Daily British Whig (1850), 21 Aug 1902, p. 1

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® H WHIG. a 69TH YEAR. NO. 195. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THU re RSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1902. --t EDITION. -- -- LAST Just Arrive ORF THE BEST MAKE. Regular price §1. August Price 75c. Upholstered in Leather $1.50. Robt. J. Reid, Leading Undertaker and Furniture Dealer. 2 Doors Above Opera House. Telephone No. 577. Kingston's Big Fair Carnival Aug, 25th to 29th $10,000 IN PRIZES Competition open to the world. Bigger Fur, Better® Attractions, Trials of Speed. Excursion Rates om all Steamboat Linus. Be sure and meet your friends at this great event. Sead for Prize List and all information to Mayor J. Morgan Shaw, President, Jno. P. Oram, Secretary. MUSICAL CARD, Miss Norma Tandy, Mus. Bac., A.T.C.M, will resume her classes on September 18th, at Kingston. Will the pupils kirrdlv writs td the Rectory, Havelock, Ont., before September 1#t, so that their time for instruction may be allotted them. Fees--Organ or The: 2 lessons a week | 1 lesson a week Plane (lacluding 2 lessons. a week ... . 1 lesson a week . Miss Elsie Tandy, in the recent' Intermediate Piano examination (Toronto Conservatory of - Music) will alvo teach. For terms apply to the Rectory, Havelock. To Alexandria "Kingston™ 3-2 A SET OF NEW Souvenir Post Cards POSATIVELY THE BEST EVER OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. Sold in Sets or Singly. JK irkpatrick's Art Store Faster Railway and 2 SEALED TEN DERS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE SECRE- tary of The Trades and Labor Council for refreshment booths at Fair 'Grounds on Labor Day, September lst, 19002. Tenders to be opoond at 8 pom., SATURDAY, August 23rd. For further information = apply to a R. STOCKILL, Secretary, 135 Stuart Sureet. WELL, WELL! WHAT 1S WANTED NOW? WHY MORE customers of - course at Myers' Pork Market, 56 Brock street, where you will obtain the best cuooked and smoked meats in the city. 3 lbe. dripping for a quarter. 'Phonm 570. FOR SALE. wr ri $300 WILL BUY A TWENTY-ONE-FOOT Gasoline Launch, hull six years old, cush- rons, carpet and awning, with new 4 J P. motor. Davis & Son. TWO STEAMBARGES, ONE long; feet beam, "tha other 97 feet long, 16 feet beam, both im good run- ning order. S. W. Marchment, 153 Vic toria Street, Toronto. WANTED. 110 FEET 9 GINS AT THE GARDINER BISCUIT FAC ORY. : THREE BQXS, 14 to 16 YEARS OLD. AP- plv to J. A. Gould & Co., Smith street, opposite 730 Princess street. LAN ORGANIST AND CHOIR MASTER FOR St. Andrew's Church. Apply saving sal ary toJ. M. Strunve up to August 30th. 810 for Dept. "LADIES COPY LETTERS AT HOME, per 1,000. Send stamped envelope application. Co., Mauarch Novelty 108, Ch cago. $1 PER $100 per 51 Brock FURNITURE FOR STORAGE, month and insurance 9c. per annum J. 8S. Ro McCain, street, next Wade's. PHILADELPHIA FOR THE a competent nursemaid, willing to with light "hous work. Apply to G. A. Robinson, 167 Alfred street TO GO TO winter, assist Mrs. BY LADY AND GENTLEMAN son of 15 vears, board for the winter in a omtral location, within five minutes walk to Post Office. Address "E." Whig Office AND ONE HALL'S BARBER SCHOOLS. 246 'YONGE street, Toronto, Ont., also St. Lawrence otreet, Montreal, PQ, and 16 East Sen- eca otreet, . Buffalo. Elerantly equipped. Warne Saturdavs. Terms moxlerate. Tools, . trial, lodwings, railroad ticket and cata- Logue free. By our "SPECIAL CO- NPFRATIVE PLAN" course ia given ab- solntaly free. Also opportunity to earn moe: at your home ®by workine for us. Writ: Aldia Owen Hall 'or particulars to-dav. conwiete 3 S-- { Oak Hall. New arrivals. "New suits," end top coats. . The H. D. Bibby Co: . LOCAL MEMORANDA. The Daily Note Book For Whig Readers to Post Themselves By. Occupied people are not unbappy people.-- Dewey. ; Organ recital St. Mark's church, Barriefield, 8 p.m. The sun rises Friday at 5:11 a.m., and sets at 6:52 p.m. . "A pound of pluck is 'worth a ten of luck.""