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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1910-09-02, Page 2NEWS Of THE ora IN FJRtEF Tank of Whey Falls Through Factory Ceiling. Kingston, N. Y., Man Wins Shorthand Championship. Ledge of Copper Found Under Centre of Reno. age to the extent of $1,500 wee done, in- cluding about $500 worth•of very valu-, able patterns. 'Aidrew Phelps, of Penobsquis, was killed by ; a train at Sussex, N.B., on Wednesday. He was crossing the track to' board a train, standing on a siding, and be iug deaf, did not hear the engine of another train backing down. Death Was instantaneous, • .lames Johnson, `Barged as an modes - spry in the :murder of Jake Enos, was committed for trial at. Chatham, he waiving preliminary examination.. John- .on was reelased on his own b.ul for $1,000 till the Fall Assiz• ii. His pal, Jackson, lies not yet been captured. Following a decision of the Board of Control, public tenders are being called for the lighting of Montreal for the en- suing ten years. In order that no one company will have n monopoly success- ful tenderers may light certain parte of the city and not necessarily the whole of it. Eleven Toronto ixacaers Have for var- ious reasons resigned. It is said the C. P. R. will build a line from Belleville to Toronto. Almost one hundred cases of typhoid fever are being treated in the Toronto hospitals. The charges against Mr. Manley Chew, M. P., of illegally supplying liquor to In- dians, were abandoned. By a decision given at Oegoode Hall Sault Ste. Marie must pay for the sol- diers needed there during the riots of 1907. The Deputy Mayor will welcome the Queen's Own Rifles at Liverpool, in the absence of the Lord Mayor, who, how- ever, will receive them on bis return. Geo. Malboef, a former Belleville po- liceman, who attempted suicide last Fri- day, has been liberated on suspended sentence of one year in the Central. Street workmen in the centre of Reno uncovered a ten -foot ledge of almost pure copper. The ledge ie. apparently permanent. It lies ten feet under the surface. The body of a newly -born female in- fant, nude, was found floating in the bay near the Toronto sandbar yester- day afternoon by the crew of the police patrol boat. The Old Horne Week jubilee celebra- tion at Morrisburg woe: not only a suc- cess socially, but it left a surplus of about $1u0 after paying alt expenses and making various donations. News comes from Quebec that the iHou. Jules Allard has made the an- nouncement of an increase of $120,000 over the previous year in the revenue of the Crown Lands Department. Aceording to M. Lowland. Chairman of the Nobel Committee, .theJtet, that Ern- +,eror WiiUan'i's name was not propoeed before Feb. 1, precludes his being award- cd the Nobel peace prize this` year. Rev. W. H .L. Batstone, medical mis- sionary at Nidaw, India, has arrived home at Toronto on furlough with his family, after fifteen years spent in Methodist foreign mission work. President P. J.McArdie, of the. Amal- gamated .Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, announces that the strike against he United States Steel Corpora- tion would be ended on Saturday. An effort is being made by Deputy Harbormaster Alien, Toronto, to locate the three -masted coal schooner, Reuben Dowd, which was sunk in a storm just west of the Eastern Gap five years ago. Clyde H. Marshall, of Kingston, N.Y., with an average of 298 words a minute, on Wednesday won the national short- hand reporting championship and cup. W. B. 13ottome of New York, holder of the title and ineligible for the cup, again broke the world's record, with an aver- age of 289 words. John Welfare], a Montreal passenger on the G.T.R. train to Ottawa, was seri- ously injured at Rideau Junction on Wednesday night, He attempted to get off the train while it was in motion and was thrown against a fence. Ile i.e in St. Luke's Hospital. Ottawa, with a broken leg and probably other injuries. Brought clear across the continent for burial. the body of Mrs. Susan Brook- field Garner arrived in Niagara Fall; on W t'dnesdny, and was buried in Drum- mond Hill cemetery to -day. Mrs. Garner died in Oakland. Cal., on .lnly 23. She was an old resident of Ni' gars Fans. and it had been her aish to be buried there. Forewarned by the outbreaks of law- nessness on the part of some of the harvesters last year. the Canadian Pa• cific Railway hal twenty-five soeeial plain clnihcsmen sworn in to aid in keep- ing order on the trains on the way nut and at stooping points. Several of this num:her will accompany every train on the wey cut from new on. (Canadian Farm.) Growing baby beef is