Che Daily KINGSTON, ONTARIO, ¥ WEDN BDAY, MARCH 18, 1908. EE tish 11] LAST EDITION 75--NO. 66. ' -- ~ 8 that LARGEST YET = | justified in g Tey | enue for the coming year. Probably | tit will be more likely to fall belo | 390,060 600 thon to rise above it "An Engine Overtook Hand Car Tuesday. erable extent, be made up and n the end we sl find the rev fairly satisiacto 1 aun i w revenue of 300 500 (x) ri 1 I not feel | soon fo close do 8 expecting so lar Flelding Had a Good Re- a port to Make. ! Mr. Fielding said that for capital ex- penditure or a considerable part of it, THE BUDGET SPEECH DELIVERED IN PARLIAMENT ON TUESDAY. the government would have to add to} the public debt. This would apy particularly to Transcontinental, for! which thirty millions was being asked For the fiscal vear ending March 31st, 190%, Mr. Fielding estimated the re} venue would amount to $9%.500,000| aml amount chargeable to consolida- ted fund to STLO00000. If these ex.| ONE WOMAN LOST HER HUS pectations were realized the year] 'BAND AND HER FATHER. would close with a surplus of $19, | Hopeful Confidence United With| 0 go copital and spanial expendi . . | ture for eurrent year at $33,000,000. | Caution is ghe Feeling of the! This would make grand total expendi: | Business Men--The Prospec- | tare for year of $110,5%,000. Dedue tive Revenue For thé Year--To | ing from thiz the - esthnated revenue | Help the Currency's Elasticity of BUG, 540 M40 and the sinking funds | Few Tariff Changes o ahout _ ¥2,000,000, making in' all] . ' . SUS 500,000 there would be Jeft 4 bal-| From Cur Own Correspondent ance at the end of the year to be Ottawa, March 15.--1n opening added to public debt of probably $12 budget sprech, yesterday, Hon. W, 000,000, This would be brought about | Fielding said the last financial vear [hy the fact that the hail proven somewhat more favorable | planned to spend $17,750,000 on than anticipated. He had estimated | Transcontinental railway, Otherwise the revenue at sixty-five millions, but | the year would close not with an ad- | the actual revenue for the nine months | dition to the public debt but with a was $67,909,398, The expenditure had | reduction of £5,750,000, *1 section bedn estimated at £52,000,000, but Dealing with the government's | amounted to $51,512,161. He had es . 1 lations with the Quebec Bridge timated the surplus at $13,000,000, 1 3 Fielding said that under the { other men, who jumped, all three nam. the actull surplus was $16,127,167, the 1 : 5 thority of last year's legislation killedi. They were all mar argest since confederation. Revenue | millions had been recently advanced to | ried men and leave families had proven 'very buoyant, showing ! 1 ¥ ni, enable the company'to meet its in Mre. J. Anderson lost both her hus- ar increase over 1005-6 debtedness to the banks. A little over | band and her father by the tragedy r. Fielding drew attention to the fact that for the 1 LOR. had a revenue 86,245,261, ro while the working cxpenses 26, 610,171, showing a surplus uf ¥2IX 079, The Prince Edward dsland rail way, on the other hand, showed a de Beit of $67,713 A Terrible Accident Near to Kaladar Station on the Can- adian Pacific R.R.--Curve in Line Made the Accident Fos- sible. March running Tweed, I= S00, ahead of a passen train, vesterday, at about three k, overtook a handear, on which 0 the NS. Kaladar of them Kaladar is ast of Tweed, th men, and included Alexander { Fleming, foreman: John Anderson, his Co. | son-in-law; James Woodcock, and two au : two | @d being a three millions would be required liquidate the balance and the debt would pe seared the company's bonds, | Mr. Fielding explained what government had done for the help the west the of nine months the by jumping ry! Ther® is a sharp curve at the {of the accident, and the | vivors say a lookout being kept of |hoth ways, sufficient of the the | proach of the engine was not receiv supposed that the of the government i although the sur was notice I ed light =sngine | during stress : rl A light engine, | government | Were five men, at a point & mile east | Stafion, and