The Herald, 1910-07-15, Page 6NEJ8 OF THE
DAA IN BRi
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Quebec Farmer Fatally Gored by a
Bull.
Italians Fined For Dynamiting Fish•
in River Trent.
Two Thousand Scotsmen Going to
the Old Land.
Parkdale Congregational Church will
be sold.
Dr. Sheard says the Toronto water
tunnel does not leak.
The steamer Gleneliah, which was at
Kingston a few days ago, ran ashore
near Presqu' Isle.
General Sir Ian Hamilton has been
appointed a member of the Imperial De-
fence Committee.
Count De Lesseps has given np the no-
tion of flying from Montreal to Toronto,
and his ariships were shipped.
Capt. A. Hunter, of Belleville, has been
appointed a Provincial inspector of game
and fishery at a. salary of $1,500 per
annum.
Lieut. P. 0. W. Howe, who was re-
cently appointed naval adviser at Ot-
tawa, has been promoted to be engineer
commander.
The carmen and helpers in the Cana-
dian Northern shops at Winnipeg went
out on strike, and now there are about
70 men out.
Sir James Whitney yesterday an-
nounced the appointment of Mr. W. L
Chisholm as science master in the Peter-
boro Normal SchooL
Rev. Dr. Norton, secretary of Baptist
home missions, who has been suffering
from erysipelas, is sufficiently recover-
ed to be back at his duties.
Five crap shooters, vanyieig in age
from 18 to 33, were arrested yesterday
afternoon while hard at work on the
York street bridge, Toronto.
At Niagara Falls thieves entered and
robbed the house of Dr. G. F. Musgrove.
They secured a quantity of gold and sev-
eral valuable pieces of jewelry.
At the horticultural section of the
Women's Congress in London, Miss J.
S. Turner said there was an opening for
women market gardeners in Canada.
Three Italians at Frankford village
were fined $20 each for. dynamiting fish
in the River Trent. The foreigners were
caught in the act on Sunday last.
A verdict to the effect that William
Miller died as the result of a blow on
the held administered by Stephen Sheets
was returned by the Montreal jury.
Mr. C. M. Hays, pre.,.,-ident of the Grand
Trunk, who has ,just returned from the
west, says the crop as a whole promises
to be well up to the average of former
years.
Three people were injured in a Mont-
real street car collision last evening at
the corner of City Hall avenue and St.
Catherine street, none of them very seri-
ously.
The steamer Donaldson, which has
been aground at the head of Little Rap-
ids Cut, was released on Wednesday
night after she had been lightered of
2,000 tens of coal.
Mr. Wm. lelae:llaster, vice-president of
the Montreal Rolling Mills Company,
has been appointed a director of the
National Trust Company, Limited, in
succession to the late Mr. James Cn .th-
ern; of Montreal.
Leaving the shores of Canada by the
port of Montreal this week will be 2,212
passengers. intending to tour through
the British Isles. Of the total number
1,507 are cabin passengers.
Dense smoke from forest fires still
hangs over Lake Huro:alike an immense
pall, and mariners are using all precau-
tions to avoid collisions. Fog horns are
kept sounding continneusly at the venal
entry at the Soo to prevent groundings.
Seven more Toronto citizens were
brought before Squire Cohen yesterday
for wasting water and sprinkling law.
dining prohibited hours, They were all
remanded until called on for sentence,
and warned by his Worship to "observe,
the law to the letter."
The Dominion .Abrasive Company, a
combination of Canadian and American
interests. has purchased two acres of
land in New Toronto, on which there is
a solid brick factory, from Fred II. Ross
de Company. They will manufacture
emery wheels.
At the closing of the tuberculosis con -
conference Dr. Osler, referring to the
proposal for a national system of in-
surance against the disease, strongly
opposed any such intervention nn the
• part of the state as has occurred in the
matter of non-contributory old -age pen-
sions.
Forest fires continue in Northern
Michigan and in the vicinity of the Son.
Passengers on the Soo-Piekford stage
last night found themselves hemmed in
on both sides of the road by walls of
fire, and the driver was obliged to race
his horses through the burning district
for over a mile.
At Port Stanley, W. H. Mahon. lessee
of the Invereric Hotel, pleaded guilty to
eharges of selling liquor on Sunday. June
8, and at the same time admitted two
previous convictions in London. Hi
was fined $250 on each charge, and
44.2.92 costa, a total of $112,92.
