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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1906-10-12, Page 6TM STFATJ LOSS $150,000 Disastrous Blaze at the Premises of the Ontario Grape pe Growing Company. St. Catharines, Despatch — (Special.) —A disastrous fire occurred at 'Barnes - dale," the premises of the Ontario Grape eGfrowing and Wine Manufacturing Co., :Limited, at an early hour this morning, The plant and storage vacs are situated about two miles from this city, fronting on the Welland Canal, and the place has long been one of the points of interest to tourists passing through this district, At 10 o'clock lash nicht George Barnes, President of the company,' who 'resides near by, examined the engines and other parts of the plant and foand everything satisfactory. He retired as usual, anal at 1.30 o'clock this morning was awak- ened by a roaring noise, l;pon investi- gation he diseovered that one of the wine cellars was in flames. He at once went to the scene and found tbat,the fare had reached the building where the com- pany's fire fighting apparatus was kept, rendering it utterly useless. He then telephoned for the St. Catharines fire brigade, but had difficulty in reaching them by 'phone. 1{e succeeded finally, however, and the Central Fire Company went to the seene of the conflagration with all possible speed. The fire by this time had inside such headway that its progre-s could not he chh.�tked, and eon - sequently the four wine cellars, content- ing thousands of gatluns of wine, were destroyed, the lose being estimated at $150,000. Insurance partly covers .the Ions. The arieln of the fire ie a mystery. but Mr. t>,trnes ;this morning :said that when he discovered the flame, they were raging in the eastern end] of the. first cellar, where the electric is light wires sire etrun!ir, and the engines by which the machinery was run were located, Evi- dently it started there, but when first discovered the fire had such a start that the saving of the first cellar was prob- lematical. The fire will cause the grape grower,: of dais district a severe toss, as welly of thein disposed of their pro duet at Ilarmeglale. it is not known yet what the company's ,plans as to the future are. The Lincoln Paper Mills 'Company, of Merritton, has taken over the old Lyb- ster Cotton mill, on which they secured an option some time ago from the Cama d']an Colored Cotton .Mills Company, and will begin work on Monday pa'eparatory to establishing therein em up-to-date paper', niill. MURDER OF ENO. Sal LADY IN PRUSSIA HER BODY FOUND IN CITY PAM. Daughter of an Army Officer and Distant Relati©n. of British Royalty. Essen, Prussia, Oct. 8.—A great sensa- tion has been caused here by the murder of Miss Madeline Lake, daughter of an English army officer, whose body, ter- ribly mutilated, was found on 'Monday evening in the city park. The police have been unable to throw any light on the mystery surrounding her death. Both temples were beaten in, her throat was lacerated by the hands of her murderer, who evidently strangled her in addition to beating her terribly about the head. and her arms and body were severely bruised. The excitement ent'aed by the commit• ting of the crime in a public park. at - most in daylights, apparently, has bean increased by the fact that the enquiries of the authorities; have resulted in seem- ingly establishing the fact that Miss Lake was related, distantly, to the Prit- ish Royal family. the brother of her another, it is stated, having married a daughter of Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick, the divorced wife of George IV. of England. FARM NOTES AND COMMENTS Dear, Sir,—,since January, 1006, six- teen cow testing associations have been organized through the initiative of the Dairy Commissioner's Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. Records are being kept of the produc- tion of 4,500 cows owned by the 350 members of these asociations. The re- sults will be tel., ; is ted and ipublishect as quickly as 1:c, '...lie after the season is finished. re ie wily the beginning of haat shout ;. r, great national move- ment for t e i:rprovement of the dairy industry i:s t ,nada. S;nfficient data hare been culleited already to anew that there is no line of work in the whole range of dairy effort which is calculated to increase the profits of dairy fartnine to the same extent, as is this matter of the improvement of dairy herds. La order to serve the purpose properly, the work of record keeping must be persistent and continuous, and followed up by intelligent