aincoats | mix sunshine. and . aving a Raincoat at ited. New varieties \W"S make it "easy prepared for every e time be attired in "hese Raincoats are English Cravenette, re and skill. NCOATS s 795 950, 9.75, uy just now come in ne that catches your required. LAS : » 1.25, 1.50, L.75, 2, C, 75, $1. : br, 1.25, 1:50, 2 and Raed " ) -COVERED lore Umbrellas that ralue but the covers er these and return new. Prices mode- HOSIERY neat, small designs E , full size, Spesial nd Drawers, 50¢. Shirts, re-inforced lity of cotton "used, . de by Tooke Bros., h their well-known ¢ for good value, 12)4¢., 15¢., 20c., Xy 25¢., 35¢., 39¢., - I CASES SES geod lock, 12, aps and a good lock, ers, good | 80. Hand B ack, $1.50 Bag, nice shape, canvas, from 6oc. to YEAR 72. NO. 185. ~ Great Furniture Sale Being compelled to remove the furniture contained into large store house, we are offering 20% Discount Off some goods, Parlor Sett, 5-piece, mahogany frames, Jegular price $25, for ....... $20 Oak Sideboard, 'regula price $25 JOR ee isan sears eT oes $20 Extension Table, regular price $7.50, for . 5 All other goods in the same ropor- tion. Now is the time -- for a bargain. Robt. J. Reid. Two Doors Above Opera House, Telephone 577. Secure a Free Copy of the Real Estate Bulletin . Issued This Week. SWIFT'S REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENCY | | CHEAP SIDEBOARDS. | 2 Black Walnut Sideboards, cost $40 each, 'for $15; 1 Oak Board, $25, for 2; Ash Board, '$15, for §8. All | bevelled edge, large size Mirrors, all in | good shape. A AT TURK'S SECOND-HAND STORE 398 Princess Street. WANTED. | SMART BOY AS JUNIOR OFFICE | clerk. Apply Box *'A." ig. GENERAL SERVANT. required. Apply to Barrie street. REFERENC Mrs. Almon, A BOY ABOUT SIXTEEN YEARS OF age, to assist in the office, James Swift & Co. TWO DIN + ROOM GIRLS AND two chambermaids. Apply Hotel | Quinte, Belleville, Ont. { A FEW SMART GIRLS CAN SEUURE | steady work and earn good pay. | Apply Kingston Hosiery Co. SoNPLTERT NURS FOR £RILD OF has ous, Prochre. rea nana lavas | | three to go to Winnipeg. Fare maid. | stock. We chon moviin c pre e . thing, but the rarest, | Apply to Sunnyside," Union St. Hat and most tempting fruits that are | -- | piel WANN I Tis |? AT ROOKWOOD HOSPITAL. A | something better than sou cn or 1518 second cook. Apply to the Matron, | where, for we make a speelalty of fruits | on Wednesday or Friday afternoons | and candies : or evenings. 2 DRY GOODS SALESMEN ; a Lady clerks, 1 parcel Permanent situation vo right party, Apply at Whie office. } SITUATION BY A YOUNG CHINA- man as cook, speaks English and | English experienced. Good references Apply 104 William St. FOR FIRST-CLASS HOT . TWO chambermaids and three waitresses Steady employment and good wages Apply in person at Whig office. GI NTLEMEN TO toats and Thomas Galloway's, Also bring your old them repaired. Style, guaranteed to please. GET THEIR FALL | Suits made at 131 Brock St ones and have fit and price School, two onfl-Class rs, one mal e female. icants to ste ary expected enclose copies «¢ testimonials Applications close on the 19th . Thos. F. Graham, Secy., Port-| smouth. -- msm | MEN AND BOYS WANTED TO LEARN | THE ..ROBERTSON BROS.. | ment officials now take a more optim- | istio view of the outeome of the peace | conference, 'STOLEN FRUITS 84 Brock St. . DAILY MEMORANDA, Board of Pducation, 8 p.m. Band Concert, Macdonald Park, 8 paw, | Vaudeville, Lake Ontario Park, 8.30 | p.m. i When a fellow is dead in love it's his | own funeral, y a i The sun rises Friday at 4.50 am., and | sels at 7.10 p.m, } Absence makes the heart grow fonder | of some other fellow. | When a woman sews her cap fora man | she considers it all settled. 'This day in history :--Cartier entered St. Lawrence, 1535: Louis XVI, of France, dethroned, 1792. Let not these thoughts with sadnbss chill Your calm and trustful soul, And yet it will soon be time to fill Your coal bin with some coal. | | DINNER SETS We have a very fine wi in white and gold. Just the | thing for your country] house. | | 97 Pieces for $6.25 This set is the best qual- | ity English Porcelain. and | equal in wear and appear- | ance to china. | May Be sweet, but 'there are none | CALL AT T. PETTERS Co. 184 Princess Street. 