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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-08-06, Page 7MUST BUILD • DREA NOUGHTS Anna1:uced in Cala; ens Ear Firs: Lord of Admiralty. Craa:n',. P r :c qm ixarice qa .the Sea Must be Secured. Radical and Labor Men Protest . aia5t increased Expenditure. London, Aug. 2.—Mr. Asquith was Asked iu the Iiouse , of Commmn:s this afternoon if the Gievernment's extended naval programme inch led the offer of battleships made by Australia and New Zealand, but deferred answering until he could ecteetat with his colonist .coi- leagues. FOUR SUPER -DREADNOUGHTS, London, Aug. 2,—The big navy cam- paign has won tete day, and tour addi- tional suix:r-Dreadnoughts are to be add- ed to the current year's shipbuilding programme. Mr. liteKenna said that fesaign shipbuilding had developed apace. Italy and Austria-Hungary, according to the ample evidence col- lected by the Government; each has definitely committed itself to the oon- struotion of four battleships of the largest size and the largest type. she First Lord of the Admiralty w.enttioned that of the two big ships to be laid clown in November the Gov- ernment had decided that one should be an improved cruiser, as the Ad- miralty had plans of cruisers more powerful and faster than the Invincible and Indomitable types. Mr. McKenna said that during the three years that the British' Govern- ment was doing its best to restrict the growth of armaments Germany laid down eleven large armored ships bo Great Britain's eights After these three years of experience he consid- ered it would not be safe to eon- tinue on these lines, and that the time had strayed to take steps to se- cure British predominance on the sea. Tie Radicals and Labor members pro- tested against the increased expenditure, pad Premier Asquith begged them to believe that the programme was not Introduced in the spirit of aggressi%, but because a month's anxious delibera- tion had forced the Cabinet to the reluc- tant conclusion that this enlarged pro- gramme was the only one which, with or the safety of the honestly ask Par - proper regard empire, they lienee it to aeee Mrs,, 'Ma enn ago replied to aieitta. teeieoav taana slid of ' ught a.nd'In- vincible typea, or equivalent fighting powers, will be completed by April 1, 1012, fox Great Britain, Germany and the United States, assuming that each of the powers will then lia.ve completed its 1910 programme, and how Arany battle- ships of pre -Dreadnought types will then be possessed by each power, ;whichapt that time are less than ten, twelve, diad fifteen years old, reepeotively, from the date of Laying down, giving the total pre-Dreaanoug t battleships possessed, so that tike totait,Ancluded among those less than ten years old will again be included in the totals lees than twelve or fiftee:r yyears oid. Mr. MoKenina's reply is given in the following table: Gzeat Ger- Britain. really. U.S. Dreadnought and Invin- cible types ... ,16 13 3 Pre -Dreadnought battle- ships under 10 years 9 8 12 Pre -Dreadnought battle - Alpe under 12 years 14 12 13 Pre -Dreadnought battle- ships under 15 years 20 18 lt3 MILES OF SALMON. Long -Expected .Ran on the Pacific Has Commenced. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 2.—Three miles of eoekeyes passed into the straits this morning, and the island traps are being well filled. The belated run for Which fishermen have been anxiously waiting for sixteen days Is now on in earnest. half an hour after one of the outer traps, the Todd trap, at Coal Creek, was lifted this morning; the crew reported that 10,000 sockeyes had entered the trap, anti to -morrow's lifts are expected to run, -high in the thou. sands. When the tugs arrived this afternoon the feshermen reported that the straits were thick with fish and the traps were being heavily loaded. 4 . .A WOMAN JUDGE; • Appeal Against Her• Decision in Ex- tradition Case. Detroit, Aug. 2.