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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1910-08-26, Page 6•NEVES Orl DAY IN BRIEF London Business Man Drops Dead at His Home. ce Safes to be Placed on Ships of French Navy. Several Gases of Cholera at 'Bari, Italy. • • The body of Howard A. Hill, who was drowned on July 9, was. washed ashore at Mimico. A permit his been taken out at Mont real for a new i. P. R. depot at Milo End, at acost of '$37.000. • Wm. Kerr, atarmer living near Frank- lin, had his frame barn struck by lightning and his crop,of fall wheat, bar- ley and fancy peas burned. Dr. Beland, M.P. for the county of Beauce, Que., taken suddenly ill with a serious attack of appeudicitis and peri- tonitis, is reported as dying. Edward S. Wrightemith.or and retired newspaper man, is dead at Cleveland, after an illness of several weeks. Ile entered newspaper work 25 years ago. Harry Bogart, 122 George street, Tor- onto, was arrested this morning, charged with robbing the till in the printing de- partment of the Methodist Book Zoom. Joseph Knott, a caretaker at Queen's University, Kingston, fishing off Alacdon- adl Park, captured a 45 -pound maskin- onge, the largest caught in this locality in a good many years. Samuel Trewin, (SJ Ilarvard avenue, Toronto, 78 years old, was knocked down by a team of horses at the corner of Queen and longe streets and his left thigh was fractured.' The Inland Revenue returns for July total $1,234,719, as compared with $1,- 229,542 in the seine month last year. Of the amount in this year's total, the .excise shows $1,207,403. The Bothnia, of the Montreal Trans- portation Company, has been sold to Oollingwood parties for $10,000 to go into the timber trade from Georgian Bay to Tonawanda, . Mayor Geary, of Toronto, is having an amendment, to the building by-law prepared with a view to obviating the danger to workmen from insufficient scaffolding on buildings in course of erec- tion. Robert Marshall, secretary of the Kingston Old Boys' Association of Tor- onto ever since its inception eight years ago, died suddenly yesterday of pneu- monia at Victorin, Memorial Hospital, Toronto. While at work on a lona of grain. rear Flesher -ton, Henry Le Gard was struck by lightning and severely injur- ed. Ile was thrown from the load and for some time remained in an uncon- scious condition. Frank Estabrooks, of Centreville, N. 13, who as aecidetnally shot by An- drew McDonald while the latter was cleaning a revolver. died early on Wed- nesday evening. The bullet entered Es- talrook's stomach. Lloyd's assessor at Brussels declares that the total lope to the insurance companies; by the fire in the Interim- tional Exhibition buildings will probab- ly amount to $10.000.000, of which sum Lloyds carry $1,000.000. Trials with a hexaphtne, Which is claimed to he the biggest aeroplane in the world, are about to beein at Frank- fort. The machine is 70 feet long. It has three propellers, and seats for two pilots and four poseengers. Rev. A. A. MeLeod and Mrs. McLeod, Canadian 13aptiet misgoneries stationed nt Pedda Parana Teleguland, Indio, aro returning to Canada a year earlier than they were expected on account of the impaired health of Mr. McLeod. Official reports from the seaport town of 13a.ri. _Italy, announce several cases of cholera there. There is greet alarm. not only among, the people of the affected region, het also 11111011g the resi- dents of the surrounding country. The Minister of Marine has decided to install ice safes on the ships of the French navy. Thanks to this measure. Jack wilt now he sale to eat fresh meat, and it is antleimitea that. at the athie time a considerable easing of money will result. tare, enpposedlv caneea ba the heating nf hay. completelv destroyed the large barns of W. FL Ranter. near Nominee, as well as the season's crops of hay, theta 200 loads, with five linvsee. The lo.ss is 810,000, covered hy $7,000 insur- ance. Reporton the eondition of the Crops along the lite of the Terniskeming and Northern Ontario Railway have been prepared by the agents of the roma mission which show that the crops in the territory served by the railway are In fine corlition. Two residents of Preston. 