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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1912-09-27, Page 2SPREAD OF POTATO CAP KER Importation of Potatoes From Europe Is Prohibited by Ordermin-Council---lard to Eradicate. Q .despatch from Ottawa says ; An Order -in -Council has been pass- ed amending those sections of the Destructive Insect and Pest Act, which deals with the potato can- ker, by the substitution of a clause . prohibiting the importation of all potatoes from Europe in addition to Newfoundland and other points mentioned. Potato canker is avirulent fun- gus disease which has done tre- • mendous destruoticn in Europe our- ing some years past. Until last year importation of potatoes from Great Britain and Ireland and 'other European points had not beer heavy either to this country or th United States, but the failure of the crop last year and the high prices led to heavy importation. As the potato. canker is a disease which not only absolutely destroys the tubers, but is very hard to era- dicate," and will remain in the soil for seven or eight years, the most strenuous precautions are 'justified. In Great Britain a great deal of very costly work is being under- taken in regard to this pest. The United States have recently taken action by passing an .Rot prohibit- ing the importation of potatoes from Great Britain and Ireland and everal countries in continental Europe and Australia. THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH!' P. MORGAN, JUN., ROBBED. HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER TIIE GLOBE IN A N UTSIIE,LL. Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before Your Eves. CANADA. C.P.R. telegraphers have receiv- ed a 12 per cent. wage increase. The Bank of B. N. A. will build a $25,000 branch office in London. Galt is to have a new fabrios fac- tory and one to manufacture show cases. Natural gas was discovered by a well -digger at Dours, near Peter- boro'. Gas -electric cars may be used on the radial line from Toronto to Guelph. Fred. Partridge, a Turkish and Crimean War veteran, died at Cornwall. Hon. J. W. Sifton, father of Pre- mier Sifton and Hon. Clifford Sif- ton, is dead. The steamer Moreland, salvaged after two years' work, sank at the Sarnia dock. P. E. I. lobster fishermen opposer the fixing of a size limit, but favor a shorter fishing season. Three .hetel1aei pees -et Windsor Pleaded guilty to selling liquor af- ter hours end were fined. LauchlinMoInnis, aged 85, walk- ed off the 1 {larf at Pictou, N.S. He was rescued,»but died of shock. A cargo of 1,500,000 gallons of gasoline was brought to Montreal from Singapore in a tank steamer. Sidney Seeord, a St, Catherines teamster, was fatally crushed when jolted from his lorry under the wheels. Chief Fruit Inspector Carey ad- vises Niagara fruitgrowers to use refrigerator cars in making ship- ments . Henry Legace, ledgerkeeper in the Bank of Hochelaga at Montreal, was arrested on a charge of embez- zling 35,000. GR.E AT BRITAIN. The Social Democratic Congress in Germany denounces competition in armaments . An Anglo -Russian conference is to take place at Balmoral on the situation in Persia and Tibet. GENERAL. The powers disapproved of any outside loan for China. 44 Fk.STEST INTHE WORLD. Battleship Cruiser Princess Royal Achieves Speed of 34 Knots. A despatch from London says : The battleship cruiser Princess Royal, during her speed trials yes- terda•- achieved a speed of 34 knots an hour. In an eight-hour speed trial on Sept. 12, the Princess Royal attained a speed of 31.7 knots, It is now claimed that she is the fast- est battle cruiser in the world. Burglar Ransacked House With 40 Servants. A despatch from New York says : Burglary of the mansion of J. P. Morgan, jun., with the ransacking of every room while Mr. Morgan and his forty servants slept through it all ,is confessed, the police say, by John Bernauer, whom they ar- rested late on