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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-01-09, Page 2PRODUCTS 0u real Sari TRAMS mA,„, o a9n0 o:-bl-our—Ontario .viaaea Sant., 73 50 to $3.55, seaboard Toronto. Mauitollae- • ixst �aui,e bags, $530; do„ se4:60, ng 'bzakers% lu,'into bags, a a wbe;Lt-7o, 1 Northern: ,93 Is, and No. 2 at 91 3.4e. Bay o' wheat—Ile. .2 wheat at 84 to 850; :vet, 2 Ontario oats, 34 1.2 to 35c, ;real when interviewed concerning etre at ,43• to 38 1.24.,, on track, To. , + crKster r .Canslda old oats. '49 1.20'' t.11•e outlook fdr •1914, were optimis-' ex.1e as; 59c for No. 3, say parte to $1.05, outside- • :tic, and predicted a revival of pros - Seed- Seed- madtiog barley. 55 to 560, parous ,eonditionS. qv 2,To, .Anierit?a4n, 72 1$ 730; . to James Carruthers, president of or t +h e` Richelieu and•Ontario Naviga chess, $7.75 to $6, good medium, $6 50 to $7.25; coms000n cows 73,50 to $4; 'butchers bulls. $3:75 to $T25; canners and cutters, $3.50 to $4. Calves --Good veal, $8,75 to .$11; common, $4,75 to 75.10. Stockers and feed- ers—Steers, 910 to 1,050 pounds 76 to $6.75; good aura ity, '800 pours$. $4.60 to $5.25;. light; 73.50 to75 50, Sheep and lambs--- Light`,ewes, 75,50 to $6d Heavy. $3 to $3 50; bucks, 77 tR $3;40 spring lambs, 58.50 to -- the b lett with .pcll:oge $8.90 to 7925 all and •watered. 79.40 off ears, and 7840 to 78.75 9.0.b• • •000 7 tiONDITIONS IN 1914., :.No; .floolll,'" Says Size 7'itstliias, e "Birt Stetiely Illasille'er5." A despatch, from -Montreal says Big financial magnates ofrtne- ou o. tit, 6+ to 650, 'outside. tion Company; and a prominent a n ton, in bags %scrotaslain expo out 700 outside. de„ rtes vi*as cheerful, "1' $22.50, ,Toronto. think there will'be a radical change Cetip Butter --Choice sou icy; '23 to 24c; inferior, trans nation earnings do not 00 to 21. ; ftarnies;;' separator prints, '24 to gee creaiuery prints, 30 to 310; solids. 28 chew a decrease'thet might be ex- to 29o; storage prints,, 27 to 230;' do.,: peeted, the- general financial situs- . ids, 26 to 26 12e. sol- Eggs—Case lots or new laid, 43 to sec per tion Considered.' 'In 1913 the liar_ ,.dozen;; selects, 37 to 380, and storage, 32 vest was, an exceptionally* heavy to 35o per dozen. Cheese ---New cheese, 141.2 to 14,3.4e for one, and I see no reason why that Parse, awl 150 tar twins. of 1914 should' not be proportionate. Beans—1:Cand-picked,_ 72 20 to 72.25 per The unemployed will be taken care bushel; primes. to $210. e •-lfetr. acted eie tine, 11 'to 12e ser of through the winter, and with tet= 1 No. a �p_ ; sz :`x? 9' 25. ",+r doz0n sprieg tuber conditions are likely . 1;; and 78.40 to 72.50 for .No. a. y Fowl. 11 to 12c per Th.; chick to. improve. Money wits be easier ;te.47o,, &mho. 13 to 15o; geese, 12 also.. Sir Thomas -Shaughnessy was of the opinion that the coming year wool l see a. general 'improvement. He pointed out that railway earn- ings have not decreased to any eon- siderable extent when all contribu- tory factors are considered. "I am looking for a general upward trend in the financial world onee we are passed' the turn of the year," he said. "Money is already loosening up to' an. appreciable extent, and -will continue to do so. After a pro- nounced depression such as we are passing through a `booni'cannot be expected. It would be better not; a steady movement is preferable." Produce, in condltxons early in the new year," he said. "At present the • „,16 to 15c-, turkeys, 19 to 220. Potatoes—Ontarios; 75 to 800 per bag. on track, and Delawares at 80e, on track, in ear lots. tr. Salad Hay and :Straw. aled:bay—No. 1, $14.50 to $15 a ton, on ek here; No. 2 .