Re Booksellers, 141 Princess Street. -------------------------- ld MY J WANT HAMMERS, a KALSOMINE, FURNITURE STAIN VARNISH, FLOOR PAINT AND © SCREEN WIRE. - : Mitchell has them all and the it assortment in town MITCHELL'S WARDWARE. NOTICE I Hereby given the public that I propose making it warm for all persons usifig my coal next win Your order is solicited. 5 PI JT EDITION NEWS ALSO ON PAGE FIVE. -- What is Going on' in the Busines World--The Market News, Chiengo poekers say (he comsumption of beef haw decrensed 374 per cent. An immeves saw mill ls being build Fiurgwon. Palis Dy Cockburn & Sous. A citer and vinegar combion is belo forme od in Rochester with a capital of $2,000,000. Wool Is selling in Hamilton for wokbied ot 18¢. a pound and unwashed at To a pond The first pig of lead has been ~rixluocd in Canada af the Canadinn smelting works at Trail, BC A yuneter of a million bushels of onts are to be shipped from Edmonton to South Al rien by way of British Columbia. John RK. Dresel, son of the late A, J. Drexel, is said to have lost "500,000 in 'the coliapwe of the Interentional power company. The cheesd expugpts from Montreal to Bei tain Jaet week were 20,498 boxes, compared with 10884 boxes for the same week in 1vol, Ohicago packers are offering fabulous prices for eugs iu Manitoba snd Alberta. Many formers are welusing to sell 10 their agents, fpaviog a combine, Build ng operations to the amonmt of $2. 000,000 will have to be camcelled in Phila delphia, owing to the action of the strikers in different trades. Bod fell 20. & pound in Toronto Saturday. Prime roasts were offered at 124. oa pound, Hough meat sold at Be, a pound. The but: chore bad a large stock left on thoir ives ov purchasers were sy in buvioe, The prospectus of tim Dunderiand iron ore company, with o capital of £2,000,000 has boon syed. The dirvovorate shvws a board of. practical men to Work he the files willing patent the extensive low de posits of iron ore in Norway. " A Very Busy Man. Macager McGuigan, of the Grand Trimk, Ts one of the busiest railroad officials in the country at present. While he has been reputed ere this to travel more than any railroad man in the United States or Cavada, his mileage this spring is heavier than usual. About four-fifths of the time be has been on the road, looking after the vast amownt of construction work the Grand Trunk has undertaken, Af ter he has the operations fairly un- der way he will have two other prob- lums to deal with, the démands of the trainmen and telegrapiiors on the system, for increased wages and bet terment of other conditions for them. The trainmen, a term which comprises conductors, brakemen and baggage Fandlers, will first receive considera: tion. This class of employees on the system nambers 1,000 men, and they are all asking for a substantial in ervase. Some are underpaid, it is ad mitted, but the company may claim that others are overpaid and desire ty i portly at the expense of at was bere some time ago in connection iron-workers, ar rived in the city. He will confer with the company in an endeavor to settle the diffienlty. Judgment For $327,000 Against The Dominion FOR FAILURE 10 RATIFY THRE CONTRACT WITH MAC KENZIE & MANN, The 43rd Regiment Will March Upon Ottawa With All the Manoeuvres Incident to War- fare -- Two Meals Provided. Ottawa, May 6.--Justice Burbidge, on Sawrday, gave judgment for $327,000 in the petition of right brought by Messrd, Mackentie &. Mann against the dominion government, on account of the failure of the senate to ratify the contract for the sounstruc tion of the Stickeon River railway. This amount covers actual disburse ments made by the firm for materials, as well as, charges for time and wer vices of Messrs. Mackenzie & Mann and staff, The original claim was for £140,000, but this was reduced by amounts realized from the sale of horses, rails "and anaterials, The 43rd regimént will hold a two days' outing thir month which will partake of the nature of active cam- paign cxperience, minus the casualty list. The regiment, on May 20rd, will go to Stitteville, fifteen miles from Ottawa; hy train, and from march on the gity, The various out flanking and scouting manouvies will he executed and the march conducted the samé as