| THE 5 P.M. EDITION BLJOU OPEN AGAIN. | Reasons Why it Was Closed on Wednesday. "The Bijou was closed on Wednes- said Manager Burrowes day, to day, "because the film sent on by our | agents in the east was not worth the i We tried to get a but failed, and the house with | price of admission {better film in time, | we would not open {what we had ! patrons their money's worth, we pre- | fer to lose their business. We have 'B maintained the reputation of The Bijou for quality after the hardest kind of a struggle, for it is extremely CLEANED STORED AND {difficult to get clean, fresh films, and " | they can only be obtdined by a con iB | stant struggle with the acents of the | Telephone waggon to call, 489, {high the price paid, the agents will i | always try to work off junk' on the fi | exhibitors. I do not know anny busi [| ness in which there is so little busi. B® | ness principle, and such absolute dis- S| regard' of business courtesy as in the S| film renting business. However we Dweritt rather close the house than ac- Kay Fur House, | cont our patrons' money without ~iv ing a gaod equivalent, Whenever The [SIRT RRR] | 130 is ben the public mav Fepend on seeing a good show inside. ': ee LINE TO KINGSTON. John aise {Wainwright Says G.T.R. Prepared to Build It, Oltawa Citizen. | "Ihe Grand Trunk railway is {pared to build a short line from Ot. {tawa to Kingston as soon as the holders of the present charter get the municipalities along the line to na certain bonuses * that were voted," stated William Wainwright "And if the bonuses are {voted 27 "Then it will be a matter for the | management to kleal with." Mr. Wain You shouldn't shave yourself, The | wright stated: that the company is A¥erage man spends thirty or forty | randy to finance and build the line as ents @ Weok shavin When we can sell] Lida vou a Razor Commies for 81. {soon as the arrangements indicated It will materially shorten | The Bver-Ready with 12 Blades 4r made Fivery one gueranteed or Your money | the distance between Ottawa and refunded. | ronto, W. A. MITCHELL, Hardware SEF OUR WINDOW pre- not re . NO REASON WHY To- Began Quite Romantically. An earthquake romance at King ston, Jamaica, had a very happy se- quel on Tuesday. At the home of Mrs. Parker, Rowanwood avenue, To ronto. Her son, W. D. P. Barker was married by Rev. C. J. James to Miss Ruby St. John Hepburn, of Jamaica. Only those relatives living in Yoronto were present, but they made "a rood- lie companie." Richard Cowan, part- ner of the groom, was his "best man."2 Miss Florence Glass bridesmaid. The young couple left for New York for their honeymoon. Mr. Barker is a Kingstonian--our own Kingston--and his visite here have heen very agree. able to his friends, who freely wish him all the joys of the happy wedded state. REPAIRING OR RESETTING Of valuable rings is neces- sary after much wear, other- wise a costly jewel is likely to be lost. Our workmen are skilled in the setting of diamonds and { other precious stones, and We can promise you first. class work, at reasonable prices, Engraving, designing and manufacturing a . special ; feature of our business. Spangenberg JEWELLER ; Diamond Merchant. -------- Two Boy Travellers. Two bright looking little boys, one aged ten and the other thirteen, ar rived at the station here on Tuesday morning. They came from the Bar- nardo Home, in London, and were on their way to a farmer, at Sunbur- who will adopt them. The hoys, with a number of others, from the same home, eame out to Canada on the steamer Dominion. The others went on to the branch home in Toronto, but as these two were hooked for Sunbury, they were not taken on The boys are being cared for at the Orphans' Home, until the arrival of the good farmer. ---- Dangerous To Pedestrians. J. H. Malcolm writes as follows : Perniit me to call the attention of the civie. authorities to. the dilapidated condition of the covering over one of the drains at the crossing of West street, leading to the court house Small pieces of board a few inches wide 'and about a dozen in number, take the place of what 1 think should he one broad 'piece, Needless to say that these small pieces in_ their pre- sent condition are dangerous pedestrians. to -------- Brother Of Kingston Doctor. he hoavy wind this morning caused! Dr. D. M. McCarthy, of Prescott, any a cilizon to make use of strong | who was awarded a medal by the fanguage and others to want to. Man | Canadian Humane Society, for Bats were