(;noted at. 713 to 713 50. .. i;; mixed at 712' to 712.50. Baled ,straw—Car lets. $8.50 to 78.75. on track, Toronto. Previsions. Bacon—Long clear, 151.2e per lb.. In case lots. Pork—Short cut. 728.50; . do., meas. 724.50. Hams—Mediam to lit14 to 191-20 heavy, 18 19e; Tollsg15�to815 1-20; breakfast, bacon, to 190; backs, 22 to 240. Lard -Tierces, 13 3.4 to 140; tubs. 14 to 14 1!e; , pails, 14 1.4 'tail 14 120 wlnn1:3eg Crain. Winnipeg. an. 6.—Cies) —Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 83c; No. '2 do,, 80 1.4e; No. 3 do.. 771.40; No. 4, 731-4c; No, 1 'rejected, 761.2c; No 2 rejected deeds, 74 1-2o; No. 1 smutty, 76 12c; No. 2 smutty, 7412c; No. 1 red winter, 83e; No. 2 red Winter, 80 1.2c: No 3 red Winter. 77 3.8e. flats --No. 2 O.W., No. 3 C.W.. 31 1-20; extra No. 1 h, No. -1 Feed, 31e; No. 2 feed, Arley No. 3, 411-7.0: No. 4, ejected, 37 120; feed, 370. Flax— W o., 71,22 1.4; No. 2 C.W., 71.20; , 71.05... M6e1+treat -markets. " 1, San, 6—&Orn, American 1 . oNre 70 to 770. oaal Canadian „Wes " i 41 ry to 40e;.xt-, :3,' 401.2 t- 41.4•t ex- "� No: 1 rkrei: 41 to 41 1.2c. Barley. Xan. rebid, 48 to �; malting, 34 oto- 66o, Buck - .'Wheat, No. 2, 56 to 57c. Flour, Man. Spring 4.90; strong patents, first, 74 0; 75.40;seconds, patents, choice, 74.75 to 75.; straight_rollers, 74.50 to 74.60; do., bags. 72 to 72.10. Rolled oats, barrels, 7440. to 74.50; do.,. -90 lb. bags. 42.10 to 72.12 1-2. Bran, 720 to 721. Shorts, 722 to 723. Middlings, 725 to 726. Slouiliie, 727413.50 to to 71. 7115y, Cb,eesNo. e, pBlest n war iota, oeters, 13 3-4 to 14c; finest pasterns, 13 1.4 to 13 1.2c. Butter, choicest creamery, 2812 to 29c; seconds, 28 to 28 1.4o. Eggs, fresh,. 55 to 6ic; selected, 38c; No. 1 stock, 34c; No. 2 stook, 26c. Potatoes. per 'bag, car lots, 75 "to 85c. United States Markets. Minneapolis, .Ian. 6,—Wheat December, Colonel British Unionist member who de- clares that the Unionists must drop tariff reform or stay out if o'ifaioalu- definitely. _ l'ORERC1JLOSIS;SEWS IN A PARAG3pPi CUE TIT r� THE French Scientist's Discover' May Entirely Aspect -ot Tubercular Cure Problelrn } idesliatclh frees. "Paris says: An nou$Ioenient has been made by Dr. Pieere Boux, "'director' of the Pas- ul Institute, to the Academy of'. cidnees of a discovery by one of the bacteriologists of the institute, L. Marino, which it is thought may entirely alter the aspect of the guest for a mire for tuberculosis. Marino observed that all -idler;, germs which neultiply themselves togetherr die if cultivated -with tu- bercle bacilli after the lapseof ten or fifteen days. • His experiments shave` established the fact that cul- tures of tubercle bacilli within that period give , off a poison fatal to any form of wierobe. A few drops of aforty to fifty -day tubercle cul T.IIIE CANA;DIA.N GRAIN OROP. Total Valise of Ali Crops .,fee Year 1913 Is $660,000,000. . A despatch from Ottawa STs Field crops in Canada: totals in value nearly six hundred million bushels according to the ,estimates. of the Census " Depai'tm'ent, Penal reports are neev coming, : in Alter ture added to any culture medium prevents the propagation of other: germs. This toxine, 'which,has been isolated, has charaeteristies. entire- ly different from other toxines such as those of diphtheria and tetanus. It resistsethe'action 'ofelse heat and` is not realized either by a.siti-tuber culous serums. or ordinary blood. 'serum. If anything, , it is less af- fected by the former than by the latter. ` ' Further experimentation has shown that this toxine, 'when in- jected into animals, forms no court ter poison, and it is deduced that this is the reason both vaccines and - serum intended for the cure of tie= berculosis are without effect. CANADIAN POTATOES 'BARRED Will Not Be Allowed to - anter the United Sates. A despatch from - Washington 'says : Regulations 'of : the: most ex- acting character, restricting the im- portation be _ potatoes -into the U nited . States 'to . guard: against potato disease, were laid down by Secretary Houstee of the —crepselts•.. fr+oin