if in warfare Only pro visions for two, menls will be taken, so 'that, for further grub, the farmers will be asked to supply it. Each com- pany will have "its own convoy wag- gon, with ment will tent out for one night. The experience is expected to prove of groat practical value from a military standpoint, The meeting of French Canadians to select a candidate for the Ontario election will be held to-might. The names of alderman Vincent and Em manuel Tasse are mentioned. ¥. X, St, Jacques, proprietor of the Russell house, was asked to ran but declined. Harry Sunderland, of Concession street, and David Colquhoun, of Al- monte, members of Remington's scouts, returned to the capital this morning. Colquhoun's time of service had expired and Sunderland was in- validea home. Both are in good health now and speak with enthusiasm of their experiences in the land of veldt and enteric. They made the trip to South Africa as citizens ana en: listed in the scouts at Durban. Dur ing their engagement the Canadians saw plenty of fighting. They were in the costly engagement at Tafil Kop, in Deeember, when forty-eight mem- bers of Domant"s Horse, with which they 'were fighting, were killed or mortally wounded. Of the number three were killed by lightning. Both Colquhoun and = Sunderland agree that the Boer families in the concen tration camps received the best of treatment, better than that extended the British soldiers in many cases. The Canadians questioned . many Boers, who were captured, asking them why they continued fighti in the face of inevitable defeat. "Well, it's this way, our wives and children are well cared for by the British and we have nothing: to trouble ws on that score; mo we might as well be fighting as doing nothing," was the common answer. Unless peace nego: tintions are satisfactorily settled the Canadians do not believe the war will be terminated inside of two vears. The block-house system is working admirably and has proved to he one of the best schemes adopted for the rownaing up of the Boers. OVERWHELMED BY BEER. And Scalded From Head to Foot . . =Can't Live, Toronto, May 6.-Franz Hoffman, ageil twenty-five vears, and unmar- ried, an emplotee of Reinhart's brew: ery, was standing in front of , lacge beer tub containing 4 great quantity ol boilmg beer, this merming, when the great heat forced the door off and Hoffman was bverwhelmed hy the hoiling fluid. He was terribly scald: ed from neck to feet, and it is thought garnvt possibly recover, He is now at the general hospital. THE MINISTER RESIGNED. After Congregation Got Through Vestrymen Resigned. Winnipeg, May 6.-The vestry and church wa of St. Luke's church, recently i Rev. Me. Thomas that his salary had been reduced 8300 and tha rosigned last Warsaw, f.~Demonstrations in : w, May rations in favor of the stabi kingdom of Finland occurred here to- \ became wo there | tents, ete., and the regi- | THE DAILY WHIG, TUESDAY, MAY © re nisi PITH OF THE NEWS. : s-- The Very Latest News Culled From All Over the World. Op Monday steel rails were turned out for the first time in Canada, ®t Sault Ste. Marie. The pope was tly distressed when informed of the death of arch bishop Corrigan, of New York. According to the assessor's returns the population of Carleton Place is 4,116, a gain of forty-four over last year. "Representative J, 8. Salmon, of the fourth distriet of New Jersey, died suddenly to-day at his home in Bos wn, NJ. The Allan line steamer Tosian, from 8t. John, NB. for Liverpool, arriv- ed at Moville, at 5 a.m., on Tuesday, 6th inst. 3 The S88. American, Leyland line, from = Great Britain, passed Father Point, iawardi, at 11.30 pm. on Monday : The value of the sea! catch thix sea son totals $150,000. No vessel of the fleet sustained serious injury and only three men jerished. Jobn D. Cassels was electrocuted at the Chafleston state prison, Boston, Mass, this morning, for the murder of Miss Mary Lane, in Longmeajlow, February 21st, 1901. The Erie railway shops at West end, Jersey City, were destroyed by fire early this morning. A number of day coaches and some machinery were de- stroyed. Loss $75,000. A 'case of small-pox was reported to the provincial health department, to- day, from Peel township, Wellington. it has been