earnings for who w y were Vi8.181, Ags ng Com- in Sauit esicisiior. Male Theatrical 4 Lights. Two of the mals members: of [age was dome. i : | Were Quietly Married. Brim 0 Sn 158 ley RC Ret by the it train for Toronto and Jouve fon Lethbridge. W q 4 h coming u never a = unless he cah make a go of it. NET CURTAINS-$375 to 80 pair. TRISH POINT CURTAINS-$5 to $10 pair. ANCY Swins NETS, SASH MUSLINS, FRILLED MUSLINS--15e. to rpet Squares biped with sv SE i 2 a Fe uty > 90 J Floor Coverings the-acme of Wory desired sise--1} , 28x3, 3xt, x3], 3x4, 3ixd, jd, 4x4, Balmoral, Wool, . , Jagey, Velvet. Over 300 , $1 to $27.50 each. : Wear Skirts RAE AN, Ite tye. to = : ally at w At ohice, and quit the establish- he atcaititittre of the 'municipal Whith wan a, wil 'be with session. | ELECTI were ws, tr Beeretigty Trower, Tadeo the bill, on inka . hate was wiakin thrown, ahott ten yards. 5k killed. 'beeri identified Set au or ghlu, 507 of middle t. to deal = the hon of the Capada Foundre, at Tsed 8 marning, to a inershants. Thivernct claims tae it was a question affecting trade, the legislature 'had no righ er premice' Gf J ap- said that the pre ian squadrons in the hina kad created a sitnation, Only the of the former cordial ol ice. and "Japan enabled apafiese to remain comparative Waning To Japan. Tokio, May 17. The Kokumin, if ticle an the situation created b violation = of &hentrality, note to the Japan- ese nation. It declares that Japan's sole object in eniering upon hostili- i Ceo aatabih a lasting and pee in the far east, g. He with Should the war he extended so as to involve other nations, Japan would be compelled submit to a post bel- $ ! s lum interna conference which Junction went 'out on strike, would greatly impede the realization areal company rt | of her aspirations. : pomp inh ay ain | The artide was evidently prompted vearly o A tat : & iy, ahd other things. The hy the earnest agitation that is being was lo 1 school tod otice saying that ng finfied with 0 were dissdt present conditions could 'get their the legislature, logit various bills 're hould be increased frony three to ifichew, The i h, but' the committee could not in ard to it. This question Br. Pyne, that the bills be not dealt airman said the government lel with the various high acts between now and Such is mann ON WORKERS FINED. Three of Soo (ang Fined $300 Each. Toronto, May 17.--Three Soo elee- -- tiow workers are fined $300 domairy. Bort mn each free with a certificate of in- the effect of the t handed out by Chancellor and assented to by Justice Teet- gel at the trial of the four men, who rged with corrupt practices in the election of 1903, made the celebra likely to come back time arranged for sendi across the | ine for the big t lantic race, the wind on hauled to about the same Rights Of Jews. St. Petersburg, May 17. The Asso- Saud Tyas donrus that the basis for | T project for the extension of rights of Jews, now under discussion, s---- Won The Stakes. Speci) to the Whie, ! don, . May 17.--"Cicero," ridden W Maher, the American jockey, won tis Newmarket stakes, at .the New: {market spring meeting, to-day, _ EE ---------------- "You sell 'the best jee" orem in the city" said a customer {Cross deug store, kno famous hy ted tp of the Minnie M, Patrick Calvin, William Coyne Jack Kennedy are the three men fined ng the yachts Tans-At- shore = had artisans. carried on by the press and the poli- tical parties, by means of petitions urging the government to take prompt and strong. abtion against France. Russian "Reinforeenionts, to | Tondon, May 87.