'Phone 649. F YOU HAVE Any difficulty in being fit- ted with Shoes, COME T0 US, and we will make that duty a pleasart one. Wear "Allen's"' Military Bootmakers, Sign of Golden Boot. NDERS WANTED. SEALED TENDERS, MARKED tender on the envelope, will be received by the undersigned up to 6 o'clock pom.. | an SATURDAY the 19th inst for the carpenter and joiner work required in the rection of a Methodist church for the Methodist Congregation. Nap- TE ans and specific ions may he seen at iB plumbing trade, great demand for | my office or at th tice of Dilion graduates $4, $5 day. Many com- | Architect, Brockville, Ont plete course two months. Graduates he lowest or any tender not neces- | admitted to Union and Master | sarily accepted Plumber's Ass'n. Coyne Bros. Co. | : 2 W. F. HALL Plumbing Schools, New York, Cin- Secretary, of the Building Committee cinnati, St. Louis. For free cata-| Napanee, August, Sth, 1905 logue, address 289 10th Avenue New | sesmereeseee-- p-- York. { A K1 STON E Pin; date and monogram on back, on August Oth. Reward at 25 Sydenham St. ee ee A GOLD WATCH AND TAN LEATHER | Wrist-Bracelet, between napp's Boat House and cor Queen and Clergy Sts. Reward for return to | this Office. mai -------------------- AG TLEMAN'S SARDONYX STICK Pin, yesterday afternoon, bhetwean and 6 o'clock, either on Princess St, | or on Street Car. Reward if returns | ed to Whig office. | teases | A VERY LARGE BLACK ANGORA | "Cat, with® large Brush and small white spot on breast. Liberal re- ward for return to T. Evans, St. | Vincent's Academy, Bagot and Will | iam St. AND WHITE | the nawe of | harboring this | he prose- to 27 A SPOTTED BLACK Hound, answering to "Sport." Any one dog after this' notice will { cuted. Reward for retarn | James St. i i ae ------------ { FOR SALE. | ----eIIII---------- | ALFRED # K HOUSE, 3892 Brig] modern, 12 rooms. Apply st the premises or to S. Roughtom, 171 Wellington St. re eee REMOVAL OF OFFICE, we , will soll some very fine Office fittings. Will be pleased th have a call from those interested. W Fair. - OWING TO THAT PROPERTY, AT 42 DURHAM, street, containing nearly an acre and a large frame house, with 8-rooms. For particulars, premises apply to Mrs. Al Perry. on - | Are free from all crude and irr i matter. Concentrated medicine oly. Carter's Little Liver~Pills. Very | small: very easy to take; no pain: no | griping: no purging. Try them. . Chown's special iron tonic pills | are the best blood making medicine. | They tome up the svitem and give | we streat. 1 | Kingston, for a time, at least, strength, 25e. and)die. | ha Tons toner | ai { .. Orders received at i Princess STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. House Damaged and An Occupant | Rendered Unconscious. 9 Cataraqui, Aug. Quarterly ser vices were held in the Methodist Church Sunday; members from other appoint- ments were present, Service was not held in the Anglican church Sunday as sacrament wus administered at Col lins Bay, Christ church Sunday schoo) held their annual picnic at Kingston Mills last Wednesday. During the storm, Sunday morning, the house of J. Ward, York Road, was struck hy lightning; Mrs, Ward was stunned by { the shock. Mrs. D. Purdy, has been quite ill. Mrs, Emest Cooke en tertained her Sunday Tuesday afternoon; games Sr. class in * sehool were { dulged in and the children's mission- ary mite boxes were opened, showing yuite a nice sum collected; at five o'- clock twentydour little ones sat down | to a dainty supper, followed by ice | cream. George Bawden has returned | after paying n visit to his grand- | mother, aged ninety-three, at Arden J. McBride, P. Hunter, and W. Mae | row have gone -to the States. J. Alcomorack is somewhat better after a severe attack of sciatica. Last Fri day Mr. and Mrs. C. Purdy, Sr, en tertained their immediate relatives in | honor of the birthday of their son, T. Purdy. Miss Gertrude Northmore has returned after visiting hér cousin, Miss H. Munsie, at' Oliver's Ferry. family Rev. Mr. Craig and ving shortly; they purpose will reside in Some of our