'Label° County', Que.. J. Levee and P. Villenetwa, appeared before andge Goyette et Ot- tawa on Wednesaay, eharged with kill- deer out of season on anly le, at Labelle. They wore fined $40 soul rests Oita, hut sentence was saspencled on tie und.erstatding that if cauglit gsain they Would be committed: to jail with- out .the Option of a fine. Mr. George Reid, of Jacksonville, Florida, died on Wednesday at Saratoga Sprains, N. .Y,a after a lingering, termin- ating in stomach 'erosible. Mr. Reid was the father of Mr, Norman Reid, M. P. P. for North Renfrew, and Mr. Alfred. W. Reid, of Toorato. When .the new legislation to be dealt with at the neat session of the Legislature is announced it is quite probable' that an Act vi11 be introduced calling for a tax en alt explosives with supervision and inspectionSna order to prevent mine. accidents. Alex. Jamison, the Ohatham deg eateher, was. assaulted by an ., Italian fruit:vendor, Ga,sperre Fayette. The lat- ter's dog, was running without a muzzle and Jamieson tried to catch him. Pa- yette saw him and pursued him, pummel- ing him with his fists. Edmund Beltz, one -of London's oldest and best known business men, dropped dead on Wednesday night as he sat on the verandah of his son's residenee. He had just returned from the Oddfel- low's convention at Toronto, where last week he was elected treasurer of the Grand Encampment. Frank Skelton, brakeman, working on a way -freight between Guelph arid Sara met with a serious aeeident at the G. T. R. freight yards on Tuesday night. He was engaged coupling cam, when by some mischance he was caught between the bumpers of two ears and Very se- verely bruised about tlfe body. Lord Gladstone, laying the foundation stone of the Transvaal University' Go! - lege, paid a tribute to the efficiency of education in the Transvaal. He antici- pated the establishment of a South Af- rican Teaching. and Residential Univer- sity, which would bring together alt seeking after education and knowledge. • Mike Smith. a Pole. twenty years old, was arrested by Provincial Officer John Pay on Wednesday at Niagara Falls. on a serious offence alleged to have been committed against six-year-old Mary Tom. also Polish. The child is in a serious eondition. Grave doubts are expressed as to her chances of recovery. The pollee say the man admits hie guilt. FISHING RACE. Will Sit cn Banks of Dement With Baited Breath. Leaden, Aug,. 22.—Perhaps the most unique sporting event in the world is the all -England angling championship, which will be heti this year on Sept. 20. It, will he fiehed ou the Derwe.nt. River at Mahon. The competitive an- glers take their places at a given hour.' At a pistol shot from the referee they east lines. For three hours they use every wile known to the fishermea to attract, mem- bers of the finny family. At the expiration of thethree hours the fish are eounted and the man having the best catch gets a Weer cup. Men travel from all parts of the island to take part in this competition, and some spend a great deal of money on tackle in preparation for it. -1 0 E- rfif- F.GOT THERE But Pilot Was Pinched and Taken to Gu:rd. Rouse. Dtr.il, 'etiele, Aug, 22. —"C eaaness gradcue! The plot is pinelud!" Such was the general exclamation when the news got abroad amono''the Munsey tourists now engaged in traversing sev- eral Eastern States. that the )-M-P "80" earrying Pilot Ward and his con- fetti had nein exeocding the speed ]mit on the grounds cf the West Point Mili- tary Academy. and had been caught rcd-hatelcd, the teur earri<d a reserve pilot ear, the crew of which found its duties merely perlernetcry. In an effort to start something. the reserve car twent, up to the regular pilot and iesued. a formal el-lenient:se In a moment a real awe was on. The reserve car hoped for an accident- which would make it rreces. sexy for Inlet SVoi'd to leave the E -M -F, md took all sorts of chances. hut the regular pilot was ahead ana .gaining when the cars mulled the West Point grounds, Where the ,pinch occurred, the soldiers who mule the arrest stating that the car was then travelling at a rate faster than 6e miles an hour. smearing confetti over the. landsrape in its rasa career. Driver Lee Oldfteld, Pilot Ward and the entire erew in the car sent the night in the West Point guardhouse. while the other tourists listened to the Ctdet rand in the even- ing. The possibility of a pilotlesstour was averted text morning, however, by friendly intervention of several army men of sportive inelinatione. COL. GORDON TO RETIRE.. --- • • • Change . h. Command of the Quebec Dietriet. 'Montreal Doom:telt— Col. W. D. Gor. don, commanding the Quebec district, has retired. to take effect August 31st, 1910. At militia headquarters here to- day it was stated that Col. Gordon was- In Kingston and that Licut.-Col. Roy, chief Ptaff °freer, was in Three Rivers.: There was to one in authority to give out official information regard- ing the eons:treading offieeres retirement, Although it V(18 O1ipreni that the news was known to all connected with the headmiartees staff.- lIe took over the command Iast November. TRIP ACROSS THE DIANNEE Moissan Tells of His Flight From Paris to England. Found His Way Through the Air With a Compass. sase-a—. Had a Passenger on Board and Was Kept Busy All the ••••••••,••••••,..... London Aug. 22.