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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1911-10-06, Page 6ITY UkR WAR ON 1URK Italian . Cruisers Destroy Turkish Torpedo Boats at Prevesa and Land a Force, A despatch from Rome says: Italy declared war on Turkey be- ginning at 2.30 on Friday after- noon, following a session of the Cabinet, at which rile Turkish reply to Italy's ultimatum was read. An official statement from the Foreign Office says that Turkey's reply to Iealy's ultimatum is not peremp- tory as was demanded, but is eve give and dilatory. In consequence Of that fact the Government de- clared war against Turkey. After the reception of the Turkish reply there was a conference between the Premier and the Foreign Minister and the Cabinet. It was decided,; to occupy Tripoli without delay. 'The Turkish Charge d -Affaires has received his passports to the fron- tier and started for home on Fri- day evening. ment that a naval battle occurred off Prevesa at 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon. Italian warships belong- ing to the Ionian squadron encoun- tered a flotilla of Turkish destroy- ers cruising off the coast of Epirus. The Italians promptly attacked the flotilla, and two Turkish ships were badly damaged by shells. They have gone ashore in the Gulf of Arta. Prevesa is the southernmost point of Albania. The object of Italy is evidently to encourage the revolt of Albania, which is smarting under the recent'"cruelties practised by the Turkish General during the rising. REFUSED TO SURRENDER. A despatch from Tripoli says : Italian destroyer that entered the port under the white flag this afternoon brought a summons for Ithe surrender of the Turkish gar - it risen, The Turkish authorities re- fused. All Europeans have taken refuge in the Italian Consulate, and are awaiting the first shot. The Italian colony is preparing for de fence. As soon as the ultimatum was delivered to the Turkish Gov- ernment. the Italian•fleet established a blockade off the coast of Tripoli, and no Turkish steamer is now able to enter. The present mission of the fleet is to prepare everything for land- ine the Army Corps, which is com- manded by General Caneva. If the Italian subjects are molested by Turkey the fleet will extend its area of operations. If the Turkish war- ships attempt action a strong Italian- squadron will be sent to deal - with it immediately. No dis- embarkation of sailors and marines at Tripoli is to be expected, as ze bistee4tiiild • net be S ifficient•to: sustain an attack by the garrison { of Tripoli. .i The Turkish fortifications are armed only with small calibre Krupp guns, and cannot injure the Italian warships, which will be able to destroy the forts without difficu1= ty. The cruisers Marco Polo and Vetter Pisani left Taranto with the squadron of torpedo boats and de- stroyers under the command of the Duke of Abruzzi. General Caneva, with the expeditionary forces, will be accompanied by General Brioola and the Count Giraldi. The first force is made up of 25,000 men. There will be 40,000 men altogether when the entire force is landed. Regiments are departing daily from the chief Italian towns for Paler- mo, Naples, Brindisi, Syracuse, Catania, Taranto, Genea Acona and Venice, where they will embark aboard transpnrts. The force will be established at Tripoli by Oct. 10. Old ships, with ammunition, guns, and telegraphic apparatus, will follow the transports. Aero- planes and probably other airships • will be despatched later. Tim warships blockading Tripoli nt'e the Pisa, Amalfi, Sardegna, Na- poli, and Marese. In addition there are six destroyers. FIGHTING AT TRIPOLI. A despatch from Constantinople says : The Turkish War Ministry, according to the reports current here on Friday night, -has received a despatch from the late Turkish Military Attache at Paris, who has assumed command of the forces at Tripoli, stating that the Italians began to disembark Friday after- noon, but the Turks succeeded in sinking the first two barges. It is rumored also that Italian forces have landed both at Tripoli and Benghazi. TURKISH SHIPS DAMAGED. A despatch from Paris says: The Matin's Athens correspondent, says the telegraph official at Von - PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS 1,lsl'ORTS FRO THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF Rill ERI C,pl.. Prices or Cattle, Grafts, Cbecros and Other Produce at Rome and Abroad. t BREADSTUFI'S. Toronto, Oct. 3.7 -Flour -Winter wheat, 90 per cent. patents, unchanged at $3.50. Montreal freight. Manitoba Sours -First. patents, $5.30; second patents. $4.80, ano. strong bakers', $4.60, on track, Toronto- Manitoba Wheat -New No.. 1 Nortihern. $1.05. Bay ports; No. 2 Northern, $1.04; and No. 3, $1,02, Bay ports. Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white. red lir mixed, • new,. 86 to 86c, outside. Peas -Good milling peas, 92 to 95e out- side. Oats -Ontario oats quiet and steady, with No. 2 quoted at 41 to 42e, ,outsid, and No. 3 at 40c. No. 2 western, Can- ada, 45o, and No. 3, 44o, Bay ports: Barley -No. 2 is probably worth 75c. outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow quoted 'at - 70 1.2o, t-701.2o, Bay ports. Rye -Car lots outside, 75c west, and 77o east. Buckwheat -No. 2 at 54 to 55c. outside. Bran -Manitoba bran is quoted at 823 to $23.50, in bags, Toronto freight. Shorts. $25. INSULTED ITALIAN FLAG. A despatch from Salonica says : Immense crowds gathered before the Italian Consulate here on Sat- urday night. The Governor of the town and the Director of Police tore down the flagstaff and the Italian arms, which they trampled under foot to the accompaniment of angry howls and the vilest epithets. The Italian Consul and Vice -Consul surveyed the scene from the steps of the Consulate, courageously run- ning the risk of at any moment fal- ling victims to the bullets of some fanatical Mussulman. The Italian ostofCice.•n4 other ".ett blishments afterwards receiver similai= •'trbat meat. Grave'iews has been received from Albania, where ths• authori- ties are apprehensive of untoward developments. BOMBARDED RESCHADIE. A despatch from Constantinople says: It is announced from Janina that two Italian warships on Sat- urday bombarded the, port of Res- chadie and torpedo boats lying in that harbor, one of which was dam- aged and landed its crew. The Italian ships entered the port and shelled the town, several houses be- ing struck. After taking soundings they left and later entered Port Musto, taking the Captain of the port and three boatmen prisoners. CHOLERA.' IN TUNIS. Thirty -Six Deaths Reported Among Arabs in One Day. A despatch from Paris says: Cholera is epidemic in Tunis, a regency and French protectorate of northern. Africa, and the colonial office has decide to enforce strict sanitary measures. The French re- sident -general of Tunis, G. F. Ala, - petite, has cut shore his holiday in France and will return to Tunis to direct the health measures. Thirty -sib. deaths are reported to have occurred on Tuesday in the Arab quart'er of the capital, and itza, Greece, wires to the Govern- 82 new cases. s. AEINDEEN FOA FAR ORTll Ship. ment From Newfoundland to Fort 1 Smith Arrives at Edmonton. A despatch from Edmonton says: Three carloads of reindeer from rive in r Newfoundland arrived northern n N ,w£oiiW Edmonton on Wednesday on the Ga Northern n 'az Railway from Canadian the east. There were 43 reindeer in three cars, and •a fourth car was stocked with reindeer food, moss and grass. The Department of the Interior has planned to stock the district of Mitckenzie, and the, ani- mals are to be used for carrying purposes in long reaches . of the north in ;place of dogs. The con- signment of reindeer left Newfound- nt. ' $, and srassed through COUNTRY PRODUCE.' Beans -Small lots of hand-picked quot- ed at $2.30 per bushel. Roney -Extracted, in tins, 10 to lie per ib. Combs, 52.25 to $2.50, Baled Ray -No. 1 at 513 to $14, on track. and No. 2 at $10 to $1L Baled Straw -$6 to $6.50, on track. To- ronto. • Potatoes -Car lots, in bags, at 90e.. Poultry -Prices of dressed poultry in quantities Chickens, 14e per ib.; fowl, 11 to 120; ducks. 