§ Se Qoyrbess os letemard oni ul SVE Wi oi i Dublin, Aug. 9.--It is reported in oflicial circles in Dublin that the Earl Aberdeen will shortly retire from post as lord lieutenant of Ireland, receiving as a. solatium the kisght- hood of the Garter vacated by the death of the Marquis of Ripon Lord Aberdeen has never heen exact ly happy in Dublin, nor adapted seff quite to the peenliarities of Irish capital, and the trouble nected with the loss of the insignia of St. Patrick from the castle added to the difficulties of his position I'hen, again, certain appointments which he made in his household creat ed great dissatisfaction 'in Ireland, and several social events connected with the castle season have hanned altogéther by prominent people, The diftieulty in the way of Lord Abherdeen's retirement the paucity of liberal peers eligible for the post It ig suggested that Lord Granard the 'master of the horse, a young high peer who takes life very serious- | ol In him 1 he con been Irish 18 VICEROY AND HIS Dublhy Gest ---- POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR.! THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1909. PITH OF THE NEWS. The Very Latest Culled From All | Over The World. Aird Rion, of the Lord Lievtensmt has become a sort of "hand. man" for the government, both so- | cially and politically, might be pointed: to the viceroyalty. At present Lord Granard, FUNG a anal Roman Catholic, is ineligible for position, but this difficulty will overcome when Willigm Reédmond's bill | for the repeal of thid disability of Ca tholics becomes a law, as it is bound to become ' | The Earl of Granard, as master the is almost continuously brought in contact with the king and his Majesty's friendship. He is to an American, who was, lv and ap 1 being a the | be eNIOVs married be (unless of Aberdeen § Mills, Mills, fore her marriage, Miss Beatrice daughter of Mr. and Mrs. of New York. Another liberal Ogden peer, "whose advauce D. B. McKinnon, Blyth, Ont. on Saturday. { The farmers of Sweden, han®icap- ped by the strike, have appealed to the peo, de of the cities to aid them with the harvest. At Canso, N.S., Philip Lumsden, the the three'vear-old son of James Lumsden, was drowned by falling overboard from his father's wharf. Tuesday morning the mines of the Cumberland Railway & Coal company at Springhill, N.S. were idle, tied up by order of the United Mine Workers. | Twelve Austrian laborers at Chan- bassen, Minn., fought with knives on | Monday over an alleged insult to a 'woman cook. One man was fatally injured. ' | Mrs. Robert W. Chamberd, wife the. novelist, is missing. returned to died of summer hame at Broadalbin, N.Y., without her. Search parties are out. King Edward VI. entered on the ninth year, of his reign on Monday. His majesty wasiborn Nov. 9th, 184]. He was married in 1863, and was crowned on Aug. 9th, 1901. | A gang of sale-blowers has jbusy in Lethbridge dunng the past few nights. Two safes have been blown but the cracksmen secared very {little for their trouble. Driven insane by the complexities of immigration requirements Mrs. Ann | Kuljaj left Ogdensburg, N.Y., Monday night, in charge of a government in- spector for New York, whence she will Ibe deported to her home in Austria. been ! WINNIPEG VICIOUSNESS. Crowd Set Fire To Bleachers At Race. Winnipeg Aug. 10.--The ten-mile race scheduled for last night at Hap- {pyland, between Alfred Shrubb and J. Fitzgerald, ended in another of those fracases which have killed le- |gitimate sport in Winnipeg. The race {was to have been held under electric {light, but the crowd was "small and 'the lights refused to burn. Getting | immpatient the crowd demanded their money back but it was not forth- coming. Several spectators then {built bonfires in the bleachers and by ithe time the fire department arived ithe flames was shooting ten feet into 'the air. In the meantime other disgust- led spectators were smashing the gen- ered office and a squad of police fail- ted to maintiao order in the dark- ness, LOST IN SASKATCHEWAN. CE RA E. C. Corbeau And His Two Chil- dren Missing. Regina, Sask., Aug. 10.--Consider- |able anxiety has been caused by the ® | disappearance of E. C. Corbeau, local tagent of the Heintzman Piano Com- the last few vears has been meteorig,/and who is a strong finan cial supporter of the liberal party, said 10 covet the post. during TWO NUNS DROWNED FELL OFF C.P.R. BRIDGE AT BOURDEAUX. A Train Had Overtaken Them And | They Tried to Escape--British "Wavel Designer to Give Ad- dress in Winnipeg. Montreal, Aag. 10 the Sault Au Recolet their lives this morring crossing the C.P.R. bridge at deaux. They were overtaken by train and, ecithet through fright inability hold on to the fell ' water. The swift rent esreied them away and were drowned before anything be done to effect a rescue. 