Daily British Whig (1850), 8 Jul 1907, p. 1

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ENTURY 'TREATJUENT, bf all POW, , oops | of You y Jules ear, ears of scientific research, back efter years of , Secret restored by combi = ph the world, tis pro its use 2. epital of theasends of work and hopelesy Coys treatment. This is a <ibh Y atest AS Gays iratmnt With absolutely free: "All packages are a Zlain with no mark. A - (180 ae wih guaranteed money, 00, Big ell. m orL 2341. MONTREAL YEAR 74. NO. 158, JURS Attention Given 'at this time of year to remaking and re- pairing Conditions are favorable for having the best pos- sible work done, and you are positively assured that your Furs will be ready for , you when required. Tele- phone 489, or drop a post. card and we will send our waggon for your FURS. Only experts in our Fag: tory. bi John McKay Fur House 149-1556 Brock St. ALWAYS IN SEASON Whether we have warm weather or cold, sunshine or rain, our QUEEN BEE TEA is always in season and always fin de mand. ' Imported direct from Ceylon, in ball Mb. and one Ib. packages omly, +" 50 and 60c. Jas. Redden & Co. IMPORTERS OF FINE GROCERIES. 5c ONE CENT DAY. 5c| for children, On Tuesday, July 9th. Moving pictures to-day :-- "Dog Snatcher," "Poor Algy."' All new illustrated Willbe Austin. Those who come in while a per- formance is on, may remain for _the next show. Entire change of programme every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. GASOLINE Put in Your Tank at Our Dock. A large stock of Dry Bat- teries, Spark Plug and Coils always on hand. SELBY & YOULDEN, LIMITED. Kingston & Pembroke Ry. Co. TENDERS MARKED "TENDERS For Station At UOulabogie," will be re- ceived at the office of the undersigned until noon, July 15th, 1907, for building a station and platform at Calaboyie, songs, by Ont. Detail plans and specifications may be seen at the otlice of the undersigned, Kingston, or at the office of Mr. A. Barnet, Renfrew, Ont. The lowest or any tender not neces- serily aconpted, ¥. CONWAY, Acting General Superin- & tendent, + Kingston Pembroke Ry. Kingston, Ont. Kingtton, Ont., July 2nd, 1907. 'Cheapest Place in King- ston for Boots and Clothing Is At the foot of Princess Street. ------ recived a big lot of Men's orking Pants, 1 will sell them at the low price of 95¢. per pair. Special stock of Overalls on hand at low figures. Remember the place. A. LIEBERMAN 80-21 Princess Bt. Havin Something for nothing is what you seldom get in this worl. Our Flour is not cheap, bat we = . give you the best value and the . greatest satisfaction. Ask for PATENT HUNGARIAN gE For Bread "WHITE ROSE" For onkes, biscuits, ete. Kingston Milling DAILY MEMORANDA. Board of health, 4 p.n., Tucsday. Roller Rink, afternoon and evening: Vaudeville, Ontario Park, to-night. Wonderland, evegy afternoon and eVen- Jing. - Board of Trade, Tuesday, 8 pm. O Boys' meeting, sune rooms, same hour. Louise Rebekah lodge, 1.O.O.F., lawn social at Mrs. MeCaugherty"s, "Prison Farm," . Monduy, July Sth. "This day in history : King Fdward IT crowned, 1307; Washington chosen ecapi- tal of U. S., ¥¥2; first Canadian par- liament prorogued, 1872. estan nn WHIG TELEPHONES. 243--Business OMices 229---Fditorial Rooms. 292--~Jobbing Department. Color Printing a SpeCialty. Dinner Sets We have a few of those job sets left, you can save THREE OR FOUR DOLLARS All new up-to-date patterns, on every one of these sets. ONLY SHORT A FEW PIECES. Robertson Bros. Harry Nicholson GRANITE & MARBLE WORKS, 149 SYDENHAM ST., (COR. PRINCESS.) , SUMMER WANTS Screen Doors and Windows, Ice Lawn Mowers STRACHAN'S. C. H. Powell, Carpenter and Jobber, 103 Raglan St. Tenders BE RECEIVED FOR THE and repairs of the stone work of St. Barnaba's Church, Brewers Mills up till the 1st August. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Ap- ply for particulurs to the pastor, WILL pointing IT IS A FACT Where you get good stuf you gain money and you will do that by buying our Stoves, Furniture and © ots al URK'S. Second-Hand Store, 3V8 Prin: cess street. Br -------------------- GIANT PHEASANTS EVOLVED. Crosses Breeds And Produces Heavy Stock, Hamburg, July S.--~Herr Carl Ha- genbeck, the celebrated Hamburg deal- er in wild animals and birds, says that he has produced a néw hreed of pheas- ants. By cross-hreeding between the Furo- pean and Asiatic pheasants and a care ful process of selection he has produ- erd a stock that weighs three to four pounds heavier than the present Euro- pean bird. More than 300 birds of the new breed have already been sent to Walter Rothschild gt Tring, and more are to follow, Herr Hagenbeek declares that in a few years the game of Europe willl be revolutionized if- his ideas are carried out. Fourth Of July Episode. Syrgense, N.Y., July 8.