YEAR 75--NO. 30. "COLDEST IN 25 YEARS The Thermometer Registered 30" pn Below Zero. At the Royal Military College it Was 38 De- grees Below---Ears and Noses Froze With Great Rapidity. ihg the contest in favor of milder weather, Fhe morning, ed had all The weather this morning was ti in coldest Kingston has probally certainly experienced in It of the mer weather hard on the streets. his nose badly frozen, of them had their ped a bit. In spite of the faet the men have put on extra clothing it, keeps them hustling to keep warm of the men are weari three pairs of trousers, and as many shirts fact they put all they possibl attempt to make themselves Although the has weVere ever work old very clearing severe « was m tweuly-five years has colder in period of time. The cold piercing Jt was bitter as one could imagine it possible of being. The weather was cold enough to freeze an car in a few seconds if one didn't keep rubbing his lugs continually, Our friend from Portsmouth declared it was cold enough to freeze the snout of a brass monkey. A still coldness isi't so bad even when the mercury does register away below zero. Bat where you get a fairly. rapid moving north wind blowing against veur face on such a morning as this--oh my, but it's delightful ! Ears and noses froze this morning in tless num her as the people w ered their through the Meakaoold streets was quite a frosty mist the phere The highest mercury yesterday below zero. The to descend slowly o'clock in the degrees below: degrees, and at midnight, twenty degrees. At six o'clock this before the sul begun to rise mometer registed thirty degrees below zero, This registration was in shelter or stillness, and away from the wind In different purts of the city various temperatures were registered thirty five depress below being' marked in hreery places. At the Hoval Military College, the mercury sank to thirty- eight degrees helow A good rise in the temperature is anticipated before to-night. A che inge of weather cannot come any too soon to satisy 'most of the people. The coal dealers will be excused from vot that was not heen engagy man nearly and as ears nip- Some g have on can, in the comfortable y very was commenced, given up the mewhat remarkable, of quidee n receiving as hig of the fam Th I they Two men jit weather been the ne man this je sc The gang not and since has igh roofs has given a lot of work h shovelling a cour . he as $4! orkmen ri of men hav per nt Way men 1 here 2 ha roof. and some i atmos bo . | Me a vood we dangerous, mm are reached by twelve then At paint Vv any ther ang finished of the mer roofs « ned off said that they have t in this have been busy NES mean take up was deg toe then it Nearly their a job, and me ury much better hants have had and it. must been very quick respect again, it eighteen WK twenty oo ening at ten ' two | he ( Im "treet burden to at tizens well, roofs be morning as the ther of the have nn any on side ed of their "aw of houses |, relies never off the roof I have lived old Kingstonian, The men taking the Late! hetween was n "1 led time shovel all the ked an 0 much sr of here,' Ow houses in © remar to-day this off City Hall Tuesday mornin Ontario engaged street, to Clarence afternoon, Prock street, King and Ontaric street, attended to A large] amount of the snow hss heen dumped on the lake, TE FAILURES od --t Jy fo Pay Attention to This) Matter. ------------ n Snow from treet out on the ice, oe New Yark, Feb, urged a thorongh investigation of the recent bank failures in his address to the newly-empanelled jury SF nV RL Tuesday. ' | ank failm "The United States grand jury has | call his already filed a number of indictments | fact aginst wreckers of national banks,' "but I understand the jury now ating but jury know "tion with he said, Ferrand S.