The Herald, 1912-08-16, Page 2WESTER
BMI{ ROBBERY
David Waiters and Alice Davis Taken into Custody
at )Palmer louse, Toronto''
A despatch from Toronto says
'Clever work by Detective Richard
Tipton, assisted by Q11 er members
of the Toronto Police Department,
resulted iu the arrest at the Pal-
mer House on Saturday night of
David Walters and Alice Davis, who
are believed to be inembers of the
gang of safe-blowers who stole more
than $350,000 from the Bank of
Montreal at New Westminster, B.
0„ on September 14, 1911. Walters'
right name is said to be Walter
Davis. A search of the personal
effects belonging to the pair re-
eulted in the recovery of $2,020 in
bills of the series taken from the
bank. There was also $7,185.50 in
'bills, gold and silver, making a to-
tal of $9,205.50, all of which the
police believe is part of the pro-
ceede of the big haul. From re-
cords in the detective office it are
pears that Walters had previously
been arrested in the United States
under the names of O'Day and Fer-
guson.
Some time ago the police received
a tip that some of the stolen bills
were being circulated in Toronto.
Accordingly Detective Tipton sent
to the bank for a complete list of
all the money missing. These lists
were sent to the hotels, cigar stores,
theatres and other places in the city
where a large amount of money is
handled, with instructions to re-
port to the police in case any at-
tempt was made to pass bills of the
series described.
PRICES OF FARM ROHM
(REPORTS FROM THE t-EADINQ TRADE
CENT'eES OF AMERICA.
*aces of Cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other
Produce at Home and Abroad.
BREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Aug. 13.—Flour—Winter wheat,
90 per cent. patents, $3.80 for new, at sea-
board, and at $3.85 for home cdnsump-
tion. Manitoba flours (these quotations
are for ju;;e bags, in cotton bags 10c
more):—First patents, $5.70; second pat-
ents, $5.20, and strong bakers', $5, on
track, Toronto.
Manitoba Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 51.12,
Bay ports; No. 2 at 51.08, and No. 3 at
$1.05, Bay ports. Feed wheat sells at 62
to 63c, Bay ports.
Ontario Wheat—No. 2 white, red and
mixed, 96 to 98c, outside.
Peas—Nominal.
Oats—Car lots of No. 2 Ontario, 421-2o,
and Na 3 at 411-2o, outside; No. 2 at 45o,
on track, Toronto. No. 1 extra W. C. feed,
411-2o, Bay ports, and No. 1 at 40 1-2c,
Bay Potts-
Barley—Nominal. .
Corn—No, 2 American yellow, 78o, on
track, Bay ports, and at 82c, Toronto;
No. 3, 81c, Toronto, and 77c, Bay ports.
Rye—Nominal.
Buckwheat—Nominal.
Bran—Manitoba bran, $23, in bags, To-
ronto freight. Shorts, $24 to 525.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter—Dairy, choice, 23 to 25c; bakers ,
Inferior, 20 to Ole; choice dairy, tube, 22
to 23c; creamery, 27 to 28o for rolls, and
26c for solids.
Eggs—Case lots of new -laid, 25c per doz.;
fresh, 230.
Cheese -New cheese, 1414 to 1412o for
Sorg:,: and 141-2 to 143.40 for. twins.
Beaus—Hand-picked, $3 . per ,bne t;
,primes, $2,25 to 52.90.
Sonet'—Extraetod, in tins, 1112 to 12 1-2o
er lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, 52.25 to
3, wholesale.
Poultry Wholesale prices of choice
dre,r,+r1 poultry:- Chickens, 18 to 190 per
Sb.; hens, 13 to 14c; duoklings, 16 to 17c.
Live poultry, about 2o lower than the
above.
Potatoes—Canadian, new, 51.25 to 51.50
per bushel.
PROVISIONS.