--James A. Garfield. : Baseball 'at Lake Ontario Park, Antwerp vs. Ponies, 4 p.m., Fridav. Lake Ontario Park 8:30 o'clock. to-night. Novel and entertaining performance. ' Children's day at Lake Ontario Park, Fri- day, Matinee in pavilion-at 3:30 p.m. Some peuple are born poor, some achieve noverty, and some thrust poverty on other people. When a man is lookine for a. wile, he wants an angel, but when he goes to house- keeping he sometimes says ugly things be onuse he didn't get a cook. He carries lunch to aylvan scenes, He made the old swing go. . : Ile backed his knife to ope sardines,' Because he loved her so. This day in the world's history : British, under Gen. Hamilton, cross Crocodile river 1900: Gerald Sifton and 'Walter Herbert com- mitted for trial at London, Ont.. for murder of Joseph oSifton, 1900; Lieut. Cordu con- victed of conspiracy to AKiduup Lord Roberts, 1900; United States rejects fisheries treaty, 1888; Lafayette captured, 1792. a DINNER SETS We have a few Odd Sets we want to clear. They are icely STIPPLED WITH GOLD on the handles. The price is low. Forfull set of 97 pieces $5.90 ROBERTSON BROS. enate ALL THIS WEEK Evenings at 8:30. Matinecs Wednesday and Friday, 3:30. Hugh V. and Bessie Lee Nepsity, A ROMAN SYBIL'S DREAM. THE THRE MOST mE FALARDO Imitator this worid has ever known. < MYSTERIOUS ONEIDA MYSTERIES, Illustrated Songs, Funny Stories, Eleotrical Effects, Recitations, Beautiful Historical FRIDAY CHILDREN'S DAY; LDRE ERIDAY, FARH lc. BAUS WAY. BASEBALL, Friday, 22; 4pm, Antwerp ve. Ponies. LOST. BARRIE August nd, STREET, BE- and Union streets, A SIL with red stone awd a Finder will be rewarded J. Macmorine, PROBABLY ON tween Pri VER couple of pearts. om returning same" to AJ Barrie street. KNEW WHAT HE DID. This is the Statement of Mont- magny Murderer. 21.--~Maturin, the Montmagny wife murderer, has been committed for trial. After the inquest he said he had killed his wife with a hunting knife and then threw it in the Quebec, Aug. He said he was per- was ered with "blood. fectly sober and knew what he doing. Charles Stewart, . of Philadelphia, who attempted to commit suicide, yes- terday, is in a dangerous condition at the Jefireyv Hale hospital. The dead body. of a laborer, named Beauchamp, was found in the Cove field at an early hour this morning: He had been stabbed in several places. There is no clue to the perpetrator of the murder. Beauchamp, who was drunk and raising a disturbance, had been put out of his. home during the night. DR.. HERALD GETS IT. High Chief Ranger of I. 0. F. for Eastern Ontario. Picton, Ont., Aug. 21.--The high court of © the Independent Order of Foresters of Eastern" Ontario conclud- ed its annual meeting here vesterday afternoon, adjourning to meet in Smith's Falls _in 1901. The election of officers resulted: High chief ranger, John Herald. Kingston (agclamation); high vice-chief ranger, Dr. W. E Craine, Crysler; high secretary, G. L. Dickenson, Manotuk, (acclamation) ; high treasurer, J. S. R. McCann, Kingston, (acclamation); high physi- dian. Dr. G. T. Basken, Ottawa: high councillor, J. M. Marshall, Brockville; high auditors, Walter Rowan Otta wa and =. Low, Kingston (acclama- tion). o re Merchants' Wisdom." The Advisor : Never allow smaller competitors to outdo vou cithef in quantity or qual- itv of acvertising. Prestige is mani- fested with quantity and sales made because of the quality of the advertis- ing, It should not be so much a matter to advertising rate the "pull- nig" qualities of the paper used. | There scan be not advertising success without reputation and that rests on the berrock of honest dealing. as . Has Approved Of Issue. Ottawa. Aug. 21.--The report to' the council in favor of a recommendation to the imperial authorities to who were too tth, 5th and 6th C.M-R., ly approved by Lord Dundonald. (LAKE Y ONTARIO X_ PARK) ORIGINAL kitchen stove where it was found cov: {car when a rapidly running {three jumped. Mr. grant | the issue of the war medal to the 3nd, | RELIGIOUS CRITICISM. Appealing To Him as a Christian Man. 10 SETILE MINERS' STRIKE PRESIDENT BAER"S REPLY TO THE REQUEST. How a Writer Thought the Rail- way Company Would Have the Blessing of God and the Re- spect of the Nation. ' Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 21.--W. F. Clark, of this city. recently addressed a letter to President Baer, of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad com- pany, appealing to him as a Christian to settle the miners' strike. The writer said that if Christ was: taken more into business affairs there would-be less trouble. in the world, and that if Mr. Baer granted the strikers a slight concession they would gladly return to work, and the president of the Philadelphia & Reading railroaa com- pany would have the blessing of God and the respect of the nation. President Baer repliea _as follows : "] see you are eviaently biased in vour religious views in favor of the right of the workingman to control a business in which be Jas no other in- terest than to securd fair wages for the .work he do 1 beg of you not to be discouraged. The rights and in- terests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wis- com has given the control of the pro- perty interests of the country. Pray earnestly that the right may triumph, always - remembering that the Lord God omnipotent still reigns, and that His reign one of law and oraer, and not of violence and crime." 