--Robert J. Sloan, young business man of Syra- cise, had three fingers of his right hand blown off by a giant fire cracker on the 4th. It is feared that the hand will have to be amputated. -------------- high- Cross Fresh on Saturday. Huyler's class esndy, at Gibson's Red drug store. Phone 230. IF BUSINESS IS POOR Advertising will make it good. If business is good advertising will make it better. If your business is' doing well advertise to keep it so. The other fel- low is delighted when his competitor is a © 'dead one" and has it all figured out why he does not have to advertise. Doing busi- ness on reputation is like trying to collect a bill twice, because it was an honest bill. The other fellow is just Just as keen on making reputation as you are. To cover all Kingston the MEDIUM is the Whig. EADS cE EXSoRtoR, tls Lit He Could Not Staind Con- stent Tullting .. | MADE A FAILURE OF SCHEME TO BURN ASHES AS FUEL. Altoona Physician Could Not Stand Joking Over His Back- ing of a Financial Venture Which Proved to be Really Only Ashes. Altoona, Pa., July 8.--Being unable to stand the continual twitungs of his friends about the failure of the scheme to make ashes burn; which he backed financially, Dr. H. K Hoy, one of the best known homeopathic physicians in the state, and one of Altoona's wealthy men, commited sui- cide by swallowing the contents of a pottle of carbolic acid. Dr. Hoy went into the bathroom and teok the poison. Mrs. Hoy heard him fall and summoned assistance, but when the door was broken in her hus- band was lying dead on the floor, his hand clutching the empty bottle, Dr, Hoy was fifiy-eight years old, and had a fine practice ps an eye and car epecialist. He accumulated a fair fortune and then invested in oil lands, which increased his wealth until he was worth about $250,000, John ENemore, an Altoona cobbler, startled the country about six months ago by the announcement that he had discovered a process by which 'he could make ashes burn. Dr. Hoy, who had known Ellemore all his life, be- came interested in the invention, and for a half interest became the financial backer of the cobbler. It took only a short time for scientists to declare the scheme a failure, Dr. Hoy did not mind the loss of the money but he could not stand the ridicule of his friends, Letters were received from all over the country ri- diculing him and he became morose and moody. He had heen unable to sleep recently, and had passed a sleep- less night just before he took his life. Dr. Hoy was the owner of several fine trotting horsée. He leaves his widow and one married daughter, PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest Culled From All Over The World. Japanese entering Canada are mow to be charged a head tax of $25. Sir Wilirid apd Lady Laurier were the guests of Lord Aberdeen in Dublin over Sunday. George Caverhill and W. G. Ross have been appointed directors of the Dominion Iron and Steel company. The French battleship Hoche caught fire, at Toulon, on Saturday, and was sunk in her slip to prevent an ex- plosion. Three men were killed in the Syd- ney mines of the Nova Scotia Steel company, by the mistake of a chain runner. British Columbia prophesies a pro- vincial surplus at the end of the year of $1,000,000, the greatest in the pro- vinee's history. A commission of three has been ap- pointed to determine the competency of Mrs. Baker G. Eddy, to conduct her own affairs. Dr. Acklend Oronhvatekha, son of the late swreme chief ranger of the LOF,, died suddenly at "The Pines," near. Deseronto,, early on Sunday. At Marseilles, France, Paul Sarki- sian is under arrest in connection with the murder of Fathér Caspar Vartarian, the Armenian priest, of New York. Several suits have been entered in France by heirs of Catholics to recov. er property bequeathed to the church for the purpose of saying masses for the dead. A monster dam, which will form a reservoir capable of holding 170.000.9090 gallons of water, is to be built in the Catskitsl, by New York City's water supply board. Emperor William of Germany, the Empress and Prince Adelbert areived at Bergen, Sweden, on Sunday, on the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, on their way to the north. A despatch received from. Corcubion in Spain, says the British steamer Denewell, from Genoa, for larmes, struck the rocks two miles off "Cape Finnisterre and went to the bottom. The crew were saved. A Manilla despatch to the New York Herald says the Jupanese working on the fortifications and around the Ol- cagapo and Cavite naval stations have been discharged, including = ex- perts who have been in the gervice many years. Jt is asserted by officers stationed at Manilla, that the orders for this action come direct from Wash- ington, and are peremptory. When in- terviewed, Rear-Admiral Hemphill and other navy officers denied that any ex- traordinary preparations were" under way. Scorchers' Paradise. Pekin, July 6.