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Zurich Herald, 1920-11-04, Page 3SETTLEMENT OF BRITISH COAL STRIKE BELT:EVE I N SIGHT Miners' Leaders Again Confer With Government and New +Offer is Discussed—Unemployment Reduced by Every Possible Means. London, Oct, 2=4. --Fresh proposals mittees funned or representatives to end the coal strike were discussed of the Government, of the owners for two hours between Premier Lloyd and the miners. These committees George, Bonar Law and other mein- will ensure efficient pit equipment, bers of the British Cabinet, and a worlds conditions and production, delegation of the coal miners, headed It seems certain now that Smillie by Robert Smillie, at Dawning Street, is ready -for peace. In fact the parleys this morning. with the Government will be resumed The miners' delegates reported the to -morrow. This is aecepted as an result of the conference to the miners' omen that the general strike will be federation and the cecutivc heads of avoided and peace in the coal strike the unions this afternoon, It is under i$ po sible within a week. stood that the Premier has adhered By rationing and apportioning out to his refusal to increase the wages the cork at the plants, the tnanufae- of the miner, unless they guaranteed turas have been keeping down the an increased coal output. But a volume of unemployment, though settlement has been rendered much hundreds of thousands of men are more likely because at the sante time working on short time. The total he yielded to the miners in the. view number of those without work during i that they alone cannot send more coal the first week of the strike and as al to the surface unless the mine owners result of the strike v:as a quarter of are prevented from restricting work. a million. This difficulty seems easy of settle- During the corning week, all the ment as long as the Government guar- railroads will run greatly curtailed antees the shareholders fixed profits. serviced. The streets are already The settlement is likely to be on darkened, coal consumption has been, the basis that the output of coal frons limited, and preparations have been the mines will be supervised by cem- made for closing schools. GREEK KING 'VICTIM OF POLITICAL PLOT Hydrophobia Virus Injected into Pet Monkey That Bit Him. Milan, Italy, Oei. 24.—Dr. Georges Fernand Vidal, the French specialist, who passed through Rome to -day on the way home from Athens, where be was Called in consultation in the ill- ness of Bing Alexander of Greece, told Italian journalists that the Greek King had been the victim of a plot to assassinate him. Asserting that his investigations while in Athens had proved- to his satisfaction that the real truth of the' poisoning of the King had not been tcld, Dr. Vidal said that political en-. emies of the monarch, knowing that Tates, the monkey, whose bite poison Herbert Hoover Still Helps ed the king, was Alexanders favorite Troubled Europe pet, had inoculated the animal with Former Director -General of Relief: in germs of hydrophobia, in the diaboli- Europe for the Allies after the Armis- cal hope that it would go mad while tiee, who is visiting Canada on behalf the king was playing with it and bith of • the British Empire War Relief him—as it actually did. Fuud. He spoke at the Canadian Red The monkey had grown so tame and Cross diener at Toronto recently, domesticated that it had been allowed to wander at will about the park at the' it was that the plot against the king's palace. Gradually the animal showed life was revealed. sign, of ill -humor, and several •creeks When the symptoms of hydrophobia ago , it bit the king's foot viciously began to be more pronounced, then after trying to bite the monarch's only were energetic anti -rabies anti - favorite dog. dotes applied. The treatment came Alexander at first had no idea of almost too late. The king's life was the seriousness of the bite, Dr. Vidal despaired of. But, as the worst of still. It was only after the first symp- the crisis in his condition seems to toms of rabies began to be apparent have passed two days ago, Dr. Vidal that the physicians attending him be- said some hope was being entertained ;:tn to suspect the real cause. Then that h:is life would be saved. Meekly Market Report Wholesale Grain. Provisions—WhollesaIe. Toronto, Oct. 26.