Daily British Whig (1850), 8 Dec 1906, p. 9

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Yer-Comes Op At 7.30 ast this year) of these most pPopu- curious coincidence, we number of the sale, sales, have a sepviceable, es, finished ) lar en ------------ tock Collars ur witidow before you es saving nearly hall you can escape lots of Xmas gifts for same t this sale to-night. wk Collars, of Silk e Chiffon | 19 th from 30 to 35¢.}, er 7.30, each only.. 5 Umbrellas sale, and your natural you see them. ia" covers latest ) and 2.28 kt to-night, 1.50 try well in least that's a one you hat you can e found one andidly tell 're more in pi is the most ] tien at] three- H 3 A broad- it \ h HR , 46 Lh Fryoke EE 20 leminder op Early Felt Slip: Dr. Jaeger s good mor prea A ws wl ei SECOND SECTION. -PACES 13 TO 20 ; ----- a) Fa 3 ne IN SOUTH- | EASTERN AFRICA Gigantic Schemes That Will De. | velop Immense Mineral Re sources of Rhodesia ani A Bring Fortudes to Promoters. | London, Dee. 7.--Great schemes are | afoot for the opening up of Ce ntral Africa by a railway system from the | west coast that will eventually link up with the Cape-to-Cairo route an' develop a vast area of mineral weylth. The Benguella: railway, the first sece- tions of which are already opened for traffic, - has * its const terminus «+ at Lobito Bay. the finest natural hatbor in South Alrica, and already a regu lar port of call for the Union Castle and other liners. The railway, which runs in an easterly direction through Angola, will form part of a new high- way that in a few years' time will shorten the journey from London to Johannesburg *by 3.000 miles The originator of this striking scheme is; Robert = Williams, the man- | aging director of 'the Tanganyika con- cessions, limited. Mr. Williams is one | locate 1,000 ¢ ern Rhodesia, carrying the prospect within an ar square miles for in Northern Rhode George sent secretary | of first expedition, with instru prospect NH] close state frontier as possible, ere] the Kansenshi twelve miles of the frontier most simultancously Mr. Wi cured the sole right to prospect als min over. about 40,00 1 mile two vears, v - - right of and 2 NETWORK OF R a ---- to | WO to mining claims anywhere Urey, a brother of the pre state for aflairs, was appointed leader of foreign the ctions .to up to the Congo He discov within , and al Hiams se- for X square in the district controlled by the special Katanga committee, the body elected to administer the properties of the King of the Belgian Cango Free State. In 1902 Mr. Wiliams sec s in ured of the ly plonesrs of South Africa, | Rerguelly railway and mineral eo early pi { 3 and Cecil he Tanranvika con- Tin Swas registéred th January, 1899, to take over a conces- | sion secured by Mr. Williams in North- ABANDONED -- fv dla. Luino, on lake Magriore, i + the Swiss frontier, has ben ele Also Rich" Ironstone Or nor- up. At the beginning of the ye mous Deposit of «ireclay SO Italian stock broker. nam esi, Discovered , and Ballycastle committed suicide in this villa, which, istrict Promises to Boom. j to pay his debts. was sold bv auction London, Dec. 8.--There is a touch of (to a wealthy {talian a } + romancs in. the discovery of the im- |. Since the new proprietor has lived mense seams of coal in North Antrim, 1 the house it bas been broken aio Ireland, which should bring gre hive tines, at the begining of ash prosperity to: that distriet. in 1 month, but nothing has heen Temover Huch Bord obtained from the Enrt of "fom the premises. All efforts to trace Antrim the right to all mines from ie JLPE Ar Tale : TT a ay a Fairhead to Knockladye, a distance of he pro Tiel ' n Gain wy ; Ow y seven miles, with a wide sweep inland, er Ri oF jn in the Ie ih i which A large output of coal followed, but ol oly pi life The Ttali . with Boyd's death the prosperity of rs i olf er id bein a a the Rallyecastle district = coased. Two 1 ms - roy oo ive . "w ORFS ry > g ihing 0 ¢ § SUrprisec 0 e Tre Yours ag ar Brunds, oped youn woman and a little boy on invited Prof. Cole, of the Geological i Pg od ts 10 Moi ga and Survey Department of Ireland, ] Ae oman pre " Wh Pravin for which had previously reported that © eid Rey te n stir 30 ym as: he the coal .was exhausted, to make a ™ Oe in Ned It wat survey in his private capacity. Prof. at ne a ate «ifc's lho She was at ound 5000 Tm bus ren unhinged by ber he tons of coal of good quality there. hand's death. ye os car . bontiflle The boring: revealed black hand iron- CODisMINZ burg Che Stone, estimated to be at least 158.