action on the peat of the owners of the cows in the matter of breeding and selection. Our records show that the average yield of milk in Ontario and Quebec is not much over 3,000 tbs, of milk per cow per annum, yet we find herds of 20 sows and over that average 5,000 lbs. In every instance the herds which show a high average of production have been built up by just such methods• ass the cow testing associations are intended to promote. The members of the different ai'socia- tione have bad an excellent opportunity of comparing the records from the dif- ferent sections, and different heads in the various associations. With a view to ,promoting correspond- ence between the various members of the associations, I am authorized by the Dairy Commissioner to announce that the name and post office address of the owner of any herd. in the reoords will be given to any person who applies for it to the Dairy Commissioner, Ot- Tawa. The idea is that members. may learn from the owners of profitable herds as to the methods by which such satisfactory results have been reached. We think the correspondence idea might be very .properly included as a feature of this work. We trust that owners of these first-class herds will be good enough to answer such enquiries in a broad-minded and helpful ,manner. It iso to be hoped that the members of the association will not become slack sn keeping the reeords, as the season advances, because it must be remember- edthat unless a full record for the Whole milking period has been made, a portion of it will be of very little value. Members of the associations must not overlook the importance el thefeeding ciuetion. This has been torched upon but very little so far in this work. Snit eventually we hope to exec careful records kept of the aliment of feed con- sanaed by the cows. We take this oportnni ty of again pointing out the desirability of the owners or managers •of factories taking an interest in this work and making the cheese factory or creamery the centre for further organization for the pur- pose of keeping records and testing. A large amount of correspondence has. been received from induvduals in lo- calities where associations have not been organized, and many farmers are equip- ping themselves to do the testing on their own account. A copy of bulletin No. 9, entitled, "Instructions for Testing Individual Cows," will be sent to anyone who applies for it. Yours very truly, (;has. F. Whitley, In Charge of Dairy Records. Approved, J. A. Ruddick, Dairy Com- missioner. Dominion Department of Agriculture, Dairy Conenisioner's Branch, Ottawa, Sept. 23, 1906. AT A BULL FIGHT. .6161."1.11110....1 NPMITINIPpesauf....14101141.1 SAYS IN BRIEF CANADIAN A.n engine and four ears were wrecked in a rear -end collision at 15ncan. Building permits issued in Toronto. to the end Of September totalled $9,508,328. Solan Kenyon, aged sixteen, was acci- dentally, shot end' fatally wounded by a companion while hunting near Minden. .Tames F. Riddell, of Chatham, was found dead, with a gunshot wound in the lead, at Erieau, where he had gone to shoot ducks; The horse and cattle sheds of the East Kent Fair Association, at Thanesville, were ch magas bI- fire and four Valuable horses destroyed, Teterboro' ratepayers defeated two by- laws, to aid the Peterboro' Steel Rolling Mills Company and the Rapid Tool Com- pany", by. 'tlae•pnrcbasing of sites. James. Collins, a fifteen -year-old lad, threw a eat:through the window of a re- siclence in Belleville. He went to jail for fifteen days for throwing the cat and and was fined .$10 for breaking the win- dow. The marriage of Mr. J. Castell Hop- kins and bliss Annie Beatrice Bonner took place very quietly yesterday in To- ronto. hfr. and Mrs. Castell Hopkins left for Montreal and Quebec on e. wed- ding trip.. • The proprietors of eight Niagara Falls hotels and one lieepsed restaurant were fined $50 and .costs each be- Police Mag- istrate- a-istrate- Cruikshank yesterday afternoon for selling liquor on Sunday, September the 16th. Matador Fell Dead From Excitement and Bulls Gored Spectators. Bordeaux, Oct'. 8.