13c; turkeys, 20o, Live poultry, about 2c lower than the above. BUTTER, EGGS. CHEESE. Butter -Dairy prints, 21 to 23e; infer- ior, 16 to 17o. Creamery quoted at 20 to 27o per lb. for rolls, and at 23 to 24c for solids. Eggs -Strictly new -laid quoted at 23 ;p 24e, and fresh at 20 to 21c per doken, n Quebec on Sept. 18 to reach Ed- montona i veek later, The reindeer will be taken by rail as far as Stony Creek, sixty miles north of Edmon- apoint they.w ill and r that from ton, be ,taken overland to Athabasca Landing. Some that have been well broken will be led and the others will be conveyed in waggons.. At Athabasca Landing the animalswill be placed inscows and floated down the. Athabasca River to Fort Smith, which is their destination. They will have travelled fully five thou- sand miles by the time their journey is at an end* case lots. Cheese -Large looted at,.150 twins at :16I -4o. ._ ., ,... EAYEBS- BUSY WIT11 DA Have Shut Off the Water From Power Company at 1\ orth Bay. A despatch from North Bay says : North Bay was in darkness on Wed- nesday night,' no electric current being available for illumination." The power for the local plant is generated on South River, twenty miles away, by the Nipissing Power Company, and low water is given as the reason for the failure of the power, caused, the company officials state, by beaver dams in Algonquin Park, where the head waters and reserve storage of South River are located. It is claimed that beav- ers' are holding back water which .should supply the power company, with the result that not enough water is available to supply the demand. Low water is general this season, and the busy beavers, with their dams, make a bad situation worse. As the law forbids inter- ference with the- beavers the com- pany are helpless, and is applying to the Ontario Government for special permission to destroy the beaver .dams and allow the water to reach the power plant. Unless something is speedily done, North Bay, Callender, and Pow•assan will not only have to return to candles, but industries ill be severely af- fected by the power being cut off. medium butcher steady at $5.60 to $5.80, .and common mixed. at $3.75 to $4.50. Cows, easier at 54.25 to $4.80; extra choice, 55; bulls, 53.50 to 55; canners, 51.50 to 52.75. Feeders, ohoiee steers, 850 to 1,050 pounds, $5 to 55.25; good heifers, $4.50 to $4.85; bulls," $3:50 to 54. Sheep market easier; light ewes, 53.50 to 54; heavy, 53 to 53.35; bucks, 53, Lambs; market easier at 55 to $6.50. Calves, $3.50 to 58. Hoge, mar- ket weak, with prospects lower. letters of a son d< CUTTING- DOWN YUKON MAIL. Only Lighter Forms Forwarded and Other Restrictions Imposed. A" despatch from Ottawa says: After the first of October restric- tions were placed on the kind of mail -to the Yukon to be sent on- ward from White Horse. This is owing to the closing of`navigation; All letters, postcards, single -wrap- ped newspapers, periodicals, etc., will be forwarded ; but newspapers and periodicals sent to newsdealers for trade in bulk, books and mer- chandise, circulars, patterns, and samples are excluded. The par - eels may be sent to White Horse by mail to be transferred there to ;Re express.companies, and the de- tment will transfer them to �,,;rdxng' agencies there, sstimes no :responsibility. TUE ORION'S BIG GUNS. Simultaneous Discharge Broke Glass Ten Miles Away. A despatch from London Lays : The battleship Orion's 13.5 -inch guns have been tried with remark- able effect. So tremendous was the concussion that windows were shaken in Southsea, ten m::E.s away. The structure of the ship well withstood the test and showed DO damage. All those enge,ged in the firing operation wore wool -pad- ded earlaps. Hardened glass sky- lights and port -holes were badly fractured, and the coverings of canned goods in the ship's stcrrs burst and much crockery was smashed. The decks were not buckled by the blast, thanks to the manner in which they were seeli- ally strengthened, but the bottom of one of the ship's boats fell clean out: The designs for the new coinage to be issued shortly been announced. HOG PRODUCTS..' Eaeon-hong clear; 12' to 121-2e:'pei;r ti in ease lots. Pork, short out, $23; dei mess, $20 to 521. Hams, medium to light 17 to 171-2c; do., heavy, 15 to 151.2c; roil, 11 to 111.2c; breakfast bacon. 17' to 18o: backs, 191.2 to 20c. Lard -Tierces, 101.2o; tubs, 10 3.4o; Bails, 110. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Oct. 3.--Oats-Canadian West. ern, No. 2, 47c, car lots ex store; extra No. 1 feed, 46i -2o; No. 3 C. 'W.;'46e; No. 2 local white, 451-20; No. 3 local • white,• 45e; No. 4 local white, 441.2o. Flour. - Manitoba Spring wheat patents firsts, 55.40; do., seconds, 54.90; Winter wheat patents, $4,75 to 55; strong bakers', 64.- 70; straight rollers, 54.25 to 54.40; do., In bags, 51.90 to $2. Rolled oats -Per barrel. 55.25; bag of 90 lbs., 52.50. Corn -Ameri- can No. 3 yellow, 74 to 741.2e. Miilfeed Bran, Ontario, $23 to 524; Manitoba, 523: middlings, Ontario, 527 to 528; shorts. Manitoba, $26; mouillie, 526 to 532. Eggs -Selected, 24 to 26c; No. 1 stock. 