WIL BE _DEPOWED A YOUNG GIRL FOUND IN A DETROIT RESORT. Baid She Had Been Sent From London, Ont., to Prevent Her Testilying Against a Citizen, | Who Was Charged With Ser- ious Offence. Detroit, Mich.,, Mareh 16.--~The im migration officials aie joiestigatiog | the case of a girl who arrived here on Saturday, and wet at once to a | resort, where she was found later in | the day by the police, while on a tour i of inspection and taken to headques ters. The girl says she was sent to | Detroit by a man in London, Ont, to! prevent her from testifying against a | citizen of that place who is charged with a serious crime. She was told to | remain here and she would be taken | care of. The girl claims to te nine teen years old, but looks younger Her presence in the United States isa | violation of an international treaty, and she will be deported | Port Huron, Mich., will be visited | soon by Countess De T. Metigrer, al former Port Huron woman, and the daughter of Louis Laforest, the first] white man born in Sarnia, Ont. Twen- | ty years ago, Miss Mary Iaforest| was wedded to Count De TT, Meturrer | of France, and she now writis her | brother in Port Huron, that she will visit this eountry in the near future The count and countess have been | travelling through Italy and foreign | countries for the last four years for | the benefit of the countess' health MESSENGERS AND PAGES. Senators Talk of Their Religious | Proclivities. i Ottawa, March 16.~Senator Cloran | called attention in the senate to al reported statement of Dr. Sproule, bb at Mount Forest, to the effect that French and Irish Catholics were unduly favored in appointments made in the departments of the government | and of parliament. Though the Cath- | olics were only forty per cent. of the | total population, Dr. Sproule had | said there were seventy-six pages and messengers inv the commons, and of these fifty-six were Roman Catholics | and only twenty were [Protestants | | The senate had sgveniy-one messen gers and pages, and of these forty two were Roman Catholics, and twen tv-nine were Protestants, Senator Choquette objected to the time of the senate being taken up with such stuff. It should Le treated with the silence it deserved. Senator Watson, chairman of the senate internal. economy committee, said the senate did not by any means have seventy-one pages and messen- gers. The senate had twelve messon- gers and four paces. "So far as their" religious prochivitien are concerned," said Senator Watson, "I do not bnow | anything about them." Urgent Case. Dr Rush (to bicycle policeman)--You mustn't arrest me for speeding; I'm in a hurry to see a sick man. Bieyele policeman--Come back me and see the sick man your Just ran over. with auto { -------- Colombian Cabinet Changes. Bogota, March 16.~Gen. Marceliano Vargas has been given the portfolio of minister of government, and F. J. Up mitia that of foreign affairs in the cabinet of President Reyes. Clergyman Dropped Dead. Watertown, N.Y., March 16.--Rev. C, E. Doorr, of this city, aged sixty-five, a prominent Methodist minister of the | Northern New . York conference, drop- | ped dead at Flackville. Killed In A Cave-In, | Ottawa, March' 16.--While digging i a gravel pit John Henderson, aged thirty-four years, residing near Bil | lings' Bridge, was buried beneath al cave-in and was killed, { Bubonic Plague In Chili. Sar Gago, Chili, March 16. --There has been a recrudescence of the bubonic plague at Autolagasta Forty new cases have been reported in the last few days. <p | statistician, i the census of manufacturers, | the census, however, had {ment of which we may hear more | fore long. | cent weeks. tion | conservative appointees to the Ottawa civil | as | » : | days' sessibn members on both i tacle of ne PARTIZAN SERVANTS. Requiting the Government For Good Treatment. Her Job Montreal Ueorge d pid ot yimetime dom is out "with a vig criticism of the present way of ta seasoned with personal abuse of Hon. Mr. Fish pr. It is perhaps not difficult to com prehend Mr, Johason's of Mr. Fisher. Fu ihe conservatives left office was ont Sf thew lack confi vears My most before Joh useful dence in wr son { friends, for he had a way of produc host of ing, just when party exigency required the production, a blast figures by reference to which conserva tive orators could alwavs establish their doutentions His way of taking been eriti cited Year after. year the liberal opposition, and when it- came the turn of the liberal take a census they felt that Mr." Johnson was hardly the man to