five ttllo i„sand•. eorresponcl.,ents- Ment of agrieu.iture o e`Thursda,y, in throughout Canada, and it. wilrbe ''t7? rm. of An. official decision. a few weeks- before the official fig- provisions requiring importers to SURGERY IN TURKEY. Ex -Sultan Had ,Appendicitis Opera- tion Tries]. ut on Another. A. .despatch from Paris' says: An amusing story of Abdul Hamid, ex - Sultan of Turkey, is related by the Journal. One, of „hie. 1o;url,i ere wee. ._ rufseeing 'cram appendicitis. a� n o eration vas necessary, but beftade he would Zullow ,this to be perform- ed- Abdul Hamid required proof of the surgeon's skill. Accordingly, the surgeon removed the appendix from a woman who was in a hospi- tal sufferiiag from a disease of the ear. The operation was successful, and the ex -Sultan consented to it being made on his daughter. 1Ile13BEHOLD LIQUIDS. Order -in -Council Fixes Strength of Vinegar and Other Articles. A despatch from .Ottawa : says; Standards of quality and liniits of 82 3-4o; -may. 86 5-3 to 86 3.4e; No. 1 har& variability for vinegar and similar ;,,, 66 3.4 to 871.40; No. 1 Northern, 84 1-4 to articles have been establisher) by wheat, 0 3.42'to do.,81-4c, 81 4 to Corn4 o:` 3 yei order -in -Council. Acetic acid,: the low, , 60 to 60 1-2c. Oats—No. 3 white,' basic constituent of yjnegar, is d- 351-2 to 35 3-4c, Flour and brae—Unohang- ea. I fined, and it is then -peel -RIO that Dailuth, San. 6.—Wheat—No. 1 hard,'' vinegar. shall contain not lees than 831.4c; No, 1 Northern, 851.4o; No, 2, do 3.5 er cent. and"not more than 83 1-2 to 83 3.4c; 14Tontana No 2 hard, ` p 28o; December, 83 7.8c; May, 871-4 to 87 3.8c; 10.5 per cent. of acetic' acid. Be - July. 88 3.4c. Linseed—$1.47 1-8; December, 71,46; May, 71,50 1.4; Sanitary, 71.46, Live Steak Markets. Toronto, San. 6.—Cattle—Chaise but. €ANCE ures are tabulated'. They 'all indi- cate,' however, that the.erop in .the year just closed has. been a record one, both as regards .acreage',- pro- duction and values. . For spring wheat the rough ures are '188,468,000. hushele, compared with 182,84b,000 Mush last year. For fall wheat, the estimate is 19,107,000 bushels, as against 16,- 396,000 bushels last year, and 18,- 481,000 bushels, iii the prelintllta7Y estimate this year. The total esti- mated wheat p?eduction, for 1:1.13 is therefore 207,575,000 bushels, as compared with 199,23ese0G bushels last year, an increase of 8.3;t r.a!00 bushels, or 4% per cent. The ;teed per acre for all wheat is 21.1; ff ^a ' - ala r#• 19j, eI� 391 - Ra total 1 , Oats , sh� y _ 418,000 bushels, an average yield of 10.57 bushels, as compared with 361,732,000, buthcls and an average yield of 39.25 bushels. sides ordinary vinegar, standards are laxed for wine, spirits, malt, eider, artificial, conr,entrated vine- gar and vinegar essence.. CURES German Professor Says that - the flue and Cry” Are Unworthy of Genuine Medical Ethics :A despatch from Berlin, Ger- many, says: `.,`A gigantic swindle is the vigorous description applied by Professor Ernest, Schweninger of Munich to the theory prevalent throughout; stile world that radium `et 4•-- lzlesothotiiam: are - the long sought cure;l for •cancer. Prof. chweeinger, who is famed as the private physician to Bismarck, airs his views in the January number of Neuerundsehatt, Its declares that he cannot and will not believe thatthe mnell vaunted radio -active su»stances are the panacea that medical men have been Minting for generations. no protests that the hue ones cry , fr•apn Serious-mi�.nded members of his profession being Bene -up in regard to the miraoulofxs gyral ' to cis ladiuin • and mesothorium 0pit am for, canter-`trcatanent. are "highly unworthy of genuine medical ethics, y .