'The thorities' have not yet learned names. The bridge 18 commonly: uscd bv the public, being the only means of crossing the river at that Sie Henry®' White, the retired tish naval designer, who is at sent in the city, will visit Toronto bx fore proceeding to Winnipeg to pre- side over the engineering section of the British association for the ad vancement of science, of which he is president. In his presidential speech Henry will give Canadians the henefit of his knowledge and experi- ence of - naval affairs by discussing Canada's relation to the imperial de fence problem. from lost white Two convent nuns Bour or to sides, into the cur they could au their point Bri pre Hur / VISITOR CRITICALLY ILL. Newboro--Came From Phila- delphia, Pa. Newboro, Aung. 9.--W. J. Turner, of Philadelphia, Pa., who came here, on Fuesday, in eompany with his wife, to pend a few days at the Hotel Rideau, fishing in Newboro. lake, was taken ill with pneumonia, on Wednesday, and now lies in slight hopes for his recov: Dr. King is in attendance and Cornell, Brockville, has been call- ed consultation, Two trained nurses are in constant attendance. His have been summoned to his At ory Ih mn {wo sons bedside Mi I Concert i. Kelley, of the Shamrock company, and Miss Agnes O'Hara. of Mount Pleasant, Mich, spending a few woeks, the Mrs. B. Monahan, Erin Cliffe, William Rell and daughter, of Ro N.Y., are spending a few weeks, the guests of relatives, D. Jd Moriarity left, this morning, to enter the Novitiate of thé Oblate Fathers, at Tewkesbury Centre, Mass. Mr. and Mi 12. Coons, of Dttawa, are spend ing their holidays, the guests of Mi and Mrs. We © G. 'Dargavel. W. H. Sturgeon spent n few days, last week, \rnprior, attending the Old Boys' yeunion Misses 'Rae Gallagher and Ella Lyons, of this place, were among «the graduates of the Athens high who passed the entrance to normal Miss Gould, Otta- the of her 'sunt, Mn: R. relt Helen the gue Me Gallagher are guests of chester, recent whool, school guest and James Moriarty tz of friends in Elgin last Lev. Southworth and were visitors in Brock- on Tuesday A large number here attended the excursion to Ottawa on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. 'Bo. Lyons, of Charleston, W.Va, are spending their vacation the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Lyons Mise Jean McNally, of Brockville, and George W. Preston, of this place, were quietly married at the summer home of the brid 's uncle, on Breezed's Leland, on Wednesday evening, by Rev. George. E. Wood. ville, from this BUSTLE AT BATTERSEA. Many Visitors Now Staying The Village. Jattersea, Aug. 9.--The August meet ing of the Ladies' Aid was held at the | home of Mrs. William Kirkpatrick, on the 4th inst. The ladies are keeping up the good work, Last year the Ai raised in all about $170 for much needed purposes. At their picnic re cently in Leonard VanLuven's grove they realized about $40. A large crowd was in attendance. The baseball game between. the local team and the Inver ary team was won by the a good margin, the wingers in the racks wore as follows « Maxried woman's ence Hanley. Young ladies' Elmer. Girls' race--Miss Jenny Stoness. Littles girls' race=-Jennie Clark, Young men's race--Earl Lake. Boys' race--J. Nicholson. Bdys, junior race Lan Little boys' race--Howard Balls. Good prises were given fof the first and second winners in each event The first quarterly service of the present year was conducted in the Methodist church on Sabbath last by Rev. Mr. Short. A large number tauristscare stopping at the local ho tels, and fresh arrive daily. To-day*Ho¥less "than six hack loads came in from the city stations. 'Lhe following - shave been stopping at the new kotel,! Vanluven House: E, CO Campbell and Charles Gallery, Roch ester, N.Y.; H. Baker, California; A H. Parry, Mrs. A, H, Parry, Dr. LL. Devlin, Mrs J. L. Devlin, Leon Britton, New York; W. H. Vael, Val pardiso, Ind; I. Loan, Rochester, N. Ys; PVH. James, D. J. Evans, Miss A. Blomelly, Kingston. The following other visitors have heen noticed : Mrs. Campbell, Califor- nia, and Miss Cunningham, Fulton, N. Xi at Dr. Lake's; C. fartley and fam- ily, of Secley's Bay, at J. Miller's; Miss Vera Holder, Kingston, at W. Lucy's; Migs Cora Smith and Miss Vallla Rattan, Kingston, at John uttan's; Mrs, (Rev.) Ebersole, and son, of Brighton, and Orrock of Montreal, at J, I.. Sears'; John Elmer and family, of Kingston, at S. W. Vanluvew's; C. H. Vanluven, Wa- tertown, al Leonard Vanluven's. R. A. Vanluven and wife of Smith's Falls and F, W. Vanluven and son, of Grimsby, at C. M. Vanluven's. ~ At| former hy various foot race--Mrs, Cla Aldine race--Miss Jennie Rut- ol crowds Sears, Escaped From Jail. Midland, Aug. 10.