- 000,000 tons, the ore beine one of the richest in the world. A third discov- ery was of an enormovg deposit of fireclay, the value of which can be | Stmated when it is said that fire bricks are now. delivered in Belfast at a cost of eighty-two shillings per thousand, whereas they can' be deliv: fred from Ballyeastle for a little more than sixty shillings. A company. with privately subsepibed capital. has been formed to work the deposits. We ruarantee every. pound you bus | of Purity tea. J. Crawford. were frontier. an intimate ' friend of the late { cession with the right to construct ystery of Forced Ent Dec. 8, series of clever finished, with which into the hovs rances Strangely Solved. The mystery of burglaries in the same Particular Paupers London; Dec. 8.--Nine Newton ed yesterday at Newton insubordination. - They their dinner because 1t few mimites late, they refused to work. were di arged, sent to prison for Pat days. --pie Bargains in faney lamps the the n a railway from the pier at Lobito Bay, !| Rh "on the west const, to the Portuguese [the and with sole right to pro Lepet for minergls over about 120,000 A GREAT COAL FIND, , 55,000,000 TONS IN MINES | Gov, vids DEATH CHAMBER. is a ske had broken om Abbott Workhouse were char Abbott w refused to eat was served ith a and subsequently Two of 'them and the other seven | KINGSTON, bY (J72e Tins Aaniway Bridge ocress lhe Carfumbeda square miles of Portuguese Angola. The United Mines of upper Katanaga is the first minerals company formed with a capital of $4,000,000, of which the Tanganyika concessions, limited, holds forty-five per cent., the discov. eries taken over consisting of 100 cop- per mines, extending over a belt 200 {miles long, on which development. or | up | exploitation works have opened copper representing millions of | tons in ten mines out-of the 100. "The {engineer of the Congo State has ore | ported that there are 2,000,000 tons of | | the metal exposed, and it is worth {nearly $500 per ton to-day. There is jalso a tin belt bearing reefs, extend- ing for a distance of '110 miles. i in | which are three proved mines, report- fd upon as containing casiterite valu. | ed at three millions sterling. The Rhodesian railways, a part of the Cape-to-Cairo ', scheme of Ceril Rhodes, have. passed Broken Hill to north of the Victoria Falls, and are within about 200 miles of Kansan- shi. Within the next"twelve months it cesta LOVES ANOTHER GIRL. Courts Are Pumled By Woman's Caprice. Genova, Dec. 5. Mme. Lina Favre, | Pretty rich and wilful widow, | en the Swiss | Some time { Meignier, a a has giv- authoritics much trouble, ago she married Charles | tradésman, of Lausanne, |at the registrar's office, hut after the fer remony refused to sign her name iu { the register. | On her "husband" with her, the widow {turned to Yverdon. As the registrar wished to know {whether Lina Favre, not having sign- {ed the 1 tor, is legally married or uot, he applied to the courts, and the judges decided that the a legal one, remonstrating left him and pe- marriage was Is now t announced Meignier has fallen in that Charles love with an other girl, and has applied to the courts to find out "whether he is married. or not."" as he wants a divorce in order to marry again. The Lausanne authorities" will short {Iv discuss the problem whether they {ean order the wilful widow "to sign the jrezister, and, if she again refuses, | take action against her for contempt {of court. The only reason Lina Favre | wives for her action is that pre | fers her name to that of Meignier. really she REPAY HOSPITALITY | Force Tountess to Yield Money and' Jewels. Vienna, Dec. 8.--The Russian Polish landoanar, Countess Poninska, was jrobked of 812,500 in notes and gold jand of family jewels worth many | times that amount last night Twa well-dressed cyclists asked for shelter at the Castle Sapozyn. late in twenty-one | the evening, stating that they had lost Medley's ' NEW YORK RESIDENCE Of Andrew Carnegie, who their way. The countess treated them | with every hospitality, and had rooms | prepared for them. | During the night | countess' beflroom, lof death, forced her to hand over the they entered and, under threat | | money and jewels. They then made | their escape on their bicycles | 'Both were captured as they were {trying to cross the frontier into Aus | trian territory, and the boot was re |coverad. The men had in heir pos | session accurate plans of the castles {occupied bv the countess, by: Prince | Wolkonski and bv Prince Sangucko, fall in Russian Poland. I | Island Without Rates. Cardiff, Dec. B.