¢ Daily KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, DECEMBER -- 16, 190%. : oes a a et INBARN And Kept Her There For Three Weeks to Starve. A Contractor Tired of His 70 Year Old Wife ---The Daughter Complained and Father Arrested. {ad Waterbury, Conn., Dec. 16.--Tired of | temperature in the barn went below his wife, who is seventy years old and |freezing. Trowbridge's chief remark souch his senior, James Trowbridge, a to the woman during this period well-o-do contractor, has been arrest- {seems to have been an assurance that ed on the charge of locking her in a [she was too old to have about the barn on an allowance of food too thouse. : ' small to sustain life. Trowbridge was "But Jim's heart ain't bad," sobbed arraigned on information of his [the white-haired woman, "He gave daughter, who discovered her mother's {me blankets on cold nights and some- plight und caused her father's arrest. [times he spoke real pleasant. Sobbing pitifully, Mrs. Trowbridge Trowbridge's daughter, on the stand, testified that she had been kept in called him an inhuman monster, and the barn three weeks without five, her | begged that he be sent to jail. The only food being ginger cakes, which |court ordered Trowbridge to pay his her husband brought to her in paper [wife $17 a weck under penalty of be- Some nights, it is said, the fing locked up. bags. FAON PICTON TOWN THIEVES AT WORK IN WELLINGTON, 3 {Miss Olive Morrison, daughter of Judge Morrison, and the Whig re porter were there eager to receive the first book given out. The Whig scor- ed once again, the librarian, Mrs. E. Harris, handing out No. 1 to him. Many will be interested to hear of the business venture of A. W. Hep- burn, for so many years a prominent resident of Picton. He is giving up his plantation south of Norfolk, in Virginia, and establishing himself in the lace-making business. Mr. Hep- burn is expected to spend Christmas with his sons in Picton and then' leaves to spend six months in Paris to | become acquainted with the busi- ness. Then he will manage the New York City end while his partner will remain in Paris. And a Pickpocket Operates in Picton--The Whig's Picton Re- presentative 'Beats' a Young Lady. Picton, Dec. 16.--Thieves have been at work in Wellington. The other night the big Hotel Wellman, part of Ww nich remains open all year, was broken into and the cash drawer of the bar-room sacked of its sole con- tents, five dollars. The big general | very successful bazaar was given store of Caleb Garrett was also [hy the Woman's Guild of St. Mary broken into and, the five dollars in |Magdalene's church in the parish the till was taken. The night pre- lhouse, Thursday aiternoon. About vious, Nash's store was raided and $115 was realized for church purposes: $25 in cash obtained. The prevalent Marshall Clark, fishery inspector, idea is that the thefts have been at was the guest of honor at a little sup the hands of some one of the neigh- borhood. Pickpockets were at work in town on Sapurday, according to the story told Ly & Woman from, the country. She was on the market and was per on the eve of his departure fo Walla Wulla, Washington, where he will spend the winter with his dauch- iter, Mrs. A. 'W. Hendrick. During the levening his friends presented him with a fine suit case and a gold locket and carrying her handbag at her side, as chain. she was ascending the stairs in the | G. S. Mackenzie, manager of the butter market building. She felt a |Ameliasburg branch of the Metropoli tan Pank, and Mrs. Mackenzie, visiting Registrar and Mrs. Mackenzie for a couple of Mrs. Pruyn, after several months' stay with her brother, A. McCuaig, in Belleville, has tug at her handbag, and looking down are saw a little girl's hand slipping yuiet- lv away. She investigated and found her purse missing out. of 'the hand satchel which had been opened. In the weeks. purse was much of her money for her [returned to town. Mr. and Mrs. B. Christmas shopping. R. Hepburn have gone to Norfolk, There was a busy demand for books | Virginia, for a couple of weeks. Rev. from the Carnegie library, which be- | William Shearer is in Ottawa, having gan business on Saturday morning. (been called there owing to the serious When the doors opened at 10:30 a.m., illness of his father. Mr. and Mrs Cowan were in Guelph, last week, DAILY MEMORANDA. City Council, 8 p.m. Covered Rink to be opened to-morrow Wonderland Theatre, afternoon aad evening. Y.W. C. A. Doll Sale, Clu» Concert, Wudncsday "Twelfth Night," by Queen's Dramatic Club, Grand Opera House, 813 p.m Tenders for filling at Loughboro Lake Bridge received until noon, to-morrow. 