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To supply these sasentinis we have issnwd for /) ee distribution » 400 page, ¢ hound, lust rated "Guide to Investors™ nln ronit each afternoon, our - ¥ Market Letter Ouretul of bath, w/l enable Hiupone fo invest money, the principal inlact, make if pay Havent & Freese 00. nore BONDS, GRAIN, COTTON. - Kingston, « Ontario. SERRE DR. €. BE. 0"CONNOR Tesident. New _¥ LS caiiot Bre, har, Now . 170 Wag Aree March 11th, Clone. we Bg ae + hea 13) ign 1am a wig 1204 13.8 Jo juls 3 42 Ng wees seme - . 162 MIE, iii er er 1OT : i meinen she. Teo FT TR IE 1 i [HE 5 PR. EDITION SECOND EDITION NEWS ALSC ON PAGE VIVE, COMMERCiaL MATTERS, What is Going on in the Busines World--The Market News. A BS 000000 wat paw I company i fo be start works at Buffalo pew vineyards will be the Chautauqua grape Home 16800 acres of started this Sting in region Eogland is becoming sugar process sind ils interestind in the beet introduction thers at Lon early daw is looked for The Awmericun perfume sompany, with a sapital of BS U0, is a combingtios which will be slfevted in a few dats about flees of the largess perfume wesu faciurers snd haodlers wm the United States Hegdguarwrs will be established in New York The two street railway campanies in Cleve found of 21,000,000, with Mark presi dent, It bs probable that tickets will iw sold at six for 26c. I ws now thought that mayor Tom, Jobusou's woheme of fares is dend, Thure in being worked into shape lated aod Ban of thie buve wsnsigomated with § ewpital Hansa as three cent in Tort Fravdieo an amnlpumstion of the great export Sour Paar The tion of the proposed consolidation will pro bably be somewhere in the sigubobond of $10,000,000, As outlined the combination will wmbrace mills baving an ty of over 5.000000 barrels od hour The shareholders of Grand Trunk stock are to receive some return for their mvestment The, earnjugs, of the last hall been sufficient. Go justify the pavement of dividericls of four par oat. on the Cygrgn toed afd firm preference stocks, and a divi deind of four per cemt. for the year the five per cent. socomd preference atoek, lav ing" about £8000 to be ewrried over. This time last year the second prefervace stock revvived do dividend of three per ment * We widerstamd," barean, " that coal company bas clowsd a five yours with the Camndian Pacific railway for a minimum 506, 000 tons of cosl and & maximum KOUH0U tous per annum, at an mcerease of per ton in the price. The existing contrat which expires pext year (the Canedinn Fact fie always renews comtructs ome year shoud), was for 280,000 tone of per Figuring on the minimum contract, Don bee alit to the of $175,000 per through of 35 cents per tor the price recvived for ite coal" IMPORTANCE OF CARTURE, Methuen Ranks Next to Kitchener In South Africay London, March 11.-The importance of the defeat and capture ot lord Me thuen by Gen, Delarey is enhanced hy the fact that Methuen ranks next to lord Kitchener in South Africa. Lady Methuen, who is now en route for home from Cape Town, will not hear of the disaster until she reaches Ma deria, where she is due on March 15th. It is believed the Boers will not fail to take advantage of Methuen's pro minence to hold him as a hostage for the safety of Boer leaders now in hands of the British, London, March 11.--The Times says the Irish nationalist jubilation, in the house of commons, yesterday, when Mr. Brodrick announced lord Methu en's defeat. is stgongly resented by lib erals aud is likMy to .drive into the Roseb camp 'several members who hitherto have been following Camp- bell Bannerman, The war secretary, Mr. Brodrick, when asked in the house of commons, to-day, what steps had been taken, in view of the success of the Boers against Methuen, to send lord Kitch ener reinforcements, said 6,000 voo- manty wotld be immediately embark ed with large drafts of cavaley and infantry. Lord Kitchener would be given all' the assistance he asked for. Glasgow, March 11.--Lord Rosebery last might referred to the Irish de monstration in the house of commons, when the reading of lord Kitchener's telegram announcing the capture of Gen. Methuen was greeted by loud cheers, as a fresh indication of the impossibility of home rule. Lord Rosebery said that Mr. Gladstone himself, if he returned from the dead. could not dare to whtrust an inde pendent parliament to mén who open- lv rejoiced at a British military dis- aster, Interests tuition firsos of coma copitaling wnsind hpi have year on says the Boston Dominion ws the » sontract 83 cents coal amount coal company will year the extent the inerdnse in ---- Eulogized Britain. Berlin, March 11.