THE IDLE DOLLAR Aux Idle Dollar In your pocket is al apt t to be spent. A Dollar _ Deposited in the | Bank of of Toronto Sav- ings Department becomes & wage-earner for you. Are Your Dollars Idle? Better put "them to > work for you in this Bank, will open an account. added months, BANK OF TORONTO $34,000,000, ---- BRANCH: 107 PRINCESS STREET. George B. McKay, Interest is every six SIVES COMPANY BLEW UP. Ottawa, May fifty others more or less serious 1y in- 'explosion in the plant of the General 'xplosives company of Montreal in the Wrightville district, on the out Iskivts of the city of Hall, a ° few: | minutes before six o'clock last even ing. The catastrophe was the worst] mn the. history of the sister cities and! it séems miraculous that a greater number of lives were not lost, és section bordering on the scene of the disaster is thickly populated. The shook was felt for miles around| the surrounding couniry and produced throughout the cities of Hull and Ot taws a condition bordering on panic. People rushed from their houses terror, not knowing the cause of the! disturbance, which caused houses! tions, as though shaken by a severe! earthquake, and broke hundreds ofl panes of plate glass, both in Hull and | +A moment after the capita the | Steamboat and Yacht Supplies, AWNINGS AND TENTS, All sizes, Manilla and Cotton Rope. FLAGS AND LIFE BELTS. BRASS CHOCKS AND CLEATS, STEERING WHEELS. Everything in Stock for a complete Outfit in Brass or Galvanized. HULL WHITE PAINT, : » BOAT VARNISH, All of the very best the markets can produce, W. A. Mitchell's Hardware, 85 and 87 Princess St. Agent for the only Jap-a-lac sold in Kingston. MANAGER: €. FOLGER. At the We s, Queen St | 1 can Supply Ready Roofhig, Wall Paster, Lime and Portland Cement P. WALSH, : §-57 Barrock St. : BICYCLE SUNDRIES Records BICYCLE MUNSON at Prices 249 Yonge St. far Cut Price Catalogue. Grand Trunk locomotive engineers iid firemen are in Montreal conferring ith the company .sgarding the new edule, and other streets were in Places a mass of shattered glass, The primary cause of the Fxplosiou | has not been definitely established, but it is known that a fire broke out | in one of the several buildings of the plant, and it is believed that this fired | a number of detonators containing fulminate of mercury, the explosion ) these eausing the explosive itself stored in the magazine, to go off. The | stulf manufactured by the © vompany | and known as "virite" does not ex | plode with fire, List of Known Dead. Bonat Fabien, Queen street, killed by {falling rocks, Louis McCann, Chaudiere head blown off by explosion. Ferdinard Laurin, Chaudiere street, back broken hy fying rocks, A. Servant, Anne street, killed house by falling rock. street, i sisters, Chaudiere street, killed in their | house by rocks, Sok Blanchfield, Eugene struck on head while seated=at of his house, died on way to tal. Eugene Gravelle, employee of Mattie Co. Blacklet, frog rock, T. Gagne, William hospi= Geo, Wright street Sabourin, Wie ull street List of the Injured. George Coleman, right leg fractured. ! ihe life and Alme Seguin, skull and leg fractur- od, Miss Lascelles, aged RN, right fractured. Glory Bisson, aged 11," ankle "lacer- | pian. a legs fractured, may YValmere Lemieux, a fracture of arm, bruises, Jean Baptiste Thibault, aged ! years, compountl fracture of right leg and right arm. Patrick Blanohfield, 49, bruises to head and may die, Mrs. Patrick Blanchteld, cuts about ad. Two Blanchfield children, minor in- juries. Norweglan, name unknown, breiscs about body, , Robert Ashe, aRpund fracture left og Hnomas Claude, log fractured. Fred. Palen, feit arn injured, Tender Condolences. Ottawa May 9.-On behalf of the governor-geseral, Lord Lanesborough, his excellency's secretary to-day, sent this message to Mayor Fontaine, of | Hull, arding the terrible tragedy there : "Hie excellency grieved much at your regrettable calamity and begs that you will convey to the relatives of the deceased espression of his deap sympathy. He trusts you may be ahle to give him reassuring accounts of the injured." Messages expressing condolence were also sent by Senator Belcourt, Mayor Hopewell. BE. B., Devlin, MP, and Mr. Gendron, N.P.P. Samuel Geddes, a aman of Tyendinags away, Wednesday evening, at his home neal Shannonville. Deceased was about seventy years of age and highly respected. At Halifax, utation was formed on the left leg of Murray, on § y, close to the joint above the knee. : It is fap br. €. A. Hod- has been asked to A position in the federal services RE ------ 1, compound severe severe well-known yeo- township, passed per- Premier Hull. | Lo OF GENERAL ono] he Torouto Mail and, Bmpire says : o rin-| Hi Miles Away Rocked on Their! Tan of great ability and of high wl in Foundations and Plate Glass Penge was for years, Shivered Into Splinters--Thrilling | thy policy of the Whig, and:in 8.