killed three | seventeen miles = i » five men on the handear were all | The two men who survived escape} . Referring to the reduction of the pub lic debt, the minister stated it wae unreasonable to expect frequent reduce tions of the public debt. 1867 only six years had shown such a re duction. In 1891, the per capita debt wine BMO.00. In 1307 it was 350.57; in 1907 it was only 342.84, "Turning now to the fiscal year 19050," said Mr. Fielding, "1 think } am correct when 1 say that the gen ernl feeling of our husiness, men is one of hopeful confidence, united with much caution. We afe just emerging from a period of world-wide financial strin gency. Financial systems and instite tions of all countries have been verely tried. Tt should be a gratifica- tion that none has stood the test het tor than those of Canada, 1 do net took for i eontinund period of depres wih. Conditions should improve in varly summer, and if we are blessed with good harvest, confidence Will he fully restored. "On the part of the government it i« a time for caution and yet a time for courage. Large new enterprises which would eall for great | outlays may well be laid aside for a little while. Rut the works which we al yoady have' in hand must not be ne gleeted, Particularly must we not fail to push forward the great enterprise of the Transcontinental railway "As to the probable revenue for the coming year, 1 would wish to speak with caution. Monetary stringency is producing a curtailment of imports 1 'antivipate a falling of our revenue in the carly part of the new year. Tam hopeful that later on will. to Niece we the loss PAILY MEMORANDA. "A. Dell's Thouse, Grand House, 815 pm % . Wonderiand "Theatre evenieg | good vaudeville to the Thimble Circle Corerrt Church Friday evening, March Operas Afternoon and Christ Church in St Rev. Camon Abbott, of Cathedral, Hamilton, preaches George's to-night, at 8 o'clock, Mijn Theatre © RNepénted by request many citizens, the Melodrama, "A F bug Forrinas With EpleTschiet mod read jatie, Fire Soome Paris," John R Davis Sipe "Love Me All The Time. Princess--Vaiddoville afternoon and eveming. "Jules Julien "fhe Hebrew and His Pack," "Travelling in Switzer Jand, "Lenten Faces, 'Bargain Sales. ' | "Nehoo! | Daya. Somge ~~ MBiow The Smoke AwWhy.': WHIG TELEPHOEES. 248--Husiness Office. Fudit drial Rooms. wdobbing Del Forms, al Daily Whig is always __Qibson's Drug Store, Market Square-- Open till late each evening. : Marmalade! If you are doing up Mar- malade, don't forget we have all kinds of Ti b l r { Jo é Suitable for that purpose and at the right price. ol wf mediately, lank re. at first thought there was no cossity for aid, but later the govern moat felt that it could not set aside the question, and the advised action, and it was arranged to assist the banks engaged in the grain trade by not more than ten million dollars. For this the banks paid six and seven per cent, and put up securities. The banks did not take more than five millions, and most of this had been paid back, and what threatened to be a serious crisis avoided. Where ue money came from was by an issue of Dominion notes beyond the gold reserve, which was a departure from practite, hut expedient during the money stringency. > Mr. Fielding then announced that, in view of the greater need of the elasti- city of our currency the government might extend the power of the banks to issue for a limited time an emer gency currency of fifteen per based upon their reserve and paid-up eapital. A guarantee fund would have to be put up, and the infreased capital might cause embarrassment, but one way out of it might be the introduction of foreign capital The government will adjust the tax ation of tobacco, announced Mr. Field ing, the objeet of which will be to form a uniform rate of leense,/ to have a amiform stamp, and a tax' on raw loaf rather than the manufactured ar ticle, but the burden of taxatiofi will be substantially the same. get a body blow. Here two samples The daty tobacco will be reduced from ih, ta Be, per Ib. Imported cigars will be reduced from