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The Herald, 1912-09-13, Page 7SHIPPINf PROBLEM SOLVED Unbroken. and Unbreakable Line Round the World --Gigantic Scheme of Empire Interest A despatch from •London, Eng- land, , says : The Daily Telegraph of Thursday morning" gave .promi- nence. to the communication of a correspondent whose opinion should carry some weight and who is in close touch with the financial situ- ation. "The fi.nanbial papers," he. declares, • "have been at great pains in endeavoring to explain the causes of the recent fluctuations in shipping shares, but they " have struck • wide of the mark." After referring to Premier Borden's visit, he says : "It is not necessary for all the chief members of the Cabinet to spend their holidays together without some real reason. We may rely upon this, that the shipping problem between the Mother- Coun- try and the various colonies has been thoroughly thrashed out. We are on the eve of a statement from some authoritative person who will propound a new theory as regards. the relations :between this country and the dependencies. • It forms a part of the naval scheme, and has for its ultimate object the linking up of the colonies with the heart of the Empire. "The. British Government must control, or nominally control, all shipping whose chief ports are in this country. It is a gigantic 'scheme, but when the various amalgamations which have taken place and those which are pro- pounded are fully gone into it will be seen that the shipping of this Kingdom forms an unbroken and unbreakable line round the world, guarded by the greatest navy ever known in history." FATAL AERIAL : MANOEUVRES. Two More British' Army Officers Were Killed. A despatch from Stevenage, Eng- land, says : Two more British army officers lost their lives while flying on Friday. Capt. Patrick Hamil- ton had taken Lieut. Stewart with him as a. passenger in his biplane. The two officers had flown for a considerable time, when a strong wind suddenly sprang up, and in endeavoring to make a headway against it one of the wings of the aeroplane collapsed. The machine fell to the ground from an altitude of 250 feet and was completely de- stroyed. The bodies of the two offi- cers were found in the wreck. d!+ MUTINY IN RUSSIA. `Warships nontbarded the Forts at Sebastopol. A despatch from London, Eng- land, says : A private telegram -from Sebastopol reports a. mutiny of the crews of the Black Seasqua- dron, according to the Constanti- nople correspondent of The Chroni- elr_, The w•arships.• bombarded the forts, which ::replied vigorously and rank one of tli .a" e• . :vessel's. The hear guru' •• fl''ad as the despatch. left. It is stated that one cruiser escaped and reached Bur- ghas, Bulgaria. No oonfirmation of this report has been received here from other sources. ESTIMATE OF CROP. 'Grain -Dealers' Figures for Three Prairie Provinces. A despatch from Wihnipeg says: The Northwest Grain -dealers' As- sociation issued on Thursday the following estimate of the 1912 crop for the ,three prairie ,Provinces as follows :-Wheat, 10,584,000 acres at 17 bushels per acre, 179,828,000 bushels. Oats, 5,245,000 acres at 42 bushels per acre, 210,290,000 bush- •eis, Barley, 1,500,000 acres at 32 bushels per •acre., 48,000,000 bush- •els. Flax, 1,110,000 acres at 11 bushels per acre, 12,210,000 bush- els, The final estimate of the wheat .crop of 1911 gives 177,109,000 bush- els, which includes half a million bushels still in the farmers' hands. MAD DOGS IN NASSAGAWEYA. .Animals' Run Amuck and Township Has Developed a Scare. A, despatch from. Guelph says : There is a mad dog scare on in the 'Township of Nassagaweya at the present time. On Saturday even- ing Clerk Marshall, of Nassaga- weya, received notice from provin- cial authorities that the head of the dog sent down a few days ago had been examined and that the dog had a certain kind of rabies. Two weeks ago a dog, the owner of which is unknown. went mad, and ran wild through Nassagaweya, lat- er going into Nelson Township. Early this week it came back to Nassagaweya, and bit a number of pigs, owned latter shooting it. All the animals bitten will be watched for symptoms of rabies. 