—Attorney Pound, who has sit appeal before the 'United States Supreme Court, questioning the right of the United States Court Com- missioner Carrie Davison to sit as judge in the case of Jaynes Hinsley, wboso ex- tradition its sought for by the Canadian Government on the charge of larceny, oe. the ground that a woman cannot legally act in that eapaoity, says that he will if necessary carry the case to Congress or to President Taft to secure his client's release. I1.insley had been in Jail here singe last March, So far Mr. Pound: has been unsuccessful .in ob... tailing ' his release. Woi ld Not Remain ain Witt a Corzress Hostile to Wm. Ha, a'turg, .Aug, 2 G:'neral Beeves, who ;•esignzil to -day as President of Coleenbia; in diecussitig the situation in that co,untry, staid that a majority of the. new Congress, which assembled on July 20, is clearly opposed to the rati- fieation of the tripartite treaty between 'Colombia, the United States and Pan- ama.' It ivas,therefore, useless for him to retain oefice when the country did not share his views. He believed acting President 'Holguin, who held the same opinions as lfiwself, would soon be • com- pelled to retire for silimar reasons. His laconic . message to 'the President`.. of the Colombian Senate said:. "1 irrevocably resign all future claims to the presidency." General Reyes will remain in Europe indefinitely. He will send a manifesto to the Colombian people in a few days. HUNDREDS INFECTED.. Anthrax Sweeps Through a Lonely Parish in Louisiana. Newv O'rleems, Aug,- 2.—eche De- partment of Agriculture has taken charge of the fight against anthrax, which has broken out in an epidemic form among cattle in Cameron, an iso- lated parish in southwest Louisiana, on the Texas border. The parish is mainly swamp lands and is without railroads, and largely cut off from the world, An- thrax, one of the oldest and most dead- ly and loathsome of animal diseases, broke out among the cattle last month and spread rapidly. Ignorant of the infectious nature of the malady, which requires the burning of the bodies of all animals dying from the disease, the bodies were allowed to lie unburied on the prairies or in the marshes, so that swarms of flies carried the disease to other animals, with the result that ,one-fourth of those in Cam- eron died. In . some cases attempts` were made to skin the dead animals, and eight men are now under treatment at Leesburg, the parish seat. The disease is very rare in human be- ings, and is equally as fatal as with cat- tle, although none of the men victims of the malady have died as yet. a s 0 THROUGH TRAFFIC. Entered Into Between C.P.R. and C.N.R.Colapan es, Toronto, Aug. 2.—By . a traffio aa•- rangement which has just been per- fected between the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern Railway. Companies the latter road will soon be en, .a. posi- tion to route freight from Toronto or fromany point on the Canadian North- ern Ontario system to the west by using the O. P. R- from Sudlediy westward to Port ,Arthur. This is a traffic,' arrange- ment which the Grand Trunk Railway has enjoyed by means of connections at North Bay ever since the C. P. R. opened up its western lines. These. two roads, accordingly, C. N. R. and G.- T. R., are both placed on a similar. `oem. etitive basis, so far as freight routes' to the Canadian west are concerned. QUARANTINED. Smallpox Case Discovered at the Woodstock Hospital. Woodstock deapateh: For the next, two weeks the patients and staff of the• Woodstock - General Hospital will be strietly confined within the premises of that institution. On account of a pa- tient developing smallpox. the hospital has been quarantined by the health au- thorities. The case was discovered, on Saturday, the victim being a patient named Barker, who has been in the hos- pital ,about six weeks recovering from an operation, The Board of Health was immediate- ly convened, and upon the recommends-, tion of the eity doctors they decided to quarantine the place: The patient with the disease was removed to the Isolation Hospital et once, another pa- tient who had been near him in the hos- pital going along as attendant. Every precaution is being taken to prevent the spread of the disease and no further trouble is anticipated, It is surmised that the disease must have been brought to thehospital by some visitor. w:e. WIRE PRICES RAISED. Ameripan Steel & Wire Company Ad. • vanees Date of Price increased. New York, Aug. 2.: Ner ice of nen ad- vance of $2 a ton in wire products, to take effect on•August let, was given to- day by the American Steel & Wire Company, as a subsidiary of, he United State Steal Corporation. Several weeks ago this advance was announced to^ take effect the firet of next year, and contracts for delivery after January 1st were adopted on that basis. The date of the effectiveness of the advance is now set forward by five months. It was also stated to -day that an ad- 'vanes hi prices of steel bars, steel plates and structural shapes would, it Was expected, be made within the next fortnight. Etrtecient as to Stile of Steel fTe l at .E'itisbairg. The Company Claims That it Is Gaining Ground. Pittsburg, Aug. 2, The Ansel-lea,it. Sheet & Tin Plate Go. yesterday is- sued a statement covering its opera- tions since July 1st•., when a strike was