Ry I es » Mr. Stockion's New Novel KATE. . - BONNET The Remarce of a Pirate's Daughter. rank R. Swckton, 'author of "Nudder "The Lady or the Tiger," etc ediustrated by A I Keller and H 12 mo. Paper, 750; cloth, $1.25 SKATE POSNEIT ix un novel of love, nei s and humor, snd it has been Stock ton hms given we. 8. Pot sow story by this futhor is an event in Pull, and the eveat Twoomes debly signifioant when we find such a jowome mingling of quaim humor and wn ® incident as is presented in DATE © NOW READY AT _ RE R. UGLOW & COS, *. Beoksellers, 141 Princess Street. We're Satisfied -- Aren't You? THAL We enrcy the paint that can he bought, sod guarantee Try a vam, soy Cnr, smd test for voursell. RAMSAY'S. MITCHELL'S HARDWAKE. RZOMS TO RENT. ALSO TABLE BOARD, IN CENTRAL LO eulity, Apply "A Whig omwec, 1m COMMERCIAL, ---- LIVERPOOL MARKETS, Liverpool, (12.30 pam., April 7.-Wheat, firm No, |, dorthern, vs. dd. ted winier, agoe; No. 1. Caitforniw, 6s 11d; curs, aides, new, Be. 240; ota, Bs. Bid; peas, ve. bln tend, dbs. ba; Jorn dw. 4d; lecon, jong, clear, light, dia; beacon, long, clear, twmvy, dom. Od; bacon, short,' clear. beh, dis, tallow, American, 20s. G3; tallow, Aus tinting, Ble tl; cheese, colored, 334. Co: ciwese, white, Sis. MONTREAL PHODUCE MARKETS. Mlowired, April Belkiioue receipts, 1,100 WW $5.00; Pu , $3.90 so o iv; wwraaght roller, 50 WA, BLrong gr 0 i bags, i No. b NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. do ri pen. Close, Pacific , bod, Iulk Bar w Tenens oo. © ei Sen" oer THE 5 PA. EDITION SECOND EDITION NEWS ALSC ON PAGE FIVE, COMMERCIAL MATTERM, What is Going on in the Busines World--The Market News, The city of Nelson, B.C. made $10,000 out of ite water works and light plants last year. Sugnr from the Danish Idan of St will be simitied 0 the of dey The United States steel corporation bas on its books orders to the amount of $150 000, | OA The Australian pariisgeat hiv placed ten Croix United States free on the free list. The duty is also to be takin off beer A reduction of fifty ernts a ton has made by the Anthracite coal Perms ylvania There are now in the United States 199.525 miles of railway, The outlook lor vailway building the present year is verw bright Tie Dover, Fang, corporation lms purchas od on eheetrie light plant at o eost of £142 298. The munogement and apparetes is Ame: roan. The price of Geel since places in New York state has fallen T on the pound. The shipments of buf from the went exvenly the demand, still decline. . 7 The flower growers of Bermada shipped 100,000 liliew to New York city fur Easter Sunday. The mowt of the lilies were wed in church decoration. In Bermuda flower grow: fg is a profitable industry. Last week's business on the Teronto stock xchange is said to have been the heaviest on record, although it was a short week of five dave, with only one session on Sater dav, yet dealings ran up to pearly 48.000 shares in stock apd $206,000 in bonds In commissions alone it is sated about $15,000 was made by the members According to chief Wiley, Burenu of © Chemisiry at jams and jellies sold in America are unfit for Juma 1dhd. The majority of from the cores amd parings oA apples yield excellent dyes for been weociation of \ 3 Faster in various aanl prices 'will of the Fuoderal Washington, the them ave made Color wd jams and jellies coloring textile fabrics md the fine "Obio tar dye, glucow wine"' is made from 'con ard alcohol without recourse to any product of the vine Within the next two years the Tilinois Cen tral railroad company double track from Chicago to Now Orleans This work is made necessary by the enormous in will have a company's freight traffic from to New Orleans. The enase of the all weslors points soithern city has been rapidly on New York as a grain export it almost equals it in the volume of jus news done, creeping wp point wntil Seemed To Be Mesmerised. R. 8. Dobbs writes to the Whiy, stating that the physician who at tended him, after his recent sudden illness at the opera house, assures him that there was nothing epileptic in his. iliness. He continues : "1 watch ed Prof. Hermann, with languid inter- est, do his card tricks, then | seemed to be under the influence of some sort of mesmerism, The lights on the age seemed to describe arcles; then s grew