Fresh re. aoiling 87, pin poration, stock at $0.50 to $0.75 New York, Dec. aE : fortunate g of he oid band w, evening, ca full atendahios of members, 900, eports prosented the hand to in sof od $12 of: Fergt. _ secretary and man- AB Hunt, rvasutes er auditors, E. Orser, Jr; F. Wirts; avian, J, Foden, J. W. Trendall, dividends for the the full year. RB Uglow & Co. our leading book- sellers, report very large 'salis Bi new books for holiday its, Sutherland's Hockey Boots. Are made somewhat different from the ordinary kinds, We have them for min at $2, $2.50, 83 and they are dandies. March per cent.; November, twelve last quarter, ten crease in the di The British Columbia legislature has adjourned watil January 11th. in the price of oil holders. version of Oil 000,000 in dividen a Suggestions that £90,000,000. bursements of run close 000 capital stock. dividends istmas fts SHIRT WAIST LENGTHS Full Waist Length, neatly boxed of fancy silks, at $2, $2.50, $3, $3.25, $4, ol), hy h "Of Plain Silks, including black, at $2.75, 83, $3.50, 54, $1.75, $5.25, $0. to stockholders, feller corporation years, In view of the Ladies nancial circles. Pe with hand-made lace in with the 4 and honiton styles, Me. to od Lawn and Linen, 10: to 40c, each. 1.15 to 84 doz Gentlemen's , Be.ito 81 each tehed \50 to $5.50 a | to 87.75. would agree to bursements to sto lieved that an oil ened, SUIT AND DRESS LENGTHS Black and Colored Suit Lengths, $1 o §7 3 Press Lengths 75 to $10. Cape Town, Dec. 15.--Ac cording to before efforts were begun. | Linen, 81.20 to 83.50 dozen. gths, an official despatch from the Harte The police had to be called in to . -------- heeste River district, a Hottentot quell a row in a colored convention laager was attacked and captured hy | In Washington, one faction favoring TABLE CLOTHS A German patrol, Saturday last. The | endorsing President Roosevelt's atti gaily 4 i + és : Hottentots drove the Germans across tude to the negro race, the other ob- Genuine Irish Linen, with Napkin to | the river, firing heavily, and severely | jecting to Booker Washington's re- match, $4, 85, $5.50, $6.75, 87.50, 89, | wounding Lieut. Pekin and cone pri-| mark that disiranchisement in the sdrossed and un | $10.50, 812.30, vate, The, Hottntos subssquently re- | South placed a premium on intelli: ; . | treated, losi three killed and two | gence, wealth, characte ri we alking Gloves, new. | Tray Cloths, plain and damask lin | wounded, More fighting is expected, STR, on thin, at 81.95 pair. [0s 8c, 40, 50¢., 60c., TSe., 90c., During the engagement the Cape police To Come To Kingston. v3 , Son ey the firs 3 She Hottmtots Ottawa, Dec. 15. --James Smith, was Five O'clock Covers, neatly hem: | officers by middaker pete sentenced lo . five. vents in Kingston Ba Te Jad, xd, dnd, ye Poo: Toe. romerr Toile Ravish_ at faa x84 in., T6c., 81, $1.25, 81.50, $1.75. ra HY: . He looted Ban x 82, 8250, 83, wa oon SLT CANADIAN PACIFIC WINS. | street stores. to 85. ' ole guarantead host English Pillow Shams, open work and hand 8 embroidered, 10c., $9. 60c., GSc., Sie. 81, $1.25, $1.50, $2, 82.50. Montreal, Dec, th plain back, heh and : 50. dark and 1; 83, 33.75, ". handsome © Roman over' or LACE CURTAINS Handsome Hoxigin " very moderals bh SL S100, 2, 82.50, $3, $3.25, R575, 81.50, So. 5s to return them to Tapestry Curtains, dark and light combinations of colois, heavily fringed ab both ends, 83, 83.50, $4, up to $0.75 pr Miss Leona Ireland FLOOR RUGS Velvet Rugs, no seams, x2 vards up to 3ixd yards, $4 to 825 each. od SIRE : fever. men and children, ter ravaged Tthaca range, well lined, | versity. . To-day Ble., The, 90c, 81, | Balmoral Ru . 2x3 vards up to | in the hospital, Ei 26.50 up to 892.50, ing her, and her barely fifty 4x4} yards, A : cians say che will Chicago, a strike w ividends current quarter is due to larger carn. ings, resulting from a sharp advance béen advancing on the stre ports that production is falling off very rapidly, the present increased div- idend of the Standard Oil company has caused considerable interest situation City hospital suffering Ske was one of tims of the gpidemis 5 The Dividends of the Stand. ; ard Of Stock ARE $44,000,000. A LARGE INCREASE OVER THOSE OF LAST YEAR. John D. Rockefeller Owns One- Third of The Stock--Standard © 0il Company Pays More Stock arket. wi Money Than Any Other Cor- | 15. Those enough to