Bacon—Long clear, 131.2 to 14o per 113.,
3n case lots. Pork—Short cut, 524.50 to
$25; do., mess, 520 to $21. Hams—Medium
to light, 171-2 to 180; heavy, 161-2 to 17c;
rolls, 13 to 131-20; breakfast bacon, 18 to
181-2c; backs, 20 to 21c.
Lar—Tierces, 13c; tubs, 131.4e; pails,
23 1-2c.
MONTREAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Aug. 13.—Oats—Canadian West-
ern, No. 2, 45 to 451.20 ; do., No. 3, 44 to
841-2c; extra No. 1 feed, 45e. Barley—
lifanitoba feed, 63 to 64c. Flour—Manito-
ba Spring wheat patents, firsts, 55.80; do.,
seconds, 55.39; strong bakers', S5.10; Win-
ter patents, choice, 55.25; straight rollers,
M $4.85 to $4.90; do., bags, $2.25 52,30. ROHM
bats—Barrels, 55.05; bags, 90 lbs., 52.40.
Bran -522; shorts, 526; middlings, 527;
lnouilli0, 30 to 534. Hay—No. 2, per ton,
Oar lots, 316 to 517• Cheese—Finest West-
erns, 131-4 to 133-8c; finest Eas.erns, 1212
to 12 7-8c. Butter—Choicest creamery, 261.4
to 26 1-20; seconds, 26 to 261.4o. Eggs—Se.
looted, 28 to 29c; No. 2 stock, 21 to 22c. Po-
tatoes—Per bag, car lots, $1.60.
LIVE, STOCK MARKETS.
Montreal, Aug. 13.—Steers sold from $4
to 56,50 per 100 lbs., cows from 53.60 to 55.
Pew good bulls were offered, and on the
common run the price ranged from $2.50
to 53.25. Sheep sold fairly steady at 40
pound and lambs brought 4c for com-
mon and 61-2o far good. Hogs were
labout 76o lower than a week ago, selects
Stelling at 58.50 per 100 lbs. ,Calves brought
(from $3 to 510 each.
Toronto, Aug. 13.—Cattle — Exporters,
ehoice, $7.25 to $7.50: bulls, $4,50 to 55.25:
Cows, 55 to 55.60. Butcher—Choice, 57 to
$7,35; medium, $6 to $6.75; cows, $5 to 85.-
60. Calves—Steady, 57.50 to $8.50. Stockers
at 54.25 heavy, 535.35.
to 53.0; spe ng
lambs at 55 to 56.50. Hogs --Selects, $8.15
5.0.13., and $8.60 to 58.75 fed and watered.
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Aug. 13. — Wheat—Sept.,
91 3-8 to 911-20; Dec., 92e; May, 963-8a; No.
1 hard, 51.03 7-8o; No. 1 Northern, $1,03 3-8c;
No. 2 do., 51.01 3-8 to $1.017'8. No. 3 yel-
low corn, 72o; No. 3 white oats, 37 to 39c.
No. 2 rye, 631-2 to 64o. Bran, 519 to 519.50.
Flour—Leading local patents in wood, 2.
o. b., 11tinneapol1e, $6 to 55.35; other pat-
ents, 54.75 to $5; first clears, 53.50 to $3--
75; second clears. 52.40 to $2.70.
Duluth, Aug. 13—Wheat—No. i hard. $1.-
04 3-8; No. 1 Northern, old, $1.03 3.8; No. 2
Northern, old, 51.01 3.8; Aug., No. 1 North-
ern, 94 5.8e; Sept., 92 5--8c bid; Deo., 93o bid.
FORESTRY CONVENTION.
Annual electing Will Be Heid at
Victoria, B.C., Sept. 4, 5 and 6.
A despatch from Ottawa says:
The fourteenth annual convention
of the Canadian Forestry Associa-
tion for the reading and discussing
of papers, and the passing of reso-
lutions based thereon, will be held
upon the invitation of the Govern-
ment of British Columbia in the
City of Victoria, B.C., on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 4,
5 and 6, 1912. Sir Richard Mc-
Bride, Premier of the Province,
and Hon. W. R. Ross, Minister of
Lands, are taking a personal inter-
est in this convention, and will ad-
dress the delegates upon this sub-
ject which is now the uppermost
one in 'British Columbia. While
papers Arta •ads' rens'eo w+
deal wiLli Inattere thet t;
tish .Columbia; they will not be con-
fined to this, and in every way the
convention will be national in char-
acter and embrace every part of
Canada.
