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The Herald, 1912-09-19, Page 3ne, n. �0- ,e, tie n. 311 le 0- 0. d• to LS tt a ;- v k y. t t.. 7 i 5 UIT SIIOULD BE GRADED pecial rlarket Commissioner at Winnipeg ' Says Care Must Be Taken. A despatch €rorty Toronto says: Competition for the fruit trade of Western Canada is so keen that Mr. James Parnell, Special ' Market Commissioner at Winnipeg, in a re- port issued on Thursday, warns On- tario shippers that only the very best must be offered if they expect to control the market. Ontario fruits are acknowledged to be bet- ter quality than British Columbia shimn•ents, but shipments from the Pacific Province and the western States show excellent stock, well graded and packed, which reaches the market in a splendid oonclition. Mr. Parnell suggests that prices far apples are likely to decline. Good sales are reported in the country, but city buyers are mak- ing light purchases in the hope of cheaper prices later on. "With the keen competition between east and west it looks as if the growere will have to take lower pricee. Ship- pers shouldexercise great care in packing their apples, as there is an extra' staff of inspectors on, who are examining carefully each ship- ment, and all shipments should come up to the 'fruit market act.' "Many of our Ontario growers are shipping out fruit that will hold its own with the best of quality, pack and condition on arrival. In other cases, however, too little at- tention is being paid tograding and packing, •some varieties of plums and peaches being shipped here that will not hold up and are arriving in bad shape, which has a tendency to lower the prices of fruit coming in right." Mr. Parnellstates that the mar- ket has been crowded all week .with foreign fruit, which has caused quite a drop in prices, CANADA LOST /PALMA TROPHY An Accident to One of the Riflemen the Cause. A despatch from Ottawa says : The United States retains the Pal- ma Trophy, emblematic of interna- tional -championship in rifle shoot- ing. Saturday's match at Rockliffe Ranges was a hard one for the Ca- nadians to lose. It was without doubt the most exciting and evenly contested team match ever fought out there and with each team mak- ing over 1,700 points, the small margin 'of eight points separated them, with Canada at the losing end. It was anybody's match from start to finish. There was no great difference between them as on the Last occasion, when the Americans ran away with the honors. Sat- urday the teams were so evenly matched that the result was decid- ed by one piece of bad luck which befell the Canadians. It happened in the 900 yards range, when Sergt. Kelly, of the 10th Royal Grena- diers, Toronto, one of Canada's very best crack shots, broke, drop- ping 13 points in one range, and 'helped to convert' Canada's lead f' (which at the completion of half of the "shooting at that distance, was three points) into an American lead at the end of this range of seven points. It happened in this way : The riflemen in this match are permit- ted to fire two shots each into the ground before starting each dis- tance. While doing this some dirt flew into Sergt. Kelly's right eye. In getting it out he irritated the organ so mush that he decided he had better protect it with an Orth- optic. He shot the range with this orthoptic on and only made 62 points out of 75 and was nine points below any other Canadian on the range. It was only then learned that the orthoptic was badly bent and had given the wrong perspec- tive all the time. During the luncheon hour he gave his eye a rest and came back in the 1,000 yards with a score of 70 out of 75 and in the 800 had made 73 out of 75. It was, therefore, clear that his unfortunate accident had at least cost the Canadians seven or eight points. ' Without this acci- dent it is very doubtful who would have