a branch of pro- fitable fanning that is Deeming more and more important in Canada. In gen- eral, any beef animal fed until it is in a well -finished condition and marketed between the veal age and twenty-four months, is classed as baby beef. It takes some months before the animals are well enough' finished for market, but it is desirable to place them upon the market as' much under two years as possible. Probably most baby beef is marketed between the ages of ten and eighteen :months: Cash returns for the. finished cattle usually show a good rate of profit, and in addition a large amount of valuable manure is available for the land. And thus a result of the feeding of one year is a material increase in the yield of the next year's crop. Though the kind: of feed available is different from that in, Canada, the ex- perience of a . faretier in the corn belt of the United. States is of interest to Cana- dian farmers. The man referred to bought, late in October, calves about four or five months old, and in order to make the change from milk to dry feed less abrupt, he placed them upon blue grass pasture for a. short time. Gradu- ally he introduced elean, new, clover hay, so that the calves could learn to eat, and after a while he sprinkled crack- ed corn upon the nay so that the calves would eat some of it with the hay and acquire a taste for the corn. Later they were given small amounts of corn in the shock and thus they learned to eat fod- der. On in November they had learned to eat all kinds 'tit roughage as well as eorn. In the winter good, clean clover hay was available for the calves. but they always ate their corn fodder first, thus showing that they liked it more than hay. They gained about two po, nds per head per day during the feed. ing period. In Canada, as in the ease of this Unit- ed States farmer, getting the calves eat- ing as soon as poseible, is important. Usually they start on clover hay, al- though in some eases the calves eat crushed oats first. In addition to the usual feed for such animals, a little bran and a little oil cake are good for them. Better still than the oil cake, however, is oil meal. Canada so far has fared very well in this respect, and the chances are that we will do as well if not better this year in the quality line, provided high class ones are for sale in the Old Coun- try. When the importations are large and the denimgood there is always the eha.u'e. tliat any inferior animals - r. t �. t may find there rU99 he water. Through the insistent efforts of Wil- liam ll. German, M.P., . the work of dredging Weiland River (Chinnawe Creek) will be immediately began. A dredging apparatus is now on the scene. A&aving juet arrived. It was to have arrived in June, but was delayed. Chip- pewa will be given a harbor by' the dredging of the river. "That Golightly Shutti^_worth came to his death on Aug. 16. as the result of injuries received from falling off a eea£= fold improperly e?nstrrieted: by the con- traetipg firm, of Dunean & Wortba cit Logan and Grandview avenins," was the verdict arrived at by the insv at the inquest preeided over by Coroner Dr Singer, at the Toronto morgue, last evening. The White Star line hae Bent out ad- vice to their agents that for the: nest three trips of their steamers the hour of sailing will he 4 o'clock on Friday, instead of daylight on Saturday morning A free fight occurred last night be- tween Hungarians and other workmen et Point Ann Cement Work, near Belle- ville. The foreigners were badly beaten and did not report for work this morn - Ing. The lockout of Winnipeg mai ons and bricklayers by contractors conneeted with the Builders' Exehange continues, with no particular development. oppos- ing parties having had no conferences La yet. David 'McCullough. aged 66 years, ,a stockman in charge of cattle eastbound, was severely injured at Hawk. 25 :riles east of Kenora, when a light engine ran Into the rear of the stock train on n Tiding. Garfield Zaearrah, a young Indian, of Wellington, Ont., about 17 years old. While rowing at Kingston on Tuesday, tell from his boat and was drowned. An effort was made to recover the body, but it was not successful. Wm. Smith, foreman of the annna at King's elevator, Port Arthur, was killed Dh Wednredey afternoon as a result of his overalls being caught in the ma- ehinery.. He was 36 years of age, and leaves a wife and two children. Sir Frederick Borden, Minister of Mill. ba, has consented to be present at the "Defence Day" luncheon at the Carla. (lien Exhibition on Sept. 9. He will ;peak on the subject of school cadets and the matter of defence generally. A big tank full of whew it the Mos, tow cheese factory crashed down throug'i the ceiling of the make room. The atrys holding up the tank gave try. For tunately the cheese -makers were not in the room when the accident happened. Official announcement is made that the Royal Line of stemma, will melee llahifax its winter port. The Royal El - ward will be first of the nue to come here. She is to arrive on November 28, end the Royal. George will arrive on becember 14. 