he 1 YEAR a PAR 75-30. 04. A HOT TRADE FIGHT - Baking Powder ( Company Wars on Standard 0 Oil. Corn Products Company. Atl Attacked by. Baking | Powder Concern For Supremacy in Corn Products Market. New York, Apeil 21. The $80,000, 000 Corn Products Refining company backed by Standard Oil interests, and the $20,000,000 Royal Baking Powder company have embarked upon on trade war. Kor years 'the baking powder | conoeriy bought all the starch it used from the Corn Products company. Recently it decided to supply its own starch, and for that purpose bought the $2,400,000 Western Glucose tompany at Koby, Ind., and organ- the American Maize Products a ompany, which will manufacture " #tarch, one of the chiel constituents of baking powder, and well its wur- plus corp products in the trust's ter: ritory, In retaliation he Standard Oil con cern has decided to invade the haking powder business, and has already % bived (a némber of experts from the companies already in that field, pre paratery to opening up an extensive plant, While the Corn Products company is the larger of the two comcerns in the fight, the baking powder jompsny is the more substantial and the best money maker. It has always paid six per cent. dividends, on its $10,000,000 of preferred stock and since 1900 from eight to ten per cent. on its $10,000, 000 of common. E. T. Bediord, Charles M. F. T. Bedford are the Standard representatives in" the directorate the Corn Products company. The baking powder company has started the war by offering a fifteen per cent, discount to buyers of corn products. Pratt and Oil ol GAMBLING CRAZED. -- Thousands of New York Women Flay Poher Day and Night: New York, April 21.-Thousands of the women of New York are gambling crazed, The World, for several weeks past, had conducted n «quiet but thor | ough investigation, and the most as. tunivhing facts were unearthed about | the extent of "the epidemic OF gom- | In ia. now. rages among women | in this 3 Sy. It is growing every | day. There seems to be no check to! its disastrous progress. There are hundreds of poker games | running nightly in New York, where patritiony is weakened and family | at Rome. plate being, hurried to pawnshaps. No| Rome, April 21.--From St. Peter to ri can be taken of the calamity to! Pius X, in: the history of (the papacy domestic life which is attributed to {record, no such grave sacrilege has the disposition of women to gamble | ever occurred as that committed, with cards. Poker games and bridge | terday, inside the vatican and under [ pon jes of men and women who indulge in draw poker and bridge, with = view to helping out household ex , from a visitation of Dame For There are scores of womien living of the profits of this passion in New | York to-day. These same are the | hoads of establishments in apartment 18 brown stoue front houses in (uief | neighborhoods. Their percentage the profits of the game: enables then | to live luxuriously. 0 | STOLE UNDER POPE'S EYES. -- A Grave Sacrilege in the Vatican ves KINGSTON, A FRIGHTFUL COLLISION. Eetween Two Excursion Trains in Australia. A oil 2} Melbourne, Australia, F'wo excursion trains collided, night, at Braybrook Junction, vil lage about seven miles west this { City. Several carriages were tel SCOP bod and it is believed that twentv-sev- { en people were killed and about forty { injured. The actual number has not Lows definitely ascertained, the | wreckage, took fire: and almost | completely consumed. Nineteen hodies (have heen recovered A later cable save two trains from Ballarat and Bendigo respectively, col lided, late last night, at Braybrook Junetion, about eight miles from Mel bourne, forty-one persons being killed and sixty injured. The Bendico train, with two heavy engines, crashed into the rear: of the Ballarat train. Five tars of the latter train were wrecked The wrockage took fire and was al most. completely consumed Many of the bodies were unrecognized when dis covered, The Bfudigo train sufiered but little damage, but the two were piled ontop of the of the other train. Terrible scenes fol- lowed the accident, many of the injur ul being caught in the wre kage and were with difficulty rescued. Tt was a long time before doctors and nurses arrived, and as a consequence intense suffering prevailed among the injured. a of as was very engines rear coaches He Will Not Interfere. ONTARIO, TU ESDAY, APRIL 2 1908. WILL BE PROMIN ENT ------------ ! In the Conference of the Governors] of the States last ! GEORGE OTIS SMITH, We present herewith & new portrait of George tis Smith, who will be prominent in the great conference of the governors of all the states in the union which President Roosevelt has called to assemble in May to take some concerted action looking to =av- Winnipeg, April 20.