--The Pembrokeshire | tdunty council is considering a prone | €6on to-levy a county rate on the | inhabitants of the Island of Caldy. The population of the island is about sev lentv, and the islanders have never {paid any rates. They soport their Lawn poor. and educate their own chil. dren, bit they are served hv the coum ity police, coroner and vaccinator | Purity Tea, Purity Yea. I Sal in tin boxes, at 30ec., 40e.. 500 wie the Fnest flavored tea grown. J {Crvefond has pledged $100,000 to Queen's College, | ehristinas sale of Inmps: big redue Kingston, Ont., Liens at Medley's. AILWAY LINES the ! ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, [om Money By Threatening the ) As | fession : "Hear, O Israel ! God is our (Lord! God is One! We have sinned: | | Toile, \ \ N | Ey Nd " Robert Wallioms. the oripinertor of [he project: | is. expeoted that the extension to | point will be'completed, and that will bo the signal for the beginning of pro- this | itearning on a substantial scale by i the Tanganyika Concessions. The Ben- guella Hing; which is 3080 miles short er than any other route to the const, must eventually be the cconomic rails way for the service of an undertaking which ses to establish the great- est. cop industry je and become one' of the factors in carrying civilization into the very heart of Africa. HA COURT DOCTOR QUITS. a------ Wanted Soldier to Eat Head Mouse. Vienna, Dec. 8.<lt is reported that the eminent lunscy expert, Dr. Flech- sig, of Lewpzig, has 'boeri summoned to the court of Belgrade for o stay of several gays, evidently 'ig connection w.th the mental state of the Crown Prince George: Neve rtheless; the gov- of | rnment continues to. issue clumsy © de nials of what are notorious facts. | The last story reported from Bel grade relates 10. acts in the street, iwhich were ; witnessed by a crowd, | Recently a iP Mouse was caught : in rince George's room. With the living animal in his hand, he went to the Iwo sentinels at the entrance of the royal palace and, liiting it. near the mouth of them, commanded him to bite off the mouse's head. The startled soldier refused, whereppon the Frince began to cudgel him" terribly | and threat'ned to shoot him down. {On hearing the shrieking of the crowd which had meanwhile assembled, the officers oh duty came out of the pal ace, and it was only their interforence that saved the poor. soldier's life, | Dr. Dinitich, the. court physician, and King Peter's intimate friend, has resigned his office owine 16 maltreat went on the part of, Prince George. one of i Sp -------- i Heed Backache. One of the commonest symptoms of diseas« disordered = Kidneys is bac'ache. Never let the sign go un heeded, Peck"s hidney amd Liver Pills wll cure both the backache and the cause of the adie. They make the kid- | neys strong and prevent disease. Cure all ordinary kidney, liver and bladder ! troubles. In boxes, 28c. Bor sale only | at Wade's [rug Steve. Money back if % satisfactory, ' 1 ol Sailors In Kilts. Portsmouth, Dee. 8.~Official recog nition has been given~t6 a couple. of sailor pipers at Portsmouth naval barracks. They are Scotameh, and on | enlisting they brought their nipes with | them. They have now been fitted out in kilts of the Royal Stuart tartan, | tunies of the orthodoe Seoteh cut. and | oa enps with cockades ------------ | i 1 Youngest English Mayor. Londen, Wee. 8.--The vouncest may: or in Fnoland is said to pe Henry Eyton Branston, mayor of Newark, brother of G. T. Branston. the erick- eter. He ls only twenty-eight years oll: His grandfather was mayor of the borough in 1888, while his oveat- grandfather held the same position in 1844 Farm Laborer's Pedigree. | London. Dec. 8.