give effect to their views of how it ought to be done He was consequently replaced ia this function by another, and his letter shows, if it shows nothing else, that the change was a wise one, unless the liberal min- istry was prepared to abandon its own views and submit to the dicta tion of a very excellent--but very par tizan--oflicial This letter of Mi. Johnson's, with its unseemly and malicious abuse of the minister of agriculture, does make it 'seem worth while to mention a re- cent phase of party polifical develop- be- It gives open voice to a movement. which is fairly strong, and becoming more open, in Ottawa in re- It is coming to be a ques- number of old by to whether a large to be considered as non-partizan servants of the several departments, and loyal to the minist of the day, or as partizan supporters of the opposition, wing their positions avil servants to act as spies upon liberals. During the receng three sides service are the of the house were treated to the spec a prominent member of the opposition engaged m long and fre- quent consultations with a prominent employee of the department under at tack. And this consultation, like Mr. Johnson's letter, differed from a lot of other congpiration only in being somewhat more open. It ean fairly be said of the liberal administration at Ottawa that the old conservative appointees have been treated not mere- Iv fairly but generously during the eleven years the liberal party has been in office. It is rather a pity the beneficiaries of that generosity are showing how little it is appreciated because it will undoubtedly be sary, before long, to re-establish' a correct relation between the ministry and the bureauceacy by punishing some of the worst offenders. A man must be master of his own house, Sir Mackenzie Bowell used to say. even neces as WARD STILL WITH HIM. Says He is Tired of Being An Outcast. ' San Francisco, March 16.--Rev. Jere Cooke, who eloped with his ward, Floretta Whaley, from hix home at Hempstead, L.1., finally admits that he is tired of being an outcast He declares that he has found he "'can- not buck the world." Cooke and' the girl and their little bahy were found living in a cozy flat in one of the best residence neighbor hoods of the city. There was no out- ward sign of poverty, although the former preacher has appealed to the girl's relatives for aid. He was - well dressed and appeared in good health The girl also looked as il she was en- joyiog life. Cooke andl his companion were first located here several months ago. At that tinje they were living in a plain but comfortable little flat and the pas tor was working as a painter. Lately he 'has been unemployed To The Ladies Of Kingston. Millinery display, Tuesday March 17th, we are prepared to execute: all orders as usual, and respectfully so- licit your patronage. The Somerville Co. A despateh from London reports the discovery of a plot to establish a military dictatorship at Lisbon BLLO0L000000000000000¢ 200000000000 0000000884 he Shoe or Young en- We are just in rece & Had % ipt of a big shipment of Men's Fine American Shoes, 'made by the great § house of These shoes are Young Men's years Theor aE Bre. have made detail. For 25 We invite ly the Prices $5 Shoes in every the ng Men to call e the ing shoes. y are undoubted- best goods imported ada into to $6.00. & "distress THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, MARCH 16. 1908. . DENED THE CHARGE ) : Over' The World, i 5 THE BODY OF GIRL TO BE Belleville is to have penny banks io HE HAD TOO MANY OFFICES EXHUMED. {she dchools TO FILL. - { John Pikkaman, Finlander, commit-| ted at Cobalt by hanging } North Brant Liberals George L. Telfer for the legislature The Beayer hotel, in Sandwich, Ont has been sold to R. J toy, Quebec. . The Allan steamer Urampian arriv ed at Liverpool at Il a.m. on J6th Robert Robertson, one of the best known building contractors in { Textile Workers, to, did on Sunday. | multiplicity occupations is vexa- At 'Cannes, Prince Stephen, the five-| tious and he has resigned the presi- | year-old of Prince Mirko, of | dency. Paquette, besides dabbling in Montenegro, ded on Monday | politics, has a provincial goverasment In an address to the London Cham- | Job at the court house and he has of Commerce, Lord Avebury ad-| found it dificult to maintain all three -- suicide Held a Provincial Government Job and Also Dabbled in Politics--The Government's At- | tention Called. | Montreal, March 16.