—Manitoba oatsa- Smoked meats—Hams, med., 47 to No. 2 CW, 73e; No. 3 CW, 67 ?!sc; 50e; heavy, 40 tee 42c; cooked, 64 to extra No. feed, 07c; No. 1 feed, 66c; 68e; rolls, 34 to 36e; cottage rolls, 41 No. 2 feed, 02c, in store Fort William. to 42e; breakfast bacon, 36 to 62e; Man, barky—No. 3 CW, $1.161; backs, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless:, 60 No. 4 CW, $1.13%; rejected, 83e; feed, to 64e. 85e. in store Fort William. Cured ineats--Long clear bacon 27 Manitoba wheat—No. 1 Northern, to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27c. y $2.36; No. 2 Northern, $2,27; No. 3 Lard—Pure, tierces, 30% to 31c; tubs, 31 to 811;;e; pails, 3111 to 311se; prints, 33 to 33%c. Compound tirces, 23%, to 24e; tubs, 2414 to 2414c; pails, 241•e to24gic; prints, 27 to 28c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Oct. 26-0ats, Can. West. Ontario wheat—No, 2 Winter, $2.05 No. 2, 96c; No. 3, 88r. Flour, new to $2.15; No. 2 Spning, $2 to $2.10; standard grade, $13. Rolled oats, bags, shipping points, according to freights. $4.20. Bran, $4.0.25. Shorts, $45,25. Peas—No. 2, nominal. Hay, No. 2, per ton, $33. Cheese, Barley—•$1.12 to $1.17, according to finest easterns,22a ec, Butter, choicest freights outside. creamery, 56 to 57e. Eggs, 68e, Po- Buckwheat—No. 2, nominal. tatoes, per bag, car lots,$1.40. Rye—No. 3, $1.65, nominal, accord- Live Stock Markets. ing to freights outside. Toronto, Oct. 26. ---Choice heavy Manitoba flour—$12.50 top patents; $' ,good lteav steers $12 Government standard. steers ,14 to $1fi Y , Ontario flour— $9, bulk, seaboard. $12 in $13 butchers' cattle, choice, Millfeed--Car lots, delivered Mont-doto $13; do, good, $10,50 to $11.57; do,, med,, ie to $9; do, coo., $6 to .'1; hags fresghts, has included: Bran, per bulls choice $10 to 10.50; do, good, ton$40.25; sieuth,� per ton, $45.26; $9 to $9.25; do, rough, $6 to $8; but - good feed flour, $3.25. chars' cows, choice, $9,50 to $10; do, Country Produce—Wholesale. good, $8.25 to $9; do, coin., $6 to $7; Cheese—New, large, 28 to 29c; feeders, best, $10.25 to $11.25; do, 900 twins, 29 to 30e; triplets, 29% to lbs., $9.75 to $10.25; do, 800 lbs., $D 30%c; old, large, 33 to 34ce do, twins, to $9.50; do, corn., $7 to $8.50; canners 83% to 34%e. and cutters, $4.50 to $5.50; milkers, .Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to good to choice, $100 to $165; do, coo. 60c; creamery, prints, 58 to 61e. and med., $65 to $75; lambs, yearling, Margarine -35 to 38c. $8.75 to $10; do, spring, $11 to $11.50; Eggs --No. 1, 61 to 65e; cartons, 72 calves, good to choice, $18 to $18.50; to 74e; selects, 68 to 70c.. sheep, $3.50 to $7; hogs, fed and wat- Beans-•-Canadian hand-picked, bus,, eyed, $20.25; do, weighed off cars, $4,25; primes, $3 to $3.25; Japans, $20.50; do, f.o.b., $19.25; do, do, conn - 4.75 to $5; Lianas, Madagascar, 11 to try points, $19. 2c; California Lintas 12 to 18c, Mozutreal, Oct., 26. --Butcher steers, Maple products--Syup, per imp. com., $6 to $8; butcher heifers, med., gal., $8.40 to $3.50; per. 5 in'zp. gals., $7 to $8.50; corn., $5 to $7; butcher $8.25 to $3.40. Maple sugar, lb., 27 cows, med., $5 to. $7; canners, $8 to (o 30e. ,$3.50; cutters, $4 to 4.50; butcher Honey -00, 80 -Ib. tins, 26 to 28c per bulls, cem., $4 to $5; good veal, $13 to lb. Ontario comb honey, at $7.50 per $14; med., $1.1 to $12.50; grass, $6.50 15 section ec:s:e; 5%, 23's -lb. tins, 28 to $7; ewes, $8 to $6.50; larnbs, good, to 20e por ib, $11 to $12; oom,, $8 to $10.50, Northern, $2.20; No. 4 wheat, $2.10%, in store Fort William. American corn—No. 3 yellow, $1,30, nominal, track, Toronto, prompt ship- ment. Ontario oats—No. 2 white, 04 to CR T LAv 1N-FOyRre i TVNg rlr 114,0" AN . T DONT Retie' k Nota weer h Pip Pay FOR n. - ti B.C. VOTES 75,964 FOR MODERATION Western Province Wants Gov- ernxnent Control of Liquor. trearri AUSTRIA NEARING END AS A NATION Starvationx and it Corrolaries Driving Country Out of A despatch from Vancouver Existence. Approximate totals show that 125,189 New York, Oct. 21.