CHRISTMAS OVER! TURKEYS GONE ! And have to settle down to meat, tough meat, let us help you chew it by using one of our UNIVERSAL MEAT CUTTERS Chops anything. Pronounced hy every person "the best thing ONLY $1.50. W. A. MITCHELL'S HARPWARE ABSOLUTE ~~ SECURITY, . Cenuine Carter's . Little Liver Pills Must Bear Signacurs of FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS, FOR BILIDUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. ™ GURE 81CK HEADACHE. N Thers are other good waters but none have the virtues and all-round merits of the MAGI CALEDONIA. Sold everywhere, Auction Sales. SAVE MONEY BY EMPLOYING ALLEN & SON, Auctioneers, COMMERCIAL, -- NEW YORK STOCK EXSHANGE. Dec. 20th. OPEN. CLOSE. ---- 99 VY} Union Pacific ...... St. Paul . Manhattan B. R. Transit Sugar .. dae People's Gas . U. 8S. Steel ... ty as M.S. Steel, Pref. ..... .... Tenn. Coal & Iron ...... . 58 Miss. Pac srbver hirer a Southern Pac "i Ont. & Western . Western Union Erie .... .... Reading" .. : Atchison, Pref Louis & Nach Jock Island Pennsylvania RR. Texas & Pacific Atchisén ... ... .... Am. Ice 11% 10 Metropolitan 139 138 N.Y. OC 1524 151 Col. 1. & PF. ... 80} RO Awerican Loco . 287 28 Amal. Copper ......0...... .. 634% 61 Baltimore ...... 991 a] \ MONTREAL STOCKS. Canadian Pacific .. .. .. Toledo L. & P. aie Detroit 1 nited Montreal street Halifax "Street St. John's Electric Twin City Transit Commercial' Cable Rich.& Ont. Nav Montreal Telegraph | Bell Telephone Montreal Power .. Dominion Steel & Iron Dom. Steel & Iron Pid Nova Scotia Steel Ogilvie Flour, Pid Montreal Cottong. Dominion Coal Montreal Rank OntarioBank Union Bank Toronto Bank Merchants Bgnk Merchants of Halifax llochelaga Bank < 1 Rank THE 5 PA. EDITION SEQOND EDITION NEWS ALSO ON PAGE FIVE, NOMINATIONS. ---- (Continued from page two.) Victoria Ward. Frederick G. Dunlop, nominated by W. A. Twigg, seconded by J. W. Lit- ton. John W. Litton, nominated by John Hewton, seconded by W. Smallridge. Francis King, nominated 'by Henry Angrove, seconded by W. A. Twigg. William E. Bassam. nominated by Mooers, seconded by John A. Le- heup. Henry Angrove, nominated by John Hewton, secondéd by Edwin Charles. School Trustees. Sydenham ward--Iva E. Martin. St. Lawrence ward--J. S. R. Mc. Cann. " Frontenac ward--Thomas Lambert. Ontario ward--William Kelly. Rideau ward--W. H. Wormwith, pro- posed by S. W. Day; seconded by R. Meek. R. F. Metcalfe, proposed by William McCammon; seconded by Jas. Knapp. > Cataraqui ward--Joseph Donaldson, proposed by E. Bennett; seconded by M. H. Claxton. Dr. James Evans, pro- posed by A. E. Ficlds, seconded by James Mallen. COMMERCIAL MATTERS. What Is Going On In the Business World--The Market News. President James Ross denies that the Dominion Iron & Steel company will soon float $35,000,000 stock. It is now estimated that the iron ore output of the Minnesota and Michigan mines for 1902 will aggregate 26,500,- 000 tons. New York the other growing of with a State leads all states in the union in the apples, having 15,054,852 trees, capacity of 52,415,700 bushels. The estimated shipment of celery from California for 1902 was 1,200 car loads . The surplus of eggs in the United States this year was over 70,000,000 Superior commerce passing through the ship canals at Sault Ste Marie this year reached the stupendous figures of 36,000,000 tons. This is an increase of 8,000,000 tons over last vear, which was a record breaker Nothing can more plainly demonstrate the rapid growth and development oi the northwest. The annual estimate of the Gazette shows that the number of mi of new steam railroad constructed ing 1902 was 6,026, exclusive of second track, sidings and all electric lines. For- ty-two states reported railroad con- stMction. Oklahoma heading the list with 570 miles. Texas was sécond, with 496 miles INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. Railroad Newsy Paragraphs Picked up by Reporters On Their Rounds. W. B. Northrup, M.P., Belleville, is in the city. Rough, dry hands are unpleasant. Try Taylor's Lettuce Cream. It is said that Hon. "Mr. Tarte could not find: it possible" to attend the banquet in the city to-night. Cunningham, piano tuner from Chickering's, New York. Orders re- ceived at McAuley's bookstore. John and William Sherrington, Ni agara Falls, N.Y., are spending the holidays with their parents on First street. \ Lewis W. Ferris left to-day for New York :tate, where he is