-Colonel Twine, white Waralting =u prize to xin #Wiplbyves named Devenish. Who was a. success. | ful competitor in a vloughine match on Langjey's estate. Eacev, waid that i the name of Devenish had = anveared { for 700 years:on' the rolls of the re tniners and employees of the estate Fift comnts will buy a $1 (two unrt) fonmiain svringd, at Wade's drie sfore, X 1 science. ployed Body for London was inform- ed yesterday by the working colonies committee that the market gardens at Hollesley Bay were sent to the Colchester agricultur- al show, and woh a special prize, six first prizes, one second prize and four third prizes. ernment analyst. in a report to fisheries' county coumeil, of the dogfish, when boiled. are similar hen's eve. and a wholesome and high- ly nutritious food. had adopted the restaurant systems in the saloons ers. Passomgers may now dine at seimrate tables, and have birthday dinners or other special functions without any extra charge. of the service at the village church at Withvham, 'near Sundav night, the vicar, the Rev. C, N. Bution, descended from the pulpit and entertained the comgréessation with M wevergl excellent Wallis yesterday entered a den of lions at shaved the tamer inside the cage. The barber | subsequently entered a sage containing five wolwes. ) escaped from a colonial exhibition at "aris, joined in the promenade in the Champs Elysees yesterday. They were ceaptiured by the police after a chase. My heart and hand another claimed, His plea had come too late. Its ever thus Take Rocky Mountain Tea, don't get henlth drink. Crawford's Purity tea is one of the 19086. | SEVEN RUSSIAN LADS i Their Victims. Riga, Dec. 8.--Seven youths, whose ages ranged from sixteen to nineteen years, . have been excouted for éight 'cases of robbery by threats. The am- pount ol money extorted was $1,280, In a letter they wrote to M. Rat- ner, of Riga, they : $180 for Unemployed, adding "We give you two hours to comsider, 'the matter." They were identified by their victims. they freely admitted their guilt, court-martinl ordered them to he hanged, but afterward the Sentence was altered to military exeoution. . Beneath a glimmering kerosene lamp in the prison courtyard the youths received religious consolation. -Three who were Christians, took the sacra. ment, and the Jews made their cus. tomary profession "of faith. One of them, with tears streaming down his cheeks, but with a loud, firm voice, repeated the words of the Jewish con- we have done evil 'in His sight," Another sent greetings to his par- ents.' When asked if he » antwered, "Where is divine _justios, when such conditions exist and drove me to these crimes?" Sacks were thrown over the heath of the condemned, who were then led into a field. They were tied to stakes. and the Cossacks formed in line of fire. Dawn was breaking when the three volleys were given. The bodies wire buried in the sand. ---- BANK DIRECTORS LYNCHID. -- Angry Depositors Forcibly Reseu: Failure. Vienna, Dec. 8.--~Two directors of a savings bank were lynched yesterday at Liget, in Hungary. The bank, which had not been long in existence, wank obliged to close its doors owing to mismanagement, and the depositors, chiefly Roumanian peasants of the 'vicinity, decided at a creditors' meeting to be revenged on the persons responsible. The managing director managed to escape, but the depositors caught Ni- kolaus Peteru and Josef Sgurdu, the they fled through the.streets, and beat them to death with cudgels. Too Many Holidays. Mexico City, Dec. 8.~A Mexican evenin- paper, weferring to the labor situation in Mexico, complging of the excessive number of holidays which the heon thinks. luc dnurtitiod to. Out of "365 days of the year 181 are de- voled to obligatory amd traditional idleness. loHows : Sundays, © 52; as § aint Mondavs, 532; solemn feast duyi, 5 bolv davs. 3; national feasts, 3; vo: family feasts, 6. rn a------ Self-Made Scholar. . London, Dee. 8.0. H,: B. 'Staite, 1 BA. Clare College, Cambridge, who, . Grae ) lative. / ter he has yal the Univesity Bhi: The building. is seven storeys high, | years' i at an elementary school in which he bright and cheerful in _ appearance, | serest gained a scholarship to a grammar | ith art nouveau degorations and fur | bing : the treasury of Coepenick, Octos school. and subsequently ope at col: | Mture : | ber 16th, Voigt sent his thanks to the leve. He was bracketed fifth wrangher On the ground floor is a large, woman 'and asked her to put her offer two years ago. and last vear he gain. | bright restaurant, where an excellent iin legal. form, tr ed the highest. honor in natural | meal of bread; wine, hors d'oeuvre, , Unemployed As srruit Growers. London, Dec. 8.