--G. H. Baroard, Vietoria, président of the British Co- lumhia conservative executive, has written a reply 160 the later of Rip Charles Tupper, Bart, who, last week, complained of the freatment given Sir Hibbert in Vaneouver. Mr. Barnard declines to interfere in any matiers, relating fo the Vancouver nomination. s------ { For any case of nervousness, weak stomach, indigestion, lysfepsia, try Carter's Little Nerve) Pills, Relief is sure. The only nerve | medicine for the price. in market sloep- | lessness, whist parties ave formed weeks in ad- | the eyes of the pontiff, who was him: vance, | nelf celebrating mass and administer In many el: the Broadway hotels | ing the commuwdion. Three persons, there are ofg wih ©om- | not Catholies alter great insistence, wiv ilage. Thelnz pre. mass, approached the altar on roceived communion from the hands' of the pope, after wards removing the consecrated wai- ery, one of which was found on the floor, These three persons knelt in the first row of communicants. Next [to them was dhe famous actress, Mary Anderson, and then the\gisters and niece of the pope. When the sacrilege was discovwPred, Miss Anderson, who had already received communion, be ing deeply absorbed, only observed the incident through seeing the sister of the pope next to her raise horrified hands. Simultaneously the members of the papal court and hich prelates, noticing the insult, removed the in sulters, who, however, justified their | action hy "alluding to their inorance of the Catholic faith, As the pope withdrew 10 his apartment, evidently disturbed, he éxclaimed, "May God forgive them; they know not what they did." The incident brings out a peculiar situation mn the holy: see. the sacrilege had ocourred in. any church in Rome, outside the vatican, Italy would punish the insulters. hut--<thy Vatican, enjoying the right of extra territoriality," Ttaly cannot be ap phied to. sont at the papal Basketball, Y.M. CU, A, 8 pe | Lighor Cowmiissioners, pan "Parsifal," Grand Opera House, pan, City Wediies Concert and Tea, ths evening. Sule of Furniture, 374 Wrock St, morrow, 10 ain. Basketball, Hamilton Y M.U.A Jian of Canada ve. Y.M.C.A pm. Princess Vaudeville all this Vernon Sisters, Sthgers and Pictures changed daily. Bijou Thektre~Pdiholis Drama, "The Sale) Jager Daughter' ; Comedy, "A Bad a Tool Chest. "Some Day' sang y Joh Robert. I Pavis. WHIG TELEPHONES. Jan--Husiness Qfica. ara Department, Forms, all kinds, at Whig. The Daily Whig 8 always on sale at Gibson's Drug , - Market Sguare-- Open till late each evening. -- Toilet Sets Now designs' for the Spring - season. © Quaint, odd, fashioned shpes and Prices Right. TAL Property Committees, ®4 pm, day, St, Pauls Church, tos « Chams Tuesday, weak, Dancers, 5 t Strung Him Up. | Atlanta, Texas, April 21.--Jasper Douglas, a negro, was chased in a warrant with having crimina'l- ase saulted his stepsister, a girl of thir teen years. Yesterday his body was found Janging to the limb of a tree near this place. The verdiet of the coroner's jury was that Douglas came to his Seath at the hands of unkgown par The hody the late Thomas Lan, dro cutting ice at Ne Laughlin's slide, Arnprior, on Jan. Zia, wis found. on Saturday, floating in the river. The body was in 'x fairly good state of preservation, tuck, Ann. grass sod" is the one lawn To 'ean depend an to make, Your wn beautiful. = Sold 'y Red Cross dru stor. {with his little daughter, refusing Paris, SLA woman named April Jeanne silbert is under arrest in thel Alia " EE Art suspicion of a series of murders of re-| latives by poisoning. If the murders! be proved against her they will form one of the moss terrible crimes in his tory. In Che village, and in the town of Bourges near it, the in the guilt | of Jeanne Gilbert is unanimous, and several offorts were made to lynch her as she was taken to prison, Jeanne Gilbert is a married woman, ah a fortune of $20000 of her own