Friday. In his pos- session were found seven watches, medals, diamond pins and other articles of jewellery belonging to the young financier. The burglary occurred last Janu- ary, but the news of it was not made public until some time after- ward, when Mr. Morgan informed the police that he would pay a re- ward of $5,000 for the recovery of the stolen articles, many of which were priceless to him for their asso- ciations. FIRST MOTOR LINES. Christian X. Reaches New York From New Orleans. A despatch from New York says : The fleet of craft in New York har- bor looked with wondering eyes upon a strange new vessel which glided swiftly and noiselessly, wiht- out smokestack or sails, through the shipping to her dock. She was the Christian A. of the Hamburg -Am- erican Line, 7,300 tons, burden, first m<ytor shipwhich h visllre l` the port, and she came in from New Orleans to get fuel oil to run her to Hamburg. Her captain said that she consumed ten tons of oil a day. He calls her the first ocean automobile. 414 LAMP EXPLODED. St. Thomas Wonsan Seriously Burned. A despatch from St. Thomas says: Mrs. Charles Eveland was probably fatally burned on Friday night when a lamp she attempted to prevent from falling off an iron- ing board exploded in her hands. The oil set fire to her clothing and she ran into the street. A neighbor, Thomas Nichol, extinguished the flames and in so doing burned his hands severely. Mrs. Eveland had before seeking aid placed her baby in a place of safety. The fire in the house was extinguished before seri- ous damage was done. A. MARVELOUS ESCAPE. Fell Four Hundred and Fifty Feet, Then Had Lunch. A despatch from Paris says: H. De Astley, the English aviator, with Miss. Mary Davies as a passen- gerwent from Bonn to Liege, whence they started for London in a monoplane. While trying to de- scend near Ronchin camp, near Lille, the lever would not work, and the machine came down vio- lently a distance of 450 feet. Ast- ley and his woman passenger had a marvelous escape. - They were found seated in a beet field by the ruins of the mono- plane, eating crackers and jelly. TWO AIR FLEETS FOR ARMY Outcome of Work of Aeroplanes in Recent Army Manoeuvres—War Office Impressed. A despatch from London says: It is stated at Aldershot that the British War Office was so impressed by the work of the aeroplanes in the recent army manoeuvres that it has decided to build two fleets • special purposes. One will be d wtit h rap id -fir , eg sans and the will be used solely for scout- >:•n•.yes. The former, whose be to demolish the en - envy's air -craft and so clear the way for the scout machines, will be heavier and faster than the ex- isting army type, and will be cap- able of carrying a crew of at least three .persons, The gunner will be in front and the pilot amidships. The propeller will be in front in- stead of in the rear, and the ma- ohine will have a speed of eighty miles an hour, KILLED HER ;EI' Wife of German .P fesses to the A despatch from Mrs. Blume, the wife Blume, who was arres cion of having anurde band while walking wi forst near their home, ed the crime. She atates. killed the professor in a .mon mental irresponsibility. A w confession of her liason wit. other man was found in her band's pocket, and her purol a revolver has been proved; The woman is but 22 years o Her husband was a well -1 archaeologist, and was conn with the Kaiser Friederio h scum. 00 KILLED ASD WOUNDI2D "DOWN WITH RUSSIA. Foreign Minister Roughly .Acct'. on Arrival in London. A despatch from London s M. Sazonoff, the Russian of Foreign Affairs., who, i ported, has 'been invited wi ers to meet the Xing at Ba and talk over Persian affair*, rived in London on I+riday ': A member of the Anglo -Persian cairn;- mittee, whose identity has not been :revealed, welcomed the Minister by displaying a banner with an anti- Russian inscription and shouting "Down with Russia; clear out- of. Persia." The banner was seized- and destroyed by the police, but the man was not arrested. ary Battle Near Town in J Tripoli oil the diteranean Coast --Italian Losses Light. atch' from Rome says sanguinary engagements er in Tripoli were fought Derna, a' town on the Medi- ;eaan coast, 40 miles north-east gasi. The Italians lost 61 lied and 113 wounded. 