—During a bull. fight here to -day a matador fell dead from excitement. The mrnagement thereupon announced that the per- formance. was •at an end. The spec- tators protested, and refused to leave. The management yielded and ordered that the performance continnie, but the performers refused to take any further part in the fight, Some men from among the spectators excitedly jumped into the arena to carry on the performance. The bulls attacked them furiously and gored five of them, one fatally. The management again at. tempted to stop the performance, but the spectators again protested and at- tacked the attendants. They varied this performance with attempts to net the amphitheatre on fire, The po- lice finally expelled them. ABOUT DIAMONDS, The Insurance Commission at Toron- to decided that the Bank of Nova Scotia must produce the books and accounts in dwa awl! SBM LAR � 1 t IN KION One Section Favors Burns and Liberalism. the Other Hardie and racialism. London, Ode Oct.8.--The Labor movement in Great Britain is at present passing through an interesting phase, which is tending to decide the future dominance of one of two sections of the Labor party in the House of:Commons, The Liberal section, lel. by John Burns, or the uSoeialist section, led by James Keir Hardie. The Federation of Miners, at a meeting held this Week at Swansea, took a •ballot, which, although official figures are not yet available, is understood to have decided aaginst joining the Hardie section, On the other band, a confer- ence of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, acting simultaneous- ly at Cardiff, passed a resolution after a long and .bitter debate in favor of ad- hesion to the Hardie section, in spite of the fact that their leader, Richard Bell, M. P., was strongly opposed to the rail- way men submitting th•ernselves to So- cialist dictation. looked as though there world be a pitched battle. As the residents gained reinforcements the Italians retreated. .Just before the end came pole was wounded. He is a rancher and came to Cochrane to meet his father and mo- ther, who were coning in on the train. fie was carefully keeping out of the fight, when an Italian broke away from the row, ran over to him, drew a knife and plunged it into the young man's liver. The Italians retreated to the car and were taken in shortly after by the mounted police. Two Italians who did the wounding are held in the cells here. Others were fined fron'i $5 to $25 and released. GRAND TRUNK. RECEIPTS FOR SIX MONTHS WERE FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS, Canada Atlantic Deficit—Passengers Car- ried on Grand Trunk Proper Totalled Over Four and Half Million, London, Oct. 8.—The G. T. R. report which Mr. (deo. W. Fowler is concerned issued to -day states that the gross in connection with the I oresters' in- receipts for the half year ending June quiry.. - 30 are £3,021,681, compared with £2, - The marriage. of :Miss Dorothy White, 729,008 last year. The working expenses daughter of the late .Alfred White, Ot- were £2,184,821, as compared with eel, - taws, and granddaughter of the late 923,438, and the net revenue receipts Sir Hugh Allan, Montreal, to Mr. J. W. for the half year, after adding re - Cook, of )lontreal, will take place on ceipts from all sources, £944,867, corn - Oct. 17. pared with £907,634. The amount avail - The Divisional Court gave judgment able for dividends is £314,378, and the declaring that where the United States directors recommend dividends on the customs officials demand a bead tax at 4 per cents. of the first and second pre the frontier the transportation company ferenee stock and to carry forward carrying the'passengers is responsible for £10,077. The passengers carried total - its payment:' led 4,610,957, compared. with 4,303,705. The assessment returns of Woodstock The total mileage was 9,751,744, coin- . for the present year show an increase pared with 9,302,304. a, 4 the there in population of.213. The increase is par -1 neon venueadefcie deficiency ooftc£ 0,298}vas a tially made up of immigrants from the Western gross receipts were £519,0.16, old country, a large number of whom `compared with £512,995. Working ex - came to this district thiso year. The to- penses increased £0,021, leaving the net tai popvla;l anano�v.9,44,. 1 profit £83,5577, the same as last year. The . bounty Treasurer of Elgin yes- ' The net revenue surplus for the half terday paid Mr. Antoine Robert, Mont- year is £839, compared with £7,436. The , BALLOON CONTEST. U. S. WINNER KEPT CLOSE TO MOTHER EARTH. Paris, Oct. 8.