'The Social Five Dance," Whig Hall, tonight, 8.830, Crosby and O'Lomnors Orchestra. attending the winter fair. IMMIGRATION GREATER To United States Than in "Any Previous Year. Washington, D.C., Dec. 16.--The im- migration to the United States, dur- ing the year ended June 30th, 1907, was greater than in any previous year, according to the annual report of Frank P. Sargeant, commissioner general of immigration, and naturali- Thursday. Glee night At The Princess-- 'The Adventuress i 4 A "A Diplomatic Intrigue."" Song, n zation, which was made public to- Ihe Spring Time Molly Lear." day. The number of immigrants to The Bijou--Caruso sings the Furious arrive was 1,255,349, exceeding the Love-Song * Celeste Aida.' Two Come |, per of 1906 by 184.614, and that dies, "Reggie's Camping Purty™ ; Ninety- at + Nine in the Shade ® for the year 1905 by 258.850, or an This day dn history :--Boston * Tea increase over the year 1906, of more Party" 1778: Cromwell made Lord than seventeen per cent., and over the Protector, 1683 ; Napoleon I divorced year 1905 of more than twenty-five per Josephine, 1809, ent WHIG TELEPHONES. = 3d usin Ola. Guilty Of Crimes. a 3 itorial ootng. - | St. Petersburg, De 16.--The trial » obting De t of fifty social democrats of whom Legal Forme, all kinds, at Whig. The Daily hig is always on sale at Gibson's Drug tore, Market Sguare-- Open till late each' evening. thiruy-seven were members of the seo ond dowma, charged with high trea- son, was concluded on Saturday. Eleven were sentenced for life and fif- , teen to four years penal servitude. : Trying To Raise Money. : Paris, Dec. 16.--The agents of the Sultan of Morocco, who have made vain attempts to raise money from ris and Ber- They are pow the banks of London, lin have returned here. PE -- This is a RARE SNAP. A trying to raise ten million francs on pretty set of 97 pivces, best Fng the sultan's jewelry in the govern: lish porcelain, nicely decorated ment pawnshop in Paris. and | GOLD LINE A good serviceable fountain pen-- Thi $10 inothing nicer for a Christmas pre- a WOU Co SN a { sent, $1, at Chown's drug store. for this week only. Spesial See our' own make of commercial led purei at McLaughlin's. | Perfumes, only the best odors, {splendid values for Christmas, a © $6.25. | Chown's drug store. Robertson Bros. | AFRAID TO | A BARGAIN IN | LAMPS . 50 Fancy Lamps. Just got them in a Convict, After 47 Yea job lot. "Come and get ope for Christ | mas, as I am going to sell them | New At TURK'S Second-Hand Store, 398 Princess St. Phone, 705. A - 1 New York, Dec. 16.--Forty-seven {years a convict and now a free man, Franz Hoffman, in vears of service the street, | oldest prisoner in New York state, is {afraid to leave Sing Sing prison i where he fears FOR SALE Choice Brick Residence, Barrie street all improvements, 'grand location. Double Sfone Dwelling, Earl bath, gas, ete. a Duling. i any er barn, | ome to this city, {args lot . may be run over or lost. SEIFTS Real Fatale and Msuraish ip. of elevated railroads Rs and he A a A SEARCH FOR TREASURE. Englishman Hopes to Find For- tune Beneath Stone. Paris, Dec. 16.