traced to- Berlin. Two ontpreaks dre reported from . dine, A bulletin posted av Castle' Loo, at 2 pm, to-day, announced that queen Wilhelmina's temperature had "'con- tinged normal up to the present" and added that Her majesty's "other symp- tons do not eall for special remark." Violent earthquake shocks which oe- curred at three o'clock this morning are reported at Bordeaux, Bayonne, Pau and other places in the same re- gion. They lasted sixteen seconds. The reports do not mention any dam- er Kincar- he flow. of lava from the volcano on Mount Pelee, island of Martinique, which lwegan Saturday last, bas com pletely destroyed the Guerin factories situated ahout two miles from Bt. Pierre. Jt is. reported that 150 per sons have disappeared. A great panic prevails af St, Pierre. The ship laborers' society, of Que bee, in trouble with the Canadian management of the Leviand line, who had insisted that the society not only should make further concessions, but should lower the rate of wages to twenty-five and thirty cents per hour, has decided to make no more tonces- stone, but would agree to work at the same rate as was paid last year. Summons Came Suddenly. A very sudden death. took place this moming when Aaron W. Hall, who resides on Princess street, just east of Corbett"s undertaking estab- lishment, passed into the great be youd. The deceased had been guite well, and last night went into a licks groeery to purchase some goods, There he stood and chatted for some time. Early this' morning he was taken ill, and before a doctor could arrive, he had died of heart failure The deceased was seventy years of age, and formerly belunged to Gan- anogue. He resided here for some time, and was well-known as employee of the Singer sewing machine com- pany. Recently Hall had heen living in Kalamaroo, Mich., but removed to Kingston in August last. In politics the deceased was 5 conservative, and in religion , Methodist, being on at tendant gt Sydenham street church. A wile and family of five grown-up children, by the first wile, survive. The remains will he taken to Ganan- ogue on Thursday for interment, Oldest Gypsy Dies. Recently a somewhat remarkable man passca away at Whithy Wood, Berkshire, - England, one Frederick Draper, who claimed to be the oldest gypsy in the world. Although there ia no entry in the parish register, it ap- ars to he beyond question that old Per was horn at Hix near Henley on-Thames, in June, 1797, and was, therefore, in his one hundred and fifth year. He lived with bis son, Welling tpn Draper, who was born in the year aterloo was fought. The power of "the evil eye" of the witch was fully believed in then, Dmper used to tell of a witch at Farnham, who sade the cows run wild and prevented them from giving milk: of another witch who lived at Henley-on-Thames, and who was thrown into the river ami floated like a cork. The Drapers were typieal vendwellers, attending fairs all over England, selling baskets, clothes =. and other griicles of gypsy vier «l ise, A Lacrosse Team Assured. A largely attended lacrosse club meeting was beéld in the Whig building fast might. Peters was i structed to correspond with Belleville and Brockville, with a view of = ar: im na {THE UNDESIRABLE KEPT OUT AND NOT A FEW ARF LEFT IN CANADA. Prices of Stocks Are Not Advane- ing Since the Recent Reaction -- Opening of the Horse Show. Montreal, May 6.-Frank Pedley, dominion superintendent of hmnigra tion, has beew in the city for a few days, in company with an official of the Indian department, Ottawa, look ing into the charges that undesirable mumigrants are being left in Canada, after having been rejected by the Un- ited States officials, posted in this ¢ity to keep out undesirable immi- grants from the United States, prin cipally those suffering from diseuses and paupers, Mr. Pedley is said to have found that the percentage of un desirables now going into the United States has been greatly diminished through the vigilance of the officers in guestion. The to the sulphur cargo of the steamship Forestholme, by the re- cent fire in her hold, has been ascer raiped to amount to $5,000. A survey on the hull is now in progreds. : Although it was considered that the heaviness in the stock market, caused by the Wall