~Judge Swan Sp mvestyy filed of th l acts in it assoCiates' that ass of crime has one so far. if any member 1 grand on | on plain attention indictments is his PP and if tl vidence | fo warrants DAILY MEMORANDA. Skating at Royal Rink, to-night: Chalmers Church Apnual- Meeting, pom. Covered nu I.8 pm Wonderland Bvening | good Poultry Show, | {SCORES THE LUST FOR MONEY 8 Dr. Schulman Declares It Characteristic of the Age. Kansas Mo., Feb age present did come recognized so th to measure Rev. Samuel Jethel, New the Kuife Is Rink, R.M.C. 11. vs, Queen's City, 5 In mon Theatre--~Afternoon and ja vaudeville, Wilkinson's Bujiding, Wellington Si, today and to-morrow. ; Portemouth Preshiztcrian Concert, | 10r by Thursday evening, Queen's Glee | mon Club and Orchestra, lof At The Princess (--ictures "The | Japanese Girl,' and "The Strange lu- troduction.' "Geo. Hammond Siogs. Bijou Theatre Military *"Proubles of a French Recruit Mediaey Comdy 'A 'Telephone in the Middle ages' Juhig Robert Davis Sings at every perforniance : ipling's great song Mother o' Mine," sung over the Com cert Gramophone, iy Witherspoon, WHIG TELEFHONES, 238 Baronial Roots or ooms. 209-- Jobbing Department. og Forma, all kinds, at Whig. Bre ror, Hare Square-- ions late te each sch. evening. we ---------- as in the to universally Vv ever be frankly and 18 which said Temple ture re common domina merit ol Schulman, York, in Fork " the oth, a Tee bel and Club here "At no time," the scholarly student the back even the ow voted to ceive thei 3 he recluse y continted was the unselfish thrown own, Comedy oF so comparatively ound in And de re as in upations that are not the amassing of wealth reward of public and are conceded influence portion to the money fean command in the open a public on the alert will enbance its comiort to' ity pleasure 'The practical invention, the novel, the popular virtuoso, attention. -by the bigness of the price they exact. They legitimize, as it were, their prominence by showing themselves characteristic children of the spirit of the age. and this age is. above all, whose impelling force is the accumulation of, respect for, but; let us also add, the ptoper use of money," applause pro products marked for what minister in their of ever or -- catchy all com pel "Royal Doulton" We are opening a mew lot of these goods, Something you have Sever wseetl before, "da nty, quaint." "odd." "oldlashioned,' and best of all one -------- Russia, it ix believed, ie about to make a military demonstration against el Turkey. this! cept in that of coal oil, Une that | ial | this | duty to | to that | KINGSTON, WHAT 1S- SUGGESTED To Speedily Restore Order Macedonia. Ihe fo in | of > cretary, Ma tiving 5 ir the Fe 1 ondon, b. Edward oration of order the to gens wd powers, Sir that the fun forces "Ling through the of Turk Macedonia. 1 formation of mohile col bw gupplomented be larmerie forces, all increas ihe be foreig flicers | Edward is i= adequate | should CORRAL no on to equip these be ob ained economy the ish in TI er troops pow in Japan Increases Duties, Tokio, ~ Feb. 5.--After lasting five hours, an increase taxation hills sugar, onl oil was passed debate in the on alco ! hol, the jority ( in had a ma every ease ex- on whieh the twenty-four. Masa- of fi- and The ity beer diet of government elgl four in majority vote was hisa Matsuda, nance, t that i ation was absolutely present financial position of he believed that the whole nation would willing to pay. 3 acting minister the mcrease in tax in the | | i | state necessary. Japan be Reduction At Ottawa. Ottawa, Feb city council has unanimously passed by-laws which re hotel licenses from seventy-one to sixty-seven, and shop | 8 from thifty one to twenty-six. ~The a protrac ted | in Ground. A Losdon a desgateh, re has bn" a bat- rench and the Moors. in which 10, killed or wounded an French losses were 166 officers, very charged the mouth of the guns | | Cor pses Lay ; | ney [4 ageney "| Tangier, {tle betwes { neat ~ Nettat { 000 Moors [in which yma Suclne Ling Jour with up to their corpses ground, I WOLEO, en Lhe Mc wete nati Sentenced For imber Fraud. Utica, N.Y., Feb. S--~Harvey Gaylord, the former fish and protector, wi on Saturday, was con- i i 10, victed at Herkimer for selling taober from state lands, was sentenced 1c Auburn prison for not less than | year and not more than three {and six months. The tisk of Charles {A. Klock, fish and game protect or, who, charged, was in [Gaylord on the deal, commenced dons i to Turkey And The Vatican. Rome, Feb. 5.--It s reportod negotiations are in frog. with view of having a agent accredited to the s@tiean, to deal directly with the papal officials garding the protection of Catholics in Turkey, thus avoiding, ¥ this prero- gative is removed from France, its assumption by any other So that the re LAUDS THE ' Roosevelt Has Done Changes J here | elcome. Feb. 5.