ldown around in the dirt | cuing a lad from drowning last July, and many women had their head gear! is a brother of Dr. William Met 'arth, badly damaged. | of Kingston, and also a Queen's Me- dioal College graduate. The doetor is { well-known here, Effects Of The Wind, res- Local Option By-Law, A ieation was niade Before Jus. | ; See Sp in single court, on behalf | Met With Accident. of Luke Joyce, to quash phe local op- | James Mel ulla, _ grocer, Montreal tion by-law of the township of Pitts. |street, was the victim of a painful ac- borg. Judgment was reserved { cident a few days ago. While workin mn | a- meat cutting machine one of * his "Only a few miore days remain {fingers slipped in the way, and the t's guessing competition, [top of the member was cut off. i There was no business for the police | wourt this morning. "Ming Leopold is seriously ill. ---------- Queen's University eonvoeation will be held on April 29th, ---- " our Order Please ~~ (] May we have your Spring Suit order now ? Our variety of fine and exclusive fabrics in Suitings, Trouserings, Overcoatings and Vestings, etc., is now at its best. We take pleasure in showin styles to men who- are looki swell things. We would particularly draw your atten- tion to our beautiful assortment of New Brown Suitings The correct color for Spring wear. the new ng about If we cannot give our | } pi i bond with the express company as a | {manufacturing houses. No matter how | - THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, ro INCIDENTS OF THE DAY, ' THE N MANUS CAS | Mowsy Paragraphs Picked Up By ; Reporters On Their Rounds, CHECKS STOLEN HAVE| Det. NEVER BEEN CASHED. |W idow hat this season ? William Swaine, piano tuner. Orders What Sherif Foley, of New York | received at McAuley's. 'Phone 778. M. Folge 3 sreatly improved, Says--What McManus Confided | wo) Brent y_inpro to Rev. Father MeDonald-- | Pinkerton People Satisfied. | The New York Sun has the follow- ing to say regarding the "hid" Me i Manus case {the dairy school have returned Sheriff Foley has got the EXPIess |} eir home, Company to drop the case, and it Bl Andrew Y. Thompson, B.A., certain pow that the krench govern: | down' from Belleville, to-day, Went won t push it. Big Tim Sullivan | go days' visit. also has been interested with the | The schooner Dundee, costing 817, sheriff in saving McManus. Sheriff Fo- 000, has been sold for #700 to Capt. ley has gone so far as to putup a Smith, of Brockville. , | H. Cunningham, piano tuner from any loss. which the | Chigkering's," Leave orders at Mo. company might sustain through the | Auley's Book Store. cashing of any of the stolen travel-| |). McDonald, of the Bank of Mon- lers' cheques, McManus himself has | {real Tweed, visiting in the city, re told what he did with this negotiable | turned home, to-day. : Paper, amounting in all, it is estim- | William Thompson, of the Thornton ated, to $5,000 or $10,000, and the | & Douglas company, Hamilton, is in Pinkertons believe that it has been | the city on a business trip. destroyed | The board of education meets this Sheriff Foley declared yesterday that levening to consider the question of hix sole interest in the case was hu- | better fire protection in the schools mane, McManus had been born of a| Charles Deyo is around again after clean Irish family in Grand street. He will jan attack of typhoid fever. I'he sheriff knew him as a boy and has [soon be on the Kk, & P. again. been acquainted with the family all | Fellows' Compound Syrup of Hypo- his life. McManus at one time ow ned | phosphites, is sold in Kingston at two saloons, one in Third avenue and | Gibson's Red Cross brag Store, the other in West street, but he ne-| Ars. C. Deyo and Miss Joyner left glocted the busingss for a bad woman [by the K. & P. RR. at noon, for and things went against him, Said | Wilbur, to visit friends for a day or Edwards & Jenkin. Are vou guing' to wear a Merry to-day, and shortly. A pumber from this vicinity have gone to New Liskeard within the past few days. Quite a number of the students again at to came for a guarantee against Sheriff Foley $0. "1 know be is a crook through and | Lieut. E. J. Long, who has been through. I've known that for many | taking a signalling course in the city, years, I told President Fargo of the | returned to his home in Napanee on express company that he wouldn't be | Wednesday. a good citizen for this country, not| James Kenny, good for himself or for anybody