'The and Arabs left more than 800 on the fields. Forty-one pris- ', including an .Arab chief, fell the hands of the Italians. he battle opened at daybreak, hien a force of Turks and :Arabs surprised and attacked the Italian lines. The fight raged for, four hours, but the superior Italian ar- tillery, supplemented by brilliant bayonet chargers, finally routed the Mussulmans, who fled in disorder. General Rcisoli, commander of the Italian army in Tripoli, in his report to the War Office estimates that the Turks and Arabs must have lost 1,000 men killed, inolud- irxg those who were carried off, and that more than 1,000 others were wounded. r Rt. Hon..l'OSepl1 ' alit Who is reported to be si g ' D 0 CK HALF -WAY OVER All Well, Duke of Connaught Kee- ports by Wireless. A despatch from Montrea1z say`s :. News of the Duke of Connaught as the new dry dock for Montreal is called, came to hand Friday when a wireless message was received from. one of the Dutch tugs towing the dock by the Canadian Vickers, Ltd. The position given shows that the dock is about half -way on her long journey by an extreme southerly route from Barrow-in-Furness to Montreal. It has taken 19 days 10 negotiate half the distance, so, sup-, posing that a uniform rate of speed is maintained, the Duke of Cora naught may arrive et her berth.it1 Maisonneuve about October 6. THEY INSURE PEACE. .Interparliamentary Union•so Styl Flying Mnehtares, A despatch from, ,Geneva says : Flying machines in war ,was t subject of a prolonged desaaite at't e session of the Interparliaanientany Union. The subject was Into tae by the Belgian Minister 0£.S,t Auguste Beernaert, who pi+ f aa resolution interdicting their, Baron d'Estournelles : scant, president of the Praxi terparliamentary group, opposed the resolution,. that the world's peace better ensured by the' us machines. This view was proved by the congress: P4, WILL REMODEL THE tli,a 'L'itanic's Sister . Ship to' 4, with Inner Skin. A despatch front Lond The White Star Line has future sailings of th Olympic, says the corres. the Chroniele at Southa adds that on the rets, Olympic from.New Tor October she will be sent' where she will be fact= inner skin and additiy heads. This work, it i occupy six months. frt%� Geo. M. Fairchild, jail, author, was found ;dead. grounds at Valcarteer, hav accidentally shot while.out HAMILTON TRAGEDY. , au Kills His Wife, Then Blows Off Ris Head. A despatch from Hamilton says iWilliam G.' Wills; 118 Tisdale St. -shot and killed his wife, and rhort ly after turned the -weapon on him self and blew part of his head off Wills ,• was a man well liked b his friends, but it is told of hi that of late he had been drinkin heavily. He was a color-sergent in the 13th Royal Regiment, and b some reputation as a crack shot Thursday afternoon he and hi wife quarreled over a sum of money that the eldest boy had earned. I is stated that 'Wills wanted to g the pioney, but his wife refused to part with it. She then walked out of the house by the back door and down an alley towards the street, where she stopped at a gate looking into the road. Wills, in the meantime, had se- cured a gun loaded with buckshot. Be went out on the back verandah, and, spying his wife leaning over the gate, took careful aim and fired. Part of the shot took effect in the woman'swoman'sheed, killing her instantly. Wills, on seeing that he had accomplished his purpose, went upstairs to his bedroom, where he reloaded the gun, pointed it direct- ly at his. face, and pulled the trig- ger. MOTHER'S HEROIC LEAP. Child in Carriage Carried Down rq ••:,;11aeinewintt Raceway. ,.Y