won the match. The final score was :—United States, 1,720; Canadians, 1,712. Judge D. J, Donahue, Senior Judge of Renfrew county, died at Homewood Sanitarium, Guelph, on Friday., ` CONDOR'.CHARLIE. Lord Charles Beresford 'Are prophesying the crack of deomeai is as firmly convinced as vei^ ;tl' there is no hope for the navy .0 things are done exactly as sires. Lord Charles is the se of the Marquis of Waterfo his earliest ambitions were ed towards the navy. On t thirteenth birthday, . the called his eon into his stud UTI: TO DEAD EMPEROR, EOR , Famous General, and His Wife, Commit Suicide.. etch from Tokio, says : Out Maresuke Nogi, Su- y' Councillor of the his wife, the Couutess itted suicide on Friday eordancc with the an- ese custom, as their e to their departed Em- `friend, Mutsuhito. The by their own hands of the eneral and his wife was as as it was sad. The Gen his throat . with. a 'short and the ,Countess committed ri. Following the Samurai the couple had .carefully 3 their plans for killing Ives and timed them so that ouj, l be coincident with. the ur•e forever from Tokio of the peret. IRE FIEND AT WORK. r Factory and Sawmill De- stroyed at Parry Sound. despatch from Parry Sound Shortly after noon on Wed - es, y fire was discovered in the veneer factory and sawmill r' jointly by George Neibergall on and the Niagara Veneer & asket ompany, and when discov- er -ed th` ames, in the absence .of the wor nen, made such headway that not ng could be done to save the prop sty.' . In addition to the veneer and basket factory and saw- . there was large drying sheds,. n dryer and a quantity of lum- and finished veneer ready for nient. Almost everything in the s was destroyed with the ex- am of some hardwood logs. The e• I's estimated at 1100,000, with usuranoe of $25,000, and will throw bout thirty men out of work. FIELD CROP PRIZES. Western Ontario Men Are Among the Principal Winners. DROWN IN SHALLOW WATER. Boys Failed to Swim Thirty Feet to Shore. A despatch from Chicago says: Twelve boy recruits at the United States Naval Ttraining School in North Chicago were drowned and thirteen more are unconscious and probably will not recover as the result of their boat being tossed by a storm on Lake Michigan on Sunday. With a complement of 29 persous, under command of Chief Gunner's Mate William Negus, the boat apparently hit a sand bar within 30 feet of the shore, and, although all but one of the 29 on board could swim, none got ashore without assistance, and four of them were only revived by use of the pulmotor. • Eye -witnesses of the accident are unable to explain just what hap- pened. When the boat, storm tossed in such a way that most of the boy soldiers were made seasick, had made some distance out into the lake, Negus, who was in com- mand, decided to return, and when about 30 feet from the shore, threw out his anchor. Then, finding there °was :buts ' enc lyoyr~ eu hoard Who coitld not • swim, he started ashore with this youth, in water which a survivor declares, did ,not seem to be over his head. Both disappeared and .neither body was recovered for several hours. William Stanley, one of those saved, said :—"We left the station about 1.45 in the afternoon. We were not ordered out, but were given permission to take the sail. The water was exceedingly rough and most of the boys were so new to water experience that they be- :oame helplessly seasick after we had gone perhaps half a mile from the shore. tF O1R LADY OF THE SNOWS. Sir Percy Girouard Tells )low Peo- ple Abroad Regard Canada. • A despatch from Montreal says : Sir Percy Girouard, formerly Gov- ernor of British East Africa, is in Canada on a visit. "I am afraid Our Lady of the Snows is a back number so far as the popular imagi- nation is concerned. A great change has come over opinion abroad in regard to• Canada," he said in an interview. "People