B6--per- thousand to $2, Home cigars from ® $2. Howe cigarettes will be rdised from 81.50 per thousand to ¥2.40. Fomign cigarettes will be from £3 per thousand to X3.40 This change will not take place im. said Mr. Fielding, as ral details had to he arranged On the whole the customs tarill has worked well, be said, and no of importance will be suggested Hon. George E. Foster, grain-moving season last year. ne was cent are one or on chewing and smoking a= Se } per i thons=an: to raised Seve change as chief { eritic of the opposition, followed Mr Fielding, and was strong the apparently bankmpt position of the goverpment and the enormous increase of expenditures since 1896, and the seemingly coming downfall of the ad- ministration. upon Weddings In Lent. Baltimore, March = 1S. ~Abswerinig questions as to the conduct of Catho- liea during Lent, Cardinal Gibbous said of marriage? ° "Jt i certainly mot an appropriate time, as some of the igessings of the church are withheld during Lent, but il thers is urgent need why the cere mony, shold be peelormed during this ii, then the wedding may take place duripg Lent, but it should be very quiet. "If a Catholic goes to the grand opera diving holy week with the inten tion of improving her mind and gets pleasure from heaving good music, then I do sot think it a sin for ber to go." Bullet In Brain: He Lives. New York, March 15. --Despite the fact that he was taken to the Wil: } hospital with a bullet hole Zorn, a tailor, is 1 revolver, alnos hankers later | | unaware that a light Cigarettes | per | land delicate i TR by dental dipeharie of a thirty two-calic {It is { digd not make enough noise to attraet train would lattention, as a heavy ONE THE MINISTER RETIRES. -- Nevitt Has ' Decided Quit. + Out; Mareh 18 «t ried Hn St h, re, two years new rector, Rev. Rev, ' { R. St. Cath \ le § troubl w Anglice ich, ago, betws then { R. Barrington itt, j of ix church, principal ly di has becabise { rector | i perampto girls from the « same th so were that { flecting on { 1 time + heard stories re- } ractel of some of them. culminated, last might. in so far fas Mr. Nevitt himself i concerned. A} held last night, | nd the rector, bv his on agreement | as given deave of absehee until the! fond of the vear, his relifnation then | {to be tendered to the Bishop. ! The result of the trowble appears to! of the ghurchwardens | : hecalise the church | dropped from about | i Nevitt togk charge to] [ fifteen or twonty people Mr. Nevitt, | who married since he cate here. is al son of Dr. Nevitt, of Téronto. : et IS THE ENV oY hat wa { < { vestry meeting be a vindicatio {and the choir | attendance 300 when Mr i | Of the Republic of Venezuela United States. in| | i to Th Barna i .|\And Roche Was Soon the officials | the | gassed all the | infimating at the; reaons for doing | | evening, at the Down and Out. FIGHT IN DUBLIN CANADIAN CHAMPION SWUNG A HARD FIST. THE Roche Put on Fight Burns Ever Had--The | Fight Was For a Good Round | Sum. i Dubiin, March' 15. --Tommy Burns, | the Canadian heavyweight chamgion, | made short work of Jem HKoche, the irish champion, in their contest, lust] Theatre Royal for the | world s heavyweight championship. | Practically ouly one blow was struck, | Burns knocking ° Roche oug, when | hardly more than a minute of the| first round had been completed, by a} short hook ou the jaw. * So quickly | | did the end come that the great crowd | i which filled the theatre in expectation | { of seeing the Irishman puj up a good | | fight for { what had bappened. the title, hardly realized | | } When the men entered the ring it 1 was evident that the sluggish Roche | was no match for the more experienc | a minute, { gether on the defensive, and the Can- { adian endeavoring to find an opening. | Then Burns feinted and quickly put a i short right to | went down f | have done, until it was too late. The engineer of the No. 390 was Al | bert Connor, of Havelock. A coroner | | from Napanee was summoned Fuller Details. { Kaladar, Ont., March 18.