- • j,r he nays "All on8 '"•' ,F4.Il the weitp , . ,.. r thc,hno i used to tt1'hravel the .baf- h1 ili:ng puzzl.0 of earicer prod.uee a Barley gives an estimated total yield of 44,348,000 bushels, and an average sof 31.00 bushels per acre, as compared with 44,014.000 bush- els, and an average yield of 31.10 bushels in 1912. For 1913, the total production of rye is 2,559,000 bushels, of peas 3,974,000 bushels, of buck- wheat 7,600.000 bushels, corn for husking 14,0e6,000 bushels, d beans 989,500 bushels, as compared with a total yield in 1912 for rye of 2,- 594,000 bushels, for peas of 3,773,- 500 beshels. for buckwheat of 10,- 193.000 bushels, for flax of 2,681.500 bushels, for mixed grains of 17,- 952,000,busbels. for corn for husk- ing of 16.569,000 bushels, for beans of 1,040,800 bushels. For the three North-West prov- inces, the total yield of spring wheat is placed at .183,852.000 bush- els, of fall wheat at 5,264:000 bush- els, of oats at 289,595,000 bushels, of barley .at 27,904,000 bushels, of rye at 586,000 bushels, of flax at 14,808,000 bushels. notily the department of all ship- meats from countries not -at pres- ent under the absolute quarantine ban and the enforcement of a rigid inspection upon entry by the de- ' artment's agents, are contained in the order. The countries now barred from importing potatoes ere: Newfoundland, the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, Great Britain, including England, Scot- land, 'Wales and Ireland, the na- tions of continental Europe and the Dominion of Canada. WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS. temporary-aineliorati n, but there its no ,cure. What applies to made cine and surgery applies even more to the newest method of mesothor-. ium. Just why mesothorium, radi- um and other kindred substances produce an ameliorating effect has not been cleared upe but whatever theresult that they accomplish they are not absolute .or elemen- tary, but purely relative. In mese- thorium. I see at the Best.a. quicker, pleasanter and oven.:111Ore 'certain mune of arresting the ravages of the cancerous disease than any hitherto employed, but it certainly does not hold etre- any promise w ate ri o eradicatingg the disease from the systeu to an extent which pro rises restoration of . health. +i 'n other eso h i u 1 0 ••adm to rn Radlunl. n , words, are simply a new and auaril iary paeans of treating cancer. They are eertaixily , slot a `cure.' In the las; analysis they are no better than axny other. inadequate means at our disposall," Thousands. Lose Their Lives in One Chinese Province. A despatch from Pekin, China, says:" it was efatiallyestimated' on Friday that 24,000 executions were carried out in the Province of Sze Chuen alone in 1913. Most of those ordered to be killed were robbers, but in the total were included a large number of political offenders who had been concerned in various movements during the transition period from an Empire to a Repub- lic. It is hinted by officials that actual figures reached in the exe- cutions would, if they could be known, probably exceed the esti- mate, TWO BURGLARS CA:UGHP: Policeman Returned Fire of 'ewe1- ry Shop Robbers. A despatch from Montreal says: Facing revolver shots from two bur- glars who had broken into the es- tablishment - of J. Saul & Co., watchmakers and jewelers in St. Antoine Street early on Sunday morning. Constable Gingras . re- turned their fire and held them un- til assistance arrived. Alfred Da.ge- nais- and Louis Cousineau, when searched, were found to have in their possession between $500 and $600 worth of jewellery. • POLICE ON THE ALERT. "Unemployed Gang" Issue Dire Threats at Regina. A. 