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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-08-07, Page 71CULTURL IN QUE EC As Seen Ry An Expert From Old Ontario. Hay, Hay, Hay, And No Other Crops Seen. Land Poorly Tilled and Methods Very i rimitive. Quebec, Aug, 3.—Verily, it seems to a person from Ontario that agricultural conditions in the old Province of Quebec are yet quits as primitive as those un- der the French regime. Year after year the French-Oanadian farmer cuts the small hay crop with his scythe, and a close cropping it is, 'too, leaving the fields as smooth as a shaven head. The ancient two -wheeled carts are brought into employment in all localities ior drawing it to the barns, which, in the eyes of those from the west, are merely shacks, with a coat of whitewash. One cannot get away from 'the fact that there is something radically wrong with the Province's systeni of agriculture. The land ought to be excellent for dif- ferent crops, and is so said to be, but there are no standing fields of grain anywhere. Perhaps milesapart one may happen on a miserable half acre patch of oats, that eis trying hard to make a semblance of what real oats should be. But it is hay -hay, in every place, and in all directions. Short stuff, with very Tittle body, mixed with a variety of weeds and other rank herbage, that an Ontario farmer would either cut and burn or plow under. In a half -a -day's journey one may chance on a plot of potatoes, or some feebly growing corn, but thak is the; limit of the farmer's ex- travagance in Quebec, and quite all. fields look as if they had not been turn- ed under in ec-sntless years. But then, of course, there is little need, when they look forever for only a hay crop. Roots are practically unknown around Quebec and Montreal, and much of the garden truck for the use of the hotels comes from Ontario. Your correspondent saw the only garden of vegetables in many miles of country at St. Anne de Beaupre and that was tilled by the priests who live there and take charge ..of the cathe- dral. , Smiling and prosperous Ontario, with her beautiful farm homesteads, roomy bank barns, and herds of cattle, stands out in strong contrast to the rural districts of the sister province, that could, too, be made to blossom, if not like the rose, in some semblance to a fiower. Rural Quebec receives to -day nothing but„the hardest of harsh words from the visitor who knows what farin- ing ought to be, and the laugh of ridi- cule sets deeply en, the faces of people not only from Canada, but the old land as well The inhabitant knows little of life in the great surrounding world. His little whitewashed cottage and big family of small children are his all. Their sustenance is the plainest of plain cares, which differs not a great deal in some of the hotels your corres- pondent has met with, but which must be either eaten or one starves. The bars In all -these placed and in points of every description do a land-office business even on Sundays. There is nothing, one, cannot buy .in the refreshment or souve- nir lines down there on Sunday, the grocery and dry goods stores being about the only places that close their doors. BLACK HAND. Police Think They Have Got Hold of Bad Man. Chicago, Aug. 3. --The police believe they at last have in custody one of the leaders of the Black I-Iarld Society, who Iis accused of being a manufacturer of bombs, a Murderer and a white slave agent. The subject is Joseph Ruffino, whose capture' at Milwaukee was made yesterday. Ruffino's wife, Sandano, also was arrested. Ruffino, who is a native of Italy, is said to be wanted by the police of many cities in this country and Italy. Information leading to his arrest was furnished to the police of Milwaukee by Chicago detectives, who had been searching for Ruffino arad his wife since July 15. s - ,e ON TRACK OF LEE. Alleged Murderer of Niagara Falls Policeman Traced. Boston, Aug. 3.