divamer and | lapsed into oblivion." My. Dobbs returns thanks to thee who assisted him. Report Not Correct. The statement freely made in the city and given to a Whig reporter by rersons that a young woman, attached to a down town office, had Leon looking for her husband, lately married, is stoutly denied, He is off on a trip for business purposes, and is in correspondence with his wile, who has fullest confidence in him. She is deserving of the regrets of those who circulated the report, and the Whig, too, regrets having been imposed up un. sever! Time For A Change. ¥. Pirde, in Hamilton, "Of couse the liberals have ad- rinistered the affairs pretty well, the ories say, but it is time for a change; turn them out. You see the force of that, don't you? You've heen a Presbyterian all your life ; it's time for a change! You've been an honest man this many years; it's time for a change | (Laughter). You've been a married man this many years; it's time for a change." (Laughter.) Caught In A Farm-Yard, Late 'on Saturday night four King- stonians, who were evidently out for a time, drove into the farmyard of Henry Rees, on the Bath road, near (Cataraqui. Thinkirg someone was in the yard for the purpose of stealing his chickens, Mr. Rees came out and sucoreden in capturing one of the young men. The other three escapad. The case will likely be settled be tween the parties. At The Grand. He sure and hear Plunket Greene and Dorothy Harvey, Thursday even "ing. Seats now om sale at Hanley's. See ad. & TRE DAILY WHIG, MONDAY, APRIL 7. [AN EVIDENCE OF BERDISH| ISOLATED CANADIAN THOUGH | DYING STILL FOUGHT ON. | Details of the Fight at Hart's | River Show Our Men, in| Charge of British Baggage, Repeisied the Repeated Attacks | of the Boers--One Party's Gal- lant Stand. Klerksdorp, Transvaal! Colony, | April 6. Details received of the bat | tie of Doornbalt Farm, near Hart's river, March 316, in which the British hao three officers and twenty font men killed and and 131 § men wounded, while the Boers baa 137 wen killed . or wounded, show that quite two thousand Boers opened a strong attack irom dJillerent points | with three guns and a pom-pom. This attack was made at a moment ! when the British had leit their bag gage on a lasger in charge of the Ca: | nadian contingent, and were galloping | the open plain with the inten | capturing a Poer convoy, discovered five miles sixteen officers HOTOSS tion of which had been ahead. Th Pritish g dismounted, de on the Boers «the baggage iy charge of the Canadians was sent 'for the British formed a camp and started digging | trenches. ; The shelling of the Boers stampeded the mules ecarrving provisions and caused confusion, but otherwise it was not very effective, many shells failing to explode. The Canadian front was attacked in strong numbers, but they gallantly repelled every attempt made by the Roers to break through. One party of the Canndians fought until all killed or wounded, and the last man, although mortally woynded, emptied two bandoliers of cartridges at the enemy and then broke his rifle The fighting was severe and general for fully three hours, but after the | Yeitish had entrenched, and the guns | got into action, they repelled numer ons and determined attacks made un der the personal exhortations of the Boer leaders ward night the fire ceased and the Roers retired The British then telegraphed for aid and further entrenched their camp for the night, 'and to await the arrival of Gen. Kitchener, but the Boers made | no attempt to renew the attack. | SIFTON CASE POSTPONED. Snes steadily, and, | opened a return | retired { wore gradually It is Said Mordens Were Spirited | Away. London, Ont., April 7.The Sifton murder trial has again been postponed as was hinted some days ago. Two important witnesses, James and Mar tin Morden, cannot be found and it is believed that this fact has led to the postponement The Mordens were brought here, and the story told, at the trial last fall when a pry dis wl on the case, was that the pri Gerald Sifton, made separate proposals to them the night |efore the tragedy to assist him to kill hiz fa ther, | Chief justice Falconbridge, who pr sides at the assizes, had only a week to spare and this may be the actual cause of postponement. The crown is reticent, but