i 5 ' op a Asserts the British Had Advan- oa & titty | 20 PAGES | YEAR 86: No. 258. THE COAL STRIK CURTALLS TRADE Forsign Ships Are Refused Coal af United States Ports. FIRST CONSERVATION STR AMERICAN VESSELS TO COAL FOR TIME BEING. Fe i-- Wherever Possible, Coal Is Being Distributed According to the Pri. ority List~Economy Must Be Used. Washington, Nov. 7.«--Instituting the first general curtailment. in transportation as a coal conserva- tion measure, the railroad adminis- tration central committee last night ordered discontinued the bunkering of foreign owned ships ports. American owned snips and vessels flying the American tinue to receive GET flag will con- fuel supplies, but "for the time being." is was said, all other vessels will be compelled to! await the end of the bituminous min- | ers' strike. : The coal distribution evolved by the rail tion has beea ee system | road administra- t in full operation, | Director-General Hines mnounced | last night. Officials m every part of | the country who have been detailed | to handle the difficulties attendant | upon the coal strike have begun the | gathering of figures on supplies in! hand as well as meeting the urgent | OR of stricken communities, Mr. Hines said. "The machinery set Up by the railroad administration to distribute | the coal held in transit by the rail-| roads in accordance with the direc- tions of the fuel administration is in | ut 'operation," 'the director-general | said, } "As & result, whatever possible! coal is being distributed In accord. | ance with the priority list establish | ed by the fuel administrator where such coal is absolutely needed. There- | fore, where there i* real need for | coal, the problem should be taken up | immediately with the railroad ordin-.| arily supplying the coal and every | effort: will be made by such railroad to meet the demand. | "It 18, Ff course, essential both be- | cause of the present bituminous deal | strike and in ordes 4 the coming winter may ked af- | ter, that fuel be used as economically | 18 possible. Meeting of US. Cabinet. i (Canadinn Press Desnateh) i Washington, Nov. 7.--The strike of the bituminous eval miners in particular and the industrial situa- tion in general was discussed by the Cabinet ¥ at a special meeting called by Secretary Lansing of tha State ment. Officers said that the Government's offer to arbi- trate the controversy as soon as the strike order was withdrawn still was open and that unless {t was accepted #and the strike en there was no course for the Go ent except to press the injunction suit. A ------------ MONTREAL SLAYER 1S ACQUITTED (Canadian Press Despatch) Montreal, Nov. T.~John James Quinn, who on Aug. 25th, shot and mortally wounded Roch Samson, for continually bothering his wife, has been ac- , Quitted of the charge of mur- der by a jury in Justice Martin's court, a ---------------------- of Ease of Bago ission. ---- / Berlin, Nov. 7.--Count Bernstorft Was on the stand for a protracted ex- a a me fie stectivenets 0. P the United 'States during the war session ie ou | in American [Pla¥er, has been mentioned , Lau | Washington will adopt the proposed | Arcania, Mil, {Berlin on Friday morning from 'wounds received on October 8th. {at Pittsburgh, Pa., where a number 4a | titutionality of the be rh ; he Da ily B ---------------------- at KINGSTON, ONTARIO, ritish Whig . feat a mat at, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1919, a LAST EDITION. THE WORLD'S TIDINGS IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From All Over Told in a Pointed and Pithy Way. The Narrow Fabric Works at' Galt are building an extension to their factory | The potato and root crop around Wingham is the best in that vicinity | for years | The Welland asked by the Ae an airdrome Fire destroyed frame general st Neill, Hailevbury., | No holiday has been proclaimed | {for Nov. 11th, the first anniversary | of the war armistice. It was twelve degrees below zero at Calgary on Thursday and two de- | grees below at Winnipeg. | L. D. Walker, Ottawa, has been ap-| pointed junior engineer on the Wel-| ty Council has been ro Club to establish the two-storey | ore of George Mec-!| i {land Canal construction, | Five linemen employed by the Sar-| nia Hydro-Electric quit because they | did not 'receive an increase. | The Victory Loan totals to noon on Friday were: Canada, $260,365, | 892; Ontario, $148. 