—With detectives at every steamboat' landing and depot Chief of Police Watts believes that with- in a few hours he will have under ar- rest Edward Lee, an alleged notorious crook, wanted at Niagara Falls, N. Y. the murder of Patrolman McCor- mick. Augmenting the description sent the local detective bureau by Chief Lyans of Niagara Falls, the Boston authori- ties have also received word from the police of Toronto, Canada, where Lee, it 1a said, broke jail while awaiting sen- teYree of a charge of larceny and poeket- ploking Working on the assumption that Lee would try to leave the country b'y treat: fodetectives have scoured the waterfront TAFT ACCEPT r three days and it was while going through some of the lower seamen's re- sorts that they got the first clue to th© dry, �p whereabouts of the alleged murderer.. `1�iN + This has been earefully followed, and "IIIs at a late hour to -night it was said at police headquarters that the detectives detailed to the case expected to pull in their net before morning. CLEAN SWEEP. Turks Want to Get Rid of the Officers of Old Regime. Constantinople, July 3.—Now that the first rejoicings over the consti- tution granted to Turkey by the Sul- tan last week are at an end the people are beginning to discuss the future; already, they are clamoring against those high officials who were respon- sible for the abuses and injustices of the old regime. Public opinion is de- manding a clean sweep, especially of the palace officials who are identi- fied with the days of "personal rule." The Sultan, it is now known, broke into tears at the conference of Thurs- day at which it was decided to grant a constitution. The situation is calm- er, but disturbances are still feared. SWEPT BY TYPHOON • Many Chinese Boats Were Sunk— Good Work of Bluejackets. - Hong Kong, Aug. 3. -At 11 o'clock to -night the signal guns were fired, warning the people of the approach of a typhoon. The storm a.pproached with great rapidity, causing a very high sea to run. Much damage was done on shore. A large number of Chinese boats were caught in the gale. Some of them capsized, while others foundered. A very large number of the crews were drowned. Owing to the darkness and the fury of the storm it was almost im- possible to make any attempt to save them. Thirteen of the crew ,of the Bri- tish cruiser Aetreaca manned' a small boat, and, aided by a searchlight on the cruiser, searched the harbor for victims. They worked hard for an hour, and suc- ceeded in picking up six persons. No damage to vessels in the harbor Is reported. GAVE HIMSELF UP. Alleged Embezzler of Bank's Funds Returns. CIeveland, 0., Aug. 3.—Henry W. Ga- zell, wanted for the alleged embezzlement of $32,000 of funds from the defunct Farmers and Merchants' bank, last night, drove to police headquarters in an au- tomobile and gave himself up. He was released at once in $8,000 bail. Gazell would make no statement as to where he has been since the warrant was is- sued for him on Friday night. Gazed reached headquarters at 12 o'clock last night. While arrangements for bail were being made the accused banker sat quiet- ly b taking rio part in the affair. He vouchsafed no explanation as to where he had been. A MUSEUM ,ROBBED. Medals and Old Coins Stolen at Vancouver. Vancouver, Aug. 3.—Last night the night watchman of the Carnegie Pub- lic Library, arriving at his post, discov- ered that the museum section had been robbed, the entire collection of war med- als and ancient coins loaned by private collectors being stolen. This is the third theft` that has been perpetrated. The first was an 1005, when the coins taken were never recovered nor the thief found. It :s said that Watchman Auld should have been on duty at 9 o'clock, but he did not arrive until 10.15. En- trance was effected through the base- ment window, on the side farthest from the street. David McNabb, a year ago last Feb- ruary, gathered in the collection and secreted himself in the building till an opportunity for escape arrived. Mc- Nabb was an opium fiend. He tried •to pass the coins in Victoria in pay- ment for the drug, was arrested and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. o+a PLEASED WITH THE WEST. Canada Life's Representative Finds All Things Well. Winnipeg, Aug. 3.—Mr. Frank San- derson, of the Canada Life Insurance Co., returned to -day from a long inspection trip over western Canada, delighted with what he has seen and prepared to recom- mend that it greatly increase its western investments, as being among the finest now offering. Crops are flourishing and wonderfully well advanced, while buei- nese is buoyant. In many districts Mr. Sanderson noted that the area under erop will be increased next year almost threefold. To -day he said: "I &hall go back to our head office with a stronger eon- fidence than ever before in. our Can• adian west, and with the feeling that our President, Senator Cox, is amply justified in the strong stand he has tak- en for years as to the desirability of our company increasing its investments ldzire„ Big Time at• Cincinnati• Over His Official Notification. Makes Speech Laying Down His Political Platform. How Law Breakers and Trusts Should be Dealth With. Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 3; William Howard Taft to -day accepted the Re- publican Presidential nomination, His official notification combined a political jubilee for the city of Cateinnati and its environs, and a historic gathering of na- tional party leaders and an oecasion for the announcement by the candidate of his political tenets, designed as the text of Itepubliean oratory throughout the campaign. In his speech of acceptance Mr. Taft said, in part: The strength of the Republican cause in the campaign at hand is in the fact that we ,fepresent the policies es- sential to the reform of known abuses, to the continuance of liberty aid true prosperity, and that we are determined, as our platform unequivocally declares, to maintain them and carry them on. Soine prominent and influential mem- bers of the community, spurred by fin- ancial success and in their hurry for greater wealth, became unmindful of the common rules of business honesty and fidelity and of the limitations imposed by law upon their action. 'chis became known. The revelations of the breaches of trust, the disclosures as to rebates and discriminations by railways, the ac- cumulating evidence of the violation of the anti-trust law by a number of cor- porations, the over -issue of stocks and bonds on inter -state railways for the unlawful enriching of directors and for the purpose of concertrating control of railways in one management, all quick- ened the conscience of the people, and brought on a moral 'awakening among them that boded well for the future of the country. "The man who formulated the expres- sion of the popular conscience and who led the movement for practical reform was Theodore Roosevelt. He laid down the doctrine that the rich violator of the law should be as amenable to restraint and punishment as the offender without wealth and without influence, and he proceeded by recommending legislation and directing executive •action . to hake that principle good in actual perform- ance- . "The chief function of the text ad- ministration, 'in my judgment, is, d:st: net from a progressive development el that which has been performed by President Roosevelt. The chief "function of the next administration is to complete and perfect the machinery by which these standards may be maintained, by which the law -breakers may be promptly re- strained and punished, but which shall operate with sufficient accuracy and despatch to interfere with legitimate business as little as possible. "There should be a classification of that very small percentage of industrial corporations having power and oppor- tunity to effect illegal restraints of trade and monopolies, and legislation either inducing or compelling them to subject themselves • to registry and to proper publicity regulations and supervision of the Department of Commerce and Labor." MURDER A l" THE SOO ITALIANS START FIGHT OVER KICKING OF A DOG. Beaga Pachiocio Beaten in the Face With a Heavy Weapon and Killed, and His Brother Charles Injured —Two Brothers Under Arrest. Sault Ste. Marie Ont., despatch: AL, the result of a fight at Little Italy last night Beaga Pachiocio is dead and his brother, Charles, is lying at the,, Gen- eral Hospital, dangerously wounded, al- though he will probably recover. Those responsible for the dearth of Pachiocio are said by witnesses to the fight to be the Sciagliano brothers, two of e whom, Benjamin and Alexander, have been arrested. Another of those concerned, Isaac Sciagliano, matte his escape after the fight and has not yet been apprehended. When last seen he was walking on the C. P. R. tracks in the vicinity of Garden River. The fight, according to • one of, the witnesses, Eugene Gardi, started over the kicking of a dog in a shack a short distance from the office of Benny Sciagliano, wile conducts a cigar fac- tory, and is agent of the Sudbury Brewing Company. Gardi acknowledges he was concerned in the details lead- ing up t0 the fight, When the, argu- ment too place in the shack the par- ticipants went , into. the yard, and Gardi says he heard four revolver abate fired, and, becoming frightened, ran home. He knows nothing more ' about the affair. Another witness, named Giesehini, told the police that Benny Sciagliano and his brother, Isaac, murdered the dead man. Sciagliano was interviewed in, his coil. Ile disclaimed •a11 knowledge of the affair and stated that he did not even -know the dead man. This morning a Coroner's jury view- ed the bod•,'l;. On the face was evi- dence of a hard struggle, and the in- juries there were sufficient to .;rause death. The right temple was sunken by a blow from a heavy instrument, and there were numerous wounds about the bead, showing that Pachiocio had been; struck a number of times with a hea vy weapon. Chas. 