—To an American aviator fails the honor of making, the first aeroplane flight from Paris to English shores. John R Moissan, of Chicago, lauded- near' Dover shortly be- fore noon to -day,- having crossed the Clannel, carrying a mechanic as a pass-. eager on his &riot machine, and he in- tends to continue the'flight to London. , early on Thursday morning. Moissan up to the present time has covered roughly 180 miles in three. stages, carrying the passenger all the way. He left Paris at 5.45 Tuesday even- ing, arrived at Amiens at 7.40, left Amiens at, 5.30 this morning, and reach- ed Calais at 7.10. At 10.50 he started again to cross the, Channel. He landed at Tilmanstonci, six miles on the London side of Dover, just before midday, being forced to descend by a violent squall. rhe Channel was crowed m a rough wind and misty weather, Moissan having to rely entirely on the eompass. His feat is all the more extraordinary in that he had used an aeroplane oniy five times before, One of itis first flights was a trip over Parts and round the Eiffel tower. To Dover correspondents who found, him in a field of oats Meissen told the story of his flight in a shurp, concise fashion, with an accent which stamped him undoubtedly as more Am- erican than Spanish, which he was gen- erally supposed to be. "Yes, sir," he said. "hero I am In Eng - laid, and never north. of Paris before in rny life, except once when I went to Cherbourg by traan. I found. my way here by compass e.ntirely. set my direc- tion by it, allowed for wiad, and here I stin. You hare heard people say a toim pass is no good on n aemplone.. What about my Engflsh ' ce epees, insulate with .glycerine, airtreht, and placed just between my feet? That's what took me straight to Amiens last night, and rash' on to Calais this morning, and would have taken me to Dover hnd I not seen ships over yonder (pointing to the. Downs) and thought Waimea must be the town. "About a fortnightaeo I told my friends I would fly from Paris to Lon - den. They said it was impossible, I sail I would make it still more impossible, I would take a passenger with me. Hu- bert Latham heard of this and made his preparatious. At 5.45 I started front Issy les Moulineaux. We crossed Paris at first 600 feet up, but the air of the city pulled us down until, as we left, we almost scraped the tope of the 'houses. "In two hours we were at Amiens, fly- ing by compass direction only. Amiens left at 5.45 this morning, having seen Leblanc and Aubrun off to Paris on the lest stage of the 500 -mile Matin race. After three-quarters ef an hour I was in amebas with the wind. from the river near Staples. One gust made me turn a complete circle, and I lead to go down not to lose velocity. Then we went straight away to Calais, circled three times round, and came down. That was 7.40 this morning. By 10.50 we were off ag.tin. 1 could not see England, so I laid my course by my marine compass. "Did I think of anything coming over or have any sensations? No, sir, I had all I could do to look after the aero- plane. I saw fishing smacks and small lambs, and nothing else till I caught sight of the roast and shipping over you: drr, and bathing places at, Weimer and Deal, which I naturally took to be Do- ver, not having been in your country be- fore. It was my intention to come down twenty miles inland, but when I got over, land here I was so thrown about by the wind, and met such a, squall of rain, that 1 had to come down in tee best place I could find. If I geb a calm night. and oil, I shall go on towards London, tneke another stop to -night, and land id one of your parks beside the river to- morrow.'" Mtissan is rt, little man, five feet three inches In height, weighing 145 pounds, with keen. brown eyes. The passenger is a burly French mechanic, weighing 175 peunds, who says be felt quite at home with his employer in the air. Moissan is 35 years of age, an architect by pro- fession. Ile came to Europe on a plea- sure trip, took un aviation, and built two aeroplane& His present machine is nee of the latest Bleriot type, with a Gnome engine. --_-ssamt,KILLE • TWO D. Little Falls. lc. Y. kaq. walking the West Shore Railroad track at Johnsonville to -day, two men believ- ed to be J. Sanley and, Jos. Platt, were 11111 down by a train and instantly kill. ed. Sanley is said to belong to Roches - tet, N.Y. Platt had a card of the Cigstemakete Union, Montreal, gee. S:71 A DANGEROUSTREE PEST. • The brown tail moth, whith was intro- duced into Massachusetts from Europe in. 1890 has found its way into several of the Eastern States. :In 1907 it mane its first appearance in King's county, N. S. Fortunately the Department of Agriculture of Nova Scotia, instituted. eampaign against the 'pest,. and thou- sands of. its nests have- since been