What Is Going On !n the Business 2 World--The Market News. Two thirds of the Usrtias super Droduet is exportal, In 1900 there were made wm this cowniry 21.260.000 gross of butions. An olicial spots gives the estimated ad ditional cost mecosary to complete the Swrian raiirvads ne $56,000,000. It in to be espebrid that the visible sop Ply' of anger jn the world Aurmst Sle (the end of the Europetsn sensomi, 1908, will sontinie 10 show an enormously overstocked market. Nebonaka fartote are priparing to harvest the largest crop of small grain in the wiate's bstory, lo many countios wheat will go almost a iii crop, and hat in few will it nll below ninety per emt. Outs have revived wonderfully wod will be more then wighty por cont. When ib 4 comddered that there has boom o twenty Der cent. increses in the scresge of winter wheat asd thet whent is now guoded at seventv-iwo cents in Chicago sod oats at Jorty three omds, prices thirty pec cent. higher then a few yours ago, some des of what this means finencial fy to the suriculturisis of the state may be leaned. A Clergyman's Wrath. A week since the Whig copied from a leading Toronto paper an item sia ting that the Rev. Mr. Hague was en- gaged to a Toronto young lady. Not one member of the «ditorial staff on duty knew this clergyman or whether be was married or single. The item was, therefore, guite naturally copied. Put one other member of the stafl de tected the error 'in print, and in the next half of that day's edition the name of Rev. Mr. Haslam was, after enquiry, substituted. To those who knew Mr. Hagwe as a married man there could be no feeding but that of a mistake, and these mistakes are very few when the hundreds of an Snouncements made daily are consider ed. Those who did not know Mr. Hague or might consider him a bache- lor or a widower, the item would not be prejudiced. Yat the Whig is in receipt of a most offensive, deliberate ly insulting letter from this clergy. man who preaches deep spirituality very properly marked 'personal.' Yesterday auctioneer Mills sold the household goods of Capt. Lafrance hia The sale was well attended and satis- factory prices were realized. Granulated stigar in 100 1b, bags, at low prices, at Muliin's grocery. Stamped ALDRON Are Always Right. The Prices Are Low. For Ladies', Girls' Boys', Men, CABLECRAN NOT PUBLIC NAVY DEPARTMENT READY T0 MEET ANY EXIGENCY Which May Arise in the South | American Country -- Present | State of Affairs is Said to Be the Result of the Revolution- ary Movements Against Presi- dent Castro. Washington, June 25.~The state de- partment has received 8s cablegram from United States minister Bowen at Caracas. The officials declined to minke public the text of the despatch but it is understood that it makes out u critical state of aflairs arising from the present vevolutionary movements inst president Castro. he ay department stands ready to meet almost. any exigency which may arise in Venezuela. The Cinein- nati and Topeka are lying at La Gua- ira and the gunboat Merietta is en route to San Juan, Porto Rico. The department's intention is to have the Haricita proceed thence to Colon and relieve the Machias, but she will lie at San Juan until it appears assured that her services will mot be needed to re-enforce the Cincinnati and Topeka in protecting American: lives and property in Venczuela. SANFORL IS ALIVE. There is Hope That He Will Be Rescued. Paris, Ont., June 25.--Joshua San ford, imprisoned at the bottom of a sixty foot well, on the Bkelly farm, has not yet been liberated. The iron casing, running down the well, serves as a medinm of communic~tion be tween the prisoner and the world, and by tapping on this casing he is able to lot those engaged in the work of rescue know that he is still alive. It in believed the bricks of the wall will have formed an arch thus protecting him. from being erushed to death. Those working for the release have got down about thirty feet, digging prac- tically a second well close to the other, this being considered the safest plan. There is little hopes of reaching Sandford before night. RESULT OF ROW. A British Columbia Man Shot in a Saloon. Lethbridge, Man., June 25. Thomas Donevan, a railway man, of Elks, B. C., was shot and killed in Crockfort's saloon, Swetgrass, Montana, by the proprietor, who already had an unen- viable record. Croeckford surrendered himself. The affair took place on Sun- day night last and was the result of a drunken row. ENTERED A PROTEST. Against the Return of Dr. Pyne, East Toronto. Toronto, June 25.