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The Herald, 1910-08-19, Page 6NEWS OF THE DAY IN RIFF A Toronto Servant Drowned at Shanty Bay. Port Arthur Militiamen Summoned For Not Attending Drill, Sultan of Sulu Coming to See Ni- agara Falls, One day's receipts at the Toronto Cus- tom House totalled $07,001 More rain than is needed for the crops has fallen in northwestern Manitoba. D. E. Stewart, ofMa'ioc, has sold an iron pyrites mine in that locality for $20,000. The Australian Government' has decid- ed'to invite the British Association in 1912 or 1914. Agents of Mackenzie & Mann have taken an option on the large brick man- ufacturing works of Humber Bros, of Victoria, B. C. The Toronto Board of Control,has or- dered an investig:•tion by Judge Win- chester into the conduct of the City Engineer's department. The National Agricultural Societe of Mexico has received crops reports show- ing that the yield of coin promises to be Iarger than fe.r many years. C. Tuesdale, a steelworker engigod up- on construction work on the Impress Hotel addition, Victoria, B. C: fell from the top of the building on 'Wednesday and was killed instantly. Mohammed Jamalulu Riram, Sultan of Sulu, who. once proposed to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, when she was Alice Roosevelt, will visit Niagara Tsa11s about the middle of September. There was a furry in (Comstock min- ing stock„ when the report came from Virginia City of a new -discovery of a six-foot,iedge of $S0 ore on the 2,450 - foot level of the Ophir mine. The Brockville and Ogdensburg police are anxious to find the whe.reab,ruts of Thomas Holman, who is Nrantcd in both places for alleged hold-ups. Holman is a laborer residing at Brockville. . Fifteen members of the mob at New- ark. Ohio, who participates in the riot which resulted in the lynching of Carl Etherington on July 8, have been in- dicted by the Grand Jury. The bricklayers and stonemasons em- ployed by Peter Lyall & Son on the Par- liament. buildings at Regina went on strike yesterday because the firm. ie in- volved in a labor dispute in Montreal. Negotiations are going on between the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern which may result in an agreement by which the Canadian Northern will nee the C, P. R. passenger terminals in Mont- real. The receipts of the Toronto 'Railway Company for July of this year were $369,431.6, of which the city's percen- tage is $73,880.S9. In July, 1909, the re- ceipts were $329,319.59, and the percen- tage $65,963.91. An organized gang of turkey thieves appears to be at work in the township of Biddulph. Dozens of farmers senort having their roosts robbed. and the met - ter has been placed in 'the hands of the county constabulary. ' A Calcutta newspaper ijanthority for the statement that at a group of Indian hankers of Bombay and Calcutta which for some time has been trying to corner the world's stock of silver, now holds one-half of the total. It is rumored that the Dominion Iron S: Steel Company, of `isdney, is about to take over the James Pender & Company, Limited, nail works of St. John, N. I3., and operate the plant in conjunction with their present works. .e Eleven members of 'the 95th Regiment at Port Arthur have, on nontplaint of Lieut.�CoI. Laurie, commanding., been summoned to the Police Court tomor- row morning to answer charges of re- fusing to attend drills- , In the Australian House of Represen- tatives Mr, Fisher mewed a second read- ing of the bill providing for a Federal note issue. It provides for the mainten- ance of a gold reserve of 25 per cent. for the total issue of Cy -000,000. ' 'Three, boys were killed and one in- jured by an express train bound from Boston. for New York on the New Haven Railroad near East Greenwich on Wed- nesday afternoon. Parts of the •bodies were streevn along the tracks for 200 yards... A drowning. fatality. occurred on. Wed- nesday afternoon at the summer vil- lage of Shanty Bay, five miles east of Barrie, when Sarah Mertydne, of To-' Tonto, a servant employed .by W. Stew- art, of that city, at his suwmer met her death. Earth eurrents, the bttgaear of the telegraphist, ]tn,ve: been playing havoc with wires east and west of Fort Wil- liam during the last twelve hours. Win- nipeg appears the farthest west point. affected, as is generally the case when this phenomenon -is denionstrated, . , The owners of the mines oat. S3ilboa,, Spain, have proposed an arrangement have offered to take back, the- strikers and will maintain the -same hours of working mita- Parliament has made some settlement of the trouble, • While on her way to Rockliffe Park, Ottawa, to attend a picnic, Mrs, Israel. Pare, aged 42, either fell or was thrown front a, street oar, just ae it was going round a curve, Her