The International Order of T'elegra-
pliers has applied for a Board. of Con-
ciliation to draw up a schedule of wages,
hours of labor and classification for tel-
egraphers of the Iutereolonial and
Prince Edward Island Railway. Mr. W.
T. J. Lee, of Toronto, has been appoint-
ed as the representative of the men on
the board.
Definite plans have been completed by
the International C'ornmittee of the
Scots of America in Detroit for the char-
tering of two Allan Line steamers sail-
ing from Montreal to Glasgow, and
which will earry two thousand Canadian
and American Scotehmen to a reunion in
the old land. The party will sail in
about six weeks.
President Mackenzie and Manager
Fleming, of the Toronto Railway Com
-
pally, have practically decided who is to
be their representative on the Board of
Conciliation which is to investigate the
demands of the employees for increased
wages, but the manager said the man
they had agreed upon had not yet ac-
cepted,the job.
Because the executors of the estate of
the late Thomas McCormick, of Toron-
to, swore that the value of the property
left was under ten thousand dollars, and
thus exempt from succession duties, the
Provincial Government started an inves-
tigation, which has resulted in the ex-
ecutors being ordered to pay a thous-
and dollars to the Province..
WESTERN CROPS.
Cheering News Brought Back by Pre-
sident C. M. Hays.
Montreal despatch: That the western
wheat crop gives every proua:se of being
wed up to the average of the past five
years is the eheering ne.vs which Mr, C.
.ii.
Hap, the President of the Grand
Trunk System, brought b:i'•ek to Mont-
real with him to day, after a trip
through to the Pacific coat. "Judging
from my own observations," he said,
"I think the rr:•orte of damage by the
dry spe,, have been exaggerated. As a
friend o; urine ludo in the city says, it
is necessary to find out which side of the
Market a crop killer is on before you
know how much to believe of what he
tells you. As far as I can gather, such
damage as hae been done is in the dry
belt along the south of the prairie Pro-
vinces, but thin is more than counter-
balanced by the -increased acreage in
the north, where the crops are looking
splendid. Of course, it is a little early
yet to say for certain, but so far there
is every promise of another huge crop
well up to the average of previous
years."
With regard to the construction of
the Grand Trunk Paeifie, the only blot
on thehorizon the scar it labor.
o zoo is e y of o
PRINTING BUREAU.
Hon. Mr. Murphy Continuing investi-
gation into Its Working.
ELERArHrRS
IN THHR GASE
Grand Trunk Pacific Men Secure a
Favorable Decision.
Conciliation Board Increases Pay and
Shorter Hours.
Ottawa. Ont.. July ].1.—TIon. Chas.
Murphy is continuing his investigation
into conditions at the printing bureau,
and will have employees ander examina-
tion for days to come. In the meantime
no one is to have a holiday until the
examination is ended. He has also made
a permanent order dealing with failure
to report for duty. Hereafter any em-
p'.oyce who is absent for anything but
sickness will be auspended for the sec-
ond. `
IRON ORE.
Toronto Despatch—Shorter hours, in-
creased pay, better classification, pro-
motion for merit and service, and several
other minor 'advantages ;have been
awarded the Grand Trunk Pacific tele-
graphers by the conciliators, who have
been for about two months. investigating
Shipments From Lake Superior Reg-
ion the Heaviest,
Washington, July 11.—More iron ore
was shipped from the Lake Superior re-
gion in 1900 than ever before in a sin-
gle year. The quantity, acpording to a
report just issued by the United States
geological survey, was 42,504.110 long
tone. Most of this ore wits consumed
in eastern Ohio and western Pennsyl-
vania. Nearly 36,000,000 tone of iron
ore paeesd through. the Sault Ste. Marie
Canal and through Lakes Michigan and
Huron in 1909.
The Lake Superior • ore represented
about 80 per cent. of the total iron pro-
duction of the United States.
NOT MONedY iJ JT LOVE.
these matters. Whether the company
will accept the award or refuse it will
not be known n'itil the chief officers of
the company have had an opportunity
to go over the somewhat bulky report of
the arbitrators.
