Sherbrooke daily record, 6 juillet 1911, jeudi 6 juillet 1911

[" Sherbrooke Daily Record.Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUE, THURSDAY, JULY *5,\t1911.ONE CENT C.P.R.0, C J, DEAL .Give Former Direcl Line, \u201c ' to Portland.THROUGH CONSTRUCTION OF RUMFORD FALLS EXTENSION TO LAKE MEG-ANTIC.Lake Megantic, July G.\u2014(Special) \u2014The proposed changes in connection with the management of the Q.C.R.are causing considerable interest in this section.The general idea is that should the deal go through the Rum-ford Falls Railroad, which is surveyed from Portland, Me., to Lake Megantic, will be built at once.It is understood that the C.P.R.has been looking for an outlet to the Atlantic farther South than St.John lor many years.In the winter time, especially, they feel the need of an opening to the Atlantic.If the new road is built from here to Portland, Me., it will join the Q.C.R.here and make the shortest possible route from Quebec to Portland, Me.The line would pass through a rich and quite thickly inhabited country.Should the Portland harbor not be available a port might be found a little farther south.Should this bo the situation it will mean a great deal to this town.The traffic between Quebec and Portland is heavy.The lumber could be shipped from the Chaudière Valley right to the seacoast at Portland and carried by water to New York.IHEJEMT.Senator Cummins Wralhy at His Speeches on Reciprocity.SAYS HE HAS ABANDONED DUTIES OF OFFICE TO MOULD PUBLIC OPINION.Washington, July G.\u2014 President Taft\u2019s pro-reciprocity speeches in Indiana on Monday and Tuesday were sharply criticized in the Senate yesterday by Senator Cummins.\u201cWhen the President abandons the duties of his office and enters upon a campaign to mould or lead public opinion on this reciprocity bill,\u201d said Mr.Cummins, \"then he is on the same level as every other nine and cannot be exempt from the criticism to be attached to the arguments he uses.\u201d Senator Burton, of Ohio, with a prefatory explanation that he was \u201cnot assuming to defend the administration, because tire administration needs no defence,\u201d made a :notable speech in behalf of the Canadian reciprocity bill in the Senate yesterday.He declared that reciprocity was the \u201cultimate destiny\u201d of Canada and the United States; that all natural conditions were opposed to the maintenance of border warfare in commercial matters, and that the farmers of the United States would not suffer injury from the enactment of the Canadian agreement.Senator Burton was most emphatic in his endorsation of the agreement.He declared he came from a state (Continued op Page 6.)_____________ A CABINET CRISIS, Reports to Rave itrisen Over Morocco \u201c ' .MEMBERS NOT IN ACCORD AS TO BEST POLICY TO PURSUE IN MATTER.London, July 6.-(Special)\u2014A bitter fight has broken out in the British Cabinet over the policy to be pursued by the Government in the Morocco situation.So strong has become the feeling that there is a probability that the Cabinet may resign.POUR PARLEES OVER MOROCCO.London, July G.\u2014Danger of international complications over the Agadir incident was removed, for the present at least, b^ a.n agreement reached by the powers yester- ior HEAT CAUSED LOSS OF OVER 500 LIVES.New York, July 6.\u2014The loss of more than 500 lives is to be credited to the great heat wave of July 1 to 5, 1911, which official weather advices say wall abate somewhat today.Hie torrid tide will be memorable in weather annals for its wide extent, its long duration, its record-breaking temperatures in certain places, and the long list of fa.t.aliticB which it, has caused to be written.The hundreds of news despatches which cities from the north Atlantic seaboard west of the plains states h.ave exchanged during the past four days, account, according to a.careful review for the deaths of 431 persons from the heat and 80 from drowning, a total of 511.Incomplete as the record is from tne failure of many points to report specifically the number of such deaths, it.is as serious a showing as is remembered for many years, if not a record.The number of prostrations is still more difficult to compute, but frynu the review of the despatches it.easily appears that thousands have been seriously overcome by the heat in the various big cities.Albany, N.Y., July 6.\u2014The official mercury climbed to 98 at 3 o\u2019clock yesterday, six degrees lower than the record-breaking mark of Tuesday.One death due to the heat was re ported.A heavy shower from the south, which went around the city late, yesterday afternoon, afforded some measure of relief.Three deaths are reported from Auburn, where the.temperature rose to 116.» » -m.»\t^ FIV« MEN OVERCOME.The extreme heat has ha.d a telling effect, on the men who are employed by the gas and electric department of the city.Finer yesterday morning up to noon today live men were overcome hy gas while working in the trenches.The humidity in the air is responsible for having such an effect on the workmen.WIRES WERE BROKEN.During the strong wind about; noon portions of two trees at different points in the city were blown down and falling on the electric wires broke two connections.The repair gang had a.busy time fixing matters up again.The shops of the Q.