large apple-growers have sold the produce of their orchards to pack- : among those who sold are W. sa, W. Cooke and J. Simpson. Visitors: ss Craig, Ottawa; Mr. and Mrs. R. Aleombrack, New York; | Charlie Adair, Torowio; Migs M. Rob- inson, Kingston; Mrs. Whitty and | daught Aleta, Melita, Man; Miss! 1. A. Gondon, Lowell, Mass; Mrs, 'T. | Pardv, and chikiven, Kingston: Mr, © Mrs, " Suith we Melville, Westhrok r. and Mrs. W. Martin, and Miss Mabel Martin, Dufferin, I § i t r | rifle, and is now | fore medical TWO STORIES ONE IS DESPONDENT |THE OTHER IS DECIDEDLY OPTIMISTIC, According to One the Envoys Have Got Their Instructions and Peace Seems Far Off --In the Other the Terms Are Known and Are Fairly Ac- ceptable, Special to the Whig. St. Petersburg, Aug, 10.--~The de: liberations, at Peterhoff, on 'the pro- jected national assembly, have ended. Many wild rumors are current com- cerming the manifesto on the subject that it is expected will be issued by the czar, on Saturday, but the only fact is 'known that he will earnestly appeal to the patriotism of the Rus- sian and their loyalty to the throne and dynasty. The reports that the czar will go to Moscow to proclaim a constitution are baseless. More Optimistic. St. Petersburg, Aug. 10. Govern , in progress at Portsmouth, and itis noticeable they are hopeful the war will be brought to an end. It is reported that M. Witte has telegraph- ed the czar that he already knows the Japanese terms and that these are ac- j coptable with a few amendments. He | believes Japan » will agree to the changes which he will propose. TROOPS GO FORWARD, Reinforcements Still Going to Manchuria. Special to the Whig. St. Petersburg, Aug. 10.--Despite the fact that the peace negotiations are now under way at Portsmouth, troops continue to be sent to the front in Manchuria in increased numbers. Af ter the end of the current week gene- ral merchandize will not be accepted for transportation on thé trans-Si- berian railway, all the cars being de- voted to the use of the military. Rains Stopped Engagement. London, Aug. 10---A despatch the Telegraph, from Yingkog, says that heavy rains and the Russian re treat have postponed the expected general engagement, The mud i three feet deep in the roads along the front. Mischenko's cavalry re mains in Eastern Mongolia, trying to attack the Japanese flank and rear. to 1s Gen. On The Tumen River. Eondon," Aug. 10.--The Moji, Japan, correspondent of the Telegraph, says it is estimated that there are (fifty thousand Russians on the Tumen River. They are commanded by Gen. Besadora, who hopes to defend position and maintain communica | tions along the Kirin-Changchun line. Whether this is possible will soon be decided. ARMED TO RESIST ARREST. Man Hiding on Shore of Rideau Lake, Brockville, Ont., Aug. 10, Albert Gallagher, J. P., Portland, recently is sued a warrant against one "( Green. who was charged with having stabbed Robert Scott, On learning i | torney-general's bas | KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, ee ---------- THE NEW CONTROLER. He is Head of the Equitable deh He Society, on NE LS LIAM A; DAY Snecial os Whig,© New York, Aug. 10. Williayw A. Day is the new controler of the Equitable Life Ascovance Society. Mr. Day resigned the position. of assis- tant attoMney-gencral of the United States, to take charge of the financial affairs of the insurance organization. | During his, connection offies conspicuous for his investigations in to the affairs of the socalled illegal trusts with the at- 2 Sm------------ PITH OF THE NEWS. Very Latest Culled From All Over the World. George Murray, injured in the explosion at Caledonia, is dead. Winnipeg * building permits this year, amount to $5,125,000, It is expected that the British par lament will wind up its business to day, Women are aiding the bread strikers of the New. York Hebriw quarters in their riots, Second. Engineer Matthew Cadwell, Glasgow, was killed hy on the steamer Erin at Sandwich. At Aylmer, Que, Joseph Menzier shot Mrs: Guay, and then turned the gas pistol on himbelf. Neither wound is fatal. The royal commission's report on the problems of food supply in war