THE DAILY WHIG, TUESDAY. DECEMBER f{€. GET LEGACIES. MISER WILLED QUEEN FOR- : Look After Your Feet. Keep Them Warm and Dry. Overshoes Rubbers To Fit All Shapes in Shoes. SHOE . STORE. McDermot's Cri Smith Bros. Will be Brighter Canes and and Better Umbrellas, than Ever. Chains and Gift Selection | Lockets, T-ace Lasy and Diamonds, Goods Put Pearl Sunbursts Away. for ; Rings and Future Delivery Watches, Picked While Cuff Links the Stock is Bracelets, Novelties in Select Now, Gun Metal and Easy Prices. Silver. 350 King St. A GUARANTEED CURE "For All Forms of Kidney Disease. a---- Complete. We, the undersigned Druggists arc fully prepared to give the following guarantee with ery 50 cent bottle of Dr. Pettingill's Nidney-Wort Tab- lots, the only remedy in the world troubles that positively cures all arising from weak' or diseased Kkid- neys : "Money cheerfully returned if the sufferer is not relieved and improved after use of one bottle. Three to six bottles elicct astonishing and perman- ent cures. Ii not relieved and cured, vou waste no money." Henry Wade, Druggist, Ont. G. W. Mahood, Druggist, Kingston, Ont. Auction Sales. SAVE MONEY BY EMPLOYING ALLEN & SON, Auctioneers, Kingston, STILL WANT COAL. Hoping That Cargoes May Arrive Very Soon. Corners, Dee. merry sleigh bell cnow fell here deep stop traffic and had to be 15.--Once can he enough Rongard's the as more heard in roads to ahoveled--out--along with quite a sharp visit from Jack Frost, the thermometer registering as low" as twenty degrees Leldw zero. The an nual meeting of the Waupoose cheese and butter company wa held on Fri day fast, dpd officers appointed fon another vear. Navigation is closed as far down the bay as Cole's Point, jee having taken on Sunday Niwht. Coal merchants are still Find for afew more cargoes in Picton to sup ply the demands of the town anfl where orders are It i= hoped that arrounding country, not nearly tilled yet they will arrive at Smiths Bay .o some near port On. Wednesday last at the residenct of W. Lichthall, "Greenbush, Sidney Storms, of this place, and Miss Sarah McPherson, of Huntingdon, were mar" vied in the presence of a number of 'friends and returned home on Sun day. The young coup ve the wishes of a number of friends here, as Miss McPherson an old resident of thiz place. Miss Sarah Bradley, who had a 'severe attack of better, H.C. Cameron, who Yast in dritish Columbia, ic with us arain, and prefers that ch it being h best is has sickness, 15 spent winter ne so changeable Cherry Valles week with ha m this rier there Tee WL has been mate to one. and not Minaker, the last Cameron Ww pending who but as dy Mrs. George A. Toty Gertie Williams, of of her con Wanpoose, last week. uack treated hin If to cutter last | Miss Hill, Glenora, our school tedch ar. has been eng ed The wp d landing at hurch fine provement, thing that has been long wanted. six months, Cand a spe ir. and at 8 FecoVery Hobson were g Mi . was Ha on Sundav. this pla sin. Mi the Frise D Mod a beantiiml guest for another year new oul Sn 1 SOT Christmas Neckties. For the last two months we have been picking up the verv cream of the market, See the verv choice pattern Nield Had Lived enjoying by the nation, cies from private citizens. ceived one of $300,000 from a Dresden her heirs." week TUNE OF $2,000,000 Wretched Meanness -- Other Gifts in Which Kaiser is Interested. Berlin, Dec. 16.--Sovereigns, besides a large income paid to them very often receive lega- in Last week the German cmperor re: man. John Camden Nield, g left property exceeding £2.000,000 to "Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, begging her majesty's most gracious acceptance of the same, for her sole use and benefit an that of dying in 1852, Nield was a miser living in the most wretched meanness. He had no rela- tives, so the queen accepted the money making, however, a handsome annuity to his housekeeper, to whom, despite her twenty years' loyal service, he left nothing. The kaiser may be trusted to show equal consideration to the relatives of his Dresden benefactor. If these be many, it is quite on the cards = that his majesty will refuse a part or the whole of the bequest. He holds strong opinions on the practice of wealthy persons leaving their money to public institutions without anv regard for rt latives in poor circumstances. A couple of years ago, a brewer of' Johannesberg, named Meyer, left to the town of Stettin $75,000 to build a museum. The kaiser's consent is required for the acceptance of such legacies, and in this case, he refused permission to the corporation to accept the legacy. on the ground that it violated a mor al duty toward poor relations, whom the testator had ignored. Later on he relented, but insisted on the town of Stettin indemnilying Mey er's needy kin before building the mu seum. ---------- Argument In Beef Trust Case. Chicago, Hl. Dec. 16.