own. Standard Oil stock received a heodsome Christ- mas present to-da checks for their share of the $12,000,- , representing the fourth and last quarterly dividend of the year. ividend disbursed to-ddy am a share, which is an in $2 over the dividend declared ot time last year. This brings the total forty-foiic per ecnt., or $14,000,000 in dividends year to There is no regular rate of dividend paid the Standard Oil stock. The die- corporation this year are as follows : i twenty per ecent.; June; seven September, per cent, five per per cent, T' . According official of the Standard 0il, the cor- | ration carries no surplus, giving the enefit of all earnings to the stook- The Standard Oil company is: now disbursing more money to stockholders than any other corporation in : world. The United poration held first dond payer provious to the reduction in the common dividend and the con referred stock into bonds. It now ranks second to the Standard company. Since 1807, the Standard Oil company has paid to stockholders more than $275.- Of that umount John D. Rockefeller has received more the the corporation to $375,000,000, or nearly four times greater than the $100 600 - place as Januar dss. Since 159! A fair idea of the magnitude of the Standard 0il com- pany can be obtained from the fact that the Pennsylvania railroad pany; within the last fifty-seven years, has paid something like $215,000.000 or £430,000 000 than the stockholders of the have received fact that « rople in close say an increase vk famine was HAD FIERCE FIGHT. Encounter Between Germans And Hottentots. Company Ordered To Return Them To Hong Kong. 15.~The Can Hong Kong, where it brought them. -------------------- * Ill Of Typhoid A Year. Ithaca, N.Y., Dee. 15.~A yea Iw and the fever still consum- | ht 'reduced to | pounds. Ba , her. wei, recover. re ------------ To Vote On The Question. Dec. 15.~The question of ill he voted on hy in the shape of five per cent.; In the first quarter of 192, twenty per cent. was declared; second quarter, ten pec cent.; third quarter, during States steel er y Ist. i that it is very unlikely that Rockefeller interest holders if they be | the company as taken to the from typhoid the first via. which last win Corneil Uni- Mise Ireland still Pes All Over The World. Alexander. Mpedonel Hali, Toronto, is dead. The Presbyterian chucch Frances was destrpyed by fire. ped dead while walking to church Sir William. Mulock Mulock Club, Toronto, 2th: water, Del. tacks! rebels at Monte Cristi. Last Monday Mavor Westminster, B.C. 'was re elected | the third term by acclamation. persons i ing the peoples to leave. 000, The is to y of this typhoid fever, is better. compressed air, and panions injured. his thres M. Loubet, president of the " tending from April (th to 11th. Jean Lemieux, a | from Rat Portage, was sent cent., | Central prison for three months for he in- | assaulting a former sweetheart. the | During a fierce gale the schooner | Sailors Home 'was driven ashore to an | of six persons perished. | the conservative The Very Latest News Culled From I. of Osgoode at Fort Mrs. R. 8. Dunlop, Chatham, drop- The late R. B. Fulton, Woodstock, Ont, left an estate about. $100,000. will address the on December The Hamilton Brewing Association have purchased the Kuntz brewery for $270,000. An unknown steamship is ashore ten miles north of Delaware brdak- A revelation has started in San De- mingo, provisional troops having at Keary, New for A panic was averted in a Pittsburg theatre, by the manager guietly ask Loss $150,- Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, in Pa- ris, convalescing from an attack of reported as much A workman in the Wagner Iron com- pany, Buffalo, was blown to death by com- It is semi-officially announced that French : ter, annaunced his retirement | tribution is, made out of the carnings | 4 | him by Carpenter Bros., brokers, = of {from the instructorship, to take effect | of the quarter. When the directors + The Pope's Health. 4 | Hamilton. Carpenter Bros., are suing on January lst ¥ meet slips of paper are presented + 4 | on a note for 81,600. Pearson set up oR 7 aie------------ showing the profits up to dure for the * Rome, Dec. 15.