Daily British Whig YEAR 75--NO, 44. i DEATH F FOR §1 TOESSEL - . But Likely to 0 Beil Commuted to Fortress Confinement. The Discussion of the Russian Court Martial--- = * =e = ---- Gen. Fock was Reprimanded and Gens. Smirnoff and Reiss Acquitted. St. Petersburg, Feb! 21.--The martial, trying the surrender of Port Arthur, judgment vesterday, fien. was condemned to be shot, Foek was reprimanded; Gen ant Gen. Smirnoff werd acquitted court, however, Gen. Vodar the presi dest sunounced, had decided to peti tion the czar graciously t8 commute Gen. Stovssel's sentence to ten years' confinement in a fortress, in considera- tion of the fact that Port Arthur, be- set hy overwhelmiog defended itself, under' Gen. with a stubbornness which the world, that several assaults repulsed with infliction of tremendous losses on the ¢nemy, that Gen. Stoes sel throughout the siege sustained the cournge bf the defenders, and that the general had energetically participated in three campaigns. \ At the declara- tion that he was adjudged worthy = of death, Gén. Stoessel's Taco betrayed momentary uneasiness, hut otherwise court Stoessel and Gen, Reisu forces, astonished were generals for the delivered its The | was Ktoessel's leadership unaflected Inime- sentences were delivered Stoessel received sympathetic em- braces and handshakes irom numerous friends. He Jeft the court room lean ing on the shoulder of his son, who also a military officer at Port Arthur The governmept has pul tinguisher upon ghe was preparing for war by issuing, through the official tele- graph agency, a statemcnt declaring | that reports that it is mobilizing and | dispatching troops to the south or concentrating them in the Caucasus are wholly untrue, and that it it is equally untrue that Turkey 'is mobilizing troops on the Russian from- tier The Ottoman ambassador has informed the ministry of foreign al- fairs that Turkey is merely taking steps to protect the Turco-Persian frontier. where the Kurds are restive It is added that Turkey's attitude to- wards Russia is very friendly he was outwardly diately the Cen nn ex- rumors' that it with Turkey IS Native Chinese G UERILLA WARFARE Bent on Driving Out the Japanese. Portland, Ore, Pb. 21. Advices have been received in Portland from Hong Kong and other Chinese cities that a species of guerilla warfare has broken out in Maochuria between the Japanese soldiers who make up the army of occupation, and thé native Chinese who are bent on driving out of the country the representatives of the po whom they fear as an en Te is said in these advices thet. sev. DAILY MEMORANDA. Y.M.C.A. Men's Banguet, Monday, 0.30. Zion, sketing tonight amd to-morrow, 3 pm, Wonderland Theatre--Aftarsoon Bnd i good vaudeville. Hockey this evening '~Toromte St Georges vs. 14th Regiment. Matinee, Grand Opera Kphghthood Was In Flower,' Baturday, Bijou Thestre CO omedies "The Statue Came to Like' The Blixir of i Tiustrated Song : "There's = Boy For Every Girl" At The Princess-- "The Jungles of Afviea,'* 'Kidpapped by a Giant Bapoon," "Ou The Seine in France. "Fachanted Pond," "*'Witeheraft in he Cupboard." Song. Town Rod Of The Line.' Amateur Feb, 31st House, *"When 280 pm Night, Ce im og Department. Legal Forms, ull kinds, at Whig. : fly Wh is always on sale at hoon s- Drug. Store Neriet Gibson's Square-- Open ti till Ie ie oach ov evenin JODERN Nothing yet SINNER SET at at present. Look Finest guality easily BROS. pi, To The aie' Tatdst it for Las activities is in the pro- | of a Ballet. oT Fer are eral eonflicts have already occurred Between the soldiers and the people, and that the Japanese have | eer « riv en entirely from the towns of Hop Gi Bin, and En Tai Hop Gi. The fact that trouble cxists letween their country and Japan is well known to well informed Chinese of this city apd all look upon the situ- ation as serious; some of them o oa saying that a long and' bitter wtrugs gle bas begun, HALF-BREED FOOLED M.P. Under Shadow of E. W. Day, Victimized Persons. Camrose, Alta., Feb. 21.