--A despatch to the "Telegraph from Tokio, says that = : t Russians are active in Northern ----y or ahicles, Kure, Toro \ ing Fiurd 5. at nak Alowin " vecontihe 3 . ilju. To nits frome ivos- That ng a esoutimdiions tok - ossasicnally seen - the ¢ fr py: Tio i. | coast. o issian troops at Pos- thie the nu onthe t vehi siet Bay have heen reinforced owing license to the advanes of the Japanese army. = from $2 to 85, ow 10 Se for The Telegraph, emphasizes. the ahove over ten horse-power. Re. | despatches as. Turther proof of a ties for the 'violation of the | Japanese advancd an Vladivostok. Tt | Bet to 'rest with others rather than | 8umes that the army is that of Gen, r ! burden of proof, in Hasegawa, which was reported to of nt 10 rest with oper: | have landed at Gensan some weeks AR: pise gn Mr: Sutherland's ago. '16 conipel' motorists to st r ! ; cles within 100 yards fr 2 Bed Russians Active. wh was didoussed, at | St. Petersburg, May 17.--Another division of reinforcements for Rojest- vensky is almost ready at Cronstadt, to-morrow. and will be sent gut under the com- The' sub-committee appointed to | mand of Rear: A miral Parengo. It consider bile amending the high | Will consist of two fine new battle #ehools' wet, met," this morning, and | ships, the Slava and the Emperor after considerable discussion adopted | Alexander 11, two cruisers, a gun- | the sug of 'the chairman, Fon. | boat, a transport; and several minor units, The division is' naw* engaged in speed trials and manoeuvring off Cronstadt. The appearance ; of the reserve division in the far cast in the course of the summer should the hos- tile fleets suffer equally in the coming battle, is countel wpon to give Rus- sig the neckssary - decisive preponder- ance upon the sea. Tho possession of this division, naval men believe, may ultimately prove Russia's salvation. next , and WELCOMED 'THE HANDCAR. Even Though Grieved it Wasn't a Street Car. $ Pegple living. on the line of' the street railway were amazed, © this morning, to hear, once more, the sound of revolving wheels on the rails, They ipunediately" jumped at the con- clusion that a selution of the street and Jand J.D. Lamont, who gave his evi railway company's _ difficulties had dence last Saturday, goes free and been found, and pictured to them- Pays no costs, The fiming of Calvin | Ives the old = delightful street car ,and Coyne practically amounts only | fides during the hot summer days. "to their banishment from Canada, as | Their hopes were doomed to death, they are su to be in the States | 8% they soon discovered that the at the Bo i ty and they are net | M8ginary strect car "wasn't a real one--oh!' mercy, no 1" An cmployee of the 'outer G. T. R. station; havi somo business in GREAT YACHT RACE. town, romstorid a hand-car to the Bagot street line, and. worked his Again Stopped by. Dense Banks of | Way up to the city. He turned the Fog. switch at' Prigeoss street, and by Special to "Whig. ' means of steenpous "work, made the New Yone Ma 172A 1915, 4he | W-grade to A street, returning later with greater ease to the foot of Privicess stieet. He was enthusias- tieally applauded by the admiring an {40 'ongs who ers glad to See iy : it | thing. on wheels, ran over the Fine, pi ane had hraught IS a it was stated that injunctions were { yesterday's po stieot A The wind | Pring taken out, by several prominent was south by sast, and the fog was | Citisens, to tpsione the line but the rolling in toward the Jersey. share in | hond-car man ppeared with his great thick banks, which cut off all [Machine before any steps conld be view of the oéean. taken to take him in charge. Policernen Killed. Riga, Ru Russia. May 17. ign, et wre killed by un. re at midnight near Gui- the | known RP CN ight thrown by ths committee of minist is. the | at a police patrol. wounding a police lete removal of the time Simit of | cv ssioncr and killing a policeman, of Jewish nts of the | The hand throwers het and killed first and second 'class in the another policeman w vas amo! | cities of Russin (the eriod is ates their pursuers, Feniricted to three months #3 SR? ao and the extonsion of the wnresiriet Yi ia tes. right of residence of Jewish 2. K. G..A. No The 1 A. will hold its final meeting on Fri day, at 380 pm. The work of the as sociation will he presented hv Messrs. Stokes and I, Tt is the annual thanksgiving offering day. The presi- dent hopes for a large attendance, vod on mn association in Gibson's Re assist the retail grocers hon 'She : to obtain a greater yesterday ,+ margin on proprietary articles, & wid i ¥ x 3 » George McEwan, Formerly M.P., for South Huron, the Defend- | ant--Defence Claims Man of Same Name Did the Work. Special to the Whie. s Ottawa, May 17.--F. H. Clergue, the Soo magnate, appeared in polics court this moming, as plaintiff in a charge | against George McEwan, Cumhcrluhd street, Ottawa, of forging the name George MoEwan to a cheque for $750. McEwan pleaded not guilty, the case was enlarged, and the prisoner re "leased without bail. : It is said "that the Morton Trust company of New York, sent a cheque in a the Consolidated Lake Superior company, payable | to George {McEwan of H Ont., formerly M.P. for South Huvon. It is alleged that when the cheque first reached Ot- tawa, another man named George Mo Ewan got it and returned it to New York, It was re-addressed, and on reaching Ottawa, the second time fell ito the hands of the man under the charge, who, it is alleged, endorsed and paid it into J. Harty, a local broker un account. This happened according to plain- Uff in January last, and the cheque went through the Sovereign Bank; it is now held bv the Bank of Ottawa. Hon. FB. Latchiord, is Mr. Clergue's counsel, A PITH OF THE NEWS. Over Phe World. Toronto is tp operate a ferry he tween the city and the island. King Edward has appointed Alfonso a general in the British aripy. he 8.8. Numidian, from Liverpool, arrived at Halifax, at 9.30 this morn ing. Emperor William conferred on sul tah of Morocco the Order of Red Sagle. » ug Wild bulls cansed a panic in the streets of Madrid, and. gored several people to death. The estate of the late George Good- erham, Toronto, will he proved at a value of $9,000,000, The assessment of Chatham has creased over half a the operation of the act, Sir Wilired Laurier believes parlia ment will have to take some action in the future regarding the C.P.R. ex- emption, The steamer Mystic, of the Dowmimon Conl company, for neglecting ty re port. to customs at Louisburg, has ben seized. Many guests of the Trish National teachers' banquet in Sligo left * the table when a toast was proposed to the kin in million through new assessment Bert i: Howe; sixty years old, of Great 'Bend, Pa., committed suicide by stabliing himself and then drinking carbolic acid. A. 8. Mackenzie, professor of phy- sies in Bryn Mawr College, has been appointed to the chair of physics in Balhousie College, Halifax, N.S. Elisha Moore, former railroad man and fumace maoufacturer and a resi- dent of Cape V incent, Oswego and Watertown, N.Y, is dead at Syracuse. Ogdenshurg's chief of police, George H. McGlynn, handed in. his resigna- tion to the council. Officer O'Brien was designated acting chief until a successor is appointed. The third drowning accident in the the Black River, within twenty-four hours occurred at Dexter, N.Y., on Tuesday, when g five-year-old boy was swept away in the swift current. Lord Selborne, former fitst lord of the admiralty, and the successor of Lord Milner as high commissioner in South Africa, arrived at Cape Town, Cape Colony, and received an enthusi- astic welcome. A committee of the British House of Commons has commenced