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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-07-11, Page 4Grain, Cagle and Cheese Prices of These Products in the Leading Markets are Here Recorded Breadstufs, Toronto, July 8,—Manitoba Wheat—Lake ports No. 1 northern, $1,021.2; No. 2, 9Ontario oWheat3, 97e c - No. 2, wheat, 98o for car lots outside, ranging down to 75o for poor .grades, Ontario Oats—No. 2 white, 350 to 36.0 at country points; 37o to 38e on track, To- ronto. Manitoba Oats—No. 2 0, W. oats, 390 to, •40e, track, bay ports; No. 3 C. 'W., 37e to 68e; No. 1 feed, 37o to 380. Corn—American, No. 2 yellbw, 660; No. •3yellow, 64e, e,i.f. Rye --No, 2, 60e to 620, nominal. Peas—No. 2, 9(lo to 95o car lots, outside. Buckwheat—No, 2, 520 to 63o. Barley --Good malting barley, outside, 62c to 53e. Rolled Oats—Per bag of 90 pounds, $2.15; per barrel, $4.55, wholesale, Windsor to Montreal. Millfoed—.Manitoba bran, $19.00, in bags,. track, Toronto; shorts, $20,00; Ontario bran,' $19.00, in bags; shorts, $20.00; mid- dlings, $21 to $23, Manitoba Flour—First patents, $5.50 in _juts bags; strong bakers', $4.80 to jute bags. In cotton bags ten cents more per barrel. Ontario Flour—Winter wheat dour, 90 per cent. patents, is quoted at $4.10 to 44.15, seaboard, In bulk. Country Produce. Eggs—New-laid, in ease lots, 210 to 220. Cheese—Twins, new, 14c to 141-2c and large, new, at 131.2e to 14e; old cheese, 'twins, i50 to 151-2e; large, 150. Butter—Latest butter quotations are: Creamery prints, 260 to 28e; Creamery solids, 25o to 276; Dairy -prints, 20 to 240; Inferior !bakers'). 18c to 1.9e. Ifoney Buckwheat, 90 a pound in tins, .and Sc in barrels; strainedclover honey, 121-2c a pound in 60 -pound tins; 12 3.4c in 10 -pound this; 13o in 5 -pound tins; comb honey No. 1, " $2.60 per dozen; extra, $3 per Beaanse Primes 2, bushel, $1.75�ton$2; `picked. $2.35 to $2.40. hand- Poultry—Fresh-killed yearlings. 19c to 1,23e per pound; fowl, 16c to 18o; live year. flings, 15e to 160; live fowls, 14e to 15o; dressed spring chickens, 35c; live, 25e to 27c: turkeys, 20o to 280. Potatoes—Ontario potatoes, 75e per bag; ear lots, 650; New Brunswicks, 90e per 1. }bag; out of store, 80c in car lots; Vir- ginia, new, $3.00 per barrel. Egyptian Onions—Per sack, $2.25 to $2.35. Bared Hay and Straw. Quotations, track, Toronto: Baled hay. No. 3, $11.50 0to $12.00; aled st aw. $8 00 Oto $8.50. Winnipeg Crain. Winnipeg, July 8.—Cash—Wheat-No. 1 northern, 963.4o; No. 2, 933-4c; No. 3, 89o; No, 4, 83e; No. 5, 741.20; No.6, 70c; feed;, 60c; No. 1 rejected seeds, 890; No. 2, 86o; No, 3, 811.4e; No. 1 tough, "89e; No. 2, 88o; No. 3, 84e; No. 6, 670; No. 4,. 62o; feed tough, 53o, No. 1 red winter, 951-4e; No, 2, 92 1-4o; No, 3, 871-2c No. 4, 811.2e. Oats —No. 2 0. W., 34 5-80; No. 3, 321-2e; extra No. 1 feed, 331-20; No. 1, 321.2o ; No. 2, 30o. Barley—No. 3, 471-20;"No. 4, 463.40; re- jected, 43c; feed, 43o. Flax—No. 1 N. Yp:, $1.19 1-2; No. 2 O. W., $1.17; No. 3, $1,05. Montreal Markets. Montreal, July 8.—Dorn-American No. 2 yellow, 68o to 69o. Oats—Canadian west- ern, No. 2, 420; do Canadian western, No, 3, 400 to 401.20; do extra No. 1,feed, 410 to 4112o. Barley—Manitoba feed, 50o to 51o; do malting, 62c to 65e. Buckwheat— No, 2, 68c to 60o. Flour—Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts,. $5 60; do seconds, $6.10; do strong bakers', $4.90; do winter patents, choice, $5.50; do straight rollers,• $5.10; do bags, $2.40. Rolled oats—Barrels, $4.65; do bags, 90 lbs., $2.15. Bran—$18; shorts, $20; middlings, $23; mouille, $26 to $32. Ray—No. 2, per ton, ear lots, $11.50 to $12 50. Cheese—Finest westerns, 13o to 13 1 -Sc; do finest eastern. 