218,850. AM. Jack Kelly, an old lacrosse as a candidate for mayor or Brantford. The tobacco growers of, the Leam- ington district have received over ha Sas and Premier ii new ordinary | $7,000,000 for this season's crop. | The City Council of Brantford has|sented with inaugurated the double-platoon sys-| ture shows Emir Feikul. tem dor firemen at a cost of $16.600.| vr _RO6 » H. F. Sharp, St. Mary's, sixty years | Vise ount Allenby, a member of the Masons, was pre-| ONY. sented with an illuminated adadress. | ™™ The Brant Medical Council has ap-| | plied to the Brantford General "= WILD HURRICANE i pital board to establish a maternity | | ward. { | The Marconi parent company pro- | Poses to double its capital. This wil } create 1,600,000 i ! shares. i : Sir Thomas White, the former | Minister of Finance, has been' elect- | -- ed a director of the National Trust | Company. It Caosed Much Damage to Shipping In General Sir Arthur Currie has ob-| i tained a month's extension of leave | forests Generally. and will remain in Vancouver, B.C.,| ER for a rest, $ Brantford City Council passed a! by-law ordering all milk sold in the N LIFE REPORTED 0 1 city to be pasteurized, commencing | May, 1920. } ' i Mr. and Mrs. T. Williams, former-| a A . i Iy of Preston, were killed in Detroit] THE MAN HAD STEPPED ON x when their automobile was struck by | LIVE ELECTRIC WIRE. a street car. } ---- da paomag yhite Nas oon Jun Schooners and Yachts Blown Out to y 00 0 the direct- i orate of the Steel Company of Canada| S¢® or Eise' Tossed Upon the at Hamilton. Shores--Several Buildings Were W. F. Crysler, vice-president of | Razed at Lunenburg, N.S. General Motors, resigned following (Canadtan Press Despatoh) : Sisgrselent 'with president on mat- Halifax, N.S., Nov. 7.--The storm ters of policy: '| that swept over Nova Scotia with | a cae vate ou the vty hurricane fury last night and to-day. Posed Thursday at Washington, but | drove two sehooners and five ¥ c) 2 was again blocked. : ashore here, tore down tel and | Pte. L. Murray, London, who was telephone 'wire, delayed trains and | Sentensced last July to two years tor | ! desertion, has been released on ap cused extensive damage to the ship- | order from Ottawa. | ping interests generally. The west | Owing to a fress outbreak of coast towns reported many wharves | smallpox at Woodstock, Br. A. Me are under water. | Kay aT. Ay Order A general "At. Portsmouth * fifteen fishing | Mrs. Towner and two children, | DOs Were swept from their moor- | Watertown, N.Y. are dead from | Ings and driven out to sea or tossed eating preserved corn. The father| on the shore. The signal station at is In a serious condition. Liverpool was blown down and many St. Thomas City Council will in-|Small boats and buoys were torn troduce a by-law exempling all} from their anchorage. widows and dependents of soldiers Yarmouth also suffered consider- who were killed overseas from taxes| able Jamage The seas in the Bay this year, of Fundy to a great height. Six From present indications there |large fishing schooners were driven seems to be every likelihood that the international labor conference at Carrie L. Hurtle and Lucille Smith, Several buildings were razed .by wind in that town. The three-masted schooner Audrey was wrecked on the rooks near Liver- pool. But one life was reported lost, a man who stepped on an electric wire at Woodside being instantly killed. convention oh 'a 48'hour week. Smallpox cases in Taronto hospital and quarantined residences now number 91, an increase of 35 raport- ed since yesterday. More than 200 people are quarantined. Hugo Haase, president of the In- dependent Socialist party, died at Sr when he was shot three times when entering the Reichstag building. Disorders in the Denora Monessan region along the Monongahela river of steel workers are still on strike, kept the county authorities and state police busy Friday. Three men are dead, two dying and a number seriously injured as a result of 8 fire on Friday in the Wil- son Hotel, Atlanta, Ga. Between 20 and 30 persons, including seven wo- men, ure in the building. of Owing to the advance the Bolshevist forces, oy Kol- chak has ordered a preliminary evac- uation of Omsk by the american hos pital and such govesnment depart- menis as are not directly necessary. A Rome despatch reports that Foreign Minister Tittoni has decided to send to Washington a reply fo the recent American note on the Adriatic {uestion, refuting the contentions of the United States and 'placing a de- cisive end to the negotiations.' 