—Lieut, Krank P. Lab, winner of the International balloon con- test, and Major Hersey, his companion, arrived here from England to -day. Mu.oh of their success is attributed to Major Hersey's knowledge of meteoro- logical conditions obtained as the result of long service in the weather bureau at Washington. Before the departure of tlac winning balloon, Major Hersey c.,iee- ly examined the latest weather, ncports and knew that the heavier and fatter outer currents would be at the surface. Consequently while their rivals were vainly testing the upper air the Amer- icans remained close to the earth, Their judgment was vindicated by the fact that, although the United States was the twelfth balloon to start it was the first to reach the English coast. real, $16,250, the price fixed by arbitra- tion for hte London & Port Stanleygra- 1 last half year's surplus .brought fox - g ward and payment of full interest 'rel road. The toll gates were removed on the second mortgage income bonds this afternoon, thus removing the last was ordered. The passengers carried toll gates in Elgin county. show an increase of 77,908. The De - The Windsor customs officials here troit and Grand Haven branch shows have received two letters from the inter- gross receipts of £161.279, an increase l for of Ontadio containing conscience of £26,508. The working expenses in - money for payment of duty on goods smugled from Detroit. One smuggler signed himself "A Friend in. Christ"; an- other who smuggled some sporting goods signed his letter "-A Loyal Canadian Christian." REPORTED ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE 'THEM FROM CANADA. New York, Oct. 8.—The Times to -day. says: "It was reported among cus- toms officials yesterday that a New York diamond dealer who arrived re- cently in Montreal, intended to smuggle across the border diamonds to the value of $150,000. On the request of E. H. Twohey, the U. S. customs' representa- tive in Montreal, three secret service. men were sent there from New York. It is said that they have been watching the suspected man. Tho story stars that the diamonds were out and pol- ished in Amsterdam and that an English broker brought them to London where he handed thein over to the New York dealer. The latter on reaching Mont- real learned that secret service men were watching hitt and lie changed his plans. The jewels are in Montreal, According to the Veterans' Land Grant Act, section six, those veterans holding land are exempt from all taxes except school taxes. If these are not paid, however, the land is sold. On Sept. 8 the lands of several veterans in the Rainy River District were sold at Elmo because the school taxes were not paid. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. United States forces are being lis- tributed in Cuba as a precautionary measure. Sir Frederick Borden stated in London that he did not believe there was any militarism in Canada. GeneralOuchaoeoff arrived in New York from Russia in pursuit of his flee- ing wife. She is now nearing the shores of France. I T AT C CIIRANE. TWO 'YOUNG MEN NEARLY KILLED BY ITALIANS. With Knives They Made a Fierce At- tack on Hewitt—Cole, a Peaceful By- stander, Also ,Stabbed—Both in a Precarious Condition. )Calgare, Antos. Oet.1 8a—News from Cochrane indicates that young Cole, who was stabbed by enraged. Italians in the riot on Saturday, is stili hovering be- tween life and death.. Hewitt, the other victim: of the Italians, is here and its In quite a pr'ecarions condition. Cole was in no wayassociated with the riot, People who saw the encounter tell of its intensity. After Hewitt, hte man who caused the row, had assaulted the It- alians, the entire 30 went mad. They got Hewitt down and all began slash - mg at him at one time.. One old ;It- alian drew a 'revolver andbegan shoot- ing at him et random, running all around the infuriated waren who encircled the man who was down. lie would have done damage, but for the fact that n spectator bit him with a brick, knecknug Biro insensible. Then the riot began in earnest, Residents of the town attempted to rescue Hewitt, but the Italians, leaving Hewitt for a time, started in on the residents, and it creased £14,304. There was a net re- venue surplus of £1,192, compared with a deficiency of £10,415. The passengers carried were 292,850, as against 265,035. HUSBAND KILLER TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF MALS. HORATIO WRATHALL. Ironworker Struck by C.P.R. Eastbound Hamilton Train at Ellis Avenue Crossing, ,Swansea—Victim Tried to Pass in Front of the Engine. Toronto Despatch—While making a. wild rush to cross the railway tracks before C. P. R. train No. 36 at Ellis avenue, Swansea, about 6 o'clock last evening, Horatio Wrathall, an ironworker, 34 years old, of College street, Swansea, was instantly killed. The unfortunate man was coming along Ellis avenue with bis wife and young daughter and seeing the train, it is said, rushed from them to cross the tracks in front of the engine. Mr. William Trimlett, 129 Lowther ave- nue, who was also with Wrathall, tried to stop him, but his attempt was inef- fectual. The man was carried along on the cowcatcher until the train was stop- ped. Wrathall's wife fainted at her hus- band's terrible death. The train which killed Wrathall was eastbond from Ham- ilton, engine No. 398 and in charge of Conductor W. Osborne, Engineer 3. A. Flood, Fireman Il. Clarke and Brakeman C. E. Troyer. FOR THE LLAMA. FIRE 9N AYLMER. AUSTRALIA MAY NEGOTIATE TRADE PREFERENCE WITH CANADA. AUTOMOBILES TO BE TAKEN INTO THE FORBIDDEN LAND. New York, Oct. 8.