121-2e to 12 3.4c. Butter—Choicest creamery, 260 to 261.40; do seconds, 251-2c to 25 3.4o. Eggs—Fresh, 22o to 23o; do selected, 25c to 260. Po- tatoes—Per bag, car lots, 60 to 75e. ' United States Markets, Minneapolis, July 8.—Wheat—July, 901-4o; Sept., 921-2c to 92 5-80 ; Dec.,- 97 7-80; No. 1 hard, 933.40; No. 1. northern, 92c to 931.40; No, 2 northern, 90e to 911-4o. Corn —No. 3 yellow, 671-2o to 680. Oats—No. 3 white, 39120 to 40e. Rye—No. 2, 55o to 57e. Flour unchanged. Bran unchanged. Duluth, July 8.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 930; No. 1 northern, 920; No. 2 northern,'891-20 to 900; July, 91c; Sept. 93 1-4o to 93 3.80 bid; December,'943-8c, nominal. Toronto, July 8.--Cattle—Ohoice, export, $6.80; choice butchers, $6.50 to $6.85; good medium, $5.75 to $6.40; common, $4.76 to $5; canners, $2 to $2.50; cutters, $3 to $3 25; fat cows, $5.25 to $5.60; common cows, $3.50 to $4.25. • Calves—Good veal, $5 to $7; choice, $8 to $8.50; common, $3 to $3.50. Stockers and feeders—Steers, 700 to 1,000 pounds, $4.50 to $6.25; yearlings, $2.10 to $2.50; extra choice heavy feeders, 900 pounds, $5.85 to $8.25. Milkers and spring- ers—From $40 to $70, Sheep and lambs— Light' ewes, $4 to $4.50; heavy, $3 t;:-$3,50; lambs, $8 to $10; bucks, $3 to $3.50; spring lambs, $8.60 to $10. 3logs--$9.35, fed and watered, and $9 f.o.b. RADIAL CAR SHEDS BURNED. $5,000 Damage Caused by Fire at Hamilton. IA despatch frons Hamilton says : 'The freight sheds of the Ilte_riirban Lines of the Deruintor - er and Transmissio i Company "the ter- mer of Main. and Catharine streets were destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Five freight cars, an auto truck and other stock belong- ing elonging to the company was burned. Spontaneous combustion is said to have been the cause. The loss is estimated at $75,000, covered by'in- surance, The Temple Theatre, across Catharine street from. the freight shed, was in danger of de- traction for some time, as was also he Waldorf Hotel, both buildings eing slightly do ma ed on the out- side. IICAD EN OI; GH OF WAR. • Turkey Will Not Mix Up in Present BaIlcan. Trouble. A despatch from London says: bile Chronicle's Constantinople rrespondent says that the new ar in the Balkans has naturally used d gl+eat excitement here area as given rise to renewed jingo frit. The cry has been raised at the opportunity should be i.zed to retake Adrianople. "The `,aurin," however, urges a more aoderate policy, and advisers that he present complication should be tilized to. strengthen Turkey in its wind against the payment of an in- emnity 'to the allies. There is •ttle likelihood of Turkey embark- ig upon a fresh war enterprise. A member of the Cabinet, speaking to me in an unofficial capacity, re- marked that the Turldsh Govern- ment had had enough of war. WOUNDED By BANDITS., Son. of • Mountain Guide Reoei vex Two Bullets During Encounter. A despatch from Calgary says: Jack Wilson, son of Thomas. Wil- son, the Banff guide, is in the Banff Hospital with two bullets in his breast and a gash in his throat as the result of an encounter with bandits on a lonely road in the Banff country Friday night. After the shooting the. bandits `'threw the unconscious man in the bush, cov- ered the iertn body over with leaves and got away. The mounted police are scouring the country and sev- eral arrests have been made. MILL BOILER BURST. Five Men Killed in an.Explosion lit Lumber Plant. A despatch from St. John's, Nfld., says : Five men were killed and airl g was seriously injured when a boiler in a new mill at the Alexander Bay Lumbering Com- pany's station exploded on Wednes- day. The station is located in a re- mote spot on the railroad in the. interior of the island. Notices have been posted on the Montreal wharves, giving warning as to confidence men, ' The Railway Commission has is- sued an order