--In the Prussian house of deputies to-day, secretary of state Richthofen aunounéed that Bri tain was willing to allow the distri bution of merchandise from Germany in the South African concentration camps under surveillance. After the announcement state secretary Richtho- fen launched into a eulogy of Britain. "We ought to exercise more benevo lence and more just criticism towards Britain, for she has sacrificed an enormous amount of money and many soldiers in South Africa. Germany and Britain 'are connected by blood and friendship. They are two cousins who should find themselves agmin together. The German people have often exervis- ed very unjuxt criticism against the British action in South Alica." The state secretary concluded with an ex- pression of sympathy for lord Me thuen. Viljoen At St. Helena. London, March 11.--A St. Helena Qespatch reports that Gen. Ben. Vil jeon has arrived there. 20,000 Additional Troops. London, March 11 Nearly 20.000 additional men are to be thrown at once into South Afriea, 7.000 have already been despatched frem India, under urgent orders, and in an Lectured On Old Londen. corcirseeand supper held in Methodist Sunday wife and the street "al arrest » THE AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT | TELEPHONE COMPANY MUST | ASK MUNICIPALITIES, ! When it Desires to Use the Streets | ~A Franchise Transisrrod From a Citizen to a Town With Compensation. Toropto, March 11 has delivered a dgment of the Justice Bireed ut the agninst the Bell telephone company The eitv, in efivet claimed | that the company in its local business was subject to provincial legislation, and under that legislation could not use the street except by consent of the municipality. The judge upholds this contention, and sad "the proper con struction of these acts treat the On- | tario act ag conferring special rights pon the defendants in regard to thei works that and at. the | same Lune them to meessity of obtaining the consent of the local municipalities to the use of the streets, while leaving to their act of incorporation ita fell operation in other proviness It should be declar od that the defendants have no right to carry any poles or any wires alony any of the city without first obtaining the consent of the municipal council, but inasmuch as the Ontario act does not make their power to carry their wires across streets dependent upon the pretious consent of the council, they may carry them across the streets. The Jenison power franchise. which ! has boen something of a millstone around the neck of Fort Wilham, for several veprs, was cut loose this morning by the private hills' commit. tee of the legislature. The town, in company with Port Arthur, asked jor the right to develop 10,000 horse power at Kakabeka Falls. Mr. Jeni som opposed the grant on the ground that it would be an infringement on big rights. The town replied that Jenison had held the franchise for six vears and done nothing and at con sequently his rights had lapse The private hills committee, this morning, transferred Jenison's powers to the town of Fort William, which must compensate him for work done and for plans laid. The water power will he used to operate the great flour mills it is proposed to construct at Fort William and Port Arthw Mr. Harcourt, provincial minister of education, was notified, to-®ay, that only six, and not twenty, Ontario lady teachers are wanted for Soath Africa. A number of city teachers have applied Williams, who from Chicago, was found of R. Parker's dye works, North To romto, this morning, by the night watchman, engaged in rifling the cach register with the aid ol a chisel. Wil i felled the watchman by a blow oer head with the chisel. The latter at once drew hig revolver and fired und the burglar ran. A pen came very near him and Williams jumped clear through the front door, which was of glass, cutting himseli slightly As he reached the street two passers by canght him. Williams appeared in the police court this morning and was | remanded till his description could be sent to Chicago The funeral of Rev. Fr St, Michael's cathedral, of which he was rector, this morning, was most impressive. The cathedral was draped most elaborately, A great gathering was present, including representatives from the Jesuit college of Chicago, and Frs. Brady and Holden, of Ham ilton, and Fr. O'Reilly, Oakville, presenting Hamilton diocese. Requiem masz was said by vicar-general Me Cann, Archbishop O'Connor, at the close, said it was Fr. Rvan's wish that nothing be said in eulogy He desired to regard that wish, while ex pressing in few words the very great loss the church had sustained. The society of the Sacred Heart was un der an especial debt to him. The cor tege wk accompanied to by the members of tholic Foresters and societies city in provime, subjecting the stress of Toronto save he i in the offic George liams when overed the hot van, from + re the cemetery CMBA., Ca other the uniformed SENT BACK TO CANADA. Several Mechanics Deported From Detroit This Week. Detroit, Mich, March 11.