--A vague 4 | that the note was for margins on 4 ] ! Medical Council 'Results. uarter, ahd the Sifuctors {heruupion % rumor, which is acquiring + stocks, and fat plaintifs had not so & 5 ¢ y ge i ; . y bought the rks. Judge Mac- ing the dottors wie pasted he buted in dividends to the stockhold- | ¥ form, is to the effect that 2 tae y A if ihe Jlaintibes | final supplementary examinations ° crs, In the fall and. winter months, | ¥ the Pope's health is not as mabon ound & he Hla Be th Ontari m ound oro, fore. A ths, i i The reserv: rase asked fo > She Ontario Medical Ninel are Con- when the use of oil and indsed pro- ? goed as Bt Should 25 His 3 Aol Ww. Hq. Colicoton will be heard nor, Stirling; J. J. Robertson, Belle: duets is Jorger. the dividends are pro. + fers for lack of change of [& | first on Thursday, by the court of ville. G. R. Gilmour, Brockville, pass- pot h rs Rockefeller is credited with | ® 2ir and sceme. His holi- 4 | appeal. Callaghan was remanded for od the primary. iy thirty-three per cont; of the 4 ness is perfectly resigned, sentence until to-morrow. . stock Es the Standard Oil company 4 but his sisters are very + Cornelius Shields, site nies; 5 > i of Neroue YN ar Holiday Books. and his receipts from the carnings of | # much worried over his con-" 4: 0 P, 5 3 Clergue, ha J had 4 The new hooks issued this year byl po corporation during the current | dition. They are anxious +4 | mi ton, Ls t he Soo Sov anies, fad 8 the leading American and English pub] coor appear to be approximately $15, | #. to advise him to abdicate © {long interview with the povernme i lishérs in artistic, design and beauty, | 500.000, {4 and return to Venice. # | this morning, but no Ea touiont sould #8 anything ever attempted Lefore. | mh four quarterly dividends of the |# | be obtained from any member of the {fopublic. will pay a visit to Italy, ex- French-Canadian to the at | St. Mary's, Nfid., and the entire crew There is an unconfirmed rumor that | Hon.-#Hugh John Macdonald may ha i candidate in Winni- | peg at the coming federal elections. There * will the a divi where forty.six below zero was low, | has been appointed for Hastings county, tired, is. a member of a wealthy family ated her clothing at Oxford, 0, of the National com- | Grace Hospital at ten o'clock. has saved Mrs. Margaret ged with the crime. epileptic fits. The licutenant He suffers in fi | touch | py | bravery, when ) the cruiser struck on | 8a¥s the 'pourparlers mav last for sev- tere | Village Point. by rushing on being | eral weeks, The foreign office, however % | wakened from a sound sleep, and | regards the draft as a distinct step | closing the watertight bulkheads. threat: Half a dozen Cleveland Thomas Kelly, a lineman, who shocked to death, in an attempt restore life. The - effort failed, physicians state, because too long ' goods, got {wenty-three months Central Prison. Pacific railway gained a decisive vie tory in the €ase of the ten Chinaien who sought, after having been refused | admission to enter the United States, | to remain in Canada, and who took out writs of habeas corpus to compel the railway company to release them. Judge EaVergne ordered i nadian | 1 rom r ago physi- i be mails for Australia | (except West Australia) and for New Zealand from Vancouver on the 31st instant, and again on January Sth. The coldest point reported in Can- ada on Sunday was White River, Ont., i re- corded, Dawson being only forty be- Stewart Masson, banister, Belleviile, county solicitor the former in- cumbent, John Bell, K.C., having re Miss Mary Kyger, aged forty years, | with gasoline and | then set herself on fire. Death ensued A. O. Bushnell, cashier of the Yale bank, New Haven, Conn., shot himself this morning and died at More marines have been landed for duty on the Isthmus of Panama and | London, Dec, 15.--The terms of tess | the naval authorities concentrate for- Russia's reply' to Japan have been Roeke- | tes so as to keep "tabs" on Colom- | communicated to the Japanese minis- in"six | bians, ter here, Baron Hayashi, by the gov- : Philip. Heitchman, Attleboro, con. | ernment at Tokio. il has | fesses to having set fire to the hospi After careful "examination of the ngth of re- {tal of Dr. Solomon, and by so doing Russian draft of the agreement the » char- from engineer of H.M.S. lora saved numbers of lives by' cool physicians worked for an hour over the body of was to the a time (four hours) elapsed after death Joseph Durkin. for receiving stolen in Twenty-five oranges for 25¢., at Car- noveky's, the ovsterman, Rha S00 ELECTION SMITH ASKS DISQUALIFICAT- ION OF MIS-CAMPBELL. Bank of Hamilton Obtains Judg- ment By Default Against Dunn ~--Soo Companies Promoters Interview Government, But Make Wo Statement. Toronto, Dee. 15.