--One oi the! | saddest calamities that ever befel this { part of the country and which has {cast a gloom over the community, and especially the thre where { loving husbands and kind fathers were | { snatched, vesterday, shortly after the A. Fleming, section fore- Iman for some years, here, accom- | panied by his three assistants, were] {coming from the east end of their sec- tion, which runs. four miles in this di rection. hey waited till the after nove train, known as No. 4, had pass- | ed. and, thinking everything safe, put] | thelr car l homes i dinner hour on the track and started, | at engine was | Kennebee siding the express | and not far from them. All four | their backs to the engine, and {was a little snow flurrving | coming round a very sharp James Bathgate, of the | the ear, realized the imminent and shouted "jump." Ile is the only { survivor to tell the sad tale, and his escape from death with the other poor | fellows, is nothing more than mirdeu- lous, Mr. Fleming, his son-in-law, Jame Anderson. and James Woodeock killed Each leaves gevrawing -avife and Rgtle Family The bodies were ht to Kaladar Station, where the toroner viewed the waiting | had there When | curve, men danger one { were | n instantly one hroug | | remains, but considered an inquest { necessary. The C.P.R the Lenker -to-look- alter the remains Mr. Fleming's Mr. Anderson's | bodies will be interred" at Norwood, {and that of Mr Woodcock at Tweed Their wives are nearly distracted un send under and {WANTS $5,000 TO REFEREE. Jeffries' Price to Run Bout. Eos Angeles, Mirch 18.~"Tf Burns Johnson meet in the ving and want me to referve it will cost' them 185,000," was the decision of Jim Jef Hfrioe, Jeffries intends to branch out #s a fight promoter in the near fu ture. The ex-champion is tired watching limited round fights and | {plans 40 erect a large arema otitside | the #ity limits, where fights can go | anv distance. 3 ! "1 have hacking from:some of the | richest men in town,' said Jeffries, | { "and unless plans misearry will have | fights to a decision soon. These ten round affairs are jokes. . Thev lead many free fights among the mea who bet on them." = ---- | Jim the ' Gets A Medal. cognition of his faithful discharge of his duties, the imperial government has awarded! Fergus Neholfield late, keaper of the Port Maitland light house, n long service medal, which was forwarded here from England through the Canadian department of marpte and fisheries. The presentation was made in the town hall by Judge Douglas while' Richard Smithers of Mohawk Island Light and Capt. Bren. nan briefly gave a sketch of Mr Schoifield's life, relating how when a young man, he joined the Field Dattery, and at Fort Frie dor' ing the Fenian Raid, lost a leg. He was alterwards inted to the JHghthouse at Port . Yemain- i until his superanndation last simmer, servic e, Ra ERAN Direct Froni Montreal. Large consi t of choice lemons {pot liar hile they last, thev're yoors at 2 tose for We. Edwards & $denkin, IT {of the republic of | cited EEEERAEFRERRL EAE of | | senior chovr of ®t. holin's church; yo to | ture, Rev. | Brenna Dunaville, Ont., March 18.-As a re | Welling after nearly forty years of | | got to SENOR N. VELOZGOITICOA Senor N. Veloz-Goitocoa just appointed as the pesident envoy Yeneguela in the United States. In the 'poster of | nele| Sam's officials guest this newly acere-| diplomat set down as the| first secretary and charge d'affaires of | the Voenczuclan lpgation at Washing: | ton. However, it should he explained that for motives of economy President Castro, of Venezuela, is not ag gent sending any fel Ge Ww to represent his 'government in the capitals of the world, and thus it come about that Senor Veloz-Goiti- | coa is in efieet the envoy of the South | American republic in this country. He} is already well known in this country) for he was for several years connected] with the bureau of American republics | and i pggntative 0 then became the Pan-American re-| Fxposition. f the recent Jamestown | FAEISIISEISISICISICIISISIIIIOONN GENERAL MASSACRE. has been is { | { 1 ec » Key West, March 18. -- The government's wireless station here has