HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1912-10-04, Page 2`ROLE FAMILY WIPED OUT
Toronto Man, Mother, Wife and Two Children Per-
ish in Pigeon River, Near Omemee.
A •despa•tch from Omemee says :
Five persons, a family party, were
drowned on Saturday afternoon in
the Pigeon River, near Omemee,
when their canoe was overturned
by the pull of a 14 pound m.uskal-
longe on a trolling line held by Wil-
liam McOaffery, .assistant supply
manager of the Canadian General
Electric Company, Toronto. The
dead William McCaffery, 41, 16
South Drive. Laura S. McCaffery;
38, his wife. Mary McCaffery,
Omemee, his mother. Grave Max-
ine McCaffery, 12, his daughter,
Howard Southby McCaffery, 8, his
son:
Mr. McCaffery, who was a son of
Charles McCaffery, of Omemee,
went with his family to that village
on Friday at his old home. With
his wife, mother, and two children,
he started down the Pigeon River
on . Saturday morning on a fishing
expedition. The weather was fine,
and though it came on to rain to-
wards evening there was nothing
in the nature of a squall on the
water during the day.
It appears that no member of the
party was ever seen alive after the
canoe had passed from sight down
the river, and it is believed that no
person actually witnessed the acci-
dent. When the party. did not re-
turn to Omemee towards evening,
according to his expectation,
Charles McCaffery,father of the
drowned man, became alarmed,
and organized a search party. Sev-
en miles down the river the canoe
was discovered, floating bottom up-
ward. Dragging operations were
commenced immediately. Tlie
search continued until three
o'clock on Sunday morning, by
which time four bodies—those of
McCaffery, his wife, mother, and
son—had been recovered. The clue
to the position of the bodies was.
afforded by the splashing of a large
fish, The body of the little girl was
not found until. 10 o'clock in the
morning, when a second search
party recovered it.
EIGHT WOUNDED AT LECTURE
Conscripts Started Free Fight in
Paris Hall.
A despatch from Paris says:
The announcement that Prof. Gus-
tave Herve, the Socialist, who had
just been released from jail be-
cause of the utterances of his paper
during the railway strike, would
deliver a lecture on Wednesday
night on "Our Country," stirred
up the militant Anarchists, who re-
gard Herve as a backslider, and
they determined to prevent the de-
livery of his address. They gath-
ered in large numbers in the hall
and started a disturbance before
the time for the lecture to begin.
Chairs flew and revolvers were
fired, and before the professor
started to speak eight wounded
men had been taken to the hospi-
tal. When he took the platform
and failed to advise the conscripts
to desert, the radical anti -militarist
faction and Anarchists, who were
present in great strength, raised
pandemonium • .. '
In spite of the :racket Prof.-Herve
proceeded et deliver his :address,
lie'se and . turin.il
furs
Ist "e at le said beYend
learning that he explained his fam-
ous phrase about planting the flag
in a manure heap as a reference to
an imperial, not a republican flag.
He declared that his sole error had
been in allowing himself to be
dubbed anti -patriotic. He denied
that he was an anti -militarist, and
said he believed that it was only
possible to effect a social revolution
with the assistance of the army,
and to secure this the schools must
be captured first.
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Wm. J. Erly and James Chip-
pington were crushed to death in
the G.T.R. yards at Allendale.
THOUGHT HE WAS MURDERER
Cobalt Youth Commits Suicide as
a Result.
A despatch from Cobalt says :
After shooting three , times at
George Wilkes, proprietor of the
Ottawa House here, this evening,
and thinking he had killed him, J.
K. (Curley) McDonald, a young
American from the Adirondack re-
gion, stepped outside and shot him-
self through the brain, dying in-
stantly. Wilkes had garnisheed
McDonald's wages at the Nipissing
Mine, and McDonald's grievances
rose aver the action.
Wilkes threw himself on the floor,
exclaiming, 'I'm gone," when Mc-
Donald fired the third shot. He es-
caped the three shots, one barely
burningthe skin of his hip. The
affair oocured in the Ottawa House,
and the suicide was committed a
few feet from its door. McDonald
came to Cobalt and lived for some
time under the alias of H. O. Mc-
Carthy, giving the reason confiden-
tially, it is stated, that he had for-
merly committed a depredation. He
was •wall educated, although •';
f6
Bush of
to :;t1i'e
:. A despateh fry
rush ' of ;settl:
over the trail"f
Fort . Mehlurr•a
ported by S.
estry Depart
turned to
rill, which i
ver, is over.
north-east e
Alberta capit•
way point. De
some homeseei
are pressing
two hundred
McMurray e
north, is rep
ricultural :la,
be rich in
with a party
lu estigating •
ties in the come.ry k?