no longer think of it as a polar oountry. They now regard it in the true light, as a land where there are greater agri- cultural opportunities than any- where in the United States, and as a country with one of the finest cli- mates in the world." BRITAIN BEST CUSTOMER Exports of the Dominion to the United Kingdom Last Year Worth Over $150,000,000. A despatch from Ottawa says: Corrected customs for the year end- ing March 31, 1912, 'show that the aggregateforeign -trade of the country was $874,637,794, made up of •exports ' of $315,317,250, and im- ports of $559,320,544. The total duty collected was $87,576,036, as compared with $73,312,367 in 1910. The United Kingdom was the best eustomer of Canada, taking $151,- 853,413 of her exports, The United Strobes took $.120,534,634. Other countries to which Canadian goods were exported were: West Indies, 86,900,940; South America, • $4,- 625,030; Newfoundland, $4,284.313; ,Australia, . ,03,947,4L ; Germany, $3,819,914; Belgium, $3,732,222; France, $2,123,705. Canada bought most heavily from the United States, her imports from that country being '$356,354,478; those from Great Britain were $116,907,022, while those from other countries were : Prance, $11,7444,- 664; Germany, $11,090,005; "South America, $10,533,310; West Indies, $8,4.90,879; Switzerland, $3.458,006; Belgium, $3,686,419; China and Ja- pan, $3,112,982. Of the duty col- lected $49,177,584 came from the United States, and $22,36'7,069 from Great . Britain. The percentage of duty on all goods imported for co•n sumptioii was 16. Lord Charles 1Seresford. asked him whether he had any de- sire to enter a profeseion. "I'm going into the navy l" h replied. "And why the navy?" inqui: the Marquis. "Because I'd like to be an admi al like Nelson." "Psbaw ! like Nelson," exclaim ed his father. "But even if y join the navy, why, do you think you'll become an admiral?"` "Because I mean to 1" replied young Beresford. ►L FATAL DERRICK ACCIDENT,. Three Bien Killed, Five Injured, Sonie of Whom May Die. A despatch from Halifax says: Three men are dead and five are in- jured, as a result of an accident' at the Woodside Sugar Refinery on Thursday morning. A derrick arm snapped in two, precipitating .st: number. -of -men sixtyfeet to the, ground amongs aa whirl of .fly. steel, wood {i, °re Three the •h 4- ..were in`t' aiiif killed. Their' panres are dames Hitchcock, Daniel Young and James Dougan. • One or two of the injured may die. • a. NEW STEAMER BRITANNIC. Titanio's Successor Can Float With Six Compartments Flooded. A despatch from Ottawa says : lieselts in the vegetable field crop soniietition conducted at the Do- minion Fair here by the Ontario Vegetable Growers' Association . were announced on Thursday, Wes- -tern :Ontario men being the princi- pal winners. H. Hurrell, Humber Bay,"won third prize for celery; F. Reeves, Humber Bay, won fifth for celery, first for Onions and r tomatoes. •, Elford, ay • iftiOnt6assevd0Ptitte,:ixar• and first kir toinao.oes. '•;McGowan, Scarboro, won. first pi•i'e for grain in sheaf. James Renrtiie, Milliken, was second in sp'rzng wheat in sheaf and threshed, and:W. G. Rennie, Ellesmere, .was first for threshed oats. P. W. 13,0yiiton and Son, Dollar, won se- eoi'tl prize for threshed spring what. A despatch from Liverpool says: The White " Star Company an- nounces that its new 50,000 -ton steamer will be named Britannic. It will have a 'complete inner skin, and the bulkheads will be =areas- i. A despatch from Wytheville, Vir- ed. 'It will be capable of floating . ginia, says: Floyd Allen and his with six compartments flooded. nephew, Claude, two leaders of the gang that shot up the Hillsville RIGHT HOME. 'courthouse, were brought into -court here on Thursday and sen - Doctor Reconilnends Postum 0(141tenced to be electrocuted on No - Personal Test. 