--Probably fifteen' jy journalism and in public persons weve killed and from forty to f4c" good. ured, some of whom may die, in an jpn © | very regeetable loss to th { large. He was a man o "| courage of expression, and miles away to rock on their founda { crash the sidewnlks of Sparks, Rideau | al. in: the entire Rosle Carriere and Loretta Carriere, the artielt street, | zens, door {in owe midst. Mr. thall, Syrian, head cut off by | ment of his tireless a i : a » his Hull, ' | } leg | f Joseph Lorrain, aged 47 years, both | 0 to cease from earthly labors, thé ld | Whig along he Jrincipal business strests of | ig in 1534, and Carroll also referred to Mr. THE DAILY BRITISH WAG, MONDAY. MAY 9. 10140. THE TORONTO PRESS, THE WORLD'S TIDINGS , ! speaks of the Death of a Kingston Journalist. 1 I the death of E. J. B. tor of the Kingston Whig, Yense, ey i ! a public|' SIBLE FORM. din is lost to the comstry. the of! : Matters That Interest Everybody-- diree or that i cap acily a leader ame ong liberals in} Eastern Ontane. hus inflaence, hota was : He sat in the le giddature far several sessions and was prom- in the counsels of his party, He will be missed both prolesicnally aud politically. The Totonto Globe writes : Hye death of Mr. Ponse, proprietor and editor of the Kingston Whig, and Hormerly member for Kingston in the { Ontario legislative assembly, is a { public enlamity to his own eity and a province at singularly lil.able dispo sition and of untiring and helpful activity Tn matters relating" to the public sorvice. As a journalist he { was noted for independence of thodlihi, elevation {of tone, and by his personality and j bis work ho» made the Whig a business inceess. Without forfeiting the respect of the community, Nr. Pense was a grandson of late Br, Barker, who established published it many years as a conservative journ- Mr. Pense was drawn to the liber side by conviction, and he carried the Whig with him In its earlier Jays had as'its local antagonist the Braghvile Recorder, of which the late {David Wylie was the founder, pro privtor, and editor. 'As en h of these pionsers was versatile, cultured, and persistent they were able to Hike po litical 'matters lively in the whole of the upper St. Lawrenes district. For i many voars Mr, Pense took wetive part in the work of the Angliean church, | especially in its missionary activities, ani wae a leader isi the 'Missionary Movement membered. Hon. Featherston Osler, been created a king's cours Commander Peary delivered his pol- ar lecturs in Berlin, Saturdey night. John Doyle . Meehan, an old em- ployee of the Massey-Harvis company, Toronto, passed saw as a tribute to King Edward, are at hall mast throughout York. Now message from King George and the roval family an Ring Edward. The Avieswortky Club met at Ont. ing Hon. Mr. Avlesworth"s parliament deprecating made upon him. The insurance on the life of King Ed- ward probably will run into of pounds. Almost every King, course in the the for more or ss, Ten persons were Valled by an explo | sion of virite in the factory of he General Explosives company, at Hill, on Sunday evesiog, The shock broke a lot of glass in Ottawa and the peo- ple of both cities were greatly -alarm- od. Hon. A. B. Aylesworth and Speaker Marcil, now on their way to Europe, will act as special representatives of the domivion governmgnt at the fune- ral of hig late majesty. © It is under- stood that Sir Willrid Laurier will at- tend Ring George's coronation. Made Presentation. Laymen's Bethel ¢ hurch Th h Tribute, ¥illiam In Bethel church, superintendent, 1 has acted as de- of Mehelvey Tuesday past seven years, ivery elork at the store + «& Birch, is leaving on Winnipeg, with a wholesale that city. Sanda hool : SOV : ad noon touching refegence so ¢ lamented {ior death of Mr. Pense, The : hardware firm m said, had come as « g On Saturddy the members community wind an g all jol the stafi gathered together and {elasses of the people, thers was made him the recipfent of a gold sorgow at the passing awa watch as a parting token. Miss Ethel very | Ross made the riished eiti- 11. Hazlatt read accompanied the a valued real so suddenly of one of the e¢ity's foremost address whieh Mr. Thornton of the firm and will be much missed. His fitends | ot the store and throughout the aty will join in wishing him every success m the west. the gife. employee anid distir whose whole lie had beed Pense Fpent was empha- his in church was tically a man of action; pen on public platiorm, and in the great voice and and newspaper he controlled, which is in itself a monu ctivity and zeal service of stood for the betterment of followmen, 'By his death, King faithful son, a tried Fine Pictures at the Bijow. The exclusive servicg of motion pic | tures securtd for "The Bijou" js pro- ducing some extremely good