\ \ \ suicige ! her ro YEAR 75--NO. 178. ENDED HIS CAREER By Hanging Himself i in His Rooms in Napanee. an any Lae ibe An Eccentric Character Suicided on Wednesday ---He 'Lived Alone---His Family in Prince Edward. I------------ means, any! his to and lived old upcn known mah, Napange, Ju our ly was 30.~ The usual quirt was never do He hus a wife and son living in| Edward epunty, but it not | just where they can be found, | was removed to Carscallen s No inguest was of to disturbed, he day it became know that an old man, well known ghodit| had ' wu yester Work. Frinc | known The body rooms opposite the| undertaking Campbell house, The discovery wa made aboyt seven o'clock, when the who brought him his milk found hanging his room. Chief Gra-| R. Miller, John was at notified and cut the Miss Florence rope, but the old gentleman had been heen in the dead hours. The took quitting this world and trou- ble was by a rope attached to a hook | The C.M.B.A in the wall. The old man, familiarly | and Glenpra, called "Cap."" Pine, was about seven | Brockville, ty or ghty age, and had | very enjoyable lived alone for a nmun-! The heat wave means Yesterday just his person, | two prec days, in! tions, morning, when 18 Calvin Pine, committed | in town, his rooms, deemed Miss Mint visiting her necessary. Miller, of New parents, Mr, and street, Johuston, west for a couple last York, is| Mrys. el boy 8 him ham in who has of vears once week, to- visit her Johnston, Centre street. | excursion to Pirton| vestarday, per steamer well attedded, and returned home mother, Mrs. he for care means ol was el vears ol atill with us. as warm the and from predic to have a few extreme heat. hig He was mn rooms 18 had some ound had He was an eccentric as was ns of year 310 { he barks. al out ling it of on and said SOme the money wa are of this going che I day more MAD DOG BITES 17, Party Apply at, Institute--Bring | Head of Canine. 30 JUNCTION WITH N.T.R. Located Eight Miles From Abitibi | Crossing. 30. states by oo) they seven of Te appeared at the the New Orleans Hospital, to-day, and applied In the party wére two | eleven white childyen, | and a negro waman he some snaps { and her two children. | letter "hut none of the market yet, A Hedin is Well. | speculators put London, July 30.--A despatch in them, hoping | Simla reports that a caravan arrived | to be the get! the first!at Leh, Kashmir, from L'Hassa, 'li chance Junetion property." bet, brought letter written by one / rt ere of the of Sven Hedin, = the SX | explorer, saying that Hedin, concern dead, ing whose safety some anxiety mer Toronto man, has turned up peginning to be felt, well and that Seattle, and writes to his relatives his caravan is all right. here that he has made fortune fruit-raising in California Ottawa Valley up to the average. Jitten hee party of children July dog, them, a women Oklahoma ward of | July letter from | New Orleans, ing that the Na! |alleged I'ranscontinental is building « | brought the 200 feet t and a quarter of a mile | The junction with the Temiska-! and Northern Ontario railway | ( harity eight west for treatment the white hy Toronto, A Abitibi Cro tional bridge the long. mad whose with over river abote | teen inen and cumseh, 1s len water ming will ing, and be there "There is there," the the land is great many shacks and are the Cross | wil be miles of provincial railway women, October, going | one white man to Ave, on have up from living on to at spot a » fervants Missing for and long mourned years B. E. King, a» ago for was | | n= in is his ------ - in --- A the Industrial Iuvestigition into of the Toronto may oceur. BUNCO MEN BUNCOED Would Be Victim Saves $3,500 and Takes $500 From Sharpers. most searching he management Exhibition crops will hardly whole Wichita, Kar ulv 3 Ir 4 rvit to het MU oon to have be J. Savage, with him $500 of money his mon \iter he American came here to wager a dralt ou Wichitg had cashed draft at, the bunco men gp fixed