The telegraphers have been for some
time asking for higher wages and other
improved conditions from the company,
which the latter refused to grant, con-
sequently the men applied, under the
Lemieux Act, for a Board of Concilia-
tion, The company declined to agree
to this, but eventually consented, under
protest, to present evidence, refusing,
however, to appoint one of the conciliat-
ors. The Minister of Labor thereupon
appointed Mr. Donald Ross, barrister, of
Barrie, to act for the company. The
men selected, Mr. W. T. J. Lee, barrister,
Toronto, .as their representative, and
Judge McGibbon, Brampton, was select-
ed as president.
At the very outset the company de-
clined to recognize the assistant or
-trick" telegraphers, as they are tech-
nically called, the stationmasters who
wt•:e also telegraphers, or the linemen,
as those who should be included in the
arbitration. The company also asked
all such employees to leave the men's
union.
After hearing an immense amount of
evidence from both sides and many ar-
guments, the board came to unanimous
decisions for the men en about thirty
matters, while in three of four Mr. Ross
dissented. The dispute resolved itself
into three main points.
1 --Schedule governing the duties,
hours of employment, overtime, and
classification of workers.
2—The inclusion in the schedule of
trick despatel,t#'r's, linemen and agents
at terminal points.
3—Rates of ,van]
telegraph operai,oij
company.
The award od: the conciliators throws
some remarkable sidelights on the many
duties a telegraph operator on railways
may be ealled upon to perform. and
to attend to the work of signalling, des-
patching and protecting trains at the
same time. For instance, the award de-
crees that in future telegraphers are not
to he required to move snow from the
station, sift the ashes, scrub out the
station, earry the mail bags to postof-
fices, and if in future they have to at-
tend to the pumping engine and wind-
mill they are to get $10 per month ex-
tra, but only $5 if they just see after
the windmill. They are not to be com-
pelled to teach other employees the art
of telegraphy.
The award declares that no telegraph-
er is to be dismissed without inquiry
into any complaint against him, they
are to receive free transportation for
themselves and'families if the company
moves them from one station to another,
to have temporary shelters whenever
possible when they are working at places
where wrecks occur or the roadway is
damaged or ruder repair, and their ne-
cessary extra expenses when on such
work. The elerical work given them to
do must not he such as will interfere
with the proper signalling of all trains.
When the telegrapher has to do other
telegraphic work than that of the rail-
way. attend to express business, money
orders and the like, he is to be paida
percentage of from 10 to 33 1-3 per eent.
of the fees which the company gets for
such business.
Regarding hours of labor, the award
is that where one or two operators are
employed twelve hours areeto eonatitute
the day's Unlit, with one hour for meals;
more than two operators, ten hours per
tiny, with one hour for meals. The gen-
eral hours of those not otherwise ar-
ranged for to be ten per day, with an
hour for meals.
Regarding wages, the award makes
from 25 to 35 per cent. increase on many
different grades. It was agreed that 30
days constitute a month's work, and
that al'. overtime each month over that
30 says shall be paid for at not less
than 25 cents per hour, and more in
atlrotrt a score of cases.
Agents who clo telegraphing on main
line, are to get $80 per month, and
on branch lines $66. hien who are tele.
graphere and train despatchers are to
have: First year, $131 per month; sec -
end year, $136, and third year and after,
$148 a month. The mein who are relief
telegraphers and despatchers are to get
$119 per, month, and after one year's
service $131. After they eonr%', on the
permanent staff they are given the in-
creases the same tis the others. Relief
agents on branch and main lines will get
566per month. Linemen oil main lines
get a6 per month, and on branch lies
$55.
There are clauses dealing with the
Awaited Young Women Advertised for
in Montreal Paper.
Ottawa. July 11.—Mr. 0. \Tian. of the
Hull city h.ui staff, had a most
amusing experience recently through
an advertisement which he noticed
in •a Montreal paper, enquiring for
the whereabouts of Miss 0, Cadieux,
who had, it was said, fallen heir to
a large fortune.
Miss Cadieux, 'who was a distant
relative of Mr. Vias, asked the lat-
ter to look into the matter for her,
and he on Saturday called on the
person at the address given and
found to his surprise that the en -
cutter was an insurance agent from
Montreal, who had courted Miss
C•,dieux 10 years . ago, and
who had taken out an insurance
policy in her name, which he had.
been paying for the last tenyears,
but had not been able to ascertain
the lady's whereabouts.