1s FEARING FROST. But Temperature Did Not Go. Be- low Forty. : Winnipeg, Aug. 21.--Robert Hunt, section man on the C.P.R., was on a hand car near Kalmar, west of Rat Portage, when a caboose and engine ran into it, killing Hunt instantly, He came from Liverpool. The members of the Winnipeg gram exchange have decided. to purchase a site for a new building Annie S. Swan, 3 noted English authoress, is a Winmpeg visitor. Her mission is tp secure "employment in the west for English women. At the Anglican Synod, vesterdav, Dean Mathewson was elected prolocu- tor, Archdeacon Sargent, deputy pro- locutor, . Canons Combes and Spencer Page, secretaries and Thomas Gilroy, treasurer. Lee & Perrin, the well-known Eng- Jigh -fieme- have decided<to 'build a warehouse here. It is their intention to establish a number of branch ware- houses in Winnipeg. Frost was feared last night in many places, but no advices yet re- ceived show that no temperature went below forty degrees. The weather, this morning, .is clear and bright, with a much higher temperature. Showers 'occurred if"Southern Mani- toba early vesterdav delaying cutting half a dav, where the grain was nearly ready, but doing good to pastures. The day was generally bright with a good deal of sunshine and ripening has been hastened: appreciably. Har- vesting © operations are increasing all over the province and there is' very urgent demand for farm labor. Pre- parations have been made to receive the harvesters when thev arrive. The first trains of maritime province men are due this -afternoon: ** THE COMPANY FORMED. To Carry on the Fast Inland Freight Service. Toronto, Aug. 21.--The statement that a Canadian Navigation company for the great lakes is in progress of formation is confirmed. All necessary arrangements, it is stated, will be con- cluded before the fall this year. Appli- cation for a charter has heen made to Ottawa. 'The.names of -those interest- ed do not appear on the application, but they are all Toronto capitalists It is éxpected to inaugurate a service carly this fall. "From four to five steamers will be purchased to com- mence with. The annual meeting of "the Liberal Conservative Association of Ontario will be held in this city, on Wednes- day. September 10th, Mr. Whitney, the leader of the party, will be present. The Ontario cabinet has. authorized and is «engaged inthe construction of a 'coffer dam 'at. 'Dufferin Islands, on the Niagara river, by the Ontario Power: company, te be used in divert- ing water throngh the park to the company's 'outlet below the falls. Al though the company's application has heen opposed by the Canadian Niaga- ra Power company. which was first in the field, and has built a magnificent power tunnel, the government has de cided to grant the Ontario Power com- pvany's: applicatitn in order to stimu- late competition in that district, , Died From Injuries. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 21.--A. Terry, chief engineer of" the Michican Central railway, died last night at Harper hospital as the result of injuries re- cviverl on Tuesday afternoon, near Al- hion on the main line of the road. Vy Te v, Bridge Superintendent Da lewd and another employee were on a tonr of inspection on a small gasoline freight overtook them-on a sharp enrve. All Terry landed ona alongside the track and ile of rails, I {received the injuries which caused his | death. Mr. Terry was fifty vears old and an expert ip his line. ------ Edward Croker, nephew of 'Boss' Croker. has been suspended from duty ants late dor the fighting, has been formal as chiei of the New York fire depart ' ment. > BRITISH FISCAL SYSTEM. . -- Will Not Upset - Settled Treasury Policy. New York, Aug. 21.