requiring the rail- ways to. accept trunks as freight if securely corded. MANITOBA CROP LOOKS FINE 'utiook Is Somewhat Uncertain In South, But the Farmers Are Optimistic despatch from Winnipeg says: tier three days of almost inces- nt rain, the weather in Manitoba its clear and cool on. Thursday.. s complaints, of lack of moisture e now being heard, and the crop said to be corning along finely at , points, Straw wi.11, he- short. ease -feet are that wheat will be ed out at many points byJuly y. and some barley will be ready cert by the end of the month. `..t: Bedford, Deputy Mink - ter of Agriculture, . has just return- ed from a tour of the Province in the vicinity of Portage la Prairie and Neepawa, and says conditions are fin.e. The outlook i,s shill me w at un- certain certain in southern Manitoba, as the rain came almost too late to save the crop. The next two weeks ed will • eid a ®. I'armea`iv take ar opti- mistic view, and are hoping for an average ' yield, Taken on the whole, the Province can get along for ten days • without rain: Items of 'News, by Wire Sir Lomer G#ouin,- Premier of Quebec. FEDERAL GRANT $195,733 Ontario Will Receive This Sum Educational Purposes. A despatch from Toronto s The Ontario Government is to ceive $195,733.32 this year as Province's share of the Fede grant of $700,000 four educable purposes. In the Bill us passed the Dominion Parliament $10,00 000 is to be handed over to the several provinces for educational purposes within the. next 10 years, Each year the amount apportioned will be increased until the total of $10,000,000 is expended. ,. The Federal grant for Ontario for 1913 is apportioned as follows District representatives, $80,000. O. A. C. short course, • travelling and living expenses of winners of Acre Profit competition, $1,500. To encourage agriculture in the Public schools, $10,000. Educational work in connection with marketing of farm products; $5,500. Buildings at Ontario Agricultural College, $51,500; including Poultry Building for administration, class- room and laboratory purposes; to finish and equip Field Husbandry Building and Apiary Administra- tion Building; to remodel and equip •Baeteriologioal Department; extensions and equipment Dairy Barn. Stockand seed judging .shore. cou$7,500rses. and institute lecturework Women's institute ' 'world,, in �•: ing courses in cooking, sewing, et,St:; $6,500. . _ Short courses for fall lairs an field crop. judges, $5,500. Drainage work, $5,000.. Demonstrations and instruction in vegetable growing, $2,500. Demonstration work on. soils, $2;;500. Demonstration and instruction on live stock and poultry, $4,000. Demonstration work for spray- ing, pruning, and packing of fruits, $3,000. Demonstrations in beekeeping, $1,000. . Ontario Veterinary College, addi- tional land, $5,000. Lectures on Horticulture, $500. Miscellaneous, $4,233.32. 55 GREATEST ART EXHIBIT. Notes of interest as to What :Is Going. on All Over the World Canada. teavy rains have checked northern forest fires. ' The Carling, black, London, has been' bought for $140,000 as a. post: office' site. Three, Hamilton policemen were mauled by a crowd while they were arresting two foreigners. Fire destroyed the Sb. Charles Roman 'Catholic Church in Mont- real, .causing a loss of $200,000." Negotiations are being completed for a: new central military training area, for the Maritime Provinces. Announcement is made that the for Canadian Northern Railway would be in operation to the *Rockies by aye fall. . reeJanice Rridis, :aged 35, died at the Ingersoll from sun stroke. Be had ral only been in. Canada from England' nal; about; a,.week. by ; Geo McBean of Stitathburu' was 0,- killed while unloading hay• a ropebreaking, causing him:to fall back- wards and break his neck. Last