--A good story is told on EW. Dav, the con servative candidate for the Strathcona constituency. The other day, while in the northern part of the riding, he fell in with a well set up half-breed who introduced himself to thé candidate as Sergt. Gingatt, of the R NwWMP, who had just come sn from the west of Leduc. Notwithstanding he wore civilian's 'clothes, Mr. Day took him | on his word. At Millet, this faked po lice sergeant, on the [friendship of Mr Day, got next to the hotel-keeper to the tune of & og fur coat; from Robertson, the storekeeper, he ex- changed an LOU. for $20. Proceed ing south to Wetaskiwin, keeping with in the shadow of the conservative can didate, he borrowed $25 from Norman Jackson, the popular bgtelman of the "Baby City." But on Being introduc od by. Mr. Day to Sergt. Phillips Sergt. Gingatt's face was seen to fall, {| when Sergt. Phillips asked him where this uniform was, and what detgehment | i he belonged to, The next train took | | him south. { - SO i HIS DREAMS CAME TRUE. | Lost Wedding Ring Found Aft ! . Five Years. New York, Feb. 21. George Chester, a wealthy resident of West Livingston, INI. says he dreamed he was on Roseland avenue, going toward Cald- well. Being weary, he sat beneath a ped, roverturni {his wiles wedding *, which had {been lost five years. The dream re lured on Saturday night. sad so im- pissed the man that, with his wife, he drove to the point on Roseland | (avenue; whete stood a tree similar to the one in the dredm. Ile sat down, he says, and on arising his foot actually slipped, evértirning a stone, and there lay the: ving. Lowis Poulin, a isent groeer of " Picker, was found in a shed, frozen " Asheville, N Cg deb. 3 Having de- | {Qlared bis intention ago sheville because Hho town , multimil i of Trenton, NT has "lei Asbevile with his fam ate home of. hia learns | NP | Canada, | oration int the sw | ig of the stamp riquircd, {his power to tree, and when he arose his foot slip- | and lie saw. | a "Dry" Town--Gave Away Thousands Dollars. ént prohibition jgars x INGSTON, SMART SENTENCES. 1 = OF THE NEWS, | al The Very Latest Culled From All' The World. fleet has Couple Who Kidnapped Young Girl Over Feb. 2}. William Ameri also Known as William Birmiogbam, | Callao, Pera tad bis wile, Alscina Jones, were | The fee system may be re-estabilish- found guilty by a jury 'in Judge Ker- ved at the market in St. Thomas. 's court, last might, of having Ibe Newioundland general | kidnapped Lillian Wall, a twelve-vear- | will be held next fall. ald girl, from her home in Chicago | Henry Cox, a C.P.R. brakeman, sued last December. The punishment of | the company for $10,000, but settled | Jones was fixed at thirty years and | | for $250. {that of his wile at twentydive years | St. Thomas board of education has | voted down a proposition to furnish school supplies. | A RATHER BITTER CONTEST. | The fair of London has a {surplus of 810.712 and . has assets Senate From [worth $62,179.97, The railways {for eartage, on cents per hundred Premied Scott, Chicago, Jones, | The arrived at {stem western | Elected to the i Rhode Island. will = increase charges March 1st, pounds Regina, is expetted | the Mediterrspean abeut March Tth Four white men, and over twent five Chinamérn were Killed in an' « plosion in a powder mill at Berkel Cal. The death oe Thursday at the general hospital, of Dr. J ter, of 116 McUg¥l street, Fpronto, | from blood poisoning. i The Asiatic Exclusion League in Vancouver is calling upon seven Brit- urred on 3 the dominion parliament | 4 i Butler, of Ottawa, former- | Iv accountant for Gillies Bros, lum on the T. & N, 0. i BP : : ? 4 "Sandy" bermen, was killed near Latehford The Hlinois firmed the conviction of lek, a fortune teller, demnod to death for murder Senor Merry Del Val, a brother of Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, pon tifical secretary of state. has been ap- Spanish ministv at Tangier Houses of Commons had which the titles and "loathsome and supreme court has con- Herman Ril who was con pointed The British a lively of hestowing WETMORE, Wetmore has been elected United States senator from the state of Rhode Island after a prolong: | described as {ed and rather bitter contest that gus.' threatened at one time to compel the St smallest union to get along with only one senator instead of two for an indefinite period. Senator Wetmore, sixty-two vears of age, was born in England dwring a Allegations of the Montreal visit of hig parents'to London, He was | Railway that the graduated from Yale College, but | jist for was padded studied law at Columbia. He was gov-} geghably will result in gn investiga ernor of Rhode Island for two terms! tion -of civie affairs at Montreal and was elected to the Upited States | Jt has been decided that the new senate in the vear 1894, after baving provincial governors in Spain, will be heen defeated in a contest for the [lected from the supporters of both same office five vears previously( Ben- political parties in order to facilitate ator Wetmore, like his famgus and all- {{}ho coming elections. powerful