r„ A despatch from St. Catharines says : The infant child of -Mrs. A. Reed of West Chester avenue had a, narrow escape from drowning in fthe hydraulic raceway Saturday morning, and was only rescued in the nick of time by, its mother. The Child had been left in its baby car- riage a short distance from the roadway leading to a small bridge across the raceway. The carriage started''down the roadway towards the bridge. Baby and buggy went over the bridge into the waters of the race. The carriage sank to the bottom, but the baby, though it had been securely strapped in, in some unaccountable manner floated to the surface. Mrs. Reed noticed the child vwhen it , was being carried away face downward by the waters, and hastened to its rescue. She leaped into the -water and rescued it after it had beencarried 70feet. Canal employees eame to her help and assisted mother and child.'The former collapsed after reaching her loo The babe soon recovered. ►k y m g ad• s t et >c &X t D REVENUE GROWS. Increaseas as Pronounced as in the Other Departments. A despatch from Ottawa says: Inland revenue of Canada for Au- gust totalled $1,900,769, as against $1,701;355 i' the corresponding <rnn last year. The increase in- eabes that the augmentation of l evenue is as, pronounced, compara- vely, in this as in the other large XPL0SION ON BATTLESHIP. y•. 1 -Blew Up, Killing One. Man and Injuring Three. d:espatoh from London says: bre was an explosion aboard the ttleehlp King Edward, cruising the Scottish coast, in which one as killed and several hurt. e King Edward VII, • being off t Colonsay, cannot be cora- » ated with. PRICES OF FARM PRUUUGTS REPORTS FROM THE LEADIHQ TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. Prleee of cattle, Grain, Cheese and Other Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS, Toronto, Sept. 24.—Flour—Winter wheat, 90 per gent. patents, quoted at $3.80 to $3.85 at seaboard. Manitoba flours (these quotations are for jute bags, in cotton bags 10e more)—First patents, $5.70; sec- ond' patents, $5.20, and strong bakers', $5, on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat—The market is arm, with limited offerings. No. 1 old North- ern quoted at $1.13, and new at $1.09, Bay Ports. Feed wheat, 65 to 660, Bay • Pena - Ontario Wheat—No. 2 white, red and mixed quoted at 97 to 98c, outside; new wheat, 93 to 940, outside. Oats—Offerings continue light, and the market firm. New No. 2 oats quoted at 43 to 44c here, and old at 47 to 48c, `To- ronto. No. 2 W. C. oats are firm at 47 1-2c, Bay ports. Peas—Nominal. Barley—Forty-eight lb. barley quoted at 63 to 65c, outside. Corn—No. 2 American at 8 21-2 to 830. track, Toronto, and at 79e, Bay ports. Rye—No. 2 quoted at 65 to 70c, outside. Buckwheat—Nominal. Bran—Manitoba bran, $22 to 523, in bags, Toronto freight. Shorts, $26. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter—Dairy rolls, choice, 25 to 26c; bakers', inferior, 21 to 220; choice dairy, tubs, 20 to 24c; creamery, 28 to 290 for rolls, and 26 to 27c for solids. :Eggs—Case ots of new -laid, 26 to 270 ger dozen; fresh, 24c. Cheese—New cheese, 141-2 to 143.40 for large, and 143-4 to 15c for twins. Beans—Hand-picked quoted at $3 per bushel; primes, $2.90. Honey—Extracted. in tins, quoted at 111.2 to 12 1-2c per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, $2,25 to $3, wholesale. prices of choice dressed poultry:—Chickens, 16 to 180 per lb.; hens, 13 to 14c; ducklings, 14 to 15e. Live poultrj*, .about 2e lower than the above. . Potatoes—Receipts areb&fair, and prices unchanged at .850 per bag. on track. PROVISIONS. Bacon—Long clear, 141.2 to 14 3-4c per lb., in case lots. Pork—Short cut, $24.50 to 825; do., mess, $21.50. Hams—Medium to light, 17 to 17 1-20; heavy, 151-2 to 160; rolls, 14 to 141-2c; breakfast bacon, 18 1-2c; backs, 20 to 21c. Lard—The market is firmer, with de- mand moderate. Tierces, 14 1-2c; tubs, 143.40; pails, 150. BALED HAY AND STRAW. Baled Hay—No. 1 new hay, 812 50 to 313.