received advices from Havana to the effect that a reign of terror exists in "Port Au + Prince. Street fights oc- curred all dav vesterdav, and there is a fear of -- a general massacre of all white people in Hayti. The American war vessels have gone from Guantanamo to & Port Au Prince, *| * *| » ¥ ad *| Ww * | FHATRERISIIIIINORN } DOWN IN GANANOQUE. wv. Father Kehoe Gives a St. Patrick's Concert. The St. Grand the was 0 Pat- Upera aus an 1 Gananogue, March 18. rick's concert! in the House, last evening, under pices of' St. John's church excellent one, and attracted crowd. The programme consisted the following : Instrumental solo, J.} A. Stamistreet; junior and | good ol { . chorus, cal duett, Miss: (Queenie Corboy and K. It. Britton: solo, Miss Bessie O'Neill; chorus, junior choir; Mlustrated lec-| J. B. Bhehoe; salo and | chorus, Miss Clara Brennan. solo, Miss | Cueenio Carboy; solo, iss Clara! n: chorus, junior and senior hoir. The illustrated lecture, hy Father Kehoe, was ahout Ireland. The choir of Grace Methodist church | were entertained on St. Patrick's | night at the home of My. and Mes. John Connor, King street west. The I, ¥. Jones Manulacturing com pany, limited, makers of all ki of steel shovels, started in this week of full time; six days a week and hours a day: Thev have the record of being the only establishment in fown that has run full time this year. ltis hoped that others will oon be able to follow the good example set them. The funeral of Miss Elizabeth Mit ehell, from the residence of her mother, Mitc.eflville, was largely at: tended. Three "bes loads from Ganasi- oque, containing a delegation of the warped Rolly Be Acey 4 - Principal. R.. G. Graham, and other liane es. at. tended. 1 Mrs. George Cranford, Wickory street, Jolt Tor Kingston General Mos: i pital, yesterday, where she will under 'go n surgical operation for an affec- tion of the ankle. Mes. J.B. NeMurchy, Stone street, spent a short time this week with friends jn Kiveston. ¥r ¥ PL Hard, Stowe: Revel. wars i } { gratulated { seconds, The crowd was greatly taken cate, ed Burns. They sparred for less than | the Irishman acting alto- the jaw and Roche He was badly dazed, and, his | the although he struggled to regain feet, was unable to do so before fatal tem was counted, Immediately 'after the count Roche his feet, but staggered about the stage. When he had recovered hime self, he went over and smilingly con- the winner. In all, the fight lasted one minute and thirty-five by the sudden ending, but after a few angry hisses they went out of the theatre. Burns said, afterwards, that the fight was the easiest he ever had, He was willing to give Roche another chance if sufficient inducements were "eeirints fight was for a purse of 000, which was put up by a syndy of which Richard Croker, the former Tammany Hall leader, was a member, and a side bet of $2,500, In addition Burns had 87,000 on himself at odds of three to one. The ringside betting was seven to two on Burns. THREE MEN KILLED. They Were Fngaged on the Rail- road. Napanee, March I1S.-C. R Van Slyck returned on Friday from a trip to Gravenhurst where Mrs, VanSlyck is staying for a while. We are glad to be able 16 say that she is im proving rapidly Mr. and Mrs. B. Barr-Hall returned this week from ga visit of a eonple of months with Mr. Barr's-mother in England Dr. .Cawan, coroner, was"called { to] aceident at Kaladar in| men were killed. | of the! i mto an an which three section No particulars of the nature accident could be learned On Saturday morning last, as Sam uel Cronk, one of the employees of the | Gibbard Furniture company, was moving finished stock, he ped and fell, breaking his leg re! some 3 stip: above | | the knee. J.B. Richardson received a /message from Indianapolis, yesterday, stating his wile, who was there on a Visit to her hrother, was taken suddenly ill Ae. Richardson loft at once for India napolis. i i Health Very Critical. London, March 18. No change inl the condition of Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman was reported, at mid night, and the anxiety regarding the premier continues unabated The fact that Queen Alexandra and the Dow ager Empress of Russia called person- ally at the premier's residence, yester- day, to enquire as to his condition, shows that the illness of the patient is more critical than the bulletins given to the public indicate previously. The guven had sent an oquersy to enquire concerning Sir Henry's condition. Evans Will Retire. San Trancieco, March 18.