colleague, Senator Aldrich Rishop Dowling. the Roman is a republican, and Fee~his home atic bishop of Hamilton, has announced Newport, the summer playground of | that after Lent all mixed marriages the American smart sot. to bo considered legal Ly his church, es be perlaternd by a Rowina Catho- ie jest. Verville Must Pay. Fo Londen, Ont, Montreal, Feb. 21. Alphonse Yer- [iixtyyvear-old farmer, gave a stranger ville, 1 P., must pay Frederic Martin, [a ride in his cutjer. In a lonely spot $250 damages, besides costs of | the man thgottled Glenn, a suit in the superior court and court j purse: from an inside pocket and de- of 'king's bench, according to a deci { camped He is still at large. handed down hy the latter | Peregrine Maitland Cameron, who The suit was entered by Alder- | was the fivet white male child born in Martin shortly after his election | Aspodel township, has passed away House of Commons, in reply to { aged eighty-six His place of anent his candidacy by Mr { birth was near the of Rice lake, was supporting the | where now stands a fine brick resi belonging ta Capt. Birdsall | dence A PURCHASING AGENCY Is Needed to Secure Horses For the Britis Service. GEORGE PEABODY > i el George Peabody debate! in methods honors nause were Petersburg police arrested a large \number of desperate Terrorists | who were ' planning an attack on the life of Grand Duke Nicholas and other exalted personages state in the wha is Street company, civic pav removing snow Eo a James Glenn, a sion court, man to" the remarks Verville, labor candidate. years shore who | seri- | importauce of developing the elass of = army horses most requived, and ex- Feb. 21.--~The supply London, present ots shortage in the of horse British discussion at essed the opin ion that a purchasing was. the established by the for the army main { agency should bx ol | war ofliee in botk countries. hold ves-| Ti the House of Commons; speakers terday Sir Edward Grey, secretary Hutton, for-} for affairs roping to a ques- tion sail negotiations were in pro gress between Great Britain and the States with reference to thei | conclusion of an arbitration treaty, that it would be premature. to further statement on the topic of a meting the United Service Institage | terdny Among the Lieut. Gen. Sir Edward merly in command of the militia of who declared that the deter matter of horse breed: | United vestors was foreign notice: snnda antl in Australia. | but said he had done all in| make any draw attention to the | matter, was {able both in Us Gen. Hutton Howard Green, formerly private see- retary to J. C, Fargo, president of | the American Fxpress company, was afrested at Portland, Ore, at the jauest of the New York state authiork | ties on charges of forgery and defel cation. The sharcholders' committee of the {defunct Ontario Bank is forwarding { {to every shareholder a circular design- fed to bring in as many votes as pos- | Smith's Falls, Ont., Feb, 21.27 pecu- | iar ateident occurred at Easton's Core ers, a short distance from here when | the brick © residence occupied by Mrs. {John Carnwith and family collapsed, | "The mild weather had drawn the frost ! out and at a weak spot the foundation | igave way and the whole dwelling came | jdown. The wills, eriling and roof came 1 Collapsed Without Warning. | $ 1 {tumbling down before Mrs. Carnwith, [sible to back up the committee in ite | -- hat the $2,000,000 | to insure that the $2 Re he was alone in the house, had time attempt to make her escape. Strange to say, lactions agmiost 'she was unhurt * hy the falling debris, [be prosecuted. 'and shortly afterwards, with the as-| The old Colonial mansion at Has | sistance neighbors, she was taken | tings-on-Hudson, in which the Jamily fot Admiral Farragut lived during the former directors will -- by fire. on Thursdav. Of late] She | TO ST. A Y house has been occupied Jw Charles | thy the stairway: had been out ofl. |The loss 'was shout $10,000, Gruen and family. Gren and her two children were rescued from an i General Dodge Dead. > Washington, a: 3 upper window hy firemen after eacaps ieral Francis 8 Ei United States office' boys amd others. Brand iils procured at the bank wera hang- [in Colorado, in the Indian campaign, | ed out in the streets. to newshoys, beg: and others. Roebling remember- (here, aged sixty-six years. od evervone he knew to ue in want. Ma was wink | in bestowing gifts upon et fm | others whom Be hie cls elections | to two to return from a tour of Egypt and | MeMas- | ish Columbia members to resign from | ture AN APPEAL IS A Chesterville School Case Going Through the Catho- seized his | vears of the civil war, was destroyed | { by songress Hietinguisbod | new |gallantey at the we FF White River, in the sixties, is dead at his revidence | ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1908. A BILLION FOR NAVY Russia's Ambitious Pla Plans Are Being Made Known. Enormous Expenditure to be Spread Over Many | Years- -Battleships.to be Built | in Country. Bry ------ Feb. 21.