—The president says:— votes were polled in record.h Columbia of Austria has salary and emoluments yesterdays easily a ,964The lat- amountingto 100 000 .crowns a year. est T;pi:urns show 76,964 for modem- tion and 49,225 for prohibition, giving A suit of clothes costs him 20,000 a net moderation majority of 20,739. crowns, his total income for ten weeks. Although there are many districts If he and his family consume as much yet to be heard from, the vote in the as one kilogram (two pounds) of but - cities and towns is conclusive and de- cisivebe so fax as the fate of the Pro- andwork Nelson alone among the cities earn e. pair of ,:hoes of the bell ex gave meagre majorities for prohibt- grade. tion. All the others went for Gov- Back of this comparison of the sa,l- ernment oontrol by substantial maj- arY of the president with the things orities, in many cases there being two it will purchase is the story of a van - votes to one in favor. 'ishing nation. For Austria, heir to The city of Vancouver, which at all of the economic ills of the war, is the former referendum was strongly slowly tending toward the vanishing in favor of prohibition, gave a maj point under the pressure of starvation ority of 10,000 against the present , and its eorrolaries—d�ienase and an act. nereased death rate, a drop in the Both sides at the outset expressed productive energies of the people and rate. their fullest confidence, the prohibi-1a clecr easing is zscarceh There is an abso- tionists relying very heavily on the vote of the newly -enfranchised - lute shortage. Money will purchase a' men. so little that the Government ration The poll all over the province was of bread, flour and beans has become a heavy one. the staff of Life of all but the very as. - wealthy. SUICIDES AT The total population of children in Austria up to the age of fifteen is NIAGARA FALLS 1,182,000. Of this number 932,000 are underfed. Three hundred thous - 1 Man Ends Life in Presence of and of these, the worst off, receive Score of People. one meal a day. J-' c A despatch from Niagara Falls, N. �F n Y., says: Before the eyes of a score � r@'� of sightseers at Prospect Point, late POLICE MURDERED ��j this afternoon, a man climbed over the , A From waded out into the river, and, Attacked s reboot Ambush With was carried over the American Falls. Four Others. Too astounded to act, the spectators A despatch from Dublin says:— "WET sxa �' a stood by while the man drifted to the Two policemen were killed on Friday k BRITISH COLUMBIA brink, waving his hand and shouting:. whenp with four of their colleagues, "Here's where I leave you; good-bye."' they were attacked from ambush by "BONE-DRY" �a"�� �, I G , In a black derby found near the fifty disguised men at Feakle, County ; tie uxl k place where the man climbed the rail- Clare. ing was found a piece of paper on A group of nineteen policemen were Importers Take Steps to Prevent Rum -Running — Fifty which was written: "This hat belongs ambushed at Parkwood, King's Coun- to Carl A. Ellis, of Hamburg, N.Y;' g' ty. The driver of one of the police Auto Roads From Wet British Cobimbia Regard- The description of the suicide eorres- ponds to that of Ellis, who could not ears was shot dead and one constable ed as Menace -by St ate of Washington.was wounded. A member of the at- be located in Hamburg. tacking party was seen to fall during venir stand near so of a u A despatch from Montreal says:— .voters on Wednesday in repudiating The ownerthe exchange of shots. the Provincialthe Falls told the police that the man At a meetingheld between the whole- prohibition statute Three military lorries were subject - opens "a great and limitless reser- approached him and Iaughingly said, ed to a twenty -five-minute attack at sale liquor importers, of whom there „ Well I can't vote far Hardin