Amarillo, shrewd n favor ranch | ey with mough beat the by car $600 of ing to was all right Savage an lex th the Owner, was onl to his buneo men not save own but State bank, him at their money, AWVe beliey that the own game their money to wager, convince Savag deal DAILY MEMORANDA. Bef } Steamen America Burg setore Lhe ng : gave the Texan a tip | hired 0 moto to Wellin fim: wager was ma He drove de and his wife "tly the a iriend te Jame Club Aug. 8 See Amusement Moving Picture Sh ville. St. Searchlight, ar, from th evening d from there took a wried thei $500 in ton, and Mrs the the four Vaude Column ws and for in Park Su6 Savage and buneo mer tocking thé Want business Read Ad -- HCE IORCIIGIIROIGIK The Hard Wickednes Victims of strated Song She Waits Fo Luc CONTEST OTTAWA. Ottawa, July 30.--The re- port is current that Sir Wilfrid Laurier may be ask- ed to accept the French lib- eral nomination for Ottawa City. As yet Sir Wilfrid has never stood for an On- tario constituency, but in the last election, when there was such.a turmoil in Wright county, he ran and was elected there, later resigning. 3 SEN HAIN | History be In Canadian Richm July 30th, 1818 ike of nd, wada Hodgson race Charles, D became Edward he St. Lawre The Judiei Privy Man toba al Commit uncil upheld Government schoo the province 1895 First. axhibition at Regina by the Governor<General 1898 --Rightt Rev. John Walsh, Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, Poronto, aged G8 years 1898 Fa Minto appe nor ener) Canada 1908 --Rill 1 the cf new tramscontinental railway in the house of ass mbly by Jauriery : ee ---------------------------------- rignt abolish hwperial the of the separate | MH! in open- 1 ji Rowan died at inted Cover astruction of introd wed Sir Wiliradl wr An Italian Love Affair. Ballston, N.Y., July 3u.--Lucy fare, Italian, twelve Ww sted with her father, charged with making a sav- with a kane upon Carl alvino, mficting wounds which are) | expected to cause Salvino's death. | SELF t Sulvino had Leen payin: attention to v the girl, but she resented it and caus-| od his arrest: for annoymg her. The girl and her father waited at the door ol tannery, where Salvino was em- We Carry in Stock First Turkish Parliament. ' | | Constantinople, "uly 30.----An im- ALL SIZES perial irade made public convokes ® ROBERTSON BROS. { | vears « old, | Kitk Af- an 18 are far anda attack is charged ployed, and when Salvino came. out, it the girl slashed him about the face with her knife. the | first Turkish parliament under the [new constitution for November {The document announcing this {ion appeals to the people to itheir demonstrations, pointing * ont | that as the sultan has proved his | good sentiments and his intentions |strietly to observe the land labor for the prosperity { his subjects there no longer io continue the manifestations, which i n'y impe de progress. decis- | cease all reason of at fo Bir run Bobby mingham, again in herr fell in race is and will be England. a unable | | | | | | | | | glans, | daughter ing | herited { Collins | Kirby's in { Ohio [tives ® land "triplets arrived. Le { cnmore, | | arrest into Jat | peeted "{pired. constitution | {11th Bourbon ancestors, Franceis Il and Henry 1V. The duchess has shot over every royal preserve on the continent, her exploits including wild boar hunting at Amerois, in the Belgian: Ardennes; stag hunting at Rembolillet, chamois hunting in the Austrian Tyrol, ang bufialo hunting in the eczar's pre- serves at Blawlowiege. While at Amerois last autumn the duchess went to hunt a stag reported to be of great ferocity amg to have killed a woman. "The bringing down of this animal made her.very popular in Belgian sporting cireles. LOVE LAUGHS AT JAILS, TOO. Musician Weds Marshal's Daugh- ter at Cell Window. Creek, Col, Yduly 30.