'Iventber 22nd. They were found No one is be ter able to retiliia. guilty of murder in the first degree � several weeks ago. the injurious action of caffeine --4.. the drug in coffee—on the . heart, than the doctor. Tea is just asy harmful as coffee because it, too, contains the drug caffeine. When the doctor himself has been relieved by simply leaving off cof fee and using Postum, he can re- fer with full conviction to his ow Case. ,A Mo. physician prescribes 1' z tum for many of his patients he cause he was benefited by it. says: "I wish to add my testimony regard to that excellent preparatio —Postum. I have had funeti iu or nervous heart trouble for, �k 15 years, and a part of the tim unable to attend to my busing' "I was a moderate user of and .did not think drinking me: ' But on stopping it and? Posture instead, my heart ha all right, and I ascribe it change from coffee to Postu "I am prescribing it naw in of sickness, 'especially when does not agree, or affects they; nerves or stomach. "When made right it has, a; better flavor . than coffee, a: vital sustainer of the syn shall continue to recenes e our people, and I have ai to refer to," Name given" dian Postum Co., Windso Read the little book, "The Wellville," in pkgs. "The: reason." PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS REPORT)/ PROM THE LEAPING TRAPS CONTRES OF AMERICA. Prices et Cattle, Grain, Ch6see .*nu 0t$m# Produce at Hume and Atwood. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Sept, 17.--Flour—Winter wheat, 90 per cent. patents, $3.76 to $3.80 for new, fo,b. mills, and at $3.90 to $3.96 for old, f.o.b. mills. • Manitoba flours (these ano- tations are for jute bags, in cotton bags 100 more), First patents, $5.70; second patents, 55,20, and strong bakers', 55, on track, Toronto, Manitoba . Wheat—No. 2 old Northern" quoted at 51.10 to $1.101-2, Bay ports. Feed Wheat, 65 to 66o, Bay ports. Ontario Wheat—No. 2 white, rod and mixed,. 97 to 98o, outside; new wheat, 93 to 94o, outside. Oats—New No. 2 oats quoted at 41 to 42e here, and old at 451-2 to 46c, Toronto.. No. 2 W. 0, oats, 47c, Bay ports. Peas—Nominal. Barley—No, 3 nominal at 60 to 65e, out- side. No. 3 extra, 58c, and No. 3, 55e, out- side. Corn—No. 2 American yellow, 84c, on track, Bay ports, and at 88c, Toronto; No. 3, 87c Toronto, and at 83c, Bay ports. Rye -65 to 70e per bushel, Buckwheat—Nominal. Bran—Manitoba bran,22 to $23, in bags, Toronto freight. :Shorts, $26. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter—Dairy roils, choice, 25 to 26c; bakers', inferior, 21o; choice dairy, tuba, 23 to 240; creamery, 27 to 28c for rolls, and 26 to 27c for solids. Eggs—Case lots of new -laid, 26 to 270 per dozen; fresh, 24o. Oheese—New. cheese, 141-4 to 14 1-2o for large, .and 141-2 to 14 3-4e for twins. Beans—Brand-pinked, $3 per bushel, Primes, $2.90. Honey—Extracted, in tine, 111.2 to 12 1-2c per lb. for No. 1, wholesale; combs, 52.26 to $3, wholesale. Poultry --Wholesale prices of choice dressed poultry:—Chickens, 16 to 180 per lb.; hens, 13 to 14e; ducklings, 14 to 150. Live poultry, about 20 lower than the above. Potatoes -90c per bag. PROVISIONS. Bacon—Long clear, 141.2 to 14 3.4e Per lb., in case lats. Pork—Short cut, $24.50 to $25; do., mess, $21.50. Hams—Medium to light, 17 to 17 1-20; heavy, 151-2 to 16c; rolls, 14 to 141-2c; breakfast bacon, 181-2e; backs, 20 to 201-2c. Lard—'Pierces, 131 -lac tubs. 13 3-40; pails, 14c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. TWO OUTLAWS TO DIE. -Floyd and Claude Allen Sentenced to the Electric Chair. THANKSGIVING, OCTOBER 28. Date Recommended by State De- pertment for This Year. A despatch from Ottawa says: Although the formal.Order in Coun- cil fixing the date for Thanksgiving Day this fall has not yet been pass ed, it is understood that the date recommended by the State Depart- ment is Monday, October 28th,' and s,proclaraation will be issued short Montreal, Sept. 17.