--The authorities of Shanghai, one of the busiest towns in China, have passed a ovy-law allowing motorists to maintain a speed of not Imore than thirty miles an hour while passing through' the city. Was 121 Years Old. Cave Town. July 6.--A native wo- man of Cape {oiohy, named Fida Sep- tember, formerly a slave died at Oudt- shoorn, at the age of 121 years, {HE "HOOSIER" POET. One Pf the Most Typical Of Writers. James: Whitcomb Riley, the author, and best Bown as the "Hoosier" poet, was born at Greenfield, Ind., in 1853. He was given a public school education and at the age of twenty was already becoming popular by writ- ing numerous poems of real merit in the dialect" of the middle-west or Hoosier dialect. Mr. Riley came to New York in the latter eighties, and soon ished his position as one of the most typical of American poets. He travelled abroad where he was warmly welcomed by literary er cles. He has never married. Some of his famous uetions are. "The Old Swimmin ole and Leven More Sketches'; "Old Fashioned Roses'; "An Old Sweet Heart of Mine." A. G, BLAIR'S ESTATE. Left $375,000 With Liabilities Of Nearly §200,000. Ottawa, July RS. --Application has been made im the surrogate court here by Andrew George Blair, barris- ter, and Henry Allen Harvey, banker, of Ottawa, for letters of administra- tion of the estate of the late Andrew Blair, former minister of railways and canals, and muds chairman of the railway ission. The inven- tory shows thai Mr. Blair left $375. ¢52, against which there debts and liabilities of 08 258, Jeaving a bal- ance of $177, The value of the whale estate $375,052; ind $355,002; res 810,601; Tiahilities, $198,288 18; "77,964. SHOT TERRY ON SIGHT. Revenge On Desperado Who Enter- ed Home. Bellingham, Wash., July 8.--Jake Terry, ex-convict, smuggler, train-rob- ber and fugitive from justice, was shot and instantly killed by Al. Lindley, at. Sumas, in the presence of Mrs, Lindley, at the Lindley home. Eigh- teen months ago Terry entered Lind- ley's home, drove Lindley out with a revolver, and kept Lindley's wife with him for several days while fighting off officers. Later the sheriff arrested Ter- ry and took him tg Canada to protect him. Saturday when Lindley went home to luncheon he found Terry in the house, and figgd. King Solomon's Money Found. Cape Town, July 6.~A coin believed to be a shekel of King Solomon's time, found hy a Mashbna native among (he ruins of Great Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, is in the possession of 1, Robinson, of Humansdorf, Cape Col- ony. The inscriptions are in Hebrew, (n one side are the words '"'Hoiy Jerusalem," and the branch of a fig tree, and on the other "Shekel Ix rael," and an incense-burner. Giant Coffin For Woman. London, July 6.<An exceptionally large eoflin was required for the burial of Mrs. Mary Ann Presten, wife of the landlord of the New lan, Barnbygate, Newark, who died last week. The cof- fin was six feet, ten inches long, three fect two inches wide at the shoulders, and eighteen inches wide at the feet, and it was two feet deep, The hed room window and casement had to be removed to get it into the house, and it requied ten men to lower it into the street. Band Concerts For Paupers. London, July 5-The Coventry board of guardigns yesterday accepted an ofigr by the Salvation Army band to give concerts ut the workhouse for the benefit of the inmates. The sirst of the series will take place to-morrow. The guardians also resolved to allow the workhouse children to attend a sports festival and to take part in a Band of Hope demonstration, tea be ing provided for them. Decline In Novel Reading. London, July 8.-Sir Spencer Wal- pole who presided yesterday at the sixtyrgigith anbhial meeting of the members of 'the London Library, said that there had been a slight falling off in the circulation of books, which the officers {old him was due to a der cline in the demand for novels. ---------- Royal Memorial Hearse. Cape Town, July 6.