Biche and FortMoM,
thickly covered with •
pine, which viotald mark
pulpwood, but, the
large enough fee Donis
poses. Another .party
Forestry Department
north along thetEdsrgt'
liminary reports whie
received by the dopa
that there is splendid:
Girouard distrix, in
Lake, t,
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LIFE SENTENCE . FOR MURDERER
W. A. Ferguson Convicted by Jury • at Detroit for
the Murder of Herbert,
re_ A..despatch from . Detroit says:
L_ 'Although himself admitting that he
had shot down a fellow man in cold
blood and notwithstanding that the
murder was witnessed by at least
'half a dozen persons, William A.
'Ferguson, slayer of Herbert H.
Herbert, the Canadian immigration
pector, will escape the death
natty. Ferguson's trial ended at
5 o'elock Friday afternoon when,
ter concluding arguments 'by the
Government and the defence, the
case went to the jury. Deliberating
a little more than half an hour, the
verdict was returned finding Fergu-
son "guilty of murder in the first
degree without capital puuish-
ment."
,j.udge Sessions then pronounced
sentence as follows :—"The verdict
of the jury is a fair ane and there
is only one sentence which I can
nounce. The sentence of the
urt is that you be oonfined in the
deral prison at Fort Leavenworth,
ansas, with hard . labor for the
rest of your natural life."
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THE LATE RT. HON SIR
GAYiTWRtOH,
The prisoner displayed not the
Slightest eign of feeling. Hilliard,
lined face, which' a several days'
growth of beard only made appear
the. more dogged, was turned to-
wards the bench where the judge
sat. His gnarled fingers twitched
convulsively once or twice, but be-
yond this there was nothing he in-
dicate that he had a full apprecia-
tion of his position.
In his closing plea for the de-
fence, Attorney James H. Pound
painted a word picture of the cir-
cumstances which led up to and
which caused Ferguson, to take the
life of Inspector Herbert. "Here
was a British subject longing to get
back to his native land," he said.
"But as he touched foot upon Can-
adian shores he was met by these
petty officials and turned back, re-
jected and insulted. For this, and
for the affection he showed his coun-
try, William A. Ferguson is being
put behind walls of steel and stone
for the remainder of his life.'.' The
main argument of the counsel for
defence was justification.
PRICES OF FARM PROgUOTS
REPORTS FROM 'THE LEADINO TRADE
. CENTRES OF, AMERICA.
Prices et Cattle, Crain, Cheese and otnu
Produce at Harrill and Abroad
BREADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Oct. 1.-Flour—Winter wheat.
90 per cent. patents, are quiet and steady;
it ie quoted at $3.80 to $3.85 at seaboard.
Manitoba flours (these quotations are for
3Ute.bags, in cotton bags 10c more).—First
$5.70; second patents, $5.20, and
,ing bakers', $5, on track, Toronto.
Qfauitoba Wheat—The market is quiet,
with prices easier. No, 1 new Northern
quoted at $1.06 Bay ports, and No. 2 do.,
$1.04. Feed wheat, 66 to 67o, Bay ports.
Ontario Wheat—No. 2 white, red and
nixed quoted at 97 to 980, outside; new
wheat, 94 to 95o, outside.
Oats—The receipts are light, and prices
flrm. New No. 2 oats quoted at 43 to 44c
here', and old at 47 to 48c, Toronto. West-
ern Canada oats, purely nominal.
Peas—Nominal.
Barley—Trade dull, with offerings small.
)'ort5`-eight lb. barley at 63 to 65c, outside.
• Cora.—The market is quiet, with No. 2
American quoted at 821-2o, on track, To-
ronto, and at 78o, Bay ports.
Rye Trade dull, with No. 2 quotedat
68 to:70c, outside.
Buckwheat Nominal.
'Bra —Manitoba .brag, '$22 to $23, in bags,
oro * freight. Shorts, $26.
ren ..•;xileANDv TRAW.
sled Hay—No. 1' new b.ay, $12.50 to $13,
oirtraek, Toronto: No. 2, $10 to $11; clover,
Mixed. $8 to $9.
Baled Straw -The market is quiet, with
prices of good straw quoted at $11 to
$11,50, on track, Toronto.
COUNTRY PRDUOOE.
Butter—Dairy rolls, choice, 26 to 26e;
choice dairy,
22 � a
21 o y.
bakers', inferior, to
tubs, 23 to 24c; creamery. 28 to 290 for rolls
and 26 to 27e for solids.