employed by Post & Henderson Co., Benson Mines. Mrs. Ferris will remain here for the winter. Early in the new vear a local ama- teur operatic company will be formed to produce a new opera, the produc- tion of the pen of a local writer and Composer. Municipal candidates, who desire to resign must do so before nine o'clock Tuesday night, 30th inst. Their re: signations must be handed to the city clerk in writing. One of Alderman Bell's "reliable" stateraents on the platform this morn- ing was that Alderman Graham se- cured a subscription from the late City Engineer Bolger for the proposed fountain in the city park. When Ald- erman Graham took hold of the parks, the late lamented city engineer had long ceased to hold earthly office. In St. John's church, Portsmouth, after last evening's service, the Sun day school children sang a number of Christmas carols. In the afternoon a special children's service was held. At morning service, 'Rev. Mr. Crisp re- ferred to the death of Mrs. C. K. Clarke, holding her up as an example of creat unselfishness, Most Liberal Grants. The late Iron Workers' Helpers Union, No.".8412, met on Saturday afternoon to settle accounts and wind up business. These most liberal grants were made to public institu- tions : Hotel Dieu, 866; general hospi- tal. 866: House of Industry, 825; ) House of Providence, 823. Pepper brothers of Berlin, Ont., will spend seven vears in the penitentiary for hizhway robbery. -------- ET -- OPPO DP PLEO ®® sis A MAN se > 7 tention than a shabbily dressed man. Look well to your appearance and the world will respect you. §@F Special sale of Trousers, $7 and - $7.50 values, for $5. -- go at once sations when what followed. Who is well dressed receives more at- . @ N @® » \ \ PODS H0OPOOSER000E C. LIVINGSTON & BRO. 75, 77 and 79 BROCK STREET. : 9FOCCEOP 020000009 @0@ QQICIOIOCIOIO0, "BUST" ORDER. OPERATOR/ THROWS LIGHT ON calse OF WRECK, Places Blame Higher Up--Claims the Dispatcher at London Was in Error--Efforts to Stop the Train Later Failed. : London, Ont., Dec. 29.--Anarew Car- son, the operator at Watford whose failure to deliver orders to Conductor McAulifie of the Pacitic express to pass the freight at Wanstead, is said by the Grand Trunk officials to have caused the wreck at Wanstead op Friday night, made his first statement since the disaster. He says he received the order for No. 5, the express, to pass the freight at Wanstead at 9.48 o'clock, but de- clares positively, that a few minutes later Dispatcher J. G. Kerr, at Lon- don, called him and ordered him to "bust" or cancel the order. Carson sail: . "About 9.45, after calling Wyoming and ascertaining that the freight was there, the dispatcher called me rapid- lv a half dozen times. When I answer- ed on the wire, he told me to 'bust' this order. I wrote 'Bust it' across the order just as No. 5 was coming in. "Conductor McAuliffe came in and asked me what the order hoard was out against him for. I told him that we had an order for him, but the dis- patcher had 'busted' it. He asked me to hurry and write g clearance order, which I did. "After the train had started and was out of my reach the dispatcher learned that the freight had left Wy- oming. I told him I could not stop No. 5, as it had left. "He immediately began calling Kinz's Court Junction, the station be- 'tween Watford and Wanstead, on the railroad wire, and I tried to raise them on a commercial wire, We both failed to do this, however, until after the express had passed the junction." Carson admitted that he knew it was against the rules of the companv to cancel a train order without send- ny a substitute with it, but said that" the dispatcher was his superior officer and he disliked to question his order or dispute his authority to take this, action. Dispatcher Kerr's order book in the local Grand Trunk office does not show that the order was canceled, as Carson claims. According to the book it was still in force and should have been deliver- ed to the conductor of the express. Kerr has not made any statement even to the railroad officials and will not until he takes his stand at the in- quest. Division Superintendent George (i. Jones. of Toronto, says that the rule canceling train orders iz the strictest in the company's code. "I do not he- lieve," he said, "that it has been vio- lated since the standard*aispatching rules went into effect. "Dispatcher Kerr is one of the hest and most efficient