skull was fractured; causing death at the City Hospital on Wtednesday morning. She leaves a large. fancily, The Kiel shipbuilding interests have notified the managers of the Germania, the Ilowalds, and the Kolbe shipyards, all in or near that city, to lockout their workmen on Saturday unless in the meantime the .strikers of tho Efamburg- Ameriean Steamship Company at Ham- burg return to work. l'or exceeding the speed limit, five automobilists were fined in Police Court at Niagara Falls, on Wednesday. With the exeeption of President B.trnes, of the Ontario Wine Company, St. Cathar- ines, ail were assessed $l0 and costs. Barnes was fined $5. The Ontario police have orders to prosecute all violators of the speed law, THE INEEN'S 0 Lieut. -Gov. Gibson and Sir James Whitney Bid Them Good-bye. • Toronto despatch: Of a. very official character, was the send-off given to the Queen's Own at their last drill in the armories last night, before starting for Eng]crnd. His Honor, the Lieutenant - Governor, Sir James Whitney, Premier of Ontario; his Worship, Mayor Geary, end Col. Sir Henry Pellatt, ail address- ed the regiment, and a number of other officers and dignitaries were open the platform with theist. The regiment paraded six hundred strong and went through a brief pre- liminary drill I+e:ore beteg inspected by the Lieutenant -Governer and party,. Tee nonsense crowd of friends and relatives of the members of the regiment ebeerul as his honor rt::.e ftetn his chair en the temporary platform to speak. Col. (litisen appeared to be moved at the spectacle before hint and referred. to the fact that he was, sonic 50 years are, a raw private in that very regi- ment. He drew attention to the fine record, of the regiment in that 50 years, both. on the parade ground and in active service. In this new departure that they 'were undertaking, his Honor warned the amen that they need not expect any pie-. but a lot of hard work. Speaking officially -for thei province, he • stated that the Government felt proud of what Sir Henry Pellatt and the Queen's Owe were about to show the world in this trip to the Old Country to put in a month'si drill with the British army. Of the many evidences of recent date of the growing close alliance between the Mother Country and the Colonies, not one was more significant than this event. It showed that our loyalty was more than mere lip loyalty; that it was something earnest. IIe congratulated Sir 'Henry and the regiment for the great sacrifice it meant to all concerned and particularly to the commanding of- ficer, who had given so much labor and financial assistance to the undertaking. Premier Sir James ii hittaey formally presented the order -in -council passed by the executive of the province yesterday afternoon, thanking Sir Henry and the regiment for the spirit of self-sacrifice ing patriotism which had prompted the trip. Sir Henry Pellatt was visibly moved• by the number of cotuplinents paid to him and his regiment. by the different speakers and expressed his inability to properly thank the Government and the' City Council for their resolutions; of con- gratulation and encouragement. He thought that by sending a' regiment like the Queen's Own to be reviewed by the soliders of the Mother . Country, he would be doing something for the Em- pire by showing the underlying strength and fighting power that existed in the -dominions beyond the seas. He had thought, too, that much could be ]earned by the Canadian militiamen by rubbing shoulder to shoulder with the British soldiers at Aldershot. The regiment parades at 9 o'clock Saturday night preparatory to entrain- ing for Quebec. YEAR OF !DLENESS Hundreds of Red Flags Floated in Breeze at Springhill, N, S. Halifax, N. S.. Aug. 13.---Ilundeeds of red flags floated in the -,breeze in the mining town of Springhill to -day, where the striking U. M. W. miners 'were cele- brating fifty-two weeks of idleness. The idle workmen -formed a procession and • marched through the principal streets i nthe business section to the plo- nk grounds, a mile from the town; where a great demonstration was held. There were many little eltildt•en in the procession, and they all carried reel flags; Fully a thousand men have been oz strike in Springfield for a year, and have -been livit+n on strike funds. Business the town is at a standstill, and the civic finances,: are in a deplorable state. The soldiers are still guarding the loy- al workmen, and the Output is daily in.- Whereby n-whereby the mines may be opened. They ereatwin. . 