---A few days ago a Windsor painter was sent back to Canada by the immigration authorities at the: Woodward avenue ferry doek. A similar incident occur red yesterday at the Joseph Campeanu | dock, when a carpenter, Eli Mennie, of | Walkeville, was returned hy the an thorities for eoining over the horder to work for the Northern shipbuild { ing company. } LADY TEACHERS FOR AFRICA. i Seventy Applications Received Twenty To Go From' Ontario. | Ottawa, Ont, March 11.-<Over | seventy appleations have been re- ceived from lady teachers desirous of | engaging for service in their sion in South Africa. In forty will be taken from Canada. and of § the number twenty will be chosen in | Untario, { profes- | i Two Fine Memorial Windows. . | To-day glaziers began the work of placing in St. George's cathedral two | fine memorial windows, erected by Alexander Gunn, one in memory of his other of his daughter, Miss J. Kathleen Gunn, who died in| 1561. The latter window will ocenpy | the full space of the present window on Johnston street 'nearest to King | street, and the window to Mrs. Guan the space directly opposite. In. Chal wers church a magnificsnit window was placed by Mr. Gane in memory of his wife when thet Presbyterian edifice was erected in 1880. C.0.F. Treasurer Arrested. Vancouver, March 11.--A sensation occurred when alderman t ef wae i LF » A ¥ . arrested for failing te account 15 ! wounded at Brandriit {to the rural battalions, at | of | the visit regs May 6th, 1807, and hed lived in re | tirement fe LY WHIG, TUESDAY, MARCH ii. PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest News Culled From All Over The World. How. Mr. Tarte will attend coronation and then will spend ihe SOT | weeks in France Montreal hockevisic have reach The weather is wat and See is slushy, Ottawa will have a new steel the construction of which will menced in ga short Radcliffe will be on hand on The ed BW nig or Line Lacroix, the Hull murderer Claud Lobban, 8S A.C., was severely on March Tth. His home is at Chatham, NB. Sir Wilfrid and lady Laurier from New York on the Etruria June 14th to attend coronation The scope and personnel of the pro posen-railway commission has not yet been determined by the cabinet The minister of milina ha dere to issue the new Lee Enfie whether not sail on n or id arms have dentral armories or George M. Spetsinger, proprietor of | the Clifton house, Cornwall, one the most popular hotel wen ia district, died suddenly on Monday. A, McKinnon, Ottawa. will sail on March 2th for England take the position of official inspector of Canadian fruits arviving at British ports. Major 8. E. Wood, of the States legation, Tokio, Japan, has taken the New York Central's map as the best description and guide to Manchuria. Seven millions of dollars represent the amount expended up to the begin ning of the present week by the im perial 'war office for food and forage sent nadian department of agriculture. Archbishop Duhamel, Ottawa, go to Rome this year to attend jubilea of the pope. gin, Quebec shper=already archbishop Bruchesi and Mgr. Emard, Valleyfield, are leaving short time. Joseph Marrian, the well horseman and proprietor of the Ameri can hotel, Watertown, N.Y., has sold his bay pacing gelding Little der, 2:17, by Barkis, to George Hall, proprietor of the Adams house of Bos ton, Mass. The post office and store owned hy Bolam & Co, Kazubazua, , with adjeining storehouse, were troved by fire on Monday Very little of the stock and nothing he ! to the post Rave to the gone, in a onging office or mails were Enquivics ave being made the world for Miss Ely and nephew, Frank left. Evanston, 1 1901, aml cannot be found man i= aced forty, the The lad d= left handed Peterboro won the intermediate HiA. championship by 2 match will Galt on the rink of the latter last night. The score vas three to three. The' first match in Peter boro resulted four to three, and thus Peterboro wins by one point through Florence A Fly Hogers July ith, The wo vouth fourteen ont who on 0 playing a tie TO HAVE. FINE WORKS. The Construction Engineer Has Reached Montreal. Montreal, March I1.