dispatchers in our service. He is the operator who ac- companied the train bearing the Duke and Duchess of York on the royal tour of Canada a vear ago. I have everv confidence in him." Other Grand Trunk officials who were present also expreased their confidence in Kerr. Coroner Dr. Harvey, Lambton coun- tv has begun the inqfiest at Wyoming. Bodies Sent Home. All but one of those who lost their lives in the Wanstead wreck have been | sent, to their homes. The exception is that of George I). Southern, of Lock- port, N.Y., whose friends in Lockport have not vet been located. The cases in the hospital over which the greatest apprehension is felt, are those of Mr. Baker, London. and Mr. Barnes, Woodstock. The dan- ger of pneumonia resulting from ex- v came necessary in order to release her to tear almost every stitch of cloth- ing from her body. Fortunately, and almost a miracle, I think, she had not been hurt, unless the shock and exposure will produce some after-ef- | lect. The Inquest Called. Wyoming, Ont., Dec. 29.--The in- quest to injuire into the cause of the wreck which occurred at Wanstead, on Friday eveniny, was opened here this morning, at ten o'clock, before Coro- ner Harvey. After the jury was em- pannelled the first witness" examined was William Jackson, section fore- man, Wyoming. His. evidence was mostly to show that he had taken the body of Fireman Rickett to Wyoming. Section Foreman George Stillson, was next examined. His evidence was to the effect that he had been called out on the night of the accident and lent a helping hand in assisting in the re- moval of the fireman's body. James Kerr, dispatcher, who sent the train from London was next call- ed. Kerr's evidence was to the effect that he sent orders to the Watford and Wyoming operators, simultane- ously, to have the express meet the freizht at Wanstead, Shortly after Wy- oming reported to the dispatcher that the freirht was slow _ in getting out. Kerr's order was properly repeated back both operators and Kerr marked "0.K." Kerr asked Wyoming why the freicht was slow in getting out, Wy- oming replying he didn't know. Kerr then called' Watford and asked if No. 5 was coming. Watford's reply being "Yes." Kerr ysaid, "Min, Ma., bust it." Wyoming' then reported the freicht pulling out. Kerr* kaid, "Let her go." He then called Watford. The operator . there peported No..5 had gone and. ] 1 busted the or- der for. No. 5, which was the express. Kerr then called Wyoming and told him to stop the freight. Wyoniing an- swered "I can't." Kerr said, "You must stop her." Kerr then called Kingscourt for seven or eight minutes before raising that office. Kingscourt reported No. 5 had passed. In a few minutes Wanstead called the despatch- er, asking if 'the trains were to cross at Wanstead, as he had heard a noise and had run from his house, thinking there was trouble. In a few minutes Assistant Superintendent' Caetello, who was on the express train, called Kerr and asked for the auxiliary to be sent as a collision had occurred. W. J. Hanna, who appeared for Car- son, 'the station agent, at Watford, cross-examined 'Kerr. The inquiry was then adjourned. MUNICIPAL NOMINATIONS. Village of Portsmouth. For reeve--R. J. Baiden, James Mat- théws : .: illors--Alekander' Atkins, John Fisher, Thomas McCammon, Alfred Simmons, John R. Marks, M. J. Kennedy. For school trustees--J. Halliday, J. W. Henstridge, G. Stansbury, Andrew Porter. Town Of Arnprior. For mayor--Messrs. James .J. Grace, John Harvey, Wellington M. Howe, W. J. Johnston. J. J. Neilsoniand A: 'W. Reid were elected by acclamation, public school trustees. Garden Island. Reeve--H. A. Calvin, M.P. Councillors--S. C. Calvin, D. Com- peau, H. P. Gordon, John Harris, all elected by acclamation. posure is feared. The passengers on the cars relate many thrilling experiences, In ever case where the passenger | had been in the ill-fated day coach he | or she expressed wonder and gratitude | | at having escaped. Perhaps no more marvellous escape among the many is | related than that of the baggageman. | When the crash came he was seated. | and was reading a newspaper. He was terribly shaken up as he travelled amid his trunks and baggage into the middle of the day coach But he is said not to have so much as a scratch. | A decidedly narrow escape was that | of Mr. Stuart, Wingham, His face | was scratched and bleeding and there | | following. | sustained | were bruises