'Elihu Root argued Atchison ... ....» BBO... .iclad GPRR.-.. NYG. vai sen Reading ... ... .. Southern Pac. .... ! So. Railway ... +... Bt. Paul... ... .. Union Pacific Atlantic Gui ars» Marine, pfd. ... .. Gen. Motors ... .. " Motors Studebaker Am. Loe... ocala Baldwin Loco. .. .. Am. Smelters Anaconda an ws "ny sea ww sus evi HR. te her uws eda fo t act in the gre was Tap Yestigating the war, when he a ted that German authorities suspicious that their cods, oh was known by an American, was betrayed fo the United States Government. . Has Chance For ! (Canadian Press Despatoh ) Toronto, Now, 7--Polies stable William Milton, Susy shot in three places T he was 2 & Ing. was Thoaght Cale . have a ALLENBY ADDED TO LONDON'S ROLL OF HONOR. bt OLS Field Marshal Viscount Allenby was London at the Guildhall on October 7th. a gold and jeweled sword of honor. son of the King of the Hedjaz, | eight-hour day, Mexico City newspaper, has refused HOWTO RAISE VETERANS GRAN Potato of Soldiers' Loans of Two or THIS 1S THE SUGGESTIO | a-- {MADE BY MESSRS BURNHAM, MACLEAN AND COOKSHUTT. | Mr. Burnham Suggested a Referen- { dum to the People on the Question of Further Grants to Brave Soldiers, rCanadian Press Despatch) Ottawa, Nov. 7.--The flotation of | soldier loaus of two or three hun-| { dred million dollars for the purpose {of paying further gratuities to dis- | abled and needy veterans and their | families was advocated by several Government supporters in the House | { of Commons yesterday during thd re- | sumed debate on the report of the made a freeman of and was also pre- re-establishment. The author of The Pe {the proposition was J. H. Burnham, {of West Peterboro, and his plan was i warmly supported by W. F. Maclean, {of South York, and W. F. Cockshutt, {of Brantford. | Mr. Burnham thought that it was {quite possible that something more {could be done for the veteran. He {eriticized the Government's threat of resigning if Parliament refused to jaccept the committee's report. He {said that the question should be pre- {sented to the people in the form of a | referendum, and they should decide. 'We have had a reféerendum on whiskey," he declared, 'but we can- not, it seems, have a refendum for the soldiers. Let the people of the ountry speak, and let them say whether or not they want more done for the soldiers. If there is one sol- dier or one soldier's dependent who | remains in need through our neglect, we should not be able to sleep at night." Mr. Burnham expressed his own Lloyd-George at the cere- * SUSPEND BUSINESS FOR TWO MINUTES ON NOV. 11TH (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Nov. 7.--On Tues- ay, the 11th, the ahniversary of the armistice, at the eleventh hour, the King re- quests that all business be sus- pended for two minutes in re- membrance of the dead. HOURLY WAGE OF COAL | MINER OVER 78 CENTS Washington, D.C., Nov. 7--The |... lingness to go out and work by average soft coal hand miper in the fi i ORE 10 raise more money United States, the man involved in | for the veteran. the strike, earns 78.4 cents an hour, | Tom Foster, of East York, was the according to the Buréau of Labor {next speaker, emphasizing the seri- tatistica. fon. He thought If he worked full time, with ap |CUSBESS Of the situation his yearly earnings ould be 31.340. If he puts in six ours a day they average $1,455. SIC. urned man. As things go, er, the aver. ist to the return ) ested various forms dso vorkipe day lor ie aratt as. ag EE ions aoe Ww ed : ] } . Ri 4 § S oR - iy - Fa S81 nanos S075: HEH Rolvang Be on fang $1,212, a ' : % bureau has just finished a embracing actual pay roll re- The i ih survey rv cords of 40.511 employees te 20; | CURTAILING COAL USE soft coal mines located in eighteen of . IN UNITED STATES the most important bituminous states. Tt also includes data on 16,- | Public Utilities and Railways 209 anthracite workers in twenty Will Go Into Conserving two Pennsylvania colieries. All the Plans. pay rolls were for a half month period. -------------- Large Shipbuilding Montreal, Nov. le day outlines a p tion to be under constderation, w important British interests the Canadian St Company and the Vickers are trying to get 50,000 shares of Dominion : Steel Company at a cost of $3,600,000. The intention of the Br inter- ests is to embark through the Do- minion Steel Company in a large shipbuilding programme. dowed more time it might have ar- rived at some method of further as- iy adian Presa Despatch) Chicago Nov. 7.