week in Montreal the deaths of ehildren under five years, of age num be�red 13,5, an increase of 56 over the figures for the preceding week. C. Ti• Dewey, general freight agent of the G.T.P. at Winnipeg - has -been appointed freight traffic manager of .the G.T.R. at Mont- real, and is succeeded by A. E. Rosewear. A i'rit has been issued againstthe corporation of Brockville, claiming $10,000 damages on behalf of W. Hewitt, whose' son, Morton, met his death by grabbing a live wire. The Cpok Construction 'Company Sudbury/ Ont., and A. B.Whea- ton of Amherst, are joint oon'trae- toes for the Halifax Terminal Rail- way (5 'utiles) at a contract price of $1,500,000.. the Paintings From Germany, Britain, United Stales and Canada. A d,spatch from Toronto says The display of paintings at th Canadian, National Exhibitio draws •lovers of the. beautiful from all parts of America. In the ga lades will be gathered the bes works of Canadian and United States artiste, and the great gal•ier les of Europe loan their treasures to further enhance the, value of the collection, This year the' galleries will be divided into four sections; British, German, American and Canadian, and the entire exhibit promises a distinct advance on the previous great collections that, have featured the Canadian National, AN UNWASHED BOY.. His Word Was Preferred to That of His Mother. e tended front Kotchana, Istipa n Struhitza towards Guevgheli, and thence onwards to the Gulf of Or- 1- favi. - t The Bulgarians delivered their heaviest blows at Guevgheli, where - they severed the Greco-Servian line, and at 'stip.' They still hold Glevgheli, but were driven from Istip eventually with heavy losses towards Ovtchepoyle, where . the Servian army was' massed. The Serviab supportilig '.forces, coming up'in time, met the Bulgarians at Dermalc and Petrishino, behind lotchana, where a fierce --fight en- sued. The Bulgarians suffered Great Britain. . ay -pardon Mrs. Pank- -1 e =' I.,yttle'ton diedin loos on Friday. ;lir. Robert` Bridges has been of- fered the -post of Poet. Laureate. - The :British oa,urt has decided that women are barred from the practice of law. Miss. Agnes Lake, manager of The Suffragette, was,, re -arrested and will be taken back to prison, The Marquis of Northampton paid. $950,000 to Daisy Moss, the ..xrc. tress, in settlement of a breach =,f promise suit. United States. A nation-wide campaign of tem- perance education .• is planned in the' United States. An American aeronaut was near- ly' drowned . in Long Island Sound,' after drifting 25 miles in an uncon- trollable balloon, A" New York jury convicted; in. his second 'trial, Peter Duffy, a former policeman, charged with ac- ceptin'g money from a gambler to give him immunity from prosecu- tion. Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, se- cond daughter of the United_States President, is to be married in No- vember to F. B. Sayre, who' is in. the office of the District Attorney for New Yo*k. Instead of cutting out a tonsil, Dr. Harold Foster of New- York,. announced at Chicago that he. ooiild "pluck and has plucked: out a dis- eased tonsil "as a man would pluck a, cherry!'. < Seven men were stabbed in a. fight in the dining -room of a Gettys,- burg, Pa., hotel, as a result of a fight on Wednesday, 'which started when several men aroused the "an- ger of an old veteran in blue by abusing Lincoln, General. A general revolt against the army service propesal.has been°organ- ized) by the Socialists, in France.' A''Johannesburg strike. was- offi- cially ended after twenty rioters were killed by the soldiers, but the trouble is by no -means over. Nine 'dreadnoughts, three forts, and, a naval militia are,plann�ed by the • Netherlands Government to protect the Dutch East Indies. Germanxperts.saythat