--The Tribune's London cable says: One of the most capable financiers of the United King- dom remarked yesterday : "There will he no immediate change in the British' fiscal system. °' Our people will watch what goes on in the United States. Our own' industrial trusts and combi- nations are working well." Mr. Ritchie is not a financier who will likely upset the settled order of the treasury policy. "He finds a high- taxing rate and can easily lower it next year. That will be the main change in the budget next year. The registration duties on grain will pro-. bably be retained , since the imperial conference' has sanctioned the acade- mic principle that wherever practicable British goods should * bave yu prefer- ence in British ports. The ~ government . of which Mr. Chamberlain is the most prominent member is not likely to reduce the ex- isting indirect taxation when: the con- ference has affirmed that colonial goods should 'have a preference in British markets and British goods in colonial markets. The precise form of this 'declaration has not been disclos- ed, but officials present at the confer- ence admit that the principle of pre- ferential treatment within the empire has been favorea, and that thé future will disclose whether anything can be done 'with it. There has been a marked reaction against the uneasiness ana. alarm caused by German and American com- petition. Sir Alired Bateman's ¢om- been widely quoted and discussed, and has tended to dispel many illusions, Alarmists are now cautioned against dralving premature generalizations up- on the effects of German energy and American resources and organization. TO FORM A COLONY. What We Hear By Way of To- lédo. Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 19.--George A. Whitney, of ' this city, homesteading agent for Canada, has been authorized by the Dominion government. to pro- ceed to the coal regions and offer in- ducements to 30,000 or more of the striking miners and their families to form a colony and to locate on free homesteads, which the government will provide for them, in the great wheat belt of the Northwest. Whitney says that the men will be given work for six weeks at least at the rate of $85 to 8100 per month and board and after that work will be provided for them on government contracts until spring, when they can begin breaking up - their homestead grants for next season's crop. It is also understood that the Canadian government will furnish bonafide set- tlers with means to purchase hors or oxen, farming utensils and the er tion of homes. itney says the Can- adian government is anxious to sccure colonists from the United States. - Theologue To Be Consul. San Francisco, Cal., Aug, 21.--W. F. Doty, lately a -theological student at Prinketon, sailed to-day to assume the duties of his new position as United States consul in. the Society Islands, a post to which he was appointed by President Roosevelt. Mr. Doty succeds his brother, J. L. Doty, who has held the position for twelve years. He was formerly chief page of the ~ United States senate. He was graduated from Princeton university with honors in 1896, - and--entered the theological se- minary, but ill health forced his re- tirement, and- he went as a mission- ary and United States educational ag- ent to Alaska. He is specializing in the study of comparative religion and intends to- continue this study in Tahiti. Will Cause Inspection To Cease. Victoria, B.C.. Aug. 21.--Dr. Mon- tizambert, head of the quarantine, ser- vice is here and states that_the results of his observaticns are such that he will report-to the minister at Ottawa that the inspection of . passengers com- ing into British Columbia from 'the United States hy train and steamer is no longer necessary and will recom- mend the withdrawal of the officers at. the 'boundary and. Kootenay, and the suspension of the inspection at const cities.' Dr. Montizambert thinks there is no longer anv danger of small-pox béing introduced from the ships. eee na Was A Private Meeting. London, Aug. 21.--Despatches Utrecht state that the interview tween the Boer gererals and Mr. Kru- ger was quite private, and 'even Eloff, the ex-president's son-in-law, was not admitted. The statement, * which semi-officially circulated, that the visit was chieflv Social in character, uneonnected with politics, and was concerned almost exclusively with the collection of funds for the widows and orphans. from he- is 18 Will View Manoeuvres. Berlin, Aug. 21.