Zurich Herald, 1920-06-17, Page 7CAMERON LIMAN LA ERS [OARED
BY PARTY OF SINS EINEM
Private Residences Meet Fate of Police Barracks -Destruc-
tion of Property to Value of Several Hundred
Thousand Pounds.
London, June 6.-A military and Kilnurray, County Cork, pol:ee bar-
, police patrol of twelve fully -armed racks, making a total of such build -
men - Cameron Highlanders- was, inge destroyed since last Easter 404.
Private residences of wealthy peo-
ple in many parts of the country are
meeting the same fate as the police
surprised and disarmed •on Saturday
night near Queenstown by a company
of 100 armed Sinn Feiners. The in-
e.dent took place between • Carrigto- barracks. Quite a large number of
hill and Middleton, about seven miles magnificent country mansions have
from Queer,•; town,come under the Sinn Fein ban be
The men of the patrol were riding came it was suspected that they were
by•cycles at the time. The Highland- about to be occupied by the military.
ers were travelling with fixed bayon- Th's appears to be a mistaken idea,
ets. The attacking party were also but it has led to the destruction of
on bicycles, and after collecting the property to the value of several huh-
. rifles and ammunition and tho. died thousand pounds.
bicycles of the patrol, they rode off. Oak •Groves House, in Mid -Cork,
The disarmed patrol made its , way ' former home of the family - cf Capt.
to Middleton on foot. Bowen Colthurst, was burned to the
Another -account from Cork says ground yesterday morning. Captain
the soldiers, eleven in number, had a Colthurst was associated with the
policeman as a guide, and were sur- Easter rising in Dublin in 1916, and
rounded by a party of 50 or 60 men. caused the execution of Sheehy Skef-
The men were apparently playing fington.
bowls and opened on both sides of The magnificent residence of Cap -
the road as if to let the patrol passe tain Smith at Churchtorwn, County
As the •soldiers moved through, the Meath, also was completely destroy -
men suddenly closed in, and before ed. It is estimated that the damage• .
resistance euttld be offered, depteved amounts- to £70,000.• A great quan-
the military cf their rifles and am-' tity of valuable furniture was lost.
munition. They also took away the John Blake, a landowner, was shot
policeman's revolver. j from behind a hedge and seriously
Dublin, June 6. -The week -end list; wounded at Tham, nineteen miles
of outrages in the South and. West of ,. northeast of Galway, while on his way
• Ireland is a serious and formidable! to church.
Ire. Theee more burnings were car- The court house at Firmount, Coun-
ried out yesterday, including the, ty Cork, was wrecked Friday night.
King's Second Son is
Created Duke of York
A despatch from London says: -
Only one Peerage ;s bestowed in the
King's birthday honors, and that is
conferred on- Prince Albert, who be-
comes the Duke of York, Earl of Inver-
ness and Baron Killarney. •
Prince Albert, as King George's
second son, thus takes the titles his
father possessed as the late King Ed-
ward's second son.
The majority of the honors are for
servicea rendered during the war.
Seaplanes Used in
Whaling and Sealing
, A despatch from Copenhagen
says: -Seaplanes are tobe used this
summer for whaling and sealing in
Denmark Strait, between Iceland and
Greenland, A plane will probably be
Sir John Kirk, of London, England,
who has spent fifty years in reclaim -
despatched to the field in the course ° ing waifs from the gutters and mak-
of the nest week. Sone fifty sealing' ing good men and women out of them.
and whaling ships are already on the ( He is one of London's best- known
ground. I philanthropists.
Weekly Market Report
Wholesale Grain. Madagascar Limas, ib., 15c; Japan
Toronto, June 8. -Manitoba wheat . Limas, lb., lle.
-No. 1 Northern, $3.15; No. 2 North- Maple products -Syrup, per imp.
ern, $3.12; No. 3 Northern, $3.08, in gel., $3.50 to $3.75; pees imp. gals.,
store Fort William. $3.25 to $3.50. Maple sugar, 33 to
14Ian;toba oats -No. 2 CW, $1.28; 34c.
No. 3 CW, $1.22; extra No. 1- feed, Provisions -Wholesale.
$1.22; No. 1 feed, $1.21; No. 2 feed, Smoked ,seats -Hams, ire.d., 41 to
$1.20, in store Fort William. 43e; heavy, 3t to 34e; cooked, 39 to.