--Mr. Wigglesworth, an Englighman, who lives at Arcis, is to make § search for mysterious trea-| sure buried by one of his ancestors in that portion oi the wall of Joan of! of Arc's tower gt Rouen which formed} the old dungeon of the castle. The treasure had heen a family tra- dition, but its whereabouts was uns} known. Mr. Wigglesworth stated thmt one of his ancestors yas 5 Baillie, or] Mayor, of Rouen, at the time when the town belonged to the English. the] says that he discovered gue recently some papers which prove that trea- sures belonging to his family were hidden in several places ine ryins| of the old town of Rouen. k One place indicated was a Wale in the Joan of Arc tower, covered hy stone on which the word "open™ cut in English. The place was exami, ed, and a stone was found bearing thy letters "'en"--the the word "Open." Mr. Wigglesworth bas had photo- graphs taken of all the places indi cated, and in every case the photo- graph shows that the brickwork has been interfered with at some distant date. One of the statues in the tower, of which a photograph has been tak- Gilbo, in this city, his two children, Harold and Flossie, aged four and two years, respectively, were burned to death. The children bad been locked in the house by the mother just a few minutes previous to the discovery of the fire, and before entrance could be effected and the fire extinguished, their bodies had been burned to a crisp. The mother is crazed wath grief. origin of the fire is unknown. LIVES WITH BROKEN BACK. Has For Two Years Survived Ac- cident. On December 13th, 1905, John Watts ged twenty-four years, living at Cam len East, had his back broken by a falling tree and his lower lims have een paralyzed ever since, and he is alive yet. A GREAT ENGINEER. b High He Invented a Marvelous Power Explosive. | Hudson Maxim, the great mechani- {cal engineer and the of Maximite, the marvellous high power explosive, at Orneville, Me., on February 3rd, 1553. He was edu- cated at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary inventor was bon and became a mechanical expert Maxim married Miss Lillian Durban, lin London. Maxim was the first man [to manufacture a smokeless powder in the United States and became both {famous and wealthy in a few years. {He built the town of Maxim in New | Jersey by erecting a huge dy namite lfactory at this place. In 1901 he sold to the United States government the | secret formula for Maximite. He now working on a secret model of a | torpedo for the government He has thomes at Brooklyn, N.Y., and Maxim- hurst, N.J, | --et | | For Relative, | There are many our great collection of holiday | for men. There is nothing more pleas ing to a man than to receive a thing | that is useful. See Livingston s show- ingq¢ 18 bright offerings in Perfumes, cheap, at Chown's drug | stores 3 | Lowney's, Ganong's and Webb's yolates at McLaughlin's. store. Swift men are seldom LEAVE JAIL rs in Prison, York. , ways and of the new and strange things to be found in New York, and the thought of it all frightened him so that hé begged to remain in prison un- til next week, when 'a keeper will ae- {company him here. Hoffman was con- Hoffman has | victed of murder in the second degree and sub-' forty-seven years ago, last two letters RENE it with blows ol sticks, so that uniform, has swindled The | Mr. | Friend Or Servant. | gifts | fast friends. | Scared of Appointed Genera Messenged MOBBED BY A CROWD, Sm Car Kills Woman ; Driver Tries =: or SMOOTH YOUNG MAN Naples, Dee. 16.--A fatal motor-car : accident had an extraordinary sequel : . He Was Masquerading as a Naval in the Riviera di Cheaia, yesterday. Lieutenant When Arrested. Signor Domenico Cagiati, an advo: cate, was driving in his four-horse power car at about twelve miles an hour, when an elderly woman wig zagged across the street. He put oii I the brakes, and the woman could easily have saved herself had she not, in her iright, run in front of the car She was wstantly killed. Signor Cagiati jumped out and, see- ing that the woman was dead, he de sperately drew out of his pocket a small revolver and was aiming at his head when a policeman hed his arm | just in time. | Signor Cagiati's wife was with him, | and her screams atwracted a great | Bufial crowd, who began to deal blows on | ufialo, the unfortunate couple. The crowd | then turned its fury on the