--An official which has just deen published that important representatives of, all nations - will attend the "Germar® im: perial military manoeuvres as the guests of the emperor. The 'list con- tains the names of the Earl of lLons dale and Col." Waters from England: Col: J. B. Kerr, of the United States army and about fiity Russian office most of them belonging to the -cza bodyguard and Narva Dragons. list Speaking At A Pichic. Ingersoll, Ont, Aug. 2|. nual Catholic picnics under the 'direc Father Connolly, ana his held. at Hon, William of stice, tion of Rev. congregation, Aas Park vesterday Fitz patrick, minister with a | number of M.P.P.s and other prondin bent gentlemen) were present----and-de | liversd addresses : . -- Taleum Powder, Me atin. H. B | Taylor, successor to EG. Mitchell. 1s prehensive report on British trade has shows | The an- | Victoria | NEWS OF THE WORLD What Comes To Us From' Ali : Quarters. , CONDENSED _ PARAGRAPHS. TELEGRAMS FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH. ° nnn Matters That Interest Everybody --Notes From All Over--Little of Everything Easily Read and Remembered By The Dear Public. The grave diggers, of Chicago, om strike for higher pay. Japan has ofiered to erect a build- ing for Canada at the Osaka fair. The Boer generals will return to England and lecture in larger towns. The plague mortality is increasing at the rate of a thousand weekly in Simla. " Over. 100 hogs have cholera or been Killed county. Gen. R. United States senator to succeed late James McMillan. W. Alford, Winnipeg, was sentenced on Monday to two yéars im the peni- tentiary: for stealing bicycles. In consequence of the outbreak of small-pox at Barbadoes, this group of islands has been quarantined. The latest coronation ode published is written by Sir George Stewart White, the defender of Ladysmith, The contract for the Liberal Arts building for the St. Louis exposition, amounting to $470,000, has been let. A successful trial of the new thirty- knot torpedo boat destroyer Sylvia was made at Sheerness on Wednesday. A thousand employees of the C. P. R. went from Toronto to Hamilton by boat to enjoy their annual picnic. Commissioner Ross left Whites Horse on Wednesday for Victoria. In a tele- gramato Ottawa he reports that his health has much improved. Burglars robbed 'a private bank at Maple Creek, . N.W.T., on Saturday last of $15,000 and left $8,000 which was within their reach. Prof. Jagger believes Mont Pelee will again cause greg destruction, and states the West India Islands are men- aced by tidal waves. Some women at St. Louis and vi- cinity are anxiously looking for a cer: tain Texas rancher, who has deceived them with fair promises. R. L. Borden, leader of the conser- vative opposition in the Dominion parliament, will visit Vancouver about the middle of "September. George Cook, president of the Cook anl Brothers Lumber company, of On- tario, died at his home in Toronto, yesterday, after a brief illness. The thirteerryear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geysieman, - Winnipeg, disappeared on Sunday mysteriously. It is feared she has been kidnapped. Three desperate murderers attempted to escape from prison at Frankfort, Ky. "One was fatally. shot, -a second wounded and the attempt frustrated. John Biro, ir., of Yorktown, N.W. T., committed suicide on Saturday last by hanging. He was found in a cellar by his mother. No cause as- signed for his act. Ee % Matthew - McKinney was killed St. George, N.B., on Wednesday and William Stewart. imjured by a fall of rock while they were excavating for the new pulp mill. The Canadian Northern railroad company « has brought twenty boiler- makers and machinists from New- castle-on-the-Tyne to Winnipeg to take the places of the strikers. The act passed at. the last session of the Dominion parliament prohibit- ing the landing in Canada of any im- migrant or other passenger suffering from disease will be enforced. Solicitor Mackelcan, of Hamilton, has given his opinion that there is no anthority in the municipal act for the city council making an agreement with the Modern" Telephone company. _ The new steamer built for the buoy service along the Nova Scotia eoast, is to. be christened the Lady Laurier. She has been constructed in Paisley, Scotland, aml is now: ready for. ser- vice. . ' \ (. M. Hays, secona vice-president and general manager of the G. T. R., is on his way back irom England. He and his family are on the steamship Philadelphia, due in New York on Sa- turday next. ' A party of Moors recently. attacked a French military supply column, near Ain Delkelil, Algeria, . and num- bers were killed or wounded on . both sides. Troops have gone in pursuit of the Moors. Gd