declared against' it by Amalga- mated Association of Steel, Iron & Tin Workers who objected to the new open shop policy. At the time the strike was declared it is asserted there' were 113 mills in the sheet department operating, while a total of 134 were running or 76 per cent. of the total serviceable capacity of the company. In the tin plate . department an July 1st there were 80 millsin operation, the state- ment continues, while yesterday a total of 114 were active, or 51 per teent of the •entire serviceable capac- ' Continuing, tile report says that the Guernsey, Pa., mill, which formerly was a union proposition, has been running in full "since duly 1st on the open . shop basis:. The same state- ment is made about the 'Midland and Struthers mills. There bias been no occasion to start the Piqua, Ohio, .plant "as the pro - duet of that mill is not rteeded:" The Aetna. Standard Mill at Bridgeport, Ohio also remains closed. Relative to new efforts of the strik- ers to organize the non-union- shops the company says: "Vigorous efforts in this direction have been made at New Kensington. Early lase, weeir some attention was paid by, men working in the Pitts- burg plant to anis-statements made by union organizers, causing a tem- porary shut down of that mill, These, however, were promptly corrected by the local mill office and it became quite apparent to the men that they had been misled. They returned to their positions and in consequence the mill 'went on in, full; Gperatlon on the first turn the next morning." a-• LOVE TRAGEDY. Blacksmith Shot Gil and. Then Took His Owi4ife. Montn•ea1 despatch: Because the girl with whom he was in lave Spurned his offer of marriage, John Smith, or Schmidt, shot Marie Monet at the lat- ter's home in St telemi, a ' Montreal suburb, to -night, and + ipg^ the pistol on himself''blew . sus, The girl' was removed to the "cstern Hos- pital, but is not -expected to recover. Schmidt, who - is a blacksmith, eame here from New York a few weeks ago, and beanie acquainted with the girl in a restaurant 'where she worked. The girl lived with her married sister at St, Henri, and Schmidt callejl there on Sun - .day evening, stating that he would call to -night to say goodlate.' as he was leavingthe city for a-shorttime. He called to -night and appeared to be quite rational. The sister, Mrs. Grine, left Schmidt 'and Miss' Monet alone in the parlor while she went outside for a few mo- ments. On reaching the . street she heard a shot, and Miss Monet rushed out of the house and fell to the ground with a bullet in her back. Another shot was heard, and when Mrs. Grine rushed in she found Schmidt lying on the floor dead, with a bullet in his brain. �.� - SLEEPY HEAD. Albion Has a Young : Man Who Sleeps All the Time. Rootiester, Aug. 2.—Albion, Orleans county, "lies a puzzling medical case in a young man who sleeps nearly all of the time. He was asleep in the street when arrested there last Tuesday night and supposed to be intoxicated. When arraigned' 'before Justice Brainerd on Wednesday he was found unable to keep awake. Physicians examined him, but find no apparent injury. He was taken to the Orleans county almshouse; where he sleeps most of the time, and when aroused except to say his name is Harry Burke, 25 years old, and his relatives in Rochester, relapses into slumber again. He says his father is manager of the Colonial Theatre in New Fork City. i • e TIGER ATTACKS KEEPER. Tears Back of Trainer at Coney Is- land Menagerie. New York, Aug. 2.---XIogul,. n sulky Bengal tiger, who has been -making no end of trouble for his owners ever since he was added to the attractions of Coney Island a fortnight ago, sprang from the pedestal to whiehhe was chained this afternoon, snapped the links and landed solidly on tate back of his trainer, Henry .Palkendorth, bearing him to the ground. Falkendorth struggled bravely. Of the five bleak cartridges in his revolver not one esplodoed as he pulled the trig- ger. One savage blow from the tiger's forepaw had .opened his scalp, and when he was finally pulled through the door of the, •cage by the eatendants who went to hie; mace with iron prods and burn- ing torches, he was unconscious. At the hospital he was feared he had con- eussion of the brain, and email hope was held otit for his recoverie Thirty-1"wo Thous/and Ten Needed foe .Harvest. Winti:p1 _lue. — I o. n p,ac. 5,000 men at the present ante at wages ranging from $40 to $30 per month and boors;" seal Josh Burke, Provin- cial, Superintendent of, In1migrntion and• Ereptoyuaent,' this morning, "Beery day applications for men fere being received at my office, which