—oats—Canadian Western, No. 2, 491-2 to 50c; do., No. 3, 48 to 48 1-20; extra No. 1 feed, 49 to 491-20. Barley Manitoba feed, 60 to 65c; malt- ing, 76 to 80c. Buckwheat—No. 2, 74 to 75c. Flour—Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, /irate, 55.80; do., seconds, 55.30; strong bakers', $5.10; Winter patents, choice, $5.25; straight rollers, $4.85 to $4: 90; do., in bags, 52.25 to $2.30. Rolled oats —Barrels, 54.80; bag of 90 lbs., $2.271-2, Millfeed—Bran, $23; shorts, $27; mid- dlings, $28 to 529; mouillie, $30 to $34. Hay No. 2, per ton, car lots, $15 to 515.50. Cheese—Finest westerns, 14 to 141-80; do., easterns, 131-2 to 13 7.8c. Butter—Choicest creamery, 27 to 271.4e; seconds, 251.2 to 260. Eggs—Selected, 28 to 290; No. 2 stock. 19 to 20o. Potatoes—Per bag, car lots, 75 to 80o. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Sept. 17—Wheat-September, 85 340; December, t -9a; May, : 931-8 to 931-40;. Ng, 1 herd `iii9.4c; No. 1 North- olkt", ;45.012174 :. Aiik' ., •K4 rtbcr ,.-8 1.4 to 861.4c,.' No,,:.3','ye 41v7 corn. 721.1c; ` o. 3 .white oats, 30 to 301•„u. No. 2'rye, 61 -10 63e. Bran. 520. Flours—First patents, $4.35' to $4.65; second patents.•$4.20 to $4.55; first clears. $3,20 to $3.60; second clears, $2.30 to $2.60. Duluth, Sep. 17.—Wheat, No. 1 hard, 901-8o; No. 1 Northern, 891-80; No. 2 Northern, 871.80; September, 88 1-8c asked; December, 881.40; May, 93 1-8e asked. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Sept. 17.—Prime beeves about 63.4; medium, 43.4 to 61-2; common, 3 to 41-2. Milch cows, $30 to $70 each; calves, 3 to 63.8; sheep about 4 cents; lambs about 6 cents; hogs, 81-2 to 83-40. Toronto September 17. •— Choice -- Choice Choice butcher, 56.50 to 56.75; good medi- um, $5.60 to 56.25; common, $4.50 to $5; cows, $3 to 55.50; bulls, 53 to 54.50; can- ners, 52 to $3. Calves—Good veal, 58 to $8.60; Common, $3.50 to $6. Stockers and feeders, 500 to 900 lbs., $4.25 to $5.60. Milk- ers and springers, $50 to $76. Sheep and lambs—From 25c to 50c lower; light ewes, 54 to 54 50; heavy ewes, $3 to $3.50; lambs, and $8 3 2 to $8.Hogs—$8.75 0 f o.b fed and watered 9: SHIPBUILDING PLANT. To Build Sailing Vessels at Coquit- lam for London Trade. A despatch from Vancouver says : Real work on the new $500,000 ship- building plant at Coquitlam began on Wednesday. According to speci- fications, it will be the most com- prehensive on the mainland, for, although ships of from 300 to 800 tons will be the principal output at the start, the officials expect to enlarge the plant after the open- ing of the Panama Canal. Eight and one-half acres have been se- cured. '.TIMATE OFWESTER CROP P.'s • -Report 'Shows 179,828,000 Bushels of Wheal, Half of Which is Harvested. •detpatch from Montreal says: ording to- figures • •compiled by Grand ,Trunk Pacific the west - wheat crop this .year, will reach ;'828;000 bushels.. Their report wt, -that. -an average of over 50 c ot, of the grain had al' ea dy arsosted, but the work has eatly delayed` from one end rrairiet to the other by heavy e In :several laces it is re- cited that the early eat grain has `un to sprout, but in .the major - of districts no damage has yet xn done to it. Thrashing has ebt . +,t, commenced, and in some flaws is feared that unless the weather rs a promising ,'crop is going to Ever read the elicits letter'? A ne appears from time to time, 1115 genul;ia, trite, and full of Ullman 101' THE NEWS IN A PARAGRAPH HAPPENIiN'GS F1fOM ,JL ,OVEN' THE GLOBE Ill A NUTSHELL, Canada the Empire and the Worh) in General Before Your Eves. CANADA. Many Toronto children died from whooping -cough last month. Fred. Staples, G.T.R.' yard help- er at Belleville, was crushed to death between cars. Sir Hugh Montague Alton has re- tired from the Directorate of the Allan Steamship Line. Heland