—A special despatch from London states that one sequel to the British intrusion into the forbidden land of Thibet, from which age -long cus- tom excluded western inventions, will be the immediate introduction of automo- biles. Captain O'Connor, British trade agent at Cyantze, taking an 80 horse- power motor car for the use of the Grand Llama of Tashi L'Humpo. The incongruity is increased by the fact that neither eats, roads nor carts are known in the neighborhood. of Tashi L'Humpo, and the motor will be the first wheeled vehicle the natives have seen, The Tashi Llami will have a road made from his monastery to Cyantze, where there is a new British road. Ottawa Despatch.--(Speeial.) A serious fire broke out in the lumber yard of Fraser & Co., at Aylmer to -day. There was over seven million feet burned down before noon and the 25 million feet which is in the yard is likely to go. Mr. Larke, one of Canada's trade ag- ents in Australia, writes to the Depart- ment of Trade and Commerce that he has reason to believe that Australia would listen to overtures from Canada to be included with the United. Kingdom and New Zealand in obtaining the 10 per cent. preference from the commonwealth. This would be of very material benefit to Canada, the only difficulty in the way is that there are so few articles which Australia exports upon which Canada could make any great return. THE ROUND -UP. An Interesting Sight to an Outsider— The Method Adopted, The conduct of a big round -up by the range riders is most interesting to the outsider. When a round -up is decided on, the horsemen usually organize into a legal body and elect a Lemmata for the great drive. This foreman is al- ways an old rider and horse owner who enjoys the full confidence of the range riders. The first part of May is the time usually enosen for the round -up. From 150 to 200 riders are generally required to make a successful drive, A round up entails days of rough mountain riding and nights spent in the open before the wild horses are driven into the big corrals, from which there is no means of escape. Many horses escape. ilfore, men on fresh horses are sent back to attempt to round up these horses, while the main body of riders keep on with the drive. .At the entrances to th corrals which ae often a mile wide, riders on fleet horses are station- ed, to see thatthe 'wild creatures are turned in the right direction. It is the entrance to one of the big corrals thee the spectator usually takes his stand toward the wind up of a drive. First he seen in the dieitanee a. cloud of clus,t, Then there comes to his ears the neighing of nares and foals. Soon sweeping down a nearby mountain and through a narrow ravine, surrounded) by clouds of dust, comes the wild band, followed and herded by the skilful range - riders. Straight for the water just in- side the corral make the tired and thirs- ty creatures, forgetful of all else in the desire to plunge their noses deep in ,the cool water. Long and gratefully the wild horses drink, while the colts and fillies neigh and caper around. After drinking it is easy to place the tired band in the inner corral. With 200 men driving 400 horses are a fair result of one clay's work, This means that upward of 1,500 horses were started at daybreak, but as the day ad- ,vanlres dead riders a•rsce horses grow weary 'it becomes harder and harder to hold the wild creatures and impossible to overtake and turn them back when once they have broken through the lines. Many orphan colts and fillies, not yet weaned, are always taken in a big except such as are taken by nearby round -up the mothers breaking through and escaping. These are usually shot, except such as are taking by nearby farmers, who raise them on milk until they are able to forage for themselves. -Phil. Lerger. e•a Sign of Classicial Music. (Atcbisou, Kan., (Mabe,) If a 'piano player Is playing a piece •that Bounds as if he didn't know it very well and has to stop every minute and start over that really means that the music he le playing Is elessical,