80 to 220. Cheese -Westerns, 141.2 to 143-46 easterns, 14 to 141.4c. Butter -Choicest, 243.4 to 25c; seconds, 441.4 to 241.2. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Oct. 3. -Spring wheat -bio. 1 Northern, carloads, store $1.121.2; ,-vin ter, No. 2 red, 97o; No. 3 red, 95c No. 2 white, 95c. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 733 4e No. 4 yellow. 731.2c; No. 3 corn, 713.4c, all on track, through billed. Oats -No., 2 white, 50 3.4e; No. 3 white, 60c; No, 4 white. 490. Barley -Malting, 51.16 to $1.25. Minneapolis, Oet. 3. -Wheat, --September; 51.06 1.2; December, 51.07 3-4; May, 51113.4; No 1 hard, $1.08 3-4; No. i Northern 51.- 07 1-4 1.-071-4 to 51.08 1-4; No: 2 Northern, $1.0334 to 51.06 1.4; No. 3 wheat, 983.4e to 51.013.4. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 67 to 67 i -2c, Oats No. 3 white, 45 to 431-2o. Rye -No. 2, 901-2. to 910. Bran -$21.50 to 522. Flour -First patents, 56.30 to 55.60; second patents, 54.- 90 to $5.20; first clears, 53.50 to $4.70; 66c, and clears, 52.70 to 53.10. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Oct. 3. -North-West cattle.. 55.50 to 55.70; no choice Eastern steers; good steers, one lot sold at $5.25 to 55.50; fair, 54.75 to $5. Bulls are of slightly bet- tor quality, and for heavy bulls $3.50 was asked, but only $3 to 53.25 bid; light bulls. 52:50 to $2.75;. cows, no good cows on of-' ter; demand poor; poor to medium, $4,50 to $4.75; canners, $2.50 to 53.25. One load of heifer, :sold by one shipper., for $6, bilkers; 525 to $70; Springers, 540 to .'$60 tarok. Select hogs, $6.75; ttnderwoighta (under 140 pounds), $6.50; sows $6.25; stags, $3.75 per cwt.. off ears. Toronto, Oct.x- a+.. - " -4 run of of a town. Torn to pieces by water THE HEWS iN A PARAGRAPH gold have' UAPI'ENINGS FROM ALL OGEE TUE 'GLOBE IN A A UTSJIELL. DEATH REVEALS DUAL ME. St. Louis Lawyer Fled From Can.. ada Twenty Years Ago. A despatch from St: Louis, Mo., says : The remarkable story of the hidden life of James M. Sutherland, for twenty years a lawyer in St. Louis, has been revealed through a visit to this city of his son, J. Sinclair Sutherland, of Charlotte- town, Prince Edward Island: Suth- erland was buried several days ago in St. Peter's Cemetery beside the beautiful woman who for more than fifteen years had held a. high place in St. Louis as his wile.• She died three years ago. She was the daughter of aclergyman and the wife of Sutherland's law partner when he was a Queen's Counselor in Canada. She came to the Unit- ed States after her husband had died suddenly and Sutherland fol. lowed her. Sutherland's widow and four children are in Canada. Canada, the Empire and the World In General Before Your Eyes. CANADA. October 30 will be Thanksgiving Day. The railways are applying for in- creased remuneration for carrying the mails. Berlin, Ont., has over 15,000 po- pulation, and will soon be incorpor- ated' as a city. Canada's foreign trade in August increased by over eighteen millions. Lord Strathcona will continue in office as High Commissioner in Lon- don. Lieut. -Governor Sir Daniel and Lady McMillan were banqueted by Winnipeg citizens and given a handsome present. Sir Daniel is retiring. Eight thousand dollars• was sto- len from the safe of the Canadian Express C•ompany.at Hamilton, and George Xennaugb, the night clerk, and another man are undertft'zest. GREAT BRITAIN. The Duke and Duchess of Con- naught will sail for -Canada on the Gth of October. There is much anxiety in Britain as to possible complications in Greece and the Balkans. The British Government has de- cided to appoint a Board of Trade Commission to arbitrate on labor disputes. Rev. Dr. William Patrick, Prin- cipal of Manitoba Presbyterian Col- lege, died on Thursday at Kirkin- tilloch, Scotland. The Irish railway strike has not yet been settled owing to the re- fusal of the companies to reinstate all the men who went out. The grandson and heir of the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone has been elec- ted for the Kilmarnock Burghs di- vision in the Imperial Parliament. GENERAL. Greece may take advantage of Turkey's trouble to strike. Over one thousand anti -militar- ists have been arrested in Italy. HUNDREDS BEET BEATII Dam . Bursts at Austin, Pena.) and Practi- cally