so Y voir and liquor will flow into the g' d`i'es. Mullingar. Several policemen are tett in the. Province, and D. R. State of Washington in "an endless I may as well go over the Falls. The are believed to have been eventide. Murphy, I .C., General Adrnit tctr, ,treani' unless drastic action is taken souvenir seller thought the roan was _�_ of the Quebec Prohibition Law, an ar- to. forestall it, the Federal Prohibition Joking, and paid no more attention to Questions Arising rangement was made whereby the. Officer for Washington declared on the incident until a short time later ons sir g i when he saw the fatal leap. Out of Miners' Strike wholesalers agree to ship outside the Thursday. Province only by steamer, railway, Fifty automobile roads lead to Ades itch from London says: express, or through a transportation Washington from the Canadian Out -of -Work Britishersa P company. province, Mr. McDonald said, and hey Coxzxe to Canada —Two grave questions are exer- This means the end of shipments by declared he had little more than a cising the political and indus- auto mobile, one of the most serious "corporal's guard" of .agents to stensA despatch from London says: trial world: i ,leans of abuse of the liquor law, and the tide. ._..A big increase in emigration First, to what extent the La - to of rum -running either to other prov- The "wet vote" in British Columbia, to Canada may be one result of bor leaders are losing control of itle05 or to the United States. Mr. McDonald said, was a knock -out the stripe 'B of p it t' 1 coal miners. flit worlters; says:—Action of British Colurnbia hibition in Waehington. A despatch from Seattle, Wash., blow to his hopes for "bode -dry" pro- Reports re from Morris- e-ond, whether a political town, near Swanson, Wales. A NEW UNPOPULAR GUY! DECLINE OF RED crisis and an appeal to the coun- Shp wrecked Crew state that many of the steel try v� ill develop out of the workers there who have been i miners' dispute. POWER IS IN SIGHT 2 Days Foodless made idle by the strike have de- It is stated that James Henry cided to emigrate -to Canada at Thomas, General Secretary of A despatch from Manila says: - 22 Near End of 1 e�lt- an early date. the National Union of Railway - Thirty -four, shipwrecked Dutch sailors . _ --_ _ _ _ _ inert, has exerted ed the greatest er, Says U.S. Secretary were brought here from the Desert Canada Sends-F,aill efforts to get the action taken of State. Island of the Philippine Visayan group by the railwaymen to aid the after being days without food. Contingent to League A despatch from Washington They are all skin and bones, the effect j millers postponed for a few says:—Bol;-hevism in Russia is on its of their privation. They are being A despatch from London says: --I days, but that his influence was last legs. according to Bainbridge Col- treated in a Local hospital. Thev are Canada alone among the Dominions! overborne. by, Secretary of State, or, to use the part of the crew of a sailing vessel is providing a full contingent of three. .'a more elegant expression of Mr. Colby, blown ashore in a typhoon. They fin- delegates to the Assembly of the Lea- British Columbia Selling it is in its latent stages. It was in a ally were discovered by the Philippine gee of Nations at Geneva in Navem- $1,000,000 Worth of Bonds of growing weakness and Constabulary. The Dutch Consul now ben Australia is sending one and there was every indication of a break- is in charge. New Zealand one. down. ..