--A at the county jail took place under unusual Sif ctivetances, last night, when Prof. Hans Albert, musician, formerly of Omaha, and Mics Grace Hadsell, Ottumway, Towa, daughter of the United State? marshal at that were declared man and her Henry | PUCHESS AFTER GRIZZLIES. King Leopold's Daughter Coming to America. ¥ Cripple marriage of place, "MAN RAN AMUCK neni ni nt, Old Lady of 70 Injured, Bat Not Fatally % Matderer Caught and Arrested. Kenora, Ont., July 30.--One of the most terrible crimes in the history of Canada oecurred here Tuesday > night about six o'clock, when a young Eng- lishman named George E. Johnson at- tacked and. probably fatally injured Mrs. James Humphreys and her sister, head amd the hand. Halli dared he made his way out to yell for the po- lice. Johnson then went below and at- tacked the mother of the two women, Mrs, Wolseley, hitting, the jaw, but fortunately a neighbor, re, DUCHESS OF VENDOME. Brussels, July 30.--~lhe Duchess Vendome, King Leopold's niece sister of the future King of the generally considered the shot among royal sportswomen, decided to accompany her husband on wife by Rev. Mr. Inman, a Methodist minister, of Goldfields. Col. ¥lbert's | arrest. was eaused by the girl's father, | on Saturday, to prevevs the marriage, | { the charge being insanity. Last night] | Miss Hadsell and the minister vis ited | the jail and asked to see Albert. The| his coming expedition to the tocky | request was fefused, and the jailer, | mountains in quest of grizzly hears | thinking the incident at an end, went The duchess, who is a great grand- | upstairs. During his absence a hox of King Louis Philippe, was placed outside Albert's eell win- familiarly known bere as "the OT Miss Hadsell mounted it and, duchess," and seems to have in-" elasping Albert's hand through the all the sporting proclivities of harred window, was made his wile. ECHOES OF THE PAST Interesting Items From Old Fyles of the Whig. ---- of and Bel- best has had 400 the great financial panic of ('ommercial f 11837 the Bank King- 'ort Henry ston was the only Americy that and completed in did not suspend specie payment. | he of Kingston were in the rag business, giving pence a pound for them. They into the manufacture of paper. The destructive ago that en masse hunt them. 1 he cholera of 1804 King The commenced 1839 Bajus' the oldest Kingston. Four men were drowned Bay fishing boat Island in 1835. In 1834 Kingston had Cartwright's, McGuire s, Scobell's. soldiers victims | Buring ston. building in . of one in [x32 was m once twd went newspapers Daltor institution Lrewery, formerly , 18 commercial In of a Snake out near were numerous and Pittéhurg , forty years inhabitants, turned out an appointed day to wolves £0 in the five wharves on McDonell's, and Fix condemned from Kingston jail in April, 1837. The jailer had to resign in consequence. "4n 1836 Kingston founded a Celtic society to protect and assist emi- grants, Sir John A. Macdonald was secretary. The Bank of and Kingston Jackson) were 1838 In Kingston St. Patrick's society was established in 1536 hy Irish Pro- testants and Roman Catholies in com- mon. Dr. Sampson and Thomas Kirk: patrick were leading spirits, bring the first president and treasurer respect ively. It was upon Queen Victoria's ascen- sion in 1 that a procession eccur- red in Kingston, and that a joke- loving baker got into gael for mixing ialap into a barrel of beer distribu- ted to the public on the market square. The results were decidedly wn- pleasant. escaped North America Battery (Capt. here in British Field established ol formerly Store Wellington Front, Princess street street, Bagot Rear, was Quarry, Ontario was (Queen street. was was and was Grave : a e---- PITH OF THE NEWS. ASQUITH'S LEADERSHIP | The Very Latest. Culled From All Earned Reputation As Master of Over The World. | Tactics. John Knox Leslie handed | resignation "as treasurer ol the has his Canadian National Exhibition. Rather than his pet dog for biting a girl Jehn Bushy, to, said he would go to jail The position of hotels in respect race track likely to be taken by the Ontario department. A