6STAv ease is still high, and every phase is dis- CANADAU cu with eagernessJudge Langelie.r sae s: • "Crippen has Professor Saule's Advice to the .Niels.: of Lincoln. Addresses,.at Annual Picnic of Lin', roto Farmer& Institute. -St. Catharines despatch: The people of the United States have been good to me and to many other Canadians, but to you men of Lincoln I say 'stay at home.'" That was the statement . of Prof. Saute, of G •orgia, a former resi- dent of Siencoe, ire addressing the annual picaie of. the Linenln Farmers' Institute at Vineland today Farmers and fruit growers were preeent from all sections of the Niagara drat riot from Niagara to Hamilton. Prof. Saute endeavored to impress upon h 3 hearers that after travelling througiwut all of Canada and 1 lieyet to find a the United State. ,.+. < more- promising region than the Pro- vince of Ontario, the Niagara Peninsula particularly appealing to him as a land abounding -in, opportunities. He dwelt anon the failure of the school system to. impress this fact on the children. The apple question as applied to the Province generally was discussed by Prof. Crow, of. the Ontario Agricultural College, .who had s,•oken on the subject at Niagara Fella N. Y., last week. The professor repeater. that the number one apple' crop is deer sing, despite all the statements to ti., contrary. It was, however, useless snake statements without supplyine easons, which were threefold. First, increase of pests, which node fruil •'•owing much more difficult year Up Buyers can now obtain but ten.pe cent. of number one apples where sone , years ago the per- centage was 75 and S0. The second cause was change of climate. Varieties of trees imported from southern climes had been taken too far north, with the result that they corld not withstand the severe winters, The third reason— namely, snore culls and more unmixed for orchards• --grows out of the other two reasons. The result is that the market is glutted with second grade fruit. The sante thing was experienced in the Niag- ara Peninsula sonic years ago, and as the growers there learned that the num- ber one peach never was a drug on the market, the apple- men Will find that the number one apple never is. President IL Usher, of the institute, Prof. Pickett, of New ,Hampshire, a' graduate of the 'Ontario College; Mr. Percy Heedgetts, of the fruit section of the Ontario department; Inspector Carey, of the Doniinian depot; Supt. Putn,aln, af- thggeas r ' Justitute; and Mr. Robert Tleeinpsilii, St. Catharines, also spoke. AVMTORS BAST Walter Brookes Seriously Injured Avoiding Contact With Spectators. Asbury Park, Aug. 15.—A serious mis- han to Walter Brookens, in which the daring Wright aviator was painfully but not dangerously hart, marred the open- ing day of the aviation meet here. Brookens was dashed to earth when his machine suddenly turned turtle after he bad been forced to swerve suddenly to avoid crashing into a crowd of specta- tors. Seven other .persons among whom the machine tumbled were more or less seriously injured. Brookens was pinned under the wreekage, and was only hall ,t:onseious when friends reached him. I:hj; started a report that he' had been fatally injured. An examination showed that his nose was;. broken, and that he had been badly bruised and shaken up, but not seriously hurt. Brook -ens, who, it will be remembered, took part in the aviation meets at the Trethewey Farm, Weston. Ont., and Montreal last month; created a world's record for high flying on July 9 at At- lantic City, N. J., where he reached an elevation of 0,1755 feet in a Wright bi- plane. For this feat he received a $5,- 000 prize offered by the Atlantic City Aero Club, Brookens created other re- cords for high flying at Indianapolis. ear MITCHELL ARRIVES Also Two .Female Warders to Take . Miss Leneve Home, Quebec despatch: Detective Sergt. Mitchell, of Scotland Yard, and two female warders who are to have charge of Miss Lenevi on the journey back to London, arrived here to; day on the steamer Lake Manitoba. The prison- ers in the ordinary course evil be hand- ed Over to Mitchell by the governor 01 the prison. who will do so on the order of the court. The detective is only bring- ingeorroborative evidence in the event of Crippen contesting the ease here. The governor would not state when the pri- sobers will leave the prison. One thing only is definite, that the prisoners can- not leave wan Uonday. They must stay the requisite fifteen, days. After that they will 'wive ori dir•eetion of Sergeant Mitchell. Meanwhile interest here lathe been properly arrested, and, besides, he has no intention to silk to retrain here. He is waiting impatiently the arrival of: Inspector Miteleell, who will bring him lint' back* ] ngleild." , • "Notwithstanding the 'reports lislied to the etoutrary, Crippen does net speak french. A' reporter, was asking Governor Morin. if , he talked to Crippen during the day. "Welt, you know I don't talk English• well, so I tried Drench' with the prisoner, but I