4 HUNTING FOR NAVVIES. Nipigon Construction Co. Wants Men for Work on C.N.R. A despatch from Duluth, Minn., says: The steamer Forest 'City, a sidewheeler chartered by the Nipi- gon Construction Company of Port Arthur, has arrived here to get laborers wanted for construction work north of Port Arthur on the new branch of the Canadian North- ern Railroad. The concern which chartered the boat has contracts fork a large part of the work, and is be- hind because of the scarcity of la- bor. If. suffscient labor cannot be secured in Duluth the Forest City will go 'to Chicago, Milwaukee and other .ports -in an .effort to :secure the necessary help: • - 6 KILLED AND 13 INJURED. Motor. Cyclist at 92 Miles an Hour Loses Control. A despatch from Newark, N.J., says: Eddie Hasha of Waco, Tex- as, holder of the world's record for' motorcycle racing, plunged over the rail of the course at the new Newark Motordrome into a crowd late on Sunday afternoon, causing the death of six persons, including himself, while .six are dying and 13 are badly injured. Five thousand spectators were witnessing the fin- ish of a four -mile free for all race when the daring Texas rider, doing 92 miles an hour, took his fateful plunge. SPECIAL CONSTABLE SHOT. Murdered in Calgary C.P.R. Yards, Presumably by Tramps. A despatch from Calgary says : Special Policeman Robert G. Mac- intosh, 'of the Canadian: Pacific Railway, was murdered about ten o'clock on Wednesday night, pre- sumably by tramps, in the C.P:R. yards. Macintosh was found lying in the shadow of some box ears, about five minutes after the shoot- ing, unconscious, with his revolver still tightly clasped in his right hand. THE WIE3IGHING OF MESE Producers Complain that No Allowance is riade for Overweight. A despatch frons Kingston says: The members of the Royal Commis- sion appointed to enquire into the complaints received by the Depart - anent of Agriculture, relative to the .alleged unfairness in the methods followed in weighing butter and cheese, opened their session in the City Council Chambers on Thurs- day afternoon. Those • who appear- ed before the commission strongly .advocated the: appointment of an tofiicial. Government referee to act t Montreal in cases where disputes arose over short weight. The pre- hent system, they claimed, was un - lair to the producer, who :was. tharged for cheese that was under weight and was allowed nothing for cheese that was over weight. They invited an inspection of their scales, which the commission said would be made. Some of those who gave.evidence could assign no rea- son for shortage in weight, but others said that the shipping of cheese that was too young might be the cause. Dr. Edwards, who was instrumental in having the Govern- ment appoint the 'commission' was in attendance, and explained that he did not charge dishonesty in the weighing at Montreal, but thought that rules were very unfair. The commission will meet in Cornwall on the lath of September and then adjourn for several weeks. 1,000 PEOPLE 1TOIIELES $2.500,000 Loss by Fire at • Park, California. A` despatch from Los 'Ali Cal., :says: Fully one tho persons are hunting homes result of the fire which des 150 buildings in Ocean Pal Tuesday night, causing a loss mated at $2,500,000, with Mat of only ten per cent. So•. f, known, only one man lost his The burned area extends from., mond Avenue, . on the north Ozone Avenue, .on the south, ,.4, tame of seven blocks, and f the ocean; west to midway betw the speedway and trolley -way, the east, everything was wiped LIFEBOATS FOR ALL. British Board of Trade at Last .R vises Its Rules. A despatch from London says, As an outcome of the Titanic i4 quiry the Board of Trade has i c, sued revised rules for increasing. the safety of lives at Asea. The ruler become effective on Jan. 1, 1910. a They provide -thatforeign-goiag• passenger steainships and emigrant ships and foreign -going sailing ships carrying passengers shall be required to furnish lifeboat accom- modation for all on board. The lifeboat equipment, which has beet' increased, must be in the boats as. soor 'us the ship leaves the harbor: and t'ere remain throughout the voyage. The number of persons to° be carried in each boat must be marked on it. popionwel Whenever you feel a headache owning on take NA.DRU-CO Headache Wafers They stop headaches promptly and surely. Do not contain opium, morphine, phenacetin, acetanilid or other dangerous drugs, 25c. a box at your Druggist's. 125 NATIONAL DRUG AND. CHEMICAL CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED. oP ICES OF FARM PRODUCTS ORTB FROM TI4E LEADING TRA13$ CENTRES OF AMERICA. eee of Cattle, Drain, Cheese and Othot Produce at Name and Abroad. BREADSTUFF'S. Toronto, Sept. 104 -Flour -Winter wheat, per cent, patents, $3.75 to $3.80 for new, o.b. mills, and at $3.90 to $3.95 for old mills, Manitoba flours (these quo - stations are for jute bags, in cotton bags loo `more) -First patents, $5.70; second patents, $5.20, and strong bakers', $5, on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat -Feed wheat, 65 to 66c. Bay ports. Ontario Wheat -No. 2 white, red and railced, 97 to 980, outside; new wheat, 93 to 94c, outside. Oats -New oats. 40 to 420 here, and old at: 43 to 440, Toronto. No. 2 W. C. oats are firm at 47o, Bay ports. Peas --Nominal. Barley -58 to 63c, outside. Corn -No. 2 American yellow 841.2c, on track, Bay ports, and at 89e, Toronto;' No. 3, 881-20, Toronto, and at 83 1-2c, Bay ports. Rye -Nominal. Buckwheat -Nominal. Bran -Manitoba bran, $22, in bags, To- ronto freight. Shorts, $23. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter -Dairy, choice, 25 to 26c; bakers', inferior, 21c; choice dairy, tubs, 23 to 24c; creamery, 27 to 28c for rolls„ and 26 to 261.2c for solids. Eggs -Case lotsof new laid, 26 to 270 per dozen; fresh, 24c. Cheese -New cheese, 141.4 to 14 1-2o for Iarge, and 141-2 to 14 3.4c for twins. Beans -Hand-picked, $3 per bushel; primes, $2.90. Honey -Extracted, in tins, 111.2 to 121-2e per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, $2.- 25 2.25 to $3, wholesale. Poultry -Wholesale prices of choice dressed poultry: -Chickens, 16 to 18c per ib.; hens, 13 to 14c; ducklings, 14 to 15c. Live poultry, about 2c lower than the above. Potatoes -Canadian, new, $1.00 to $1.10 per bag. PROVISIONS. Bacon -Long clear, 141-2 to 143.4o per lb., in ease lots. Pork -Short cut, 824.50 to 825; do., mess, $21.50. Hams -Medium to light, 17 to 1712c; heavy, 151-2 to 160; rolls, 131-2 to 133.4c; • breakfast bacon, 181.2c; backs, 20 to 20 1-2o. Lard -Tierces, 13 1-20; tubs, 133.40; pails, 140. BALED HAY AND STRAW. Baled Hay -No. 1 new hay, $12 to $13, on track, Toronto; No. 2, $10 to $11; clover, mixed, $8 to $9. Baled Straw -$10 to $10.50, on track, Toronto. •SULTAN O.F;ZA ZI'E The young Sultan of Zanzlar who is having a hard time of it keeping his 204 wives in luxury. e. CANADA'S FOREIGN TRADE.. Exports and Imports Both Show Jncr ease for Quarter -Year. A despatch from Ottawa says Official figures of exports and ine- ports for the fiscal quarter of the current fiscal year, namely, to June 30th, show a total of Canadian trade of $237,1'12,779, an increase of $55,332,291 over the corresponding period of last year. Imports for the quarter, exclusive of coin and bullion, totalled $152,975,545, as against $117,199,627, and exports $76,266,776, as against $54,624,400 for the first quarter of 1911. 44 SHOT WIFE IN QUARREL. Peterboro Man Feigned Sloei When Later Arrested. Y' f A despatch from Peterboro sayer' Following a quarrel in their hom on Aylmer Street on Muncie, morning, William Leal secured hi rifle and shot his wife, the bullet- striking ulletstriking the woman in the • left cheek. He was arrested in his room feigning sleep. The,woinan will ill - Dover unless complications set in. t "ISA -DRU -001 DYSPEPSI. • TABLETS Proved of Great Value to Nilo" There is only one explanation fortb numbers of enthusiastic letters that w receive praising Na-Dru-Co Dyspeps Tablets, and that is that these table certainly' do cure any kind of stoma: trouble. Mere is a typical letter from Mi Eliza Armsworthy, Canso, N.S.: "It is with pleasure T write • to info you that your Na-Dru-Co Dyspeps Tablets have proved of great value;, nae. 1 tried remedy after remedy without any lasting good. FI >';'iig he of your tablets curing sue ; cases mine I decided to give themm' a fair tr They proved satisfactory in my cas The remarkable success of Na-Drtt Dyspepsia Tablets is such a.success can only come to an honest reitie compounded according to an exiepti ally good formula, from. pure ing dients, by expert chetnists. If,'yotz troubled with your stomach Bast your Druggist about lea-Dru- Dys epsia Tablets, compounded by National Dru-gand Chemical to. Canaria, Lhnited, and sold throtiglio ti, the Dominioe at 5oc. a box. 14 !,tontreal, Sept. 10.-Oats-Oanadian Wes- tern, No. 2,: 491-2 to 50o; do.,. No. 3, 48 to 481-2a;- extra No. 1 feed, 49 to 491 -Se. Bar- ley -Manitoba' feed, 60 to 63c; malting, 75 to 80e. Buckwheat -No. 2; 74 to 75o. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat patents, firsts, $5,80; do., seconds, $5.30; strong bakers', $5.10; Winter patents, choice, $5.25; straight rollers, $4.85 to $4.90; do., in bags, $2.25 to $2.30. Rolled oats -Barrels, $4.- 80; bag of 90 lbs., $2.27 1-2. Millfeed - Bran, $22; shorts, $26; middlings, $28; =online, $30 •to $34. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $15 to $15.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 141.8 to 141.40; do., easterns, 131.2 to 140. Butter -Choicest creamery, 27 to 271-4c; seconds, 26 to 261.4c. Eggs -Selected, 28 to 29e; No. 2 stock, 19 to 20c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, 85 to 90c. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Sept. 10.-Wheat-Septem- ber, 0: Wheat -Septem- ber, 87 7.80; December, 901.00; May, 94 3.4 to 94 7.80; No, 1 hard, 90 3.8c; No. 1 North- ern, 88 7.8 to 89 7-8c; No. 2 Northern, 84 7-8 to^86 7.8c- No. 3 yellow corn, 751-2 to 76c, No. 3 white oats, 30 to 301.2c, No. 2 rye, 621-2 to 63 1-2c. Bran, $19.50 to $20. sec- E p tent , p$4.30t 10 $$4.65; first? clears, $3.30 to $3,60; secdnd clears, $2.40 to $2,70. Duluth, Sept. 'ie. -Wheat -No. 1 .North- ern, 903480; No. 2 Northern, 873.80; Sep- tember, 90 3-8o; 'December, 901-2 to 90 5.80; May, 95 1-4e bid. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Sept. 10. -The best steers were sold at $6.50, and from that down to $4.50 per cwt. The top price realized for cows Was $5.50, and from that to $3.50 per cwt.. Good bulls sold at $2.50 to $3.50 per cwt. Lambs sold at $6 to 56.25 per cwt. Ewes brought $4 to $4.25 per cwt. The market for good to choice calves was , stronger, and sales were made at from $8 to $12, and the lower grades at from $3 to 56 eaoh. A stronger feeling prevailed in the market for hogs, and prices ruled higher t $2,75 to $9 per cwt, for soleoted lets, sighed off cars. ,toronto, Sept. 10. -Medium butchers told at $5.75 to $6.25; common, $5 to 55.55; 'good heavy caws, $5 to $5,50; medium, $4 'to $5; common, $2.50 to '53.50. Market closed strong. Hogs- Seloet lots sold at $0.60 to $8.76; rough at 57.25, Sheep and lambs -Lambs sold at 56 59 to 86.76; light sheep at 54.25 to $4,75; heavy sheep and buoks at $3 to $3.60. Calves -Good veal calves sold at $8 to $9; common calves, $3 to $4. tN SEWAGE IN OTTAWA WATER. Report of Engineers Regarding In- take Shows Bad Conditions. A despatch from Ottawa says: The engineers who examined Otta- wa water intake presented their re- port at the judicial enquiry on Wed- nesday. The document reveals conditions of a most shocking na- ture. Faulty construction is shown in the concrete work, and many joints of the steel pipe were found gaping widely, allowing se wage from a 12 -inch sewer which paral- lels, the clear water pipe to perco- late in. Aside from this report, the most important evidence before Judge Gunn was that of the medi- cal health officer, Dr. Shirreff. Al- though warned by the city bacteri- ologist at various periods from May to July that the water was showing signs of contamination, he did not issue the public warning against the use of the water until July 9, de- pending on increased doses of hy- drochloric to purify it. The fever outbreak began on July 10. WHOOPING -COUGH RAGING. Fifty-four Deaths in Toronto in Five Months. A despatch from Toronto says:. Whooping-cought has carried off fifty-four children in this city in the past five•montths. There were four- teen deaths from this disease last month alone: six in July, fourteen in June, eleven in May, and nine in April. In the past five months there have been thirty-two deaths from scarlet fever, usually regard- ed as a much more dangerous dis- ease than whooping -Dough. Dr. Hastings, City 1Vledical Health Offi- cer, advises prompt precautions in eases of whooping -cough, which he regards as an exceedingly danger- ous thing. ARTHUR • OF-` CONNAU"GRT. Rumored That He May Be Created Duke of York. A despatch from London says: The Pall Mall Gazette of Friday evening states that Prince Arthur of Connaught will receive a signal honor in the shape of a Dukedom on his return from Japan. It is probable the title, which will carry a seat in the House of Lords, will be the Duke of Kent. AUGUST SHOWED INCREASE. The Ontario Succession Duties Ad- vanced $5,000. A despatch from Toronto says: Succession duties received by the Ontario Government for August this year totalled $49,340.26, which is $5,299.20 in excess of receipts for August, 1911. For' the past ten months up to August 31, the dues from succession totals $670,546.41. During the first ten months last year $891,294.37 was received, showing a decrease in the present year so far, of $220,747.96. oe The new Imperial copyright bill before the British Parliament is to be redrafted so as to protect Cana- dian authors and publishers. Robert Desmond, a young Eng- lishman, was electrocuted at Lind- say by Doming in contact with a hanging live wire of the Light, Heat & Power Co. - .000 MEN DISTRIBUTED re are Needed for Harvest in the West, But the Weather is Helping. espatch from Winnipeg says: '-live thousand harvesters actually been distributed