car, dam- masquerading in a naval ! Rad After Passing Worthless Cheques---Was in Company of a Variety Actress--- Operating in Many Places. N.Y., Dec. 18 During the Donald Penney. The prisoner's pie last, few weeks a smooth young man, {ture was taken in full uniform and his {career will be thoroughly investigated. | | The police know he is the same man A company of soldiers had to 0 ' hotel and roe- fwho opened an account two weeks od. apound "Hl. Signer Cacdati | taurant keepers in all the large east- [ago at a Buffalo bank under the name {Pending the Jugal examination, was |CT0 cities out of small amounts on (of Lieut, E. E, Scranton, and present [akan qe prison, and his wife, ia a | forged checks. To cach check was (od a bad check for £230 on the Riggs Hainlitg' state, svas earried bone | forged the name of a real naval officer {National bank of Washington. They h . { which could be verified in the naval {register. Banks all through the east GES Aa PNR RS ~a ~y x ISSIR | ced to the Pinkerton detectives : NO & < S FUND. to catch the man and naval officers lieutenants Broadway in New Kopp, along Lieut. operated York as iy that of an anegstor of Mr. Wig- ¥ S| were an the lnskout for him. find something suitable here. 8 oy J | 2 Minn : ' "| Saturday night the Pinkertons and He has written to the nistry ue lis, Minn., Dec. ce arrestec y Gifts fine arts for per on . ris I ® AGL. wie oly murder- Rela: ve a op for Men stone which bears letters "'en™ and se- |g own 1ife and Jovk his "led up on the complaint of a Buffalo | He told the police his name was Stan- Woolen Gloves, 28c. to 50ec. cure the treasure, if he can find it. 1% 'not stand use he could ¥|pucneds man whom he swindled out|ley Barton and that his home was in Silk Handkerchiefs 25¢: to -------------- od I thought of #/,f £30 on a check signed by Lieut. | Hazelton, Pa. : 1h BURNED TO DEATH [3 only afew nie shopping ¥| n ¥ |X days Rs C mas When | TT ------------ sr -- Lined Leather Gloves, 90c. Locked in the House By Their ms which to bus with ¥| BUSINESS HIT HARD to 43, ae oe ERLE © NES OF THE WORLD| 55 mom. Watertown, N.Y., Dec. 16.--In a fire SACKING | 0104 That Canada Holds Its Own to 3be¢. - 5 that destroved the residence of Charles | . i Well. ------ Fine Neckwear, 25¢c. to $1. | ONE AS BIG AS A MAN'SHEAD | New York, Dec. 16.-~In general busi- | . ny ness reaction is becoming more appar- : French Director of Obsérwion |ent. The clearings at cities in the IN BRIEF FORM. | Reports Extraordinary Stora) (United States in November showed ed the extraordinary decline of thisty per cent., including nearly thirty-four per gent. in the middle states, twenty-two im New England, sixteen in the middle Wat and sixteen in the south, three ORghe Pacific coast. New York suffer ed wore than any other city, the de- clin ymounting to thirty-six per cent. The tag) clearings in all cities aggre- gated K600,000,000, or $4.000 000,060 less thay 5 year ago. In New York | city the Saarings aggregated $5500. 000,000, a Sgrease of £3 .000,000,000 within the Month. The effect of less { ened trade * 18 being felt in railroad | earnings. Seiligering that for years carnings have sWywn steady increases ranging from fivelo twenty per cent, compared with lak year, the reduc | which turned the scale at three-quar- | HON is: testimouy (the panic. The failures in Novembér wgoregated $17,- ters of a pound Many others were J . : { OH » q i secured which weighed from a quarter 600. } com) ared with $12,000,000 the same time in 1906; to half a pound each | When the hail first began to fall the | stones were about the size of héns'| but they increased in size as the Paris, Dec. 16.