--The 1 "heef trust' case came up tot ment to-day before Judge Groscup in the United States Circuit court. The point at issue is the granting of the famous argu injunction applied for by the govern ment to enjoin the packers from carry ing on business In restraint of trade The defendants in the case are Swift & Co., the Cudahy Packing company, the Hammond Packing company. Ar mouwr & Co, Schwarzschild & Sulz berger, Nelson, Morris & Co, and the officers and agents of these concerns. They are charged with having violated the anti-trust and interstate com merce laws, and an junction is asked for the purpose of checking such al leged violations. 3 ---- Library Opening Postponed. Washington, D.C., Dec. 16.-OUn ac count of the recent illness of Andrew Carnegie, the dedication of the Wash ington public library building, which Le presented to the national capital, did not take place, to-day, as origin ally scheduled, but has heen postpon ed for several Mr... Carn-gie has accepted an invitation to deliver the principal address at the dedica Lion ceregnony'. -------- Christmas Dressing Gowns. Prices to suit all purses, patterns to suit all tastes. English make, $6.75 to weeks 220. Jenkins. Monkey Brand yap cleans Kitchen utensils, steel; iron and tinware, knives and forks, and all Kinds of cut lery. Hard or soft corns cured with three WORTHY OF NOTE. Observant Newspaper Fellows Ses Things. Specimens of four, five, six, seven, ht and nine-leaved clove have been presented to Queen Alexandra by a Welsh lady. One thousand pounls has Leen paid for the drinking glass used by the late Empress of Austria while taking the waters at Langen:Schwalbach, near Wiesbaden. and a half was the Seven months tine taken In travelling « around the vorld by a picture post card, which was just been deliveied to its tender it Berlin. There are vomen at Marrakush, Morocco, hey are obliged to wear the garb of aalive women to avoid being insulted yw the fanatic Mohammedans. only half a dozen Englih and Water is so searce in the Japanese sland of Oshinf*ghat it is the cus- om for a bride to take a large tub if drinking water with her to her new ome as a kind of dowry. The ownars of a number. of sky- scrapers in New York City have been 'orced to purchase ground adjoining them to pro their licht and air eine cut off hy other tall buildings. In the t thirty vears the' popula- ion of Germenv has increased forty cent., that of France, two per that of the United Kingdon, per cent., and that of the Uni at's, 100 per cent. For the sole we of h er neyvmoon con- des one of the Russian railway com- sanies has built a Puliman car, con taining luxuriously fitted dining, :moking, sitting and sleeping com artment s. M. Antoine, one oi the most skill {ul lapidarics of Antwerp, has suc weded, after several unsuccessful at and three years of patient n catting a jerivet finger ring wt of a-sipele diamond. The most. expensive book in the vorld has lately been aiven hv the Ameer, of Afghani=tan to the «hah. It a of the Koran, bound in olid gold and set with pr arls, rubies It co~t S100,000, 8 copy and diamonds. Scotch Ie : dre-sed in tartan cos tumds will act as waitresses at a ywumber of refreshment depots to he opened in Lopdon, where oatmeal in various forms, from jx rridee to pad lines and cake, will be oficred. the centre of Paris th been built several shotels" 1p which homeless for four ents, get a plate of hot =oup and an all night seat on a bench. Thev are so crowded that no one can In the stomach of a cow Montrose, 'a., a god cethook. with The pocks have In ve men may, lie down. butchered ized po near found. 