'The plant of then tIontsvi,le Engine FRUIT CROP.. Niagara Peninsula Yield is G;od and Prices High. St. Catharines despatch: Robert Thompson, President of the St. Cath- arines Cold Storage & Forwarding Company and of the Niagara Penin- sula Fruit -growers' Association, takes issue with Carl 13. Fisher, Secretary of the same association, on hie views as to the present fruit crop. Mr. Thompson claims that such an impress- ion as made by Mr. Fisher going abroad is injurious to the ditriet, and the latter's version is entirely too pessi- mistic. Mr. Thompson, while admitting that- mann orchards of plums are light, claims that in the majority they ere quite heavy, Burhanks Tieing almost a full crop. European varieties are heavy, and of better quality than in 1009. Pears. except Duchess and Keiffer. lie asserts, are a full crop, Duchess being light and Keiffer medium. Pea.eltes from Jordan East. while possibly they are not so many on the trees, will be of a better (plenty and equal in bulk to Last season's crop. (.rapes are of firm quality. and also come near to giving last season's bulk. As a proof of the r)uantity of fruit, he states that from three to seven car- load.: have been shipper] from the local station every day for the past week. liee:uee of the late frosts and exeee- sive rains, followed by a slight drought. Mr, Thompson says. the demand for fruits from this favore'l district is greater. end ns n result primps are Higher and a great volume of fruit stuis row g iin t forward then at • the year. "It is time," he concludes, "that we give actual facts as to nur fruit crops, and not be continually elaintinrt that we are going to have a shortage from one imeginary cause or another." DROPPED DEAD, Ii.EI P AFTER THE WEEDS. There should be no let up to the weed question .hen harvest is over. A good many ex sans can be put out of bus- iness usiness by careful cultivation after the crop is off. Weeds that have been allow- ed to go to seed, will soon begin to show themselves in the stubble, especi- ally if a rain conies along. The thing to do then is to allow the seeds to get a good start, then gangplow and harrow the land. This will expose the new plants and their roots to the heat of the sun, effectually putting them out of the run- ning. Perennials, too, can be checked considerably by surface cultivation af- ter harvest. By exposing the roots to the dry, hot sun in August or September their vitality is weakened and they will do less harm the following year. The war against weeds must be a constant one if progress is to be made in keep- ing them under. One .of the reasons why they have made so mach headway in many places is because they have been allowed to work their own sweet will after the harvest is off. True, all the harm they can do, has been done, with the season's crop. But there are more crops to come and the farmer who would successfully solve the weed problem must look ahead. So long as there is growth in the ground weeds will grow, and there can be no let up in efforts to combat them till the frosts come. Dry seasons tempt even those who believe in potato spraying to omit or slight the practice; but a study d Bulletin No. 32:3 of the Station at Gen- eva, N. C'., should convince growers th•tt they ought to spray regularly. The past three seasons have. been exceptionally dry; and serious potato diseases have, temporarily, almost disappeared from the State; yet only one-fifth of about one hundred tests made by the Station or reported to . it in these three years have shown a financial loss from spray- ing, and the average increase, on more than 1,000 acres sprayed in the experi- Meuts, was 36 bushels to the acre. '1 he Bulletin summarizes the results of 32 Station experiments made during the past eight years, in which the average gain from spraying every two 'weeks hos been 102 bu. per acre at Genova, 54 lu. at Riverbead; and, from spraying, three times during the season, 78 bua at Goa ova, 29 bu. at Riverhead: The average gain made by farmers spraying le ear Station inspection has been 41.1 bra per acre for seven years on areas running front 60 to 225 acres each year; and by farmers spraying independently but reporting to the Station, on :teres