Heo husband, a man in a good posi- tion, absolutely refuses to believe in| her guilt. He has closed all the shut | ders of his house and shut himself up belief | | | { | to | sie ahy one. Jeanne Gilbert thirty, and -has | Leen married for den years, She js nf good-looking woman, dark-haired ! dark-eyed, a good housewife and, til the deuths of many of her friends and relatives from arsenical poisoning threw suspicion on her, she was popu lar in the village. } One evening about two years ago M. | Gilbert's father, after eating chicken prepared by his daughter-in-| law, was taken violently ill and died. | A few days later his wife was lin the same way and died an hour. In September, 1906, father, M. Gisault, received from his daughter of a made by her own hands. 'That even. ing he died in tercible pain Mme, | Girault, Jemine Gilbert's mother, who had also tasted the tart, was "very! il, but recovered. Less than two, months afterwards she died, suffering | from oxactly the same symptoms as belore, after eating some grapes which | her daughter had sent her. And al | is and un i some take nl within | . | Gilbert's a present plum tart Jeanne " ---- ---- -- De- gave while A young woman en route from catur to her home in Bufialo, birth to a child on the train, nearing St. Thomas. Alphonse Champagne, Montreal, was cut to pigoes By a ver ad he lav on the street railway tracks, on Sunday, The late Archbishop Prospero + Washboards. "Stove: Spe ans, Stove 3 Botan, Sto "Stove: ~--Hecanse + Boop of Mexico, lef an estate of full of features and prestnted a sample of 'swiftly sadmiviniered Justion, le { of Michigan, to see i work {| son and daughter-in fit | Mme. | eare mg the resources of the country. Mr Smith, position of chief of the United States geological survey will be called upon for facts and fig | ures as to the alarming rate our coal and other patural are being exhausted, ful methods. Mr Maine and only in hig new at which resources owing to waste- Smith ix a native of is thirty vears of age. He is a gradunte of Collye { College, and took courses in geology lat Johr@Hovkins Univers ity. He en- gaged in geological work in the states Utah, Washington and Maine, beginning in 1893, dnd since 1506 has been in the government ser vice. seven inn - THE LATEST VICTIM Accused of Poisoning Many of Her Relatives Without Apparent Reason. servant of the Gilhert x diel in the same way a lew. weeks later, Ahene Condy the symptoms were the same=violent bum: ing pains, uncontrodable sickness and death, On March 21st, ok about ten o'clock in the morning, Jeanne Citbert went her cousin, M. Pallot, whose is some fifty yards from her M. Pallot and his wife, were at in their vineyard. Jeanne Gil rt passed through the empty house | and d them here, leaving: them soon afterwards. When M. and house own, Jone Pallot and their returned to found a largé, white Thinking Mme law they the windowsill. a present from one of who had probally left finding home, whole family it at re But soon wired violently ill, Monday Pallgt expired, in spite of the bestowed on 'her by her eousin Jeanne, who had hastened to © her bedside to nursé her on hearing of the the he cheese that ijt their relative there, use on WAS oF no one at the partook of alter they and on dinne taken occurrence i | The remainder of the cheese was ex- amined and found to contain afsenic, whereupon M. Pallot openly ac Jeanne of having done the work. In spite of Ler tions of innoeence searched, and the of brown paper, which the other half of that chéose Was wrapped, mediate arrest, Since her arrest mainiaiped calm demeanor, declares that it is a pity tales pet about." iii) Before going to prison wreath of flowers to "my sin," but it was ret lot. sed her houge discovery was a piece] to be the of proved, which to her fod jod has she silly Mme. Gilbert and "such she sent 4 beloved eu drtiedd "by M. Pal "FIRED" ALL CHRISTIANS. Superintendent Will Employ No Christians. Los Angeles, Cal, April 21.--Mem- bers of the Y MU A. are deeply agi- tated because General Superintendent C. B, Weaver, in churge of the 'eon- struction work of the five hundred thousand dollar association building, 'has discharged alt Uhristigog he could find among the two hundred men em- ployed, and declined fo hire any. He ectares that he can "get twenty-five, per cent. More work ob of sinners than church members," ami will finish the job with gen making we profes. sign of fai raver wr when heSeegan the work he had a few hak hey tl can't deliver the goods. 