--Wilfrid Pa- guette, president of the Federation of bas igund that a Two Men Accused of Crime in nominated Toronto--No Evidence Yet! Body to Be: Taken--The Brought to Toronto. i Toronto, March 16.--Dr. A. G. Flet-| cher and Harry Saunders appeared in| the police court, this morning, charged | with murder in connection with the | death of Jessie Ellen Gould, a wait ress, who came to Toronto from Peterboro and who it is alleged died | on Tuesday lust from the effects of! an opfration. Both prisoners pleaded 1 not guilty, No evidence was taken, |Vived that savings banks he compellid | Without getting into hot water hence the crown not being ready to go onfto hold gold reserves, | the resignation. The matter was re- and an adjournment was made for x! "The Moose Mountain mines will be. | cently brought up in the legislature, week. The attorney-general's depart: | gin shipping iron ore by the opening | and it is understood that it was re- ment, this morning, granted an order | to a state-| tently pointed out to Paquette that for the exhumation of the hody of Jes. iment of D. D. Mann. {it would be in the interests of goods se Gonid, Detective Mackie left for | The sufiragettes are adopling new| government 'if he retired from at Peterboro, where the interment took | methods of raising funds, touring | least one of the roles. place and the exhumation will be! London with barrel organs and sand- | made this afternoon, and the body | Wich boards brought to Toronto to-night. At New York, Saturday night, the! The Globe says: "It was learned | Toronto University team defeated the| Prices Furnished By F. W. Boschen upon exepil-ut authority, on Satur- | champion Crescent Athletic Club hoe | (Per W. Hector H. Hume, day, that the constituency of { ard- | key team, by 12 to 3 | Manager.) well would be allowed to stand in the | coming redistribution hill. Premier | pool, sailed from Haliiax, on Stocks Whitney has intimated that county | with 29 first-class, 39 second Copper boundaries will be adhered to as far | and 195 steerage passengers. Tope - as possible, but it has been found| The Stanley cup hunters, from To- Am. Sug. Refin. Ug. extremely dificult to readjust matters |Tonto, returned, this mornine, feeling | Am Smite. & it co regarding Cardwell, which does not | highly elated at - the showing they | Am. 'Car Foundry ...... .. comprise one county in itself, It is|Mmade against the famous Wanderers, Anaconda Min. Co rumored that Monck will also be al | Frederick Underhill, Aurora, liberal Atches. Top & St. Fe... lowed to reimain. { candidate for the legislature in North Balti. & ia - During last year the province of York, bas been compelled to retire Brookiyn Rapid I. Ontarié paid out neariy $30,000 in Se contest owing to breaking Central Leather fe lawyers' fees alone. ln the legislature | MS 1°8. ; . Pacihc : a few days ago CC. N. Smith drew | Announcement 8 made that the en- Canadian Podhe = attention to the frequency with which | tre plant of the Sharon, Pa., Steel Chor oke o hiv... lawyers' names were scattered through { Hoop company Will resume operations ¢ Mil, & St Paul out the pages of the public accounts ton Tuesday. About 1,000 men are af- Calorado Southern These® individaals' fees vary from $25 | fected. 3 ( we : N Y sy to 88,164, while the average fee is] When Keir Hardie, M.P., arrived at|, '% 88 N.1... h . ) Col. Fuel & lron about 270. With very few exceptions | Jobanneshurg, a large crowd had as- Delaware & Hudso these law) | sembled at the station, and Distillers ees u gular provincial departments. j ame tomatoes amd G. North Rv. pid. .. Several amendments to the munici- | being thrown at him. : : Kansas & Texas com pal act are proposed by members of | Fi dg John, N.B., the resignation Kansas & "Texas, pid. the legislature. Mr. Downey proposes | 0 the Robinson government is ex- Louisville & Nashville... to extend the privileges of a mavor pected, and will be tendered on Thurs- Missouri Pacific : ; and board of control to all cities; Mr, day next, and the Hazen government Min. St. P.