deposit of have been discovered on the (Charles Reeb, Wainfleet township ; Robert Metall, thirteen, bit : p { ten months ¢ ill from ol killed | Toron see 1 1p is license silica orted t 18 rej farn aged by a dog a rabies species to A steamer with fired on river ant a hoard he wa Tait on proceeding lady Judoe was while ip passengel injured The G1 and mn twenty locon dred ¢ of p five the gram crop ig " ---- | Mr. and Mrs. A. Bertrand, chine, Que., have bes married for x VeRrs have aesd have hur ws ready to assist moving the westery PREMIER ASQUITH. Asquith has Leen prime minis enough to earn a reputation] S$ a of tactics. This may a decisive-test of either leadership cr. statesmanship. Mr. Balfour was al prilliant tactician when he was at the His subtle mind was fascin- the idea that everything could by sheer dexterity; but when | | the_general elections were Leld it was | covered that the country was weary | of clever manoeuvres and tactical dis- plays and "bent upon h¢ aving more Larnestness and consistency in politics and more constructive reform in legis- lation. Mr. Asquith may have a simni- lar experience in reserve for him, when | the electorate is allowed to puss pwd ment on the practical results of liber- al adminiktration; but, meanwhile, he has changed front in the face of tie opposition taken up a comme anding | position in relation to the lords, and) conducted every party manoeuvre with! rractical intellicence and amazing coolness. "Mr. Balfour has foun his match in cleverness and versatil | seven children \ Mr long now laugh of Ax ht, of eight-year-old not M.P.P sday mg Mc('art, J. MeCart, died, 1 master bo y | Ont. ue appendi Wedne was the Toronto has experienced this vear registered ninety second warmest treasury. | ated by { he dane day and the thermometer degrees franc Sigliano, the Italian wanted a i Qanlt Marie for the murder of a | w countryman; was arrested Michiecan and Brought hack. During an altercation on the steam or Standard, near JKenora, a Swedish fireman threw a voung KQeatchman nuit sd Robert MeKav, overhoard MeKay was drowned. The railways there Lode of cares in the North-West this vear. "The O®P.R. has 22.000 cars, the C.N.R. 7,500 cars, and the GTP. is ready for work. Bert. Shauchnessy, besa son of Sir Thomas Sha ighnessy, attempted to commit suicide in Seat- tle by drinking poison. following from a forgery charge Chnehec, watching Ste. in | | and sav will he no | who claims to his lity. 1 IIIS | i * Ww ONE-CENT RATE. * -- +] Ottawa, July 30.--It is %¥ expected that the one-cent = drop letter rate in cities will go into effect on the 1st of Séptember. x | Bresson For A Pelightful Sail. Take the steamér America's tour the Thovswmnd Telands, Saturday, 2.30 p.m., fare 50 cents. who slip- Theodue Gingras, i {ped off the Glacis while the | display the other ni ight and fell moat, took an unex- the worse and {naval citadel turn for the Colborne Man Fined. July 30.--P olice Magistrate and Cobourg, Holland $mposed a fine of §5 costs upon George Teasdale, of Col- borne, & local option town east of here, for an Alleged breach of the law lin selling intoxicating liquor on June last. | Spend £60,000,000 a Year able," | peace conference | to establish | at | riage | family i of| | Band and orchestra. 35 cents. 1 Mrs. Ackerman, in the former's home. The fiend first attacked Mrs, Hum- iphreys with 'a boilermaker's hammer, hitting her on the skull and jaw with the heavy instrument. Mrs. Ac- kepman, hearing her sister's cries, went to her assistance and was also struck down in the same way, the injuries being, if anything, more ter- rible. There is little hope that eith- er of the two women will recover. Just at the moment of the attack Mr. Humphrey retdrned from Dis work and was met by his little boy yelling = that 'his mother. was being murdered. He rushed upstairs, only to be struck by Johnson with the hammer on the had the hammer blow at Mes. throat, just as he raised for a second Wolseley, who is seventy years old. Arthur Jarvis, who was passing, also rushed inat this instant and as sisted Belare to hold the infuriated man. 