claim to be able to (lay | hands on the Mordens when they - so | desire. The young men haven't been seen about the city for two weeks past. 3 { BOER BARBARITY. Scotch Lady Narrates Shocking Example of Cruel Warfare. London; April-7~Writing from Ver- | eeniging, Transvaal, a Scotch lady re- | siding there narrates the following ex- | ample) of Boer "methods of barbar sm } "Some time back we shifted from | our old cottage to Vereeniging Sta tion, and the people who came in our place were = wprised one night by the Boers, sho sivipped them quite naked, | and took every bit of food they had. | The father just escaped by hiding in the grass. He had two daughters | about fourteen and fifteen years, and | the Boers stripped them also. "I'he mother pleaded with the Boers not 16 be so cruel and one Dutchman hit her in the chest with his rifle and told her to get out, for the English | would give them clothing in the morn- 1 ing. They would not even leave a hlanket, when asked, to cover their nakedness." { TO RALLY ON THE 16TH. When Negotiations With the Com- pany Occur. Montreal, April 7.-The committee | of C.P.R. telegraphers, which bas been here megotiating for the adop- tion of a new schgdule with the com- pany, has dispersed until the 16th | inst, when a conference committee | will be held with C. W. Spencer, gen- eral superintendent. The trackmen's committee ix still conducting negotia- tions with the company regarding their roquests, id A Strike Is On. Halifax, N.S, April T.-A strike among the stevedores assumed great er proportions to-day when the eonl handlers' union went out in sympathy. Nop-union men refuse to do the work of the strikers weeks ago in England wounds, arrived to-day at Halifax. i in the first | of Toronto, will settle at Park | well, | ship yard and works. ! offices in the | breakwater at { dav, i first | gard, and was PITH OF THE NEWS. Very Latest News Called From All Over the World. Thé Cape parliament has been fur ther progoguwed until August Ist. James Wills, Bracebridge, while in a demented condition, cut his throat with a razor, hut may recover. Football players guarded the polls ward of Chicago. The game is becoming actually useful No waste circulation in local week lies. All are read from end to end The | every issue, and by every member of the family, The secretary of the provincial board of health has vondemned the the pablic Wells in Belleville, Unt., as antit for ese W. W. Stuart has general homestead inspector, his du ties covering the whole of the north water. in been appointed | wast territories The Bertram engine works company, | Bur- | Ont., and spend $100,000 for \ Col. 8. B. Tundlum was struck by a hydranlie giant, and hurled fifty feet The stream of water struck him with terrific foree, causing his death. W.W. Cory, inspector of government Yukon, has also been appointed inspector of land titles of- {ices in the horth west territories. Burglars tortured an old man, John Holstein, a hermit, at Burnham, N. Y.. to get his money. Finding only $2.50, they beat him into insensibility. | Judge Pendergast was sworn in at Regina, NW.T., by lieutenant-governor Forget in the presence of premier Haultain, A. L. Sifton and Mr. Bul- yen. The SS. Corinthian arrived at Hali- fax, on Monday morning with one hundred and twenty-eight second and | three hundred and sixty-four passengers, There is trouble on the Canadian Northern railway between the man agement and the track men. The lat ter want a revision of the pay sche dule and contract. i The man killed on the C, P. R. at Franktown was Frank Cahill, of Montreal. He was twenty-one years of age and left Montreal on Monday week for the west The earl of Kimberley, literal leader in the British hovse of lords, and former foreign secretary, who has been ill for some time past, sufiered a seri ous relapse this morning. There is a chance for a rich Ameri ean woman to see the coronation of England's king by marrying a peer of ToT ge the realm. Ard there are women who | are perfectly willing to take the ir chance A Kentucky' girl is accompanymg { her offiep-seeking father on a stump- | {of a ing tour and playing the fiddle to win A large young men are deserting the fellow and dancing to her music Albanians took prisoners the Turk ish government official prisoners