& St iradburn, Peterboro, will move that {will then he formed. N.Y. Centkal. aldermen elected for terms of two | The British admiralty has sent or- Erie Rathaae, years; J., J. Preston, Durham, pro- | ders to the British cruisers Indefatiga- N Y A a ass he sen ia . citim | ble and Cressy, which are both £ - Ontario & West... poses to give cities and towns power | West 1 y m Northern Pacific ... to pass a by-law providing that no- | "e%t Indian waters, to proceed forth- Penn. RB. R minations may take place on the last | with to Hayti for the protection of P is Monday in November and the election British interests, Roti evict on the first Monday in December. The fire which broke out, on Sunday Rng About eight o'clock, this morning, a night, m big biscuit factory, at ay jalan... fee real winter storm passed over To- | Lyons, France, and which spread over 2 th sland, pid... ... ronto and the western part of Lake [2 block of buildings covering twenty Soul hath Ry. : Ontario, 'the snow and wind for a [tWO acres, is wow under control, The Southern Jaifie. " time making things look like a north- | loss is placed at $400,000, Sloss, Shef bold west blimard. The wind at first blew At Matchez, Miss, eight persons «Steel, com... from the south, but veered around to | were killed, one was seriously injured, Steel, pid. Rubber, com Pacific, com, Yoron of son bet of navigation, according NEW YORK S10CKS. The Allan liner Virginian, for Liver- | 14th, cabin, March 16th. Opening Close Si} ad ast 37 120; oy; Amal. Amer, CENT Gr Ls Sle Fe EN EL GF AE a BE Se . 65 On tt © bie 0g re he was -- sre were outside of the nobbed, eggs stones -- We =z " M. he a U, 8; u. 8. Union Wajash : Wabash, pid. ... ... West Union Tel. almost north and at the same time a {and property valued at $200,000 was sudden fall in the temperature was wrecked, 'Sunday, as the result of an noted. At 8 a.m., the mercury regis- | explosion of gas in the basement of a tered thirty-four degrees, but by nine |five-storey building occupied by the o'clock the column had fallen to Natchex Drug company. twenty-six degrees, a decrease of eight The government: has unearthed degrees within an hour. The storm, | fraudulent passport manufacturer however, was of short duration and | Omori, a seaport by 9:30 o'clock the sun was out shin- | Several arrests ing in Be spring-like style cluding two The spétial meeting of . the share- | charged with holders of the Soverign bank, called | Passports tq to consider the "affairs of the bank | hi opened in the Temple building at | The Late E. J. Hickey. noon, and was still going at 2 p.m.| The death oceurved, this morning, at It is evidently a. warm and | Augusta, Georgia, of Edward J Mr. Stavert, the trustee, shows little | Hickey, formerly of Kingston. On Sa- disposition to afford any information |turday he was stricken with paralysis to shareholders regarding the affairs |and passed away within two days of the bank. Information asked for | The deceased was the second son of the hy some sharcholders was refused. . €,| late James Hickey, and was born P. Martin, Stoufiville, moved that the | Kingston about lity-seven vears ago. government be asked appoint a| He was a veteran of the Fenian raid commission to investigate the passing | of 1866, serving with the local volun: of the bank, while Canon Downie, | teers. For MANY ~ Vears past, Mr. Port Stanley, moved that a commit- Hickey was a resident of asta, Ga., where he conducted £8VoFal barber establishments. He iwSurvived by a fee bt appointed to try to find out how the losses occurred. One thousand unemployed: men | wife and several children. Mrs. James Dix, 'of' Kingston, and Mrs.. John Tro- well, "of "Toronto, awe Sisters and 0] marched on the city hall, to-day,' to demand thatthe vity give -them work J. Hickey, of Kingston, is his broth- | er. The remains will he interred at They. crowded around the doors of the Augusta, 163 49 a at in Northern Japan. have been made, in- police ofiicers, who are having sold over 300 America for $150 each. CHICAGO PRICES, March 16th. Opening. Close 963-3 ak 91191 89d Wheat. May. July Corn May...... July. May Too Modest To Begin. Washington Star. "Would you advise me to go into politics *" "Young man," answered Senator Sorghum, *'the mere fact that you are vo modest as to ask advice about it proves that are unfit for the profession." session, in to vou Lenten Theatre-Going. In St. Mary's cathedral yesterday, the rector, Rev. Father A. J. Hanley, spoke very plainly to the people re- garding theatregoing during the. 