Eggs—Case lots of now -laid, 27 to 28a
per dozen; fresh, 24 to 26c.
Cheese—New cheese, 141-2 to 14 3.4o for
large, and 14 3.4c to 15a for twine.
Beans—Hand-picked quoted at $5 per
bushel; primes, $2.90.
Honey Extracted, in tins, quoted at
11 to 12e per .ib. for No. 1, wholesale;
combs, $2.50 to $3, wholesale.
Poultry—Chickens, 16 to 18o per lb.; hens,
13 to 140; 'duokiings, 13 to 14c; turkeys,
17 to 19a. Live poultry, about 20 lower
than the above.
Potatoes -75 to 80o per bag, on track.
PROVISIONS.
Bacon—Long clear. 1412 to 14 3-4c per
lb., in case lots. Pork—Short cut, $24.50
to $26; do., meas, $21.50 Hams—Medium to
light, 17 to 171.2o; heavy, 151-2 to 16e;
rails, 141-20; breakfast bacon, 19o; backs,'
21 to 211-2a,
Lard— Zeroes, 141-2c; tube, 143.4e; pails,
150,
BUSINESS IN MONTREAL.
Montreal, Oct. 1.—Corn—American No. 2
yellow, 84o to 85e. Oats—Canadian west-
ern, No. 2, 54a to 55o; extra No. 1 feed,
640 to 54 1.2c. Barley—Manitoba feed, 60c
to 61c; malting, 75c to 80c, Buckwheat—
No. 2, 74e to 75c. Flour—Manitoba spring
wheat patents, firsts, $5.80; seconds, $5.30;
strong bakers', $5.10; winter patents,
oholee, $6.25; straight rollers $4.85 to $5n
40; do.; bags, $2,26 to $2.30. ,'Rolled Oats—
Barrels, $6.05; bags, 90 lbs., $2.40, Mill.
feed—Bran, $23; shorts, $27; middlings,
$28 to $24; mcuiilie, $30 to $35. nay—
Na. 2, per ton, car lots, $13.50 to $14. Cheese
--Finest . westerns, 13 1.2c to 133.40; finest
eastern,, 131-8c to 13 3.8c. Butter—Choicest
WILLIAM BELL'S DEATH.
Temporary Insanity Caused Tragic
End of Guelph Man,
A despatch from Guelph says :
"That William Bell came to his
dearth on September 25, while in a
state of temporary insanity, by be-
ing run over by a G.T.R. train at
Trainor'•s Out, and that no blame
be attached to any one," was the
verdict arrived at by the jury who
inquired into the death of William
Bell, one of Guelph'e most promi-
nent citizens, whose body was
found mangled beyond recognition
on the G.T.R. track about two
miles east of the city last week.
LARGE LAND DEAL IN WEST
Lord Joicey Obtains 24.,00o Acres of Mixed Farm
and Dairy Land for $45o,000.
A despatch from London says :
One of the largest individual land
sales ever effected in this country
has just been completed here. The
purchaser is no less a person than
Lord Joicey, the famous coal mine
owner, and one of the wealthiest
Liberal Peers in Great Britain. Ile
has purchased nearly 24,000 acres
of mixed farm 'nd dairy farming
land in the vicinity of Fort George,
fee -which he has paid $450,000.
, Captain Hulton, who, it will be
remembered, was responsible for
the Sutherland and Desborough
transa.ctions, is negotiating for the
gale to a Dutch merchant of 50,000
acres in Saskatchewan.
RECORD OF SEW COMPANIES
Great Industrial Expansion In Ontario Shown By
Department Annual Reports.
A despatch from Toronto says:
The industrial expansion of the
province is strikingly shown in the
annual report for 1911 of the Secre-
tary and Registrar of Ontario.
During the twelve months 825 carn-
paniee came into existence, while
licenses to do business in the pro-
vince were granted to 125 compan-
ies incorporated outside Ontario.
Most of the licences were issued to
companies incorporated under the
Federal .Ant, but a large number
represented the appearance' of Bri-
tish add United, States enterprises,
Eighty-nine older companies
found it necessary to apply for au-
thority to raise additional capital
to take care of the demand for their
output.
The revenue received' by the de-
partment from the granting of char -
tens and from licenses reached the
highest total in the history of the
province $236,662.10. Automo-
bile permits brought the depart-
ment $50,381, 11;339 being issued,
7,338 of which were for motors own-
ed in the province.
itljur
A despatct, fi'oti , , e 'a., . "tab','
says: Wi11ia Mari? , a wireless
fame was injured i• 'e'n a mobile
accident altar Borg1}to; an' the
valley of the Vara .Ricer. :Ther ex-
tent of h' injuries lias lot ;leen
disclosed; but he was. bras t ^back
with bandages u , `;' " d He
aro n is '' 1�ea .
g d.11
was suffering from a vaned .af the
right eye and his right cheek ,end
temple were badly bruised.