about his body, but he was not considered to have been much harmed. To the News he said that he i was dozing, and knew nothing that he | could speak of save that a terribld | noise awoke him with a start. Every- | thing was in darkness, and he felt himscli pinned in his seat. Immediate- lv above his head was the floor of the bageage car. The man sitting next to him had been squeezed in his seat, and apparently killed. "I realized very quickly happened. and strugeled to release myself. To my great joy I found that I was uninjured, and with a lit tle effort 1 succeeded in forcing my way to the open air. It was bitterly cold: the wind \was blowing at a very rapid rate, and was ice cold, The snow was whirled in my face as 1 teached the outside of the wreck, and it refreshed me so that 1 was able to I cannot tell vou my sen- the crash what had came, nor For a while every- thing was confusion. People were praying and calling upon their Maker in the most agonizing wa many things that I shall ne I saw er, forget. The little children who were in the wreck afforded the most pitiful in- stances. Some of the imprisoned peo ple beneath the wreck were held down for three hours. They were subject to all the severity oi the weather. and 1 believe that many must have cubed frow. the effects of the biting frost and Winds where thew would otherwise have survived 'their injuries. The cold paralyzed vou. Those of the passengers who had ex aped scarce managed to keep themselves from freezing. and how the poor wretches who were held down beneath the wreckage managed to survive for hours that seemed like dave is mors than I can tell. There was one poor woman whom I particularly noticed. She was old and <ufiering terribly fram fricht. She was held bv one of sue her hubs in such a way that it be- | Thish--hic--ish New Year's Eve--hije-- wm Good Reason. Policeman--What are you sitting on the steps for this awful cold night ? Boozer (drunk--)--Thash all right. and my wife ish--hic--watching old vear out--hic--and I'm sitting in the cold--hic--"cause I'can"t go home--hic --till she ish in bed. A Way Out Of Difficulty. When Thomas B. Reed was speaker of the House of Representatives, he - THE. DAILY WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMBJR 29. = = -- DEATH IN WINE|[ Brand Coff (1 ®.and 2 1b. cans) Its Purity is its Strength Flavor and Fragrance its natural attributes. CHASE & SANBORN, LIQUOR GIVEN AS CHRIST- MAS PRESENT KILLS Three Persons Arrested--Richard Gummings Takes a Drink From Bottle Sent as a Peace Offer- ing and Dies Twenty-Four Hours Later. Chicago, Dec. 29.--Poisoned, it is charged, by means of a bottle of wine given as a Christmas present, Richard Cummings, fifty "vears of "age, died yesterday at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Shanahan ii Ashland avenue, 'where he' was boarding. William Moniak, his wife, Theresa Moniak, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Mary, were arresied on suspicion of having pois- oned Cummings. A bitter quarrel is taken place between Cummings and Mrs. Shanahan on one side and the Moniaks on the other. The wine, ac- cording to the story told the police, was given to Mrs. Shanahan by Mary Moniak on behalf of her parents as a peace offering. Mrs. Shanahan drank some of it and said she suffered from severe pains soon afterward. She of- fered some of the wine to her niece, who complained that it tasted bitter. Cummings drank the remainder and died twenty-four hours later. An examination of Cummings' sto- mach will be made. PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest News Culled From All Over The World. said to have Capital is rushing into the coke business in the United States. Dow academy at Franconia, NH, was burned on Sunday night. Admiral Dewey got an ovation on arriving at Ponce, Porto Rico. Sixty lives were lost by a steam- boatecollision in Malacca Straits. Archduke Leopold has refused to re- sign renunciation of his rights, as an Austrian citizen. Three girls were drowned by cap- sizing of a canoe in the Cumberland river, Tennessee. Robert Hally, Toronto, will spend six months in jail for obtaining money on false cheques. Mrs. Fremont, widow of Gen. Fre- mont, died on Sunday at Los Angeles aged seventy-eight. Count Sano, a privy councillor, and founder of the Japan Red Cross So- ciety, died in Tokio, aged eighty. Four bodies. have been recovered from the Little Redstone mine, where an explosion occurred on Saturday. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Syracuse, ly, on Sunday even- ing. It was preceded by subterranean rumblings. Fissures have been discovered in. the Paris catacombs menacing a wing of the Luzemberg paiace and a part of the famous gardens. Gales have been raging along coast of Great Britain, and Scotland is snow-hound. Gales are also doing damage on the continent. On his return from two years' ser- vice in the Philippines, George Hub- bard, Mullica Hill, N..J., found his wife had been dead ten days. A. M. Powell is under arrest at Re- gina, NNW.T., for embezzlement from Frost & Wood, Smith's Falls, He was the firm's agent at Simcoe. The Chateauguy RR., from Cadyville to Lyons Mountain, a distance of twenty miles, was changed from nar- row to stamdard guage in thirteen hours. The first officer of the La Cham- pagne, of French steamship line, was killed by being thrown violently to the bridge by a wave striking the vessel. « Dollie Earle, who committed suicide in a burlesque theatre dressing-room at Philadelphia, has been identified as a daughter of Mrs. T. J. Allen, of Rochester. Officials of the treasury at Washing- ton think it will not be necessary to draw on government dep®its in na- tional banks to meet expenses in the near future. The Brussels Petit Bleu has publish- ed M. Giron's own story of his rela- tions with the Crown Princess of Sax- ony in which he admits the paternity of her sixth child. Miss Carrie Gaskin, belonging to prominent family in Norfolk, Va., who disappeared lately, has heen foun working in a silk mill. She was craz- ed over the death of her lover. Princess Louise of Coburg, who is confined by the king of the Belgians in the Lindenshof asylum is a wreck to her and her sister is implacable. Jail authorities at Dover, Del., have discovered that a tramp who frequent- lv showed up for a night's lodging, bringing always several loaves of bread. These were found to contain whiskey. Montreal firemen called to a fire on St. Norbert street found two illicit stills in full blast and no one in the house. The provincial police took possession of the outfit including twelve barrels of liquor. A company has heen incorporated in Chicago with capital of 856,000,000, to utilize the electricity which Albert G. Whitney say is floating in illimit- was approached bv a member for aid In securing an appropriation for im- proving a stream in his district. Mr. Reed promised to investigate. When the congressman next appealed to him, Mr. Reed was ready. "There is no water in that stream," asserted Reed. "It is dry as a bone"in sum- mer. Let that vou amend your biil. Instead of asking the ap- me sShiggest propriation tor dredging the stream, | make vour request for funds to ma- | cadamize it." | Si Gone To Louisiana. | Veterinary-Capt. Metcalfe eit this morning for Louisiana on business, ! Nice arriving home, he rp ved a | cablegrant from Cal. Steel asking ! him to go back to South Africa and | resume his position with Baden-Pow- | ell s constabulary Capt. Metcalfe has won golden opinions "over the splendid | service he rendered in many ways on the field. ; i Venezuelans are glad that The Hague tribunal will arbitrate bles . Crosbv.and Thornton's weekly dafice ! at Whig Hall, tonight, 2 on the trou- 000. able quantities above the seventeen miles of atmosphere which surround our earth. Judge Britton, thie morning, grant ed an injunction restraining the city authorities fram submitting, at the municipal election, the question of giving a grant of 30.000 to a con- sumptive sanitarium without prepar- inr 4 by-law. U.S. Minister Bowen, and the Vepe- zuelan minister of foreign affairs, met at Caracas on Saturday. Mr. Bowen conveved President Roosevelt's refusal to arbitrate. It is rumoured that Vene. zuela is ready to make any sort of concession. y Papers among the efiects of George Pleydell, frozen to death near his own door at Duluth. show that he = was the son of Major Pleydell, | Acton, Middlesex. Eng. His mother died latelv,. leaving him a share in a (hieenland estate to the value of R200, TO THE ELECTORS, --Ladies and gentlemen, 1 respectfully * solicit your votes and. influence to elect me as one of vour representatives in the city council far 1903 1 returned [will faithfully Jook after the ward and of the VICTORIA WARD. city as. a whole of her former self. 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