'oll of bills and shinele nail and found. In the interior of the extinct crater \so about thirty from Kumameto, in Japan, 20,000 people live and prosper. the vertical wall of the crater O00 feet high. The inhabitants rarely make journey nto the outer The world is one from Boswell to Fricde Pa.. the airline distance being ine miles. The road doubles in f fou times, and at one point, after making a loop of about five miles, the road comes hack to within 00 feet of itself rade fifty feet lower forty three cents, a hairpin were also : Tae San, mlies a world the nN, most crooked railway in is on a Bad Heart--Could Not Lie Down For Eighteen Months. to lie down in my bed afor eighteen mofiths; owing to mothering spells caused bv heart disease. One bottle of Dr. Agnews Cure for the Heart removed the trou bl: and to-day L am as well as ever | "Is was unable was." --L. W. Law, Toronto Junction sold by--H: 'HB. Taylor and Henry Wade. --123. -------- Electrically lighted clocks, for night DISTRICT NEWS. SPICE OF THE ARTICLES IN VICINITY NEWSPAPERS. The News Put Into Condensed Shape -- The Episodes That Create Talk in the Country and Hereabouts. A second paper is Jancroft shortiy. D. R. Benson, Napanee, attended the horse sale in New York city and re- turned with a fine stallion. The referendum vote in Leeds was: #5 9117 against, 78%; majority for, 1,333. Daniel Foster, an ex-alderman and prominent citizen of Belleville, died to be published at a on Friglay. He was seventy-five years of a Gi. EF. Mastin, of the township of Athol, killed two March pigs, which dressed six hundred and twelve pounds. Intellicence has been received -of the death of Mrs. Herbert S. Bryant, of St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Bryant left Pic ton a number of years ago reported that coal has been It is discovered on a farm at [aston's Corners, Ont. The test of the coal save a return of sixty per cent. Mrs. Young, Maunland View, cross- ing on ice from Prince Edward to Belleville, broke through. The lady was rescued, but her horse was drowned. The Newburgh High School staff sui- fers a distinct loss in the removal of Science Master Po W. Brown, to Sy- Jdenham High School at the beginning of the year. Roy Sherman, Gananoque, sentenced by Judge McDonald to Mimico refor matory, has escaped. He is described as beinr fifteen years of age, wearing a dark grey suit and cloth cap. Zack Smith, Belleville, has recover- od £100, and full costs against Capt. Plogmficld, of the steamer Caspian, ior hiz discharge at Murray canal, after being hired in Belleville as a deck-hand. At the close of the Gananoque mo- del school, on Thursday, Principal Linklater was presented by the stud with an address their appreciation of him as a teacher and guide. An old and estimable resident Dulcemaine; passed awav November 30th, in the person of Rebecca Hor- ton, widow of the late William Hor- ton. Two dauchters, Mrs. J. Fergu con and Mrs. Capt. Wessel are left to mourn. A pretty wedding occurred at the re- ents expressive of ol MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Previous New Hampshire Divorce Not Valid in Canada. Sherbrooke, Dec. 16.-- Justice Le- mieux, has annulled the marriage of Dame Ella Mary Moir and F. H. Hall, of the township of Stanstead. It ap- pears that the defendant married one Lucy Pomeroy in 1SS1, but in 1856 the said Lucy Pomeroy secured a divorce from her husband in Nashua, N.H., and two years later Hall married the ° plaintiff in this action, who, was not aware that the defendant had been previously married or divorced. As coon as she learned of this fact she instituted the present proceedings. The plaintiff contended that the divorce | was a fraudulent one and that as the | parties were British subjects and had | their domicile in this province, the | first marriage was still binding. The { defendant did not contest the case, and the judgment of the eourt annulled the marriage. ------ SHOT HIS FATHER DEAD. The Son Was Exercising With a Loaded Gun. Cohoes, N.Y., Dec. 16.