'The police arrived quickly , and had the man arrested and taken to the station before a crowd gathered. The injured women were at once taken to the hispital. Johnson had been hoarding with the Humphreys, and it is said had been out of "york and got behind with his board bill, This is the only known motive for the crime. WHAT SHALL BE DONE ? in the interests of the arts and sci- ence, He believes it can be made into in Lon-|a great imperial institution. With the Crystal Palace don, Eng. London, July 30.--A has arrived in the affairs of the Crys- tal Palace, which was opened, at Syd- enham, by (Queen Victoria, and the prince consort, in 1881, and since that date has entertained fully 200.000 000 persons. The and eons for the demolition perpetuation © of the building ave now being discussed at the Mansion house. Those in favor of preserving the building say that it should be turned into a national in- stitution for arts and science and that its "side shows' could be ahol- ished and that the local, as well as the imperial government, might be asked to aid in maintaining it. Om the other hand, it is urged that it has never been a financial success, as the means of access are unsatisfactory. The new, manager of the Crystal Pal- age, Géorge 0. Starr, who for, thirty | fa vears was connected with P Bar- num, believes in retaining iy palace Rich Placer Ground. Spokane, Wash., July 30.--J. M Eakin, a rancher gn Salmon river, in the Elk City district, in Central lda- ho, who recently discovered rich pla- eer ground on his farm, has turned miner and is now working with day and night crews. The first test run, a few davs ago, netted $21 in gold as the result of three hours' work. The hydraulicagquipment he used ip irri- gating "his . apple and peach trees, pumpkins and berry patches, is now SOrious erisis pros or gravel so the gold can he gathered into the gluice boxes. There is an ample supply of water apd the climate is such that operations can be carried on every day in the vear. Mr, Eakin 4 he but did not know that the megtended years #go eon- tains 7, ry ed to he the rich- est Faget ground in Idaho. -- THOUGHT AN IMPOSTER One Brother Finds Another Under Odd Circamstances. his partner on the California, where way north from they were in 1895, When Royal reached Sprague he ob- given up for dead years aga, at tained a John Doe warrant in Jus- Sprague, Wash, after causing bis ar-| tice Ettelson's court on the charge of rest umer the impression-he was an obtaining money under false. pretenses. imposter. Royal received a letter| A detective arrested Doe on the Me- from R. J. Rayniend several. weeks | Melville farm, where he was working ago, asking for _fimancial assistance, | Doe asked permission to shave before He looked upon the letter with suspic- | appearing for trial, and when this was ion and his conclusion was that the| done, Royal recognized the man as his man, at Sprague, had gained some | brother. The matter was explained to knowledge of the Raymond igmily, | the court, and the proceedings were through the long brother, who | quashed, and the brothers was helieved to killed by | od for the old home in Wisconsin Wash., July 30.--Royal living near Madison, Wis. brother, H. Ji Rayvmend, Spokane, Raymond, found his lost | two start have been Beat in the Heads of Women With rushed in and caught the man by the lj employed to tear away the earth and [4 has been in the district since the ear-} local thunder storms chie night and on Friday ely - 5 urs . 3 , 3 "Liddell's'" and "Old Bleach Linens" 2 At 20 Per Cent. Off Black and White Three- 3 Quarter Length Lisle Gloves 90¢, quality, at 55¢. 60c. quality, at 38c. \ White and Fancy Parasols A Beautifil Tich, rustling Silk, $1 quality, at 75e. As Ladies' Home Journal. Monthly Style Book, for August FREE, AT A: er AN ENORMOUS WASTE. AINIINY PLEDGING THEMSELVES w Pre- paring For War. July 30.