rat g- ing from 74 to 600 acres yearly for six years, the average gain has ,bceiis 62 bu. per acre. It is sale.to say that the practice of spraying has saved the. 288 farmers reporting experiments in the last seven' years more than $30,001. the banner years in the importation of horses. There is room, for all the good ones that may be brought over. No matter how good the demand or how scarce horse flesh may he, it is eery questionable, however, whether any ad- vantage results from the bringing in of horses of inferior quality, no matter how eligible they may be on the point of breeding. The customs regulations re- quire that horses shall come up to a certain standard of heeding before being allowed to enter Canada free of duty. They must be eligible:to record in Can- adian National Records, which is a guar- autee that the breeding must be of a high order. Thatis as far as the Gov- ernment can go. Aside from the breed- ing end of it everything depends upon the individual importer, as to what the quality of the importations shall be. RAD USE OF T.IIE WHIP. There are a lot of people driving horses who do not know what the whip is for and do not know how to use it. We remember an olcl milk hauler back in Ontario who started out one spring with a three-year-old colt, a democrat wagon and a rawhide whip. The colt was of the ordinary general-purpose kind, and the driver an ardent believer in the use of rawhide on horses in the milk hauling business. Inside of three months his colt was a "plug" and no amount of "walloping" could stiruuli.te a stronger pace than a jog trot. The driver had played his "rawhide" so per- sistently that the colt had evidently come to regard the lash on his back as one of the phases of life not to be taken more seriously than the movement of the harness or the clatter of the wagon. His usefulness was impaired by bad training before he was four years old, and the owner was looking for a livelier piece of horse -flesh to go on the milk wagon the following year. He always claimed that hauling milk had a tend- ency to snake horses lazy. Probably it had, but we always thought that what he called "Iaziness" arose merely from the fact that he had overworked the only remedy he knew for laziness—the lash.—Famers' Advocate. Winnipeg. London Gld Lady Expires While Dressing for Meeting. Gunn, :•bile dressing to attend n cbureh r.:•nferene^, drop,t'd deed in her r)om of heart f t'lure. She was (17 Fears end. Arthur C. Grine. of Ottawa, and Will. ter C. Gunn. publieber of the Canada West Magarine, are ,;ons. Strengely encerg;a the less advice you WEPT 20 HOURS. London Man Imagines He Killed Somebody in a Fight. ANNEXATIONOF COREA BY JAPE Texf of Convention Communicated to Representatives of Powers. London, Ont., despatch: Under. delusion that he has injured some- body so badly in a fight that he is in the hospital and going to die and that he will be charged with Mur- der, Jas. Bagnall„ a farmer, was an. Bested for drunkenness and he has wept steadily in hail here for the last twenty hours. His memory as to what really occurre when he started to fight in the street is entirely blank and the police in order to stop him from drinking and give him a good scare have not told him. APPLE SLOW. Vancouver Wants Exhibitors to Its First National Show. BIG HORSE IMPORTING `Yli+AII. The number of `Clydesdale stallions and fillies that have already been brought into Caned let 1 1 1 al this year and the Ance of the seaso ill make 1910 one of Works Company was partly t situ •ec , nnn,hnr irw on Tuesday n got lrya fire which e`rtq:n giro vont fr ees, too more of it they t win a image d tr 115 the bal- t of Idin department. Dama arc apt to tnl<e, n t sited in he m r g c Newspapers Warned Not to Publish. Anything Unofficial Threats of Disorder Made By Mal- contents at Seoul. Tokio, Aug. 29.—The text of the convention, under which Corea. the "Hermit Kingdom," is annexed to .Japan, was communicated at eleven o'clock this morning to the represen- tatives of the poa� ers, The document,. which according to now established facts was signed Aug. 22, will be ef- fective when oficially promulgated. This wi'l occur, according to some of the ministers, Aug. 29. when the in- dependent existence of the little king- dom, the struggle for whose control started the Rus -,„-Japanese war, will cease. Baron fl;irata, Minister of the In- terior, summoned the proprietors of all the Japanese newspapers to his cabinet to -day and requested them to publish no unauthorized information regarding the situation in Corea. He pointed out that such publication under existing conditions would only make the task of the Japanese