~The Central Unem- o thirteen exhibits from Rival To The Hen. Cardifi, Dec. 8.Dr. Thorpe, a gov- |! the the Cornwall the ev | Vv very | & hard-boiled committee of states that to an ordinary t 5 Restaurants At Sea Cornwall. The church which was long | began to fall, and contintied the fvhole Liverpool, Dee. 85The Cunard com- | buried in the sand, wds discovered in { day. The people Joined in a hearty Dany - uimounoed > esterday that it | 1835. Ite length is. thirty feet, its | thanksgiving service. of all its American lin- Musical Viear. ti London, Dec. 8.--At the conclusion pl Tunbridge Wells, on violin solos, - ---------- Shaved In A Lion's Den. ~ London, Dec. R.A. barber named Carlton, near Nottingham, and Police Chase Ostriches. Paris, Dec. 8.--~Two oitriches, which with people without pluck. and vim; ~~" left again. It ix the greatest immortanee to use only pure. foo sto 'and at Swift's Beranton coal. Ts your's one of them ? i most nutritious of beverages, 4. Crawgord's Lote of homes we want to heat with two others members of the board, as gagement of Princess Louise of France, daughter: of the Countess de' Paris, to Prince Charles 'of Bourbon, son of the Count, do Caserte, who, since the death of the ex-kifig' of Naples, hai beon head of the Bigilian Bourbons. noon and female postal clerks in the Rue de | Von Conpenick,"" her vate initiative. fish, meat, vegetable, cheese or sert can be had for ninepence. seventy-five were occupied to-day. the price being from $3.12 to 87 monthly, heir presumptive, made a formal entry into politics to-day. Wearine a i form of a general, he entered the per house to the sound of trumpets, and that he would be alwaye hapov to sit in a house which had consistently do made to restore St breadth height twelve and one-half feet. tion which will soon be opened in El. | tham road. Lee don wholly equipped high class candy. for Christmas trade, Red Cros drug store brated their sixty-fifth anniversary of their marriage married eoupla in the United States. A | oni Coinse a2 Tones | A ROYAL | BETROTHAL| I { } |} Announcement is mde of the 'en. PALACE FOR HELLO GIRLS. Splendid Skvscraper Provided For Will Receive Annuit Their. Use. leased rom hr Paris, Dec. 8.~M. Babthon, minister Berlin, Dec wen of public works inntigurated this after. ih | Berlin has "to the new hotel for telephone girls who defended Withelm oi, Lille. The viding an hotel has been built by pri- A ---------- 2 des- | GIRL YIELDS LIFE FOR LUVE. Throws Herself in Front 'as Rival Shoots, Paris, Dec. 8A young girl © named Charlotte Dixaint sacrificed her: dife in protecting her lover from the bullet of a jealous rival af Lyons yesterday, ( She was' out walking 'with 'her fiver, Flander, when » rejected' suitor hamed uni- | Rativel met: them. The two mén URE UP | reled violently; and when Rativel diew [a revolver the girl threw horasll, in the - a There are 117 bedrooms, of ae ocording "to' the occupant's position Prince Enters Politics. Brussels, Dec. 8.--~Prinos Albert, the swore to observe the constit- {front of her lover and receiv ion. In a short speech he declared shots in her heart. Thanksgiving" Instead Of Prayer, otod itself to the progress of = Bol- Cape' Town, Dec. 8.--A public, holi ium. day was diplured recently ab Heil- bron, Orange River Colony, i' order Church Buried In The Sand. that the Inhabitants might unite in Cardiff, Dec. 8.--An attempt. will be | prayer for rain: Ninety minuteyvhefore Piran's Oratory, | the time fixed for the meeting, vain Service On Chureh Roofs twelve and one-half. and its - London, Dec. 8:-The. new 'parish Motor I'ire Station. church of Coppenhall, Cheshire, 5 ap London, Dec. 8.--The new fire sta: proaching completion, and on Baturs day. whin thé workinen placed the cross on the pinnacle of the arch, the , rector, the Rev: W. €. Reid, akdgmdbd with motor ap- | to the rool, fully surpliced, and held a service there. t will have the distine: on of being the firat station in Lon- antes 3 "Just. think of . it" half.a ton of Tea, Tea, Tea. Purity tea, 'the finest 'tea gold, 80e,, 40c., Bie, green, "blaek or 'mixed Crawford. Nortm---------- See Bibby's 78c. night robes, cConkey's and Huyler's at Gibson's > Mostly all heat al. in Swift's Seranton Both Bibhe'd for men's toggery England grim stock.' They live in Denver,

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy