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Men's, sizes, 6, 7 and 8, light weight, short length - - $3. ' Mow's o's heavier Hy lon ) lemon fleece-lined af AKAANAS EMPTY COFFERS) THE FIRST TASK OF NEW COUNTY COUNCIL. To Have a Thorough and Im- partial Audit--A Big Dloating Debt--There is a Call For Money to Carry on .Business. : London," March 5.--The absorbing topic; in political, commercial, finan- , and sotial circles is Saturday" s overthrow of London's socialistic gov- erpment and the préblems fac ing its subgescor, | The consensus of opinion is that the first task of the pew coun- | fun that follows, cil will be to have a thorough and | eryoue is of the one opinion, und impartial sudit of the accounts to |thut is that in "Lovers and Luna- show exastly the obligations the pro- | tics," the show has been well named. gressives incurred. It is known there | It is given in two acts, aud all te is a floating debt of $23,000,000, on | events take place at the which five per cent. interest is being Hewrich Dinklespicl, "LOVERS AND LUNATICS." fo ns. Good Attrac ht. "Lovers and Lunatics," farce, brimful of fun and nonsense, night, and pleased a gbod audience, Joseph Morris, roll of Ikey Rosenstein, proved him- self to be the star of the cast, as practically the whole self was the principal musical numbers were the average. likes and dishkes--knows that his bect trade want 'Mooney's Perfection Cream Sodas stock of jokes which were really fanny, practically empty. The sum of $35- 000,000 js declared to be imperatively | J. Morris Holden was very clever needed to carry-on the municipal gov- | the part of Nellic Dinkelspiel, ve emment. was continually on the lookout for asked to buy something "just as good," which is NOT as good. ber Romeo. The four esc ped luha- Grocers who want 10 please their PERSONAL MENTION. tics, who figured prominently in the pS always have Mocuey's Pere ---- play, represented, respectively, Ad ection Cream Sodas In miral Togo, Napoleom, Carsar the hygienic packages--air-tight Bortingnia of The People--What | 8. ond the Guar of Russia They They Are Saying And Doing. Miss Mae Wright, an o g d meisture' proof. appear ta> have no trouble in -im- Colhorne street, is | pressing upon thé- audience that they | ean | the guest of her uncle, J. F. Devlin, | were lunatic Their make up alone Perth. portrayed this, Their singing was SergteMaj. McGowan, of the signal-} good, however, considering they were ling carps, 8 sick at the Iroquois | insane. The chorus had a fine array Hotel. of costumes. Gi. Hoyt has riturned to his home in New York after a pleasant visit in "Uncle Josh Spruceby." this city. The patrons of The Grund will be Miss Apnie and Jennie Anderson, | eptertoined for Saturday, March Sth, Montreal street, are visiting friends in | matinee and night, hy the big comedy J Génanoque, production, "Uncle Josh Spruceby.' x z : A. M. Ross, of Limarick, who has | This popular play comes well recom: been visiting Kingston friends, re: mended and will, no doult, ke re turred to his home, yesterday. ceived with enthusiasm lire. The Among those whe loft Kingston for | piece is staged wilh every attention Cape Vine yhsterday, wire: H. [to stage realism. J. Perey, Wiiritl Dupre and M. Wart W. J. Turkington, who has been Toilet Soap visiting in this city. returnel, vester LOG CASE IN COURT. day, to his home at Elm View Farm : -- : 'The name tells Chaumont. ' Was Dismissed By the Magis- Miss trate. y owned by Joseph McConnell, graduate of College; leit, Ad to accept af the well-known liawasville, was the court case this charged that the Agnes Gaudreau, Foal ~~ --quality : nm x the Kingston Business Crown -- perfection in making vesterday, for Montreal, Wilch-Hazel--soothing, Lealing, re- puth i in At ity: Che . re Mrs, J. . Srickwood left Sunday freshing, beautifying noon for a visit to her daughter, Mrs Gegrge Eddington, Portland, Maine; alsh staying "in Montreal fcr a had been notified days with-her-daughtcr, Mes. JJ. Dow. up: Montreal Witness : James Stewart. [hut some of the neighbors who the recently appointed postmaster at | hocome frightened, lodzed a complaint 1 Kingston, Ont., was on Exchange, on'| with the police, and as a result, a Monday, "and was very heartily con- | summons reached the owner of the dos gratulated on his appointment by the | jor his appearance in court. Mr. Me members present. cause of a polios | morning. hotelkeeper allowed --cleaning Soap A perfect complexion soap, a perfect toilet scap, loc. a 3 cakes 25c. few to keep it chained cake, tion to the court about his dog being kept in the house as much as possible, u-------- is and the case was dismissed Cattle Became Ill By Licking| , McDonald Mowat appeared. on Poisonous Powder. behalf of the ownér of the dog. He sf slng align son; dominion veterinary said that according to the by-law, the . inspector, was, here from Ottawa in dog figuring in the case, should have regard to an alleged outbreak of con- | been! produted in' court, The magistrate and NO CONTAGION FOUND. constables in { tagion among cattle bovond Odessa. 4 In company with local veterinarics, he | court smiled. . visited ithe place, and one of the logal Constable Samuel Arniel wos asked doctors. én * gaestioning the whether he had served a summons on farmer, found that he had heen rubbing some poisonous powder 'into the anim "skin to Kill creSping things. The pois- on went through the system of the cows, and thee of them died. There the dog. He replied that he had not. The court smiled again, whem Mr Mowat remarked that the dog had a kind disposition, and furthermore. that the doy was a playmate of Ser geant Nesbitt's. wos - nothing -of ! a contagious nature found. The remaining cows will get "It might have been a case of tem- well if the farmer ceases rubbing them | porary ineanity with the dog like the '| with poisalf, "The cows, in licking case of Thaw," said Mr. Mowat. '""lhe themselves. took 'the poison into their | animal has recovered now." system. This should serve as a warn- A neighbor of Mr. McConnell's gave ing to farmers. ' evidence as to the good conduct of $ ---------------- the dog. ,On- His Annual Round. "Bid you play with the dog, too?" Goorge Buskin, agent and 'mission | asked the 2ourt. : Pp write for Prices on on Le ary of the International Evangelical| Witness assured the court that the Sas. Ear Taine aad and Colportiige Mission, is making |dog would not bite' or attack anmy- his twenty-fourth annual visit to | one, he : Kingston, in behalf of diseeniinating Accordingly, the word "'dismissed'" was written in the against the dog case. Biblical literature through the north- court register em and western districts of Ontario and as far west as Victoria, British Columbia. The number of Bibles and books that have been supplied by the mission and taken account off, have TENDERS FOR SUPPLIES. Accepted at Meeting of Hospital You ginbel ity ave R numbered 43,200 copies, in twenty- Governors. a better one Tanguages™ and as many as ton | qe regular monthly mecting of the vy) thousand booklets and tracts have hoard of governors, Kingston General been given, of which eighty editions Haspital, was held Monday afternoon. have been t published by the mis Those present weve : Dr. Duff, (vice sion. for its work in five languages. | op irnn). Rev. Dr. Macgillivray, Rev. | Four editibns have been published dur- | 1" a ai Be Chown, Rev. D. | A delicious diisk and a sustaining | ing the past year, in Ojibway, Indian Laing, Frederick Weldh, T. McK. Rob food. Fragrant, nutritious and | and English. Others necessary in the ertson, Mavor Mowat, and Col. Mas economical. This excellent Cocoa | work are being publishing among them | y maintains the system in robust the sooo part of te Sibway Indic The following tenders were accepted an dictionary, for which costs | ¢ year © Meat, H. Waddington: health, and enables it hy resist will be incurred to complete the die. bread, W. Pollitt; milk, J. E. Wilder winter's extreme tionary lone. ap Sonatas ol drugs, J. B. Mcleod +] Kingston in behalf of the