'aceiocio, who is in the hos- pital, was not shot, but was seriously„ injured\ about the bead with a large seantliege which was laher discovered about fifteen feet from the spot where the fight occurred, carefully put away with -a number of others 'behind a gate. This weapon was covered in places with fresh blood. Where the fight occurred one police- man was on duty. He immediately tut-. tempted to cope with the situa.tion, but found it impossible. Ile took two wit- nesses in charge, and telephoned for assistance, which waa immediately forthcoming. As a result the Sciag- liano brothers and the following wit- nesses were taken in charge: Paelo Giaeehini, B. Gia,sehini, Eugene Gardi, Farshione Errico, John Marino and Pe- dinelli Augusto. Augusto had blood stains upon his trousers and shoes. When Coroner McLurg arrived on the scene he found the man dead,•, with a revolver in his hand. Giasehini •will. swear that he saw Benny Sciagliano place the revolver there after the man fell. An axe supposed to have been used during the fight was found in a shack a short distance from the scene of the trouble. A NEW PARTY. OPENING OF INDEPENDENTS' CONVENTION AT CHICAGO. Mr. Hearst Scores Republicans and Democrats—Mr. Bryan Must Be Judged by the Company He Keeps . —Independence Party Platform. Chicago, ear. 3. -Amid loud and en- thusiastic c:he. ng and with its mem- bers showing every sign of loyalty to their new standard of political faith the first National Convention of the Inde- pendence party was opened at 8 o'clock to -night in Orchestra Hall. Addressing the convention Mr. Hearst said: "I believe than if any party is necessary in this country to preserve the government as the fathers framed it a new party is necessary. The old parties, in this day of their decadence, are no longer equal to this work, for they have become unfaithful to the principles which inspired them and un- worthy of the patriots who founded them. The Republican party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts. The Democratic party is mere- ly envious of its sordid sister's ill-got- ten finery. It upbraids her at one elec- tion and imitates her at the next. Assuming that Mr. Bryan himself is all that his most ardent arlmnirers claim him to be, still a man is known by the company he keeps and no decent Democrat can tolerate his free com- panions. "I urge our party to take a broad and liberal stand toward the legitimate business enterprises of the country, but to distinguish between honest business everywhere and those crim- inal concessions which plunder through political pull and pay for political pro- tection. I urge our party to be in- telligently and courageously construc- tive, not merely obstructive like the Republican party nor destructive dike the Democratic party." !.R DIPLOMATIC ONLY. Holland Will Not Bombard Venez- uela Just Yet. The Hague, Aug. 3.—The talk of a bombardment by Holland of any Vene- zuelan port or ports or even a naval de- monstration in Venezuelan waters as a result of the difficulties between the Netherlands and the Government of Pre- sident Castro, was to -day characterized in official circles as premature. The rup- ture between the Netherlands aend Vene- zuela it was explained, was up to thel present time, diplomatic only. KILLED WIFE, Attempted to Kill His Children and Then Suicided. Cleveland, 0., Aug. 3.—Peter Sendak shot and killed his wife and then ended his own life with a bullet from the same revolver this morning. Sendak, earlier in the day, attempted to kill his three children, but they managed to escape by locking themselves in a room. The tragedy, it is said, followed a quarrel be- tween Sendai: and his wife over money matters. The man had been out of em- ployment for several weeks. USE OF MEAT PREIERVATIVES. British Board to Hold Inquiry on Canadian Bacon. Ottawa, Aug. 3.