GERMAN CRUISER IS FAST,
Went Over Measured Tilile at Speed
of 22 Knots an Hour.
A despatch from Danzig says :
The German turbine cruiser Goe-
ben, which was launched at Ham-
burg in March last year, on Wed-
nesday underwent a'speed test over
a measured mile here, and is re-
ported to have developed a speed
of 32 knots. At her previous trial
on May 18 she made 30 knots. She
is the speediest ship in the German
uavy.
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CALL FOR TENDERS AT ONOE.
Hon. Frank Cochrane Hopes to Let
Contracts for H. B. Railway.
A despatch from Winnipeg says:
Tenders for the construction of the
Hudson Bay Railway to tidewater
will be called for at oncewas the
announcement of Hon, Frank Coch-
rane, Minister of Railways on,
Thursday. Mr, Cochrane said it
was hoped that contracts could be
let on his return to Ottawa, as it
was the 'object to complete the line
at the earliest possible moment,
President Taft vetoed the wool
tariff bill,
OVER OVE IIUNDRED KILLED
Explosion of Black Damp Caused a Disaster in a
Mine in Germany
A despatch from Bochum, Ger-
(Many, says ; An explosion of black
damp and coal dust on Thursday
Morning in the Lorraine shaft of
the coalfield in the village of
Gerthe, four miles from Bochum,
cost the lives of 103 miners, accord-
ing to the official report. Two oth-
ers were severely and twenty-three
slightly injured. Death was prac-
tically instantaneous in all eases.
The cause of the explosion has not
yet been definitely ascertained, but
it is thought that a blast reached
ft big pocket of gas..- The day shift
of 650 men had just descended into
the workings and were distributing
themselves along the various levels,
when a serious fire damp explosion
occurred. The detonation was
heard at the surface, and the offi-
cials on duty immediately formed
rescue parties of the men belonging
to the night shift, who rushed back
to the pit mouth together with the
villagers. The rescue crew's, which
did such good work at the time of
the French mine disaster at Cour-
rieres, near Lens, on March 10,
1906, when 1,230 miners were killed
arrived here early in the afternoon,
but were unable to penetrate the
galleries, owing to the flames and
the poisonous gases.
PRAIRIE
Harvesting Will be
Week of.
A despatch from.
The crop report on
ering the three I'rai
most gratifying, the
the remarkable prog
the last two weeks.
filling )well The bari
`started; At 4. ;thea
In Alberta e�rulloek ' s,
the old fields of spring wheal. ' e
already cut. Harvesting X11 apps
general from„August 12th to fi' ; dl,
the 15th being the date given when
the majority of points will com-
mence. It means that with aver-
age harvest weather the greats bulk
of the crop will be of contract grade.
Should the West produce two hun-
dred million bushels of hard wheat,
as there seems every probability it
will, it means that this season's
crop of Western Canada will be the
dominating factor in the : world's
markets.
BATONS I•TCl,R TOO FREELY.
Shake-upin St. John Polite Fero
Imminent.
A despatch from St. John, B.,
says : The St. John police forst° is
due for a general shake-up; ' rd-
ing to H. R. McLellan, mis-
sioner of Public Safety. A 'son-
er charged with drunkenn : and
resisting the police was se ly
wounded by a beating on t' ead
with batons that several hes
had to be put in his scalp, - the
.hearing before.the Magistr on
Friday morning the Comm' ner
said the city would be lia for
damages, and he intended ake
a thorough investigation.
rN
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Who will spend some money in
trying out a. cure for cancer found
by an old Irishman.
IMMIGRATION FIGURES.