--The liberals have entered au protest against the election of Dr. Pyne, in East Toronta, at Os goode hall. The petitioners are Jos- eph Thornton, M. F. Hogan and J. Delaney, and the charges are the usual ones of bribery and corrupt practices. x Frontenac Cheese Board. Kingston, June 25.--~There was a small attendance of salesmen at to day's session of the Frontenac cheese hoard. "The buyers present were; Messrs. * Murphy; Bissell, MeKingon, Alexander and Thompson. Bidding was openad by L. W. Murphy at Yc. and closed at 9%¢., bid hy 0. C. Bis gelli: These factories had cheese on sale: i White--Glendower, 60; Collins Bay, 100; Hinchinbrook, 50; Medel, 90; Cataraqui, 90; Forest, 100; Harting ton, 70; Farmers' Friend, 150. Colored--Silver Springs, 93; Thou- sand Jeland, 75 Elginburg, 100; Frontenac, 33; Sand Hill, 65; Rose Hill, 30; Pine Hill, 90; Morning Star, 60;. Granite Hill, 100; Glenvale, | 120; Glenburnie, 75; Cold Springs, 100; "Odessa, 200; St. Lawrence, 335; Arigan. 30. 1.9% bo registered, of were 1.916 boxes i , © which 1,226 were colored and 690 white. The sales made at 9c. were: To 0. C~Rissell-Pine Hill, Rose Hill, Collins Bay, Gleavale. To W. Murphy--Cold Springs, Porest, 81. Lawrence, Silver Springs, Elginburg, Thousand Island. The old rules and regulations of the board were adopted and will be regis: tered, A motion by P. Wilmot, to strike out the clause requiring sales men to roecive a sixteenth of a cent move for cheese sold off the board, was lost. There was some talk of wsking Prof. Hart to act as inspector of cheese, to settle disputes between salesmen and buyers, bat action was taken, { for B151,408, claims Lows, hy J. Gunn, sn old and lic spirited citizen, of Whitby, is dead. : At Antwerp the count of Flanders has resigued as conunander-in-chef of the army. ~ I'he steamer Leland iv reported afire offi Houghton, Mich. A crew has gone to the rescue. Forest fives threatened the town of Garfield, Uol. "A change of wind sav+ wi the place. ! In view of the "complete upheaval Rir Wilirid's future movements are quite undecided. , E. Bristol succeeds G. F. Marter as vice-president of the Ontario conser vative association. The Winnipeg rowing club will be re- peesentod this year at the Canadian nativnal regatta. ¢ Ths body of Joseph Gauthier, pros- pector, has been found in the English river near Ignace. To-morrow a service of prayer for the king will be held in St. Peter's church, Cobourg, Ont. A. A. Ayer, Montresl, is being sued aingt the With- am shoe company which, it is said, he assumed, Dean Sage, Albany, NY. died at Camp Harmony Anglican club, on Restiguche river, N.B., on Monday ai- ternoon. . it is officially announced that "the publication of the honors list on the accession of the coronation has been postponed, : Sergt. Roeison, Windsor, of the Canaclian mounted rifles, is suffering from. brain, fever, and is in a eritical condition. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, just back from a trip to the coast, is highly gratified with the conditions prevailing in the weet. Mrs. Terry, Now York, arrived here to-day, and will proceed to-morrow to het sunimer cottage on Indian lake, up the Rideau. Patrick's stock barns, at Ilderton, were destroyed by fire, only the live stock being saved: The loss is esti- mated at $8,000. Most of the celebrations arranged for Thursday, in honor of the coron- ation have been postponed on account of the king's illness. The Ontario license holders' protec tive association will put up a cam- paigh in cennection with the referen- dum on December 4th. All the coronation events in Mon. treal have been cancelled. The food for the children's picnic will be sent to charitable institutions. John Halliday, of Lyn, treasurer of Elizabethtown township, is short ia his accounts, according to