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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.
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.A WOMAN JUDGE;
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,