considera- tion of the bill providing for the in- stallation in London of electric light and pneumatic tube svstems similar to those in use in America. New York detectives arrested two men and a woman who, thev allege, were the ringleaders of a gang that robbed ithe private bank of E. C, Brewer, in Gilbertsville, N. Y., re cently of about $10,000, Henry Cunningham, a stndent at Cornell University, was held in the Chicago oriminal * court in bonds of R500. The charge against Cunning- ham is assault with a deadly weapon preferred by Henry Van Dyke, who was mecently shot. Tt ic asserted bot by members of the Chicaco Fmplovers' Association and by the conservative element in the ranks.of the teamsters' union that the present strike will be called off. probablv within forty-eight hours and certainly by the end of the week. President Beaupre, of the Canadian Shoemakers' federation, has entored an action for $500 damages against John T. Hagar, president of the J. & ; company, and also president of the Montreal District' Shoemakers' association, for breach of agreement to employ only members of that body for two years, MARINE DEPUTATION. Wants . = Abolition - of : Recent Regulations. Special to Whig. Ottawa, rr 17-- Francis King, "end to pass through without adios': anxiliary of the Y.M.C. Kingston, was one of a deputation uf four that, to-day, waited on the min- ister of canals, on behall of the dom- inion marine association. They asked the abolition of the recent la- tion, which requires all olasses of vessels to stop one hundred yards be- fore they reach: the Cornwall canal, using their own steam, and by means of a hawser, electric winches, etc., use] from the shore. The minister promised to look into the matter, and asked for statisties, They also waited om Sir Richard Cartwright, and asked tht the re gulation forbidding load grain at Port Arthur and Fort William be abolished. | Others on the deputation were J. A. Cuttle, C; A. Jaques, Montreal: A. A. Wright, Toronto. The Cornwall canal lation now means. a five hour q--_-- and is strongly The Very Latest Culled From All - King J. K Shirt V w Brown, Navy 14.75, 18.75. «- Fancy Louisine Silks. and designs and quality of silk, placed aside until required. i ee S--------------- . "In Black-and White signs, at $2.25, 3.50, 3.75. 1.75, 2.25, 2.75. S-------- prt Full 27 yard. To-morrow Afternoon we - Will Offer the Lot at SILK. » . aist Suits 'Women's Taffeta Shirt Waist Suits 1 1 and Fancy Shot Effects 5 Black and White Checks i, Navy and Whi . Brown and White at $14,95 and 16.75, These came to us from a firm of Ame dies'. Tailors, who have commenc Montreal and made a Hit, and their to be seen in the leading stores in M prices much higher than we are askin COME AND SEE THEM and to buy you can make a selection now and have it Also New Waists in Mohair Lustre $12.95, Taffeta Checks, rican La- ed business jp Suits are now ontreal, and at g for the same if rot prepared -- New Silk Shirt Waists ! Japan Taffeta, latest de- at $1.49, SPECIAL SILK SALE To-morrow ' At 2:30 o'clock. Sp We have secured a Special Bargain in. White Japan Silks for Shirt Waist Suits and Shirt Waists and for Children's White Dresses. offer To-morrow Afternoon at 2:30, as follows : 500 YARDS WHITE 4 JAPAN SILKS These we will inches; wide;;a beautiful clear Ivory White, and a silk that will not only wear well but is easily washed. This quality is usually sold at 4oc. and 45c. ~ 27¢. yard. Now ready. Fashion Sheets for June Delineator Given' FREE to all purchasers of Dress Goods to the value of $2 or over (not silks). Butterick's June Patterns June Free. (Jor LADLAWES0 Stylish, Cool ¢ and Comfortable a shine like a Patent Leather. styles and three widths. a pair. THE LOCKETT SHOE ST