--One of the most Ww. { markable storms on record is reporte iby M. Cadet, director of the Central { { Observatory in Indo-China He says the storm arose in the Mai Pha mountains, and swept over many | miles of country, ruining all the crops, | wrecking buildings wholesale, and Heaving the country utterly devastat- Batters That Interest Everybody --Notes From all Over--Little of Everything Easily Read and Remembered. . Niue inches of snow fell during the storm in Torontos, | The entertainment of Prince Fushimi in Canada cost $35.000. : Hon. Mr. Lemieux will visit China, India, France, and England before re turning to Canada. The maintenance and operation of the Railway Commission is to cost $90,000, it is estimated. St. Thomas is to have dollar gas after the New Year. Gas is there at Sle. per 1,000 feet. Thomas Row was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, at Cobourg, for setting fire to a barn. The Thompson liner Kildona ran on the rocks, near Cape Cable, and is in bad condition. The crew were rescued, The Shah of Persia has had two of his ministers arrested, and his parlia- ment has demanded an explanation. A large number of fishing craft were lost in the English channel in a hurri- cane that swept over Western Europe, Senator Perley asks the government to order that the railway rate on frosted wheat be reduced fifty per cent. It is stated in Ottawa that Hon. | ciifiora Sifton is to retire from poli- tics altogether, and will refuse re- nomination in Brandon. James McMurdo was killed in the woods near Rennie's sawmill, Tisdale, MSask., by being crushed by a falling ed. | The hailstones were of enormous {size, and at the village of Phaima the {roofs of all the buildings were pierced [by them, the holes varying from six| ito eight inches in diameter, | At Langson, two miles away, a stone as large as a man's head was picked lup 'after the storm. Dr. Portal. a { French medical man, secured a stone A SERIOUS RELAMSE. {eggs, | storm {that some of the stones had kernels {of ice as large as walnuts numbers, of cattle grazing lds were killed by the hail, and {somie fields presented the appearance of slaughter houses ! The storm was accompanied by an] extraordinary display of lightning, the | lashes succeeding another pidly that the blinding light appear: {to be continuous. M Cadet says that | | the entire heavens seemed to be lit vu {with a continuous blaze. . A remark of temperature marked the M. Cadet states| Lord Kelvin is in a Daagerous Condition. h progressed mn one SO ra able rise : tem I aril tree. His parents reside in Ontario storm, oe He pp Ww Geol Raymond, the Blind River nearly degre | fire chief, convicted of forgery and | ,arson at Sault Ste. Mgrie, was Sen~ A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION | tenced to seven years in 4H iten- | . » tary, In a Welsh Colliery Brings Loss of Norval Wanless, Storekeeper at the Life. London, Ont. asylum for some n | London, Dec. 16.--A terrible explo {has been notified that after the first | plosion occutred at the Dinas Main of the year his services will no longer | colliery. in Wales, on Saturday, For- by required. Sa : tunately only twelve men were below Lord Kean geht women will join the CPR. | the surface at the time, the others i woll expedition next week at Kippe- having come up to receive theirweek-| , 0 po 16 Lord Kelvin, the bv, One of the Nimrods will he a {ly pay. The disaster, which caused the} G0 il ict, who has been ill for |; ute) Society woman, accompany- | accident, was brought about by the me time past, has had a serious re- | 1"8 hushand ; i Charles 13. Cole, Watertown, N.Y., e. | aged Okie, for twenty years con- nected with the Watertown Times, and { was a great fall of rock internally New Use For Libraries. . , | well known in newspaper circles, died |The rescuers were still at work. Six London, Dec. 16. --At Eriday night | on Friday of heart rouble. { bodies have heen found, but it is [rong eung of the Wood (ireen district | The late Sheriff Sweetland, of Otta- i > Teouneil, it was decided to set apart awa, bequeathed. $1.000 to his coach- { firing of a shot to signalize the change | of shifts. All the head-gear of the top of the shaft was blown out, and there ie > le i » highet. + J eve the death roll will be higher ! room in the new central library for | man, John Pollard Brien, who served ALARA " o ¢ | conversatio ks, magazines him in that capacity for thirty-two | HK SHOES AE ivprsations. . on UnORS i : | HOH SHHACIINS ae and questions of the day | years. A cheque for the full amount | - was handed Mr. Brien by the executors Is NOT So, England. of the estate Mrs. Josephine x Mormon Invasion Of London, Dec. 16.