He h'td taken this means to locate nal; to he nlIew-d when enerators are
her. &tiled out . n ernc•rgen"y work, and it
of all classes of
employed by the
is also provided that train despatchere
are to receive three weeks' holidays each
year, with their pay lacing on for that
time. Other telegraph -operators are to
get two n'eeke' holiday, yearly after
they have been four years in the eom-
pany's service. They are to receive their
Ay for the two weeks.
The • award if accepted is to remain
in force until notice has been given by
either slde to terminate it. Notice
to terminate when given by either
side must be served during the thirty
days immediately preceding the first
of May or the first of November In any
year.
Speaking generally, all promotions
are to be by seniority, but merit is
also to count. When reductions are to
be, made in the staff juniors are to be
dispensed with first.
The conciliators draw attention to
what they claim is a serious 'breach
of the Lemieux Act by the Grand
Trunk Pacific management. The act
provides that when conciliation is ap-
plied for and..until the, decision is given
neither side shall make any • change in
the conditions of employment, and no
workman shall be interfered with or
dismissed for any cause connected witli
the matters being arbitrated upon until
after the decision is rendered. The con-
ciliators say that a man named Inglis, of
Edmonton, was ordered by his superin-
tendent to quit the telegraphers' union
or leave the -company's service, and as
he would do neither he was dismissed.
The facts are before the `itinister of
tabor, as he has the responsibility of
taking action if the facts are as the con-
ciliators assert
TURYOF PEAC
r
A Great Celebration Proposed For
the Year 1914.
Andrew . Carnegie at Head of Com-
mittee of One Hundred.
New York, July 11.—The movement
for aworld-wide celebration in 1914 of
the one hundredth anniversary of
peace among F.mglieh-speaking peoples
took form here today with the an-
nouncement of a come–lithe selected to
organize the work of preparation. The
committee is headed by Andrew Carne-
gie as Chairman, and announcement of
the present status of the movement was
made today by Chairman John A.
Stewart of the Executive, Committee of
One Hundred.
The treaty of Ghent was signed . on
December 24, 1814, and it is proposed
to commemorate this event through
an invitation issued jointly by the citi-
zens of the United States and Great
Britain to the world at large to take
part during 1914 in a common celebra-
tion. Wee exact form which the celebra-
tion shall take has been only tenatively
discussed. A suggestion that has re-
ceived consideration contemplates a pro-
gramme, including a day of ceremonial
Ghent conferences in London and Wash-
ington, and the possible erection in New
York of a great memorial building,
which shall be the place of the holding
during 1914 of international confer-
ences and congresses for the considera-
tion of important subjects relating to
the world's peace, 'with suitable exhib-
its by the various nations. Nothing in
the way of a world's fair .is contem-
plated, however, the committee's repre-
sentatives state.
It is stated that the movement has
been discussed with President' Taft, who
has expressed a sympathetic interest in
the committee's work. It has been sug-
gested that a part of the celebration
programme be the creation of a suitable
monument such as a memo.lal bridge on
the Niagara border.
OFFICE LOCKED,,
Thieves Steal Gold and Other Valu-
ables From Niagara Falls Dentist.
Niagara Falls despatrh: Thieves• entered
the residence of Dr. G. _Musgrove this
evening during the absence of the family
and looted it of much gold and jewelry,
escaping without leaving any clue as to
their identit;r. From the doctor's office
they took a bottle of dental gold, sheet
gold and gold bands; from the other
room they took a gold watch, gold cres-
cent pin, gold locket and chain and other
trinkets. Dr. Musgrove is away on i
western trip, and the family had just
left the house for a short time.
IIJE LA'REAK[3
Record /of the Provincial Police For
Six Months.
Lawlessness in New Ontario ---Mur-
derers Not Arrested,
Toronto, July 1L—That the lawbreaker
in New Ontario meets with as much dis-
couragement as in the older portions of
the Province Is the testimony of the
half -yearly report of the Ontario Pro-
vincial Police, issued yesterday. The op-
erations of the department cover the
whole Province, but over 93 per cent. of
the eases dealt with in the report occur-
red in the newer districts of the north.
Warrants were issued for thirteen
persona on charges of murder, and
seven of these men are still at large.