Manitoba barley -No. 3 CW, 61c- rolls, 3i. to 32c; breakfast bacon,
$1,8614; No. 4 CW, $1.641,x; rejected, 45 to 505 backs, plain, 'S0 to 52c;
$1.59'/x,; feed, $1.591/.x, in store Fort boneless, Cururedd5: to 53c.
meats -Long clear bacon, 28
William.
to 2 clear bellies, to 28e.American corn -No. 2 yellow, $2.40; Lard-Pure,tierces, 28 to
29 sc;nominal track,Toronto, prom t ship- tubs, 281%to 29c;als,
28�'� to 2934•c;
rnent. prints, 291/2 to 30c. Compound, tierces.
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, nominal. 27 to, 271/20; tubs, 271/2 to 28c; pails,
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per 27% to 281,4c; prints, 281/2 to 29c.
car lot, $2 to $2.01; No. 2, do, $1.98 to Montreal Markets.
$2.01; No. 3 do, $1.92 to $1.93, f.o.b, Montreal, June 8. -Oats, CW, No.
shipping points,according to freights. 2, $1.36; do, No, 3, $1.34; flour, new
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, per standard grade, $14.85 to $15.05; rol-
car lot, $2.02 to $2.03; No. 2 do, $1.98 led oats, bag, 90 lbs., $5.50 to $5.60;
to $2.01; No. 3 do, $1.95 to $2.01, f.o.b, bran, 54.25; shorts, 61.25; hay,, No.
shipping points, according to freights. 2, per ton, car lots, $31 to $32. Cheese,
Peas -No. 2, $3.00. finest easterns, 291/sc; butter, choicest
Barley -Malting, $1.87 to $1.89, as
cording to freights outside. potatoes,
55 tob g,56car lots,ggs, fresh, 5 to
Buckwheat' -No. 2, nominal, potatoes, per bag, car $5.75 to
$6
Rye -No. 3, $2.20 to $2.25, accord -'25'
Live Stock Markets,
ing to freights outside. Toronto, June 8. --Choice heavy
Manitoba flour -Government stand- $16; steers, $15.50 to
ard, $14.85, Toronto.good heavy
Ontario flour -Government stand- steers, $14.75 to $15; butchers'cause
ard, $13.25, nominal. chhoice $14,50 to ,$15; do, good, $13.76
Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont- to $14; do, med., $13 to $13.50; do,
real freights, bags included: Bran, per com., $11.75 to $12; bulls, choice,
ton, $54; shorts, per ton, $61; good 12.50 to $13; do, good, $10.50 to
feed flour, $3.75 to $4.00.11.25; do, rough, $S to $8,50; butcher
Hay -No. 1, per ton, $30 to $31; cows, choice, $12.50 to $13.50; do,
mixed per ton, , 25 good; $11 to $11.50; do, corn., $7.50
Stra-Car lots, ptrack. er ton, $16 to $17, to$i $8; stockers, $9.25 to $11;' feeders,
track, Toronto. $11 to $12.50; canners and cutters,
$4.50 to $6.25; milkers, good to choice,
Country Produce- eWholesale. 8100 to $165; do, com. and med., $65
Cheese -New, large, 32 to 33c; to $75; springers, $90 to $165; lambs,
twins, 321/'2 to 331,et; triplets, 33% yearlings, $14 to $16; do, spring, each,
to 34c; Stilton, new, 34 to 35c; old, $12 to $15; calves, good to choice, $12
targe, 32 to 33e; do, twins, 33 to 34c. to $16; sheep, $9 to $18; hogs, fed
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 51 to and watered, $20.25; do, weighed off
52e. creamery prints 56 to 58e, cars, $20,50; do, f.o.b., $19.25; do, do,
country points,: $123,
Montreal, June $ -Butcher heifers,
coin., $8 to $10.50; butcher cows, med.,
$8 to $11; canners, $5 to $6; cutters,.
$6 to $7; butcher bulls, good, $11 to
$12; corn., $9 to $11; good veal,$12
�to $14; reed., $8 to $13; selected teepp
$11 lambs, $8 to 10 ach; hogs, off -
car weights, selects, $20.50 to $21;
heavies, $19 to $20; sows, $16,50 to
1V argarine--3 to 38e,
' Eggs -New laid, 52 to 53c,'
Dressed poultry -Spring ehiekens,
80c; roosters, 25c; fowl, 35e; turkeys,
63 to 60e; ducklings, 38 to 40c; squabs,
dozen, $6.00.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 70c;
roosters, 25c; fowl, 27e; ducks, 35 to
t0c.