--~William a big an enthusiastic mn part: time great financ Dover Bryan and He Del, addressed audience received said I'he w hen the try cong | His i tory wealth and speedily will onditions of ident, his coming, a changy be made in ial this coun to ol warning 'preda- mn message ress, sounded the note persi attacking of the educational about a change. 1 ap- he has rendered endeavoring to bring {about reforms A reformer in #ny (Rats is the salt that saves the party } | from destruction. "We are going to make our cam- paign this year a campaign of educs- tion, We already have much to en courage us. 1 weowld Hks to have a democracy so strong that people would rather go down in defeat in supporting it than successful _ by ult methods and means s to the silver sténcy mn one forces to bring the country preciate the ery ice mn he question of 1896, PRESIDEN T Country a Service. Coming. not understand cond; the free eoinage of sil small part of the fight The question was not altogether what kind of money wanted, but the quantity, 'I very men who objected to the silver von in 1896 now find that the dollar_is all right fact the dollar has moved and is now acceptable for ier's checks ar clearing houses "As to the tarifi question, it is clear to my mind that whatever revision made the democratic party will have to make i "There will be a great chang: politics of this country this year. The campaign of 1908 will he a great cam paign. 1 ask Dothing from the Ame: | rican people. IL is a matter of indif ference to. me whether [ ever occupy any position of high honor at the hands of my party. The one ohject of my life is_to leave to my children well as to the people of this a good government," the people did tions; in fact, ver was but a we silver silver up I very cash- } « 18 as country Prophecy Came True. N.X., Feb. 5.--A Herkimer says: "William village trustee, arising breakfast, yesterday, | storm will prove fell to fat ond heart disease." 1 Syracuse, spatch Whit- from "This from more remarked SOme _ died to and fatal @ the floor of Jewels Not Found. Feb. In the House yesterday, Mr. Birrell, Ireland, announced l that Castle, of chief that stolen been ondon, 5 secretary for the from found. crown Jewels were Dublin had not The Prosecutor's Demands. St. The up the martial of General Stoessel ai on trial for the surrender of thar, demanded t Generals sel, d be senteheed leath that Sorrnofi tenced ten lmprisonment a fortress, Petersburg, Feb. 5 crown prosecutor, in winding court | other At Oes Port tha St k ( Reuss ar oy and en, be s to years ---------- hi interfering Roadmaster charged lice at recent | 0 who tl man, with with ° durin trouble Foronto Junction lreet in police railway 6 court 2 Feb, the ~"th battleship on, ¢ congnand Washingt ing officer of Ohio re ports that while taking coal from the | Fortuna at Port of a stick of dynamité in length was i a large cargo of Ney the Berwind- chartered coaler Spain, Trinidad, about five inches The Fortuna had River coal, supplied hy foun News, i Harn { Thi DYNAMITE IN THE COAL What Was Found in Filling Bunkers ot. :: Battleship. White con Mining Va. This namite } United dynamite was in mining the pany of Newport second od 'iv men-of-war ently a stick coal, and escaped the observation of the miners and per ysons who subsequently handled coal while loading into the collier. E ithe tine that was been foun coal States 2 ! ished used Makes A Bargain. Vancouver, B.C., Feb. The G. T. Facific is reported to have settled ite differences with the British government regarding the jands at and adjacent the at Prinod Rupert. In conbideration the! railway company to hurry | the construction The! contract for the of al hundred miles Rupert eastward within! three months. | a. Columbia | title off to tervun us| has agreed of the road, construction front Prince be awarded i= fo { 'VERY CHEAP.' ROBERTSON BROS. 73, Perpetrators Eondon, Feb. 5=The Lisbon cor- respondent of the Express says he ine terviewed ex-Prime Minister Franep, on Thésday. The former minister dé feided to make it clear that he wus {not answerable for the murders. He said © "1 am not HE 'IS NOT ANSY Society. Were Enemies of Portuguese. minister ta Great Britain, who was in Lisbon at the "time of the tragedy there, and who bas arrived Bere on