street troubles, is about over, there is apparently no disposi tion on the part of the general public to rush in and buy stocks and, in consequence, prices do not rapidly re- cover from the recent reaction. Trad< ing, to-day, was very dull and Cana- dian: Pacific was the only stock which evidenced a strong feeling, recovering to 196, The official opening of the Montreal horse show is in progress this after noon, avd great interest is being tak en in the event, The entries are the largest in number on record and the importance of the show, as a sociely affair, is increasing. There are a large number of horses here from such plac es as Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec and the outside exhibitors are said to be making a very strong showing A LITTLE BOY DROWNED. Slipped Off a Log in Water Near K. & P, Round House. John Hastidgs, a seven-year-old lad, son of Mrs. Louisa M. Hastings, Bagot street, near Dufferin, was drowned at noon in the waters near to the K.n-sign and Pembroke rail way round hove. The lad, along with a companion, nhmed Harold Rae, was playing on thd logs in the little bay. They were running over them. One would throw his hat out and chase after it. Young Hastings in his travel over the logs slipped and went into the water. Rae was so frightened that instead of calling aid from the round house, he ran for his home on Bagot street, where he told that Johnnie had fallen into the water. It was then too late to save the lad. His body was drawn from the water by "Henry Blake and taken to Reid's undertak ing establishment. The men at the round house have often complained of the persistency of boys in playing about the logs in the water and have been fearful that some day a sad tragedy would be enacted. Dr. Mundell, who was notifi od of the accident, decided that under the circumstances an inquest was not necessary. He is of opinion that the police should take steps to prevent lads from playing on the logs in that portion of the city. The drowned boy was a son of the late Albert E. Hastings, who lost his life on the tug Bronson, burned at Alexandria Bay three years ago, He was a pupil of Miss Walsh's class in Cataraqui school. WORD FROM WINDSOR. About the Late Battle at Hart's River. Windsor, Ont., May 6.--E. B. Allan, a son of customs inspector Allan, who is now serving with the Canadian mounted rifiés, has sent a letter home, the first to reach the city since the battle at Hart's River, where every man but one was either killid or wounded. Of the fight he states; We lost seventy "men. Nobile Craig; Windsor, was taken prisoner, but after being stripped of his clothes was given his liberty, and came back into camp. Ronson, Windsor, was wound od twice, once in the thigh and once in the head. Both wounds were nasty ones, hut are not serious. He is in hospital and is bearing up brave lv.. 1 had one of my horses shot from under mie and the beast had to be killed." Had A Short Letter. Mrs. Broce Carruthers has just re cvivad a brief note written by her husband the next day after the battle at Klienhardt's river. He said be had heen through 5 very warm siege and be greatly deplored the Joss of life He commended the gallantry and bravery of the men he commanded They brought honor and valor to the name of Canmdians. it, thank goodness, ana the men that are left say be is a hero, and be 8." A Revolver At The School At the solicitation: of several rents, inspector Ridd investig a boy attend schiol had been i i5E 3 fF RITE tin nih 5. ¢ money. At ap Hck hizet WEDN stands 1 polka 0 fast ) 5 Set New! Lace Cury ins From 25c. a pair, all { to $9 a paiPA Bed-room Curtains, y $1, $2, $3, $3.50. Special Dining-room Curtains, ties, up Parlor Curtains, $6,.97.50, $4.: any many othe Shade Blinds,' A complete asso made to order, to fi window. Rew oR (vertiseme Something very speyen will be ready for THURSL at Don't Fore.. J. LAIDLAW '& | When Ladies Talk It's Usually Something Worth Listening To. | | ' ,¥ and 273 Hecond ose below 1 * of Just now many of them are talking of the | pe And those who have seen the ne: at Tue Lockgrr SHOE STORE most. Low Shoes Oxfor and igh Laced. Prices, $2.50. $3, oN Co., Princess " the best. Prices th™ " i ~~ wd why oe. Es HITECT fre ok a i ---- v &