mission, | Tha following extract from the re last year, were $36.81, which the mis port of tr ning governors wad sionary gratefully acknowledges. The | roceived by the board. end a regoln Depot, at pod ing street east, To- [jon was passe] axpre ssiny the appre ronto, is sti ent open. ciation of the board for the work by Grocers and Storekeepe ' done by the Nurs. a' Alumnae: 500d 57 Sv «Ib. and §-Ib mer ' No Cough Experiments.' "We are. pleased to. roport that large-hearted emcrosity Aunt e, the walls and in the nurses' through the of the Nurses' freilings: of the alls Don't lose time and invite danger Ly thinking any cough remedy will do. Cet The Diamond Cough Remedy and you - can know that you have. the best gue | home have heen painted a warm and COAL. ! made. For. coughs, colds, sore throat Pleasing tint ond the parlor, sittng : The sudd : cr hoarseness it gives prompt positive room and hed room, have xen nr ought to suggest Te 18 Weather results. 23e., at Wade's drug stor | nished with peper of a very pretty tei some good Coal. We and aesthetic design and color, im- putting in : 5 Boll good Conl 15 be kind that You hardly realize that it is medi- | parting np air of brichtn ss and hon e | like comfort to | handsome and (of special notice the premises. This tinwly gift is worthy and will, doubtless. cine! when taking, Carter's Little Liver Pills; they are yery small; no bad of | fects; all tropbles from torpid liver are makes the home comfortabie ; it's pest money can buy, and Ha, is none better mined. We deliver it to you clean and evoke expression of vour board's he. wi relieved by thar use. your = hoar without slate, at the very bottom Atte Dy iz snl ofipephyr pinghams | warmest thanks and appreciation." The thanks of the hoard is extend: on Wednesday at Crumley Bros. ; as 'G. Kustache Burke, Canada's trade el to the Woman's Aid Society, of agent . at Kingston, Jamaica, writes Napanee, for a donation of twenty the department that the earthquake wight dozen of fresh eggs. | The 5 governors for the catastrophe loss is estimated at from month of March willbe 'W. B. Daltor BOOTH & CO., Phone 133. Foot of West St | = me $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. ue " When You Buy Dear Mother There was a big fire in Meaford on Tuesday morning. : The' Trout hloek 'Your Bittle ones are § constant care ia | mus burned and the Helstrop building COAI " ol and: Winter |v gutted: Various families escaped . ¢ ped with . 'anced Do > {their lives, and lost their effects Fro { Mrs., D. Sutherland lost £500, in dia- monds and jewelry. 'he store occupied by W- H. Medley, #nd used as a drug store [or the past 0 | thirty years, is now to fet by R. J + Heid. The Ontario government is to be 34 | saked to supply paid chaplains to the Toronto asvlum, the Mercer reforma- i P. WALSH | You cet Fenainel Scranton as he handles nothings: else tory and tke Central prison. Best's "Short Stop" ewes all gougha alwazs atid costs but 13e. on at Grand Last a musical was the attraction at the Grasd, last who appeared in the and show him- He took the part of the Jew in a munner that pleased evuryone, and funmakes..w The new and catchy, but the singing was not above A matrimonial mix-up in the first act 9s the cause of all the and at the close ev: home of | thand by a bullet that had been fired whose home ad- {at hy paid. The capital commitments for | joing the state lunatic asylum). They | passengers 'on the {He lets them know that schemes "already adopted --aggtegate | Rosenstein's parody om *'Ewvery Little [ado users got about $100 he has their favorite bi adits $105,000,000. It is stated, morcover, | Bit Helps," brought forth much ap- | Cash and a few watches and revel iu that there is urgent need of ready | plause. He rendered several other : =and secs that : 4 ied e" pakme ars § Rte 1 ihe nen were disguised only with they are not money, the municipal coffers being | numbers in fine style, and also had a [ialts. moter and poctice. Om ' "hotelkeeper at Wilk fw ith several officers It was" o the canine to run at large, alter he | villages ang mining "Phe -dog-had-not- attacked anyone, { was Killed by the bandits has arouse | Connell gave a satisfactory explana ! SHOT MINER DEA DEAD BECAUSE HE PROTESTED. Wounded Another Person--Des- peradoes Got Aboard at Fittsbrg, Went Through Cars and Secured $100. Pittsburg, Kansas, March 5.