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, bus.,
15 to $51:50; princes, $4.50; Japans, $5; $17.eesti N
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Champion Bull of Ireland, taken at the recent show in Dublin.
SINN FIN 'RS CAIASCEND NC
IN NORTH IRELAND ELECTIONS
Battleships Arrive at Cork With Marines -Forty Tanks ane
28 Airplanes in Ireland at Present.
A despatch from Belfast says: -The Marines into destroyers, which tock
then. into Queenstown, where they
landed. The Transport Czaritza em-
barked 1,200 troops at Devenport for
Queenstown, from whieh place they
will be distributed in Wexford, Water-
ford, Cork and other counties.
winning County Tyrone, for the first A despatch from 'London says: -
time, and maintaining` their hold: o'+.iston Churchill, Secretary for War,
County Fermanagh, Michael Carolen, announced• in the Parliamentary news -
who was unseated by the Belfast Conn- papers on Friday that there were 40
cil following his sentence at hard la- tanks and 28 airplanes in Ireland at
hor for an alleged seditious speech, on present.
Friday headed the poll in the Spank A despatch froin Dublin says: -The
hill division of Belfast,.which'previous-'Drangin police barracks in East Tip-
Iy had been a stronghold of Orangeism, perary was attacked on Friday Morn -
Still another Sinn Feiner headed the ing for five hours by a large force of
Polls in the Falls division, Belfast, the men. Eventually the barracks was
stronghold of Joseph Devlin, and an- burned and its nine defenders con'i-
other Sinn Feiner was elected in Lis- palled to surrender their arms. There
burn. were no casualties.
Keenest interest was taken in these Another vacant barracks was burn -
elections, because both counties are ed at Goleen, near Skibbereen.
included within the Ulster area out- The railway terminus at Tralee was
lined in_ the Irish Bill now before the raided by daylight and a quantity of
Irish Parliament, Various, election explosives and military stores - re -
tricks were revived, one woman dis- moved from it.
guising herself and voting as her own A'. goods train was wrecked on
mother. Another woman is said to Thursday night in .a street of West-
have voted seven times. meath, Leinster, as a consequence of
The feature of the elections general-
ly in Northern Ireland was the as-
cendancy gained by the Sinn Feiners
over the followers of Redmond.
A despatch from Cork, Ireland, says:
-The battleships Warspite and Vali-
ant arrived in Cork harbor on Friday eight constables, replied with similar
and transhipped a large number of weapons from the roof.
followers of Sir Edward Carson have
been• defeated in County and District
Council elections in their own strong-
holds in choosing the Boards of Guard-
ians. In addition to the Sinn Feiners
the rails having been torn up. "It is a week since I have had so
A large number of men, armed with
bombs and rifles, attacked the. police, much food at one time;'
barracks at Cappaghwhite, Munster, --- -n t -
on Friday morning. The police gene -
WALLS
pan Purchasesson, donsisting of - two sergeants and
WALLS RED WITH
VICTIMS' BLOOD
Instruments of Torture Used
by Bolshevist Extraordinary
Commission.
A despatch from Geneva says: ---A
Red chamber of horrors was discov-
ered
iscovered after the capture of Jitamir by
the Poles in the cellar of a building
occupied by the Bolshevist Extraord-
inary Commission, according to a re-
port recently received by the Ukrain-
ian Legation in Berne. Numerous in-
struments of torture reminiscent of
I the Spanish Inquisition were found,
and the walls -and floor were dyed
dark with the blood of the unfortunate
victims.
• Thirty prisoners, among whom
were seven women, were sentenced
to death by the commission dur;ng the
night before the Polish and Ukrainian
troops entered the city. The Presi-
dent of the commission, Overdechebov,
• lingered.too long as a witness of their
execution. •
His delight in his cruelty cost him
1 his life, for when he tried to follow
the retreating Reds the adjacent
streets were already occupied by
Polish soldiers. Seeing escape was
'impossible, he committed suicide. He
-was found dead in the torture cham-
ber among the mutilated bodies of
his victims.