Fifteen Per Cent. More in 'three
Months Than Year Ago.+
A despatch from Ottawa 'tags:
During the three months, April 1
to June 30, of the current fiscal
year 175,341 immigrants arrived 'in,
Canada. Of this number 121.,99$
arrived at ocean ports and 53,343
from the United States. These fig-
ures show an increase of fifteen per.
cent. as compared with those for
the corresponding months oft last
fiscal year, which were 109,816 at
ocean ports and 43,809 froaii;the
United States, making a tetal''for
the three months, April 1 to tune
30, 1911, of 153,118. Deering '; e the
month of June this year there iverei
45,888 arrivals, 32,140 of them :hive
ing been at ocean ports and 131, f;48
from the United States, as egeleet,
40.008 for June last year, 27,9731of
whom were at ocean ports and' f,'>
035 from. the United States.
HYDRO IS GROWING,'
Mr. Beck Predicts Call fop.
Horse -power in 19:
A despatch frons Terme
That the Hydro °Electric
sion will be distributing
40,000 and 50,000 horse-po
Niagara zone by the end
the prediction of Hon.,'
In the past month the• c
of power by the municip
ing contracts with the
was over two and a half ; si
er than a year previous.;'
est load during July
horse -power, compared`:
for July, 1911. Toronto
total along in great style,';
muni load here in+ereasing
528 to 10,154.
1112. ILLUSTRATION FARMS
ommission of Conservation Will Send 'Experts to.
Guide the Owners
A despatch from Ottawa says:
or the purpose' of demonstrating
C'analian farn5ers how they may
et the best out of the land in the
most economic manner, the Com-
mission of Conservation has chosen
a azumber of farms throughout the
Provinces for illustration purposes.
In each case the Commission has
chosen farms whose owner agrees
to be guided by the agricultu'ral ex-
perts
provided. These are F. 0,
Nunnick, the Commission's agri-
cultural expert, and John Fixter,
formerly farm superintendent of
Macdonald College. The illustra-
tion farms have already been chosen
in the eastern Provinces, and both
Mr. Nunnick and Mr. Fixter ' are
now in the west arranging for il-
• lustration farms in the Prairie
I Provinces. In Ontario there are
eight farms,' in Quebec siur, and New
I Brunswick, Prince Edward Island
and Nova Scotia three each.
The Ontario illustration farms
are as follows; Lanark county, farm
owned by W. Hands of Perth; Es-
sex county, farm owned by Nelson
Peterson, Ruthven, and farm owned
by R. F. Taylor, Essex; Norfolk
county, farm owned by A. M. Cul-
ver, Simooe; Waterloo county, farm
owned by Paul Snyder, Elmira; On-
tario country, farm owned by Tho-
mas Hall, Brooklin ; Dundas coun-
ty, farm, owned by Whittaker Bros.,
Williamsburg.
Meetings will be held from time
to time at these points, and .will be
addressed by experts.
YOUNG GIRL'S BRAVERY.
Though Unable to Swim She Saved
Her Little Brother.
A despatch from Brockville says :
A second brave and successful at-
tempt at rescue from drowning here
within two weeks took place on
Saturday afternoon.' Alfred Mas-
sey, aged three years, son of Daniel
Massey, Water street, was playing
on the platform of a launch hpuse.
In attempting to reach some brush
and pull it from the water the little
boy fell in. He was going down the
second time when his sister Nellie,
aged fourteen, attracted by his
screams, ran to the dock, and with-
out waiting plunged into the water,
which at this point is fifteen feet
deep. The young girl cannot swim,
but secured a hold on her brother
and managed to keep herself and;
him afloat until the father, learn-
ing of what had happened, rushed
to the scene, jumped in and landed
his two children safely on the boat-
house platform.
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OTTAWA OFFICIALS.