The failure of the police to capture
ibe two men who murdered a Chinese
eat Streetsville recently was, due to delay
in notifying the officers, while in the
other cases the suspects were foreigners,
making it difficult to secure information
regarding the crimes. Two Macedonians
wanted for the murder of a fellow -eosin.
tryman at Niagara Falls got over into
the United States before the Provincial
Police got an their trail. • They were
traced as far as Buffalo. In the case of
a foreigner named Vernyah who was
murdered near Fort William, the body
was riot found until six months after
the tragedy, and it was found impossible
to locate the murderer after the long
interval. The officers still hold a •war-
rant for Sam S.aivadore on a charge of
shooting a fellow -laborer on a construc-
tion gang near Foote's Bay. The sev-
enth was a shooting affray among a
number of foreigners at Sault Ste. Marie,
where the victim refused to give any in-
formation to the police until he was
about to die, some time after the 'shoot-
ing. During the six months three per-
sons were convicted of murder, two were
hanged, one is under sentence, and two
are awaiting trial.
Under the liquor license act, 181 per-
sons were prosecuted, 135 •convicted, 19
di.echarged, three eases were withdrawn,
and four remain to be disposed. of; 113
were fined and 23 sentenced to terns of
imprisonment. The total fines amounted
to ,$,323.
For violations of the fish and game
laws, 54 persons were prosecuted, 47
convicted, two discharged, . and four
eases Tremain to be disposed, of.
Referring to the frequency of shoot-
ing. affrays among. fore igners,•, the re-
port says: "In view of the number of
crimes of violence, it is to be regretted
that the sale of weapons is not more
ender control. While, under certain con-
ditions, the police have the right to
search and disarm foreigners, yet the.
facilities for procuring cheap revolvers,
suns and (Alter weapons are so great
that the efforts of the police are of lit-
tle avail." ,
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BAPTIST MISSIONS
AN HONEST MAN.
Makes Fortune arid Pays Off 22 -Year -
Old Debt of Father's Firm.
St. Catharines, July 11. --Mr. Ross, of
Port Robinson, -was this week paid $300
by Fred Tench, the amount of principal
and interest owing Ross for work done
for Tench's father in 1838, when the lat-
ter belonged to the finis of W. E. Tench
& Son. In that year Ross built two
tugs for the firm, the cost being $145.-
46, Shortly afterwards the firm became
insolvent, with the result that the bill
was not, palde Fred Tench soon after left
for New York, where he has since made
a considerable sum ofmoney, . and is now
paying off debts of his father's firm.
The interest was $7 more than the prin-
cipal, amounting try $152.73.
Big Increase in Receipts Reported
For Foreign Missions,
Toronto despatch: .A. special meeting of
the Baptist Foreign Mission Board of
Ontario and Quebec was held yesterday.
in McMaster University, presided over
by Rev. Dr. Bates.
The Treasurer's report'ahowed an in-
crease of nearly $7,000 in the receipts,
compared with the corresponding period
of last year.
Miss Katie Marsh, of Quebec city, was
appointed honorary missionary of the
board. to India. She will pay her own
expenses and provide her own salary.
]Miss Massa will sail from Vancouver
on Sept. 28.
The constitution of the basis of union
for the Dominion Board of Foreign Mis-
sions was put into final form, and will
be submitted to the various Baptist con.
veneions, viz.: The Maritime Convention,
thea Baptist Union of Western Canada,.
and the Ontario and Quebec Convention.
These will all meet in. September.
Messrs. James Ryrie and John First -
brook appeared beforethe board and
gave an exhaustive statement of their
visit to India. and spoke in high terms
of the conditions there.
A committee was appointed to inaugu-
rate a scheme to raise $20.000 to meet
the present urgent needs in Telugu,
Inclia.
AIR LINE,
Lady Abdy Subscribes $250,000 To-
ward Its Promotion.
'London, July 1.1.. Lady Abdy, who
paid $630 for the privilege of going
up with Grahame White, the English
aviator. in a flight at Brooklyns,
June 18, and who was unhurt, when
the machine fell to then ground, has
ziven $250,000 toward thepfoi otion
of an aerial passenger service be
tween London and Paris, A com-
tnittee is being formed of leading avia-
tors to study the best means of util-
izing the gift, either by airship or
aeroplane, or by a courbivation .of
both,