Destroys the Town. A despatch from Austin, Penn., says: Three hundred or more per- sons met their death through the bursting of a dam above this town on Saturday. Fire followed and• completed the work of destruction. The curtain of night, which was rung down, on the flood scarcely be- fore, its victims had all been claim- ed, and its surviving sepetators fully realized how great a tragedy the elements at water and fire had user ra amphithea- tre 1 a ed in thenatural p e bre of the Allegheny Mounttains here, was lifted by dawn on Sun- day, revealing .a ghastly scene of death and devastation. Austin itself, on Saturday a busy mill town. of. 3,000 people, many of whom were enjoying a fine autumn afternoon as a Saturday half holiday, is now only a ghost +7+ MONTREAL ASSESSMENT. Remarkable Advance Shown in Property Valuation. A despatch from Montreal says: For some weeks past clerks at the City Hall have been working upon a report which will show the in- crease in the property valuation of the city for the current year. The report shows that the increase in the gross valuation of property amounts to forty-five millions of dollars. Nineteen millions of the amount is attributed to the assess- ment, for the first time in the his- tory of the city, of the harbor pro- perty. Up to the current year this property was shown on the exempt- ed list of the city. The total as- sessment valuation of all the real estate anci land in the city .now reaches a sum of almost five hun- dred million dollars. Last year the total valuation was four hundred and thirty-seven millions. d4 EARL'S- NIECE GOES ON STAGE Has Become Tired of Rounds of House Parties and Dances.. A despatch from 'London says: The latest society recruit to the Gayety Theatre Company is Elea- nor Montgomerie, daughter of Lady Sophia Constance Montgomerie, and niece of the Earl of Eglington. She gives her own reason for going on the stage. She has become tired, she'says, of rounds of house parties and dances. and an idle life gen. erally, , and eaten by fire, the wet and charred remnants of its buildings, believed to hold the remains of 300 or more persons, were strewn along the valley edge, piled in winrows where the Main street business sec- tion was, or swept in scattered masses far down the ravine. The greatest loss of life. by tire occurred at a sharp turn of the valley just below Main street, where the debris' was caught andcome co - pressed with terrific power by the circling sweep of the flood. The wreckage of the busiest portion of the town was carried to that point and from upset stoves and lamps taught fire. It is . believed that scores of persons are buried under from ten to twenty feet of wreck- age there, and the 'ask of recov- ering them will necessarily be a difficult one. RESTRICTIONS REMOVED. British Live Stock May Now be Ise ported Into Canada. A despatch from Ottawa says 1 The British Government has noti. fled Canada that the restrictions prohibiting the importation of cat- tle, sheep and other ruminants and swine from the United Kingdon to Canada, on account of the pre- valence of the foot and mouth dis- ease in the former, have been re- moved. The restrictions have been in force since July G. - BOMBS IN A. CHURCH. Four Killed and Fifteen Injured in Mexican Towu. A despatch from Guadalajara, Mexico; says : A terrific explosion of rockets and bombs in a. crowded church here, resulting in font deaths and fifteen seriously injur- ed, cast a shadow of gloom over the merrymaking attending the coming of Madero on Wednesday. Of the wounded many were so seriously burned or trampled in the panic which followed that they are believ- ed to have been fatally injured. .___._ MOTHER AND SON DIE. Because LatterWas Charged With Crime, Causing Heart Break. A despatch from East Brookfield, Massa ,says : Bound together by ' straps about their wrists, the bodies of Mrs. Mary Lacey and her son, J. B. Lacey of Fitchburg, were found in Lake Lashway on Wed- nesday. Grief over a charge on which the son had been arrested is toled them su sedhave e to std supposed ride. Mrs. Lacey was 53 years •old and her son 20. • FOR RUSSIA'S NAVY.. Estimates for 1912 Call for an Ex- • nenditure of $82,108,078. A .despatch from .St. Petersburg says The naval estimates for 1012, which were submitted to the Dolma on Thursday, provide for en expenditure of $82,108,078, an increase of •$27,9'r9,1 over 1911.'