'They hey ca sissy dot of fellows © who thought that because . they belonged to the church they onght to get the solt end of everything. 1 fired 'om. jhim directly to the hospital, vehement protesta- | n- | Ir i Terrible Accident ---His Hand Came Knives of Jr. ine of a terrible ac the alternpon, Enoch Godwin, street the the patton Works, on Mogday o'clock. He Wwas jointing a heavy sash, on one of the large jointers, when the sash tipped over and his left hand came in contact with the keen knives. The most of his left hand was completely severed. The blades enter- ed the hand at the base of the palm on the little finger side, running di- agonally across the palm to the base of the index finger, taking off com- pletely the four fingers. and over two- thirds of the palm at the hand. Mr. Godwin, although suffering ter- rible agony from the wound, was able to walk part way to Dr. Bogart's, when ' the doctor met him and drove where the + Was victim ident, in Locomotive at 5.30 shop at Enoch God to win, Jr. In the Locomotive Works Yesterday Afternoon Beneath the Sharp a Jointer. d moruing dres Dr. Bogart stat that Mr as could be precaution was Injuries were el, this was doing as well pected, amd every be- ing taken to fight against hlood-pois- | al al oning setting in. There always strong chance of poBon from such wound, but no symptoms have yet ap- peared in the hand. The thumb, though badly cut, will be saved Mr. Godwin, who i* about thirty two wears old, ix a son eof H. Godwin, Pine street, He is a ried mah, with six children. His many friends - throughout the city shocked to hear of his terrible misfor tune, and sincerely hope that ther trouble will set in. It will some weeks before Mr. Godwin will be be able gt around deéRp pats felt Jor family is to again PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest Culled From All Over The World. Seigfried Atkinson is appointed po lice magistrate for Haileybury, Cement dealers have organized Canadian Cement Assqeiation. The Gouin government in Quebec is to introduce a redistribution bill, Hon. F. Cochrane has decided > contest the Sudbury division for do legislature The king and queen left London this | morning for Copenhage n, Stockholm! and' Christiania. { Lieuttmant Commander Book ! walter, who was eppeinted Fhe navy from Hlinois, has resigned A hospital patient in Wewanee, 11, fatally burned while atte mpting to smoke cigarettes under the bed clothes. { Rev: George M. Robb, Philadelphia, has accepted a call so be pastor of the Presbyterian church, Al John Plt, Catskill! NY, who died recently, aged ninety-eight, spent his Ide within # radius of four miles from where he was born. Noah Stouffer; Stouffville, was wrested. in Toronto, charged with abduction. of Marv Alma Hopkins, sixteen-year-old girl. The Central Union New York, must pay #15000 to the husband of a woman who was acoi dentally asphyxiated April 5th, 1906 John Kemp, a photographer of Pat terson, N.J., is ip a serious condition al his home as a result of being hit ten. by Ris pet parrot ten dave ago. Sistyveight slot machines were cons fiseated by police in Pidsburg, Pa and the 1,000 pennies they contained were added to the police pension fund of the city: At the liberal convention, day, It likely W, HB KU. will be neminated | West Hamilton, and W. H {in ast Hamilton. An old trench™ has Hook, is believed, ol rn ra killed i mouth Court Three | more, { for an a country flames till An appeal for | forest the! wae monte. ar- the a Gas company, i on Thurs Wardrope, to yun m MoClemont is found at bones. it British of Mon been containing the thirty forty at the battle House, 177% soviety buckets. of Sandy or preity girks of Md.. carried hour over the loping residence, keeping firemen arrived roofs ol back the of was the preservation and game in this country ne bv Dr. Fernow, the ition of the Fish and Game Protective Association, on Monday night The bodies of Marshall Hazelton and Frank Chisamore," the two young Alexandria Bay men drowned in the St. Lawrence from a sail boat, while duck hunting Wednesday, have been recovered, 4. A. McAndrews, Toronto, the tiring registrar of the court of peal; bas anmounced his iniention of