ee 5 The king has granted a roval char- ter, incorporating the ' British demy for "the promotion oi historical, philosophical and _philogical studies. The" names of forty nine eminent men are included in the charter, Mgr. Mathieu] vector of Laval uni- ersity, Quebec, who was recently made a C.M.G. by the king, has now received the decoration" of a Knight of the Legion of Honor from the. pre sident of the French republic. : | There was a gun accident on { the ald wooden battleship Victory (the flagship of Lord Nelson, at the battle of Trafalgar). While firing a roval salute on the king's arrival at Portsmouth, a charge exploded pre- maturelv. and one of the ancient muz- zle loaders and a seaman were blown | clean shrough a port hole. At »4 meeting of the shareholders of { the General Omnibus company, Lon- | don, the chairman said that motor hinsses being manufactured for thew approval, and that the first one Lwonld be delivered soon. He added, that =o far he had seen none of these busses that : the require are died of hog in Middlesex Alger is a" candidate for the at | 1 iV i | | board, | | fulfil ments of the company. would Dr. Mecklenbiirg. the specialist. who is here nbw, and remain © until Saturday evening, Veleod's drug store, Princess, Montreal streets. evesight will at to see of -- Jon hates J and Ogdensburg; Hc. Those ailing in sight should not fail | | corner « CANCELS AMERICAN TRIP. Won't go to United 'States Be- : cause Illness of Wife. London, Aug. 21.--With .the depar- ture vesterday of Sir Edward Barton, prime minister of the Australian fed- eration, and his wife on board the White Star Line steamer Majestic for New York on their way to Newfound- land. the official visits of the colonial premiers who attended the coronation festivities are at an end. Sir Wilirid Laurier, the Canadian premier, is touring the continent. According to the New Zealand cor- respondent of the Daily Mail, Mr. Sed- don, premier of New Zealand, has abandoned his propbsea trip to the United States on account of the ill- ness of his wife. ' "I'LL BUY BLOCK: SOME DAY." Dunfee Said That When He Was a Bootblack. Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 21.--When John Duniee, now a millionaire con- tractor, was a ragged bootblack forty years ago,- he sat down on the steps of the Pike block to eat his lunch. The janitor emptied a pail of dirty water on him from an upper window. "I'll own this block some day," said the lad, "and I'll fire you." - To-day Dunfee bought the block from Henry Duguid and is now its sole owner. Tt is in 'the centre of the busines district and is valued at 225,000. The objectionable janitor is not in the block now. "If he was." says' Mr. Dunfee, "I would keep my promise and fire him quick." NS A POPULAR ROUTE. heat to Seahoard Via ¢ Montreal. . Detroit, Mich., Aug. 21.--A Chicago dispatch says : Many vesselmen, are of the opinion that a vast quantity of grain, formerly shipped for export from here via Buffalo lake! and rail to New York and other: seaboard points, will this year go by way of the Canadian routes from Georgian Bay particularly to Montreal. Ship ments of wheat have, already this sea- son, shown quite an increase in that direction "and the route it is main tained is becoming more popular each year. Sending W. NO NEW CONVERTS. Enforces Decree Preventing Their Establishment. Berne, Switzerland, Aug. 21.--The Federal council has decreed the active enforcement of an article of the con stitution forbidding the establishment of new convents by religious orders or the re-establishment of suppressed con gregations. Three months' grace is al- lowed. the orders that have infringed the constitution in which to comply with the decree by closing their es tablishments. ------ Found After 22. Years. Winsted, © Conn., Aug. 2I.--Twenty two years ago this summer Mrs. John P. Cook, of 373 North Main street, lost her wedding ring while at work in the garden in the rear of home. At that time she had ben married three years. Fvery summer since then she has searched the garden for the ring, but not until yesterday did she find it. As she' was walking toward her to- mato patch a glistening object in the path caught her eye and it proved to be the long lost gold .ring. Recent heavy rains are supposed to have un earthed the treasure. When Mr. Cook returned home he replaced the ring on the finger of his wife's hand. Yacht Club's Annual Ball. Alexandria Bay, N.Y., Aug. 21.