Suspended Pending Inquiry Into
Waterworks Affairs.
m Ottawa
ngiileer ” -a one
were on aturdayy suspended by
Mayor Hopewell from all connection
with the civic Waterworks Depart-
ment. Engineer Wm. Storrie of
New York, who has been here in
connection with the plans for the
city's filtration with the plans for
the city's filtration system, was
temporarily placed in charge. The
Mayor's action was taken in view
of the coming inquiry to fix respon-
sibility for the break in the new
waterworks intake, which resulted
in the recent outbreak of typhoid
fever.
NEW ELEVATOR AT MONTREAL
G.T.R. Believed to be Planning
Million -Bushel Structure.
A despatch from Montreal says:
Plans for a new 1,000,000 -bushel
elevator to be erected in Montreal
are now in .course of preparation.
It is believed that the Grand Trunk
is back of the project. The eleva-
tor will be ready for business in the
fall of 1913.
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WOMAN CUT BY BINDER.
Horses' Started While She was
Standing in Front of It.
A despatch from St. Thomas saye:
Mrs. Archibald Donn of Iona Sta-
tion, met with a serious accident
Friday evening. While she was
standing in front of a self -binder,
the team started, badly lacerating
her leg just above the ankle.
CO U NTERFEIT BILLS.
Crude Fakes of $1 and $2 Notes,
Rave Been Circulated.
A. despatch from Toronto says:
Counterfeits of Canadian Govern-
ment one -dollar and two -dollar
notes have been put in circulation
in Toronto and Hamilton. The
police have come across a few of
the bad bills, and are on the look-
out for more of them, and for those
who are sending them out. Only a
few are as yet known to have been•
put in Toronto, but it has been
learned that quite a number have
made their appearence in Hamil-
ton. The bills are very easy of de-
tection. They ale photographs of
the originals on paper of a much
more inferior quality than the true
notes. The greens and blacks on
the etchings are not of the same
strong tones as those of the origin-
als, but appear washy, especially
the greens.
WILL EMPLOY 250 1%IEN.
Auto Company Coming to Start in
Brantford.
A. despatch from Brantford says :
Negotiations have been concluded
f here ;for the establishment of - the
Keeton Antoinobile: Company, with
acapital stock of $200,000. The
firm is a branch of the Keeton En-
•ine Company of New York, It will
employ 250 hands, and operations
will be commenced immediately in
the old Barber. & Ellis factory on
Elgin street.
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PLENTY OF VEGETABLES.
Unusually Large Yield Expected in
Western Ontario.
A despatch from London, Ont.,
sa»s : ' I. B. Whale, Middlesex
County Agricultural Expert, visited
the vegetable -growers of London
and vicinity last week and reports
that this year's vegetable harvest
will be an unusually large yield all
around.
ALLEGED SPIES RELEASED.
English Yachtsmen Accused of Tak-
ing Photos of Harbors.
A despatch from Kiel, Germany,
says: The five English yachtsmen
who were arrested on August 4 at
Eckernfoerde, in Schleswig-Hol-
stein, on the charge of espionage
were released on Thursday. They
were accused •of taking photographs
of important points along the har-
bors and bays, but the police ad-
mit now that the suspected men
seem only to have been guilty of
foolhardy photography, of which.
they knew the risk.
RAIN I\ THE BRITISII ISLES
he Harvest Prosp ect Assumes a Serious Aspect as
Result of the Wet.
A despatch from London says:
er an extensive area of the Brig
h Isles the harvest prospect is as -
ming a very serious aspect, in
1.nsequence of the vagaries of the
ather, which has now been of a
tOre or less unfavorable type since
he advent of June. .A year ago the
untry had a summer of intense
eat and dryness, which enabled
rmers to complete the harvesting
Aerations some weeks earlier than
"seal. This season they have to
't' with folded arms, waiting for a
esation of the all but daily rain -
terms.
Official statistics show that in the
nine weeks from the beginning of
June the frequency of rain has been
unusually great over nearly the
whole of the United Kingdom,
while the total quantity of the
water which has fallen is largely in
excess of normal.