else, | Bros., left, on Wednesday, for But there he is, prison crazy, after u | bridge, where he has secured a confinement of eight or nine years a | tion, fit subject only for a sanitarium. _k| The pool tournament at Baker's, was merely a question whether he | last evening, was won hy R. A. El should be sent to end his life on De- | liott, win "Marty" Walsh a close vil's Island, with no hope for his | second, Handsome prizes were award family of ever even recovering his {ed the winners, body, or whether he should be brought Oranges. Edwards & Jenkin back here and allowed end his| Miss M. E. M. Butler and Miss days under their care." {A. Butler are leaving ona trip The Pinkerton detective { Liverpool. They will gail from which has been handling the case for | John, N B., Saturday, on the steam- the express company, did not object | °F Lake Erie. : to this disposition of the 1 hey | Don't forget Y.W.C.A. open session, were inclined to regard the eight | to-night, : and basketball match be- years of confinement which McManus | tWeen junior gymnasum girls and Ca- had undergone in Canada as a suth- | taraqui school girls, at Y.M.C.A,, & cient punishment, Speaking of Sheriff | P-m. Admission, 15c. Foley ihterest in te case Supetin. ot hay Oyuer, Raveloer, visit tendent Doughe sai . her Plenty aid; v men friends in and about the city. "Tom" Foley, who Hue Unnglrer, Deborah, is still give a helping hand ries leyo's, aa Xho s down ofl out there would be a Collector Bartels = Jing po- ess work i 9 o | lle court summonses fo ose « and ota oh is world for the polis have not paid their statute labor ns McManus got away to London. and Young men, pay up, and don't be call there he learned of the arrest of lus | on to Jo to' the police court. » p POSES, pals. What be od after that. he has on or ny 'aptain and Quartermas- recently told to Rev. Father McDon- ter W. § ho r RC R Toronto ald, of the penitentiary at Kingston, bs bor amiiontnd to attend the he ae taken an interest in the case Royal Military College at! Kingston hu og has sport te results of in preparation for the promotion ex- awe gations. to the Pinkerton amination in May next. © Me traid iris . The last curling of the season was ith Hating was mirale of being taken done at the rink on Wednesday even- Ets, Se He omar, on i Mem in. a lgition and a couple of thirteen-point small valiso at a sporting club in | games were pulled off. The prizes will London, He gave the check to one of | pe presented to-night. his London friends, with instructions | Oysters, Edwards & Jenkin. to hold it for him. Then he left Eng- | The public will be welcome in the land for Canada. He had been there | jarge English classroom, at Queen's, but a few weeks when be broke into} on Friday afternoon, at four o'clock, Bryson & Graham's department store 4 with a pal and blew two sales ore | when Dr. Bonar, master of the mint. | % he | will give an address to the Political Jolics were Hye alert thay tho in | Science Club, on socialism, mainly in aris, where, itis said, there hasn't lits En rlish aspect been a sale cracked in forty years ex. | . cept by American criminals, and Me. | Manus was caught in the store. { -- Father McDonald, when McManus Regarding 'Requirements fo Stop confided 'to him his story of the leath | Payment of Cheque. er valise, 'got into communication | with the man who had the cheek in A case of much interest tried London. The reply came back that | and i Sustomery ol L diviss 3 ro sn' at + last divisio the man with the check had reformed, | Wige Madden at. the la n : court, in Kingston. ' A customer sued had got the valise a good many years] ¢ 2 - x ago; and had destroyed all the checks. | 11° Panker for negligence th fay uta The Ps iL » "| cheque for $50, drawn by him on his Fhe Pinkertons, it js understood, in- | f which vestigated the story, and they do not hank sceount, the payment . "the " Y. ther Wax s of the believe that any of the stolen paper | I claims = wa topped ba od ne i* 'in' existence. The express , | cheque had been cashed. The judge, in has n er bh it Press company {a written judgment, finds on the ques- a8 evel ac any of jt. { 0 pay out a cent OR { sion of fact that the notice was not {proved to be ---------------- CASE QUITE SERIOUS. formerly of Elliott Leth- posi E. to St to agency, case, has return with like His were willing to | to the fellow AN IMPORTANT DECISION to bankers by in time. He also finds {as to the law of the case that such {a notice to be effectual shauid be . 