going int active practice. He will join the firm of Kilner and Irving, on May 1st. at conven re« ap- - LEAPS. TO Berbin, Apel 3A French profes. | sor mamed Gadbis was killed bere be- fate the evos of 5000 sphctators while going through a daring | performance knows as' the "death leap" ut the Cireus Busch. : Gadbin's performance consisted of Ieaping from - the roof 100 feet in height to aii inclined smoothly planed | same wooden shaft, ter landing on the shaft he slid down into a het at the bottom. The distance from the point where the leap began to the top of the inclined shaft was eu Poh" this shaft wis forty Teed i ; A subvessiul I perfomlinner df hide feat ing 86 wn GREAT DEAL OF BUILDING Being Done on Down the River. A large cmount of building is being | {done on the Canadian side, river, and this season promises to be | down the best in many years, in this line. One contractor at Alexandria Bay, has the contract for three houses, at a cost of 850,000. Work has been car: ried on all winter, and m a very short -time a number of the new homes will be ready for use. For the most part, the new houses are being-erect od by Americans, and some model architecture will be shown. Americans have a great love for the scenvey {the Canadian side, the houses the number of beautiful residences al ready on Canadian soils A Nuise's Faithfulness. A Carp, Ont, wa Free Press says: "A skid death oc Feared at Carp, when Ernest Cavanagh, eldest son of Thomas E. Cav apagh; passed away at the carly age of twen- ty vears. The immediate cause of death was double pleiro-preumonia complicated with inflammation of the covering of the heart--pericarditis. He was. ill for twelve days and was con stantly attended by Miss F. |} of Ottawa, a trained nurse, who had charge of his father, double pneamonia. Miss Forneri re mained on duty forty three on and new ory who hours in succes Ofcasons to S sion an The daughter tor of St above is Forneri Kings nurse roferred ol Rev. R Luke's church Bicycle Was Returned While pasding Hiscock"s store, cess street, Satur ni ree Prin on unt, mall the seven-year-old ad purloin left standing in store, and 'made off it When asked by his mother whore he Wiad secured the the lad broke mito tears and confessed having it from the store. The bicycle then" returned to the store, The lite were notilied to be the | foe the missing wheel, Pye had 1 to Lime an as returped, front home bieyvele, of with bicyele Lad on but vestignt nike i Spring Importations Of 1908. Prevost, Broek street, has received three cases of imported goods for his order clothing department, consisting of Scotch and English tweeds, serves cheviots and vicunas. A great variety of them to choose from. Late Snowfall In 1885. On April 26th, 1885, snow fell Kingston to the depth of There is a good chance of HN eynal ling the recoril of twenty-three vesrs ago, if this oool weather continues The wise ones haven't stored their snow shovels yet. in offen font hrown sult- in and tatloee. A consignment. of new, ings just arvivel Usll them. Shusiord S\Bal &+ Walsh sou HIS DEATH Five Thousand Horvified Spectators. Wi Terrible Tragedy Under Canvas. ont fo i Sadlio meet! underitesend thoroughly that the least "deviation | air would Spevitably resslt Bn his donth. He dived: from the rool heardiong aml posed bis 'hoody. while shooting Shiough the aw st surk an angle that he alighted on the shaft wt exactly the | clined, thereby shiding dow without | further rosietunes Lunt pight be tails! 10 maintain thie! poe and struck the dipper end of the shaft with bis chest. somersault. and fell heavily to the ground. Denth huned xbortly after Godwin | ex- | al | war. | were | no fur} be Very | him and hix | Canadian Side | the | put up this season will add to | despatel 'to the Otte: | eri, | tees also had | fromi the proper course through mid. | angle atl whith the shaft was in| He tarpon ow fee Wis Rnmecinstoly i audience wl | oe April 21, Ottawa Valley and Up- per St. Lawrence J0 a m.)-North | | MOLLUS S| westerly winds, | RX fresh to strong during the day, ler and cool, Wednesday, fine, with a little higher temperature. red bbt td FELEE EEL AP LEE E444 PEP bb 4 4s ++ TO PLEASE YOU Our greatest every customer aim to h pleased and satis fied mot only with our goods but also with our service. 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