Gov- ernment in carrying out the annex- ation more difficult. The newspapers agreed to his wishes and nothing re- garding the annexation, beyond of- ficial statements, will therefore be published here before the publica- tion of the promulgation of the con- vention. The Japanese Government, which has a large number of representatives already in Corea, will be prepared to take over the machinery of admin- istration in Corea without any delay. Considerable uneasiness is reported at Seoul owing to the circulation of threats of disorder following the an- nexation. These emanate, according to the view taken here, from mal- contents who have not received tame consideration which they think their due in the provision made by the convention for the future of the. Lorean royal family, nobles and of- ficials. Sporadic outbreaks in pro- test against the absorption of Corea by Japan are anticipated. Ottawa, Ont., despatch: Maxwell Smith, manager of the Canadian Nation- al Apple Show, which will be held in November Oct. 31 to Nov. 5, is in they capital to -day, conferring with leading fruit growers with a view to having the exhibit at the show. "British Columbia has taken the burden of financing this, the first national apple show," said Mr. Smith, in an interview, "but it is not our intention to hold it as an annual event in British Columbia. The second, third and possibly the fourth show will be held in the Eastern Provinces. \\ u expect to have 15,000 barrels or boxes of apples on exhibition. Easterners who send their exhibits to our show will be creating a world market for themselves for buyers from Eastern Canada, tile United Stittes, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, France and Germany will be present. Sir `Thomas Shaughnessy is president of the show. CHILD PARALYSIS, Several Cases of the Disease Discover- ed in St. Catharines. ,St. Catharines, Ont., despatch: That dreaded disease, infantile paralysis, has made its appearance in St. Catharines. A three-year-old child of a farm laborer living in the city was taken to the hos- pital yesterday afternoon suffering from the disease. The parents were immi- grants, who arrived from England two months ago. Another' case has developed hi a family who arrived in the spring from Scotland. This morning the little daughter of re local druggist and an ex - alderman showed symptoms of the ail- ment. SAVED GIRL'S LIFE Former Hamilton Minister Adminis— tered First Aid. Peterboro' despatch: After writ- ing a note to her father, with whom she lives at 108 Ayler street. Mary, the fourteen -year-old daughter of Mr. 13. Cowan, took it poisonous dose of chloride of mercury, with the evident object of ending her life. Rev. W. C. Riddiford, pastor of Park Street Baptist Church, who, was passing, heard the outcry of the women when the poisoning was discovered, administered first aid remedies. Dr. Marshall, who was sent for, says Riddiford saved the girl's life. The family came here from Kingston. The girl had been in bad health for some time. Rev. W. C. Riddiford was pastor of l3arton Street Baptist Church, this city, before going oto Peterboro: a s. Cut by Mower Knives. Hoiden, Alta., Aug. 20.—Stewart Rob- inson, aged eight, the son of a farmer near here, had both feet severed by the knives of a mower driven by an older brother yesterday when he stum- bled in front of the mower and his legs ware caught in the cut box. The brother stopped the bleeding by tying shoe laces around the mangled limbs, and, although medical aid could not be secured for sev- eral hours, the boy has a fair chance for recoverx. FOR TREASURE. Diving Operations on Port Dover Wreck Completed. Port Dover despatchi The diving operations on the wreck of the steamer Atlantic, lost off Long Point in 1853e occupied about two weeks, and were concluded a few days ago. Capt. E. 13. Petrie, of Brooklyn, N. Y., •teas the lead- er in the salvage, a company being formed. with severat other men from New York, Buffalo 'and elsewhere as shareholders. The wreck was found. through the assistance of Captain Me- Groder, of Cleveland, who discovered in in 1873, formed a company to save the treasure, but did not succeed, owing to the bankruptcy of the eompany. Captain Petrie brought two experienc- ed divers from New York, with a newly - invented. outfit for deep water, posses- sing many advantages. The suits well,: of aluminum, with every joint in the body represented by a joint In the cas- ing and exceptional facilities • for com- munication. Oapt. Petrie and las asso- ciates while working on the wreck ap- peared to have plenty of money. Capt. Petrie is a, former tag captain of 50 or 115: _.