3 : {given to the manager of the bank and No Change in Condition of Arthur | writing. "I Hap case tried: verbal Reilly. | notice was given hy the customer At the Hotel Dieu on Thursday af- | the ledger keeper arid was, entered 'hy ternoon it was reported that there! him in the customer's account. The was no change in the condition of Ar- amount at stake was not large, but thur Reilly, the Corrigan street lad, such a case--the stoppin~ of a cheque who was shot in the back of ithe neck. | frequently arises, and it is well for The lad is in quite a serious condi- | both bankers and their customers tp tion. Wednesday afternoon the X-rays known what course they should take was used in another attempt to lo-| to nrotect themselves in similar cases, cate the bullet, but the examination! that is to say if the judgment of his proved unsuccessful Although quite | honor is sound serious, it is believed that he will be! am, Wvr-- able to pull through, and that the Killing Measures. bullet will be secured in the next at- Albany, N.Y., March 26.--The "as tempt which is made. sembly has moved to kill the Meade The lad had been working in a down! bill, increasing the flow of water town shop for some time and was de through the sixty mile level. The iag well, Much sympathy has bee, , Frisbie bill, to stop all work on the extended to the lads parents. The canal, was killed. latter have not yet been able to as. | The assembly codes committee, to- certain just how 'the accident occurred | day, voted unanimously to report fa" antl the investigation cairied on =o vorably the bill which makes it a far has revealed nothing, felony to operate a bucket shop in the state. 'The bill is similar to a bill which is on the order of final passage in the scuate. ---------- Death's Short Separation. Pittsburg, * March 26.--Mrs. Louisa Scheidhauer died at her home at Thompson Run. Twenty minutes later her husband, overcome be his grief, to Narrowly Escaped Drowning. Tweed, Ont; Majeh - 26.--Charles Fo. bear, a son of Louis Fobear, of this place, narrawly escaped drowning in Stoeo Lake yesterday. He was skat ing over the channel nnd went into an open spot shightlc frozen over. He streamed for help and was heard by a man on shore, who, with others, managed to save him, after he had been in the water twenty-five minutes, Setback To Newspaper Men. New York, March 26.--71he effort on the part of the American, Newspaper Publishers' Association to secure legis. lation by congress putting print paper and pulp wood on the frep list has re ceived a sudden shock beeauss of the absolute refusal of the ways and means committee even to give them a hearing. : and stricken with heart failuré as a result, also expired The couple will be buried in the same grave , They were affectionate, having Enown each other as children jn Gérmany, and met again, 16 be married. in this country. " ---------- Social At Hethel Church. The Ladies' Aid of Bethel church held a most enjovable social, on Wed- nesday evening which was lareely at- tended. Pinte rifreshments were ser- ved, and afterwards a short pro- gramme of pisic was rendered. The pastor, Bev. GG. A. Mackenzie, and George Mills, gave short addresses. A --------------------" 1 Two Dozen Twenty-Five Cents. Oranges or lemons, Fiwarde & Jou kin, "Phone 775, MARCH 26, 1908. BECK HORSE CASE MR. MATHESON HAS MADE EXPLANATION. -- Five of the Horses Sent to the In. ternational Horse Show Be- longed to Mrs. Beck, Wife of! the Power Minister. 2 Toronto, March 26.-- Before the Pub lic Accounts committee of the legisla. | ture, this morning, Hor Mr. Muthe son explained what has come to ° be! known as the Beck horse ine went. He said the government bad promised the | money to help in the exhibition of! horses wm London, Eng., and that | large entries had been promised from | the other owners of thoroughbred | stock besides Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Beck | The promise was verbal, however, "and | was not carried aut. Nine horses! were sent to the old country and five | of them belonged to Mrs. Beck. The province paid nine-tenths of 'the total} transportation expenses of the horses, | The exhibition cost Mrse Beck, at] least, 1,000 in addition to this. Douglas 1. Findlay was brought | back from Athlone, about two 'miles! out of Tottenham, in charge of i tectives shortly after noon, to day, to answer to the charge of robbing his | employers, McDonald & Maybee, cat: | tle dealers. The amount mvolved is| said to be $12,000 Findlay is only | twenty years of age. He was not ar | raigned before the magistrate the | court was over. He probably will fome up to-morrow, { In the public accounts committed of | the legislature this morning an enquiry | regarding the conduct of the mining | recorder at Haileyhury. was blocked by | members of the government The | claim was made that such investiga- | tion would lead to an enquiry regard- | ing Cobait Lake. This is in Iitiga- | tion at present and the chairman, . H. Carnegie, ruled that no questions relating to the litigation might be| asked, quoting precedents for his rul-| ing from the imperial parliament. The| chairman's ruling was upheld on al party vote of 16 to 7 { The winding up petitions at Hall, this against the W. J. Gardiner Co.. watch | manutacturers, Toronto, nominal | capital $40,000; the other against the Instrument and Chemical company', | Toronto," nominal capital $1,000,000 Argument on both petitiohs was Journed for a week, i | de | as filed one | were Osgoode morning, case ad | ! FOUND SURGEON'S LANCE. | Inside of Victim Operated on For | Appendicitis. Vancouver, March 26 William Argyle Campbell, laborer, forty, died, yesterday, apparently as the result of gross carelessness of ral months ago. Campbell suffered from appendicitis and an being performed, he recovered. After re-commencing work he was attacked by pains in the side, wnich increased $0 that he nearly became insane A | new operation in the alxdomen was performed. Impedded between tissues | the surgeon found the lance used in the first operation. Campbell was unable to recover from the shock of the a surgeon seve operation second operation tee FIRED WAREHOUSE, Night Riders Visited Covington Ky., During Night. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 26 Night | riders visited Covington, Ky , this} morning, and applied the torch to the | huge tobacco . warehouse of T. 8 Hamiltoh & Co. When they loft the warehouse with its 500.000 pounds of | tobacco and six were in flames, reach R150,000 a -- ---- Child Died Of Burns. Huntsville, Ont. March 26 Vigla, | the * five-year-old daughter of W. J | Fletcher, of Ravinselifie, a village six whites -- distant from Her her clothes on fire while playing about the | kitchen last while parents temporarily absent, and was burned so badly, when found her mother, that she died within hour. neighboring The residen will ces loss set stove, night her were by an S-------- Busy Blace Hand Men. luffalo, 'N.Y., March 26.-- Threaten ed with death and assured unless a contribution of $5,000 is received from | him his church will be dynamited, Rev | Father Kaelin, of the Catholic | church, at Easteden, in this county, | has appealed to the Hamburg autho! rities and the police of this coty to] protect him against a band of Buffalo | Black Hand men. | pastor Found Dead In Chair Ottawa, March 26. --Jshn Lawrence Gunn, just down from the shanties at Cartier, was found dead in a chair at St. Louis hotel, yesterday afternoon. ATH. Ai i HANDSOME OUTFITS FOR EASTER Natty Suits; Stylish Coats, Smart Skirts. 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Chatham, Ont., March 26.--A. Sea. koor, a fruit dealer, of Port Huron, was arrested," hy Sheriff Davidson, tor the United States officers at that place, yesterday. Seakoor is wanted hy the police here on the charge of fraud. It is alieged that he got goods from wholesalers, made 5 quick sale and then vanished. To Resume On Full Time. Potteville, Pu., March 26.--Orders were jssited hy the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company, for the resumption on full time of the fifty-five collieries and washeries of the company on. half time for the past ivo months. This will effect about 25,000 men and boys. Hurt While Hunting Coon. London, Out., March 26. --While try. ing to poke a coon out 5 tree, Cenrge Nixon, eighteen vesrs of age. fell a distance of nearly fifty feet, breaking both arms and suffering internal in juries. His condition is eritical. y btn \ The name of the Western Ontario Goud Roads Association was changed Bere ey Eee 3 Made on American Lasts and Patterns We induced an English manufacturer to make s us up a lot of Gent's Genuine English Tanned Box Calf Blucher Cut Lace Boots on up-to-date Ameri- ® can Lasts and Goodyear Welted Soles. They are here, and to introduce them have marked at the ® low price of $3.50 A Pair.