—The Local Govern- ment Board of Great Britain will hold an inquiry into the use of preserva- tives by exporters of bam, bacon and other meats. The statement has been made • that much of the Canadian ba- con and hams sent to England is pickled in boraac. The use of preser- vatives has occasioned considerable alarm in the old country, whit& has resul%ed in orders being issued for the proposed inquiry on the subject. MACEDONIA AND G l'` MANY. Sir Edward'' Grey on Sudden Charge In Turkey. Better That the Turks Should Set- tle Things Themselves. Britain Anxious For An Understand- ing With Germany. • London, Aug. 3.—The Macedonian..:, queetion was raised in the House of Come mons last night. Sir Edward Grey, Sec- retary ecretary for Foreign Affairs, said that thus situation had changed suddenly and greatly in the last fele days. If Turkey herself was going to improve the whole Government and the country to benefit • Mussnlmans and Christiana alike, it was better, he Braid, that the Maeedonian question should thus be settled by the Turks themselves than that partial re- forms should be pressed upon reluctant and obstructive authorities. "We ought for the present," added the Secretary, "to preserve an expectant and sympathetic attitude 'coward these changes." He deprecated the idea of in- tervention in Persia unless the Persian subjects became threatening. The Foreign Secretary's reference to Germany, which was drawn out by a dis- creet speech by Sir Charles Dilke, was rather unexpected, and was much dis- cussed afterwards in the lobbies, where it was regarded by many of the members as intended to counteract the bad impres- sion likely to be produced in Germany by Lord Oromer's speech in the House last Monday, when he declared that it was the first duty of the Government to pre- pare for the European conflict which probably would be forced upon Great Britain before many years. The inference also was drawn that the Government was desirous of arriving at an understanding with Germany similar to that already reached with Frapce and Russia, PLOT NIPPED. Portuguese Government Frustrates Republican Piot. Lisbon, Aug. 3.—The Government, ac- cording to the newspapers of Lisbon, has discovered and frustrated a. widespread republican plot for an uprising scheduled for to -day, the anniversary of the abor- tive revolt of July 28, which was sup- pressed by ex -Premier Franco. This announcement follows a large number of mysterious arrests made dur- ing the past few weeks. Alphonso Costs and Bernandino Machado, the republi- can leaders, are among those under sus- picion. They have not been taken into custody, but are kept under sharp police surveillance. Portuguese officials will say nothing of the details of the conspiracy excep that many men are implicated, including officers of the army. A DARING ROBBERY. Tray of Diamonds Rings Stolen at Quebec. Quebec, Aug. 3.—A tray of diamond rings, valued at $2,000, was stolen from J. F. Dobbin's jewelry store, corner of Buade and De Tresor streets, at 10 o'clock to -night: The robbery was daring but simple in its execution. A well-dressed man entered the store and asked to see some diamond rings. l&. Dobbin himself waited on him. The man selected a ring from a tray, and asked that it be polished a little. Mr. Dobbin turned from the counter to comply with the request, and the man bolted, making good his escape among the crowds on the street, Police headquarters, a block away, was promptly notified, and a large number of detectives at once started off in the hope of capturing the thief. Three of them, with Mr. Dobbin, went on the Montreal boat, and while they were hunting there the boat &'carted on its journey. The detectives will have to proceed to Three Rivers before they carr disembark. c o NAN MUST MOVE ON. Pittsburg Police Gave Her a Warning That She Accepts. Pittsburg, Aug. 3.—Fearing that she was to be sent back to New York, Nan Patterson, the chorus girl, who was tried three times for the murder of Caesar Young at New York several years ago, and who has been braking this city her home since that time, left here late Sat- urday afternoon for parts unknown, fol. lowing a eonferenee with the pollee au- thorities. In speaking of the :rattler to -day, Acting Captainof Detectives Roabh said: "When Nan Patterson was brought in before me, she thought that she was to be sent back to New York, as she is only on probation there. She'd was veiny retired and quiet, and when ]l told her she would have to go, she aimed to do so."