--The registrar of the election court has received a copy of the cross petition in the Sault Ste. Marie case, in which the liberal mem- ber asks for the disqualilication of A. Miscampbell, the deteated candidate. It was tiled at Sault Ste. Marie last week. John W. Lendon arrested here; last night, charged with abduction of Eva Long, from Rome, N.Y., has agreed to go back and the whole matter has been amicably settled. Lendon and the girl were married here yesterday, and later an uncle appeared in pursuit from Rome, and at his instance the newly married pair were put in the cells for the night. The Bank of Hamilton to-day, ob- tained judgment by default against Thomas Dunn, Vancouver, for $70,000. The bank had already obtained judg- ment for that amount in British Col- umbia, and sued here "8n the British Columbia judgment. James Pearson, barrister, Toronto, is to-day, appealing to the court of appeal from the judgment of Macma- hon, J., in the action brought against party with recard to the negotiations opened with government yesterday. NEW CANADIAN CRUISER. Order-In-Coumcil For 18-Knot Ves- sel Passed. Ottawa, Dec. 15.--The order-in-coun- cil has been passed providing for the construction of a new cruiser to re- place the old flagship Acadia, of the Canadian fishery: protection service. The mew vessel will be an cighteen- knot ship, with modern quick-firing armament, and will be a serviceable craft in a naval sense, as well as use ful in protecting the coast fisheries. The new cruiser will be built at New- castle-on-Tyne, Rev. Father McGurty. seriously in- jured in the Ottawa University fire, and was severely burned about the head, has become totally blind. His life is despaired of. It is thought that the three earliest officers to receive the rank of briga- dier-general, a title which the govern- ment are empowered to confer, under the bill proposed hy Sir Frederick Borden, will he Col. Lord Aylmer, adjutant-general; Col. Finault. depu- ty-minister, and Col. Macdonald, dir- ector-general of ordnance. A---- ACCEPTANCE UNLIKELY. London Foreign Office Looks For Further Negotiations. the foreign office here is inclined to the- belief that its immediate accept- ance by Japan is unlikely and looks for a series of Russo-Japanese pour- parlers dealing with modifications. It toward a pacific settlement. NO SUCH SUM. Required From The Republic Of Panama. London, Dee. 15.--~The statement telegraphed from The Hague to the Morning Leader, of this city, that Holland and Great Britain insist that Panama shall assume liability of 815,000,000 of the Colombia debt is emphatically denied by the council, who point out that no such large sum was ever dreamed of as Pana- ma's share Arbitration at The Hague or the personal decision of President Roosevelt would be quite satisfactory to the council. X Fires Cause Heavy Loss, Rochester, NJY., Dec. 15.--Rochester was visited by three disastrous fires last night, the. loss probably aggre- gating over £200,000. The first was the Sherwood shoe finding factory, loss 865,000; the second in the Foster Armstrong piano factory. lose £100 - 000, and the third in the Haines pia no factory, which was discovered ab- out one o'clock, loss probably 235, 000, -------------- A Second Operation. London, Dec. 15.--The Daily News, this morning, announces that it learns, from well informed quarters, that a second operation has been per- formed on the kaiser's throat. The Paper adds that its information is that a third operation may be neces- sary. ---- The Father's Mandate. Berlin, Dec. 15.