have discovered that he does not speak it . at all, and only answers when addressed in English., He tapes about the prison and Quebec, but never speaks of his eeirne or, Miss Leneve, but I arra positive -.that he does, not speak French." • The prisoner to -day • indulged in walking to and fro in the.'corridor for a• couple, of hours and then spent the. rest of the day reading. This is the first time since his incarceration that he has taken so' much exeh+cise. Miss Leneve has recovered her spirits so much that she laughed to -day at a remark which the governor made to her in broken English. He goes to see her twice a day, once in the morn- ing and in the evening. The matron is English; and to -day a newcomer was placed in the room with Miss Le - neve. Site is a French girl and speaks no word of English. This is pre- ferable, as no communication can thus pass between those confined. Inspector Dew did not pay any. visit, to the prisoners to -day. There is no need for him to go there, as all author- ity is vested in the governor himself. The newspaper men ,have ceased to har- ass him and he can now promenade. London cable: It is reported to- day that the authorities have discover- ed a clue to the certain identity of the body unearthed in the Hilldrop Crescent home of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, now un- der arrest in Quebec awaiting extradi- tion on the charge of having murdered an unnamed woman. The police have contended all along that the bits of flesh found were parts of the bossy of Belle Elmore, the ac- tress wife of Dr. Crippen, but their iden- tification as such has been a matter of much doubt. It is generally believed that the case of the Crown rests on a positive identification and the greatest importance is attached to the latest de- velopments. The hopeful clue was obtained during an exhaustive examination of the body made by Professor Pepper, the home of- fice expert, who had previously given many hours to the case. During the five hours that he worked. Prof. Pepper ob- tained conclusive evidence that the sex was feminine. He ;then continued with the purpose of determining the manner of death, having in mind the possibility' 'that poison was used. Theanalysis. so far as the poison 'theory 'is 4orteerned, was not completed to -day, but it was reported that the physician found evi- dence that at some period the woman had undergone a surgical operation. If this can be established the authorities claim. 'that they have gone a long way in prov- ing that the victim was Belle Elmore. The inquest will be resumed on Mon- day, and as that day approaches inter- est in the ease is revived. It is doubt- ful, however, if anything beyond the scientific evidence is brought to light before the return here of Dr. Crippen and Ethel Clare Leneve, who is jointly charged with him with guilty knowledge of the woman's death. '0 41. GREAT STORM. Immense Damage Done to Crops in the Leamington District, Leamington, Ont., despatch: Froin later information it develops that the hailstorms which swept over the Leam- ington fruit and vegetable belt yester- day afternoon caused the farmers very much loss. It is estimated that the peach crop was reduced to half it was a few days ago. The melon crop also will be reduced to a half crop. The corn crop is very badly damaged, the leaves being cut into ribbons, but the severest loss will be to the tobacco growers. The. tobacco crop within the storm -swept district will be a total loss, nothing be- ing Ieft standing but the stents. Es- timates from reliable sources put • the damage in the hundreds of thousand of dollars. Great losses were sustained by green -house owners. The settlers report the storm as one of the most destructive they ever saw iie the coun- try. SALMON PACK. For Lean Year the Catch of Sockeyes in Puget Sound is Large. Seattle, Wash., despatch: The sockeye .salmon pack on. Puget Sound this year to date aggregates approximately 190,- 000 cases. Packers say the pack is com- plete. Although they point oat that when all the figure's are in, the season's count will very likely touch 200,000 cases. This is the largest sockeye sal- mon pack on a "lean" year since 1902. Reports received from Vaneouver yes- terday were to the effect that Fraser River packers expect to have 200,000 cases of fish. Packers say the entire season's pack of sockeye salmon has al- ready 'been sold subject' to approval of opening prices, The next census of agriculture will be taken ander date of 1st J7une,.1011. The a1'ea,product alld value of field crops harvested in 1910 will be enumer- ated for fall wliaat, spring wheat, bar- ley, oats, rye, corn for. husking, buck- wheat, beano, pease • flax, mixed grains, bay and cover, alfalfa or lucerne, corn fur forage, other