__. .._.. ::�:. The Secretary of State made these assertions orally to newspapermen on Thursday. Peasants generally were abandoning Bolshevist rule and forming local communities independ- ent of the Moscow Soviet Government and of themselves. Mr. Colby's state- ment, he said, was based on advices from Russia. Just what will succeed Bolshevism, he stated, is tho question giving most concern now. The propensities of the ALL THREE AEMBE S OF BOARD OF COMMERCE RESIGN OFFICE Government Will Not Appoin t Successors Until Privy Coun- cil Renders Judgme nt as to the Extent of Federal Authority. A despatch from Ottawa sayer-•-' Committee of the Privy Council for Russians for a local communistic For a period at least. the Board of i final determination. The Dominion mode of self-government, in his opin- Commerce of Canada as a court h:ss Government has been pressing to have I ion, will result in the assumption of this case heard with the least possible of delay, but as the Provinces have a ole to Bond Their Land local bodies. From this qualified mail- the reversal of its judgment renulat-I right to be heard, it -has not yet been For Irrigation Project authority for the maintenance of. ceased to exist. In consequence ibrium, he thought, a scheme could ing sugar prices and the trade in that possible to have the exact date of the bo evolved out of which would come commodity, Capt. W. J. White, F. A.; hearing decided on. A despatch from Lethbridge, Alta., a national governing entity. Ackland and Gerald Dillon, the coin- "When a decision is given as to the• says:—Farmers of the Lethbridge Asked if there was a just eons- tnissioiners composing the hoard,, extent of the Federal authority in re- Northern Irrigation district, by the parison between the Soviet regime in have resigned. The Government, t lation to the Board of Commerce Act overwhelming vote of 258 to 15 on Russia and the French Revolution, Mr, moreover, has aceepted their resigna-f it will be for the Government to con- Thursday voted in favor of bonding Colby replied that the French Revolu- tions and has decided not to take steps i sides what should then be done." their land for $50 per acre, a total of tion was directed by and with reason; to reconstitute the tribunal until the' The reasons which impelled the $5,400,000 for the purpose of ecu - it searched out the intellectuals and Judicial Committee of the Privy C;oun- : three commissioners to present their ,structing an irrigation project to placed them in power, while in Russia oil in England has given 0 dec' lou in resignations and wheels are under- water annually 108,000 acres. the Bolsheviks arc seeking to destroy the stated case now' before it and so, stood to have been set forth in a let-. the intellectuals. defined the extent pet the board's; ter to the (+;nernment.11ave snot; beers•Miners' Strike Cause He declared he took an optimistic power to control profits. • disclosed. Messrs. White, Ackland view of the possibilities in Russia, Announcement of the retirement of and DillonlDillonwere appointed to fill va-• of Much unemployment which was that a democratic Govern- Commissioners White Ackland and; caticies caused by the retirement first, ; ment would rise from the local gov- Dillon was made by Premier Meighen ; of judge iobeen, of Winnipeg, the A c1 sty atc'h from 011t,.,U says: : erring units that are expected to take on Thursday night before 1us doper- eeriginal chairman; awn of Commis-—CanTleto figures for the whole over political authority upon the ture for Western Canada. "No ape stoner ,]allies Murdock, rine- finally of Counlr!.' nes not yet available, downfall of the Soviets. At the pies- pointnients to the vacant positiontt will IN% P. O'Connor. Ii.0". The appoint- but it ;> t;mated that at least eut time, he stated, a most rigorous now be made," said the d:ftic,:al state- mein of Messrs White, Ackland and 100,000 people have been dis- control is exercised over the Press ill Ment.. "The jurisdiction of the Poore- Dillon 'ens temporary in its dear- charged as the direct result of Ruscitt, will shortly come before the Judicial deter, the miners' striko. A despatch 'from Victoria, B.C., says:—To provide funds for loans to returned soldiers and industries under the Industrial Act, lima. John Hart, Minister of Finance, is calling for tenders for $1,000,000 for British Col- umbia six per cent. bonds. The bonds will run for three years and are iden- tical with the $1,000,000 of Pacific Great Eastern bonds put out three weeks ago, for which bond houses all over the United States and Canada scrambled and the price of which they bid up above par in their anxiety to get them.