no large steameh`pe::will be able to ,pass through the Panama. Caned for five years owing to the frequent land slides; When told that he had. won $200,000 in the Charleroi Exhibition. Lottery, a railroad brakeman : of Arlo*, Belgium, earning $14 a month, dropped into a dead faint. FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS. Enormous Loss of Life is Reported in Despatches From the Front. A despatch from Belgrade says : Army headquarters report that the Servians, after capturing Istip, pursued the enemy, capturing over 100 officers and 1,000 men. Press despatches report -chat sanguinary fighting has occurred at Ovtche- polye, where the Bulgarian losses were. enormous and 4,000 Bulgar- ians surrendered. In this engage meet 2,000.Servians were ..killed and Wounded. According to the best information to be obtained at the Servian capital the battle line ex - took the Servians unawares. The Bulgarian right wing has been com- pletely routed. It is asserted that the fighting 'was the bloodiest in the . history of -Balkan wars. Frightful Losses.: A despatch from London says The Bulgarians and Servians are still inflicting smashing defeats on each other identical times and places. The victory always rests with the army from whose capital the news comes. The fighting ap- parently continues on a big scale on the frontier t1 and either side de ofit- but no independent reports are available and the others are utter- ne ly contradictory. A Servian state- ment puts the Bulgarian casualties last week at from '20,000 to "25,000 and. the Servian losses at 15,000, while another despatch says the Serbs have lost. more -Men than in. the war with Turkey. A despatch from Montreal .says; Striking evidence given in the Re- corder's Court on Wednesday by their unwashed, half-starved, eight- year-old son was sul1ieient to con- vict both John Sneiden and his ,;wife of drunkenness and neglect of their child. It was a pathetic seed sor- did case,. in which .the little ill- kempt bo 's 11,79rd Was taken rather Chari that of his mot•hef'. London is in danger of a Sei'i ou s ice famine, due, the ice dealers claim, to the action pf the Beard of.. Health in restricting theareas from . which ice could , be harvested last whiter, • ., .• heavily, the Servians capturing an important' height near Osigovtt, called Retkibukwe. On the other. 'side of Guevgh.eli the Greek armies are concentrated, and the Btilgar- fans •risk' getting caught between two- fires. se- Unconftrzned de sp eatchh es on Wed-. nes'day night report further heavy fighting ire the Istip district, in whish tile" Servians were compelled to abandon their £brtified positions atthe town of Istip and leave be - hind . their wounded, laifty-four officers, including four colonels, vele !teeing- the killed, while the lessee ell'T$Zitli sides numbered sev- eral thousand. . According, to: the latest advices' from the "front the Bulgarians; have been entirely driven off the t'erri- r )4 ze ley when tl w n they STRIKE IN THE AND. • • Unsuccessful • Attempts Made to Blow Up -Power Stations. A despatch from Johannesburg, South Africa, says : Already seven- teen mines are involved in the strike and more than-' 5,000 men are out. The mine owners are remov- ing the gold to banks for safety. Several terrific explosions occurred near Benoni on Thursday night in an attempt by the strikers to de- stroy the power station, but the attempt failed. Troops now guard all the power stations. FATAL ICE CRE %'111 FREEZER. Little Girl` Fell In; Ilead.flrst and Was Drowned. A despatch -from Winnipeg says While res. -obi -lig far a tin cani which was floating hi the thb of an ice creern freezer oil Wednesday, two- year-ild Ger-tie Wolfe slipped and fell in, head first,' and drowned in 18 inches of