--The Missouri Pacific passe nger train which left here, last evening, was held up by two men in disguise, and Lon Jeff, a colored miner, employed gt camp 31, of the Uentral Coal & Coke company, was killed because be | ro- tested, and W. LL. Westlake, of To- ledo, Ohio, who, with his wife and two children, had been visiting rela- tives in Kuosas, was shot through the he negro. There were fow | was tall and weighed between 150 and " {190 pounds, while the other weighed {about 160. Both had dark com | plexions and wore dark slouch hats jond dark clothes. They boarded the train at Pittsburg and began "'work- ling" the train a® it passed the Kun- sas. City Southern: rajlvoad shops: They an at the smoking car. One robber walked ahead with a large re- valver in each hand and quietly psk- ed the passengers to "shell out™ to {the man behind, who followed him floniy, They were not far behind the train auditor ami followed him into { the duy coach. When they came to i him in the day coach, he at once | ren lized thut a hold-up was going on, After the auditor had passed, he | drew a revolver and shot {most robber, who shot twice at the {negro in return, The first shot went { wild, and struck Westlake, but the f zee ond hit the negro in the head snd | | at the fore- killed hima instantly. The robbers then quictly. made the auditor deliver his { money, and hurriedly left the train as lit entered the yards at Cornell | Westlake, the woitatled passenger, {was token to Liberal, where his hand fwas dressed by a surgeon of the rail rand company. As soon fention could be had with v, of Pittsburg, a8 communi Agent Don a" switch engine ves ant to Cor nell. four miles from bo re The country surrou anding Pitishury {is thickly settled, und is doited with amps, It is re news that a miner ported that the tdreds of "other winers, who will attempt to capture and hinch the robbers. THE LADY CURLERS. | A Novice at the Game Won the Prize. In the finals for the dingles, this | morning, at the curling rink, Miss Marie Carruthers, a reewnit of the club, won from Miss Florence Cun- ninghami by one point, after a hotly fought Fame. . Play Of Wednesday. The championship of the (ity League both junior and senior; will be played off at the covered rink to-morrow night. Frontenac Business College and Wanderers are in the finals for the senior championship and Regiopolis College clash with Barriefield T' for Supremacy in the junior series $275,000 IN 17 DAYS. Indianapolis Raises Fund For New Y.M.C.A. Building. Indianapolis, Ind. March 5.--In seventeen days a fund of $275,000 has been raised in this eity by popular subscription for a new building for the Young Women's Christian Association. A fund of £100,000 for a building for the Young Women's Christian Aso' ciation has Iwen begun. Forty thou- sand dollars has already been sub- scribed Hear ! Hear !! Hamilton Snectator. The law against the Sunday paper is right, and we think it be enforoed in spite of the objection of Bufiglo and New York friends. We have en idea that ii the time over comes when it will be vecessary for Cena digns to regd Sunday papers, the news paper concerns of £nnada will be quite es able to supply the demahd as they now are to supply the demand for week day papers. But we sincerely hope that that, time will never come Tenders Being Asked. Tend: rg, for the O'Kill street sewer extension work are to be in the ay engineer's hands by Monday next. Tt in desirable that the work should be gin next week, so that the pier way he constructed before the ioe goes news will Use Best's Violet' (witcharel) Cream for chapped hantds, 25¢ Don't look down on people look up to you. 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