at Ipek, of some dv at Constantinople of Turkish infantry have fintched to Ipek The government is said to be ne gotiating for the purchase of the Stewart estate, in Ottawa, as a site for the Vietoria memorial other Albanians detained in" custo Two battalions been des | which will house the geological sur vey and museum. The estate is eivht acres in extent and is in the leading | ward in the city. subjected to severe strain on account of high water and ice, but now all danger ig considered past. A small the Northern Pacific waa carried away and that structure got bumps that gave it a terrible shaking The breakwaters at the other hridoes bridge some are all more or less damaged, but the | bridges themselves have not suffered hs KNEW KNISLEY AND RYAN. | Dr. Ross Well Acquainted With | the Two Wounded Soldiers. Dr. -Arthur Ross, who went through the South African campaign with the first Canadian mounted rifles, was well acquainted with Sergt. Knisley and Sergt. Ryan, who were wounded in the late engagement at river. Sergt. motnted Bnisley was rifles, under Col. Les wounded at Lilliefon tien on Nov, Tth. For conspicuous bravery there he was 'mentioned by Col. Lessard to the commander-in- chief. He staid with the regiment all i the ¥ay through its campaign. Lieut. Ryan was also with the first | mounted rifles, being sergeant of the | fourth troop, "B" | squad squad. He led the #iter Lieut. drew first blood for the Cana- 14th. at Springfon- in a prisoner Ryan thans, on April tein, when he brought for whom the authorities had a long | time been looking. as he was known to have shot British wounded. The division fell tenburg, and Col. Hutton called for yohinteers to follow them north. Ryan was sergeant in Lient. Young's company, which responded to the eall Vor his brovery in the fight that fol- lowed Col. Hutton mentioned Ryan to the vommander-inchief. This was on June 17th. 1901, Lieut. Ryan was avain mentioned early in Detember, for having held off an attack on one of the flanks, near Belfast, When the rifles left for pome in December he joined the late major Howard's scouts. In the first an was in charge of one guns. They were ambushed by the Boers, Ryan and the sergeant ma- jor were taken prisoners, one man was killed and another wounded. Dr. Ross entertained a great admiration for Ryan, whom he characterizes asa thorough soldier. : ---------- Herbert B. Collier, Newburgh, bas been appointed clerk of the fourth di- wish { of Lennox and Adding- See { dowmnion on heroic conduct of | ture will be a coronation prive. { collies, St. | great Danes, fox and Irish terriers. | inches, | city number of susceptilde | and then demanded the release | in the museum, | | energetic temperament x | undue re on Satur- | I | drinks less { wine satisfy him in these | with an | mother, He is | artistic taste, has the long, supple fin Hart's | with the | | whe said he was an | that he . fo - Porden's death. | gatherings | unbelief { things (1), {and (2), upon the track of two | woman of this | guns and a commando north of Rus COAMBERLAIN'S PRAISE. MAINTAIN SPLENDID TRADI TIONS OF VALOR. | Details for the Fourth Contingent Expected at the Militia Head- quarters at Any Moment. Ottawa, April 7.~His excellency has { received the following cablegram from i the colonial secretary Chamberlain to Lord Minto : April 5.1 congratulate Cana Delarey and London, with casualties, action heavy {ian rifles in Deeply regret | desire to ekpress hemrtielt sympathy | with the relatives of those who have | given their lives to maintain splendid i traditions of Canadian valor Signed) "CHAMBERLAIN." The details for the fourth conting ent are expected at the department of militia every moment. The minister of militia says that the eontingent will be on the same lines as the last con tingent. The pay after reaching South Africa will be yeomhanry pay, and the term of enlistment will be for one year. To-day the contracts for mili tia ¢lothing are being arranged for. { They will go to the government con tractors. Lieut.-Col. Hodgins, secretary of the D.R.A., hap just received the of ficial programme for this year's Bis ley competition. The chief = new fea It is expected that the prize money will amount to. considerably over £1,000, | of which £600 has already been pro mised. The competition will be open {to all British subjects, civil, military and colonial. The kennel elub show opened at Ot fawa to-day, with 287 dogs in the kennels. The principal classes lernards, bull terriers, were MARCONI THE MAN. Nervous and Energetic Musician Of Ability. | Frank Leslie's Magazine five feet ten wellknit hg Marconi stands about has a shim, but vidences energy and great capa + work, and in face, form or chart shows little trace of his Italian paternity. His head is large and well shuped, with a high forchead and sloping crown. His manner is re carriage erect, and his While his relations assistants are pleasant aml ure, teristics served, his bearing confident with his | comradelike, he never permits it to be | forgotten who is the master spirit He impresses one as a man possessed great idea, an all-absorbing thought, from the contemplation of which he detaches himseli with diffi culty. He has neither the volubility of the Italian nor the cheery cordial ity of the Irishman, He most resein bles the cold. deliberate, almost stolid Englishman--a strange fact in view of his parentage. In-only one respect aoes he show ewidence of Irish blood genial, winning smile which sometimes flickers on his face for a moment or two, giving way again to his ordinary aspect of extreme grav iy He is of an nervous and He would til all day with his kites" on Signal bill, pulling and hauling with his work intensely " : pee | men, 4 en o swing slipper woul The bridges about Winnipeg have heen | nt " as 1 th 3 Missing PP ould I worr him at his hotel on returning, He is easily "rattled" by trifles when in the stress of work, or by a miscar | riage of his plang, ana his plea against 1 sure 15, "Hold on, or I'l lose my head !" He smokes little and A cigarette and a light respects unusual in a-man Italian father and an Irish gifted witha keenly Marconi is a musician ol talent, as seems proper gers and restless activity of the vir and possesses a most hearing It was his musical tROso, acute sense of { training which enabled him to devise | the process of syntony or tuming by which he alters the periodicity of the | oscillations in the ether which enables | the intelligible interchange of his sig pals. Two Things Affected Him. Antliff. in his sermon in Methodist church, last ev. Dr. Queen street | might, remarked that he had recently met a Kingstonian--one who if he mentioned the name all would know--- unbeliever hut would like to know more about christianity, He was advised to put himself in the sphere of Chris tian influence, to attend and to search for the truth himself. had been shaken by two the testimony and confi dence of president McKinley in the christian religion, on his death-bed the life of a true christian ity. The citizen had wen influenced by her upright, pious holy life, and these two things had impressed him as evidence that faith and trust in Christ must he g reality A Runaway Smash-Up. This afternoon, the grey horse re cently discarded hy the fire depari- ment. while attached to a buggy at the lower station. yard, galloped on to the street, smashed the buggy up against a telegraph »ols, ran into a rig at the Grand Union hotel, and then, turning shout, rushed along to wards Queen street. But the grey, though fast, wasn't fast enough for fireman Shanpon, who hurled himgell at the animal as it rushed past the station and brought it to a stand still. The buggy was wrecked. Mavvoyent Bey, who was Turkish minister to Washington a few years agp bas been appoisted by the sultan prince of the island of Samos. The isl- and is tributary to the porte, but is autonomous, and the people were dis satisfied with their late ruler. A Maori contralto js singing in Lon. don. She is the princess Te Rangi Pai, a half-beved, ber father being a British colonel stationed in New Zos- songs. = ting tired of its fatness of the town are think- Sp deer hills in suitable dust and ashes religious | The citizen said his | en te ir A A SY SO -- ---- (1 Ib.and 2 1b.cans) : IS PICKED PURITY Strong in Purity. Fragrant in Strength. CHASE & SANBORN, . . MONTREAL Ano BOSTON. | i IMITATORS : ARE { MANIFOLD. a ee ladies' Suits. This is to tell you about the LADIES' SPRING SUITS we have now ready to show. 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