---R atives of the Russian admiralty sub sitted to the commission of efence of the douma the line of the much-discassed gramme, The matter {with open doors, instead of in private as had been expected. I Tue programme is to be completed in i includes not only the } ars {construction of a fleet of battle ships, | fier {but also hydrographic several lof the ports of Russia. The expendi involved amounts to $1,075,000, yearly from the whaded for the battleships in 1914, 3 to] The | St. Petersbury, epresen- . In. reply to a ques Wirienius, » chief of the general national [of the navy, said that the financial out yards would Ue able to handle naval pro- omplete the entive programme, in discussed lading the installation of turbine ma binery and other late developments in naval construetion. The first ships alled for are to be completed in and the others in three they are laid Lon staff Russian was a tour b ( t 27, and it years down, work at : An alternative vas also submitted the construction of ships and a fleet of The estimated expenditure schedule is $225 000,000, minor This only prograu provides for four battle sma ler | under 1000, and {343,500,000 already us laying down of Tour new ltr a maximum of $125,000,000 The expenditure then 13%5,000,000 in 191%, and the everal \ {ont expenditures are to be maintained {matter be discussed at at this figure. One of the features of he douina A complete the programme is a duplicate tion of admiralty is guns for every ship to be con-{ © be before th gramme can be adopted TAKEN HICTeRLes commission took no action, and that the length reorganiza decreases subsequ members advoeated before comple ment of essential [structed, i | Coarts. Toronto, Feb. 21.~The of Chesterville has brought an appeal before the divisional court at Osgoode hall from the ruling of Judge J. R O'Reilly, of the united counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, in the ease of the separate school board | jot the municipality for the amount of i the assessment of two men who were not seperate school supporters, when | the list on their authority and that judgment was given to the plaintifis hoy had "informed the assessor that Tor the hum claimed, with "interest they wished to be assessed as public amounting in all to %116.85 school supporters, In 1905 a notice wax served on the A } inl Fall clerk, uotifying him that the assess- t the ira " ul wr ment' for the vear amounted to 8708. by Slie Butish priest, Joke hig name to the jeonld vot give [ore was given | MeCloskes man of the public | daughter taught in the | whose school, who was the chair school board, whose municipality | Mr school attended the 0" Reels separate children as well as Mr that they wire {porteys, and the town to pay {the assessment of these men, on the {ground that their names were not én public chool sup refused John 8, Quin stated had authorized him to jand bearing. the names of Charles De- 8 is aries De notice, but he vonney, MN. O'Keefe, W. Marquette, F, McCloskey, I. Manley, John Murphy and Frank Dwver . GYPSY TRIBES AT LAW, BEGGAR BY DAY. Members of Camp Accused Grand Larceny, New York, Feb. 21. New felad gypsies crowded juto Justice Dow- [as she {ling's court in {Hour of the members of the eypsy camp Were put on trial, led with grand larceny and {The complainants were ithe Pearse camp, | The robbery is Comes. York, Feb. 21 wished on her when leome of $70 a Stanley | Greenbaum, charg- jer at 214 Scores of gaily Unable husband's in week, Mrs wife of a restaurant keep East 131st street, t tn fashionable at general sessions, irned robbery and, theatres or | beggar by day members of {tire, visited the a rival gypsy tribe, lat night alleged to have oc] She was | wrred on the night of December 26th day, {last, when the two tribes were in a {eamp near cach other in the Bronx It appears the two tribes had heen ap | penitentiary. j ode ds for some time, but that a wein-| When told of sorary truce was declared to pormit a tband expressed eat Hoint celebration of an en ment to | marry, which had been iby two youthful bands. During the (to contain at