--"1t Lloyd George _ "that London, July 30.--~Three hundred members of the British | parliament and several ministers have pledged themselves in favor of the removal of the cattle embargo. Statistics show that among the two mill- ion Canadian cattle im- ported during the last twelve years not a single cdse of disease has been re- ported. deplor- fo the two great and ¢ JonumuDiti s like Germany 3ritain should not be abl understanding have concluded with the United 8 London, said } rogressiy e and Great a good suc b we { France, Russia, States. Wo are each year sixty million pounds sterling prepar- ing for which is a stupendous waste." as and gpending war, FEEREFEX EEX ER BER NEESER -------------- 4 Golden Wedding At Trenton. | Trenton, Out., July 30.-- Rev. Mr. VERY LaUDATORY | Crags. a retired Methodist clergyman, g, ro bad a family reunion " | sid HFS. CIE here, to celebrate | Are The Compliments Showered | on Canada. : ' niversary of their mar: Bis Hc A niher of their family London, July 30.--The Daily Tele-| A. Cragg, and his wife and graph says the Quebec battle eld will of Alberta, were not present. be hallowed ground, consecrated for- | have with them: three sons, who ever to the genius of Canadian na Methodist clergymen: Rev. C. E. [tionality within the empire which will, B: andy wile, of Foxboro; ome day, play a great part in the H. Cragg. B.A., and wife, of (world's affairs. The highest mission | Rev. W. J. M. Cragg sod of Canada is to stand between Great family, of Fenelon Falls, also Dr. Britain and the United States hold ¢'. Cragg and family, of lg: {img each by the hand. The Times Alberta, Mrs. Stone and M. F. Cragg. passes the highest tribute the | 'success of the ter-cemtenary. It say | Canada has only to be true to her self and her great traditions to create | a community second to nope on the earth. aoly, { ( They are Cragg, Rev. H. Hallowell; to P. D. Ross As Candidate. Ottawa, July 30.--P. D. Ross, edi- {ior of the Ottawa Journal, has de- cided to allow his name to go before the conservative conv ention, whick ! meets here on August 9th to select federal candidates. Ex- Mavor Freder- ick Cook will be his most serious ti- val. Congregation Wins Out. Amherst, Ont., July 30.--Peace has settled upon the Methodist church which was in open rebellion be aw the stationing committee of the Lon- don conference removed Rev. William Louis A. Gosselin, Montreal, bas|Godwin, pastor for the last two been suspended from the practice of years, and sent Rev. Richard Red- his profession for five months, ~for| mond in his place. Rev. Mr. Bedmond acting for a concern whose methods | wij] be removed. It is expected that {were 'condemned by the court. he will go to Hill & dhureh, in St. James' Club searchlight, steamer' Londo, and that Rev. A. G. Harris, America, Yonday evening, Augast 30d. | pow in charge of the London congre gation, wil be sent here for this yeat. ------------------ | "Phone, 577. DIED. MEAGHER.--Af Westbrook, 25th, 1908, Michael James aged twenty-geven years months BR L Clo.--At Latimer 1908, Enily A. Perry late Jd. F. aged years Funeral, on Latimer quaintanc attend, CLOW At Hartington, Ont,, on July 20th, 1908. Addie Campsall, beloved wife of Lewis Clow, aged thirty-«<ix years and four months Funeral will take place from residence, at Partington at 1.30 o'clock Friends 'guaintances are respectfully attend. on July Meagher,» and #ix Yuly 30th, widow of the BIXLY-One on 1.30 paw, to Friends and peotfully invited ne to her late on Friday and ac invited to ROBERT J. REID. The Leading Undertaker. 227 Princess street, ICED Requires a specially fragrant flavor to be really good. You will find our 'Own Special Blend ust suited for this purposé: 'Price 85 | cents the pound, Redden & Co. niin Of Fine Groceries. Far Burry Yaisty 5 Dwelings, In the city, Shep he Western Canada to A Emm 2 LADIES' BICYCLES a AT "i FURR Seo A Second-Hand Store, 'Phone, 705.