--A special despatoh from San Diego, Cal., con- tains news of an announcement by Rear Admiral Exans, commander of the Atlantic floet, that upon ite ar vival at San Pranéiseo he would retire from command because of ill-health This announcement officially confirme the report from Washington that Ad- miral Evans would haul down his flag spon arriving at San Francisco. ------------ Opening Up Prince Rupert. Montreal, March 185.---William Wain wright, who is back from the coast, savs the thréé square miles of the town site of Prince Rupert' will be thrown open in September. As far as he can see the town site will start with a population of twenty thoussnd, The contract for two hundred miles immediately east, of the hundred miles from Prince Rupert will be given out right away, 3 -------- Next One In Montréal. a, NM 18. The pxecutive of ~ 0 Grey Musical and Dramatic competition have i a a ---- BLOW i | | { : { | nineteen millions for the year ending | | : the Defensive--ase | Acted Sluggishly--The Easiest | Hh t i gan | Same | has returned home, PITH OF THE NEWS, ery Latest Culled From All Over The World. | | The WV and New Zealand { vited 10 Tasmania Davis and family tev. Alexander | of Picton, Ont., were nearly asphyxia- | | ted by coal gas. A woman was found dead at i | picious circumstances. John Mortimer, Guelph, a reporter for twenty-five vears, is dead. He was the Globe's correspondent Nearly two Hillion voted by the Tuesday, in committee of supply. Hon. W. S. Fielding, in his budget, | was able to announce a surplus of | | I dollars was March 3lst, King Alfonso, 8f Spain, during an | automobile trip to Toledo, narrowly | escaped injury in a collision with an-| other machine. During a debate in the Prussian diet |§ challenged a |) an agrarian member radical to & duel, but the latter fused to fight. The czar has refused a full pardon | to Gen. Stoessel, the Russian com: mander at Port Arthur, who will be imprisoned for ten years in a fort ess. re Annette, manager of the Mala- | hat Line company, Victoria, was | drowned, Monday, while attempiing | to cross Saanich Arm in a sailboat, during a gale. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who has sued Harry kh. Thaw for an annulment of | their marriage, admits that she is to receive a lump sum of $30,000, and an | annuity of $15,000. i A monument to Giosue Caruct:, pro fessor of ltalian literature at the | University of Bologne, who died last J. E > 1 ] February, was unveiled in the College | de France at Paris In the lumber camps at Grant ish, Aloha, Ala., place over negroes accepting a cut in | Several shoty were fired, and | Par wages a number of people wounded William M. Walton, seventy-nine | vears old, who was one of the engi neers that surveyed the route for a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama, died, Monday night, in New ark, N.J A denial made at court of a marriage engagement tween the Duke of Abruzzi, a cousin of Ring Victor Emmanuel, and Miss Katherine Elkins, daughter of SBena- tor Elkins, of West Virginia Sarnia undertakes to raise the sum of $9,000 during the year 1908 for home and foreign missions. The mat- ter of arranging for the raising of the sum is in the hands of a general committee, comprised of four members from each congregation in the town. The ice went out of the Osweogatchie river at Ogdensburg, on Monda~ carrying everything movable before it Three vessels belonging to the Ogdens burg Coal and Towing company, were torn loose from their winter moorings and landed on a sandbar in the Ht Lawrence river, abreast of the city, the Itjlian te 8 LOST LIFE IN FLAMES. Woman Burned Who Smoked in : Bed. St. John, N. B.,°' March 18.