Slater's, $3.50 Velour Calf Oxfords, single sole; fine, light, dressy shoes. Velour is a calf-skin leather that I soft, pliable, porous and will not draw the feet We have it in thre All comfortable shoes, $35° OR nb ---- Takes 3 ee YEAR 72. NO. 116. aaa CorvrioHT ~. PARLOR FURNITURE SALE. tiful Rug Setts, b pieces, {ring- 5 BO ine 240, for £30.00 ) Turkish Rug, 5 pieces, regular Jos, for ..... eae aie vars 13: SD Beautiful Silk Parlor Setts, mahogany frames, - regular $40, for ..... $30.00 Good Val Sette, mahogany frames, gi Fos to $35; other setts rang Ling up to $150. The Above Are Great Bargains. Robt. J. Reid, 292 Princess St., Next to Opera House ------ §g0000000000C0000G0004 RARE CHANCE ( cent » purchase 7. Per pre iret, accumulative shares in. | "Retail Company,' Limited - prospectus and applications for ghares./ apply to W. R. GRUNDY 0 Co. 15 Toronto street, Toronto, § 0 or any bunk in Kingston ¢ Caria MILITARY DANCES OR- PARADE If you need anything in shoes for such purposes remember we are headquarters for that class of goods Wear '"Allen's' Military Bootmakers, 84 Brock St. SIGN OF GOLDEN BOOT, WANTED: BOY. BETWEEN 15 AND 18 YEAR old, at Wood's Fair A COOK, GOOD WAGES APPLY 1 Mrs. Steacy, 197 "Johnston St. WAITRESSES ; month. The WAGE Russell 14 TO THO INTELLIGENT BOYS, years, to assist parcel desk, Sten & Steacy. TWO GIRLS TO SERVE IN 1 cream parlor, Apply to T. Petters Co., 184 Princess St. GENERAL SE AN EXPERIENCED 3 vant ; no washing or ironing ; fam of four. Apply 317 Universi Avenue. A GOOD GENERAL SERVANT, F( family of three. Apply in the ev ing to Mrs. A. Maclean Jr., 50 Ei St. A GENERAL SERVANT; NO VAS ing or ironing. References requi Apply at Calderwood, Union St Box X. Whig office. AT McFAUL'S, A STRONG BC about sixteen, and a junior D Goods salesman R. Mcl Cwppet, Warehouse. $3,000 ON AT 4 PER CNT farm worth 7,000, within 14 m of city limits, interest paid mont! Apply? Box 89, Whig office ARE YoU MAKING $2,150 year ? It is being done with foods. Work is pleasant, respects and permanent. G. Marshall & London, Ont. GENTLEMEN, TO GET THI ring Suits made up at Callowa 181 Brock street, next -to Bibl livery ; style, fit and price guaran to please ; pressing and repairing d vromptly. ---- fhm ------------ MEN AND BOYS, TO LEARN PLU Ing trade. We eannot supply dom + for graduates. $4.50 to £5 per ¢ Eight weeks completes course k While Jearning. Address, for ( logue, Coyne Bros.. Co. Plum! Sehools, Cincinnati, O., St. Le Mo. Employment guaranteed money refunded. TO-LET, ee EP STORAGE, A ROOM IN THE STE! building, clean, dry, rat and x proof Apply at McCann's, rogk St. LS LR J THE DESIRABLE RESIDENCE Barrie St., opposite City Park. Session May 1st. Apply ta Flanagan, 82 Barrie St. FROM 18ST JUNE, months or longer. Furnished h eleven rooms ; modern convenier central location. Apply by lette P.O. Box 82, Kingston. FOR TH = Bareecooms - itn YHAT BRICK DETACHED R dence, No. 488, Brock st. ; heate afifpace ; modern conveniences ; mmediate possession. Apply » Whig office, or on pramises. COMFORTABLE BRICK ¥ House, partly furnished, well sit on shore of Bay of Quinte, 24% West of Collins Bay. accommodation. Stage Kingston and Dath. ; Lovage. Address, H, C, Rot Collins Bay Ont. THAT DESIRABLE PROPERTY the Corner of Queen and O) Sifets, lately oceupiod by Mr ison wg a grocery with LH snd outbuildings. Offers will | Seivi for purchase. Apply Halon & Walkem, solicitors, lon. Tr mr---------- FOR SALE, © 800 BUILDING LOT, SQUTH street, between SOutreal Apply 49 Colhorne wt GROCERY pusINESS IN City. aoing a Food, trade 1 Temsons for selling ddress Whig office a © NEW MopRL NO. 44 MA! T. Comfort Tires, $2 eac r with hew Morrow four dollars. Bicycle Munson, Perth EW. Walker, of the a City visitor