subjects, and a public-spirited Those for today gud to-morrow dre: ideals, whose place in 1A Woman's Sweet Revenge' a drama | activities of the city it jot the comedy type, the leading part | {will be indeed hard to fill. The hearts | in which ia taken by Flovence Turner, lof the people go out at this time in | the celebrated *"Vitagraph Girl." This deepest sympathy to the bereaved wife pluv 'is acted with imusual ability, and and children of the city's departed | ¥ full of amusement combined with and 'as we remember © the | areat defionty of teva iangnt; It is be } the companied by two farce-comedies, with which the sMmmois |irnh Wrong Si and "A. Visit From Mamma," both of 'which are first rate, were always at (he cause that every ston has lost nu and true friend, citizen of high swiftness gad event has ite lessons for those who are in this Sunday school, to- day, and also for all others who have eyes 1o see and ears 'Lo hear. Al St. Luke's church, on evening, Rev. R. 8S. Forneri to the death of Mr. Pense, in feeling terms, speaking of his work as a churchman, and the loss the chweh would sustain, through his death, At the Sunday school session, William Pense's Draping City Hall Entrance. The ¢ivie financé committee met, {his morning, and decided to drape in black and purple the entrance to the city buildings on Ontario street, and also the end of the market building. The city ¢ouncil will meet this even- ing, and after passing a resolution regarding the death of King Edward and another respecting the away of Edw. J. Sunday referred feath. In the evening ant St. James' church, Rev. T. W. SBavary also referred to thy loss the church had ' sustained through Mr. Pense's death. B. Pense, ex-mayor, husiness. 1 } Skull Fractured by Horse's Hoof. i A Deseronto May 9.--Albert Sangster, Allen M. Bateman, B.Se., of this | a teamster, was kicked ny one of his vity, has been awarded a science | horses and his skull badly fractured. scholarship in Yale University as a |The shoe struck lém on the forehead, {result of a thesis. He will attend next making st necessarfy to raise the hone session, i The doctors attending him have hopes | The city council and the bosrd of | of his recovery. education will attend the funetal of the | late Edw. J. B. Pense, on Tuesday al- tama. H. Jarvis is ill at his home, ahr Richard ~ Cassan, Havelock, in jail awaiting sentence for stealing a horse Ann in Marmora township, is wanted at | Havelock for a similar offence. GIVEN IN THE BRIEFEST POS. | i | Notes From AH Over--Little ot! Everything Kasily Read and Re- Toronto, has ay i The New York Stcvk Exchange was | closed on Saturday at eleven o'clock | Flags Earl Grew cabled to Lord Crewe a Canada comveying to] expression of sorrow over the death of ; the, Island and passe] a resolution approv- bright red the attacks | wallions | Mrs. 3 insurance | Company on the kingdom i affected | Thornton whe, for the | having taken a position | presentation and Miss | passing | will adjourn without transacting any | Pid oF THE NEWS. Canadian boats that passed up the Detroit river, on Sunday, had their 'flags at hal-mast out of respect to the memory of the late King Ed- | ward. Through the honorary secretary of state, Mayor Field had the following cable sent to Queen Alexandra: "Co- i bourg, Ont, hour of the nation's deepest grief." United States vessels carried ninety- | four per cent. of the totsl freight and | thirty-nine per' cenit. of all passengers | ! transported through the United States | and Canadian canals at the Soo jJast | ear. { A barn, belonging to Robert Doan and the bakery and bbrn belonging to M. E. Schooley, Welland, Ont., were burned, Monday morni The fire is {supposed to have caught from the 'oven in the bakery. The body of an was found in the Detroit river, near Yiew hotel, Walkerville, Ont. The man was about twenty-three 'wears of age, five feet eight inches tall, hair and a dean shaven face, and weighing about 135 pounds. INJURED IN AN ACCIDENT. : . ---- David Smih, Elginburg, Had an Arm Brokea. Just as she was leaving her home, oh Flginbiirg, on Saturday, to come to the Kingston market, Mrs. David } Smith was the victim of a serious ac- cident, and as a result she ix confined to the gencral hospital. As she drove out of Ger yard, the shaft of the buggy TWAS Broke on. The horse was gong 'down a hill, when the mishap occur- red, and the animal ran away. Mrs. Smith was thrown out on to the road, and she suffered a broken arm. She was brought to the city, and the fracture was set, at the general hospi- tal by Dr. Sparks. To-day, the pa tient was reported as doing micely. A---- WITHOUT BLANK CARTRIDGES, | So They Could Not Salute King { George V. May 9.