'Len- ten season: Fe told them that this was in violation of the church's rules city hall while a committee of seyen went in and saw Mayor Oliver in his ofiice. "The committee demanded that the city open some of its locked-up wealth and spend money on public works, io order that the prevailing might lge relieved. Une of their suggestions was that the city build 100 Javatories. Hundreds men, it was declared, were on verge of starvation. The mayor the Salvation Army could place me on farms if they would go, and | this brought the retort that the Sal- vation Army was largely responsible for the present trouble by bringing men to Canada when they were not required. One delegate said he hoped the workingmen would starve before thew accepted charity from the Salva- tion Army. The mayol promised that when the weather opened work would be commenced on sidewalk construe- tion, etc. The city of Toronto has spent this winter $41,000 on relief work and given 213,000 to various charitable institutions. William Allingbam, been the oldest . living Orangeman, died, yesterday, at the home of his son, Michael, at the age of ninety-eight years. He was a native of Donegal, Ireland, and was for many years en- gaged in farmiag in this country. His wife, whom he married seventy years ago, and who is ninety-four years old, survives him with three sons and one daughter, twenty-three grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren. occurred at Almonte of Mes. David Gillies,» who was Anna Florence Housten, daughter of John Housten, Appleton. Deceased was married last April, she and her hus band residing for a time in New On tario, but returned during the fall She suffered from lung trouble, Nhe was twenty-two years of age Dr. W. A hyle has given up his medical practice in. Lanark. county to enter holy orders in the Anglican church. Sunday morning the Bishop of Ottawa ordained him deacon, and will send him to work as such in the parish of Beachburg. Robert Mclaughlin, with Gay Bros.' minstrels all season, is visiting at his home in Kingston. He will probably Toronto, March 16.--Samuel Parr, go into ynudeville next s¥ason Blackstock, Ont., one, of the best} The engineer and fireman of the known voung merchants between Tor-| steamer Rosedale arrived in the city, onto and Peterboro was found dead in | to-day, to put the vessel in shape for bed in his room at the Wilson House, | the season. 111 York street, this morning, with A settlement has been made in the the gas turned on fall. There was no-| case in which a young man was al thing to indicate suicide. Parr came in leged to have stolen wood from Whit- last night from Blackstock and seem-| ney's coal and wood yard, and the ed to be in splendid health and| case will not be aired in the police spirits, ' court. William B. Skinner, King street, and son, will shortly leave on a trip to Bermuda to remain a mouth. H.. 8. Folger returned home from New York to-day, after a several days' business visit. . Another batch of nolices were sent around the city, to-day, to statute later delinquents, The death To Enlarge Order Of Merit. London, Maren 16.--1t is believed the king contemplates the enlargement of the Order of Merit from twenty to twenty-five "members. The order is absolutely in the personal gift of the king. * Among the present members of t are Admiral Togo, the Princess Yamagata and Oyama, and only 'two British admirals, Seymour apd Fisher. But it is thought that Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson will soon be added, | with Andrew Lang, the author, and) Major-General Sir Gearge French. Found Dead In Bed. said to have Worthy Of A Place. Toronto Globe. Prof. Shortt, of Queen's University, has succeeded in bringing the dispute between the Coal company and its em- ployees, at Glace Bay, to a satisfac tory termination. A rumor has gone abroad that Mr. Shortt has been of- fered a place on the enlarged domin- fon railway commission; if this is cor- rect, and if he has iit, the whole country is to be congratulated. Prize Fowl Stolen. On Saturday night, the hen roosts of Robert Benne Was Lincoln's Operator. Binghamton, N.Y., March™ 16.---De- witt Faller, of Hancock, who was private telegraph operator for Presi- dent Lincoln during civil war, was killed on the Erie tracks at Nar rowshurg on Friday afternoon. Mr. Faller was about seventy wears old and was employed by the Erie as a telegraph repair man. * Me had been in the employ - the road for about ly years, e was riding the track velocipede, when he was struck by a passenger train. i Justice McLennan To Retire. Ottawa, J. tt, Ordnance street, visited by thieves, who carried were away some of his fine Mr. Bon LESLIE ISM EDW. J. B. PENSE. he re vey soe. 5 LEFT THE JOB WE ANNOUNCE OUR SPRING MILLINERY OPENING and Complete Displays of Spring Coats, Costumes, Skirts and Blouses a On WEDNESDAY, March Eighteenth, and following days. We extend to you a most cordial invitation to attend. David M. Spence, The Leading Mantle and Millinery Store, Millinery Wednesday, March18 AT] THE LONDON You are Cordially Invited. Miss L.. Sutherland.