BRITISH DEFEND
TURK TERMINALS
Warships Fired on Nationalists
Coming too dose to -
British Lines.
Constantinople, June 6. -British
warships opened fire on Nationalist
positions near Toulza, on the Sea of
Marmora, 38 miles west .of Ismid, late
Friday night. A despatch from Copenhagen
Constantinople was aroused by the says: -The German submarine U-20,
heavy firing of the guns of the war- which sank the Lusitania and later
ships. The Nationalists had approach- was wrecked on the west coast of
ed close to the Br;tish entrenchments Jutland, where site has been lying
along the Gulf of Ismid, where many buried in the sand ever since, has
British units are stationed to protect lately been empt.ed, so that only the
troops guarding the railway. empty hull now remains. This will
The •collapse of the Sultan's troops now be destroyed, the intention being
leaves the British alone to defend the to use German mines which drifted
railway terminals opposite Constan- ashore for blowing up the hull, so
tinople. Many Armenian and Greek that every - trace of the evil -famed
boat shall disappear.
German Sent Down
For Sixteen Years
A despatch from Geneva says: -
Sixteen years in a French prison' was
the sentence pronounced by a French
military judge at Ludwigshaven, in
the occupied zone, upon Captain Im-
hof, :a German officer accused of loot-
ing French chateaux during the war.
Captain Imhof, it is stated, was ar-
rested.by the French during their oc-
cupancy of Frankfort, Imhof's house
was found to be full of furniture, pic-
tures and tapestries stolen from
French chateaux during the German
occupation. In defence, Imhof plead-
ed that thousands of officers, from the
former Crown Prince downward, d1
the same as he. The French judge
said lie regretted he was unable to
treat the prisoner as an ordinary burg-
lar and inflict a heavier sentence.
Valuable Discovery of
Radium in Ontario
A despatch from Montreal says: -
The discovery of radium is reported
in the townships .of Proudfoot and
Butt, near Kearney, on the Grand
Trunk Railway.
Claims are made and staked off.
Other valuable minerals have been
found, Including vanadium, molyb-
denum, potash, feldspar, muscovite
and mica. The rock is of gneiss
granite formation, with a pegmatite
vein running through it. This pegma-
tite vein contains the valuable miner-
als and is found to be from 18 inches
to 20 feet thick.
W. Ryan, a Cobalt prospector,
stated that an his own claims he had
traced the vein for more than a mile,
where it averaged seven feet in thick-
ness and at every point he broke it
he found radio -active mineral.
'German Sub. That Sank
Lusitania is Destroyed
refugees have entered Ismicl after
escaping from the Nationalists.'
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Sister of Czar in
Destitute Circuinstances
Belgrade, Serbia, June 6. -Garbed
in a tattered ermine cloak, priceless
once, but now so weather-beaten and
worn as to be utterly worthless, the
Grand Duchess . Olga, sister . of the
late Czar of Russia, has been among
the thousands of refugees seeking the
aid of the American Red Cross. Hat- homes were endangered by forest
less, her gloves in. twisted rags, her fires and to the hundreds of fires
shoes broken out, and her purse fighters. It will also be a good help
empty, the Grand Duchess stepped to the crops.
from a crowded refugee train at the
Belgrade station. When a steaming Can Fly Across Ocean
plate of soup from the Red Cross With Greatest Ease
kitchen was handed her, she ate it
ravenously and remarked: A despatch from Barrow, England,
says: -An airship, R-80, built here
for the Admiralty, will be launched
in two ay three weeks. She embodies
the latest . improvements in aircraft
Patents of zeppelins
designs. It is seated that she could
fly across the Atlantic with ease,
Nova Scotia Forest Fires
Quenched by Rain.
Halifax, N.S., June d. -Welcome
rain has fallen in Nova Scotia. The
rain set in at 10 o'clock on Saturday
night, and since then there has been
a cont:nuons downpour. The precipi-
tation in 24 hours was about an inch
and a half. The rain brought great
relief to the whole country, and was
particularly welcome to those whose
BRITISH LABOR
FOR ONTARIO MINES
Europeans Giving Place to
Immigrants From British
Isles.