Within the last few days the rain-
storms have increased in intensity,
and falls of one inch a day are ra-
ther common. Sometimes the
amounts have exceeded two inches,
Unfortunately, there is no prospect
of an improvement in conditions.
THE NEWS IN A PARA
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OTE13
THE GLOBE' IN A
NUTSHELL.,
Canadatho Empire and the 'World
in General Before Your
Eves.
CANADA.
The Postofface Departinont will
issue stamps in roll form.
Hydro -electric power in I amilton
is reduced to $17 per h.p.
Montreal doctors and other citi-
zens are promoting a hospital for
infants.
Rev. W. J. Mortimer, formerly of
London, Ont., died in the Methodist
mission field in China.
The Grand Trunk terminal, situ-
ated in Brockville since 1855, is
shortly to be removed to Prescott
The Wreck Commission found the
Empress of Britain responsible fo.
colliding with the collier Helvetia
Several nurses lave left Rock:.
wood Hospital, leingston, for Ot-
tawa to assist in attending typhoid.;
cases.
T. G. Meredith, K.C., London,
Ont., was appointed Corporation
Counsel of Toronto at a salary of
$15,000.
A natural gas explosion at Leam-
ington wrecked a large house being
built for Canning Company em-
ployees.
Mrs. Geo. T. Tuckett, wife of the
head of the Tuckett Tobacco Co.,
Hamilton, died after a, few weeks'
illness. -.'
J. H. Driscoll, former manager of
the McClary Manufacturing Co.'s
branch in Winnipeg, was killed by
a street car.
Miss Rose Zaibe died at Hamil-
ton as a result of eating candies.
Four others were seized with vio-
lent convulsions.
The Montreal 1 Harbor Commis-
sioners will this fall begin building
their new elevators, each of 2,500,-
000 bushels capacity.
Lake and ocean going vessels will
be required to have wireless equip-
ment as a result of the recent In-
ternational Congress.
Between $20,000 and $28,000 dam
age was done by fire to Peck
Wills' sash and door factory an
other buildings in Belleville.
Dr. David Robertson, Regisera
of Halton, and some years ago it
'representative in .the' Legislatur
died suddenly at Nelson, B. 0..
Allan Williams, seven year-ol
son of John Williams, physical in
structor at Ridley College, wa
drowned in Twelve Mne Creek.
Dr. Daniel Meagher of Montrea
was found dead in the home of
relative he was visiting in King
sten. Heart trouble was the cause
Montreal workingmen will erect
monument to Mr. J. A. Rodier
founder of the Trades and Labo
Council in that city, who died tete
years ago.
Twenty-five thousand dollars'
worth of Cobalt silver was shipped
on Friday by the Teutonic to the
Bank of England to be mined into
British coins.
Police Sergeant Abraham.Nash, a
member of the Windsor force for.
twenty-six years, and distinguished
for bravery, has been appointed a
Provincial detective.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Premier Borden may pay a visi
to Germany before his return.
Two suffragettes were sentence
to five years' imprisonment in
Dublin court.
- Sixty M.P.'s and a number of
Peers witnessed the military aero-
planes in flight on Salisbury Plain'
on Thursday.
Mr. Asquith announced that a
committee would be appointed to
inquire into the atrocities in the
Peruvian rubber districts.
The . Master of Elibank, Chief
Liberal Whip, has been raised to
the Peerage and resigned his seat
in the House of Commons.
The Unionist candidate, Sir Johne
Randles, was returned for North-
west Manchester, rendered vacant
by the resignation of the Liberal
member.
UNITED STATES.
Governor Woodrow Wilson. 'ac
cepted the Democratic nominatio
for the Presidency.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt wa<'
nominated for the Presidency at t
Progressive National Conventi
at Chicago.
The U. S. Senate passed t
Panama Canal bill, retaining
provision exempting American v,
sels from tolls.
TWQ, U. S. battleships, the
braska and Connecticut, met w
serious mishaps during the
manoeuvres on Friday.
The United States Senate:
proved of the House provision;
control of the Panama Canal by
President of the United States.
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