--Crown Prince Wil- lam was required by his father, to remain in his room for three days, for having raced in a steeplechase against the emperor's wish. SE Children's Felt Slippers, 10c. We to-day opened up 300 pairs of those felt slippers, which we sold out of last week. Come early. Sutherland's. ----e-------- Christmas Oranges. Eight Days More That does not give much time to do all-the careful selecting necessary for Christmas Presents, ~ Don't Leave Your Shopping Until the last minute --it's never satisfactory-- and to say the least a poor compliment to your friend to be remembered only in time to get what is left Shop in the Morning When it can be arranged. Christmas Umbrellas Nothing would be appreciated more as a Christmas Gift either for a lady or gentleman than one of those Stylish Umbrellas we are now be showing. . GENTLEMEN'S UMBRELLAS, $2, $2.50, $3, $3.25, $2.75, $3 50, $1.50. $4. LADIES' UMBRELLAS, $2.50, 35 $2, $1.75, $1.50, $3 75, Initials Engraved FREE. KID GLOVES LADIES' KID GLOVES in Perrins and other re- liable makes, a complete range of colors, in- : cluding black and white, at $1 and $1.25, Ladies' Lined Kid Mitts and Gloves. Ladies' Mocha Kid Mitts and Gloves. Ladies' Fancy Knitted Gloves. Ladies' Skating Gloves. KID GLOVES FOR MEN, Lined or Unlined, 75¢., $1, $1.25, $1.49, $2. «JOHN LAIDLAW & SON... 120-1272 Princess St., Kingston. Creepers On Your Rubbers Ww Get Ice And save a broken limb, Put On While You Wait | Price, 25c. BEFIFCFFERG When not required they turn up under the hollow of the foot out of sight. - ST ---- ---------- [THE LOCKETT SHOE STORE A . z House Coats ant Dressing Gov Are again popular as PRESENTS FOR M This year we have some special patterns from: New and ndon, England ] qualitics, $6.50 and $7.50, ~ NECKWEAR | Brighter, - neater, better v and patterns. We initial all umbrellas bo here this month. 3 JENKINS Veterans 14th P.W.0.. At ALL "MEMBERS ' OF THE Regiment who 'have not yet sig: petitions for Medals and Land for services in Fort Henry, and du Pont Barracks, during the West Rebellion of 1880, are reque do so before the 18th instant, date has heen fixed as the last ceiving signatures. Petitions at the Secretary, Ontario Buildi Savings Socicty, and at the Ar: H. H. GILDERSLEEVE, Presi New Coal & Wood } COAL. quay Lehigh Val "8oft and Hard Wood, cut to Wi y Rad six donegn; QUINN and DEN! Hay Market Square, Foot of King Street, Bast. "Phe WANTED. a i ii i i i hl ih A COOK. APPLY AT THE CO der, Hotel, King street. A YOUNG GIRL FOR HOUSE 'Apply at 86 Johnston street. A" COOK: 'APPLY YUKON J 'taurant; 348 King Street, Ea: WRITHRS, TO DO COPYIN: 1 'Art Institute, Lima, ( K'U00D GENERAL SERVANT. 10 : 13s fn oP rs, 8. Birch, PEAUHER, FOR SCHOOL SE: No." 6, Hinchinbrooke. : Apply TJ. Wager, secretary-treasurer, ville," Unt. FULL DRESS SUIT, SIZE 36 « Must be in good condition. to Box 1' Whig Oftice. A PEW SMART work, good wages. ston Hosiery Co'y. GIRLS, ST Apply A THOROUGHLY EXPERIF housemaid. Good wages by letter, te F. D., Whig Offi DWELLING TO RENT, FOR ist, with 8 or 9 rooms, f eéte. Will pay $20 per month Cann's Real Estate Agency. WE WANT PEOPLE IN EAC] cality to work for us during time, Pleasant work. Liber Imperial company, London, O ROOMS «= AND BOARD, BY Y couple, after. Christmas, in locality, modern conveniences vate family. Apply Box Whig. AGENTS WHO ARE WILLIN work. Good goods and goc Men earn $6 a day winter an mer. Never out of season. W Marshall & Co., teas, London, A QUALIFIED MALE TEACHE Schol Section No. 12 townsb Olden, Protestant preferred. stating "salary Damon Ye Secretary-Treasurer, Mountain A QUALIFIED R. C.. TEACHE) take charge of School No Township of Bediord, for the 1904; female preferred; state Apply to Mrs. Jas. Barret Section, No. 5, Sangster," Ont QUALIFIED TEACHER, HOLDI Second or Third Class Certific Union School, Oso and Olden ties to commence the first year. Apply stating salary, Li Jeraldi, Secretary-Tre Sharbot Lake. ---------------------------------------- MEN -- WE OFFER SPLEND] ducements to learn barber Short time required. Tools ed, board included, diplomas g positions furnished. Bes trade in existence for poo Moler Write for particulars. College, Chicago, 111. WATCHES FREE TO AGI WANTED, GENTLEMEN AND, L to engage in' the sale 0 watches. We give our agents sample $10 watch to take ord a liberal commission. If you like profitable employment fo spare time, write us at-on sample and terms. Address Watch Co., Dept. 10, Toronto, YOET. GOLD CUFF LINK, WITH IN) on Monday. Finder please re Whig . Office and get reward --------------. A LADY'S GREY HAND SAT! containing money, around King and Clarence Streets. | able peward will be given for turn to this office. -- + AN_OLD FASHIONED GOLD ( Bracelét,. between Union, Ea Frontense streets, and Medley Store... Roward will be given turned td .118 Earl strect. Fresh: wnelts, salinon, cod, ha Pikes: bickerel, whitefish, halibut at Carmnovsky's fish market. Morley's life of Gladstone. U Malaga grapes, 20c. Ib, 'at Gil