-- The annual ball of Thousand. Island Yacht club was held at the club's ca- sino on Welcome Island last evening and was one of the finest affairs ever given by the club. The club rooms were "a mass of . handsomely arranged floral decorations, interspersed with vachting flags ana the emblems of all nations, and delightful music was ren- aered by the club. orchestra and a hand! > Tobin In Good Health. Cornwall," Aug. 21.--The friends throughout Canada of Alfred Tobin, the celebrated lacrosse ay rughy foot- ball player, will be pleased to learn that he is not in Montreal hospital suffering from' brain. trouble. Tobin was a very interested spectator at the Cornwall-Shamrqck game on. Satur day. He had been ill, but is-much improved in health, and is talking of playing again \this seascn. -- Poker Playing Barred. - Washington, B.C. Aug. 21.--Poker plaving and all other formssof gamh ling, among treasury. clerks have been forbidden by Secretary Shaw, and the secretary purposes to enforce his or der vicorously. Three clerks in the treasurv department who were guilty of playing poker were recently reduce ed and transierred to other in the department. positions No Passport For Tolstoi. London, 'Aug. 21.- A despatch St. Petersburg saves Coiint Tolstoi anxiois too leave that place, but the authorities have refused to issue a passport him. to Cronje Sails Away. Island of St. Helena. A thousand Boers, including Cronje. (his wife his staf, from here --tordayv for South Jamestown, Aug. 24, Gen and saifed Africa. Excursion Bulletin. 2nd, "New York," points, Brockville August to river Fridav, S30 am, ird, 'New Angst 2 Islands, 3 _ po. 1,00) Satorday, York," Jac. amony | Talonm Powder, Me. a. tin H, Taylor, susesspr to E. C. Mitchell. . = J then generally her SLece TTTTBTTLTTLTTRSSLS WEATHER PROBABILITIES, tn on en, Toronto, Ont., Aug. 21.--Moderate to fresh west to north winds, local showers at first, fair and comparatively" cool: Fiiday fine and comparatively cool. 60c, Tse, $1, $1.25, $1.50 SHIRT WAIST Your choice 0-MORROW. FRIDAY For ~ 25 GENTS, There is not many in the lot so look early. {1,000 Remnants Of general Dry Goods "HALF fren, Regular Prices. BOULDEN----On August 19th, Brockville, the wife of Rev. M.A, of a son. BALL--In Kingston, en August 21st, 1902, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Bail, of Os- wewo, N.V., a dau-hter. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. at St. Alban's, C. J. Boulden, + -- Worst Storm Xnown For Years. Jothwell, Ont., Aug. 21.---Bothwell and vicinity were visited yesterday by the worst electric and hail storm that was ever known here. The storm last- ed about forty-five 'minutes, 'and cut everything in. its course, the hail lv- ing on the ground two to three inches in depth. Matthew Graham, who lived near Florence was killed by lightning and his barns burned and crops des- troyed. The Visited By Many Sorrows. On We'lnesday morning, the infant daughter of Henry Clayton, Montreal, died at the lhome of its grandfather, Martin Clayton, - Bagot strect, this city. Last December the voung mother was laid to rest at Cataraqui' ceme- tery, shortly -after birth of the child. The Clayton family have undergone many sore trials during the past three vears, and again death has entered the family circle. The sincerest sympathy is felt for those who again are called upon to mourn. Another Large Attendance. rflowing house last evening, There was another ov at Lake Ontario Park and. the performance in the pavilicn eave general satisfaction. The my- <teries of the cabinet, in which Oneida ie placed," tied hand and foot, is plz sling in the extreme. This scene must he witnessed to be appreciated: where all thie material comes from is truly mystifying. © The other acts are all of a high order .and pleasing in the extreme. Died In A Glacier. London, Aug. 21.---The Geneva cor respondent of the London Daily Fx press telegraphs that the hody of a Siviss Feutenant; named Ramud, has been found in the Trieht glacier, and that the body of a Swiss mountaineer named Marens Zimmerman has been discovered in a crevasse at' Mont Clarnisch, a cake. H. . ©. Mitchell. Pure glycerine goap He. IL. Taylor. snecessor reer resnell Souvenirs! Esamelled. Belt Buckles, rooches, Hat Pinas, Cuff inks, Stick Pins, Pocket nives, etc. . Sy001s from 7c. fo $3.50 Largest Selection In Ontario. A. G. JOHNSTON & BRO, JEWELERS, Cor. Princess andiWellington Sts. Te seeeee BLOWN B L K

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