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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 eeve 4;.::<4r 3.^3;'95,5• � r�•�rti^,`T �r? 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.' _.w 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,