Marconi wasmotorih.g with, his
wife when in turning a shard curve
the machine came into ,collision
with another automobile. Both ears
were overturned. Mrs Majconi
was not injured, but Mafconi' : ee-
retary and chauffeur received slant
injuries. In the other cox were • ye
women, all of whom wars louncl'"to
be suffering from severe;' '01558 and•
shock.
FOUND A GAINSIirDi:H,.
Ilas (Hung For Years in'% ;(House in
Monnouthehr4
eta
A. despatch from• Lurid• says : A
portrait •.which has hung; nr years,
in the back room of•a. hot, e at New-
port, • in. Manmouthhhire ''' nd 'whose
. guessed,
ugh's
k
e -
,of
value has never .. beet
turns out to be G sbp
tura of the. Duke
was painted for
1784, The owner
seeing Benjamin
tion of the pie
York was strut
of the two faces
discovery that t
port; was the o
ough's signature
hand corner at the,
350 SHOTS A
New Automatic 31
An Italia
A despatch from.'
monk of the name°
tempi, a teacher
mathematics in thei.
Lanciano, in the Pro
has abandoned 'mots
plait an autoniatie
has invented ' e
weapon'teill flee
I3oetempi w :
rifle and offer it
e rim ent, ' but hie 'sti'
him to destroy the 'p
fications of such -a ,.
poli. He refused
noir negotiarting.
Office.
creamery, 27 3-8o to 27 5.8o; seconds, 261.2o
to 26 3.4e. Eggs—Selected, 29c to 30c; No.
2 stock, 21e to 22a. Potatoes—Per bag,
car lots, 65e to 70c. Dressed hogs—Abat-
toir killed, $12 50 to $1£.75. Pork—Heavy
Canada short cut mess, barrels, 35 to 45
pieces, $28; Canada short cut banks, bar-
rels, 45 to 55 pieces, $28. Lard—Compound
tierces, $10.25; wood. pails, $10.75; pure,
$14.50; pure, wood pails, $15.
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Montreal, Oct. 1.—Good steers. $6.25 to
$6.50fi ped um, $5.25 to $5.76; common, $4
her cows
sold well at r 100 $5.25 oundt $5.50; 5Choic mebudium at $4
to $5, and common at from the inside
price down to $2.50 per 100 pounds. Bulls,
common, $2.50 to $3.50 per 100 pounds.
Lambs. $5.50 to $6 per 100 pounds, while
sheep were quiet and unchanged at $3.50
to $3.75 per 100 pounds. The trade in
calves was active at prices ranging from
$2 to $10 each, as to quality. Hogs, $B.75
to $9.10 per 100 pounds, weighed off cars.
Toronto, Oct. 1.—Choice butchers, $6 to
$6.25; good, $6.75 to $6; medium, $5.25 to
$5.60; common, 54.75 to 55; inferior, $3.75
to $4.50; good °owe, $4.50 to $5.25; medium
cows, $4 to 54.50; common, $3 to 4; bulls,
$3 to $5. Stockers and Feeders—Steers,
900 to 1000 lbs., sold at $5.30 to 55.75; steers,
800 to 900 lbs., at $5 to $5.25; stockers, 54
to $4.75. Milkers and springers, $50to
$90 each. Veal calves $3 to $8.50 per awl.
Lambs $5 to $6.10 per cwt., with an odd
lot now and again at $6.15. Light ewes,
$4 to 54.40; heavy ewes and rams, $3 to
$3.50. Culls, $4.50 per cwt.
SEARCH FOR WEAPONS.
Brantford Grand .jury Advises Per-
iatidi %�znata on.
A despatch from. Brantford says:
The Grand Jury at the Assizes here
in its presentment to Mr. Justice
Riddell, the • presiding judge, made
the following recommendation
"Owing to the prevalence of
crimes of violence amongst the for-
eign immigrants by reason of their
possession of firearms, knives, and
other dangerous weapons, we be-
lieve that for the protection of the
community a periodical search for
and confiscation of such weapons
would be advisable, and we would
accordingly strongly recommend
the same."
FOOD FOR THE VILLAGERS.
Old Broken-down Horse Which Fell
Dead on German Street.