his way to the legation at London, said, in an interview. that when he left Lisbon, on Monday, the eity and country were periectly quiet. Marquis De Soveral save the army is entirely loval. He does not believe ex Franco has fled. Mar eral hax a sperigl mission te A NEL | ning PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest Culled From Al Over The World. Dr. Parkin, in Montreal, ports 'that ¢ universities have Oxford system. Judge James Austin, sentenced himself to the jorder to experience the imposes on others. The SK. Turbmia\ lost $17,000 run to Lewiston last summer, may keep 'to the Toronto Hamilton route next summer. Rev. J. W. Woodside, who is re- decided to adopt the Jr. Toledo workhouse in punishment he Montreal, has of Mount Pleasant church, Vancouver, B.( It is understood the new mining tax passed at the last session of the legis lature has brought between 90.000 and $100,000 to the provincial tres sury, ! One of the pioneer tenchers of by the death - which 'oecurred at Clarenteville, (ue, years. At Chicago, William Brace, a jaw yer, was found doen to death within § fifty vards of bis residence. in High land Park, a sobarb. It i thought that Brace slipped on ap fev sidewalk and Rds stunned by 'the fall, sucrumb- the wold brlore he recovers! of Miss Nanoy. Hawley Nutt's Corner, sear at the age of 101 The Moors! right great piles on the NN game | with Turkish. diplomatic in | in the | the | number of United States | ane accepted a call to become the minister | Pristit terian | ONTARIO, WEDN ESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1908. -ESULY OF CREAT BATTLE. + Piles on the! KILLED from About to Slay A tics When She Was Discovered. The Crime of an Insane Woman at Moncton, ... N.B.---Dashed Infant's Brains Qut on Ice at the Back Door. i i * Moncton, NB. msanity While F'homas the life suffer v Feb. 5 Mrs took children, the discovered The famaly mother ) one years mg from Doucett, of Fuesday, Iittle on one her was taking another from i it bers ise to kill she was her family father and when by men of Qf children. Mr. Doucett, who L.C.R. a steam laid up the rib. His lently insane ing without she her the cradle, door con sists and eight is employed on the has™ been broken became vio Aris- husband hild from the upon on crane, with appears, the disturbing LWO-ve house it during mn wile, a nig her ar-old carried it heted injuries death took back in ites out and resulted Ir - Tie eh a few mir crazed woman, Iva dead, going the t« in house the entered ar y where @ Vvears it from awoke Donecett upstairs cond « sleepin when VOung was room I ug Miss waalam, Doucett alarm brother, Mr, calle {ed her father. undertook oeradle ot | Probabilities Joroute QOat., Feb. 5, Ottawa V Res "aud Up- per St. Lawrence ( 10a.m.)-Strong winds and gales, east to south: rising lempera~ Snow to~oight and on Thurs- | day. [A ELLLLP 000000000000 0M Great Clearing Sale CY Ha Flannelette Underwear FOR The taken her, bou iat po tl from Tsay wile had from Mr Wiliam, cludd taken [ra si and she tL Wits i was i des- | patched {man Otlicer and man, two-year-old fellow the back door, the the of fore medical breathed The crazed crime the tion, at taken Its other of the home Mrs asvium overg the wered SOD, ice Mchim hurried haodeuthng made to the for fo scene, aller insane the wo he search He missing the lttle throes ol at the Fhe child was Iving examniiation head crushed arrived hoy. und in death showed 3 ¢ we, and back of his in aul the last. woman to tunes its on way the police stated heels and and the brains time crime, child by the out the denied all asked t¢ ed on 16% kine ) Do on lay returning closel, eight eet two occasions three & she. showed insanity and tebed cars -ot was wu ATTEMPT AT MURDER. Attacked By Another on Street, Fe H.