--~The natives. in the Burghersdort district of Cape Col- ony have purchased a thorough equip ped hearse for the conveyance of their dead 'to the burial ground, and' "have fixed on it a brass plate with the in- scription, "Queen Victoria Memorial Hearse." Polo An Ancient Game. london, July 6.~According to a Chine jouihag. We game of pole was originated and aye by the Chinese abont the year 00 AD, Were Token From The Strong Room IAT DUBLIN CASTLE ¥ PARTICULARS HAVE BEEN TELEGRAPHED. THE | The London Papers Give the Story in a Reserved Way -- The Police Will Not Give Any News and the Servants at the Castle Know Nothing. Londen, uly 8.--The Express says that on the ave of the departure of their visit of state, to Ireland, it has been learned that the jewels of the order of St. Patrick, valued at $258,- 000, have been stolen from tho strong room of Dublin Castle, where they ware kept. The robbery was discov- ered owing to the jewels being want- ed for use at the state reception of the king. How they were stolen is not known. Particulars of the mise ing jewels have been tblegraphed throughout the world to vent them from being sold. The Daily Mail gives the story, reservedly adding that the solice refuse to give any. information. The servants at the castle say they have heard nothing about the rob- bry. ---- Follow Parnell, Londen, July. S8.~John Redmond, the Irish leader, in. speech at Bat tersea, denounced the Sinn Feinns as cranks and sore heads, They were ecry- ing for the adoption of a new polioy, but. it was the old policy of discredit. ing Gnd trying to destroy the mation- alist party. The nationalists must put away all this futile, foolish talk, and pursue vigorously Parnell's policy. The present parliament would not last more than a year and a half, and the next government would aot have such a majority as the present one. DIED FROM WOUNDS. ---- A Revolutionist Shot Gowernor. Shanghai, July 8.The ol Anhui, wounded on Saturday, while reviewing a parade of students, died from the effects of his injuries. It ap- pears that he was not wounded by the bomb explosion, as was at first stated, but by a revolver shot fired by an expectant official, who was a revolutionist. The governor, a reac- tionist, recently discovered that the revolutionists were smuggling arms and took steps to break up the illegal traffic, thus incurring the enmity of the revolutionists. The assassin, who was captured, has been decapitated by order of the viceroy. SLEW AN ENEMY. The Capt. © Pushkin Was Killed On the Street. Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 8.--- Capt. Pushkin, of the gen de'armerie, was assassinated on the streets of this town, on Saturday. He was unfavor- ably known as the organiger of the anti-Jewish attacks at Valogda, in October, in 1905, when many lives were lost. Pushkin was walking with the chief, of police at the time of the assassination, The latter was not in: jured. The assailants made their escape and wounded a policeman in their flight. Beehives In Mourning. Cardiff, July 6.--A striking illustra. tion of the superstitious feticta of Cornish country folk may be seen in one of the villages of the duchy. death occurred recently in the family of a hee-keeper, and he, believing thnt il he failed to do so, his bees world also die, draped each of his five ives with a piece of; black crape, a -- Given Town $50,000. Berlin, July 8--The widow of the Sculptor Bartholdi, has given to the town of Cassel, which lately erected a statue to her husband, the sum of £50,000, and placed the sculptor's | sketches, etc, at the disposal of the town ,with the view to the foundation of a museum to be named after him. ------ Killed Because She Was Ugly. Warsaw, July 6---A Polish laborer named Dorosiewitch, of Kroscienko, German Poland, pleaded guilty a few daye ago to murdering his eightesn- year-old daughter, 'because she, was so ugly that nobody would marry her." He was sentenced to three yeara hard labor. Suspicious Poisoning Case. Watertown, N. Y., July B.--~Edwin Bingham of this city, aged twenty: two, died in a house in the Tender: loin district of earbolic acid poison ing. The inmates were arrested and the coroner is investigating the case. ---- Don't Use The Knife. That's "the barbarous Way of treat- ing corns--dangerous, 400, Any corn can be" removed painlessly by Put. nam's Corn Extractor in Daentty-lour. hours--use . only "Putomm's" if you want quick cure. Hurt In Collision. Milan, July 8~Bight excursionists hound for ake Como, were injured to-day; four 'fatally, in a ratlway col § S081 i a IS T0 RETIRE. Dreyfus Will Step Out Of The French Army. hg . 