I cannot supply,•and I estimate before the harvest is well under way at :least 32,000 men will be required in Western' `Canada. I also think wages will be higher, than the farmers can well' afford to pay. The domestic servant problem • is" .equally hard to handle .at present, a.nq.,the sit - nation is daily getting worse. "I know of cases where, farmers are paving as, high as twenty 'dollars per month for servant girls, and female help is ;more needed in Manitoba to -day ,than men, if that be possible." STRUCK IN FOG, Steamer Cairncrag, of Newcastle, Dangerous Position. in Canso, N. S., Aug: lee -After feeling her wee from Boston through a fog whieh hetet :enveloped the coast for weeks past, the fine steel steamer Cairncraig, of Newcastle, England, struck at Snort- ing Rocks, Dover Island, eight miles west of Canso, to -day. With all possi- ble despatch boats were launched and provisioned, as the ship 'began to fill forward at once, and when daylight broke the boats were able to land in a sheltered place on Dover Island, where. they still are, awaiting the effect of an- other tide upon their ship, or waiting to sec her break up. At break of day the wrecked steamer the crew were discovered by fishermen, who lent every assistance in their pow- er. As soon as the news of the disaster reached Canso, the Government steamer Thirty -Three was dispatched to the scene of the wreck. , She was unable to get near the wreck, but was able to land on the sheltered side of the island and convey offers of assistance to Capt. Hyslop and the crew. Captain Hyslop refused to leave the scene of the wreck, and hopes that the sea may moderate with the, prevailing west wind, to enable tbem to get on board again, and perhaps save some more of their effects. That no lives were lost is fortunate. The rock where Cairncrag struck is one of the most exposed on the coast, and breakers were to -day rising thirty- feet -rtr more, -over the ship's bow. Should the steamer survive the pounding of the seas throughout the night, it is possible she may remain un- broken for some days, as the sea is now moderating fast. The forward holds and engine -room are full of water, but the stern seems to be afloat. The Cairncrag was bound to Bath- urst, N. B., to load. She is a fine steel steamer of 3,022 tons, built at Newcastle in 1892, and owned by Messrs. Cairns, Noble and Young, of that place. VILLAGE WIPED OUT Destructive Hurricanes in Province of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Aug. 2. — Advices re- ceived from the country state that very bad storms have visited various sections during the past forty-eight hours. The little village of Macklin, on the O. P, R branch line Go W etaerkiwin was practi- calle wiped out by a hurricane on Satur- day afternoon, only two stores being kit standing. A number 'of settlers' shacks were also overturned in that dis- trict. Other places reporting damage from the storms are Napinka, Melita, 0a kLake and Pierson, Elstow, Sask., July 20.—A fierce storm swept this district late on Satur- day night,, doing considerable damage to property.,: FRANCHISE IN CAPE COLONY. British Government is Struggling With Question of Native Vote. London, Ang. 2.—An element that adds to the interest and excitement of the capital is the presence of practically all the rulers of South Africa. The conference et the , Colonial Office is practically a South African Parliament. President Stoyn, General .Botha, Dr. 3ameson are in eouneil, while outside the conference chamber wait the repre- seutatives of the negro races, whose fate hangs in the balance. The 'British Gov- ernment is making an unavailing stand on their behalf. 5. p MERCHANTS WILL FiGHT, Will Carry Early-Giosing By-law to the Privy Council, toaereal, Aug. 2,—A determined ltd. fort wiltbe made by the retail mer- chants of the city to upset the recently enforced early closing by-law, whieh enacts that every store shall close et 7 o'clock on 'Wednesday and Thursday. evenings, with the exception of saloons, cigar and fruit and ice cream stores, etc. A meeting of retail merchants waft held this evening, at whieh it was de- cided to carry the fight to the Privy Council, and nearly $1,500 was sub- scribed to sheet the costs of the legal fightbefore the tneeting•:adjoierned. GREEK FLAG, Now Hying' Over the Fortress at Cauda, Crete, Canes, Crete, Ang. 2. — The Greek flag, has been run up at the fortress and the Cretan militia barracks here. As the evacuation of the International troops only was completed yesterday' the Cretans lost no time in testing the disposition of the powers, who have 'promised Turkey that they will