A despatch from Berlin, ' Ger-
many. says : The Vorwaerts in sup-
porting its meat campaign prints a
story of an old broken-down horse
which dropped dead in the Village
of Maerzdorf, in Silesia, where the
food scarcity is extreme. The vil-
lagers skinned the aminal, stripped
the flesh from the bones, and car-
ried it to their homes.
Windsor claims a population of
20,000.
The body of Mr. Wm. Bell, found-
er of the Bell Organ & Plana Com-
pany, was found mangled on the
G.T.R.' track near Guelph.
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
$20,000,000 Damage and Death
in Wake of Japanese
A despatch from Japan says:
Damage exceeding $20,000,000 was
caused by the typhoon which swept
Japan from end to end on Sunday,.
while the loss of :human life was
very heavy, and tens of thousands
are homeless.
The storm was the worst that has
oconrred here for over half a cen-
tury, according to reports that have
just reached the oapital, which has
been 'praotioally cut off from the
rest of the country for days. Crops
suffered severely everywhere, but
the greatest damage was done in
the neighborhood of the cities of
l'agoya, Nara, and Osaka on the
Toll of Hundreds
Storni.
Island of Hondo and in Gifu. At
Nagoya every house was damaged,
and a great tidal wave demolished
the harbor and sank three steam-
ers, while several others went
ashore. At Gifu 262 people were
killed and 283 injured. The Kioko
Mart foundered off Enshu, and the
whole of her erew and passengers'
were lost. At Osaka 20,000 houhses
were ruined, and all the break-
waters and the harbor piers were
washed away.
At Nara the thousand -year-old
Kasugashrine collapsed into a heap
of ruins.
THE NEWS IN A PARA
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL
TUE GLOBE IN A;
NUTSHELL.
Canada, the Empire and th
in General Before : F.
Eyes,
CANADA.
Miss Wylie, a leader of the E
fish suffragettes, has *erne to C
ada to organize the militants he
• Eddie, six-year-old son of Jae
Keleher, Guelph, was drowned ii
hispondhin a.n unused quarry back
ome.
Regina bricklayers are on sit
for two and a half Dents an
increase. They were getting
cents.
Two men who escaped
Guelph prison farm and were
captured at Ayr, were give
months' additional.
Ths Brantford grand jury re
ed to Justioe Middleton that
eigners be periodically searched
dangerous weapons.
Woodstock Council, by a major
vote, decided to assess factories
only 42 per cent. of actual val
including business tax.
Lord Milner addressed H,.1;.
Canadian Club Friday night, c
tending for the absolute .divot
meat of Imperial from local isstt
Montreal business men presen
S. H. Carpenter, for sixteen ye.
head of the detective departm•et
with $2,500 and a gold watch, wi
a hand -bag for Mrs. C•arpent
He is becoming chief of polioe
Edmonton.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Hatfield, the English ewimm
broke the world's record for . 4
metres; time, 5 minutes 21 3-5
onds.
The principal government buil
ings in Dublin are guarded by
ice, lest suffragettes attack them
A despatch to the Lnodon Ti
from Constantinople, says that t
Turkish troops in the island
Samos gat out of hand and kil
many women and children.
UNITED STATES.
The police captured a man at
Louis believed to 'have been im
casted in the New Westminster b
robbery. •
Anthony Debs, the New :'E
policeman who arrested
Thaw, shot his .wife a,
when summoned to court on
complaint.
GENERAL.
British and French sailors h
been landed on the island of Sa.
Austria will hold for the time
ing, the m -
tie expired men in
Bosnia army corps.
A monk, a teacher in physio
Italy, has inyented an autom
rifle to fire 350 shots a minute.
BLUEJACKETS LANDE
Will Protect Foreign Prope
the Island of Salvos.
Constantinople, Sept 26.—
tish and French bluejackets h
been landed apt the Island of S
to protect the Conciliates and
eign property during the figh
between the Turks and the reb
The town of Vathy is now appar
ly peaceable, the insurgents ha
withdrawn to the hills when
Turks landed.
' REAR -END COLLISION.
Engineer Badly Injured.
A despatch from Kenora says
rear -end collision causing the d
of. fireman C. A. Clark, and p
lily fatally injuring Conductor
H. Neal and Passenger Engi
G. H. Olst, occurred early Fr
morning west of Busteed bet
Extra No. 4, composed of d
head coaches running east, a
heavy freight train also going
DESPONDENT, SEEKS DEA
Hangs Himself on Hearing He
Consumption.
A despatch from Montreal s
Despondent becaitse he had lase
that he was suffering from.
sumption, Jacob Atlas, who c
here recently. from Sudbury, 0
committed suicide in a Craig St
west boarding house by hangin
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