel de Piura, lies 120 miles north-northwest of La Lambayeque It has a population of x2,000. INFANT PARALYSIS. Twenty-eight Cases Discovered at Buffalo. A despatch from Buffalo says, Twenty-eight eases of infantile par- alysis were discovered by'officers of the Health Department in a partial canvass' of the city on Wednesdaa.j+:b;' and steps were at once taken `. combat what appears to be a sii e ous outbreak ef the disease. eign families on the east side ,fur.- niched the bulk of the eases alreaatl located. although two children serf ferin'g from the disease live-in Days. Park, in the west side residence` section of the city. Three of thsa twenty-eight cases resulted fatally'; on Wednesday. TROff:.GR.AFT SCANDAL ourteen Aldermen and Secretary Involved in Grave Charge of Receiving Bribes A despatch from Detroit, Mich„ ye, : Fourteen-A1dermehand the eei'ebary of the Common Council. .omznittees are .involved in a Drib 17 scandal that broke 'out in this city on Friday.. Seven have been arrested already, and the others are now being sought by the police. The Alen now under arrest are: Thos. E. Glinnan, President of the Councils Aldermen Loris Brozo, Frank 'Mason; Alois. Deimel, Joseph B} Thiesen' • and Martin Qstr-owski, and E. R. Schreiter, •Secretary of the Council Committees, Glinnan and Schreiter made full confessions soon after lacing arrested and Glin- nan turned over to thedetective who arrested him a roll of. $1,000 in : bills, which he had received but a few minutes before. The charge against the Aldermen and Secretary. is that they accepted money in con- nection with the granting to the Wabash Railway the right to .build a freight. warehouse `on Seventh street between Fort street and Congress. The proposition was strongly advocated by the Board of • Commerce and others :interested in the growth of the city, but was held up by certain, Aldermen who de - mended pay before. voting for it, To catch , these ,Aldermen the 131aras:' Detective Agency -was em- ployed. to ;set : a trap for them, and a .dictagreph was used. This is the first exposure of its kind that has ever been made in the Common Council of Detroit. The. arrest of Tom Glinnan, the Coun- cil leader, is most coiiinented up- on. It is said that he has already. filed his petition for nomination for Mayor in the fall election. The detectives claim that : they have caught their men not only with marked money, but by telephonic testimony and phonographic re- cords. The investigation which.. culmin- ated in the arrests on Friday has been going on since February, when rumors of graft began to as- sume serious proportions. Mayor William B. Thompson sought the services- of detectives, and Andrew H. Green, a prominent manufao- turer, agreed to finance the probe. $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 occupy the site of the present High School. The construction of the newhotel. 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 retorts a local firm is arranging' for' a bond flotation in connection with the new hotel, which w?ll• have .am.pl© back- ing, including among the interested parties the Grand Trunk Railway. The land would cost about $1,800.- 000, making the total cost of the ho- tel $3,300,000. la. TO OPERATE FAST FREIGHT. C.11T.R. Montreal -Ottaway •Service '--�F3rst -Later t0 T s , oda lateh *one Itesitre tea':' ay.,i. r Donald Mann was Yn 'Montreal on Wednesday, ;personally superin- tending the operations in connec- tion with the boring of the. tunnel, under the mountain for the en- trance of the Canadian Northern into Montreal, Sir Donald expects that the line which the company is building between Ottawa and. To- ronto will be opened late in the fall, and as a measure preparatory to this Mr. D. B. Hanna, the Vice - President and General Manager, has just completed arrangements for the opening . of a fast freight service between Montreal and Ot•. tawa 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. • 4G GUARDED EVERYWHERE.. British Premier Has to Have Escort Even at a Wedding. A despatch from London says: •Additional police guards have been detailed. to guard the .Cabinet Min- isters against Suffragette .assaults,, fit- was rumored- on Wednesday that the • Scotland bard authorities have been warned that an irnmerise dem- onstration is being planned. Prem- ier Asquith's life has bean made un- bearable for him. He cannot stir without heavy police guards. He attended a wedding on Tuesday at St. Margaret's Church, Westmins- ter, and, although uninvited, his guards were compelled to accom- pany him. ne TOWNSITE COLLECTIONS. Millionaire's Nephew Is Charged . with Theft. A despatch from Calgary, Alta., says: 11. M. Hanbury, 22, a 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 corn•• mitted about June 15, and the amount represents money which it is .alleged was collected by Hanbury while seting as a;•sales agent for the company. 0aii ices been set' at ;401] !