A despatch from Cobalt says: -Im-
migration promises to play an im-
portant part, in solving the problem of
labor shortage at the mines of North-
ern Ontario. In a statement recently
made by a prominent mine manager
of Cobalt, the favorable effect of this ily,. Like the Legion of Honor medal,
is already noticeable. Out of about the bronze medal will be signified by
fifteen men recently engaged, there a ribbon, and rosettes - will be the
are new arrivals from the British higher awards for increasing the
Isles. Nor is this confined to any one population.
mine, as on other properties the pres
ence of these new recruits to the ranks
of Canadian labor are to be found.
The percentage of foreigners of
middle Europe origin is gradually
diminishing, and is giving place to a'
steadier element made up of British •--
and American -born, as well as a
sprinkling from Western Europe. It
is especially true that from the Forms-
pine
orm -pine and Sudbury districts, during the
last few months, there has been a
steady trek of :foreigners back to their
former homes in Middle Europe.
French Encourage
Large Families
A despatch from Paris says;-
Motherhood at last conies into her
rightful place- in the list -of French
honoxs,according to a decree which
provides for granting medals to
mothers of large families. Five chil-
dren will entitle a mother to a bronze
medal; eight to a silver medal, and
ten to a gold medal, which will be
called the Medal of the -French Fam-
A despatch from London says: -
The Goodrich Tire Corporation has
purchased the secret processes, pa-
tents, materials and plant of the
Zeppelin Company, according to the
Evening News.
-The corporation will begin the con-
struction of Zeppelins on a large
scale.
Prince of Wales Rests
For Week at Melbourne
A despatch from' Melbourne, Aus-
tralia, says: -The Prince of Wales,
by the advice of his physician, will
take a week's rest after the Victorian
festivities before proceeding to Syd-
ney. He is due at Sydney on June 16.
FIRST CANADIAN
• Ice in Lake Superior.
A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie,
Ont., says:-Oceasional reports of ice
are still eoming from vessel -masters
on Lake Superior. In 1919 ice had
not disappeared from the lake before
July, and Marquette harbor was Still
ice -filled dur;ng that month.
TRADE
The vessel is 535 feet in length and
70 feet wide. Her lifting power is
38 tons. Four engines, each of 240
horsepower, will give her a maximum
speed of 65 miles an hour. She will
carry a crew of 15.
•
706,000• Is
Montreal's Population
A despatch from Montreal says: -
The population of the city of Mont-
real, not including any of the sur-
rounding municipalities, is returned
as 706,600 at end of 1919. There are
in Montreal 87,793 dwellings rented
to citizens, while other dwellings oc-
cupied by the owners number 6,452.
Turks Have Fifteen
Days Longer
Constantinople, June 6. --The Gov-
ernment has received 'a note from the
!1t0
EX� ION Pi S Oys in wich to present b -
Turkey had asked an extension until
A despateh from London says:- ' chilies, chemicals, tools, steels, enamel July 11 in whish to submit its answer.
ware chocolates and other
The first Canadian Trade Exhibition : products
ever :field in Britain opened in the of divers kinds. Buyers have been Seven Months' Cruise
invited from the United Kingdom and For Prince George
Agrieultural Hall, London, last week, the Continent, and it is safe to pre
The exhibition will afford an objeet diet that Old World purcltasere, who A despatch from London says:-
lesson Of, wide range of present-day have been hearing with some amaze- Prince - George, the youngest son of
Canadian trade. It includes Canadian merit of Canadian whiskey in Glasgow the :Ktired 'Qu, .fi'^em
a cadet,ing sailed on theeenhaatteieshlpbco'1'etning-
eraire on June 2, for a seven months'
cruise.
products verging all the wayIona a Canaa;ht p, pone shafting on the
1notion-picture projector to folding Clyde, and Canadian chocolate e•ea
1 ms
beds. A Montreal ready-made cloth- in London, will be, surprised to find to
ing firni, iip;larentll unimpressed by what extent Canadian manufacture
the competition of the world's woollen has developed since before the war,
centre, Manchester, has an exhibit of the Dominion now being a larger ex -
ladies' and children's garments and porting country than France and
other firms ere showing wall papers, japan, or Italy. Spain and Holland
tractors, spark plugs, washing rata- combined,
The only dentists of China used to
pull teeth with their fingers. They
practiced by pulling pegs from a
wooden board until they had a grip
with a lifting power of 300 or 400
»oundki,