--Dchoe, the young man arrested yesterday for forgery, es- caped from the lock-up last night. He was securely lockad in a cell and at seven o'clock, when the chief carried supper, to him, he was nowhere to be found. This morning, however, a long bench was hanging from an up stairs "window, by which means the prisoner had evidently cscaped. It is a mystery to the authorities how he {escaped froin the cell and the doo locked. No trace of the fugitive has {yet been found. Suing Mrs. Roy's Heirs. Montreal, Aug. 10.--<In with the Bangue de St. Jean and its connection former president, P. H. Roy, an ae- {tion for ¥27.468, has been entered { by the bank against the heirs of the {late Mrs. Roy. This is a claim on account of 'advances made by the {bank to Mr. Ray on the strength of a I mortgage on the St. John's aqueduct alleged Mo have been authorized by TIDINGS FROM OTTAWA. Body Of Ralph Slattery Found At Arnprior. Ottawa, Aug. 10.--It was announced to-day that work will begin on Mon- -- - - { pany. Corbeau, together with his two BURIED AT FROG LA {little children, started fof a drive ves | terday afternoon at three 'o'clock or Bodies Of Eight Victims Of 1885; 'P to noon to-day they have not been | seen or 'heard of, though expected to i Given New Sepulchre. i | return home by six o'clock last night - x y Si) § ght. i Ottawa, Aug. 10.--The Northwest re- | As the country all round is well set- { bellion is recalled by a work which | : KE. tled the little party cannot well have er horse | day next om the 110,000 addition to | has just been completed by the Mount- the Rideau Club building at the cor-'ed Police. The scattered remains of ner 6f Wellington' and Metcalfe streets. eight men, who were killed by the The structure will be greatly | Urees in' April, 1885, near Frog Lake, wmproved and the work is to be com- | have been gathered and placed in a leted in the plot at Frog Lake, the graves marked whole fall. | got lost and many theories are float- ing around to account for the mv- stery. Meanwhile the Mounted Police and private parties are scouring the country for a trace of the missing ones. Corbeau came here from Toron- (Canadian Trade Agent Larkie, New Zealand, reports that the effort to tax commercial travellers from other British colonies will be brought wiore the chamber of commerce he empire at Sydney in September n an attempt to prevent it. The body of Ralph Slattery, tawa, drowned at Arnprior, Friday, was recovered floating river there this morning. Whether Canada wil send a team the United, States 'after the Palma trophy will not be known wvntil after the D.R.A. meet. Much will depend cn the test) of the new ammunition now being carried out. ir.. of last in the Turning The Tables. London Globe. \ correspondent ontemporary amusing contest of which he recently heard in a rail carriage on a journey between ompiegne and Roye. There wer eral ers. One believed himself possess a fund of humor which he intended to expend on a priest who vot in at one of the intermediate sta sends to a Paris an wit way e Sev- pas Lions, Bestowing a patronizing look on the of with crosses and the plot enclosed hy a fence. The victims of the massacre were : George Dilt, trader; T. Quinn, | Juding agent; C. Gouin, his assistant: | illis Croft, bookkeeper for the post; | + W. C. Gilehrist, EE ok post A Man Fell Thirty-five Fest tractor, who was putting up a mill May Die. for the Indian department at Frog | Hope, Aug. 10.--Thomas Lake; John Delaney, a millwright--all ' ey sustained serious injuries of whom were killed by Indians at {morning by falling from a ladder sus- Frog Lake on April 2nd. Constable ' pended thirty-five feet above the Cowan was killed at Fort Pitt April pavement in front of the Millward 5th. Owing to their superstition, no [block on John street. The breaking Indians would help with the work of !of the rope holding the ladder was gathering the bodies, which. were in the cause of the accident. Sidey re- graves scattered over hali a mile of ceived a dguble fracture of one arm. the country where the men fell, and a deep cut across one eye and ---------- { their is evidence of severe internal in- WITNESS REFUSED ANSWER. | juries. William Pierce, a youth | was also on the ladder, saved him- Him self by grabbing a - rope and sliding | down. Sidey's recovery is doubtful to. A PORT HOPE ACCIDENT. Ard Port Sid this who And Montreal Judge Gave Time To Consider. Montreal, Aug. 10.--Judge Cannon resumed the sittings of the royal com Crop News Encouraging. mission into civie affairs to-day, tak-| Toronto, Aug. 10.