time is wafavorable to preferential tariff, i Five per gent. mortgage gold: bonds for $940,000, of the Nova Scotia Eastern railway were offered on the London, A Tomales WR Sider persons have at different times, has taken up its abode in the house of John Londry, Petarboro. Special Russinn police agents are in London for the purpose of unearthing a plot which is supposed to be on foot to assassinate the czar and the Rus san grend da ween Drowned In A Cellar. Buffalo, N.Y Aug. 10. Charles J Himshruch, seven years old, whose | parents live in Fuller avenue, was. drowned yesterday in the cellar of a new house a few doors from his home, Heavy rain filled the cellar of the new house with about three feet of water. The three Himshruch boys, | three, five and seven years old, re spectively, went to the house to play, Floating in the cellar were a number of hoards of the brothers was making a raft. when Charles, who was standing on a board on the first landing, suddenly tumbled into the One j eollar. that a warrant for his arrest had been | armed himself with a hidden on the shore of Rideau Lake, determined, he says not to be taken alive, The officers of the law near Port land are somewhat nonplussed at this unusual state of affairs, and to-day the magistrate was in tcdephonic com- munication with the county crown at torney, and other law officers hére. As « result of their deliberations, a coun: tv constable has been sent from here to round up the irate Goeen, - issued, Green Girl's Horrible Death. Dunkirk, N.Y., Aug, 10.--Miss Bdith Rose hent, aged sixteen years, living on a farm at Centralia, south of Dum- kirk, met a horrible death. Hurrying to attend a Sunday school picnic, while passing by a gusoline engime, which runs a churn on her father's farm, her hair caught in the shaft and wound her about it, frightfully injur- ing her body, and producing death be- aid eould be rendered. Coroner Charles Blood, of Dunkirk, was notified. Baseball On Wednesday. National Boston, 5. At St. Louis, 4; Brooklyn, . At Chicago, 7: New York, 2. At i Cincinnati, 8; Philadelphia, 3. American League. --At Washington, St. Lows, 12. Eastern League.--At Montreal, 1; uffelon 0. At Toronto, 6; Rovhester, 10. Bought A Hotel. Special to the Whig. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Aug. 10.-- The Park Hotel company has sold the Park Hotel to M. E. Leland, of the Canadian Boo, for $24,000. Thie ix one of a chain of hotels erected hy J. H. Hayes and one of the leading hotels in northern Michigan. Leland bought for investment, looking to the future de: velopments of the Soo. Earl ' Selborne, high commissioner for British South Alrica. has accepted Hible Society' | the fies of the League, --At Pittsburg, 3: | Albert, the brother who was in the cellar, began gereamy,. Two men passing rescued the boy, who was too frightened to tell of his other brother, Albert ran into his home and then gave the alarm A larger hrother hurried to the house, jumped into the { collar and located the body of his too late to save his life bruch was ill in bod with w was overcome when news, and her condi brother, hut Mrs, Hin pneumonia she heard tion is cri Made Good Rescue. » the Whie BE ratt, Norway, Aug. 10. The Arctic steamer Terra Nova, which wont to the relief of the Fiala Ziegler Polar expedition, lms reseued Anthony Fiala and all the others cofinectod with the expedition, with the excep tion of Norwegian seaman, who died from natural causes. The America, which took out the exped) tion, was crushed in the ioe early in one the winter of 1998-04. and lost with al large part of her coal and provisions Murdered For Money. Special to the Whig. Red Deer, NWT, Aug, 10, The! badly decomposed body of a man, named Hanson, wag found near the track, about with his throat wae supposed 10 have had about six ty dollars on him, when last seen; and his pockets have been emptied, giving rise to the suspicion that he was mur dered for his money, Struck By Lightning. Soneinl to the Whins Tweed, Ont, Aug, 10.