'despatch from Regina, Sask., says; : A strange communication signed "The Chief of the Unem- ployed Gang," was published here on Friday. It threatens direful things for Regina, nothing less than the inaf'nediate and total destruction of 'ttie ki yea erg -and dynamite if the "white unemployed" ark .oaot found immediate work. The matter was not very seriously regarded, but impelled the police to issue a UUAPP ele1Nc s FROM BALI.. 0,11 TILE GLOBE pl;i +1 '7ELLUASIL L. ', •. Canada. the EnsPiee and Of M ':In. General Before Year Eyes. Canada. - A Japanese steamship' eompany contemplating a direct line Montreal, Mrs. Sidney' S. Woolivor sof 5 Thomas died in the hospital jus• result of" poisoning, An exodus from. Canada E rope at the present tune pr'oniis to relieve the labor situate -or. A new scale of pay is an for militia officers during service, also during temporary se vice. Fire in Montreal oecasioped loss in , residences destroy amounting to ahundred tlaoiisa dollars. Preparations are being made the inauguration of the paarcele po as soon as authorized by Parti went. London Street Railway is n using Hydro power, being the Co mission's largest customer in t city. - William Men Gray. brakeinan, St. Thomas., was fatally crushed tween tee ear 7- abs s train at R Bone Manitoba telephones yie4tl Province a surplus et. 4130,264. warning to citizens to report any during the twelve months endi ith untoward happenings as quickly as w'Lne ovef inter.deral Government h possible. The letter states that bought •a site for a drydock at E the unemployed gang" will take the quimalt, antenders are to be cal city by "rioting, shooting and burning property," if some help is ed for in the spring. not immediately rotichsafed them. Lueeise Leween, a Mohawk L dian, was found by a Deseroni jury to have died through neglec CUSTOMS REVENUE. from drink and exposure. A salver fox valued at $e0 Figures 'for December Show Drop ,.onsigned'to Toronto, escaped fr of Nearly a Million. the express oar at Winnipeg it lays: before the train started. A despatch from Ottawa, Customs revenue of the Dominion. The silver cross, one of the big for the month of December totalled est awards, was given to Assista, $1,779,090, a decrease of $991,175, Scoutmaster S. Benham of Bran compared with the corresponding :ford for bravery in rescuing a le month of 1. year. Fox the nine from drownin lraontns en 1 December gest ,the Old ath-avvay' grist -14 r 1 lig aggregate was' $84,278,786, a de- three Hiles north. of Burford, ci',d crease of $1,017,253, in comparison ed by IteMcCraeken, was destroy with tlxe eight months correspond- by fire, caused, it is believed, ing in 1912. spontaneous combustion. The Mounted Police patrol fr SELF DELUSION. Saskatoon Lake, which, it feared had been lost near For Many People Deceived by Tea and pine River, es on its way back w the prisoner under arrest. Wm. C. Browne of the, Kin Own. Scottish Borderers is walk from Winnipeg to Halifax, hay recently completed in Winnipe: four -thousand -mile tramp. • A. D. Campbell, B.Sc.,. of gary, warned eastern farmers in address at Morrisburg against' grade feed grain from the west abounding in noxious seeds. Miss Elsie Fleischer, aged tw ty, sentenced in the Fort Willi Police Court to six months in• 11ereer Reformatory, said she masqueraded as a, man a starvation. - The Fort William and Port thur Street Railway has beenta over by each oiity separately a will be managed by the Coun with Manager Robinson as ope, ing manager for both. FATHER SIIOOTS HIS SON. Says Ile Meant to Rill Himself, But Slays Son. A despatch from Paris says: Harry Fragson, the celebrated Anglo-French vaudeville singer who won fame by his adaptations of popular songs from English into French and vice versa, was killed here on Tuesday by his father, Vic-, tor Pott. Pott, who is a totterxi} invalid of 83 years, accused his son of neglecting him and bestowing his attention and mousy on women, especially an English tango. Thee. had sharp words about the matter, :and the dispute ended by the father drawing arevolver:a']nd shooting his son in the head. Fragsoil was taken to a hospital, where he died in a. few hours. SCARLET FEVER GERM?. Detroit Bacteriologist