~To-day, at noon, in every Uanadiaa 'military station: but one, a royal salute of twenty-one guns for King George was fired. The exception was the Tth field battery, of {| 8t. Catharines. It found itself in the awkward predicament of having no» blank ammunition. It had real ammu- | nit oa, hut no blank, and so could not | Salute the new king. Ottawa i Abead of the Times. | Toronto World. | Rev. Dr. Eby, undertook an unusual- {ly difficult task when he set about in- | troducing a broad.einded policy of | | Christian appeal to the unchurched | masses in Toronto. Dr. Eby appears {to think that it is better to get peo ple in touch with Christianity, even if | they are slightly hererodox or lacking in reverence for some of the creedal re- (ricements. But he "got in wrong' with the congregation in which he be- | yan his experiment, and the timid old- er Christian feared that the prescne lof theological unkempt and tattered creatures in" the house of God might do mors. injury to the house than jrood to the visitors. It certainly looks as {though Dr. Kby had more faith in jou than 'lss orthodox congregation ha as he. may be able to find a congregation as willing to do mission- ary work ameng the heathen at home | ap to send workers to de it in China {or India. Queen Mary. London, May 9.--The queen is {iret British-born consort of a since the days of James 11. AN lother Georges, William IV and Ed- ward married foreign princesses, and Queen Victoria married a foreign prince. For' the first time, therefore, in over two centuries Britain has. both king and a queen wha are natives Lot the British islands. The Princess { Mary in her early years was the most | popular of the younger members of the roval house. She has great influence over her husband and is a keen stud- ent of - public affairs, as well gs deeply interested in all good works, the king the in Paper Has Work Ahead. Canadian Courier A conviet has been released from a penitentiary in Minnesota because he wrote such perfect poetry that the ed stor of The Century begged the gover nor to let such a bright young poet go free. Now we may expect all the rome | wict contributors of the Canwd an! Courier in the Penitentiary and the Central Prison to write in, urging us to do something. There's nothing suc- ceeds like distress. Funeral on May 20. London, May 9.--It was officially announced, to-day, that the funeral of King Edward will be held May 2h at Windsor, and that the body will Jie in state in Westminder Hall for three days preceding the funeral. ------------ Beautiful Stock to Choose From. Prevost, Brock street, has a fine as- sortmeut of tweeds, serges and che 'Anyone in need of will Al do well to call on him. made clothing and gents' Buaishings never bett.: assorted. The quarterly rally of the Young People's Church societies will take place to-night at Bethel ¢hureh, John- ston street, Rev. E. L. Rice, First Congregational church will give prin. Spel address. Bethel male quartette, iss Laidley, and Master Harvey, boy soloist St, G 's cathedral choir will take part. Which society will secure the banner ' I: is generally understood pow that there will be no celebration on Vie- toria Day, although the conmumittes has not officially declared things 07. The different military ies would not be able to take part and without them the celebration would nat amount to much, The Y. MCA building + fond, Toron- to, totals $587,402, This is the last day of the campaign. mourns with you in this | unidentified man{ A NS tt { Womea Have Awakened To the advantage of wearing Washable Dresses, and are wise enough to select:those materials which can go to the tub frequent- ly and still retain their beauty and color. Scotch Ginghams In a great variety of plain colors, also neat ehecks and stripes, 12ic, 15¢, 20¢, 25¢. ' Suiting Repps A fine mercerized Cotton Suiting, in a va- riety of the most popular summer shades. 20c and 25¢ yard. Linen Suiting In the stylish Summer shades, Nile, Old Rose, Blues, in Navy, Alice, Delft, Pinks and others. 20c and 35c. White Materials Many to choose from, including White Pure Linen Suiting, 256c, 35e, 49¢, 65¢ up. White Pure Linen Waisting, 26¢, 35c¢, 50¢, 75¢ up. White Repp Suiting, 20c and 25c. White Indian Head Suiting, 15¢, 20. White Mercerized Waistings, many new patterns, at 20¢, 25¢, 35c¢. White Bedford Cords for Buiting. White PKs, 15¢, 20c, 25¢, 35¢. Woe Satin Finished Cotton Drills, - IC. White Mulls for Princess' Dresses. White Orystal Lawns, 20c, 25¢, 35¢c. White Hosiery We have just placed in stock a very large assortment of Fine White Hosiery. White Cotton Stockings for Ladies and Children. White Lisle Thread Stockings for Ladies and Children. White Bilk Stockings for Ladies, BUTTERICK | PATTERNS 10 and 15 Cents None Higher Nothing ever shown in the city can equal them, Goods bought direct from the manufacturer A Ladies' Patent Leather Shoe, with style and wearing qualities, at $2.00. A large variety of Bleck or Chocolate Kid Shoes at $2.00. Only One Price To All.