protect her rights. The outcome of this assertion of the Cretans' determin- ation to join Greece is awaited with some concern. After more than seventy years of al- most continuous insurrection, the four powers—Great Britain, Russia, France and .,Italy --intervened in Cretan af- fairs and in 1898 constituted the is- land, with the adjacent islets, an eat- onomous state under a high commis- sioner of the powers, subject to the Suzerainty `of Turkey, but paying, however, no tribute to that country. Since Aug. 14, 1906, the right of the King of Greece to propose the high commissioner has :been recognized by the protecting powers, under whose sanction Greek officers have taken over the direction of the gender -cafe and militia. In May, 1908, the powers decided to gradually withdraw the international troops from the island and when this fact was announced Crete declared for union with Greece and public feeling became intense. Early this month the diplomatic repre- sentatives of the powers at Constan- tinople presented a note to the Porte in which it was said that the time was inopportune for the discussion of Tur- kish proposals relative to the future of the island, but as the protecting powers were to station a warship in Sada Bay the supreme rights of Tur- key would not be affected by the with- drawal of the troops. MINE STRIKE. Glance I3vy, N. 8., despateh: The fourth week of the struggle between the U. M. W. and the Dominion Coal. Company, which opens to -morrow, may be a .decisive one. Claiming that they " will have an output very close to that obtained under normal conditions by next Tuesday, the company are appar- ently embarking on an egg:inssiye policy. Working on the assumption that the majority of Ate strikers acre not prepared to live o11 two dollars a week for any opnsiderable time in order to win recog- nition for the U. M. W., they are seem- ingly intent upon creating a break in the U. M. W. ranks. This is what souse of the strike leaders admit they have feared more than any other con- tingency. Should there be any serious defections amongst the strikers the strike will un- doubtedly ooIlapse at once, and to keep the men in line meetings are held at dif- ferent eollerieee every night for the pur- pose of keeping the men's enti►usiasnt up. The miners are represented as crush- ed, and unable to better their condition by means olthe P. W. A,, and the U. M. W. is pictured as a good Samari- tan which 'has come to band up their wounds and aid them against oppres- sion, All the speeehes emphasize the necessity for steadfastness in the ranks - On the other hand, the P. W. A. is far from idle. Meetings are held nightly by the P. W., A., and the advent of the U. M. W. is denounced as a foreign inva- sion and an encroachment on the rights of the miners of Nova Beetle, and the nten are urged to stand by their con- tract with the company tied remain at work. The company appeared to be very well gratified with the turn of events to -day, They anticipated another 10,- 000 -ton output, and appeared eonfident that before next Tuesday they vyo& be producing 12,000 or 13,000 tons daily. + An offieiad of the U. M. W. seated to -•night that they would make a test case of the first evictions, and that in the meantime they would erect shacks and tents to accosnmodatte all the people turned, out. The eoinpany says that • they are only emptying hoses which' they need for their own pur- poses. Men are being brought in now to fill the places of strikers, and they must find houses for them. To do this they are evieting strikers living nearest to the different mines. ALL DEAD. ., 4 Five Babes Born in Ten Minutes at • Newark N. Y. Newark, N. J., Aug. 2,--,hfrs, Thos. Renwick, of 726 Springfield avenue, yes- terday gave birth to five children within ten minutes, the event canning .aston- ishment even to her physician, Dr. Peter F. Motzenbecker. Four of the five babies were alive when brought into the world, a few minutes after 10 o'clock in the morning. Two were males and two females. The fifth infant was born dead. The four children continued to breathe for about fifteen minutes after birth, and then all died. Dr. Motzenbecker announced that these • four babies were perfectly formed and well-developed infants of aboait a week past the six months' per- iod, Mrs, Renwick is 33 years old. Theit Duke of Connaught (the Ding's brother Arthur), has offered the village of Bagshot, Surrey, a playing field. He was moved to do this by watching the. dangers the children ran in playing in e. the. road, from the almost unceasing stream of motor traffic on a main high- way hi and out of London,