--The second death from accidental shooting in this vicinity within four days, is that of William Page. aged fifty-five, shot and almost instantly killed by his son Frank, aged twenty-one. Another son, Ellsworth Page, had been shooting rabbits, and left the gun standing loaded in the kitchen. Frank picked it up and started to go through the manual exercise. His father came to the doorway, and turned just as the oun was discharged, rec ving the charge of shot in the back. ---------- Very Favorable To Britain. British merchant shipping statistics do not indicate any decline of British supremacy on the sea. British trade with the: United States during 1901, occupied" shipping of 14,126,108 tons, of whiche 12,626.87 tons were Dritish hottoms and only 479,464 tons Ameri can. The whole toreign trade of the United States was represented by a tonnage of 4,680,318, of which 51.1 per cent. ritish and only 16.1 per cent United States. dritish shipping on the register was 0,605,120 tons, while United States tonnage registered for oversea trade | was 839,129, but there was in addition 5.050 tons employed upon the riv- ers. lakes and coasts, The Britith advantage oreater if steam tonnage only be con- sidered, for they had 7,617,793 tons as against 2,920, tons for the Unit od States. Moreover, the United King- dom added 773,917 tons to the regis was still sidense of James Milton, Pittsburg, when his daughter Minnie was united in marriage to Richard J. Moore, also of Pittsburg. The bride was at Willian Mclean assisted the groom. tended bv her sister, Miss Susie, while | ter, while the United States added j only 483,489 tons. The American in- | crease, however, has doubled the past | four vears. Jritain, again, built 207. 152 tons for foreigners: the Unit States built but 14,5 -------------- Fredericksburg Notes. wvickshurg, Dee. 15.--Grain busi somewhat dull at present. kr Bennett, Albert College, Belle ville, is at George I. Pt rry's for holidays. The school concert. at k, Thursday evening last was << in every wav. The schoolhouse was filled to the The children wxecented their part hitch, reflecting much credit ('., H. Youngs, for | careful train Rev. Mr. Bovee presided. The mun pal council holds its financial the town hall. Frank Lake, i patting up a new wind Ir ness nest Bio Cre 0 ues doors. without a Son sion at Morven, mill. Free. Free. Free. Till Xmas ye. will initial, free, any anbrella or walking cane bought here, Jenkins. a ------------ Gallet: A A full assortment Roger & ine toilet soaps. 3 cakes for Sl. applications of Peck's Corn Salve, 13¢. at Wade's. use, at Breck & Halliday's. in flow ends and derbies. 50c¢., Toc., : 81. Jenkins, Leod's drug store. the | on the teacher, | G.T.R. Diverted Coal. Toronto, Dee. 16.-- The coal sitnation lis «o bad that the Grand Trunk rail | way company were, last week, obliged to divert to their own use several car loads of soft coal that they had | row ht up from the mines. Most of { {his had already been sold to dealers in Toronto by merchants to whom it ioned, oveat inconveni once was caused in consequence. The I local officials of the railway company | say only twelve cars were [taken altogether and this was because {'the company could not its own coal through Bufialo. een and Iwas consi ten or oel The Ning of Ranges--. REASON IT OUT eee. Soe Why is it (lat some ome -- article in each line of manufac- od JB {ure has always ihe largest sale? , 1s it because its a poor article oragoodone? Don't you think ' {Lie reason of it is because its: better constructed than the others? That's what all people { will think. ye ---- The "Happy Thought" Range -- -- is the People's Popular Range of Canada. It's used by more cooks --has more features of merit--and uses less fuel than any other Range built in the world. If you don't believe this ask some of your neighbors who are using them. Write the Manufacturers for an lilustrated Catalogue. THE WM. BUCH STOVE CO., mite AxrroR® 9 s sola McKELVEY & BIRCH, 69-71 Brock St. 59c. mee" 9c. SOME DAYS AGO WE SECURED A BIG LOT OF SHAKER wer BLANKETS At a price much below their value, Most of this lot is manufactured from heavy Twilled Cloth. Some are white and some are grey and all have pretty blue or pink borders. No pair is worth less than 85c. and many are good value at $1. While they last your choice for . 89c¢. a pair. For balance of this mouth we offer special value in White Union and All-Wool Blankets, Grey Union and All-Wool Blank:ts, Comfortors and Tackdown Quilts, Flannel Sheeting, Heavy Fulleloth and Csnadian Tweed. 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