- 50, on track, Toronto; No. 2, $10 :.o 811; clover, mixed, $8 to $9. Baled Straw—Quoted at 811 ti 511.50. cn track, Toronto. BUSINESS AT !MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 24.—Cory American No. 2 yellow, 83 to 84c; do, Canadian West- ern, No. 2. 52; to 521.2c; do., Canadian Western No. 3, 501-2 to 51e; do., extra No. 1 feed, 511-2 to 52e. Barley—Mau. feed, 60 to 610; do., malting, 70 to 750; buck- wheat, No. 2, 74 to 75c. Flour—Man, Spring wheat patents, firsts, $5.80; do., seconds, $5.30; do., strong bakers', $5.10; do., Winter patents, choice, $5.25; do., straight rollers, $4.85 to $4.90; do., straight rollers, bags, $2 25 to $2.30. Rolled oats Barrels, $4.80; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.271.2. Bran, $23.00; shorts, $27.00; middlings, $22.00 to $29.00; mouillie, $30.00 to $35.00 Hay—No. 2, per ton car lots, 131.2 to 14e. Cheese—Finest Westerns, 131.2 to 133.4c; Cheese—Finest Westerns, 131.2 to 13 3.4c; do., finest Easterns, 131.8 to 131.4e. But- ter—Choicest creamery, 271-8 to 27 1-8e; do., seconds,' 261.4 to 261-2. Eggs—Seleet ed, 29 to 30c; do., No. 2 stock, 21 to 22e. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Sept. 24.—Close — Wheat— September, 871-20; December, 89 3-80; May, 941.8c; No. 1 hard, 903.4e; No. 1 North- ern, 881.4 to 90 1-4c ; No. 2 Northern, 851.4 t6 88 1.4o No. 3 yellow corn, 701.2 to 71c. No. 3 white oats, 30 to 310; No,'2 rye, 69 to 61 1-2e. Bran, $20. Flour --First patents, $4,35 to $4,65; second patents, $4.20 to $4.- 55; first clears, $3.20 to $3.50; second clears, $2.30 to $2,60. Duluth, Sept. 24.—Wheat--New No. 1 hard, 903.8e; No. 1 Northern, 893.8c; No. 2 Northern, 87 3-8c; September, 88 7-80; De. camber, 89 to 89 1-8c; May, 940 bid. LIVE STOCK -- LIVE Montreal, Sept. 24.—The top price rea- lized for choice steers was $6.50. while medium sold at $5 and $6 and inferior to common at $3.60 to $4.50 per 100 pounds. There were no choice butchers` cows on the market, but the best brought $5 and the lower grades from that down to $3.- 50 per 100 pounds. The quality of the bulls offered was inferior and only fit for canning purposes, for which the de- mand was fair at $2.75 to $3 per 100 pounds. The demand for calves was good, with sales of milk -fed stock from $3 to $10 and grass-fed at from $2.50 to $3 each. Hogs were stronger and prices advanced 10c er 100 pounds, with sales of selected lots a,1 $8.65 to $8.90 per 100 pounds, weighed ff oars Toronto, Sept. 24.—Choice butchers, '$6.- 50 to $6.75; good butchers, $6 to $6.25; medium, $5.40 to $5.75; common, $4 90 to $5.15; inferior light weight steers and heifers, $3.75 to 4.50; cows, $3 50 to $5,. 25; bulls, $3 to 65.50; canners, $2 to $3. Steers, $5.30' to $5.75; bulls at $3,50 to.. $4: 25; stockers $3.30 to $5 Milkers and Spring- ers—The market for milkers aucl spring- ers was ttnchahged at $50 to $80 each. Veal • Valves—$4 to $8 50, and $9 for some- thing very choice. Sheep ---Ewes, light, $4 to $4.50: heavy ewes and rams, $3 to $3.. 50; lambs, $6 to $6.40, and MAO for culls. dogs --The hog market was amain stron. ger, the bulk selling at $9,10 fed and wat. ered. :RUP1`,E ALLIANCE NOW. 1 ia, Servia, Greece and Moli- onegro in 'Combination. despatch from London • says : •patch from Vienna. to the Chronicle says the correspon- as Ieeened of the existence of druplc'military alliance be- ers Bulgaria; Servi a,, Greece and ntenetre. wh •ch, h„ SI VS, is an fiensivf c ,n,l,i pfyace of ti;e t..'