water. STARTLeleG Iseem Suffragette Threw a ;DQeuiueet the Sing: A despatch from London says-; 1 somewhat startling incident ee- ourred du.aing the King's visit to Bristol en Friday to attend the Royal Agricultural Show. As his Majesty was driving through the.. streets a young woman -dashed out of the crowd past the police and military cordon, and threw a docu- ment into the Royal carriage. The document fell into the lap of Lord Acton. ..Immediately afterthe pa- per was thrown an officer on horse - beck with a drawn sword placed himself between the woman ,and the Royal carriage, She did not make a further attempt 'to reach the ' King, andsubmitted quietly to ar- rest. "It was only a: document beg- .: ging the King to use his influence to give us women our rights," she said in : response to angry remarks. .Size was Mary Richardson; aged thirty years, and amember of the Women's Social and Political Un- ion, Fit FLAG-WAVING STARTS RIOT. Stars and Stripes Trampled in the Dust at Winnipeg. A. despatch from Winnipeg says; At an early hour on Friday morn- ing the Stars and Stripes was trampled in the dust on ' Maim S Brest at a -timewhen the-- sands of Winnipeg and other Manitoba sol- diers were returning from the .an- nual n.nual camp - at Sewell, near Bran- don, where they had been manoeu- vring under Sir' Ian Hamilton, The sight of a young man waving a large American 'lag- in the faces of the returning One Hundr"edth Regi- ment started a ,small -sized riot. The - flag was trampled .under the ' feet ' of the marching soldiers, and sev- eral of those who took part in the - free-for-all . fight that followed the appearance of the flag received, black eyes and cut faces, WILFRED R. POPE. ALIVE. Mystery of Supposed Murder Two Years Ago Is Solved. A despatch from Montreal says The mysterious disappearance some:,' wtoewl >ykenaarws:ngmoerf bWilir•i.dBo. Pa. xpopteo, na vine Que,, 11 nesday. • Titre Pope created qui i laxation, for it was generally 'su.+hsed that he had been murdered. Word, how- ever, was received on. Wednesday by. `Chief McCaskil that Pope was. well and residing in Texas. Pope's horse was found one winter morn- ing, two years ago, lying dead on the - snowe and there being a long trail of blood it was supposed that had net -with foul play. The detectives could find. no trace of. the man's body, and the case remained a mystery until Wednesday morn- ingPope., iY WINDSTORM AT BUFFALO. One'Life.Lost and a Score of Boats Swamped. A'despatch from Buffalo says: One body has been recovered, a score of boats were swamped, and heavy damage was done by a terri- fic wind -storm that swept Buffalo and the lakes late on. Friday after- noon. The crew of the life-saving station brought in •sixteen folks who were in sinking. boats. • An eatcur- sion steamer saved a " man and a woman from death just as their, rowboat went down. A number of empty boats 'were found, drifting in the harbor after the storm abated, and it is ,feared that several per- sons were, drowned, TWO MILITANT'S SENTENCED. Misses Marion and' Giveen Get Three' "Years in Jail. A •despatch from London, Eng- land, says : .Two militant suffra- gettes, Xi:tty Marion and Clara Elizabeth Giveen,' were sentenced at the Assizes on Thursday to three years' penal servitude each on the charge of setting fire to the stands on the Hurst Park racecourse on June 9 and " Causing damage amounting to $70,000. RE4;ULATIN G EXPLOSIVES. Order Prohibits Theirs Retention oiii.. Wharves -Unpertnitted. A despatch from"-eO.btawa • says An ;order in Council has been p=ass= ed • ro rbitin p h g the stoia6e or reten- tion. -of inflammable orexplosive ana,terials on harbors, wharves or piers without . consent of the' liar- bolnnaster or assistant harbornia:s-. tar, The maximum penaltor.is $1'00.