--3ixty-one Mormen ! Daniels, eighteen London, Des. 16ooThe Tv * missionaries, under the leadership of | vears of age, committed suicide at the port, smaaa aE at rw Elder James Ratelifie, of Grantsville, | home of her .parents, Mr, and Mrs. 4 York, are ith © x Utah, have reached England in the Charles Rivers, in the township of » about to sign oi 11 a White Star line: Cymric. | Luzerne, N.Y. She was married on * United States settling a. * a---- aman Monday to John M. Daniels, a war ¥ disputes with Canada is * There is a feeling of inward satis-| veteran, sixty years old. incorrect. The Canadian ¥ faction when a lady meeeives a box! Two Chinamen, Lee Chow and Look | Associated Press under- ¥| McConkey's or, Huyler's high-class) Wing. laundrymen at 68 Stella avenue, | ¥ stands that an agreement * enndy. She knows they are the best! Winnipeg, were brutally muglered in | ¥ has been reached on minor * maney can buy and are from Gibson's! their beds, and the building set fire to ¥ points only. i Negotiations ¥|p.g4 (ross drug store. by the criminals in the hope of effect, L toni Prog g satisfac 2 Some of the Canadian banks have ually destroying all clue to the crime. ! orily FF oranted bonuses to their staffs. . = | : » granted bor packages of Christmas A toilet set from Bests'. would just { CHHSERISISEICISIIRIBIIIIRR wolates at Bests', suit her for Christmas, i ae | having mirrors, from 25c. to Perfumes, cheap, at Chown's drug store, 3 He Had Got Away. 182.00, at Chown's drug store. ; { London, Dec. 16.--A news agency -- EE ESS | say that detectives, on Saturday, . Ul ROBBEI I'D | the charge of peryury, but they found a x po | that he had sailed for New York on! | visited the house at which' Rokert C. | Thutsday last. | . : -- 'Daring Crime RDERED BY Perpetrated at Orangé;) Hammer Used. Caldwell, an American witness in the | Druce case resided, to arrest him on Cecil Bateman, B.¢ a graduate of {Queen's School of Mining, in 1905, has | promoted to the general man- agership of the Topia Afining com { pany, at Topia, Dyranga, Mexico. Mr {Bateman is a son of George A. Bate { man, Sydenham street, this city. / Drange, N.., Dec. 16.--Frederick R. took his d Romer, an undertaker, was beaten to 8 leisurely fashic death by an hammer in bed in his {stairs and @ , 8 -------- gentleman in Kingston {No would; room in the Park hotel here some jRomer's think of giving any other make 'offtime on 'Friday night, while the ocou- ¢ candy when he can buy McConkey's|pants of nearby rooms slept Huyler's high-class at'ly. §, The wuirdorer wash and candy {believe he is the same swindler who|@ Christmas gifts, and wheth- Commander | | Howard, Commander Stanley Barton, | { Lieut. West and other bona fide naval | ! officers, i When the bogus licutenant was ar- {rested he was wi'™.) variety actress. : Lined Kid Mitts, ' : Woolen Sweaters, 75c. to Hy 2c. to Fine Socks; 10: ta 500. 8, andherchicts, 2c. ce Waists, $4.75 to $15. Girdles and Belts, 25c. to on of S Sil Hose, $1 to $2.50. ey Neckwear, Sa0e, el to 8 Gifts for Children } Wool Mittens, 15¢c. to 38c. Toques and Sashes, 20c. to 50c. Wool Leggings, 25c. to 50c. Overstockings, 17c. to 60ec. Infantees and Bootees, 10c. to Tbe. 25¢c. to § Handkerchiefs, 2¢. to 285c. Gauntlets, 50c. to 90c. REMEMBER to shop early. 2 BORN. PAY. ~At Bath Road, on Dec. 14th, 1907, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur €. to . da Tr. » WORKMAN --In Kingston, Dec. 16th, 1907, to the wile of 1 Ham Work: man, M.D. 113 AMred St, a son. ° MATTHEW.--At Ouk Haak, Gananoque, Dec. 6th, Wife. of Douglas Stew, Bolorator USA. of a daughter, : MARRIED. TURN \ in Lanadowne, on I Sk A Seog of Wilson Morrow, ail of Lansdowne, a DIED. : MIT Calgary, Dee. Inn, 1907, John, youngest sun of Mr. Mrs. W, HT Mitenelt, aged years. ; NEILSON.--At Kaz