foreg.e crops, turnips, mangolds, sugar beets, other field roots, tobacco and hops; and grass seed, red clover seed and alsike clover seed Will ' be enumerated for product and value, Grain and other field e1:ops for the; harvest of 1011 will be taken by areas onfy,as none of these crops will be ripe at the taking of the census. The pro- ducts of these crops Will be gathered later in the year from the reports of correspondents.. Aix -mats and animal products, also under the head of agriculture, will in- clude the number of horses three years old and over, horses under three years, nalch cows, other horned or neat cattle, sheep. swine, turkeys, geese, ducks, hens and chickens and hives of bees held or • owned by each person et the date of the census on let June of 1911. The number of horses, milch cows, other horned or neat cattle,. sheep, swine and poultry sold in 1910, will' be recorded, as well as the wool, milk, home-made butter, home-made cheese,. eggs and honey products of the year, and the quantities of milk and cream sent to factory or sold. Pure-bred animals registered, or eli- gible for registration, which are owned at the time of taking the census will be enumerated for horses, cattle, sheep and swine, but their number will also be counted with all other animals. LIVE STOCK. • (Farmers' Advocate.) Sheep for show should be frequently handled, taught to poise, and. so accus- tomed to the shepherd as to understand and not fear rum. Cabbage and turnips ere two splendid crops to plan to have on hand for the show season. They are much relished and very conveniently shipped. ,. The feet of show sheep must be most ea.refully watched to prevent them from getting, long, then breaking too short, causing the sheep to go lame. Arrange to feed the show sheep and lambs in troughs that do not cause a rubbing of the wool from the face or cheeks. Neither snould dirt be allowed to get into the fleece on the neck or back. In Alberta, slieepmen are much elated with their. prospects. They have had a large lamp 'trap, and have been for- tunate in losing but fewof them. The lambs hire grown well, and. are now practically heyoitd.the -most danger- ous period of their short career. The more one travels, the more im- pressed is he with value of; sheep on the farm. The writer has been driv- ing riving for a week, giving aidin the combat with weeds. Two thing made them- selves evident in this warfare. These are, a short rotation, accompanied by thorough cultivation, and flocks of. sheep These two features invariably 'narked the thriftiest, most up-to-date care- ful farmers. The plows and harrows keep the weeds down in the cultivated fields, the sheep destroy then' in the pastures and by the fences in stubble fields. And the men find both fea- tures profitable. How Farmers Can r^Practice Conser- vation. Canada, being a nation of farmers, has to pay a very large seed bill each .year. Last year• our crops called for 33,000,000 busb.els of seed grain—wheat, oats and barley—and we are constantly increasing cur agricultural acreage. This being so, the economy of sowing good, clean seed is at once apparent. The ad- vantages to be derived• from it are lilr8 the proceeds of a sum of money Iaid out at compound interest—they are ouniu- lative in their effect and grow in ever- increasing ratio. Some years ago a competition was carried on in some 45 places in Canada to see just 'what the actual results of using Olean, pure seed would be. If we reason from the results obtained from it, we find that 'our grain yield last year would have been increas- ed by 190,000,000 bushels had clean, vig- orous seed been sowed 'on every acre under oultivation. - Now, 190,000,000 bushels of grain you'd fill 1;4000 miles` of railway grain cars. It is such a. Targe amount that it is hard for the wind to comprehend, but, at any rate, it goes to show that it would pay our farmers tee be partieular about the, kind of seed they sow. Wonders of Alfalfa.' Alfalfa has found a way into :the doe: tor's office as a curative agent, br,.Mar- ian N. Clark, of Los Angeles, Maims that there are remarkable curative qualities in the grass and its blossom. She tells of, success in prescribing alfalfa juice for the nerves,andclaimsthat itis one; of the wonders for waking people up out of lethargy and making them feel like working harder. Mao that a few tablets of alfalfa will , cure men of the smoking habit and take them out of the jimjams and into sound reason and good bodily health in a re- markahly short time. She uses the' grass reduced to small bulk, though in, sonic eases she admits that men are so foolish about their habits that she might 'make a 'mistake and prescribe the el:., falfa in the hay form, as though itere for other ,donkeys,—Worcester. Tele-, Telegram.. ,