de- stroyed each year in King's, Annapolis and Yarmouth counties. Specimens or the moths have been found. in New Bearaswick also, but their propagation aas so far been prevented. In 1999, the Division of Entomology in the Dominion Department of Agriculture at Ottawa learned that the winter webs • (if these caterpillars lied been found in tbbk steps to have all nursery stock im- • ported from France:. It immediately took steps to have all nursery stock in - ported from Europe carefully examined. Over a million and ti half plants were -gone over, and nearly 200 of the webs were found on French etock. The in- spection has been going on this season, and a large nuinber of the caterpillars have been faund. The horticultural' de- partments.- of New York and of the sev- eral Provinces are co-operating with the Dominion authorities in the endeavor to exclude this pest. The brown tail moth is very common in Europe, but is only occasionally in- jurious there because of the presence of parasitic insects which keep it in check. It is capable of increasing with astonish- ing rapidity, and the absence of the para- sitic cheeks here render it important to prevent it establishing itself in our or- chards. It is an omnivorous feeder, aad is capable of doing much damage to the forests of oak, maple, elm, ash, etc., as well as to the orchard arees. In some of the eastern States, it appears to have obtained such a foothold that the• only hope of successfully combating it lies in the importation from Europe of its para. sitic enemies. Some of these have al- -ready been released in the United States, and it is hoped that they will bear the climate and Increase to such a degree as to checkmate the destructive moths. We may have need for their ser - voles in Canada. THE CROP MAT PAYS. No farmer can make the broad state- ment that one crop pays better than another. The amount of the return de- pends largely upon the character of the land on which the crop is grown. One kind of land brings the greatest re- turn filom a certain crop; another pieco of land of different quality would per- haps yield a very small return if sowed to the same crop. Finding out the par- ticular class of crops the land. is best suited to growing is therefore a very important matter for the wide-awake farmer. A splendid example of what can be gained by the intelligent adaptation of. crops to soil conditions is to be found in the county of Norfolk, Ontario. In certain parts of that county there are considerable areas of sandy land that cannot hope to compete with heavier, richer soils in the growing of wheat and other staple grains. Thus, farmers who attempted to grow these crops found. that their profits were not as satisfactory as might have been de- sire& Some years ago, however, a few men noted that the soil and climate of the county were well suited to growing fruit, especially apples. The Norfolk Fruit Growers' Association was formed and forthwith started. on a reputation - making campaign. All members agreed to care for andspray their orchards as stipulated by the rules of the Associa- tion. Incidentally, too, all fruit was to be marketed through the central agency. The results have been little short of phenomenal. The orchard acreage has been largely increased, Norfolk apples are now held as second to none in the markets of the world and the profits have been most gratifying.' As a copse- quenee, land values, in the last six years, have doubled. And this has been accomplished main- ly by selecting the crop best adapted to the soil. The work that the Commission of Conservation has undertaken, of class- ifying lands according to the character of the soil to determine what crops can most profitably be grown, is therefore a task of no small importance. If the Commission points out the crops that pay the best on different soils, both the farmer and the nation will be the richer for it. - WESTERN CROPS SMALLER THAN EXPECTED. After the brilliant prospects for a large grain harvest in the Canadian Northwest and the Dakotas, those hopes have been largely frustrated by the ate normal hot, dry weather that obtained during the past month or six weeks. The yields, as a result, are not likely to reach much over fifty or sixty per cent. of the amount that was looked for in the early computation. Crop damage • has been especially heavy in the north- ern sections of the three western Pro - virtue. The hay crop is so badly burned up in many districts that not a few of the farmers are shipping their cattle ra- ther thari attempt to fattsa. them. In consequence of this state of affairs sev- eral of the buyers of manufactured goody ie the west ate cancelling their orders in anticipation of a very poor demand during the winter ninths. Of course, reference is made more particularly to articles of luxury or such its are not absolutely needed, A half crop of some- where in the neighborhood of 80,000,000, which it is expected will be the output of the Northwest this year, will, how- ever, bring in considerable revenue at ex- isting prices, as the greater part of the wheat will have to go for export. Tho winter wheat on the American side is turning into a much better crop than was expected some time ago, and, on the whole, the Americans are likely to have a considerable amount for export.