--Reassuring news ing up the road department. The most {from the crops along the C.N.R. west: interesting witness was Froest Be-|ern lines is contained in the report langer, C.E., manager of the Montreal handed -out yesterday. Some wheat Paving company, who refused to tell | has already been cut, and around Sas- the commission the company's profits |katoon the harvest is expected to be on certain dealings with the city. Sen- [general by the latter end of the pres lergyman, he said : "Have you heard the news, ie cure "No, my friend, I not," the reply. "1 have all wd have not had time to glance the papers." "Then," said the traveller, "it something dreadful: the devil is dead." "Indeed," replied the ecclesiastic, without the smallest surprise or di pleasure. Then, seemingly deeply touched, he added : '*Monsieur, 1 have always taken the greatest interest in orphans. Will Jou accept these two pennies ?" A HOUSE OF CORRUPTION. The wit, we are told, retired as oracefully and as quickly as he was able. ator Belque appeared as his legal ad- viser, and claimed that the figures! were private, but Judge Cannon ruled that they were public contracts, and he was given until the afternoon to answer, " Senator Béique was refused permis- | sion to appear for the Montreal Pav- ping company, on the ground that the investigation concerned the road de partment and not ihe paving com- pany, and if the company made good profits, it was simply a compliment to its agents, mousieur was day at have been out Judge Choquette So- Calls Mon. | treal's Women's Jail. Montreal, Aug." 10.--In sentencing two women to penitentiary, to-day, td terms of two years for robbing a mar of £100, Judge Choquette made some severe comments on the women's jail in Montreal. He declared it was a "house of corruption' and wot a "house of correction." Women sent there, he said, would have had an op- portunity for planning lives of vice instead of reforming, A Torchlight Procession. London Tit-Bits. The Emerald Isle is proud of Char- lie Beresford, and Charie is proud of his native land and countrymen. "Irishmen may have their faults," he says, 'but give me an Irishman--the best fellow that ever was. Could any body tell more stories than the Irish ?"' One heard very fond ¥ he ever was the best stories about a fellow who ! y of shooting. He said: COUPLE'S FIGHT TO DEATH. The first bird 1 ever shot wus 8 Husband And Wife Shot And squirrel, and the first time 1 hit i him I missed him altogether, and the Stabbed In Encounter. | Chicago, Aug. 10. --After next time I hit him I hit him in locking the same place, and after that I took a stone and dropped him from the tree and he fell into the water and was drowned, 'and that was the first hird 'T ever shot." Aud Lord Charles is never tired of quoting the story of the Irish mem- ber of the house of commons wha compared a certain whiskey a "torchlight procession trickling down his throat." of was fastersng all the doors of their flat, Antonio Spirezirri and his wife, Ann, went into the darkened parlor, terday, and tied to kill each other. ! The woman was shot twice and stab- bed twice with a stiletto and died before the police arrived. The hus- band was shot twice also and may die, =" on to i ---------------- A special from Calumet, Mich., sayé the steamer Pathfinder amd her tow are on. the rocks &fi Eagle River, Ke-, wane Point. The position is dan- gerous, Hamikion ice cream on Sunday. The Dominion Railway Commission police will not prosecute parlor keepers for selling Mrs. Roy, who controlled, as is known the ayueduct. unless" a storm comes up. Wreckers from the Soo have been sent for. = ¥ will have no public sittings till Sep: tember Mth. AS lof the inthe centre of Ms forehead, their two children 'in a bedroom and! done and the sessions of both bodies | Police think a woman lured Anna but the boats can be saved ent week, but in many other parts the grain is very green and cutting will be late. "Reports of damage by rust are probably much exaggerated, and it is very doubtful if it extends bevond comparatively insignificant areas. Farm help is badly needed, and the ar- rival of excursions from the east i: be ing anxiously awaited. All estimates yield would seem to point to'an crgpiiabout the same as last year. Some alarm was felt; on Satur day, when the. thermometer took a sudden. dip, but Hamiota was the only point where the danger mark was reached, averag Died From His Injuries. Toronto, Aug. 10.