over vheat; fields, is the statement. e by S. Bruce. Walker on Thurs.. orning in answer to a query r 25,000 harvesters head the city during the harves- acuusion4s. needed fifty thousand, and etuand cannot be supplied•this The weather eondltions are Ing /natters considerably, as -' rotas are not all in a condition e reaped. In the sections e the ;crops ere ready the her - ors are all busy, and when the other districts are ready I' am going to urge the railroads to provide transportation for harvesters who finished to the points where most help is needed. It is the only way left for its now in order to save thousands and thousands of dollars for the farmers. Of course, out of the large number of men who came from the east -on harvesters' tickets a large number never saw fields, and just took advantage of the cheap rate to the west. Next year we must overborne this in some way and have the harvesters selected in the east before our crop is ready. Just how this can be done the fu- ture will tenfold." 11E. NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH LIAPPI NI GS FROM ALL 'OVER4 THE GLOBE INA NUTSHELL.. Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before Your Eves. CANADA. • Frostsin andAlbraertain; have damaged the crop Chemong Paik Hotel, near Peter- pborn', was destroyed by fire; More encouraging conditions for the crop are reported from Western oints. George Drapeau was killed in a collision of rigs on the Beauport road, near Quebec. Toronto issued building permits to the amount of almost $4,000,000 in August, making a new reoond. Geo. P. Phillips, in East Zorra, dropped dead just after hurrying in a load of oats daring the storm Thursday evening. Five men sentenced to capital punishment have been temporarily reprieved owingto pressure of Cabinet Council business. The British Columbia. Govern- ment has voted $5,000 towards a monument to mark the centenary of Sir George Cartier's birth. The Hamilton Temperance Feder- ation will draft a petition asking the City Council to reduce the tav- ern licenses from 60 to 30, and the shop licenses from 15 to. 10. Thos. Craig, foreman at the Bri- tish -Canadian Power Company's plant at Matabickchoun Falls, Montreal River, was perhaps fatal- ly shot by a workman in a quarrel. John C. Britnell of Belleville died while sitting at a meal in his home, Robert McEwen of Stratford, G.T.R. brakeman, was almost in- stantly killed at the Owen Sound yards. The body of Wm. Morrison was found in the River Scugog at Lind- say. He had been missing for weeks, and had apparently commit- ted suicide. GREAT BRITAIN. 0 1 Suffragettes were ejected from a Welsh meeting addressed by Mr. Lloyd George. The Trades Union Congress held in solWutionales in refavojected.r of Benthe Tillcointett's re.- _; ptilsory arbitration of labor'dh> aRteee. UNITED STATES. The United States adopted new Customs regulations designed • to facilitate entry of auto tourists from Canada. For the first time in ten years the Republican majority fell away , in Vermont, where the losses went mainly to the Progressives. GENERAL. The German Emperor arrived in Switzerland for the review of the Swiss troops. The Australian Anglican Synod resolved to demand self-govern- ment and freedom from British con trot. NEW BRITISH BATTLESHIP. *Till Be the Most Powerful Vessel in the World. A despatch from Portsmouth, England, says : The most powerful battleship yet ordered is to be laid down here in November by the Bri- tish Admiralty. She is to be 700 feet in length and is to displace 30,- 000 tons, while her high-powered turbine engines are to develop a speed of 29 knots. It is reported that the new vessel is to be armed with 14 -inch guns, the first tried in the British navy. REWARD FOR JACK BENNETT. Attorney -General's Department Of- fers the Sunt of $200. A despatch from Brantford says A reward of $200 has been offered for the capture of Jack Bennett, wanted here for the murder of Em- ily Antone at Middleport a few weeks ago. The reward 1s offered by the Attorney -General's Depart- ment. CURE FOR SPINE CURVATURE. Surgeon Inserted Leg Bone Into a Girl's Vertebrae. A despatch from Philadelphia says: A remarkable cure of curva- ture of the spine is ennouneed at the Methodist Hospital here. The case isthat of Adele Weinerg, a young girl hunchback. The sur- geon retuoved part of one of the Lumbar vertebrae found to be dis- eased, and in its place used a sec- e, tion of leg bone. The plaster cast' in which the child was encased fol r' lowing the operation has now been removed .and she is as ercet as though her spine had been "ornial sinee birth.