-The storm of the scason visited this laeal ity, this morning, at three o'clock. The lightning was the 2 miles from Tweed, completely des: troving the buildings with contents. The hotse was struck, but. was saved from being destroyed, Ministers, lawyers, teachers, and others whose acoupation gives but little exercise, should use Carter's Lit- tle. Li Pills for torpid liver and biliou One is a dose, Try them, and monralgia ewred bv Dr, headache No bad af Chown's Mr. Day was | issued, | an explosion | | National Guard ship | two miles north of here, | ent. No clue to the | murderer has yet been found, Henson | worst | most vivid ever | seen here, (ne bolt struck the barns of | Henry Rutter, who lives about four | French Official. RATHER THAN UNDERGO THE DISGRACE. Indo-Chinese Were Terribly Tor- turned--The Favorite es of the Officer--An Enquiry Re- vealed a Monstrous Condition of Affairs. Paris, Aug. 10M, Li t, ad ministrator at Tche-Kam, Jrido: China, | has committed suicide without await | ing the result of the official inquiry {into the charges brought against him, { The Avenir du Tonkin states that I M, Groleau, the commissioner, has ie evived no fewer than 139 depositions | of the fiendish cruelties practiced by { Liegeot on natives under his jurisdic { tion, » For venial offences he would crush { with his heel the heads of his vie time, or command his accomplices in | cruelty to beat them over the face | with spades, shovels and pickaxes, | In order to extort a confession he | would intoxicate them with mixtures {of absinthe, cognac, and spirit--dis- | tilled by the natives, or would cause {them to be flogged with a silken pig- tail, studded with points, which tore | the flesh, salt and ammonia being | then rubbed into the wounds, But should the prisoner still persist in declaring his innocence, and refuse tor confess a terrible death awaited (him. He was first of all fast, | with his arms behind his back, He [was then foreed into a kneeling pos | ture, and a bayonet was fixed on the {ground in front of him, so that the | point just touched his throat. Every time tho prisoner refused (answer a question he- was struck on | the Back of the head, the bayonet {point being thus driven into his | throat. II that torture proved uny availing, the coup de grace was given, A swinging blow on the head with a heavy iron instrument impalled it on | the bayonet up to the brain, and the j martyrdom Was over. Une of Liegeot's favorite pastimes was to "iron" his victims with a red hot iron, and the weird figures which wight be traced on the scorched bodies' Would Bond him into eostaeion:-- Newspaper For The Blind, snodeinl to the Whig. | London, Aug. 10-The "Braille | Weekly," a sixteen-page newspaper for | the blind and the first of its kind ever published, has just made its. appear | ance in Edinburgh. As its name indi- cates the paper is printed in the rais- ed characters invented by Braille, a blind Frenchman, who died in 1852, whose system is the one in general use by blind persons the world over. A recent improvement in the embos sing process renders the cost of pro- duction very moderate, and it is be lieved sufficient subscribers will be ob tained to make the new vpnture a sue cess, The paper eontaing editorial, war | and foreign news, together with sport ing intelligence and various light features, Special permission has heen given by the leading papers and press agencies of the United Kingdom for the reproduction of telegrams and ar- | tides, andl as far as possible, nothing has been leit undone to give the blind the newspaper advanteges possessed by those who have the blessing of eye sight. Special to the Whig. Portland, _Ore., Aug. 10.