--Morris Jack- son, the young man who was injured, "yesterday afternoon, by falling three storeys 'down an elevator, at the Ste- rt Howe & Meek building, corner of dving street and Spadina avenue, died in St. Michael's hospital, at three o clock this morning. When he was thken to the hospital after the ac cident, yesterday, it was found . that he was suffering from a bad fracture all his tihs were broken and some of them had penetrated his lungs. Oddfellows At Ottawa. Ottawa, Aug. 10.---The appointment of S. A. Poplestone, of Exeter as Grand Warden of the Order in Ontario and the opening sessions of the Grand Encampment and Rebekah Assembly were the principal items of business transacted at the convention of Inde- pendent Order of Oddfellows here to- day. A civic welcome was extended to hoth the Grand Encampment and the Rebekahs. No business of import was will continue this afternoon. Schumacher, Rochester, N.Y., to her death in cemetery. McMaster University authorities havo issued a notide probibiting hazing. & twsiien OF CANADA ~~ naa A Joint Account convenience in handling the family funds. tis opened in' of two members of the family, and both A This form of account is particularly convenient for those whe ' with One Doll. Why not Fra sou ditgee um toes > 1. ie a great Rhames . You can open a Savings do so at once? KINGSTON BRANCH colt Eu IUR TURNER, Manager for Hot Days.. Pretty Sheer Lawn and 'Mull Waists, sleeves, back and front trimmed with Tucks, Enibroidery and Lace, New Tdilored Waists, in Linen and Lawn, Tucked Front, with Plain and Embroidered Collay and Cuffs, also in Colored Checks and Stripes. See the New White Wash Skirts, * $1.50, $2.25 $3.00, $3.75. The Leading Millinery & Mantle Store. David M. Spence, QF EER YOU More of Bet- A Toilet Tissue for the Same Money than any other make on the market. Made in Every Known Form and Variety and Every Sheet Guaranteed Chemically Pure. Insist on Having Eddy's. Always, Everywhere in Canada, Ask for Ed's Matos. 3 i Sale Still On. $6.50 buys this large, com- fortable and easy Rocker. Spring seat and back in chase leather, with solid oak frames, only $6.50. eo 29 James Reid's, The Leading Undertaker. For Ambulance Phone 147. seecessencesseseessetacessessesteseertateres {Don't Bake in Hot Weather! Buy your Cakes and Pastry at Toye's. You save money and comfort by so doing. See our large assortment. & Particular buyers purchase Toye's Cakes. 302 King St. VIVIAN III » SAE400464440604048 CII IIIIIIIIIIII Creamalt Contest. Creamalt Bread is here and its popularity has been truly marvelous. If you have heen observant you will notice a little football label on the bottom of every Creamalt loal. To the boy or girl in ningston saving the most Creamalt labels by Dee. 20th, we will give a prize of $10 in gold. To the one bringing in the sec- ond greatest number we will give a prize of #5. : The boy or girl who starts saving now has the best chance, Entrance slips to the contest 'muy he obtained ree from Lackie, the Ha- ker. In our win®w we will givg results of contest week after week. + J. J. LACKIE, PRINCESS ST C.P.R. COMPANY DIVIDENDS. account, $500,000; deduct contribution to pension fund, S380,000. net revenue Big Surplus Is Left Of $3,847, available for dividends, #14,955,028 . 161. . | After paying of all dividends | de- A cal A 10.--At sting of jelared for the year, the surplus for the Jontrea', jug, Wes a meets 3 wear carried forward is $3,847,161. directors of the Cunudinn Pac ifie nil. . way company, vesterc ay, a dividend! . » of two ho cent, on preference stock | Steamship Movements. : and three per cent. on common stock } Montreal, Aug. 10--Allan lino for the hall vear ended June 30th last [steamer Pretorian, from Glasgow, ar- was declared. An additional payment |rived at Montreal, at 7.15 am.; on of one-half of one per ¢ent. on com- | August 10th, * mon stock will be paid thereon at the | The Allan line steam r Grampian, same time out of 'the interest on the [from Montreal &nd Quebec, for a8- proceeds of the land sales. gow, was reported abeam Point The results for the fiscal year to] Amour, at 11 a.m, and Belle Isle, at June 30th last were : Gross earnings, 3.30 p.m., on August 9th. : $76,313,321 working expenses $53. | The Allan line steamer Hesperian, 357,748; net earnings, $22,955,573; pet from Glasgow, for Quebec and Mont- earnings of steamships in excess of (real, sailed from Moville, at 9 am., amount included in monthly Yeports, jon August 8th, with 57 first class, 133 $399 910; income from other sources, [second class and 117 steerage Phs $1,906,578; total nct ineonie; $25.262,. 061; deduct fixed charges, $9,427,033¢ rs. The Allan line steamer Jonian, Montreal for G porch curtains or the material. Go to Frank Cooke if you wang' pe surplus, $15,835,028; dedhict amoun {ransferred to steamship replaceme: 2 {ved Hl, on Avgust Sth, : : v