--Henry mark, the engineer appointed by the CIR. to look after the building of their new constuction shops, has reached the city and, in an interview, states that the new shops will be un doubtedly the largest in the world with a capacity of seventy-five cars a day and seventy-five year, Shipping circles been advised that the first fruit cargo, of théhsea son, will be loaded by the Fremnin Messini and other Mediterranean ports 'between March 20th and 25th, will reach the St. Lawrence route at the opening of navigation. Gold locomotives a have and A CONTRACT CASE. Judge Gregory Gives Judgment Against Messrs. Connollys St. John, March 1l.--Judge Gre gory delivered judgment in the suit of G. 8. Mayers, contractor of this city, against Messrs, Connolly, Mon- treal firm ol emutractors. Mayers sued for 825978, under a sub-contract in {| connection with the dominion govern in this the ment work nollys had government. Judge Gregory The Con- irom the harbor, contract alowed Mayers' { claim at 825.555, with interest, bLring- ing the total te 227280. Op applica- tion of the defendanis' counsel 4 stay of proceedings was granted. ORANGE GRAND LODGE, Now Meeting At Petrolea--Ad- dfesses of Welcome, Petrolea, March 11.--The forty-third annual session lodge meets here to-morrow: and lasts for three days. A very large number delegates are expected and the town is doing all possible to make a pleasant one. Addresses will be presented to the officers and delegates by the town, giving them | the freedom of the plac. 12,000 HOMEIIZSS. Another Earthquake sit Shumaka, Russia. St. Petersburg, March 11.--The town of Shomaka Tri ns-Cauvcasa, which was partly destrow od about a menth v an earthq 1ake, attend wd by heavy Jose 'of Wie, was the scene of further seismic disturbances on Sunday. Twelve thov sand persons All Ordered (ut. Roston, March 11. Thee strike com: mitter has ordered "ev avihing move shle' gut to-day at moon. This means Freight bandiers on jae Boston and Maine roan, longshorrgrnen and every- thing with a wheel, and all employes | recerving or delivering goods. Earl of Pertt, Dead. London, March J.[ <The carl of Perth and Weliors, She olast peer of the realin, is fd. He lived in five . He was been in Lomcion on for many wears. Fe dx sup very | March | most importance in the stated ease of ! 21st to operate at the execution of | they | this | United | to South Africa through the Ca- | may | Archbishop Be- | and | known | Won- | of the Orange grand | re Een 120 ER gE RE Is THE LOURDES MIRACLE NOW DENIED. (SHOCKED THE FAITRFUL { | { ---- | Unbelieving Hydraulic Engineer Is Simply Prove His Says Fountain Water--He Will Assertion. March 11.-- Henri Caubert a learned hvdraalist, has shocked the faithful by a quasi-scientific state ment 10 the effect that the miraculous { fountain at Lourdes is not miraca lous. He says that the waters in which the invalids bathe for purposes | of healing are the waters of the Gave {and are conducted to the fountain by {a system of natural canalization He offers 200,000 francs for works of | ¢harity in case he is given an oppor | tunity prove his assertion { goes even further thn Zola, and will i not wdmit that the waters have { healing powers whatever The thousands upoh pilgrims who came to the far famed shrine annually feel very hurt at this | attack. » } The countess de Spottiswood Mack- | in, who has written a book on London, in to { Lourdes, has taken up the cudgels for | that she | the pilgrims She declares | has visited the shrine many times and | has =een hundreds of cures beneath the | statue of the crowned Virgin, by Raf. She adds that none but an ignorant I hydraulist will deny the testimony of | the senses. | SCHWAB BUYS $2,500 PUDDING | Visited The " Cheshire Cheese," { And Gave An Order. London, March 11.