~-The Curtail- ment of passenger train service, dis- continuance of bunkering of foreign- % jowned vessels at American ports, re- strictions in some places of the Un- 5 peals for coal from various cities, as a strike of approximately 425,000 bituminous coal miners to-day round- od out its first week, gave the nation further indications of the distress in store should there be a protracted suspension of mining operations. Other disarrangements of the coun- try's routine were expected to-day with little change =n general condi- tions surrour the strike itself. The government agoncies still re- mained hopeful that developments, to-morrow, at Indianapolis, when the motion filed by the attorneys for the United Mine Workers of America asking for the dissolution of the re- straining order issued last week by {Judge Anderson will be argued, might foint a way to an early end- ing of the strike. 'Mexico Will Not Refund Ransom. Washington, Nov. 7---The Mesi- can Government, according to a to refund to Willlam 'O. Jenkins, American ¢onsular agent at Puebla, the $150,000 ransom money which PRE-WAR FARE AT : LORD MAYOR'S DINNER Canada's | | special committee on soldiers' clvil | that df the committee had been al- | ited States of public utilities and aps! BRITAIN IS BUYING 500,000 BBLS. FLOUR | CanadaWheat Board Places Or- der With Milling Companies to Value of $5,325,000. { Montreal, Nov. 7.--Contracts for! ia further 500,000 barrels of flour {have been given to the milling com- panies, to be delivered proportion- {ately. { + This with the previous contract jfor 1,200,000 barrels, makes a total | { for the year to date of 1,700,000. { The contracts are for spring wheat { milling, and quotations are at $10.65 per barrel in jute bags, delivered at the seaboard up to December 15. | Some of the exportation of this { will come to the port of Montreal | {and the balance will have the aption { of going through St. John, N.B., or { through Portland. The new business handed out to {the milling companies amounts, ac- {cording to the figures given, to $§,-| {325,000 The orders were given by {Canada Wheat Board, on behalf | Great Britain and Buropean tries. * the of coun- | WILL GROW CGTTON IN BELGIAN CONGO {8ix German 'Merchants Are to Attend Ivory Market at Brussels. Brussels, Nov. -- Before the war the ivory market at Antwerp was at- | tended by many Germans. Now several flave sought permission to {attend the approaching sales of Con- | ga ivory, and the Minister of Justice {has authorized the attendance of six | Germans. A meeting of industrialists and financiers has been held under the presidency of the Minister of Colo- nies for the purpose of discussing the possibilities of cotton culture in the Congo. It was decided to form a limited lability company « with a capital of $1,000,000 for the grow- ing, export and the sale of cotton. The Minister of Colonies will con- tinue to promote the growing of cot- ton by natives, -------------------- ASSET TO THE EMPIRE. Morning Post Suggests Prince. Live in Ireland For a While, Loudon, Nov." 7.--The Morning Post editorially speaks of the extra- ordinary enthusiasm manifested to- {wards HR.H. the Prince of Wales in Canada as inspired not only by {traditional loyalty to his royal fam- | ily, but a singular affection towards ithe Prince fii <~If "The Prince is 1 : wing the busi (ness of kingship earl" continues {the Post. "It 4s perha;s the most | complex and difficult by: ness in the { world. We suggest th. if there is any key to what is cal nd dhe Irish lem It is in possession of the 08 of Wales. If, for instinees, the F were to reside for a time in Ireland, the Irish people would behold mot the Saxon oppressor of { whom they had been told, but -an | English gentleman. The Irish peo- iple, whose frantic leaders call for | an independent Ireland, would at jleast, in making the acquaintance {of the heir to the throne, have some opportunity of perceiving what they would lose under an Irish republic." DEVELOPMENT OF SOUL. {A Disciple to Tell 'People How to Live 400 Years. New York, Nov. 7.