=:...: >: S4r ni^hard Cartwright success fully underwent an operation. FROM MERRY O1 NEWS BY 1 LAIL ALIO U BULL .A.ND HIS PEOPL Occurrences in The Land Th Reigns Supreme in the Com•' meroial World. The expense of a Royal visit to some great houses is estimated ab £1,000 a day. Where the output does not exceed 50,000 gallons a year a distiller's' annual license costs £10, Near Dorchester there are the re- mains of a Roman amphitheatre capable of holding 13,000 people. There are 1,150 women to every 1,000 men in Rochdale, while Suf.. fragists are very strong numerical- ov ly. 4for The pawnbrokers of London are, un required to display their name pl. prominently in front of their plasm of business. ; In ,spite of the cold and wet ther. are more houseboats on the Thames this season that have been seen for many years. Mr. Edgar Jones; the oddest Jus- tice of the Peace, died on, the 26th ult. at The Elms, Great Burstead, Essex, in his 103rd year. The organ at Peterborough Cath- edral;- when renovated, will be doh blown by electric power, the cables for which are now being laid. The old oak frigate Southampton is being broken up at Blythe, and her +timbere are to be utilized for the making of furniture. A man well known in London t'0 business circles, who, unfortunates, or€ ly, was addicted to sensational boa gambling, is now selling matches,j a WC ev (en th: ter dol th< of near the Bank of England. 1? Prof. J. Lorrain Smith, Manches' ter, has been appointed to thy, Chair of Pathology in Edinburg: University, in succession to Prot Greenfield, who has resigned. Side -whiskers, it is said, are com ing into fashion again. Evidentlyt the idea is to show the suffragette that there is at least one thing mels can do better than women. The body of Mary Quern of Scots was buried et Peterbo'••augh, and afterwards removed to King. Henry VII.'s Chapel at Westminster,+ where it still lies in a sumptuous' tomb erected by James VI. The British Bible Society has sol in the last twelve menthe nearly million copies of the Bible,? mor than 1,500,000 eopies of the New Testament, and not far below 5,- 000,000 portions of the book. • The death is announced of Mr. A. Brothers. of Handforth, near Wilm- slow, Cheshire, the inventor of the magnesium ribbon used in flashlight photography, and one of the oldest , photographers in England. A Parliamentary paper states that for the quarter ending in June 122,000 aliens entered the United Kingdom from ports in Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, and that the total for six months was 202,- 358, as against 198,985 for last year. The total sum raised by the Dick ens Centenary Fund is £12,000, which, after the deduction of ex- penses, has been invested for the' benefit of the novelist's five grand- daughters. This will yield to each a present annual income of over,. £ 110. Bequests to public institutions made by the late Mr. J. E. Taylor proprietor of the Manchester Guar dian, who died in 1905, which no become payable owing to the deatl of his widow last May, include £20 000 to th eVictoria University. Manchester, and £50,000 to th London Temperance Hotel. "General Booth's last words spr ken during consciousness were the promises of God, and he sa' more than once to Mr. Brainw- Booth, 'They are sure, they a sure --if you will only believe,'. his momeets of calmness he fill realized the serious nature of illness. He had spoken sever times of his work as finished, •ar referred with joy to the prospect soon meeting again both the de Army rnother, and his datilgi Emma, the Consul." Between 1st January and 2 August there were landed on Northumberland Coast, the E: Coast of Sootland, in Orkney Shetland, and on the West Co of Scotland (ex Firth of Clyde), 418,634 crane of herring, as c pared with 1,370,932 eran•s the same period last year•. Y 1,171,000• barrels of the fish were, ported. The British Museum: has add-' its general library during the year 28,000 volumes and pemph The number of newspapers pub ed in the United Kingdom and to the Museum under the pi Bions of the Copyright Act „ 3,470, of which 1,241 were publi is London, including its subt 1 in other parts of Englan in Wiles 299 in Scotland, an in Ireland, sue of On goe lIe wa• ligl 'Icor Wh < are ons, m; res etbv ;eye. tim hes P05' ute. frie for pus; wits (35. elf an .an en.t otl p) .rd a: lig Ol n