—To- route Saturday Night. satiel PLOWMAN'S WAY WEARY, I. DEED. To turn a single acre of ground with a 12 -inch plow requires eight and one- fourth miles of heavy furrow travel. In plowing one square mile of land, the sols itary plowman and his horses mist walk 5280 miles. It would be easier (and the distance is less) to walk around the earth at the equator (if there were no ocean) than to follow a plow turning a prairie of five square miles. To equal our national tale of plowing—the work of myriads of teams, each using force sufficient to move seven tons over er good stone road—it would take an army of 4,550 plowmen to travel as far as from the earth to the moon and back again. For the world's yearly labor of this kind, it would send about 80,000 menan that same half-million-mile- journey.—Worlds' Work. ' • FRUIT SHIPMENTS ......{••••••••••• Cold Storage Chambers Secured By Government on Liners. Arrangements Made By the Dominion Department of Agriculture. Toronto Despatch.—Mr. J. A. Rud- dick, Dairy and Cold. Storage Com- missioner \of the Dominion Depart-. meat of Agriculture, who was in the city yesterday, states that he has again been authorized to arrange with the steamship companies for the re- servation of cold storage chambers for fruit on steamers sailing fern Montreal for Glasgow, London, Liv- erpool and Bristol. Allan Line steam- ers will sail for Glasgow on Septem- ber 8, 17, 24, and October 1; Thom- son Liners for London and White Star - Dominion vessels for Liverpool, on the latter three dates, and the Can- adian Northern Royal Edward for Bristol on September 15. The object of these arrangements is to assist in the establisbment of an export trade in early apples and ten- der fruits. A proper temperature will be maintained in the cold storage chambers, regardless of the quantity of fruit carried. No responsibility is assumed by the department for the shipments, but, there will be the usual supervision by their cargo inspectors at Montreal, and at the port of des- tination. Thermographs will be plac- ed in these chambers to secure a complete record of the temperature on each voyage. Itt connection with these sailings, arrangements will probably be made with the aailways to run one or more iced cars weekly to Montreal to pick up export shipments of fruit. Iced cars are now obtainable on both the C. P. R. and G. T. R. until October 1, for shipments of not less than 24,000 pounds of fruit from one sta- tion, the department paying the cost of icing up to $5 per car. MARRIED IN HER NIGHTIE. Georgia Girl Elopes Clad Only in Slumber Robe and Stockings. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22—Arrayed in only her nightgown and stockings, Miss Columbia. Cheek was married early this morning to Guy H. Buchanan. Buchanan and Miss Cheek have been engaged for some time, but the girl's parents opposed the mateh. Last night Miss Cheek's parents learned that the lovers planned to elope and they locked the girl in her room' after taking away her clothes. Buchanan heard of his sweetheart's predicament and after midnight went in an auto to the Cheek home, By throw- ing pebbles against her window he at- tracted the girl's attention and found, her willing to elope, though she admit- ted that her trousseau consisted .of nightgown and a pair of stockings ' By means+ of a stepladder Miss Cheek de- scended Ifront her room into the arms of her lover and was placed in the auto and hurried to the rectory of the Erna gnuel. Baptist Chureh. The Rea, W. L. Gilmore was aroused at 3 O'clock and quickly made the lov- ers man, and wife, the bride looking very pretty in her "nightie" and ea:a:kings. Mr, and Mrs. Buchanan went to a hotel, rang up the Oheek home, told of the marriage and asked for clothes for the bride. In a short time the bride's truffle came, steam/veined with a bless- ing. Local Option in Kent. Toronto Despatch, --Rev. Ben H. Spenee, secretary of the Dominion Al. Dance., announced .yesterday aftarnon that the County of Kent had fallen into line for a big local option cam- paign to be brought to a head text Urinary. A grand convention will be hold at Chatham, September 12, and prelimine.ry to that 98 pulpits in tho county would be occupied by prom. inent temperance speakers..