Si5,000, V'earse tent ithe Staule Hater indicated. The lex v 10 da were eight-year-old (Marion, of the Pearse arrested in Hoboken, to ax a mendicant, and corder 8 court was {fine of 325 or spend six months in the in the re sentenced to pay detention sigh claring his wile bad so | entered into {him by her double £ of the rival had compelled to pace to place | W brad 1 yr celebration ag, aid | ¢ were married ses personal member been "and the | Mase, to live members of [put on { J rags awd {the face of our four ar-old son. Jos take some money and jewels Valued he disappearsd fron blacks and several yiime "tribe were arrested principal witness. [eph, and him into the streets Peter (beg. For tire said of this wher Be had seen two me ere of the Stan- [honly at nigh ith fey tribe enter the tent take the woidd tell 'me she got it ljewels. i "Finally A BFFestes f+ Queen Pipa Pearse said the hag of [disgrace was eat | moved | money and jewels York. In addition to . Joseph {members of the Stanley brought with us our bov Max before the robbery three, and our Etta, age {ohe For Pure Election | NB. Feb. 21.-Commit- opposition and tribe, whe and and had been shown to tribe Lhe da daughter position as an "1 { broideryer at $10 a week, il th | tees representing the was not sulicient for my wife to dee the government parties in York coun: jan, and I borrowed {tv have adopted resolutions providing | the restaurant Hor an election in this constituency she would leave free from bribery and corruption. The days | would not hear a word fr Presolution and agreement calls uponlher. 1 saw her on the atreet : bach party to deposit 8300 on nomina- | Limes dressed in the height of fashion, ition day for prosecution of bribervibit dering the day she would wens land eotruption rags. Her taste for fine dress and ox pensive living, has kept me in dein " since we were marcied."' sured a Fredericton money to go inte hee BR IORALLY home and for business severgl Bibi 's 82 hats are beasts, EVANS IS TO RETIRE Said the Admiral a Will O Quit Sometime in, August, ---- Washington, = Feb. 21.11 is stated Wainwright to the command of the at in all probability Rear Admire! Pacific feed. He will be promoted vans will not preside over the des over the beads of ssversi officers who | timies of the battleship squadron in are his seniors. The president 1 rea {its journey across the Pacific after the son for this ix significant, yrival at San: Fraocieco. - Admical 'said to be apposed to placieg sey of Evans will retire from the servioe on (fiver in opumand who has not at has | 18th, and as the warships will [two years to serve on the active fie Manila before that dale it is from Far Wainergnt in the vightimg wary be burried Admiral | aud | denied | that | the dates on which the | of | A Fashionable Lady When Nigh) her friends | for he -) {From this it, is Sgared that the Sit) E Dr 108 Probabilities Toronto, Ont., Feb. 21, Ottawa Valley and Up~ per St. Lawrence (10 a. m)-- Fresh to strong jouth - west to west winds, some | light local snow {falls or flurricn but mostly fair {and 'moderately cold to-day and (on Saturday. STEACY'S and | Wash Goods of individual ity, distinctiveness and ex- clusiveness, together with fine weaves and striking patterns that will win the glance of admiration every time. DO YOU WANT to be ex- ceptiomally well dressed ? Then 'you had better see these beautiful materials at once as there are only limit. ed quantities of many. The names they will be known by are ANTOINETTE STRIPES PEAU-DA-SOIE CAMES PLAIDS - FOULARD TISSUE OMBRE STRIPE ORGAN DIES TISSUZ LUCERNE MIGNON ORGANDIES COTTO PANAMAS SUPERIOR BATISTE BANDES LUXURIANT, et On View Now, see them at to dress | Abraham | Come and Hegto ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker. 'Phones, B77. 227 Princess street. © JUST RECEIVED A small quactity of PURE MAPLE SYRUP |. The kind that has that delicious | flavor, because it is miade {rom {the sap of the Maple Tree. Jas, Redoea & Co, Importers of Fins Groceries. Want Nobel Peace Prize. { Washington, Feb 21 --Th [group of the later mientary Union. compond of of the United State note dred House of Representatives, held on moet at ithe vapital, immediately als iter adjournment of the two b congress, and hy 5 sanimoss vole ' Representative Richard Beactholdt, of St. Louis. wae selectei as the candis dete of the Americas group for the next Nobel peace price, attached 19 whith is a cash award of M0000, This week only. 5 rolls 100, c for 2356,» : Amer isan Parle wiles nat youterda ouses of ie caren] EM a,