his own statement, some $4,300. Floods are reported in the Brandon and Griswold districts of Munitoba. The Assiniboine fiver is rising at the rate of one inch per hour. Robert Hotchkiss, a three-year-old boy, met fire to his father's house while playing with matches. He was burhed to death, and the house bad- ly scorched. At Rochester, N.Y¥., Mary Otis, sec- one daughter of Glen. Elwell 8. Otis, retived U.S.A, and Ralph Isham, Chicago, were marcied at Trinity Episcopal church. Jane Toppan, the Boston nurse who was sent to an asylum for life on the charge of murder; has confessed that her viethin® pumber thirty-one, She also admits setting fires. Joseph C. Griffin, Goderich, govern- or of Huron county jail, and Miss Elenear Mary Masterson, daughter of the late Patrick Masterson, Dundas, Ont., were married to-day. Nine suicides have been recorded in Meriden, Conn., during the - past two months, the last being that of Kal man Levstone. a well-todo Hebrew, Residents think 'a suicide club existe. Miss Mary ' C. Macpherson, B.A. Hamilton, Ont., has won the medal presented by lady Minto to the gradu: ate taking the Kighest honors at the Ontario normal school of domestic science and art. Patrick H. Flynn, aged thirty-four, a deck hand on the steamer United Empire, was drowned in the St. Clair river, opposite the G.T.R. wharves, at Point Edward, on Tuesday. He fell from the gang plank while getting aboard the boat. Flynn is supposed to belong to St. Albans, Vermont. The jewellery store of Jacob Shapi- ro, Brooklyn, N.Y., wos on Tuesday robbed of a iray containing ninety- seven rings valued at 832,500. While 5 second man engaged 'the jeweller's daughter in conversation, and lered hor to the street door; his com- panion stole the rings. The girl was alone in the store at the time. -------------------- To Visit The St. Lawrence. The prince and prir cess Engeliot- chefi, of St. Petersburg, Russia, and Chicago, will arrive at the 'Frontenac hotel, Rovind Island, on July 6th, to spend gh wetks upon the St. Law- rence. The i mother ' few yours ago, the latter tending to lecture from standpoint upon Siberia. The anar- chists in the United States are said to have caused the woman t6 aban- don the i i He pid: Es i RICE'S LAWYER MAY SAVE HIM FROM GALLOWS, Government Has Received Little Official Information From London--Case Against a Coun- tex{diter Dropped. Ottawa, June 25.~The government has received no further official in formation from London, in reference to the king. The ministers in town are being supplied with the press bulletins, but beyond that have no information. T. C. Robinnette, Toronto, is here pressing the claims of Fred Lee Rice to exécutive clemency. He is arrang ing for an interview with the minister of justice and the council will likely deal with the matter to-day. He pleads that there is not a seintilla of proof to show that Rice fired a shot in connection with she murder for which be was convicted. The present season, on account of continued wet cold weather, is not favorable to the summer resorts. 'At this time last year the police had scores of houses to watch while the owners were away, and there are onl nineteen yet vacant. Farmers are al- so commencing to complain of the eon- vimged coolness which is retarding ih. rhe erown has dropped the case against Francis Martin, the alleged counterfeiter, of Ottawa, for lack of evidence. The dies found on her per: son was nos completed, and he says they were to be used in connection with a perpetual motion scheme, Alexander Sinclair, a railway en- gineer, 'was found lying on Sparks street carly this morning in an un- conscious condition with a cracked skull and bruises. It was thought that he was the victim of foul play, but as his watch and money were un- disturbed. this theory was scouted. He was taken to St. Luke's hospital and died at noon, never having recovered consciousness, Death was caused by hemorrhage of the brain. The doctors say the mishap ay have heen caused by the mar. taking convalsions and falling heavily to the sidewalk. The relatives hint at foul play and have asked for an' inquest. Deceased was thirty years of age and unmarried. KINGSTONIANS