~1he of Nun a former minister of public charged I A Lawyer Palern ) trial cio Nas wmistruct embezzle on, " hay publi funds, Ie at Laudicina; from stimony before f ble to Nasi "treet In another law anarchist, who a revolver. vexterda ar A attempt lawyer, | return: murder. na who hac where just home Ror I ave ft the court, mos f attacked Yon the | ver, named Valenti, an {fired at him twice, with { Neither shot took effect. was | estates | were Confesses "Perjury Feb Miss Mary made full confessi tl br nee trut Prosect Dru Lone son wilful has ments made the tr of of perjury, lamby Dru make ¢ ton 5 Rol omen Morrow has af perjury nitted the bv the Herhor in é of al 1 ilo Fifteen tempting steamer Q Rt. Cuthhert, i deat} const "EE cotian burn ane _p------ SURELY A SAD CASE | Arthar Brodie Sinned to g Keep Wolf From the Hamilton, die offends land cumstances not hie criminal at He | vesterday { and because Was a heart wd the police court | getting fals appear in cha with money ach by 5 He the 'other hard-working crown, bit he! long time. | { irom Geor pretences ple aded | crown § the bear y euiity offered no eo Brodie man, amo to one of iden an y arg the t ¢ on hone to péen out of work 1 acéording has a { when | lowed tion, g worthless Roach, of During Sha was the picked carried out, some were ni Half home agin terod. chs taken Brodie, it debts deterre rela any in order to to 1 ki ONTARIO LEGISLATURE. { The Speech From the Throne livered. Lie the vered De it Untario Gov. Clarke, assem ol jel deli Feb. u following | bls spe { Mr. to-da iM hi and Gentlemen of the Assembly satisfaction to the re presentatives Speaker, Legislative aliords once It of me vou moet pe thanks t parliament assembled, Almighty of not he people in God the as years, Our due to that Provines abundant the our are some tions est the terest people, displayed with -seterence in the while bar in was prev ous and activity during the to business undertakings, mdicate It is also a tion that our pro- comparatively Little stringency, which in other coun- few months, gratification to payment of _ the the dominion, inter-provin- and payable under session of the im- been received, yet been made \ {vet general of vear I pas | past comrmertial and i cantinue matter | vinee from has very jtnes during the It will afford { know that the additional subwi arranged for at cial © contere: the act passed last perial parliament, © No disposition prosperity. tad suffered i of has the sati neal marked past you first Iv been from the late of has IS the Eastern Townships bas been remot eed Lo Constantinople, Feb {decree jsened, vestorday, isurvey of Mitrovitza-Novibazar way. Baron von Asheepthall, the Austro- j Hangaeian minister of foreign affairs, iresently announced that plans bad thorn made for the establishment of {diet railroad connections between Vientia, Salosiki and Athens. Later lepatehes. drom St Petersburg indi Sted thay serious conflict was im anthorizes the rail SLAP AT RUSSIA | | E SIVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIo BORN. Col 3 40 ie «ier e AL ok eh. 4 tatu everal of laid before vo Thi ing & been constructio Northern nearly comy thy miles forty tion rauway, tinued with the ih carn satisfa thy while the $201 res dence reday at bw tors iate of ti in excess outlay we k at 2 nek road ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker. "Phone, 577. 227 Princess street. It Stands the Test e and Teas go, but SPECIAL BLEND econ- tinues to give universal. saticfac- tion. It is a good honest Tea and worth more than the price. 35c¢. the Pound. TRY IT. opegating Very fair progr heen made the development tries at mvestigation lies Limit The st mining Cobalt » vicinity ar work t sfact re been of a Great Britain for the p canditior have sa riealt } ainister to pal % ring summer, gating the grate Trp # to supery mon to Ontario bution of (Continued proulen take ste of Br a immigrants Teas cog OUR OW. was able ps for tending greement has beens taken on i. page } ---- ot ------ Long Cherished Railway Project to be Jas, Redden & Ce, Realized. . - ' = 5.~An imperial pending between Importers of Fine Groceries. in hare Ernest y Pager, 1! charg Yotvin wae taken ve autheritice, 11 Fry . ne on roses any ay pes rer that CLIN a" Hus di Hungary over the eor road, which would link of the Austrian line win, with the Terkidh Jise and Mitros ites traversing district of Novibazer The building of this line ster Lie ars Austra of thi t sume 1307 suid on board « ing a be Win le mle, t was is wis, mit Mr West Huron Proposes fn wn fwenct the eriminal cole fu long bax make the penalts two years tists been a cherished project 10 Austria: ment for Rs intr' of, a bu Hungary, but Russia's attitude of! mas being in mistake for » deer. ¥_ ofposition. lies preveatsd thei In ix stated at Lishon {hat Prensier execution ol the plan, Franco has taken i anchored to