---Steel trust pre sident Charles M. Schwab has order- ed a beef-steak pudding for 100 Ame- rican millionaires. It is likely to be the costliest beef steak puddmg in the world. Mr. | Schwab has agreed to pay £500 for i. On the day after his audieder with the king, Mr. Schwab visited the old | "Cheshire Cheese," and was glad by a liberal portion of pudding. business the fa Subsequently, in blunt mous talked fashion. to the manager. Mr. Moore admitted that it was. "How many persons ean you with one of them 7' My a quick calculation, and 1H) persons replied Mr. Schwab, pudding 1060 millionaires 1' you LH to bring one of those dings to the states and earve it dinner in 4 New York club house Mr. Moore asked for time to sider the proposition, and Mr. wah left after assuring him that offer would stand. - The steel® trust confided to an American friend pt the Carlton hotel that he would give such a dinner as' his fellow-million aires across the Atlantic never before "One give pd "hood, con Sch the and other delicacies of 4 bygone age, Mr. Moore is sending Mr. Schwab a quantity of the old guinea a botth: Patrons of the sack and a pudding. "Cheshire Cheese' latest American invasion. let Mr Schwah continue to sell rails, they say, and, if need be, capture British markets, but in common courtesy let him keep "hands off' their cherished pudding rights COMPANY SYSTEM. Plan. Toronto, March 11.--Rev. A. C Globe, says "I ean suggest what in my ment, far better than the pany system," and what, in my judg ment, jndg- In "com responsibility, The real entirely and with on my own much diffidence in the cities. In rural seétions pro hibition is a genuine and successful of her territory prepared--well prepared for prohibi tion. Let prohibition be enacted as the law of the province, and then let the cities have the opportunity, through 'local option' by petition and municipal vote, to introduce a sys tem of government stores, where no drinking would be allowed, where the purest liquors would be purchasable in sealed packages for domestic use and where the permitted suppli would he found for mechanical, scien tific and sacramental purposes This would himit the drug gists, a» now, to the medicinal use, Here is a strictly limited, gov- ernment controlled traffic, not at all for drinkers, but for purchasers. The goods supplied would be always of not nine-teoths i= groceries, would be sent to those who obder. Concerning this method Messrs Rowntree and Sherwell say: 'In gov- ernment shops po consumption on the premises is allowed. The liquors the aleoholie Ontario." ------------ Ts Move To Cataraqui. George Bawden, Pittsburg town. ship, is going to give up farming and will open a store at Cataraqui in the more. W. Murray will sell Mr. Paw dens farm stock on the 14th inst. Sydenham street Methodist jubilee programme i¢ now complete and opens Friday evening of this week with a grand entertainment . given by the Sabbath school. No expense or labor has been red to make this one of the best sductions of its kind ever given. Their Sunday have it Bled. The admission is De. WITHOUT LUNGS. ASTHMA about fn that owe tim. © Fora COMPOUND soon a wily = . op------ He | any | thousands of | Dress-making ns ' 5 People" have time and" 5) the materials are all ready. This is the season when the new, and exclusive things are shown. When' those who want such things must get them. New Dress Materials, made | he i American | "That's a famous pudding," he said | feed | Moore made | mentioned | at a manager afterwards | sat down to. There would be uld sack | but, best of all, the famous pudding. worth a are protesting vigorously against this | Thinks Better Than Earl Grey's | Courtice, in a letter to she Toronto | 1% essential to the real success | of prohibition. I make the suggestion | the best, and like meat and bread, or | are sold in closed and sealed bottles, | on which is a label stating the price, | the guantity, the kind of liquor and | strength." This i= my | own conviction of the 'best policy for | premises lately occupied by G. North | r school hall will! went six hundred and they expet to New Trimmings, That will surely please. you and at the same time enable you to effect quite a saving as our: prices are unquestionably the lowest for good al goods. iy 2 New French Muslins. el New Batistes. New Linens, Chambrays, Irish Dimities, And a variety of Fancy Summer Materials. FREE. TO-MORROW we will give an APRIL DELINEATOR to every customer purchasing material for a dress, (not'print.) Butterick Patlerns For April. Fashion Sheets For April, FREE. ---------- JOHN LAIDLAW & SON. difficulty with prohibition, as history | shows, is the difficulty of enforcement | remedy. Ontario' in three fourths, if | Gourdier Shoe Stock AND THE Toronto Shoe Stock WILL CONTINUE AT THE LOCKETT SHOE STORE 5 TILL ALL IS SOLD. 1 | | The Bargains in Ladies', Misses' and Child's' Kid Boots and low shoes are very attractive. F. G. LOCKETT. " "> Kilhen (er) Reports. 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