-The Custer massacre was reproduced with wonder ful fidelity to detail at the Lewis and Clark exposition te-day, with Umatil- la Indians and soldiers of the Oregon and the 10th United States Infantry as the participants, The affair proved to. he one of the most attractive in the programme of spectacilur events arranged for the entertainment of exposition visitors. i The reproduction of the massacre had for its location a plot of ground on the government peninsula in Guild's Lake, near the river entrance to the fair. The lay of the ground was simi lar in many respects to the geography of the Little Big Horn, which circum stance added much to the intervst of the spectade. Indians from the Uma tilla reservation, garbed in the war clothes of the plains, formed the at | tacking party, and the atiack was | maintained by them until the last of the soldiers representing Custer's hee | roic little band had fallen. Standard Oil In Turkey. Constantinople, Aug, 10--Owing to the strikes which had provailegd among workmen employed in the: petroleum intlustry at Batoum and Baku, Rus sin, which have practically tied the Russian trade, the Standwed 04) company is gaining a strong foothold in eastern markets, Recently, 15,000 casks of oil have been snd 10 this city 'by the Standard Dil company | while 100,000 casks have been sent to Bulgaria, 60,000 to Syria, 50.000 {o | Smyma and 35,000 to Salonics. Higher Education For Girls. Vitebwk, Russia, Ang. 10.--General i Klinchareff, viee-governor of Vitebsk, | in an address to: the gradusting dass { the grammar schools, endenvored to intimidate girl students from seeking to secure a higher education. . In his speech he said: "You must not plan to go from bere to the universities. If vou do vou will be acting agdinet the The high ot university for, HIS CRIMES HE TOOK HIS LIFE EL to |, hinted. that the i Was un: willi to 'give any assistance in i ® revenue, establi a The Australian press publishing articles depreciatin Ee art Sat & is on a basis. Commercial men dread 6 which woul ion. of their Can: May Be Larger. Albany, N.Y. Aug, 9~The collapse of the John G. rn company go partment store , which re- sulted in the death of per- sons and v the fatal injury of investigated by a probahl two others, will be i special commission Of those now Doushue is al jo bo pair were arrested to-day and. warned off the streets for playing without * license. The wife showed Magistrate Wahle, in Joflerson Market court, a bank book containing $7,000, and said that this was the prooeds of hand organ grinding and this amount would make them rich in aly, ---------------- Playing In Ottawa. Special to the Whie. Ottawa, Aug. 10--The Marlybone Cricket Club. tonm arrived at 11 a.m, and is quartered at the Victoria Chambers: The men had just enough time to get settled, have breakfast and don theif oricket togs when stamps were pitched at noon. A rest for luncheon will be taken ut 2:80 o'clock, Ottawa went to bat and at lunch bad fifty-six rune with four out. The scores were Saunders, 12; Hil, 12: Ackland, 0; Periera, 0; Bristow, ') not out, 19; Barber, not out, 14. ------ Cruiser Variag Floated. Tokio, Aug. 10.~The ifiperial navy department has announced the sue- cessful floating of the cruiser Variag vesterday. In view of the difficultics encountered, there ix a strong feoling of general satisfaction over the rais- ing of the vessel. The Russian ectviser Varing and the Russian gunboat Korietz, were sunk by the Pr in the harbor of Chemulpo on Fobru- ary 9th, 1004, The Late Capt. James Dean. Detroit, Nieh., Aung. 10.-Capt. James Dean, an old lake captain and boat builder, is dead here. He was horn in England eighty vears ago. When 'a young man he went to. Can ada, later coming to Detroit, where he had lived about fifty years, He was about the oldest living lake cap- tain. but had not been in active ser- vies for twenty years, It is expected that next week tend: ers will be invited for the construc tion of a new riding school and other additions to Toronto Drill Hall, Work has begun on the extension of the Toronto & York Radial railway from Long Branch to Oakville. Four members of the Fort William council have been appointed to office, and new elections are necessary. De. Chown's Little Fink Laxatives cure hiliauspes and torpid liverm 25¢. Of Dwelling Houses IN ORDER TO WIND UP 'AN astute iL is necessary to dispose of the following property ab very readonable figures : . A edch x - Stuart St. A frame House =» rooms, modern convenientes, on Stoart St. "sion A a : 8: roms, on Divi GUN & LYON, . . double brick house, 10 rooms "wide, "conveniences, on rich "from ) : E will sail on ear steamer, loav- ing New York for Italian ports. The 0-000 OOOO OOOO OOOR 80---PE Ericen, 2fe,, 80¢., 786. box office. 3 2 i