--Five members of the crew of the steamship Paris, wrecked October 19 off Guarantana- mo Bay, and who were rescued by the crew of the steamer Lake Cham- plain, arrived in New York yester- day on the steamship Mexico, from Havana. They will seek berths on other steamships in this port. On the Mexico was Luals Abitia, who had a Jong beard in He is thirty years old a very Ia power- ful. He comes to the {ited States, he says, to meet his "disciple." Emil Dreffes. Together the two will teil the people how they may live to be 400 years old. Abitia falls on the floor at moon to pay homage to the sun; he eats raw oats and olive ofl, the development of his soul. He says there Iz hope for people as long as they don't shave or cut their hair. i 2 i F SH tf erican | they were leaving t 1 | PAGES 10 | SENATE PASSES - * SECOND READING Of the Grand L By a Vote of 3¢ "10 3. HHT SEMTORS BOLTED FROM THE GOVERNMENT SIDE ! OF THE SENATR. The Amendment of 'Senator Ross, of | Halifax, to Give the Bill the . Six | Months' Hoist Was Defeated, (UCAnac.an ¥ress Despatch.) O'tawa, 7.--The Grand { Nov. Trunk Bill is safely through its see ond reading in the Senate. Midst in tense excitement a vote was taken early this merning on Senator Ross' (Halifax) amendment for the hoist to next 35 wvoting for and 39 against, This vote was reversed on the main motion, which carried the second reading Eight senators bolted from Government side, Senators Nicholls Ross, Powers, Montplaisir, Gordon, { McLennan, Foster and Smeaton | White. Senator Todd was the sole supporter of the bill from the Op- | position side. Otherwise the vote | was a party ons. Of ten senators who expressed their views during the morning, afternoon and evening, only two spoke in favor of it, Senator E. D. Smith, of Winona, and Senatog {Lynch-Staunton of Hamilton. Three Government siipporters, Senators George Fowler, McLennan and Smea« ton White, spoke against the bill. | U.8. MAY SEIZE SUGAR i INTENDED FOR CANADA | Thirteen Million Pounds Are at | . Present Held Up at New i York. session, the ---- 3 | Ottawa, Nov. 7.-~The United States {Federal Food Administrator threat- jens 10 seize some thirteen million pounds of sugar now at New York belonging to the St. Lawrence Suear | Refining Company of Montreal. The Administrator claims that it is be offered for sile in New York at four cents above the legal price Word has been sent by the Cane adian Food Commission that Cansda {expects to be protected against any delay in BT coming on to 1:04 country, as sugar is badly needed here. J So ' 'The refinery officers say that thi: sugar was intended for the Cana dian market, and sltheneh shaw oot offer some for sale fan New Yorl they did with the anthdr 1 United es Sugdr- Equalization Board. : The sugar has been held up now for about two weeks, 3 { NEWS IN BULLETIN. A nots was sent to Germany last Saturday by the Allied powers that the peace treaty will not go into ef. fect until Germany's obligations are executed. No coal will be supplied to foreign' tonnage until the U.S. coal strike has been settled. Policeman Milton was shot twice just below thé heart early Friday morning. in Toromto by a burglar, and is not expected to live. The Vietory Loan has reached over $148,000,000 in Ontario. The G.T.R. purchase | bill passed its second reading in the Senate late Shutnday night by a majority of our, Victory Loan totals to Thursday midnight; Ontario, $148,218.850; Canada, $253,783.600. A -- Italian Miners Home, Chicago, 7.~~John Pacons, spokesman for thirty Italian ' coal mivers from Touloan, IN, piled 3 the internal rev Passports to return to their native land, when asked why he United States, seplied: "No beer, no wine, no work; €o home," 0 4 Islands. The Negus, Nov. 7.-The Govern- Rens, ay informed a committee of C of Deputies that no offer had been received from the United States for the purchase of malt Duteh (colonies in the West es, * § y = 3 pits Bt ts + Sold $180,550 of Bonds. Cornwall, Nov: 7.---J. ¥. Ault, ol or village, heads the Upited LY aes " ANOTHER MOvErikvr INE MANUEL and it is expect tions are. being newal of the to prevent any A coup being territory. ons for ee +