Wright, a farmer of Glen Sutton, was killed by a train near Sherbrooke, Que., on Friday. Over four hundred students are taking eupplemrental •examinations at the University of Toronto. ' The. Department of Education an- nounced the establishment of a four-year course in agriculture. • Archie Ferguson was caught on the belt of a feeder and drawn to almost instant death on a farm in Athol township, Rev. Nicholas Boodles of Galicia has been appointed Bishop of the Rutheaiian (Greek) Catholics in Western Canada. George Goodnow suffered .fright- ful, and possibly fatal, burns in en- deavoring to prevent the explosion of a gasoline tank at Belleville. Chas. F. Walsh, a Curtiss biplan- ist, had a narrow escape at Halifax Exhibition, when his machine crash- ed down on to a cattle shed. Thos. Fitzpatrick was killed when a water turbine at the, Shawinigan Company's plant, Montreal, burst and flooded the building on Friday. Fifty thousand dollars' loss was caused by the destruction of the Patterson Manufacturing Com- pany's plant and stock by fire at St. Boniface, Man. be badly damaged. There 't as been no frost to hurt. The yield gener- ally is a large one. • Estimates carefully prepared by experts for the company place the total crop as follows: Whew, 10,- 584,000 acres, at 17 bushels per acre; 179, 828, 000 bushels; oats, 5,245,000 acres, at 42 bushels per acre, '320,- 290 000 bushels; barley, 1,500,000 acres, at 32 ,bushels per acre, 48, _ Fighting to release his p ab:a 000 060; flax, 1,111 000 asset. at, 11 the aexobaut ruins ca.141413 up i". GREAT BRITAIN. Lloyd's Bank agreed to advance China $50,000,000 for forty years at 5 per cent. interest. Truth announced that Sir George Murray has been engaged to reor= ganize the administrative depart - tints of the Canadian Govern- ment. In a triangular bye -election eon- test—in which Laborites opposed the Liberal condidate—the .Union-• ists wen the Midlothian seat o for - y �„ afted held:b !dat- UNITED STATES. Loiterers. on the- "Great White Way," New York, after midnight will be arrested. Wild rioting took place in Du- luth on Friday, where the street car service is suspended owing to a. strike. Heavy damage was caused by lightning and hall during a violent storm in eastern New York and western Connecticut. GENERAL. The imposing funeral rites over the remains of the late Mikado were carried on with old-time cere- monials on Friday. AMERICANS STILL COMING. 175,000 Will have Crossed Into Canada by End of Fiscal Year. A despatch from Ottawa says : According to W. J. White, who re- turned on Wednesday from an In- spection of Canadian immigration agencies in the United States, the American influx to the West is con- tinuing at a rate unprecedented. Mr. White estimates that in the current fiscal year 175,000 people will cross the border. They are not settling in particular localities or any one province, he says. but are scattering everywhere that good land is available. Mr. White speak optimistically of the crops. LIFTED BY BLAZING BALLOON Aeronaut, 2,000 Feet tp, Cut Loos .lust in, the Nick of Time. A despatch from Toledo, Ohio says: Hundreds of terrorized spec tabors on the county fair ground on Thursday watched the figh against death made by Frank Ar strong, an aeronaut, n -hen he w carried 2,000 feet into the air by blazing balloon. Armstrong w preparing to make an Catensi and was straightening out his par chute rigging waren the ballo caught fire and his helpers let g bushels per acre, 12,210,000 bushels. The total wheat crop last year was 177,109,000 bushels, so that this year's estimate places the yield at between two and three million bush- els in excess ofthat of last year. tangle of ropes. Ile eacceeded cutting loose a moment before flames reached the parachute, the blazing balloon eollap Armstrong made a successful dr landing inside the :armee-track.