Gives De- taails of Discovery. A despatch from Monigeal says: Details of his discovery of a germ which is believed to be the cause of scarlet fever were told to the Society of American Becteriolo- gists by Dr. Newell S. Ferry of Detroit at the closing session. of the society's convention at McGill University on Friday. BOY. AND MATCHES. stral,tt'ord• Rause Damaged as Re- sult or Lad's Play. A despatch from Stratford says A five-year-old lad at the home ol. Colin , Campbell, 299 Bruns•'wick ate Street,• played , with. rn. hes' on, Saturrle-- and ;calmed •a blaze; which consumed about twenty-five dollar's' worth of mattresses, bedding ;and bedroom furniture-. Ile was not hurt. REVOLVERS STOLEN. i Large Quantity of . A.nllnunition Taken frean 'Winnipeg Store. A 'despatch from Winnipeg says Considerable uneasiness has been aroused in • police' ,aireles over the robbery of the Hingiston-Smi:Eh • sporting goods establishment in Main Street of a dozen •automatic revolvers and enough am/ignitionto keep 'a small army supplied by burglars who entered :the store late t g , Friday night. Coffee. We Iike to defend our indttlgen- cies . and habits even though we may 'be convinced Of their actual harmfulness. A m -an can convince himself that whiskey is 'goori for him on a cold morning, or beer r n a hot summer day -when he wants the whiskey or beer. It's the same with tea and tof- fee . Thousands of people suffer headache . and `fiervousness year after year, but try to persuade the7nse1ves the cause is not tea -or coffee—because they like it. "While -yet a, child- I commenced using coffee and continued it," evrites ' a Western pian, "until I was a regular coffee fiend. I drank it- every morning and in conse- quence had a blinding headache nearly every afternoon. Tea is just as injurious because i contains ceff eine, the same drug fund in coffee, "My folks though{; it was coffee that ailed me, tett I liked it: and would not admit it was the cause of .my trouble, so I stuck tocoffee and the headaches stuck to me. "Finally, the folks •stopped buy- Bing. ing coffee and brought home some --T Postum, They made it right (direr- frosts it States. tions oe pkg.) and told me eo see .. Lester leashes,. a- former; Tor what difference it would make with Ionian; has 'stz��allgely: li t} a• my head, and duping that first week from .a New Hampshire towra, onP ost u.m my cid affliction dad not • Great Britain. Viscount Bryce at a confercnc London. vigorously defended rel. ous training in the schools. Rt. Hon. hones Bryce, fors British Ambassador at Washingt has been created a Viscount by r P. Morgan & Co: and Geo bother nee once. From that day to F,• Baker Morgan as 'sensation this wo• have used nothing but lees- F' B kwhen they wind tum in, place.' of coffee--�heada,ches, from a Street number of corporat1ons. aro a teallg of the .past and the whole family is in .fine health." '. Generei al. "Postural looks good, smells good, tastesgoo , is good, and does • d De Vinoi',s great masterpit to the whole body. g " - "Mone Lisa," lams been retain ee . Name given by Canadian P:oatunn Paris,, Co.,, Windsor,- Ont: Read:- "The The Federals Road to- 'Wallvilie,y'.•pkgs,. north are on the •eve of fleeing turn now eot tet in two forme: American territory. . ular Posterns -- naiist be well. - After three desperate atf.e. �: axlccl to k e 1an. 's le •bel e Mexican th . 9 i stuan—ins a soluble ow- lodge the Feder.:als.raf Ojinage. slant ll�o p ful issolves ick- The Mexican.:, rebels have' d• A teas con d qts p. ly ac cup of bet water d With another r d ,5 er ttr :ate -rept to st te mattes a delicious lodge the',Federal's at Cjilza;a;:z creme. end tg r, s� ; beva:s. W.,, i instalrtly.' Grocers sell An ' Anglo -German ee et.17 both hinds, eonoeetting Portltgueee Africa '';„ ,., �, a, e e'beon eoncludad. Thele s ;1„'13,easoli fox Postllpn. p�at�l to h,