--As a3} result of a mysterious fire in a Uhes. field street house, Clara McGuiggan, a well-known woman of the town, was! burned to death, and Margaret Hayes | also well-known to the polive is at the hospital, and will probably die The body of Clara McGuigygan was brought out of the house soon after the firemen arrived, - She was - almost a | Kaladar yesterday evening to inquire] » & 1HTe naked, and had been either burned to death or suffocated. The Hayes wo i man was taken from the house in a! critical condition, fd was sent' to the hospital. It is expected she | die Emma Dickson, who lived douse with the woman, says the was caused by The house ahouat the worgen. smoking Dickson 1eft noon, and on returning a ow minutes later heard -sereams- {rom he room ocoipied by Clara MeGuat-- and Margaret Have She went the foot of the stairs, at th time Margaret Hayes appeared | at the upper landing with her clothing in flames bed, woman to and Tidings From Glenvale March 17. ~The cheese meeting was held in the hall on Monday mght will make cheese for the coming som atone per cent. pnd -a-wixteenth instead of a cent and an eighth, formerly. William Pillar was pointed salesman, secretary and trea sarer, at tne same salary. Misses Allon and Fair, evangelists, are hold | ing services in the hall every night, Mrs. J. 8. Wartman, who spent the winter in Toronto under medical cdre, Mrs! Richard Al Glenvale, {larbeck spent a few days in Kingston inst week, the guest of ber father, Capt. 5 Dar i aw, Collingwood street. | Mrs. George Pilar spent fast week at! her father's, T. Hawkey's. J. Al Ellorbeck has been confined to the! house for a few days with tomsilitis | Russell Pillar is attending Business | College in Kingston. Visitors © Mis Rose Cramer, Jaserions. at her fath-| er's; Miss J pb Campbell, Catarsqgui, | at Edwin Clark's: Misa Guthrie, Perth Road, and Miss Sherbmenn, Kingston at J. Clark's: J. Lancaster Belleville, | at WW. Hammond's; Habert Townsend Kepler, at W. Tophififs. To Withdraw Request. It is understood. that the journey men painters will withdraw their re quest for. an eight-hour, day. presented to the bosses a few ys ago. The! painters think they were quite right! in asking for the eight-hour day. The: ask : "Why should they work mine while other workmen osly put The Amerivan fleet has also been in- | i the | | Victoria hotel, at Quebec, under sus-! Ontario legislature, on| a serious clash took | A ------ Pro SM March 18, Ottawa ie per St. Lawrence (10a. m.) «= ln- creasing easterly winds, ssow to- might. Thurs- {day, high westerly winds, with {snow or rain. IC OOC0O0000 Siss, . Beautiful Hats wl Toe Steacy's. COOO00 | To try and describe them all would be utter folly. The gives pen only smallest you the ¢ idea of the color. ings, tones and | artistic arrangement of these beauti- the ful creations. Among most prominent are Gains boroughs of handsome net, effectively trimumed with feathers, flowers, ribbons and piquant "Widows Bows." Smart Russian and Spanish Turbans with cleverly arranged aigrettes and uncut Ostricn Pompons. Exquisitely trinuned Leg- horns and Straws and love- Hats Pink Roses ana of Violets, ® ly Flower of You are cordially welcome SEE" OUR GREAT DISPLAY Of Bilks, Trimmings, Laces, Goods, Dress Muslins Ready-to-Wear Garments, Steacy's. SAARC EECREEER. Goods, Wash and Dress BORN. SOWA RNS MARRIED HAM-HRAYNOI ¥ 1 { CUNNING of H 11k Nor Ras @ I" ROBERT J. REID, The Leading Undertaker Phone, 577. 227 Princess street. We carry a complete line of Crosse and Blackwell's Celebrated Jams Piam Grwengng? Gooseberry Vineapple Hawplerry Peach Pawson Apricot Cherry Sirawherry Bisck Currant Hed Currant Raspberry smd Qurrant Raspherey and Jooseberry Sirawherry sad Gooseburry Visempple apd Apricot Jas, Redden & Co. Importers Of Fine Groceries, . : Francois Lawoix, seventy years old Jiving at La Tuque, was faislly injur- od in a quarsel on Friday last. A plant will be established at Mii waukee Wis, to meke gas from old straw, corncobs, sotnstalka, ste. ou i Ti i foolish to wish for things whey have bands, Jo Xork ior Mey J