3 MAJOR DRENPUS. § Paris, July 8.-<l¢ ds reported that Major Alberts Dreyfus is to retire from | the army, to which he was restored with his honors after a long prosecis tion and eofinement on Devil's ls land, -------- WHITE GIRL A SLAVE. o S-- . Has Been Forced To Work Since Childhood. * Richmond, Va., July 8.--~It is al most bey. belief that in the en lightened commonwealth of Virginia a young Anglo-Saxon woman sh ld come out of a Soutty only an hour's ride from the city Richmond with' a startling story of abject slavery and peonage since her childhood. The girl, who is generally known as the "whito slave," answers to the name of Kleanora. Her case will soon be ht to a climax when Attor- ney Rawley institutes a suit in her be hall against J. J. Cawley, dalryman' of Chestérfield county, in whose home the girl has spent the better portion of a laborious existence, The plaintiff to the suit is now twenty-one years old, Ter nill will allege that she was sold to Cawley when a child, for whom she was fore: [i= Fal8 ed to work without compensation un: hex release. The young woman is pn possessing in appearance to | ap omy She has large brown eyes, ond an abundance of dark hair, A WAN HANDLED GUN And Shot His Wile--Ran Around' a Rib. Comber, Ont., July sey, Detroit, who, with his wife, is examining a rifle when the weapon ac- ing the side of Mrs, Bussey, striking a rib over the heart The bullet follow ed the rib to the back and lodged in the clothing of the unfortunate wo- man. A doctor dressed the wound and unless complications set in Mrs. Dus rey will soom he well again. Baseball On Sunday. Fastern league--At Providence, B; Jersey City, 2. At Newark, 6; Baltic move, 1, Americont league--At Chicago, 6; Philadelphia, 0, At St. Louis, § Washington, 12. The League Standings. Eastern league--Buflglo, 607; Toron- to, .603; Newark, 508; Rochester, HOO; Baltimore, ,468; Providence, A468; Jor-. sey City, 452; Montreal, 375. American league--Chicago, 657; Cleve land, .629; Detroit D069; Philadel phia, 544; Now York, ATT; St. Louis, 394; Boston, 373; Washington, M9. Nation league--Chicago, 757; New York, .615; Pittsburg, 606; Philadel phia, 5061; Boston, 431; Cincinnati, A20; Brooklyn, 414; St. Louis, 222, Man Murdered, Brantlord, t., July B.-~William E. Alexander, . man ol a large hard: ware concern in Havana, Cuba, was brutally murdered in his bed on the night of June 21st last. He had been instrumental some tie ago in. we curing the conviction of some Spanish sailorg for stealing hardware stores, and it is thought one of these com- mitted the deed. reside here, Brantior Very Dark At Bowmanville. Bowmanville, Ont. July 5.--~At nine o'clock, this morning, a thunder storm, with a. heavy downpour of rain, passed over this distriet. Citizens do not remember when it was so dark in the daytime before. It was impos. sible to discern persons across a rooms. The storm was of short duration and no great damage is reported. Lots Of Marriages. Windsor, Ont, July 8.-~Windsor still retaine the vepuiation of marigges, of which the majority are from the United States. City Clerk TLuSted figures, for six months, ending July I. show that there Were 655 mar- riages, an increase of 177 compared with the samp veriod of 1906. SH ------------e-- Death Of A Citizem. Brantford. Ont., "July 8.--William Fank. a highly respected citizen, died, this morning. He was formerly collec- tor of taxes of this city, but for the bast three years had lived retired. He foneys widow, sons and a datighter, all grown 'up. Fe i fr: Di lision. Gum raincoats, til the intervention of friends secufed H 8.~ Fred.' Bus-| visiting friends at Stonev Point, was |d cidentally discharged, the bullet enters}! His wife and family | Presidint Falliorts has postponed hiv] Penkin's for featherweight pure Fara L Wo we are esas these beautiful " wod we will be w b them to you # you call. Tank y manor, FASE on Ww ly v . (Sion Jenin Frederick, P CARSON ~CONVERY-AL Fort June 12th, 1907, Irene Convery, Fort William, to. Rowert, Carson, of this eity. = ! 1 RUSSELL-KINREAR CO8 whip of Michmond, + Kiunear, township of WALTHRS-SHARP--~At J 26th, 1907, Angus well, to Lota Shap, B POHERTY--~LESPRANCE = on June 27th, Edward Doh ton, to Miss Les! ronto. Sect Enc hilt CAIRNS--In July 8th, 1907, est. son of Fon ae

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