IN SORROW. The News of King's Illness Cre- ates Deep Feeling. Citizens of Kingston, in common with all throughout the British em- pire, are saddened by the grave in telligence sent out from Buckingham palace, where lien, critically ill, the nation's head, king Edward VIL News that the king had been stricken came as a great shock to King stonians, and cansed them the deepest pain. Expressions of sorrow were everywhere heard, and the newspaper 'offices were besieged by anxious ones desirous of learning the lat est intelligence concerning the condi: tion of the royal patient. As quickly a# the press despatches came to hand the tale they told were bulletined on the Whig boards, where thousands of citiens read them throughout the day. Merchants and professional men mae a point of visiting the Whig. bulletin boards once every hour during the day to learn the latest news from Buckingham palace. An air of sadness prevailed among the groups of anxious citizens who, from time to time, gathered in front of the Whig Tuilding, and while everyone acknowledged the graveness of the king's condition, all expressed the hope that the advancing hours would hring their beloved soverign past the erit*al point and on to the fair road to recovery. Little else was talked of throughout the city, and while sorrow was ex- pressed at the king's illness, expres- gion was given of regret for those throughout the British empire, more especially for Londoners, who had ar ranged to suitably mark the corona- tion by celebrations, but whose cal culations were now so badly disar ranged. Kingston bad not gone deeply into this phase of the pvent, but nevertheless keen disappointment is felt over the sad illness that has befallen th ruler of the nation. A Doleful Public Picture. Ainslos's Magatine. The business of government in all ages and all nations has always been mote or less corrapt. In America our municipal governments are such rich stores on which the corrupt may draw that there is scarcely an honest ly- administered city in lhe whole of the United States. "A public man mist live up to his prominent posi tion," these rascally freebooters say, and so they steal with an easy con science and live with 5 valbar sump- tuousmess and lush luxury which daz- zlea those who behold it. Not only the dishonest are affected by this ne- cessity for luxury. The public suffers because the honest man cannot, il he have not a private fortune, afford to strve, A congressman, who lives on his pay in Washington mast live ina boarding-house or a cheap hotel. He can afford no luxuries and still Le honest. The swme may be said of cabinet officers. A man without a for tune cannot afford to take smch Place unless he use it merely as Tesgil Bie + ih i ---- Stop Buying Millinery Velveteen for Skirt Binding. When of a yard of velveteen to cut into str al an of 11 a velveteen is you that was never intended for skirt-edge wear. It wy woven for trimming hats, etc. S. H.a M. Redfern, bias corded velvet -- is If you do not find the letters made from velveteen . a re 'H-&M: for skirt bindings, . A dyed and durable. on. igebin Moding theyarent ihe ie ii G6 SUPEETEETEEY IBISISESISESIE: URSINAS -- As is well known we are the largest Dealers in YARNS AND FANCY WOOLS between Mon- treal and Toronto, and if there is a wool bargain going we are among the very first to know of it. Read the Following Carefully. SESIISUS ISH INASEIRNSIIIS We Secured a Rare WOOL BARGAIN The Other Day And Will Share It With You TO-MORROW, FRIDAY, NAS 4,700 SKEINS "SHETLAND FLOS Pertet Wool, all new this spring. Put up in the regular 63%4c. skeins. ; COLOKS : White, Black, Helio, Light Blue Pink. Sale Price To-morrow, Friday and Saturday, 3%c. Skein. ALL SALES FOR CASH ONLY. J. LAIDLAW & SON NARAPAST Np ANA ran Grand Trunk Announcemen Holiday Season. Make your plans now. Arrange your trips arly. The train service this season on the railroads willsur- pass anything hitherto known in this country. All TRUNKS AND VALISES purchased at the LOCKETT SHOE STORE, Kingston, will becar- ried free if checked on either first or second dass tickets. BY ORDER OF LSSK _ -- ------ 1 | : Skirt rotector | | | : | |